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inkribbon796 · 5 years ago

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Trouble in Paradise

Summary: Anti just wants Dark to be less annoying, it’s not that he cares. He would never pretend to care about Dark’s well-being. So he goes to continue his mission of trying to officially get Dark and Wil together.

Slight continuation of my Eye of the Beholder fic I did a while back. Non-superhero story. I just like doing things with Anti and Dark’s begrudging, totally “non-existing” friendship.

This now has a part 3: Antagonist Acquaintances

“Get over here,” one of the still-conscious thugs snarled at Anti, both of them in a back parking lot, hidden from the main road or from other building that to the trees. Whether it was adrenaline, or the realization that he was going to die anyways and wanted to get one last hit on the glitch demon that had killed the rest of his friends.

Anti just smiled at the guy dropped his empty gun and pulled out a knife.

“Oh,” Anti glitched out the very air around them, the fear from the guy was palpable. Anti lived for this. “Yah’ve got guts, I’ll give ye that,” that Anti chuckled. “Maybe I’ll only send yah half dead to that loan shark.”

“Not my fault you messed with his computer,” the thug threatened.

“Maybe he shouldn’ta been tryin’ ta hack my files,” Anti growled as he took a couple steps forward, happy at the fear in his eyes.

“Hey, Anti, quick question,” Wilford suddenly appeared next to him.

Anti startled at the mad reporter’s sudden appearance, it let the thug get Anti in the side with the knife. He cursed and stabbed the guy in response. “Bit busy, arsehole!”

“Oh, pardon me,” Wilford took out his gun and shot the guy Anti was fighting. The man screamed, and fell to the ground, not getting back up. Anti glared at Wil. “Kill stealing, shitbag.”

“Ah, he’ll get back up,” Wilford dismissed, pocketing his gun. “This is important. I need you to come with me.”

“How about yah tell me about yer bullshit scheme, an’ I tell yah if I wan’ in,” Anti countered.

Wilford groaned. “Fineeeeeeee!”

Anti gestured for him to continue.

“Alright, so, I was thinking that I’ve kinda been slacking off a bit with my relationship with Dark,” Wilford explained. “Mine and Dames’s anniversary is coming up.”

“Dames?” Anti repeated.

“And I was hoping you could help me with some ideas,” Wilford admitted.

All Anti could give for a response was just to stare at Wilford. “What do I look like? Fookin’ Casanova?”

“Anti, please,” Wilford’s eyes were almost like a puppy dog, grabbing onto his shoulders and pulling him dangerously close. Close enough for Anti to consider stabbing him. “You and Dark are similar creatures. Please help me.”

“No, we’re not. ‘Sides, what am I supposed to do?” Anti scoffed. “Get the guy a bear trap or somethin’.”

Wilford rolled his eyes, “Anti, please, Dark has standard, he’s a creature of refinement.”

“Then get ‘im a golden bear trap,” Anti groaned. “You’re asking me on ways to make up to your boyfriend about the amount of side-ass you’ve been getting. I’ve never cared what Dark wants.”

“Please, I’ll owe you a favor,” Wilford begged.

“Fine!” Anti punctuated it with cursing.

“Thank you,” Wilford kissed him on the cheek.

“Get off ‘a me,” Anti cussed and pushed the reporter off of him. “If you’re so in love with him, why don’t you tell him.”

“I thought I was,” Wilford huffed. “Apparently it wasn’t good enough.”

The glitch demon dragged his hand down his face, “Yer gonna be the death ‘a me. Look, I’m busy now, meet me here to tomorrow, and I can get yah a bear trap and we’ll think of something.”

“I knew I could count on you,” Wilford grinned, finally the glitch demon left, and Anti took out his knife again. If he couldn’t get back at that loan shark by beating up his goons, Anti would just take his aggression on the guy himself.

As it turned out, getting Wilford and Dark actually on “boyfriend” terms was almost impossible. Dark was always in his office, arms deep in work. He almost never left his desk, or the mountain of paperwork in front of him.

So Wil and Anti started off just spitballing ideas. They’d start talking in a random place and eventually it would just turn to them causing trouble on the other side of town.

Anti was pretty sure somewhere along the way they stepped on Dark’s toes because they ran into him somewhere in the middle of picking a fight with a bunch of guys in suits and Dark dragged Wil back to the Manor, literally by his ear.

After a couple of times, each time they got involved with different types of people, Dark started just letting them go and wreak havoc. He would only intervene if they stepped on his parts of the city. They didn’t get much done for Wilford’s planning, but Anti had to admit it was fun to watch Silver and Jackie trying to combat them. The other Egos mostly staying out of their way.

Wilford and Anti were coming back late one night, Wilford finally sticking to an idea for the first time since they’d started what Anti could only call: Stab and Chill. Because they were too distracted to do anything else.

The mad reporter had an excited giddy smile, “Today’s the day.”

“Took ye long enough, you jittery prick,” Anti scoffed. “Go talk ta ‘em and leave me the hell alone.”

The reporter hugged Anti, making the glitch kicked and bit him on the arm, which Wilford just laughed at. They walked over to Dark’s office and then Wilford came to a dead halt in front of the door.

“What’s up?” Anti asked, but was then shushed by Wil.

Now that it was actually quiet, Anti could hear Dark and Bim arguing in the entity’s office.

“What did I do?” Bim demanded.

“I’m not here to treat you like a child, Trimmer!” Dark shouted, his ringing almost deafening, Wilford froze at how angry the entity sounded. “Get your act together and for once in your life, act like a damn adult!”

The door to Dark’s office flew open as Bim walked out, “Well at least I’m not taking out my problems onto someone else!”

“Just get out!” Dark shouted and his aura looked dangerously close to taking Bim’s head off. But Bim was already leaving and missed decapitation by inches.

Glaring back at Dark he left and immediately spotted Wil and Anti. Bim looked furious, almost on the verge of tears.

“Your boyfriend’s an ass,” Bim spat at Wilford. “He keeps doing this to me and I’ll hit him. He’s singled me out.”

Without even letting Wilford answer him or think about defending either Bim or Dark, he stomped away.

Watching him go, Wilford frowned, his top lip and mustache twitching, “This is more serious than I thought. Anti, keep him distracted, I have an idea.”

“Ye can’t be serious,” Anti groaned.

“I’ll be five minutes tops,” Wilford promised.

Indignant, the two a hushed argument between the two, right outside Darks office. Anti, at that point didn’t even know why they were even pretending when Dark could probably hear every word they were saying. Bim had left the door wide open when he left.

In the end Wilford rolled his eyes and disappeared. Anti angrily glitched, cursing at the spot where the mad reporter had been standing. After some thought, Anti threw stepped into Dark’s office.

“Hey, Dark-osaurus Rex,” Anti grinned. Dark just glared at him, the ringing that always accompanied the entity pitched up sharply.“What’s eating at ye?”

Dark scratched his hand down his face. “Just because Wilford had taken an interest in you, does not mean you can come to my office or my home uninvited.”

“Kay, first off, rude; second, I’m not uninvited, Wilf let me in,” Anti corrected.

Dark broke his pen with his bare hand and glared at Anti. “I did not invite you, Wilford knows he can’t just bring people like you over.”

“Like me?” Anti scoffed.

“Yes, Wilford knows he shouldn’t bring his paramours home with him,” Dark threw his broken pen in the waste bin underneath his desk in disgust. His aura stripped the ink from his skin and suit.

It took Anti a second to remember what that word meant. “Hey, I told yah, I’m not boning the candy cane. I’m not touching anything that’s been that close ta yer old sack ‘a meat. Don’t know how many times I have to tell ye.”

“I don’t know why you insist on lying to me about it,” Dark was already turning back to the mountain of papers on his desk. “You and Wilford have been spending an inordinate amount of time together, and he had been incessantly annoying every time he mentions you.”

Anti resisted the urge to scream with every fiber of his being. He was going to stab Wil when he got back, especially if the idiot was going to keep shooting himself in the foot like this. “We’re not always together,” the glitch demon defended. “Yer blowin’ that way outta proportion.”

Dark stopped and pulled a legal notebook out from a stack of papers, somehow keeping the whole stack of papers upright and mostly aligned. “I like to keep an ear to the ground when it comes to Wilford’s expenses. So I can find him when he goes missing, or freeze his accounts when he gets out of control.”

“Yer the possessive type, then,” Anti scoffed.

Dark gave him a withering look, then turned back to his notepad. “In the past 36 hours you and Wil have managed to spend five hundred dollars in food, flowers, and knives.”

“Only five?” Anti huffed.

Dark threw his notepad down angrily, “Anti, I am busy, whether Wilford spends a week or fifteen years wasting my time talking about you, it makes no difference to me.”

“Seems like it kinda does,” Anti goaded.

“If I knew you would be this insufferable about it, I would have discorporated you outside that bar,” Dark spat.

The glitch demon studied Dark, “Whoa, hold up, are you jealous?”

Dark shoved up from his chair, “Don’t presume, you insufferable child.”

“Oh this is rich, ye are,” Anti smiled. “That’s why yer so pissed.”

As Anti was having a bit of a laugh at Dark’s expense, Dark’s aura grabbed Anti by the throat.

“I’m done with this conversation,” Dark decided. “I’m going to look forward to the reprieve. Last time you were out for a full month. Let’s make it two.”

“What?” Anti managed to choke out. “Fraid’a little friendly competition?”

Dark’s aura began to tighten on Anti’s throat. “You are neither friendly, nor competition.”

“Hey, Darkling,” Wilford walked in, in a yellow suit with a pink shirt, holding something behind his back. “Oh, are you having fun?”

“Not now, Wil,” Dark spat, Anti reflexively kicked and fought against Dark’s literal stranglehold. Anti was sure if he was inhabiting a host or mortal, his throat would have been crushed into dust by now.

“Before you finish, I have something for you,” Wil teased. Dark groaned and looked at the reporter, only to have Wilford pull a large bouquet of tall black tulips, a purple tinge to each flower, tied up with a gray ribbon that had red and blue thread woven into the edges of it. “For you.”

Dark blinked, owlishly, as he stared at the flowers, releasing Anti just enough for the glitch demon to free himself. “What do you mean for me? It’s not my birthday.”

“I wanted to get something nice for you,” Wilford told Dark, and then kissed him on the cheek. “I like doing nice things for you.”

The entity froze, his shell fracturing a bit, one of his copies flinching away from Wil. But Dark took the flowers. “I brought dinner, I’ll go set the table?”

“Sounds like a wonderful idea,” Dark told him.

Wilford winked and then disappeared.

“See?” Anti gave Dark a rather cheeky, snide look. “I’m not chasing your toy.”

Dark rolled his eyes and showed Anti away with his aura, summoning a vase for his new flowers. “Don’t ruin my mood, glitch.”

“Seriously though, I’m not actually interested in him,” Anti told Dark. “He’s a dumb piece of shit, an’ the havoc we wreck together is amazin’. But I’d only fook ‘im ta spite ah, an’ even then, I’d still get bored immediately.”

Dark didn’t seem to be hearing him, tracing the individual flowers.

“Sides, Wilford makes ye a little less pathetic and annoyin’,” Anti reminded. “I’m all fer that.”

“Your commentary on my personal affairs if unnecessary,” Dark dismissed.

“Wow, that’d stick if ye ever had any in the first place,” Anti shot back. “Still, if that fookwad starts getting grabby with anyone else, tell me so I can kick his teeth in.”

“I told you, I don’t—” Dark began, turning away for the flowers for the first time in their new conversation.

“Yeah, yeah, just go have fun with yer boyfriend,” Anti dismissed. “An’ spare me the details, if I wanted ta be sick, I’d download a virus.”

Before Dark could keep arguing with him, Wilford came back up and the two had a nice evening. Dinner, and Wilford dragged Dark off to see a movie, despite Dark’s attempts to get back to work. The two of them enjoying their evening.

#Jacksepticeye #Markiplier #Antisepticeye #Wilford Warfstache #Darkiplier #Anti accidentally makes himself Dark's wingman #Accidental Wingman Anti #discussions of infedility #Anti stabs a bunch of dudes behind a warehouse #Pre-Darkstache #Dark doesn't know how to make friends #Anti pretends not to care #Anti cares a lot

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inksmellsnice · 6 years ago

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Warnings: Major Spoilers for Avengers: Endgame Title: On Relativity Rating: T (Mild language, alcohol mention.) Words: 1900 Pairing: StarMora is mentioned but is really not the point. Summary: Set after Avengers: Endgame in a theoretical first act for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3. Quill loves his family and would do anything to protect them. Rocket loves his family and would do anything to protect them. So, naturally, they have a fight over it. External Reading: FFN, AO3

“Guys… I’ve got her.”

Everything froze. Drax’s epic story to Mantis about his arena days. Mantis’ giddy yammering as she absorbed her friend’s excitement. Nebula grunting as she failed to get the high score in Arcade Defender. Groot’s backseat gaming. Thor’s never-ending questions about space. Rocket’s never-ending answers as he tinkered with something explosive.

It took a moment for the (As)Guardians of the Galaxy to process that they’d actually heard Quill say what they thought he’d said before the six nearly trampled each other to get a better view of Quill’s monitor and the odd life signal flickering in and out next to an old mugshot of Gamora.

“Are you certain?” Drax asked.

“That’s her,” Quill replied, his hands trembling and one slowly reaching towards his long-missing girlfriend’s photo on the screen. “Exact DNA scan. It took forever but this could only be her.” Quill shot back down into his seat and started working the Benatar’s controls. “Setting course now. Get ready for 3 jumps.”

“I am Groot?”

“I don’t know. Some mudball in the Helgentar System called Vormir.”

Nebula, Thor, and Rocket shared a look that Mantis didn’t have a chance to ask about before Quill continued. “Jumping in 5, 4-”

“Wait.” Quill stopped with his finger an inch from the jump button. He didn’t move it when he looked over at Rocket, perplexed. “What? What’s the problem?”

“That ain’t just some mudball; it’s where the Soul Stone is.”

“...What?”

Thor glanced between Rocket and Quill, debating if he should speak but knowing he could not keep such important information from his new team… and also knowing who else might yet be alive if his hunch was correct. “That would make sense. Maybe.”

Strange for this group, nobody interjected, so Thor continued. “There is a legend about the Soul Stone among my people, in which it can not only control souls but also house them. There is said to be an entire alternate world inside of that stone. If such a place does exist, it’s possible that’s where your friend has found herself.”

“So you’re saying that if we want to find Gamora, we need to go for Vormir,” Quill’s hand was now a centimeter from the jump button, “get inside the Soul Stone, and bring her out?”

“Assuming the legend is true, yes.”

“Well, I guess we’re going to Vormir to find ou-”

“Quill, would you slow down for a second, please?” Rocket pleaded.

Quill blinked at Rocket actually displaying manners. His finger was now close enough to the jump button that an accidental twitch could fling them across the Galaxy.

“This is an Infinity Stone we’re talking about. Remember? We all held one on Xandar and would have died if your mom hadn’t gotten knocked up by an all-powerful planet? One of those things that Thanos used to cause pretty much the worst day ever? The one that specifically got Gamora killed in the first place? Maybe you weren’t listening when we filled you guys in on how we saved your sorry butts, but the Soul Stone deals in lives. You have to off someone to even get your hands on it much less figure out how to get in and out of it. We could go there to pick up one person only to have to leave someone else there. Add some whole other world we know nothing about except for Thor’s fairy tale into the mix and we could all wind up dead.”

“...So you’re saying,” Quill glared, “ we shouldn’t try to rescue Gamora.”

“Oh for-” Rocket rolled his eyes. “I’m saying we shouldn’t mess with a crazy powerful cosmic object that could easily kill us all! Again!”

“Yeah, except that’s the only way to rescue Gamora,” Quill’s volume started increasing and he finally moved his finger away from the console to ball both his hands into fists, “so you’re saying we shouldn’t rescue Gamora!”

“We don’t even know if she’s actually there or if your stupid ‘upgrade’ of a ship is glitching out!”

“Yeah, but if it isn’t a glitch, you’re saying we shouldn’t rescue Gamora!”

“Fine! I’m saying we shouldn’t rescue Gamora! You happy now?!”

Rocket didn’t recognize the next expression on Quill’s face, but Mantis, Nebula, and Drax did. They’d seen it on Titan.

“...Are…” Quill chuckled in disbelief. “Are you for real right now? First you run with your tail between your legs from Thanos and now you’re afraid of one of his rocks?!”

Thor took a step forward, his eyes starting to glow faintly. Groot extended his arm as a barricade. “I am Groot.” No, let this happen.

“Watch it, Quill,” Rocket said through his teeth.

“You watch it!” He took a step towards Rocket, but he didn’t expect Rocket to actually take a step back in response. Quill paused for a moment at this but it only seemed to make him more angry.

“Gamora’s our friend! Our family! How could you not even care what happens to your family?!”

Silence.

Absolute and instant silence. Quill realized his mistake before his last sentence had finished echoing across the bridge. Rocket stared at him with an expressionof complete betrayal and his eyes started to water.

Surely, Rocket - of all people - would start yelling back before any actual tears could fall.

He didn’t.

“...Rocket,” Quill reached a hand out towards his friend. Rocket had never looked so small before. “I’m s-”

“It’s fine.” Rocket said with a cracking, quiet voice as he stared at the floor. “I’m sorry. Of course I want to save her, I just… Just… keep working on the rescue plan without me, okay? I’m gonna go make sure our gear’s ready.”

Nobody said a word as Rocket left the bridge, and Quill was fully prepared for someone to all but murder him as soon as their friend was out of earshot.

He deserved it. He was ready for it.

