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S2: E2 "Everybody Loves a Clown"
Brought to you by Today's 70's Heardle, which was exactly what you think it was and I figured I was legally obligated to watch at least one episode
This episode featuring: car maintenance, funny mullet guy, Dean continuing to put his foot in his mouth, and, you guessed it, clowns
This is already looking to be a great ep by title alone
Is the clown Dean. His clown shoes squeaking. Squeak squeak squeak
[ Silas says I'm the clown. Harsh, but fair. ]
OH BOY! THE FAIR!
Murder clown time? Is that what's going on? I bet it's murder clowns
Oh that clown looks creepy
Aaaand it's gone!
I think it was kind of funny how it just waved back at her whshsy
He just wants to be friends!
This kid has absolutely zero sense of self preservation hello
Oh fuck a whole funeral pyre?? I mean I guess in their line of work fire is like, a precaution and a way of assuring they're at peace or someth
[ Kayla: salt n burn em ]
He is fixing his car and dropping the parts
WJSHSHSH SCREAMS DEAN
Just. Being a snarky brat about Sam trying to talk to him abt what happened
Oh a voicemail?
Who's Ellen?
[ Kayla is excited for this bit. More cool characters I assume. ]
Oh they are borrowing an old van GDHSGSGS "This is humiliating. I feel like a friggin' soccer mom."
Oh this is a bit funky a bit weird
Is he drunk and passed out or is that guy dead
LMAO AT GUNPOINT
Hi ladies how are you
SCREAMS just puts the guns down "Hey I'm Ellen"
She's got fire I like that
:(
"We're alright" Dean buddy that's a lie
"Ash!" (drunk guy) WHUUUH
STATISTICAL OVERUSE
This guy's hilarious actually
51 hours
"All business up front, party in the back"
DEAN YOU WHORE STOP
[ Silas asks if he's standing gayly. No, he's just being bad at flirting again. Melon says asking him to stop is asking him to go against his nature. I know. I know. ]
SCREAMS SAM IS AFRAID OF CLOWNS??
So Dean hates planes and Sam hates clowns. Someone put them on a plane full of clowns
[ Silas says I'm evil for this. Melon muses that it sounds like something the show would do, but he has no recollection of if they have or not. Then she says that she's sure Dean at some point dressed as a clown and stood over baby Sam's bed at some point. I agree, because that is peak older sibling energy. ]
"Great. Paranormal scavenger hunt. Woo."
Look I think killing a monster or whatever is good for keeping you idiots active and not wallowing in your inability to process your feelings in a normal way
I saw a clown! The clown probably
I actually think the clown isn't evil or at least that it's not that simple? There has to be some kinda twist here
Anyways man imagine ur kid walking in with a clown
ARE THEY GOING TO TRY AND JOIN THE CIRCUS
[ Melon: Clown assimilation ]
SCREAMS DEAN KEEPS SAYING SHIT AND THEY ALL START YELLING AT HIM AND SAM JUSTS STARTS LAUGHING
This is wild
They are joining the circus
[ Kayla: nikolacore ]
Sam's daddy issues have increased sevenfold
HAHAHA TRASH CLEANER SAM
Oh there's a child seeing a clown
Interesting interesting...
I still feel like the clown thing isn't as simple as they think
What the hell
Well u guys fucked that up
"Mommy Daddy they shot my clown :("
Yeah John did seem to have a fallout with literally everyone
Dean u r bottling up shit
NEITHER OF YOU ARE BEING HONEST WITH YOURSELVES
They are stupid
Rakshasa! I have heard of that because of Trails
"You go check if Cooper's got bed bugs" ok this wasn't the turn I was expecting but it IS interesting
ohhhh OHH
PLOT TWIIIIST BABY
WHAT was that cgi face melty
Sorry Cooper
They are now trapped in the clown maze
Ohhh the pipe organ! Smart
Knives! Knives! Knives!
Pterodactyl screaming
Ok well that was fun
"We were working a job. Clowns?" "Clowns?! What the f—"
I like Ash he's funny
Yeah he has to go finish his car
WOAH smashy breaky?
BESTIE NOT YOUR CAR
Oh in memory of Peter Ellis. I don't know who that is but rip
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So surprising no one the boys are Not Coping. But they have a guy with a demon radar so that's something. Still working on the car though, that'll take a while, good job Dean.
#on the highway to superhell#supernatural#spn#and away go the winchester bros. their clown shoes squeaking off into the sunset
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Flufftober 23 - The Last of Us
Joel Miller x Reader (not sure I’ll write about this again, but I wanted to try)
After the appearance of the Cordyceps, Joel Miller had lost everything.
"Like many people", some might have responded by calling him selfish. Everyone had been affected in one way or another because of this apocalypse.
His life had never been easy. After the death of his wife, he had been able to cling to Sarah, his little ray of sunshine. Some days were better than others for a single father. His little brother Tommy helped him out a bit, but they weren't that close, and he had his own family to take care of.
That had changed when he met Y/N.
Joel never thought he would ever find love again. He didn't think he needed it either, and he had been afraid that Sarah would think he had forgotten about her mother.
Fortunately the two women in his life were intelligent and gentle. Y/N had immediately been very clear, she knew that she would never replace Sarah's mother, even if she loved the girl with all her heart. Sarah accepted the young woman without the slightest difficulty, finding her nice and being happy that her father was not alone anymore.
Everything had been perfect for a few years.
Then there had been the Cordyceps.
It happened while Y/N was travelling across the country for work. She was due back in two or three days, she had called them a few hours before the chaos started. It was the last time Joel had been able to hear her voice, that he had been able to tell her that he missed her and that he loved her.
He hadn't had time to tell all this to Sarah. She had been taken from him in seconds, without him being able to do anything to save her.
After that, the state of the world did not matter to him in the slightest. In one night, his daughter was dead in his arms, and he had no chance of contacting or finding Y/N, who was certainly dead too, alone and terrified, away from him.
So, yes, even though he was still breathing, and his brother was there, and the humans were fighting to rebuild, Joel considered he had lost everything. He had died that night.
That explained why he couldn't be nice to Ellie at all.
The kid didn't deserve this, he knew that. He repeated it to himself often. It wasn't fair that he treated her so badly, when she too had suffered, growing up in a ruined universe, but he couldn't help it.
Every time he looked at her, he saw Sarah and Y/N. He refused to grieve. He refused to attach himself to anyone else.
Not only did he risk losing that person again, by not being able to protect them, but he also felt like he was betraying the women he loved if he opened up to Ellie.
She wouldn't replace them, ever. Nothing would ever be as important as them, and there was no room for anyone else in his heart.
Joel was still protective of her. He was saying that it was because he had a mission, he had to get her safely to the research lab, but it was mostly because she was a kid, and he couldn't give up on a kid.
He was dead inside, but he wasn't a monster.
So it was a terrible moment for him when he lost Ellie during an attack of cannibals and infected. He had ordered her to hide and of course she had not obeyed.
And now he couldn't find her. She could have been kidnapped, just as she could have been devoured.
Refusing to leave without finding her, whether she was alive or not, Joel searched the abandoned town for hours, looking for a lead, before setting off for the forest.
Night had fallen when he saw light in a cave. He found Ellie there, sitting by a fire with a woman. He put his hand on his gun. The young girl was unattached, she didn't seem hurt, and was talking calmly with the stranger, but he preferred to be careful.
But in the dark, he couldn't see well and he stepped on a branch, attracting their attention. Ellie recognized him right away, smiling as the woman turned, ready to fight, before she saw his face.
"Joel ?" she whispered uncertainly before getting up to run to him and jump into his arms. "Joel !"
"... Y/N."
For a second, he hesitated to touch her. He was afraid that she would disappear and he would realize that it was only a dream.
But no, Y/N, his Y/N, was there, after all her years, alive and hugging him, crying and repeating his name over and over again.
"I'm so happy to see you again ! When the blackout happened... I tried to go home, but they blocked the roads. I had no way to contact you, I didn't know if you were going to stay in the same place, it wasn't safe. I travelled by car and on foot, not really knowing where to go. I... I didn't know if you were still alive. Oh, Sarah ! Where's Sarah ?! You left her in a shelter while you are taking Ellie to your meeting point ? I... I have the dolphin she wanted. You remember, she asked me to bring her a dolphin, I have it in my bag ! Where is she ?"
If he had answered her with words, Joel knew he wouldn't have been able to keep his composure. So he just looked at her in the eye. Slowly, her smile faded, she shook her head before starting to cry again, tears of sadness this time.
"No. No, Sarah, no..."
Even if she had imagined that possibility, hearing the news was still painful. So Joel held her in his arms until she stopped crying, and then they went to the fire.
He ordered Ellie to get some sleep, adding that she should never walk away like she had. The kid sighed but said nothing, grabbing a blanket and laying down on the floor.
The two adults watched her until she seemed asleep, then Y/N turned to Joel, taking his hand.
"I'm so sorry. You don't need to tell me. I can imagine what happened. It wasn't pretty where I was. I know you would have given anything to her. It's not your fault."
"It wasn't even one of those creatures that killed her."
"It's still not your fault. I wish I was there."
"I'm glad you're alive." he muttered, lowering his eyes.
"Ellie told me a bit about your mission. She didn't give a name, I didn't realize... Joel, she told me you were pretty cold to her. Mean. Why ?"
He didn't answer. He knew she could guess, she knew him well, she knew how he worked. The problems they'd had, the times he'd felt like he'd betrayed his first wife.
"No one is asking you to be her father. Just because you love her and care about her doesn't mean you forget about Sarah."
"I know."
"Really ? I'm going to tell you something that will upset you and I apologize in advance for it."
"Go ahead." he sighed, because he didn't care to suffer and he knew that Y/N had always been the voice of reason, the person who made him more human.
"If you were dead and Sarah was alive, and she was with a man who treats her like you treat Ellie... Would you be satisfied ?"
Honestly, Joel didn't have an answer to that question. No, he wouldn't be satisfied, and at the same time, even if he wasn't soft on the kid, he wouldn't leave her, he always made sure nothing bad happened to her, and in a way, it was the most important.
But Ellie wasn't Sarah.
Of course he wouldn't like his daughter to be unhappy, even if she was protected.
"Sometimes..." he said very quietly, unable to stop. "Sometimes I think it's a good thing she's gone. It was pretty quick, and she doesn't have to survive in this horrible world. It's awful, isn't it ? "
"No, it's normal. We always want the best for our children, and there's nothing good about our situation. But that doesn't mean we have to give up. Can you try to be nicer with Ellie ? More patient ? Please, if not for her, for me. For Sarah."
Continuing to stare at the fire, Joel nodded. He had never been able to deny Y/N anything, and he knew she was right. Either way, she had always made him softer. Tommy often made fun of him for this.
Gently, Y/N placed a kiss on his cheek, telling him that she loved him. He did his best not to cry.
He cried anyway, letting her rock him.
It had been years since he had cried, or had someone touch him, and now Y/N had returned.
From her cot, Ellie listened without moving.
She was a little miffed that Joel agreed to change because someone was asking him to, and not because it was the right thing to do. She was also a bit jealous that he was reuniting with someone he loved.
And at the same time, she could understand his pain. They had often argued, because he did not seem to understand that he was not the only one to have lost everything, and even he had actually lost more than some.
So Ellie closed her eyes, hoping that everything would be fine now, and that they would be more or less happy, even though they weren't really a family.
#the last of us#joel miller#joel miller x reader#joel miller imagine#joel miller fanfiction#flufftober 2022
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the vampire hunter
rating: orange/pg pairing: male vampire x male human features: drunken antics, in vino veritas, enemies to lovers warnings: blood, throwing up length: 2434 words
A very hungry vampire takes care of a very drunk vampire hunter. Based on this prompt submitted to @monsterkinkmeme
There were many undeniable perks that came with being a vampire, and several of them lent themselves well to scholarly pursuits. Ellis had an infallible memory for names, dates, and quotations. He had excellent night vision, which made candles unnecessary for reading in the dark. And whereas the research of mere men spanned decades at most, Ellis had pursued his studies for centuries.
But immortality had not cured him of the bad habits he’d developed as a human academic. Sometimes he became so absorbed in his work that he went for weeks without feeding, without realizing, until he would look up from a book and be suddenly crushed by a hunger so strong that it hurt. As a vampire, this was not only unhealthy, but dangerous. He posed no threat to errant humans if he kept himself well-fed, but when he was starving, sometimes his self-control slipped.
He wouldn’t have called himself “starving” tonight, but he was hungrier than he thought was responsible. He planned out a hunting trip in his head while he packed necessities into a small leather bag. He always travelled far to feed, and never dipped into the surrounding hamlets. He found that the locals tolerated him as long as he kept his distance, even if they found him strange or had their suspicions about his true nature. He was careful not to upset this uneasy peace. A mob of frightened humans could be just as deadly as a vampire.
A loud knock sounded at the front door. Ellis paused in the act of packing, then heaved an enormous sigh. He thought briefly about slipping out the window and avoiding this encounter altogether, but he told himself that it wouldn’t be very sportsmanlike.
The person at the door was almost certainly Nicholas Golding, a vampire hunter of mild renown who’d been pursuing Ellis for months. They’d met abroad, on one of Ellis’s hunting trips, and since then they’d developed something of a rivalry.
“St. Claaaaiiiirrrr!” It was Nicholas, growing impatient at the door. “I have you this time, you devil!”
Ellis rolled his eyes, wondering if he could convince Nicholas to postpone the match until next week. Not likely.
He opened the front door to find a sword pointed in his face, the tip wobbling in clumsy little circles as if trying to find the perfect spot to stab.
“You’re mine now, St. Clair.” Nicholas swayed in place as he spoke, fighting to keep his footing. It was to his credit that his sword arm stayed as steady as it was.
“Golding,” said Ellis, as he pushed the sword aside with his hand, “you’re drunk. Go home.”
Nicholas laughed loudly. “You know even half-dead I’m more than a match for you.”
Ellis privately conceded the point. Nicholas was an arrogant prick, but he fought like a demon. He was incredibly skilled with a sword, resourceful, creative, and insufferable in his tenacity. Even drunk, he was a much more challenging opponent than any of the stooges the Church sent after him.
But Ellis had never seen Nicholas this drunk. The man positively reeked of ale, speech slurred, gaze unfocused, cheeks flushed an appealing shade of red. It was a wonder he’d made it up to the castle without falling off a cliff.
“Anyway,” said Nicholas, lowering his sword. He attempted to sheath it, but couldn’t manage to align the tip with the opening. He let the sword fall to the steps with a clatter instead, then looked back up at Ellis with a dashing, lopsided smile. “The innkeeper kicked me out. Let me stay the night, will you?”
“Are you out of your mind?” asked Ellis, scowling. He was far too hungry for a guest; particularly one who’d just held him at swordpoint. He was sure he had every right to slam the door in this man’s face.
But what would Nicholas do instead? Sleep drunk in a ditch? He’d be robbed blind by bandits if the wolves didn’t get to him first. Something in Ellis recoiled from the thought.
“I’ll sleep on the sofa,” Nicholas slurred. “You won’t even know I’m there.”
“Why not take the bed?” asked Ellis, sarcastic, but somehow he found himself stepping aside to make way. “It’s unoccupied at night, of course.”
A flicker of surprise crossed Nicholas’s face as Ellis invited him in. Then he reassumed his cheerful smirk and staggered over the threshold. “I knew I could count on you, St. Clair, you’re a gentleman and a scholar.”
“Yes, well, your timing has always been terrible,” said Ellis. “No sense turning you away now.”
Nicholas grinned and opened his mouth to fire off a retort, lost his footing, and went crashing down face-first onto the flagstone floor.
“Damn!” he said, snickering to himself. He struggled and failed to push himself up. Ellis sighed.
“Idiot,” he muttered, while he bent down to help. He grabbed an arm and heaved Nicholas to his feet, then gasped as he held him upright, knees buckling. It wasn’t the weight — Ellis had superhuman strength, after all. It was the smell. It was the man’s blood, rushing thick and hot beneath his skin. It was mouthwatering.
Oh I’m in hell, thought Ellis. Nicholas Golding was the last person on earth he wanted to drink from. But now the man’s whole warm weight was pressed against him and Ellis was suddenly ravenous. His mouth was inches from Nicholas’s neck.
He pinched his lips shut and held his breath as he half-carried the drunken fool to the bedroom and dumped him on the bed as gently as he could manage. Then he grabbed his leather bag and slipped away. Now that the hunter was taken care of, he could go about his own hunting in peace.
But he hesitated halfway out the door, plagued by niggling worries. Nicholas had barely been able to stand. How much had he had to drink? Was it safe to leave him like this? He didn’t want to come home to a week-old corpse.
Ellis wasn’t a monster, no matter what the neighbors thought. But he was a vampire. He was strong, and fast, and that was putting it mildly. He almost always emerged the victor from their little duels. And of course it had occurred to him to just kill Nicholas and be done with him once and for all. But that simply wasn’t how Ellis did things. And so, after every defeat, he left Nick Golding alive. That fact alone seemed to gall the man more than anything else; his pride had clearly suffered the worst wounds.
But over time, Ellis had sensed a corresponding reluctance that puzzled him. This came to a head one evening when their skirmish was interrupted by another hunter — one from the Church — inserting himself into the fight. The poor man hadn’t been anywhere near their league, but the distraction had given Nicholas an advantage. He managed to pin Ellis. He had his blade pressed against his throat. Ellis saw the flash of triumph in his eyes, before — nothing. Nicholas withdrew the blade. He let Ellis escape.
That was when Ellis realized that, somehow, their relationship had changed. Nicholas didn’t want Ellis dead. He wanted to defeat him, fair and square. They were fighting for sport.
Did that make them friends? He wasn’t sure. All he knew was that he felt an annoying but undeniable concern for the man passed out drunk in his bed. And so, against his better judgment, he turned around and trudged back to the bedroom.
He stopped dead in the doorway. Nicholas was sitting up on the edge of the bed, gingerly fingering his nose, and blood was streaming from one of his nostrils.
“Think I broke my nose when I fell…” he muttered.
“Clean yourself up, you fool!” Ellis hissed, recoiling from the sight. Nicholas looked up with wide eyes, startled and bewildered.
“Oh— damn,” he said, as realization seemed to strike. He pulled an appallingly dirty handkerchief from his pocket and made a clumsy attempt to mop up the blood. It was hardly effective, but Ellis appreciated the effort.
“Better?” Nicholas asked, having the nerve to look cheerful, but his face fell when he saw the condition that Ellis was in. “Are you alright?” he asked, almost whispering.
Ellis was not alright. He wanted, ferociously, to drink Nicholas’s blood. He gripped the door frame with white-knuckled hands, struggling to compose himself, afraid to imagine what kind of expression was on his face.
Alarmed, Nicholas tried to rise, stumbled, fell to his knees, then picked himself back up unsteadily.
“Don’t come any closer,” Ellis warned.
Nicholas seemed ready to ignore the warning, but then he paused.
“Wait…” he asked, squinting across the room. “Are you drunk too?”
“Of course not,” Ellis snapped. He looked away, and without thinking, he said, “I’m starving.”
