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Back home p.15
Hii guyss, here's part 15 of the story. If you want to read more stories of mine here's my masterlist and if you missed part 14, here it is.
Your life in Monaco was idyllic, growing up alongside the Leclercs. But everything changes when you're forced to leave. Now, returning to the place you once called home, you're confronted with a dilemma: not one, but two Leclerc brothers vying for your heart. Old bonds and unresolved emotions collide-what will you do when the past and present merge in unexpected ways?
Charles had secured fourth place in qualifying, a strong result for the weekend. You had cheered loudly from the paddock, your heart swelling with pride at his performance. But the excitement of the day couldnât shake the nervous energy bubbling inside you. By the time Charles finished his debrief and met you outside the Ferrari motorhome, you were barely holding it together.
âReady to head back?â he asked, his eyes soft as he smiled at you.
You nodded, following him silently to the car. The drive to the hotel felt different from usualâquieter, heavier. Charles glanced at you a few times, his brows furrowing slightly, but he didnât press. Once inside your room, the dam broke. You couldnât keep it in any longer.
You began pacing, wringing your hands as your thoughts raced. Charles watched you from the bed, concern etched across his face.
âY/N,â he said gently, standing up. âWhatâs going on? Youâve been acting strange all day.â
You stopped pacing, turning to him. His genuine worry only made the lump in your throat grow. âCharles⌠I need to talk to you about something,â you said, your voice trembling.
He nodded, taking a cautious step toward you. âOkay. Talk to me.â
Taking a deep breath, you said, âI need to know how you feel about me. Because I think⌠I think Iâm starting to catch feelings for you, and I need to know if Iâm just imagining everything. If Iâm just⌠one of the girls youâre talking to.â
His expression shifted to one of surprise, and for a moment, he said nothing. Then, he smiledâa soft, genuine smile that made your heart skip a beat.
âYouâre not just one of the girls, Y/N,â he said, his voice steady and warm. He stepped closer, his hands gently taking yours. âYouâre the girl. The only one.â
Your breath caught, your heart hammering in your chest. âYou⌠you like me?â you whispered.
He chuckled, the sound low and comforting. âIâve had feelings for you for a while now,â he admitted. âI didnât want to ruin what we had, so I kept quiet. But seeing you here, supporting me this weekendâitâs made me realize how much I want you by my side.â
A tear slipped down your cheek, and Charles reached up to brush it away. âI actually wanted to give you this tomorrow, after the race,â he said, his voice soft. âBut now feels like the right time.â
He pulled a small box from his pocket and opened it, revealing a delicate necklace with a red heart pendant. The color shimmered like the Ferrari red youâd seen on the track, vibrant and beautiful.
âCharlesâŚâ you murmured, your voice breaking.
âI wanted you to have something to remind you how important you are to me,â he said, unclasping the necklace. âMay I?â
You nodded, your hands shaking slightly as you turned around. He fastened the necklace around your neck, his fingers lingering for a moment against your skin. When you turned back to face him, his gaze was full of warmth and something deeper.
âThank you,â you said, your voice barely audible. âItâs beautiful.â
âYouâre beautiful,â he replied, his hand cupping your cheek as he leaned closer.
For a moment, it felt like the rest of the world had disappeared. But then, Charles pulled back slightly, his expression turning serious. âCan I ask you something?â
You nodded, your stomach knotting at the shift in his tone.
âWho told you I was talking to other girls?â he asked, his voice calm but firm.
You hesitated, guilt twisting in your chest. But you knew you couldnât lie to him. âArthur,â you said quietly, your gaze dropping to the floor.
Charles stiffened, his jaw tightening as he processed your words. âArthur,â he repeated, his tone unreadable.
You looked up at him, your eyes searching his for any sign of anger or betrayal. Instead, his gaze softened as he took a deep breath. âWeâll deal with that later,â he said, his fingers brushing against the pendant around your neck. âRight now, all that matters is us.â
He pulled you into his arms, holding you close as you felt the weight of the moment settle between you. Despite the tension, there was a sense of peaceâa feeling that, no matter what came next, you and Charles would face it together.
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i'm planning to do my firefly cosplay pulling stream tonight. wanted to do star rail themed gartic phone for at least half an hour before pulls, but can't get at least 2 more people to join me đ what should I do instead, so stream isn't just 10 minutes long? should i do silly goofy doodles? try to work on my firefly art I still have barely touched? i'm not sure. I hate when my plans don't work because people suck!!!!!!!!!đđđđ
#my backup was originally to go through and edit photos from the firefly photoshoot I wanted to do but it's too hot to be outside in cosplay#and run around doing a photoshoot all by myself on top of having a dislocated toe injury lmao#i dont want to start the new stuff. dont know how long it is and dont want to stream for more than an hour or 2#might even just do it alone. dont think anyone is interested in seeing me do it tbh#but i barely have time right now so may need to do it in 15 minute chunks here and there while multitasking#lee text#((also if anyone wants to watch my twitch name is the same as this tumblr one))#i kinda feel like this stream and my plans for it are all a big waste of time. planning anything as a tiny small streamer is pointless lmao
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Gojo Satoru x Reader (Reader wears a bikini and a dress)
A/N: Sorry for the unannounced month-long break. I've been swamped with uni work and writer's block but here's a little vacation au that's kinda based on a true story... đŤ
The start of this summer has been less than perfect. The over-rushed booking, the forgotten essentials, the shared accommodations â it was all a bit too much in the beginning but youâve succumbed to the flow as the days unfolded.Â
It was a 15-day vacation, and on your fifth day, you feel like you are approaching a state of feeling content. Itâs hard not to. Youâre currently ensconced on the most luxuriously soft daybed by the pool, your feet idly stretching ever so often as you sip from your ever-flowing glass of Aperol spritz. This is admittedly nice.
But while youâre involved in your own sweet languor, you fail to notice a certain peculiar white-haired figure approaching the bunch of you.Â
Gradually tip-toeing his way, closer and closer, much to your friendâs concern. But he finally manages to catch your attention, all with a punctuating soft grunt.Â
You look up, a bit startled but mostly annoyed at the interruption. You sit up, just a little, to get a better view of the man.
âCan we help you?â You ask.Â
Heâs pretty, and pale. You wonder if heâs carrying enough sunscreen for the trip.
âYeah, hi!â He smiled. A sort of disarming smile.
âHi,â you smile back, almost involuntarily.
âUh, I lost a bet with my friends back there,â he spoke up, pointing back to a small cluster of people on the opposite side of the pool. âAnd Iâm here toâ Oh, Iâm sorry. The sun must be bothering you.â
He steps forward, shielding you from the harsh heat the sun was inflicting upon your face.Â
You resisted a smile, but it was tethering just about.
He seemed juvenile â this white-haired boy. Heâs tall. Perhaps too tall. And he had this boyish look about him. In the way he stood, and moved his arms. In his smile. You wonder if heâs always like this, or if itâs just a persona heâs adopting for this vacation.Â
You say this only because you are. Youâre not often like this â lounging about in the sun, dressed in a white bikini with sunglasses resting on your head, with a glass in hand. This kind of nonchalance, this relaxation â it didnât come easy to you. But you indulge in it because you can, even if just for a short while.
"You were saying?" you prompt, after existing in the long silence of him just standing in front of you.
âOh,â he grins sheepishly. âYeah. Well, they bet me to ask you out.â
âOh,â you say, a bit disappointed. âWell, do you need help playing along or something?â
âNo,â he says, his eyes widening at how that may have sounded. âNo, they bet me to ask you out because I think youâre pretty. I saw you back at dinner last night as well. And then I saw you today. And I likedâ I think youâre pretty. I liked your red dress last night.â
Your cheeks flare, and you canât use the sun as an excuseâ not when this boy graciously offered to shield you from it. âOh, thank you,â you muttered.
He just smiled back, and you felt itâs strange how you feel no nerves right now. The last time a boy asked you out, you had run out on him. You had only approached him a week later to accept him, but by then he had moved on to sticking his tongue down another girlâs throat, but thatâs hardly the point here.
âWell, what do you have in mind?â You asked, ignoring the gasp from your friend beside you.Â
This must be too shocking for her, and you admit youâre just as shocked as her. But this is barely real life, itâs vacation â a sort of liminal freedom that comes with it.Â
âWell, thereâs this masquerade ball thing thatâs happening a few streets away,â he suggests eagerly. âLive music and all thatââ
âI donât know if thatâs within my budget,â you say, candidly.
âWell, itâs kinda free,â he replies, and your eyes rise up in suspicion.Â
âWell, for me,â he continues. âMy motherâs hosting the event, soâŚâ
Ah, you think then. Heâs one of those boys.
You donât say anything for a bit. Thinking over whether you wanted to indulge and involve yourself with such a crowd. With such a boy.
He seemed a bit worried in your silence, so he spoke up. âBut if thatâs not up to your speed, I canââ
"No," you interjected, your decision swift and unwavering. "I like it. Iâd love to join you."
At the sound of that he grins, a bit too widely in your opinion, but it has an endearing quality to it so you mirror his grin.Â
âFantastic!â He says, âI'll get the masks. And Iâll pick you up. Itâs at 7. Ish.â
âIâll meet you out by the reception then,â you confirm.Â
A few seconds pass, and you watch as he still stands in front of you. âSo, are you going to stand there until the sun sets or something?â
âYep,â he nods. âI can do that. Wellâ No, I have a thing in an hour but Iâll ask my friend to take over. Donât worry,â he shakes his head.
You chuckled in response. âWell, we were going to head back in in a bit anyway. So, Iâm sure I can manage the sun till then.â
âYou sure about that?â he grins.
âYeah, Iâm sure,â you affirm with a wider grin.
âOkay. Iâll see you,â he waved. âAt 7.â
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The Dos & Don'ts of Fake Dating | E.M. x reader | pt. 5
[chap four] | [all chapters here] | [chap six]
summary: You propose a crazy idea to the resident freak of Hawkins, Eddie Munson. But maybe he was even crazier for agreeing to itâŚ
notes & tropes: fem reader, slow burn, faking dating, opposites attract, bratty rich bitch reader, super minor revenge plot, not-quite-enemies-to-lovers
a/n: I'm very excited for this chapter because it's actually one of the scenes that inspired this whole fic! Before I knew what the hell I even wanted to write, I played this idea of a figure skating character over and over again in my head as I built up the story around it. I'm a little behind on writing the next chap, so it may be a slightly longer wait between this and the next one! Hope you all love it!
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Chapter Five
You skated at least four times a week. Youâve done so since you were ten years old, when you decided that you wanted to take figure skating more seriously. Whether or not you had competitions, whether or not you were in the mood for it, you always stuck with your skating routine. With competition season coming up in November, you knew youâd have to start practicing more, putting in longer hours and more days in preparation.
Or maybe not. After all, competing was something that your mom enjoyed, that she encouraged wholeheartedly. Regardless of how much you enjoyed it, it didnât exactly fit the teenage rebellion thing you had going on right now. Maybe you wouldnât go to competition this year, maybe youâd skip out on your final season out of pure spite - now that would be cruel. Although a part of you hurt at that idea - because you really did love skating - you reasoned that it was something you had to consider.
Fridays were always very long days for you. While your peers would be set free to roam following the 3pm school bell, you had more obligations for the day. Once you left school, you crammed in as much homework as you could before hitting the ice rink by 4:30 at the latest to get your own practice in. Once that was done, you led a youth skating practice until 7pm, then you tried to squeeze in some more skating time before the hockey team took to the ice at 7:15. After arriving home at 8 oâclock or later, you crammed more homework so you wouldnât have to deal with it over the weekend, and then by that point youâd be too worn out for anything else, so you generally slept late into the next morning.
This had been your routine for over a year now, ever since your own couch suggested that you needed to get more extracurriculars under your belt for your college applications. She had insisted that your resume would look far more impressive if you showed that you had teaching experience and âleadership potential,â an idea that really appealed to your parents, who were determined for you to get into a good school, maybe even on a figure skating scholarship. So, you ended up taking over the Friday night childrenâs lessons whether you wanted to or not.
You honestly despised it. You led children age 5 to 7, and they were a constant pain in the ass. You couldnât raise your voice without one of them crying, you couldnât leave them to their own devices without someone inevitably ending up hurt. Yet, you stuck with it because you were told to, because the adults around you insisted that you needed to. You couldnât stand the way your coach would insist that this would help develop your skills, you couldnât stand how your mother insisted âyouâll look back on this so fondly when youâre older.â These damned kids skating lessons were something else youâd probably drop soon, because you barely tolerated them as is.
While everyone else was at the football game, while Eddie was probably off playing his stupid fantasy game or doing something equally as nerdy, you were here at the ice rink, shouting instructions at children while parents and hockey players watched. Some of the parents had made it clear before that they werenât fond of your impatient and mean teaching methods, but your coach always seemed to talk them out of pulling their kids from your group. She always argued something about you being the best skating in the county, but you werenât sure how true that was - sure, you had your fair share of medals, but even with your ego you were pretty sure there were better skaters at your level.
âCome on, slackers, weâve got five minutes left!â You taunted your group of 11 kids as they skated around the perimeter of the rink as a cool down. You zipped ahead of them, leading the charge as you skated backwards to keep an eye on them.
Many of the older kids had grown used to your abrasive coaching, but you could see that many of the newbies were still frightened of you, your loud voice, and your cold eyes. As a means of excusing your poor teaching style, you always said that skating was a tough sport and they needed to toughen up if they wanted to be any good at it. For how pretty and elegant figure skating could be, you knew from experience that competitive skating could be harsh, so you figured you were helping these kids prepare for it.
Because the Hawkins High hockey team had the rink after your group every Friday, many of them were already sitting on the sidelines, getting their gear ready or watching you work. The cocky part of you enjoyed the attention, but hockey players were stupid, so you rarely gave any of them a chance whenever they tried talking to you. Nonetheless, when you were in a good mood, you enjoyed putting on a bit of a show for them, shooting flirty glances their way or occasionally calling out remarks to them between instructing the kids. Tonight, you were paying them little mind, but that didnât stop you from looking their way every now and again.
As you led the kids back to the center of the ice to wrap up the lesson, a lot of their parents were also waiting in the bleachers or out in the lobby. While you skated back and forth in front of your little army of children, going over some instructions for their next practice with your coach on Monday, your eyes roamed the bleachers. You gave a wicked grin to the hockey players that watched you, meanwhile you took in the parents with very little regards. It was as you looked over the clusters of parents that you saw a familiar face sitting at the penalty bench, and unintentionally you let your toe pick drag on the ice, which very nearly caused you to trip.
God damn Eddie Munson.
As you glared in his direction, hoping your momentary lack of balance didnât make you look too stupid, you dismissed the kids before gliding towards the dasher board. Eddie, grinning like an asshole, stood up to meet you as children began to exit the ice. You braced yourself on the rail of the board, eyes narrowed at Eddie who appeared far too amused for your liking.
âWhat are you doing here?â You ask in lieu of a greeting. Eddie briefly glances over at the kids leaving the ice.
âYouâre incredible with children.â He mocked, smiling far too wide for your liking; you narrowed your eyes while wondering just how long heâd been here, âFigured I might find you here.â
âThat doesnât explain why youâre here, though.â You respond coldly, gaze briefly looking in the direction of the hockey team to find a couple of them watching your interaction.Â
âYou did say we needed to make plans, figure out how this was going to work,â Eddie started, taking in your red cheeks and slightly damp forehead that developed over the course of your skating lessons.
âI also said weâd talk about it next week.â You glowered a little, not worried if any of the hockey players saw it - maybe theyâd simply mistake it for a lovers quarrel. Eddie grinned, holding his arms up as if he were a presenter on some dumb show.
âNo time like the present, right?â Your unamused face gave him all the answer he needed, and his expression fell a little in annoyance, âAnd here I hoped I was being a good fake boyfriend by visiting you at the rink.â
âYouâre being too good a fake boyfriend,â You jab.
Now that all the kids were off the ice, you slid towards the open gate; Eddie kept pace with you on the other side of the dasher board, meeting you at the gate and offering you his hand in assistance. You looked between his face and his outstretched hand with a glare, but eventually accepted his help, stepping over the barrier and onto the slightly cushy floor on the other side.
âI told you not tonight because Iâm busy.â You walk over to the gym bag you left sitting on the nearest bleachers. As you sat beside it, Eddie shrugged with a carelessness that seemed almost false.
âThen Iâll go.â He answered simply as you removed your skates, âJust thought it might not be a bad idea to get to know you a little better. Itâs not gonna be easy to fake date someone who you know nothing about.â
You shot him a harsh look while putting skate guards over your blades. You didnât want to admit that he was right, but he had a good point, especially since you had already discussed it before. You sighed heavily through your nose, your cold eyes locked on Eddieâs.
âCanât it wait? Iâve had a long day.â
Eddie studied you for a moment, leaning back against the dasher board before looking around the ice rink. You quickly put some worn sneakers on your feet and stood, picking your bag and turning away with the intention to leave. But Eddieâs gentle grip on your wrist stopped you from going anywhere, causing you to look between his hand and his face. As you two held eye contact, you realized that Eddie could be just as stubborn as you when he wanted; damn, was this going to be difficult.
âLet me buy you dinner - Iâm sure youâre starving,â Eddie started, and for a fleeting moment you wondered if he thought your attitude was because you were hangry. You chewed your lower lip, eyes staring critically at Eddie for another few moments before you let out a defeated sigh, allowing your shoulders to relax a little. Considering that it had been nearly eight hours since your lunch break, it might now be a bad idea to eat something.
Eddieâs eyes softened at your silent resignation, the corner of his mouth pulling up. He finally released your wrist, nodding his head in the direction of the lobby, âCome on, you pick.â
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Your pick ended up being a 24-hour diner downtown. Eddie showed clear confusion when you mentioned it, so you explained that - for whatever reason - the diner had become something of a tradition, where students congregated post-Friday night football into the wee hours of the night. Youâd joined that crowd a number of times in the past, but had no more interest in it - what you were interested in was having people see you and Eddie out together.
You knew it would still be at least an hour before the football crowd arrived, but that wasnât such a bad thing - it gave you and Eddie a bit of time to actually become acquainted, to learn more about each other beyond âice princessâ and âthe freak.â
You studied Eddie while sipping on a chocolate shake, waiting for your food to arrive. He stared back at you unabashedly, and you figured you could be locked into this staring contest until the end of time given how stubborn you both could be. As if Eddie knew what you were thinking, he smirked, finally caving as he looked away from you.
âNot to sound cliche,â Eddie scratched the back of his neck, almost as if he were nervous, but you assumed that couldnât be true, âbut⌠tell me about yourself?â
You smiled at how dumb the question was - that was so cliche. It was as good a starting place as any you figured, but that didnât make it sound any less silly and forced. You leaned back in your seat, still holding tight to your milkshake as if it were a lifeline.
Putting on your best Miss America voice, you replied, âWell, Iâm freshly 18 from Hawkins, Indiana. I love long walks on the beach, snuggling up with a good book, and I hope one day weâll have world peace.â
Eddie narrowed his eyes at you, although you could tell he was fighting back a grin, âYouâre making this very challenging considering that it was your idea.â
You shrug, taking a big gulp of the chocolate shake, âI guess Iâm just a challenging person.â
âYou guess?â Eddie laughed mockingly at that, âYouâre the most challenging Iâve met. So, how about you try relaxing a little or else no oneâs going to buy that weâre together.â
You made a face at the near-insult, finally putting down your drink. You leaned your elbows on the table, taking in Eddieâs face for a moment, stubbornly resisting the urge to say anything. Again, he had a good point, not that you wanted to tell him that. Eddie appeared to have an idea as he mirrored your pose.
âOkay, weâll go back and forth, a question for a question; howâs that?â You nodded, âRight. First question: Why me?â
Your brows furrowed a little in thought, pinning down a good answer while trying to recall what youâve already told him, âHavenât I already explained that?â
âKind of.â Eddie rolled his hand in a motion that basically said âbut go on.â
You bit the inside of your cheek for a moment while thinking, âYour reputation. People donât know you, but your reputation is in the absolute gutter. No better person to turn to than the guy who everyone in the school already hates.â
Eddie nodded in acceptance of the answer, âOkay, your turn.â
You grinned a little, a question already on your lips, âWhyâd you agree to it?â
It was something youâd speculated briefly throughout the week, as you thought that your trade offer might not have been a compelling enough reason for Eddie to agree to this stupid plan. And now you could finally get the answer you were looking for.
Eddie silently stared at you in consideration, and again it almost felt like he was able to read your thoughts somehow. Finally, he answered, âCuriosity.â
You raised a brow in question, to which he once more scratched the back of his neck - maybe that actually was a nervous habit, so you took note of it.
âWe both know this idea is kinda crazy,â Eddie started, mulling over his thoughts before continuing, âBut I wanted to see how it plays out. See if we can actually trick people into believing it. And I wanted to see if you were as awful as I thought you were.â
You balked instantly, an amused huff escaping your mouth, ââAwful?â Jesus, you keep acting like Iâm the devil or something.â
Eddie made a face while shrugging, not disagreeing with you, âYou thought the same about me. So, letâs call it square.â
Food was finally brought to your table, and you had to resist the urge to attack the greasy burger set in front of you; you didnât need Eddie to see you act like a ravenous gremlin over some food, even if it had been over eight hours since youâd eaten anything. But you nonetheless dug in, albeit with far more control than your empty, growling stomach would have liked.
âYour turn.â You say around a bite of food, causing Eddie to smile in amusement and the unladylike action.
âHmmâŚâ He leaned forward, scrutinizing you as he contemplated his next question. Self consciously, you wiped at the corner of your mouth just to make sure there wasnât any stray ketchup or grease sitting there, âWhy ice skating?â
âBecause itâs better than cheerleading.â You smiled at your own joke before giving a slightly better answer, âI always thought it was pretty. Nothing else to it, unfortunately; no deep story and significance to it.â
âFine.â Eddie responded almost as if he was disappointed by the mundane answer.
âWhy Dungeons and Dragons?â
âYour questions canât keep being off-shoots of mine.â Eddie laughed a little, and despite yourself it caused you to smile smally as well.
âSays who?â
âSays me,â He responded while pointing at himself, âI get to come up with some of the rules now, remember?â
âWhatever.â You rolled your eyes with a degree of fondness, which you immediately found strange, so you tried to wipe the look from your face. Nope, you werenât fond of Eddie Munson, not at all.
You went back to your food, hoping Eddie didnât catch the amused look on your face. You spoke around another bite of food, ��Do you have siblings?â
âNone that I know of.â He replied around his own mouthful of food, âBut I wouldnât exactly be surprised if there were any out there.â
You cocked your head a little at the response; it wasnât so much shocking or sad, rather it was unexpected and different from your own life. You made a mental note to learn more about Eddieâs family, if not tonight then at a later point.
