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phoenix-flamed · 6 months
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Okay so I'm going to be kind to my poor brain, and throw in the towel on something odd that I've been struggling with for ... a long-ass while now.
I'm going to poke through my drafts and, instead of trying to continue writing the replies I already have that are in the works, I'm just going to start the replies over from the beginning instead. Not only is it not working well because I have no idea what my train of thought was at the time when I was first writing the reply, my muse has also changed and grown since a good chunk of these RPs started out.
That's not to say I'm dropping any of them! Just... yeah. Going to stop making my life 10x harder by trying to pick up where I left off in writing these replies, especially with the ones that are literal months old at this point.
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Seven Minutes With You
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Summary: At a party, you participate in playing "Five Minutes In Heaven." You weren't expecting to reach into the hat and pull out HIS item.
Character(s): Wanderer
Tags: Fluff, Friends To Lovers, Seven Minutes in Heaven, accidental confession, not really proofread... (It takes place in teyvat, not a modern world)
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"Everyone, I hope you all brought an item — it's time to play seven minutes in heaven!" The host beams brightly as she looks at all of you hopefully. She urges you all to sit down on the couches and chairs in her living room. You decide to sit on the soft red chair in the corner of the room.
"Alright... Make sure to put your items in the hat!" She hands the hat to Childe. He puts in an item and then passes it to the person next to him, this continues until the hat had been passed fully around the room.
Once the hat was filled with different items, the host puts a small pillow case over the hat so no one could see inside.
As the game starts, many people go into the small closet together — some just sit and talk, while others probably had a more interesting experience.
Sometimes, the two people walking out of the closet would look embarrassed with different shades of blush across their face. While other times, they'd come out of the closet laughing. No matter what happened, everyone seemed to be having a fun time. And finally...after a while it's your turn.
Reaching your hand into the hat, you feel around. There was all sorts of different textures; rough, smooth, sharp... Until finally you settle upon something small and soft. You pull it out of the hat and see a small, cute Finch plushie.
​​"Aw, it's adorable...!" You run your fingers over the Finch's soft head and smile. You admired it for a while, stuck in your own world with the plushie in your hands. 
​​​"Hurry up." An annoyed voice sounds near you. It's Scaramouche — he's standing near the closet. "Let's get this over with." He rolls his eyes as he walks through the door. 
You quickly put the Finch back in the hat (giving it a headpat first) before you follow him into the closet. Once you're both in there, the door shuts behind you. 
​​​​​​"We'll be back to get you in seven minutes! Don't have too much fun." Kaeya teased through the door. 
The closet was really small, so small that you and Scaramouche were almost chest to chest. It was... Awkward. 
You could feel yourself blushing, you had the biggest crush on him. It's not that he was particularly a good guy, or the fact that he was really handsome... Honestly you didn't even know yourself why you liked him so much. It'd been quite a while since you first figured out your feelings. You were so confused... 
​​​​With the closet being small, that also meant there weren't many places to look other than the guy in front of you. You tried glancing down, but that just made it feel more awkward for you. Hoping to ease some of your discomfort, you decide to start a conversation. 
"So...um..." You glance at Scaramouche, he was barely visible due to the darknes. Desperately, you try to wrack your brain for any conversation starters... You'd ask absolutely anything to make this uncomfortable atmosphere fade...even something you already knew. 
​​​​​​"Hm?" Though you couldn't see for yourself, you could feel his eyes on you. 
​​​​​​"That plushie... It was really cute. Where did you get it?" After taking a deep breath, you say the first thing that came to mind. At least you weren't nervous enough to ask a stupid question like "What's your favorite color?"
He sighs, "Nahida gave it to me. I don't know where she got it." 
​​​​​​"Well... It suits you very well, you're basically a Finch Magnet you know? They're always surrounding you...and it's unbelievably cute. I'm almost jealous of it." You glance down at the floor, almost as if trying to hide the blush on your face — even if there was no need to, like a force of habit. 
"Jealous? Tsk, why would you be jealous of that? Those creatures follow me almost everywhere. It gets kind of annoying sometimes." Although you couldn't see it, you could practically hear his eyes roll with that tone of voice. 
​​​​​​"Who said I was jealous of you? Honestly I'd much rather be one of the finches surrounding you. They get to look at you so closely. I want that..." And without thinking, you accidentally spill something you never planned on saying — especially to him! It was embarrassing.
The room went silent once again, this time, somehow even more awkward than at the start. You were a bit curious about this game at the beginning, but now...it was more dreadful. 
Having accidentally said your true feelings, you wait for his response... You guessed it was going to be rejection. But to your surprise... 
"...You like me then?" He asked — his voice seemed a bit strained. 
"Yeah, I do." You shyly respond, "Please don't force yourself to give me an answer, I really wasn't planning on confess-" 
​​​​​​Before you could finish your sentence, you felt something on your lips. It was a warm, tingling sensation. It was Scaramouche, he kissed you.
​​​​​​Once he pulled away from you, you could hear him faintly whisper...
​​​​​​"...I like you too, idiot."
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​​​​​A/n: It's been a while since I wrote a fic so its probably not that good but aaaa I love Scara. Hes such an interesting character, its always fun to write him.
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thecreativeforge · 3 months
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Closed Starter | Dark Path AU - Roy Harper | @therebetterbepie
BEEEEEeeeeeeeeeep...
Ugh. How long was he out for? And who the fuck was banging on his window?
"Hey, you can't park here. Sir? HEY, SIR! YOU CAN'T PARK HERE!"
Lifting his head up from the horn and turning to his left, his head so woozy that he felt like he was swimming, Roy inhaled a sharp breath and tried to recollect his thoughts. The face he met on the other end of the window was angry alright, adorned with a yellow hard hat and a safety jacket to match. His mouth felt like cotton, his vision just a little blurred. He wasn't injured or hurt, which was... A good sign. Right?
Reaching over, he pressed the button to roll down the window, only to be met with a sour expression of an elderly man, the air of impatience too obvious to ignore.
"Can I... um... help you?" Roy asked, his speech just a little slurred. It's been a bit since he last drank anything, which probably showed in how pathetic he assumed he looked since he just woke up from a drunken nap, so he couldn't be that bad.
"You can't park here, sir."
Sigh. "I'm sorry. Do you, um..." Roy inhaled sharply, reaching up to rub one of his eyes tiredly. God, his head was starting to hurt again. "Do you know what, uh... what time is it?"
"It's 3:18 in the morning." Oh yeah, this guy was definitely pissed.
Wait. Was it 3:18 am already? Shit.
"Are... are you sure?"
"Sir, you're wasting my time and I would really like to go back to watching the game now. Please move your car before I call the cops." The man, whom Roy could only assume to be the inspector of the building site he parked outside of by the hat and the pompous tone of his voice, clearly wasn't going to cooperate any longer.
"Right, right. sorry." Roy put both hands on the wheel and blinked a few times, trying to regain his composure. Come on, Harper, get it together.
"You got something stuck on your wipers, too. Throw it before you drive." The inspector pointed out as Roy started his car, causing the redhead to look up and notice the envelope sitting right where the inspector said it was. Bingo.
"Drunken idiot..." Roy could hear the older man mumbling under his breath as he clumsily outstretched his arm around to try and reach for it without getting out, with, unfortunately, no success. Stumbling outside like the drunken idiot he was, he finally grabbed it, noting the familiar handwriting and got back into the car, finally pulling out of the construction site.
Time to head to work.
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The instructions were clear. Find the guy, get a stolen item, get paid. It was supposed to be an easy job, given that he was going to be dealing with a guy who didn't seem anything more than a simple civilian gone on a bad streak of vandalism, and whether it was by choice or by accident didn't matter to Roy. He was told the man was related to a few breakin incidents over the last few weeks, but since no one was hurt, the police didn't continue the investigations properly and the cases dropped relatively quickly due to lack of evidence. The only weird thing was strange symbols left in the houses he broke into, but other than that? Nothing else other than stolen property. Among them was an amulet he was tasked with retrieving to his employeer, whom he... Well, met at a bar.
It was how he found his contacts most of these days. Word to mouth, people just found him more than he found others. He was a former vigilante, after all; who wouldn't want to be able to hire this kind of a guy to do their dirty work, right? Right. Not that Roy cared anymore, really. He left his mask behind what felt like a long while ago.
He was given the details with the man's address and a picture of the amulet inside an envelope last night. Well, technically it was morning, but time sort of blurred together when you didn't pay attention to it. Technically, he was also supposed to get the envelope directly from the guy himself and be informed of when he'll get his payment, but... Well, he drank a little too much after taking some painkillers again, and fell asleep while waiting. Eh, he has the guy's number, it'll be fine.
So, equipped with some essential arsenal for the task, Roy headed to the address the following night. Parking just around the corner, in a good spot to spy on the house from afar, Roy fished the binoculars out of his duffle bag and took a look. No car parked outside, the lights were turned off, no apparent movement... Either the guy was sleeping, or he was out. Either way, it was the perfect moment for Roy.
He made his way towards the house quickly through the backyard. Scaling the fence, he waddled his way carefully through an overgrown garden and sneaked to the backdoor. Peeking through one of the windows, he didn't see any movement inside; to be honest, he could barely see anything, but he only had the street lights from the main street to guide him. Getting his toolkit out of his pocket, he fully expected to make quick work of whatever lock was in place, but the door was unlocked. Ok, that's... odd?
Could be a safer neighborhood than he thought, or the guy was just forgetful. But upon opening the door, a waft of foul, decaying odor reached his nose.
He quickly turned from the opening door, covering his mouth and nose with his shirt. Holy shit, he was going to vomit. He tried not to tear up as he did his best to peek inside, see through the darkness; it was as if a screen of pitch black haze was blocking the view inside.
All he could see were old, scratched floorboards, and a dark liquid smeared across the hallway's walls...
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kobblefort · 4 months
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Hoistedworked: Origins
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Alright, okay, yeah. Back on the wagon, right here in the woods. It's still plenty remote, cold enough to teach a Dwarf to speak in clicks, and it is actually capable of sustaining life. Sure it's no glacier but the glacier was always a shitty idea. We can at least carve something out here. Like some ideas are actually just bad. Like too bad to manage. This one though is basically fine. We can do this.
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See? Look at this shit, it's beautiful. Plants. Trees. Actual solid ground. Since I never introduced the actual decapods before, let's pretend these are all just the same guys, okay? Just for convenience's sake.
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Cikuti Worthoars, who likes bobbit worms for their knobs and angles. Oh yeah and suddenly the snow cleared up. Don't ask me, I don't know why.
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Cutichi Strengthtown, AWESOME name. He likes to eat seahorse meat and loves two-grain wheat beer.
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Chetek Boattrussed, who likes kangaroos for their pouches. 🤔
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Cukikuki Townriddle. Big fan of eating giant Brown Recluse spiders, even though she hates cave spiders. I'm not going to ask.
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Scukikik Denttongs. Big beak dog fan.
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Retuti Livingwheel, groundhog fan and mead drinker. Wonder if we can actually get a bee colony set up here.
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And finally Cikuki Prisoncrafts, goat eater. Well, please forgive me if I kind of breeze past the "starter base setup" phase here.
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Or, well, I would, but... nobody wants to work. That's not some boomerism, nobody will just pick up the tools to chop wood or dig holes. They gather plants fine, and took apart the wagon without any trouble, but now they're just... gawking...
Reading about it on Reddit, it seems the solution is to just retire the fort and then immediately un-retire it. So we'll try that I guess.
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come on... come on... YES!!
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We don't even make it all the way down 10 stories before discovering the cavern this time. And before you ask:
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yep, fucked up normal grass again. Whatever. It's not as big of a deal this time. One day I really ought to properly ask how that even happens, but for now, I'm just rolling with it.
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Up above, all that happened in the two weeks the game makes you wait whenever you start fortress mode again is that the crabs spilled all their prickleberry wine. What a tragedy!
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After about a season, we've got a pretty nice setup coming together. All the stockpiles are hidden away under the big main meeting area, the aquifer drains into a cistern, things that rot are kept safely away from the average crab's path, and walls are being built up top to make a more secure entrance. We've eaten a boar and silky sea slug while food stocks were low, and the giant leopard we brought with us "went missing" some time ago - which probably just means it's dead. Giant raccoons have been harrassing us up on the surface, but that's the point of setting up our defenses. It's a much more auspicious start than our first expedition, and with self-sufficiency actually taken care of, we'll be able to get our paper economy and library off the ground sooner than later. We've also found a bit of native platinum quite high up in the earth, but once you start the metal economy, it feels like you just sort of become a metal economy fortress. So we'll hold off on that for now. Also, the giant wolves keep wandering into our meeting hall. Don't worry, they're ours, but they'd probably suit us better outside fending off the raccoons... Oh, and nobody has bedrooms yet. Nobody's too pressed about that, though. One time a really drunk guy came over to my house and when I said "alright that's it for the night" he was like for sure, peace out, slapped my hand, fistbumped me, grabbed his things and walked 5 steps out the front door to fall asleep sitting up on the stairwell of my apartment. So people can do that, people can just sleep on stairs. My roommates found him and were like "what the fuck" and I was also like "what the fuck" because I figured he'd just go home. I think they just let him sleep though. I would've heard it if he fell down the stairs and he didn't. So you can do that.
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There's not a lot to say right now. We're not making a ton of money, but we're sustaining ourselves fine.
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Defenses are coming together fine, too. Our giant wolves had pups and the pups have the zoomies. It's wonderful.
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There's a quantum stockpile now to make woodworking a lot easier. For those not in the know, a "quantum stockpile" is a 1x1 stockpile that gets filled by having a minecart dump into it. The cart races down from the surface, and is just long enough that it doesn't crash at the end, though also just too long to auto-dump - so instead, the solution is to make whoever finishes filling the cart hop in and ride it down so that they can push it the last couple tiles. Or at least, that's the plan; at first crabs just kicked the cart down the ramp, but since I changed it to be ridden instead, everyone's been too busy putting a ceiling over the main "courtyard."
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Here's our "administrative wing": counter-clockwise from the top, it houses our expedition leader Worthoars, production supervisor Boattrussed, and sheriff Channeledchain. We've got a hospital set up earlier than we need it for once, but nobody's been appointed chief of medicine yet. I ultimately had to run DFhack drain-aquifer just because the "mist generator" started overflowing, but I've set up "ponds" where any crab with nothing better to do will chuck a bucket of water down from the top of the stairs. The result is the same, so it should cheer everyone up. They'll need it, since...
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Roofing the main area has everyone caught in a snowstorm, and though nobody's particularly miserable at all, it's still dragging some crabs down. Oh, and I like this.
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Efficiency be damned, I wanted a cool bedroom setup, and looking down into the great hall right when you wake up seems pretty cool to me.
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An agitated giant raccoon attacks, but it's put down pretty quickly by the giant wolves. The bigger threat is our own lack of forethought.
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I wanted to put grates up above the farm plot there, because I'm not actually sure whether you still need outdoor plants to get sunlight and rain or whatever, or if a tile that was directly exposed to the sun at any point just counts as "outdoors" forever. I honestly think it's the latter but you know what they say about eggs and baskets and all that type of shit.
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The problem is that crabs kept trying to put floors down on these tiles, which was possible because they could walk over the grates to reach them, but didn't register to the game as structurally sound, so the floor just instantly collapsed every time they tried to do it. Well, at least nobody died.
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Except for just now. I tried to make the quantum stockpile also include rocks, and it worked! But people keep walking out in front of it and getting hit. Somehow, a shrimp survived just fine, but this metalsmith fucking died. It seems obvious to like, not walk on minecart tracks, especially if they're set to the "no" traffic setting, but it's apparently not. A bit of judicious wall use seems to fix it, though. We also make probably the ugliest fucking graveyard I've EVER set up.
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Right off to the side of our main noble quarters for whenever we either get a mayor, get elevated to a barony, or whatever else, I just made... I don't know. This spaghetti nightmare. I don't care. If crabs were dying in battle, then you know, I'd take it serious, I'd make a big whole thing out of it or at least plop down the quickfort windmills. But what am I supposed to feel about a guy bashing himself with the fucking minecart? Like... you get what you paid for. And now the next poor saps to die in this fortress get what you paid for too.
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Our first artifact is created! Its name translates to "Slippants." Ok. It just has an image of a decapod in it. Not even any particular kind of decapod in specific. But it instantly makes Hailcloistered, or jesus christ how am I supposed to remember this, Ricikikikitikik into a legendary armorsmith. Which is, you know, cool. Yeah, we could probably get some armor going. I neglected to mention I set up a metalsmithing business; I didn't want to, but there are so many metalsmiths in this fortress that they started a guild, and I always wanted to try actually placing workshops in a guild-relevant area instead of just having all the workshops in one place and guild halls somewhere else, so it's a little inefficient, but it looks cool, so who cares.
...and that right there is the last thing I wrote before I stopped playing for 8 months.
I feel like the reveal was always coming: "I was just doing this as a weird cry for help cloaked dick-deep in 69 layers of irony." Like on the surface it looks like it is just a person freaking out but then one layer lower it's actually just a guy fucking around but one more layer it's freaking out again and on and on and on. I don't know what to say besides that. I'm in the first really healthy relationship of my life and trying not to mess it up. I'm still soul-crushingly poor with no real skills or job prospects. I do still play the greatest simulation game of all time Dwarf Fortress, though much more rarely - I often boot it up with big ambitions to make some Content for The Tube, actually, but I'm simply too good at the game, so nothing interesting happens in my forts, and I end up with twenty gigabytes of footage and ten pages scribbled in a notebook covering six years of fortress management where the most interesting thing that happens is like, I set up a milling industry.
I'm not really interested in Daarunbay Detevay anymore, I'm sorry. It's not like I've deleted it, I keep pretty extensive backups of all my worlds and saves for the greatest simulation game of all time Dwarf Fortress, even though I rarely actually use them, so it's not really going anywhere. If there's any interest I could probably like, put the world folder on pixeldrain or mediafire or whatever and try to compile a mod list, but I'm not making any promises and I doubt anyone really wants that very bad anyway.
...and that right there is the last thing I wrote before I forgot about this draft for 2 months.
In that time, the Adventure Mode beta appeared. I stayed up all night waiting for it to come out, but it was still rough enough that I didn't dive all the way in just yet. However, I realized something after playing as a cockatiel man who got viciously killed for starting random fights with innocent dwarves in my own half-abandoned fortress which went to hell because apparently the AI lets all of the animals out of cages and unlocks all the doors when you retire a fort. There might still be much more to do in Daarunbay Detevay. Rat World may be doomed but there's no reason we couldn't make a party of Rat Bandits. Better yet we could embark from Rushsly on the mission of a lifetime: to kill Vakeek Malignreasons.
So I don't know. Maybe we're going to do that. Maybe I will actually make some YouTube Content and I'll never reveal there that I was the Kobblefort guy but you could see a video and recognize my loquacious schizotypal affect, and you'd be like "dude, aren't you the guy who did Kobblefort?" and I wouldn't respond or maybe I'd be like "what is that" but you'd know. You'd know it was me. But just for the record please don't go around asking Dwarf Fortress YouTubers if they're the Kobblefort guy. Because either they don't know and you have exposed a YouTube person (much more normal than Tumblr people, on the whole) to Kobblefort or you have put me on the spot. So yeah, just forget you ever read any of this, except for during the time where you're reading it. I'm trying to do the exact opposite of "death of the author" here. This is "death of the reader." No that sounds fucked up. This is "life of the author." Sure. See you soon
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ot3 · 2 years
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first of all, i am violently in love your ace attorney fancomic. that one panel of mia in the elevator and edgeworth on the stairs sitting back to back lives rent free in my head, i think abt it every 3-5 business days and go feral. tysm <3 second, would you ever consider showing us ur process behind it? like how you plan it, the dialog + composition, etc? id personally love to get that insight !!
thank you so much!!!
i actually do have a TON of behind the scenes/process stuff up on my patreon for $2. every thumbnail/color rough/scrapped page comp i've done is up there, and i've been writing detailed commentary on the comic as a whole because it's something people expressed an interest in reading. there's a decent amount of it right now and ill have a new batch of commentary up sometime in the next few days
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as for more generalized stuff about process ill stick that here under the cut but unfortunately it is going to be EXTREMELY unhelpful because my process habits are very bad.
so as for prewriting/pre-planning i do almost none of it. i've been trying to get better at doing that but i get so so so bored of that so fast. here's a screenshot of my first outline, cropped to just show everything i've drawn so far.
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as you can see this all means pretty much nothing and i also didnt quite follow it. we didn't get the mia and greg postmortem and swiss rolls stuff for turnabout samurai because i later decided to scrap it. later down in this document there are slightly more detailed notes about some specific scenes, but really its all super lose.
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Recently i tried to write a more detailed outline for the upcoming parts of the comic, and the stuff that happened in this most recent batch of pages was documented there pretty well
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but already the stuff i wrote in this outline for later batches is not accurate to what i want anymore so to be honest the outlines are kind of a wash for me. what's really the meat of my pre-planning process is i just have a private discord server where i dump notes.
the reason i use a discord server for this is because its super easily accessible from every device i have, and doesnt require backing up between locations. i also just dump chunks of canon text in there that i want to pull exact dialogue from when i'm doing my transcript rereads.
a lot of these notes are completely useless and redundant
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most of them are snippets of dialogue i want to put in on later pages. almost none of this dialogue will ever be used. for starters, a lot of it is different takes on the exact same handful of scenes and so by default are mutually exclusive bits of content. i like to just dump as many ideas as i have in there even if theyre contradictory, and then just read back through and pick my favorite/most appropriate ones as i get to actually drawing whats coming up.
every now and then ill dump all this in a google doc and arrange it roughly chronologically so related takes go together, but i havent done that in like six months so its all just a huge mess right now.
the reason i can get away with such bare bones planning is because i have a very strong mechanical understanding of how this story is supposed to function. in the two and a half years that has gone by since i came up with the idea and started working on it, almost nothing has fundamentally changed in my big picture narrative goals. knowing the exact shape of what i'm building towards makes it really easy to let the more minute details come to me in the moment. they either are congruent with that end goal, in which case they can stay, or they're more extraneous/irrelevant in which case they get cut.
when i get stuck, more often than not i just slide into mia @demonkix's dms and make her hear out my rambling. thanks mia. shoutout to mia.
now, here's probably one of my biggest sins: i do not script anything. there is no finalized dialogue until i am writing it directly onto the page. unless i'm directly lifting from the text, that is. ill have a rough idea of what needs to be said in each page when im drafting, and sometimes i'll write in rough dialogue on the draft. but most of the time ill just sketch out the approximation of the speech bubble andd either leave it fully blank or jot in one or two keywords in to remind me of what the dialogue should be. then the actual dialogue gets written in once the art is finished
do not do this. i can not stress how frustrating this is for myself. i do this every time and i always hate it.
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the reason i dont bother with any proper scripting is because the dialogue bends to the art. not the other way around. a massive amount of my process is dictated by what im in the mood to draw, and by keeping the actual character interactions as flexible as possible until the art is done, i can ensure i dont get stuck at key points because the thing that has to happen is something i dont feel like drawing.
in general, my process for drafting pages is just rough thumbnail -> color rough -> go actually draw the damn thing
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however there ill be times when i just do not bother drafting at all and jump immediately into drawing a page. if you go look at the stuff on patreon youll see that in the beginning i pretty much just drew everything after the first batch straight through.
this comic is a lot of work so the most important thing is that hte process is fun for me. i really hate granular planning and itd just slow me down a ton so the process is really just vibes from point a to point b. hope this somewhat answers your question
i talk about my general approach to comic composition in my big composition writeup too, which is pinned, if thats something youre interested in.
#qm
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sunkaashi · 4 years
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— OVERTIME
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↬ Pairing. College!Atsumu x Manager!Reader
↬ Genre. Fluff. A hint of enemies to lovers if you look really closely.
↬ Warnings. Mentions of alcohol. I guess nothing else? Let me know if you think I'm wrong!
↬ Summary.  Atsumu Miya is hopelessly in love with you, but how could he ever catch your attention if all you do is ignore him? Well, maybe his plan starts to work out when he finds out that whenever he stays longer for practice, you have to stay too.
↬ Word count. 1.7k
↬ tris' note: I wrote this in the spur of the moment, but I had so much fun! feedbacks are extremely appreciated! if you wanna be added to my general taglist, fill out this form.
anyways, did you know that only hot people reblog the works they like? NO? well, now you do ;) jk, but reblogs help me tons and I'm very grateful for them <3
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Sweat dripped down the back of ATSUMU's neck as he jogged around the college tracks for the nth time that afternoon.
"Just one more lap." He kept telling himself over and over again as if repeating it would make it any less of a lie.
