#at least it'll bump up the rating just a little bit

[wp100]

i really wanna get into a +5 uldaman but im too scared to pug mythics

[teencopandthesourwolf]

STFU!

for the @sterekdrabbles 30/09/24 challenge. the prompt words were VORACIOUS, LOUD, and MILK. also tagging @sterekdrabblesgonelong as this ended up going long (884 words) xp

also found HERE on ao3

rating: EXPLICIT

Derek finally caves, succumbing to Stiles's feral wiles and allowing Stiles to drag that disgustingly hot wolfy-ass beneath Stiles's not exactly fresh and not exactly sexy bed sheets, for what is the B-movie prelude to (god willing!) the night's main event that will hopefully see Stiles Stilinski getting royally fucked within an inch of his Gay Virgin life.

Stiles—albeit inexperienced in this department but very much making up for that with a voracious sort of enthusiasm, thank you very much—is in the middle of sloppily sucking Derek off. The werewolf's not actually knotted cock-end is currently mercilessly bumping the back of Stiles's throat (Stiles is loving the fact he's never had a gag reflex, and by all accounts so is Derek), before a mix of precome and spit is confusingly flicking up into Stiles's eyes and hair as Derek manhandles him to skillfully flip their positions, Derek now suddenly the one with a mouth stuffed full of steel-hard cock.

Stiles is instantly shrieking Derek's name like a lunatic (ha) at having Derek's brand-hot mouth clamped around him, so loud Derek has to shove all four fingers of his left hand into Stiles's mouth to essentially gag him—and hopefully desist any need the neighbours could have to call the Sheriff and tell Stiles's old man his only son might be getting his throat ripped out by a wild animal of unknown description.

It embarrassingly takes no time at all of Derek swallowing Stiles down like a champ (and giving his balls a glorious beard rash for him to jerk off over tomorrow) for Stiles to be dangerously close to shooting his load—directly into what feels likely to be Derek's fucking stomach at this point, because jesus fucking christ he's gonna come hard—and he finds himself slapping haphazardly and manically at the ball of Derek's shoulder with the palm of his hand, as if they're in an wrestling ring and Stiles is desperately trying to tap-out of a full nelson.  

“No-no-no! Stop-stop-stop, Der, please, you gotta—or I'm gonna, y'know, like I'll—and it'll happen, like—shiiiiiiit, oh, man, you cannot keep doing that with your tongue, big guy, or it's gonna be game over before it's even properly begun!” he manages to splutter out, indignant and rambling more than usual with the insane levels of pleasure now shooting throughout his body like a trillion miniscule lightning strikes.  

Derek, of course, completely ignores Stiles and absolutely keeps swirling his gorgeously warm and wet tongue around what is definitely the most intense hard-on of Stiles's eighteen years on this planet, like his dick is not actually a dick at all but Derek's favourite flavour of popsicle. Although, Stiles now knows that The D (or at least Derek Hale's fantastic D) does not, in fact, taste anything like any popsicle Stiles has ever consumed; it's maybe more like salt-water taffy, only with less sugar and a lot more salt and holy mother of god, Stiles loves, loves, loves it. And even trying his dumb best to distract himself from what he knows is the inevitable, to make this not-so-little slice of pure heaven last just a teensy bit longer, Stiles knows thinking about the taste of cock while getting blown by the hottest creature he's ever had the good fortune to lay eyes on is definitely not helping his situation one iota.  

Thank fucking fuck, Derek chooses this moment to relinquish the divine vacuum he's got going on between Stiles's inner thighs via what are probably now obscenely swollen-red lips, when he releases Stiles's erection with an incredibly filthy-sounding pop.   

Almost dizzy from the change in pressure around his junk, Stiles forces his head up to eye Derek (whose lips really are an obscenely swollen-red, which is even more outrageously hot than Stiles had imagined) just as Derek says, “I'm about to suck your deranged brain out through your pretty cock, Stiles, then I'm gonna milk you dry until you're begging me to stop. So, you better hang on to something, and be careful not to bite your tongue off when I stab mine into your slit and use it to fuck your dick till you're crying, okay?” as if he's talking into the McDonald's drive through speaker to order himself a Big Mac meal with large fries and a shake, and not unknowingly acting out a spank-bank worthy scene from one of Stiles's wet dreams. 

Hell, Stiles all but comes, there and fucking then, because who the fuck says shit like that?! 

His face is doing what must be a very strange mix of a smile and a frown as he just about manages to pathetically whine the words, “But Der, oh my god, I really, really need you to fuck me!”

And yeah, he's practically crying already.

Fuck off.  

Derek grins, then, and Stiles doesn't think he's ever been more his wild wolf-self as he licks his canines and growls out, “What makes you think I won't be taking advantage of what I know is your excellent refractory period, to make you orgasm like a fucking freight train, at least twice, before I rail your tight little ass until dawn and give you several more, hmm?” 

And—honestly, Stiles has never shut the fuck up faster in all his life.

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[ihavethedreamies]

Beginner's Luck | Easy to Expert (3 v1)

Lee Yongbok (Felix) & Yang Jeongin (I.N.) - Stray Kids

Rating: M (18+) MDNI

Word Count: ~3k

Felix/AFAB!Reader/I.N.

Genre: Reader-Insert, Smut, Fluff

!!This is smut…if that much isn't clear you should probably leave now!! MDNI!

Warnings: She/Her Pronouns used, Swearing, Kissing, Fingering, Cosplay (Fox Lingerie), Multiple Partners, Oral (F! And M! Receiving), Threesome, Double Penetration, Anal Play, Sex Toys - Butt Plugs, Anal Sex, Unprotected Sex (Bad Idea, Don't Do It)

Author's Note: I was supposed to just do a part two for Felix's Easy but now I have these as well…

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-> Ver. Changbin <-

-> Ver. Bang Chan <-

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"Is she really sure about this?" Jeongin was unsure when Felix first brought it up and still was. About a week ago, the older guy came to him with the proposition, and anyone would be stupid to say no. He just wasn't sure why you chose him. Someone like Chan or Hyunjin were more obvious choices, he was just Baby Bread…At least, that's how he thought you saw him. Jeongin kept his hands in his pockets as Felix led him up to your apartment. It had been a few months since you two had started dating, and Jeongin was shocked that you were so…adventurous.

"Are you sure?" Felix turned to him before he plugged in the key code to your door.

"Yes! I mean…" He blushed, "I want to but I'm just not too confident."

"Look, just do what we say, and it'll go well. We'll talk about it ahead of time, but you don't have to do anything you don't want." The elder reassured the maknae who nodded, psyching himself up.

"Okay, hyung." He nodded and then fist-bumped Felix before your boyfriend let them both in.

You heard the door lock chime as he unlocked it and you shuffled awkwardly. You were in your bedroom, standing at the end of the bed. Felix was right on time. You fiddled with your bra; the furry texture tickled where it fell past the underwire. Your panties were a similar story, the orange faux fur was at least soft. The wraps of the same material around your wrists were a bit itchy though. Your thigh high socks were the same color orange, and the feet were black. A slightly uncomfortable head band sat on your head, two pointed ears sticking from the top. You shifted your weight to your other hip, flinching a bit at the feeling of the plug in your ass. The fox tail hanging off of it made it tug weird at your insides. At Felix's behest you had prepared already so you didn't have to worry much about getting ready while Jeongin was also there. The whole thought of a threesome was already kind of overwhelming, and then he wanted to put you in the costume. It was arousing though, just slightly embarrassing.

"Love?" Felix's deep voice called out.

"In here!" you replied, and you heard them whispering to each other and presumed they were removing their coats, shoes, and bags.

"Oh, you look amazing, love." Felix complimented as he led the younger in and you wished the tail could wag as well.

"Shit." Jeongin swore under his breath, his face blooming red.

"You like it, Jeong?" You brought your hand to your face innocently, swaying a bit, the tail swaying too.

"Fuck." He swore again and wanted so desperately to go to you. But you weren't his girlfriend, he was the third wheel.

"Rules…" Felix started, holding his finger up.

"First, you cannot kiss her-"

"On the lips." You put your finger over your mouth. That made sense.

"Everywhere else is fine." Felix continued, "Two!"

"Listen to him." You motioned to Felix with both your hands, "Three…"

"Only I get the pleasure of her cute little ass." The elder continued, pulling you to his side and kissing the crown of your head. Honestly, Jeongin was perfectly fine with that. He thought it would have been the other way around.

"Four!" You held up your fingers.

"She can suck you off, but you cannot cum down her throat." Felix crossed his arms, and that rule threw Jeongin off.

"She likes it too much, only I can." The elder finished and Jeongin decided to dwell on that later.

"Finally, only if you're okay with it…" Your boyfriend looked at you to make sure you were still okay with it.

"You don't have to wear a condom. But you have to pull out." You finished and he nearly choked. Really?

"You're clean, right?" you asked, and he nodded right away.

"B-but what-" the other man asked, but you cut him off.

"I'm on the pill."

"Oh, okay."

"Good." Felix clapped his hands, then turned to you, "You wanna help him out?" And you nodded, skipping over to Jeongin. He was a bit taller than Felix and you looked up at him with big ole' eyes and he swallowed hard. He desperately wanted to break rule number one. He flinched when your hands went to his shirt, rapidly undoing the buttons. The maknae was too focused on what you were doing he didn't notice Felix undressing in the back and getting various things out from the nightstand. After you removed his button up, you even helped him take the long sleeve shirt off he had underneath. You were pleasantly surprised by what you saw, his arms were nicely defined, you already knew this, but so was his torso. His metabolism was so fast you never thought he would be able to get even that level of definition.

"N-Noona-" He tried to stop you when you fell to your knees in front of him, helping him out of his pants. Then he remembered one of the rules Felix had set. If you like swallowing cum, you probably also liked swallowing dick. You shot him an innocent but coy look when you came face to face with his crotch, cock straining against the cloth of his boxers. Before you pulled the hem down, you turned to look over your shoulder at Felix and he nodded, fiddling with a box of something. He pulled out three bottles, one pink, one green, and one orange.

"Strawberry, Melon or Peach?" Felix called and Jeongin was almost too distracted by your removing his boxers to hear your answer.

"Peach." You finally answered, then looked back to him staring at you.

"Can I?" You asked and he cleared his throat.

"Yeah, 'course." He licked his lips nervously. You shifted on your knees, the plug shifting inside you, and you whimpered softly. You nearly yelped when it started to buzz inside of you.

"F-Felix!" You squealed and he smiled down at his phone. He didn't tell you it vibrated! Little shit…

"Go ahead." Felix prompted you and moved the attached tail to a better angle, then wrapped your hand around Jeongin's cock. He gasped, watching in awe as your tongue flicked over the tip, the ears on your headband flopping some and you readjusted it with your other hand.

"Fuck!" His breath left him when your mouth swallowed the head, and you just kept going. He had a long cock, and you still buried him completely in your throat which made him whine.

"Noona~" He flexed his fingers at his sides, but there was no rule about touching you. Carefully he rested one hand on your head, holding one of the ears. Felix and you both knew you much preferred to have him do the work, you would just sit there and let him fuck your throat. But Jeongin didn't get that privilege. It wasn't a power thing to your boyfriend, just simply that, that Felix was your boyfriend, not Jeongin. As you sucked him off your other hand pumped what was left, you knew to listen to Felix. Outside of the bedroom, he was incredibly sweet and soft, but it turned out you liked it even rougher than he first thought. Before you could barely cum no matter what you tried. Now, it was like he could snap his fingers and you would fall apart. When you felt the younger man's cock pulse in your grip, you knew he was close, so you pulled your mouth off and grabbed him with your other hand. He then noticed your black painted nails and he groaned as he came, the white fluid painting your face and flowing over your hands.

"Woah~" You were impressed with the amount that came out, and despite wanting to taste, you knew better. You scooted back, holding your hands out, one eye closed to prevent anything from getting in it.

"Shit! Sorry!" Jeongin panicked and Felix chuckled, coming to you with a wet towel. He dotingly cleaned you off and kissed your brow as he stood back up. The younger watched, the affection not surprising him the least, but your submissive attitude sure did. You were usually pretty feisty, in a positive way, and you spoke your mind. It was then the maknae noticed what you were wearing around your neck. It was a black silk choker that had a pendant dangling from it. When you turned back to look at him, still on your knees, he saw that the heart-shaped tag had Felix's name on it.

"Does it hurt?" Felix asked as he came back, your hands adjusting the headband. You shook your head, and he helped you up and you scurried to the end of the bed. Kneeling back down on the floor in front of your boyfriend, he smiled and petted your head softly. He clicked his tongue when your hands ran up his thighs toward his covered hard-on, and he poked you hard on the forehead. You yelped dramatically and he smiled.

"Not tonight, love. Get up here." He patted the bed and you got on, laying in an obviously practiced position. Jeongin went over at Felix's prompting, running his hand through his hair, it was sticking to his forehead some from sweating.

