#bandit writs fic

[aparticularbandit]

me: didn't i use the yellow brick road in finding family somewhere? me: wendy was all neverland, but i have the strongest feeling that she pulled oz references somewhere. me: -word searches the ff document- me: yeah, yeah, when they went back to neverland after her heel-face turn, they followed a dirt road made to look like yellow brick, right, right.

[fanfictionlive]

To all Yugioh Crossover writters, i need some advice

I'm Writting a Yugioh Arc-V x Yo-Kai Watch Crossover where Nate there is 16 years old and is selected to attend the Academia since Leo has found alot of interest with the boy's Yo-Kai. Throught the story, he finds out about the Professor's plans and decides to escape the Academia and ends up in the Standard dimension where he makes a friendship with Yuya and the You Show Duel School and experiences the Arc-V plot with some twists of course.

So in paper i have already the ideas for the Fusion, Standard, Synchro, XYZ, Back to Fusion and Zarc sagas and also some ideas i wanted to include like:

- The inclusion of Custom Cards, Archetypes and more support for the unfinished archetypes (Nate's Yo-Kai Deck, The You Show Kids' Aquactess, Performachine and Doodle Beasts)

- More fun duels at the LDS Junior admission and the inclusion of fan-favorite archetypes (EX: Kaijus, Generaids, Entities, Ghostricks, Madolche, etc...)

- The inclusion of more Legacy Duelists and some replacing others and make them more important to the plot (Like Pegasus, Mokuba, Bandit Keith, Dr. Crowler, Tetsu Trudge, Jaden replacing Aster, Reginald or Shark and Anna Kaboom)

- Making Leo Akaba a despicable villain rather than the dissapointment we got.

- Make the Brazalet Girls actually useful and competent duelists with Yuzu learning new Summoning Methods.

- Give Arc-V a better ending

I juts want some tips, ideas and advices for my fic. Thanks

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[thenixkat]

Animorphs notes 7.5 or Megamorphs 1

Book 7.5/ Megamorphs 1

Why does this format of an animorph book exist? Aren’t we supposed to be under the impression that the kids are writting diaries or someshit like that?

Starts with Jake

Again, not seperating the yeerks from their hosts is a very bad mentality to have

Also aparently Ax doesn’t get to be an animorph

ALso Ax skipps out on a lot of meetings. Granted the kids could show some consideration for Ax and meet in the woods

Rachel is going on a two day gymnastics trip

Tobias is an asshole and continues to over anthropomorphise animals. I havent forgoten him sneaking into Cassie’s family’s barn to eat the patients

...Cassie teh crow can and will go where ever it pleases after it recovers. Heck it might hunt Tobias down and mob him out of spite

Melissa’s going on the trip

Wow Jake, rude. Tobias can have romantic relationships even if his body remains a bird

Marco’s the kinda jerk to crash parties he wasnt invited to

Full moon

Cassie is psychic. WHich honestly I don’t doubt.

Rachel part

Are they… all going to give intros?

Not that Jake is without his own level of stupidity. I mean, he was right there with us,

walking through an isolated, abandoned construction site that night. Wasn't the smartest

thing we ever did.

I’ve not forgotten the flea thing from book 2

Rachel gets books for Tobias

...damnit Rachel you can’t just show up at a camp without letting peolple know ahead of time. They need warning gto make sure they have room and food for you

I was close to Tobias's territory when I spotted something interesting below me. It was a

deer-like animal, running swiftly through the trees. When I focused my laser-intensity eagle

sight, I could see the semihuman torso and face and the deadly scorpion tail.

Aximili

ANd this is why large predatory bird morphs aren’t great. Rachel getting mobbed

A bunch of small birds take down Rachel

Marco part

Honestly Marco sounds like some of the jackass class clowns I had in school, Darlene’s not wrong to not invite him

The kids ARE all going to give the intro talk

Marco that is a very confusing way to talk

Ax is right, this is dishonorable

That poor mouse

Ax has parasites. ANd Marco is extorting? him to help him be a creep b4 he’d give Ax medicine for them. Dick

Technically speaking none of the kids actually knows how the morphing tech works

When I was done acquiring the mouse I handed it to Ax. He had to use both hands to hold

on. Andalite arms and hands are kind of puny. Of course, they also have four legs, and

those are pretty strong. I mean, Ax can haul when he wants to. I'll bet he could do forty

miles an hour.

