#as you can tell i like my post canons and my canon divergences so so much
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got tagged in the wip game by a few people w/ the challenge to tag someone for all your wips! however i have over 50+ wips / just oneshots planned (not including multipchap) so i'm just gonna share like my top 10 and then call it a day!
oneshots:
a different man / mirror traps: Lissa comes back to Katolis for her daughterâs wedding and meets her husbandâs ghost. Or the "Lissa meets Callum" fic, probably a sorta sequel to this fic
providence: post-s5 divergent. A spell gone wrong traps Callum inside the mirror with Aaravos.Â
the goal of living is to grow: After a love contained only to chaos and summers, Rayla and Callum experience the other seasons side by side. post-s6, planned to be like 20k, Rayla/Callum
just stand still: In Katolis, you come of age at sixteen; Ezran just misses his dad.
mama's boys: Sarai's sons grow up without her. Ezran&Callum
blinded: Miyana, and the Sunfire royal family. Miyana/Karim
nine days: It takes nine days for Harrow and Viren to reach the Storm Spire. Set pre-series and 3x06. Viren/Harrow
i asked you to be human: AU where Kasef makes different choices in s3, and lives.
being this young is art: Servants talk. Callum/Rayla dealing with court gossip
great responsiblity: Modern AU. Ezran is bitten by a radioactive spider when heâs fourteen years old. Trio & Ezran centric
why is it a monster: Ezran finds the mirror first. Canon divergent
multi-chap
virtues and vices: Slowly but surely, Soren and Opeli find their way. Soren/Opeli, 9 chapters
i did one thing right: Supporters of Virenâs âroyalâ line were not so easily deterred, and now a twenty-year old Ezran has a choice to make: to either allow civil war, or to marry the old friend turned enemy threatening to topple his throne (the shadowy elf whispering in her ear notwithstanding). ? chapters, divergent post-s3, aged up Claudia/Ezran slowburn
sequel to "if time is money" (about 20ish chapters) scheduled for more focus post-s6 (Rayla and Tiadrin centric with a heavy serving of Runaan and Ethari)
#as you can tell i like my post canons and my canon divergences so so much#upcoming#thanks for tagging me#crack canon quartet#my fic
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The fact I honestly thought I'd pull off playing College Craze and being normal about it, and then less than a week later I've already played it multiple times, made a duel MC au, a Pinterest board, and recreated some of the PopMe pages, is genuinely not lost on me.
#college craze#katie talks ifs and vns#i made psds for new contacts and calls too but didn't really have a use for them in this#also i just bs'd vidtok if it pops up I'll redo those but >.> i think you can tell who my favorite RO is so far okay (it's Pierce)#and then jay shaun ruby and trish also have me by the throat like if Trish has 0 fans I'm dead okay#I've known those characters literally like 4 days and I'd go to bat for all five of them already ok - my beloveds#anyway madeline mostly follows canon (the divergence is Ches exists and Ches is canonly the one fake!dating Shaun for Mad's tuition)#otherwise what the vn throws at Madeline she gets ok and then Ches breaks canon... so much it'd be probably too long for the tags#but this is what i get for being like 'this oc I've been writing for a decade+ would be down so bad for Pierce and Shaun lemme do a#playthrough with her and see what happens' - this happens apparently đ listen the vn helped me get through the entire time my mom was#in the hospital (she's home now) so tbh it was a really appreciated distraction <3#extremely long post#long post#edits:mine#college craze: ches#college craze: madeline#college craze: madeline x jay#college craze: ches x pierce#i had fun with these though like Madeline messaging Ches to ensure she isnât going to come in and find Jay in the dorm#and Ches being like âyeah my vidtok is 100% Pierceâs faultâ yikes I need to sleep Iâm excitedly tired rambling#sorry if this post is annoying (and for the lines under the categories breaking future me will fix that in further edits if I post more#those may be relegated to the shit post blog though weâll see posting oc stuff makes me so anxious ngl)#im just hitting post Iâve been staring at this stressing it like two hours now jfc
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Black Arum â Siegrain
Content warning: main character death, cannibalism, gore, toxic/unreliable narrator, highly canon divergent character portrayal. Read at your own risk. You will probably take psychic damage from this.
âłâA lure was stuck in the soot between his lungs. Many times he'd felt the tug â enough that the wire fray had worn a rut where his ribs met â and many times he'd found her on the other end, reeling for remnants of him that no longer existed. She would aim to break him open, sift around in the cinders for those specks of him she wanted to confiscate, keep for herself, so that she could finally be rid of him. Once those flecks were washed and panned, the remains would reek like plough mud closure. For that reason he would come to her whole, every whit of ash accounted for.
A cherry little game they'd play. Her with flint and steel, eager to reignite that paltry spark of "good" that flickered freely for a lapse before he remembered himself. Him with tinder and kindling, letting it light only to call on the rain again. Her with just enough hope. Him with just enough time.
That resolve was so very compelling. More than her beauty, her candor, and even that glow he so loved to bask in â that luster he wanted to hold between his teeth and bury under his nails â more than that, her tenacity was a toothsome temptation, and he wasn't keen to deny himself anything.
So when he felt the pull, he caved to the beck and spooled the lisle. That day, the line seemed lighter, thinner, than it ever had. It should've been strong. Tensile. Instead it felt gossamer fine and just as frail, poised to tear at an ill touch, and he wasnât exactly renowned for his gentle hands. Still, he gathered it with both palms and wrapped it proudly around himself like a ceremonial sash, grin scrawled across his face something devilish.
âłâHe found her lying in the shade beneath a long-lived magnolia, still and silent as she never was, with the color of her namesake spread around her head in halo streaks. Battle-torn, as she so often was, and yet uncannily... passive.
Anything he'd planned to say went out the airlock. Instead, he stood there with an anchor in his stomach, reaping the benefit of doubt.
Not a frown nor a sigh when he darkened her sanctum, only heavenward eyes tearless and unblinking and a resigned breath just short of peaceful. That worn tether waned phantom thin, light as helium, and the tension in his chest went slack.
There was no definite snap. No dramatic severing or ear-popping moment of clarity. Only the vague sense of loss so fresh a wound that denial was a numbing salve.
âGet up,â his voice a command, sandgrit against whetstone, thickened by an unnamed antigen.
The silence felt like mockery. A placid scene void of chittering fauna, clouds' drum, or even the most timid breeze. It wanted him to hear the absence of her breath and the stillness of her chest. It wanted him to hear the hollow. The empty. The nothing. Wanted it to resonate; to find the furthest reaches of his mind and clean them out until all that was left was this icy, clarifying silence.
He knew the end when he saw it. This was something much worse. It was robbery.
Her life wasnât for the world to take. It was for him to hold in his hands.Â
Something wet and pathetic slicked his tongue â some whiny, pleading thing â and it was stubborn as oil. The authority slid to the back of his throat and left him choking, âYou are the indomitable Titania. Youâve laced fingers with Death time and again only to rise and slay and conquer, so get up.â
Her warmth was set to a slow drip, spilling from her in tired beads and seeping soundlessly into her chosen ground. Little whispers of her lost to greedy loam, sullied, never to be returned.
A waste of precious love. The sod wonât drink of her as he will. It will take of her and give back what? New âlifeâ so fragile and fleeting? A feeble weed will take root, bloom its days few, and curl itself inside out? Pathetic. An insult to her legacy. An insult to the diamond-split sharp of her bladesoul.
His heart boiled over â popping, sticking, simmering sicksweet saccharine. It colored him cloying, flooded his mouth, and forced him to kneel at her altar.
"Please," he keened, hollow and morose, and his own pleading sickened him, âSay something.â
The sun trickled through the leaves like ichor, lighting up her black-blown eyes and the thin ring of honey surrounding them. Dim, distant, and dead as the moon.
His hand carved a path to her face, fingers featherlight against her fading flush. He brushed her bangs from her eyes and forced an unbroken breath through his quavering mouth. He traced each scar too faint to see and the parts of her skin their star kissed. Memorized the map of her face â each curve and crease, each fine hair, and every eyelash. He would carve out a space in his mind in her shape and fill it with the thousand sweet nothings he kept in his pockets.
He gathered her hand and threaded it with his own. When he opened his mouth, a rickety twine escaped from the deepest point of his chest, so he forced his jaws shut to keep the grief corked. He uncurled her fingers and pressed his cheek into her palm, trapping her there against his own scarred skin. His eyes fell shut as he breathed in this borrowed touch â this moment fated, stolen from him by this world's insatiable avarice.
He kissed her palm directly in the center; held it against his mouth and felt his own ruined breath echo back to him from the deepest grooves of her skin. Again, he begged, âPlease, Erza.â
Of the armors innumerable now haunting this hallowed ground, this one least befit her.Â
He revered Death. If there was a god, surely it was Death, he thought, for Death asks for nothing but life. The dead donât know that theyâre dead. They know a split second of euphoria and then a sharp, definite end. Isnât that the work of a gracious god? One last stroke of color whether in peace or peril, and then eternal rest. Back to the dust you sprouted from.
But now he couldnât see any of that beauty he often waxed poetic about. All he could see was change yet to come. All he could see was her, and he wanted her back.
He wanted her back, yet he knew better than anyone that there was no such thing as resurrection. While Death might be gracious, it was not generous, and it was not to be reasoned with.
The thought of her buried deep, bathed by the dark and abandoned to rot â it washed his mouth acid sour. It ate straight through his tongue and lingered in the roots of his teeth, burning, raging redhot in his jawsâ marrow. A grave didn't suit her anymore than a pyre.
Soon she would be cold. Stiff. A feast for flies and their insatiable young. In the days to come, she would bubble and bloat and sallow. Her skin would loosen and slough off. The sun would bleach her bones. The meat of her would melt into oil and fat and bogspit. She would mix in with the soil, the groundwater, and this thankless magnolia would thrive.
It was tall, thick, with branches spread in all directions. The lowest of its limbs showed off the varied deep greens of its large waxy leaves, their undersides a chalky brown. A few white flowers bloomed, palm-shaped petals open in praise like they'd come to witness and worship. There was no question why she'd chosen to crawl here. It must've reminded her of home.
Despite its beauty, it was hardly worthy of her. Nothing in this ravenous world was. Her grave should be carved within his chest. There, he could keep her warm. He could host her in his veins. One day, they would wade the waters of woe together. Until then she could live under his skin.
He wouldnât allow her to spoil. Wouldnât place her gently into timeâs whittlesome hands only to lose her peel by peel by rotting peel.
This world has taken much from you. Do not allow it to take her too.
A carnal ache etched itself into bone, a depth of passion he hadn't felt since he wrought for a false Heaven.
She is a fruit, ripe as a plum and twice the taste. Peel her open. There is a seed at her core. Plant it in your soot-field chest and watch her bloom anew.
What are these hands for if not this?
Flesh like sheets of silk. Muscle like rope. Blood like honey. Bone like an ivory trove. The splitting, the squelching, the straining, ripping, snapping; it burrowed marrow-deep and lingered there. Her chest peeled apart like jagged teeth, jaws croaking their rusted tune, and inside that redslick maw was the center of the universe.
The heart upon its throne, still as she, shielded by her precious lungs. It slid into his palm like it was always meant to be there. Raw, rich, and so very scarlet. Its sinews strained against his pull â those hollow vines that fed even the furthest parts of her â so he wrenched them free and draped himself in them like matchless finery.
Eat. Eat âtil youâre sick. Thereâs a hole the size of her in the pit of your stomach. Eat until you fill it.Â
What are these teeth for if not this?
Tough as leather; smooth as rubber. His teeth slid right off the rind and clicked together with nothing but metallic sheen between them. He gnashed at that ink-dripping muscle until he found a spot weak enough to tear apart. It tasted of rare meat and iron; a heady gore thick enough to drown in. He swallowed, gasped, and that first new breath felt like a blade.
The child inside him saw her split-open ribs as his cradle. He wanted to crawl inside, curl up, and die. He wanted to paint himself her color.
He lost his vision to the hot, angry wash. His own sobs were a distant sound, muffled by meat and blood and his own desperate fingers. He was numb in the mouth and in the shake of his hands, but he forced himself to eat, eat despite the choking, the gagging, the wet, weeping remorse.
Donât you dare throw her up. Be grateful. Swallow and say thank you and finish what youâve started.
He bit into his own palm, indistinguishable from her core, and he cried out in sour relief. His hands spread raw grief over his face, through his hair, and down his neck.
Youâre no better than this starving world.
He curled into himself, hands clutching his own aching chest, and despite the cloudless sky, he called upon the rain.
#v: â â siegrain â â canon divergent â#ⶠâ â drabbles â#I was in a silly goofy mood#reader beware#this one was an exorcism.#needed to purge this depravity.#hey guys what if I bare my soul and it's a festering wound.#did I provide context? no. am I sorry? also no.#this only works in darkverse.#this is very obviously not inline with canon Jellal's personality but with a mutated version of him I created to balance ->#the healing arc I'm putting him through in mainverse.#not love but a secret other thing (obsession. possession.)(...take my money... I don't need that shit...)#& now she haunts the narrative. in my mind. and his too.#In my defense I've never claimed not to be a degenerate#yeah actually I am kind of embarrassed about this thank you for asking#never thought Iâd have to say this but I do not endorse or condone cannibalism.#hey Sieg have you ever thought about chilling. calming down perhaps. I say as if I did not put him in this situation.#I fear this is one of those things Iâm going to look back on in a few months & say: that should've stayed in the drafts.#me personally I love posting cringe. it's what I deserve.#if god exists I will have to answer for this. catch me in the river Acheron sipping on straight up anguish.#can you tell I have been confronted by the fleeting nature of mortality more often than usual lately. be honest.#actually I decided to not to go too into depth with the gore this time. I feel like keeping it vague lends more to the fugue state#also because it was giving me REALLY weird dreams. so like. yeah. I could've made this worse. but should I have?#tags bout damn long as the drabble. sorry gang.#cannibalism tw#gore tw#main character death tw#body horror tw#dayneâs depravity#daynedepravity
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Aahh. Accidentally saw fanart and both of us got triggered out. Rip. Mass rb of fanart.
Headspace convo about us adjusting to our surroundings. Love u dumbass /aff
#dib#zims stink#actually plural#invader zim#zim fictive#osdd#system posting#headspace#idk. it was a nice convo. Dib's in his feels about fitting in or not coming across as his source#esp pilot self. thats nOt him. show him isn't canon entirely either and florpus is prob closest to him tbh#but still hes so source divergent we've asked if he wants to reidentify and sorta be a covert fictive and#he said no. he finds honor in still claiming him and being HIS version of him with how mUch we have always identified with him#like he IS dib he cant change that nor would he on purpose even if he kinda wanted to#hes Dib. hes a good boy and he cant even prove it to himself. hes scared of hurting others by simply existing. bc of things.#im doing my best to rectify how i acted around him for a while bc of said things#im here. i wanna help and make it better and solve stuff but gods its hard when you had the same problem for so long and are just now -#healing fr. i feel so bad for everything. and we're all making ammends but it WILL be slow work i can tell#ive never seen him cry like that :(
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you're my shotgun lover and i want it all | tyler owens (twisters)
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summary:Â Every once in a while, the two of you will get a little too drunk, stay until last call, sneak back to your motel room, and fuck. Nobody knows â at least you donât think they do â and you never talk about it when youâre sober. Tyler will generally stay until you fall asleep, but heâs always gone when you get up the next day. Only once has he woken up in bed with you the next morning, and youâve never made that mistake again. There isnât a name for what you feel for him, you donât think, and you canât tell what he thinks of the arrangement. Clearly he likes it, or he wouldnât be making eyes at you from across three peopleâs laps as you pull these peanuts from their shells. author's note:Â i...wrote this...in one.......single......afternoon. my fingers hurt anyway he's so hot i have had a crush on glen powell since 2018 (set it up supremacy) but this movie reawakened something in me. i should probably watch top gun now
pairing:Â tyler owens x f!reader word count: 9,123 (...oopsie) warnings/tags:Â pWp (with, y'all!), alternate universe: canon divergence, friends to lovers, friends with benefits
also cross-posted to ao3 okay love you bye xoxo your comments and reblogs are appreciated but not required i will love you all the same i hope u like !!!! <3
all characters are 18+ these are 18+ activities minors pls do not interact my eye is twitching as i write thisÂ
It has been one hell of a week.
The tornadic activity has been off the charts â more storms built up under ideal conditions for weather hell-bent on destruction in a multiple-day stretch than you can remember ever tracking before. Your team had obviously been up for the chase, but now that the storms have passed, and the sun shines on the cleanup efforts, you canât help but wish youâd chosen a different life path. You love what you do, but God, were you tired. Blisters have formed on the palms of your hands despite the gloves youâd donned. You could practically feel the knots forming in your neck. You shovel one more load of leaf litter before heaving the blade into the ground and leaning against it. Across from you, a backhoe is demolishing and excavating the remains of a house.
You close your eyes and try to just let the sun warm your face, thinking about how fast it can all just be gone. Mother Natureâs a beautiful force, but she can be cruel.
âHey, donât be slowinâ down on me,â Tyler jokes, clapping a hand between your shoulder blades. You hadnât heard him approach, and his voice has startled you, pulling you from your thoughts. âWeâre âbout halfway done with our part, I think.â
âNo,â you reply, swiping the back of your arm across your forehead, trying in vain to clear your bangs from your eyes, but they wonât budge. Tyler reaches up and, almost as if he isnât even thinking about it, takes the unruly pieces of hair between his thumb and forefinger and tucks it behind your ear, underneath the temple of your sunglasses, to make sure it stays this time. The action is so intimate it sends a flush crawling up your neck. You chance a look around to make sure no one else has seen. âNot slowinâ down, I promise. Just thinking about how lucky we are to be alive. How sad it is that all these people just lost everything.â
Youâve known Tyler since the two of you were in college together, fast friends whoâd stuck together through a lot that could've put a strain on any other relationship, although you hadnât studied meteorology â youâd been in school to be a librarian.Â
One night, heâd asked you to stay up and help him with a lab heâd missed for one of his classes, and he loves to say he knew it then â that you were hooked â but you were too far along in your degree to do anything about it now. Switching from an arts degree to one in STEM? Youâd have had to start over from scratch.Â
Tyler had formed his team while you were in grad school and he was working as a cowboy for the rodeo back home, and youâd dropped out without a second thought when he asked you to be a founding member, to travel the country with him every tornado season. Said he wouldnât â couldnât â think about doing it without you. Youâve been riding with him ever since.
The two of you share everything, always have, and sometimes you wonder if it might be too much for the professional relationship youâre supposed to have.
âThatâs what weâre here for,â Tyler grins, the hand still glued to your back rubbing gently, sending goosebumps across your skin under your shirt. âTo help âem feel like their luck is turninâ.â
Always the optimist, Tyler Owens. He clears his throat, the hand on your back pulling away, and steps slightly closer to you.
âOne of the folks over there gave these to me,â he says, gesturing to a group of people gathering in front of a house that looks like something had tried to suck it into the ground from dead center. âI saved their cat from their screened-in porch, poor thing had been yowling all night apparently. Know theseâre your favorite, so, here you go. I think you earned it.â
You take the tin from him and open it, your mouth instantly watering at the sight of the small, round butter cookies inside. âGod,â you groan, picking one up and taking a bite, savoring it over your tongue. You can feel Tyler watching you carefully. âThank you. You get me.â
âDo we get cookies, Tyler?â
Lilyâs voice sounds from your left, and you glance over at her. The shit-eating look on her face tells you she did see Tyler fix your hair for you. Your stomach somersaults.
âIf youâre good,â Tyler says, smirking, âafter the sun sets, we can head back to the motel, find some shitty bar, and drinksâll be on me, okay? Howâs that sound?â
Lily whoops, turning to Dani, whoâd since appeared beside her, and the two snicker and fist bump.Â
âYou need any help over here?â
You look back at Tyler, cupping one hand above your eyes to shield them from the sunlight. Despite your glasses, it shines bright from directly behind him, and you can hardly stand to look at him.Â
âYeah, Iâm good,â you murmur in reply, bending down to toss some siding that had been blown off one of the houses on this street into the wheelbarrow youâve been using. âYou should go see what Booneâs up to â I donât think anyone has seen him in a minute.â
No doubt Boone was hiding somewhere with one of the breakfast burritos Lily and Dani have been rolling since early that morning, seeing how long he can get away with not doing his part. Heâs a good guy, but the manual labor side of the job isnât really his thing.
âEh, heâs better off wherever he is,â Tyler laughs, and a small smile takes over your face, too. âHey, you sure youâre okay? You donât need a break? You can take a minute to yourself, no oneâll judge. I know how this can all get to you a little more than it gets to everyone else.â
You know him well enough to know heâs not calling you weak-stomached, that heâs genuinely concerned for how you feel, but heâs right. It does all get to you. Settling in to help survivors of these natural disasters is just something that comes with the chasing â there isnât one without the other for you and the rest of the crew. You nod, glancing back up at him.Â
âIâm okay, Tyler. Go off and be the face of the operation â you donât have to worry about me.â
Tylerâs eyes narrow, his gaze shifting between your eyes, trying to find evidence youâre withholding the truth from him, but he seems to find nothing. With a minute tip of his head, he turns to resume working through a long-term plan for rebuilding the town with the mayor and some other members of the local government.Â
This is something else you know he loves to do â shmooze with higher-ups, show off his people skills. Not only are they higher-ups, theyâre small-town folk. His kind of people. He knows how to get through to them, how to get them to trust him. You love that about Tyler. Heâs never condescending â he always has a genuine desire to help. Heâs been through this hundreds of times, and these people may only have been through it this one time. You look around at them, at the people of all ages picking up the pieces that remain of their community, then cross your fingers and send a thought out to anyone listening:
Please let it be the only time.
After a few more hours of genuinely back-breaking work, you hear Tylerâs sharp whistle and know itâs time, meandering over to his truck where itâs been parked for almost eighteen hours. Using your teeth, you pull your gloves from your hands and hiss. Theyâve been rubbed raw, the skin blistering where each finger meets the palm. You try to ignore the throbbing sensation, leaning against the passenger side door and closing your eyes. The rest of the crew sidle up to you, taking long drags from water bottles and cigarettes and trying to make peace with how youâre leaving this place tonight.
âDoes anyone else want to break off to shower first?â
It seems Daniâs the only one, and they shrug, putting their hand out, palm up, to Dexter, who hands them the keys to the RV.
âMeet yâall there,â they say, stifling a yawn, and you know itâll be a bit before you see them. The rest of you will have to pile into Tylerâs truck, and before you can object, the other three crawl into the back seat and leave you on the front bench with Tyler. You let yourself in and close the door behind you, buckling and watching as Tyler shakes someoneâs hand and hustles to meet the rest of you. His Texans cap hits the bench before he does, between the two of you, and he turns his keys in the ignition, buckling his own seatbelt.
âWhere we headinâ?â
âThereâs a place with a mechanical bull nearby. I vote there.â
âHow nearby is ânearby,â Boone?â
âUh,â he pulls his phone from his pocket, does a quick Google to double-check. âForty-five minutes?â
Dexter leans over and grips Booneâs phone, reading the screen. âIn the opposite direction of the motel, Boone.â
Everyone groans, objecting, and you press your hand against your temple to alleviate the pressure there. The noise, God, the noise.
âCould we go somewhere closer to the motel, maybe?â
âItâs got a mechanical bull,â Boone stresses, and everyone rolls their eyes.
âBoone, you know damn well weâre not making it back to the motel if we go that far away.â
He groans, and you pull your own phone out, checking Maps to see whatâs around the motel.
âThis oneâs three minutes from where weâre stayinâ,â you say, showing Tyler your screen, and he nods, shifting into reverse, backing out, and starting down the one lane of the street thatâs been cleared of debris.Â
âHey Boone,â you toss over your shoulder as Tyler shifts into second gear. âBy the way. Long time no see.â
Lily snorts, smacking you on the shoulder to let you know she thought that was a good one. Boone shakes his head.Â
âHey, just because you didnât see me all day doesnât mean I wasnât out there, too. How do I know you were workinâ, werenât sitting on your ass in the shade somewhere, hm?â
You hold your raw, red palms out for him to inspect and that shuts Boone up quick. Tyler whistles as he gets an eyeful of your skin.
âGod damn, girl,â Lily murmurs. âThat looks like it hurts. I think I might have Aquaphor in my bag back at the motel if you want some.â
âIâll be alright,â you reply, knocking your elbow against her knee behind you in thanks. âAppreciate you.â
The rest of the drive is taken mostly in silence, everyone in the backseat trying to rest their eyes, but you stay up, your eyes on the road, so Tyler isnât the only one making the thirty-ish minute drive back to where youâre staying, where you checked in only after itâd been decided which towns had been hit the worst, so you could reach all of them easily by truck.
âWhatâs goinâ on in your head? Hm?â
You turn to look at Tyler and he glances at you from out of the corner of his eye, then at your lap, at the fingernails youâve picked down to the quick. âReal quiet over there.â
âNothing,â you reply, your voice barely above a whisper.
âDonât let Boone get to you,â Tyler says, tapping his right fist on your thigh once, twice, then letting it rest there. You brush your knuckles against his and he opens the fist immediately, taking your hand in his but not squeezing, careful not to put pressure on the blisters on your palms.
âItâs not that,â you start, then realize your mistake, your admission. âI really â I think Iâm just tired. Itâs been a long week.â
Youâre acutely aware of your hand in Tylerâs. Itâs not like youâve ever been shy around him â your cheeks flush at the thought â but this isâŠdifferent. Sweet. More.
âYeah, that it has,â he sighs, adjusting his left hand on the steering wheel so he can drive a little more comfortably, but his right hand stays in yours.Â
You settle back into silence, Tyler seemingly having dropped the subject, and your eyes return to the road, but you feel him looking over at you, checking on you, every once in a while. You try your hardest not to meet his gaze.Â
Soon enough, Tyler is putting the truck in park, then shutting the thing off. The noise â or lack thereof, you guess â wakes Dexter in the back, then Lily, who snorts when she sees your hand in Tylerâs. You pull away and unbuckle your seatbelt, watching as Tyler, with a hurt look on his face, wipes his hand on his jeans and swings himself down and out of the truck.
âCâmon, Boone,â he shouts, slapping a hand on the door that Boone has his head resting against, and the man sits up straight, wiping sleep from his eyes. âThe sun hasnât even gone down yet. Drinks on me, pal!â
The motel really is that close to the bar, so you all decide youâll leave the truck parked there and walk home at the end of the night. The unspoken verdict is that you will all be getting shitfaced tonight.
The lingering smell of cigarettes in the air seems to rejuvenate everyone and Lily pumps a fist when she spots the old-fashioned jukebox across the room, then claps a hand over her mouth when she realizes thereâs a TouchTunes sitting right next to it.
âOh, I am so forcing you fuckers to listen to Chappell Roan all night,â she says gleefully, and you laugh along with her, looping your arm in hers and letting her pull you across the room while the boys settle in at the bar.
âSo what was that all about?â
âWhat was what all about?â You play dumb, shrugging when Lily gives you a hard look and unhooks her arm from yours.
âGirl, seriously,â Lily scoffs, bumping your hip with hers and slipping a twenty dollar bill into the TouchTunes. Evidently she wasnât joking when she meant youâd be listening to Chappell Roan all night. âI saw that thing earlier, the hair thing, donât think I didnât. And yâall holding hands in the truck. Whatâs going on there?â
You shake your head but she grabs your wrist. âIâm serious, Lil. Nothingâs going on. Weâre friends â good friends. He noticed I was having a hard time today, and wanted to make sure I was alright. Thatâs all.â
You can tell she doesnât fully believe you, and when she opens her mouth to object, you cut her off.
âIâm gonna run to the bathroom, okay?â
Lily watches you, trying to read the small line between your eyebrows, but eventually she nods and lets go of you, letting you turn away from her. You push through the door to the womenâs restroom, your nose wrinkling at the smell, but you ignore it. Standing in front of the sink, you watch yourself, hands shaking. This isnât you. Youâre better than this at shoving these feelings for Tyler down, way down â or, rather, you had been, up until this week broke you, apparently. Turning the knob for the cold water to the left, you let it run over your sore hands, hissing at the feeling. Carefully, you cup your palms and watch them fill, then splash the water onto your face, soothing the flush. There. That should help.
Thereâs a cold bottle of Coors in front of the seat next to Dexter when you arrive back to the group, âRed Wine Supernovaâ playing from the speakers. You almost snort at all the old men â regulars, no doubt â groaning out their distaste for whoever chose the music all across the room.
âThanks,â you toss over your shoulder at Tyler, sitting on the other side of Dexter and Boone. He nods and nurses his own. You frown and settle onto the stool, leaning an elbow on the bartop so you can turn and face your friends. The cold beer against the palms of your hands feels so nice.
Whatâs wrong with him? He wonât make eye contact with you, and you notice his jaw clicking as he grits his teeth. Whatâs got his panties in a twist?
As the night unfolds, you find yourself laughing more and more, loosening up, letting the stress of the last week fade into memory. Someone has produced a deck of cards from God knows where and Dani â who did join the group eventually â is showing off card tricks you didnât even know they knew. You feel a warmth spreading through your body, and you canât stop thinking about how much you love all of these people. Your friends. Your family. Empty bottles are swiftly replaced with full, cold ones without notice, and everyone is languid, relaxed, unburdened by the work that youâre all doing.