Nicholas froze, and a silence hung heavy between them. He sat back down on the bed. Ellis shut his eyes, trying to find some untapped well of resolve before he made a terrible mistake.
“You could drink from me,” Nicholas said.
The vampire’s eyes snapped open. He was sure that Nicholas was making a tasteless joke, but when he looked he saw nothing playful in the man’s face.
“Do you want to drink from me?” he asked again, as if Ellis hadn’t heard.
“You don’t know what you’re asking,” said Ellis hoarsely.
“Course I do. I’ve spoken with some of your victims. They don’t make it sound so bad.” He flashed one of his roguish smiles, and Ellis scowled in response. What was he thinking? Did he see this as another sort of absurd challenge? Let the vampire have his way with you and live to tell the tale?
He would never tell the tale if he knew what was good for him. For a vampire hunter, to be bitten was a terrible disgrace.
Nicholas’s nosebleed had slowed considerably by then, and the smell of fresh blood was replaced by the tang of the dry crust — not nearly as appetizing. Ellis breathed a bit easier.
“Don’t be a fool, Golding,” he said, “I’m not going to drink from you of all—”
He stopped short when he saw that Nicholas was unbuttoning his shirt.
“S’ppose the neck’s alright?” Nicholas asked, reaching for another button.
Ellis raced across the room and grabbed Nicholas by the collar, pulling his shirt shut.
“Would you stop that?” Ellis hissed. “Have you forgotten you’re drunk? You don’t know what you’re doing.”
Nicholas was still for a moment, staring down at the vampire’s hands. Then, gently, he wrapped his calloused fingers around Ellis’s wrists, and looked up into his face. “Ellis,” he said. His gaze was bleary and unfocused, but somehow full of an earnest concern. “I’m worried about you.”
Ellis’s long-dead heart thumped unevenly in his chest. He snatched his hands away. Nicholas took the opportunity to pull his shirt back open, exposing his neck and chest.
“Just do it, St. Clair,” he said. He glanced away, looking unexpectedly self-conscious. “It’s the least I can do. Since you’re letting me stay.”
“That’s not—” Ellis faltered, struggling to formulate another objection. But he couldn’t tear his eyes away from the flushed skin of Nicholas’s chest. His fangs ached in anticipation of the bite. His resolve was wavering.
He reached out a trembling hand. Nicholas certainly did owe him this, he reasoned, after all the months of trouble he’d caused. What was one little bite among friends?
No! What was he thinking? The man was drunk; he didn’t know what he was saying. Ellis had a brief vision of Nicholas waking up in the morning, acutely hungover, and horrified by what had occurred the night before. In fact, if Nicholas remembered any of this in the morning, things between them might change forever, and that thought hurt Ellis in a way he did not expect or know how to account for.
“It’s alright,” Nicholas said, voice low. “I don’t mind.” He placed his hands on Ellis’s hips and pulled him slowly closer. Ellis’s breath caught in his throat.
“I can’t let you do this,” he whispered. “You’ll have a scar. I’ll put your entire reputation at stake.”
Nicholas let his head fall forward, shoulders shaking. At first Ellis thought he’d given up, but then he heard the quiet laughter.
“At stake…” said Nicholas, snickering drunkenly.
“Oh you moron…” muttered Ellis. He should have used the distraction to pull away, but he didn’t. He couldn’t make himself.
Nicholas recovered with an effort, then looked back up at Ellis.
“I’m not worried about the scar,” he insisted; and there was something sly in his voice as he said, “Just bite me somewhere no one will see.”
A flash of intuition struck Ellis. He couldn’t quite believe it, but he threw caution to the wind and asked anyway.
“Are you trying to seduce me?”
Nicholas’s mouth slowly spread into a wicked grin. “I’m—” he said, but his expression suddenly soured. He shoved Ellis back, leaned over, and vomited messily onto the rug.
“Oh, perfect timing as usual,” said Ellis drily, raising his voice to be heard above the noise.
“I’ll clean it up,” Nicholas groaned, head hanging. He sounded miserable, and Ellis felt a twinge of guilt over his sarcasm.
“I’ll clean it up. Get in bed.”
“But—”
“Now, Nicholas,” Ellis barked, and Nicholas hastily obeyed, clumsily tucking himself under the covers.
“Forgot how scary you can be when you want,” he said, chuckling to himself as his eyes fell closed.
Ellis snorted as he left the room to fetch some water. He prayed that he’d kept his expression composed, but if his heart had still worked, it would have been hammering. His mind was reeling, trying to process what had just happened.
At least one thing was certain: There was no way he was going to bite Nicholas now. He was far too dehydrated to lose any blood. It was a relief to finally reach a decision, though his hunger still stung him like the pain of a wound. He would just have to bear it for now.
And what about in the morning? Would Nicholas renew his offer, or would he take back the things he’d said? Would he even remember? Ellis would certainly remember. He felt a hundred years younger, torn between apprehension and a boyish sort of excitement.
He smiled to himself, shaking his head. All this distress over that fool of a man… And a vampire hunter no less. Yes, things would certainly be changed between them tomorrow, but perhaps that was alright.
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okay but i’m in love with the concept of bamf! Charlie and vulnerable! Shayne could i have some of that please?? 🍄
WHoa, look who finally got back to posting fics. I edited it SO MUCH, so there are probably inconsistencies, but I literally cannot look at it anymore.
Takes place a few days after Frost/Bite.
CW: nausea, panic, supernatural elements, possession, body sharing, slight possessiveness (maybe? could be interpreted like that?)
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Shayne gulped and tried to breathe, tried to situate himself properly in his surroundings. He hadn’t imagined he would reunite with Charlie in a place like this; an abandoned section of railway ten minutes outside of the town, where Elliott said Nancy often came out to practice enchantments and where Ryan sometimes took the boys to practice combat and hunting techniques. In a way, it was like the Aldridge’s backyard, despite being nowhere near the townhouse itself.
He hadn’t imagined reuniting with Charlie much at all, really, since the idea alone was enough to make his lungs feel like they were collapsing. And now that the time had come, his stomach was twisting, and his body was trembling and cold, and there was no room left in him for anything else.
“You doing okay, buddy?” Felix asked.
Shayne groaned and kicked the toe of his boot against the metal railing at the edge of the train track. Flakes of rust dropped away into the frost.
“You’re excited to see your friend, right?”
“Excited?” Shayne looked up, searching Felix���s face for any hint of sarcasm. “Should I be excited?”
“Sure? Maybe?” Felix glanced at Elliott, whose face made it clear that he didn’t intend to get involved. Felix’s own face made it clear that he regretted opening his mouth at all. “You want to see Charlie, right?”
“Yeah.” Shayne swallowed and shifted his feet in the icy grass. “I just – I feel sick, more than anything else.”
“Well, what did you devour a demon for, when you knew you were gonna be seeing Charlie soon?” Elliott snapped, losing hold of his stoic silence. “Is there a brain in that head of yours, or is it just vapours?”
Shayne gulped and tried not to visualise the entity’s soul that was currently being squeezed into the other dimension by his insides. He spent most of his waking hours trying not to visualise this, but anxiety and panic made it harder to distract himself. He’d hunted that demon in preparation for this specific day, but now, the pain – coupled with the apprehension – was rendering him unbearably nauseous, and he was starting to wonder if it had even been worth the effort.
“I don’t know what to say to him, after – after everything that’s happened.”
Elliott hummed pointedly. “I’d start by apologising for that shit you said outside his house, when you didn’t know he was listening.”
“I don’t think anything you’re saying is helpful, Elli,” Felix grimaced.
“I also tried to eat him.”
Felix cleared his throat. “I’m sorry; what?”
“Mmhmm, twice.” Shayne paced back and forth in front of the two of them, slowing when the frantic movement made his stomach cramp. “Once as Charlie Two, and once as just Charlie.”
“Hey, that…” Felix chuckled. “I’m sure that sounds worse than it –”
“I tried to chew off his hand.”
“O-kay,” Felix sang, drawing out the O as he mashed his gloved palms together.
“Either way, I think he just pulled up,” Elliott pointed out, nodding towards the slope in the hill. Next to the Aldridge’s car was Trevor Waters’ green Fiat.
And in the end, everything happened too fast.
Shayne wished he could remember the moment he saw Charlie get out of his car and come towards him. If his heart skipped a beat upon being scooped into an embrace, he couldn’t recall. All he knew was that suddenly he had a face full of Charlie’s jacket, and a head full of the smell of him, and a hollow clawing in his stomach that he couldn’t quite put a name to.
At least he was sure it wasn’t hunger this time.
After what could have been moments or hours, Charlie pulled back to look at Shayne’s face. He hadn’t gelled his hair up, so it was hanging like a clump of soft yellow feathers across his forehead.
His eyes, though, were darkened by something, and that initial haziness fell away as quickly as snow sliding from a tree branch. Shayne swallowed and lowered his gaze to the collar of Charlie’s denim jacket, to the coating of artificial fur inside his hood.
“Something’s wrong,” Charlie breathed. “Isn’t it? Look at me.”
Shayne flinched at the feeling of a hand on his cheek. The jolt of fear was followed by hot, scalding anger; all he’d done for months was long for Charlie to be close to him, and now that he was, his body was doing nothing but betraying him. He shut his eyes, feeling close to tears, but he didn’t know if they would be tears of relief or fear or frustration.
“Shayne, please.”
His gaze flicked up for just a second, before he glanced away again. The temperature of Charlie’s hand seemed to drop, and his hold tightened.
“I’m – Charlie, I’m fine –”
“Shayne.”
Gulping against the second swell of fear in as many moments, Shayne felt his face guided again by Charlie’s grasp. Charlie’s eyes moved back and forth between his; what Shayne saw in them was not the softness he’d come to recognise, but an abject kind of fear.
Like Charlie was staring down something from one of his own night terrors.
“You devoured a demon?”
It was barely a question.
Shayne swore that a deep shadow – a shadow with its own face and its own voice and its own touch – slithered across Charlie’s face, settling in the iris of his left eye, spreading like an oil spill in the dazzling blue.
Charlie’s fingers began to slip the longer Shayne didn’t reply, didn’t deny what he’d been accused of. He practically flung Shayne’s face out of his grip.
“You – you’re still devouring demons? You’ve been…”
Shayne felt his lips start to tremble; all he wanted in the world was for Charlie to stop, to just please stop looking at me like I’m a monster –
“You came here to – I mean, I thought you came here to get away from all that.”
“I-I did, I –”
“You took yourself out of school, away from Mulberry, away from… everything.” Charlie laid a hand on his own chest at this; the back of his hand was pocked with the shadows of darkened veins, of something else coming through. “I thought it was so you wouldn’t have to do this anymore?”
The nausea Shayne had been fighting so hard to keep under control suddenly had a dark, burning grip. The look on Charlie’s face was enough for Shayne to be sure that his stomach was going to turn. He was used to being the object of someone else’s disgust, but he’d never prepared himself for this, for Charlie to –
“Charlie…” As he said the name, Shayne saw that shadowy chasm in Charlie’s left eye deepen. The fear finally churned Shayne’s stomach and made his hair bristle. “C-CT,” he stammered.
“Was it you two?” Charlie demanded, turning on Elliott and Felix. “Was it you two, or your foster parents? Motherfucking bloodsuckers, who did this? Fucking answer me!”
Stop, Shayne needed to say. He needed to tell Charlie that this was all on him, he’d made the decision himself, that the Aldridges weren’t to blame. But the words caught in his throat, the dread felt like a weight in his stomach, and the tormenting thoughts came in like a wave.
Doesn’t he know? This is what I am.
This is what I’m for.
This is all I’ll ever –
It wasn’t until a trembling started, in the ground and in his bones, that Shayne snapped himself out of it and realised what was happening. The tracks groaned under the pressure suddenly being shot through the wood and metal, as though an invisible train was suddenly hurtling towards them.
“Charlie,” Felix was saying softly, proceeding with his palms outstretched in front of Elliott, whose fists were tightly drawn by his sides. “Listen, we – we care about Shayne just as much as –”
“Quiet,” came a steady cry that seemed to penetrate the logic of regular sound and reverberate through the air. “You bastards only see him as a tool, don’t you? Just like the Devines.”
“N-no,” Felix blurted out, never taking his widening eyes off of Charlie. “That’s not – that’s not true at all…”
The ground beneath Charlie’s feet swirled with sickeningly black darkness. The fingers of his left hand curled outward like chipped, grey branches, clutching at the air as though they were directly gripping something.
A sharp crack made Shayne jump, made his knees tremble, and he realised a plank of wood built into the train tracks had splintered and buckled upwards. Felix seemed to notice it too, and he took another step back, drawing Elliott with him. Shayne’s breath quivered as he sidestepped another plank as it warped and snapped, until he finally knocked the heel of his boot on the rusted iron rail and sent himself stumbling.
He almost caught himself, but then his legs finally sagged and he let himself sink to the ground, clutching the railing with one hand and his stomach with the other.
This isn’t happening. This isn’t your body. This isn’t –
“I took him to the forest so he could devour a demon.”
Shayne’s eyes widened as he heard Elliott speak up. He looked up to see that Charlie’s attention had snapped around to focus on the taller of the Aldridges. Felix’s body sagged slightly, and he lightly clutched at Elliott’s arm.
“Speak,” Charlie and CT snapped, and a wisp of their deep grey fog rose in front of Elliott’s face.
“I took him out to the forest the day before yesterday,” Elliott went on. His face deepened into a frown as his neck and shoulders rolled lightly, mirroring the twist of CT’s curved fingers. His eyes met Shayne’s briefly. “So he could hunt. I also took blood from him.”
Shayne physically flinched on the ground; he couldn’t think of a single reason to reveal that to Charlie, especially at this particular moment. He hugged his stomach, saliva building in his mouth as cold sweat coated his skin.
“You took his blood?” Charlie’s voice trembled with anger and surprise. “You really have no idea how afraid you should be of me, bloodsucker. You have no idea how far I will go to keep him safe from abominations like you.”
“I needed to,” Elliott grunted, his voice heightening. “To… to get us back home. The snow had gotten us lost and I was so weak, and he was – he was in pain and he was freezing, and I could barely keep my head up. I was so dizzy, and he was so –”
Elliott was spilling out the explanation with seemingly little-to-no control, for someone who usually liked to get right to the point.
“He… he needed my help, and I needed his,” Elliott choked out weakly.
Shayne realised it must have been Charlie forcing the truth out of him. Usually, even using his telekinesis around other people made Charlie nervous. And yet, this…
This.
This was his Charlie.
“Ch-Charlie, stop,” Shayne whimpered. His heart clenched and his stomach flipped over again as that gaze was turned on him, CT’s eye burning like black coals leaking smoke, and Charlie’s eye weeping furious tears.
Both, he realised, were prepared to kill for him.
“Elliott, he – he didn’t… I asked him to take me out there,” Shayne whimpered, barely resisting the urge to curl in on himself. “It was m-my decision, and it was – it was probably a stupid one, but that’s the truth.”
His heart pounded as Charlie considered him. Shayne was practically cowering on the ground, but he had the feeling Charlie was taller than he usually was. CT’s demonic fingers were still twitching and curling by his side, causing the pressure in the ground to come through the metal railing and into Shayne’s spine.
“I don’t believe you,” Charlie said. “I can’t believe you.”
Cold fear coursed through Shayne’s gut. “It’s the truth,” he whispered again.
“Why – why would you?” Charlie’s voice almost back at the same level as it always was. Slowly, the black flames began to lick a little higher around his legs, the sunken form of CT’s skull seeping through to the left side of his face.
“I-I –”
Charlie dropped to a crouch and clutched the opposite railing with his branch-like fingers. The metal creaked and the wood began to warp again, closing in around Shayne’s legs like weathered, splintering snakes.
“How could you?”
“I –”
“You left me behind,” Charlie growled, “so you wouldn’t have to do that, unless you LEFT ME BEHIND FOR NOTHING –”
“No.” Shayne found himself shrinking back, arms wrapped around his waist, trembling with the fear of what was inside him; of what he was to the creature standing in front of him. “The last – last time we were alone together, I – I almost hurt you.”
Shayne felt like the rest of the world was being warped as Charlie leaned forward, pressing down on the tracks with both hands now.
“You devoured a demon before seeing me,” Charlie said, “so you wouldn’t be tempted. So you wouldn’t hurt me?”
The irony was not lost on Shayne as he attempted to hold himself together, feeling like his entire body could shatter under the intensity of that gaze.
The darkness spiked up through Charlie’s face, dragging his hair back with it. “Shayne, when you hurt yourself, you hurt me. That’s how this works.”
“How...” Shayne’s teeth chattered, his breath hitched. “How what works?”
The tracks stopped groaning, and the shadows sank back from Charlie’s eye sockets.
“When you love someone, asshole.”
Shayne’s chest ached as though he’d just been punched, no room left in his lungs for air. His stomach twisted into a knot that only eased up slightly when he felt the first tears start to roll down his face.
“I… I-I love… I love you, too.”
Charlie blinked, the chasm of CT’s control retreating again as his hair fell softly over his forehead. “Shayne…”
“I’m – I’m sorry, Charlie,” Shayne whimpered. “All I wanted to do was keep you safe and this was the only thing I could think of – I’m sorry that this is all I am, this is all I’m ever going to be good for, and it’s the only thing I can do…”
Shayne was shivering as he curled in on his own body. He was so focused on trying to breathe deeply enough for his lungs to stop aching, that he didn’t realise he’d sunk forward, pressing his forehead against the wooden tracks that no longer vibrated with demonic energy. Over the sound of the sobs that were catching in his throat, he heard words being exchanged.
“Shayne, I’m – oh my god, shit. Um, hey, it’s okay…”
“This - this is - this is all I can do,” Shayne choked out between hitched breaths, no longer sure if he was telling Charlie, or himself.
“It’s alright, man, it’s not just you,” Elliott muttered. “He’s been a fucking wreck the last few days.”
“You, um, need a hand, getting him to your car?” Felix asked.
“No, I’ve got him.” Charlie’s voice soft and careful. A hand - soft, warm, human - rested on the back of Shayne’s head, fingers combing through his hair. “Just give us a minute.”
“I’m sorry,” Shayne whispered through clenched teeth, shivering as Charlie’s touch sent warm shivers over his skin. He nudged his head against the hand, eventually following it upwards so that he was looking Charlie in the eye again. He was dizzy and even more nauseous than before, but he forced himself to focus as Charlie brushed a thumb against his cheek.
“Hi,” Charlie whispered.
“Hey.” Shayne directed his breathless, trembling energy into a half-smile, which made Charlie’s blue eyes light up.
“Miss me?” Charlie let out a self-conscious chuckle as he asked the question, but it hit Shayne in the gut.
He winced and leaned his cheek into Charlie’s hand again. “Every fucking day.”
#Swallow the World#Shayne#Charlie#idk how to tag this#whump#nausea#plot#sickfic#kind of#fantasy sickfic#angst fic#shayne being a dumbass#Charlie Two#demonic possession
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Don’t forget me (Part. 3)
Arthur Fleck/Joker x Reader fic
Summary: After what happened in his apartment, and even though Arthur asked you not to, you watched that night the Murray Franklin’s Show, after that night, you didn't see Arthur again in a long time, and all that time you felt melancholy and lonely, until one day, a little surprise comes to you.
