#abaondonment

[ozwriterchick]

Pursue your happiness

Epilogue - The Party

Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes; OFC (Ruby); All their family and friends, including the Avengers

Content warnings: None. Just fluff and dancing and love.

Summary: The day of the party arrives

Masterlist

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Ruby

A month later, I was putting on my fancy, expensive dress to head to the lavish party that Bucky, Sam, Steve & Nat had all arranged.

I wore a glittery deep red a-line, with a floor length tulle skirt, sweetheart neckline and off the shoulder sleeves.  It fit me like it was made for me and I felt so beautiful. Bucky was wearing a black suit with a deep maroon jacket & tie to match my dress.  

Walking into the restaurant that Bucky had chosen, seeing all the decorations in place and all of our friends and family there, it felt more like an engagement or birthday party rather than a 3rd anniversary party.

Everyone we knew was there - I guess a 3rd anniversary is a big deal.  I had thought it was going to be an intimate little party with just our families and close friends, but Bucky had outdone himself on this occasion.

After a magnificently delicious dinner, a DJ started playing some tunes and everyone got up to dance.  I walked around, holding Bucky’s hand so tightly and spoke with as many people as I could.

All of a sudden the people on the dance floor parted and the song “All of me” by John Legend came on.  Bucky held his hand out to me and tugged me onto the dance floor.  We held each other tight and swayed in time with the music.  I was too emotional to say anything so I just kissed him occasionally and let him hold me close.

About 2/3 of the way through he stepped back, but kept hold of my hand.  I thought the music paused, then I saw someone hand Bucky a microphone.  I was quite confused, was he going to sing the rest of the song?

“Ruby Jane Masters.  Happy 30th birthday my beautiful girl.  I have gathered our family and friends around tonight to show you how much you mean to all of us, but especially me.  

Just over 3 years ago you walked in to my life like a ray of sunshine, then 3 years ago today you agreed to be mine and every day since then has just gotten better and better.

We’ve had our ups and downs - even as recently as a month ago when I was trying to plan all of this and you thought something else was going one, but the one constant in our relationship is that we’ve been able to work through any downs we have had and come out stronger on the other side.  And I don’t think this most recent situation is any different.

When you thought you had ruined the surprise party, I told you that you only ruined the party part of the surprise, but there is one surprise I managed to keep from you.”

With that I saw him reach into his jacket pocket and get down on one knee and I couldn’t help but start to cry.  This amazing man who I thought was done with me and cheated on me, had been planning this proposal at this surprise party all along.

“Ruby, I love you with all my heart and being.  Would you do me the most incredible honour of agreeing to be Mrs Barnes?”

“Oh My God, Yes, James.. Bucky of course, I’d love to be Mrs Barnes.”

He stood up and kissed me and then opened the box and I saw the most gorgeous oval cut diamond with 2 smaller diamonds along the white gold band on either side of the main diamond.  It was exactly the ring I would have chosen myself.

The music started up again and everyone crowded around us to congratulate us and it seemed like the whole party was on the dance floor swaying to the music.

And from all the heartache of a month earlier, when I thought my relationship was over, it had been renewed and strengthened.

Little did Bucky know that I had my own surprise for him that night..

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AN: That's it folks, the last part. Thanks to everyone who has read, liked, reblogged and commented.

If you have any questions about Bucky & Ruby, let me know, maybe we can do some, what's happening with them now or answering questions about what happened in the story in future.

As usual, don't forget to like, re-blog and comment here to tell me your favourite part

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Taglist:@cjand10@angstysebfan@psychictazzy76@lovely-geek@samanthaneedsanap@kentokaze@void-imaginations@iheartsebastianstanstuff@yourmumsluke

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[nostalgiabait]

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[twinvictim]

I complained last night but man every time I see someone else's nishiki lives au they're always like "kiryu and Nishiki would never reconnect or be friends again" as if Kiryu doesn't forgive Hamasaki for stabbing him or Mine for bulldozing his house or Majima for kidnapping his daughter or Kazama for everything. As if Nishiki did actually resent kiryu. As if he didnt want to make things up to him ever and did hate him. As if kiryus not singing the a love song about him 10 years after he died as if kiryu doesn't cry when he see 'nishiki' sushi in a restaurant. As if you simply don't understand anything. As if they don't love eachother.

[aw00oo]

[shouts-into-the-void]

Y'all remember Fatal Frame? Were those games fucked or what?

[linuxealcipher]

A doodle of my Sea monster eclipse that I never talk about. They are thriving don't worry.