But who could blame him when this was the only moment of the day that he could spend with you? When he just knew that, by the end of that turn, you'd be there to receive him, water bottle and towel in hand? If anything, that just drove him more and more motivated to get to the finish line.
Those seconds in which your hands slightly brushed off against each other's; the way you laughed whenever he tripped over himself, too tired to carry on; the sarcastic sneer on your face every time you scolded him for wasting your time, but still wouldn't leave. To Atsumu, that was his reward, better than any shining trophy.
"Oi! Miya!" Your voice woke him up from his trance as the blonde boy finally shot up a glance at you. He rested with his hands on his knees, chest going up and down in strong and unsteady motions, legs still trembling a bit from the training. "We've been here for almost two hours! Everybody has left already, and I want to go home for God's sake!"
Atsumu snickered at the way your voice got higher with each word, deflecting from his gaze while you said you wanted to leave. He also didn't miss how you knitted your eyebrows together just before going off at him, carefully scanning his shaky body.
"Ya could've left, ya know? I never asked ya to stay!" He replied, smirking a little while making sure to stare right into your pupils.
If eyes are the windows to the soul, that must be the reason yours were so beautiful to him. As he tried to get an answer through them, he also delighted himself in such a vision. That's why he was quick to notice their slight tremble at his remark.
"And leave you to die?!" Your voice, once again, cut him off of his daydreams. "You've been running for more than an hour after a pretty rough practice, if you go into cardiac arrest who's gonna call an ambulance?! I'm the team manager, I don't want any deaths on my back!"
In his defense, he was only there because of you, but — obviously — he wouldn't tell you that. He decided to just laugh it off.
"Well, that's something you don't see every day!" He teased.
"What?!"
"Yer’ worried ‘bout me!" Atsumu said, trying to suppress the smile forming in the corner of his mouth.
Even though his tone was playful, he knew something was off when his words were left hanging in the air, no snarky comments added to the back-and-forth banter you were both so used to.
Seeing your widened eyes, he started to question if he was right or, worse, if he had crossed a line.
You gulped down as if this would prevent you from spilling something you shouldn't say. Atsumu was dying to know what it was.
This had become a little routine of yours. Staying for a couple more hours after practice as you helped him out for a while. At first, he knew you're just doing your job, after all, you were there to assist the boys, it didn't matter who they were. Still, he couldn't shake the thought that maybe, just maybe, something had changed as the months went by.
He remembered it perfectly. It wasn't that long before that you used to curse him for making you lose such precious time of your day. He knew you had your reasons! Staying overtime underneath the unforgiving sun, having to catch up on your studies while sitting beside the filthy running tracks, surrounded by sweaty and dirty athletes.
Even so, it wasn't pleasant for him either. Jogging for endless hours, the summer heat consuming him as if hell were just around the corner.
Usually, he would run only half of those miles. But how could he stop? How could he stop knowing that the minute he did, you'd have to go home, and he would only see you the next day? No, he needed more time to win you over. He needed those small talks in between his breaks. He needed every single one of the few glances you exchanged every time he ran past you. He needed to hear you giggling at his jokes at least once more.
What once felt like dragging insufferable after hours, began to seem like less and less time over the weeks. Those little details were what made it all worth it. They were his private entrance to heaven.
And he believed that you might've been starting to feel the same way too.
He'd caught the way your lips curled up into a shy smile the last time he'd offered to walk you home. He also had noticed how your irises shined a bit brighter whenever he bought you food, worried because he knew you'd be there with him for those extra periods. He'd seen the way you laughed at his childhood stories just a tad too hard, always asking for another one.
Atsumu had always been aware of how he comes off to people: the arrogant self-centered jock. He never really cared about any of those things, but he did care about how you perceived him. The man just hoped that soon enough, you'd learn he was more than what others wanted him to be. Not a pretentious athlete, albeit a normal guy as any other, just with an ambitious goal set to his mind. And whenever you shared one of those intimate moments, he thought that, perhaps, you were one of the few people that actually saw him for who he was.
Still, that didn't make it any easier to admit the feelings he'd developed for you.
"Oi! Are ya alright?" Atsumu said, trying to catch your attention, a delicate expression laying on his countenance. "I'm sorry if I overstepped in any way, ‘kay? It was a joke, I promise." You didn't answer him just yet.
"Hey!" He proceeded, lifting your chin up so you'd look at him. "Now I'm the one getting worried 'bout ya! Snap out of it and get back to hating on me before ya realize I might have a heart!" Atsumu mocked himself, but shied away from your glare while doing so.
At least he'd made you chuckle.
“I always knew you had one, Miya." You said, rolling your eyes at the man. “I just didn’t know it worked!”
“Oya! That was mean!”
“Isn’t that what you wanted?” You asked, arching your brows.
“Well, maybe, but it wouldn’t hurt if ya were a little nicer to me once in a while!”
“Yeah? How so?” The words slipped past your lips without missing a beat, and Atsumu couldn’t help but wonder if the flirtatious undertone was something he had only imagined. He decided to take the bait.
“For starters...” Atsumu began, slowly making his way closer to where you were standing. “Ya could buy me a beer after we’re done here.” Was he crazy or did he really see your shoulders relaxing at his words?
“Oh, is that easy?” You responded in the same toying manner.
“Hold up!” He said, raising his hands to the air. “That’s just the first step!”
“And then what?”
“And then…” Atsumu continued, moving further towards your figure. “Then ya could let me hear that beautiful laugh of yers a few more times.” He completed, stealing a giggle out of you. “Just like that.”
“Great, so I’m halfway through it.” Your tone may have been monotonous, but your eyes told him otherwise. “Anything else or can we get this over with?”
“Maybe, while yer’ laughing, ya could finally realize that I’m not as bad as ya think I am.” He pondered, moving a loose strand of hair out of your features, clearing the view to your gaze.
“Now you wanna tell me what to think?” You scoffed, crossing your arms.
“Is just a suggestion! Take it as ya wish!” He winked at you.
“And what if I told you that I already did?”
“Ya did?” This time, he sounded soft, breaking out of the teasy character for a second.
“You’re not bad, Miya... Far from that.” 
“Well, that’s a shock.”
“You don’t look surprised.” You stated, pointing out the crescent grin on his face.
“Too much wishful thinking made me ready for this moment.”
“And what exactly is this moment… Atsumu?” The way you said his name, in a hushed voice, almost like a secret meant to be shared by only the both of you, gave him the green light he needed to go on.
“It’s when I finally kiss ya.” 
Atsumu was quick to grab your waist, pulling you closer to his chest, and finally closing the gap between you two. His gawk rapidly traveled from your mouth to your eyes, longing for a confirmation. It didn’t take a second after your subtle nod for him to merge your lips together, your body melting at his touch. His grasp was gentle, but firm, like you were something he treasured, something that he never wanted to let go of. And by the way you gripped onto his neck, the boy could tell he wasn’t alone in this.
Atsumu moved his palms all the way up your back, briefly running his fingers through your hair, but resting them upon finding your face. His tender touch cupped your cheeks in between his hands, pushing away just when he inevitably ran out of breath. 
"Do I still have to buy you that beer or is this nice enough for you?" You said, unable to repress a smile.
“Hm, I’m not sure… Why don’t you kiss me again and we'll see?"
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A harem collab in which we go to a party with our v precious hero 18+ Smut boooiiii
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Sitting across from him never did get easier. As much as you told yourself it would. 
If anything it got harder and harder to share the same room as him, let alone air. 
But you were lucky enough, or unlucky enough, to join the agency when you did and to be partnered with your big time crush FatGum. Although you idolized him you were sure he didn't remember you. 
And how could he? He saved countless people a day so it should be no surprise that he had no idea who you were on your first day. Still, it stung. 
And it shouldn't still sting or come to a surprise when he sets down a flyer on your desk. A huge smile on his chubby cheeks as he taps the sheet of paper.
"Can you believe it?! The agency is throwing a new year's eve party!" He practically gushes, lingering by your desk with his intoxicating smile. He rummages in his brown bag, setting breakfast onto your desk careful to avoid getting grease stains on the flyer as if you'd hang it up one day instead of shoving it into the trash. 
"They have one every year." You shrug, thanking him for the breakfast but tossing the paper into the trash can. His smile never waivers as he pulls it from the fresh bin, returning it to the smooth wooden top. 
"Yea but not at a fancy hotel and never an open bar! We should go!" His eyes crinkle in the corners and your heart hammers in your chest. 
Little do you know he prays to the Gods you don't say no. 
"I dont know, it's such short notice. Like next week ain't it?." At least it wasn't a no. He smiles, thinking of your competative behavior. 
"Oh I see what it is." He takes the sheet from your desk, waltzing to his own, "You're scared."
"Tch, scared of what?" You hiss, snatching for the paper. 
"Scared I'll out drink you!" He laughs at your cute scowl as you size him up. His metabolism was insane, and with him being in his larger state you might not be able to win. 
But he didn't have to know that. 
"You fucking wish you could out drink me! Remember the last party we went to? You showed your age and could barely stand!"
"Oi! I was much thinner then. I think luck is on my side this time." He slaps his belly and you smile. A genuine laugh fills the room causing Taishiro's heart to clench. 
"Yea, yea." You wipe away a tear, "We'll see." 
The day drags on and on, turning into a week of you glancing his way. Making sure he wasn't gaining any extra weight as he brought you your normal breakfast daily. 
It wasn't until the day of the party did you gain the advantage, a fight almost turned wrong and Taishiro had to use majority of that stored fat for a deadly punch to stop the villain from terrorizing the city. 
Still you'd never want this type of advantage just for a stupid drinking contest. Although he was not at his largest, he still had a considerable "dad bod" going on. 
"I still can't believe they had a tux in this size so late!" Taishiro shouts into the locker room at the agency, adjusting his tie as he waits for you. Meanwhile nerves eat you alive as you stare into your reflection, wondering if this dress fit okay, smoothing the fabric over your stomach self consciously. 
"You okay in there? We're gonna be late." He calls softly, hoping you aren't having second thoughts about going with someone like him. 
"Coming!" You call back, glancing at your deep amber dress a final time before rushing into the hall. 
"I was just thinking you were going to forfeit and then I-" Words die in his throat and he drinks you in. Beautifully complimented by the shape and color of your dress as he mouth hangs agape. 
"Wow. You look…" 
"Tai, I know, I look...different." 
"Amazing, perfect, breathtaking." He gives you a pointed look, "Which is no different than how you normally look." 
Heat creeps up the back of your neck and you're thankful he misses your flustered expression. The walk to the hotel and the brisk cold air gives you time to not only cool off but think.
Really reflect on the year, this horribly rotten, all bad luck year. Reminding you of all the times you had failed but also reminding you of all the opportunities you had missed. And not opportunities in the sense of promotions or saving people but opportunities to get closer with a certain somebody. 
You glance up at him and he glances down at you, smiling in a way that sets your skin on fire and yet it makes you feel at ease. 
Slowly you were coming to hate it. 
"I'm excited that they decided to invite some smaller agencies. Means I can introduce you to some of the kids I interned. Well I guess they are adults now huh." He looks nostalgic, sad even as he stares into space. Opening the door to the large hotel and it the look sticks with him until he is just before the party doors. 
"Ready?" 
"As ready as I'll ever be." You huff as he places his hand on the small of your back, bringing you into the rented ballroom. Lights and sounds consume your sense as music dances around light conversation. You're beginning to wonder if a drinking contest was such a good idea that is before you see the CEO of your agency totally shit faced. You glanced down at your watch, it was only 8pm. 
Taishiro guides you around the room with a "starter" drink, introducing you to old and new faces. Beaming with pride as he introduces you as his partner and not his sidekick like other heroes had done in the past. You hated how much your heart raced. 
"And this is Kirishima! He was one of my best and most memorable! Kids got guts and heart in spades!" He slaps Kirishima on the back and the young man slumps forward with a sharp toothed smile. 
"Aw come on, I wasn't that great…" He scratches the back of his head. 
"I heard that's when you became 'unbreakable'! I think that's so cool!" You gush over the young hero complimenting him to no end. 
"Stop. You'll give me a big head." He smiles, blushing furiously before his eyes wander to the closeness of the two of you and then they settle on your drinks, "You're not trying to out drink the infamous FatGum are you?" 
You laugh loudly before leaning in close as if to share a secret. 
"Oh, yes and I plan to kick his ass." 
Kirishima returns your smile and stage whispers 
"Taishiro-sama has lost a good bit of weight. I believe in you!" He winks before someone across the room calls for him, "Call me when you get really started!!" 
Two hours pass and you find yourself sitting across from your partner with his sleeves rolled up. Showcasing those deadly forearms as he slams back another shot. Kirishima keeps tally on hotel stationary and announces the number of shots. 
"You'll have to take five to be in the lead! You'll have two minutes to decide to forfeit or-" But before he can finish you're grabbing for one of the prefilled shot glasses. 
"Kanpai!" You shout, slinging them down, ignoring how the room is spinning and how bright the light reflects off of the table full of empty shot glasses. 
Kirishima's eyes widen as you down an extra shot for good measure, tallying the booze count with worry.
"Fat hero." He says, almost gritting his teeth, "You'll have to take seven to be in the lead." 
The large hero leans on his forearms on the table, the alcohol he's had had mostly been processed and maybe your figured that out. That he was starting to lose his edge so he takes you up on the challenge knocking back the several shots as if they were water. You're eager to gulp down a few more praying it drowns out your feelings for the sexy man across from you, instead he lets his broad hand hover over the shot glasses. Silently giving you a reprieve and noticing just how much you're sweating, how blown your pupils are. 
"Let's give it a minute shall we?" He smiles as you drown in his golden eyes. Biting at your lower lip and with a defiant grip you swallow down a final shot.
"Your turn." You focus hard to make sure your words didn't slur, not wanting this feeling or night to end. He snorts, shaking his head wishing you acted out any other time than this. 
"I forfeit." He places his hands up and you glare at him as you wonder if he did it on purpose. Before you have the time to accuse the crowd erupts into a deafening cheer, the room lags as you try to place names with faces as they come close to congratulate you. As more and more people crowd you, the hotter the room feels. Politely you excuse yourself to an enclave balcony closing the doors tightly behind you as you gulp down air, desperate to cool off and douse the desire that burns hot in your belly seeping to your core. 
"Fuck." You rake your nails through your hair as a hit of icy air skates along your skin leaving goose flesh in its wake. A steady warmth comes from behind you, voice deep as he speaks softly. You can tell he's using the same tone he uses on victims, trying not to startle them with his size. 
Little did he know how much you loved how much bigger he was. A safe haven, protection embodied. 
"Ready to go home?"
"No I'm fine! Perfectly fine." He sucks his teeth at your stubborn reply, leaning in close with his hands in the pockets of his tux. 
"You look flushed...you seem out of it." 
"I'm totally of sound mind!" A bark to which he laughs, giving in to the liquid courage as his large hand tilts your chin towards him. Flirting with a line he swore he'd never cross. 
"Yea, if you're so sound of mind, would you let me do this?" He asks, leaning closer, lips almost brushing yours. Your breath mingles with his in little puffs of fog agaisnt the cool air and suddenly you're burning again. 
From the inside out.
His lips touch yours, gently, passive at first and if he's trying to fight against his urges. Slowly he breaks away, amber eyes glued to your mouth before he sighs. Hoping he didn't just fuck everything up. 
In an instant you're drawing him back to you, hands in his golden wheat hair and your fingers weave through the strands. Mouth opening and demanding more as his large hands grip onto your ribcage as if you'd float away. 
And maybe you would, you felt like you could. 
Frantically your hands demand more, exploring up his shirt, touching across his stomach and digging your nails down his back. His own hands follow suit, gripping at your ass and tits, memorizing every luscious curve until he is drunk off of you and you only. You moan into his mouth and with that he loses all restraint. 
Shoving you against the harsh brick building, fisting your hair to tilt your head for better access, exploring your mouth with his well skilled wet muscle. Hands trailing beneath your dress to find your dress, squeezing at your thick thighs and when you moan in approval he moves higher and higher still until his fingers brush against the damp fabric. This time it is his turn to groan as he presses his hardened cock against you, your hips move to grind against his large fingers. 
"Please Tai" It is soft, breathy, sending him into a frenzy as he gives you exactly what you want. Letting his fingers slip beneath the fabric to gather the slick between your folds, gently rubbing against your throbbing clit. You arch against his touch, exposing your neck to him, he leans over and bites. Placing kisses along your throat, making sure to be careful enough to avoid marks before his hazed brain causes him to speak. 
To confess. 
"Do you know how long I've wanted to do this?" He asks, plunging his fingers into your tight heat, stretching you as you mewl, "Ever since I first laid eyes on you. Kamisama you were perfect. And tonight. Fuck baby. Wearing my eye color for all to see. You want people to think you're mine?" 
"Yes, Taishiro. I want people to think I'm yours." You moan, fucking yourself on his fingers before he takes over. Setting a quick pace before he curls his thick fingers just right, in an instant you're creaming against his digits. Crying out as he overstimulates you before he covers your mouth with his broad hand, reminding you just how much he dwarfs you.  
It makes you cum again and again and he corners you against the wall. Cock twitching as he laps up your sinful faces with a gluttonous appetite. 
"Please Tai, pleeeasse." 
"What's wrong baby? My fingers not enough?" His cocky tone drives you mad and your hips buck against his touch before he withdraws from your heat. Panting he levels his gaze yo you. 
"Is this what you want?" Peppering you with kisses as if you could deny him and his godly hands.
"Don't make me beg Tai…" You rasp, he gives a devilish smile. 
"Then I won't." His hands slink up your dress, gathering it at your waist as on skillful finger pulls the overly damp underwear away from your soaking sex. He frees himself and you swallow, not realizing just how large he was, for a moment you worry you won't be able to take him. 
"I'll be gentle." He coos, easing himself in an inch at a time as your stretch around his thick cock. Pussy fluttering as it adjusts to his size, he gathers your legs to his sides, squeezing your hips to keep from rutting into you roughly. He pistons his hips slowly, watching your face contort as he angles himself just right. Sensual thrusts have your legs and pussy squeezing him so deliciously tight. Still he worries he's going to hurt you.
"You okay?" Alcohol lingers on his breath and you swallow him whole with a kiss. Moaning into his mouth softly as he rocks you into one of your most intense orgasms to date. It's a slow build, undeniably intoxicating as his steady pace hits your spongy soft spot and his pelvis rubs against your clit. The coil in your stomach snaps and your body clamps onto the behemoth of a man tightly, stars dot your vision as he continues to fuck you through it. 
"God you're so beautiful ya know? So responsive to my touch. Taking me so well baby." He purrs against your ear, "Makes me want to keep this pace all night." 
He keeps true to his promise, bringing you to new heights at the steadiest of paces, causing you to lose count of how many times you've cum on his length. Pussy attempting to milk him dry as he palm swallows your screams. He looks at your features, your makeup running from delirious tears, mouth fallen opened in a propetial O as your hair clings to your skin. 
"Kamisama you're like art." He kisses your quickened pulse, "Ready for me to fill you love? You're squeezing me so tight…" 
He groans and all you can think of his him and the searing pleasure that courses through your veins to settle in your over sensitive heat. His cock twitches and you want nothing more than to be stuffed full of the Fat Hero's fat cock and his cum.  But words are lost in your hoarse throat and all you can do is nod, moaning his name as if it were a prayer. It's all the encouragement he needs, quickening his pace as the crowd inside grows louder. Counting down from 10. 
It's all lost to you and his hips snap against you, the brick scraping against your shoulders as his grip on you becomes so tight you're sure you'll bruise. Your body hyper aware of every little sensation as you drown in pleasure and warm amber sun, he groans, painting your walls in hot ropes of cum, your vision spots as your body arches to meet him as your spams a final time while his lips crash to yours. 
All the while fireworks erupt over head, bringing in the new year on a literal high note. 
He huffs, sweating as he looks at you, still buried to the hilt. Swiping his thumb over your cheek and running mascara before he breathes out so gently. 
"Happy new year baby." 
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midnightstar-90 · 3 years
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Hidden~ Eddie Diaz x Nash! Reader
A/N: I wanted to add some action, so I moved up when Shannon decided to divorce Eddie. Eddie is too good to make him into a cheater. I'm not really good at describing intimate-type stuff either.
Lose Some, Win Some
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Y/N's POV
I am finally home. I'm home with my son, and the school gave me a couple of days to rest. I sat on my couch, watching the news. "Today, police suspect LAFD's 118 for robbing $300,000 worth of cash from a local bank. Police say that the LAFD was there to help the bank manager and a delivery man with a seizure or a possible nerve agent. Police also say that they found the cash inside one of their firetrucks. More information coming up, soon."
After hearing that, I remember the number on one of the firetrucks at the crash. The 118 saved me, and if they saved me, that means that Eddie and my dad are being questioned for a robbery. I haven't known Eddie long, but I know that Eddie, nor my father, would rob a bank.
Zachary walks into the room. "Mommy, I'm ready for bed," my little man says. I turn to him and say, "Ok, I'll be in there in a bit." He runs back to his room.
I hear a knock at the door. It is almost 9:30 pm. Who could be at my door? I go to the door and look through the peephole. Eddie and Christopher stand at the door with a to-go bag.
I open the door, and I say, "Eddie? Chris? what are you doing here?" "I bet you have heard about what is going on. The police have ransacked our house, and I was wondering if you could watch Chris until this blows over?" Eddie asked me desperately.
I smile at the two boys. "Sure. Chris, Zach is in his room getting ready for bed. You can go hang out with him until I get you a bed ready. His room is down the hall, the First door on the left," I tell the little boy, and then turn to Eddie.
He hands me Chris' night bag, and I joke and say, "There better not be any evidence in here." He chuckles, saying, "Nope, no evidence, just clothes, and a toothbrush."
I invite him into my apartment. He walks in and says, "Nice apartment. Is that a skylight?" He points up, at the skylight, in my living room.
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"Yeah, when Levi died, I would tell Zach that his father was watching him from the stars. So, I decided that anytime we missed Levi, we would watch the stars," I said, trying not to tear up.
Eddie reaches in his pocket and pulls out a picture. "I'm guessing this is Levi?" Eddie asks, handing me the picture. I look at the picture and lose my cool. Eddie sits me on the couch and just hugs me.
This is the closest I've ever been to a man since Levi. It felt good. I felt protected. I don't need protection because I was in the navy, but this man made me feel loved.
We sat on the couch, with me crying into his shirt. "Mommy, aren't you gonna put me to bed?" "Yeah." I get up, heading into my child's room.
Eddie follows me into the room, and what he sees shocks him.
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(Zachary's bed)
Christopher is sitting on the bottom bunk of a firehouse bed. The whole room was dedicated to firefighters. When we got in that crash, and he met his grandfather, Zach decided that when he gets older, he would become a firefighter.
Christopher looks at his dad and says, "Dad, Zach said he wants to be like you and uncle Buck when he gets older."
Eddie continues to look around. He walks towards the cubby. Inside the cubby is some of Zach's favorite toys, some pictures of Levi and I, and some pictures of Zach and I. What really caught Eddie's eye, was the picture of Zach on my shoulders, at the El Paso Zoo.
I am tucking the boys in, when I hear, "You were in El Paso?" I look back and say, "Yeah, that was Zach's 2nd birthday. Levi was born in Austin, but he grew up in El Paso." Eddie just nods and goes back to looking around.
As I'm tucking Christopher in he says, "Dad and I are from El Paso. It would have been cool if we met before LA." I smile at the boy, before walking out and turning off the lights.
"We have a lot in common, you know?" Eddie tells me. I look at him and he looks back. "Oh, really?" I ask. Eddie and I move closer to each other. I continue to look at the man and I ask, "Like what?" "Well, for starters, we were both fought for our country." Imagining this man in a military uniform made the moment even hotter. I moved closer. "Ok, and?" "And, we both had a son at a young age."
At this point, he was towering over me. I quickly pulled the man into a kiss. He kisses back. I move my hands from my side to his chest, and he grabs my hips. He deepens the kiss as I move my hands from his chest to his neck. I feel strong hands go under my shirt.
We keep making out for a couple of minutes until I pull back. "I'm so sorry. I forgot you married," I say frantically. "She told me she wasn't ready. She filed for divorce. I also didn't feel like our relationship was working. She left us when Chris was little. I kinda like this hot teacher, who was in the Navy and has a son. Also, she knows about being a firefighter." Eddie tells me, holding my hands.
I kiss Eddie again. Eddie and I head to my room, without breaking the kiss. That night was the best night in forever. Everyone got a sleepover.
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The robbery thing has been put behind us, but a new problem has arrived. My father didn't tell the LAFD everything about why he transferred, therefore leaving him suspended. He hasn't told me either, but I think it is best to let him come to me about it.