"Kneel there." Felix pointed and Jeongin did so, finding himself eye level with your cunt. The furry panties you had on covered your pussy, but there was a hole in them to allow the tail plug to sit inside you unhindered. He let his hands run slowly up your thighs till he got to the hem of your underwear. Turned out there were ties there and before he undid them, he made sure Felix was okay with it. He nodded and so he pulled on the ribbon and carefully removed your panties, making sure to be careful of the plug in your ass. You whined and wiggled under the maknae’s gaze. While Jeongin knew that the tail was where it was, it was still a little bracing. Fun little (Y/N) turned out to be Felix's little slut.

"Go ahead.” Felix prompted and Jeongin leaned in, placing his hands on your spread thighs. The scent of your arousal hit him, and his mouth watered. Was Felix really going to let him tongue-fuck you? You were soaked, the clear, thick liquid dripping from your cunt and onto the end of the tail plug.

"Use your fingers." He listened to his hyung and when he was about to use just one, Felix corrected him. Jeongin didn't have a ton of experience, but he had enough to know what to do. But Felix did know you better.

"Fast." The elder wasn't pressuring him to hurry up, just telling him to do it like you liked it. His fingers pressed to your quivering hole and immediately pumped the two digits in, and you mewled. Your gummy walls clenched his fingers and he huffed.

"Press down." He did, and he could feel the plug buzzing through the wall of your pussy. He could feel the hard silicone as well and you whined louder when he pressed again.

"You can taste." Felix told him and he swallowed, taking his fingers out and licking them clean. Jeongin groaned and Felix smirked, coming around to look at your face. The younger couldn't see from where he was, but your boyfriend cooed at you.

"You want his tongue, love?" he asked, and you nodded.

"Go ahead." Jeongin nodded, and gently put his hands on your thighs, opening your legs more. If he was given the chance, he was taking it, so, he immediately stuck his tongue inside your cunt as deep as he could. You nearly wailed, his tongue pulling out to swirl around your clit before diving back in. Felix grinned in pride when he saw that, yes, it felt good, but you weren't twitching like you did with him. Jeongin was enjoying it more than you, almost, and his cock was already rock hard again.

"Alright." The elder came back around and Jeongin immediately pulled back and nervously wiped his face.

"Sit at the head of the bed." Jeongin followed as directed and Felix helped you move and kneel at the foot.

"Go ahead, love." Felix kissed the crown of your head, and you crawled over to the other man, tail swinging where it stuck out from your ass. Jeongin nervously sat there when you straddled him and you took his hand, bringing it to the front clasp of the bra. He unclicked it with ease and helped you take it off and he turned red. You were so pretty and cute, he couldn't believe you wanted him. Your hands readjusted the headband again, clearly in annoyance. Jeongin loved the cosplay, but he didn't want you to dislike it. He reached and plucked it off, tossing it to the side. You smiled and you sat down on his lap, your warm thighs hugging his, you let his cock rest against your stomach. The fur of the tail tickled his knee and you turned to Felix. You sat patiently as he joined you two on the bed, the orange bottle in his hand. The new set he got had a warming effect and you hadn't tried it yet.

"Okay, love, sit on Jeongin's cock." Your boyfriend allowed and you eagerly sat up on your knees more to place the head against your twitching cunt. Slowly, sighing, you let him plunge inside. The younger man groaned as your tight hole surrounded him. He wasn't as thick as Felix, but just as long, if not more so. You leaned forward, hands on his shoulders, placing your head in the crook of his neck.

"You can hold her." Felix huffed, amused by the bashful maknae. He carefully hugged you and you leaned forward more and Jeongin realized what you were doing. He could feel the silicone plug through your pussy where it sat in your ass. You whimpered in anticipation. You and Felix hadn't tried anything like this yet. He filled your cunt while you had a plug in, or fingered you while in your ass, but this was new. He made the anticipation build on purpose. Were there dildos that would work for the same purpose? Sure. But where was the fun in that? Plus, Felix liked having control in an odd way, more than he expected. He also enjoyed seeing that no one else could please you like he could.

"Okay, love." Felix came up closer and Jeongin held you closer when your own grip tightened. He ran his hand up your spine soothingly, his other resting on your opposite hip, his thumbs brushing the skin. You let out a whine and he huffed, trying to keep still, and Felix slowly pulled the tail plug out. You had already prepared and lubed your back hole, but he really wanted to be sure. Spilling some of the orange lube on his cock, Felix groaned at the warming feeling.

"Ready, love?"

"Yes, 'Lix." you answered and began to breathe carefully and the younger gasped along with you as Felix pressed his cock into your ass. You let out a moan the entire time it took him to slowly fill you. Jeongin didn't think you could have gotten any tighter than you were. You shivered once they were both in you fully, and Felix helped you change position, so you were sitting up more. Right when you hit a certain angle, they both notched in as deep as they could and you keened, feeling incredibly full. It was incredible, Jeongin watched the sanity leave your eyes, and it was like your irises turned to hearts, instantly going cock drunk.

"Hm, you like that, huh (Y/N)?" Felix whispered in your ear, and you nodded, dazed.

"What do I do hyung?"

"Just wait a sec." Felix instructed and you squeaked when he pulled out some then thrust back in. Your ass was used to his cock by this point, but being filled double was a lot. You weren't in any pain, and he could tell you were close already.

"Okay, just take slow thrusts with me." Your boyfriend prompted and at almost the same time, they both pulled back just an inch, before grinding back into you. Your head fell forward between your shoulders, chin touching your collar bone. Your nails dug into Jeongin's shoulders, and he hissed at the slight sting, not minding at all though.

"Hold on," Jeongin requested, and Felix held you up as he adjusted so he could thrust up easier. They both started slow, but were in sync, and your head swam. Your skin and insides were on fire and your mind was so foggy you couldn't form a single coherent thought. Felix huffed in amusement, and you fell forward more, hands going to dig in the sheets as they both picked up the pace.

"F-Felix~" You gasped, and he knew that meant you were close.

"Harder." he told the younger and they both picked the pace up, Jeongin panting hard, trying not to cum yet. He wasn't allowed to since he didn't put a condom on. Your raw heat around him was going to drive him crazy.

"N-Noona!" He warned and you yelped as Felix pulled you off, Jeongin cumming over both of your stomachs. Your now empty cunt clenched desperately on itself. The younger man nearly gasped when he watched Felix manhandle you into the doggy position at the foot of the bed and started to fuck you hard. You squealed in delight, your front falling to the bed, drool pooling on the sheets.

"Good girl, take my cum, love." Felix praised and that was when Jeongin realized Felix's cock was raw as well. You fell over the edge as Felix did, your ass already warm from the lube heating up. The heat traveled through your whole body and Felix felt your cunt squirt your own cum on his upper thighs.

"Fuck, good girl, (Y/N)." Your boyfriend cooed and you flopped boneless onto the bed.

"Did Jeongin do a good job too, love?" Felix asked you.

"Mmhm." You hummed in agreement which earned you a smirk. Felix then looked at the younger man, "beginner's luck."

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[dear-space-cadet]

the human fear predictions, song-by-song

i see this album being a follow-up to right thoughts right words right action in a sense. a lot of the songs here started appearing, at least somewhat, in 2016. i think there were plans for a rtrwra follow up that was more 'on-theme' but it got scrapped due to ffs, and then alex got obsessed with disco for a little bit and hired a synthpop twink on guitar. now that we're back to somewhat normal, i think it's time for the post-rtrwra songs to shine. i also see a lot of the ychismb+2005 b-sides motifs happening here already (swallow smile, wine in the afternoon, l. wells, jeremy fraser, ghost in a ditch, walk away, fade together). alex appears to be the primary lyric writer now too so that influences everything you are about to read

overall -- rtrwra without the american southwest influence/rtrwra not produced by todd terje; ychismb+2005 b-sides with less edge and more age

playlist of what i think the general vibes will be

audacious

already out so i will not be doing this one. i personally rate it around a 3/10 for my own tastes

everydaydreamer (4/10)

another "children of the world" "be a good person" chorus

'political' but doesn't take an actual stance (like paper cages or huck and jim)

miaoux miaoux synth riff

really throws off the rest of my predictions but i feel like we ease into the farmhouse truck stop from peepeetown to poopooville shit in the back half

the doctor (6/10)

evil eye spiritual successor

a good song but the imagery will make me uncomfortable or alex will not be singing well so i'll just tune it out (similar to treason animals)

potential itao reference? (buckle up)

hooked (10/10)

THEE banger of the album

i have high hopes for this one

they let dino cook. and cook he will

potential spiritual successor to fabulously lazy. a girl can dream

build it up (5/10)

this is a crowd-pleaser live song and will not be made any better with a studio version

if you like it you like it. it will not be made any better or worse with a studio recording. why is this even on the album

night or day (8/10)

this might be the one where alex 'plays the game' lyrically

spiritual successor to right action. "now how can we leave you to a saturday night or a sunday morning"

alternatively it could be a very "i'm there for you" "be a good person" song and rank around 3/10 but i want to ignore the potential for that. i dont want that to be true

tell me should i stay (5/10)

either a typical alexing with all the usual alexisms or the spiritual successor to bullet

clara feature (they make audrey anna-prior-it-out live)

potentially just a nick/manuela diss track again, which is actually the better outcome

cats (2/10)

just the stupidest shit ever

likely instrumental

either a big band flop OR a julian synth moment (which would bump it to a potential 6/10)

could also be "frogs" from the 2016 LP5 tracklist, but renamed to represent the cat imagery in franz now. if so, very farmhouse, very truck stop instrumental moment. potential 6/10 there too

or alex doing an alex. time will tell. it will suck

i pray for a second steckrube mention but it's unlikely

black eyelashes (8/10)

in my heart this is a fade together/walk away follow-up. maybe an eleanor boots follow up

potential nick mccarthy diss track. they might hit the pentagon here

could also be a clara love track but i doubt it being so obvious after what happened with ms eleanor

i need to love this song sowwyyyy if it sucks it's not my fault

could also be a black tuesday/scarlet and blue revision (bc i see black tuesday as a revision of scarlet and blue already) but that is wishful thinking

bar lonely (9/10)

first seen in 2016 and likely written beforehand (nick + paul influence plus pent-up feelings)

idk if it'll be good, but i do have high hopes bc it's been in the chamber for so long

this could also be the one where they hit the pentagon on nick. likely not but the title gives roasting a guy. this could also be the bullet follow-up but i doubt it if it was written sometime between 2014-2016

the birds (7/10)

spiritual successor to the universe expanded

existential. a bit overdone, but that's whatever

also potential walk away tie-in bc of the alfred hitchcock's the birds post-war tie-ins there

maybe another 'political' yet stanceless song focusing on modern anxiety, like the theme of the birds

ends with birds chirping like fade together

that is all i have for you. feel free to add yours or tell me what you think. i'll come back to this in january

[dark9896]

Plush Babies [Klaus x Reader]

Requested by Anonymous 🐱‍👤

Klaus was having a bit of a problem in getting close to you. Every time he thought he was making some kind of progress, something would come up and make him doubt what he thought was true.

One such instance was his first attempt to explain his feelings for you. It had been a rather nice day, Klaus had thought things were going well after all the time the two of you had spent together in the week prior.

Then just before he could actually say anything, Klaus noticed an insect in your hair. When he tried to assist in removing it, your small monkey plush had gotten rather defensive. Climbing up to where the bug was and did the task itself.

Was Klaus to take that as you being uncomfortable with him? Or was it part of the pseudo freewill each of your creations had?

A second time, Klaus wasn't actively trying to confess to you, but he was definitely on the verge of doing so. Of course, going to lunch together as friends was a normal thing for both of you and this time was no different.

And yet, when Klaus noticed you had a smudge on the end of your nose and offered to help wipe it away... A little bear plushie started kicking up a fuss, forcing your attention away long enough that Klaus had to just give up.

At least at that time, Klaus could say that you weren't uncomfortable with the gesture. But he was still left pondering why your puppets were being like this.

Today he had been hoping for a moment completely alone with you to ask without interruption. Though he feared the answer you would give.

Klaus was about to approach to ask when he tripped over his own feet, literally. Bumping into you, knocking you clean over, and barely saving face by throwing his arms behind your back in an attempt to soften the fall. He tried his best to move off of you, convinced that he would never have a chance with you at this rate. Though he was also trying to help you into a more comfortable sitting position, extremely aware that his hands were in danger of sliding down to your lower back.

And yet, you didn't have just one plushie fussing at Klaus, but the entire army covering your upper torso. Before Klaus could back away, you were frowning. Was this just too far? It was purely an accident. Klaus would apologize until his face was blue because he truly didn't mean for this to happen.

"I don't know what's gotten into you little guys." Klaus blinked a little, "Klaus isn't gonna hurt me. And this was an accident. So stop it, you're all behaving like spoiled brats."

Klaus didn't fully understand what any of this meant. It could be any number of things but...

"[Name], I still feel the need to apologize for knocking you over." Klaus lowered himself as much as he could, "I admit that I did have a couple questions I wanted to ask you, if you wouldn't mind."