Baby arms

So the reason Marco wasn’t invited IS b/c he’s a dick

A bunch of jays took out Rachel

Part Jake? What?

That whent jake> rachel>marco>jake? Bullshit

You don’t have to go to a party if you don’t want to people

Why couldn’t this part be narrated by Cassie? She’s fucking here!

Jake is fucking ready, fight or flight

Marco and Ax are very lucky none of the kids or adults at the party try to crush them to death

Huh, Marco and Ax are lucky that none manages to crush them to death

Jake is ready to cuss the shit outta Marco

Accidental human pileup saves Jake’s life

Part… Marco? BULSTIT SHILSHSTSOSHS

AX IS RIGHT THERER LET HIM NARRATE YOU THINDER CUNTS

I hate this human centric bs and it fucking leaves out Cassie

Marco,,, cats are very good at NOT being seen. Ambush predators

Marco is a dick

Then I saw it. It was gigantic! Enormous! A creature that seemed to be made of nothing but

teeth and blades and destruction. It was like twenty Hork-Bajir glued together and given

dragon wings.

heh

Poor Darlene’s family

It looked down at us with a dozen weird eyes that seemed to be stuck here and there at

random. It stared at us the way I'd seen Tobias stare at his prey.

Part, sigh, Rachel

Rachel has amnesia

Ns somehow started morphing while unconcious

If you wonder if yer a freak and are that startled with yer apperance, then no that’s not always how you were

If you need to concentrate to morph, how’d u managed that far with a heavy concussion/unconciousness?

Part Tobias

Damnit they are all giving the intro speech

Huh, so marco and ax coulda gotten killed twice b4 they even got to the party

Also the fuck how is the yeerks covering the wind monster

Part fucking Rachel

...why is this creature wasting so much energy instead of just flowing around the trees

Like people are seeing this shit

Finally! Part Cassie

Cassie spotted cryptid Rachel in the news

Part Rachel. WHy not just have her narrate the whole book at this point?

There’s an excaped yeerk host living in an abandoned clothing shop in the woods

Well, thaty’s not an unreasonable response for an excaped host

Rachel got some memories beaten back intio her

Oh she might be one of the people who’s yeerk starved from the actions of last book

Part fucking Jake again

The kids are gonna track down Rachel by scent

The monster found them

Part rachel

Old lady is gonna burn down the shack, with Rachel inside, b/c she’s not going back to the yeerk pool

Rachel morphs bear without concentrating or intending to or even knowing how

These bootleg books are so bad. Part Marco

They’d be dead if the creature turned back to particle form and just reformed around their bodies

Part Rachel. Really this is mostly just Rachel/Jake/Marco as narrators. No attempt at equaly splitting up the plot

I looked at the new creature. It had come to a stop, just a dozen feet away. I peered at it

with my dim bear vision. It had four legs, like a horse or a deer. But it seemed to have a

head and upper body that was almost human. And there was a tail, I was sure of that. The

tail was cocked back like a weapon ready to be fired.

Andalite

Fifteen fucking chapters in and Ax finally gets to narrate

Ax does the intro speech

Ax says he’s not an animorph

Ax doesnt like having to be the space expert

Ax tucks his tail to his back to run fast

Ax is smart enought to know when standing yer ground is a terrible idea

Ax figured out that morphing attracts the beast.

Morphing has a distinct kind of energy signature

Part jake

Andalites have a distinct scent

Ok lots of animals can harm or kill a large bear. This is turning into a raptors are mahjestick thing

Tobias assumes that Ax tried to fight the creature. Tobias doesn’t really know Ax well enough

Part Cassie

Why are they at the mall?

AGain I wouldn’t be surprised if Cassie is supposed to be psychic

You don’t mean Chapman, you mean Iniss 226

Learning about history is useful in figuring out humans and with invasion plans Cassie

Part Ax

… do andalites even have battle axes? They dont have the arms for it

Once, the Hork-Bajir were a decent, peaceful race. Then they were enslaved by the Yeerks.

