#c:lucy townsend

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“Anything, just call me, okay?” Ripp to Lucy

“I promise…” Lucy smiled shyly at Ripp from where she was leaning against the doorframe. He hadn’t been to his own place in three days and had only agreed to leave the penthouse when Jamie said he wanted some time with his sister. Everyone had been keeping close by since they’d found her, scared that if anyone was out of sight they might get taken like she did. She was still shaken up but Lucy was grateful for the company that Ripp had been giving her and that they had finally given in to the feelings they had for each other. Even though she knew he’d be back in a few hours it was still hard to watch him walk away. “I may even call you even if I don’t need anything.” Knowing that she’d miss him as soon as he was out of sight.

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“Looks like we’ll be trapped for a while…” Ripp to Lucy

“No way you could, like, ninja us out of here?” Lucy tried to laugh but it didn’t sound natural. Spending a week locked in a room caused her to develop a minor fear of small places. Like, for example, jammed elevators. This was her worst nightmare and she hadn’t even realized it until right this second. “I might freak out silently a little bit.” She knelt forward and put her head between her knees. She was getting worked up for no reason. This wasn’t that room and Ripp wasn’t one of the guys who had kidnapped her. She was perfectly safe. “Just ignore me, I’ll be fine.”

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“Well this is awkward…” Jamie to Lucy

“I need to get my own place…” Lucy murmured, her eyes still squeezed tightly shut. She’d been living at Jamie and Ben’s for a few months now and it was only a matter of time before something like this happened. Things had been so crazy for so long and they’d only recently started to feel like normal again. And, apparently, normal in this house meant that couples didn’t always have sex in their own rooms like they were supposed to. Lucy, luckily, had quick reflexes and didn’t actually see anything but still, she was scared for life.

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new years thing for the miami crew

Has to convince the other(s) to go to a party/leave the house: Priscilla says EVERYONE is going out god damn it and she doesNT CARE what they have to say (shes surprisingly amped up about NYE) 

Drinks too much and has to be driven home: They either walk home or take a car or Eli and Ripp do the driving 

Makes a bunch of resolutions (do they keep them?): Priscilla makes a lot of drunken resolutions and instantly forgets them. Lucy makes them and keeps them. The boys throw some out there because that’s what they’re talking about

Gets drunk quicker: Priscilla and Essy because they are just like pouring shots down their throats and so they are way ahead of everyone else 

Is scared to open the champagne bottle/passes it to the other(s): Nikki tries but everyone is chanting DO IT DO IT and she gets nervous so she gives it to Ben and he pops it for her 

Initiates kissing the other(s) at midnight: Priscilla and Jamie have been making out all night, Essy initiates it with Eli, Ben kisses Nikki, and Ripp kisses Lucy 

Is distracted watching football: Screw that 

Wishes there wasn’t such a big fuss over it all: I feel like all the boys wouldn’t be as excited lol but probably Eli 

Wants to clean the whole house: Nikki 

Goes a little overboard with confetti: Essy, she’s drunk and throwing it in everyone’s face.

Makes a cheesy toast: Lucy because she’s going to have a good year damn it and she loves all of them so much :’)

Goes to bed early: Well, Eli and Ripp can’t go to bed until everyone else goes to bed because they’re the protection and Priscilla wants to be out all night so Jamie is with her and Ben is with him and Nikki too sooo probably Lucy 

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“Boo! Did I scare you?” Ben to Lucy

Lucy screamed and immediately after turned and punched Ben in the arm. “I really wish you wouldn’t do that!” She huffed and turned back to what she’d been doing before she was so rudely interrupted. She should be used to Ben doing this by now - he’d been doing it for years - but he still got her ever single time. Maybe she scared easily, she didn’t know, but Lucy doubted she’d ever get used to Ben popping out at her when she least expected it. One of these days, maybe she’d be able to get him back. 

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❤ Lucy/Ripp

WHAT POINT OF THE RELATIONSHIP ARE WE ON HEREEEE (I’m gonna go with post-kidnapping) 

Affectionate; Holding hands | Cheek kisses | Hugs from behind | Cuddling | Hand kiss | PDA | Spooning | Shared baths | Whispers | Affectionate texts | Caressing | Stroke hair | No displays of affection

Sex; Shower sex | Wall sex | Neck bites | Oral | Morning sex | Drunk sex | Public sex (that private beach tho maybe?) | Backseat of car | BDSM | No sex

Dates;Picnic | Cinema | Restaurant | Sports game | Hike | Coffee | Museum | Club | Bar | Beach | No dates

Would my character…

Marry them? Yes | No Have sex on the first date? Yes | NoConfess their attraction first? Yes | No Have children/adopt? Yes | No Die for your character? Yes | No (Unless, you know, her brothers are also dead?)Cheat on your character? Yes | No Lie to them? Yes | No (although this happened when she was still with the other guy, once they are together she wouldn’t)Cuddle after sex? Yes | No

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“Really? Do I look stupid?” Ben to Lucy

“No...” Lucy replied, dragging out the last letter of the word. She pursed her lips and avoided Ben’s intense gaze. She didn’t know what he wanted her to tell him. She wasn’t going to tell him the whole truth and they both knew she wasn’t. But now that she’d been caught Lucy knew Ben wasn’t going to let her go without some type of explanation. “If you didn’t want me showing up here then you shouldn’t have given me a key.” She told him, trying to dodge the obvious fact that she’d been crying and the fact that it was nearly 3 in the morning.