Warnings: Angst, comfort, sad thoughts and fluff
Words: 5.3k
Part one here <3, Part two here <3
A/N: Hello guys, first of all I KNOW, I know that I said that part 3 was going to be the last part of this story and that it was actually going to have NSFW content, BUT my two brain cells said “Do it more parts, MORE PAAAAARTS” and my heart said “Listen that two little bastards” and well, I’ll write a 4th part f this fic cause my heart and my two brain cells said it :$ Well, this story gonna have 4 parts, and the 4 part gonna have finally NSFW omg i’m so excited about that AHHH. Well, to finish this A/N I’m sorry if I make some grammatical, spelling or writing mistakes, English is not my native language. Enjoy this third part! :3 I hope you like it!
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“Please, don’t forget me”
“Never, my love”
The last words you’d shared with him. You remembered how fast you run in the worn wooden stairs. How you got out of that old building. So many things happened, a walk with your enemy, you witnessed of a murder, you see your best friend convert into a monster, and almost the same time, your lover.
He asked you for one thing, and you decided not do it. Remember when you came to your apartment, recharged your back against the wood, dropped to the ground and started crying in absolute silence. You passed your hand over your face, just to remember his touch. The images passed in your eyes so quickly, images of him, his face, his mouth, his green eyes. You passed almost three hours crying, so many emotions in your body, you feared your body couldn’t hold all feelings.
You remembered when after that hours you tried to calm yourself, you were on it when the phone suddenly rang. You got up off the ground and ran to this one, waiting for your Arthur to be on the other side of the line. But for your disappointment, was Gary. He, ignorant of absolutely everything that happened, asked for Arthur, for Randall and his condolences had been sent to Arthur. What could you tell Gary? That Arthur had lost his mind? that Randall was dead? You decided to protect Arthur, protect him even if his act was horrible. You said to Gary some lies, like Randall never went to the subway station, you go alone and you and Arthur talked about a lot of things. Gary said something like "I told you Y/N" and kept talking. When the talk was over, you hung up nervously.
Looked the at clock, 15 minutes before the Murray Show. Nervous and eager to watch the show, you tentatively approached your couch and turned on the TV, turned on the channel and waited anxiously. Before Murray's show there were some news, you saw about some clown protests, you couldn't believe that all this had been caused by Arthur. The news was over, Ellis Drane and his orchestra drums were played, the show started. You watched the show without interest in Murray and the others guest, you just waited until Arthur's turn came. And when he appears, you felted so happy for him, despites he appears with a new name: Joker. When you saw him, you felt so much joy, coming out of those curtains dancing, spinning, greeted the presenters, but you not really like the joke that Arthur kissed Dr. Sally. You really jealous of an old lady? Maybe.
The show went smoothly, you waited why Arthur didn't want you to watch the show. Nothing bad seemed to happen, more than Murray's mocked of Arthur with the others guests. Was it serious? Did they make fun of Arthur even on that show? You could feel the anger in your stomach. But surrender, you heard Arthur's black humor joke, which worried you, why Arthur would make jokes like that? He was scolded by Dr. Sally and Murray but he don't care about they words, and then, what you didn't expect happened: Arthur confessed his crime.
It was a huge moment of tension, from how all the joy of the show changed abruptly to a more serious and darker tone. Why would Arthur do that? Why would he confess he killed that three rich of the subway to everyone? You couldn't believe it. And that wasn't the worst. Arthur said things that had sense to you because he told you every horrible thing he lived before. Maybe no one would understand because Arthur said they were all awful, only you could understand it.
The tension between Arthur and Murray was rising, you feared that Arthur would lose control again, you tried to call the show while still watching TV, but (obviously) your call was not answered. You went back to the couch, without expecting it to happen, which could happen, and then...
Arthur pulled out that cursed gun and pointed Murray's head.
"ARTHUR NO!"
Shot.
The symphony of terror was heard, screaming from people, a one of the guests hugging a hysterical Dr. Sally, Murray's bloodied body, and Arthur dancing, then he come to the camera and saying the words:
“Goodnight, and always remember, that’s li-“
You closed your eyes, you started crying one more time. You knew Arthur had asked you, and you should have listened to him. Your heart broke again, your body trembled once more. Arthur had hurt you again.
“Y/N? Y/N? Earth to Y/N, are you in?”
You blinked; you were watching the TV of your new job. It was the news, announcing the anniversary of that terrible event.
“Yeah, sorry, I distracted a little”
“Y/N, you’re been rare those weeks, are you okay?”
“Yes, sorry Celeste, I’m gonna… Clean that”
A year passed from that event, in that year, things had changed too much. You lost your job at Ha-ha's, result that was the place where the terrible criminal Joker had come from, all the clowns in there lost their job. Hoyt was turned a rage, he was understandable, he had lost his business. Some clowns got a job at other agencies, others simply stopped being a clown and preferred to dedicate themselves to something else. You and Gary were from that second group of people. Gary decided to go back to his native Vermont, however, being a good friend to you, he managed to get you a job with some old friends. Now you worked in a small but charming cake shop.
"Celeste, Y/N, hello ladies. I'm back with the sugar and butter” Peter, another coworker from the shop, entered to the place "Well Peter! You'd better help me! Orders are delayed!" Celeste was a very kind woman, but she quickly lost the patience, Peter, who was a little older than you, just laughed and carried things. "What's the matter Y/N? Are you sad again?"
“No, I’m just… Just watching the news again”
“The news again? Y/N, watch a lot of news not good for your mental health, why don’t put the music channel or something kindlier?”
“… I can’t do that” Slowly, you turned your head to the TV again. The news said a lot of terrible crimes after that event. Most of these crimes were attributed to a single criminal: The Joker. After Murray was killed, Joker was arrested, but in the course of jail the patrol was intercepted by more clowns and Joker was free. And so, he began a terrible reign of crimes all over Gotham for a long time.
"Now, this dangerous man still free of the justice, it’s considerate a lunatic criminal, many criminalities that our poor city has suffered have been under his hand. The police can't find where this guy is hiding, who is now known as "The Clown Prince of Crime" and t-"
The Tv turned black “Peter!” You yelled.
“Sorry little princess, but this is for you, I don’t want you get sick for this. I know you get nervous of that clown, honestly, I get nervous too, but you have to continue your life, that clown not gonna go for you specifically, just the people with bad luck drop to his Clown Clan. Don’t worry Y/N, you’ll be okay”
“Peter! The sugar and butter!” Celeste screamed from the kitchen.
“Sorry Celeste! I’m coming!” Peter run to the kitchen and you still cleaned the counter. Maybe Peter was right, you shouldn’t get worry for Joker, but you don’t really get worried, you got sad, sad for Joker, because you know under the makeup and the costume, Arthur are there. You were hoping Arthur would be there. A year passed and maybe Arthur was right, maybe you’d never see him again, like he said to you.
You knew he was doing bad things, all the damage they caused him was returning ferociously, he was no longer a weak person that people could mock, he was someone that people should be afraid of, and poor of the one who scoffed him, because that someone would give it to you would end up their corpse in a Gotham blackwater canal. Just imagining Arthur dressed as a clown, like that last time you saw him, killing someone mercilessly and cruelly.
And for some reason, it didn't cause you conflict, you didn't fall into the reality of the danger he had become, you knew it wasn't your Arthur anymore, but you still loved him. Despite that horrible things he does it, you still in love with him. Of course, in that year, some boys and man tried something with you, including Peter, who wasn't giving up yet, but none of those boys were Arthur. None of them were him. And despite all the time, you still felted the butterflies in your stomach when you thought in him, you cheeks get blushed when you remembered you two almost made the love in that old bed, your lip trembled when the memory of your first kiss with him touched your soul again. Memories stalked you as if they were a ghost in your room in the dark, but a ghost you weren't afraid about.
You put your head in the counter and got a big breath, what you can do in that moment about Arthur? What can you do with your feelings? What can you do with that love that wasn’t for anyone, that love was just for him? “I’m really fucked up” you whispered to yourself.
The days after you did your work routine. You'd come to the cakeshop, make coffee for your companions and to sell too, help Celeste decorate some cakes, while Peter made other cakes and desserts. When the cakes to sell were ready, you put them in some refrigerators and you were going to serve the customers at the counter. One particular day, you were alone at the counter while Celeste was screaming at Peter for not making gingerbread man biscuits, the winter times were coming. You wanted to turn on the TV, but you knew you'd only put the news to see if there was anything new with Joker. You had to control yourself, while secretly eating a slice of cake that Peter had given you along with a rose. He was someone very meticulous, willing to win your heart, even you had kindly mentioned to him on previous occasions that you weren't interested in being someone's girlfriend. Well, only one person, but it was definitely out of your reach.
The bell above the front door rang. You saved the cake quickly, you didn't want Celeste to yell at you, even though she never done it before. But wasn't a customer, was a delivery man. “It’s the lady Y/N working here?”
“Yes, I am”
“Well, this is for you” You poked your head out of the corner just to find with a huge bouquet of …
“Lilies? That’s are a Lilies?! I love the lilies!” You went straight to the delivery man and took the bouquet with your hands. You are blushed again. At this point, Celeste realized what was going on and ran away, excited that you had received flowers. Peter only watched the scene from afar. You thanked the delivery man and he just left.
“Oh! Y/N! Look at you! What a beautiful bouquet! And your smile! Wait, I have here my camera! Wait Y/N!” Celeste runs for her camera. You still watching your flowers, your eyes were full of charm. Celeste returned and took you a lot of pictures, asking you to pose near the cakes and desserts.
“Take it! All for you Y/N! Oh my god, I hope that boy who sent you these flowers has won your heart” Celeste gave you all the polaroid, a burning smell made her remember that she had left a couple of cupcakes in the cooker and ran into the kitchen. You and Peter were alone.
"Well, this is a beautiful detail, lilies have always been my favorites"
"So, my little princess, that mean I have a rival and he’d basically beaten me this time?"
“Rival? Wait, wasn’t you?”
“No. I’m a man of roses, I never thought in lilies. Well, I hope that riv-“ Celeste claim help of Peter, he had no choice but to follow his boss's orders. When Peter left the place you wondered to yourself, Peter wasn't the one who sent you those flowers? Even if it had some logic, since you never told him that lilies were your favorite flowers. You tried to remember the boys and men who tried to conquer you, and none of them you had mentioned that lilies were your favorite flowers. Then you remembered the only man you told that little piece of you.
That’s Impossible. You thought, because that’s true, that's impossible. He’s now a criminal, a bad man, even some press said he was a terrorist. And all that they said about him was on your knowledge, because you witnessed one of his first crimes. Of course, he wouldn't have time to do something like that, you even thought maybe he'd consider that cheesy. Actually, you thought he had already forgotten you.
You looked at your flowers, you went for a little vase that only accumulated dust, washed it and put water in it, so your flowers could hold out a little longer before taking to home. You looked in for a note that indicated who would have been the secret admirer, but there were no clues. Knowing you wouldn't have your answer, you back to work.
That night, you left a little late for work, said goodbye to Celeste and Peter, and walked to your house, the job was closer to your house, you didn't have to run like on previous occasions when you worked at Ha-ha's. However, you turned a corner where street lighting failed, looking very scary. You walked a little further, looking everywhere, making sure no one came near you. You hated having to go down that street. Fortunately, nothing bad happened that time.
You arrived safely home, you put your beautiful lilies in a vase. You had that silly smile on your face. No Y/N, it can't be him. You thought for yourself. He's now busy in... Another kind of thing. I don't think he remember you. Those words, no matter than they sounded, were full of reason. But you gave yourself the little luxury of thinking in him, imagining that he actually sent you those flowers and that he would soon come back to you. Just imagine, but no more illusions.
The next day, you did the same thing every day, but there was a special glow this time in you. Celeste, your boss, noticed. "My God Y/N, you look so radiant and so happy, I'd love to meet your lovely prince to congratulate him," she said excitedly as she put some chocolate cookies and gingerbread man cookies in a basket, you just laughed. When Celeste came back to the kitchen, Peter came up to you.
"I'd also like to meet that charming prince who has you delighted. Looks like he wants to make your days sweeter."
Laughing, you went to the cookie basket and took one of the gingerbread man cookies in your hands, smiling foolishly.
“Well, I don’t think he’s a prince charming, Actually, I don’t like the concept of prince charming”
“No? And what you like?”
You watched TV at the time, one more news of Joker, just in that moment, a picture of him came out on screen, with that wicked but charming smile.
“Another kind of prince" You bit the cookie along with a smile.
…
You didn't even know if it was him, but as the days went on, the delivery man with more lilies returned to you, Celeste became exaggeratedly happy and Peter gradually realized that he was not going to achieve his goal of you falling in love with him. Of course, he wouldn't, he even stopped calling you “Little princess" like he once in a while, and being honestly, you hated how he dubbed you that way. Things were going well in your life, for the first time in a long time, but soon, everything would take an unexpected turn for you.
One night, coming home with another bouquet of lilies in your hands, you'd come out of the elevator to head to your apartment, only to find another surprise at your doorstep: Another bouquet of flowers, but they were not lilies or roses, it was a Bouquet of artificial flowers that came out of a magic wand. And you knew that magic wand perfectly. You took it with your free hand, in this bouquet if there was a note, and there was only one letter: J. Your senses trembled with that note. Immediately you entered the apartment, however, there was nobody.
You were impressed, would it be him? Would he come back for you? You didn't know, and it would be best if he got out of hiding once and for all. You were getting too excited about his return. Or maybe he wanted to let you know he was okay. But your heart inflated like a balloon again, and you were floating in love. You did your nighttime bedtime routine before you went to sleep, but instead of wearing your usual pajamas, you wore a short nightgown in a silk robe, something inside you said you had to wear it. You sat in your bed, waiting for that "something" that had to happen, but while you waited, you fell asleep soundly.
Knock knock
“Huh?” You heard someone knocking, quickly you get out of the bed, stumbling, because the knocked of the door sounds more and more louder. “Coming!” You yelled and before to open the door you looked at the clock, who would be knocking on your door at 1 A.M.? Without looking through the peephole, you opened the door, and you could swear that your heart stopped for a few seconds.
“Hello Y/N”
“…A-Arthur?”
He was there, in your door, with his green hair, that elegant clown suit, that clown makeup, breathing deeply, and with his pretty smile. Arthur was there, converted in Joker.
“It’s been a very long time, don’t you think?”
You didn't know what to answer, because again you speechless. You just opened the door more, implying he could get into your apartment, and so he did. You closed the door slowly, not knowing what to do say. Arthur was back in your life, your suspicions (or rather desires) would come true, and you didn't know how to react. You must have been angry about leaving you and becoming a dangerous criminal? Or smile at him, thank him for coming back and giving him a warm welcome?
“Oh, I see you received all my little gifts, your house looks so adorable with that lilies, you like it Y/N?” Arthur said when he was seeing all the bouquets you received in every little place of your apartment. He noticed you don’t say nothing and he worried, no longer smiling. Without words to said, you looked at his face, you felted like in one of that dreams you had when you miss him.
“W-what are you doing here?” You asked something frightened, fearing that all of that was really a dream. But it wasn't, Arthur was just next to you, or how he called himself now, Joker. He was a little skeptical of your question, doubting if he should answer it or not, because he did not know how to explain his sudden appearance.
“Oh… Well… It’s… It’s complicated to explain” He giggled nervously, and you don’t understand why “I… Just want to see you, but also, I got in a trouble too…”
“Wait, what?” shaking your head, you suddenly get confused “What you want to say, you’re in danger?”
“No exactly that, if were like danger, I would have looked for another hiding place. I just… Running of the police…”
“Oh…” You felt a little confused. Your mind thought of something that immediately hurt your feelings, He only come back to you just to hide? For a moment you believed he was actually there for you. You were always trying to see the good side of things, but this time it was impossible. Your sad face was evident instantly, but you separate yourself from him and turned your back on him before he could notice your disenchantment “I-I think you can stay here, while the cops, well, you know, stop looking you or something” You hated yourself because in this time you couldn’t hiding your emotions, your broke voice ratted you and he perceived it.
“Y/N, are you okay?” Arthur asked when he walked to you, put himself in front you, so, he could see how you tried to hiding your face to him. “Y/N? What happens baby?”
“Everything… Everything happened Arthur… It’s just… Strange to me this”
“Strange? Why you say that?”
“Because… I don’t know… I-I just to think you won’t back again after you converted in Joker… I mean, I always heard about you in the news for all crimes you committed, and I really thought you don’t remember me, but you’re… you’re here again and… Oh, what the hell I’m talking? I’m sorry, this is stupid” You felt silly, more when the tears started to fall on your cheeks. You tried to step aside, but Arthur stopped you
“Hey Y/N, come here” He immediately hug you, and you couldn’t hold it, you broke in tears in his chest while he caressed your head and neck. You could feel his body against yours, you could feel his arms start to surround you, you could even hear his heart beating. It was real, so real. Definitely that wasn’t a dream. “I know, I know I was so away from you, I know I did some bad things, a lot of horrible things. I didn't want you to be related to me, both police and some enemies I've got” While the tears run out of your eyes, you still hugged him tighter.
He whispered in your ear “You want to hear a secret?" You nodded and Arthur took your cheeks "There was no day I didn't stop thinking about you. I missed you Y/N; you can’t imagine how much I missed you. I just wanted to protect you, that’s all, protect you..." Suddenly his voice weakened in the last word and his eyes stopped staring at you. Now it was your turn to worry about him.
“Arthur?”
“I said I wanted to protect you, but… Always want to protect you I hurt you, in some way I did it… Fuck…” You felted his body shaking while he put his face in your shoulder “I’m so sorry Y/N…”
“Arthur… You… Don’t be sorry, please… It’s okay, I swear it’s okay” You can’t stop to hug the each one, slowly, you smelled the scent of his hair, was the same scent you knew perfectly “You know what? I missed you too, God, you don’t have idea…”
“Long year, right?” You two shared a laugh. You took his hands and looked him in the eye, acting like a girl really in love with her boyfriend, because that's what you were, a girl in love with her boy. You led him to the couch and both sat down, you two had so many things to say to each other.
“What did you do this time for the cops to be looking for you?"
“Eh, nothing special, I just wanted to do something little, nothing that could hurt anyone”
“But what you did it?”
“I wanted to rob a jewelry store” Blinked, you laugh a little. He seconded the laugh.
“Why you want to steal a jewelry store?”
“Well, the other day I looked a pretty necklace, I swear it, that necklace was white with a little gem that looked like a drop, I observed it and I think of you. I said “This is for Y/N”, obviously I want more for you, but this one was special, this necklace was for you. I wanted to took it for our reunion. I was planned all, but the cops ruined all my plans”
"What were your plans Arthur?" You asked full of curiosity, you wanted to know how was the mysterious plan of Arthur to come back to you.
"Oh... Well, I wanted to do something that surprised you. It wasn't easy to find you after Ha-ha's closed, I looked for you in everywhere place of all Gotham, and after a lot I found you. I wanted to go into that cake shop where you work, ask you maybe a couple of desserts to taste them later, give you that beautiful necklace that I'm sure will look beautiful on your neck and take you with me"
“W-What?”