âWhatâs your plan after graduation?â
You opened your mouth to answer, but then paused - what was your plan now that you were trying to make your own decisions? You hadnât even considered it. Did you still want to go to college? Where? Studying what? You suddenly realized that you had no true plan for yourself, only the one outlined by your parents, and that realization made you nervous.
âHonest answer: not a fucking clue.â Eddie looked taken aback by the response, so you continued, âMy plan before was getting into a good school on a skating scholarship, and studying something completely irrelevant. My parents expect my skating to carry me through life until some good, rich man sweeps me off my feet.â
âBut thatâs not your plan anymore?â
âThatâs another question.â You give him a teasing grin, causing Eddie to roll his eyes, âFirst, answer me this: If you werenât stuck in Hawkins, where would you go?â
Eddie grinned with an unexpected eagerness, âLA. The music scene there is insane, and Iâd happily sleep on the streets if it meant I had a shot at making my own music.â
Your eyes softened ever so slightly at the unexpected, genuine response - admittedly, you didnât peg Eddie as the type to have any real goals. But music? That was interesting to you since you werenât even aware that he played any instruments. You wondered if he was actually any good at it, or if it was some foolish aspiration.
âNow, whatâs your plan?â Eddie repeated, smirking at the look on your face - this was one of the few times you didnât look like a total bitch, so he appreciated it. In fact, you looked relaxed and, dare he say, content; that was certainly unexpected from you.
When you shrugged, he shook his head, leaning forward again, âNo, you come up with a plan right now. Donât base it off what your parents want or what you think sounds like the right answer. What do you want to do with your life once weâre done with this shit hole?â
You contemplated, a mild concern washing over you as you stared at Eddie - what the hell did you want? And why did you suddenly feel so vulnerable because of the question. You had to rip your gaze away from Eddieâs, hardening your expression as you tried to think up an answer that felt right.
âI⌠I like art, I love clothes,â You started dumbly, glancing at Eddie through your lashes, expecting him to make a face at the lame answer, âI donât know shit about them in a technical way, but it might be fun for college. Take painting or sewing classes during the day, skate until my feet hurt at night, maybe⌠I want to be somewhere big and interesting. New York, LA⌠fuck, even Florida for all I care, I just want out of Hawkins, out of this town.â
âThen I guess weâll be those high school sweethearts that run off to LA together after graduation, huh?â Eddie smiled widely, and you allowed an amused look to cross your face.
âOh, Iâm sure.â You returned to your food as you tried to come up with a good question for Eddie. An intriguing one came to you, so you asked before you could second guess it, âHow do you expect your fake girlfriend to act?â
Eddieâs brow furrowed; it didnât appear to be due to him misunderstanding the question, but rather that it was unexpected; he even looked maybe hesitant to answer it. Again, he scratched his neck.
You lean forward a little, looking at him seriously, âGive me a good answer, okay? Weâre just gonna keep going in circles otherwise.â
Eddie shrugged, âMaybe I donât have any expectations.â
âThen come up with some.â You immediately counter, prodding the same way he had about your plans for the future. Eddie stared at you with scrutiny while chewing the inside of his lip, as if he didnât want to come up with a response to the question. You waited, making a mock sweet face at him while you chowed down on your fries. You were going to demand an answer until he gave you one.
âWell, going off the rules you already established,â He made a bit of a face as if to mock the oh-so-sacred fake dating rules, âAside from playing nice in front of others, it might be helpful if you were less stubborn; youâre like a damn bull.â
You gave him a joshing smile right back, âFair. Is that it?â
Eddie quickly shook his finger; now it was just a back-and-forth game of you mocking one another, âAh, thatâs another question.â
âOh, fuck off.â You rolled your eyes with a short laugh, âThat is not another question.â
Eddie gave a fake look of apology, shrugging again, âUnfortunately, it is.â
You threw a french fry at him, which lamely hit his chest then landed in his lap. As he laughed and picked it up, you found yourself smiling fondly again, and you quickly tried to shake off the expression.
At that moment, the bell above the front door chimed, and immediately the diner was filled with rambunctious conversation. Your heart jumped a little, realizing the time, and you briefly glanced in the direction of the door; the group that had entered wasnât your friends, although you recognized them. You turned your attention back to Eddie, who gave you another grin.
âShowtime.â He stated simply, and then a thought appeared to cross his mind, âYou want another expectation? Tell me if anything I do is too much, but otherwise let me do what I do - you donât need to be in control all the time.â
âDonât I, though?â You countered haughtily, which was met by a flash of seriousness across Eddieâs eyes.
âNo, you donât. I know what Iâm doing, okay?â
You studied him for a moment, not entirely convinced that he did, in fact, know what he was doing. Considering that youâd never seen him even interact with a girl before, you werenât sure if he knew the first thing about dating or romance. But despite your doubts, you relented, relaxing your shoulders as if to show you were relinquishing some control.
âFine,â You rolled your eyes nonetheless, forever obstinate as you mocked, âIâll tell you if I donât like something, but otherwise Iâll let you do what you do.â
âWas that so hard?â Eddie replied with a condescending smirk. You sneered before relaxing your face, knowing your friends were bound to appear any minute now.
As you stole another glance at the door, you suddenly felt Eddieâs fingers graze the back of your hand, drawing your attention back to him with a confused little knot between your brows. He held your gaze as if to make a point, as if to remind you of the conversation you just had, that he knew what he was doing. His hand simply sat on top of yours, your fingers ever so slightly lacing together - he raised his brows as if to dare you to pull away from him. You had to resist the urge to narrow your eyes at him and snatch your hand away, and in turn Eddie gave you a cocky grin before continuing to eat with his free hand.
Eventually, your friends appeared, although they didnât notice you at first. They were all so full of energy as they excitedly spoke to each other, descending upon a few tables in the middle of the diner and pushing them together. The staff were used to it, although you knew from experience that they nonetheless hated it; you guys were always disruptive to the other patrons, and you figured that was never going to change.
You tried your best not to stare, but your eyes kept trailing over, kept studying the excited faces of the people you considered friends only a couple of weeks ago. After your eyes had drifted over for the umpteenth time, you felt Eddie lightly squeeze your fingers, causing you to unintentionally sneer at how strange it was to maintain this physical contact with him.
âStop staring,â He instructed when you looked back at him.
With a quarrelsome look in your eyes, you did as Eddie told you, returning your attention to the half eaten burger on your plate, âTalk to me about something, then.â
âLike what?â
âI donât care, just talk so I can pretend to be interested.â
Eddie looked mildly put off by that, and you realized that youâd taken your customary mean tone with him. You couldnât seem to help yourself with your former cohorts nearby, it was as if their energy was rubbing off on you.
âYou know what Iâm going to talk about,â Eddie taunted with a wide grin.
Your face fell in realization, âPlease not Dungeons and Dragons.â
âIâm gonna do it.â
âI wish you wouldnât.â
âSo, thereâs this character, Kas, who has really interesting lore--â
You threw another fry at Eddie, and at that same moment, you felt someone come up alongside your table. You both look up to see Amelia there with a critical look on her face; your gaze drifts past her, noticing that a few people from her table were also looking at you and Eddie.
You met Ameliaâs eyes again, giving her a wide, false smile, âSmall world.â
Her eyes narrowed as she crossed her arms, âYeah, Iâm sure you just completely forgot we always come here after games.â
âMaybe she just wanted to see her dear friends.â Eddie chimed in mockingly, once again surprising you with his willingness to instigate confrontation. You laughed as a dumbfounded look crossed Ameliaâs at his remark.
âI donât know what the hell she sees in you.â Amelia snarked with a glare before turning her gaze back to you, âAnd I donât know what the hell is going on with you, but itâs already getting pretty old.â
You shrug with exaggerated nonchalance, âSometimes a girl just needs a bit of a change every now and then, you know?â
Amelia didnât look convinced as she rolled her eyes with a dramatic sigh, âYeah, well, this âchangeâ doesnât suit you at all.â
Before you could respond with another quip, Amelia spun on her heel and briskly returned to her table. By that point, everyone there was watching and awaiting Ameliaâs return, quickly huddling together to whisper conspiratorially once she sat down.
You and Eddie shared an amused glance; he went back to poking at his food as your gaze trailed back to Amelia and company. You happened to lock eyes with Duncan, who stared at you with harsh scrutiny, as if he wasnât buying this thing between you and Eddie in the slightest. You gave Duncan a mocking while, starting to wave before flipping him off, causing Eddie to snort and choke on his food. You couldnât help but laugh out loud as he hit his chest a couple of times, trying to clear his throat. The sound of such a genuine laugh escaping you was absolutely foreign to Eddie, but he decided it was a sound he enjoyed, even if it was at his expense; he made a mental note that he had to find ways to make you laugh more that didnât involve him choking.
âYou couldâve killed me.â Eddie croaked before laughing himself, his smile wide.
âYouâre fine.â You teased, squeezing his fingers while giving him a false pout of sympathy, âYou big baby.â
Eddie rolled his eyes in amusement, digging his wallet out while finally relinquishing the grip he had on your hand, âCome on, letâs get out of here.â
He tossed money onto the table and stood, offering his hand to you again. You quickly snagged one last fry before accepting Eddieâs hand, allowing him to pull you to your feet. He once again laced his fingers with yours as he led you through the crowded diner, and you had to fight back the desire to cringe in confusion at it. The both of you eyed the crowd of Hawkins Highâs elite as they watched you back critically.
Once outside the diner, Eddie paused in front of one of the large windows and pulled a ridiculous face at the kids still watching you; he quickly tugged your arm, leading you back towards the van as you laughed again at his antics.
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Arthur and Merlin travel back in time without knowing the other is from the future too AU
LINKS TO THE OTHER PARTS OF THIS AU HERE: PART 1 , PART 2 , PART 3 , PART 4 , PART 5 , PART 6 , PART 7 , PART 8 , PART 9 , PART 10 , PART 11 , PART 12 , PART 13 , PART 14 , PART 15 , PART 16 , PART 17 , PART 18 , PART 19 , PART 20 , PART 21 , PART 22 , PART 23 , PART 24 , PART 25 , PART 26 , PART 27 , PART 28 , PART 29 (You're here), PART 30
Gaius: (sighs) My boy, I don't think crying for your life to the King is going to work.
Merlin: Is not him I'm going to cry to.
Gaius: ...
Merlin: I know, I know. This is so absur-
Gaius: Brilliant! đ How didn't I think of this before? (quickly looks for some medicine and gives it to Merlin) Here, a couple of drops in your eyes should be enough.
Merlin: I can't believe you're really supporting this madness.
Gaius: Madness is what Arthur will do if you don't change his mind soon. (starts pushing Merlin out of his chambers) Now go, I can't keep the King assleep much longer. (ends to push Merlin outside and closes the door)
Meanwhile in Arthur's Chambers.
Arthur: (on his desk with a bunch of parchments with names, strategies and possible scenarios, thinking) This was not supposed to happen so soon. I had I plan goddamit! (sinks his face in his hands) Why father? Why do you always want to take away everyone I love? First Gwen and now...(sighs and gets the hands off his face) I hate you, so much... but I don't want to kill you. I don't want to do any of this, but I have to. You'd do the same for my mother. I hope you understand, because even now I can't bare the thought of you not forgiving me.
Merlin: (enters hanging his head)
Arthur: (letting out his frustration) May I know where have you been? đĄ This room is not going to clean itself. I have a lot of work to do and you are-
Merlin: (lifts his head to reveal two rivers of tears under his eyes, face red, hiccuping and whining)
Arthur: Merlin! (jumps from his sit and runs to Merlin, almost in panic) What is it?! Did something happen? (checks him, worried) Are you hurt?! Tell me!
Merlin: (thinking) Me eyes hurt! 𼺠Why does it have to burn this much? đ(says) Please, Arthur, stop this! This is your fault! (hits Arthur's chest)
Arthur: What?! What did I do?! đ¨
Merlin: (thinking) Shit, I did it backwards. (says) I mean, MY fault! (hits his chest) It's all my fault! (hits his chest harder) My fault, my fault!
Arthur: (very concern) Will you stop that?! You'll hurt yourself! Merlin! (grabs Merlin by the wrists) What's gotten into you?
Merlin: Please, Arthur. I can't-(thinking) Wait, I forgot to kneel. (drops to his knees)
Arthur: What the- đ¨
Merlin: I can't live with myself if blood is spilled because of me! đ (tries to hold Arthur's hands, but can't see well through the tears so he ends up pulling his trousers in a crying mess)
Arthur: (definitely in panic now) What are you doing?! Merlin, stand up! My trousers are going to fall. Merlin! (kneels too and cups his face, comforting) I get that you're scared, but everything will turn out alright.
Merlin: (thinking) Nooo! It's not working! And I can't hug his legs now! (says) No! No! You have to stop this-Argh! (thinking) Damn it! It's burning too much! I can't open my eyes! (hides his face in his hands, pretending he's crying harder)
Arthur: (even more worried) Merlin look at me, please.
Merlin: (thinking) No! He'll realise I'm faking if I can't open my eyes. What do I do? What else was in Morgana's script? Oh, right! (says) If you do this, I⌠I'd rather⌠disappear! (faints dramatically)
Arthur: (catches him before he hits the floor in reflex) Merlin? (pats his face) Merlin! (shakes him) Merlin, open your eyes.
Merlin: (thinking) I can't. I fainted.
Arthur: Wake up, come on. Merlin! (Shakes him harder)
Merlin: (thinking) Ow! There is no need to be so rough. đ
Arthur: (concern) He fainted.
Merlin: (thinking) Don't say!
Arthur: I need to take him to Gaius. (carries Merlin bridal style)
Merlin: (thinking) Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait! why are you carrying me like this? đłđŤ
Arthur: (Runs outside with Merlin in his arms and yelling) Gaius! (Runs through the castle staff) Everybody, get out of the way! It's an emergency! Gaius!
Merlin: (thinking) There's no need to be so dramatic either! đ¤Śââď¸
In Gaius' Tower.
Arthur: (enters kicking the door open) Gaius!
Gaius: (looks Merlin in Arthur's arms, alarmed) What happened?!
Arthur: I don't know! He-
Gaius: Lay him on the bed first. I need to examine him.
Arthur: (Lays Merlin on the bed quickly)
Gaius: (while checking Merlin) Now explain.
Arthur: (paces, anxiously) He came to my chambers crying and saying that this was all his fault, hitting himself like a madman. Then he begged me to stop the rebel-the back up plan and he kneeled, Gaius, he KNEELED before me! When has he ever done that? I tried to calm him, but he just wouldn't stop crying! And then suddenly he fainted!
Merlin: (pinches Gaius subtly)
Gaius: (realices he's faking) I see... (gets an idea) Oh, my poor, poor boy.
Arthur: (stops pacing) What? What is it?
Gaius: It seems that Merlin is in a very bad state of... anxiety, Sire.
Arthur: Anxiety?
Gaius: Yes, that! He fainted from the anxiety. I know he doesn't show it always, Sire, but Merlin is very... sensitive. Sometimes his heart cannot bear strong impressions and, apparently, the approach of a rebellion was too much for his... delicate heart.
Merlin: (thinking, offended) That's not true! đ
Arthur: (thinking, between concerned and confused) How can this be? Not even when his father died I've seen him so distraugh. Does the rebellion really worries him this much? (says) But he'll wake up, right? He'll be fine.
Gaius: He will, but I fear that... (dramatic pause)
Arthur: What? Tell me!
Gaius: If he continues receiving news that could cause him any anguish he could become seriously ill to the point his heart could... stop beating completely.
Merlin: (thinking) Really, Gaius? đ What was the need of making up this diagnosis?
Arthur: (desperate) No... No! there must be something you can give him! Some medicine, a treatment, ANYTHING!
Gaius: The only thing that can help Merlin now is rest and tranquility. ABSOLUTE tranquility.
Arthur: (sinks in a chair nearby, filled with guilt) This is my fault, isn't it? He's like this because of me.
Merlin: (thinking) No, no, no. Don't think that! âšď¸
Gaius: You had no way of knowing this would happen, Sire.
Arthur: What do I do now? If I keep up with my plan I lose him if I don't I lose him too. (looks up at gaius with watery eyes) I can't lose him, Gaius. (thinking) Not again, not again. Please.
Merlin: (thinking, his heart beating like crazy) He... He never cared for me like this in my other life. It feels... nice.
Gaius: (puts a comforting hand on Arthur's shoulder) Rebellion is not the only answer. You said yourself it was just a back up plan. You can still reason with the King or we can put Merlin safe somewhere.
Arthur: But he'll be away.
Gaius: But safe. Isn't that what's important?
Arthur: ...
Gaius: Whatever it is you'll do, I know you'll make the right decision, your Highness.
Arthur: (sighs, stands up, aproaches Merlin and caresses his hand lovinly)
Merlin: (tries very hard for his heart and breathing to stay even)
Arthur: Tell me when he wakes. I need to take care of some things.
Gaius: Of course, Sire.
Arthur: (gives a last look at Merlin and finally leaves)
Merlin: (sits up as soon as the door closes) What the hell was that?! đĄ
Gaius: That was me saving us all.
Merlin: "Anxiety"? "delicate heart"? "his heart could stop beating completely"? There was no need to scare him like that!
Gaius: You are the one who decided to faint. Why did you do that?
Merlin: Morgana told me to.
Gaius: (in understanding) Morgana! I should've known it was her idea.
Merlin: Yes, the idea was to use tears to persuade Arthur of not doing the rebellion. This is outright lying to him! And you know I hate lying to him, Gaius! (rubs his eyes) Ugh, my eyes still burn a bit.
Gaius: This should help (gives him a bowl with water and Merlin starts washing his eyes). I'm sorry I lied to Arthur, but I figured that if he was doing this rebellion to save you, the only way to stop him was if he believed you'll be in danger if the rebellion were to happen too.
Merlin: (sighs) What's done is done. (gets off the bed)
Gaius: What are you doing?
Merlin: Going to do my chores.
Gaius: You can't! You are supposed to be ill. Remember?
Merlin: So what? You expect me to stay in bed all day?
Gaius: That's exactly what you'll do. Now, lay down.
Merlin: But-
Gaius: Lay down.
Merlin: (recluntanly lays down) Can I read a book at least?
Gaius: I'll bring you some.
Time skip. Arthur with Kilgharrah.
Kilgharrah: I don't understand. Don't you want to start your reign, young Pendragon?
Arthur: Of course I do! But not at the cost of Merlin.
Kilgharrah: It's not just about saving him. It is Uther who persecutes Merlin and his kind. Even if Uther were to spare his life, which I doubt, your warlock won't be free until Uther dies.
Arthur: I know. But everything is getting out of my hands! I can't go back to my original plan and the back up plan is not an option now. (holds his head in desperation) How did everything turn out this bad? This never happened in my timeline!
Kilgharrah: Every change you've done, even if it was small, could lead to a complete different scenario. Being from the future won't prepare you for that.
Arthur: What do I do then? There's no pacific way to get out of this.
Kilgharrah: Maybe not pacific but, perhaps, a least violent one. Just enough to not worsen your warlock's state.
Arthur: Which is?
Kilgharrah: You needn't to involve others when the enemy is only one.
Arthur: ...
Kilgharrah: You already thought of it.
Arthur: (sighs) I did, I was just hoping you'll come up with something different.
Time skip. In Uther's chambers.
Gaius: (preparing another sedative)
Arthur: (enters) You don't have to do that anymore, Gaius.
Gaius: (turns to him, surprised) Sire!
Arthur: (smiles) Let him wake up. I want to speak with him alone.
Gaius: (nods in underdstanding) I'll prepare Merlin's things just in case.
Arthur: That won't be necessary, Gaius. Don't worry.
Gaius: ... Sire?
Arthur: (gives him a calm smile) You really don't have to worry, Gaius. I found I way to convince him. He won't be able to deny me this. You can go in peace.
Gaius: (unsure, but bows and leaves)
Arthur: (his smiles fades as soon as Gaius is gone, checks the doors are closed and then turns to Uther) This was not supposed to happen like this. (walks to the bed) I was going to give you an honorable dead, you were going to be remembered as a hero, even though you don't deserve it. You've hurt a lot of people, father. Murdered thousands of innocents in your grief... but aren't I about to do the same? Haven't I already done that to be where I stand? (pulls Uther's hair out of his face) It makes me wonder. Were you always a monster, father? Or you only turned this way when you lost my mother? You always insisted I marry for duty even though you married for love. Was it because you feared what I'll become if I were to fall in love like you? (lets a dry laugh) I guess what is inherited is not stolen. (grabs a pillow) There's a difference between me and you though. I'd never blame others for my own mistakes and I would never risk Merlin like you did with my mother. (holds the pillow close to Uther's face) I'm sorry.
Anhora: (appearing out of nowhere) Arthur Pendragon.
Arthur: (lets the pillow fall to the floor, almost jumping out of his skin, but quickly composes himself as he recgonises him) The keeper of the unicorns.
Anhora: Glad I don't have to introduce myself. I have come to deliver a message.
Arthur: (tired) Please don't tell me you'll curse Camelot. I don't have time for this. I let your unicorn go.
Anhora: For which I'm in debt with you. Whoever dares to slay a unicorn meets despair, but those who save one can be rewarded.
Arthur: Do you have an enchantment that can make my father forget all his absurd suspicions about Merlin? Because if you don't I don't know you how else you could help me.
Anhora: This is what I don't get. You spared the life of my unicorn, which is an act of a pure hearted person. Yet your heart is anything but pure. You are ready to enchant your father, to take his life just to fullfil your selfish desires.
Arthur: Is this my reward? A sermon?
Anhora: No. (gets a bracelet out of his pocket) this bracelet made of unicorn hair is a lucky charm. It could help turn chances at your favor, but it'll disappear as soon as you achieve your goal.
Arthur: You said could. You mean is not certain?
Anhora: You have to make your part and it'll only help you with one aim. The more short term and specific the better.
Arthur: That's a very useless lucky charm. đ
Anhora: Useless or not it's yours. I beg you to use it wisely (extends the hand with the bracelet)
Arthur: (grabs it) Thank you.
Anhora: (about to leave, but turns) Prince of Camelot, if you keep down this pat you build and embrace the darkness in your heart to protect your love ones, that darkness will end up harming those you hold most dear.
Arthur: You think I don't know? You think I like doing what I'm doing? (laughs without humor) Is ironic. Where I come from you determined I was "pure of heart" for the same reason now you are determining I'm not. Because I wanted to save Merlin, to keep him safe. But even then I was willing to leave my kingdom without a heir just so he wouldn't die. My love was never pure.
Anhora: (with sadness) It was. It once was. One of the purest love I've ever seen. Or at least it could have been. Now it's corrupted.
