#and I’m here for ittttttttttt

[ayoyoungg]

YONGGUK GAVE US A LIL DANCEY DANCE

[sketchy-tour]

I DID MY FIRST FINAL TODAY AND I THINK I PASS ITTTTTTTTTTT IM SO HAPPYYYYYYYYY (and I’m tired too lol) thx you a lot for cheering/encouraging me before my final! (Btw when I did that comment it was 3 am Bc of how stressful I felt from it lol)

I hope your week will be blessed 🎉💞✨🙏 here have a small wip animation I did for your kindness it helped me a lot! (I’m so so sorry I only did it today my hand still weak from my long final lol I hope you enjoy it maybe one day I’ll finish but for sure I’ll do more fanart for you!)

Silly pixel animation practice!

Anyway have p/hugs!💗💕✨💞

IM SO HAPPY IM SO PROUD IM PICKING YOU UP AND SPINNING!!!!!!!! Yiiippeeeeee!!! You worked so hard!!!!!!! I'm so glad!!!!! Take some time to rest now, Zip!! You earned it!

The pixel is so so precious! The colors feel so soft aaa I'm shaking him up and down he looks so sweeeeeet!!!!!

[certifiedducky]

i haven’t posted in a minute i’m usually a yapper and TRUST this fixation is still there, but i’ve been working like a madwoman(i open-closed today) and recently moved so i feel like ive abandoned tumblr i haven’t🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️ just too tired to do anything but watch movies and make friendship bracelets and yap to my roommate

anyways here’s this poster i got for my new room with QUEEN BEE ON ITTTTTTTTTTT

[skylathescholarly]

“If you die, everyone dies!” frick everything i am gonna be so not okay for so long

“Because The psycho supervillain whose body she’s inside can control your mind and make you see and hear and think whatever she wants,” ...okay Asten is being very very smart with this for sure

If Koa ends up dying anyway after he and bentley just had that moment, I will perish alongside him. I can literally see it now, it's gonna be all, "You've saved my life three times now, Bentley, it's my turn this time" and I am gonna be UNWELL

Bentley turned just in time for Vera to wham straight into his chest, hugging him so hard around the neck it was kinda difficult to breathe. “I’m so glad you’re okay. When that other telepath told me what was really happening here…” I SHIP ITTTTTTTTTTT

“Oh, how cute. You’ve found your little dream team!” A stab of pain shot through Bentley’s skull, and he stumbled. NOOOOOOOO STOPPPP

The world faded into darkness. KLKJAALJKFGAREBGBLBGAHREBGAELVGARDHGVBALERJHVGLAREGVAEJRHVGLAERHJVGAREHGJEARGLREGVLEVGHLEAHVGALERHGVAREIHV

Project: Killcode

batfamily + oc insert

tw: none

wanna read more? here’s the table of contents!

want to read the first fic in the hundred days series so you understand what’s going on here? here it is!

the girls are back in town 💃🏻💃🏻

part fifty

❝ ESCAPADE ❞

SUNDAY — OCTOBER 30 — 4:57AM

“BENTLEY. Bentley, wake up. Bentley,” 

With a subtle groan, he did.

He peeled his sticky eyes open, blinking rapidly when a terrible brightness assaulted them.

He was in the solid white room. And Charlie was sitting on the floor a few feet from him, legs criss-crossed, just kind of looking at him. She was in the same purple dress as always, her blonde hair loose and sort of wavy behind her shoulders. Her neck and wrists had bruises that he hadn’t noticed until now, probably from the chains pulling on her earlier. 

Bentley blinked a few times more, bringing his hands up to rub at his eyes. He felt absolutely exhausted, like he needed to sleep for, like, two months. Every muscle in his body seemed to be tired and sore like he’d run a marathon, and his head was sort of floaty, like he was coming out of anesthesia. 

With a wince at the pain that was thumping dully in his skull, he carefully sat up with a soft grunt of effort.

He glanced around at the empty white, then over at Charlie. There was nothing in the room. Just her and the white abyss. No Secret Keeper, no scary scenes, just… nothing.

“Why am I here?” He questioned softly, rubbing his eyes and glancing around again, then back at Charlie.

“Because your subconscious is awake, but your body isn’t. So, voila,” She said quietly, gesturing out to the room around her. She seemed… content, for now. Nonchalant, off her guard, like she knew the Secret Keeper wouldn't find them there.

Bentley glanced at her but didn’t say anything, just looked down at his hands. He was wearing the same hoodie and sweatpants he had been in when he was awake.

“I’m proud of you,” She spoke quietly. When he looked up, she had the faintest of smiles tugging up on her lips. “You did it. You broke through the EM field and saved Koa.”

“I think you mean you did it,” Bentley sighed, rubbing at the back of his head when a sharper pain surfaced there. “I just freaked out.”

Charlie shrugged. “I might be able to control you, but I can’t force your body to do something it isn’t capable of. That kind of power is inside of you. You just need to learn how to use it.”

Bentley lifted a brow at her, glancing down at himself. “I’m pretty sure using it almost killed me.”

“Well,” She trailed off. “You have been unconscious for over thirty-nine hours. But who’s counting?”

“What?!”

“You weren’t exactly at your peak strength to begin with. I may have pushed your body a little too hard,” She sighed lightly, her blue eyes flicking away from him guiltily. “Sorry...”

“It's… okay. It needed to happen, and I obviously wasn’t going to get it done myself,” Bentley sighed, glancing down at his hands and tapping his fingers on his sweatpants. “Hey, maybe if you control Valor, you can use his strength to break the door.”

Bentley glanced up at her, hoping she might say: wow Bentley that’s an amazing idea you just saved the world, but instead, she shook her head. “Even if he has the power to break through the EM, I… can’t control him like I can you.”

Bentley furrowed his brow, blinking once. “What? Why not?”

Charlie shrugged with the shake of her head. “I don’t know.”

His eyes drifted off in thought.

“To a human, other human’s minds are like… a room, I guess. There’s locked windows, and there’s locked doors, you can even see the inside from outside sometimes; but there’s no real way for you to get in. But… to a telepath, like me… I have no walls, and everyone else’s doors and windows are unlocked. I can force myself in if I want to, maybe even by accident,” She explained softly. “But The Secret Keeper keeps tabs on when and how much power I use. Any effort I make to open doors and windows, she can feel. And that’s just the thing.”

Bentley blinked at her.

“It’s so easy for me to enter your mind that… she can’t always feel it. It’s so easy it’s like you have no walls at all,” Charlie shook her head. “But I don’t know why. It would make sense if you were a telepath, too, but you’re not.”

Bentley blinked, glancing down at his hands, at the white floor. “Has it always been like that? Easy to get into my mind?”

“I’m not sure. I only recently started taking full advantage of her powers,” Charlie shrugged. “But since I started… yeah, I’d say so.”

A moment of silence passed.

“You’re really the only one I can talk to without her noticing. Even helping Valor wake up in the lab, she felt,” Charlie sighed. “I’m lucky she’s cocky and stupid.”

Bentley creased his brow. He understood cocky, but stupid? The Secret Keeper could see the future. How in the world was she stupid?  “What do you mean?”

Charlie smirked faintly. “Well, she can see every single detail of every possible future. It would be absolutely impossible for you to win against her, theoretically,” She explained quietly. “She knows that. And over time it's gone to her head. She only focuses on her futures and making sure everything falls in line with them… she doesn’t look at the ones where you win.”

Bentley said nothing, just listened closely, trying to wrap is hazy mind around it all.

“The future she’s working toward, where you all fail, and the one where you beat her, where you get the best possible outcome -- they’re only separated by a single choice made by one person. And she’s so caught up in her own world that she won’t see it until it’s too late,” Charlie smiled faintly. “Hubris. It’s always the fatal flaw of people like her.”

Bentley hummed lightly, tapping his pants again. “Whose choice is it? That saves us?”

Charlie looked up at him with a faint smile that looked kind of sad, maybe? “I can’t tell you.”

