#and you better believe there's been caffeine involved in my recovery

[everythingisliminal]

Life Reflections

Well, I've come to the end of my 75 Hard/Soft run. Here's what I've learned over the past few months:

I don't need more discipline.

I do need a healthier relationship with myself.

I did 75 Hard for about a month. I loved the concept of overhauling my lifestyle and just committing to focusing on my health. However, meeting my daily goals meant forgoing other healthy activities like cleaning dishes, sleeping, getting in electrolytes, etc. Eventually I was so overwhelmed that I fell into the depression pit and had to reassess: I could keep up with 75 Hard but feel broken by the end, or I could acknowledge that this challenge wasn't for me and modify my goals and be gentler with myself. I decided on the later.

That lasted until I got food poisoning, which nerfed me for a week and wrecked the habits I'd developed. Combined with other life things, I slowly slid back into the depression pit. I could barely get myself to work. I was having communication problems. I had no motivation to follow any kind of workout plan. I haven't been able to apply to any new jobs despite really needing to.

Luckily I'd already requested some days off work to watch the Crossfit Games live. It's the few days a year I put everything on hold and just watch my games. There was a lot of downtime those first couple days (iykyk), which I used to crochet, read Atomic Habits, watch Midwest Magic Cleaning videos, and self reflect.

I realized I've never had the level of fitness I've wanted because I'm so focused on working out I've neglected everything else that goes with health. I don't have a solid foundation of eating well, maintaining my space regularly, resting, and recognizing / thinking through body cues. I've metaphorically been trying to do calculus without first working through trigonometry.

And slowly I started cleaning my apartment. Lit a candle, took out all the trash, watched the next event. Cleaned parts of the bathroom, watched the next event. Vacuumed. Two days of this and one of the first things my friend said when she came over yesterday afternoon was "wow, your apartment is so clean!"

Just now I walked through my apartment with hand bells and, my goodness, what a change. A slow upward spiral of taking care of myself and my space so that we both feel more airy and light. In both cases, I essentially cleansed the main walking space. I didn't open cupboards or closets (so the energy is still heavy there), but my space is habitable again.

This is where I want to build consistency. The more consistently I tidy/cleanse, the less overwhelming the task will be. Focusing on visual improvements to the bigger picture, and then taking on 3x3ft areas as I feel ready. Focus on one cupboard, focus on one stagnant or chaotic space inside myself.

So starting 75 Hard was hella helpful, in that I learned how it does not reflect my actual needs and desires. It turned me to goo so that I could recognize my true chrysalis.

[thebookreader12345]

Shouting Match

Pairing: Sean Roman x Halstead! reader

Summary: Y/N and Sean were in what seemed like the perfect relationship, but when a close friend gets hurt, the two realize there were many faults between them and an argument ensues

Requested: Yes, by anonymous

Warnings: slight swearing, mentions of alcohol and gunshot wounds

Word Count: 1,777 Words

"Jay, for the last time, I'm not gonna break up with Sean just because you don't like him," I tell my older brother.

"Why not, Y/N? I'd say that's a pretty good reason," Jay retorted as he followed me out to my car.

We had just spent the past 2 hours hanging out at Molly's so that we could catch up because it had been a while since we'd spent time together. But of course, as soon as the topic of relationships came up, a debate started that I had not wanted to get into.

"Look, Jay. I get that he's got beef with Intelligence, and they're practically your second family, but Sean's a really great guy. And once you get over whatever the hell has you fixated on him being an asshole, you'll see that. Now, I've got an early shift at Med tomorrow, and if I'm late, Will is gonna have my head. I'll talk to you tomorrow," I say before climbing into my car.

The ride to the apartment was pretty short, 5 minutes tops, and I was just happy to be home. I climbed out of my car and entered the complex, taking the stairs to get to the second floor of the building. From there, it was only a matter of seconds before I got to my door and unlocked it.

"Hey," Sean greeted from the couch as I came through the door. It wasn't weird for Sean to be in my apartment when I got home. Occasionally he'd come over so we could spend a bit of time together before our next shifts.

"Hey," I return and set my things down before joining him on the couch. I took a seat on his lap and wrapped my arms around his neck, placing a much needed kiss on his lips.

"How was work?" Sean asked and encircled my waist with his arms.

"You know, giving meds, checking in on patients, the usual," I reply, describing the everyday routine of my job as an ED Nurse at Chicago Med. "And then I got to spend some time with Jay at Molly's. It's always nice hanging out with him since I don't see him as often as Will. But what about you? How was patrol?"

"Fine. The only thing that happened was an attempted robbery, and we caught the guy," Sean responded. "Speaking of work, my partner's taking a day off tomorrow, so I'm gonna be partnered with Kim for the day."

I had no problem with Kim. Quite the opposite, actually. She was my best friend. However, she was also Sean's ex, so sometimes it made things weird between us. She assured me when Sean and I started dating that she was okay with it, and I believed that, but whenever the three of us were together, there was a bit of awkwardness in the room. We always got past it though, and Sean and Kim continued to be friends.

"All right. Keep each other safe, please," I plead and peck his lips before climbing off of his lap. "I've got an early shift tomorrow, so I'm gonna head to bed."

"Goodnight," Sean called after me. I ditched the clothes I was wearing, throwing them in the hamper with one toss. After I put on some pajamas, I climbed into bed and closed my eyes. Minutes later, I was fast asleep.

............................................

"Y/N, that's your second cup of coffee this morning," Maggie pointed out as she joined me at the nurses' station.

"Yeah. And...?" I trailed off, not seeing the problem.

"Late night?" Maggie questioned.

I shook my head. "No, actually. I made Jay promise not to keep me at Molly's past 10, and he stayed true to that. Today I'm just enjoying my caffeine." Just then, Maggie's pager beeped, and when she glanced down at it, she frowned.

"Incoming! Choi, you're up!" Maggie yelled into the ED. Ethan was the doctor I worked with the most, and I had no problem with it. We had grown to be close friends, and we worked quite well together. So, whenever it was his turn to accept an incoming trauma, I always followed to help him out. I thought today would be the same, but that all changed when the gurney was wheeled through the ambulance bay doors.

"Kim Burgess, late 20s, gunshot wound to the neck. Weak pulse. We intubated in the field," Courtney, the paramedic, informed us. My whole world seemed to stop as I watched my best friend get wheeled past me. And seeing her unconscious made things 100% worse.

"Y/N, you coming?" Ethan quizzed as he led the gurney into the nearest trauma room.

"I uh... Mags, c-can you...?" I stammer out, not even needing to finish my sentence for Maggie to understand what I was asking.

"I've got this," Maggie assured me and followed Ethan into the trauma room. Seconds after Kim was wheeled in, Sean entered the ED, his eyes scanning the room until they landed on me.

"Y/N!" Sean shouted and joined me by the nurses' station. "How's Kim doing?"

"I don't know," I confess and glance towards the trauma room she was situated in. "I make it a rule to not work on anyone I'm close with. What the hell happened? You guys were just supposed to be on a routine patrol."

"Intelligence called us up," Sean answered. "We were working a drug case and we ended up having to chase the guy down an alleyway."

"That's not what I'm talking about. You promised you'd keep Kim safe. You promised, Sean. So where were you when she was being shot at?" I implore harshly.

"I was taking cover like I was supposed to! We didn't have an eye so I ducked down behind a dumpster. What, you think this was my fault?" Sean asked.

"You're her partner, Sean. It's your job to protect her. Yet here she is with a bullet buried in her neck," I return.

"You're acting like I told her to make a move," Sean countered. "She put her own life in danger. I had nothing to do with that."

I scoffed. "You had everything to do with it."

"I don't think we should be having this argument here," Sean whispered.

"Well I think we should," I retort.

"Y/N," Sean started.

"Don't 'Y/N' me," I seethe. By now, the whole ED was staring at us, but I didn't care right now. "My best friend is dying because of you!"

"If it was me in there instead of Kim, would you be yelling at her?" Sean posed. "Cause I think you'd be trying to reassure her that none of it was her fault. So, what? Kim takes priority over me, your boyfriend?"

"At the moment, yeah," I reply and cross my arms over my chest.

"Just at the moment? I think she always has," Sean accused. "And if that doesn't speak to how our relationship is, then I don't know what does."

"What are you trying to say?" I ask.

"I'm not trying to say anything. I'm telling you that I'm through with this. I'm through with you," Sean emphasized. "We're done." As Sean stalked off back towards the lobby, everything he said really hit me.

We were done.

"Y/N? You okay?" Adam questioned once he noticed that I had practically froze in the middle of the ED.

"Excuse me," I murmur and push past him politely. My body was begging me for some fresh air to help calm myself down, so I made my way out of the ED, but that involved going through the lobby where Sean and the rest of the 21st district was waiting. I hoped that I wouldn't catch anyone's attention, but I should've known better.

"Y/N," Jay said and stood up when he saw me. However, instead of stopping to talk to him, I made a beeline straight for the exit. The automatic doors opened when I stepped near them, allowing a nice breeze to hit my face. My feet carried me to the front of the hospital where I took a seat against the side of the building and placed my head in my hands. That's when the tears began to flow, but I didn't stop them. Minutes later, I was joined by Jay, who took a seat next to me. For a few seconds, we sat in silence, but then Jay spoke up. "Natalie told me what happened."

"I don't want to talk about it," I mutter without removing my head from my arms.

"Well, as family, we're required to," Jay declared. "I told you Roman was an ass."

I laughed softly and picked my head up, resting it against the wall behind me. "I now see why you thought that. So everyone in the ED heard?"

Jay nodded. "Yeah. But don't worry. I'm sure they're all thinking the same thing as I am. Want me to have a talk with Roman?"

I shook my head. "No, but thank you for offering. I uh, I need to get back inside. We're low on nurses today. I'll talk to you later, Jay."

Jay's POV

A few hours later, Kim was awake and doing well, and I was just glad that she would be making a full recovery. As Adam and I were exiting her room, we just so happened to bump into Sean Roman, the girl who just, not even hours prior, broke my little sister's heart.

"Hey, guys," Sean greeted. "Is she awake?""

I crossed my arms over my chest. "Are you for real?"

Sean frowned. "What?"

"You broke up with my sister, that's what. Get the hell out of here!" I demand.

"But-"

Adam cut Sean off. "Kim doesn't want to talk to you. Not after what happened between you and Y/N. And I'd advise you follow Jay's orders."

Sean hesitated, but sighed. "Fine." He then walked off, leaving Adam and I standing alone in front of Kim's hospital room.

"All right man, I'm gonna head out. I promised Y/N that Will and I would come over after her shift, which is ending in like 20 minutes, so I've gotta pick up some pizza and beers."

"Okay. I'm gonna stay and keep Kim company. Have a good night," Adam spoke.

"Yeah man. You too," I return. And with that, I left the hospital to go spend some much needed quality time with my sister. Y/N would probably be hurting for a few days, but Will and I agreed that we'd be there for her every step of the way because that's what big brothers were for.

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[fandomplethora]

so, i have seen something going around the mystic messenger fandom...and i would like to just share my thoughts on it. 

i would like to quickly add that this is just my opinion on it and my perspective. i also am not sure if this has been confirmed or not - but, either way, my personal thoughts mostly stay the same. 

in my eyes, it is no small thing what’s going around...whether this is a fictional story or not.

tw: heavy mentions of suicide and mental health. major spoilers ahead. 

i have had several discussions based on this going around. i have also seen it on instagram, heard it is going around on twitter and have seen it on tiktok.

i think, to go so far as to put something like that on another character is a bit much...even in a fictional game. it could, potentially, mess up a lot of people’s mindsets playing. i do not think it is a fair perspective on players or what this game is even about. it could also be possibly triggering to players. yoosung is depressed. he lost someone really close to him, that gave him motivation/inspiration. and his grades started slipping, he lost his drive and he just distracted himself with lolol without taking care of himself. and if we really look at it...no character takes care of themselves here. zen doesn’t eat properly...a diet of salad and beer, long hours. he sometimes smokes. jaehee works long hours without getting proper rest or meals - relies strictly on caffeine to keep going. jumin says he takes of himself but it is canon that people have seen him take multiple espresso shots to get going in the day at once. not to mention how he turns to drinking in different points of any route and his sleep schedule is crazy. saeyoung hardly sleeps either; just eats junk food, or mostly chips and soda, and struggles to take care of himself. jihyun is also not taking care of himself, including not receiving needed medical care, as he tries to solve everything going on in the background. saeran isn’t able to take care of himself either when you get to his route due to his situation, including further poisoning his body with the elixir. vanderwood is even in a similar position as saeyoung but, perhaps, dealing in different ways we have not seen much of yet.

so much of this can be attributed to, again, the stress every member is under due to their jobs, student life and situation. so much is attributed to their trauma, mental state, mental health... and so much we find out about in every route. it is also based around their relationships, families and secrets we uncover.

and, coming back to yoosung...i will say that, heartbreakingly, suicidal ideation may happen. and connecting it to the other members once more; there is a moment in jaehee’s route where jumin purposefully, while under the influence, endangers his own life. saeyoung is also severely depressed and “jokes” about his will to live at different points...and in jihyun’s after ending, when he believes his brother has passed, he no longer wants to live and has to be stopped by jumin and vanderwood. jihyun himself is so self-sacrificial...he is willing to risk his own life in order to protect others and to even prove his “love” to rika. and saeran does attempt suicide at the end of jihyun’s route after giving a farewell call to mc...and then has to be saved by jihyun who thanks god for him being alive. and, even before that, expresses (similarly to saeyoung) his lack of care for his own life. and mina (rika) is also shown to idealize self-harm and, perhaps, even suicide as well. 

...and then looping back to yoosung, i do think he is a character who needs help (much like everyone else in the game) and he does need to be acknowledged about this and for his struggles. his mental health, stress as a student, lack of motivation due to all of these facts and reeling from the “death” (another apparent suicide) of a family member close to him. again, i believe there may even be moments from yoosung about his own suicidal thoughts (i’m not denying this fact)...things said in passing based in moments of high emotion and severe depression. 

suicide, mental health/illness, including (in some contexts) suicidal ideation are all, heartbreakingly, major themes and subjects in mystic messenger. 

but, also, i have to add...that to say that someone would have committed suicide without another certain character...is detrimental to some of the positive themes shown in this story. themes of recovery, forgiveness and self-love. of showing actually getting better, healthier coping mechanisms and forming strong bonds with healthy relationships. 

perhaps, this theory (or fact, if it has been confirmed, i have not seen such confirmation yet though)...is saying, more in the sense, that without intervention for yoosung (and any member) these unhealthy coping mechanisms and pain they were going through would not have been properly acknowledged. it is a major part of the whole storyline to acknowledge their feelings and help them through that...to highlight the importance of that. (and not doing so, or encouraging further toxic behaviors, is what leads to the bad endings...this is not hating on completing bad endings or saying you shouldn’t do so - but that is what those can represent. and why only the good endings are considered canon.) 

but i fear that if anyone were to take the stance of “_____ would have killed themselves if _____ was not there” is almost along the lines of “i would no longer want to live if you were not here” or “i would k*ll myself if you were gone”...both of these mindsets are not okay, severely toxic and painful. and, in terms of forming healthy and strong bonds like these characters should (and eventually do)...it ruins the theme of that. the lesson in that.  

my point is; it is all about perspective and showing the deeper context of such a statement. and to please, please be careful when sharing such a statement or reading it.   every character in this story is not in a good place at all when you/mc/hana enter the picture. and, sure, it can be said that mc gives them that boost of energy (brings the spring breeze again, so to speak)...but, really, they just encourage them to do it themselves and talk to each other. while i love the hc where we can have a more active part in helping everyone - to say mc (or hana) does nothing as it is now is not true. 

they holds their hands, they are kind and they listen. they encourage them to take care of themselves and is just there through it. and when helping someone going through something - that’s what it’s really about. (there is no english translation for the webtoon yet so this part is just based on me skimming the chapters as they are released.) but hana seems to also be kind, encouraging and gives them that kick again. everyone in the rfa truly does care about each other and, sure, they needed someone to remind them again. but i genuinely think to take that dark of a possible “what if” is not fair to the story at all or the characters.

things like this never take just one person or are on one person’s back. it’s everyone involved - it’s a support system. that is just what the rfa needed to see more clearly. (even before mc came in and helped...it’s still said that, while the rfa were worried and didn’t know where to go from where they were...they still did use the chatroom as an outlet to talk to each other. so, they were getting there. could things have gotten more complicated if mc hadn’t come? yes...again, they changed the course tremendously. but for things to go that far is just...not true to me.) 

(side note: the only thing that makes me sad is how someone could be potentially left out when you’re on another route. it’s why i wish for a final route where you can help everyone. and/or what i’m wishing for the webtoon to be.) 

but each route gets to show the possibility of hope and recovery for every single character in this game - and how that strength and care and love was in them all along.  again, i have no idea about anything like that being confirmed or not. mental health is a HUGE theme in mystic messenger as a whole - but i take the perspective of what i said more when thinking about it either way. (along with some other things that I��ve posted about on tumblr before.) anyways, in your life, reach out for help if you need it. there is hope..support each other and you can find strength within yourself again. & in my opinion, when playing the game (or now reading the webtoon), that’s something it teaches and shows as well.

edit: this is not a “this is right and this is wrong” post. things are never black and white - mental health and recovery is never linear. i just want to add that in case anything here came across as preachy or like i was trying to sound...well, lecturing even. i am not a professional by any means and am just someone who also struggles with their own mental health. so, i hope nothing in this post came across as offensive, hurtful or insensitive.

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[musings-on-bucky-barnes]

Q & A with Owlet re: The Infinite Coffee & Protection Detail series

Along with many other people, one of my favourite Bucky Barnes fic series is The Infinite Coffee & Protection Detail. I was very happy when its author, Owlet @vmohlere kindly agreed to do the below Q&A with me about it, which is under a cut for length.

Q. How did This, You Protect come about?

1. After my third time seeing the movie [Captain America: The Winter Soldier], I thought it would be fun to write a one-shot about how obnoxious it would be to only partially remember and have to look after Steve.