"Sure Klaus." You smiled at him gently, "But it'll take me a minute to get the peanut gallery to cool it. They really seem to be against you for some reason."

"Against... me?"

"I can't put my finger on why but whenever you get close, and especially when you might touch me, they get all feisty like this."

"Oh." Klaus rubbed the back of his neck, "I... I see."

[waterlilliess]

lead the way ; kevin moon

you skipped classes again by going to your usual spot which is sleeping under the tree. little do you know, your dreams would lead you to something different as you sleep.

genre: fluff and angst.

a/n: this takes place in the olden times and is sort of like a alice in wonderland au 😄 but i won't be following the entire story cause it'll sound very confusing and i only wrote the parts that felt necessary. oh, and reader is very mean in this story :v

warnings: death mentions, falling, and lots of swearing

word count: 12040 (i advice you to read this on the web version on tumblr. just copy the link of this post then paste it on safari or whatever search engine you are using)

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another day of mrs. linda's lessons. you were still annoyed and pissed at the fact that your mom made you sign up for her classes. you weren't interested at all, you were basically forced to. plus you have a huge hatred for mrs. linda with her not-so-nice attitude

you did make friends in the class, but just for the sake of them covering you up for lessons. the reason to that is because you skip almost every attendance in her class to either go out or sleep under the tree without getting caught.

mrs. linda would for sure scold you, but you swore that you can't count the times you've held your laughter when you get yelled at.

"skipping again? your mother is gonna hear about this." she raised her voice at your throwing a chalk right at the board making the students flinch. you were trying to keep your laughter in at this moment but did you succeed? no you did not.

"laughing already y/n?" she said in a sarcastic tone. you then stopped chuckling as you felt your heart rate beating down because of how nervous you are. you looked at your classmates who were already concerned or either whispering things about you.

as you made eye contact with mrs. linda you were then met with her fingers flinching your forehead. "i can't stand you in this class. i want you to stay there for the entire session." she said while walking back to the chalkboard.

"why are you looking at y/n? does any one of you want to keep her company there? huh?" the students feared the tone of mrs. linda and they all stopped staring at you.

you were a bit hurt that none of your friends stood up but it was fine anyway. you understood how much they feared mrs. linda and you didn't want them to risk it too.

and now today, you were planning to skip classes again. your friends weren't surprised at the idea again. you were usually like this. and you were friends with the kinder people so what more can they do about your behavior? at least you got them over through their loneliness since they've expressed how they didn't have friends.

"take down notes for me okay? just the important stuff." your friend eric nodded in agreement.

your friend jacob then went over to you to tell something. "don't get caught okay?" she reminded.

"don't worry i won't." you assured jacob, patting on his shoulder. then the three of you parted ways. eric and jacob went inside the classroom while you exited the hallway immediately leaving the building. it was a good timing too since mrs. linda wasn't around yet.

then you stopped in your tracks as you saw the hall monitor walking around.

"shit." you mumbled under your breath. you started to work your way out by going through your known shortcut so that you won't get caught. you opened the door then slowly got out safely luckily.

you quickly ran exiting the school immediately heading to the trees just around the corner but there was a secret spot to it. it was surrounded in the mountains so ran your way up there.

then you arrived at the greenery spot safe and sound. but it was so tiring because you ran all the way up and your felt like your legs were cut off maybe because you ran quite fast.

you panted several times then suddenly you passed out lying on the grass. you even bumped your head in it.

you felt so tired and dizzy as soon as you fell on the ground. you can still feel the little pain on your head. thankfully you were under the tree already.

you slowly opened your eyes looking at the tree's shade covering you. you really loved the sight of it so you formed a smile on your face.

you can feel the wind slowly fanning your face and you really loved the feeling of that. this is was your safe space so you used up all the time to calm your mind down.

but what caught you off guard is that you suddenly drifted to sleep. you didn't mind anyway cause honestly, you were feeling a little bored looking at the surroundings. then you woke up. or did you really wake up? it almost seems like you were lucid dreaming but you cared less about it anyway.

you got up from your supposed nap then looked at the surroundings still looking the same and not anything unusual appeared. as you stood up, you can hear a voice beside and close to you.

"hi." you turned to the man's voice and he was looking at you.

'WHAT THE HELL?" you yelled, scaring the birds away on the trees. "hey, calm down. i'm not a scary person. i'm just like you." he defended himself but you were still so unsure about it.

"well that makes you more creepier you weirdo!" you pushed him away as he got close to you.

"why do you need to hint that you're not a scary person?" you were starting to get cautious and you slowly backed away from him but he still followed.

"because," he paused for a moment and he stopped walking towards you. "okay, maybe i should stop doing that since it's scaring you-"

"NO, YOU AS A WHOLE PERSON MADE ME SCARED ALREADY!" you yelled at him for the second time. he sighed, itching the back of his hair getting a little frustrated with your attitude.

"you didn't even let me finish. i was gonna answer your question." you gave him the chance to speak anyway because you wanted to know what was his business with you. "talk." you pushed him by the shoulder.

"let's start with my name. my name is kevin." he introduced himself. you raised your eyebrow waiting for his next line. "and i may look like a human being but i'm not one since nobody can see me. people only see me in their dreams."

you bursted out a laugh to his words. "kevin are you okay? shit, we are not dreaming this is reality wake the hell up!" you told him.

"no you're wrong-" he paused for a moment. "by the way what's your name?"

"y/n." you answered.

"you're wrong y/n." he stated. "try pinching yourself." he suggested then you did as he said. you were feeling a little weird somehow. you knew you were sleeping but you can't get out of it. "kevin, what happened?" you started to ask with worry in your voice.

"that's what i said. you're basically dreaming." he whispered in your ear. then you saw him going through a passage where you have never passed by before.

"hey, where are you going?" you started to follow him. "hm, how would you react if i take you to somewhere?" he asked as he stopped in his tracks to ask you that question.

you wondered what that place would be. "hm, where to?"

"somewhere exciting and fun." he answered. you raised your eyebrow. "fun?" kevin nodded. "and i'm also taking you to a little adventure." he commented. "it won't be a waste of your time too. it's gonna be worth it."

you made a 'tch' noise in response. "it better be."

kevin was whether confused if you were coming or not. "so are you going with me? or just spend your whole dream laying around doing nothing?

you don't know what kind of adventure he specified. you were thinking that it was going to be a trip in the waterfalls or rock climbing. well, you needed something at least a little exciting thing to do so you said yes anyway. "yeah i'll go. whatever that adventure is going to be."

kevin formed a smirk on his face. you were surprised at the reaction he just gave. he took your wrist dragging you to the unknown passages. "kevin what the hell you're hurting me!" you yelled at him.

"we have to hurry though!" he told you, still holding your wrist tightly. then you soon arrived to a place where it seemed like a hideout but it was covered in bushes. "what is this? are you gonna eat me alive or something?" you asked, sounding snobby with your tone.

kevin rolled his eyes sighing as he had enough with your words. "stop being a killjoy y/n. just wait." you felt offended at the word he called you. you swore that you cursed at him in silent but kevin didn't bother to yell again cause he's already annoyed.

"kevin what the hell is up with these bushes?" you said while grabbing every bush that was in you and kevin's way.

"they're only planted to keep this place secret." he answered. "oh so it's like a hidden place or something like that?"

"yeah." kevin answered. he felt a little relieved that you didn't sound snobby at all like you were seconds ago. it was still a long way. your hands were already tired with pushing all the bushes away. even your legs were about to wobble and cramp cause it was so tiring. and this was also your best time to complain at kevin again.

"i'm fucking tired, why is this passage so long?" you raised your voice at him on purpose to annoy him. kevin's mood changed right away when he heard you complained from behind.

you noticed that he didn't answer you. you could tell that he was annoyed so you decide to make it worse. "kevin, you're gonna leave me dying out here! what's taking so long? and plus, where is this gonna lead us to?" kevin still pretended to not hear your complaint and continued to walk his way through the bushes.

"are we there yet by the way?" you continued to annoy him but you suddenly stopped as kevin stood in his tracks stopping.

"what's the hold up bitch?" you walked towards him but he made a 'shhhh' sound to you. you rolled your eyes annoyed at his actions but you still stayed quiet anyway.

"we're here already." he blatantly said. he revealed to you a small place covering up a dark hole on the ground.

you were absolutely shocked. you wondered if this was the adventure he was talking about. "dude, this is the place you mentioned about adventure?" you bursted out a laughter again.

kevin crossed his arms and he shook his head annoyed at your reaction. he thinks you don't know what's gonna happen next.

"you don't have to be that straightforward y/n." he patted your shoulder. you looked at him with an unimpressed look.

"that hole right here leads to something magical." he pointed the dark hole to you. you were still not buying it. "yeah right, like what? a dark swamp?" you joked but kevin wasn't having it. you shrugged not knowing what to do about that.

"you really judge things y/n. not nice of you." kevin shook his head then faked a cry thinking you were gonna fall for it. "i know, deal with it." you said in a sarcastic tone.

"by the way, you haven't told me where that hole leads to." you told kevin and you were already getting impatient too.

"you didn't ask me about it." kevin basically gave you the same attitude back. you struggled to say something so you stomped your feet in anger. "whatever." you walked away.

"y/n, don't leave yet!" he stopped you in your tracks. you've already had enough of kevin and it was a waste of your time already. "kevin, just tell me what it is then we'll go! i'm being serious." yes, you did raise your voice at him again and kevin was so sick to hear that kind of tone again.

"okay so as i said before, that hole leads to something magical and adventurous. it's a land, okay?" he explained the whole thing but you need a little more specific details. "what kind of land?"

kevin facepalmed and decided that it was time to go for good. "let me just show you what it is." he then grabbed your wrist again. it startled you so much and you were scared. "kevin, what are you doing?"

"we're going in now!" he answered.

"just by falling in? are you out of your mind?" you were really scared and kevin didn't even have the guts to answer you question. he made your hands wrap around his and your's and you were basically uncomfortable.

"you creep, what are you doing?" you complained again. "just hold on tight and be calm." he reminded you. "isn't there a ladder for this? kevin, i am not going to fall for my death what are you doing?-"

your sentence was cut off with your screams when kevin started to put his feet out resulting into the both of you falling off the hole finally.

"KEVIN!!!!!!" you screamed but kevin seemed to be so calm which made you so pissed. the falling kept on going, you could feel the air running through your face and you were no longer in kevin's arms.

"KEVIN COME BACK HERE!" you cried out. kevin sticked his hand out gesturing you to hold it. "take my hand you scaredy cat." you then took his hand and now the both of his hands. you guys were basically just falling.

you then observed the circular figure that you guys just fell into. it had paintings of princesses and a bunch of bookshelves. you hated reading so you didn't bother getting one anyway.

"the place is nice right?" kevin asked. "hm, i wouldn't say it is, but it seems okay." you answered honestly. then the both of you felt the free-fall suddenly getting slower and slower.

"woah, it's slow. are we getting there yet?" you asked kevin to be sure. "yeah, we are." kevin answered. you mumbled a 'yes' as you were excited to see the land you guys are about to land on.

then you guys felt the hard ground surface and it was already a sign that you guys finally arrived. thankfully you guys landed safely. you almost thought you were falling to your death.

"here we are." kevin said. you observed the entire room and it was basically a hallway and it's colors were red and dark brown. it looked like one of those haunted houses you see in books.

you noticed kevin already walking and he didn't even bother to tell you that he was going. "kevin, did we land on a haunted house? cause i did not sign up for this." you told him.

"no, it's not a haunted house." he answered. the both of you walked straight towards the hallway to your destination. you had no idea where kevin was taking you to, so you just followed where he's heading.

then you guys stopped at a wall. kevin even gestured you to stop because why not. "kevin why did we stop? isn't there like a way to this?" you asked him. you guys were facing infront of a wall too.

"no y/n. under our feet, there's a little door down there." he said, pointing at the little door he talked about.

you looked at the little door he gestured towards to and it was really small. "damn, how are we gonna get inside that?" you asked him.

kevin then turned to look at something and you followed. "you see that table with a bottle and candy there?" you nodded seeing the figures he mentioned.

"that bottle makes us shrink. while the candy makes us bigger."

"bigger that we'll break this room here?" you wondered but kevin shook his head. "no just the right amount of big." he told you.

then the both of you walked towards it and kevin grabbed the bottle and took the first sip. "kevin, the fuck?" you were a bit mad but kevin sticked his tongue out teasing you. there you saw him shrinking.

and unfortunately the plan didn't go too well. he made one stupid move and the bottle began to drop and break into pieces as soon as he shrank.

"oops." kevin realized what he just had done. you didn't hear what he said down there and you felt like crying cause of how angry you were.

"oh my fucking god, i'm literally going to cry. kevin, why? WHY?!" you stomped your feet in anger and tears were already streaming down in your face. you were already getting super pissed. and you obviously you can't hear kevin because he was too tiny.

kevin on the other hand was basically apologizing and told you not to cry cause it's gonna make it worse. "y/n, don't cry! i got this! just please stop crying!"

