#and some of it was not easy to get and im so upset i carelessly let some of the stuff break

[raredrop]

oh i see

some lady is being elitist about bags

girl.....pls

the only rules should be ones you personally set up for yourself

this is the lolita community all over again

"this is how its done so any deviation is wrong"

ma'am ive spent over a hundred dollars putting together my bag i think the only one who can tell me what to do is myself

[lucarioisinthevoid]

Oh henry! im here to help you a bit on this journey through hell. have you heard about a death coin? they cost 10 faztokens! here, lets just set Golden freddy to 1 so you can get used to this mechanic. I believe you can get used to this very quickly! also hi luci ily platonically v much.

(If you were Impostor in Among Us, I’d let you vent in front of me and never tell <3 Also while what you’re going after is totally canon, it’s a red herring, will make sense to literally nobody except one specific friend and is pure self-indulgence, so uuuuuh, feel free to skip this one)

“Yes, I have already heard of those.” Henry raised an eyebrow. “I even used one of them. They are rather intuitive in their design- though I suppose I appreciate your help.” With only Golden Freddy out and about, it was a rather quiet night, time for him to think. Frankly, he would feel bad about harming Fredbear. Even in this odd suit form, it was still… his suit. … yes, indeed, it was hardly even Fredbear at all, at least not how the children had portrayed their savior. Just a dirty, mistreated suit. But it was STILL his suit. Hell, how abandoned it was- it was quite upsetting to him, despite everything. Part of him wished he could make the being stop being hostile in order to give it a good scrub- Well, perhaps the coin could aid with that. He wasn’t even sure if it did the same thing for every machine, so trying it out would be worth it. The coins were quickly gathered, seeing as as long as he was looking at the screen, the suit left him alone, most of the time… and even if the creature entered, it would not attack. At least it kept its mainly peaceful nature from before. A lot else about it had changed- not visually, but in the atmosphere it gave off. Old and dusty, it was soulful, but so tired and washed out. No child he had ever met had a soul like that, no matter how battered and bruised they have been by the marks of fate. And if they did, they weren’t attached to anything for long, melting into the walls, finding their peace. This creature held offensive abilities on par with Charlie’s psychokinetic talents, as well as the defensive ability to vanish at will, as Fredbear always had and he was as silent as- The dog. Alas, for now it seemed to be his prison warden. Maybe eradicating it would even give him the chance to leave… Finally, enough coins were together. The procedure was as easy as confusing- he bought the coin and it showed up in the corner on the screen, as always. Great. Now how would he use it in the office…? Pulling down the monitor, the suit was nowhere to be found, yet- A silver coin on his table. Huh. Slowly he picked it up, letting it sit in his hand. It felt hot and every second he held it, it was getting worse and worse, to a point where Henry wondered if he was the one who would be disintegrated now. Dazed he watched the coin shine and glow, not really capable of lowering his hand and putting it down- It was as though he wasn’t in control of his own body anymore, as though he had accidentally left it in every way except the eyes, completely enraptured in the silver shimmer- Until he snapped out of it. Peeling off the coin from the palm of his hand, he looked at the brandmarked, crossed out D that was now visible within it. A chuckle broke out of his throat. Almost hysterical. Friendship with Dave ended. Now murdering is my best friend. God his head was a dizzy mess, even though ventilation was doing fine. A hat. On the table. Black. Reaching out, Henry put it on- it felt like the only right thing to do. Time to get this thing done. Pulling the monitor up and down, he waited for the bear to dare show his face- There he was. For a split second he looked into its tired, black eyes, filled with nothing, nothing that he would be able to recognize, then flipped the coin towards him. “Fetch.” To his surprise It did. Easily grabbing the coin out of the air. The creature stood up, shining golden- No, not SHINING. The- the opposite. It seemed to consume the light around it, plunging everything into darkness, so that only the golden fur seemed to be there, a burning contrast to everything else- However, Henry couldn’t really make any judgement more than that, as he was abruptly picked up by the throat and screamed at, a scream that he had never heard a machine make before. Loud enough to shatter eardrums, primal enough to send cold fear through anyone’s spine and abnormal enough to echo- as though there was NOTHING around them, nothing but tall, cold, smooth walls- As if nothing he saw was real- Abruptly he had been flung downwards, his head painfully colliding with the floor and dazing him for a moment, while the giant figure loomed over him, leaning down to him, finally speaking. Hoarse and deep, it sounded like a growl, yet it was barely more than a weak, jumbled whisper. “… THERE WAS MORE FANTASY AND FUN WHERE I CAME FROM…” Struggling to keep his mind together, Henry stared up into the glowing small dots above him. What- What was this creature? It was- Unfamiliar- Strange- “You are… not… from here-“ Coughing, he tried to sit up, his arms feeling weirdly numb. “You are from- elsewhere. How. Who brought you here-“ The voice was too adult- and it wasn’t the detective, the detective had been the only case of an adult human managing to remaining without any outside help- so, WHO was this?! And where did it come from?! Once more Fredbear picked him up, the body shaking with rage, grabbing him right by the head carelessly. “Say it- say what you are- where you are from- are you some sort of- angel!?” The creature paused, but it was hard to see what its- his- face looked like. “No, no, you are too far- away from god in this place- are you a demon?” The grasp around his head instantly tightened, turning into blinding pain, enough to make him bite off the tip of his tongue in an attempt to suppress of any sort of noise. Blood, pain and numbness made his words less understandable, but his mind was buzzing loudly, filled with thoughts and concepts, that he wanted answers to, that he wanted to test, that he HAD to speak out- The only one in THIS suit, the only true Fredbear that had ever been around- “Are you- me-” From somewhere else?! Again there was a small pause- Then the bear growled once more. “YOU CAN GO AND REST NOW. I WILL ASSUME YOU HAVE BEEN CURIOUS, NOT MALICIOUS. IF YOU WILL TRY TO HARM ME AGAIN… IT WON’T BE SO QUICK.” As Henry faded, a child’s offended voice sounded. “What?! Goldie, that’s all?! I thought you would-!” When Henry woke up, he abruptly breathed in, a sense of panic shortly covering his mind, as for a second he thought he was underwater, drowning- But as his eyes started to focus on the tv screen in front of him, the rest of his body managed to calm down too, enough that he could stand up, with shaky legs. The fear disappeared quickly, only confusion remaining. Nothing bad had happened. Or rather- nothing too bad. Turning he eyed the suit who was sitting on the couch, eyes empty- not shining anymore- and dirty once again… but this time radiating a sort of intense anger. For a moment Henry considered trying to pick up where they left off- … however, for now he didn’t feel quite… ready to risk that rage once more. His actions had been calm. But there was something, something that none of the five senses could perceive, regardless of how hard they tried, not together, not alone… … and it was warning him STRONGLY against approaching this being. Regardless of what it was- it surely wasn’t him, he wouldn’t do this to himself, he just hadn’t been thinking- it was not something that should be taken lightly. The threat had been real. And it seemed to at least partially capable to influence the world around him. Fall back, overthink. He would figure a way out to use this. Somehow.

