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Meghan McCain is such a miserable loser
#megyn Kelly too#never a good take#do they ever shut up they only ever make headline for being dumb#like sorry Meghan Markle is the only Meghan I know
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More more Stark's Mind notes eps 9-14
Episode 9
âHave you guys ever heard of Felix Freeman?â FELIX MENTION. Talks about him like they were friendly/friends
âJust don't get discouraged by that man's words.â I stg it sounds more like he's telling that to himself than the little survivor group he has
âJust keep going. Whether you have to help someone, or kill someone, there's one clear goal in mind.â Oh đ
âJust don't let up, Stark. Don't give in.â He's trying to make himself feel better </3
âWe would've been out of here if someone had one god damned key.â Key's would help if the locks were on your side of the door
âJust don't mind the neurological stress this whole thing has had on me.â And it's gonna get WORSE from here
âPeople like them are counting on me. And I swear, I will get through this, I will. I have to. It's my responsibility.â He's putting so much on himself god
Episode 10
âWhat do they use? Echolocation?â I have no clue about the Black Mesa headcrab models, but the og Headcrab models do actually have eyes! They're on its front pincers(?) and are pretty small
âI wish I knew how to do a pull-up.â Again, twink.
âYou can never hate Mr. Whiskers.â CAT PERSON đ± (cat-bođ„)
âSorry, insects and arachnids.â Very important to make that distinction
âI concur.â STUPID FUCKING NERD ASS (/aff)
âcan you access the mail server?â âThat's not helping!â I just found that interaction funny lmao
Episode 11
âSo as of right now, when I get to the surface I'll have to deal with being an imposter, PTSD, the deaths of several employees, and an alien invasion. Oh and that whistle blowing thing from back then.â The whistle blowing thing???
âI can already see the headlines. âCharming physicist saves entire facility.ââ Sir, your ego is showing.
5 grenades used before he gives up on trying to blow the turret up with one. Please learn to conserve your shit I'm begging đ
Gets shot somewhere by the turret (probably on face? He says he felt it)
âOnce I get out⊠Well, if I get out. Correction.â Give yourself some more credit man </3
Episode 12
âI might be overthinking this whole thing!â About seeing someone from the ârescue teamâ shoot a scientist
2 ear injuries! Both ears are injured
âChrist my earsâŠâ There's no way he doesn't have some form of hearing damage from all of this
âSomebody should supply the military with a fucking thesaurus.â *cough* Yore dead Freeman *cough*
âI still don't know how I'm doing this!â Fear and adrenaline is one hell of a combo
âI was at the wrong place at the wrong time, and somehow⊠I really shouldn't dwell on that kind of thinking too much. Usually that kind of thinking leads you to your death.â Oh âčïž
Episode 13
âI'm being a bit overdramatic, aren't I?â HAVE YOU SEEN THE SITUATION YOU ARE IN?
âThere's also no point fighting scared civilians either!â sir you are way past the point of being a civilian?
âIt's kill or be killed.â No actual comment, I just like how he says it
Episode 14
He's⊠so, so dumb sometimes (presses a random button without knowing what it would do)
âThis is how I would envision a railway system set deep underground.â That's⊠so specific cause what else would that be.
His reaction to the actual tram is so <3 cause it's the only time in this whole series he finds something amusing (which I mean, fair tbh)
âMy nose is bleeding because of the sheer amount of rage and frustration that I am going through right now.â Fun fact, stress can actually cause/worsen nosebleeds! So rip man
âI am the embodiment of anger.â I am so sorry but he's so cringe sometimes please shut up (/lovingly)
âSee! That's not real- it's real.â I have so many questions. Why does Black Mesa just, have that much toxic waste??
âUntil I become suicidal or something.â You⊠aren't already?
#stark's mind#vincent stark#mindverse#I'm gonna try making my notes 6 eps instead of the 4 I was doing before
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I see this sentiment a lot and I think itâs really important to burst this bubble. Based on my interactions IRL, I think <1% of people overall know about JK Rowlingâs transphobia, and of those people, most have never heard anyone bring up any points against the books themselves.
In circles where we know about this stuff, it can feel like anyone who doesnât know about it must be willfully turning a blind eye, but the truth is, most people were never on Twitter, and most people on Twitter didnât see her tweets, and they donât see headlines about her, and they donât stop and critically re-examine the childrenâs book they read years ago (if theyâre in the minority that ever read them) to look for signs of bigotry.
When I first heard about JK Rowling being transphobic, it was from the first questionable tweet or two, where it seemed like she probably was a bit transphobic but wasnât actively trying to hurt us. They were frankly much kinder than anything my older relatives had said about trans people.
I knew I was trans at the time, but I was actively trying to suppress it, and so I was not part of any online community of trans people. So I never heard anything about her being transphobic again other than some people online just saying she was transphobic and referring vaguely to tweets without specifying which ones or what they said.
In the time since seeing the first tweet or two, I re-read the series 3 times. Thatâs how I engaged with it. I wasnât reading her Twitter and worshipping her, I engaged with the books. And I rewatched the movies, and I watched YouTube videos about alternate timelines and theories. I engaged with the community around the content, so I didnât hear anything about what the author was up to.
So up until like 6 months ago, I thought this was all just people still hung up on a couple tweets from years ago. It remained my favorite series and I continued to buy Harry Potter things, because she didnât seem any more transphobic from what I knew than the average person profiting from sales of things I bought.
But then I stopped suppressing my gender and ended up going online and engaging more with the broader online trans community. That is when I realized that it had gotten worse. That was the first time I checked up on it and found out she started saying much worse things, and putting actions behind those words. That was when I realized that money that goes to her is funding a fight to eradicate trans people. And it was only after this that I started hearing the occasional complaint about the content of the books.
So I wish everyone would stop this mentality of, âEveryone must know what I know and therefore if they support someone I know is bad, they must be bad,â BS, because itâs just not true. Maybe people with progressive families and/or social groups might perceive that more people are aware, but from my perspective, Iâve never heard anyone IRL even acknowledge her transphobia. Most people who would be against her if they knew the extent of it probably donât know, and treating them like theyâre just as bad for not knowing is exactly what makes them dig their toes in and take a side against us.
Do NOT pull potential allies into an us vs them and stick them in the them just because nobody told them something, and allow people time to process that something core to their identity is bad. Even if you think itâs dumb that a childrenâs book series is core to their identity, shut up and give them time to process it because your opinion doesnât change what it meant to them.
And itâs OK if you liked them before and then started to see issues with them. Pretending you never liked the books doesnât make your current opinions any more valid. And if you didnât like them before, can you please focus on combatting the actual xenophobic actions of the author and not just use this as an excuse to pretend every criticism you have about the writing is now objective fact. Because one way to really get potential allies on her side is to give them legitimately bad takes to be against and make her seem like the victim.
We need people on our side, and blaming and alienating people for their lack of knowledge will only make them become defensive, and then defending their behavior will become defending her behavior and then that will become defending her views, and suddenly weâve just indoctrinated them into transphobia.
personal hell on earth phenomenon for me
#thereâs this shame around what we used to not know#but thereâs no point in focusing on it#we canât change the past#and we know now#so letâs just do what we can now#and stop putting down others in the same boat we were in#to make our past selves look better
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bts on the bachelorette
i really tried to relax for 5 minutes today with some dumb reality TV and then my brain wouldn't shut up. have you ever wondered what bangtan's elimination order would be on a season of the bachelorette???? well wonder no more my friends...
(this started as a headcanon and then morphed into kind of a drabble? tbh i don't even know what's happening here. just enjoy it lmao đ)
the first one sent home is yoongi - yes, i think my sweet baby boy would get sent home night one. this breaks my heart but i just see him being too reserved, too closed off, not jumping to make a first impression and getting lost in the shuffle. he would ABSOLUTELY be one of those first-eliminated guys who gets a whole legion of fans tho, and they campaign HARD to get his pale ass on paradise đÂ
next to go is seokjin - he would get kept around just long enough to be a villain lmaoooo. the one guy who drives all the others crazy because heâs cocky as fuck about his looks and is NOT here to make friends. i could see jk telling on him to bachelorette and there being a whole dramatic confrontation where she rips the rose out of his hands and says âget the fuck out of hereâ. he absolutely makes and sells worldwide handsome merch after.
the next one out is jimin - and he's definitely the dude who gets by on sex appeal alone LMAO. the one where bachelorette is like âiâm just not sure i have the same connection with jiminâ and then he takes his shirt off and sheâs like ââŠâŠiâm sorry can you repeat the questionâ. they have at least two steamy makeout sessions before she finally has to send him packing tho, good for her đ„°Â
the first heartbreaking elimination is hoseok - my love, my angel, hobi is totally gonna end up in the friend zone on a show like this. heâs so caring and subtly sexy but i could see him being more of a support system for bachelorette and the person who brings her the inside scoop on whatâs going on in the house. theyâd both cry when she eliminates him but heâd be so sweet and understanding and go out of his way to make sure she smiles before he walks out. truly only wants the best for her.
then, the shocking elimination that's teased for weeks: jungkook - when i tell you twitter EXPLODES. youâll see headlines about this one on the motherfucking NEWS in the morning. doe-eyed, tattooed, sexy shy badboy jk eliminated?!?!??! has the bitch lost her MIND????? but bachelorette just canât get over the fact that heâs so young, and sheâs afraid heâs not ready to make such a serious commitment.
thereâs a ton of push-pull where she feels like jk doesnât âfight for herâ enough because he is more reserved, but then heâll do something competitive and itâs just enough to keep her hooked on him a little longer, until this episode where she finally has to let him go. he definitely has an extended crying montage on the way out/in the car where he says some stuff about how heâd never been in love like this before. omg ouch letâs move on iâm hurt.
