#bit*? upss

[ghost-of-box-five]

Bustopher jones adopted his sisters children (Alonzo Victoria and Mistoffelees) when the twins were 3-4 month old, after an accident that left themselves orphaned.

When they were nearing 6 months (Alonzo nearing a 14 months at this point) Mistoffelees gets taken by Macavity, so to protect the other two he sends them to the junkyard for protection.

While taken by mac this is were misto meets Demeter, Bomba and Mungojerrie and the 4 get really close while misto is forced to learn about his magic the hard way. ALSO Grizabella is there which causes alot of tension but she does try her hardest to make life there comfortable for them since she knows she already failed the tribe.

They are rescued/ escape 3 months later along with baby Jemima!

There are tearful reunions at the junkyard (other small hc but dem and bomba are mungo and teazers older sisters and they are all Jenny and Skimbles kids!) (Also plato is Macavitys son but his mother left him to the jellicles after he was born so mac couldnt be involved)

They have the first Jellicle ball after they're back around 10 months later (the shows ball with Macavity stealing old doot)

Now a few ocs!

Bellona Jones and Merlinite are the monochromatic siblings parents!! Bellona is Bustophers late sister and was once a jellicle protector, and like her brother she is not the most skilled dancer. She is also a tuxedo cat!

Merlinite is a smaller than average pure white cat. He is a magical cat and an excellent dancer (he was thrilled when he was first able to teach Alonzo (and then the twins) to dance when they were kittens!!) Although he was not born as a jellicle, he was adopted in by old deuteronomy and Grizabella partly in hope he could teach their eldest son how to control the more volatile parts of his magic, when it didnt work he and his mate Bellona chose to live away from the junkyard as a means to protect there soon to be born kitten!

Last oc for now bc this is getting really long sorry T^T is Hiraeth!! Hiraeth is the first kitten of Victoria and Platos, hes a mix of white and gray, and a result of their mating dance at the last jellicle ball!! Just like his uncle Tugger he is a flirt and a singer, while also having his uncles Alonzo and Mistos sass!! He is also blind but that does not stop him from trying to take over from Tuggers place in the junkyard as being the one for the ladies lol

(I wish I had pictures but I havnt drawn them digitally yet T^T)

I love this, the way Misto meets Demeter,Bomba and Jerrie is such an interesting idea!

And jdjsks Plato being Mac's son is a headcanon I also share and hold dear to my heart.

Your OCS are so good too tho jsjshs and the image of Merlinite teaching Lonzo and the twins to dance?

As for Hiraeth, I believe should take over as a treat. 🤌 Lonzo and Misto's sass and being flirty like Tugger make him sound like such a fun character

[beautifulplaceofyouth]

JJK FF/ ROYAL GUARD

CHAPTER ELEVEN | SERIES

Ch. 1

Ch. 2

Ch. 3

Ch. 4

Ch. 5

Ch. 6

Ch. 7

Ch. 8

Ch. 9

Ch. 10

Ch. 11

When you keep bumping into your personal royal guard by accident not knowing he is your guardian angel

Pairing: Jeon Jungkook!fallen angel!royal guard! × fem!reader!virgin!princess 

Word count: 3k

Rating: 18+ smut

Genre + warnings: Fluff, smut, dirty talk, crying, tears of happiness, lap straddling, a lot of pussy fingering, biting, nipple play, Jungkook groans a lot, full nakedness, big dick!jk, a little bit of rough French, neck kissing, hard orgasms, unprotected sex (wrap it before you tap it, guys :D) - she probably pregnant by the time he is done with her - upss - also mentions of marriage, paranormal romance, historical fanfiction, Kook being cold and mysterious, being his sexy self. Caring and possessive!jk! Really horny towards his princess, being a big seductive tease. A lot of swearing, cursing and a little bit of crying. The story isn’t real, just my imagination running wild so just enjoy reading!

Still waiting in Jungkook’s chambers, you nervously fidgeted, your fingers picking up stray pieces of your dress whenever your leg bounced up and down, unable to calm yourself.

This couldn’t keep happening!

Everytime you think about what happened in the forest, it makes you tremble with fear. Your palms feel sweaty and your heart is beating loudly.

What if something happened to him?!

What if they caught him?! If anything were to happen to him...

You shook your head violently.

Stop thinking like this!

Taking a deep breath, you sat straight in the chair, crossing your legs and resting your hands on your lap, trying your best to control your breathing.

Just then, the door opened revealing a servant, the lovely octopus Moe, bringing in another tray of food.

“My lady, you need to eat something. You can’t go on like this,” he said softly, afraid that he overstepped his boundaries,” The king will be back soon, don’t worry.”

You smiled at him, “ Thanks but I’m not hungry,” trying to convince him otherwise, your stomach decided to complain with a grumbling sound loud enough for him to hear and you blush with embarrassment, not believing yourself for making those kind of sounds.

He tries to hide his surprise with a polite bow and leaves the room when he finishes setting up your late dinner since it was really late, the darkness outside having already started to cover the entire castle.

A couple minutes pass by when suddenly, the door opens with a bang which caused you to jump in your seat. A familiar man enters the room.

His whole armor was covered in blood, his wings torn in some places with dried blood on them. The sight makes you gasp when he steps into the room, the door closing behind him with a bang in the same way how it was opened.

Throwing the sword on the carpet, he doesn’t even notice you sitting there by the window when he removes his face mask, revealing his beautiful face full of bruises and wounds, the right eye already forming a blue bruise on his left cheek.

A sob escapes your mouth, tears streaming down your face as you stand from your seat and hurry to him.

Grabbing his wrist, you run your fingers lightly along the purple mark that now appeared on his skin.

“Why are you here so late? Did you get attacked? Who did that?!” You asked frantically, not knowing how he even got injured like this.

Do magic beings even heal faster like from the myths?

Jungkook looks at you in surprise for a second before his expression melts into concern when he notices your teary eyes.

“Darling, please don’t cry. Everything is fine.” He says reassuringly.

Relieved, you put both of your arms around him, pulling him into a tight embrace, not caring whether or not you dirty your dress with his blood.

“I need to shower . You know I can’t stay with you smelling like blood,” he whispers, his warm breath hitting the side of your cheek as his chin rests on top of your head.

You nod, tightening your hold on him.

“Okay. But make sure to be careful. You can slip in there if it’s too slippery,” you warn him seriously and your words makes him smile at you, looking at you like you’re some wonder of the world.

“I will be extra careful and If I slip, I will call you,” he smirks with a teasing note in his promise to which you laugh and hit him gently.

“Stop making fun of me. I was worried about you when you went to fight vampires again. I thought that I will never see you again,” You said truthfully.

The corner of his eyes crinkled slightly in response, showing that he understood your meaning.

“Don’t forget who you belong to,” He says, caressing your cheeks with the tips of his fingers.

Then without saying another word, he walks to the wardrobe and takes out his clothes before leaving again.

Since he went to shower, you decided to clean yourself too since your dress had bloodstains. Taking the change of clothes, you went to the other bathroom , washing yourself as fast as possible.

Once you were done, you quickly dressed in your nightgown and walked to the bed where you lay down, staring into space, your thoughts still filled with worry.

The image of him fighting in the battlefield flashed through your mind again making you shiver uncontrollably. Why did you insist on going outside the castle if there’s danger?

With a tired sigh, you feel hot inside. Fanning yourself, you go to the big window with the balcony doors and open them wide, letting the fresh air enter the room, allowing your mind to be free of any doubts.

Trying to relax, you closed your eyes, trying to clear your mind. The last thing you wanted was to dwell on what happened earlier in the day.

After a while, you hear the bathroom door open and close softly. Not opening your eyes, your heart rate started to rise when you heard his footsteps approaching you.

He moved like a silent panther with soundless steps as it wasn’t him moving at all.

Feeling him behind you, Jungkook wraps his arms around you to nuzzle your neck.

“I missed you, princess,” he purrs, nuzzling your neck affectionately, pressing kisses against the spot between your shoulder and neck.

You hum softly in return, letting your eyes flutter shut and leaning into his embrace, enjoying the warmth radiating from his body and the smell of his cologne and fresh scent enveloping you.

“I heard that you were a bad girl for me while I was away,” he murmurs, nosing the shell of your ear, his deep voice sending shivers down your spine. His breath sends chills down your spine but he didn’t seem to mind at all as his lips brushed against your earlobe gently.

"It's my duty as your future husband and your king to punish my princess whenever she does something wrong," he adds huskily.

You feel confused,” What are you talking about?”

You feel him smiling against your neck,” You didn’t eat anything , so your body needs time to recuperate. I ordered Moe to bring you some food and a glass of wine and you haven't touched it,” he explains softly, rubbing circles on your back with one hand, the other hand resting gently on your hip.

You flush in embarrassment as you realize that he caught you. "I'm sorry."

"Don’t apologise. It’s perfectly normal to miss someone while you’re away,” he replies, his thumb brushing across the curve of your waist.

Your eyes widen as you turn around in his arms, your face only inches from his.

His eyes are blazing when he looks at you and the longer he holds eye contact, the faster you let your own drop down at your feet, too shy to see his intense stare directed at you.

“Now,now. Don’t be shy now, darling. I don’t bite,” he coos softly.

There is irony in those words because you both know that you have been bitten by him before so this sentence was necessary.

When you look up again, you lock your gaze on his black eyes, seeing his pupils dilate and his eyebrows drawn together with a sexy smirk on his lips.

Suddenly, his hands are grabbing yours, pulling you closer, his hot breathe tickling your face, forcing you to tilt your head upwards so he could kiss you more deeply.

Your hands automatically move up to his hair, holding onto him securely as he deepens the kiss; his tongue slipping past your parted lips and exploring the inside of your mouth.

Suddenly, he breaks off the kiss, resting his forehead against yours, still not breaking your stare.

“Are you still sore?” he mumbles quietly and you shake your head, trying not to giggle at his question, you were more than eager to feel him in you again.

Your hands roam through the soft locks of hair on the back of his head, slowly pulling him down until he connects his lips with yours again, kissing you passionately, his tongue invading your senses. His hands roam the rest of your body, leaving heated trails everywhere they touch.

His lips trail down to your jawline, grazing his tongue over it teasingly before biting the delicate flesh there. Making you moan in pleasure, you grab handfuls of his hair, tugging playfully.

His mouth moves from your jaw to your collarbone, sucking hard as he bites your skin once again, licking the area tenderly before moving his mouth further, finding the perfect place to leave a wet hickey under your collarbone.

Panting, he lifts himself from your body, giving you no choice but to open your eyes to look at his beautiful face as your eyes traveled down to his bare chest.

“I don’t deserve you,” he whispers with a sad little smile as he looks straight into your eyes.

Your heart clenches painfully as you take in his state.

“What do you mean?” You ask confused.

He shakes his head,” I have blood on my hands and you still let me touch you. If I wouldn’t be the king or your guardian angel, we would never be this close. You would never have been mine in the first place,” He says brokenly.

Your eyes welled up with tears at his confession as you couldn’t believe what you just heard. You knew how he feels towards you and it kills you to see him like this because you love him.

Tears roll down from your cheeks as you wrap your arms around his neck, your eyes locked with his.

“But you are my king, my guardian angel, my guard, my everything. And as long as I have you, nothing else matters. That includes blood and death and being forced to watch you kill anybody who threatens us or our family. We need to protect them and knowing that you try to protect me despite facing danger, that’s enough reason to marry you,” you confess with a small sob, burying your face into his neck.

He lets out a chuckle in disbelief, pulling you even closer to him.

“I’m glad you see it that way because I can’t wait to make you mine and you to finally be mine forever,” he replies happily as he pulls your face back to look at him.

Lifting a finger to wipe away the tears rolling down your cheeks with such tender care, you smile at him.

“It’s me who doesn’t deserve you. You’re perfect man to be my husband,” you say lovingly.

Jungkook’s expression from warm to serious,” You make me do things to you if you keep saying these kind of sweet words , Y/N. How am I supposed to resist you now?”

You laugh at that and lean forward to press your lips to his as you wrap your arms around his neck and pull him closer.

Before you can stop him, his hands lift you by the waist and he carries you onto the mattress, settling you in his lap, one of his hands traveling down to your leg while the other is holding you firmly around your waist.

Your eyes open wide in surprise at the sudden move and you feel him grinning at you wickedly before placing his lips against your neck again.

Your legs automatically wrapped themselves around his torso, pulling him closer to you.

Your eyes fall shut tightly, overwhelmed by his loving touches and his soft kisses on your skin. You couldn’t help but melt under his ministrations.

“My queen, look at me,” he says quietly as he kisses your neck again.

Slowly opening your eyes, you find him gazing right at you with love filled eyes,” Look at me when I speak to you. You belong only to me and nobody else. Only me,” he declares.

Tears form in your eyes as you blink at him, feeling overwhelmed by his passionate declaration. You nod silently with tears filling your eyes.

His lips brush against your cheek softly as he brushes his thumbs on your tears, “I’ll shower you with affection everyday if it means that you don’t cry anymore.”

You let out a small laugh,” It’s tears of joy that will make me cry. I won’t stop crying. Because I’ve already cried enough times tonight alone,” you tease him slightly.

“No. No more tears. Not after tonight. You won’t get rid of me that easily,” he states, raising an eyebrow playfully.

Leaning down, your gown’s right strap falls of your shoulder to reveal your pale flesh and even further when your breast is revealed completely. Your blush darkens and you bury your face in his neck.

His sharp breath makes you moan when he gets a clear sight of your bare nipple. Kissing your neck, his tongue hits your sensitive spot as he sucks your hardened tip lightly, making your knees weak and hands clutching on his hair.

You whimper softly, letting out small noises of pleasure as his lips travel lower down your body.

‘God, what is he doing?’ you think to yourself, your breathing growing heavier with every passing second.

Before you can question him, he slides your gown up your thighs till your bare pussy is exposed to his hungry eyes.

“Jungkook-!” you exclaim breathlessly, your whole body tensing up with nerves and anticipation, anticipating his next move.

“Shhh, don’t talk. I haven't stopped looking at you,” he murmurs huskily before lowering his face towards you.

Kissing you on the lips, he traces a path with his finger to your entrance. You let out a gasp and he immediately takes control, thrusting in two fingers. The burning sensation shoots straight to your clit making you arch your body upward, making him groan loudly against your ear.