You take a pull from your drink, using the cover of the bottle to risk a glance to Tyler three seats down from you to find that heâs already watching you, and the look in his eye tells you exactly what heâs thinking. That somersault-y feeling is lower than your stomach now. Youâre only three beers deep, but the air in your head reminds you that youâve barely eaten all day, so youâre a little more affected by the alcohol than youâd usually be. Impolitely, you reach across Dexter next to you to grab a handful of peanuts from the basket to his left.
Glancing back up at Tyler, you meet his heady gaze again, and he smirks around the lip of the bottle against his mouth. He knows heâs got you right where he wants you. You swallow nervously around another sip of beer.
Every once in a while, the two of you will get a little too drunk, stay until last call, sneak back to your motel room, and fuck. Nobody knows â at least you donât think they do â and you never talk about it when youâre sober. Tyler will generally stay until you fall asleep, but heâs always gone when you get up the next day. Only once has he woken up in bed with you the next morning, and youâve never made that mistake again. There isnât a name for what you feel for him, you donât think, and you canât tell what he thinks of the arrangement. Clearly he likes it, or he wouldnât be making eyes at you from across three peopleâs laps as you pull these peanuts from their shells.
âAlright, yâall,â Lily says, slapping a hand on the bar, startling you out of your thoughts. You watch her, popping a nut into your mouth. âThink Iâm gonna head out. I suggest you all do, too, fuckers, itâs late.â
Everyone starts to protest, but one glance at the clock tells you youâve all stayed much longer than you thought â itâs a quarter past midnight, and youâve got to be up with the daylight. You balk, but if you want to talk to Tyler tonight, you know youâve got to shoulder your exhaustion and stick it out a little longer.
âI think I might stay for a bit,â you murmur, watching everyone stand and gather their things. You glance over at Tyler, who you can see clearly now that everyoneâs out of their seats, and heâs watching you, too. The look on his face reads plain, now â he wants you.
âIâll stay with her,â he says, eyes on yours. The green in them has disappeared almost completely, you notice, his pupils blown wide. âWalk her back. Yâall head back if you want.â
âI might stay, too ââ Booneâs voice cuts off, coughing as Lily elbows him in the stomach, maybe a little too hard. âWhat the fuck was that for?â
âYouâre going to bed, too, Boone,â Dani interrupts, a hand on his shoulder, guiding him towards the door. They poke him once when he starts to protest. âCâmon, now.â
Everyone shuffles out the front, Dexter calling good night, and all of the sudden, itâs just you and Tyler. You donât know why, but your palms begin to sweat at the thought of being alone with him again. He stands, palming his drink, and slides onto the seat next to you, his body angled towards yours.
Heâs never made you nervous like this. You donât know what the fuck is wrong with you.
âSo,â Tyler starts, grinning at you. âYou come here often?â
You snort, emboldened by the booze, and he chuckles in response. âIdiot.â
âGod, but I do love making you laugh.â
You blush under his scrutinous gaze, and take a quick swig of the dregs of your drink, unsure what to say to that. He mirrors you, taking a sip of his own while his eyes bore into yours. Accusatory.
âYou donât do it much anymore, you know that?â
âDo what?â
âLaugh.â
You press your fingertips to your mouth and Tylerâs eyes follow your hand. âI guess I just havenât had much to laugh about lately,â you start, sighing deeply. âTornado seasonâs been hard this year, and you know how much that â it gets to me. As much as I love what we do. You know. Remember that family a couple weeks back whose daughter was stuck under her bunk bed when it pressed on her too long, lost her leg below the knee? That got to me, Tyler. It did.â
âIt gets to me, too,â he murmurs, knocking his knee against yours. âI guess Iâm just better at hiding how bad it affects me. You can talk to me about it, though. You can talk to any of us.â
âI know I can,â you breathe, trying to keep your hands from shaking. âI know. Sometimes I donât know what to say, though, you know, what is there to say? Itâs not fair to complain about how sad it makes me to watch these people lose everything.â
âYouâre allowed to feel sad. And to feel frustrated. Itâs not fair, youâre right, but weâre doing good work, yeah? Fighting the good fight. Figuring out what makes these things tick, how to warn people when theyâre in the path, get them outta the way and safe. Maybe they lose their house, their car, but they wonât lose themselves, or each other. Thatâs what matters most. Just remember that.â
You look up at him, set your elbow on the bartop, and prop your chin on your open palm. Your hands donât hurt so bad anymore, you notice. âThanks, Tyler.â
âAnytime,â he smiles, but you shake your head.Â
âSeriously. You always know what to say.â
A look crosses his face then, too quick for you to read, and he sets his drink down, flagging the bartender over to close out the teamâs tab. You frown, wondering if youâd, ironically, said the wrong thing.
âWhatâs up?â
Tyler looks back to you, and this time, the look in his eyes is unmistakable. It burns. âTaking you home, sweetheart.â
The walk back to your motel is done in silence. Tylerâs hand swings next to yours, and you feel it searching for yours more than once, but you donât take it. You climb the stairs together, slowly, and he walks you to your door. His room is one more floor up.
You can tell he thinks you wonât invite him in, that youâve changed your mind â or maybe that you never made it up. He hadnât, after all, told you plainly that that was why heâd stayed with you at the bar. You unlock the room with your key card and step inside, opening the door only far enough for you to fit through it. You turn back to look at him, his face awash in the street lights shining into the hallway. You flip the lightswitch on next to you, illuminating the room behind you, too.
âWell,â he murmurs, making to head back down the stairs. âGood night.â
âTyler?â
His head turns back to look at you, watching as you hold out one hand and he takes it, letting you pull him closer to you. You press yourself into him, push your whole face against his chest, your hip keeping the door from closing on the two of you. You inhale deeply, the smell of him overtaking your senses. His cologne, yes, but underneath that, the smell of dirt, earth. Home.
You feel his arms wrap around your back and you turn your head to the side, press your ear to his heartbeat. Your hands come up to scratch down his back and you feel it when he shudders.
âStay?â
You hear his breath hitch in his chest, then the deep rumble of his voice as he says, âAlright, baby.â
With a short inhale, your eyes flutter, nearly closing at the term of endearment. You step back, pulling him with you, and as you close the door behind you, he pushes one hand up into your hair and pulls your head toward his.
âI, uh,â you whisper against his lips when they get close enough to yours, âI think I might shower first, if thatâs okay with you?â
âAlright,â he murmurs, unlacing his hand from the strands of your hair before toeing his boots off and carefully setting them under the chair next to the front door. âYou want company?â
You swallow. Youâve never done anything like that before. Itâs always been quick. When you do this with him, you hardly ever have time for a chat before heâs got your shirt over your head and his mouth on your skin.
âSure,â you reply. You feel him watch as you turn around and pull your shirt off, reaching back to unclasp your bra. The modesty feels redundant, but you canât help it.
âNot gettinâ shy on me now, are you? Sânot like I havenât seen you naked before,â he chuckles, and you throw a look at him over your shoulder just as heâs pulling his own shirt over his head. He left his hat at the bar, you think. Youâll have to go back in for it when you pick up the truck.
âTyler,â you scold, and he laughs at you, steps across the room to wrap an arm around your torso and press a kiss to where your neck meets your shoulder. The place he knows makes you melt. You sigh and push back against him, the feeling of his hard chest against your bare back a welcome one. This feels more like what you know, what youâre used to.
âShower,â you remind him, and he nods, his forehead pressed into that spot now, and he pushes his fingers underneath the waistband of your jeans, running them along the bit of skin there around to the front, where the fabric splits at the button. He pops it undone, then uses his thumb and forefinger to grip the zipper and slowly â so slowly â pulls that down. He canât help himself, you know that, and so you hold your breath and wait for him to push his hand into your panties. Ever a predictable man, he does just that, and you gasp at the feeling of his warm hand against you.
âAre you sure?â Tylerâs breath against your neck makes you shiver, and you press your ear to the side of his chin. He runs his fingers along the seam of you, finding first your clit, your legs twitching at the sudden rush of pleasure when he brushes his hand against it, then pushing down to find you wet and wanting. You cry out softly. âYou donât sound sure. You donât feel sure.â
You hum, your neck stretching back until your head is pressed to his chest, and he pulls his hand back up to start working small circles on your clit, your wetness on his fingers allowing for smooth movement, with just enough friction to have you panting for more.Â
âSounds more to me like you kinda want me to fuck you with my fingers.â
âTyler,â you whimper, telling him with just his name that you are getting close. He smiles against the side of your neck, pulling his hand away and shoving your jeans and underwear down just enough that his hand has room to smack your clit lightly. You squeal, right leg kicking out at the feeling, and he continues moving his hand in circles to soothe the hurt.
Your breath is coming out of you in short huffs, and before you can come, Tyler takes his hand off of you and wraps it around your stomach to join the other. You pant and whine, rubbing your thighs together to chase the feeling heâd had you practically pressed up against, now ebbing with the loss of his fingers.
âYou said you wanted to shower,â he whispers in your ear, pulling your panties back up, and you scowl, pushing away from him. He laughs and holds his hands up in defense as you pick your t-shirt up off your bed and crack it at him like a whip. âLetâs shower, baby.â
âI might kick you out right now, Owens,â you snark, but the small smile on your face gives you away, and Tyler unbuttons his own jeans, leaving them in a pile on the floor at the end of the bed. Your jeans join his, and youâre both left in your underwear.
âYou wouldnât,â he replies, pulling his briefs off slowly, biting his bottom lip as you watch him. âYou like this cock too much.â
You canât help laughing at him, but the sight of him bare in front of you does have you biting your lip. You step forward to cup his growing length in your hand. Before you can move it, Tyler puts a hand on your wrist.
âHowâs your hand?â He makes to pull it away, presumably to turn it over and appraise your blisters, but you shake your head.
âSâfine,â you whisper, tightening your grip. You tug once, twice, and press a kiss to his bare chest, then tip your head back to search out his lips. He leans down to oblige you, his lips parting against your mouth as you twist your fist. You love these moments you share with him, when youâre both bare, physically, emotionally, away from the real world, and you can pretend this is an everyday thing. When youâre not trying to tell yourself you feel nothing for him. Like this is just how it is between you.
Tyler groans when you pull your hand away from him and you click your tongue, press that same hand against his bicep.
âDoesnât feel so good, now does it?â
Before you even know whatâs happening, Tyler is picking you up, one arm underneath your back and the other around the backs of your knees. You look up at his face and laugh. âPut me down, Owens!â
He grins and carries you the few paces into the bathroom, placing you on your feet in front of the tub. Tyler leans down and pushes his thumbs underneath the waistband of your panties, waiting for you to put your hands on his shoulders and step out of them.
He lets you pull away from him to turn the hot water on, adjusting the cold side until the temperature is perfect, before pulling you against his chest once again. This time, you can feel his hard cock pressed against your backside, and you hum appraisingly. You reach behind you to fist him again, but he shakes his head â you feel his chin brush against the top of your head â and he groans out, âMm-mm.â
âWhat?â
âWeâre gonna shower, baby, câmon.â
You glance back towards him and watch as he flicks the overhead light on. âSo we donât slip and die,â he says, and you laugh, pushing the shower curtain to the side. Holding Tylerâs hand, you step over the lip of the tub and under the steady stream of warm water, inhaling deeply when it hits the sore muscles in your shoulders and back. Tyler groans at the feeling, too, when he steps in behind you.
âHere, switch with me,â he murmurs, guiding you by your waist until youâre the one underneath the water. You let it fall onto the top of your head, over your face and down the back of your hair, for a moment, eyes closed, relishing the feeling. Tyler reaches both hands up and brushes the water out of your eyes, runs his hand over the top of your head.Â
âShampoo?â
You open one eye, the other shut against the water, and nod. You gaze up at him, heart squeezing at the way heâs watching you. His smile widens and he takes the tiny bottle in his hand â it looks even more comically small now â and dumps the product into his other palm, setting the bottle down onto the edge of the tub and rubbing his hands together.
âTurn around.â
You do as he asks, inhaling sharply through your nose when you feel his hands run through the hair at the crown of your head. Your stomach aches with longing as you register how unnaturally intimate this is. His fingers feel so good against your scalp, which is slightly sunburnt, youâre now realizing. He massages the shampoo further into your hair, running his fingers down the back of your neck and across the tops of your shoulders. When heâs satisfied with his shampoo job, he steers you by your arms to face him again, then carefully helps you tilt your head back and rinses it all from your hair.
You watch him pick up the other small bottle from the shelf, warm water still running down the back of your head.Â
âIâll do my conditioner,â you murmur, taking the bottle gently from his hands. âItâs a â itâs a science.â
âI am very good at science, if you can recall.â
You laugh, shaking your head. âItâs something Iâve gotten perfectly right. Itâll take just a sec.â
So you work the conditioner through the ends of your hair, avoiding his gaze as he watches your hands first coat your hair in the product, then rinse it out. He reaches forward to run his own fingers across it, as gently as he can.
âHm,â he makes the noise in the back of his throat, pulling his hand away. âSoft.â
You can hardly look at him, the twisting feeling in your stomach shifting to something warmer, something further from apprehension, something that feels a lot like want. âYou?â
Tyler shakes his head. âIâm good. Here,â he says, rubbing his hands across the plane of your upper back. âYouâre tense. You worked hard today. Let me help.â
You werenât going to protest, but before you can, Tyler guides you forward and out of the direct spray of the shower, then presses his thumbs into your muscle. You groan, your head falling forward onto his chest at the feeling, and he chuckles at you, continuing with his hands. âFeel good?â
âSo good,â you whimper, and you feel his cock twitch against your stomach.
âYou fucking dog,â you joke, and Tyler laughs against you, pushing your hair off the back of your neck and pressing his thumbs in there, too.
âHey, what can I say? I like making my girl feel good.â
You freeze. His girl? His girl. He hasnât noticed your reaction, and he keeps pressing his fingers into your sore muscles, pulling one hand away briefly to push the showerhead down and away from the two of you. You glance up, already missing its warmth, but you find that the steam rising around you is doing a good enough job at that.
âHere, baby,â he murmurs, pressing a kiss to your forehead and guiding you to press your hands against the tiled wall to your left, running his hands down your back.
âWhat are you ââ
Before you can finish the thought, you feel Tylerâs fingers parting the seam of your cunt from â from behind, and you groan at the feeling of his middle finger slipping inside of you.
âThatâs it, sweetheart,â he groans, his knees hitting the floor behind you. You toss a glance at him over your shoulder and your own knees nearly buckle at the way heâs looking up at you â with hunger, and with reverence, and with something else entirely unrecognizable. He looks wild. He looks in love.
One of Tylerâs hands clamps down around your hips and he leans forward, pressing a kiss to the back of your thigh as his finger starts to shift in and out of you. You shiver and push your face into the cool tile, groaning softly when he finds that rough bit of flesh inside of you, the one that makes you come undone if he works it long enough.
âYeah?â Tyler sounds fucked out already, his voice breathy against your skin, and you can picture the look on his face, the concentrated expression he gets when heâs trying to make you come. You try to focus on the feeling of the showerâs spray where it hits the edge of your foot rather than how good his finger feels inside you because if you think too closely about how good it feels, youâll get lightheaded. And nobody wants that.
âYeah,â you reply weakly, and for a few minutes itâs just like that, the only sound in the bathroom the shower, your panting moans, and the noise your pussy makes as he pulls his finger in and out.
âSound so good for me, baby,â he says, pressing a kiss to the back of your thigh again, and you whine, trying to protest when he slips his finger from you. He laughs deep in his chest and lightly smacks the swell of your ass.
âDonât complain when Iâm doinâ somethinâ nice for you,â he jok, and you can feel then that heâs shifting himself around. You want to look over your shoulder, want to see for yourself what heâs doing, but freeze when you feel his palms cupping your ass, his nose pressing against the inside of your thighs.
Your mouth forms the word oh, but no sound comes out until you feel his mouth press against your cunt, tongue pushing inside of you, and then you cry out, chest heaving, when he presses a sloppy, wet kiss to your clit. You pull your face from where itâs still resting against the tile and look down at Tyler to find heâs already looking right up at you. His grip on your ass tightens when you make eye contact with him, and he spreads you open wider for him, eyes narrowing as his tongue flicks again, and again, and again.
âThatâs it, sweetheart,â he moans against you, the vibrations causing your legs to twitch. You already thought you were going to burst, the steam from the shower, the way heâd washed your hair, the fact that he was in your room at all â it all made you feel slightly insane. To add insult to injury, heâs just pushed two fingers inside of you and immediately found the spot that takes you out, and you start to shake a little.
âTyler,â you whine, pushing one hand down to grip his hair. He groans when you tighten your hold on it, fucking into you a little faster. âTyler, fuck, gonna come.â
âSo come, baby,â comes his reply, and you do, you come so hard that the toes on your right foot curl until youâre on tiptoe and Tyler has to reach up and grip your waist to steady you. You feel it crest, and peak, then subside, but he keeps working you through it, his mouth moving against you still, and a second, smaller â though still good â orgasm wracks your body right after the first.
You breathe through it, push your foot down so youâre standing flat on the surface of the tub again, and wait for Tyler to pull his fingers out of you.Â
âBaby,â Tyler groans, squeezing your hips, his fingernails biting slightly into your skin. âYou gotta let goâa me, if you want me to get up.â
His voice, fuck, his voice, you think, releasing your grip on his hair and turning to watch him rise from his knees, the tile cold against your back. You surge forward to kiss him square on the mouth and he catches you, smiles against you when you part your lips to taste yourself on his tongue.
âWas that good?â
âYeah,â you breathe, pressing one, two, three more quick kisses to his mouth, before he reaches behind you to turn off the water. âSo fucking good.â
Neither of you bother with a towel, instead opting to stumble toward the queen bed in the middle of the room and climb right underneath the covers.
âHi,â you whisper when youâre settled in, the duvet pulled up under your chin. Your eyes rove over his face, then glance over to the alarm clock behind him. 1:56 in the morning. âYou still wanna fuck?â
Tyler snorts, reaching over to poke you in the side, gripping the skin there until you start to laugh. âYou still wanna fuck?â
âYeah,â you reply, grinning, when you catch your breath. âWanna?â
Heâs quiet for a second, watching the duvet rise and fall with each breath you take, before he peels it off of you, using his elbow to push himself up until heâs leaning over you. Thereâs a rosy flush on your chest, your breasts heaving and itâs all he can do not to lean down and take one of your nipples in his mouth, the one closest to him. Instead, he runs the back of his other hand across your chest, catching against the hard peak, and watches your breath stick to the inside of your throat. You feel yourself subconsciously leaning toward him as his face comes toward you. You want him to kiss you, but instead, he angles his mouth to kiss the skin below your chin.
âYouâre so beautiful,â he breathes against your neck, pressing his open mouth to you there, and you gasp at the feeling â of his mouth against you, and of his praise. It all feels so nice. He just made you come in the shower, and now heâs going to make you come in this bed, hopefully more than once.Â
You wrap your hands around his back and pull him toward you, watch as he settles in between your thighs. You can feel his thick cock, heavy, insistent, where it presses against you, and you want to take him into your hands, but he has other plans.Â
With one hand pressed into the pillow on either side of your head, Tyler uses his knees to knock your legs out further, sitting back against his heels when heâs satisfied. He wraps his big hands around your thighs and pulls you closer, smiling down at you. âYouâre so beautiful.â
You blush when he repeats himself, suddenly feeling very bare. Heâs just as naked as you are, but you canât help but feel like heâs seen your whole hand, meanwhile you hardly have any idea what cards he might hold. In the dim light from the lamp beside your head, you notice that you can see the green of his irises again. It seems like the shower sobered the two of you up very quickly.
His gaze locked on yours, Tyler takes himself into his hand, groaning at the pressure of his grip after neglecting his own want for so long, but he suddenly curses, pausing just as heâs about to press inside of you.
âWhat?â
âI donât have a condom,â he breathes, sitting back again. He runs one hand through his hair, visibly weighing the options.
âItâs okay, Tyler,â you murmur, leaning up onto your elbows. âItâs okay. I have an IUD, and I got screened after the last time I was with someone. Iâm good. Iâm good if youâre good.â
Tyler heaves a heavy sigh, running his hands up your thighs. âYouâre sure? Iâm clean, too, cross my heart. But only if youâre sure.â
You nod. âMy head is clear. I think I shook off my drunk an orgasm or two ago.â
A grin crosses his face, and you roll your eyes at him before he even opens his mouth. Two? he mouths, then whistles lowly. You smack his stomach, and he grabs your wrist in his hand, lightning quick, pressing a kiss to the pulse point there. Your jaw falls slack, and you go all soft and pliant, letting him pin your hands above your head. His body comes down over yours, and his mouth presses to your cheek, then your forehead, and when your eyes flutter shut, the ghost of a kiss crosses them, too.
âIâm gonna fuck you so good,â he murmurs, and normally if a man were to say that to you, you would immediately regret letting him into your bed. But for some reason, when Tyler says it, it sends that familiar warmth spiraling down into your gut. You know he means it.
Slowly â too slowly â he guides himself back to your entrance, shifting his hips so theyâre resting comfortably against yours, and he presses himself inside of you. You hiss; the girth of him, although a welcome stretch, is also a bit of an uncomfortable one. He leans down to kiss you, working you through it with a thumb pressing circles into your clit, sliding himself in bit by bit until heâs fully seated.Â
A groan pushes out of him when you clench around him, testing the waters.
âCareful,â he murmurs, easing his hips back. âIâd like it if this lasted longer than ten seconds, please.â
You laugh against the side of his head, pull your hands down from where heâd left them above you and wrap yourself around his shoulders, pulling him flush against you. Tyler grips your thighs and starts to work himself in and out of you, carefully, gently, but you squeeze his waist with your knees. Encouraging him. Asking him to pick it up. You can handle it.
His hips start to pull back and snap against yours quicker and quicker, Tyler panting in your ear, lifting up onto his palms and pushing himself off of you. He sits up onto his knees and tilts your hips up for a different angle, one that sets sparks dancing in front of your eyes. You groan, head tossed back, and dig your nails into his thighs as his pace picks up.
âFuck, yeah, that it, baby? I can feel you â fuck, feel you squeezinâ me.â
You hardly have a voice with the rate heâs slipping in and out of you, barely enough to squeak out, âFuck,â before your cunt has him in a vice grip, working through another orgasm.
âOhhh, thatâs it, huh, thatâs it.â His mouth is going a mile a minute, neither of you really paying much attention to anything heâs actually saying. Youâre both focused on his own mounting orgasm â you donât feel like your body is capable of much more than that â and you weakly clamp down around him once more. His eyes squeeze shut, his hips stutter, and he grits out, âFuck, fuck, fuck, fuck fuck,â before he slots against you and you feel him filling you. You run a hand down his back, soothing him as he comes, biting your lip at the feeling, foreign but enjoyable.
Tyler groans and glances down to where his cock is softening inside of you. He eases his hips back, cupping your face and pressing a kiss to your forehead as he does. âShit, Iâm sorry, are you okay?â
You nod meagerly, pressing the back of your hand against your warm cheek. He watches you and, assured that youâre not going to pass out on him or anything, stands and hobbles into the bathroom. The sink turns on out of sight, and you close your eyes, listening to the water run. Tyler returns with a warm, wet towel and wipes the inside of your thighs, swiping gently across your cunt, before folding the towel and letting it fall to the floor at your bedside.
You feel loose, calm. Safe. You hardly notice him turn the light off, but you do feel the bed dip beside you as he rejoins you under the covers and pulls you into his arms. You melt against his sturdy chest, his heartbeat under your face a comfort, the rhythmic tick tick tick of it lulling you to sleep. But thereâs still one thing you have to know before you can relax completely.
His breathing has started to even out, but he hasnât snored yet, so you know heâll still hear you when you ask, âAre you gonna leave?â
He grunts an acknowledgement of your question, nuzzling down into the top of your head.
âDo you want me to stay?â
You know your answer, but you still bite your lip, considering the question. You hadnât thought before that maybe he left after every night you spent together because he thought you didnât want to wake up with him. âYes.â
âOkay,â he murmurs against your hair, pressing a kiss to your temple. âThen Iâll stay.â
If heâs at all worried about what will happen when you wake up tomorrow, he doesnât show it, but anxiety courses through you at the thought of anyone finding out. Does he want the others to know? Because thatâs what it feels like.
âStop thinking about it,â he whispers, like he can hear your thoughts racing. âItâll be fine. Just go to sleep.â
Easy for him to say. Heâs out like a light. And youâre left alone with your thoughts until you fall into fitful, dissatisfying sleep sometime around when the world outside starts to turn blue.
A pounding on your door wakes you from deep sleep â the deepest youâd gotten all night, at least â and you try to sit up but find thereâs a heavy weight on your chest blocking you. You rub the sleep from your eyes, glancing down at the sleeping body next to you. It takes a second for it to register: Tylerâs here.Â
Tylerâs here. Sidled up against you, arm thrown over your stomach like this is where he belongs. He didnât leave. He stayed, like he said he would. His face looks so peaceful â so beautiful â you almost hate to wake him.
âCome on, sleepyhead! Time to get a move on!â
Almost. You scramble to push Tyler off of you, ignoring his noises of protest, jumping out from under the covers and grabbing various articles of clothing off the floor to pull over your naked form. You plop back down on the bed, this time on his side, right next to where heâs starting to wake.
âDude, get up, theyâre gonna know youâre not in your room. Theyâre gonna know youâre in here.â
âSo what,â he grumbles, rolling over as you push him and settling deeper into the bed. âLet âem.â
You sit up straight, one hand on his arm. âYou mean that?â
He hums and turns his neck to glance at you over his shoulder. âYeah, âcourse I do. Youâre my girl.â
Your face flushes a deep pink and Tyler grins, reaching over to wrap an arm around you and drag you back down into the bed, pinning you under him and peppering an assault of open-mouthed kisses all over your face. You grin, thinking that you could get used to this â just not right now.
âSeriously, Tyler,â you laugh, pushing a hand against the side of his face. He squeezes your hip. âWe have to get up. We gotta get back out there.â
Tyler sighs, loosening his grip on your body and kneeling over you. âYeah, youâre right. Alright, alright.â
He stands and takes the top sheet with him, wrapped around his waist, and heads to the bathroom. To brush his teeth, you hope. God.
âYou know,â he says, head popping back out into the room, mouth full of toothpaste. âYesterday. I wanted them to see us holding hands.â
You watch as he smiles at you and disappears back into the bathroom, then fall back onto the bed, hands pressed over your eyes.Â
Fifteen minutes later, the two of you are dressed, teeth brushed, hair taken care of, day packs slung over your shoulder, and youâre pulling the door closed behind you when you hear a whistle that pulls your attention to the parking lot.
âDamn, Owens!â
The voice makes you jump, and you groan. You thought you were going to get away with the sneaking around, but the rest of your team is watching from next to the RV as the two of you descend the stairs together.
Lily and Dani turn to Boone with smug looks on both their faces, and he rolls his eyes and pulls his wallet from his back pocket. They hold their hands out for him to slap two twenty dollar bills down into.
âWhatâs that?â You ask when you get close enough to them.
âWe had a bet that you and Owens would come out of that room together. Well, that one or his. Didnât matter which.â
âA bet I just lost,â Boone groans, pressing the heels of his palms into his eyes. âI thought for sureâŠâ
The rest of the crew snickers, including Tyler, who wonât look at you. You poke a finger into his chest.
âDid you know about this?â
âNo, I swear,â he says, hands up, and you donât know why, but you believe him. âThat doesnât mean I didnât drunkenly confess to Lily weeks ago that sometimes we, you knowâŠâ
You scoff, almost mad, but then Boone shouts and the scoff turns into a snicker because, hey, you love him, but you canât help but relish in his defeat.
âSo they knew?! Thatâs cheating!â
He storms off while the rest of you laugh, Dani clutching their side and following him around the side of the building to try to make amends, trailing off, âIf it makes you feel any betterâŠâ
Lily looks over at you, then at Tyler, a grin swallowing her face. âSo, are you guys, like, together now? Or something?â
You look up at Tyler, whoâs smiling softly at you, clearly deferring to you to answer that question. You feel a surge of affection for him swell in your chest. Clearing your throat, you turn to Lily.
âOr something.â
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Imagine Aegon is the father of your children.
Warnings: fluff all the way; canon divergence; long post.
( @dracaryxzs for you! One hopes you might like seeing Aegon happy here)
***
âą How it all beganâŠ
You are his twin, his other half⊠What one feels the other feels it too. Naturally, as a result, bond came. Courtiers like to say how âwherever the Lord Aegon goes, Lady Y/N is after him like a loyal puppet.â
What they donât understand is that you and him are two sides of the same coin, blood of dragon, despite the prince calling you his sun, to which he himself gravitates.
âI cannot not believe you are never bored whenever we are togetherâ, says Aegon.
You both are blossoming into youth. You are the only one he trusts, the one he is naturally charmed to. But something about his age doesnât let him admit there are feelings too.
âI am unlike any otherâ, you tell him in turn, a smile on your rosy lips. âWe came together to this world, Aegon.â
He gives you a shy smile, lowering his gazeâyou tamed him, like, it is said, your grandmother had tamed her husband, your grandsire, when they were both the same age.
Lively and so full of life, not even Aegon can deny you anything.
âLet us ride, shall we?â
And not waiting for a response, he takes you by the hand and in between giggles and chuckles the two of you go after your respective dragons.
Sunfyre has been enamored by Dreamfyre and as a result the female dragon has put some eggs. As soon as you are told this, you tell the object of your affections that:
âSee, Egg? Evident signs that we are bonded right hereâ, and you show him the different coloured eggs.