Arthur: (surprised) You... you are-
Anhora: If something goes wrong this time, there will be no going back. And it will not be fate's fault. The blame will fall entirely on you, Arthur Pendragon. Are you prepared to assume the consequences of your actions?
Arthur: (serious) Yes.
Anhora: Then you are doomed (dissapears)
Arthur: (sighs and looks at the bracelet, thinking) This better work. (puts it on)
Uther: (wakes up) What� Where am I?
Arthur: (takes a chair nearby and sits next to him) In your chambers, father. You had a seizure.
Uther: (still kind of groggy) Oh...
Arthur: Father, I know Merlin behaved very poorly and I take complete responsability for that. I've given him too many liberties since he is under my service. I failed to properly teach him how he should adress his superiors and for that I'm sorry. It won't happen again, but please, I beg you, spare his life.
Uther: (smiles softly) Alright, I'll spare him.
Arthur: (very surprised) Really? (thinking) This thing is more effective than I thought!
Uther: (smiles more brightly) Of course! Anything for my son.
Arthur: (thinking) ...okay, something's wrong. (says) Father, how many fingers do you see? (raises 3 fingers in front of his eyes)
Uther: Hmmm... Six!
Arthur: (lets out a sigh of exasperation, thinking) No! He's still drugged! It won't matter if he spares Merlin's life now, he'll take back his words as soon as he comes back to his senses...unless... (stands up and searches around the room quickly)
Uther: What are you doing son?
Arthur: (picks a parchment and a quill and sits back next to Uther) Can you show me how you sign your treates, father? I want to see if I'm doing it correctly.
Uther: My son, always looking for perfection. Alright. (signs)
Arthur: (thinking, looking at the parchment) The writing is stable enough. (says) Father, I just remember there are some urgent documents that need to be signed. I really don't want to bother you, you've just woken up, but you're the King. You're the only one the can do it.
Uther: I understand. You can bring them to me.
Arthur: I'll be right back. (stands up and goes to the door)
Uther: Arthur!
Arthur: (turns around)
Uther: I love you, son.
Arthur: (thinking, holding back the tears) Of course the only times you've told you loved me would be when you're drugged or in your deathbed. (says) I love you too, father. (leaves)
...
Anhora I hate you for stopping Arthur from killing Uther but I also love you cause now Arthur can go back to his original plan :D
How will Uther react when he comes back to his senses? Will Merlin really be safe? Find out in the next part of "Merlin: The Favourite of crocodile tears"
Also credits to my best friend Rosangela, who is practically beta and almost co-writer of this AU now.
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my situation in more details under the cut for those who are curious
i was working in the vfx industry as a 2D compositor since 2016 (i have worked on over 40 films and tv shows), but in december of 2023 i lost my job due to the hollywood strikes (as expected, and as it shouldâi fully support the strikes). this was supposed to be temporary for a couple months where i could get unemployment benefits (only 45% of my usual salary though). unfortunately, on may 31st 2024, my government announced that they are significantly cutting the funding & tax credits for the vfx industry where i live. what does this mean? mass lay offs. thousands of canadians and other people in the world working in the industry are losing their career, including me. there will only be about 20% vfx jobs left where i live by 2025. vfx shops and production houses have already started to close doors here. i'm still mourning this career i have been working in for 8 years and loved, even tho it's been difficult and demanding at times (lots of overtime), but there are just no jobs right now (unless you are a senior vfx artist with decades of experience) and the future will only get more bleak. i could move abroad and follow the industry that is already moving somewhere else, but i don't want to do that on my own (i am already super lonely as it is!!) and i can't afford it.
my unemployment benefits will run out by the last week of september. in 4 weeks. i've been sending resumes everywhere, both online and in person, but i am just not getting anything in return. even tho i have over 15 years of experience working in various jobs and i have never been fired from anywhere. even tho my resume and cover letters are solid because they have been approved my professional counselors (a free service for people under 35 where i live). so much for they're hiring everywhere...
since my vfx compositing skills are very niche and not really applicable to much else, i decided to go back to school, taking college classes in the admin and excecutive assistant fields, since it's something that i think would be good for me and there are lots of jobs for that here. i will be getting some financial aid, but it's nowhere near enough to survive. it will only cover my rent, and that's because my rent is super cheap for my city. my college classes start on september 30 and i am excited for it, but also very stressed because i still don't have a part time job.
i've been living on my own with a small salary for over 10 years now, but it truly is the first time that i'm struggling this hard. i honestly don't have anything worth selling except some taylor swift perfumes, which i sold this week. i also have over 6k of credit debt and another 4.5k of school loans left to pay. at the bare minimum i will need about $1.000 CAD/month to cover my other bills and expenses after rent, hence why the need for a job ASAP. i am desperate and my mental health has been a huge mess. this is why i decided to open my ko-fi accounts. not that i'm expecting much, but anything can help, i think.
i don't have much to offer in exchange, except gifs? i'm wondering if (cheap, low price) gif commissions are a thing? i have no idea know, but i set up a poll on my ko-fi page to see if anyone would be interested.
thank you for reading if you've made it here, it's appreciated đ
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a fic about harry and faye where faye needs to be picked up because it's snowed so bad and also she's feeling very very needy. has smut so be careful. or not. do whatever you like. DO leave feedback though or else i will fucking haunt you
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Faye calls Harry at around 6pm.
Heâs asleep, his iPad abandoned by his side with the pen still between his fingertips. He doesnât know what time he dozed off, but heâs got to thank Faye for the portable heater she bought him for Christmas. Itâs magnificent.
Getting himself out of bed to reach for his phone is difficult. When he finally manages, the only thing that makes him pick up is Fayeâs photo.
He brings it to his ear. âHi, baby.â
Immediately, he can hear the frown in her voice. âOh no. I woke you up.â
âItâs all right,â he says, rubbing his eyes. âI wasnât supposed to sleep anyways. Iâll barely get a few hours at night if I nap now.â He brings his phone back to his bed and sits down. âWhatâs up?â
âUm, well I just finished rehearsals.â
âYeah? Thatâs good. Got out early?â
âYes, itâs snowing pretty bad now.â
âMm, is it?â He forces himself to get back up and take a peek out his curtains. Sheâs right; the snow lays on the roads, flurries all around still. âYou wanna stay on the phone with me until you get home?â
âThatâs kind of the thing. Iâve been at this bus stop for 15 minutes and my app keeps saying the bus is about to come, but the roads arenât properly cleared so I donât think itâs coming.â
Harry frowns. âYouâre outside?â
âYeah. I walked to the stop, but itâs like a ghost town here. Nobodyâs out driving. The buses may have all been canceled.â
âOh shit. Are you wearing warm clothes? Gloves and all?â
âYup.â
âGood. Which stop are you at today? Iâll come get you.â
Thereâs instant relief in her voice. âThank you.â She tells him which stop and then sighs softly. âItâs not that cold which is good. I suppose I should sit down on the bench but thereâs ice on it and I already slipped while walking here. My butt still hurts.â
Harry groans as he tugs his jacket on and grabs an extra beanie. He shoves his feet into his shoes and grabs his keys. âDonât tell me that,â he says. âAre you all right?â
âYes,â Faye laughs. âIâm okay.â
âThink you can hold on for 15 minutes?â
âYes, but Harry you have to drive safely, okay? The inner roads arenât cleared at all.â
Harry sticks a piece of gum in his mouth. âYeah, love, Iâll be fine.â
âOkay.â
âWanna stay on the phone with me?â
âUm, I would, but I can barely feel my fingers.â
Harry has to groan again. Heâs outside now and thankfully his car isnât looking too bad. Heâll still need to defrost it a bit. âFaye, you just told me you had gloves!â
âWhoops.â
âOkay, Iâm going to hang up, but please try to get warm. Go into one of those shops nearby.â
âThe only shop open near me is the chicken shop.â
âGo in there.â
âI donât like the smell of chicken.â
âI must say that you are insanely difficult today.â
Faye giggles. âIâm not.â She must hear him turn his ignition on. âOkay, bye now. Drive safe.â
âI will.â
She hangs up. Harry has to step out of the car with his snow brush, pushing his way over to clean his windshields. Heâs blasting the heat on the inside, and within ten minutes, heâs ready to go. When he gets back in his car, heâs muttering swears, trembling with the cold. âNot that cold, my ass.â
And Fayeâs right. The inner roads are horrendous. He drives so below the speed limit, he may as well walk to get her. 15 minutes turn into 20 and by the time heâs pulling up to her bus stop, heâs very worried Faye may be a frozen block of ice.Â
Faye wobbles her way over to the car, yanking the door open and all but throwing herself inside. Sheâs shivering so bad, Harry puts the car in park and reaches over the console to hug her tightly.
âFor fuckâs sake, Faye,â he mutters, suppressing a shiver at her cold face pressed into his neck. âI told you to go into the shop!â
âIf y-you made me wait any longer, I would have!â
âI drove as fast as I could.â
Harry turns the heat up higher and rubs her arms firmly, trying to get her tight muscles to relax. Sheâs wearing a winter jacket, yes, but her head is uncovered and she doesnât even have a scarf. He pulls back to look at her, hoping thereâs disappointment on his face. But Fayeâs eyes just light up and then sheâs lifting her head to get a kiss.
He canât say no.
He cups her face and softly kisses her. Her lips are cold, but he can still taste the cherry chapstick as if she kept reapplying it every few minutes. She kisses him several more times, but when she places her frozen hands on his neck, he pulls away sharply.
âFaye!â He holds his neck as if wounded. âThatâs so cold!â
Fayeâs knees bounce. âSorry!"
She doesnât look sorry.
He grabs the beanie heâs brought her and throws it onto her head. Her bangs get caught on her forehead, momentarily blinding her, and she laughs, fixing the hat. Her black hair frames her cheeks. She reaches in for another kiss, but Harry stops her with a shake of his head.
âGet warm first. Or else youâll get hypothermia and then Iâll have nobody to kiss.â
Faye says, âWow you sound a lot like me.â She holds her trembling hands by the vents, shivering so bad, sheâs compelled to make audible noises to show how cold she is, her jaw quivering. Harry starts driving the car again, and once he gets off the main street, he reaches for her hand and holds it in his lap.
âHow were rehearsals?â
âOkay,â she says, shoulders shaking. âMaybe people couldnât come in today because of the snow. I had to do, like, three roles.â
âOpening night is next month, right?â
âYup. I got you your tickets.â
Harry kisses the back of her hand, squeezing her pale fingertips hard. She's painted her nails dark blue, he notices. âThank you. Are you hungry?â
âMhm.â
âLetâs get something to eat then. I donât have anything at home. Didnât cook today.â
âOh. Are we going to yours?â
âYes.â
âCan I stay over?â
Harry smiles. âYes.â
âIs Timmy home?â
âNope.â
âCan we play that video game again?â
Harry sends her a look. âI thought youâd want to watch a movie or something.â
âWell, if you want to. But I had a lot of fun playing that game.â
âYes, you were so good at it.â
She was not. Harry spent the entire night trying to save her, getting himself killed, and then yelling and begging her to stay alive until he could be revived. Faye had a lot of fun it seems, though Harry wouldnât say it was a very productive night.
But, if she wants to do it, then they will.
âI feel like Iâll be better tonight,â Faye says, leaning forward to put her face against the air vent. Her eyes flutter shut. âWeâll get to the next level.â
âYou mean level two.â
She laughs.
Harryâs pulling up to the take out shop theyâve agreed on when his phone goes off. He answers it on the carâs speakerphone.
âYeah, mate?â
âHey,â TimothĂŠeâs voice rings out. âWhere are you right now?â
âIâm with Faye picking up food.â
âOh cool. Hey, can you pick me up from the shop, man? My carâs fucking buried.â
Harry sighs. âYeah, thatâs fine. When are you off work?â
âTwenty minutes.â
âYeah, Iâll get you.â
âCool, and heyââ
âYeah?â
âCan you grab me some food? Iâll pay you back.â
Harry says, âIâll think about it.â
Thereâs silence on the other line until Timmy says, âFaye?â
She leans in. âYeah?â
âCan you make sure he gets me food? Iâll Venmo you right now.â
âWill do.â
âThanks. Bye!â And then he hangs up.
Harry rubs his eye and then unbuckles his seat belt. Faye goes to do the same, but he stops her, shaking his head. âNo, you need to stay warm.â
âIâm fine!â
âNope.â He locks the car after opening his door and gives her a meaningful look. She watches him disappear into the shop.
When he comes back, he thinks sheâs looking a lot better. The red in her cheeks has returned and sheâs reapplying her chapstick without shaking fingers. He leans over and kisses her, pleased that her lips arenât frozen anymore. Unexpectedly, she holds onto his collar and kisses him harder, and she doesnât let him go until heâs chuckling against her lips and trying to pry away.
âWhatâs gotten into you?â he murmurs, peppering kisses down to her jaw. She shivers, but not from the cold this time.
âJust missed you.â
âMm.â He kisses her cheek. âI missed you too.â
Itâs a lot harder to drive after that, especially because Harryâs hand rests on Fayeâs thigh, and she keeps playing with his fingers, occasionally pulling his hand up to kiss his palm.Â
When they get to the shop, Timmy rushes into the car and slaps a hand on Harryâs shoulder. âThank you, man. This is great. Thanks. Hey, Faye.â
âHi.â
âYouâre coming over?â
âYup.â
âCool. Did you get me any food?â
âYes we did.â She hands him the aux cord when he asks for it. They listen to his odd taste in music for the ride home.
Harry takes Faye up to his room when they get home. Timmyâs nearly falling asleep so he eats his food quietly and then heads to his own room with a reminder through the walls that heâd appreciate it if Harry and Faye kept it down.
Faye says, âI donât know why he always says that,â as sheâs climbing into Harryâs lap on his bed in his shirt only. He looks up at her, eyes shining, his hands resting just below her butt. She wraps her arms around his neck. âWeâve never been that loud.â
âI mean I certainly havenât,â Harry teases, pulling her down onto his thighs.
âMe neither!â
âSure.â
Faye canât come up with a response, so she kisses him, and then turns around in his lap, back pressed to his warm, strong chest. He places his hand on her thigh, holding her to him. As heâs setting up the game, she reaches over and grabs his iPad, turning it on to see his latest sketch.
Itâs a very daunting looking dragon with detailed wings and scales. She zooms in to see all of it, thoroughly impressed. âThis is so cool, Harry!â
âYeah? Thanks, baby. Had a client say she wanted a big dragon piece so Iâve been brainstorming.â
âWhere does she want it?â
âAround her bicep.â
âIt must hurt like crazy.â
Harry hooks his chin over her shoulder and hugs her tight to him. âYeah, but as long as theyâre happy with it, right?â
She turns her head to look at him with her devastatingly pretty eyes. âHave you done any cool ones this week?â
He makes a show of thinking really hard. âDid a decent snake two days ago.â
âOoh. Will you post the pictures?â
âYeah. Havenât had the time to.â
Faye cradles his face and kisses his cheek. âIâll be the first person to like it.â
âYou always are,â he murmurs, tilting his head back so she can continue her kisses down his neck.
His eyes flutter shut as Fayeâs hands run over his arms, gently pressing herself back against him. He feels her breath hitch.
âFaye,â he softly admonishes. âYou said you wanted to play the game.âÂ
âItâs still loading,â she whispers back, shaking him off to be able to turn in his arms again. The force she kisses him with throws him off. Heâs pushed back, hands flying out to steady himself against his mattress. She wraps her legs around him and kisses him breathless, her fingers trailing up the sides of his head and then burying themselves into his curls. She presses herself against him again, and then she gently licks at him. Harry welcomes her tongue when he parts his lips.
She kisses him like she hasnât been kissed properly in years â which is simply untrue because he kisses her until she forgets her name on a routined basis. Faye presses herself even closer, and when the first whine leaves her throat, Harryâs arms are around her, dragging her hips against his. She sighs as if that small contact between them has caused her such release.
The TV makes a noise to tell them the game has finished loading. Fayeâs mouth shows no signs of letting him up. Harry pulls up for a second to breathe, and then kisses her again, leaning into her with his hands spread out against her back. They stay there until heâs sliding his fingers under his shirt that she wears, slowly pushing her until sheâs laying on her back and Harryâs hovering over her.
âThe game,â he whispers.
âHm?â she manages, rolling her hips against his again, her eyes both innocent and flirty.
He breathes out a swear and then works on pulling the shirt off of her. Faye shivers immediately, but he kisses down her neck and collarbones to warm her up, letting her adjust when she catches onto what he wants to do. She slides back and lets him move further down her body.
âHarryââ
âYes, baby?â
She changes her mind when Harryâs fingers hook into her underwear. âOh. Oh, nothing.â
âTell me,â he says, dragging them down.Â
âWell, itâs only that I thought Iâd do this for you. Because you, um, picked me up and I wanted to thank you.â
Harry chuckles. âYou can do that after this, but right now I have a feeling youâre going to explode if I donât touch you. Care to tell me whatâs got you so worked up? I fucked you so well just two days ago.â
Faye throws a hand over her eyes and Harry doesnât know if itâs because sheâs forced to answer his question while unclothed or if itâs his words that embarrass her. Possibly both.
âItâs because you came to get me and your voice was so deep and raspy and tired and your hand on my thigh andââ
Harry situates himself between her legs and lets her knees come up besides his head. He kisses her soft inner thighs and wraps his arms around them. Faye lifts her head to glance down at him and then moans softly when he licks into her. Slowly. Teasingly.
Her black hair is fanned out around her, her breath coming hard and fast. Her lips are parted, pink and swollen from their kisses. She looks ruined already. Harry will never get used to the sight. He never wants to.
âFuck,â she whimpers, throwing her head down. Her eyes flutter shut as Harry leans in and takes over completely, his skilled mouth ruthless against her. His fingers dig into her hips, holding her down though she desperately raises herself to meet his mouth.
âOh, I love you,â she whispers, threading her fingers into his hair. âSo much.â
He sucks and licks and laps diligently until her back is gently arching off his mattress and she has to bite down on her knuckles to keep her noises in. Seeing her like this turns Harry on, his body on alert. He feels like every cell of his body has been electrified, but despite his arousal, all he wants is for Faye to fall apart against him.
It doesnât take her long. Her thighs tremble. She cries out and yanks his hair. The pain is distant to him. Harry lets her use his tongue to ride out her high, and when sheâs done, sheâs whimpering from sensitivity. Harry only pulls away when sheâs whining, âAh, okay, okay, thatâs it, please. No more.â
He grins at her, gently wiping the corners of his mouth. âAlways so good for me.â
Faye covers her face. Harry helps her back into her clothes and then lays beside her until sheâs ready to turn to him and kiss him. He kisses her hair. âMy darling girl,â he whispers. âMy baby. So perfect."
Sheâs straddling him before five minutes are up, her hands resting on his chest, hair falling like curtains around her flushed face. The strands hit Harryâs cheek. His hands are on her thighs again, and heâs smiling lazily at her.
âI love you too,â he murmurs, running his hand up to her waist.Â
Faye swallows and grinds down on his length through his sweatpants. âMy turn?â
âWe can take a break if you wââ
âNo,â she says immediately, fingers already pulling Harryâs shirt up. Her eyes hungrily take in every tattoo she slowly reveals. Harry lifts his head to pull the shirt off.
Faye seems to have something in mind already. So Harry just lets her undress him, enjoying the kisses she trails after her hands. She has plenty of energy, preferring to stay on top of him instead of switching back over.Â
She works herself over him until sheâs throwing her head back and nearly sobbing with relief. Harry watches the pleasure roll over her, her hands in tight fists against his chest.Â
âI love you,â she says again, taking deep breaths when itâs over. Her face is a gentle pink, her chest flushed. âI love you so bad, Harry.â
Once heâs pulled out of her, heâs grabbing her waist and pulling her down to him, wrapping his arms around her tight. âI love you,â he says, kissing all over her face, wiping the corners of her eyes. âMy pretty girl, I love you, I love you, I love you.â
Spent, Faye lets him cuddle her, her face pressed against his neck. His body is warm and as comforting as always. He mutters how much he loves her several more times.
Some time later again, Faye raises her head from his chest and says in her scratchy voice, âShould we play now?â
And Harry kisses her and says, âYes, baby.â
#i dont know where this came from#harry and faye#me: i dont write smut anymore#also me at 2am:#oh well#harry styles#harry styles writing#harry styles fic#harry styles fanfic#harry styles x oc#harry styles x woc#harry styles smut#harry styles fluff
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Prompt from @help-i-need-a-cool-username
Jason has once again snuck into Gotham University. Now, before any assumptions are made onto why the crime lord would break into a college, the reason is because he likes the library. That's it. The public library is trashed and small, barely taken care of, but Gotham U's? It's beautiful. Multiple floors, organized and in sections, taken care of, alphabetical order, it's magnificent. The chairs were a reason alone to sneak in, but the students here added an extra charm.Â
He had gone to the very back of the library on the second floor. This area was pretty well hidden and enclosed. He would come here to read without anyone questioning him, even hiding the books he wasnât finished with yet to continue on later. Jason wasnât expecting someone to be so close to his spot though. A few tables across stood a student, thin, tall, with pitch black hair, baggy cargo jeans, and a white t-shirt. The other hadnât noticed him yet, so he remained quiet and just watched. He was in front of a large white board on wheels, seemingly taken from the rooms he saw down the hall.Â
âThat doesnât work, goddammit.â
On the white board was lines upon lines of equations- at least he thought they were equations, with most of them being letters and symbols rather than numbers. It made the vigilanteâs brain hurt. The student - assumed STEM major - just kept mumbling to himself.
âStupid physics, wonât allow interdimensional travelâ
What? Jason may have been out of school since 15, but he knew no courses were asking for the answer to traveling between dimensions. It seemed the student had a habit of talking to himself when worked up or focused, possibly why he isolated himself from the rest of the library.Â
âIf your parents could do it, why canât you? Think Danny, think!â
That sentence wasnât concerning at all, but at least Jason learned the boyâs name. Danny seemed to have a strange background, what did he mean by âif your parents could do itâ? Had his parents managed to travel between dimensions? The other was chewing on the cap of the white board marker, his other hand resting on his hip as he swayed back and forth.
âOh! Oh! Oh! That! The thing! That thingy!â
Jason could practically see the lightbulb go on above Dannyâs head. Just then the other erased a solid portion of the whiteboard and dropped to his knees, ouch. He started frantically scribbling, fast and messy, barely cohesive. Though, Jason was sure that if it was Tim sitting where he was instead, the boy could probably understand everything on that board. Heâd stick to English literature, thank you very much.Â
âThatâs it! Oh my ancients! I got it!â
Danny practically jumped in the air, punching the air in triumph. Jason almost felt proud of him, this complete stranger heâs been watching, wow he was being creepy, huh? Danny shot both of his arms straight up, the marker gripped tightly in his right hand fist.Â
âI did it!â
He looked so happy, so excited. He began to buzz, even spinning, before stopping mid loop and turning around slowly. Shit, Jason had been caught. To be fair, Danny hadnât exactly turned around the whole time, meaning Jason was just watching his back the whole time as he worked through his⌠problem? Itâs such a shame, Jason was thoroughly entertained by this random kid.Â
âUhhh, hi? How long have you been there?â
Oh shit, Jason had to talk now, didnât he?