WHICH LEAVES THE FINAL TWO!!!!! and bachelorette is so torn!!! đ©
taehyung is gorgeous, romantic, and sensual (insert clip from a date of him feeding her chocolate covered strawberries). heâs an old soul, passionate, but has an extremely dry sense of humor that bachelorette falls HARD for. she loves that they can laugh together, and he isnât afraid to look stupid or try something new (insert clip of them doing that indoor skydiving thing on a date). and heâs also not afraid to tell her exactly what he wants- marriage, kids, a life with her by his side.
but sometimes he can be hard to read. heâs honestly so good looking it makes her a little insecure, and she just has this nagging feeling like he isnât quite letting her all the way in....but she can't tell if that's just her own fear about finding a love this intense.
namjoon is intelligent, supportive, and so goddamn sexy (insert clip from a group date competition of him doing pull-ups). bachelorette feels comfortable with him in a way she doesnât quite have words for. sometimes she swears it feels like sheâs met him before in another lifetime, and this is just a reunion. (insert clip from a picnic date where she rests her head in joonâs lap as he reads to her). heâs so well-spoken and such a deep thinker, and the world falls head over heels for the conversations theyâre able to have about love, loyalty, identity, emotions.
but sheâs not sure she feels the same passion and fire with him that she does with taehyung. namjoon admits outright that he doesnât know what he wants in life, is unsure about marriage or kids, and when he gets too in his head and insecure about the competition, he can shut her out without meaning to.
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we watch with bated breath as bachelorette takes her place at the gorgeous vista decorated for her proposal. everyone whoâs seen the show before knows that whoever steps out of the limo first is the one sheâs chosen to send home.
hearts shatter nationwide when joon ducks his head to exit the car.
bachelorette stops him before he can even go into his speech, laughs a little to herself: âI know if I let you start talking itâs going to change my mind, so let me go first.â explains that sheâs just too scared of his indecisiveness. sheâs prone to overthinking herself, so she needs someone who is going to offer stability, someone who is ready and knows what he wants. joon takes it like the gentleman he is, one dimple popping in a sad half-smile, and she presses up on her tiptoes to give him a hug.
which just leaves taehyung. he steps out of the car with a deep exhale, and you can see even from afar that his hands are shaking as he makes his way to bachelorette, mouth dropping open slightly at how gorgeous she looks.
the proposal is like something out of a movie, a long, perfect speech delivered in taeâs shaky baritone as a breeze ruffles through his hair and toys with the hem of bachelorette's dress. he winds back through their time together accompanied by an edited montage, and finally ends with the truth: he knew as soon as he laid eyes on her that this was meant to be, and that she was the one. the music swells as he drops to a knee and pulls out a big-ass diamond ring, and theyâre both crying by the time she says yes.
~then, after the show wraps:
namjoon, fan fave that he is, appears in a suit on the reunion show to gladly accept the title of the next bachelor. expect LOTS of gratuitous clips of him in the gym during his intro package ooooof đ„”
the vast majority of our faves end up going to paradise- yoongi fucks literally every girl there LMAO, jungkook goes for one week but is too nervous to talk to anyone and just chats with the bartender and drinks fruity cocktails until he gets sent home. jimin and hobi have an epic summer bromance and end up choosing each other over any of the women.
and then, i mean, if we're being realistic... tae cheats on bachelorette 3 months into their engagement and they call the whole thing off đ
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Book Club - 90s!Luke Patterson
Summary: Reggie books a gig at a suburban momâs book club and Luke takes full advantage of the situation to flirt with you.Â
A/N: Iâm literally writing two other Luke fics right now đđ
Julie and the Phantoms Masterlist
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The third Thursday of every month belonged to your mother. It was her day, when she demanded not to be bothered, when she spent hours out of the house socializing with the womenâs group that she belonged to. And, out of all those Thursdays, there were always the very special few when it wasnât her leaving the house but everyone else. The group rotated their meeting time, everyone for a blue moon meeting at your house, meaning, of course that you were expected to stay out. Staying out was not a difficult thing to do, in fact you relished the opportunity to spend a few more hours with your friends.âŻ
It was one of those Thursdays, when all the ladies that your mother loved to lunch with were spending the afternoon at your house and you were making yourself scarce, that arguably the weirdest but maybe best thing happened. Your mom had told you before you left for school that morning that she expected you to stay out, and you would have, if you had remembered your wallet. But youâd left it in your room, on the edge of the vanity, and you didnât want to be the one owing money when your friends went to lunch. A quick stop home shouldâve been easy, the stairs were right off the kitchen and the side door was right there, giving you the opportunity to shoot upstairs and grab your wallet without her being the wiser to it.âŻ
The whole thing wouldâve gone off without a hitch except that when you walked through the side door and into the kitchen you came face to face with four boys from your school. You recognized them more for the fact that you didnât hang out in the same circle; most of your friends held a certain level of contempt for the four guys that made up Sunset Curve. You didnât necessarily dislike any of them, you didnât necessarily even know them, though you would be lying if you said that the lead singer, who occasionally sat in front of you in math, was seriously making you rethink a deep dive into all this rock music. Luke, Reggie, Alex, and Bobby were standing in your kitchen. They were the Green Day/Nirvana worshipping, head banging rockers that ditched school regularly and got into worlds of trouble and they were standing in your kitchen. Â
Bobby was the only one who looked up from snacking on leftover hors dâoeurves, saying your name in surprise as the other three all stopped to look at you too.âŻAlex gave an awkward little wave as he set down the small sandwich he was eating. Â
âUh...what are you guys doing in my house,â you asked, looking betweenâŻthe four of them. Â
âYour mom tapped us to perform for her ladies club.â Luke explained, dropping his food on the plate and wiping his hands against his black pants. Â
Your mom had invited these four to sing for her conservative ladiesâ group? You tried not to but you couldnât help the smile that crossed your face when you thought about it. Whatever your friends said about the guys, you werenât ashamed to say you had taken one of the free demos that Reggie handed out and had been listening to it on repeat for a while now. âMy mom wanted you guys to play a gig for her and her friends?â You clarified.
âUntil we started playing,â Reggie replied, and you couldnât help laughing.
âI bet...you guys arenât exactly...suburban mom rock.â You joked, âthough I totally wouldâve loved to see their faces when you guys started singing.â Â
The grin on Lukeâs face was unmistakable though you missed it as you nabbed one of the sandwiches on the plate near Alex. It was probably some really stupid cliche, him liking one of the popular girls. Cute, cheerleader, future prom queen. You hung out with people who listened to Britney Spears and Spice Girls, any knowledge of the rock scene they mightâve actually had was only for the sake of making dumb jabs at him or his friends. Still, Luke had a massive crush on you and he wasnât so embarrassed to admit it. Bobby joked that he wanted to âbring you over to the dark sideâ and maybe that sounded cynical but he thought he wouldnât mind seeing you look a little less perfectly put together if it had something to do with him. Hearing you mention his music almost had him doing a back flip from excitement. Â
âSo youâve listened to our music?â Luke asked, moving closer to you, leaning on the counter beside you. Behind him, Alex rolled his eyes.
âReggie gave out demos like...last month.â You shrugged, trying to play it off. Youâd been excited to listen to their music, see if it was any good and had discovered that you actually loved it. They were talented guys and you felt surprisingly connected to the songs. âI mightâve listened.â
âI did!â Reggie piped up, âI gave demos to all the-â he stopped, mouthing instead, as if you wouldnât understand him when he said âall the cute girlsâ. Â
âI hate to ask but...donât you think like, actual clubs would be better places to promote your music? I donât think the middle-aged moms are really a target audience, unless youâre into that kind of thing?â You said, peering down the hallway when you heard the familiar squeak of a floorboard. If the boys were still here than there was no doubt in your mind that your mom had told them to stay for some reason or another. Â
âYou gotta start somewhere.â Luke replied, unfazed by the hint of judgement in your voice. Â
âMy living room?â You asked, jokingly. Â
He smiled, âactually, weâre playing a club on the strip tomorrow night, we could, maybe, get you on the guest list?â Â
âWeâre opening for someone else,â Bobby cut in, bringing Luke back down to reality, âIâm pretty sure no oneâs ever even heard of the band weâre opening for.â Â
Luke glared at Bobby, sticking his finger in his mouth and then jabbing it into Bobbyâs ear, a smile of success immediately lighting up his features when Bobby recoiled in disgust. âSo whatâd ya say?â Luke asked. Â
âI mean, I guess technically every band deserves girls screaming for them, so sureâŠIâll go.â You agreed, eyes on Luke the entire time. Â
The last concert you had been to wasnât even for you, your mom had dragged you to a Beach Boys concert up in San Francisco for her birthday weekend when your father refused to indulge her so-called âterrible taste in musicâ. âThere are just some things we will never agree on and music is one of them.â He had insisted back then. It was the same thing you felt like telling your friends when you declined a party invitation in favor of heading down to the strip to see the guys play. You couldâve maybe played it off casually, as if you were heading down there anyway and Sunset Curve just happened to be opening but Bobby was right, youâd never heard of the band that was performing after them. Â
Not to mention Luke decided to show up for a least a quarter of the day just to mess with your head. You had spotted him in the hallway between classes and smiled when he looked your way, a split second before the sea of students scrambled to get to their lockers. Your own best friends appeared by yours, looking more and more like carbon copies of the Heathers every day. You kind of hated them, truth be told, but you didnât have too many other options. Â
They were badgering you about the party as you tried to wrack your brain for an excuse that sounded convincing when Luke stopped, right in front of the three of you. Â
âHey, Iâll see ya tonight?â He asked, whole body turned to face you and completely ignoring the looks of disdain and shock cloaking your friends faces. Â
You felt like a deer in headlights. Say yes and your friends would probably ostracise you, say no and you could just imagine the look on Lukeâs face. Anything but this absolutely sincere and hopeful smile was something you didnât want to be responsible for. You really liked him looking at you like that. Â
âYeah, canât wait.â You nodded. Â
When he stepped back out into the traffic of the hallway he touched your waist, as if he was anchoring himself for a second and you bit your lip, letting yourself watch him disappear before turning to face the firing squad. Â
âLuke Patterson?â Both of your friends spoke in unison, one breaking off to elaborate, âyouâre ditching a party at Max Turnerâs house for Luke Patterson?â Â
âHis band is playing at some club on the strip.â You replied, shutting your locker and heading toward your next class. âThey invited me to come watch the show.â
âAnd youâre going?â Â
You hadnât been to anything smaller than a stadium concert before and the implication of a concert at a local club venue, right on the strip with all the âriffraffâ that were hanging around trying to make it big like their 80âs punk rock idols wasnât exactly your scene but, Luke had looked so cute asking you to go and you had the tiniest, maybe delusional, feeling that heâd come to school just to remind you that tonight was the concert. How could could even consider some suburban house party to that? Â
âYeah, why not,â you shrugged, trying to play it off like it was nothing, you could see your social status flashing before your eyes and your momâs voice desperately begging you to reconsider. âBesides, Lukeâs hot.â
âDid you have some kind of Freaky Friday switch when you woke up this morning? Luke is not hot.â Â
âOkay,â you drew the word as if disbelieving. He wasnât some 90210 reincarnate but he was definitely one of the hottest guys in school, not to mention the sleeveless shirts were an added bonus. âWell, I said I was going, so Iâm going.â
And, despite the continued protests of your friends throughout the day, you did go. You promised your parents you were spending Friday night studying at Terriâs house and took the bus down to the strip to wait in line for Sunset Curve and whoever was headlining. You stood there twirling your fake ID in your hands, listening to the two girls in front of you (who didnât need fakes) talk about some drummer that wasnât anyone youâd ever heard of and tried to look as mature as possible. If Luke, Alex, Reggie, and Bobby could play this venue, surely you could get into it. Â
Whether the ID worked or the bouncer at the front door just didnât care, he let you through, admitting you into a pulsing crowd of people making their way through the small vestibule and into the venue. You slipped your way through the crowd until you made it to the front, pressed against the railing and inches away from another bouncer who seemed just as disinterested in you. The drumkit that was already on the stage had the Sunset Curve logo on it. You ran a hand through your hair and fixed your shirt, maybe it was silly but you were sort of hoping that even in the silhouetted lighting of the venue you Luke might see you. Maybe a little pathetic groupie on your end but he had invited you. Â
And he did see you. Halfway through Now or Never when he looked down over the crowd, he caught you, dancing along to their music, the smile on your face as you mouthed the words was infectious. It was the combination of seeing someone singing all the songs back to them and that person being you, mixed with the adrenaline of the performance, that had him pushing to give his absolute all. Youâd actually come and he was determined to make this a great concert for you. Â
Alex was the one to announce that they would be in the vestibule during the lull between bands, they got the occasional straggler who dared to leave their post long enough to say hello or great job but usually it garnered nothing more than the four of them splitting some pizza and relaxing by their merch table. Tonight, as they headed off stage to an enthusiastic crowd, Luke chanced a glance back but he couldnât find you in the sea of people. Reggie grabbed his arm, pulling him the rest of the way off the stage and throwing an arm around his shoulder, going on about how awesome the show was, Luke quickly returning the jovial compliment.