Bentley looked back down at his hands. 

“But I can tell you…” She trailed off lightly, reaching out and resting a hand on Bentley’s shoulder. “That you will be okay.”

Bentley looked back up at her. “All of us?”

Charlie’s expression darkened significantly. She frowned and removed her hand, and Bentley blinked once, a sort of dread settling in the pit of his stomach.

“Charlie…” He said lowly, looking her in the eyes so purposefully that she looked away. “Is someone going to die?”

Charlie said nothing.

“Tell me who,” Bentley ordered.

“I can’t,”

“Maybe I can save them!”

“You can’t,”

“Charlie-“

“Their death is the choice that saves this school, Bentley. If you change it, everyone will die,”

Bentley shook his head, looking down at the floor, his hands. “There has to be another way.”

“There’s not,” Charlie said, a sort of broken sounding firmness in her voice. When Bentley looked back up at her, she had tears glistening at the bottoms of her eyes. “I’ve searched and searched through future after future, countless, countless hours, and I can’t find a single other future where only one of you dies. It has to be this way.”

“Tell me who,” Bentley demanded, reaching out and grabbing her arm. “Charlie, please.”

“Don’t you understand? Telling you will change the future. I won’t give up your best chance of survival,” She brushed her hair back out of her face, and a few tears fell down her cheeks. “I did this and it’s my job to fix it.”

“You can’t just tell me someone’s going to die and then not tell me who!” Bentley ordered. “Is it me? Because I’ll do it.”

Charlie said nothing, bringing a hand up to wipe at her eyes with a subtle shake of her head.

Bentley’s heart started to hurt like someone had stabbed him. “Let me do it instead. I’ll die instead.”

“It doesn’t work like that,”

Bentley shook his head, and his eyes started to burn. “Please let me die instead.”

“If you die, everyone dies!” She said loudly, wiping her eyes again. “I know you want to, but you can’t save everyone this time.”

Bentley shook his head lightly, looking down at the floor and wiping his watery eyes. “I can’t let them die.”

“You have to,” She replied simply. “It’s going to hurt like hell, but it gets better. You’ll be okay even if it feels like you won’t. I promise.”

Bentley shook his head, a few sobs he choked down trying to force their way out. He wouldn’t die, but one of his friends would — Valor or Asten or Varian or Koa or Summer or Rockie or Layla or Vera or… God forbid it be Bellamy. How was he going to be okay after that?

Bentley shook his head. “You always talk about how many different futures there are… There has to be one where we all survive.”

“There isn’t,”

“There has to be!”

“There’s not!” Charlie almost yelled, sniffing lightly. “Trust me, Bentley, I’ve looked for so, so long. There’s not. This has to be it.”

Bentley looked down, and a few tears fell down his face that he immediately wiped away. “At least tell me who it is.”

Charlie smiled faintly at him. “You’re waking up.”

“What?”

With no more words, the white room started to fade slowly into darkness, taking Charlie and Bentley with it.

And then he groaned.

Someone’s hand immediately landed in his hair, but it only made him wince — the whole headache and exhaustion thing from the white room seemed amplified tenfold, and it kind of made him want to cry. He felt like he needed to sleep for seven years straight.

He lifted a hand up and brushed the other one off of his head.

“Hey, B. Can you hear me?”

He knew that voice. It was Asten’s voice.

He didn’t open his eyes, but groaned again. He was lying on something soft and warm, the weight of what was probably a blanket draped over his shoulders. 

“Can you hear me?”

With another groan, Bentley went about peeling his excruciatingly heavy and sticky eyes open. Several dull colors floated and spun around in his vision before each blur settled into its place, slowly clearing up the longer he kept his eyes open. 

He was laying on the same couch he’d passed out on. Now, he had a pillow under his head and a white blanket draped over him, and Asten was sitting near him. He had a book in his hand but was looking down at Bentley instead.

On the couch across from them was Valor, curled up small against the armrest with his wings wrapped around himself like a blanket. Bentley was glad he was sleeping -- he didn’t sleep much anymore.

He glanced around for signs of Varian or Koa, but neither of them were there. The dorm looked just the same as it had before — a pile of furniture near the door, the whole thing burned and messy with crystals growing from various places around the room.

“Yeah, I can hear you,” Bentley mumbled after a long time. His voice was sort of hoarse from not using it for so long. “Mm. I feel like death.”

“I bet,” Asten replied, and Bentley saw him close the book and lay it off to the side, glancing down at his hands and fiddling with his fingers. “You can go back to sleep. Not much is happening.”

"What time is it?"

Asten looked over at the windows. They were vaguely lit. "I dunno. Maybe five or six in the morning? I think it's Sunday."

Bentley exhaled heavily, pushing himself up on the couch, stretching out his sore muscles. Why was everything so sore? “Jesus. I’ve slept enough. How’s Koa?”

“Valor spent like, all day yesterday blending stuff up and force-feeding it to him like a hospital patient. It was gross,” Asten cringed. “He’s still weak, but better. He wanted to sleep in his bed, so Varian’s in there with him.”

Bentley nodded once, to himself. “I was so afraid he was going to die.”

"I was afraid you were gonna die," Asten piped up, and Bentley glanced over at him suddenly. "You've been out for two days. Unresponsive to sound or touch." 

Bentley looked down at his hands. "I think I just needed the rest. Bad enough that my body shut down, I guess."

A few moments of silence passed.

With a deep yawn, Bentley rose from the couch and stretched. Black dots danced in his vision like he’d gotten up too fast, but they passed soon after. “I’m going to go change.”

He glanced back at Asten, who nodded lightly, rising from the couch, too. “Okay. Since you’re awake, there’s something I wanted to ask anyways.”

With a soft sigh, Bentley made for their room. It was kind of weird. He hadn’t been in there since before Bellamy and Rockie were taken, and it seemed almost stale, like a place of bad nostalgia even though it had only been a week or two since he stepped inside. It seemed colder and way less inviting — like he didn’t want to be there at all.

He heard Asten close the door softly behind them. (Did he really have a question, or was he just trying to keep an eye on him?)

“When you saved Koa’s life…” Asten spoke quietly, an edge of something Bentley couldn’t identify in his words. “Your… your eyes. They were amber. Was she controlling you? Why would The Secret Keeper save Koa?”

Bentley shook his head lightly as he peeled his hoodie off, cringing at the grey t-shirt he’d been wearing for at least a month, probably. “It wasn’t her.”

A moment of quiet passed. “Then who-”

“It was Charlie,” He continued, opening his wardrobe and changing into a new shirt, throwing the other in their overflowing laundry basket. 

“Charlie?” Asten asked, scrunching his face up. “Charlie who? Charlie Reins? Like, The Secret Keeper Charlie?”

“Yeah,” Bentley replied, glancing back at him for a second before he changed into new sweatpants and a different hoodie. “I don’t know how it works, but The Secret Keeper is, like… an alter ego, or something. Attached to the mind control chip thing that's still in her head. Charlie, the real Charlie that we saw in the video at Dr. Keene’s cabin, is still inside of her. Trapped inside her own subconscious while the Secret Keeper uses her body.”

Asten furrowed his brows, sitting down on the bottom bunk of their bed. “How do you know that?”

Bentley shrugged as he closed the wardrobe up again. “She told me.”

Asten breathed in and out, then nodded, skeptically. “So they essentially… put a whole separate personality into her?”

“I have no idea,” Bentley shrugged. “All I know is that… she has access to The Secret Keeper’s powers, too. She can see the future and everything. She’s been helping me.”

Asten raised a brow at him. “Helping you?”

“Yeah. When I managed to get you all out of the facility -- she was telling me where to go, what to do,” He explained, making his way to the bunk beds and sitting down next to Asten. “She led me to you all and told me how to get you. She even got Titus to teleport us out.”

Asten didn’t say anything, he just looked down at the floor in deep thought. Bentley could practically see the gears turning in his head. 

“I was supposed to save Koa on my own, but I couldn’t do it. So she had to step in,” Bentley replied. "That's what you saw."