I started work again today, except I feel like I'm looking after 3 kids. My dad insisted that we hang out, you know since he wasn't there for most of my life.
I wake up at 5 am to a large banging noise. I look to see who it is, and surprise surprise, it is my father with tons of groceries. "Dad, what are you doing here. Zach is still asleep, and I don't have to be up till 7 am." I tell my dad, letting him in.
He heads to my kitchen and sits down the food. "I was thinking that I could make you and Zach breakfast, and then I could take you to work."
I gave my father a loving look. I feel bad that his past came back to haunt him, but maybe something good will come out of it. Besides, I missed the father/daughter bonding we had. Eddie told me his food is at grade A chef level, so why not let him cook for me.
"Well I love what you're doing, but I'm missing sleep. If it's fine with you, could I go back to sleep?" I ask, and receive a nod back. I walk to my room, but I turn back to check upon him. I know he's sad, but at this moment he looks happy.
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I woke up at 7 am to a heavenly smell. I walk into the kitchen, after remembering my dad was making breakfast. As leave the hallway to see my son and father talking about firefighting. I smile, and my dad turns to face me.
"Ah, you're awake! I woke up Zach and got him dressed for you." my dad says taking a bite of the french toast. I go into the kitchen and make myself some food. I see french toast, fresh fruit, bacon, eggs, and freshly squeezed orange juice. I look amazed as I take some of everything.
My dad works up the courage to ask me a question, "I was wondering if you wanted to stop by the firehouse, like old times. I have some people I would like you to meet." With my mouth full, I say, "Yeah, I missed those days" "Oh man, mommy is breaking a rule. She is talking with her mouth full," Zach says to the man next to him.
Dad laughs. "Well I ate, but I have to get dressed." I head to my room to get dressed.
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I walk back into the living room and we get ready to head out. We make it to the school, and I say goodbye to my father. I take Zach to class. I get to the office and I see Eddie and Chris. "Hey, I was just hanging with your fire captain." "Well, can you tell him we want him back because his replacement is terrible?" I laugh.
"So, are you coming to the firehouse?" Eddie asked me like he knew my dad would ask me. I give the firefighter a suspicious look and then say, "Yeah, my dad asked me this morning. Would you like me to bring Chris?" He gives me a "yeah, sure", and then we say goodbye.
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Christopher and I had so much fun. We were in math, and I helped teach him fractions with mini Kit-Kats. Then, in English, we acted out storytime with his class. The day ended in science, where we build and erupted our own volcanos.
It is the end of the day, some and of the boys waited outside for my father. When he arrived, we got in and started heading towards the fire station, which was only a 5-minute drive.
We walk into the 118's fire station, and Zach went off. A scream could be heard throughout the whole building. All the firefighters and paramedics stopped to see what was going on. My dad walked up to me and said, "Just like his mother."
Eddie and another man walked down the stairs to see what was happening. I smile at the majestic man walking towards me. We go into a hug before I hear a cough.
"Eddie, aren't you gonna introduce me to the pretty lady," the man asked Eddie. I smile at the man, but Eddie and my dad roll their eyes. My dad jumps into the conversation, "Buck, this is my daughter, Y/N, and her son, Zach. Y/N, this is Buck."
Buck and I shake hands. "My name is actually Evan Buckley, but everyone calls me Buck. You are somewhat of what Eddie has told me. Your pretty, but I expected a younger Bobby, with boobs." Eddie smacks Buck's chest.
I'm laughing and I head upstairs with the others. "Mommy! Mommy! Can I go down the fire pole," Zach asks, tugging on my pant leg? I nod my head yes.
Another man and woman walk over and sit with us in the lounge. "Why is there a little boy running around? Did someone drop him off, because I think your only supposed to do that with babies, not children," the man said, sitting right next to me. "That's my son. I'm Y/N." I hold out my hand waiting for the man to shake it. "I'm Howie, but everyone calls me Chimney. This is Hen," The man says, and the woman waves.
We continue to talk until the emergency bell rings. Everyone heads downstairs, but I pull Eddie back. I give him a long kiss, with my arms around his neck and his around my waist.
I pull back and say, "I had fun the other night. Maybe, I could see if my dad could watch the boys, and you and I could maybe have dinner at my house." Eddie groans and says, "Oh, how I would love that. We could also watch a movie."
This man will be the death of me. "Yeah, but you need to go." Eddie runs off to an emergency, I head to the store with my dad, Christopher, and Zachary.
"You know, you don't have to hide Eddie from me," He tells me. I look at him shocked. "I see the way you guys look at each other, and I saw you guys kiss today," he says calmly.
"Well, since you know could you help me make a meal for him and I tonight, and can you watch the boys?" I practically beg. He nods, and then he moves towards the isles, picking out ingredients.
"I don't want to intrude, so I will give you a recipe card. But yes, I will take the boys, just use protection. I don't want to see another grandchild for a while," he says, earning a smack on the chest from me. "There are children around," I whisper.
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My dad gave me a recipe for Ravioli, served with garlic bread and bacon-wrapped asparagus. I am almost finished cooking when I hear a knock.
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(Y/N's Date Outfit)
I open the door to see a devastated Eddie. I go in to hug him, and Eddie says, "She's dead. Shannon died in the emergency room. That call we left for, that was for her. What am I gonna tell Christopher."
I welcome the man in, and I sit him on the couch. "Do you want to eat?" I ask, hoping that I could get him to relax and eat. "No" is all I hear, before he shoves his face into my shoulder, and lets it all out. I rub his back and say, "Everything will be fine."
We sit there, on the couch, just cuddling. I smell something burning. My eyes widen and I yell, "My bread!"
Eddie's mind comes back to earth and he heads towards the kitchen. Not only is the bread burnt, but there was also a slight fire. Eddie quickly grabbed the fire extinguisher and put out the fire.
I was so scared. Eddie saved me from a fire. At the moment, I forgot all about the food, Eddie's emotions, and everything else. I kissed Eddie out of thankfulness. We kissed for about a minute before he pulled away.
"Sorry, I shouldn't have done that, with everything going on. I was scared. I could've just stood there and let the fire grow, but no, you saved me. You are m-" Eddie cut me off with a kiss.
Eddie picked me up and took me to my room. He laid me on my bed, and next thing you know, our clothes are off.
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pascalpanic · 4 years
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Here for the sentence starters!! "I can’t get over how a few months ago I wanted to learn your name and now you’re having breakfast with me in my sweater" and "I’m so in love with her/him, I don’t know what do do." Feel free to do both or either or whatever you prefer with either of the Marcuses! I'm in such a fluffy mood rn and these will make my day :)) (PS I adore you and I hope you have a good day xx)
Making Moves (Marcus Moreno x f!Reader)
Summary: Your neighborhood superhero, Marcus Moreno, is being nagged by his daughter to find love. Lucky for him, just the right woman moves in down the street.
W/C: 2.7k
Warnings: language, brief talks of death (just to refer to Marcus’s wife who passed away), brief mentions of sexual stuff. it’s tame.
A/N: THIS WAS SO FUN. I love some good Marcus Moreno. He’s such a cutie and these prompts made it so fun! You can still send me prompts from this list with a character, just mind the taken ones! p.s. my emotional support Brit @maxlordsgf see how I used patio/backyard??
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The Moreno household was cozy. You wondered if it was Marcus who’d decorated the beautiful home, or if his late wife. You supposed it didn’t matter. You would’ve liked the former Mrs. Moreno, if Marcus could love her like he did. 
He lived a few houses down from you. You’d moved in a couple of months ago, into the nice Craftsman style home you currently rented. The best thing about the house was the beautiful front porch, which exposed the lovely suburban neighborhood. The porch had come with a swing, and you’d decided that it’d have to be your new morning coffee spot. After all, this is California, where the sun was plentiful and the air was just cold enough to be refreshing in the mornings.
The time that you drank your coffee on the porch also happened to be the time that your neighborhood Heroic, Marcus, went for his morning runs. He’d been excited to see that the house was sold, and Missy was too. They planned on bringing over some sweets once you were settled. Several weeks after the sold sign went up, he saw you for the first time. 
You looked like an angel, he thought. You wore a fuzzy robe with patterned capri pajama pants peeking from beneath it. Your glasses rested on the bridge of your nose, slightly fogged from the steam of your coffee. You sat on your porch swing, knees pulled to your chest, reading from your tablet. He was immediately caught off-guard. Your new home was at the beginning of his running path, but his breath was already gone from his lungs from your beauty. 
Pushing his own glasses up his nose, he gave you a little wave as you looked up. You’d smiled at him, a grin with your teeth visible. The man was handsome, you’d noticed. Dark hair, a little scruff, eyes that scrunched when he smiled at you. He was fit, too, his muscles evident beneath his tight t-shirt and running shorts. He kept running, unsure what he could say to you. 
Marcus returned home some thirty minutes later to find Missy awake. “Hey, the new neighbor moved in,” he told her as he walked to the counter, pouring himself a cup of coffee.
“Ooh, tell me all about them.”
“Well, we didn’t talk. I still don’t know if it’s a family or anything,” he admitted. “But there was a woman sitting on the porch.”
Missy’s eyes lit up. “How old?”
Marcus shook his head. “I don’t know, muñeca,” he told her and kissed her head as he walked past her to sit at the table. 
“Old enough to date?” she asked, raising an eyebrow and stuffing her mouth full of cereal. “Did she seem single?”
“Stay out of it,” he teased her and poked her forehead, right between the eyes. 
She flinched back a bit but laughed. “Dad, come on.”
He shook his head. “We can bring over a housewarming gift tonight, huh? Then we can see.” -
Well, it turned out that night was too busy to do so for the Morenos.
You saw him the next morning as he ran past again. You wore different pajamas but sat in the same position. You’d waved back.
That’s how the next couple mornings went for the two of you. Every day, Marcus could swear you looked prettier. With you looking like that in your pajamas, he couldn’t imagine how beautiful you’d be at any other time. 
Finally, Friday night, he and Missy put on some music and got to baking.
“What does she look like?” Missy asked curiously as she cracked an egg into the bowl- she’d learned the hard way that her father was not to be trusted with egg duty.
Marcus described you to his daughter, his eyes far off and a small smile on his face. “She’s very pretty.”
“Well, duh. You’re simping over her, of course she is.”
“What’s a simp?” He’d asked, brow furrowing.
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The knock came an hour or two later. You’d gotten home from work an hour or so earlier, so you were in relaxed clothing, the remnants of your makeup on your face. 
Behind the door stood the handsome runner you saw every morning, and a miniature, carbon-copied version of him with longer hair and more feminine features. “Hi! We’re the Morenos. We live in the blue house down the street. I’m Missy, and this is my dad, Marcus,” she introduced herself cheerfully. She held a tray of brownies. He held a bouquet.
“We just wanted to welcome you to the neighborhood,” the man- Marcus- says with a warm smile on his face.
“Oh, thank you!” You grinned and took the tray Missy held out. “Well, come in, please,” you invite them. “Do you drink, Marcus? I was just having some wine. Oh, and Missy, I have some soda if you’d like that.”
The three of you sat in your half-constructed living room for a while and chatted. You learned about the former Mrs. Moreno and how she’d passed a few years ago. You shared that you were living alone and single, due to a bad breakup that led you to move here. The two were good company, you learned quickly, bantering back and forth more like siblings than a father and daughter.
As they stood up to leave, you apologized for the mess. “Sorry. I’ve been trying to hook up my TV lately, and I haven’t done anything else yet. I want to get the TV up first, but I’m practically useless with electronic stuff,” you admitted with a chuckle.
“Oh, Dad is great with electronics,” Missy told you with a grin.
“Not great. Competent would be a better word,” he chuckled. “I could help you set it up, if you’d like that.”
“I would, if it’s not too much trouble.”
“No trouble at all. Here, we can exchange numbers, you can text me when you’d like me to come over,” he offered and pulled out his phone.
“Sure,” you said and told him your number, which he enters into his phone and sends you a text. “Perfect,” you nodded and saved his phone number. “I’ll see you two soon, hopefully.”
They said goodbye and you heard Missy giggling as the door shut behind him. It’s muffled, but you thought you can hear Missy anyway: “That was smooth, Dad!”
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That was months ago now. You’d developed a relationship with the both of them, visiting each others’ houses often for dinner or just to chat. 
When summer rolled around, Missy invited you over for days at their pool. You two had enjoyed yourselves, Marcus playing the role of your butler for the day, serving you mocktails and teasing his daughter. It became a common occurrence during the summer. You even had a reverse day on Marcus’s birthday (July 12th) where Missy served the two of you. It was almost like a date. That was the day you both realized you’d fallen hard for the other.
As much as you spent time with Marcus, the girl positively adored you, and always sent you texts from her father’s phone.
We’re having pizza tonight! Wanna come over?
Dad says he sucks at math. Can you help me with my homework?
My friends canceled on me. Are you free to eat Ben and Jerry’s and watch Mamma Mia with me? 
You’d become like a mother figure to her, helping her when she got her first period, taking her shopping for middle-school dances, giving her boy advice.
Marcus liked you just as much, if not more. You liked him too. He was a funny man, kindhearted and warm. He’d listen to you talk when you’d had a shitty day, bring over a bottle of wine when he needed some comfort, cook dinner for the two of you when Missy was at Anita’s.
One night, you’re eating dinner with them on their patio. It’s nice, overlooking their backyard and their pool. Missy is going to a friend’s later, to sleep over, but Marcus had cooked food for the three of you on the grill, something you’d learned he was fantastic at, and you’re inside getting more food. The door is slightly cracked, and you can hear the two of them talking. 
“Dad. You have to make your move, and you gotta do it tonight! Otherwise, she’ll go for Kent a couple doors down. You don’t want that, do you?” she asks in a hushed voice.
“It’s not that easy, muñeca. I’m so in love with her I don’t know what to do.”
Your heart catches in your chest, fluttering. Marcus likes you. Not only that, he’s in love with you. The past few months race through your head, and you hyper-analyze every little interaction the two of you have had. It’s clear now, in hindsight. You swallow hard, putting back down the skewer of vegetables.
He’s been the only thing on your mind the past few weeks, you have to admit. Your visits to each others’ homes had increased, with you spending more and more nights a week at the Morenos’. His laugh makes your stomach flutter as Missy says something else to him outside. You bite your lip. Tonight’s the night. If he doesn’t make his move like Missy insisted, you’ll do it first.
The conversation is light for the rest of dinner, and you’re a bit detached. Marcus can tell, but he doesn’t comment on it. You simply stare out into their pool, listening to Missy ramble on about the plans that she and her friends have for tonight.
A while later, her friends’ parents pick her up. You stand in the driveway and wave a thank-you to the girl’s parents as they drive off with Missy and her friend in tow. “Love you guys,” she shouts out of the window. You grin and shout it back, in sync with Marcus.
The two of you return to the backyard. You walk a little farther apart from Marcus than normal. “Hey,” he says and stands right next to you, his shoulder nudging yours. “What’s wrong? You’ve been off all night,” he mumbles softly.
You shake your head. “It’s nothing, really,” you chuckle, looking down at your feet. 
Marcus is oblivious to the fact that you heard the two of them earlier. You and Marcus have always had a playful relationship, and the idea strikes him to help cheer you up. “Hey, vecina.”
“What- ah!” You squeal as Marcus lifts you in his strong arms. He walks the two of you to the side of the pool as you wriggle in his grip, laughing. “Goddamnit, Marcus! Let go of me!” You screech as he holds you over the pool, though you’re giggling the whole time.
“Not until you tell me what’s wrong,” he laughs, your feet kicking as they dangle over the chlorinated water. 
“No, you asshole!” You laugh, wriggling. “Put me down, Moreno, or God help your poor soul when I-” 
He sets you down on the edge, backing up a bit. “There, fine. Just trying to help,” he teases. He did, he thinks to himself. You’re smiling again. 
You’re painfully close to him. Your hands find his hips and he looks down at your hands in confusion as you pat the pockets of his shorts. No phone. Perfect. There’s a devilish grin as you wrap him in a bear hug and fall backwards into the pool, taking him with you.
You let go once you’re underwater, shooting up to the surface from under him and laughing. He comes up moments later, wiping his eyes and pushing his hair back. Your laugh is maniacal and loud, completely content and proud of yourself. “There, I cheered you up at least,” he shakes his head and smiles. He walks to the shallower end of the pool, and you follow.
“I wasn’t in a bad mood,” you shoot back.
“Well, something was off. Will you tell me now?” He asks, your eyes wandering to his- oh, he’s ripped, goddamn- abs beneath his wet t-shirt. His eyes remained trained on yours, ever the gentleman.
Swallowing hard, you nod and walk closer to him with a smile. “I heard you and Missy when I was inside getting more food,” you tell him, biting on your lip to hold back an excited giggle.
His brows furrow in confusion then lift in surprise as it hits him. “Oh.”
“Yeah,” you nod, wading a little closer and then even closer. You can hear his heavy breathing and look into those big brown eyes with a grin. 
“Well, I-” he starts stammering, unsure of what to say, until you place your hands on his shoulders.
“It’s okay, Marcus,” you mumble soothingly, your arms wrapping around his neck. “I know you said it’s not that easy. Why don’t you let me take the reins then, hm?” You ask teasingly, bringing your face close to his. 
He grins, taking the opportunity as he sees it. His lips crash to yours happily, his hands finding your waist over your sopping wet clothing. You smile softly against his lips. They’re so soft and warm, the very lips you’ve been staring at for a long time, imagining this. He’s gentle but loving and you deepen it. He follows immediately, parting his lips against yours and he sighs into your mouth. 
The two of you stand there, in his pool, making out, for quite a while. Finally, when he breaks away, looking at you through his water-drop-stained glasses, you grin. “This is your fault, you know. I’m gonna have to go home and change into dry clothing.”
“Or you could borrow some of mine,” he offers with a shy smile, and you grin.
“That works too.”
He kisses you one more time. “Will you stay the night? We don’t even have to… to do anything. I don’t even really want to yet. I just want to keep holding on to you.”
You nod and kiss him softly, for just a moment. “Of course I will.” -
You awaken in the morning to the smell of cooking. You live alone, and it makes your brow furrow in confusion, eyes still shut, until they open and you find yourself in Marcus’ home. His bed, specifically. 
You smell like chlorine and your hair is damp still, but you’re wearing a big black sweater that smells like detergent and cologne and sleep. It’s Marcus’s, you realize with a smile. 
Last night was truly perfect. No, you didn’t sleep with him yet, but it was still perfectly intimate, the way you held each other and whispered sweet words and pressed soft kisses all over each others’ faces and torsos. You’d made out for a fair amount of time too, just like teenagers again, but it was meaningful. 
You pad down the stairs, wearing just your underwear and one of Marcus’s big sweaters. He’s cooking breakfast in the kitchen, and your heart melts as you see him. “Good morning, superhero,” you coo as you wrap your arms around him from behind and press a kiss into his neck.
His body warms and melts into your touch. “Good morning, beautiful. How did you sleep?”
“Amazing. Your bed is insanely comfortable,” you chuckle and snuggle in against him, resting your head against his back. 
“I’m glad. Go sit down, breakfast will be ready in a bit.”
You nod and do exactly that, sitting across the kitchen island from him. He puts some pancakes on a plate, drizzles them with syrup, and slides it to you. “Bon appetit.”
“Thank you,” you grin and waste no time in cutting into them with a fork and taking a bite.
You sigh happily and Marcus’s heart can barely take the sight of it. “I can’t get over how a few months ago I wanted to learn your name and now you’re having breakfast with me in my sweater.”
“I can’t get over how cute you are,” you tease and pop another bite in your mouth. “The good news is that you can get over it, because I’m coming over here for breakfast in your clothes every day now.”
“Or you could live here.”
The proposal is so quiet, so sudden and nonchalant that it takes you aback for a minute. “What?”
He shrugs. “I know we’ve only been together for, what, 10 hours now, but Missy and I both adore you. You’re over here all the time anyway. Why don’t you? Save us both some money, too.”
You bite your lip to hold back a grin. “I might have to think about it.”
He nods. “I get that, I-“
“Done thinking. I’ll do it,” you grin happily. 
“Really?”
“Really,” you nod, giggling excitedly. 
Marcus leans across the kitchen counter and kisses you softly. “Be prepared for a lot of Moreno loving. Missy’s a cuddler.”
“I think I can take it,” you smile and press another kiss to his lips, with all of the love in your heart. 
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translations:
vecina- neighbor (female)
muñeca- in this context, doll
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Their Doll 8
Let me in
B.Barnes x Reader, S.Rogers x Stark!Reader
series synopsis:  y/n Stark, all records of her non existent, and yet Hydra still find her. When she is kidnapped by a certain super-soldier and no one believes her, she finds herself searching for unexpected familiarity in her not-so-distant past.
Series Warnings: smut, violence, torture, swearing
Chapter Summary: y/n gets emotional
Warnings: swearing, feelings
A/n: The timeline in this has been altered, as there I things I wanted to include but I also wanted this fic to follow the storyline/timeline of Winter Soldier and Civil war.So for purposes of this fanfic, Peter Parker was discovered by Tony at a much younger age - when he was bitten - and has been an intern with him since, almost like a protégée.(For the purposes of this story Peter was bitten much younger too - more like when he was 9 or ten rather than 14/15)
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Life at the tower was...tiring, to say the least. During my free time I often found myself in the gym, lobbing knives at a target and trying my hardest not to biting one in Steve's chest every time he would correct my technique. When I wasn't trying to murder the avenger in cold blood, I was usually dragged into things by the other: briefings and debriefing for missions I'd never go on, my dad's parties, group training sessions and study periods with Bruce in his labs to name a few.
But for now, I was huddled in my rooms - fresh out of a hot shower after a brutal two hour training session and four mile run with Natasha - curled up on my bed and attempting to catch up on a few of the films I'd missed. But the exhaustion and drowsiness clouded my eyes, the noise from the TV merely in the background as I felt my eyes growing heavier by the second.
A sharp knock at the door snapped my out of my lowsey state, the people movie across the screen simple a blur of colour as my eyes darted past the tv and over to the door.
"Mr Stark is waiting at your door. Would you like me to let him in?" FRIDAY's evenly calm voice chimed, making me groan and mumble a 'no' into my pillows. The last person I wanted to see right now was my dad.
"Come on kid, let me in." My dad called from the other side of the door, and I could practically hear him roll his eyes and shake his head when I stayed silent. When he spoke again, it wasn't directed at me. "FRIDAY, override command and open the door."
"Wait! That's hardly fair!" I whined like a five year old, groaning again when the door swung open and my dad stood on the other side, quite clearly just as exhausted as I was.
"Get used to it, kiddo. Life isn't fair." Tony chided, walking over to my bed. I tried to shuffle away slightly when I felt the bed dip, my dad perching on the edge as his eyes scanned over the room. "I see you haven't decorated yet." He commented casually, as if nothing had ever happened between us.
"Yeah, well, I thought It'd be a shame to spend so much time on something when you're probably waiting to kick me out anyway." I mumbled, refusing to look at him.
"What the hell is wrong with you, y/n? Ever since you got back you've been-"
"Acting different?" I cut in, and when Tony simply swallowed thickly I nodded. "Funny that, seeing as I was kidnapped and tortured for three years. Not to mention made to kill people for another year after that."
"Y/n I'm sorry..."
"But you're not! You can't be, otherwise you'd actually have tried to save me, rather than leaving me to rot!" My voice cracked, tears pricked at my eyes and I now sat up straight in my bed, facing my dad but not looking him in the eye. "And you can't change that, you can't go back in the past and fix your mistake. And trying to fix it now sure as hell won't work, so I suggest you leave before I'm tempted to use you as my target for my training session tomorrow." I raised my voice, eyes now keeping his captive as the tears rolled freely down my cheeks.
"Oh, kid, they broke you." Tony murmured, cupping my cheek with his hand, eyes swimming with sorrow. Sorrow that I didn't want.
"You can't fix me either, because I'm not broken!" I said harsher now, voice only getting louder. "I don't need to be fixed..." I trailed off, voice barely above a whisper Joe as my eyes broke the contact, averting to my lap as the tears dropped onto the bed sheets.
That's how I found myself in my fathers arms, face pressed against his shoulder as the sobs made my body shake, hiccups escaping me as I tried to speak.
"A-all I needed W-was my D-dad, and yo- you took him f-from me!" I wailed, hands clutching my dad's shirt and his arms wrapped protectively around my shoulder, hands rubbing circles over my back soothingly.
"I know, kiddo. I'm sorry."
...
"Who is that?" Clint frowned, staring at the pictures scattered over the table in front of Natasha and Steve as they studied them deeply,  brows creased in thought.