âWe were fire, man, that sounded so rad tonight!â He cheered, following Alex and Bobby as they made their way through the small hall that wove back into the vestibule. Â
âIt was insane!â Reggie agreed. Â
You had made your way back through the venue after Luke mentioned being at the merch table, slipping back passed the bouncer at the inside door, flashing your stamped hand. Their table was set up in the corner, a little way away from the headlining bandâs. You stepped into the vestibule at the same time as the boys, waving at Alex when he looked your way. He nodded, reaching over to tap Lukeâs chest with the back of his hand. Â
âThat was incredible.â You admitted, walking over to their table. Lukeâs smile instantly widened as he walked around to your side, not even thinking as he hugged you, your shoulders hunching at the feeling of sweat that encompassed you. âEw.â
âSorry, sorry.â Luke apologized, pulling away and putting his hands on your upper arms for a second before dropping them to his sides. âStill going off the adrenaline.â
âThatâs okay,â you promised, âyouâre cute enough to get away with it.â
âYeah?â He leaned against the table, trying to look cool. He felt like he was grasping for words and he didnât want to start stuttering or sounding dumb, Bobby would never let him live it down if he made a fuck up of himself. The other three tried not to laugh and ruin his moment. Â
You seemed to recover from the moment first, glancing at the other three before landing on Luke again. âYou guys are totally a live band though...like that was so good.â Â
Reggie came in with a save, letting Luke off the hook for a moment, âAre you heading back in to see the headliner?â Â
You grimaced, âdonât really know them...not really interested.â You replied, keeping your eyes on Luke, hoping that was hint enough that youâd come just to see him. Â
It clearly was because, as a few girls stepped into the vestibule and looked like they were coming your way, Luke grabbed your arm, nodding toward the doorway for you to follow him. You did, walking with him into the hallway so that it was quieter, the sounds of the house music and the chatter of people outside being drowned out in the small corridor. Â
âSo, uh, sorry Iâm still wigging out that you came.â He admitted. Â
âI said I was going to, twice. Did you seriously think I was lying?â You asked. Â
âI mean, I heard your friends giving you a hard time when I walked away, figured you might back out.â Â
âWell, Iâm glad I didnât, seriously Luke, you guys are amazing. Youâre so talented.â You replied. Â
âGuess I was right when I told Reggie to take that book club gig huh?â He said, fiddling with the rabbitâs foot on his keychain. Â
âWhyâs that?â Â
âI thought maybe if I was lucky, Iâd catch a glimpse of you...having you come here and watch us though? Better than I couldâve imagined.â He replied, grinning at you. Â
âYou wanted to see me?â
âYeah, donât act so surprised.â He said, âyou gotta know how insanely cool you are. And you look beautiful tonight, by the way.â Â
âThanks,â you bit your bottom lip to try and keep your composure, âI uh...damn, youâre making me super nervous.â Â
âYeah?â He stepped a little closer to you, his hands brushing against yours as if he was going to hold them. You couldnât help wishing he would. Â
âI should probably let you get back to your fans,â you pointed out, glancing back out the door to where a few more people had gathered. If you stayed in this hallway with him any longer there was no way you were letting him back out. Â
âHang out? We could grab some pizza or something after?â He asked. Â
âYeah, absolutely.â Â
When he walked back through the door you followed behind him, hanging back so you werenât hovering around them as they chatted with and signed stuff for the group of people that had ventured out between sets. It didnât matter though, as he talked, he kept looking back at you smiling as if you were both in on some sort of secret. Â
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Itâs not misinfo or disinfo EVER Being banned. EVER. Past or present. US or Venezuela. Or elsewhere.
Itâs tyrannical rule and censorship against a marketplace of ideas and facts. That marketplace being a threat to the commie regime. Period. Full stop. All speech is free speech even the most hateful. People need to hear what dumb ass people say. Short of a direct threat or crime. Someoneâs feelings getting hurt or offended is neither.
Venezuela has joined the UK in calling for a ban on Twitter and Elon being arrested. Because he has single handedly restored global free speech which threatens the commie agenda.
Telegram CEO may never see the light of day again for much the same reason. Ignore the scandalous headlines. He was arrested because he wouldnât give up user info. Thatâs it. Period. Full stop again. Fakebook (and others) did and does so to this day. Thatâs how the cuck Suckerburg can give the big whoopsie apology and nothing happens. All the while getting paid to censor by the government. With our tax dollars of course. And heâs STILL doing it. Trumps assassination pics/videos/stories being the best example. ChatGPT is also still doing it. That only happens if itâs programmed to do it.
Venezuela is in the middle of a commie takeover, after yet another stolen election. X was posting and sharing the corruption and evidence as such because the media is in on everything and wonât do their once trusted job. When Elon wouldnât shut down X in Venezuela (as they tried to do in a variety of threats) the commies did the next stepâŠoutlaw X. Fine itâs users. A fine that would make most Venezuelans go bankrupt or damn near close to it. Elon continues to attempt work arounds with VPN etc but thatâs just his fight for free speech against global tyranny. The real story is the communist takeover in Venezuela by a stolen election (again). And hands down the CIA was in the middle of it.
And all this is coming to a once great Republic near you. Very soon. Leading commie Dems are already coming out and saying the same.

In a just world, Reich would be forever banished for making such a statement. But heâs a commie dem connected to the Clintonâs. And in on everything. And heâs just the mouthpiece. The first to âget it out thereâ. Expect the media and other ass clown pundits to pick up this football and run with it.
Edit: my post above should say âVenezuela AND Brazilâ at every opportunity.

Thank god you're also on tumblr, I only used twitter to look at your art but it got banned in Brazil.....
they did WHAT
that sucks ughh fck melon, maybe it will be reversed?
hold on I'll go share my other socials on there for yall đ¶ââïž
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Begrudging Allies (Aaron Hotchner x Trans!Male!Reader)
Summary: Aaron and Y/N's marriage is suitable enough, given that Aaron secretly loves men and Y/N secretly is a man. When the one year anniversary of their amicable nuptials brings forth correspondence from their estranged families, Aaron takes the opportunity to potentially make something more out of their arrangement.
AN: This is one of my entries to the "Enemies 2 Lovers" challenge set by @imagining-in-the-marginsâ on Tumblr!
Reader is trans male and uses he/him pronouns.Â
WC: 2.4k words
Content Warning: References to era appropriate homophobia/transphobia but nothing actually mentioned. Two dumb fucking gay men trying to flirt.
Photo Credit // Masterlist // AO3
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Aaron Hotchner and Y/N L/N were served breakfast together every day they were in the house together. They sat not at opposite ends, but the seat left adjacent to them. That way, they did not have to look at each other whilst they ate. Breakfast was the only meal with which they shared each otherâs company. Why make it unbearable first thing in the morning? They read the morning paper - and any post - while eating. Only the scrape of their plates and muted chewing was to be heard before the chairs scraped across the floorboards and both men departed.
Today they both received a note from the L/N household back in their old country.
âI assume your letter reads the same as mine,â Y/N dropped his beside his plate before pushing it further away.