“Breathe. Just breathe for me baby girl,” he breathes out harshly as he continues to finger fuck you slowly but steadily.

You can’t help but to whimper as his fingers are moving slowly inside of you, driving you crazy.

His tongue then slips inside your mouth, his fingers still moving inside you, causing you to let out another low moan as his mouth covers yours aggressively, thrusting inside of you relentlessly.

Bucking your hips against his lap, you felt his erection pulsing under your ass beneath that towel. Since he was in the shower, he didn’t put on any clothes on.

Moaning from the pleasure, you could only hold on, almost to the point of pain, not knowing how long will you last.

“Jungkook, Oh, Jungkook,” you pant against his lips and then your guard lost it, seeing you so close to orgasm.

Ripping the towel off his body, there was a second of silence, only your harsh breathing was heard in the room when he

enters you roughly. Your eyes flutter closed in shock before opening back up when you realize how deep he was.

The sound of air hitting your ears was the only thing you could hear as he began thrusting slowly into you, stretching you in all ways possible. The feeling of his thick muscles squeezing around your insides sent waves of arousal shooting through you and soon you were moaning into his lips as his thrusts became harder and harder.

You were coming apart at his touch. Your toes curled in pleasure as your body shook in his hold, your nails digging in to his shoulders as you came undone.

Jungkook moans loudly as he watched you come undone in front of him. His own orgasm was approaching quickly too.

Enveloping you with his wings, you see only darkness with his eyes glowing white,” Oh, my God! Oh, god, oh, god..! Yes! Fuck!” You scream out loud, feeling his hard cock hit the spot in you where you needed him most. As you start to tremble with pleasure once again, your eyes widen realizing that you couldn’t take a break,” Oh, yes, yes…” you don’t know how you even lived without this feeling before but you can’t stop thinking about him being here, now, with you, giving you pleasure like nothing you had ever experienced before.

Jungkook was beyond thrilled at the sight of you. Every time you came undone at him it was the best feeling in the world.

Taking your throat, he hits the spot deeper when your eyes roll back and you almost pass out.

“Fuck!” He growls, not even stopping when he finds his own realise.

There’s so much seed that you feel it spilling on both of you which causes your vision to blur for a moment. A small gasp escapes your throat as you come undone yet again, making you moan in pleasure.

After you finally finish your climax and your walls start feel sore, you slowly sit up on his lap, your hand on his chest.

Jungkook watches you intently, his gaze so hazy with lust and love, it’s almost scary to see him looking at you like that.

He wraps his arms around your waist, pulling you tight against his chest.

“I will arrange a priest to come to the castle tomorrow,” he murmurs against your ear.

“For what?” you ask, not understanding his purpose.

“To marry you, of course. I want you to be mine forever,” he answers and his voice sounds rough and strained, like he has been running for miles.

From his words, your walls clench around his cock and he groans, burying his head in your neck,” You like that, baby? Knowing that you will be my wife,” he whispers in your ear, his hot breath tickling your skin.

Licking your wet skin, he lets his teeth nip softly at your exposed shoulder and you let out a soft moan as goosebumps cover your entire body.

“Yes.” You whisper in return, tightening your grip on his muscular shoulders and pressing yourself to him,” I would like that very much.”

“Then it's settled. We shall get married as soon as possible,” he mutters into your ear.

You smile happily before leaning closer and placing a quick kiss on his jaw,” Okay, husband.” But not before you bumped your nose against his.

Your guardian angel only smirked," We really need to stop bumping into each other."

Be continued…

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[storieschats]

Fourth Wing Book 1 Update 1

Where I am: Page 131 of 516 (Note: Portuguese version so a bit useless for most of you guys)

Basically in the history, she and ... Xander I think have just fought after she won all her previous fights by poisoning her opponents. Next chapter they are going to do the Gauntlet whatever that is.

What I think so far: It’s ok! I think I am linking it, at least we're not going to have the case where one person gives fives stars and another one xd. The history is fast-paced and I don't find it boring, so the reading flows well.

Positive Points:

The romance for the moment is pleasing me, I'm one of those enemies to lovers, bad boys kinda girl so I like Xander and I find the relationship in general funny and what I am most interested in the story.

Violet is not a bad character apart from a few cringe moments I don’t really mind being in her head and so I don’t think the history suffers in being told in her perspective.

I like Shanon(??) her best friend in the school. She is great!

Magical schools, magical schools! Although I don't think it's one of the best conceived ever, the feeling of following a school year, having magical classes and magical challenges to overcome is an arrow to my heart and I'm not going to pretend it isn't!!!

Oh my god the characters are twenty?! Finally a romance book with normal soldier ages xd.

Negative points:

The writing irritated me a bit at first, I find it a bit melodramatic and if I have to read the word “fragile” one more time, which I suspect I will because each chapter so far has used it about twice, I'm going to write in your book as you suggested but ONLY to cross out the word fragile. Oh and the writing is also a bit meta sometimes like the author knows she's writing a romance and throws in lines like “I don't like annoying boys oh but he's so cute”. Eye roll ok there are things that have to be shown and not told.

The magic system, the kingdom, the traitors and all that don't seem very well conceived. Maybe I'm wrong and it'll be better developed later on, but for now the fantasy is rather flimsy, it feels more like modern people in a war college than people in a magical fantasy world. I hope something is done with the story of the traitors' children who are forced to go to that school, which is basically the only interesting thing I've read about the history of this kingdom. For now this romantasy has more to give to rom than tasy.

The ages xd i love the fact that they're 20 because it's more realistic but if most books sometimes make the mistake of making 15 year olds sound like they're 25 this one does the opposite and these 20 year olds sound like they're 14.

Stars if I had to give them now: 3 stars

What I think will happen:  Mira (her sister) will die cause drama, Dain will have to do something horrible or we'll find out he's actually a monster or something, because romantic triangles can never have 2 to root for. Which is a shame because I like him for the time being, but I'm sure that'll change soon. She's going to bond with the super unique and important black dragon they learn about in class because duh this isn't the first story of my life xd.

Confession: Upss I when I got to chapter like 3 or something I went to see if I could find the index to see how many chapters there were and since there was nothing at the beginning I went to see the end because sometimes they put it there and honestly without intending to I read the last sentence of the book and I know that Brannon, her brother, is alive and there is a rebellion xd sorry I only read the sentence like “welcome to the rebellion violet said Brannon”.

Last thing: Also he called her Violence instead of Violet, her name. Cringe not sexy not gonna lie.

[flwr-bloom]

i missed drawing my royale high outfits

close upss

p.s these were in my drafts for a bit :/

[srorgana1]

Invocation

Paring: Vampire Kylo/Hunter Rey

Warnings: Dark Themes (apporaching Dead Dove, you have been warned), Supernatural/Paranormal, Blood, Violence, Gore, Death, NSFW 18+, Sexual Content, Psychological and Physical Torture, Kidnapping, Hatred towards organized religion, Pain, Major/Minor character death/injury, Demonic Possession

Chapter Four

The music pulses through the cold London air as Rey wraps her coat further around herself as she knocks on the side door of AXS. She bites her lip as another cold blast hits her. She did the right knock sequence, what is taking them so long? She can feel her anger rising as she waits. Patience, she tells herself, they will know if she is unbalanced and if so will turn her away. She takes a deep breath of the icy air.

The door rattles and a peep hole opens, a bold yellow eye staring her down suspiciously. She immediately knows he’s a Naga. Her mind goes back to her training. Nagas are shape shifters; extremely intelligent, strong as hell and some depending on origin have telepathic abilities. She takes another breath and clears her mind.

She hears him hiss lowly followed by “Pleasure or Business?”. “Baal” she says flatly. She sees him blink and shut the peephole. She subconsciously checks her holsters as the door unlocks, her heart rate calming knowing she is protected at least for a little while.

The door opens, a scaly clawed hand holding it open. She keeps her eyes down as a sign of respect. “Upss the stairs and to the left. He will be with you shortly” he hisses. She nods and walks as confidently as she can up the club’s dark stairs. Reaching the top of the stairs, she takes in the scene around her.

The two levels of the club are dark and crowded, lit only by the party lights and lasers synchronized to the deep metal techno beat. She can see the lights reflecting off the curled horns of the Satyr DJ on the platform in the middle of the room. The dueling bars on either side are also packed. She schools her features as she watches humans and creatures drinking and dancing.

Not so long ago, this mingling would have been seen as an abomination. But she, like many Hunters, agree with the recent changes and exposure of the Supernatural community to the public. The Order has been working with The Council, the Supernatural Governing body and are promoting peace and respect between the races. Long gone were the days where they were used as exterminators of those different from them. The old ideas of separation clearly showed to only breed hate and violence.

She looks to the left and can see multiple men sitting around in Baal’s VIP lounge. She can see him laugh, his long hair swaying as he moves but she can’t hear it. She turns her head slightly, her eye catching the tell tale shimmer of a charm surrounding the area. Ah makes sense then.

She decides to grab a drink while she waits. She slips through the crowd, her tall but slight form a benefit. She can feel eyes on her from multiple people. She keeps her face neutral as she makes it up to the bar.

Sliding onto a bar stool, she looks back at the VIP lounge. There is a tall man now standing pointing his finger aggressively at a smirking Baal. “Hey beautiful, what would you like?” a silky voice says. She looks over to a stunning white haired nymph. Her eyes widen as the nymph smiles at her coyly. “Been here before? You seem a bit overwhelmed” she says, pouring a shimmering blue drink into a martini glass.

“She’s fine, Ellwyn. She’s with me, stop glamouring her” an annoyingly familiar voice says behind her. She watches the nymph scoff as Poe sits down next to Rey. Poe is one of the older Hunters on the Investigative team. His arrogance always rubbed Rey the wrong way. It didn’t help that he always had an eye for her and the other female Hunters that always made her slightly uncomfortable.

She shakes her head, feeling the magick recede. She scowls at the both of them, frustrated with herself. “Is she with you professionally or romantically Poe? Because I think we could talk her into a little fun” she says, swaying her hips. This time she can feel the tendrils of her magick tickling at her baby hairs.

She seals her mind, shutting her off. “Professionally only” she says sternly “and I must say, it’s very unprofessional to glamour your customers without their consent.” She watches the nymph pale a little as she steps back, her sky blue eyes focused on the pin on her label. “My apologies, I didn’t know who you were. Let me get you something on the house” she says, scampering away to the other side of the bar.

Rey turns and scowls at Poe. “First off what the hell was that and two why are you here? Are you tailing me?” she says angrily, her cheeks burning. She sees Poe smirk as he swipes the drink in front of her, taking a big sip. “Well, I am here for pleasure but I think without me you would have fallen for one of Baal’s little decoys. He does it to see if you're really here for business” he says, winking at her.

She growls, further frustrated with herself. This was not how she wanted this to go. She stands and pushes herself off the stool, leaving a laughing Poe behind. “Be careful Rey” he calls “there’s more where that came from so be aware.” She nods and turns into the crowd, making herself focus on the energies of the room.

While she was trained to focus and separate energies for the purpose of hunting, the energy here is unique. It swirls around her with the beat of the music, melding into its own entity. She looks over to evaluate Baal. He is alone and looking at her, smiling viciously. Finally.

She turns and slams right into a man’s hard chest. “Oh my I am so sor…” she stammers, her words dying in her throat as she looks up. The man is gorgeous. His dark hair and eyes play off his pale beauty marked skin. The lights of the club dance off him, but she can tell he’s big and solid under his dark suit. The magick coming off of him is intoxicating, sucking her in even more.

He holds her stare far longer than appropriate as he side steps her, nodding his head slightly as he is swallowed up by the crowd. She turns her head, wanting another taste of his seductively dark signature. For some reason she wants him to look at her again. She wants to dive into those captivating eyes and never surface.

She barely feels Baal’s magick beckoning her to join him until she hears his voice in her head. Her cheeks burn as she turns and heads towards him. He laughs lowly as she steps into his space.

His appearance is otherworldly. His ash colored skin is offset by his bold black and red eyes. He twirls his long hair around a dark talon as he lounges on a chaise lounge like a some diety. She nods respectfully awaiting his cue. “Sit Reyna” he says, his long arm motioning to his left. His voice is low and hypnotic, full of unnatural power.

He shifts as he focuses his dark eyes on her. She can feel his influence radiating off him. She takes a breath, sealing her mental walls. “Thank you for allowing me to speak with you, I really appreciate it” she says. He chuckles again as he magicks two drinks onto the table in front of her.

“The pleasure is mine” he purrs, grabbing a glass “I was wondering when The Order’s most up and coming Hunter would grace me with her…alluring presence.” A sly smile gracing his sharp features as she feels his energy surround her. She stiffens as she feels the tendrils of his magick caressing her form, toying with the laces of her jacket. She must keep strong, show she is worthy. Then and only then, she will get what she came for.

“I am looking into a couple disappearances and I along with The Order are concerned this may be a larger situation” she says, her eyes narrowing on him. He hums and licks his dark full lips. “I must ask why do you think I would know anything about this?” he says over his drink. She fights rolling her eyes at his coyness. “If I understand anything about the Supernatural community, you holding one of The Council seats as well as being Head Seer makes you pretty privy to new information that could be beneficial” she says, folding her arms across her chest.

He smiles widely, showing her his fangs. She feels his magick recede as one lone tendril caresses her jaw before going back to its master. “I see you growing a formidable warrior Reyna” he says, his eyes blacking out. “Trust your instincts for our world is in danger. The darkness is rising and will overflow with 12 and 1. The one comes for you but not for the reasons you think. Be careful of your alliances for some are false. You must accept yourself or The Order will fall.”

She nods, memorizing Baal’s words. She knows she is very lucky to receive information directly from Europe’s top Supernatural but now she has to break it down and understand what it means. She watches his eyes return to normal with a saucy mischievous smirk. “Thank you for your time” she says while taking a small sip of the drink before her. “He’s here by the way” he says, magicking himself a refill. She freezes, staring at him again.

“What?” she whispers. He laughs again, waving his hand at the packed club. “Both are here right now actually. The one who seeks you and the one who wishes you and The Order gone” he says, sipping his new drink. She feels her heart rate increase in excitement.

“Go and mind my warning little Hunter. Our world and The Order are in danger of being swallowed up by darkness again. Use your instincts and trust yourself” he says ominously as he dismisses her with a flourish of his dark hand. She bows her head again as she exits the lounge, her mind and body primed and ready for the Hunt.