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“When did it all happen?” Jamie to Lucy

“I guess, like, eight months in?” Lucy told her brother, shrugging her shoulders. “It’d been long enough for me to feel like I couldn’t just give up on the relationship… he’d been so good for so long that I thought that he was just having some bad days or something.” There was no excuse for why she’d let her ex treat her as badly as he did but she was still trying to make them, even to her brother. Jamie and Ben were the two people she trusted most in the world and she was still trying to defend her toxic relationship to them. “I felt like we could fix it if I stayed with him…” She’d thought that for the better part of a year before she finally realized that things weren’t going to change. It took awhile for her to get out of it but eventually she did and Lucy was never going to allow herself to get back in that type of relationship again. 

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"What are you doing down here by yourself?" Ripp to Lucy

Lucy jumped at the sound of Ripp’s voice and then chuckled over how dramatic she was. She looked up at him and smiled. “Oh, just looking at the moon...” She replied, patting the spot in the sand next to her. She wouldn’t exactly call herself a moon enthusiast but she did have an email notification set up to tell her when there were special moons. Like tonight there was a Strawberry Moon. The best place to lay down and stare up at the sky just so happened to be her brother’s place. Lucy had shown up, chatted for an hour, and then slipped out while everyone else was busy doing something else. She’d expected someone to follow and she was pleasantly surprised to see that Ripp had come down. “It’s really beautiful, isn’t it?” She added dreamily, her eyes back on the sky.

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"You look tired. Go sleep." Ben to Nikki // "Babe, can you explain to me what this is doing here?" Jamie to Priscilla // "You look like you could use a massage." Ripp to Lucy // "You've got to be kidding." Ben to Lucy // "I want to talk about it." Jamie to Lucy // "Please tell me you brought pie." Ben to Priscilla

Nikki jerked up and rubbed her eyes, shaking her head as she did so. “No, no, I’m fine,” She told Ben, holding back a yawn as best she could. “I want to be there when they call...” With Lucy missing and the boys not knowing what to do she didn’t feel right just going to bed. Nikki wanted to be there for Ben whenever he needed her. If he wasn’t sleeping then she wasn’t either. “I just need some coffee... do you want anything?” She stood up from where she’d been and shuffled towards the kitchen, dropping down to kiss Ben’s cheek as she passed him. If she was going to stay awake she needed to stay on her feet. Maybe she could clean... 

“I could,” Priscilla replied, not even bothering to look up from the joint she was rolling. “But then I’d have to kill you.” And she didn’t mean that in a cutesy way. She’d been given very explicit instructions to ‘say nothing, tell no one’ and she planned on doing just as she was told. Even when it came to Jamie. “All I can say is that I can’t let it out of my sight until it gets picked up tomorrow afternoon... it’s best you don’t ask questions.” Priscilla trusted Jamie to just let it go. He was in the same type of business (albeit different products) and he’d heard the stories from her about employees that didn’t do as they were told. It didn’t matter that she was family, she’d still be treated the same. 

“That and a glass of wine...” Lucy groaned, rolling her head back on her shoulders. The past week had been hell for her. Between her boyfriend and her preschool students... both of which led her to very little sleep. Pure hell. The only relaxation she’d been able to find was at her brother’s condo. She knew that accepting Ripp’s offer for a massage would be wrong and it may put out some signals that she really didn’t want to be putting out but... God, she needed one. So against her better judgement, Lucy looked up at him with a smile and nodded her head. “That would be really great...” 

“No, no, no, no Ben!” Lucy ran after Ben and grabbed his arm before he could get into his car. “It was an accident. Seriously, just listen!” She knew how much her brother’s hated her boyfriend and she knew that Ben was almost always looking for an excuse to go over there and beat the lights out of him but she couldn’t let that happen. Especially not over something like this. Lucy pointed back to her own car - the car that had a smashed window and a huge dent in the hood - and began to explain as quickly as she could. She doubt that what she was saying would calm Ben down but maybe she could distract him long enough and get him upstairs into the condo. 

