#can't wait for you guys to see the final chapter too hehe.. a bit sad since it's the final one but alas

[mangoisms]

hi it’s dc anon (not anymore ig??? idk i got tired of it lol) ❤️‍🩹 oh lord the ck update dropped right when i needed it most so thank u for ur service 🫡 chapter was absolutely wonderful as always !!! im so in love with wally (+ linda ofc) and readers relationship it makes me sosososo soft i love how he takes care of her <3 i adored everything about tim apologizing like good god it certainly was refreshing to see that BUT !!!! i refuse to believe he has any game so the way he asked reader to be his gf was something i didn’t expect but u made it work perfectly so props to u for him making me swoon. excellent chapter 10/10 can’t wait for the next update i hope ur midterms went well pls take care MWAH ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

sorry for this being long as hell SOBS

OMGG HI!!! nice to ~officially~ meet you hehe ^_^ <33 and thank you SO much!!! so glad to hear that <33 i just love writing wally and linda and reader's relationship, they're just some silly little guys who care so much about each other... i am just a sucker for lonely characters finally receiving the love and attention they deserve from Many people ^_^

no no i TOTALLY get it, i'm thoroughly in that camp too. like he does and he doesn't have game. it's weird. like he has his moments but most of the time his foot in mouth disease gets him LMAOOO. it's just a balance, he's not meek around people he likes but he's not totally confident either idk but YEAH i get u and i agree <3 and honestly i was also second-guessing that part the Most but i ultimately decided to just say screw it and keep it in HAHA so glad that you still enjoyed it <33

thank you so much!!!! my midterms are fortunately Over so things are a bit better <3 also hope everything is going well with you too!!! take care of yourself too <33 :**

[rhymingtree]

I'm actually terrified to read this because you messaged me at six in the morning telling me how ✨excited✨ you were for us to read this, and that couldn't mean anything good.

Also I have yet to re-read Aftermath from the beginning, therefore I know nothing of all the rewrites. 🙃 This'll be confusing. I'll get to reading them eventually, when I move on from everything that happens after chapter one.

Ooh another flashback from Wraith's POV...

I love how cocky Ollie was at the beginning, how he underestimates Alpha One and keeps looking down at them in his head, all the while I've always seen him as the baby of the group.

Poor Ollie got one upped by an old man..

OH MY GOD DUKE'S ALIVE AHHH

OH GOD

NO DON'T GIVE ME HOPE LIKE THAT

GOOD THINGS ALWAYS PRECEDE THE BAD

now i'm scared

wait

what the fuck is going on

Duke and I are pulling the same face right now

OH SHIT

IT'S HER

Hehe that one scene from MoM came to mind

If I were Wraith, I would have shit my pants if Ghost actually walked in looking like that

Nevermind he actually is shitting his pants

I'm loving Duke's reaction to this, it's so out of pocket

OOOOOH FERAL!GHOST IS HERE BITCHESSSS

oh no

She wouldn’t be that angry unless she’d just lost everything. Which meant he’d lost everything. 

His best friend. His fiance. His family. 

Gee golly thanks for the reminder that that happened

THANK GOD I KNOW IT'S NOT ENTIRELY TRUE

BUT DUKE DOESN'T

BELOV'S ALIVE

I have to remind myself he's still here every now and then

Duke's going through an absolute rollercoaster right now

Jesus, Darke give your OCs a break

And someone plese fucking tell Duke that Jack's gonna be okay

because I need to know too, y'all are keeping me on edge

oh thank god she finally answered him jesus it took so long

YESSSS ZAAAC

THE CHEER I LET OUT

I'M SO PROUD OF HIM

THERE'S OUR LIL MURDER BOY

They grow up so fast...

WAIT

WAIT

OH

MY

DARKE

“Your mom.”

i NEVER THOUGHT A YOUR MOM JOKE COULD MAKE ME BURST INTO TEARS BUT HERE I FUCKIN AM

SHE'S ALIVE

THE GANG'S BACK TOGETHER

Darke I swear to god I'm gonna murder you for this weeks long deception

swear to fuckin god

Yeah you better fuckin' explain how that happened because I am so confused right now what in the hell just happened

HOW

how is everyone in this damn team so hard to kill

i mean i'm real fucking happy about it

but how the hell

Boone could get catapulted into space without a suit and she'd just be floating up there doing cartwheels over the moon

STEEEVE

STEVE I'M GOING TO CRY

She's faking her fucking death

OH

I don't like seeing him cry like this Darke why are you doing this to the poor guy

EVERETT FUCKING ROSS

Yaaaaay

I love these headers Darke

but I still have no clue when any of this is happening

mostly my fault, I can't really think clearly when I'm crying my ass off

I love how much of an influence Montana's become to her New York. Look at him, lying to everyone he knows.

I did not like the emotional manipulation I had to put up with the past week Darke. 😑 No matter how well you write it.

“Have you dipshits been stressing out Christopher?” Boone frowned, eyeing him worriedly, “His accent’s gotten stronger.”

Who wouldn't be stressed, girl you fuckin faked your death and I fell for it

I swore at Darke in two different languages, that is the epitome of stress

I had to cut my caffeine intake so I don't die of a fucking heart attack reading these past few chapters

I think I need to see a doctor.

NO NOT ART, DORIAN AND GABE

🥺

Not the ones I specifically left out alive in GIS and FTS come oooon

I'm actually really sad about them being gone this isn't fun

It's scary seeing Ghost like this.

she's craving Ollie's blood, she wants to see him die, but at the same time she's completely aware how this whole war with Wraith is affecting and has been affecting the people she loves.