Asten shook his head lightly. “No. How do you know it's really her and not just The Secret Keeper playing with you?”

Bentley shrugged, glancing down at his socked feet, white against the dark hardwood. “Remember when I was sitting with Koa and I… passed out, or whatever?”

Asten nodded. 

“I went to the white place where the Secret Keeper shows you stuff, and they fought there. Charlie said The Secret Keeper was wasting time because I was supposed to save Koa, and she chained her down and let me out so I could.”

“But… it could still be her, making you see that,” Asten replied, looking up at him. “There’s no good way to tell.”

“If it was the Secret Keeper, I don’t think she would’ve let us escape that facility. She would’ve led me down there and taken me, too.”

“She loves to play with her food, B. You know that,” Asten replied, shaking his head again. “There’s no way in hell you can trust this girl, no matter what name she goes by.”

“Why? All she’s done is help,”

“Because The psycho supervillain whose body she’s inside can control your mind and make you see and hear and think whatever she wants,” Asten said firmly, as though Bentley had forgotten that part. “If she can see the future, and she wants to help, why doesn’t she just tell us step by step exactly what to do? Why hasn't she done that already?”

Bentley looked down, and Charlie’s voice echoed in his head: Don’t you understand? Telling you will change the future. 

“Because if we know, the future will change,” Bentley replied, meeting Asten’s green eyes again.

“Okay, sure…” He trailed off, looking across the room at nothing in particular. “But If she wants to help so bad, why is she only talking to you? Why doesn’t she talk to me or Valor, especially when you’re incapacitated or sleeping? And the body control -- if she did that to Valor, we could be out already. Why hasn’t she done that?”

“I said the same thing,” Bentley replied, looking down again. “I just spoke to her -- right before I woke up. She can’t reach anybody but me… and she doesn’t know why.”

Asten glanced over at him, something cold rippling across his features. “She’s manipulating you.”

“What? No she’s not,” Bentley argued. “She explained how it works to me -- like, our minds are rooms with doors and windows, but a telepath’s mind doesn’t have walls and the doors and windows on everyone else’s can be opened. She said my mind is like I don’t have walls at all -- it doesn’t take effort for her to talk to me, so The Secret Keeper won't feel her using the power.”

Asten blinked at him, blankly. “I’m not even going to pretend to understand what you just said.”

“I can’t explain it like she did,” Bentley shook his head. “But the gist is, she can only talk to me without the Secret Keeper finding out. Because she’s a telepath and her mind doesn’t have walls. And for some reason, neither does mine.”

“Oh-kay,” Asten chided, blinking a few times. “So, what you’re saying is, she oh-so-inconveniently can only speak to the one of us she knew would trust her immediately, and without question. Because he doesn’t have mindwalls. Like a telepath, even though he isn’t a telepath. Sounds real convincing to me, B.”

“I don’t know how it works, okay?” Bentley questioned. “But I trust her. All she’s done so far is help me.”

“She can do all this stuff to you, but she can’t control Valor or talk to me or speak to anybody outside of this dorm because they all have so-called mindwalls? Isn’t it obvious, B? She doesn’t want us out. Because she’s just the Secret Keeper in disguise,” Asten replied. “She’s preying on your hope, B. On the fact that you trust too easily. Don’t let her.”

Bentley huffed, looking down at his sweatpants. 

And then suddenly, something inside of him clicked.

“Mindwalls,” He said.

Asten looked over at him. “What?”

“Mindwalls. Mindwalls!”

“Are you going to keep saying that over and over, or actually tell me what you’re thinking?” Asten asked.

“You said she can’t talk to anybody outside because they all have mindwalls. But they don’t,” Bentley replied, standing back up from the bed. “Charlie, can you hear me?”

A moment of silence passed, and he heard Asten rise, too. “Bentley, don’t talk to her.”

“Charlie?” He continued, completely ignoring Asten’s warnings. “Charlie, can you hear me?”

“Bentley? Yeah, I’ve got you,”

Bentley turned when Asten touched his shoulder. Bentley held a hand in his direction with a quiet: “Hold on.”

“What?” Charlie asked.

“Not you,” Bentley replied. “You said you can’t break through peoples walls without the Secret Keeper noticing, right? But what if they never had any walls to begin with?”

A few moments of quiet came, from both Asten and Charlie.

“Vera is a telepath. You should be able to talk to her. If she’s not trapped or in the facility, you could tell her what's going on. She could come get us.”

Another few moments of quiet came, and Bentley looked up, locking eyes with Asten, who was just watching him with a contemplative look on his face. 

“The facility is moving fast to load kids there from the dorms, because you jeopardized the system -- but they’re trying to keep it as quiet as possible. All the remaining students still think they’re just in quarantine,” Charlie explained. “Lucky for you, I think Vera’s dorm hasn’t been reached yet. I’ll confirm and be back.”

Bentley looked back at Asten, with a faint look of relief settling on his face. “She’s getting Vera.”

Contrary to Bentley’s relief, Asten scrunched his face up. “But she knows the future. Why didn’t she just get Vera herself? She could’ve done it days ago. Before Koa had any problems, before everyone nearly had heart attacks and you went catatonic for two days.”

“Maybe I needed to have the idea for it to play out the right way,” Bentley replied, shrugging. “Or maybe it needed to happen at this specific time.”

“Bentley… I don’t trust this,” Asten sighed, wiping a hand over his face. “It’s too risky. She’s inside of the Secret Keeper, there’s no way we can trust her.”

“There’s no way you can trust her. But I do. She helped me save you,” Bentley replied. “She’s the reason I didn’t lose you once already. I have to trust her now. Wouldn’t you? If the roles were reversed?”

Asten opened his mouth to speak, but nothing really came out. His gaze just flicked around the room, settling, finally, on Bentley.

“Do you trust me?” Bentley questioned.

Asten looked at him, a deadpanned look on his face, and sighed softly. “Yes.”

“Then trust me,”

Asten didn’t say anything.

“I told Vera. They’re coming, and they have a way to get you out,” Charlie’s voice came. “Get ready.”

“Thank you,” Bentley replied, then looked up at Asten. “They’re coming.”

Asten breathed in and out, nodding to himself a few times. “Okay,” He muttered, shaking his head lightly. “Okay. I’ll tell Valor, then. You get the others?”

“Okay,” Bentley breathed, a small smile quirking up on his face. “Thanks for trusting me.”

Asten merely sent him a half-hearted smile as they made for the door. They split directions, Bentley heading for Varian and Koa’s bedroom, and Asten going to the couch where Valor was all curled up in a ball of wings.

Bentley opened Varian and Koa’s door with a soft creak, glancing into the room. Their curtains were drawn, making it nice and dark inside, and both of them were dead asleep on the bottom bunk, next to each other but facing opposite directions. Koa was facing outward, and in the light shining through the door, Bentley could see the markings left on his face and around his mouth from the muzzle… 

But he was there. And he was breathing. And he was alive. And that was what mattered. 

With a soft sigh, Bentley made his way to the bed, reaching out and gently putting a hand on both of their shoulders. “Hey, guys. Wake up.”

Varian stirred quickly, tossing and turning for a moment, but Koa didn’t even move. Bentley shook their shoulders gently. “Guys, wake up. We’re about to get out of here.”

Varian’s eyes flicked open that time, and he looked around with a groggy: “What?” Koa moved around in the bed, but only enough to shove Bentley’s hand away.

“We’re about to be broken out of the dorm. We’re gonna leave,”

“Oh,” Varian said, sitting up and rubbing his eyes, reaching over and shaking Koa’s shoulder way more vigorously than Bentley had been. “Koa, wake up! We’re leaving!”

Koa finally roused, his seafoam green eyes flicking open with a groan. “What?” “Bentley says were going to get out,”

Bentley backed up as they both climbed quickly out of the bed, stumbling around and muttering to each other.

“Who’s breaking us out?” Varian asked, looking over at him as he grabbed a green hoodie from the top bunk and pulled it on over his black t-shirt.

