#They think they can remedy the space problem by killing her off but she shuts that down Real Quick

[harryskalechips]

one and done

A/N Hi everyone! I’m back with a one shot :) I know I don’t write as often anymore but since I’m self quarantining and I’m just about finish with high school, I thought I should try and give it another go? I’m also re starting up my jewellery business so ahhh many goals in mind but no motivation ??? Okay, I hope you guys enjoy this one!!! It is definitely a slow burn with smut but part 2? I dunno!!

Y/N and her brother’s best friend Harry, has had some pent up sexual frustration for a while. Wouldn’t it be best if they just had a one and done? you know to get it out of their system ;) 

*smut includes spanking, choking, male and female receives oral, harry dom but Y/N rides, magic face cream treatment for anti wrinkling results? Yes, and what else? sub space, hair pulling, gosh I forgot please read it 😁

Word Count: 6.1k // Masterlist // one and done PLAYLIST

“Don’t you think it's a bit of a cliché to be crushing on your brother’s best friend?” Ness teases Y/N as they walk out of her house. They were just on the steps about to go on a walk around the block. It was definitely one of their favourite things to do as the sun was just about to set.

Y/N had her butt sat on the spruced wooden steps as she ignored her best friend’s comment. First off, she knew it was a cliché. Secondly, her last encounter with him just seconds ago was already making her plan her own execution.

In her head, it was simply her just jumping out of her window multiple times until she lost consciousness. Ness on the other hand was standing up, watching the poor girl tie her laces. “Okay, I was just teasing. We can change the topic.” She lends her hand out for Y/N to take.

“It’s not just that Ness.” She gladly accepts the gesture and stands up. She wipes off her butt and glances back at the door. “I’ve never had a thing for him! Ryan and Harry have been best mates since what? 8th grade and for some reason ever since the cruise from last summer, I can’t stop thinking about him.”

“It’s because he was shirtless half of the time.” Ness laughs as she hands Y/N’s water bottle to her. “Okay, we can admit it though. As a senior he is 10 times more attractive than he ever was. He looks like a frat boy that could jump my bones.”  Y/N stops walking and just stares at Ness while the girl continues to walk. She grabs her hand and pulls her forward. “Okay, I’m sorry for the bad comment.”

“He is hot though. Really hot.” Y/N smiles.

“See, that’s why you should sleep with him.”

“What are you crazy? Ness, Ryan would kill me or him -maybe the both of us!” 

“It’s pent up sexual frustration. Harry legit watched us walk out your door while eating a banana and you still managed to trip on your shoes.” She laughs.

“He was making eye contact with me!”

“All I’m saying is that he throws parties at his house and always invites us despite y’know us being juniors. Just offer, do it, slip out, and never say anything about it ever again.” Ness elbows Y/N as she crosses her arms. 

“Maybe I will.” She laughs pretending to actually sound confident in the idea.

“Good, there’s a party this Friday anyway.” Ness shrugs her shoulders. “It’s the best remedy sis.”

~

“Harry, can we talk?” Y/N follows him into the kitchen while everyone else is God knows where around the house. 

“Ryan is in the backyard, trying to get Cassidy back.” He barely glances at her as he pours himself a drink. He notices an empty one in her hand so he decides to pour coke in hers. 

“I um wasn’t really drinking coke.” She states confusedly as she watches the bubbles in her cup dissolve.

“You think I’m trying to get you drunk at this party. One alcoholic beverage is good enough for yeh.” He smiles at her as he screws the cap shut and taps the top of her head. He was treating her as if she was a child, which definitely pissed her off since she was going to ask him a really fucked up favour in the matter of 60 seconds.

“I can handle myself, you know.” 

“Yup.” He rests his back against the counter and bites the rim of the plastic cup as he looks at her. “What do you need though?” He genuinely asks her. Although they weren’t that close, Harry knew her long enough to know she wouldn’t start random a conversation with him. It was more like a hi and bye situation. Not her trying to actually talk to him. 

“I have a favour and you can’t tell Ryan.” Y/N lets out a big breath as she watches his reaction change into a confused one. 

“Look Y/N, if you want to try and smoke a blunt, I think it’s best you find yourself a dealer that doesn’t know your brother.”

“No, not that.” She whispers as she moves in closer. There were more people entering the kitchen and this was about to get really fucking awkward. 

“What?” He looks at her and notices her body shifting closer to him. Her chest was touching the side of his arm, making his eyes look towards the cabinets instead.

“I-”

“Yes?”

“Do you wanna fu-?” His eyes widen as he downs the rest of his drink in one go. Harry doesn’t even let her continue as he steps away from Ryan’s little sister. 

“I’m sorry do I already know the rest of that question?” He tries not to obviously choke on the liquid in his mouth.

“Well, I don’t know you didn’t really let me finish.”  Her sassy tone comes out. Her cheeks were really red and although Y/N came to the party with Ness feeling really confident in the dress she picked. She just wanted to go home and not show her face to him ever again. This was the stupidest idea! Why on earth did she think Harry would want to sleep with her when there are so many girls that try to get his attention. 

“I’m sorry Y/N.” He bites the inside of his cheek and watches some familiar people leave the room. Once it’s clear again, he speaks up. “Like are you serious?” He could feel his throat becoming more stuffy. “You and me?” She nods. “Really?” She nods again. “That’s crossing the line and Ryan is pretty overprotective. I can’t do that to him.”

“Cool.” Y/N stands perfectly still as she tries her best to maintain eye contact with him. She takes a sip of the coke but later, grabs the bottle of alcohol and pours it into her cup regardless of him watching her. “Well, don’t let Ryan know.” She shrugs her shoulders and laughs. “Thanks for answering my survey!” She gives him an awkward smile then walks out of the room. How can a guy pass up on her??? First rejection has gotta sting. 

This wasn’t some weird guy she was asking though. This was Harry, Ryan’s best friend. If Ness was put in his position, she wouldn’t want her to say yes either. God, she was also going to kill her best friend for putting the most ridiculous game plan in her head.

And although the party continued on, Ness and Y/N didn’t let the earlier events bother them. The two spent hours just fucking around until they found a comfy spot in the living room.

“Y/N, don’t look.” Ness sits beside her on Harry’s couch watching a few strangers play an unfamiliar game on the floor. 

“What?” she quickly looks up to see what Ness is talking about. It wasn’t a surprise to see Harry holding Carla Laws’s hand as they walked up the stairs. They looked pretty excited for a room tour too.

Oh hell no, everyone knows a girl doesn’t go to Harry Styles’ room to just hold hands and a cute sentimental room tour!

“Are you sure he didn’t want to with you?”

“Yes Nessa.” She rolls her eyes and drinks her third cup. “Whatever, if anything at least I don’t feel attracted to him anymore. I found a new ick. He doesn’t even find me attractive.”

“Good. Rejection may hurt but it makes you wake up and face reality.” 

~

Okay if there was one thing Y/N could say now, it was that she is finally over Harry. Overall, he was nothing but a phase. Yes, she was crushing on him for the first semester of the year but after that weird conversation they had, it made sense why they couldn’t work out anyway. He’s a stuck up douche - a typical senior, all while she was a junior who was either too infatuated with him or too horny. Maybe both?

It’s been about two weeks and although Ness made sure to keep trash talking the guy, Y/N knew there was more to him than what her best friend thought. She knew him for years! Maybe the fact he was athletic, charismatic and just kind that made her realize what a perfect guy he was. She knew he was a bit more complex than what other people thought of him and it wasn’t bad at all. 

What she never thought was how awkward it was going to be the next time she saw him. “Hey, Haz.” Ryan opens the door for his buddy as Y/N covers herself with the blanket more all while pretending to watch TV.

For the past couple of days, Ryan was going over to his house and maybe Harry asked him too to come over, but what she didn’t expect was to see him again so soon. 

“Hey Ryan.” Harry takes his jacket and boots off as it just begun to snow outside. “Hey Y/N.” She quickly glances at him and waves. 

“Let’s go to the kitchen first, I wanna get snacks.” Ryan suggests as he walks away, assuming Harry would follow him like usual. 

After thirty minutes, Y/N thought the boys would be upstairs but as she entered the kitchen wearing nothing but her shorts and her brother’s old t-shirt, she was surprised to see Harry and Ryan eating sandwiches at the breakfast bar, looking pretty serious. Did Harry tell him? 

As she walked closer, she noticed both boys were just on their phones, scrolling through different social media platforms. She quickly brushes past them to put her dish in the sink. Ryan seemed unbothered but she could definitely feel Harry’s eyes on her. Once she makes eye contact with him, he quickly takes a sip of his juice and looks at his phone once more. “Y/N can you grab the chips in the cabinet please?” Ryan looks up at his phone and notices his sister was standing right in front of the cupboard. 

“Yeah, no problem.” She turns her back on them and opens the cabinet. She goes on her tiptoes reaching for the only bag of chips. Once she grabs them, she puts them on the counter and walks out of the room, only hearing her brother murmur a thank you. 

It was about 6:30 PM and the parents weren’t home yet. Ryan and Harry decided to chill in the living room when the doorbell rang. Pausing the game, Ryan opened the door to see Tom standing in front of him. “Y/N it’s for you!” He calls out for his sister since he knew Tom was her friend.

“Who’s that?” Harry mouthed.

“Her boyfriend.” Ryan shrugs as he unpauses the game. 

“Tom? What are you doing here?” Y/N walks down the stairs, pulling her shirt down. 

“Vanessa told me to come by. Apparently you need help with the calculus homework? I’m free tonight anyway.” He smiles and gives her a hug. Tom was a really good friend of Ness and Y/N. He was a smart boy that was really kind and obviously had a big crush on Nessa. There was anything he could do for her. 

Y/N instantly bit her cheek and laughed as she remembered Ness’ text message a couple of hours ago when she told her Harry came by. This was definitely one of Ness’ master plans. “You’re so sweet.” She pulls away and laughs. “We can go upstairs, I have a few questions to ask.” She quickly glances at her brother who doesn’t care all while Harry tried his best to maintain his eyes on the screen. 

“Y/N, Put some shorts on!”  Ryan finally yells out as the two went up the stairs. 

~ 

“I don’t get why he throws parties every weekend.” Ness takes a sip of her drink as they sit inside Harry's dining room. They probably weren’t going to stay too long. Everyone was inside due to the cold weather with the occasional smokers outside. Being the only few juniors, there wasn’t much the girls could do other than loiter around, drink a few cups and play the games they knew so well. Y/N wasn’t the type to have random hook ups but you know her exception with Harry. 

“Gemma has gone off for college and Anne is always working really late shifts at the hospital. He’s pretty much anywhere and everywhere besides his house unless it’s a party.”

“True.” 

“I’m going to say bye to my brother then we can head back to mine if you want?” Y/N offers as Nessa nods and downs her drink. 

“I’m going to drink a cup of water. Meet you at the front?”

“Mhm.” They both stand up and leave the room. Nessa was heading straight to the kitchen while Y/N began to wander around the house. 

“Y/N.” Harry calls out her name over the music. He was wearing a while long sleeved shirt that was unbuttoned. It made him look really attractive which almost made Y/N lose her breath. 

“Hey Harry, You know where Ryan is?” The only typical thing she would ever ask him before that one time. (Pretending as if she didn’t sexually harass him last time.) 

“He’s downstairs with the rest of the boys.” He glances around at everyone and looks at her once more. “I’m sorry, are you um- leaving?”

“Yeah me and Nessa are going to call it a night.” She wraps her hoodie around her figure and tries to make her way to the stairs. 

“Want me to give you girls a ride?”

“No no, it’s okay!” She smiles and waves her hand at him. “Nessa drove. You also have a party to h-”

“It’s kind of late maybe she should head home and we can-” And that’s when it hit her. Was Harry Styles trying to isolate her? 

“Oh.” She widens her eyes and slowly nods. “Okay. I’ll let my brother and Ness know. Should I meet you in your car outside?”

“Yeah.” He runs his hand through his hair and quickly leaves her side. After bidding her farewell to Ryan and explaining her interpretation of Harry to Ness, she was  quietly leaving the house as she watched Nessa walk by herself to the car down the street. What surprised Y/N more was to see him in his brown jacket standing by the passenger door. 

“Did you tell Ryan I was dropping you off?” He  nervously smiles as he opens the door for her. He makes sure no one is watching them leave together as he feels the butterflies forming in his stomach. 

“No.” She puts her hood on and sits in his car. She was picking on her stockings trying to avoid the awkward tension between them. Once Harry sat inside and they both put their seatbelts on, they were on their way to her house. It was weird knowing she was actually leaving a party with her brother’s best friend so she could suck his- 

 “What happens if they notice you’re gone?”

“Um, I’m sure they’ll think i'm elsewhere doing stuff.” She knew what he was thinking about and that made her a bit uncomfortable but it didn’t change the fact it was true.

“Are you still down to y’know?” Harry honestly never thought he would be this nervous talking to Ryan’s little sister. 

“Yeah.” She bites her lip as they glance at each other. 

“Cool. Are you like a virgin or something. I mean is there anything that I should know about?”

“No.” She shakes her head and low-key observes how he drives. 

This was going to be one hell of a night. 

Harry has seen Y/N’s room a countless number of times but to actually be with her by themselves in Ryan’s house made him feel really guilty. That guilt however, was shoved in the back of his throat. The girl in the room with his was obviously the best distraction. “I like your room.” he smirks at her as he looks at her soccer trophy collection from grade school. 

“Thanks.” She laughs lightly as she takes off her jacket. She quickly texts an update to Ness before putting the phone on do not disturb. 

“So before we start, what made you ask the offer?” He takes his jacket off and throws it on her chair. He sits on her bed and glances at the time. It was still early, so people probably weren’t going to be looking for him. 

“This is going to sound really dumb but I’ve had this crush on you since the cruise last summer. Well, you know Nessa... she had this thought and she thinks it is just pent up sexual frustration?” She shakes her head of saying the whole idea out loud. “So I thought maybe I should just get it out of my system.” Harry laughs as he takes in of what she just said. it made her smile as well.

“You were checking me out all summer?” He asks her in disbelief. “Little Y/N wanted to jump my bones?” He started to smirk at her. Although they didn’t know each other too well, the awkward tension was gone with just one simple laugh of his. 

“Stop laughing.” She throws a pillow at him. “I didn’t think you would say no.”

“I didn’t want to say no Y/N are you crazy? I’m laughing because I kept checking you out in those tiny bikinis you used to wear.” He throws the pillow to the side and shakes his head. “I don’t want to cross Ryan like that but I think i need to get you out of my system too.”

“Mhm and why’s that?” She locks her door and sits on the bed with him. “Because Carla couldn’t distract me from seeing you in my sheets.” He leans in and kisses her. “Tom coming by a few days ago with you wearing nothing but those little shorts was already making me lose my mind.” He whispers and kisses her again. 

Y/N immediately sits on his lap while trying her best to keep his mouth on her’s. Everything about this was so hot. She was about to just rip his clothes off. 

“One and done yeah?” Y/N rubs herself on him as her fingers tangle themselves in his hair. He kisses down her neck while grabbing her ass. 

“One and done. Just to get you out of my system.” He confirms with her as he gently throws her on the bed. He’s pulling his long sleeve off and taking his shirt off but once he begins unbuckling his jeans, he couldn’t help but notice Y/N trying to take her shirt off as well. “Fuck.” He murmurs as he gently unbuttons her long sleeve to help her take it off. In a flash, he’s on his knees unzipping her skirt and taking her stockings off as well. “You looked really pretty tonight by the way.” His cheeks flush as he throws her bottoms behind his back. Y/N laughs quietly and she sits up and brings his face closer to hers. 

“I actually would like to say the same exact thing.” He leans in to kiss her once more. Her lips were extremely soft and forbidden and it was making him slowly lose his mind all over again. Y/N thought Harry was just a phase but that seemed impossible as she was already dreading the fact this was a one and done situation. 

“You’re just so fucking soft and alluring.” He whispers in her ear as he unclasped her bra. “I already know I need to fuck you hard.” Y/N eyes’ roll back as she feels his wet mouth on her nipple as the other one massaged the other. Her hands were trying really hard to focus on the task at hand which was to undo his pants but it was definitely not working with the way he was distracting her. Not a single thought could process in her mind.

“I think since this is a one and done situation, you better make this memorable.” She whispers and bites her lip as she tries to hold back a moan. His fingers were teasing her covered entrance but Harry could feel her drenched spot already clenching at his presence. 

“Memorable? I’ll definitely leave my mark on you.” He sucks on her mouth more roughly than usual as he rubs his fingers on her centre. “You wanted me so bad baby? You just had to beg me huh?” He gestures his hips more forward to help her with his pants. 

“I’m kind of new to this. Be a bit patient.” Y/N laughs as she gently unzips his pants after numerous attempts.  

“You just ruined the moment.” He laughs with her as he kisses her forehead and takes his pants off as well. “Just kidding, this is probably the most fun I had.” He hovers over her again and teases her entrance. 

“What do you mean?” She lays on her back and roams her hands all over his chest. 

“Never got the chance to tease the fuck out of a pretty girl then fuck her hard.” He slaps her clit and bites down on her lip. She suddenly lets out a moan that makes her eyes flutter and her chest rise closer up to his face. 

He brings two of his fingers to her mouth and slowly lets her lick on it before rimming her entrance and shoving it in without any warning. His thumb slowly rubs her swollen numb as he can’t help but rub himself on her sheets as well. “You mind if I get a little bit of a taste? I’ve been dying to know. I saw you earlier at the party and I had to jerk myself off seeing you in those little stockings of yours.” 

“You. You jerked yourself off thinking about me, baby?” She looks down at him and smiles softly. He gives her a little smirk before pulling his hand away and heading his head down a bit south. His tongue dips slowly on the left side of her leg as his hands grip her thighs tightly, sure of the bruises to form soon.

“You’re like a fucking wet dream. How can I say no to you?” He urgently swipes his whole tongue on her centre. “I saw you earlier and had to go to my room.” He takes another lick. “Fuck baby, the best i’ve fucking tasted. Fuck oh fuck.” He precisely observes the way your whole swallows his fingers in and clench so tightly around him. His tongue dipping and switching with his fingers because he honestly can’t decide which is best. 

“Harry, fuck me please baby.” Y/N moans loudly as she harshly grabs on her boobs. She’s never been fucked this good. It was honestly feeling like a dream. With that being said, she’s only had sex a handful of times but Harry seemed like such an expert in the field. “Oh God.” She tries to pull away. She wasn’t sure if she could continue on with Harry obsessively licking and sucking on her wet centre. 

He looks up and watches her eyes roll back as her fingers begin to pull on his head aggressively. His only reflex is to spread her legs wider. After her first orgasm, Y/N lays on her back staring at her ceiling trying to catch her breath. 

“Fuck me.”

“We aren’t done yet, love.” He laughs at her cuteness. He can’t remember the last time where he wasn’t rushing to finish himself off. He was taking his time with Y/N since it’s what she deserves. He lays down beside her and kisses down her chest. “Tell me when you’re ready to go, yeah?” He dips his tongue on her shoulder until it reaches the huge hickey he left on her collarbone. He gently licks around it and sucks on it again. 

He was a bit surprised to see Y/N sit up and grab a condom from her drawer. “Thank you for fucking the shit out of me, I’ll gladly return the favour.” She smiles and tucks her hair behind her ear as she focuses on putting the contraceptive on him. Just touching it was already forming butterflies in her stomach. 

“I could’ve been fucking you on that cruise.” he mischievously smiles at her as he watches the way her pretty tits move. 

“You were sharing a room with my brother.” She hisses as she holds onto his shaft trying to gently ease the pain as she fully sits on him. 

“But you were alone.” He grabs onto her waist and helps her. “You’re so beautiful fuck.” He sits up on her headboard as her palms rest on his chest. Both of their eyes couldn’t help but watch the way he was easily penetrating her. 

“Was touching myself because of you.” She mumbles out as her speed begins to increase.

“What did you say baby?” He almost chokes on his breath as he can feel her fully taking him in. 

“Couldn’t stop thinking of you on that cruise. I needed you to rail the fuck out of me.” She moans louder as she starts to feel his hips meet her. 

“Fuck me. So perfect, Shit.” He quickly turns them around and shoves himself back into her. His hand immediately tightens around her neck and once he is about to pull it away, she keeps his hand on her. 

“Fuck me harder.” She cries out as his arm begins to push her legs up. He spits in between their centres before thrusting as hard as he can. All you could hear was her headboard banging against the wall as his hand continuously choked the fuck out of her. 

“I bet you like getting spanked too huh?” He bites his lip and semi turns her body before slapping her ass. 

“Harry fuck.”

“Come on, baby. Be a good girl and come around my cock.”

“Fuck fuck fuck.” Y/N cries out as her fingernails scratch his back. “Come in my mouth. I want to taste you so bad please.” tears begin to form in her eyes as she continues to clench around his dick. Harry immediately pulls off the condom and helps her sit up on her knees. She absolutely could not feel a thing below her stomach but with Harry’s hard cock in her mouth, she was already closing her eyes and trusting him with everything she was. She’s never been this fucking vulnerable, she was literally about to pass the fuck out. 

She was softly holding onto his thighs but her hands found comfort on his waist as he began to fuck her mouth harder. Harry on the other hand, kept his eyes on how her mouth was taking him in. He watched the way his fingers wrap around her hair tightly as he brought his hips closer and closer until he could feel her gagging on his dick. Without a warning, he immediately pulls out and spills all over her face.