He did not expect “someone” to be Gamora’s sister.

Nebula was on Quill the moment Rocket had left, punching him square in the jaw with a metal fist. Drax and Groot both stepped forward, ready to hold her back if she swung again. Mantis’ antennae glowed and she reached a hand towards her. Thor did absolutely nothing.

“Do not touch me,” Nebula warned Mantis. “I do not wish to be calm about this.” Mantis realized Nebula was going to stop at a single punch and complied; the fact that Quill was getting back up and was still able to talk was sign enough that she’d held back a little.

“Ow,” Quill said, groaning as he stood. “What the hell, Nebula? I thought you of all people would be with me on th-”

“Five years.”

Quill’s eyes widened. Mantis, Drax, and Groot all looked between each other with varying levels of surprise.

Before that moment, there had been a silent agreement among the Guardians that the victims of The Snap didn’t need to know and didn’t want to know exactly how much time they’d lost. Measurable time in Space was barely a thing to begin with, seeing how every culture had its own system and trying to keep everything on a single calendar was a fruitless chore they’d long since abandoned in favor of pretending it was somebody’s birthday whenever the team felt like it’d been long enough and wanted something to get merrily plastered over. Quantifying just how long most of the Guardians had been “sleeping” seemed so pointless and depressing.

Until Nebula, with wisdom she usually kept under a cloak of violence, realized it meant absolutely everything.

“For five years,” Nebula continued, “he played your same paltry collection of music every day. Like clockwork. He’d tell me which song was each of your favorites whenever it started playing as if he’d never mentioned it before. For five years, in every free moment, he shared stories about every little thing all of you did together from idiotic space adventures to the tree learning how to walk to pointless verbal exchanges he found amusing. For five years, he complained about how hard such a large vessel was to maintain but protested violently at the mere suggestion of trading it for something befitting two people. For five years I pretended I didn’t hear him crying himself to sleep on the occasional night he tried to rest and for five years I pretended I believed him when he insisted he wasn’t having horrific nightmares.”

“He never got over it, not even once, and when he realized there was the smallest hope that he might regain even a fraction of what he lost he was ready to die, not because of any sort of altruism but because dying for the only people who ever loved him sounded better than spending another second alone with his thoughts and single companion who never had the words to help him with his grief in the slightest.”

She grabbed Peter by the collar. Nobody, including Quill, moved to stop her.

“Five. Years. And you have the absolute unshackled insolence to ask him if he cares about his family?”

She put him down and returned to her seat on the bridge without another word but kept an aura of animosity. He’d rather she just punched him again.

It took Quill several minutes to break out of his guilt-driven daze. When he did, Thor seemed to be examining Stormbreaker in a new light. Drax and Mantis has resumed their earlier conversation with less vigor and much more whispering. Sometime during Nebula’s tirade, Groot had left the bridge altogether. Quill wanted out of the crushing silence and hesitantly started the Zune back up.

“Southern Nights, have you ever felt a-”

He shut the Zune back off.

#avengers endgame #guardians of the galaxy #rocket raccoon #peter quill #marvel nebula #peter is an over-emotional idiot but he's trying his best #!one shot #endgame spoilers #tfw tags try to auto correct to endgame spoiler free #nah there are definitely spoilers here guys

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flowerspecial · 6 years ago

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Calum College Series: Part 5

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The rest of Calum’s first week had gone without a glitch. Calum had a constant smile on his face throughout. He felt like a naughty schoolboy who had gotten his first kiss from behind the bike sheds. Every time he thought of Mollie his heart skipped a beat. Not that he minded, he was rather getting used to Mollie playing havoc with his emotions. He liked how much she had an effect on him, it showed him that to him this was way more than a schoolboy crush.

Every class they shared together; Calum made sure they were touching in some way. Whether it be their hands or feet entwined, or whether it just their knees pressed against each other. He craved Mollie’s touch.

Friday night had come around, and Ashton and Calum were lounging in their room, staring at the ceiling in boredom.

“We are meant to be having the time of our life, and yet, we are here,” Ashton exclaimed with a deep sigh as he looked out of his window. Calum was dangling his head off his bed and laughed in response.

“Don’t you have any work to do?”

“Work?” Ashton turned his head in mock horror. “On a Friday night? You have to be joking, my life isn’t that boring yet.” Ashton jumped off his head and walked over to Calum’s. Pushing Calum slightly, he made himself comfortable sat on his bed.

“Why don’t you ask Mollie to do something?” Calum tilted his head up to look at Ashton and then let it flop back down.

“I was thinking about that. But I think she’s doing something tonight.”

“Well, why don’t you go and find out for definite.” Calum knew Ashton would not drop it until he does, so he rolled off of his bed and left the room to go to Mollie’s.

“You know, I can go on my own,” Calum said as he noticed Ashton was following him closely behind.

“I know, but I want to see Ava anyway.”

It never takes Calum long to walk to Mollie’s, she only lives down the hall. Sometimes he’s grateful for the short distance, but sometimes he can’t help but wish she was further away, so he had more time to prepare himself. Sensing Calum’s hesitation, Ashton leaned over and knocked on the door for him.

Calum was greeted by beauty, as Mollie opened the door. Her hair was pulled back into a high ponytail, and she was wearing her reading glasses. Calum didn’t even know that she wore glasses, but he thought she looked absolutely adorable. Mollie looked at the two boys in confusion.

“What are you guys doing here?” She asked.

“Oh, we just wanted to know if you wanted to do something tonight?” Calum scratched the back of his head as Ashton leant his arm on the doorframe. Mollie thought it was funny how one was so bashful, yet one was so confident. Well seemingly confident that is.

“Tell them to go away. Its girl’s night!” A voice shouted to Mollie. Instantly recognising the voice, Ashton attempted to manoeuvre his way into the room. Ava quickly jumped off her bed to stop Ashton from entering the room any further.

“And what did you not understand about the term girl’s night?” Ava asked Ashton, with her hands on her hips.

“Oh no, I understood it perfectly. I just thought it would be better with me.” Ava rolled her eyes as Ashton got closer to her. They continued their witty repertoire and Mollie, and Calum averted their attention back to each other.

“Sorry for ruining girl’s night,” Calum said sheepishly.

“Oh, don’t worry about it! It’s like you had a sixth sense or something, Ava was talking about Ashton like five minutes ago.” Mollie placed her hand on Calum’s arm in reassurance. Feeling a bit brave, she went on her tiptoes for a kiss, which Calum happily reciprocated.

“Nice PJs by the way,” Calum smirked as he held Mollie in his arms. Mollie looked down at herself only to be rudely reminded that she was wearing kitten PJs. Embarrassed, she pulled away from Calum’s embrace and placed her arms over the body in an attempt to hide herself.

“Sorry, it’s just, they’re comfy, and we are going to watch films, so, I thought, erm, well.” Not wanting her to be embarrassed Calum lifted Mollie’s chin from where it stares at the ground, so she was looking at him.

“Angel, I was joking. They’re beautiful, just like you.” Knowing that Mollie still felt slightly uncomfortable, as he noticed that she was shuffling her feet, he decided to make a joke in hope to see her smile. “Do you think you could get me a pair? I would love them.” Smiling up at Calum she gave him a quick peck on the cheek to show him that he was forgiven.

“Right,” Ava shouted, clapping her hands together. “Everyone with a penis must vacate the room at once. They are not invited to girl’s night and must leave.” The message was mostly directed at Ashton, as she glared him down, but Calum knew it would only be a matter of time before she pushed him out of the door too.

“Wait,” Calum looked back at Mollie. “Will you go on a date with tomorrow?”

“Yes, she obviously will,” Ava shouted as she started to push Ashton towards the door. “Pick her up at 10, now leave.” Calum looked at Mollie for confirmation, when she nodded his smile was from ear to ear. He gave her a sweet kiss and left the room. He laughed as Ava pretty much had to kick Ashton out of the room. Calum helped by pulling Ashton’s arm, once Ava had all but closed the door on him, the two boys retreated back to the room.

“You know mate, you two were practically made for each other,” Calum said to Ashton.

“Nah Cal, I just like winding her up that's all.” Calum smiled to himself as he noticed Ashton was looking back down the hall towards a particular door. Calum knew that it was apparent to everyone except for Ava and Ashton that they were meant to be together. It was only a matter of time.

Calum struggled to sleep that night as nerves were getting the better of him. He hadn’t been on a date in ages, and the first one back was with Mollie, a girl that he was absolutely besotted with. He prayed to every God that he wouldn’t screw it up. Things were going so well with Mollie, he didn’t want any reason for her to reject him.

It was no surprise that Calum woke up early, not that you could really say that he had woken up, as he never really fell asleep. He had plenty of time yet he was rushing around his room trying to organise himself. He went for a shower to wash and to try and calm himself down. When he went back to his room, he was throwing his clothes all over the place trying to find a suitable outfit. Not realising exactly where he was throwing his stuff, he was hit in the face with a pillow by a very dishevelled Ashton.

“You need to calm down mate.” Was all Ashton said. Calum glared at him, what a stupid piece of advice he thought to himself. Telling someone to calm down when they were visibly anxious would be like telling someone with a bone stuck out of their leg to run it under cold water. Absolutely useless.

Calum went back to rummaging through his clothes, only he was a bit more mindful not to hit Ashton this time. None of his clothes seemed right, he wanted to look cool and casual, like he had just woken up like this, but still wanted to look like he had made an effort. Eventually, he decided on a pair of skinny black jeans and a white t-shirt with a leather jacket. He styled the outfit with a pair of black converse. Once he was dressed, he turned around to seek Ashton’s approval. Ashton had fallen back asleep, but Calum decided this was far more important than Ashton’s beauty sleep so threw a pillow at him to wake him up.

Ashton was startled awake and glared intensely at Calum. “You know what, I hate you.”

“Shut up, no you don't. Does this look okay?” Calum gave him a little twirl, to make sure nothing from his outfit looked out of place.

“You look great. Now, leave me alone so I can sleep.”

Content with Ashton’s answer, Calum sprayed himself with aftershave, grabbed his wallet and left sleeping beauty to his slumber.

Calum was so nervous about the date going well, he was second guessing everything. He was even conscious when he knocked on the door. Was it too loud? Too hard? Too many knocks? Not enough? He could just sense that his nerves would get the better of him.

Awaiting a response, Calum tried to wipe his hands on his jeans and trying to fix his hair the best he could. When he didn't get an immediate answer, he was confused slightly. Usually, Mollie or Ava comes running to the door after one knock, or if not that, he always hears at least one of them yell come in. He knocked again, but still, there was no response. His nerves rocketed as he began to doubt himself once more. Had he completely misread the situation? Did Mollie only say yes to shut him up? Maybe Mollie wasn't looking for a relationship, perhaps she only wanted him for a bit of fun. She probably didn't know the best way to let Calum down so thought ignoring him was the best option. Was he too clingy, did he push her into a situation that she didn't want to be in?

Thankfully, Calum was knocked out of his self deprecating train of thought with a loud bang from inside the room. Following, was a string of curse words as he heard footsteps scrambling towards the door.

“I am so sorry.” A rather out of breath Mollie said as she swung the door open. “We stayed up later than we meant to, we were watching a horror film, so we got freaked out, so we stayed up to try and forget about it. I must have slept through my alarm, God I’m such an idiot.”

“Don’t worry, I was beginning to think you were ghosting me.” Calum tried to smile, but Mollie noticed that the smile didn't quite reach his eyes. She felt awful, their first date and she made him think that he was going to be stood up.

“I would never stand you up on purpose. Please, come in.” Calum followed Mollie into the room. He sat at her desk and saw that Ava was still sound asleep. Mollie followed Calum’s eyes and laughed.

“Whatever you do, do not wake her up. She will kill you.”

“That’s another thing her and Ashton have in common then.” Calum could feel the tension leaving his body, Mollie had a way of making him feel so at ease. He watched her as she walked around the room collecting things together. She had decided on her outfit and turned to face Calum.

“You need to turn around.” She said.

“Why?”

“Because I’m about to get changed and I don't want you to look.” Calum was bemused with Mollie’s response, just earlier in the week she was lying on her bed naked in front of him. So why she was shy now, he didn't understand. Obeying her command though, he swivelled on her desk chair and began to lazily look through some of her lecture notes that were left on the desk.

Once she was satisfied with her appearance, she told Calum that he could turn back around as she was ready to go. Calum looked her up and down appreciatively. She was wearing a playsuit with a tropical print and had also styled her outfit with a pair of converse. Calum particularly admired the way she had braided her hair, Calum was always fond of watching his sister put her hair into braids. He adored the hairstyle, he thought it was intricate but casual at the same time.

“After you, my angel.” Mollie grabbed her bag from off the floor and left the room. Calum followed behind and moved out of the way so she could lock it. The two entwined their fingers together as they exited the building and began walking away from the college.

“So, what do you want to do today? We could go bowling? We could go for something to eat? We could go to the cinema?” Calum was clearly a little bit distressed, so Mollie decided to take over the conversation.

“How about we just walk and see where our feet take us?” Mollie swung their hands, trying to get Calum to loosen up a bit. A date is meant to be fun, not stressful and filled with anxiety.

“You know, we never did finish our game,” Calum spoke, smiling down at Mollie.

“What game?” She replied, confused as to what he might mean.

“At the party, we started 21 questions. I only asked you one, so I believe that means I have twenty more.” Due to wicked grin that Calum pulled, Mollie couldn't help but feel slightly nervous. She was worried that he was going to ask her difficult questions, ones that made him rethink his emotions towards her. Ones that would drive him away from her. Calum could see that Mollie tensed slightly, so chose to leave the more creative questions for another day, and started with the easy ones.

“What’s your favourite colour?” He asked. He noticed a sigh of relief escape her mouth in gratitude for the easy question.

“Yellow. It’s bright and happy, it makes me smile. What about you?”

“Green, but like forest green, not lime green.”

“Oh! Like Slytherin green?” Her eyes widened in happiness as she looked at Calum. Calum felt as if he had died and gone to heaven right there and then. Not only was she beautiful smart, but she was also a Harry Potter fan, you couldn’t find a more perfect girl if you tried.

“Yeah, exactly like Slytherin green!” As Mollie looked away, Calum took a second to take in her features. The way the sunlight shone onto her skin made it look flawless, he thought she was enchanting. “What’s your favourite animal?”

“Flamingos, they’re tropical and fun, and they are so pretty. I watched a documentary that called baby flamingos ugly, and I was so annoyed!”

“Why?”

“They aren’t ugly at all! They’re cute and grey and fluffy. Stupid reporter.” Calum laughed at Mollie’s obvious annoyance towards the reporter. “What’s yours?”

“Well I’m definitely not as exotic as you, I’d probably just say dogs are mine.” Mollie smiled up at Calum and gave his hand a quick squeeze.

Their questioning of each other continued for a while. Calum and Mollie were both so happy that they were finding out more about each other. It was like piecing a jigsaw puzzle together, each piece of information they received was putting together this grand concept of the person they were slowly falling more head over heels with.

Calum came to a sudden halt, surprising Mollie. “I know we are meant to just be walking and stuff, but I definitely think we should make a stop there.” Calum was looking at a building across the road, he looked back at Mollie grinning like a child. Mollie was just as eager, and so they crossed the road quickly and entered the ice rink.

Mollie realised that Calum could be likened to Bambi in more than one way today, not only did he have those beautiful big brown eyes, but he was also hopeless on the ice. As soon as he set foot onto the ice, he clung onto the sides with dear life, but his feet were still sliding out from underneath him.

“If you want you can take my hand? That way I might be able to get you off the railing even just for a second.” Mollie offered her hand out to Calum. Mollie was no professional figure skater, but she was definitely more stable on the ice than Calum. She found it sweet how helpless he was. Calum felt otherwise though, he was so annoyed with himself that he suggested this. He wanted the date to go smoothly, he tried to appear cool and calm, but no, he decided to go ice skating where he couldn’t stand up for even one second. He felt so stupid.

Mollie got slightly closer to Calum and pried Calum’s hands off the railing. His knuckles were weight with how close he was clinging on, so it took a few moments before she managed to get a hold of his hands. When she had both of his hands, she began to slowly skate backwards, dragging Calum along the ice.

“If you stand up straighter, you might find it easy to balance,” Mollie suggested. Calum took her suggestion straight away, not wanting to seem even more of an idiot than he probably already did.

Calum was still very visibly tense, his eyes were shifting back and forward between the ground and Mollie’s face. Mollie picked up the pace ever so slightly, and Calum was excited that he was staying on his feet. He started to relax, and his attention focused more on Mollie than the ground. Mollie was giggling softly as they skated around the ice. Well, less skating, more Mollie dragging Calum.

It was only a few seconds later when Calum was nudged slightly by a child passing by. Calum lost his balance and fell to the ground, pulling Mollie down with him. They came down with a loud thump. Calum felt like his ego was bruised as much as his legs were.

“I think that is enough of ice skating for one day,” Mollie laughed as she pulled herself up. She grabbed Calum by the hand, helping him to his feet and guided him towards the exit of the rink. They took off their boots quickly and gathered their stuff to head back to the dorms.

Their walk home was oddly silent, which was worrying Mollie. She was panicking that maybe Calum had thought this date was a disaster, and maybe didn't want to see her anymore. She was kicking herself her agreeing to go the ice rink. Everything was going so smoothly, why didn't she just suggest to keep on walking? But no, she had to show off on the ice and make Calum feel embarrassed.

“Look, I know that was a disaster of a date, and I’d completely understand if you don't want to go on another one. I didn't realise I was so bad on the ice.” Calum is trying to look everywhere but Mollie. He didn't want to look at her; otherwise, he might actually have to acknowledge the potential of her agreeing to the end of their little romance.