“Vera,” Bentley replied. “She’s coming, and maybe the other girls.”

Varian gasped suddenly. “Of course! Why didn’t I think of that?!”

“Of what?”

“Layla. She can destroy anything she wants at will. And put it back together!” He replied. “She can just shatter the whole door! If only we could’ve contacted her-“

Bentley blinked. He actually… now that he thought about it, he’d never actually learned what Layla’s powers were. Not that it would’ve made much of a difference before now, though, he guessed.

“Wait, how did you contact them? With no phones and that power-field?” Varian continued, furrowing his brows over at him. 

Bentley shook his head, ushering them both toward the door. “It doesn’t matter -- what matters now is- oof!”

He made a noise of surprise when something slammed into him, and it took him a few moments to realize that it was Koa. Hugging him.

With an exhale, Bentley hugged him back, taking a second to really revel in the fact that he was there.

“Thank you,” Koa said quietly. “You saved me. Twice now. And it's about to be three.”

Bentley smiled faintly, rubbing his back a little. “Yeah, well, what’re friends for, am I right?”

Koa pulled away from him with a faint smile. He still looked tired, and maybe thinner than he had been, and scarred around his mouth, but he was okay. “I’ll never be able to repay you.”

“You don’t have to,” Bentley replied. “You being okay is enough.”

Koa smiled faintly at him and then hugged him one more time, quickly before they both made their way into the living area. Valor was awake now, he and Asten now standing near the door, looking completely alert and ready and not at all like he’d been dead asleep a mere moment ago. He looked at Bentley for a few seconds when they entered — it made him wonder if Asten had told him about Charlie.

“I hear Vera is coming to our rescue,” He said, making a subtle expression in Bentley’s direction that made his face turn a little red, for some reason.

Or maybe that was why he was looking at him weird.

“Keep everybody away from the door,” Charlie’s voice came.

Bentley glanced up. “Get away from the door.”

Asten and Valor backed up near the couches, and Bentley, Koa, and Varian followed suit. For a few minutes, no noise or movement came.

And then there was a small crack.

Bentley scoured the wall with his eyes, and only after a moment of examination did he spot the crack — in the drywall, right near the trim of the door.

And then the crack grew.

It went up and around the door, cracking and spreading out like arcing electricity. It touched the floor again, on the other side, splitting the trim and-

The entire door, including the trim and parts of the wall around it, cracked and fell toward them with a deafening crash, some debris breaking off and flying across the room.

Vera, Layla, and Summer were on the other side, looking at them. They all looked like they’d just rolled out of bed. Vera was wearing black leggings and those same black boots she had on when she was drunk, a pink Redwood Academy crewneck on top and her hair tied up into a messy ball on her head. Layla’s blonde hair was braided and she had on a set of pajamas with cats all over them, and Summer was wearing hot pink leggings, some short brown boots, and white shirt that didn’t look much bigger than a sports bra. Her hair was loose and sort of wavy, like curls that had fallen out.

“Hey, guys!” Layla announced with a small wave. Bentley watched all three of them look around their dorm, eyeballing the burns and the crystals and the mere disaster it had become.

“What the hell happened in here?” Vera questioned suddenly, her brown eyes flicking around the room, landing on Bentley.

As few moments after the wall was down, Bentley felt something like a surge of power or energy, tingling his fingertips and making his head spin for just a second. All of his roommates moved and looked around, like they felt it, too.

Asten lifted his hands up, and they caught on fire. “Oh hell yeah.” 

“Come on, let’s get out of here,” Valor ordered. He ushered them all into the hall, staying close by as they all climbed over the debris. He came out last, turning and glancing back into their tornado of a dorm with a sigh.

Bentley suddenly remembered that this had been his only real home, ever.

Once they were on the other side, Layla reached down and touched the fallen wall, and the entire thing sat back up into place, the cracks filled themselves in, and it was like nothing ever happened.

“Holy shit,” Someone said.

“Bentley,”

Bentley turned just in time for Vera to wham straight into his chest, hugging him so hard around the neck it was kinda difficult to breathe. “I’m so glad you’re okay. When that other telepath told me what was really happening here…”

With a soft sigh, he brought his arms up and around her, too. “I’m glad you’re okay.”

Vera pulled away and smiled at him, squeezing his shoulders and then stepping away.

“We have to get out of this school,” Valor spoke. “Does anyone have anywhere we can go?”

“My house!” Layla piped up, rising from the floor with a little bounce. “My parents aren’t home. It’s the penthouse of the big apartment building near The Bordeaux hotel, where we went all the time last year to watch the sunset on the roof.”

“Okay,” Valor was quick to agree. “We-“

“Wait!” Bentley spoke up. “What about Bellamy?”

Everyone looked at each other. 

Bentley drew in a breath, looking down at his hands. “You guys go to Layla’s house. I know how to get into the facility, so I’ll stay back and look for Bell.”

“Like hell,” Asten replied, crossing his arms and raising a brow at him. “If you’re staying in this shithole, so am I.”

“Me too,” Vera’s voice came from next to him. Quiet, but audible.

“Me too,” Koa said. “We can’t leave anybody behind in this place.”

“I’d wager that we’re probably all staying, then,” Valor said with a soft sigh, glancing around and getting various nods and replies that mounted to a resounding yes. 

“Alright,” He gestured toward Bentley. “Get us in there, then.”

“Hey, where’s Rockie?” Summer piped up, her dark eyes flicking back to the dorm door.

Everyone sort of went quiet.

“He’s working with them. The facility,” Valor spoke up, a bit quieter than he had been. “It doesn’t matter now. We just need to get Bellamy and leave. Bentley, take us there.”

With a nod, Bentley turned and made for the stairs at the end of the hall. But right before he got to the door-

“Oh, how cute. You’ve found your little dream team!”

A stab of pain shot through Bentley’s skull, and he stumbled. As quickly as he’d gotten his powers back, the telltale wave of weakness and exhaustion washed over him again, and Bentley had to grab the wall, nearly falling flat on his face as his only defense was sucked right back out of him.

He turned around. His friends were all near the walls, too, now, from the dizziness, and through the middle of the group, he saw her. Standing at the end of the hallway with her crooked smile and bloody platinum hair, staring right at him. There was no one with her — just her in her black and yellow, looking like she’d just murdered twenty people, like she always did.

“Too bad your little escapade ends here,” She spoke. Everyone looked back at her, and he realized she was talking to them all, not just him. Layla screamed when she saw her face, stumbling back slightly only for Koa to catch her. 

Valor righted himself and stepped out at the front of the group, between her and the rest of them. “Who the hell are you?

“Aren’t you cute?” The Secret Keeper raised her hand and pointed at him. “Go to sleep.”

A silent moment later, he hit the floor.

Layla screamed bloody murder again, and the Secret Keeper laughed and pointed at her. “Go to sleep.” 

She fell limp in Koa’s arms, who was too weak to actually hold her, so he lowered her down to the floor.

The Secret Keeper giggled, pointing at Asten. “Go to sleep.” Then Varian. “Go to sleep.” Then Summer. “Go to sleep.” Then Koa. “Go to sleep.”

One by one, they all hit the floor, completely incapable of doing anything other than what she ordered. Vera sort of stumbled away from her, back toward where Bentley was, rushing toward him and standing directly in front of him, as though she could protect him from her. 

“Stop it!” She ordered loudly. The Secret Keeper laughed again, her amber eyes staying locked on Vera’s face.

“Go to sleep,”

Bentley waited on her to fall, but she didn’t.

On the contrary, The Secret Keeper blinked a few times, shaking her head like a fly had landed on her nose. She opened her eyes, and with this look of pure determination in her amber irises, she walked forward until she was mere feet from Vera’s face. 

“It’s going to take more than a little telepath rooting around in my head to take me down,” She giggled. “So… Go to sleep.”

Vera fell, and Bentley caught her under her arms, guiding her down to the floor.

“Charlie!” He half-shouted, glancing up at the Secret Keeper, gauging if she had any kind of reaction.

