#The Foster Legacy; Ficlets

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Difficult

(More ficlets as I try to ease my way back into writing.)

Michael Guerin is “difficult.” Alex knows all about being “difficult.”

He was difficult when he looked too long at Kyle Valenti at thirteen. He was difficult when he got his nose pierced at sixteen. He was difficult every Christmas when he talked back. Because apparently saying anything is talking back. And being silent is being sullen which isn’t in the Christmas spirit and definitely means he’s being “difficult.”

Michael thinks he’s not easy to love. Because he’s loud, and chaotic, and he gets into stupid bar fights and fucks women he doesn’t know. As a kid he believes he was disobedient, difficult, a little shithead.

It’s easier to believe the problem is you. After all, you’re the only constant in a parade of terrible foster homes. Twelve foster homes, and not one person loved Michael Guerin. He must be unlovable.

Alex copes by controlling his life. He has a schedule. He knows when he wakes up, when he goes to sleep, and what he eats for dinner. Every choice is carefully researched beforehand. No one makes choices for Alex Manes anymore. He’s his own man.

Michael copes by embracing the chaos. He lived in his truck for three years before he saved up money for the airstream. Nothing is guaranteed. Might as well say what you want, drink what you want, fuck it up as much as you want. It doesn’t matter.

He doesn’t matter.

Michael Guerin came into this world with a family and within three months he was alone. He figures he’ll be alone forever.

Alex Manes has a family. He’s a Manes Man. He has a “legacy.”

He doesn’t want it.

His family hates him. A family is supposed to be unconditional love, but his family was full of cold nights, bleeding backs, and an aching familiar loneliness that will never go away.

At seventeen, they met for one cosmic moment. Everything aligned. It was perfect.

And then Jesse Manes opened the door.

And Michael left with nothing to remember Alex by but a ruined hand.

Love isn’t easy. Alex is okay with difficult. He’s always been difficult. Michael and Alex can be difficult together.

Ten years. It takes ten years for things to fit. For things to stop being squares trying to be shoved into circular holes.

It’s not easy. But they make it work. Things can be simple if they try hard enough. If Michael stops using metaphors and Alex actually says what he’s feeling. Things can fit. Michael fits perfectly in the curve of Alex’s body as they sleep. Alex spends the night inhaling the scent of the conditioner Isobel bought and demands Michael uses.

Alex fits into the dinner time routine between the garlic bread and the lasagna. Michael makes it work. Quick kisses between dishes washed.

Two difficult boys make things simple just by deciding love is a verb. They’ll work on it every day for the reward of effortless kisses, and nightmare free nights. Michael Guerin is difficult to love, but Alex finds it simple.

[atomheartz]

Fosterson Week Day Two: Canon Divergence

Summary: How would the Battle of Wakanda turn out if there were two Thors instead of one?

Word Count: 982

Notes: I know this is hella late, but I’m glad I got it written. And due to today’s tragic news of Stan Lee’s passing, I included a small nod to him, and his legacy, within the ficlet. Enjoy!

Red rubber boots walked along the grassy hill. A small, handheld device had begun beeping rapidly as the boots crossed over the hill. In the distance, a few pieces of stone, and a wooden shaft, lay forgotten near the cliff. But, as a woman approached the pieces, the beeping grew stronger, and the pieces seemed to shake.

“The signal is definitely growing stronger —” the woman muttered, and in the distance, thunder rolled. She continued forward, ignoring the calls from another dark haired woman some several feet behind her. As she neared the broken pieces of stone, her brows pinched together, and the beeping device went wild.

“Wait a minute… this, this looks like Mjolnir. But… but that’s impossible,” she whispered, turning her device off. There was a sort of stillness in the air, and at her feet, the scattered stone seemed to hum and vibrate. Another clap of thunder echoed in the distance, but it seemed closer the second time around. Then, she was reaching down, her hand drawn to what looked like the hilt of the hammer like a magnet. She hadn’t seen him in months, but maybe, just maybe, she could see him again.

“Jane, what’re you doing?” Darcy Lewis called, hiking up the hill.

But rather than answer, Jane’s fingers closed around the hilt of the hammer, and the thunder rolled again. And it was right on top of them. The pieces of the hammer sparked, they crackled, they buzzed. Small lightning bolts snapped from piece to piece, drawing them back together into one whole hammerhead. And in a sudden burst of light, the head of the hammer snapped back onto the hilt, and a vortex of thunder and lighting shot down from the sky, engulfing the astrophysicist.

“Jane!” Darcy screamed, stopping dead in her tracks. The sudden winds whipped her hair around her face, and it knocked her onto the ground. Then, with a final clap of thunder, the wind died down, the lightning vanished, and the vortex disappeared. But, standing in the center of a ring of scorched grass was not Jane Foster. Or was it?

