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The Rookanis brainworms got me again bc Iâve gone from wouldnât it be funny if my Rook and Lucanis crossed paths for a moment before Veilguard and never realized it to formulating a whole au where Rook and Lucanis had a long distance friendship that just started to turn into something more right before Rook gets kicked out of the mourn watch and Lucanis gets stuck in the Ossuary. Rook writes like three letters to try and make extra sure that Lucanis knows what happened and that sheâs going to be traveling and likely wonât be able to get any letters but she will write when sheâs able to so sheâs not super concerned when she doesnât hear anything from him even if she does have a lot of anxiety about the situation sheâs doing her best to bury because sure theyâre both busy but surely Lucanis would try to get at least one letter to her, she did tell him that he could always leave a message with Myrna and Vorgoth to pass on, why hasnât he sent her anything??
Meanwhile Lucanis is imprisoned in the Ossuary and all of Watcher Rookâs babbling about spirits had made it easier to deal with Spite but itâs still a very shitty situation. Spiteâs probably even more fixated on Rook in this au because Lucanis wants to get out for a lot of reasons and see his family too but Rookâs probably the only person Lucanis wants to see again that he doesnât have a lot of complicated emotions about because sure the whole long distance thing isnât a neat situation, Rook doesnât come with the same sort of emotional baggage Caterina and Illario have.
Anyways, the events of Veilguard happen and Neve suggests they go recruit the Demon of Vyrantium and Rookâs like sure and hopes that while in Antiva she might get a chance to track down her wayward crow. Rook does not know that the famed Demon of Vyrantium is her crow because itâs not like Lucanis ever really told her exactly who he was in the Crows. Rook knew he was a crow, had a complicated relationship with his grandma and cousin, and that Lucanis tended to play a lot of things close to the chest but seeing as Rook is also from a pretty secretive organization, she was never really that bothered by it because itâs not like she doesnât have her own secrets to keep. Rook may like Lucanis but itâs not like sheâs going to be spilling the secrets of the Necropolis to him and assumes Lucanis is dealing with the same thing which for the most part is true. Itâs also that Lucanis liked just being Lucanis with Rook rather than Lucanis Dellamorte, the Demon of Vyrantium and didnât want things to change with Rook if he told her about what exactly his position in the Crows was. Honestly Rook probably wouldnât have cared that much beyond hitting him with a âthatâs rough buddyâ and probably encouraging him to try to say no to his grandmother more. (âHave you tried telling her no? Itâs just two letters. One syllable. It shouldnât be that hard to say!â)
Which is a good thing because when Rook goes to meet with the Crows sheâs starting to put the pieces together pretty quickly about who Lucanis is to the crows once she meets the talons + Illario and is doing her best to play it cool. Rookâs attempts at composure are not helped by being hit with the double whammy of her kinda boyfriend is dead no wait actually heâs alive heâs just been in the hands of the Venitori for a year. Which is totally not going to give Rook a guilt complex about the fact that her bf has been presumed dead for year and Rook didnât even know.
Neve and Harding who came along to recruit their assassin (because this is my au and I can have a four person party if I want) are definitely noticing something is up but donât get a chance to pump answers out an unusually quiet Rook (a quiet Rook is never a good sign) before they find Lucanis and are witness to the most emotionally charged yet emotionally stunted reunion theyâve ever seen. Neve and Harding are definitely trading glances between them like âare you seeing this shit?!â as Rook and Lucanis have the most awkward reunion ever.
Rook is dealing with a lot of new information at once and a lot of guilt over the fact that she didnât know her boyfriend was supposedly dead and had just been worried that maybe he didnât like her anymore and would she ever have even found out what happened to Lucanis if she didnât need his help to kill some ancient eleven gods? Sheâs even more guilty about the fact that heâs been trapped and tortured for a whole year and again Rook did not know!
Lucanis on the other hand is increadibly surprised to see Rook of all people in the Ossuary and almost thinks itâs some sort of dream thatâs sheâs in here rescuing him because how many times has he imagined something like that? Heâs also dealing with a Spite whoâs extra determined to talk to Rook and also the whole fact that heâs an abomination now and has a lot of feelings about that.
The first exchange between these two lovers goes something like this âyou have a beard now. it looks.. nice.â âthank you? I didnât really have a chance to shave in hereâ âthat makes senseâ cue awkward silence. Luckily Neve and Harding are there to get things back on track. Somewhat.
Anyways, the slow burn of the canon rookanis romance becomes two people learning to reconnect and navigate a very complex tangle of emotions after everything that happened in their year apart. Might write a fic about all this but I needed to get my idea out in the world one way or another.
Other au highlights include:
Rook and Lucanis met because Lucanis had to assassinate a mortalitasi and is sneaking in through the garden while Rook is there decompressing after dealing with the asshole and they both freeze. Lucanis is trying to decided whether he has to kill her and Rook just goes âguy youâre looking for is two floors up and three rooms to the right. good luckâ Lucanis is like why are helping me to which Rook responds âthis is the fourth time in as many weeks Iâve had to come deliver the same letter of censure to this guy for trying to supersede the royal charter and have to take time out of my day to come out here one more time Iâm going start biting people. youâd really just be doing a public service getting rid of this guyâ
Lucanis is the reason Rook switched to fighting with an arcane orb rather than a more traditional staff and helped her a lot with close quarters combat. He also gifted her a spellblade and was almost surprised that giving someone a knife worked.
The knife also tipped off Caterina that whoever this rando showing up to ask the Crows for help has some connection to Lucanis because of course Caterina would recognize the work of her grandsonâs favorite blacksmith.
Illario only found out his cousin was involved with someone after Lucanis âdiedâ and ended up going through his things because sure Illario might have ordered his death but that doesnât mean he canât be sad about it. Hidden under the floorboards is a small elegant lockbox filled with letters and a wyvern tooth dagger and Illario had a whole lot of feelings reading them and the slow transition from letters to love letters. Illario doesnât realize itâs Rook though because Rook wasnât going by Rook back then and was signing her letters with her government name.
#rookanis#rook#rook ingellvar#lucanis dellamorte#dragon age#dragon age veilguard#morticia ingellvar posting
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queering your gender gives you a fucking critical hit on disguise or something I swear. I could be in a room full of classmates from 5 years ago and they'd have zero clue who I am. every day I walk past people I know 100% aware that they do not and will not recognize me ever unless I tell them. it's absolutely delightful I feel like an undercover spy
#genderqueer#lgbtq#gender shit#shitpost#it's SO tempting to wanna say hey when we walk past each other#because I just KNOW i'll get to watch them panic trying to place me#which feels a little mean but it's also harmless#sometimes I feel tempting to just like. act a little familiar. drop their full government name or a fact about their life#since I DO know them#they just don't know it. and i think it'd be fun#but again. a little mean probably#it's SO fun when you're on this end of it#because the person they know? dead and BURIED with my own two hands#i do not look ANYTHING like what I did when they knew me five years ago
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Downfall [ Five Hargreeves x Reader ]
Summary: No matter the timeline, you and Five never get your chance.
A/N: well I think I can agree with everyone that season four was not good⌠so my way of coping is making angsty imagines for it⌠Iâm trying to cope with the fact this is the last time we will ever see them ): This is also super short, apologies
Warnings: Season Four Spoilers
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Five had seen multiple timelines with Lila throughout their time spent together. And in almost every single one they saw, you were dead by the hands of him or vice versa. Eventually it became normal to see you mourning Five or him taking revenge for you.
Lila could see how distressing it was for him to see every timeline play out the same for the both of you.
Fate never seemed to be on your side, and even in your timeline, Five never had the courage to tell you his feelings. Despite spending six years by his side, being his roommate, helping him with cases, being there emotionally for him⌠he never seemed to catch on to the fact that you held feelings for him, too.
On one of their multiple train rides, Lila tried to address what the two of you meant to each other, but Five didnât want to acknowledge it.
Because he feared the moment heâd open up, fate would play itâs cruel trick again and guarantee he would never see you again.
So he buried it deep within himself so it would not haunt him.
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For you, it was mere hours you had last seen Five. You had helped Allison and Claire rescue Klaus from being buried alive, and had found your way to Lila and Diegoâs home.
Everything seemed to be alright, and although you could sense something was wrong with Five, you didnât have the energy to ask, simply from the long day you were all having.
However, you didnât fail to notice the looks Lila and Five were sharing. It made not only you suspicious, but Diego as well. It was started to grow more and more tense as he pried information from them.
It almost felt as if your heart was being ripped out of your chest, being stomped on by the universe, as Five and Lila confessed of their infidelity.
You werenât sure if you wanted to console Diego or slap Five.
You decided on the latter before storming out of the house. Diego tried to stop Five from chasing after you, but Five was quicker and blinked to your side.
âLet me explain.â
âGet away from me!â You screamed as you exited the house. Nobody followed the two of you, so you only assumed Lila was in the hot seat.
â(Y/n)! Stop acting like a child and listen.â Five grabbed your arm and whipped you around to face him. He was close now, his breath fanning your face.
âHow could I listen to the fact you and Lila shared such an intimate relationship while I have been waiting years for you to do the same with me.â You made sure to throw your words in his face, making all of your emotions clear as day. Pretending to not hold feelings for him was beginning to weigh you down, so you needed to let go of those weights now.
âAll we did was kiss,â Five said it like it was the most simple action in the world. âOne kiss and we realized our mistake immediately. We got wrapped up in our own little bubble and forgot the important things. I just⌠I couldnât handle seeing you die anymoreâŚâ
âWhat?â You pushed away from him. Had he seen a timeline with you dead?
âI⌠we donât get a happy ending in any timelines. No matter what we do, we fail to be together.â Five sighed and ran a hand through his hair. âI lost hope that even if we got back, it would lead to our demise.â
You didnât know what to say to him as your heart began to beat uncontrollably.
He looked into your tear filled eyes and said, âI want to be with you, but I donât want to kill you.â
âI donât want to be with someone who, after forty years in the apocalypse, couldnât even keep his heart on one person for seven years. It doesnât matter if you realized your mistake, Five. Iâve been here the whole time waiting for you. I took care of you when you came home bloodied. I stayed up with you while you had panic attacks. I made sure that you had coffee brewed every morning.â
Five felt ashamed he had let everything you had done for him go to waste with his one mistake. âI donât expect you to forgive me.â
âMaybe Iâll be the bigger person and actually forgive you, because I know deep inside I am that person. And I for sure know you arenât because you kissed your brotherâs wife, Five.â You scoffed and wiped away your tears. âGood luck with that.â
You began to walk towards your car without another word, and Five just watched as you left.
He was smart enough to know that if he chased you, it would lead to a grave.
And not too long after, he would sacrifice himself with his family, his last thoughts only consisted of you and how much he failed your relationship. Some selfish part of him hoped that heâd come back, to be able to see you again.
But the more rational side of him knew that he would never touch you again.
Because for once, you would be able to live in a peaceful timeline without him there to cause your downfall.
#five hargreeves x reader#five hargreeves imagine#five hargreeves#number five x reader#number five#five x reader#tua#tua season 4#the umbrella academy imagines#the umbrella academy#tua imagines#tua imagine#tua x reader#tua x you#five hargreeves x you#aidan gallagher#Aidan Gallagher x reader#Netflix
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Other Worlds
Azriel x reader
Synopsis: Nesta accidentally pulls you from our realm into theirs and a certain Spymaster can't help but be enamoured.
Original Request: "So I was wondering if you could do like Reader is from the modern world but ends up in the ACOTAR world, and ends up like falling in love with one of batboys."
Warnings: Fluff, mentions of cuts from a fall, my silly wordplay
A/N: I loved writing this, it really had me in my silly sense of humor (at one point Azriel is jealous because he thinks Xanax is a person) and just like also so happy to have written my first request! I hope you like it Anon and tolerate my silliness.
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âDo you think sheâs dead?â
âHard to say, you fall that height and would expect itâ Nesta gently rocked the body back and forth with the sole of her shoe and you groaned.
âThis is exactly why you shouldnât practice without Amren Nestaâ Feyre bit out.
âAnd how was I supposed to know that a human would fall out of the sky? And besides, I did catch her before she hit the groundâ Feyre gave a huff to her sisterâs bored tone.Â
âBut not before all the trees Nestaâ
âDetails, detailsâ
âRhys is gonna kill you, we have to move her before he finds outâ Feyre got level with your marbling body, sticks and leaves sticking out of your hair from your fall through the canopy above. Nesta folded her arms across her chest in protest as Feyre rolled you onto your back, a deep whimper escaping your throat.
âWell sheâs not deadâ
âFor nowâ Nesta raised an amused eyebrow before rolling her eyes and squatting to lift your feet as Feyre caught your shoulders with her own disapproving look.Â
âHer clothes are so odd, is it continent fashion?â
âHard to say, the material on her legs is soâŚdense?â Nesta replied, a thumb rolling over the cuff of your jeans, your Doc Marten burying into her sternum.
The two sisters carried your weak body through the hillside towards the cabin they had retreated to for a break from the Illyrians. They reached the humble home after a small uphill climb in the Winter air and gently placed you down on the couch again. The two stood then at the foot of the couch, unsure of what to do next with their new house guest, a thud from outside followed by a swear interrupting their thoughts.Â
âShit it's Azriel with the food supplies you forgotâ
âYou forgotâ Feyre returned
âWhatever, here help me cover herâ The two sisters sheathed you in a thick woollen blanket as Azriel pushed through the door causing the females to shoot straight up, standing shoulder to shoulder to try to hide you behind them.Â
âHey, I dropped a bottle of liquor on the path sor- what are you two doing?â he looked suspiciously at the two, plopping the crate of food down by the mouth of the door.Â
âNothing!â their heads snapped to one another at the same time, cursing their simultaneous reply.Â
âYou two have the same look on your face that Cassian had when he was trying to hide the blood ruby he got from Summer Court after his experiment with arsonâ he gave a laugh that turned nervous when the females didnât do the same, another almost panicked glance shared between them.Â
âWell if thatâs all Az, thanks for comingâ Feyre made a quick movement to Azriel, catching his shoulders and turning him back towards the door, Nesta taking a wide stance to try to obscure more of you.Â
âFucking hellâ your voice rattled out in pain as you pushed to sit up, the wool sinking down to your lap as your heavy hand found your bleeding head. Azrielâs eyes grew to nearly the width of his skull as he looked frantically between Nesta and Feyre.Â
âShe did it!â they said in unison again, pointing to one another.Â
âOh Rhys is going to kill youâ he whispered angrily, moving to the couch as Nesta sidestepped, throwing an anxious look at Feyre.
âWhe-re the fuck a-m I? What happ-ened?â your hand traced through your thick hair, branches catching in the locks. You squeezed your eyes together tightly, trying to bring the cozy cabin into focus before swinging your legs to the ground and supporting your weight with one arm. Your movement went entirely still as you looked up to find the three members of the Night Court staring at you with matching bewilderment.Â
âAm-am I dead?â Your stare landed on Azrielâs wings, conclusions forming quickly.
âNo unfortunately notâ Feyre elbowed Nesta into the ribs as Azriel analysed your whole figure with his hazel eyes, his shadows swirled around his feet until they wrapped around yours. Your shriek of pure terror caused them to dash back to their master.Â
âYou're okay!â Azriel tried but it was too late, you were in full panic mode, your system shutting down in utter distress until you felt your blood pressure hit the soles of your feet after hitting the ceiling, sending you into a loss of consciousness.Â
âNice going you big bat, you killed herâ Azriel gave a dirty look towards Nesta, her eyes rolling for the thousandth time that day.Â
âSend for Madja-â
â-Rhys will kill Nesta for thisâ
âWell I think her little magic trick will die without herâ Feyre folded her arms into her chest, weighing up the options.Â
âWe could give her the tonic that's here, let her heal without everyone gawking at her at home. Iâll go back with Nesta and explain, by the time weâre here again perhaps sheâll be healed and Amren will be home from her travels and can send her backâÂ
âAnd am I supposed to play healer Feyre?â
âWell you have more experience with healing because of the battlefield than us and besides, Nesta isnât known for her bedside mannerâ Azriel sighed before rubbing a hand across his face at Feyreâs logic, she showed him how you got here in his head to help her point.
âOkay fine, go but if she dies, Iâm not to blameâ They nodded in agreement, taking another look at your floppy body before heading for the door with their things, kicking the box of supplies out of the way.Â
Azriel lifted your legs slowly back onto the couch before fetching a dish full of mountain water and healing tonic. He hovered the cloth over one of your large gashes that had cut straight through your straight-leg jeans. He looked over your body, unable to hide his curiosity towards the university logo decorating your sweatshirt, the deep purple colouring at the very ends of your hair as well as the multiple pieces of metal piercing through your ear's cartilage. Despite the series of cuts and bruises generously coating you, Azriel believed you might be the most beautiful creature he had ever seen and you were entirely out for the count.Â
He sighed, dropping the cloth back into the dish and going to make tea with another healing concoction. He rolled his shoulders back and tucked his wings in as tight as possible to minimise their appearance before gently tapping your shoulder to bring you around. When that didnât work, he fetched one of Cassianâs training boots and ran it beneath your nose, you stirred immediately. You went to shoot up in shock, his strong steady hand, gently pressing you back down.Â
âYouâre okay, youâŚyou just fell but youâre okay.â he said as softly as possible, the ease of his voice unable to settle the rising worry across your face.Â
âI-I fell?â he gave you a small nod, not entirely a lie he thought to himself.Â
âFucking hell my head-â you once again ran your hands down your face, the dry blood slightly flaking in the movement â-do you have any paracetamol or something?â
âPara-what-almol?â Azrielâs eyebrow raised in question before he reached for the tea he made for you from the small table behind him. You removed your hands from your face and looked towards the squatting Illyrian, taking in the beautiful male in front of you, pain being replaced by embarrassment. You pushed up despite his disapproval look, returning to the same position you were in before you fainted.
âSorry, I should-I should go? EmmâŚwhere are we?âÂ
âThis is Velarisâ
âVelentia?! How did I get here?!â You shot to your feet in surprise, the blood rushing and sending you shakenly back to the soft fabric almost as quickly.Â
âNo, Iâm not sure where that is but youâre not there, here take thisâ he passed the cup with a half laugh and you looked down unconvinced.Â
âNo thanks man, not here to be poisonedâ Azriel scoffed in slight offense as he watched you wince to put it back on the small table. You look down at your freshly ripped jeans, your fingers tracing the fresh wounds.Â
âIâm Azrielâ His voice brought your eyes back to him as he passed you the soaked cloth, allowing you to run it over the gashes.Â
âYNâ You gave a small smile back, fighting the singe of the elixir.Â
âYN? Thatâs an odd nameâ
âYou say that as if thereâs an Azriel at every petrol station in townâ You half laugh, more questions entering Azrielâs head than answers. Azriel rose to his feet and headed into the kitchen with the abandoned groceries as you finished with your leg, starting on your forehead.Â
âNo paper here or something?â Azriel looked towards you as you took the cabin in in all its glory, Feyreâs artwork the object of your marvelling.Â
âTheyâre Feyreâs, she was here earlier. She went a bit mad up here when she found out Rhysand was her mateâ
âMate? Oh sheâs like Australian?â
âWhat? You speak in riddlesâ he laughed, joining your side on the couch with his own cup of tea. You looked at it with an air of hunger, not unnoticed by the Spymaster, he looked from the cup to your face.Â
âYou can drink it YN, itâs not poisoned, here look Iâll take a sipâ You watched him take a taste before offering it back to you where you took it from him, its fresh floral taste having an almost reviving effect, you drank it almost one gulp.Â
âNow, Iâm afraid you canât go home just y-â
âFuck I knew it! Whatâs in this tea?! Iâm being kidnapped!â You shot towards the door, almost knocking the dish of water all over the floor, sending Azriel swearing. You reached your exit and with a wave of his hand, Azriel locked it from the inside.
âYN, no one is going to hurt you, you just, this is going to be hard to explain, one of myâŚfriends brought you here by accidentâ You still tried to pull on the knob of the door, glancing from it to Azriel as he stood to close the distance.
âStay back! I know self-defence!â Azriel couldnât hold his laugh at the small human girl before him threateningly looking at him. He went to catch your arm softly, only for you to send your heavy-booted Doc straight into his instep, followed by the base of your palm up and into his nose, the shock of your sudden movement catching him off guard. He groaned slightly reaching for his nose as it bled, missing your hand reaching for the keys in your pocket and the mace on the keychain. Azriel roared at the feeling of the spray of chemicals burning into his eyes, sending him onto the floor writhing in pain.
âFuck! Fine! Die in the snow!â He shouted out, waving his hand and releasing the door. You hardly heard him, whipping the door back as the now night air lashed in near-freezing gails of icy snow. You fought the tornado of air as you put the oak door between you and it, sliding down the wood to the ground, your body screaming in pain still from the fall. Azriel sat up, still blinking hard to clear the burning liquid.Â
âAnd you thought Iâd be the one to use poisonâ A breathy laugh left him as his red eyes watered and you found yourself matching his smile.
âI promise I wonât kill you, if you donât kill meâ he gave you a genuine look and for some reason you felt such a wave of trust hit you. You agreed, too tired to run from him or face the snow and you rolled your head along the door before looking back at the Illyrian, tracing your eyes along his linen shirt and leather pants
âAre you in a motorbike gang or something?â
âGods I hope you start making sense soonâ he pushed up from the ground, doing his best to not untuck his wings for balance. You looked up at him and reluctantly took the hand he offered, noting the deep scaring covering them like burls on a tree. He followed your eyes to his hands before he gingerly took them back to replace them across his still-stinging eyes. Azriel threw himself back down on the couch and you followed suit.