[thenamesseven]

Decorating the practice room for Hyunjin's party might be a harder task than you thought it would be. It had to be there, it simply was the perfect location because it wouldn’t be too hard to come up with an excuse to bring Hyunjin there without him suspecting anything. But decorating the place with six guys -each one with their own idea and opinion- was being a nightmare. Don’t misunderstand, Stray Kids had really creative minds but some of their ideas simply were...Guys ideas.

“We could place all the presents here on this table” Minho proposed as we all looked around the practice room. His idea wasn't that bad honestly, kind of simple but nice and easy.

“It would look cooler if we made a pyramid with the presents” I.N muttered,thinking, robably imagining how his idea would look like. His idea was a bit more unstable than Minho's

“We won’t have too many presents though so the pyramid would look kind of shitty” Changbin gave his opinion for once after two hours and honestly, you all agreed with him.

“What if we hide them around and make him look for them?” Seungmin asked looking at you, directly. Honestly, his idea was nice and fun but there wasn’t too many space in the practice room to hide all his presents and that would make it kind of boring. "We can give him clues that we leave around and stuff"

“Yeah! You would be his last present!” Chan turned to me with a sweet smile

“Dude! That would be awesome!” Woojin joined  the conversation looking pretty excited by the idea. By the look they all had on their faces I knew it would be imposible to reject this idea.

“There’s not enough space in here to do present hunting” You said scratching the back part of your neck as you glanced around. You really liked that idea but it would be kind of impossible.

“Yeah, there’s not even enough places to hide the presents” Jisung stood next to you, his hands in his pockets as he looked around too. He was right, there were barely two places to hide stuff in. The closet and under the table.

“We could hide them around the building and the practice room could be the last destination” Felix proposed looking at the both of you. Glancing at Jisung you knew he kind of liked the idea so you simply nodded with a small smile on your face, giving in.

“Alright, I guess we could do that” All the guys smiled happily when you accepted their idea, some of them looked even more excited than you about the whole present hunting.

“Cool, we’ll take care of that, you and Jisung stick to decorating this”

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After some more time planning the decoration, the seven of you started cleaning the room. The practice room had looked cleaner than it was, actually, it had been a huge dust and trash mess. You made little teams, some of you cleaned the floor, some of the guys cleaned the windows and mirrors, some of them took off the dust around, everybody had their own chores to do.

Time passed really quickly and you got so lost in the cleaning that by the time you looked down at your watch, you realized you only had twenty minutes to get to your apartment, get a shower, dress up and head to a date with Hyunjin.

Guess what? Luck was never on your side.

Since you had gone to the studio walking, Chan had offered to drive you back to your place since Jisung and the rest of the guys were too busy napping on the floor absolutely wore out. You felt kind of bad for making them so tired by helping you but they had offered and insisted that you shouldn't do this on your own.

Once in the car, Chan and you started talking and discussing some little details about the party, such as, what kind of food should they get, at what time should somebody bring Hyunjin to the JYP building. He also informed you that some idols would be attending, they had all felt pretty excited when they found out Hyunjin didn't know anything about the party.

"Ah, Im going to be late for sure" You muttered worried, scratching the back part of your neck as you glanced down at your phone.

"You should tell Hyunjin you've been with Han" Chan said when he was finally able to move his car after been around 15 minutes stuck in the busy road. You were getting closer to your apartment but you just knew you wouldn't make it in time.

"Hyunjin is getting mad with us, I think he's getting really jealous" You confessed to the leader, kind of worried about Hyunjin's behaviour.