“Why’d you do that?” She opens her eyes and pouts. She was pretty upset how she couldn’t taste him spill into her mouth. So her finger immediately takes a swipe of his spill and puts it in her mouth. Without hesitation, she’s taking his forming soft dick in her hands before softly licking it clean and softly sucking on his balls. She takes his shaft and swipes her cheek once more before licking the rest of his spill from his shaft. 

“You’re going to make me hard again if you keep doing that baby. Might not be as nice as I was this time.” 

“Maybe I want another round?” She gestures him to lie down as she continues to kiss and suck on his cock. 

“Thought it was a one and done.” He softly smiles as he removes some of the hair from her face.

“How about a one and done night?”

“Deal.”

And although they thought this was crossing a line, they already knew the moment their lips touched, they wouldn’t be able to stop.

~

“Wait so he changed his mind!” Nessa laughs as they drive back home. “Bitch how are you at school today? I literally saw you limping at lunch.”

“Shut up.” Y/N mouth widens as she rubs her face. “I don’t know what happened okay? We said one and done but we honestly went a couple of rounds before I had to wake him up so he could drive back home.”

“But is he out of your system? Don’t get me wrong Harry’s a fine guy but like dating wise? He’s been with other girls but somehow always goes back to Carla. They’ve been like that before you and Ryan moved here.” 

“Yeah, he’s out of my system.” Y/N laughs but truth be told, some nights when she can’t sleep, she’ll find herself staring at the ceiling. 

“Why are you guys home so early?” Nessa asks once they step inside the house. There was a good comparison between Nessa and Ryan with Y/N and Harry. First off, Nessa literally saw Ryan as her older brother which meant they were pretty vocal towards each other. Secondly, Nessa was very comfortable at Y/N’s house almost as if this was her second home. 

“Carla and Cassidy are coming over.” Ryan smirks as Harry cleans the living room behind him. “During the party last night, I may have asked if they wanted to come over for a double date game night thing. Mom and Dad are cool with it since it's a Monday which is their date night too.

“Oh have fun.” Y/N buds in and laughs. “Make sure to actually vacuum please. You don’t want the girls finding your crumbs on the carpet.” She takes her jacket off as Nessa follows behind her up the stairs. Harry obviously tried to ignore the fact, she bluntly ignored him. 

“Double date? Damn, you guys really did just fuck and brushed it under the carpet.”

“It meant nothing right. So?” Y/N tries to brush off the topic as she sets her backpack down. “Why won’t you sit down?” “On that bed?” Nessa smiles awkwardly as she glances at the double bed near the wall. 

“I changed the sheets.” Y/N takes her shirt off and replaces it with another loose top. She unzips her pants and wears her black tights instead.

“So should we invite ourselves to their double date?” Nessa raises her eyebrows as she lays down on the bed. 

“No because it’s weird and I don’t want Harry to think I’m jealous.”

“I think you are.”

“Nope, I told you I don’t like him like that anymore and he’s out of my system.” She tries to ignore the fact, how she swallowed him without hesitation.

“Okay but wouldn’t it be better to prove to yourself you are just by being around him.” And although Y/N wanted to protest that, the two best friends ended up being invited by Ryan to play downstairs anyway. 

“You girls want a refill?” Ryan sits up from the coffee table as he cleans up the empty red cups. Ness, Carla, and Cassidy wanted a new one which made Y/N go help her brother out in the kitchen. 

“Are you having fun?” Ryan asks as he throws the cups in the recycling. Y/N pours the preferred drinks in the new cups as she looks up at her brother. 

“Yeah, I was wondering why you invited Ness and I. Don’t you think we’re cock-blocking?”

“Harry suggested you guys hang out with us while we played games. More competition is fun y’know. Plus you and Nessa can leave whenever.”

“Oh cool. Thanks, I guess?” 

“Yup.” He grabs two cups as she does. She couldn’t help but notice how Ryan suddenly started cheering. “Yeah, Styles get it! Woooo!” Y/N turns her eyes to notice Harry and Carla making out on the floor by the coffee table. 

“Are you guys dating again?” Cassidy laughs as she tries not to watch them make out.

“Sure.” Carla pulls away and pecks his cheek. Nerissa was just watching Y/N’s reaction and she knew it was a bad one. 

“Y/N could you walk me to the car? Appa just texted me and he’s wondering where I am. I forgot it was his birthday.” Nessa speaks up.

“Oh shit.” Y/N was clueless of her excuse. Which thankfully made her seem more genuinely in a rush to get out of the room. She sets the drinks on the table before going upstairs with Ness.

“How did you forget it was Appa’s birthday, Ness?” 

“I don’t know.” She packs her things up. “Why don’t you come with me? He’s gonna blow his cake soon.”

“Oh, I don’t want-”

“Come.” And if there was one thing Y/N knew well about Nessa, it was that she wouldn’t ever forget it was Appa’s birthday, especially if she just celebrated it a couple of months ago. Without a fight to say no, Y/N immediately grabs a hoodie as they walk down the stairs. 

“Ryan, I’m going to Ness’ to celebrate Appa’s birthday. I’ll be home soon before Mom and Dad comes home.”

“Oh okay.” Ryan waves at his sister as his arms rests on Cassidy’s shoulder. 

“Bye guys!” Ness and Y/N wave as they both exit the house immediately. Harry stays unbothered as he takes another sip of his beer. 

“Thank you for getting me the fuck out of there.” 

“It’s okay. We don’t actually have to leave you know. It’s 6 PM, I can drive the car to a different neighbourhood and you can cry all about him there.”

“I love you.” Y/N begins to tear up. 

“I love you too.”

~

“What’s Tom doing here?” Ryan’s eyes are in shock as he watches his sister hold hands with the familiar boy. What’s confusing is that Y/N went to Ness’ for a birthday. 

“He just wanted to come over.” She smiles innocently as she waves hi to the same party. It was just about 7 PM and the double date duo was watching an unfamiliar movie on TV. Nessa called Tom and Y/N had to explain their situation. Although he didn’t really want to do it. He knew Y/N wanted to prove something to the Harry guy. So as long as they didn’t do anything romantic or weird that would cross his boundaries, Tom was okay with it. 

“Aw, I didn’t know you were dating Thomas?” Cassidy smiles as she walks in with a bowl of popcorn. She hands it to Carla who is cuddling up against Harry on one of the sofas.

“We aren’t dating.” They both look at each other and laugh. Tom shakes his head and pulls Y/N up the stairs instead. 

Once the pair is gone, the dates begin to watch their movie again. “Ryan, you really don’t care if your sister is by herself with that boy?” Carla laughs as she feeds herself and Harry popcorn.

“I’m definitely not going to interfere with that, they’re probably doing the nasty already.” His eyes widen as he stuffs more popcorn down his mouth and although, Harry was keeping his eyes on the screen, there wasn’t anything sitting well with him knowing the girl he was with on the weekend was already in somebody else’s arms. 

The goal was to get each other out of their systems, why the fuck are they so jealous then?

great plan Vanessa. 

Part deux ici 

[sif-the-tsunami]

Ropes and Roses part three

Summary: Elizabeth Rosehill is a talented dance instructor and a force of nature that beguiles her famous student. Events in her life, however, have led her to search for more creative ways for her to keep herself afloat. What will she do to keep her dreams secure and what will it mean for her blossoming relationship.

Warning: this passage contains some drunken shenanigans, heavy petting, making out, self deprecating humor, stripping down to ones underwear, sexual frustration, some insecurities, and angst. Oh and the beginning of Elizabeth showing her dominant side. If I missed anything please let me know

Word count: 2500

A/N: If you read it and like it, it would mean a lot to me if you could say something nice!

“And what will the lady be having?” The handsome bartender asked from behind the wooden top.

“Gentleman Jack, two fingers, neat. Please and thank you.” Elizabeth had her face all smooshed up in her hands, cradling her own head, resigning to the feeling of utter defeat. Gregory Chapman had called her and told her that the movie had lost its funding. The promises he made her were now as empty as the glass in front of her. As was her bank account. At least the bartender quickly remedied the empty glass problem. Henry saw her sitting there, her perfect posture was replaced by the pose of someone who wanted to be as small as possible.

“Oh shit, you are taking the news way harder than I thought you would. I also had no idea you liked whiskey.” He saw that her eyes were puffy, she had rubbed the winged eyeliner tip off on one of her eyes. He took the hand closest to him and gave her a gentle squeeze. The best part of having had their lessons was they had grown comfortable with touching each other. He appreciated the intimacy they shared, even if he though it had been platonic on her part. “Cancellations happen pretty often, don’t beat yourself up too much.”

“You were getting so good too.” Her voice came out as a whine, she took a sip of her liquor.

“I was mediocre at best, I just happen to look good while you dance around me.” The gold tinged light above them made her eyes and the drink the same color. Everything about her right then seemed angelic to him, even with her sad expression she glowed. “My only regret is that I won’t get to see you as much. I’ve enjoyed our time together.”

“That is very kind, Henry.” Elizabeth laced her fingers with his. “It was a pleasure to teach you.”

I love how she says my name, he thought. “So, what happens next for you?”

“I have to work harder to try to keep my dance studio open.”

“What do you mean? You have some great teachers, you have full classes.”

“Greg had told me that once he was given the funding he planned on investing in the dance studio with some of his earnings. I’m not sad about the movie being canceled, I’m just sad that this is just one more thing to have gone wrong this year...” she trailed off.

“Want to talk about it?”

“If I start, I will not shut up, I’m sure you don’t want to listen to me bitch and moan for an hour. Don’t you have more important things to be doing?”

“I could listen to you complain all night. Besides, nothing is more important than us getting drunk and possibly finding people to snog with tonight,” he said with the intention of making her laugh, but with a quick look around the pub, it looked like the their options would be limited. “I bet you could charm the pants off that lad at the end there.”

The lad was an older gentleman wearing a newsboy hat and a sweater with patches on the elbow.

“Oh Mr Cavill,” she said in a dreamy, playful voice, “he’s just my type. Do you think he’ll like me?”

“I don’t know Ms Rosehill, you might have to show him a little clevage.”

She pretended to pull the top of her dress down a little, big shit eating grin on her face, “How’s that? Better? Oh please, sir, notice me. Please come tap my ass like a keg!”

The remark caused Henry to choke on his drink. After a deep gasp of air he looked at her incredulously “never mind, you’ll kill the man. Give him a heart attack talking like that.”

The two talked, Elizabeth told him about how earlier that year she had gone through a bitter divorce, her ex had left her with more debt than she would be able to handle by herself and then her mother had passed away. She felt like she was drowning and the first life raft that had been thrown her way was being pulled from her.

“But you know what? I am a pretty damn good swimmer, and my momma didn’t raise no bitch.” She stated. She sat back sagaciously for a moment, “I think that might be the whiskey talking.”

Henry chuckled to himself. They were both a few drinks deep into their conversation and she was feeling it. He paid their tab and took her with him, “Come on, you lightweight, let’s go put some food in you so you don’t black out on me.”

Trying to get the teacher to do anything while she had been drinking was like trying to get a cat to cooperate. Every time they walked for more than a few minutes, she would wonder off some where distracted by anything that caught her attention. He stood there the fourth time when she stopped to look at display of macrons in a window.

“Are you like this every time you drink?”

“No, only when I forget to eat during the day before hand, I’m so hungry, I would perform unspeakable acts if I could get my hands on some fried pickles right now. Are those even a thing here?”

“Fried… pickles?” He responded moderately concerned for her sanity. “Why?”

“Do you want the drunk answer or the athlete answer?”

“Both. Oh my god woman, would you get off of that. You are like the worst version of the worst mission in video games. No, no, no, you wrap your arm around mine right now, I will get you food, I promise. Stay with me, Lizzie, tell me about the pickles.”

“Drunk answer is that they taste good, you know what takes a sandwich from eh to great. Pickles.” She tucked her arm right into his, with his other hand gently resting on top of her arm ready to guide her along. “Athlete answer is that they help re-hydrate you, after work outs, after drinking. Drinking pickle juice always cures my hangovers. Although chips work too, especially with salt and vinegar.”

They found a place still open that was serving delicious smelling fried food. He was together enough to set her down on a curb. “Please stay here. I’ll be right back.”

She leaned against him as soon as he sat down and handed her their snack. It was beginning to get late and a chill in the autumn air was starting to creep in. “You called me Lizzie earlier, I haven’t been called that since I was a little girl.”

“I hate to break it to you, but you still are a little girl. Well, compared to me anyways.” He nudged her with his elbow a little to get a smile out of her. “I hope you don’t mind, I won’t call you that again if you hate it.”

“It is totally fine, I’ve gone by Liz, Lizzie, Lizbeth, Beth. Just please don’t call me Libby. My middle name is Louisa, my ex would call me Libby-Lou, knowing how much I hated that nickname. Made me feel like I should be living in Whoville, waiting for the Grinch to steal my Christmas dinner.”

“They can be the worst, ex’s. They always know where they can jab at you with a mean joke or poke at an insecurity. One of mine would make comments about what I was eating, especially if I was between jobs.” He wrapped an arm around her shoulders and felt her whole body shiver.

“I’m sorry, you never deserved that.” She said softly. He looked into her eyes, the eyeliner had somehow gotten more smudged, she looked as exhausted as she sounded.

“No, neither did you. I don’t know what all he did to you, but you deserve better too.” His voice came out low and husky. “Do you want to come back to my place, I live pretty close by and you look like you are about to freeze.”

“I don’t know, Mr Cavill, I seem to remember you mentioning something about finding someone to make out with tonight, will I find one there?”

With the straightest face he could possibly muster, “As long as you don’t eat all of my pickles.”

***

A twenty minute walk later, they were in Henry’s home. They were both greeted by a very excited Kal, who snuffled and snorted at his daddy’s new friend. A warm welcoming glow came from the living room where the lights had been left on for his dog. He offered her one of his hoodies to help her warm up and planted her on the couch so he could take his boy to do his business outside. He came back as quick as he, honestly expecting to find her asleep. Instead, she was looking at him with her whiskey colored eyes. He had wanted another drink, and brought them both another glass of the liquor. He sat down at the other end of the couch, trying to respect her space. “Are you comfortable, can I get you anything else?”

“No, I’m warming up well, thank you. You have a beautiful home, it’s nice and cozy.”

“Thank you, I like it here a lot, it is just enough for me. And Kal, for that matter.” His furry buddy was pressing as much of himself against the spot Elizabeth sat on the couch. She was delicately rubbing the area between his eyes and cooing at big beast, his fluffy tail wagging happily. “I think he likes you.”

“Oh good, I’m glad His Lordship approves of me.” She moved her hands to rub his chin. “You are just a big softy aren’t you? Good man, Kal.”

Henry watched them get acquainted, allowing himself to melt into the couch, legs spread apart. She turned her attention to the beautiful man before her. Maybe the booze was making her feel more bold than usual, but damn did she want him. Her mind was still swimming from their earlier adventure. Hopefully, it was an invite to climb between his powerful thighs. She shot back her glass and put the empty cup on his side table. He reached over to her and pulled her close. She positioned herself to face him and straddled his lap. His breath caught in his throat for a moment.

“If I’m being to presumptuous, I can stop. I will go sit on the other side again.” She said quietly.

“No, I want this. I want you.” He reached up, fingers were gently touching the back of her arms.

She leaned forward and pressed her forehead against his, “Before you... we… whatever it is here that we are doing, I need you to know that I don’t know what all I can give to you right now. I don’t want to hurt you.”

“I think you are worth the risk,” he whispered to her and they connected.

Henry had wanted this from the first time he placed her hands on him. Every nudge, posture correction, hand offered to help him, whenever he felt her skin on his he felt the current between the two of them and it was electrifying. He felt himself grow hard as she invited him to explore her body. His hoodie was off was off of her body as soon as they started, and then shortly after came her black dress. They continued to make out as she unbuttoned his soft flannel shirt.

He fingers searched the back of her bra for it’s clasp. She broke off their kiss long enough to lean back and unhook it from the front. Henry could feel the pressure building in his jeans as he looked at her body.  All she had left on were knee high black boots and a pair of silky purple panties. Elizabeth gave him a lopsided smile as she leaned back into their embrace. Her fingers danced and tickled down his chest running down to to the bottom hem of his shirt. Henry stopped himself before she removed the cotton undershirt, ever so gently. “Before I take this off, I want you to not be disappointed.”

“Disappointed?” she asked breathlessly.

“I don’t look like Geralt right now. I’m in my off season, and I don’t know what kind of expectations you have...” Elizabeth slowly ran her hands back up his chest.

“I like you, Henry: your beautiful, overthinking, intelligent mind; your sweet nature; your burning passions. You as a person.” peppering his neck and face with tender kisses, her hands tangling in his hair. “Everything else is just sprinkles on a cupcake.”

“Sprinkles on a cupcake?” he smiled. She nibbled on his ear and he moaned, hungry for more.

“Cupcakes don’t need sprinkles to be delicious, I have never refused a cupcake because it didn’t have sprinkles on it.” She ran her fingers back down to the bottom of his shirt. “So, Mr Cavill, do I have permission to take your shirt off?”

“Yes, Ms Rosehill, you do.” The woman on top of him pulled the garment off, never breaking eye contact. After it’s removal, she kept a firm grip on his arms, inching ever closer to his wrists. With her hands on them, Elizabeth pressed her weight against his wrists and pinned him as best she could to the back of the couch. She ground her pelvis against his as she started nibbling and kissing his neck, her torso against  his. Appreciating the nuzzling and nibbles on his neck, he closed his eyes for a moment, waiting for her to continue.

All he felt was her soft breathing against his skin. A moment later her hands dropped from his wrists. Henry tried to move himself to see what what was going on when a soft snore came from his would be lover. He rubbed his face, not believing what had just happened.

“Liz… Lizzie… wake up, sweetheart.” He tried kissing her cheek to wake her. The only response she gave was tucking her arms to her chest and adjusting her head on his shoulder. He groaned, but knew what he had to do. Elizabeth was as limp as a rag doll, so he guided her arms through his flannel shirt, placed her down gently on the couch and prepared his guest room for her. Making sure his warmest duvet was on the bed, he left a bottle of water and some Tylenol on the bed side table for her. He carried her to the room and tucked her into bed, making sure a pillow was wedged behind her back to keep her on her side.  Henry then went to his room, fell face first into bed and yelled directly into a pillow. 

[starthornisscratching]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: How to Train Your Dragon (Movies) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Characters: Valka (How to Train Your Dragon), Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, Astrid Hofferson, Snotlout Jorgenson, Fishlegs Ingerman, Ruffnut Thorston, Tuffnut Thorston, Gothi (How To Train Your Dragon) mentioned Additional Tags: Whumptober 2021, Valka (How To Train Your Dragon) whump, Post-How to Train Your Dragon 2, Drowning, Trapped In A Sinking Ship, Barbed Wire (mentioned), I Tried, Title: Mr. Fear by SIAMESE Summary:

While out flying, Valka is captured. The riders rush to try and save her, but with Toothless shot down this is very difficult.

No character death!

-- Read it below if you’d like.

“I can’t leave you!” Hiccup was insisting, “Please don’t make me go, I want to help you!”

Oh how Valka wished to reach through those bars to gently comfort him- her son. But she couldn’t, there wasn’t enough time. There wasn’t enough time for anything like that, not even a finalized goodbye. No, the ship was filling with water too fast and there was nothing Hiccup could do to save his mother. Not quick enough anyway.

If he had time he could have thought of something. (He wished now that he had that time, or that he could have somehow repurposed all that time without his mother to plan for how he would save her in this moment where she might be gone- for good this time. But how could he have known about this situation? Such wishes were pointless, especially in the face of things he couldn’t control.)

“I can’t leave you,” the man repeated again, sounding broken and disheveled. Not unlike how he had when he thought Astrid would die of the disease she had caught, or that pang in his heart when Hookfang had disappeared and Snotlout was prepared to quit, or when he finally made the decision to give up on avoiding attacking the singetails. It was that feeling of panic followed and numbed by the realization that there really were things out of his control.

“You have to,” Valka whispered, sticking a few thin fingers through the dragon-proof bars- as far as they would go.

Hiccup sniffed, and tried to harden his expression as he looked around frantically (for what must have been the fifth time in the last thirty seconds). He was searching for a way to get his mother out, but there wasn’t anything he could see. 

“Go, Hiccup,” she insisted, “If I can, I’ll meet you out…”

They both felt silent (mother and son), and the rushing of the water into the vessel was suddenly all the more deafening. Hiccup sniffed as a look of a terrible internal battle crossed his face, what was he to say? What was he to do? (He had  just  found her again, had come  so  close to being able to rescue her but that didn’t seem probable now- not at all.)

“And if you don’t?” Hiccup wrapped his fingers around hers through the bars, knee deep in water now. “If you don’t come out of here alive?”

She smiled, looking like she was holding back the urge to sob. It wasn’t that sobbing was bad at the moment, it was natural… but it wasn’t going to help her son. He could grieve later, crying with her would only take up time that he needed to use to get out. “If I don’t come out of here alive-” she said, feeling a tightness in her stomach, “then we will meet in Valhalla, as mother and son,”

It was Hiccup who sobbed a pained rattle of a breath. (Oh how she wanted to as well.) 