“Jane?” Darcy asked softly, slowly climbing to her feet. Before her, there was a woman in sleek, shiny, and powerful looking armor. A winged helmet covered her head and her eyes, and her hair was blonde and flowing. In her right hand, in a firm grip, was Mjolnir, sparking and whole once again.

“Darcy?” Jane asked, removing the helmet with one hand. She blinked, looking around the field. No one else was there.

“Whoa, you look… you look like the lady version of Thor,” Darcy said, walking up to her friend.

“I feel like the lady version of Thor.”

“What… what’re you gonna do?”

“Considering I’m worthy… I’d better give this hammer a reason to think that.”

***

It was only a matter of time before the mighty Lady Thor arrived on the battlefield in Wakanda. The minute she’d gotten distress call from Sam Wilson, she was there. After reassuring Darcy she’d be back in no time, she took off, the thrill of flying never once getting old. As she neared the Wakandan fields, she saw an axe go flying through the creatures that were bearing down on her fellow heroes. And with a smirk, she began to rocket downwards, Mjolnir sparking in her hand.

“Excelsior!” she cried, creating a burst of lightning as she landed. It wiped out the monsters nearest her, and it paused their attacks for only a second. When the dust settled, Jane was spinning Mjolnir around, a small smirk on her face.

“Looks like this needs a woman’s touch,” she chuckled, and in a split second, the battle resumed.

Yet Thor couldn’t help but look at her. The way she moved, the ferocity within her, the gleam in her eye, it all seemed so familiar. Even as he sliced through his foes, calling down lightning like she had just moments before, his eyes still traveled back to the woman. The woman who held the once broken Mjolnir. And before his eyes, she was knocked to the ground, tackled by two aliens who’d avoided her lightning blasts. With a shout of his own, he flung his axe towards her, wiping out her assailants and kicking up another cloud of dust. When it finally settled, and the woman stood, he noticed her helmet was feet away from her. And he could finally see her face.

“Jane?”

She froze, but then stuck out her hand for Mjolnir. It came to her, and with amazing strength, she slammed it into the head of another alien.

“Long time, no see. I like the hair,” she said, tucking her own behind her ear.

“I… thank you. I see you’ve fixed my hammer.”

“Well, not quite. It fixed itself. I just happened to be worthy enough to lift it.”

A sudden roar caught both of their attention, and a larger alien was charging them.

“Together?” Thor asked, gripping his axe.

“Together.” Jane nodded, spun Mjolnir, and launched herself into the air with him.

“For Midgard!” they shouted, and in a burst of light, the pair struck the creature, killing it instantly. The battle raged on below them, but Thor couldn’t help himself. He pulled Jane to his chest, and he planted a firm, yet passionate kiss to her lips. Time froze, and he felt her return the kiss, cupping his face with one hand as something exploded nearby. When they parted, her eyes glittered, and he felt a grin on his face, the first one in days.

“I missed you, Jane. Please, forgive me for all I’ve done,” he whispered, sending his axe down to cut through more aliens.

“And I you, Thor. And you’ve always had my forgiveness. Perhaps we can start over, but not now. We’ve got a battle to win.”

“I enjoy this side of you.”

“I enjoy it, too.”

[not-so-innocent-bi-sander]

My Writing and Stuff!

Here’s all the things I have written so far! It’s organized by:

Long Chaptered Stories, Romantic Stories (which are organized then by ship), Platonic Stories, Headcanon Posts, and then Misc which includes my mini cosplays and nail art! I added a cut because this post is getting waaaaay too long! I hope you enjoy!  Also for all my little tiny fics that I don’t link you can check the tag #jordan’s mini fics 

Chaptered Fics

A Game of Chess - Logince/Moxiety high school au, Roman and Logan are playing the long game (Complete)

All You Knead Is Love - Eventual LAMP/CALM - Bakery AU (Complete)  All’s Faire in Love and Lore - Eventual LAMP/CALM(+demus) - Renaissance Faire AU (Complete) Becoming His Own Hero -  Logince/Sleepceit - superhero/mutant AU

From Time Immemorial - LAMP/CALM - Vampire/Soulmate Timers AU (Complete) Nightlife and Nightlights - Royality - Famous/Single Dad AU (Complete)

Overcoming a Legacy - Prinxiety - High School AU (Complete)

The Power That’s In(Side) - Familial Lampt - Pokemon AU Rom(an) Wasn’t Built in a Day - Roceit - Theater AU (Complete)

The View From Here - Prinxiety/Logicality - Tall/Short AU- TallSmolAu Uneasy Lies the Head - Royality - royal au (Complete) You Can Picani Family You Like - Royality/Analogical - familial prinxiety, adoption/fostering family AU (Complete)