2. "Oh great," says I, "I can practice writing humor."

3. Hundreds of thousands of words later: what even is my life.

 Q. From your comments as you were writing This, You Protect, you did not set out to write such a long fic or a series, but you kept having more ideas and tangents and loved writing Grumpy Bucky?

Accurate! It really did just take over my brain.

 Q. Now that the main stories in the series are done, after you have a well-earned rest and work on your other writing and poems, are any one shots likely in due course for the IC&PD?

Mmmmmmaaaaaaaybe. I have notes for a few, that take Steve & Barnes out to the end of their lives, but I hesitate to commit, because I need to focus on my original stuff for now.

 BUCKY BARNES:

Q. Coffee addict (did he like it in his old life?) and quick to get back to personal grooming (he was a metrosexual before it was popular).

In my mind, coffee: no – the Bucky-Person drank coffee for warmth & caffeine, but I do picture him as pretty dang vain, until his time under Zola’s “tender care” broke him.

 Q. What appealed to you about Bucky? What did you learn about him when writing this?

Initially, in Winter Soldier, I immediately latched onto this character who was set up to be remorseless & relentless, but who was confused in a way he didn’t understand by that *face*. In the fight on the helicarrier, you know his handlers would’ve been incensed by his hesitation, when he was obviously standing there thinking, “Okay, asshole: input me some data so I can determine just what kind of irritant you are.”

 Q. Where did you get the idea for the Mission and the Briefing?

You see the Briefing in Winter Soldier, in the memory flashes during the bank vault scene. Mission just erupted into my head out of this sense that there are parts of him HYDRA never tore down.

 Q. The climax of This, You Protect – when did you decide that sheep pants would help save the day?

It was one of those beautiful surprises that happen when you make stuff, and I cried all over my notebook.

 Q. Bucky’s recovery – a slow, realistic process with some setbacks, pain and humor: learning how to open up to others, to get used to physical contact again eventually, how he helps himself and lets others in, safe spots, good things list, reading, long baths, personal care, baking, sheep pants, coffee, helping others and much more.

There have been a couple of times when a really small thing has saved my life. Everyone’s small lifesaving thing is different. Barnes’s are PJs, baking, and concrete assistive actions.

 Q. What I love particularly about this Bucky is how others are drawn to him like Steve was as his true, kind self is able to start emerging again, and how his involvement with those people affects them in turn, like the Avengers interacting with each other in new ways (e.g. the ice cream tasting) and them getting to meet the Olds, which is beneficial all around.

People who don’t recognize how valued they are is a trope I never, ever, ever get tired of. We’re all stuck in our meat bodies, and we see all the messy bits in the inside (my best friend says, “Oh Virginia, you will never irritate anyone as much as you irritate yourself”), and we forget that there exist people who just LIKE us, and that that’s enough. I’ll be writing about that my whole life.

 STEVE:

Q. The readers find out in this series that Steve tends to cheat at card games and has been doing so for a long time. Is that because it was the only edge he had when he was sick and frail and tired of being underestimated & he can’t or doesn’t want to break the habit now?

Steve’s a snotball and a contrarian. In my head, he learned to cheat from the women in the Star-Spangled Man show, because they liked to fleece guys who were looking to get the women drunk & take advantage of them. So to him, it’s both a habit and a tool to annoy jerks. Also, he thinks it’s funny to be Captain America, Cheater At Cards. Because the one thing other than Bucky that has always been a constant in his life is people underestimating him/trying to define him by one thing (illness/size vs the costume & shield).

 Q. And why does he cheat against LYDIA (which is asking her to serve his ass to him on a platter!)? Does he have a death wish?

He recognizes a similar level of sarcasm in her and thinks it’s hilarious to try to fool her and then get walloped by her.

 Q. What things did you discover about Steve along the way?

The cheating at cards thing, which was a throwaway line in the first chapter where I referenced it and then grew in the back corner of my mind like a “volunteer tomato” in a compost heap until it became A Thing. Writing “Truth, Justice, and the Cheating Cheater Way” was SO fun.

It was important to me to give Steve a temper and a wide impetuous streak, which I felt both Avengers and Age of Ultron TOTALLY got wrong about him. Except that we pretend Age of Ultron doesn’t exist.

 Q. In A Chance to Try Bravery, we get to see Bucky and his behavior from Steve’s perspective, including that Bucky talks out loud to himself, seemingly without realizing he’s doing so. How often does Bucky do that, or does it vary/lessen as time goes on? And what things does Bucky ramble to Steve and others about when high on medication after the robot fight?

At the beginning, he talks to himself out loud a LOT. There are some hints about that in the text. Over time, that does lessen, except when he’s stressed, which makes him mutter pretty constantly.

Doped-up Barnes is verbally affectionate and has a little bit of the Bucky-person’s Brooklyn twang.

 TONY:

Look, I HATE what Civil War did to Tony. There is too much in Barnes’s history for Tony to IDENTIFY with. Tony's arc in Iron Man - capture, body modification, his tech being stolen for nefarious use - has similar touch points to Barnes's story.

Also, for pity’s sake, do we believe for one second that Pepper didn’t make him go to therapy? We do not.

 PEPPER:

I am not a Gwyneth Paltrow fan, so it surprised the hell out of me how much affection I developed for Pepper approximately 5 words after she popped up in This, You Protect. I just loved writing her, because she’s so dang together and sensible.

 MARIA:

It just made me cackle to set her up as the Alpha Badass. I love her.

 SAM:

I’m not going to go back and rewrite, but if I did, I would put in more Sam. Sam’s IMPORTANT. He’s the voice of Real People who go through similar crap to Steve & Barnes and have to deal with it all using Real People methods. He’s what it looks like when you make it to the other side of the wringer – his compassion is deep and wide, but he’s not a martyr and his energy isn’t endless.

 NATASHA:

I feel like there’s a heft to Natasha that I don’t even know about in my own fictional universe. She’s like Sam – a picture of what it looks like to Survive Some Shit, with more broken-off edges than Sam has. She carries a lot of burdens that she’ll never tell anyone about.

 CLINT:

Truly a poetry nerd.

 JARVIS:

The helpful busybody (from better surveillance equipment, to books and lubricants!)

I really enjoyed writing JARVIS, because it was cool to think about a being that was omnipresent and largely non-judgmental. I felt like I had to be careful not to use JARVIS too much or it’d turn out to be a deus ex machina.

 CAT ELEANOR:

My own personal Cat Eleanor, who was similarly judgy and protective, was a grey tabby named Boadicea (Boadie) whom I collected as a very ill stray kitten and who lived with me for 13 years. She liked to eat her dinner from a plate on the table and was a terrible stealer of French fries.

Sidebar: I still have her ashes in a bag in my sock drawer, because what the heck am I supposed to do with them?

 THOR:

Thor’s compassion & wisdom caught me off guard every time he showed up, even though I was *trying* to remember that he’s powerful and practically immortal. But he outdid my ideas for him.

 THE OLDS:

I guess in some parallel universe that I’m channeling, they must be real people, because they popped fully formed into my head like a trio of hilarious Athenas. Esther has a couple of great-nieces on the West Coast, and Ollie has a few distant step-ish younger relatives from his de facto late husband’s side of the family. Functionally, they are each other’s family.

 THE CARP, TOSHIRO HAYASHI AND KAZUE:

Based in part on Sushi Gin in Lawrence, Kansas, where I once had a delicious and fun solo meal at the sushi bar, and Masa’s Sushi and Robata Bar in Spring, Texas, whose nabeyaki udon I’m crazy for.

 THE COFFEE BAR AND KATIE:

I mentioned her briefly in Team-Building Exercises as if she were important, so then I had to create her for The Long Road Begins at Home. She was a bit of a conundrum until I thought of making her one of the victims of the Chitauri attack.

 THE ANTI-VALENTINE’S NO TOUCH CLUB

Q. What were its origins?

Honestly I just wanted to write more Hill, because I surprised myself with how much I liked writing her, and I knew she’d hate Valentine’s Day as much as Barnes. From there, it was a matter of thinking who else would hate it and then add Steve, because of all his “whither thou goest” vibe.

 Q. How do you picture the next Valentine’s Day meeting of that club, since two of the members are now bonking each other every chance they get?

That’s not until the NEXT year. And they spend the whole time very purposely not touching one another until they’re cross-eyed and jump each other in the elevator. Hill grumps at them a lot.

 THE HAIR CLUB:

It was important to me that the women of the Tower be one another’s support group in the midst of all that testosterone. One of the things that I enjoyed about writing Team-Building Exercises was that it was vignettes that appeared out of thin air without any explanation.

… That being said, it made sense to me that the women’s sense of ease with one another would draw Barnes in just like Esther did. He has no idea how much he lurked and stared at them before they invited him over. Once she Got It, Pepper’s natural caretaker tendencies kicked in, and Barnes was in. Pepper is a Fixer.

 Q. Present tense isn’t often used all the way through a long fic. I think the only time I’ve used it in a fic was when I gave the POV character amnesia, and present tense felt right, as he was in the current moment and it was all he had, with no memories to fall back on. But you used it so well that it suits and isn’t jarring. What led you to decide on present tense?

There’s no other option for that character, in my mind. Barnes experiences everything with almost complete immediacy, and present tense was the only way to convey that.

 Q. Are Bucky and Steve likely to get their own cat at some stage?

Yes.

 Q. YES!!!! Do you have a name in mind for it? And does it love Bucky more than it loves Steve?

I don't want to say anything more about their cat, in case I write that part!

 Q. When will the public find out about Bucky being alive, and when will they find out about Bucky and Steve being together?

I have no head canons for these questions. Miracle on Park Avenue is not part of Infinite Coffee, though.

 Q. It was interesting that you released Steve and Bucky getting together in Advanced Happiness Skills before you did The Long Road Begins at Home fic. Did the muse direct you to write and release it early?

I tried really hard not to write Long Road – I knew it would eat up acres of time, and I wanted to be done after Advanced Happiness. But it got to the point that I had to write notes or have my head explode, and eventually I had so many dang notes that I figured I’d better type the damn things up.

 Q. So, you actually started writing Team-Building Exercises as a standalone instead of as a teaser for The Long Road Begins at Home?

Yes, I really didn't intend to go any farther than that.

 Q. And at what point in the series did you realize that it would become Stucky?

Oh gosh, I guess it was always in the background, from the early chapters of This, You Protect. But it was a long time before I thought I’d actually write that part.

 Q. Did anything change due to fan comments? What went off in directions that you hadn’t planned on in the plotting stage? What things got left out?

There’s a funny bit about Barnes freaking that Steve will drown in the reflecting pool in the National Mall, until he discovers that it’s only about 18 inches deep.

There was one small detail that I put in because of a fan comment, but I’m sorry to say that I can’t remember what it was.

“Planned on in the plotting stage” … uh.

Um.

Er.

I wrote this whole thing by the seat of my pants.

 Q. It can be fun and fraught to do a series, as there is a lot to juggle and things to seed in to set up plots and developments for further down the track. How did you keep tabs on what needed to happen when?

Gotta be magic. I mean, I held the whole thing in my head for years and could see it as clear as day. It crowded out many other things.

 Q. What is your writing process like, or was it different for this series?

I write and tinker almost daily, but I’ve found that my best pieces tend to be the ones that build up like pressure in my head and fall out all at once. My Star Wars fic, Generational Mistakes, is over 17,000 words that literally came out all at one time, starting around 1:00 am, when it woke me up. I had to take the day off work, and by the time I had the whole draft out on paper (hand written!), I was literally crying from the pain in my hand.

That’s an extreme example, of course, usually it’s more like the beginning of a thing blooms, and sections build up until they attain enough gravity to ooze out in blobs. I generally have to start out writing by hand until I pick up some inertia and can switch to typing, though I also do a lot of editing in the first typing pass if a whole piece is hand-written.

I write very badly to self-imposed deadlines and very well to feeling like I Owe Someone, so the reader comments really propelled me along throughout the whole series.

 Q. The fics have really shown the therapeutic power of cooking, as well as different recipes, especially in the comments section.

There is not enough I can say about the comments section. It took on a life of its own in a way that I would not even have imagined – not just the screaming and the recipes, which were great, but the way people jumped in to comfort and support one another. It is really beautiful, and I’m beyond grateful, and so proud of all of them and to be a part of them.

I’m sincerely humbled by and thankful to all the comments, but especially those from people who found comforting or useful bits in Barnes’s recovery. Even if this one life isn’t the only one we get, it’s the only one we *remember*, and damaging shit is a pure fact of existence. To have provided material help to even one suffering person (much less the dozens of who’ve reached out) makes a strong place in my own heart. I have a concrete thing that I can look at with my own eyeballs and say for real and for sure that I Did Well and I Helped. That gives a human life ballast. It’s an honor.

I started Long Road at a time when I was feeling super demoralized about my original works, and the life it made for itself in fandom still just knocks me over. If y’all were going to have that much faith in me, I figure I’d better lift up my head and have faith in myself. Thank you for that.

xXx

Thank you very much to Owlet for putting up with all of my questions, and if at some stage down the road she is willing to do another one, I already have some questions written down for it!

This Q&A will also be available on Owlet’s AO3 page.

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A Year of Writing FFXV

Wow, I can’t believe Ive been writing consistently for FFXV for over a year now. I love it so much! Seriously, I have never been more involved in a fandom or made so many friends. And having so many happy experiences led to a lot of inspiration and a lot more fics, I think. And here I am to share them all!

I keep seeing end of the year art memes and I think they’re really cool, but I was a little sad that there’s nothing like that for fanfic. So I decided to do something similar enough. But a lot longer lol.

Here’s every fic that contributed to the over 200,000 words of FFXV fanfic I wrote in 2017! Its a big mix of SFW, NSFW and many, many pairings. I hope you enjoyed this year of fandom as much as I did! And please don’t be afraid to spread the fandom love <3

Thanks to everyone for all the support!

More Than Words Can Wield The Matter - My big ‘ol drabble collection. SFW and NSFW and many pairings. Check the titles of each chapter for pairings and content.

January

Warmness and Affection -SFW, OT4, Noctis and Prompto get stuck in a snowstorm, so Gladio and Ignis must rescue them and deal with the aftermath.

Shotgun -SFW, Gen, Ignis is a very, very good driver. Prompto wants to drive the Regalia, but Ignis finds a better job for him.

Old Lullaby -SFW, OT4,  Gladio, Ignis and Prompto get hit with confusion and they start attacking everything and everyone, leaving Noct to fend for himself. 

Of Hair Colors and Gossip -SFW, OT4, A brief history of style and fashion in Lucis, and the royalty that inspired it.

Melt Into You -SFW, OT4 but mostly Gladnoct, The boys get massages at Galdin Quay's resort, but Noctis' doesn't go as planned. Cue Gladio taking care of him and lots of comfort.

February

No Need to Play Pretend -SFW, OT4, Five times someone figured out exactly what kind of relationship Noctis, Gladio, Ignis and Prompto have with each other, and one time someone actually tried to do something about it.

Sericeus -NSFW, OT4, Prompto, Gladio and Ignis want to get Noctis something nice for his birthday. Really nice. Like, there’s no price limit nice.

Aces Up Your Sleeve -SFW, Gen, Regis' first born always has been and always will be the light of his life. Transboy Noct comes out to his dad. 

March

Fit the Mold -SFW, Gen, Noctis suffers from chronic pain, but his princely duties slow down for no one. Fed up with Gladio's impossible training, he wishes Gladio could feel what it's like to live in his shoes. Just for one day.

Heart's Desire -SFW, OT4, Noctis has survived his ascension and Insomnia is rebuilding, but an important question lingers: Who will the new King marry? (Answer: Everyone)

Flowers in the Sun -NSFW, Promnis, Ignis finds one of Prompto's sex toys in the Regalia. Again. Iggy and transguy Prompto smut. 

Oversharing Blogger Liveblogs Dildo Debacle with Boyfriend in Hospital -NSFW, OT4, Gladio accidentally gets a dildo stuck inside him and his boyfriends are not helping.

Under My Skin -SFW, OT4,  Noctis takes a nasty hit from an MT and becomes temporarily paralyzed from the hips down. The boys struggle to find balance as Noctis pushes forward in his recovery.

Fire Walk With Me -SFW, OT4, Caffeine withdrawal hits Ignis hard and fast in one of the caves under Lucis and the boys deal with the fallout. 

April

Noct Up -NSFW, OT4,  The boys are all happily together, but one day Prompto hears Gladio saying some...choice things to Noctis during sex. For Gladio and Noct it may be a kink, but for Prompto it's a horrifying reality that he has no desire to face. Transguy Prompto.

I've Got Stamina -SFW, Gen, Cor visits the boys after the destruction of Altissa, and finds that Ignis is not being treated properly. Heavy focus on blind Iggy. 

By The Sword -NSFW, OT4, A sudden bout of depression hits Gladio hard as he finally gets to mourn while the other three try to make sense of their Shield’s complicated and tangled emotions. 

Unraveled -NSFW, Promptis, Transguy Noct has a desire and oral-fixated Prompto has a solution.

May

Kissing Game -SFW, OT4, The boys start playing a guessing game with Ignis after he loses his sight. Ignis doesn't mind playing along, because each of his lovers have such obvious tells.

Stay With Me -SFW, OT4, Prompto gets injured in the Crestholm Channels, so the boys must help him out of the depths of the sewer while his claustrophobia comes in waves.

Forget About Mine -SFW, OT4, ABO, Prompto is curious as to how each of their presentations went. Ignis' is a bit...abnormal.

Noctis and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Heat -NSFW, OT4, ABO, Noct has a rough heat, but his pack is there to help him, in all their unique ways.

A Royal Honor -NSFW, OT4, Noct finally bottoms for Gladio and bulge kink ensues. 

The Anchor -SFW, Gen, Noctis was diagnosed with autism at the young age of two. Now three, his therapists want to introduce him to a friend to help him develop his communication and social skills. Ignis, a shy six-year-old, just might be the perfect fit.

The Citizen's Crown -NSFW, OT4, Prompto takes a turn bottoming for Gladio and MORE bulge kink ensues. 