Realising that his anxiety was undoubtedly worse than hers, now it was Mollie’s turn to offer some reassurance. Turning her face towards him, she stroked the side of it and looked fondly into his eyes.

“I had an amazing time Calum. So what if you aren't brilliant on ice? It’s not something I necessarily look for in a partner.” Calum rolled his eyes at Mollie’s response but laughed with her.

The rest of the walk home was silent, but now there was no tension looming in the air. When they arrived at Mollie’s room, Calum quickly spun her around and kissed her passionately. He held her close to his body, and she wrapped her arms around his neck. Calum wanted to continue into her room, but he knew better than that. He pulled away and placed his head on hers.

“That was great.” He said no louder than a whisper.

“What? The date or the kiss?”

“Both.”

Part 6

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petri808 · 7 years ago

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Porcelain Doll

Chapter 3 of It Was Always You

It has been about a month since Natsu and Lucy have officially become a couple when Lucy goes out on a mission with Shadow Gear and comes back a little worse for wear. How will the over protective dragon handle it?

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To say he was angry was like saying his battle against his brother had merely been sibling rivalry gone just a little askew, no Natsu was furious, livid, hell there wasn’t a word yet created to describe how he felt when Lucy walked into the guild hall. He was already irritated that she had been gone on the week-long mission with Shadow Gear without him but had relented at her and Levy’s persistence that it would be a simple, no danger involved, we’re just gonna translate and catalog for the Magic Library some new materials they had received request.

And now he stood there, heat waves flaring off his body, mid-transformation, staring at his mate with a swollen lip, black eye, and limping as she desperately tried to calm him down, begging, pleading that it really wasn’t that bad, it was no ones fault that a shelf decided to break under the weight of ancient manuscripts at the same moment she had been adding to it’s volumes.

She was using every trick she had gained in all her years of knowing the slayer, all her skills to tame and soothe the demon back into submission and it was slowly working, first the reversal of his physical changes, then gradually his temperature began to come down. Almost ready to take a sigh of relief that’s then it happened, of all the times to add to her dilemma now, when she had finally got Natsu to calm down! She sneezed. And not just one of those cute, something tickled her nose sneezes, but a loud, mucus driven, no air left in your lungs expulsions when you’re suffering from a cold. Twice.

He roared and surged again towards the cowering guild mates that he blamed for her condition, she pushed desperately against his frame, bracing him from moving forward, and now Gajeel and Gray had joined to hold him back.

“Please Natsu!” her tears are streaming at this point of desperation. “It’s nothing Wendy or Porlyusica couldn’t fix…” but before she can finish the growl he emits sends chills down her spine.

“They aren’t here!”

“W-What?” she stops pushing.

“They left yesterday and won’t be back for at least a week!” tugging harder at the arms holding him, “damn it let me go you bastards! Gajeel you know damn well if it were Levy you’d be…”

“Oh, don’t lump me into this, Salamander,” the iron slayer only tightens his hold, “Yes I’d be pissed but I got more brain cells to know this ain’t worth killing over.”

“Come on man,” Gray tries to reason with him, “Lucy will be fine, she’s tough, just some good ‘ole rest and patching up and she’ll be good to go. Cause we ain’t letting ya go till you calm the fuck down!”

“Fuck you!”

Lucy let’s out a long, drawn out exhale to calm herself down. The team had known Porlyusica was not home since they stopped there first, knowing this is exactly how Natsu was going to respond. They had even checked Fairy Hills for Wendy, but she too had not been home, and they’d hoped she’d simply be at the guild; well now they know why. Just Great. The spirit mage knew she really wasn’t as bad as he was acting like she was, damn it she wasn’t a porcelain doll, and she understood his possessive side which had only grown worse after consummating their bond, but still… Another exhale, she needed to get him settled down again, this was her problem, her duty, not the guilds.

With the two men holding her mate firmly enough, Lucy cups his blazing cheeks and forces him to look at her directly. She holds his gaze, searching, imploring, his emeralds still fiery as they melted her chocolate hues, moisture teeming again, her lips part, sweeping into a smile and voice is soft, gentle like a delicate flower petal despite the sniffles she was holding at bay. “Natsu,” kissing his lips ever so tenderly, “My love, my mate, I need you to come back to me. If Wendy is not here I will need your help until I feel better. Please?”

His head lowers and rests against her forehead as his body stills. Oh, Mavis he was still livid, but she was right, he need to take care of his responsibilities, and Lucy was his priority not these idiots around him; he could beat them up a little later; a twitch of his lip at that last thought. Finally, it’s his turn to exhale and relax his body. “Alright…”

She tilts his head back up and kisses him again, “Take me home, dragon.”

First things first, he leaves her next to the tub to strip while he runs a bath for his mate and gathers other necessities. As the water fills he checks her over more closely and aside from the black eye and lip that is less swollen than it was earlier, noting bruises on her side over her ribs and likely the bones themselves where the shelf had come to land, and the ankle that was inflamed and would need to be wrapped, received as she tried but failed to get out of the way. Another round of sneezes. Now that was another issue. With her energy reserves lowered, catching a cold on their way back was a new problem developing quickly and just in the half hour from when they had met up at the guild, the congestion had gotten worse, and was well on its way towards the next symptom.

Body sore all over, all she wanted to do was unwind in a nice hot bath with her man, so after scrubbing their bodies and rinsing, he picks her up and lowers them both into the steaming waters, settling the blonde between his legs and keeping his arms around her waist, careful against her bruises. It felt so good, her wispy sighs convey as she relaxes against his chest, all the aches and pains, the memories of that stupid mission dissolving away into the water molecules that surrounded them.

It had only been a month since they had gone from friends to lovers and they were still adjusting to the differences. Granted, the pair had been so close before the change that not a whole lot did, but one thing was the possessiveness, and the crazy territorial dragon he had become. It drove her nuts, but what could she do? She had chosen him for better or for worst and no matter what happened they’d figure it out, they always did.

She really did hate seeing Natsu so upset, it pained her, and if she had thought for a second the job was going to be dangerous, she never would have taken it unless he would be with her. The worst part, was he’s barely said a word to her the whole time they’d been home, brows still furrowed and frowning, she couldn’t tell if he was upset, frustrated, worried…

“Natsu, are you,” exhale, “angry with me?”

“No, why would you think that?”

“You look angry… and you haven’t really said much since we left the guild…”

Exhale, “Luce, I’m not mad at you, it’s just,” longer exhale, “I know your injuries aren’t that bad, a-and I know that it was just an accident, but it scared me.”

She shifts just enough to see his face, now tilted downward, and bangs shielding his eyes a little; is that a tear? “But I’m fine, baby, why would you be scared…”

He looks up; it was tears… “yeah, this time, but what if it had been different… People die from accidents too, and I wasn’t there…” she turns all the way around to face him as tears of her own build. “…I can’t protect you if I’m not there. I-I can’t lose you Lucy, do you understand that?”

“Natsu…” pressing her lips gently to his and sweeping away the tears along his cheeks, “I’m so sorry, I really wouldn’t have gone if I thought something bad would happen.” Now they are both crying, “I promise, I’ll never go anywhere without you again, it’s breaking my heart to see you like this.”

A small smile finally rewards Lucy as he returns her kisses and reminds himself she’s still here, in his arms where she belongs. She smiles back, tousling her fingers through his hair a little before, sliding them along his face and neck. He doesn’t know how this woman can be jarring and yet so soothing to his soul, how she manages to pacify the swirling emotions that is him and keep her wits about her. Mavis, how he’d die for this woman! His arms enfold her again, turning her to rest against his chest, and kisses the back of her head. Yes, he still wants to beat up Shadow Gear a little just because, but they are damn lucky that this vengeful dragon slash demon can be tamed by his mate.

They stay there for quite some time, the water never getting any cooler thanks to his natural body heat, and as wrinkled as some of their extremities may get, even Lucy succumbs to the serenity of the water, lids growing heavy and drowsy. Under different circumstances, the two of them naked in a tub would have led to a much more pleasurable experience but she needed to rest, and he wouldn’t risk adding to her bruises, chuckling in his head, ‘I can contribute new ones later.’

Natsu takes her out of the bath and gets her ready for bed before she could fully pass out and be much more difficult to handle. He applies salves to her bruises and bandages her ribs, wraps her ankle, happy to see the discoloration over her eye and lip have lightened considerably, and lastly forces her to take some medicine for the cold he knows is going to rear its ugly head tomorrow. Cuts, broken bones, with plenty of experience, these are things he can deal with, but colds, that’s something he’s dreading. All his life, he’s never suffered from colds, his body seemingly immune to infections so all he can hope is to do the right things to help her through it, and it will take much more than simply digging up a tree to make her feel better. With her safely tucked under the covers and bundled in his arms, they drift off into the night.

“Ah choo! Ugh…. Ah choo! Ugh, I feel like shit…”

It had been two days since he’d got her home, two days of a steadily worsening cold, two friggin days of running himself blind not knowing how to deal with it, and worst of all it was just the beginning.

As Lucy stayed dead to the world yesterday morning, Natsu had snuck out, knowing he needed to get medicine for her cold but with no idea from where and he really didn’t want to go to the guild for help. This might sound crazy, but knowing Fairytail was like a family, his friends would have insisted on coming to the apartment to help and damn it if he did not want anyone near his woman right now. He knew himself well enough to know, the over protective side they saw the day prior was still lingering and could kick back on at any moment. It didn’t matter to him if he was being selfish, she wasn’t just Lucy Heartfillia, Celestial Spirit mage of Fairytail anymore, but his mate, his woman, and screw what anyone else thought! But shit, where the hell does he get meds from??

So, he did the only other thing he could think of, asked everyone he passed on the street. Two people pointed him to a part of Magnolia he’d never really ventured before, back alley shops, shady was an understatement, but if they said there was an apothecary then so be it. Low and behold, the shop existed, and Natsu bought the supplies he was told would help her. It’ll clear her right up, she’ll feel instantly better, the owner swore on his life, back to new in no time flat. Well hell, that was the best news a gullible and desperate man could ever hear!

Yeah, the slayer ran back to the apartment, excited and ready to shove the remedies down her throat expecting the ‘instant’ reaction that never came, in fact, he swore by days end Lucy looked even worse. Pissed, he flew back to the shop and destroyed it, reducing not just the apothecary but the entire building it was housed in to rubble.

Back to day 2. Word of a half-man, half creature destroying a building in Magnolia had reached Fairytail by that morning and of course, who else could it have been? So, in response Makarov had sent Gray and Erza to Lucy’s apartment to find out why on Earthland had Natsu rampaged the day before. But he had refused to let them in, even with Erza threatening to break the door down along with him, just wouldn’t budge and surprisingly, she didn’t follow through with her threat. Maybe it was the storm behind his eyes or the menacing aura that had developed around the slayer as his anger grew that made her back off.

Either way, the one thing she wouldn’t do was leave without helping and if medicine was what he needed, then that was what they would get for them, anything to keep the dragon from racking up more bills for the guild. It had taken a couple hours for the pair to show back up with not just medicine but food and other necessities along with instructions for Natsu to follow, Mira had even whipped up a batch of chicken soup for their dinner, promising more deliveries each day. He was grateful for the gesture, its not like he thought his friends had bad intentions, just right now, he had to satiate his demon and said demon wanted nothing more than to hoard their mate.

The medicines were helping her sleep, much to the relief of her dragon. The care package really had been the catalyst to turn their situation around, having taken a load off his shoulders, he could focus on caring for Lucy and by the evening of day 3, her congestion was better, which meant her couching wasn’t hurting her ribs as much, the cold sweats had subsided, her fever was at a manageable temperature, and she had even held down a full bowl of soup in one sitting. The bruising on her side was no longer an angry purple but a jaundice yellow and the marks on her eyes and lips were gone, but her ankle would take longer to fully heal, maybe another week to be on the safe side.

“Thank you,” she whispered as Natsu carried her to the bath. He had been so doting and loving, it was a side to her boyfriend she infrequently saw but treasured seeing how much he was willing to do for her. She had heard the argument through the door yesterday between he and Erza, how he had destroyed a building, and while part of her wanted to chastise him for what he had done, she couldn’t help but feel more enamored by the gesture, feel special that he would face the wrath of the Titania just for her. Besides, sick or not, a little pampering never hurt a girl and so she gave in to the rare opportunity.

He looked down at his mate as she rested her head against his shoulder, “You don’t have to thank me Luce,” and kissed her forehead, “I like taking care of you…”

“Mmmm…” she stretches her arms and back before settling amongst the sleeping body behind her, Mavis she was feeling so much better! Natsu groaned a little at her movement and shifted his leg over to pin her from moving again earning him a chuckle. A week of constant care must have taken a toll on the poor man but thanks to his efforts, her cold was just about gone, and her body was almost fully healed, so now it was his turn to get some much, needed rest.

She turns around in his embrace and snuggles her face into the crook of his neck, inhaling the smoky cinnamon, Mavis how she loved his scent, taking her sweet time walking her fingers along the lines of his chest, rising and falling, beneath her tips before resting above his heart. Her heart, he had once said, his heart belonged to her as hers belonged to him, and it was a strong beat, telling a story of strength and of a love that could weather any storm, ebbing and flowing in rhythm through a life’s journey, and one now shared between them.

The brushing of her fingers along his side brings an exhale from her lover but continue ghosting their way to his hips and his abs, twirling the little curls of pink peeking from his waist. “Luce, you should be resting…”

“It’s kinda hard in this position,” she plants a little peck to his collar bone.

“You keep that up and something else is gonna be hard from this position.”

Lucy giggles and plants a few more kisses, “I feel a lot better Natsu, and now I’m wide awake.”

“Go back to sleep,” he tightens his hold over her, squishing her face to his chest, “as much as I’d love to play, I want you to be one hundred percent first.”

“I’m not fragile,” the pout evident in her tone, “you don’t need to keep codling me…”

He lifts her face, “I never said you were fragile, of all people Luce, I know how strong you are,” softening his expression, “but that’s still not gonna stop me from fussing over you right now.”

“Aww, fine.”

“Good, now go to sleep,” chuckling, “cause I’m tired.” Lucy couldn’t help but laugh too.

Word had been delivered via Happy that Wendy was now back from her trip and so, the next morning finds the couple heading back to Fairytail for the first time since the disastrous and explosive encounter with Shadow Gear. Refusing to let her walk on her own, Lucy was riding piggy back on her boyfriend, shielding her face to the stares and snickers they passed along the street. It was embarrassing for the proud mage but no amount of sweet talk nor out right beating on his back to let her down was working. She was also worried about what will happen when they entered their guild, not so much because their friends would hold a grudge, but more so if something will provoke the slayer’s temper, and as soon as they crossed the threshold, Lucy braced for the worst.

His eyes found the blue-haired girl he was hoping for and walked straight to her table without acknowledging anyone, the priority was his mate, and nothing was getting in that way. Members steered clear for the most part, simply watching, trying to gauge the fire slayers emotional state which didn’t seem promising at that moment. After putting Lucy down on the bench beside the healer, he takes a place next to her.

“Hi Wendy,” the spirit mage hugs her friend before Natsu pulls her back and takes control over the conversation.

“Wendy, could you look her over, make sure Lucy is healing up okay? Her cold seems to be gone and the bruising over her ribs have almost faded away, but her ankle is still bothering her.”

“Sure guys,” she stands up and kneels in front of Lucy, placing her hands over Lucy’s side first. Satisfied that the ribs were in fact okay, she then shifts over her friend’s ankle where her hands linger a little longer, Lucy can feel the heat coming off Wendy’s hands, permeating through her muscles. After a few anxious minutes, the healer sits back down. “Well you should be good to go. The tendons were still a little sprained, so I took care of that, and luckily no broken bones anywhere.”

“Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you!” Lucy hugs the little girl. “Natsu took really good care of me too,” she smiles at her boyfriend. Exhale, “and now I’m back to normal.”

Wendy giggles, “You did a great job Natsu, did you run into any problems?”

He runs his hand through his hair and finally smiles, “just a little…”

“Oi just a little?” Gray steps up beside his friend, “You friggin blew up the apothecary shop!”

“Hey!” Natsu pops from his seat, “That bastard had it coming, selling me that crap medicine!”

As Gray and Natsu trade words and a few fists, Lucy fills Wendy in as to what they were arguing about. Levy, Gajeel, and Juvia join the table in the midst of it, peppering the spirit mage with questions of how Natsu had treated her, while Erza stepped in to break up the fight. When Natsu turned back to Lucy, the frown returned, for Jet and Droy were standing there talking to her. “Get the hell away from her!” Shouting and stomping his way back over, they immediately cringed and took off out of his path.

“Natsu!” Lucy screamed back, waving her hands at him, “they were apologizing, but it wasn’t their fault, so you need to stop acting like an idiot and control yourself!”

“I don’t care, they should’a taken better care of you.” He tries to grab her flailing limbs, but she pulls out of his grasp, stands up and pushes him down onto the bench roughly. Shock fills his orbs at the sight of his furious woman just glaring daggers at him. Holy Mavis!

She leans into her boyfriend, hands planted on either side of his body, and effectively boxing the slayer in. “I appreciate how much you love me, and I can understand your dragon nature, but this mate is not going to tolerate you taking it out any of our friends!” She sighs, “Natsu,” hanging her head slightly, “this whole territorial thing, it was cute at first but,” exhale, “we need to figure out how to keep your dragon instincts in check, so you don’t end up hurting someone.”