“You heard it. I want you; I want you with me, I only thought in you this year. I decided you'd come with me, but I didn't want to put you at risk, that’s why I take my time, but everything isn't ready yet, I still can't take you with me. I have to fix a couple more things to make you completely safe."
Arthur said it with great emotion, because it was what he had waited for so long, he wanted to take you to his place, protect you in his own way from Gotham's adversity, he knew better than anyone how cruel and terrible crime could become in the city and did not want you to be part of those figures that the press used to
“Oh…” However, despite how excited Arthur looked, how enthusiastic he was to tell you all his plans, for some reason you saw the pessimistic side of things. It was something you've been used to since Arthur let the darkest part of his being come out. With much fear and tears threatening to come out of your eyes again, you asked him a question “Are you saying you would let me again?”
Confused, Arthur looked at you and realized what you meant “No, no, definitely no Y/N” He hugged you again, putted his hands in your back and caressed “I promise you I’ll back, I swear”
“I don’t want you to leave again, please don’t leave me” The drops stained the red fabric of his blazer "You have no idea how many times I've dreamed of you, believing you were by my side when you really you are not there. Please, stay here, stay here" You had to repeat that twice because it was what your soul asked, to stay with you again “I don't fucking care if you're someone dangerous now, if you're someone everyone should be afraid of, just stay here please… Stay here."
Hearing you cry and begging broke Arthur's heart, he felt guilty of leaving you alone for so long. You were the only person who could calm that dark part of himself, you were the only one who could serene Joker.
"Listen…" He stopped hugging you to take your cheeks, he made you see his face "Of course I won't leave you alone Y/N, you're the best girl I've ever met, you're the only person who really loved me, if I got a choice to spend my whole life by your side, I would do it without thinking about it. You're my one and only one, I don’t wanna miss you again…"
“Arthur…” His name trembled on your lips. That name haunted you for a long time.
"I love you so much Y/N, and I want to protect you, let me take care of some matters, some things that... What do I have to do, work to do, then I'll come for you and we'll be together, okay?"
“… Okay”
Caressed your face with his hand, Arthur calms you with his touch.
"I'll be with you tonight. And before you know it, we'll be back together, what do you say?"
"I could wait for you for a year, I can wait for you for my whole life"
At that moment, you noticed that Arthur took off his blazer along with his yellow vest. You were frozen for a moment, until he spoke.
"You must be tired, I interrupted your dream, come here" Arthur wrapped you back in his arms, as he recharged his back on the back of the sofa. You lay on his chest, feeling his warm, and hearing his heart beats. "Let's sleep together tonight"
"Yes, you have to stay tonight, I don't want the police to catch you and this time ruin our real plans".
He laughed at your comment, but despite the enormous confidence he had gained at that time, you could feel beneath you his anxiety in his leg, which he kept moving. For a moment, you thought you two were going to return what you had left pending in his old apartment, but Arthur was just hugging you, stroking your hair and your face. Maybe he wasn't ready to take that step with you yet, maybe he thought doing it with him at a time like that would be a bit rushed. Maybe he wanted to keep that special moment between you two when you were finally together safely. And you realized he hadn't even kissed you on your lips, but you knew deep in your heart that he still loved you.
Your eyelids become heavy, and you fell into a deep sleep. Arthur was just looking at you as you rested in his arms. He really loved you, he wanted you to be just his and for him. And he hated having to keep waiting. But he knew everything in the end would be worth it…
He just saw all the lilies he gave you in those last few weeks, and the scent of those flowers made him sleep early
…
You woke up, you still felt his arms in your body, feeling protected. But his arms were no longer there, nor was his body under yours either. You woke up completely to realize you were alone in your apartment's living room. You blinked many times and looked everywhere. Was that a dream too?
If it was, I'm really fucked
You got up off the couch, started looking all over your apartment, realizing you were completely alone. You let yourself down, that dream had felt so real, and you be concerned too, your imagination was long lived lately. You had to take a shower before you went to work at the bakery. At the end of it all, it had been a great dream.
But when you were preparing the bathtub, you decided to look in the mirror, and you found out there was red and white paint on your forehead and cheek, plus there was another little stain on the knuckles of your hand. You came out of the bathroom and you didn't realize there was a small note on the small table in the living room. You took it between your fingers, excited and read it.
"Sorry I left without saying goodbye, though now that I think about it, there shouldn't be a goodbye, because there won't be any more goodbyes, right, Y/N? I'll be back soon for you, it's a promise. I won't forget you.
J”
And then, that silly smile in your face appears. You kissed that note. Definitely was a promise.
Continue.
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Lovely Monster
Writer: Ellie-Mae (Pen Name)
Part: 1/1
Summary: There isn’t a single monster he couldn’t love. Not even me.
Pairing: Newt Scamander x Werewolf!Reader
Warnings/Rated: Mentions of abuse, comforting acceptance and fluff
Word Count: 2,155
( Reader ) P.O.V.
The darkness outside was nowhere compared to what was held inside my chest. These overwhelming feelings- a nightmare, forever my reality. My father screams out, smashing books into the walls as he lets out his anger. “You’re a freak, just like your mother! At least she had the decency to die!”
My body folds into itself, hiding from the abusive behavior of my father. The moon begins to take it’s effect on me and I can feel my bones cracking, breaking into my horrid form as it goes. Choked sobs and whimpers can be heard as hair sprouts from the pores of my skin, showcasing the freak I truly am.
Realizing I have little time left, I push my way out the nearest exit and away from the house. The pain is immense but I can’t allow myself to be chained and tortured tonight.
Running through the dark, thick forest, I rush until I no longer can. Falling to my knees I howl at the hurt and coil around myself. Then it’s complete. The bones have realigned themselves and my vision is blurred with what I can’t control. My inner wolf taking over.
Trees pass my traveling body in a blur, leaving no recognition for me to follow back. Soon, I’m at the edge of a cliff, overlooking the distant green of plantation and I howl at the moon. What a cliche- something I cannot control.
Contrary to the rush of adrenaline, the cool breeze that brushes over my fur brings a kind of calm over my nerves and slowly, my wolf steadies into a less frantic pace. Every time I’m forced to shift, it’s because of the moon or because of my dad. Rarely do I shift on my own. I’m too scared of what I become to willingly submit to that power.
My mother was the same way. She was too scared of her other nature, so she rarely shifted. My dad, being the human he was, hated us for the things we couldn’t control. When she passed, he didn’t even shed a tear. Anger filled tears ran through my whiskers as I remember his words, ‘good riddance’.
Strolling through the thick of the woods, I imagine a world that didn’t cringe at the things they don’t understand. Everything turns taboo at that point and no longer given a proper chance. For once, I want to be accepted for what I am. Perhaps that’s too much to ask for, but it’s something I harbor in the depths of my heart- both wolf and human.
Bright streaks of light cut through the dark and it catches my eye with its spectacular array of color. Sticking to the shadows and staying covered, I creep to the peculiar scene that’s unfolding underneath the canopy of stars.
Two bodies are running, dodging the spray of light as they round each other. They’re holding out some sort of weapon in front of them, being the source of the colors that had caught my attention.
My heart beats fast in my chest and my paws dig into the dirt, ready to sprint at any indication of harm to come my way. The taller one speaks a foreign word with clarity and I watch as the other falls backward, grunting at the impact.
“Hand over the egg and you’re free to go.” The tall one says, seeming calm and collected in this odd situation.
Grunting, the man offers up, what appears to be, a silver egg with a toss of his hand. Catching it carefully, the taller seems distracted as he coddles the egg while looking it over. That’s when the one on the ground raises his hand, ready to strike the clueless man.
Stepping forward, a deep growl bursts from my chest and they both snap their attention to me. My teeth pull up and I snarl, sending the lower one to chant something before disappearing from his previous spot in the blink of an eye.
Hmph
Whatever was going on, I knew that I couldn’t let anyone get hurt. Even in this form, this freak of nature knew that there was something worth protecting. It was a feeling, an instinct.
However, unlike the other man that had left at the sight of me, this other one remains. His soft eyes study me, his posture unflinching as he slowly lowers himself to a less threatening position.
I feel my haunches rise as I cautiously circle him. “Steady there.” His voice is smooth, accent beautifully rich. “I’m not going to hurt you…” There’s something quite odd about him. Not in a bad way, more like a breath of fresh air.
Everything around me seemed to slow down and the black began to swallow me whole. The last thing I remember is smelling earth and the muffled voice of the man saying something into my unconsciousness.
****
My body feels the shift before my mind does. The cool air forces goosebumps to rise on almost every inch of my skin. I awake to warm-toned light and unfamiliar surroundings. There’s a scratchy warmth heavy over my torso and I see someone had made an attempt of throwing a blanket over my body.
I scan the area for any sign of life but see none. However, I can sense it. I feel that I am not alone. Wrapping the blanket over myself, I groan as I crawl into a sitting position.
That’s when he appears. “Are you okay, miss?” He asks, eyes worried and lips parted in distress. In this lighting, I can fully see his features. Pale skin marked in constellations of freckles, light brown hair tousled in a messy mop atop his head. His eyes; I can’t quite pinpoint what color they are, just that they’re magnificent.
“Yeah… It always aches after I shift back.” I tell him, hissing quietly through my teeth as I reposition my body to face him. His shoulders slump a bit and he comes closer to where I was lain. Out of habit, I recoil into my body to take up as little space as possible.
“I’m not going to hurt you…” He says, quickly pouring me a cuppa tea before extending it to me. “My name is Newt. It seems that you exerted your energy back there. Blacked out from it, I’m sure.”
Uncurling from myself, I slip the mug from his hand. Our fingers momentarily swipe past one another’s and I, for the first time, don’t shy away from the contact. “Thank you.” A moment of quiet passes as I sip the warm beverage. “My name is Y/n. I’m sorry for putting you in this position.”
“What position is that, exactly?” He asks, confused.
“I- I don’t purposely shift into, well, that. I was just trying to find escape. Usually when the full moon comes, I’m…. nevermind that. I just usually don’t lose control like that.” My admission causes me to fidget in my seat. This all around is unusual for me. I’ve never told anyone about this issue.
However, Newt doesn’t seem to mind. “No use in beating yourself up over something you have no say in. Though I’m sure we could whip up a potion to keep your shift from happening during the full moon. That is, if you’d like.”
His voice is so melodic and comforting. It’s the exact opposite of my father’s. I nod, wide eyed. “You can do that?” My entire life has been spent in fear and Newt’s offer is the first hope I’ve had a taste of. To be honest, I’m desperate for more.
The desperation, the shock, must drip heavily from my lips because Newt’s eyes melt into pure kindness as he studies me thoughtfully. He smiles, stretching his lips so thin they almost disappear. Extending his arm he offers his hand to me.
Patiently, he waits for me to accept his invitation. I pause, quite noticeably so, for a moment before slipping my palm into his. They’re warm, rough but oh-so gentle. He leads me to the door and opens a whole new world before me. Magnificent and wonderous creatures are scattered about the expanse. And for the first time in my life, I don’t feel so different.
****
It has been three days since Newt has offered to take me in. He didn’t ask but I know he could sense my dread at the thought of returning to my life before. We fell into a mutual understanding that I just needed time. It was nice to not have anything expected of me.
Newt is shy. That’s an understatement but he is also extremely kind. He gave me space but also let me test my ability to trust. Every moment in the presence of the wizard gave me confidence to seek him out.
He taught me how to care for his creatures by his side. He showed me magic and a world I hadn’t previously known existed. Every time he opened up a bit to me, I felt myself doing the same. I recognized the Occamy eggs as the very same one he had retrieved the night I met him in the forest. It made me realize how much Newt cared about and sacrificed for these fantastic beasts.
Days went by and he began to trust me enough to leave me in his suitcase, which is where I had awoken that first night. Newt traveled a lot and was a very busy person, actually. Even then, he would always return and those were the hours that I found myself eagerly waiting for. Because I, also, very much began to trust him.
One day, Newt found me kneeling outside and cradling my hand to my chest. “Are you okay, Y/n?” His voice was thick with worry as he rushed over to my side.
“Don’t get to close, Newt-” I plead. He stops a few steps away from me, “I-I don’t know what I’ll do if I shift…” Tears pool in my eyes as I try to calm myself down. Pain triggered me sometimes and the last thing I’d want to do is hurt him.
Despite my warning, Newt kneels beside me and peels my arm away from my body. “What happened?” He asks as he begins to examine the cut that’s angry and red on my wrist.
“I cut it on the edge of the feeding pail… I’m afraid I’m going to hurt you, Newt. Please.” He stands up with me and swiftly leads me inside the small flat. With such familiarity and ease, he begins to snip different herbs and pouring mixtures from vials.
I watch him with amazement and a bit of confusion. Before I know it, the pain has subsided and he’s wrapping my arm up with gauze. “Why aren’t you afraid of me?”
Newt freezes in his actions before throwing a glance at me over his shoulder. “Because you’re not someone to be feared. At least, not for the reasons you’re referring to.”
His way of thinking, the way he perceives the world, is so unlike anything I’ve ever known. The wizard begins to put away medicines and I watch him quietly for a moment. “My dad wasn’t fond of my kind…Actually, that’s putting it nicely. He hated werewolves.”
My fingers fidget in my lap and I keep my gaze firmly fixed on them as I speak. Afraid that if I see Newt’s eyes, I’ll be too self-conscious to tell him. “He didn’t know Mom was one until it was too late. She was already pregnant with me. When she died, I lost the one person who saw me as I truly was. My father… he was violent, cruel and- and scared.
“Meeting you was the best thing that has happened in my life. Because for the first time, I wasn’t seen as a threat or as strange. You didn’t expect anything of me. You saw me as Y/n. Not as a werewolf.”
My forehead creased with emotion and salty teardrops fell onto my clasped hands. I sucked my lower lip between my teeth to stop the slight wobble. Chancing a glance at Newt, I find him standing in front of me.
Newt. His eyes glistening, not in pity, but with compassion towards me. Kneeling down so that his face was parallel with mine, he swiped away the stray tear that lingered off my chin. “There are no strange creatures, only blinkered people.”
With those words, I felt understood and, in a way, loved. Every day that I spent getting to know Newt Scamander, the more I began wanting to learn more. He loved his creatures and never truly believed monsters were born, they were made.
There was time for us to grow together, to grow fond of one another. As we went on, I knew that I’d become more confident with Newt by my side. There wasn’t a ‘monster’ he couldn’t love. Not even when it came to someone like me.
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Queen’s Favor (Mysme Jumin/MC AU 8/?)
Summary: Being a maid would be much easier if the cat would just let her do her job.
AU - Instead of joining the RFA via random text, MC is hired on as one of the maids assigned to Jumin Han’s penthouse. Nothing else about the setting has changed, the messenger and the RFA still exist, only the MC’s position has been altered.
Honestly, she didn't even need to keep a watch on her, because Elizabeth seemed to have that timing down, and wouldn't brook any kind of deviation. She'd never had to interrupt any of her work just to go play with the cat, but she had no doubt that Elizabeth would put her paw down about it if she ever tried not to.
What this penthouse really needed was a sign she could check off days for how long it'd been without an accident or life threatening encounter.
She ought to have a prize, as this was the 30th day without incident.
Unsurprisingly, no such thing awaited her when she arrived at the penthouse. Aside from the one gift (which she kept at home most of the time, as it was much too valuable to wear at work), her enigmatic employer - contractor - left her nothing else but the odd bit of food and endless weird messes that made her wonder just what he got up to when she wasn't there. He did arrive from time to time when she worked, but as always he left her alone and merely gave her pleasant compliments or a stiff drink at the end of her shift.
The cat was troublesome as ever, but hadn't caused her any injury.
She leaned down to rub the cat under her chin, and then tossed some bell-toy further into the room. No longer nearly as starved for attention, the flowy white cat pranced off after the toy. After a bit of fussing, Elizabeth had gotten back into the habit of just expecting her in the mornings, not all day, and so the cat mostly only smothered her when she first arrived and whenever it was her break time.
Honestly, she didn't even need to keep a watch on her, because Elizabeth seemed to have that timing down, and wouldn't brook any kind of deviation. She'd never had to interrupt any of her work just to go play with the cat, but she had no doubt that Elizabeth would put her paw down about it if she ever tried not to.
The phone rang.
That in of itself wasn't particularly unusual. Although it seemed most of his contacts either knew his working hours or used whatever gold-encrusted cellphone he owned, there was always the odd whoever that called anyway. The strange thing about it was that after the first call went to whatever voicemail was attached to the phone, it started ringing again. Immediately. At first, she was a bit worried there was some urgent matter actually meant for her on the phone. But that was absurd, as she had her own phone on her - and she double-checked, it was fully powered and getting signal - and anyone that desperate to speak to her would get through to her phone somehow.
Ten minutes passed with it ringing, and it was getting on her last nerve. Only her immense sense of self control - and need for the sweet, sweet pay the job provided - kept her from ripping the phone right out of the wall and then possibly throwing it out of the window.
"He's not here, you needy stalker!"
She didn't pick up the phone and say that, obviously. But it did make her feel a little better saying it out loud.
Almost eerily, the phone stopped ringing.
Maybe it just took that long for whatever desperate caller that was to figure that out. Maybe she should let the penthouse owner know he had this obsessed caller? Just in case? Not that his security didn't seem tip-top as it was. Aside from the cat-napper, anyway. But apparently they were friends somehow.
She jumped and gave a short shriek when her phone rang in her pocket.
The number on the phone was unknown. Probably, it was just spam or something unrelated.
If nothing else, at least she had an excuse to chew out the caller without getting fired, if indeed it was related at all.
She frowned at the phone a moment, before finally accepting the call with a huff.
"Man, you are way too good at resisting the urge to answer the phone call of destiny!" She couldn't immediately place the voice, but it...sounded way less creepy than she'd expect for a phone stalker.
"...Huh?"
"Ninja maid! Your dulcet tones are always such a gift!" Oh, it was him. Wait. How was it him?! "I heard you were gravely injured as punishment for allowing my escape from yon castle, so I had to call you to show my appreciation, but then you just ignored all my calls! For so long! Are you just afraid of phones, is that why you ignored the phone call of destiny?"
Wait.
Wait. Many questions all jumbled together at once.
"That's not what I-that's..how-how do you even know about that? How do you have my number?! Who are you?"
"Oh, wow! My first interview~. I didn't come prepared." Although his voice sounded as if his phone were on speaker on some desk or something, she didn't miss the teasing tone in it. "Fortunately, I can answer all the questions at once! FOR YOU SEE! I am none other than the diabolical genius, world famous hacker 707! ...If you think about it, you'll see that answers all three questions."
Yes, she understood how it applied to all the questions.
No, she didn't believe it at all. The scrawny little screaming nerd she'd twice tackled didn't have the right look to be a hacker, firstly, and secondly she couldn't imagine why a high profile heir to a giant corporation would associate with someone criminal. And another thing: even if he were a hacker, why would he fixate on harassing the maid?
He was definitely some kind of a stalker.