âIâm sorry about the-â you gestured to your own eyes and he gave a small laugh.
âItâs okay, Iâm impressed a human would have such speed, to be honestâ
âHuman? And what are you a fish?âÂ
âNoâ he didnât return your laughing tone, only reaching for your disregarded cloth and placing it over his eyes. Your hand ran down the side of your jeans until you retrieved your phone, the screen fully destroyed from your dance with the trees.Â
âGreatâ you sighed, throwing it down on the table, Azriel watching the action.Â
âNesta couldnât save your mirror from the fall?â
âNesta? Rhysand? Azriel? No one called like Dave around here?âÂ
âNot really the fashion in Prythianâ he smiled.
âPrythian? Like from the children's stories?â you chuckled at him.
âNo, Prythian like the realmâ he tossed the cloth back into the dish, the red in his eyes subsiding.Â
âMy mom used to tell me stories about Prythian and these like great bat boy warriors with these really big-big-winâŚâ you trailed off as you looked to see the shape of Azrielâs wings over his shoulder.Â
âReally big? Well, thanks for the flatteryâ He laughed aloud as your face greyed.Â
âFuck, itâs happened, studying for my physics final has finally driven me insane, this is all in my head, a stress-induced dreamâ Azriel reached to your thigh and gave you a gentle pinch following your matter-of-fact speech, causing you to flinch a little.
âOkay so not a dreamâŚâ
âNot a dream, my brotherâs lovely ma-wifeâs sister, pulled you through a sort of rip in the realm and landed you hereâŚnot very carefully might I addâ He said softly so as to not have you black out again, you nodded very very slowly to his words. You faced away from him, fixing your stare on the smashed phone, you thought of your physics lectures. The theories of tears in the fabric of time being possible, the possibility of alternative realities, the possibility of unexplored realms before settling finally that this wasnât a possibility, this was a reality.Â
âSo, okay, right-â you bit your lip, working through the thought, Azriel trying to push the shiver down his spine away at that action â-okay cool, right, so Iâm gonna need like an excuse note or something for the exam and then, right, cool, Xanax maybeâ
âIs Xanax a friend of yours who can help?â Your head shot towards Azriel at his genuine question and you let a roar of laughter leave you.Â
âDefinitely although I donât think theyâre here somehowâ you offered with a smirk, Azriel feeling a weird sense of jealousy at not being the object of this smile.Â
âWell, weâll make do and try to get you homeâ You nodded sheepishly to him.
âDo you not want to go home YN? You seemed pretty eager when you tried to break my nose earlierâ he smiled and you gently knocked into his shoulder playfully.Â
âI meanâŚIâm not in a rush to get back to the testâÂ
âOkay well, it will be a day or two before my friends are back and Rhys has calmed down over Nesta bringing you to greet us so youâll have time. As for now, care to have something to eat? You can help me make it so we both know neither is trying to poison the otherâ he gave a light laugh while standing again, and you followed him along to the kitchen.Â
For the rest of the night, the both of you spent your time cooking, laughing and teaching one another about your worlds. Azriel explained the Courts, his role and his familyâs as well as giving a shortened version of their relationships with one another. In return, you told him about your studies, what Instagram was and how democracy works. Azriel wasnât sure heâd ever felt such strong feelings towards someone heâd just met before and it confused him almost as much as what microwaves were.Â
âHere you go, a glass of our best liquor, you deserve itâ Azriel passed you the tumbler as you sat cross-legged on the couch beneath the woollen blanket you were previously hidden under.
âOh slayâ
âNo, I didnât kill anything to get this for youâ You almost choked on the drink with the laugh that left you at his confused words.Â
âNo Azriel itâs like-actually maybe Iâll explain drag culture to you another dayâ He nodded eagerly at the prospect of learning more, sinking into the couch alongside you with his own drink.Â
âSo have you girlf-mate type person like Feyre and Rhys?â
âNo, no girlf-mate type person-â he teased back and you sighed, clipping him with the pillow from under your elbow â-do you?â
âNope, to be honest, I donât think Iâll be missed from home, I lost my parents young and never really found my flock at college eitherâ you shrugged.Â
âHow could anyone not miss you YN?â
âYou have to say that, youâre my captorâ
âActually Nesta captured you, Iâm just minding you-â You returned his smirk â-speaking of which, time for sleep, tomorrow they should be back to figuring getting you home for your examâ you whined like a misbehaving child but youâd been fighting off sleep since dinner so agreed with him.
He lead you to his room in the cabin before offering you one of his clean linen shirts and leaving you to sleep. You practically swam in the fabric, with no wings or Illyrian muscles to fill it out, feeling the same way about the colossal bed that you slipped into. You looked up at the ceiling where Feyre had painted delicate little consolations, the day washing over you, had all your prayers finally been answered? You smiled as you gave into the sleep that hunted you all day.
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âWe are sending her back!â
âAmren canât guarantee sheâll end up in her realm, sheâs not going anywhere!â You wiped the sleep from your eyes, Azriel's blunt tone waking you from the best sleep of your life.
âShe canât stay here Az!â
âAnd what if she ends up somewhere a lot worse, she coul-oh YN youâre awakeâ You looked from the doorway between the two gorgeous Illyrians.Â
âThis is Rhysandâ
âOh, your majesty I supposeâ you did a half bow after stepping closer to the males, a small laugh leaving Rhysand at the action.Â
âDonât flatter him YNâ
âYN, flatter me if that would make you happyâ he grinned, Azriel rolling his eyes.Â
âYouâre exactly as describedâ You shrugged at him, settling down on the couch between where the lllyrians stood
âI would like to apologies for NestaâsâŚinteruption to your day to day life and more so forâŚprobably being all Nesta when you woke upâ Rhysand offered, Azriel folding his arms tightly across his chest as he inspected you closely, you in his shirt may now be his favourite sight. Rhysand watched the slight change in his brothers demanour at your presence, this increasing his worry.Â
âNow YN, itâs time we get you back to-â
â-I heard you guys say you canât say for certain Iâll get homeâ you cut across Rhysand, his eyes darting back to you, Azriel trying to bury his smirk.
âIâm confident we know how to get you thereâ
âOkay cool, so Feyre will accompany meâÂ
âWhat?â Rhysand bit out.
âWell its just if youâre so sure youâll get me in the right spot, surely youâll have no issue allowing Feyre to accompany me yanno, since youâre confidentâ Azriel lost his battle in holding in his smirk.Â
âSheâs got you there Rhys, if one of us wouldnât do it, why should she?â
âBecause she doesnât belong hereâ Rhysand chewed out, locking eyes with his brother.
âShe is sitting right here and she isnât going near any wormhole or whatever if youâre not sure Iâd get there safeâ You forced his attention back to your with your sharp words.
âWho said anything about worms?â
âYN has a habit of speaking in riddlesâ Azriel sat alongside you, giving you a somewhat proud smile, his arm instinctively resting on the back of the couch behind you.Â
âYN, Iâm sure youâre great but I can almost guarantee that our world is vastly different to yours, itâs a lot to take on for your mortal mind, perhaps we could arrange a home for you in the mortal realm?â you tilted your head side to side weighing up his offer before Azriel replied for you.
âI can teach her our ways, I can school her like you did Feyreâ Rhysand sighed out but couldnât deny the way Azriel looked at you and you at him was deeply familiar to him.Â
âFine, a week, you may stay a week and if it doesnât work out then the mortal realm it is, weâll set you up with a nice manor and youâll live very comfortablyâ
âLike Downton Abbey?â you teased despite your audience.
âIâm not familiar with that regionâ
âIs that where the drag culture is?â
âOf sortsâ you laughed at Azriel and his quizzical words, his hazel eyes so enamoured by the sight, further cementing Rhysandâs suspicions. Rhysand sighed deeply ensuring you agreed to the terms and to be taught by Azriel before he left to continue to reprimand Nesta.Â
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Over the next week it became abundantly clear that despite being from two different realms, you and Azriel were made for one another. You both had the same humor and intelligence as well as thirst for knowledge. You continued to teach him about your home and he taught you about the new world around you and the more you learned the less you wanted to leave. On your first day in Velaris, you thought your heart may burst with the growing love for the place and even more so for your guide.Â
âAnd then Cass completely blew the building up, I thought the vein was going to burst in Rhysandâs headâ Azriel tilted his head back and laughed loudly while you both crossed the bridge of the Sidra, your last official day in the Night Court before you had to decide. Somewhere along the way, Azriel and your hands became interlocked and forgot to separate.
âYou live such insane lives hereâ
âAnd you could tooâ he stopped you in your tracks, his eyes warming over your body as he looked down on you, the sinking sun reflecting off of the snow.Â
âMaybe with less arson thoughâ he added with a grin you loved so much.Â
âAz, Iâd love to stay but-â
â-No, just say âAz Iâd love to stayâ and leave it thereâ he fought his faltering smile as you looked down at his shoes, both hands held in his now.Â
âBut Az-â you couldnât find the end of the sentence, the words lost on Azrielâs lips as they met yours with such searing passion. His mouth slotted over yours with such a perfect fit it was like they were always meant to be there. You stood further on your toes to deepen the kiss as his hands traced around the nape of your neck and yours landed around his torse. You separated when the need for air almost matched the need to never let go.Â
âI-I canât remember the end of my last thoughtâ you laughed lightly and he grinned. âSo youâll stay?â
âI donât think I was ever going to be able to walk away from youâŚwell not without mace anywaysâ you smiled back into another kiss, the second of many many more.
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ᢠTake My Hand | Wanda Maximoff á˘
Pairing: Wanda Maximoff x reader
Warnings: steamy scene, violence, major injuries, and angst
Summary: A collection of the three times you comfort Wanda when she is scared of her own powers. . .
Continuation: Enough
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The first time
âOkay, youâre good to go.â Dr. Cho finishes stitching up my shoulder and gestures for me to get off the table.
I thank her and put my shirt back on, leaving with a smile and a small wave.
The flight back from Lagos was exhausting and I canât wait to just crawl under the covers of my bed and fall asleep.
I showered earlier and I thought I could go to bed right then and there, but Nat noticed the cut on my shoulder wasnât healing the way it usually does, so she sent me to see Dr. Cho to get it stitched up.
I make my way through the dark compound and toward my room, expecting to find a familiar redhead under the covers of my bed, but she isnât there.
I frown and look around, noticing the door to the bathroom is standing slightly ajar, a sliver of light from inside escaping onto the hardwood floor of the bedroom.
I close the door behind me and walk toward the bathroom, carefully pushing the door open and stepping inside.
The sight that greets me makes my heart ache.
The room is illuminated by the flashlight on Wandaâs phone which is sitting on the sink with the screen faced down.
Itâs not much, and any other person would have probably missed the dark figure sitting curled up against the shower wall but I donât because of the connection the mind stone has created between Wanda and me.
We were both experimented on by Hydra, the only two differences being that I was dead when they used the stone on me and they did it when they first got their hands on it back in the 1940âs. I was in the army back then and was killed in action before Schmidt recovered my body, somehow giving me powers and bringing me back to life.
They thought it didnât work though, which is why they put me on the bomber plane that Steve ultimately crashed into the Arctic. They were planning on throwing my body off out over the sea to get rid of the evidence of their experiments, but because of the turn of events, I was stuck in the ice with Steve for sixty years before S.H.I.E.L.D. found and recruited us.
Wandaâs soft sobs fill the silence, each one making my chest hurt, and Iâm quick to rush to her side, kneeling down in front of her after turning off the running water.
The tiles are wet and when I carefully place a hand on her knee, I notice that her clothes are soaked as well.
She freezes and buries her face in her knees even more, the hold she has around her own legs tightening.
âYou know youâre supposed to take your clothes off before showering, right?â I whisper softly, not bothering to ask why sheâs crying because I already know the reason.
The whole flight back from Lagos she was shaking and staring at nothing with a far off look in her eyes.
She blames herself for what happened and even though people did die because of her losing control, she also saved countless of lives on the ground.
Wanda doesnât react to my attempt at a joke and I sigh, moving forward and unwrapping her arms from around her legs.
She whimpers in protest but I keep going, slipping my arms under hers and getting up, pulling her to her feet with me.
She sobs and tightens her hold on me, her face landing in the crook of my neck.
âIt will be okay, darling,â I whisper, not caring that my clothes are getting wet. âItâs not your fault.â
Wanda shakes her head and another sob escapes her lips.
Then, as if realizing something, she pushes me back and stares at the bandage that pokes out from underneath my shirt.
âYouâre hurt,â she croaks. âI hurt you.â
I frown and go to grab her hand, but she pulls away âWhat are you talking about? You didnât hurt me.â
Wanda nods frantically and stares at her hands with watery eyes. âYou got caught in the blast.â
âWanda, I did, butââ
âNo,â she whimpers. âItâs my fault. Itâs all my fault.â
Her bottom lip begins to tremble as a tear rolls down her cheek and her knees start to buckle.
Ignoring her hands which are trying to keep me away, I step into her space and wrap my arms around her waist, holding her up.
She fights me for a few seconds, whimpering, âNo, no. Get away from me. I donât want to hurt you again,â before she stops and melts into the embrace.
âYouâre not going to hurt me,â I whisper, kissing the top of her head.
Wanda sobs and curls her fingers around the fabric of my shirt. âIâm a monster. . .â
âNo youâre not.â I state firmly, squeezing her in my arms.
âYou should be afraid of me,â she argues weakly.
I blink a couple of times to get rid of my own tears and shake my head. The fact that sheâs thinking of herself like this, makes my heart ache and my throat burn with unshed tears.
âWanda,â I whisper pulling back just enough to meet her gaze. Her eyes are filled with hurt and despair and I take a deep breath, moving my hands from her waist to cup her cheeks. âI will say this as many times as I have to. . . I will neverâ you hear meâ never be afraid of you and your powers. I love you and you couldnât hurt me even if you tried.â
A new wave of tears streams down her cheeks and I use the pads of my thumbs to wipe them away. She lifts a hand and places it over my injured shoulder.
âBut todayââ
I shake my head again and press a kiss to her forehead. âItâs nothing, darling. Please, trust me on that. Itâs just taking a little longer to heal because Iâm exhausted and drained.â
âY/N. . .â she protests weakly and I step back and take her shaking hands.
She watches with wide eyes, trying to pull away but I tighten my grip and hold her gaze as I lift her hands and press a kiss to each palm.
âI love you, Wanda,â I say firmly, bringing her hands to cup my cheeks. âAnd I love your powers. Youâre beautiful inside and out and I donât want to spend a single moment of my life without you. So please, stop. Iâm not scared of you.â
Wandaâs red-rimmed eyes dance over my face, obviously looking for any doubt on my part, and when she doesnât find any, she surges forward and kisses me.
Her lips are chapped and I can taste her tears, but I donât care, letting go of her hands and pulling her closer.
âI love you, too,â she whispers against my lips before leaning back in, trying to deepen the kiss.
I stop her before she gets a chance though, not wanting to take advantage of her in such a vulnerable moment, and squeeze her hips. âWe should get some sleep, darling.â
Wanda sighs and nods, resting her forehead on my sternum. âOkay. . .â
I help her out of her shirt and jeans, giving her one last peck on the lips before leaving her to take a proper shower.
While she showers I change into a new, dry set of clothes and slip under the covers of the bed.
Itâs not even five minutes later that the door to the bathroom reopens and Wanda emerges in a pair of sweatpants and an oversized shirt.
I lift the covers with one arm, extending my other in invitation, and let it drop back down once she has slipped into bed, pressed against my side with one of her legs thrown over my hips.
âI love you,â she says when I start running my fingers through her damp hair.
âI love you, too, darling,â I whisper. âNow get some rest.â
Wanda sighs and noses forward, pressing a kiss to the underside of my jaw before settling back down and closing her eyes.
Within a couple of minutes sheâs asleep and I continue to scratch at her scalp until I drift off myself.
The second time
Iâm as relaxed as ever listening to Wanda playing her guitar quietly.
Weâre on our bed with the lights turned down low and a storm raging on outside, the rain and wind whipping against the windows.
Wanda is sitting with her back against the headboard and Iâm lying on my side, watching her with adoration.
Her nimble fingers are picking a calming melody and if it werenât for my inability to take my eyes off her, I would have fallen asleep a long time ago.
Itâs been a little over three weeks since the Lagos incident and even though Wanda still feels guilty about it sheâs doing better. Iâve done my best to be by her side whenever she has a bad day and keep her from watching the news.
âYouâre staring, moya lyubov,â Wanda says, glancing at me before returning her attention to the guitar.
I smile, not at all fazed that Iâve been caught âI canât help it. Youâre just so beautiful.â
She chuckles shyly and continues playing, her eyes meeting mine every now and then before she stops abruptly, catching me off guard.
She sets the guitar down next to the bed and moves to straddle my hips, forcing me to lie on my back.
I blink at her in surprise and raise a questioning eyebrow, my hands automatically moving to rest on her thighs.
âWhat are you doing?â I whisper breathlessly when her she place her hands on my lower stomach.
Her eyebrows are furrowed and it looks like sheâs conflicted about something, but when her eyes meet mine her face softens.
âI love the way you look at me,â she admits quietly, shifting her weight on my hips and I have to bite my tongue to stop a gasp from escaping my lips. âNo oneâs ever looked at me like you do and I. . . I just love you so much.â
I smile and give her thighs a squeeze to show my appreciation. âI love you, too,â I say, reciprocating the kiss Wanda gives me when she bends down.
I love wholesome moments like this and I kiss back with the intention of keeping things short and sweet, but Wanda seems to have other plans.
She bites my lower lip, slipping her tongue into my mouth and slips her hands beneath my sweater. Her nails scraped against my skin and I groan, feeling a shiver run down my spine.
Weâve kissed and made out before, but this feels different than anything weâve ever done.
Wanda is kissing me with an unprecedented sense of purpose and urgency and I have to pull back to make sure Iâm not reading too much into this.
Despite being together for almost a year now, weâve never been intimate before. Itâs something weâve spoken about a couple months ago when Wanda stopped a particularly heated make out session, saying she wasnât ready to cross that line yet. I reassured her and told her Iâd wait for her no matter how long it takes and that was that, but now things seem different.
Following our conversation I always stopped things before they could escalate, but now, when I try to pull away, Wanda whines and reattaches her lips to mine in a desperate kiss.
It takes my breath away and we continue kissing for a few seconds before I regain my bearings and place a hand on her shoulder, pushing gently.
âWhat is it? Are you okay?â Wanda asks breathlessly, her fingers tracing over my ribs beneath my sweater.
I shiver at the feeling and close my eyes for a moment to escape her intense gaze. âYeah, I-Iâm okay. Are you? I mean, is this going where I think itâs going or do you want to stop?â
Itâs silent for a second and I open my eyes to find Wanda staring at me with dilated pupils.
âI think Iâm ready,â she whispers against my lips, making my heart skip a beat.
âA-Are you sure?â I stutter and instead of answering verbally she resumes our kiss.
Itâs hot and open mouthed, and when I squeeze her thighs, a squeaky moan leaves her lips. It sends a spark of arousal through me and I do it again just to hear it again.
âY/N,â Wanda gasps, sitting up abruptly to take off her shirt before leaning back down to resume the kiss.
My mind is reeling at the sight of her exposed skin and I canât stop myself from bringing my hands up to her waist.
Her skin is soft and warm and I canât wait to feel it against my own.
We continue to kiss feverishly until Wanda runs out of air. She disconnects our lips, panting, and I take it as a chance to connect my lips to her neck.
I kiss and suck harshly, not caring about leaving any marks and taking delight in the gasps whimpers itâs eliciting from the redhead.
When I move to the sensitive spot just below Wandaâs ear, she shudders and digs her fingers into my ribs, making me groan.
Weâre so caught up in the moment that it takes a second for the sound of breaking glass to register in both our heads. We freeze and pull apart, looking around the room for the source of the sound.
My eyes land on the lamp on the bedside table where wisps of red magic surround the now broken bulb of it.
I chuckle, realizing whatâs happened but Wanda remains frozen on top of me. Sheâs blankly staring at the broken glass and retracts her hands from below my sweater.
âHey,â I say softly, my voice filling with concern. âAre you okay? It was just an accident. I can replace the bulb in the morning.â
âIââ Wanda stops herself and stares at her hands in disbelief. âI donât think I can do this, Y/N.â
I frown and sit up, wrapping my arms around her waist to keep her on my lap. âWhat are you talking about?â
I hate how quickly the mood has shifted and I hate seeing the familiar look of reproach and regret in Wandaâs eyes.
âI justâ I canât do this,â she elaborates gesturing between us with a shaking hand. âI want to, but I canât let my guard down. Iâll lose control and Iâll hurt you. My powersââ
I cut her off before she can go on, grabbing her hands and kissing her knuckles. âHey, no. Donât do this. Weâve talked about this. You wonât hurt me. I trust you.â
Wanda chuckles sadly and shakes her head. âBut I donât trust myself.â
I sigh. Not because Iâm disappointed we were interrupted, but because it hurts to know Wanda still thinks of herself like this.
I rack my brain for new ways to convince her sheâs not the monster she thinks she is when I suddenly have an idea.
I scoot back until my back is against the headboard and turn Wandaâs hands around so her palms are facing up.
âDarling, look at this,â I say quietly, letting go of one of her hands.