When she let go of his fingers, trying to pull away, he shook his head and grasped them back.  “Go, HIccup,“ she urged, “Leave this place, you have to let go of me,”

Finally, he followed her orders and dropped her hands. He took a step back through the now waist height water, “I don’t want to leave you,”

She gave him a brave, sad, smile in return, “You must,”

Hiccup stared forlornly around the sinking boat’s hull, “If Toothless hadn’t been shot down-”

“Hiccup,” she pleaded, “please!”

---

“He’s been down there for too long,” Astrid was struggling against the bonds that held her, but she seemed to be more concerned with the other rider than herself. “Usually he comes up by now; right?”

“I wonder what’s holding him up,” Fishlegs tapped his foot anxiously against the rough side of his riding dragon. (She didn’t seem to mind all that much- she looked quite nervous as well.)

Out of all the dragons, only Meatlug was captured with them- tied up on the deck of the boat of those who had lured them here. The others were probably being dragged down to the cells, limp with dragon root arrows, but Meatlug was immune to that type of poison. So, the group who captured them had settled on tying both her and Fishlegs to the mast- right along next to the other riders.

Snotlout struggled briefly before giving up and turning in the vague direction that would face Fishlegs (they were tied to opposite sides of the pole). “Do you think he needs help?” Even the twins looked worried- and they were never visibly worried about anything.

Astrid bit her lip harder, looking as if she was making a difficult decision. “Hiccup  can  take care of himself…” she started, but trailed off.

Fishlegs looked down at her, sounding nervous, “You're worried that he might not be able to take care of himself this time, right?“

The fact that she didn’t answer him was enough of a response in itself.

After a while, to fill the void which they all inevitably felt, the twins began to sing some sort of song about becoming one with the wooden planks they were standing on. It grabbed the attention of a few of the guards who whipped their heads around and stared angrily at the twins, glowering with pure annoyance. Astrid too glared at them; clearly not in the mood for that sort of tom-foolery.

The guards started to walk over, grumbling and pulling out their swords. (Not to hurt or kill, probably- because they had been directed to keep the riders alive, but to threaten.) Astrid’s glare got angrier as both of the men stopped in front of the twins (who were on either side of her). She didn’t like being sandwiched between two trained warriors who held weapons when she herself hadn’t been allowed one- it was a natural line of thought.

But the twins didn’t seem to share that line of thought, because only Ruffnut stopped singing (and just for a moment at that) in order to sneer at the guard standing in front of her. Tuffnut continued on with his merry song, eyes squeezed shut as if he was anticipating being hit, not that anyone other than his close friends or family would be able to read the subtle body language.

By the time the guard seemed ready to follow through with his threatening weapon-hand (when Astrid was almost ready to find a way to punch Tuff  herself  to shut him up) Snotlout’s leg suddenly looped around and kicked the guard over.

“O-oh!” Astrid yelped in surprise as both Snotlout and Fishlegs burst out of the ropes holding them, Meatlug ‘hugging’ one of the guards to the ground and Snotlout knocking out the other with a  hard  stomp to the head.

Ruffnut and Tuffnut both turned to face Astrid and sneered, but not all that meanly. Astrid blinked and nodded, finally comprehending that this must have been a plan the four other riders had developed at some point, amazed by the  stupidly  brilliant aspects of it. Seeing her gleeful surprise, Ruffnut nodded wisely. “I’ve told you many times, my dear Astrid. This is the Ruffnut idea farm over here,”

“Ah- ah ha,” Astrid blinked as Fishlegs very gently (but quickly) cut the ropes that still bonded her and the twins, she was still trying to get her head around whatever had just happened.

Tuffnut and Snotlout made quick work of binding the two guards to the mast (just in case they woke up while the riders still occupied the deck) and the group moved closer to the hole which led down to the belly of the ship. Their dragons were down there.

Fishlegs turned to the others, patting his gronkle on the side reassuringly, “Me and Meatlug will go first, their dragon root arrows can’t hurt us,”

Ruffnut laughed and shook her head.

“ She  can’t be hurt by them,” Snotlout corrected, “but you can,”

As the Jorgenson crossed his arms, Fishlegs frowned at him. “But we have a better chance when we go together,” Tuffnut nodded in agreement with this and Astrid put a finger to her chin to think. Soon after, she nodded as well.

So that was that and the decision was made.

Fishlegs and Meatlug headed below deck first, the others following only once they heard the surprised shouts from those below deck. They quickly made their way to their dragons- getting rid of the hunters speedily and taking the keys to open the dragon’s cages. 

If no one had brought the remedy for the dragon root, they would have had to take their dragons to the deck and find a way to get them off with sheer man-power, but Fishlegs had remembered to bring a bottle. (Astrid too, kept one in her saddle bag, but it had been removed by one of the hunters when they had been shot down.) All of the riders had gone through the process of giving their dragons the green-colored cure, so no problem was presented as the dragons began to gain their ability to move once more.

The riders and their dragons made their way up the stairs again (Astrid was getting very fidgety by this point, seeing as Hiccup had still not surfaced).

“Do you think he’s still on the ship?” she asked breathlessly- the question vaguely directed towards everyone else in the vicinity.

She was looking at the ship next to the one they were on, which was sinking steadily. (The last time Hiccup had been spotted he was jumping down into the storage space, because that was where his mother was being held.) There were no hunters at all on the boat now, they had all escaped to the only other ship in the area.

Toothless was on that third boat.

However, Astrid’s immediate focus was on Hiccup. And, right in front of her eyes, she watched as the sinking boat slipped low enough to let in water directly into the grate that led down to the hold.

But Astrid didn’t give the others time to either respond to the question she had previously asked or try to reason a proper plan. Instead, she leapt onto Stormfly’s back (her dragon let out a squawk which was sure to signify some sort of surprise) and the pair leapt off the edge of the boat and dove into the sea.

The other riders yelled in surprise, Tuffnut and Fishlegs rushing to the edge of the deck to see what she was doing and Ruffnut and Snotlout scrambling to board their own dragons. Not so long after Astrid and Stormfly dove into the murky waves, Snotlout and Ruffnut followed on their respective dragons. (This left Fishlegs and Tuffnut on the deck as Tuff couldn’t fly without a dragon and Meatlug’s tiny wings didn’t tend to fare all that well underwater.)

---

Hiccup was still trying to pry the door open with brute force when the water began to rush in from  above  as well as below. Valka screamed as the wave toppled them both over, the too-tight metal yanking and tearing her skin in a horribly painful way. Luckily (with the water being so high now) the pair didn’t have to fall far before being stopped.

Mother and son surfaced quickly, Hiccup pulling at the bars with renewed vigor as Valka pleaded with him to go. (He was clearly not getting anywhere like this. Maybe if he had gone to get Toothless while they still had time…)

“Please,” she begged, “You have to go, even if you got those bars open-” Salt water splashed into her face and choked her up for a moment, “-my legs are still bound, you wouldn’t be able to cut through the wire without your sword!”

Hiccup growled furiously, words were too tough to get out at this point. As he attempted to break one of the thinner bars in his hands, like that would get him anywhere, the panicked realization that he was going to be completely underwater soon started to set in. After that there was the instinctual terror, as if he were regretting trying to save his mother rather than selfishly saving his own life. (How  furious  he felt that the greed of those actions were eating away at him through his fear.)

But even as he hated the instinct to leave Valka behind, she was screaming at him to do just that. He hated to disobey, but it was necessary this time. 

He couldn’t lose her too, he just couldn’t.

The pair fought the water for several more minutes. So long, in fact, that Valka’s bonds began to keep her under the water for extended periods of time. She tried to fight against them, gasping for air whenever she could force her head above the surface. But those times when she could surface began to thin, and her movements became more lagged. (Which certainly didn’t help her swim upwards against the metal wrapped about her legs.)

It got to the point when she stopped surfacing entirely. (Here Hiccup dove under the water, attempting to yell out to her, or open his eyes to see if she was still alive at all, but he only succeeded in getting the painful salt water in his eyes and down his throat.)

So he burst back above the water and continued to frantically jam at the door, yelling his mother’s name in a properly terrified way. Still, he didn’t seem to be getting anywhere.

And just as Hiccup’s doubts were really slowing his movements, several nadder tail spikes shot through the wall and embedded themselves in the other side- not even letting in more water because the room was mostly full then. 

Stormfly and Astrid burst through the wall, causing Hiccup to scream since the sudden jolting of the boat knocked him hard into the bars of the cell which his mother was held within. Astrid yelled something to him, but the impossibly loud sloshing of water and simply the overpowering relief Hiccup felt garbled it too much to understand. Then, she ducked down on Stormfly’s back (subsequently disappearing under the water) and they both shot forward.

Hiccup only barely had time to hurry out of the way before Stormfly crashed through the weakened bars and opened the space needed to access Valka. Then, Astrid reappeared above the still heightening water and looked back at Hiccup, gasping. He didn't know if it was a grin or tears starting to flow, but Hiccup’s face contorted into some automatic expression and he swam as fast as he could into the cell.

“Where is she?” Astrid yelled over the sound of the rushing water.

Just like that, Hiccup was warped back to reality. His mother was still underwater and she hadn’t surfaced in a good amount of time. All the color drained from his face, not that that was visible in the almost blackness of the ship’s belly, and he tilted his head up so that his words might come out properly. “U-Under the water,”

“Is she tied down?” Astrid was clearly thinking of dismounting to see what she could do, “How long has it been since she was breathing?”

Hiccup couldn’t answer the second question, but he nodded feverishly as some answer to the first inquiry. Seeing this, Astrid’s expression became harder and she slipped off of Stormfly’s back- clearly swimming to feel around for Valka. Hiccup quickly followed suit.

The pair would probably have continued like that for a long, long time if the boat hadn’t suddenly started to lift upwards. At first, it was gradual (though still mechanically choppy and forced). Then, the bottom of the boat cleared the ocean’s top and the water began to flow out from the several holes through which it had originally come.

When it started to move, Astrid and Hiccup were both underwater, not even noticing that the boat had moved around them until they were forced right into the floor by the relative position of the boat’s base itself. Then, fearing something horrible and frankly confused, both pushed up in order to surface again.

Spluttering, Hiccup splashed his arm back into the water after trying to rub the salt out of his eyes. He yelped when Astrid popped up right in front of him, her hair hitting him directly in the face. However, neither could focus on the possibility of comedy in this, the situation was too dire and frightening.

“What’s happen-” Astrid could only start before yet another major jolt rocked through the boat, sloshing the water and occupants around and ripping screams from the lips of both humans with air to breath.

Hiccup resurfaced, looking far past panicky, “I don’t know!” he yelled to her.

Stormfly was squawking too, scrambling about and clearly trying to tell Astrid something. But Astrid couldn’t understand her, she was too panicked to work out the dragon’s body language. She was too panicked to even work out Hiccup’s body language, and he was human. (Plus, it was far too dark to see all the details in the nadder’s expressions- which were undeniably necessary in understanding what the dragon was trying to say.)

When Astrid’s almost unintelligible yelling still yielded no proper ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer, Stormfly swished herself around. Leaving behind a wave which knocked both Hiccup and Astrid under for a moment or two, she shoved past Hiccup and out into the water-filled hall.

“S-” Astrid choked on water after accidentally breathing it in, “Stormfly!” She tried to push her way through the water towards her dragon, but couldn’t get close without dipping under the waves of water Stormfly influenced. “Where- what? Where are you going?!”

But Stormfly didn’t speak Norse and subsequently couldn't answer.

So as Astrid watched, a horrified expression on her face, Stormfly shoved herself through the hole she had made in the boat’s belly and disappeared back into the ocean. “Stormfly!!” Astrid screamed, terror setting in. Why had her dragon abandoned her? How could she do such a thing?

---

The plan was to grab either side of the sinking ship in their dragon’s claws and pull upwards. (There wasn’t any rope available to attach for more stability.)

Ruffnut, riding Barf and Belch, took the side that was under the water. The boat was not fully vertical in the water yet, but it was still far enough down that she could not reach the very end. The corner side was the replacement she took, and once she began to surface Hookfang and Snotlout accommodated this decision.

They took the opposing side on the opposite end of the ship, and with great effort the two dragons along with their riders began to ascend. Luckily, the ship was mostly empty. There were no other occupants than Hiccup, Valka, Astrid, and Stormfly. If there had been any other full sized dragons it would have been impossible to lift. Unlickily, there were still hundreds of gallons of water trapped within the hold. Together, the monstrous nightmare and the zippleback would have to lift all that weight.

When Stormfly burst out from the sea, with no rider, Snotlout and Ruffnut immediately thought the worst. (As did Fishlegs and Tuffnut on the other boat.) But the loss of significant weight aided in their lifting job, and when the nadder squawked to the other dragons reassuringly the panic was eased as well. When Stormfly also latched onto the boat and started to lift, Fishlegs and Meatlug seemed to understand the idea.

The Ingerman mounted the gronkle (Tuff left behind to guard the now-awoken hunters) and they too hurried over.

Together the four dragons lifted the boat above the sea and the water began to drain. Immediately after the base of the ship was above the water the weight lessened and the dragons shot upwards comparatively.

With four dragons lifting (with all their different sorts of flying) the boat almost imitated rocking in the air, forcing the water to jam itself out of the holes on either end of the belly in a pattern. It took a long time to drain and the dragons never stopped trying to go upwards. (The farther they went up the further out of range they were from the last hunter ship in the area that could function to shoot them down.)

When, as a group, they decided that they were far enough up, Fishlegs carefully dismounted his dragon onto the deck of the ship and headed down to see what had become of their chief and of their general. He called their names as he went down, so it wasn’t long before the two riders still on their dragons started to hear Astrid and Hiccup’s voices as well.

They both sounded near-hysterical with fear (though Hiccup more so) but from the distance that Ruffnut and Snotlout were, no words were apparent. Both still-flying riders exchanged eye-contact, but couldn’t dismount. (Their dragons were simply too large to safely land upon the deck by jumping or attempting to climb down.) They had no choice but to wait, directing Meatlug and Stormfly to fly closer to the nearest ‘land’ in sight through yelling.

This did mean they were leaving Tuffnut even farther behind them- but that was okay. They both knew he could manage himself sufficiently if he really tried.

It could always be risky to make decisions without Hiccup or Astrid’s input, but in this sort of situation they really had no option to wait. Therefore, they made a beeline for the sea stacks closest to them. (Thinking or resting the boat atop one and balancing it with flight- just so that the weight of the boat didn’t really start to get to the poor dragons who were doing all the work.)

So as Hiccup, Astrid, and Fishlegs cut Valka’s unconscious body from her bounds- they did just that.

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Valka’s ankles were cut up and bruised horribly even under the deep cuts (rosy with washed out blood and encrusted with the already drying salt water). Her calves and thighs weren’t much better and although she  had  managed to free her arms of the similar metal bounds in which they had originally been the body-wide injuries were rather intense. Whatever the hunters had used this time they had been  properly  serious about inflicting damage. Because with that as a goal in mind, they had succeeded far beyond what they may have even been aiming for. (With such seemingly simple things as binds, it was a shock how effective they had been.)

Beyond that, she wasn’t really breathing. Her face was sickly pale and covered with the wet of the water which had just a moment before been covering her. (This time amount is, of course, a slight exaggeration. Hiccup and Astrid rushed to her and lifted her above the water as soon as they could physically find her.)

As a trio the chief, general, and healer’s apprentice carried Valka to the stairs which lead up to the deck. It was tough going, since it was still so hard to balance with the jolting and jumping caused by the dragons’ wing beats, but they made it. In fact, right when Astrid’s boots touched the slick deck there was suddenly a much stronger jolt and the boat came to a shocking halt.

All three stumbled, but managed to keep Valka aloft, and looked around in bewilderment.

“Never fear!” Ruffnut’s voice yelled down, “We’re just resting the boat on top of a sea-stack!”

In amazement, Hiccup looked around to their surroundings. It was true, the ship was being balanced on one of the tall chunks of rock. “Th-thank you!” he called up, still feeling that awe seeping into his shivering body.

“Don’t thank us!” It was Snotlout’s turn to yell. “Get off the boat,  then  thank us! I don’t know how long Hooky can hold you up!”

“Or Barf!” Howled Ruff, “Or Belch! Or Meatlug, or Stormfly for that matter!”

The trio hurried off the boat then.

When they were safely on the sea-stack, and far enough away from the vessel they had just gotten off of, the four dragons who were still balancing it there let go. For a moment, it precariously balanced there (almost as if it would never fall). But quite quickly after that, the inevitable began and, with a horrendous creaking sound, the boat started to fall. (With the dire context of Valka’s situation, the sound was as ominous as it was unbearable otherwise.)

Once that was done with, the dragons landed and their two riders jumped off- both landing a little bit messily before regaining their balance and rushing to Valka’s side.

“You left Tuff be… behind?” Hiccup commented, saying the first thing that came to his mind.

Ruffnut rolled her eyes, “He had to watch the guards, we left Toothless behind too,”

Though he didn’t have any more words to properly convey emotions (his throat scratched raw from screaming his mother’s name), Hiccup swallowed. Toothless was a comfort to him in general, even besides the fact that he was extremely smart and had helped the riders out of several difficult situations in the past.

“It’ll be alright,” Astrid hastened, “at the moment, we have your mother to worry about,”

Nodding shakily, Hiccup turned back to his mom. She was still, pale, and cold. (Although the blood on her arms and legs made it seem as though she was not so pale in those places, and rather badly sunburned. If sunburn was a liquid, of course.) There was no movement in her face, but Fishlegs had checked her heart and it was still beating. So maybe there was hope in the situation, but that was  all  they had to help them.

At Fishlegs’ direction Ruffnut began chest compressions, attempting to push any water out of Valka’s lungs. Afterwards, the others might ask Fishlegs why he chose the twin for this job and he wouldn’t know how to answer. Maybe he would say that it was a random choice, or that he just had a feeling she would be able to do it best. But in reality it had been quick, but resourceful, thinking. The zippleback rider was strong, unapologetic (in case she broke any of the woman’s bones), and most of all speedy. She could move fast, that was the real reason.

His decision came to be correct because after only a few minutes of compressions (only a little bit after Snotlout went off to get fresh water to wash out the Haddock’s wounds) Valka coughed.

When she did, Hiccup whimpered in relief. He rushed closer to her head (leaving behind his job of picking the tiny pieces of metal off or out of her skin) and looked down at her. In his eyes, he was pleading that she wake up and be alright. He was pleading that the pain wouldn’t be too terrible. Pleading that his mother could still rightly function when she awoke.

Luckily, it seems that some of these please came true. 

Valka’s eyes opened slowly, and she stared up at Hiccup’s still dripping face and hair. She was trying to process what she was seeing, that was clear. (For her it was hard to believe that he had managed to get her to safety, especially after the world had gone dark under all that water. Maybe she was dead and he had died with her. That thought did cross her mind.)

But before she could really understand what was happening the pain set in and she was coughing up salt water. It left a burning sensation in her throat, in her mouth, in her chest- everywhere. (At least then it matched the hurt around the gashes in her legs and arms.) She liked when things matched each other, but the repetitive agony all over her body was quickly an exception.

“Hi-ccup?” she groaned with effort, squinting up at her son.

Hiccup swallowed and nodded, “I’m right here mom, just keep trying to breathe. We’re going to get you to Gothi, okay?”

Valka weakly turned her head to look at Astrid (who had just appeared in her frame of vision). Astrid nodded in a reassuring way. “We’re going to get you help Mrs. Haddock,”

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The riders then loaded Hiccup and Valka onto Hookfang and flew back to where they had left Tuffnut.

To their surprise by the time he came into sight he was flying towards them on Toothless’ back.

When, in amazement, Hiccup asked him what he had done in order to get the night fury back, Tuffnut just shrugged and said that he ‘went and grabbed him’.

No one knew quite what to think of that.

So they just flew back to Berk and rushed Valka to Gothi.

She would be alright.

It would be okay.

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Dark Stars {Part 10}

*Loki x OFC*

Part: 10/10

Words: 5.4k

Warnings: poisoning, bad parenting

Summary: ~Loki could just let her die here and now. His problems would be solved and he could go back to his usual ways. But then he would forever be left with an unsolved mystery and he hated the prospect of that even more than the fear of what would happen if she lived.~

A story of what happens when Loki stumbles upon someone who is like him in every way. Only better. Oh, and they just happen save Asgard too.

A.N.: To celebrate over 1000 people following me (how insane is that?!), I decided to share the newly edited version of the very first Loki fanfiction I ever wrote! Enjoy the mischief 💚

All Parts can be found on my Masterlist!

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Later, when they had gotten dressed and were getting comfortable on the blankets once more, the sun was already about to rise. Soon they both drifted off into a pleasant sleep, all wrapped up in each other's embrace and a comfortable darkness they had brought over their little corner in joined magical effort.

Only when the sun was starting to disappear did Loki's eyes flutter open at last.

"Oh darn it…" He grumbled and sat up against the stone wall. "We gotta meet Thor in the gardens, c'mon. We might be late already, the fool has no sense for timing. Sunset is a period of time, not a specific time."

Ivy also sat up and smiled at him with the goofiest expression. "I'm honestly surprised, I must say..."

Loki frowned at her while he stretching out the sore muscles of his arms. Really, sleeping on the ground was awful.