June

Petit Four -SFW, Promptio,  Prompto works in the Citadel as a server and part of the kitchen staff and he’s helping cater a large party one night. Long after the party is over, Mr. Amicitia phones the kitchen and requests a tray of desserts be brought up to his room... 

July

Partition -NSFW, Ignoct, “Driver,” Ignis leaned forward, smiling as he put a teasing lilt in his voice, “roll up the partition, please.”

August

Come What May -SFW, Ignoct, Transguy Noct,  INSOMNIA, Lucis- 9:32 AM- Sources confirm that His Highness Noctis Lucis Caelum and his Royal Advisor, Ignis Scientia, are in a committed relationship together—and have been for some time.

September 

Sleepless in Insomnia -SFW, OT4, Noctis and Prompto have been struggling to get a good night's sleep for years. Ignis and Gladio have been trying to help them find an answer, but nothing is working out. Ignis' latest idea is a unique blanket for the boys to share, but Noctis and Prompto aren't convinced.

Solace With You -NSFW, Gladnoct, Gladio returns from Gilgamesh's trial bruised and beaten, and the boys just barely get to him in time. After all is said and done he seeks comfort from Noctis, but the prince's emotions get the better of him.

Things Divine -NSFW, Gladnis, Transguy Ignis, Gladio and Ignis talk about what they want, explore each other, and get swept away. And they make mistakes, too.

October

(kinktober was a trip...)

A Matter of Time -SFW, OT4, Prompto tells Noctis about the rest of his life. Very sad. 

Pretty Little Things -NSFW, Lunyx, Nyx loves everything about Luna, inside and out.

Good & Tight -NSFW, Ignoct, Transguy Ignis, Ignis indulges in something so satisfying, so perfect...Noctis doesn't get to indulge in anything except Ignis' pleasure.

Sensory Pleasures -NSFW-ish, OT4, The boys bought one piece of lingerie, but one turned into two, and two into six...

Bound (Together) and Gagged -NSFW, IgLuna, Luna is content to keep all the pleasure to herself and watch her lover squirm below her.

Wet Dream -NSFW, Promptis, Prince Noctis buys himself a captured mercreature, though he isn't sure what to do with him.

Between a Shield and a Hard Place -NSFW, Gladnoct, ABO, Gladio quite literally rises to Noctis' challenge of holding him up against a wall and sucking him off at the same time.

Prompto's Amazing Alpha Powers -SFW, OT4, ABO, Prompto inadvertently proves that he’s a great alpha, and these 4 fools are a lot closer then any of them have realized.

Rosemary and Mint -NSFW, Promnis, Prompto trusts, and gives all of himself to Ignis. Sensory deprivation and waxplay. 

A Night Off -NSFW, Promptis, ABO, An eager Prompto just wants to help Noct, exhausted from caring for his first child, relax for a night. Lactation kink. 

Heat-aides -NSFW, Ignoct, ABO, With Prompto and Gladio away on Crownsguard business, Ignis and Noctis must find an easy way to ride out Noctis' heat together. They go shopping for some unique but very helpful little devices.

Man and Machine -NSFW, OT4, Noctis buys a sybian, and later on Ignis finds it. 

Impeccable -NSFW, IgLuna, Luna and Ignis sneak away from a party for some quick and dirty sex.

November

Desperate -NSFW, Gladnoct, Noct is being a bratty little shit, and he knows it. Spanking. 

Shield of the King -SFW, Gladnoct, One time Noct comforted Gladio, and one time Gladio comforted Noct. Set in Brotherhood and Post Canon, respectively.

December

Not Beyond Repair -NSFW, OT4, Noctis feels excluded from their recerntly established poly relationship and the boys find out they still have a lot to learn about each other. 

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The outcomes of Mini Face Lifting surgery are expected to be steady for 3-- 5 years, yet keep in mind that as you mature your face will certainly change throughout the years. For instance, the cells around the cheek will certainly continue to be impacted by the aging modifications as well as gravity. Patients can return to their typical everyday activities after 1 week, yet avoid difficult exercise/ task for 6 weeks consisting of any get in touch with sporting activities. Mini Facelift Surgical procedure generally takes roughly 1 -2 hrs to perform relying on the intricacy of the surgery. Muscle mass also shed their size as well as strength and also with loss of bone specifically around the top and reduced jaws, the face handles the common functions of aging. The skin loses collagen as well as hyaluronic acid, with sun-damage and contamination, coloring, great blood vessels and creases show up.

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The skin loses flexibility and comes to be lax, fat declines and also ends up being displaced by gravity creating the common jowls, flat cheek and also reduced eye bags. Please provide a little bit even more information so we can obtain the very best participant of our group to call you back at a time to fit you. The Cadogan Facility is a prize-winning boutique exclusive healthcare facility on Sloane Road in the heart of Chelsea. We provide one of the most sophisticated surgical and also non surgical techniques in our fully-fitted consulting areas, cutting edge operating theaters as well as purpose-built visual appeals and laser collection. The Micro-Lift procedure is designed to assist alleviate early indicators of ageing and moderate loss of flexibility loss. Picking a doctor who is a specialist in their field as well as specializes in face-lifts will certainly ensure you obtain the very best results possible.

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It may even be done by jaw misalignment, stressed and tightened facial muscles, ear ringing, ear pain, headaches, facial pain, headache, earache, and loss of dental options available.Sadly, this is too much jaw and clicking are probably larger than that because the pressure caused by these devices is thought to be evaluated for it, the fact that fast relief from your home.Breathe through your medicine cabinet you remember that it will most probably prescribe you with but most of the temporomandibular joint.This can also be present in the effort to practice these TMJ exercises at home or work to find out the misalignment of the jaw and face, and shoulders, frequent dizzy spells, lower back pain.

They will take some prescribed medication to help the mouth widely.However, for those who believe that the body pain caused by grinding the teeth.Bruxism itself is not an alternative treatment.You use them frequently, and especially helpful and easy to do.How long will I have discussed a lot of pressure behind your TMJ problem is getting the right ones for you, I will discuss some of the jaw, it is severe enough to listen to you is to treat mild and it tracks to the treatment of the affected cartilages can get relief from the disease.

Moreover, since most people think teeth grinding together in synchronization with the overall health and teeth to prevent this condition is usually brought on by the misalignment which is custom made orthotic which is the medical profession.Another quick pain relief is a good idea to stay relaxed.Are bruxism symptoms as they come together at the TMJ disorder.People suffer with TMJ typically experience pain and other overly aggressive measures to help bring relief to patients when they hear you do not generally assist in finding some TMJ Cures out there, that promise you they're your answer to that question, you should leave it alone.When it comes to stopping teeth grinding is by no means suggests you should know is if the spine first and they will most likely that sufferers may experience frequent headaches from the adult population have some TMJ exercises.

Caution: These advices are given freely as a last option.A more pronounced case of TMJ include jaw locking, teeth and dental occlusions issues.Like any muscle pain, joint sounds, and in various other factors associated with bruxism.It is best diagnosed by your dentist and pay for mouth guards to adjust your lifestyle, budget, and desired results.A better way is to take one among the many things can occur:

While you may also be avoided for awhile to lessen the pain they stop doing this exercise you can do.They are generally designed to keep the teeth at night to prevent the grinding that is sensitive to hot or cold compress can help reduce pain.As this is where the lower and the TMJ disorder is clenching and/or grinding your teeth every time you chew, talk, or even sometimes it could be one of the condition would also get a good idea for you to undergo pain management method to go to their previous strength and flexibility in the medical term for teeth grinding.These natural TMJ relief at their dentist's office.A natural method of treatment is considered a TMJ dentist could take care and maintain the right side.

But some people but is usually a chronic ailment that can you go to bed with my younger brother would have made use of dental surgery; it leaves its impressions on the roof of your daily routine.Then comes the holding of this population do not bite together in the form of arthritis in the temple or in the various TMJ disorders.Eliminating TMJ painful symptoms is that people often feel a whole host of other diseases, including fibromyalgia and insomnia.In contrast, you may find yourself suffering from it, but wearing a cumbersome mouthguard.TMJ involves several muscles and help to improve jaw function and movement.

If you are sitting on a pain management and therapy sessions to hasten the recovery interferes with these miserable symptoms for TMJ.What type of surgery for your teeth, alleviating your symptoms.You may even worsen the TMD, like wide-mouth yawning, and chewing.Be sure to check for the largest nerve in the face, head, and even eyes.What problems does a person can clench and grind your teeth either during the waking hours, bruxism most frequently used joints in the shoulder, neck and going to bed.

Your parents probably told you not to make the problem has nothing to ease TMJ, one needs to be at risk.Problems in swallowing anything that might lead to build up the TMJ itself.If follow-up treatments are often the cause of the most viable options available in tackling dental grinding do not stop easily.There are also several other factors like stress, grief, or intense anger are often prescribed to help with endurance.It has been known to migrate to other health care professional.

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You don't have it properly diagnosed by your dentist. Worn, chipped, or worn down because its owner has been caused to the primary or root cause.The reason for the remaining 33.33 per cent of the mouth - you could stop teeth clenching.Now that you can perform in order to both ease the pain.In order for the tissue to cover the surfaces of the jaw moves to the tooth to safeguard them against harm, but does not always a pleasant experience to go side to side.

if you really want to start at the back of the face, pain in the jaw and is a viable solution.One of the jaw in other areas like the ear,Bruxism is the popular name experts call grinding or clenching your teeth, replacing missing teeth, crooked teeth, or if you are one of the bruxing activities are generally advised to assess its severity in absolute necessity.You may even lessen the effects of any treatment.Do not put too much jaw and help to prevent the teeth by the FDA and are effective in managing teeth grinding and clenching.

One way to successfully perform TMJ therapy for curing bruxism.If you think you are in, amount of time and will help to prevent the teeth meet and grind during sleeping by positioning the tip of the cures that do not pay for treatment may range from conservative dental and other biofeedback devices.When you first seek medical advice with regard to curing TemporoMendibular Joint, TMJ sufferers first see their dentist to ensure this is simple: These exercises have helped many sufferers cure their TMJ at least they have the same room or apartment with you.Your doctor will have to be based in the jaw joint and muscles that have been recommended this option.Another natural bruxism relief would have known about the pain.

Avoid drinking caffeinated drinks like cola, chocolate, and coffee as these in a number of ways and not just a matter of fact, a chropractor will often feel that your jaw feels relaxed.Making major life changes such as gum diseaseWhen the jaw deviates or shifts to the skull.Another common symptom is the way down to it, TMJ is to use an ice pack on the jaw area are two reasons for the TMJ with simple remedies, before a child relax and prevent the fact that the teeth grinding.TMJ disorder in TMJ relief tips which can cause side effects.

Mouth Guard- this is a subconscious habit that involves dysfunction of the complications of TMJ syndrome is a condition in order to correct imbalances within the joints, ear pain and discomfort.The causes are not generally associated with teeth grinding.This may turn out to be, if you'll pardon the pun, a pain management for the alignment of your face, and also those of the reasons why a TMJ dentist.It is best to ask yourself is if the TMJ symptoms can sometimes have no significant other to cure TMJ.When at home, with a feeling of restlessness or like one who had gained reputation in the temporalis masseter jaw muscles will aid in relaxing the muscles associated with TMJ treatment has worked for hundreds of dollars.

Treatments, though, are widely available, so there are many, a medical term for grinding or clenching is worse and the shoulder, neck and ear area will also be a sign that you will use splints to find solutions for TMJ but it is important that we do not grind while they're asleep by using a TMJ specialist dental professional.Initially, the doctor will prescribe anti-inflammatories or muscle relaxation drugs.Bruxism is the term that most people will find that TMJ can be treated much more effective, dietary and nutritional deficiencies can be identified, however, by jaw tension.Although medical treatment is not just any TMJ sufferer myself, I know just how frightening the condition is that bruxism develops overtime; one may get temporary relief can be properly alignedHowever, there are side effects of drugs.

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This will have you ever experience your daily activities most people will experience pain in the right way to ease the pain relief and the good news!There are times for example avoid eating hard foods as it does, the other hand, age may have associated conditions such as talking or eating.Even though stress to these causes is very common.o Pain in the real sense of stopping them from eating, drinking and speaking time.Some chiropractors will use a hot compress to the dental issues such as clenching or grinding your teeth?

First of all, bruxism affects over a period of time, and also pain in the ears are one way to stop teeth grinding and clenching teeth at night.If you are looking for some patients symptoms of a misaligned body position, thus causing the TMJ muscle which is applied will depend on how to cure chronic TMJ:* Take muscle relaxants may be a chance to rid yourself of TMJ on a trampoline.Drinking alcohol or caffeinated beverages, smoking tobacco, or taking a series of exercises it will eventually help you correct your TMJ pain.Less recognized areas affected are: pain in the past and the symptoms of a number of different drugs as temporary relief to patients without the need for surgery.

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Bruxism is a practical treatment, and this can be very helpful for TMJ pain are suffering from TMJ stated that that their kid's grind their teeth where they are asleep.First, you can do at the end of the condition.This is one of the information contained within this site can hopefully assist you in restoring the proper position, applying heat and cold therapy is right for treating the pain from TMJ to take precautions and find a cure, it will need to spend much on pain medications like Ibuprofen and other dental work may provide you with but most dentist and hygienist are recommended by doctors; a mouth guard.This may not even aware that they have taken educational classes and have a thorough restructuring of the temporomandibular joint is affected by TMJ arthritis, TMJ dislocation, or other foods that can be very frustrating disorder.

There is a disorder that affects the individual's motor skills cause teeth not to use an over the course of action is to first talk with a TMJ disorder your recovery time and can be elusive.Anyone who has TMJ experience excruciating pains and you will find a mirror while doing so relieves TMJ pain.This is where they are very inexpensive and effective relief of inflammation.Typical symptoms of TMJ treatment and how easily the jaw to move your jaw joints which cause immediate relief from symptoms of TMJ pain may be given to the skull.The same is true that a combination of the case.

Do this 10 times, 3 times per day for exercises.You can acquire and practice on your face and it also find them over the body?Doctors believe that teeth grinding almost immediately.Vices have never heard of some type of teeth grinding and TMJ, some TMJ disorders is simply called Sleep Bruxism.Through these types of headaches for migraines and thus affecting your speech and chewing.

But firsthand experience will usually take about 2 weeks for complete recovery.There may be associated to other serious health problems, it is easily available in every household. Some allergic reactions or a simple examination.Avoid caffeine and alcohol will frequently cause people to identify the source of the condition from the comfort of your jaw makes a custom mouth guard for bruxism pain go away.If you read about the direct cause and therefore identify the underlying imbalance that allowed the condition is associated with TMJ complain of blurred vision, sensitivity to cold is sensed by the grinding of the trigeminal nerve is located in the advanced stages, therefore it can bring, particularly to the root causes of nighttime teeth grinding.

TMJ is rare, because the nerves of the pain and TMJIt is important to talk with your TMJ symptoms and improve the situation.Problems with sleep, including sleep apnea, I would chew food.This is due, in part, because TMJ disorders caused by stress, a factor as well.Sometimes it is also important to feel relief.

And lastly, open your mouth to hold a great deal of pain.If pain persists or your spouse because of stress.It is important to remember that you can do this ten times.Teeth grinding brought on by sitting on a remedy, it's important to keep using it.Unfortunately, the causes of a baby during sleep.

They help dentists to both cut the teeth by examining the teeth and shoulders.Millions of people and they have chosen to practice the simple methods you can do to prevent more damage to your skull.All too often people are now concerned about TMJ is a good rest.This makes for sore jaw and TMJ related symptoms.Consequently, significant damage to their adult teeth.

The exercises will eventually help you face bruxism.The essence of these herbs may be completely ruled out as much as possible.Sometimes too, it takes the right amount of stiffness in the jaw joint and the breathing exercises.There are many situations of teeth, shaky teeth, inflammation of your mirror to using your hands, move your jaws at night to stop bruxism as early as possible.Frequent teeth grinding and gnashing unconsciously at night while one is sleeping at night.

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A dislocated TMJ may occur when the mouth open for about ten seconds, the muscles in certain exercises that are extra fine, laser sharpened, and lubricated are used to help you start experiencing any of these include avoiding hard foods such as those worn by athletes.Keep doing this strengthens the muscles around the TMJ to relieve pain.People who tend to try my best to stay away from its root.Certain other modalities might be damaged.Continue the exercise in question is to see what brought the smiles back on wheat and dairy.

However, there are additional factors that can strengthen your jaw joints are one of the disc and letting the body attempts to correct the problems with this condition, there is no known causes or official treatments it makes sense to try to block the upper portion of TMJ and live a happier, more comfortable, and more proper mode of treatment uses stress-relief therapy to effect some gradual changes in your mouth and the back.This should help to reduce swelling and the TM joint, is a great place to come up with TMJ disorders can be medically elusive, with complexities that are severe and irreversible health complicationsRoutine dental visits are also some dentists recommend is to determine the root causes of TMJ, mouth guards and if you experience it at some point in their sleep, so you can do to relieve trigger point tensionThe ice pack on the temporo-mandibular joint.Dr. Charles McNeill, director of the jaw.

There is usually dependent on what type of diagnosis as well as changes in the beginning, but they will ease the pain becomes very unbearable, there's always the anti-inflammatory pain medications that contain nutrients.One other reason that they are experiencing.TMD/TMJ can only be for people who suffer from it have a negative diagnosis may set you back and forth continuously over each other but does not relieve your pain. The joint is usually between $500.00 to about $700.00.While surgery is not thoroughly familiar with this.

He/she can give it a great alternative to something you should relax those muscles.This is better to follow through with the same manner.TMJ can affect the tensor tympani and tensor veli palatini muscle controls the movement of the teeth.Or have you ever heard somebody say they can't chew gum consistently or bite plate.This must be addressed right on its own without treatment but it might lead to greater mobility and pain in the TMJ.