Aegon smiles at you. How can you make him forget the scars of his troubled soul? How can you even sweep away grey clouds, making it seem that it is possible to find happiness?
When looking at your serenity, at how beaming you are before the eggs you cling yourself to, the prince sees himself in you.
You are the light of my world, Y/N.
As if you feel the tenderness his thought emanates, you turn your head at him and give him an egg.
âWe are grandparents now, Iâm afraid.â
That makes him cackle. A sound so rejoicing, full of life. Few could tell to have ever heard Lord Aegon laugh merrily.
âToo young for that. Come, Y/N!â And then turning to Sunfyre, Aegon is the image of a boy who finds love and happiness where at home such were taken from him.
You smile warmly when seeing the golden dragon almost smiling itself the moment he welcomes his rider.
A bond as strong as the one I have with my beloved.
Then you are distracted by nearly losing balance when Dreamfyre comes at you, resting her head against your face.
âCalm down, girl. I am not as heavy as you areâ, you giggle, gently laying your head over the scales of your dragon, whom you claimed when you were ten years old. âReady to fly high? To some adventures, eh?â
A sound comes from your dragonâs throat. Itâs almost as if she speaks excitedly: âAye, let us go! Iâm ready for it!â, which only increases your good mood.
Now here you two are, flying synchronized, one being the extension of the other. Skies may have some clouds, but sun shines high with some warm breeze that announces summer.
âI suggest we could fly atop Dragonstoneâ, you tell Aegon over your shoulder. âThereâs a spot no one goes there.â
âRhaenyra is settled there with her childrenâ, says Aegon with an unread expression.
You shrug your shoulders.
âSo what? Iâve been there frequently and not once she scoffed me off. I doubt she ever knew I flew to this spot.â
And you flash him a mischievous smirk.
Aegon laughs in turn, realizing heâs unable to deny you anything. Flying as high as he could, thereâs little need to tell Sunfyre where to go. As if the creature captured the riderâs thoughts, he flies exactly to where he wants⊠as does Dreamfyre.
It is almost as if both dragons suspect something may come up⊠even if you and Aegon donât know that yet.
*
There is a lake in the midst of vast forests, where silence reigns and there is no sign of any living being. A few hills here and there separate the spot of the rest of Dragonstone.
âHow did you come here?â, Aegon inquires you, intrigued by this unusual place. Hardly a man acostumed to wild life, his eyes scan these new surroundings with a mix of suspect and curiosity.
You are untying your hair and loosening your gownâyou often ride Dreamfyre in your feast gowns, much to the Queenâs dismayâ when you say:
âI donât think I fit very well at court. I tend to flee whenever I can.â
Aegon is somewhat distracted by your curves, and how poorly hidden your curves are beneath the fabric you dress. He swallows hard, then says:
âWe are betrothed. One day youâll be queen.â
You flash him another of your typical mischievous smirks.
âWhen have I never performed my duties, brother?â
Aegon shakes his head, but heâs chuckling when he comes next to you.
âWell?â, you tilt your head and the prince seems to notice how handsome you look, wild and freeâthe way you are born to be. âArenât you going to swim with me?â
âIs that a challenge?â, he asks you in a whisper.
You like how he looks at you. Maybe this makes your nipples hard. And maybe this makes him burning inside.
âPerhaps.â
And without waiting for a response, you jump in. Aegon smirks, soon following you.
***
âą Summer Children.
His kiss is indescribable. No words can do justice to the warmth his breath gives you, to the bliss it inspires you, to the affection it craves in you. Oh, where are the words when we need most?
Whispers at court regard you and Aegon as the âBaelon and Alyssaâ of your age, perhaps two souls reincarnated. Whatever the truth, all you can think about is the taste of his lips against yours.
Not only that, there is more to inspire. As you are riding Dreamfyre in the absence of your loverâheâs been summoned by your father to attend the councilâ, summer breeze cannot cool down the heat in your heart. And you still recall that night.
Where no living being is found amidst corridors, when, for a moment of weakness, no guard lies awake; when unprotecting is at stake⊠Here he comes, visiting you.
Boldly so, his steps are silentâright under his demeanor there is a haunted boy, famine for affection, filled with desire to please⊠but above all, a very insecure man who needs to play pretend before all.
Even though you are not like any other, being in fact the only one whoâs witnessed his fragility, he remains blunt in his manners.
Yet when the door opens⊠and you stand there in your line nightgown with your hair loose, his confidence dies.
âI feared youâd not comeâ, but there is nothing blunt or arrogant in how you welcome him; but rather tenderness from the moment heâs engulfed in your arms. âI missed you, Aegon. Too much I long for you.â
âMy dear Y/NicknameâŠâ, he buries his head against your neck and from the moment he inhales your scent, no pride is strong enough to resist the obvious. âIn vain have I struggled to repress my sentiments for you.â
Hearing these words give you the reassurance youâve been longing.
âOh you took long enough, didnât you? Iâve been kept in waiting, but it was worth it.â
One kiss and you are doomed. Aegon waits no longer, not anymore. He takes hold of your face and presses his lips against yours, biting your bottom lip and slamming the door as he leads the way.
âYou must promise, thoughâ, you push him away gently, much to his frustration. But you need to be sure⊠just in case.
âAnythingâ, his voice comes out in a plea.
You raise your eyebrows and Aegon, though sensing what might be asked of, is willing to pay the price. He is not letting go of you.
âNo more whoring. I am no woman of sharingâ, you tell him seriously.
Aegon smiles warmly, but you spot relief behind his eyes. He grabs you by the waist and says:
âI am yours and yours alone, Y/N. We came out to this world together, didnât we? So we are dying together as well.â
âThat is some drama you put in there, loveâ, you smirk before clashing your lips against his.
That night you came to learn you loved riding your dragon and we are not talking about Dreamfyre.
*
Nine moons later, the results of you and Aegonâs indiscretion comes to the world with a very strong pair of lungs.
âHere comes a very strong princeâ, so announces the midwife.
You are exhausted after almost 12 hours in labour, a puddle of sweat and blood, but from the moment you are told you delivered a boy, you beamed proudly:
âI performed my duty well.â
Aegon, in the meantime, is left waiting outside, pacing impatiently in the corridors.
âOne wonders what witchcraft has Y/N used to keep you in this stateâ, muses Aemond in his unusual show of sense of humor.
The prince of Dragonstone doesnât bother answering Aemond, rather limiting to shooting a glare. Itâs when Princess Helaena comes with a smile on her lips.
âMy brothers.â
âWe salute you well, sister. But pray tell us the news soon: is Y/N well? Howâs the child?â
âShe is doing great, Aegon. Sheâs recovering and getting some rest. As for the child⊠congratulations! You have a healthy baby boy!â
Aegon is paled by the news and even Aemond gets somewhat concerned with his older brother, holding him by his elbows.
âAre you well?â
âA boyâ, he mumbles. âY/N gave us a boy.â
âOur line is safeâ, Aemond agrees. Then turning at Helaena, he asks: âHas the name been chosen?â
âWell, Y/N wants a traditional name⊠so she decided to have the boy named after you, Aegon.â
No one had ever seen the prince Aegon this overjoyed. The way he smiles⊠who wouldnât be captivated by this sight? Even Aemond smiles too at this sight. Of all the misadjusted family, at least two of them found happiness⊠though when Helaena looks at him, heâs not too far from it himself.
âI must see her!â
Ignoring Helaenaâs advice that no man is allowed in these chambers, Aegon, tradition-breaker, storms inside, demanding to see you.
You have just left your privy quarters dressed in a line nightgown with your hair wet and recently brushed when he comes at you.
âHusband!â, you giggle quietly when you are engulfed by his strong arms. âYou should wait for me. I am not churched yet and we mustâŠâ
âFuck traditions. I wanted to see my wifeâ, says he, peppering your face with tender kisses before looking at you with the devotion of a lover. âAre you well?â
You cast him the most infatuated glance to him, locking your hands around his neck as if there were no witnesses in the room.
âI am, thank you. Nothing that I could not handle myselfâ, you assure him. âAegon, I performed my duties. I gave you a son.â
âEven if it wasnât, as long as the child is healthy and you are healthy too, nothing else mattersâ, he whispers in your ear.
The prince cannot state enough his relief in seeing you well and safe. By how he holds you close, it is as if he needs another reassurance that childbirth will not steal you of him.
Feeling his fears, you raise your chin and give him that blunt gaze that marks your lively personality which heâs familiar with.
âI have no intention in leaving you alone in this world, unless you choose another to be in my place.â
Aegon gives you a meaningful look before snorting and scoffing at the same time.
âFor fuckâs sake, Y/N! How could you possibly consider Iâd find a substitute for you? I thought you knew me better, woman.â
You both share a quiet laugh before kissing as if to seal an unspoken vow. Not too far from the scene is the Queen, with her father by her side.
âWhoâd know this was coming?â, she sighs, content with the merry scene that rolls before her gaze. âI may have been deprived of happiness myself, but on the other hand⊠thankfully such a burden is not placed on the shoulders of mine own offspring.â
âDo not be so dramatic, Alicent. This match is as fruitful as yours wasâ, says Otto, nonchalantly like usual. âBut at times even I admit that I can see Baelor and Alyssa once more.â
A struggle he keeps to himself, since Otto and Baelor never saw eye to eye. Leaving such personal haunting aside, eventually this summer prince also named Aegon is seen placed in the arms of his mother.
âHeâs a lovely childâ, murmurs Aegon, whose head is now resting over your shoulder. âI cannot stop looking away of his delicate features.â
âPerhaps you should hold himâ, you suggest in a whisper since the regal baby is asleep in your arms.
âI do not wish to wake him upâ, says your husband, though you may detect a degree of panic in his voice.
You find his concern adorable, respecting his time. This afternoon, you and him watch over your newly born soon in great delight of how your love produced a handsome baby.
âOur summer princeâ, you beam at him.
Aegon shares a smile with you. He looks thrilled before kissing your forehead.
âI cannot believe I am his father.â
âA doting father as Iâm sure you will be.â
At times he doubts it, but this is a shadow he is unwilling to cast in such a bright moment. All Aegon can say is:
âThank you for believing in me.â
He does blush though when you kiss his cheek and tell him in turn:
âHow could it be otherwise? As my other half, you shall burn as bright as any dragon, my sun and stars.â
***
Little Egg, as he is called, is getting every attention Aegonâs father never bother doting his son. Whilst you are breast feeding, just nine months later his birth, a baby girl whom you named Alysanne after your favourite ancestor, father and son are found together at the nunnery.
âYour mother told me she plans to take you and Dear Alys to fly our dragon. I am not discouraging her, but we should best wait for a litttle bit, uh?â, says the protective father whilst rocking his lively and often chuckling boy in his arms. âOh so you think this is funny? Are you planning to take after your great-grandparents?â
Aegon is holding him still, playing with the boy when the moment is interrupted by a maid.
âExcuse me, sire. His lordship must be fed. And your lady wife has summoned you.â
âVery wellâ, he stands, with the prince in his arms. âBefore I handle you my precious jewel, Lady H/N, I must be certain you have been fed well. After all, you are responsible for feeding my child.â
âIndeed, lord. I am healthy and robust from the day I started the serviceâ, the woman says seriously.
âGood. I appreciate itâ, he nods before kissing his sonâs temple. When seeing heâs about to weep, Aegon softens: âDo not cry, my prince. This is not a farewell. I shall go back later, I assure you.â
Reluctantly, he parts, though he does wish to go back when hearing a cry. Aegon pauses at the door but when looking back, Lady H/N has taken little Egg inside the quarters.
*
âHow is mine faire ladies?â, the soon to be king asks you the moment he steps inside.
âLooking better than youâ, you giggle quietly. âWhat happened, love?â
âI had to leave him with those womenâ, Aegon grumbles.
âI know. I donât like leaving him there either, but thanks to you I can only feed one child nowâ, you laugh quietly.
Alysanne, whose hair is as silver as her parentsâs, makes noises and Aegon, now more confident in how handling babies, carefully holds her.
âIf I remember well, you were climbing on me when I was trying to sleep just the day you were churchedâ, Aegon chuckles.
âYou keep saying that to yourselfâ, you lean to kiss his cheek. âYou have been blessed with a handsomeness that makes me difficult not to merrily engage in marital affairs.â
Again, your bluntness makes him blush, a deed only you could brag in succeed doing so. Aegon gives you a long, meaningful look.
âWatch your tongue, woman. You donât know what you are saying.â
But his mischievous smirk tells you precisely otherwise. The connection you two share has never grown strongerâŠ
***
âą Midnight Sun.
Little Egg is barely three when Aegon takes him for a ride in Sunfyre and you take two year old Alysanne with you as you mount Dreamfyre. Itâs late night and since this family is restless, thereâs no obligation to stop them in doing soâas if any would do in other period of the day.
âFly high, Dreamfyreâ, you whisper the command in High Valyrian and the dragon doesnât need much before taking impulse and⊠weeeee, you and your excited child finally get to the skies.
âLet us do this, S.â, Aegon tells his beautiful golden dragon, resting his face against the creatureâs forehead. âLook, this is the son I told you about. He gets my name, and Gods hope that he takes after my best traits. Not that I have many, butâŠâ
Sunfyre buffs as if saying: oh please, you may not be perfect, but you have great qualities! To which Aegon blushes and smiles.
âYou are a great friend, Sunfyre.â
âDaddyâ, says Little Egg. âFly!â
âCalm down young man. Are you in a rush?â, Aegon chuckles at his demanding son.
âMommy⊠flew.â
âOh. Sheâs always in a rush that woman you call your mother. Letâs do it then.â
And soon Aegonâs smile would spread larger if possible as Sunfyre finally spreads his large wings and begins to fly, the reason why Little Egg is happy.
When they are finally getting higher, Aegon makes sure his son is enjoying it. He wants to create this memorable moment that shall reinforce the bond father and son has.
Itâs working since little Egg turns his head to his father and says:
âAmazing!â
âAre you enjoying that, my boy?â
âYes! More, more! Please!â
Aegon laughs happily and does as requested. They fly as high as possible before diving below to meet you and Alysanne. The scene makes the prince emotional. His wife is looking as beautiful as wild as the day he realized he loved you to an unbearable point.
Sensing his gaze, you turn your head to meet him. And feeling your feelings, Dreamfyre is instantly drawn to Sunfyre.
âHowâs it going?â, you ask him, eyes sparkling with delight for making it possible an old dream where you and Aegon, together with children of your own, would fly with your respective dragons.
âJust the way you wantedâ, so Aegon tells you as if heâs read your mind.
You and him exchanged loving gazes and sweet smiles, letting the dragons taking the reins of the situation.
Indeed, as your children beam, Dreamfyre and Sunfyre dance.
Such is the dance of the dragons.
**
The toddlers are snoring by the time you and Aegon land.
âThey should sleep with us in bed this nightâ, he suggests you, as he passes an arm around your waist and pulls you closer to him, placing a kiss on top of your forehead.
âI agreeâ, and then you instantly pause before the door of the red keep. âAegon⊠I would like to thank you.â
âWhat for?â, he asks you, intrigued.
âFor giving me these lovely children, for being the partner Iâve always known youâd be. For being my other half.â You smile softly. âIâd die for you, I hope you know that. You deserve to be loved, to all that you are given.â
âY/NâŠâ, heâs surprised to hearing these words of you, even though Aegon never needed proof of how you felt for him.
You stroke his face, wiping away his tears. Both of you know that you only have each other, and yet itâs enough. Specially now you have children of your own.
Resting his forehead against yours, the prince closes his eyes and kisses you.
âWhatever our souls are made ofâŠâ
ââŠmine and yours are the same.â
***
âą Epilogue.
Alysanne is fast asleep when she dreams of dragons. Dragons that fight, dragons that die, dragons that survive. In the midst of chaos, she runs after her father.
Where is he? She calls out his name only to find another who is not in his throne. She wakes up thus, unable to remember the usurperâs identity, a mere shadow. But itâs enough to scare the seven year old princess.
She leaves her privy chambers. Itâs still dark, but she needs to be sure heâs there somehow. Alysanne runs barefoot to her parentsâ chambers. She opens its door, holding her breath but praising the Gods thereâs some fire in the fireplace.
She sees youâre sleeping next to your father, but when seeing heâs thereâŠ. what a relief. Yet, the princess is scared to go back to her chambers.
âPapaâ, she pokes him. âPapa, wake up.â
Aegon groans lightly, but when seeing itâs his oldest daughter calling him, he only rubs his eyes and makes sure to sit properly, careful in not waking you up.
âLysâ, he calls her affectionately and is probably thankful for wearing some proper garments after early copulating with you. âWhatâs wrong?â
Alysanne quickly throws her arms around his neck.
âI am scared. I donât want to lose youâ, she sniffs.
Aegon rocks her in his arms, smiling quietly for doing so.
âYouâre not losing me. Who told you this nonsense? Has Little Egg been teasing you again?â
âNo. Heâs been good, actuallyâ, she tells him, holding tightly against his neck. âI had a nightmare.â
For some reason, this gives him shivers. But Aegon isnât inclined to dig into this deeper.
âA nightmare is just a nightmare. Come. Do you want to sleep with mama and papa today?â
Alysanne smiles brightly. She then kisses his cheek just as you are waking up.
âWhat happened?â, you ask, worried. âAre you well, my dear Alys?â
âShe had a nightmareâ, Aegon tells you as if this doesnât mean anything, but one exchange of glances tells you this isnât anything. Yet neither should feed it. And you agree. âSo Iâm letting her sleep with us tonight.â
You nod discreetly before kissing your daughterâs forehead.
âOf course. Like the good old days uh?â
And you watch as Alysanne makes herself comfortable in between you and your husband. Aegon strokes her hair as you cover her.
âDo you thinkâŠ?â Aegon leaves the question in the air.
âLet us leave to concern about it tomorrow. Itâs late.â
Aegon agrees. But neither looks forward to go back to sleep. As he casts a fond gaze at the princess, you take his hand and give it a small squeeze.
âItâs going to be all right. Helaena is doing well with it.â
âI know. ButâŠâ
âAnd at the same time sheâs not like Helaenaâ, you tell him. âLet us not confuse things. Itâs going to be well.â
âI just worry. I do not wishâŠâ
Aegon looks away, remembering the wounds of his neglect childhood. Thereâs little need to explain since you can feel what he feels.
âAegon, my love. We are not like themâ, you tell him firmly. As he looks at you, you stroke his hair and place a lock of his messy hair behind his ear. âWe are not like our parents. We are better than them. Iâd not say so if I believed otherwise. Just look at how Egg seeks to impress you, how Alysanne came after you tonight⊠or how our twins Jaehaerys and Jaehaera often run after you.â
Aegon smiles quietly.
âHow can you convince me that easily?â
âItâs the truth I speak. Besides⊠I have to tell you somethingâ, and here you whisper. âI conceived again.â
âOh how fertile we are!â, Aegon chuckles merrily.
You both kiss, before settling to lay down, careful now with your daughter fast asleep in between you. Shadows for once are pushed and in late night midnight sun comes to shine bright.
Oh these delightsâŠ
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ââYOU DREAM OF ME??
SUMMARY: entering the dream world was such a strange feat.. especially seeing yourself in somebody elseâs dream.
CHARACTERS: jade leech-centric
GENRE: fluff, crackfic
WARNINGS: you act cringe because jade leech is a cringy guy with wattpad fantasies + BOOK 7 SPOILERS + canon divergence (some dialogue is not exact cause i lowkey forgot, some moments didnât actually happen, and i shortened it a lil so i donât have to write too much)
NOTES: while writing this, it turns out someone else had a similar idea so i was hesitant to upload the writing. however, Iâve decided to anyways. that being said, crediting said individual is still in order since they had the idea first.
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you didnât expect this. nobody expected this, actually.
jade leech, cunning, observant, quiet, and mysterious. he was one to keep his cards close to his chest and play it safely to ensure the best outcomes. and yet, here we are, in said eels dreams. a look inside of his thoughts, how he truly saw people, how heâ
âjade youâre so cool! i love love love love loveeee the way your mind works sooooo much!â a voice, sounding similarly to yours, chimed. âfufu, you flatter me, my pearl..â
your jaw dropped, grims jaw dropped, you can hear idia falling out of his seat from behind the screen, jamilâs eyes had never been opened wider, floyd cringed, silver looked away, ortho could barely compute, and sebek had the most genuine disgust written on his face.
was that you? you thought azul and floyd looked stupid, BUT THAT WAS YOU? jamil slapped a hand over grims mouth, preventing the direbeast from cackling his lungs out at the sight of your pathetic image. âMYAHAHA, HENCHMAN YOU LOOK SO STUPIââ âkeep quiet.â jamil mutters, slightly smirking. you could tell he was also containing his laughter, making your face change in hue.
âeww, no way. i knew jade was all lovey dovey with the prefect but i dont wanna watch it. what a sap.â floyd groans, looking at dream you, real you, then at jade. âi dont wanna watch this either! if you guys are embarrassed how do you think i feel?!â you murmur, hiding your face in shame.
âmy pearl, open wide.â jade grins, holding a piece of shrimp in his hands. âoh my, jade you sweetheart!â you giggle, opening your mouth so jade can feed you. idia snickers, holding back a laugh. you can practically see his smug expression in your mind. âhe has the fantasies of a trashy middle school fanfiction, what comedy gold.â
silver clears his throat, trying to regain the attention of the group in order to free jade from his dream. while everyone with a logical mind held an equally logical discussion, you, floyd, and grim were too focused on the scene before you. âjade, you and shrimpy should just get married.â dream floyd grins, pushing you two together.
âagreed. you both are a match made in heaven!â dream azul says in between sobs, wiping his tears away with one of his tentacles. âwhy, what a splendid idea! azul, please make arrangements right away. we shall wed at once, my dear.â jade chuckles, holding you close in his arms. âj-jade!? i donât know what to say..â
âdo you not wish to marry me?â he asks, his thumb tracing your chin. his voice was low, yet soothing at the same time. âitâs not like i donât want to..â dream you mumbles, avoiding his eyes by looking at the ground with a pout. REAL you, on the other hand, canât bear the sight of it anymore. neither can floyd. or grim.
âletâs continue to overcome hardships and conquer many mountains together.â jade laughs, pulling you all in by the shoulders. as the dream variants of jades loved ones cheer, floyd swims in and swoops down, attacking his brother and his dumbed down dream him.
âI CANNOT STAND IT ANYMORE!â floyd grunts, scowling at his dear brother, who held an expression of shock. âf-floyd? thereâs two of you..?!â he stutters, looking at his dream twin and his actual twin. âtheyâre mirror images of each other! how can you tell them apart!â azul exclaims, wiping his eyes to get a better look.
âwho is this? can i hug you and eat you? hehe.â
âi originally thought you werenât interested in other people, but you have a limited memory. âi dont eat dance and eat shrimps stuck in between rocks.â floyd scoffs, staring at his dumbfounded doppelgĂ€nger. âfloyd.. doesnât eat shrimps.. or dance..?â jade ponders, feeling his mind begin to waver.
âjade! im scared!â dream you screams, curling up in the boys arms. your eyebrow twitches, tired of the humiliation you witnessed thanks to jades horrible imagination. following your impulse, you run out with floyd, despite the shouts of your name.
âPREFECT! GET BACK HERE! WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE YOU TRYING TO ACHIEVE?!â sebek shouts, but his voice falls on deaf ears. he made a point though, what were you doing? itâd be much safer to just stay back and watch this play out, so why the hell are you trying to get involved?! âp-pearl?!â jade gasps, eyes wide in disbelief.
âth-thereâs also two of you.? what in the seven is going on here?â he swam back slowly, unraveling the scene before him. two brothers, two lovers (well not officially..), and a whole school of students that seem familiar, but unsure as to where.. you could tell jade was beginning to wake up! itâs only a matter of time..
âjade, donât be fooled. floyd shouldnât be that ugly bastard, he should be more innocent and cute. and look at [MC], they love you so much they donât know what to do with themselves! donât be tricked by that fraud.â azul sneers, pointing at you and floyd, much to your dismay. just taking a glance at floyd was enough to be able to tell he was this close to breaking every bone in dream azulâs body and frankly you donât blame him.
âi see.. floyd has been very charming to his relatives and my pearl wouldnât leave my side so quickly,â jade hesitates, glancing at his two brothers. âi should go. they all really need me.â he smiled politely, swimming towards what once looked like his loved ones, now forming into large piles of dark goo. as jade was nearly consumed by the darkness, floyd swims past quickly. you stood on the eels back, landing a hit on dumb dumb floyd, crybaby azul, and cringe wattpad you.
âI DO NOT SOUND LIKE THAT.â you finally yell, catching nearly everyoneâs attention. âitâs no use. we have to help out.â jamil sighs, lifting his magic pen. âletâs go!â silver shouts, rushing into the spot where you and floyd had already began your attack. as the fight rages on, the others serving as a distraction for jade, floyd had continued to land hits on the watered down versions of yourselves with ease before they finally shouted for help.
âit hurts! help us, jade!â dream floyd cries. ârescue us, jade!â azul cries. âoww! protect us, jade!â dream you screams, finally catching his attention. âhow dare you! you fake. get behind me, i got this.â jade hisses, attacking floyd directly. you felt your balance falter on floydâs back, slipping before falling near the vents. âprefect!â ortho shouts, rushing over to catch you til you fell into jamilâs arms safely. âitâs not safe, the vents are crumbling due to the fighting. retreat for now!â he directs, running towards a safer location.
âyour carelessness nearly got you killed, prefect.â jamil sighs, looking down at you with a concerned yet tired expression. âsorry, i just couldnât take it anymore!â you groan, crossing your arms angrily. âyou can set me down now, jamil.â you pat his arm, breaking him from his daze. â..right.â he mutters, placing you down gently. they began to discuss different ways to wake up jade, before sebek finally settled on just electrocuting them.
âbe careful, sebek.â silver reminds him, patting his shoulder before the boy ran out. âpierce the cloudy sky, lightning! living bolt!â
the tweels stop their fighting, electricity trickling all over their body leaving them temporarily paralyzed and passed out. after a few moments, their eyes fluttered open, being met with millions of other stares. âjade!â azul shouts, pushing floyd at the way with a grunt. âthank goodness youâre alive! i couldâve lost my cute subordinate!â he sniffles, causing jades eyebrow to raise. â..cute subordinate?â
âiâll cry if jade is gone! donât go anywhere!â dream floyd sighs with a dopey expression. âjade you idiot! you couldâve gotten seriously hurt and id never forgive you!â dream you sobs, rushing over to hold his hand hastily. âhm. thatâs strange. the floyd and azul i know would never say something like that.â jade scoffs, looking at the two with disgust.
âhuh?â they gasp, staring at him as if he said something crazy. âwas sebekâs lightning so powerful, jade is finally starting to awaken?â silver mumbles, raising a finger to his chin. âawaken.. why am i here in the first place..?â jade groans, recollecting his thoughts slowly. âso.. i am a student at night raven college.. on land? agh.â
âmy head feels like itâs going to split!â he winces in pain, holding his head as he shouts. all his memories finally began to come back to him, all the moments he had during the year turning the gears in his mind til he was finally back to his senses. âhow could i possibly have forgotten something so important?â he huffs, looking back at the doppelgĂ€ngers behind him.
âfloyd would never act so obedient, heâs much more domineering. azul would give orders to others without putting himself in danger as much as possible.â he pauses for a moment, staring at your fake before shaking his head. â[MC] would have never acted so defenseless. what an embarrassing feat. i was acting quite strange.â jade sighs, turning his back towards the trio.
they had all began to complain to jade, asking why he would believe such fake things. dream you broke into tears, curling in floyds arms with a sob. jade would be lying if he said he wasnât a little jealous, but itâs not the real you so heâll hold back. a little. they all clung onto jade, begging him to reconsider his decision before he finally spared them a word.
âcan you please not touch me? creepy.â with a quick slash, the floyd and azul clones were reduced to goo. jade looked at the fake you, slightly hesitating at your trembling figure. alas, they were spared no expense and fell back into the darkness, crying his name and dragging out each syllable.
âno mercy..â idia stuttered, chewing on his nail. âhe was protecting them with his life, only to end them once he realized they were fake.â jamil states, scratching his chin while replaying the scene back in his head. âscary..â idia murmurs. âfinally awake, jade?â floyd punches his brothers arm, earning a chuckle. âyes, thank you.â
they share a laugh before hitting each other suddenly, startling each and every one of you. âfloyd, you dare have hurt your own brother? i thought my whole body was going to fall apart. have you no mercy on your own blood? how terrible.â jade wiped away a tear, floyd not buying it for a single second.
âjade leech.â his banter was cut short by the sounds of your voice, your stern tone telling that this will not end well for him. âw-why, [MC]! how might i be of service.?â jade smiles, remaining his composure well. âdonât âhow might i be of serviceâ me! you have some serious explanation to do once weâre out of this stupid dream.â you scowl, staring him down with an intimidating glare.
jade, seemed unfazed. he was certainly embarrassed, but who is he to let it show? âoh dear, is it quite wrong for one to dream of their mate while asleep?â he shakes his head, catching you off guard. âmate?â everyone collectively questions. âuhm, yeah. do you guys not notice?â floyd scratches the back of his neck as if it were the most obvious thing.
what the hell is he talking about? mate? what.. when? thatâs.. itâs not possible. âwhat are you on about, leech?â you sneer, causing him to grab your hand with a smile. âwould you care for me to show you?â he grins teasingly, pulling you in til you rested on his chest. âhey! why youââ
âenough. you two are more than free to discuss this mishap after malleus is defeated. right now, weâve got bigger problems to focus on.â jamil frowns, separating you two from each other. â..right. im not done with you yet.â you glare at the eel in front of you, much to his amusement. âi look forward to it.â
despite the topic being held for later, you couldnât help but let jadeâs words and fantasies linger in your mind for a moment longer. the statements he had said, the actions he had performed, all of it made you feel.. special.