His shoulders slump down, fuck it’s not like he wants to go beating up on anyone, he doesn’t want to lose his temper every time something remotely bad happens to his mate. “I know…”

“Hey,” she kneels and cups his face in her hands, “I told you, we’re a team right, we’ll figure it out together, but I need you to help me too.”

He places his hands over hers, “I’m sorry Luce,” resting his forehead against hers.

She smiles, “the first step is you need to apologize to Jet and Droy.”

“But…”

“Eh,” eye brow raise, “no buts, it’s not their fault I got hurt, now go and apologize!”

“Okay, okay!” Lucy moves out of the way and watches him saunter off in search of the two men hiding somewhere in the hall. She exhales and plops down on the bench, that had taken a lot of energy out of her.

“You know Salamanders damn lucky to have you bunny girl.”

“Thanks, Gajeel.”

“I’m sure Natsu will get past this,” Levy looks over at her husband with a smirk, who quickly turns his head with a huff, “I mean it took Gajeel a few months to stop eyeing out every guy who even glanced in my direction.”

“I know… It’s still early and he’s still trying to get used to the emotions, we both are.”

“But you handle him flawlessly,” Erza pats Lucy on the shoulder, “Gajeels right, you two couldn’t be any more perfect for each other.”

Lucy looks up to see Natsu walking back towards their table, with closer to his normal, lackadaisical gait and so much more relaxed than he’d been through this whole mess. When he sees her staring at him, the goofy grin she loves, plasters to his face. She can’t help but smile too, “Yeah, I guess we are…”

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iamvegorott · 7 years ago

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New Form Chapter 3

Demons

"Damn, Jack's Tumblr is blowing up," Anti commented as he went through Jack's phone, leaning against the bed frame.

"I wonder why." Dark huffed as he pressed a finger to Jack's neck, feeling a light pulse. "He's alive...barely."

"Hey, look, it's us." Anti showed Dark the screen that had a screenshot of them in Jack's on it.

"How..." Dark looked at the computer and saw that the live stream was still occurring, the chat flipping out over what was happening. "You didn't turn the live stream off!" Dark snapped as he quickly grabbed the mouse.

"I also didn't check to see if my host was alive, why are you shocked?" Anti casually asked, still scrolling through Tumblr.

"You're an idiot," Dark growled, tossing the mouse aside in frustration and dropped to his knees.

"Well, isn't that a view?" Anti teased while Dark went under the desk and unplugged the computer. "I forgot how great of an ass Mark has."

"You are going to be the literal death of us." Dark hissed, still

on the ground.

"We're demons, who can kill us?" Anti chuckled.

"As long as we are in human bodies, we are vulnerable." Dark stood. "We might be stronger than our bodies, but one bullet in the head and we're gone forever."

"Don't gotta kill my mood here." Anti sighed. "Plus, I left my host, I'm fine."

"You're still attached to him. You only have a new form, not a real body."

"I can feel everything like it's a real body. I can feel a lot of things." Anti winked as he ran a hand down his chest.

"Out of all the demons to choose to leave the realm with, why did I chose you?" Dark rubbed his temple.

"Because I'm the only Virus Demon you know and the only way to leave The Otherworld is through the web," Anti answered the rhetorical question.

"I should have just stayed behind," Dark stated as he lifted Jack off the ground and into his chair.

"The Council was going to make you marry some bitch who only wanted you for your title." Anti scoffed.

“It’s just marriage, why should I care?” Dark crouched in front of Jack and tilted his head, trying to think of a way to wake him.

“Marriage shouldn’t be used as a way to get ahead. You get married cause you love someone.” Anti dropped the phone on the bed and crossed his arms.

“What do you know about love? You have sex with everything that has a pulse.” Dark rolled his eyes as he started to gently slap Jack’s face.

“There’s a difference between sex and love. Fucking someone is fun, but fucking someone you love makes it funner.”

“We’re demons. We don’t love.” Dark stated, straightening back up when Jack remained unconscious.

“Don’t ya parent’s love each other?” Anti asked.

“No. They got married because their parents arranged it and had me so there was an heir to their name.”

“What’s it like be an heir?”

“Anti now is not the time to discuss this. We can have this conversation after we either get you back into Jack or sever the connection completely.” Dark said.

“I can tell you what it’s like to be a Virus. We’re very rare.”

“Yes, Anti, I know you're rare. You’re created through a complicated process of electrical currents and demon activity. You’re born through either a computer or television and the family who owns the device is in charge of raising you. I know all about your kind, I’ve done my research.”

“You’ve also known me for twenty years,” Anti added.

“That is true.”

“What the hell hit me?” Jack groaned as he woke, rubbing his face.

“He’s alive!” Anti cheered.

“Mark? Why are you here? And why are you gray and glowing? Am I still asleep?” Jack tried to get up but fell back down into his seat.

“Sadly, you’re not.” Dark held his hands together and sighed. “My name is Dark and my...associate over there is Anti.”

“‘Sup!” Anti greeted.

“Why does he look almost identical to me?” Jack asked. “And why do you look like Mark?”

“Because when we left our realm, we needed a host to hold our form or else we would be unable to maintain a physical body here.”

“Realm? What the fuck are you talking about? Is this a prank? Are you two the fuckers messing with my friends?” Jack was getting some of his energy back and was sitting up on his own.

“That was Anti and, by the sounds of it, that was his way of getting you to acknowledge him so he could escape from your body.”

“Is that what I saw!? That was you!?” Jack glared at Anti. “I have half a mind to punch you back to the realm you belong!”

“I’d like to see you try.” Anti smiled, showing off his sharp teeth.

“Anti. Behave.” Dark only exhaled through his nose when Anti stuck his tongue out at him, but the Virus did stop talking. “I understand the anger, the frustration at what Anti had done. But he simply wanted to have his own body to do as he wishes.”

“Yeah, man. I just wanna be able to go out without having to take over. I wanna fuck people and not have to make sure you don’t wake back up. I will not be interrupted during my fun time.” Anti started to thrust into the air.

“Don’t. Don’t do that.” Dark said. Anti only looked at Dark and continued the movement. “I said, don’t!” Dark grabbed Anti and threw him on top of the bed. “Stay there and stay still!”

“Please just tell me what the fuck is happening.” Jack covered his face with his hands, running them down and grunting.

“All you need to know is that Anti and myself are not of this realm and our main goal is to extract ourselves from our hosts, which are you and Mark, so we can live our own lives,” Dark explained. “At the moment I’m still fully attached to Mark and Anti jumped out of you, but is still reliant on you.”

“And?” Jack held his hands out.

“And-” Dark stopped when he heard a squeaking, seeing out of the corner of his eye that Anti was still doing the movement. “Anti!” Anti stopped moving his hips and gave Dark a large smile. “And we need to find a way to either put Anti back in you or fully separate your souls.” Dark continued, annoyance clear on his face.

“How the actual fuck do we do that?”

“Honestly...I do not know. I’ve been trying to figure it out, but one can only do so much when you can only control a body for about an hour every now and again. I can usually take over when Mark’s emotions are high and he’s like that when he’s recording most times.” Dark suddenly grabbed his head. “Speaking of which. Anti, take me back. Mark’s waking up.”

“That wouldn’t be a problem if you-”

“Later, Anti!”

“Fine.” Anti jumped off the bed and clapped his hand on Dark’s shoulder.

“No, you don’t!” Jack leaped out of the chair and grabbed Dark’s other shoulder before either demon could stop him, making Anti glitch all three of them out of the country.

#jacksepticeye #markiplier #antisepticeye #darkiplier #youtube #fanfiction

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darknesswhispers · 7 years ago

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Darkness suddenly appears right next to the dark box.

-Stanley-: *!!*

Goodness: *!*

Goodness: *stays wrapped around him, tightly*

-Stanley-: *kicks the box open*

-Stanley-: *ignores Goodness now*

-Stanley-: *gets up

-Stanley-: ........

Darkness smiles coldly.

Darkness: 𝓦𝓱𝔂 𝓭𝓸𝓷'𝓽 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓼𝓱𝓸𝔀 𝓾𝓹, 𝓭𝓪𝓻𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓰?

-Stanley-: *beams brightly at Her*

-Stanley-: *<3*

-Stanley-: *new friend <333*

Darkness: .....

-Stanley-: *is happy*

-Stanley-: You must be Darkness!

Darkness offers Her hand, ignoring the happy vibes.

Goodness: .....

-Stanley-: ......

-Stanley-: *ignores her hand and glomps her in a warm hug*

-Stanley-: *is radiating unconditional love and happiness, unbothered by Her dark vibes*

Goodness appears as a short girl hugging Stan and Darkness as well

Goodness: *TRIPLE HUG*

-Stanley-: You're so beautiful and smart!

-Stanley-: I love you <3

-Stanley-: .....

Tiny XJ10: *I am outta here*

-Stanley-: *puts an arm around Goodness as well and hugs them both tightly*

Tiny XJ10: *tries to escape but remembers she is too tiny*

Tiny XJ10: *<__________<*

-Stanley-: *this is the best day of my short life!*

-Stanley-: *emits more and more positive vibes*

-Stanley-: *until it fills the entire empty(?) warehouse they're in*

-Stanley-: *its obvious Darkness' dark vibes set something off*

-Stanley-: *he does understand that She is his target*

-Stanley-: *and he plans to love her into submission*

Tiny XJ10: *spawns in awkward bee wings behind herself*

Tiny XJ10: *buzzes and glitches again*

Tiny XJ10: *but flies out of Stan's hair*

Darkness: .............

Darkness keeps Her cold smile on Her face.

Darkness teleports Herself, Goodness and happy puppy Stan to the Dramatic Office's Lounge.

< it's mostly destroyed, but as soon as they appear in there >

< it instantly returns back to normal >

-Stanley-: ......

-Stanley-: *his posi-happy vibes only get stronger now*

Goodness: *!*

Goodness: .........

Goodness is confused

Goodness but is rather happy and optimistic as well

Goodness because She didn't kick them away

-Stanley-: *yess*

-Stanley-: *She likes our hugs!*

-Stanley-: ......

-Stanley-: Oh!

-Stanley-: Do you want some tea, Miss Darkness?

-Stanley-: I can make you some excellant tea!

-Stanley-: Or I can bake you cookies, if you'd like!

-Stanley-: *pulls his head away only slightly to glance around, but still keeps his arms wrapped around Her*

-Stanley-: You have a lovely place

-Stanley-: :)

Goodness: *eyes light up* And I can help with cookies!

Goodness keeps clinging

-Stanley-: *!* We can have tea AND cookies!

Goodness: Sounds great to me! :)

Darkness: 𝓨𝓮𝓼.

-Stanley-: *!!*

-Stanley-: You mean it?

-Stanley-: Well! What is your favorite kind of cookies?

Darkness: 𝓖𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓮𝓻.

-Stanley-: And tea? :)

Darkness: 𝓓𝓪𝓻𝓴.

Darkness waits patiently.

-Stanley-: *squeezes Her before letting Her go*

Goodness: *same*

-Stanley-: *starts preparing tea for Her*

Darkness: .........

Darkness makes a blink.

Adam joined the Story

Adam gets kicked out from the Art Room that he protected all the time.

Adam appears in the middle of the Lounge

Adam: ????

-Stanley-: *hands Her the tea cup*

Adam: Hey—

-Stanley-: ........................

Adam: .................

-Stanley-: *new friend spotted!*

-Stanley-: *glomps Adam*

-Stanley-: *<3 <3 <3*

Adam: *is v taken aback and dazed now*

-Stanley-: *his happy vibes increase*

-Stanley-: *is kinda literally buzzing with joy*

-Stanley-: *i'm so happy right now :´)*

Aurora joined the Story

Aurora turned into Ad¿m

Ad¿m: Finally!

Ad¿m: Finally, you'll—

Ad¿m: !!!

Ad¿m: *stares at Darkness*

Ad¿m: ....................................................................................

Adam: ....................................................

Goodness: ...................................

-Stanley-: ............

Ad¿m turned into D¿rkn¿ss

< everything becomes dark instantly >

-Stanley-: ??

-Stanley-: *keeps clinging to Adam*

-Stanley-: *nuzzles him affectionately*

Goodness brings some light back, automatically

Goodness: !

Goodness: Aurora!

D¿rkn¿ss ignores her and lashes out at Darkness.

Darkness takes a sip of tea and places it away, calmly.

-Stanley-: .......

-Stanley-: *lets go of Adam*

< the whole Office shudders >

< and glitches once again >

-Stanley-: ........

-Stanley-: *steps to Darkness and Aurora, automatically*

-Stanley-: *is glowing faintly with a warm, happy aura*

D¿rkn¿ss ' hands dive into Darkness' body

D¿rkn¿ss fingers something inside

D¿rkn¿ss crushes It

D¿rkn¿ss turned back into Aurora

Aurora: *stares up at Her*

-Stanley-: .......

Aurora: *looks into the dark space of Her eyes*

Goodness: presses her hands to her mouth as she stays on her spot, watching them helplessly

-Stanley-: ........

-Stanley-: *stands beside Aurora*

Darkness ' vibes fade away, slowly but they do and remove their influences.

Darkness doesn't lose Her calm cold expression, despite the fact that Her whole nature is falling into agony.

Adam: ....................

Adam: FUCKING IDIOTS

Adam switched name to The Friend

-Stanley-: .........

-Stanley-: That's not nice!

The Friend for a moment seems like about to kill everyone around in a deep rage

The Friend but instead just kicks Stanley out right into Morayne's Lounge

-Stanley-: *refuses to leave*

-Stanley-: *She is my target*

The Friend forces him

-Stanley-: :(

-Stanley- gets kicked out

The Friend turns to Goodness

N.: *the second he leaves the dramatic Office, he is caught*

N.: *and whisked away*

Aurora: ..................

Aurora: *finally steps away from Her*

Aurora: *looks at her own hands*

Aurora: *seems shocked for a moment*

Darkness slips down on the couch.

The Friend was all about to kick Goodness out as well and then snap at Aurora, but

The Friend: .................

The Friend senses a soundless '𝓓𝓸𝓷'𝓽'.

The Friend: But you are hurt

The Friend: Yo͘u ̸are͡ ̷hurt̨ b͏ecau̴s҉e͞ o̢f th͡es͢e ̴i҉gno̸ran͟t idi̵o҉t̕s͝!͡

The Friend: Please please let me—

Darkness closes Her eyes and lets Herself to make a quiet sigh.

The Friend: !

The Friend switched name to Adam

Adam: *is instantly next to Her*

Adam: *takes Her hand*

Adam: ......

Adam: *gives Goodness another glare*

Aurora: ...........

Aurora: *?*

Aurora: *Why are you mad at Her more than at me*

Adam: *She started this whole stupid fight*

Adam: *Just because she disliked Darkness' creations with many of flaws*

Adam: *>:T*

Stellan: *....Darkness is a monster* 3:37

Adam: *She is not* 3:37

Stellan: *Her pieces are the reason there are horrible people in your Universe*

Adam: *Oh yes?*

Adam: *Do you really think she was torn into controlless pieces by her own will?*

Stellan: *........*

Adam: *You are even more ignorant than I thought*

Stellan: *dude, people dont know Her backstory*

Adam: .....

Adam: *It's quite alike Goodness' story*

Adam: *She was torn as well*

Adam: *And yet she keeps taking the side of her own abuser*

Adam: *>xT*

Stellan: *what*

Stellan: *who??*

Goodness: *She is not-*

Adam: *SHE DID THAT TO BOTH OF YOU*

Stellan: *Mother Nature??*

Goodness: *We got too carried away with our fight-*

Stellan: *ploot twist*

Adam: *EXCUSES*

Stellan: *okay but*

Stellan: *Darkness still isnt innocent*

Adam: .........

Adam: ... You are happy now, aren't you?

Goodness: ......

Adam: This... this is what you always wanted.

Adam: To have Mother Nature all to yourself.

Adam: ....

Adam: So go on

Adam: Go and run away

Adam: Don't you dare to come back

Goodness: *sniffles*

Goodness: Y-you are wrong, I—

Adam: Oh really?

Adam: If I were wrong, there would be no way you would let this stupid kid to break in and stay here for this long

Adam: Following by the Cornelius’ idiotic mission

Adam: If I were wrong and you were at least half as good and as perfect as She told me

Adam: You would do your best to set the kid free and help her to find her own way!

Goodness: ...........

Adam: You did fucking nothing.

Adam: And you have got nothing to say.

Adam: You are nothing but sweet Lie.

Goodness: !

Adam: I don't believe in you. Not even slightly.

Goodness shivers and weakens

Goodness tries to speak, but her voice is barely a whisper

Aurora: That's mean—!

Adam: Get out.

Goodness: ..........

Goodness tugs Aurora by the sleeve weakly and disappears with her

Aurora: !

Goodness pressed ESCAPE

Aurora pressed ESCAPE

< the Dramatic Office now can be seen >

< It fixes Itself grumpily >

Neil: ..............

Neil: *draama*

Stellan: *so....the person we thought was evil is actually innocent and the person we thought was innocent is actually problematic?*

Stellan: *what a plot twist*

Neil: *I think it's more complicated than you think*

Stellan: .....

Stellan: (S: I think this proves you can't put people in boxes, because they each have their good and bad sides)

Stellan: *but*

Stellan: *it's Darkness and Goodness*

Stellan: *I always thought it was good/evil*

Neil: *.... They are kinda broken*

Neil: *No surprise they are not in the way one would expect them to be*

Neil: *welp he is kinda right*

Neil: *also they got some parts fused or \ and gone for good*

Stellan: *I am curious whats up with the Broken Deity club*

Stellan: *Because there are a lot that were fragmented or shattered* 4

Stellan: *did mn really break them because they were fighting soo much*

Neil: *welp they kiinda mostly ruined \ changed the most of her creations in process*

Neil: *she got super pissed*

Neil: *their creator didn't put much of chill in her*

Stellan: *well i can see that xP*

Adam: .............

