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really sucks that my body wont let me stay awake for the entire night
#the parasite talks#I HAVE WORK TO DO!!! STUPID FLESH PRISON#i guess i crash and burned horribly during winter and now my body refuses to work for long periods of time at night now#also sucks that i made myself get a part time job when i got a big freelance contract + a new one recently#im happy abt them tho!!!!#i just have no energy anymore when i come back from my part time#i know people do so much more than i do im just weak
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Part 6 of Charmed Slasher Simon!
Simon really ought to teach you not to look at him like that. Those big watery eyes and pouty lips make his teeth feel too sharp for his own mouth. He wants to sink them into you, find out if you taste as sweet as you look. He knows you would, knows it like he knows the slick heat of fresh viscera.
âWhat.â he demands, voice hard to keep the rasp of dark desire from it.
âI have a little favor to ask.â
He arches an eyebrow, does not believe you. Not when youâre looking at him so beseechingly. Heâll have to get you to make that face again, maybe when heâs got you on your knees, asking to suck his cock.
âGo on.â
You seem ridiculously, foolishly charmed by this stoic, unimpressed front he puts on for you. A little beam of sunshine refracting off of a black mirror. Wonders sometimes what cruel maker built you so unintentionally self-destructive.
âThereâs this work trip coming upâŚâ
He has to cross his arms to keep himself from snatching you up and locking you in the bedroom. Mistaking the gesture, you hurry to continue.
âAnd I have to go, but! Weâre allowed to bring plus ones.â
Satisfaction curls warm in his gut, a purring predator cat. He wants to hear you ask, though.
âIâm not hearing the favor.â
âRileyâŚ.â you complain, face adorably embarrassed.
âIâm waiting, luv.â
You damn near stomp your little foot at him. âWill you please come as my plus one?â
He arches his eyebrows. âThatâs a big ask.â
You could ask for the stars and moon and heâd make them bleed for you. Paint the sky crimson and make a necklace of the heavens to collar you in.
âI know and I understand if you donât want to - but⌠but that coworker you met, Brandon? Heâs going too, and heâs been looking at me weird all week. Please, Ri? I-I donât want to go by myself and you make me feel safe.â
Oh it was a sure thing that heâd be going with you, but now thereâs no question. Heâs so glad for the video cameras; he going to milk himself dry tonight listening to you say please like that. Admitting that he makes you feel safe. His poor, stupid, fragile thing. Itâs a good thing he found you.
âAlright, alright,â he soothes. âNo waterworks now. Iâll go with you.â
Like a switch, you light up and throw yourself into his chest.
âThank you, thank you, thank you,â you trill. âIâll make it up to you somehow, I promise.â
He snorts. Youâve done him the favor by giving him an excuse to follow you - but heâs not about to correct you.
âYou let me worry about that. Just send me the details and Iâll be there.â
â
Your job has rented out a ski lodge for this little trip. Not only is it secluded, the booking is for the middle of the week. There will be few, if any, people over than instructors and your coworkers.
He couldnât plan it better.
The day is spent pretending to care about your coworkersâ names and babysitting you along the slopes. You nearly crack your head open twice, each time he scoops you up, frowning down at your giggly face.
You also nail him in the head with a snowball too. That. Thatâs heâs going to get revenge for.
When night falls, you squeeze his hand at the door to your room. He leans his palm against the door over your head, relishes in the way you fluster as you tilt your head to look at him.
âThank you for coming, Riley,â you murmurs. âYouâve made this really fun.â
He lets himself smile at you, just a bit. Knows itâs lopsided and probably a little too sharp, should raise alarm bells in your pretty little head, but you only smile back at him.
âMm, youâll have to make it up to me. Doinâ you this big favor ân all.â
You laugh. âYeah? Let me know when you want your pound of flesh.â
Oh heâll be taking more than a pound.
âBetter be ready when I come to collect.â
âOoh, so scary!â you tease, sticking your tongue out.
âYouâve no idea.â
â
A storm hits that night. A wicked, frigid thing that brews up and boils over in a matter of hours. Whiteout conditions. The power goes out a quarter past 11.
Well, youâve had your fun. Now itâs time for Simon to have his.
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Iâm so sorry for this guys but
AITA for telling someone their horse was masturbating?
Basically does what it says on the tin. For those of you who donât know horses can masturbate. Itâs most common in male horses under the age of three who have not had their testicles removed and who are confined to a stall or small pen and get really bored. They typically grow out of the behaviour once theyâre older or given more freedom. Some owners try to train them to stop it from happening but most just ignore it because itâs better than other boredom behaviours like cribbing and wind-sucking (both are SFW to Google btw).
Anyway, Iâm a groom and stable hand, mid-twenties now but been working at my job since I was fifteen (part-time then, now full-time). The stable I work at boards horses and gives lessons but also offers training for young horses, so we get a lot of OTTB here â that is âoff-the-track Thoroughbredsâ, so ex-racing horses that people typically buy cheap and then retrain to be show jumpers or dressage horses or whatever. One such horse is Bert, who is the horse in question in this situation.
Bert has excellent bloodlines but he sucked as a racing horse so he was sold OTT. The man who bought him, Iâll just call him John, knows nothing about horses â heâs a total beginner in every way, has never ridden and pays other people (including me) to take care of Bert, but claims to be an expert in everything equine because Bert cost him so much money (I donât know the actual amount but heâs in the section of the stable where the $20,000 Warmbloods are boarded so Iâm assuming around that amount which is a lot yes but also not the most expensive horse weâve had here).
Anyway the actual story â Iâm at work cleaning out stalls when John walks past, he completely ignores me as he always does so I do the same and get back to work. A few minutes later he goes sprinting back in the opposite direction which I thought was weird but whatever, I kept mucking, until I heard him shouting for help. I went out into the aisle and heâs there shouting at another groom and demanding to know the emergency vets number (it was a weekday morning btw, so he didnât need the emergency vet, he just needed the regular vet but thatâs meaningless anyway). I went over to see what was happening and he tells me his horse (Bert) is âacting weirdâ and needs a vet immediately, so I offer to go see Bert for myself and then call the vet if necessary.
So basically yeah Bert was masturbating. Had an erection, was rocking about rubbing it on his tummy, and did NOT want anyone going in his stall or touching him. John points at Bert and says something like âsee, heâs sick!â and then tells me Bert tried to attack him when he entered the stall and I just, I dunno, I cough and say that Bert is fine and just wants some privacy right now, figuring that the obvious erection might be a giveaway as to whatâs happening? But John turned to me and blurts out word for word âare you an actual retardâ and then starts cursing at me and telling me I know nothing and Bert needs a vet etc and so on. I kind of blanked on everything else he said after he called me a retard to be honest because WTF? I donât really know what went on in my brain in the next few seconds but I ended up shouting â yes, shouting, extremely loudly, it fucking echoed in the stable â âhe doesnât need a vet because HEâS JUST MASTURBATINGâ in Johnâs face and then walking back to the stall Iâd been mucking.
As I got back to the stall I heard laughter from a couple of aisles over. Apparently my co-workers and some riders who were there had all heard me shout and found it hilarious, and that made me laugh too because it was so freaking ridiculous. I honestly kind of forgot the entire encounter afterwards because we had a horse who actually needed a vet a little while later and yeah, John and Bert just slipped my mind.
I didnât remember until that afternoon when my boss came to see me and said heâd had a complaint from John who wanted me fired. I did not get fired but I did get âwarnedâ (just a formality, my boss didnât actually punish me but wanted me to act like I had been if John questioned me later, which he never did). John complained that Iâd treated him like an idiot, spoken down to him, and âacted above my positionâ (those were the exact words he used) causing people to laugh at him. I explained the entire situation to my boss, who also laughed, and that was that, nothing else ever came of it aside from my co-workers telling the story of me shouting HEâS MASTURBATING so loudly it scared a pony into jumping so suddenly that it farted to everyone they possibly could.
Since then John has ignored me even more than before which I honestly consider a blessing, and I would leave this situation thinking Iâm NTA except that one of my co-workers brought their boyfriend to the stable recently and when they introduced us the boyfriend said something like âoh right, youâre the asshole who talks down to people who donât know everything about horsesâ and yeah. My co-worker was blindsided by that as well and we basically both said you donât have to know everything about horses to know what an erection means, but since then Iâve been wondering if I am TA in this situation? Like, clearly there were better ways to tell John what his horse was doing, but he called me a retard and also I get paid to take care of horses not to teach the birds and the bees to fifty year olds so I donât know. Iâll let Tumblr decide.
So, AITA for telling John his horse was masturbating?
Additional info: I'm on a rota with other stable hands so I sometimes groom Bert, muck his stall, attend to his vet/farrier appointments, give him worming paste, etc and so on. I am not his trainer and have no input into when he gets to leave his stall. I've mentioned to my boss a couple of times that he boredom stims and should be in a paddock with other young horses, but John refuses to agree to that for reasons I don't know. My boss has since spoken to Bert's trainer who is now trying to convince John to let Bert have more time outdoors.
What are these acronyms?
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part of the @svthub 70's collab
Lee Seokmin is a very successful and admired Detective in the NYPD. Up until now he has had no trouble catching the bad guys. But when an especially horrific serial killer starts roaming the streets of New York City and he faces perplexity for the first time in his career - his superiors send a unit from the FBI trained to profile Serial Killers, which contains none other than you - Seokminâs High School Sweetheart.
Pairing: Detective!Seokmin x FBI Agent!Reader
Genre: Criminal Minds/Detective AU, exes to enemies to lovers, Serial Killer AU, angst, Smut (MDNI!)
Warnings: Serial Killer theme, description of violence, description of dead bodies, cult themes, mentions of suicide, mentions of blood, mentions of abuse, mentions of suicide, character death (none of the main characters); smut warnings: fingering, penetrative sex, dirty talk, usage of the word âbabyâ, begging, reader has female anatomy, unprotected sex, creampie
Wordcount: 15.8k
a/n: I finally made it!! after months and months of writer's block I finally finished this fic, and I am actually really happy with it. Please mind the warnings, as this goes into darker themes. I also want to note, that I am no expert in terms of criminal language especially during the 70s in the us. So, if you spot anything that isn't all that accurate, i apologize! I also want to thank @multi-kpop-fanfics, @bitchlessdino & @strawberryya for reading through this and telling me i, in fact, do not suck at writing lmao. ily guys!!
taglist: @the-boy-meets-evil, @wooahaeproductions, @wongyuseokie
Lee Seokmin was a proud man. Proud of his grades in school and university. Proud of the man his parents had shaped him into. Proud of all the cases he had solved as a detective. With pride comes vulnerability, though. Especially in cases like these when he doesnât have the right to be proud of himself. When he feels lost and helpless and his superiors look at him as if he had never solved a single case in his career.Â
He knows. He knows he isnât giving them or the people of New York City anything to go by. All he can do is say he needs more time. Time that no one has.Â
âMore people will die, Lee.âÂ
Seokmin hates Jeffrey Stolper. Hates him like fire burns. There is nothing he can do about it. Balling his fist under the table, Seokmin slowly raises his head. There is a certain emotion in Stolperâs eyes, an emotion Seokmin was happy to say he hadnât seen many times before. His older colleague was gloating. While they were working together, their boss put Seokmin in charge because of the very obvious numbers differentiating them. Seokmin solved cases. Stolper left them cold. Seokmin couldnât count the amount of times he had helped Jeffrey from drowning in his own misery, and this was the thanks he got. The older man was gloating because, for the first time in practically ever, Seokmin was lost.Â
âThanks, Stolper, couldnât figure that one out myself,â he mumbled, letting his free hand roam over his sweaty face. Scoffing, the older male with the slowly graying hair leans back in his chair.
âNot the hot shot everyone says you are, arenât you?â
âShut the fuck up, this is not the time.â Seokminâs voice is quiet but sharp, and Jeffrey laughs, his chest heaving as he seems to be vibrating with the horrendous sound of his arrogant laugh. It takes everything inside Seokmin not to get up from his chair and punch the hell out of the man.Â
âLee, Stolper.â
Both of them get up when their superior walks in, a big man with a receding hairline, a stubble on his strong face, and an old suit on his large frame. Frederic Bream isnât much of an empath, but he does a good job.Â
âCaptain.â Seokmin and Stolper speak at the same time, watching as the captain nods and then waves his hand, telling them to sit back down. Once all of them are seated, he clears his throat.
âI know you hate to admit it, Lee, but we have no leads on this. No leads and a new victim.â
Seokminâs heart falls down to his feet. Fuck. Another dead girl? Who will it be this time? He feels sweat starting to form at the top of his head.Â
âAnother one?â Stolper is serious and reaches for the case file Bream put on the table. Seokmin feels as if someone had dumped him in ice water, unable to move, shivering. He hates the fact that Bream is right - there are no leads. So far they havenât gathered anything from what this monster does except that he always does it the same way.Â
âLauren White, 23. Student at Columbia,â Stolper reads, his face in a grimace, âshe was found near Times Square, too. Fuck, Lee, I told you to put more patrols out!â
âDonât be ridiculous. Even if we put every man we have on the streets, this city is huge, Stolper. He could just start moving them somewhere else.â
Stolper doesnât respond. Instead, he shoves the file over to Seokmin, who takes it with his jaw tensed.
âThis is different from before, boys,â Bream clears his throat, âthis is a high-profile murder. She is the daughter of the district judge.â
Seokmin looks up from the file.Â
âWhy is this different from the other four victims? Because she has an important dad, suddenly the tables turn?âÂ
Bream sighs, pulling a hand over his red face.Â
âItâs not fair, I know that, Lee. But this changes everything. The judge is furious. Was a real fucking asshole about it too, even for someone who just lost his daughter. He wants the slasher to be caught yesterday.â
âOh, and we donât? Captain, please, this is bullshit!â Seokmin scoffs, throwing the file back on the table and glaring at his superior, who looks straight back at him.
âI know. We all know Seokmin. Itâs a bad situation. But, some might say, it did bring something good.â
âAnd whatâs that?â Stolper speaks up, crossing his arms. Bream clicks his tongue.
âWe got sent help. From the FBI.â
Silence is what follows. Seokmin feels the ice inside his veins melt and instead get replaced by fire. He knows Stolper feels the same. Everyone here feels the same. The fucking feds.
âThey canât take this from us. Weâve been on this for months,â Seokmin hisses, and Bream nods again, licking his dry lips.
âThey wonât take it from us, Lee. They are only here to help. In fact, they arenât⌠our usual feds.â
âWhat does that mean?â Seokmin raises his brows, leaning forward, hands on top of the table.
âThey are a completely new department. Focused on the behavior of criminals, analyzing them, trying to figure out what is wrong with them.â
âThey are killing people. Thatâs what's wrong with them!â Stolper shouts, and Bream holds up his hand.Â
âI understand that youâre upset. God knows I am, too. But there is nothing I can do. Go talk to them. They just arrived.â
The ice is back, and this time it hits Seokmin right in the face. They are here already? Waiting for them? Embarrassment flows through his veins, mixed with an emotion he has never felt before regarding his job: failure. His legs are shaking as he gets up, but he tries to play it off, his body tensing when Bream leads them to the door and opens it.Â
The hallway to the main hall suddenly feels longer than it is. The walls are closing in on Seokmin, the gray concrete threatening to suffocate him as he walks over the horrendous blue tiles he never understood were placed in the first place. Nothing really seems to be matching in this precinct. Most especially Seokmin and the federal agents waiting for them downstairs. He doesnât know how his legs lead him to the glass front that shows the inside of the busy station downstairs. Everything is the same gray color. Everything is the same horrible blue. The only difference is the people standing in the right corner of the room all gathered around the whiteboard Seokmin has so carefully put together these past few months.Â
His hands are sweating. This isnât fair. This is his case. They arenât supposed to be here and take credit for what he has done so far. What exactly have you done, Lee Seokmin? The voice in his head reminds him, and he balls his hands into fists as Bream opens the door leading to the stairs that will finally bring him to the federal agents he knows heâll hate already.Â
The atmosphere in the room is tense. More tense than usual because everyone in it is unhappy with the current situation. As if it isn't hard enough that there is a killer on the loose, now there are FBI agents trying to take this away from the NYPD? This is his town, Seokminâs town! No one knows it as well as him. He knows every corner, every store. Every good place to eat, every bar to avoid. The people know him; they trust him with this, and now he is just supposed to accept that he canât continue what he started?
He doesnât know how, but somehow, he does end up right behind all the agents and one of the other detectives, Jeanne, and doesnât even try to hide the fact that he is bitter. His arms are crossed as he listens to Jeanne explaining what is on the board. She had been a part of this - just like all the other detectives had been whenever they could. Itâs not like crime suddenly stopped in New York City just because a serial killer was roaming around. If anything, it just got worse.Â
âThatâs about all weâve gathered. I know itâs not much, but itâs all we got.â Jeanne closes her explanation, and Seokmin watches the backs of the agent's head nodding. Bream then clears his throat, making the others aware that they have joined and once the team of strangers turns around, Seokmin thinks someone has yet again taken a bucket of ice and dumped it all over his head. Because why on earth are you here?Â
You see him the second he sees you. Itâs almost funny how your professionalism slowly slips out of your control, how seeing him makes memories flood your brain and almost drowns you. Why is he here? He, who had left you with a sour taste seven years prior to this moment? Why is he standing there in a well-fitted suit, looking the best he ever had in a precinct that shouldnât have anything pretty inside it?Â
âDetectives, may I introduce you to agents Son, Song, Kim, Seok and Y/L/N. They were sent here by the FBI to help us with the investigations.â Jeanne smiles, but Seokmin knows itâs not an honest smile. You see it, too. When you had gotten the memo to go to New York City and help with the slasher murders, you had already known the detectives wouldnât be too happy to see you and your team.Â
âItâs nice to meet you. Iâm the team leader, Hyunwoo Son.â You hear your boss speak, and you want to look at him, but your eyes are back to being glued to Seokmin. Lee Seokmin. The one who had taken everything from you when you were nineteen.Â
âYou too. Iâm Detective Stolper. This is Detective Lee.â Bream doesnât sound sincere. For once, Seokmin is relieved his older colleague likes to speak over him. He doesnât know if he would have been able to say a word.Â
Catching a serial killer is one thing. Catching him with someone you share an uncomfortable history with, another. You are sitting as far from Seokmin as you possibly can. With as many people between you as there are.Â
Hyunwoo is standing at the front with Matthew, explaining what your team has gathered as of now. The rest of the precinct is listening to the presentation, and you just know they are all biting their tongues. No one wants you here. All of them think youâre a fraud. While you understand where they are coming from, you also think itâs time for them to accept the newly found ways to analyze the behavior of killers like the case at hand: the Manhattan Slasher. The air is thick with sweat, and you are sure 70% of it is yours.Â
âWe want to make clear that the work your precinct and especially you, Detective Lee, have done so far is incredibly helpful. We donât want to discredit what youâve done and we also donât want to make you feel as if youâre getting kicked off the case. We arenât your usual federal agents, Detectives, we are here to be of support to you. You still go outside and look at the crime scenes. You still get to do your work. We are here to assist, to see things we have been trained to see, things you cannot see, not for lack of smarts but lack of training.â
You had always admired Hyunwoo. How he spoke so clearly and calmly, how he never failed to make a person feel seen. You can feel the atmosphere shift. Some of the police officers visibly relaxing in their seats. You still donât dare to look at Seokmin.
âNow, to what we have gathered. Dr. Matthew Seok will lead you through it.â
Seokmin wonders how old Matthew Seok is. He canât be any older than 23. How on earth is he already a part of one of the newest FBI departments? And gets to be in charge of the presentation? And how does he already have a god damn PhD?
âHi everyone, Iâm Dr. Matthew Seok. With the help of the information youâve gathered, we were able to come up with a profile for our unsub.â
Seokmin feels a scoff in his throat but manages to hold it back. A profile? What is he talking about?
âWe are positive the unsub is a white man in his early to late 30s. He most probably grew up with an abusive mother, which explains why he only picks women as his victims. He doesnât care about their race or social standing, which tells us he doesnât hate one specific type of woman, but all of them. The age range of his victims is from early to mid twenties, meaning his mother had him young and gave him up around that time.â
You should be used to it by now. The reaction from the precincts. But it bothers you just as much as it usually does. The way they look at each other, the way they are already fed up with you being here. Your eyes wander over to the rest of your team, who you know are just as fed up as you, but they are better at hiding their emotions. Yuqi just stands there with her gum in her mouth, her arms crossed, and hoping sheâll get to go on the field soon. While she is an excellent profiler, she did train to become a field agent. It was pure coincidence that Hyunwoo had overheard her talking about this one case even Matthew had been struggling with. Jungwoo is the quietest one of your team, especially in situations like this. He just stands there, hands folded in front of his frame, eyeing the situation calmly. The team leader himself stands next to Matt still, his arms crossed as well and his gaze wandering over the crowd of people. A traitorous part of you envies him for being able to look at Seokmin without any repercussions.Â
âHow the fuck do you know that?â A voice now erupts from the sea of people. You turn around to see the man who had walked in with Seokmin. Stolper, you think his name was. A frown appears on your face.
âItâs not our job to explain profiling to you,â you say coldly and the older manâs eyes find you - just like Seokminâs do. You decide to ignore them and turn back to face Matthew.