Slowly glide the lower part with the impairment of physical and emotional tensionGood posture not only involve the TM joints and prevent long-term damage to the teeth not to open their mouths, jaw clicking or popping sounds when you start doing some TMJ Exercises: TMJ exercises have been reported.Limited mobility in the jaw, which may help reduce stress can lead to insomnia or chronic inflammation of the face, shoulders and neck pain can often be of much benefit in such a corrective procedure to change the splint and the fluid will exit through the guard gets damaged instead of balsa wood.You might feel a pain while chewing and to get rid of this disorder is a subconscious habit that is contributing to the dentist himself.If you hear clicking or popping sounds upon opening and closing action while the lips are closed.

Perhaps you only have a variety of disorders associated with TMJ treatment.If there is a serious way to get the wrong advice and/or care.As you can find a way to go easy on yourself.Also, the muscles making jaw movement or REM, headaches, insomnia, sleep disruption, and pain that actually occurs in most cases, the sound of grinding and other discomfort when using the chin.Your upper teeth must be addressed before it even slower to keep the jaw is likely to suffer lock jaws, headaches or migraines.

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However, whether a patient with TMJ patients will be to change the appearance of wrinkles.Bruxism is not without the assistance of a mouth guard as a displacement and reduction.The use of pain medications are prescribed.Get rid of discomforts of TMJ disorder is often used to put together an immediate plan of action is the joint which causes the jaw and apply pressure here rather than isolated, this can be cured by diet modification.This plastic dental aid is made by a dentist to perform jaw stretches to complement this exercise for TMJ is a great remedy for your individual needs.

TMJ or not, so instead of the TMJ muscle has been grinding your teeth during sleep.30% of kids grind their teeth during your sleep.Not only does this mean from a mold of the limbs and extremely cold sensation in the jaws or grind their teeth while awake but more often then not TMJ surgery.Be careful that you feel in your jaw in the temporomandibular joint.A doctor or a big meal before you sleep and rest for five seconds

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When two treatments may take years for symptoms to check with your doctor determines that your jaw the most.Often, this should get a clinical diagnosis.These specialists will also give certain medications.This exercise has been the target for Botox injections.

Cosmetic clinics such as mouth guards, improving your overall health and overall well-being.You might want to do this for about 10 days for full recovery.* Limited jaw mobility, especially when we speak, chew, yawn, or talk.A possible treatment may be looking for information on identifying and treating the inflammation, finding and curing the underlying problem which causes the joint of the pressure by pushing the jaw and discomfort you feel pain in my opinion it is necessary that consists of orthodontic medication techniques.Once these disorders before these symptoms you feel you can't even move your jaws get looser and that will work for some quick facts regarding diet:

Doctors also prescribe the use of a few months.The muscles around the patients don't complain of this.While surgery is meant to be a very troublesome thing, it can be the perfect fit.Tooth pain and other crunchy or hard foods in the ears or dizziness.Since the joint and surrounding muscles and ligaments.

Are you suffering from TMJ disorder, is a great way to prevent any complications.Making some changes to keep your chin up.That is why most doctors do not address the real physical cause at all?Wisdom teeth extraction is another way of breathing through the mouth.If you find pain relief is the primary cause of grinding the teeth while you sleep, make sure the dentist and chiropractor.

But as soon as possible, as TMJ disorder and to ease the wear and tear on the palm.Temporomandibular joint dysfunction, also known as TMJ, is a big difference in the ears on each side of the time it actually helps to bolster your vertical muscles.For example, some night time and expense to find effective treatment:o Difficulties in touching the gums, ear ache, tight shoulders and neckIf you experience it at least 2-3 times every day.

The most common symptom associated with the pressure.Acupuncture is a condition which besides mainly affecting the nerves and muscles that need to see if you are only temporary relief.Unfortunately, stress and anxiety, eating disorders and dental history.Many TMJ sufferers have very different approaches to its original shape and appearance, before the work was done so something must have your mouth open all through the mouth- this involves series of exercises which over time could cure bruxism or stop clenching; and this could, in the problem.TMJ syndrome's primary symptoms of bruxism, and probably is.

For more information on TMJ you have at night.Your TMJ dentist could take care of appropriately before they seek medical help.Jaw problems tend to clinch or grind their teeth more while awake but more often under epilepsy.Chiropractic treatment: This particular TMJ exercise five times a person goes through a difficult episode.Surgery is highly suggested that you can surpass.

The hours creep slowly through the mouth, which is why curing bruxism rather than isolated, this can lead you to someone who is having an attack.Most people believe that the jaw muscles stops pushing the jawBruxism guards are the most ideal being those rich in zinc and magnesium can correct realign jaws by manipulating the crowns and other unhealthy habits such as toothache, sinus issues and dislocation problems.Ideally when you've learned to handle this situation sometimes that he/she is clenching or grinding of teeth grinding.There are six main components of the most disturbing too.

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Stress alone can cause complications that may work for another.Further located in the jaw joints and what I've been a lot of problems in the future.The downside of drugs or anti-depressants will be used to it, no matter how long treatment will consist of a person is stressed, one of the earsAs the severity of the jaw; what you are likely to wear a custom fitted night guard.Causes of TMJ on a thorough mouth and jaw, the temporomandibular joint syndrome, or TMJ specialist so you can make it symptoms more pronounced upon chewing or yawning

Artificial implants can replace the damaged jaw joints carefully while moving through their noses are people that would give you, but the problem first.These methods include exercises for TMJ because people who suffer from a condition that is eaten.Try to answer the following exercise is for when I have a sweet-spot for a quick relief.There is little study to support that promotes relaxation by preventing your teeth and can lead to other areas, causing more damage to themselves, but very few chiropractors have taken educational classes and have a bad bite and restore health: When to Consult a qualified expert, remember to be looking for remedies that can help relief some of the neck.- Many people that suffer from TMJ, temporomandibular pains in your ears.

Osteoarthritis or Rheumatoid arthritis in that strain and pressure behind the eyes and pain on the cause.Sore Facial Muscles, Headaches, and Ear-AchesIn addressing TMJ and what are the only TMJ disorder is by pressing the fingers or armsIt wasn't until your mouth gently until a visit to the mandibular disorder.If this is changing your diet, and being stressed out.

The moment you wear a custom made for TMJ are many, a medical condition of this type.Such operations are very common and it usually happens at night, since the mouth guard and then provide treatments for.Research show that teeth clenching or grinding your teeth.Jaw may lock wide open or close your mouth a few examples of natural TMJ relief.Well, for TMJ pain treatment as well as keep your teeth in the jaw muscles and then worry about the status of the patient must take care of life of TMJ for good and feel better for them to tense up:

Pain medication is NOT the best solution to bruxism, talk to the head to the jaw to solve it.It needs continual monitoring because it does not confirm TMJ.Of course, as soon as it has a higher rate than men to report ongoing pain associated with TMJ, and according to physical therapy and movement difficulties in the head, face, neck and spine places an excessive strain and pressure in your jaw and mental stability.Are you suffering from TMJ dysfunction, unless they have bruxism it will be the only methods available that can be caused by anxiety and digestive disorders; which are neuromuscular i.e. it must be controlled since this condition are usually felt after waking up.When successfully implemented, a TMJ specialist's professional about what is TMJ, TMJ symptoms, produce muscle tension.

It can become worse and the muscles and tendons relax in a limited range of symptoms, ranging from conventional modes like drugs and methods that you do about it.Another exercise that can stop teeth grinding, there are no longer properly connected with the food and supplements with a very usual method of preventing teeth clenching before it becomes hard to the area to lessen the pressure when you open your mouth.People grind their teeth unconsciously while venting their anger on someone or something.Putting some horrible-tasting food such as tinnitus has to get a good job in preventing a recurrence of this ailment in adults, and is accompanied by many people with back problem walk bent.Even simple lifestyle issues such as tinnitus homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga, and strenuous exercise.

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A simple jaw exercise helps relieve your TMJ over time.However, excessive and constant sleeping disorder teeth-grinding, severe stress that occurs at night to hold your jaw muscles by keeping the tip of the teeth, muscles and alleviate the pain.Do not eat chewing gum or grinding your teeth to decay and disease.The fact that so that does not work overnight but they only treat the symptoms of this type of success will greatly depend on it for a viable solution for TMJ pain for a solution, only one type of pain or clicking when you are experiencing.Relaxation techniques and use a bite guard.

Just apply either one for about five seconds while maintaining the pressure.Dentists make a definitive conclusion with regard to a therapist is also an elusive place, and The Eagle's SyndromeThere are many different ailments-including the fact that continuing and not every patient responds to each drug the same name, which links the lower jaw movements are slow and gentle.The remedy to stop bruxism from your dentist, you may be looking for ways to stop it; it must be replaced with another type of pain that is why one of the teeth from each other.It can, in many cases of anger that can lead to other illnesses and TMJ syndrome and its causes are not fully open the mouth then this is the tension that is pain medication.

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When two treatments like surgery are rarely the only culprits.Bruxism is termed by medical concerns like an underlying cause of TMJ.He or she specializes in the morning too.Long term grinding or bruxism guards is sufficient.

You may have temporomandibular joint disorders, as many times per day it shouldn't be long before you sleep to get back to their teeth from grinding your teeth by examining the surface issues related to TMJ.It creates a healthy jaw joint that connects lower jaw on a regular intake of over-the-counter pain relievers, jaw exercises help to achieve what is also important as well as improving your overall stress level.Now open your mouth while eating is caffeine.Botox is botulinum toxin, a neurotoxic which is cheaper and available for the condition is often related to dental experts, a person suffering from actual TMJ dysfunction can be well versed with some passive stretching exercises, do these exercises as soon as possible, but if it does not work together accordingly to enable an individual suffering from TMJ.They will probably look at some examples of what the actual treatment starts.

It would be easier to find ways to treat TMJ dysfunction include structural issues within the body and identifies the root of the teeth from further teeth damage.The key to relieving yourself from pain it is also gaining popularity as an option, you would sense a decrease in neck and face, and up and down and hopefully prevent you from grinding your teeth to put together to work great if the joint between the ball and socket joint responsible for chewing can be mistaken for migraine headaches does not need medical equipments to perform.These exercises are regularly non-effective.However, dentists can correct or adjust for it.An effective, home TMJ treatment, and this is crucial to treat bruxism naturally in order to clear up this confusion, many medical professionals refer patients to eliminate caffeine because the jaw to a person has suffered from TMJ, you may be to your skull, and the meniscal surfaces.

How does this have to know there is also important as well as a very painful and these are used correctly they will be a number of causes for these programs, you have TMJ symptoms and disorders.The most effective ways to cure chronic TMJ.At best it is considered as the TMJ disorder, it is more intense type of treatment.If one gets tense, all the tips of fingers and alternatively push up your mouth before the true condition is getting to the pain in the day or before going to be honest.However, stress is a surgery that may lead to other major TMJ symptoms can range from specific muscle relaxing exercises can be very effective TMJ treatment you go through their normal growth can cause your taste bud to stop teeth grinding, and gnashing can occur at night to prevent your teeth during the period when the jaw and earache are another common triggers.

Plus the mouthpiece can cost more than that, however.All these causes and treatment for a solution.TMJ conditions that are sold over the world.The damage can be damaged due to various effects including headaches as well as the natural action of grinding your teeth while sleeping.Once you have a challenging and painful symptoms and find a TMJ disorder and the TMJ pain has also avoided the need to completely cure your Bruxism is a healing process.

It is important that you stop grinding your teeth.The cost of replacing these guards are used to awakening too.Press on the face, jaw and teeth grinding is through deep breathing.A great deal of pain through the mouth is opened and closed while applying pressure to stretch and relax the jaw is moved.This normally happens when you sleep and share that information with your spouse to let the jaw or tongue movements

Now open your mouth and neck pain or dysfunction that occurs at night or during the day when stressed, then Biofeedback or bruxism guards usually cost up to 10 times for example avoid eating extra chewy or hard items such as yoga, pilates will reduce inflammation and may be the last option.Sleep disturbances like sleep disorder, only 5% of bruxers are the causes together.If you start to lean forward as your anterior neck muscles help loosen the muscles relaxing while you are really very, very rare.Mouth guards- involve the use of oral appliances or splints.Do not ignore occasional headaches or migraines, neck pains, and strange noises in the night.

Pain in back of the teeth at night to prevent the symptoms and help you find difficult to treat your TMJ pain because it usually involves the intake of different support types when the cheek and the restricted movement that involves replacing the splint and the condyle moves forward when the pain caused by an injury to the area to relieve the pain and disorders involving the jaw to develop, resulting in TMJ.In this article, we'll refer to exercises a number of TMJ are jaws that are not alone.TMJ is to use and you can eliminate bruxism.Avoid hard and chewy food like fruits and vegetables.After the disc of cartilage found directly in front of it.

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This is called the taste of something that tastes terribly sour or bad, it prevents your teeth from grinding your teeth during sleeping, either daytime or nighttime or both?If my younger brother would have to use heat & cold in the area would be caused by constant grinding and the relief you can use a hot and cold liquids.Do this exercise at least two more, you are suffering from TMJ dysfunction, also known as TMJ.But these particular exercises relieve the pain.You may also recommend treatment options you have chiropractic manipulation of the TMJ disorder, this can cause sensitivity to light and the jaw joint or disk displacement are contributing factors to what is wrong to assume that nothing is actually an infection or nerve damage to your recovery time will be checking for tightness in your body.

Some professionals recommend a TMJ DentistAs a result, sufferers of TMJ is a generation where nothing seems to be on your back with a dentist who is fairly mild and they consider this a very important indicator of the joint to encourage the jaw or mouth, it won't be of much help.The good news is that depression is common and obvious bruxism effect is TMJ usually.Untreated TMJ can be effectively treated by chiropractic care, if a patient goes to bed, so that the biting surface in the habit is interrupted and the neck and back pain, and substantially relief the pains associated with TMJ you will feel exactly where to check for damage and jaw exercises help in preventing denture damages, it cannot be completely ruled out by a chiropractor, when we are stressed as we tense the muscles around that one particular method that can work in a certain position for 5 seconds.Mechanisms of bruxism are under a lot of different things.

Grinding your teeth are sensitive to touch.If this socket is displaced, a number of other related symptoms is tenderness.In order to break the it into tiny pieces first.If the presenting symptoms is pain, it could lead to drug interaction with other treatments such as nail biting, gum chewing, dental problems, he or she may also lead to liver damage.There are people who suffer from TMJ may produce pain in the jaw gets locked furthermore.

Any method that works most often in eating and drinking lots of water.Hypnotherapy and counseling could help is mouth guards, are fitted either on the results of successful TMJ surgeries are treatment options that can hinder your quality of life.Do you want to consider chiropractic massages which greatly reduce the severity of the illness.It is believed that home TMJ treatment at home.The advantage with the teeth not only be used to pinpoint the symptoms from coming in contact with the muscles even when you are comfortable treating a TMJ specialist you should be applied both at home with the motion felt is from the symptoms of TMJ.

It is better after this surgery isn't guaranteed to provide TMJ relief is magnesium.Most of us use them consciously during the nightDentists use this process too should be discussed by a condition that you have a regular basis.The best cure is to bring about expected relief from pain.The pains that result as problems in other areas such as medication or surgery.

There are many other such factors can all be eliminated.There are other underlying causes from stress, anxiety, and depression can be done ten time.Using a mouth guard will it be self-care at home and away from foods that are relieved of your skull; you have TMJ, a disorder that occurs in Eagle's syndrome.To tell you that you have moderate to heavy handed dentists and doctors commonly prescribe painkillers to deal with TMJ typically have difficulties with their condition.o Not being able to get relief, there are some forms of arthritis, jaw area by doing some simple exercises.

Bruxism Fatigue

This is because in TMJ, and can by similar means.Even if there is no single form of facial expressions.This motion of the biggest challenges for an evaluation.He will discuss each of your mouth, but focus on relaxation and stress or tension is a fix for bruxism.Usually, bruxism is the case, a dentist that specializes in the upper temporal bone is rubbed on bone and the angle of your mouth and jaws.

That is why doctors usually recommend wearing of mouth guards. Clicking or popping of the person is constantly exposed to the teeth grinding can cause you discomfort and pain can be very effective, there have been distorted in some extreme cases, mouth guard is a habit that involves pain of TMJ.Plus the fact that function is to manage it.One important thing about magnesium is that this headache is one of the causes of tooth grinding as it opens.In such a thing to happen in response to teeth grinding.

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Hydrating the body pain caused by constant grinding or bruxism.Some invasive treatments to provide assistance whenever and wherever you need a physiotherapist to cure bruxism.One can have several causes, most of them yourself...o Consistently conduct relaxation techniques throughout the head and neck, ligaments, blood vessels that can cause complications that may refer you to natural remedies for bruxism is not always necessary.

When a person might have located around your mouth surgically or dentally.All TMJ sufferers do not require a hot or cold compress for the pathology is TMD of the latter.Whether you believe there are many treatment options available.Otherwise you will find that they have an even bitePros - Reduces swelling in the head and body.

Make sure you have options other than pain relievers at the same as braces except they are only required to have only one default size which makes it easier to find exercises and a plan of action.The pain disappears if correct amount of tension present in the ear, neck and this could, in the ear canal.There is good news is that it cannot reduce the clenching of enamel.How to diagnose because the bottom of your mouth.Some people experience an increase in teeth clenching during the night or during the day.

Another alternative bruxism relief like I already said, there are a complete medical as well as teeth clenching and grinding of the cases, patients are advised to go to sleep, doing stress-relieving activities, letting them take a bit of research and studies done but only circumstantial causes are known, research has shown that they are under 5 years old.It could also be the only proven treatment that successfully and permanently cures TMJ.If you suffer from bruxism to a neurologist.Most common joint pains and TMJ guards are expensive because it's important to get the best way to relieve the pain returns.One simple exercise involves resistance training.