Hotchner raised his eye from the headline that had been mildly entertaining him, âIt does.â
In cursive flicks, the usual complaints of their emigration had reached his eyes not moments prior. The closing of his familyâs letter however broached a new request: a photograph of the happy couple on their first wedding anniversary, specifically a recreation. The ungrateful bunch, the only remaining wedding photographs of the wedding were in their hands.
âI donât have the dress,â Y/N scoffed and looked aside. Even from this end of the table, Aaron could see that he was trying to mask his tears from the dawn. The wedding day was the culmination of their greatest shames.
At least Aaron had tried to make the best of it, but there was no relief for Y/N until they were in their separate chambers and free from all betrothment attire.
âSuppose we should arrange for a fitting. Though how weâre going to do that without arousing any suspicion here is beyond me.â âPerhaps we can go north, find a seamstress and a wigmaker there.â
Aaron did not patronise Y/N by pretending he understood his plight. He himself had never pictured himself with a wife; worse was that Y/N had never pictured himself to be a wife.
âWouldnât it be easier to remain a woman?â He had said after Y/N had confessed during their third arranged rendezvous.
With venom spitting from each syllable, Y/Nâs reply was one that he remembered vividly: âI was never a woman to start with.â
They were not friends, they barely spoke, but the enemy of the enemy is a friend. This sentiment made Y/N a begrudging ally.
However it did not make the occasions they had to pretend to be a happily wedded couple any simpler. Y/N did look most becoming in white, but Aaron knew that there was no worse day for Y/N than that day in the church. Any reminder was like a stake through the heart.
âIâll arrange for the fitting,â Aaron quietly volunteered.
Y/N was quick with a brusque reply, âI can organise my own affairs.â
âOf course, but perhaps it would lighten your load if I took on those responsibilities.â Aaron paused as Y/N pushed aside his breakfast plate, his eggs now making his stomach turn. He used his newspaper as a shield, âAnd as your husband, I give you permission to dress how you please.â
Y/N blinked then nodded. He did not ever say thank you. That was his problem, Y/N, too proud. Too nervous to admit that he had been graciously allowed to exist like this because of his marriage to Aaron. As if that was ever any part of their agreement, both of them had blackmail worthy material. Y/N just seemed to forget that, or at least he was not the type of individual to dangle Aaronâs secrets before him like a carrot on a stick. Why Y/N thought that Aaron was that type though, he had some idea.
âA member of the bar?â was the response Aaron got from Y/N, disgust thinly veiled, upon their first chaperoned walk through the L/N estate. It must have seemed contradictory later down the line, to be a protector of the laws that criminalised his very own existence. It was not as uncommon as Y/N believed however, and there were much worse laws to break between trials than being attracted to men.
A man of his word, Aaron prepared for a fitting in the comfort of their own home. A friend of theirs was a tailor; accommodations were no economic issue. Of course, this friend did not know either of their secrets, but other than that, he was a companion who would be greeted warmly into their home.
Y/N watched the tailor from the chaise whilst pretending to be interested in a book. His eye would raise itself to see each adjustment made to Aaronâs wedding suit, which he had surprisingly kept â folded in a box at the farthest corner of the house. Then Y/N would go back to the page and reread the top few lines. Every time, Aaron would pretend not to notice. But the jiggle of Y/Nâs knee, the absence of progression through the bookâs narrative, taught him that Y/N was anticipating this fitting with something more positive than last time.
âAll done, thank you, Aaron!â âY/N, your turn.â
His book snapped shut and Y/N stepped up to the podium. Aaron swapped places with him without acting out the role of an aloof reader. As expected his expression was well disguised as neutral, but Aaronâs practice in law gifted him with a pair of spectacles into the soul. Y/Nâs glee of the tape measure taking in his proportions was masked so that only his eyes smiled. Once or twice, the corner of his mouth ticked up, only to iron its creases out when the tailor moved into his eyeline. When asked what colour he would consider, Y/N mulled deliciously his options before selecting a gentle blue. His fingers were cautious but as soon as they touched the royal fabric offered, they fanned out and welcomed it for his new suit.
From the moment they broke apart, his hands were restless. Ticking against his teacup or tapping against his legs were two of their new favourite hobbies. Even when the suit arrived, Y/N could not keep himself still. His beautiful face was scrunched up in the mirror as he attempted for a third time to make the right knot in his cravat. The photographer was waiting for them downstairs.
Aaron sighed and knocked one knuckle to the door, âAllow me.â
Y/N rolled his eyes, âI can do it myself.â
âI know. But this knot will look better.â
Their eyes locked in the mirror, before Y/N turned around and released his tie. His chin pointed parallel to the carpet. His neck was still so as not to drop the breath he was holding. Aaron flicked with the tip of the cravat as his hands slotted it through, his focus on the column of Y/Nâs throat, because meeting his gaze now was an impossible feat. They were too close for that. He bent the stalks of his collar into place then stepped back as if to admire his handiwork. But that was not at all what he really regarded.
He cleared his throat, âThere.â
As Aaron removed his hands, Y/N spun to face his reflection head on. âAdequate. Youâll have to teach me that one.â
Finally, they greeted their photographer, who had set up his camera in their garden. It was a lovely day, not to be wasted inside. At least thatâs what the photographer said as he unceremoniously ushered them into place and posed them to his liking. There was no instruction for how to position their faces so Aaron kept his the same as their original wedding portrait.
His plan for relaxed facial features hit a bump in the road. As the photographer ducked beneath his sheet, Y/N snorted. His hand was quick to follow and it clapped over his mouth. The photographer emerged with concerned curiosity. A strand of his combover was standing on end.
âMy apologies, there was a tickle in my throat.â He pressed his lips together and ducked his head, his feet scuffing one inchâs worth of dirt before he regained composure.
The photographer tried again. Aaron could see, in the corner of his eye, that Y/Nâs corners of his mouth weighed down to prevent a break but it was unsuccessful.
âDo forgive me,â He said, his voice quivering, âI remembered a jest from last week. It isnât even worth the laughter it brings.â
Despite his detractions, Y/N kept guffawing to himself as the photographer kept dodging about his cloth and camera. It spilled from between his pressed lips like an overflowing goblet. Aaron had not heard such delight before. He would describe it as infectious if the joy in Y/Nâs notes was comparable to a plague. No, this was intoxicating, a mead he would heartily drink until he too was giddy on the stuff. Y/N, clutching Aaronâs arm to stay standing, almost stumbled as Aaron bent over with equally bashful laughter.
âIt would possibly suit you better if you sat,â said the photographer through a faux smile. He then ushered over to one of the benches, the one amidst the tulips, before he wrangled with his camera after them.
Seated on the cool marble, Aaron kept a few inches between himself and Y/N. Their hands took that space but waited to hold hands. Y/N was still shaking but his smile was minute now, replaced by mild embarrassment.
âIt wasnât that funny,â He said. But there was a twitch in his voice, a breath that indicated otherwise.
âNo, not at all,â whispered Aaron, his head tilted against the invisible line between them.
Y/N turned, his nose pushing their boundary and almost brushing against Aaronâs cheek when he too turned to face him.
âAt long last, we agree.â
Y/Nâs lips betrayed him again. A bubble of laughter popped between them, letting out the smallest of smiles. Yet it shone through with such luminosity that it almost outdid the flash of the bulb as their photograph was taken. There was delight at the absence of the melancholy pose that a long exposure wedding portrait promised. Oh, the wonders of new technology.
As was with his new suit, Y/N practically waited by the door for the photographs. His hands were beyond ravenous for them by the time they arrived. They snatched at the envelope and tore with as much care as he could muster, his voice catching in the roof of his mouth as he called for Aaron.
On the chaise together, their knees were brought in close to rest the papers upon. Their faces looked as though they were carved into the paper with charcoal, smudged by an artistâs thumb. That radiant smile among it all was the centre of the photograph. Aaron noted the distance between them was mirrored in their past selves as they sifted through their options.
Then Y/N held aloft the ones for their respective families, âSit with me while I pen the reply.â
Aaron was not usually welcome in Y/Nâs study. Yet, as he pulled up a walnut wood chair with red velvet seat beside the bureau, behind Y/Nâs matching one, he felt like he was in place. With anticipation, he watched the most passive aggressive comments that had ever been put to paper. All bar one was spun from Y/Nâs inspiration. Aaron had but one to add and it took some convincing for Y/N to put it in his familyâs correspondence â he was writing since his writing was far neater. Even so, there were a few loops of the âlâs that slanted when Y/N was particularly amused by something that Aaron had commented on.
âThere,â Y/N said as he closed the second of two envelopes with crimson wax. As he lifted the seal, he spoke quieter, âJust a thought, nothing more, but I almost wish I could see their faces. Only the first second though.â The seal was placed in his drawer and the letters were left in the centre of the desk while one remaining photograph was selected by Y/N, âI want to keep this. In the drawing room.â
Aaronâs eyebrows jumped up his forehead, âYou do?â
Y/N nodded once with finality, his broad smile returning, âItâs the first time I was myself in a long time, the best Iâve ever looked! Besides, I am your husband and I say it will stand above the fireplace by the end of the week â once I find a suitable frame.â
He held it up, squinting to imagine what frame might work best with the dĂ©cor. His chair itching to be closer, Hotch leant over and cupped his hand over Y/Nâs so that he could see the photograph too. It stayed there, and perhaps it was his imagination, but Hotchner could have sworn that Y/Nâs back slacked and swayed to the right an inch, almost resting against his shoulder beside Aaronâs.
Y/Nâs quiet voice was back, âThank you, Aaron.â
âYou do not have to say thank you.â
âWhen are you going to stop telling me what to do?â
There was no accusation in it; it was asked as simply as one would ask for another napkin. But Aaron did not quite know how to answer.
âI donât mean to come across as a drill sergeant,â He said softly.
âAaron,â Y/N lowered their hands but kept them together beside his lap, âYou donât have to worry about me and what Iâm going to do, just like I donât have to worry about you.â
And what Aaron thought about being ignorant of an answer before, that became a lie. Aaron wanted to worry about Y/N, and he did worry. Not for himself or his identity being exposed, but because he did care for his husband. He didnât want to worry or have Y/N be worried about control in their home. They should exist as equals, not in blackmail but in respect. Maybe one day, in love.