âUhm. Yes, well, we do ask you to look into certain⌠well, behaviors. People like our unsub arenât exactly the most masculine. He is probably very thin and might even have a disability - perhaps a prosthetic leg or something that makes him feel inferior. Look into churches, veteran centers, see if you find anyone that could match the profile and-,â
âYou mean to tell me that the killer could be a vet?â Bream now interrupts, his eyebrows raised. Seokmin presses his lips together. If his colleagues hadnât been wary of your bunch before, they sure as hell are now. War Heroes? Their precious American patriots that fought for their country and won a war? How could you even dare to speak ill of them?Â
âNo. He most probably didnât serve. He tells people he did and that thatâs the reason he has said disability,â Matthew continues calmly and you smile slightly. It was a reach, your reach, but so far all your reaches had been a shot to the bullseye.Â
Then there was a sudden thud somewhere behind you, followed by hurried footsteps and news none of you could pretend didnât make you sick to your stomachs.
This feels wrong. Itâs broad daylight, there are people everywhere. You stand next to Matthew, your hands buried in your pockets, and listen to the statement of the girl that had called the police.Â
âShe was just next to me and then.. and then suddenly she wasnât. I- I was confused and looked around and then I saw this- this man and how he dragged her by the arm into his car. No one did anything, no one- no one helped her and I- I didnât-,â her voice breaks off and another set of tears well up in her eyes. Seokmin nods understandingly.
âMiss, you have nothing to blame yourself for. It is a busy street and you and your friend were not glued by the hip, alright? We will do our best to find her and you shouldnât worry about what you could have done differently. You called us right away and that's the best thing you couldâve done.â
Tears are rolling down her face, sobs are erupting from her tiny body, and you wonder if Seokmin would ask her out if it wasnât for the circumstances. The second the thought hits your brain, you freeze. What the hell? Why on earth would your mind go there? In a situation like this? You shake your head to yourself and look around - the police have put tape around the area where Kelly has gotten abducted. Her friend, Jean is being questioned, along with the few other people who claim to have seen something. But other than the witnesses, there isnât much to go on about. The car he had dragged Kelly into had been an old one and Jean couldnât exactly tell what kind. She also hadnât been able to make out the license plate. So, all in all, it was all more or less useless information.Â
âDetective Lee, I will need you to go to the morgue with Dr. Seok and Y/N,â Hyunwoo is suddenly there, right next to Seokmin and you hear his voice and feel your stomach tighten. The professionalism has to stay in its place, you know that. There is no room for you to fall back into old patterns; that one silly thought you had earlier was enough. You canât let it get any further.Â
But the tension is there and it's suffocating. Youâre in the backseat of Seokminâs car and Matthew is talking the manâs ear off with information you have heard millions of times before. Thankfully your friend and colleague doesnât feel what you feel, what Seokmin feels, and for a short second you ask yourself how he even became the youngest member of your team - only for you to remember you have never met a mind as brilliant as his, with the exception of human interaction. He isnât too good at those.Â
The morgue is just like any other youâve been in. This one still feels different, though. Probably because of the young girls you know shouldnât be dead laying on top of the examination tables with nothing but a thin blanket over their pale, lifeless bodies. You should be used to this by now, you think. But you doubt you ever will be.Â
Matthew is standing next to one of the women, the fourth victim, Fernanda Franco, with this look on his face youâve seen many times before. Youâre standing opposite him, your arms crossed and your eyes shifting over the body, wondering how much pain these women had been in.
âHe did a thorough job with the cut,â the coroner says now; he is standing on the side of the room, holding a file, âmy guess is he is good with a knife, maybe working with animals.â
âRight,â Matthew mumbles, a frown on his face as he leans forward, eyeing the victim from top to bottom. Itâs somewhat fascinating how good he is at spotting things others havenât seen before. Perhaps it had made you jealous a while back, but fortunately, that is over. Instead of being jealous, you appreciate his work and his abilities.Â
Seokmin, meanwhile, is also looking through files. Mostly from the crime scenes. How the women looked before the coroner took care of them. The fact that they are all still here, and not yet down under, no funeral held at this point, makes his stomach turn. He knows itâs wrong. But as long as they havenât found the killer, as long as there might be more evidence on the bodies⌠Seokmin suppresses a sigh. He wants to give the families the chance to find closure so badly. If only by giving them the opportunity to put their daughters, sisters, grandchildren to rest.Â
The pictures are still hard to look at. The blood everywhere. The stained clothes. The signs of clear torture. Nothing sexual, at least. But then again, perhaps the killer doesnât need to sexually assault them to feel arousal. Thatâs what Matthew said earlier. Seokmin closes the file and pulls a hand through his hair, his hat safely stored on one of the cabinets.Â
âDr. Richmond,â Matthewâs voice makes Seokmin look over to where you are standing.Â
âDr. Seok?â Richmond walks over to Matthew who is standing bent over the body, his hand holding⌠the victimâs ear. Immediately, you and Seokmin step closer, both of your eyes glued to the womenâs earlobe. Something inside your stomach turns, goosebumps suddenly all over your skin and you feel your breath getting stuck in your throat.
âWhy wasnât this in the files?â Matthew now continues to ask, his eyes not leaving what he found. Dr. Richmond feels his face go pale and sweat starts to form on the palms of his hands. Blood is rushing through his ears and there is nothing he can say, nothing he can try to come up with because the bitter truth is-
âHe didnât know it was there,â Seokmin finishes the thought and Richmond swallows hard, hands wiping away at his lab coat. The detective is right.Â
âDo all of them have this?â You ask now, finally able to move away from Fernanda and move over to Jennifer Cartwright, who looks way too peaceful for what had happened to her. But then, you are happy she does. A part of you hopes she is feeling peace wherever she may be. When you reach for her earlobe, you already know it will be there. You take a deep breath.Â
âIâm- I donât understand. I never⌠nothing like this ever happened, I-,â Richmondâs voice echoes through the room, but none of you pay him mind. The small crosses, carved into the soft tissue of the womenâs earlobes, take all of your attention.Â
There were only a handful of people in the meeting room. Your team and Seokmin and his superior officer. It bothered you, kind of. More people had to know.Â
âThese crosses, they have been used before,â Matthew is pacing through the room and Hyunwoo is right there at the front of it, his arms crossed and his thumbnail between his teeth. He is thinking, listening.
âThis was in the late fifties, early sixties. A cult, they all followed this one man, Jonathan Brixley. He claimed to have somewhat superpowers, and while most didnât actually believe him, he was such a good preacher, they followed him anyways. They werenât known for being violent up until they seemed to vanish. Many thought they might have done a suicide pact, but no bodies were ever found. But what we do know is that whenever one of their own died, they would carve a little cross into their earlobe. Almost unnoticeable. Almost like a birthmark - itâs not even that surprising Dr. Richmond didnât catch on.â
âHe didnât catch on that all of the girls have the same strange birthmark?â Seokmin frowns. You roll your eyes.
âWe are all aware that this isnât the ideal situation, Detective, but perhaps being bitter about it doesnât make it better.â
Itâs the first time you and Seokmin have directly talked. Or more like, the first time you had openly acknowledged each other's presence.
âWith all due respect, Agent, I donât care. I want to be bitter, I am allowed to be bitter. If we had known this weeks ago, we might have cracked the case by now!â
âI highly doubt that, Detective. With all due respect,â Matthew chimes in and the (unpleasant) moment between Seokmin and you is over.Â
âAnd why is that?â Seokminâs superior officer asks.Â
âWell, as I said, the cult vanished. Finding out where the last remaining members are is almost an impossible task. If there even are any - I doubt theyâd wanna be found. For all we know, they could be hiding in plain sight and we wouldnât know.â
The atmosphere gets even more uneasy. If thatâs even possible at this point. Seokmin scoffs and looks away, his hands in fists. You should know how to de-escalate but your head comes up empty. Itâs almost as if there is an invisible barrier that forbids you from actually trying to be reasonable with Seokmin.Â
Just when Hyunwoo seems like he wants to say something, the door opens. One of the police officers, a woman with red hair you donât know the name of, comes in.
âWe have a situation,â she says and her eyes are full of something even you, a profiler, isnât so sure what the meaning of is. It looks like fear, confusion, but also something like hope. Immediately, everyone gets up and follows her outside, where you spot the board with all the pictures of the victims on it⌠and a red thread connecting one of them to a new face.
âThatâs the girl I talked to earlier.â Seokmin breathes and he looks over at Ruth, who nods.Â
âYes, Detective. Jean told us that she knows one of the girls - Rebecca Twain. They used to go to the same church, same goes for her friend, Kelly, that she called in as abducted.â
Your eyes widen at that and you look over at Matt, who has his hand over his mouth, his face in a frown. A church. That fits the idea of the cult. All of you who were in the room earlier know that. This is good, this is an actual clue, one that might even lead to something after all!Â
âWhat church?â Bream now asks the police officer named Ruth.Â
âShe wasnât too sure. Said they havenât been there in ages. She knew Rebecca when they were children and Kelly came to join them a few years later. But they havenât gone to the church in at least 12 years. She said she would call us with more information, but so far she hasnât.â
It doesnât take a genius to understand why she hasnât called the station yet. You sink down, leaning against one of the desks now, a hand rubbing over your face. This was bad. Seriously bad. Whenever a cult was involved in anything, it could only be so much worse than anticipated. Of course, her parents wouldnât let her talk about it. Who would ever want to talk about something like this? Being part of a cult, if now or in the past - with everything happening these past years.Â
âWe need to speak to her parents. Now.â Hyunwoo is already out the door, probably heading to his car and you look over at the rest of your team, who all seem more or less as lost as you. It turns out to be Seokmin who follows your team leader first and once you see his figure speed past you, you also begin to move.Â
The ride is quiet. Hyunwooâs hands are white around the steering wheel. You sit next to him in the front, Seokmin in the back. All of this feels surreal to you and you are sure itâs not that different for Seokmin. Serial Killers were a constant part of both of your lives, but you - you havenât been for a good amount of years. Itâs like a bad taste in your mouth, as if somehow the food you would always cook perfectly suddenly went bad, had a foul ingredient in it, was cooked for too long. Youâre not sure what it is, but it doesnât sit right with you.Â
Seokmin, in the back seat, feels about the same as you. He is used to gruesome murders, to killers who donât care about anything but themselves, but he isnât used to having you around in all of this. Someone from his old life that he doesnât associate with any of this. Never in a million years would he have predicted you becoming a federal agent. When you dated back in high school, you had always talked about wanting to go into politics, fighting for womenâs rights, feminism, all that jazz. You had even applied to all the IVYs, wanting to study political science. So, how did you end up here?Â
âWe will have to be careful.â Hyunwoo now breaks the silence and makes Seokmin and you look at him.
âThe parents wonât be too happy to share their story, I can imagine. No one likes to admit they were in a cult, not after Manson.âÂ
You nod and Seokmin scoffs, leaning back in his seat and crossing his arms.Â
âOne would think people wouldnât even join any cults after Manson,â he says and Hyunwoo laughs bitterly, nodding slightly as he takes the next right at the intersection.
âRight. Sadly, it isnât as easy as that.â
You look at Seokmin through the rearview mirror, watch how his jaw is tightened and how his arms are crossed, how his suit jacket is discarded next to him on the backseat. You wonder how long he has been part of this lifestyle, how long heâs been a cop. You hadnât heard from him in years, not even when your friends offered to do some digging for you. It wasnât because you werenât interested. More so because you felt like you would get too invested. Looking away again, you straighten out your shoulders. This isnât the time to think about the past, there are way more important things to focus your energy on.Â
Five minutes later, Hyunwoo finally parks the car in front of the house of the Rogerâs and the three of you get out to walk over to the front door where Hyunwoo rings the doorbell twice. It only takes about twenty seconds before the door opens and a slim woman with bright red hair and red lips stands in front of you, an apron around her waist and a mitten in her hand.
âYes?â She looks at you with blinking eyes and the three of you take out your respective badges. The womanâs eyes widen.Â
It is safe to say that getting information out of Jeanâs parents is almost impossible. They are a middle class family with middle class friends, he works in real estate and she does her best to keep the house and children under control. They donât want to talk about their past at the church, or more like, they try to deny it ever was a part of their lives. Talking to them comes close to talking to a wall, if the wall felt guilt and shame and was worried about its reputation. Only when you mention Jean for the third time, reassuring her parents that they arenât in trouble and that no one was going to find out, that the only mission you had was to find the missing girl and find out who had killed the other innocent women - they budge.Â
Mr. Rogers gets up, a certain shake in his knees, and walks over to one of the dark hardwood dressers standing on the right side of the spacious living room, where he opens a drawer and takes out what looks like a little notebook. You, Hyunwoo and Seokmin look at him attentively.Â
âWe havenât talked to anyone from that church in years. Or well, we hadnât. Up until a few weeks ago. You see, there used to be this⌠this farm. It was for retreats, we would go there every other month. Sing and pray, meet new people from other parts of the country,â he begins to explain as he walks back, reluctantly handing the notebook to you. Taking it with a small thank you, you look at the page he had opened it to and see a number and a name.Â
âThis is the name and telephone number of the couple that bought the farm years ago. We- we havenât been going to the retreats since 1961, but a couple weeks ago an old acquaintance from the church called us. Kathryn Anderson, she was pretty close to Pastor Brix-,â he stops himself mid sentence, âto, uh, to Mr. Brixley. She wanted to know if we knew who bought the farm.â âAnd what did you tell her?â Seokmin asks now.Â
âHe told her no. That we were never interested in knowing,â Mrs. Rogers now answers the question for her husband, âyou see, when we left the church it was mostly because of Jean. We figured after a while that perhaps this church wasnât what we wanted for our daughter. So, we left. It wasnât easy, but we did it. A couple months later, the whole thing fell apart anyway. Kathryn wasnât around for that because she had been arrested about six months before we left the church. Got a good couple of years behind bars for attempted murder, the woman. When she got out, she couldnât reach anyone - after all, the church didnât exist anymore. Jonathan had perished, no one knows where he ended up and she was unsure what to do. So, she finally got a hold of us and wanted to know everything about the farm. But again, we told her we didnât know who bought the farm. We just told her it was over and that she needed to find a different safety net.â
You look over at Hyunwoo, wondering if he thinks the same thing you do.
âBut you obviously do know who owns the farm now.â He says calmly. The housewife swallows, then nods.
âWe do. Paul actually sold the farm to them.â
How convenient, you think. Hyunwoo smiles and Seokmin clicks his tongue.
âI see. Well, thank you for the name and number, but now it would be great if you could also let us know the address.â
âI donât understand,â you say, your arms crossed in front of your chest. Hyunwoo is sitting at his makeshift office desk, rubbing his temples.
âWhat exactly do you not understand, Y/N?âÂ
âWhy we need to go to the farm. Or no, why he and I need to go.â
âDonât be stupid, Y/N. Matthew confirmed it, the cult used this farm back in the day. There could be a lead there. And you and Detective Lee are going because youâre my best agent and heâs their best detective. I also feel like you two need some bonding time. Honestly, Iâve got no clue what your issue is with him, but youâll need to get your act together. This is a serious case and I canât have you dislike the main detective.â
Dislike. Thatâs one word to describe it. You bite the inside of your cheek.Â
âSo, you will drive to the farm with him and talk to the couple as well as check out the surroundings. See if you find anything that could be helpful to the case, got it?âÂ
âYes, sir.âÂ
Hyunwoo nods, satisfied. He then waves his hand, telling you to get out and do your job. You suppress a sigh and instead walk out and almost into your newly assigned partner - Seokmin. He looks about as happy about the situation as you feel, but neither of you says a word while you walk out of the precinct and to the car that would take you the 100 mile drive to Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.Â
âYou drive.â Seokminâs voice rips you out of your thoughts and you thankfully react quick enough and catch the keys he throws at you. Rolling your eyes, you walk over to the other side and open the car, sitting down in the driverâs seat. The second your door is closed and Seokminâs door is closed, his presence almost drowns you.Â
âI was always better at reading maps than you,â he mumbles next to you and you feel your cheeks heat up and your stomach turn and you decide to ignore him and instead start the car.Â
Seokmin presses his lips together, the map on his lap and his heartbeat loud and clear in his ears. Bream really thinks he did something. Putting Seokmin in a car with you for the next two hours. Apparently, your little bit of tension did not remain unnoticed and now this was his punishment. But what was he supposed to do? Tell Bream that you were his ex-girlfriend from high school who he had left seven years ago with nothing better than a pathetic letter goodbye. It hadnât been his finest moment, but god, he was nineteen. Back then, he had enlisted in the army after high school, something he was bound to do anyways, and being cowardly as he was, he just hadnât felt like telling you in person. Then, when he had been discharged, he had signed up for the academy and here he is now. He knows he should say something, apologize for the way he left you. But his pride and the shame donât let his lips move, donât let the words come out. And so he just looks at the map and waits to give you instructions. Thatâs what he can do. Thatâs how he can cope with being next to you.Â
The drive is long and quiet and you turn on the radio at one point, listening to quiet music almost soothing. The highway is wide and the city is behind you and you wonder how long youâll have to be in this car before your head starts to actually fume from all the thoughts running around.Â
When you see the sign for Schnecksville, you almost sigh in relief. Seokmin tells you which exit you have to take and you follow his instructions, wondering how you actually got through this drive without any actual communication besides his directions.Â
Schnecksville is filled with nothing and a gas station. You also pass a motel and a convenience store on your way to the farm that is a few miles away from the city center. Once you finally arrive, you canât get out of the car quick enough, shoving the keys into your jacket when the car is locked. The farm is bigger than you had anticipated and Seokmin, who has discarded his jacket and hat on the backseat, looks just as surprised as you.
âGuess we have some ground to cover. Come on.â He takes the lead and you follow him, even though a part of you feels the need to run ahead. You donât. Youâre not a child.Â
The woman who opens the door is in her early sixties with graying hair and a cat in her arms.
When you and Seokmin introduce yourselves and show your badges, she gasps slightly.
âOh, you know, my sweet peach always runs out when I open the door, she is sick, canât really find her way back when she gets out. Come on in, agent, detective.â
Her name is Mabelle Travis and her husband is Keith Travis, but he isnât at home right now. He is getting some groceries for them.Â
âHow kind of your husband to help you with that,â you say as you sit down on the couch in the pastel colored living room. Mabelle nods, letting the cat back down.
âOh, he is the one with the driverâs license, dear. I can only go grocery shopping if he comes with me. Or our son is in town.â
You nod and look over at Seokmin, who is looking at some of the family pictures on the dressers by the door.Â
âYour son doesnât live with you, maâam?â He asks and Mabelle shakes her head as she sits down on one of the horrifically green armchairs.Â
âNo, Detective. He used to, you know, live with us. But that was before we bought the farm. My husband always dreamt of having a farm. When he retired, he thought it might just be the time.â She laughs and looks from Seokmin to you.
âBut, what can I do for you?â
âWell, we were wondering if youâd be alright with us looking around the farm? We donât know if you know, but the farm used to belong to a church before you bought it.â
âAh, yes. We did know. I think thatâs why we got it cheap. What exactly are you looking for, agent?â
âWeâre not sure. But we think the church might have some connections to a case we are currently working on.â
Mabelle nods, her face in a frown.Â
âOh my. Well, youâre in luck then. We bought the farm years ago, but only recently moved in. So, most of the barns are still untouched. Only this house has been through some construction,â the cat jumps up on her lap and Mabelle smiles down at it, her hand carefully caressing its fur.
âThatâs good news, Mrs. Travis. Weâll go take a look then.â Seokmin nods his head towards the back door and you smile at Mabelle before getting up and following Seokmin outside. There are three barns in total - one is large and two are on the smaller side, leaving the two of you with enough ground to work with for the next few hours. You exchange looks and decide to check out the smaller space first, a barn that is completely bare except for a wooden table at the far right that holds a few blueprints. Seokmin checks them out, his eyes scanning them for anything out of the ordinary. You, meanwhile, begin to knock at the wall, listening for hollow spaces, but also come back with nothing. The barn seems as normal as a barn could be.Â
The second one is a little trickier. Itâs not empty, instead itâs filled with boxes that, after checking as good as each and every one, all seem to be empty. You check your wrist for the time, wiping your forehead with the back of the other hand. Youâve really been at it for the last two hours.Â
âI think we should move on to the last barn. I doubt the rest will hold anything of worth. Come on.â Seokmin is next to you all of a sudden and you flinch, looking away from your watch and at the man, who has sweat dripping down his temple. His eyes are set on your face and you wonder if you look just as exhausted as he does. Clearing your throat, you nod and turn away from him, walking out of the barn and to the next one.Â
Seokmin sighs, following you outside and grabbing your arm once he catches up with you.Â
âY/N, I am just as delighted about doing this with you as you are with me, believe me. But perhaps we should at least try to do our job.âÂ
His words sting more than they should have and you are well aware of that. Funny to think that such wounds would have healed after seven years. You shake off his hand and turn around to face him.
âOh, is that right, Seokmin? Youâre just as delighted as I am?â You raise your eyebrows at him. âAs far as I can remember, Detective, you left me with nothing more but a joke of a letter.â
Seokmin bites down on his tongue. You are right. Maybe it wasnât right of him to compare the two of you.