“She can’t come to the phone right now,” She muttered, her voice sending a spiking pain through his skull. “I think you’d rather… go to sleep.”

The world faded into darkness.

--

tag list that KINDA works lmao

@fleur-alise @sarcopterygiian @gayboss-too-close-to-the-sun

@xiaonothere

@skylathescholarly @flyrobinflyy @bookwarm0-0

@custommadeazula

[starbuck]

making the initial discovery that, when i read a fic a few nights ago, it was as a guest because i followed a link to get to it and it is therefore not saved in my ao3 history, which means that i have to go on an epic journey through three months of posts on the blog of my beloved mutual in order to refind their reblog of it (AGAIN!!): woe. agony. hell on earth.

realizing immediately after that this means that i get to leave kudos on it AGAIN(!!) once i log in: 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎

[aarafox]

Lol hate it when I text my crush and my stomach immediately flips!! 😩

[tellywoodtrash]

immj2 05.04.21 lb

daaaayum, riddhima using her brain soooo much in advance now ki sapne mein hi she foresees what kaand could happen and thinks ways out.

lmaoooooooooooooooo are they making not-rrahul shoot from some random khopcha in his home? kya hi ganda camera angle hai yeh? it looks like a hostage video.

riddhima’s face as sasta!vansh drones on and on about absolutely nothing is me on every single phone call.

ofc vansh has snuck up on this call and taken the phone and decides to take over conversation himself. dude, shaadi hui hai iska matlab yeh nahi ki koiiiiiiiiiii bhi boundaries nahi hain.

sasta!vansh got a taste of his own meds ki how it feels when someone’s just talking AT you, and he hung up.

riddhima is not falling for any of vansh’s intimidation and i am here for it!

NO RIDDHIMA DO NOT DRINK ANY JUICE HE GIVES YOU DO NOT FUCKING DRINK ANYTHINGGGGG HE GIVES YOUUUUUUUUUUUU

“kahin tumne ismein kuch milaaya toh nahi???” she asks with sweeeeeeeet as pie smile. ALKSDJFLKDF HOW MY GIRL HAS GROWN. *sniff, happy tears*

him: oh absolutely milaaya hai! love, care, affection................

her:

him: ............. and a little truth serum, taaki jungle waala sach baahar aaye.

her:

she’s like SOUNDS DELICIOUS, HERE I GO, GULP GULP.

oh god, he’s telling her “baith ke piyo” FUCKER DID YOU PUT PARALYTICS IN THIS AGAIN, I SWEAR TO GOD SCREEN MEIN GHUS KE ILL HOLD YOU DOWN AS RIDDHIMA AND ISHANI AND SIYA TAKE TURNS SHANKING YOU TO DEATH.

she’s coughing and choking. oh boy.

lmaoooooooooooooooooooo she’s like OMG THE TRUTH SERUM IS WORKING, I FEEL LIKE TELLING THE WHOLE TRUTH........... ABOUT THE SHIT YOU PULLED, TO DADI. akldjslkasdjlsakjdlskj man i really love new riddhima!!!!!!!!!!

he’s also sassing her and saying yes yes, jaake baata do, and then she’ll murder the both of us. THIS RELATIONSHIP GOT SO MUCH MORE INTERESTING WHEN THESE TWO STOPPED BEING SUCH DUMBASSES WHO CONSTANTLY UNDERESTIMATE EACH OTHER AND JUST STARTED SEXY-CHALLENGING EACH OTHER RIGHT TO THE FACE.

ouff, siya’s back at saste!bhaiyya’s lair and she’s at the proper set and he’s in that random khopcha and it looks dumb as shit. man why won’t they just get rid of his characterrrrrrrrrrrr????????/

OH GOD SHE’S LIKE “MUJHE LAGA TUM MUJHE MISS KAR RAHE HONGE, TOH MAIN MILNE CHALI AAYI” TF IS THIS GIRL EVEN DOING????????? ISHANI SIS, PLS APNI BEHEN KO KUCH SIKHAO!!!!!!!?!?!?!

and now he’s negging her. siya pls for the love of god why are you into this fucker??????????/

anyway, i’m not interested in these two and their grossass flirtationship so i’m fwding. only thing worth pointing out in this scene is vyom has a sizable pic of vansh with a big X on it, and siya has not noticed it or found it shady. wonderful.

and now she’s promising to turn into whatever type of girl he wants and to take anyyyyyyyyyyy risk for him. PLS TELL ME THIS IS SHAATIR SIYA PLAYING SHUNYA MAN FOR BHAIYYA’S SAKE. I CANNOT TAKE THE DEGRADATION OF HER CHARACTER OTHERWISE. VANSH AND ISHANI DID NOT RAISE YOU TO BE THIS FUCKING STUPID, SIYA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

chanchal asking dadi what vyom’s whole deal is, kuch kaand hua tha na uske family ke saath? and dadi’s like we don’t talk about that here.

chachi also dropped a tidbit about siya leaving the house all saj-dhaj ke and dadi’s taking it too easy. let’s hope dadi/siya have formed an allaiance to fuck vyom up?

riddhima has come to talk to dadi. lord.

riddhima trying to gauge dadi ka taapmaan and.......... mafia dadi just gave a very “the family” typa speech and some thinly veiled treats.

glad to see vansh be a responsible pet owner who feeds his fishies everyday.

hein? aryan’s back in the house? already????????/ aur jaake vansh bhai ke mooh bhi lag raha hai........... GUTS mannnnnnn.

vansh is pulling some patronizing bada bhai bs and aryan’s like literally gtfo my face. relatable. vansh IS very irritating.

lmaoooooooooooooooo aryan’s dumb ass still hasn’t figured angre isn’t really dead. vansh’s smile at that is amazing, lol.

anyway aryan’s ranting on about how riddhima ke ishq ne nikkama kar diya, warna vansh bhai bhi the aadmi kaam ke.

wifey is off-limits topic. collar pakad liya bhai ne.

LOL ARYAN ARE YOU SERIOUSLY SO DUMB THAT YOU THINK EVEN IF ANGRE’S DEAD FOR REAL, VANSH CAN’T JUST GET A NEW RIGHT HAND MAN??????????

lmaooooooooooo at the way vansh is snooping at riddhima in the shower. he legit looks like such a pervert lol.

lo mil gaya fingerprint glass se and khol liya uska phone. why are you like this, man????????????

found nothing. pfffffffffffffffffffffft.

OH GOD THE “INTERESTING, VERY INTERESTING” IS BACKKKKKKKK.

riddhima knew fucker would snoop on her!!!!!!!! “tumhi se seekha hai........ SWEETHEART.”  i love ittttttttttt. keep playing him like the sucker he is, babe!

ishani is here to ask aryan for painkillers for angre and aryan’s like HEIN???? ANGRE’S ALIVE?????????

abhi buddhu ko samajh aaya lmaoooooooooooooooo. honestly aryan, you need to do some brain workouts and shit.

sakldjlskajdlkjsalkdjlaskj now ishani took the gun from aryan and is threatening to shoot if he did something to angre.

aryan copped up to it, and ishani actually shot at him!!!!!!!!!!!!!111 omg to be angre, the man who inspires wife and bhaabi to murder this fucker for him!!!! the only good bean. he deserves this kinda loyalty. *happy sigh*

anyway, it’s quite clear now ki vansh bhai ne gun ke saath kuch locha kiya tha.

ew idhar siya is in some sexy sari for saste!bhaiyya and i am not here for this. fwding. *gag gag retching noises*

riddhima is video-calling vyom and he’s panicking to hide siya like a teen who snuck his gf home when mummy papa aren’t here. loserrrrrrrrrrr.

shunya dude is like baby doll, you’re not like other girls, you’re smarter!!!! and riddhima instantly shut him down saying women don’t need YOUR validation so literally stfu. phew. the character growth of this girl. i can only watch with happy tears in my eyes.

riddhima noticed siya’s earring in his hand and him yelling at someone off screen.