âNot very long, but long enough to know you were trying to solve interdimensional travel before apparently succeeding.âÂ
The color drained from Dannyâs face. Whoops?
âUhm, no I didnât.â
Now that he got a closer look, the student looked like someone Bruce would adopt. Black hair, clear blue eyes, tan skin, sharp features, the whole nine yards. He was actually fairly attractive, maybe even cute.Â
âReally? I could have sworn that you said âstupid physics wonât allow interdimensional travelââ
âI have no clue what youâre talking about.â
âYeah sure, and Iâm a student here.â
âWait, youâre not a student here?â
âThatâd only be true if you were lying.â
âWell Iâm not so-â
âUh huh, sure youâre not.â
âLook dude-â
âJason.â
âLook Jason, thereâs no way that I could solve interdimensional travel, the multiverse doesnât exist.â
âLook Danny-â
âHow do you know my name?â
âI wonât tell a single soul if you explain how you did it to meâ
Curiosity won his gambit. Would he regret what he was about to say? Perhaps.
âMaybe over a coffee?â
He knew it was worth it when the marker hit the floor and Danny moved his hand to cover his red face. Well, it wasnât the first time heâs done something he regrets, maybe this time itâd be a cute STEM major who knows the secrets to the multiverse.Â
#dc x dp#dp x dc#jason todd#red hood#danny fenton#danny phantom#danny fenton is a huge nerd#figuring out interdimensional travel instead of finishing his 5 page english paper due 'like yesterday'#jason has done many things he regrets#breaking into a college isnt one#neither is asking out the cute nerd with eccentric capabilities#if only jason knew what he was getting into#boo#jason todd x danny fenton#dead on main#college au#gotham university
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Honestly need some nikto being violently concerned over readers health after they came home from a bar all far too loopy and delirious to be normal drunk if you're comfortable with that if you're not that's fine
Masterlist I hope, I got you right.
TW: mention of drug poisoning (no graphical depictions)
He never questioned your loyalty. Nikto may be a territorial animal, but he never doubted you. Others however...
"He-heeey, `m fine! C-can do it on my own," you babble, as you push away his hands and try to untie your shoelaces. If he was concerned before, just witnessing you entering home - now Nikto starts seeing red.
Because how you move and talk is so not you. Nikto saw you tipsy before, once you two even had obviously too much, and he remembered, how you were back then. Silly, yes, soft and mushy, a tad bratty, tired, but still crazy - this all was natural. And now a strange shiver runs all over your body every five minutes.
Oh no, this is not an early hungover. This and the fact, that you spent the last 15 minutes sitting in a hallway, untying and tying your shoes again and again. He sighs and descends on his knees before you. Catches your hands and presses his lips against your knuckles.
"I will help, little one."
You manage exactly one sound: a weak little mewl of protest. But Andre slowly shakes his head, looking you in the eyes and repeats: I. Will. Help.
You finally give in under his intense, and, for a reason unknown to you, concerned gaze. His movements are so careful as if hes undressing a porcelain doll. You smile and giggle, asking him to stop tickling you every time his fingers clasp around your ankles.
It breaks his heart, because he actually barely touched you. Your senses are a mess, your body is not ok, your mind... And what is about your mind?
"Sokrovishche*, tell me, how the evening went? Had fun?" Nikto is a shitty actor, his voice barely masks the fact, that he can barely think straight himself. But you seem to not notice that, because you answer lightheartedly, while he carries you to the bedroom.
Your story is hectic, and the jerky narration doesn't help it: you jump from one topic to another, mix up names and facts. But it's your sincerity that tears him apart - you're not trying to trick Nikto, you're confused and lost.
There is one particular detail reappearing in your story: a guy. You try and try again to remember his face or the name at least, but fail and start worrying.
"It's ok, if you don't remember. Tell us, what you've been drinking, mm? Something tasty?"
Tell us. A bad omen. A terrible one. It's been a while since the last time, the voices have woken up. But you miss this detail, as you miss every second word shared now.
"A glass of wine. Then a glass of water, then again the wine, the same one. After that I got thirsty once again, asked for water, he brought me a bottle, it was sealed, I remember. And then... And then I d-d-ont..." Your eyes widen slowly.
Niktos jaw clenches, a cold light grows stronger deep in pale blue eyes. That scum. Sealed bottles? So he cooks a batch prior to his night out, somewhere in his place...
"Andre, did I?... How long? What did he..." You can't finish any question, your tongue suddenly feels too big and heavy to form a full sentence. In a desperate attempt to catch a breath, you take an inhale, but your breaths grow ragged. Not even noticing this, you start hyperventilating.
He gathers you into his arms, engulfs your body in a warm embrace, hides your face on his chest and softly rocks you back and forth, helping you find a soothing breathing rhythm.
"Vsye khorosho, sokrovishche. You're safe, we promise. No bruises left. He didn't touch you."
When Nikto touches his lips to your forehead, itâs so gentle and careful, one wouldn't believe, such a beast is capable to be this soft. He is easing you into the feel of him as his hands, holding you steady. There may be no bruises, but there can still be other things, your mind has blocked, but your body remembers.
He rocks you against him, breathing in time with him, the measure of his heart a steady clip that you can follow with measured steps. He and every voice awaken thank any gods out there, for you don't tense up, squirm and run from his touch. That gives him hope, that the fucker really didn't manage to do anything.
"We will protect my little treasure." He slowly helps you out of your clothes. It's not an act of seduction, but pure manifestation of care.
"We will calm our little one, take all her worries, guard her in her sleep." Warm lips on the back of your neck. Yet again: this is not a foreplay - it is Andre giving you all the care he has. Anything soft, that he is capable of in this deep mad state of mind, belongs to you.
He takes your worries away, lulls you to sleep, interlocking his fingers with yours, buries his face in your hair, letting you drown in his deep bitterish scent and find your peace in his hands.
Nikto may be a crooked soul, a mind damaged, torn to pieces, but for you he will turn into a bastion against all the darkness in the world.
When he is sure, you're deep in your dreams and nothing bothers you anymore - Nikto vanishes for a few hours.
He rarely uses this set, but there is, in fact, an all black tactical attire in his wardrobe. There is rarely a good reason to take it on, but today is the day. Darker wet stains on black won't draw too much attention in the first lights of the dawn.
You wake in a bed that feels too empty and slowly realize, what have happened. What might have happened after you fell asleep. You wait him out, perched on the edge of your seat, watching him shuck off his gear in a deafening silence.
His mind is still out there. Each glance on you feels like heâs entered a prizefighting ring, and youâre the opponent he needs to face off with next. His jaw works, a muscle ticking, and with that particular, quiet sort of menace heâs just so good at leveraging, he holds out a hand for you to come to him. âHe won't ever trouble you again.â Level. More controlled than you expected.
Nikto holds back, not letting himself slide his fingers up your arms and thus leave blood strains on your perfect skin. Never. Never should a blood of such a scum besmear his treasure.
Leave the blood of those who wronged you for his hands.
Sokrovishche - treasure
Vsye khorosho, sokrovishche - everything's allright, treasure
#cod mw2#cod#cod modern warfare#call of duty#cod x reader#call of duty mw2#nikto x you#nikto cod#mw2 nikto#mwii nikto#nikto fluff#nikto x reader#andre nikto#call of duty nikto#nikto#cod nikto#nikto headcanons
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Every âI Love Youâ Vol 1-4
Lucifer
22-C
Lucifer: âI love you. Truly and deeply.â
28-15
Lucifer: âI never knew I could feel this way. I never knew I had such passion inside me. MCâŚI love you.â
28-19 (2)
Lucifer: âMC, I love you. Well, we may not be on stage now, but Iâm happy to say it again. As many times as youâd like. I love you, MC. Truly and deeplyâŚâ
38-9
Lucifer: âI love you, MC. Truly. As much as Iâd like my memory back, and to remember everything thatâs happened, thereâs something I want even more⌠I want to know how you feel about me.â
38-9 (2)
Lucifer: âI love you, too. With all my heart. How many times have I told you that before? Because I want to tell you so many more times that my old self did. âŚIn fact, no matter how many times I might say it, I feel like it will never be enough. I love you, MC. Kiss me. If I told you that I actually feel jealous of the old me, would you laughâŚ?â
40-22
Lucifer: âI love you, MC. Thereâs no need to say goodbye. Because weâll see each other again. Soon.â
41-19
Lucifer: âI love you⌠Itâs strange⌠We havenât been apart long at all, yet it feels like itâs been a century. Why is that?â
Mammon
25-17
Mammon: âMCâŚ! Youâre the best! You never let me down, and itâs justâŚamazing! YOUâRE amazing! I love you, MC! More than Iâve ever loved anyone!â
29-12 (2)
Mammon: âI LOVE YOU! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH I CANâT STAND IIIIT!â
MC: ââŚ?!â
Mammon: âI want to [CENSORED], [CENSORED], and [CENSORED] like thereâs no tomorrow!â
33-14
Mammon: âLike, what it I accidentally let it slip that I love you, huh?!â
33-14
Mammon: âI love you so much itâs crazy! Like, so much that my stomach fills with butterflies and my heart jumps out of my chest! I think about you all the time, even when youâre not around! Like, I feel like Iâm losinâ my mind!â
33-14
Mammon: âAnd I like you, MC. âŚI love you, actually. So, what about you? Come on, say you feel the same way, MC.â
33-14
Mammon: âYeahâŚI love you too. Like, so much itâs crazy. I mean I love Lucifer and my other brothers too. I love âem to death, honestly. But with you itâs different. Itâs specialâŚâ
43-15
Mammon: âDammit! Like I could ever really say that to you! I love you MC! And Iâll NEVER break up with you, okay?! NEVER!â
53-9
Mammon: âI love you, MC! And Iâd take you over money any day!â
Leviathan
48-4
Leviathan: âUmâŚlisten, MC⌠âŚThanks. I love you, too. And I really appreciate that youâd say that to me. But thatâs also why I want to learn to take pride in myself. Because I want you to love me even more than you already doâŚâ
48-9
Leviathan: ââŚUgh, what do I do? Iâm not so sure I want to let you go after all. Youâd better leave before I change my mind. Oh, but make sure to come back once youâre done with whatever it is, okay? âŚI love you, MC.â
Satan
21-14
Satan: âMm, it finally feels real now. You really are back. I love you, MC. Welcome home.â
42-10
Satan: âAfter all, you already have me. Iâm yours, and youâre mine. Isnât that right? I love you, MCâŚâ
Asmodeus
13-20
Asmodeus: âHehe, I knew that already. I love you too, MC. Though I think Iâd rather have you tell me that while lying next to me in bed.â
19-70
Asmodeus: *sigh* âOh, wow. All you did was kiss me, and I feel like Iâve died and gone to the Celestial RealmâŚ! I love you, MC⌠I love you more than anything!
22-10
Asmodeus: âMmhm⌠I feel the same way. I love you too, MC. I absolutely adore you!â
31-2
Asmodeus: âHehe. I love you, MC. So much itâs crazyâŚâ
31-2
Asmodeus: âOh MC! I love you SO MUCH!â
32-19
Asmodeus: âWhaaat? You mean I canât kiss you? Ugh, youâre so meeean! Still, I just canât help loving you! I love you SO MUCH, MC!â
34-1
Asmodeus: âMC, does that mean you believe me? Hehe, youâre absolutely adorable. I love you so much, MC!â
39-18
Asmodeus: âI love you SO MUCH. More than words can describeâŚâ
41-7
Asmodeus: âI love you so much, I can barely contain myself⌠Ugh, I canât take this any longerâŚâ
54-1
Asmodeus: âWait, are you saying I donât need to use my powers on you? You just find me naturally charming? Oh MC, youâre SO sweet! I love you to death!â
60-22
Asmodeus: âMC, youâre so adorable. I love you, and Iâm going to miss you so much. Itâs going to be unbearableâŚâ
67-9
Asmodeus: âHehe, thank you! Oh MC, there arenât even words to describe how much I love you.â
67-9
Asmodeus: âI thought Iâd use my butt to express just how I feel about you, MC. I love you, and I want you to know it.â
Beelzebub
45-18
Beelzebub: âMm⌠âŚOkay, I was wrong. I donât actually like you. I love you.â
46-19
Beelzebub: âYou remember when I gave you my star, right? And now here you are giving ME a star⌠I promise that Iâll always treasure it. Always and forever⌠I love you, MC.â
69-17
Beelzebub: âWell, itâs the same with me. Youâre always on my mind. I love you, MCâŚâ
80-10
Beelzebub: âIâve been waiting so long to do this⌠For it to be just the two of us alone⌠I love you, MCâŚâ
Belphegor
20-11
Belphegor: âBut even if you go back to the human world, Iâll always love you, MC. Because thereâs no one else like you anywhere. Not in the Devildom, not in the Celestial Realm, not in the human world.â
41-14
Belphegor: âI love you, MC. You have no idea how muchâŚâ
55-18
Belphegor: âCome on, try to keep still. âŚHere, let me put my arms around you. I love you, MC. âŚI love you so much, itâs crazy.â
80-10
Belphegor: âI mean, I canât go to sleep now. Not when it would mean missing out on this⌠I love you, MCâŚâ
Simeon
52-17
Simeon: âHere, let me look into your eyes. I love you, MC⌠The question is, how do you feel about me?â
71-17
Simeon: âYou know that one song thatâs been really popular with everyone at RAD lately? Well, it sums up how I feel about you perfectly. It goes like this. âI was wandering, hurt, lost in an endless night, and you reached out to me⌠Nestled against each other, we wished that morning would never come. No one can know, no one can know. But I love you so deeply it hurtsââŚâ
71-17
Simeon: âI canât tell you how long Iâve been hoping to hear you say that. Thank you. Thank you for always being there for me. I love you, MC.â
Diavolo
56-18
Diavolo: âIf youâd be okay with it, Iâd actually like it if we could do this sort of thing more often. You know, spend more time together. Iâm just going to come out and say it, MC⌠The truth isâŚI love you
56-18
Diavolo: âI love you so much. Youâre so, so precious to me that I can barely take it. Can I kiss you?â
56-18
Diavolo: âI love you, MC. And Iâm so happy to know you feel the same way about me. Thank you.â
56-18
Diavolo: âWell, even if you donât have feelings for me, that doesnât change how I feel about you. I still love you
80-14
Diavolo: âItâs hard getting you alone. After all, wherever you go, Lucifer and his brothers are sure to be nearby. But right now I have you all to myself⌠I love you, MCâŚâ
Ranks
1. Asmodeus (13)
2. Lucifer/Mammon (9)
3. Diavolo (5)
4. Beelzebub/Belphegor/Simeon (4)
5. Leviathan/Satan (2)
6. Solomon/Thirteen/Barbatos/Mephistopheles/Michael/Raphael (0)
#Solomon and Barbatos never say it directly but itâs heavily implied#obey me shall we date#obey me lucifer#obey me diavolo#obey me mammon#obey me satan#obey me simeon#obey me leviathan#obey me asmodeus#obey me belphegor#obey me beelzebub#obey me thanks#obey me request#obey me quotes
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sunflower
Summary: After coming home late from a stressful day at work, Spencer needs nothing more than to be in your arms in order to feel like himself again. You offer your touch to him in more ways than one.
or
melodramatic handjob :>
Word Count: 3423
Songs: âcryâ by cigarettes after sex may fit !!
Pairing: softdomme!reader x sub!spencer
Warnings: smut (18+ please), choking (m receiving), spencer cries xoxo, fully consensual but his reactions are described as âinvoluntaryâ sometimes, sudden tense switch at the end bc it felt right idk, 65% buildup, 15% action, 20% orgasm LOL
a/n: guys the transition from comfort to seggsy just happened out of nowhere and the pacing is aggressively slow, prob making this hard to get off to. iâm sorry. also if you donât think you should be reading this (đ) youâre probably right ?? but please donât tell me about it. do comment anything else though if you're feeling up to it :3
With a twist of his hand on the doorknob and a step through the door, Spencer took his long awaited whiff of home. It smelled of cedarwood and floral candles and you, and the tension released from his shoulders completely for the first time today.
He walked straight to the bedroom where he knew youâd still be up waiting for him, door open with a lit bedside light to welcome him despite his insistence that your sleep is more important. The urge didnât even come up to wash his hands, disinfect his phone, or sanitize his work bag, being replaced instead by his desire to be in your presence.
As heâd suspected, there you were, sitting up on the bed you shared, eyes fighting to stay open as they flitted through the pages of a book. The comforter covered your legs, and only a thin sleep shirt separated your back from the headboard you leaned against, the shape of your nipples hardly poking through. Spencer hesitated to walk in and ruin the pretty picture.
When you noticed him, a fond smile grew on your face and you dropped your book to open your arms wide for him. He slowly walked over to you, stomach twisting just a little at the fear of being a bother, and started to position himself as he did whenever he needed a bit of extra comfort. He gave you a quick peck and settled down so his head rested on your lap, lying down on his side with his arm hugging your bare thighs. His long frame curled sideways by your legs under the blanket. He said nothing when you combed your fingers through his hairâjust held you a bit tighter; nuzzled his cheek impossibly closer.
You broke the silence, absentmindedly separating small locks of his hair now with your fingers. âWant to talk about it?â you asked, to which he shook his head, movement still restricted by your thighs on his cheek, hating that he didnât have more to say. Hated to have to make you pry just to hear about his day, but all the more in awe of how attuned you were to his emotionsâeven more than he was sometimes. Hated being moody and uncommunicative, but his brain was betraying him.
Your thumb now stroked his eyebrow, smoothing it out. Every part of him that your fingers touched relaxed in its wake, coupled with the scent of your lotion and laundry into his breaths. He finally spoke up, voice slightly muddled from his cheek against your leg; perhaps he sounded like his handwriting would sound, though he hoped he was more understandable than that.
âPer hour of sleep we lose, human blood pressure tends to increase by 3 to 5 millimeters of mercury, so you waiting up for me this late probably already caused an increase of 10 mmHg. Cortisol levels can also increase by up to 80% when sleep deprived, and your reaction time can slow by up to 500 milliseconds, which will make it more unsafe for you to drive tomorrow.â I appreciate you so much, baby, but you shouldnât have waited up, is what he wanted to say. It never came out that way. I love when you greet me. Donât put your health at risk for me. Iâm sorry Iâm late. But it always came out instead as numbers and statistics because thatâs all he knows how to do, and itâs the only way his voice knows how to love, but you get it. He wants to add more.
You get him. âStop worrying, Spence. I need to see you just as much as you need to see me. Canât sleep otherwise,â you assured him. Goosebumps rose on his skin as you rubbed slow, pressured circles onto his forehead, massaging him properly now. Maybe your words were supposed to make him feel better, but he couldnât shake the guilt in his gut. His burden complex weighed heavier today.
âMy Spencer,â you breathed. Heat rose onto his cheeks. Your Spencer. âWhat do you need from me?â
He laid still on your lap, face now turned upward to memorize your own, pondering on the question. Always too scared to ask, though he knew what he needed. âAnything youâll give me,â he whispered.
Now freshly dried from his shower, Spencer walked toward where you stayed sitting on the bed just as you had been when he arrived. He stood completely bare before you, an unlikely mix of both self-consciousness and pride filling him as you looked him up and down. The implied power imbalance of your clothed decency juxtaposed with his nude vulnerability has just occurred to him; he felt a rush in his stomach.
You pulled the covers off and spread your legs apart, then patted the space in between. Spencer crawled onto the bed as carefully as he could, trying not to shake it too much, now unsure of how long he could last. He found a seat between your thighs, the outer edge of his legs lining the inner side of your own, his back flush against your torso.
Goosebumps rose on his skin when your hands trailed up his neck, grazing his ears, then his cheekbones, to comb themselves through his soft hair. He shivered, just once. His mouth parted slightly in a shaky exhale and his head lolled back toward you, as a cat would, until it rested gently on your shoulder, full trust in you to support him. His eyelashes fluttered to a close as you slowly but firmly squeezed your fingers into a closed fist against his scalp, hair tangled within your grasp, letting the leverage of your palms against his head do the tugging. Despite the tightness of the skin around his temples, his facial muscles only continued to relax as he silently handed you all control of him. He released a shallow gasp as you gave your wrists a slow twist before releasing his hair entirely.
You slid your fingers down to his nipples, running your thumbs over them each for not long enough. He let out a sigh that mustâve released more air than his lungs had the capacity to carry in the first place. The stresses of the day began to leave with it, Spencer being overcome instead by the relief of being back in the comfort of his own homeâin the arms of his beloved. Your hand was cool against his humid skin, raising goosebumps in its wake. Ears ringing, he hardly heard his own voice releasing a shaky, dragged out, shâ shhhit, between gritted teeth.
Your hands trailed down even further toward his soft stomach which was scrunched into a bean-like mound from his position against you, grazing down his happy trail before ignoring his painful erection and inching toward his thighs instead. Your nails dragged gently over his inner thighs and he pried them open for you; all for you.
He whined under his breath and his legs flexed under your touch, only the duration of a single twitch, lifting his hips up subconsciously to contact your hands where he needed them most. You gently pushed him back down, wordlessly insisting on giving attention to his soft thighs, asserting that it was your pace being followed. And he couldnât object. He didnât want to. Always so patient with him, he longed for you to be proud of his obedience. His thighs were yours to touch, after all, and so was what rested now painfully hard between them.
His head still laying against your shoulder, you gently swiped your tongue against his ear lobe, getting his attention. You whispered to him, and he was so receptive to you. âDo you think youâre ready?â
He didnât need to see it to know, but he glanced down anyway, his cheeks burning up to a colour he imagined matched his throbbing penis. He ached to be touched there, swallowing at the thought.
He hummed lazily in response, already lightheaded from the rush in his head. He tilted his head in slow roll to place clumsy kisses all over your face, whatever part of it he could reach, nodding continuously to please touch me, Iâm ready. He thought his lips had caught your nose, cheekbones, ear, jaw⌠but at that point heâd already been intoxicated by your touch and couldnât tell the difference; only wanted to taste the saltiness of your supple skin.
âWords, Spence.â With his head still turned to you, you caught his bottom lip between your teeth and nipped at it until it puffed up, drawing a light whimper from him. He arched his neck sideways to grant you access to the rest of him that your lips and teeth could reach. More of him now exposed to you, he quietly pleaded as you lightly sucked on sensitive points behind his jaw. A lone tear slipped out of his eye closest to you, and you lapped it up as it hung from his jaw.