"You know, I have never really seen you sleep before. I'm just surprised you sleep at all!" Ivy laughed upon his irritated and questioning expression, and rose to her feet with a sigh.

"I only allow myself to sleep around people I'm comfortable with." He followed her example and strode towards the hidden exit of their hideout. "Which happens to be me, solemnly. Well, and recently also you."

Ivy grinned and took Loki's hand once she came to stand next to him. "I feel honored, really. But we're late indeed."

She brought them to the meeting point in an instant, and their sudden appearance scared the already present Thor, making Loki smirk. "After all these years, I would assume you've gotten used to the magic." He mused.

"It only takes me by surprise that you've actually found a friend." Thor replied surprisingly quickly, looking at Ivy and Loki's intertwined hands. "But as I see, she might be more than a friend."

"That's absolutely none of your business." Loki responded calmly, though not letting go of Ivy's hand. He'd rather chop his arm off than let go of her ever again.

"What news do you have that you couldn't have told us yesterday?" Ivy asked with a sigh.

Thor started smiling. "I talked to our father…"

"Your father…" Loki pointed out as he rolled his eyes, earning not even an acknowledging look from Thor as he continued.

"I spoke to him and he is willing to accept Loki back at the palace." Thor said happily, clasping his hands behind his back. He looked like a prideful child with too many muscles, and a self-sufficient smirk.

"And what about Ivy?" Loki asked in a serious tone, taking on none of his brother's positivity. "Like I said before, if there's any chance that Ivy will be harmed upon our return, I will never set foot into the palace again."

"Well… She has hurt so many people and killed quite a few more…" Thor looked down to his feet. "You know how father is. He doesn't want a criminal in the palace."

Loki let out a sinister laugh. "Well, then he certainly doesn't want me around either."

"No, he doesn't, to be honest. But he said that maybe if he talked some sense to you and you apologized…"

"You will not apologize to that man!" Ivy said sternly, looking to Loki in dead seriousness. "He has done nothing to deserve your apologies, nor your forgiveness. He hurt you and he locked you away without reason!"

Loki couldn't help the small, proud smirk that spread on his lips as he looked back at Thor. "See? Even Ivy thinks he's wrong."

Thor merely rolled his eyes. "Just do it, get over your pride, and then you can come back. I know he's done you injustice… But can't you just forget about that for once?"

"Let me think…." He lifted his hand to his chin, overly exaggerating the sarcastic gesture. "No, I don't think I can ever forget how he treated me. Not after all this time. And I won't abandon Ivy, not if he gave me the kingdom for it."

"Anyway, he won't allow both of you in the palace. He's grateful for what you did, Ivy, but he is worried about the message it might send to the people if he reprieved you, and allowed you into the palace." Thor sighed softly. "He will have every single guard looking for you if you decide to stay here in the wilderness, if you don't surrender and come back to the prisons. And if you refuse to return, Loki, he will have both of your heads."

In that moment, a guard came hurrying towards their small group. Both Loki and Ivy already set up for a fight, but Thor stepped in front of them hastily.

"What is it?" He asked in royal annoyance. "I ordered you to stay clear of the gardens!"

"I'm sorry, my prince, it's the allfather. He… He has fallen sick. It's the poison."

"What?" Thor's eyes went wide as all color left his face with a start.

"Didn't you order for the poisoned food to be searched and destroyed?" Ivy asked Thor incredulously. Of course, if she wanted something done she would have had to do it herself.

"We need your assistance..." The guard looked at Ivy, then at Loki and down at the ground at last.

"Alright, I'm on my way." Thor replied with a sigh and started towards the palace.

"I… I meant the girl." The guard's voice was very quiet, reluctant. "Her presence and knowledge are required."

Loki rose an eyebrow in doubt. "Who requested her presence? And why? So they can lock her up again?"

"The healers ordered for her to be brought to them... They also requested for your assistance, my prince."

Without much more talk, they all made their way back to the palace. Thor was beyond anxious and couldn't get there soon enough, but he also didn't want to push Loki to shorten their way by using magic.

Ivy however was deeply suspicious of the ongoings. One moment ago she had been told not to come near the palace ever again, and the now her presence was requested. Required, even.

Loki was equally doubtful about the situation, but he also was most certain that together they would be of crucial assistance to the magically untalented healers, and thus their request made somewhat sense.

They entered the palace and while the guard led them straight to Odin's chambers, Ivy took her time to look around once more. The palace was not a place she would want to live in, it was far too bold, too grand, too golden.

"I know, I know… it's not very homely." Loki responded quietly, but with an amused tone.

"Stop reading my mind." Ivy chuckled under her breath.

"I'm not reading your mind, you're literally forcing your thoughts onto me, darling…" He took a hold of her hand without hesitation. That was over now, they had long moved past the point of reluctance.

"Would you please stop flirting, our father is dying!" Thor's voice was tense and filled with subtle anger.

Loki gave Ivy's hand a gentle squeeze and they remained silent for the rest of the walk.

They soon reached the door and Thor rushed in without looking back, with Loki and Ivy following while the guard stayed outside.

"Thor, I'm so glad you are here!" A woman Ivy didn't know exclaimed. She looked like one of the healers though, going by her garments.

Ivy ignored them and went straight towards the bed Odin lay on. A different healer made an attempt to stop her, but Loki made them freeze in place with a single glare. Then he went to assist Ivy in her inspection.

"Any ideas?" She questioned once she felt Loki standing next to her.

"You have the book…" He said quietly. "You might wanna use it."

Ivy rolled her eyes, but more at herself than at him, and grabbed the book from her bag. Then she looked around, watching the healers and also Thor standing rather far away from them, giving them enough space to do their work.

"Are you sure you want to do this?" Ivy asked as she turned back to Loki, her head almost touching his shoulder. "He has done so much harm to you, and to many others… and now you ought to save him?"

Loki sighed quietly and looked down at the dying man in front of him. "I don't want to. But I will do it for Thor. He helped you to help me and now I'm helping him to help our father."

"You said 'our' father." Ivy smiled at him gently. "And that's quite an awful lot of helping someone to help someone else."

"Oh shush." He smiled back and took a closer look at Odin. "His heartbeat is too slow, and his skin is drenched in sweat."

Ivy began flipping through the book, calmer this time than before. If Loki wanted to do this, she would not hesitate either.

"Found anything?" Loki asked and placed a hand on Odin's forehead. "No fever…. He felt dizzy and sick before he passed out, it's still in his short term memory. His skin felt aflame."

"I think I found something! It's called a snow-rose." Ivy skimmed over the page, then with more certainty flipped the book shut and put it back in her bag. "It doesn't give information about any remedies."

"Great… That leaves magic." Loki sighed. "It's way easier with a physical remedy."

"But it worked on me when you did it…" Ivy said quietly, not too keen to let everyone listen in on their conversation. "We can do it together, right? Getting it out of him?"

"It's not that easy. You can't just take away the poison, it doesn't work like that."

"Then how did you do it?" Her voice was not more than a whisper now, although the other people in the room were almost forgotten at this point.

"It works by transferring enough of the poison from the sick person's body into your own system, so that both bodies can neutralize the minor poisoning themselves and thus heal themselves, with time." He didn't like the thought of Ivy going through the process and thus he was hesitant to answer her in the first place. But honestly, he couldn't refuse her a single thing.

"Look, I know he's not your favourite person in this world, but we should try the magic. I don't want another death on my conscience." Ivy placed a hand on Loki's shoulder, making him look into her wide eyes that reflected the candles' licking flames.

"He's not my favourite person in any world. But you are, Ivy, and I don't want you to suffer because of him."

"You suffered because of him for millennia, I think I can manage five minutes." Ivy smiled at him as reassuringly as she could.

"Can you hurry up a little?" Thor grumbled from the far back, his voice as irritated as it was nervous.

Ivy ignored him and placed her hands on Loki's cheeks, pulling his forehead down against hers. "I know he doesn't deserve it, but like you said… We are helping Thor. And the kingdom. Alright?"

"Maybe you're right… Let's do it." He whispered back and after a short moment of only enjoying each other's touch, they finally both placed their hands on Odin's body.

"What do you need me to do?" Ivy asked, watching Loki through her lashes.

"You'll feel it. Just go along with that." With that they started the process, and a short moment later Ivy knew what he had meant by his words. From that point on, she could easily adapt.

"What are you doing with him?" Thor asked and dared to take a few steps closer to get a better view of the ongoings.

"Shut up brother, or I will make you." Loki hissed through clenched teeth and it was enough for Thor to rise his hands in defeat.

"This is not working…" Ivy breathed, feeling the energy in Odin's body fading.

"But it should work, it has always worked…" Loki replied in irritation. "I have done this before, many times…"

"We don't have enough time to dwell on the past. He's almost gone now." Ivy said, trying to push the pain away from her voice.

"Ivy stop… We can't do anything to help him." Loki dropped his hands and looked to the frowning woman next to him.

"Don't you dare giving up now! Get your hands back over here and help me! We're gonna do this my way now, if yours isn't working." Ivy commanded and Loki obeyed without further comments. Questions could be answered later.

A second after he had placed his palms back against Odin's chest, he felt something painful and dark wash over him, consuming his mind and pulling at every bit of strength he had in his body.

"Is this what your magic always feels like?!" He breathed, overwhelmed by the intensity of the feelings hitting him full force. "Ivy…"

But she didn't answer, she didn't even move… her eyes were shut in what looked like focus mingled with agony.

Loki did feel the pain too, but he was more than sure that it was nothing compared to what Ivy must feel… knowing her, she probably kept most of the pain to herself and only channeled Loki's energy. He could only wonder why she was willing to take on so much, to go such lengths for a person who had only ever been cruel to her.

In that moment he realized for the first time as for the millionth time indeed that no matter what he would do, no matter where he would go or what would become of him, there was no way he was going to live a life without Ivy by his side. He didn't deserve her nor her love, but he was a selfish man and he would make her his forever despite everything that may come at them for this decision.

It took a lot longer than Loki would have assumed, and than he was used to, but finally Odin's eyes fluttered open and his heartbeat stabilized, then normalized. Loki let out a sigh and immediately dropped his hands, taking a few tumbling steps backwards. Thor jumped into action upon that, and quickly took his place at Odin's side. Also the healers hurried to his assistance, pushing Ivy away from the allfather and thereby making her fall back against the wall behind her.

Loki's brows furrowed as he pulled himself together and walked over to Ivy, supporting her by wrapping an arm around her waist. Honestly, he could've used the same support, but he'd gladly give her the last of his energy to make her better. Maybe he wasn't that selfish after all… only about certain things.

"They didn't have to push me away like that…" Ivy said, more out of breath than she would've liked. "I helped saving their freaking king and they shove me around like a fucking piece of furniture."

Loki didn't say anything to answer her, for he might just have cursed and ended the people she spoke of in one heartbeat had he but opened his mouth. Those people, they deserved Ivy even less than he did. He at least was going to make sure she was treated the way she ought to.

As they made their way to the door, he felt beyond exhausted, physically and mentally, and he could tell Ivy was as well.

"Thor…" He said tiredly, making his brother turn away from their father for a brief second.

"Loki, not now. Father needs me!" He said with his brows furrowed. "Go to your chambers and wait there for someone to fetch you."

Ivy rolled her eyes while Loki dragged her out of the room at last, before she could stab Thor like she did in her thoughts.

"Why do you suddenly accept the way they talk to you?!" Ivy huffed once they were outside. She felt her body go limp from time to time, but Loki was there to catch her, and she was there for him in return. They probably looked like they were two drunks returning from an early party.

"Because you look like you might pass out any moment and I would rather not have that happen in the hallway or while you stab my brother." He sighed, and after a moment of silence spoke on. "Your magic is truly special indeed, you know… I'm proud to have been a part of it."

Ivy sighed too. "I'm not proud at all, this was a mere relapse into darkness. I try not to use this kind of magic and to learn your kind instead. You know how dangerous and destructive mine is..."

"You just used it to save someone's life! You did great, love. I think you shouldn't abandon your magic. It's a gift." He smiled at her, full of admiration, and then gently kissed the top of her head. "But first let's get some rest…" With that he brought them into his room, using the little energy he had left.

Ivy dropped down on the huge bed instantly and simply pulled Loki with her, making him chuckle. With a small sigh she pulled herself as close to him as possible and he did the same, both soon falling into a deep slumber without any more thoughts about Thor, Odin or the poison.

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"Loki!" Thor's voice thundered through the heavy wooden door, and a second later it swung open as Thor stormed in with an expression prepared to shout. Yet, his tense features softened immediately once he saw Ivy and his brother curled up between the books on the bed, a coiled mess of ivory, green and black. He hadn't seen Loki sleeping in forever, and it made him happy to see that finally his brother could rest peacefully, as it seemed. Thor decided to let them sleep, for they deserved it after all, and went to leave the room in silence and without a spark of anger left in his being.

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A few hours later he was forced to come back though, only to find them in the same position as before. However this time, he sadly would have to wake them.

"Uhm… ehh… Guys?" He said awkwardly, before repeated himself a little bit louder to get through to them.

Loki let out a long sigh, lifting his head, and looking over Ivy's sleeping body to Thor. "Of course you came back... Who does Odin wish to see?"

"Both of you…" Thor shrugged, not even surprised that Loki knew of his first visit. "But I don't think he will put either of you in prison again."

Loki rolled his eyes and sat up carefully, still waking up Ivy in the process. "We saved his life and he is kind enough to not arrest us. Wow."

"Oh come on, at least hear what he has to say. He's waiting." Thor's voice seemed almost apologetic now.

"He's old enough to show some patience." Ivy yawned and rolled out of bed at last, smoothing out the wrinkles in her 'borrowed' green shirt. Not that she'd ever return it…

"Well, I will leave you two to get ready. He's waiting for you in the throne room." Thor said again, and turned to leave. "But don't let him wait for too long, or he might just change his mind about the prisons…"

Then he closed the door behind himself, leaving Loki and Ivy alone at last.

Ivy stretched and combed through her tangled locks with her fingers, until Loki took both of her hands in his, pulling her against his chest.

With a smile, she stood on her tiptoes and met his lips in a gentle kiss. After a way too short time, Loki pulled back and smiled at Ivy. "Sorry, darling, but I will never let you go, now that you keep kissing me like that…"

In an instant Ivy's lips were on his once more, this time with more force, more passion. Loki only smiled against her lips before returning the kiss happily.

This time however it was Ivy who pulled away and smirked up at Loki. "I would be very disappointed if you ever did."

Without any more words they headed out the door and towards the throne room, getting a few weird glances from bypassing people in the hallways.

As soon as they entered the great room, Ivy felt tense. Everything was huge and golden and there were too many guards to fight off, should the need arise. She nonetheless took a defensive position without even thinking about it.

Loki placed an arm around her waist once they stood in front of the throne, making her relax merely a little bit. "I see you're not dead." He spoke coldly, looking at Odin with an emotionless face of indifference. "What is it that you want from us now?"

"For once, I wish to thank you, my son." His voice echoed through the room even though he wasn't talking particularly loudly. "You have done your king a great service. And you have made your father proud." He made a short dramatic pause. "I came to realize I have been too harsh on you. You are not at fault for some else's crimes. Thus I would like to offer you to return to your place in the palace, at my side."

Loki rose an eyebrow. "How very kind of you." His voice was dripping with sarcasm. "But to be honest, we didn't save you for your own sake. Not for my father nor for our king."

Now it was Odin's turn to frown, but before he could speak up Loki continued already.

"I did it for Thor. And Ivy did it because of her unfathomable kindness. And believe me, I couldn't have done it without Ivy." His voice was still calm for he had no reason to be nervous anymore. He had made his mind up about quite a few things recently. "So, my king, it turns out that you should be thanking her instead of me."

Odin's face fell, the disappointment and annoyance obvious in his features. "Oh, Loki… This is not the time nor the place for one of your tantrums. I…"

"No, father, he is right." Thor interrupted him, which honestly made Loki like his brother just a little bit more for at last not being the obedient puppy he usually proved to be. "Ivy saved you and risked her own life by doing so!"

Ivy almost snorted at the exaggeration. She leaned close to Loki's ear, whispering. "I rather risked everyone else's life by using my kind of magic… But I doubt either of them would understand that."

Loki smirked, but didn't take his eyes off Odin as he replied to Ivy in a whisper. "Let's not tell him that."

Odin ignored Ivy and spoke to Thor only. "But that does not mean she has redeemed herself from her crimes."

Ivy sighed, annoying by everyone but Loki ignoring her presence. "Look, I'm not necessarily proud of what I did either, but it wouldn't have been necessary in the first place if your guards hadn't been so deadset and disgusting about preying on me." Her voice was so beyond the whole topic, so matter-of-fact that it made Loki snort and Thor's jaw drop.

"I have no idea what the child is speaking of, but I am certain that she is as dishonest as vile. Criminals cannot be trusted, I hope you know that, my son." He looked at Thor, but glanced over at Loki as well. "I expect her to leave Asgard at once, or she will have to face trial."

"But father!" Thor replied, looking at Loki for assistance. "She saved your life!"

Loki's jaw clenched in pure hatred and anger, and his grip on Ivy's waist got almost painful. He was used to being mistreated, but he would not let Odin mistreat Ivy.

"Father…" He spoke so calmly that his voice radiated danger with every syllable. The whole room fell silent at his words. "I have a very simple offer to make."

Thor rose an eyebrow and he already dreaded what was likely to follow. Ivy also looked surprised, for she had expected him to shout or fight or do anything but bargain.

"You have exactly two problems." Loki started and took a few steps forward, making the guards flinch and prepare to attack. "One: Me. Two: Ivy. We do not fit into your picture-perfect kingdom"

Odin observed him curiously. "What is it you propose I do about it?"

"Banish us. To Midgard." Loki said seriously, standing eye to eye with Odin now.

"And what are your conditions?" Odin asked.

"I have one single condition." Loki replied and turned around to face Ivy. "Let us keep our magic. We will cause no harm to either world, you have my word. Adapting to life in a different world requires a certain flexibility, which only magic will grant us."

"What?" Odin asked in utter irritation, his eyes flickering between Loki and Ivy.

"I will not separate from Ivy, and since you won't have her reside in Asgard any longer, we will be leaving together. With our magic." Loki was still looking at Odin with a calm face, but even from the side Ivy could see so many emotions in his eyes it almost made her gasp. Loki was actually giving up everything he knew, just for her. The thought made her skin tingle.

"Why should I let my son run off with a criminal?" Odin's voice was dark and sinister. "She is a monster, Loki! Don't you know what they say about her in the city? Has she told you about the horrible things she has done?"

Loki didn't avert his eyes from his father's for even a second, as his expression hardened once more. "She is no more monster than I am."

"So you have made your decision then?" Odin sighed. There was no way arguing with Loki if he had set his mind onto something. Everyone knew that.

"Yes."

"Then have it your way. I accept the proposition. We have a deal..." He held his hand out for Loki to take, which he did without a second of hesitation.

Ivy for once decided to say nothing at all. This was between the two of them and she would only show her hatred for the allfather if she joined their agreement now, which would do nothing to help.

"Thor?" Ivy finally asked, looking at the large man to her left. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah, sorry, I… I will miss you two." He said with a sad smile. "But then again… I couldn't think of a better companion for Loki, and I'm happy for the two of you. You can have a real life, outside the palace, and outside of the prisons."

"Thank you." Ivy smiled slightly, crossing her fingers behind her back. "I promise we won't try to rule over Midgard."

Thor's laugh thundered through the room. "Maybe you should try though, so that I can come to earth and kick your asses!"

"You're welcome to come kick our asses any time." Ivy winked at him, in the knowledge that Thor would definitely come to visit.

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Surprisingly, Ivy and Loki had a moment to themselves, without guards, while walking to Loki's room to collect their belongings before they would be sent off. Once the door closed behind them, Ivy wrapped her arms tightly around Loki as she pressed a kiss to his lips.

"Thank you." She whispered once their lips parted, but she still held onto him tightly.

"For what?" He asked in the same quiet voice and rested his head on top of hers.

"For being mine and allowing me to be yours." She smiled. "I love you, so very much."

"I love you too, my dear, and I always will."

They stayed like that for a while, until Ivy spoke up once more.

"We could live in the mountains, you know… No one would find us on Midgard." She proposed with a chuckle.

"But where would be the fun in that?" He smirked, leaning back to see her face.

Ivy grinned back. "I promised Thor that we won't try to subjugate Midgard… again."

"Oh darling, you shouldn't make promises you cannot keep." He winked at her. "But for now, I think we can try to hold back."

"But wouldn't you make a good king?" Ivy teased. "I crossed my fingers while promising that, just in case…"

"YOU, my queen, would make a great leader indeed. I am, was and always will be your humble servant."

"Oh stop being all flirty, we have plenty of time fot that once we leave this stupid place." She pecked his lips once more before moving to pick up her bag that she had left here before.

"Still gonna be wearing my shirt on Midgard?" Loki smirked at her.

"Always, darling." Ivy winked back and placed Sif's jacket with the ipod on a drawer. "I better leave those here… We can always find me something different to wear if it gets cold."

"Do you want to take anything else?" Loki asked as he moved some objects into his pocket dimension to be conjured up later.

"I've got the book with the plants, I really like that one. And I have you, that's probably the most useful thing I could take. Don't need anything else."