"I'm going to call the police and have them trace this call."
"That's...sort of the spirit!" He laughed on the other end of the line. "Anyway. It's tragic, but...I've been trapped inside my house for a month, unable to go out and see Princess Elly! About now is when I'd normally go out to get a recharge by visiting her, but...alas! I'm going to be trapped even longer in here. That's why I need you-"
"No."
"-to be my hands!" He didn't even miss a beat. "You must send my affection to Elly through the phone!"
"Absolutely not. I know the kind of things you do to her."
"Don't put it like that, Ninja Maid! Our love is purer than that. If you could just snap a picture-"
"I'm going to hang up now. If you call back, I'm turning it off this time."
"NO WAIT-"
Seriously, though? How in the world did he get her number? Had he stolen it somehow during one of their scuffles? Or did he trick the company into sharing it with him? He didn't seem all that wily or convincing to her, but then...maybe he could be a bit more charismatic to someone whose first interactions didn't involve him screaming bloody murder in their ears or sitting on their boss' bed in a cheap maid outfit.
She rubbed her forehead and flopped down on the couch. Her head still hurt from the crank calling, and that voice shouting in her ear didn't help the situation at all, either.
Elizabeth wandered into the room, tail flicking as if she, too, still had ringing in her ears. The little furball looked up at her for a moment, as if silently scolding her for daring to take her break early, before prancing over and hopping up onto her lap.
"Yeah. Didn't think you'd have a problem with it." She reached down to run her fingers along the cat's soft white fur, and the little monster bumped its head up against her hand, as if demanding more petting.
Honestly. It'd be kind of a bummer when she had to move on to another place to clean some day. The odd life-threatening situation and conniving cat wasn't actually all that bad of a compromise for having such luxurious breaks and so few really alarming messes. The owner wasn't home all that often even when he wasn't out of the country, and it showed. Both in the demanding cat, and in the lack of lived-in messes she encountered.
She scoffed to herself as the cat grabbed her hand in its paws and gnawed lightly at her fingertips. Easy to say it's not that bad a compromise when it's been a month since any peril though, huh?
"Alright, geez. If you're going to keep biting like that, I'll get you something to eat that isn't human."
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She stretched, listening to the alarming musical starring her back and spine. She liked to think that all came from the hard work she put into the day, and not the torture rack that her bed had slowly been devolving into since it started running low on fluff and springs.
Well, it was fine. With what she made, she could really start saving for medical exams, a better bed, or even moving somewhere that looked less like an 'Escape from New York' movie. The evening air was cool on her skin as she walked, and she wondered idly if it might even be worth it to just go ahead and start using a car. The walk did take a while, and it meant getting up extra early in the mornings.
The streetlights flickered on above her, as the sun finally got low enough in the sky to upset them.
Actually, tomorrow was payday. She glanced down and grabbed frayed blonde locks in two fingers. Her hair could probably do with a good trim. She could look even more killer in her uniform with a good cut and style.
Someone shoved into her, nearly knocking her face-first into the pavement. She manged not to collide with the ground, but only by engaging in a rousing round of pinwheel hopscotch.
It's not like I was just taking up all the space in the sidewalk!
She rounded on her assailant, but the figure already moved away from her at a quick pace, hood up, obscuring their face in the evening shadows.
"Hey-!"
They - probably a he, given their relative height - didn't even hesitate or react to her calling out to them. Despite the two of them being the only ones in the street. Which was almost as rude as nearly knocking her over in the first place.
Naturally, she chased after him. Just to make sure he could get the earful he deserved.
He was surprisingly agile, as he took quick turns through multiple alleyways without any warning. Frankly, she was starting to worry that she might inadvertently be tailing someone to a drug deal. If I see anyone shady popping up, I'll just...
...Okay. So maybe she'd gotten a little too into giving some random jerk on the street an earful just for bumping into her. Now that she thought about it.
She blinked, looking back and forth on the street.
Wait. Where did he go?
She'd barely even gotten distracted at all, and yet the figure she'd put so much effort into following was just...gone. A few businesses stood nearby, metal gates locked down tight, and one or two houses that looked burned out and boarded up. There were no obvious entrances to any of them.
A short distance down the road stood a building she'd have considered tall before that penthouse spoiled her. Distant city lights reflected on the windows of hundreds of rooms, but not one of them were lit up, even in the increasing darkness of the evening.
"Weird." Businesses usually kept their lights on for security purposes, right? At least dim ones. She frowned and made her way closer to the building. A modest parking lot with various marked carports sat in front of it. Completely empty.
There weren't any obvious signs on the building indicating whether it was one big business, or if it was a mini mall of some sort that just hadn't successfully rented itself out to any local businesses. Well. All the same, the man likely disappeared in there. Somewhere.
She wasn't crazy enough to go investigating it, though.
...Instead, she just...needed to figure out how to find her way back home. And not chase after random people who made her angry on the street.
"...Ah."
Well. Crap. She had a pretty decent idea of what direction she came from, and she could probably make her way back to the main road. But it was also late, and a pretty shady part of town.
She frowned, and dug out her phone. Light flooded her vision as she turned it back on. "GPS...please work."
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Last Push [Zen]
requested: by anonymous
a/n: i’d like to apologize beforehand :’) enjoy!!~
warnings: angst, cheating, nsfw mention,
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-angsty mod alex
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-you couldn't remember how you ended up on jumin hans door, flanked by guards on both sides as jumin opened the door, surprised to see RFA’s party planner and Zens manager standing there, shaking and crying, puffy eyes framed by sopping wet hair that fell messily around your face.
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-you couldn’t get the image out of your head, seeing Zen naked with another woman. Not just any woman, but his coworker, the one the media always put together with Zen.
-Their writhing bodies as her hands roamed his bare chest, his hair loosely tied up, strands of silky white spilling onto her breast as he kissed her, a kiss so intense and passionate you wondered if they were really in love.
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-Jumin looked up at the guards, giving them a nod to leave the two of you as he pulled you in for an albeit confused hug, only slightly disgruntled at the fact that his previously pristine striped button up was now getting wet from your tears, your fingers clutching desperately at the material on his back, needing some sort of support, a reminder that you were still alive... but were you?
-you were vaguely aware of Jumin pulling you past the doorway and leading you to the couch, sitting you down as he went back to get you a blanket. The world felt numb, the ominous sound of nothing still muffled by the ringing in your ears and the rain outside, a sign of what your life had become. Empty and indistinct
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-in that moment, you didn’t feel anything. not your heart breaking, not rage just... emptiness. closing the door, you went back into the living room, barely processing what had happened. Zen hadn’t even noticed you there, watching his shameless infidelity.
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-The feeling of your jacket being slowly peeled off brought you back to attention, back to Jumins penthouse where everything was,, simply too bright; too bright for the dull existence you were living.
-Closing your eyes again, you were lost in a sea of blackness, letting it envelop you in momentary relief, cutting away the pain, the dull achey feeling in your chest.
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-Screams echoed through the apartment, accusations flung about as you begged him for a reason, anything as to why he’d cheat on you. Were you not good enough? What did you do wrong to deserve this?
-and he yelled back, a desperate plea for you to not turn your back on him, but every time you looked at him you just remembered seeing Her on him, digging her fingers into his back, moans filling your shared room. Her on the bed that you slept in. Together.
-Apologies fell deaf on your ears, a million excuses falling from Zens lips, how he’d done it for you, how no one would bother them again if he just hooked up with his coworker.
-The more he talked the further you fell into despair, his aggressive tone finally bringing you over the edge, tears making their way down your cheeks
- “Did you even think about me, when you were having sex with her?” you screamed, letting the cries rip the words from your throat
-The silence was deafening, Zens own look of panic turning into the first real glimmer of shame you’d seen on him all day.
-He looked away, unable to meet your eyes as you stood there, defeated and unresponsive, “No. You can’t do this. Dont you dare shut me out, not after everything we’ve been through!”
-That is when it happened, your heart breaking into a million pieces. His look said it all, an angry resignation as his eyes flitted guiltily across your face, crushing your chest, making you unable to breathe. “oh,” was all you said, letting a few more tears fall before running out of the apartment and onto the cold Seoul streets
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-You weren’t sure how long you stayed like that, eyes painfully shut as Jumin simply sat next to you, letting you take your time before speaking. When you finally opened your eyes he was still there, still looking worried as he studied your shoulders and arms for any bruises, anything to point that someone might have hurt you
- “Who... did this to you,” he asked in a low voice, almost tenderly as his hand reached out to squeeze yours, and although his voice reflected quiet logic, a methodical approach, you could tell he was angry. Not at you, but at the person you both knew had brought you here in the middle of the night.
- “Zen,” you whispered, almost afraid that if you said his name any louder you might cry again
-upon seeing your expression, Jumin nodded, not pressing for any more questions as he stood up, calling in a bodyguard. You remained still on the couch, staring into nothing as the events of the night replayed in your head, threatening to make the tears spill.
-you could hear Jumin whispering to the man, something about not letting Zen into the building, even if it meant using force to keep him away
-a part of you felt bad, that Zen might get hurt by Jumins orders, then you felt even worse for feeling bad. Jumin would protect you, you knew this, and he’d do it well, besides, nothing was worse than the pain Zen had inflicted, for there was no physical wound to heal, only the memories and insecurities that lay before you
-barely able to function, you laid down on the couch, only slightly aware of a blanket being placed on top of you as you fell into a restless sleep.
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-you awoke to two men arguing, one of which you immediately recognized as Zen. The other man was tall, dressed in some sort of bulletproof vest under a tight fitting suit jacket. He was warning Zen of something, of what? You weren’t sure, but Zen’s eyes kept flitting back and forth between your supposedly resting figure and the man, who you assumed was Jumins bodyguard.
-as you started falling into consciousness, you rose from the couch, groggily rubbing your eyes as you tried to make sense of what was happening before you.
-Zen looked exhausted, hair disheveled and wild, dark circles under his eyes, mirroring the look of guilt. Upon seeing you stir, he practically lunged in your direction, desperation in his every step, only to be met with the solid body of another bodyguard.
- “Damnit; y/n, Y/N!” he called out, bringing you down to harsh reality, “please, give me a second chance.”
- “I-no..”
-With that simple word he crumbled, tears prickling his dull amber colored eyes, threatening with a display of emotion
- “Please,” he choked out, “come back, I love you so much.”
- “Funny, thats not how you generally treat the woman you love is it? Cheating on her?” Jumin stepped out of his room, full suit already on as he walked over, adjusting his cufflinks as he glared at Zen, letting you hide behind him.
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- “i will have someone come get her stuff in the afternoon,” he uttered coldly, “she will be in residence with me now.”
-Zens pleading expression was replaced with rage yet again, “I thought you were against a man and a woman living together,” he spat
- “Better a man and a woman than a woman with a monster,” he said cooly, taking your hand behind his back, gently squeezing it as reassurance.
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- At this, Zen’s eyes went back to your half hidden figure. “Y/n. I’ll go only if you tell me to go,” his eyes tearing up yet again, taking an alarming step forward, holding his stance in the middle of the living room.
-A silent “go” slipped out of your mouth, your hand increasingly holding on tighter to Jumins for safety, the only lifeline you had at the moment
-Yet this wasn’t the answer he wanted, the one he needed from you. “Y/n, please.. Look me in the eyes and tell me you dont love me anymore.”
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-This was the voice of a broken man, the voice of someone who took something too far and couldn’t live with the consequences, the voice of someone who had lost everything in the short span of 24 hours.
-But you couldn't. You couldn't look him in the eyes and tell him you hated him, that every time you looked at him you saw her again, replaying last night in your head over and over again until your lungs and heart felt so heavy that you couldn’t breathe, let alone love him
-but you couldn't say that, because after everything there was still a part of you that clung onto hope that this was all a bad dream, that you’d wake up in Zen's arms safe and sound, his kisses trailing from your jaw to your collarbones, a sleepy good morning on his lips as he kissed you awake, like he did every morning since the two of you had started dating.
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-The silence rung through the penthouse, even the fish in the corner and Elly were silent, holding their breath and waiting for the ultimatum, but it never came.
-Jumin sensed your pain behind him, and with an aching feeling, the need to protect you, he let go of your hand, making a step forward to match Zen’s stance. “I think it’s time for you to go Hyun Ryu.” he delivered coldly, “Guards, please escort this man out.”
-The last thing you saw of him before being dragged out was his ponytail, swaying with each step, and the mark, of his lovers lipstick, on his coat
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Ninjago Playlists
(Playlists of songs that remind me of each character and short excerpts from the lyrics of each)
Kai:
Natural by Imagine Dragons (Tell me, will the stars align, will heaven step in will it save us from our sin will it cause this house of mine, stands strong. That’s the price you pay, leave behind your heartache, cast away. Just another product of today.)
Hey Brother by Avicci (Hey, Brother. Do you still believe in one another? Hey, Sister. Know the water’s thick, but blood is thicker. Oh, and if the sky comes falling down, for you, there’s nothing in this world I wouldn’t do.)
Wings by Little Mix (Mama told me not to waste my life. She said spread your wings, my little butterfly. Don’t let what they say keep you up at night. And if they give you shhh... then they can walk on by.)
Zane:
See You Again by Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth (It’s been a long day without you, my friend. And I’ll tell you all about it when I see you again. We’ve come a long way, from where we began. Oh, I’ll tell you all about it when I see you again.)
Titanium by David Guetta (I’m bulletproof, nothing to lose. Fire away, fire away. Riccochet, you take your aim. Fire away, fire away. Shoot me down, but I won’t fall. I am titanium.)
No Light, No Light by Florence + The Machine (You are the hole in my head. You are the space in my bed. You are the silence in between what I thought and what I said. You are the nighttime fear, you are the morning when it’s clear. When it’s over, you’re the start. You’re in my head, you’re in my heart.)
Jay:
I Lived by One Republic (Hope when the moment comes, you say, I, I did it all. And I, I did it all. I owned every second that this world could give. I saw so many places and things that I did, yeah with every broken bone, I swear I lived.)
To the Sky by Owl City (Bird’s eye view. Awake the stars cause they’re all around you. Wide eyes will always brighten the blue. Chase your dreams, and remember me, sweet bravery, cause, after all, those dreams will take you up so high, so bid the forest floor goodbye as you race the wind and, take to the sky.)
Thunder by Imagine Dragons (Just a young gun, with a quick fuse. I was uptight, wanna let loose. I was dreaming of bigger things and wanna leave my old life behind. Not have a yes-sir. Not a follower. Fit the box, fit the mold, have a seat in the foyer, take a number. I was lightning, before the thunder.)
Cole:
Who We Are by Imagine Dragons (It’s who we are, doesn’t matter if we’ve gone too far, doesn’t matter if it’s all okay, doesn’t matter if it’s not our day. Won’t you save us, what we are, don’t look clear it’s all uphill from here.)
Noah’s Ark by Young Heretics (Noah’s ark can’t save us all. Binary against the squall. And in its wake, good men will fall. And finally we can move on.)
100 Bad Days by AJR (When all is going wrong and you’re scared as hell, whatcha gonna do, who you gonna tell? Maybe, 100 bad days made 100 good stories. 100 good stories make me interesting at parties.)
Lloyd:
Whatever it Takes by Imagine Dragons (Looking at my years like a martyrdom, everybody needs to be a part of them, never be enough, I’m the prodigal son, I was born to run, I was born for this.)
Explosions by Ellie Goulding (Explosions, on the day you wake up, needing somebody and you’ve learned... it’s okay to be afraid. But it will never be the same.)
Centuries by Fall Out Boy (Some legends are gold. Some turn to dust or to gold. But you will remember me. Remember me for centuries. And just one mistake, is all it will take. To go down in history. Remember me for centuries.)
Nya:
Alive by Sia (I was born in a thunderstorm. I grew up overnight. I played alone. I played on my own. I survived.)
Natural by Imagine Dragons (Will you hold the line? When every one of them is giving up or giving in, tell me, in this house of mine. Nothing ever comes without a consequence, a cost, tell me, will the stars align?)
I See Fire by Jasmine Thompson (Oh, misty eye of the mountain below. Keep careful watch o’er my brothers’ souls. And if the sky be filled with fire and smoke, keep watching over Durin’s sons.)
Wu:
When We Were Young by Lost Kings (For a second, for a minute can we go? For a second, for a minute can we go, can we go back when we were young? And didn’t care if we messed up. We have forever, so we got lost in each other cause time wasn’t catching, time wasn’t catching us.)
Good Old Days by Macklemore, feat. Kesha (I wish somebody would have told me then, that someday these would be the good old days. All the love you won’t forget, and all these reckless nights you won’t regret. Someday soon your whole life’s gonna change. You’ll miss the magic of the good old days.)
Lean on Me by Bill Withers (Lean on me, when you’re not strong. I’ll be your friend. I’ll help you carry on. Just call on me, brother, when you need a hand. We all need somebody to lean on.)
Garmadon:
Control by Halsey (I’m bigger than my body. I’m colder than this home. I’m meaner than my demons. I’m bigger than these bones. And all the kids cried out, please stop you’re scaring me, I can’t help this awful energy, goddamn right you should be scared of me, who is in control?)
Nightmare by NateWantsToBattle (We’re only kids who lost our way. But if we wait long enough, we will be saved. Just sleep, just dream. This isn’t fair, no we’re not just what we seem. We want to fly but our souls are trapped inside. It’s not a game, not to blame, we’re forced to hide. Just sleep, just dream. It’s only a nightmare and soon we’ll be set free.)
Monster by Imagine Dragons (I’m only a man with a candle to guide me. I’m taking a stand to escape what’s inside me. A monster, a monster, I’ve turned into a monster. A monster, a monster, and it keeps getting stronger.)
Pixal:
Never Be Alone by Shawn Mendes (Take a piece of my heart, so when we are apart, you’ll never be alone. You’ll never be alone.)
Gasoline by Halsey (You can’t wake up, this is not a dream. You’re part of a machine, you are not a human being. With your face all made up, living on a screen. Low on self-esteem, so you run on gasoline.)
Radioactive by Imagine Dragons (I feel it in my bones, enough to make my systems blow. Welcome to the new age, to the new age, welcome to the new age, to the new age.)
Skylor:
Glory and Gore by Lorde (You could try and take us, but we’re the gladiators, everyone a rager, but secretly they’re saviors. Glory and gore go hand in hand. That’s why we’re making headlines. You could try and take us, but victory’s contagious.)
Try by P!nk (Where there is a fire, there is gonna be a flame. Where there is a flame, someone’s bound to get burned. Well, just because it burns, doesn’t mean you’re gonna die. You gotta get up and try, try, try.)
I Walk The Line by Halsey (I keep a close watch on this heart of mine. I keep my eyes wide open all the time. I keep the ends out for the tie that binds. Because you’re mine...I walk the line.)
Harumi:
The Devil Within by Digital Daggers (I’ll keep quiet, you won’t even know I’m here, you won’t suspect a thing, you won’t see me in the mirror. But I’ve crept into your heart, you can’t make me disappear, till I make you.)
you should see me in a crown by Billie Eilish (Bite my tongue, bide my time. Wearing a warning sign. Wait till the world is mine. Visions I vandalize. Cold in my kingdom size. Fell for my ocean eyes.)