[rengoku-theflamehashira]

She nooded in agreement and said umai after every bite like Rengoku, after she had left a bit food left she showed Senjuro the food and nooded with a big smile at him ”Do you want try something from my food Senjuro? Where do you would like to go here at the festival? Something with food or something different?„ She asked him and chuckled while she still watched Rengoku eating his food, she approached him and watched him directly into his shiny eyes who looked happy about the food he was eating. She chuckled and kissed her fingers and pushed it lightly against his cheek ”Upss did I cheek kissed you accidentally~„ She hided her face and chuckled against Senjuro ”I love teasing your big brothef in cute way~„ She whispered to the younger brother and smiled lightly with blushing cheeks ”But...pssst don't tell him, I really must say I like him...he is kinda sweet„ She said and looked shy

(I can try of course, I still learn writing more text :3)

Although he was busy consuming his Foods, he quickly got distracted when koyuki did such unexpected move making him flustered "Oh?" was the only word he could said in his current condition, he was blushing and frozen on his spot as he slightly became curious of what she's saying to Senjuro, but at some point he was a little jealous because senjuro got to be too close to her

(Your new way of writing is impressive, keep improving:))

[alexiaugustin]

Seeing y’all freak out about the love triangle and shit while I’m just out here thriving, thinking about how my crush loves skating too and how wonderful it would be to just skate through Paris with her, holding her hand like that, the music playing in the background... wonderful let’s do this one day

[everyonesfavoritelesbowrites]

Upss, sorry for the confusion 🙏🏻 Now that I know who I'm writing to, can I ask for some canon-verse fluff? I'll leave you choose the rest of the details, I'm just yearning hard and I need all the fluff and cuddles 😭. Have a good day 😊

Do not worry about the confusion! I totally get it! I would do the same! 😂

Miss you

Rayamaari - RATLD

Canon

Rating: G

TW: fluff

Ao3

Their relationship is still fresh, becoming girlfriends only recently. So they are still treading lightly through this unknown territory, neither quite knowing how to manage a romantic relationship—toi, they barely know how to handle a platonic one. 

But they are figuring that out together. 

One thing that proved most difficult was that they couldn't always see each other. Both of them are busy being princesses and heirs of their kingdom, having duties to fulfill and training to become leaders of their land. 

But whenever they could have some time together, it made all the waiting and longing worth it. 

"You can't just stand here all day waiting for her, dewdrop." 

Raya turns to find her ba standing a bit behind her, having not noticed he was there before. She instantly tries to hide her giddiness, not wanting anyone to know that is exactly what she was doing. 

Raya flushes, scoffing, "of course not, I am not going to stand here all day." 

"Oh really," Benja smiles amusingly, "what is it that you are doing then, dewdrop?" 

"I'm just, uh," she starts, looking around nervously, swinging her arms a bit as she thinks, "I'm just… enjoying the view…" 

“The view, hmm?” Benja gives her a knowing look, “are you sure it doesn’t have anything to do with Namaari arriving today?” 

“Nope, nothing to do with that.” Raya crosses her arms, pretending to be clueless, “I didn’t even know that she’s coming here today.”

“Is that so? Then I guess you wouldn’t care that she is over there?” Benja point behind her, watching as his daughter’s eyes grow wide, her facade easily dropping. 

“Where?” Raya gasps, turning around, searching for the woman in question. Benja laughs, knowing his daughter would fall for it.  

Raya turns back to her ba with an annoyed expression, “you’re mean.” 

Benja shakes his head, chuckling, and places his hand on her shoulder, “it’s okay if you are excited to see her. In fact, I would be worried if you didn’t.”

“It’s… not weird?” Raya blushes slightly. 

He smiles knowingly but amused, "it's not weird. You haven't seen her in a while and it's normal to be excited to see her." 

Raya nods, trying to hide that she is still embarrassed.

"I'm sure she'll be here soon, dewdrop," Benja states, giving her shoulder a small squeeze before pulling back his hand. “I have to go now and I would say don’t stand out here for too long but I know you aren’t going to leave until Namaari arrives.” 

Raya laughs, knowing it just as much as him even if she refused to admit it. She watches her ba leave, heading back to the palace to do… whatever he needed to do, something diplomatic. Raya didn’t care what, only caring about seeing Namaari after being apart for a whole moon. 

Luckily, she doesn’t have to wait too much longer. 

Just a few moments later, Raya is greeted with a familiar sight—Namaari riding on top of her serlot, emerging from the forest to the open grass, slowing as she approaches the bridge. 

Raya can't hold back her smile, her breath catching and muscles twitching in excitement. 

The moment Namaari’s serlot steps onto the bridge and Namaari slides off of her, Raya books it. She runs as fast as she can towards Namaari, the latter going to meet her halfway, opening her arms wide for Raya to jump into. 

And that’s exactly what she did, almost knocking Namaari over with the force of the impact, both of them laughing.

Namaari’s grip on her is tight but so is Raya’s, holding each other in a strong embrace. Raya’s arms around Namaari’s neck, burying her face into it while Namaari holds her around her waist, pressing her face into Raya’s hair. 

Raya pulls away after a few seconds, just enough so she can see Namaari’s face. 

“I missed you so much.” 

Namaari smiles before she captures Raya’s lips, kissing her chaste but passionately. Raya kisses her back with the same amount of passion but Namaari pulls away before it gets any further, still smiling down at her with that beautiful smile of hers.

“I missed you too.”

[tealenko]

Never Have I Ever (Chapter 2)

Chapter 2: No, No you Don't

Sooo... I know, it's been a while. In my defense, this thing is like 4 chapters in one... So if you liked chapter 1 get ready for more!!

As always, I'll leave at the end the translation for the Spanish stuff.

There's some reference to my fic Somebody that I Used to Know (but you can follow the story if you haven't read it). This is now part 3 of my Through Hell and Back series.

Ah! And this may have some grammar mistakes, I did my best to catch them all but this one is too long T-T

Hope you like it.

Summary: Shepard finds Kaidan, Garrus and Vega way too drunk and completely out of control, which turns into an obstacle in her quest of getting some alone time with Kaidan. Will she manage to get her way or will she be drawn into her friends madness.

Words: 10630 (upss...) Rating: Teens and up Warning: Tons of alcohol, language

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Shepard comes out of the port cargo and starts walking, feeling happier than ever as she hums and drums the fingers of her right hand on her leg. She has no words to describe how glad she is that her shift is finally over and how eager she is to share what’s left of her free time with Kaidan, now that she’s done with her round.

Nevertheless, her rational mind gets in her way once again as soon as she makes it to the elevator, when a small voice inside of her head appears out of nowhere to remind her about her responsibilities.

Uff… Well… I should check one last time, just in case. She thinks, trying to convince herself to do the right thing.

“Ahh…” She sighs, before speaking out loud. “EDI, is there anything I should know?” Please say no, please say no. Please… Say no.

“Garrus was looking for you.” EDI answers.

Great. She lets her shoulder fall and groans. Just great. Perfect. “Is he in his usual spot?”

“No, port observation.”

“Port observation? Really?” She asks, more to herself than to the AI, a little bit surprised by the thought of his friend not calibrating something right now. Perhaps he’s all done with the cannons and now is trying to see if he can level the poker table.

Shepard laughs at her own thoughts, feeling a bit grateful that no one can neither hear her joke nor see how much she’s enjoying her own comment.

“Anything else, Shepard?”

“Erm… No. Thanks.” She adds, coming back to reality. “That’ll be all, EDI.”

“Logging you out.”

A second after her conversation with EDI ends the elevator doors open right in front of her, showing her the empty interior. Well, don’t worry about it yet… Maybe it’s something quick. She thinks as she enters.

Shepard makes it to the crew deck in record time and, a few feet away from reaching her destination, she starts to hear the voices coming out of the room, laughing out loud and screaming incoherent things.

“Oh Lord… Not this again.” Shepard shakes her head, remembering what happened the last time she heard those noises coming from that specific room, when James and Garrus, drunker than she had ever seen them before, decided to interrogate her about her love life a few weeks ago. “Well…” She sighs, accepting what’s to come at an impressive pace. “Let's see what this is all about.”

She’s ready to enter when she suddenly discerns a laugh she wasn’t expecting to hear at all in this scenario, way too familiar and warm to be mistaken for another one, which causes a wicked smile to appear on her face.

Oh my… Now… This is interesting. She thinks, way more intrigued now in their whole conversation than a few seconds ago, now that she knows that Kaidan takes part in it.

“Ayy...” She can hear James say, struggling to breathe. “I don’t know the last time I laughed so hard.”

“I do… Shepard almost killed us because of it.” Garrus says right at the same time that she decides to enter the room.

Shepard manages to control her laugh long enough to start talking, ready to take this opportunity the universe has granted her to get some payback.

“That may happen again.” She says, completely serious, raising one of her eyebrows a little.

James’ face changes right away, and his laughter is quickly replaced by fear.

“Well, mierda.” He says a second later, which almost makes her break out of character, but she somehow manages to keep her act together despite his reaction.

“So...” Shepard says, waking to the bar area and putting one of her hands on Garrus’ shoulder while she lets the other rest on Kaidan’s. “Who’s gonna start talking this time?”

“Errrmmm...” Shepard hears one of them say while she turns a little to look at Kaidan, who seems too drunk to be aware of her presence in the room, way too busy staring at his whiskey bottle to realize that there’s a new person in the room.

“Come on guys… Don’t you learn from your mistakes?” She says moving her head slowly, piercing James with her eyes and tightening the grip on Garrus’ shoulder.

The turian shivers a little and looks directly to his friend, begging for his help without saying anything.

“It was Jefe’s idea.” The lieutenant comes back to the rescue, pointing at Kaidan.

“Yep… This is all because of him.” Garrus joins him without a second thought, ready to sacrifice Kaidan if that’s what he has to do to get out of this situation. “We tried to warn him.”

“Yeah, sure… I somehow find that hard to believe, guys.” She says with a cold smile on her face, which makes the both of them fall in absolute silence for a while, trying to figure out a way to survive this conversation.

After a few seconds like this, Kaidan finally notices her presence, so he turns a little to see the new addition to the group, gathering all of his force to avoid falling to the ground as he does so.

His face lights up as soon as he sees her, and he even needs to shake his head a little to make sure she isn’t a product of his imagination.

“Oh… Hey… Look who’s here.” He smiles at her and grabs her hand. “Hi.” Kaidan greets her, pulling a little from Shepard to bring her closer as he stares at her, which almost makes her forget they aren’t alone.

She smiles back for a few seconds, completely overtaken by how cute he looks in this state, feeling her heart radiating heat inside her body. This is going to be more difficult than I thought.

After taking a second to compose herself, Shepard resumes her original plan, managing to push down all her feelings and go back to her look of concern.

“Oh my… How much have you been drinking, guys?” She asks with a severe expression on her face.

His two friends start looking to the ground to avoid her gaze as Kaidan starts to think about her question for a while, turning to look at the empty bottle of whiskey once again.

“More than we should’ve, that’s for sure.” He finally says while laughing.

“Maybe drinking this much isn’t wise, Kaidan… You’ll have a terrible headache tomorrow.” He smiles at her, feeling touched by her worry, tightening the grip of her hand.

“I’ll have one no matter what so...” Kaidan says in a joking tone as he shrugs his shoulders, causing her to shake her head and sigh.

“Kaidan…” She adds with concern, but the only thing she accomplishes is to make his smile even bigger, to the point his eyes are almost closed because of it.

“You’re wonderful, you know that?” He says as their gaze melts into one. “Among other things…”

Shepard blushes a little, not knowing what to say to that comment.

“Like what?” Garrus asks right away, very interested by the new course the conversation has taken.

“Yeah… What else?” James joins him, letting the possibility of instant amusement cast away any fear for Shepard’s reaction to their teasing.

She doesn’t respond with words, but the shift in her expression tells them all they need to know, creating an atmosphere tense enough to be cut with a knife.

“Guys… You should calm down a little, she seems angry.” Kaidan whispers to both of them, shielding his mouth with his hands, like that’s gonna keep her from hearing what he’s saying. “If you keep it like this, maybe this time you won’t be so lucky as the last one.”

“Hey, now we need to know, Jefe.” James answers right away, unable to hold his curiosity.

“No, no you don’t.” Shepard interrupts them. “Have you never heard that curiosity killed the cat?” She bluntly warns them.

The room gets filled with a thick silence the moment she delivers that sentence, casting away the previous mood and letting no hint of amusement or teasing left in their bodies, which are quickly being filled now with distress and worry.

All three of them freeze in place as Shepard tops her veiled threat with intense eye contact, but after a few seconds of holding her menacing gaze, she’s unable to keep the whole act together any longer and bursts into laughter, almost losing her balance because of it.

“Wait… Were you shitting us, Lola?” James asks, both surprised and amused.

“Aaaahhhh… ” She chuckles while bringing one hand to her chest. “I can’t believe you actually fell for that.” She gives Garrus a soft push on the shoulder. “Just teasing you a little, guys.”

“Making us pay for our sins?” He asks, catching up with all that’s happening.

“Something like that.” Shepard adds with a big smile on her face. Well… Maybe I can use it as an excuse to get him out of here. “Jokes aside, I really think you should go rest a little, Kaidan.” She lowers her voice a little. “I can take you to the starboard observation, if you want to… Lie down for a bit.”

“I’m fine.” He smiles at her, releasing her hand to raise his arms in the air. “We’re having a good time.”

“But… Don’t you wanna… Ermmm… Go to bed?” She insists, praying for him to understand the true meaning of her words.

But he doesn’t. In fact, none of them does. Instead, they just look at her, half confused, half relieved she’s not that mad at them.

“It’s okay, I can sleep here.” Kaidan answers her with a big smile.

“What!? Here!?” She sees him nod with a contented expression on his face. “You have to be kidding me.”

Garrus grabs her by her shoulder.

“Don’t worry about it, Shepard.” He almost yells as he brings her closer to him.“We’re just relaxing.”

“Way too much if you ask me…” She sighs and turns a little to speak with him. “Why did you want to see me, by the way?”

“What?” Garrus makes his best effort to understand what she means, but he doesn’t succeed right away.

“EDI said you wanted to see me, for something?”

“Ah yeah… I wanted you to ask you...” He cuts himself before it is too late and manages to rectify the course of his sentence. “Something, yeah… Something. But it doesn’t matter anymore.” He smiles, or does whatever it is that turians do when they’re happy. “Why don’t you join us?”