"fucking hell, why did i even agree to this."

you sat yourself onto the ground covering your face holding in your anger. kevin was already starting to worry. he didn't know what to do next.

"fuck you kevin, now i'm stuck here forever thanks to you." you cursed at him. kevin could still hear you.

"please wait y/n." he calmed you down and he looked around to see what else he could find. then hope started to appear as the door suddenly gotten bigger? it even reached the size of an average human being.

there your tears stopped flowing and you were not longer mad. it was a good thing hope came around to save you. "oh my god the door! yes!" you ran towards it as you felt the excitement filling in you.

"oh my god. y/n did not just leave me behind." kevin facepalmed groaning in frustration. he couldn't believe that you just left him behind. you were being a little to selfish that you forgot kevin was with you.

"y/n! come back here!" he yelled and he knows he couldn't hear you but still decided to shout anyway in case if it's helping in the slightest.

when you were about to touch the door knob, you remembered kevin. you literally thought he was beside you when you just forgot that he shrank a while ago. "oh my god, kevin!" you gasped. "i forgot about that little bitch."

you walked your way to where the table was and grabbed the candy. you broke the smallest piece as possible then gave it to kevin. but you couldn't see where he was.

"god damn it, you're too small to see kevin." you cursed out.

"not my problem. now give the candy to me!" kevin yelled. it was such a shame that he could hear you but you couldn't.

you didn't know where kevin was so you decided to put it in the place where he began to shrink.

"yes! finally! WOOH!" kevin saw the candy and took the chance to grab it. he then started to grow back as soon as he ate it. you flinched at the sight when kevin transformed cause it happened out of nowhere.

"well, thank god you're back to normal." you told kevin sounding sarcastic in your tone. "all thanks to you almost leaving me behind." he said.

and you knew what to respond to that. "and even your stupid move which caused the bottle to break." kevin went speechless but he didn't bother to talk back cause you were getting on his nerves already.

"whatever, let's just go." you followed kevin to where he was walking to. and there you were at an ordinary town with cartoon-like and unrealistic structures around it. the town looked like something that came out of a fantasy world too.

you and kevin both explore the town observing it's neat surroundings. you saw that there were only a few people passing by. there was not that much people there too. no wonder it seemed quiet.

"so, this is the town?" you asked kevin. "yeah, it seems quiet here too. you can only hear the sounds of nature in this town." you nodded at kevin's words understanding the town's condition.

there were lots of  flowers that you found attractive. the colors were so pretty too. you ran to the bushes to pick a flower. then you were stopped by kevin. "hey, hey, hey, what do you think you're doing?"

"uhm, picking the flowers? am i going to get caught by a demonic monster or what?"

kevin felt the urge to scold you at this point. "y/n it's simple, don't pick the flowers. look at the villagers staring at you." you then turned to the villagers he was talking about and he was right.

two of those villagers were giving a glare at you. you chuckled awkwardly putting the flowers back together to its place. you were starting to get so uncomfortable cause the villagers still gave you the same look.

"uh oh, looks like you've fucked up." kevin whispered to you. "shut it okay? i got this." you convinced him.

"i'm very sorry for picking up the flowers. it won't happen again" you apologized sincerely to the villagers and they've changed their reactions a bit but didn't bother to give you a response back. you and kevin then walked away after that awkward situation was over.

you sighed in relief after escaping all that mess. "see i told you." kevin didn't seemed amused and ignored your words.

as you guys continued to walk in your destination, you saw a fountain nearby. the water looked so beautiful and the whole stone structure itself. you then approached it to see what it looked like.

kevin noticed where you were heading to. "y/n, where are you going?"

"to the fountain. it's not like i'm going somewhere dangerous." you told kevin.

"i was only asking, no need to be rude." you ignored his words. you headed to the fountain and sat down on it for a while. kevin followed and sat down beside you.

"what are we sitting here for?" he wondered. "kevin, let's take a little break okay? my legs can't handle all the running and walking we've been doing unlike yours." you basically compared your minor inconvenience to kevin's.

"hm, i guess that just proves i'm tougher than you." he teasingly said as you nudged him on his shoulder.

"no way, i'm tougher." you said. "no, what was that smack you gave me then? that felt weak." he commented on the way you smacked him on the shoulder.

"ah, so you wanted something painful? i'll show you then." you used all your might to smack kevin on the shoulder and it happened to work.

he yelped in pain. "OUCH! WHAT THE HELL Y/N?" he said, still feeling pain from the smack you gave him.

"well, it's what you wanted right?" you poked your finger on his shoulder. kevin slapped it away. "not in that way, idiot!"

kevin crossed his arms and distanced himself away from you. you have to admit that you enjoyed teasing him this much.

"you're so fun to tease kevin." you scooted over beside him cooing over him. kevin rolled his eyes in response. "i have to say you're really annoying to begin with."

you pretended to be hurt by what he said there. "aw, that hurts. but i know that already." you nudged him playfully on the shoulder chuckling at your own words.

"do you like teasing people this much y/n?" he asked you the question you weren't expecting. "yes. get used to it. even my friends are fine with it."

kevin raised his eyebrow, wondering if what you said was true. "really?"

"yeah, jacob and eric. eric seems to follow along with my jokes. meanwhile jacob? i don't think he gets it sometimes, so i have to be careful with what i say when it comes to him." you described your friendship to kevin and he seems to be interested in it, forming an 'o' on his mouth while nodding.

"cool cool, you seem to have great friends." kevin said. "i know. but i feel bad sometimes." your tone suddenly changed and you weren't playing around this time. kevin was suddenly confused. "eh? what do you mean?"

"i'm actually not a good person in the real world." you told kevin. but did he seem surprised? it was already obvious by the way you acted towards him.

"i'm one of those rebellious students who cuts classes and whatever school policy you can remember, i might have broken some." you explained to kevin. kevin wasn't expecting any of that as well.

"woah, i thought you were one of those students that bully people for looks." you nodded at his statement. "or one of those students that is rude to people for no reason." you realized he was implying you in that sentence and you smacked him again.

"no, i'm good with people. i just hate getting bossed around that's why." you explained it to him further. "okay, okay, whatever you say meanie." kevin said.

"jacob, eric, and i are total opposites. and because of that, i feel very bad because i made them cover up for me if i have the urge to skip classes." you explained the details about your concern earlier.

"then you shouldn't have done that to them if that was concerning you in the first place? why would you continue?" kevin asked. he wanted to go into more about it.

"because of this one teacher. the teacher who i have a huge hatred for and i'm trying to avoid her at all costs." you answered as kevin nodded listening to what you were saying.

"i want to make it up to them when i get back." you said while touching the waters on the fountain minding nothing at all. "and i think they're fed up with my shit i put onto them. i really need to do something."

kevin understood what you're feeling at the moment. "do you miss them?"

"of course, i do." you told him. "you would've loved them too if you were real." you bluntly said by accident. you totally shouldn't have kept that in mind. this is why you also told kevin that you need to be careful with words too.

kevin genuinely laughed anyway which seemed odd. "true true." even though that was the reaction he gave you still felt bad. "sorry, i shouldn't have said that." you apologized.

"it's fine. i just wish i was like you. out there in the real word. but like i said, i only appear in dreams so there's nothing you can do about it." you were feeling guilty now but you understood his feelings. you wanted to know what he actually was before his dream existence started.

"kevin, do you still remember what you were before all this dream thingy?" you asked. you were curious of kevin's life so you wanted to know.

"actually i don't." he said. "i only know my name. i remember having a memory of it when i first got here but as time went by, i suddenly lost the hold of it." he explained. you were sad that he wasn't able to rememeber it anymore. kevin would've lived a good life if it weren't for this dream.

"enough with the gloomy hours now." kevin suddenly changed the atmposhere's mood immediately. "you miss your friends right?" kevin asked patting your shoulder. you were confused with the question he asked.

"uhm, i do. why?"

kevin pointed out a castle located from the mountains. "we are heading there anyway. to the castle. to bring you back to the real word." he explained. what he said gave you more motivation and energy to this little adventure you guys were doing.

"well then, let's get going!" you didn't have to think about the consequences. you wanted to return so bad. the both of you stood up walking to the trails that lead to the top mountains. as usual, you followed kevin to wherever the hell he was heading to.

"are we really going up to the castle directly?" you asked kevin. "hm, nope. we need to visit a friend of mine first before going up there." he answered. "ah, okay." you wondered what the little friend of his looked like. you were down curious too.

then you guys arrived at a place where it seemed a little dark. much like something you see in the cave. it seemed so hollow too. "kevin, where are we?" you asked him wondering what the place was. "this is uhm, the other part of the village." he answered.

"except it's dimmed and way more colder here." he added. "this also happens to be the place where my friend lives." he also mentioned. you and kevin then arrived at a wooden house with a unique and neat structure. you were absolutely stunned with the house's image.

kevin knocked on the door to call over his friend. the door then opened revealing it to be his friend. he seemed tall and good-looking too. "hey kevin!" he said. kevin greeted back.

"hey juyeon! by the way i brought someone over." he was talking about you. "this is y/n." juyeon looked over at you then waved at you. "hi y/n, i'm juyeon." he said with a smile on his face. he seemed very kind to you. he reminds you of your friend jacob too.

he then gestured you guys to come in. "come in guys." the both of you entered inside his house. you slowly observed how his room looked like and it was so small and simple yet so pretty. you envied his house so much.

"wow, your house is so nice." you said while admiring the room. juyeon was flattered by your compliment. "thank you."

kevin helped juyeon preparing some little snacks for the three of you to eat. "come sit down y/n." juyeon called you over as they were done preparing the food. you grabbed a seat to sit on as you walked to the table.

"so, what brings you here y/n?" juyeon asked wanting to know your business here. "uhm, i was dreaming and i-"

you were stopped by juyeon. "what? you? dreaming? as in like now?" you nodded and you were so confused to juyeon's shocked expression.

"why, is there anything wrong?" you asked. juyeon and kevin both looked at each other. you saw kevin almost choking on his sandwich while juyeon began to put down his sandwich.

"y/n, you need to wake up as soon as possible." he told you. you were so worried that you started to fear for what's about to happen. "why am i going to die?" you asked.

"much worse. you'd either die or be in a coma for who knows how long." juyeon explained. you were questioning why kevin didn't tell you all of this. maybe because it involed death but he should've told you right away.

"that's why i'm taking her to the castle juyeon." kevin added. juyeon nodded taking kevin's words. "that's good. the queen will be having us over for dinner anyway." he mentioned something about an event with the queen.

"kevin, why didn't you say anything about the chances of me dying here?" you wanted to ask kevin as you cannot keep it in inside anymore.

kevin sort of hesitated to answer your question. but he had no choice since juyeon was also unsure if he wants to tell the truth.

"because y/n..." he did a long pause in his sentence then decided to speak again. "juyeon and i were like you once. then the universe decided that it was finally the day for us to stop living in the real world. that's why i said i only appear in dreams. same goes with juyeon."

so juyeon and kevin are basically dead. no wonder. those were all the things you understood. "but, what about being in a coma?"

kevin and juyeon don't know the proper answer to that unfortunately. we actually don't know if we're officially dead or not. if we've been living her longer, that indicates we're dead." juyeon explained what he can so that you'd understand and get the whole context behind this dream thing you are in.

"if we managed to escape ourselves out of this within a short time of period then we're lucky. " juyeon added. "but since me and kevin have been here for two months..." he took a pause to drink his tea before continuing. "we're actually considered dead."

you heart felt like breaking apart. you know that it isn't your fault but somehow you felt sad because they had to go through all of this. you always forget that they've had a life before this too.

"there are actually two ways in attempting to escape. it's either you wait for the day for this to end or you go eat with the queen then work your way out through a secret door." kevin explained the dynamics with the way it works here.

"is it hard to get pass through the queen?" you were curious. "yes it is." kevin responded.

"if you get caught then the guards would sure kick you out and the queen will throw out names to you." he explained how the process works. you had a feeling it felt like a life or death situation but it is what it is.

"and you got to solve a huge maze there as you enter then exit the castle." juyeon also mentioned. you couldn't believe that the queen would make you do a lot of things beforehand. "what? no way." you gasped in shock.

"yes way." juyeon corrected. "did you guys tried to attempt making your way through the queen?" you asked if they've had any experiences but the both of them shook their head.

"no, you can only get one attempt at it." juyeon said as you nodded in response.

"i hope you made it for sure y/n." kevin told you. you felt touched at his words but at the same time you were worried because what if you don't make it out alive? it's what feared you the most. "i don't know, what if i can't?"

kevin and juyeon convinced you that you will make it somehow. "no! you will!" kevin said.

"don't have doubts y/n, we know you can make it." juyeon also added.

"i don't know if i can. the way you guys expained the procedure, i don't think i can. it seems hard." you said with worry in your voice. kevin and juyeon seemed worried as well.