âReady. Always ready for you,â he choked, voice already hoarse. Your ability to take him to the clouds far before touching the most sensitive part of him only turned him on further, as well as the nurturing and patient but complete control you exerted. He was undeserving and yet eternally grateful. Swore to himself heâd spend the rest of his days trying to love you as completely as you did him.
Upon squeezing out some lubricant from the bottle in your bedside drawer, you grasped his erection in your slick hand, your other hand exploring the rest of his body, and he gasped with an unintentional jolt. From this position you two were in, it allowed the ridges of your curled palm and fingers, as well as the coolness of your wedding ring, to make full contact with the sensitive vein along the underside of his cock.
You played him like an instrument, and the sounds he made proved nothing less. Youâd glide your sharp knuckles over him, barely making contact with him, much to his protest; your hand would run along the thin, elastic stretch of skin connecting his head to the underside of his cock. Or youâd bunch your delicate fingertips together at his tip, letting the widening of his cock separate them as you pushed down toward his balls. He almost wished, as the pads of your fingers trailed his length, that your fingerprints could be ingrained in his skin, if only to be claimed by you even more. His breaths grew laboured and he slowly lost the shame in his whimpers.
Your other hand moved to his lips, muffling his sounds slightly. Your breath tickled his ears, and he threw an arm back to grasp your hair or neck or whatever he could grab, trying fruitlessly to get closer for you to ground him.
He whined helplessly against your now vibrating hand, though it did nothing to quiet his volume as you so creatively played with his cock, fidgeting with him and using him like nothing. Tension was prominent between his eyebrows sewn together, and surely his forehead carried a few creases as well.
You gently ran your thumb against his bottom lip, and he instinctively pulled it into his mouth. Your thumb pushed degradingly against the inside of his cheek, forcing his mouth to open slightly. His tongue circled your thumb out of habit, and the slightest bit of spit dribbled out the corner of his lips.
The room started to smell and feel like sweat, though he couldnât bring himself to care. He was experiencing everything and nothing all at once, sensations heightened yet brain numbed. Rare were the occasions that he couldnât explain everything, and the times where he couldnât think straight, but he revelled in it. Nowhere else was Spencer able to be completely defenseless and equally safe but in your armsâor hands, in this case. His guard wholeheartedly down, he cherished the privilege of being worriless and thoughtless.
His brainâs unusual absence of words and knowledgeâtwo things which he so dutifully guarded just to feel competentâwas welcomed because you were around to protect his vulnerability in the meantime.
By now, from the sweat or his own sheer lack of control, Spencer had slid down slightly so his shoulder blades were flush with your breasts; your hard nipples pressed against him through the soft silk of your nightshirt and it reminded him how eager he was to return the favour. He was leaning back a bit more, hardly noticing the ache from his weight resting on his tailbone.
The position gave you access to move your working hand even lower, gentle fingers starting to toy with his balls before moving down toward the sensitive patch of skin right beneath. He pulled his bottom lip between his teeth when you hit it, hums and groans gradually increasing in pitch. Against his own will, he clenched around nothing, causing his perineum to shift against your fingers. He choked out another embarrassingly loud sound, mouth shamelessly open now, and then did it again.
You kissed his jaw. âHow do you feel?â you whispered. You gave more attention to the pink head now, fingers tickling his smooth tip, thumb pressing down periodically on the ridges. Your other hand played with hair.
âYou treat me so well,â he breathed, as earnestly as he could, turning his head to give a sloppy kiss to your wrist, drunk on your touch, your warmth, and you. âLove you so much,"âhe swallowedâ"ahâ oh, fâ fuckâ Love what you do to me.â
âYou deserve it all.â
His moans got more high pitched as you worked, and his breaths came in faster than his chest could keep up with. His hands grasped at your thighs to steady himself, blunt nails digging in.
âMy Spencer baby, you look oh so beautiful,â you praised, voice dripping in sheer adoration. His eyes drew open and his gaze rolled back, then lazily toward you. Another tear slowly escaped the corner of his eye, and he wished he werenât tearing up if only to see your pretty face more clearly. His eyebrows were still tense under the nearness of his undoing, tilted in a pleading pout.
âPlease, please-please-please-please-pleaâ mmnghâŚâ He pleaded and begged for release, no longer making sense of what was coming out of his mouth, eyes ever-downturned and watering once again.
He was helplessly putty in your hands, his body no longer his own, but rather a shell of just euphoria and feeling. He was floating and completely at your mercy, just as he loves to be.
âI love you, please, Iââ His sentences grew choppy and more and more incoherent, his speech being mixed with unintelligible throaty noises. His chest rose and fell significantly faster than it had earlier, lips hardly separating as he mumbled a yesyesyesyes keep going yes just like that please, and his hips thrusted up to move his length further into your hand.
His desperate hands sought purchase from whatever they could grab, now tightly squeezing and scratching at your thighs. He readjusted his sweat-slicked palms as they slipped down your skin.
Your hand in his hair slid down roughly to grab his jaw in utter possessiveness, twisting it up toward you to plant a sloppy kiss on his lips. He did the best he could to return it. âGo ahead, baby,â you mumbled against his mouth.
He whimpered into the kiss, with no more capacity to spare you an audible âthank youâ as usual. You squeezed your working hand just the slightest bit tighter around his cock, working your way back up to his ever-sensitive pink head.
âShitshitshitshit, fuck, oh, God. Iâm so close, Iâm so close, Iâm soâahââ How naughty he felt. Maybe youâd tease him later about the junk coming out of his mouth, flustering him with the thought of what the neighbours would think. But as a sunflower proved its affinity to the sun and its warmth, all he could do now was gaze at you mindlessly, his neck aching at the effort. Under the dim yellow lamp lighting up the room, he embodied the sunflowerâs golden glow. Its face would follow the bright star by nature and so would Spencer's, happily compelled by some force of nature to show you his authentic self as he held on so close to his orgasm. You smiled at him.
The bed squeaked under his shaking legs. Lone tears made their way down his face, free-falling now, and he made no move to wipe them. As he neared his peak, you kept your hand on his cock, hand wrapped snugly around his tip, angling it toward his chest.
You grabbed his throat with the other, fingers squeezing inward toward the two valleys around his neck that carried his precious arteries, and he felt the first spurt of cum burst through with a loud wail of surprise.
âBabyââ he tried breathlessly, eyes still attempting to meet yours to please understand what Iâm saying, please be proud of me, âbaby, Iâm coming, Iâm fucking coming, IâmâŚâ His muscles spasmed and sharply leaned him forward, causing your hand to obstruct his throat just a bit more, and he was thankful for it if only to ground his shaking to a minimum.
His head was pounding and his vision grew spotty as he basked in the feeling of his life, and his penis, in your hands, and the purpose with which you handled him as he prayed for this state of euphoria to not simply kill him. Though that wouldnât be a terrible way to go.
He fought the urge to squeeze his eyes shut, yet still saw only white. He was burning up and held no sense of himself as his muscles twitched in waves, knees buckling, though you were there to hold him through it all. His mouth opened in a silent scream as you continued moving your hand along his sensitive length.
His panting gradually became less breathy and more audible, now backed by a throaty groan with every breath he released. Your name became the only thought in his mind, and he let it shakily slip out of his mouth, not caring how absolutely brainless he sounded. With each spurt of his release onto his chest, each involuntary clenching and thrust of his hips, he repeated it. Whether a cry of pleading, gratitude, or adoration, he wasnât certainâbut it all centred around you.
You talked him through the final stages of his orgasm with gentle murmurs of praise, pushing his hips down to forcefully guide him through it. Good boy, Spencer. Keep going. Iâm right here. You got it. Youâre doing great. Almost done. I love you. Youâre so safe here. Your ministrations on his sensitive penis didnât slow as you patiently waited for him, though he had to rest his hand on your wrist to slow you down, eyes finally falling closed; you obliged. His body offered you one final tremor of overwhelming pleasure.
The horrors of the day seemed to have been released with his release. But with the way you were now atop him, cleaning up the mess on his chest with your tongue, then crawling back up to his own mouth to offer him a taste, he felt his once-against stiffening cock asking for more where that came from. His aftercare be damned. No longer overwhelmed by his need for solace, this new rise of arousal was geared toward youâthanking you, loving you, cherishing you, pleasuring you in the way his words so often failed to do.
He would do for you what you had so generously done for him, and more, if youâd let him. He could give you his tongue, his length, his fingers, a toyâor whatever you wanted. Offer himself to be used and taken however you pleased. Longed to give you everything he could. He was yours, after all.Â
Spencer told himself that there would be time for all that, though he always worried otherwise. Keeps it in his head, but he pleads every day that you wouldnât end up like those he sought justice for at work, or be the body that haunted him until he arrived home to you, or the victim of a target aimed at him. Pleads every day that there would be more time.
But in the meantime, with not much else he can do, just as a sunflower would, he swears to turn his back to everything else dark about the world and follow his sun as long as he is able.
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Oracle!Reader Part 16
Masterlist - Part 1, Part 15, Part 17
Warning! This is sagau imposter so expect some gore and manipulation this chapter! At least no death this time :D
Each step of your dirty shoes on the bare rocky terrain held more weight than Azhdaha's heart and soul. His body shuffled and shifted, resisting the urge to ram the barrier trapping him.
"Don't be so impatient, Azhdaha. You've waited for millennials, surely a minute for me to reach you is nothing." You slow your steps purposely to tease him with a deceivingly gentle smile.
The ground rumbles briefly as Azhdaha settles in place and rests his head on the ground. If he had fur instead of stone, you would believe he was just a giant dog.
"Forgive me your grace. The leylines I command are constantly blooming with power at your every step."
"Was it not the people of Liyue who harmed the leylines causing the events that led to your imprisonment here?" You ask, selecting your words carefully.
Red eyes carved from ruby stare at you as you stop right outside of the barrier surrounding his body. Not wanting to accidentally disable the barrier, you rest your hand on the closest pillar.Â
Pillars with the same design and origin of the one who was a little too late to save his dear friend from this fate.
"Was it not the ruler of those people that failed to reach you in time?"
"Even you, your grace, are aware of the shameful state I have been reduced to. Morax may have provided me with these defective eyes but at least now I can view your glorious prestige."
Surprisingly there is no rush of anger and violence in Azhdaha's movement and tone. He moves closer till his face is gently pressing against the Geo-decorated barrier.
"I beg of you, Creator of all things. Let me feel your skin, your warmth. The memories of my creation are lost to the erosion of time. Whether it be your hand or foot, I will adore it all the same. I am nothing but the groundskeeper to your playground called Tevyat."
A originally blind dragon has no need for eyelids so all he can do is gaze pleadingly at your silent form. Blue crystalline clink on the ground as it drops from his eyes as the silence persists. Even still you stare at him with a blank expression until his head is completely bowed to the ground.
An isolated dragon desperate for even the slightest bit of affection was like wet clay for you to mold to your liking. The only thing that ruined any plans you had for him was that dreaded erosion. You seriously doubted that he could stay calm and lie to match your facade the way Beisht can.
"Rest easy now, Azhdaha." Your hand moves through the yellow barrier, which thankfully doesn't deactivate it, to lay on his rocky forehead. "A dragon like you, who I have created with my own hand before this vessel, is not easily forgotten. Many of your brethren have perished before I could return."
Cupping what little of his wide, rough jaw, you tilt his head to stare up at you. A delicate expression with sadness and love swirling together is what paints your face. "You have done so well to persist this long, Azhdaha."
A loud roar of anguish is let loose as he tries to move further into your touch. Ignoring the threat of scraps, you pet his stony exterior with a smile.Â
"Your grace! Your holiness! Those words are what fuel my pitiful existence. The feel of your skin on this degraded body brings memories of my creation from the clutches of erosion."
Mindlessly stroking the weeping dragon, you think deeply on his words. 'Memories of my creation' is what he called it. Azhdaha was struggling at first due to the contrasting information from the eyes corrupted by the Gnosis and the leylines of Teyvat. All it took was your touch on his body for him to fully give in to you.Â
Perhaps the other dragon sovereigns and primordial beings will recognize you easily with your touch as well. Could it work on the Archons too?
"Are you okay, your grace? I know that day, you were injured due to my own careless ruling. I failed to control my subjects and you suffered from it. If death is my penalty for my negligence then I will accept it wholeheartedly."
The strange and unexpected words laced with guilt made you confused. Caressing the rugged layer of stone near his eyes to grab his attention, you ask carefully. "What do you mean by that?"
His tail lowers onto the ground as he speaks lowly. "Not long ago, the Geovishaps were making their rounds on maintaining the leylines when two hatchlings got lost."
Oh, you knew where this was going.
"When they dug back up to the surface, they were in the city. While trying to escape, they hurt someone. They hurt you." That last word is said with bubbling anger. Resisting the urge to yank your hands away from the dragon capable of turning into a volcano, you brush your hands further to distract him.
"Teyvat had already warned us elemental beings about someone injuring you with malicious intent. To feel the leylines in your area go into a frenzy from that incident made my blood boil. It's only fair that the perpetrator suffers the bare minimum consequences."
So, it wasn't Teyvat that had the hatchling kill the other. It was Azhdaha.
Despite the harsh truth that Azhdaha just admitted, your hands seemed to move on their own to keep Azhdaha subdued. You aren't necessarily scared of Azhdaha, you're just more cautious on how to approach leaving him.
You couldn't just teleport out, who knows how Azhdaha's battered and worship-obsessed brain would interpret it. You didn't need a bunch of Geovishap and Geovishap hatchlings chasing you throughout Liyue.
But the thought of returning back to the city takes less priority than your current one. A dragon one head scratch away from rolling over at your command is vulnerable to your words. Just what could you strip from Azhdaha for future use?
"Azhdaha, you love me don't you?" You ask it with a deceivingly shaky voice as your hands halt their stream of pets. His reaction is immediate.
His claws scratch the ground as he stands to his full height. Even still, his back hunches trying to keep himself respectful to your much smaller form. "My love for you will exist even after my death. Every Geovishap that roams this world and every leyline that reacts to your presence is proof of my love for you, beloved Creator."
A small, sad smile crosses your face at the words he utters with zeal. It was so easy to get his deteriorated brain to fall for your expertly crafted facade of vulnerability. It's not like he was your first or last victim to this 'side' of you.
School faculty couldn't turn a blind eye to the way you paled at the cost of lunch. Empathetic, heroic, and kind students wouldn't resist the urge to defend, tend to, or help you when any bullying started. Even strangers with bleeding hearts had no problem giving you food or money when you were a roaming teenager with nothing but a backpack.
The money you saved by not paying lunch almost always went straight to the locked box you had for when you would be inevitably moved to a new guardian. All the bullying incidents were helpful in making the other students invite and accept you into any group of your choosing. It's not like anyone would believe that meek and polite you could jump the bullies on their way home with a malicious smile and a blunt weapon, nor would a passing stranger that helped you be aware of the man and cat that you returned to completely contrasting the story you spun.
"Then you're willing to protect me, right? Ei, that Bakufu was intent on seeing me as an imposter. She tried to take my life right when I just returned. It's due to that, that I have to live in fear of this mask being removed."
Moving closer, you rest your forehead against his head, trembling in fear of the horrid memory.
"I'm sure if I arrived in Liyue instead of Inazuma, I would be able to walk on Teyvat with you proudly on the surface with me. You would protect me, you would fight for me. You would die for me, would you not? Dragons are known for their loyalty after all."
Azhdaha continuously repositions himself as he breathes heavily. There's no doubt he's torn between anger against Ei, happiness at your trust, and excitement at the prospect of being on the surface.
"You have my word, my grace. I would fight any enemy, defend any stronghold, obey any command you have for me. Simply relay your order and I will fulfill it to perfection. And if it pleases you, allow me the honor of destroying the Shogun for her unforgivable sins."
"But can you really protect me with those imperfect eyes?" Your words are spoken gently with a smile laced with sweet poison. "You are putting me in danger by using those corrupted eyes to watch over me. Do you not know why I crafted you without eyes?"
A sole finger touches the edge of the red jewel eyes as silence permanence the air. He doesn't flinch from the fleeting fingertips despite the slow unraveling of your intentions.
"Geo lifeforms that stay underground donât have eyes as they have no need for it. And as thankful as I am that Morax provided you with eyes to enjoy the surface, it wasn't my original design for you."
Experimentally tapping his eyes and smiling at the crystalline texture, you speak with a low timber. "You were always meant to stay underground to properly care for the leylines. You didn't know it at the time, but accepting these eyes had the same effect as accepting Celestia's lies."
You let Azhdaha think deeply on your revelation as you pet the area around his eyes. The mere fact that he was contemplating it was a good sign, those eyes are proof of his contract with Morax after all.
"Your benevolence, are you requesting the destruction of my eyes?"
"Of course not, Azhdaha!" Laughing reassuringly, your fingers dig into the corner of his eyes ignoring the way he flinches in pain. "I'm commanding you to give me those eyes. I cannot bring you to the surface with me, so bringing a remnant of you will soothe my aching and lonely heart. It's convenient that those eyes prevent you from doing your job correctly too."
A low pained groan leaves his jaw as your other hand mimics the action of the former. Nails digging into his eye cavities, you feel the ruby eyes lift from the force. Azhdaha's body shakes, alerting you that you pushed him far enough. Releasing his eyes you take a step back to be out of the barrier in case he makes any attack.
"I once yearned to see the sun, that blazing ball of fire that lights up this world providing it with the warmth to live. All because I knew that you must shine even brighter than it. In those days of old, envy and despair consumed me as did the love and joy I felt being embraced in this world that you crafted. I know better now. I know that even without these eyes that I enjoyed from that traitor I once called my friend, I could still make out your glorious form. Every leyline on this planet shines like dull cobblestone in comparison to the gold figure that stands in front of me."
"I have no way to wretch these crystal eyes out of the unneeded cavities. Take them from me, your grace, take any part of my body that you desire. My sole regret is that I could not offer you my original body to pick from."
An excited smile stretches across your face with a heartfelt caress to the bridge of his nose. "Thank you Azhdaha, do not fret. The day that I craft you eyes worthy of the dragon you once were is near. Thank you for being such a good boy."
Despite the condescending tone to your last words that slipped out, Azhdaha still rejoices with the same fervor of a real dog. The tree tail wags slowly, revealing his happiness.
Carefully, you dig your nails into his right eye. It's heavy and hard to pull out. This would surely be easier using your sickle but you didn't want Azhdaha to feel even more pain. At least with you using your hands, he feels some comfort in your skin.
After a tough tug, the eye is finally out and stuffed haphazardly into your bag. Blue crystalline liquid coats your hands and flows from the now-empty cavity. Wiping it off on your clothes carelessly, you give Azhdaha a break by petting him.
"Just one more Azhdaha, then it'll be done." He leans into your touch without a single sound escaping him. You aren't fooled by that tough facade. He's silent in fear that speaking will only result in his pained cries.
The red jewel chips slightly as you dig it out of his head. Beads of clear blue roll down as you grit your teeth. It finally comes out and that trickle becomes a stream. Putting the eye into your bag, you peek at the now blind dragon.
A slow, continuous dribble of aqua crystalline stains his face as the cavities slowly stitch close. The cavities closing simultaneously are heard by the cracking and grinding of rocks. Azhdaha curls into himself from the pain but refuses to allow any sound escape him.
Your body moves on its own to hug the suffering dragon. Murmurs of praise and thanks leave your lips as the rocks creak louder and faster. The tear tracks left on his face stain your clothing blue yet you can't find it in yourself to care.
A selfish person, that's what you were to your core. There are no words you can use to justify what you have done to Azhdaha. You may never have the power to craft new eyes for him. You may not even live long enough to research how. Yet, you still manipulated him into giving it up. The bitter self-hatred and burning feeling of loathing yourself builds up inside you.
"As sad as I am to surrender my eyes, there is nothing that brings me greater joy than to be of use to you your grace. I will readjust to living without eyes."
Releasing him, you stare at his now-healed face. The cavities have been completely sealed shut as if there were never eyes to begin with. His voice is deep and rumbles softly.
"The leylines of this world relay to me more than elemental crystals shaped in the visage of eyes can."
The words do little to ease the guilt you feel for your cruelty but before you can do anything, a loud sound interrupts your thoughts. Frowning, you adjust your bag back onto your shoulders and look at the entrance to Azhdaha's lair.
It's silent and it only makes you more suspicious. Taking a few steps toward the lair's entrance, a glow behind you makes you whip around quickly. Azhdaha's body glows with white cracks throughout his body as he roars ferociously.
Backing up in confusion, you watch in disbelief as Azhdaha's body shrinks and compresses. Loud bangs echo from the lair entrance in sync with Azhdaha's deafening cry.
That loud bang is accompanied by the sound of the seal covering the entrance shattering. Deciding to focus on the unknown intruder first, you catch the sight of a tall figure walking with powerful steps toward you.
A sole amber eye is what catches your attention first.
Brown hair with glowing tips loosely drapes over an earthy-colored hanfu. Only a stub can be made out from inside one of the dark sleeves as the tall man looks at you with an emotionless expression.
"Zhongli. It sure is a surprise to see you here." Your mind spins as it tries to comprehend just why Zhongli was here. Azhdaha's unwavering roars, his missing eyes, just everything about this situation was suspicious.
His other arm, which thankfully hasn't been cut off, raises to cup your face. Gloved fingers are featherlight on your dusty cheek as you stare up at him with perplexion clear on your face. He leans closer to speak with unwavering confidence.
"Why did you leave?"
He's got to be kidding.
"Why wouldn't I leave? I wasn't interested in being a third wheel to your conversation with the Creator." You answer back with a disbelieving tone before getting startled at the slam of a hulking body hitting the ground.
"MORAX! How dare you reappear in my prison after all that you had done?! What audacity have you fostered that let you dare to touch the Creator?!"
Fuck
Shit, oh fucking hell.Â
Thousands of curses swarm your mind at Azhdaha's words, you keep your face in its confused expression as you run through any plan or excuse to survive.
"You're making Y/N uncomfortable with your insane claims, Azhdaha. They're an Oracle sent from the world the Creator is residing in." Zhongli is calm in his refute to Azhdaha's tantrum.
Pushing Zhongli's hand off your face, you turn to look at Azhdaha who is now much smaller. His stature is exactly like you saw when you played Genshin. That bright light must have not only degraded his body to the erosion-damaged body but his brain too. It's simply too suspicious that he became this wildly angry at Zhongli's presence.
Looking up at Azhdaha with sad eyes and a kind voice you speak gently, as if trying to soothe the dragon with no idea of what he claimed.