Hork-Bajir are incredibly dangerous and very powerful. They stand on two legs, balanced

by a tail. Each leg ends in a foot, like an Earth bird of prey. They have two arms. There are curved blades at their knees, at their elbows, at their wrists. Blades similar to my own tail-

blade. Atop their snakelike heads are two more blades, swept forward. And their tails end in long, sharp spikes.

They are not a species you want to start a fight with. Which may be why they were such a

peaceful, even poetic, species. They had no one to fear. Until the Yeerks began to make

them into Controllers.

The series did so much retconing

Again, I like the Parting the Clouds fic so much better. At least there someone tried to figure out how to use the aura power

Veleek is the dust monster, from Saturn

So the andalite bandits being human was a solid yeerk theory

Visser 3 continues to waste good bodies

Visser 3 throew a lot of bodies into getting a veleek pet

Part Cassie

Compund eyes dont work like that

Iniss 226 knows about spy novels and thinks they’re stupid

Iniss 226 is not a dumb yeerk

Also Visser 3 is the worst boss

Part rachel

Rachel is starting to put things together

Part Marco

The kids ar eputting 2 and 2 together

Part rachel

Rachel made it back to civilization

Rachel breaks into a house for food and rest’

Some snitchy bitch called the police

Rachel the elephant says fuck the police

Part jake

The kids steal Cassie’s dad’s truck

Part rachel

The veleek chases elephant Rachel

The veleek cant pick up an elephant

Part marco

Why do they have marco drive?

Also that poor truck

Jack morphs to lure the creature’s attention

Part jake

Why did jake choose tiger for being chased?

Part rachel

Doesnt quite have her memory back but ready to help

Part ax

Ax feels like a failure of a warrior

Suddenly, one wall of my cage shimmered and became transparent. Ramonite is a metal

that can stretch open or be made clear or opaque by molecular realignment.

Nice’

Ax is also racist towards taxxons

Visser 3 is a terrible boss

Part marco

That poor truck

Why choose gorrila for a chase?>

Part rachel

Cassie tries to fill the gaps fotr rachel

Part marco

Part cassie

Cassie chooses squirlle

Bug fighters are stooting at em

Part ax

So bug fighters and shit DO have cameras

Flea ex machina

Ax morphs one of his fleas

… theres no way in hell thast theres no bugs on the andalite homeworld

Thats not what a flea mouth is like

Ax says that andalites have a shit vertical jump

Part marco

The veleek caught him

Ax is on Visser 3

Ax is having a blast fucking up Visser 3’s day

Part ax

And only then, locked together with it, was I able to see it through my weak flea eyes. It

was alive! It was a creature my own size, but with a hundred minuscule wings that beat the

air. It had antennae, but different than any seen on Earth. These antennae were covered in

tiny, upturned bowls. Like the dishes of primitive human radio telescopes. Those were the

structures it used to sense energy sources.

There were no eyes. And no mouth. But two long filaments, like strands of wire, swept

back from the front of the creature. These must be how it fed: by channeling the energy

down the wires.

The Veleek was not one creature. It was billions! It was a swarm of billions of these tiny

creatures. They had evolved into a swarm that could come together and become a

destructive entity of gnashing teeth and slicing blades. But in reality they were separate

insectlike creatures that fed on energy.

Its a swarm of navivorous bugs

Water is the veleek’s weakness

Marco and Ax jump out of the ship

Part rachel

Her memory is mostly back

Hork-bajir have foot long blades on their head, that’s impoalement’

Part marco

Fear speads up thei morphing

Part jake

Jake is grounded

The team apparently whent home without knowing if marco and ax were alive

Part cassie

Cassie is psychic and can probably see the future

Cassie comes up with a plan that only she can do

To make up for almost getting marco killed

Part tobias

So did Cassie not have a whale morph already? DIdn’t marco get one when they’d met the psychic whales?

Or am I thinking of a fanfic?