"Our newest pain in the ass." Tony answered for them, slapping a thick folder down in front of Clint as he said so. The marksman was quick to pick it up, flicking through the documents, news stories and information sheets greedily.
"The...winter soldier?" He asked, looking at the three superheroes in front of him as if they'd gone mad. "But he's a ghost story!"
"I've seen him. Been shot by him, actually." Nat said, an sadistically proud smirk forming on her lips with her last words, almost as if it were an achievement.
"We're trying to find out more about him, maybe that way we can beat him." Steve explained, sitting back in his chair with crossed arms as he huffed in defeat, sick to death with staring at the same five pictures all morning.
Y/n walked in, a skip in her step as she crossed the room to Tony.
"Morning, dad." She greeted, placing a quick kiss to his cheek and heading over to the cupboard to grab a mug. Clint and Natasha frowned in confusion, looking between the two as if they'd witnessed pigs fly.
Tony shrugged, y/n too preoccupied with making herself a coffee to notice the avengers' reactions. When her coffee was done, y/n swiped her mug from under the machine and sipped happily, letting out a content sigh before wandering over to stand behind Natasha.
"What are you working on?" She asked, peering over the spy's shoulder to get a glimpse of the pictures.
A loud smash crashed through the room, Tony's eyes widening in shock and Natasha jumping from her seat in order to not get covered in spilt coffee. Y/n stood paralysed, eyes never leaving the photo in front of her as she started at the Soldier. Steve frowned deeply, studying the girl as her eyes glossed over with with what seemed to be...sadness.
Clint was already at her side, a comforting hand on her shoulder as they all asked y/n what had happened and if she was alright. It was like a constant ringing in her ear interrupted their words before they reached her ears, and y/n suddenly felt nauseous as she starred at the bright red star on the soldier's arm, his long and messy dark hair shrouding his face and his leather clad, muscular body. Only his cerulean blue eyes could be seen, the rest of his face covered in a black mask she didn't usually see him in.
"I-I need some air." She stuttered, stumbling blindly out of the room and down the stairs, tipping over a few steps from the bottom and tumbling down the last few. She quickly pulled herself to her feet, hearing still ringing and vision offset, hazy, as she scrambled for the double glass doors. Luckily they already stood open, so she flew through them and out into the busy streets of New York.
Y/n found herself colliding will someone almost instantly, angry shouts of 'hey, watch it!' And 'look where the fuck you're going, kid!' Being called after her like a chorus as she pushed through the bustling people.
She finally stopped, dropping to her knees and simply staring straight ahead, no intended subject in her line of vision as she tried to comprehend the-the grief, at seeing the a soldier's face again.
It had only been two weeks, and yet two weeks without him, his touch, his scent - it felt like an eternity to y/n now. She hasn't registered what her feeling meant for him before, liking him beyond a source of comfort had just felt...wrong, after all he'd done, and yet y/n couldn't deny it.
She was in love with the Winter Soldier, and she didn't even know his name.
...
I wasn't aware of when someone had found me, nor of how they got me back to the tower or even how I was now stood staring blankly out of the window that stood next to my bed. I gazed longingly, almost as if I stared long enough, hard enough, he'd appear.
But of course he wouldn't, he was probably half way across the world, knowing HYDRA. A soft knock on my door and my head was turning, facing my visitor with a look of pure grief and want. Desperate, unhinged want that could eat you up from inside out and you'd still feel it.
"Hey, y/n. Can I talk to you for a moment?" Nat asked tentatively, clearing trying to to disturb my shaken up state. I nodded, offering a small smile which she returned as I now faced her. She walked up to me, talking my hands him hers and playing with the as she spoke, eyes kind and full of understanding.
"There's a mission, and we want you to go." She said calmly, almost as if the mere thought of it would send me into some kind of heart attack.
"Okay," I begun, eyes flitting down to the floor before back up again. "What is it? Aren't you scared that I'm still HYDRA and all I'd do is stab someone in the back?"
"Not exactly." Nat informed me with a smile, amusement glinting in her eyes at my assumption. "For starters, we all trust you, well maybe not steve - but everyone else does." Nat and I both laughed slightly. "And I think you wouldn't have it any other way it to go on the mission yourself." Nat finished.
"How come?" I asked, brow raised.
"There's been a lead..." she started. "On the winter soldier. We thought you might want to help check it out, possibly capture him. Your powers may be the best chance we have a detaining someone as strong as him." Nat spoke. "And if we can detain him.."
"We can save him." I finished.
"Exactly."
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Stressed Out (Sunset Curve x Reader)
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A/n: So starting off I've made a master list that I'm posting real soon for you all to access my stories without the scrolling. In order to post it I have to update my post about my requests/taglist and soon because I do get a lot on that comments that ask for more Charlie or more Owen and I wanna give you guys that but I also wanna make sure that I get through the requests that you guys send me with plots and storylines. It just makes it like a thousand times easier to have something to work off of. Opposed to me coming up with my own storylines that I have to do a lot of reading on my own to get my gears working! But again thank you guys for the comments! And finally I wanna say thank you for sending in your requests and your feed back. It is much appreciated!
Disclaimer: Alex is bi in this one not taking away from the fact that he's gay in the show it just runs best for this storyline! There is no Bobby btw! Haven’t written a foursome with 3 guys before so it might suck ass. And it’s not much but it’s something so enjoy my fellow fantoms!
Warnings: Smut (18+)
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I internally groaned walking into school. I wasn't the worst student. But by far I certainly was not the best. Which is why I had a reputation since I first arrived to high school.
That and I was in a band with 3 of my best friends. Who all happened to be guys. Hot guys at that.
Which automatically made me the schools slut. It was fine with me but the boys didn't like the label.
No matter how true it was.
"Hey y/n heard you gave Mike Dawson a blowjob this weekend. Just when I thought you couldn't be anymore of a slut"
"Mind your fucking business Hayley" I heard a familiar voice speak up for me. A smirk spreading on my face as I felt an arm wrap around my shoulder.
"Did she come to you right after Patterson? What's it like to be her sloppy seconds?" Hayley Becker spoke with a wicked evil smirk plastered on her face.
"Fucking amazing actually. God the long nights we have. It's so great" I heard another familiar voice from my left. A large hand intertwining my fingers with theirs. She rolled her eyes clearly not expecting my boys to speak up for me. But then again neither was I.
"Slut"
"Skank"
"Whore"
"Bitch" I spoke as the bell rang.
"Just watch your back y/l/n" She said before turning around and walking away.
"She will!" Reggie shouted after the dark haired girl. The three of us expectantly looking at our bandmate.
"What? I didn't even get to tell her we would too" I sighed shaking my head at the boy.
"Thanks for sticking up for me guys but I can do that myself"
"We know. But your our girl. And apart of this band so we're kinda obligated" Alex spoke as the four of us walked to first period.
"Your really not"
"Come on y/n you know we're still gonna do it"
"I know and I only let you today cause I can't deal with that bitch at this time of day. I mean seriously it's 8:00 o'clock in the morning. Does she not have anything better to do than spread rumors about me?"
"Apparently not. So you and Jake Mills behind the church?" Reggie asked.
"Didn't happen considering I was with you idiots all weekend. You know your the only guys I touch" I bit my lip hearing the three of them chuckle.
"Yeah well it better stay that way. I don't wanna hear Trevor O'Connor bragging about banging you in the boys locker room again"
"Schools golden boy?" I questioned.
"He tried starting the rumor yesterday during p.e but we quickly shut it down" Reggie explained as I stopped a few feet away from the science room to continue talking.
"So Hayleys boyfriend wants to bang me? Wow"
"Yeah but don't even fucking thing about" Luke said pushing me up against the lockers beside us.
"I wasn't. Unless you guys piss me off" I grinned pushing him off of me. Opening the door a few feet away and walking in.
"Gentlemen. And Ms. y/l/n. Your late"
"Sorry Mrs. Daniels we had to deal with something"
"And did this something give you tardy passes"
"It did not"
"Detention. All of you"
"That's nothing new to them Mrs. Daniels"
"Shut the fuck up Hayley" I scoffed taking my seat beside Alex.
"Ladies stop it before I send you to the principal"
"Yes Mrs. Daniels" Hayley and I spoke in sync.
"I can't believe Luke dated her" I whispered towards Alex glaring at the blonde bimbo.
"Jealous?"
"Why would I be? I already have him. And I could have her boyfriend too if I wanted him" I said taking down the notes on the board.
"Mrs. Daniels I can't focus on the lesson because they're distracting me with their talking" Hayley spoke pointing an accusing finger at us.
"We are not!" I shouted sitting up.
"Yes you are probably talking about who your gonna whore around with next"
"Yeah it's your boyfriend if you don't check yourself Hayley"
"Trevor would never do that!"
"I'm pretty sure he would"
"Ladies principal office right now" I scoffed standing up.
"Wait!" Luke shouted standing up. Everyone's heads whipping toward him. He made his way over to me groping my left boob.
I scowled at how hard he squeezed glaring at him.
"Dickhead" I muttered.
"Mr. Patterson! You too principals office" We looked at the other two boys expectantly. Alex immediately rolling his eyes before standing up.
"We could do this the easy way or the hard way Mrs. Daniels"
"If she goes we go"
"I cannot send you two away for absolutely no reason Reginald" Mrs. Daniels spoke challenging the boys.
I close my eyes preparing myself for what came next. Alex was quick to slap my ass while Reggie pulled me in for a sweet kiss. Immediately earning gasps from my classmates.
"Now I can do it. Office all of you! And detention today after school!"
I groaned walking out of the principals office with my bandmates.
"Detention for 3 weeks. Seriously?"
"To make it worse we have to spend 2 of those with Hayley" I spoke seeing the blonde talking with Trevor just a few feet away. Being sure to send them a harsh glare, I finally turned back to the boys.
"Hey you'll be with us everything's gonna be fine" Reggie said throwing an arm around my shoulder leading me away to our next period. That we conveniently had together.
"No it won't. I also have to chaperone the stupid homecoming with Hayley" I cried wanting nothing more than for the day to be done for.
That afternoon we spent in detention not leaving until late afternoon. Due to the fact that my detention went on longer than the boys.
I walked into the studio behind Luke not really in the mood to practice.
"What's wrong y/n/n? You seem down" Reggie asked as I plopped back onto the couch.
"I'm just tired is all. And a little stressed out"
"But we've gotta practice baby, for our next gig. Sunset Curves so gonna rock that book club" Luke said picking up his six string. I watched as Alex and Reggie sent him a glare, the boy immediately putting it back down.
"Or we could take a day off" He spoke coming to sit to my left while Reggie was on my right.
"That sounds amazing" I mumbled feeling Alex begin to massage my shoulders from behind. I craned my neck allowing him more access. Now feeling a little more relaxed than before.
"So tell us y/n/n why are you stressed out?" Luke asked as I shut my eyes.
"Well for starters I'm so gonna get my ass beat when I get home" I sighed feeling Reggie begin to rub my arm to comfort me. Something he did often with how anxious I got.
"And there's just nothing I want to do more than run your ex girlfriend over with a bulldozer" I mumbled hearing a chuckle escape their lips.
"Sounds like a plan" Alex said as Luke intertwined our fingers.
"We'll make a day out of it. Just us four and a bulldozer" He joked making me giggle. The laugh got caught in my throat as I felt a soft kiss on the side of my neck.
"Seriously guys? Not today. No way" I spoke opening my eyes.
"We just wanna help you relax"
"That's what you said last time. I couldn't walk right for 2 days" I mumbled the last part.
"We'll be gentle" Reggie spoke.
"I know you will Reg. It's them I'm worried about" I spoke earning a pointed look from Alex.
"Okay Luke"
"Am I that rough?" He asked a frown forming on his face.
"Sometimes" I admitted feeling a little bad.
"Gee I'm sorry baby" Luke spoke kissing the back of my hand.
"It's okay. I like it when I'm in the mood" I said watching as Alex walked around the couch.
"Well then boys why don't we help our girl relax for today" Alex said bending down in front of me. I bit my lip as he spread my legs open feeling a slight breeze hit my covered core.
"Well there's no need for your skirt or these" Alex spoke toying with the waistbands of both my skirt and panties.
I shimmied out of them with ease leaving me exposed to my best friends like I'd been many times before.
"She just gets prettier every time"
"And wetter"
"Mind if I taste baby?" Luke asked. I nodded my head, watching as he dipped his long fingers in between my folds. Moaning as he pulled them back up to see them glistening with my cum.
"So good" He whispered putting them in his mouth.
"Okay I want a taste now" Alex said opening my legs a little wider.
"Guys. A little help" I huffed as Luke and Reggie hooked themselves on each of my thighs to keep me still.
"Please" I begged getting more turned on by the second. The blonde didn't hesitate to latch onto my core. A loud moan escaping my lips.
"Oh fuck" I struggled to keep still as he moved his tongue skillfully through my folds. Lapping it inside and out as moans fell from my lips.
I whimpered as Reggie slowly began to rub my clit making the pleasure intensify.
"Use y-you're f-fingers" I mustered out Alex obeying my request sticking two fingers in my wet pussy. Picking up the pace. My eyes screwed shut as a familiar feeling of bliss coursed through me.
"Look at me baby" Luke muttered turning my head to look at him with his free hand. I opened my eyes looking into his blue ones covered with complete lust.
He was quick to smash his lips onto mine as the other two worked on building up my orgasm. Which wasn't far at the pace Alex was working on me.
"Holy shit!" I panted pulling away and throwing my head back at the amazing sensation of my orgasm hitting.
"You squirted princess" Alex grinned wiping away the liquids dribbling down his chin. I giggled at his swollen pink lips placing a quick peck to them.
"What now baby?" Luke asked rubbing his hand on my thigh.
I looked at the three boys before discarding any remaining clothes I had left. Watching as their eyes raked me up and down like many times before.
"Reg can you just fuck me today. I really need gentle" I begged as his cheeks turned bright red whenever I asked him to do something. Whether it was sexual or not.
"Sure beautiful" He smiled lopsidedly pushing his lips onto mine.
I sighed in content as he pushed me down on the couch. My head landing on Luke's lap giving me a little leverage.
"She's something else" Alex spoke to no one in particular.
"Your telling me" Reggie panted pulling away to undo his belt and jeans. I bit my lip looking up at the boy with the blue eyes. Who no surprise had a smirk plastered on his face.
"Condom" I heard Alex say presumably to Reggie. But I was too entrance in Luke's gaze wanting to include him. Upon hearing a ripping of a package I glance back at the boy who was hovering above me.
"I can do something for you after if you want" I bit my lip speaking towards Luke.
"It's okay baby. It's about you today" He said moving his hand down from my collarbone to my boob.
Reggie and I moaned simultaneously as he slowly entered me. Immediately stretching me out.
"So tight" He muttered beginning to move at a steady pace.
A squeal escaping my lips as Luke pinched my nipples paying close attention to each of them. He'd always been a boob guy.
I pulled Reggie down towards me our lips meeting in the middle as his speed began to increase.
Then there they were again. Fingers were now rubbing circles on my clit presumably Alex's sending my body into pure ecstasy.
I moaned loudly into Reggies mouth as I felt myself my inner walls clench around him. Earning a groan from the bassist. His thrust becoming more sloppy.
"Shit. Shit. Oh fuck" He cursed as his orgasm hit. Mine coming seconds after.
"Holy fuck Reg" I panted coming down from my high.
"That was pretty fucking hot princess" Alex spoke as Reggie got off of me to go throw away the condom.
"I try" I joked sitting up. Luke immediately removing his muscle tee and handing it to me.
"You do know this isn't gonna cover much up right?" I questioned him putting it on anyway.
"Who said we wanted you to cover up baby" He said pulling me under his arm. I sighed contently placing my hands on his bare torso.
"Anyways Reg why don't you go run her a bath inside the house" Alex suggested throwing me my panties that had been thrown onto the lazy boy.
"Got it!" Reggie said coming over and placing a chaste kiss to my lips before running out of the garage.
"I get to clean her up in the shower. Called it" Luke said as Alex wrapped his arms around my waist.
"Just as long as I get to put her to bed"
"Guys I've orgasmed twice today give me a break"
"Are you feeling more relaxed princess?"
Alex asked grinning at me.
"Much. Now if we could do that consistently for the next 2 weeks then I might be able to get through detention with Hayley without ripping her head off" I spoke earning a laugh from the two boys. Both of them knowing well that I wasn't joking.
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Up Next: Carrie Wilson x Reader
Owen Patrick Joyner x Reader
Charlie Gillespie x Reader
Alex x Male Reader
Luke Patterson x Reader
Charlie Gillespie x Reader
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Eternity - Chapter 6
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And we are BACK folks! Did you guys miss us?
Shoutout to @adriii-omega cause she wrote MOST of this chapter while Parker, (me, lancearcherinrippedjeans) has school and was sick!
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Starring - The MAGNIFICENT OC’s, Kenny Omega, Ricky Starks, The Best Friends, Private Party, Excalibur, Taz, Brian Cage, The Young Bucks and Tony Khan
Word Count - 6,792
Category - Fluff, tiniest bits of angst, comedy
6/?
Summary - The tournament is finally starting, how will it go with Nova on commentary?
Warning - Cussing, drinking, slight possesivness
Other author’s notes - Private Party are the STARS of this chapter, and this might look a little weird cause it was posted on mobile, also, follow @adriii-omega
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“First you leave me out of the tournament, and now you want me to go out on TV and play commentator?” Nova huffed, as she tried her best not to upset her boss; Tony Khan. “I know you’re not happy about being excluded , but I promise we have plans for you to do big things here in AEW,” he stood in front of her to block her path, “Plus, it’s only Youtube.” Nova let out a long sigh, “For how long?”
“Just until you become a fan favorite, you know like…” Tony stopped mid-sentence, trying to rethink his words. “Like Sawyer and Veronica?” Nova asked, already annoyed. “The fans are going to love you, I promise,” Tony grabbed the cream-colored folder off his desk and handed it to Nova, “This is the match card for tonight. Excalibur should have more info on all of the competitors, but you should know most of them.”
“You could just say Sawyer, Veronica, and Ricky. I promise you won’t hurt my feelings,” Nova joked, heading for the door, “Thank you Tony, but I hope this isn’t a waste of my time.” She shut the door, opening up the folder, and looking over the card for tonight.
She smiled to herself, looking at her friend’s names for the first round of the tournament. A long shadow caught her eye, causing her to look up and seeing Team Taz walking right her way. She gave a small wave to Ricky, making him turn all his attention that was on Taz onto her.
Ricky jogged over, “What weird stuff do they got you doing this week?”
Nova smirked, looking at Taz who was already annoyed they had to stop, “Well, I’m gonna be on commentary tonight!” She announced, plastering on a smile she definitely didn’t have in Tony’s office. “Does that mean you’ll be out there for my match?” his brows perked up in anticipation, “I’ll have the best seat in the house.” she laughed. Brian smiled as Ricky planted a kiss onto Nova’s cheek. Taz cleared his throat loudly, “Well if you guys are done making goo-goo eyes at each other, we gotta get going.” he pointed at his watch symbolizing the time.
“What are you talking about? The show doesn’t start for another two hours?” Cage spoke up from behind them. Nova and Ricky let out a small chuckle at Taz’s new expression. He stood with his mouth agape, darting his eyes at the FTW champion, “Thanks, Brian for correcting me,” he said through gritted teeth. “Is there anyone else that would like to make me look like a complete idiot?” He said through a fake smile. Nova raised her hand, “If it makes you feel better…I’m not on the card tonight,” Taz gave her an obvious expression. “Why would you be-”
“Instead I’ll be sitting next to you on commentary!” She gave him a bright smile, as his smirk disappeared. “The-the whole show…?”
“All twenty-four matches!”
“Oh HELL NO!! AYO TONY!?” Taz angrily marched down the hallway leaving Cage, Starks, and Nova in a laughing fit. “I can’t believe you,” Ricky said through laughs. “I don’t think I've ever seen him that mad.” Cage jokes, “Or run that fast.” He added, causing them to continue their laughter. “Poor Tony.” Ricky pointed, as an annoyed Tony Khan tried to reason with a loud mouth Taz. “I’m going to make sure he doesn’t get fired, I’ll catch up with you guys later.” He said while jogging down the hall. Ricky finally caught his breath and held his hand out. “Come on, I want to spend time together before you and Taz kill each other.” he smiled, making her giggle. “I’m looking forward to it, maybe I can get him to… hate me less?” Ricky chuckled before placing a kiss on her forehead, “You’re lucky Excalibur will be out there.”
“And making her way to commentary… The SuperNova Jay!” Justin Roberts introduced, as the small audience of professional wrestlers cheered. “It’s a pleasure to be able to sit next to you,” Excalibur started, “You haven’t even said anything and you’re already better than Taz!”
“Shut up Excalibur,” Taz grunted.
Nova smoothed out her dress before taking her seat. “I’m so happy to be here.” She gave a smile as the camera was on her. “It’s been such an amazing few weeks for you already here in AEW, first you officially signed with All Elite Wrestling, and now two of your closest friends; Veronica and Sawyer are competing tonight for a chance to challenge Hikaru Shida for the AEW women’s championship.” Nova nodded, as Excalibur opened his mouth to ask a question, but was cut off, “I have a question for you Nova,” Taz joined in, “How does it feel that your own BEST FRIENDS are worthy enough of participating in this tournament, and you are…out sitting on the sidelines?” Taz smirked, as he saw Nova bite the inside of her cheek. Excalibur looked between them trying his best to move forward. Luckily Sawyer’s theme music began to play causing the tension to be lifted.
It was towards the middle of the match when Sawyer and Madi were tied up in the corner. “I’m going to try an arm drag-” Sawyer whispered, so only she could hear it. “No, you aren’t. I am not letting you look stronger than me,” Madi attempted to kick Sawyer in the stomach, but failed, as she lost her balance. Taz face planted himself, “I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more unfocused wrestler than Wrenkowski.” He complained as they slightly laughed, “Thank god Sawyer is one of the most professional women wrestlers there is,” Nova started, “You see I’ve known both of these females for quite a long time and this rivalry trails way further back than you would think.”
“Is that so…please tell us more,” Excalibur asked with interest. Nova began to speak but instead looked over and saw Taz staring at her with a half-smile. “Well, for starters Madi had ALWAYS been jealous of Sawyer. Though unfortunately, she was the champion at the time, Sawyer always got all of the attention, and that’s something Madi always wants.” They both nodded understanding, shortly later hearing the bell ring.
“Here is your winner: Sawyer Holden!” Justin’s voice echoed throughout the arena. She slowly stood up, allowing her hand to be raised by Aubrey Edwards. Nova sent an evil grin to Madi Wrenkowski as she clenched her neck from the Canadian Destroyer that was given to her. She rolled her eyes before stomping off through the tunnel. Veronica sat with the Young Bucks at the monitor watching everything go down. Nick let out a sigh, as Madi walked past them knocking over a few trash cans in frustration. “God, she’s so annoying,” he commented, making Veronica laugh. “Good thing you don’t have to go against her,” Matt chimed in, “I wouldn’t be able to take it.” They nodded in agreement just as Sawyer made her way back. She sent a small smile their way earning a thumbs up from Matt. “Are you guys still upset with each other?” he nudged Veronica, as she looked over and saw Sawyer in deep conversation with a group of wrestlers. “No, we’re cool.” She half lied. The brothers gave each a look, knowing something was off.
“Hey have you guys seen Kenny?” she spoke up, trying to get the conversation changed from her and Sawyer. Nick sighed, “He’s getting ready for his match with Sonny tonight since Janela was taken out.” She mouthed an “O” before grabbing her phone and opening the messaging app.
Is everything alright? Nick just told me Joey is out.
The next match had started, and Penelope Ford was going against Allie. Shortly later her phone buzzed.
Kenny: Everything is fine. Where are you at??
Sitting next to the Bucks, my match is coming up soon.
Kenny: I'm on my way over there, see you in a bit.
A smile crept up onto Veronica’s face as she began to watch the match. On the other side of the hall, Sawyer stood next to her friend: Chuck Taylor.
“I don’t know man,” she whined, “I don’t think she even wants to look at me.” Chuck rolled his eyes before placing both hands on her shoulders. “SAWYER. GO. ASK. HER.” He gave her a push before leaning against the wall. Everything was headed smoothly, as she made her way next to where Veronica was sitting…
“Hey V!” she piped, causing The Young Bucks to give her a hard stare. Veronica smiled as she leaned back into her chair, “I was wondering after the show tonight we could go to our favorite restaurant. Just us three - like old times.”