"I know my presence is similar to the Creator due to my otherworldly origin, but I'm really just Y/N. The erosion must be so painful that it even brought you down to this point. The creator hasn't forgotten you, I can promise that."
Zhongli frowns as Azhdaha tries to refute you. "NO! Don't you see, your grace?! That traitor is merely trying to keep you from reaching your full glory to keep you to himself!"
"How can you say that when you can't see at all?" Zhongli's voice is chilly as he places his gloved hand on your shoulder. His grip is tight and you try to step away. He doesn't budge and merely pulls you closer to him.
"Solidify!" The familiar line is yelled before a dome-like shield completely covers you and Zhongli. Your confusion on his action is answered when rocks from the ceiling start to rain on the shield. His hand positions your head to look back at him.
"Why won't you look at me Y/N? Do you still hold bitterness against me for my doubts against you? I was proven wrong utterly and completely, I apologize for my rudeness."
His voice is pleading and his lips tug down into a sad frown. You really can't understand why Zhongli's just ignoring all the suspicious things in this situation. Was the attachment acolytes feel towards you already affecting him this strongly?
"I'm not mad at you. Sure, it was annoying that you kept suspecting me despite all my efforts but you do believe me now after sacrificing so much. Actually, just what and how much did you offer? The sky lit up quite a few times."
An excited smile graces his lips as he takes a step closer to you, but unexpectedly sways making you grab his arm in worry. He laughs gently before speaking.
"After I noticed your disappearance, I gave as many offerings of my body as I could. Not only as my repentance toward the Creator but also as an apology to you."
Your eyes trail down his change of clothes. The hanfu is black with brown, gold, and white parts to it. The Geo symbol sign is clearly stitched into the inner robe.
"Is that why you have a change of clothes and are swaying so much? Be honest and tell me what part of your body you gave."
With closed eyes and shaky breaths, he places your hand on the top of his head. His hair is ticklish to your bare palms. "This human body wasn't nearly enough to make an impactful offering. But my Exuvia is adequate for our beloved creator. Naturally, my horns were the first to go."
The slight nub you feel between his locks must be the stump from his horns. You aren't sure whether to be sick or amazed. But Zhongli doesn't stop there, he takes advantage of your bewilderment and takes hold of your other hand.
"My spines were the next to be cut off. Those jagged ambers were more helpful for flying than anything else." His head nuzzles your hand on his hair as he takes your other hand to the spine of his back. You can feel the ridges of the amber remnants.
"My tail was in a similar position, useless in my current form. If only they didn't bleed so much. If the creator took any longer to accept my offering, I would have passed out from blood loss."
Even more worried about his physical state, you try to pull your hand away from his back and graze his side making him hiss in pain. He's quick to grab hold of it again and press it deeper into his side. Your jaw drops as he groans in pain and gives you a pained smile.
"I severed my claws yet got no response. I really believed I would have to stop at that point but I remembered another draconic part of my body that I could offer."
Your eyes filter between his happy and pained smile and the hanfu that was starting to blossom with red. Just where the fuck was he going with this?
"My skin, or rather, my scales were still in my body. Each clink of the scales as they were torn or cut out of my body may have left me lightheaded from the gushing wounds. But nothing could compare to the feeling of the Creator accepting me."
Blinking in pure shock, your mind struggled to comprehend the mere insanity of his actions. You were joking about him having the possibility of sewing his mouth shut from finding his idle annoying. This motherfucker would actually do it!
Zhongli takes your reaction, or rather lack of reaction, in stride with him pulling you closer to him. Your hands rest on his body to not be pressed against him but that only has him wincing in pain. He stubbornly holds you closer as you cringe from the feeling of wet blood seeping through his hanfu and onto your skin and clothes.Â
"Stop. Doesn't this hurt you? Just how long will it take you to heal, let alone regain those dragon features?" Asking him with the purpose of distracting him, you speak in a rush. He merely hums as his arms stay around you firmly.
"Elemental beings like myself will always recover. I'm exceptionally strong with my status as an Archon, I'll be fully healed within a month at most."
You couldn't even linger on the idea that in a single month, he would be completely back to normal. The ground shook as more and more rocks fell on the shield. You couldn't stay trapped in Zhongli's embrace, at this rate you couldn't even stay in Liyue for much longer.
The slight sway of his movements, the slow speech pattern, and the rising of his body temperature permeating through his clothing gave you an idea.
Halting your resistance to his hold, your hands trail up his clothing with a pitiful smile. Rough and dirty hands from all the hardship you faced to get here cup his face enhancing the contrast of his smooth skin. His eyes immediately close at the contact with a deep rumbling sound coming from his chest.
"Still, it must be painful. Not just physically but mentally too. You have gained and lost so much over your lifetime. I have no doubt that it won't stop here. Just stay strong a little longer, won't you? Be patient till the Creator arrives and rewards you properly."
Zhongli's features soften till his eyes droop and his lips tremble. His full vulnerability is on display as he nuzzles into your palms shamelessly.
"Just what kind of ability do you possess? Young as you are, your ability to perceive and empathize with feelings is beyond your years. Do not stress for me, I have already been awarded by the Creator."
You frown slightly at his last words, not fully grasping at what his 'reward' from you was. The sacrificial method? The artifacts and weapons? He smiles at your confusion with half-lidded eyes.
Grasping your hands, he brings them closer to his mouth and kisses your knuckles with a smoldering grin. You aren't completely sure whether the pink decorating his cheeks is from embarrassment or a fever from his injuries.
"What greater reward than an Oracle sent from our God to soothe my soul?"
Suddenly you don't like where this is going. The thundering sound of rocks being thrown agrees with you.
"As fellow devoted servants to the Creator, should we not join in union? Marriage is a contract till death does us part after all."
There's no way this was happening. You were not getting proposed in a basement with a raging dragon just a few feet away from you.
Sensing your hesitation, Zhongli continues to speak with a romantic timber as he places a kiss on your palm.
"This may be sudden but I can assure you that I'll take care of you. I'll protect, provide, and love you as the closest person to our beloved creator. You may not love me now but just being from a different world has caused many problems for you. You are the only person who can match the amount of devotion I hold to our creator."
If this was a true confession of love at first sight or any other extremely fluffy trope, you would seriously contemplate saying yes. He wasn't wrong about your life being much easier with him by your side.
But it instantly died when he revealed that it was from you being such a strong believer and being the most intimately connected to the creator. It killed any romantic prospect of the situation. All you felt was dread and a longing to just leave.
You truly hope that he was only saying this shit from the blood loss getting to him. The annoyed expression you wear isn't even covered up, letting Zhongli see it plainly. His affectionate expression breaks and his lips part to ask you something but it's cut off by a bang.
It seems Azhdaha unknowingly agreed to break you out as a rock finally breaks the dome shield that had been protecting you all this time.
"Succumb to my fury Morax! Not even addressing the creator properly during your whole conversation is a disgrace to the Geo element and dragons alike!"
Wrath seemed to have consumed Azhdaha enough that one of the pillars of the barrier broke. Zhongli summons his spear and walks past you to stand protectively in front of you.
"Do not fret Y/N, I'll subdue Azhdaha so that he does not cause any more problems. Permanently." You absolutely did not want that but at the same time, you really wanted to escape this whole situation.
Azhdaha is going insane, Zhongli's bound to realize what you had taken from Azhdaha, and the duo of women are bound to get closer from the activity. That's not even counting how close this cave seemed to be from collapsing.Â
"Azhdaha is still the creator's loyal creation! He may have deteriorated from the erosion that you failed to prevent, but don't kill a loyal and faithful follower like him!"
Hitting Zhongli with such a sharp remark, you watch his deadly glare weaken. Azhdaha begins to make careless attacks toward Zhongli's vicinity which, unfortunately, you're still in.
Picking you up with ease, Zhongli dodges the many attacks and stops near the lair's exit. Azhdaha does his best to give chase but isnât much of a threat in that size.
Setting you down and wiping away the small pieces of rock from your face, Zhongli gazes at you warmly.
"You should return to Liyue Harbor. I'm sure many things require your attention considering how much trouble you seem to get into. And when we meet again, I expect an answer to my question."
Trying to ignore his last words, you wave to him before he jumps back into battle with Azhdaha. As soon as his back is turned you book it out of the lair. Leaving the small cave entrance the night sky shines above you.
Thousands of stars shimmer as you stand in silence. It felt good to have a break from everything going on below ground. Walking slowly your eyes gradually climb up the Dragon-Queller tree trunk to admire its full beauty.
It seems you were correct in assuming that the crystalline blue glowed brighter at night. The cerulean-colored branches pulsed with an eye-catching glimmer. The orange leaves blew in the night air as the pink petals of the flowers below you swayed.
You spot a familiar-looking constellation in the sky that seemed to twinkle for your attention. Lapis Dei, Zhongli's constellation, was lit up by four points. It was pretty incredible that you went from a C0 to C4 in a matter of hours.
But, just what effect did constellations have on characters other than making them stronger? It was closely connected to your creator power so it must be important outside of the game. Would whatever effect it have differ between humans and archons?Â
What would have happened if you had gotten Zhongli to C6 before coming here?
Setting those lingering questions aside, you gaze up at the Dragon-Queller tree one more time before bringing up your game screen. You've finally witnessed everything about this area giving you a sense of satisfaction.Â
Creak
The sound makes you pause and lift your head up from the screen in confusion. It's silent for a few moments until Teyvat bombards your mind with a sense of something going wrong.
CRACK
Ice. Lots and lots of ice spring up from the ground circling around your feet. Quickly moving back from the ice, a sharp and cold solid spike tears through your calves. A cry of pain leaves you as you stop in place. Red drops of blood stain the spikes of ice that impaled you.
Did it break your bones? Was it an important muscle for running? If you pulled it out, would you lose too much blood?Â
Those thoughts swirled in your mind as the pain blinded you from the fact that Teyvat never stopped warning you.
Keeping a hand to your heart trying to slow your breathing and push down the rising sobs, you focus on what you can do now. But it's already too late. Something glints in the distance and a swish of air is heard before pain blooms from your chest.
Scalding water leaves boils on the right side of your chest as an arrow stays embedded into it. Tears of pain and anger stick to your eyelashes as you carefully move your head trying to spot the woman.
You knew Yelan and Shenhe were somewhere here. Even with the tears sliding down your mask, your lips were curled into a defensive snarl.
The small breaths you let out don't feel wet or painful, therefore your lungs are unharmed. Yelan had the skill and power to hit your lungs if she desired. This means she wants to speak to you, she wants some information you have.
She won't kill you yet.
Commanding Teyvat to show you where they were hiding, you blink sluggishly at the elemental sight being activated. Teyvat creates a path of Anemo leading to two separate points making you smile through the pain.
"Yelan, Shenhe. Shouldn't you both at least reveal yourself when taking a hostage?"
There's no need to play dumb at this point. They already suspect and harmed you to the point where it just wouldn't be smart to act ignorant.
After a beat, both women leave their respective hiding spots and make their way to you. Yelan is relaxed with an easygoing gait showing that she has all the time in the world. Shenhe is more ferous in her approach, weapon on hand, and a dangerous glint in her eyes.
Except Shenhe begins to sprint at you once you lock eyes with her. Despite the rapid thumping of your heart at her stance, you stay still not wanting to show that you could escape when needed.
As expected; Yelan grits her teeth in annoyance and activates her skill to catch up to Shenhe. Shenhe is just a few feet away from you, her spear is held out prepared to slash when she's pulled back by Yelan's lifeline. A sigh of relief escapes you as you slump into place.
"Not yet Shenhe, I need them alive for my job first. Afterwards, you can kill them as you please." Dropping Shenhe from her lifeline Yelan sighs in exhaustion.Â
Shenhe doesn't react much to Yelan's attitude. Merely brushing off the dust and repositioning her weapon while watching you.Â
"Eyes over here Y/N." The sound of your name from Yelan's lips catches your attention. She smirks at your wary glance and spins her bracelet. "Why don't you and I have a little chat?"
It's done! This one didn't take as long since I have been getting settled into school. If everything is cool and I'm fast then I could finish a chapter every weekend. But let's be honest. I'm far too unlucky for that. This was edited by my annoying dear editor @serpent-benediction . Don't pay attention to him tho. That was mostly a joke! I know the Zhongli cutting limbs wasn't as much as one would think since he goes around without his dragon features most of the time anyway. I just couldn't find a good reason on him cutting off his legs and still managing to fight Azhdaha. So, I hope everyone isn't too disappointed by that and can enjoy the most yandere character so far! Personally, I would not accept that marriage proposal. But now we get to focus on Yelan and Shenhe! I've taken great care to keep Yelan's intention very vague, but I think those that have read her story have a good idea on why she's here. The next chapter should be quite exciting! Taglist - remember if you're username is in italics, that means I couldn't tag you! @vvyeislazzy, @nikqi, @the-dumber-scaramouche, @etherisy, @yourlocalstranger123, @ra404, @iruiji, @goldenglow149, @haru-tofuu, @lsleepysimpl, @bebobeboben, @yuyuzi-ling, @amidst-the-tempest, @resident-cryptid, @mxd1zzy, @mochicurls21, @nervouseaglelover, @thedevioussmirk, @yumuramma, @kwqsla, @undecidingfate, @ehjane, @game-savvy, @akiramirae, @liansh3ng, @fluffy-koalala, @formacoon, @sxftiebee, @khxii-i, @ursinaw, @chuuya-brainrot, @sweetbills, @kazuchaos, @snowfoxnix, @bluebelony, @shellofthewell, @pencil-of-ashes, @ghostlyintervention, @taiformaifoe, @goaudduck, @carminerin, @maddysflowers, @zenith-of-all-zenith, @crazydreamcat, @leafanonsforest, @grimreapersscythe, @leylanx, @sapphireknown, @help-whatdoimakemyusername, @zhonglisfruityass, @mer0n37, @victoria1676, @mochinessss, @sinnful-darling, @emilymikado, @pix-stuff, @esthelily, @luxie963, @emmbny, @millienolife @kbar1013, @xxblackroses623xx, @chxrlxtteee, @aludicpoet, @yandematic, @atrcclovsxoxo, @0lshadyl0, @esthelily, @t-rex-red, @ck123, @steadybreadbluebird, @118gremlin, @stratonia
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new fetish alert: asking AK-15 to cuddle with her as the big spoon, never getting insomnia again
(GFL) A quiet moment with AK-15
I know this was a joke (probably), but I had the cutest thing pop into my head after reading this ask.
Truthfully, 15 was a little uncomfortable with S/O's request for her to hold them.
Being a T-Doll, if she wasn't careful she could harm S/O, to say nothing of her own strength, unique to her.
The same arms that could crash through concrete and enemy tanks, was now holding one of the very few humans that meant something to her.
Her face remained unflinching, but with how awkward the embrace was, S/O could tell something was bothering 15.
Or rather, unsurprisingly, she wasn't used to this.
(S/O) "You okay, Fifteen?"
Their voice barely went above a whisper, with 15's deep voice matching their tone. At least to make the environment to sleep in more comfortable, since she didn't really need it like a regular human did.
(AK-15) "If I may ask...why do you want me to hold you? It is quite dangerous for a human to remain this close to me."
She felt their chuckle throughout her body, seeing that S/O was only an inch or so away. Regardless, before answering her question, S/O nuzzled even closer.
(S/O) "As strange as it sounds...I feel safe whenever I'm with you, Fifteen. Your arms really strong so, it kinda feels like nothing can get to me but you."
15 remained silent at that, trying her best to conceptualize their reply in her head to the best of her understanding.
Slightly frustrating her that she couldn't, 15 instead sighs but obliges S/O anyway.
(AK-15) "If you insist, then I will not object."
Her eyes glanced down and saw them smiling, eyes full of love and staring straight at her.
(S/O) "Plus, your reactions are cute.~"
Though the attention didn't make her outwardly show any reaction, internally she didn't know how to respond.
Yet another thing that frustrated her. She sighed, more out of habit than anything despite the fact she physically didn't need to, asking another question.
(AK-15) "You say that you find my reactions cute yet...You know I have trouble conveying them properly like you do."
15 felt S/O snake their arms away from her waist and toward her face, gently brushing a strand of her hair out of her face.
(S/O) "With facial features? Sure, that doesn't really change. But I think what you're doing right now counts."
With that came a playful tap on her nose, causing 15 to blink as a reaction, the gesture confusing her even more.
(S/O) "You could say it's part of your charm, so to speak. I know you always have your actions speak for you, even if you struggle showing it with words or whatever."
S/O's eyes traced down to her lips before leaning in for a quick but passionate kiss, 15 shifting closer to close the distance.
When S/O leaned back, their head sunk into the pillow while still facing her.
(S/O) "In the end, I fell for you because of you who are. Everything, good, bad, I don't care. They're still you. If you want to change, I want you to because you want to. Not just because of me, or anyone else."
(AK-15) "...I see."
Her eyes averted meeting their loving gaze, instead pulling them into the hug they asked for in the beginning, this time stronger than before.
(AK-15) "Thank you for your patience, S/O..."
As her hands finally found a comfortable resting spot on their back while pushing their head under her chin, she spoke up again.
(AK-15) "RPK-16 once told me that I should try to smile, if at least to make some of the soldiers at ease."
S/O's eyes were closed, the edges of their consciousness starting to drift off as sleep beckoned them closer.
Despite that, S/O responded, summoning all their strength to listen to 15.
(S/O) "What did you respond with?"
(AK-15) "I rejected her idea as the other members of DEFY could do that for me, RPK included."
Her fists instinctively clenched, still being mindful of her lover and not wanting to accidentally crush their spine, instead wrinkling their shirt.
(AK-15) "But ever since I met you...I've been thinking about that exchange again. I cannot convey well wishes the way others do...And yet you still accept me for that."
She remained silent, unsure of how to properly say what she wanted to.
With a yawn, S/O chuckled and reassured her.
(S/O) "Heh, humans are weird like that, as I'm sure you've noticed. I'd argue that you're more like us than you realize too, Fifteen."
Their voice finally dropped low enough to the point 15 could recognize they were about to fall sleep.
(S/O) "...I'll help you smile from the heart, 15..."
(AK-15) "...I will hold you to that, S/O."
Hearing nothing in response but soft breathing, 15 decided to go into low-power mode herself, all the while holding S/O close to her.
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BONUS:
After stepping into the Commander's office, 15 gave a quick salute before speaking her piece.
(AK-15) "Commander. If I may trouble you, could I show you a smile I've been practicing?"
The Commander's eyes widened slightly, lowering his paperwork as they leaned into their chair.
(Commander) "Practicing? Heh, must be about S/O. Alright, go ahead and show me what you've learned."
15's smile caused his body to stiffen and vitals to quicken.
Though he wasn't flustered by a pretty woman giving him a smile.
He was absolutely terrified by the woman looking like she was about to sadistically tear him limb from limb.
(Commander) "It uh...C-Could use a little more practice. Has...anyone been telling you how to smile?"
15 immediately reverted back to her stoic self, making the situation that much more jarring.
(AK-15) "No, sir. It's something I've been practicing by myself and what recommendations on the internet has provided."
The Commander made a grunt in affirmation before reaching for his receiver, clicking a single button.
[G36's Voice] "Yes, Master? May I help you?"
(Commander) "Please call Springfield up to my office. AK-15 and I require her expertise."
(AK-15) "...The smile is not proficient for S/O, is it?"
Knowing the T-Doll in front of him appreciated honesty more than anything else, he was still hesitant as matters of the heart should be handled a bit more gently.
Not that he'd know from personal experience. Even though he was still single, everyone still came to him for relationship advice.
#girls' frontline imagines#girls' frontline x reader#girls' frontline headcanons#ak 15 x reader#ak 15 gfl
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Hi! I was wondering if you knew any fics where when Derek finds out Stiles is his Mate and instead of out-right rejecting him or hiding it, he's just like "Yeah, okay, we're Mates." or something like that. Same on Stiles end too. I just need some fluff right now, please.
THANK YOU!!!
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Werewolf Project by Anonymous
(1/1 I 2,468 I Teen)'
Stiles and Derek have to do a project together... about werewolves.
Protecting You by dreamedwriting
(2/? I 3,002 I Teen)
The night of the Hale Fire, Stiles Stilinski senses something off. He follows the feeling and as a result, saves the Hales.
(A Belated) Invite To Eternity by ussentercries
(2/? I 3,274 I Teen)
Derek didn't notice it at first. It started with Stiles staying a little later than everyone else after pack meetings.
An Eternal Bond by stereksterek
(6/6 I 13,528 I Not Rated)
The one where Stiles organizes five bonding activities for the pack that just end up bringing him and Derek closer + the one time Derek does the same for Stiles.
Ain't Nothing so Good as the Cake and Eating it by sofonisba_found
(15/15 I 51,001 I Mature)
Derek thinks he's doing alright in life, with his family at his side and a job he loves. Despite his family's concerns he remains adamant that he doesn't need a mate, afraid to take the risk of letting anyone close enough to try to hurt his family again. That is until he realizes that his true mate has been right under his nose for years, and that now through his inaction he may lose him.
Future Dreams by midnitekween
(13/13 I 73,956 I Explicit)
Stiles accidentally summons he and Derek's children from the future to the present.
He's Not Mine by Sunnee
(19/19 I 68,534 I Explicit)
Derek comes home to find an abandoned werebaby on his front porch and Stiles volunteers to help him out. Surprisingly, that is just the beginning of his problems.
The Moon Lives (In The Lining of Your Skin) by Quixoticity
(28/30 I 132,440 I Explicit)
Stiles is doing fine. Okay, so he didn't expect to be a single father to an infant daughter at the tender age of twenty-three, but it's working out great. And no, he didn't expect to be a curator in Beacon Hills Museum, where weird things happen with no explanation, but he's rolling with it. And he seems to have acquired a new brother now that his dad's gotten engaged, which, odd, but hey, Stiles is flexible, and there's no such thing as too much love, right?
But then the next twist comes in the form of mysterious new neighbour Derek Hale, who is both insanely angry at the world (it's possible he's murdered people with his eyebrows alone), and adorably good with children. He's also in possession of a truly excellent butt.
Stiles is doomed.
Settle Down by wearing_tearing, whatthehale
(19/19 I 153,180 I Explicit)
Stiles is a struggling author barely making ends meet.
Derek is a successful architect whose biological clock is ticking.
Enter a surrogacy agency, two packs, and a particularly sticky and toe curling heat week and you get a match made in heaven.
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track 32
Fenrys x Reader x Lorcan
Summary: Cursed to fall in love, only to have everything ripped away from you, moving on to your next life already feels like a drag, only things don't quite follow their usual patterns.