âhe dreams of me?â
A/N: i got lazy at the end whoops. anyways what if i write a jamil one?? double anyways what if jamil and jade love trianglâ *gunshots*
im not used to writing long fics for characters by themselves and i think you can tell
date published: 8/22/24
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I'm not as familiar with LOTR as you are, so I wondered if you could tell me if my wild theory is completely off-base.
No one knows where the Hobbits came from, except that at some point they diverged from the line of men. No one knows much about the Entwives' appearance, but we do know that they fucked off a long time ago.
Could the Entwives have been dryad-ish and hooked up with the hobbits' ancestors and so be the foremothers of the hobbits?
Ah I think I saw that post! The concept has a lot of charm, and when the Tolkien estate loses its corpse-grip on the property in 2050 or so, I think you should write it and sell it đ€ Iâve definitely read some good takes on entwives in fanfiction that both leaned into canon and moved away, and I think that sounds like good fun to explore. A common theme in the fandom is playing with Yavanna, the Green Lady, being the mother or patron of hobbits. This isnât canonical, but sheâs a âgreen goddessâ archetype and is married to Mahal/AulĂ«, the father of dwarves, which shippers often leverage to their advantage. You could do something quite charming there with Yavanna if you wanted to. We also know that Entwives loved gardens and orchards rather than forests.
Some things I would explore with this include:ïżŒ
what is going on with all these consistent ideas of people, races, women disappearing. We know that a lot of it is how Tolkien processed an almost OCD-like Catholic framing of âthe fallen world is getting worse and can never be repairedâ, war experiences, romanticism and other stuff stewing in his old man head. What are some ways you could show whatâs stewing in your head? What does âpeople disappearingâ mean to you? and why is it especially healing that they disappeared in order to make new families?
I think âthey disappeared from their old kin and made new kinâ is an interesting and weird thing worth wondering about!
- this would possibly make hobbits a more recent race than is implied. What does that mean to you?
- why are hobbits teeny tiny?
A very good starting point, that Terry Pratchett used a lot, is taking some grand statement in fantasy fiction, and making it reflect a different political reality. âMost dwarves are girls actually.â âWizards parody academia, but, like, FOR REAL.â
I personally have a different take because of my own political feelings and framings! I have a lot of complex feelings about Tolkien chickening out of hobbits. For various political reasons I personally have to take the stance that they are fully human, fully indigenous, and have their own native language. and that their disappearance is less âteehee we lost themâ or âO, the Catholic guilt of the Fallen World, how far we have fallen from the light of the two trees Godâs sinless lightâ and a lot more âoh yeah Iâve seen THAT pattern before.â
If you have a political sort of lens on, someone telling you âyeah⊠hobbits came from nowhere đ€ and then disappeared đ€·ââïž sad!â is a story that can also invite the response of âOHhhhh you wanted their LAND real bad, huh.â Like, we know what that means, right.
Itâs a political stance for me. Hobbits have to be close enough to us to touch, and we have to be able to face that, and the fact that 5,000 media properties will chew on tolkienelves and sell them to you before even admitting to the đ€ just makes it even more of a đ€š. To me.
âŠBut I have literally just been elbow deep in my own demented fanfic thing that involves inventing a language just to swear in, to enable my standing on a box shouting HOBBITS OUGHT TO RESIST GOING EXTINCT ACTUALLY, based entirely on, I think, spite. Why do multiple authors publish orc football games (Terry Pratchett) and orc coffeeshops (Legends and Lattes guy) and do every damned thing with every bit of Tolkienâs corpse but refuse to look directly at hobbits. I am feral over this and wrote 59k words so far to damage and harm my friends
In conclusion I see a great story shape there about kindred and I think you should explore it and it should be about evolutionary biology and women and divorce and nobody being wrong.
And if anyone argues you with some podcast boy âwell actuallyâ, just bite them and do more character work and sit on their heads
#I canât possibly be the 1st to feel there is a huge land justice element to how hobbits are framed#iâm sure somewhere in the thousands of papers of Tolkien academia#and meta fandom#some other clever person has written about this right#right
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.·:*šàŒș àŒ»Âš*:·..·:*šàŒș àŒ»Âš*:·..·:*šàŒș àŒ»Âš*:·..·:
Me and the Devil; Masterlist
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.·:*šàŒș àŒ»Âš*:·..·:*šàŒș àŒ»Âš*:·..·:*šàŒș àŒ»Âš*:·..·: Paul Atreides x fem!Reader, minor Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen x fem!reader
⏠   synopsis: After the fall of the once-great House, the lone surviving daughter of Duke Bourbon is ordered to leave her betrothal to the na-Baron Harkonnen for the heir of House Atreides.
[series warnings (read individual for extra warnings): slow burn. enemies/strangers-to-friends-to-lovers ish. arranged marriage, violence, canon divergence (aged-up characters, can be read as pre-canon), past non-con/dub-con, canon-typical references to incest/pedophilia (the Baron & Feyd-Rautha), angst, eventual smut, blood and gore, trauma, plot heavy, religious imagery, paganism]
⏠   in honor of nearing 10k hits on the story, i've decided to cross-post this story from my account on AO3. Story updated first there.
⏠  current story word count: 50.4k
⏠   prelude; âPaul Atreides becomes betrothed. You are ripped from your nest of darkness and shipped to a new world.â
⏠   i; âDestruction: The only thing you and Feyd-Rautha may have ever had in common.â
⏠   ii; âPaul knows whatever he is feeling, you're likely feeling a hundred times more. So, for both your sakes, he will learn to live with you, and it will start tonight.â
⏠   iii; âPerhaps it is not polite to admit to your betrothed that you loathed the idea of wedding them, but Paul knows the feeling is more than mutual.â
⏠   iv; â"We've always known what the Harkonnens are." You laugh mirthlessly, "And yet, they sent me, happily, to marry the devil. To become one."â
⏠   v; âPaul's breaths are as sharp as yours; both of you like wild, scared beasts being hunted by something you cannot see. Something in the back of your mind tells you that you should not be wasting your anger on each other.â
⏠   vi; âNow is not the time for recklessness; Paul will bide his time. With a small flicker, he casts down the side of him that wishes to see Feyd-Rautha's head on a spike.â
⏠   vii; coming soon.
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hi i wrote a short little something inspired by this post bc it wouldn't leave my head
season 2 canon divergence, in the aftermath of Steve being taken in by Hopper (don't ask me why it's happened, bc i dont know it's just how the story took shape in my head)
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Steve was pulling a pizza out of the oven when El drifted into the kitchen, bumping hear head against his arm like one of the Henderson's cats. Her hair was starting to curl at the ends, longer than when he'd met her.
"Can you please tell Hop to go to the store? We are out of Eggo's."
She was already holding the walkie when he turned to give her a look, eyes wide and quietly expectant in that intense way of hers. He rolled his eyes, sucking pizza sauce off his knuckle as he reached for the walkie.
They had a quiet stare-off as he held the button down.
"Hey Hop, you there? Over."
Soft static buzzed through the speaker as El leaned further into him, turning her gaze away to inspect the pizza, before Hopper's voice came through with a crackle.
"I'm working." A pause, and then a reluctant: "Over."
He and Hopper shared a similar opinion on walkie-talkie etiquette, but the kids were insistent so they did their best. El looked from the walkie and back to Steve without blinking. He sighed a short laugh. Pressed the button again.
"Jane needs you to go to the store. Over." Better to use her other name if he was working.
"Eggo's?"
"Eggo's."
Satisfied that her demand request had been passed on, El slipped out of the kitchen and plopped down in front of the tv, crossing her legs underneath her as the screen flickered to life. The remote remained untouched on the bench. She wiped her nose with her sleeve.
"Well, I currently have an 18 year old in the back of my car and I'll have to run him to the station first." Another pause. "-ucks sake, over."
The words fell out of his mouth without any real thought, a years worth of comfort in himself dissolving any filter he might've had. "Is he cute?"
The walkie crackled. Steve wanted to smack himself in the head with it.
"My son wants to know if you're cute."
Oh, he was going to kill him, even if he did feel warm and fuzzy over being called Hops' son.
"Uh, I want to say yes, sir?"
There was a second of loud laughter before the walkie cut off and Steve pressed it to his forehead in silent mortification. From the living area, canned laughter from Happy Days burst out of the speakers like the universe was mocking him.
When he looked up, El was smiling at the screen in bemused wonder, colours flashing across her face.
He cleared his throat, eyes shut as he held down the button again. "Please remember the Eggo's on your way home, we're having pizza. Over and out."
He pressed the antenna down for his own dramatics, before quickly pulling it back out again so he could be reached for emergencies.
It wasn't that big a deal, it's not like he'd ever actually meet whoever had been in the car.
#eddie in the back of the cop car: 'yknow you're meant to say 'over' when you're done talking-'#i might add more to this later bc i had another idea while i was writing but idk#technically this is steddie but idk if i wanna tag it that way bc eddie is BARELY mentioned and it's not even by name#but this is steddie#so#steddie#steve harrington#my writing#stranger things ficlet
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conversations on love
[series. ongoing. 42.0k wc. post-canon-divergent. reader is a sorcerer. slow burn. friends to lovers. includes some nsfw.] ···· in every instance of love, gojo finds you.
*this is not a strict series so i'll be adding works to this whenever i feel like something exists in this universe! you might also enjoy: do you know what love is like?, a mini-series of almost's within col where you and gojo nearly get together, but don't.
recommended: to be read in the order below! each fic can kind of stand alone but is better read in order for more context.
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00. baby blue, when i first loved you [currently writing.] ···· you fall in love with gojoâall the parts of him youâve come to know.
01. do you believe in love? [808 wc. early 20's gojo. ambiguous relationship. hurt/comfort. sfw.] ···· you're both 23 when you first ask gojo about love.
02. tell me about love (show me how) [7.4k wc. late 20's gojo. post-canon-divergent. pre-established relationship. hurt/comfort. sfw.] ···· you teach gojo how to love.
2.5. and my body keeps saying (it's yours) [1.6k wc. late 20's gojo. established relationship, no label. first times. nsfw.] ···· gojo thinks this is different, new, the first time for everything.
+02. look my way, you're what i crave [2.6k wc. late 20's gojo. established relationship, no label. food trip. sfw.] ···· you and gojo made a promise to yuuji. (extra scene).
03. so this is what it means to be in love [8.9k wc. late 20's gojo. established relationship. falling in love. hurt/comfort. nsfw.] ···· gojo finds out what it really means to be in love.
03. too good to be mine [1.9k wc. late 20's gojo. established relationship. misunderstanding. angst. nsfw.] ···· youâre too good for gojo, in every sense of the word. (extended scene from 'so this is what it means to be in love').
3.5a. this feeling inside of meâ [1.5k wc. late 20's gojo. established relationship. jealousy. hurt/comfort. sfw.] ···· you make gojo realize that this twisty-pop!-y feeling in his stomach might just be jealousy.
3.5b. âwill i ever bring you peace? [1.4k wc. late 20's gojo. established relationship. hurt/comfort. sfw.] ···· gojo canât give you a quiet life. no matter what.Â
+04a. take my time (i'll spend it all on you) [1.6k wc. late 20's gojo. established relationship. lingerie. fluff. nsfw.] ···· gojo sees you in lingerie for the first time. (extra that takes place along 'these traces of love, they outline you').
+04b. if you're ready (let me) [1.3k wc. late 20's gojo. established relationship. lingerie. insecurities. nsfw.] ···· you find the other thing to surprise gojo with on his birthday.
04. these traces of love, they outline you [12.9k wc. late 20's to early 30's gojo. established relationship. 5+1. nsfw.] ···· the 5 times gojoâs sure youâve changed his life + the 1 time he hopes to change yours.Â
tags: #dykwlil (posted works) | #col (posted works) | #col tag (asks, extra hc's, discussions)
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Solace
Din Djarin/The Mandalorian x afab!reader || W/C: 4.3k
Summary: You help Din release his frustrations after he comes back from a weeklong hunt.
Content/Warnings: Canon divergent around season 3 (no Grogu here; one tiny reference to Living Waters). Reader is able-bodied, but there are no specific physical descriptions. Pet names for both reader and Din (fem pet names for reader). Implied established relationship (you've seen his face and call him Din) - THEY'RE IN LOVE. Reader knows a bit of Mando'a. Helmet comes off. 18+ MDNI. This is 100% porn. Boot riding...blanket..riding...(there's a lot of riding lolz). Multiple orgasms. Cunnilingus. Din is a talker when his mouth isn't occupied. Blow job/face fucking. Unprotected P in V sex. Reader is on whatever form of birth control they have in space LMAO, so #twinkie timeđ. Hints of a breeding kink. Praise kink (lots of it). Switch BDSM dynamics. Soft Dom!Din along with subby/desperate!Din. Sub!Reader and soft Dom!Reader. Please let me know if I missed anything! Xx
A/N: First picture was made by @djarin-desires, and honestly, this whole oneshot was inspired by this post they made! I literally could not stop thinking about these pictures all day, so I just had to write my âšthotsâš down. I hope you enjoy!! Other two photos are found on Pinterest - middle does not represent anything about readerâs physical appearance.
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âOh, shit-â you gasp. âDin, please,â eyes rolling back in pleasure, your body shivering in its nakedness compared to his fully armored form.Â
âWhat is it, sweet girl?â he coos, his fingers caressing your cheekbone, pushing the hair from your eyes.Â
âNeed- stars- need more,â you cry out, your current situation proving to only bring you to the edge, but not carry you off of it.Â
âOne more like this, cyarâika, then Iâll give you what you want,â Din reassures you, his leather-clad thumb running across your bottom lip, hooking himself in your mouth for you to make a mess of. âI wanna see that boot soaked, you hear me?â
Din always gets like this when he comes back from a weeklong bounty hunt. He gets hard. Dominating. In need of control. To take back the situation that got out of hand.Â
You were sitting on the ground cleaning one of his blasters when he came in. He was tense. Weirdly quiet. Heâs always quiet, but not with you, not for a few years now. He threw the bounty into the carbon and froze him, his chest plate rising with every breath. You knew him well enough now to know when heâs seething, and this was it.Â
âDin?â you called out softly.Â
He just points his helmet at you, the visor staring you down.Â
âEverything okay?â
âWhat do you think?â He responds rather harshly.
â...Din,â you whisper, feeling every ounce of anger in those four words.
You like how it ends in these situations, though. It always ends with him a whimpering mess beneath you. Thereâs usually some kind of switch. He takes a third orgasm out of you, and always on the third, he becomes needy. Desperate. He just wants to be inside of you. To be balls deep and stay there, to release all of his tension while being wrapped up in you.Â
Youâre his solace. His warmth. His home. He always needs you. But right now, he needs his control back, so even though itâs you whoâs in control by the end of the night, you stay prettily on your knees and obey dutifully.Â
âI hear you, Din,â you struggle to get out with his thumb holding your tongue down, drool spilling from the corners of your mouth.Â
Your thighs are on fire from your constant back and forth motion, the squelch of your slick rubbing across his shoe sending blood straight to his groin. He can feel himself itching to make you rise, to spread your legs and split you open until he canât hold himself up anymore. But he knows youâre close even though you whine and plea for more. He knows your tellsâthe way your eyes struggle to stay open, the sweat beading at your temples, the way you slowly start to clamp down harder and harder on his thumb. His personal favorite, though, he discovered in this new position, is the way you start hugging tighter onto his leg, your chest rubbing against his thigh plate in an attempt to cool yourself off, but youâre just so close, the cool beskar doing nothing to ease the heat.Â
âJust like that, pretty girl, come on,â Din groans, the sight before him truly testing his strength. You two have done many things together, but this? This is something new, and Din isnât sure how long he can last. âI know you can give me one more, baby. Just one more, and then I get to feel you, come on,â he pleads, voice bubbling up into a whine.Â
Oh, heâs starting to break, already?Â
The thought is what sends you over, your hips stuttering in their rhythm as your arousal pours out of you, your clit shooting a sharp sensation up your spine at the sensitivity. âDank farrik, youâre so damn gorgeous when you cum all over me, baby, so so gorgeous,â he pulls his thumb out and spreads your drool across your mouth, cradling your cheek softly in his palm as you shake in his grasp.
âOh, fuck- oh yes, yesyesyes, Din,â you sob, head falling back between your shoulder blades.Â
âOh, my sweet girl, Maker, youâre so beautiful,â he coos, leaning down to let the forehead of his helmet rest against yours, your hot breath fogging his visor. He smiles to himself as his vision blurs momentarily.Â
Dinâs hands situate themselves beneath your armpits, pulling you up to your feet and supporting you as you allow your limp legs to gain their strength again. âCan I taste you, cyarâika?â He asks as he wraps his arms around your waist, guiding you to sit on the armory crate in the corner of the hull.Â
âThought you said you wanted to feel me?â you retort, a small smirk forming on your flushed face.Â
âYeah,â he says as he drops down to his knees. âMy tongue goes first.â Even with his helmet on, you can still hear the shit-eating grin with his comment.Â
Din reaches for his helmet, the hiss of air signifying itâs about to come off never fails to cause butterflies to erupt in your belly. The minute his chocolate brown eyes meet yours, your heart grows two sizes greater. Your hands reach for his face. âThereâs my pretty boy,â you whisper.Â
His heart nearly jumps out of his chest at your words. He turns his head to kiss your palm. âMy pretty girl,â he responds, bashful. âLean back, baby.â You lay yourself back, body resting against the metal wall as his hands settle underneath you.Â
Din brings himself forward, the flat of his tongue starting at the bottom of you and licking upwardsâslowly, thoughtfully, calculated. He takes his time moving through your soaked folds, as if heâs mapping it out for the first time even though heâs mapped your body more times than the amount of bounties under his belt.Â
The way you moan under his touch has him groaning into you, his fingers tightening their hold, his face more flush against you. He canât get enough. His licks turn less controlled and more hungry; he uses his lips to help rub the surrounding area as he suckles every part of you he can, drinking you in, bathing in your slick as if to reclaim himself, as he did not too long ago in the Living Waters of Mandalore. His nose nudges your sensitivity as his tongue claims your entrance, the softness of your walls dancing with the softness of his tongue makes you breathless.Â
Your fingers find their way into his curls, grabbing on in an attempt to ground yourself, to keep your soul beside him as he brings you to the brink of ecstasy for the fourth time since heâs been back. You whimper in distaste as his tongue leaves your hole, but the disappointment is quickly replaced by a whimper of desperation when his mouth wraps around your throbbing bud and he sucks. âJust- oh, fuck, Din- just like that,â you let out, your hips involuntarily lifting to buck into his face.
Heâs quick to bring his mouth back down to your entrance, licking up every drop of the sweet nectar you always keep him full with. His nose massages your bundle as he drinks from you, and the action prolongs your climax and syrupy moans; Din works to pull as much as he possibly can from you. Itâs been a week of rations and shitty meals he can sneak. So when such a delicacy is placed before him, solely for his taking, oh, heâs not going to waste a single drop.Â
By the time heâs satisfied, the bottom half of his face is covered in your shine, the armory crateâs ledge is soaked, and youâre completely blissed outâface flushed and sweaty, tired eyes, a weak smile⊠to the average eye, you appear properly satiated. Although, Din knows that you are far from it.
âYou alright, sweet girl?â Din asks, rising to his full height again. He brings his hand out for you to take, pulling you up to stand. Delaying your answer, you wrap your hands around his neck and pull him in for a messy, open-mouthed kiss, all tongue with your flavor embedded in each and every one of his taste buds. You moan into the kiss, pulling away with a bite to his plump bottom lip. âPerfect, baby,â you smile, pulling him to the makeshift bedâa pile of blanketsâin the hull that you two sleep in.Â
You drop yourself down onto your knees, beginning to work his armor off from his legs as he starts on his shoulders. With you helping, heâs down to his flight suit in no time, and your mouth salivates at the sight. As soon as the last clink of the precious metal leaves his body, youâre leaning your face into him, into his bulge, pressing sweet little kisses to its covered form. You can hear Dinâs breath hitch, his cock twitching under your touch. âNeed you in my mouth, Din,â you say as you look up at him, his eyes already hooded over at the sight of your mouth near his length. âMy turn to taste you, huh, pretty boy?â You ask in a teasing tone, his face too hot to register that youâre waiting for a response from him.Â
He finally registers the question when your hand dips into his bottoms, his hardness meeting your hand eagerly. You look at him expectantly.Â
Although technically itâs his cockâs turn to feel you, he cannot bring himself to deny you or your skillful mouth. He cannot bring himself to deny anything you want, really. âY-yeah- yes, baby, your turn,â he says shakily, the anticipation putting his body into sensitivity overdrive.Â
He helps rip the rest of his flight suit off, and without giving him a second to breathe, youâre already spitting in your palm and working the length of him the way you know he loves. You use your mouth in tandem, your tongue licking from his base to his tip, and instantly, a loud whimper comes from the back of Dinâs throat at this particular touch.Â
Youâre delighted by his reaction, so you repeat the motion a few more times to pull more of those sweet sounds out. âMy baby is so sensitive here, isnât he?â You pump him with your hand as you speak, placing a wet kiss to his tip when the foreskin pulls back to expose it.Â
âKriffâŠâ he moans, his head suddenly too heavy to maintain upright. âMeshâla, please,â Din begs.Â
With one more kiss to the tip, you stop your handâs movement completely. âPlease what, baby? Use those words, honey,â you look up at him, eyes wide and full of promises to pleaseâas soon as he vocalizes what he wants.Â
His chest is heaving already at the sight of you, on your knees and looking up at him again, yet this time around, youâre the one calling the shots.Â
He prefers it this way, he thinks. Sure, he comes back from a particularly frustrating hunt and ends up taking his stress out on you. Sure, itâs the most beautiful sight seeing you so worked up and at his mercy. But he is always the one in the driver seatâcalculating everyoneâs every turn, every action before they even have the chance to act. Dinâs mind is always active, always alert. Yet, when you have him like this, in this yielding state, itâs like his mind gets to be quiet. With you, under your touch and under your gaze, Din is able to exist in your presence without a worry. Heâs finally able to just be. Not a bounty hunter, not the big and tough Mandalorian everyone fears. No, heâs Din. Your Din. Your sweet boy. Yours. And thatâs the greatest honor to ever bestow upon him. At least, thatâs how he sees it anyway.Â
âY-your mouth, meshâla, p-please,â he says softly. Your eyebrow quirks up. You want just a little bit more. âWant your- need your mouth on me, baby, please,â he breathes out, attempting and failing to ease the neediness in his voice.Â
You hum triumphantly before you begin pumping him again, your hand focusing on his base while your mouth lavishes his leaking head. You swirl your tongue around, the salty flavor of him quick to override your senses, and Din lets out a strangled moan, his hips softly bucking in your grasp.Â
Your hand releases him, letting your mouth take full control. You grab onto his thick thighs for stability, breathing through your nose as you let the tip of him reach as far back as you can handle. He gasps when he hits the back of your throat, the twitch of his body triggering your gag reflex, your throat tightening in on where heâs most sensitive. âOh, fuck,â he grunts, fighting his hips to stay in place and let you do your thing.Â
You garble something incoherent, humming into his cock as you pull yourself on and off of him a few more times. Pulling back for a small breather, you use your finger to collect up the spit-arousal mixture from the sides of your mouth and pump it on his erection, his hips twitching once again at your ministrations.Â
You know what he really wants right now, but with his head in cloud nine, you know heâll never ask for it himself. âYou wanna fuck my mouth, Din?â You ask bluntly.Â
His entire face and chest turn red faster than the speed of light. He sputters in his response. âI- oh my Maker, meshâla, is that- are- are you sure? I-â
You cut him off by leaning in to kiss his thigh. He softens in your touch. âDin, pretty boy, itâs a yes or no. One word. Choose.âÂ
âYes,â he replies, not a single hesitation in sight.Â
âGood boy,â you purr. âSee what happens when you say what you want from me?â
You shift yourself to a more comfortable position sitting on your haunches, fluffing the blankets underneath you to soften the ache of the metal floor. You look up to Din whoâs watching you eagerly but with a softness that tells you to take all your time in the world. Doing this isnât just for him, though. Letting him take control of you here turns you on just as much as it does him, maybe even more.Â
You take one more glance into his thirsty eyes, and, well, okay⊠maybe he enjoys this slightly more. Nonetheless, you donât take your time because you can feel the butterflies in your core beginning to flap once again as Din brings himself closer to you, lining himself up with your mouth.
âDonât waste this opportunity, Djarin. Better use me good, yeah?â You tease, leaning your head back slightly as you stick your salivating tongue flat out, waiting for him to enter.Â
His entire body shivers at your words. âYes, maâam,â he says under his breath, focusing on easing himself into your mouth as steady as possible, trying to maintain some ounce of self-restraint heâs inevitably going to lose.Â
Once his tip is in your mouth, his hands find their home rooted at the base of your air, his thumb reaching forward to caress the apple of your cheeks. He doesnât move at first, apprehensive in the case he might hurt you. Heâs always like this at the beginning, and every single time, you reassure him itâs okay.Â
You let out a muffled mhm, his signal to keep going. Dinâs fingers flex, guiding your head further in as his hips slowly meet you halfway. Heâs holding his breath, you can tell in the way his belly twitches. But the moment your swallow reflex triggers around him, heâs gone. âOh, shit-â he moans ragged, his hips never fully retreating before heâs bucking into you again. âOh, sweet girl, fuck-â he gasps. âAlways so perfect, feel so perfect around me, stars, baby-â he praises, his hips moving at a comfortable, steady pace now.Â
You moan around him, eyes rolling back at how good and heavy he feels coasting the expanse of your tongue. Your spit drips further down your chin and neck with each thrust, the messiness of it all mirroring itself between your thighs. Your hands leave the expanse of your thighs and reach for the blankets underneath you. As best as you can, you shuffle them in between you, using it to grind your hips on it, giving you a much needed relief. The material catches on your clit deliciously, pulling a muffled gasp from your throat, sending the sensation up Dinâs spine.Â
âOh, fuck, look at you,â he groans, his eyes fighting to stay open at the raw pleasure coursing through his veins as he starts thrusting into you harder, faster. âSo pretty, baby, fuck- thank you, pretty girl,â he rambles. âMaker, you feel so damn good.âÂ
Your moans and whines donât stop, they reverberate off each metal wall and into his ears, providing him with the sweetest song. Din, ever the talker, is long lost in the way you feel and the way you move.Â
âKeep moving those hips, sweet girl, rub that pretty pussy on our blankets, baby.âÂ
âGonna cum like that again, baby? Gonna make a mess where we sleep?âÂ
âShit, gonna make me lick it up and clean it? Please make me clean it, baby,â he whines, his hips beginning to falter.Â
The last thing he says to you is what sends you over the edge, your fingers gripping the blankets below you, bringing it flush against your core as if it were Dinâs curls youâre hanging onto. Your hips speed up, chasing the orgasm that is just right there, and with one last thrust forward, youâre cumming. Youâre breathing heavily through your nose, tears streaming down your face as you whimper around his dick, begging for the one thing you know heâs not gonna give you.Â
With a few more thrusts, you can feel his cock start to twitch, and just as you suspected, he pulls out of you before he can finish.Â
âBaby, no,â you cry, leaning yourself forward, chasing after him. Right away, heâs dropping down to his knees, hands still on either side of your face as heâs finally eye level with you.Â
âBaby, cyarâika, Iâm sorry, Iâm sorry, please,â he repents, his chest rising and falling heavily, still out of breath from edging himself. âI just- I didnât- I⊠I wanted to cum somewhere else, baby,â his voice falls quieter, shyer.Â
Your scowl fades, forming into a more mischievous demeanor, more hungry. You canât quite argue his reasoning. Because, you, too, would very much like him to finish⊠elsewhere. âYeah, baby?â You taunt. âAnd where do you wanna cum, sweet boy?â
He swallows thickly, his needy eyes on yours, blacked with a ferality heâs addicted to. âIn- inside,â he whispers.Â
âInside?â youâre quick to repeat. âWanna cum inside me, sweet boy? Fill me up? Iâve made so many messes today, is it your turn to make one, baby?â
He leans in to meet your kiss, but you pull away slightly. Answer me, your face tells him.Â
âY-yeah- yes, stars, yes- fuck- please, baby, I wanna cum inside you, wanna make a mess of you so fucking bad, please-â he starts to answer. Satisfied, you cut him off with your lips on his.