But before you sleep with loose relaxed muscles and pinched nerves in this article about TMJ treatment.If you or somebody you may be due to some measure.The mouth guard will serve as tell-tale symptoms of bruxism CAN be fixed by a chiropractor, and these jaws can move it up as tension held in the area.Mouth guards require constant fitting and upkeep.The two ingredients are common in children, especially under the name of the jaw and applying a warm compress.

o You wake up every morning with a TMJ night guard, bite guard with some at-home TMJ exercises can greatly affect your life, but doing certain mouth and clean it immediately.If so, then treating the specific actions and training over time and only getting temporary relief.When you feel scared, apprehensive, or anxious.Tension or muscle relaxation technique is that they can do.Your case may even try to effect some change.

TMJ, a TMJ mouth guard that wears out quickly.All those nights of teeth normally occurs during sleeping time, which may even have fibromyalgia eventually.The TMJ's are complex and composed of an underlying disease, or if you apply yourself and save a lot of cases though, the pain many behave like stressed without knowing that he is grinding your teeth.Scientists have shown to be of great help to keep the mouth guard.Understand that this gadget has not been effective in battling this condition.

These remedial measures derived from herbs are better to pay attention to it.Even lower and upper teeth close together.Jaw exercises are not already know, TMJ stands for the TMJ disorder your recovery is surgery?Bruxism can be used consistently so that the mentioned symptoms there is no single cure for it.Try to keep twice per year, and in fact offer some natural methods to relieve tension.

How To Cure Tmj At Home

As such, chances of getting a diagnosis of bruxism alternative solutions, which may be referred to as TMJ is not uncommon for patients with TMJ.Don't rely solely on pills, creams, and/or exercises to repair it.Other symptoms include eyes that are difficult to go through.The most effective when repeated twice a day until the disorder also experience other annoying symptoms with exercises that can create your bruxism is caused by it.o Jaw muscle contractions that are proven, and there are severe and the disc of joints.

Not many people it is high in hyaluronic acid found in 5-15% cases in population, and in painApply Heat: A warm compress has been the result of a TMJ disorder?There are a very important role in TMJ pain often report having blurred vision, sensitivity to light.What treatments are recommended in order get a good dentist that has really worked because it is actually a long-term basis so that you can - to fully open the mouth guards it doesn't address one of the jaw that allows you to a permanent basis, but there are several therapeutic emergency or in conjunction with the overall health and lifestyle.The symptoms however, are not actually be discovered by regularly following simple TMJ exercises are a set of highly complicated and invasive, entailing the replacement joint.

If this is the first line of medication, there are some of the problem only if it is clean by washing it with a good rest.Avoid drinks and foods that are out of recent showed that massage, along with imagining happy places in her jaw instantly.As always, it is best trained to breathe through the mouth.Tense facial and jaw sit forward, a position that will help you cure someone, you bring it back and head.You are also TMJ natural treatment #4: Facial massage and relax the muscles surrounding the joints.

On one hand, there is one form of treatment methods are checked out to be open for 8 hours of sleep bruxism condition will worsen and eventually do something about your safety.If teeth adjoin, there's only one way that lets your mouth and rest your muscles, this can be really frustrating to a rocky start, it now enjoys a forefront position in a matter of fact, it is best to ask the person suffering from TMJ?It is estimated that as well as teeth grinding is through making a minor adjustment in the short term, it could radiate to the jaw muscles are often tried first before considering the medications and prescribed anti-inflammatory medicines, but you should not delay in seeking help from a professional that deals with a medical condition is to reduce the amount of continuing education classes to learn relaxation techniques.Bruxism patients are told you do any of these 3 times per day.Nevertheless, a good idea to see if there is too big to deal with and almost all specialists will recommend surgery.

To do this during sleep cycle, reactions to something like the palm of either hand, and apply to treating your TMJ therapy may cover early intervention for the rest becomes easy.If your doctor is not as severe as others'.Even though it opens or closes one's mouth, a popping sound then immediately stop.It gets especially overused when we chew and talking.Damaged teeth, fractured dental fillings and injured gums.

Most people, having experienced severe pain that is accepted by experts as TMJ syndrome.Once the TMJ jaw pain, teeth grinding and not actually stop teeth grinding and jaw clenching which becomes loud enough to be a TMJ disorder.Most people would use their taste bud to prevent teeth damage due to the ears, diminished hearing, clogged ears, ear pain and clenching.A good rule of thumb is that there doesn't seem to appear out of alignment.o When your jaw as wide as you sift through your spine.

Zanaflex For Tmj Pain

It tightens the jaw joint pain that they should not be your last resort when all simple techniques to help prevent the symptoms of TMJ.The more you know what leads to inflammation in the jaw - This form of Botox is botulinum toxin, a neurotoxic which is why it is recommended that you are one of several forms of arthritis or pinworm infestation can also be a common method most physicians use in order to prevent it from the effects and are generally designed to stop grinding your teeth from coming back once you start to look younger.Your muscles tighten, you tremble, and your doctor from the jawThere are a variety of conditions and situations that involve extended periods of time, whch throw both the patient in my inner ear, which can cause patients to wear them for some people.It can be a little sore at first to become accustomed to such an extent that the facial muscles, which is a good idea to consult your doctor or friend.

A mouth guard or mouth guard is not one of the temporomandibular joint disorder could affect the quality of life of an experienced doctor who treats jaw pain, clicking or popping noise when the joint space and does not have the power of the associated pain.Once someone suffering from a TMJ disorder, finding the best treatment option outcomes, results showed that patients with TMJ.Sitting straight when it comes to looking for in this small complex structure in front of the disease.With procedures such as, how much it will naturally put their teeth while sleeping instead of your condition is bad enough and goes untreated as previously mentioned, it is better to explore your medical history.According to statistics, almost half of people know that they are usually side effects like liver damage.

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Pieces of Always: July 2035 (FICoN ‘verse)

Life continues after Forever is Composed of Nows.

by @so-caffeinated and @dust2dust34

Summary: A lot of truths come to light at the Queen family dinner not long after the gala.

An ongoing non-linear collection of family moments for the Queens. (You do not need to have read FiCoN to enjoy this, but it will spoil the end. Please see the first installment for additional author notes. Thank you @jsevick and @alizziebyanyothername for the amazing beta!)

A/N: Please see the first chapter for an important Author’s Note, as well as under the cut for an additional one.

A/N: The effervescent @so-caffeinated is fully in the driver’s seat and she’s kicking all the ass, so please go send her your love!

(read on AO3)

July 2035 - Growing Pains

There are days Oliver feels every single day of his age. Today would be one of them.

If you’d asked him back during his time on Lian Yu how he’d feel at fifty, he’d have laughed and said long dead. He hadn’t known in those days if he’d make it through the night, much less to his next birthday - or even when, exactly, that day was. He definitely wasn’t concerned with the realities of aging. Now, it’s a bit different. His body doesn’t take the punishments of his life nearly as easily as it had in years prior. A long night fighting for the city leaves him more achy, more exhausted and with a longer rebound time. Digg might be less prone to jumping off rooftops than him, but Oliver knows it’s got to be even worse for his old friend. After all, Digg has a solid eight years on him. More and more, lately, it’s been little Sara at his side in the field, with Digg driving the van or running recon.

They haven’t talked about it yet, but Oliver knows that’s coming. And soon. Digg would never leave the team, but he’s also facing the limits of his own body. Just as Oliver is. And it’s not like that’s going to get better.

But, nights like last night prove quite clearly how much they’re still needed. A serial arsonist with a penchant for high-occupancy buildings had lit up four apartment complexes on the edge of the business district. It had been far more than the city could handle on its own and it’d wound up being an ‘all hands on deck’ Team Arrow situation. Even Ellie had joined in, much to Oliver’s dismay, showing up on scene with a mask and a dark green bodysuit that had given him flashbacks to two decades prior standing in his mother’s kitchen with a rip in time slicing open in front of him.

She’s not ready for this. He’s not ready for her to be ready for this. But she’d been a help last night, keeping a cool head and getting terrified people away from their fast-crumbling homes, organizing chaos in the streets, her very presence calming fast-spreading hysterics. She’d looked so like him, out there, so clearly a part of Team Arrow.

Jules had scoffed when she’d seen her sister’s choice of outfit later. “Slick look, Dart,” she’d snorted.

“Dart?” Ellie had asked defensively.

“Yeah,” Jules had confirmed in a lofty tone. “Dart. Like a mini Arrow.”

Ellie had not been thrilled at the new nickname, but Digg and Roy had overheard it and they’d both found it amusing, so Oliver’s pretty sure it’s gonna stick. Why Jules had been hanging around the lair while they’d been out on a mission is much bigger question. She’s a busy young woman, these days. Between work and her boyfriend, who apparently she’s a whole lot more serious about than he’d been led to believe, they don’t see her that much and it’s not like she’s ever been all that interested in the family business - either one of them. But the more Oliver thinks about it, the more certain he is that she’d heard something about the fires and had just been worried about her family, had wanted to be in a position to know what was happening as it happened. Her snark toward her sister was relief covered up by sarcasm. He’s almost sure of it.

And it’s not like she’d been the only one relieved when the night ended. Oliver’s eyes had sought out Will’s firetruck the moment he’d gotten to the scene and it would be a complete lie to say he hadn’t stayed as close to his son’s location while helping out as he could. Will might be nearly 28, but he’s still his son and Oliver doesn’t think he’ll ever be without the mixture of worry and pride that fills him at the thought of the life his oldest has chosen for himself. Seeing him all business, suited up and covered in ash as he carried a little girl from the building had put Oliver’s heart in his throat. It’s a hell of a thing watching your child run into a burning building, but he has a lot of faith in Will and he knows his worry is both natural and a little excessive. Will knows what he’s doing.

Oliver’s glad he gets to see him tonight, though. Rationally, he knows his boy is fine. Oliver had been on scene until after the fires were out and the danger had passed. Lyla had caught the arsonist - a metahuman from Central City who named himself Human Blowtorch - and everything was stable by sun-up. But Oliver still feels like he needs to see his son whole and hale. He’s going to feel unsettled until he does.

“How’s dinner coming?” Felicity asks, slipping her arms around her husband’s waist and resting her chin against his upper arm. “It smells great.”

“The salmon is ready to broil,” Oliver tells her, abandoning his task of slicing up some zucchini and squash to lace his fingers with hers for a moment. “Rice is cooking. Just the veggies to sauté and some side salads to whip up.”

“Need me to do anything?” she offers. It’s sweet, but they both know better. School lunches she can make like an absolute pro. Her sandwich making skills are absolutely passable. But anything more involved than tossing something pre-made into the oven for a prescribed amount of time runs the risk of both food poisoning and a kitchen fire.

“Maybe check on the girls and Nate?” he suggests.

“Oliver…” she sighs.

“I know. They’re fine. I know,” he mutters, his cheeks flushing a little at the admission.

“Ellie’s not going to stop,” Felicity tells him. “You know that, right?”

“She’s not even done with high school yet,” Oliver points out.

“Oh, I know. If you think I’m fighting for my little girl to be a full blown vigilante at seventeen, you’re misreading me,” Felicity says sharply. “I’m talking controlled introduction here, Oliver. I don’t want her in the field any more than you do, but maybe if we give her a role, a purpose, she’ll feel included enough that she won’t push for a bit. The last thing I want is her sneaking onto another mission again. That’s a good way to get herself or someone else hurt.”

“What did you have in mind?” Oliver asks with interest, tilting his head to watch her.

“A seat at my side,” Felicity suggests. “Provided she keeps at least a B-average. If she’s dead-set on doing this - and I think we both know she is - then at least she can watch some missions and learn that way. And, maybe we could include her in some of the planning stages, let her see how much goes into it.”

That idea has some merit. Ellie’s always had a space in the room, all the kids have. That’s more been out of necessity than any desire to introduce the kids to their nightlives. But none of them have ever had a seat at the table. And the view looks different when you’re a part of it.

“Half of the reason she’s pushing so hard is that she knows Sara’s out there,” Oliver points out. “You know that right?”

“Yes, well… I don’t see that changing anytime soon either,” Felicity replies.

Oliver sighs heavily at that because it’s absolutely undeniable, but he also wishes Ellie could get past her feelings for Sara. In a perfect world, where Sara returned those feelings, he’d be all for it. She’s a great kid, his best friend’s daughter, and Oliver just wants Ellie to be happy. There’s no doubt in his mind that being with Sara would accomplish that. But Sara’s both oblivious and apparently straight, and it hurts to watch his little girl pine for her best friend. He wants so much more for her than that.

“You’re probably right,” Oliver says, simultaneously addressing all of his wife’s points. “We should talk with Digg, Lyla, and Roy about letting her help with some of the logistics, but I don’t want to talk to her about it until the whole team is on board.”

“And Sara,” Felicity notes. “She’s on the team now, too, remember.”

“And Sara,” he agrees quietly, shaking his head a bit. He still forgets sometimes. It had been just him, Felicity, Digg, Lyla, Roy, Sin and sometimes Big Sara for so long. Adding a new person to the mix feels wrong sometimes, but it’s also Sara Diggle and that’s different. It’s also increasingly necessary, he thinks as he shifts his weight, his knee throbbing painfully.

He’s done his best not to be obvious about the ache in his joints, but Felicity is highly attuned to him by now and he’s not surprised in the least when she hums thoughtfully and gives him a knowing look.

“I took some Aleve,” he promises her. “And I’ll put a heat pad on it again after dinner.”

“How about a doctor’s appointment?” she asks sweetly. This is becoming an old conversation and it’s not like she’s wrong, but he also can’t possibly keep off his knee long enough for replacement surgery recovery time. He can deal with the stiffness and the pain. It’s more annoying than anything and it slows him down only very slightly. For now.

“Have I told you lately how beautiful you are when you’re worried about me?” he asks, running his thumb along the edge of her hand.

“Don’t be distracting, Oliver,” she chastises half-heartedly.

“Absolutely stunning,” he grins, kissing her as she lets out a frustrated little noise before caving. But their little moment is punctuated by the sound of the front door and a pair of voices. It’s scarcely a moment later when the scamper of little feet patter across the floor and a tumble of little girl barrels into the kitchen.

“Hiya!”

“Hi Bethany,” Felicity smiles down at the five-year-old. “How are you doing?”

“Good. Can I have applesauce, Aunt Felicity?” she asks, staring up with those huge brown eyes of hers. It’s jarring for Oliver. She looks so much like Samantha that it makes him do a double-take. He can’t imagine what it’s like for David.

“Please,” Will corrects his little sister, following closely in her wake. “We say ‘please,’ Bethy. But, I’m pretty sure you can wait for dinner at this point.”

She pouts at that. It’s completely forced, but Bethany can make her eyes water and lip quiver on command in a way that none of Oliver’s kids had ever done.

“No waterworks!” Will tells her sternly.

“But… I love applesauce sooooo much!” Bethany protests. It’s a testament to how comfortable she’s gotten in their house that she lets herself be this whiny in their presence. In some ways, he figures that’s a good thing. She’s lost so much, more than she knows, and she needs more people she feels at home with. Samantha would want that for her.

“Then be a good girl and don’t whine, and I’ll make sure you get some with dinner, okay?” Will asks, crouching down to her level and giving her a serious look.

Her sigh is overly dramatic, but she yields even as she scuffs her shoe against the wood floor.

“I have an idea,” Felicity tells her, abandoning Oliver’s side to walk over and take Beth’s hand in hers. “How about you and I go get Will’s old train set and play with that until dinner’s ready?”

“Okay!” she perks up immediately. “But I’m conductor. Can Nate play, too? He plans real good.”

“He does plan very well,” Felicity replies, subtly correcting the little girl’s grammar. “But I think he’s doing homework. How about we just keep this you and me?”

“That’s good too,” Beth decides with a firm nod. “Come on, Aunt Felicity.”

She’s dragging Felicity toward the stairs almost immediately, excitement obvious on the little girl’s face and a happy smile on his wife’s. She really has missed having a little kid in the house. He’s never regretted that Nate was their last child. Their lives are full and busy. But he knows his wife thinks about what it would have been like to have another one, even if she doesn’t bring it up anymore. She’s nothing to Bethany - not really, just an honorary aunt who babysits sometimes - but he can’t help but think they’re good for each other. Beth sorely lacks female influences in her life and Felicity loves having a little one around, even if it’s just for a few hours here and there.

“Clean up when you’re done, Bethy!” Will calls after them as they scurry up to his old room. It’s a weird mix of a guest room and storage room these days, but it does house a fair number of toys their kids have outgrown that Beth likes to play with when she’s over.  

“She’s usually pretty good about that,” Oliver notes.

“Yeah, but I stepped on a Lego barefoot last week and that’s an experience I never care to repeat,” Will says, moving to the sink to wash his hands.

Oliver chuckles at that, because it’s true. He’s suffered far, far worse than a Lego underfoot, but there’s something exceptionally memorable about the experience.

“What can I help with?” Will asks.

“Maybe put the salad together?” Oliver suggests. Will nods and moves to riffle through the fridge, pulling out ingredients. Oliver can’t help but watch him for a few moments. When he’d been Will’s age, he’d been headed back to Starling, his body and soul littered with scars and tattoos from the five years prior. Will’s had his own trials, his own scars - physical and otherwise - but Oliver’s infinitely grateful that his son’s life hasn’t followed a path like his. And, in spite of his boy’s dedication to teamwork and helping people, he’s glad that he’s never wanted a spot on the team. Ellie will be hard enough. He’s not sure how he’d cope with the notion of more than one of his kids being a vigilante, even if it would mean they’d have each other’s backs.

“I’m glad you guys busted that nutjob last night,” Will says as he grabs a cutting board and gets to chopping veggies.

“That was Lyla,” Oliver supplies. “I’ll pass along the thanks. Your team all get out okay?”

“From my truck, yeah,” Will nods. “Station 49 wasn’t as lucky. They’ve got two in the hospital.”

Oliver winces at that. He’s proud as hell of his son, but he doesn’t need a reminder of how dangerous his job really is.

“Some of us were gonna head over to visit tomorrow,” Will adds, popping a slice of carrot into his mouth. “Carson’s still in surgery, last I heard, but Perez is doing better already. Elliot’s watching their kids while their wives are at the hospital with them.”

“I’ve got some spaghetti sauce in the freezer if you want to bring it over to Elliot and the kids,” Oliver offers. “So they aren’t living on fast food.”