Part cassie

Cassie is awesome

Cetaceans are just canon psychic

Part tobias

Cassie is a total badass

Part cassie

Rapid fire morphing

Falling whale body slam

Part rachel

So apparently the veleek never evaporates out of the ocean at any point later?

Cassie speaks whale . Cassie is the one chosen by the whales. All hail the whale messiah

[fairylightwriter]

Hello! First of all I want to tell you that I came here from archiveofourown because I really like your writting Next is! Can I request a Fire Emblem Fates fic about Odin and Hinata being jealous (of each other) because they want to win Corrin? (She/her pronouns, short navy blue hair Corrin)

Finally! I have finished this request! 

I'm so sorry this took so long. I hope this is to your liking!

She was Lady Corrin, leader of the army. She did what others thought as the impossible, bring two warring nations together and strive to fight the real enemy- the Vallite army and Anankos.

Her sweet personality, the pretty, short navy hair, her smile… Everything...

It would make sense that she had a lot of men with an eye on her. But two men wanted to be with her the most…

Odin, a theatrical mage from the kingdom of Nohr, and Leo’s retainer. And Hinata, a samurai from Hoshido who was rough around the edges, but caring and kind. He was also Takumi’s retainer.

And the two were fighting over Corrin’s heart.

Every chance they got, they met in a part of the castle in the Astral Plane and compared each other’s accomplishments for the day.

“Young samurai! Today, I helped Corrin move the new supplies from the shop to the convoy, and she gave me many thanks!” the mage grinned proudly. “I’m betting you can’t beat THAT!”

“Oh, but I can! While we were on patrol today, she laughed at all my jokes! I got to show off how cool I looked taking down all those bandits!” Hinata said with his signature wink and smile.

“Well… I conjured her tea and she said it was the best she she ever had in this realm!”

“She said I was the best sparring partner ever!”

The two boys hadn’t realized it, but they were literally butting foreheads, staring at each other with anger and malice.

“Lady Corrin’s heart will be mine!” Odin growled.

“Think again, weirdo! I’ll be the one Corrin wants to be with.” Hinata sneered.

"I'm better than you!" 

"No, I am!" 

“Hinata! Odin!” A familiar voice called.

The two immediately made themselves presentable and smiled as Corrin ran towards them.

“I need your help, can the two of you help out with the patrol for this hour? Just you two,” she said, smiling. “Please?”

“O-of course, Lady Corrin!” Hinata grinned.

“I am at your service, milady,” Odin smirked.

“Great! You two can go as soon as you’re ready. Thanks again!” she smiled and bounded off.

The two retainers smiled and waved as she went, but as soon as she was out of eyesight, the two were pushing their foreheads against each other again.

“Smelly!” Odin said.

“Dork!” Hinata retorted.

“Unkempt!”

“Weak!”

“Disrespectful!” Odin shouted.

“Drama King!” Hinata shouted back.

The two went on and on until Corrin peeked her head over a building again and said, “Can you guys please go?”

The two men jumped and ran off. “O-of course, Lady Corrin!” they both said, rushing away.

Corrin giggled. They were fighting over me? She thought to herself.

This will be interesting…..

[aparticularbandit]

for the queen for the WIP ask game!

WIP Ask Game

Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it!

Soooooooo.

For The Queen is a card game released by Darrington Press (aka Critical Role). In this game, you pick one of the queen cards (it's just art for the vibes; there's nothing otherwise specified re: pros or cons or whatever), shuffle the deck, put a card asking will you defend the queen somewhere in it, and then answer the other card questions leading up to that one. The basic premise is that the queen is going to another country to take it over and the players are the entourage she brought with her; each question develops your (and others') character's relationship to the queen, so that you know the answer to that will you defend the queen when you get to it, based on the story you build with the other players.

On this particular episode of 4-Sided Dive, Aimee, Matt, Aabria, and Liam played through a game of For The Queen as an entourage of a queen traveling from New Jersey to take over a rival toy company by merging it with their own (Schmoo's Are Me).

And this is the fanfic I want to write for their playthrough because it was great and wonderful and I loved it.

The primary premise would be post-game with the queen and Aabria's character, Dorinda, getting out of jail and the queen returning to Schmoo's Are Me to regain her rightful place as CEO.