Aaron settled instead for: âMy apologies. And I thank you too. It was the first time I was myself as well.â
Y/N blinked, then avoided his stare. It was a revelation therefore when he laced his fingers with Aaronâs for the briefest of squeeze and replied, âNo thanks necessary. It was my pleasure.â
Then the bell tinkled for breakfast and the two men were up on their feet. Y/N was in the dining room first. He sat two away from the head of the table this time. With enough care to drag his chair loudly across the floor, Aaron mirrored that seating, dragging his cutlery and crockery into place. As they were served, Y/N swiped the newspaper before his husband could with a smirk hidden behind the pages. Hotchner poured his coffee and smiled into the brew. He was, for once, thoroughly glad that they had breakfast together.
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so @maxricciardo messaged me earlier today and maybe possibly probably inspired me to write this cute, fluffy lestappen fic. Listen, sheâs great and she deserves to read something nice and comforting about Max after todayâs race. And for any of you searching for something sweet and a short fic about the boys being happy together - I hope you will enjoy it as well.
You can read it on ao3 [HERE]
ship: lestappen
word count: 1734
fluff. Itâs fluff. Boys kissing. Fluffity fluff. Let there be fluff. Max realises his feelings for Charles and thinks Charles is pretty. We all agree with Max.
The interviewer is someone Max has never seen before during their press conferences. He looks like he could live and survive on drama alone. Beastliness shines dangerously in his eyes and the way he tilts his head before he asks Max the question indicates deviousness.
Max doesnât like this at all.
âSo, Max,â his voice is obnoxious already. âWe all know how painfully honest you can be. Let me ask you about Charles Leclerc.â
Something stings Maxâs chest. It has been difficult couple of days for Charles, with his bad last racing weekend and a lot of family burden going on right now. The Monegasque, if asked about it, would kindly state that everything is fine and there is nothing to worry about.
But Max knows Charles and he is aware when things become too much for him. And itâs obvious that Charles has his ups and downs. Should anyone be surprised by that? No one. And yet the media keep doing what they do best â they wait for the smallest mistake, the tiniest inconvenience, and they dig deep into the topic. They remind Max of vultures, always ready to find a person during their weak moments and portray such person as the biggest victim possible. A loser. Rend their vulnerable skin and make them bleed for the sake of the headline. Pain them black and white.
For the media everything is zero to one. You either win, or you lose. You drive or you crash. Thereâs no in between.
And Charles is sitting right next to Max during this press conference, and Max can feel him switching his position uncomfortably as they both hear the begging of question.
âCharles seems to like creating controversy,â the man states the biggest lie Max has heard in a while and dares to continue speaking. âAnd recently he has been loosing his nerves in the most crucial moments. He is, letâs say, not good under pressure these days. Does it even make him a good driver then?â
Something boils inside Max.
âDoes any of it have something to do with the upcoming date of Charlesâ fatherâs death? Should Charles continue to drive during this weekend, or is he a threat to others? Clearly he might be, with his mental condition.â
The conference room goes completely silent.
Max doesnât take his eyes off of the interviewer. He doesnât even blink. His gaze must look dangerous enough for everyone to make them to look at him and the man multiple times, anticipating the answer. Max lifts his chin defiantly and squints, and it sends unspoken fulmination all across the room. Someone clears his throat nervously.
âYou know,â Max starts, joining his hands together. âI think it takes some fucking audacity to come to this room and say such things about one of the greatest driver of this generation.â Someone gasps in the room and everyone lifts their cameras up. âSo you come here, and you have your confidence, and well. You have to be confident, for sure, to ask such dumb questions and state such idiotic statements, clearly not understanding what does it mean to be a normal human in this sport, having better and worse days. So no. Charles is more than the questions about his father, he is more than your silly cheap mind games and neither him, or me, will waste our time on you. And he will drive with us on Sunday. Heâs the best person out there when it comes to mental strenght and he doesnât deserve such crap from the media. So shut up. Next question,â he finishes and points at another man.
His heart is beating incredibly fast and he can hardly hear another question. His mouth is dry, palms sweaty and his legs bouncing nervously.
He does his best to ignore Charlesâ stunned look on his face and Lewisâ dropped jaw.
When Max comes back to his hotel room he is exhausted and doesnât really know why. He has dealt with stupid interviewers on more than one occasion by now, and he thinks he should be able to handle this situation better. Not that he regrets saying what he said.
He just doesnât know why it caused such him such an emotional response.
Before he can think about it more, thereâs a soft knock on the door and thereâs only one person who knocks like that.
âCome in, Charles.â
Charlesâ smile is small and almost timid, as he enters the room and then looks around. Max smiles to himself, observing a very awkward Charles. As if he wasnât here yesterday to see the room. And the day before.
âI, eh,â he starts, putting his hands into the pockets of his jeans. âI wanted to say thank you, Max.â
Max doesnât know how to react to his cheeks which turn bright red.
Charles has always been like that. Like that? So like what? Max thinks, forcing himself to finally understand what he has been feeling for so long, searching in his head for the best word to describe the other man.
Lovely. Charles has always been quite lovely, he admits to himself.
That describes Charles pretty well, actually. And now Max thinks about all those moments they shared together, from the early karting days too. Their fights and arguments when they were children, and Charles coming to check on Max after their races. Bringing him his home-made cookies or lemonade, and thanking Max. Or saying he is sorry. And these confessions were always a bit clumsy, always a bit awkward, but the words were always there. Charles might not always look the most confident during moments like this, but he always is there. Ready to speak and be tender when other people hide themselves and run away from confrontation. Charles is ready to say the things Max is often unable to.
Todayâs press conference was different, though. It was the first time Max said so many things about Charles. In a room full of people, on top of that â people who were paying attention to his every word. Wasnât that rather stupid, to go off like that? But that question has to be one of the dumbest and most arrogant he has heard in a long while. And it was about Charles.
No one should ever talk about Charles like that.
Not about Charles. How dare they? Have they ever seen the way he drives? The way he trains? How he can stay under pressure? The way he achieves his goals and keeps his cool even in the most stressful moments?
Have they seen the way Charles smiles? The way he rolls his eyes when he sees something silly or the way he wrinkles his nose when he laughs, but truly, truly laughs? Have they seen the way Charles canât cook or dance, but he likes to do these things and it makes it even more enjoyable to observe him?
And what about the way Charles sleeps, with his lips slightly parted and his strong chest moving up and down? Or the way he gets excited over the stupidest TV programs Max doesnât understand, but doesnât mind when Charles asks him to watch them together, already too fascinated by the way Charles comments on things? And the way he plays the piano. The way he chooses songs and hums to himself when he plays.
The way he sneezes and then apologizes for it. The way Charles can assemble furniture from IKEA, and refuse to use any instruction, but somehow his chaotic energy helps him manage? And Max knows how it looks like.
Because Charles helped him with his furnitures.
Charles has always been there. When Max was sick and didnât want to take any pills, Charles was there. Brining him his mumâs soup and talking how much he likes the fact that they both live in Monaco now. And when Max got completely wasted in one of those bars they like to go to, it was Charles who helped him get clean from all the unpleasant post-party aspects of the night. And he didnât complain. He didnât make a sound. He took off Maxâs clothes, leaving him in nothing but his boxers, and helped him shower. He made sure Max made it to bed and he placed a glass of water on his bedside table.
Charles was there when Max won his most important races and he was there to celebrate it with him. He was there when Max argued with his father and when it all looked like a lost cause. He was there to rub soothing circles on Maxâs back with his gentle hand and embrace him with his soft voice.
And he always says âthank youâ and âIâm sorryâ when other people could never do it, for different reasons. Charles has always been brave and able to rise above others. Be a bigger person.
Charles is kind and lovely.
And so damn handsome.
It all makes Maxâs head dizzy. The realisation of his feelings washes over him and he has to grab the chair not to stumble. What now?
Charles looks beautiful in his blue hoodie, messy hair and his confused smile. He looks way too soft to remain reasonable or sensible about this.
âThose things you said during the press conference, did you mean them?â he asks, finally breaking the silence between them.
Max nods, coming closer to Charles who doesnât move away. His eyes are focused on Maxâs and he licks his lips.
âI meant every word,â Max says, his voice becoming almost a whisper, as he moves even closer and cups Charlesâ face with his hand. âJesus, Charles.â
Charles closes his eyes at the contact and breathes in through his nose. He looks stunning and Max is mesmerised.
âKiss me,â Charles whispers, not opening his eyes. âPlease.â
Max feels like melting. He slowly cups Charlesâ face with both his hands.
âLook at me,â Max whispers back, and when Charles opens his eyes slightly, Max places a kiss on Charlesâ forehead.
Then on his cheek. And then the other.
And then they kiss. They kiss and kiss and kiss, Charlesâ arms around Maxâs shoulders and Maxâs hands on Charlesâ waist. Itâs the softest thing to kiss Charles, his lips eager and opened and lovely, lovely, so, so lovely, and warm.
Max moves them around the room so Charles can fall on the bed, and as soon as he does, Max climbs on top of him. The way Charlesâ reaches out for him, the way he holds him closer, kissing him harder and deeper â that definitely goes on top of âthe different ways of Charles Leclercâ list Max has made.
And Charles is beautiful under his touch, and he glows like a golden, Autumn sun, and he sounds like the softest, warm melody.