riddhima’s called for some help with some “keemti cheez”, which zero man promises to get to her.

ishani is here to yell at vansh bhai for jeopardizing angre’s life like this and it is FUCKING AMAAAAAAZING.

lol vansh is in competition with ishani for angre’s love???? he’s like angre’s life means more to me than it does to you. kya hi ajeeb family hai yeh yaar.

ishani: EVERYTHING IS NOT ABOUT YOU; AUR MAIN ANGRE KO KUCH NAHI HONE DUNGI!!!!!!!!!! HE’S MY HUSBAND!!!!!!!!!

me rn:

ok idk how ishani is just yelling at vansh bhai instead of socking him in the face for his patronizing bs, coz i for sure would have gotten a swing in at a brother who acted this way in front of me, so help me godddddd.

vansh seems to really be enjoying seeing the outburst though. he can’t stop smirking about how baby sis finally in love with her husband. it’s kinda cute.

cut to vangre in their secret room trying to figure out how to open the black box. um there’s a number written quite prominently ON IT. have y’all tried that???

meanwhile lollipop ladki is spying on them. vansh i told you that you needed to shift base. koi bhi aa jaa raha hai yahaan, for fucks sake it’s getting as much footfall as the kitchen. go back to that random container house you used to live in as vihaan.

precap: vansh dispatches angre to check chappa-chappa of that jungle where he was behosh. vansh promising riddhima he’s gonna find out what happened in those 6 hours. ANGRE FINDS KABIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dresupi]

Dres is bored: Quarantine edition

It’s Monday and I am boreddddddddddddd

I know I could write something, but I’d rather answer asks instead.

So send me asks.  Pretty please?  

Just ask me whatever. I’m up for answering.  <3 <3 <3

Ask me about fics, or ships, or life, or anything. I will do my best to answer it. 

Ask me my top five [insert thing here], or FMKs, or ‘this or that’s, or fics I’ll never write, or OTP song suggestions (you’ll have to give me a ship so I can think about it)

just do ittttttttttt so I can do something with my BRAINNNNNNN

[adi06lena]

here i am again, ignoring my math homework

I RLLY WANNA WATCH ITTTTTTTTTTT UGH

my dad says no 16 plus stuff tho- :<

and i can only start watching it once he starts going to office so he doesnt notice

but were gonna be staying at my uncle and aunts house for a month until our flat is ready

theyr both like rlly sweet but ngl it feels rlly awkward to watch tv in someone elses house so-

ig i just have to wait like 2 months to watch tv again :')

also my besties birthday is in 5 days

i still havtn gotten gifts sksksks

i know what i want to get-

but i cant get it yet-

something keeps comign up every weekend-

also this is like rlly random but guess my name bcs why not

ur hints are-

there are 7 letters

out of which there are 3 vowels

out of which one vowel repeats

the vowels that repeat are next to each other

it starts with a k

ends with i (thats one of the vowels lmao)

andddddddddddddddd it has s somewhere in the middle

LET THE NAME GUESSING GAMES BEGINNNNNNNNNNNNN

(good luck bitch lmao)

Ahhh Bestie just watch it as soon as you can and start mentally and emotionally preparing now cus holy duck 😭😭

Also you best get that gift soon babes 😭😭

Hold up to best send another ask cuz I’m still trying to figure this out 😳😳

Edit: Bestie anon ur name is so fucking hard omg 😭

I have kaishai rn but I don’t think that’s right cuz to many vowels 😭😭

Lmk if I’m close cuz I feel like a dumbass

I’ll let you try and guess my real name after if you’d like

[theodoraflowerday]

heartstopper s1e7 live reaction post

called it!

your crush on him was super embarrassing LMAO tori my love

i wish ben a very death

well you kind of ARE a gay nerd

CHAR HE CALLED HIM CHAR HE SAID IT HE SAID ITTTTTTTTTTT

I don't know what to do with my life they're honestly the cutest little things

officially a nick's "wow" stan

I like it its cute 🥰 now I'm never calling you it again 😶

charlie is so stressed but the second nick says "char" he's like "oh would you look at that, my anxiety has been replaced by pure homosexuality!"

my little himbo dumbass who's scared of horror movies

THE PINKY THING!!!!!!!!

YOU'RE A DORK

LMFAOOOO THEY CHANGED ZAYN FOR HARRY I'M LOSING MY MIND though to be fair who isn't into harry styles

I'm going to straight up murder the SHIT out of ben

how's bash this good at playing such an evil piece of garbage

god nick punching harry was so much more satisfying here, he really did deserve a big punch huh

I love olivia-sarah so much

"you CLEARLY didn't get hugged enough as a child but if you're craving human contact that badly you can just say so" WHAT A SICK BURN OH MY HOD

oh nick baby boy

honestly both nick and charlie deserve lots of hugs from each other

I know like, story wise, it wouldn't have made sense for tao not to find out about nick and charlie until next season, but I'm still kinda mad that he didn't find out from charlie himself

TAO'S MOM LSKDLSKDLSKD

oh my god this is stressing me out so much

HE HIT HIM WITH THE BEANIE

nah that's not good that's not great at all

my review: nope nope nope nope nope (but “char” just healed all my illnesses)

[stopkiwibea]

Guys help I’m emotional

So I wrote a thing- Its a Langst thing.

It isnt finished and its just in the ‘summarize’ stage but… I dont know if I should expand on it?

Read it under the cut if you wantttt

(post season 2)

First Part:

Shiro is still missing, the team does the musical chairs with the lions. Keith is Black, Lance is Red, Allura is Blue. Lance feels disconnected from his identity. Is he the jester? Is he the sharpshooter? Is he just a replacement that’s supposed to try and fit the red lion’s traits? He isnt sure. He tries to keep things going like normal. “But he isnt stupid and he notices how they treat him”(line from the prompt) and he shuts down. Trains more, sleeps less. Focuses more, eats less. Obeys more, talks less. To the point where he’s a walking shell of himself and “Got it” “Yes sir” “On it” short and quick comments. Everyone is stressed, relieved that ‘lance isnt making this harder’ and doesnt notice how broken he is. Its not til the y get Shiro back that he finally visibly breaks. (i.e. hes supposed to go back to blue but he cant? He doesnt know who he is anymore? He visibly looks confused when someone jokes that ‘lance can go back to being lance’ and its said in a way that just enforces more self hatred for the guy he used to be) so he tries to bond with blue again but she isnt letting him in, she doesnt like how cold he is at his core, doesnt understand what happened to her favorite paladin, wont let anyone in(mentally, she still lets allura pilot) and no one understands why… at first. Cuz Shiro is getting increasingly uncomfortable with “how much lance has improved” cuz he’s realizing its not a good change- Lance is getting even quieter as the days go by because, hell, blue wont let him in, why is he even here then?

Hunk tries telling him jokes they used to say back on earth (lance just stares at him like the joke went over his head), pidge tries to get some insane ideas out of him again (he is too strategic now, nothing he says is ‘insane’ anymore), Coran invites him to help clean in hopes it will bring him to talk (lance stays silent the entire time), Keith bugs him/tries to get him fired up over small things (lance just shrugs and listens as keith gets progressively more angry about the lack of response and is removed from the room), Allura leaves every window open for lance to flirt or crack a joke/ intentionally pausing as if waiting for one that she can hear in her head (he never does and the meetings are forced), Shiro thinks its his fault / due to the stress of having to find him that broke lance (he’s only half way right.) Lance just… cant understand who he is supposed to be anymore. Lance thinks that the castle is better now, with less yelling, less mistakes, they get through meetings faster, and his ‘sharpshooter’ title becomes the only thing he holds onto. (like a living breathing gun)

No one knows how to help him.

Things get worse.

The team cant form voltron.

Even the lions feel disconnected from each other.

Lance feels responsible.

“I cant even be the sharpshooter if I dont have a lion”

“Its my fault for severing my bond with blue/she cant recognise me anymore.”

“I dont understand why the team is like this. Why cant you guys bond?”