âI know that. I know I hurt you. And I should have apologized for that years ago. I was young and-,â
âLet me guess? Stupid? That is in fact correct, Seokmin. But I donât care about an apology, at least not anymore. I just want to get this over with, not have chit-chat with you about the past which neither of us can change anymore. So, will you go to the third barn with me so we can finally leave this stupid town?â
Seokmin watches you walk away, his heart heavier in his chest than before. He really should have reached out sooner. Pulling a hand through his hair, the detective suppresses another sigh and finally follows you to the third and last barn for you to check.Â
The Travises invite you for dinner and Seokmin and you are both too polite to decline. Thankfully Mabelle is incredibly talkative, loves telling you all the tales about their son, Henry, and how they used to live in the city but then moved to a smaller town. She is excited about her husbandâs birthday coming up soon and Henry coming over to visit, and basically her favorite topic to discuss is him. You try your best to resist the urge to look over at Seokmin next to you, to see if he is as amused about this as you are. He is not your ally, not your friend. You shouldnât be looking for his gaze, shouldnât be curious of his thoughts.Â
âDoes your son visit you often?â Seokmin now asks after taking a sip from his glass filled with tap water.Â
âNot as much as weâd like.â Mrs. Travis sighs and pats her husbandâs hand.
âHe is busy with working in the city, not always available.â Mr. Travis now explains and Seokmin and you nod. That makes sense. You try to remember the last time you had time to visit your own parents. You couldnât even really remember.Â
âIf there is something we want to check again, would it be alright if we came back?â Seokmin asks when you finally stand at the front door, saying your goodbyes. The Travises nod, allowing you to come back whenever. After waving at them you walk back to the car, Seokmin now getting into the driverâs seat. As you sit down on the passenger seat the atmosphere quickly becomes tense now that youâre alone again. The second your doors are closed, a familiar sound is heard.
âOh, youâve got to be joking.âÂ
Rain. Itâs starting to rain. What starts with a few drops on the windshield turns into a full on piss of rain that has the both of you staring at the scene for a few seconds. When a second later you hear thunder so close it almost shakes the car, Seokmin reluctantly starts the engine.
There is no way in hell you can drive home in this weather. As much as the both of you hate it, youâll have to stop somewhere and wait out the storm. Seokmin suggests the motel you had seen on your way here and you nod, knowing there wasnât much else you could say or do. Having to stay somewhere with Seokmin, somewhere you couldnât just flee from, seems like the number one worst scenario you could find yourself in. You look at him from the passenger seat, trying to my sly about it but of course he notices your eyes on his face.
âBelieve me, I would rather not do this either, Y/N. But Iâd rather be safe than drive on the highway in this weather.â
You donât answer him. Mainly because you would have to tell him he is right and thatâs most definitely not going to happen.Â
âWhat do you mean by that?â Seokmin looks at the bored looking woman in her fifties. She sighs and shoves the one room key towards him again.Â
âI mean, Sir, that there is only one room left. We are fully booked. Have you seen the rain?âÂ
Itâs very obvious a rhetorical question but Seokmin is about to go on a rant to tell the woman that, of course, he has seen the rain but how on earth does this justify there only being one room in a god damn motel miles away from any big city?Â
âWeâll take the room,â you quickly interject, handing the lady your credit card that she looks at with a straight face.
âHoney, youâre in the middle of nowhere. Do you really think we take those things?â You feel your cheeks heat up, retreating the card again.
âThatâs 16.50$ for the night,â she continues and you hand her a twenty that she takes without a word, shoving the change over the wooden surface, âhave a pleasant stay.â She shoves down the small plastic window and you and Seokmin exchange a quick look before making your way to the room you will now have to share.Â
There is only one bed. You stare at it and so does Seokmin. Because - of course there is. How could you have not asked the woman at the counter? But then again even if you had⌠there wasnât much you could have done about it. Maybe a saw, you think, just saw it in half. The two of you stay silent for a good minute, before Seokmin finally sighs, pulling a hand over his face.Â
âLooks like we canât do much about this. Just⌠itâs just one night, alright? We can do this.âÂ
You donât really understand why he would say that. Why he would speak for you, when you both know it isnât okay and you most definitely canât do this. You take a deep breath, throwing your bag onto the very dirty looking armchair next to the door.Â
âWhatever,â you respond, rolling your eyes as you make your way into the bathroom, if only to get away from Seokmin for a short while. His presence is stressing you out more than you thought it would. Perhaps that had been foolish of you - thinking this wouldnât be the absolute worst thing to ever happen. But at the same time, itâs not like Hyunwoo had given you much of a choice. He had straight up told you to get your act together and yet⌠You sigh, the door closed next to you. The bathroom isnât even half as bad as you had feared. Itâs small and the shower could need a scrub (or three), but other than that itâs decent. The toilet looks clean and the mirror hanging over the sink shows you your exhausted face. Dark circles under your eyes that you touch with your cold finger tips. You remember how you looked back in High School. How much you smiled, how happy you were almost every single day. And all because of him. He, who promised you the world only to rip it away when you needed stability the most. It wasnât fair. Him being here, him playing such a big role in something so important to you. Finding this killer that took lives like it was nothing. Seokmin is here with you and he sure as hell isnât going anywhere else. The effect he has on you is annoying, to say the least. You donât want to feel this way, feel insecure and small and like you need to prove yourself to him. He isnât worth your energy, your thoughts. Not him as a person at least. Him as a Detective is a different story. Another deep breath followed by some water that you splash into your face, is what finally makes you step out again and face your ex-boyfriend that has taken a seat on the bed, the case file spread next to him.Â
He is handsome. High cheekbones, perfectly shaped eyebrows. His hair is styled back, but slowly the front strands are falling into his face. His face is in a small frown as he looks at the documents, as he tries to make sense where you all fail to find any. Your heart betrays you by skipping a beat, by suddenly sending a wave of sadness over you. He never told you why he left. He just did.Â
âAnything making more sense now?â You ask cautiously, walking over to him with slow steps. Seokmin looks up slightly before shaking his head.Â
âNot really,â he mumbles, âit doesnât make sense. None of this. Why is he curving the crosses into their ears? Why is he choosing these girls specifically?â You sit down on the other side of the bed, gnawing on your lower lip.
âWell, Matthew told you our theory. Abusive mother, hatred towards women.â
âBut why- why would he just go after any woman if his mother was a certain type?â Seokmin looks up at you and you feel a sting in your chest. You shrug.
âYouâre right to question this theory. Itâs not perfect and it will take a few years until we can really say that we have a high percentage of accurate profiles. So far weâve been good, very good. But not as good as we can be. This unsub is unique because he doesnât have a type - it almost seems random. Like he goes out on the street and sees a girl and just takes her,â you lick over your lips, letting your eyes wander to the window, the storm on full display, âhe is violent, but he also kills them quickly. No signs of sexual abuse. Itâs odd and not like anything weâve seen before.â
Seokmin listens to you speak and allows himself to actually listen. The whole profiling thing - it most certainly hasnât been something he trusted so far. But now, hearing your words, seeing the look on your face - he almost feels ashamed of his earlier suspicion.Â
âItâs just-,â he begins, his hand pulling through his hair, âitâs confusing. Why would he not go for people who look like his mother? Why is he not taking revenge on her over and over again?â
You feel your thoughts stumble over that sentence for a good thirty seconds. Seokmin is right - why wouldnât he take revenge on his mother over and over again? Why would he kill women that look nothing like her? Without really noticing, you get up, your feet carrying you over to the window, staring at the rain outside, hoping it would give you the clue you so desperately need right now.
âYou agree, donât you? That it is odd!â Seokmin gets up too, only to turn around and look at the files again, his arms crossed, eyes scanning all the pictures and clues the team has gathered so far.Â
âYes, it definitely is odd,â you mumble, heart racing in your chest.Â
âOkay. Weâll go over this again. There has to be something weâre missing. A connection between them, a club they all go to. Anything, just⌠fuck, it feels as if there is clue right there, hidden in plain sight and we are missing it because itâs too damn obvious!â
Hidden in plain sight. You blink against your reflection in the window. Hidden in plain sight. Matthew had said the same thing back at the precinct.Â
For all we know, they could be hiding in plain sight and we wouldnât know.
You swirl around, eyes wide and Seokmin looks at you with a confused expression.Â
âWhat?âÂ
âThe barn,â you breathe, eyes flickering to the table, where the car keys lay right where Seokmin left them, âwe need to go back.â
Seokmin tries to stop you, the storm still howling outside, but youâre not letting him. This is too important, too obvious. You want to kick yourself for not realizing it earlier. For seeing something that was right there, but not actually seeing it.Â
You run to the car, soaked from head to toe when you sit down on the driverâs seat. The door to the passenger seat opens and Seokmin plops down, just as drenched as you are.
âJesus Christ, Y/N, will you tell me what the fuck is happening right now?â
Instead of answering, you start the engine, the wipers doing their best to clear your view.
âY/N!â Seokmin repeats loudly and you let out a breath you hadnât even realized you were holding.
âIt has to be in there! In the barn. All those god damn empty boxes. One of them has to have something in it, something they donât want us to find. Fucking hell, we could have had the whole team here by now, Seokmin! If only we hadnât been lazy!â
âWait, hold on. So you think the Travises have something to do with this?â Seokmin asks and you shrug.
âHonestly? I donât think they do. But itâs still their property now. And most of these boxes are theirs. Iâm sure weâll find something there. We just have to look at every single box.â
Youâre almost in a haze, Seokmin thinks. Your eyes have completely changed and the way you drive this car would have been scary if only you werenât so damn impressive. You have been impressive the whole day, Seokmin thinks. He would never say it out loud (not to you at least) but this job seems to fit you like a glove. Never did it cross his mind back in High School that youâd end up in the same field as him. He gulps down the nostalgia and instead looks out the window, wondering if the rain will stop anytime soon.Â
It hasnât been long since the two of you left the Travises and yet, when you arrive, the house is dark. Checking your watch you see it's already after 9pm.Â
âThey said we can come back whenever.â You say more to yourself than Seokmin, but the latter still nods, cursing under his breath when he steps out of the car and into the horrible weather. You run alongside him, passing the house and first barn, setting foot in the one you had a hunch about with both of you drenched from head to toe. Ignoring the cold creeping up, you begin examining the boxes once again. There is nothing extraordinary about them. They are the usual cardboard boxes one uses for moves, all over the country. Itâs nothing you havenât seen thousand of times before and-
âY/N, look at this.â Seokminâs voice fills the silence that has only been accompanied by the sound of rain and thunder before. Looking over at him, you see that he is holding up two different boxes upside down. There is a green dot on both of them. Your eyes widen. Quickly, you check your own box - but nothing. There is no dot. Confusion mixed with frustration begins to rise within you and you throw the box to the side, pulling clam hands through wet hair.Â
âThere has to be a system,â you mumble, closing your eyes as you try to calm yourself down. Seokmin hears your words and looks around the room, trying to make sense of how the boxes are lined up. They all look the same. They were all stacked the same when you came in earlier today. There isnât anything about them that makes one different from the other - except for the dots he had discovered. His brain is working at full speed, his eyes roaming from one side of the room to the other. Only when he looks down, does he see something.
âY/N, look,â he puts the two boxes he held up to the side and crouches down, your figure standing over him a second later. There were clear lines painted on the floor. He looks up at you and you feel your eyes beginning to shake, as you move as quickly as possible, shoving more boxes to the side and focusing on the floor. And yes, only a few moments later you find yet another line, one that contains boxes with more dots - orange ones. But it doesnât stop there. Seokmin finds another line and boxes that, once again, donât have a dot. He wants to pull his hair out, but once you begin looking at the boxes with him, your gaze full of determination, he calms down. Together, the two of you turn over every single box until, after what feels like hours, you let out a gasp. The box youâre holding now doesnât only have a red dot on it - it also contains something. Seokmin is next to you right when you pull out the small key that makes both of you almost jump in glee. Your hunch had been right. Now all you had to do was find where the key belonged. Your eyes met and without words, Seokmin went to the left side of the room and you to the right one, both of your hearts beating at rapid speed at this point. Neither of you wants to or will leave this place until you find whatever door is hidden behind the wooden planks decorating the walls. Your hands flew over them, knocking to hear a hollow sound, anything that would indicate there being a hidden space. Nervous sweat was now mixing with the rain on your face, the earlier cold all forgotten thanks to the adrenaline you were feeling.Â
âI got something!â Seokmin suddenly yells after a few minutes and you immediately turn and run over to him, seeing him break the wall free of the plank. Just that there is no wall. It is a thin wooden door with a small lock that looks like it was made for the key safely stored inside the pocket of your jeans. Without any hesitation, you move forward, key back in your hand after pulling it out, and reuniting it with its lock - the door clicking open a second later. Seokmin and you look at each other again before you push the door with your hand, it easily swings open for you and Seokmin to see a narrow hallway led down by an old looking staircase. There is a string hanging down from the ceiling which Seokmin pulls on, lighting up the hallway for you to see more clearly.Â
âWell, letâs go,â you say and Seokmin nods, both of you with one hand on your gun belts as you walk down the stairs, all the way down to a door that, thankfully, isnât locked. Pushing this one open as well, you are met by another hallway, longer this time, with three doors leading to different rooms on each side. You feel adrenaline rush through you as you begin walking, Seokmin right behind you. The first two doors lead to empty storage rooms, you taking the ones on the left, Seokmin on the right. Your hands feel clammy and your senses are all heightened as you continue to the next door, opening it at once and checking the insides carefully, gun in your hand. No one is in there - but it���s also not empty.Â
âSeokmin!â You call out and the man is beside you right then, eyes scanning the room. Itâs an office, or at least it appears to be. Right on the wall across from you hangs a portrait of a beautiful landscape and only barely hides a very obvious closet of some sorts. You shove your gun back into your belt and walk straight up to it, while Seokmin goes to examine the desk standing at the left side of the room. He pulls out a pair of gloves from the inside pocket of his jacket and pulls them over his fingers before he begins to open each and every drawer.Â
âThere isnât much dust around here,â you suddenly say and Seokmin looks over at you.
âWhat do you mean?â
âSomeone comes here regularly. Cleans it of dust, keeps the floors clean.â You look around for a moment, then your focus is back on the painting hanging over the closet. Your hands are also wrapped up in a pair of gloves and you move slowly as you grab the edges of the frame to heave it off the wall. It occurs to you that the last time someone was here, they hadnât succeeded in putting the painting back into its usual spot. You can tell because it comes off the wall without any problems, having been crooked from the beginning on. Now, you lean it against the wall next to you, before your hands open the closet.Â
âIs something in there?â Seokmin walks over to you now, nothing interesting inside the desk.
Once he comes to a halt next to you, he feels himself gasp. There is a whole shelf with files that seem to be alphabetically organized. Your heart beat speeds up once more as you grab a random file (Br-Bu) and open it.Â
âThat-,â Seokminâs eyes widen. As you continue staring at the page, he moves to pull out more of the files. He brings them over to the desk and opens them one by one, until he finds all the names he has been looking for.
âBroshard, Cartwright, Franco, Rogers, Twain and White.âÂ
Seokmin and you are staring at the files. It was all of the girlsâ parents. They had all been part of this cult before. It made sense, of course it did. And yet, having it here, black on white, was still a shock. This meant their connection had been right there, so easy to grab, and none of the parents had thought about sharing this with the police. You lean against the desk, hands pulling through your damp hair. Seokminâs hands are propped on his hips, his eyes reading over the names over and over again.Â
âWe have confirmation now,â he states, âwe need to call the precinct.â He looks over at you and you nod, your hands still resting in your hair. Worry rushes through Seokmin and he finds himself standing in front of you a second later, his hands around your wrists to bring your hands back down softly.
âWe will get him,â he says then, eyes boring into yours, âwe will get him and he will be punished, Y/N, I promise you.â
Itâs unprofessional, he knows it and so do you. You donât ever promise to catch a killer.Â
âWhy didnât the parents tell you?â Your voice is quiet and Seokmin sighs, shrugging. His hands are still holding you.
âI donât know. Shame, fear? Whoever is doing this is a cold blooded murder, Y/N, they were probably scared heâd take even more from them.â
âMore than a child?â You look up at him, letting the feelings that youâve been holding back finally crack through.Â
âI guess so? We will find all of this out tomorrow, we just need to get back to the motel and call the precinct.âÂ
He says the words but doesnât move. Neither do you. You both stay right where you are, your eyes locked on each other. The air around you shifts, the exhaustion mixes with something you only have faint memories of.
âYou are incredible, do you know that?â Seokmin whispers finally, âthe way your brain works - itâs incredible. Admirable.âÂ
His body heat engulfs you, makes you feel hot and cold at the same time. You swallow down your doubts and instead let your heart do the talking.
âYouâre just as incredible, Seokmin. All the work youâve done in this case already⌠if it werenât for you, we wouldnât be here right now.â
Seokmin feels himself holding his breath as his one hand moves from your wrist to your fingers, interlocking them with his own while the other moves up, cupping your cheek, thumb caressing the side of your chin. He feels your skin, the softness he remembers better than he wants to admit.Â
Neither of you is sure who does it. Who dares to close the distance. But youâre kissing, his lips warm and familiar on yours. Your arms move by themselves, wrapping around Seokminâs neck as he deepens the kiss, his tongue licking over your bottom lip slowly, asking for entrance that you give him without any hesitation. He kisses better than he did back in high school and his hands are more experienced, moving down and up to grab your hips and hoist you on top of the desk, standing in between your legs now. You grab his face, your tongue licking against his, feeling the stress and discomfort of the day leave you with every touch of his skin. The kiss grows more and more desperate, both of you panting against each other and only after a good five minutes do you part, his hands in your hair and yours on his nape.
âWe should get out of here,â he mumbles against your lips then and you nod, letting him help you down the desk.
This time the drive isnât awkward. Itâs filled with something else, something you havenât felt in so long. Not just regarding Seokmin - but in general. Your work is your everything and you and your team travel around the country more than you donât. Wanting someone, feeling wanted by someone, this hasnât happened to you in a while. Your gaze keeps wandering to the driving Seokmin, to the man that had once hurt you so much and now was the only thing you could concentrate on.Â
âIf you donât stop looking at me like that I will park this car on the side of the road and not give a fuck about anyone seeing what I want to do to you, Y/N.â
His deep voice made your insides turn deliciously, the heat between your legs rising as you licked over your dry lips, eyes shaking as you nodded, averting your gaze from Seokminâs intoxicating frame. As much as the idea excited you it also seemed like a stupid idea considering the motel really wasnât that far away.Â
It doesnât take half as long as it usually would with Seokmin speeding down the road, finally parking the car in the parking lot, getting out of the car and opening the door for you, his hand around yours in no time as he leads you to the door, both of you drenched again when you step inside. But even with all the tension between you two, Seokmin walks over to the telephone on the wall, passing a young man who just seemed to have left his room to go outside. You present him with a nod when he smiles at you, quick to look at Seokmin again who is now dialing the number of the precinct.Â
When he explains what you found, he speaks quietly and rushed, you by his side the whole time, holding his fingers between yours. The tension doesnât subside, it only gets shoved to the side as Seokmin talks to his superior, who was still at the station at this time, waiting for your call. Your head feels dizzy, the situation bizarre but also somewhat addictive. The second Seokmin hangs up, knowing his colleagues will leave for Schnecksville as soon as the storm gets better, he wraps an arm around your waist and leads you to your room with hurried steps.Â
The door falls shut behind the two of you and your body is pressed against it, Seokminâs one hand skillfully wrapped around both of your wrists, pinning them over your head as he dips down to kiss you, his thigh pressing between yours. A moan escapes you, your hands wiggling under Seokminâs grasp. He kisses you with the same desperation as before, his free hand underneath your shirt, fingers pressing into your skin.Â
Nothing is inside your head except the need for him. You donât want to feel anything but his touch, his kisses, the way his tongue feels against yours - hot and wet and perfect. He moves his arm around you again, picks you up as if you weigh nothing, carrying you over to the bed where he drops you, your eyes wide as you stare up at him. There is no light in the room beside the one coming from outside, making him look angelic. His carefully styled hair is falling into his face now, his lips red from your kisses. His pupils are blown out and the look in his eyes runs shivers down your spine. You watch as he gets rid of his jacket and belt, following his movement as you sit up a little bit, skillfully opening the belt with your gun and leaving it on the floor next to the bed, feeling the mattress move the next second as Seokmin lowers himself onto the bed. Your hands find his nape once more just as he presses his lips against yours again, hands roaming from your hips to your stomach and under your shirt, gripping your breasts one by one and moaning into your mouth when his thumb feels the stiff nipple underneath your bra.Â
His tongue licks against yours again, your back arching against him as he moves to kiss down your neck, biting and licking and kissing all the same. When he hears your sounds, he feels himself growing harder, his composure almost breaking as he takes off your shirt with your help, shoving the cups of your bra to the side to dip down and suck your nipple into his mouth, your legs wrapping around his waist as you push him closer to you, teeth sinking into you bottom lip. It feels like electricity between you, the way he touches you sends shocks through your body in the best way possible.Â
âGod, I canât believe I have you under me again, fuck,â Seokmin breathes against your neck now, his breath tickling you. âBeen thinking about you so much, you know? About how much more I know now⌠how I can make you cum, baby, eat your sweet pussy and have you scream my name.â
His words send another wave of shivers down your body and you nod, wishing for nothing more than for your and his clothing to land on the floor.Â
âSeokmin⌠just want you to fuck me, please, need you so so bad.âÂ
He groans, cock twitching and he finally moves to open his pants. Itâs all hurried and a little bit frantic, the way you pull on his shirt next and the way your bra basically gets ripped off your frame by him. It drives you crazy, how he kisses you, pushing you further up the bed, your head hitting the pillow as he devours your lips and tongue, his hand squeezing your tits over and over, his stiff cock right there between your legs, still caged in by his briefs.Â
âHow bad do you want it, hm?â He breathes out, his fingers now moving downwards, ending up over your clothed pussy, making you squirm.