I flex my fingers and focus on my own powers, feeling a familiar warmth rush into my fingertips until wisps of yellow surround my hand.
They slowly dance around and illuminate Wandaâs face as she watches what Iâm doing.
I move my hand toward hers and as soon as our fingertips brush itâs as if my powers coax Wandaâs out of hiding.
Soft red tendrils begin to appear at the tips of her fingers and Wanda watches in amazement as they connect with my own powers.
They dance around each other, mixing and merging around our palms until theyâre an orange web of liquid energy.
âDo you feel that?â I ask, referring to the warmth that spreads through my hand and up my arm.
Wanda nods, her eyes glued to our hands and the ever flowing stream of energy between us.
âDoes it hurt?â I ask, knowing that it doesnât but wanting Wanda to actually say it, to admit it, and acknowledge that her powers could never harm me.
âIâ No,â she whispers, her eyes meeting mine. âIt feels good. Iâ I feel you.â
I nod encouragingly and interlace our fingers, âExactly. . . Now you know you wonât ever be able to hurt me, but we donât have to continue. You can put your shirt back on and we can cuddle and watch a movie and forget any of this ever happened.â
Wandaâs eyes drop back down to our hands, her eyebrows furrowed in though for a couple of moments before she whispers, âNo.â
âNo?â I question gently, not knowing what exactly she means. I disconnect our hands and will my powers to disappear before placing my hands on her thighs.
Wandaâs eyes meet mine and I gasp when I notice a faint red glow in them. âNo. I donât want to stop,â she admits, her voice raspy. âI want you.â
My eyes widen and my fingers twitch in excitement. âAre you sure?â
She nods and whispers a Yes before cupping my cheeks and pulling me in for a passionate kiss.
In the end, a couple more light bulbs explode and the whole room shakes when Wanda comes for the first time with a broken cry, but no one gets hurt.
Well, that is if you donât count the countless bruises in the form of love bites on our bodies and the angry red scratches down my back.
The third time
âWanda,â Vision says, âItâs time.â
Wanda turns and stares at the synthezoid with watery eyes. Heâs her best friend and beside me heâs the only one who truly understands her.
âNo,â she says sternly, turning back around to watch Thanos taking apart the team one by one.
Vision and I share a meaningful look and I nod in acknowledgment.
âThey canât stop him Wanda,â I say, cringing when Steve gets socked in the face. âBut you can. You have the power to destroy the stone.â
Vision nods in agreement and takes Wandaâs hand, placing it against his cheek.
She shakes her head with a trembling chin as her eyes fill with tears.
âWanda please,â Vision says, his kind blue eyes focused on nothing else but the redhead in front of him. âWe are out of time.â
âI canât,â she whispers, looking at me pleadingly even though thereâs nothing I can do. I may have gotten my powers from the stone as well, but Iâm not as powerful as she is.
Vision takes Wandaâs hand off his cheek and raises it in front of his face. âIf he gets the stone half of the universe dies.â
Wandaâs face contorts with agony and she takes a step back, acknowledging that thereâs no other way.
I bow my head, trying to hide my own tears at the imminent demise of one of my friends and turn around to make sure Thanos doesnât get to Wanda or Vision.
âItâs alright,â I hear Vision say, âYou could never hurt me.â
I swallow the growing lump in my throat, remembering how I taught him that phrase before everything went to shit because of the Sokovia Accords.
He called me one evening when I was gone on a solo mission, asking how to calm Wanda down after she accidentally lost control of her powers during a training session.
Thanos catches TâChalla mid-air and slams him into the ground before striking Nat with a powerful fist.
Heâs getting too close, I think, getting into a fighting stance.
I raise my hands, letting my powers flow through me until my hands are surrounded by yellow wisps.
I canât let him get to Wanda. . .
I take a deep breath, getting ready to get my ass handed to me like the rest of the team, when the breath suddenly gets knocked out of me by some invisible force.
I gasp and look around to see what might have caused it when a blinding pain shoots up my spine and through my head.
It feels like Iâm being split apart from the inside out and I drop to my hands and knees, blinking rapidly to get rid of the growing black spots in my vision.
I whimper and press a hand to my temple, only for the pain to disappear the next second as though it was never there.
âMy love,â Wandaâs voice and her hands on my cheeks make me flinch and when I look up I see sheâs kneeling in front of me with concern written all over her face. âWhat is it?â
I shake my head, confused as to what just happened and take her hands off my face. âI donât know, darling. Just keep going, Iâll be fine. Thanos canât get his hands on the stone.â
She watches me with uncertainty, only reluctantly getting back to her feet when I shout, âGo!â
Weâre running out of time.
I take a shaky breath and stand up on shaking legs before leaning against a nearby tree.
My eyes land on Wanda as sheâs getting back into position to destroy the stone.
I want to get back to shielding her from the incoming Titan, but as soon as her power connect with the stone, the pain returns, and I yelp in surprise, doubling over in pain.
Just like last time, it stops almost immediately and itâs then that I realize whatâs happening.
The mind stone brought me back to life, so if itâs destroyed, I loss my powers and I go back to being dead.
When I look up I see the same realization in both Vision and Wandaâs face.
Vision just smiles sadly, knowing this wonât change our shared understanding that the stone has to be destroyed, but Wandaâs paralyzed with horror.
âNo.â She shakes her head, tears of despair dripping down her face. âNot you, too. I canât do this.â
She shakes her head like a kid throwing a tantrum and I have to bite my cheek to stifle a whimper when I drag myself to her side.
âWanda, thereâs no other way,â I croak, wiping the tears off her cheeks.
She sobs and holds onto my wrists with an ironclad grip. âNo. No. No. I canât lose you. Youâre all I have left. Youâre my everything.â
I force a small smile and try to ignore the agony that washes over me.
Whenever one of us is feeling overwhelmed by an emotion, the other person feels it as well. Itâs a side effect of the connection the mind stone has created between us and it usually doesnât bother me, but right now itâs chipping away at my resolve to save half the universe.
âItâs going to be okay,â I lie even though my heart is begging me not to go through with this.
Iâm scared of dying, yes, because I donât remember what it was like the first time, but what Iâm even more scared of is whatâs going to happen to Wanda once all this is over.
She has lost so much already and I donât know how much more she can take before she breaks completely.
âPlease, no. Donât make me do this,â Wanda cries softly, making my own tears run down my cheeks.
I struggle to breath and, not being able to bear the look of complete and utter despair in her eyes, I Iet go of her face and move so Iâm standing behind her, her back flush against my front.
I press a lingering kiss to the side of her head, right above her ear, and take her hands in mine, raising them so her palms are aimed at the stone in Visionâs forehead.
âWeâll do it together, darling. Iâm right here, okay?â I whisper.
Wanda sobs and whimpers, but a moment later her fingers are once again surrounded by her magic.
âY/N. . .â she weeps, seeming unable to go through with it, but when I press another kiss to the side of her head, she lets her magic go, directing it toward the stone.
The moment it makes contact, I groan and my grip on the back of her hands tightens.
Her engagement ring glints in the sunlight and even though my body is overwhelmed by all the pain coursing through it, I managed to smile as I remember how I slipped it onto her finger a couple of days ago.
Oh, what a beautiful bride she would have made.
There arenât many things I regret in life, but not asking her to marry me sooner is definitely on of them.
I would have loved to call her my wife. I would have loved to raise kids with her and I would have loved to grow old with her by my side.
Now, all we have left is this moment and Iâm sure as hell not going to waste it.
When the pain turns blinding, I grit my teeth and close my eyes, pressing my nose against Wandaâs neck to breathe her in.
Her body is shaking with sobs and the effort it takes to destroy the stone and thereâs nothing I can do to help except comfort her in this defining moment.
âI love you.â I gasp, letting go of her hands to instead wrap my arms around her waist.
I keep saying it with my eyes squeezed shut until the pain suddenly stops.
I donât feel anything for a heartbeat, but then my blood runs cold and I feel my knees buckle.
My grip around Wanda loosens involuntarily and my body hits the ground hard.
The last thing Iâm aware of before slipping into darkness is a pair of warm hands on my face.
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Donât say I didnât warn you. . . *insert evil laugh*
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this is. probably a very personal question.
Is it worth it? Transitioning? In spite of it all?
Completely, utterly, and absolutely. Iâm one of those ppl who knew i was trans since i was like 8. I found out when i was probably 13/14 what transgender meant, but recoiled from it because i could not imagine a world that would accept me or where i would be happy with the result. At 15 i met my first other trans person, and they became my friend and partner and the first person to ever know i was trans. Being around them, known by them, was such a colossal psychological relief and source of joy unlike anything i had known before. It made separating from them after graduation all the more excruciating to lose that one person i had trusted with that truth.
Sometime over the next two years i came out to my Mom, but nothing really changed, and i had more or less resolved to rot and die under the identity i had been born into. I let my undergrad studies chew me up, neglected all but the most necessary body maintenance, and spent every moment outside work or class buried in video games or books. At some point something snapped out of place, or perhaps back into place. I knew i didnât want to die like this. I wanted something more for my life and my flesh than being a half dead servitor stocking yogurt. I wanted to transition, and however slowly, however long it took, thatâs what i resolved to do.
It took a while. I had no real finances, no privacy, and little independence. I was coming from a white low-self-expression, high-control household. I âmessed upâ while base coating warhammer models one time and gave myself black nails. My dad berated me about it for days before trying to pin my hands down and sand the paint off (didnât work, thank you automotive primer). When i was ~22 i got my ears pierced, basically the first permanent part of my transition, and i had never known as much joy as i did driving home knowing the pain was a step of permanent progress. Around this time 2019/2020 i started being out online, more vocal about being transgender as opposed to just having a relatively inexpressive fandom blog with no info beyond my name.
When i was 24, two years ago i came out to my dad, and a week later i left for grad school halfway across the country. I had an apartment all to myself, and my own source of income. I spent my spare change building up a wardrobe of new clothes that i actually liked. I got my first year of grad school done mostly without anything remarkable. Went to some queer events at my school. Found a partner. Got loved to bits for a while. Re-came out to my parents over the summer, and this time it stuck. Started HRT that fall, 2023. Came out to my classmates and coworkers and was rewarded with support and acceptance. Lost the partner. Devastated. Resolve to get even hotter and cooler. Smash out 3 piercings and a tattoo inside a week. Develop personal fashion sense. Attend research conference. Get better at makeup. Go to some concerts. Increase HRT. Tiddy Arc. Buy bra with a supportive bestie. Start weekly therapy. Increase HRT. Cosplay at a major convention. Schedule another tattoo. More HRT. Bra no longer optional. Present day. Tattoo on Wednesday. 90% of progress packed into the last year or so. Undeniably hotter, happier, and more self-expressive than anything in the last 24 years prior.
Transitioning is more than worth it, it brings me so much relief and joy every day no matter how shitty my day is otherwise, and while i have known doubt, i have never for an instant known regret.
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â Birds of a feather
angst, jason x gn!reader, âdollâ being used
Jason canât love you the way you do.
a/n: hi everyone! my friend help me with this one, give a round of applause to her! i shall do my requests soon, iâm just busy.
You loved Jason, the two of you have been glued to the hip for who knows when. You have been there since he was still Robin, and now as Red Hood. Your bond was unparalleled, a friendship strong enough to withstand any storm. The kind of connection one only dreams of finding.
Everyone who knew the two of you was acutely aware of your unshakeable bond. It was an almost tangible presence, as if the two of you were tethered together by an invisible force. You were rarely ever seen without the other, so much so that your names were often mentioned in the same breath.
Jason's emotional struggles with romance were a reality that you had come to accept. Despite the deep connection the two of you shared, he was plagued by an internal turmoil that made the prospect of a romantic relationship unattainable for him.
You, for your part, had come to understand and accept this aspect of his nature, recognizing that the bond between the two of you was not defined by romantic love, but by a deep, unwavering loyalty and friendship.
You longed for the comfort of knowing that Jason would always be by your side, even in the face of death itself. The thought of him staying with you until you were laid in the grave, dead and buried, and carried away in a casket, brought an intense sense of security and comfort. If Jason ever decided to leave, you knew that you wouldn't be far behind. It was always him for you, and there was nothing that could change that.
Jason, too, was acutely aware of your unwavering loyalty to him. Knowing that you would follow him to the ends of the earth, no matter what hardships or trials he faced. It was a knowledge that weighed heavily on him, knowing that your fate was intertwined with his own.
Your unshakeable devotion stirred within him a complex mix of emotions- pride in your loyalty, coupled with a pang of guilt. Pride because he knew you would always stick by his side, no matter the consequences.
Jason was acutely aware of how much your unrequited feelings for him were causing you pain. Despite his own internal struggles with romance, he recognized that your love for him was deep and unwavering. He knew how much it hurt you for him to not be able to return your romantic feelings, and he felt immense guilt for causing you such pain.
He often struggled with the knowledge that he could never give you what you desired the most from him, and this realization weighed heavily on his heart. It pained him to know that he could never fulfill the romantic hopes and dreams of the one person who meant the world to him.
The two of you were in a bookstore, surrounded by stacks of leather-bound volumes and the scent of aged paper. Jason was the one who introduced you to the world of books. He led you through the labyrinthine shelves, his fingers brushing against the spines of the books with a reverence that spoke of his deep connection to the written word. The two of you shared a comfortable silence, both finding solace in the pages that surrounded you.
You took several books on the shelves, placing them in the small shopping carts that they provided. âI got enough for the whole summer,â you said, turning to him. âWhat about you?â Jason shrugged and picked up a few books to add to the cart, âIâm not far behind.â
He picks up a book, it was about a loyal man who reunited with his dead wife. He stood there for a moment, holding the book in his hand and staring at the cover. This was a tale that typically ended on a happy note.
But his thoughts lingered on a different kind of ending, one that didn't necessarily have a happy ending. He thought about the two of you, your unwavering loyalty and how despite your devotion, there wasn't the same romantic element present. You noticed the melancholy expression that crossed his face, and you could sense that something was weighing heavily on his mind.
You approached him, and gently asked, "Is there something on your mind?â
He looked up at you, his eyes meeting yours for a brief moment before he averted his gaze.
âItâs nothing, doll.â he responded, his voice trailing off as he absently flipped through the pages of the book in his hands.
You shrugged, not wanting to press him too much. You knew that Jason often preferred to keep his emotions and thoughts close to his chest, and trying to get him to open up could sometimes feel like pulling teeth. You busied yourself with the other books in the cart, trying to give him a moment to work through whatever was troubling him.
Eventually, the two of you arrived at his apartment, as he unlocked the door and ushered you inside, he felt a pang of unease in his chest. He needed to discuss something important with you.
âSo, what are we doing? Movie night? Mario kart?â you said with a smile. Jason forced a smile in response, the tension in his chest tightening further. "Actually," he said, trying to keep his voice steady. "I wanted to talk to you about something. Something important."
A pit formed in your stomach, talk about what exactly? You placed your books down on the coffee table and looked back at his gaze. âYeah, whatâs up?â
Jason took a deep breath before speaking again. "I've been having somethinâ lately, doll." he said, his voice quieter now. "About our friendship."
Your heart sank a little at his words, your mind immediately jumping to worst-case scenarios. He doesn't want to be friends anymore, you thought to yourself. He's pulling away, getting distant. Was he going to say what you were dreading to hear?
Jason noticed the look on your face and quickly spoke up again. "It's not anything bad," he hurried to reassure you. "I've been goinâ through some stuff. And I think we need to talk about where we stand." You relaxed slightly at his words, albeit a bit puzzled. You looked at him questioningly, silently encouraging him to continue.
"Our friendship is... important to me, doll." he sighed, meeting your gaze. "You're the most important person in my life. But I can't jusâ ignore fact that..." He paused, his sentence hanging in the air. Your mind raced with possibilities, trying to decipher what he was trying to say. You could feel the tension in the air, and your heart was pounding in your chest.
"I know how you feel about me," he said, "I know you want more."
Your heart skipped a beat at his words. He knew. He had been aware this whole time, and he had said nothing. Your mind raced, a million thoughts and emotions swirling within you.
"I want to be honest with you," he continued, "And I don't want to hurt you. But I can't give you what you want. I can't give you that kind of love. Itâs not something I can do."
Your heart ached at his words, the weight of them hitting you like a ton of bricks. You had hoped, deep down, that maybe he would reciprocate your feelings. But now, the reality was crushing your heart into pieces.
Jason's expression was one of guilt and remorse. "It hurts me too," he said, his voice tinged with sadness. "Seeing you wanting something from me that I can't give. It's like a constant knife in my chest, knowing that I can't make you happy the way you deserve." You held his hand âItâs okay,â you forced a smile âItâs okay if you donât. My friendship with you, it's very important.â
Jason's grip on your hand tightened slightly. "You say that, but I know it's not true," he said, "I see the way you look at me doll, the way you longingly touch my hand or lean in closer. It's not just friendship for you, and deep down, we both know it."
Your heart clenched at his words. He was right, you couldn't deny it. But you didn't want to push him away or make him feel guilty for something he couldn't control. So, you just smiled again. "It's really okay," you repeated, trying to sound more convincing this time. "We'll... we'll make it work, right? Just us, as friends."
He knew that you were putting on a brave front for him, trying to downplay your own feelings in order to salvage the friendship. He wanted to say more, to try to explain the reasons behind his inability to reciprocate your feelings. But he knew that it would only make matters worse. So, he just squeezed your hand tighter, "Sure doll," he said softly. "Just us, as friends."
You softly chuckled âDoll,â you repeated âYou never stopped calling me that.â Jason forced a smile, his heart aching at the familiarity of the nickname. It was one of the many reminders of your closeness, a testament to the deep bond you shared.
"Old habits die hard, I guess," he said. The irony of the nickname suddenly weighed heavily on him. Doll was a term of endearment, a term that typically invoked feelings of love. And yet here he was, the person who had never been able to feel those things for you, calling ypu âdoll.â
"I probably should stop callinâ you that," he said quietly. "No," you said quickly, not wanting to cause more pain than either of you were already experiencing. "I like it. It's... comforting, coming from you."
"If you're sure," he said quietly. You smiled softly, trying to reassure him that it was genuinely alright. "Yeah, I'm sure," you said, your voice full of genuine affection. "It's our thing, right? Don't overthink it."
He wanted to believe that things could continue as they were between the two of you, that he could still hold onto the one person who meant more to him than anything else in the world. "Okay, doll," he said, his voice cracking slightly, "If that's what you want. We'll keep it our thing."
When you come back home, you quietly weep. You don't know what youâre crying for.
"I donât think I could love him more..." you whispered to yourself between sobs. The depth of your feelings for him was overwhelming, but the fact that he didn't feel the same way left you feeling empty and defeated.
Your mind was swirling with conflicting thoughts. Part of you wanted to keep the relationship as it was, grateful for the intimacy and companionship you shared. Another part of you wrestled with the frustration and pain of a one-sided love. Each tear that fell felt like a small piece of your heart breaking, but you couldn't bring yourself to walk away. Despite the pain, Jason meant the world to you, and the thought of losing him was unbearable.
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hotch hiring spencer to tutor his (college aged) daughter, and hes so impressed with how much theyve been studying and how hes helped her grades, until one day he walks in on one of their "study sessions," but they're not really studying at all.....
Aaron knew there'd be no better person to turn to than Dr. Spencer Reid when his daughter began struggling with her college course load. You're having trouble studying efficiently, you spend so much time at your desk scribbling down ineffective notes that you forget to eat, sleep, and take care of yourself. He's worried about you, his heart aches for his baby girl, so he asks Spencer to start coming over on Saturdays to help you.
It works great. Not only do your grades skyrocket, but your mood does too, no longer sullen from having no free time or sleep schedule. You're back to your old self, maybe even happier now, and Aaron can't hold back the smile on his face as he ascends the stairs, an array of your favorite snacks in hand.
Spencer's inhumanly obsessed with cheez-its, and your own snack of choice is held in his other hand. He thinks the least he can do to thank Spencer is feed the man, seeing as he's so skinny sometimes his snug sweater vests are loose. You swing the door shut during your study sessions, at Aaron's own request, because he couldn't hear the television downstairs over the sound of your chatter. He doesn't think to knock, he's sure the creaking of your door's old hinges will be enough of a sound to break you out of your study stupor.
"Y/N, Spencer, I brought- oh my god."
Your dad's voice nearly goes down a full octave, sending your stomach swirling. He speaks low when he's mad, and watching you scramble out of Spencer's lap and straighten your wrinkled top, you're sure he's livid.
"I- uh, Hotch," Spencer babbles, but you smack the back of his hand to get him to shut up. He runs his fingers through his hair instead, combing out the strands that you'd mussed while licking over his bottom lip.
"Dad!" You chime, "Um- I'm sorry, we- I didn't know you'd come in. We just- we were studying, but then, I- I got distracted, really, it wasn't Spencer's fault, we- I just- I-"
"Stop." Aaron shuts his eyes, snack bags now shoved carelessly onto your bedside table as your dad brings a hand to his face. You're sure this is scarier than any situation Spencer's ever faced before, including aggravated unsubs and near-shootings.
Your dad buries his face in his hand, one large enough to cover his features. It's almost scarier not seeing his stern face; you wonder if his eyes are glowing red.
"Hotch- sir, I'm so sorry." Spencer tries again, and your dad holds up his free hand to silence him. He doesn't need to be told twice, or- thrice, and he closes his mouth.
"How long have you two been doing this?" He asks, muffled by his hand in front of his face.