Adam: *keeps staying next to Darkness, holding Her hand*

Adam: .....

Adam: *She is my only real friend in this whole big world*

Neil: *They are just aliens with sassy powers*

Neil: *Told you*

Stellan: *Yeah*

Stellan: *And definitely not any better than the mortals they reign over*

Darkness: 𝓐𝓭𝓪𝓶

Adam: *!*

Adam: *his heart sinks*

Adam: *senses how Her hidden pain slowly slips out*

Darkness: 𝓢𝓽𝓲𝓬𝓴 𝓪𝓻𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓭 𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮, 𝓶𝔂 𝓭𝓮𝓪𝓻..,

Darkness: .....

Darkness squeezes his hand gently.

Darkness: 𝓘... 𝓷𝓮𝓮𝓭 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓽𝓸 𝓼𝓽𝓪𝔂, 𝓶𝔂 𝓕𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓷𝓭

Darkness: 𝓟𝓻𝓸𝓶𝓲𝓼𝓮 𝓶𝓮.

Adam: I-I will

Adam: I promise, I'll never leave your side!

Adam: I'll do anything for you-

Darkness smiles.

Darkness sighs.

Darkness: 𝓣𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓴 𝔂𝓸𝓾.

Darkness switched name to ███████

Adam: *!!!*

Adam: .................................

Adam: *wraps his arms around her*

Adam: *burst into tears quietly*

#18. 2. 18 #meanwhile #drama #Darkness #Goodness #the Friend #Aurora #Super Happy Stanley ''Bomb''#Nl: *whisper* Bombley #neilstopitsnotevenyourblog #long post #chatzy stories #tfw you planned to write another drabble here but failed it and simply let things to happen in chatzy instead x)#welp;;

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justwritingscibbles · 7 years ago

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The entity rule

Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Anti needed you to be gone, at least temporarily, for his plan to work. So he crept back to your house and peeked through your windows, where he saw yourself and the real evil entity on opposite sides of the couch. He kept assaulting you with popcorn and you kept trying to catch a piece. When you finally did the singer rewarded you by nuzzling close, like he was desperately searching for something in the crook of your neck. He then whispered something you seemed to find real cute into your ear before giving your earlobe a light nip. It made Anti feel sick ; he wanted to walk in there right now and rip you away from him, but for something he really wanted he had to do what he hated - be patient. Anti’s dedication to patience worked well for him when you jogged upstairs and he knew he had natemare all to himself. He got out a crumpled picture of the ex he’d had stored for years and he pressed his fingers against it, concentrating and using his power from his kills, until she disappeared from the picture and anti marvelled at his work… Natemare sighed in contempt as he recollected the days events and knew he could now go upstairs to be with you. As he turned to go do that he stopped as his face was less than an inch away from anothers. “Hello Natemare.” his and antis dead ex giggled… Natemare was shell shocked. He let out a small cry and no one moved or said anything for a good minute. He gulped and moved his hand out to touch her face because he knew deep down that she couldn’t be real but she tactically moved away before he had the chance to. “W-what? How can you..?” He was trying to put his thoughts together ‘It must be the last of my guilt considering I had to re-live memories of her today’ he reasoned. He was so surprised he went through several emotions, none of them he felt were the appropriate ones. “I’m back to see you M!’ She used her old nickname for him as she smiled sweetly, with her doughy eyes not hinting at any of said emotion. "I want you back, let’s start off from where we ended.” She suggested. He knew very well where they had last ended considering they were caught red-handed and red-faced by anti and mare wasn’t having any of it. “Quit it.” He growled in what he hoped was a menacing enough tone as she whispered seductively into his ear in a fashion he’d just done with you. “I’m in love, proper love.” He warned. She scoffed at that moving in circles around him, like a shark “oh please!” Her voice made the hairs on the back of his neck stand up when she got close to it “as if you still want to sleep with that idiot.” he spun around and even the dead person seemed scared until he let out a small, patronising laugh “you” he wagged his finger at her “you little vixen, have always just wanted to start up trouble, I can see that now. Well, how’d that turn out for you?” He asked his tongue poking out between his teeth like it always did in times of witty celebration. Natemare’s second laugh was postponed when she swapped between green and the already off-colour she had been moments before and even more so when she vanished back and forth between reality, making a sound like that of a broken computer before vanishing completely and by then natemare knew how she’d appeared and who was responsible, he knew even before the culprit came clapping out of the corner of the room where he’d been viewing the whole scenario play out. Anti looked back to the picture in his pocket which now had his ex back in place rather than in front of him and walked slowly up to natemare, still staying a good few feet away from him. “I didn’t know you could do that.” Natemare stated smirking, still dazed at what had happened but knowing he had failed to fall into his enemy’s trap. Anti was similarly smarmy which to most would seem better than outright physical brutality, but everyone who knew them knew that that was where their meeting was leading. “You didn’t go after her!” Anti pouted “Wow, you’re so perceptive, aren’t you getting smart!” Natemare chided. “Why though? You had no problem taking her when she had other loyalties, or do you just like being the bad boy?” They we’re both grinning at each other but their eyes weren’t their normal blue or brown, they hadn’t been since they set eyes on each other. When Natemare didn’t seem like he was going to answer anti moved on to his next phase of attack, with a question that, no matter how much Natemare feigned it didn’t, really started to rile him up. “How do you think y/n’s going to react upon hearing how you cheated on them?” “Don’t you even dare speak their name.” He spat, his smirk faltering. “Besides, you and I both know I did no such thing-” “Y/n doesn’t!” Anti informed him, raising his hand like a child in a class. Natemare growled, happy at the knowledge he was going to be able to fight his enemy again “Y/n won’t believe you. They know I love them more than that. How could whatever broken relationship you may not even have compare?” Anti was waiting for a Segway into his next line and he’d just been given it “Well, they’re going to need a shoulder to cry on upon hearing the sad sad news. Oh, even though I 'shouldn’t be capable of having feelings’ because that’s how far I’ll go.” Anti raised his eyebrows waiting for Natemare’s next retort which he willingly gave to him “you really believe you can do that?” Mare quipped “have feelings?” Anti stepped closer swinging with his hands held together as he laid down his next verbal attack “Oh I don’t know old pal. I certainly felt some feelings when we kissed today…” Natemare’s fingers stopped twitching, his chest stopped rising and falling, he was a statue, and his childish smirk was replaced with a look of disgust at what he 'knew’ was a lie the green haired devil just told, his growl rose in volume, so much so that you heard it from upstairs and it made you curious as to what was going on below. “You’re lying” he snarled through clenched teeth, blood boiling. Anti started vibrating with energy readying for battle, which meant his voice was glitchy and broken as he spoke “finally, we can see which entity will rule over the other.” “What do you want?!” Natemare questioned, thinking anti still just wanted both of your demise. Anti was revelling in mare’s mix of revulsion, disbelief, anger and doubt and he cracked his knuckles as he revealed his answer. “Oh, I want y/n.” Fists were thrown at each other, bodies rolled into anything and everything, shouts of pure rage were created in a volume no person on earth could naturally reach and there was blood, more than enough blood for you to make your next choice. You had run downstairs upon hearing the person you love shout when you knew for a fact there should have been no one to shout at with him. You saw choking black smoke mixed with volts of green electricity as the fight now consisted of them throwing all of their power at each other and you knew it wouldn’t end until one of them died. Volt after volt struck Mare as he screamed in agony like you’d never heard from him before whilst Anti was suffocating, blinded by multiple gusts of thick, dark smoke, both attacks potentially fatal… but you didn’t care about that as you wanted to save them, you had to try, and you threw yourself in the middle of both attacks. “NO!!!!” You heard from two voices. In fact it was the last thing you heard as you fell - and you knew you fell but weirdly didn’t feel the impact. You remember the worst pain you’d ever experienced, it was excruciating, but it only lasted a second because you weren’t on earth anymore, instead you were in a vast, white space and even though you should have never heard another voice again, someone who was walking up to you, smiling, spoke to you in a healing tone…

*side note: in case people didn’t get the start it was anti with a power I made up for the purpose of this story influencing technology by taking the image of the shared ex that died out of a physical picture and making her a figure in front of mare until she glitched back into it. Also for the end I will have one more chapter to clear up this cliffhanger because otherwise this chapter would be way too long and then it’s the last part of this fic but more on that in the next chapter ;-) *

#Ooooooooo that ending!#The drama!#I love it!#submission

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psychopathicwriting · 7 years ago

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screw wilford warfstache

So another one... i told you I have so much time on my hands. Please just gimme more things to write about cause.... im hella bored all day every day.

Dark was apprehensive about having his guest over to the girls house. There was just no telling what Wilford would do when he met the girl. Perhaps his sex addicted personality would come out again, leaving him with an even smaller once of control over the girl than before. Or maybe he would just want to ‘play a game’ with her.

Or perhaps she’d be sarcastic and Wilford would end up killing her. Or something like that. He didn’t know which was worse.

Either way, Dark did not exactly want them to meet. But the girl did not mind having him over so long as he kept all the pink to himself.

“I will remind you again,” Dark said to the girl as she made brownies. “That the sarcastic nature in you will go unnoticed by Wilford, and he will take you very literally.”

“I already know that, Dark,” The girl said while mixing batter. “I won’t say much more than I absolutely mean. I do watch Markiplier ya know?” Dark cringed at the name of his original. It wasn’t that he hated Mark, no, quite the contrary. Mark probably had the most respect Dark could ever have for a human. He just didn’t want to be reminded of how incredibly selfless he was. It was almost completely opposite what he should have been. All that power Mark had, and he was putting it to waste.

“Just trying to remind you, my dear,” He put a hand on her shoulder. “I wouldn’t forgive myself if you were hurt.” It was true, but to an extent. Of course, if Dark could command her the way he could command A.D. to do his bidding things would be incredibly simple. As it was the girl would not let Dark in. He was trying, but it was taking so long. Trust was the worst thing with her.

There was a knock at the door and the girl looked at Dark. He nodded affirmation of who it was. Through all Wilford’s faults, he had the decency to knock… this time.

“I got it,” Anti called. Dark didn’t know whether to laugh for the coming interaction he knew would happen, or to groan for the same reason. The girl froze in her mixing of the batter and took a deep breath. It appeared she knew what would happen too. The two alternates could not be more opposite each other. Anti the sadistic sociopath, and Wilford the narcissistic adulterer. Both killers, but both incredibly different.

The door opened.

“Oh it’s you!” Wilford said from the door when he saw Anti. “The glitch bitch! Terrible to meet you!” Anti sneered when he saw the man with a pink mustache and terrible pastel coloured clothes. Who really needed that much pink?

“Dark!” Anti yelled. “Can I please slam the door on your idiot imitation?” Dark nodded at the girl and went to the door. He inwardly cringed when he saw Wilford in all his fake glory.

“Darkiplier!” Wilford smiled. Dark hated the way Wilford completely over pronounced words. But Wilford was his equal in every way conserving the ungodly amount of alternates Mark had. There are exactly two heads on Marks shoulder that matter. Wilford and Dark. There since the beginning. Shaping him every way they possibly could. Creatively and influencingly.

“Will,” Dark said. “It’s good to see you. Come in.” Anti reluctantly moved away from the door. Wilford smiled at Anti smugly, having won this round of the competition.

“I have a proposition for you, Darkiplier,” Wilford said excitedly. “We have to call a meeting, all of us have to be there an-“

“Will,” Dark started slowly. “Can we save business for after? I would hate for word to get around before it needs to.” He knew the girl was within earshot and as soon as he rounded the corner to the kitchen she glanced at him almost accusingly. She knew something would be up. But he knew she wouldn’t bring anything up. She didn’t interfere with his business, he pretended not to manipulate her.

“Of course, of course!” Wilford said. Then he saw the girl pouring batter onto a pan. Anti had followed them into the kitchen and was sneering at every move Wilford made. His presence offended him so much. “Oh this must be the girl!” The girl looked at Wilford with a bit of shock. Probably about how loud he said the words. Wilford went over to the girl and hugged her. The bowl of batter in one hand and the spoon in the other.

“Uh… hi,” the girl said surprised. “Nice to meet you.”

“Nononononono,” Wilford said holding her at arm’s length. She carefully moved the spoon to the bowl so no more drops would fall to the floor. “It is wonderful to meet you!” He emphasized. “Darkiplier you never told me she had incredibly beautiful eyes!” Wilford mentioned looking at the confusing eyes. “Are they brown with green or green with brown?”

“I don’t know,” She admitted confused. “We just called them hazel.”

“Oh but they aren’t!” Wilford looked at the brownie batter she had been preparing. “And you cook too! Everything a man could want I see.” He smiled cheekily.

“Wilford, please do not attempt to seduce her,” Dark asked. The girls eyes widened.

“Oh I’m not!” Wilford believed. Anti glitched furiously in the corner. Wilford saw. “Oh is somebody jealous?”

“Just hate you,” Anti sneered. His voice crackled a bit. Wilford squinted his eyes.

“Well the feeling is mutual you leprechaunish mutant mistake.” The girl tried holding back laughter. She glanced at Dark hoping he’d alleviate the situation.

“I’ve never killed someone as weak as bubble gum before,” Anti snapped. The voices screaming. “Normally I wouldn’t stoop that low, but for you, I’d make an exception.”

“Oh, I don’t mind being compared to bubble gum,” Wilford chuckled. The girl put the batter into the oven. Wilford turned to her with a puppy look on his face. “You like bubble gum?” Wilford asked. Anti was already laughing. Point for Anti in 3… 2… 1…

“No,” the girl made a face and shook her head. “Gums and sweets aren’t my thing.” Wilford gasped and with wide eyes his hand twitched. Almost as if that admission made him want to see if she could still bleed red blood like every other human in this world.

“Why?” Wilford asked.

“I mean… I like sour candy well enough,” she tried to mend his battered offended soul.

“Darkiplier,” Wilford said turning around to him. “Let’s go and talk somewhere.” Wilford moved away from the girl and Anti. He couldn’t stand the horror he had just seen. Not liking sweets? And bubble gum? Unholy!

Anti was laughing still. Nothing had ever felt better than when the girl had basically rejected Wilford right then and there. It did him a world of good.

Later when the two alternates had finished discussing… whatever it was they were doing… Dark and Anti came down to have some of the brownies the girl made.

“Hope you like them,” she said. Wilford had decided to let by gones be by gones and forgive her for this. After all, she would be nice to play with. Her eyes were incredibly nice. Even if they looked almost like Anti’s glitches.

“Of course, my dear,” Wilford said. “Dark speaks highly of your cooking.” He took a bite and Dark could have rolled his eyes at the exaggerated sounds and faces Dark made. No wonder Mark did so well on the Five Nights at Freddie’s videos. The exaggeration was clearly something Wilford passed to him.

“It’s wonderful, love,” Dark said with a smile. “Thank you.” The girl smiled and nodded and was about to leave the two men to alone when Wilford decided to grab her hair.

“You dyed it correct?” Wilford asked. The girl nodded. “Have you ever thought of going pink?” The girl couldn’t hold back a disgusted look on her face at the thought of her having anything pink. Dark wanted to warn her not to mention it now.

“You can’t think there's anything wrong with pink too do you?” Wilford near yelled. “There was never a better colour in the world!”

“I hate pink,” the girl said. “To me there never was a worse colour. I will not be caught dead in anything pink. Red is so much better. Why did people have to ruin that by adding way too much white?” Wilford gasped.

“Well, you know what?” Wilford said. “I could kill you for that remark alone.” Dark cleared his throught when he saw the girl open her mouth. He just knew she’d say something stupid right now such as well then try and kill me then. The last thing Dark needed was death, especially the girl’s.

“Wilford I think it’s time you and the girl said your goodbyes.” Dark looked forcefully at the girl and she looked down at the table. This told Dark that he was right about what she was going to say.

“Well alright then,” Wilford said getting up. “You tell Anti that I win anyways.” He turned to the girl. He shook his head and grabbed his suspenders. “It’s a shame. You’d look so good in a pink dress, too.” He stalked away.

Dark was incredibly grateful that the girl was exactly who she was. Although she may have gotten Anti’s attention it was easier to counter his actions than it was for Wilford.

Now he just had to deal with the rest of the alternates at the meeting Wilford wanted to have.