"He will be fine, he knows you and Jisung are really good friends" Chan tried comforting you, finally stopping the car and turning his head to look at you with a small smile "He will start suspecting things if you tell him you've been hanging out with me"

"You're right" With a soft sigh you opened the door, even though preparing the surprise party for Hyunjin was going to be totally worth it you sort of wanted it to end already. You hated lying to Hyunjin and making him upset. "Thanks for driving me Chan"

"It's alright" He smiled at you again, damn this guy was good at calming down your insecurities "Now run and try to get to that date on time"

Taking a shower, doing your make up and getting dressed in five minutes was a really difficult thing to do.

As soon as you had closed Chan's car door you started running towards your building, you weren't a very athletic person thanks to your lazy attitude so by the time you arrived to the stairs you were absolutely breathless. Running upstairs made your heart pound so hard against your chest that you thought you would have a heart attack right there if you, obviously, didn't broke your neck by going two steps at a time. By the time you got to your apartment you tossed your purse onto the table and rushed to your bedroom where you picked up some decent clothes for your date. The next thing to do was jump into the shower, which managed to relax your sore and tired muscles and after your it, the task of brushing your hair and getting dressed was easy but you were so exhausted that you didn't even feel like going out anymore. You weren't going to leave Hyunjin hanging though, that would be absolutely wrong.

However, when you reached your favorire pizza place and saw him sitting in there alone you knew that maybe, you should have cancel the date. You knew he hated when you didn't arrive on time, he made big efforts to make time for dates outside of his busy schedule and going outside when he was so famous was annoying and even dangerous for him if fans recognize him. This week since you've been dealing with your job, exams, the party and dates the only thing you've managed to do was to never arrive on time to your dates with him and you knew that was getting on Hyunjin's nerves.

You rushed inside the place, breathless once again as you made your way to his table. You walked up behind him and leaned down to kiss his cheek before sitting down on the chair across from his.

"Traffic was horrible" That was the lamest excuse ever used but you still preferred that one instead of mentioning you've been spending time with Jisung again. The last thing you wanted to cause is a fight between both friends.

"Yeah" It never was a good sign when Hyunjin replied with one word. He wasn't even looking at you, instead, his eyes busy were scanning the menu that you both knew by heart since most of your dates had been in this place.

"How was practice?" You asked trying to get a reaction from him.

Hyunjin shrugged and finally looked up at you "Hasn't Jisung told you?" Even though his tone was cold, Hyunjin's eyes looked sad, even scared. He must have seen the confusion on your face because before you could ask him what he was talking about he started speaking again "I started getting worried and I called him, he said you were helping him with something and that you would be here soon" Hyunjin sighed looking tired, his body leaning back against his chair lazily "Why does he need so much help from you? What are you teo doing?" His voice was implying some silent accusations you weren't liking at all.

Inside, you were panicking. What kind of excuse could you tell him this time? How would you get out of this one without Hyunjin finding out about everything? Seeing him so upset, so worried about you spending more time with one of his friends than with him made you want to tell him about the party so badly.

"Are we okay, (Y/N)?" You knew Hyunjin had wanted to sound cold, like he didn't care about it but his voice betrayed him sounding as weak as you were feeling right now.

"Of course we are! It's not what you think it is" You said frowning, reaching out to grab one of his hands and intertwining your fingers with his "Do you really think I would do something like that to you?"

"No" He replied quickly, you sighed with relief when you saw he didn't even need to think about the answer "But it feels like you...Are avoiding me, like you are hiding something"

"It's something Jisung trusted me with" You said out of nowhere not knowing that your vague reply would only make Hyunjin feel even worse "I promise you that I'll tell you soon, right now Im just helping him out with it okay?"

Your eyes met Hyunjin's and you could see how he was almost convinced but that there was still some disbelief, his stiff posture, the way he was holding your hand carelessly told you so.

After almost one minute in silence Hyunjin nodded "Alright, just tell me what has you two so distracted as soon as you can"

"I promise I will" You said again, he just needed to wait two more days to understand everything, all his insecurities will fade away as soon as he sees the party you have prepared for him. "Now give me a kiss? I really missed you"

With a small smile Hyunjin lifted his cap enough to lean foward and press his lips against yours in a soft kiss. The small gesture calmed both of you down, relaxed the tense atmosphere and let you change the subject into something different than what you were doing in your free time with Jisung.

Like always he started talking about practice and some new songs Chan had been working on recently. You told him about how busy you were getting with university and how difficult it was being for you to balance your job and studies but Hyunjin always supported you, telling you how capable you were of doing whatever you wanted with just a little effort.

Even when the date had started the wrong way, you felt pretty calm and relief when Hyunjin left you at your apartment, driving away after some sweet kisses and a lot of goodnights.

Little did you know that he was still mad not at you but at Jisung.

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The ride back to the dorms was quiet, after Hyunjin had left you by your place his anger and frustration came back overwhelming him. He had always trusted you blindly, you never gave him any reasons to not trust you but your behaviour these past few days had been odd and honestly, he didn't know what to think anymore.

Hyunjin was tired of getting excuses, what was Han doing that you were the only one who could know about it? Why wasn't she able to tell her own boyfriend about it?

All the secrets, all the lies and all the excuses had pushed him over the edge.

Hyunjin had never been a violent person, of course he had shouted and swore sometimes when he had fought with some of the guys but tonight he simply snapped, he had too many things in his mind and all his jealousy and insecurities were driving him mad.

That wasn't an excuse to push Jisung against the wall roughly as soon as he walked into the apartment though.

"What the hell is your problem?" Jisung said frowning, looking up at him. Woojin and Changbin who had been hanging out on the couch were standing up getting ready to separate both guys.