“Yeah, sure.” She answers in a mocking tone.

“You are no fun, Shep.” Garrus complains as he signals James to join him in his attempts to make her stay.

“I can’t believe what I’m hearing...” Shepard says in disbelief, mainly to herself.

“You wanna know what your problem is Lola?” James says pointing at her.

“No, no you don’t.” Kaidan says immediately, trying to warn her. “Believe me.”

For some strange reason she finds James' attempt at teasing her quite amusing, and a big part of her now wants to see where this is leading to.

“Enlighten me.” She demands, willing to play along.

“You don’t know how to relax.” He shrugs his shoulders and raises his hands a little as he says this.

“No.” She smiles and makes a small pause. “The problem is that you can’t hold your drink. Men… You’re supposed to be Alliance soldiers, for the love of God.” Shepard says before turning to look directly at the turian. “And whatever it is that you are, Garrus.” She and James laugh at the same time, way too amused by their friend's expression. “How would the turian hierarchy react if they saw the current state of their almighty reaper expert?”

Shepard uses her fingers to emphasize ‘reaper expert’ as she says all this, which only makes James start to laugh even more, managing to put a somewhat upset expression on the turian’s face.

“Then show us how it’s done.” He says after a few seconds, triumphantly managing to turn the tables.

“No thanks...” She says almost grinding her teeths.

“Don’t want to put your money where your mouth is, eh?” James says before moving to look at Garrus. “Take note about that one, Scars.”

The turian switches on his omnitool and looks at it for a second before realizing it was a figure of speech, so he turns it off right after and decides to pretend no one has seen him doing that.

“Yeah Shep, don’t you want to put your money where your… Mouth is?” Garrus repeats his friend’s sentence, not knowing the true meaning but understanding it enough to know it is a way to get Shepard into drinking.

“Well, first of all, I won’t get drunk, so there’s no point.” She stops to remember something and laughs at the thought of it. “You can ask the doctor if you don’t believe me, she’s paid the consequences of making the mistake of trying to outdrink me.” She smiles and turns to her left a little. “And second, I’m... not in the mood… for a drink, I mean.” She says, wishing Kaidan was able to understand the true meaning of her words.

“Since when?” Garrus asks, almost confused. “You used to drink so much back when we were with Cerberus that the bar was always half empty.”

“Yeah. I know. I just… Have different plans in my mind right now.” She says, cursing Kaidan for not understanding what she’s trying to imply.

“You aren’t pregnant, are you Lola?” Kaidan drops his glass to the ground as soon as James’ question comes out of his mouth and, with the surprise of both the sentence and the glass smashing against the ground, he almost sobers up in a matter of seconds.

In the meanwhile, Garrus is trying his best to survive, not knowing of what he should be more afraid of: what holding his laughter is going to do to his body or whatever it is that Shepard is going to do to him if he fails to do the latter.

What he doesn’t realize is that she is way too busy right now killing James with her gaze to pay attention to the mix of cough and laughter that seems to be overtaking Garrus.

In less than a second, she leans over the bar and flicks James on his forehead with her fingers, with such speed that it’s impossible for him to dodge the hit in time.

“Auch.” He complains, touching the impact zone with his right hand.

“I’ll just pretend you did not just say that.”

Kaidan turns slowly to look at her, with a very unsure look on his face, almost too afraid to ask.

“Are you?”

“No.” She says, turning to look at him, but he doesn’t seem too reassured by her answer, so she tries a second time. “No!”

Kaidan sighs in relief, which makes the other two start to laugh once again.

“Then you have no reason not to drink, Lola.” James insists, way too amused to hold back.

“Jesus… I just have a lot to do, okay!?” Shepard almost screams at the end of her sentence, to the point where she needs to take a moment to calm herself and breath

“No, no you don’t.” James replies to her with a big smile on his face. “This is your free time! Stop working!”

“Who’s Jesus?” Garrus asks Kaidan, way too confused about everything they’ve just said.

“And I’m supposed to spend it drinking?” Shepard asks James over their conversation.

“The name of Jesus in human history usually makes reference…” Kaidan cuts himself mid explanation. “You should let it ride Garrus… This one will take too long to explain.”

“What can be better than drinking?” James’ smile deepens, realizing he’s convincing her slowly but surely.

I do want a drink… She says to herself. But I can think of at least one thing that I want even more. She laughs at her own thoughts while Garrus keeps talking to Kaidan.

“Well, you may be right, Alenko… In any case, I’m too drunk to remember anything you try to explain.” Garrus chuckles at his own sentence and, after a quick thought crosses his mind, his laughter gets louder. “You know who isn’t drunk enough?” He inquires, almost yelling, throwing his question to the air but answering before anyone else in the room has the chance to do so. “Shepard!”

“Yeah! We are off-duty Lola...”

“I’m pretty aware of it, believe me. There’s just… Other things... I would like to be doing right now.” Shepard says this looking directly into Kaidan’s eyes, in a hopeless attempt to make him understand the true meaning of her words. But, when he doesn’t, she starts to think about how much she really needs a drink right now to put up with this conversation. ”You guys are like surgeons.” She laughs at her own comment and they join her right away.

“Even Kaidan is drinking, Shepard. If that isn’t a sign of what’s the right thing to do...” She looks at Kaidan, and starts to wonder how they’ve managed to trick him into getting in that state. “Plus, you said you don’t get drunk. So what’s the problem?”

“I think she was lying about holding her drinks, Scars.” James says as he leans on top of the bar.

“Nice try Vega, you really think I’m gonna fall for that?” Shepard pokes him on one shoulder as she says this.

“There’s only one way to prove yourself, Lola.” He replies with a big smile on his face, knowing precisely where to hit.

Garrus joins James in nis never ending loop of teasing and questioning her, not even waiting for a proper answer, way too amused with the whole situation and by trying to top whatever the other has said before.

“Ahh… She’s lying, she can’t prove it.”

“Yeah, she only wants to call our attention.”

“I’m sure she can’t even outdrink the doctor.”

“The doctor? I bet you whatever you want she can’t outdrink a salarian.”

These two keep coming up with new ways to provoke Shepard for a while, as she remains silent watching the whole scene in awe along with Kaidan, who, after they spend a good few minutes like that, turns to her and touches her arm softly to gain her attention.

“They aren’t gonna stop until you drink.” He whispers to her ear while the other two keep bickering, ignoring the couple completely. “Believe me, I’ve been there.”

“Ah, for the love of God...” She moves her hand to ask James for a drink, and sees a big smile immediately forming on his face. “Is the only way you two are gonna shut up… Don’t you feel ashamed of yourself, guys?”

“No, no we don’t.” They both cheer at the same time.

James starts to pull up bottles out of nowhere and starts to mix his concoction at the speed of light, with a big evil smile forming on his face as he does it.

“Look who’s scary now, Vega.”

“We still need her to win the war, Jimmy.” Garrus says to him. “So try not to kill her.”

“Is that even possible?” He asks in a mocking tone.

“What are you talking about?” Shepard says with a big smile on her face. “I’ve died a lot of times, guys.”

“Yeah… But you keep missing the point that you’re not supposed to wake up once you do, Shep.” Garrus pats her back and she starts to laugh at his comment, followed right away by everyone else in the room.

“Here you have it.” James puts the cocktail in front of her and points at it with his hand open, facing upwards. “If you survive this thing, I can assure you no drink will ever be able to put you down.”

“Do I wanna know what’s in this?” She asks as she takes a second to inspect the mysterious liquid.

“No, no you don’t.” All three of them say at the same time.

Without a hint of hesitation she grabs the glass and downs the drink in just a few seconds, puting it upside down and shaking it over her head once she’s done with it to prove there’s nothing left in it.

The three men start to cheer in unison and clap their hands, or talons, as she makes a subtle reverence followed by a loud laugh.

“That’s what I’m talking about!” James says, hitting the bar a few times as a new way to applaud her. “See what I told you guys? No sips, just drink the whole thing.”

“You really went for it, eh Vega?” She laughs, focussing her gaze on the bottom of her empty glass. “You even put rynchol in it”

“How do you know that?” He asks her in complete awe. “Did you see me grab the bottle?”

“Nah… I can tell the taste apart. It’s quite a good mix, actually.” She says looking at the array of the bottles on top of the bar. “You’ve made a good decision, mixing it with gin. Is the best option here… Plus, I’m a gin kind of girl.”

“How on Earth do you know what ryncol tastes like?” Kaidan says looking at her, half in awe, half concerned.

“The question here is how on Earth are you acting this normal after drinking it?”

“Te falta calle, Vega.” She laughs at James as she puts the glass on top of the bar. “You forget that I grew up on the streets, kid… I started drinking before you finished elementary school.”

“You’re not that much older than me.” Shepard shrugs her shoulders and smiles.

“Well, then I guess that I’m just better.” She adds with a big grin on her face.

“Good one Shep, teach him a lesson.” Garrus pats her on the back one more time. “Why don’t you have another one with us?”

She looks at her glass for a few seconds, contemplating her options.

“Is this how they got you?” She asks Kaidan, resting her elbow on top of his shoulder as he nods at her.

Well… Option A is definitely out of the list, or better said, way too drunk to understand me. Should I? I mean… ”Ahhhh, whatever… We may all die tomorrow, so who fucking cares anymore?”

“That’s exactly what I said.” Garrus adds, part happy, part surprised by the coincidence, while James mixes her another cocktail and places it in front of her.

“Besides, I’m so freaking happy right now that not even you two can spoil it.” She raises her glass and stops for a second in order to make a toast. “To annoying friends.” She says before downing her drink even faster than the previous one.

Garrus laughs, taking a moment before starting to talk, full with anticipation by the course the conversation is about to take.

“We are quite aware of your happiness, Shepard.” He says looking at her to catch her reaction.

“Yeah, we know everything Lola.” James almost screams, with a big smile on his face. “We even got Major lover boy here all drunk just to confirm it!”

“Oh guys, you really are something else… Wait, Major what!?”

Garrus and James start to laugh as hard as they did when they came up with the nickname, almost to the point of tearing up and falling to the ground.

“Ufff… Please ignore them.” Kaidan huffs. “They’re just like little kids… Annoying, but harmless.” She laughs at his comment and comes closer to him.

“So… Should I start calling you that?” She says with a wicked grin on her face.

“Please don’t.” Kadan answers right away, which causes her smile to get even bigger.

He shakes his head softly and responds to her smirk with one of his own, wondering if her words are the result of the high content of alcohol she just ingested in less than a few minutes and which seems only the beginning of what she’s going to drink.

Shepard, tired of waiting for James to stop laughing and prepare her the next one, is now scouting the display of bottles in front of her searching for one of her liking.

“Aha!” She says once she finds a decent brand of gin. “This one will do.”

“If you’re going to keep drinking like that you should at least sit down.” Kaidan reaches for her arm, caressing it with his finger while his eyes search for hers.

Shepard smiles at his words, touched by the fact that he worries about her even when he’s this drunk.

“Awww, look at them… The human specter power couple.” Garrus says to James, still laughing a bit. ”How cute they are.”

Kaidan blushes a little and does his best to avoid direct eye contact with either of them. Shepard, on the other hand, is looking at them with a severe expression forming on her face.

“Is this how you got the job, lover boy?” James asks in between laughs.

Kaidan turns his head just in time to see Shepard’s hand closing into a fist.

“Guys, you should st…” He tries before Garrus cuts him.

“Sorry… But we have a ton of questions now that we have you here. So you’re not getting off that easily.”

Shepard’s breathing gets a little bit deeper and her expression starts to gradually go from uncomfortable to annoyed.

“Guys…” Kaidan insists without success, getting interrupted once again. Although this time James is the one who does it, taking the whole conversation to another level.

“Yeah! We want answers.” James demands, hitting the bar once again. “Starting for how did you go from almost killing her to convince her to have sex with you.” “I mean, don’t get me wrong, what a move! You need to tell us.”

Shepard leaves her bottle of gin on top of the bar with one strong and loud impact that startles everyone else. Her eyes stay glued to it for a few seconds before they move to look at James, filled with disapproval.

“Don’t you two have anything more important to do than to keep meddling in my personal affairs?”

They migrate from surprised to terrified in an instant, sharing a quick loot that only manages to grow their concerns.

The laugh that invaded the room a few seconds ago is now replaced by an uncomfortable silence that surrounds them as she slowly moves to face Garrus.

“I mean, one would think that with the war and everything we’re going through, you guys would’ve sorted your priorities better.” She says with a calmer and lower voice than usual, which actually manages to scare them even more.

“Errm...” Is the first thing any of them say to break the thick silence, way too terrified to be able to form an entire word.

James takes a step back without even noticing it, like his body is now taking decisions on his own and telling him to get away as fast as he can. Nevertheless, this sudden movement only manages to do the opposite, as it seems to catch Shepard’s attention back to him.

“Vega.”

“Yes ma’am?” He answers almost as a reflex.

“You should see your face right now...” Shepard smiles, grabbing back her bottle of gin and drinking a big gulp.

James’s jaw drops almost to the ground, his eyes seeking for the turian one more time, although now is only to make sure that this is really happening. They look at each other in awe for a few seconds before Garrus’ mental processes manage to catch up with reality and create a proper reaction to her words.

“Holy shit Shepard, you need to stop doing that.” He says as he watches his friend rejoice in the results of her revenge, taking a few sips as she does so.

“No, no I don’t.” She laughs, as she poins James with the hand that is holding the bottle. ”Hey, you don’t know how lucky you are that I didn’t hold it any longer. I was about to hit you with the ‘I’m disappointed in you’ kind of monolog.”

“Ufff… That was mean, Lola.” James can’t avoid smiling as he says this, feeling a new type of respect for Shepard.

“Oh, you deserve it! I mean, if I have to get through this a second time at least I’m going to have a good laugh.”

She drinks again from her bottle as her friends start to relax and recover from the roller coaster they just went through.

“Not mad, then?” James asks.

“Like I’m gonna care if you two tease me a little about my sex life.” She says laughing at the whole situation. “Just be careful not to go too far, eh Vega? You don’t wanna see what happens when I get angry for real.” She puts her bottle down and turns to look at Kaidan right after. “Now, I really think we should go, don’t you think?”

“I don’t feel like moving… Well, better said, I don’t know if I’ll be able to do so.” He laughs and tries to correct his posture a little, feeling like he’s going to fall from his stool at any time soon. “Why don’t you sit with us?”