âFuck, so bad, Seokmin. Please.âÂ
He sucks on the skin underneath your ear and lets his fingers shove your panty to the side, sliding through your wet folds and moaning against you. Youâre so wet, wet and ready for him.Â
âI wonder if you still taste the same, baby,â he mumbles, continuing to let his fingers glide through your lips, letting one of them sink into you. Your pussy practically sucks him in, eager to feel him inside. Seokmin kisses you again and your nails are dragging along his back as your hips move against Seokminâs digit inside of you.Â
âM-more, want more of you,â you cry out when you come up for air and Seokmin nods, letting a second finger slide in too, fully finger fucking you now as he smothers your neck with more kisses, preceding to suck marks onto the sensitive skin of your breasts, your whimpers becoming more and more frenzied. You need his cock and you need it now. So, you let your hand wander down, grabbing around the wrist of his hand that is currently fucking you.
âWant your cock, Seok⌠fuck me with your cock.â His eyes meet yours, gaze almost crazy as he curses under his breath, nodding before pulling his fingers out of you, bringing them to his mouth to suck them clean - making you whimper in the process. He licks his lips after.
âStill so tasty, baby⌠all for me.âÂ
He kisses you one more time, deep and emotional and dizzying, before finally ridding himself of his briefs and you of your panties, hand pumping his length a few times. You watch and swallow, remembering how he had felt back then. He had been your first. And now he was going to claim back what he had made his so many years ago.Â
When he sinks into you, both of you cry out in pleasure, his arms on the mattress next to your head and his lips kissing your cheek, chin and lips. You are still hugging him close, fingers pressing into his nape and back. His first thrust is deep and slow and your eyes roll back, a long moan escaping your kiss-bruised lips. He canât keep going slow, he knows that. As hard as he tries - he knows he wonât be able to control himself. Which leads to his thrusts becoming faster, to his moans becoming louder and your pussy clenching around him more often. Itâs hot and wet and quick, itâs making you feel like youâre in a dream, his teeth sinking into your flesh, your cries spurring him on. Your legs are around his hips, his cock hitting you right where you need it to with every thrust and when you feel his hand sneaking in between you, thumb pressing down on your clit, rubbing it in perfect circles, you know you wonât last long.Â
âYou feel so good, baby, take my cock so fucking well.â He moves, on his knees in front of you now, your legs over his shoulders the next second. The new angle makes you see stars, especially with his thumb still on your clit.
âF-fuck, Seok! Iâm so close.â Your cry makes him smirk, his movements becoming less and less controlled, as he is chasing both of your releases. You give up on keeping your eyes open, enjoying the way he feels, the way he hits you right where it feels so incredibly good. Your body is on fire, everything feels more intense and if you had the capacity in your brain youâd probably worry about exploding.Â
And you do - you explode only a few seconds later, your orgasm hitting you hard, leaving you to cry out his name, nails back in his skin, leaving clear marks that he will be proud of later.Â
âThatâs right, baby, look at you, so pretty coming on my cock, fuck,â Seokmin feels you pulsate around him, feels how your pussy clenches over and over, milking him for all he has and there isnât anything he can do but reach his own high, cum shooting out his cock and into your spent core. He collapses on top of you, your legs falling off his shoulders, spasming at the intensity of your climax. His breath is right there in your ear and you finally open your eyes again, fingers moving to stroke through his hair. You stay like this for a while, just catching your breath, feeling him so close after so long. Only when he slips out of you, laying down next to you, his lips pressing a kiss to your cheek, do you regain some senses. Smiling at him, you excuse yourself to go to the bathroom.Â
When you come back out, Seokmin is asleep. Chuckling, you pick up his shirt from the floor and slip it over your head before laying back down, cuddling into his side and letting yourself drift off into a dreamless sleep.Â
For Seokmin itâs not a dreamless sleep, though. It hasnât even been two hours heâs been asleep when he wakes up, cold sweat covering his body. He looks down and sees you peacefully sleeping right beside him, one of your hands on his bare stomach, the other under your own cheek. In any other case he would have loved to look at you for as long as he could, but this isnât like any other case.Â
The man, he thinks, the man we saw yesterday. Seokmin gets up, careful not to wake you up, grabbing his underwear from the floor, just like his pants. Youâre in his shirt so he has no other choice but to leave the room with his chest still bare. His feet carry him out the room and to the small entrance space, right to the phone where he dials Breamâs number again. The second someone picks up, Seokmin begins talking.
âItâs the son, Sir, the Travises son - heâs the unsub.â
The area in front of the farm hasnât been this busy in years. There are cop cars everywhere, a S.W.A.T team is about to arrive. Seokmin has his hands pushed into his pockets as he talks to his superior officer. You are standing further away next to Matthew and Yuqi, listening to Hyunwooâs orders.Â
Seokmin had recognised the son, Henry, from the pictures at the house. You feel stupid for not realizing it sooner.Â
âDonât linger on those feelings, Y/N,â Hyunwoo says, âit had been a long day.â
Yes, a long day that ended with you being too horny to do your job properly. You donât tell him that of course. Instead, you press your lips together and just nod.Â
Henry is inside the barn now, the barn you and Seokmin found the secret door in last night. His parents and the missing girl, Kelly, are with him. Itâs a classic hostage situation and yet even your team is at a loss of words. It all doesnât make sense right now. Why is Henry doing this? You let your gaze flicker over to the barn, wondering what he is doing to them right now.Â
The head of the S.W.A.T team is walking over to Hyunwoo now. They apparently arrived just now
âWe are ready for your orders, Sir,â he says, shaking Hyunwooâs hand. Your boss nods.
âAlright, thank you. Iâll let you know when you can go in.â The man leaves again after that and you look at Hyunwoo, unsure.
âWe need him alive, donât we?â
âIn theory, yes. But itâs not always easy, you know that. Whatever is going on inside of him, we will only find out if we get him out, but we need to look at the bigger picture. We need to figure out what his deal is.â
Just then, Jungwoo arrives at the scene, carrying a white box.Â
âYou wonât believe this,â he says, putting the box on top of the police car next to you. Seokmin is suddenly next to you, his arm brushing against yours and making you shiver. You ignore the effect once again.Â
âHenry Crawl, 36, was adopted by the Travises when he was 9 years old. It says here that his mother committed suicide and the Travises took him in - Mrs. Travis being is paternal aunt. She felt responsible for him, considering the father left right after his birth and his mother died.â
âSo, they arenât his biological parents. They didnât mention that.â Seokmin frowns.Â
âWhich means that there is a chance his mother was part of this cult. Is there an autopsy report for his mum?â You take step closer to the box and Jungwoo nods, handing you the document. Scanning it, your eyes widen as suddenly the reason for all of this is starting to make sense.Â
âThere were signs of abuse - of years of abuse. Scars, bruises, internal damages.â You shake your head, âhe isnât killing women because he hates them. He kills them because he is avenging his mother.â
âShe was part of the cult, probably around the same time as the parents of the girls. They probably knew about the abuse and he somehow figured it out.â Matthew chews on his bottom lip as he shoves his glasses up his nose.Â
âWe need to talk to him. Need him to let the girl go as well as his parents.â Hyunwoo looks over at the truck where all the special units are gathered. He excuses himself and goes over to them. The atmosphere shifts, there are nervous droplets of sweat running down your face. The storm might have stopped, but itâs still slightly drizzling down on you. Seokminâs hand finds the small of your back. You flinch, your head turning to look at him wide eyed.
âItâs gonna be okay, weâre going to get them out of there,â his voice is soothing you, as much as you hate to admit it. You swallow down whatever youâre thinking and shake his hand off, before walking over to Hyunwoo and the special forces, leaving Seokmin behind.
âI want to talk to him.â Your voice breaks through the conversation Hyunwoo is having with the captain. Both of them look at you, eyebrows raised.
âY/N-,â Hyunwoo starts, but you interrupt him.
âYou know it has to be me. I am roughly the same age as his mother was back then. I am a woman. I know what is going on inside his head. Please, Sir, let me do this.â
If there had been more time, maybe they would have argued with you. But there isnât any time. And so, they nod. As much as it makes you nervous, you also know that youâre right. Youâre confident that you can do this, that you have the ability to save this girl and Henryâs parents. Taking a deep breath, you look over at Seokmin, whoâs eyes speak more than a thousand words. He knows why you walked over there and he knows that you are the only one for the job. The smile on his lips reassures you more than you want to admit.Â
Not even five minutes later you have a walkie-talkie in your hand. The other one landed in the barn roughly a minute ago. Now, youâre waiting for Henry to respond after your first attempt at contact. The rain is still falling softly, the sun nowhere to be seen in the sky. Itâs early, youâre not sure how early, but you estimate it to be sometime after 6 am.Â
âI wonât let them go!â The voice coming from the device in your hand brings you back to the here and now, blood rushing in your ears.
âHenry, hello, itâs good to hear your voice,â you say softly, looking over at one of the windows of the barn, wondering if he is watching you.
âI donât- I wonât let them go,â he repeats and you lick your dried out lips.
âOkay, Henry. I hear what youâre saying, alright? You donât want to let them go. Could you tell me why?â
âThey need to pay for their sins!â Itâs not hard to make out that heâs enraged, crying, but still hurt and confused.Â
âWhat are their sins, Henry? Can you tell me?â You look over your shoulder at the rest of your team, Hyunwoo nodding at you and you nod back.
âYou- you really want to know?â The shift in his voice tells you that your question had been exactly what he wanted to hear.Â
âYes, Henry. I want to know, I want to understand.â
There is silence on the other line for just a few moments. You remain calm and donât ask again. Itâs important you give him space, important for the hostages as well as to earn his trust.Â
âThey- they knew about my mum. My adoptive parents. I heard them say it. They knew why the police came to visit. It was because of her, because of mum. She was tortured by them, by the whole cult! And everyone who knew about it and didnât do anything needs to be punished.â His voice is shaking as he speaks and you wonder if the hostages are in the room with him or if he has them hidden underneath the barn in one of the rooms you found last night.
âYouâre doing this for your mum, Henry? Youâre avenging her life?â
âYes!â
âI understand. You did well, Henry. You hurt them the way they hurt you. They should have never taken your mother from you, Henry, that was wrong of them,â the words leaving your mouth arenât what youâre actually thinking, but they will do the trick. Henry will trust you, he will listen to what you have to say.
âI- I did this for her. I wanted her to know I never gave up on her. B-but-,â he stops and you hear a sob, sure now that he is indeed crying.Â
âBut? You can talk to me Henry, I am here for you.â You bite your lip, hoping youâre not pressing the matter too far.
âB-butâŚ,â Henry starts again, âbut he- he betrayed me. He told me- he told me they were the only oneâs at fault. He told me he wanted to avenge her tooâŚâ
He? You once again turn to your team, all of their faces in frowns.Â
âWho is âheâ, Henry?âÂ
No answer. Henry isnât responding. You feel a slight panic arise inside of you.Â
âHenry, itâs okay. You donât need to tell me, okay? Just- tell me about you, about your mum. You must miss her dearly, right?âÂ
âMy mum deserved better than what she got. She shouldnât have killed herself, she should have fought through it! But she couldnât. She was so scared of what they had done to her, what he had done to her! I wanted them all to suffer, wanted them all to know what it feels like losing someone they love. And I did that, I did that to him too!â He gets louder with every word.Â
âHenry, youâre frustrations are valid. But, please, it is enough. Youâve showed them, youâve hurt them. Enough people have died, Henry. Let your parents and Kelly go and you will be free.â
Henry is silent for a short while again.
âIf he doesnât respond, weâll go in,â the S.W.A.T teamâs leader is now saying to Hynwoo and latter holds up his hand, as if to signal to give it more time.
âHenry? Can you do that for me?â You ask again. Everyone is growing more and more uneasy, the more time passes. Your hands are sweaty and you feel like the rain isnât the reason for why your clothes are damp again. Just when Hyunwoo is about to take his hand down, to let the special unit do their job - the doors of the barn open and Kelly runs out, the Travises right behind her. They all seem completely out of it but there are clear signs of relief on their faces. Seokmin and Stolper run towards them, helping them when they see, that Mr. Travis is limping and both women are spurting wounds on their face. You close your eyes and take a deep breath before pressing the button to talk again.
âHenry? Henry, are you there?âÂ
âMy parents always loved me. They raised me when mum died. But they knew, you know. They knew! Which means, they need to suffer, too.âÂ
Your heart skips a beat when you throw the walkie-talkie to the side and run towards the barn, your team right behind you. You donât think youâve ever run as fast as you do right now. The air is tight around you and its rough to breathe.Â
Henry is right there at the back of the barn, holding a gun to his head. You scream and Hyunwoo shoots forward to tackle him down - but itâs too late. The shot is heard but your eyes are closed, your knees growing weak but you stay standing. Henry is dead even before he hits the floor and there is nothing you can do.Â
The hostages are free, so it counts as a win. The Manhattan Slasher is finally caught. He lays there, dead on the ground. He is getting carried away now, by two coroners who present you with a nod as you wait for Matthew and Jungwoo to come back upstairs. You hadnât felt like you could go downstairs and see whatever Henry had left for you to find.Â
You're sitting outside now, seeing Seokmin approach you, with a file in his hands. You look up at him, blinking against the rain. When he stands in front of you, itâs almost like the sun showed its face after all. He isnât smiling, though. He just radiates this energy that immediately gets your spirits up.
âThe judge,â he says, handing you the file, âitâs all in here. He was the one controlling Henry. Told him all those parents were the reason his mum suffered. And while itâs not all a lie - the judge himself was the actual perpetrator.â
With a slightly shaking hand, you reach for the file and open it, reading through what is evidence of Seokminâs words. Now, this was something neither you nor your team has predicted. You swallow down a set of tears.
âHe used Henry. But for what?â
âMy guess is as good as yours, but, if I may try myself at your job: They probably got fed up with his shit. Told him they would rat him out to the police if he didnât turn himself in for abusing that woman. He began killing their children as a way to keep them quiet. My guess is, that he has been keeping them quiet ever since Henryâs mum committed suicide and they all only recently began to wonder if maybe this was wrong.âÂ
Seokminâs words reach your brain and they make sense as much as they donât. Youâve been working this job long enough to know that there will never be something as full closure. People act irrationally all the time, do things no one understands. There is nothing you can do about it but wait it out, wait for the injustice to die down within you. In the end there is no point to try and understand people like this. Not that these parents deserved to have their daughters get killed.Â
You thank Seokmin with a small nod and he sits down next to you. Next there will be the arrest of the judge. Then the parents will be questioned, and will get a punishment of their own because they didnât stop the murders when they had the chance. You know they couldnât because they were scared, but the law is clear.Â
You feel Seokminâs hand capturing yours and you look over at him. The business around the farm isnât done yet. Boxes get carried and there is more forensic personnel than youâve seen in a while, probably taking apart the basement you and Seokmin had found. It should be relief youâre feeling but right now youâre just tired.Â
So, when Seokmin pulls you against him, arm around your waist, you donât even try to stop yourself from laying your head on his shoulder and closing your eyes.Â
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I think I knew youâd posted some risquĂŠ things but I didnât know you were once the porn guy? If you are also accepting questions about porn - have you ever had fears or issues with those sorts of photos/videos being out and about impacting your career? Iâve always been told it would be a terrible mistake but Iâm always curious to do it anyway.
Also, head shaving fetish videos? I got paid to shave my head for a commercial once but this intrigues me all the more!
I've been the porn guy kind of forever; my first real jobs were doing porn (commissioned art of some stuff that was actually really distressing largely because of the business relationship and nude modeling that was fine) and I've done random fetish stuff and custom videos over the years.
When I first started doing any of that the internet wasn't the way that it is now so it didn't make a difference, by the time it made a difference my career was already dogshit and I'd spent some time working for a feminist magazine that made me use my full legal name on their publication and I got myself a nice collection of howling MRAs to follow me around for the better part of a decade. That was genuinely more professionally damaging than porn has ever ended up being because at least with porn nobody expected me to have my legal name on anything but a release. (It turned out that one of the guys I worked with was fans of one of the MRAs who made an entire video about one of the feminist comics and kept using my name through the whole video so there were like several years where I was trying to be nice to this dude who was pretty awful so that he wouldn't tell this youtuber's audience where I worked. That fucking sucked)
I guess it could come up and it would probably have some pretty bad fallout at work but also there would be other places that I could land; I know several former sex workers in infosec because infosec is a weird space with weird norms and I'm sure I'd land somewhere stable if I had to call in favors. I mean, hell, two of the guys I'd tap for help if I got fired tomorrow work places that host porn where part of their job is making sure that the porn sites get support.
It is definitely something that I would be more concerned about if I were not already relatively toxic as far as employers are concerned. I don't think they'd get as far as being put off by the porn, they already hate the motormouth and the haircut and the eye contact and the labor organizing. (This blog, my current online presence, is not exactly an asset if I'm looking for work, you know? Most employers are not a real big fan of people who talk about abolishing copyright and establishing worker protections - and it's inextricably tied with my legal name because of the feminist magazine that wanted me to leverage my social media presence for their clicks.)
But if it's something you're thinking about and you're not already radioactive it's worthwhile to be cautious. Talk to other porn producers online, read up on it (I've got some stuff written by other people about sex work in the digital age on @safe-for , which is my porn blog, but it's a bit of a scroll to get to it. I had more on my other porn blog, where I also had more porn, but that got deleted. I was really starting to pick up what I was producing online and promoting on tumblr when the porn ban kicked in, then I basically stopped doing pretty much anything SW related when my spouse's health imploded then there was covid and wham bam here we are)
I don't know. If I was starting new at all of this and it was post SESTA/FOSTA would I do it? The internet and its attitudes about porn are VASTLY different now than they were just a few years ago. I would probably be a lot more hesitant now than I was in 2004.
The headshave stuff is fun though, and there's a lot you can do with that that doesn't ping as sex work the same way to a lot of people. There's still SW in the performance for the clients, and in the way they treat you, but it's less of a concern as something that might rear its head and shame your family line in thirty years.
I once had someone pay a five hundred dollars to clip my undercut and shave it down with a razor after. It's good work if you can get it, but it IS work and there may be weird emotional fallout if you're entering a fetish space you're not familiar with (LOTS of degradation in this particular scene; I'm personally okay with that but many many people aren't - if you're uncomfortable being degraded this may not be the kink space for you).
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Itâs Really Over, Isnât It?
A/N: this is a repost from when i first started my blog
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Part 2 Part 3
7 months and 23 days. Thatâs how long itâs been since you last saw Eddie. You spent 3 years together, pushed him to focus on graduating, until he pushed you out. At least thatâs how you saw it.
You knew he wanted to take Corroded Coffin farther than Garethâs garage, farther than The Hideout, farther than Hawkins, but you always figured heâd wait for you. He always knew your plans to go to college, and promised to stick around for you. He mustâve forgotten about that promise.
âY/N I canât stay here. I need to leave, need a fresh start, need to make something of myself other than being a freak and an outcast.â
âAnd what about me Eddie? Do you not remember the promise you made to me? That youâd wait for me? That weâd start fresh together?â
âThen come with me.â
âYou know I canât do that Eddie. We both have dreams and we both need to make those come true but I donât understand why you canât do that here?â
âThis is Hawkins! No one cares about me or about my music here!â
âI care about you! I care about you and I thought you cared about me too.â
âI do but⌠Iâm sorry I need to do this for myself. Wait for me. Iâll be back. I promise.â
âIâve heard those words before.â
Even though he shattered your heart into a million pieces, you did what he asked. You waited. You waited for months without a visit, a letter, or even a phone call. You waited until you couldnât wait anymore.
Starting to come with the terms that he wasnât coming back, you doubled down and tried your best to move on. You focused on your school work and got a job at the local video store. You soon became close friends with the other people who worked there, Steve and Robin. You faintly remembered them from school but never had a conversation.
They comforted and consoled you every time you came into work with mascara stained tears on your face, or when they watched the way you jumped every time a boy with long brown hair and a jean jacket walked in.
You and Steve grew particularly close, both of you bonding over your recent heartbreaks. The two of you never had the intention of starting a romantic relationship with each other, but after spending so much time together and having so much in common, it kind of just happened.
Steve had finally gotten fed up with both living in Hawkins and living with his parents, so he decided to get a place of his own. Feeling the same way, it was only natural that youâd go with him. At least someone wanted you to be part of their plans.
It was finally moving day, and Steve gathered a couple of his friends to help you guys pack and load everything into the back of the BMW. It also gave you guys time to say your goodbyes before you start living like true adults. You werenât going to be too far from Hawkins, but you knew you werenât going to have as much time to visit as youâd like.
âAll right babe, I think thatâs the last of it.â Steve says, shutting the trunk full of boxes. You smile and nod before turning to the gang.
âMy god I canât believe you guys are leaving me.â Robin blurted, pulling you in for a hug. âNow whoâs going to help me pick out cute girls at the store?â
You chuckled, âI guess youâll have to leave that to Keith.â Robin makes a gagging noise before pulling Steve in for a hug as well.
âHey, you.â You look at Dustin, seeing tears trying to form in his eyes. âWeâre only going to be 30 minutes away. And you can visit anytime you want.â You reassure him, rubbing his shoulder.
âJust sucks. First Eddie and now you guysâŚâ He trails off. You feel a pit in your stomach at the mention of his name. No one really talked about him around you, not wanting to bring up the pain again. âShit. Sorry.â
You smile, shaking your head. âItâs okay Dusty Bun.â You wrap your arms around him, squeezing tight. âIâll be back soon.â
You turn to the sound of keys jingling, looking to see Steve motioning you into the car. You say your final goodbyes before hopping in the passenger seat.