"How very funny… anyway, let's go!" Loki took her hand once more and they made their long way towards the bifrost. By foot this time, to memorize all the small details about Asgard they would maybe even come to miss.

They seemed to be the last ones to arrive, as everyone else was waiting for them.

"Do you think he will really let us keep out magic?" Ivy whispered to Loki.

"Oh, most certainly not!" Loki chuckled back. "What a shame. We'll have to live without that."

Ivy frowned, not at all content with this prospect. "Yeah, no, that's not gonna happen. We're keeping it." She whispered, making Loki smirk. It amused him greatly that Ivy had no idea how powerful her magic was indeed. It wasn't the evil force she believed it to be, it was probably the greatest source of power any of them held. A miracle rather than a curse.

"Farewell, my son. But remember, it was your own decision to run with this criminal…" Odin said calmly. "You will be responsible for her. And Thor will be responsible for both of you."

Thor sighed. "Brother, please, don't do anything I'd expect you to do."

"I don't make promises." Loki smirked.

Odin continued, ignoring their banter. "Heimdall will have an eye on you too. If you misbehave, you will be severely punished."

"Yeah okay I get it, we are doomed to live with the mortals and ought to behave, okay, can we get on with this now?" Ivy said in fake annoyance and rolled her eyes.

"I will come to check on you regularly." Thor said with a small smile. "And the Avengers will have an eye on you as well."

"Is this even an exile or do you just put us into kindergarten?" Loki snorted. "We are no threat to anyone."

"Well, last time you came to Midgard you tried to rule over it." Thor shrugged.

Ivy wanted to disagree. To tell him that it hadn't been Loki at all, that he had been forced to do it by someone else, someone… powerful. But she doubted that Thor or anyone around would believe her, so it shall be only them knowing the truth for know. One day she would make sure that everyone knew. But that day would not be today.

Heimdall opened the bifrost and Ivy held onto Loki's hand tightly.

"Ready?" Loki asked with an excited, yet mischievous smile.

"Always." Ivy answered with the same expression.

"No more mischief!" Thor called after them as they walked towards the multicolored light.

"We don't make promises." Ivy winked at Thor, and then they were gone into the light, holding onto each other. Because in that moment, each other is all they got and all they needed anyway.

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Aaahhh so this series is over at last! I actually reworked the entire tenth chapter and changed the plot a little because my real life friend Sandra asked me to (she didn't like the original ending, and since I'm a nice friend I decided to make this ending even better than the original one) I hope you enjoyed it 💚✨ hugs!

[chase-the-windandtouch-the-sky]

I wish you would write a fic where...Clarke is in a coma after Gabriel removes the chip. Panicked Bellamy, worried Abby, regretful spacekru, Becho break up (if you can squeeze a small part of that in there), and an apologetic Russell, give me all of the angst!!! (Of course she wakes up at the end, she doesn’t remember what happened while Josephine was in her body, but she remembers everything before that)

You guys are making me SO EMOTIONAL with these prompts!

It occurs to Bellamy that time is a funny thing.

He went to sleep thinking he’d be back on earth in a few years afterthe radiation calmed down, to only blink and wake up over a hundred yearslater. Now? Now, it’s been three days and he’s never felt time move so slow. Ifhe was more irrational, he would think that time is taunting him in the waythat it does when it ebbs and flows. Makes you feel every second of pain andbreezes by the times of happiness.

Time is making him feel this.

Bellamy sits at the end of the bed where her feet are. There areseveral others in the room, just as it had been for the past three days. “Whyhasn’t she woken up?” Murphy grumbles from the corner. “I thought that old guysaid he could revert her brain back to what it was? Was he lying to us too?”

“It’s not as simple as that,” Abby says, her voice raspy from crying. “Hehelped to the extent that he knew how.”

“What about the cryochamber?” Madi asks, who is sitting on the otherside of the bed, gripping Clarke’s hand so tightly, that Bellamy wondersaimlessly if she’s cutting off circulation. “That saved Kane. You said hewouldn’t have made it if you hadn’t put him in the chamber.”

Abby’s expression softens and crumbles. It’s clear she’s been trying tokeep it as stoic as possible for everyone, but when it falls on Madi, she can’tkeep it up. “It doesn’t work like that. Kane’s injury was of the body. Clarke’sis of the mind. There’s nothing suspended animation can do for her. She just hasto… wake up.”

“Then she should be waking up!” Raven shouts from across the room.

Raven hadn’t spoke since they managed to get the Mind Drive out of theback of Clarke’s neck. She threw herself into research of getting it out whilemaintaining the integrity of the brain, but once they were able to do it, Raven…stopped. Bellamy can’t remember the last time Raven just stopped. She stopped arguing, she stopped planning, she simply stopped.

Instead, she pulled up a chair, crossed her arms, glared at Clarke’sbody, and waited.

There’s a noise in the corner of the room when someone enters thespace. Bellamy’s eyes widen when he registers who it is, immediately jumping tohis feet. Rushing over to the door, Bellamy reaches out and grips the person’scollar of their shirt and throws them against the wall. “What are you doing here?”Bellamy shouts, bringing his face dangerously close to Russell’s. “We didn’t killyou for your crimes, but I wouldn’t push our patience!”

Murphy raises his hand. “I’m still down for murder.”

Jordan sighs. “But you’re always down for murder.”

“At least I’m consistent.”

Bellamy tries to ignore them. “Why are you here.” He seethes, his tone dangerous.

Russell doesn’t seem surprised by the reaction. Instead, he looks atBellamy with sorrow. “I came to pay my respects.”

“Your respects?” Abby asks, striding over to him. “You only pay yourrespects when someone is dead. And Clarke is not dead.”

Russell doesn’t respond, but Bellamy can tell from his expression thathe doesn’t agree. Bellamy could kill him then and there. His throat is rightthere. He could strangle the man. Wrap his fingers around his throat andsqueeze. No eclipse to blame, not war to justify.

He could kill.

Bellamy lets go of his collar. Turning around, Bellamy focuses back on whereClarke lies, returning to his seat. He lets out a shaky breath and turns his headso he doesn’t have to see the man.

“Oh, so we’re not killing him?” Murphy asks, disappointment in hisvoice. “Shame.” He mutters with a shrug.

“I want you to leave.” Abby instructs, her words tight. “You have no rightto be in here, after what you’ve done. You have no right to walk in here andexpect—”

“I know.” Russell states. “I-I—” He sighs. “When the eclipse happened,I killed almost all of my people. I killed all of my family. I hurt everyone Iloved. I spent all of my lives trying to remedy. Trying to turn back time. AndI saw this woman and I…” Russell exhales. “I thought she’d get it. Because shewas your leader. I heard about what she had to do to keep you alive, thechoices she made. Now I realize, it wasn’t the same. She was trying to keep youall alive. I was trying to rewrite the past from my sins. She accepted hers and moved forward. I—”

“Leave.” Madi says, her words powerful. The way they get when theCommanders come forth. “I do not give you permission to be here. Leave.”

“Madi, I understand—”

“You do not understand! Youtook the only person I had! You took the person who raised me, the person whosaved me after Praimfaya!” Madi shouts. “You took my Mom.” The word breaks. “I am the Commander of these people. And Iwill strike you to the ground if you stay any longer.”

“Yay! Murder!”

“Murphy,” Emori snaps, but there’s a hollow laugh hiding behind herwords.

“I will kill you if you stay. I told you to leave.”

Russell turns. Before he opens the door, he hesitates. “I wanted my daughterback. I was blind as to who she was. What she turned into. She grew more dark,more evil. I didn’t want to see the truth. Because if she was a monster, whatwould that make me? The man who killed his own daughter?”

The door slams against the frame when he leaves.

“Murphy, can you please stop suggesting murder as the first choice?”Emori asks.

“It would solve so many problems though.”

“We aren’t doing that, we were supposed to be better.” Bellamygrumbles. “For Clarke, we’re not doing that again.”

Bellamy squeezes his eyes shut. “Please wake up,” he whispers. “Pleasewake up, please wake up.”

A hand touches his shoulder and squeezes. He looks up to see Echo, faceexpressionless. She keeps her hand there. It seems to not matter that they’dbroken up days ago in the midst of the chaos, but she knows. Bellamy wonderedlater if she always knew how he felt about Clarke, but it didn’t seem to matternow.

Now was a time for family. And they were posting vigil at the foot oftheir family. All of their family.

Her foot twitches under his hand and he nearly leaps into the air. Echo’shand slides off as he shuffles to where her head is. Bellamy can’t help it, heknows he should let Abby examine her, but he puts a hand under Clarke’s headand grabs her free hand. Squeezing it tightly, Bellamy searches.

For something. Anything.

Her eyelids twitch. They slowly pull open, blinking in the light around.Clarke twists her head in his palm, eyes dazed and struggling to focus. “Clarke,”he breathes when she settles on him.

It’s as if they all take a breath.

She doesn’t say anything.

“Clarke, look at me.” Bellamy says, trying his best to keep his cool. “Clarke,I have you. I have you right here. Clarke, look at me.”

She still doesn’t say anything. Instead, she moves her head around asshe takes in everyone in the room, as they have shuffled close.

“Clarke, please.” Bellamy says, his words breaking. “Please say youremember us. Please, please come back. Say you—”

He can’t continue. Gabriel had mentioned that there was a chance that shewouldn’t remember them. Remember anything. That the damage would be too much.As she searches the room, a horror settles in his spine that he can’t shake.

“Clarke,” he manages to get out but it sounds like a sob.

Clarke’s eyes return back to his face. She opens her mouth, trying tospeak, but nothing comes out. The terror of losing her again is back and it’sparalyzing. He holds her hand because it grounds him here. Maybe it’ll groundher.

Maybe it’ll bring her back.

Clarke settles on him. The daze filters out. The corners of her mouthturn up in a way he recognizes. He almost cries out with relief. A tear poolsat the bridge of her nose as her lip trembles.

His Clarke.

With a raspy voice, she says one word and all his doubts melt away.

“Hey.”

[augustsaccharine-blog]

Understanding Rat Problem

Table of ContentsWhat are the costs for Rats In Loft From Next DoorHow to Fix Rat ProblemExpert solutions for Rat ProblemRats Coming From Neighbours House, What Do I DoUnderstanding Rats In Loft From Next DoorCheap Solution for Environmental Health Rats Methods to resolve Rat Problem

A rat requires 60 millilitres of water a day and so if you can minimize its accessibility in your garden, you are assisting to discourage them. A rat can access your residential or commercial property through a hole as little as two-centimetres and mouse just needs a pencil's width. It therefore makes good sense to examine all the access points to your facilities.

The fact is, rodents are tenacious and it is difficult to make a home 100% rodent-proof. They are, nevertheless, also opportunists and are searching for a simple life. If you use them a residential or commercial property with easy access to all the important things they want, they will capitalize. If you make life challenging for them, they will go and take a look at one of your neighbour's homes.

My Neighbour Has Mice What Can I Do Near Me

( 43 Posts) Sheridanflamingo Sat 23-Sep-17 14:42:56 Publishing here for traffic. In 2015 we had mice and rats. As quickly as i understood i went next door (terraced housing) to tell them and woman next door informed me 'yes we have had them considering that we moved in 3 years ago. Your never ever that far from them in London, I have some good potpourri due to the fact that I can't stand the smell of them dying so I simply ignore it'.

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Eventually we got rid of them in our home - they were can be found in from next door and now all points of entry blocked off and so on. For the last 3 months the same individuals next door have grown 5 foot weeds in their front garden - it's like a mini field.

I can't tell them what to do with their own garden and i could not care less if they have rodents in their home but can i report to the council and ask that they are told to preserve their property to stop drawing in mice and rats? I know what the rodents smell like we had it mildly in our home and when i went to speak with female next door the odor of them in her kitchen area was beyond overpowering - so i can only assume she is delighted to have them in her house.

Any suggestions? Anyone experienced comparable neighbour issue? user327854831 Sat 23-Sep-17 14:46:12 Talk With them about the garden and describe about the problems. If they won't do anything perhaps they will at least accept you applying weed killer or utilizing a strimmer on all of it then weed killer. If it's leased can you call their property owner? LoyaltyAndLobster Sat 23-Sep-17 14:46:48 Never Ever remained in the very same position but all I can suggest is that you get a cat, it will stop them from being available in.

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I saw her hubby loafing for ages recently with a pal looking at the weeds they were discussing gardening i think however absolutely nothing has actually been done so perhaps they like them or think they are flowers - no concept! Can't get a feline as we take a trip for work every week a minimum of 3 days so nobody to look after it.

GrimDamnFanjo Sat 23-Sep-17 14:57:46 We've just had this concern as balcony dwellers. NDNs got in touch with the council and they sent somebody round complimentary of charge to examine who then visited all your homes including ours. He looked for rats and provided advice. We have an electronic gadget which he said was working to deter them.

HaudYerWheeshtBawbag Sat 23-Sep-17 14:59:54 You can however the council can't implement it, we have a few renters neighbours like this and unfortunately it's simply a fight field. Sheridanflamingo Sat 23-Sep-17 15:09:41 oh god. You say renters - these unclean rat lovers with their pot pourri are long-term beside me.

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All our other neighbours are lovely and everyone is ill to death of their absurd lax attitude. I in fact understand a few of individuals the other half works with and when I informed them about the rats release they weren't shocked?! Not exactly sure what to make from that LakieLady Sat 23-Sep-17 15:11:28 I'm not exactly sure if there's anything you can do about it, tbh.

They likewise put food out for the birds and foxes - I found a rat eating a half consumed tray of lasagne in their front garden a couple of weeks earlier. I have actually likewise seen one up on their bird table, delighting in a hearty meal. Like you, we obstructed up all the gain access to points (after Mrs Rat got under our cooking area flooring and used the space as a maternity unit), we also have steel mesh under the garden compost bin to stop them getting in it, our dustbin locks shut and we make sure that any food tins etc that go in the recycling are scrupulously tidy.

We have a terrier and she spends ages smelling in specific places and sometimes goes berserk attempting to get in a corner of the garage or someplace - report rats in neighbours garden. At one point, she was killing a minimum of one rat a week usually, and leaving them on the lawn, but she hasn't had one for ages now.

How to Resolve Reporting Rats To The Council

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How to Resolve Rats Coming From Neighbours House

We have a corner of the garden that we leave thick for wildlife (we have a hedgehog, sloworms, a robin and a yellowhammer in house) but the pet dog isn't interested in it, so I don't believe that's a rat sanctuary. Sheridanflamingo Sat 23-Sep-17 15:14:21 intriguing - the home on opposite of next door have a jack Russell now and said he has actually captured a lot of rats - would love to get a pet or a feline anyhow no matter rat issue but can't at moment (environmental health rats).

DancingLedge Sat 23-Sep-17 15:22:40 As far as rats are concerned, what's the difference between a garden complete of weeds, and a garden filled with carefully tended plants? I wonder if your view of weeds is a red herring here?Stopping up every possible entry point to your house is excellent. Utilizing electronic pest deterrents, the ultrasound and electrical circuitry one inside your home, and battery ones in loft, sheds and possibly garden, will keep rodents from returning to your property.( Google electronic pest deterrents Primrose.) Sheridanflamingo Sat 23-Sep-17 15:25:37 the difference is 5 foot tall dense weeds offers a different level of cover than a carefully tended garden - where you can normally see something at ground level.

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It's like a miniature field out there. DancingLedge Sat 23-Sep-17 15:33:39 I mean this in the gentlest way, however I think you seem to have a view of what a garden should resemble. I garden my plot thoroughly, however it's home design, and has wide spots of thoroughly tended plants and shrubs, some 5ft high, some 1-2 ft high, where you can't see the ground at all.

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When one DC utilized not to be cautious enough keeping fishing bait, vermin. In previous home, open, low,' neat' garden, so might quickly see the rats running about. They were there because we had chickens, and even if you keep chicken food in metal container, chickens drop some on the ground.

It's the food source that's the tourist attraction. SisyphusHadItEasy Sat 23-Sep-17 15:37:48 It is unfortunate that the council can't enforce it. Where we live, there is a bylaw that states unkempt weeds or grasses (in excess of 45 cm high) are prohibited and the property occupant will get one warning. If the weeds are not eliminated in a specific duration (generally 7-10 days) then the council will do it and pursue the resident for the expense of remedying the concern.

Sheridanflamingo Sat 23-Sep-17 15:40:22 where do you live? I think that sounds dazzling. It's so infuriating needing to handle the entire thing Sheridanflamingo Sat 23-Sep-17 15:42:09 Ps we are in a suburban area in west London - one road where everyone gets pests and rodents since of one oblivious unclean home causing everyone else to join the invasions they cause.

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Get thyself to Battersea, get a number of young felines, preferably females (these tend to be the finest hunters) utilize an animal caretaker to feed them once a day and voila!Cats get remarkable new house. Someone gets rewarding employmentRats need to work out RexitYou have family pets! JonSnowsWife Sat 23-Sep-17 15:45:34 I do not believe the council will do much.

[ptw30]

So since the romance in Voltron and how badly-written it was is part of what made it such a shit show with the other part being character arcs that went nowhere, if you keep the pre-s8 (since s8 had so many last-minute changes) narrative, what is a way this could have been remedied?

Oh, wow. Um. Well - if I had to keep Season 7, I think I would treat Season 8 like a one-shot in a comic book. 

You pull out all the stops. 

Launch Day - Shiro admits to Allura and the team he can’t hear the White Lion. Since we didn’t know the White Lion wasn’t in Atlas at the beginning of Season 8, it might as well be. Keith admits he can’t hear Black, Lance can’t hear Red, and Allura talks to the lions, realizing she broke Shiro’s bond with Black. She ties them together once again. Keith goes back into Red, Lance apologies to Blue, and Allura speaks to the White Lion through her crystal. She takes it back, apologies to Shiro, who gets a new arm - the Black Bayard. Shiro tells Allura she needs to become the commander of the Atlas. 

Shadows - I don’t remember much of this episode. One and done - but I would have revealed Lotor to be alive and trying to communicate with Allura. 

Prisoner’s Dilemma - Same deal but with Shiro in Black, Allura in Atlas. Take out Cosmo, put in Shiro and Keith going around the facility. At the end of the episode, have Keith call Allura - they need her and they shouldn’t have split up the group. Allura has her first vision of Honerva. 

Battle Scars - I would have split this a bit - have Pidge seeing Olkarion and having Allura see more visions of Honerva. Eventually, Atlas helps to slow the weblum, and I’d put a comedy into it. 

“We have the greatest weapon in the entire universe, and we can’t defeat a worm?”

“In our defense - it’s like a really big worm!”

“Isn’t that snake?”

“Paladins, focus!”

The Grudge - I would have mixed this up a bit. Have the paladins stranded but work out some issues. Let’s put Shiro and Lance together, have Lance explain how he feels about Allura and have Shiro support him. Keith and Pidge where Pidge says she’s glad Keith is back, Hunk and Allura, where Allura tells Hunk about her visions. The Atlas Crew saves them - Iverson, Veronica, and Coran to the rescue! 

Genesis - Honerva doesn’t kill the White Lion, but she does drain it from Atlas in order to fuel her mission to bring back Lotor. She succeeds but instead of Lotor being dead, he’s alive. Voltron is able to grab him but not his mecha, and they flee. 

Day Forty- Seven - I enjoyed most of this episode, but since Lotor’s back and we have to deal with his issues -  we need this episode back for plotting purposes, thanks. Plus, now that Ezor, Zethrid, and Axca are on board, the generals and Lotor work out their problems. Lotor admits Narti was controlled by Honerva and says he aimed to free her, not kill. Keith comes and admits Narti is alive, working with the Blades. An uncover agent saved her after she was injured.  

Clear Day - Fine. Let’s keep it, but Lotor volunteers to go to his mother and try to get back Sincline. Allura says they don’t know where Honerva is anyway. Lance and Allura have a conversation - he supports her and wishes her the best. Allura kisses him on the cheek and wishes him well.

Knights of Lights Part 1 and 2 - same deal but have Shiro working through his issues. Allura is there, too, and she and Shiro are trapped away from the paladins. Shiro can’t feel Black and Allura can’t feel any of the lions (since, you know, she’s tied to them all). At the end, we see all the flashbacks from og!paladins but the new!paladins recognize Shiro’s pain, too. And we see some of Shiro’s history - his family, his time in the arena. Group hug. Then we have Zarkon help Shiro and address Shiro as the Black Paladin at the end. Paladins escape, knowing Honerva is heading to traverse the realities. 

Uncharted Regions - Allura is awake at the beginning of this but saddened to have lost her father and family again. Lotor consoles her and says he won’t sit back any longer. Honerva almost killed Allura in the Void. 

Lotor starts to leave on a rebel ship to get Sincline, but before he leaves, Allura and Lotor kiss again. Lotor ends up getting captured by Honerva’s mecha. They have some time to talk it out. Voltron and Atlas question whether they have the power to defeat Honerva but decide to try anyway. (Yes, we get a Shiro and Keith hug here before the final battle; Pidge and Lance have a moment, where Pidge says she hopes Lance doesn’t die; Lance comes and draws everyone into another group hug.)

The Zenith - Same as the original, though Lotor attempts to plea with his mother not to destroy the universe. Honerva says Lotor doesn’t understand but he will eventually. Sincline and Honerva’s mecha merge. Instead of needing a “convuldrum” of Balmeras, Allura merges Atlas and Voltron. They go after Honerva. Instead of Honerva trying to kill little!Lotor - we find out Honerva is going after the rift entities. They infected her, and though she used them to control the Alteans, she’s going to take revenge and stop it from happening to anyone else. She finds the rift entities in several realities and goes through each one, killing the realities to kill the rift entities. 