"and i don't wanna die too. there are so many things i want to do and it's so early if i did..." you told them with sadness in your voice.

"as long as you have us-" but juyeon decided to cut him off. "actually, i'm not going to help you guys out since the queen doesn't want me around." what a pity you thought. it's a shame juyeon can't come along.

you wondered what was the business between juyeon and the queen. "why? what's wrong?"

juyeon didn't want to explain it somehow. "uhm, it's a long story." he said. you respected his decision anyway in not telling.

"i'll be here to guide you." you looked into kevin's eyes and he was very eager to help you out.

"and you'll wake up to the real world in no time with his help." juyeon said. but he gestured you to go near to his ear closer to whisper something. "if it weren't for him fooling around."

"hey, i heard that!" kevin said raising his voice slightly with anger but juyeon found it funny somehow and the same goes to you. "but he's right though." you sided with juyeon on this one.

kevin rolled his eyes turned his head to the opposite direction. you know kevin will still help you out despite all the mean things you've done to him.

"so y/n, do you think you can make it out?" juyeon asked you.

you were still pretty much unsure and you still doubted but with the help of kevin, there might be a slight chance you can make it out alive. kevin was the one who brought you here to this whole adventure so obviously he'd know a thing or two.

"we'll see. as long as kevin is helping me out." you smiled. "without fooling around." you did that on purpose to annoy kevin. he was not impressed with the whole thing at all while juyeon covered his face to silent down his laughter.

"okay, now that we've agreed onto this, let's do a pinky swear now." kevin suggested. he let out his pink finger to you waiting for you to do the same.

"sure." both of your pinkies tangeled onto each other for a short time then you let go. "me too." juyeon also wanted to do a pink swear with you then you agreed. both of you pulled away after.

"so, are we going now?" you asked kevin.

"yea-" kevin immediately changed his answer as he thought of something in mind. "nope, we aren't going not unless you finish that sandwich." he made a grin look on his face that made you roll your eyes for the millionth time.

you observed that kevin's actual personality towards you went back to normal. "so you're just gonna act like that now?"

kevin shrugged. "i don't know what you're talking about, but all i know is that i'm helping you out with things."  he responded. juyeon was so confused with the whole thing but he knew you guys were just messing around.

you finished your sandwich anyway in one bite. it was only a small one too. "finished."

"that fast?" kevin was shocked. it was a real one this time.

you decided to ignore what he just said there. "let's get going now kevin."

"y/n-" you were getting too impatient that you can't even bother to talk to kevin.

you said, standing up on the chair heading towards the door. kevin also followed.

juyeon headed towards the door as you and kevin exited already. "goodluck y/n." he said. you responded with a thumbs up to him. "you guys stay safe out there too and no fooling around." that was definitely meant both for you and kevin.

"we will juyeon." kevin told him. then the both of you parted ways with juyeon. it was now time for the both of you to head to the green maze.

"kevin, where is this green maze?" you asked as you were following kevin walking to the highest rail leading to the top surface of the mountain.

"the green maze is at the top." he answered. "it's gonna be very complicated too so you and i better not mess around." he reminded.

"hm, okay meanie." you teased him for the last time seeing as he said to not fool around.

"what did i just say?" he groaned in frustration, facepalming.

"fine whatever." you stopped messing with kevin afterwards. you could've sworn that your legs were getting so tired but you didn't want to complain since you fear at the thought of kevin not helping you if you annoyed him again.

but you would for sure annoy him back if he broke the rules and decided to mess with you. there you guys arrived at the top of the mountains. you can feel that the maze was already nearer.

"here it is, the green maze." kevin said as you guys already arrived at the maze. it was made of grass. you gasped at the sight of it seeing as it was very big. "wow, it's this big?" you asked.

"yeah. and a very complicated one too." kevin also added. "so, where do we start?" you wanted to go already. you were getting pretty excited too.

"of course we start by here-" kevin stopped in his tracks as there were three card looking figures blocking his way.

"uh uh, what do you think you're doing?" one of the guards asked.

"going through the maze, what's it to you?" you started to act a little mean, hoping that it would intimidate them.

"you've got quite the attitude there you stinky two legged human." the middle guard said throwing names at you.

"whatever, just let us in. let the queen have some visitors too, will ya?"  you said as you started to walk towards the entrance

you were startled at the guards duplicating themselves into more stack of cards which prevented you and kevin to enter. "are you kidding me?"

"we are not kidding." one of them said. "the queen wouldn't permit visitors like you and your little friend to enter her castle." another one said.

"okay, well is there a way to enter the maze or are we really not going in there?" kevin asked.

"there is a way!" the guard said. "if you solve this riddle, we will let you pass!" the other one said.

you smirked at the idea of it being a riddle i. order to get pass the maze. "sure, beat us into it." you sounded eager.

kevin looked at you silently judging. "yeah, like you'll even get the correct answer." he joked.

"i will kevin, just you see." he didn't believed you but you were going to prove it to him anyway.

the guards were now in position to tell you the riddle they promised to ask you. "let's prepare the riddle!" the guards said. "get ready you fellow stranger."

"spill it right away." you told the guards. "this is a common little bug that many people fear. this fear has a special name; its arachnophobia." that was the riddle the cards gave you.

"this is going to be a tough one. or is it?" kevin whispered to you. "nope." you didn't even need a second to think cause you knew the answer.

"a spider!" you answered with joy in your voice.

"correct!" all the guards said in unison. they now let you into the entrance when you got the answer right.

you and kevin then made your eye towards the entrance and now the both of you were inside the maze. "how did you got that answer so quick?" kevin asked, curious on how you did it.

"hm, i know my ways." you bragged it to him. kevin was still envious on how your brain works.

since you guys were at the maze now, all that's left is to solve the entire thing before entering the queen's castle. "so kevin, do you know how to solve this maze or what?" you asked incase if he knew anything.

"nope. i've never been here too." he answered. oh well, what a bummer. this is gonna take a while seeing that the maze is big and you guys have no idea regards on where to start.

"oh well. what do we do then?" you asked kevin. kevin stopped and looked around at the maze wondering what to do.

"try those different paths duh, that's what a maze is." he said pointing while pointing those grass paths.

you didn't liked the idea of it. "do they not have a map hidden here or something?" you said while looking around the surroundings.

"no they don't. they make you solve shit in this maze so we have to use our brains to get out of here." kevin answered.

you sighed in frustration pulling your hair strands cause you know how stressful it is going to be. "god, why did the queen thought it was a good idea to put a maze here?"

kevin shrugged not knowing the answer to that. "i don't know either. i guess she has a purpose too."

"she probably likes to fool around with her visitors with this huge map and she wonders why she has no visitors." you told kevin making mean comments about the queen.

"actually, the queen cares less about that. she's got a large amount of people in her castle including guards and servants." he didn't agree to what you said there.

you were a bit surprised too. "wow, okay. well she is the queen so obviously she would be needing all of that." you shrugged at the end of your sentence.

"now, let's try the middle one." you suggested to kevin but he didn't agreed.

"no don't."

"why?" you wondered

"we're heading to the left." he said while heading towards to a different path which is the one he's going to.

"kevin, we are going to the middle." you said while dragging him back to the place.

kevin lets go of your hands. "y/n, let's agree on this because we need to stick together." he reminded you.

you still didn't want to go to the left path with him.  "and i said we're going to the middle, so that's that."

"you're so hard-headed y/n." he went off alone by himself leaving you behind.

"hey, where are you going?" you asked where he was heading too when it was already clear.

"unless if you don't want to return to the real world then i'll be leaving you here." he warned beforehand. now that made you wanting to go with him.

"fine, i'll go with you!" you shouted while going after him. "that's what i thought." he said forming a smirk in his face.

you guys were walking straight to the left path. the atmopshere between you and kevin were quiet. but it was understandable since you wanted to focus on getting out of here.

then there goes a grass block preventing your way. you and kevin stopped walking as it was blocking your sight. there were was no way out to the opposite sides too.

"damn what? do we have to take another turn?" you asked kevin. "probably-" he was cut off by a voice.

"no, don't. you've entered the right path." it was another card figure and it's not like the ones you've seen at the entrance. it was a different one.

"hey, you might know the way out to this. do you?" kevin asked the card that was sitting while looking at the both of you.

"yes! with the help of a simple task, then i will let the two of you in." the card answered. you and kevin both looked at each other cheering in joy.

"okay, and what's that thing you want us to do?" you asked the card.

the card then suddenly brought out a red painting bucket. "paint the white roses red." the card said.

you and kevin were a little confused. "like all the roses here?" you asked as the card nodded. "yes yes yes."

kevin grabbed the bucket then the both of you went to the bushes where it had the most roses.

"we just need to paint all of it right?" you asked kevin just incase.

"yeah." he answered.

both of you then grabbed the two brushes tjat were given and started to paint the roses. "okay. but why did the queen not bother planting red roses? she didn't have to make her card servants paint all these roses." you said as you wondered telling it to kevin.

"y/n, just do what we're asked to do." he was not amused at all and it sounded like a complaint to him which made you annoyed.

"okay, fine."

it only took about 8-9 minutes to finish the task you were told to. it took that long because of the amount of roses there were on the other corners.

as soon as you were both finished, both of you walked towards the card that was just sitting around waiting for you and kevin to finish. "we're done." kevin said returning the paint bucket to the card.

"hm..." the card took the bucket and stood up, looking at all the roses you have painted. you hoped that were no missing spots because you and kevin took the time to finish painting on all the roses that were found.

"okay, you've passed." the card said walking back towards to its place. you and kevin sighed in relief after hearing the good news. the card then inserted a key to the grass then it sooned opened after unlocking it.

"wait, those things have a secret locker underneath it?" you gasped.

"not all." the card said. "this only applies to mine." you nodded understanding what the card said. now that the task was over, you and kevin headed towards to a new path.

"where to next captain?" you asked kevin while you guys were walking. "i'd say we take your advice." kevin suggested. "now, where do we go to next y/n?" he said.

"uhm... you started to look around and observe what was the correct path. "let's head over to that one with a black gate." you told kevin pointing it out to him.

"that could lead us to somewhere too, i can tell." you assumed. kevin slowly nodded and decided to give your advice a try. you and kevin went to the black gate as you suggested. then as soon as you guys got there, a card came through the bushes out of nowhere.

"what the hell-" you cursed out.

"hey! mind your language." the card said as he walked towards you and kevin. "you wanna get pass to this black gate?"

"yeah." you answered. "well you gotta be catching butterflies for this one." the card handed you and kevin a butterfly net. but you were a little confused since there were no butterflies.

"there's no butterflies here though?" the butterflies then came to appear. there were only a few of them but it was also hard to catch it all too.

"oh, those are the butterflies." kevin gasped looking at the butterflies that were flying around.

"yeah, yeah. now are you gonna catch those butterflies for me or what?" the card impatiently asked.

what the card said made your blood boil so you started to anger the card. "just wait you-" you were then cut off by its voices.

"i said watch your language." he warned. "now go, catch those butterflies." he commanded.

"how many butterflies exactly?" kevin asked. "hm, i only need about a few. about 20 butterflies." the card responded. "after you catch all those butterflies, you put it in these jars." the card handed you and kevin an empty jar.

"now go." you and kevin then started to catch the butterflies as quick as possible.

"oh my god, this is going to be so tiring." you complained for the millionth time again. you were so tired of doing tasks for the cards but you had no choice since they helped your way out to the maze

"it's not if you're just going to sit around and complain." kevin said while he was catching the butterflies.

"kevin, you know how my legs get easily tired." you followed kevin's footsteps as he was catching the butterflies and you made sure you didn't get in his way.

"well, what do you want me to do about that?" kevin was tired of hearing the same complaint from you.

"i was just saying." you crossed your arms. you only stood there watching kevin catching the butterflies the entire time cause you refuse to catch the butterflies.

"y/n, just continue what we're tasked to do please." he said when he noticed you just standing around there slacking off.

you dropped the butterfly net then sat on the ground. "that's what you always say." you groaned in frustration.

"yeah, cause you kept on complaining on every task we did." kevin told you the reason but you did not seem to agree it.

"but i did make some points on it though." you defended yourself. you intended to annoy kevin with that one.

kevin began to stop catching the butterflies as he heard your response. "y/n no. just- oh my god." he itched his hair in stress and swore that he had enough with you.

you formed a smirk on your face as you successfully attempted to annoy kevin. now you wanted to ask kevin how he was doing with the butterflies. "kevin, how many butterflies have you caught so far?" you asked.

kevin then approached towards you holding the net that was filled with a few butterflies. "open the jar." he commanded. you brought out the jar and opened it. kevin grabbed the jar then inserted the net that had the butterflies on it. he quickly closed it with the lid because the butterflies were too fast.

"those are all i've caught so far." he said. you looked at the butterflies and counted in head on how many there were inside. "ten?" you guessed.