"Only two weeks. Or- Saturdays, only two days. Just- this time, and, uh, the last time."
"It started last week?"
"Yes." You confirm, nodding even if he can't see.
"Are you studying?"
"Yes." You promise, smoothing out a rumpled study guide and hoping he can't hear it, "Uh- this is our- well, my break."
"Fantastic." Your dad drawls, finally dragging his palm down his face and looking you dead in the eyes. It looks like it almost hurts him to do so, and you feel residual pain in your stomach, churning away again.
"I suppose there are worse people you could be doing that with." He muses carefully, "Though I wish you weren't doing it at all. But you're in college."
"I am," You nod.
"And you're an adult."
"I am."
"And I can't tell you what to do anymore."
You stay silent, not wanting to push your luck.
"Okay. There's nothing I can do," He decides, face still more stoic than when he'd entered, intent on giving you snacks. If he'd had known you'd been eating Spencer's face, he would have saved them for later.
"Don't do it here." He pleads, "At least not while I'm here. And- and while I'm here," He warns, looking at Spencer this time, "This door stays open. Understand?"
"Yes, dad." You nod, and Spencer echoes it with 'sir' as a replacement.
"Study." Aaron narrows his eyes at the both of you, pointedly jamming the door stop beneath the door until it's practically punching a hole through the wall where the knob hits, "If your grades drop again, this is over."
"Yes, dad." You call again, waiting until he storms off down the stairs to even breathe in Spencer's direction.
"Oh my god," Spencer groans, burying his face in his hands, "Oh my god, that was- that was awful."
"He didn't say no!" You point out, grinning at the blushy man beside you, "That went, like, a thousand times better than I was expecting."
"At least I don't have to hide it anymore. Do you know how hard it was for me to pretend I wasn't putting the moves on his daughter while we were in Dallas this past week?"
"I know how hard it was to pretend I wasn't tonguing his agent during dinner last night," You shrug, grinning at Spencer who looks like he's not quite ready to be relieved yet, "No more secrets for either of us, pretty boy."
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Something I noticed is that Jonathan only says "my wife" three times, and two of those are spoken to Mina on the same day, on the form of question-pleading. Must I swear too? Must I read it?
On that note, Mina seems to no longer walk on eggshells for his nerves. She's firm with him, lifting a hand and saying "No! Don't delude me. I am dead." When he tries to bargain against essentially burying her, she says "It would comfort me, my husband." and that's that.
You set me on a spiral because I was gonna say something about how in general Jonathan uses endearments a lot less than Mina, but then I wondered by how much and did a bunch of searching. And now I've compiled a Harker endearments breakdown. At least for the ones I remembered them using.
Couple notes - some form of dear is said by everyone a lot. Van Helsing, Lucy, and Mina especially. For the Harkers, mostly they only say these various terms aloud when comforting the other or in very emotionally fraught moments. The rest of the time it is typically in writing about the other. I only specified the difference between said to/about for my husband/wife but generally most endearments are about the person.
Jonathan -> Mina: 21 total
dear: 10 (dear x2, [described her hand as] the dearest thing in all the wide world, poor dear, the dear girl, her dear cheeks, the poor dear, my dear one, poor dear Mina, my dear Mina)
darling: 6 (my poor darling's brain, my darling x3, my poor wronged darling, my poor darling's white forehead)
wife: 3 (my wife [about her], my wife x2 [to her])
Wilhelmina: 2
Mina -> Jonathan: 62 total
dear: 28 (the dear fellow x3, my dear one, his dear eyes x2, my poor dear x2, his own dear sake, the poor dear x3, dear x5, poor dear, poor poor dear Jonathan, poor dear fellow, Jonathan dear, my dear x2, dearest, dear one, my dearest x2, poor dear dear Jonathan
darling: 4 (my poor darling x2, my darling x2)
husband: 27 (my husband x19 [about him], my husband's great love, my husband x5 [to him], my beloved husband x2)
my Jonathan: 3
There was no real point to this except it's fun to look at. And I like seeing how much Mina loves to talk about her husband. She emphasizes herself as his wife several times too, especially at the beginning.
Sorry, I know this got totally away from what you were talking about. As for that conversation, both Jonathan and Mina are emphasizing their relationship to one another. Him to plead not to do this, her to insist that he is the one wants most to do it. And while she's gentle about it, she's also firm.
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Choosing to Live
Pairing: Gale x Tav (you/reader POV) Summary: Shortly after Gale decides to defy his goddess and not self-destruct in the caverns below Moonrise Towers, you turn and see him struggling with the conflicting emotional fallout of his decision. CW: death, suicidal ideation, panic attacks, survivor's guilt (implied), coercion (implied) A/N: I was inspired by @gangstagandalf's emotional fanart of Gale and Tav just after Moonrise. It's not quite the same scene as their art but I just couldn't resist writing my own angst version. Check them out, their art is lovely! @gangstagandalf I hope you don't mind if I borrowed a few of your lines from your original post! (Pic is of my tav Dani because thatâs all I got) UPDATE: Now on AO3 woooo
You watch as the husk of Ketheric Thorm collapses at your feet, a hollow shell of dessicated flesh and heavy armor. Youâve done it at lastâyouâve defeated the Bone Lordâs Chosen, the first of three enemies who have enslaved an Elder Brain through the power of some sort of crown it bears.Â
At the thought of the crown, you turn your head, seeking out the person who had first pointed out the crown to you. It was the thing that seemed to wake him from his reluctant obedience to his goddessâs command. There had been hunger in his eyes, more than youâd ever seen in him before, and for a brief moment you had thought yourself and him safe from the commands of the goddess of magic and mysteries.
But then heâd steeled himself. Youâd watched as he physically and mentally struggled with the weight of the goddessâs demands, preparing himself for what he thought was inevitable.
Death. Destruction. Catastrophe. But one that would supposedly thwart mass enslavement at the whims of an elder brain and three evil Chosen. A noble sacrifice, but one that would kill dozens of innocent lives, too.
You donât remember what all you said in those panicked seconds between him making his decision and you being dragged into a battle against Ketheric. You recall, vaguely, that you had clutched his robe in your hands and told him you loved him. There had been other words, too, but they were lost to your memory. Whatever it was, it had been enough. Because as of this moment, the elder brain has disappeared, Ketheric is dead, and you are not.
Your eyes find him, your love, your Gale, standing on a far platform where he had climbed to better aim and prepare his spells. He stands, leaning against his staff, panting, staring at the lifeless and inert body of Ketheric at your feet, and then his gaze shifts to you. You, covered in your blood and Kethericâs black, fetid ichor, in bone dust and illithid matter. You probably look horrible, you think. You know you should bend down to examine Kethericâs body and see what the glowing stone in his chest is all about, but you canât look away from your love. Not now.
Not when you were so close to losing him to his goddessâs arbitrary and cold demand.Â
But you didnât. Heâs alive. Heâs alive. The thought pumps outward from your heart, warm and reassuring like the blood rushing through your own veins, reminding you that you too are alive. Your only thoughts now are of closing the distance between the two of you and peppering his face with kisses, telling him how proud you are of him, how brave heâs been, how much you love him. But as you take a step toward his platform, a shift in him gives you pause.
He slowly kneels down, still leaning heavily on his staff, and for a moment you think heâs praying, in the same way Shadowheart kneels to pray to her goddess. But no, his eyes are wide, staring, unfixed, not closed and reverent. After a moment, he sits fully on the ground, his staff falling with a clatter against the surface of the platform, and he buries his face in his hands.
You go to him immediately, using a last rare scrap of magic to misty step directly onto his platform. Heâs shaking with fine, shuddering tremors as you approach, your steps cautious and soft but your heart aching and yearning to rush over. You reach out a hand, your own fingers trembling as they hover suspended above him, and you whisper his name uncertainly.
âGale?â
You hear his voice but his words are muffled by his hands. You bend closer, making out fragments as his words tumble forth in a soft, whispered babble.
âOh gods, oh gods,â he gasps. âI nearlyâI almostâI could haveâthe orb. What have I doneââ
âGale,â you say again, finally kneeling in front of him and laying a hand on his shoulder. He jolts at the touch, stiff and startled by you, but you donât let it deter you. You squeeze his shoulder in what you hope is a reassuring touch, even as the tears threaten to choke you as you watch and feel him tremble. âItâs all right. Weâre safe. My love, youâre safe.â
He lowers his hands, one clenching the fabric of his robe over his chest, his breaths coming shallow and quick. His gaze on you is so different than before, all the warmth and steadiness and gentle, shy uncertainty that came with looking at you replaced with abject horror and unfocused panic. You get the sense he isnât really seeing you, but staring through you to some theoretical what-if nightmare. One where you didnât make it out alive.Â
âI very nearly killed us all,â he mumbles, still clutching his chest. "I nearly killed you."
âBut you didnâtââ
âI was so close toâtoâth-the orb, I could feel it stirring, like it wanted me toââ He breaks off, his hand tightening in the fabric of his robe. The mark of the orb glows faintly, the barest hint of illuminated magic threading upward toward his eye, casting an orchid-purple sheen to his dark iris. He bends forward slightly, combing a hand roughly through his hair and clutching brown and gray strands tightly in his fist, his eyes wide. You half-expect him to be sick as he presses his other hand flat against his chest, breathing heavily. âAnd now Iâve defied my goddess. Iââ
He turns suddenly, sharply, twisting to prop himself up on hands and knees away from you as his body rebels against him and he retches. Very little comes upâhe hasnât been eating well since you first stepped into Moonrise and he found himself faced with the very real possibility of sacrificing his lifeâbut his body shudders and bucks violently as it attempts to dispel everything inside him. Not just the contents of his empty stomach but the fear and loathing and terror too.Â
You donât shy away from him. You shift closer, sitting on your knees at his side as his body settles into little shivers, his hands pressed flat into the surface of the platform. Your eyes are burning with tears now and you want to sob, your heart shattering for this man, your love, your heartâs song, but you have to be strong for him. You smooth his hair from his face, fingers brushing against his sweat-slick skin, and you cradle his feverish cheek in your palm. You say the only words you know to say and you repeat them as many times as you have to before they break through the haze of his clouded mind and resonate within him.
âShh. Youâre safe, my love. Iâm here. Iâm here with you. Iâm not going to let anyone hurt you, my love. You are safe.â
He leans into you and you gather him in your arms, rocking you both gently as he rests his head on your shoulder and wraps his arms around one of your arms. His shoulder is awkwardly pressed into your chest and heâs half-curled into your lap, weighing your knees uncomfortably down into ground, but you donât mind. Discomfort and awkwardness donât matter. What matters is that he is alive and so are you. You remind him of that in words, in your stream of murmured comforts, along with all the rest.Â
It takes several long moments for his breathing to even out again, and another few for him to finally rest against you without an errant shiver wracking his body. But he calms at last. The tears on your face have since dried, but your heart aches no less than before. To think that your love would suffer so for making the right choiceâthe choice to liveâbut to suffer nonetheless out of a sense of guilt and fealty to a goddess that had thrown him aside like a broken toy.
It fills you with an uncommon rage. The gods are ever cruel, but the goddess of magicâyou dare not even give her the honor of her name in your own thoughtsâshe is among the worst in your eyes. Even now, as your love struggles to compose himself, it isnât a goddessâs arms or a goddessâs blessing that are there to comfort him.
The arms that are wrapped around him are your own. The comfort you have to offer is that of warm flesh and soft breath, mortal and precious. And it is betterâbetter, you tell yourself with all the prideful conviction of a mortal soulâthan anything an immortal, unfeeling goddess could offer.
He finally stirs, straightening up to look at you. Or look at your shoulder, rather, unable to meet your gaze. His expression is hollow, sorrowful, but calm. You know the road to him accepting and finding joy in his decision to defy his goddess is not yet over, and the path ahead may still be thorny.
But at least he has the chance to try and walk that path, rather than ending it all here.
"Forgive me," he says softly. He seems to want to say more, but the words don't come easily. You shake your head, not caring what he's trying to apologize for.
"There's nothing to forgive, my love. You made the right choice." You caress his cheek, wiping away the grime and the tear tracks that have collected there. âI love you, Gale.â
He finally meets your gaze and oh, your love, he looks so exhausted. But there is a flicker of his old self still there, a warmth that is familiar in his dark eyes. You press your forehead to his, still caressing his cheek, and close your eyes.Â
Heâs alive. Thatâs all that matters. You can figure out the rest as you go.
âI love you, too,â he whispers.
You have to get out of here, out of this cavern of flesh and stone and brine. You have to face the problems of the world at large, the threat of the elder brain and more. You know that. But you steal a few more moments for yourself, breathing softly with Gale, treasuring every breath as though they were more precious than diamonds.
âââ
You set out to leave the shadow-cursed lands at what you think is dawn the next day. Even with the curse waning, itâs hard to tell the time with the sun still obscured. But the hope is that as the land fades away behind you, youâll be walking forward into sunlight and not more night.
You and Gale walk at the back of your little group, your companions moving on ahead. With each step, the shadow curse lightens. There are hints and signs of new life all around, tiny green leaves fluttering against once-dead branches, thin shoots of grass poking upward from the cold, dry ground. It restores your hope for good things to come. Not just for these lands, but for you. For your love.
Heâs been quiet since the fight against Ketheric. Contemplative. Thoughtful. You had spent the night wrapped in each other's arms, counting his every heartbeat and breath until you were pulled into slumber, suspecting that he had done the same for you. When you woke you both pretended that sleep had cured you of the previous dayâs torments and used the task of breaking up the camp to travel onward as your distraction from your concerns. But you watched him across the camp anyway, a knot of worry in your stomach.
Sometimes, both this morning and in the moments traveling now, you see that hunger in his eyes as you did when he first saw the crown atop the elder brain. But sometimes you just see a lingering sorrow. You havenât been able to bring yourself to ask him about it. Not yet. Itâs enough that heâs here with you, and you trust him to speak to you about what weighs on his heart in his own time. But you still worry.
Just up ahead, the shadow curse seems to fizzle out entirely, like a fog that dissipates as the sun burns it away. Beyond the threshold is sun-warmed landscape. Though scarred by the smoldering and abandoned remains of the Absolute armyâs campfires and shelters, nothing has ever looked so inviting to you before. You rush ahead, eager to feel the sun on your skin again.
The difference in temperature alone is enough to reassure you that the shadow curse is behind you at last. One second you are enveloped in the chill and dimness of the shadows, and the next you are warm and bright in the light of the sun. You pause just a few steps into the sunlight, stretching out your arms and lifting your face toward the sky, drinking in the warmth. At last. You feel as though you can breathe freely again.
You turn to smile at Gale, but he is not at your side. He lingers in the shadows, watching you. The shadow curse is like a sheer black veil between you, obscuring his expression slightly, but as you step closer you realize his eyes are glimmering with unshed tears.
âGale?â
He blinks, as if awakening from the depths of his thoughts, and quickly rubs his eyes. âAhâŚmy apologies. Lost in thought, I suppose.â
You hesitate to leave the warmth of the sun, but you sense this is more important than sunlight. You step onto the threshold of the curse, reaching out a hand to him. You want to pull him out of the shadows and into the light with you. He stares at your hand a moment before taking it, but he doesnât move. Like he isnât ready yet.Â
âTell me whatâs on your mind, my love,â you say gently. âTell me how I can help.â
He opens his mouth to respond, but for the first time, words seem to utterly fail him. He swallows, gazing at you with a stricken expression, and tightens his hold on your hand.
âItâs simplyâŚI amâŚin awe,â he says at last. âOf you. And I am mortified with myself. No, more than mortified. I nearlyâŚâ
You sense the flow of his thoughts instantly, your minds connecting via the tadpole, his thoughts unconsciously opening up to you. At first he resists, his mind shutting down like a trap to spare you, but then the shields waver and fall away, and you are pulled into his memories. You feel the struggle within him as he stares at the elder brain. You feel the heat and pain of the orb inside, as if reminding him of his purpose. You see yourself through his gaze, the fear and love warring in your expression as you beg him not to go through with his sacrifice. You feel the moment he makes his decision, his resolve hardening like steel in flame, only to shatter, brittle and broken, the moment the brain disappears, the pieces transforming into needles of doubt that bury themselves in his psyche, his heart, his body.
As the familiar, terrifying sight of the colossal avatar of Myrkul rises into your vision once more, for one fleeting moment, you sense the desperate desire to end it all now, to end the storm of uncertainty in your mind, the pain of the orb, the fear of disobedience, the exhaustion of facing another battle with impossible odds. For one fleeting moment, you consider letting go and letting the orb obliterate you and everything around you.
And then the connection ends, and you are left standing at the threshold of the shadows with Galeâs hand in yours.
âI nearly killed us all with one rash thought,â he murmurs quietly. âThe thought of my sacrifice never left my mind, even as I swore to you I wouldnât go through with it.â
He takes a shuddering breath and a tear drips down his cheek. You catch it with your fingertips as you cradle his face with your free hand, your heart breaking for him all over again. His tears prompt your own and you struggle to hold them back, for his sake.
âAnd now,â he says, his voice altered, thick with tears. He swallows. âAnd now I see what I fool I was to doubt. To doubt you and your wisdom. To wish for death so quickly.âÂ
He meets your gaze and you see a thousand words he hasnât said yet there in his brown eyes. A hundred apologies, a hundred ways to beg forgiveness, a hundred confessions of love, a hundred praises, all about and for you. Itâs a torrent of love and longing and guilt in his eyes and your knees nearly buckle at the sight of it.
âI would have condemned the brightest of stars to death,â he says. âI would have robbed the world of its greatest treasure. And for what?â
âOh, Gale,â you whisper. You abandon the sunlight to join him in the shadows and embrace him, holding him tightly as he struggles to regain his composure. âNo more. You made the right decision. Youâre here with me. Iâm here with you. Weâre alive, my love, because of you.â
âBut I could haveââ
âBut you didnât.â You pull back to cradle his face in both your hands and wait until heâs looking you full in the face. You want him to see your own resolve, but also your love, your faith in him, your pride for him. âYou chose to live, my love. That is the most important thing. That is all that matters right now.â
He stares at you, letting your words sink in, until at last he smiles. Though itâs still tinged with sadness and guilt, itâs genuine. It soothes your spirit and settles some of your worries.Â
âI donât deserve you, you know.â
You shake your head. This isnât about deserving, but you know thatâs a battle you wonât win here. Instead you kiss him, your lips soft against his, and you let that suffice for words for a moment.
When you finally pull away, he seems a little restored. The love is back in his eyes and his smile isnât weighed down as it was before.
âI love you,â you say.
âAnd I love you,â he responds. âImmensely. More than I scarce dreamed I could love anyone.â
âWe will find another way to deal with the brain and quiet the orb inside you. Some way that keeps us both alive and together. I swear it.â
âI believe you.â There isn't a trace of uncertainty in his voice when he says it. âI want that more than anything.â
âWant what?â
âTo live. With you. To see the dawn of a new day with you, the dawns of a thousand more days. To know that the road ahead, whatever it holds, won't be spent alone, because I'll have you by my side.â He pauses, as if a thought is only just now coming to him. âI can...I can have that hope, now. Thanks to you.â
You smile. You take both of his hands in yours and step back, placing yourself once more on the threshold between shadows and sun. âThen will you join me in the sunlight?â
He looks at you, then at the sunlit road beyond, and then back at you. He nods, letting go of one of your hands but tightening his hold on the other. âYes. Iâd love to.â
Without another word, he keeps his hand in yours as you lead him forward step by step.
Away from the darkness and into the light.
#bg3#bg3 fix#my fic#gale#gale dekarios#gale of waterdeep#angst fic#kinda#gale x tav#gale x reader#i don't normally write you/reader pov fic so#hopefully i did okay#please check out the art that inspired this
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Sweet Dream
The Sandman AU
Her father means to summon and capture Death, but ends up with the wrong sibling. She becomes fascinated with their prisoner // Main Masterlist
Dream!Aemond x unnamed female character
Warnings: 18+, spells n shit, mild gore, death, lowkey Lima syndrome, smut
Words: 8000
A/n: For my fellow Morpheus and Aemond lovers. Also available to read on AO3.
Roderick Burgess had always been a terrifying man. In grief he has only become more irritable and less predictable.Â
The telegram came in the early days of July. She delivered the news to Roderick herself, while he was in his study. Her father did not like to be disturbed and he might have beaten her to remind her of the fact, until those fateful words slipped from her mouth. âRandallâs dead.â Shot down by a German machine gun at the Somme. In the end he had been one of thousands, his body buried in a neat line of tombstones somewhere in France, his name engraved on a plaque in the church at Wych Cross, ultimately unremarkable and indistinguishable from the other men and boys who had lost their lives.
But it was not so for Roderick. He let out a sudden groan and clutched his chest as though his pain was tangible and terrible. He shed no tearsâ of course he didnât, but he gritted his teeth, crying out in fury as he dashed his hands over his desk, sending papers, books, fountain pens and empty whisky glasses tumbling to the floor.Â
She stood frozen, waiting for his hand to descend on her for being the one to tell him, but it didnât.
When they held a memorial service for him, Roderick handed her a piece of paper, to read before the crowd of faces she didnât recognise.Â
âRandall was our familyâs happiness. He was the bravest, the wisest, and kindest older brother I could possibly dream of having.â Her hands and voice trembled as she read because she knew it was all a lie. In truth, Randall was like their father. They had the same short temper, the same stubbornness and the same cruelty.Â
But Randall being dead meant she could reinvent him.