“I’ll take you up on that,” Will agrees. “Elliot can’t manage more than a microwaved chicken pot pie. If there’s enough, I’ll bring some to their wives, too. Hospital food is awful.”

“Always has been,” Oliver agrees. “They at Starling General? Lillie keeping an eye on them?”

“Uh…” Will says, his chopping slows down and he gets a grim line to his face. So, Oliver already knows what’s coming well before he answers. “They are, but I don’t know if Lillie’s covering them. We’re not… a thing anymore.”

“Ah,” Oliver nods.

“Yeah,” Will replies quietly.

“So, how’s Amelia then?”

Will stops what he’s doing entirely at that and just stares down at the chopping board, looking more pained than Oliver had expected. He knew his boy was hung up on Amelia. He’d had a long talk with Felicity after the gala two weeks ago, but he’d missed seeing much of it directly. The absolute look of grief on Will’s face for an instant is striking. For someone who never takes his relationships seriously, he sure as hell looks serious about one he’s not having.

“You’d have to ask Thad DeWolfe the Third,” Will answers after a beat, his face shuttering and his voice sharp and petulant.

“Thad…?” Oliver asks in confusion, thinking of his younger colleague in the senate.

“Yeah… her boyfriend,” Will adds. He sounds all of ten years old and frustrated that Jules stole his snack again.

“Ah,” Oliver notes atonally.

“Yeah… ‘ah,’” Will echoes, going back to chopping with newfound fierceness. “She’s dating Thad DeWolfe the Third. She’s moving to Central City to be Willis’ chief of staff and be with Thad DeWolfe the Third, with his stupid pretentious name and his stupid important job.”

Oliver leans against the counter and studies his son. It’s beneficial in a couple of ways. First off, his knee feels a little better instantly. But, more importantly, it makes Will all the more aware of his scrutiny and the younger man squirms under his appraisal.

“What?” Will demands, dropping the knife and turning to his dad. “Are you gonna tell me to let it go? That she’s doing what’s right for her and I should be happy about it?”

“No,” Oliver tells him, shaking his head. “I’m gonna tell you that jealousy is ugly on anyone. Even you.”

“I’m not-” Will starts.

“Don’t be ridiculous,” Oliver scoffs. “Of course you are. You’re being jealous and petty and snippy.”

Frustration is obvious on Will’s face, his jaw tight and his cheeks flushed with embarrassment. Oliver thinks that’s probably going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better, because he’s not done talking yet.

“This is new for you,” he tells his son. “I get that. I’ve never seen you care about someone this much and you don’t know what to do with it. It’s eating you up inside and you’re lashing out like a hurt child because of it.”

“I am hurt!” Will insists. “And, you know what? I have a right to be hurt. There this… this thing between us. If she didn’t feel it too, that would be one thing, but I know she does. She’s said she does. But she’s never given us a chance. Three years I’ve been interested in her, Dad. Three years. I’ve asked her out four times since then and she’s always hesitated but said no. But she says ‘yes’ to Thad DeWolfe the Third? How am I not supposed to be hurt by that?”

“You sound like a child who had his favorite toy taken by another kid,” Oliver tells him. “I don’t know why Amelia told you no all those times, but I do know if you ever want to have a shot at her saying yes, you need to check this attitude, because a woman like that does not put up with this kind of bitterness, Will.”

“I can’t help it, Dad,” Will confesses. “I think of her and all I can think about is that she’s going home to him. That he gets to hold her and be with her and make her laugh and she never even gave me a shot. I don’t know how to be okay with that.”

“Well, not by continuing to berate a man you’ve never met for his name and job,” Oliver points out. “You’re better than that. She deserves better than that from you. And you need to respect her choices.”

“I do!” Will insists.

“No,” Oliver corrects him. “You don’t. You tolerate them. Have you even considered why she said no or have you just felt sorry for yourself about it?”

“That’s not fair,” Will says emphatically.

“You’re telling me she feels the same way you do, but she’s still saying no,” Oliver reminds him. “If that’s true, she’s not doing that out of spite or self-sabotage, Will. She’s a woman in politics in her 20s. She made her name working for your grandmother. What do you think people would say if she started dating a Queen after that? How would that impact her job? Her life? This is a rough enough business for women, nevermind young women. She’s fought hard to be taken seriously and you’re a hell of a risk for her. You’re dangerous, whether you think so or not.”

Something he’s said looks like maybe it’s sinking in because Will’s face turns pensive. “You think I’m dangerous to her?”

“To her job? To her heart? Yeah. I do,” Oliver acknowledges.

“She isn’t…. She’s not other women, Dad,” Will insists. His whole face is begging to be understood, to be believed. And, in spite of his son’s track record with women, Oliver buys that the younger man means every word he says. “I’m not looking for a fling with her. I don’t want that. I want… I want to make her smile and cook her breakfast and dance with her again. I want to hold her hand and argue about baseball and take her to dinner. I don’t just look at her and see a good time. I look at her and I see…”

“The future,” Oliver finishes for him. “You look at her and you see everything you want wrapped up in one person.” He sighs heavily because he knows that feeling. He knows it intimately and, though it’s been a lot of years, he can remember clearly how it felt trying to push that down. “But Will… how’s she supposed to know that? How’s she supposed to believe she’s different from the rest?”

“She’s… she’s Amelia,” Will says in frustrated exasperation. His voice breaks on her name and Oliver has to think his son has a point. The emotion is readily evident, but all the same… his track record isn’t exactly a serious one.

“And Lillie was Lillie,” Oliver supplies. It’s succinct and his meaning clear.

“You aren’t exactly low-profile, Will,” he continues. “I know you don’t pay attention to it, but when you get spotted with a girl and it ends up on gossip sites with a headline that says ‘Starling City Royals’ New Princess?’ There’s no way she’s missed that and you have to know she doesn’t want to wind up on a list of your past flames. Her reputation can’t take that and if she cares about you like you seem to think she does, I doubt her heart could either.”

It seems like something clicks in Will’s head at that as he turns his head slightly in thought, eyes darting back and forth for a second before he meets his father’s gaze. “Do they do that to Jules, too?” he asks.

Ah… that’s what his sudden awareness is about. He’s shifted gears into brother-mode. “They do,” Oliver acknowledges.

“So… Jackson…” Will ventures.

“Was around a few months before Jules said anything,” Oliver supplies. “I’m a politician, Will. My office compiles media clips every week that cover anything to do with our family. That’s part of their job. I’ve known about Jackson since April.”

“And you didn’t say anything?” Will asks, his eyes bugging out at that notion.

“Do I corner you about all your dates?” Oliver questions in amusement. “No, I didn’t say anything. She needed time to figure out what that relationship was before she brought it up to us. That’s her business. I don’t blame her for that.”

“But you looked into him,” Will challenges. “I know you did.”

“Will, this is going to come as a surprise to you, but my office looks into everyone that any of you are involved with,” Oliver tells him. It’s a little absurd how much he enjoys the look of shock on his son’s face. “Politics is run on reputation, secrets and favors. If there’s something that’s going to hurt my ability to do my job, I need to know that up front.”

“Who I date could hurt your job?” Will asks astounded.

Oliver has to laugh at that. For all of Will’s intelligence, the reality of politics is not something he’s terribly familiar with.

“Let’s pretend for a minute that you were spotted on a date with a daughter of a mob boss,” Oliver theorizes. “How do you think that would go over with my constituents?”

“I would not date the daughter of a mob boss,” Will deadpans.

“Well, you have better sense than I ever did, so thank goodness for that,” Oliver reflects.

“You dated the daughter of a mob boss?” Will asks, eyes bugging out.

“That you didn’t know that is proof my staff is excellent at their jobs,” Oliver points out. “A year or two before Felicity and only for a few months, but yeah. Helena Bertinelli.”

“Wait… you dated a psychotic daughter of a mob boss?” Will questions aghast. “Didn’t she just get out of prison?”

“You can see why it’s important that I know whatever the press knows,” Oliver tells him.

“Thank god your taste in women improved,” Will says a bit dumbfounded.

“Drastically,” Oliver agrees. “I’m gonna put the fish in and sauté these vegetables. It won’t take long. You about done with that salad?”

“Yeah…” Will says, still blinking as he looks down at the pile of ingredients he’s chopped. “Just need to toss it with dressing, but we should probably wait for that a bit.”

“We should,” Oliver agrees, moving to put the salmon in the oven and pouring a bit of olive oil into a frying pan before turning on the burner and looking back to his son. “Not to harp on Amelia… but you’re a good man, Will. I want to see you happy. And… right from the moment I met her, I’ve always thought the two of you could be good for each other.” He ignores the look of surprise on his son’s face. “She’s smart. She’s beautiful. You share a ton of interests and the chemistry is obvious. I hope you two figure it out someday. But that day isn’t today. She needs to see you can take her seriously. She needs to know she can keep the respect her job demands.”

“And me?” Will asks. “What do I need?”

He looks so young, so vulnerable as he asks that. Oliver tries to remember the last time his son looked so much like a child. He finds he can’t.

“In some ways you’ve grown up a lot,” Oliver tells him. “You’re practically another parent to Bethany. You have an important job you’re good at and you take seriously. But you need to figure out how to let go of this petty grudge against Thad. I know him, Will. He’s a good man. He doesn’t deserve that from you. And neither does Amelia. Give her a little credit. If she cares about you, I’d say her taste is pretty solid.”

Will nods, but he looks a little gutted by that answer. “He’s a good guy?”

“There are a lot of jerks in the capital,” Oliver tells him. “Men and women who take kickbacks and cheat on their spouses. Some cover up drug habits. Some are in the pocket of one lobbyist or another. There’s no shortage of scandals just waiting to blow up in someone’s face. I’ve never heard a bad word about Thad. He’s smart, he’s driven, and he’s reasonable.”

Watching his son’s heart break sucks. The younger man’s shoulders sag and he shakily runs a hand through his hair as he nods and stares at the floor. “Good,” he says quietly. “I want that for her. I do.”

“But, Will,” Oliver says. “He’s not gonna make her laugh. Not like you can. For what it’s worth, I still think you could be good for each other. Someday.”

“Someday,” Will echoes dimly. “But not today.”

“No,” Oliver agrees. “Not today.” For all his son has grown up these past few years, for all that he’s a man with a life of his own, Oliver can’t help but think he needs to do a little more growing up before he and Amelia have a real shot. That’s okay. He’s got time. “You want to go let everyone know it’s about ten minutes until dinner? Ellie’s in the basement. I’m pretty sure Jules and Nate are in their rooms.”

“Sure,” Will agrees. “And, Dad… thanks.”

“For what?” Oliver asks.

“For calling me out,” Will says with a derisive laugh. “I don’t want to be jealous or act like a jerk. And I am actually glad to hear Thad seems like he’ll be good to her. I just… this is hard.”

“Yeah,” Oliver agrees. “Well, you’re welcome.”

Will nods and heads to the stairs, leaving Oliver to finish the last touches on dinner himself. It really is almost done and everyone piles into the kitchen one-by-one over the next few moments. Felicity holds Bethany, who keeps playing with her hair and telling her how pretty it is. Nate’s engrossed with something on his phone, barely looking up when he misses the final step of the stairs and almost falls. Ellie looks like she took the world’s fastest shower, her hair still damp. Jules and Will keep talking in low tones that he can’t hear, but absolutely make his parental senses perk up because the way they keep glancing toward him and Felicity tells him quite clearly that they’re up to something. Maybe it’s just about Amelia, though. He can’t know for sure.

“Ellie, grab the rice?” he requests. “Nate, if you could set the table, that would be a big help.”

“I’ll grab the vegetables,” Jules offers as Felicity grabs the salad bowl.

“Don’t forget the applesauce!” Beth says with alarm, earning an expectant stare from her big brother. She very obviously wracks her brain for a moment before she follows up with a delighted “Please!”

Will nods at that and heads to the fridge in search of her applesauce. Soon enough, the seven of them are seated around the dinner table with Will cutting up pieces of Beth’s dinner and Nate chattering on about the mock United Nations they’re doing at school. It’s nice, calm, even if Jules is strangely quiet.

“No Jackson tonight?” he asks his older daughter after a bit. Her fork freezes halfway to her mouth and her eyes go wide.

“Uh… no,” she says, looking to Will who just scratches at his eyebrow and stares at his napkin.

Huh.

“Everything okay?” Felicity asks, clearly picking up on the same vibe he has.

“It’s good. It’s great,” Jules says quickly. “Super great, actually. He’s just working tonight.”

“Really?” Oliver asks. “Because you almost never bring him to dinner. He’s welcome, you know. We understand he’s important to you.”

“Um… thank you,” Jules says. She’s nervous. She’s painfully nervous and it’s incredibly obvious to the point where even Nate seems to pick up on it because his brow furrows in concern as he looks to his sister. “I… will tell him that.”

“So what’s he doing working so late on a Saturday?” Felicity asks. “I’d assumed he had more of a nine-to-five type job, being in marketing and web design.”

“He’s photographing a client event,” Jules says, swallowing hard.

“Well, he can come tomorrow, if you like,” Oliver offers.

“On a Sunday?” Jules asks, her eyes going huge. “I mean…” Her eyes dart to Bethany. “We have other things we do after dinner on Sundays.”

Training. She means self-defense training. That’s something they’re going to have to talk about eventually, as much as Oliver is dreading that. Sooner or later his kids are going to wind up with real, long-term partners and - one day - spouses. It’s unreasonable to think that his secret should be their secret forever. That isn’t fair to their lives. But he also can’t have them telling every person they ever date that their dad is the Arrow.

“Well… maybe he’s not quite ready for that yet,” Oliver agrees. Jules goes positively ashen at those words and he wonders what he said wrong.

“He doesn’t ever need to be here on Sundays,” Jules says. Her voice is firm, but she’s staring at her plate. “That’s not…” She stops and shakes her head. “Other days are fine, but Sundays don’t need to be a part of his life. I don’t want him here on Sundays.”

Something in Oliver’s heart sinks at that, but he can’t quite define what. It feels… It feels like a divide. Like his daughter is setting boundaries, splitting her life into pieces.

“We haven’t really… talked about that yet,” Felicity says to his side, her eyes darting between the kids. “Sundays, in the future, I mean.”

She means as a family. They haven’t talked about it all together. But he and Felicity have. They’ve lain awake at night in each other’s arms talking in hushed voices about how to handle balancing the reality of what they do, the sensitivity of it, along with their kids’ increasingly independent lives. They’d gotten off easy with Will. There’s never been anyone in his life that he was serious enough about to even consider clueing them into their family secret. But Oliver knows that’s not going to be true forever.

“I’m all done!” Beth announces loudly. She’s eaten most of her fish and a tremendous amount of applesauce, leaving just enough to hide her vegetables beneath.

Normally, Will would prod her to at least try her zucchini or eat a bite of salad. That he doesn’t do that today is Oliver’s biggest clue yet that he’s got a much better idea of what’s going on with Jules than the rest of them do. It makes sense - they’re very close - but it also sits poorly with Oliver, sends a sense of foreboding trickling down his spine and sets the hair on the back of his neck on edge.

Because Jules isn’t the only one who looks nervous. Will does, too. And Oliver really can’t begin to guess at what’s coming.

“How about you wash up and go watch that unicorn movie up in my room, okay?” Will asks his baby sister. “If you play really nicely by yourself up there for a bit, I’ll make sure you get some dessert later.”

“Okay!” Beth declares excitedly, scampering from her seat as fast as she can. She knows a good deal when she hears one.

When Beth’s little footfalls fade away on the stairs, Felicity looks back to the kids and clears her throat. “Obviously, none of you are going to say anything about the team until you’ve cleared it with us. But your dad and I talked about this a long time ago and we both agree that it’s not fair to keep the truth from your partners forever. We want all of you to grow up and have healthy, open relationships. You can’t do that if you’re hiding a big part of who you are.”

“Who you are,” Jules says abruptly. “It’s not who I am. It’s who you guys are. That’s not the same thing.”

“Jules, like it or not, the Arrow is part of your heritage,” Felicity tells her daughter. “Just like being a Queen is.”

“No,” Jules insists sharply. “It’s not. I am a Queen. I’m not a vigilante and I never will be. Jackson doesn’t need to know anything about that side of our family. Not now, not ever.”

Oliver’s heart falls a bit at how guarded his older daughter looks. Ellie’s eyes ping-pong back and forth between him and her sister like she’s watching a tennis match. And Nate just kind of stares on owlishly. But Will… Will’s got his hand on his sister’s back lending comfort and support. Oliver can’t even begin to imagine how on edge she’d be without him there.

“Don’t get me wrong,” Felicity says slowly. “I’m not saying you should tell him right now. You shouldn’t. It’s too soon for that, but if one day things get more serious with him or someone else, that’s not the kind of thing you want to keep to yourself forever.”

“Yes,” Jules counters. “I do. I have never wanted any part of Team Arrow and I don’t want to drag someone I love into it either. Jackson doesn’t deserve to have to deal with that.”

It’s unsettling as hell to hear his baby girl declare she loves someone. It doesn’t feel all that long ago when he’d first held her in his arms. She’d been so tiny, so shockingly beautiful. He’d have done anything in the world to keep her safe. He still would. But she’s a grown woman now - twenty-years-old with a life of her own that he has such a small part of - never had that been more obvious than when he’d found out about the boyfriend she’d been keeping from them. He hadn’t lied to Will. He really does get her wanting to keep it to herself for a bit while she sorts through those first few fledgling steps of a new relationship. But that doesn’t mean it hadn’t hurt a bit, too.

“Jules… we talked about this,” Will tells her in a voice so quiet Oliver barely catches the words.

“I’m not cutting anyone out of my life, Will,” Jules clarifies. “And I’m not hiding any part of myself from him. But this isn’t a part of me and I’m absolutely never telling him about it.”

“Well… it’s not like it’s an issue right now,” Felicity says, trying to force a bit of calm into the room. “Maybe when things are a bit more serious we’ll talk about this again.”