Keith yells “ITS BECAUSE OF YOU” (he doesnt mean it that way. He’s just wants the old lance back, the one he was growing to love. The others know that. Lance doesnt.)

Lance leaves in the middle of the night after that.

The team searches and searches but they cant find him.

They fear lance is gone forever. They fear that they caused this.

Second Part:

Its been a month. Still no sign of Lance. Until they get a signal from a Galra ship hoarding prisoners. And Blue, who never fully disconnected from Lance, feels him on that ship. She relays this to Allura and the team regroups, planning to break him out. They had to work on their bonds, strengthen them in the hopes that they would eventually find Lance. In a way, he is still holding the team together.

Lance is on that ship. Has been for 2 weeks? 3? He isnt sure. He just knows hes in so much pain, hes surprised he isnt dead yet.

(prompt continues where he strikes deals to take other prisoners beating for them, is still a selfless asshole, learns how small his vocabulary got with all the “yes sir” shit he was doing, and he still has his smart mouth (never got rid of it, just… couldnt use it with the team- his brain felt like it had short circuited in front of them) The prisoners dont understand why he would endure so much pain just for them. They thank him and care for him as he drifts through the blackouts. Queue lance getting to know these prisoners, understanding their strengths and weaknesses, and using that (slowly oh so slowly) to try and find a way to break out. He does. He tells them this plan. They praise him for his kind heart and smart thinking, the tell him things he never would have thought about himself. He’s happy. He thinks he knows who he is again. The problem is, he cant feel his legs after that last beating. He can barely stay awake. He thinks hes failed. Again. But the prisoners say otherwise. They make a makeshift stretcher for him. He protests, telling them he’ll only get in the way like this, they tell him “nonsense! You saved us too many times to think about leaving you here. Its our turn to save you.”)

The team is breaking through the defenses when they notice the main ship going crazy. Pidge scans it “its the prisoners! They broke out!” Hunk is overjoyed “I knew Lance could do it!” Its Keith who still has a bad feeling. Shiro directs them to take out all the smaller ships, let Allura and Keith get to the hanger. Keith gets there first, busts the doors open, Allura slides Blue in. They both get out, on foot, within 5 minutes of landing and take out the soldiers. The doors behind them open and here come the prisoners. They dont see Lance at first. Allura is quick to signal them over to blue. As Keith is still fighting, Allura runs over to Blue, getting her to open up for the prisoners, and they both stop. They feel the mental connection that should have been lost but its still there. Keith finished with the soldiers and runs to Allura’s side. Allura stares at the prisoners “I-is he really… Is our friend really with you?” The prisoners part to let them see the middle of their group and theres Lance. On the stretcher, looking worse than they ever could have imagined.

Keith knew he had a bad feeling.

With no time to waste, Blue growled, snapping everyone to attention and the rescue continues.

(lance is watched like a hawk by these prisoners who (understandably, dont know if lance is really their ‘friend’ and they decide to be protective of him. Very. protective.) They are able to open a wormhole and everyone gets on the ship ok. Well… relatively. Lance still hasnt woken up the entire rescue mission and its concerning to everyone. They get him in a pod just as his breathing threatens to stop. Coran is all but sobbing, so grateful that they made it in time, no matter how slim of a window that was. Hunk is sitting by the pod, staring at his friend, tears rolling off his cheeks. Pidge is just trying to take everything in, none of the prisoners were her brother or father, and lance(whos been missing for a month) is stuck in a pod. Allura is speaking with the prisoners, explaining who they are and who lance use to be. (they are very surprised considering how low his self esteem was that he was ever a paladin of the great voltron) Shiro, standing by hunk, still feeling guilty, is lost in his thoughts about whether or not Lance will be happy when he wakes up in the castle.

Keith is just… sitting with some of the younger prisoners and crying. Crying because they are telling him everything that Lance did for them. And crying because “he isnt gone, hes still in there, i thought we lost him forever, guys we have to fix this”

Lance comes out of the pod a week later and YAY ITS ALL HAPPY MANY HUGS AND APOLOGIES AND LANCE UNDERSTANDING THAT HE IS WORTH SOMETHING AND THEY WANT THE GOOFY GUY BACK BUT ONLY IF HES OK WITH THAT ALRIGHT ONLY IF HES OK WITH ITTTTTTTTTTT

[lastloveklaroline]

Prison Break 5x05

Lots of parallels, some shadiNESS, and great brother scenes!

"Where are you goin'?...TO MY SON!"

AHHH OMG MAMA!SARA IS AMAZING I LOVE HER SO MUCH.

"I'm not moving another inch until you tell me what the hell is really going on here."

HOLY SHIT BALLS THAT WAS INTENSE! LINC IS DONE WITH MIKE AND HIS PLANS AND NEEDS SOME ANSWERS!

"Michael Scofield had to die, I had to fake my death, and go away."

IT WAS PART OF THE DEAL HE MADE! POSEIDON CONTACTED HIM BEFORE THE WEDDING TO SARA! THEY BLACKMAILED HIM TO WORK FOR THEM! OMG!!!

Sara gushing about her friend saying she's starting to show, criessssssss.

MICHAEL ORIGINALLY SAID NOW AND THEN SARA WAS ARRESTED AND BEATEN IN JAIL SO HE SAID YES TO PROTECT HER AND HIS FAMILY.

YEAH I'M FINE, NOOOOOOOOOOOT.

Sara trying to evacuate her son and Jacob shows up and tries to explain and Sara's all HELLO NO, NOT TODAY SATAN!

YESSSSSSSSS! THAT'S OUR GIRL!

Sara went to her friend and she's freaking out..."And I can't get through to Lincoln!" AHHHHHH.

Lincoln breaking their cover and smashing a crate over a dudes head, yeah, that's our brute.

AND THERE'S ANOTHER PARALLEL! RUNNING TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRAIN!

Linc pulling Michael aside..."Your plans affect people and you don't even see it." But he does see it, he feels it all, but he has to stay focused..."The man with the plan, just like Fox River, rememember."

SARA JUST INTRODUCED HERSELF AS "Sara Scofield" She even said her husband Jacob NESS directly after and I can't even tell you how happy that made me cuz it was perfect. She may have married him but her heart and name have always been with Michael.

Linc and Mike's truck is t-boned mid talk, just like in S2, HAHA NICE.

SARA SCOFIELD! AGAIN! They just happen to have the Poseidon agents at the station for a line up for her to identify, she knows somethings up, yes this is shady af.

What is it with Michael and tunnels and grates, lol.

"Their in the wrong, not you." I'm liking this Whip kid more and more.

"I should have come to you." YES MICHAEL YOU SHOULD HAVE, YOU SHOULD HAVE LET YOUR FAMILY HELP YOU OMG WHY YOU ALWAYS GOTTA DO IT ON YOUR OWN.

Michael had seens Sara and Mikey in Panama after he had "died", he kept an eye on them, became a ghost, and I'M CRYING.

Linc telling Michael that he's the smartest person he's ever known and that he needs to share the burden, that it's what family's for. I LITERALLY JUST SAID THAT OMG. THIS SCENE. I'M CRYIINGGGGGGGG.

Sara pretending to forgive Jacob but she knows it doesn't feel right.

I like how this Korean Princess plays...with fire, while singing WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!

LINC CALLING C-NOTE! HAPPY TO HEAR THAT VOICE! YESSSSSSSSS!, WAIT FOR THEM AND DO NOT LET THAT PLANE TAKE OFF OMG!

Sid is killed...Mikey starts bashing in the dude..."Don't waste yourself on him, you'll beat him by surviving." I am definitely liking this Korean Princess.

C-NOTE DO NOT LET THAT PLANE TAKE OFF!

THE PARALLELS THIS SEASON ARE KILLING ME OMG!

LINC TELLING C-NOTE TO GO WITHOUT THEM TO SAVE THE KIDS! AWE MAN. HOW IN THE HELL ARE THEY GONNA FIND ANOTHER WAY OUT.