âI meant every word,â Max says between kisses and touches, between moans and sighs. âEvery word.â
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We need to wind back the wizard clock, no more precocious lil magic babies... wizards are weird old bastards with power over reality itself who've grown so entitled to the world bending to there whim that they, without fail, end up either trying to conquer the world or become immortal at the cost of others. Everyone assumes they are super geniuses just because they mastered one weird domain of knowledge and their followers are lapdogs and bootlickers who think that cause this dude has a tower and can read that makes him a good candidate for god-king. Wizards are tech bros, there politicians, they're the rich stem kid who thinks he's better than everyone else because he's a misanthrope. "Are there good wizards?" is a question as laughable as "are there good billionaires?" some are better than others sure but any wizard who was actually decent would have long since ceased being a wizard. I'm saying it's time to re-conan the genre. There is a criminal critique of the "blood and thunder" subgenre of fantasy that says that because wizards are smarty pants and conan is a big dumb dumb that "wizards evil" is an anti-intellectual position. But fuck that, we live in a world ruled by people like elon musk and jeff bezos and bill gates and mark zuckerberg. "Guy with higher education who looks smart" is both not an actual signifier of any real cleverness and even if it was when did we decide that being "intelligent" makes you so much better than everyone else that you can rule the world and everyone who isn't "intelligent" should just shut the fuck up and lick their boots.
Conan isn't a fool, he just doesn't have the trappings of higher education and is a little blunt and to the point. A generation of privileged nerds read Conan and thought "I can't relate to this physically strong rural yokel with a background of suffering and tragedy but I do relate to the privileged nerd who uses esoteric knowledge to secure wealth and power beyond anyone's wildest imagination and then proceeds to vindictively and misanthropicly wield that power over a world he thinks he's better than. Wouldn't it be better if the smart people were in charge and no Conan's came to kill them and steal there treasure?" And now we have a media atmosphere of Harry Potters. Where the superhero headlining marvel for the longest time was Iron Man (not a wizard but a rich smart guy who leverages that wealth and intelligence into inventions that may as well be magic). Midichlorians went from an embarrassing mistake in Star Wars lore to something nerds will cite defensively as they vigorously defend the idea that the force is a congenital superpower and not a spiritual practice.
All our heroes are intrinsically, essentially better than us. There not meant to be achievable, you aren't supposed to make the world a better place- your job is to lick elon's boots and watch as he "saves the world", you worthless peasant. Heck Conan himself often gets flanderized from "a strong, willful, opportunist who seizes every advantage he can get" to "the strongest man ever".
Conan knows exactly what needs to be done to nerdy old dudes with a false sense of superiority. Conan isn't trying to save the world but he'll do it by accident because it turns out contempt for magic is exactly what the world needs.
To quote the only good line from an otherwise awful movie "You know what? Fuck magic"
âwhat if people were racist towards wizards?â asks Hollywood for the nth time.
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The Promotion
For the first time in the five years, the Burnmax Deadly Acid Factory whirred to life. After OSHA found out that none of the catwalks over the coverless vats of acid had guard rails, the factory had been shut down so fast they never even drained the tanks, which still burbled threateningly. Murderize wasn't sure if it was actually still dangerous. It made sense to him that Deadly Acid left out in the open would turn bad, like milk, but if the new boss wanted the mayor's daughter slowly lowered into a vat of acid, he wasn't going to say no to a paycheck. Times had been tough for henchmen ever since the new crew of masks hit town. His old crew, Mutilate and Comeuppance, were stuck in the Asylum now, and he was lucky to get a C-list criminal like Doctor Funkenstein to work for, even if the pay was worse and the bell-bottoms looked dumb and the free-love orgies had to be cancelled because there weren't any girls. Still beat working for Catboy.
The mayor's daughter, Barbara Whatsherface, was doing a good job of being tied up and screaming, though. Sometimes you'd kidnap a woman and she'd just cry or something and sticking her in a deathtrap got awkward. Non-consensual actors rarely stuck to their roles, not that Muderize cared, but the bosses always got mad when it happened. God forbid a big dramatic crime have victims who didn't resist being murdered in a fun way. "MMMMM! MMMMM!" screamed the mayor's daughter through her gag. It was real convincing, which was one of the advantages of using real victims and actually trying to kill them.
Doctor Funkenstein flipped the switch. "It's Alive! Alive! But soon, my dear, you won't be!" he said, which was a bit weak. He was clearly more committed to the "Funk" than the "enstein" of his gimmick. A tall lanky man in a purple suit and labcoat with a large disco ball for a head, Funkenstein was kind of a terrible boss to work with. Not deadly enough to be thrilling, not funny enough to be a good time, not quite thematically cohesive enough to get the good headlines. He'd been working on this rebrand for weeks, and hoped it would get him the success so many had expected of him two years ago. Murderize was unconvinced, but he wasn't paid to think. The mayor's daughter was halfway down. Murderize flicked his cigarette into an acid vat and unbuttoned his shirt. If the good guys wanted to save dear sweet Brenda or whatever, they were running out of time. Sometimes you actually got away with crimes and then you got to go home early.
CRASH!
Glass rained down from the broken skylight as the Wonder Five dropped in to save the day. Damn it.
Wonder Red landed on the catwalk before him. The founder and the leader of the group, he was still a dork in his red spandex onesie and motorcycle helmet. Wonder Red had hoped the other Wondernauts would change their names to be Wonder Blue and the like, but none of them did, and he just looked like a cosplayer who wandered into an actual superteam by mistake.
"Disco is dead, Doctor Funkenstein", said Wonder Red, "And so are your plans for world domination!"
"You're the one who's dead, Dunder Red", shouted Doctor Funkenstein, "For you've walked straight into my Saturday Night Deathtrap!". He leaned back, and lasers spewed in all directions from his disco ball head.
Muderize let the leaders have their fun. With hero teams as with villains, the henchmen were the ones doing the real work. Already Snakes flew into the mayors daughter, cutting the ropes with his teeth and he carried her off to safety. When Already Snakes flew off with your girl, you were never getting her back, so Muderize fired his Disco Gun (which was just a glock with glitter on it) at Animal Cracker, who cracked some birds into existence in the path of the bullets.
The birds disappeared in a puff of smoke, which hid Animal Cracker, but Murderize had fought these guys enough times to know AC liked to land an elephant on people, and ran out of the way. The elephant slammed into the ground, broke its legs, and poofed out of existence. AC dropped gracefully to the ground, and threw up a Gorilla Shield fast enough to block the second and third bullets Murderize fired, but not the first one, which grazed his arm. As the gorilla poofed, AC jumped behind a one of the acid vats. Shooting a giant vat of acid was a rookie move, so Murderize took cover himself. The two women members of the Wonder Five were busy with the other henches. Pink Moon had managed to pick out the rookies and was doing the "Oh no, I'm a poor defenseless girl what will I do" act, which every henchman fell for the first time. The smarter henches were left to Sorcera.
Murderize suddenly realized that a whole entire hero was dedicated to fighting just him. He tried not to get emotional about it, but if the Wonder Five had elevated him in their minds from henchman to miniboss, that could open up all kinds of career opportunities for him, especially having scored a wound.
Of course, scoring a kill, even against Animal Cracker, would do even more. He shook himself a little to get his head back in the game. AC had been hiding behind that vat for too long. He was up to something.
He barely had time to finish thinking before a murder of crows shot out from both sides of the barrel. He knew that Animal Cracker's animals got weaker the more of them he summoned, and that just the sound of a gunshot would be enough to dispel them. This was a distraction, AC wanted him to fire wildly at the birds from a distance. He was too smart for that. He waited for the birds to get close before firing, and made sure to aim his gun away from the acid tank while keeping an eye on it to make sure Animal Cracker didn't bail. Bang. One shot, and all the birds poofed into a big cloud.
A big cloud directly on top of him, obscuring his vision. Shit. He coughed, and tried to see which way the inevitable charging rhino would come from so he could dodge it. He didn't see it. He felt it, though. Hurt just as bad as the last time he got Rhino'd. He flew into a piece of machinery, and collapsed to the ground in pain. He blindly groped for his gun, but the only thing he felt was Animal Cracker slapping the cuffs on.
"I tagged you, though", said Murderize, as AC finished handcuffing him. AC said nothing, but there was no denying the nasty gash on his shoulder. "Gotta report that".
Animal Cracker sighed. "Yeah, yeah". Above them, the music stopped. Seemed like Doctor Funkenstein's Dancing Queen's Gambit had failed. He's barely lasted longer in a fight than Murderize himself did, even if it was against the star.
"You gotta tell 'em. Come on! You gotta tell 'em Murderize tagged you!"
"I'm not your PR guy, man"
"Come on, make me look cool and it'll make you look cooler for beating me. We both win!"
"You know how you could really win? By giving up a life of crime"
"Bro. C'mon. Bro".
There was a long pause. Socera broke it, swooping down with six experienced henchmen tied up behind her in magical ropes. Pink Moon was with her, carrying eight rookies in a net. "Yo, AC. You only got one?", Sorcera said, smirking.
Animal Cracker looked at Murderize for a moment, then at Pink Moon, before turning to Sorcera. "This isn't just a henchman, Sorcera. This is Murderize. He's.....he's a mini-boss". He pointed at the gash in his arm "Tagged me and everything"
Murderize looked down at the ground, trying not to let Sorcera see him smile
#My Writing#Short Story#Wonder Five#I wrote this in one hour on the discord just to get something creative done
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More Than Pain Bakugo x Y/N reader insert Ch. 2
âMissâŠ? Excuse me, missâŠ?â I was gently shaken awake by a hand, and when I woke up a friendly looking gentleman was smiling down at me.
âYouâre miss (L/N), right?â He asked, and I nodded.
âYes⊠how is my mother?â I asked, my brow immediately furrowing. He placed a hand on my shoulder to keep me from getting up, and took a seat across from me after pulling up a chair to sit on.
âYour mother is in stable condition⊠her case however⊠well, itâs uncertain.â He said, and my heart dropped.
âCaseâŠ? UncertainâŠ?â I echoed, and he cleared his throat.
âYour mother had a very serious seizure. Her brain was deprived of oxygen for too long, and this has caused her to slip into a coma. As I said, sheâs in stable condition, but if sheâs going to have any sort of chance of recovery, weâll need to perform surgeryâŠâ He said the last few words very carefully, and I swallowed a lump in my throat.
âH-How muchâŠ?â I asked, and he hesitated before sighing deeply.
â54,200,000 „âŠ*â The doctor spoke, and I felt my mouth go dry.