Warnings: discussions of death, Maeve, brief description of torture, happy ending
Word Count: 8077
A/N: the HAPPIEST of birthdays to @whisperingmidnights <3 I hope you have an amazing day (& thank you to @rowaelinsdaughter for your help)
You tumbled into your new body. Again. At least this time the Gods let you skip through the childhood years, instead flooding your mind with memories of your new past. You could only be a toddler so many times before truly losing the last grip on your sanity.Â
Youâd think so much pain and suffering would flood together, the lives all melting into one giant messed up pot but instead each experience remained distinctly painful to you. Distinctly full of suffering and sour memories. You, obviously, hadnât survived a single one and your trek across the multiverse was written in blood.Â
It took you up until life 15 to really stop holding onto so many grudges, especially considering you seemed to be destined to fall for the same people each time. Not the same types of people, but the actual same person.Â
Whoever put a curse on you had been clever. If you were cursed, perhaps you were just really damn unlucky. But right now you needed a bath, a hot meal, and a good nightâs rest. Of course you were drunk. Fresh in from a night out on the town with one of your friends, but you had good some good fortune in this life - your own apartment.Â
Tossing clothes off as you walked, you beelined towards where you knew the bathing room was. You were pretty certain youâd stayed in this exact apartment building before, and if you remembered correctly each apartment had near identical layouts, the entire building cheap and designed for efficiency. In this life, youâd made it your own more than in the previous ones.Â
You stepped into the tub, let the cold water hit your toes, partially sobering you, rivulets of now psycho-somatic grime and blood streaming from your body to pool in clear water at your feet.Â
A mind healer would have a field day with you and you knew it all too well.Â
Plugging the drain, you adjusted it to reach the perfect temperature. Yes, an efficiency building but still had hot running water. It was odd, but you didnât question it - you were a creature of comfort after all.Â
You wondered when youâd see them again. You wished you could say that tall of your interactions started off on a fresh beat, that you had it together enough not to judge them based on versions of them in a different universe, but you werenât.Â
Having it together? Maybe, certainly not on that level though. Having it together enough to appreciate their presence at this moment? Hell no.Â
After last time.Â
âWeâre done,â he mumbled, not willing to make eye contact with you.Â
âThen say it to my face,â you glanced between both of them.Â
Heads down. Eyes downcast - first time youâd seen them like that.Â
âThen I really meant that little, didnât I?â
âNo,â one said - you could barely distinguish who through the raging steam in your ears and tears down your cheeks.Â
âYes,â the other said. You didnât know or care who said what. It didnât matter. Later, just before the death took you youâd find out who made them do it and realize it still didnât matter. She may have forced them to lie, but they didnât have to be quite so convincing. 31 lives had taught you logic had no place in heartbreak.Â
The memory hit you like a physical blow to the chest, a stinging and pressure left in its wake. That heartbreak had killed you the quickest of them all.Â
Three days.Â
It was part of your curse, youâd figured out. To always know. What life you were on, the details of your past lives, how long it took you to do, what the death felt like, every little detail was committed to memory all because youâd dared to love someone a little too much, and ended up stealing them away from a wicked witch.Â
Well, the story didnât go quite like that but you thought it sounded better in your head that way. In reality, youâd fallen in love and done something stupid, as all people in love do from time to time.Â
You and Lorcan had agreed you should try to get Fenrys out, that although it would be more difficult to get him released, Fenrys needed it more. You didnât have the guts to tell him you needed both of them like you needed air, but there hadnât been time for that. All of your moments were stolen and borrowed time.Â
âWill you please release him from your service?â You were on your knees, begging. âPlease, Majesty.âÂ
The harsh flooring dug into your knees but you kept the same subservient pose. For someone with so much pride, this was humiliating and your Queen knew it.Â
âNo.âÂ
One flat and toneless word.Â
âNo?â You repeated.Â
Wicked red lips curved into a smile. âThat is what I said.âÂ
You had several choice words for her after, and sheâd responded with a fucking curse. Cursed to always love, but to never have it stick, cursed to die from heartbreak.Â
Even after all of these lives the word âcurseâ was still ugly in your mouth, still made your stomach heave and back seize at the memories. The times youâve run into the Queen she hadnât recognized you, but you knew she was still untouchable. Frequently made that way by the ones you loved.Â
The breeze sneaking through the poorly insulated window highlighted how water already chilled around you. You didnât miss that part of this building, the tub held next to no heat and your bathwater always ended up cold in less than fifteen minutes.Â
You were tempted to stay still and prune, but there was no use in it. A new life, new things to do.Â
Dragging yourself out of the tub, you dried off as efficiently as you could make yourself, scrounged up some comfortable clothes and headed to your desk. Grabbing a notepad and pen, you began writing.Â
number thirty-one.Â
It was a ritual of sorts, perhaps your imaginary mind healer would be proud of you for it, for getting all of your pain out on paper as soon as possible.Â
Right before you burned it.Â
Tossing the five sheets of paper on the flames felt good.
Running into them happened far too quickly for your liking. It always did. Life always started and finished too damn fast.Â
You glanced in the mirror, at what youâd chosen to wear for the night out with your not-really-new friends. The dress fit you perfectly, and showed just enough to leave you feeling bold without being uncomfortable. The gold wrapped around your wrists helped too. Not too much to look rob worthy, but enough to make you feel like some extra type of sheen was thrown over you. Maybe, just maybe this life would bring you a little luck. Was gold supposed to be good luck? You didnât know, but maybe youâd figure out how to look it up later. If you remembered to.Â
You felt something warm in your chest, not unlike the flush from the first sip of whiskey. Closing your eyes you couldâve sworn it tugged, dragged you towards another.Â
No, not in this or any life. It wasnât possible.Â
No matter how many times you fell in love and in how many ways, youâd never found a mate and were convinced you were destined not to. 31 lives was enough time to find a mate, a life partner. You shouldâve had that done in by life 10.Â
It was funny, how youâd started measuring your existence in lives rather than years. After all, it fit your circumstances. Permanently destined to be a temporary existence in others lives, and for their existence and influence to end yours. If there was a way out of this, a stopping or breaking of the curse you figured you wouldâve found it by now.Â
A loud pounding on the door and you hissed as the brush slipped, you barely moving your wrist away in time to save your face from a large black streak.Â
âGods,â you yelled, âhold on a damn moment.âÂ
âWeâre going to miss the bard,â someone - Ella? Yes, Ella, shouted back.Â
âAlright,â you groused loud enough for her to hear, âone moment.âÂ
One more swipe of kohl and you looked ready. A few deep breaths and you felt ready.Â
Shoving the cosmetics to the back of the counter, you swung yourself around the doorway, grabbing your coat off the hook and flinging open the front door, finding your friend posed with their fist menacingly mid-air, probably about to break your door down. Memory clicked in, reminding you they can be a tad aggressive on a mission.Â
Their mouth curved into a too-satisfied smirk, probably that their threats had work. Rolling your eyes, you shoved past them into the hall, quickly locking your door.Â
âAnyone else for tonight?âÂ
âJust us,â they looped their arm through yours and started for the stairs.Â
Ugh. Last time in this building youâd been on the ground floor, and youâd definitely miss the convenience of that, but at least you had a pretty balcony view here. Itâs all give and take, you supposed.Â
âCopper for your thoughts?â Ellaâs voice interrupted you.Â
How long had you zoned out? Was that a habit in this lifetime? You couldnât remember.Â
âDo I really look that broke?â You deflected.Â
It worked, she laughed. Maybe it wouldâve been nice if she pushed a little.Â
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Fenrys breathed in the fresh air. Maeve had sent him on a mission. Alone. Staking out Varese for several months, observing, but she didnât exactly tell him what to look for. It was perhaps the most exciting and infuriating mission heâd been assigned. Infuriating, because he truly had no idea what in Hellasâs name he was supposed to do, exciting because he had months to spend doing whatever he thought âobservingâ looked like.Â
Yes, he knew it was a mockery of freedom but right now heâd take the gods-damned mockery over what heâs stuck in every day.Â
Walking through the street, although he stuck to the shadows, unnoticed to the masses, it still felt like each face was sent there to tease him, remind him of the invisible leash tying him to that bitch for the rest of his life. He didnât know how Lorcan, the bastard, did it with such glee and joy. At least Whitethorn had shown a measure of discontent at some point, heâd even seen a hint of it on perfectly loyal Gavrielâs face.Â
Something caught his attention. Someone.Â
Arm in arm with your friend, strolling down the street, exuding pure confidence. Someone aware of their place in this world and what they meant to it. The light in your eyes matched his own. Dimmed, flaring when necessary and just enough to keep up appearances.Â
Only a fellow fraud would recognize it.Â
He had to follow. It was insanity, but he needed to see more of you.Â
Thatâs how he ended up nursing a drink in the corner of the bar, shadows wreathed around him, cloak pulled up to cover his face. He matched some of the many body guards of nobles around, and through some blessing not a soul had recognized him or even shot him a second glance. Perhaps Fridayâs were quite a popular night for the elite to pretend, that or heâd gotten better at blending in. He didnât know which to put his money on.Â
Someone, however, caught all of the attention - including his, even when he tried to ignore the magnetic attraction tugging him towards you. Throwing your head back in a laugh, you danced along with your friend, clothing absolutely sinful and fitting right in. He loved it. Every part of your energy felt like it was tugging at him, urging him closer, closer, closer, and he realized just how dangerous that made you.Â
Dangerous to him, and to yourself through him.Â
No matter what, she hung over him like a storm cloud.Â
Anything he might try to pursue with you would end before it could truly began, love or relationship cut off at its knees without a chance to truly blossom. Did he actually want it to? Could Fenrys actually be that selfish?Â
Yes, if it came to you. He glanced down at his pint. Still half full, and rather weak shit. He wasnât drunk but still managed to think complete nonsense. Nothing could happen, but for now he supposed it couldnât hurt to imagine a fantasy life with a stranger heâd never see again live in the corner of his mind, so long as it it stayed there. He was so, so wrong.Â
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Lorcan Salvaterre knew about sacrifice. In fact, he was an expert at it, at this point. But, every bit was worth it for her. His Queen. The only female heâd truly loved to the point where heâd do anything and everything.Â
Perhaps other love could have come his way, but it had never been the right time. Timing, in his opinion, shouldnât matter. Heâd always make the time for Maeve, and everything heâd done since meeting her had been for her. When she ordered him away, he left. When she kept him by her side - but never her bed - he stayed. Maeve said jump, he asked how high.Â
That's why Lorcan was trying to figure out when in Hellas heâd become so disillusioned, starting thinking things so unlike him. He couldnât tell her, couldnât tell anyone. Lorcan didnât have any friends or confidants, that wasnât something he dealt in. To him, there was no purpose in friends when his entire lifeâs purpose was bound by blood to servitude.Â
The closest thing he had to friends was his blood brothers, and like hell heâd ever tell them of this ... treachery waging war inside of his mind.Â
Lunch swirled unpleasantly in his stomach as he thought of the word. Treason.Â
When Maeve called him to the throne room, when he knelt before her, he mentally prepared himself for his immortal life to end rather early. She must know. She always knows.Â
Instead, he needed to figure out how heâd pissed her off because sheâd sent him off for some kind of torturous punishment. Keeping an eye on Fenrys, currently loose in Varese.Â
âAnything I should watch out for in particular, majesty?â He was quite proud of how he kept the bitterness from his tone. Or thought he did.Â
âYouâll know if you see something off,â she dismissed him with a wave. âConsider it a vacation, of sorts.âÂ
Blood sworn didnât get vacations, he wanted to protest. He didnât want - or need one. Had he really been slacking that much? The journey would provide adequate time for reflection, for him to dissect and figure out exactly where heâd gone wrong so he could prevent those mistakes in the future. That was essential. This trip however, like most things with Fenrys, would probably turn out to be a complete waste of his time. Time that could be spent doing much better things. But ... he supposed if this is what his Queen wanted him to do, it was exactly what heâd be doing, regardless of his feelings on the subject. His feeling always had been, and always would be inconsequential.
He was here. Already. Fuck.Â
It was day 2, and you couldnât catch a break. Is there such thing as a resting life? One where you could go through without any relationships, just peace and enjoying your moments of solitude? No, not for someone like you.Â
Running away from them never worked, they would haunt your every movement until they consumed every last bit of you and scattered crumbs on the wind, only for the crumbs to reform and drag you back towards them.Â
Do you embrace fate or run away from it? It was inevitable, what was the point in fighting anymore? You were so tired of it. Exhaustion rippled from you in waves, you were surprised everyone around you hadnât noticed as soon as you walked in.Â
Even if you wanted to, Fate, in the form of the most gorgeous man to exist, all bronze skin, onyx eyes, and golden hair, didnât give you a choice. He slid into the bar stool next to you.Â
You didnât smile, at first, but your traitorous heart warmed in his presence.Â
âHave we met before?â He said, jokingly.Â
If only he knew.Â
âMaybe in your dreams,â you slid your hand across the bar and grabbed your glass, drinking deeply. He winced.Â
âAm I that bad of company?âÂ
âYouâve been here for,â you glanced at the clock pointedly, âa minute. It has nothing to do with you.â Youâd tried every approach in the past to get them to see if it would deter them enough for them to circumvent fate, but nothing worked. Each version of you was destined for tragedy with each version of them.Â
âThatâs fair enough,â Fenrys replied. You reminded yourself you didnât know his name.Â
âWhat do they call you?â The words came out, regardless of your internal wince, knowing you were setting him up for a ridiculous line.Â
âIn b-â
You held a hand up and his mouth clamped shut. âNo, no, none of that.âÂ
He laughed, deep and rich, a sound you ... had you heard that laugh from him before? Perhaps not, at least not in a few lives. Recently things had been so depressing.Â
âI like you,â he nudged you gently with his elbow, your heart ached.Â
not again not again not again.Â
âYes,â a cruel voice from red lips whispered in your mind, âagain, again, again. Forever. This is what you deserve.â
Someone cleared their throat. Fenrys.Â
âSorry,â you murmured, glancing at the bottom of your nearly empty glass. Empty. Fuck. You couldnât handle this sober. Were you sober? Your friends were long gone, all found partners for the night while you nursed your worries at the bar. âWhatâs your name?â You took the last sip of your drink as the last syllable left your lips, ideally it could hide any signs of a lie from him.Â
âFenrys,â he leaned back enough in his stool to extend his arm to you, rather formally. When you placed your hand in his, intending to squeeze it to death, he deftly rearranged your hands and raised your knuckles to his lips, pressing a soft kiss there. âAt your service.âÂ
âCharmer,â you rolled your eyes but softly pulled your hand away and replied with your name.Â
He said your name quietly, extending the vowels, as if testing how it sounded on his tongue, how it might sound in other -Â
You chided yourself, pulling your mind out of the gutter. With the situation you knew he was always in, that was the last thing you needed to be thinking about. Or that he needed to be. You might not escape him, but you certainly wouldnât do anything to make this harder on yourself. At least thats what youâre saying now.Â
âLast call,â the gruff barman said, scowling at Fenrys before shooting you a smile. Your mind rattled through details. Right, you regularly shut this tavern down and always left a good tip.Â
You leaned over to Fenrys and whispered low so the other male couldnât hear, âheâs easy to win over. A good tip, manners, and easy orders.âÂ
Fenrys hid his snort in his drink, draining the last droplets. âThank you for the advice, love,â he whispered conspiratorially. Asshole.Â
âWhatever,â you mumbled and left your usual amount, sliding off the stool. Just because you were fated to make each otherâs lives hell didnât mean you had to deal with him being rude. Maybe you were just sensitive.Â
A âwaitâ followed you but you ignored it. Inevitable.
He caught up to you on the street, calling your name again.Â
Something else struck you. He was alone in Varese. When did this happen? This was odd. Out of all of your lifetimes nothing had followed this pattern, never meeting so quickly and certainly not with Fenrys on his own with his leash rather loose for what the bitch prefers. You needed to figure out more.Â
âWant to come back to my place for a drink?â You said, slowly turning to look at him.Â
If he was surprised by your quick change of tune, he didnât say a thing, only nodding and linking your arms together. Like heâd been waiting for a friend. The pain in your chest was physical as much as it was emotional.Â
-
Lorcan was here to keep an eye on Fenrys, and if that meant sitting in the shadows on a rooftop, peering through a beautiful femaleâs stupidly open window then so be it. You walked around and even acted like you didnât give a damn whether you lived or died, but he could tell you were smart, based on how youâd handled Fenrys.Â
Heâd ended enough lives to have an appreciation for it, and the way you were so gods-damned careless with yours pissed him off.Â
Lorcan should be questioning why his feelings towards you are so strong, but instead heâs observing every little detail of the interactions between you and Fenrys. For his report, of course. He always paid attention to detail, there was no other reason than being thorough. At least he kept telling himself that.Â
It wasnât because he liked the way your hair moved, or how you rolled your eyes frequently at his blood-sworn brother, followed by a barely there smile that he only noticed because the shadows danced around it, as if you repelled the darkness.Â
Maybe you could repel the darkness in him.Â
What. The. Fuck.Â
Lorcan hadnât drank, and even if he had he never entertained thoughts like this.Â
Refocusing, he committed to memory every detail of what Fenrys was doing, how he reacted to you, how attached he might be and how you might already be used against him by his Queen.Â
An unfamiliar feeling settled in his stomach, tainting him.Â
Guilt.Â
He didnât want to use you.Â
But if it came to it, he wouldn't have a choice. He never really did.Â
-
Fenrys whistled lowly on his way home, through the empty streets. Still aware of his surroundings, also aware that none would dare approach him - not with the steel and the stature he carried himself with, proof he knew how to use it.Â
All heâd done is sit and talk with you for hours, in fact the dawn was currently beginning to crest over the city. Hours of sitting and talking felt like mere minutes with you, and he found he had more fun in that time than he had in years, perhaps decades, perhaps since entering Maeveâs service.Â
It was sad, really, that you could only be a temporary fixture, for your own safety.Â
Still, his mind rattled with ways to do the impossible, with how he could be with you forever without ... it was useless, really, to even ponder it. The false hope and ideas would only taint the present he had, for however long Maeve let him stay here in his ... his fantasy, he supposed.Â
He could imagine many fantasies with you involved but the biggest was your friendship. The way you hadnât hit on him, made any kind of sexual innuendos or advances, thats why he followed you out of the bar. Because you made him comfortable in a way nobody else had in so, so long. Like youâd been doing it for lifetimes.Â
The scent hit him. The male wanted him to know he was there. His entire body stiffened, posture straightened slightly, pleasant after buzz from your intoxicating presence gone just like that.Â
Lorcan Salvaterre. His commander.Â
âWho was that?â Lorcan wasted no time and matched pace with him.Â
âNone of your business,â Fenrys snapped. Aware that he could be punished for it, but he didnât care, he looked the male right in the eyes.Â
Lorcan ... Lorcan didnât push him. At all. Instead, something like understanding passed through his eyes. Had Lorcan needed to protect someone from Maeve before?Â
Probably not. He was a cold hearted bastard through and through.Â
âKeep her away,â the words were whispered on the wind - there and gone. Just like Lorcan, who melted into the shadows.Â
Away from who? Lorcan didnât say âkeep away from her,â and Fenrys knew everything the bastard did was intentional.Â
Lorcan Salvaterre was here. You knew it, having caught the faintest hint of his unfortunately familiar scent, trailing after you like a hound.Â
The fact that he was following you made you nervous. Yes, similar situations had occured before but everything about this time seemed so different that it filled you with mixed emotions.Â
What are the odds thereâs actually something good in store for you? Slim, you decided, based on history and reasoning, and you knew Lorcan Salvaterre stalking anyone was bad news, but especially for you when you had ... history with the Queen he so lovingly served.