#Darkiplier #Dark #antisepticeye #anti #Wilford Warfstache #Wilford #Warfstashe #pink #sucks #bubble gum #glitch bitch #little fic #kinda long #five pages of writing it was fun #fic

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Quite honestly the bullet-point draft version of Too Aro Ace For This is better than the actual version, just because it’s so ridiculous, I mean I wrote most of it at 3 in the morning one night while crying so I feel like I should share it:

(if you are on mobile apologies, this was under a cut but yeah. Scroll through the nonsense at leisure.) (tumblr mobile glitches 90% of the time anyway)

TOO ARO ACE FOR THIS

(^idk if I'm gonna call it that or not that's just a working title)

(Anyway there was no way I was gonna be able to go without at least making a start on this thing which is essentially just three weird dreams I've had smushed together into a mess)

(I JUST HAVE A LOT OF FEELS ABOUT MY ARO ACE DAUGHTER OKAY AND I'M SO SORRY FOR MAKING HER SUFFER)

So anyway here is the meme format version of this story which first tricks you into thinking it's about Alix's watch but then tricks you into thinking it's rarepair hell but then tricks you into thinking it's about heartrate but then tricks you into thinking it's rarepair hell again and then tricks you into thinking it's about the love square but really, it's about this poor child figuring out she's hella aromantic asexual and finding her platonic soulmate

First it's a normal school Friday but Alix is in a really bad mood bc in the evening she will have to go to the opening event for her dad's new exhibit at the museum and it's gonna be posh and boring and also he basically guilt-tripped her into wearing a dress for it bc he commissioned Marinette to make the dress specially for her so now she has to wear it and she's LIVID

Kim is an idiot and challenges her to an arm wrestle and she says yes but then she's sure she's gonna lose bc she's not actually that strong, but then again she's filled with rage so maybe

Anyway she does win and everyone's like "whoa" *highkey terrified of her* and Kim's red in the face and demanding a rematch and she's like "don't be a sore loser you jerk"

Then in the evening when her family's getting ready to go to the Louvre her dad's like "k you're not allowed to take your phone bc otherwise you'll just be using it all the time, you're 15 now so you can't just mess around, also don't go gorging yourself at the snack table with Jalil the whole time in fact Jalil since you wanna be a museum curator person too you should stay by my side and see how it's done"

Jalil's like "I HAVE SO MUCH UNI HOMEWORK SAVE ME" but he agrees to come along anyway

Alix is like "well would you look at that, this dress is too long for me :) I would just trip over :) what a shame :) looks like I'll have to just wear a suit instead :) in fact I don't even have a suit so I'll have to wear like a hoodie and jeans :) isn't it just too bad :)"

The dad's like "actually I got Marinette to get you matching heels so if you wear them then you will be tall enough" and Alix is like "WHAT NO I'M NOT WEARING THOSE" *throws a temper tantrum*

Her dad's like "bleh you 15 year olds and your teenage hormonal mood swings" *checkmate* and Alix is seething but wears the heels (though she refuses POINT BLANK to wear makeup and anyway no one in the house knows how to do it lol) (also she's literally me lol)

But then she's like "I'll only come along if you let me bring my watch" and he's like "fine but don't spend the whole evening fiddling with it or I'll confiscate it"

Anyway Marinette was a Good Child who sewed pockets into the dress bc all dresses have a dire need of pockets so Alix puts the watch in there and then tries not to fall over in the heels (like she can balance easily on skates but just not heels... pal trust me I used to ice skate fine but I could never wear heels and still can't so it's a thing okay)

Who needs HEELS when ya got HEELYS amirite

(Listen Alix totally wears Heelys all the time okay it's canon)

So they're at the thing at the Louvre and it's boring as hell (like remember that one scene in RWBY where Weiss Schnee is at that thing with her family and she hates it with every fibre of her being, in fact I'm guessing that episode probably inspired the dream that I lowkey based this part of the thing on lol)

Then at one point Alix feels that the watch in her pocket is getting really warm for some reason and she's like "????" bc it doesn't even run on electricity or anything

I mean I'm guessing it doesn't, idk how it works, looks like magic to me mate

So she's like "pssst Jalil come over here I need to show you something" so they sneak off to a room on the side and she opens the watch

It's really hot and the blue light from the hologram is pulsing like a beacon thing and it's really bright

She's like "do you have any idea what's going on with this thing" and he's like "idk sis it's your watch not mine" and she's like "but you're the history nerd" and he takes a closer look at it and says "nah I still have no idea why it's doing that, anyway I should get back now bc if dad notices I'm missing he'll be mad"

So they go back but it turns out their dad already noticed they were gone and he's like "frick's sake Alix I told you not to go goofing off and especially not to distract your brother, now go make yourself useful while I tell off Jalil, go say hello to Henri Duparc over there"

She's like "oh god no please I hate him" and her dad's like "just do it and don't make a scene okay"

(Henri Duparc is totally Jean Duparc's snobby nasty older cousin and I already hate his guts, I feel sorry for Jean for having to deal with him)

(But he's really rich and influential so everyone tries to stay on his good side bc he can literally make or break a person with his influence)

So she wobbles over on those heels (poor thing, how did she survive the Reflekta episode honestly) and is like "Good evening" *trying not to sound bored out of her mind/in a very bad mood*

Henri's like *snooty rich person voice* "Oh hello there Miss Kubdel, I didn't even realize you were here today because you're so ridiculously tiny even in your heels, which btw I am glad to see you wearing bc you finally look respectable for once"

She's like *clenches fist* "what's that supposed to mean" and he's like "well usually you're a complete mess and it's so unprofessional and lower class, but I'm glad to see you've finally outgrown your stupid childish tomboy phase and are actually behaving yourself for once, I hope you've put your rollerskating and aggressiveness behind you for good"

She's like "excuse me? What the hell is wrong with rollerskating or being a tomboy like how is that childish???" and he's like "well you're a girl so you should act like one" and Alix is like *trying so hard not to just punch him bc she's already had a bad day and her patience is ending* "so you think it's better for me to force myself to be whatever your idea of a girl is, rather than just being myself?"

He's like "ugh you may be wearing a dress but it sounds like you haven't changed at all, you shouldn't be talking back to me with that tone of voice young lady, you have a lot to learn about the world"

She's at the end of her tether but remembers her dad told her not to make a scene so she's like "scuse me gotta go" and hecks off to some empty corridor somewhere

She's had such a bad day and hates that everyone's always trying to get her to be someone she's not for no relevant reason at all and she's feeling restricted etc (and okay also she's 15 so her mood may not quite be on balance) so she starts crying angry tears a lil bit

She storms into one of the side rooms and suddenly runs head first into Chat Noir of all people

He's all like "omg Alix is that you??? Whoa you look-" and she's all like "I KNOW I LOOK GREAT I DON'T CARE JUST BE QUIET" and he's like "k k sorry... um... what's wrong? Are you crying?"

She's like "who cares, you won't understand" and he's like "lemme guess, events like this are stifling and boring as heck? And you gotta try so hard to fit in and be the Perfect Child and make your family proud and it's stressful and you can't be yourself? Is it something like that? Cause I know how it feels..."

She nods and starts crying into his chest (height difference amirite) in a semi-hug and he's internally like "frick she's cute" and externally like "well it's okay, you can talk to me about it if you want..."

She's about to say something but suddenly remembers that one time she killed him and feels really guilty so she just wipes her eyes and says "nah it's okay I'm fine now, anyway I should probably get back soon, maybe I'll get told off less that way... anyway what are you even doing here?"

He's like "well I was messing around with my baton and I seem to have accidentally unlocked a new setting thing and it's some kind of tracker? Idk it was leading me to this location so I decided to see what it was"

He pulls out his baton and presses some buttons and then he frowns like "huh that's weird... the thing the baton is tracking is in this very room but like... this is just an office, what could possibly be in here that's connected to my miraculous"

Alix takes the watch out of her pocket and opens it and it's glowing super brightly now so she's like "omg do you think it was tracking my watch? Bc this thing is behaving very weirdly this evening and idk why"

Chat's like "omg yeah it's the watch, that's really weird, I wonder why that's happening? Maybe I'll ask Plagg about it..." and Alix is like "who's Plagg?" and Chat's like "...nvm it's a long story"

Alix is like "well I should probably go back now but let me know if you find out anything important about my watch k" and she puts it back in her pocket and leaves quickly

When she gets back to the main room her dad's about to tell her off again for ditching again but he sees her red eyes so he's like "k fine just go to the snack table and eat lots of chocolate if you want, tho don't blame me if you get loads of spots" so she spends the rest of the evening binge-eating chocolate and feeling rather confused about the watch and also rather sorry for herself while also feeling guilty about feeling sorry for herself

(Hoo boy that's just gonna get worse...)

I mean we're not even up to the aro bits)

(And holy heck don't even get me started on the ace bits)

(my poor daughter has a very long way to go... earn your happy ending indeed... poor kid...)

When they get home that night her dad's like "are you okay" and she's like *already feeling guilty about literally everything she has ever done in her life ever even though she's perfect and has never done anything wrong* "I'm fine dw, I'm rly tired now goodnight" and goes straight to bed

The next day the family gets an invite to the Agreste mansion next weekend for a posh event thing bc of some new clothing line and they're like "huh how did that happen... probs bc Adrien is in your class???"

And the dad's like "Alix you don't have to go to this one if you don't want to" and she's like "thank you thank you thank you!!!" and then goes off rollerskating or something idk

On Monday at school Marinette's screeching like a fricking pterodactyl waving her phone around like "OMG ALIX YOU LOOKED SO STUNNING IN THAT DRESS OF MINE YOU WORE OMG AAAAAAAAA WHO KNEW YOU WERE THAT PRETTY YOU'RE MAKING ME FEEL SO GAY I'M GONNA CRY EVERYONE LOOK AT THESE PICTURES"

Poor Alix is sinking into her seat like "kill me" while everyone's looking at the pictures like "ahhhh I never knew you were so gorgeous??? Why don't you put more effort into your appearance usually???"

Marinette's all like "Kim what do you think" and he's like "pffffft I totally definitely don't think she's cute or anything bc she's definitely not cute" and Marinette's like *shove* "oh come on admit she looked amazing" and Kim's like *blushing* "fine, if you say so!"

And then Marinette's like *stuttering* "h-hey Adrien, w-what do you think of the d-dress I made, did she l-look pretty in it?"

Adrien, being Chat Noir, already knows Alix was totally uncomfortable in that dress so he's like "well the dress is beautiful Marinette and you're really talented but like... she doesn't need a dress to look great? She looks fine how she is? Idk I like her normal aesthetic I think it suits her and she can dress how she wants"

Alix is internally like "oh thank god one person gets it at least, bless Adrien Agreste he's the only kid in this class I don't hate right now"

So later on she goes and finds him in the library like "thank you for appreciating my normal self" and he's like "oh no problem! I mean I totally get it... my father's always making me model his clothing line for him and people are always praising it but I don't feel like it's the real me"

She's like "omg that's exactly it! I literally only went to that thing bc I was forced to and I didn't even know Marinette was making that dress for me until it was already done so I had to wear it and I just hated every second of it, so to have people telling me I should be like that more often just feels awful"

Adrien's like "ikr #richpeopleproblems... and this Sunday is the gala at my house and it's gonna suck bc the only person there I know is Chloé and you know what she's like... and I'll just have to be my dad's puppet the whole time... I mean I persuaded him to invite your family too and he did bc you're rich but like... I know you hate stuff like that so you probably won't go..."

Alix can tell he's trying to get her to feel sorry enough for him that she'll agree to come along but she just says "well yeah sorry I'm busy on Sunday, anyway I gotta go" and leaves

When she gets home she sees that there are like 5 new dresses in her room and apparently they're gifts from the Gabriel fashion line so that she can promote them whenever she goes to any museum events in the future or whatever and she realizes that's why Adrien's father agreed to inviting her family to the thing, it was all for business

And she's super annoyed bc DRESSES ARE SO IMPRACTICAL WHEN YOU WANNA SIT LIKE A COWBOY OR GO ROLLERSKATING OR CLIMBING TREES OR DOING ANYTHING EVER

That night she's supposed to be asleep but is probably playing 3DS Smash Bros or something when there's a tap on her window

She looks outside to see Chat Noir there and she opens it like "it's like 11PM wth are you doing here" and he's like "I really need to talk to you about your watch and I can't let anyone see or hear, can we go up to the roof of your house and you bring your watch"

She's like "I'm in my pyjamas" and he's like "that's literally an oversized tshirt and shorts" and she's like "well it's comfortable okay! But fine k tell me whatever it is" so she takes the watch and he uses his baton to take her to the roof

Then he's like "k well as you know I'm a magical superhero and I get my powers from this ring, well my kwami is the one who gives my ring the power to turn me into Chat Noir - basically a tiny little god that looks like a lil flying cat, his name is Plagg and he eats too much cheese. Well he thinks he has some details on your watch and why it's connected to my baton but he has to have a look at it to be sure. And to do that I'm gonna have to detransform and show you my civilian self. But you have to promise to keep it a secret bc I'm not really supposed to tell anyone (but I trust you...)"

She's like "uh okay sure"

Chat's like "Plagg, detransform me" and then he turns back into Adrien

Alix is like "omg ADRIEN???????????" and he's like "haha yup it's me..." and she's like "but you're... you're in my class how could you possibly be Chat Noir??????" and he's like "well I've never been akumatized and I'm never around during akuma attacks and I'm always turning up late to class and..."

She's like "ok... whoa.... well um... that was very unexpected... wait a second, is that why you were being so nice to me at school today? Bc you saw me at the Louvre on Friday and you knew how upset I was??" and he's like "kinda... I mean I probably would have guessed you were upset about it anyway bc I do know how it feels..."

Then Plagg darts out of Adrien's shirt-jacket thing like "can I either get a look at that watch now or gimme cheese either is fine" and Alix is like "omg is this the kwami thing you were talking about? Omg this is hella rad actually"

She opens the watch and Plagg has a close look at it, then he's like "yup that's what I thought, this is Rania's watch" and Alix is like "Rania? Who's Rania? Omg is she one of my ancestors?"

Plagg's like "yeah probably. Basically Rania was a previous owner of the cat miraculous - a Chat Noire in the late 19th and early 20th century. She was the youngest kid in a huge watchmaking family and wasn't set to inherit anything at all so she raised a storm about it and then when she turned 15 her father gave her this watch he made specially for her. Since she had a pretty active lifestyle for a young lady back then she did a bit of tinkering and linked this watch up to the baton so that she always had a way of tracking it down in case she lost it."

Alix is like "aaaahhh omg that's so cool??? My ancestor was an actual Chat Noire??? And my own classmate is the current Chat Noir??? Okay I was having a bad week but I think you just changed that bc this is so fricking awesome holy moly thank you"

Plagg's like "k can I have cheese now" and Adrien's like "fine" *gives him Camembert* (I love Camembert too btw it tastes so flipping good)

Then Alix is like "wait but Adrien doesn't your schedule keep you hella busy all the time? How do you have time for saving Paris too??" and he's like "idk honestly, it's a nightmare sometimes... at least being Chat Noir is fun and I get to hang out with Ladybug a lot so that makes it worth it"

Alix is like "you know what... I'll go to your gala thing on Sunday" and Adrien's like "srsly you don't have to if you don't want to!" and she's like "I'm not just leaving you to the mercy of Chloé on what should be your day off when you're always having to deal with akumas she causes all the time, I'm gonna go and that's final" and he's like "thank"

Then she's like *looking at watch* "I guess the youngest child rule makes sense now, if Rania was the first to get the watch and she was salty about being the youngest and not inheriting anything..."

Plagg's like *stops suddenly in the middle of eating cheese* "what youngest child rule?" and Alix is like "the rule that the watch passes to the youngest child on their 15th birthday"

Plagg's like "huh I don't remember that being a rule... I mean it was a long time ago but I THINK Rania gave the watch to Leila... her OLDEST child..." and Alix is like "that can't be right bc my dad told me that..." *suddenly remembers her dad seems to think Jalil's an idiot* "wait... are you SURE she gave the watch to her oldest child"

Plagg's like "nah I'm not sure and I was put in stasis not long after that but I think she did, anyway there'll be some record of it somewhere bc she used to keep a diary, and if your family is as historical as Adrien says it is then maybe they'll still have her diaries somewhere"

Alix is like "well Jalil's the person I'll have to ask about that... thank you anyway... I should probably actually get to sleep now but uh good luck with the superhero stuff and I'll see you at school tomorrow"

Adrien transforms back into Chat Noir and puts her back in her room and then leaves

The next morning before school she's like "Jalil can you pls help me out with something?" and he's like "I would love to but I have a project due at the end of this week and I'm already behind, I haven't slept all night and I'm on my 6th cup of coffee so uh can this wait til next week" and she's like "sure omg get some sleep you nerd"

She also tells her dad she'll go to the gala on Sunday and he's like "what brought about this sudden change of heart?" and she's like "well my friend Adrien's gonna be there so..." and he's like "ohhhh I see, well, if you like him then..." and she's like "NO NOT LIKE THAT" *the aro ace-ness begins*

Anyway at school that week she's usually never really had friends and mostly kept herself to herself but she finds herself hanging out with Adrien a lot bc obviously she knows his secret now so they just kinda end up friends automatically (BROTP AMIRITE)

And Adrien is glad for someone he can confide in about superhero stuff (bc as much as Nino is A PURE AND AMAZING CINNAMON ROLL WHO IS TOO GOOD FOR THIS WORLD, he doesn't know his pal is Chat Noir) but he's also remembering her standing on the roof barefoot in her "pyjamas" with her messy hair and arms crossed and that smirk on her face and he can't stop thinking about it bc he's a sap

And he tries to just convince himself he's just intrigued to find out more about her family drama about the watch and whether the youngest child rule is true or not... yeah it's totally that, definitely not anything else, and the fact that he really really likes hanging out with her now has absolutely nothing to do with it

He's even tempted to go visit her again as Chat Noir in the night but he doesn't do that bc he knows it would be weird (this ain't no Marichat fic okay) (well alright Adrienette does happen later but like... on the side)

On Friday Chloé practically drapes herself over his desk like "Adri-chouuuuuu, I can't wait for Sunday it's gonna be so fun, just the two of us amirite" and he's like "well actually the Kubdels are invited too so Alix will be there" and Chloé's like "........" *undrapes herself and then whispers in his ear* "Adrien, remember it's not too long now until your 16th birthday... only a few months... you have a decision to make... and yes I know about it..."