"You are my fucking problem" He pushed Jisung again, the other male getting already mad and pushing him back "What the hell are you doing with (Y/N)? Why are you spending so much time with her huh?"

Jisung was caught of guard, he had never expected Hyunjin to get so jealous of him for spending a little bit more time than he usually did with you.

"Tell me Jisung, I really want to believe her but you two are making this so difficult" He pinched the bridge of his nose mad, a headache would be appearing soon.

"Hyunjin drop it" Chan's stern voice stopped Hyunjin from pushing Jisung one more time, he was mad but Chan didn't have anything to do with it so he wasn't going to go against his leader and friend.

"Stop messing around with her Jisung, I swear to God" Hyunjin said while I.N held his wrist and carefully pulling him down the hall to get him out of there "Keep in your stupid mind that she is my girlfriend! Not yours"

Those were the last words Hyunjin could say before I.N. and Chan locked themselves inside the room with him in order to calm him down.

Jisung looked at Changbin and Woojin, running his fingers through his hair as he leaned back against the wall sighing.

"This party better be worth it" He whispered trying to calm down his pounding heart.

[cami-chats]

(Like) A Brother

Fandom: Marvel

Pairings: No major ones, but background Tony/Bucky and Steve/Rhodey

Warnings: None

"So, Mister Barnes," Doctor Erskine said, and Steve blinked because- what. "Welcome to the United States Army." He grabbed the 1-A stamp and put it on Steve's file, but not the one that had the correct information. He handed the file to Steve and left the room before he had a chance to tell Doctor Erskine about the mistake.

He thought about chasing after him, but his lungs wouldn't be able to handle it and also... he looked down at the file and saw the ink drying on the 1-A. Steven Grant Barnes, brother to James Buchanan Barnes - already accepted-  born in Queens, current residence in Brooklyn. He couldn't help making a face at the Queens part, but that was a small price to pay for getting to help save lives.

Besides, how would this affect him? Really?

~~~

Basic was tough, but it wasn't anything he wasn't expecting. He heard the other men bitching and moaning about it, and he wanted to ask them how they could be so ungrateful, but he knew that would end in a fight, and he wasn't about to let down Doctor Erskine like that. The doc had given him a chance, it would be rude to throw it back in his face like that. So Steve held his tongue and focused on doing the drills.

They yelled 'Barnes' at him all the time because apparently using a fella's first name was taboo around these parts. (Not that they really thought that of course, but they avoided first names like they would a loose dame inside the church.)

Point is, Steve was used to people yelling Bucky's name and him having to respond since the trouble they got into was together more often than not.

Agent Carter calling him Barnes felt a little off, but no more so than a dame actually talking to him was. Like anything else though, it was easy to get used to.

~~~

Captain America was an honorary title, he knew. No real power there because he was a propaganda piece, but it carried onto parts of his life that weren't directly in front of the camera, and that was real fucking peculiar.

Because people were calling him 'Captain Barnes' and he was having to respond to it. Senator Grant called him Captain 'Barnes' and 'America' interchangeably, to the point that Steve plastered on his show smile anytime he heard the man's voice.

Hell's bells but he hated this.

~~~

He found Bucky strapped to a damn rusting table with blood on it, and he wanted to use his new strength to rip someone in half-- preferably the person who did this to him. He swallowed down the urge, a little afraid of the ferocity of that thought. Or- shit not even the thought. He was scared of the fact that he could actually do it now, and no one would be able to stop him.

Bucky's the better brother, he thought, a little hysterically. ​Old Miss Edwards next door had always said that Steve was the sweet one, but they were pretty sure that she thought Steve was five or ten years younger and that's why she was nicer to him than Bucky.

~~~

Bucky was frowning at him, still confused. "How?" he asked again. "I mean really Stevie, how?"

Steve sighed, leaning forward onto his crossed arms (the motion didn't pull on his lungs and make it hard for him to breathe anymore). "I didn't mean for it to get so out of hand."

Bucky picked up one of the movie art prints, a dumbfounded disbelief still painting his face. "'Steve Barnes starring in-'"

"I know!" Steve cut him off from reading the rest, cheeks pinking. He snatched it away, and Bucky didn't stand a chance of keeping ahold of it. "Look, it's not my fault, but--"

"Th' last time you said that, you'd just gotten blood on your sheets. Your clean sheets, Stevie."

He scowled at Bucky. "That wasn't my fault, and you know it so stop being a bastard. Look, it's the name I put on my first enlistment form, so that's what the doc thought my real name was."

"And you didn't correct 'im?"

He shifted uncomfortably. "Well... it sorta snowballed on me. The first time anyone said it, it was in passing, an' then I was gettin' chosen for the program and they all thought that was my name. C'mon Buck what does it even matter? So everyone thinks we're brothers, that's not that bad. It stopped me from gettin' kicked out after Azzano."

Bucky punched Steve in the arm. "You weren't gonna get kicked out. You're their only super soldier, remember? They can't afford t' lose you, no matter how much of a little punk you are."

"Not so little anymore," he reminded Bucky stubbornly.

He pat Steve on his large bicep. "Whatever gets you through the night Stevie Barnes," he said with a shit-eating grin.

~Time Skip~

Bucky and Steve were in the kitchen trying to figure out a recipe when Tony stormed in. "Steven Grant Barnes you had better have an excuse for this!" he yelled, slapping a newspaper on the table because apparently he was both angry and dramatic enough to go out and get a printed newspaper.