A voice cleared their throat from behind making Sawyer turn around. A perplexed Kenny Omega looked over at the group. “Don’t mind me. I just came to see my GIRLFRIEND.” He shot a look at Sawyer, before walking behind Veronica’s chair, “You were saying?” he smirked. Sawyer’s face grew with anger before she turned on her heels, “Just forget about it.” she mumbled. Chuck watched in disgust as Kenny began to laugh. Veronica bit her tongue until she heard the bell ring meaning her match was soon. “Sawyer, wait,” she called out, causing everyone to look at her. “I’ll be there. Meet me in the parking lot at 9?” she suggested. Sawyer held back her stun expression before nodding and walking off with Chuck as he made an “L” gesture with his finger and pointed at Omega.
The Bucks looked between the two, “We’re going to head back to the locker room now, we’ll see you guys later.” Nick scratched the back of his neck, as Matt gave them both a tight lip smile and followed his brother. Penelope Ford came back with enthusiasm since she would be advancing to the semi-finals against Sawyer. She gave a quick hug to Veronica, congratulated her, and went to celebrate with her fiancé. Veronica began to walk towards the tunnels as she noticed her opponent, Serena Deeb, was warming up.
“Are we going to talk about it?” Kenny spoke up, making her stop in her tracks.
“Is there really anything to talk about? I'm going to get dinner. That’s it.”
“But seriously? With…HER?” he scoffed, “When will you finally see she is no good?” Veronica turned around walking slowly towards her boyfriend, “Babe, you don’t understand how Sawyer and I’s friendship works…we’re fine.”
“I don’t buy it. I am trying to protect you. I am trying to protect US.” he ran his hands through his hair, “Kenny….” “She doesn’t like me, Veronica! She’s trying to break us up because she thinks you deserve better,” He stopped his rant, before giving a sly laugh, “But honestly…it doesn’t get better than me.” He clicked his tongue, before lifting her chin, and planting a soft kiss on her lips. “I love you, don’t ever forget that.”
Back out at the commentary table, Excalibur and Nova went over some of the other matches, while Taz stayed rather quiet compared to how he usually is. “And the main event for this evening, Veronica Rodriguez vs Serena Deeb in a semi-final qualifying match for the AEW Women’s championship tournament,” Nova announced happily, looking between the monitor and the stage for what was coming next.
Ricky Starks’ theme came blasting out the sound system of Daily’s Place, and both Nova and Taz snapped their heads towards the tunnel. Ricky walked out, playing air guitar and looking over at commentary. “Ricky Starks is one of the most charismatic and talented wrestlers there is now,” Taz started, hyping up his client, “Just look! Look at the physique!”
Nova shook her head, “I couldn’t agree more, Taz.” She stumbled, too busy watching Ricky to even get her words out.
Ricky looked towards the commentary table, Taz yelled some stuff at him, before Ricky looked directly at Nova. He winked, then blew her a kiss, looking back at the ring and climbing in to start his match.
“AYO STARKS!” Taz yelled, even though Ricky didn’t look over, “THAT WAS UNPROFESSIONAL!” Nova giggled to herself, looking down at the monitor to watch her man wrestle. Excalibur looked at Taz, who was still frustrated, before looking back at Nova, “Hey Nova you look a little red there? Everything alright?”
Nova smiled, Taz glared, “Shut up Excalibur!” They both shouted in unison, in two completely different tones.
Nova knew she couldn’t be like this the whole match. If she couldn’t wrestle, this was one of the ways to showcase herself, she couldn’t mess it up.
Taz and Excalibur went on about the match and each opponent, when she spoke up, “I think everyone can agree that something changed once Ricky stepped into AEW. I mean there isn’t a star like him. He moves quickly, he’s entertaining, his theme is so catchy, honestly Taz, I think you hit the jackpot with this one,” Nova smiled at him, he opened his mouth to speak when she continued, “I mean, between Ricky and Cage, they’re on fire. Just imagine them without you.”
Excalibur tried to hold in his laughter, Taz snapped his head over at Nova, “Now hold on just a second-” The bell rang, interrupting Taz. “Here is your winner: Ricky Starks!”
Nova smiled proudly at Ricky, as he made his way back to the tunnel. He gave her one last wink, before turning around, barely even looking at Taz. “While that match was very entertaining, let’s move onto our next matchup of the night, Nyla Rose vs Abadon!” Excalibur announced, straightening his suit.
The match went quickly, Nyla Rose would face whoever wins against Veronica and Serena. The camera was shot at the commentary table, and the three looked up. Nova smiled at the camera, listening to Excalibur announce the rest of the week’s matches. “And tomorrow night, make sure to catch Wardlow and Hangman in the semi-finals for an opportunity at the AEW World Championship.” Nova looked away from Excalibur and to the camera, clearing her voice, “And make sure you don’t miss Being The Elite on Monday, the best Youtube comedy show,” Nova paused, “But how about our main event tonight? I don’t know about you guys but I am bouncing off the walls excited.”
Excalibur smiled, “I’ve been waiting for this match before the night even started.” Veronica’s theme music played, she walked out, looking around the small crowd of people before looking over to Nova. “Hey girl! That’s my best friend! Kick some ass!” Veronica smiled, even more hyped up after the words from Nova.
“Now unlike Sawyer, no offense bestie, Veronica has held so many championships. She beat both of us in a title match a few years ago.” Nova mentioned, as Veronica set her shades down.
“Now Nova I have to ask, how do you think this match will end,” Excalibur looked over to her, “While Veronica is very strong and could make anyone tap...Serena Deeb is also-” “Yeah yeah she’s a yoga instructor, look at her record. Veronica is one of the best there is now. I don’t think we should underestimate her, Excalibur,” Taz interrupted, looking at the monitor to watch the match. “Took the words right out of my mouth.” Nova mumbled, focusing on the action in the ring.
Veronica finally got the upperhand, pulling Serena into a submission move. Deeb tapped on the mat, and Veronica stood, not able to hold back the smile on her face. She let Bryce Remsburg raise her hand, winking into the main camera.
“That main event was off the charts. I can’t wait for next week.” Nova said. “Yes, but first you have to catch AEW Dynamite tomorrow night on TNT,” Excalibur announced, looking to Nova to take it away, “Of course, one of the best parts of the week, I can’t wait to be back next week for commentary everyone, goodnight!”
The crew called out that the cameras were off, and Nova let go of a giant breath. “That was outstanding for your first time,” Excalibur complimented, “Can’t wait for next week.” He shook her hand before leaving the table, Nova being only with Taz. She looked over at him nervously, before he stood up, holding out his hand, “Not bad, kid. You’ll do just fine these next few weeks.” Nova shook his hand, smiling out of disbelief as he walked away.
Time Skip
The girls all laughed as they took a seat at their table. “You made Madi look like she could wrestle,” Nova insulted as Veronica nodded. “I think it may have been her best match yet.” The waiter placed a basket of rolls on the table mentioning he would be back shortly to take their orders. Sawyer reached in and took a bite. “Your match with Serena was really exciting , a couple of the wrestlers gathered around to watch. It was great.” Veronica smiled, “Thank you, it means a lot…but let's talk about Ricky blowing that kiss to Nova. You guys must be serious.” She wooed, as Nova rolled her eyes. “Taz was totally cock blocking though,” Sawyer added, making them burst out in laughter. Veronica’s phone started going off on the table making her sigh. She set the phone on silent and placed it in her purse.
“What does he want now?” Nova groaned. “Probably wanting to know her exact location this time,” Sawyer mumbled as she placed another roll in her hands. Veronica let out a small chuckle, having it fade quickly as she began to play with her fingers. “He’s just worried about me,” she started. “I can’t blame him. It can be a bit much at times, but he loves-”
“Eck, don’t use that word. I can’t believe you almost said that word.” Sawyer rambled. “You ain’t use it for anyone else, don’t start now.” Veronica opened her mouth to argue but was cut off as the waiter arrived putting the conversation aside for the moment. Once the waiter left, Nova snapped her head over to Sawyer, “But I must ask you, Sawyer, what’s going on with you and Mr. Chuck Taylor?”
Sawyer almost spit out the very expensive champagne, “What?”
“Oh c’mon. If you and Wardlow aren’t together, there has to be something between you and Chuck,” Veronica hinted, Sawyer just shook her head, “No way. No way! He and I are just best friends. And he would’ve tried already.”
Veronica and Nova exchanged a sly look, they knew Sawyer was oblivious, but for now, they planned to focus on the appetizer.
For the most part - the dinner went great. There were no more topics about Kenny (who seemed to be the main problem), and they all ate until they were stuffed, not having to worry about the bill at the end.
“Well if it isn’t the three most beautiful ladies in AEW.” A voice shouted through the hotel lobby. Isiah Kassidy and Marq Quen danced their way over with their million-dollar smiles glowing. “What y'all been up to?” Veronica grinned. Marq placed his arm around Nova causing her to flick it off.
“Just came back from training with Matt, nothing too exciting.” Isiah crossed his arms, leaning on the nearest wall. “You started freaking out didn’t you?” Sawyer questioned.
“Just a little bit.” Kassidy giggled as he started cheering. “It was Matt HARDY. Can you blame me?” He began to do the famous Hardy Boy dance before remembering he was in public and cleared his throat. “Anyways, we came to see if you guys wanted to do something tonight. We barely had the chance to hang out yet.”
“Sure why not? We have nothing better else to do.” Nova shrugged. “I’m cool with it, as long as Veronica is too,” Sawyer adds. The thought of having a good night with some of her friends fogged her memory, as she spoke before she got the chance to think, “Come over in about thirty minutes.”
Nova had walked to the nearest grocery store to gather a couple of items before Marq and Isiah would be coming over. “I feel like this night could go incredibly wrong if we’re not careful.” Sawyer brought it up. “How so?” Veronica laughed. “Just imagine, all of us? DRUNK? That sets up for disaster already.” Her attention was taken off of Sawyer when her phone began to ring again. She almost answered, before looking at the caller ID. She stared at it for a bit, before a pillow was flung at her.
“Veronica? Are you even listening to me?”
“No, sorry. Kenny was calling-” She looked back at Sawyer who sat with a blank expression. “Don’t look at me like that! I didn’t even answer.”
“But did you want to?” Sawyer crossed her arms. “Maybe...I just haven’t talked to him since the show, it’s killing me.”
Sawyer bit back her words, as her friend’s facial expression read it was affecting her. “And I know you guys aren’t fond of each other, but I supported you and Wardlow.” she stopped as she let out a breath, “He’s different Sawyer.”
“Wardlow and I are back together.” She blurted, but quickly covered her mouth as Veronica’s neck snapped. “YOU GUYS ARE WHAT?” she yelped. Sawyer secretly thanked herself for blabbing, to avoid another argument. “Shush! It’s not that big of a deal,” she laughed. “We just didn’t want to tell anyone yet.” Veronica nodded understandingly, “So, now I’m just ‘someone’? That’s cool.”
“Oh no , I didn’t mean it like that.”
“I’m kidding, I’m not one to talk about keeping secrets. I’m happy for you.” She smiled, as the door flew open. “Your favorite party people are here!” Marq exclaimed as Isiah followed in after with BOTTLES of alcohol. A couple seconds later a panting Nova stood in the doorway. “You guys saw me struggling. WHY DID YOU NOT HELP ME?!” She dropped the bags and flopped on the couch.
“I was holding my children.” Kassidy gasped as he raised his beverage in the air. “That was payback for flicking my arm,” Marq moved next to her and placed his hand on her knee. “But how about I make it up to you?” he sent her a wink as Veronica and Sawyer hid back their laughs.
“THAT'S MY BOY!” Kassidy yelped as he poured his first shot. Nova groaned in response, getting up from her seat and popping a cork on a wine bottle, “It’s going to be a long night.”
The Next Morning
A loud siren blasted through the room, Veronica shifted around in her sleep noticing her bed has been replaced with something way more uncomfortable. A snore caused her to jump, instantly regretting it as the effects of last night began to hit. She felt around, finding she was passed out in a bathtub. Veronica’s face flashed with confusion and was about to call out until she saw a slumped Isiah Kassidy on the toilet. “Zay?” she squinted as he began to stir. “Wake up!” she grabbed the nearest thing next to her, a bar of soap, and flung it at him. “AGH-” He shouted, waking up from his slumber. “What the hell…WHERE ARE MY PANTS?” he looked down in fear until a grin popped up. “Are you… fully clothed?” he peeked in the tub and sighed as, unlike him, was still in her nightclothes. “Damn, I thought I got some.” he snapped his fingers in disbelief. “How are you thinking of sex right now?
“Because I could have pounded that ass, but you wanted to be loyal, and have no fun. Mama ain’t raise no snitch.” He raised his hands in defense, “Plus this is normal. I party every night, and all night. Is this your first time drinking?” He asked in a mocking tone. He held his hand out to help lift her, accepting that she groaned as the room started spinning. Her arm rested around him, as he made her way to her bed. “Did you want me to grab your phone, I’m pretty sure I saw it somewhere in the living room-”
“NO.” she yelled startling them, “It’s fine where it is.” The events of last night began to become less of a blur. Multiple shots, loud ass music, and even more calling and texts from Kenny. At one point, she couldn’t take it anymore and used her phone as target practice as she lunged it anywhere she could. They reached the room and saw Nova spread out on both beds that had been pushed together, and Sawyer hanging upside down on the armchair. “Ah that’s right, Marq did a 450 splash off the dresser. It’s all coming back now.” They both nodded and exited the room. “Here, you sit here, I'll get you something.” He searched through the cabinets, sighing when nothing was found. Sawyer soon stumbled in and found her way next to Veronica on the couch. “I am never drinking with them again.” She leaned her head on her friend’s shoulder. “They’re too advanced for us.”
“We’re on a different level.” A voice boasted behind the couch making the two jump. “MARQ? WHY ARE YOU BEHIND THE COUCH?” Sawyer shrieked. He shrugged as he began to rub his head. “So, you guys have absolutely nothing- AHH MARQ?!” Isiah threw the cup of water and held his chest. “You damn near killed me.” he breathed out. Sawyer groaned, “You just spilled water on our floor!”
“Could you guys be any louder-” Nova started, but wasn’t able to finish as she glided down the hall. Isiah raised his hand to his mouth to stop the laughter from slipping out. “Please tell me this is water…”
“This Ain’t Water.” They said in unison, before bursting out in laughter. Veronica went to gather her friend, after for a fact, reassuring her it actually was just water. “As I was saying, before Marq scared some of the skin color off of me, you guys don’t own shit. If y'all planned to get wasted you should have packed some aspirins.” He suggested, earning an ear thump from Sawyer. “We didn’t plan to end up like this. You guys got us drunk.” Marq nodded, “She’s not wrong.”
“Is there anyone that could go pick something up?” Nova suggested, before feeling more effects as she rushed to the nearest bathroom. “I’m sure Kenny could-”
“Nope, I got Trent and Chuck on the way. We don’t need anyone else.” Sawyer blurted out, quickly sending a text to the Best Friends. Veronica's lips straightened, as she slowly backed out of the living room, and into the kitchen. A sigh escaped her lips, as she realized having to explain to her boyfriend why she had been so distant wasn’t going to be anything she was looking forward to.
The door opened, and Trent and Chuck both rushed to Sawyer’s side. “We came as soon as we could, I hope you like sushi.” They shoved the bag of food onto her lap, before taking out their drug store bag filled with a couple of pills. “Oh, you didn’t have to bring us food-”
“Speak for yourself,” Kassidy and Quen snatched the box out of her grasp, and began to pick at it. She threw her hands up in annoyance before Chuck placed his hand on her forehead. “Have you thrown up yet?” He questioned. “Not yet,” she answered, as she stared at him carefully. “Oh you will.” he sent her a smile, and for a moment she felt warmth until he stopped.
“Hey are the guys here with the aspirins…oh hey.” She stopped herself, as she made contact with them. “I’m Veronica, it’s nice to finally be able to meet you.” Slowly walking over, she reached for the bag from Chuck who pulled his hand back.
“So, you’re the famous Veronica Rodriguez....” Trent started, “I got to say Kenny chose well.” Chuck smirked, as Trent walked up to her. “I guess you’re too far up his ass, to realize you’re in for a load of trouble though.” She was taken aback until Trent began again. “I don’t see you around backstage a lot, Sawyer claims it’s because you’re always hanging out with the EVP’s. I bet if you suck them off hard enough, you could get lucky and get a title shot.”
Her fist clenched, but they held each other's stare until a cough from Kassidy broke them up. “Well, this is getting exciting. We got a bed in the back if ya’ll want to settle your differences there.” Sawyer face-planted herself, before grabbing the bag from Chuck and walking to the kitchen. Trent shortly followed shoulder bumping her, and letting out a small laugh. “It was nice meeting you.” Chuck spat at her, before making his way where his other friends were.
Veronica sat next to Private Party with an unfazed expression, “Of course they would hate me.” She thought of the multiple times Sawyer had run to them in the past couple of weeks, ever since she got with Kenny. Marq offered her the container of food, where she sunk into the couch and began to pick at the bits that were left.
“I’m going to head out for a little bit,” Veronica said, handing the food back. “Are you sure that’s such a good idea?” Isiah questioned. “No, it’s not - but it’s not like I’ll find anything here that will help me.” She grabbed her sweatshirt and made her way to the door. “Have Nova help you guys clean this mess up, I’ll be back soon.” With a sigh, she closed the door and didn’t know where she would end up.
Sawyer slid down the patio door with a groan. “I bet you learned your lesson.” James, better known as Orange Cassidy, laughed over the phone. He had called Chuck wanting to get a daily update on the situation. “Hang up on him, or I’m going to toss your phone off the balcony.” Sawyer threatened making Chuck hold his phone to his chest. “Alright man, I got to go.” They said their goodbyes when Trent opened the sliding door. “Here’s your aspirin, and a bottle of water.” She took the items and took them almost immediately. Chuck let his eyes wander as he stared at her current state. Trent nudged him in the side causing him to snap back to reality. His eyes widened a bit as he smirked, and pointed in between them. Sawyer tossed the bottle to the side and closed her eyes. “You guys seemed heated in there,” She mentioned. “Towards V, was that necessary?” she laughed.
“Oh it was more than necessary,” Trent admitted. “She had the nerve to reach for the bag, after everything she’s done to you.” Sawyer held her tongue, knowing that it wasn’t all Veronica’s fault, they both were acting childish. “He’s right, she’s never looked in our direction either, her ego is only going to get worse around The Elite.” he took a seat next to her, relaxing his hand against hers. “I know you see it. I know you see her becoming something she’s not.” A calming silence rang through them. Sawyer thought over his words that seemed to hit her right in the face. Everything was starting to make sense.
At 9 in the morning, Veronica sat in the hotel lobby. Waving to some of the people that crossed by before beginning to hear her stomach growl. She looked for the nearest breakfast bar until she saw the people she was trying to avoid. Kenny sat at a table with The Young Bucks and seemed to be in a deep conversation, she slowly backed out and into the room next to her. It was mostly empty, except for a familiar guy in the corner… with a beer bottle and cowboy boots.
“We got to stop meeting like this,” she made her way over onto the stool next to him. He finished his glass, before taking a glance at her. “Rough night?” he asked. Veronica sighed before starting, “Is it that obvious?” she groaned. He put his glass down, looking her up and down, and bit the bottom of his lip. “Yea. You look terrible.” He lied. Hangman liked how the ‘Morning After’ look appeared on her, but she didn’t need to know that.
“Gee, thanks. I’ll make sure to let Private Party know.” His brows rose in surprise, “You drank with them? How are you still alive?” He cracked a smile at her dead expression. “How are you when you’re drunk? The daredevil type maybe?.” It was his turn to have a dead expression, as she laughed. “I’m the complete opposite actually, from what my friend’s told me… I can get handsy if I’m with someone. Other than that, I keep to myself in my small corner.” He raised his glass to her, and sipped it. “You’re drunk right now…aren’t you?” He let her look him over closely and started to feel himself get hot, “No, but I’m getting there.” Veronica took the glass from him, and drank the rest of it down. “You don’t need to be alone anymore, Page.” She placed an arm around him, “You’re safe with me now.”
“I'll hit you with this damn mop, if you don’t put her phone back!” Nova chased Kassidy around the living room, as he snapped another selfie of him. “Come on! Are you not curious at all to read one of these 400 text messages from Kenny?” He attempted to unlock her phone, before it was snatched out of his hand by Nova. “Hey!” he whined.
“Go get more paper towels.” She said while fully shutting the phone down, and onto the counter. “Ouu, so demanding. Kinky. I like that.” He flirted with Nova groaning. Marq came from the bathroom, and looked around. “Damn where did everybody go?” he scratched his head, as Kassidy made his way back into the living room. “Sawyer is on the patio, and I don’t know where Veronica went-” a knock interrupted them making his head perk up. “Must be her now.” Isiah went to the door, but let out a groan. “Ugh. It’s just Ricky.”
“Ricky?” Nova questioned as she made her way to the door. There he stood with a small bag, and a dumb found expression. “Oh I didn’t know you were here.” He looked between them with a hurt expression. “What? Oh no it’s not like tha-” Nova began to explain as Marq peeked his head out as well. “Why are you talking to my girl?” he squinted. Ricky’s eyes widened, as Nova slapped the back of his neck. “Go inside.” They stuck their tongue out, and closed the door leaving them alone.
“Just to be clear… there is nothing going on between you and them? Right?” Nova laughed, “Nah they just came over last night, and still haven’t left.” He let out a sigh of relief, before turning his full attention onto Nova. “Well, what did you need? I still gotta clean this place or they’ll destroy everything.”
“So you know our first date, when I told you I knew the artist from the bowling alley?” Nova nodded, remembering the date, “Yeah, have you told him I think he's talented, and about a possible merch design?” Ricky chuckled, “Yeah, about that…” He reached and grabbed the bag that he brought with him, pulling out a t- shirt, “I wanted to surprise you, since he knows what he’s doing, I got this designed for you.”
Nova grabbed it from his hands, her jaw dropped, “Oh my God…” “What’s wrong? Do you not like it?” Ricky asked, worried.
“I love it. This is the sweetest thing anyone has ever done for me.” Nova gushed, admiring the pink design. “Well, the reason I did this is because I had to ask you something.” Ricky smiled, waiting for Nova to look at him. “Well, what is it?”
Ricky took a deep breath, “When I first laid my eyes on you, I was mesmerized. And after our first date, I knew you were someone special. And the dates and calls after just continued to prove my point.” Nova smiled, Ricky said a bunch of stuff like this before, but this time felt...different.
“You are the most amazing person I have ever met, and I know I gotta ask before I don’t get the chance,” He grabbed her hands, “Nova Jay, will you please be my girlfriend?” Nova smiled so big, “I’d thought you would never ask.”
Ricky pulled Nova in, and let his hands rest on her backside as they shared a kiss. He lightly pushed her onto the wall, without breaking contact and let her rub against him a bit. A groan almost escaped his lips until the door swung open.
“Nova, I accidentally clogged the toilet- OH MY GOD.” Marq screamed, causing them to jump. His hands covered his mouth, as he quickly shut the door. “What’s wrong with you? You seem like you just saw a ghost.” Kassidy said while he flipped through the channels on the TV. “I just walked in on Nova and Ricky doing mouth to mouth, I’ve never been more devastated in my life.” Kassidy dropped the remote, and let his eyes close. “He’s out there kissing OUR GIRL?”
“How could she do this to us?”
Sawyer then came into the room with Chuck and Trent, “Have you guys seen Nova?” She made her way to the door, but was pulled back by Marq. “Don’t go out there! It’s dangerous and could lead to serious trauma!” Isiah cried. Chuck and Trent looked at each other with odd expressions, “What? Let me look.” Sawyer took a peep through the peephole and started screaming as she saw Nova and Ricky making out. “FINALLY. GET IT NOVA!” She cheered, making sure they could hear on the other side. Marq whipped a fake tear from his cheek, before leaning against Kassidy for support. “At the start, we had three girls…now we only got one.” Isiah glanced at Sawyer, making her cringe. “Now is not the time.” she reminded herself, as she and Wardlow wanted to keep their relationship private.
Chuck tensed, as Kassidy put his arm around Sawyer. “Have I ever told you, you were my favorite?” He smiled, but was met with an elbow to the ribs. “Too late, I got my eye on someone already.” she said, as she shot a look at Chuck who began to blush. Trent began to speak up until the door opened, and a giggling Veronica walked in with a tipsy Hangman Adam Page.
“Did you guys see Ricky and Nova outside? I first thought it was some random dude, but when I got closer,” she leaned onto Hangman “I noticed his big forehead, and instantly knew it was him.” She laughed.