"probably, if that's what you think." kevin shrugged. then he continued to catch more butterflies as you waited for him to finish.

you actually do feel bad that he has to do all the catching while you wait and stood there holding the jar. it was too late anyway since he only needed ten more butterflies.

kevin was finally done catching the butterflies. there were no sight of the butterflies too. you gave him the other empty jar then he placed all the butterflies inside quickly closing the lid.

"are these all the butterflies now?" you asked kevin but when you saw him he was already lying on the ground panting cause of how exhausted he was.

"count it y/n." he said. you shrugged then you slowly observed the butterflies counting each one of them. it seems like they were complete already.

"uhm, 20. they're all complete already." kevin mumbled a 'yes' then slowly got up from his position then stood up. "now let's give it to the grumpy card that's waiting." kevin said.

the two of you both approached towards the card then you gave the jars with butterflies like the card asked. "here are the butterflies."

the card grabbed the jars and carefully looked at the butterflies. the card looked at the surroundings to see if there was any left but there was none all thanks to kevin's help.

"okay, you can pass now." the card unlocked the black gate using the key. the gate the. opened and you and kevin quickly ran to it.

"hey! you!" you and kevin stopped when the card still called you both back in which lead you very confused.

"uhm, is there a problem?" kevin asked.

the card nodded. "yes, and that's your lazy friend right there." you were the lazy friend in question.

"what's with you complaining and slacking off? you didn't even helped your friend out." the card complained. you wanted to say something in defense but kevin grabbed your wrist running away from the card.

"HEY, GET BACK HERE!" the card yelled following the both of you.

you wondered why kevin dragged you like that. "kevin, what the hell was that for?" you wondered.

"y/n, you really wanna waste your time standing there talking to the card? it's best if we just run away already and head to the castle like we're supposed to." kevin said while he was still holding his wrist onto you.

you looked behind your back to see if the card was still following and it eventually gave up when kevin ran farther.

now that the card was nowhere to be found, kevin soon stopped running and lets go of your wrist. he stood for a while panting because he ran too fast.

"you shouldn't have ran too fast." you walked near towards kevin who was lying down on the grass again.

kevin took a big exhale out considering how tired he was. "it was for your sake. that card was about to kill you in a second." he answered.

you understood his point. "right, right." you looked around the maze and you could already see the castle's sight getting closer. that means you were almost there too.

"so where are we headed now?" you looked at kevin. he stood up from his position going back to business after taking a quick rest.

"apparently we're almost there." he said that which you knew already. "obviously."

kevin started to walk towards the maze then you followed along. "we just need to observe carefully and choose the right path-" he was stopped again by another, yet another, cards in his way.

you were guessing that these cards woild come make you do another task again. "OH COME ON, DON'T TELL ME YOU GUYS ARE GOING TO MAKE US DO ANOTHER TASK?!" you said, raising your voice at them.

"no bitch! you've already reached the end of the maze." one of the cards angrily exclaimed. the other card pulled out a key then opened the locker opening the grass gate that leads to the castle.

it opened very slowly. but when it was finally opened, you saw the castle. it was so big and very pretty. the color captured your eyes and even it's structure. everything looked so fancy and it was no ordinary castle.

"woah..." kevin gasped and you saw his eyes looking very wide when he saw the castle. the both of you stood there taking a second to admire the castle before heading off.

"it's so beautiful." you commented.

"much better than those modern castles." kevin also commented.

you observed the castle's material and noticed that it was different. "this one is different cause it's made out of marble."

then you hear a voice shouting at the both of you. "HEY!" it was one of the cards. they came walking to you and kevin's direction.

"by the way, you two seem very unfamiliar." one of the cards observed. "did the queen invited you over?" the other one asked.

you didn't know what to answer cause you were scared if they knew that you were lying. "yes. the queen invited us." kevin responded. it was obviously a lie but he's risking it anyway.

"alright, have fun dinning with the queen." the cards said as left to go back to where they stayed.

you and kevin started to walk towards the entrance of the castle. and it was another hassle too since the bridge was so long.

"oh my fucking god, it's this long?" you groaned once again and you felt so tired having to walk and run around in long areas again.

kevin looked at you, noticing that you were tired of walking. "well, do you need a hand?" he offered.

you guessed that it was going to be his infamous tight hand holding wrist again. "no, i don't like the way you hold my wrist." you said.

and that wasn't what kevin meant either. "no, not that! i'm gonna carry you while crossing the bridge." he explained.

"okay sure." it didn't matter to you if you were heavy or not so you decided to place yourself on kevin's back. he then slowly lifted you up before getting himself comfortable in carrying you.

"can you do it?" you asked kevin if he was struggling to carry you. "yes i can." he affirmed. now you were going to be on kevin's back until you've reached to the castle's gate.

it was a long walk for sure. you didn't get the concept of the queen's kingdom because the dynamics here seemed so ridiculous to you. you thought about the queen not making things bigger but that'll leave you into overthinking once again.

kevin wasn't having a hard time carrying you and he was walking fine. you knew he was that strong. he probably beat you to it.

"thanks for carrying me kevin." you said it closely to his ear.

"anytime." he responded to which gave you a smile on the face. silence then occured for the both of you. this was also a situation where there's no time for talking too.

after all this adventure, kevin liked having you around despite you annoying him all the time. and he would annoy you back obviously.

he wants to be friends with you and not just for a short period of time. but that cannot happen since kevin is apparently a dead person. it breaks his heart thinking about the disadvantages but there's nothing he can do. it'll only stay that way.

then you guys were already at a near distance to the gate. "we're almost there!" you happily exclaimed.

"yes we are." kevin said forcing his voice to sound happy. you were too busy to notice it too.

kevin then stopped when the both of you already arrived at the gate. you got out of yourself off of kevin's back then looked at the gate.

"so this is it." he said. you looked over at kevin. "should we go in now?"

"yes." he said. you took the chance to knock the gate then waited for the guards to let you in.

the gate then opened revealing guards that were infront of you and kevin. "it's the queen's visitors." one of the guards whispered. "let them in." one of them responded. the two guards then let you and kevin enter insde the castle.

"wow." you looked around the castle filled with dazzling furniture and fancy yet simple things alll around it. you can't find the perfect words to desrcibe it. probably because you were too distracted by it's beauty around it.

"kevin, isn't it so beautiful?" you asked kevin who was looking around the castle too. "damn right it is." he responded with energy onto his voice.

kevin then dragged you over to the stairs when he noticed the guards staring at you both suscipiciously. "kevin what-" he covered your mouth when he heard your voice getting too slightly loud.

"let's get going. they'll think we're intruders or something." he whispered as quietly as he can. you nodded then followed kevin upstairs to head over to the queen's dinning room.

you can hear the guards' footsteps still following you so you decided to act proper like nothing just happened. there you finally arrived at the door. kevin opened the doorknob but the guard gestured his hand away because the guard assisted to open it instead.

you can see the queen's guests all talking with each other and it was loud too because there were so many of them. you did not know which one was the queen. you assuemed it was the one sitting at the center looking bat you and kevin.

"guards." your guess was right. it was definitely the queen that sat at the center.

"yes your majesty?" they responded.

"who are those outsiders you brought here?" she asked. you felt the gaze and stares by the guests that was directed at you and kevin.

"your visistors your highness." the guard answered. the queen then stood up from her seat heading towards you and kevin.

she looked at you and kevin with a stern face looking up and down. you can hear kevin's nervous gulping and you wished that the queen didn't hear that.

"what are your names?" the queen asked.

"i'm kevin."

"and i'm y/n. the queen took a long pause to look at the both of you. she's still undecided to let you and kevin in or not.

"welcome!" she happily greeted. you and kevin both chuckled awkwardly while greeitng the queen back. the both of you then bowed after.

"i am very delighted to see the both of you, come along now. take a seat." she said while leading you to vacant chairs for you and kevin to sit on.

she then headed back to her seat after you guys found a spot. "woah, look at the food here." you gasped at the dessert that was being placed infront of you. you wanted to take a bi until kevin stopped you from it.

"y/n don't."he said.

"why?" you wondered.

"it's poisonous. the queen is planning to poison all of her visitors here." he warned. your eyes widened in shock upon hearing the reason behind it. "that's brutal."

"i know." kevin said. no wonder the guests haven't laid their hands on the food yet. either they know the queen's plan or they just don't know about it.

kevin then leaned in closer to you to whisper something. "by the way, you see that entrance there?" he pointed it so that you an see it as well. "yeah i do." you said.

"head straight to that then you'll arrive at the escape door." he told you. "well, let's go then." you suggested but kevin shook his head.

"not yet. we need to wait for the good timing." he said. "let's excuse ourselves into going the restroom." you nodded at his words.

you and kevin waited for the right timing before leaving the table. all of the guests were too busy and laughing at each other. and as for the queen? she had to join along with their conversations too.

then kevin nudged your shoulder indicating that it was time to leave. you and kevin got up from your chairs then approached the queen to be excused.

"your majesty." kevin called the queen then she turned out to look at the both of you. "yes?" she asked.

"we will be excusing ourselves to go wash our hands." kevin explained. the queen seemed to have agreed to excuse both.

"why yes!" she said. "do be quick! we will be having our feast in about a minute." she said.

you and kevin only had a minute left so the both of you slowly ran to the entrance door. thankfully the queen didn't notice too.

when you arrived at the door, kevin quickly opened the door then you went swiftly in as quick as possible. then kevin did the same afterwards.

you observed that the room was dark. kevin found a switch then the room was no longer dark. there you found the door that was just right infront of you.

"this is it." kevin said walking towards it. your hands became sweaty. you couldn't believe this was the end. this will be your last time seeing kevin too.

you went to the door then slowly opened the doorknob. as you opened the door you saw a dead end and you guessed that you were suppose to fall in it just like the hole from earlier.

"so i'm going to fall?" you asked kevin. kevin nodded. "seems like it." he wasn't sure too.

you and kevin looked at each other for a moment to say your last goodbyes. "well, i guess this is the end." you told kevin.

"it is." kevin nodded. he was trying to keep his tears in and you can't help but do the same.

"this will be my last time seeing you too." you could feel a tear strolling down in your cheeks as you said that.

"it was nice having you around y/n." kevin's face was already puffy and his eyes were about to swell in tears. you hate to leave in a condition like this. and it hurts for you to see kevin being emotional already. you can feel your heart breaking into pieces.

you then wanted to have a word before leaving. "kevin, it was nice being with you too. i've had fun. i don't get why we're being so emotional over this even though we just met. but it's the fact that this will be our last time being with each other too." you really had to be honest with you words.

kevin felt touched with you said there. he decided to give you a big hug before you decide to leave and go back to the real world. "don't forget about me y/n." he said.

"i promise." you told him. you let out a pinky finger as he did the same now wrapping it to indicate a pinky promise. then you pulled away as you were about to leave now.

kevin waved goodbye at you as you waved back mumbling a 'bye.' in your mouth.

then an idea just got into your head. "kevin, why don't you just come with me?" you asked pulling back to approach kevin again.

"y/n, are you crazy? that's not how it works." he hesitated but you were a bit too stubborn.

"just please." you dragged him over with you to the door's exit but unfortunately he pushed you over, resulting to you falling. and he still stayed in the door.

"kevin..." you went speechless. you wanted kevin to go with you so bad but he can't.

"i'm sorry..." kevin attempted to hold his tears back. he would go with you but he can't. the procedure you did won't work for him.

then he ran back to the dinning room to where the queen was. the queen already found him in the room so there were chances that she saw the door open as well.

"this stupid fucking- UGH!" you were already about to burst into tears. frustration and anger started to get on you. tears started rolling down to your cheeks as you already felt the urge to cry.

"i won't forget you kevin. i'll see you in my next dreams if possible."

you couldn't take it anymore. you should've brought kevin with you. your heart was already aching so bad at the pain. and because of that you spent the whole free-falling crying about kevin not being able to go with you.

~~

"y/n! y/n!" you can hear voices coming from eric and jacob. you even felt the tears from your eyes too and your nose was swelling.

"y/n, stop crying!" eric nudged your shoulder even more.

jacob stopped eric in what he was doing to you. "eric, y/n is having a nightmare. don't do that."

your eyes then opened seeing the sight of your two friends eric and jacob. they both looked at you in relief.

"y/n?" jacob asked. "are you okay?"

you looked at them with your eyes still filled with your tears. you covered your face wiping off your tears. eric still brushed your shoulder comforting you from crying. then you stood up to go to the place where kevin lead you to the hole.

"y/n. where are you going?" jacob asked as he followed you, then eric came along.

you looked at the bushes. it was different from your dream. you guessed that it wasn't real at all.

"y/n, what's up with you?" eric was already concerned. you were so annoyed at the worried questions they keep giving you but you didn't want to be mad at them.

"nothing. i just had a long day." you sighed.

"yeah, long day of sleeping and skipping classes again." eric said rolling his eyes while jacob scolded him to not say such things because of the condition you are at right now.

"i'll tell you guys all about it later." you decided to tell them the journey you've been experiencing. you know they won't believe it but you wanted to tell them anyway.