Steve walked over to the table and peered at it. A picture took up most of the top half, showing Steve lip-locked with Rhodey, the overly large headline reading Captain America in Love or Lust? "Ah."

"That's all you have to say for yourself?"

Steve looked to Bucky for help, but Bucky was just looking at Steve with a perplexed expression on his face. He turned back to Tony and grabbed the newspaper, half to get a better look at the picture, and half to get the photo out of Tony's sight (because it seemed like it was only making him more upset). "I thought you didn't believe tabloid pictures," he said carefully.

"This isn't a tabloid, and I called Rhodey first, only instead of laughing like I expected him to, he hung up on me! And he's not taking my calls, to the point that he turned off his phone. My honey bear wouldn't do that without good reason. So. Steven. What did you do?"

"Uh." Steve rubbed at the back of his neck, starting to blush. "Look Tony, I was going to tell you--"

"Tell me what exactly."

"Hold up," Bucky interrupted, tuning into the conversation. "You and Rhodey? How did that even happen?"

"Uh..." Steve was starting to get the look of a cornered animal, eyes darting around the kitchen for means of escape.

"You didn't tell your own brother? Seriously Barnes? What the fuck is wrong with you?! It's bad enough that you are dating my innocent little platypus, but you didn't even tell anyone?" Tony put his hands on his hips, glaring at Steve. "I will have you know that James Rhodes is the best you will ever be able to do, Captain; he’s not some dirty little secret"

Bucky frowned, utterly confused. "Did you just call Steve 'Barnes'? And my brother?"

"Yeah," Tony said, the 'duh' clear in his tone.

"Steve?" he asked, looking to him for clarification.

Steve looked confused for a minute, before his face cleared. "You don't have all your memories back. Right, uh, everyone thinks my last name is Barnes. And that we’re brothers," he said, nodding in Tony’s direction.

"You're not?"

"No."

"So what's your actual last name?"

"Rogers," Bucky answered for him.

"Steve Rogers," Tony said slowly, feeling it out. He made a face. "Ew no. Captain America's name is Steve Barnes. Or Steve Rhodes if you man up," he added with a sniff.

"I thought you didn't want them together?" Bucky asked.

"Meh." Tony waved his hand carelessly at Steve. "It was a big deal when I thought this was his biggest secret." He gasped suddenly, delighted. "I get to be the one to tell Coulson!" he yelled, then spun on his heel and ran from the room, presumably to tell Coulson that half his collection had the wrong information on it.

Steve pointed at the doorway where Tony had just disappeared. "That's the man you're in love with."

Bucky shoved at him. "Shuddup punk, at least we didn’t hide it. I take it I knew before?"

"The name thing? Yeah, you thought it was hilarious."

Bucky hummed, going back to stare at the recipe. "So you got outta the ice and didn't tell anyone?"

"They had statues of me already. Statues, Bucky. Not to mention an entire goddamn exhibit in the Smithsonian. I'm not gonna tell them that it was a lie and make 'em rework everything. There's a million of those little plaques, and they'd have to rewrite all those history books and... yeah. Not really worth the trouble. Besides, don't you like me as your brother?" he asked with an impish grin.

Bucky snorted. "I could do worse, I guess."

[kandadiff]

They Call Me Idol - 4

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Jennie sat by the window of the coffee suite Blackpink was sharing with Big Bang currently. Big Bang booked the cafe as a way to stay close to the hospital and to see who was going in and out. She sighed and looked back at her group, Jisoo handing her a cup of coffee. “🍥 you would think she's the president, so many people coming to her. So who cares? Did you know Jiyong was robbed too? Did he get this much attention?”

“In Korea he did.” Rose said. She had been uncomfortable this whole time. She hated having to be on one side or the other. She still liked you a lot while also loving her own group, she hated having pinned both against each other. “She's more international.”

“Like us.” Lisa mumbled and daesung pushed her playfully. “But I bet it was a suicide attempt, I mean come on she had only GD and now he's with you so I bet that whole robbery story was concocted and she's just a drunk. We all knew that.”

“Don’t talk about her like that.” Taeyang said getting up feeling sick hearing that. Lisa rolled her eyes, 

“I bet it was that, she likes attention.”

“Thats true; remember when Jungkook was flirting with you at MAMA?” Jisoo asked “And she was upset the whole night. She's jealous.”

“But why torture him like that? He just wants to set the story he's with me and make sure she's okay, but they are heartless in there. They don’t want to tell anyone anything, Its so cruel.”

“It’s their business wether to tell anyone or not.” TOP said drinking his coffee deep in thought. “Although I know I can get him in - only him- if I can talk to Kalyn. However with Maximus here I won't be able to do that. I need to find a way to speak to her in private.”

“Do whatever you have to do,” GD said walking out of the bathroom walking towards the window. “Follow her she's leaving. Oh max is going.” he turns back focusing on the girls “Rose go distract Max.”

“Me?!” She stood up confused “I - Um - how? I- I can’t what would I say? Listen Jiyong, I'd be absolutely no help, I only met him twice I doubt he'd even remember who I was.”

“You're not asking him out on a date Rose, you’re distracting him long enough to get Kalyn alone. Seunghyung don’t waste this opportunity.” He ordered practically picking up rose and tossing her towards Maximus. 

Rose for a minute didn't move until GD pushed her again. “Kay!” She breathed out relieved when I turned around and jogged over to me. “Hey, I was wondering if I can ... um.. is she okay?”