Angry Too by Lola Blanc (And does it get your blood boiling? And does it make you see red? Do you want to destroy it? And does it get in your head? Cause it gets my blood boiling. And I’m coming unglued. It would hit you like poison, if you knew what I knew. You would be angry, too.)
#lego ninjago#ninjago#kai smith#zane julien#jay walker#cole brookstone#lloyd garmadon#nya smith#sensei wu#lord garmadon#pixal#skylor chen#princess harumi#playlist
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ITinktober Day 8: Memory
The delectable scent of fear cascaded off the child in waves. Her brow furrowed in her sleep and she whimpered ever so softly, a barely voiced exhale in the silence of her bedroom, unaware of the monster standing at the foot of her bed.
Its deadlights shone through Pennywise’s eyes like a flashlight, turning redder by the second, as saliva pooled on his lower lip and dripped into a puddle on the floor. The child smelled divine. He couldn’t help but imagine sinking his teeth into her soft flesh. Her eyes would snap open, and oh, she would scream , but her parents wouldn’t hear. He would make sure of that. He would hold her down and suck the blood from her wounds while she screamed, still alive, still afraid. Yes, he would tear her apart slowly, little by little, piece by piece, milking as much of that delicious fear out of her feeble brain as he could before she died, alone and in agony. Only in the morning would her parents come and find what was left of their precious daughter. There would be no “Missing” signs for her. She would have a closed-casket funeral.
The visions flickered through Pennywise’s mind like broken neon lights, and for once, instead of all but forcing him to act upon his predatory urges, they made him sick. They made him sick because that was you lying there asleep, having a nightmare, scared and completely vulnerable.
And for some inexplicable reason, in spite of everything he was and was meant to be, he didn’t want anyone – not even himself – to hurt you.
He took one calculated step alongside your bed towards you, then another, as if one wrong move would be the one that snapped his resolve and resulted in your untimely demise. He had to bend at the waist to reach you. His hand was shaking as he stroked your cheek.
“Wake up, beautiful. It is only a nightmare. Wake up.” You awoke with a light gasp, eyes snapping open wide. Your eyes flashed with a sort of panicked relief when you saw your companion standing over you, and you sat up and through your arms around him. Your head barely reached his chest.
“Shh…” Pennywise smoothed your hair with one hand while the other came to rest on your back. Your grip around his waist was strong, and he felt a rush of undeserved pride.
You sniffed.
“Why are you shaking?” Oh, what a good question, little one. How to answer? Honestly? Be honest and tell you that he was shaking from the sheer effort it took not to devour you? No. Instead, he told you, “I am upset that you are afraid.” It was not a lie. In fact, it was very much the truth. He hated that you were afraid, if only because it was next to impossible not to kill and eat you, and he knew he would regret that, later. He settled for tightening his grip on your delicate body and burying his nose in your hair to breathe in the scent.
You backed away, and he barely had the self-control to let you out of his grasp. You took his hand and looked up at him, eyes bright and pleading.
“Will you stay with me?” He shouldn’t have, because you were never his to keep, but he knew in that moment that he couldn’t deny you anything. You needed him. And feeling needed felt surprisingly pleasant.
“What was your dream about?” he asked.
“It’s the same one I always have,” you explained. “There’s a monster, and I’m trying to get away, but it’s on top of me, and there’s blood…” You trailed off, gripping his hand a little harder.
He pulled you into his arms again.
“That will never happen,” he said. “Not to you. You are mine, and I won’t let that happen.”
You smiled and murmured a sleepy “thank you,” already beginning to fall back asleep. You felt safe when Pennywise was with you, cuddling you like a teddy bear, having no idea what it was you trusted to hold you in your sleep.
Now when you had nightmares there was no hand on your cheek, gently stroking your terrors away. There was no soft lilting voice whispering that it was just a nightmare, nor any cool arms to hold you and make you feel safe. It was just you and the increasingly empty expanse of your room, because as the years passed you’d found yourself hating all those familiar childhood things you did with pennywise, they only brought pain and bittersweet memories, even now, when you were sixteen years old and should long be over all those memories, anything that reminded you of him was still having to be thrown out.
Meanwhile your dad was only getting worse as the years went on. But as much as you were giving up hope that pennywise would ever ‘wake up’, you didn’t want to ruin the slim chance he truly intended to keep his promise and return, so you covered the bruises with makeup and put a smile on your face. You studied hard, you worked a part-time job at the movie theatre, you got a pet turtle, anything you could do to fill the empty void inside your soul that seemed to grow with each passing day you woke up alone...or well, not quite alone.
“Eleanore get yer ass down here and make breakfast,” Your legal name was Ellie, but apparently he didn’t care, he was gonna lengthen it out to sound fancy and intimidating. You wanted to shout back at him to stop being lazy and make his own breakfast, but you no longer had Penny to soothe your bruises and you’d already put on makeup for the day, so for the sake of everything you bit your lip and turned to your turtle's enclosure with a sad sigh.
“Have a good day Mister Turtle, let me know if you spy any red balloons will ya?” Red balloons and a daisy chain, the latter of which was probably long since wilted, were all you had for sure to recognize him by. After all, it had been eight years, surely he must look different now than you remembered him looking when you were a child.
You took the stairs two at a time as you hurried to make up for lost time, took your place at the stove, and started cooking. While cracking eggs in the pan a familliar memory clawed it’s way to the surface and you couldn’t help but smile.
“Penny, dad’s not up yet and i’m hungry, can you make me food?” you had asked helplessly, back pressed against the wall with your head buried in your knees. Mom had passed away only two weeks ago, but life didn’t pause to give you and your dad time to mourn her, it kept moving on and you still had to live life. Of course, you could hardly blame your dad for wanting to lock himself away and not deal with life, but you hadn’t been taught how to care for youself yet and he was just tossing you to the wolves!
“I’ve never had to prepare my own food before….I tend to eat…..raw,” He confessed hesitently, on the one hand, wanting to laugh at his own joke, but on the other knowing it would ruin the illusion he was putting on for you. Still he wasn’t going to abandon you now, or worse, send you off to school hungry! So with a sigh he stood up and offered you his hand, causing you to look up at him quizzically.
“It sounds like you and I will have to learn together, whipping up a few eggs shouldn’t be hard, and should keep you until lunch right?” His offer was kind, and you could have weeped at such a gentle gesture. But you were running out of tears and didn’t want to make a fuss, so instead you just took his hand and the two of you went downstairs. Even at eight years old you were frustratingly short, but Penny was tall and happy to open the fridge and get eggs or find a chair for you to stand on. You watched hypnotized as the eggs which had looked disgusting before, meld into one big bubbling yellow goo that smelled delicious.
“I think it’s done, Penny! What do you think?” you ask excitedly, and slightly worriedly because you really should be going soon. Penny, who had strayed off looking (thirsting) after a couple of kids running towards school, made his way back to you and pressed a victorious kiss to your head.
“Looks good and smells good, great job beautiful!” he said happily. Penny, being an eldritch horror, knew nothing about how human meals were made. For goodness sakes he drank blood and ate flesh! The eggs smelled good, so he assumed that meant they were done, with no thought about how you ought to cook the other side too. As it was you scarfed down the eggs with a glass of milk, kissed him goodbye, and ran off to school.
At first your day was fine, you were proud of yourself for making breakfast, so was everyone you told, and other than your breath tasting a bit funny when you burped you felt fine. But as the hours creeped by till lunch you found yourself feeling less and less great. Then finally at eleven you bolted off to the bathroom and vomitted all the eggs up, alongside whatever remenants of the midnight snack penny had snuck you last night was left in your stomach. When the teachers found you like that they cleaned you up and sent you home for the day with food poisoning. You weren’t able to enjoy it, however, as you spent most of the day bent over the toilet, either dry heaving or throwing up what litle food you had managed to keep down in between ‘sessions’.
But all the while Pennywise was by your side, keeping your hair out of your face, wiping your brow, and apologizing profusely for ‘his’ stupid mistake.
“Penny, it’s my fault too, and neither of us knew any better, I don’t love you any less,” you were beginning to notice that Penny had changed a lot since you met him two years ago, back then he was really reserved, and though silly, had never worried or fussed over you like he was doing now, and you’re not sure when it had started.
Just like he wasn’t sure when you had gone from an intriguing distraction to someone he loved.
“I love you too sweetheart, and papa is gonna take care of you until you’re all better,” he murmured as he settled down behind you, pulling you into his lap as he wiped your face clean and stroking your sweat-soaked hair while you rested against his chest.
It should have been a terrible day to remember, but looking back, it always made you smile. You had been miserable and upset, but Pennywise was with you, he was always with you, and because of him the day still had some good points.
You weren’t sure if it was the wetness on your face or the alarm blaring that snapped you out of your daydreaming. But you wiped the tears and scraped the egg out onto a plate and put the plate on the table, the man could get his own damn silverware. While Penny had been caring for you like a father, he was locked up in his room drinking himself into a stupor, when Penny left and you cried for days, he beat you for being so annoying. The only reason you hadn’t run away was that you had promised Pennywise that you would wait for him here in Derry.
But that didn’t mean you weren’t still actively looking for that ‘moment’ Pennywise had whispered to you about on that warm summer afternoon. You had imagined several times about moments that could come up that you could take, like slipping some sleeping meds into his beer when you got it for him, or salting his movie popcorn with cyanide. You had never gone through with it though, for the same reasons you had never run away. You were too young back then, they would send you away to some orphanage and you wouldn’t be here for when Pennywise returned!
So instead you endured, every beating, every insult, you just reminded yourself of your reason for being here, that soon Pennywise would wrap you up in his arms, wash your bruises, bandage you up, and take you back to the flower fields where your biggest problem was running out of room on penny’s body to put a daisy chain.
But today wasn’t that day, and you didn’t want to stick around and deal ith your father when he woke up, so you were skipping breakfast for the day, lunch was only a few hours away anyways, and thankfully you were never short on funds thanks to your part time job. So off you went into the cold, cruel world, the winter wind biting at your face. You didn’t want to be going out today, let alone to school or work, but it was part of the ‘mask’ you put on day to day. It kept anyone from paying you any mind. But today it felt like one thing after another was ruining your motivation to even bother getting to the bus stop. As if sensing your resolve flickering life set one more pebble onto the scale of your motivtion.
You looked up to find yourself on the corner of Neibolt Street and the wave of nostalgia hit you so hard you almost stumbled. As a child this had been your favorite place in the world, penny would take you here all the time to this old house everyone seemed to avoid like the plague, you never quite understood why though, even now. Sure it was a little run down and creaky, but the furniture was comfy and the house big…….perfect for the games of hide and seek you and penny would play together. You hadn’t stepped foot in the house since the day he left, while some memories were pleasant, the amount of memories in that single location threatened to overwhelm and break what little resolve you had to keep going on.
But as you stood there in indecision you felt a rush of wind as the bus trundled past and now you either had to run to get to the bus stop in time….or just casually turn the corner and fake sick for a day. The choice was made before you had the presence of mind to mentally sigh at the later consequences, you just wanted a day, a day to feel him again, to drown in that familiar warmth, and after that day, you would face whatever consequinces arose, not that you had much of a choice now, the school bus had long since picked up its passengers and trundled away, even if you changed your mind last minute, you’d be late and owe explanations.
So down the road you went, in the cold winter snows the daisies you were so familliar with laid dead and buried, but even from here you could see the house standing tall on it’s hill, the planters stuffed full with snow. Even while you and the rest of Derry seemed to grow and change, the house seemed so timeless, and as you opened the door and the scent of, what should be disgusting, mold and mildew hit you it felt like coming home. You could feel the old foundation creak and settle as you stepped up to the porch and pressed your forehead to the door, a familliar knot working it’s way up from your stomach into your throat.
“Hey Penny, you haven’t come over for awhile, so I came to play with you today,” you stated to the empty air, yanking the door open and stepping inside before you could back out of your decision. No one would look for you here, You would be safe for the day from the people outside, you could just...drown in your memories.
“Ready or not, here I come!”
The house at 29 Neibolt Street was larger than it looked on the outside. Strange echoes cascaded down the staircases and along the halls, allowing any loud enough noise to fill the entire house. Such was the case for your bubbling laughter, brushing through the and dissipating in dark corners like clean water soaked up by a dingy sponge. Your little footsteps thumped against the wooden floors as you ran down the hall in search of your friend. Behind you, the hard tick of a grandfather clock. In front of you, the kitchen, where the ghostly tracks you made in the blanket of dust and grime on the floor would carry your memory for months.
Rats scurried away from you from and in every direction as you flung open the low cupboards one by one, squeaking their offense at your invasion of their privacy. In a few short years, the thought of wading on your hands and knees through dust and mouse shit would disgust you. At the time, at six years old, you barely noticed. You wiped the offending substances off on your coat and carried on.
The fridge, long unplugged and left to corrode, caught your eye. A flutter gripped your heart as you took the first step towards it, the residual voices that filled the house grew from a whisper to a roar in your ears as you took the second. Your stomach flipped when your hand settled over the handle. You held your breath as you threw open the door to reveal…grimy shelves, empty except for the inconsequential carcass of a bug your young mind could not identify. You closed the door.
Making your way back through the hallway, you were drawn to a door you had never been through before. An unexplored part of his house – the perfect place to hide!
The door, once opened, revealed a staircase that descended down into the Earth. You took each step carefully, gripping the splintered railing on your left that was almost as tall as you were. The hollow, wooden stairs snarled beneath you as you placed one foot, then the other on each one.
The lack of light shining through the milky windows near the ceiling reminded you how late it was getting, but it was okay. Your parents always told you never to go out at night without an adult, but Pennywise was an adult.
At that point, there had been an Amber Alert out for you for an hour.
In the basement, your game of Hide-and-Seek was forgotten, as your attention was captured by the ring of stone in the center of the floor. You approached at a casual pace, and when you reached the well, you got up on your tippy-toes to peer down into it. You couldn’t even see the bottom!
“Hello?” you called down.
“Hello? Hello? Hello?” your voice echoed back.
Your scream echoed just as loudly as two large hands grabbed your shoulders, yanking you back and spinning you around. You found yourself facing a very stern looking Pennywise, who bent at the waist to come closer to your eye level.
“Be careful with that, Ellie,” he warned. “We wouldn’t want you to fall, now would we?”
You crossed your arms over your chest. “I wasn’t going to fall!” you insisted. “I was just looking.”
“Insolent child,” he growled. “Do you not trust me to know what’s best for you?”
You didn’t like it when he got angry. He always made you feel bad, when he was angry.
You dropped your arms. “I trust you.”
“Welllll then...” A smooth grin stretched his lips. “I guess you found me. Now, it’s your turn to hide.” He tapped your nose with the tip of his finger on the word ‘your.’
“Close your eyes! No peeking!” you commanded, grinning back.
Pennywise made a show of tilting back up to his full height and covering his eyes with his gloved hands. “Thirty, twenty-nine, twenty-eight, twenty-seven…”
You ran as fast as your little legs could take you back up the stairs, then up another set. You could hear him nearing the end of his countdown – you could hear him no matter where you were in the house – as you dashed down a hallway. Your feet barely touched the floor.
You found yourself in a room that was empty except for a forest green armchair. The very last rays of sunlight from the day glowed through a mostly boarded up window.
“Ready or not, here I come!”
You looked around frantically and smiled to yourself when you saw a closet door resting halfway open. You hurried inside and closed the door, filling your eyes with soft, inky black. You couldn’t see a single thing.
You settled yourself down on the floor and listened for your friend’s approach, noticing perhaps for the first time all year that it was beginning to get very cold. Your winter coat was hardly enough to protect you from the bite. The stuffiness of the closet, holding in your body heat, was welcome.
You felt around the closet and curled up in the corner, leaning your head against the wall, putting up the hood of your coat to use as padding. You could hear the soft jingling of bells as Pennywise moved about the house, muttering the occasional, “Oh my, where could she be?” That made you smile and giggle to yourself.
You loved him, but even more than that, you trusted him. You were sparing a passing thought to how much you loved him when your world shifted.
Pennywise was sitting in the green armchair, cradling you like a baby. You looked around, confused.
“I found you,” Pennywise giggled, “all curled up and asleep in the closet.”
“Oh,” you murmured, upset that you had fallen asleep during your game but too comfortable and sleepy to pay much mind to any of your emotions. You looked towards the door. “I’m tired. We should go home.”
Pennywise pouted. “This is home. This is my home. We’re having a sleepover.”
You looked towards the door again, and you thought of your parents. You hadn’t told them you would be out all night, or out at all.
“Ah,” Pennywise said, reading your mind, “but you’re with an adult.”
You were so tired, you just wanted to go to sleep.
“I will keep you safe.”
You felt safe.
“Don’t you trust me, Ellie?”
You trusted him.
“Okay,” you agreed, yawning. “But I want to go to sleep now.”
Pennywise smiled. “Go to sleep, then.”
You snuggled into him, and he gently petted your hair.
“You are beautiful,” he said.
His mouth didn’t move when he said it, and you thought that was weird, but you were just too tired. You let your eyes close. There had been an Amber Alert out for you for two and a half hours.
You didn’t remember walking to the living room, or curling up in the old armchair. But by the time the memory cleared from your mind you were there, nose buried in the mattress like the scent wasn’t disgusting, instead, it just felt like you were home, like penny had you curled up in his arms and was stroking you, keeping all your fears and worries at bay, because you felt safe with him. And even when he wasn’t here, his memories with you were so strong in this house that you felt as though he were here.
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Seeking control, Chapter 26
‘You’ll be safe here. We’re far enough away and he won’t have a clue where we have gone.’ Trish said softly to Ellie when she and Alice let her in to their house.
They had a nice semi-detached at the edge of the city, the opposite side to Tom’s place and the practice.
When they had left the practice, they waited until they knew they were out of view from the security cameras then they looped round and headed in the opposite direction, knowing Tom would no doubt double check the footage to see which direction they went in.
Alice gave Ellie some of her clothes, because they were the same size. Ellie was so grateful. She was given the spare room with an en-suite too. And Trish gave her toiletries to use.
‘We can get shopping tomorrow, get you more stuff. But they should do for now.’ Said Trish.
‘I can’t thank you both enough… But I have to ask, why are you wanting to help me? You barely know me.’ Ellie wanted to know, it had been bugging her. Even though they got along well in the hospital, it had been for such a short period of time.
Trish sat down on the edge of the bed and Ellie joined her.
‘We were all in the hospital for a reason. Even if it turned out some, or all, of us weren’t supposed to be in there. We still shared an experience that only we know about. The average person wouldn’t understand what it’s like to be in a psychiatric hospital. Whether it was real or not… And besides, I don’t like bullying assholes. But we like you.’
‘Well, I can’t thank you enough. Seriously. I don’t know what I would’ve done otherwise. I never thought I was going to get out of there. He seemed so… real and genuine with me. I don’t know why I never saw the signs. I still can’t believe that sweet man could be such a… monster.’ Ellie sighed and looked down at her hands in her lap.