“Ay… Okay, maybe for a little.”

“That was easy… You argue with us for minutes about staying and he just has to ask to convince you?” James asks as he smiles at Shepard. Both of them look at each other for a few seconds, trying to hold their laughter before failing miserably, being well aware of why Kaidan has that power and they do not. “Ayyy… Scars, you should move so the happy couple can sit together.”

Before this one is able to respond to James’ request, Shepard finds a solution to her sitting problem, way more fun that the one being proposed, and manages to put it in motion in record time.

“Oh, don’t worry.” She moves next to Kaidan and, with a little hop, sits on top of him, completely free to do so now that both of her friends are aware of their relationship. “There, finally sitting” Kaidan lowers his head a little trying to hide his smile, but she’s not going to let pass this oportunity to torture him so easily. “So… How’s the evening going so far?” Her hands start traveling his body to finally rest around his waist. “Getting rid of the stress, Major?”

“Mio...” He whispers almost as a prayer only she is able to hear.

“Sorry to tell you this Commander, but he doesn’t want us to call him major.”

“Don’t you?” She says to his ear with a wicked smile now that the alcohol is starting to dissolve her usual filters. “Is that true?”

“Well, erm...” She moves a little, grinding against him, and Kaidan struggles to find his words for a second. “I actually don’t mind when she does it.”

“Oh, I thought we were friends, Jefe.” James says, pretending to be offended by his words. “What does she have that we don’t?”

“What do I have?” Shepard giggles. “I have sex with him.”

Her comment takes Garrus and James so much by surprise that they start laughing louder than every time before in the entire day.

“Mio… Was that really neces...” He stops talking mid sentence as she starts to move again, all his body lighting up on the inside as a response to the contact with hers. “...Necessary?”

“Yes, yes it was.” She turns a little more to look at him, trying to make sure she isn’t crossing a line she shouldn’t. “Sorry… I guess I have a loose tongue. Ryncol tends to do that to me.” She laughs as he looks at her with disbelief. “I can tone it down, if you want to… Major.”

“I… Actually don’t mind that either.” Kaidan laughs as his cheeks get a little bit blushed. “It just took me by surprise, Mio.”

Shepard smiles and grabs her bottle of gin before taking another big gulp.

“Good to know.” She gets a little bit closer, raising her head slowly so their gaze can meet. He tightens his hold around her and leans a little bit forward without losing contact with her eyes, getting completely lost in them.

Shepard’s breathing starts to become erratic as his arms wrap around her, with even more strength than before, and she starts to bite her lower lip as a way to try to calm herself. However, this little gesture only manages to capture Kaidan's attention, making him stare at her mouth for what seems like an eternity.

“Guys, get a room.” James says before resuming his laughter, completely shattering the spell.

Like I haven’t tried! She screams inside her head, cursing the day he let those two get aboard the Normandy.

“Mio?” Garrus looks at James confused. “Another human term?”

“Not in this context.”

“Wooooow guys...” Shepard clicks her tongue to imply disapproval, seeing a new window of opportunity to mess up with them. “You have to be kidding me!” She takes one hand to her chest as she says this, shaking her head a little.

“Wow...” Kaidan says, guessing her intentions right away and joining her in her quest. “I mean, I thought you were her friends… Vega still has a pass, he’s new afterall, but you have no excuse not to know Garrus, after all these years.”

“Know what?” They both ask in unison.

“Her name.” Kaidan says with the perfect mix of worry and disappointment.

They look at each other for a few seconds, very confused by the whole situation, until they suddenly remember that Shepard is just the last name.

Concern falls short to express the look on their faces.

“Well, I mean...” Garrus stutters. “How could we know when no one calls you by it?” He huffs, implying it's not their fault. “I’m sure no one else knows it.”

While the turian is on the defensive about the whole situation, James tries to get out of it by using humor just as he did before, hoping this time the result would be better than the previous one.

“It appears the major does…” James makes a small pause and laughs a little. “It’s so weird that he calls you by it though.”

Shepard's expression starts to change from hurt to anger.

“What? Did you expect him to call me Shepard during sex?” She adds a little snort of disbelief at the end of the question.

“I was expecting him to call you ma’am, to be honest.” James starts to laugh at his own comment right away. But his laughter falls dead when he sees the shift in her mood, now going from anger to ‘I need to kill someone’.

“Remember, some time ago, when I told you that you had to stop crashing shuttles mid air, Vega?” She asks him in all seriousness.

“Erm… Yeah?”

“Forget I said anything.” Garrus and Kaidan start to laugh his heart out while she remains completely focused on her speech, looking directly at James. “In fact, if you keep digging that whole you’re getting into I may be the one that kicks you into the Kodiak.”

Shepard says this with a vague smile on her face, which only makes the whole thing much more terrifying for the lieutenant.

“I was joking. You know that, right? I...” James says as the last resource, not knowing what else to do.

She stares at him for a few seconds, all serious, trying her best to keep it together but knowing she won’t be able to last much longer.

“So was I.”

Shepard starts laughing so much that Kaidan has to grab her to make sure she doesn’t fall to the ground. And after a few seconds of general confusion, the other three join her once they’ve realized she was joking.

“Holy shit, Lola… You’re gonna give me a heart attack.” James says as he brings his hand to his heart.

“Didn’t you want me to drink? Well, be careful what you wish for.” She smiles mocking him, and he can’t avoid laughing too after hearing her comment. “Write that one down too, Garrus.”

The turian starts to poke his arm for a few seconds before noticing there’s something missing.

“Garrus… To use your omni tool you need to power it on first.” He laughs at his mistake while Shepard turns to face James again. ”By the way Vega, why haven’t you refilled my drink?”

“I don’t know if I should… You’re starting to become dangerous, Lola. I mean, you’ve reached the ‘death threat’ level.” Despite his concerts, he prepares her drink in just a few seconds, with a big part of him wondering how many of those she’ll be able to drink before she passes out.

“Look at the bright side Vega, you are so drunk you probably won't feel a thing if she decides to act on it and kicks you into a shuttle so you can explode in it.”

Shepard laughs and one shots her drink, signaling James for a refill after putting the empty glass on top of the bar.

“And so are you… Drunk, I mean.” She clarifies. “How on Earth did you end up like this?”

“Well...” James starts to say. “I had this amazing...”

“Horrible...” Kaidan clarifies.

“... idea of teaching Scars here how to play Never Have I Ever.” James points at Garrus with his thumb as he says this.

“And?”

“And that’s it.”

“That’s all?! Oh…. I’m disappointed in you, gentleman.” Shepard shakes her head a couple of times. “Completely wasted playing a teenagers game.” She says with disappointment while reaching for her drink.

“Ey Shep… If you’re going to make fun of us you’ll have to prove yourself first.” Garrus looks for James with his eyes to ask for help in his endeavor.

“Yeah, Lola. If it’s a little teenagers game you should have no problem playing it…” He smiles a little, knowing exactly the cards he needs to play right now. “But well… You’ve done so many crazy things that you seem doomed to failure, it’s no wonder why you wouldn’t dare to play with us.”

“I could win you with my eyes closed.” She smiles, looks at them for a few seconds, and drinks her cocktail as fast as the previous ones. “Come on… Like you could beat me at anything, guys.”

“Well… We’ve already proven that I’m a better sniper than you are Shep… So, maybe we’re better at this too.”

Shepard smiles, almost at the same time as Kaidan, but neither of them contradict him. She just focuses on replying to the second part of his statement.

“In your dreams… Scars.” She mocks him, making use of James’ nickname.

“Then prove it… Lola.” Shepard smiles at his comeback, feeling tempted by the challenge.

“Come on guys, is this really necessary?” Kaidan interrupts, knowing better than anyone the reach of her abilities. “We’re way more drunk than she is, of course she’s gonna win!”

“You know what? You’re right Jefe. She has to drink more before we play… Here.” James hands her the first bottle of gin he sees and starts looking for a glass but, before he’s able to find one, she shrugs her shoulders and chugs the entire bottle in just a few seconds.

“Wooh! Let’s do this gentlemen.” She screams before she grabs a new bottle and opens it, while all three of them stare at her in awe. “Who wants to start?”

“I’m out.” Kaidan surrenders, letting his head rest on top of Shepard's shoulder for a few seconds. “She doesn’t need to see me puke.”

“Ha! Don’t worry lover boy… We have a new target now.” James laughs as he opens a new bottle of tequila.

They start playing right away, with both Garrus and James doing their best to make Shepard drink in their respectives rounds, reusing the same sentences they played on Kaidan and managing to succeed, only to observe Shepard downing her shots without any struggle, with a big smirk on her face.

“The floor is yours, Lola.”

“Great. Then…” She smiles a little more, with her strategy already planned inside her head. ”Never have I ever… Wanted to have a physical relationship with someone from another specie”.

“Wait, what?” Kaidan looks at her, confused for a second, until he sees his friends’ response.

Garrus drinks right away, without hesitating, and even though James spends a few seconds thinking about it, he eventually does the same and downs his liquor.

“It’s so nice not being the target of one of those.” Kaidan says to her. “By the way, how did you know?”

“I didn’t…” She smiles at him before lowering her voice. “Now I know.”

The two friends drink as fast as they can and charge again, keeping their strategy in mind of making Shepard drink as much as they can, which they manage to achieve without any inconvenience.

Nevertheless, Shepard seems almost unaffected by the large amount of alcohol she has ingested in such a short amount of time, making them start to be desperate.

“You really weren’t kidding about the whole drinking thing.”

“Yeah… I mean, I can feel a little buzz, if I’m completely honest, but I feel great.” She laughs, examining the current state of her companions in comparison to hers. “I could even shoot myself in the foot for this round if I wanted to.”

“A little buzz? You should’ve passed down after the first ryncol cocktail, Lola.” James stares at her, starting to wonder if she is, in fact, human.

“Shoot yourself in the foot? Seriously guys…” Garrus says with despair. ”Could you tone down the idioms? I’m way too drunk to decipher them right now. ”

“Sorry… What I meant to say is that I could even refer to something that makes me drink too, in order to get more information about you.” She stares at her bottle for a few seconds and giggles. “For example, never have I ever… Wanted to have sex with someone aboard this ship.”

She drinks right away, trying her best to control her laugh, while Kaidan and James look at her with a confused expression on their faces that lasts only until they see Garrus’ reaction to Shepard’s strategy.

“Damn…” The turian serves a shot for himself and downs it as fast as he can, like that is going to save them from this situation.

“Oh my… Scars! Now I need to know more.” James grabs him by the arm with excitement forgetting completely about Shepard and Kaidan, who are pretty amused watching the whole scene.

“No, no you don’t.” Garrus smirks and shifts a little so that he can be closer to James. “And I should remind you who our real target is?”

“Well… This is also funny.” He looks at the couple for a few seconds. “And we already know they are having sex… So what more there is to wheedle out of them?”

“She’ll end up finding something against you too if you let her divide us.” Garrus answers him, which makes Shepard start to laugh right away.

“Guys… You’re starting to sound like the main couple of a soup opera.” She turns a little to look at James, doing her best to hold back her smile. “Jaime, you can’t let your half stepmom half cousin manipulate you into going against the love of your life, the blind seamstress, who will become your step sister in three days unless you do something to avoid it.”

“What!?” Garrus reaches a new level of confusion, instantly giving up any attempt of getting an explanation.

“Ay dios… I can’t believe how much I hit the mark when I picked your nickname. Since when are you such a pro in telenovelas, Lola?”

“Had a friend, back on training days…” Shepard’s words start to slow down, as her smile fades little by little. “She was an expert on the subject...”

Kaidan tightens the hold of his arm around her ever so slightly and interrupts her as soon as he’s able to think of something to say.

“Isn’t it Vega's turn?” He asks, trying to resume the game in order to distract her from her current line of thoughts. “Although I don’t know what you keep trying, she is gonna sweep the floor with you two, guys.”

“Ha! Ni de coña… No fucking way!” James hits the bar with his hand one more time as a sign of determination and rolls up his sleeves before his eyes set on Garus. “Come on, Scars. We have a battle to win, don’t you think?”

“Yes, yes I do.” The turian agrees, looking for a new bottle and preparing himself for what’s to come.

Despite their motivation, both of their rounds get the same results as the previous ones.

“You have to be kidding me… How are you even alive?”

Shepard laughs with all her heart at James’ comment, to the point where Kaidan is once again the only thing keeping her from falling to the ground.

“Ay guys…” She manages to say, clearing tears from her face. “You are playing this the wrong way… Who cares if I’m drunk or not? This is about learning secret… stuff.”

“But we already know everything about you.” Garrus replies almost immediately.

“You have no idea…” Kaidan mumbles, which wins him a nudge from Shepard. “Ouch.”

“Who’s side are you on?” Shepard lets her head fall slowly against his chest and looks up to meet his eyes. “You should be helping me, not them.” She adds with a sweet tone in her voice that Kaidan has never heard before.

“Want some help then?” He starts to whisper to her ear as the other two remain in silence, witnessing the whole scene completely baffled.

“What is happ…” Shepard starts to laugh as soon as Kadan finishes talking, cutting Garrus mid sentence.

“Whatever it is… It’s not going to end well.” James says with a hint of fear in his voice. “At least for one of us.”

Shepard tries to balance herself and sit straight, failing miserably to do so thanks to both her laughter and a dizziness caused by the drinks.

“Wait… Let me say it before I forget the whole thing.” She giggles a couple times before continuing. “Never… Never have I ever, had a physical relationship… Uf, that was a mouthful.” She laughs one more time and clears her throat. “Sorry, erm… Had, one of those, with someone in this crew… Who eats dextro food.”

She smiles, almost feeling more glad that she was able to say the whole sentence than amused by the effect this one is causing on her friend.

If a turian could go pale, as humans do in this type of situation, right now Garrus would be able to blend with the white walls of the ship without any problem. And, unfortunately for him, James quickly catches up with what’s happening and manages to connect the dots.

“Ay mi madre… Seriously!? With Sparks?”

Garrus forgets his glass and starts drinking once again directly from the bottle, ignoring his friend's question. The rest of the room laughs at his reaction and waits anxiously for an explanation of some sorts.

“I…” He clears his throat, trying to buy time until he can think of something to say and, after spending a few seconds like that, he finally decides to do the honorable thing and pretend this isn’t happening at all. “I see what you meant when you said the whole get to know… Erm, secret stuff.”