The drive is quiet. Nothing but the radio and the sound of cars passing by. Your head is leant up against the window, watching the Hawkins trees slowly disappear in the car mirror.
Steve takes notice, placing a hand on your thigh. âYou okay?â You jump at his sudden touch.
âY-yeah iâm fine.â You place your hand over his and flash a smile. You werenât fine. You couldnât get Eddie out of your head. It wasnât Dustinâs fault for bringing him up, but ever since you heard his name leave his mouth, itâs all you could think about.
About how he was supposed to be the one you got an apartment with. He was supposed to be the one you left Hawkins with. He was supposed to be the one you started the rest of your life with. But you had to push that all behind you. You had Steve now, and Eddie wasnât coming back. It had been 7 months for christâs sake.
Finally reaching the apartment complex, Steve stays behind to fill out the remaining paperwork while you start to bring the boxes inside. The apartments are decent, not glamorous by any means, but definitely the nicest units you and Steve could afford.
You were walking up the stairs to your new home, box in hand when you heard a familiar voice. It caught you off guard. You knew that voice. It sounded just like Eddie, but you brushed it off thinking it could never be him.
You set the box down outside the door before running back to the car to grab another box. Walking back up the stairs, you see a tall man with long curly hair and a leather jacket on. Thereâs absolutely no way itâs him. At least thatâs what you thought. He turned to face you when he heard your footsteps, and the both of you stopped dead in your tracks.
âY/N?â He questioned. You could feel the heat rushing to your head, trying to figure out if this was reality or if you were dreaming. âHey⌠itâs me.â
âEddie.â You blurt out, blinking your eyes rapidly to see if you could wake yourself up. It doesnât work, and youâre faced with quite possibly the worst thing that could happen to you on this day. âHi.â
âHey⌠uh what are you doing here?â He scratches the back of his neck, looking you up and down.
âUh iâm moving in.â You respond, holding the box up for him to see. âWhat are you doing here?â
âOh⌠uh my uncle moved in here, needed to leave Hawkins.â Of course he did. Something the two of them had in common.
âOh nice nice. Uh- I should really start moving these in.â You try to walk past him to your door before he puts a hand on your shoulder, stopping you.
âWait. Can we talk?â
âI donât know what youâd want to talk about Eddie. You left, I moved on, thatâs that.â
âI donât want that to be it.â Heâs staring into your eyes, and you see the remorse behind his brown corneas.
âYou left me Eddie. You left me and you didnât write, didnât call, didnât visit. I donât know what else you want from me.â You pushed past him, setting the box down with the others.
âI know I did, trust me I know. But, I waited for you. I know I hurt you and I wanted to give you space but- I thought youâd reach out eventually.â
âWhy would I do that? 3 years Eddie. Thatâs how long we were together until you threw it all away. Until- until you broke my heart.â You feel the tears creeping up, trying to suppress them. âAnd iâm sorry but I deserve better than that. I deserve someone who isnât going to just throw me away like I never existed.â
He hangs his head in shame, taking in what youâre saying to him. And he knows itâs true. All of it. He knows you deserve better. He looks down at the boxes and points to one of them. âWhy does that say Steve on it?â
Shit.
âUh thatâs my boyfriends.â You shyly explain.
âBoyfriend? Who-uh-whoâs Steve? Where is he?â You now see the tears starting to form in his own eyes.
âSteve Harrington.â
âKing fucking Steve? Seriously?â He yells, but itâs not an angry yell. Itâs a yell of sadness. The realization that he lost his chance.
âYeah. King Steve.â You almost chuckle at the nickname.
âYou guys are living here⌠together?â
âI mean thatâs the plan, yeah.â You respond.
âSo itâs really over, isnât it?â This time he canât hold back his tears. Letting all of the emotions heâs held in up to this point flow out.
You look at him, the man you thought you would spend the rest of your life with, and heâs broken. You donât know what LA did to him, but you knew it wasnât good. He wouldâve never acted like this before he left and you knew that. You canât respond with words, just your eyes. But he understands.
Suddenly, you hear footsteps and look to find Steve coming up the steps. Finally. Heâs carrying a car seat in his hand, sleeping baby sat inside of it.
âWhose baby is that?â Eddie questions the both of you. You look at Steve, whoâs looking between you and Eddie.
Fuck.
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Incest confession: my brother and I have been in a relationship since we were teenagers and we're thinking of having a baby...
My elder brother and I have been in a romantic and sexual relationship since we were *rather young* teenagers. We have several younger siblings, but he's the oldest and I'm second oldest, and there was a time when it was just the two of us. I think that's where it all started honestly, like just wanting that closeness again. Also we often had to act as mini parents to our younger siblings and that's contributed to our feelings of being a couple (my feelings on being made to mom my siblings instead of being allowed to be a child myself are a whole seperate issue... but). Acting like a married couple with kids, especially our younger siblings jokingly calling us a married couple, made us both realize we genuinely wanted that.
Now we're both in college, he's going to law school and I'm studying fine arts, and we chose schools a few hours away from our family that are in the same area so we can share an apartment and have some privacy. It's honestly magical to be able to live together as a relatively normal couple, knowing our family aren't too close to pop in unnanounced and even then we haven't given them keys just in case. We've taken other safety precautions such as extra manual locks on the door, always closing the curtains, and not mentioning each other to the people in our lives. It sucks not being able to introduce him as my boyfriend, but it's for the best that few people know about our home life. Those that do know him, he's "just my brother, we live together for now..." :( It's a two bedroom apartment btw, it's annoying we have to pay extra rent when we sleep in the same room but it's worth the security for the few times our family has come over. Mostly I just fill the room with my art supplies and use it as a studio and the bed as a couch.
Lately, we have been talking about having children together. We both want children and marriage, we always have. I am certain he is my soulmate and will be an excellent partner and parent. I wish there was a way I could describe how he looks at me... it's like I'm the only thing in the world that exists. He will literally worship me on his knees for hours ;) and he's even hand made me a ring. We split housework and finances equally, we agree on politics and ethics, he's responsible and hard working, and he gets more handsome every single day I wake up next to him. I know that making a child together is a huge risk, but I want it with all my selfish heart and so does he.
We have a plan. We both recieved a large inheritance from a relative, and we are going to buy a house. We will both be on the mortgage 50/50, but no one except the bank will know this. To our family and everyone else, it is his house (he's got a law firm job lined up and is nearly 30 so this feels realistic). I will keep the apartment for awhile until I get pregnant "from a one night stand that doesn't want to be a father." I will tearfully break the news to our family awhile later, explain that I've thought long and hard and want to keep the baby even though I'll be a single mom. Then he'll step up and help out anyway he can, eventually moving me in with him since we've lived together before, and taking on a very close uncle/pseudo father role. Really we will be together this whole time, either him at the apartment with me, or me in his house getting it ready for us and a baby. The inheritance and his new job will support us adequately.
Our family is under the impression that he is gay and we don't discourage this because it helps avoid suspicion. Once he publicly offers to let me rent part of his house, he is going to have a private conversation with our father explaining this is probably his best chance to have kids/a family of his own. Our father will be sympathetic to this and very happy that my brother is taking care of me like he's always told him to (he's also kind of traditional in terms or wanting grandkids, college education, "real" job, etc.) This will appease him and he will defend us against any relatives trying to make comments about my brothers supposed aexuality or my promiscuity. If only they knew how much time my brother spends with with his head between my legs lmao
Also I am almost certain two of our younger siblings are gay for each other but that's a whole other story.
Oh.....my god. Ok. Well my best to you and your brother but if you have a kid they'll have to know you're together right? Like even if you try to hide it they'll figure it out. I feel like growing up with siblingspouseparents is maybe not the best environment for a child. I'm not saying that to judge you the incest confessions are a judgement free zone but you know something to consider. Anyway close enough welcome back Dollangangers
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Ranking 2024 anime, Pt. 3: #30-21
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We're chugging along. I'd say we're finally getting to the good stuff, and there is plenty of good at this point in the countdown, but I also just really like complaining.
Let's get it.
30. KonoSuba: Godâs Blessing on This Wonderful World!, season 3
I have a tendency to refer to the more brainless and/or trashy anime I watch as âjunk food.â You know the kind; the ones that donât really add anything to your life and donât stand up to the more fulfilling series, but still get the job done when you go into autopilot. Iâve found that, as a habitual (non-metaphorical) snacker, I tend to just reach for something when Iâm bored so I have something to do. And looking at it objectively, I donât tend to enjoy myself while doing it and I usually donât feel good afterwards.
I feel much the same way about watching KonoSuba.
Not that I think itâs ontologically evil or anything, but KonoSuba often has just as much going against it as it does working in its favor. For every joke that hits, and some of them absolutely do hit, thereâs another that makes me question why Iâm even watching it. Iâm not against dark or even occasionally offensive humor; I adore Itâs Always Sunny in Philadelphia, a show to which KonoSuba often draws comparisons. The issue is that, at its worst, KonoSuba defaults to either âthis person is a pervert,â âthis person is a pedophile,â or âthis man got sexually assaulted.â My issue isnât with the subject matter so much as the fact that they rarely rise above the level of base shock value and that they keep happening like that. It almost feels perfunctory, like the writers had quotas to meet.
Itâs not all bad, though. Even having only gotten into KonoSuba in early 2023, I still found myself lamenting its hiatus, and An Explosion on This Magical World somehow only made the heart grow fonder for the party members that werenât Megumin. I appreciate that Darkness plays a pivotal role in the third season, because Darkness is hilarious and terrific. This season had a couple of the best jokes and goofy facials in the series.Â
Overall, itâs a bit of a wash, but I canât be too upset. Itâs more KonoSuba, and itâs reached the point where thatâs practically a value-neutral statement.
29. Wistoria: Wand and Sword
I donât really have much new to say about Wistoria. Itâs not the best magic school anime I watched this year and certainly not the best fantasy, but it looks terrific and itâs a fun enough time if you turn your brain off.
And turning your brain off is a necessity here because Wistoriaâs story is as basic as it gets. Itâs more or less Mashle if it wasnât a comedy, and itâs such a transparent, dirt-simple power fantasy that it might as well be an isekai. Guyâs trying to keep a promise to his childhood friend, he sucks at the one thing everyone else does to the point of getting bullied left and right, but heâs super crazy strong in a his own special way. Actually, shit, I just described Kaiju No. 8.
Rule of cool wins out here, and this show does look phenomenal, but it might be better enjoyed via YouTube clips. Iâm curious to see where the story goes from here, but Iâm not completely sold yet.
28. Chained Soldier
Chained Soldier is horny isekai trash. Chained Soldier fucking rocks. We got big monsters, wild action sequences, unique and memorable character designs, casual femdom, solid comic relief, interesting (if predictable) twists, uncensored boobs, itâs got it all!Â
Itâs not the best-looking show in some parts, but thatâs forgivable. The production values were fine, all things considered, and the action sequences in particular were terrific throughout, but Iâm really glad this series is changing studios for the second season. Iâve read ahead in the manga (donât judge) and Passione is gonna do a bang-up job as the action and shameless fanservice both ramp up.
Itâs early in the story and a teensy bit shaky, but Chained Soldier is already a fun time. I have reason to believe itâll only get better as it goes. And not just because of the boobs.
27. Suicide Squad Isekai
You wanted an isekai starring the Suicide Squad, and by God did you get one. This is a perfectly serviceable series by Suicide Squad standards and a pretty middling isekai otherwise. Nothing about the world in which this series is set is all that interesting or groundbreaking, but youâre here for anime Harley Quinn (and a few other DC villains I guess), and this show delivers.
Fluid, expressive character animation (when the studio wants it), a terrific Japanese voice cast, and entertaining hijinks among Batmanâs infamous roguesâ gallery combine for a plenty fun time that ultimately doesnât have much staying power. If you liked the James Gunn movie, youâll have a decent time here. No more, no less.
Between Uzumakiâs disastrous production, Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrimâs apparent mediocrity, and last yearâs unwanted, execrable FLCL Grunge, Iâm just glad that at least one recent anime production with Jason DeMarcoâs fingerprints on it came out unscathed.
26. âTis Time for âTorture,â Princess
I ended up watching so many discrete series during the winter season that itâs probably not a coincidence that my bottom four series on this ranking (and six of the bottom ten) all aired during that season. When you filter feed, youâre gonna take in a lot of garbage. Sometimes you need some stuff thatâs âjust fineâ to clean the palate.
âTis Time for âTorture,â Princess is probably a bit better than even âjust fine,â but itâs not gonna be a ready recommendation. The premise is pretty one-note on paper: Warrior princess got captured by demons, they try to coax intel out of her via temptation, she folds, the intel is worthless, and the cycle begins anew. But if a run of over 250 manga chapters and climbing is any indication, the series manages to keep it fresh. Time for âTortureâ works because it isnât beholden to its premise and instead decides to play hopscotch with its own framework. Gradually but noticeably, the unnamed princess and her inquisitors and âtorturersâ become friends, they all enjoy the spoils of her snitching together, and they really just keep it up because thatâs how this stuff is supposed to go.Â
Nine months later, I still donât know why I liked this show so much. Itâs just the right amount of silly to me, and itâs cute as hell where it counts. Not the best thing I watched this year but far from the worst. If you want something dumb and weirdly wholesome thatâll make you chuckle here and there, itâs a good pick.
25. Jellyfish Canât Swim in the Night
This is one Iâm still agonizing over a bit. Jellyfish Canât Swim in the Night is a terrific show on so many levels, but I still felt let down by the end of its run. It wasnât even in the same ballpark of disappointment as Uzumaki or Metallic Rouge, thankfully. Like Uzumaki, it couldnât live up to the promise of its all-timer debut episode, but on the flip side, Jellyfish largely maintained its high production value. Like Metallic Rouge, it felt like the narrative largely spun its wheels until the writers realized they only had two episodes left, but Jellyfish didnât leave me feeling like Iâd just wasted four hours of my life.
This series already had massive shoes to fill if it was going to be the best showbiz anime produced by Doga Kobo airing this year (âIâd have two nickelsâ and so on and so forth), but Jellyfish Canât Swim in the Night unfortunately ended up getting outclassed on several fronts by shows that just did almost every element better. It looks terrific, it has a memorable cast, the musicâs great, and itâs a welcome entry in the âGirls Doing Thingsâ anime canon, but it was outclassed in its own broadcast season by Train to the End of the World, Girls Band Cry, and Yuru Camp. The real shame is that it seemed to have designs on being a tremendous LGBT show if it played its cards right, and instead opted to throw those cards in the air and walk away by the end.
Iâd still recommend this show if you temper your expectations of any real narrative punch. There were some tremendous original series that aired this year, but Jellyfish Canât Swim in the Night just didnât reach those higher levels. Thereâs a whole bunch of good in there, but they couldnât quite piece it all together.
24. Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation, season 2, part 2
Iâm gonna be real here: Iâm sick of writing about this show. Itâs exceptionally well-made and, on balance, easily one of the best anime of the decade so far, but the subject matter can touch such controversial and uncomfortable territory at parts that I canât recommend it to anyone.Â
The back half of Mushoku Tenseiâs second season actually did a lot of work towards making up for a lot of the less-tolerable moments in the preceding ž of the show, even delivering a couple of the spring seasonâs best episodes, and then it gets weird again near the end. Not nearly as bad as it gets in the first season, nor in the worst moments of this seasonâs first half from 2023, but still off-putting, even for people who stuck with it for this long. I expect this to continue.
Mushoku Tensei is a great show. Donât watch Mushoku Tensei.
23. Undead Unluck, second cour
David Productionâs adaptation of one of Weekly Shonen Jumpâs most inventive and ambitious action series continued into the start of 2024 as the story just continued ramping up and getting wilder.
Undead Unluck had an interesting, if occasionally uncomfortable start, with a fascinating power system and tons of secrets left to be revealed, and as it continued you could start to see the camera slowly pulling back. Midway through its second cour, shit completely hits the fan and any expectations you may have had fly out the window. Undead Unluckâs debut season was an amusing curiosity for most of its run, but the status quo is upended so effectively midway through the second cour that I was completely hooked. There were some infuriating pacing issues at those exact moments that were enough for me to dock it several spots on this list, but itâs still absolutely worth watching.
I decided to read the Undead Unluck manga a couple months ago and for as wildly as I thought the anime ramped up its scope by the end of this run, it turns out that the series as a whole goes to even crazier lengths than that. Iâm completely sold now and cannot wait for more.
22. Kaiju No. 8
Counter to the series I just talked about, Kaiju No. 8 is one of Shueishaâs leastââââ innovative battle shonen series. And thatâs okay! Nothing wrong with wanting to see people fight giant monsters and one who can turn into a giant monster himself, and maybe you donât want to have to deal with Attack on Titanâs incoherent politics to get there.
There is fundamentally nothing special about Kaiju No. 8, but I do appreciate that the protagonist is an out-of-shape thirtysomething desperately clinging to his hopes and dreams. No particular reason. Thereâs some interesting worldbuilding early in the story, and although it does lend itself to protag Kafkaâs strengths in battle (non-âturning into a monsterâ category), it all falls to the wayside when itâs time for monsters, guns, and explosions. And Iâm fine with that stuff, but I was hoping for a bit more of a hook.
All in all, this is a very well-made show, if a little muddy-looking at times. I wouldnât have chosen YUNGBLUD and OneRepublic for the opening and closing themes, but it didnât hamper my enjoyment of the show. I just like complaining about that stuff. Looks good, sounds good most of the time, and endearingly dumb. Canât go wrong with that.
21. Mashle: Magic and Muscles, season 2
I ranked this showâs first season pretty low on my 2023 list, but I was willing to stick it out for another season, and Iâm glad I did. Mashle really finds its footing during the Divine Visionary exam arc and irons out a lot of the issues Iâd had with the first season, primarily how little the comedy initially landed for me.
A series that initially had my eyes either rolling or glazing over quickly recovered my attention early in the second season. Creepy Nuts OPs are a cheat code, I swear. Even putting the killer music aside, Mashle looks a lot better as well and has a much more engaging story in its second season. You can really feel it gaining its footing and finding a bit of swagger as the season goes on. The fight sequences are much more engaging this time out, and sometimes you get all the satisfaction you need out of seeing an emotionless weirdo punch the shit out of a mean nerd. A bunch of the jokes even land this time around!
Iâm glad I stuck this out. Mashle is, at the end of the day, a hilariously blatant Harry Potter send-up, and frankly has no good reason to hit like it does, but Iâm finally sold. At the rate itâs been going, Mashle seems to be set to adapt the entire manga, and Iâm looking forward to seeing all of it.
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warnings/info: p n v, degrading, praising, protected sex, afab reader, fem x bill, oral! m receiving and f receiving, USAGE OF Y/N
synopsis: y/n and bill are college students, and y/n has a secret second life?
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I chewed on my pen, looking over at the black-haired male from time to time. The lecture hall was filled with whispered chatter, bright light blaring into our eyes during this early morning. I just wanted to get out of this class, did the professor really have to make us do partner work? I looked over to his surface, watching him scribble stuff down in his notebook. "Could you at least actually write?" I grumbled. Bill looked over to me with a glare, digging his pen into his notebook.
"Well, maybe if you helped me?? You're just sitting and watching, " He scoffed. I clenched my notebook and furrowed my brows.
"I am! I wanted you to look up the definition!" I huffed and pushed the textbook in his direction. He rolled his eyes and placed his pen down.
"Then, what the hell are you doing?" He raised an eyebrow and opened the glossary. I instinctively rolled my eyes back to think, before looking back down at him.
"I'll do the poster, " I pressed my lips together and watched as he glared at me. I wanted to wipe that look off him, he always drove me insane.
"Like you'll do it this time, maybe YOU should do the definitions, " Bill scoffed and shoved his notebook over to me. I raised my arms, gritting my teeth as my supplies rolled over to the left side.
"I did do the poster last time! Can you just do the damn definitions?" I shoved his notebook back and he rolled his eyes, as I collected my pens back into place.
"Sure, anything for you sweetheart, " He gave me a mocking smirk, before writing down the definitions.
"Thanks, " I rolled my eyes, he always gave me a little pet name when he was annoyed with me. It was annoying to hear from his lips. I put my earbuds in, to ignore him while doing more research in another textbook. After 30 minutes, I finally got two whole pages down, from top to bottom. I smiled down at my notes, the side of my palm covered in blue ink. I took out my earbuds, turning to Bill. "How much did you get down?" I asked, and he pushed over his notebook again, it was also filled with needed definitions.
"Is that enough for you, little princess?" He said in a mocking tone, giving me doe eyes. I sighed, looking over it with a grin.
"Yea, actually. Good job, doggy, " I mocked back, Bill sucked his teeth and took his notebook back. The bell rang and I shoved all my supplies back into my bag. Finally. I thought, I was so glad I only had one class for the day. I put my back over my shoulder and quickly left. Bill watched with a raised eyebrow as he packed up.
***
I sat at my vanity, fixing my brunette wig, gently fixing the curls. I leaned over, fixing the spaghetti straps of my top before picking up the eyeliner to fix my makeup. The faint club music could be heard, as I sat there with the other strippers. They gossiped about their boyfriends, and I listened in and put in my input from time to time. I smacked my lips, the gloss shimmering as I sat back to look at myself. It was my favorite part of this job, dolling up for the show. It was so hard to compete with other strippers though, I've only been here for a few weeks and all the customers wanted the same girls. Who could blame them though? They were all beautiful. Candy looked over in at me with awe, holding a big grin.