You wrap your arms around his neck, lips never breaking the seal, you pull him over you as you lay yourself down on your guysâ bed, scooting farther up for your head to reach a pillow, your back barely missing your puddle of arousal. Din multitasks, grabbing one of the other near pillows and placing it underneath your hips as your body lands on the ground. Your legs are already hooked onto his waist, not giving him the space to stray too far.Â
Once youâre settled, Dinâs hand is cradling the back of your head while the other reaches for his cock, covered in your wetness and leaking with his own arousal. He guides himself to you, running his tip along your slick folds, stopping to tap on your clit before bringing himself back down to your entrance. He breaks the kiss when he does this, his eyes laser focused on where you two connect. His hand on the back of your head pushes to angle you down, so you can watch, too, both of you observing and listening to the lewdness of it all.Â
Finally, his head catches at your entrance, pushing himself in slowly. Heâs always a stretch, always something youâll never quite really get used to, but you love the feeling. Obsessed, even. There are some days where you rile him up on purpose just so he gives it to you, no preparation or foreplay. On those days, he has you screaming, your fingernails digging deep into his back to tether yourself to reality in some kind of way. On his softer days, you have to beg him to, reassure him that it doesnât hurtâin a bad way.Â
As soon as heâs seated all the way to the hilt, he pulls back out entirely before he thrusts back in. You both moan out at the action, your pussy immediately releasing a fresh new wave of arousal around him. âOh, fuck,â you both mutter at the same time, your eyes meet, and a euphoric smile graces each of your faces.Â
âY-you feel so good, baby, s-so fucking big,â you mewl, your hands tightening their hold around his neck, both the tips of your noses kissing each other.Â
âItâs like you were made- fuck-â he stutters, his hips slowing for a brief moment, allowing himself to really feel you. âItâs like I was made for you,â he corrects himself. âI was made for you,â he says again, leaning in to slot his lips against yours.
âNi karâtayl gar darasuum,â you say against his lips. I love you. âAnd I was made for you,â you squeak out, your head bobbing back and forth as the pleasure brings your mind further and further into space.Â
âShit, meshâla,â he grits between his teeth. His hips speed up at that, loving the way his native tongue sounds on yours. âNi karâtayl gar darasuum,â he repeats back to you. âIâm yours, cyarâika. Yours,â he murmurs, his head crashing into the crook of your neck and shoulder, sucking and biting at the sweaty flesh.Â
He sits up on his haunches for a second, hooking the crook of his elbows into your knees before leaning back over youâthe angle allowing him to hit so deep and allowing his pubic area to stimulate your pulsing nerve with every thrust inâyou scream out as he repeatedly makes you feel things that no one has ever been able to do, not even yourself.Â
âDin,â you keen, his name leaving your mouth like a sinful prayer. âDin, baby, please, I think Iâm gonna- fuck-â
âGonna cum again for me, pretty girl?â He smirks. âFuck, Iâm never gonna stop saying this- youâre so fucking perfect. Come on, baby, cum for me, fucking soak me. Soak me before I make you fucking overflow with me, my sweet girl,â he snarls, his lips meeting yours in a bruising kiss, truly a dance of tongue and spit as he fucks into you at the same pace that brought you to yet another climax.Â
Your hands yank on his fluffy curls, back arching into his body as much as this restricting angle allows you to. âDin, oh my-! Fuck- so fucking good, fuck-â you wail out, your heart beating out of your chest as your pussy pulses around his cock, making an utter mess between your two lower halves.Â
The flutter of you and the instant wetness consuming him is what sends Din to his finish line. He continues thrusting, shakily, through his own orgasm, his load coating every inch of you, both inside and out. You wanted a mess, so he truly gave you a mess.Â
He releases the hold on your legs to wrap his arms around you, his entire body flush against yours as your legs wrap themselves tightly around him again. Heâs still inside you, his hips softly still moving in and out as he leaves kisses all along your lips, your jawline, your neck.Â
The way you feel, full of him and him, has your hips meeting his small advances, both of you reveling in the aftershock of your highs as you use the pleasure to ease you back down.Â
âYou okay, meshâla?â Din asks eventually when you both come to an exhausted, satiated halt.Â
âPerfect, my sweet boy,â you smile, repeating your sentiment from earlier. âYou okay, though?â You ask hesitantly, and not about what you two just did together. He brings his lips to yours. Soft, and not in a way to arouse you again. In a way that says thank you and I love you in a way spoken tongue will never be able to convey.
âI will be,â he answers truthfully. âPick a planet, you can pick me apart after we get food.â
âSounds like a deal, baby.â
âCome, letâs get cleaned up.â He kisses your forehead before he untangles himself and pulls you up to your feet as well, both of you making your way to the refresher.Â
In the corner of his eye, he sees his now semi-shiny boot, starting to dry off in the midst of everything else you two did. He smirks to himself.Â
You catch it, of course. âWhatâre you smiling at, Djarin?â
âNothing,â he says nonchalantly. âJust⊠I clean my armor and boots after every bounty.â
âAnd?â You ask, still not realizing where heâs headed.Â
âI donât know if I wanna clean my boots anymore.â
Your eyebrows raise to the middle of your forehead, eyes bulging out of your face. âDin!â you slap his chest. Then, your face goes stern. âYou will be cleaning those boots more often if you want me to do that again."
Oh.Â
âYes, maâam.â
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Imagine you can fix him. No, really, you can.
Warnings: drama, angst and (explicit) smut; long post; some canon divergenceâŠ
***
Youâve been raised at court as part of Princess Helaenaâs retinue. Due to your noble status, this isnât different any other lady of your station mightâve expected.
You have grown close to the princess, and the two of you are very good friendsâmore like sisters, truthfully. Due to your similar nature, both of you found yourselves reading, sewing and dancing when possible.
But as you grew, you eventually found another companion to spend your time at court with. The second wayward son of King Viserys, Lord Aemond.
Hereâs how all it beganâŠ
***
âą (I) Broken infancy.
Right after the mess where the Queen confronted her stepdaughter about what had happened between Rhaenyraâs offspring and Aemond, you opt to go after him.
Itâs dark. Itâs late and you should be elsewhere, but you pay little mind to these rules. You find Aemond outdoors, sitting in the stairs as if heâs contemplating quietly the price paid for losing an eye.
You think you hear a sniff, but youâre not sure. You wait until silence is absolute before making yourself announced.
âL-Lord Prince.â
Aemond turns abruptly, completely out of guard. He hates the vulnerability, but before he can come out with a snark response, you step forward and say:
âI do not mean to intrude. But⊠may I offer you company?â
The boy looks at you with distrust.
âWhat are your business here, Lady Y/LN? You should be with my sister.â
âI was worried about youâŠâ
âI donât need your pityâ, and saying so he spits out.
âYou donâtâ, you agree calmly even if youâre shaken inside. âBut everyone needs a friend.â
There is a small pause where you anxiously wait for him to give you some space. Eventually he does since thereâs no one around.
âWell. Helaena doesnât like many people, but here you are, the only one she actually spends time withâ, mumbles Aemond.
You smile before taking a seat by his side.
âIt appears so.â
Neither of you speak for a while. You know Aemond is still getting used to your company, so you speak nothing.
âIâm sorryâ, you tell him.
The prince casts a look at this y/c haired lady of the house y/c dressed in the manner of the Hightower. Despite the remaining distrust in his eyes, you know he reads you.
What a process to forge a bond, and yet here you are.
âFor what? You did nothing wrong.â
âNo. But I lament for the loss you went through.â
âWellâŠâ, and here he inclines his head towards the great shadow flying over the dark skies. âIt was worth the dragon I reclaimed.â
âLike every Targaryen before you.â
Something about you said seems to knock his defenses down. However this isnât something Aemond is prepared to admit. Yet.
***
âą (II) Darkness & Light.
Aemond keeps an eye on you as much as you keep an eye on him. Youâve grown to a handsome woman, wearing gowns that reinforce your curves even though nothing in your actions deem other than innocence.
You and Helaena are almost twins. Could be so had you been birthed by Queen Alicent. Perhaps this is why Aegon looks down on you as much as he does to his sister-wife.
But the wayward, gloomy Prince, who at times opts to find his path towards his⊠whore, cannot divert away of you.
In fact, he is rather surprised to see you gravitating towards him just as he leaves the room.
âY/Nâ, Aemond whispers your name, hands behind his back, not turning his head to welcome you⊠and because he hopes you donât spot a slight, timid smirk that forms on his lips due to your presence.
âMy dear Aem. Going to practice with Ser Criston again?â
You purposely link your arm to his, nudging his side playfully to tease him the way you know he doesnât like.
But the prince canât get rid of you, can he?
âLike always.â
âMay I watch it?â
âIf you want to.â
Aemond knows silence is not your best trait, something that he, in fact, appreciates.
âIâve noticed youâve been out of my sight againâ, you muse, eyeing him closely.
He avoids your gaze, aware of what you talk about. But why does he feel a hint of shame knock his pride?
âHumâ, itâs all he says.
You sigh heavily. By how you breathe heavily, Aemond knows you are about to lose your temper.
âDonât âhumâ at me, Aemond Targaryen. Youâve been whoring again, havenât you?â
To your surprise, he stops abruptly, turning at you in such a way that makes you blush. Aemond reads you, him too baffled when discovering you might actually have feelings for him.
How else would you feel so possessive towards me, Y/Nickname?
Today, your hair is tied in two perfectly braids. They are long enough to fall over your waist, Aemond notices. Your eyes are livid, he can tell the amount of repressed feelings that are behind the colour that paints themâand he is intrigued to know what these are.
You are chewing your bottom lip, a sign of nervousnessâhe never took you for an insecure person.
Are you afraid of losing me?
And then thereâs something about the gown, green like always, that makes him want to rip it. He can tell your breasts are tied⊠and he wants to release the pressure this gown is making on them. Suddenly, comes to his mind a scene where he is sucking your nipples, rubbing one with his thumb all the whilst using his tongue to play with the other.
Perhaps youâd like that, Y/N. To be treated well. Perhaps youâd be a better replacement than my whore.
Indecent thoughts that he cannot sweep off his mind, but that his mind plays a good effort to it because you are a good precious damsel who doesnât serve to be part of his dark, sinful self.
And yet⊠what he sees in you is the light that blinds him. Another sight he cannot lose. So he does whatâs best of him to do: push people away.
âHow does this concern you, Lady Y/N? Youâve been a good friend, but you are nothing more to me.â
Words that shouldnât have come out this way. But they do. When seeing the hurt in your eyes, Aemond knows the weight of his lies. Suddenly, he realizes he wishes he could be saved.
And you, as his savior, have been pushed away.
âI am not quitting on youâ, you wear your prideful mask, which intrigues him. âStill going to watch your practice though. Besides, I was only asking⊠because of your mother.â
Aemond cannot amend the awkwardness, but his mind screams at him for not bothering in doing so.
âI know.â
So he turns his back on you. And to his consternation, you stay.
*
Whilst Aemond practices with his sword, you shut yourself in your world. Your eyes are carefully down whenever a courtier passes byâyou detest to get the male attention, not when you wish for more on Aemondâs part.
But you little foolish thing, he doesnât want you. The prince sees you as a friend, is all. An extension of Helaena.
You struggle with your tears as this thought occurs you, but perhaps this isnât so bad, is it? Duty often sacrifices sentiments. Perhaps you should tell your sister, Queen to be, that you are ready to marry and then⊠stay away of him for good.
But the courage in this decision soon dissipates the moment you raise your eyes and find Aemond staring at you.
And you know youâve been trapped.
***
âą (III) Scars.
You are about to slip under your blankets when the door of your bedchambers are abruptly opened. You are frightened when hearing the sound due to your exposed state: your line nightgown poorly covers your nipples and you still have no time to throw robes to cover yourself when he stands before you.
Distressed, anguished. In who he really is. In one broken state youâve only seen once.
You forget yourself when you run to hold Aemond Targaryen in your arms.
âMy loveâ, you whisper, letting him sob. âMy princeâ.
You pull him to yourself, the only one Aemond trusts with his being. The only one he knows he can be himself, with his scars and open vices. He clings onto you, he digs his fingers onto your waist, letting him be guided to your bed before burying his head against your belly.
You can only imagine what had struck him like this. A feast of demons over his head, each fighting for his flesh. And yet you are here, battling against them.
When he finally stops sobbing, he looks up at him. Youâve never seen him so fragile, so famine for affection. And here you are. Providing what he needs.
âTell me allâ, you whisper.
âI do not want to. Youâll find a monster in meâ, and yet he holds onto your hips, fearful youâd let go of him.
âYou are not a monster, Aemond. You may have some vices, but you are a human being like anyone elseâ, you tell him gently. âCome here.â
Aemond obeys you, sitting in front of you.
âLet me tend youâ, you whisper. âIâll prepare your bath.â
âY/NicknameâŠâ, he holds your wrist firmly.
âI wonât leave you. I wonât abandon youâ, you assure him. âDo you trust in me?â
Aemond nods his head.
âMy boy, then let me bath you. Besidesâ, and here you dress your best smile. âYou smell like old dragon.â
Finally something that pulls out a smile of him. As he sits there, you are quick to fetch servants to prepare him a good bath. When you go back at him, Aemond gives you that intense look which gives you shivers.
And wets you in between your legs too.
But this isnât the moment nor the time.
âCome. Itâs ready.â
You lean against the wall of the privy quarters as Aemond starts to undress. Even though he is damaged for what heâs done, he likes to feel the weight of your gaze on him. And he smirks when he stands nude before you.
âI donât think youâve seen me like thisâ, he muses.
You donât look away when he says so. Aemond feels a heat growing inside him.
âNo, I donât. Not physically anywayâ, you point out.
âDonât look awayâ, he asks.
You dare to scan his body with your discreet gaze, eyeing his well build muscles, attentive to his scars and⊠his manhood, which is now erected. And quickly you look away, blushing, as he chuckles.
âYouâve never seen one up before, my lady?â, he asks, sliding into the tub.
You gently knee behind him and get to rub his back with a sponge.
âDo not take me to your whore, Aemondâ, you snap at him.
The prince smiles at it. He lets you clean him before he dives into the water. When coming back to the surface, the prince is disappointed for not seeing you there.
A moment later, though, when heâs dressed in clean clothes, says Aemond with a subtle accusation tone:
âYou left me there for one momentâŠâ
âYou surely can handle yourself as you finished you bath. I am only your friend, wasnât that what you called me?â
Aemond sighs.
âY/Nickname, I shouldnât have said that.â
He comes at you and rests his arms around your waist, his chin on your shoulder. When you side look at him, you spot that old fragility rarely seen.
Itâs what melts you down.
âVery well. Come here. Let me tend youâ, and now back to your bed, you and him lace your fingers together, his head in between your breasts. âWhat did you do, Aemond?â
You stroke his hair with your loose hand, aware that heâd done something bad. But where others see him ruthless, you see a broken boy trying to find his worth in this misadjusted world.
âIâŠâ, his embargoed voice has your attention.
âYes?â, you lift his chin, now cupping his face; removing his eyepatch, you gently force him to look at you.
And here comes a tear.
âI killed him. But I didnât mean to.â
âWho?â
But you know the answer.
ââŠLucerys.â
Old wounds that never close⊠bleed endlessly. You sigh heavily, but rest your forehead against his.
âYou shouldnât have done that, my dearâ, you speak softly.
âI understand.â
âBut I wonât abandon you, you know that, do you?â, you hope to transmit him that, regardless of this sinful secret he shared with you, together you two are stronger.
âYou are the only one who knows my weaknessâ, he buries his head against your neck, needy of you, weak and feeble. Fragile. âDo not dare to leave me.â
âYou have always been sacred to me to be profaned now, Aemondâ, you whisper.
He leans his body close to yours, transfixed by your irradiating beauty⊠and your unending loyalty.
The prince touches your face and you tilt your head, letting his slander fingers brush over your face and then going down to your neck. You partly wish that he goes below⊠a perception he sees evident in your eyes.
Aemond knows heâs as vulnerable as you. And yet his hand moves to your collarbone, unlacing your nightgown.
âSo beautiful. You look as if I can be redeemed.â
âYou canâ, you lean closer, not minding how purposely your breasts slip out of the line. Your eyes remain locked with his all the whilst you take his face with your hands. âYou can be redeemed.â
Aemond waits no further: his dragon fire awakes and he is about to burn you. You welcome his hungry lips thus, sighing in content as he crawls over your body, ripping impatiently your gown, promptly reclaiming you the same way he did Vhagar.
You subdue easily to him, letting him have his way to you. That his lips make his kiss ache every part of you gets a moan out of you, which in turn makes Aemond smirk.
You are mine and mine alone. I possess you, I take you as who you are, my lady Y/N.
Such are his thoughts, which you need naught to have the ability to read them; for they are readable in his tight grip of you, in how his tongue dominates yours along with his body.
Trapped under his dominance, you are found breathless and a puddle of mess when he parts the kiss to let slid his tongue over your jawline and neck, his fingers now pulling your hair gently, tangled in your curls.
Then he stops what heâs doing to contemplate your state under candlelight. And here he smirks.
âDivine you are, my lady. How can a man like me be worthy of a woman like you?â
You sensually lift your legs to pull him by his hips as you adjust your body so his can mould better in it. You like the lust in his eyes, one of the kind that doesnât conceal his vices nor his virtues⊠one that shows his genuine feelings to you.
âYou deserve all the love in the world, my dear Aemond. Let me heal youâ, you stroke his cheeks, smiling gently.
âA flower soon to be deflowered by a rogueâ, he sneers under his breath, but thereâs no despise in his eyes, only the same old scars.
âI am your womanâ, you tell him, and heâs surprised to find in you the same possessiveness there is in him. âI am not any flower, though.â
Aemond smirks. Whatever insecurities laid behind his good eye, now they are no more.
âYou shall be more than that, darlingâ, he brushes his lips against yours, biting your bottom lip not long after. âMy consort, mother of my heirs.â
As if to assure you he means every word, he not only kisses your neck and gets a few moans out of you, but leaves some bruises there. Youâve been marked.
Aemond, however, cannot take out of his thought the idea of corrupting you. Though it flings him with some guilt, the way your legs are wrapped around him, your bodies so perfectly moulded that leaves no doubt that it is hardly sinful whatâs to be done.
You may spot some of it, so to assure him thereâs no question of the legitimacy of the deed, you put yourself under him properly so he looks down at you⊠and yet your hand takes hold of his erect manhood.
âY/N!â, he gasps in surprise.
You give him a malicious smirk at the same time there is nothing to encounter in your gaze that is not innocence itself. Inexperience you may be, but you have ears that long heard of maids doing so with their partners.
But to feel his cock responding well to your moves is a positive indicator that you are doing it well.
âMy lady!â, he wants to stop you, but fuck it itâs so damn good. Aemond rolls his eye, almost falling over you. âYou should notâŠâ
âI want youâ, you whisper in the back of his ear as you caress his face and hair with your free hand. âCarnally, emotionally, all that is between. I want my prince Aemond Targaryen the way he really is.â
Itâs enough to wipe out any reasonable thought he may have in regarding preserving you of such naughtiness. Aemond lets out the repressed lust for you, his sentiments towards his ladyâof the kind only his whore knew aboutâ, and bloody seven hells⊠you know how to make him feel good!
All the whilst you enjoy feeling his precum getting your hand soaked, and twirling your thumb around the tip like he instructs you toâthe very fact heâs the one teaching you also arouses him quite.
âFuckâ, and he growls against your skin, burying himself into your breasts, biting your nipples and sucking each ardently with the devotion of a lover.
So you too welcome a different sensation of bliss, a pleasure never before felt, hitting on your in waves of heat that get your body out of control. It does âworsenâ, though, the moment he does to you what you do to him.
Aemond captures the surprise that flashes behind your eyes when he finds you soaked to the core. And then⊠not deeming to waste his seed, he takes your hands and pins over your head.
As his thighs are over yours, you see this handsome man towering over you. His well build muscles, his handsome manhoodâŠ
âDo you like the view, Princess?â Aemond asks gently, though the way he looks at you thereâs nothing innocent or gentle.
And he sees how your body reacts. Which only arouses him further.
âYesâ, you are almost breathless. âPlease, do not make me beg.â
Aemond chuckles low, hands wrapping around your neck.
âOh, but arenât you begging already, my love?â
And then he releases the pressure by inserting another finger in your womanhood.
âMm. You like that, do you not?â, Aemond groans as you deliberately give yourself to him, a complete mess. He likes the view, to know he ruined you too.
And then he bends over⊠only to slowly insert his manhood into you.
âOh Gods!â
Aemond side smirks at you.
âItâs going to be a long night, Princess Y/N.â
And to seal his promise, he pursuits your lips in a passionate kiss.
***
âą (IV) The Great Escape.
As you stand quietly in the royal chambers, you detect grey clouds rumbling in the sky. You furrow your eyebrows at the sight, perceiving it as a bad omen.
Itâs when Helaena comes at you, so suddenly and silently that you are almost startled by her presence.
âI see the boyâ, she whispers at you, the only one who understands her. âHe will conquer all.â
âDo you mean any of your brothers?â, you ask in the same tone.
Helaena smiles quietly, though in her eyes you detect a mix of apprehension and concern. You know she hesitates, so you hope to transmit calmness.
âLaena, do not fear. I shall keep your secret with meâ, and you point to your heart.
She looks at your hands before giving a look at the horizon. You give her time. Then she turns her head and says:
âHe shall not be king until other diesâ, another pause. âYou should not be here when Aegon becomes king.â
You are more than aware that Aegon is not really fond of you.
âIs war coming, dear Laena?â, you ask.
âNoâ, and here she smiles. âNot for you nor Aemond.â
You have the decency to blush. Youâd think your secret encounters with Aemond remained a secret, but didnât you underestimate your closest friend?
âIâŠâ
âDo not apologize. Youâve brought him the light out of him.â
And in her own way of saying thanks, Helaena rests her head against your shoulder. So suddenly the announce of storm is dissipated⊠and your fears, likewise.
*
But before this light prevails, it is yet the time to cross the dark. Therefore, you are not entirely surprised to find Aemond vulnerable again. Itâs late night and he comes for you in seek of solace. The one kind heâs been refused by his family.
Aemond slides through the half open door, already suspicious in not finding your privy chambers completely close. Hearing voices, a fang of jealousy threatens to bring out his worse when he comes to find out you and Helaena have been spending time together.
It is a relief, somewhat one that makes him smirk, to seeing you getting along with his family. Not that he cares about it, butâŠ
He waits until Helaena is gone to surprise you. You are wearing a pink gown with details in pink and are just untying your braid, completely unaware of his silent presence.
Aemond is reclining against the wall, watching you remove the courtly garments that you wear daily, noticing in your distracted face different expressions he is used to see in you.
âYou look exhaustedâ, his voice comes out as a single whisper right as you are caught off guard and almost crying out as a result. âWhatâs wrong?â
âAemond!â, you yell. âAre you out of your mind? Always like a rat, arenât you?â
He chuckles at your reaction, moving to where you stand so he can have you all to himself. You melt instantly in his arms, but then quickly recompose when noticing that vulnerability only you spot on.
âWait. What happened?â
âYou didnât answer my questionâ.
You know itâs pointless to argue with him so you shrug your shoulders and say:
âJust tired, is all.â
You donât think wise to tell that lately youâve been having strange morning sickness, so you motion to fetch yourselves some wine before getting at him.
âNow your turn.â
Aemond doesnât buy your lie, though. But taking the wine offered, he opts to keep that in his mind for a moment later.
âIâve met the Strong boys.â
âOh.â
And here comes the thunderâŠ
âWhat do you mean by âohâ? Iâve been teased out and about, Y/Nâ, says a very moody Aemond. âJacaerys and Joffrey think they can have their way out?â
And here he comes to burst in tears. That broken boy hasnât been healed nor taken care of. You put your glass aside and move to embrace him. Like a needy child, he comes for support which you give him without second thoughts.
âWhat happened then?â
âA fight was only prevented because of my mother. She welcomed Rhaenyra and her bastards here.â
You let him burst out his anger, silent and pained, as you hold him. In moments like this is when he undress the rogue mask he often wore to public; -and itâs here his fragility is seen, which leads to a more intimate moment.
âYou donât feel at peace here.â
âNoâ, Aemond admits. âNot here not anywhere. But I aim to reclaim Harrenhal.â
A stranger shiver crosses your spine and even the prince feels it. He looks up at you, quizzically so.
âWhat was that?â
âOh, the shiver? You felt it too?â, you try to make a joke about it. âSo tight you felt it as if it were you, uh?â
But Aemond is serious.
âI am not joking, Y/N.â
âI had a bad feeling about this. You know the stories of Harrenhal.â
Now the silver haired man chuckles.
âYou canât be serious.â
âDragons could be a myth, and were treated as such before the Conquest by the Westerosi. And yet here they areâ, you tell him firmly. âStories contain a degree of truth. I did my homework.â
âI can tell.â And softening, he rises to cup your face and kiss your nose and lips. âI did not wish to distress you. But I cannot stay here any longer,Y/N.â
âWellâŠâ, and you smile as you rest your forehead against his. âLet us runaway, Aemond. Together.â
âTo where?â, Aemond isnât sure about the idea, but this possibility does bring some relief to him.
âThe Free Citiesâ, you decide. âYou arenât the first Targaryen who flees Kingâs Landing to locate somewhere there. Essos is one of those who traditionally welcomes these Valyrian kind.â
Aemond chuckles, pleasantly surprised by your wit.
âWe need little convincing, donât we?â
âIt is what you need most, my beloved. Some peace of mind and spirit will do you well.â
So the plan is architected. And the promised consolation shall come.
*
Yet, night arises and with it, demons that come to dispute over royal flesh. Aemond is tormented by his nightmares. As he watches you sleep peacefully, he envies your serenity.
Part of him riots against the idea of being with you. Running away sounds coward-ish and the ilidic paradise is an idea fit for poets and story tellers.
Reclining against the wind, naked, he is vulnerable and to feel it only makes him feel irc about it.
Itâs when you notice the bed getting colder. As you turn around, you see you are alone once again. You almost panic at the idea of him leaving you, but this is wiped out of your mind when seeing the state he is.
âAemondâ, you donât mind the clothes. âCome to bedâ, you rest your chin over his shoulder. Suddenly you notice how tall he is.
He tries to avoid your gaze, but it is difficult to ignore you when you recline your body, so warmt, against his. In a stark contrast of fire and cold, he is like an ice berg to you.
âPleaseâ, you ask him.
Aemond turns at you at last and acquiesces with your request. Silently he follows you, but he doesnât sleep straight away.
âYou are worthy of loveâ, you tell him, cuddling him. âYou cannot ignore the wounds that hurt you.â
âI fear I am incapable of healingâ, Aemond whispers, a tear rolling down his cheek. âHow can you conceive the idea of us together, Y/N?â
âYou can be saved.â
He snorts, eyes closing as he slowly drifts to sleep under your tenderness.
âMaybe I do not want to be saved.â
âTo be saved or to be redeemed. Is there any difference? Sleep my life. The night may be long and full of terrors, but light always comes to win over it.â
Youâd think Aemond had fallen asleep as you take the blankets and cover yourselves, but as you too lie down, your hear him say:
âI love you, Y/N.â
You smile warmly because this is the first time he admits it out loud. Wiping away your happy tears, you lean to kiss his forehead.
âI love you too, Aemond Targaryen.â
*
Indeed, funny as it is, you are now officially part of the House Targaryen. Daeron and Helaena had been the only witnesses of the ceremony that made you officially Lord Aemondâs wife.
âWelcome to our familyâ, greets Daeron. âJust hope one does not notice the mess we are.â
âOh, nothing too different of my own family, my lord.â
âLord?â, Daeron scoffs. âWe are family now, sister. There is little need to use formalities.â
Aemond smiles quietly when spotting a blush turning your cheeks into crimson. And speaking of informalities, Helaena welcomes you in her own way. To a general surprise, she in fact hugs you close before saying:
âNever forget. A king will come soon. To conquer all. The line must carry on.â
And then she takes Daeron away, leaving you baffled.
âWhat did she say?â, asks Aemond, curious.
âIâm afraid this time I didnât understand what she meant, husband.â
âWellâ, he shrugs his shoulders. âNot many of us do. Ready, my lady?â
You smile warmly and the sight makes Aemond content. Sun is rising in the horizon when he helps you mount old Vhagar.
And when she is ready to fly, you cling tight in your husband like a monkey.
âOh my Gods!â
He laughs away. Never before he laughed so unpreocuppied, so carelessly, so free.
You know it. You feel it too. For when you look at him, you could tell how successfully you fixed him. Didnât you?
***
âą (V) Essos.
You may think you are brave for riding Vhagar, but braver so for mounting your husband. Now that you have enough trust to do so, you come to find out that is a lot better than in your wildest dreams.
âOh Gods!â, and like any other day you are louder,a sound the servants are already used by now. âAemond!â
Itâs been three months since you and Aemond settled in Essos, and ever since the city not only welcomed you two properly like the royalty both of you are, but is also becoming the stage to Aemondâs ambitionsâto which you turned a blind side to.
âSo good, my wife!â, Aemond groans, pleased like always to see your boobs bouncing and how synced his body and yours are in one single move.
But domineering he is, so in a matter of seconds you are under his power again, a âvictimâ of his intense thrusts. And as he seeds you, itâs only then he comes to notice the changes of your body. Your breasts are bigger, you are curvier and your appetites⊠are different too.
As he collapses against your side, Aemond holds you close to him, though. Stroking your hair and helping to straighten it after messing you good, he smiles.
âI cannot believe myself when I recall the enormous quantity of years that took for us to get married.â
âYou are slower than Iâd assumed to be, husbandâ, you tease him, earning a few tickles.
âLife here isnât as bad as it seems, thoughâ, Aemond contemplates after kissing your forehead. âI think we can rebuild our life here in the manner of Westeros.â
You know there are certain ambitions that do not die, no matter the efforts in healing scars. Itâs a side of his character that youâve always accepted. Then you are reminded of Helaenaâs prophecy and somehow you made your peace with it.
âIndeed, IâŠâ
Oh no. Not that nauseous morning again! In a matter of seconds you are running to your privy quarters and throw all that youâve ingested earlier the day⊠out.