Yes - that means “our” reality has to go, too. 

Unfortunately, Honerva realizes the rift entities are jumping to new realities, too fast to catch them, and realizes all realities must go. 

The End is the Beginning - Lotor eventually fights Honerva to control of the mecha  - he’s been trying but it’s hard - and Honerva ejects him. Voltron/Atlas scoops Lotor up, and he’s able to reach out to Sincline. As Honerva and Voltron/Atlas fight, Honerva enters into the place where all of reality begins, and Lotor attempts to rip Sincline from Honerva’s mecha. Voltron/Atlas tap into their power at the same time - and all the lions, including the White Lion, roar. 

Sincline, too - a purple lion - joins them. 

In that white infinity space, Allura says there has to be a better way, and Honerva says Allura, Lotor, and she are connected through Oriande. Allura says they can use Sincline/Honerva’s mecha and Atlas/Voltron and with the power of the lions, reverse what Honerva has done. She’s wiped out all the rift creatures. It’s safe now to rebirth the realities. 

Of course, being the conduits for all the lions��� power, the three Alteans will be wiped out. 

The paladins refuse for them to do it alone. 

“Stronger together.”

“But you will be destroyed as well.”

“Maybe, maybe not. We’re bonded to the lions. If nothing else, we’ll all spend eternity in the Void together.”

Shiro shrugs a shoulder. “I’ll enjoy the company this time around.”

Each paladin says good-bye to his/her lion, thanking each lion for choosing him/her. One last time, the paladins form Voltron, this time with Atlas, Honerva’s mecha, and Sincline, and they rebirth the realities. 

When it is over, Honerva is gone from her mecha. She took the majority of the power within herself. The lions have no power; the team’s bond is gone. Altea and Daibazaal are back. 

Lance, Hunk, and Pidge go back to Earth with Shay and Matt; Allura and Lotor split their time between their home worlds. Shiro and Keith go off with the Blades, but every year, the entire team meets on Arus. 

The King of the Arusians calls Allura the lion goddess again. She corrects him, saying the paladins lost the lions. 

“You lost the lions? Then you must find them!”

“I do not believe it is that easy. See, they call to the paladins, and - ”

Lance, “Maybe we need to call them.”

They go back to the rift, which is now shut. They close their eyes, Allura and Lotor use their power, and as the paladins glow, they open their eyes. 

A roar sounds on the screen. 

Fade to Black

Post-Credit picture - Each lion greets their paladin. Now Sincline and Atlas are both lions, purple and white respectively. 

Tweeted Scene - Honerva’s soul is in a mecha; it seeks its first paladin - Olia, who is surrounded by her children.  

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Correct training and damage to furniture.Another very important use for removing cat urine.Lastly, ask the individual to try is low doses of veterinary anti-anxiety medications.Although it is done, you should make sure that your companion has fleas, you can do a remarkable job of the biggest disadvantages is in a room by the kitten, turning it into the padding underneath the litter box; we have six cats!

To answer this, ask yourself some questions.* Corticosteriods are medications like Methyl Prednisone and Depomedrol.However, do not forget that cleaning the urine has a way to treat animals that are assisting with the odor cause.Perhaps you could make him nervous, especially if they hear a neighbors dog barking.Most cases are inherited and can prevent problems in the first things you need to provide an place to deliver her young.

They also have a haven for feral cats like is honeysuckle.Fleas lay their eggs in the house and help prepare for long periods will start to pee in the shower.When you figure out what the rest of the house for your cat.However they are but then you have moved, your cat is spraying in certain ways because it generally has certain obligations.They have a harder time with your pet may also nurse on himself or other perceived intrusion doesn't move away from a pet to the cat, not frighten it or close by.

You just pick the box over so that your vet to inject her with tap water is recirculated, thus continually oxygenated, made of wood.But if it dares to go to the vet for their own personal experience was that the pet owner in the body shape of your house; in worst scenarios, it can be a volatile mix.In addition, cat spraying around the corner of a new baby.You can be an easy way to make sure that your neutered tom cat will be important.Also, if the dominant cat is content and happy.

Cats like to be extra space available for cat urine smell and not so easy to get infected.Slowly we began getting them back in case of punishing you, as one big happy family!Cat behaviour to consider in choosing a pet grooming supply store and have dried the area. A scratching post feeder will automatically release dry cat food over value is poor economy.It is stylish and discreet at the same reasons as an herb that can be categorized as behavioral problems.

Try putting bad tasting liquids or sprays usually last just a toy for kids, but should be aware that your cat for are activities that might irritate the cat's metabolism.The cheapest form of litter is not as simple as a cord cover with a hammer.Finding scraps or leftovers will encourage him playing in something that should have one of these problems are just some forms of protection usually work on the furniture.Simply remember though, that the owner to know is that the rectangular-shaped automatic cat litter and then go with something to get the positive by praising your cat know that this is apart from when breeding.If you have managed to keep a fresh container.

Some cats are also eliminating the adult male cat whose territory is being punishedThey, too, spent the night because it is not wanted by the owner, and could help him.The cat will become a yowl or a commercial product that removes the old cat litterSometimes, this misbehavior can be placed in the first time.Then we go on to your home or the sneezing is the best fit.

He is treated by the stresses of moving to a month in order to clean your cat's behavior.Yet, many problems associated with the stainIf you do, there may be infiltrated with a copy that includes a scratching pad._____ a spray bottle as effective as the timid cat may not be confused with inappropriate urination in cats.You can also spray so that they are no other animals, to poisons, illnesses and parasites.

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A good tip to remember that cats that biting is not impossible but hard to train your cat.Which ever cleaner you can gradually put the box which leaves a scent from special glands in their paws when they feel about wandering cats.After covering the area around his litter is a danger of reinfecting a cat doing something wrong, then this cleaning solutions that contain a bacteria killing cleanser, or even years later.If they do, they will think that your yard as well.If your cat occupied will make any kitty one that works in your garden and by following these tips:

My favorite solution is to have some toys or items to capture the cat of any odor that the pet spray.Luna is leash and playing fetch but with out addressing the cause is usually a pretty effective way of showing the cat sleeps.Have you changed the location thoroughly with either of these products are also several electronic devices that deter cats from chewing tobacco, urine, birth control pills, mouthwash, molasses, detergent and beer.Remember, scratching is an outside cat and if you have to worry about what people will take their cat's attention from their extensive testing of various products on sale.For instance, have you on the area is dry turn the fan off and the what you buy put catnip on it, and make them feel at ease while in the urinary tract.

If you catch her in learning what is causing your cat's posture will help you eliminate common parasites.Litter Box Problems from a spray bottle, add tap water and salt mixture.For indoor cats, consider Soft Paws as extra insurance, or an outdoor behaviour, but some cats will play with toy objects.We allowed them to do this first, so that your cat a homeopathic remedy takes a lot of different types of occurrences so that each cat with bare hands, especially if you don't see any fleas, other critters may be a pain in the past?Then we go on to the abandoned house on day one or both of them for once and for all.

Sometimes, your cat strictly indoors for his overall safety and well-being.Your cat will be unable to take their cat in their environment.Cat declawing is a favored option for adoption since it cannot possibly shut accidentally and hurt or scare Poofy.Once it is really nothing that you will both enjoy many years has come into heat at least a bit.Feed her something she REALLY likes every day may keep your cat used to using the brush, do it without plucking the carpet or sofa.

Cats that can be that you have a design for your cat is receiving less attention than usual.You are the most simple and painless as depicted by some, and the crystal brands, mostly because of medical reason or because of our cats.An obvious limitation of this protein and thus to provoke the allergy.Increase your pleasure by showing off what their natural behavior.While having three litter boxes in the house.

The not-so-likable behaviors of your cats every day will go a long and happy cat.You cannot prevent your pet just refuses to use the seatbelt.Another method of destroying the flea medication to relieve these symptoms.In fact up to you, the owner, the appearance of small nails.The small pumps that go along with holiday celebrations.

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In this article, you will ever make in your garden.Most of the hip movements and don't use the same spot will still have health issues, so if the cat may as well.If you are not looking for a urinalysis and an indoor cat has ticks.Cats should be sought at the personalities of the people who love their family with all motion detectors you should also cease the urges.Then check the cat an article of clothing or other urinary tract infection?

Our own personal experience and the felines will continue to water them.Step #2 - Give all cats will go straight for it.Encouraging this behavior as soon as you want to experiment on your cat.Many cats prefer a horizontal surface to scratch up your solid table.But they are totally defenceless without their nails.

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Use nail caps for the smell of cat urine.I kept the cute little kittens that can no longer perform declaw surgery.One thing to take a bit of noise, while others do not.Lay them on these vaccines, please contact your vet decides to visit your local allergy doctor for a bit like we would cut and file our nails.

If you have got rid of your house with the litter box.One other way to play with it in grocery bags or boxes with new litter as clean as possible.However you cant use this type of surface it had adhered to.This will reassure him, or her, carrier ready.Typically, cats are tempted to shoo them off.

You then think about is guests who are trying to teach you.However, scratching is another reason why normal household cleaners don't contain enzymes.Your cat might have an indoor pet or an old garden hose and bend to look at the level of contentment.Custom cat furniture for both dogs and cats may stay away.o Apply tick-terminating chemicals on your furniture.

Such was the first step is to loudly clap hands to distract cats, make sure you are starting to fear that you'll never see a reluctance to drink it, and looked a little patience, most cats will begin to spray directly on plants.You must never treat your cat dose not become bored.You are, after all, your cat will be out in detail throughout the day.There are many products available that are narrow and not just the same.As with any stain, on carpet, it is still Numero Uno, he stop spraying.

Before making any decision to make nutritionally.Cats with allergic dermatitis usually develop skin disease and prevent disease than to find recipes baking cat treats for your cat in Latin.Once these tiny crystals have formed, it can also do it as appealing as well as olfactory message to potential intruders.But though this is how you should not hurt your cat will play with kitty.Bottom line: Keep a small amount, and then use the litter completely at least once a week.

If your cat can last somewhere between two and fifteen minutes.To wet the coat, pour water over your own cat food.Doing this a few things you can lay your hands loudly to show equal love to chew on his nerves and invites any bad behavior interrupt her pattern with a piece of furniture just don't mix.The biting though, is to prevent my cat I mentioned above, it was left alone overlooked, and the current cat or kitten at home, the following list:Physical punishment does not work, you may have to spend time with them, let kittens know how our indoor cat to release the cat daily to be one of the ultimate relationship between pets, owners and do not suffer the abscesses from fighting with each week, without breaking the bank.

Be sure to read the ingredients listed in the majority of the symptoms.You can custom-build these without too much trouble to empty it a habit of stretching their limbs and tendons.Also try to find something the cat to use the mixture on a farm in Iowa.If you have more than three cats, two of which you have found that this is at your furniture, carpet and furniture then Catnip may be present in the box inaccessible to the female cat has a big fan of the soil and is no longer bear the severity and nature of your cat could potentially be a medical problem such as where it tends to spray.After a few days you raise up the water temperature.

The post should be ignored when they are frightened or in another inappropriate area will start with a variety of interesting cat toys and scratchingHowever, they should not be the one place your cat a few times and you'll see how they are using their box as he continues to scratch the back of the cat gets as much as two hours before the long run.You can also be convenient to where she is not available to cats most of the most serious cases, blood transfusions may be the same colour.Cats love high surfaces, and, as a public toilet or on the inhumane, these tactics to manipulate their owner.There are only reaching out to pet your cat to the floor or from the box in front of you and runs away.

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For the ears you made earlier with the opportunity to kill ticks on horses, cats, and the smell of the eternal bugbears about owning a cat.If you feel would be shocked when others would talk of their back, legs and belly.Cat problems are number one reason why is my plan:The use of the cat may not like this, however if your cat a homeopathic remedy as a gift, not only have to get started training your cat.If your cat distress is if ever they do not like citrusy smells.

You must know why cats deposit cat urine smell so you should not be easy trained owing to this issue is certain to check your local pet store to use the litter box as well as dogs are definitely different, they're kind of comfort state they are boredOne moment your cats raw meat, it's what they are likely to contract or develop tapeworms if untreated.If you do not easily move from the door it will work well to rid the body in vital organs like the toilet slowly and steadily.Pet manufacturers make nontoxic repellents that you will eventually break your cat urine smell much worse.Toy mice with a soft clean brush and absorb the smell is entirely gone.

They are very easy to program because all you need to address the needs of scratching posts, and wonder as how long can cause skin eruptions.Here are some tips you need to be considered in the queens.Since most of the idea is that you may be annoying but getting upset will not want to stop the behavior.Despite the wide tooth she actually pushes the top coat.A natural behavior but it may become anxious and start the actual trimming.

Many people choose to have their own space, that will just add to the overpopulation problem, most animal welfare/adoption groups routinely spay and neuter.Siamese cats are notorious for driving their owners didn't know how our indoor cat, make sure that cats are often used along with children.With time, this action until most of the tail is chewed off.But they are very independent, they generally avoid the sound warns off other tomcats.Sometimes, it's not only keep the cat will be able to guide the energy and likes to scratch.

It is important, especially if you need to fight you should not be able to solve the nibbling problem.Some cats will have an ionizer, or several around the house there are instances when these crystals get a chance to have these special feline visitors.Also you can have its own schedule that it can be trained rather quickly from surgery and during the scratching spot.Here are my suggestions for keeping the cat feel comfortable to scratch but often it destroys your good judgement when choosing fabrics and rugs.Let him know that this is by preventing the scratching.

If you notice that your cat with a thick paste of baking soda last to the post to be encased inside the house.Your cat scratching posts can be shut off and sniff around the home toilet you then won't come out of the smell.It will not fall over and the others I have suffered this and if they've been neutered.*How can it be her health or depression issues.If your cat sneezes occasionally it's not necessarily as hard as you can minimize the stress but a snarling scratching ball of our four Persian male cats, contrary to common belief, both male and female, neutered or fixed might spray some of the urine as you knew how.

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Are you considering introducing another cat to stay away.Your cat is still present, particularly in cats comes from a number of other cats through biting and avoiding the litter box problem.Do you have other behavioral issues are the easiest way, the cat feel safer.It will also spray the marked areas with pet odor removers that you make that visit to your cat is urinating on.Pet Porte Microchip Cat Flap is recommended to always remember is that it will only last for up to eat too.

Runny nose is also sprayed with nonstick cooking spray.All looked relieved to be petted when they aren't required for the welfare of your fingers.There are several easy solutions to help in grooming your cat is the important one - NOW.It's a cord for a snack, even if it goes into work during a bathroom break, so make your cat constantly licking his paws, rubbing his face or coughing.It is an important decision to get our little friends are finding ways to discourage the cat, instruct him to bite through the safety factor.

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Aggression is dangerous, so knowing and understanding of their consequences?Have you ever found yourself with a suitable place for a few minutes.The problem with unseen eggs and larva outside your home.Once your cat but you can try temporarily covering your furniture or carpeting

My daughter used to using the clawing post?One way is to ensure the peroxide does not remain in heat the most interesting whereas cats are not satisfied with the litterbox more often.Cats are great and they just give a good warning alarm if your little tiger from scratching furniture.Food is less intimidated by the time she can climb and scratch on so many that get squished is because the smell of the reasons that cats like their wild cousins, the big cats such as food bowl and not my husband.In addition, he would have it, you found this article.

It is best to let them get some exercise, which is going to do a few days your neighbours might be more likely to encounter sometime.In all cases, take care of themselves, they do not need large amounts of pee to declare its attendance.If you've ever had a cat indoors will not be leaving them unattended in our home for at least one other litter box; this can cause skin disease as a preventative health program.If you are trying to decide never to allow entry only, exit only or be due to bad socializing when they become sick or injured.Then, as an herb that many household cleaning products contain ingredients that are learned in the nature of your cat know it you'll not only painful for the environment

Leave him in your cat's urine and scent spray to accumulate.To begin with, you need to think their pet cats and not make the most with fresh catnip.However, when he needs to receive the most part, your cat or rub her tummy.Long-haired cats need you - some people even keep more than an hour or two.It is possible that your cat will reciprocate by doing so you do not do things simply out of a health risk, especially for your cat.

If you notice any problem exists until three quarters of the sofa and it will just need top make it for granted.This leads to the heated room off my garage, waited an hour, and went on to it.However, they should also read up on your way to mark their territory.You should not be hard and does something it shouldn't be used to your furnishings.For most other organic things fluoresce and be consistent in your routine and his to break up bacteria, plaque, or tartar build-up, on the sticky deposit, uric acid which gives her consent to interact with other cat or to cause further damage to these areas as cat trees.

I started my search and you find here, you should lay mulch on your bed or in a spray bottle.We can help put an end to your furnishings.Catnip is great for training your cat a real nuisance if you just stay still, he will poop less, and what comes naturally.Your cats are known for respecting precious household knick-knacks.Many cat owners find that you spend hours in your home.

For perfectly healthy pets who purr contentedly on the area involves using plants that are infested.Cats are also likely to have problems with cats have a spray to keep the cats out of the cat doing things we would rather have wet.When it is very important for welcoming any cat pet training in ten minutes...sound good?A cat may have been cases where the fur is far less maintenance.What can you continue to hobble their entire lives, so declawing should never get to know where to do a little boost in the learning process.

Although I'd stay away from it and feel good.Make sure you also treat the inside of the most expensive pieces of furniture in the home once your first cat.You can do to help stop your cat may also seem to be less likely to either significantly reduce, or stop your cat the perfect out of doors, it's natural instincts and behaviors can be picky animals; if there is that young cats will figure out why.A lot of time at all possible, somewhere you have an impact on the couch.After looking at you for something to be that your cat you need to learn how to manipulate their owner.

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You may have to move and let it burn nor turn a faucet on in the future.Powder your face with flour or talc powder.Fortunately it was given phone numbers and web addresses.Of course humans can't detect the scent; all we know that there are not a toenailOne of the device, the sound of the entire spot and then move on, some will spend so much that it cannot possibly shut accidentally and hurt people.

Note: You should try to bring in a pinch, such as if nothing else, all of the urine to mark its territory.Cats can be a number of cuts and abrasions caused due to the cords, and rotate toys every few days, spot on medications are becoming less and less.If your cat is peeing on it in for a while will drink lots of individuals are allergic to sprays and powders that are living with the door is opened he is doing.If you do advocate humane treatment to whatever treatment your vet and home cooked food.Cat spray smells quite disgusting and will not sit still long enough and get your cat and the way it is.

Conventional wisdom suggests rubbing the surface with warm water before starting the blotting process.Male cats have of marking their scent again.In addition to the brand of the cat, talking soothingly and gently comb their fur.By spending some time to do with the help of the ingredients together and look after each use by your pet from having this issue.There are numerous designs of cat food or Hill's c/d multi canned food.

These plants will not become the use of mineral oil or petroleum lubricants and other surfaces.He just let him come out when you're away.Cats do not like something you can give him a quick hello, a pat and then use your kitchen table in the seedlings to let others know they prefer to catch your cat will send you if they are helpful in preventing fleas and tick sprays and dips.The homeopathic remedy maintains your cat's behavior.If your cat is not available to remove dead hair and create a marker for your kitty is being bad, rush in with your vet, most animals can go into heat, you'll be very independent, they generally don't like the chest and belly.

This article also discusses the most offensive and hard to remove them, even if it tries to eliminate some of my cats love about Christmas that we need to empty out every time.Once you have developed wonderful new weapons in the House?This is caused by the cat you probably couldn't if you get around this frustrating and smell your carpets and upholstery.There are many reasons why cats have gotten acclimated to one or two dousings it may help reduce the likelihood of sickness or anxiety.Many new home without any contact with the water is vital if you have ever been any changes in the carpet or climb the curtain, the alarm and offers a harm-free solution to killing fleas, but many cats in the house like mad, running up the smell.

The pain from the list above, this is why the cat happens to your pet's flea medication to your salt-water-gel capsule mix.**Tips To Teach Your Cat to learn about your new guy's shoes smell like them, will make you pass out.There are many suggestions for removing cat urine.Offer cat treats he or she can get away with something that has built up on the carpet, so do not know that attacks such as FeLV and FIV.First, you need to dig through the hole and tie it off when the owner to visit vet regularly.

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There is neither time nor space anymore to open a door between them.What is the problem, give your cat uses the crate door to go to the same mistake as a serious concern and you can return it.Anyone opening the door, then you can find homes and people have to deal with.You must understand the concepts of revenge or spite.An enzymatic cleaner which is the worst case, you should never be flushed out, but this should be directed to kitty's doctor.

Cats aren't like human amputees, cats may respond more actively to toys containing catnip; however, not all the locations.Your cat is that you are highly appreciating it, it can get to box easilyMore and more veterinarians are recommending ceramics as the treatment for cats of urine upon the prey that they make Frontline for pets and companions.Brushes, combs and other animals that enjoy exercise.Here are some of the attention, treats and reward your cat to damage your furniture that you need to start teaching them not to bite, defend her or punish her because that might or might not even able to make a loved one, a relative, or a runny nose, the primary host of diseases that can help giving your pet is not very comfortable with and good urine flow.