Lately, she dreams of happier memories and looks back on them fondly, knowing they can never be contradicted or disproved.Â
While her father has dreamt of Death ever since.Â
Itâs a brisk afternoon in October when a man in a suit, bow tie and bowler hat arrives at Fawny Rig. He clutches a leather briefcase in front of him and introduces himself as Dr John Hathaway, a curator from the Royal Museum, travelled all the way from London to this quiet corner of East Sussex. She leads him through the panelled halls of the manor, to her fatherâs study.
Roderick barges in behind them, in a shirt and waistcoat, already smelling faintly of whisky and waving his cane in her general direction. âTea for our guest,â he orders.
She has the pot ready and strains the dark, reddish liquid into two delicate china cups while her father and Dr Hathaway settle on opposing leather sofas in the centre of the room.
âI take it you have reconsidered?â Roderick says.
âAfter our meeting at the museum⌠I know what I said, butââ Dr Hathaway takes an unsure breath. âI received a telegram this morning. My son, Edmund, his destroyer was sunk last week off Jutland.â
Itâs a loss Roderick can share, even if he doesnât really understand how other than a few quick words of condolence. âI lost my son, Randall last year. He was my greatest joy.â
She pauses as she reaches for the sugar bowl. She has never been under the illusion that her own existence has given her father any joy, but then what sort of person would she have to be to earn his respect? She places the sugar on a tray, along with the small jug of milk and the cups, and brings them to the small table between the sofas. The pair donât spare her a word of thanks or even a brief glance.
Dr Hathawayâs hand lingers on the clasp of his case. âIf I give you this, could you truly do it? Could you reallyââ
âCapture the angel of Death?â Roderick says. âI believe I could.â
She shudders unexpectedly. The old groundskeeper used to say a sudden chill meant someone was walking over your grave.
Dr Hathaway clicks open the clasp and takes out an aged, leather bound book. It has no title on the cover, just gold markings in square, geometric patterns.Â
âThe Magdalene Grimoire,â her father mutters, his eyes wide in an ominous sort of wonder. âWith the spells recorded in the book, we will see our sons returned to us.â
The next night is a full moon. She stands by the door with Sykes, welcoming men and women dressed in midnight blue robes to the manor and directing them towards the door that leads to the cellar. Theyâre all part of Roderickâs âOrder of Ancient Mysteriesâ which as far as she can tell is a cult of fanatics who still believe in witchcraft. They come to Fawny Rig once a month, to listen to her father read from so-called âspell booksâ as though he is a preacher.
The fanatics pull hoods over their heads and descend the narrow stone steps into the cellar with lit candles grasped in their hands. Roderick leads the way, the book Dr Hathaway gave him tucked under his arm.Â
She shoots Sykes a concerned frown but he just shrugs. Heâs paid to organise the household and guard Burgessâ collection of relics, not to ask questions. Questions are a dangerous game with Roderick.
She trails after them and shuts the iron lock on the door behind her.
The cellar is more like a crypt, an expansive room sprawling under the house, held up by pillars and arches. In the low candlelight she makes out a set of markings on the floor in the heart of the room and this is where the Order of Ancient Mysteries gathers.
The shapes and symbols are unfamiliar to her, painted onto the flagstones, twisting and curling over each other to form a circle. Roderick stands at the very edge of it by a brass lectern.
She watches, half hidden behind a pillar as they stand around the circle and Roderick opens the book, his desired page already marked and studied in the hours since it has been in his possession.Â
âTonight,â her father says to his congregation, âwe will achieve what no one before us has attempted. We will summon and imprison Death.â
His eyes meet hers through the shadowy space, heavy and sunken with age, grief and months worth of sleepless nights. They glisten slightly too.Â
He holds his hands out and looks down at the markings on the floor. âHere, in the darkness.â
The others echo his words, softly and melodically at first. Here in the darkness. Here in the darkness.
And so the ritual begins.
âI give you a coin made from a stone,â Roderick says, presenting the object to the ceiling as though the eyes of God are looking down from the heavens, through the house and the earth, and drops it to the floor, inside the circle of markings.
âI give you a knife from under the hills.â He holds up a thin blade and lifts his other arm so the sleeve of his robe drops to his elbow. âI give you the blood from out of my vein.â
She winces but does not look away as he draws the knife along the skin of his forearm, until dark droplets begin to fall and stain the markings.Â
âI give you a song I stole from the dirt and I give you a feather,â he says, raising a white feather that almost seems to glow through the gloom, âpulled from an angelâs wing.â
And all the while the voices persist. Here in the darkness. Here in the darkness.
He drops the feather and it drifts gently down, landing in the very heart of the circle.Â
The room is still and she holds her breath.
The feather starts to move. It twists in a circle and floats up, lurching and turning as though itâs being blown about by a breeze she cannot feel or hear.
The voices raise to an urgent chant. Here in the darkness. Here in the darkness.
She clenches her fingertips against the stone of the pillar. She tries to meet her fatherâs eye again but he is fixated on the feather flying above their heads.
He calls over the chanting, âI summon you with poison,â and the moment he does the feather flickers like the striking of a match. âI summon you with pain! I open the way! I open the gates! I summon you in the name of the old Lords, we summon you together! Come!â
A noise, like a cracking whip splits her ears. The feather bursts into white and golden flames like the flash of a camera. The heat of it rushes over her face and burns her eyes.
And from the flames a body falls to the floor.
It thuds as it hits the ground, silencing the voices save for a few gasps and murmurs. She feels the flagstones rumble under her feet, sees the edges of a black cloak spilling across the floor and a head of long silver hair trailing from its head.
This isnât an illusion. Roderick Burgess has brought forth a tangible entity, plucked from God-knows-where, lying motionless on the floor. For a moment she wonders if he is dead, until she sees a slight movement in his chest, but even then she fears she could be imagining it.
She takes a few unsure steps to where Roderick stands and the manâ he is a man as far as she can tellâ is further revealed to her. She can see his face now, his pale skin, the angles of his jaw and cheeks, the curve of his lips, but beyond that she finds herself unable to look away from the jewel that sits where his left eye should be. It is a bright, deep shade of blue and dotted with silver specs, like the vast expanse of twilight when the stars are out but the sky is not quite black. The eye is framed by twisted, red flesh and a scar, slicing from his brow to his cheek. It takes her a moment to realise his other eye, closer to the ground, is closed.Â
The only other parts of him she can see are the tips of his fingers, clasped around a small pouch.
âIs this⌠Death?â she utters.
âThat remains to be seen,â Roderick says. He points to the pouch. âGet that for me.â
She stares back at her father. How he can speak so flippantly when a man has been conjured, seemingly from thin air, is beyond her. But he glares back, his dark expression only more formidable with his aged frown.
So she steps forward and begins to lower herself beside the man.
âCareful, girl!â Roderick barks, âdonât break the binding circle.â
She stops and looks down, where her skirt is inches from brushing over the markings on the floor. She shuffles back and, with trembling fingers, reaches for the pouch. Itâs not hard to take, the man hardly resists, twitching his fingers to keep it in his grasp. It feels wrong, stealing from someone too weak to hold onto what is his.
She looks into the jewel-like eye. Can he see through it? Perhaps it has something to do with the scar? Did he place it there himself, or was he simply made this way?
Someone snatches the pouch from her. She looks up at her father as he undoes the strings and peers inside. âSand,â he mutters, and stows it away inside his robes.
âAnd the jewel,â he says to her.
She means to protest, but finds she cannot.
She avoids the markings as she leans forwards. She presses her fingertips beside the manâs eye. His skin is cold and firm.
She swallows her guilt and the nauseous feeling in her throat, nudging her fingertips into the socket. It takes her a few attempts, but she pries the jewel free, wincing when she feels it come loose. If he feels any pain he hardly shows it. His brow furrows but his other eye remains closed, and he makes no sound.
She stands and offers the jewel to her father.
Roderick holds it to the light of one of the candles, giving a curious hum before he pockets that too.
âMove,â he mutters to her, pushing her out of his way as he stands over the man. He tugs on the black cloak and it falls into fragments that fade away, like dust on a breeze. The manâs body is bare, pale skin running over details of muscle and bone. He shivers and twitches like he has a fever, but still he does not speak, or even let out a breath.
âWeâll let our guest recover,â Roderick says, âand then we shall make our demands.
They leave him there for days. He does not move, or ask for food or water.
She doesnât dream in the nights since they captured their âguestâ. In fact she hardly sleeps at all. Each morning she wakes, already exhausted, having felt like sheâs only closed her eyes for a few brief moments.
Then come the stories in the newspapers. They call it âthe sleeping sicknessâ. People all over the country, and in fact the world, have been plagued, either to not sleep at all or never wake up.
On a cold, drizzly morning, a stranger appears at the door to the manor.
She listens and watches from the top of the stairs, crouching by the bannister to stay out of sight as a man with choppy silver hair and pale skin strides into the entrance hall, with Roderick following closely behind.
âDo I know you?â her father asks, furiously.
âNo.â The strangerâs voice is low and almost seductive. âBut I know all about you, Roderick Burgess, and the being trapped in your basement.â
âYou mean to intimidate me?â
She sees a flash of a grin and a pair of pale purple eyes through the wooden balusters.
âI am here to help you,â the stranger says. âThere are benefits to keeping one of the Targaryens in your confinement.â
âTargaryens?â her father echoes.
âDid you think Death was the only one of her kind? Death has family. Destiny, Despair, DesireâŚâ
âAnd who have I got?â
âDream,â the stranger says with a smile that bares his teeth.
A shiver runs over her shoulders. She keeps her jaw tight to stop herself from reacting to it.
Roderick scoffs. âWhat good is a God who governs dreams?â
The stranger's voice darkens. âThere was a saying in the ancient times of humanity, that said the Targaryens are closer to Gods than men. But they are not Gods. They are more than Gods. They are Endless.â
He tells Roderick of Dreamâs vestments, the pouch of sand and his sapphire, both of which he says Roderick may manipulate for his own influences. He says the binding circle will not be enough to contain their prisoner, that they must construct a sphere of glass within the circle.
Most crucially of all, he says no one must be allowed to fall asleep in Dreamâs presence.
âWhy are you helping me?â Roderick finally asks.
The stranger runs his tongue over his teeth and smiles to himself. âLittle family dispute, I shanât bore you with the details. But for your sake, and for mine, he must not escape.â
He offers his hand to Roderick, who returns the gesture after a moment of hesitation.
Before he heads for the door, the strangerâs eyes trail up to where she hides. Her heart leaps with a sense of dread, like sheâs seen something she wasnât meant to.Â
She doesnât trust him, not by the look or sound of him, but her father does. He follows the strangerâs instructions, ordering the construction of the glass sphere, to be welded around their prisoner as it is made. Finally, he arranges a rota of guards to keep watch over him, under strict orders to never fall asleep, lest their prisoner escape into their dreams.
The details of his face are etched into her memory, even after months, the angle of his jaw, the curve of his upper lip, the silver falling over his shoulders. If she could dream, she is sure she would dream of him. Instead she holds onto the flashes of images that appear before her waking eyes, the pale skin of his bare body against the floor, the stars in his sapphire eye, now kept locked away in her fatherâs study.
She knows Roderick has tried to bargain with him, and each time he returns from the cellar more furious than when he entered it. âHe will not speak a word!â his voice bellows through the quiet halls of the manor. âHe will not even look at me!â
When she dares to ask questions, Roderick glares at her and tightens the grip on his cane.
The stranger with silver hair was right about something, wealth and admiration have come to Roderick Burgess in droves since he acquired the Lord of Dreams. Itâs something about the sapphire, or the sand, something she doesnât understand, but their family comes across good fortunes, which is almost entirely spent on lavish parties to entertain Roderickâs ever expanding crowd of admirers.
She wakes with the sunrise, from a void and dreamless sleep. The manor is littered with empty bottles, full ashtrays, plates of half-eaten food, odd shoes and playing cards. Her father must still be asleep, which is odd. He is usually an early riser, even after a night of drinking.
A rumbling in her stomach has her heading through the entrance hall towards the kitchen, but she stops when she sees two men waiting by the door to the cellarâ two of the guards her father has hired to watch the prisoner, dressed in smart suits with service revolvers just poking out of their jackets. They look restless, peering their heads round corners, shifting their weight on their legs, not wanting to step too far from the door.
âWe canât just leave,â one mutters to the other.
âIâm not staying down there with that⌠thing one second longer than I have toââ
âGood morning,â she calls.
They look at her in unison, and frown.
âHave you seen Noel and Mauirce?â one of the men asks. âTheyâre nearly half an hour late.â
The rotation of the guards. They take eight hour shifts in pairs.
Her eyes glance to the cellar door, opened only a fraction. âI could watch him until they get here,â she says, âif you want to leave.â
It doesnât take them long to agree.
They leave through the front door. When she hears it shut, she finally lets herself reach for the handle to the cellar door. The handle is cold, untouched for hours at a time, and a little stiff. She pushes on it slowly, carefully, making as little noise as possible.Â
With the cellar door closed, she shuts out the light and warmth of the morning. A silent, icy draft drifts through the narrow stairway. She follows it down, all the way to the dull, eerie light of the main chamber.
The sight takes her breath away, the glass sphere, suspended above the ground, still within the circle of markings that keep his power contained.
He sits in the centre, still bare, his knees tucked into his chest and his hair falling around his face like a veil.
As far she knows, no food or water ever passes the threshold to the cellar, and the cage is never opened. How does he breathe? How does he eat? How does he not wither away? He just sits there, stoic, his face frozen in time like a statue, like the image of a god cut from marble, to be preserved and admired.
A man like that cannot be real, and yet there he is.
âHello,â she says.Â
He does not react to her voice or the sound of her footsteps as she walks further into the chamber.
If he can even hear her. She wonders how thick the glass is, if sound can permeate it, or does he just hear the sound of his own breath echoed back to him, endlessly.
She comes to lean against one of the pillars, tracing her fingertips down the cold, rough surface of the stone.
âAre you really the Lord of dreams?â she says.Â
His gaze lifts and turns to her, just enough that she can see his chin, his nose, and a single violet eye. It is not like the strangerâs, it is far more vibrate, burning with with a silent fury that makes her heart flutter and her skin feel tight.
âI have not dreamt since that night.â
She knows it isnât just her. Itâs the sleeping sickness, the war, the cloud of darkness looming over the rest of the world.
âThe groundskeeper has a son, heâs only ten years old. Heâs been asleep for months now. He canât even eat. If he doesnât wake up, heâll die.â
He does not react, but his eye follows her as she takes a single step away from the pillar, towards the sphere.
âThis is my fatherâsâ our doing, yes?â
Her eyes dip to his chest, to the movement of his lungs underneath skin and muscle, a steady rise and fall with a deep, patient breath.Â
âMy father is a reasonable man, if you could give him something, anything, I am sure he would let you out.â
He tilts his head, until she can just see the point of his scar on his cheek and the edge of his empty eye socket.
He is simultaneously the most terrifying and most beautiful thing she has ever laid eyes upon. The low light only accentuates the harsh angles in his face, the ridges and lines in the muscles and tendons of his neck, torso, arms and legs.
She takes another step closer. âI would let you out, if I could,â she says quietly, like a secret.
He blinks softly, and when her eyes flicker to his lips she sees them curled into something almost like a smile, but not quite.Â
âOh you would, would you?â
Her blood runs cold at the sound of her fatherâs voice. She whips her head around just in time to see Roderick marching towards her with his hand reaching out. His fist grips at her hair, and when she yelps in pain he hisses at her to be quiet. He drags her back up the steps, away from the cold cellar, to the warmth and the light, to the world without dreams.
She bathes before dinner, wincing as she runs her hands over the fresh bruises that mark her skin. Most of them are red, others are set deep and already turning a greyish purple.Â
Her fatherâs fury still rings in her ears. âStupid girl! If he escapes he will slaughter us all!â
Leaning on her back is especially painful, itâs where her body took the brunt of his cane. She brings her knees into her chest, hunching over herself.
She hasnât cried over her fatherâs cruelty in years, not since she was a small child. Heâd always call her weak for it. Randall never cried when he was disciplined, because he knew, deep down, it was good for him. Perhaps she is simply not as strong as Randall was.
Her tears are hot and stinging in her eyes. She blinks and lets them fall onto her knees, to become the dew that lingers on her skin.
âDo you want to die, girl? Because it can be easily remedied!â
She doesnât wear anything special, a white satin dress, with long, billowy sleeves, and applies some rouge to her cheeks, to make her seem more awake, more alive.
She reaches the bottom of the staircase as the clock in the entrance hall starts to chime. Five times. Marking the start of another shift rotation.Â
Two men appear from the hall that leads from the cellar, vaguely nodding as they pass her.
She can see into the dining room from the stairs, an enormous table set with silver cutlery and china plates, for just two of them.
The door to her fatherâs study is closed, obstructing the voices within. Heâs arguing with someone.Â
Before she can stop herself, sheâs walking towards the cellar. She tries the handle to find it unlocked. With one final look to the door to the study, she descends back into the darkness.
Two guards sit on wooden chairs by the entrance from the stairway, and immediately stand to attention as she walks into the chamber.
âMiss,â one of them calls, âyou cannot be here.â
And she seems to have caught his attention too. He looks up from where he sits in the sphere, his forearm resting on his knee. His hair is pushed from his face, and his violet eye is wide, curious.
âThis is my fatherâs house, I will go where I please,â she says, shakily, continuing until she comes face to face with the glass.
He stares at her, somewhat furious, but in a way she knows it is not meant for her.
The men behind her are muttering to each other, she doesnât hear their words, but she hears their panic.
âIt isnât right for him to keep you here,â she says. âIt isnât right for him to think he can play with mortality. And I am as bad as he is for letting this happen.â
The tendons of his hand flex as he clenches his fist, his fingers restless as he stares at her, intently.
âIf I let you out,â she whispers, âwould you harm me?â
His face softens as his eye moves over her face.Â
Heâs studying her, she realises. She imagines him noting the curves of her cheeks and chin, the shape of her mouth, perhaps the faint teartracks and the dark circles under her eyes.
What does he make of her, the daughter of his captor, the one who pried the sapphire from his eye? Roderick could be right, he might slaughter her the moment he is free from his cage.Â
âI would like to believe that you wouldnât,â she says.
His expression gives nothing away.
Suddenly he shifts. His muscles tense as he comes to his feet and uncurls his spine to stand before her. Something about his movements are distinctly inhuman.
The guards behind her are shouting now, telling her to step away, calling for Mr Burgess. Their voices are inconsequential to her, muffled as though spoken behind a closed door. Her heart pounds in her ears. All she sees is him, the intense gaze of his eye, a wide palm reaching out and pressing against the glass.
She reaches up slowly, his eye growing wider with every inch she comes closer to touching the glass that separates them, but not quite meeting it.
His brow furrows as if to question her. Why are you hesitating? What are you afraid of?
She wonât be dragged upstairs again. She wonât be thrown to the floor with nowhere else to go. She will not suffer at the hands of Roderick Burgess any longer.
So she presses her hand to the glass.
Her skin is feverishly cold, her arms weightless. She can almost feel the shape of his palm through the glass, but not quite, like she is reaching for something she will never touch, clawing to the memory of a dream.
She can feel herself slipping into numbness, her eyes and her limbs becoming heavy. She presses her fingernails against the glass, silently pleading though she doesnât know what for. An escape? An end? Anything.
His face is strangely gentle as he pouts his lips, hushing her, lulling her panic. She can feel her breathing and her heartbeat slowing, but it does not frighten her.
The glass shatters, her knees give way. She is awake enough to know she is falling, but too far gone to stop herself.
But she does not need to.
The world around her is silentâ no, a gentle breeze drifts over her skin and whispers in her ear. Sunlight beams onto one side of her face and the other rests against bare skin. She feels a weight around her waist, something propping her body upright.
She tries to steady herself but the ground shifts beneath her. The arms around her only tighten their grip when she stumbles.
Finally she lets her eyes flutter open. They are in a desert, a vast expanse of dry sand, reaching as far as the eye can see.
Her head is moving with his breath, against his chest.
She tilts her gaze up, close enough that her lips barely brush over the base of his throat.
His eye is already fixed on her, holding her firmly in his arms, pulling her into him.
Wordlessly, he releases one arm from her waist, and reaches down, keeping his eye on her face. When he brings himself back up, she looks at his closed fist, where sand slips from between his fingers.Â
Her confusion must be visible on her face because he smiles softly at her, letting out a low âhmmâ as he does.
She means to blink, but when she opens her eyes the world has changed again.
She lies face down against the ground of the cellar, dust and dirt pressing into her cheek, broken glass littering the floor around her.
She blinks again through the haze of sleep still clouding her vision. She makes out a figure in a long black coat with silver hair falling down his back. He stands over two bodies, lying lifeless on the ground, and stalks towards another.
Roderick is at the base of the stairs. He raises his cane and cries out as the prisoner reaches into his coat.
Her fatherâs voice fades into a spluttering, retching sound. Then he is silent. His body slumps to the floor with a gut-wrenching thud. When the stranger walks away, she sees her father sprawled out on the floor, blood spurting from his throat, seeping into his shirt, pooling on the floor around him.
She pushes herself up, leaning on her hands as her vision is blocked once again by a black coat. He stands over her, blood dripping from a knife he holds in his hand, his eye a brighter shade of violet than it was before.
He kneels beside her, taking her chin in his fingertips.
âAre you hurt?â he says. His voice is a hypnotic blend of soft and harsh, low and light, chilling in a way that sends a wave of warmth through her stomach.