“Well if it isn’t Hangman Pussypants Page.” Isiah rolled his eyes, at the sight of Veronica against him. “Did you get her even more drunk than she already was?” he asked with concern. “SHE drank my glass of whiskey, I had nothing to do with it.” “So, you couldn’t have taken it from her?” Trent interrupted, making Veronica lunge at him. Hangman picked her up, and tossed her over his shoulders. “Calm down.” he ordered as he set her on the couch, Hangman sat next to her letting his arm rest against her thigh. “I don’t know what happened before I got here, but it ends now. Veronica and I are both going to sober up a bit, and we need pills. Do yall got any here?”
Sawyer shoved Chuck, making him groan, he handed the bag over and Trent rolled his eyes. Nova then came in with Ricky, and they starred at the group. “Well isn’t this something,” Ricky started. “I thought you guys we’re going to suffocate out there.” Sawyer jokes, as she went to hug her friends. “You have gotta tell me the details.” Sawyer mumbled to Nova who nodded. “How about we put on a movie to ignore the sound of my heart shattering?” Isiah mentioned as Nova groaned, “Get over it!” “NEVER.” He cried. “A movie is fine with me,” Ricky shrugged as he took a seat on one of the chairs. “First we should take a picture, it’s crazy to see all this talent in one room.” She chirped.
“All this talent… and Veronica.” Trent laughed, making Veronica turn her head to face him. “I’m going to hurt him,” she started to get up until Hangman grabbed her hand. She took a deep breath before giving his hand a squeeze. Nova smiled as they took the perfect photo and posted it onto her instagram. It was only then till Hangman released Veronica’s hand, and took her face in his hands and kissed her.
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Oh oh oh! Writing prompts! I'm excited! 😁😁 I've drowned myself in the gazillion Guardian fics on AO3 recently, but there's still not enough content for SCI if you ask me 😁 If you wanted to write for this show it would be greatly appreciated 😉 Anything non-AU with a happy ending is fine, really, hurt/comfort or plain fluff... (I'm a sucker for firsts of any kind, but that's not a must.)
If that is still too vague, how about some sentence starters..
“Stop flirting unless you mean it.”
“Oh, well fuck me then.”
"Do I look like someone who’s interested in someone like you?”
“Stop squirming.”
“Are you flirting or starting a fight?”
(I think any of these would make a great conversation starter 😂)
Anyway, maybe you get an idea out of this pile of nonsense, I would love to read from you again. I love your writing style and think you are really really talented ❤️❤️
(And good luck for your finals, if I'm not too late 🙈)
Hi hi!  Hope you enjoy this fic!  I’m trying something out and I know you said non-AU but I think you’d really enjoy this AU.  At least I hope you do.  Also, I know Zhan Yao’s powers are telepathy, but I really liked the villain name “Hypnotist” so that’s what we’re going with.
It was a quiet night as a tall man with light skin, brown eyes, and black hair by the name of Zhan Yao, who went by the alias “Hypnotist”, was sitting in his apartment reading when there was a knock on the door; a single “bang”.  Zhan Yao looked up in surprise towards the door before he frowned and stood up, walking over to the door before opening it.  To his surprise stood his childhood best friend and enemy, Bai Yutong, who was known throughout the city as the “White Knight”. 
“Bai Yutong?” he asked, confused.  Bai Yutong looked at him, his eyes glazed and his face covered in cuts and bruises.
“Zhan Yao” he croaked before his eyes rolled to the back of his head and he collapsed.
“Bai Yutong!” Zhan Yao exclaimed, kneeling down next to him.  He quickly looked up and made sure that no one was around before he quickly placed his hands under Bai Yutong’s armpits and dragged him into his apartment, shutting the door behind him.  Once they were inside, Zhan Yao looked down at Bai Yutong before he huffed.
“What trouble did you get up to?” he murmured as he knelt down and placed his hands under Bai Yutong’s armpits again, dragging him over to his couch.  Zhan Yao then looked down at Bai Yutong, his eyes flicking to black as he waved his hand, using his powers to lift Bai Yutong onto the couch.  Once he was on the couch, Zhan Yao shook his head, his eyes returning to normal.
“I need to call Gongsun…” he murmured.  
“No…don’t” a voice croaked from the couch, making him look over to see Bai Yutong looking at him.  Zhan Yao huffed and placed his hands on his hips
“Why not?  He’s more apt to take care of you than I am” he snapped.  Bai Yutong huffed before he winced in pain and clutched at his ribs.  Zhan Yao’s eyes widened and he took a step forward before he remembered who was on his couch and took a step back.
“If I had wanted Gongsun…I would have gone to Gongsun” Bai Yutong hissed.  Zhan Yao frowned.
“Then why did you come to me?” he asked.  Bai Yutong looked over at him before he let out a grunt and pushed himself to a sitting position, hissing again.
“Jesus, what are you doing?” Zhan Yao hissed, walking over to him, helping him sit up.  
“I just…needed a place that was safe…that no one would try and come look for me” Bai Yutong replied.  Zhan Yao huffed and placed his hands on his hips as he looked at him.
“So you chose your nemesis’s home as your “safe house”?” he sneered.  Bai Yutong looked up at him.
“Your place was the first place that came to mind” he replied honestly.  Zhan Yao blinked before he sighed and sat down on the couch, looking at Bai Yutong.
“What the hell happened to you?  You look like you’ve been struck by a meteor” he stated, reaching out to touch a particularly nasty scrape.  Bai Yutong shied away, making Zhan Yao sigh.
“Mouse…” he started, making Bai Yutong look at him with wide eyes.
“I can’t help you if you don’t tell me what’s going on” he murmured.  Bai Yutong blinked before he huffed.
“There’s this new villain…caused absolute havoc in the city.  I went to go stop them, you know, cuz that’s my fucking job, when they promptly kicked my fucking ass.  That’s why I look like this” he grumbled.  Zhan Yao frowned.
“New villain?  Lovely…competition” he grumbled.  Bai Yutong rolled his eyes.
“Come on, Cat, you know you’re my number one enemy in my heart” he teased, reaching out to place a hand over Zhan Yao’s.  Zhan Yao gave him a look.
“You’re just saying that” he replied before he looked Bai Yutong up and down.
“Hang on” he instructed as he stood up, walking over into his kitchen.  He then walked over to his freezer, reaching inside to pull out an icepack.
“Here, catch” he called out, not even looking as he threw the icepack over to Bai Yutong.  Bai Yutong reached out and caught the icepack before he placed it over his ribs, hissing as the cold pack made contact.  
“You have an icepack on hand?” he called out, looking over at Zhan Yao.
“I get hurt too, asshole” Zhan Yao called back as he continued to search his kitchen.
“What are you looking for?” Bai Yutong asked as he shifted the icepack over the part where his ribs hurt the most.  Zhan Yao then turned to face him, holding up a small red box.
“My first aid kit” he replied as he walked back over to the couch, sitting down.  Bai Yutong frowned.
“Why don’t you just go to Gongsun to get healed?” he asked.  Zhan Yao gave him a look.
“May I remind you, Bai Yutong, that I am a villain and you are a hero?  Villains do not go to doctors that treat superheroes.  It’s just a known fact” he replied.  Bai Yutong rolled his eyes.
“That’s some bullshit” he grumbled.  Zhan Yao shook his head.
“Actually, it’s not” he murmured, making Bai Yutong frown.
“What do you mean?” he asked.  Zhan Yao sighed as he opened his kit and pulled out some gauze and bandages.
“Hold on” he instructed as he stood back up and walked into the kitchen, grabbing a bowl and filling it up with warm water before heading into his bathroom to grab a small hand towel.  After grabbing the two things, he walked back to the couch and sat down, dipping the towel in the warm water.  He squeezed the excess water out before looking up at Bai Yutong.
“Hold still” he instructed as he reached up and gently began to clean the cuts and scrapes on Bai Yutong’s face.  Bai Yutong hissed, for his wounds stung, before he looked at Zhan Yao.
“You were saying—” he started.  Zhan Yao looked at him before he sighed.
“I once went to a doctor to get treated for some serious injuries and had no idea that the hero had paid all the doctors in that particular city to tell him what kind of injuries I had sustained so that he could hit those specific places again during our next fight.  After that…I never went back to doctors and just learned how to treat myself.  I have a Ph.D...learning how to clean some simple wounds and take care of myself isn’t that hard” he murmured.  Bai Yutong looked at him with wide eyes before he growled.
“That bastard.  And he calls himself a hero” he spat.  Zhan Yao huffed.
“Don’t get so worked up about it, it happened a long time ago” he replied as he continued to clean Bai Yutong’s scrapes.  After cleaning them, he applied some ointment to them to make sure that they healed properly.  
“There…is there anything else I should look at?” he asked, raising an eyebrow at Bai Yutong.  Bai Yutong sighed.
“I’m sure I’ve got bruises everywhere but you can’t exactly treat a bruise…you just kind of have to let them heal themselves” he grumbled.  Zhan Yao smiled.
“Well said” he replied before he leaned forward and made a face.
“You need a shower” he declared.  Bai Yutong’s eyes widened.
“But you…you just applied ointment!” he exclaimed.  Zhan Yao rolled his eyes.
“I know that.  But you stink.  So you need a shower!” he declared.  Bai Yutong groaned before he held out a hand.
“Help me” he murmured.  Zhan Yao huffed before he reached out and grabbed Bai Yutong’s hand, helping him to his feet.  He then helped Bai Yutong over to the bathroom, pausing at the door.
“You don’t…need me to help you bathe, do you?” he asked.  Bai Yutong tsked.
“I’m hurt, but I’m not incapacitated.  I’m fine” he assured.  Zhan Yao nodded.
“Alright, if you’re sure” he replied as he helped Bai Yutong into the bathroom before turning and heading to his guest bedroom, where he kept a secret stash of Bai Yutong’s clothes.  Bai Yutong’s older sister, Bai Qingtang, gave them to him, saying that they were for “emergencies”.
‘Well…this counts as an emergency, doesn’t it?’ he thought to himself before he turned and headed back to the bathroom, pausing when he heard the water running.  
“Bai Yutong?  Are you in the shower?” he called out.
“Yes.  Why?” Bai Yutong called back.  Zhan Yao huffed.
“I have a change of clothes.  I’m going to come in and place them on the sink.  Don’t come out” he ordered as he opened the door and walked over to the sink, placing the clothes on the counter.  As he turned to leave, the shower curtain opened slightly and Bai Yutong poked his head out.
“You’re a saint, Cat” he thanked.  Zhan Yao rolled his eyes.
“You’re lucky it’s me who saved your ass and not someone else” he replied as he walked out of the bathroom, heading back out to the living room.  He then sat down on the couch and picked up his book again, beginning to read once more.  He got through a few more chapters before the bathroom door opened and Bai Yutong stepped out, drying his hair with a towel.
“You had a spare set of clothes in my size here?” he asked as he walked over to him.
“Your sister gave them to me.  “In case of emergencies” is what she said” Zhan Yao explained.  Bai Yutong huffed.
“Emergencies my ass” he mumbled.  Zhan Yao chuckled.
“That’s what I said” he replied.  Bai Yutong smirked before he walked over to couch and sat down, looking at Zhan Yao.
“Could you…put the ointment on again?  It kind of…washed off” he explained.  Zhan Yao looked over at him and smiled.  
“Sure” he replied as he placed his book down and picked up the jar of ointment, opening it.  He then placed some more ointment on the wounds before looking at Bai Yutong.
“There” he declared.  Bai Yutong grinned.
“You’re literally a life saver, Cat” he breathed.  Zhan Yao hummed.
“Most people wouldn’t say that about me” he murmured.  Bai Yutong huffed and looked at him.
“You’re not a bad person, Cat.  Not at your core.  It’s just…” he started when Zhan Yao held up his hand.
“Save it; I don’t want to hear it” he declared.  Bai Yutong sighed before he nodded.
“Alright, fine” he agreed.  Zhan Yao smirked before he pointed to Bai Yutong.
“You need to rest.  If your sister finds out you got seriously hurt, she might just kill the both of us and I, for one, cannot take on your big sister, nor do I want to” he stated.  Bai Yutong chuckled.
“I don’t want to deal with that either” he agreed as he slowly pushed himself to his feet and followed Zhan Yao to the guest bedroom.  He then walked over to the bed and practically collapsed onto it, letting out a groan.
“I know you don’t wanna hear this, Cat, but you’re actually a lifesaver” he mumbled.  Zhan Yao looked at him before he hummed and shut off the light, closing the door.
~*~*~*~*~
The next morning, Zhan Yao was up making breakfast when the guest room door opened and Bai Yutong stepped out, his hair an absolute mess.
“Sleep well?” Zhan Yao asked, looking over at him.  Bai Yutong grunted as Zhan Yao chuckled and held out a mug.
“Here” he stated.  Bai Yutong blinked blearily at him before he walked over to him and took the mug, looking at it.  He then smiled before he took a sip, letting out a hum of content.
“This feels a bit domestic, doesn’t it?” he asked, looking at Zhan Yao.  Zhan Yao looked over at him and huffed.
“If that’s what you wanna call it” he replied.  Bai Yutong rolled his eyes before he frowned.
“Why did you decide to treat my wounds instead of just leaving me at your door?” he asked.  Zhan Yao huffed.
“Because you practically collapsed inside my apartment.  I couldn’t just leave you there” he replied.  Bai Yutong hummed as Zhan Yao looked over at him.
“That new villain you were talking about last night…what’s their name?” he asked.  Bai Yutong hummed, leaning against the counter.
“Tuxi…I think?” he replied.  Zhan Yao frowned.
“I haven’t heard of them before…they must be relatively new” he mused.  Bai Yutong huffed.
“I guess.  But they’re hella strong, seeing as what they did to me” he grumbled.  Zhan Yao chuckled.
“I think you’re just getting sloppy” he teased.  Bai Yutong shot him a look before he huffed again and took a sip of the coffee Zhan Yao made him.  Zhan Yao chuckled before he turned and placed whatever he was making on the dining room table.
“Come on, breakfast is ready” he declared, sitting down.  Bai Yutong smirked.
“Now this feels very domestic” he replied.  Zhan Yao looked at him.
“You want breakfast or not?” he asked.  Bai Yutong chuckled.
“I’m eating, I’m eating” he assured as he sat down; he and Zhan Yao soon digging in.  They ate in silence, just enjoying each other’s company, which many would find weird as they were literally the polar opposites; Zhan Yao as the villain while Bai Yutong was the hero.  But they seemed to work, so they didn’t comment on it.  After breakfast, Zhan Yao and Bai Yutong cleaned up before Bai Yutong went to take a shower.  While he was showering, Zhan Yao headed over to his laptop and pulled up Google, trying to see if he could find anything on this new villain called “Tuxi”.  As he searched, he learned that Tuxi was a pyromaniac and that they wore a very strange mask.
“What are you looking at?” a voice whispered in his ear making him jump and look over to see Bai Yutong leaning over his shoulder to see his computer screen.
“Jesus fucking Christ, Yutong.  Don’t scare me like that” he hissed.  Bai Yutong smiled.
“Sorry” he apologized before he pointed to the laptop.
“Find anything?” he asked.  Zhan Yao shook his head.
“Other than they’re a pyromaniac and that they have a strange mask, no” he replied.  Bai Yutong frowned.
“Pyromaniac?  They never used fire when they fought me” he stated.  Zhan Yao shrugged.
“Maybe they preferred hand to hand combat with you instead?” he suggested.  Bai Yutong shrugged this time.
“I don’t know…but fighting them felt…odd?  Like I’ve fought them before?” he stated.  Zhan Yao frowned.
“How is that possible?  You said you’ve never fought them before” he argued.  Bai Yutong huffed and rolled his eyes.
“I know that.  But it’s like…déjà vu.  I swear I’ve seen their fighting style before” he explained.  Zhan Yao hummed as Bai Yutong stretched.
“Well, I need to get back to, you know, saving the city” he declared.  Zhan Yao rolled his eyes before he pointed to the guest bedroom.
“Your clothes are in there” he stated.  Bai Yutong nodded and headed to the bedroom, changing into the clothes Zhan Yao had lying on the bed.  After changing, Bai Yutong walked out and headed towards the front door.
“Thanks again, Cat.  Really” he thanked before he opened the door and stepped out.  Zhan Yao huffed as he looked over at the door.
“Just don’t do anything stupid” he murmured before he turned back to his laptop.
~*~*~*~*~
After Bai Yutong left, Zhan Yao spent some time on his laptop before he headed over to the little study nook he had made when he first made, working on a new lesson plan because his normal day job when he wasn’t being a villain was being a college psychology professor.  
“ZHAN YAO!” a voice screamed in his head, making him flinch before looking up.
“Yutong?” he whispered.
“HELP!” the voice screamed again.  Zhan Yao’s eyes widened before he shot up out of his seat and ran into his bedroom, quickly changing into a dark navy blue hanfu and dark navy blue half-mask before throwing open the French windows of his bedroom, shooting into the sky.  He then flew through the air to see Bai Yutong, dressed in all white and wearing a silver half-mask, fighting with a strange person in an ancient mask.  Zhan Yao watched as the two beings fought before the person with the strange mask clenched their hand into a fist and raised it, their fist suddenly bursting into flames.
“Tuxi!” he whispered, his eyes widening in shock.  He then looked around for something to use when he saw a nearby trashcan.  
‘That’ll work’ he thought to himself before he held out his hand, his eyes flicking to black as he used his telepathic powers to lift the trashcan into the air before chucking it straight at Tuxi.  The trash can connected with Tuxi, causing them to fly backwards away from Bai Yutong as Zhan Yao flew over to him.
“Yutong.  Are you alright?” he asked.  Bai Yutong looked over at him and smiled.
“You came” he whispered.  Zhan Yao huffed.
“Of course I did.  You fucking screamed my name in my head.  How could I not come” he replied.  Bai Yutong huffed.
“Remember, you’re a villain” he reminded.  Zhan Yao huffed and gave him a look.
“And you’re my best friend, who’s once again, getting his ass kicked” he stated, just as a fireball came soaring towards them.
“Look out!” Bai Yutong shouted, tackling Zhan Yao out of the way.  Both of them flew through air as the fireball fell towards the ground below, heading straight for a mother and young girl.
“Yutong!  The family!” Zhan Yao shouted.  Bai Yutong looked down, his eyes widening as he let go of Zhan Yao and flew towards the family, grabbing them and covering them with his body as Zhan Yao’s eyes flicked to black and he held out his hands, creating a forcefield around Bai Yutong and the young family just as the fireball crashed into it.  
~*~*~*~*~
Down on the ground, Bai Yutong continued to shield the family with his body when he heard the fireball explode yet he didn’t feel the heat or fire on his skin so he glanced up to see the fireball exploding on the forcefield Zhan Yao made.
“A freaking lifesaver, Cat” he murmured before he let go of the young mother and child, looking at them.
“Are you alright?” he asked.  The mother nodded as the little girl looked up at him, grinning brightly.
“Thank you, Mr. Knight!” she thanked.  Bai Yutong smiled and nodded before he shot into the air, since Zhan Yao had lowered it after the smoke cleared from the fireball explosion.  
“Freaking lifesaver, Cat!” he called out.  Zhan Yao looked over at him and narrowed his eyes.
“You’re ruining my image!” he exclaimed, a half-smile on his face.  Bai Yutong rolled his eyes and smirked, just as Tuxi suddenly slammed into Zhan Yao, both of them falling to the ground below.
“Cat!” he shouted, watching as Zhan Yao crashed onto the street like a meteor, creating a large hole in the road.
“So…you’re the Hypnotist…” Tuxi mused as they floated above Zhan Yao, who let out a groan as he looked up at them.  
“You and the White Knight know each other?  Interesting” he continued.  Zhan Yao snarled.
“Fuck you” he spat before he threw out a hand, a nearby car (thankfully empty) flying towards Tuxi.  Tuxi quickly dodged the attack as Bai Yutong flew at them, giving them a swift kick in the head.  Tuxi went flying, crashing into a nearby building as Bai Yutong flew down to Zhan Yao and held out a hand.
“Need a hand?” he teased.  Zhan Yao narrowed his eyes at him.
“Hilarious” he grumbled as he reached out and grabbed Bai Yutong’s hand, hissing as he stood to his feet.  While Bai Yutong was helping Zhan Yao stand, Tuxi pushed themselves out of the building they had crashed into and fell to their knees, hissing in pain.  They then looked up at Bai Yutong and Zhan Yao, snarling at them as they pushed themselves to his feet.  As they continued to look at Bai Yutong and Zhan Yao, they snarled again before they looked over and noticed a large crowd of people watching nearby.
“Try and save them from this” they hissed before they shot a blast of fire towards them.  
~*~*~*~*~
While Bai Yutong and Zhan Yao were talking, Bai Yutong looked up to see the blast of fire heading straight towards the crowd of people.
“Shit!” he exclaimed.  Zhan Yao looked up as well, his eyes widening before they flicked to black and he threw out a hand, creating a forcefield.  
“I’ll hold off the fire, you get the people out of here.  There will be too many casualties if we keep fighting here” he declared.  Bai Yutong nodded and flew over to the group of people, motioning for them to get the hell out of the way.  Most people didn’t need to be told twice, but there were those few who wanted to stay and watch and even video tape the fight.  Bai Yutong found those few irritating but placated them by assuring them that they could still film the fight if they got to somewhere where they weren’t in immediate danger.  Satisfied, the people left to go film the fight somewhere safe, making Bai Yutong huff before turning around to head back to Zhan Yao when a large boulder crashed into him, sending both of them through the glass windows of a nearby shop.
“Yutong!” Zhan Yao shouted, eyes wide in shock.  As he stared at the broken shop, he didn’t see someone come up behind him, a pipe held tightly in their hand.  The person then swung, the pipe connecting with the back of his skull.  Zhan Yao let out a grunt before he hit the ground, just as Bai Yutong sat up, watching as another Tuxi grabbed an unconscious Zhan Yao by the wrist and shot into the air, disappearing into the night.
“ZHAN YAO!” he screamed.  He quickly pushed himself to his feet and rushed out of the store, reminding himself to make sure to stop by and pay for the damages done before he shot into the air, flying after Tuxi and Zhan Yao.
~*~*~*~*~
When Zhan Yao awoke, he found himself in a kneeling position, his ankles chained to the floor while his arms were chained above his head.  Before him stood Tuxi, who was just looking at him with their hands on their hips.
“You’re finally awake” they greeted.  Zhan Yao narrowed his eyes at them.
“What did you do to me?” he asked.  Tuxi chuckled.
“Besides knock you out?  Strip you of your powers” they answered.  Zhan Yao’s eyes widened and he waved his hand to throw Tuxi across the room but found that he couldn’t.  
“No” he whispered.  
“How does it feel?” Tuxi asked, and Zhan Yao swore he could hear a grin in the bastard’s voice.
“To be powerless?” they continued as they took a step towards Zhan Yao.  Zhan Yao looked at them as he strained desperately, helplessly, against the chains that bound him, reaching inside himself for the power that should be thrumming through his veins, but he found himself empty; a hollow shell.
“Please” he begged.  Tuxi chuckled and Zhan Yao wished he could see who was behind the mask so he could give them a good kick in the teeth.  Once he got out of the chains, of course.
“Not so fun, is it?” Tuxi asked as they took a step forward, standing directly before Zhan Yao, trailing a finger down Zhan Yao’s shoulder.  Zhan Yao flinched at the touch, at Tuxi’s closeness, thrashing wildly against bonds he had no hope of breaking—not with his power gone, stripped away.  Panic hit him in full force, blurring his thoughts, burning in his chest, crushing the air from his lungs.
“Please.  I’ll do anything” he pleaded.  Tuxi chuckled as their fingernails dug into Zhan Yao’s shoulder, towering over their prisoner.
“Oh dear Hypnotist…it’s too late” they snarled, just as a metal pipe connected with their head, causing them to stumble and fall.  Zhan Yao looked over at them in shock before he looked up to see Bai Yutong looking down at him with glowing white eyes.
“Mouse” he whispered.  Bai Yutong grinned.
“It’s my turn to save you, Cat” he replied before he looked over at Tuxi, who was clutching at their masked head.
“It’s over, Feng Jie.  Did you really think I wouldn’t know who you were?” he snarled.  Tuxi looked at him before they reached up and removed their mask to reveal a man with light tan skin, brown eyes, and short black hair.  
“Always perceptive, Yutong” Tuxi, no Feng Jie, sneered.  Bai Yutong huffed.
“You might be able to hide your face, but you can’t hide your fighting skills” he replied before he pointed the metal pipe at him.
“How dare you go after Zhan Yao.  How dare you strip him of his powers” he snarled, his eyes glowing white.  Feng Jie snarled.
“Why are you so protective of him?” he demanded.  Bai Yutong growled.
“Because he’s my best fucking friend” he spat.  Feng Jie huffed.