“Yeah; do you want to see her now? I mean the room is a little crowded.”

“Yes actually” Rose said forgetting about Gd’s orders and honestly just wanting to be able to see you. She was the closest with you in blackpink and took it the hardest when you left and unlike the other girls still supported you. I looked over at Yugyeom about to tell him to take her when Max volunteered seeing a big package move past him with your name on it. 

“I’ll go with her.” Max said kissing my cheek “be careful, if you need anything at all, call okay?” He whispered and I nodded and kept walking while Rose was brought upstairs. 

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Changkyun, Yugyeom and I arrived at your hotel room only then did I see the mess the robbers left behind and it broke my heart. Everything was thrown carelessly around, broken, and ripped up. No care was given to the things that held no material meaning. The sloth I got you had been ripped up, the stuffing thrown around the room, you drawers all over the floor, the clothes stomped on and even some of your jewelry was in pieces around the room. “Are you okay?” Changkyun asked putting his hand on my shoulder. When I nodded We walked in, the boys searching each room while I stood in the living room not wanting to see the rest of the suite. 

The princess ring Edward had gotten you lay flattened on the floor, they must've stepped on it, the entire tiara flattened rather then round and when Yugyeom brought me your jewelry box, it was in shambles. Everything of value gone and anything they couldn’t sell they broke. I had been holding in a lot of emotions during this whole thing. I tried not to think about the death looming over your shoulder, or the fact that because of people sick twisted love for seeing celebrities fail no one helped you, or that you were targeted and this could have happened to Katya too. It all seemed to crash down on me and I didn’t even realize I was crying until Changkyun pulled me into him. “It’s going to be okay baby. It’s all going to be okay, I promise. I’m here for you and I’ll make sure you’re alright no matter what, okay?” I couldn’t stop the sobs that left my body. Yugyeom tried to help me but didn’t know exactly what to do so instead he finished recording all that was stolen. 

When he was nearly done he noticed Seunghyun leaning in the doorway and narrowed his eyes at him in an attempt to mask his nervousness. “What are you doing here?” Seunghyun said nothing instead motioned to me on the couch. Changkyun turned back and shook his head. Seunghyun nodded letting the two younger boys know he wasn’t leaving without speaking to me, however neither maknae were moving. 

So TOP moved towards me, Changkyun shooting up to stop him bringing my attention to him. “I don’t want to argue, I just wanted to talk.” Seunghyun said glaring at Changkyun wondering when and why he became so protective. Changkyun looked at me waiting for the slightest nod to kick TOP out but it never came. 

“Okay.” I said wiping my eyes on my sleeve. I looked at the other boys “Give us a moment please.”

“Are you sure?” Changkyun asked quickly and I nodded.

“Yes.” 

“We’ll be over there if you need us.” Yugyeom said already texting Jackson what was happening. They made themselves comfortable in the bedroom the door still ajar so they could hear.

“🍡can we speak in Japanese?” Seunghyun asked “🍡I don't want them to hear what I have to say.” I nodded “🍡Thank you, first I want to say, im sorry this is happening you know if you need anything im here. and I wish you would have called me.”

“🍡It happened quickly, I couldn’t call anyone. did you know her mom didn’t even visit? she knows. I managed to call her and she sent flowers, flowers! her daughter is in a coma and she sends flowers! She's in the city!” Seunghyun shakes his head.

“🍡She's not meant to be a parent.” I nodded “I’m happy she has you at least.” he wipes a stray tear from my cheek. “💥You do good in situations like this, you helped me more then I could ever repay you.” I shrugged leaning back on the couch not wanting to relive the trauma inducing situation with TOP’s suicide attempt and my desperation to get from NY to Seoul as quick as I could. “🍡I’m sorry you have to do this again, I never wanted to do that to you.”

He called me right before he tried doing it, the hopelessness and broken voice still haunted my darkest thoughts and I constantly blamed myself for not answering it, even though he admitted that he wasn’t thinking straight and his call was mad when I was fast asleep at 4 in the morning my time. He said he loved me and he was sorry he had to leave but he’ll see me in the next life and I spent over $4,000 in an attempt to get to him as soon as I could, only for his mom not to allow me access to him only taking that back when I stayed outside his hospital room for the three days he was in a coma. It was the worst experience ever, not sure wether he was going to live or die and that last message replaying over and over in my head. 

“🍡Its different; she didn’t do it on purpose.” 

“🍡I know but still seeing her like that, I know its not easy for you.” he said taking my hand in his and I sighed. “Which is why you should let gd see her, and before you stop me-” he paused like I was about to stop him and was surprised when I didn’t “🍡I remember the converstion we had in the hospital about how scared you were; how scared I made you and I wanted to die because of that.” 

“🍡I remember.”

“🍡Thats how Gd feels; he's so scared for Adi but he's not willing to say that, He just wants to see her, asleep or not just please. Once and when she wakes up and if she says no ill make sure he stays away.” The silence that filled the air was long as I thought about what he was saying. It was true, what if you woke up and got upset when I refused him up there or what if something happened to you and he couldn’t even say anything to try and make it better? The doctor said you could hear everything as you slept what if whatever he said made the heartbreak easier? 

“🍡I would have to do it with the room empty so he wouldn’t have much time.” TOP nodded “🍡But okay just for a little and when I say its done then its done.”

“Okay.” He smiled and I nodded “are you okay, do you want me to get you something.”