âYour motherâs insurance will pay for her accommodations here at the hospital until the money for surgery can be raised⊠with any luck, then surgery wonât be necessary. And sheâll simply wake up. Still, thereâs the topic of muscle atrophy, and getting her the physical and psychological therapy to recuperate afterwardsâŠâ His voice faded out as my brain grew numb with the same question. How in the world am I supposed to raise that much money? As a middle school student Iâm not allowed to have any sort of part time job. Not only that, but how was I supposed to pay for rent, power, water, and food when I had absolutely no income whatsoever?
âMiss (L/N)?â The doctor called out my name, and I snapped out of my stupor.
âDid you hear what I said?â He asked, and after a moment of hesitation, he realized I hadnât.
âThere is a program- a temporary service if you will- one that will place you in the care of a foster home⊠at least for the time being.â I nodded quietly, not really knowing what else to say.
âCome with me and Iâll introduce you to the programâs coordinator.â He ushered me along, and I followed blindly, my eyes growing heavy with exhaustion.
*One day later*
âHere we are! Oh, you are absolutely going to love this couple!â The coordinator opened the door for me to step out with nothing but my backpack on.
âOh dear⊠are you certain thatâs all you wanted to bring?â She asked.
âI donât plan on being here for very long.â I said, walking passed her towards the front door. She followed me quickly, and rang the doorbell as I examined the outside structure of the house. It was rounded at the top with a subtle but elegant grey stone layout. The windows were large and somewhat tinted to reflect the incoming sunlight, and I couldn't help but think how clever that was of the designer to come up with. My attention was grabbed when the front door slowly opened to reveal a tall, muscular man with spiky brown hair, glasses, and the slightest hint of a mustache.
âOh? Hey, you must be (F/N)! Mitsuki, sheâs here!â He called behind him, and I could hear the sound of fast footsteps as she made her way to the front door, and nearly knocked the man over in the process.
âWho is it Masaru? Did you say (F/N)?â She asked. She poked her head out, and my eyes immediately focused on two distinctive features, her eyes and hair.
â(F/N)! Itâs so good to meet you!â She exclaimed. Before I knew what was happening, sheâd already pulled me inside.
âKatsuki! Come meet our guest!â She called out, and the moment she shouted that name, my blood ran cold.
âGO TO HELL!!!â He shouted back in response. Mitsuki only smiled at me briefly as the tension settled in the air. After a moment she turned to me with the same smile on her face.
âWait right here dear, Iâll be right back.â She spoke softly and gracefully ascended the stairs to what I could only assume was Katsukiâs room. There were a few light knocks on the door before it sounded like the ceiling was falling in.
âHOW DARE YOU SPEAK TO YOUR MOTHER LIKE THAT YOU LITTLE SHIT!â She screamed. She then proceeded to drag Bakugou down the stairs by his ear, much to his protest, and tossed him onto the floor in front of us. My eyes locked onto a coat rack in the corner near the door, and I didnât dare tear my eyes away for a moment. He stood to his feet and swung around as though he were going to strike his own mother, but instead she smacked the back of his head, and he fell to his knees right in front of me. I jumped back, and accidentally met his eyes. If looks could kill, Iâd already be dead.
â(F/N) Is going to be staying here for a little while, and I want you to be the one to show her to her room.â Mitsuki ordered, and Katsuki simply glared at me before sliding his hands into his pockets and walking back towards the stairs.
âYou cominâ or not?!â He demanded, looking at me sideways as though I were supposed to read his mind. I glared back, unimpressed before following behind him up the stairs.
We took an immediate right, and he placed his foot against a door before roughly kicking it open and stepping inside. I followed him in, and took a look around. Everything was so neat, tidy, and fresh smelling. They had even changed the bed linens and had a fluffy black bathrobe neatly folded on the bed along with a set of clothes. What was this place? A hotel? âWhat the fuck are you doing here?â He demanded, and I glanced at him over my shoulder.
âYour parents didnât tell you whatâs going on?â I asked, and he scoffed.
âAll they said was weâd have a guest for a couple months. They never said anything about it being some dumb bitch.â He said, expecting to get a rise out of me, but I remained quiet.
âIâll stay out of your way.â I said, giving him a cold look that he seemed taken aback by.
âThe hellâs your problem?â He asked, and I exhaled slowly through my nose before neatly placing my backpack on the back of a nearby chair.
âWhy? So you can degrade me on that too?â I asked, my tone just as cold as my icy glare. For once he had nothing to say as he stood there with the same angry look on his face.
âI get that you donât like me, and Iâll stay out of your way while Iâm here, so, just go do⊠whatever.â I said, my tone bland as I turned to start unpacking things from my bag. After a moment of silence I assumed he had just left, so when I heard the shuffling of feet, and suddenly found myself pinned up against the desk as his hands gripped the edges at my hips, trapping me in place. His body and face were both very close to mine, and radiating heat that I didnât know could be generated from a human body.
âListen here you, donât come into my fucking house thinking youâre better than me just because you have some stupid-ass quirk, you got it?â He hissed, and my brow furrowed.
âWhat did I say to insinuate that I think Iâm better than you?â I asked, pressing my hand against his chest to move him away, but he quickly caught my hand and gripped it tightly, maybe even painfully if pain was something I could feel.
âWhat was that shit you pulled the other day in the hallway, huh?â He asked.
âLet go of me.â I hissed, and he smirked in an almost challenging way.
âMake me.â He growled. I felt something swelling up within me. This anger that I wasnât at all familiar with coupled with something else. I felt my body begin to shake, and I forcibly grabbed his wrist with the hand that he was holding me, and his eyes widened for a split moment before I flipped him onto his back. He grunted as I stood up and moved away from him, looking down at my own two hands as though they werenât mine.
âShitâŠâ Bakugou cursed under his breath before sitting up, and rubbing at the back of his head. He shot me a bewildered look before standing straight up and marching over to me. He looked me over expectantly before clicking his tongue, and heading for the door. He froze just before walking through, and glanced back at me over his shoulder.
âBathroomâs down the hall on the left⊠dinnerâs at 5:30⊠and donât touch any of my shit!â He spat before shutting the door behind him roughly. I sighed before shaking my head, and pulling my laptop from my bag. I settled in on the bed, and began surfing the web in hopes of winding down, and ignoring what had just happened with my quirk. I had never been able to use it that way before⊠then again, no one has ever made me feel so frustrated before either.
âHm?â I hummed in thought as my eyes caught a glimpse of a flashy headliner. I clicked on the link as the webpage opened completely.
âUA RECOMMENDATION EXAM REPORTED TO BE REWARDING HIGHEST RANKING ENTRANT 55,300,000!â
All I could do was stare at the screen with my mouth hanging open, unable to think or speak.Â
It seemed all too easy, enter the exam, pass with the highest score, and win the money that I would need to get mom the surgery she needed⊠an additional 1,152,320„ never hurts either⊠I quickly began looking up anything and everything that I could about this exam, and found out quite a bit about it relatively quickly.
âLetâs see⊠consists of a written exam, practical exam, and an⊠interviewâŠ? Alright, no problem, but⊠what would I do about references? That would be the main thing I need, right?â I mumbled to myself and groaned before flopping backwards onto the bed.
I canât believe Iâm even playing with thoughts like these. To think Iâd even stand a chance against anyone whoâs recommended to UA? It may seem like easy money, but now that I think about it, thereâs no way it would be that easy. There was suddenly a gentle knock at the door, and I quickly stood from the bed to answer it.
âMrs. Bakugou, Iâm sorry was I being too loud?â I asked, and she chuckled before waving me off, and shooting me a smile.
âNot at all dear! I just came up to check and see how you were getting settled.â She said, and I nodded before giving her a thankful smile.
âOh yes, Iâm fine. You have a beautiful home.â I said, and she smiled even brighter.
âArenât you the sweetest, thank you!â She giggled before banging her fist once against the door directly behind her before shouting.
âYOU HEAR THAT, KID?! WHY CANâT YOU BE SWEET LIKE HER?!â Mrs. Bakugou shouted.
âWOULD YOU SHUT IT, YOU OLD HAG?! IâM TRYINâ TO STUDY!â Bakugou shouted back. So, his room was directly across from mineâŠ? Good to know. I thought sarcastically.
âWHY YOU-â I cut her off before she had a chance to shout again. She looked as though she were about to break down his door.
âBakugou is actually a pretty nice guy at school!â I blurted out before I could think. She froze, and turned to me with a skeptical look.
âThatâs not what Iâve heardâŠâ She said, her brow furrowing.
âWhat? No, really. He helped me to find my locker and the cafeteria on my first day of school, and heâs always willing to help out when I need a partner during study period.â I said. It wasnât a complete lie. He had helped me find my locker and the cafeteria on the first day⊠he just wasnât super polite about it. As for the study partner thing, really we had just been paired up together by the teacher, and did our own work silently.
âHe may seem a little harsh at first, but Bakugou is someone who is really very dedicated to his goal of becoming a pro hero. I admire him for not being afraid to speak his mind about things⊠itâs a quality I wish I had.â I admitted, and I suddenly found myself wondering why I was suddenly singing Bakugouâs praises when I didnât really know two things about the guy.
âYouâre too sweet, (F/N)... by the way, youâre welcome to call me Mitsuki.â She offered, and I nodded politely. She turned towards Bakugouâs door again, and lifted her hand ready to bang on it once more, but after a moment her body seemed to relax as though she had second thoughts, and she lightly knocked instead.
âSupper will be ready in about an hour, hon.â She said gently. After a moment of silence, Bakugou responded. âWhateverâŠâ His voice sounded tired almost, but it held no anger. Mitsuki smiled gently before giving me a small nod, and heading downstairs. Somehow I felt good about what I did, and turned to return to my room, only to be met by the sound of Bakugouâs door creaking open.
âSo whatâs your deal, huh?â He asked. I looked up to see him leaning against the doorframe with his arms crossed, and a bored expression on his face. I shrugged before resting my elbow against the doorframe, and pushing my hair back out of my eyes.
âI donât know⊠I guess maybe you just donât hear it as much as you should.â I said. His eyes lowered to the floor as though he were considering something.