“I thought I was your best friend” he replied.  
“I thought so too, until you go and wreak havoc across the city and kidnap Zhan Yao” Bai Yutong growled.  Feng Jie smirked as he looked at Zhan Yao.
“It’s unfortunate, Zhan Yao” he called out, making Zhan Yao look over at him and narrow his eyes.
“What’s unfortunate?” he asked.  Feng Jie smiled darkly.
“That you don’t have your powers to stop this” he replied before he pulled a dagger out of a hidden sheath in his boot and threw it at Zhan Yao, stabbing him in the side.  Zhan Yao cried out in pain as Bai Yutong’s eyes widened in horror.  He then turned and glared at Feng Jie, his anger so great that the ground beneath them began to shake.
“He’s going to die, you know.  That dagger is coated with my own special concoction of poisons.  He has maybe…five minutes, at best” Feng Jie stated.  
“Why?” Bai Yutong demanded, eyes glowing brightly.  Feng Jie smiled.
“Because I want you to know what it’s like to lose someone important to you.  I want to descend into darkness and madness until it completely consumes you.  And then you will know what happened to me” he declared.  Bai Yutong snarled.
“You’re trying to turn me into a villain?” he spat.  Feng Jie grinned.
“Of course” he replied.  Bai Yutong snarled and raised the pipe to strike Feng Jie with it when Zhan Yao weakly raised his head.
“Yutong…don’t” he croaked.  Bai Yutong looked back at him and gritted his teeth.
“But—” he started.
“If you kill him, you’re no better than him” Zhan Yao croaked.  Bai Yutong growled and dropped the pipe, making Feng Jie smirk.
“You heroes…always so weak” he sneered, just as the metal pipe levitated in the air and swung itself at him, hitting him directly in the temple.  Feng Jie immediately fell over, dead, and Bai Yutong looked back to see Zhan Yao glaring at Feng Jie, his eyes black.
“But I’m no better than him, so it doesn’t really matter” he declared.  Bai Yutong looked at him in shock.
“Yao…how…your powers?” he whispered.  Zhan Yao looked up at him and smiled weakly as his eyes returned to normal.
“One thing about telepaths…even if our powers have been stripped, give us enough time and we can generate just enough power to finish the job, if need be” he stated before his eyes suddenly rolled into the back of his head and he slumped.  Bai Yutong’s eyes widened and he quickly ran over to him, breaking the chains with his superhuman strength.  Zhan Yao’s body then fell forward, but Bai Yutong quickly reached out with arm and caught him, kneeling down while holding Zhan Yao close.  Once they were on the ground, Bai Yutong reached out and broke the chains around Zhan Yao’s ankles before pulling Zhan Yao into his lap.
“Yao” he whispered, but Zhan Yao barely heard the whispered word.  The world around him, swimming in and out of focus, and he could feel the blood, so much blood, seeping through his hanfu as he felt a stabbing pain in his side.
“You have to live.  You have to, you have to, you have to, please” Bai Yutong begged, hugging Zhan Yao tightly but carefully.  Zhan Yao cracked open an eye and looked up to see Bai Yutong looking down at him, his voice filled with pain and panic and something else Zhan Yao couldn’t name.  His eyes then slipped shut, feeling himself slipping away in a haze of blood and darkness, spinning away into nothingness…
“No!” Bai Yutong cried, desperation creeping into his voice as he looked at the knife in Zhan Yao’s side; he wanted to remove it but he knew that that was the only thing keeping Zhan Yao alive at the moment because the minute he removed it, Zhan Yao would bleed out even though he was bleeding rather badly now.  
“You can’t die…I’ll do anything you want, be anything you want, I promise.  Just live” he begged, voice hoarse and cracking, chest heaving with silent, broken sobs.  Zhan Yao fought to hold on to the words, to open their eyes to see something, to open their mouth to say something but he was slipping away, falling…falling…falling.
“Cat…please” Bai Yutong croaked, but it was too late.  Zhan Yao had slipped into unconsciousness, his body limp and still; his chest barely rising and falling.  Bai Yutong’s eyes widened as he looked the man up and down.
“Cat?  Zhan Yao?” he whispered.  There was no response.  Bai Yutong looked at him before he let out a growl and carefully picked him up, cradling him in his arms.
“Don’t worry, Cat.  I’m going to save you.  I promise” he whispered before he curled Zhan Yao closer to him as he shot into the air, breaking through the roof of Feng Jie’s secret hideout.  He then let out a sharp huff before he took off, heading to try and save Zhan Yao.
~*~*~*~*~
Bai Yutong soon arrived at a nearby hospital, rushing into the emergency room with Zhan Yao in his arms.
“GONGSUN!  GONGSUN!” he shouted.  All the doctors turned towards him before a tall man with tan skin, brown eyes, and dark brown hair rushed towards him, his eyes widening when he saw Zhan Yao.
“Wha—” he started.
“Don’t ask questions, Gongsun, he’s dying” Bai Yutong snapped.  Gongsun looked at him before he motioned for him to follow him over to a nearby gurney.
“Put him down Yutong.  I can’t get him to surgery if you don’t let him go” he stated.  Bai Yutong hesitated before he placed Zhan Yao down and stepped back as Gongsun and a team of doctors rushed Zhan Yao to the emergency room.  He then let out a sharp breath and reached up, removing his mask from his face before letting it fall to the floor.  All the doctors turned towards him before one of them walked over to him.
“Master Knight…why don’t you sit down?  You look like you’re about to collapse” they suggested.  Bai Yutong looked at him before he nodded and headed to the waiting room, not before kneeling to pick up his mask, which he quickly put back on.  
~*~*~*~*~
Bai Yutong sat in the waiting room for hours, going back and forth between sitting in a chair and pacing a deep groove into the waiting room floor.  After about the fifth hour, Gongsun came out of the emergency room, walking over to Bai Yutong.
“He’s going to be fine.  You got him here just in time, thankfully” he stated before Bai Yutong could even ask.  Bai Yutong let out a heavy sigh of relief as Gongsun placed his hands on his hips.
“How did he even get stabbed?  With his powers, he should have deflected it or at least created a forcefield” he stated.  Bai Yutong sighed.
“Feng Jie drained his powers” he replied.  Gongsun’s eyes widened.
“Feng Jie…wasn’t he a hero?” he asked.  Bai Yutong sighed and leaned his head against the wall.
“He was…till his girlfriend was murdered.  That sent him into a deep depression that he never recovered from and he just sort of…spiraled.  Apparently he came up with the alias “Tuxi” and began wreaking havoc.  I ran into him the other evening and he, quite frankly, kicked my ass.  I fought with him again today, with Zhan Yao’s help, and then he kidnapped Zhan Yao and…” he explained before he let out a heavy sigh.  Gongsun hummed before he crossed his arms.
“Zhan Yao needs to rest but you can see him tomorrow.  I suggest you go home; you look like shit” he deadpanned.  Bai Yutong huffed.
“Thanks” he grumbled before he stood up, letting out another heavy sigh.  
“Take good care of him, Gongsun” he instructed, looking the doctor in the eye before he turned and walked away.
~*~*~*~*~
The next day, Bai Yutong (dressed in normal clothing), walked into the hospital and over to the front desk.
“Patient Zhan Yao” he asked.  The nurse looked up at him before she motioned to a nearby room.
“In there, sir” she replied.  Bai Yutong nodded, thanking her before he walked over to the room and poked his head inside to see Zhan Yao sitting up in his bed, reading.
“Shouldn’t you be resting?” he asked as he stepped into the hospital room.  Zhan Yao looked up at him and smiled as he put his book down.
“I am resting” he replied.  Bai Yutong rolled his eyes as he walked over to Zhan Yao, sitting down in the chair next to his bed.
“How are you feeling?” he asked.  Zhan Yao nodded.
“A little weak, you know, the combination of losing my powers and poison” he answered.  Bai Yutong sighed.
“I’m sorry” he apologized.  Zhan Yao raised an eyebrow.
“For what?” he asked.  Bai Yutong looked up at him and motioned to him in the hospital bed.
“For this” he replied.  Zhan Yao waved his hand.
“This?  This is nothing” he assured, making Bai Yutong give him a look.
“Cat—” he started when Zhan Yao smirked.
“When I was dying in your arms, you said you would do anything or be anything I want if I just lived.  Do you really mean that?” he asked.  Bai Yutong blinked at him before he huffed.
“If I said  it when you were dying, then obviously” he replied.  Zhan Yao looked at him before he smiled.
“So you’ll do anything if I ask?” he asked.  Bai Yutong rolled his eyes.
“Yes, Cat, whatever you want, I’ll do” he replied.  Zhan Yao was quiet before he looked at Bai Yutong.
“I want…to go out on a date with you” he declared.  Bai Yutong looked at him in shock.
“What, seriously?” he exclaimed.  Zhan Yao nodded.
“Yes” he answered simply.  Bai Yutong narrowed his eyes.
“What kind of date?” he asked.  Zhan Yao shrugged.
“If you agree, then you can pick what kind of date we do” he answered.  Bai Yutong hummed.
“That’s a lot of power that you’re giving me, Cat” he reminded.  Zhan Yao smiled.
“I know you’ll make the right choice” he assured before he let out a yawn, covering his mouth.  Bai Yutong smiled fondly.
“You’re tired, Cat.  You should rest” he stated as he reached out, taking the book and placing it on the bedside table before looking at Zhan Yao.
“Just rest.  I’ll be here” he assured.  Zhan Yao smiled sleepily and nodded before he settled back against the bed, shutting his eyes.  Bai Yutong then lowered the bed so he would be comfortable before he reached out and took Zhan Yao’s hand, rubbing the back of it with his thumb.
“A date huh?  I can do that” he murmured before he looked at Zhan Yao.
“Alright, Cat.  It’s a date” he declared.  Even though he was asleep, Zhan Yao’s mouth quirked up in a smile.
“I look forward to it” he purred in Bai Yutong’s mind.  Bai Yutong rolled his eyes as he sighed fondly.
“Sleep Cat.  Just rest” he whispered.  Zhan Yao hummed and Bai Yutong watched as his body relaxed and his breathing evened out, a peaceful look on his face.  Bai Yutong continued to watch him, a small smile on his face as he rubbed the back of Zhan Yao’s hand with his thumb.  
It’s a date
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'Focus on one' : New chapter for "Redemption in a Spirit in a Cold War" is out !
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"Focus on one"
Chapter Summary : Bell has recovered from her wounds and is ready with Park to their next mission.....
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Warning : little NSFW content !
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I was finally happy to see Park back to the safehouse after we saved her from Perseus but my mind were going crazy will all the revelations that I've been facing just in one night : How I wasn't able to see that I was with Freya in a romantic relationship right under Perseus's nose ? I could have say that it was obvious and that I should have seen this coming but no, I was never thinking of that one simple second since I had my first memory back where she's present. It was obvious....and I didn't think of it.
My relation with Park.....is the only thing right now I can count on, I really love her to the bones. I have put my life in order to save hers and now, I'm still convinced that my love for her is so real. Freya....I don't know if I can save her but if I can, I had to explain her everything that happened to me three years ago and frankly, my old relationship with her....I don't think that it can't be enabled again. I still feel that link between me & her but I realize that love isn't a part of it anymore.
After I was able to see Park again after that night, the others finally agreed to put me with her as we can finally rest together and hopefully, no one has discovered about our relationship because and somehow, it was Adler himself who covered for us and we asked to him in private why he did this, he explained that he was suddenly feeling bad for what he did and to excuse himself about the numerous degrading words that he used to describe us and our relationship. I accept those ones but he know well that he can't be excused on the other big things that happened to me.
In terms of resting, we have spent 6 days in bed as I was also moving sometimes to get something as Park was still having her leg hurt and wrapped around a bandage. For me, it was my voice that was needing to rest so for myself, I had to not raise my voice too loud and talking too much as explained by the others because I could break it in no time if I did that and I didn't wanted to do it....meaning that I didn't talked to Park too much but at least, I was near her in case one of us had a problem.
During that 6 days, I didn't have big memories but it was better touching ones : a lot of them was about having dinner with Zasha & Dedov at their appartment while accompanied along the way with Beans that was mixing between stroking itself with me or the others. Others were minimal and very short like little flashbacks....and some were part of the fake ones I had in head thanks to Adler.
Tomorrow.... the 18th of April, we were finally able to go back to work but that's means that we had to spent a last night on those beds : my voice was finally back to normal and not sounding like an robot as Park's leg was healed at 100% and a final rest wasn't going to harm us.
I was walking in the snow in the middle of the night.....in the middle of a snow blizzard and by the looks of it, I was in the Urals Mountains, dressed in a black military suit with an little backpack behind. In my hands, I was using an PPsH-41, just keeping it around in case we're jumped by something but the only thing that could jump on me was Freya that was in front of me.
She was leading the way with an flashlight in her left hand, clearing our way to the path we were taking while in her other hand, she was keeping which I suppose to be an XM4. We were advancing slowly due to the strong blizzard until Freya stopped by herself.
"There !" She said loudly, aiming her flashlight in front of her, showing to me a cabin not so far from us. "Our place to hide !" She added before she started to continue walking more faster, meaning she was freezing and me too as we had nothing to cover our heads.
"Let's go inside before we froze to death." I admitted but she didn't hear me because of the wind that was very loud. I quickly followed her as we were finally arrived in front of the cabin that was big enough for the two of us. Freya opened the door, letting me enter before she closed the door behind me. "Ooof." I breathed, fully inside and putting my hands on my knees.
"That was quite an storm we faced !" Freya exclaimed, putting her gun on a nearby table.
"It wasn't that bad against the one we had last week." I scoffed, making her laugh as I redressed myself.
"Oh, yeah, last time, we lost our way to get here because you were the one to lead the way." She added, smirking at me. I rolled my eyes at hearing that..
"Maybe because my flashlight almost ran out of batteries." I shook my head, grinning at the same time as I was putting my own gun on the same table Freya put hers.
"Instead that we argue on last week, we should get ourselves well here." She exclaimed as she was removing her bulletproof vest and her holstler "Get the fireplace ready !" She ordered as she was finished with what she was doing "I'm gonna make some coffee."
Complying to her orders, I moved to get to the fireplace, removing my own equipment on the way and putting it on the couch. I took in hands some wood, that was inside a basket, inside the fireplace. Once it was ready withour forgetting fire starter between the wood, I take a lighter and I start the fire, giving to the room more heat.
Instead of going sit on the couch, I decided to stay next to the fireplace, sitting on a carpet to have more heat on me as I was still suffering from the cold from outside. I was slowly watching the fire, legs crossed in front of me before I take in hands the necklace, having now my look on it. It was the Perseus insignia and I wasn't looking happy to see it.
"Something's wrong ?" I didn't move my head as it was Freya arriving near me with our cups of coffee in hands.
"Yes, this...is wrong !" I replied, making the necklace visible for her as she was getting sit closely to me.
"Your necklace ?" She said, fully seated, giving in my free hand, my coffee.
"It's that insignia, I hate it so much." I then put my coffee away before with my both hands, I started to separate the insignia from the necklaca and after a few seconds, I was done. "I'm not fighting for his ideas, I'm fighting for me and my friends." I then threw the insignia into the fire without any regrets as Freya watched, not doing anything to stop me.
"How you're gonna explain that to him ?" She asked, sniffing before she took a sip from her coffee.
"I have nothing to explain, that's my choice, end of the story." I affirmed, looking at the insignia inside the fireplace before I looked at Freya. "I think I want to defect to the West, Freya."
"What ?" She said, shocked as she put her coffee down before she moved to face. "Are you actually meaning what you just said ?" She wasn't angry....just confused. I nodded.
"Back to the Lubyanka, I have discovered an CIA secret project in files I was sent by someone inside of their organizations & Perseus want to use it for his own benefits." I looked at her right in the eyes "They called it Greenlight."
"Greenlight ?" She repeated
"The americans....they have put nuclear bombs under multiples European cities, Perseus want to blow them up." I responded, giving her what I saw.....Greenlight...."As I saw in those files I decrypted with Zasha, they put them because they would like to counter an red invasion in case the US can't intervene quickly." I then start to breath more loudly "We wanted to burn those files with Zed but Perseus avoided us to do that, he saw it and took those files away."
"Calm down, Yiri !" She put her hands on my face as I was starting to panick in front of her.
"He's going to murder millions of innocents and it will be our fault because we decrypted those files."  I proclaimed, on the verge of crying as Freya was trying to calm me down "Zasha is fuckin' traumatized by that and they can't have a fucking sleep without thinking of it."
"Really ?"  Freya whispered
"They called me last night before our departure for the Yamantau, they said that they were crying in their bed each night and Dedov was shocked to see them like that." I replied, saying everything I had in mind. "Because of me, I put the entirety of Western Europe in danger."  I threw myself in her arms, finally crying.
"We can still stop him, you know ?" She tried to suggest but I know inside of myself that it's impossible to do.
"We can't..." I muttered in a low voice. "As I heard, everyone on top is for using Greenlight, no one will stop him....unless I defect."
"No, you can't do that !" She exclaimed, gently pulling me away to make me look at her. "I can't let you defect to the West."
"So, come with me, we can take Zasha, their...."
"No, Yirina, we can't !" She repeated, cutting me straight in my sentence. "It's too dangerous and if we did anyways, where will we go to and what do you think will happen to us ?" She asked, causing me to close my eyes to think.
"I don't know, maybe to the MI6.....or the BND.....or the SDECE." I replied at her first part, avoiding the second part on my own will. 'Since days, I've been facing an existential crisis and I hid it to you because I didn't want to see you in pain." She then grinned a little, getting our foreheads closer.
"I don't want to see you sad." She whispered, pulling me for a reconforting kiss on the lips. "I will never tell Perseus of your thoughts while we'll try to find a solution." Finally, I let myself going free, removing my sad thoughts out of me....but I was still feeling them in a part of my body. "Let me take care of you."
She then pulled me for a longer kiss as she started to remove my jacket and then my shirt to reveal my black bra. She redressed herself to slowly unzip her own combat suit, finding out that she wasn't wearing an bra at all..
"Freya...." I started, in a very low voice, seeing her perfect body getting visible to me until she was all naked on top and then, she put her index in front of my lips.
"Ssshhhh." She gave me some kiss to my neck going down with them before with her hands, she removed her pants too, revealing my black underwear that she put aside. "It's okay..." She said to me as she was positioned between my legs before she started to slowly lick my clint and slowly, I was getting filled with arousal and lust.....
"My god....Freya !"
"Yirina !" I could feel someone moving my shoulder slowly, trying to make me woke up and that what I did very slowly as my vision wasn't perfect at all. When I opened my eys widely, I realize that it was Park herself that was trying to awake me....and also realize what I was doing in my bed, my left hand under my shirt while the other was....under my pants, stroking my crotch. I quickly move to stop myself in fear.
"Shit, shit, shit !" I started to panick as I feared that she wasn't alone until I looked around to see she was the only one around, she then put her hand on my shoulder. "I'm sorry..."
"Hey, calm down." She ordered me, sitting on my bed, moving her hands to join mine.
"I had a dream : it was my fault that Perseus knew about Greenlight !" I started to said, vaguely explaining my dream, worried. "I wanted to defect, Park !"
"Really ?" I nodded "Damnit, when was that dream ?" I shrugged my shoulders, meaning that I didn't have a date but I supposed in my head that it was maybe 1 or 2 months before the events of Trabzon.
"I can't tell." I finally replied, calming myself down. "To explain....I was explaining this to Freya herself....before she decide to have sex with me....I think that I was masturbating because of that..." I told her the truth, making the link of that dream and my actions in bed. She wasn't looking angry or even mad, understanding that my memories can be very random.
"It's okay : you can't control about what we will arrive in your head." She exclaimed before she start to get up from my bed. "Go take a shower and join me in the main room." She then moved to kiss me on the lips before she broke it a few seconds later with an smile "Love you, Yiri !"
"Love you too." I whispered as she finally walked away from the dorm, walking perfectly fine, meaning that her leg has recovered by a lot.
Without losing any seconds once Park left the dorm that I decided to prepare some new clothes and directly go to the bathroom, getting myself in the shower in no-time, not forgetting to remove the clothes I had on. I was happy to not have any bandages on me or dressings but there were still a little scar exactly where I was shot, marking me. Anyways, I started to shower myself as.....my thoughts were getting mixed between thinking of Park and thinking of Freya....Freya....Park....Freya....Park....Park....Park. It was getting confused in my head.
At one moment, it was Freya and at a other, it was Park. I could see them both when I closed my eyes in front of me and they couldn't go away, facing me with an blank stare until I reopened my eyes clearly but still thinking of them. I'm loving Park...I was loving Freya. Both were alike in everything and I was troubled about that.....I need to stop thinking....stop thinking, Yiri !....I took a deep breath, trying to remove that thinking off me and after some attempts, I managed to get it out...it's Park.....
Finally, I go out of the shower, getting dressed in my....well...Park's clothes before I cleaned up my hair, giving it a good look at me. I must say that I'm liking myself with red hair by a lot, it make me look good, I think. I make myself a ponytail before I headed out of the bathroom, taking my watch that I left on my nightstand next to my bed before I could go out of the dorm to join the others.
I arrived in the main room as everyone were gathered around Adler's desk including Park as they were talking about something that I couldn't hear well, they were looking to talk each at the same time.
"Yirina !" Sims was the first to react of my presence, making everyone looked at me. He was sounding good in his voice.
"You're ready for the good news ?" Woods asked, damn enthusiatic as he approached me to shook hands and that what we did.
"Good news ?" I said, curiously as I was starting to shook hands with Mason that was just behind Woods "We got something ?" I grinned and Adler nodded
"Two news to say !" He replied before he get from his chair to move at me, proposing himself to shook hands with me and I reluctantly agreed "Good to see you back on work, kid !" He added while we were doing it....I swore, Adler !.....
"Which one you all want to start ?" I suggested, looking at everyone before Adler looked at the dashboard, at the part where I could see something new : Harry Stone's picture with intels on him.
"We discovered that Stone is the real mastermind of Perseus arms trafficking : 'Bonnie Blue' was just an front for him." Park was the one to respond as she has learned of it minutes ago.
"And we finally got our others buyers !" Sims moved next to the dashboard where he pointed to two new pictures : the first one was an man in a suit "Say hello to Remy Duvall..." He started about that picture "And to Amram Rabalwi !" He pointed at the other, a man in a irakian general uniform.
"Our politician and our general !" Woods scoffed, crossing his arms to think about it.
"Can I have more details on those two ?" I questioned, wanting to know more about those guys.
"Remy Duvall is an politician that is presenting himself for the next US elections as the founder of his own party : America First Party. He is based in the New Orleans." Sims answered that question while walking towards the side where there were intels about Duvall before he put his eyes on Adler.
"Amram Rabalwi is an Irakian general that is trying to gain the upper hand on Iran....before trying to take power in his own country." Adler took the lead, getting next to the side where Rabalwi's intels were.
"Two Perseus agents that is trying to take power in their respectives countries..." I start to think, putting my hand on my chin "Could be damn bad." I put my hands back around my waist, approaching the dashboard "If they both succeed, Perseus will have the upper hand."
"We are going to focus on those two as Stone is in the wild and impossible to locate."  Adler suggested, getting away back to his desk. "Our first target is Rabalwi and once we have dealed with him, we're focusing on Duvall !" He start to take his satellite phone in hand, wanting to make some calls until.....
"Wait !" I exclaimed, looking at the dashboard and pointing him with my right hand as I realized something "We can't only focus our attention on one of them." I proclaimed, turning around to face the others, looking at me with an weird look.
"Explain !" Mason raised an eyebrow, very curious
"If those two are linked, who tell that the other we will not have our focus will go into hiding after we have dealt with the first one ?" I looked at everyone's face, trying to found out if they were realizing the same, Park was the first one to see that.
"She's right !" She told everyone as she started to walk next to me "If we first kill Rabalwi, Duvall will flee and we will have no chances to have him for a long time."
"So, what do you propose ?" Woods asked
"I think....we should separate the team in two." I first replied, half-raising my hand with my lowered fingers. "Three of us will go to the New Orleans to take care of Duvall." I raised my right thumb, showing it with my other hand "The three other....is going to Irak to neutralize Rabalwi." I raised my right index finger, doing the same as before. Now, everyone realized what Park & me were saying and Adler was approving that idea.
"Sims ?" He raised his eyes to look at him
"Yeap, doc ?" Sims removed himself from the dashboard, called out by Adler
"You will go to the New Orleans with Yirina and Park !" Adler ordered, causing Sims to be kind of taken aback by it.....and me to be shocked as Adler finally said my name after more than 3 weeks in here.
"You're sure ?" Sims asked, biting his lips insecure. Adler nodded.