“Yeah!” Shepard raises her bottle in the air before taking a big gulp. “You play this to discover secrets, not to get people drunk.” She snorts, way too amused by what she just learned. “And now I know Scars here has a fling with Tali.

“Okay then.” Garrus thinks something quickly, wishing to let behind the current topic of the conversation as soon as possible. “Real stuff. Well… How about… Never have I ever wanted to kill someone on this ship.”

“Wanted or almost got killed?”

“Wanted.” Garrus clarifies.

Shepard giggles and drinks right away, chugging almost all the liquor in her bottle in just a few seconds.

“Wow, Lola. You didn’t even hesitate.” James says half amused, half scared, concerned he is part of the reason she's drinking right now. “Thinking of someone in particular?” He asks as carefully as he’s able.

“Oh… Well, I have a list.” She snorts when she sees the expression on every member of the conversation, all of them quite scared they are going to be a part of it.

After a few seconds of complete silence, Garrus musters the courage to ask the question forming in each and everyone of their minds.

“Who’s on top?” He asks, feeling confident that, if it’s in fact one of them, she has way more reasons to hate one of the other two than him.

“Pff… like I’m gonna tell you!” She smiles, knowing too well what they are all thinking. “But no one in this room should be afraid to hold the first position, if that’s what you’re all wondering”

“Tell this person then. Life is short!” James' fear is quickly replaced by curiosity and delight knowing that, this time around, he isn’t the target of her fury. “I mean, won’t you feel waaaaay better if you confront this right now and get it out of your system.”

“Vega, I don’t think that’s a good idea right now…” Kaidan tries to dissuade him, knowing Shepard is drunk enough to be compelled by his arguments.

“Nah, Kai. It makes sense.” She says, interrupting him mid sentence. “You know what? Why not?” She hits the bar and downs what's left of her bottle before switching up her omnitool. “Call… Ehmmm… Joker.”

“Joker!?” All three of them whisper at the same time, way too intrigued by what it’s going to happen.

“Hey Commander.”

“Hey...” She laughs for a second, but then a serious expression appears on her face out of nowhere. “How could you?”

“What?” Joker asks, confused. “Everything okay, Shep?”

“No… Everything it’s not ok… okay.” She shakes her head a few times in a pointless attempt to sober up a little. ”Not okay.”

“Wait, Shepard… Are you drunk?” He asks in return.

“Kinda… Don’t change the subject you… You know, right? What you did… Back, in the first Normandy.”

“I…” Joker falls silent, not knowing what to do, until a quick wave of realization hits him and makes him regain his ability to speak. “I… I’m sorry, Shepard. I am. Truly.” His voice quivers, so he stops for a second to clear his throat. “Maybe we should talk about it in a more private environment, and not with you… Well, drunk.” He sighs and hesitates a little before speaking again. “But… You’re right, and I’m sorry Shepard. I… I should’ve left… It’s my fault.” He makes another pause. “It’s my fault that you...”

Shepard cuts him right away, regaining her smile as quickly she lost it less than a minute ago.

“That!? Oh no… That’s shit that happens… No. I’m talking about you totally cockblocking me the first time I was going to hook up with Kaidan.”

“Wait, wha...” Whatever he tries to ask is completely obliterated by the sudden explosion into an uncontrolled laughter of both James and Garrus.

“Ay… You were right.” She says joining them in their glee. “I waaaaay feel better.” She adds, mocking James.

“Mio...” Kaidan tries to intervene, without succeeding.

“Oh that’s awesome… You should go and get your revenge Shep.” Garrus says between snorts, finding the whole situation way too amusing.

“What the hell is happening ther…”

Shepard huffs and hungs the call, suddenly turning to confront Garrus, too drunk to filter herself any longer.

“Look who’s talking! Mr. ‘I think you should go talk to Kaidan and make up’, what do you think I was trying to do at that moment?!”

It’s difficult to express how far away the turian’s expression is from James’ right now who, still not fully recovered from what just happened with Joker, is now almost choking out of laughter after learning this new information.

“Ohh… I didn't...” Garrus attempts to apologize but it’s immediately cut by Shepard before he’s able to do so.

“I mean if I said to EDI no calls is for a reason! And don’t laugh so hard Vega, you’re not so far away either in the list.“ She starts looking for a new bottle of gin as soon as she finishes saying that. ”You know what, fuck it. You’re gonna suffer now, I’m getting my revenge. Let’s keep playing”

“Here’s when she kills us, isn’t it?” James says, quickly losing his smile, now that he feels closer to being Shepard's next target.

Kaidan is watching the whole scene in absolute silence, somewhat grateful that his two friends are way too scared right now to dig in all the information they’ve just learned, but pretty terrified this is only the beginning of dealing with Shepard’s accumulated unfinished businesses over the years.

“Oh my, please someone help me stop this madness.” He says mainly to himself and whatever god that may be watching this whole conversation. Nevertheless, his strange prayer isn’t answered by any deity but by James instead.

“Then you should help us jefe… We have to hit her hard before it’s her turn again.”

“Yeah!” Garrus agrees right away. “Besides, you owe us for helping her before.” He argues, still bothered by the whole dextro question. “We need something that is going to break her.”

“Don’t you think I should remain out of this?” He asks, fully aware it’s pointless to do so.

“No, no we don’t.” They answer at the same time, not willing to let go of this opportunity.

“It’s okay… I don’t mind.” She smirks after saying this. “In fact, you should help them. I’m gonna win anyways.”

“Are you sur...”

“Help them!” She cuts him mid sentence. “That’s an order, Alenko.”

Kaidan laughs and nods, surrendering to the whole situation, still drunk enough to not fear the consequences of what he’s about to say.

“Ufff...” He tries to move a little to whisper something to James but, having Shepard sitting on his legs, he’s unable to do so. Instead, he switches on his omnitool.

“Are you going to be able to write, Jefe?” James asks before drinking a few gulps of his tequila.

“Yeah… I’m not as drunk as you Vega.” He answers him, already writing his message.

James laughs and downs another shot as he waits for his message which, once he’s able to read, makes him burst into laughter for the upteenth time in the last few hours.

“Really!?” He asks, not fully believing what he’s reading.

“Yup.” Kaidan nods and smiles, a little bit curious to see the effect that his message is going to have on the other two members of their little gathering.

“Ay dios… This is like hitting two birds with a stone.” James laughs at his own comment.

“Ay… Shit.” Garrus says, knowing this is going to end as bad for him as for Shepard. “Great. Of all the confusing idioms you’ve thrown at me today, I had to understand that one.”

“Don’t worry, Scars… I’ll make you a list of the rest.” The turian groans at his friend’s reply. “When I am able to write again, of course.” James laughs and turns to look directly at Kaidan in order to see if he has understood his reference to his previous comeback. “Well… And if I can remember all the idioms we used today”.

“That’s the least of my worries right now.” Garrus says, starting to get nervous. “Just say it so that we can be over with it.”

James rubs his hands with glee, letting the anticipation build a little before he decides to throw the said stone.

“Never have I ever... Thrown away my shot so that my turian friend would feel good about himself."

Shepard brings her hand to her head and stares at her drink, not expecting the attack to come from that direction at all. In the meantime, Garrus looks at her pretty dumbfounded.

"You don’t have another turian friend, don’t you?” He asks her, completely shocked by the sudden turn of events.

“No, no I don’t.” She answers, mortified to see the expression forming on his friend’s face.

Kaidan and James are unable to hold their laugh, way too amused by the Garrus’ reaction to the whole situation.

“You let me win!?” He asks this more surprised than angered, making his friends’ laughter develop even further.

Instead of replying to him with words, Shepard decides to let her actions do the talking, drinking a few gulps of gin to answer his friend’s question.

“Are you letting us win here too?” Garrus asks, starting to understand why the evening is developing this way. “That’s why you aren’t focused on making us drink?”

Shepard drinks again.

The two friends look at each other for a few seconds, trying to process that last piece of new information.

“No…” James interrupts, after recovering his breath. “You know what? I don’t buy it.” He scratches his head a few times before talking again.“She can’t be…”

“Then, who do you explain what’s happening?” Garrus inquiries.

A subtle smirk forms in James’ face before he raises his head to look at his friend with determination.

“Aha! I got it. I think we were right.” He hits Garrus on his arm and giggles. “She’s not able to find one single thing she hasn't done that we have, that’s why she’s not playing to make us drink… She even had to take a shot in one of her rounds.”

“You really wanna go there?” She says with a faint smile on her face.

“Maybe you’re right…” Garrus joins him without hesitation. “She doesn’t want to admit we were right.”

“Guys, I think you’re starting to lose it.” She says as they boost each other, completely ignoring her.

“It makes so much sense.” James continues on this new line of thought, not willing to let it go to waste.

“Guys…”

“Admit it Lola, you can’t win this.”

“Yeah! This time you can’t.” Garrus adds right away, still a bit bothered by knowing the truth about the whole bottle shooting competition situation.

“You have no idea guys…” Shepard warns them. “Don’t make me go there.”

“You can prove it if you want to.” James strikes one more time. “Or maybe you can’t.”

“Guys.” She says to catch their attention, already starting to lose her patience. “Stop it.”

“Prove it then!” Garrus shouts as he hits the table, trying to copy all the time James has done it in the past few hours. “Say something that gets the two of us!”

“Yeah, prove it!” James echoes him.

“Okay then. Easy.” She doesn even stop to think about what she’s about to say before it comes out of her mouth, too tired of the situation to filter herself anymore. “Right… Never have I ever had a family.”

“...”

The words dissolve into the air in a matter of seconds, crashing against every single person in the room with way more power than the sea holds in the middle of a storm.

In less than an instant, the atmosphere goes from cheery and funny to way past the point of being able to cut the tension with a knife.

All smiles, all sound, vanishes to leave behind an uncomfortable silence no one dares to break.

As Garrus and James try their best to avoid eye contact with Shepard, she remains completely frozen, staring at her bottle, not even moving when Kaidan tightens his hold around her.

“Errm...” The lieutenant is the only one brave enough to say anything or, better said, is way too baffled by the whole situation to keep being part of it, so he quickly thinks of something to say in order to get out of there. “We should… Probably go. Don’t you think, Scars? It’s too late… We should… Rest.”

“Yeah, of course.” Garrus doesn’t hesitate for a second to take this opportunity his friend just created and, in just a few seconds, both of them are out of there, leaving Kaidan and Shepard alone in the room.

She stands up in complete silence, needing to rest her hands on top of the bar to keep her balance before starting to turn to look at her partner.

“Shepard, I...” Kaidan starts to seek for something that may be able to comfort her when he suddenly discerns a small quiver on her lips after she’s turned completely to look at him. “Wait a second...”

She cannot hold it any longer and starts laughing once again, way more than any time before, to the point where she needs to hold onto Kaidan’s arm to keep her balance.

“I thought they’d never leave.” She says once she’s able to speak again.

“Did you do that on purpose!?” A big smile forms on her face as soon as she hears those words come out of his mouth.

“Yes, yes I did.” Shepard laughs again, relieved she’s finally succeeded on her quest.

“Why would you do that? I’m sure they felt terrible…” Kaidan looks at her completely startled. “I felt terrible.”

“That’s just the universe punishing you for not being able to read the room, Kai.”

“What?” He stares at Shepard, not knowing if he’s angry with her, confused or, most likely, both. “I…”

“Let’s just say that I had other priorities in mind, you know.” She huffs and gets closer to him. “So… I just wanted them to leave.”

“Like that?” He shakes his head, not understanding what could have motivated her to act that way.

“Well, if we’re being honest here, I just wanted you to leave, but I had to cook something up because you’re incredibly hardheaded.”

“What!?” Kaidan shakes his head, still too drunk to understand what she’s talking about.

“Can we just go to…” She leans a little against him.

“No, no we don’t.” Kaidan gets up with the intention to get some room in between them, needing the extra space to think about what’s happening, still unaware of the whole picture. “I’m trying to…”

That’s all he’s able to add while Shepard closes once again the space between them.

“Oh, for the love of God.” She says on her way there and, before he’s able to complain again, she grabs him, anchoring her hand onto his belt, and pulls him as close as she can.

He’s still a bit confused when she does this and, only when she starts to invade his mouth with hers, is Kaidan able to understand every single hint she has casted through all their conversation in the past few hours.

After a first second of confusion, followed by one of clarity and a third one cursing himself for not being able to realize her intentions sooner, he doesn’t want any more time to fly away and leans completely into the kiss, letting his hands explore her body as he does so.

The kiss lasts what seems like an eternity but not enough at the same time, leaving both of them out of breath once it's over, panting, smiling, and staring into each other's eyes.

“Alenko. With me, now.” She commands, way too tired of hints and double meanings. “And that’s an order.”

Even though it seems impossible, his smile gets even bigger, more turned on about her pulling out rank on him than he had ever expected to be.

“Well I… I don't have the authority to disobey you, do I?” He says, observing how his words manage to form a similar smile on her face to mirror his own.

“No, no you don’t.”

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So... Here we are!! Next and final chapter will be smut!!

Erm... I'm way too excited right now to say all that I want to say.

There's a lot of references to the previous chapter, to the 3rd one of Somebody that I Used to Know, and also to the games... I hope you were able to catch them all *hums the Pokemon opening*

Btw... The friend that got Shepard into soap operas... Is my Ryder. Maybe one day I'll write their story.

Spanish translations:

Mierda - Shit Jefe - Boss Te falta calle - There's no English expression to translate this. She's basically saying that she has a lot of experience in "low-life" things that he has not. The direct translation would be "You're missing some street." Jaime - Spanish version of the name James Ay dios - Oh God Telenovelas - Soap operas Ni de coña - No fucking way Ay mi madre - It translates as "Oh my mom", but the meaning behind it's the same as "Oh my God"

[prorevenge]

I fought the Law, and the Law won. ..a Sparkies Tale.

One Wednesday in Rural Australia, I was doing work in The Police Station, running dedicated essential power circuits for some new fancy gear they had coming. No-one else at my work had the clearance yet to work in this room, so I was solo this day. This Station was a Combined Regional Command, and quite big. Uniform, Patrol, Detectives, Crime Scene, K9.. the whole show.