“I’ll be fine.” I said standing up calling for the other boys “I have to go.”

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“This pasta is so nasty.” Makayla made a face while eating the cafeteria pasta and walking back up to the room with Jinyoung. 

“Honestly I’m going to order uber, what do you want-”

“Jinyoung!” He heard the soft lilting voice of a woman and turned around seeing Astrid Jeong herself. 

“Astrid!” He smiled having Makayla hold the cold pasta he was eating while he greeted the woman. “How are you? Wheres your brother?”

“He’s sitting over there with Nathaniel .” She said motioning behind her “Poor thing has been checking his phone every three seconds waiting for it to turn on, it died and he's been so worried and with all the new security here they don’t want to give out her information without someone from upstairs coming to get us.” He looked over seeing and reaching in his pocket along with another man he didn’t recognize, must be Nathaniel. 

“Oh im sorry Astrid my phone was upstairs.”

“Don’t worry about it.” She smiled and called to her brothers. they followed Jinyoung upstairs as he got them caught up and introduced them around the room as Adi’s Chinese future family. 

GD who was pleading on the phone with woo, heard it. 

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Escape: 22

*sobs uncontrollably* This is the end! Thanks for reading my fellow Gajevy lovers! I hope to see you all soon! You can read the previous parts here on FF.net! Thanks again!! ^~^ <3

Beep….Beep….Beep…Beep. A rhythmic beeping noise, roused me from my sleep. Swallowing hard, my throat felt like I swallowed shards of glass and was as dry as the desert. Opening my eyes slowly, I tried to blink the grit from eyes as my vision blurred and took its time focusing. Looking down, I saw my left arm was in a sling and I was in a hospital hooked up to an IV and an EKG. The beeping….must be my heart beat….I’m not dead. The lights were dim and the blinds were closed but the sunlight still peered through the little slits casting a shadow of the blinds on the gray tiles in front of the window. Leaning forward, I flinched when I felt a surge of pain course through my middle. Moving my hand to where I was shot, I felt a tightly wrapped bandage secure a gauze in place.    

“Don’t move around so carelessly,” A familiar voice said stepping from the dark corner and into the dim lighting in front of my bed. “Welcome back, Gajeel.” Makarov smiled as he walked closer with a water bottle in his hand, a straw sticking out the top.

Opening my mouth to speak, only grunts came out and I cringed in pain at dull pains that sparked in my throat.

“Take it easy. Drink this.” He said, putting the straw against my lips, urging me to drink. Draining the bottle, he continued to talk. “I know you have a lot of questions, so I’ll try to answer as many as I can. You’ve been out for almost week. That’s why you feel so weak, and also the fact you were rammed into a train cart. But I think you did more damage to it, then it did you.” He chuckled.

He tossed the bottle in the trash, taking a seat on the bed to finish. “You got a concussion and broken arm from the explosion. And the doctors found the bullet that was lodged in your abdomen. They said if Levy wasn’t there, you would’ve bled out before the paramedics came.” My eyes went wide in shock as the faint memory of her face came into view before I blacked out. Then panic sprung me to try to get up, to see if she was ok and if Rogue was ok. What about Cana? Is she ok, too?

Makarov, pushed me back down onto the bed and it was for the best. My limbs weren’t doing what I wanted, and were stringy and slowly coming back to live as I slowly tried to sit up.

“Calm down, I understand your panic, but everyone is fine.” He said, smiling as I relaxed in relief. “Levy took off her shirt to stop the bleeding, and didn’t care that she was nearly half naked in front of everyone when the paramedics came to get you. Gray, gave her his shirt and tried to take her with him but she was persistent and refused to leave your side. She nearly persuaded her way into the operating room but wasn’t granted access. Rogue and Levy, never left your side after you were out of surgery. I talked them into taking showers and getting a change of clothes, because Rogue still had old dirty clothes on, and Ley had dried blood all over her. She’s basically been living here, her and Rogue watching over you, waiting for you to wake up.”

“W-where…a-“ I groaned out, but Makarov knew what I was asking, interrupting me so I wouldn’t have to strain my voice.

“They went to drop off their dirty clothes and collect new clothes to wear. They’ve been sleeping beside you, even though the nurses, scold her every day about it.” He chuckled to himself.

I couldn’t help but smile too, thinking of Levy defying the nurses and doctors wishes to sleep by his side. His heart swelled with pride and love, he couldn’t help but smile even wider.

“Cana’s safe too, her dad is Gildarts as you know by now. One of our best guys, probably our only best. He’s the one we send on extremely important missions. His stealth and influence is great. So, when he heard about José and Jackal taking Cana, all hell broke loose. And lets just say….. José and Jackal will no longer be a problem in the future,” he said with a cloud of darkness in his eyes. I wanted to ask what exactly happened, but I knew I would be better off not knowing. “And don’t worry about your reputation, everything has been cleared out. You are no longer a criminal on the run.”

“Thanks,” I grunted out with a crooked smile. I watched the small old man, look at the floor for few seconds, before looking back at me with conflicting eyes that made me hesitate.