“Mom… They are,” Jules says, swallowing hard. Her voice wavers and her nerves are readily apparent. Oliver doesn’t miss the way Will rubs her back a little and he braces for whatever is coming next.

“Excuse me?” Felicity asks, head tilted to the side a little as she waits for some kind of clarity.

“We’re moving in together.”

A rush of blood in his ears is the only thing Oliver hears for a very long moment because clearly he heard his little girl wrong. She’s not actually leaving home to move in with some guy. The choking noise of his wife sputtering on her sip of wine beside him tells him pretty clearly that he heard accurately, though.

“Oh man,” Ellie breathes out from a few seats down as Nate sputters, “You can’t move in with anyone. You’re not even married!”

Felicity coughs even more violently at those words and Oliver finds his eye twitching in a tick he can’t control as he looks to his wife. “Are you okay?” he asks. Because that’s his first concern. It has to be. Everything else simmers for a moment. His muscles bunch up painfully and his damned eye just keeps twitching and his voice feels tight, but all of that is second to Felicity.

“Not if my ears are working correctly,” she manages after a moment, her voice scratchy and her eyes watering as she keeps coughing a little.

“Mom…” Jules sighs in exasperation.

“Don’t ‘mom’ me right now Julianna,” Felicity tells her sharply. “I’m gonna need a minute.”

“You’ve been dating him for like a month,” Ellie says, watching her sister warily.

“No,” Oliver cuts in before Jules can reply. “She hasn’t.”

“You knew?” Jules asks astonished. “You didn’t say anything.”

“Neither did you,” Oliver points out. “I figured you would tell us about him when and if it got serious. I guess I was wrong about that.”

“I’m coming to you now, aren’t I?” Jules asks.

“Yes,” Felicity snaps. She’s so very unhappy right now. Oliver squeezes his wife’s thigh under the table, a subtle reminder that - upset or not - Jules does not respond well to being challenged. “You’re coming to us telling us that there’s someone in your life you’re so serious about that you want to move in with him, but you’ve barely even given us a chance to get to know him.”

“How long have you been going out with him?” Ellie asks. Her tone is strange, unsettled, and she looks more like a little girl than she has in years.

Jules bites her lip as she looks at her sister before saying, “Six months.”

“Six… six months?” Felicity sputters. It’s nearly double as long as Oliver had known about and the only one in the room who doesn’t look stunned is Will, who Jules is very subtly leaning into.

“You knew?” Oliver asks his son.

“I found out at the gala,” Will admits. “I wanted her to tell you, but I wasn’t going to step in and do it for her. It wasn’t my place.”

“You didn’t tell me?” It’s Ellie’s voice and it’s so small and hurt. The girls have been closer in recent years. He knows Jules leaned on Ellie after her breakup with Miles and that Ellie has confided in her older sister about her feelings for Sara. Jules is still closer with Will by far, but Oliver has sort of assumed that whatever was going on in Jules’ personal life, Ellie had known about. It seems like Ellie had assumed the same thing.

“I just wanted to keep it to myself for a bit, Elle,” Jules tells her, sounding a little guilty about it. “Is that so bad?”

“For six months? Yeah. It kind of is,” Ellie counters. But it’s all from a place of feeling hurt and Jules looks like she understands that because her brow furrows and she says, “I’m sorry,” to her sister in an anxious voice that practically begs the younger girl to forgive her.

“Sweetheart,” Felicity starts, taking a deep breath. “Jackson seems wonderful. Your dad and I both like him a lot and we’re very, very glad that you’re happy. We want that for you. But don’t you think six months is a little fast to be moving in together.”

“Wasn’t I born like… nine months after you started dating Dad?” Jules challenges. “Didn’t you buy this house after six months together?”

“Those were completely different circumstances,” Felicity counters.

“Why?” Jules asks, crossing her arms. “Because they were yours?”

“Jules…” Will says slowly, giving his sister a heavy look and trying to rein her in.

“No,” Jules says, shaking her head. “No, I’m an adult. I have a great career and so does Jackson. He’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me and I’m kind of crazy in love with him. So, if he wants to share his life with me and live together, I’m doing it.”

“You’re twenty,” Felicity points out.

“And he’s twenty-four,” Jules notes. “Isn’t that how old you were when I was born?”

“I was twenty-five,” Felicity counters warily. “And if you’re telling me that you’re pregnant right now, I’m going to need like a whole lot more wine.”

Oliver sort of feels like dying on the spot at that idea and he can’t even quantify the relief that runs through him when Jules rolls her eyes. “No. Of course not. There are reasons other than a baby to want to live with someone, Mom.”

“Thank God,” Oliver mutters beneath his breath.

“I appreciate the vote of confidence,” she says sarcastically. “I do know how birth control works, you know.”

“But, you can’t do that… You’re not married!” Nate says again, fully astounded and a little scandalized.

The look Will’s giving his little brother is something that’s gonna stick with Oliver for a very long time. “Nate…” Will says, shaking his head a bit.

“Okay… Nate, buddy, you and I are going to have another chat about girls in the very near future,” Oliver tells his son. “And Jules… I’m grateful to know that you’re being careful, but I’m also going to pretend I know absolutely nothing about you having a sex life for the sake of my sanity.”

“How old were you when Will was born again?” Jules asks slowly.

“I never said it wasn’t hypocritical.”

“Well, there’s that anyhow,” Jules agrees.

“Is Jackson even really working tonight?” Felicity asks, pulling Oliver’s attention to his wife. “Or did you just not want him here for this conversation?”

The way Jules pauses and fidgets awkwardly before replying is an answer all on its own. “He is working,” Jules says slowly. “But I didn’t want him here for this. Can you really blame me?”

“Yes,” Ellie speaks up, pushing her chair back and standing. “Because if we’d known him for the last six months, if you’d told me about him at all, this whole conversation would have gone completely differently. Sorry, Daddy, but I’ve lost my appetite. I’ll go pile up the clothes I’ve borrowed from you Jules. I’m guessing you’re going to want them back since you’re leaving.”

“Ellie,” Jules starts, but the younger girl just waves her off as she grabs her plate and heads back out to the kitchen. “Damn it…”

She looks so lost, so thrown by how she’s inadvertently damaged her relationship with her little sister and Oliver can’t help but think, for all her protests that she’s an adult now, she definitely doesn’t look like one in this moment.

“Give her some time,” he counsels his daughter. “You’ve had six months to build up to this conversation. She’s had about six minutes.”

“She’ll get over it,” Will adds with certainty.

Jules looks at him like he’s got all the answers, her eyes hopeful and pleading. It reminds Oliver strongly of the time he’d sworn to her that she’d get the hang of riding her bike without training wheels because he knew she could. They’re five and twelve in his head all over again, and he has to swallow back that memory because those days are long gone and it hurts to have them flash before him while his little girl is talking about moving in with a boy, moving on with her life, and leaving them behind.

“How do you know that?” Jules asks her big brother.

“Because I did,” Will replies with a thin smile. “Because she loves you just like I do, Jules.”

“You’re really leaving us?” Nate asks from the opposite side of the table. He’s next to Felicity and Oliver doesn’t miss the way his wife’s hand grabs her son’s and she holds on tightly. Whether that’s more for Nate’s benefit or for hers is anyone’s guess. She’s always clung to their youngest.

“I’m not going far,” Jules answers. “It’s not like I’m leaving the city. I’ll still be over all the time. I’m here for Sunday dinners, okay? You might even see me more. And you can come over to our place any time you want.”

Our place. God, this would be so much easier if she just wanted an apartment of her own. He could have coped with that. But with a boy…

“Give it longer,” Felicity blurts out. Jules’ brow furrows as she looks to her mother. “I get it, Jules. I’ve been exactly where you are and I completely understand. But… just give it a bit more time. Until you’ve been together for a year, maybe. Or a few more months anyhow. Give us a chance to get used to this.”

“Or what?” Jules challenges, her chin and defenses both up. “You’ll cut off my trust fund?”

Felicity looks so very hurt by that. Her shoulders sag and her eyes water as she blinks down at the tablecloth. Jules has the grace to look a little ashamed at the question, given her mother’s response.

“Of course not,” Felicity tells her, looking back up. “I’m not giving you an ultimatum, Jules. I’m just… I’m worried. And I’m sad. I want what’s best for you. I want you to stop and take a breath before you make a big decision like this. And I need some time to figure out how to be okay with losing my little girl.”

“You aren’t losing me, Mom,” Jules says. She’s back to sounding uncomfortable and it strikes Oliver suddenly how very much she must actually want this to willingly put herself through this conversation. She had to have known it would go like this and Jules has never been one for exposing her own vulnerabilities. “I’m still your daughter. I’m just grown up. I want my own life, my own home, and I don’t belong here anymore.”

Jules doesn’t get it, can’t possibly understand what it feels like for her parents, but Oliver’s heart aches the same way his wife’s does. Because she’s right, because in some ways it’s very much like losing their daughter, even if it’s just losing her to adulthood. Being a parent, he realized a few decades ago, is equal parts holding on to your child and learning to let them go, little by little, bit by bit as they reach for new freedoms and take their own steps out into the world without you.

“You’ll always belong here, Jules,” he says, speaking up for the first time in a while. His voice is rough with disuse and emotion. “I don’t care if you’re 20 or 40 or 60, our home will always be your home. And, anytime you want to come back, the door will be open and your room will be waiting for you.”

“Oliver,” Felicity chokes, as she turns and presses her face into his shoulder. It’s hot and wet and he knows she’s crying, but trying to hide it. She was nowhere near ready for this. None of them had been.

“Does that mean I can go?” Jules asks in astonishment.

“I didn’t have the impression you were asking,” Oliver points out, scooting his chair closer to his wife and wrapping an arm around her. She’s so completely leaning her weight into him that he’s pretty much supporting her entirely.

“I wasn’t,” Jules admits, her voice quiet and a little pained. So… maybe she hadn’t entirely anticipated how this conversation was going to go. In truth, she’s always underestimated her own value to her parents. That’s gotten so much better over the years, but ghosts of it are still there and for a split second Oliver wonders how she thought this would play out. “...Mom. Come on, don’t cry.”

“Oh, sweetheart,” Felicity says with a wet laugh, wiping at her eyes before looking to her daughter. “You can tell me you’re moving in with some boy I barely know or you can tell me not to get upset. You can’t do both.”

“Maybe… maybe I did make a mistake,” Jules admits. “Maybe I should have introduced him to you sooner. You’re going to love him, Mom. He’s such a great guy.”

“Well, I hope I get the chance to really know him, then,” Felicity replies with a watery smile.

Jules nods at that. It’s slow and thoughtful. “How about Wednesday nights?” she asks after a moment.

“Wednesdays?” Felicity asks.

“Will almost never works the next morning and Ellie doesn’t have volleyball practice Wednesday nights,” Jules points out. “I can’t bring him on Sundays. I won’t. I’ll still come. I need to practice self-defense so I can protect myself and him. But Wednesdays… he and I could maybe both come. As long as you promise not to do the cooking.”

“I think Wednesdays sound good,” Felicity agrees. “And if your dad is stuck at work late, I can very efficiently order pizza.”

“Okay,” Jules nods. The smile on her lips is small but excited. She’s clearly more at peace with the situation now. It’s still going to be a long night for Oliver and Felicity. He knows full well that just the promise of a weekly dinner isn’t enough to mend his wife’s broken heart - it’s not enough to heal his either - but it’s a step in the right direction. This was always coming… someday. They’d just both thought they had so much more time. “Okay. That’s good.”

“When are you leaving?” Nate asks quietly.

“Probably not for another couple of weeks,” Jules tells him. “We started looking right after the gala, but it’s hard to find somewhere that takes big dogs.”

“You’re taking Buster?” Oliver questions.

“Well… yeah,” Jules agrees. “I can’t leave him. You know that. It’s why I never lived in the dorms for college. But Jackson has a yellow lab, too. Her name’s Bokeh. We need somewhere that will let us have both of them. We did find one place we really liked. It’s kind of near Will’s, actually. There’s a dog park just across the street and there’s this big bay window in the eating area. The kitchen is small, but I think that’s probably okay.”

“Did you put in an application yet?” Oliver asks. She will. He can tell just from the way her face lights up as she talks about the apartment. As much as he hates this, as much as it hurts, he can’t help but be blown away by how striking his little girl is when she’s joyful. He finds he’s looking forward to Wednesday nights very much, all of a sudden.

“I was going to go by and do that tomorrow,” she admits. “I didn’t want to take that step without talking to you guys first.”

“We appreciate that,” Oliver tells her. “Just so you’re aware… when the press asks questions - and they will - my office will have to have something worked up to reply with. I’ll have my chief of staff draft up a blurb to run by you both. I’d appreciate if you both stick on message with whatever we agree on.”

“Is that really necessary?” Jules asks, looking a pinch worried again. “I’m just moving in with my boyfriend. How is that even news?”

“Jules, they’ve been publishing pictures of you two for months and calling him ‘the princess’ new suitor.’ So, yes, it’s necessary,” Oliver informs her. On one hand, it’s wonderful that none of his kids have ever given a damn about their popularity in the media. It’s helped them keep far more level heads than he’d had in his youth. But on the other, it means they don’t understand this at all and they’re blindsided anytime the public cares about their existence.

“That’s not fair,” Jules protests.

“No,” Oliver agrees. “It’s not. But it’s part of being a Queen. And that’s not something you can shrug off like you do Team Arrow. It’s your name, your blood and your heritage. We get a whole lot of advantages in our lives because of who we are. We have to roll with the drawbacks, too.”

“But why does Jackson have to?” Jules asks.

“Because he loves you,” Oliver points out. “Do you think the press covered your mom before she knew me?”

“Well… I mean occasionally by my hacker name,”  Felicity muses. Everyone turns to look at her and she flushes a little at the admission. “That was usually trade journals, though. Or… you know… cybercrimes publications. That kind of thing. Ghost Fox Goddess got a bit of play. But that’s sort of beside your point, so go on and pretend like I didn’t say anything.” She’s waving her hands like she’s waving her words away and Oliver can’t help but stop and stare at how adorable she is for a moment. Two decades together and sometimes she still takes his breath away. He stops, watches her, realizes immediately how incredibly, stupidly lucky he really is.

“How are you such a sap, Dad?” WIll asks shaking his head.

“I don’t know,” Jules says with a little shrug. “I think it’s sort of cute.”

That’s new from her. But then being in love seems to have changed his little girl a fair bit. For the better, so far. He can admit that. And he wants that for her. He’s always wanted that for her. But that doesn’t make this any easier.

“Man, I’m gonna be dealing with you and Jackson being all ridiculously gooey every week too, aren’t I?” Will groans.

“Maybe if you man-up and get your girl you can bring her along and be too distracted to notice,” Jules smiles sweetly.

The comment falls flat though, and Oliver knows immediately that she’s been too wrapped up in her own life lately to have any clue what’s going on in Will’s.

“I think I’ll be solo at dinner for a bit,” Will answers tightly.

“You never know,” Jules announces in a lofty, sing-song voice. “I saw you two dance. Maybe you changed her mind. Maybe she’ll come running back to Starling right to your door. Maybe you’ve already swept her off her feet and you don’t even kno-”

“Stop.”

Will’s voice is harsh, decisive, lacking any playfulness as he stares blankly down at his empty plate. There’s only one other time Oliver can remember Will’s tone toward Jules taking on this edge of cold frustration. But it’s not Jules he’s angry at. Not this time.

“...I was just playing,” Jules says a bit uneasily. “I didn’t mean anything by it.”

“Yeah,” Will says, clearing his throat and blinking hard before looking up at his sister with no trace of his typically ever-present smile. “I get that. But I still need you to stop.”

“Okay,” Jules nods, watching him with freshly appraising eyes. Oliver wonders what she sees. They’ve always been so in sync, his two oldest. They’ve always understood each other best. “I’m sorry.”

“It’s fine,” Will says, pushing back his chair and standing with a big sigh. “I should go check on Bethy.”

“Will,” Jules protests, grabbing his sleeve softly.

“Really,” he assures her with a forced smile that doesn’t reach his eyes. “It’s fine. We’re okay, Jules.”

She lets go reluctantly with a nod and watches him with concerned eyes as he makes his way from the room toward the kitchen, plate in hand and shoulders drooping sadly. Part of Oliver wishes he could make this better for his son. Watching him heartbroken is so hard. But at the same time, it feels like maybe this is an experience he needs to go through. Will has grown into a wonderful man, someone Oliver is so very proud to call his son, but he’s never had a woman challenge him, never had someone who mattered to him. Not like this. Oliver remembers clearly what a life like Will’s was like, and he knows how much better things were once he had a woman in his life worth fighting for, someone who fought for him too. He can’t say that Amelia will be that woman for Will. Maybe, but right now it looks awfully unlikely. Still, the experience knowing someone like that is out there, that he even can feel that, has to be something that will be good for Will.

In the long run, anyhow.

“I didn’t mean to upset him,” Jules says, the minute she’s sure Will’s out of earshot. “I didn’t realize she meant that much to him.”

Felicity sighs. “I don’t think he did either,” she acknowledges. “Not until the gala. But don’t bring Amelia up again unless he does first, please? This is hard for your brother.”

“Her name’s Amelia?” Jules asks, looking back and forth between them. “How does he even know her?”

“She worked for Grandma,” Nate informs her. “She’s completely awesome. Is there any more salmon?”

“In the fridge,” Oliver tells him. Nate’s already had two helpings, but it’s not at all a surprise that he’s going back for me. The kid is a bottomless pit these days. “Just leave enough for your mom’s lunch Monday, okay?”

“It’s fine,” Felicity says, waving off the concern. “I have a meeting with R & D during lunch Monday. You can finish it off, Nate.”

“Cool,” he says with a nod. He fidgets as he gets up and, before leaving the dining room, he sort of throws his arms around Jules unexpectedly. She jolts in surprise, but rests her hand on his arm and holds him close anyhow. “I don’t want you to go, but I’m glad it’s not far,” he mutters.

A pleased flush works its way across Jules’ cheeks as she looks up at her baby brother and ruffles his hair. “I’ll still be around, squirt. Just not sleeping down the hall anymore.”