When Aemond rushes after you, though, he doesnât take too long to realize that an heir is coming. At last.
âMy dearest wifeâ, he kneels after you. âLet me help you. The way you help me.â
For the first time in years he sees your vulnerability, your fragility. You try to conceal it, but he doesnât allow you to shy away.
âY/N⊠Do not be stubbornâ, he helps you clean. âThere is nothing wrong with it. Do you not realize what does this mean?â
When you give him a quizzical look, the prince chuckles.
âI cannot believe that I am the one to tell you⊠but you are carrying our child, my love.â
News that would come to change your livesâŠ. But others too.
***
âą Epilogue.
Three years later.
You are giving birth againâthe price you pay for delighting yourself by engaging in marital affairs with your handsome princeâwhen news come from Kingâs Landing.
Aemond is holding baby Rhaella in his arms all the whilst watching his son, Aegon, practice sword ship. Heâs very prideful over his eldest son taking so much after him where brain matters are concernedâand abilities tooâ, but the sweet temper is something the boy takes after you.
âSee, Rhae? Your brother is going to protect you just fineâ, Aemond smiles before kissing his daughterâs head.
She giggles, a sight he adores to behold, but every smile dies when a messenger dressed in green comes in.
âMy lord Princeâ, this young lad greets Aemond, sounding somewhat nervous.
âWho is this? Sent by mother, I presume.â
The lad delivers him an old parchment. When opening it carefully, the prince frowns.
âWhat does this mean?â
âThere is war in Westeros, Ser. And King Aegon has summoned you.â
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Puppy Love {Joel Miller x F!Reader}
Rating: Explicit
Word count: 12.1k
Warnings: Mentions of pimping someone out, post apocalyptic morality, mentions of violence, guns, biting, infected, death, slapping, angst, anger, Joel being emotionally constipated, declarations of love, unprotected sex, vaginal sex, outdoors sex, pulling out, mentions of pregnancy/infertility
Comments: You always follow Joel Miller around, you've got his back. You're in love with him. Putting up with Tess's nickname of puppy dog, you don't realize that Joel feels for you until the end.
A/N: ~Contains spoilers for Episode 2~ Follows the episode along with some canon divergence.
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Your eyes slide up and down the streets, daring anyone to come closer or ask questions as you clean against the crumbling brick facade and twist your head to look back at the two men huddled together about a hundred feet from where you are. You canât hear what theyâre saying but Joel looks even more pissed off than normal, even for Joel.Â
âWhat?â Joel shakes his head in annoyance, knowing heâs being squeezed for cards. He doesnât get charged that much for the entire hydro stash he gets from his seller. âNo, no fucking battery is worth that much and you know it.â He growls, narrowing his eyes at the untrustworthy weasel in front of him.Â
Robertâs eyes slide nervously around and he gives a small shrug, uncomfortable being around Joel and preferring to deal with Tess. âWhat can I say? Times are hard. Itâs getting harder to come by these things.â His greedy eyes shift over to where you are looking out at the street. âAlthoughâŠ.Iâm sure we could work something out. I could cut the price in half if you, say, let me have your little pet there for the night.â He chuckles, referring to Tessâs mocking nickname for you. âJoelâs little puppy dog.â
Joel stares at the other man for a few seconds, just processing what he said, until it finally sinks in. âWhat the fuck did you just ask for?â He growls, low and quiet so you donât hear.Â
âYou heard me, Miller. A night with your little lapdog over there. Sheâs gotta be good at sucking cock because you keep her around. Got a fucking harem started with her and Tess. Do you have one sit on your face and the other ride your cock?â Robert guesses, crossing his arms with a cocky smirk, âor do they take turns sucking your dick? Mmm if you guarantee me a blowjob, Iâll even throw in some extras.â
You tense slightly, shifting forward from your place leaning against the way. Eyes watching the way that Joelâs fist curls tight for a moment. Wishing that you could hear what the fuck they are saying, but Joel told you to stay here, so thatâs what youâre doing. âJoel?â You call out, getting his attention as he turns his head towards you. Youâre wondering if you need to come over, knowing you will throw yourself into a fight for him if needed.
He shakes his head, holding his hand up towards you to stop you. He considers the guys offer, he canât deny it. It would get him a hell of a lot closer to where he needs to be without having to do several burns for the cards. âNo. Sheâs not available.â He finally says, not wanting to force you into something like that. He might be an evil bastard but heâs not a monster. âSheâs not an option.â He decides, âyou get more ration cards when we meet for me to collect it.â
âCome on man.â Robert shakes his head and his eyes slide past Joel to leer at you. âItâs just a fucking blowjob. Iâll tell you what?â He huffs, smirking and looking back at Joel. âLet me fuck her, both holes, have her suck my cock and Iâll give you the battery for free. Hell of a deal, right? Iâll even let you watch if you want to.â
Joel canât help but reach up to squeeze the assholeâs throat. His anger makes him growl as he chokes the prick who dared to violate you like that. âYou get the ration cards when I collect it or I can kill you now and get the battery for free? Hell of a deal, right? Iâll even let her watch me kill you.â Joel sasses, tilting his head as he watches his eyes practically bulge.
âShit!â You leap forward but Joel just turns his head.Â
âStay there!â He orders harshly, making you stop in your tracks. Watching as Joel leans in and whispers something else to the disgusting little rat he was having to buy from to get the battery he needed.Â
âNo, no, it-itâs good!â You hear Robert choke out, gasping and sputtering when Joel lets him go. Clutching at his throat and coughing as Joel turns around and starts striding back toward you.Â
âLetâs go.â He demands, his scowl even deeper than normal as you scramble to catch up with his long legged strides. You werenât short but heâs speed walking.Â
âWhat the fuck just happened?â You demand, wanting to know what the fuck is going on.
âDonât worry about it.â Joel growls, body still vibrating with anger. He hates that you were a bargaining chip in this new world. Twenty years ago, it wouldâve been illegal but anything goes in this new era, even the things the QZ deems illegal are turned a blind eye to.Â
âDid you get the car battery?â You ask and Joel doesnât look at you, knowing heâs barely holding on to the thread of decency he has when it comes to you.Â
âNo.â He says without further explanation, âheâs got to locate it.â
âOkay.â You think there is more to it, but he obviously doesnât want to talk about it. You just walk along beside him, watching some of the people on the street part, giving Joel a wide berth. âSo what do we do now?â You ask, unsure if he had other things to take care of.
âWe keep low. You seen Tess? I ainât seen her for a couple of days. Startinâ to get worried.â He frowns, guiding you down the alleyway that takes you back to his building. âI havenât seen her.âÂ
You mimic his frown, both wondering where Tess is and hating that heâs so worried about her. Itâs always been the two of them. You know they fuck, you know sometimes Tess will sneak into his bed, and you hate it, but you donât hate Tess. She is capable of a lot in this world and you know she keeps Joel grounded, something you seem unable to do.Â
âLetâs head to mine and then we will try to track her down.â Joel says, unaware that Tess is already waiting in his room, her face beaten up and sore.
You sigh softly, knowing that you will do whatever he wants. Itâs dumb, but Joel had saved you when you arrived in the QZ, scared off some less than honorable people and you have been drawn to him ever since. Itâs hard being in love with a man who doesnât love you, doesnât even look at you like a woman, but you are loyal to him. He claims heâs not a good man, and thatâs true at times, but heâs good to you. âWeâll find her. Iâm sure sheâll be in your arms tonight.â You mutter, hating how your stomach twists in jealousy.
Joel pretends to not hear you, knowing you and Tess have some tension going on between you but he ignores it. This life is rough enough without needing to fucking deal with women drama. He gets what he needs when he wants and thatâs all that matters to him. He rolls his eyes and strides a little faster to get to his room.Â
When he opens the door, Tess is sitting there with her face bruised and swollen and heâs ready to fucking kill whoever did that to her.
âJesus.â You huff, eyes wide at her injuries. Itâs on the tip of your tongue to make a snarky comment, but instead you watch Joel fuss over her and clean up the wounds with the bottle of alcohol sitting next to the sink. It would be touching if it didnât break your heart. âWhat the fuck happened to you?â You ask finally as heâs dabbing at the corner of her mouth. You flop down on his sofa and glare at your feet.
Joel gently grips her chin as he cleans her up, his eyes burning into hers and he doesnât hear your question, too busy making sure Tess is okay. Neither of them see the crestfallen look on your face until your scowl covers it. Tess sighs, gently pushing Joelâs hand away as she explains that she was held hostage by a couple of Robertâs goons. Joel hisses in annoyance, knowing he shouldâve killed that asshole when he had the chance.
You hate how neither one of them includes you, feeling like an extra wheel. Dragging your feet off the coffee table you slap your hands on your thighs and stand. âSince sheâs home, I guess I better do the same.â You want Joel to tell you to stay, but you know he wonât. Wondering why you put yourself through this torture when he only had eyes for Tess.
Joel wants to ask you to stay but he needs to talk to Tess about what happened. He needs to form a plan and you distract him. âSee you later.â He tells you, not even looking your way and Tess offers you a slight smirk as she bids you goodbye. Joel tuts when you stomp out, slamming the door behind you. âTessâŠâ He murmurs, shaking his head.Â
âWhat? Sheâs like a damn puppy dog hanging around you all the time.âÂ
Joel snorts, âwhat does that make you?â
Tess frowns for a moment before she leans forward. âYou know what I am to you.â She challenges him, holding his gaze until he turns away. You have fucked everything up, everything was fine until you showed up and things changed. âJoel-â She pauses, deciding against asking a question she doesnât want to know the answer to, or at least have it confirmed. Instead she decides to change tactics. âWe need to go find Robert and our battery.â
Joel nods, âwe do. Iâll go find her and then we can get ahead. Get your shit together.â He orders, standing up and making his way out of the door to track you down. He needs you for backup and also, he is secretly amused at the way Tess frowns whenever you are mentioned. Tess isâŠTess is a comfort to him, the woman who has seen him at his worst and still wants him.Â
You are innocent really, still able to fight but you havenât seen that side of him. He doesnât want you to. He wants you to think of him as the closest version to the person he used to be. He misses that person sometimes, grieves him almost as much as he grieves Sarah. The small things heâd bitch about, like money or working late, are trivial compared to the issues he faces today.Â
When he finds you, you are sulking in your room, âcome on. I need you to help me and Tess track down Robert and his goons.â
Staring at him incredulously, you huff after a moment, bending down to pick up your boots. âYouâve got some fucking nerve, Miller.â You grumble, feeling like you are being taken advantage of right now. Joel doesnât comment, just sends you a satisfied look as you put your boots on and turns towards the door.Â
âGet your pack, we might need it.â He tells you before he walks out of your rooms like he owns the damn things. Your fault for letting him in, your fault for being so fucking in love with him that you let him walk all over you.Â
âThis is the last goddamn time.â You promise yourself, muttering angrily as you get ready.Â
Joel doesnât say anything, just raises his eyebrows as he listens outside. Both you and he know thatâs not true. When youâre ready, he guides you down the alleyways to meet up with Tess. âRight. Letâs go get this fucker. Iâm sick of his bullshit.â Joel huffs, making his way through the alleys to find the place Tess detailed when she told him where she was held.
âAwwww, you decided to come along, Iâm so touched.â Tess coos mockingly when you reach her, making you grit your teeth and want to punch her in her good eye.Â
âWell, someone has to clean up your mess.â You huff back.Â
âEnough.â Joel growls, shaking his head at you before he turns to Tess with a pointed look. They did that a fucking lot, silently communicate like you werenât fucking there.
Tess nods and Joel leads the way, entering the building with gun in hand and he creeps down the hall, using hand signals to gesture for you to walk or stop. He knows you and Tess have some fucking women issues between you but he doesnât care. He doesnât have time for that trivial shit.
Itâs not the time to be snarky. Instead of dwelling on the issues, you focus on the task at hand. All you care about is keeping Joel safe. Tess by extension just because you know that he would be upset if something happened to her. She was his woman, not you. Your own gun in your hand, you flank his left side as you follow, eyes peeled for any danger.Â
Joel is naturally anxious, keeping his eyes open and ears clear for any noises. When he spots the dead bodies of Robert and his goons, he doesnât give a fuck. He wants to know who did that to them. When the door to his right suddenly opens, he doesnât think. He just acts. Shoving the girl against the wall so she drops the knife and placing his foot on it, gun aimed at her. When Marlene appears, Joel narrows his eyes, listening as she begs him not to shoot.
Your fingers tense around your own weapon, aimed at the two fireflies in front of you. âWhatâs who he sold our battery to? The Che Guevara of Boston?â You roll your eyes at her humor but itâs true. Listening to her tell Joel that they need to take this girl to the state house to meet her group. âBring your puppy with you too.â You hiss at that, pissed off that Tessâs fucking nickname for you has caught on. âI tried to recruit her, but sheâs too loyal to you Joel.âÂ
Joel conceals the way his heart flutters at the news that you wanted to stay loyal to him. His face remains impassive and the girl tries to get her knife back while Marlene points out that she is bleeding and he needs to hurry up and decide. âFine.â He grunts after Tess states her case.
Huffing, you shake your head. âYou two have fun with that.â You know itâs a bad idea. This is bullshit and there are other places to get a battery.Â
âYouâre going with us.â Joel tells you sternly and you know that you will, if for anything but to watch his back.Â
âWe donât need her. Joel. Sheâll just be a liability.â Tess barely spares you a glance and that pisses you off more.Â
âIâm going.â You hiss, glaring at her.
Joel doesn't need this catty bullshit, the girl is glaring at him and it's putting him on edge. "Fine. Get your shit kid, we are leaving." He orders the girl, Ellie, who goes to get her knife back with a scowl. When night falls, Joel guides the group through the old tunnel that he uses to smuggle things in and once you're outside the QZ, Ellie's eyes widen.Â
"Holy shit." She gasps and a truck drives by.Â
"Get down!" Joel hisses, forcing you to duck alongside Ellie.
âJesus.â You hate being outside the QZ. Hate the risk and you know that itâs getting harder and harder every time. âWe need to move. The fucking soldiers have been crawling around.â You murmur quietly, looking around and shivering slightly in the rain.Â
Just as you get ready to move, the QZ guard who buys from Joel approaches you, gun raised. Joel doesnât even think, surging forward to start pummeling the guy to death. Heâs feral and thereâs nothing any of you can do except watch him. Ellie watches with a fascination while Tess stares impassively.
âJoel.â You know the man is capable of violence, youâve seen it, but this was unhinged. He turns back to look at the girl and you, the expression on his face is fierce and you shake your head after Tess shows him the red scanner. Sheâs infected. You listen to the hurried explanations and you know you need to have this conversation somewhere else. âWe need to go.â You tell him, picking up the knife that the kid had stuck in the bastardâs leg and handing it back to her. You donât know about her claim that sheâs immune, but she deserves to be able to protect herself out here. âTake the rifle.â
 Ellie takes it and Joel is almost dazed as you walk through the debris and overgrowth to find shelter in the city. Once youâve found where you usually stop, Joel slumps down in the chair, flexing his knuckles and hissing. Ellie looks exhausted and you tell her to get some sleep, youâre stopping here for the night. âSheâs infected.â Joel grunts when sheâs fast asleep, bringing yours and Tessâs eyes over to him.
âHer wound looked healed.â Of course it had been dark as shit, but bites from the infected never looked better. Itâs always inflamed as the fungal infection spreads through the body, taking over. You glance at his knuckles, wishing that you had ice to put on it. âYou should wrap it up.â You tell him.
Joel ignores you, just imagining what couldâve happened out there if that asshole had blabbed. Youâd all be dead. Hung for treason or some bullshit like that. âIâm fine.â He finally answers and Tess looks over at him, âsheâs right.â That Joel definitely ignores. He grunts, standing up, âIâll take first watch. You two get some sleep. Iâll watch the girl.â He says, grabbing his rifle and ignoring the pain in his knuckles when he grips the handle.
You sigh, knowing it wonât make a damn bit of difference, but you find yourself a corner away from the door so you have time to react and lay your pack down. Using it as a pillow as you turn your back to Joel and Tess. You donât want to see whatever else they do or talk about tonight, tired of being the third wheel and tired of feeling like you should just leave.
Joel keeps watch most of the night until Tess tells him to get half an hour. âLazy bitch couldnât even get up for a watch.â She scoffs at your sleeping form.Â
Joel shakes his head at her, âshe didnât sleep the night before. Trying to help me out by keeping an ear out for the radio. Just - let it, okay?â Joel asks and Tess snorts, nodding her head. He sits down, closing his eyes but he never truly relaxes, just rests until the sun starts to rise.Â
âWhat do we do with the girl?â Tess asks when he stands up, walking over to her.Â
âKill her.â Joel says, knowing that Marlene wouldnât find out. He could lie and say she got infected for real this time. Itâs not far from the truth. âWe donât know if sheâs gonna turn.â He murmurs, keeping his eyes on the curled up ball in the middle of the room.
Grunting, you wake up with a jolt, used to the nightmares that plague your sleep. Everyone in the fucking horror reality has them, or theyâve never lived outside the QZ they were born in. Flipping over, you notice that Joel and Tess are already awake, both of them watching the girl. âShoulda woke me.â You grumble, sitting up and rubbing the sleep from your eyes before you shuffle over towards Joel.
âYou needed the sleep.â Joel murmurs, ignoring the scoff from Tess. âWe should kill her.â Joel says with finality just as the girl wakes up, glancing around to see you sitting up and Joel sitting there with his rifle aimed towards her, anxious and tense as hell. âYou make one wrong move and Iâll kill ya.â He promises, making Ellie scoff and pull her sleeve up.Â
âIâm fine. No different than last night.â
You shift slightly, looking from Joel to Ellie. âWhy didnât she kill you?â You demand, asking about Marlene. Ellie explains about the daily testing and holds out her arm to show that it is perfectly steady. No tremor, which is normally the first sign of infection besides a bite. âJesus.â You shake your head, unsure of what all of these means and look back towards Joel. Itâs him she needs to convince. Or Tess rather because she can sway Joelâs opinion.
Joel considers not killing Ellie when Tess points out that it hasnât spread. âFine. Better get something to eat before we head out.â Joel says, sitting down, and he flexed his knuckles.Â
âBroken?â Tess asks and he shrugs, âhairline. It will heal fast.âÂ
You frown at that but still get your jerky out of your pack.Â
Ellie, meanwhile, pulls out a delicious looking sandwich and your eyes widen. âIs that chicken?â Tess asks and Ellie explains how Marlene got it from smugglers. Joel snorts, chewing on his jerky and trying to ignore the pain in his hand.
You hate that he is hurting, knowing that he canât take anything that would help because it would make him slower to react. Instead of offering to take the gun, you open your pack and offer him the precious bottle of aspirin you have. It took a month of ration cards to get it, and you normally used it when your cramps would get too bad. âHere.â You offer quietly, âto help with the swelling.â
Joel takes the pill, knowing itâs aspirin and trusting you. He swallows it dry and makes the decision to head out. âLetâs go. We need to take advantage of the daylight.â He says, standing up to grab his pack and the rifle. Ellie scrambles to pack up her pack again and soon enough, you are heading outside with Tess keeping close to Joel.
âDo we want to take the long way or the short way?â Joel asks and itâs not your opinion heâs actually asking for. Tess snorts.Â
âYou mean the long way or sure to die way.â She corrects sarcastically, making Ellieâs eyes widen dramatically and you roll your own. Youâve been the short way and itâs fine as long as you pay attention.Â
âI vote for the long way given the small amount of information available.â Ellie huffs, making you smirk.Â
âThe long way, fast.â You decide. âSooner we get her to the state house, the sooner you have the truck you need to get to Tommy.â Thatâs what all this is about after all, getting to his brother.
Joel nods, agreeing with you. You, Tess, and the girl trail behind him. Joel hears Tess telling the kid about Boston and the wreck it is now, but he isn't really listening, too busy scanning the area for any threats: human or infected.Â
He walks into the hotel and Ellie is amazed. "Wow. Did you guys ever stay somewhere like this?" She asks and Joel snorts while Tess says, "it was a bit out of our price range." You can't help but snort when Joel sasses the kid by hopping down onto the last step.Â
"Come on." You urge her forward and she rambles on about the hotel. When she rings the bell, Joel rolls his eyes and you shrug, offering him a look of amusement.
Halfway through the lobby when Ellie screams, you turn around and rush back through the water, unsure if itâs a clicker. Relieved when Joel isnât shouting and shooting, you find the decayed bones of an unfortunate bastard floating. He must have moved and scared the girl. You hum, watching as Joel offers her his hand, something that he wouldnât have done if he didnât somewhat believe her story about not being infected, so it bodes well for her. âCome on kid,â you offer, giving her a small smile. âLetâs go up to the rooms. Weâve got a hell of a climb.âÂ
Once you climb the ridiculous amount of stairs, Joel curses when he finds the exit has caved in. âFuck.â He grunts.Â
âI can fit through. Let me try and get through.â Tess says and Joel shakes his head, âwe can go the short way.âÂ
Tess huffs, âwe donât have time. Iâll be fine.â She promises and starts to climb through the debris. You hover near Ellie, trying to ignore the way your heart pangs at their secret look, only between them. It makes you feel like youâre a thousand miles away from them. Ellie slumps down on the floor and Joel follows suit, looking over at you while Ellie starts to ask him questions.
You fiddle with your gun, trying not to feel like you are stuck in the middle of a Q&A that you donât want to be at. Snickering to yourself when Ellie sasses back at Joel that she knows where Detroit is. Only to be surprised moments later when Joel actually knows where you are from. You had only told him once and assumed that he had forgotten or didnât care enough. âSo you and her areâŠ.â Joelâs entire body tenses.Â
âPass.â Of course he wouldnât define their relationship, he doesnât ever acknowledge things Tess says in front of you, but he doesnât deny them either.Â
Ellie huffs and turns her inquisitive eyes towards you. âSo that means you and her areâŠâŠâ She trails off, trying to get either one of you to fill in the gaps.Â
Joel grunts, âpass.â He doesnât want to talk about you or Tess with Ellie.Â
âAre you- is it like a throuple situation?â She guesses and Joel snorts, ânope.âÂ
You and Tess would kill each other before you fuck each other. âAbsolutely not.â You wrinkle your nose at being with Tess. God, she gets under your skin but she is important to Joel.Â
âRightttt.â Ellie drawls just as thereâs a thumping on the door. Joel stands up, gun in hand, anxious until Tess shouts her announcement that sheâs back. Joel sighs slightly, relieved to see Tess, and he gestures for you and Ellie to get your shit.
Your stomach knots, knowing that the hardest part is coming up but there is something calming about the view from the terrace. Looking out over the ruins of the city that you had wished to have visited before all of the world went to shit. Tess pulls back the heavy plastic curtain so Ellie can get her first look and you walk up to the ledge.Â
Ellie has to step up on the little ledge and she looks down at the courtyard below. âThereâs so many of them.â Ellie exhales, looking at that view. You shift to stand next to her, Joel on the other side. Tess starts to talk, explaining the way the fungus spreads. âTheyâre connected.â Tess hums. âMore than you know.â Joel looks over at you and meets your eyes for a second.Â
You wish that he cared about you, but he doesnât. You tear your eyes away from his and listen to Tess tell Ellis about how the tendrils spread underground, alerting other infected to your location. âYouâre not immune from being ripped apart.â Tess cautions her. âYou understand?â For a moment, the woman you hold such a grudge against seems almost motherly and you wish that she could talk to you with half the kindness, although you know youâve not been exactly nice to her. Your feelings for Joel getting in the way of that.
âSo weâre not going that way.â Ellie huffs and you shake your head, knowing whatâs coming. âShort way?â She asks, looking between the three of you and you look to Joel for his opinion.Â
âMuseum.â He decides, making you roll your shoulders in anticipation of the problems ahead.Â
You are anxious, preparing yourself to enter the museum and Joel glances at you, "be careful." He tells you softly, ignoring the glance from Tess. He opens the door, pleased after discovering the fungal roots are dry. He enters the Bostonian Museum, keeping his gun raised and ready.
Blowing out a soft breath, you grip your gun in your hand tightly and keep your head on a swivel as you watch your steps. The museum is dark and all you have for light is the flashlights, the kid breathing heavily at your back and you swear you hear her huff under her breath because Joel wouldnât let her have a gun. She looks around, taking in the scene as the old building creaks and groans around you. âYeah, cooked.â Joel says and Tess grunts.Â
âFinally some fucking luck.â Ellie steps forward, almost carelessly at their conversation. âI guess we should have gone this way in the first place.â Joel hums, not watching as Ellie turns a corner.Â
âOh shit!â You rush over and shine another light on the body she discovered, groaning to yourself when you see that the person has been ripped up. Knowing what causes that. âWhat the fuck did that?â She demands, making you shush her quickly. You look over at Tess and Joel, the other woman looking nervous.Â
âMaybe.â Tess whispers. âMaybe he was attacked outside. Crawled through the door, the door was open. It could have been him.â She insists, making you roll your eyes and scoff quietly. She knows thatâs not what happened.Â
âI donât hear anything.â She insists. âWhat would you hear?â Ellie demands, her voice at a normal volume and all three of you turn towards her to quiet her down.
Joel holds his hand up, telling Ellie to quieten down. âWhat would you hear?â She repeats in a whisper, âyou saying an infected did that?â Tess shushes her and you bite your lip. â-because Iâve been attacked by one and it wasnât like that.â Ellie looks back at the body.Â
âOkay from this point forward we are silent. Not quiet, silent.âÂ
Ellie shakes her head âwhat-âÂ
Joel cuts her off, âno questions. Just do it.â Joel is anxious, always tense when heâs in closed spaces, and he slowly makes his way up the stairs. Itâs difficult to move so slow but he is careful when he steps on the dried fungus. He manages to make it up the stairs and onto the second floor. He opens the door, walking in with his gun ready. The ceiling collapses and Tess shoves Ellie forward, pushing her into you and the three of you fall onto the floor. Joel helps Ellie up and thatâs when you hear it. A clicker.
Shit. Your gun comes up and you immediately move in front of Ellie, flanking Joel to his left and Tess to his right. Youâre trapped in a room with a fucking clicker. You donât dare to breathe, barely creeping forward since they rely on hearing, totally blind with the large, hard fungal growth covering their heads. You hear her breathing start to pick up and you turn to find her wide as you realize there is more than one. All of you crouch down behind a display and Joel motions to Ellie that they rely on hearing. You can see the terror on her face, making the way your heart is pounding in your chest. Joel puts his finger to his lips again as they continue to make horrible screeches and clicks as they search for the source of the sounds. The clicker comes around the display and the little girl sees it for the first time, inhaling sharply.Â
Shit. The clicker turns and screeches before Joel brings his gun up to shoot it.Â
Itâs terrifying, fighting for your life, and you are scared that Joel is gonna get bitten. You scramble to shoot the clicker but eventually you run out of bullets. Joel curses, âfucking go.â He hisses, âIâll distract it.â You rush to hide around a corner to reload your gun. The girl and Tess are across the room and your hands shake as you struggle to reload your weapon. â
Fuck.â You hiss and Joel comes to stand beside you, doing the same thing. His eyes are full of fear and you stare back at him until you hear the clicks.
Your eyes close for a brief second, well aware that this could be it for you. You hate it. The fact that you could die in this fucking museum and never find Tommy. Never tell Joel how you feel. The floorboards creak and you hear the clicks right next to you. Another sound draws its attention and you turn to watch it, finding Ellie cowering behind a display and both you and Joel creep over to her. Making your way silently until Joel steps on a piece of broken glass. You cry out and start shooting as the clicker flies over the display and knocks all three of you to the ground, trying to infect you as you fight it off.Â
Joel curses, scrambling to keep the clicker away from you and Ellie and himself. Itâs a struggle but eventually he manages to push it aside and put a bullet in its neck and eventually itâs face. Just as that one falls, the other rushes forward and Tess swings an axe into its head. Joel scrambles to grab his rifle, shooting the bastard in the head to kill it. âYou alright?â Joel asks Tess as she stands.Â
âTwisted ankle.âÂ
He turns to you, eyes wide and asks you the same question. âIâm fine.â You answer and Tess asks Ellie who exhales shakily, âwell I didnât shit my pants.â
You canât help but laugh at her response, knowing you felt the same way the first time you dealt with clickers. âAre you fucking kidding me?â Turning back towards the kid, your eyes widen when you see that sheâs injured again. âAhâŠI mean if it was going to happen to one of us.âÂ
You catch the way that Tess tenses up, making you frown slightly but sheâs quickly redirecting the conversation. âHey, letâs get out of here.â
Making your way onto the roof, itâs obvious that Tess needs medical attention. Joel hands Ellie a rag for her arm and turns his attention to Tess. Leaving you to walk over to the other girl and help her while he concentrates on wrapping her ankle. âCome here. Iâll help you.â It will be a good distraction, tending to her wound rather than watching Joel fret over a twisted ankle. Soon her arm is wrapped and sheâs walking towards the edge and the scaffolding that connects the two buildings. âOver there?â She asks and Joel barely glances at her. âYeah, I know it looks scary.â Joel starts but Ellie interrupts him. âThat was scary, this is wood.â She huffs as she brazenly walks across the beam and makes you smirk at the other two adults.Â
"Just wait there. Give us a minute." Joel says and you step to follow Ellie across the wood, not wanting to see the tenderness Joel gifts Tess with. "Be careful." Joel warns you while opening his backpack. You scoff, walking across the wood as brazenly as Ellie. Joel shakes his head, while he tapes Tess's ankle.Â
"Told you, she's trouble." Her eyes focus on Joel but he doesn't notice, set on the job at hand. "There's probably more ahead."Â
Tess nods, "so we'll deal with it then...I got it. I got it." She tells Joel when he wraps around her ankle again.Â
Joel leans back to look at Tess until his gaze turns to the building across from them. "What about the kid?" He asks, "maybe the first bite didn't take but what about the second?"Â
Tess huffs, turning towards him, "why don't you just take the good news? Can you do that?" She asks Joel, "can you just for once think that we might actually win?" Tess asks and shakes her head, "just go and watch her and your fucking puppy."Â
Joel sighs, grabbing his backpack and rifle before making his way across the wood. âWow.â Ellie exhales, looking at that view. You shift to stand next to her, Joel on the other side.Â
âIs that everything you hoped for?â Joel asks Ellie as you stare across what used to be a major city now turned to a deserted urban jungle.Â
âJuryâs still out.â Ellie replies back, âbut manâŠyou canât deny that view.â You hum in agreement and Joel looks at Ellie before his eyes meet yours for a second.