"I'm pretty sure of it, Sims." Adler answered as he took his satellite phone in hand. "You're the one in charge of the team to take care of Duvall. I will take care of Rabalwi with Woods & Mason." He gestured with his head, Sims's desk. "Time for you to prepare your mission and make some calls !" He then started to talk with his satellite phone as Woods & Mason go away to prepare their equipment as I was now with Sims & Park, near the dashboard, looking at Duvall's picture.
"So, I guess I don't have any choices...." Sims started, joking.
"At least, we have someone to take care off and you're the boss..." I exclaimed, almost joking as we were still focused on looking at Duvall's picture before Park looked at me with her right eye and winked at me, Sims not looking,
"Ready for an trip in the United States ?"
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Spidey Senses (pt. 6)
Peter Parker x reader
Summary: Having to keep up a lie is hard for Peter when you're trying to help him.
Word Count: 3366
Chapter 1 • Chapter 5
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"What do you mean finally?! This is bad. Really, really bad Ned. I shouldn't be thinking about her like that!"
"Dude, it's your feelings. You're gonna feel whatever way you do. You can't control that stuff."
"But this could ruin our friendship. I don't want that." Peter whined over the phone as he put his hand over his eyes, laying on his bed.
"Or~ maybe this could all work and you could score a girlfriend." Ned suggested, amusement laced in his voice. "I mean, I didn't want to be the first one to say this, but..."
"What?"
"Let's just put it this way. She's always had a cute heart. Over time, her heart got cuter and went straight to making her face kinda hot."
"Ned." Peter frustratedly said.
Ned gave him a goofy laugh. "You sound like your getting jealous or something."
Peter quickly sat up. "Do you think that'll happen?"
"Probably." He said nonchalantly. "All seriousness Peter, you should go for it. I always thought you two would be good together. There's just something there, trust me. And hey, you two could be the amazing spider couple. That'd be awesome."
"Spider couple." He smiled and laid back down. "You think people would make that, like, a ship name for us?"
"Dude, you could have a super girlfriend. How awesome does that sound?!"
Peter let out a chuckle. "That does sound pretty cool. Okay, thanks for the therapy session. Night Ned."
"No problem. Night." And with that Peter stayed up to think about you some more.
The next week at school went horribly. All Peter wanted to do was spend more time with you, but you kept pushing him towards Liz at gym class and in Mathletes. He felt so jealous whenever he saw you goofing off with Ned. You were a very touchy person, and every warm hug to Ned felt like Peter's arms were getting colder.
When Liz was finally busy, he went over to you and sat a little closer to you than usual. "Hey Peter." You greeted brightly. "Any progress?"
"On what?" He asked dumbly.
"Liz." You said quietly.
"Oh!" He voice cracked and cleared his throat. "Oh. Um, not really. I think I'm done for the day."
"Aw, Peter!" You rubbed his arm. "You shouldn't give up on stuff that's important to you."
He sighed, glancing at Ned's confused face. "Can't I just spend the rest of the day with you?"
You smiled and nodded, patting his cheek gently. Peter's phone buzzed and it was a text message from Ned.
Not Guy in the Chair: Why didn't you tell her how you feel?
He glanced at you working on your notes.
SM: I don't want things to be weird.
Not Guy in the Chair: The truth will set you free 🕊️🕊️
SM: Shhhh
You then took out left over brownies for Peter. He gladly took one as Flash came over, taking one out of the container as well. "Hey babe."
"Don't touch my stuff and never call me that." You closed your container and put it in your backpack. "What do you want Flash?"
"Just making sure you got a hot outfit for the party. Finally gonna show some skin?"
"I do have a costume. Peter was with me when I got it too. We had a lot of fun." Peter looked at you and smiled.
Flash then rolled his eyes. "Really? How could anyone ever have fun with Penis Parker?"
"Well we do." You tugged each boy at your side into a side hug. "Do you have a special trio that would do anything for you?"
He nervously scoffed. "I have more than two friends. Does every friend seem special to you when you're not popular?"
"If you called one of your friends in the middle of the night and told them to come over cause you're sad, would any of them do it?" He was silent as he looked down. "That's a special friend. Now goodbye."
"Y'know—"
"Good. Bye." You pressed, frowning.
"I—"
"Dude," MJ interrupted. "Know when you've been beat. Walk away."
He then did so, stomping away. You smiled and looked over to MJ. "Why do we not talk to each other?"
"Cause you're a loser." She said, matter-of-factly.
Though Ned and Peter have her a confused frown, your smile only widened. "What are you?"
"Friendless."
"Not anymore!" You exclaimed. The teacher then announced that the club session just ended. "We'll see you at lunch tomorrow then."
She stared at you for a moment. "...Okay, I guess. Bye." You could tell that she held back a smile as you excitedly waved at her before packing up.
You and Peter were walking home, when he asked about MJ. "I don't know." You said, shrugging. "I just feel like she's cool. My spidey senses can feel it."
"You say that about everything." He laughed.
"Because I'm always right about everything. It's a given." He chuckled again. "C'mon, don't you ever have intensified feelings about some things or people?"
He awkwardly smiled and nodded, looking away from you. "More than I should." He mumbled.
"Hm?"
"I said I should hope so."
"Well then, see? I'm right again." You grinned.
"Did your spidey senses feel that too?"
"Yup." You both chuckled.
Over the next few days MJ began to directly hang out with you and the boys, and she said that she would be going to the party as well. "I don't believe in stereotyping geeks out of parties, which is why I'm supporting you guys tomorrow." She explained with an almost unnoticeable smile.
"So generous." You teased back, Ned and Peter smiling as well. "What'll you be going as?"
"Oh, I'll be going as part of the impartial generation of today." She gave a sly smile.
"Nice, nice." You nodded contently before Flash came up to your table again. "Holy crap man, are you sure you even have friends? Why do you keep bugging me?"
"Just wanted to see what the new member of the Penis Parker group was like." He then nodded to Mj, to which she didn't respond. He then rudely waved his hand over her face. "Hello?"
She backed her face up as you smacked his hand away. "Leave her alone."
"What? This is probably the most exciting thing to happen to her. It's not like you guys have interesting lives." You and Peter looked at each other. "I'm guessing that's a no?"
"Well Peter and y/n know Spiderman and Spidergirl!" Ned blurted out.
Flash then did a breathy, wheezing laugh. "Are you kidding me? How would they know them?"
"The Stark Internship!"
"Ned, stop talking." You mumbled. Ned nodded and put his head down. "We met them a few times, so we don't really know them or anything, and even if we did were aren't supposed to talk about it."
"Well Peter," he ignored you. "If you're actually cool then why don't you invite them the the party?"
"Cause we wouldn't want to waste their time by having them go to some fanboy's party." You argued, knowing Peter would choke up if he answered.
Flash shrugged it off. "That's what I thought." He said as he left.
The next day you were talking to Linda while in your costume with your mini backpack slung over your shoulder. She was telling you about the job interview she's getting and how she's saving up the money from Tony's watch to rent an apartment in the building you live it. "I'm so happy right now Linda! You could totally be one of those super nosey neighbors, and I would pretend to be okay with it!"
"That would be a dream come true." She said as you both turned your heads to see Peter coming, also dressed up. "Just a few years older, and I would totally go for that."
You sighed. "You're such a creeper Linda."
"And you should loosen up and be more of a creeper." You gave her a look, and she only shrugged. "Just saying. Press on and go for it."
"Hey guys." Peter greeted with a smile. "Everything okay?"
"Yup!" You hopped off the steps you were sitting on. "Let's go."
"Okay. Bye Linda." Peter politely waved.
"Don't acknowledge her Peter, it makes her weirder."
"Don't be jealous that I'm more fun." She called out, smiling.
Peter chuckled and tried to put his hands in his pockets, only for his hands to slip from there being none. He didn't know what to do with his free hand that wasn't carrying the shield. He probably looked so awkward in front of you right now. This was so nerve wracking.
"Peter calm down." You suddenly said, causing him to jump a little. "It's my first party too, but we got each other. And we know Ned's gonna be there to be a dork, and Mj will be there to remind us how stupid we look. It'll be great."
He nervously laughed, scratching his head. "Yeah, I guess." He then became nervous just thinking about what would happen if you discovered this crush, especially at the party with Flash. "Y/n, what do you see in men?"
The question was unexpected, and your face felt like it was in flames. "What would you ask that?"
"Just wondering. I don't think I've ever seen you flirt with someone." He mentally sighed at the save.
"Mm, I guess he has to be nice, for starters. I'd want him to make me laugh, and care about me. I don't know, that's really it."
"Really? Only that?"
"Yeah?"
"Nothing with looks, or..."
"Peter!" You lightly smacked his arm and giggled. "You know I don't care about that stuff."
"You care about your own looks." He said quietly.
"That's different though." You grinned and tugged on his wrist. "We're here. C'mon."
Ned was waiting on the steps, looking up at you two in major relief. "Guys, tell me you brought the suits."
You both nodded. "Our suits aren't party tricks." You said. "This feels way too wrong."
"Yeah, I'm with y/n. Those suits are worth way too much to use for something like this." Peter added.
"Only for a few minutes. This is our chance for Flash to stop messing with us." Ned whined.
You huffed. "Okay, but only if Flash is being extra annoying."
The three of you walked inside and saw Flash trying to be a DJ, playing some basic techno music. He saw the three of you, and brought out his mic. "Hey Penis Parker, where's your superhero friends? That's not Spiderman, that's Ned in a onesie."
People began laughing, and you pursed your lips. "I'll be right back."
You left and went behind a building, opening your backpack and quickly changing into your hero outfit. You took a deep breath, and was about to swing in when you got a call from Peter.
"Dude, tell me she's doing it." You could hear Ned say.
"I don't know, I'm gonna ask her. Y/n?"
"Yeah?" You laughed out.
"Did you really put it on?"
"Yeah. Are you gonna join me or do you just want me to do it?"
"This doesn't feel right."
"Peter doesn't know what he's saying." Ned called out in a child-like tone.
"Ned's being mean to me." Peter responded in the same tone.
You giggled. "Look guys, I don't feel great about it, but Flash needs to be knocked down a peg. It hurts to see him treat you guys like crap. This is just gonna be a one time thing, right?"
"Right." Peter confirmed.
Ned remained silent, but Peter nudged him. He huffed. "Right."
"Okay, I'll be down in a bit." You then ended the call.
"So, I've been meaning to ask," Ned said. "But why does y/n still think you like Liz? I thought you were gonna tell her yesterday."
"I didn't know how to tell her the truth! I panicked!"
"You're hopeless." Mj said as she walked up to the two boys. "What happened to y/n?"
"She went to go get Spidergirl." Ned nodded for way to long as he said this.
"Wait," She looked genuinely surprised. "So you guys, like, actually know the Spider heros?"
"What was that?" Flash asked over his mic. "Is Penis Parker actually going to bring Spiderman and Spidergirl here?"
"Actually, um, Spiderman couldn't make it." Peter said before clearing his throat awkwardly. "But Spidergirl said she'd make an appearance."
Flash obnoxiously laughes into the mic. "Can anybody believe this guy?"
You then swung in. "I do." You raised your hand playfully as everyone began cheering. "You guys were expecting me, right?"
Everyone cheered again. "Oh my God." Flash said in a high pitched manner.
You grabbed Ned by the shoulders. "It's Ned, right?" You asked over the music, loud enough for everyone to hear. "I've heard good things about you."
"All true." He showed his goofy smile.
You patted his cheek. "I bet!" You turned and walked over to Peter, giving him a big hug. He returned it, finding the hug oddly comforting considering everyone was staring. "Peter! It's been a bit, huh?"
He awkwardly chuckled. "Yeah. Thanks for coming."
"Of course! When I heard from SM that the Peter Parker finally had time for a party, I knew I had to come and see it for myself! Maybe my partner could join in next time, yeah?"
"We... Um..." He kept doing his little pant–laugh thing that he does when he doesn't know what to say. "Yeah."
You moved over to look at Mj. "You go by Mj, right?" She nodded. "Y/n tells me you're super opinionated and awesome."
She smiled and shrugged, tucking back some hair. "I just kinda say whatever comes to mind. I don't really think before I talk sometimes."
You tapped her chin. "I love it. Never change." You then clapped your hands. "Now! Where's Flash Thompson?"
Everyone pointed to Flash, who quickly turned down the music. You swung to him quickly and caused him to back up into a small table, awkwardly steadying it. "H... Hi."
"Hi Flash. I wanted to let you know that me and Spiderman keep tabs on our friends, to make sure they're okay. We're pretty protective, y'know?"
"Yeah, yeah. I totally get that." He kept awkwardly nodding.
You nodded and patted his cheek. "I knew you would, so I need you to keep an eye on Peter and Ned while me and SM can't. Can you do that for me?"
"Yes, yes I can. I could do anything for you."
"Thank you Flash." You patted his arm, to which he looked at his arm in amazement. "Amazing. Okay, I gotta go. But remember, I keep tabs on your school, so I'll be watching!"
You then walked around for a bit taking pictures and talked to some people. You suddenly felt goosebumps all over and excused yourself, flying out and looking around. You saw a small blue explosion in the distance and quickly texted Peter.
He came as soon as he could and you explained the situation. Unbeknownst to the two of you, Mj noticed Peter leave quickly after you did. She also noticed that you weren't in sight while Spidergirl was here.
"Okay, okay. I, I need to change!" He then quickly took off his shirt and started unbuckling his pants, looking up to you dumbly staring at him. "Uh..."
"Sorry!" You quickly turned around and look off your mini backpack, plopping it down next to yourself. It had Peter's suit folded inside. "That was partially not my fault. You gotta warn somebody before you start stripping next time."
"Next time?" He asked teasingly. "You say it like you want it to happen again."
Truth be told, neither of you knew where this new found confidence of Peter came from to tease you like that. It was almost like he was flirting. You liked it though; it was as if he was becoming more confident and mature with himself.
Your face was hot as you grinned at the ground. "Well, you gotta pay for whatever expensive college you're gonna get into somehow. And I'll come visit at the strip club to support my best friend."
He hugged you with one arm from behind. "So supportive. Maybe the reason I'm a stripper is to support the both of us."
You chuckled and rubbed his arm. "My hero."
He turned you around and handed you your backpack. "This is a cool backpack, by the way. I like the mini things of Thor."
"Thank you." You said, awkwardly taking the backpack. "Now let's go."
Neither of you could get some webbing to hold onto any tree in the area, so instead you both ran across a whole field, looking kind of comical. By the time you two got there this one man was showing another some high tech weapons. You were getting closer to listen in, and it sounded like the guy wasn't interested in what the others were trying to sell.
"Why you trying to upsell me man?"
The other two guys didn't like this, and were slowly getting angrier. You tried to get closer, but Peter's phone went off from Ned calling him. You both hid as Peter fumbled to end the call, and the two merchants assumed the buyer was setting them up because of the noice. In an instant there were two guns pointed at the buyer.
"Woah, woah!" You yelled as you and Peter came out, hands up. "C'mon guys, I promise he wasn't turning his back on you two. And I'm a good guy; good guys don't lie."
"Really, if you guys are gonna shoot at anybody, shoot at me." Peter said with seriousness. "I'm the real threat."
The two guys looked at each other and pointed their guns at the both of you. "Okay."
You both dodged their shots and flung their guns away with your webs. You tried to shoot at the wheels of the car but the man with an electric glove shot at you, causing you to fling back. You noticed that the buyer hesitated to go and help you, but decided not to and instead hopped in his car and drove away.
When you got up they were getting in the car so you and Peter shot a web to the door. The door broke off, but Peter shot another web to the car to have you two ride the door.
"Hey, I got a really stupid idea!" You yelled out as the guy in the back of the van was reaching for a gun.
"Go for it!" The van hit a sharp turn, and you took this as chance to let go of the door and leap to a tree, using your strength to push and dive head first into the van.
"Woah, I did it!" The shocker guy tried to punch you with his electric glove, but you dodged it. "Someone's bitter!"
You began to go on a defensive position and dodge his contact hits and fires in the narrow van, until Peter shot a web at him that pinned one of his hands to the side of the van. He used the other hand to shoot at Peter, blasting him into a backyard.
"I'm okay!" You heard him yell out from a distance.
You slammed the shocker guy to the ground and pinned his hands and feet to the ground. You stood and shot web to cover his mouth as well. "That was a pretty rude thing to do, but I guess two v one isn't fair. Then again, you're are a bad guy."
You remembered that you had your backpack on this whole time, and took it off to hug it.
"Mh. Once again, Thor backpack comes in clutch. Odinson, you can me do no wrong." You opened your backpack and put some small weapons in it, zipping it up and putting it back on. You looked outside before turning around to talk to the man pinned on the ground. "I wonder where Spiderman went. It's all good though, I'll stop the car—"
You were cut off by something grabbing you and yanking you back. You yelped as you were whipped into this huge lake. The water hit you painfully and you began to see spots, seeing a flash of a man with mechanical wings. You almost didn't feel something bring you up.
"Thanks ma..." You looked up and winced. What was carrying you was the Iron Man suit. "Uh oh."
"I have some words for you two."
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Can you do winterfalcon13 (idk if that's the ship name for the trio but I'm going with it) and a college au where a some jerkbag won't leave Sharon alone, and Sam and Bucky, who she shares a class with but hasn't really talked to them, come along and scare the guy off. And Sharon is like 'thanks but I had that covered tbh' and then they become this trio that does like everything together and the rest of their friend group just thinks they should date?
It was Bucky who first noticed Sharon, honestly. She was always early to the class, sat in the middle section but on the edge of said-middle section, and she took notes and left promptly. She rarely asked questions, always had ear buds in, and wore the same pair of beat-up, white Converse shoes every day. 
“You have got to stop staring or she’ll catch you one of these days,” his boyfriend mutters. 
“I’m not staring Sam,” Bucky hisses. “Quit it.” 
“Okay sure, you’re not staring. You’re just looking at her all the time and I guess we’re not gonna call it staring.” 
“I hate you,” Bucky grumbles. 
“Oh really? Because I didn’t get that feeling last night when-” 
“Class is beginning, shut it.” 
Sam laughs and rolls his eyes, but stays quiet. 
Well. A guy starts sitting next to Sharon every single class. 
Sam and Bucky are annoyed. They think she is too, judging by the different seats that she’s tried out. But the guy won’t stop talking to her and she seems to be trying to let him down gently, but it’s not working so far. 
Sam is worried that it may escalate to homicide with witnesses, so he decides to take the initiative (because god knows Bucky won’t) and sit next to her the next time that they have class. 
“Hey,” he says. “Noticed you have a guy who bothers you every class. Can’t promise Bucky here won’t be a royal pain in the ass, but we’ll keep him away.” 
“I had it handled,” she says. “But thanks. I’m Sharon.” 
“Nice to meet you. I’m Sam.” 
“Bucky.” 
And then the guy comes in. 
“Hey, uh, this is my seat?” He asks, way too much confidence brimming. “So if you could...?” 
“Not your seat,” Sharon answers boredly, flipping to her notes. “And these are my friends Sam and Bucky. If you bother me again, I’m kicking the shit out of you.” 
The guy nervously laughs. 
“You wouldn’t.” 
“She’s done it before,” Bucky answers, rolling his sleeves up. “And she’s usually the one to leave ‘em worse than I do.” 
This time, he pales. 
“I suggest you find a new seat,” Sam says coolly. “Maybe write your name on the back or something.” 
“O-okay.” His legs shake as he goes to the exact opposite of where they are, and Sharon snorts. 
“You two...are okay. Hm. You wanna get lunch with me after this?” 
Sam and Bucky look at each other. 
“Sure.” 
-
From there starts a great friendship. Where Sharon is, Sam and Bucky can’t be too far behind. 
They all enjoy time together. When Sharon’s roommate turns out to be nearly-crazy, she asks if she can use their spare room. There’s no complaint there, especially not after she lugs her candle collection in and reorganizes the bowls in the cabinets. 
“She’s a wizard,” Sam swears as he’s cooking breakfast. “I’ve never felt more efficient in my life.” 
“She’s a dream,” Bucky mumbles from his coffee cup. “I’m serious.” 
“I know you are, idiot,” Sam says, chucking an orange at him. “Now eat some goddamn food before you complain to me at ten-thirty in the morning that you want an early lunch.” 
Sharon wanders into the kitchen, sleepy as hell and already moving towards the coffee pot. She frowns when there isn’t any more. 
“Chill with your frown, sugar,” Bucky drawls. “We can make you more.” 
She grunts again and nearly slams her head into Bucky’s shoulder. 
“Oof,” he gets out, moving her closer to his chest. “You have a hard head, but not that hard. You’ll get a concussion next time you slam into my shoulder like that.” 
“Better than my stupid fucking ceramics final,” Sharon says. “I hate that fucking class and all the stupid bowls.” 
“Hey, we value your bowls,” Sam says. “Especially the one with the thumb rests so that we always have a hand on them!” 
Sharon glowers. 
“I don’t know why you always keep my fucked-up bowls, Sam.” 
“They’re funny,” Sam says. “And a conversation starter.” 
Bucky sets Sharon down where he was sitting and moves towards the coffee, getting a fresh pot started. 
“You’re too nice,” Sharon says. “Good morning, Sam. Are you making eggs?” 
“Already made some for you.” 
“You amaze me every single day,” Sharon says. “Seriously.” 
Sam and Bucky grin at her, and Sharon grins back. 
Natasha, Bruce, and Thor all think that Sam, Sharon, and Bucky are the stupidest people alive. 
Not just those three, however. But they’re the ones who talk about it the most. 
Sharon will not date Bucky and Sam because she thinks that they are perfectly happy together and they don’t need a third person, and she’ll fuck it up. 
“If anything, she’ll be the best thing that’s happened to them,” Thor says. “Why can’t they see that?” 
“Because they’re all stupid as shit,” Bruce says. “And they think that everyone doesn’t like everyone, or something. Very messy. We haven’t seen this much mess since Tony and Rhodey, and even then it wasn’t that bad.” 
“Yes it was, Rhodey was convinced that Tony just liked him as a friend even when Tony kissed him,” Natasha deadpans. “We can get them together. We’ll just have to be sneaky.” 
-
They are not sneaky.
-
At least, not according to Sharon. 
“You have got to stop telling Bucky and Sam that I look gorgeous and that they need to compliment me,” Sharon hisses. “They think you’re being weird.” 
“You’re being weird,” Natasha responds. “Besides, you should ask them out!” 
“They’re in a relationship,” Sharon hisses. “And they don’t like me like that, they have each other for that.” 
“You don’t know that!” Natasha argues. “You literally have no idea if they don’t like you romantically, you’re stupid!” 
“I’m not stupid!” 
“You kind of are,” Tony says, breezing into the kitchen. “Also, if you two don’t shut up then Rhodey’s going to spread lies and he’s been bored for like two months.” 
-
Meanwhile, Bruce is challenging Sam and Bucky. 
“You ask her out or I swear to god I’ll convince Steve to ask her out on a date.” 
“You wouldn’t dare, you banned Steve from talking to you for five months!” 
“I banned him from talking to me, I didn’t ban myself from talking to him.” 
“Still, you would never stoop so low,” Bucky says casually. “I’m getting another drink.” 
Steve stares. 
“You know, I’m right here.” 
“Silence!” Bruce announces. “Go fetch me some chicken nuggets.” 
“No.” 
“I thought you weren’t allowed to talk to me!” 
Steve extends a middle finger, getting up and going to find Clint. 
-
Sharon watches as Bucky wanders into the kitchen, grabbing his glass and reaching up for the drink. 
“Hey, how’s it going out there?” 
“Bruce is trying to antagonize Steve into causing a fight, I think.” 
“That’s my cue to go get him,” Thor sighs. “He’s been trying to cause trouble for like a month.” 
“Have a good time,” Nat teases. “I’ll go find Steve and talk to him for a bit.” 
This leaves Sharon and Bucky alone, at least until Sam comes in. 
“You doing okay, Sharon?” Sam asks. Sharon nods, stirring her drink around. 
“Yeah, Nat’s just giving me shit.” 
“About?” 
“Relationships,” Sharon responds glibly. Bucky and Sam share a look. 
“You wanna be in one or something?” 
“I mean, sure, but like? I don’t know,” Sharon shrugs. “Guess it would have to be the right people.” 
Bucky spills his drink. 
“Oh shit,” Sam curses. “So you like...more than one person?” 
“Depends,” Sharon says. “But yeah, I do.” 
She swivels off of her bar stool. “I’m gonna go challenge Pepper to a game of Mario Kart if you two wanna join. But I think we’ll be ready to go home soon.” 
Sam shoots a look to Bucky. 
Home may have a different definition quite soon. 
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