[peteramthor]

[cardboardfeet]

average homestead chicken yuri

[inspectorspacetimerevisited]

Even the Inspector couldn’t bring himself to abandon a lad in a minefield,

despite the fact that he knew said child would end up being Herbert Vosdra, creator of the Blorgons.

[aw00oo]

[eloquentsisyphianturmoil]

Celegorm: Huan was like a son to me, Curvo! imagine if your son abaondoned you!

Celegorm: Oh wait

[imiging]

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[plethora-of-imagines]

I think I have figured out why everyone abaondons from Ruby, including UNIT.

Everyone other than UNIT: they realize that the woman is an older Ruby and cannot cope with the knowledge of her older self being there and it psychologically breaks them

UNIT: Actually, gets told by older Ruby what is going on and that in order to save the world, she needs to be abandoned by them.

See UNIT left but didn't run away. They would be able to handle timeline shenanigans with ease. But if an older verson of the Doctor's companion says that they need to leave her to keep the world safe- they would do it. As if they were actually scared of her, then they would have made her go on the run instead of avoiding her.

But that's just my "Instantly after watching the episode" thoughts. Might change my mind after thinking it through more.

[autisticlancemcclain]

fic rec friday 40

hello and welcome to fic rec friday! where, on friday, i rec five of my favourite fics.

The Heart of the Scorpion by crystalklances

Lance has a big old crush on the school's Soccer Captain, Keith. He tries to deny having a crush even while their every interaction sends his heart aflutter. Romantic horoscopes and secret love letters? Totally not related to Keith. Luckily, heart and stars align to prove him wrong.

i will fucking miss crystalklances every single day of my life he was a PILLAR. i wish he had kept his account and just abaondoned it but im grateful at least that he only orphaned his fics and didnt delete it. he had so much to write about the college scene and soft klance and them being tender and soft and open about it!! he also often gave keith parents and he almost ALWAYS wrote trans lance like he invented the tag!! crystalklances i miss you and this was one of my favourite fics of yours

2. It's Not Spying If You Don't Call It Spying by @jilliancares

Turns out everyone is spying on Lance and Keith's blossoming relationship.

this is truly so goofy and silly and the team is SO so nosy and they need to be involved in 110% of klance's shit. as they deserve tbh. theyre all so annoying and i support all of their crimes

3. i wanna love you (but i don't know if i can) by @rickybowens

So, of course, that was when Hunk had said, "You know, it's really good that we're all friends here. I feel like it always gets awkward when two people in a group start dating, you know?" "Well, I don't think we have to worry about that with this group," Pidge had piped up, "I love you all, but there's no way in hell I'd date any of you." Everyone else had murmured their agreement, except for Lance and Keith, who had shared a look before trying to discreetly scoot away from the other. (Or, Lance and Keith decide to date in secret so their relationship doesn't make their teammates uncomfortable. It goes about as well as is to be expected.)

secret relationship you will ALWAYS be famous. its literally my favourite trope idc!! and this arc made SO much sense in terms of a reason for them to be dating in secret!! i loved how the team was the problem but that was very much not their intention but it made sense why klance was afraid and just...this whole fic was cinema truly i love it so so much

4. Of Pidge, Perception, and Prosecution by @erinnovelist

Of all the paladins, Lance knew Pidge was the one he had to watch out for. The only time her guard was down was after she woke up. She didn’t talk, glasses discarded after long hours staring at a screen, and she couldn’t function properly without her daily cup of coffee-equivalent alien juice. Which was why, when he wandered into the kitchen that morning, Lance hadn’t expected Pidge to zero in on him and ask, “When did you and Keith start fucking?”

teehee this one made me giggle its so ridiculous. and yes i did scroll thru the secret relationship tag again idc its so good!! i love the idea of klance thinking theyre so so sneaky and the whole time pidge is like yeah bitch ive been knew yall aint subtle in the slightest

5. Shifting Rock by @ohcontrary

Shiro is back with the team and things are... difficult, but getting easier. But even as he feels more and more like himself, he notices how his relationships have change. It's possible his relationship with Lance is changed irreparably. Luckily, the mission they go on gives them a chance to talk. But on a trip so perilous, they'll need to pay attention-- It isn't just their relationship that's on shaky ground.

lance and shiro NEEDED to talk fr. if ur gonna pretend the later seasons happened then they needed to CHAT. and what better place to chat then mortal peril and the threat of being crushed to death!! holy metaphors!!

that’s it for today!! i’ll see y’all back next friday for the next fic rec post!!!