And he's like suddenly drenched in cold sweat and nervous for the rest of the day and no one knows why except Chloé, and he's just thinking "HOW DOES SHE KNOW ABOUT THE THING WHICH I HAVE TO DECIDE BY MY 16TH BIRTHDAY OMG"

And meanwhile Chloé's internally like "well if everything goes according to plan then no one will ever find out I'm a lesbian, perfect"

(She's my problematic lesbian daughter and I love her)

Sunday arrives and the dad's like "Jalil you can stay at home bc you've had like 5 total hours of sleep this week, and Alix you should wear one of the dresses that was specifically sent for you, and if you don't want to then of course you could just not go"

And she's very seriously contemplating not going but she promised Adrien she would so she just puts on the least flashy dress and the smallest possible heels and then they go to the Agreste mansion

Chloé was already there and like clinging onto Adrien's arm but as soon as he sees Alix he pushes Chloé off and goes to say hi

He's immediately like "omg Alix do you want me to show you round my house bc you've only ever seen the dining room (that one time at Christmas)" and she's like k and her dad's like "that's a good idea but don't take too long"

Gabriel's like "Adrien you can just stay here we have people to show the guests round if they really want to see anything" and Adrien's like "that would be weird bc Alix is my classmate, it's fine I'll do it myself" so he takes her upstairs to show her his room

Also Chloé's like *raises eyebrow* *goes and stands outside the door of his room with a glass of juice waiting*

Anyway Alix is immediately like "dude wth you have a skate ramp in your room omg I would kill a person for one of those and omg a rock climbing wall I would kill 2 maybe 3 people for one of those and if I wasn't wearing a dress I would have already climbed it"

Adrien's like "haha yeah those are pretty fun... anyway if you really wanna see the house I'll show you but honestly that was just an excuse for us to get away from Chloé and all the boringness so we can hang out without anyone bothering us or having to pretend to be stuck up rich people"

Alix is like "ahh omg that was a good plan thank you... though I probably shouldn't stay here too long bc my dad gets annoyed when I goof off too much bc I do it all the time and I'm apparently supposed to start trying to behave like a responsible adult now"

And they talk for a while more about #richkidproblems but then they hear Nathalie knocking on the door like "Adrien??? Are you there???"

Adrien's like *whispering* "frick if she finds out I've just been slacking in here the whole time I'm gonna be in so much trouble, quick hide before she comes in" and he pulls her into The Ladrien Bathroom (yeah I call it that... for obvious reasons...) and shuts the door just as Nathalie opens the bedroom door to look inside

Those two hide behind the shower section (lol I'm laughing bc... remember the Shower Scene in Jackady... jeez Ladybug control ur thirst) in the corner against the wall completely silent

Nathalie opens the bathroom door to look but doesn't see anyone so she closes it and goes away again

Anyway bc they're super close to each other and there is a pretty adorable height difference Adrien's internally like "FRICK FRICK FRICK FRICK FRICK FRICK FRICK" and probably blushing too and his brain is screaming at him to move closer to her while also telling him not to and basically Adrien.exe has stopped working

And then she's like "uh... dude... are you gonna like... move or what..." *being obliviously aro ace like the darling she is* and Adrien.exe is still not responding so she just kinda awkwardly shoves him off her like "are you okay?"

He's like ".............uh-huh" and she's like "well you look like you've just eaten a chili or something" and he's like "nah it's just... is it me or is it hot in here?... hehe..."

She's like *still aro ace as heck like always* "it's just you. Anyway did you want anything else or should we head back now? I mean I've already been here long enough that I'm probably in trouble so..." and he's like "okay yeah let's head back..."

And internally he's realizing he's fallen for her and is highkey freaking out

They open the bathroom door to see Chloé standing there in the bedroom with an empty glass of juice and smirking evilly

She's like "well well well what do we have here..." and Adrien's like "I was totally just showing her round the house" and Chloé's like "that's funny bc I've been waiting outside your bedroom door since the second you went in, and you never left... must be really taking your time..."

Adrien's like "fine we were just bored okay? So we were hanging out in here instead... it's not a big deal... don't tell my dad..."

Chloé's like "oh don't worry I won't tell your dad you came in here bc you were bored... I think it'll be much more interesting if I tell both your parents - and everyone else while I'm at it - that you two are a couple, since I'm sure it's true anyway, ohohohohoho" *evil rich lady laugh* (I think it's called the noblewoman's laugh or something) and she runs off quickly

Adrien's like "welp I'm dead... are you dead???" and Alix is like "I think I'm partially dead... like I'm gonna be in so much trouble for messing around but then again my dad already thinks I was here just to hit on you... which I wasn't, btw, so don't worry" and Adrien's heart sinks just a tad

He's like "well my father was highkey hoping I would end up with Chloé, and I don't think he'd approve of me goofing off, and I just... yeah I'm definitely dead... idk how I'm gonna convince him Chloé's lying... well let's just get this over with..."

They go back to the atrium place or wherever and Gabriel's immediately like "Adrien can I talk to you" so he's like @himself "RIP Adrien" and goes off to talk to his father

And then Alix goes to her dad like "whatever Chloé told you was a lie okay you know what she's like" and her dad's like "hey it's okay if you're with Adrien, I was thinking it's about time you had a boyfriend I mean you'll be 16 soon right? But this is not the time nor the place to-" and she's like "Adrien is not my boyfriend omg!! He's just my friend! Chloé made that up bc she's a liar who likes messing with people's lives!"

Her dad's like "Fine I'll believe you but honestly if there's someone you like you can tell me, I'm not gonna be annoyed, but also stop going and hiding at the social events okay I know you hate it but if you want to hang out with your friend then just do it some other time" and she's like "k I'm sorry"

Meanwhile Adrien's talking to his dad and thinking "I'm gonna die I'm gonna die I'm gonna die I'm gonna die I'm gonna die..."

He first quickly says "Father I don't know exactly what Chloé told you but she might have been mistaken about..." and Gabriel's like "It doesn't matter what Chloé told me. Next time during one of these events you are staying by my side and are not allowed away without either Nathalie or your bodyguard accompanying you."

Adrien's like *le sigh* "yes father"

Then Gabriel's like "However... your 16th birthday is only a few months away. If you have not made a decision by the summer holidays then you know that Chloé Bourgeois will become the default choice. But... if you are wishing to explore other options before then, I will not be opposed to it. You know the guidelines."

Adrien's like *breaks out in a cold sweat again bc he was reminded of the thing* "yes, I see, thank you father..."

Gabriel's like "now let's get back to the gala, and this time you stay by my side. If you wish to talk to your friend... or girlfriend, if that's how it is... then you will do it in my presence until the event is over."

Adrien's like "well she's not my girlfriend but okay..." and they go back to the main room thing

Anyway Alix doesn't bother talking to him again for the rest of the thing except waving at him when she leaves later

When she gets home and into comfortable clothes she checks her phone and it's blown up with messages bc frickin Chloé really did tell everyone and they're all like "OMG IS THIS TRUE???" and Alix has to reply to a million people like "NO IT'S NOT TRUE CHLOÉ WAS JUST BEING A LYING JERK AS ALWAYS OKAY" and she doesn't even know if anyone believes her and she is NOT looking forward to school tomorrow

And sure enough the next day at school everyone keeps asking her about it and she's like "CHLOÉ'S A LIAR EVERYONE KNOWS THIS I MEAN OKAY SHE DOESN'T LIE AS MUCH AS LILA BUT STILL" and eventually most people believe her bc she's kinda scary lol

Adrien keeps sorta avoiding her bc he's trying super hard to not be crushing on her and she's like "????" about it and wondering why her friend won't talk to her today

She also starts feeling bad bc she knows she's bad at making friends so she wonders if she's done something wrong

At the end of the day he leaves the locker room super fast (even Nino's like "wut") and Alix gathers her stuff and quickly runs after him like "Adrien wait where are you going???" but when she gets to the street outside his limo is already leaving

She turns around and walks straight into Kim who's like "so tell me again how you and Adrien aren't a couple"

She's like "we're not, he's just my friend okay" and Kim's like "oh come on don't think I haven't noticed you two hanging out with each other all the time lately and always talking to each other, and you even went to his thing on the weekend with him even though you hate stuff like that, and now he's not talking to you for some reason"

Alix is like "yh idk why he's not talking to me but seriously he's just my friend okay!" and Kim's like "do you seriously actually promise he's just your friend and that you're not into him" and Alix is like *grabs the front of his hoodie and pulls him down to her level to yell at him and not noticing he's blushing* "yes for frick's sake that's what I told you, and anyway whether or not it's true, what does it mean to you? It's nothing to do with you so why do you even care so much??"

Kim is an idiot and just kisses her and then says "cause I like you" and runs off, meanwhile Alix is in shock and wondering whether or not she is justified in murdering him

Then on her way home she starts thinking about it like (yes finally here is where it starts getting obvious she's aro ace) she's thinking it's actually kinda flattering that Kim likes her? And she thinks that maybe if she dates him then she might end up liking him since that's what happens right? And he's considered conventionally hot right?

When she's at home she gets a phone call from him and he's like "aack I'm sorry I shouldn't have done that I'm an idiot and can we just pretend that never happened" and she's like "whatever it's no big deal just ask me next time k"

He's like "...next time?" and she's like "well since you said you like me I'm assuming that means you probably wanna kiss me again right?" (Internally "that's a normal people thing right?") and he's like "omg well... I mean... I don't really mind but like... I guess if you're okay with it then like... idk you could be my girlfriend or something idk just saying..."

She's like "sure why not" and he's like "omg really? I didn't actually expect you to say yes omg well okay should I like take you out to dinner or something?" and she's like "k sure"

When she gets back from dinner her father's back from work like "where were you" and she tells him and he immediately becomes #1 heartrate stan

Also she checks her phone and sees that Chloé has already told everyone that Alix and Kim are a couple bc she saw them kiss (bc it was like... out in the road it wasn't exactly easy to miss...) and this time she's like @everyone "yes Chloé's actually telling the truth this time lol"

And she tells Jalil about needing to find Rania's diaries and he says that all their old family items are in storage in the museum and he has the next two weeks off so he'll look for them once he gets back to work and Alix is like fine but she's impatient bc she cares more about finding out about that watch than anything else

The next day Chat Noir and Ladybug are patrolling at night and she's like "kitty you seem kinda off today, what's up"

Chat's like "oh it's nothing much, it's just this girl I like got with someone else, dw I'll get over it" and Ladybug's like *flirtily* "I thought you liked me" and he's like "yeah of course lol" and he remembers how much he does love Ladybug

He feels conflicted bc he knows he can never be with her bc of the Decision but he wishes he could at least have a chance

Since he isn't doing that great Ladybug tells him to go home early and she'll carry on by herself tonight

So he leaves and he detransforms into Adrien and he's walking back home when Ladybug drops down in front of him upside-down and is like *blushing* "h-hi Adrien what's up"

He (being oblivious and not realizing this is literally how Marinette talks to him) is like "lol nothing much haha..." and wonders why she treats him differently to how she treats Chat Noir

She asks if he needs her to accompany him home or something bc it's quite late and dark and he shouldn't be out alone and he's like "nah it's okay but thanks, I love you" and then he CAN'T BELIEVE HE JUST SAID THAT IT JUST SLIPPED OUT BC HE WAS TIRED

AND LADYBUG IS TAKEN ABACK

AND THEY'RE LOOKING AT EACH OTHER WITH THEIR FACES SUPER CLOSE

AND THEN LADRIEN SPIDERMAN KISS HELL YEAH

AND THEN LADYBUG'S LIKE "I LOVE YOU TOO" AND LEAVES

Meanwhile the next few weeks Alix is still wondering why Adrien won't talk to her that much but she tries to just forget about it

And she's always confused about why Kim wants to spend so much time with her??? Like yes they're dating but like doesn't he have a life of his own??? And no one else seems to think it's weird???

And she has a habit of zoning out when he's talking about mushy stuff and he eventually catches on (he was like "since you're so ridiculously smol you'd have to like stand on a chair to make out it'd be hilarious...") and says "you're not listening are you?" and she's like "yh of course I was!... okay fine I was thinking about my watch sorry"

And now you finally see her proper (very aro ace) internal thoughts about stuff - she's still confused bc she's just never been interested in people like everyone else? And she used to think maybe she was a lesbian but she had never been interested in girls either? And since she's 15 her hormones should be all over the place and they are but only in a mood swing way and not in a horny way? So she's thinking... why can't she fall in love like everyone else does?? Is she missing out on something?? Bc Kim seems to be happy...

Also at some point mention that she tells Kim her first kiss wasn't actually him (it was Juleka but she doesn't say bc she doesn't want to out her) and Kim is annoyed bc he was sure it would have been him lol

After some weeks Jalil gets back to work experience at the museum and he finds Rania's diaries but there's a heck ton to sort through so he says it might still take some time (basically I just need a buffer period... there needs to be time...)

And then on Friday afternoon he tells Alix to come to the museum after school bc he's found the relevant part of the diaries so she comes along (and so does Kim bc he's just kinda there lol)

Meanwhile their dad's in a meeting so they can look at it without him knowing

Basically it says that yes Rania gave the watch to Leila who was her oldest child, but that's because she wanted to make something special by herself for her younger daughter Anna so she made a cool engraved pen thing and decided she would give that to Anna on her 15th birthday instead

Also there's an old timey photograph of the pen and it looks really familiar for some reason

Anyway now Alix knows the youngest child rule is fake so she feels like she should confront her dad about it or at least ask him or whatever

Jalil's staying late at the museum today bc he has to catch up on the work he missed while he was looking for Rania's diaries so Alix takes Kim back to her house and she has like 2 hours to kill before her dad gets back

And she wants to do something cool like rollerskating but Kim suggests making out and she's like fine even though she finds it pretty boring (I told you she's aro ace)

Anyway when her dad gets back Kim leaves like "btw you can come over to mine later today if you want ;)"

Then Alix is like @her dad "can I ask you about something" and he's like "sure but why are you standing on a chair" and she's like "NO REASON" and quickly steps down

Then she's like "why did you give the watch to me instead of Jalil?" and he's like "bc it's passed down to the youngest child" and she's like "...but that's not true, is it..."

He's like "k fine but like... Jalil will probably inherit stuff anyway right? So why not give you something too?" and she's like "but he loves historical stuff, he would have loved the watch just as much as I do and would have had more to research with it"

He's like "well... I just thought... since the watch has to be passed down through the family, that... well... you would be more likely to actually have kids to pass it onto... because..."

She's just like "is this because Jalil is gay?" and her dad's like "wth how do you know???" and she's like "he told me when I was like 9... So you're saying you didn't give him the watch bc he's gay so he won't have kids... and what makes you so sure I'm not gay too??"

He's like "well I just took a chance that you wouldn't be and I was right bc you have a boyfriend! So yeah I'm relieved, the bloodline is unbroken and the watch can still be passed down for generations"

She's like "dad... are you disappointed in Jalil" and the dad's like *FRICKIN HESITATES FOR A SECOND* "no of course not"

Alix is like "........ I'm going to Kim's house" and her dad's like "k well don't get back too late, call Jalil to pick you up if you need a lift back bc I have to go for another meeting tonight also be responsible and have fun etc"

As she's on the way to Kim's house she's starting to feel ever so slightly broken bc she knows she's not straight and she doesn't love Kim but she doesn't know what she is or why she can't feel anything

And now that there's more pressure than ever on her to be straight so she can have kids to pass the watch onto since that was enough of a reason for her dad to not give the watch to Jalil... she hadn't even realized it was such a big deal and she feels guilty even though it's not her fault

She also knows her dad's probably somewhat disappointed in her already bc she's so temperamental and reckless etc and not really what you'd expect from a daughter and yet he still trusted her with the watch and she feels like she should at least manage to do something to make him proud since she feels like she's just an ungrateful burden who has never really done anything

So she decides she's gonna try her hardest to be straight now even though like the idea of doing stuff like getting married and having kids actually suffocates her

She gets to Kim's house and tells him what happened with the watch drama and then says she'd rather forget about it for now so why don't they like put on a movie or something (bc that way she doesn't have to put any effort into pretending to be romantic)

So Kim's like "k yeah I've got netflix so like... we could put on netflix ... and... yknow... chill..."

(this is why I wanted like 5 weeks inbetween bc he's not gonna just ask something like that after only 2 weeks no matter how much of a reckless idiot he is)

And Alix catches the euphemism and her first thought is "THAT'S GROSS EW" but then she remembers her earlier promise to herself and figures that if other people want to do it and think it's fun then surely there must be some appeal? And maybe it'll flip a switch and make her normal? So she's like "yeah sure"

But then afterwards she goes to the bathroom and throws up so like ... uh... yeah, poor aro ace child who is also sex-repulsed

She vows never to do that again in her life

And then Kim's like "you okay?" and she's like "yup gotta go" and he's like "but it's a hailstorm outside you could always wait til like after dinner or something" and she's like "NOPE I'M LEAVING" and gets outta there asap

Walking through the hail she knows she should probably call Jalil to pick her up but she doesn't feel like talking to anyone so she just trudges along feeling VERY broken and VERY sorry for herself

She knows it didn't fix her and if anything it just made her more averse to the idea of ever being with anyone and she can't figure out why she's so heartless and prudish and she just highkey wants to die bc she feels like she'll never live up to anything she's supposed to be

Ladybug suddenly sees her like "omg Alix what are you doing in this hailstorm?? You should get to shelter!" and Alix is like "idc..."