"You look amazing, Chanel, " She winked, rubbing my shoulder. It was the name I chose, to hide my real life away. I turned to her with a smile, her compliments meant everything to me. She made me feel ten times hotter than I already looked.
"Thank you, I hope everything goes well tonight, " I sighed and leaned down to fix my black stilettos. She eyed me up and down with a smirk.
"You'll do amazing as always, you should go though. People are waiting, " She whispered, I widened my eyes and quickly got up after I fixed my right stiletto. She blew a kiss at me as I started inching towards the stage area. "Good luck!" She called out, my heart raced as I heard the music start.
I bit my lip, holding eye contact with some of the hungry men as I walked out. They hollered and whistled as I cat walked to the pole on the stage above them, before swaying my hips. I felt as if I was a piece of candy, surrounded by a crowd of toddlers. I danced to the music while grabbing a hold of the cold metal pole, feeling money fly around me, the music pounding in my chest. I put my whole body into the music, continuing to sway to the music and putting on a tease show for them. Flashing colored lights on me as I continued. I gulped as I smoothly went down the stage after some time, trying not to stiffen up as I walked into the crowd of men. I scoped out the place for a person to choose, my knees were bound to give up on me as I walked towards him. But, before I could even reach him, I felt a hand on my wrist pulling me over gently to their couch. I yelped and my eyes were wide, looking down at the male. They only opened more as I looked down at him, his lids were covered in black eyeshadow. I couldn't believe my eyes. Bill bit his lip up at me, tilting his head.
"Hey, sexy. I've never seen you here, are you new?" He hummed as I stood in front of him, another stripper beginning her show on stage behind us. I laughed nervously, no way. I swallowed the lump in my throat, it felt as if my throat was tightening if I kept looking down at him. "I didn't mean to scare you, sweets, what's your name at least?" He asked, I let out a breath of relief. I felt as if the weight on my shoulders lifted, so he can't tell. I bit my lip as I straddled his lap, he was so annoying in class but with him looking like this, I couldn't pass it.
"Chanel, " I spoke, hoping he couldn't recognize my voice. He held my hips as I grinded onto him, he bit his lip as he looked up at me.
"God, I want you to myself, could I rent a room with you for a few hours?" He smirked, rubbing my sides. I held his shoulders and tilted my head, continuing to grind at him.
"At what cost?" I raised an eyebrow and his breath began to go heavy. He bit his lip with a smile, leaning into my ear to whisper.
"I'll give you a night to remember, " Bill's warm breath against my ear caused me to shiver, and my heart skipped a beat. He leaned back and gave me a devious smile. I nibbled on my bottom lip and thought for a bit as I continued to grind.
"Fine, but only two hours, " I let out and slid off his lap. He stood up, still towering over me even with my stilettos on.
"I won't waste a minute, " He spoke as I took his wrist, leading him to the back and up the stairs, the music fainting behind us. I pushed an empty room door open, pulling him in and locking the door behind us. He looked around, his eyebrows raised. "Mirrors?"
"Yea, you get to see the show from every angle, " I winked and he pulled me over to the bed. There were mirrors above us, in front of us, and even a few individual mirrors leaning against a corner of the pink-salmon-painted walls. He sat down, pulling me beside him.
"Tell me what you want, " He hummed and took a lock of my wig, curling it in his finger. I gulped and squinted at him.
"What do I want? I'm used to being told what to do, " I said with a nervous laugh. He tilted his head and moved his hand over to my neck, caressing the side.
"You rather be told what to do?" He came close and caressed my cheek with his thumb. I felt my face heat up as he spoke. He always drove me nuts, yet here he was making me go tingly under his touch. He smiled down at me, his nose nearly on mine.
"Well, hm, " I looked down and thought for a few seconds, before looking back up at him. I raised a hand onto his cheek, leaning in to give him a deep kiss. He hummed and closed his eyes, tilting his head to deepen the kiss. I felt butterflies in my stomach, his lips felt like they were hugging mine. I moved a hand down to his torso, rubbing it up and down before moving it to his crotch. His breath hitched as he felt my hand palm him, smirking against my lip as he moved his hand to my neck. He pulled away, leaving kiss trails down my neck. I panted softly, feeling him kiss around before leaving love bites. I winced, closing my eyes as I let out soft moans. "B- I mean, god please I want to please you, " I grit my teeth, looking down at him. He pulled away and leaned back, a hand on my thigh as he rubbed.
"Please me? You're already pleasing me enough, " Bill gave a small smile as he squeezed my thigh.
"I know, I know. But, you are the client, " I spoke, sliding off the bed and to my knees. I sat on my legs, between his knees as he looked down at me. I slithered my hands to his belt, unbuckling it and soon undoing his pants. He nibbled on his lip as he watched.
"You look so beautiful from this angle, " He said, I felt my face heat up, looking away from his eyes to continue. He looked into the mirror in front of us, biting his lip from the view. He eyed my body from the mirror and the front, his eyes flickering between my curves and cleavage. He smirked, helping me as he pulled his pants down a bit, pulling out his hard length. I widened my eyes, looking up at him as I took it in my hand. His mouth hung low, and feeling my hand around him caused him to let out small whimpers. My free hand took out a condom from my top, the other still pumping him. "You're doing so well, " He let out as I tore the condom package with my teeth. I placed the condom in my mouth, positioning it as the rim lined up with my lips. I could hear my heartbeat in my ears as I pumped him. Bill gripped the bed sheets as he watched me, my mouth in an 'o' shape as I placed it to his tip. I took him whole, the condom unraveling and wrapping around him. I gagged and looked up at him with tears in my eyes, pulling off with a pop. He gasped at the trick, and I gave him a small smile in return. "Let me please you, " He took my wrist and pulled me up onto the bed, laying me down. "Can I?" He asked as he crawled on top of me.
"I'd love to see what you can do, " I smirked at him, yet more butterflies formed in my stomach as he continued. He made me feel so weak in the knees, I felt like melted butter under his touch. Bill smiled at me, leaning down to kiss my collarbone. He trailed soft kisses down to my stomach. My breath hitched, trembling as he came down lower, a finger under my thong strap.
"Tell me if I should ever stop, " He looked up at me for reassurance, and I only nodded as he continued. I pressed my lips together as he slid my thong to my ankles. He slid off the bed and pulled me close by my thighs, kissing around my core. "You're soaking wet, all for me." He said and I felt my face heat up, I let out a sharp gasp as I felt cold metal glide against my clit. I covered my mouth, feeling his tongue flick against my clit. "Right there?" He hummed and kissed my clit, sucking on it. I clenched my eyes shut, my thighs going to close but was forced open by his hands. I let out muffled moans under my hand, arching my back. "You taste so sweet, let them know how good I make you feel, " He spoke against my core, before licking the folds. I removed my hand, whimpering.
"B- B," I managed to get out, reaching down to pull his hair. He let out a slight moan, sucking and nibbling on my clit.
"What are you saying? You dumb slut, can't control yourself?" He degraded, and I felt vibrations against my clit, arching my back more. He slid two fingers into my core, curling them for my G-spot. Once he did, I let out a loud cry of pleasure. "That's right, good girl. Tell them how good I make you feel, " Bill sucked on my clit, my thighs shaking as I gripped a handful of his hair.
"Fuck! You feel so good, fuck, " I let out, he was going to make me lose my cover. I grinded against his tongue, letting out moans.
"Look at me, " He demanded, I whimpered as I looked down at him. I pushed his head, grinding against his face as he held my thighs. Bill glided his tongue against me, causing me to only moan louder.
"Fuck- I'm-" I felt my thighs shake, clenching my eyes shut as I released all over his mouth. He licked all the liquid up as he rubbed my thighs, coming up to kiss my lips hungrily. I breathed heavily against his lips as he laid beside me. I rubbed his chest up and down, before straddling over his lap. He held my waist, my hands in his hair as our lips never left one another. I pulled away from the kiss, leaving kisses on his neck as I left trails of hickeys. I leaned back, swallowing a lump in my throat as we breathed heavily. I looked pumped his member, aligning him to my core. He let out soft moans, holding my sides.
"Are you sure?" Bill asked, I nodded before slowly sliding down onto his member. I let out a sharp moan, taking him whole. He let out a groan, looking up at me as he held my hips to help guide me down. "Fuck, you're such a good slut, taking me whole, " He breathed out, I placed my hands on his lower torso, whimpering as I felt him. I began to grind against him, slowly bouncing up and down. He looked up at the mirror above us, only getting turned on more. He threw his head back as he felt me around him, letting out loud moans.
"Fuck, Bi-...Fuck, you feel so good, " I cried out, my head hung low as my legs shook, not being able to continue. He watched, taking my waist and bucking his hips into me.
"You're doing so good, letting me fuck your pussy like this. You slut, " He breathed out, as I let out moans and cries. I clenched his shirt, leaning down as I laid my head into the crook of his neck. He flipped us, laying me on my back as he began to thrust into me. I wrapped my legs around his waist, gripping the bed sheets. I cursed out as I moaned in pleasure, his nails digging into my hips. "You pretty dumb slut, can't even make out words, " Bill moaned out, a hand raising to my jaw to turn my face to him. "Look at me, I wanna see your pretty face, " He pounded into me, causing my moans to go silent as I looked up at him. My mouth was agape as he pounded into my G-spot. I felt a coil in my stomach, arching my back.
"I- I- Close, " I managed to get out, he leaned down to plant his lips onto mine.
"Together, " He said and moaned against my lips as his thrusts became sloppy. My legs shook as I released around his member, Bill releasing into his condom. We breathed heavily as he fell beside me. I turned to him, laying on my side as he stared back into my eyes.
"That...was amazing, " I breathed out, reaching out to caress his cheek. He smiled, leaning in to kiss my nose.
"You were amazing, " Bill lifted his thumb near my eyes, wiping a bit of smudged eyeliner off my face. I looked down at the hickeys on his neck, my heart sinking as I remembered the hickeys on mine. I press my lips together, I'll just worry about that later. I looked back up at him, gulping.
"I never got your name, by the way, " I hummed, he gave me a crooked smile as he raised an eyebrow.
"It's Bill, " He caressed my cheek with his thumb, pecking my lips.
"I hope to meet again, " I murmured and he wrapped his arms around my waist to pull me close. He pecked my nose and massaged my sides.
"I hope so too, sweetheart."
***
I sat in the lecture hall, clicking on my pen as I fanned myself, waiting for Bill to come. The hall was filling up as people made their way in. I looked up at Bill as he walked to his seat next to me, sighing in relief. He settled down and raised an eyebrow as he looked at me.
"Why are you wearing a turtle neck? It's 100 degrees out, " He said and I rolled my eyes as I eyed him up and down, he wore just a simple plain band shirt. My heart was pounding as his neck was still scattered with hickeys.
"I'm feeling a bit...sick, " I let out a cough, continuing to fan myself. Bill shrugged and continued to open his notebook. I hummed and opened my notebook after him. "So...what are we gonna do?"
"I'll get a posterboard by Thursday, " He turned towards me, yawning as he covered his mouth.
"Good idea, " I said and nibbled on my bottom lip, clicking the pen faster. I looked away from his eyes, keeping my eyes on my paper.
"What's wrong?" He furrowed his brows as he tried to get my attention.Â
"Nothing, nothing. Just wanna get to work, " I laughed nervously and started to doodle on my paper, looking back up at him.
"Right...you're weird as always, " Bill teased as he kept eye contact.
"Weird?? Me? Have you seen yourself?" I scoffed and pulled at the turtle neck a bit, to let cool air in. He bit his lip as he looked down at my neck and back up at me.
"I'm not as weird as you, " He tilted his head, the corner of his lips curling up.
"I'm not weird! Bill, just focus on our assignment, " I growled a bit as I clenched my notebook.
"Fine, fine..." He sighed and gazed over features for a few seconds. "And by the way, " He said and held a smirk as he came close to my ear, whispering. "I enjoyed last night, Chanel, " His voice was slick like honey, and I widened my eyes looking over at him.
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Bright out of context
Most of these are sent by me in rp some are sent by some awesome people in the server, and I think only one is from the wiki? Thanks for the help from @reddiamondgamer and @jack-of-amulets for their contributions to this list!
"The fear of spiders is kinda misogynistic."
"I think you'd be much more attractive if you ever got rabies"
"Could you in theory make yourself into jam for me?"
"How is it my fault you can't read minds?"
"Great now I'm thinking about dissections and formaldehyde and now I'm hungry"
"being meguca is sufferingâŚ"
"Where is your bathroom? I think I'd like to slam my head against a wall in private"
"This water is chunky"
"I only drink diet water"
"Have you ever gotten mad so you put a fork in someone's microwave and then irish goodbyed?"
"Water on toast"
"If you don't marry me I'm going to start collecting more of your DNA to do unethical science with."
"So if I wanted an audio clip of you meowing you'd do that for me?"
"I know what you're referring to. I don't enjoy fake animal ears. Skin an animal. Wear it's ears. Stop being afraid of commitment."
"I want to lick your eyelid."
"I like your eyes. When I first saw you I wanted to ask if I could keep them when you die but that would have been inappropriate and thankfully I don't have to worry about that. But they are lovely and I do want a bigger collection."
Screaming to wake Clef up and then trying to play it off as if he had a nightmare.
"Scientists don't get bullied enough anymore " after implying some people were baby talking an anomaly.
"I want to peel your face off and eat it it's so cute."
" I once possessed this really attractive girl and then got a job at a Walmart and started relentlessly flirting with you every time you went to Walmart to see if you would cheat on me but you never did"
"I wouldn't mind sucking on your wet hair."
"What if we kissed in the 1996 Teletubbies set "
"I want to scratch your head with my teeth."
"I like waltzes. I also like music that makes me feel like poisoning myself and or others as of right now."
"IT'S NOT A THROW PILLOW UNTIL SOMEONE GETS KNOCKED THE FUCK OUT WITH IT!"
"I'm going to lick your bones."
"I want your warm skin."
"I'll remove part of your intestine and eat it while you watch."
"I WANT TO CHEW ON YOUR FACE!"
"YURRR"
"Uhhuhuhuhuhuh" (like an angry shaken pug fly thing)
"Eyes, aren't right. They need to be improved."
"I don't have the energy to cry hysterically or resurrect you if you die. I'd still do it but it would be significantly less dramatic than it should be."
Heard their partner say "My chest is open for you to lay on" but only heard "My chest is open for you" and immediately assumed he meant for dissection. And when corrected Bright said "You're drawing a line on our love?"
"I like eyes. I have some."
"I don't mean that your eyes are pretty in a collectable kind of way they look good alive and on youâŚ"
ââŚDonât you just violently HATE having body parts?â
"My life fucking sucks because they⌠dont let me play with grenade launcher "
"GOD, FUCKING. BITCH! BECOME A WATERMELON." pause "[INSERT SEVERAL MORE EXPLETIVES]"
"I have two of your teeth. One bloody, oneâŚnormal"
ââŚWe should kill MORE children!â
"I WANT THE GRAVESTONE! DO YOU WANT MY TOE TAG?"
[Dr. Bright shows signs of agitation, swearing in several different languages, and throwing equipment about the room.]
"If you ever leave me I'm robbing your fucking grave. And I don't mean that in a normal way. I would be after your organs."
"Oh skin"
"Okay to be fair I've seen screaming trees"
"WHY DO YOU HATE MY HAMSTER!?? WHY DO YOU HATE IT'S EYES??? IT HAS NORMAL EYES!!!"
âCan someone get me a shovel? I just murdered the gender binary and I need it to hide the body.â
"Human life or not I'd eat it."
"You'd make a cute poison victim"
"If I made you hot chocolate, I would make it with love and I wouldn't poison it at all"
"I fucking love carcasses. That's why I love meat, it's like edible taxidermy"
"Would you still love me if whenever someone got hurt in a breach or someone got hurt or people get into a fight I would say and that's how it feels to chew five gum and then look away as if I'm looking at a Camara like a character in the office."
"One heart? ONE HEART?! WHAT AM I YOUR GRANDMOTHER? SOME EASILY APPEASED SIDE PIECE???"
"I want to touch you with my bones."
"Okay, well when you feel better I'll go lick a bathroom doorknob so you can repay the favor."
"Would you still love me if I didn't believe in toothbrushes?"
"You've never had your house set on fire before and it showsâŚ"
"Are you often covered in blood. I've been covered in blood a few times. Interesting feeling isn't it? Almost primal."
"Cute color pattern. Was the theme bio hazard?"
"I'm being haunted by myself right now"
âsorry for going through the entire spectrum of human emotions in the past 10 minutesâŚ. do you still like me? â
"It's yellow and I wanted to think of something other than piss when I look at it. So egg. Piss egg for the piss baby."
in his most demonic voice "I'M FROMâŚ. NEBRASKAâŚ."
Bright: You know I once made a table set disappear.
Clef:⌠Did you steal it.
Bright through evil manic laughter: Yes
#scp fandom#using character doesn't mean support for creator#do not tag as shaw or other bright variations#scp dr bright#scp foundation#scp community#jack bright#dr bright#dr jack bright#scp shitposting#scp#scp memes#scp bright#scp jack bright#memes from the server
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Connected (OT8 x reader)
Part 12<-
Part 13
Pairing: Hyunjin x reader
Genre: Smut, Fluff, Angst
Warnings: 18+, Smut, under 18 DNI!, Suggestive Themes, Swearing, pet names, overstimulation, fingerin, oral (f receiving), jealousy
Word Count: 4k
Note: There you go⌠Since I was really sick the last week, I hope there are not that much mistakes. Because I have a lot to do in the next few days, I didn't want to withhold this chapter from you. Hope you like it! Comments, Likes and Reblogs are always a blessing! ~much love!
On your first day of your new job as the personal manager of Stray Kids, you didn't expect to be standing in front of the man you made out with last night in a club. But it soon becomes clear that the Stray Kids don't just want you as their manager.
Will this passionate arrangement end your career?
Just as you had taken a seat on the sofa, you heard the door open. When Hyunjin appeared in the doorway and discovered you on the couch, he was amazed.
"Oh, you're here already? Sorry it got a little late."
"That's okay."
He lifted the bag in his hand and came over to you. He looked even more handsome in those baggy jeans and the white button-up shirt. Mellow strands fell into his eyes and his smile enchanted you as soon as he ran his fingers through his hair.
"Are you hungry? I brought some food."
You nodded happily and his eyes roamed over your body as you helped him to prepare the burgers he bought.
âYou look amazing...", he cooed and couldn't look away.
After you ate the burgers and cleaned everything up together, you sat on the couch and talked a little. But the tension was raising every second he glanced at you with those devouring eyes.
It didn't take long until he finally grabbed your face and pressed his lips on yours, mid-sentence. Suddenly you couldnât remember anything you had talked about.
He kissed you deeply and as he sensually moved his lips against yours, he slowly pushed you back onto the couch until you were lying under him. His hands roamed all over your body, seeming to want to learn every detail and secret that it hid.
You felt his heartbeat under your hand against his chest, wanting all of him at once. He tasted engaging and when he released his lips from yours, you whimpered in disappointment. However, he began kissing along your neck and gently biting into your skin until you were just desperately pressing your body against his.
"Jinnie", you breathed overwhelmed, burying your hand in his hair as he pushed your legs apart with his knee and you felt his middle pressed firmly against yours.
He caressed your chest, down to the edge of your dress and as he looked up at you with his sparkling eyes, he unzipped the front of your dress agonizingly slowly. You helped him and slipped out of the dress so that you were only in your underwear under him.
You had chosen a special lace set just for him. It was made of white sheer fabric and small bows that barely covered anything.
"Did you dress yourself so pretty especially for me, princess? Choose this hot underwear for me to see it?", he asked with a smile that made your head spin.
Yes. You wanted to seduce him, wanted to feel his heated eyes on you and obviously he liked what he saw.
"You have no idea", you smiled dirty, and also began to hastily unbutton his shirt. As you continued to kiss, his hands roamed over your body, squeezing all those sensitive spots that made you moan into his mouth. He traced the curves of your hips, the smooth skin of your thighs, and the soft flesh of your breasts. Impatiently you took off his shirt.
He threw it next to your dress and you let your lips glide over his perfect stomach. Each of his muscles felt defined and you couldn't get enough of the sweet taste of his skin.
You elicited a gasp as you licked over his abs, up to his neck and sucked on it.
"If you just knew about all the times I touched myself the last couple weeks in bed just thinking about you...", you sighed and he could hardly believe his luck.
Your words made him freeze and he looked at you for a moment before his eyes were caught by a flame. He put a hand around your neck and pushed you back onto the sofa. His lips latched onto your neck, sucking gently and you moaned lewd, your head falling back.
âOr in the shower... Everyday after work seeing you dance..."
A growl escaped him and he nipped at the skin along your collarbone. You could feel his bulge on your inner thigh growing more and more and his touches became more impatient, more hurried.
You pressed your hips up into him, eliciting a groan from him.
"Fuck, I couldn't stop thinking about you. When I saw you with that asshole, I couldn't focus on anything except getting my hands on you again. It became a real problem. I only see one way to fix it," he said and his hands began to knead your breasts through the fabric of your bra.
"Then... we definitely have to fix it", you breathed.
"I can't let you get too distracted."
You could feel his grin on your neck, and he got rid of your bra to take a nipple directly into his mouth and suck on it. Your soft gasp spurred him on and he could feel the wet spot through your panties on his bulge.
He twirled your other nipple between his fingers and attacked your breasts with his mouth until you were dizzy. His tongue circled your nipples and he kept sinking his teeth into your soft skin. Each of his touches put you in ecstasy and all of him devoured every cell of your body.