[rise-my-angel]

Ned Stark never told Jon the truth for multiple reasons, a big one being about the extremely tenuous spread of information. If by telling Jon, there was ANY chance that that others may learn and it could reach Robert, he would not risk it.

There's clearly a reason after the war, Howland Reed returned to Greywater Watch to sit on a swamp bog lilypad in complete silence for twenty years.

Any chance of the wrong people learning this truth puts Jons life at immediate risk, something Ned won't allow. Protecting Jons life at the cost of some of his relationships with the ones he loves, is a sacrifice he has to make. One of his final thoughts is of guilt, wishing he could talk to Jon just one more time, implying he doesn't want to leave this world with his son thinking Ned raised him this way out of shame or spite.

There's also the fact that Ned is clearly a man with deep trauma. Most of the main older characters from Roberts Rebellion we meet are trapped at that age. Their traumas never really let them move passed that era and its clearly effected the men they've become. Ned Stark, Robert Baratheon, Jon Connington, Jaime Lannister, even Howland Reed. All characters who never really lived passed that war and its greatly effected their lives as older men.

It means that while it isn't fair, Ned does not discuss those days, Jons mother, or even Lyanna in general because he is still trapped in that room she died in. Ned is still metaphorically that young man, sat catatonic at his little sisters now dead bedside. Ned doesn't shut all that down from his family and Jon to just keep him in the dark, its Ned spending Jons entire lifetime with deepy unresolved trauma that he now has no idea how to process. Shutting down emotionally about his families death and not truly processing the greif isn't even singular to Ned. This is a trait we literally see with Jon later on once he thinks hes lost basically his entire family, not really processing those loses in a healthy manner.

So if shutting down from trama is a flaw you put towards Ned, then its Jons flaw too. They both are extremely closed off about greif.

Again, Ned in his final pov chapter feels shame when thinking of how he and Jon will part ways with each other before Ned can fix his wrongs. Ned doesn't want Jon to think he raised him this way with any ill intent, Ned raised Jon that way out of deeply rooted fear for losing his son. And Ned wants Jon to know that hes sorry if he ever made Jon feel anything less then that love.

Its easy to fall into Jons pov trap, where the thinks his father abaondoned him to the Wall because thats what he thought Jon deserved. But the books clearly explain that Ned always wanted Jon to stay in Winterfell with Robb. But between the turmoil of Roberts appearance, the mystery of Lysa accusing the Lannisters of murder, and then realizing Jon wants Benjen to convince his father to let him go and Catelyn pressuring Ned to make Jon go, he concedes. At the least, even if Jon hates him for it, if Jons at the Wall hes as far from Roberts wrath as he could get.

Ned lets him go, but Ned always wanted Jon to stay in Winterfell where he belongs. Ned never treated Jon like a pariah. Ned treated Jon better then most bastards ever get from their highborn families, but did not give too much special treatment in order to keep eyes off of him for his saftey. The less people who pay attention to Jon, the less chance anyone would ever put it together. And keeping Jon a bastard, means while he receives the stigma that comes from it, most people who Ned would be scared of Jon interacting with, will now ignore him. It hurts for Jon, but Ned again, knows its better then someone putting the truth together and winding up having Jons life at risk.

Even through what Jon doesn't understand about his father continues to bother him, Jon actively still pushes away every older male his life trying to position themselves as a psuedo father figure to him, because despite it all, Jon knows the only father he wants or ever needed, was Ned Stark.

Ned was not perfect in the manners which pertain to Jon, but to pretend as if Jons unobjective pov of insecurities and fears stemming from not having the context of his father keeping such a massive secret, is secretly some smoking gun proof that Ned was actually a bad father or deserves to have Jon discount being raised and loved by him his whole life?

It is completely disingenuous.

[crushedsweets]

Ooooh I raise to you: Clockwork working at Shag (It's a midwestern smoke store that is like spencers but for hippies). Bloody painter works at Michaels just for the employee discount.

Laughing Jack would work at ToysRUs but refuses to work anywhere else but there even though they've been shut down

toysrus laughing jack but hes just sitting in the empty run down abaondoned ones bc they got shut down and its the most pathetic sight youve ever seen

also omg ok. i could see helen working at blicks instead and being hella pretentious about michaels being for amateurs or some shit LMFAO

also yea clocky at a smoke shop has become my beloved version of clocky . stoner clocky in general.