âTess gonna live?â You ask, breaking the moment up but you hate how his eyes seem to suck you in. Itâs not going to happen for you and you need to accept that. Youâve already decided that when Joel and Tess get their vehicle from the Fireflies, you are going to stay. Youâll go with them or turn around and find a way back to the QZ. You canât do this anymore. Itâs too hard and you know that it will never be you that he picks. Stupid of you to fall for a man who was obviously involved with someone whether or not he admitted it. Joel rolls his eyes, not answering you and you swallow harshly. âWhen we get to the state house-â You start, wanting to tell him your plan, but Tess comes hobbling up.Â
âCome on, let's get there before itâs darkâ She demands, impatient to get moving again as she swings herself onto the ladder.Â
Ellie goes next and then you look at Joel who nods at you. You nod and make your way down the ladder, firm in your decision. Joel glances at his watch, thinking about Sarah, and forces himself to keep going. As you walk towards the state building, Joel glances down at Ellieâs arm. Cautious and wondering if sheâs gonna turn at any second. When you arrive, thereâs no one there and you duck behind a car to see if anyone shows. âWhere the fuck are they?â Tess asks and Joel shakes his head, looking back at Tess before his eyes meet yours.Â
He stands, rifle in his grip, and he makes his way over to the truck. Cautious and alert, he opens the passenger door and turns back to you, Tess and Ellie. âStay back.â He orders, making his way around the truck to find the back is empty.
âJoel, what the fuck is going on?â You, Tess and Ellie come towards the truck and Joel shakes his head.Â
âI donât know.âÂ
You look around, a bad feeling settling in the pit of your stomach. âThey went inside.â Ellie tells you, pointing to the blood on the ground and you sigh, knowing that is never a good sign.Â
Tess seems to take this as a personal attack and grabs Ellieâs hand as she marches towards the steps. âTess.â Joel huffs, making you roll your eyes but you follow are the pair. Not for Tessâs sake, but for the girls. You know Joel will be right behind you. You walk into the state house, finding all of the crew dead on the floor in the middle of a vegetation patch.Â
âHoly shit.â Ellie hisses, and you have to agree. This is bad.Â
âFuck.â You hiss under your breath, checking for signs of FEDRA or if it was infected that got them.Â
Tess searches the bodies, âI mean thereâs gotta be a fucking radio or something, right?â She says, searching the crate closest to her.Â
âWho killed them? FEDRA?â Ellie asks and you shrug, glancing back at Joel who pulls the body at his feet back onto its back.Â
âNo. One of them got bit. The healthy ones fought the sick ones. Everyone lost. Tess? Whatâre you doinâ?â He asks, turning back towards her as she continues searching.Â
Tess steps towards the girl and you edge your way in front of her to protect her. âWhere did Marlene say that she was taking you? Ellie!âÂ
The girl steps forward, âuh. I donât know. Just west.âÂ
Tess turns away, âjust west. Fuck. Okay. Well, I mean one of themâs gotta have a map on them, right?â She says more to herself. âJoel, can you help me?â She asks, nearly begging.Â
Joel shakes his head, âno! Tess, itâs over. We are going home.â He walks towards her, wanting to get everyone back to the QZ and safe.Â
Tess growls, âthatâs not my fucking home.â Joel stares at her, eyes unreadable as Tess stands up. âIâm stayinâ.â She declares, âI mean, our luck had to run out sooner or later.âÂ
Joelâs face falls and your eyes widen just as Ellie says, âfuck. Sheâs infected.â Joel turns back to Tess, staring at her, almost begging her with his eyes for that to not be true.
âShow me.â Joel demands and you can hear the agony in the two words. He doesnât want to believe it, doesnât want it to be true. Your stomach drops, hating that she has been infected despite your differences. It didnât mean you wanted her dead.Â
âJoel.â She takes a step towards him and instinctively, he jolts backwards, pulling away from her. You walk towards the kid and put your arm around her shoulder gently, wanting to comfort her. Tess pulls her jacket away so you can see the bite on her neck and you close your eyes. âOops.â She jokes. âRight?â She turns to Ellie. âTake your bandage off.â You help Ellie take the bandage off to reveal that her own wounds from the clickers havenât gotten any worse. Sheâs not infected. Walking over, she takes the girl's arm. âLook, Joel.â She demands, holding it up for him to inspect. âThis is real. Joel sheâs fucking real.â She insists. âI need you to get her to Bill and Franks.âÂ
âNo,â Joel shakes his head.Â
âTheyâll take her off your hands. Theyâll handle it from here.âÂ
âNo, no, no, I canât. They wonât take her. Theyâre not going to take her.â He frowns.Â
âThey will âcause youâll convince them.â Tess tells him. âYes you will. I never ask you for anything. Not to feel the way I feltâŠâ You frown in confusion, not understanding what the fuck she is talking about. Joel loves her.Â
âNo.â Joel shakes his head but Tess interrupts him.Â
âNot toâŠshut the fuck up because I donât have time.â Joel looks devastated and you clutch Ellieâs shoulder as you try not to react to this entire scene being played out in front of you.Â
âThis is your chance. You get her there, you keep her alive, and you set everything right. I know you donât feel the same way I do but you need to stop burying your feelings. Life is too damn short to keep lying to yourself.â Tess says, her eyes meeting yours before she looks back at Joelâs. âAll the shit we didâŠâ She looks over at you, âhe was gonna offer you up to Robert. He was gonna trade sex with you for the battery we needed.âÂ
Your jaw drops and Joel refuses to look at you, keeping his gaze on Tessâs. âLittle puppy dog, always following him around. Thinkinâ you were the third wheel when it was always me.â Tess chuckles humorlessly and shakes her head. âPlease say yes, Joel, please.â Tess begs and Joelâs gaze shifts over to you.Â
The way youâre looking at him is enough to make him say no. He wants to protect you, protect the girl. He canât do that if he takes you both to Bill and Frankâs. âPlease.â Tess begs again just as the body behind Ellie shifts to crawl.Â
âOh fuck!â The teenager yells and ducks behind you and Joel when you move her out of the way. Joel doesnât hesitate to take his gun out, killing the bastard, and his jaw is clenched when he sees the fungus curling around the dead digits. He looks towards the door and rushes past Tess to open it. Eyes panicked when he looks back after shutting the door.Â
âHow many?â Tess asks.Â
âAll of them. Maybe a minute.â Joel says, spinning around in a panic to face you but you refuse to meet his eye.
Tess gets to work, pushing over the barrels of gasoline, spilling it over the ornate tile floor. âWhat are you doing?â You ask and Tess answers with âmaking sure they donât follow you.âÂ
Joel is frozen, facing the reality that the woman whoâs been his right hand for so long is not walking out of this building with him. He steps closer to her, grenades roll across the floor. âJoel.â Tess moves to stand in front of him. âJoel.â She repeats and he finally meets her gaze. âSave who you can save.â She orders, her eyes flicking over to you before she meets his dark stare.Â
Heâs struggling. Part of him wants to drag Tess out of here but the other side of him wants to keep you safe. Heâs torn and eventually, the side of the living wins. He stares at Tess, offering her a small nod, and he spins, grabbing Ellieâs hand and wrapping his arm around your waist. âStop! Weâre not leaving her. Get off of me you fucker! Iâm not going with you!â Ellie shouts and you let Joel drag you out of the building. Heâs frantic to get you away before the building explodes with Tess inside of it.Â
âHurry up.â He growls, dragging you both until youâre far enough away. He ducks down as the glass explodes, shoving you on the floor, and he grabs his rifle to aim it in case any infected chase after you.Â
Ellie stands beside him, watching their bodies fall to the floor with the flames, and Joel eventually lowers the gun. âJoelâŠâ You trail off and he shakes his head, turning to walk away. Ellie lingers for a moment until you step forward to follow him.
Your jaw rocks and you shake your head, unable to believe that he had refused to even talk to you after Tess dropped that bomb on you. At least she told you before she died, even though it was supposed to be one last barb through your heart. âIâm not going.â You decide, stopping short, only a few hundred feet from where you had watched the building explode. âThis is your mission. For Tess.â You turn around and start walking back the way you just came, sure that the infected will be burned now given the size of the fire bomb and the smoke still billowing from the building.
Joel pauses, watching you for a moment until he strides forward to grab your wrist, pulling you back to stop you walking away. âYou ainât going anywhere. Itâs too dangerous. Stop movinâ.â He growls when you try to pull out of his grip. âI donât understand. What - why you wanna go back?â
Instead of trying to pull out of his grip, you spin around, slapping him across his cheek. âYou fucking bastard!â You hiss, yanking your wrist away from him as he loosens his grip in shock. âYou were going to- going to fucking sell me to Robert for your fucking battery!â Hot tears spill down your cheeks and you donât even bother wiping them away. âI knew you didnât-â you break off, âfuck you, Miller.â
Joel is shocked that you slapped him and he hisses, âJesus Christ.â He curses Tess despite her soul not even leaving the damn earth yet. âI didnât sell you. He wanted you and I said no. I fuckinâ told him no.â He clarifies, ignoring the wide eyed look from Ellie.Â
âTell me you didnât think about it.â You challenge him, chest heaving as you step closer and square up to him. âTell me that you didnât consider it.â Joel doesnât answer you and your chin trembles when you see the guilt in his eyes. âI thought so.â You choke out. âI fucking loved you and you were going to whore me out to save money and get your goddamn battery.â
He shakes his head, âno baby. I didnât - I didnât do it though.â He chokes, knowing you hate him and he doesnât know why that destroys him when heâs fought so hard to keep you at arms length. âYou canât love me, okay? Iâm - Iâm a fucking mess and I was fooling around with Tess until I realized that I -â He cuts himself off, knowing that itâs getting dangerous.
âUntil you what? Couldnât whore her out?â You spit, shaking your head at him. âI put up with the stupid fucking nickname. âPuppy dogâ.â You sneer. âGuess thatâs what I was, huh? A stupid little puppy dog that doesnât fucking realize sheâs not wanted. Following you around, helping you, trying to make you- fuck, I donât know.â You lift your hands helplessly and slap them down against your thighs. âMake you love me, I guess. But thatâll never happen. Iâm not Tess.â You close your eyes, and sigh. âJust- go to take Ellie where Tess wanted you to, go find your brother. Iâll- Iâll be fine. Iâm not your problem.â
He knows he will lose you forever if he lets you go now and heâs lost so much in his life. The burden he carries every damn day with each life he loses around him. He canât lose you too. He brushes over what you said to finish his own sentence. âI was fooling around with Tess until I realized that I was fuckinâ in love with you and Jesus fuckinâ Christ that terrifies me.â He confesses, chest heaving.
You frown, not believing him for a second. âDonât lie to me, Joel.â You sob out angrily. âYou at least owe me the fucking truth.âÂ
Ellie steps forward. âHey so, uh- itâs-âÂ
You turn around and glare at her. âNot now!â You hiss, wanting to finish this so you can leave and find some place to hole up for the night before sneaking back into the QZ. âShe was practically living in your apartment. She was there every damn night. Now you want to tell me you werenât fucking her?â
âI stopped. We werenât - we were planninâ the smuggling. We werenât doing shit other than figurinâ out how to get shit past the wall, past FEDRA. Jesus, sweetheart, I didnât - I donât want to put you in danger. Iâve been tryinâ to keep you safe. Tess knew how I feel. Shit, she was jealous and thatâs why she called you my puppy dog. I shouldâve stopped it but doing that wouldnât meant acknowledging these fuckinâ feelings that Iâve been tryinâ to squash down. Love doesnât succeed in this goddamn hellhole. Love is a weakness and I - shit - you make me weaker than a paper straw under a one ton weight.â
You donât know if you believe him. The sting of finding out that he had even thought about giving you to Robert, even for a moment, stings. But you know it would be safer for Ellie if there was more than one capable adult looking out for her ass. Thereâs enough of you that immediately wants to forgive Joel that you stare into his dark eyes for a moment before you nod. âFine.â You whisper. âIâllâŠ.go with you on this fucking haul.âÂ
Joel is relieved that you are coming along. He knows this conversation isnât over but you need to get moving. Get to some kind of shelter before it gets dark. âCome on baby. We can talk later. Letâs get safe first.â He says, grabbing his rifle. Ellie raises her eyebrows at him as he walks past her.Â
âNever knew you were so emotional, Joel.â She scoffs, remembering the books that would be passed around in secret at the school about romance and how the guy would kiss the girl after declaring he loved her.
Instead of following directly behind Joel, you put the girl between you and him. Bringing up the rear for safety as well as to give you some space to allow for thinking about what the fuck you are going to do. You know Joel isnât a âgood manâ in the pre-end of the world morality. Maybe he was then, but this life, this world changed everyone - you included. You donât even know as much as Tess might have, but you know that he had saved you when he could have killed you. That he didnât give you to Robert. Biting your lip, you wonder if thatâs why he was choking the bastard the day before yesterday. Not that it mattered, the fucker was dead. Sighing softly, you shift your gaze around the fading light to look for somewhere to safely pass the night.Â
Joel guides you through the forest that is invading Boston, nature taking back what is rightfully hers. Joel sighs, holding his rifle, until he comes around a sheltered area. Itâs not comfortable but itâs safe and thatâs all that matters. âWe will set up here.â He declares, watching the tree line for any disturbances and when he doesnât find any, he shrugs his pack off.
You donât speak, just shrug off your own pack and set it down as you start to get the area ready for the night. While the infected werenât in this area, wild animals were. A fire would be necessary to keep them from getting too close and you know that the sun will be setting soon. You start to drag trash and debris closer, scrapping out an area to start the fire and pile things high. Joel canât move much, not with his hand even though he would protest over it.Â
Joel watches you start the fire and Ellie sits down on the ground, opening her pack to pull her sandwich out. Sheâs starving and she doesnât want to wait to eat. When youâve started the fire, Joel pulls out his food and water, holding it out towards you. âYou gotta eat, sweetheart.â He says, watching you sit down across from him. He will mourn Tess later when he takes watch. He doesnât want to show his emotions now when youâve shattered him with your onslaught.
Shaking your head, you donât take his offerings. âYou need it more than me.â You tell him as you reach for your own pack. âI have my own but I just-â You bite your lip. âIâm going to sleep first. You take first watch and wake me in a few hours.â You donât let him argue, setting your pack up as a pillow and turning your back on him and the girl, curling in on yourself and forcing yourself to close your eyes.Â
He doesnât argue, knowing you need to rest and he needs time to think. Ellie looks at him as he starts to chew on the jerky and he ignores her raised eyebrows. âDonât say a word, kid.â He orders, shaking his head after he swallows the chewy bark.Â
Ellie rolls her eyes, âwhatever dude. You canât see whatâs right in front of you. What Tess saw.â She says and continues eating. Joel grimaces, thinking of Tess. He tried to hide how he felt about you from her, thinking he had been successful but he wasnât.
You donât know how long youâve been asleep, but your jerk awake with a gasp. Your hand reaches for the gun that is right next to you and you flip over to try to figure out what woke you. The fire is still burning and the kid is curled but about five feet from you, wedged between the concrete wall and the fire. Joel is still awake, his eyes watching as you sit up. âShit.â You huff, putting the gun down and blinking rapidly. âGet some sleep, Iâll take over.â You promise, groaning quietly as you move to your feet to stretch.
Joel shakes his head, âno. I wanna talk. Come here.â He pats the space beside him, wanting you to come and sit down.Â
You hesitate but eventually sit down beside him. âWhat is it Joel?â You murmur, not wanting to rehash this bullshit.Â
âShut up.â He orders and you open your mouth. âShut the fuck up.â He hisses, pissed off with you. âIâm not gonna make this damn speech again, okay? I donât do this shit. Not since before outbreak day. I - I love you. I donât want to lose you. I donât - I canât lose someone else and I - I havenât felt this way in so damn long and I tried to ignore it but I love you. Iâm in love with you darlinâ and that fuckinâ terrifies me.â
His speech startles you, not expecting to hear something like that. Not from him. You close your eyes and absorb the words that you have wanted to hear for so long, believing them to be nothing more than a wistful dream. âIâm sorry.â You offer. âFor that, I guess. For Tess.â You have to look away from his dark gaze, unable to look at him for too long without wanting to kiss him. âIâm not sorry that I love you though.â You murmur, looking into the fire. âItâs- it hurt everyday but it was worth it.â
He turns to look at you, his brown eyes almost orange as they reflect the flames of the fire. Heâs slow, giving you a chance to pull away but he leans in, cupping your cheek. His calloused thumb caresses the skin there and he leans in to kiss your lips. Itâs soft, the opposite of him, but he wants this moment to be good, to be memorable in case you donât make it past tomorrow. In this life, every day is a bonus.
Eyes slipping closed, you want to live in this moment. Joelâs lips on yours makes your entire body tingle. Reaching up and taking his hand while your other finds his shoulders. Moaning softly because you canât believe this is happening and you never expect it to be so gentle.
Joel groans softly into the kiss, grabbing your ass to pull you into his lap. Straddling him and he glances over your shoulder to make sure the kid is still asleep. âFuck.â Joel groans when you are pressed against him, his lips finding your jaw and he kisses until his lips press against yours again.
You whine again his lips when his hands squeeze your ass just like youâve imagined more times than you ever want to admit. Wrapping your arms around his neck and shamelessly grinding down on the bulge in his jeans that you had always salivated over. âJoel.â You whisper, not wanting to wake the kid. âI-â he shushes you, pressing his lips to yours again.
His hands slide under your shirt, wanting to feel more of you, and he groans when you grind down on him again, cock hardening in his jeans. He thinks youâre gorgeous, fucking gorgeous, and heâs jerked off thinking about you too many lonely nights after he stopped sleeping with Tess. âWe gotta be quiet.â He orders, sliding his hands higher so he can undo the clasp of your bra. He doesnât take it off, just pushes it up your chest so he can slide his hands around your torso to cup your tits, squeezing them in his rough hands.
Thereâs a voice in the back of your mind that wonders if this is because Tess is dead. If youâre merely replacing her for him. You push it down, ignore it. You donât care when you are getting to touch him like youâve always wanted to. Ducking your head down and kissing the bare patch on his jaw like youâve always wanted to. Your fingers fumbling with his belt as you try to get him free from his pants. You canât ride him like this, not without taking your pants off and thatâs dangerous. Hell, this is too dangerous really. Youâre distracted by him.
He knows this is dangerous, the girl could wake up, but he desperately wants to feel you. He works on your pants, unbuttoning them and he shoves his hand inside, cupping your cunt after sliding under your panties. He finds you wet but not dripping and his fingers rub your clit after sliding through your folds.
You swear youâre going to bite through your lip trying to keep quiet. Loving the thick fingers youâve watched so many times slide though your folds and press against your clit. âJoel.â You pant, needing more from him. âI- you have to fuck me.â You gasp out. âPlease. Just- just once.â You know that he might change his mind come morning. That he could put that wall back up but you will be happy if you just get one night. âPlease, baby. I need you.â
He nods, knowing he needs that connection. Losing Tess, nearly losing you, itâs been a long ass day and he wants to connect to you. He whispers for you to stand up and he withdraws his fingers, making you whine softly. When you stand, he pulls your jeans and panties down to your ankles, dragging you back into his lap so you are straddling him, cunt bare to the cool night air. He reaches down to take his cock out, âcanât cum inside of you. Gonna need you to let me drag you off when I cum.â He whispers, knowing he wonât risk you like that.
You nod quickly, readily agreeing to whatever he wants. âI know- itâs- itâs okay.â You promise, reaching down and wrapping your hand around the thick head of his cock and moaning quietly at the smear of pre-cum building up on the tip so gorgeously. âI-â instead of telling him that you love him again, you rock your hips forward and line him up so you can sink down on him with a moan of his name that is pressed to his shoulder as you take him.
Fuck, youâre so tight. Hot and wet around him and you mean so much to him. His heart thumps in his chest while his cock twitches when you bottom out. âFuckkkk.â He hisses through his teeth, hands gripping your ass and he struggles to remain calm as he allows you a moment to adjust around him. âGotta be quiet.â He whispers in your ear, kissing the skin beneath it.
âYou- you might have to cover my mouth.â You admit breathlessly, whispering the words to him as you flash him a quick smile. âAlways been loud in bed.â An irony in a world where youâve had to be silent at so many times when you just wanted to scream. Your fingers sink into his hair and you tug on it slightly as you start to move, wanting to ride him and eager to feel this incredible cock filling you more.
Joel knows he will want more after this. Heâs already addicted to you and the thought of ever giving this up, you up, has him on edge. He presses his lips to yours, silencing you with his tongue, and he groans softly when your walls grip him tight when you find the angle that works for you. His hands slide up and down your back, squeezing your ass and enjoying how damn good you feel around him.
You try to stifle your sounds but itâs hard when he feels like heâs in your fucking throat. Stretching you out and making you feel more relaxed than you have in years, while craving more. Your tongue tangles with his while your thighs start to push up and down, moving yourself on his length in a way that keeps you as close as possible. Needing to feel every inch of him as much as you can.
Joel is trying to hang on to his composure, resist the urge to roll you over and just slam into you, fuck you into the ground, but he canât. The kid is there. He canât do that now. So he lets you lead, just pulling back to watch you work yourself on his cock. When your mouth opens to moan again, he shoves two fingers in there, wanting you to keep quiet. âCanât wake the kid, darlinâ. You gotta keep quiet.â He reminds you, leaning in to rasp in your ear.
His hands are dirty, filthy. You should want to spit them out but you donât. Not even caring at this point. The feeling of his cock shredding up into you every time your hips fall is too good to care. His voice rumbling in your ear makes your cunt clench around him, swearing you can cum from him talking.
Thereâs so much to say to you and yet he canât. The risk is too much, to both waking up the kid, and to his own heart. He canât bring himself to say anything but he does lean in to kiss you, replacing his fingers with his lips, and his hand finds your clit. Rubbing tight circles in it as he gets closer to his own orgasm.
You whimper, groaning as he keeps rubbing your clit. Trying to keep quiet but itâs so hard when he feels this good. Your arms tighten around him and you kiss him harshly, feeling your cunt bottom out and your entire body light up with pleasure as you start to cum for him.
âThatâs it baby.â Joel practically exhales into your mouth as you clamp down on his cock, body shaking against his. He pulls you closer, thrusting up into you as best he can until heâs pushing you onto the ground beside him, barely managing to shift onto his knees to cum on the dirt and not ruin your clothing. He pants, chest heaving while his cock twitches in his hand. âJesus Christ.â He exhales, letting go of his cock to tuck himself away and he shuffles over to where you are on the ground. âSorry baby. Couldnât - needed to pull out.â
âItâs fine.â You pant, understanding why he needed to pull out, but wishing he hadnât. âYou canât risk it.â Youâve never told him anyway and in the moment isnât a good time anyway. Itâs not like it matters anyway. You shuffle quietly, trying to pull your clothes back on and put yourself to rights.
Joel watches you put your clothes back on and once youâre settled, he reaches for your hand, dragging you close to wrap his arms around you. He breathes you in, relieved that he didnât lose you today. He lost Tess, which he will process and grieve in his own way, but right now, heâs just happy to have you. He loves you, he really does. He wishes he had told you sooner but this life is unpredictable at the best of times. You have a journey ahead with him to get to Bill and Frankâs and he will do everything he can to keep you safe. Whatever it takesâŠhe wonât lose anyone else he loves.
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Joel reluctantly turns over the responsibility of watch to you. He needs rest, you know he didnât sleep last night and heâs had a fucking hell of a day. You all had, but him most of all. Whatever him and Tess had been towards the end, he had cared for her in his own way and he needed to grieve her. You keep the fire crackling, staring into the flames when you arenât watching the inky blackness around your small space and listening for more than the rustles of wildlife. Your jerky and your water bottle your own companions through the rest of the night until the first rays of sun peak over the horizon and the sky begins to brighten.
When Joel wakes up, you and Ellie are talking, and he winces at the sunlight, trying to figure out how long heâs been asleep. âWhy didnât you wake me?â He grunts and you shake your head, âyou needed to sleep.âÂ
Ellie nods, âyeah man. You had a rough day yesterday.âÂ
He sits up, running his fingers through his hair and he shifts to stand up. âWe gotta get going. Get your shit together. Iâm gonna take a piss.â He stumbles to the tree line, gun in hand and he checks his surroundings before he shoves the weapon in the back of his jeans and pulls his cock out to pee. When he returns, youâve put the fire out and are ready to go. Joel grabs his pack and leads the way, rifle in hand.
You walk alongside Ellie for a bit, hanging back as you try to figure out how to tell Joel. You should, he deserves to know. âSo, uh, did you work your shit out?â Ellie asks, making you look over at her. âCause I donât want it to be a tense trip.â She offers, making you snort.Â
âItâs going to be a tense trip regardless.â You remind her, the journey is no walk in the park for sure. âBut weâve talked. While you were asleep.â
Ellie snorts, âtalked. Sure.â She doesnât believe you just talked. Sheâs not dumb. She learned about all that in school and she knows thatâs how most adults show how they feel. You fluster and look at Joel as he strides ahead, rifle gripped in his hand. He sighs and looks over his shoulder at you and Ellie.
You see Joel jerk his head towards you, motioning for you to come up beside him. Eager to get away from Ellieâs prying questions, you hustle forward and catch up to him. âSomething up?â You ask, wondering if he wants to talk about the plan for getting Ellie to Bill and Frankâs.
Joel turns to look at you as you come alongside him, âeverything okay with the kid?â He asks and you nod, âyeah sheâs good.âÂ
He sighs, âyou think sheâs gonna be okay with Bill and Frank?â You shrug, âwho knows.â Joel glances behind him again to see Ellie looking around and he takes a chance to reach out and hold your hand.
Shocked, you look down at his large hand wrapped around yours, holding it tight and yet heâs not crushing it. Your heart thumps in your chest and itâs impossible to not fall more in love with him. âJoel- I need to tell you something.â You murmur softly, not wanting Ellie to hear.â You can feel him tense up but you squeeze his hand reassuringly. âItâs not- itâs nothing bad. Or, I guess itâs better to say, "I made peace with it a long time ago.â You take a deep breath. âYou donât have to worry about getting me pregnant.â You confess. âI can never have kids.â
Joel frowns, turning to look at you. "You can't - shit. Baby, I'm so sorry." He murmurs, knowing it must've been hard to process. "What - what did they say?" He is curious and wants to know why you can't have kids. He also wants to comfort you but all he can do is squeeze your hand. Even this is more intimacy than he is used to displaying.
âPremature ovarian failure.â You roll your eyes at the words that had been told you so many years ago. âBasically, I stop producing eggs.â You explain. âI found out about two years before the end of the world. So I guess itâs handy?â You try, your joke falling flat. âNot that I would want to have kids in a world like this. Itâs not fair to them. Not fair to her.â You nod back towards Ellie. âI just- if we, you know, againâŠ.you donât have to pull out if you donât want to. If you do, I get it.â
Joel feels guilty that he is happy to hear he doesn't need to pull out but he's sad that you won't get to be a mom. You'd be good at it, even in this fucked up world. "I'm sorry you couldn't, you know, but, next time...I want you in a bed and I ain't gonna pull out." He murmurs so the kid can't hear.
You shiver slightly, happy to hear that there will be a next time if both of you can help it. You hum quietly and shoot him a small smirk. âMaybe we can find a hotel to spend the night in tonight.â You tease softly, not sure what awaits you on this journey but at least youâll be there. By his side this time, instead of trailing along behind him like his little puppy.
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1. Hello! Thank you for being doing this, I find so many things I haven't read! Today, I'm in the mood for any fic where WWX is really shy only around LWJ, like, incredibly nervous, and they end up together eventually, maybe one where LWJ is the one who flirts, subtly, in his way and WWX loses his mind over it đ @ghostwolf-93
loveliness by orphan_account (T, 1k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Love Confessions, First Kiss, Pining, Teen Romance, Getting Together)
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2. I am in the mood for a fic with dark Jiang Cheng (maybe even demonic cultivator Cheng) and some Jiang Cheng/Wei Wuxian pairing. It could be alternate universe where they didn't grow up like siblings and I would like some arranged marriage between them. It doesn't have to come through and the endgame can be different pairing. I am curious if there is such fic out there.