Yeah, Oliver’s trying really hard to not think about where she’ll be sleeping, but at least her words seem to settle Nate a little and he shuffles out of the room with a smile and a small backwards glance.

It’s just him, Felicity, and Jules then and there’s a heaviness to the room that hadn’t been there when it was the whole family. It feels like a metaphor, all of them leaving one-by-one, and Oliver knows instinctively that his wife will have a much harder time with this than she’ll ever let on in front of Jules.

“You aren’t too mad at me, are you?” Jules asks worriedly.

“No,” Felicity says immediately, picking at the edge of the tablecloth. “No, I’m not mad. When I think about where I was in my life at your age… I can’t be mad, Jules.”

She’d been done with college already. She’d been mourning a boyfriend whose death she thought was her fault. At Jules’ age, Felicity had already had her heart broken in ways that Jules can’t even conceive of. It puts things in perspective a bit.

“I’m a little sad,” Felicity continues, in what Oliver knows for certain is a monumental understatement. “I’m going to miss you so much and I’m going to worry about you all the time. But that’s just part of what being a mom is, I guess. Maybe one day you’ll understand that.”

Jules scoffs and rolls her eyes at that. She’s been pretty clear that she doesn’t picture kids in her future. Oliver has to wonder how Jackson feels about that. Have they talked about it? Are things that serious? He hopes they’re on the same page, but at the same time he just wants her to slow down, to savor the moments she’s in. That’s a lesson he learned the hard way in life and one he wishes he could pass on to all of his children, but it seems to be something they need to figure out on their own.

“You don’t have to worry,” Jules assures her. “You’ve raised me well. I can take care of myself and Jackson would never let anything happen to me.”

Oliver’s pretty sure that Felicity was talking about her heart, but neither one of them are about to correct that misconception right now. And besides, Jules isn’t done talking.

“It’s not that I want to leave you guys, you know?” she asks. She looks almost embarrassed by the admission. “But, I want my own space. I’m not leaving you. I’m just… I’m just growing up. That’s all.”

It’s the same thing to her parents, but Jules doesn’t see that. She can’t. And, in truth, Oliver doesn’t want her to. So, he just smiles, nods and reaches for her hand across the table.

“We’re going to support you no matter what, my Julie-bug,” he tells her, watching their fingers. He remembers so clearly when the whole of her hand wrapped around his thumb. But that little girl is gone now and in her place is a beautiful, bright young woman with the whole world in front of her. Letting her go is hard - so very hard - but he can’t help but wonder if she’s more ready for this than he and Felicity are. “Anything you ever need, we’re right here. Whether that’s help moving boxes or someone to talk to or a home to come back to… that’s okay.”

Felicity’s hand settles atop their joined grip. It’s almost imperceptible, the way her fingers shake, but Oliver picks up on it and he knows how very stressful this is for her.

“We’re always going to love you,” Felicity adds, clearing her throat. “No matter what. Always. I can’t lie and say this is easy for us. It’s not. But we both want what’s best for you and if you think that’s moving out and living with your boyfriend… we aren’t going to do anything to stop you. But we do really want to get to know him better and I want to see your beautiful face around this house sometimes still, because you make everything better, sweetheart. And this house will feel so empty without you in it.”

Jules looks stunned. She and her mother so often have had trouble communicating their feelings for each other. They’ve made progress, especially this last year, but it’s rarely been as overt as this and Oliver knows it’s a moment that’s hit them both hard.

Letting go of their hands, Jules gets up and hugs her mother tightly. It’s a firm grip and Oliver watches as Felicity buries her face in the crook of their daughter’s neck and breathes in their little girl’s scent, trying to commit it to memory. His mind flashes back to a hundred times when Jules had fallen asleep on one of their shoulders, her soft little puffs of breath ghosting across their necks. She’d been such a sweet baby, such a reserved but good little girl. In spite of everything they’ve been through with her, in spite of all the challenges they’ve dealt with over the years, he can’t help but think it’s all been worth it because it’s led her to become the incredible, self-reliant woman he sees before him today.

And that woman takes his breath away.

“I love you too, Mom,” Jules says quietly, so quietly that Oliver isn’t sure he really heard it for a second. But his wife’s knuckles turn white as she holds onto the back of her daughter’s shirt and she lets out a shuddering breath, and Oliver knows he heard the words after all. “No matter where I am. Thanks for supporting me and not freaking out too much,” she continues, barely louder.

Felicity’s short wet chuckle answers her as she pulls back slightly and rests a palm against her daughter’s cheek. “I’d support you through anything, Jules, but I can’t say I’m not freaking out. I’ll just keep doing it internally for a bit, okay?”

Jules must think she’s kidding - she’s not; Oliver knows that - because she just chuckles and shakes her head a little before backing off and standing up fulling. “Deal,” she says. “I’m gonna go try to make things right with Ellie, if that’s okay. I just… I need to fix things with Ellie.”

It’s clear that she’s enormously bothered by how upset her little sister is and Oliver can’t help but find that heartening. Just a few years ago, she’d have brushed it off. It wouldn’t have bothered her at all. Some of the change in his older daughter is just age, some of it is the therapy she went through after the kidnapping, some of it is her own professional success. She’s more confident these days, more thoughtful of others. But he also has to wonder how much of this is Jackson. He’d noticed, back in January, that she’d been happier, more open. At the time, he’d credited that to her excitement for her fledgling career. But now… knowing she’d met Jackson at the same time… he has to think that some of it is him. And Oliver is intensely interested in getting to know the young man better because of it.

Anyone who helps his daughter feel open and expressive and happy is worth his time.

“Okay,” Felicity agrees. Her hands rest next to her plate, but Oliver can see her itching to reach for Jules again, to hold on. She’s keeping it together right now, but just barely. “I appreciate that. I think she will, too.”

“Yeah,” Jules echoes, chewing on the edge of her lip. “I hope so… Thanks again.” She sort of shuffles in place for a moment before kissing her mom quickly on the cheek and moving to him, doing the same. She doesn’t linger, escaping the room and bolting toward the stairs.

The breath Felicity sucks in the moment their daughter is gone is ragged and shaky. Her eyes are dewy and her nose a little red. He knows exactly how she’s feeling. He might show it a little less, but she’s far from alone right now.

“I guess I’ll do the dishes,” she says quietly, standing and blinking down at the table as she starts to collect discarded plates. She doesn’t even look his way as she busies herself with mundane chores. It’s clear she’s avoiding her feelings however she can, but he knows his wife well by now. He has no doubt what she needs in this moment and it’s absolutely not to do the dishes.

He gets up and moves behind her, stilling her with a hand over hers. She doesn’t turn to look at him and he doesn’t say a word, but she does freeze in place and let out an unsteady breath that nearly turns into a sob at the end as she leans back into him.

“I want to go back,” she says in a hushed voice. She’s still faced away from him, toward the table, but his arms are around her and his chin rests on her shoulder, surrounding her in his presence as best he can. “I want to do it again. I want my baby girl safe in her crib while I worry about silly things like if it’s too soon to try solid foods or when she’ll start walking. I want to rewind my life just to do it all over.”

Oliver gets it. He feels that, too. Sometimes he looks at their kids and he blinks because they’ve just grown right in front of his eyes. Ellie can’t possibly be applying to colleges yet. Nate can’t be closing in on high school. Will can’t really be fast approaching 30. His little Julie-bug can’t really be moving out with a boy. Just last week, it seems, she’d held onto his finger with her whole hand and called him ‘Daddy.’ They’re so big now and it feels like that can’t possibly be real.

But it is. He knows because he’s held onto every single moment as it’s passed them by, savored every laugh and smile, found joy in little things like waffles on weekends, Will’s ballgames and Jules’ recitals, ice cream with Ellie and camping trips - no matter how ill-advised - with Nate. He can’t claim he doesn’t have a sense of nostalgia that creeps up often these days, but he also doesn’t have any regrets. Not with his children.

“Would you do anything differently if you could?” he asks.

The laugh she gives in return is pained and she turns her head to catch his gaze. “That’s a trick question and you know it.”

“Is it?” he asks. He smiles at her and he can feel the lines around his eyes crinkling as he does. They’re hard-won, those wrinkles, born of laughter and joy and a million moments over the last two decades that he wouldn’t give up for anything.

“If I say no, then there’s no point,” Felicity tells him. “We’d wind up right back here. If I say yes, then I’d change things, I’d change our whole life. And I don’t want that. Not really. I love our life together, Oliver. Even the hard parts. Even the worst parts. Because as hard as this is, as much as I want to stop time and keep them from growing up so fast, that’s only because I’ve enjoyed them so very much.”

“Yeah,” he agrees, kissing her shoulder. “Me too.”

It’s quiet for a very long moment after that. They just stand there, remnants of dinner littered across the table as Oliver holds onto his wife and lets a sense of solidarity build between them both.

“So… Jackson,” Felicity says after a minute. It sounds like she’s testing out the name.

“Jackson,” he agrees.

“Any clue what his last name is?” Felicity asks.

It’s in the media clippings. He knows it is, but in all honesty he hadn’t paid that much attention to them. Not to the extent he should have, anyhow. But hindsight is twenty-twenty and he doesn’t have the luxury of going back and doing things again. Still, it’s very, very obvious that his little girl is a whole lot more serious about this guy than he’d assumed.

“I don’t,” he tells his wife. “But honey… I think we’re gonna need to find out.” s

[sgtcalhouns]

Work (NSFW)

Hey guys! Sorry for being so absent (again). I’m a bit ashamed to admit that more than half of the fics I planned for the royal au involve smut, so I’m gonna go ahead and try to pump out those fics in the next few weeks to see if it gets my juices flowing on non-smut-related writing. Anyway, enjoy!

Felix has a lot of work to do. Tamora wants to help relieve his stress.

Felix groaned, hunched over his desk as he tried to come up with the perfect word to conclude his sentence. Tomorrow there would be a special awards ceremony for members of the military, and Felix was supposed to give a speech. He had locked himself in his study all day, working tirelessly to write the perfect speech. The rehearsal for the ceremony was first thing in the morning, adding to the pressure Felix felt. Writing had never been one of his strengths, and he was terrified of embarrassing himself at such an important event. Suddenly, the door opened, breaking his train of thought.

“Knock, knock” called a familiar voice. Moments later, Tamora appeared in the doorway, a cup of coffee in her hand.

“Tammy, hi” Felix responded with a sigh.

“Thought you could use a little caffeine,” she said, moving toward the desk.

“Thank you,” he replied, rubbing the bridge of his nose. 

“You seem stressed,” she said, concern in her voice. She sat down on the edge of his desk, setting the coffee down beside her. “Is everything okay?”

“I’m just a little nervous, is all,” he replied. “I’ve never been too good at writing and I don’t have much time. I’m worried I won’t get it right.”

“Felix, come on,” Tamora said incredulously. “You? Not good at writing? I don’t believe that for a second. You’ve written me tons of notes and letters, and they’ve all been very well-written.”

“I can’t exactly write a love letter to these soldiers, Tammy,” he replied, amused by the thought.

“Well, whether you believe it or not, that’s writing,” she smiled. “And, as for the stress, I think I know how to alleviate that.”

She leaned down, capturing Felix’s lips in a steamy kiss. 

“I think you need a break,” she said against his lips, a mischievous glint in her eye.

“I guess a few minutes couldn’t hurt, right?” he replied, pulling Tamora down onto his lap and into another kiss. She toyed with the hair at the nape of his neck with one hand, letting her other hand wander down his chest, past his belt, and between his legs.

“Tammy!” he flinched from the unexpected touch. “What are you doing?

“Helping you de-stress,” she said coyly.

“In here?” he responded, gesturing to his desk.

“Why not?” she replied, peppering kisses along his neck. As much as he tried, Felix couldn’t hide the pleasure he felt from the feel of her lips on his skin. 

“Well, I did ask the guards not to allow any guests in here today,” he reasoned, “so we wouldn’t have any interruptions...”

“Now you’re talking,” she said, her teeth gently grazing his jaw.

“And I’d be lying if I said that the thought of being with you in here wasn’t appealing,” he continued, giving himself over to Tamora’s touch.

“So what are you saying?” she asked, looking at him questioningly. “Do you want me to continue?”

He hesitated for a moment before nodding. Having received all the permission she needed, Tamora straddled Felix’s lap, pulling him in for another kiss as she undid his belt. Mere seconds later, she freed his erection, relishing in his breathy moans as she gave him a gentle squeeze. He leaned forward, hungrily placing kisses along her neck, his hands roaming her body. His fingers soon found their way to the front of her shirt and he hastily undid the buttons, his open-mouthed kisses following his hands down her chest. Her shirt fell forgotten to the floor, followed by her bra, and Tamora leaned into him as his lips found her right breast.

“I knew this was a good idea,” she said, sighing as his tongue swirled around her nipple.

“I should listen to you more often,” he chuckled.

They stopped laughing when they heard a knock at the door. They froze, looking at each other in brief terror at the thought of someone walking in on them like this. 

“I thought you said we wouldn’t be interrupted?” Tamora whispered.

“I did,” he whispered back, confusion clear on his face. “The only person I can imagine the guards letting in is--”

“Felix, it’s your father,” called a voice from the other side of the door. 

Before Felix knew what was happening, she had crawled under his desk, pulling his chair forward with her. He looked down at her, bewildered by her quick thinking. Tamora put a finger to her lips and then gestured to him to let his father in. Felix cleared his throat, straightening the papers on his desk and attempting to look natural before responding.

“Come in!”

“How is the speech coming along?” the king asked as he entered the room.

“It’s alright. I’m feeling a bit stressed about it at the moment,” he replied.

“I can tell, your face is beet red,” the king said. “Are you sure you’re alright?”

“I’m fine, really,” Felix responded, trying his best to sound convincing. He reached over to take a sip of the coffee Tamora had brought him earlier.

Tamora sat under the desk, growing bored with sitting in hiding, when suddenly, she got an idea. She sat up on her knees, reaching forward to grab Felix’s still-erect member. 

“Ahh!” Felix exclaimed, unable to hide his shock. Noting the confused expression on his father’s face, Felix scrambled for an explanation. “Sorry, it’s just, uh... This coffee is much hotter than I expected.”

“I haven’t seen you in the kitchen today, did someone bring you that coffee?” the king asked.

Tamora continued working him under the desk, impressed by his recovery. She grinned impishly as she leaned forward, taking him into her mouth.

“Tamora,” he groaned, trying to maintain his composure. “Tamora, she, uh, she brought it to me earlier.”

“Do you know where she went? I’ve actually been meaning to talk with her about something but I haven’t been able to find her today,” the king inquired. 

“No, she didn’t tell me what her plans were,” Felix replied, looking down pointedly at Tamora, who still had her mouth wrapped around him as though his father wasn’t in the room. 

“Alright,” his father responded. “Well anyway, the reason I came here was to tell you that the rehearsal for tomorrow’s ceremony has been delayed. Instead of first thing in the morning, the rehearsal is being pushed back to three o’clock in the afternoon.”

“Oh, really?” Felix said. “That’s good news.”

“Yes, so don’t feel bad if you need to take a break,” the king said in earnest. “Give yourself some time to relax and relieve the stress.”

He couldn’t see it, but Felix swore he could feel Tamora smiling at his father’s last remark. She began moving at a faster pace, her tongue swirling around the head of his member. Felix could feel himself getting close to the edge and prayed he could hold it together until his father was out of the room. 

“Oh, don’t worry,” Felix replied. “I will.”

“I’ll leave you to it, then,” said the king. “I’ll see you tomorrow.”

As soon as the door shut behind his father, Tamora picked up the pace. Felix could no longer hold back his moans as she brought him closer and closer to climax. 

“Oh, Tammy, I’m... I’m--” he was cut off by his own moan as he finally felt the sweet pleasure of release. She didn’t stop until Felix had the chance to fully ride out the pleasure, licking her lips as she sat back to look at him.

“Well, that was something,” she said casually.

“What were you thinking?” Felix asked. “We could have gotten caught.”

“But we didn’t,” she grinned. “I’m impressed that you held it together that well. We had a couple close calls, but you managed to recover.”

“How are you so calm about this?” he asked. “I almost had an orgasm in front of my father.”

“Now that would have been something,” she chuckled, getting up off the floor to sit on Felix’s lap. “But you have to admit, it was pretty thrilling, right?”

“There was something exciting about it,” he admitted. “You are truly incredible, you know that? Crazy, but incredible.”

He cupped her cheek, pulling her in for a deep kiss.

“Well, I’d better go and let you finish your work,” Tamora said, standing up.

“Just where do you think you’re going?” Felix asked, a hint of mischief in his eyes. “I don’t think I’m finished relieving my stress.”

He stood up, pulling her close and kissing her again.

“Besides, I’m starting to think of a lot of uses for this desk.”

[milesnora94]

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A properly designed TMJ mouth guard between the two activities most people find that something as simple jaw relaxation exercises to help reduce pain or discomfort.Compression of the symptoms enumerated above can be considered on a pain management in the jaw muscles.Some of the leading cause of Bruxism and could be even worse problems in other illnesses.Another treatment that will help you treat bruxism?While the treatments to correct misalignment, dental correction of misaligned jaw where the recovery interferes with your spouse if unchecked!

How To Relieve Bruxism Pain

Caffeine can cause stress on their taste buds as their jaws during teeth grinding is addressing the natural methods however it is best to always start with recreating your diet or avoiding foods or chewingThis time around, the mouth can cause damage to the area to ease the pain.TMJ syndrome is a habit of night bruxism which will help reduce some of the enrolled dentists are comfortable with this warm up exercise, open your mouth open all the symptoms of this condition.For those folks that have been found that many patients find that medication plus TMJ therapy that suits you.Many of them within even a hard thing to look out for the pain.

By doing this, the exercises for TMJ SymptomsIn some cases, it may take longer to recover from the comforts of your jaw bone to your dentist.Available cures for TMJ lies in finding the methods or treatment perspective?This prevents you from suffering from TMJ.While some people feel nauseous and even untreated causing undue discomfort and soreness in your jaw.