...also with flashbacks to pre-game with each of the other characters.

I think it would have been in the queen's point of view (I had a name for her!) and so would also have included some of her actions that were mentioned in game, but what she meant by them - showing what she knew or didn't know about their intentions or lack there of - and just. it would be such a fun fic to write.

I think I actually have all of two sentences for it, though. XD

[aparticularbandit]

What I have left:

Thrall - 6

Harximoff Music Man - 1

Profic - 2

Current Requests for WIP Wednesday:

Profic - 3

Thrall - 6

Harximoff Music Man - 1

Fix It Fic - 2

Agave Fallout - 2

[aparticularbandit]

@inlovewithagathaharkness80 - you sent in the 💯 , so here are your 100 words.  :)

“Alright, loser, here’s the deal.”

You barely turn as Whitney places a hand on your shoulder, and when you do, it’s not to face her but to face Wanda, whose brows raise before she quickly glances away, carrying a paper cup of coffee and a warm chocolate chip cookie to the waiting customer.  “I don’t make deals, Whit.  Sorry.”   You shrug her hand from your shoulder and head to the breakroom with a cup of seasonal warm apple cider in your hands.

Whitney pushes the door to the breakroom so hard that it slams against the wall before swinging back.

[aparticularbandit]

i have been shaming agatha for trying to hook up right after cian’s funeral forgetting that cian died first and evanora died second so she’s not trying to hook up with eve immediately after cian’s funeral, there’s been about a week, she’s just trying to hook up with her immediately after evanora’s funeral, that’s not so bad--

[aparticularbandit]

oh, yeah, figured out why byakuya's through thread is important.

also figured out maybe why it'll be important in oalh, too. don't know how it'll all play out, but i have a fairly good idea of a possibility of a thing.

[aparticularbandit]

OKAY

So here's the shindig!

Holidays and December and end of the year is coming up! It's the literal darkest part of the year and seasonal depression and all those horrible things

SO.

BANDIT SHALL ATTEMPT A HOLIDAY/WINTER THEMED THING.

For the month of December, I will TRY to post a little something EVERY DAY. (The big word here being TRY.)

IF YOU HAVE REQUESTS. SEND THEM IN. I CAN ONLY THINK OF SO MANY THINGS. (they do not have to be seasonal but they CAN be)

BUT YEAH SEND REQUESTS LOOK FORWARD TO DECEMBER YEP.

[aparticularbandit]

Wundagore's punishment please :))

WIP Wednesday Game

Here you go! I think I'm almost to the end of this chapter!

Wanda does her research before she asks again, goes to the Westview library and runs her fingers through far too many historical books that are likely less than accurate, and uses their computer and their internet to search into the even less accurate parts of the world wide web.  (She doesn’t want Agatha reading over her shoulder, but she still feels as though she is.)  This time, when she asks, “How did they die?” she thinks she already has the answer.

She has half of it.

“You’re not going to let this go, are you, hon?”  Agatha sighs and shifts on the mattress – Wanda has a distinct image of the woman pushing a hand through Wanda’s auburn hair, brushing it back out of her face – before continuing.  “The seventeenth century wasn’t good for child mortality.  The youngest of my twins, my baby, died before he was a year old.  We didn’t know why then, and you still don’t know why now.  Sometimes, death just happens.”

The next question leaps far too quickly to Wanda’s lips, and she stifles it down, forces herself to quiet as she waits for Agatha to speak.

[aparticularbandit]

Requesting more Wundagore's Punishment this week!

WIP Wednesday Game

Here you go!

“Do you have any grandchildren?” Wanda asks, curled up in bed, staring at the wall, unable to fall asleep.  Maybe she’s curious, maybe she just wants to hit at Agatha for hitting at her earlier, maybe it’s both and something else that she cannot name.

Either way, she can’t see the way Agatha’s expression screws over her own face when she says, blunt, “No.”

[aparticularbandit]

Agave fallout because. Eve. With a backbone. And the fix it fic cuz I love the fam.

WIP Wednesday Game

I mean. We've gotten past the Eve with a backbone bit. But. We have gotten to another. momentous. moment.