“You know, I’m still upset that Levy was there in the first place and in possible harms way, but knowing her…..she wasnt going to let you go by yourself, huh?” he said, smiling as I nodded in agreement. “Do you remember the talk we had before I left?” He asked and I nodded my head again. He reached into his pocket pulling out a small red box. Openng it, he revealed a sparkling diamond ring, set in a prestine gold band. “This is to confirm that I actually give you two my blessing. I always thought I wouldn’t approve of anyone she brought home, but im glad it was you. And you know what I would do if you ever broke her heart. You almost did that day. She was sobbing so hard, I’ve never seen her cry so hard even when she was a child. If you died, I wouldve brought you back to life just to thrash you and put you back in the ground for hurting her.” He said with a sly smile, making a rough chuckle erupt from my throat the dull pain coming back for a few seconds. “I’ll officially be your gramps and Rogue’s too and that makes me happy. Obviously I cant give you the ring now, but when you’re done recovering, come to my office and you’ll get then along with your new position.”

I quirked a curious eyebrow at him but he brushed my questioning stare to the side saying, “The doctors said, you’ll probably need a month to recover. That’s faster than most people but you’re a fit and healthy man, so it wont take long. But I’m giving you two months. Levy alreay has your stuff and Rogue’s stuff in her place, so you’ll be with her during your recovery. I gave her that special mission when you got out of surgery.”

“Thanks……Gramps.” I grunted out with a smirk. Thankful my voice was quickly coming back to life.

“Grandpa! I’m back, we got you food if you-GAJEEL!” Levy spoke as she entered the hospital room with an arm full of food blocking her vision. She cried out my name when she sat it down on the counter. Makarov quickly got off the bed to let her and Rogue climb on to hug me tightly.

“Daddy! You’re awake!” Rogue beemed with excitement as he scrambled to get onto the bed to snuggle the other side of me. I pulled them both in, ignoring my pain just so I could inhale the scent of Levy’s shampoo and the smell of greasy fries I know Rogue ate on his way here.

I kissed them both, squeezing them tighter against me. Looking up, I saw Makarov smile at me, mouthing, ‘I’ll see you in two months,’ before grabing his food and leaving.

For the rest of that day and then on, they refused to leave my side. Their bright smiles, nursing me back to health.

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2 YEARS LATER

Taking a usual route home, I sighed in relief, knowing that I was able to get off of work in time to join in the festistivities. Thanks to Makarov, and our incident two years ago with José and Jackal, he was able to weed his way to the top, getting rid of the corruption. He took the head seat and gave me and Gildarts a place beside him. This gave us the advantage of having regular hours and being able to come home safe to our family every night. Well, almost every night. There were some nights we had to stay in the office just to fix a situation or figure out the best cause of action.

Turning into the driveway, I put my truck into park. Hopping out, I grabbed my suitcase from the floor on the passenger side.

“Welcome home,” a sweet voice rang out, causing my head to whip to the figure that was standing on the front porch. I watched with amuzement as Levy waddled off the porch and towards me. She had one hand placed on her back and the other on her swollen stomach.

Meeting her halfway, I bent down to kiss her. “I’m home. I missed you while I was gone.”

“We missed you too,” she smiled rubbing her belly, wincing at a pain that coursed through her.

“You sure you don’t want to go to the hospital. Your contractions are getting closer together.”

She hit my arm, her wedding ring glinting in the light as she swatted me. “I’m ok. The doctor also said, I could feel contractions for days before I actually go into labor.”

Crouching down to be eye level with her belly, I kissed her stomach. “Try not to give your momma much trouble, ok?” She laughed as I kissed her stomach. “You’re already double the trouble.”

“Yea, gramps, been calling them the terrible twosome, but hopefully the twins wont be that bad.” She giggled attempting to turn around, but I stopped her engulfing her in my arms. “What are you doing?”

“I request a little more love before our company take you away from me,” I said peppering her lips with kisses in between each word. I felt her melt against me as our lips moved together, the same spark tingling my spine.

“Eeeeewwww,” we heard two little voices say, causing us to break apart. Sting and Rogue stood side by side with the look of disgust on their faces.

“Your mom and dad are gross like my parents. They’re always kissing. BLEGH” Sting said making a face that made all of us laugh.

“You get used to it if you look away,” Rogue laughed. “Mom, can me and Sting get the ice cream now that dad is home?” Rogue asked looking up at Levy for permision.

Levy nodded her head and the boys erupted in joy, running back in the house to get the ice cream.

“We better get inside,” she said grabbing my hand, leading me in the house.

We walked through the house and right back outside to the back patio that I built a year ago, just for these such occasions. Lucy and Juvia were talking as they watched their babies play on a blanket surrounded by toys. Natsu was on the grill threatening to smack Gray as Gray questioned his grill master skills with every flip of burger and turn of hotdog. Erza and Cana were deep in a board game as Cana smiled wickedly a hand wrapped around a beer bottle.

“Yo! Gajeel! You hungry? I already got some meat done.” Natsu said with his usual boyish grin.

“Hmmm, I’m not sure if I’ll trust it. I think they’re raw.” Gray critqued poking one of the burgers with a fork, causing Natsu to barate him with insults.

“I’ll take one,” Gramps said behind me, loosening his tie as he stepped onto the patio. “Glad we could both make it,” he smiled up at me.

“Same here, I thought were going to be so late that we missed all the good food.” I chuckled.

We were ready to dig in, when Levy leaned over a chair clutching her stomach groaning in pain. Running to her side, I rubbed her back asking if she needed anything.

“I-I think they’re coming,” she groaned out right before her water broke.

“Battle stations everyone!!!” Cana yelled out as everyone went to overdrive. The fire was put out on the grill, the food was quickly put up and the kids were rounded up. With everyone getting in their cars, I carried Levy to my car, ready and nervous for the next part of our journey together.

Fin.