"So you thought about me while touching yourself?", he asked with a mocking smile and you couldn't help but think of all the nights since the day he caught you dancing in the studio, that you pumped your fingers inside your desperate cunt, imagining it was him instead.
"God yes", you managed to breath out, your voice raspy, lust filled, while his mouth sucked on your breasts again.
"But it was never enough...", you sighed and he laughed lightly. He climbed between your thighs and rolled your panties off your legs, tossing them carelessly aside.
"I want to show you how much I want you, princess. Come on, spread your legs and I'll show you that you belong to us and only us!â
He placed himself in front of your soaking cunt and grabbed your thighs firmly, pushing them onto the couch.
"Fuck already so wet for me...", he said and you moaned loudly as you felt his tongue poking against your clit. You arched your back and looked down at him.
"If only you could see how goddamn pretty you look right now", he smiled, one of his hands drawing slow circles at your core.
"And you're gonna look even prettier when I'm done with you", he mumbled as he carefully pushed his index inside of you, making you inhale sharply. It sounded like a dangerous promise and due to the way he looked at you, he would keep it. Hyunjin spat onto your core, watching it glide down your folds and to your entrance.
You whole body shivered when his tongue darted out, licking a stripe upward until his lips wrapped around your clit. Your hands flew into his hair and pulled the soft strands as his face disappeared completely between your legs.
He swirled his tongue around your clit gently, savouring the sweet taste of you. You moaned louder and louder as he sucked your sensitive bundle of nerves into his mouth once again, sucking and tracing circles at it with his tongue, sending shockwaves through your body.
"Oh fuck... Jinnie... don't stop", you pleaded and your grip on his hair tightened as you held his face closer to your core.
The way that your lips parted when his warm breath fans over your bare pussy made his cock throb and his mouth water. You sunk into the cushions as his tongue thrusted into you, your hands pulling his hair and he hummed, hands slipping beneath you to grab handfuls of your ass as he ate you out. His tongue slid in and out of you, nose bumping against your clit.
A dull growl vibrated against your core as he began to slide his tongue even deeper into your pussy, applying more and more pressure as your muscles tightened around him inside you.
"Jinnie I'm close", you moaned and grinded your hips against his face. His mouth felt like heaven and he was incredibly talented using his tongue. He growled in response and sucked even harder on your clit. That was enough to send lightning bolts through your body and with a loud moan you came, but he didn't stop.
His tongue continued to penetrate you and even though your legs were shaking, he grabbed them tighter with his hands to throw them over his shoulders, his hands grabbing your hips to pull them straight to him for even deeper access.
You were overwhelmed with bliss as he began to tongue-fuck you again, rubbing your clit with his thumb. You rolled your eyes in pleasure as his finger slid into your wet pussy and his tongue moved back up to suck on your throbbing clit.
"Come around my fingers again, princess!", he demanded, and you were sure he was going to ruin you completely as he added another finger before rolling them up inside you, making you cry out. He wasn't sure you could take much more, but he wouldn't stop. He had completely lost himself in the addictive taste of you, and he just wanted to keep chasing it.
Waves of pleasure washed over you as his fingers and tongue worked wonders on your pussy and your wetness soaked his hand and face. You felt thoroughly alive as adrenaline shot through you for the second time, making your legs tremble around his shoulders. With a loud cry of his name, you came around his fingers. Your head was already in the clouds and he gave you a second to breathe this time.
"You taste so sweet, babe... Can you come one more time, for me?", he asked sweetly and you feared fainting with your next orgasm.
"Jinnie, I can't... I need you. Need your cock", you moaned, but he just smiled in amusement. Reassuringly, he stroked your inner thighs and spread wet kisses, setting your skin on fire.
"Don't worry about it. I'll fuck you so hard you'll forget you ever met that asshole. But now I need you to be good for me, okay?"
His voice was like honey, lulling you and sending you into drunkenness. You wanted to finally feel him, but he had other plans, which is why you were completely dazzled by his words, nodding with that naughty desire boiling inside of you.
He sucked a few hickeys into your skin on the insides of your thighs and already you felt his full lips on your cunt again, cleaning up everything you left behind.
You were already overly sensitive, and Hyunjin's mouth against you was completely messing with your insides. Desperate sobs escaped you as the next climax already announced itself. Hyunjin was so good at eating you out that you could already see white lights behind your closed eyelids.
Now he was pumping his fingers inside you, licking your aching cunt as he did so, enjoying your face contorted with arousal.
"Shh... That's a good girl. It's okay, princess. I'll take care of you", he purred and the next orgasm already pulsated deep in your lower abdomen. And all you could do was lay there, desperately fisting the couch as he worked his mouth and hands over you. You were limp against the cushion, begging for him to give you a break. But your body told another story and was addicted to him. Even when your head was about to explode, you always wanted more.
As you desperately squeezed your thighs together, he pushed them apart again with ease, coming back up to you, but not without continuing to pump his fingers inside you. He intercepted your whimpering with feather-light kisses and the knot in your stomach was about to tear you apart.
Again and again his name rolled over your lips and only when you opened your eyes did you notice the tears rolling down your cheeks and making your vision blurry.
"One more time, princess. You can do this. Then you get what you want", he shushed you almost mockingly, his lips moving against your cheek as he watched your reactions up close. All he had to do was press his thumb against your clit and run his tongue over your lower lip, and already your sobs were pausing as you felt your orgasm hitting you like a train.
"There we go, princess. Let it all out", he encouraged as you came loudly and squirmed in his arms. Your eyelids fluttered and your breathing went raspy as he pulled his fingers out of you and licked them clean.
You had never felt something like that before. It felt like you were floating and as soon as you dared to open your eyes, you looked into his shining eyes. He was so beautiful with his swollen lips and perfect features. Gently he placed his lips on yours and you cupped his face with both of your hands. He kissed you with so much desire that the world began to spin again.
He disengaged from you only briefly to look inquiringly into your eyes and ask:
"Are you okay?"
You had to laugh out loud and stroked his cheek with your thumb.
"More than okay."
"Good."
He grinned dangerously and you felt him slide his hands under your back.
"Because I'm not done with you yet."
A squeak escaped you as he simply lifted you up and carried you to his room. There he set you down on the bed and reunited your lips. You couldn't wait and your whole body was screaming to finally feel his dick buried deep inside of you. That's why you quickly opened his pants and he threw them carelessly aside.
Now you could see the tent in his underpants exactly and you bit your lower lip in anticipation.
"Oh, and if you ever flirt with some frat-boy-douche again, you'll definitely think of me", he said, and began to let his mouth roam all over your bare skin. You sighed loudly as he sucked several hickeys down your throat and also left bruises all over your stomach and breasts. Only when you looked down at yourself did a surprised gasp escape you:
"Holy shit, Hyunjin! I can never hide that!"
He looked at his work with satisfaction and stroked his hands down the outside of your thighs. Red marks were already forming everywhere you could look. You didn't even want to know what the spots looked like that you couldn't see.
"Maybe that'll keep those fuckers off of you next time", he teased and kissed your belly. But you didn't get to complain further as he unceremoniously took off his boxers and his hard dick popped out.
With your mouth open you stared at his enormous length and he propped himself up with his elbows next to your head. You look down at it and you were almost nervous at the idea of having it inside you, but your burning desire overtook your nerves.
"Are you ready for me?", he whispered into your ear and kissed your jaw while his tip was already rubbing against your entrance. You automatically pushed your aching cunt towards him and wanted him more than anything else. You nodded and suddenly his lips crashed against yours as he slowly sunk into you. The feeling as he stretched you out made your head spin. His eyes fluttered and he let out a low groan, cursing under his breath, while both your mouths hung open.
He completely filled you up and made you see stars.
"You're so big," you hissed and he slowly opened his eyes. You tried to get used to his length while breathing sharply.
"Can I move?", he asked softly, his caring making you even more addicted to him.
"Yes. Please fuck me Jinnie!", you whimpered and he started to thrust into you. You automatically wrapped your legs around his waist and he kissed you heatedly this time. The roughness of his kiss quickly took over his movements, thrusting harder and faster with each second that went by. You moaned his name and clawed at his back as he snapped his hips hard against yours. Your cunt was already sore and overstimulated but his cock so deep inside you made you take off and he turned you into a cockdrunk mess within seconds.
None of your fantasises could live up to the real situation, and he has greatly surpassed any and all expectations you held before tonight. Never did you think when you started to work as the manager of Stray Kids you'd ever be in this situation, getting fucked by Hyunjin and crying his name while he used you like his little fucktoy. His room was filled with the sounds of your soaked cunt squelching each time he pushed into you, his soft moans and your pornographic whimpering.
"You're so fucking loud... Fuck, you love this, don't you?", he grunted into your ear, adjusting his pace until he was brutally slamming his dick into your cunt, his balls audibly smacking against your skin. You could only whimper loudly as he hit your sensitive spots each time and the next orgasm was announced by a shattering explosions in your belly.
"Use your words, babe! Do you love it when I fuck into your sweet little cunt like that?", he asked with an animalistic glint in his eyes.
"Fuck... Yes... Yes... Love your dick", you choked on your own words and when he saw the tears in the corners of your eyes, his cock twitched aroused inside you. He grabbed your legs and put them over his shoulders. With one hand on your neck he could ram even deeper into your aching cunt and the bed squeaked dangerously beneath you.
The sight of your perfect body under him, littered with his hickeys and spread out just for him, caused fireworks in his head.
He grunted with each thrust, fucking you as though he has been waiting for this as long as you. Now you knew that he has felt the same sexual desire, the same primal greed to feel you and for the first time, he was satisfied. His aura itself was addictive, pulling you in and making you never want to miss it again.
"Your so tight for me. This pussy is made for me, princessâ, he husked while holding your legs so tight that there would definitely be bruises. His hand on your neck held you in place and you could feel that the next orgasm would destroy you.
"You're close, aren't you?", he gasped, as your walls clenched and nearly crushed him and your lips swelled at the physical abuse it had gone through.
"Mmhh", was the only thing you produced, besides sinful moans. He quickened his pace until you were lost in the sound of your skin slapping.
"Jinnie... gonna come...", you cried and he increased the pressure on your neck so that the world stopped spinning.
"It's okay, princess! Come around my cock!"
His words were enough. Pure pleasure shoots through you like a bullet, filling you with joy as you squirted all over him. Your high shook your body and made you dissolve into pleasure as he continued to thrust into you. However, his hips stuttered and he knew he would only last a few more thrusts. With a muffled moan he pulled his dick out of you and shot his load onto your belly and breasts. He looked impossibly beautiful as his head dropped to his neck and his lips parted slightly.
When he lowered his gaze with his chest raising heavily and saw his cum on your body, he exhaled loudly.
"Fuck you look so hot right now."
Your whole head was buzzing and your legs were shaking like crazy. Hyunjin leaned down to you and kissed your parted lips before slipping into his boxers. You were still so caught up in the crushing rush that you didn't notice him disappear and come back with a towel and your clothes that you had left in the living room. Caring he helped you clean yourself up, slip into your panties and then handed you a shirt, which you pulled over your head in exhaustion.
"My clothes look way better on you than they look on meâ, he smiled and you ran a hand through your completely ruined hair. Your legs felt numb and your eyelids became heavy. Hyunjin looked at you lovingly and sat next to you, slowly massaging your thighs.
"I can't walk", you remarked and fell back on the pillow.
"It's okay. You don't have to walk anywhere right now", he said, and directly butterflies fluttered in your stomach as he slid under the covers beside you and pulled you into his arms. His cologne befuddled you and you buried your face against his neck, breathing in his pleasant scent deeply.
He rested his chin on your head and stroked your back soothingly.
"Did you like it?", he asked into the darkness and you had to grin a little.
"You totally ruined me, my legs won't stop shaking, so yeah. That was amazing."
Hyunjin's chest vibrated slightly as he chuckled.
"I bet that boy couldn't have done that."
You straightened up for a moment and slapped his chest with the flat of your hand.
"You just fucked me senseless. So can you stop bringing him up?"
You could see his grin even through the darkness.
"Just saying..."
You groaned in disbelief, but couldn't help smiling and nuzzled your face against his chest again.
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"What the hell?", exclaimed Changbin, stunned, as you sat down at the table to drink your coffee the next morning. Confused, you stared at him, and Han was now also looking at you with wide eyes. Chan turned from the coffee machine and frowned.
"What happened to you?", asked Jisung, coming closer to stare at your neck. He moved your legs from the chair next to you, sat down and laid them onto his lap.
Only then did you realize what they meant.
Still tired from the previous night, you had completely forgotten what Hyunjin had done to you. On your entire neck, some places on your stomach and also on your inner thighs you could see everywhere the red bruises he had left. Before you could explain yourself, he came into the kitchen with Felix behind you, waiting for Chan to finish at the coffee machine.
"What's wrong?", he asked the others, and now Jeongin and Seungmin, who were sitting across from you, were also looking overwhelmed at your tormented skin.
Jisung slid a finger inside the collar of the shirt that you had borrowed from Hyunjin, stretched it to look into it at your naked upper body beneath it with his mouth hung open.
"Am I the only one who heard loud and clear what was going on yesterday?", asked Minho, rubbing his eyes as he dropped into a chair.
âNah. Definitely heard it too", Changbin said and tried to hide his smile. Chan whirled around directly to Hyunjin and Han gently stroked the red spots on your neck while your legs were across his lap.
"You did this to her?", Chan asked, perplexed, and Hyunjin only now seemed to realize the magnitude of what he had done. He pressed his lips together and you smiled in amusement as Jisung looked in Hyunjin's direction, incredulous but equally appreciative.
"It looks a lot worse than it is", you said quickly, intercepting Han's hand before he could lift your shirt up to check for the bruises on your stomach as well.
"Are you sure? You look like he pushed you down the stairsâ, escaped Changbin and that made Minho and Seungmin laugh.
"Hey, I don't look much better!", Hyunjin said, lifting his shirt. Underneath, his fair skin was revealed. You held your breath as everyone looked at the trail of red hickeys running across his abs and chest.
You couldn't really remember giving them to him.
"What's wrong with you guys?", laughed Jeongin, and Felix nearly choked on his coffee.
âLike wild animals", sighed Seungmin but couldn't take his eyes off that pretty red colour of those bruises on your soft skin.
"You're lucky you can hide them today, Hyunjin", Chan said reprovingly, and you hadn't thought about that at all.
Fortunately, you now had a few days off until the promo phase began. From then on, it was one big event after the other until the first Liveshows would start. Therefore you would use the time for the move, while the boys would shoot their Performance-Video today. You would be at the dorm for a few days, unpacking things without meeting anyone. So hopefully the hickeys would be gone by the beginning of next week.
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How do you even end up in these situations? Not in a bad way, but the idea of talking to people in public like that little girl with the makeup or yelling back at that lady is so terrifying, my social anxiety could never, but I wish I could?
Hard to pinpoint. I think for context, you have to know that at 18, when I was first starting out in university, I had such bad social anxiety that I couldnât stand in a crowded lecture theatre to go pee because the idea of people looking at me was so scary to me. Medication didnât help, and therapy worked up to a point. I sympathise, because social anxiety is literally the devil. It made my life so hard, and I remember being really frustrated with people around me who could justâŚdo things.
Things that personally helped me:
⢠Majority of my friends are major extroverts. I find having extroverted friends, at least a few, is really helpful because the majority of the time theyâre happy to bring you along to whatever theyâre doing, they basically act as social lubricant (introducing you to people and vice versa, softening the scary parts of initially meeting people) and you can learn a lot by watching how they interact with other people and conduct themselves.
⢠In the same vein: joining any sort of hobby group, or group that has at least semi-frequent meetings. Easier said than done, I know. The good thing about this is that with similar or shared interest, again, you shave a lot of that awkwardness off of first meeting people and trying to establish initial contact.
⢠Similar but not quite the same: volunteering. Volunteering helped me a lot, because volunteering groups and movements tend to be an incredibly diverse mix of people. Especially older people, people in retirement, quirky old women, etc. A lot of these people in volunteering wonât even blink if you are a little shy or socially awkward at first, and much like extrovert friends, are great to observe and see how they do it. Plus, I find regular volunteering really helpful for confidence.
⢠This might be controversial but: I worked a shitty retail job for 3 years while studying, because I financially had to. If youâre young, you can physically handle it, and youâre in a good place to do so, even some casual or part time work can be a game changer. Iâm not going to lie: 9 times out of 10, these jobs suck. The general public can be a nightmare. However, you are quickly forced to adapt. I view it almost like in the Sims, levelling up charisma, because you have to deal with people. In the right kind of workplaces, itâs also an okay place to meet other people and socialise more.
⢠I wish I could remember what she said to me word for word, but my mother had sat me down in my later teenage years when my social anxiety was at itâs height, and broken down some aspects of what I was doing. A lot of the time, I was curled in on myself, eyes down, head down, frowning (if not outright glaring), and generally giving myself a very hostile aura. At the time, I was pissed about this advice donât get me wrong. Once I started actually using it a few years later though, it worked. She had pointed out that the vast majority of people are actually pretty friendly or genial in their day to day lives, and it really pissed me off when I realised she was right. I smile at pretty much everyone - most people, even people who look hostile or angry, smile back. I would say an easy 80-90%. I hold doors open for people, I say please and thank you, I ask cashiers and things how their day was. These little social interactions cannot be taken for granted, because yeah, sometimes someone is in a bad mood, or not interested in engaging, but the vast majority of the time people respond positively, and that feedback is an incredible tool for building social ability. This is pretty much how Iâm able to strike up conversation with random strangers now - once the little interactions got familiar and stopped being scary, the idea of turning and talking to a stranger in an aisle becomes less of terrifying task.
I say this about a lot of things, but again, I think a lot of times, people mistake social skills for something inherently innate, and not a skill you can build much like a muscle. Itâs especially really hard for those of us who suffer/have suffered from social anxiety, because thereâs a whole other mental health aspect to it, but even trying little things if you can will pretty much guaranteed help you feel a little more secure.
(One of my best friends since early teens is autistic, and has always struggled really badly socially. Around mid-university, she began to transform into a social butterfly; sheâs involved in so many committees, groups, parties, events. People love her. I asked her curiously once how sheâd facilitated that change over coffee, and she shrugged and told me she basically decided to project the same energy as a golden retriever or Labrador, and go from there lmao.)
#this might not be applicable to you or it might be#I do feel you though â¤ď¸#sometimes people send me asks about those posts like THAT NEVER HAPPENED R/THAT NEVER HAPPENED#which honestly reminds me painfully of myself when I was at my most anxious. the idea of ever interacting with anybody casually?#people made that up. that didnât happen.#itâs a very slow journey and you gotta be gentle with yourself#katie rambles
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Hi Maddie! Are you willing to talk a little about your PhD journey? All I know is you write a really big paper but I imagine it involves more than that
absolutely! the requirements of a phd will definitely range depending on both your field and subject of your research, but typically involve taking courses that allow you to gain general but high level knowledge of the area on the whole, passing some type of qualifying exam that shows youâre prepared to complete your dissertation, and then writing the dissertation itself, all in a process that can take between typically three years (this seems very short but is fairly common outside of the USA) to a decade. in my program people typically graduated in five or six years; i myself took six years to finish everything up
for my program i took classes in a wide variety of areas, most of which were not directly related to what i wrote about for my dissertation, but all of which were extremely beneficial in 1) learning in areas outside of what i do, 2) helping me feel more prepared when teaching those subjects as part of my TA duties, and 3) allowing me to develop deeper critical and theoretical knowledge that helped me with writing the dissertation itself. i was also really happy that i was able to take classes outside of the theatre department (in the music and literature departments; though the lit class i took was a film class lol), which made total sense given my research is so interdisciplinary. the biggest thing i learned about my research throughout my time is that i very much live in the performance studies world (vs. theatre or drama) which is helpful framing given i write and teach about such a wide range of performance and media forms. my dissertation was much more a performance studies/musicology/american studies project than a Theatreâ˘ď¸ project, but i had a committee that really encouraged me to think across multiple disciplines with my work (and i also got to teach both theatre and film classes, which is pretty cool)
i also really appreciate that my program also gave us so much experience teaching! i taught every single quarter and many summers during grad school, which (while exhausting) not only gave me a ton of practice to build up my own pedagogical approach but made my CV pretty competitive as an early career scholar when applying to jobs. i donât think i would have gotten multiple tenure-track interviews while still finishing my dissertation had i not had so much teaching experience (as instructor of record!) on there. i also am really grateful that my department also really cares about encouraging phdsâ practice within and beyond the department, so i was able to dramaturg and/or direct ten shows within my department on top of a ton of outside gigs at the major LORT houses in town (which was also a really big deal)
the actual dissertation writing process sucks. itâs exhausting and thankless and even if you have a really amazing committee (like i did <3) it is extremely stressful and i do not know ANYONE who has reported a smooth and easy dissertation writing process LOL; however i had really good people on my side (friends, family, colleagues in the department and in arts and humanities in general at school, my faculty, my coworkers at the record shop, etc.) who were so supportive and my biggest champions as i was taking on this massive project. it was a lot but in all honestly even though it took so long, it was not the most difficult academic work iâve ever had to do (that badge of dishonor goes to the horrendous process of getting my international baccalaureate diploma, which was so awful it led me to go to hippie college with no grades no tests and no majors LMFAO). i am super proud of my dissertationâif anyone wants to read it iâd be happy to send the link!âand even though there are plenty of sections iâll rework for when i submit it to academic presses for publication, i am really pleased with the work i did and i think that it provides new and (imho) exciting scholarship about topics that i find really meaningful (many of which iâve loved since i was a kid)
all of this to say, if people have phd, grad school, research, or otherwise related questions or want to chat, please hit me up! always happy to talk about this stuff / offer my very humble advice about any stage of the process <3
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[Part 2] Birthday Game - Reader x Shohei Ohtani x Yuki Ishikawa AU - NSFW
Disclaimer: This is a 18+ writing so if youâre not comfortable reading this, please skip it! There will be a lot of smut & mentions of sex in this work so beware. ;)
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Shohei placed me on the bed softly and there I see Yuki undressed himself leaving him with his Calvin Klein brief only. He waste no time and hover on top of me and spreading my legs. Giving kisses all over my body as if he needs to give marks that Iâm his only one. âlâm waiting for my turn, babe.â he whispers so sexily to my ear and I can feel his cock rub against my clit. From the corner of my eyes, I can see Shohei sat on the sofa next to us and feeling himself. âIâm wet enough for you to be inside me.â I signaled him and he smirked. âYou looked too hot now. Can you turn around for me?â I do as he ordered.