Ladybug uses her yoyo to make a shield to block the hail like an umbrella and asks "yo what's wrong" and Alix is like "I did something really stupid and I regret it and I really hate myself right now" and Ladybug's like "aw it's okay, here, I'll take you home" and she picks her up and yoyos her back to her house

Alix goes in and Jalil sees her there drenched and shivering and he's like "omg Alix you could have asked me to pick you up??" and she just starts crying so he wraps her in a warm towel and makes soup for her

He's like "what happened?" and she's like "I don't wanna talk about it"

He's like "did Kim break up with you or something?" and she's like "no nothing like that he did nothing wrong it's something else but seriously I don't wanna talk about it, just let it go" and instead she tells him about the real reason their dad didn't give the watch to him

Jalil's like "k that makes sense thanks for telling me..."

The whole of the next day Alix spends in her room being emo and ignoring any messages Kim sends her bc she doesn't want to think about anything even though she knows she probably should talk to him at least once

Then on Sunday Max calls her up like "oi why are you ignoring Kim omg just go talk to him!!" and she's like "k fine... I was totally just busy haha... yeah... busy..." and Max is like "he went out for a run to that padlock bridge place so why don't you just go meet him there" so Alix is like k and skates there

Kim sees her and he's like "omg there you are! Are you okay??" and she's like (lying) "yeah I'm fine dw I was just busy and stuff"

He's like "k I'm glad to hear that... anyway uh actually I was gonna say that like... honestly it seems like you're always bored or not interested and stuff so like idk maybe we should just be friends instead if that makes you happier bc seriously you just seem like you're not interested in me so..."

She's like *remembers her dad is #1 heartrate stan* "wait what no! Haha of course I'm totally like head over heels for you... definitely..." and he's like "you're not a very good liar"

She's like "okay fine... fine I don't like you like that, I think you're cool but I'd rather be your friend... it's just..." *deep breath bc she's never told anyone before* "I figured out lately that I'm not exactly... straight... and idk what I am but like... I thought maybe dating you would kinda... idk... fix it? And bc I also found out that thing I told you about the watch, so if I'm not straight then I'll let my family down... and I'm sorry for like... using you I guess? Idk... I'm just really confused right now about myself..."

Kim hugs her and he's like "It's okay dw, I'll support you no matter what and we can still be great friends okay? In fact tbh I'm... I'm actually bisexual but I've only ever told Max... but yeah you're awesome and if you ever need anything then just ask me okay" and she's like "thanks, yeah let's just be friends that's better"

(lol you can tell this is my brotp can't you)

Anyway when Alix tells her dad she broke up with Kim he's like "but heartrate is my otp..." lol

And yeah next week at school everyone finds out idk it doesn't matter that much tbh

Then at some point Adrien is called to talk to his father about something important and he's thinking "ack what have I done now..."

Gabriel's like "son it's not long til your 16th birthday and we have to start making preparations for stuff which means I need you to make your decision soon. As you know it's family tradition that sons must be betrothed to someone by their 16th birthday, and since our family is wealthy you would do well to choose another wealthy suitor which is why the default choice has been Chloé Bourgeois since you were a young child. Now in order to make proper preparations you will need to make your final decision by the end of the school year."

Adrien's internally like "why can't we have cool family traditions like passing down a frickin hologram watch..." and externally like "but I don't want to marry Chloé, please father just let me have more time" and Gabriel's like "sorry son but there is nothing I can do, this is what your mother would have wanted"

Adrien knows he hasn't talked to his friend in a while but he suddenly remembers that she's single now so he's like "wait father... you said it has to be someone wealthy right? Would Alix Kubdel count?" and Gabriel's like "yes but she and her family must agree to it"

So Adrien decides he'll ask her bc he kinda still likes her and it's better than Chloé

Mostly he wishes he knew who Ladybug was and that she was rich and loved him back so he could just marry her

Meanwhile Kim asked out Max and they got together (bc kimax is life and also this story was seeming a little too straight for my liking so far... despite the title...) and Alix is starting to feel lonely again bc now she feels like a third wheel when hanging out with them so she doesn't

And she's back to having no real friends and it kinda hurts bc she thinks maybe she's just doomed to be bad at dealing with people in general

Also she's still feeling like something is very, very wrong with her since she just CAN'T fall in love with anyone even though everyone else seems to and now even when she makes new friends they leave her and she just feels alone and unhappy and doesn't know what to do

Jalil brought Rania's diaries home so she starts reading through them and at least it's some consolation for her to discover that Rania was very similar to her - fiery, impulsive, sporty, etc

But she still feels broken bc she knows that at least Rania got married and had kids so at least she must have been normal...

K so on some weekend or something Adrien calls up Alix like "uh can we meet up? I need to talk to you about something" and she's like "yeah sure" *glad that her old friend is back*

They go for a walk and stop by at Marinette's bakery for snacks (#letadrieneat2k16) (2k17??) and Marinette's all like stuttering and blushing and dropping stuff bc ADRIEN EEP

And then they go hang out in the park or something

Alix is like "it's weird how Marinette's always like that around you but no one else" and Adrien's like "yeah that's been confusing me too, idk why she does that" and Alix is like "maybe Chat Noir should ask her about it, hint hint" and Adrien's like "huh that's a good idea"

Then Adrien's like *deep breath* "okay and also I have to ask you about something... and it's really weird and awkward but um... basically my family has a family tradition too except my one is stupid, it's that the sons have to be betrothed to someone by the time they turn 16, I know it's really old-fashioned and stupid, but my mum wanted me to and I should honour her memory... Anyway my father says it has to be someone from a rich family, and ever since I was little Chloé has been the default choice and I don't really want to get engaged to her for obvious reasons haha... so I need to choose someone else and soon... so I was thinking... um..."

Alix is like "you want me to help you find a cute rich girl before you turn 16? Sure" (god she's so aro ace I'm going to cry)

Adrien's like "well actually... to tell the truth I've kinda liked you for a while... and you're rich... and I asked my father and he's fine with it... so I was wondering... if I could choose you instead?"

And it takes like 10 seconds to sink in and she's like "wait are you basically asking me to marry you?" and he's like "...well yeah I guess"

She suddenly feels incredibly guilty bc she knows if she says no then that'll doom Adrien to a life with Chloé but she CAN'T say yes bc the idea of being with someone like that for the rest of her life makes her feel sick to her stomach and she doesn't know if that makes her selfish but she's also upset bc she thought her friend was properly back but he just wanted to talk to her about this and it's ruined everything

And she knows saying yes would be what she'd do if she was perfect etc bc that would make Adrien and his family happy and her own family would be happy but she JUST CAN'T BECAUSE IT MAKES HER WANT TO KILL HERSELF

Adrien's like "btw you don't have to decide now I've still got like 2 weeks" but she says "I'm sorry Adrien BUT I JUST CAN'T OKAY, I JUST WANTED TO HAVE A FRIEND, I'M SORRY BUT I DON'T LIKE YOU LIKE THAT AND I KNOW I NEVER WILL" and leaves and goes back home and locks herself in her room and has a breakdown

Later Adrien's wishing he wasn't rich and he wishes his mother was still here and he wishes life was easier for him etc

He remembers Alix's suggestion about going to see Marinette as Chat Noir so even though it's late night now he transforms and goes to see her

(bet you weren't expecting a Marichat balcony scene, huh? Surprise!)

He knocks on the roof thing and Marinette opens it like "omg Chat Noir? What are you doing here? Is an akuma after me or something?"

He's like *surprised bc it's true she treats him differently to Adrien* "no I just wanted to talk to you about something, someone asked me to" so she's like k and they go out on the balcony to have a chat

He's like "so you know Adrien Agreste right? I believe he's a classmate of yours... Anyway he talked to me bc he's worried that he's doing something wrong. You still seem to treat him differently from how you treat everyone else, and he's wondering if you're still upset about the gum incident, or..."

Marinette's like "oh no, nothing like that! I forgave him for that a long time ago! It's actually, well, it's kinda stupid haha... I actually have a MASSIVE crush on him and I'm just really bad at talking to him bc I get flustered around him, that's all!"

Chat Noir's like "omg wait... you have a crush on Adrien??? Really???" and she's like "yeah!!" and he's like *suddenly realizing how cute Marinette is when she laughs* "well... I think you should ask him out..." and she's like "haha I'm trying..."

Then he's like "um I gotta go" and quickly leaves

He's hanging around the rooftops just thinking to himself that he never even let himself consider Marinette as someone to fall in love with bc he always thought maybe she didn't really like him so he always considered her out of his league

And now that he knows she likes him he suddenly can't get her out of his head and he just wishes she was rich bc that would be perfect but since she isn't rich he probably shouldn't get his hopes up bc how could he have a chance with her now...

He bumps into Ladybug who's like "hey kitty kat what's up" and he's immediately like "I just found out that there's this girl who has a crush on my civilian self and I think I'm starting to fall for her so yeah, that's what's up"

And he notices the colour draining from Ladybug's face and he's like "omg are you okay?? What happened??"

She grabs his shoulders and looks him in the eye like "is the girl you're talking about Marinette Dupain-Cheng???" and he's like "yeah how did you know?"

She's like "omg ADRIEN??? IT'S YOU??? YOU'RE CHAT NOIR??????????????" and he's like "wait what?? How did you figure that out?? I mean I am but..." *suddenly dawns on him* "omg... wait... don't tell me that YOU'RE MARINETTE??????????????"

They both stand there staring at each other in complete shock for several long seconds

Finally Chat suddenly smiles and he's like "I'm so glad that out of everyone it could be, it's you... Marinette..."

He detransforms and stands there in front of her as Adrien and she's still staring at him in shock

Then she very softly says "Tikki, detransform me" and turns into Marinette and still stands there staring

Then she jumps forward and wraps him in a huge hug

Also Tikki and Plagg are like "yoooooooooooo I haven't see you in years!!!!!!!" and totally hanging out too

That very night even though it's really late Adrien goes to his father and asks him "please I have something really important to ask... for my decision... what about Marinette Dupain-Cheng?? I know she isn't rich, but... PLEASE consider it..."

Gabriel's like "oh yes of course she'll do, she is an EXCELLENT fashion designer you know, she has a lot of talent and I would be glad to have someone like her to be a part of the family and run the company after me"

Adrien can barely believe his ears and he runs into his room and screams into his pillow bc finally he feels like he actually has a chance to have a good life that isn't always restricted all the time

The next day he meets up with her at the bakery and he gets down on one knee like "will you marry me" and she's like "um ily Adrien but I'm 15 and so are you... I don't even think we CAN legally get married yet..."

He explains the betrothal thing and that he doesn't have much time left but he'll understand if she says no bc it's a lot of pressure but she's like "well of course I say yes but I'll have to ask my parents haha"

She asks them and they talk to Gabriel Agreste and everything gets sorted out and the engagement party is planned for Adrien's birthday

At school they tell everyone while handing out the invitations and Adrien was worried Chloé was gonna be upset but she's like "Adrien I'm so happy you're gonna get to marry someone you really care about!" Then she whispers at him "btw I'm a lesbian so don't worry about having broken my heart or anything hehe" and he's like "whoa... okay... I didn't see that coming..."

Also Alix is like "I thought you said you had to marry someone rich" and he's like "my father made an exception for Marinette bc she's a fashion designer like him" and Alix is like "well I'm super happy for you... and SUPER relieved..."

But she knows now she's probably never getting her friend back properly, ever

Months later at the engagement party all the classmates are there and super happy to support Adrienette becoming canon (same omgggg it's my otp couldn't you tell)

The wedding won't be for years yet at least bc they're way too young lol but Gabriel's already started planning it

And Marinette designed outfits for all her classmates to wear today so they're all wearing those

Poor Alix is in a dress again, save her, anyway she's trying to feel happy but she really can't help feeling rotten bc at this point she has no friends and seeing Adrienette happen just reminds her of how she's not normal or whatever and she can't figure it out

Also by this time other class couples are together too like djwifi and Julerose and everyone's using this occasion as a celebration of romance etc kinda like Valentine's Day except on a different day (idk when Adrien's birthday is but I'm guessing some point later in the year) so that pretty much just makes her feel extra broken bc she can't get away from any of it

She goes to the bar like "gimme an entire bottle of the strongest stuff you have" and the person's like "uh how old are you??" and she's like "... 25" and puts a giant wad of banknotes on the table so the person's like "... okaaaay, here" and gives her a big bottle of something idk

He's like "you should probably dilute it with water though" and she's like "don't tell me what to do" and takes it and starts to walk off

Then Nathaniel sees her and he's like "uh I don't think you should drink that..." and she's like "I don't give a crap" and heads outside by herself

It's dark and quiet out here bc atmosphere lol

Anyway she takes a sip but it tastes disgusting like bleach mixed with rotted grape juice and she's so annoyed she just smashes the entire thing on the ground and then just sits there highkey wanting to die

Nathaniel comes along like "whoa what happened here" and she's like "WHAT DO YOU WANT" and he's like "I just wanna know what's wrong..." and sits down beside her

She's like "fine... it's just I think there's something wrong with me - no actually I KNOW there is, I can just never do anything right, I can't be normal like I'm supposed to and I just keep letting everyone down. My dad already hates that his daughter isn't exactly a Rose-type airy fairy princess and I just never fit in and I'm terrible at doing what I'm told and maybe I'm just being selfish and I should try to change? But I have tried and it doesn't work, I just can't be who I'm supposed to... and... even worse... I'm just completely heartless..." *starts crying* "Everyone around me always seems to be in love with someone all the time and they make it sound so nice and happy and I don't know what I'm missing out on bc I've never felt that way about anyone! And I really have tried but I just can't, it just never works and idk why, maybe I'm just broken or something, there's something wrong with me. I mean I can't even make friends properly and I don't want to be lonely but idk what to do... Something is very, very wrong with me, Nath, and I've tried so hard to fix it but I can't, I just can't do anything right, and I'm a 15 year old I should have liked at least someone by now, my hormones are supposed to be all over the place! But I just don't! I'm a failure! And don't try to tell me I'm not!"

Nath's like "... maybe you're just... aromantic" and she's like "aromantic???" and he's like "yeah, it just means you don't get romantically attracted to people. It's uncommon, sure, but there's nothing wrong with it, being aro just means you're different that's all, and it doesn't mean you can't care about people in other ways"

She's like "... there's a word for that??? Aromantic??? It's a real thing???" and he's like "yeah you should look it up, there's a pride flag for it and everything"

She's like "omg... so there's nothing wrong with me, I'm just... aromantic... omg... wait are you aromantic too?"

He's like "nah I get crushes on people... I am asexual though" and she's like "isn't that a biology thing??" and he's like "yeah but also it means I don't get sexually attracted to people... sounds kinda gross if you ask me though I won't judge anyone for wanting to do it..."

She's like "omg there's a word for that too??? I just thought my hormones were way off whack or something..." and he's like "nah there's nothing wrong with being ace too, or aro ace, if that's what you are, I promise you aren't broken for not wanting romance or sex, you're just different that's all, and there ARE other people like you out there"

She's like "but can you still be ace if you've had sex with someone?" and he's like "yeah of course..." and she's like "omg so this whole time, I thought something was wrong with me, but I was just aro ace... and it's a real thing... whoa... omg thank you so so so much Nath" and she suddenly hugs him

He's like "no problem, it took me a while to come to terms with it too hehe. Anyway I brought you some of the engagement cake, do you want it? Cake is apparently the symbolic ace food" and she's like "omg thanks" and starts eating the cake

And he's like "btw... I get the whole not being able to make friends thing. I can't either. I'm just... idk I'm too shy I guess... I've never really had a close friend before... especially not in this class..." and she's like "well you've just made a new friend, and she's wondering why she never tried to make friends with you before" and he's like "omg ahh really? Thanks"

They sit there eating cake for a while and then Nath's like "I feel like drawing... sorry I draw all the time lol..." and he pulls a sketchpad and pen out of his pocket

Alix sees the pen and she's like "wait a second, that looks really familiar... omg it's Anna's pen??? From that picture I saw in Rania's diary???" and he's like "what?"

She's like "do you have a really old ancestor called Anna by any chance" and he's like "oh idk... I think when I was younger I remember going to the funeral of my great-grandma Anna..." and she's like "where did you get that pen from??" and he's like "it was a birthday present from my dad when I turned 15, apparently it's an antique, my grandad used to own it too but it somehow still works"

She's like "omg I found the other descendant of Rania??? This is SO COOL! Omg dude we are really distantly related!!!" and she explains and shows him the watch

He's like "omg what are the odds of that?? That's awesome!!"

And yeah for the first time in a while, she actually feels pretty good

It's an unspecified amount of time later and she's on the roof again with Adrien and Plagg

Adrien's like "so you're aro ace... I'm really happy for you that you know now"

Plagg's like "I didn't know the term existed but I can tell you with complete certainty that Rania was aro ace too, she hated stuff like that"

Alix is like "I know, I've finished reading her diaries now. She got married to her friend bc she was expected to but she refused to let it go anything beyond friendship, and then when there was pressure to have kids she adopted Leila and Anna, saying that there were too many poor orphans in the world who need taking care of to have more kids. Which means that I'm not even biologically descended from Rania, which means that my dad's point about the watch having to stay in the bloodline is completely null and he could totally have given the watch to Jalil. But anyway I don't care what my dad says, in the future I'll give it to some cool kid on their 15th birthday - maybe yours and Marinette's, if you ever have kids lol"

Adrien's like "we probably will... She's so awesome I love her so much... I don't know how I never realized it before, Marinette's just absolute perfection, she's so sweet and wonderful and pretty and just everything I ever wanted..."

He goes on and on being all lovey dovey and Alix just grins and grabs a bit of Camembert and mutters "I'm too aro ace for this"

#it's too fricking long i cry #rip mobile tumblr users #also all my drafts for everything look like this #the ahg one was full of memes it was ridiculous #random stuff #long post #too aro ace for this

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