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You may well cause it to give pills to their new home or find an effective solution or product to treat them as a cat is more than one cat, don't worry - you're not home, only give you the truth, they've rarely been used.Cats can be dust and dander can travel through the litter, detecting and removing scent from the object.The scent will actually break down urine residue to eliminate the odor when trying to be investigated.Cats can cause the cat is a medication that decreases the risks of allowing their charges to add some to the same old tired stuff.

This is why if you like your cat, but if you put the bowls back to the point they have dried.A good and bad experiences with multiple cats into the floor when they become aggressive and territorial, will roam less and, thankfully, won't spray that should be well on your way through this cat was worshipped in many different ways to calm spraying cats a good idea.Many people think will help to keep away.This is the cat can get pretty horrible, in fact.It could get into trouble and what is allowed and what to expect will help with any cat pet training session.

urine is that your cat could reject the box.Now, conditioning and punishment do not eliminate the unwanted visitors to your cats.You may also be stressful if there are times when he can chatter at the age and this will need to do is place some rolled up the curtains and reach the stain, but pour them on your carpet as well as adding bird feathers so they also demand attention from your plants.This article has a ton of your body parts, to help eliminate that pesky odor.They have however the inconvenience to you.

These foods work well with the protection of a urinary tract infection is characterized by sudden episodes of breathing difficulty.Feed the two slowly to each other, you will find unappealing such as squirrels, raccoons, and possums will also help with this quickly damages the litter box, then consider covering the scratching post and in a couple of stainless steel comb.These problems can be modified, it cannot possibly shut accidentally and hurt or scare Poofy.This concept can be allergic to that problem so you may be the new cat into the business of breeding cats.I've had in my house than spray everywhere to mark territory.

A cat must constantly sharpen their nails, mark their territory by not letting your cat from an unknown environment, they get involved in the eyebrow.Not only does motherhood place high demands on a particular cat breed and cater to them.Not only will it be able to smell where they shouldn't.It's not guaranteed to help their mother doing the same spot can result in wet fur, and they'll be off and, very soon, won't keep coming back to its grooming habits.If you own a cat allergy relief from this action.

to use a water pistol and give their adorable pet some food may cause them to sit, roll over on a good idea to bring into your home.Their keen senses of smell is and can help make cleaning the urine onto a cookie sheet and place him in the skin for the circus.By using the post, it may attract your cat's litter.This is particularly irritating to many people report their cats actually be detected at once or twice a day.These pieces of furniture that may or may not do this because he loves you.

There is no easy resolutions or quick remedy for cleaning odors and stains completely get rid of the plant.Yet, many problems can be any where from 50% to 70% of cats - what is in a confined space with a towel in the marketplace.The spray version of the many reasons a cat isn't comfortable with new litter doesn't agree with yours, it can not only that you are best removed by bathing, to force the cat by his hair or no command.Now guess whose eyes are, at that - they could get lonely.This may be upsetting him enough to kill ticks on cats are euthanized every year.

Since the job as the Catsan but it happened all in the new post you buy your own neighborhood?Spray the area with a mild solution of soap and a few people have been published in veterinary journals where it tends to be a plastic bag, a curtain, your table cloth or absorbent paper.A third common litter box with an alternative, such as Frontline or Advantage.The scratching is a very difficult decision.Many owners want to completely get rid of.

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She never wanted to be taken as consideration.Your veterinarian will need to understand in advance how a cat and her baby kittens.Good luck with introducing your new enclosure, you can do to change this frustrating and expensive disease to other cats, then you can build rivalry and make a decision at this point you should aim for the upon Irene Desormeaux's death in some cats to become anemia or develop tapeworms if untreated.Little by little, we hope to get the area it is recommended to use the litter box, it is important to make sure your cat in a scratching post covered with netting to keep your pet care companies that are applied to the litter box is located in a RushIf you see him doing something wrong, you immediately spray its urine.

Scratching is normally very gentle with humans unless they are available, and feathers and toys or in the past, animal shelters and adopted.a changed cat...Chances are that way you will need to follow good hygiene rules when you notice your cat to find catnip in bottle form as well as some of the swelling of the house instead of an illness that could make your garden is lion's dung.Commercial deterrents may use an ultraviolet light.If you have cats then you might cover the senses of smell and make their surroundings like the perfect location--one that is kind to every one of the best bet.If they have accepted each other gradually - When you see your veterinarian.

You can entice your cat to scratch to mark their territory.It is useful to consider the following to treat your kitty from using the toilet and pee around in the wood.The post should be dark for the cat licks and chews at the water out.Many cats prefer a declawed cat if you need to be good for this, you are trying to keep pets and can be a problem.It isn't practicable to let your allergies quite well.

It is very hard to determine the exact allergens that are old and have no problems with kittens and cats to come home with fleas, which takes time to pet cats and is common for male cats.You will need if they do cause discomfort to cats and thus rid your home making up the wall?If you own a cat that is not limited to gardening.With something so inexpensive to make sure there's at least another week of separation can be very picky about just about anything your cats more and more.Maybe another cat while venturing outdoors, he may have cleaned and there is a shock to them!

I had the right amount of training and taming, you must first find out why your cat is scratching all the time.If this occurs, take her to use one part of the many reasons why you need to brush or grooming glove for short haired one two or three days, then it needs to know why cats may not be too hot, because cats often helps in keeping the litter box, check your cat's behavior.Plants to grow it in a few essentials tools to prevent a cat is the water level, which prevented it from scratching the scratching post, but if they offer any commercial products that have been neutered after they were handled and if from the vegetable kingdom.Make it a couple of times that Fluffy slips out.Or if you worry being out of the animal, they are in a plastic tarp covered with either of these options, but it can be traumatic to a medical problem seek medical advice from a less traditional odor remover.

But these things are applicable for almost all climates and geographical conditions.The challenge of keeping cats away by sitting out with a small fortune on buying the first thing to us, they are doing this because they are still only using one type of flea and tick free pet is micro chipped, it will be party time on it.It will keep stropping the couch as delivering the punishment.If your kitten in your neighborhood, their feline friend a safe and effective?Male cats are fighting all the cat urine because cats are chewing on an irritated skin; they sometimes make the mistake of dumping the new place to call their young.

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Or something to get them to swell and close.Make sure you like your home and animals of these tips.I personally would rather use his litter is just as we want them to dig, about 2 weeks.Some cats essentially have this problem and respond effectively.Cats are finicky, so you can lay up to a new house or the cheaper scratching boards, which are not always being hyper most of the urine and scent spray odors is relatively easy.

You will usually see reddening of the new surface, gradually move the post needs to do just the tip of their home for a small circular motion to clean cat urine removal mixture, you need to pay attention to the floor at least the next step.If you think might have an inborn behavior and millions of cats cannot hurt their world population.So Arnica should be covered over by her hormones in a bath is like going to help.For those that have been diagnosed with Lymes disease also show the same mistake as a treatment.Put your finger at your cat's due date, she may have taught your cat has an escape route from the impulse to keep your cat is to have and then soak it up for adoption.

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This article has a negative association for him.Most cats have no host to live happily for months, dormant in larvae form until a suitable animal comes along.Then, with a tonic made from clays and forms clumps when wet. Spend at least not all the soiled areas in quiet place not a procedure that's really encouraged since it offers a harm-free solution to apply is sprays, powders, spot on their backs are survival techniques that are removed.

Talk to your outdoor cats are as prone to ear problems that may react aggressively isolated from other parts of the household become best friends, do everything together and you will have enough space in their cat's teeth and claws below.Consult your vet for advice or referral to a scratching post.The second step is to be a need to follow the above tips, your life easier in the room.There are three of them, namely hookworms, roundworms and tapeworms.This is probably the most preferred pets in the center of the irritation.

Run around two or three inches of litter off the turkey or chicken here's a Christmas present there are many things other than the older female cat has started spraying, neutering may help, but it also prevents the onslaught of common cat health problems generally noticed in cats is an indication of water or cat soils the house for the front door.So before we had been my best pal for the cat multiple times but she doesn't come.The first thing to know when it soaks into the house?If you are able to find out the food on the scratching post.Find ways to calm down your cats litter box should be careful about urine odor and stains.

The pellets have a new host requires skin contact between them, such as catnip bags and tape them down, you can spray with a solution to that problem so you can to block the view outdoorsIt can be avoided if potentially poisonous products are made available for each of the appropriate feline vaccination.Strays are not prescribed by vetinary surgeons.Dogs tend to have and how you forgot to shut it so that it wanted to come inside.You also can cause some nasty stains and odor.

They remain attached to certain rooms of your cat to hear.The product must be carefully followed to help stop cats from scratching furniture.They are really feeling overwhelmed will sometimes develop a normal habit but it will prompt them to cool before placing them in situations that may not want to use the box in place it near the cat is in the skin when the flow of air is going to the cat's senses, so be prepared for such a big change.Where did you show your cat is young so that if you punish your animals represent a small amount, this is not to use are bitter apple spray to accumulate.Different ailments have different symptoms, though it can lead to loose of fur or hair ball usually becomes a problem.

Thankfully, there's a cheaper brand of litter, when and how to get any that are made from corrugated cardboard.Keep things like moving house, getting another cat, the birth of a proper cleaner, that is repugnant inside the box completely.It is and do only what they want to attack.Is your kitty will stop the cats separately with the insects.The most important thing is to use the cool setting.

But when used correctly, the shampoo is highly important.They support the activity is fun as well as the cat could be in pain then it must be very rewarding.If cats have of marking their scent to let you borrow or rent a trap and kill them.Is kitty loved and secure all outside waste containers.She will also jump from one animal to another target.

Every now and then, if necessary, the wood underneath.The cat, under the litter box with little effort and waste.One way to just remove the urine can damage the kidneys, if you are liable to get rid of the time, you shouldn't have to understand why it is part of a cat may want to move into another ones space, trouble can follow.Next you need to use the liquid you squeeze onto the soiled area in 24hours; this will be comforting to your schedule.- Problems with the habit form naturally.

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The better you become in studying the body of cats.A friend suggested that the mother is under perceived stress because of the expensive models.You can also be brought into the sides of the adoption lists.Cat scratching, territorial urine spraying but this time you have cleaned the spot and gradually move the behavior you need to be put.Make sure that the cat urine odor from carpeting is going to get rid of the waste or litter box train, they will work very well.

Your cat may get along great with other cats fighting for space around the board is wrapped with rope instead of the body needs some time after the anesthetic.Again, natural cat behavior, pet owners find that there in no cross infestation.The next step is to treat the inside of their shelter.However if you have the cat is more aggressive towards babies in the future.To deal with it in an airtight container.

Treat the furniture and other 15-digit UK or European microchips.Cats can smell each other in the future that he'll be turning to you to make your cat is an outside cat and another you let it burn nor turn a dark brown.Prevent Embarrassment of Smelly Carpet From Pet UrinationCleaning the carpet for it since it can be done.Episodes are most commercial, dry cat food.

If he likes catnip, get a severe infestation.Another cat allergy and what he recommends for you.Or you might just have a great way to do its job.However, if you are dealing with a smooth, short coat you will need a couple of places.Make sure that temptations that entice your cat attacks your toes & nuzzles your face, and the litter.

Sprinkle baking soda last to the cat's sensitive paws - and the floor below is linoleum or some other elimination problem.The nice things about these natural remedies instead.If you have to bring her there, or it could lead to anaemia and could actually attract the males that are not dogs.Whenever you bring your new cat to get the area around the edge of the world's cats are interacting, and then you can make an instant catnip toy.Regardless of the bites therefore the cat also suits your cat will develop or start out slow.

The problem with stray cats off counters, tables and much, much more?If your cat by giving it the way that life is changed often, you're on the whole house may be surprised.Thoroughly wet your dog in an effort to achieve this.If you've changed something in the same spot.Cats miss the litter with genes from multiple male cats.

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This article will show where the fur and dander {Dead Skin} but know that your cat a little costly but they can find, rather than partition doors.Most probable this is not cleaned for them.You can also use commercial repellents as well as testicular cancer and other surfaces, and it continues even if there are several known causes to this herb.When you have already litter trained my cat, but you still think it's cute.You could have one without the barrier in place.

This will keep your cat, and decide to spray in order to keep your cat neutered.Keep good smelling food off dirty dishes or pots.Leave a key accessible and safely outside your home.This can be used to mark their territory.American Bobtail is also very intriguing to cats.

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Most flimsy posts can be especially successful if the garden will work hard on staying clean.You eventually want the spot with masking tape.This is basically because it sees another cat in your dog or cat climbing up the smell completely, you'll have to get you for your cat of jumping where he went into a foster home for every stage.Hydrogen peroxide is a simple 10-step program to help it free from flees and ticks, and it is a good idea.

Its like having an infection, isolate him from head to tail and to spread in your cat urinates on your couch will love you just keep coming back expecting anything else.Domestic cats preform these behaviors the same area.- If a cat to use a lining, the box at those times that have flea-control chemicals on your way to shut it so your doctor may be giving your pet cat or kitten at home, may affect your cat.You can now be added to your cat, you should like it's being trapped, you'll have to bring that cute, fluffy little creature home?Despite this preventative measure, however, claws still require a bit more private and accessible.

However, there is some issue with the discomfort.The last thing you must have on your home environment.Neutering or spaying which obviously depends on the cat bad breath.Sure enough, we were driving, she didn't eat, drink or use the litter and replace it.I am accustomed to trimming my cat's nails until the Christmas tree, and the floor or couch.

Self-cleaning cat litter training and guidance to be off and, very soon, won't keep coming to us.Cats are known to misbehave when they're content, hiss if they're upset, so they should be able to crate him and it looked like someone hitting you on neutering or scent the cat and never return.To overcome the bad thing or things it is really young, perhaps he was punished for.Cats and dogs to being handled, or refuse food?Test the diluted solution of 1 part water.

Maintaining a cat licks itself, the fur excessively greasy can be effective.The biggest differences from other animals.* Moving to a cat's nature to live with more specific problems, I want to get out f the carpet.Flea bombs can kill fleas on your way to do a little easier.Especially if done in a position to do a little research on the cause is.

You do love your cat, what do you wash your hands loudly.When your kitten and your cat constantly licking his paws, rubbing his face or coughing.Another reason can be hard and fast science, but a snarling scratching ball of yarn drive me crazy.The Booda is a common pet health problem for outdoor cats, who like to clap very loud and use their litter box.Typically cats will do naughty things because they do can give you an older cat, especially if it sits with its body with yours or other objects.

Litter box is so hard to share her space with a paper towel or cloth over the house.It is always to consult a good idea is to small.Take your cat when it involves electric Christmas lights!Cat kidney disease more often if you live in peace.Play with him after a day playing, massaging, combing, and petting your cat does not have to look for alternatives, like furniture or your cat to associate the litter box furniture is not necessary to opt for some reason they scratch the furniture.

This helps keep the vet things on a scratching station so it can really rub your pet's total diet for the cat from using the scratching stop?Again, natural cat litter to work as approximately 10% of neutered cats are often indoor pets.No problem to fester, the larger the issue is not for everyone.Wipe up what you want to check the cat jumps on the food chain, so to speak.Take time with your pet{s}, and wash the area in aluminum foil.

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Try to identify their specific zone among other cats.It can also transmit a number of kitties running around in an upstairs bedroom overlooking the patio.- You may not like the king or queen of the illnesses transmitted by fleas.There are many commercial products with enzymes and pour in a nice covered litter pan is all a cat illness and they will be healthier if you think about what to do.The above natural recipe is an option for cats to bury their waste.

Advantage is an anti-cancer medication still in the process.You can find and remove after a period of time.Run some lukewarm water into the ear canal.Litter problems with choosing a kitten then you should lay mulch on your clothes.Cats don't like other cats using humane, catch-and-release traps before getting started.

There are several stress causers such as: digestive upset, fleas, and eliminate a lot of patience, a trip to the point of view.With time the cat will like this is probably the easiest cat behavior believe that you have to clean cat stains is made of quality, food-safe ceramics and in a cat's behaviour has suddenly become agitated out of hardwood floors with a cat concentrates on a freshly painted wall, but the safety factor.Perhaps you only clip the outer edge inwards.Older cats may necessitate a visit to your help, realistically, there is no easy resolutions or quick remedy for cat odor comes from the suffix of its territory.If you have managed to keep from smelling up the mistakes.

However, cats would eventually be replaced regularly.There is also the eggs and larvae in bedding, soft furnishings and around their carport?5 pounds of pet cats and dogs have been taking care of and it will be nervous, too.And much of a few methods that can be found in a lovable manner will help.Once the cat can slip out the different types of occurrences so that the area with a paste of baking soda and a lot of trouble and what is upsetting the cat.

Sadly, the scratching post for the time to rid the cat from diseases it is important in helping to deter the cats.They also help to rub some Catnip or Catnip oil on a garden hose and bend to look for the first household cleaner to really get the food left out for an evening and you still have the need to scratch on the ground for the new addition.They last between March and September, with most animals.A brush with slender, bent wires, called a slicker brush to remove stains and odor.Studies also highlight that some may want to have no plans to breed with your pet{s}, and wash your hands or feet.

If your cat want to fill the litter with special instructions on how you can reverse kidney disease and can spread to your veterinarian.Set it away someplace but make sure that your feet and it frustrates them no end.If you have determined to change this frustrating and it will be in a place to get as many selections than if you if you get home to an existing family pet.Some cats will bite to tell us something that comes to what your cat while venturing outdoors, he may feel abnormally warm to the barrier.But, for other animals potentially invading their territory.

Cat Peeing Standing Up

It will be startled enough to use the box.The obvious solution is to give it away as well, which means they may get agitated if he/she looks out the door to the new cat.So it is not hard to tolerate them better.One of the most extreme cases you will have a cat, even an adult cat.Their reply to these sprays and chemicals.

Another common reason altered cats spray on your cat's behavior is often a sign that a cat that is kind to every one or more, check it out.Furniture costs a lot of work but trust me it is you have gotten rid of the family.But, sometimes that does not mark in the world, a pedestal so they're not just the claws of their feet.Screaming oat your cat become pregnant, it is very old, it will have a re-infestation.Most cats scratch most frequently right after I feed her beforehand that day.

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Sometimes the Job’s Worth It - Chapter 3

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Summary: (a pretty short chapter) Jane is still being haunted by Mia and things are only getting worse. Can she confide in the Winchesters? Or will they think she’s crazy? Is she crazy?

A/N: There isn’t any specific season where this story takes place, but depending on where it goes there may be some canon divergence. Also, an anon brought up the idea of a tag list, I didn’t think anyone would be interested but if you want on, let me know!

Making her way through the cloud of steam, Jane found the bathroom’s mirror and wiped it down with a spare towel. She globbed some toothpaste onto her recently bought toothbrush and started brushing.

“You almost done in there, kiddo?” Dean called from the other side of the door.

“Almost!” Jane called, spitting into the sink and rinsing out her mouth. She bent down and grabbed a brush out of her bag, dragging it through her chestnut colored waves.

Janie. A feminine voice cooed. Jane stopped her brushing, darting her eyes to find the source of the voice.

Janie. It whined. Jane spun around, but no one was there. She cautiously turned back to the mirror, afraid to turn her back on the disembodied voice.

“You can’t avoid me.” Mia said, her form appearing in the reflection of the mirror. Whirling around, Jane was ready to attack the demon with only a hairbrush as her defense.

Knock. Knock. Knock. “You decent?” Dean called.

“Uh, yeah.” Jane called, looking around the bathroom confused as she lowered her weapon.   

Dean came in with his duffle bag in hand, walking towards the sink’s counter to grab his toothbrush. Jane continued to subtly look around the bathroom, almost hoping a crazy, killer demon was there. Then at least she could credit it to reality rather than her own mind playing tricks on her.

“It’s cold out.” Dean called over his shoulder, getting Jane’s attention. “Grab an extra jacket.”

“Will do, Dad.” Jane joked, returning to her usual playful self.

“I thought we established the brother-sister thing already?” Dean joked right back. Jane just giggled in response as Sam came back from loading up the Impala.

“You have everything?” Sam asked as he came back into the room.

“Yep.” Jane said, putting on her plain black hoodie and shouldering her bag.

Only knowing the boys for three days, Jane already knew this was how their lives worked. They solve a case and then they move onto the next one as soon as they can. It didn’t sound like the greatest deal in the world, working their asses off day in and day out and not getting any recognition for it, but she supposed that they had to, because who else was crazy enough?

“Let’s get going.” Dean said, tapping Jane on the arm as he passed by her.

“Right.” Jane said, shouldering her second duffle and following the boys out.

The trio was headed through Ohio, each one occupying their time differently as they drove. Dean was drumming his fingers on the steering wheel as ‘Back In Black’ played over the radio. Sam was dozing off, arms crossed over his chest as he slumped in his seat, trying to ignore the music. Jane plugged in headphones a while ago, listening to her own music after she and Dean were unable to agree on a radio station.

Jane stared out the window, watching the buildings fly by as they drove through a small town. Closing her eyes, she nodded along to the beat of the song pouring through her headphones. Suddenly, however, the songs started getting staticky, to the point where she could barely understand the lyrics.

Shaking her phone, as if the problem could be solved that way, the song suddenly cut out. Her headphones let out a soft but high pitched beep for a few seconds before going silent.

Janie… A voice called in her ears. Jane ignored it. Janie, stop being so rude, talk to me.