She looks past his shoulder, where Roderickâs skin is turning from white to grey. âWhat did you do to my father?â she utters.
He jerks her head back to him. His expression is dark, lips upturned into a sneer.
Does he expect her to be grateful?
âMy tools,â he says.
âYouâre⌠what?â
âMy tools. The sapphire and the pouch.â
The items that were stolen from him, that her father has now paid for with blood.
âAre you going to kill me too?â she says, digging her fingertips into the stone and the shards of glass beneath her.
He tilts his head and his lips twitch in a flicker of movement. His voice is barely above a whisper. âTell me where they are. I will not harm you.â
Three men lay dead mere feet from them, and yet she finds herself wanting to trust him.
He offers her his arm as she stands, gripping at the thick, leather sleeve. Her palms are covered in small cuts from the glass, droplets of bright red blood pearling at the edges. He takes her wrists in his hands to have a look and tuts to himself.
âQuickly,â he says, moving towards the steps, leading her along with him, past the bodies of the guards, and the body of her father.
She brings him to the study, her hands shaking, bloody and outstretched before her. The door is wide open, a stack of papers thrown carelessly to the floor.
Roderickâs safe sits in a black cabinet in the corner of the room. She uses her fingertips to open it, wincing at the pieces of glass still stuck in her skin, but she swallows down the pain.
She guesses the combination on the first try. 1895â Randallâs birth year.
There, in the centre shelf, above the Grimoire, below a stack of banknotes, is the pouch of sand and the sapphire.
He reaches for the gem first. She turns away as he fixes it back into his socket, remembering the weight of it in her palm when she took it from him. She sees him reach forward again, but not for the pouch. He takes a hold of her wrists.
With no magic words or spells, he waves a hand over her palms. For a moment she sees a glow in his sapphire eye. The pain vanishes, so does the blood, the glass and the dirt.Â
She blinks a few effortless tears from her eyes. Tears for her father, tears of relief, she cannot place a cause.
Cold fingertips meet her skin once more, as the Lord of Dreams wipes her tears away, bringing her gaze to meet his.
He leans in closer, until his forehead meets hers. âSleep,â he whispers.
She falls into him, to find herself wide awake, clinging onto him as she had done in the desert.
But they are somewhere else entirely. The sky above them is a pale yellow, like daybreak, painted with swirling grey clouds. The land here is⌠dead. Dead trees, barren mountains and hills, and in the distance, beyond a dried lake, is a castle of red brick, decrepit, falling into ruin.
âYou see the damage that has been done to my realm?â he says. With her ear pressed against his chest, his voice is cavernous and she feels everything, the way his words drag through his throat. She feels his pain at being confined, the loss of his home and his creations.
âIâm sorry,â she says.
âI do not forgive easily, that is why Roderick Burgess had to die. But youâŚâ he pulls away from her so he might look at her properly, cupping the sides of her face and swiping his thumbs over her cheeks. âI do not need an apology from you. We are free of him now.â
âIs that what you think I wanted?âÂ
He hums with tight lips. âI have seen your dreams, as I see the dreams of every mortal. I see them as clearly as you perceive the waking world. It just so happened that our dreams coincided.â
She had never dreamt of her fatherâs death and she had certainly never imagined that she might have played a part in it. But she cannot deny the weight now lifted from her shoulders. She will never have to earn his approval, she will never have to endure him again. She is free of him.
âGo now,â he says, âI am sure you have your own business to resolve.â
He releases his hold of her and brings his hands behind his back. As he walks towards the castle the world around her starts to fade. She can smell the musk of the manor, the lingering smoke of her fatherâs cigars, the distinct scent of a winter evening.
âWait!â she calls.
The ends of his coat swish around his legs as he turns back to face her. âYes?â he says, the corners of his mouth curling up into a small smile.
âI want to know your name.â
âI have had many names,â he says.
âAnd how would you have me know you?â
âAemond,â he says.
She echoes his name, letting her mouth linger on the final syllable. âWill I see you again?â
He draws the tip of his tongue between his lips. âPerhaps,â he says.
When she wakes she is laid out on one of the leather sofas of her fatherâs study. She looks down at her hands, traces her fingertips down her face, now free of the dirt and dust.Â
She wonders if she might have dreamt all of it, the beautiful man in the sphere, the glass breaking, her fatherâs blood on the floorâŚ
Her life is never the same after that. With her father dead, his estate passes to her. For the first time, her life is hers to do with as she pleases.
And yet she feels an absence, a hollow longing in her chest.
Her dreams come back to her since she set him free, and each night she dreams of him.
He only appears in brief moments, like lighting, bright and brilliant, but gone in a heartbeat, before she can truly see him. She sees the movement of a leather coat, flashes of silver, violet and sapphire blue. Sometimes she is met with darkness as a pair of lips ghosts over her neck with a contented sigh and a warm breath.
She cannot bear it.
As she lies in the empty manor house, she traces her fingers over her body, her lips, down her neck and her chest, underneath her cotton nightgown, to her navel and the pool of wanting wetness between her legs, trying to imagine they are his.Â
She pictures the way his hair fell around his face, the coldness of his skin, the curve of his lips. She imagines them parting in a small sigh, the sound of his breath, the way his chest hummed as she circles over her bundle of nerves. Pleasure sparks at first but it keeps slipping from her grasp.
She circles faster, harder, searching for a spot that will finally give her the release she craves.
She feels heat and a sheen of sweat settling on the surface of her skin, her breathing hitches, her hips twitch under her touches. The pleasure heightens, then fades.
With her eyes tightly shut, she spurs herself on with thoughts of him, breathlessly chanting his name into the empty space and cold air of her bedroom.
âAemond⌠AemondâŚâ
Something changes.
The mattress shifts beneath her and a weight presses against her body, her legs, her stomach, her chest.
A hand clasps around hers, ceasing her movements, and bringing it to rest by her side.
She laments the loss of the friction against her bud, her pleasure pulled away from her, but in its place anticipation blooms within her.
When she opens her eyes he is above her, against her, hovering his face over hers so that all she sees are his eyes, one violet, one sapphire.
âYou have my attention,â he says in a soft but unsettling voice.
A thrill ripples through her body.
She whispers his name on an exhale of breath, running her fingertips over his arms, tense and toned as his props himself over her.Â
But she is somewhat dazed, her senses numbed by fatigue and the echo of the pleasure she had been chasing.
âIs this real?â she utters.
Aemond leans further into her. She feels a weight between her hips and an unmistakable hardness prodding at her centre as he brings his lips to her neck, pressing a slow, teasing kiss against a sensitive spot of skin that has her body tensing and her fingers digging into his shoulders.
âDoes if feel real?â he whispers against her skin.
How much has he truly seen of her dreams, her desires, she wonders? Perhaps she should feel some kind of shame, but she cannot, not when she is on the precipice of something bright, beautiful and damning. She can hardly stand being on the edge of it, having him so close but not close enough.
She wraps her arms around his neck as he teases her with his lips, crosses her legs around his hips, meeting his movements as he torturously grinds his hardening cock against her cunt, dripping with arousal, twitching and clenching around nothing at the anticipation.
âNeedy little thing,â he mutters, dragging his nose along her neck as he comes to kiss the hollow of her throat.
His voice sends a shockwave through her body. Her hips buck against his, determined for relief as her fingers thread through the soft strands of his hair, and tug.Â
He lets out a quiet growl against her skin. A hand rests upon her thigh and trails up, bunching the hem of her nightgown to her waist and adjusting the other side.Â
He sits back, watching her with the same darkness and intensity as when he was trapped inside the cage, intrigued at the least, fascinated if she is presumptive.Â
The irony of being laid half bare before him and at his mercy does not escape her.
âIâve heard you crying out for me, little mortal,â he says.Â
âYou said you can see my dreams,â she says, âhow?â
âYour dreams exist in my realm,â he says, âin The Dreaming. I see your dreams as I see the dreams of every other being. I feel them, as clearly as you perceive the waking world. But youâŚâ he muses, settling his hands on either side of her waist. âYou are incessant.â
She shivers and writhes under his touch, a pulsing heat settling within her.
She traces her hands over his, where they grip at her waist, along his smooth skin, the tendons and veins. His fingers are long and lithe. She knows they would feel so perfect, wrapped around her throat, stroking over her skin, pushing inside of her wet heat to coax her pleasure.
Aemond smiles to himself as though he can hear her thoughts.
He grips harder into her flesh and pulls his hips back, only to let his cock slide over her slick folds with teasingly gentle thrusts.
Every stroke pushes her closer and closer to the edge, but not enough to find release. She feels the frustrating want pulsing through her body, the coil getting tighter and tighter, her cunt clenching over nothing.
âAemondâŚâ she says with a breathless mewl, âpleaseâŚâ
âYou really want it, donât you?â Aemond growls, resting his forehead against hers. âJust feel how wet that empty little cunt is for me.â
Her eyes trail along the angles of his face, the line of his scar, the night sky in his eyes as he stares down at her, the gentle curve of his lips and how they settle into a soft expression.Â
Her gaze slips further down, over his throat, his collar, his pale, bare chest, the ridges of the muscles on his abdomen, the slight dip in his waist, the trail of silver hair to his cock, long, hard and flushed with need, transfixed by the way it moves against her.
She holds her breath each time he withdraws, stifling her whines into his mouth when he only keeps teasing her.
âI want it,â she groans, âI want you. Iâve wanted you since the moment I saw you.â
He lets out a contented hum as he leans down to kiss her. The movements of his mouth are slow and consuming, claiming her with lips, tongue and teeth, wetness and warmth.
She holds him close by the sides of his face. In his violet eye she sees his hunger, his rage, his lust. In his sapphire, she sees oblivion.Â
And finally, he eases himself into her.Â
He fucks her delicately, dragging his cock through her gently, slowly, deeply. His lips ghost over her skin, her temple, her cheek, back to her mouth with light kisses and strained but soft breaths.Â
With a few deft circles over her bud she feels herself come undone around him. Her climax burns through her and she holds him closer for purchase, digging her fingertips into his skin as her resolve melts and her legs tremble around his hips.
Aemond doesnât stop. He holds her against the mattress with a determined grip, fucking her through her peak until her pleasure settles and simmers once more.
Being kissed by him, held by him, fucked by him feels light a dream, that weightless, numb feeling of being between consciousness and sleep coursing through her limbs. It feels good, it feels deep, it feels perfect.
She cannot be sure how many climaxes he draws from her, she just feels him, his heat, his hands and his skin as he repositions her legs, guides her onto her front, brings her up to her knees, pushes her back down again, until she is a blissful, mindless mess.
He meets his own end when he has her face down on the bed, her face turned to the side against the pillow, his mouth on the underside of her jaw as he pounds into her.Â
âYouâre doing so well,â she hears him rasp, âyouâve been so good to me⌠fuck, I donât think Iâll ever get enough of you.â
Her mind is beyond words and coherent thoughts. She utters the only thing she feels, the only thing she can think of, âAemond⌠Aemond⌠AemondâŚâ
He stills his hips against her rear with a guttural moan, pressing his face against hers, squeezing her waist under his hands. He allows himself a few more shallow thrusts until he is spent. She feels his cock pulse within her, a warmth pooling, his spend dripping from her cunt once he has pulled away.
The weight dissipates from her back and for a moment she lies there, basking in the afterglow, feeling her chest rise and fall against the bed, the softness of her sheets under her fingertips.
She wakes to a gentle breeze running over her skin and slipping down her spine.
She allows her eyes to flutter open and recoils at the pale sunlight beaming through the spaces in the curtains.Â
She holds her breath.
She hears no sound or sign of life other than her own pulse.Â
She twists herself to sit up, noting that her bedsheets are neat and the hem of her nightgown is where it should be.Â
Is it possible that she dreamed it? She remembers it so vividly, but the mind has a way of playing tricks. Perhaps it was only a dream.
âYour dreams exist in my realm,â he had said. âI feel them, as clearly as you perceive the waking world.â
How do we determine what is real? she wonders as she pulls on a robe and goes to open the curtains. The morning floods her bedroom. It brings no warmth, but it brings light and life back into the room.Â
To dream is to live beyond ourselves, why should that be any less true than the world around me?Â
She seats herself before her vanity, reaching for the drawer for her hairbrush.
But something catches her eye, a glint of colour against mahogany wood, a small gem catching the sunlight.
She takes it between her thumb and index finger and brings it before her eyes; a sapphire, the size of a pearl, a deep and vibrant blue. Its edges are uneven and dull, uncut, as though plucked straight from the earth.Â
She turns it about between her fingers. It could be a trick of the light, but there is depth to it, a vastness within. The sapphire seems to capture the night sky, dotted with glimmering stars.
His was the same.
As the dazed state of sleep wears off, she feels the satisfied ache between her legs, the spots on her skin marked by him. She smiles to herself and holds the gem in her palm, this precious gift, this reminder, this promise from the Lord of Dreams.
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My Guardian Angel ~Broken!Rita Calhoun xFem Younger!Investigator!Reader (Liz Donnelly x Alex Cabot) feat. Rafael Barba & Olivia Benson
Summaryâ AU where Rita has an abusive husband, and one night, after he storms out, Rita calls Reader. Reader brings Rita to the person who helped her with her own haunted past, Elizabeth Donnelly. Alex, Barba, and Liv makes appearances. What does the night have in store for Rita and ReaderâŚ?
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Warnings: angst, a little fluff, dead dove: do not eat, implied abuse, implied sexual assault, implied abusive husband, comforting, crying, alcohol consumption, anxiety attacks, a little self destructive behavior, mentions to prostitution, SVU things, Elizabeth Donnelly, Alex Cabot, Rafael Barba, Olivia Benson, Liz and Alex are a bit of a power couple, gray ending, etc.
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You didnât know Rita Calhoun well. At least not originally. From the moment you did meet, you both couldnât deny the connection between the two of you. You had always lived in coinciding worlds, she was a New York defense attorney, and you were an investigator for 1PP, occasionally lended out to SVU.
Originally, she was the lawyer whom you had hired for your idiot of a brother when he had been caught and charged with soliciting a prostitute. You had met with the high class woman on a couple of occasions, to discuss your brothers bail, probation, trial, payment, and anything else pertaining to his case.
You saw yourself intrigued by her elegant manner, high end fashion, and confidence. Soon you saw yourself get hooked to the tiny smiles and chuckles you managed to pull from her when in private. You found yourself fighting to make the woman laugh as much as you could, her laugh always seemed to make your day. And during the trial, your eyes were on her the entire time. You lived off those days outfits that Rita would strut into court in.
So when you checked your phone late Friday night, the last thing you expected to see what a very many handfuls of missed calls from Rita Calhoun. You saw that she had left a voicemail in the last call, so you pressed play.
âHeyyyy Y/N⌠S-sorry to be bothering you so I know itâs^^late⌠I⌠I just⌠I donât know what to do, call me back k byeâ
It was Rita alright, but something was very wrong. She had been stammering and hiccuping throughout the entire voicemail, and had broken into sobs by the end. She sounded like sheâd been crying and drinking for far too long⌠Her sounds triggered memories of your own life, memories that you had gone to great lengths to bury.
You immediately called the woman back. The dial rang for a couple tones, then it shut off. You hit call again. The second time, she picked up. You heard a sniffle and then a choke sob.
âH-heyâŚâ she practically whispered.
âRita, Hi, is everything alright?â
âIâŚâ She stammered, before the call went silent.
âRita?â You asked, your concern growing.
âN-noâ She whispered, then letting out another choked sob.
You took a deep breath and your instincts kicked in once more. You got Rita to give you her address and told her that you would be over as soon as possible. That night you broke the made the most traffic violations in your entire life.
You entered the house, the front door having been unlocked which was mildly concerning to you. You walked through the lavish, lofty apartment, until you found Rita curled up facing away from you in the living room on the floor with a full bottle of wine in her hand. Your heart sank and a lump came into your throat. You hated how normal and used to this sight you were. Because not too long ago, this had been youâŚ
You dropped to the floor, immediately going to comfort the woman. You carefully removed the alcohol, setting it aside. Rita let out a choke sob, immediately curling up into your lap. As she turned to face you, you saw the massive black eye that she had. Your eyes scanned her entire body, finding more red, raw skin marks along her arms and some blue bruising on her neck. Your heart nearly broke as Rita sobbed into your lap.
âIâim s-sorry⌠I didnât-didnât know who t-to callâŚ! Itâs itâs stupid, nothing reallyââ Rita choked out, muffled as she cried into your chest.
You knew this behavior. You knew it all too well.
âHey hey, itâs okay. Iâm here Rita⌠Itâs all going to be okay. Can I touch you, honeyâŚ? Would that be alrightâŚ?â You very gently asked the woman, coming a little closer to her, trying to show that you were no threat.
Rita nodded as her cries were muffled by her face being in the crook of your neck. She clung onto you like her life depended on it.
âOk, good⌠you are doing so good for me, Rita. Take some deep breaths for me? Can you try to do that?â You comforted the woman, bringing your hands around to hold the woman in your lap.
You could hear Rita trying to take some deep breaths as she nodded, although her hiccups made it more difficult.
âGood, very good, Rita.â You praised, then bringing your hands to cup the womanâs cheeks and direct her scattered gaze to you.
âNow Rita this is important⌠I need you to come back to me and think, okay?â
A slow nod.
âIs he going to come back anytime soonâŚ?â You softly asked.
Ritaâs eyes widened and she began to panic at your question. Your hold on the woman only tightened and you insisted on her answer.
âI know you donât want to think about it, but I need to know if youâre safe staying here Rita.â You explained firmly yet lovingly.
Rita took some more deep breaths before stammering,
âI⌠he heâs gone out⌠drinkingâŚâ she gulped, âBe back lateâŚâ
Her eyes were red and glossy, and they only panicked more at the idea of her husband returning. You rubbed her back and caressed her check in comfort.
âOk. We need to get you to a hospital, RitaâŚâ you gently said, knowing the possible outlast that your words might cause.
Rita practically jumped out of your lap and was quick to stand up and start pacing in the living room. Her fingers were red and raw and fidgeting. Her gaze scattered everywhere. You slowly stood up and tried to corner the woman into your embrace.
âNo no no hospitals⌠hospitals means cops and that means court and no noââ Rita rambled, her thoughts spiraling more and more.
You grabbed the womanâs hands, clasping them in your own to ground the woman. Her sobbing gaze finally met yours once more.
âOkay. Thatâs okay. Rita, listen to me, is there anywhere you can go to stay for the time beingâŚ?â You softly asked.
Ritaâs lip began to tremble and her knees buckled, her body falling into yours. Luckily, you managed to gently catch and carry the weight of the woman while she regained partial strength.
âN-not RAFâRafael⌠he canât know, no no no oneâŚâ Rita choked out in gasps.
When she wasnât able to come up with any other options, your mind went to the person who had helped you.
âOkay okay, thatâs okay, Rita. How about Elizabeth? You know Judge Donnelly? Sheâs a close friend and I know she can helpâŚâ you spoke with understanding and reassurance.
Rita looked up to you from collapsing in your arms and nodded slowly. But her eyes told you that she had sunken too far into her thoughts, that you would have to start making the decisions in her best interest until she came back to you.
You gently placed Rita back on the couch, quickly going to the kitchen to grab her a water, while you then ran around the place, trying to pack her a weekend back. After about 15 minutes, you had the bag in hand and you were leading the woman out of the house and into a cab. The entire cab ride, Rita was snuffling and silently sobbing in your shoulder.
Once you reached Lizâs brownstone, you violently knocked on the door, Rita protected being you and holding your hand. The door flew open but it wasnât Liz, it was a blonde. Your eyes went wide and you gulped, suddenly regretting not having double checked with Liz beforehand.
âYouâre Y/N, rightâŚ? Iâm Alex.â The tall blonde spoke slowly yet confidently.
âYes, um is Liz home?â You said, quickly getting to the point while trying to hide Rita behind you to the best of your ability.
But Liz had told you about Alex, she was sharp, didnât miss a thing.
âYea, sheâs in the kitchen⌠Is that CalhounâŚ?â Alex hummed, leaning against the doorway.
You took a deep breath and brought Rita to stand next to you. Alexâs jaw dropped and she took a step back in shock.
âI just⌠we needed a safe place to go for the night and Liz always said her door was always open and Iâm sorry if we intruded, I just canât handle this, I mean I know Liz can handle it, and so I thoughtââ you rambled.
Before you could say another word, the blonde was pulling you and Rita into the brownstone, closing the door behind her and marching straight up to Liz in the kitchen.
âIs that our take-out, bunnyâŚ?â Liz hummed, while sipping some wine before her gaze met yours and then Ritaâs disheveled state.
âOh my god.â Liz immediately put her glass doing and rushed over to Rita, her hands wandering all over the woman, her gaze scouring the womanâs injuries, âRita, Darling, what happenedâŚ??â
Ritaâs lip trembled before more violent sobs came out. No coherent words were possible for the woman at this point, all she could do was embrace Liz and sob into her chest. Liz happily consoled the poor woman before her gaze meet yours along with the go bag.
âIâm sorryâŚâ you mouthed, referring to breaking up her and Alexâs obvious night together.
âHush now, you did the right thing, take Ritaâs things to the first bedroom on the second floor.â Liz told you, waving off your unneeded apology.
You immediately nodded and went to go up the stairs. Then Luz turned to Alex.
âGo run a bath, warm not too hot.â Liz spoke firmly.