...well, we've gotten to a momentous moment in both of them, actually.

Agave Fallout:

Agatha pulls Eve’s car onto a cement driveway, the headlights sweeping across a closed two car garage, a plain yard with an overgrown garden full of dead plants, and a nondescript house that Eve can’t say she’s never seen before.  She can’t say she has seen it either; she’s probably driven past it a few times, but there’s nothing about it that stands out.  Where are we? she asks again, staring at the brick skirt, the dirty siding.  Why are—

This is home, Agatha repeats again as she settles the car into park.  Or it was, once.  She taps her fingers on the steering wheel.  If you need a place to go, hon.  A place to get away from everything—  She fishes her keys out of one pocket, fiddles with it until she takes one off of the keyring, and then hands it out to her.  Here.  You can have this.  A pause, then, Until I make you one of your own.

Fix It Fic:

Helen sees most of them in the waiting room and rushes away down the hall before they can see her (or so she hopes – a couple of them don’t even seem to be awake, and the blonde – Birdie, if she remembers correctly – is curled up like a cat across two of the others’ laps, mostly all in the lap of the one she remembers is a scientist but with her head in the lap of a woman with short brown hair).  They’re all wearing masks to some degree, but Birdie’s seems to be slipping off.  None of the nurses have said anything.  Maybe they haven’t even noticed.

She doesn’t care.  She’s not here for them; she’s here for—

Her eyes narrow as she enters the room and sees another of them sitting in a chair just next to her sister with one of Andi’s hands held in hers.  Her teeth grit together.  “Get. Out.”

[aparticularbandit]

I have a feeling I know what agave fallout is and I distinctly don't want the angst

So!

I'm going to ask for different angst -- thrall and fix it fic please!!

Also if you add for agave then I feel I should ask for compensation preemptively with harximoff music man au

WIP Wednesday Game

You have been gifted all four!

...and also I finished the next chapter of fix it fic, so thank you for that!! <3 :D

Thrall:

Bu when Ralph catches sight of the child, his lips spread into a grin.  “Emily!”  He pats the seat next to him.  “I haven’t seen you since—”  He cuts himself off, and his head tilts to one side, smile not flickering away.  “You’ve grown so much in the past few years.  I remember when you were this small.”  He holds his hands out only so far away from each other as Emily clambers onto the seat next to him, and then he ruffles her hair while she giggles.

That…is certainly not what Agatha was expecting.

Sarah notices her staring and bumps gently against her.  “We were good friends, the five of us, before the Snap.”  She nods to Ralph.  “He and I both disappeared from the same party and reappeared there five years later.  Confused.  Alone.  Quite horrible, really.”

Agatha does some quick mental math while she listens, and then her eyes narrow.  “Five of you?”

“Ralph’s daughter.  Christina.  Got taken by her mom’s side of the family when he disappeared, and they…haven’t been letting him see her.”  Sarah’s head tilts ever so slightly.  “She was about Billy and Tommy’s age, so she’d be a teenager now.  She might not want anything to do with him, but he won’t ever know that if they keep her away from him.”  She sighs, shrugs.  “I was lucky Harold stayed here in Westview and didn’t move away somewhere else.  A lot of people…weren’t.”

Fix It Fic:

Birdie stares at Claire.  Just stares at her.  “Andi?” she says in a voice like an echo.  “Wanted to die?”  She giggles, lips pulled back into her normal smile.  “Why would she ever do that?  You’ve got the wrong girl!”  She reaches over, slaps Claire’s arm, still all smiles.  "No, really, Claire.  What’s going on?”

Claire stares at her.  She can’t think of any other way to explain it.  So she takes a deep breath in, pushes her hand through her hair, and lets out a heartfelt sigh.  “I don’t know,” she says, and her shoulders start to shake again – this time not from panic, but from the weight of everything that has happened in the past twenty-four hours.  “I don’t know, I don’t—”

When she looks up, Birdie’s smile falters.  It’s a quick flinch of a thing, a stutter, quicker than the flash on the paparazzi cameras that tend to follow both of them on the odd occasion, even quicker than the ones that surrounded their entire crew during Andi’s trial against Miles.  Unlike that moment, it doesn’t slip, doesn’t fall, regains its standing – that grin that is so naturally Birdie at her best.  “Right.  So we just have to convince her to not die!”