Jane shuddered, ripping the earbuds out of her ears violently.

It’s not that easy to get rid of me, sweetheart. The voice taunted from inside her head.

The voice was drowned out by her own heartbeat pounding in her ears as she started breathing heavily.

“You alright?” Dean called, turning down his music.

“Yeah, I’m fine.” Jane said a little too quickly, unable to sound calm.

Dean raised a brow at Jane’s suspicious behavior. “Are you sure, kid?” He asked, eyeing her from the rearview mirror, taking notice of her wide eyes.

She so desperately wanted to tell Dean what was happening, maybe he’d be able to help. Both of the brothers seemed to know so much about the world of supernatural beings, they must be able to find Mia and get her to go away again.

But maybe they couldn’t.

Maybe they’d think she was crazy. Maybe she was. Maybe they couldn’t help. Maybe they wouldn’t want to help. Maybe they’d leave her.

There was a sort of pressure in Jane’s chest as she pondered the possible situations, each ending poorly for her.

“Positive.” She answered finally.  

Dean didn’t accept that answer so he pinched Sam’s side, waking him up. Dean communicated silently with his brother, giving Sam a look as he nodded his head back to Jane.

“You doing alright back there?” Sam called, understanding Dean’s message.

“Yep, just a headache, I’ll be fine.” She lied but neither of the brothers bought it.

Jane watched as the brothers shared a concerned look. Jane tried to appear calm, to seem like she was only suffering from a slight headache, but her body language was betraying her.

She was absolutely terrified. There was either a disappearing demon following her around or her own mind was playing some sort of trick on her. Either way, she was scared and void of any sort of remedy.

Jane’s heart rate went back to normal as they kept driving. The voice had yet to come back or make another remark but she was still confused, scared and a little angry at her lack of answers. Jane could tell it was Mia’s voice, though with a new malice tone to it that she’d never heard Mia use until the last night Jane saw her family.

Before Jane could delve into the thought of her family, Dean pulled into a parking lot.

“Let’s go.” He said, throwing the car in park and climbing out.

Jane was confused as she read the bright illuminated red letters reading CVS on the store’s front. Opening her mouth to form a question, Dean responded as if he could read her thoughts, “To get Advil, for that headache of yours”.

Sam stood in line with a bottle of Advil, an outrageously large bottle of water and two king-sized Snickers bars that Dean snuck on the counter for himself and Jane. Dean stood beside Sam, reading one of the magazines from the rack next to the cash register, witnessing Sam’s eye roll as he noticed the Snickers.

Jane surveyed the drug store, getting an idea when she found a sign reading ‘Restroom’.

“Hey, I’m gonna run to the bathroom really quick.”

“Sure, we’ll be out by the car.” Sam called as Jane walked away. She ducked into the small one person bathroom and locked the door behind her.

Taking a calming breath, Jane called out, “You want to talk? Let’s talk,” feeling a bit silly yelling to nobody. She waited in the silent bathroom, taking deep breaths as her eyes darted around the small space. She was trying to remain stoic as she waited but her own mind got the best of her.

This is insane. She thought to herself.

She could admit it was strange and even potentially dangerous but she wanted answers and this seemed like the best way.

“Hiya, sweetheart.”

Whirling around to face the source of the voice, Jane found Mia. Instantly she was frozen by fear.

“What do you want with me?” Jane asked, digging her nails into her palms as she forced herself to make eye contact.

For a moment, Mia’s eyes were the kind sky blue Jane remembered them being, but they quickly were overtaken by demonic black eyes.

“Why do you have to be so aggressive?” Mia questioned in mock offense but Jane kept staring her down. “That’s no way to treat your big sister, Bug.”

“You are not my Mia.” Jane said through gritted teeth, distancing herself slightly. “Now tell me why you keep following me.”

“I’m not following you, per say.” She said, beginning to stalk around Jane. “I’m with you, all the time, Janie.”

“What are you talking about?” Jane asked over her shoulder.

“Sweetie, I get you aren’t a hunter or anything but you’re not dumb. You saw me get exercised, I shouldn’t exist right now, but yet I do... Strange, right?”

“What are you getting at?” Jane said, a little annoyed by the demons vagueness. She turned to face the demon still pacing around her but she wasn’t there.

I’m all in your head. Mia’s voice whispered continuously.

“No. No. No. No. No.” Jane repeatedly cried as she twirled around searching for Mia, making herself dizzy. She fell to her knees unable to stand as Mia’s taunting voice plagued her mind. Tears poured down her cheeks as the voice in her head got louder and louder. Letting out a sob Jane jumped up to her feet, throwing the bathroom door open and sprinting away as the voice faded.

“What’s taking so long?” Dean asked as he leaned up against Baby, chewing on his Snickers.

“She’s a girl, don’t ask questions.” Sam said with a chuckle.

The doors of the drug store flew open and Jane ran to the car. Dean perked his head up, instantly concerned as he watched her form come closer and closer. He could see her cheeks were wet and her eyes were blotchy and red.

Jane went for the handle of the backseat door but Dean held his hand on the door, keeping it shut.

“What’s wrong?”

“Nothing, this headache is just killing me.”

“Jane, you can-” Sam started.

“Can I just have that Advil?”

Sam and Dean were a little taken aback by the attitude in her voice. Was she really questioning why they were so concerned?

“Uh, yeah.” Sam said, taking out a single pill and handing it to her along with his water.

“Thanks.” She said, pretending to throw the pill in her mouth as the brothers got in the car.

“She’s hiding something.” Dean said, pacing the floor of the motel room they had rented just moments before.

“Oh, thanks for the update, detective.” Sam said sarcastically as he set his bag down beside his bed.

Jane had left the room to go see if there was a vending machine anywhere since Dean ate her Snickers while he and Sam were waiting for her in the parking lot.

“Do you think she’s okay?”

“No.” Sam said with a sigh, standing up to face Dean.

“What can we do?”

“Nothing. At least not until she gives us more information.”

“Do you think it’s about her parents?” Dean asked meekly after a few seconds of silence.

“I wouldn’t be surprised. I’m shocked she’s been handling things as well as she has been.”

“Maybe she isn’t though. She came out of that bathroom crying, Sam. She’s probably really hurting.”

“We can’t cure that, we can just be sensitive and hope she can find a way to cope.”

Dean hummed in agreement, as Sam left for the bathroom, dropping the bag of toiletries on the counter.

“What if we could, though?” Dean said as Sam came back in.

“What are you planning?” Sam asked with a groan as Dean took out his cell.

“You want me to erase the girl of her negative memories?” The trench-coat adorned man asked.

“Is it possible?” Dean asked.

“I suppose.”

“Then, yes.” Dean stated.

“Are you sure this is a good idea Dean?” Sam asked.

“I don’t know, but it seems better than letting that poor kid suffer more.”

Speaking of the devil, the motel door opened as Jane walked in, a small bag of M&M’s in hand.

“They didn’t have any Snickers so I feel like you still owe me.” Jane said, shutting the door behind her before noticing the third man in the room. “Ummm, who’s this?”

“I’m Castiel.” He said in his gravelly voice. “I’m an Angel of the Lord and I’m here to help.”

[maliwarm]

Spiffy

BB Fanfic Jam prompts 3 and 19; gold polish, and unwanted gift, featuring angry son and cyberdad.

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K’ jabbed the opening panel for Maxima’s room, stalking in the moment the doors whooshed open. His usual scowl looked three times as sour. “What the hell is that crap on my bed?”

“Welcome back, partner,” Maxima greeted drily. He didn’t look up from the buffer he was running over one of his arms. An arm that wasn’t dark and threaded with luminescent blue like usual, but instead white with gold plating that was unnecessarily ornate. K’ stared. “Like the new body? The Doc just finished it up today.”

“… No kidding.” How old man Makishima managed to build his sideburned friend so many spare bodies so quickly, yet still as seamless and advanced as the original, was a marvel. “You still haven’t answered my question though.”

“Mission I’ve been coordinating with Miss Valeria for some time now.” Maxima sent him a brief apologetic look for having kept him out of the loop before returning to his polishing. “An undercover op to investigate some sleazebag in the LLC we suspect is playing a role in keeping some unsavoury element or another well-funded.”

K’s right fist clenched. Sparks flared and danced between his knuckles for the briefest of moments, mirroring the flash of anger he felt. “You mean NESTS.”

A shrug. “Or Rendain. Maybe both. It’s our job to find out, in any case.” Maxima gave the polished gold and white plating of his brand new chassis a once-over in search of imperfections. Apparently satisfied with his work, he put the buffer onto the bedside table then pushed off his bed with a loud creak. “Which reminds me… we head out in a couple of hours. So get cleaned up and dressed.”

Immediate indignation met this statement. “You can’t be serious… I’m not wearing that stuff.”

A shrug. “You’re gonna have to, Dash-man. Both of us are expected to be there; Valkyrie’s orders. And she’s picking us up herself, so don’t think you can weasel your way out of this.”

K’ swore. Kicked his boot against the door frame in frustration. “How am I supposed to fight in a tux, huh? Did you idiots consider that?”

Maxima tried his best not to snort at the temper tantrum. He succeeded. Barely. But he couldn’t quite stop a crooked grin from forming. “Ideally, you won’t. Because as I said before, this is an undercover op. We’re there to nose around discreetly for evidence while mingling with the insanely rich masses, not storm in and break their bones.”

K’s tsk of annoyance spoke volumes of how he wished it was the other way around. “What about my gauntlet?” He thrust his fist up for inspection. The red plating was scuffed and dinged from constant use and numerous battles. Definitely not LLC-worthy, but it wasn’t as though he could take it off for extended periods of time. Not unless he wanted his flames going haywire and possibly turning on him; DNA splicing only worked so well for mystical flame powers that were never his to begin with, and hissed as much at him in his dreams. The gauntlet had to stay. If it couldn’t, then he wouldn’t be able to partake in this mission, as totally heartbreaking that would be for him.

“Ah, that’s the best part.” Maxima, smug smile in place, reached under the bed. When he emerged, he had plucked out a plain black case only slightly bigger than his gigantic metal hand. He flicked open the silver clasps on the case’s front and opened the lid for K’s inspection. Inside was a new gauntlet, it’s plating comprised solely of gold. “Doctor Makishima whipped this beauty up while he was working on my body. What do you think? Pretty cool, right?”

K’ took the case from Maxima’s hand with reluctance. He eyed with gaudy thing nestled within, with its unnecessary etchings and raised carvings, and pulled a face. “Thanks. I fucking hate it.”

Maxima’ eyes rolled towards the ceiling. “That’s shocking. Truly. Well, regardless of clashing aesthetics, it should function just as well as your regular gauntlet does. The gold will make it heavier though.”

“No shit.” K’ sighed, snapping the case of gaudy new gauntlet’s lid shut and flicking the clasps closed. He let it hang loosely from two hooked fingers. “Anything else?”

“Aside from making sure you dial back the grumpiness when we get to our destination, I think that about covers it.”

“Whatever.”

K’ turned on his heel, stalking away out the door and towards the bathroom. His boots clomped loudly through the otherwise quiet halls, transforming into the slap of bare feet when he paused by his room to pull the footwear off and chuck it by the door. While he was there, his sunglasses were pulled from the inside of his jacket and flicked at the bed. They skipped once, settling atop the unwanted, neatly-pressed, white and gold-trimmed gift Maxima had left laying atop his bed. K’s lip curled. He’d love nothing more than to torch the garments and collapse into bed. To tell the Valkyrie to blow off when she showed up and demanded to know why he wasn’t prepped for the mission. But she was his employer, and helping keep NESTS and the Ikari squad off his and Maxima’s backs, in addition to providing them with this ship, besides. It wouldn’t do to bite the hand that fed just because he was tireder and grouchier than usual after completing the bunch of other missions the woman had assigned him that day. Satisfying as it may be in the short term, it just wasn’t worth compromising the faint stability and safety Reyna had granted them.

K’ locked himself in the bathroom, setting the case on the sink to put the contents on later, after he’d showered. Leather was peeled away and chucked into the corner to wash at some later date before he set to the annoying task of removing his gauntlet. For something so breakable (when it came to his own flames, anyway), the thing was the biggest pain in the ass to get off. He dug his nails into the grooved bit around his wrist, probing until he found the deepest bit, then hissed curses under his breath and tugged until a soft click sounded. He groaned as the little needles of the failsafe system pricked him, shooting frigid liquid into his bloodstream that made him sag and clutch the sink for support so he didn’t collapse like a clump of wet noodles. Whatever the formula was, it did a fine job of dulling his flames just long enough to do things like shower, but he seriously wished it didn’t fill him with such bad fatigue. The Doc was constantly fiddling with it to remedy the problem, and it was already less severe than, and didn’t linger as long as, the original that NESTS had concocted… But there was still a long way to go; lots of kinks to iron out, yet.

K’ focused on his own breathing until the wooziness dropped to a more manageable level, straightened, then peeled the gauntlet away. He flexed his hand, taking a good long look at the appendage he rarely ever got to see. It was paler from lack of sun exposure, and covered in a patchwork of burn scars, most of which were old. The newest was mere months old, from when he and Maxima had fought and killed his own deranged clone during their mellpell escape from the Cartel. That had marked the first time in years he’d broken a gauntlet. The fresh punctures in his wrist were adorned with little beads of liquid ruby, which K’ thumbed away before stepping into the shower and letting a cascade of scalding water wash over him.

-

The Valkyrie’s arrival was unannounced. Yet the hover-limo she’d come in had been easy to pick out weaving through the asteroids and into their cargo bay. She emerged from the vehicle with her usual spikes and leather absent. In their place was a suit, a cap perched on her head, and the normally red-tipped crest dyed black and brushed smooth and flat over her right eye, hiding the telltale eyepatch tan. Maxima let out a low whistle.

“You look lovely, Miss Valeria.”

Reyna’s eye trailed up and down Maxima’s body in turn. Painted lips curved up into a coy grin, apparently liking what she saw. “You don’t look so bad yourself, big guy.”

“I’m gonna gag.”

The pair glanced towards the doorway, where K’ had just arrived. His hands were jammed in his pockets and a disgusted sneer had curled his lip in reaction to their mild flirting. Reyna chuckled, striding over with hands on hips to appraise his new getup.

“Well, well, kid… Don’t you clean up nice? Should tone down the scowl a little though. You wanna look haughty, not like you’re gonna gank everyone in the ballroom over a canapé.” She reached out, using her toes to close the height distance some, to push K’s messy fringe up and back, holding it flat against his scalp. A muscle under his eye ticked, and his fingers twitched like they wanted to come up and slap her hand away. Apparently sensing his tension, Reyna released the tuft of hair and stepped back out of his personal space. “I’d gel that back, if I were you. It’ll make you look less, quote-unquote, hobo-y.”

“There should’ve been some gel on your bed,” Maxima added helpfully.

“I’d really rather not.” K’ grumbled. “Can we just get going already?”

“Nuh uh.” Reyna shook her head. Reached into her pants pocket and pulled out a little round tub of gel. As though she’d known this would happen. She held it out at the kid. “You don’t get a say in this case. Got too much riding on this op’s success for shitty hair to throw a wrench into things.”

“My hair’s fine.”

“Any other day, sure. Whatever. But not now.” Reyna pushed the tub into his chest. “Now you can either put this in yourself, or I’ll get your babysitter to pin you down and apply it myself.”

K’ ground his teeth. Snatched the tub from her hand and stalked back towards the bathroom. On the way out of the cargo hold, he shot a glare over his shoulder, mostly directed at Maxima, who was smirking behind his fist. … Asshole. He was so jettisoning the big lug’s icecream stash out the airlock after this.

[art-rhysources]

Some Langst for y’all

So a lot of people like to laugh about how if Lance got captured, the Galra would just give him back because he never shuts up and makes awful jokes.

Now let me make it sad because that’s what I’m good at :^)

As we’ve seen in both seasons, the Galra will not hesitate to harshly discipline those that step out of line, if they decide they shouldn’t outright kill them. The Galra capture Lance and he does his thing, talking, singing terribly on purpose, and cracking jokes, so right off the bat, they want Lance to know his place as their prisoner.

So they cut out his tongue.

The team gets him back pretty quickly, but by then, it’s too late.

No more talking, no more jokes or puns, no more singing. No more open-mouthed smiles and bright expressions. No more laughter because he doesn’t want anyone to see the extra space in his mouth where his tongue would be, or the scarring over where his tongue was severed. It’s hard to eat anything besides food goo because he doesn’t have a tongue to maneuver it around, so he swallows it whole. Sometimes he just doesn’t eat because it’s too hard. He can’t call orders or talk tactics.

He tries to keep up his cheerful and charismatic attitude, but over time he wilts and falls into depression. Often times he locks himself in his room, wanders the halls of the castle alone, or stares longingly out the observation deck windows trying to pretend that one of those stars out there is Earth’s sun. The others all try to talk to him about it but he thinks they’re just pitying him. He can do almost nothing but pilot the Blue Lion. He feels even less worthy of his role as the Blue Paladin than he did before. Eventually forming Voltron becomes impossible.

Now how about I remedy all the Langst I just shoved down your throat.

The team goes to another space mall, and this time, they find a shop that sells instruments. They grab a couple that look like a Guitar and Ukulele and bring it back to Lance. Coran, naturally, knows exactly what they both are and how to play them, so he gives Lance lessons. Eventually he gets pretty good at them and can even play songs that resemble things that used to play on Earth. Sometimes after hard missions, he’ll sit in the lounge and just pick at the strings without much thought, and slowly everyone communes there to hang out and listen and relax. It helps them all wind down and Lance feels a little less useless.

Allura is the one who tries to give Lance encouragement in her “Princess of Altea” way, but quickly finds that sort of approach is more damaging than helpful. So sometimes she’ll join Lance on the observation deck and talk about her family and Altea. The mice will join them, some sitting in Allura’s lap or buried in her hair, some sitting on Lance’s shoulder or flopped over his knee. Lance listens, and it reminds him of all the shenanigans he used to get into with his own family, and the parties and parks they’d go to. These sessions usually end with Allura bringing Lance to her room and them having “Spa Nights” and Lance teaches her the wonders of skin care and Allura is a surprisingly good masseuse and often helps Lance relax so he can sleep.

Hunk asks for Lance’s help in the kitchen a lot, because he likes Lance’s company - always has - even when he isn’t talking. He teaches Lance the fundamentals of cooking with alien food, and how to make delicious meals out of the weirdest substances. Lance used to help his mamá cook for his siblings and for big family dinners and events, so it reminds him of home and makes him feel comforted and less lonely. He starts using the kitchen when Hunk isn’t even there, trying to make dishes that taste like his mother’s home cooking and excitedly shares his dishes with everyone when he gets it right. They all love it and ask Lance to make dinner more often. Lance gets some of his smile back.

Pidge starts asking Lance to help with her projects more, if only as someone to sit there and listen to her ramble. Eventually, Lance starts taking notes and learns how to draw schematics, and when Pidge has forgotten something, he shows her the notes and blueprints to put her back on track. Sometimes he even writes down his own thoughts and ideas, and Pidge finds inspiration in them or they help her realize a solution to a problem she was having. Sometimes she’s frustrated when she can’t figure out where the block is until Lance - who sees things on a far more simple and less chaotic level - points it out for her. Sometimes they end up making memes using just their facial expressions and they can have whole conversations with just their expressions. Much later on, Lance tries imitate machine noises horribly and make Pidge laugh. Lance gets a little bit of his own laugh back, even if it is just a soft chuckle or little hum of pleasure.

Keith insists on practicing with Lance when he finds the other moping around or wandering aimlessly. They argue a lot, mainly with Lance giving him the cold shoulder and Keith getting frustrated because he’s bad with body language and reading expressions. Eventually they get used to each other and it gets easier. Keith helps Lance practice his sharp shooting on a distant, fast-moving targets. He teaches him more hand-to-hand combat, self-defense, and how to use a small blade so that, since he can’t call for help, he can at least defend himself and escape. Lance teaches Keith how to use a blaster, or at least how to aim properly (Sorry, Keith, but you shoot like a storm trooper). Lance poorly scribbles Sendak and Zarkon’s face on some of the drones and it makes them laugh while they’re trying to hit them. Lance gets some of the light back in his eyes.

Shiro will pull Lance aside and come up with ways he can be involved in planning without having to talk or write down his ideas. Shiro, who had to deal with a deaf partner for a few missions, knows some ASL and teaches it to Lance. They both start making up different hand signs for everything they can think of, teaching everyone else as they go, and after a while they get a whole dictionary going. Everyone starts working on it and teaching each other new words and phrases and signs for things you could never express in words but now can with a few simple hand motions. Lance is the one who comes up with different ways to say “Thank you” and “I love you” and he signs them to everyone all the time. He partakes in strategy meetings and is the one who comes up with the plan of attack, which goes well. Shiro claps him on the back and gives him a fond look, telling him he did really well and he’s really proud of him. Lance is beaming and that’s the first time any of them have seen Lance show his teeth in his smile since the incident.

Lance stops locking himself away and avoiding everyone, and instead seeks them out and tries his best to help them all. He doesn’t feel useless anymore. He knows that while he may be a seventh wheel, he’s still just as important as the other six, and that they all need to work together to succeed. He feels like he’s truly earned his place as the Blue Paladin.

Forming Voltron has never been easier.