Alex was off to the master bathroom after a quick nod. When you both returned, you found Rita clung around Liz like a Koala, clinging on for dear life and continuing to sob in her chest. The sight brought flashbacks of the night you had stumbled up on Lizâs doorstep, in an eerily same condition as RitaâŚ
Liz soothed Rita while guiding her to the master bathroom. The older blonde sent you a comforting gaze with a nod, telling you that she had it. You placed a hand on your heart and took a shattered breath, nodding slowly.
It was then that you noticed Alex coming up beside you. You turned your head to her slightly.
âI⌠I just didnât know where else to go⌠Iâm sorry if I ruined your nightâŚâ you breathed out.
Alex brought a hand to your shoulder and reassuringly squeezed your skin lightly. Her eyes twinkled with sympathy and care.
âHey, itâs okay. You made the right call. And hey, Iâm glad to finally meet you.â Alex sighed, âCan I get you anythingâŚ?â
You nodded and then sighed yourself.
âTea maybeâŚ? Or fuck some scotch now that I think about itâŚâ
A deep chuckle reverberated throughout Alexâs chest as she nodded in agreement, going to the kitchen and pulling a bottle out of the liquor cabinet. She poured two glasses and handed you one of them.
âThanksâ you muttered.
Alex hummed an of course in response, before going to sit down in the classy living room. You sat across from her, sipping your scotch lightly. The blonde looked you dead in the eye, as she sighed.
âLiz told me a bit about you and that night.â
You gulped and struggled to maintain the intense eye contact. You knew that Liz and Alex were close, really close, however it still was hard to reconcile another person knowing something so vulnerable about you. But if Liz trusted Alex with it, so did you.
âYea⌠I was and am still so grateful to Lizzie for all that she did for meâŚâ you confessed.
âLizzieâŚ?â Alex chuckled dryly with a cock of an eyebrow.
âYeaâŚâ you breathily chuckled, âHer and my dad worked togetherâŚâ
Alex smiled lightly in understanding, nodding along, waving her hand in the air and prompting you to continue, knowing from what Liz had said that that wasnât the whole story.
âYeah they were colleagues, and so I saw Lizzie at events and sheâd been at my childhood home a couple times⌠Iâd always been pretty independent, both my parents working all the time, and me being the oldest led to me getting used to being on my own. And then my parents divorced, and I got even more aloneâŚâ you sighed.
Another wave of sympathy washed over Alexâs face, as she sipped her scotch and listened intently.
âIâm sorry. I definitely know the pains of divorced parentsâŚâ Alex sighed.
You smiled lightly and nodded, before continuing you tawdry tale,
âAnyways, Lizzie was one of the only people who reached out to me, to yâknow check on me and stuff. Sheâs always been in my corner, and sheâs practically filled the role of a mother ever since the divorceâŚâ you spoke out softly.
You could tell that Alex knew most of this, and that she was waiting for the part about how this all connected to Rita, so you cut to the chase.
âAnyways, about two years ago, I meet and started to see this guy⌠Looking back, he was a lot like my father, and I should have recognized the warning signs earlier⌠But I didnât. And I let it go on for an entire year⌠UntilâŚâ you sucked in a breath, âI wound up on Lizzieâs doorstep, heart broken and bruisedâŚâ
You saw Alexâs audible gulp at your last sentence. You saw how her hand tightly clutched her glass, her knuckles almost white. With a deep breath, she nodded and prompted you to continue with her hand once more.
âAnywho, Lizzie helped me get my shit together and throw him out of my place and my life. Iâd taken his abuse for a whole year, and Iâm still recovering to this day from the number he did on meâŚâ You concluded your story.
Alex then stood up and came to sit next to you on the couch you inhabited. Her hand came to squeeze your shoulder reassuringly.
âIâm so sorry that you had to go through all of thatâŚâ Alex sighed, âI hear you, recovery takes time.â
You took a breathy, deep breath with a shaky nod, all the memories of your past coming up as you talked about it all. But her touch was soothing. It was then that Liz emerged from the hallway and came into the living room with a sigh. The older woman sat down next to you, a hand running up and down your thigh in reassurance.
âSheâs okay, Rita is going to be fine.â Liz hummed, before stealing your glass of scotch and sipping away at it.
You didnât mind the cheeky gesture, lord knows she needed the relaxation, merely humming and nodding in response.
âSheâs in the bath, and sheâs asking for youâŚâ Liz spoke once more.
You sucked in a breath and nodded, starting to stand up. As you went to leave and find Rita in the master bath, you turned back towards Liz and Alex, who were now snuggling lovingly on the couch.
âThank you Lizzie⌠Really, thank you.â You breathed out shakily.
Liz met your gaze, her eyes filled with love and care, and the older woman nodded.
âAnytime, sweetheart.â
You nodded lightly with a small smile, before turning around and making your way to find Rita. By the time you reached the bath, you found Rita passed out in the warm water, snoring lightly and peacefully. You noted how graceful and content Rita looked asleep. Coming up to the tub, you sat down next to the rim, and proceeded to tuck a stray hair behind Ritaâs ear.
She must be exhausted⌠you thought. And your suspicions were confirmed as the woman continued to sleep until the water in the tub threatened to go cold. It was then that you gently nudged the brunette out from her slumber. She snorted lightly as her eyes fluttered open. Her gaze still looked shattered and sad, and her lip was still lightly trembling.
âFuck Iâm mm sorry, I must have fallen asleepââ Rita rambled in a quiet mumble.
âHush, none of that. Itâs completely alrightâŚâ you comforted the woman, raising your hand for her to stop.
Rita shut her mouth and blushed a little, then shivering in the now cold bath water.
âThanksâŚâ she whispered.
âOf course. Now letâs get you out and into something warmâŚâ you hummed, grabbing a fluffy towel from the bathroom cabinet and then reaching your hand out towards Rita.
Rita happily took your hand, then climbing out of the tub, then you proceeded to wrap the woman up in the warm towel.
âM-my clothesâŚâ Rita murmured, looking to the ground as fear lurched in the pit of her stomache at the idea of having to wear her bloodied clothing.
You gently rubbed her towel wrapped shoulders with a light smile.
âI grabbed some things before we left your place, the bag is on the toilet. It will have to do for now, until we figure out what to doâŚâ you cooed caringly.
Rita blushed lightly and muttered a thank you. You told her itâs was the least that you could do, before giving her a kiss on the forehead and leaving her in the bathroom to go through the bag and change.
As you exited the room and walked back into the living room, you found Liz and Alex right where you had left them, with Alex curled up in Lizâs arms. Lizâs head popped up from her gaze on Alex back to you as you came into the living room and took a seat on an opposing couch, with a pondering look on your face.
âI know that lookâŚâ Liz hummed cheekily, taking another sip of your scotch, âWhatâs on your mind, kiddo?â
You bit your lip, pulling out your phone, before looking over to Liz.
âI was thinking about maybe calling BarbaâŚâ you mused aloud, your mind questioning on what to do next.
At this, Alex perked up to. Lizâs eyes widened and her expression was a knowing one, one that quickly understood your line of thought.
âI see⌠What did Rita say?â Liz hummed, placing the scotch back on the table and much to Alexâs delight starting to massage the young blondeâs shoulders.
You looked away from Liz at her words, and back to your phone.
âWhen I asked where she could go, she said not Rafael⌠I know that their friends, sheâs mentioned him before⌠But he could helpâŚâ you sighed, inwardly conflicted.
Liz sighed at your admission. And she seemed to be in deep thought for a moment before she spoke,
âWhen you came to me, did I call anyoneâŚ?â The older woman asked you.
You bit your lip and sighed.
âNoâŚâ
âExactly. Even though I wanted to⌠Probably would have called Liv, but I didnât. Because you didnât want me to.â Liz spoke,
You once again looked to the ground instead of meeting the older womanâs gaze.
âIâm not saying that Barba is a bad ideaâŚâ she slowly explained, âI think that it would be best if we ask Rita first.â
âAsk me what?â Ritaâs timid voice echoed through the expansive living room and kitchen.
All three of your heads swiveled with extreme speed to the end of the hallway where the brunette stood. She padded her way through part of the kitchen and then into the living room. You immediately scooted over and lightly waved her over to come and sit. Rita did exactly that before repeating her question, more vocal this time.
âWhat did you want to ask me first?â The woman spoke.
Liz and Alex immediately eyed you, quirking their eyebrows and very clearly telling you that since this was your idea, you were the one who was going to say something. You gulped, turning your body more towards the group. Your gaze met Ritaâs and you reached your hands out to grasp her left available hand and reassuringly squeeze it.
âI⌠We were talking about maybe calling Liv⌠or BarbaâŚâ you shakily breathed out, squeezing her hand lovingly while speaking to comfort the woman.
The same panic from earlier this night came rushing back to the womanâs gaze. But she was a little more collected now, and she seemed to handle the surge of emotions better this time around.
âIâŚâ Rita stammered, âI donât knowâŚâ
She slumped forward a bit and closed her eyes, a singular tear escaping her eyes. You immediately extended your arm and brought the brunette into your soft embrace.
âThatâs okay. We can deal with all that later⌠How are you feelingâŚ?â You gently spoke.
âExhaustedâŚâ Rita choked out, âand stupid⌠like itâs all my faultâŚ!â
The broken defense lawyer turned completely towards you, clinging to your frame as she began to cry into your shoulder. You gently caressed her back and shoulders reassuringly.
âThatâs it, itâs going to be ok, Rita⌠Itâs all going to be okayâŚâ you soothed the woman.
âB-but how do you know thatâŚ?â
You sighed.
âBecause⌠Iâve been through something eerily similarâŚâ
At this, Rita pulled back and looked at you with eyes full of empathy.
âIâm so sorryâŚâ she uttered, fully processing the words you had just spoken.
You smiled lightly and cupped Ritaâs face.
âItâs okay⌠Iâm past that now. Now Iâm here for you⌠Now how about bedâŚ?â You hummed caringly.
Rita nodded and hummed a soft thank you, before you guided the woman up and to one of Lizâs many guest bedrooms. You stayed with her until she was asleep, which didnât take too long, but you stayed nonetheless, before then turning in for the night yourself in another guest room, which Liz had so kindly offered you.
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Rita spent the rest of the weekend at Lizâs. Liz and Alex were more than happy to host, and they graciously let you stay as well to keep an eye on the broken brunette.
Then come Monday morning, you were walking into the SVU squad room with Rita anxiously by your side. You grabbed her shaky hand and squeezed it reassuringly, as your other hand rapped on Captain Liv Bensonâs office door. Neither of you expected Barba to swing the door open, and he sure as hell didnât expect to see Rita.
Liv ushered you in, and Rafael could immediately sense something was wrong. Rafael simply closed the door behind you, not bothering to leave.
âRita, Y/N, how can I help you?â Liv spoke.
Rita shuffled her feet and looked to the ground. You squeezed her hand again and whispered that it was going to be okay.
âWait what is going onâŚ?â Rafael cut in.
Liv sent Barba a warning glance for him to be quiet to let you or Rita speak. You gently looked towards the brunette, whose lip was now trembling.
âI⌠I was rapedâŚâ Rita shakily breathed out, as a small tear rolled down her left cheek.
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Part 2 with a happy endingâŚ? Or maybe something more angstyâŚ? đ
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Olivia Benson Masterlist
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Sorry, Need You Back
Bruce Wayne x Batdad!Reader
Summary: Your second son has died. Itâs taken a toll on the whole family but you need your husband to come back and be a person again.
Info: Hurt/comfort. Male Reader. 0.7k words
Notes: First image is art that can be found here.
Nothingâs really been the same. Not since he left. This isnât something one really could get over. But itâs been over two months and things are dicey, so youâve got to get your priorities in order.
You slam a hand down on to the desk. âUp.â Bruce grunts, looking over at you before his gaze goes back to his work. âGet. Up.â
âI have work to do.â
âYou have a life to live. And youâre sure as hell not doing that down here. Or out there.â You jerk your head in the direction of the Batman suit.
âIâm living plenty.â Really, heâs just surviving in some odd way. Existing almost purely as Batman and hardly doing much outside of that, even including eating and sleeping. Youâre not sure the last time you saw him eat something that wasnât a granola bar, bits of fruit or part of a sandwich.
âBruce, I know youâre hurt. I know youâre grieving. I am too. But this is not the way to do it.â
âI canât make that mistake again.â
âIt was not your fault, Bruce. If itâs your fault itâs mine too. HeâsâŚâ You hesitate, not sure if you even should use present tense anymore. But in the end Jason will always be your son. âheâs my son too. I should have paid more attention to him, never let him go, much less by himself. I should have gone with you.â
âYouâre not like me.â He argues.
âI can fight too, I have. I will again.â You donât say that you will again if you have to, just that you will. Youâre smarter than that. You know how things work.
âI know, but youâre not doing it every night.â
âIâm not.â You would if you had to though. âBut I know you canât keep doing this. I feel like Iâm losing you.â Heâs not the same, you donât blame him. Thereâs been little differences about you too. Like the way you keep Dick closer, in a way you havenât in a long time. If someone asked him though, Dick would say this is way more than that. After all, itâs not every day you lose a son.
Bruce though? Bruce is angry and withdrawn in a way that youâve never seen. It worries you. Itâs part of the reason why youâve been tightly holding every bit of you together. One of you has to. Bless Alfred but some things arenât meant to fall on just him, or him at all.
âIâve already buried one of my sons. I donât want to have to bury my husband too.â The way Bruce is going, someone else is more likely to bury their husband than you. Still, your husband is wasting away in front of you, like heâs intent on burying himself in some way.
That must have hit him because itâs only then that he softens and looks at you. âYou wonât. I wonât have another son buried, I wonât have me buried and I wonât have you buried. But that means I have to get better.â His gaze returns to his work.
âYouâre not getting better. Youâre destroying yourselfâ Grabbing his chair you spin him towards you before cupping his face. âYouâre exhausted.â His eyes would look dead if not for the ever present fire in them. Dimly lit under the weight of his world. âThis isnât helping.â
âI just need to be better.â He places his hand on top of yours but doesnât move it. Instead he curls his fingers around it. âFigure out how to maximize everything. Be more efficient. Get more eyes and ears in places.â
âRest.â Though you say it softly the word is firm. As unmoving and unwavering as you are. Though when the silence stretches on for too long you say, âPlease. You need it, and I need you.â
He exhales. âOkay.â
âCome on, get up. Weâre going to sit out on the terrace, have a meal, and get some sun.â
Bruceâs hand falls into your own as you lead him upstairs. Later he will hold you and tell you how it was never your fault, that you did the best you could here, in Gotham, at home. How you continue to do the best you could and he was so very grateful for you then convince you to rest a little yourself. Perhaps Alfred would find the two of you tucked into each other in a sitting room in the evening and a little tension would leave him as you two were beginning to come back to yourselves, to each other.
#bruce wayne x reader#bruce wayne x male reader#batman x reader#bruce wayne imagine#batdad!reader#dc#read reed
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I Think it's Gonna Rain When I Die
An unofficial addition to the Serial Killer! Francis AU!!
AU belongs to our beloved SK Francis Anon đŞ
TW: Referenced/Implied PTSD attacks, implied/referenced abuse, SK! Francis is an entire tw on his own, possessive behavior, execution via electrocution, Francis loves Nacha and tolerates Ana đ
The police officer escorted her to the stand alone table, there sat her father⌠no, he lost the right to that title.
There sat Francis.
Clean shaven, sullen eyes, and ruffled and slightly matted hair. There were two guards against the back wall waiting for anything to happen. Anastacha bit the sides of her tongue as she made eye-contact with him, her expression unchanging as Francis recognized her.
He laughed a breath out and took a pained one back in, âAnastacha! My baby girl, oh look at you! You have your motherâs nose, her hair too, even-â
âHello Francis.â
Francis pouts and cocks his head, âMmm, that's no way to greet your father, young lady.â
She held back a snide remark and she sat down, placing her hands on the table folded, she felt her eyes twitch, âHow's prison treating you? You look like shit.â
Francis threw an exaggerated hand to his chest, âOh how hurtful, Annie-â He gets really close to the window separating them, âIt's been⌠stifling, sweetie⌠15 fucking years without my wife and childâŚâ His eyes drone around behind her, âWhere is Nacha, sweetie? Unless if you two are doinâ a one on o-â
âShe didn't come. Nobody came. It's just me.â
She blinked slowly, no signs of emotion from her.
Francis furrowed his eyebrows, humming, âHmm, surely sheâs just sleeping out in the car, Annie, oh I just know your mother misses me like I miss her!â He giggles, tapping his fingers on the table, the chains making a scraping noise on the wood.
Anastacha snorts and cracks a smile, she pulls a box of cigarettes out and lights one up, âWhatâs so funny sweetie- ugh, yâknow how bad those things are for a little girl like you, Anastacha.â
She takes a drag from it, âYâthink mom misses you, Francis? Yeah, whatever, buddy⌠I do understand where you're cominâ from, feeling like you're the only one who can protect your mother from your own father.â
She bites the end of her cigarette, feeling her heart strain, âYou know how many sleepless nights I've gotten after you got arrested? Having to hear mom cry herself to sleep and have mental breakdowns all because of you, Francis, huh? Do you know how many times I've had to convince my own mother that itâs safe to be alone in a room with another man, hell, another person that isn't me?! Oh my god.â
She buries her face in her hands, scrunching her bangs, rubbing her eyes with her palms and mutters out, âYou fucking ruined our lives.â Slamming her hands down on the table, Anastacha looks at him dead in the eyes, not a single glint of light sparkled in her eyes anymore, theyâre bloodshot, her eyebags even more noticeable.
Francis frowns, crossing his arms, âSweetie, you know damn well what kinda people are out there, I was tryna protect you and your mother from the scum of the Earth and those fucking man made pests. And what did youse do? Get me arrested after all I've done for your ungrateful ass and your darling, sweet mother.â
Anastacha rolls her eyes, âWhatever helps you sleep at night.â
Francis let an annoyed breath out, but collected himself, âSo⌠tell me what youâve been up to, sweetie.â He flashes her a phony smile.
âIâm a Victimâs Advocate. I'm running my own organization, helping get folks out of domestic situations.â She tugs on her purple bow around her collar, âIt's⌠very rewarding. Mom and dad are real proud of me.â
Francisâ eyebrows raised and his eyes widened, âG-good for you, sweetie, but- I-Iâm right here and this is my first time hearing about this! Why'd you say-â
âOh, yeah, momâs seeinâ someone.â
She watched as Francis slammed his hands on the table and stood up, the chair falling back, âWHO IS HE?! TELL ME. SHE KNOWS GODDAMN WELL THAT SHE BELONGS TO ME AND ME ONLY.â The two guards approached him and pulled him back, Anastacha leans back into her chair, taking a drag, blowing smoke from her nose.
Francis magages to calm down just enough so his vision isn't red anymore, but still feeling his blood boil and his mind race.
âAnastacha Lynn Mosses. You better fucking tell me who this bastard is.â
The guards were about to take him away till Anastacha spoke up and yelled, âJeez Louise! Boys, calm down! Francis, pay attention.â She snaps her fingers to get his attention.
She reaches into her pocket for her wallet and opens it up, she smiles as she takes her driver's license and a polaroid out. She placed both items flush against the window, âHere 'go, Franny boy.â
Francis broke out of the guard's grasp and got his face close to the window.
He wished what he was looking at was a sick prank his little girl was pulling on her.
On the left was the polaroid, it was his Nacha in the foreground dressed in a long sleeved and puffy wedding gown. Behind her was Angus, in a dark purple tuxedo, holding her waist with one hand and his cane with the other. His vision focused in and out when he slowly rolled his eyes to Anastachaâs license and he felt his heart sink deeper than his first night alone without his family when he read her name.
Anastacha Lynn Mikaelys-Ciprianni.
His eyes pinholed as he looked dead at Anastacha, who was smiling as sweetly as ever.
That motherfucker stole his family from him.
Anastacha softly sighs as she puts her items away back into her wallet.
You could hear a pin drop how quiet it was⌠till Francis hit the plexiglass window, with his fists, cracking with all of his might. Anastacha jumped putting her hands up, watching the guards pull him back to his room while he was screaming obscenities to her, her mother, and especially her father. She cupped a hand next to her mouth and yelled, âSo long, and thanks for all of the fish!â
She chuckles as the door slams shut, she can still hear the dead-beat yell, she turns to the officer that escorted her in, âI'm so sorry you folks had to deal with him for so long.â She reached into her pocket and gives him a stack of her business cards, âLeave âem by the sign in desk, yânever know what's going on with a person just by looking at âem.â He nodded and escorted her to the next room to watch Francisâ executionâŚ
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âŚIt went as grizzly as one could go, Anastacha and her police escort were the only ones in the theater when it happened. He looked away while she watched it all go down, never faltering. Even when the vertigo of the electricity flashed her eyes never moved from Francis as she watched the remainder of life leave his body...
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Afterwards, she left the prison, it was late at night, night life was just getting started, but she was not interested in the slightest. As she lit up another cigarette, she felt a drop of rain hit her nose.
She looked up and saw rain clouds moving in, âMmm⌠peculiar⌠didn't know he had a soulâŚâ
She continued walking until she found a vacant and illuminated phone booth. She entered before the rain started pouring down, the droplets making music on the glass walls. After putting 15 cents in, she slumped against the cooling wall, smoking, looking at people scuttling for cover, waiting for the caller to pick up.
âUgh, hello? Ciprianni residents, Nacha speakingâŚâ
âHey mom, it's Anastacha.â
She heard her mother move excitedly on the other end, shaking Angus awake.