Romantic Stories - Sorta organized by ship

His Artwork - Lamp/Calm Soulmate/Writing on Skin AU

Love is Vibrant - Lamp/Calm Soulmate/Seeing Color AU

Strings - Lamp/Calm Soulmate/String of Fate AU

Color by Numbers - Lamp/Calm Soulmate/Tattoo AU 

Lockets - Lamp/Calm Soulmate/Mystical Item AU Music To Their Ears - Lamp/Calm Soulmate/Shared Music AU

The Thought That Counts - Lamp/Calm Soulmate/Thoughts on Skin AU With a Touch of Love - Lamp/Calm Soulmate/Rainbow touch AU

His (Rather Intense) Words - 2nd part Lamp/Calm Soulmate/Word Tattoo AU

Don’t Quote Me On This - Lamp/Calm + Demus Soulmate/Soulquote AU The Spoopy Taste of Love - Lamp/Calm Soulmate/Shared Taste AU ficlet

On Powerful Wings - ch2 Lamp/Calm Wings AU

TGTTCOOPSI - Lamp/Calm, human au, hospital/fire 

Anatomy Lesson - Lamp/Calm, human au, Patton needs help studying (ficlet)

Laundry Day - Lamp/Calm Patton does everyone’s laundry 

Rumors - Lamp/Calm College Professors AU, Who’s dating who?

Dance With Me - Lamp/Calm (Royality) Patton and Roman play in the rain OMG TWR - Lamp/Calm Roman has hot roommates and no chill, ficlet A Student of Language, Lamp/Calm Logan knows exactly how to make sure his boyfriends know he loves them, ficlet Sleeping With the Fishes - Intruloceit/Anaroyality, Soulmate/Communicate through dreams au The Brothers Flynn - Prinxiety/Losleep/Demus Virgil and Logan are having a time The Appendectomy - Intrulogical/Moceit/Prinxiety soulmate AU, Remus has to get his appendix removed Scientific Interest - ch2 Intrulogical/Moceit/Prinxiety college au, Logan hasn’t met the brother Roman talks about just yet Get a Loaf of These Guys - Prinxiety/Intrulogical, Janus just absolutely clowns his twin sons (ficlet) For Your Entertainment - 3 ship song fic, right brain boys are dramatic Stranger Than Fiction - Demus/Logince bookstore au, Declan meets an interesting regular customer at his new job. College Party - Analogical/Royality Patton/Roman drags Virgil/Logan to their first college party

Cold Nights and Christmas Lights - Prinxiety/Logicality Virgil gets dragged to a Christmas tree lighting

We Make Sense - Analogical/Royality about V/L first dating

The Reunion - Prinxiety/Logicality Roman needs a date 

The Boy Across The Hall - Analogical/Royality college au/pining/disaster gays Idle Worship - Royality/Intrulogical, royal au, the princes are cursed and need true love’s kiss

Only One Chance at a First Impression - Intrumoceit, Soulmates + super powers The Royali Treatment - Royaliceit, Janus is having a rough morning

Drawings - Analogical Virgil meets some cute kids while volunteering

A Nocturnal Valentine - Analogical Valentine’s Day with a Vampire boyfriend

Virgil’s Hoodie - Analogical Virgil shares his hoodie and his method to de-stress

Welcome to My World - Prinxiety fic where Virgil helps Roman  

Guitar Lessons - Prinxiety Human AU

ePals - Prinxiety College AU, meeting as ePals

Romance in the Air... Port - Prinxiety Human AU, single dad Virgil, airport A Prince Among Men - Prinxiety Royalty AU, parental royality (son Roman)

It Just Dad to be You - Prinxiety College AU, parental royality (son Patton) September Song - Prinxiety Famous AU, Roman writes a song to find his boy The Best Worst Day - Prinxiety Long Distance AU, Virgil finally going to meet his boyfriend, what could possibly go wrong?

Royal Woes - Prinxiety Virgil is babysitting his crush’s little brother

A Birthday Party - Logicality Single Dads AU, boy invited to his friend’s party A Family of Dragons - Logicality Family AU, Logan learns something he didn’t know about himself, thanks to his husband and sons

The Vet - Logicality, Logan has a sick dog, two sons, and a new veterinarian (ficlet)

A Royal Evening - Logince, College/Human AU, fake dating

Language Barrier - Logince, Coffee Shop/College

The Eye-Deal Family - Logince, tiny!Patton, adopting their little boy Outfoxed - Logince, Soulmate AU, Animal Companion AU, Roman’s companion is.. Taxing. What could his soulmate possibly be like? Don’t Judge a Book by its Sexy Sexy Cover - Logince, Logan is painfully gay and he has a type, ficlet Staring Him in the Face - Logince, Roman is on the hunt for his secret admirer, ficlet In Plain Sight - Logince, Roman has a crush, and is pretty, dumb, and pretty dumb, ficlet What Goes Around... - Logince, Logan shows up to a high school reunion His Berry Best Work - Logince, Chef Roman wants to pick some berries Bird Brained - Intrulogical, Human AU, Remus tries to recover Logan’s memory Won’t You Sea Me Home? - Moxiety Mermaid AU, Virgil is drawn to the ocean