I’d been doing work here for a few years, and gotten to know a lot of the members (also did some after hours non-electrical work in their social club for drinks). Around 11am, a Patrol Officer came in to see the Shift Sergeant. A minute later, they go outside. A minute after that four more Police go outside. A few minutes later, one of the Detectives I know says to me, “you gotta see this..”, so I go outside.

One of the new Patrol members, fresh from academy, had run a car into the Station carpark main exit gate. There was now quite the crowd of mixed Police gathered around the vandal and car. Station OIC (Officer in Charge - long title and good bloke) was there as well. I hang back a bit, amazed. I’d only finished doing all the power and controls for this new sliding gate a few months earlier.

This gate was 5m/16’ long, ran along a roller track set into concrete, had toothed racking along it for the motor cog to drive. I’d put in the power, set-up the motor and controls, the exit induction loop (like at traffic lights, a car goes over the loop, it detects the car. I fucking love electromagnetism.), the swipe card access, the new cameras..everything. It was a lovely gate. (the best part is taking a big petrol powered saw, and cutting the grooves in the road for the coil. Have a go with one of those saws. I dare you to not ‘Tim Allen’ while you do.)

Looking at the damage, the cars bull-bar has hit the gates frame at an angle, while the gate was opening. Broken teeth on some racking, scratched up gate, and god only knows what to the motor. I pretend I’m invisible, and turn to go back inside.. only to be face-to-face with OIC.

OIC (smiling) - “Nice warm day, huh. I expect you’re about..” (he gets cut off by my phone ringing)

He looks at me, nods his head to my shirt pocket. (He’s smiling because it’s ~11am and already 38C/100F. It’s forecasted to get to 44C/111F in the shade today. And this gate is in full sun.) The call is from my office.. “Damaged gate at The Police Station. Gov’t Works Dept has said that OIC has asked personally that you do the job, since you are already on-site.” During my conversation with the office, OIC pats me on the shoulder and walks away. I think he’s enjoying making me work on it, because I’d put some electrical tape over the laser on his mouse a week earlier. On a dare from one of the Sergeants.

I tidy up the work I was doing, grab the keys to the motor/controls box, and have a look. Broken welds on two of the motor mounts. Well, this day is fucked. The gate is still working, but is not happy. It could stop working altogether if the other two welds break. It’s the designated exit for operational reasons, and they want it fixed now.

Calling the supplier, they act surprised and want the damaged base plate for testing. I leave to go get a new a new one. The work will involve taking out the motor and controls, changing the base plate, then putting it all back together. As well as replacing the damaged sections of racking, and realigning everything. While kneeling/sitting/laying on the bitumen. In the full sun.

Let me tell you about a couple of things that piss me off at work - on a hot day, while you’re on a roof/in a ceiling etc, ‘comedians’ saying “Warm enough for ya?” - while you have tools out and are obviously still working, ‘comedians’ saying “You finished yet?” I’ve learned that the best response is to ignore them. Because other responses lead to paperwork.

10 mins after I start the repairs, I get my first “Warm enough for ya?” from Detectives coming in the entrance gate nearby. 5 mins after that I get the first “You finished yet?” from Crime Scene leaving through the open exit gate. These comments and more, and a few vehicles coming up behind me and sounding the siren. Police outside having a smoke also wander over to give me shit. All this goes on constantly for the whole time I’m there. I’m so pissed off, they can all tell. But seriously, it would be madness to lose your shit at the Police, so I fume in silence. Until..

At ~2.30pm, it’s about 50C/120F on the bitumen, I have cuts and blood on my knuckles, am royally pissed off, am laying down doing the final alignment of the racking, get a shoe nudge in my back and hear..

Gruff Voice - “You finished yet?”

Well. I’m not sure if I decide to lose my shit, or it’s just involuntary Hulk-rage. As I’m getting up I’m saying..

Me (controlled anger, but a bit loud) - “For fucks’ sake, will..” (I stop, because I’m now standing, and face-to-face with OIC.

OIC (smiling, handing me a sports drink) - “Here you go. Just remember next time you go to prank me, I have so many ways I can mess with you.”

He pats me on the shoulder and turns to walk away. He stops to ask “Seriously though, is it fixed?”. I just nod. He walks off back to his aircon.

I found out later that he had “made a suggestion” (basically an order) to his whole command, to annoy the shit out of me while I was working at the gate. He must have seen all the available pieces for his fuckery while looking at the car earlier, and put them into play. The whole local Police Force. I never messed with him again.

It’s not often I get got, but he got me good. Fair play.

Thank you for reading.

Glossary

Bitumen - road surface/black top. When it’s really hot weather for a while, the tar in it will melt and stick to your car. Car Detailers like the hot weather.

Essential Circuits - are for equipment that must continue to work through a power outage. They are powered by an industrial UPS and/or generator. The batteries for this particular industrial UPSs are big and heavy. Taller people get to replace the ones on the top shelf. Every. Fucking. Time.

UPS - Uninterrupted Power Supply. The regular domestic/commercial ones are the black box that beeps under your desk, that you try to ignore, then complain about. After having unplugged it to plug in your stupid desk sized lava lamp. No-one thinks your lava lamp is cool Dennis.

Tape over a Mouse Laser - is fucking hilarious to watch. I like to think it helps pass the time of bored techs at helps desks.

(source) story by (/u/OlderSparky)

[beautifulplaceofyouth]

JJK FF/ ROYAL GUARD

CHAPTER NINE | SERIES

Ch. 1

Ch. 2

Ch. 3

Ch. 4

Ch. 5

Ch. 6

Ch. 7

Ch. 8

Ch. 9

Ch. 10

When you keep bumping into your personal royal guard by accident not knowing he is your guardian angel

Pairing: Jeon Jungkook!fallen angel!royal guard! × fem!reader!virgin!princess

Word count: 2.9k

Rating: 18+ smut

Genre + warnings: Fluff, smut, dirty talk, princess loses her virginity, first!time, a lot of pussy licking and fingering, biting, nipple play, Jungkook groans a lot, full nakedness, big dick!jk, a little bit of rough pinning and French, neck kissing, hard orgasms, unprotected sex (wrap it before you tap it, guys :D) - she probably pregnant by the time he is done with her - upss - paranormal romance, historical fanfiction, Kook being cold and mysterious, being his sexy self. Caring and possessive!jk! Really horny towards his princess, being a big seductive tease. A lot of swearing, cursing and a little bit of crying. The story isn’t real, just my imagination running wild so just enjoy reading!

a/n: Sorry for being absent so long. That’s all I can say. I hope you can all forgive me?

It was early in the morning when you awoke feeling that something is off. Expecting your guard to be in the same bed you both fell asleep in, he was nowhere in sight. The coldness of the room and lack of any warm body next to yours gave you a strange sense of déjà vu.

You sit up slowly, trying your best to make out every detail of the room around you. It was a beautiful bedroom, with dark purple carpet floors, high glass ceilings and white walls. You could see yourself spending hours in here getting lost in thought. But not now. Not today. Not with all the chaos going on right this moment.

As you thought this, suddenly door opens and then you see him. Only wearing sweatpants, his naked torso glistened by drops of sweat and his beautiful wings fluttering behind him.

A small gasp left your mouth at how absolutely gorgeous he looks and how quickly you were forgetting all about your concerns. How can someone be so perfect?

When he sees that you’re up, he gives you a warm smile,” Is my princess awake?” he asks, still looking like a walking sex god, but much calmer than earlier this morning.

As if nothing has happened between you two.

"Yeah," you croak out, still in complete awe of seeing him in such a state. "I'm fine now."

Smirking slightly, he comes into the room further, holding something in his hands. It was a sword. Not like you're gonna judge him, you've always seen him with weapons when he wears an armor, but nonetheless he looks scary carrying a blade around, especially after what had occurred between you. He puts it down beside the footboard of the bed as he goes towards you, standing only a few steps away from where you are currently sitting.

Jungkook reaches out and gently strokes his hand through your hair before pulling your head towards his chest. In response you wrap your arms around his waist, letting out a content sigh. It wasn't long until you could feel him softly kissing your forehead. Your breathing hitches in excitement when you finally feel him fully pressing against you. For a second you forget everything that's been going on.

But then reality hits you again and you pull back,” What are you doing?” you ask, trying to sound stern but failing miserably.

He chuckles lightly,” I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you. I was sparring in my training grounds so I get up pretty early. It’s six in the morning, sweetheart.”

As you try to get up, the sudden pain in your lower region makes you wince.

“Are you sore? I was pretty rough with you last night. Come here,” Jungkook says.

And without even thinking twice, you let your legs go limp so that they rest on either side of his hips. His strong hands carefully grab hold of you, supporting you while you lean back and allow him to place his large hands under your bottom. Before you realize what he's doing he sits himself in the bed,bringing you with him. He places you on his lap and immediately you feel his muscular thighs envelop you completely. Your cheeks flush red as soon as he notices how you look.

The thought of being held so tenderly by the man who was your first kiss and who was supposed to be your husband brings a smile to your face. He runs his fingers through your hair, playing with your locks which caused a shiver to run down your spine.

Then, just before he leans his head down and kisses you softly, he whispers into your ear,” Good morning, my queen.” The way he speaks and how intimate it sounds sends chills down your spine. He knows exactly how you react to these kinds of things. You don’t mind it because it’s the type of teasing you enjoy. And he loves making you blush.

You hum happily when he plants another soft kiss onto your neck where your collar met his mark of ownership over you and it causes him to grin mischievously. Your eyes widen when you notice that his fingers have stopped playing with your hair and he starts to caress your bare skin, causing goosebumps to arise everywhere his fingertips brush past them.

You close your eyes and inhale deeply as he continues moving down towards your breasts, stopping when you feel him graze over them. A small moan escapes your lips at the unexpected contact, causing Jungkook to let out a low chuckle.

“So sensitive, ” he mutters quietly, earning you another small nod from you.

He moves his hands down to your stomach, tracing circles on your skin. You bite your lip to stop yourself from moaning again. Every touch from him was scorching.

“Do you want me to continue?” he asks, his voice sounding husky.

You open your eyes and look at him,” Yes please.” Even though it hurts.

Jungkook chuckles once more before starting to trail his touch up your inner thighs. After running his knuckles along your wet curls you whimper at the slight touch. This seems to amuse him and he stops for a second and looks at you through hooded eyes,” Are you sure you wouldn’t preferred a warm bath instead so you feel a little better? I did a number on you, kitten,” his husky voice almost sounds apologetic. Almost.

Before you can even process what he said, he presses a finger to your lower lip, asking you to keep quiet. Then, with swift movements, he lifts you up so he can get off of the bed and before you can whimper in protest, thinking he will leave you in this state, he removes his own clothes leaving him only in a black boxers, and he kneels down besides the bed.

Before you can ask him what he is doing, he pulls you to the edge and spreads your legs so your core was openly exposed within his eye level. Your shocked mind can’t even prepare you when you glance down and see traces of blood on your lower lips and the sheets below.

“Oh God!” you exclaim, trying hard not to show fear or embarrassment.

You don’t think he notices however because he continues placing kisses on your stomach and thigh. When he comes to the spot above your navel he smirks devilishly as if he found some treasure there,” So beautiful, ” he mumbles to himself before placing a soft, tender kiss.

You close your eyes and sigh contently, unable to take it anymore, but before you know what is happening, his lips are already firmly connected with your skin and the pain is gone for a second.

“No, please stop,” you whisper breathlessly, not able to stand it anymore.

“I feel dirty.”

Jungkook doesn’t seem to hear you and continues trailing soft kisses on your inner thigh, eliciting a loud moan from your mouth.

“Don’t worry baby, I won’t hurt you…” he says in a seductive tone. Your whole body begins shaking with the need for his mouth to be somewhere else; anywhere else but where his mouth is currently located.

Looking at your wet folds, you feel embarrassed from being so open like this but Jungkook doesn’t care. It looked like his only goal was to satisfy you.

He takes his sweet time and when he finally gets to the right part of your center, his thumb caresses your clit gently while sucking it with his teeth.

Your heart starts racing and you gasp for air, trying desperately not to cry out and make a fool of yourself. The way he licks and sucks your pussy so delicately makes you feel so good; you just want to cum. You know it might not happen anytime soon. You don’t want to disappoint him, but you feel so needy, so desperate.

“Baby,” Jungkook whispers against your clit. Before you can register what is about to happen he thrusts two fingers deep inside your pussy in one fluid movement.

He is so fucking fast! He does not give you the chance to adjust to his movements and before long you are panting and crying out in pleasure.

The feeling of his fingers stroking your sensitive cunt is too much to handle. It feels so good and the vibrations he makes while moving are making you crazy so you start to arch your back to bring him into deeper penetration but Jungkook stops you immediately,” Don’t move kitten, you need to relax. Relax and let me pleasure you. It would be so ungrateful not to reward you after all I have done to you.”

You don’t know how to argue with that, so you simply nod in agreement and allow his fingers to explore you while he massages you with those skilled fingers he used earlier.

“God, you feel so good. Like you are ready to explode,” he praises as he inserts another digit slowly.

It’s like a shock goes through your body and you moan loudly. The way he talks to you is so sexual. You feel like an object, a prize, something to be conquered.

“That’s good baby, I want you to scream,” you can feel the way he smiles between your thighs as he speaks. His hot breath makes you shiver, and suddenly your breathing becomes rapid.

His thumb strokes your clit again, and you let out a whimper.

You feel his fingers enter you fully, stretching you, and fuck, you love the sensation.

“Yes! Yes please!” you beg, grabbing onto the sheets beneath you tightly, waiting for that sweet release. Jungkook smirks at your response. You never thought you could sound like that.

“Please what?” He grins.

“Please touch me! Make me come! Take me with your cock-“

“Say less,” he snarls before he stands up. Pushing his underwear down, he lifts you up , straddling his hips, and enters you quickly. You squeal at the intrusion but try not to moan as he fills you completely.

For a moment you can do nothing more than hold on tight to his shoulders and ride out the wave of pleasure that engulfs you.

You feel dizzy and weak yet you can’t help but smile at the man who fucked you mercilessly earlier. That’s how much you trust him, how much you admire him.

After his hands roam your breasts and he gives them a light squeeze, you wrap your arms around his neck and kiss him. With every thrust you get closer to oblivion. You feel like you are going to burst, you want to scream, but you don’t want him to stop. If anything you feel a lot of pressure building up in your core and your pussy starts to contract around him. Jungkook moves faster, hitting the spot over and over until you feel tears streaming down your cheeks.