Someone whose head deserved to be ripped right from her neck, you cast the thought into the universe and hoped it landed, hoped she felt a phantom prick in the side of her neck.Â
Maybe she regretted cursing you to some kind of eternal half existence, always in and out of different worlds. Doubtful. More likely she tired of whatever game she decided to play for you and set the person who she knew would hurt the most to kill you. Even you could admit you were extrapolating.Â
Maybe an attitude change could fix everything. A tad less drama.Â
You glanced out the window, at the rain currently pouring down, at the moisture leaking into your apartment. The weather certainly didnât match up for life changes, if anything it read of staying right where you were.Â
Accepting it wouldnât happen today, you saved the attitude change for the next sunny day. Those practically screamed change in fortune. Or you hoped they did.Â
A week passed. You saw Fenrys each night at the Tavern, and scented a weirdly careless Lorcan on your trail each day.Â
Your attitude may not have changed with the next bout of sunshine, but you had a plan. It was rather simple, to somehow draw Lorcan out. However, there was a difference between having a plan and knowing how to execute it. You supposed that made your plan an idea more than anything.Â
Fenrys had mentioned business meetings heâd be attending one night, and you decided that was the perfect to do it. The perfect night to pretend to get sloshed, and you had the help of your favorite barkeep.Â
Knowing Lorcan, he probably had questions for you, and wouldnât miss the opportunity to get some answers while your inhibitions were âlowered.â Arrogant males like him wouldnât let opportunities slide by, but Lorcan Salvaterre stayed Maeveâs commander for a reason, and you knew your acting skills had to be top notch to keep him from becoming suspicious.Â
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âWhen will you stop pretending to drink those?â Lorcan asked gruffly as he slid into the stool next to you, his hulking frame towering over the bar and casting a shadow over you. You were a good actress, but he was better, and caught on after the first couple of drinks and exchanged looks between you and the barkeep, who you were on very friendly terms with.Â
The obsession with you, the flares of irrational anger when another man trailed too close, Lorcan knew what this was, and knew he was screwing both of you over with it. Fated for misery and doom, no matter how the cards played out. Heâd be stuck with her, Lorcan noted how she was demoted in his mind, and youâd be ... free.Â
All those years heâd spent making fun of those males now served to make him feel like a lot of an asshole because he gotit. There was a crack in his armor, a weakness in his resolve, and nobody knew about it. He intended to keep it that way until you were far, far away from him and his ... his Queen, and then as long as possible after that. His stomach clenched at the thought of what she might do to you in order to help keep him in line. Nothing good, and everything bad.Â
âI donât know what youâre talking about,â you answered primly, turning away from him. Why had he come over here again?Â
He laughed, low and harshly. âSure you donât, sweetheart,â he exaggerated the last word - turning it into an insult. It didnât feel right. His entire being flared against any insult to you, even coming from him.Â
But ... the little flash of anger in your eyes, the way your nostrils flared, that was amusing. He liked the fire in you. âWhat did you call me?âÂ
He shrugged.Â
You scoffed, muttering an insult he chose to ignore under your breath. âNothing to say to that one?â You pushed when he didnât answer, letting your elbow brush against his, âI thought it was creative. If you need me to I can keep going, thereâs plenty where it came from.âÂ
âIt was well done,â perhaps he wasnât particularly in the mood to be insulted all night, and he got the sense you were more than capable of doing just that.Â
âWell done,â you echoed, and he nodded. Your mouth curled into the most beautiful smile heâd ever seen.Â
-
In the future, you might just deny it ever happened, but Lorcan Salvaterre ended up in your apartment that night. You ignored the fact that he seemed to know the way there. There had always been plenty you were willing to ignore when it came to that male, and that hadnât changed over the last however many lives.Â
Once Lorcan - once heâd found his Queen, youâd been second. But before that, heâd made you his everything. You never could blame him for leading you to beg Maeve that first time, that cursed time.Â
Still, on the nights when you were alone, when the rain or a pretty mountain outline reminded you of him, when everything felt too much, it was easier to pin it on him, even if it made you a horrible person. Horrible, even for an ex-lover, but then again you were always an expert at self-depreciation.Â
Looking at the male now, like a statue of a God carved from granite, you knew heâd be the death of you. Again. But how could you fight him? You never had the strength to in the past. Maybe you werenât trying to survive hard enough ...Â
Things had never moved this quickly in the past, theyâd always been at a pace just slow enough to be torturous with your knowledge of your impending doom.Â
Maybe this time you needed to really try.Â
For Lorcan. For Fenrys. But mostly, for yourself.Â
The door closed behind you and you slipped back into reality, into the new situation you found yourself in.Â
âDrink?â You asked over your shoulder, heading right for your kitchen.Â
He caught your hand, spinning you back towards him.Â
âI had something else in mind,â he said roughly, and dipped his head towards yours.Â
You knew he could be patient, he could be gentle, he could be kind, but you got none of that now.Â
His hand gripped your jaw, tight enough to keep you still but not harsh enough to hurt, his mouth moved fervently against yours as you matched his pace. It was the collision of a thousand stars, a world breaking and re-forming into something new and beautiful and wonderful. It was everything and more. It was the multiverse coming together into a single moment and screaming yes! this is what you were waiting for. He slowed, softened, as if some kind of guilt caught up with him. You wouldnât have that. Couldnât. You gripped the back of his hair and pulled him back closer to you, pressing your body against his.Â
He would be yours for the night, but little did he know youâd already been his for eternity.Â
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You owe him nothing. You owe him nothing. You owe him nothing, Fenrys reminded himself as he walked out of the bar, spotting you teasing Lorcan. Heâd finished his business meetings early and thought he might see if you were still haunting your favorite spot at the bar.Â
Still, he wanted to rush up to you and ask you if you knew who the hell you were tangling with but ... he supposed he was like Lorcan in that way, one of Maeveâs Blood Sworn, and to have two of them shown publicly taking an interest in you was nothing short of deadly and he refused to subject you to that. So Fenrys left.Â
And hated himself for it, but self hatred was nothing new to him.Â
Fenrys wasnât sure how he found Lorcanâs rooms, considering the male probably didnât want to be found right now. Probably wanted to bask in you. Your beauty, the time he sp-
He stopped himself from thinking of it. Even thought of shifting now, to a body where emotions were simpler and didnât drain quite so much. Fenrys rarely shifted voluntarily when away from her, not after she kept him in that form so frequently. âWhere he was easier to deal with,â sheâd said once, and the words still stung as His Majesty, he thought the words mockingly, intended for them to.Â
The door swung open.Â
Lorcan didnât speak, just stood there with his arms crossed and jaw clenched.Â
Fenrys felt young, and not in a good way. What was he? A jealous lover? Concerned friend? Idiot?Â
Then it hit him.Â
The scent.Â
Yours.Â
His.Â
Entwined.Â
Without him.Â
Rage, pure and strong filled him. The scent was particular, and heâd seen it just a few times before. Lorcan, intelligently, had a shield around himself before Fenrys he was on the verge of some kind of burst.Â
âNot fucking possible,â Fenrys backed away, âwe canât have the same mate.âÂ
Lorcanâs eyes widened, but he was looking beyond him. Fenrys whirled around.Â
You.Â
âI canât have a mate,â you said quietly, desperately. âI never have before,â then to yourself, âitâs never been like this,â you switched your gaze to the window, he watched you try to angle your face so they couldnât see the tears in your eyes but they were evident. Everything was evident when it came to you.Â
âGet inside,â Lorcan said roughly to both of you.Â
He had a point, it wasn't exactly the space for this conversation. A hallway where anyone could be walking by and overhear. Thatâs the last thing he wanted, anything that might put you in further danger.Â
When he didnât instantly move, Lorcan grabbed his shirt, tugging him inside. There was a knife at Lorcanâs throat before the male could blink.Â
âDonât. Fucking. Touch. Me,â Fenrys hissed, slowly sliding the knife away and sheathing it at his side.Â
He was surprised his commander hadnât caught it, but then again he was staring at a pretty female in the hallway, your gaze still distant and fixed on the window. He called your name, just loud enough to carry across the distance. Your head snapped, you blinked a few times. He tilted his head towards the room.Â
An over-exaggerated sigh, probably for their sake more than anything, and then you followed them inside. Each step seemed to make you shrink further into yourself, he noticed, that confidence and bravado fading and leaving someone vulnerable behind.Â
It took a strong hand to tamp down on instincts rising, telling him to eliminate any immediate threats to you. The main one being Lorcan, but also any other males and possibly females in the vicinity. It was absolutely ridiculous, the way he was feeling even if he wasnât acting on it. At least he hadnât acted on it. Yet. If only because he was well aware it would piss you off.Â
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âWhat did you mean, âitâs never been like this?ââ Lorcan asked and you read the skepticism in his eyes. Not quite distrust, but an interesting mix of confusion and concern. That had the potential to change quickly. Could you even speak about it or would you drop dead? Youâd always assumed you couldnât but ...Â
âIâm cursed,â you started. They exchanged a brief glance, and for some reason that irritated you, but you kept going. âWeâve met before. Many times,â you knew that would grab and probably keep their attention, at least for a little while. You held a hand up when their brows furrowed in concern, âjust hear me out before you write me off as crazy.âÂ
âI would never write you off,â Fenrys murmured, and you shot him a thankful look but he kept his mouth shut after that. Perhaps it had something to do with the glare on Lorcanâs face.Â
The words were difficult.Â
Each one felt stilted and awkward, but they watched and listened as if each word you said was pure gold and something about that made you feel powerful. They went through the emotions with you, although it was a tad more difficult to tell with Lorcan, but you struggled together in a way. For some reason, it started to feel like this might turn into a goodbye and you werenât quite ready for that. After all, you didnât know how anyone could stay with someone ... someone with the kind of tainted past you have.Â
âWhy would she do that?â You finished. It a was rare chance to ask two people who probably have more insight than any others into how the mind of the Queen works, not that you believe sheâd let anyone truly understand her.Â
âCruelty,â Fenrys said.Â
The same time as Lorcan said, âjealousy.âÂ
âMakes sense,â you huffed, eyes rolling towards the ceiling. It was stupid.Â
âHow do you end up reincarnated?â Lorcan asked. The question you were hoping to avoid.Â
âI die.âÂ
âOf old age,â Fenrys said, but didnât sound as if he believed it.Â
âNo,â you said sharply, exhaling. âYouâll laugh at me.âÂ
âTry me. Believe it or not, I donât find your death very funny,â Fenrys said dryly. Lorcan was watching with apt attention, eyes watching you like a hawk.Â
âHeartbreak,â you grunted, quickly whirling towards - fuck. Youâd meant to look out the window, but saw the mirror instead and the twin faces of horror behind you struck something deep inside of your heart.Â
âI -â your throat closed up, the words not quite getting out.Â
âWhat is it?â Fenrys curled his fingers inward, and despite a slight internal cringe you let him beckon you, let him take your hands, let him give you this kind of comfort.Â
âI wish you remembered,â you whispered, glancing at Lorcan too, whoâs eyes and face told you, yes he knew you were changing the subject, and no the conversation was not over yet.Â
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âI donât -,â Lorcan Salvaterre stumbled over his words, perhaps for the first time in his life, âI donât mind making new memories, as long as theyâre with you.âÂ
You beamed. Fenrys laughed. He debated how upset you would be if he killed the other male.Â
Other male.Â
He knew, already, that heâd have to share you.Â
For you, Lorcan could and would make anything work. You were worth everything, absolutely everything.Â
Maeve, a voice whispered in his mind. He pushed it down, ignored it for now. That was an ... his Queen would never be an issue, but a situation he could deal with at a later date.Â
He swore to himself heâd never make fun of a mated male again. Technically he wasnât mated yet, but he would be ... soon, he had to be. Being your mate felt like an irrevocably necessary part of his soul, like he might die without it, without having that bond with you to tether him to this world and give him meaning. Meaning heâd been lacking his entire life.Â
He didnât know or care if Fenrys felt the same way but he supposed he should. He had an obligation to his mateâs mate, after all, outside of the fact that Fenrys is his bloodsworn brother.Â
Bloodsworn.
His bones and blood chilled. He couldnât be yours, not really. The realization threatened to bring tears to his eyes, but he couldnât cry, not here - not in front of you. You needed him strong.Â
He stood, abruptly, but didnât care. He jerked his chin to Fenrys. âWe need to talk,â he let his eyes say the rest.Â
He found he didnât like how some of the shine left Fenrysâs, how they dulled at the implication of their Queenâs existence. Too bad, for now.Â
âGreat. Secrets,â you muttered, and a slight smile threatened his lips, but you still waved them away. Perhaps you understood secrets better than anyone else.Â
Lorcan led Fenrys to an adjacent room, and their shields went up at the same time. To keep any nosy females from overhearing. The more she knew, the more danger she was in. At least they were on the same page.Â
âWhere is safe for her?â Fenrys started.Â
At least he had his priorities straight.Â
âAntica,â Lorcan answered. Maeve didnât dare touch the southern continent, yet. âFor now,â he added for honestyâs sake. âThe curse wonât break until Maeve is ...â He didnât, couldnât bring himself to, speak the words out loud, it felt too much like treason.Â
âDead,â Fenrys said for him. He had no problem with it, apparently. If Lorcan had been as insolent as the male in front of him, he wouldâve been put to death long ago, and he knew that. Perhaps Fenrys didnât, but it wasnât the time for that conversation. âSo we spirit her away, and then what? How do we keep her from dying?âÂ
âA blood promise.âÂ
âLike what?â Fenrys leaned back against the wall, a glimmer of hope in his eyes.Â
âWhen the curse is broken, we will find her.âÂ
Antica. Hot, miserable, mate-less Antica. In truth, it wasnât that miserable, but you'd be enjoying yourself a lot more if your mates hadnât shipped you off here as quickly as they could.Â
All in the name of keeping you âsafe,â you grimaced in the mirror, brushing down your hair, now frizzy slightly from the rare rain that breezed in the day before. They're and gone like a phantom, almost. Almost like their presences in your life.Â
You could still remember their touches from that last night, firm but gentle, still tentative like new lovers can be. You thought you knew everything about their touch from the past, but even they kept some surprises across multi-verses, or maybe it had just been a while since it had been the three of you and your memory was getting poorer.Â
Probably that.Â
You pushed the door open, throwing yourself into the throng of people making their way to the one of the several monthly markets in the city. Throng of people, you thought. It was awfully busy.Â
âWar,â
âSending us-â
âSaved the princess,â
âForeign lord.âÂ
The whispers hit your ears one by one like a drum. AÂ war. Against who?
You stopped casually at the closest table, and sure enough the seller was chittering to the person who came before you about it. A war, and the khaganate would be marching for Aelin Galathynius.Â
You rolled the name over on your tongue, it being vaguely familiar. Perhaps you should have kept up more with politics throughout the ages, you probably couldâve made a load of money betting, but that felt a tad too immoral, and you did fear the judgement of your own conscience.Â
As soon as the intrigue was there, it was gone. Youâd heard of several wars over the last two decades, the longest you'd lived so far, and none of them had brought your mates back to you. You seriously doubted this would be the one.Â
You refused to acknowledge the ugly truth. Theyâd probably already forgotten about you.Â
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In the lonely and mindless hours stuck in his Wolf form, Fenrys thought of the beautiful female in Antica, and dreamed of a life without Maeve, however impossible it was he never stopped hoping.
The female screamed on the table in front of him, but he was frozen in time and space. All he could do right now was bear witness to the horrible crime in front of him. Aelin Galathynius deserved someone to bear witness to her pain and her strength.Â
The female who shouldâve been his Queen, and the female who was his mate had so much in common. Not necessarily appearance, but your attitude and the way you carried themselves. So much that being with her for those months had felt like an even larger blessing. It wasnât infidelity, not by any means, but perhaps a bit wrong he was using Aelin as a proxy for you.Â
The screams in front of him distracted him from his thoughts and dragged him back to the present. Sheâd passed out, he was waking her with some foul smelling cloth. Each day, he thought heâd reached the limits of what he could bear without closing his eyes, but somehow - because he knew you would do it - he managed to watch. Witness. Wait. It was all he could do now.Â
-Â
Lorcan Salvaterre knew he was a miserable male to be around, but traveling through Varese had turned him downright sour. At least internally.Â
He knew he needed to get to Aelin, and he knew he needed to get to Fenrys. For the bond they shared with each other that theyâd never told a soul about. If he didnât get to him, youâd never ever forgive him.Â
He might be too much off a coward to tell you, but he would know in his soul and thatâs enough. Heâd find Fenrys, get her away from him, do whatever it took.Â
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You woke up one morning with an unusual lightness, a âpepâ in your step, so to speak. Youâd never understood that phrase until then, when you felt like all of your burdens and issues had been freed in a spare moment, like nothing could weigh you down right then.Â
As usual, you got your gossip through the market, and it all made sense.Â
Doranelle has a new Queen.Â
Queen Maeve was killed in Terrasen.Â
You were free.Â
You tilted your head up towards the sky, and let the sun shine down on your face, not caring you were stopped in the middle of the park. From the corner of your eye you spotted an older woman copying your movements, not in a mocking way, but in a yes the sun is quite nice today way.
The flip side of your freedom meant your mates would be coming soon. Theyâd be coming soon.Â
To Antica.Â
To you.Â
You scrambled back to your apartment to start packing. How long did it take to get from Terrasen here?
You paused halfway through throwing your closet onto your bed.Â
A letter wouldâve arrived by now, but youâd received no such thing.Â
That night you fell asleep on top of your clothes.Â
The next day you built the courage to put them away.Â
You didnât know where in the world they were now that Maeve is gone, and perhaps with the curse lifting they felt they no longer were obligated to be with you and love you, and maybe -
A familiar scent hit the same time as a knock on your door.Â
You rushed to it, throwing it open finding ...
Both of them. Your mouth parted, words not quite leaving your lips. Finally, you managed a lame, âyou came.âÂ
âWe promised,â Lorcan said âCan we come in?âÂ
Yes, they obviously could, you swung the door wider and ushered them inside.Â
âWe came as soon as we could,â Fenrys promised.Â
The silence was awkward for a few moments as the three of you tried to figure out how to navigate this. But, it was easy enough to break as you threw yourself at both of them, managing to catch each of them in a hug at the same time.Â
âI forgot to tell you before I left,â you started, muffled in the shirts but knew they heard you. Youâd memorized these words long ago. âI spent so long looking for all of the things that would kill me, I forgot the ones that made me feel alive. Both of you made me feel alive. Thank you.âÂ
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Fruity Confessions
Characters: Sam Winchester x Reader, Dean Winchester
Word Count: 1,584
Genre: fluffy goodness
Summary: After a hunt, the Reader gets very drunk. What will Sam do?
Warnings: alcohol consumption (like, a lot of it), mention of murder (nothing out of SPN norm), mention of smut (in a book), hinted at smutty thoughts
A/N: What's up Tumblr? It's been a while. Writing is gonna be all over the place because I have a kid now! (crazy, right?) But as a SAHM, I have a lot of free time to write, so here's to (hopefully), getting back into it. Edited by Grammarly, but any and all mistakes are no one's fault but me, myself, and I.
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You were a fruity drink kinda girl. While the boys had their variety of beers, you preferred Smirnoff Ices or a seltzer of some kind. When the situation called for something a little harder, like at the end of every hunt, the Winchesters drank whiskey, and you enjoyed a bottle of wine.Â
With each state youâve gone to, you made sure to find a winery from that state, and if they had a fruity-flavored bottle, you were definitely getting at least one. This time- Wisconsin.
A hunt had brought you to Green Bay: at Lambeau Field to be specific. Home field Packersâ games were canceled after eight different fans of the Detroit Lions were found dead after their game. It didnât take long to find out it was a ghost, however, finding out who the ghost was was a different story. After lots of research, Sam had determined it was Bart Starr, the Packersâ quarterback during their first Super Bowl win.
âThe dudeâs buried in Alabama, so how the hell did he make it here beyond the grave?â Dean asked.
âOne of Starrâs jerseys is at the Field. Thatâs definitely what heâs being tethered to, but itâs gonna be difficult getting it out of its case. Lambeau has all of their memorabilia in cases with alarms,â you said, not looking up from your book. After some moments of silence, you looked up to see Sam and Dean looking at you like you had three heads. âWhat? I know things.â
âYeah, but about football?â Dean was shocked. âNot even the game itself, but the fact you just happened to know one of these random playerâs jerseys was in their museum? Itâs weird.â
âDean, leave her be, she literally just told us what weâve gotta burn.â Sam was impressed. While he had never been interested in sports, he was pleasantly surprised by your knowledge, however niche of a topic it may be. âBut, I gotta know,â Sam turned to you, âhow did you know that?â
âIâve been to a game or two at Lambeau Field. My dad was a Packers fan.â
You happened to be the one to go to the jersey to burn it while the boys were your backup. The faded green jersey with the number 15 on it was lit up in its display case. You all knew it had to be in and out. Break the case, burn the jersey, and get the hell out.
The sound of shattering glass came with the sound of an alarm, alerting the guard at the entrance to the museum portion of the stadium. Bart Starr was throwing around Sam and Dean like they were footballs.
You had just barely been able to get a match onto the jersey before security was able to see you. Luckily, the small flame was enough to distract him and made him run in the opposite direction to get a fire extinguisher.
The next morning, as Sam and Dean were packing up, you drove to a state business called Festival Foods. There, you found their selection of state-made wines. You opted for a couple of labels all made of cranberries. If you were grabbing wines made in Wisconsin, you might as well grab ones made with one of the stateâs bigger industries.
You spent the twelve hours from Green Bay back to Lebanon in almost complete silence. You and Sam reading your books, and Dean humming along to whatever song was playing on the radio.
The minute you got home, you grabbed the cooler and went to the kitchen. Your only thoughts were on the wine you had got and how you needed to try it.
âY/N, you didnât even grab your-â Samâs sentence was interrupted by seeing you grabbing a wine glass from the cupboard. âIâll go put your bag in your room.â Sam knew better than to get between you and your wine. The last time he tried that, he ended up on the floor from trying to cut you off for the night. Your love for wine and need for a drink after a hunt had given you the drunken power to somehow take him down, despite the size difference between you and him.Â
Sam retreated from the kitchen to his bedroom. You took your bottle, glass, and book to the library and settled yourself into the loveseat you had picked for nights like these.Â
About 3/4ths of the bottle in, you had abandoned the thought of a wine glass and just started drinking straight from the bottle. Your mind was wandering from the fantasy-romance you were reading and to thoughts of Sam. When you reached a smutty part of the story, you couldnât help but wonder what it would be like to be with Sam in that way.
You were now a bottle down, and made your way back to the kitchen to open up another one. It really didn't take long for you to finish the second bottle. You were stumbling to the kitchen, with the intent to grab your third bottle, when you were stopped by the table in the library, not at it, by it. You had walked right into it, almost like you forgot the large oak table was there.Â
Getting to the kitchen truly was difficult for you, your drunken version of a marathon. Sam heard all of the commotion going on and took a guess on where you were heading. Usually he would leave you be, but being able to hear you walk into things, he decided to risk you being mad at him.Â
He stood in the doorway, blocking the entrance to the kitchen, and let you walk right into him. It took him everything to keep him from laughing at your face when you were met with the wall of muscle.Â
âSammy, whaddya doinâ here?â Your words were slurred, but not incoherent.
âPreventing alcohol poisoning,â Sam grabbed your hand and guided you down the hall. âCome on, let's get you to bed.â
âCan I sleep in yours?â Your drunken state left you with no filter. The words just came out of your mouth.Â
âYa know, given you walked right into me like I was invisible, that might actually be a good idea.â
Samâs response invoked a giggle from you, and he couldn't help but smile. Even though you were stumbling down the halls of the Bunker, bumping into Sam every couple of steps, he thought you were adorable. You were usually pretty reserved and in control, but like this, youâre care-free, not calculating your every move.Â
It took almost twice as long to get to Samâs room as usual with how many times you bumped into him or tripped over your own feet resulting in him having to catch you. Sam told himself after the fourth time if you fell one more time, he was just going to pick you up and carry you the rest of the way. Much to his dismay, that did not happen. He would have loved to know your reaction in the morning if you remembered him doing that.Â
When you finally reached Samâs room, the first thing you did was flop on the bed, or attempt to anyway. Thankfully, you fell just short of landing all the way on so your head never hit the floor. Sam chuckled and helped you up. Before laying back down, you took off your shirt, leaving you in just your bra and sweatpants.Â
This wasn't the first time Sam had seen you without a shirt, or the first time the two of you shared a bed, but this time was different. This time you were drunk and didn't really know what you were doing. In your drunken state, you were just getting ready for bed, for Sam, he couldn't help but think that you thought of him as someone safe. Why else would you have asked if you could stay with him tonight?
Sam got you comfy on the bed, all the while you were giggling up a storm. Sam looked at you and smiled. âWhat? What's so funny, Y/N/N?â
âNothinâ. I just think you're cute. And tall,â you looked at Sam with big eyes and a goofy grin. âOh my gosh you're so tall.âÂ
âYeah, okay,â Sam chuckled. âLet's just get you to sleep, alright?â
You nodded as he helped you make sure you didn't smack your head against his bed frame. Sam grabbed the small trash can sitting at his desk and brought it to your side of the bed. You usually held your liquor really well, but given your state, he didn't want to take any chances.Â
âSammy?â you say quietly.
âYeah?â
âI love you,â your voice got serious. Sam knew you'd be falling asleep soon, you always stopped being goofy towards the end of the night.Â
âI mean it. I really do,â Sam knew you weren't just saying that because you were drunk. If you were talking, your filter may be going, but you mean every word that comes out of your mouth.Â
âI know you do,â Sam smiled softly before crawling into his bed behind you and pulling his blanket over the two of you. He let his arm fall over your side and rubbed his thumb in small circles over your stomach. He hated not knowing if you were going to remember this in the morning.Â
He waited to hear your breathing become slow and steady before whispering, âI love you, too, Y/N/N.â
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