Sheba trying to tell him something that could help them but they're too far up, ohhh damn.

Mikey gets hurt in the next episode and thinks of Sara and they are seriously making me wait until the last 2 episodes before they're reunited aren't though. DAMN ITTTTTTTTTTT!

[myassbrokethefall]

If you had asked me, say, a year and a half ago which, in the spring of 2017, would be the MVP of my fave supernatural-themed TV shows...

X-Files, Sleepy Hollow, and Grimm...

...I sure the hell would not have said Grimm. Meanwhile, Sleepy Hollow tragically exploded (yes, I am aware it TECHNICALLY is still on), X-Files...you know, and, Grimm? Is one episode away from its series finale and I have enjoyed THE HELL out of it this year. I have never been that INVOLVED with Grimm -- I would never seek out fanfic about it, because like, I don’t really care that much about any of the characters (yes, I love Monroe and Rosalee, but I don’t have any need to read further about them) -- it’s always just been...there. Sometimes it sits on the DVR for days because I don’t feel like paying attention to it. There have been some questionable plotting choices, and sometimes it can all feel a bit...pedestrian. But, my god, it is a fun, good-natured workhorse of a sci-fi show. 

I don’t even know what I like about it that much. I used to say that Lost was a big relief for me after X-Files (lord, I have been seeking relief from the misery that XF has brought me for many years) because I didn’t really give that much of a shit about any of the characters and I was fully in it for the crazy plot machinations and mysterious stuff. With Grimm, I also didn’t really care that much about the characters, but...I didn’t care much about the plot either. I could never follow all the stuff about the Royals or Black Claw or whatever, I was so bored when Sean ran for mayor...I can’t even remember the less recent ones. But maybe it was the very low-stakes-ness of Grimm that has made me so fond of it. Once I finally get around to watching it, I always really enjoy it. Tonight I was making a pizza and I took it out of the oven and sat down and I was like “OK, Grimm, tell me a story,” and I just got really happy because that’s exactly what it is. It’s just a yarn. They are doing some end-of-days stuff right now that is kind of my jam, and like...they might have killed some people off, but hopefully not (there is a stick floating around this season that resurrects people so that doesn’t seem out of the question), but I’m not really that invested, and...I just want to find out how it ends and how they defeat the [redacted] and what happens to everybody and I’m so glad [redacted] is back and, it’s just a stupid show, a fun show, it has good one-liners, Monroe speaks German a lot, the Crusaders are involved, there is an evil child that I used to think was super annoying but has suddenly grown on me this season, it’s filmed in Portland which is fun and different from most other stuff on TV...I’m going to miss it when it’s done. Well, I might not even miss it that much because I pretty much never think about it when it’s not on. But I’m feeling bittersweet about it ending. It has never been to me anything other than what it should be -- an entertaining TV show that I spend an hour a week with for several weeks a year and I watch to see what’s going to happen. I tend to get overly emotionally involved with my TV, IF YOU HADN’T NOTICED, and somehow I never have with Grimm, and that in its own way is a thing of lovely simplicity. 

Anyway. This is where I ramble about TV and stuff, so here this is. Grimm, you were the little engine that could, the tortoise running the race, the non-flashy one. XF hurt me, Sleepy Hollow hurt me, you never hurt me partly because I didn’t care that much but also because that’s not who you are, man. Here’s to you, Grimm. I have eaten many a pizza in front of you. I wish you a good finale next week. I’ll miss you. No, I really will.

Also, a couple of weeks ago they had a creepy old guy sitting ominously in the corner the whole episode and the camera kept focusing on him, and at the end the villain turned out to be someone else entirely, and in the last shot this dude woged into...A RED FISH GUY. AND CACKLED. A RED HERRING GET ITTTTTTTTTTT THE ENTIRE SERIES WAS WORTH IT FOR THAT ALONE

[comebacknow]

Wow what a date episode

Malec

Clizzy

Simon and Maia????

I’m here for ittttttttttt

[massielscurls]

Brand Appreciation: Cantu Beauty

When starting your journey to natural hair, it is vital to start and stick with products that are natural and do not contain harsh ingredients, but most importantly work for  and accommodate all hair types. When I decided to fully transition, the first brand I turned too was Cantu, not only because of all of the rave reviews it had, but because it was also very inexpensive (I’m talking 5 to 7 dollars max per product people... 5. dollars. That’s a STEAL) In this post, I will be talking about the products I’ve tried that work, others that didn’t, and which I still use today. I suggest buying Cantu products from Target, Walmart, Sally Beauty, etc because some amazon sellers can overprice the products. Keep in mind that although some products may work/not work for me, that doesn’t mean that they’ll work/not work for you. Everybody’s hair is different!

Leave-In Conditioning Repair Cream: Sadly, this is one of the products that did not work for me. I found it to be very very VERY sticky and almost gummy like in my hair, and although I think this would work for my wavy haired people, it just didn’t make the cut for me. It also dried my hair out and had a very weird smell, which I didn’t like. However, it was nice and thick which I loved and came with a lot of product, which was great for the price. Will use again if I absolutely have too. 

Find it here: https://www.target.com/p/cantu-leave-in-conditioning-repair-cream-16oz/-/A-13044151

Coconut Curling Cream: Ah. maze. ing. This curling cream is light yet heavy enough to coat every strand of hair I apply it on, has great slip, a nice tropical scent, and didn’t weigh my hair down. When I first used it I focused it on my ends and only used a dime size of product per section and WOW. My hair was shiny, defined, bouncy and smelled divine! Definitely a holy grail product. I love love love it! 

Find it here: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Cantu-Shea-Butter-for-Natural-Hair-Coconut-Curling-Cream-12-Oz/22211253

Deep Treatment Masque: Again, another holy grail. This is by far one of the best and cheapest deep conditioners I’ve ever tried and still use today. Shea butter, the main ingredient, really deeply moisturizes my strands (which are very dry by the way). When left on for an hour and used with heat, my hair transforms into its best form. The #1 thing I love about this deep conditioner is that when I wash it out, it doesn’t leave my hair dry, like surprisingly many other deep conditioner’s do. It helps prep my hair for styling and helps maintain my wash and go through the week. It’s simply the best and most wallet friendly deep conditioner ever. 

Find it here: https://shop.naturallycurly.com/cantu-shea-butter-deep-treatment-masque-12-oz/

Define and Shine Custard: A big no-no. This did not work for me at all. It may be my most hated Cantu product ever. As you all know already, my hair doesn’t really cooperate well with gels or custards because I find that they always tend to dry out my strands and leave my curls crunchy, which i cannot stand. I took the chance on this one because 1. I love Cantu and 2. It was dirt cheap so my broke self was like why not. Well, I should’ve listened to my instinct and not wasted my money on it, because it was horrible. First, the custard has a weird slimy gelatin like feel to it. Talk about gross. Second, when put onto my hair, it made the coconut curling cream sort of ball up on my hair, telling me that those 2 products DO. NOT. WORK together despite being made by the same brand. It was just a big disappointment. Would not buy again. Ever. Still, give it a shot though, it may work for you. 

Find it here: https://www.target.com/p/cantu-shea-butter-define-shine-custard-12-fl-oz/-/A-21407489

Moisturizing Curl Activator Cream: THE. BEST. PRODUCT. EVER. TO. TOUCH. MY. HAIR. EVER. Oh my goodness I cannot stress how beautiful this product is. The look, the smell, the feel of the cream... even the packaging is gorgeous and efficient. A dime sized amount of product raked into my hair and boom! I am transformed into a curl goddess. This was one of the first products I used and is still my go-to styling cream 2 years later. I will never stop using this product and I pray that Cantu never discontinues it or changes the formula because I will suffer. I just love it. I looove ittttttttttt. 

Find it here: https://www.target.com/p/cantu-natural-hair-moisturizing-curl-activator-cream-12-fl-oz/-/A-16970519

Cantu is a brand recognized for being of good quality for a cheap price. It is definitely my go to brand and will always be. Has anyone tried any of these products or any others? Let me know!