‘He is a manipulator. That’s what they do. They make out that they are kind and caring, but all they want is full control over you. Don’t beat yourself up over it. You’ll get over it, in time. Just take some time to relax. Obviously you are free to come and go, but I’d suggest going out during the day when it’s busy. Stay in public areas and don’t take any risks by going down any quiet streets. Take a taxi if possible.’ Trish reached into her pocket and pulled out Ellie’s purse that had her bank cards in it and some cash too. ‘I grabbed this before Alice set fire to your flat.’
‘Oh my god, thank you! At least I won’t be totally useless now. I thought Tom would’ve taken it.’ Ellie was so relieved to have her purse again.
‘It was down the side of your bed, perhaps he never saw it. Luckily!’ Trish gave her shoulder a squeeze then left her alone to get some rest.
Ellie lay down on the bed and tried to turn her brain off from all the events. But it was difficult. She tossed and turned before eventually, falling asleep. Knowing that she was safe.
Tom managed to sweet talk his way out of explaining why he was locked in the practice the following morning when the first of the employees turned up. The two that arrived first were just dazzled by his good looks and charm, they would believe anything he told them.
And Tom knew it. Using it to his advantage, always.
Luckily, he had a spare change of clothes in his consulting room, so he hadn’t had to have any awkward conversations about why he was only in his boxers underneath his coat.
He drove back home, to find that he was allowed into his flat just to collect anything he needed. But he was escorted by a fireman.
When he reached the top floor, he glanced into Ellie's flat to see it was all black, everything inside burnt to a crisp. He clenched his jaw in anger. He knew that Alice was bad news. How dare she burn down his girls home with all of her belongings in there.
‘You have ten minutes, Sir.’ The fireman nodded at Tom.
‘Of course. Thank you.’ Tom smiled and entered his flat.
There wasn’t much damage to his belongings, apart from it all had a smokey smell. But at least he could wash his clothes and he hoped the other stuff would lose the smell over time.
He packed a suitcase with as much clothes and items he would need as possible. Not knowing when he would get back into his home properly. But luckily he had enough money to be able to afford a decent hotel for a while. Insurance would cover some of it, too.
Tom also packed some of Ellie’s belongings that she had at his place. Because he certainly planned on getting her back, one way or another.
A few days passed and Tom settled into a fancy hotel. It was more like an apartment he had, so he wouldn’t have to rely on takeaways all the time and could buy food in to cook with the kitchen amenities he had.
The police had been in contact with him, so he wasn’t all surprised when a detective turned up to the hotel wanting to speak with him. He invited her in, along with a police officer that was with her. He turned on the charm and offered them tea and coffee, which they accepted.
‘Did you see anything suspicious that night? Or the night before, perhaps?’ The detective asked.
Tom shook his head and pretended to think. ‘Not that I can recall, I’m afraid.’ He sighed and paused for a moment. ‘Actually… No, never mind I don’t think it would be relevant.’ He brushed off.
‘Anything you have might be of use to us, Mr Hiddleston.’ She said with a smile.
‘Well… I am a Doctor and I had a patient in a psychiatric hospital that I was visiting daily. For some reason another patient there, Alice Roberts, took a disliking to me. I think it was because she was close friends with my patient. Anyway, Alice was released and I did find her at my door one day. I don’t know how she got into the building, but she wanted to come in to my flat. I didn’t let her, because I don’t know her. But she wasn’t best pleased when I sent her away. Though I do know that she is, or was, a pyromaniac.’
The detective wrote everything down eagerly. ‘This is actually really helpful, Mr Hiddleston. Thank you.’ She then stood up and reached out to shake his hand.
‘You’re welcome. Feel free to come by anytime if you need more answers. I just hope you can find whoever did this. But I’m glad that no one was hurt.’ Tom smiled.
‘We will be sure to find them.’ The detective nodded. ‘Oh, one last thing. You don’t know where Miss Cooper is? Other residents haven’t seen her in a long time. We are trying to locate her to inform her about her flat.’
Tom raised his eyebrows in surprise. ‘No, I haven’t seen her in a while, actually. Last time I saw her she had a suitcase and was heading out, but never said where. That was around a month or so ago. I thought she’d moved out.’
‘Ok. Thank you, Mr Hiddleston. Enjoy the rest of your day.’
‘You too, detective. Thanks again.’
He then shut the door behind the detective and officer. He grabbed his coat and counted to ten, then left the room. He rushed down the stairs and peeped around the corner at reception, watching the detective leave the hotel.
Without being seen by her, he followed them outside to the car park and he got into his car. He waited patiently until the detective moved off, after being on the phone for five minutes first, and he carefully followed the detective’s car at a distance.
Tom followed her across the city and down a residential street. He parked a few cars behind and watched intently while the detective got out of the car, and with police officers, they went up to a semi-detached house and knocked on the door.
‘Bingo.’ He muttered when he saw Trish answer the door.
Just as he had expected the detective to do. Go straight to find Alice.
Curtains moving from the upstairs floor caught his eye, when he looked up his stomach swirled. There was Ellie, looking out of the window to see who was at the door.
‘There you are, my sweet girl.’ He purred. ‘Don’t worry, I will come rescue you soon.’ He grinned.
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Okay this works for either Remus or Bucky but sister!reader (or psuedo-sister, borderline daughter) in bucky's case) prepares a little garden for her brother. She knows he feels like he's a destructive monster, but this is something he can look after and watch it grow and flourish whilst also being a perfect little hideaway when things get too much. Happy birthday precious boys 💕
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REMUS LUPIN
Okay so yeah once a month he grows fur and claws and fangs
And rampages through the forest wanting to kill almost everything he sees
If the boys weren’t there with him to distract him and were wear him out he’d really be killing creatures
And for such a sweet boy like him
It really makes him doubt himself as a person
But as his sister
You know that he’s the best person you know
He’s a better person than most non-werewolves are so lmao
You decide that you’re planting him a garden
You ask Hagrid for some plant fertilizer
Magical of course
And you ask Dumbledore for a spot of land that’s hidden somewhere where it can only be found by Remus
He leads you to almost the very end of the Hogwarts boundary line and points to a little clearing
“Students aren’t allowed over here but I will permit you, your brother, and your circle of friends because I admire what you’re doing.”
You get to planting
You plant some strawberries, some carrots, some cucumbers, some pumpkins, some peas, lettuce, everything
You also plant some daisies, some roses, some tulips, any flower seeds that you could find steal from Professor Sprout
You planted them and gave them just enough time to begin to sprout
And then it was his birthday because you know how tf to plan things
You bring him out around midday
He’s whining about being dragged so far but you have to take him so you very kindly tell your big brother to shut tf up
“We’re here”
He looks around and doesn’t really notice the little sprouts
“What do you mean?”
“There”
You point to the little plot of land that you’d been tending to lately
“I made you a garden.”
“A garden?”
You lead him to the plot of land and sit in between a few of the plants
“I know that sometimes you just want to get away from everyone and that sometimes you feel like a monster and while I assure you that’s not true, I figured that tending to a garden and keeping it alive and growing something might help you feel better about yourself. I placed a charm around it so that only you, me, James, and Sirius can get in. I know you might not want them in here so I haven’t told them about it. But if you want to, you can tell them and bring them here. Like I said, I don’t agree with your self-hate but I figured that you needed something to help you build your confidence and self-worth again. Happy Birthday.”
Tears were streaming down his face and he pulled you into the strongest hug you’d ever had
“Thank you Y/N. Really. From the bottom of my heart, thank you. It means so much to me that you’d even do something like this. I love you.”
You smiled and just hugged your brother like it was just a nice wholesome hug
He goes down there to tend to his garden at least once a day and brings you food from there all the time
He likes hanging out there with you :’)
BUCKY BARNES
He tries not to show emotion because he’s afraid of it
But you know that he for sure loves you
Because he tells you a lot
He wants to make sure that you know
Because he knows that he’s not the most expressive person
And as your father figure he doesn’t want to make you feel like he doesn’t love you
You decide that for his birthday you’re going to do something special
You asked Tony for permission to turn one of his empty labs into a greenhouse
He agreed bc he thought it was for you lmao
You got to work planting vegetables, fruits, flowers, just every plant that you can fit
You hid the room for around a week before the plants started to sprout and show in the dirt
His suspicions are raised bc you keep running off and you stay wherever you are for hours
He’s afraid that some boy was with you
He’s on the verge of yelling at you for your possible boyfriend when you come into his room
It’s like eight o’clock in the morning on his birthday but he’s awake
You drag him out of his bed in his pajamas still
You led him through the halls and down to an empty lab
He was rlly confused
“Y/N, what are you doi-”
He stops and stares at the inside of the room that’s just full of dirt and little plant sprouts
“What is this?”
“You worry me sometimes. I know that you think you’re a bad person and i really don’t think so, but I can’t control your thoughts. But, by caring for something and keeping it alive, you’ll hopefully see that you’re an amazing person who is capable of love and deserves it back. I’m hoping that watching these plants grow under your care makes you realize how great of a person you are, or at least that you’re not the monster you say you are. And I know that you like being alone too, you can do that here. No one knows about this, Tony gave me permission to use the space but he doesn’t know what it’s really for. I really hope you like it.”
He can’t say anything, he’s completely speechless
He’s not great with words but actions speak louder and as he pulled you into his arms for a hug
And you realized that he used his metal arm to grab you which he never does
Says he’ll hurt you
You realize that he’s gonna be okay
And that you’re gonna be there for him the entire way
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I was kind of tagged by @intricately-silly? Like, I have a notification that I was mentioned??? Idk, but thanks if you did!
Rules: Post a pic of your simself with your traits and answer the questions!
Traits: creative + good + music lover
1. What is your full name? Riley, and that’s all I’m gonna say
2. What is your nickname? I kinda gave myself the nickname RPS? You can also call me Trams cause of my url, I don’t mind.
3. When is your birthday? September 5
4. What is your favorite book series? Favorite book series... probably Harry Potter. I’m not obsessed with it (cause J.K. is kinda not a good person) but it’s one of the few series I remember reading.
5. Do you believe in aliens or ghosts? Sure. I’m not a hardcore believer, and when I watch Buzzfeed Unsolved Supernatural, I’m DEFINITELY a Shaniac, but I’m definitely not closed to the idea.
6. Who is your favorite author? Probably Charles Dickens or Shakespeare. I’m a sucker for that classic literature stuff.
7. What is your favorite radio station? Eh, I don’t really listen to the radio.
8. What is your favorite flavor of anything? Lemon! It’s just SO good in all candy flavors, and I love it so much.
9. What word do you often use to describe something great or wonderful? Rad, awesome, cool, the usuals and occasionally terms that are super dated like tubular.
10. What is your favorite song currently? God that’s hard cause I love music so much... maybe Planetary (GO!) or Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na) by MCR.
11. What is your favorite word? Petrichor
12. What is the last song you listened to? The Cage by Genesis
13. What TV show would you recommend everyone to watch? Forensic Files, it’s fascinating to me
14. What is your favorite movie to watch when you’re feeling down? I haven’t been one to watch movies when down so I don’t really have one
15. Do you play video games? Yep! I’ve been playing them a lot
16. What is your biggest fear? Being abandoned. It’s happened to me so often by friends that it’s just sort of become common place and I’m terrified of it.
17. What is your best quality in your opinion? My optimism!
18. What is your worst quality in your opinion? My inability to talk alshdafsdf I’m such a klutz at speaking
19. Do you like cats or dogs better? Dogs, though I do love cats.
20. What is your favorite season? Spring! Everything is turning green and flowering and it’s so refreshing to feel the rain on your face!
21. Are you in a relationship? Nope, I am tragically single
22. What is something you miss from your childhood? Having my parents read stories to me and my brothers, it was such a fun time in my childhood.
23. Who is your best friend? My friend Elli, a super cool nb person who’s been my friend for around 2 years now.
24. What is your eye color? Hazel
25. What is your hair color? Dark brown, though it’s been bleached and I would love to have green hair again.
26. Who is someone you love? Myself 💕
27. Who is someone you trust? My mom. She’s on my side no matter what, and she’s the first family member I told about my sexual and gender identity.
28. Who is someone you think about often? My ocs
29. Are you currently excited about something? Not really, I’m just kinda drifting atm
30. What is your biggest obsession? The Adventure Zone. It is SO. GOOD. I love the McElroys, and they mean a lot to me.
31. What was your favorite TV show as a child? The 1994 Spider-Man series. That SM has always been my favorite and he always will be.
32. Who of the opposite gender can you tell anything to? What’s a gender?
33. Are you superstitious? Sorta I guess
34. Do you have an unusual phobias? I HATE arteries and tendons. HATE HATE HATE them. They freak me out and I have to cover them up when I start getting freaked out by them. I’ve had this fear since I was a child.
35. Do you prefer to be in front of the camera or behind it? Both baby!
36. What is your favorite hobby? Drawing!!!
37. What is the last book you read? Pieces of Happiness by Anne Ostby
38. What was the last movie you watched? Thor: Ragnorak
39. What musical instruments do you play? Violin, a little guitar, some piano?
40. What is your favorite animal? It’s hard for me to pick, but my favorite since I was a baby is a tiger.
41. What are your top five favorite Tumblr blogs? @viper-fish @berrybloomsims @lunacysims @mellindi @sim-borg
42. What super power do you wish you had? The power to refill stuff.
43. When and where do you feel most at peace? When I’m driving. There’s something about the freedom that just makes me feel so at peace, and I love feeling like I’m not restrained by anything.
44. What makes you smile? My dog. Everything about him just makes my heart swell
45. What sports do you play? I used to be a soccer champ when I was young.
46. What is your favorite drink? Diet Peach Snapple or Dr Pepper
47. When was the last time you wrote a handwritten letter or note to someone? When I was in like, 8th grade
48. Are you afraid of heights? Not really, though I was when I was younger.
49. What is your biggest pet peeve? I’m a very patient person, so probably when people talk to me when I wanna be left alone tbh.
50. Have you ever been to a concert? Yep. Maroon 5 was the last one. I hope to go to more too.
51. Are you vegetarian or vegan? Nah
52. When you were little what did you want to be when you grew up? A wild life veterinarian. I would throw my stuffed tiger down the stairs and “rescue” her.
53. What fictional world would you like to live in? The Adventure Zone: Balance world.
54. What is something you worry about? My dog since he’s getting up their in years, finding a college to go to and what I want to major in college, my bf’s safety, occasionally my parents when I’m paranoid and worried something might happen.
55. Are you scared of the dark? Nah. It’s nice. I’m more paranoid something might be in the dark, but,
56. Do you like to sing? Yes! I’m pretty decent at it, too, so I love it.
57. Have you ever skipped school? Yeah. I got really depressed when I was in high school and I stayed at home, calling in sick. Which I was, but it wasn’t entirely honest.
58. What is your favorite place on the planet? My desk, it has all my stuff on it and it’s cluttered to my liking.
59. Where would you like to live? Germany, or maybe France if I can learn the language. Maybe split the difference and move to Switzerland.
60. Do you have any pets? Just my baby boy TJ whom I adore.
61. Are you an early bird or a night owl? Night owl, though I’ve been making more of an effort to wake up early. I also get more done when I wake up early, cause it feels like I have more time to do things before noon.
62. Do you like sunrise or sunsets better? Sunsets, mostly cause I’m able to see them from my house.
63. Do you know how to drive? Yep!
64. Do you prefer earbuds or headphones? Earbuds. I have headphones, but you can’t really wear them in public cause they get in the way.
65. Have you ever had braces? No, though I did have a chin strap when I was younger cause I had (and still have) an underbite.
66. What is your favorite genre of music? My music goes all over the place, but showtunes are my jam.
67. Who is your hero? 1994 Spider-Man. I specify because he’s really different from other versions, and he’s so smart and such a klutz and I grew up with him. I’ve been playing the new Spider-Man game for PS4 and I almost started crying from how close he is to MY SM, and he just reminds me of my morals.
68. Do you read comic books? Nah
69. What makes you the most angry? Politics atm. Don’t even talk to me about them. I don’t like being angry and any talk about the current political situation is just infuriating.
70. Do you prefer to read real books or on an electric device? Either, though real books hold a special aesthetic to them.
71. What is your favorite subject in school? English. Like I said, I’m a literary nerd.
72. Do you have any siblings? Two, an older and a younger brother.
73. What was the last thing you bought? Ariana Grande’s song No Tears Left to Cry
74. How tall are you? 5′ 7″, perfectly average
75. Can you cook? Eh, I can do the basic stuff, and if I have a recipe in front of me then sure, but otherwise? Don’t ask.
76. What are three things that you love? My dog, myself, my mom.
77. What are three things that you hate? Politics, White™ people, being expected to know things I was never told about (cough cough @ my boss)
78. Do you have more female friends or more male friends? Honestly, I have more nb friends than either
79. What is your sexual orientation? Pansexual
80. Where do you currently live? The Midwest
81. Who was the last person you texted? My mom
82. When was the last time you cried? Yesterday because I was laughing so goddamn hard
83. Who is your favorite youtuber? Game Grumps and you can fight me on that
84. Do you like to take selfies? Yep! I’m hot and I know it. I’ve hated myself for 5 years, I deserve to be infatuated with myself.
85. What is your favorite app? Monster Girl Creator. It’s so fun.
86. What is your relationship with your parent(s) like? My mom and I are super close, but my dad and I... eh. It’s kinda damaged, though it’s better than it was when I was in high school. He doesn’t understand LGBT stuff or depression so he was just... awful.
87. What is your favorite foreign accent? Probably French, but the funniest to try and do is Russian. I suck at it and it turns into Italian after a while.
88. What is a place that you’ve never been to but want to visit? God I want to travel so bad. I’d love to go to Puerto Rico, France, Germany, Italy, Brazil, Vietnam... so many beautiful places.
89. What is your favorite number? Three
90. Can you juggle? Not for my life
91. Are you religious? I’ve kinda been burned out of religion cause my childhood church was really just... bad. I came out as bi to them when I was a sophomore and it caused a HUGE scene with the church. I was called ‘a slap to the face,’ people left the church, it was just bad. I’m spiritual, but not religious, though my life’s not over yet, so who knows.
92. Do you find outer space or the deep ocean to be more interesting? Space. Space space space. Do you know how badly I want to go to space? I almost became an engineer just so I could go to space.
93. Do you consider yourself to be a daredevil? I’m pretty tame, in all honesty, though I do some stupid shit every now and then.
94. Are you allergic to anything? Bullshit, any and every kind of body soap known to man kind, and pollen.
95. Can you curl your tongue? Yes! I can do the double fold think with your tongue where it looks like a scoop chip, you know what I mean?
96. Can you wiggle your ears? Nah
97. How often do you admit that you were wrong about something? I come from a really stubborn household, though lately I’ve been trying to make more of an effort to be humble and just admit I’m wrong. It’s hard.
98. Do you prefer the forest or the beach? Forest. I’ve only been to the beach twice in my life so it’s not really my scene.
99. What is your favorite piece of advice that anyone has ever given you? Do what makes you happy
100. Are you a good liar? I’ve gotten very good at it. I’m not proud of that fact, but I’ve gotten very very good at it.
101. What is your Hogwarts house? Slyterin. No, I’m not joking.
102. Do you talk to yourself? All the time.
103. Are you an introvert or an extrovert? I’m an introvert, though I think I’m more of an ambivert.
104. Do you keep a journal or a diary? Nah.
105. Do you believe in second chances? Yes, but you really can’t give them out really freely. You have to judge who you want to give them to.