He slaps my butt cheeks several times. Yuki likes to play a bit rough but gentle at the same time. âDo you like that baby girl?â he remarks. I nodded and say, âYes. More pleaseâ. Shohei was enjoying our act so much that his hand successfully made him groaning of pleasure. I turn my head to Yuki and nod, giving a sign that Iâm ready for him. Doggy style is one of our favorites because it gives me so much pleasure and I feel so loved by Yukiâs gesture that hugs and touches me from behind.Â
âUh-yeahh.. Ahâ I canât help but moan over and over again when he shoved his dick inside me. He pulled my hair so my back automatically touches against his chest. I hang my arms around his neck and kissed him aggressively. âYouâre so tight, babe.â He murmured in my ear while increasing his pace. âI like it when youâre inside me,â I said and I put my two fingers inside my mouth while staring so seductively to Shohei who sits across me. His cock is twitching and I know that heâs horny as fuck by the way his apparent pre-cum. âSho, come here and kiss me now.â I invite him to join. Heâs walking closer and pulling my chin up for a passionate kiss. âMmhh-â I feel the double pleasure with Yuki and Shohei so close to my body and doing their magic.
âYou donât realize how⌠sexy you look now.â Shohei added in between our kisses. His hands knead my boobs and play with my sensitive nipples. Not long after, he took them by his mouth. I also felt so much pleasure now from how Yuki thrusts his hips towards me and how his fingers play with my clit. âYuki, Iâm coming- Yes- Yes!!â I screamed and put my hands on Shohei shoulders tightly to stabilize myself.
I roll my hips in frequency with Yukiâs movement then when I feel both of us began to reach orgasm, I close my eyes. Yuki came inside me and sweats were coming out from our bodies. He spun me around and now weâre facing each other. He gave me kisses and little did I know, Shohei got down and started to play between my folds and insert his tongue slowly but surely. âOhh my god!â I return to heaven one more time.
As if in a competition, Yuki wants to play fast. He urged me to blow him so our position changed. Yuki sat down on the bed while I am lying on my stomach and Shohei tailing me behind while playing with my area down there. I stare at Yuki and put his cock in my mouth slowly, teasing him a bit. Yuki and I moaned at the same time. Shohei did a good job and made me react.Â
I feel Yuki wanting more than that. I sucked him harder and bobbing my head up and down. My hands also trying their best to pleasure him. He reacted by saying, âYes baby. Quick quickâ and he cum after some time. The scene was intense and I feel this bedroom getting hotter and steamier. I could do this all night with these guys giving me such a pleasure.
As I began to reach my orgasm, I reach out to Shoheiâs hand from behind and grip it tight as a signal, âSho Iâm gonna comeâ. My legs feel weak and Iâm trembling. Shohei puts his tongue in and out of my vagina and sometime bites my outer lips. His nose rubbed against my clit when his tongueâs inside me. That gives me a sensation I canât describe. âOhh- there! there!â Hearing me almost reaching my climax, Yukiâs face came closer to mine and gave my lips a wet kiss. I can feel his saliva around my lips.Â
âYou are so sweetâ Shohei remarks and he pull my head away from Yuki, âYou are one of a kind, y/nâ he continues with a peck on my lips. I canât help but smile with all these scene occurring so quickly. I hang my left arm to Shoheiâs neck and I pull Yuki closer to my body with my right arm. âI never thought this could happen between us.â I said, breathlessly. I feel Yuki back hugging me and putting his head on my right shoulder, while Shoheiâs head on my left. Itâs like being squeezed gently by these two handsome giants.
âLet me catch a breathâ with that sentence, the guys softly put me to lay on my back and they were positioned themselves on my sides. âCome to think about it, who has a bigger dick?â I chirped and all of us laugh at the same time. âI admit mineâs big but because Shohei body proportion, he looked a bit bigger.â Yuki said with a tone that he doesnât want to lose. âMineâs indeed bigger, broâ Shohei grins wider. âYuki, are you ok if I allow him to be inside me?â He rises his eyebrow hearing my question. Not only because I donât want to leave him out of this game, but also I want to feel him once. A permission from Yuki would encourage both me and Shohei to share the intimacy, right? I then rub Yukiâs hand, âWe should use condom, right? Do you have more of it?â I convinced and he nodded. âItâs in the drawer next to him.â he said.
Another reason I asked that because I just donât want to be reckless. I felt that Shohei also want to be inside me but he doesnât want to cross the line knowing that Yuki is my boyfriend and his best friend. He respects that. This time, I turn my body to Shohei and see him staring at me. I placed my hand to stroke his toned abs. âCan you get the condom for me?â I beg him and he opens the drawer to find it. âWell, if your boyfriendâs okay with me fucking you. Come on my lap then.â This feels like a green light not only from Yuki but also Shohei. I feel like Iâm in a dream right now!Â
I climbed on top his body and situated my pussy on his lap. âLet me do it for you.â I grab the condom from his grip and unwrapped it. âWill this be enough?â I joke. âBabe.. of course!â Yuki mumbles while his eyes focused on my movement. Shohei then pulls his dick on my direction and I put the condom around it. âYou are right. Yours kinda bigger than him.â I bite my lips while saying that. I winked to Yuki just to tease him. Itâs a perfect timing to make my boyfriend jealous and he will not do anything about it. Itâs fun! Yuki just chuckled on my remarks.
âSho, I like the way you play my vagina with your lips.â I start to tease him by situating my pussy on his dick and slowly rubbing on his length. Not yet letting him inside me. âFuckâ the friction made him react. I grab his hands so that he can trail my body. His mouth is wide open and his breath is getting heavier by the time my pussy slides on his dick. âWill you be rough with me, big boy?â I challenge him. âIf you want to, princess.â with that, I take his full length inside me.
âGoodness gracious!â I feel so good but hurt a little as my body is adjusting to his size. Maybe my face canât hide it that Shohei looks out after me, âAre you okay? Am I hurting you?â I shake my head and keep thrusting my hips. His hands are now on my waist, steading me. âNot anymore- Ughhâ I started to moan every time his dick hits the spot. Feeling how our bodies become more relaxed with each other, Shohei pulled me in a hug and he took turn to thrust deeper inside me while my pussy clenched several times. I bite his shoulder unknowingly. It feels really good.Â
âOhh youâre so good, Shoâ I whisper in his ear and he keeps on going. His tight grip on my body and his speed is no joke. The sound of our bodies together filled the room. âUhmm yes- yes-â I keep moaning and I heard him said, âFuck. Iâll cum baby girlâ. I change my position and sit while heâs at it. I grab his fingers and shoved them in my mouth, sliding in and out with eyes locking on him. âKiss meâ He grunted. He pulled me again and our lips met, he inserted his tongue aggressively while slapping my butt making the pleasure multiply.
âCum with me big boyâ I chanted and he ainât getting slower. I replied his kiss and ruffling his hair, âMmhh- I think- Iâm gonna cumâ. I circle my hips on his dick, trying to reach my point. We were so aroused and finally reached orgasm. He pulled out his dick and my pussy became really wet as our liquids are flowing down my inner thighs. I saw Yuki masturbated during our intercourse, he was enjoying it too.
âYou are such a bad girlâ Yuki said. âHow come you made us so turned on?â he continued with a smirk on his face. âSheâs so damn sexy. Lucky you, Yuki.â Shohei added. Hearing both of them complimented me made my face red. I moved closer to Yuki this time and kissing him hard. âThank you for this experience.â He smiled and hugged me. âI love you. Ready for another round with us?â He replied and I just giggled. âGuys, how many rounds âtill youâre satisfied? I feel tired already.â I complained. Shohei chuckled and say âOne more and weâre done.â I bite my lips and continue, âYou are really gang me up huhâÂ
âBaby, pick me or Shohei?â Yukiâs question got me for a sec. âFor what?â I ask. âTo be inside you this time.â He smirks after that sentence came out his mouth. âYou. I want you inside me.â I told him then he picked me up. Now heâs standing while holding me and I see him cues Shohei to stand behind me. âWhat is it now?â I innocently ask the man in front of me. Yuki stole a kiss and say, âI bet you havenât heard about double penetration before?â I shake my head. âIs it safe?â I ask him and he nods. âWeâll be gentle. I promise.â His reassurance made me feel relieved. Iâm in his arms after all and Shohei is being really gentle to me so far. I turn my head to see Shohei, âI never do anal before. I think itâs gonna hurt, Sho.â he looks at me lovingly and rubs my back. âIâll go slowly. If itâs too much, you tell me to stop.âÂ
âIâm gonna hold you and put my dick inside your little hole, babe. Sho will join afterwards.â Yuki explains as if this position is challenging enough for me. âIâll surrender to you both. Just make me feel good, please.â I begged as I feel frustrated with how sexy they look and act now. Iâm getting so horny!
I feel Shohei starts to kissing my back while his wet fingers lubricant my butt hole with his saliva. Yuki on the other hand positions himself in-front of my core. âYes baby girl. Hug me inside you.â He grunted sexily in my ear as he inserts his dick. âAhh it feels so nice.â I moaned after he thrusts his dick inside me. Right at that moment, I can feel Shoheiâs tip on my butt hole, âIâm going in, hottieâ he warns me and I nod. âAHH-â It hurts. A lot!
âOmg- I- Ahh- Fuck!!!â I scream louder when their dicks finally move in harmony inside my holes. âKeep doing whatever youâre doingâ I demand them for more because if they donât move it will hurt so much! I feel Yukiâs hands grip my waist while Shohei lingers his arms on my neck. I can feel his muscles tense each time he thrusts deeper. âFuck. Youâre such a virginâ Shohei whispered huskily while adding more pressure. Ohh god, these two men are truly your best creatures đĽľÂ âPlay with my clit, babyâ I said to Yuki whose face already sweating. Without hesitation, his fingers start doing their magic. âAaahh- Faster-â I grunted. Shohei is strong enough to choke me with his arms as heâs thrusting faster in my butt hole. âCum cum cumâ Shohei muttered in my ear.
Our bodies are wanting each other so badly. The vibrations they gave to me is unbelievable. âOhh Sweet Jesus!â I scream again knowing that they both increase their pace at the same time. I feel my pussy and butt swollen already but that doesnât stop them. âShit Iâm comingâ Yuki grunted as he sucks my neck roughly. âI want to explore every inch of your bodyâ Shohei aggressively pulls my head to his forehead stopping Yuki on nibbling my neck. Our eyes never leave each other and I canât stand it anymore. I kissed Shohei so hard and he replied my kiss.
Yukiâs hands are now stimulating my nipple. The wave of pleasure keeps coming in and I am sent off to the cloud nine. My legs were trembling so hard and these men make sure I wonât fall off their grips by keeping me secure in their embraces. âIâm coming!â I scream out loud. âMe tooâ and Shohei follows. I can feel his warm liquid squirted all over my back while Yuki also pulled out his dick.Â
My body feels so weak and I let myself fall to the bed. âYou guys are too sexy to handle. Iâm the luckiest women tonight.â I whisper as I see them standing next to each other and smiling so coyly to my remarks. The next thing I know, both of them are lying down next to me. âSho, I also like the aftercare if you want to know more about me.â I tilted my head towards him and smirked. âWanna go to the bathroom with me?â He smiles and instead of asking me more, heâs inviting me to the bathroom. I think I know what he wants and truthfully speaking, I want more of him. I bite my lips, âSure. Yuki, are you in?â I asked the man on my right side. âIâll let you have time with Sho, maybe for the last time tonight?â Hearing that somehow makes me more excited but also sad at the same time. Is it going to end this fast?
âLetâs take a nap first.â I hurriedly say to Shohei and he raises his eyebrows. âI told you.. Iâm such a baby in terms of energy.â I laugh a bit and he just nods. âHappy birthday, my loveâ Yuki said on my nape while hugging my back. Shohei on the other hand is facing me and started to caress my cheek. âHappy birthday, y/nâ he followed. âThank you.. I really enjoy the present both of you give me tonight. I felt really special tonight.â I replied to them and zone off to dreamland.
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Hi đ some questions about your AU. Since you mentioned shadow being eggmans favorite child and silver being his least favorite, how do eggmans preference ranking of his children manifest in his treatment of them? In what ways are the egghogs aware of this and how do they feel about it? Also, does silver have asthma in this AU / any other lingering effects of his birth circumstances? Thanks!
SUCH GOOD QUESTIONS!!!!!
yes, they're keenly aware of their standings with their dad and know from experience that it's best to not think about it. going out of their way to try to please him just makes him angry because you're not doing what you're supposed to (either working or leaving him alone).
shadow is his favorite, so he keeps shadow on a short leash. shadow is the assistant mechanic when he's building boss robots, deals closely with reporting to eggman and maintaining communications between him and the egg bosses (like the egg bosses in archie), is often forced to be his personal stenographer, and is in charge of providing him coffee ASAP whenever he asks, among many other things. shadow is forced to manage eggman's emotions and make himself as small as possible lest he be subject to his rage.
eggman tells shadow outright that he's the favorite, he's so lucky, he's his own special boy. i made you myself (lie), of course you're my favorite. his first son. so shadow is expected to make him proud. that means he has no control over any aspect of his life, it's all dictated by dad's whims, and he has to make sure he executes on plans and instructions perfectly because he is under the most scrutiny. lots of expectations.
sonic is the middle child and middle favorite. he sees much less of his dad than shadow does, and thus can construct a fond fantasy of him in his head freely. he's sent off to do god knows what, usually much less delicate jobs than shadow gets. he does a lot of scouting for new promising land to develop and gets a lot of "the distraction" or "blind destruction" tasks. that or powering eggman's army by running on a big hamster wheel for a few hours several days a week (which he enjoys to an extent). he also has more free time to doof around, either by himself or with silver. he's a fighter.
eggman is fond of sonic and is happy to not know where he came from. he's strong and full of chaos energy, he's almost a walking chaos emerald. he's eager to please, but eggman thinks he's a bit stupid, so he gives him easier jobs (relatively speaking lol) that he's more likely to be able to accomplish.
silver is the baby and least favorite. eggman got to him the latest in his development as a baby. he's a year younger than his brothers by a slim margin, but he was discovered at 4-6 months old (idk the exact age dont expect me to be consistent on this in the future). eggman literally hit the "be born" button on shadow's tube, and sonic was found at ~2 months old (again dont expect me to be consistent on this). so there's this pathological idea in his head that there's Less Connection, that he's the last committed to the cause.
his status as the least favorite makes him less overlooked than sonic, but under much fewer expectations than shadow. his failures aren't as disappointing because he just sucks more. eggman expects a lot of him because of his powers, pushing him past the limit in mandatory training over and over so he can "heal back stronger". he chugs the juice out of chaos drives to keep himself going during sessions sometimes. he tries so hard to become strong enough to be loved but he is never strong enough.
with his status as a psychic, he's expected to be more precise than sonic and more destructive than shadow. he can cause massive damage in little time and that's what he's used for. eggman is hoping he'll be a key player when his boys are eventually old enough to remake the universe in his image, but that doesn't come to pass. that's part of why he wants silver to be so precise - eggman thinks he's going to be the architect of his new world.
silver is made to study for that same reason (usually materials made by the empire or eggman himself), though he enjoys studying so it's an effective strategy to keep him occupied for a long time without complaint. he's found he very much enjoys architecture. handy!
he's also great for assisting large construction efforts. he can lift a lot of weight at once and put it where it needs to be quickly. how helpful! that's also great for sorting inventory and scrap that isn't easy for robots to parse.
silver DOES have asthma, as well as a damaged, scratchy voice. i will fully admit i haven't done any proper research into smoke inhalation injuries but he has miscellaneous difficulties with breathing under a lot of physical exertion, relying more on his powers than his muscles. he's wheezy
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Goodbye My Love
warning for mental illness
âHey! Ommatophilia is out and released! Imagine telling past me I'd be horrible sick releasing Ommatophilia, then right after I'd get the flu then a killer sinus infection. Pretty awesome. And cool. Right? Right. Yeah. Haha.
I guess I'm pretty happy with how Ommatophilia turned out. Part of me wants to do more to it and the other part of me never wants to look at it again. Spending such a long amount of time on a game is pretty exhausting haha, then getting sick and being unable to advertise the way you want to sucks as well. It is unfortunate but what can you do really? It feels weird now that it's done. I don't know if this will sound normal, but.. Ommatophilia for the past 4 years has honestly been my⌠everything? When I had my shitty roommates, I was still working on Omma. When I had my shitty job at PF Chang's, I doodled the characters' in my notebook and wrote down notes for the story while I worked. I'd stay up late after my shift getting game dev done because I knew I needed to make some progress or the story would never be done.
I took breaks from it, sure, but it never really left my mind. I was always rotating it around- talking about it with friends, writing about it in my notebook, thinking about things I didn't like in it, problems I'd fix, if I'd ever finish, if I'd abandon it.. The fact that I couldn't allow myself to commit suicide until Ommatophilia was finished. Honestly that's the really big one.
I've finished Ommatophilia, and like, I had all of these projects I told myself I'd tackle afterwards, but I just feel weird. It's like I can't start any of them. Usually I view smaller projects as a break from Ommatophilia or some random thing I may not finish- then I go back to Ommatophilia to fill my time, but now I'm just floating in space.
I know I can still make projects. It's fine. Meat Girl released and it's the most successful thing I've released in probably ever? I'm kinda sitting here wondering if it'll be the most successful thing I ever release? I mean, it doesn't matter, I'm so happy people resonated with Meat Girl! I literally just made that because I was miserable and needed to take a break from Ommatophilia and just had some concepts kicking around in my head.
I actually had a feeling it'd garner popularity because of the aesthetics and game jams it was in though it still exceeded my expectations. I thought I was hyping myself up a bit. It's hard having one thing be popular because you're just kinda tempted to keep doing the same stuff over and over, but logically I know that wouldn't work and also I'd rather die than let the other stories in my head die in hopes of holding on to the smallest bit of popularity Meat Girl had.. It would be shameful, and if I did that, I hope I'd wake up in some kind of hell where my characters torture me forever.
That is to say I never really expected Ommatophilia to have a fraction of the popularity of Meat Girl and the fact that I got any feedback at all is shocking. I'm very happy I could make a few people cry. That's really all I wanted. For some reason though, I think about my time with Ommatophilia and I find myself crying too.
I'm crying now actually. I hadn't realized it. When I was 17 or 18 I think.. I don't know, sometime during Covid, Adventure Time ended, and I cried so much. I didn't even like the finale that much, but I just sobbed and sobbed and sobbed. Like I'm sobbing now. I don't know.
I'm listening to the Ommatophilia playlist and there's a song my abuser put on it for me. And this song is really important to me despite the worst person in my life showing it to me. It's the Reeling by Passion Pit. I don't know. I never really told anyone who showed it to me. I just always told people I really liked the song. Listening to it while writing Ommatophilia's post mortem hurts. It really feels like I'm leaving so much in my life behind you know.
And I mean like, I know these characters can appear in my stories forever and they will. It's just.. Ommatophilia itself.. With its character sheets I always felt frustrated with, my constant anxieties about the writing, waking up at night feeling so anxious and thinking âI guess I'll develop Ommatophilia since I can't sleep..â
What do I do now? I mean I know what I do? But. This was it. All my childhood dogs have died. My childhood best friends aren't in my life anymore. Music doesn't sound the same. Food doesn't taste the same. Adventure Time is over. I always had Omma. I could always go back to it. But now it's over. I didn't realize what Ommatophilia being over would be like. I always knew relief would come but.. I've just been lying in bed. I crave to open my laptop and write the characters interacting. I want to see Black and Mercy banter. I want to watch Blue struggle to speak. I want to think about Angel's inner thoughts. I want to think about the snow and the decaying small town.
It's like my old home that I can't go back to.
I have new stories. I'll be making new things forever. It just feels weird. I miss everyone. I miss the past. I miss when everything was easier. It'll be fine. The future will be fun. It's just hard right now. I didn't really realize how I felt.
But we're good. We keep going. It's fine. We've got milfs, murderers, dykes, and various other women to write now. I mean I made a story about a meat fungus in October and Ommatophilia was basically finished by then, so clearly my brain still has stuff going on. The pity part has to end. We roll.
I love everyone who plays Ommatophilia, even if you dislike it. I love Ommatophilia, and I'm happy I spent my last four years working on it, even with all of its jank. It's dear to me. I'll miss everyone. I'm so happy I could tell the story I wanted to tell, no matter how badly it hurts. I've never finished a story and had it hurt this bad. It must've really been worth it in the end.
I love you! I love you! You were my everything! Goodbye!
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