"let's go now." you said. jacob and eric then followed you returning back to the school.

as you were just walking, you noticed a familiar human figure right in the trees. it decided to reveal itself and it was no other than kevin. you hoped that you weren't dreaming again.

"kevin?" you mumbled in your breath but jacob and eric could still hear you. you really saw kevin in your own eyes but maybe you were just hallucinating.

"who?" eric asked in confusion. you shook your head. "nevermind." you said.

"you guys didn't saw anything right?" you asked them both. eric and jacob shook their heads. "no, we didn't." jacob responded as you nodded.

"good." you told them.

"you're acting weird today y/n." eric commented.

"eric, let y/n gather all their thoughts. they’re not in a good mood." jacob told him. jacob wrapped his arm around your neck as a sign of comforting you. eric did the same too. now they were both holding onto you. you really don't deserve jacob as your friend. and even your chaotic friend eric on the other hand.

there you guys continued to walk down the hills coming back to the school to grab your stuff then head to the park to tell them everything in your dream.

you don't know when you'll be seeing kevin again. you had doubts that he will appear in your dream too since that was the only time you got a decent dream. it was all luck.

you hope for the day that you'll see him again. whether in dreams or not, you just wanted to feel his presence again.

[stormtodoroki]

Love Sparks

Pairing: Kaminari Denki x Reader

Soulmate AU

Warnings: None

P.O.V: Reader's

Word Count: 2,644

The knowledge about how and when Quirks came along goes far beyond my family's history, at least I think. My name is Aizawa, (f/n) and I am preparing for my UA entrance exam, thankfully my mother has allowed me to come to Japan from America for schooling. She mentioned something about being able to meet my grandparents as well as my biological father, if I get the chance. She hasn't told me much about him, every time I'd ask her she'd get really mad and tell me not to ask again, but I was persistent, I just had to know. But that's not the only thing I had to know, not only are quirks a fascinating part of our lives but so is the way we find our forever person, our body's receive a shock that courses through our bodies when we make skin to skin contact with our soulmate. 

I stood at the main gates and took a few deep breaths, this was it, the beginning of my future, if I passed this entrance exam I will officially be a hero student at UA High. As I took my steps over the threshold and moved closer to the designated building I let out a shaky breath I didn't realize I was holding. What if my quirk might not be good enough to get through? What if someone has a similar quirk and they have better control over it than I do? I stopped walking all together and was about to turn around when someone crashed into me. 

"WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING YOU DAMN EXTRA! STAY OUTTA MY WAY."

I looked up to see what I could only describe as an angry porcupine, his face contorted with rage if I looked at him close enough I'd probably see steam coming out of his ears. I let out a quick apology and nodded, he tsked and walked away grumbling, boy I would hate to be in the same testing area as him, I'm just grateful that I didn't say anything back to him.  I shook my head clear and walked into the building, looking for my number I sat next to a kid who looked like he was in the wrong place, he dressed a bit too formal. I wonder if he's going to take the exam in that? 

I took a quick glance around and gulp, there's a lot of kids here, I knew how prestigious the school was and how low the acceptance rate was, but this was just insane. My attention was soon directed to the front  where- oh my gosh it's the Pro-hero Present Mic., he's giving us the run down for the practical? This should be good. 

Present Mic. walked to the middle of the stage, he turned to all of us and screamed,

"Welcome to today's live performance. Everybody say, hey!"

We were all silent. You could hear crickets chirping. 

"Well, that's cool, my examinee listeners! I'm here to present the guidelines of your practical, are you ready, there was silence, yet again as he screamed, "YEAH! "

Listening to Present Mic. screaming and talking loud like he always does began to give me a headache, rubbing my temples I tried to focus on what he was saying. A few rows or so away, I heard what sounded like muttering, I quietly turned and looked towards it, there was a boy with unruly green hair next to, I can't believe it… it's the angry porcupine from earlier who knocked into me. Though he didn't seem too happy to be next to the green haired boy.

"This is how the test will go, my listeners! You'll be experiencing 10-minute-long "mock cityscape maneuvers"! Bring along whatever you want! After this presentation, each head to your assigned testing location."

"Is that so kids from the same middle school can't help each other out?"

I heard from the duo behind me, shaking my head clear I was happy that I didn't know anyone from Japan so it'd be easier for me to take the test and not worry about  any of my friends who were also trying to get into UA, all I have to do is worry about myself. 

"Each site is filled with 3 kinds of faux villains, points are rewarded for defeating each according to their respective difficulty levels!! Use your quirks to disable, these faux villains and earn points! That's your goal, listeners! Of course, playing the anti-hero and attacking other examinees is prohibited!"

I noticed during this part of Present Mics. explanation, the boy dressed in formal attire next to me was twitching in his seat, he waited for Present Mic. to finish talking before he up abruptly stood up with his hand and paper in the air.

"Excuse me, but if I may ask a question?!"

Oh boy, this ought to be great… 

"There appear to be no fewer than 4 varieties of faux, the one on this handout, such a bland, if it is one, is highly unbecoming for you. Japan's top academy we're all here today in the hopes of being molded into model heroes."

He then turned and pointed to Green Bean. 

"And you with the curly hair, you've been muttering this whole time, it's distracting if this is some sort of game to you then please leave immediately! "

He muttered, sorry and put his hands to his mouth, I covered my mouth with my hand and fought back a giggle. 

"Alright, alright, examinee 7111 nice catch thanks, but the 4th faux villain variety gets you zero points this more of an obstacle, have you all played Super Mario Brothers, the old retro games?"

"It's kind of like a thwomp! Only one at each site, a "gimmick" that will rampage around in close quarters."

I heard quiet murmurs about the zero pointer all around me and just shook my head in pity, clearly this is a decoy. Yes, there may be a zero pointer but it's more likely to be the biggest one there is otherwise there'd be more stationed at each site. They expect us not to worry about said faux villain, yet it'll probably be the most important one in the whole exam, I'll have to keep an eye out for it. 

"Thank you, sir, I apologize for the interruption!"

With that the formal guy next to me took a bow and sat back down. 

"That's all for me, I'll leave my listeners  with our school motto, the great hero Napoleon Bonaparte once said, 'true heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life!' plus ultra!! Break a leg everyone! "

With that everyone got up from their spots and filed out in search of where they were to go.  As I looked around the battle center I was sent to a breathed out a sigh of relief, neither the formal dude or the hot head were in sight. I looked around for the green bean to ask him what the hot head had shoved up his butt, but to my dismay he wasn't assigned to my battle center either.  Looking around I see people meditating and conversing with each other, I don't need to do either. I began walking towards the front of the crowd marveling at the city front before me. I looked around and saw Present Mic. on top of a platform and smiled up at him and waved, like a buffoon he looked and and pointed to himself in confusion then waved back before pointing to the city urgently. 

I took that as my cue to go so I took a deep breath and ran in, I made in about 10 feet into the city before I heard him call out. 

"What are you waiting for?! There are no timers in real battles! Begin!"

I knew if I turned around I'd see all the kids running towards me so I decided to get some air coverage. Sticking my arms and hands out to my sides I shot up into the air leaving a trail of water spiraling down below me. I landed on a high rise and looked around the city, seeing a 1 pointer and a 2 pointer approaching I summoned a ball of water into my hands and contorted it into a spear. 

I began to run and jump the rooftops closer to the faux villains and replicated the spear before throwing them both at each bot, taking them down. As the bots were falling I hopped onto them and used my water to slide down to the ground. Looking around them I did a double check to make sure nobody made it this far and accidentally got crushed by a giant falling robot. After seeing it was clear I decided to make way to the center on food, as I began to jog I heard a scream from behind me. I turned to look and saw a 3 pointer ready to crush a girl with pink hair and what appears to be horns? I looked closer and saw her foot was stuck and she was trying to get out without using her quirk on herself. I definitely wouldn't make it to her by running, so I had to muster up my energy and use my quirk from afar, something I'm not too good at. 

"Hey! Close your eyes!"

The girl looked at me and nodded, I then stood next to one of the fallen faux villain bots and took a stray piece in a ball of water I expanded to its size, quickly I released the piece and expanded the water ball more until it was the size of the bot. I hurled the ball of water at the bot and encased it in my water ball before throwing the water ball into the air, it disappeared from the center and past the clouds. 

"Okay, I may have been a little too extreme… "

I muttered to myself, as I walked over to the girl and helped free her. 

"You good?"

She nodded and thanked me. 

"Don't mention it, just go get some more points for yourself. I'd hate for you not to be able to get in because you were stuck and couldn't stop thanking someone who saved you."

After taking down a few more bots and saving a few people I estimate that I have around 35 points right now which means I should be in good standing. I was so lost in thought that I bumped into someone, they sent a shock through me and I froze for a second before shaking my arm. 

"Oh my gosh I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to hit you with my quirk are you okay?" 

'What? Wait? He hit me with his quirk?'

I cleared my head and looked at him in confusion, that wasn't just the electric shock that goes through your body when you meet your soulmate? 

"Oh…  uh. Don't worry about it. I'm all good."

'Lies, why would I be alright? You know damn well it wasn't your quirk.'

He gave me a look of uncertainty and smiled. 

"Hi, I'm Kaminari Denki. Nice to meet you uh…  what's your name?"

I scoffed internally, 'really? That's how you're gonna ask me my name? Dude just how dense are you?'

"F/n L/n. Crap, sorry. L/N, F/N. Nice to meet you as well Kaminari. Now if you'll excuse me I need to go and rack up more points so if you don't mind I'll just be o-"

Kaminari cut me off by yelling. 

"That's a zero pointer! No way! That thing is huge!"

Looking up I saw what he was talking about, I smirked. 

"U.A. definitely lives up to its prestigious name. I am impressed. Wow. This zero pointer is glorious."

Kaminari looked at me like I was insane, as if I somehow sparked a fire in him he puffed out his chest in glee and smirked. 

"All the more reason for me to prove my strength. Stand back L/N I'm gonna light this bot up."

I blinked in surprise as he ran towards the bot and he charged up- no way, he wasn't kidding. Large amounts of electricity sprayed out of his hands to the bot, it froze in place for a few moments with electricity spazzing all around the bots frame, but it didn't go down. Kaminari turned to me and gave me a thumbs up and a dumb look on his face. 

"Kaminari you fool! You fried your brain with that foolish attack!"

The bot soon was out of its shocked state and raised it's foot ready to pummel the poor dunce. I quickly mustered up my strength and formed a water ball and sent it at Kaminari, once he was inside I whipped it at me. Kaminari and the water ball collided into me just as the bot stomped down where Kaminari was seconds before. I stood up and slapped Kaminari, feeling another jolt of electricity surge through me. 

'Awh hell. This fool is my soulmate and he's too dense to realize it's not his quirk.'

I turned to the bot and watched it moved closer before turning back to Kaminari. 

"After this exam you're taking me out for ice cream for saving your fried ass not only once but twice."

I turned back to the bot and sent two water balls towards the next spots where it would step, not satisfied with the ground I sent more until the bot stepped and sunk a few feet. 

"Yes! It worked!"

I happily then made a few water spears and threw them at the bot before I took a deep breath in, closed my eyes and concentrated on a tiny ball of water in my hands, I needed to focus all my energy if I wanted to make this work. I slowly enlarged the ball in my hand and listened as it started to crackle and pop, taking another deep breath I slowly opened my eyes and smirked before shrinking the softball sized water ball and throwing it at the exposed part of the bot. Once it was a foot from contacting the bot I spread my arms out enlarging the crackling ball and watched as it downed the bot. 

I looked to Kaminari and sighed. I need to get him somewhere safe until this wears off, if I leave him here he'll be an easy target for the other bots. I'm pretty sure there's five minutes left meaning I can still get a few more points if I hurry up. I took some gummies out of my pocket and threw them in my mouth, I'm lucky we were allowed to bring things in that would help us, otherwise I'd have been out for the count when I helped that pink girl.  I led Kaminari to a safe area and smirked as a three pointer came out of the alley next to us, I jumped up with my water and formed water around my wrist as I plummeted down and punched the bot. It went down just as Present Mic. screeched. 

"It's all over! Good job everybody! 

Within moments Recovery Girl was by my side looking at Kaminari, she shook her head and gave him a kiss on the forehead. Kaminari blinked and looked around in a state of confusion before looking at me. 

"Come on Kaminari, you owe me an ice cream."

I poked his cheek and was sent another shock of electricity, which he definitely would have felt as all and leaned into his ear. 

"After all we are soulmates, and I just saved your butt."

I gave the shocked boy a knowing smile and grasped his hand and began leasing him away towards the exit. If we both somehow get into the hero course this was going to be one exciting year...

A/N: this is AU prompt was brought upon you thanks to the bnha discord server. You can find other works by member of the discord here:

https://liliesoftherain.tumblr.com/post/614256302090223616/mha-x-reader-discord-prompt-masterlist

[ggukgore]

Roommates- Kim Taehyung (2)

Warnings: Mentions of suicide, Major character death

Word count: 0.7k

Genre: Angst, Slowburn, Slice of Life

Rating: T

notes: Living with permanent company wasn’t ideal, but it was what your paycheck could afford. // please forgive me for not having a “read more” button, I’m on mobile! Also, I wrote this over a year ago, I’m sorry if there are any plot holes and for the weird wording and also for the immense amount of cringe-worthy cliches

"Why did you plan on moving here anyway?" He curiosity asked while sitting down on the black bench.