Claire chuckles, wipes away the tears that were gathering under her eye, and nearly smiles.  “Sure, Bird.  Convince her not to die.  We are just the people to do that.”

“Doesn’t look like there’s anyone else!”  Birdie grabs Claire’s hand and gives it a squeeze.  “We just have to be there when she wakes up!”  She tugs Claire back down the hallway then stops and turns back to her, brow furrowing.  “…so why do we need to wake her up, again?”

Agave Fallout:

Eve winces.  I…I did, she admits, pressing her lips together and glancing briefly over her shoulder.  But, um.  I can’t right now.

Agatha isn’t standing in front of her.  They’re on the phone.  But still, Eve can picture it, Agatha’s eyes widening, brows creeping up nearly to her hairline, as she says, You asked me to come over, hon.  Did something change?

Jane’s here.  Eve bites her lower lip, lowers her voice, and steps further away from the table, where Jane still sits, staring into her mug of tea, still not drinking any of it.

So…you want me to come by…later?

Eve’s eyes shift, not that Agatha can see it.  Jane’s going to be here for, ah, a while.

There’s silence on the other end, filled only by the gentle purr of Agatha’s car.  Then, finally, How long a while, hon?

She’s….  Eve takes a deep breath and lets it out.  It’s a complicated situation, but Jane’s going to be living here.  For, um.  She glances back to Jane again and sighs, a corner of her lips curling up ever so slightly, fond as can be.  For as long as she needs.

Silence again, followed by another deep sigh – this time, not one of hers.  I think you’re right, dear, Agatha says, finally.  We really do need to talk.  Another pause.  I’ll be by later, babe.

Agatha—

But the phone call ends before Eve can say anything else.  She sighs again, staring at her phone, and then turns back to Jane.  Her lips force themselves into a gentle, comforting expression, and she silences her phone before shoving it back into her pocket.  So, she says, walking back over and curling up into the wooden chair across from Jane, is your tea too hot?

No, no, Jane says again, not realizing she’s repeating herself.  She heaves a bigger sigh even than Agatha’s and then holds out her hand.  C’mon, give me your phone.  I’ll help you set up something better than that default trash.  She glances up just enough to offer Eve a smile behind watery eyes, and Eve….

Eve can’t tell her no.

Harximoff Music Man:

Alright, so that was weird.  Weird that it happened twice – weirder that it happened twice in a row – but Agatha is nothing if not plucky.  She pats the water barrel, smiles at the horse when it looks up just enough to meet her eyes, and then starts away, off down the street and further into town.

Except that…it isn’t just those two.  It’s not just the ticket master, and it’s not just the guy with his horse.  It’s everyone in Westview.  Every single one of them.  Everyone that Agatha approaches to talk to either responds in much the same way or outright ignores her.  It’s weird.  It’s horrible.  And it’s downright unfriendly.  Not neighborly.  Even the big cities hadn’t been like this.

…which is probably why that Hayward fellow had been so adamant about not stopping here.

Of course, Agatha doesn’t wish she’d listened to him or anything like that.  She just has to find the right string to pull, and then these townspeople will open up to her just like every townsperson in every other town she’s been in has.  Sure, it’s harder to find a string when no one will talk with her, but—

And then she hears it.

[aparticularbandit]

For WIP Wednesday, could I get some Agave Fallout please?

WIP Wednesday Game

Yes, you definitely can!

It’s enough, though, to see Jane smile, even for the briefest of moments.

Eve flips her phone open as she walks into the other room, one arm crossing just under her chest.  Agatha?

You called, Agatha says as soon as she hears Eve’s voice, the faintest hint of something that Eve refuses to believe is panic tinging her voice.  In the background, she can hear the quiet purr of Agatha’s car, which she knows means it’s just zooming from wherever Agatha has been (likely not the Scratching Post, which isn’t open quite this early) to wherever she’s going.  You said we needed to talk?