106. If you found a wallet full of money on the ground, what would you do? Check for an ID and try to contact the person it belongs to. But if there’s no ID, probably give it to the nearest business or police station.
107. Do you believe that people are capable of change? With most things. If they really wanted to.
108. Are you ticklish? Ye
109. Have you ever been on a plane? Yeah, but not many times. My first time on a plane was 4 years ago.
110. Do you have any piercings? Just the basic earlobe pierecings, but I really really want more.
111. What fictional character do you wish was real? Shiro from Voltron, aka my husband.
112. Do you have any tattoos? No but I want so many
113. What is the best decision that you have made so far? Learning to love myself. It took a lot of time, but I’m so happy I did it
114. Do you believe in karma? Not entirely, but I think there’s some truth to it.
115. Do you wear glasses or contacts? I have bad eyes, so yeah, I wear glasses. I tried contacts, but they got irritating to put in after a while.
116. Do you want children? SO badly. I want a little girl so fucking bad
117. Who is the smartest person you know? My little brother. He wants to be a freaking accountant when he’s older.
118. What is your most embarrassing memory? I went to a museum one time, and they had a cool dinosaur tour or whatever, and I wanted to know what the dinosaur Parasaurolophus was called, but I forgot the name and only remebered like, Ducky from Land Before Time, and Phineas and Ferb had just started airing, so I asked the guy if a platypus was a dinosaur and that haunts me to this day
119. Have you ever pulled an all nighter? Yes. Don’t do it.
120. What color are most of your clothes? Blue cause it’s always looked good on me, but now any color looks good on me cause I know how to own it.
121. Do you like adventures? Yeah man! I love them!
122. Have you ever been on TV? Not that I know of
123. How old are you? 20
124. What is your favorite quote? “When someone leaves your life, those exits are not made equal. Some are beautiful and poetic and satisfying. Others are abrupt and unfair. But most are just unremarkable, unintentional, clumsy.” -Griffin Mcelroy
125. Do you prefer sweet or savory foods? Sweeeets!
I tag @viper-fish @berrybloomsims and @lunacysims
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Tag Thing
Tag 10 blogs.
I was tagged by @crazystarlady and @spooky-stiles !!
Star Sign: Leo
Height: 5′0 I know I’m short.
Put iTunes/Spotify on shuffle, what are the first 4 songs that popped up?
1) Sweet Sour by Band of Skulls
2) Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton
3) Hold Me by Fleetwood Mac
4) The Jetset Life Is Gonna Kill You by MCR
Grab the book nearest to you and turn to page 23. What’s line #17?
“Preach it, Brother Ness, Dean thought. He could use double-shot of clarity right now.”
Ever had a song or poem written about you? Nope
When was the last time you played air guitar? Don’t know lol.
Who is your celebrity crush? Dylan O Brien, Jensen Ackles, Alexander Skarsgard, Charlie Hunnam, Finn Wittrock. There’s more but I can’t think of them at the moment.
What’s a sound you love and hate? I love and hate the sound of my cat growling at me haha.
Hate: School
Love: My family and friends.
Do you believe in ghosts?: Kind of, I think I believe in spirits or guardian angels more, if that falls under the same category.
How about Aliens?: Hell yes! they terrified me as a kid I was afraid they would abduct me in the middle of the night. I couldn’t watch the movie “Signs” because aliens scared me so much. plus my cousin Jeremy didn’t help me because he would quote the line “There's a monster outside my bedroom. Can I get a glass of water?” all the time which made it harder for me to watch and get over being afraid of aliens.
Do you drive? Yes
If so, have you ever crashed? Nope
What was the last book you read? Executive Power by Vince Flynn
Do you like the smell of gasoline? Yes
What was the last movie you saw? 13 Hours, highly recommend watching btw.
What’s the worst injury you’ve ever had? Popping my knee out of place.
Do you tend to hold grudges against people who have done you wrong? It depends on the situation.
Are you in a relationship? NOPE.
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Goosebumps Episode 1: the Girl Who Cried Monster
So, Goosebumps is a thing a lot of people my age remember fondly, and Netflix has a bunch of episodes there for viewing. Let’s take a look to see if it was as scary as we all remember.
Spoiler alert: it’s almost always, no. No it was not.
Source: http://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=84975
This is Lucy (Deborah Scorsone). Lucy likes scaring/scarring her younger brother Randy (Brandon Bone) and attending “Reading Rangers” at the local library. She’s a simple gal, with simple tastes, I guess. Maybe she just doesn’t have many friends outside of Aaron (Christopher Tuah).
It’s clear, however, that of Lucy’s two hobbies, she enjoys torturing her younger brother more than reading old books. Take a look at this quote that plays over the first minute of the show:
“I love to scare my little brother Randy. I tell him scary stories about monsters until he just begs me to stop. And I’m always teasing him by pretending to see monsters everywhere. I guess that’s why no one believed me the day I saw a real monster until it was too late”
It’s the only time narration happens in the episode. This happens a lot with Goosebumps, and it gets a pass since it’s a dumb kid’s show from the mid-nineties. My problem with it is how little sense it makes once we see the big Shyamalan twist at the end.
Lucy attends Reading Rangers after a good scolding from her mom. I don’t think Lucy likes Reading Rangers very much. I’m thinking it’s something her mom makes her do, because when she shows up at the library, the librarian kindly asks what she thought of the book. Lucy scoffs, thrusting back a copy of Black Beauty in disgust, giving it two thumbs down and saying that it would have been “better if the horse had two heads and gnarly fangs.”
Source: https://newtcave.blogspot.com/2017/02/recap-goosebumps-girl-who-cried-monster.html
Two thumbs down? That’s basically a death sentence in the mid-90s. Sorry, Anna Sewell, but clearly this young lady is the Roger Ebert of the day. Gotta step it up, long-dead author from the nineteenth century.
Oh, by the way, here’s our librarian:
Source: http://goosebumps.wikia.com/wiki/The_Girl_Who_Cried_Monster/TV_episode
That’s Eugene Lipinski—A.K.A. Visser Three from the Animorphs! Holy crap. But unlike in the Animorphs, where he was much bluer, and much hammier, Mr. Mortman is a soft-spoken dude who wears glasses and a sweater vest. He looks basically harmless out in public, but probably eats crickets with his tarantulas when no one is looking. You know, just like most librarians in the 90s.
Lucy chooses her next book, Frankenstein, and leaves the library, only to remember that she left her skates at the library. She overhears Mr. Mortman humming and walks in on him doing the second-most embarrassing thing a man would be doing when he thinks he’s alone—eating crickets!
Source: https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2015/10/are-you-afraid-of-the-dark-or-goosebumps
Since I’ve already brought up the comparison, can I just mention how this episode, from a show which aired in 1995, has make up for a monster that looks a million times better than what we got in the Animorphs tv show—which aired in 1998? Just look at what their Andalites looked like:
Source: http://glitterfickle.tumblr.com/post/95113980796/thesylverlining-loveatfirstfandom-i-wonder
So, Lucy freaks out and leaves the library. The rest of the episode has her trying to tell her parents Mr. Mortman isn’t a monster, only for them not to believe her. Then she tells her friend Aaron that Mr. Mortman is a monster, only for him not to believe her. Yea, it’s like the boy who cried wolf. We get it. But we only ever see Lucy cry wolf once in the episode before she actually sees a monster. We’re told by Lucy in the narration that she does this all the time, but I don’t know if that’s enough to just disregard her.
Lucy decides to get some good-old fashion photo proof. But the flash gets the attention of Mr. Mortman, who chases Lucy around the library when she should have just gone out the front door to begin with. Lucy gets the pictures developed but runs into Mr. Mortman, who gets invited by Lucy’s parents to go over to their house for dinner. Also, Mr. Mortman doesn’t show up in the picture, which makes me wonder if this applies to all monsters, or just the species of monster Mr. Mortman is. Like, does Lucy’s family just not have photos of themselves around the house?
Mr. Mortman arrives, is given a meatball, and asks what they will be having for dinner. That’s when it is revealed that Lucy’s parents are actually dentists, and they refuse to give in and recommend Colgate to their patients.
Source: https://newtcave.blogspot.com/2017/02/recap-goosebumps-girl-who-cried-monster.html
THE TWIST:
So, turns out Lucy’s parents are monsters—and Lucy and Randy are also monsters, but they haven’t got their training fangs yet. Like training bras? I wonder if that also involves an embarrassing trip to the GAP? Lucy’s parents eat Mr. Mortman because he’s a bad monster, who would end up bringing attention to Lucy’s family and get them killed by angry villagers with pitchforks, or something.
At least, that’s what they claim. I personally think that Lucy and her parents are actually the bad monsters and are in hiding. They find this quiet little American town with a supply of fresh meat, when soft-spoken Mr. Mortman comes waltzing in with his glasses and sweater vests, and Black Beauty and threatens their whole operation. I mean, up until then, the dude was just eating crickets and being generally creepy in his own alone time, after library hours. He only started following Lucy around once she found out he was a monster.
And remember that narration from Lucy at the beginning? About how she tells her brother that monsters are everywhere, to scare him? Are these the monsters we know of, like Vampires and Werewolves, or monsters that his parents tell their kids they should watch out for? The kids say that they know monsters exist at the end of the movie. So, why is Randy so scared of the dumb stories his sister tells them? How does a little kid not just spill this very big secret to other kids in his class?
Anyway, not super impressed by this first episode of show directed at 12-year olds from 1995. It’s pretty cheesy, and not really all that scary. Like, I realize I’m a 25-year-old man-type person. But even as a kid I don’t think I would find it particularly unsettling.
Best Line in the Show:
Source: http://www.pinsdaddy.com/deborah-scorsone-lucy_2tjDS7oFNktBO5QW2Kn%7CTCO5kMHFV*SRcdi8BNntOkg/
I’m still unsure of what she means by this…
Best Monster Pun: When Mr. Mortman is chasing Lucy and says “Keep running, little one, I love fast food.”
Top Notch Reviews from IMBD:
I like how under crazy credits it says, “Green Blood drips down the screen in ending credits of every episode.” I had no idea.
Man, these reviews really put mine to shame.
Where Are They NOW?
Eugene Lipinski: (Mr. Mortman) Been acting since 1979. He’s appeared in various things; minor roles in movies like Superman 2, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and Octopussy, but also recurring roles in Fringe and Arrow. And, of course, he was Visser Three in Animorphs.
Deborah Scorsone: (Lucy Dark)Just this and nothing else, unfortunately.
Christopher Tuah: (Aaron) Most recent role was in 2003 in something called Zoe Busiek: Wild Card, where he played “Youth.”
Lynne Cormack: (Mrs. Dark.) Most recently, she appeared in 12 Monkeys as “Unfaithful mother.”
Dan Lett: (Mr. Dark Played) Played Defense Secretary Wesieberg in X-men Apocalypse—not that I remember who that is. Voiced King Babar in 2000. Most recently, played a Cadillac salesman in the Shape of Water, and playing Robert Pearson in Georgetown, which is in post-production.
Brandon Bone: (Randy Dark) Most recent roll was Judgment Day: the Ellie Nesler Story in 1999, where he played “Brian.” But in 2010 he did voiceover work for the documentary August Light: Wilson Creek and the Battle for Missouri.”
#goosebumps#viewer beware you're in for a scare#the girl who cried monster#r.l. stine#animorphs#anitv#halloween#visser three
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Headcanons for papa saeran
Let’s see~
Saeran:
The words “I’m pregnant” are something he takes a looooot of time to proceed with. He never even though about being a parent. Damn, he literally forgot that you may get pregnant if you have sex!
So you’re pregnant. You’re gonna give a birth. To a child. Your child. His child. He’s gonna have a child. Which means. Which means? Means he’s gonna be- … FUCK HE’S GONNA BE A FATH- *faints*
He’s in shock. He doesn’t know what to say. His thoughts are racing, like, is it real? Is he gonna be a father? He’s going to be a PARENT. An actual parent. He’ll have to take care of a child. Of a human being. A little, weak human being. He’ll need to protect it. He already has to. He had to protect you before, and now… Now a little child? Will he manage to do that? What if he hurts it? By accident? Or on purpose…? What is he turns out to be like his mother? He doesn’t want to be like this, he’s scared. This child doesn’t deserve this damn excuse of a father-
“Saeran. It’ll be okay. You’ll do well. You’re a strong and good person. I believe in you.”
Well that’s great because even he doesn’t believe in himself at this point
Your words give him a lot of motivation. He trusts you. He still panics, but he wants to do his best. If you say he’ll manage, then there’s no way it��ll be different.
During your pregnacy, he’s clearly overprotective. He doesn’t really know how to take care of you, so he just does what he can. He’ll never let you carry heavy things, you won’t even have to go out of the bed. Secretly, he’ll search into all the articles about how he should behave. He’ll try to awkwardly ask Jaehee about it, but no one else. He’ll never listen to his brother nor any other man in the group. If there’s anyone he feels okay with asking for advice, it’s Jaehee.
He decides to actually find a job, which is a bit awkward at first. He wants to be as independ as he can and he really thinks that living on your own - like, without Saeyoung around - is a good idea. He wants to start over, find his own way. Make his family safe, because for the first time in his life he actually feels like he has a place he belongs in. He wants to work to make it better.
He has a thing for hand-made furniture. He really wants to make a bed for his child and Saeyoung - who secretly watched his search history all along - offers his help. However, they’re both bad at it. But they try. And they learn quickly. So after long time of struggling, they manage to make the damn bed. It looks weird and creaks every time you touch it, but it’s filled with their love~
When the time comes, he’s the most nervous being you’d imagine. You literally have to calm him down or he’ll either break something or hurt himself. He tries to be as supportive as possible, but it’s just too much for him. Eventually, Saeyoung has to take him out of the room because he’s yelling at the nurses and it’s clearly not good for you. He’s literally more scared/nervous/emotional than you. Don’t blame him, he’s never gone through this before (?)
This little thing… It’s crying, it’s loud… It’s vulnerable… and it caused a lot of pain to you…. He cannot help but stare at the child, just not believing that it’s… it’s actually his child.
He’s hyper. Secretly still scared, but happy. Is with you 24/7, literally crushing you two with affection. And he cannot help but compare this little being to the both of you. The hair, the eyes… everything is so similar. How is it even possible? This little human is like a mix of the both of you. It’s as if you two were one person he kinda freaks out at the thought
Saeran doesn’t really know how to take care of a little human, but his common sense tells him to keep it away from Saeyoung. Saeyoung is not happy because he wants to play with his nephew/niece. Everyone recalls the photo of Saeyoung “playing” with another little being (Elly). Vanderwood tases Saeyoung and ties him to a chair. Everyone sighs with relief.
But seriously, Saeran has no idea what to do. But he listens to everything you say, not being afraid of asking someone else for help as well. His pride means nothing when it comes to you two. He’s careful like the kid is literally made of glass. He quickly remembers what to do and when, but his skills aren’t great to be honest. Putting clothes on the little human is probably the worst. Vanderwood turns out to be quite useful these times.
The kid is probably a bit afraid of him, which makes him panic. Literally, when the child will start to cry, Saeran starts to cry too. Congratulations. You have two panicking kids now. The little one is probably easier to calm down though -_-
Every time Saeran does something wrong, he thinks of it for a few days or even longer, filled with regrets even if it was something trivial. He really wants to be a good father, but something inside his head keeps telling him that he’ll be just like his mother. He cannot forgive himself being vulnerable in moments like this. Every time you have to do something because he can’t, he’s already tearing up.
So many sleepless nights. Even when it’s your turn to take care of the child or if you let someone else take it for a while, he’s never been so stressed in his whole life. He’s scared of telling you how much it pressures him so he ends up crying alone, as far from everyone as possible. He knows how much you’re going through too so he doesn’t want to add any more troubles. But it’s more than obvious that he’s just not okay at these moments and you’ll, sooner or later, make him talk to you about it.
And he really needed this talk. You had to reassure him a lot until he finally calmed down, and you both ended up crying. But in the end, he understood that it’s okay to make mistakes and that you’re here to help him out just like he’s always been here to help you when you needed this.
He still does his best. Still makes a lot of mistakes. Just like you do. But you’re never alone and that’s what makes it just simple. It’s still not easy, but you know it’ll be okay.
At some point though, he knows everything better than you. He’s surprisingly good at those weird recipes. He knows how to make the kid actually eat its food. He’s patient and quite stubborn, but that’s clearly what your child needs. As soon as he feels more confident in what to do, he makes you rest more since you get tired faster than he does. He can go on for a week without a coffee. But please, make him stop. It’s not healthy.
As the child grows up, it’s more attached to Saeran than you. They’re so similar to be honest! Two quiet beings not letting go of each other even for a second. They’ll take naps together, and the day when the Little Version™ is introduced to ice cream will be probably the happiest moment of your lives.
Saeran loves to go to various places with thte kid: zoo, aquarium, theatres… He’s never experienced it as a child and even though he wants to give everything he can to his kid, he’ll secretly enjoy it just as if he was the baby here. Please, let him try the cotton candy, whatever it is, it looks like clouds and it’s sweet. He wants it. O-oh, yeah, buy one for the kid too.
He feels weird when he has to leave the kid in a school. When the time comes, they’re both just as nervous. Though even if the little one gets over it fairly quickly, you spend the whole day reassuring Saeran that no nothing will eat it there’s no monsters in the school and no the teachers aren’t a part of some cult dammit honey-
You actually start to wonder because you’re pretty sure some of your old teachers praised Satan, but that’s a completely different story
He’s this kind of parent who will try to not be nosy, but the way he glances at his kid until they spare him some information about what’s up is more than obvious. He’ll try not to ask too many questions, but he won’t feel at ease until he actually hears from them.
Incredibly sensitive to any mood changes. Will try to convince the kid to talk to him, but never force them. Wants them to know it’s okay to ask for help, because he himself also needed this lesson a while ago.
Wants the kid to be independent, but cannot refuse if they ask him for help, even if it’s something trivial. If the child is in danger/need/anything, he’ll literally drop everything and run to the rescue.
He knows how to cook. Go aside, MC, you’re gonna ruin his ravioli. In this house we eat only homemade food. No chips, no soda, it’s unhealthy don’t be like Saeyoung please. Ice cream? Ice cream is very healthy, fuck off.
No, uncle Saeyoung won’t visit us today. Please don’t say this name ever again. Stay away from him. It’s so-called bad influence.
No, we’re not gonna get a pup- *the kid shows him a very cute puppy and makes a face even cuter than the puppy’s* …Ooo… kaay… Leeeet… *still not convinced* …it be a puuuuppy…
Can’t get over the growing up process. W-wait what do you mean you… you date?! You cannot date! You’re too young for dating!
“Dad, I’m 18.”
It’s been so little just a while ago… why is it… why is it moving out now?! Why?! It’s been here always! What is he gonna do now?! Why is it leaving?!
…
“MC, we need a second child.”
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