But she wants him to suffer. She wants him to feel just a little bit of the fear and dread she felt because of him, even though it'll get her hurt, and probably get everyone else killed in the process

it's heartbreaking

and fucking scary

but hey it's exciting woohoo

bloodlust. how exhilarating.

What's Ollie doing rifling through Duke's shit

The real question, though, was: Did he have a safe place to hide from her?

What if i snitch it to her and she just rains on your parade right now...

Oop, nevermind, she beat me to it

Ollie does know there's an entire fucking city that could probably hear him, right? That his dramatic ass is screaming at the top of his lungs above a crowd, and traffic and all that?

Well, I've heard New Yorkers ignore stranger occurrences so I guess this won't be a big deal

YELENAAAA

I KNEW IT WAS A BLACK WIDOW

Well, former Black Widow

BUT YAAAAY

YAY THE WHOLE FAMILY'S HERE

IT'S A HAPPY ENDING... sorta

FOR ONCE

I DID NOT END THE CHAPTER WITH TEARS

Just a lot of fear. I am very. Fucking. Worried.

I love that footage of Boone hitting the soldiers with her van. I love that they were cowering in fear as she trampled over them.

You still haven't been forgiven for the tornado of what the fuckery you put me through last week.

Boone being alive is great, but I am still very much hurt by that. 😑

Chapter 73 // KILL SWITCH

To all my live reactors,

Please, please, please, hide your reactions under a Read More cut. I don’t want any spoilers floating around. 

&

To all my Anonymous Avengers, 

If you want to react in my asks, feel free. However, I won’t be answering any of them until at least Wednesday if they contain spoilers. 

Thank you,

Darke

┍━━━━━━━━ ★ ━━━━━━━━┑

You could have lost them. You could have lost all of them. All because you were too blind to see through Wraith's charade. 

You were supposed to be better than this. You were supposed to be the best of the best. That’s what you were trained to be. 

You felt something shift deep inside of you, bringing with it a familiar certainty. Something you hadn’t felt in a long, long time. 

It was cold and calculated and focused. It knew exactly what it had to do and when to do it. 

It had been cooped up inside you for so, so long, shoved to the back of your mind to never see the light of day again. You’d let it slip through the cracks a seldom few times but, now?

Now, it wanted out. 

It wanted to rage and rampage and take what it was owed. 

Revenge. 

It was aggressive, yet charming. Exactly what Commander Weston had trained it to be. It was reckless and vigilant. It was impulsive and deliberate. 

Ghost.

┕━━━━━━━━ ★ ━━━━━━━━┙

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[drawlfoy]

hi! since the finale haven't been posted yet here's somethings i wanted to point out / ask about (if you don't mind ofc!)

- i really hope we could see some progress in our friendship with harry because honestly it was the only one that seemed genuine, hermione was so annoying and fake that idc about her anymore lol, and our relationship with ron didn't seem that strong from the beginning. so yeah i would love to see something about that mentioned in the finale. (also, if i remember correctly there was some hint going on about harry having a crush on the mc so i was wondering if it was just a one time thing or is it going to be addressed again in the finale?)

- any chance luna / neville could be mentioned in the finale? they are my comfort characters and i would love if they were mentioned as our friends it would be adorable! (i understand if it would be hard to just suddenly mention them on the last chapter but oh well it's just a thought hehe) honestly it broke my heart how the main character was lonely last chapter because right now i am having a hard time with friendships and that part where everyone was ignoring her made me tear up a bit because it reminded me of myself / my situation lol

anyway, sorry if this was kind of long! i can't wait to read the finale i am sure it's going to be amazing! sending lots of hugs n love! <3

-🌟

hello to one of my dearest anons!!! thank you so so much for sending me all of this as i love to hear what you guys are looking for in my work! honestly on your first point: reconciling y/n’s relationship with the golden trio has been what’s made the finale so hard to write for me. i know how to reconcile her w draco (this is not a spoiler as i assume y’all know they get together because i have given you all nothing and i did not label a 30k+ word fic as a draco x reader without planning on at least a LITTLE action between them) but i’ve been playing around quite a bit with how her relationship w the golden trio is explored. there was a reason why o wrote hermione and y/n as incompatible as i did (the moral implications of y/n getting together with her childhood bully like. isn’t something i want to forgive and i feel like them being less close makes that a little easier to look past) and harry’s crush is actually a little instrumental in how his behavior manifests in the finale (mostly pertaining to jealousy and impulsive acts). basically, i have almost all the key draco x reader moments written but i need to rlly workshop the stuff between her and the golden trio. i totally get what you mean by how lonely y/n was near the end—it honestly makes me so sad to write sometimes too bc i get how that feels as someone who’s perpetually shy and is sucky at putting herself out there/never feels like an important member of her friend groups. i’m so sorry that you feel that way :// i hope you can find some friends soon that make you feel appreciated and treat you the way you deserve! (also fun hint don’t give up too much on ron and y/n’s friendship...)

as for neville and luna, i definitely wouldn’t mind writing them in but i might need to add that in later as i’m trying to get all the crucial plot points written before throwing some connecting filler between them. i think the idea of adding a few more key characters would be smart for me to add some spice in a couple key scenes later on in the finale that deal w canonically hbp events that occur. i can’t promise anything but i’ll definitely keep this in mind (though i’d probably be more hopeful that luna gets mentioned in the finale as i feel like a passing interaction with her would be easier to just lightly mention) ;)