Just as you think you are going to collapse in his arms, you can feel your orgasm coming, the waves rocking you violently until it reaches its peak. You gasp for air, and feel him swallow you whole before letting himself go, releasing inside your body, his dick twitching inside you.

As he calms himself down, he holds you close to him, resting his chin on top of your head. He stays silent for a couple of seconds, then he speaks.

“I guess I should have started earlier. How do you feel now?”

You can’t help but laugh at his question.

“Amazing! My legs are trembling. My hair is sticking to my sweaty forehead and everything, and I’m really hungry.”

He chuckles quietly, still holding you, and you know what he is thinking without needing to look at him, “We both are. Let’s get into that bath, princess. I’m sure I made you more tired this morning.”

You blush at his words but nod in agreement. Picking you up bridal style, he walks to the bathroom with confident strides. As you pass the big mirror, you almost gasp when you see his naked ass and his muscular back with tattoos but you couldn’t mistake the red marks on his skin which were left by your fingernails when he made love to you last night.

Did I really do that? You were shocked.

He carries you to the tub and puts you down carefully so you wouldn’t slip from his grasp, although it looks like he doesn't care about that either. He has been touching you more these past days, not caring if you get sick of it, especially since you are getting more used to his touch by the day.

Filling the bath with warm water, he adds some fragrances which smell like fresh fruits and grass. Even though it was sweet of him, you couldn’t get your eyes off him.

He was so gorgeous that you couldn’t even believe that he wants the plain you.

Still naked from your previous activities, you watched his big cock twitch at the sight of your eyes glued on him. He seems very comfortable with it. His cock is hard and bulging, the veins on his penis standing out, but you didn’t notice. You were just staring at his member.

When he noticed you watching his cock he gave you a sly smile and you blushed a little bit. You turn your eyes towards the floor, not wanting him to see how flustered you were; you’re sure you wouldn’t like it.

Once the tub was filled and filled with bubbles, he climbs in first and pulls you closer to him, putting his arms around your waist securely. You can feel your heart beating rapidly once again when he wraps his arms around you.

This feeling of safety and security overwhelms you; you have no idea why, but it somehow does. You find yourself leaning back slightly against his chest and closing your eyes; the smell of the bathwater and his scent is making you drowsy, the sensation almost lulling you to sleep. When the warmth enveloped your body, Jungkook moved his hand under your butt, pulling you a bit closer to his chest and wrapping his arm around your waist.

With Jungkook's warmth surrounding you, you finally felt safe enough to sleep.

The smell of coffee wakes you up when you hear a low voice calling your name.

When you open you eyes, you see Jungkook sitting at the edge of the bed where you were sleeping and he was dressed in his full armor. Even his face was covered by a scarf.

You stared at him confused,” What’s going on? Why are you dressed like a guard again?”

“I was out checking your land with my men while you were sleeping. Since you were tired, I wanted you to rest.” He explains.

When you hear his words, you immediately sat up,” Is my father safe? Did the vampires were still at the palace?”

Before he could answer you there was a knock at the door, indicating that someone is outside.

“Enter,” he commands.

The door opens, revealing a servant. It was golden haired fallen angel, the same as Jungkook but instead of black wings he had silver wings. Looking down at his feet, he didn’t even looked at you both to avoid his king’s disapproving stare because he just disturbed your moment.

“Your highness, I am sorry to interrupt but a group of vampires are approaching. We must prepare for battle.”

Hearing the word vampires, makes you freeze when you look at Jungkook in fear.

“They are here? In your kingdom?” you ask as you grab onto his armored chest.

Jungkook pushes his scarf from his face and grabs your hand with one of his hand and holds it to his lips as he kisses it softly.

“Don’t worry, I will protect you,” he promises.

“Protect me? I think we already established that, but who will protect you?” you sounded worried.

He laughs,” Darling, I don’t need protecting but I appreciate the thought. You’re the only person that can make me feel this safe,” he says tenderly.

At those words, you couldn’t control your emotions anymore; you threw your arms around him and hugged him tightly; trying to ignore the fact that he was still wearing his armor. He chuckled in your ear, rubbing your arms gently.

“I’ll be fine,” he whispers, kissing your temple.

“Promise me you won’t die,” you whisper back.

“I promise,” he replies.

“Okay,” you say, reluctantly letting go of him.

“Now go eat something in the kitchen. My servants will prepare everything you ask so just relax and wait for me to return,” he says and kisses the tip of your nose lightly.

“I don’t want to let you out of my sight,” you admit.

Jungkook grins,” You never have to. But right now I am your guard. So go shower and go eat breakfast in the dining hall. I will be back before you know it. If something happens to you, I will know it.”

“How?” you asked rising an eyebrow at him.

Jungkook grins and pulls you closer.

Touching the collar on your neck, you felt it then. It hummed warmly with energy, the small vibrations making your whole body tingle.

“My collar keeps me updated on all of your movements, even emotions you feel and tells me everything you do. So don’t worry, darling. Just try to keep your mind occupied or else you might start worrying about me. Now go eat, I’ll be back soon.”

Kissing you the last time, he leaves the room and you are left alone.

Be continued…

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N/a: This is the same preference just only that this is in English, btw excuse my English ♡

warning: mention of nudity and a bad word

You see them naked/in underwear

Include: Tony,Steve,Bruce,Peter and Pietro.

Tony

Tony needed a break, his next big invention was consuming all the patience and energy he had, leaving him a sea of ​​nerves. The only thing that occurred to him at that moment was that a hot shower could be the solution to recover his peace of mind and it did not cost him time to find himself enjoying it.

As he felt the hot drops run down his skin he felt much better; and when the whole bath filled with steam he knew that he had had enough. When he got out of the shower, his hair was still wet and because of this several drops fell on his skin. He was just taking off the towel that was tied around his waist and halfway to remove this the door opened abruptly, showing you.

" Where are those gloves? " You asked yourself, looking in the first drawer that you found. When you heard someone clearing your throat you turned in the direction of the sound Tony only smiled in greeting; he has no shame that you saw him in those conditions. After all, you are his wife, you have done that before.

"Oh Tony, I'm sorry" you apologized by entering the room." I did not know you were here.

"Don't worry, Mrs. Stark." Tony said in a seductive tone, winking at you when you saw him.

Peter:

The two of you were on a study date, well you were in the room waiting for that boy to appear.

Already tired of waiting you went to his room just to leave the notes of the project.

What certainly did not cross your mind is to see Peter Parker, your best friend from third grade, in boxers with the Spider-man suit at his feet.

Peter was mortified, ashamed, he did not know what to do! "(Y/ n)! " he exclaimed surprised.

"What the hell ...?" You managed to say, not looking away from the embarrassed boy.

"Shit, I-i can explain it!" Peter speak desperately." I, uh, well ..."

He began to babble and to make excuses for the suit and why his arrival was so late. You could not hear it at all, you were still in shock.

Steve:

Mainly his goal was not that you saw him like that, not in those instants at least.

You had been dating for six months, both were very happy with your relationship and everyone knew about this, but Steve still believed that you were not ready for the next step.

The soldier was in the showers, a moment for him before giving the training. When he felt the familiar cold air he knew that someone had opened the door.

"Hey, Cap." Steve hear someone said and knew immediately that it was you. He turned frantic, his cheeks red with grief at seeing him there with him.

"My God! " scream with surprise." What are you doing here?" He kept his distance from you, trying to hide in some way.

"I'm just going to take a shower with my boyfriend." You said it was the most obvious thing in the world. "Why are you walking away, Rogers?"

"I do not ... I do not, uh ..." Steve began to babble trying to find a credible explanation.

"Better shut up and come closer." you interrupted him, posing both arms around his neck.

Pietro:

There are few occasions in which Pietro has woken up before you, the reason for this is simple he hates getting up early.

However, it is easy to deduce when this happens as it seems that a mini hurricane would have destroyed the apartment that you share, apart from the smell of food that comes from the kitchen. Although this time it was a bit different ...

You woke up with your muscles aching in a dying way. The team had come from a terrible mission the night before and all the symptoms were showing right now.

You went to the bathroom with your eyes closed, sleep and fatigue was the only thing that controlled you at that moment. You opened the tap and got ready to brush your teeth; the water in the shower was, in some way, being obviated by you.

"Good morning, princezna." Pietro said from the shower, taking a towel that was hanging on the wall outside of it.

"Hello ." you answered simply, fill your mouth with water before spitting.

Upon hearing the shower door open you turned around, being welcomed by Pietro's toned chest, by the drops of water slipping, like his hair. He kiss your cheek before telling you: "I see you at the table." with a smile on his lips.

Bruce:

The team were on a mission, they were all fighting around trying to keep alive the whole population of the small town and themselves. Seeing as a green giant appeared hitting everything in its path and screaming with all his strength you knew something was wrong.

You ran as fast as you could, being close to the Hulk in a few minutes. Luckily for you, Natasha had taught you some lessons about the lullaby, for which you were more than ready. At the end of the song Bruce was lying next to you, lying on a pile of rubble of buildings and streets.

"I'm glad you're back." You smiled relieved, hooked by his side. "Yes ...-"said disoriented, looking around the people running for their lives and the whole team fighting for these.

"Oh no ... do not tell me it happened again ..." the worry in his voice was notorious, being oblivious to the situation that he was without clothes.

"Yes, but it doesn't matter." you tried to change the direction of the conversation. "Why do not we better look for some clothes to wear?" you proposed, smiling at the blush that suddenly took over. Bruce's cheeks.

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Stop wasting your solar system's energy when using a PWM solar charge controller to make the battery charge change by only 50%. Just like any other home appliance, your UPS and its batteries require regular maintenance to function efficiently and last longer. While they don't beautify your home like your steel-coated double-door refrigerator or shiny black microwave, they can certainly help you live comfortably during the toughest times during a power outage. In addition, there are many amorphous silicon solar panels on the market. A feature of this type of panel is the high open circuit voltage and low current.

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If the user needs to run complex electronic equipment, such as TV, refrigerator, blender grinder, etc., it is recommended to use a sine wave inverter. Based on their plate technology, we offer three types of best inverter batteries: gel batteries, tube plate batteries, and flat plate batteries Unlike generator sets, new generation inverters provide uninterrupted power and produce very low Operating costs. Also, unlike diesel gensets which have to run at full load which incurs substantial fuel bills, inverters can run at part load.

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Almost everyone who uses a computer knows what a UPS is and its purpose for those who don’t; in simple words, a UPS (uninterrupted Power Supply) serves as a backup power system in case of a power failure. They are used for protecting sensitive devices which need stable, continuous power, such as PCs, networking systems, workstations, and extensive company servers.

Now a UPS power back is not the same as a generator; it is only meant to provide support for 20–30 mins until the auxiliary power kicks in.

There are many kinds of UPS currently in the market, but they can all be classified into three main types based on how they supply power to the devices from the mains and their batteries.

Offline/Standby UPS This is the entry-level setup, with a more linear design, best used for less sensitive devices like fans, light, TVs, etc. These kinds of UPS use the power from the mains as it is and only tap into the battery when there is a power loss, surges, or slight voltage fluctuations. This type is perfect for users whose incoming utility power is stable and has the same voltage as the devices connected because offline UPSs cannot actively manage voltage; instead, they resort to their batteries as soon as a voltage variation is detected.

These UPS have two paths; one is from the AC main to the output, the other from the battery to the output. Even a slight voltage disturbance will trigger the UPS to switch to the battery DC then convert it to AC for the output. Offline/Standby UPS handles voltage fluctuations by switching to the battery, meaning there will be more frequent erratic switches. The transfer time can be as high as 6–25 milliseconds, depending on how new the model is. Recent models have a power-saving backup ups mode which decreases the switching time by a few milliseconds but shortens the voltage range.

Line-interactive UPS Line-interactive UPS have an automatic voltage regulation(AVR) system which can handle a wide range of voltage fluctuations without switching to battery backup. The system can detect when the voltage hits a preset burnout(low voltage) or swell(high voltage) value and uses a transformer to either boost or decrease the voltage depending on the output configuration. They only need to switch to battery when there is a power loss and provide stable output with 8–15% variation in input or 145–290V depending on the model.

The autotransformers can be programmed to handle any range depending on the use; the wider the range, the more time it takes to switch to battery backup in case of a power failure, but it typically takes between 2- 6 milliseconds. Chances are the one backing your PC is a line-interactive UPS.

Online/Double-Conversion UPS This is the most expensive of all three, primarily used to back up critical commercial-grade equipment that runs 24/7 where even a millisecond of delay can cause problems, like in data centers, telecommunications and company servers, etc. These are the Smart-UPS On-line offered by many companies as flagship products and they are usually the industry best.

Online UPS always provides stable filtered power no matter the input. In these UPS, there are no switches used in regular operation because the battery is always connected to the inverter and the rectifier. The input is converted to DC and stored in the batteries, and then the inverter again converts it to AC pure sine wave for the output; that’s why it’s called double conversion; it continuously converts AC to DC and DC to AC in each cycle. Due to this system, the devices only draw power directly from the battery, not from the wall even if the main power is on; the battery backup is always online and running 24/7, unlike an offline UPS.

All the voltage fluctuations, surges, and noise are filtered as the AC turns to DC, and then it returns back to AC for the output. They provide multi-layer protection and clean energy to the connected devices with zero transfer delays regardless of what goes on in the main AC line as the batteries are constantly in use. But as a fail-safe, there are manual/automatic bypasses included in the system to power the load without the batteries, actively filtering the fluctuations if any problems arise from within.

Pure Sine Wave Output vs Simulated/Modified Sine Wave Output Now, these do not come into play if the devices draw power directly from the wall, but when there is a power failure, the UPS reverts to the battery for power. So when the stored DC is converted to AC, it is either converted into a pure sine wave AC or a simulated sine wave depending on the type of UPS.

However, there is a slight but important difference between the two; pure sine wave always ensures a clean top-of-the-line AC output that can be used by any device from PCs to server-grade components. But a simulated sine wave is choppy, unrefined, and a bit rough around the edges; due to this, certain devices work with good efficiency while others produce more heat and suffer from performance loss. Only the most sensitive equipments need a pure wave setup like those with AC motors, servers, and telecommunications devices. Besides, most UPSs use a modified sine wave output as it comes at half the cost of a pure sine wave system.

At last, we have reached the end, and we hope you have learned quite a bit about UPSs and how they work from this read.

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