“Jamie!” Lucy shrilled, her hands clasped over her ears. She knew her brother meant well and that he was only trying to help her but he didn’t get it. She couldn’t talk about it without reliving it. And the very last thing on Earth she wanted to do was relive the horrors that had just happened in her life. “Please, I’m begging you,” Lucy pleased, tears stinging her eyes. “Just stop...” In due time she’d tell Jamie and Ben and all the others everything they needed to know but she couldn’t right now. She just wanted, no, she needed things to go back to as normal as possible. For the sake of her sanity. 

As Ben hustled towards the refrigerator Priscilla pulled her gun out. “Touch it and I’ll shoot you!” She called, pointing the pistol at him. She wouldn’t actually kill him (especially not over a pie) but she’d get him enough to make him drop it. “That’s not for you,” Priscilla told him, making her way over to shut the door to the fridge. Ben only smirked, not at all phased by the loaded gun pointed right at him. Priscilla pulling her gun was a weekly occurrence around here. The only person still phased was Nikki (and when a gun got pulled on her Ben actually got pretty pissed off). “You can have some later. After Jamie gets home...” She waved him away with her free hand. She could share but only after her boyfriend got all that he wanted. 

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“Are you feeling alright? You don’t look it.” Ben to Nikki // “What’s all this blood?!” Jamie to Priscilla // “Are you okay in there? You’ve been so quiet.” Ripp to Lucy // “Are you crying?” Jamie to Lucy

Nikki nodded her head a few times and waved a dismissive hand. “I’m fine, don’t worry about me.” The truth was she was too scared to tell Ben what she really thought was going on. She was feeling sick but it wasn’t the type of sick you felt if you had the flu. It was the type of sick you felt when you were... expecting. 

“It was a hard day at work...” Priscilla replied over the noise from the running shower. She stuck her head around the shower door and raised a shocked brow at the mess she’d made. “Only a little bit of it is mine... and don’t worry I’ll clean it up.” Priscilla grinned at Jamie’s expression and returned to the steaming hot water. “If it makes you feel any better... no one died.” She called out. No one had died but she was sure some of them wished they were dead. 

Lucy sighed and stood up to open the door for Ripp. She plastered her usual smile on her face and nodded. “Yeah, I’m fine.” She was lucky to have so many people in her life that cared about her well being but it was hard to get anything past them. They maybe cared a little too much and it was getting harder to pretend she was okay. 

“Yes,” Lucy told her brother, wiping a hand across her cheek. “I may have downplayed how bad my break up really was...” She murmured, avoiding Jamie’s eyes. She’d told her brother that everything between her and her ex were fine but that was hardly the case. The break up had been, and still was, a nasty one and it was taking a toll on her. “Don’t tell Ben, okay? I don’t want him going over there...” She knew Ben would love to jump at the chance to kick her exes ass into next Tuesday. 

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"You light a fire inside of me." Ripp to Lucy

“Ripp...” Lucy mumbled, shaking her head. Hearing him saying things like that was hard. She knew that she should be with him and not her current boyfriend. Life would be so much easier for her, and everyone around her, if she just gave into what her heart desired. But Lucy didn’t have the greatest track record when it came to men and it would kill her if things ended badly with Ripp. So she would stay with her boyfriend... her shitty, terrible, asshole of a boyfriend. Lucy offered a smile and tried to laugh it off “That has to be painful.” She joked, looking away from him. 

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"Why didn’t you say goodbye?” Ripp to Lucy

Lucy spun around right as she reached her car and saw Ripp coming towards her “Hey... sorry...” She held up her phone and rolled her eyes “My boyfriend he’s, uh, blowing my phone up asking where I was.” He was using some less than desirable words and was actually demanding to know where she was but Lucy didn’t tell Ripp that. “I didn’t want to bother anyone so I just told Jamie I was leaving...” The relationship between her and Ripp was complicated and she didn’t know what to make of it... especially when she had a boyfriend. And she didn’t know what to make of him coming all the way down from the apartment just to tell her bye... but Lucy found herself smiling at him “I’ll see you later, Ripp.” 

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“I just want you to be happy. That’s it.” Jamie to Lucy

“I am happy!” Lucy told her brother. “I’ve got you, Ben...” She dropped her voice and swirled her drink around with her straw “Ripp...” She added on with a little shrug. “Nik and Pris, too. What else do I need?” She was happy, she really was. Sure, there were times when the sadness hit her and she felt lower than low but she was working on it. Lucy kicked at her brother under the table and smiled at him “I’m happy, idiot. Stop worrying about me.” 

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“You (and your brother) mean the world to me.” Ben to Lucy - no, I'm not crying over sibling feelings

“I know you do, Benny.” Lucy gave him a small smile. “And I promise... I’m okay. I’d tell you guys if I wasn’t okay.” She knew that Jamie and Ben were worried about her and they, well Ben, wanted to defend her honor but she just wanted to get passed it. They’d always been there for her and they always would be and she loved them for it. Lucy nudged Ben’s side as she went passed him towards the door “And I love you too, Ben... I’ll see you guys later.”