You decided to take A seat next to him as well. You jumped up before fully allowing yourself to rest your weight on the metal. The coldness of the bench pierced through your leggings, causing you to develop goosebumps throughout your body.

"That's freezing." You commented, before rubbing the spot where the metal had touched, in order to get rid of the rising bumps. Finally, sitting down, you squeezed your thighs together, easing the lack of warmth you felt.

"Wear something thicker next time, you know it's cold outside." Taehyung interjected.

He repeated his question from earlier over. "I'm getting to that." You said in response. "I really just wanted to meet new people," You paused as you got lost in your thoughts. "and find a job." You finished off, turning your head in your roommate's direction.

Taehyung pursed his lips, looking at the view in front of you two. "You know this is really cliche...." You started off, playing with the edges of your sleeves. "What is?" He asked, whipping his head towards you. You flushed from the sudden attention that you were receiving. "You taking me here." You said after a while.

"I'm just showing my new roommate around, that's it." He justified, staring blankly. You cringed from saying something like that in the first place, you had only just met. "Right." You replied softly, feeling dumbfounded.

Taehyung silenced the lull that sat between you as he stirred up another conversation. "Do you want to play a game?"

"What kind?" You asked, voice cracking a bit.

"Don't worry," he laughed "I'm not gonna try to make a move on you, if that's what you're thinking."

"No no!" You said, defensively throwing your hands out in front of you. "I didn't think that at all." You dryly chuckled, feeling awkwardness circulate between you and him.

He ignored your input, spitting out a series of questions. "Day or night? Cats or dogs? Fruit or vegetables?"

"Day. Cats. Vegetables." You answered. The corners of his mouth turned downwards. "Do we have anything in common? Who likes vegetables more than fruit?" He looked over at you. " No, and I do, now let me ask you a question." He raised his eyebrows and gestured you to go on.

"Let's answer on the count of three, it'll be more exciting." You smiled eagerly.

"Okay."

"What are you yearning for in life?" You asked, being totally serious for once, that whole night.

"What kind of question is that?" He inquired, bewildered.

"Just answer, 1....2....3."

"Love." You both stated, making direct eye contact. He was the first to break away from it, you frowned.

"At least we have one thing in common." He said, shortly laughing afterward.

"Yeah." You agreed, feeling tense.

The ride home was uncomfortably quiet as you both didn't say a word to each other, other than you thanking him for taking you out.

-

You laid flat on your bed while staring into the ceiling, thinking of the game you had played earlier with Taehyung. You had only met him in person that day and you had already felt close with him, besides things being a little tense from the evening. You decided to go bed after a long day spent with the boy you called your roommate.

Soon enough, your door swung open, hitting against the wall and creating a large bashing noise. You looked to see who it was, as you expected, it was Taehyung. He wore silky looking pajama with a sleeping mask pushed above his forehead, making his hair stick up in the front. It was amusing seeing his hair like this, when it normally was neat.

~ a month earlier

you: ok, ill rent it, but can you send me a picture of yourself?

xxx-xxx-xxxx: why is that needed?

you: id just like to know who i'll be living with for my time being....in other words...i want to determine whether you're a creep or not

xxx-xxx-xxxx: attachment image 1:

You studied the picture of your future roommate. ‘he has really great hair, and were around the same age. its good to know he’s not a creep’ you thought.

~ present day

Taehyung shuffled into the room, closing the door quietly behind him. You watched him inch closer to your bed. "Can I sleep with you...?" He asked innocently. You almost choked on your spit at what he was inquiring. And all this time you didn't think he was a creep!

You were too tired, you waved him off to leave your room, you shuffled in your bed, turning your back towards him.

[bearpillowmonster]

Tomb Raider Underworld Review

I remember being in Gamestop as a kid, just browsing the games to see which 3 I could get since it was buy 2 get one free. My grandma was with me and she said she thought I wanted Tomb Raider, showing me the Wii port of Underworld, which so happens to be the one with just Lara's cleavage and midriff on the cover so then I scoffed because I was like "As if I'd ever be caught dead playing a Tomb Raider game." Me still pretending to be grandma's little angel that wouldn't even imagine thirsting over a female video game character…yet…and to remain a hardcore Indiana Jones fan by saying Lara was just a cheap knockoff. And the way the games looked, I kind of can't blame my past self. I mean, they came out with what? 5/6 games and decided to reboot it. Each one after that kind of rebooted in a little bit of the sense but also acted as a sequel. Reboot/spinoff again with Lara and the Guardian of Light which switched up everything entirely, then they reboot again and make it grittier and grounded and drab, more akin to something like Uncharted. So I've always seen this series as experimental and always trying to push the next type of gameplay rather than keep a cohesive storyline that isn't about the world ending every 5 seconds. And I always felt bad that you shoot the animals.

The Wii apparently has a flashlight and some pointer puzzles…so there's that. But I mainly just wanted it because it starts out with the mansion being blown up which is pretty cool, even though I like exploring the mansion, the story behind it made me want to see why. But like I mentioned with my Anniverary review, the Xbox version is probably the best. Why? Because it runs smoother and it's the only one with the dlc, Beneath the Ashes and Lara's Shadow. But do you really want to buy two $10 dlcs from 2009? I ended up just watching them online. You also have to buy the games separately, there's no trilogy collection like PS3 (which doesn't come with the DLCs for whatever reason).

So if you did end up reading my Anniversary review, disregard most of that for this game because this one actually did pretty much everything better. There are some issues that do still carry over but I won't reiterate.

Performance wise, I had some really good frame-rate and some unbearable frame-rate, what triggered it, I have no clue but sometimes it got so bad it crashed (very rare though). It still has that lock in place camera for whatever reason too.

Moving objects can be finicky but silly because you can place them and sometimes they'll go shooting across the room. You may accidentally bump into it and it'll stick to you and move it out of where its supposed to be. It's like a game of prop hunt. Movement is a lot more fluid, I feel you can get a little more done in a shorter amount of time. You didn't get to ride the bike in Anni, but you could in Legend and you can in this one. There's a level where you take it with you to explore a few temples and it's not just a scripted sequence. But then it gets a bit weird because you take it with you into the tomb and you have to navigate with it in those halls and then stop and get off and do something real quick and then jump right back on. And you have to use it because there are ramps you have to jump, I thought the point of the bike was to look cool but it's just a hassle half the time.

Story is the mcguffin "collect this to get that" sort of end of the world thing to find your parents but there are some cool elements incorporated, I certainly understand it more now that I've played the other two in the trilogy though. Did that scene of the mansion blowing up at least live up to my expectations? No, not really. I actually forgot I knew about this and it bothered me then and it bothers me now but it's such a small nitpick with the design. Lara gets dirty, not muddy, just dirty. It's the sort of thing that on a detailed and technical level sounds interesting but I personally just don't really like the way it looks. Now you may not be able to turn that off but you can adjust your settings to tailor your gameplay how you want it. Enemies having too little health? You can increase it individually. Little stuff like that.

There aren't really boss fights or QTEs this time around, which I'm not going to complain about, just a strange departure. Instead we get slow mo (jump) sequences and structures you have to destroy to take the villain down.

As far as the trilogy goes, it's kind of average, even a little weak. The stories are very loosely connected and the gameplay could use an overhaul. I might rank them all one day but I don't really feel the need to yet. As far as the game itself goes, it had some cool moments like the octopus but is in no way a great game in my eyes, I'd leave it as kind of underbaked and average. Even after seeing the DLC, I don't care to see it continued.

[saeran-choi-is-my-husband]

Hello! I hope you're all well! I started Zen's route this week, and also happened to twist my ankle, quite badly 😭 it sucks! I've still been at work every day, hobbling around waiting for Zenny to message me! Could you pls write me something about how MC and Zen cope with their injuries together? Also much like Zen I've been smoking terribly 😩 and I don't heal nearly as far as he does 😢 he's all better now and I'm still aching! It'll really cheer me up to see something sweet about my honey x

(oh my gumdrops do I hear you… the other week I sprained my wrist the same day Zen hurt his foot while I was doing his route!  I also had the same wondering so I hope you like what I came up with!  ~Admin Rowan)

There were times he forgot how slow everyone else healedaround him.  He hobbled out of bed,careful not to bump against MC’s brace. One good night sleep and he was already feeling better, but he knew thatshe tossed and turned at night when she was in pain.  There were a few times when he had even wokenup by the fresh smell of tobacco, it rolled off of his beloved when she cameback to bed.   She had a habit ofexcusing herself for a smoke break when she was trying to relieve herself of stress.  However amount of sleep she had received thenight before was a mystery, and he hoped she would gather up her strength andfinally rest.  Tenderly he caressed herhair and placed a kiss on her forehead before he left their bedroom.

Only stumbling into the furniture a few times Zen was ableto maneuver around the unpacked boxes belonging to MC and make it to the kitchen.  It wasn’t that he was hungry, but he wantedto make sure he still had plenty of ingredients, and that none had conspiredagainst him.  The fridge was stocked tothe brim as usual, but with MC still trying to make herself at home and Zen’slack of culinary skills he didn’t always use them in time.  He opened some containers and sighed inrelief.  He could attempt to make her anomelette that morning when she was waking up.

“Zen?”  The groggyvoice called from their bedroom.  Zenyelped as he tried to apply weight to his bad leg.  Getting better, but not quiet there.  

“I’m out here,” he called as he started to gather the ingredientshe just picked out.  A startled shortenedscream sliced through him followed shortly by a dull crash; Zen dropped the egghe was holding and hurried back towards the bed room.  “MC? MC? Are you okay?  What happened?”

From the doorway he could see the MC smiling in embarrassment,red slowly growing across her cheeks.  Slowlymoving out of the pile of boxes she had knocked over.   “I don’t… I don’t think there was anythingbreakable in there…”  She laughednervously, trying to get her good leg under her.

“Here let me help you up.” Zen tried to keep from chuckle.  He kept his balance on his good leg and offered a hand to pull her uponto her own two feet.  They both endedup hissing as they pressed more weight than intended on their injuredankles.  

“What a pair we make,” MC hide her smile behind her hand andgiggled.  The bags under her eyes werestill prevalent.  Zen felt something sinkin his chest as he watched how much slower to react she seemed.  She was still exhausted.

“Yeah… why don’t you get back in bed and I’ll bring youbreakfast?”  Carefully he moved her hairout of her face, letting his finger tips brush against her temple.  

“No.”  

“No?” Zen tried not to laugh at how at the stubborn way sheglared at him.

“If you can be up and about, so can I?”  She patted his chest with a confident smile, shegave him a thumbs up.

“Jagiya… let me take care of you okay?”  He attempted to pull her towards their bedbut she held still, winching a little as she stood her ground.

“No, Jaehee would never forgive me.  What if you get hurt more taking care ofme?  We can do this together.”  MC turned and hobbled her way out into theliving room and looked around.  

“At least rest and put some ice on your ankle while I makeus breakfast?”

MC paused and nodded frowning a little, but made her way tothe sofa.  Zen sighed in relief as shesettled down into the cushions, her eyes already starting to droop alittle.  He wondered if she should evenbe able to stay awake long enough for breakfast at this rate.  He got the ice pack from the freezer andcarefully placed it on her ankle, propping it up with a few cushions.  “Now keep that on for a while.”  She nodded her understanding.  “I was thinking omelettes?”

“Are you sure you want to try to make that Zen?”  

“Of course!  I cantake care of you, just watch me.”  Hetried to look sure of himself though he had forgotten about the egg he neededto clean up off the floor.  It was goingto be a bit of a hassle to get down there to clean it.

“I could sit at the counter and cut the ingredients if you’dlike?”  The icepack slid to the floorwith a wet thud as MC got up.

“MC please, just relax.” Zen stepped around the counter urging her to sit back down.  The way she narrowed her eyes at him sentnervous flutters through him.  

“Zen come here.”  Shecarefully limped her way closer to him, slowly Zen closed the gap.  

“MC, you really should be-“ he motioned towards the sofa when MC wrapped a hand around the back ofhis neck, pulling him down into a quick kiss. She released him, but only so she could wrap her arms around him.  She wiggled a little trying to keep balanceon her good leg.

“Zen… I can’t not help out when you’re hurting too… Howabout you let me help to the best I can, and then when you’re 100% I will relyon you completely?  Okay?”  He felt a little warm at the earnest of herconcern.  

“Okay… but you got to promise that if things get bad andhurt too much you’ll stop.”  Zen gentlybooped her nose.

“Promise.”  MCreleased him and slowly made her way over to the kitchen counter, pulling up astool to sit on.  “Now hand me a knifeand some ingredients, and let’s try to make omelettes.”