Logan Punches a Guy - Moxiety High school/human au, ficlet

His King - Royality Royal AU, trans!Patton First Mates and Soulmates - Royality Pirate/Soulmate AU, Patton stows away (ficlet - I wrote this just for a pun)

Monsterously Difficult Seasons - Royality Monster AU, dealing with seasons

Patton Does Some Cooking - Royality Patton sets out to make a meal 

Falling Asleep in the Hospital Room - Royality where Roman gets hurt  His Hero - Royality Patton gets stood up and someone comes to the rescue (ficlet) A Surprise October - Remile fake dating, Remy has to think fast

Sizeable Soulmates - Moceit soulmate au Guard My Body (With Your Body) - Rosleep bodyguard/famous au

SquirtleSquadWrites Writing Challenge!

Platonic Stories

Inflated Ego and Heightened Anxiety - A fic based on the idea that the sides are affected a little when Thomas utilizes their functions

The Dragon Witch’s Monster Curse - A story about the sides being turned into classic movie monsters

I’m Trash - Virgil lives a trash life doesn’t think anything of it (vampires)

The Sides Shenanigans- Tiny-Mudkip - Short story based on comic by Tiny-Mudkip

A New Hobby - Flexible Virgil

Virgil Comfort Ficlet

Morning Routine - Virgil and Roman do makeup

“I Can’t Believe You Are Actually Wearing My Clothes”

Roman Paints Everyone’s Nails - Feels self explanatory?

Virgil’s First Christmas - Some sad Virgil.. Happy tears though

Snow Day - Really short thing about playing in the snow, I make a stupid joke

Video Game - Logan is surprisingly (or unsurprisingly) good at video games

Virgil Can Sing - The others find out about Virgil’s voice

Patton’s Lullaby - Patton comforts Virgil after bad days

Roman’s Kingdom - Why isn’t Roman the King?

Another Day - Single Dad Virgil

DDR - Roman summons a DDR arcade game, ficlet

Rockstar - Light angst Roman, famous au?

A C.A.L.M. Reveal - LAMP/CALM Band AU

Valentino/Runaway Baby - Famous AU, Song fic/bullet point fic I’m Still Standing/Here We Go - Famous Band AU, song/bullet/ramble fic

A Second Opinion - Doctor AU, single dads (could be romantic if you want)

Oh Brother - high school au, familiar prinxiety (brief mention of pairing at the end but brief and unspecified)

An Experiment of Sorts - Logan helps Virgil learn something about himself (ficlet)

His Reunion - Logan goes to his high school reunion (ficlet) The Roommate - Virgil makes a fairly logical assumption (ficlet) A Sword By Any Other Name... - Virgil finds himself an interesting solution to a strange predicament (ficlet) An Incorrect Presumption - Brothers Logan, Virgil, and Roman, Logan needs to learn how to be a good brother

A Lost Toaddler - Snake hybrid Janus finds a small abandoned hybrid child who needs help - (Side romantic lomile, but focus is on parental moceit) 

Beast of Burden - Ch 1 Ch 2 Epilogue - Roman’s therapist recommends a pet to help Roman with his depression (Brief mention of pre-logince in the epilogue) The Other Side - Creativitwins songfic Song Styles - Virgil and Roman famous musicians (songfic)  Secrets - Thomas in therapy with Emile (Songfic) A Very Sweet Surprise - Patton makes a very well meaning disaster Suggested Identities - The boys come up with super power code names for each other (ficlet) Same Sip, Different Day - Remy hires Thomas on to the coffee shop and has to introduce him to the gremlin regulars - contains moceit/prinxiesleep/maybe implied intrulogical, but not a romantic fic

Headcanons

Languages

Random Thought about Roman or Patton leaving instead of Virgil/Logan

Starbucks Orders

Other

My Virgil Cosplay - The jacket/cosplay I made  My Roman Cosplay - The Roman jacket I made My Modern Roman Cosplay - The Roman inspired jacket I made

My Courtroom Virgil Cosplay - Mostly the tie and the polo 

Mini Cosplays - I did some two minute cosplays of the sides/sleep/thomas Heroforge DND sides minis 

My Sides Nails

My Sides Sims - I made the sides and Thomas on the Sims 4 Jordan’s Judgments (My Sides)  - Me Cosplaying Them

Some Pictures of my dog - Incase that might make you smile