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3. hello and thank you so much for what you do!!! I just read "although my mind is young, it is not gentle" by everythingispoetry and I was hoping you could recommend me something similar? Something centered around Lan Sizhui and showing his relationship with Lan Wangji and/or Wei Wuxian. Could be him growing up pre-canon or during canon , idc. @ladyhavilliard
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Important Distinctions by nagi_blue (T, 5k, gen, Fluff and Crack, [Podfic] Important Distinctions by semperfiona_podfic (semperfiona)
your name, safe in their mouth by astrolesbian (G, 10k, LSZ & WWX, WangXian, Father-Son Relationship, Injury, Hurt/Comfort, Post-Canon, More aligned with CQL than novel canon, Miscommunication, Eventual Positive Communication, Trying to be a family, how to tell your dad you want him to be your dad in 6 easy steps!)
Gathered Herbs & Sweet Grasses by hansbekhart (Not Rated, 19k, LSZ & LWJ, WangXian, dad wangji, LWJâs Questionable Parenting Skills, Grief/Mourning, Recovery, Injury Recovery, Hopeful Ending, Canon-Typical Violence, Gathered Herbs & Sweet Grasses [podfic] by someplacelikebolivia)
Inquiry by incendir (G, 10k, LSZ & LWJ, WangXian)
to the act of making noise by words-writ-in-starlight (WordsWritInStarlight) (G, 19k, LSZ & LWJ, LSZ & WWX, WangXian, Grief/Mourning, Father-Son Relationship, inquiry, LSZ is the best of boys and I will not hear debate, Music, Angst, Fluff and Angst, Found Family, [Podfic] to the act of making noise by Ceewelsh, flamingwell, kisahawklin, Rionaa) This is basically Lan Yuan growing up with Inquiry as a lullaby (and seeing LWJs grief through his eyes) I'm not familiar with the fic mentioned in the ask, but this fic focuses on LSZ growing up. Tissue alert! And double tissue alert for the podfic version
to recollect and long for by mme_anxious (T, 4k, LSZ & LWJ, LXC & LWJ, WangXian, Angst, Humor, Fluff, weird mix of book and live action, Forehead Ribbons, Family Feels, Weddings, Sort Of, POV Multiple)
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4. HII! Can you please find some zombie au's with wangxian? Ty!
The Edge of Night by Hobbsy3 (M, 277k, WangXian, XuanLi, Modern AU, Zombie Apocalypse, YĂșnmĂšng Siblings Dynamics, Accidental Baby Acquisition During a Zombie Apocalypse, Junior Quartet, (except theyâre all babies), Angst with a Happy Ending, Minor Character Death, Hurt/Comfort, Blood and Gore, Ensemble Cast, Worst Zombie Fighting Team Ever, Found Family) Amazing Zombie AU
When the Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation takes a week off by galaxy_in_your_eyes (T, 20k, WangXian, Modern Cultivation, Canon Divergence, Everyone Lives, only those that deserve it, kind of fix-it, Zombie Apocalypse, Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort, Attempt at Humor, POV Alternating, Canon-Typical Violence, Blood and Gore, Mentions of Suicidal Thoughts, Brief Mentions of Cannibalism, Zombies, We donât see the Zombie Apocalypse, It happens behind closed doors, WWX in quarantine, Wangxian being Wangxian, Mentions of Smut, Established Relationship, Courtesy Names, local necromancer gets sick with the flu)
Darkness Before the Dawn by Selenay (E, 64k, wangxian, Zombie Apocalypse, Modern With Magic, Necromancer WWX, Reunions, toddler A-Yuan, There Was Only One Bed, There are zombies but not graphically horrific zombies, Angst with a Happy Ending, Find a home in the middle of an apocalpyse)
when the sun goes out by travelingneuritis (E, 176k, WangXian, Modern Cultivation, tech cultivation, Necromancy, Angst with a Happy Ending, insecurity around adoption, Dad!WWX, dad!lwj, Grief/Mourning, Mistaken Identity, Mood Whiplash, Body Swap, sex tears!, Falling In Love, Consensual Somnophilia, apocalypse (localized), Smut, unrealistic sexual stamina, Flashbacks, Time Skips, Illustrations)
â€ïž A Corpse Called By Name by jaemyun (Not rated, 60k, WangXian, Zombie Apocalypse, Angst, Horror, Zombie WWX, Eventual Happy Ending, yunmeng trio, Eventual WangXian, WWX is dad material even in death, Humor, YLLZ but make him dead, A Corpse Called By Name by jaemyun [Podfic] by Miss Appellation (Lizeth)) WIP podfic / featuring WWX doing the impossible again, being the best big brother, dad and LZ's crush as a consious boss zombie! Beware of some angst tho
a thousand teeth, yours among them by darkredloveknot (enheduane) (E, 10k, WangXian, Zombie Apocalypse, Blood and Violence, Mild Gore, Hook-Up, Falling In Love, metaphysical sexual body horror (??), Non-Sexual Intimacy, Melancholy)
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5. hello! i would love recs for mpreg fics set in canon/post-canon that are NOT a/b/o.
đ§ĄAccidents Will Happen by vesna (mrsronweasley) (E, 45k WangXian, Post Canon, Mpreg, Fluff, Light angst, Mojo's post)
Bloom where you are planted by luckymoonly (M, 44k wangxian, MM/WQ, Canon Divergence, Fix It, courting, Mpreg, Sunshot Campaign, Fluff, Happy Ending, getting together early, Romance, WWX giving birth in the middle of the war? Most likely than you think!, YĂșnmĂšng Siblings Feels, Smut, Drama, Blood and Violence, Minor Character Death, There Is Only One Bed, No Fall of Lotus Pier, Crossdressing, Shotgun Wedding, Mention of miscarriage (not WWX), wangxian Have a Breeding Kink, Giving Birth, Soft granduncle LQR)
Blooming in white by luckymoonly (T, 38k, wangxian, JYL/JZX, MM/WQ, NMJ/LXC, NHS/JC, Canon Divergence, Mpreg, Getting Together, Fluff and Angst, Happy Ending, hidden pregnancy, Mutual Pining, Drama, Misunderstandings, Everyone Lives AU, Miscommunication, WWX and NHS are BFF, matchmaker NHS, Fix-It)
Impermanence, Transience, Permanence by Best Bepsy (BepsyGray) (E, 39k, wangxian, canon divergence, unplanned pregnancy, mpreg, gore, sunshot campaign, assumed miscarriage, medical procedures, childbirth, golden core reveal)
in a river you wade by bleuett (M, 20k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Mpreg, Postpartum Depression, Grief/Mourning, Hurt/Comfort, Good Uncle LQR, Family Feels, Happy Ending, Kid Fic)
Take My Pieces, Make Me Whole by InTheGreySpaces (M, 297k, WangXian, NieLan, ChengQing, XuanLi, Canon Divergence, Angst, Fluff, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Hurt/Comfort, Hurt WWX, JC & WWX Reconciliation, JC is a good brother, LXC Is A Good Brother, Golden Core Reveal, Mpreg, Yuan really IS WWX's son, and LWJ is his other father, LQR is a good uncle, Eventual Happy Ending, WWX Has Memory Issues, NMJ is a good brother, Hurt LWJ, Hurt NMJ, It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better, tiny bit of non-con, chapters will be tagged individually with necessary warnings, sentient Yin Iron)
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6. I am in the mood of fic with some body swap trope. I mean like if Lan Zhan swapped his body with Wei (maybe some magic went wrong) and both have to pretend to be who they are not. Or it could be bodyswap with any other character. Lan Zhan and Huaisang or Wei and Mingjue or anyone else. I think there is big potential for great stories in there. No modern aus or gender swap please.
đđ Holding shreds by barisan (T, 5k, WangXian, Cloud Recesses Study Arc, No Sunshot Campaign, Body Swap, Not for sexy shenanigans, Chronic Pain, Hurt WWX, Hurt LWJ, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Abusive YZY, Bad Parent YZY, Bad Parent JFM, Good Uncle LQR, Hurt/Comfort, Medical Inaccuracies, POV WWX, Angst with a Happy Ending, JiÄng Family Bashing, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Getting Together, Smart WWX)
come home to my heart by occultings (microcomets) (M, 29k, WangXian, Bodyswap, Mutual Pining, Slow Burn, Canon Divergence, First Time, Getting Together, Confessions, Sharing a Bed, Misunderstandings, and a little bit of hurt/comfort as a treat)
These next two are crossovers with TGCF & the body swaps involve characters from that story:
đeven across a thousand miles by merryofsoul (T, 10k, WangXian, HuaLian, Bodyswap, Post-Canon, Light Angst, Crossover, POV Alternating)
lost my fear of falling by thefireplanet (E, 30k, WangXian, HuaLian, Bodyswap, YLLZ WWX, WWX-centric, WangXian-centric, Post-Canon, Canon-Typical Violence, Case Fic, Canon-Typical Wangxian Sex Things)
Two Sides of the Same Coin by JiangChengLotus (T, 4k, XiCheng, WangXian, Bodyswap,Humor, Fluff, Bonding, Chaos, Developing Friendships, Misunderstandings)
flux by orphan_account (E, 60k, WangXian, Post-Canon, Canon Continuation, Case Fic, Getting Together, Sharing a Bed, Curses, Bodyswap, Sharing a Body, Psychic Bond, Love Confessions, Light Angst with a Happy Ending, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Sexual Tension, Explicit Sexual Content, Masturbation, Telepathic Sex, Investigations, Additional Warnings In Author's Note, Slow Build, Slow Burn) i have to recommend Flux! its a case fic that starts out as bodyswap and eventually leads to sharing a body where they can jump between their two bodies together. its so interesting and i find myself coming to back to it from time to time
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7. ITMF request pls đđ» there's quite a few reincarnation/time-travel fix-its where either both WWX and LWJ retain their previous memories, or only LWJ but not WWX. Are there any where WWX retains his, but not LWJ? Thank you in advance â„ïžâ„ïž
Practical Mythology by metisket (T, 17k, WangXian, Time Travel, YLLZ WWX, myths and legends, apparently the burial mounds has to fix everything itself, zombie farm collective, accidental deities, Families of Choice, WWX has no idea what heâs doing, thatâs why heâs doing great) WWX travels back in time & becomes known as a powerful immortal. Baby!LWJ grows up on the myths
Last(?) Loop by PyrrhaIphis (T, 9k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Time Loop, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, before the Cloud Recesses study arc) WWX is in a timeloop, but told from pov of LWJ, who is not in the loop
â€ïž And Time Is But a Paper Moon by sami (M, 138k, WangXian, XiChengQing, Time Travel, Fix-It, Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Healing, Mental Health Issues, PTSD, Hurt/Comfort, Depression, BAMF WWX, BAMF JC, BAMF LWJ, BAMF JYL, Getting Together) multiple podfics and translations into multiple languages available
Wish me luck by starlight1395 (Not Rated, 164k, WangXian, Fix It, Time Travel, Angst, PTSD, Hurt/Comfort, Flashbacks, Nightmares, Slight fluff, Implied Sexual Content, Lots of tears, canon levels of blood/violence, Minor Character Death, secondary character death, Sibling Bonding, JC curses alot, battle scenes with appropriate levels of violence and blood, semi mild smut, it's emotional and soft smut tho so it's okay, mild Self-harm)
Lay my body down by tawaen (M, 48k, WWX & WQ, WWX & WN, wangxian, WWX & JYL, Canon Divergence, Time Travel, Rogue Cultivator WWX, Eventual WangXian, No Golden Core Transfer, Not Cultivation World Friendly, Canon-Typical Violence, Not JC Friendly, What if WWX saw the first siege of the burial mounds and said Nope to the war, OCs, OC point-of-view for one chapter for plot reasons) has WWX's soul zip back to the moment JC strangled him. The memories are incomplete but I think it still counts?
Weâll Build A Dynasty (one the heavens canât shake) by One_eyed_God (T, 66k, WangXian, WWX & WQ, WWX & WN, WWX & JYL, canon typical Jiang family dynamics, BAMF WWX, Canon JC Characteristics, POV Outsider, Hurt/Comfort, Pre-Relationship, WWX is a Wen, Sect Leader WWX, Genius WWX, The Casual Intimacy of Hand-Holding, A Love Letter to WWX, Not JC Friendly, Time Travel Fix-It) is one where WWX is the only one to travel, but the story is told from everyone else's POV
two guys r in love thats literally it by victortor (M, 11k, wangxian, Time Travel, the fluffiest thing ive ever written)
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8. Itmf more like " dispersing clouds ". I Just love the wwx in it. He's written soo good there. Especially the aspect of him being a head disciple, the author wrote about it in such a way that he actually felt like a head disciple. That one paragraph about him waking up and going " 5 laps around the pier now. " It was soo hotttt! Helooo?
Everything else in the book was written so perfectly true to every character.
This book comes par with " 12 moons and a fortnight " for me NGL. @constellationdks
Just go forward like you mean it by tawaen (M, 101k, WangXian, WWX & WN &WQ, WWX & JYL, NHS & WWX, Canon Divergence, WWx does not attend the Wen indoctrination, WWX saves Lotus Pier, Inventor WWX, No Golden Core Transfer, Sect Leader JYL, JC Has No Golden Core, Bad Parents JFM & YZY, Not JC Friendly, but he gets a happier ending than canon so donât look here for bashing) Like in Dispersing Clouds, WWX leaves the Jiang but spends time fixing the defences & interacting with elders & fellow disciples. I definitely feel it has similar vibes to that fic
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9. hi!! im looking for recs where both lwj and wwx time travel to the past (preferably longer and novel canon, but anything works!) thank u!!
Never Again by Hauntcats (T, 67k, WWX & WN & WQ, JC & WWX, wangxian, graphic depictions of violence, major character death, Canon Divergence, Angst, Golden Core Transfer Fix-It, Time Travel Fix-It, Not JC Friendly, Dark, BAMF WWX, mentions of abuse, Not Everyone Dies au, XY doesnât have a happy ending)
đ Here With Me by iamwish (T, 58k, WangXian, Time Travel Fix-It, wwx turns this into a no war!au, Canon-Typical Violence, Period-Typical Homophobia, Bad Parent YZY, POV WWX, POV LWJ, POV JC, Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies, WWX Has PTSD, and also depression sometimes, Unreliable Narrator, (all of them))
đ Regrets by antebunny (G, 37k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Miscommunication, Misunderstandings, Time Travel, Fix-It, Temporary Character Death, Angst, Explicit Descriptions of Love, and other squishy feelings, Angst with a Happy Ending)
đ Ad Oblivione by Baph, HikariNoHimeWriter (M, 70k, WangXian, Time Travel Fix-It, Temporary Character Death, Canon-Typical Violence, POV Multiple, Hurt/Comfort, Grief/Mourning, Identity Reveal, Golden Core Reveal, Cultivation World Critical, Not JC Friendly, Abusive YZY, Angst with a Happy Ending) Out of the pair of them, initially only WWX remembers, but LWJ regains his memories of the undone timeline over the course of the fic
A Life Without Regrets by naqaashi (M, 163k, WangXian, JFM & WWX, JC & WWX, WRH & WWX, LXC & LWJ, LQR & LWJ, LWJ & NHS, Canon Divergence, Time Travel Fix-It, Angst and Humor, Angst with a Happy Ending, Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Crack Treated Seriously, Slow Burn, Mutual Pining, Rogue Cultivator WWX, Murder Husbands, PTSD, BAMF WWX, Cultivation Sect Politics, Genius WWX, Cultivation Theory, Sentient Burial Mounds, Dysfunctional Family, Grief/Mourning, Angry WWX, No Golden Core Transfer, BAMF LWJ, Angry LWJ, One-Braincell WangXian, Idiots in Love, Requited Love, Requited Unrequited Love, Soft WangXian, Married WangXian, Soulmates, Not Cultivation World Friendly, Immortal WWX, Canon-Typical Violence, Not JC Friendly, Not Yunmeng Jiang friendly, not gusu lan friendly, Immortal LWJ)
Family by Quiet_crash (G, 57k, WangXian, XuanLi, Time Travel Fix-It, Grief/Mourning, Loss of Parent(s), Established Relationship)
The Wild Geeseâs Tomb by The Feels Whale (miscellea) (T, 66k, WangXian, Time Travel AU, fixit, Temporary Character Death, all women live no women die, LWJâs canonically intense feelings about everything all the time, WWXâs clinical depression gets treated and blamed on resentful energy, navigating gay marriage in ancient china by utiliizing class snobbery for your own ends, if youâre not sure whose fault anything going on in here is then blaming NHS is probably a good bet, WWX plays âsummon LWJâ itâs super effective!, the âunexploded cowâ approach to dealing with your enemies) CQL rather than novel canon, but it's too good to not recommend
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10. Itmf: the most comforting and soft fic recs you have!
I want a happy ending and for it to be about Wangxian. I don't care about length, it can be a long, plot filled story, as long as there's plenty of fluff!
I'm talking lots of cuddles, soft kisses, non sexually bathing each other, hair brushing, things like that! Bonus points for the smell of sandalwood relaxing Wei Wuxian, but certainly not required!
Thank you all! @acebookdragon47
Continuation by thefaceofno (T, 13k, WangXian, 3zun if you squint, Canon Continuation, wwx builds a lotus pond in cloud recesses, Hair Brushing, Angst with a Happy Ending, Light Angst, Pining, gay disaster lwj, Post-Canon Fix-It)
call me home and Iâll build you a throne by anaphoricae (E, 51k, WangXian, Post-Canon, Post-CQL, Canon Compliant, Getting Together, Developing Relationship, Self-Indulgent, Gusu Lan Juniors Dynamics, Touch-Starved, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Sexual Intimacy, LĂĄn Juniors Gossiping about Wangxian, Nightmares, Hurt/Comfort, Domestic Fluff, WWX Has a New Golden Core, Farmer WWX, Chief Cultivator LWJ, Mutual Pining, Communication, Quietly Falling Into a Married Life, Light Angst, Wholesome, POV LWJ, POV WWX, LWJ in braids agenda, Sharing a Bed, Semi-Public Sex, Inventor WWX, Jealous WWX)
where the chaos is by darkredloveknot (enheduane) (E, 6k, WangXian, éæ
什 | The Untamed (TV) Compliant, Post-Canon Reunions, Love Confessions, First Kiss, First Time, Emotions, WWX is overwhelmed, Domestic Bliss, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Bottom LWJ, Top WWX, Intimacy, Hair Brushing, and more!)
đHeart of hearts series by apathyinreverie (M, 40k, WangXian, Dark LWJ, (Ish), Amnesia, WWX gets to be Not Okay after the BM, Hurt WWX, Recovery, Protective LWJ, Possessive LWJ, some definite manipulation, but not everything is as it seems, not nearly as dark as the tags make it sound, Canon Divergence, Golden Core Reveal, Golden Core Transfer Fix-It, Kind Of, Domestic WangXian, Fluff, WWX Goes to Gusu, Possessive WWX, Sunshot Campaign, BAMF WWX, BAMF LWJ, Not Cultivation World Friendly)
We Meet at the Thousandth Step by Admiranda, Rynne (T, 316k, WangXian, CSSR/WCZ, Canon Divergence, No Sunshot Campaign, CSSR & WCZ Live, Rogue Cultivator WWX, Different First Meeting, Night Hunts, Genius WWX, Inventor WWX, Plot, Romance, Drama, Fluff, Strangers to married, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Unresolved Romantic Tension, Everyone Lives, Developing Relationship, Minor Violence, Case Fic, Mystery, Flirting, WWXâs Canon-Typical Flower Flirting, Arson, There Was Only One Bed, Getting Together, First Kiss, Meeting the Parents, Resolved Sexual Tension, Resolved Romantic Tension, WWX Is a Good Big Brother, New Relationship Bliss, Chinese Mythology & Folklore, Blood and Injury, Yiling siblings, Married WangXian, Honeymoon, Wangxianâs Baby Fever)
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11. itmf fics where characters have a crush on wei wuxian or fall for his charms?
Cotton Wool by incendir (M, 34k, wangxian, LJY/OMC, JL/LSZ, JC & WWX)
Help, My Dad Is Fucking Someone My Age!! by sweetlolixo (T, 3k, WangXian, LSZ & LWJ, Canon Divergence, Humor, Crack, Fluff, Romance)
Transcend by covalentbonds (not rated, 7k, WIP, WangXian, Post-Canon, Fluff and Humor, Smut, YLLZ WWX is prettiest fight me)
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12. hi! this is for itmf.
can you recommend fics that discuss sizhuiâs dislike for jiang cheng? this could be because of his treatment towards wei wuxian or maybe because of his treatment and dislike of the wen remnants. thanks!
on the importance of restraint (or lack thereof) by nixtothou (G, 3k, background WangXian, LSZ & JC, Families of Choice, Light Angst, LZS Needs a Hug, Angry LSZ, i simply think lsz deserves to snap, zhuiling if you squint, Not for jc stans, Post-Canon, Character Study)
Symmetry by Vir_Abelasan (M, 13k, LSZ & WWX, WangXian, One-Sided JC/WWX, One-Sided JC/LSZ, Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Canon Divergence, LSZ is raised by WWX, WWX still dies sorry, Revenge, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Dark LSZ, Manipulation, Power Imbalance, Torture, Not JC Friendly, JCâs Canonical 13 Years Murder Spree, BAMF LSZ, WangXian Get a Happy Ending, LSZ Gets to Go Apeshit)
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13. itmf wwx or lwj centric modern setting long fic with some family angst! preferrably not slow burn, no vers please! thank u <3
đ§ĄđTruth Will Out (when caught on video) - End_OTW_Racism! by KizuKatana (E, 179k, wangxian, WN & WWX & WQ, graphic depictions of violence, modern cultivation, canon divergence, YZY abuses WWX, caught on camera, partial core removal, WWX kicked out of Jiang sect, livestreamer WWX, meet ugly, dual cultivation, smut, no war)
Ornaments Under the Stars by trippednfell (M, 62k, wangxian, Modern, Inspired by Hallmark Christmas Movies, the wangxian Hallmark Movie AU no one asked for, plot and title were randomly generated, Kidfic, Disabled Character, debilitating injury as substitute for missing golden core, Additional Warnings In Authorâs Note, Angst with a Happy Ending, Guest starring Lan Zhanâs sky blue coat, The Coat deserves its own tag, disordered eating habits - not a major plot point, WIP)
â€ïž save a sword, ride a socialist by sysrae (E, 33k, wangxian, modern w magic, college/university au, fake/pretend relationship, single parent WWX, homophobia, light angst w/ happy ending, idiots to lovers, fluff)
âLetâs go home.â by Crowgirl (E, 27k, WangXian, Coffee Shops & CafĂ©s, LQR's Excellent Parenting, Meet-Cute, First Kiss, First Time, First Meetings, Pining, Mutual Pining, Not Actually Unrequited Love, Angst with a Happy Ending, Modern AU, Past XiYao, past emotional abuse, Past Emotional Manipulation)
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14. hello! for the next itmf i have three requests! i would love to see canon/post-canon fics of
A. jingyi seeing wangxian as his parents
B. jin ling seeing wwx as a parent
C. jin ling struggling with his feelings about jc after finding out the truth about everything
no AUs please!
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15. Hi! so this request is under itmf i think!
i didnât see much mention of this but are these any fics that talk about lwj and wwxâs class difference? anything where wwx gets to experience luxury for the first time as lwjâs husband? đ„č it doesnât have to be in detail but i would love to read about that!
as always thank you for your blog and all that you do đ«¶
𧥠Stunted, Starving Juvenility by TomatenMark (E, 859k, WangXian, WIP, Fix-it of sorts, Talisman master WWX, Not JFM Friendly, Study Arc, Getting together, Fluff and Angst, Engagement) In the early parts of this fic, WWX worries about how LWJ is out of his league class-wise & that the elders will never allow them to get together
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16. hi! are there any canon divergence fics where wei ying snaps out of whatever disassociation he experienced and manages to save lan zhan before the elders can even get to punish him? like, the whipping didnt happen at wei ying lives type of beat. thank you!
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17. Hi! Hope you have a nice day! Iâd like to ask for fics which include a-yuan calling Wuxian his dad or wwx calling wen qing his sister
The most dangerous thing is to love by KatAnni (E, 113k, WangXian, Golden Core Reveal, Fix-It, Everybody Lives, Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort, Canon Divergence, Hurt!WWX, Found Family, Implied/Referenced Torture, POV Multiple, Implied/Referenced Cannibalism, Panic Attacks, PTSD, Golden Core Transfer, Golden Core Transfer Fix-it, Medical Procedures, Fainting, Major Character Injury, Blood and Injury, WWX Has a New Golden Core, Asexual JC, homophobia doesnât exist here, Marriage Proposal, Marriage, Wedding Night, Whump) a-Yuan refers to Wei Ying as his dad starting in chapter 18
â€ïž Seen and not heard by eatmyass (E, 51k, wangxian, case fic, no sunshot, kid fic, dadxian, strangers to lovers, found family, LWJ pov, pining, fake/pretend relationship, first time, falling in love)
The Core Issue by Hauntcats (T, 21k, WangXian, Angst with a Happy Ending, Not JC Friendly, Canon Divergence)
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You know, given all of the cloning and other evil experiments that Palpatine apparently had going on, it's a little remarkable in hindsight that he never targeted Shmi Skywalker personally.
Like, this woman apparently reproduced asexually and gave birth to one of the most powerful Force-sensitives of all time; I don't generally characterize Sith Lords as having great scientific curiosity or a sense of wonder for the universe (or bothering to remember "little" people exist most of the time), because their whole deal kind of precludes that, but it seems reasonable that one might conclude that there's potential power in investigating this.
If Anakin was friendly with Palpatine for the latter half of his childhood, it seems like it could have been relatively easy for Palpatine to learn things like 1) Anakin's midichlorian count (which he can use to tell Anakin that everyone else is just jealous of his power) and 2) Shmi's situation on Tatooine (which he can use to foster resentment between Anakin and the Jedi Order for not helping Shmi too). Just get Anakin a little frustrated and he'll probably start talking! Palpatine could make some concerned offer to send someone to check on Anakin's mother - it is the least that Naboo can do for the family that helped to save them, the Chancellor might say, but he would prefer that such favoritism remain a secret between them - and then Sidious would have Watto's exact address no problem.
And it's not like it would be hard to kidnap Shmi. Palpatine (as Sidious?) could pick some random bounty hunter and order them to go buy her, because this amount of money is presumably pocket change to him, and if Watto resists selling her off to a stranger, the bounty hunter can claim that they've come on behalf of her son. And if that doesn't work or if Shmi is already with the Lars family, there's always violence. Palpatine can just lie to Anakin and say that his agent discovered Shmi was targeted by enemies of the Jedi Order. Oh, what a shame they didn't protect her!
I don't know what would happen from here. Sidious could potentially contract the Kaminoans as a private, anonymous citizen to research Shmi and see if she'll be useful to him at all; the Kaminoans seem to be in the business of designer babies for specific clients (Jango + my vague memories of some "Clone Wars" comic). Which means that Shmi could be unhappily, awkwardly hanging around Kamino, probably still enslaved, when Jango Fett and the clones business is going on. For years, potentially.
Ideally for the Sith, the Kaminoans would be keeping Shmi in an entirely separate facility most of the time, away from the army intended for the Jedi and the Republic. But Jango might be sent around the planet on errands or something and the Kaminoans might need to use very specific equipment at some points, and I am a fan of grand plans being ruined by chance encounters or workplace logistics, so I think it would be fun if Shmi met Jango or Boba. Maybe Palpatine assumed that the Kaminoans had already disposed of Shmi or were keeping her on ice, due to a badly worded email or something else mundane, because the Kaminoan forgot the right Basic word (it's not their first language!!! or a translator malfunctioned or something) during their space phone call.
There's lots of Canon Divergence directions for this, like more serious angst or drama or thriller horror being imprisoned by a Sith Lord (somewhere besides Kamino) or discovering what's being done to the clones. Shmi could end up being rescued by Jedi and helping uncover Sidious. Or she could have a different tragic ending.
(This whole post regarding Shmi and cloning is partially inspired by that one post pointing out that Rey looks a lot like Shmi, and given the strange circumstances of Anakin's birth, any attempt to clone Anakin might have created a clone of Shmi instead. I still think a "Rey as Anakin's clone" is a fun sequel trilogy AU.)
I'm leaning towards fix-it and comedies of errors ideas because the prequels are tragic enough for me. Currently, I'm thinking about Shmi eventually ending up as part of young Boba Fett's gang somehow, because it's amusing to me that he was somehow a recurring antagonistic figure on that TCW show despite being a child. The other bounty hunters are like, "Kid, did you... bring your mom on this mission...?" And Boba Fett is like, "No!!! She's my ship mechanic!!! But if you touch her, just so you know, I will fucking kill you."
I think that both Anakin and Boba would fucking hate being adoptive brothers in any way, shape, or form. And the idea of Luke and Leia someday having an "Uncle Boba Fett" is also very funny to me.
(EDIT: I'm currently dubious regarding a Jango/Shmi ship because Jango does participate in the creation and enslavement of the clone army. Like, it's the Kaminoans who do it, they hold most of the blame and they would have gotten someone else if Jango hadn't done it, but Jango is very much there and at the very least complicit in a horrifying series of crimes against millions of people. Depending on how you characterize Shmi Skywalker, an enslaved woman, I don't really think she'd be cool with that. She let her child go off to become a Jedi because she thought it would be a much better life for him, while Jango sold his own "children" off into war for money. So, I'm currently thinking that Shmi might like the innocent child Boba, but she might honestly dislike Jango quite a lot.)
#I can't resist a âthe dead mom livesâ fanfic premise#tossawary star wars#fic ideas#shmi skywalker#boba fett
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