âAna! Hija! How are you?! Are you okay? Did anything happen?! Do you need us to drive over?!â
Anastacha laughed, âNo, mom! I'm good, I'm fine, it was veryâŚâ She looked for the words as she heard her father speak faint but very tired Italian in the background, âI feel like I closed a large chapter in my life and Iâm⌠glad I went.â
She clears her throat as she hears Angus take the phone, âCiao, sweetheart, I heard what you said, âm happy you decided to go, Iâm so proud of you Anne⌠shit, Nacha, cara mia, what time is it?â
Anastacha huffs, checking her watch, âIt's only midnight-thirty, dad!â
Angus groans as both Nacha and Anastacha giggles, âAlright, alright, Iâll let the oldies sleep, I just wanted to let y'all know that I'm outta there and I'm doing good.â
âThat's great, hija, you go out and enjoy the night! Don't drink too much!â
âYes, and remember to aim for the throat and ears if you can! And if you brought your pistol or brass knuckles even better!â
Anastacha heard her mom smack him on the shoulder and he laughed, âCiao, Anna, you be safe and take care of yourself, mom and I love you-â
Nacha yoinked the phone, âLove you hija! Please come and visit us soon! We always have the guest room open for you!â
Anastacha puts her cigarette out with her dress shoes and smiles, âI love you guys too, when this next case is cleared up Iâll drive over to see y'all before you guys move again, good night!â
They both wish her goodnight and she hangs up. She unlatches the phone booth and exits, the rain is now a drizzle.
Sighing, she decided to take her folks advice and enjoys the evening to the fullest, starting her a new chapter in her life.
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#thats not my neighbor#anastacha mikaelys#francis mosses#nacha mikaelys#angus ciprianni#sk! francis#'francis dni i cucked your wife' - angus at one point or another#i wrote this instead of having lunch#im heading to panda express ciao yall#im not a writer#angus x nacha#spoiled milk au
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COMMISSION: Nagito Komaeda and Kokichi Ouma (x reader) - Yandere Relationship Headcannons + Scenario Drabble
Warnings: This is yandere content. Obsessive, possessive stuff. Donât like = donât read. Like my Korekiyo version, sexual NSFW will be under a labeled heading so you can skip that section, then the drabble after, which is SFW will have its own heading warning again. Additional warnings for violence, unhealthy relationships, and mentions of dub/noncon. Also SPOILERS for SDR2 and V3.
Word Count: 1.7k
Let me get this out of the way first of all: you picked two of the easiest Danganronpa characters to make yandere. With their personalities, mindsets, intelligence, and how they react to stress, itâs very easy to imagine these two going yandere for their lover/darling. Itâs not a reach at all. So letâs get into it.
Nagito Komaeda
SFW Headcannons:
FOR SURE the delusional type of yandere.
Heâs delusional in his daily life at times, so when heâs fallen in love, such an intense emotion corrupts him further.
He would delude himself so far as to believe that his luck cycle couldnât affect or touch his darling, the ultimate hope in his eyes.
He knows that the people around him often get hurt because of his luck cycle, but when it comes to his darling, he has fully deluded himself into thinking that he can protect them, that his love for them is so strong that he knows whatâs best for them.
He thinks so lowly of himself and so highly of his beloved, that he believes that just once, for once, his luck canât harm them.
Nagito believes in his beloved as the pinnacle of shining hope, and worships the ground they walk on.
Nagito is so in love with the embodiment of hope, that I truly believe that he would rather see his darling dead than to let their hope be muddied or fade.
Heâd kill them with his own two hands before heâd let this world corrupt them.
He would hoard them to himself, always making excuses and distractions to steal more of their time and attention.
He knows he doesnât deserve them or their time and energy, but heâs highly intelligent and thinks of roundabout ways to keep them around him at all times.
He always seems to be where they are.
If they need a favor done, or a question answered, heâs there.
When it comes to romance, as I said, heâs a worshipper, obsessive.
NSFW Headcannons
He would kiss and mark every inch of their body, be greedy with them, needing to touch every sensitive spot on their body.
Nagito is both the ultimate switch/verse and the ultimate pleaser when it comes to his lover.
With a lover that accepts his delusional yandere side, heâs obsessed with becoming their perfect lover. He already hates himself and knows he will never be good enough for them, so he needs to mold himself into whatever they want from him at that moment.
When his darling wants a dominant, aggressive top, thatâs who he will be. He is more than willing to mess around with impact play, ropes, fear play, breeding, praise and degradation. He would love nothing more than to take them by surprise and force his desires onto them for their pleasure. He would be a master of dub/non con play.
If his darling wants to see him as a submissive, pathetic mess, he will fill that role. Whimpering, crying, begging: all his specialities. He would let them smack him around, pull his hair, talk down to him, and he would revel in it.
Kinks I think Yandere Nagito would definitely be into: wax play, knife/gun play, choking/breathplay, shibari, CNC, degradation, spanking, public humiliation, edging, impact play, breeding, hair-pulling.
Yandere Nagito Drabble:
âShhh! Shhh, donât cry, my loveâŚâ Nagito caressed the back of your neck gently, lowering your body to the ground slowly as it slumped in his arms, all energy slowly draining from your form. Your vision was blurring, closing in at the edges as more and more blood seeped from your wound. The knife Nagito had just buried into your stomach now sat discarded beside you. Strategically, he sat cradling you into his arms, only allowing the blood to spill onto his own clothing or pool onto the thick blanket heâd set out below you beforehand.
You could only gasp for breath, tears spilling freely down your cheeks. You knew Nagito was dangerous, but youâd never thought heâd turn on you specifically. It always seemed like heâd kill for you, die for you, but to take your life with his own hands?
âT-they wonât get to you⌠this world⌠Monokuma⌠I wonât let them!â His voice quivered, his mind and heart buzzing with both crazed love for you and grief at your necessary passing. He had to do it, though. No one else was worthy of taking your life, and he wouldnât let that damned bear have the pleasure.
After learning the truth of this world as the reward for completing the Final Dead Room, heâd concluded that this was the only way to spare you, his beloved, from this wretched world. It was the only solution. If you were the traitor, stuck in this evil world with your wicked peers, you deserved to be released. If you werenât the traitor, surely you were tricked, brainwashed into becoming a remnant of despair, and you must understand that he canât allow the love of his life to oppose hope. You wouldn't want that, right? Surely, youâd see the need, youâd see it his wayâŚ
As the life faded from your eyes, he gripped you closer, now freely weeping into the bloody mess of your limp body. This was all temporary. Heâd join you, soon. The plan was already in motion.
Kokichi Ouma
SFW Headcannons:
Kokichi would be another yandere who thinks he always knows whatâs best for his darling.
Unlike Nagito, who would kill his darling to retain their purity, Kokichi would do anything, including killing himself or others, to keep his darling alive.
In their own way, maybe both feel like they are doing their darlings a kindness with their methods.
Kokichi is not a nice, caring, subservient type of yandere. Some yanderes obsessively live to serve their darling and worship them. Kokichi is so scared of losing his darling that he is restrictive, possessive, sometimes extremely cruel to them.
He expects them to do what he says, when he says, because itâs all for their own good, for their protection.
He does not like when others interact with them.
He sees pretty much all other interactions with others as cheating/flirtation in his own deluded mind.
When someone especially charismatic like Kaito talks to his darling, he feels himself fuming, and drags them away with a rough grip on their arm, or publicly embarrasses them so badly that they donât want to continue the interaction.
NSFW Headcannons
Kokichi is not a kind lover.
Mainly, he sees his pleasure as his darlingâs pleasure. After all, if it feels good for him, why wouldnât it feel good for them, too?
On the rare occasion he does decide to focus on his partnerâs pleasure and preferences during sexual encounters, he is very frustrated and angered by anything less that an overly-enthusiatic response.
He loves their praise, as he thinks he deserves it.
And though he relishes in the returned affections of his darling, a sick part of him loves when they cry, beg or resist as well.
Kokichi is territorial, leaving bruises and marks.
And he wants others to see them, for sure.
His infatuation for his beloved becomes the center of every goal. He wants to end the killing game for them, for him, for their love. He wants to rule this world with them.
Kinks Yandere Kokichi would be into: spanking, fear play, knife play for sure, degradation, slut-shaming, impact play, bondage, public/semi-public/voyeurism, CNC, humiliation (giving, not recieving), overstimulation (giving)
Yandere Kokichi Drabble:
Fuzzy-brained, disoriented, your eyes cracked open slowly, a migraine thumping in the back of your head. You groaned, eyes focusing in to see a figure in front of you, even in the low lighting.
Of course it was him. Who else would it be?
The last thing you remembered, you were sitting in the cafeteria, trying to destress and process after Gontaâs trial. You were drinking a steaming hot cup of tea, waiting for Shuichi to show up, and for some reason, your energy began to rapidly deplete. Your limbs got numb and heavy, your mind clouded, until your world faded to black.
Nothing in the tea had tasted off, nothing in your environment felt suspicious. Thatâs how good heâd gotten at thisâŚ
Now you were here, sitting before him. Heâd taken you silently and skillfully.
âYou drugged my tea?â Kokichi approached, bending down to meet your eye level. Further taking in your surroundings, you now realized that you were in fact chained up, locked to the wall behind you in the bathroom of the Exisal hangar.
âYou werenât gonna come on your ownâŚâ he pouted, a look begging for sympathy on his face, âand I could âve dragged you here myself, but the kicking and screaming would attract too much attentionâŚâ He leaned toward you, leaving a quick, teasing peck of a kiss on the tip of your nose. If your hands were free to wipe it away, you wouldâve.
He was right though. You wouldnât have come on your own, and not quietly, either. At one point, you considered Kokichi a friend, even with his stalkerish obsession with you. You saw the good in him, and knew he had redeeming qualities. Now⌠after what heâd done to Gonta, after the absolute shit-show that was that last trial and the complete flip heâd made, you wanted nothing to do with him.
Kokichi walked to the other side of the room, and after some rustling into a little bag heâd brought with him, he brought forth a roll of duct tape. Without hesitation, and with a crooked grin on his face, he tore a thick strip off and pasted it across your mouth. Your wiggling provided little resistance, as he had you locked down pretty well.
âThere! Canât have you alerting the others, fraternizing with the enemy!â He had a crazed look in his eye as he spoke those words.It was like he actually believed them, believed his own lies. As if he could read the thought behind your puzzle expression and furrowed brow, he continued: âIâm going to end this killing game, once and for all! You and me, weâre gonna be the last two standing⌠Iâll make sure of it! Everyone else is merely an obstacle, an opposing force! Place your trust in me, and we will rule this world together!â He giggled, becoming more and more unstable with each word.
He wanted you to trust him, but had you chained up?
âThis is for your own good. Youâll only get in my way, colluding with those idiots! You just donât know whatâs best for you, so youâre gonna sit here and look pretty, while I take whatâs rightfully ours.â With that, he reached into his pocket, taking out what looked to be a small remote, a controller of some kind. You could only imagine its purpose.
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He flexed his hand after he shook yours.
Barely noticeable, if you hadnât been observing the grooves of his knuckles, or the vein that crawled from his wrist. The hands that enveloped yours in a shake shouldâve been cold- calculated. A deal brought to fruition by its apathy.
But it was warm.
When he let go, a beat. Static on your fingers, an itch on your prints. Long enough to breathe but too fleeting to think. If you hadnât been focused on his hands and their features, you wouldâve caught the way he stared at yours.
Almost preserving, you wouldâve thought.
âMiguel?â
His name apparently snapped both of you from the recesses of you minds, from the brink of thought and the absence of it.
âSorry, yes?â
Lylaâs eyes passed over the two of you. You were unsure if it was because of her size, her cloudy stance and voided build. But you were positive the look in her eyes knew more about what just happened than you ever would.
âThe tour? Remember? Of the lab,â She giggled, although the word is too flimsy to describe such a dry sound, âshe was right, you really donât know host etiquette.â
He grumbled, before his eyes came to meet yours.
If you had to pin-point the feature that prompted the foul taste in your mouth (a reasonable person would call it envy, but you were childish enough to cease the thought), it would be his condescending stare.
âThe lab youâll be working in is on the 3rd floor. Itâs my personal lab,â
Your nose wrinkled. Tacky (lucky).
âLyla will be showing you around.â
Lyla tutted from his shoulder, waggling her finger. âNuh-uh, I did all the business-woman stuffs I can for the day. You get to show her around.â
You were being treated like a chore.
Charming.
âPlus, Iâm feeling awfully tiered,â she winked at you. Unsettling, but it queued curiosity.
âHave fun kiddos!â With a flash of yellow and tints of blue, she was gone.
Leaving you to breathe the stiff air that separated you and the goliath in a dead quiet.
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You wouldâve slaughtered for Elevator music.
If it meant that the deafening silence, driven by a mutual desire not to be trapped in an isolating metal box, would end.
You felt stupid, and maybe a little self-centered, for only knowing your floor. There wasnât a better alternative, as your job forced you to either move laterally across your own or, occasionally, up to the tenth floor to retrieve extra scraps or parts that no one else wanted to grab.
Ever since your royal fuck-up with that human robot, you had essentially become the errand-girl of your engineering pod. No one took you seriously anyhow, so you might as well be useful.
You liked the tenth floor. It was dark, the scattered metal parts and canopy of wires above you created a comfortable jungle. Filled with things you were familiar with, inventory that when you touched, it created rather that crumbled.
You werenât Midas there.
Consequently youâve forgotten that itâs called the tenth floor for a reason.
And you were going to the 3rd.
Underground.
There was a difference, aside from the number. The attic, even with its close quarters, was a sanctuary of sorts, one with a view that made you forget your reputation.
But below, burrowed under sediment and gravel, you sat a breath away from your grave. You wouldnât be surprised, if you were buried here.
You would even call it fitting.
The elevator lurched to a halt, the sight of your reflection meeting yours through the stainless steel. It look distorted, not quite like a cracked mirror but it wasnât clean. It was foggy, and as it disappeared, you wondered if thatâs what you looked like to your colleagues.
Foggy.
It certainly felt the case, on the 3rd floor.
Miguel casted a shadow, literally and figuratively, when he walked. His shoulders were built to carry expectation, body molded to turn heads, attention. Admiration kissed his heals, itâs maw biting at his fingers, his lips, his throat.
He made you foggy, because for as long as he existed, there was nothing else to look at.
You perished by his side. Your aggrieved appearance, the droop of your mouth and cave of your back existed as a warning. You ate praise like a woman starved, a thank you so infrequent it sounded like a myth when whispered.
You noticed itâs phenomenon when you passed people down the hall, eyes gravitating towards Miguel.
(Attention is a picky child, and it never liked you.)
When he opened the door, a crevice in the darkest corner of the floor, the stench of cleaning supplies and plastic gloves wedged into your sinuses. It was a similar smell to his office, but the weight of humidity made it sour to swallow.
Once your nose adjusted, you finally consumed your surroundings.
An organized table, a glass cabinet containing every scrap and screw in a designated box. A plethora of tools, varying in size, clean and gleaming.
Paradise.
âYouâll be working here for most of the engineering process.â
His voice was the closest it had ever been to you. It never lost the roughness around its edges, but Itâs placid cadence was gentler than it had been before.
You nodded slowly, still drinking in the freshness of your workspace.
âIf you have any materials you need that arenât here, we can retrieve them from the storage on floor one.â
You took a step towards the table, running your hand over the cool, solid metal. Your reflection wasnât foggy, it was clear, precise, detailed.
You werenât a silhouette down here.
You turned around to face Miguel.
A hunter, tensed, and dangerous. Wary of you, observing the way your chest rose with breath and hollowed without it. His face a novel of age told in creases and folds, hostile and glacial.
So different from his hands, you thought (one that you buried).
âDo you even use this?â Your question had more bite to it than you intended.
He nodded slowly. âSometimes, if I need to.â
You rose your brow. âHow often is âneed toâ?â
âMaybe once a month.â
You nearly choked. âOnce a month? You use this room once a month? God, you are clinically insane.â
It baffled you that a room like this sat unused and empty for weeks at a time. It was no mystery why the room looked so untouched.
So perfect.
Your hand found the bridge of your nose. âJesus. So they just, gave this to you? And you donât use it?â
His brows crossed. âOf course I use it. It just doesnât have a lot of purpose in my line of work,â he sighed, muffling his frustration, âand itâs essentially⌠yours now. So it doesnât really matter.â
Yours.
The hot oil and dry metal of your old lab became a memory, a hiccup in your lungs. The years of anonymity and shadow felt irrelevant now, the possession of something greater kissing your filthy hands.
Yours.
âThank you.â
An accident. A crack in the seamless anger you had molded around your shoulders- armor. He saw it, and you felt the way it vibrated, cotton-mouthed and speechless.
You werenât supposed to thank the hand that fed you poison, not if you were already rotten. You were supposed to bite, rip itâs tendons and foam at the thought of its empty palm, bare and boneless.
But you let your awe, a spark of tender in a fire of brutal, speak for you. Moved your teeth and numbed your tongue, so the words felt effortless, light.
Maybe, even, forgiving.
Miguel nodded, his silence a salvation. He knew what you felt, and how it wrecked you. But he didnât acknowledge it, and for the second time you felt like expressing gratitude.
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A drowse. An ease. A lull.
You tried to describe overwhelming air that surrounded you when you stepped back out into the hallway with any word that wasnât comfortable.
It couldnât be, for the sake of your enmity, your acid. You had to make him drunk on it, the burn of astringency rotting his throat, signing his respite.
It would make your victory, the loosening of your leash at the sight of the other side of the fence, all the more delicious.
(But taste wasnât your strongest sense, was it?)
Could you live on the sight of polished metal? The feeling of the lab under your fingers, itâs gleam on the life-lines of your palm? Do you take the peace offering (domestication of a cornered dog), or do you fight it, wrestling the cage you put yourself in?
Do you drink itâs draft, eat itâs still, the heart of it all stuck in your canines?
(Monster, theyâd call you. But youâd be fed.)
Perhaps, his shadow wouldnât starve you. You were no flower. You didnât belong with daffodils and lavender; you grew with the moss and fungus and the dirt they sat between. You could be a creature of midnight, if you chose.
But you didnât like the dark. Firmly rooted in childish imagination, chills never ceased when the lights went out. You hated sleeping with a lamp, or the screen of a computer (a grown substitute for your childhood night-light), but you hated the depths more. Dissimilar to those your age, you never grew out of that fear.
(But could you?
It all made you reconsider your wariness in Miguel. Would you be the same, without your spite? Does it kill your fire, or ignite it? You donât trust these questions, but you donât trust much of anything, do you?)
The corridor was absent of buzz, and for a moment you forgot the evening had crawled down Alchemax, digging its pitch claws into its gaps and dragging the employees home.
You were alone with the company saint.
One glance at him, at his broad shoulders and strong nose, the way his mouth curves down, silenced all considerations of trust.
There was too much of him to try. Too much you were unfamiliar with, even if he gave you a sanctuary. So instead, you caged your thoughts, following him blindly even as they festered.
His stride was difficult to match, long and purposeful, but not empty of uncertainty. He stuttered around corners, paused at cross roads.
His limited visits of the floor spoke loud as he tried to navigate it.
âDo you even know where you going?â You asked, leaning forward to meet his pace.
He looked at you, offended. âOf course I do.â
He paused, looking at the left and right halls, before going left. You laughed.
âDoesnât look like it.â
He walked faster now, avoiding you.
You caught his expression, lucent under yellow bulbs. The guise looked weathered, old, as if it had been used a thousand times before, pulled from his pocket, worn from its coarse fabric.
It would be wrong to call it annoyance, anger or exhaustion. In fact, it would be wrong to call it anything at all. It was the vacancy of emotion, of a âlookâ. Miguel was hard to read, but now it felt impossible. It made you shiver, how something so absent could mean so much.
(But why did it?
You hadnât ever been bent on knowing someone more than their hands- what their fingers can weave and mold. How malleable metal and something more could be under their nails. Their face, their features their looks never mattered then, so why now- why him?
Did his words really have this much weight? Could a gesture that told you âitâs for you, itâs yoursâ so powerful and foreign that it broke the walls you has so patiently built from scratch, from pique and contempt?
Surely, your will was stronger. You couldnât be persuaded, tamed by a shiny new toy.
But maybe you had been. A glimpse of generosity, humanity in him was all you needed to let your repulsion simmer and still.
Give a dog a bone. It fetches.
At least, until you stopped throwing.)
You felt guilty.
Maybe he never meant to give you the room on purpose, and you were just desperate for something (someone) to show you appreciation.
But a part of you, the one that was good at reading underlying messages, told you he wasnât as heinous as you thought he was.
âHere, follow me.â
You werenât sure if he had actually come with you. You just had to trust that he would trust you.
(Trust falls underground. There wasnât any risk. Slow steps, small, cautious. But it was something.)
When you pointed to the elevator on the map and looked over your shoulder, his veil had vanished. It was replaced by a tranquility, one that lifted the corners of his mouth. Not quite a smile, but close.
Closer.
When you finally made it to the steel doors, the reflection that looked back at you was still foggy. But maybe that was okay.
You didnât look the same to everything.
This time though, it didnât disappear.
Instead, the box reeled, and suddenly the bottoms of your feet felt the expanse of gravity below and how still you were above it.
The short alarm felt secondary after you were plundged into darkness. Fragile, hysteric beats in your chest, followed by a string of curses.
âWeâre stuck.â
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