âHear what?â He asked. I swallowed hard, knowing what it was I was wanting to say, but I wasnât sure how he would react.
âYouâre a good guy, Bakugou⊠and I know youâve built this reputation as the schoolâs hot head or whatever, but⊠I can tell by how hard you work that you truly do want to be a hero⊠and I donât think youâd want to be a hero if you didnât like people.â I said, and he remained silent, now resting his head against the door frame, and looking off down the hall.
âYouâre so full of shit.â He spat, somewhat taking me by surprise, but I didnât let it show.
âThe other day, you were telling me to âgrow upâ... saying shit like âyouâre not very heroicâ- such bullshit.â He hissed, and for some reason an unfamiliar sensation hit me directly in the center of my chest before spreading to the rest of my body.
âIs this⊠painâŠ?â I thought to myself. Without realizing, my hand had come up and grabbed my shirt directly over my chest. My breathing began to increase, and my skin began to feel warm and flush.
âWhat is it? Just now realizing Iâve called you out on your bullshit?â He asked, crossing his arms again and smirking in an unnerving way.
âWhat? No, thatâs not-â My breathing only increased, but it felt like all the air in my lungs had left me. I felt my eyes begin to burn as tears began to slide down my cheeks uncontrollably.
âWh- hey. Whatâs wrong with you?â He asked, and I felt my body begin to shake as sobs began to rack my body.
âShit, hey-â He kneeled beside me, and I hid my face from him. Iâd never felt this way before in my life. As though someone had lit a fire at the center of my chest, but the rest of my body remained cold as Ice. How is it even possible to be freezing, and yet sweat at the same time?
âCalm your breathing and relax.â He said, his voice lower, and I felt him rest his hand on my back awkwardly, not knowingly exactly where to put it. After a moment I seemed to calm down, but I was still in shock at what had just happened.
âWh-what⊠what was thatâŠ?â I mumbled to myself.
âYou just had a fucking panic attack.â Bakugou said, now sitting on the floor next to me, and resting his head back against the wall. I could feel him watching me carefully, and after a moment he sighed.
âLook I⊠Iâm sorry. Okay? I didnât think sayinâ that would⊠cause a panic attack alright? I always thought you didnât have emotions.â He said.
âI⊠I usually donât feel anything. Pain, anger, fear, sadness⊠I can absorb it back into my body, channel it and use the energy to heal myself or othersâŠâ I said, and suddenly realized I hadnât ever really explained how my quirk worked before.
âSo thatâs what happened the other day? You didnât block my attack, you absorbed it?â He asked, and I nodded.
âAnd thatâs how you healed yourself?â He asked, and again I nodded.
âYes⊠the stronger the quirk, the faster I heal.â I said, and he just stared ahead at the wall.
âWell⊠itâs not the shittiest quirk Iâve ever heard of.â He said, and I couldnât help but roll my eyes. We sat in silence for a bit longer before I spoke again.
âI need to get into UA on recommendation.â I said, and his entire body stiffened.
âWH- THE HELL DID YOU JUST SAY?!â He demanded, and I sighed.
âItâs not what you think okay, so donât blow a fuse.â I said. I passed him my phone with the headline on it, and his eyes quickly skimmed over it.
âYeah, I heard about that⊠so then whatâs the deal? I thought you werenât tryinâ to be a hero.â He said, and I ignored the fact that he knew that about me, and took my phone back from him.
âI⊠I just need the money, alright?â I admitted. I pulled my knees to my chest before resting my arms on top, and then my chin.
âWhat do you need with a shit-ton of cash like that?â He asked, and I laughed humorlessly. He didnât respond after a moment of silence, so I sighed, and felt my brow furrow.
âKatsuki, (F/N) dinnerâs ready!â Mitsuki called.
âHOLD YOUR HORSES WEâRE COMINâ!â Bakugou shouted back, but I was already standing.
âWe should go eat. School in the morning.â I said, and he looked up at me with a stoic expression before standing himself and walking towards the stairs. I walked past him at the top of the stairs, and he grabbed my arm to stop me before I could continue.
âWeâre not done yet.â He said, holding my gaze for several moments before turning away, and descending the stairs. I lightly brushed my fingers across my arm where heâd grabbed me, and felt an odd tingling sensation where his hand had been.
âIâm losing my mindâŠâ I mumbled to myself before descending the stairs, and stepping into the dining room.
âHere you go (F/N) Iâve saved you a spot right next to Katsuki.â Mr. Bakugou said whilst drying his hands on a kitchen towel as Mrs. Bakugou finished placing the final plate of food on the table. I nodded silently before taking the seat I had been offered.
âThe coordinator gave us a list with some of your favorites, so I made you some kakitama jiru!*â She exclaimed, very pleased with herself.
âIt looks great, thank you Mrs. Bakugou.â I said, smiling kindly as I spooned it into a bowl along with some crispy noodles and a spoonful of green onions on top. The aroma was intoxicating, and I felt myself relax somewhat at the familiar smell.
âWould you like some Beef?â Mr. Bakugou offered, holding the plate out to me. I nodded before plucking a few pieces out, and placing them neatly on my plate before adding some steamed veggies and rice. Everything looked and smelled amazing. I couldnât recall eating in the last few days, so this was more than welcomed.
âHave you had any news on your mother?â Mrs. Bakugou asked, and I felt the color immediately drain from my face. Any appetite I previously had was gone now. I lowered my chopsticks from my mouth before I could take a bite of food, and felt my hand shake slightly.
âOh⊠uh⊠no maâam. Nothing yet.â I said plainly, hoping she would just drop it.
âOh⊠well, Iâm very sorry to hear about what happened. We really hope she gets out of the hospital soon.â She said, and I felt my eyes drop to the table, suddenly intently focused on the pattern of the tablecloth, and nothing else. I wanted everything to fade away, and be silent. I wanted to be by myself where no one could see me like this because it was all new to me as well.
âUm⊠th-thanksâŠâ I silently cursed myself for stuttering. They probably couldnât tell I was uncomfortable since my body language wasnât showing it. Would it be disrespectful to tell them that I was uncomfortable?
âHey, weâre gonna eat upstairs.â Katsuki spoke up suddenly, his voice breaking through the haze of my hectic thought process.
âHuh? But youâve already sat down.â Mrs. Bakugo said, dejected.
âIâve been havinâ some trouble with English lately⊠she said sheâd tutor me, soâŠâ He lied, but I kept my mouth shut. Mrs. Bakugou looked utterly dumbfounded, but quickly smiled.
âOh, of course!â She said gleefully. Katsuki grabbed his bowl, and I grabbed mine. I said my goodbyes as we ascended the stairs once more, and he all but forced me into my room. I placed the bowl down, and took a few deep breaths.
âShitâŠâ I mumbled to myself once my breath had come back.
âWhatâs going on with you? Why do you keep freaking out?â Bakugou scoffed, and I swallowed hard.
âLook, Iâm not used to feeling emotions like this, okay?â I said, a bit more anger behind my tone than I had probably intended.
âTurn your shitty quirk back on thenâŠâ He said, as though it were the easiest thing.
âI⊠I canât⊠I donât know why but for some reason, I canât.â I said, and he lifted an eyebrow.
âWhat you said before⊠when you said Iâm âfull of shitâ... I donât know how, or why, but for some reason or other, it caused my quirk to dissipate. Thatâs why I freaked out.â I said.
âSo⊠you turn off your quirk, and you have a panic attack, or what the hell?â He asked, and I shook my head.
âNo, no⊠look, Iâve had my emotions shut off since I was a child⊠sometimes they slip out, but Iâve always been able to keep them under control until a little while ago. At that time, I dunnoâŠâ I trailed off, taking a few breaths before continuing.
âI guess all the emotions that Iâve been holding back hit me at once.â I concluded, and Bakugou continued to sit there in silence.
âWhy turn them off?â He asked, and the question caught me off guard.
âWhat?â I asked.
âYour emotions. Why turn them off?â He asked again, slightly annoyed this time at having to repeat himself.
âOh⊠I dunno. It just seemed easier I guess.â I answered honestly. After a moment Katsuki stood with his bowl in hand, and headed for the door.
âWhatever⊠Iâm goinâ back to my room.â He said, and something made me ask. âBakugouâŠ?â I called out, and he stopped to turn and look back at me.
âHow did you know I was having a panic attack⊠I mean- how did you know how to handle it?â I asked, and his eyes widened momentarily before his brow creased in its usual pissed off manner.
âWhat the hell kinda question is that, dumbass!â He huffed before throwing the door open and storming out before shutting it behind him. I blinked a few times before sighing and shaking my head. Iâll never understand how this guyâs brain works⊠but maybe thatâs for the best. I sat at the desk with the bowl of soup in front of me, and sighed as I picked at it with my chopsticks. The noodles were mush at this point, and the broth was surely cold. I pushed the bowl away, and stepped towards the bed. After moving my laptop and the clothes aside, I curled myself up on the comforter with my head resting against the plush pillow, and felt my eyelids growing heavier by the second. After a few deep breaths, I felt my body relax into the mattress, and sleep finally found me.
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Silent Treatment
A drabble not for @lokislastloveâ
Warning: some arguing, nonconsent sex, threats of violence, biting.
It was almost amusing how long it took him to catch on.
Certainly, Thor had noticed that you were avoiding him, that the bulk of your time in Asgard had been spent with his brother rather than him. You knew it would bother him. Eventually. And you hoped he felt the same way you did.
Was it silly to feel so hurt? Well, how else should you feel. The two-minute video sent you into a tailspin of anger but youâd already arrived and you werenât quite sure what to say. So you said nothing. You graced Thor with a shrug or the occasional nod but you just couldnât give much more.
You wouldnât be so embarrassed if you hadnât been sent the clip personally. Several friends made you aware of his little flirtation which was now being broadcast everywhere. Headlines called the God of Thunder âsweetâ and âcuteâ. You just thought he was ridiculous.
It made you wonder if for the last year heâd just been telling you what you wanted to like he had that girl. Sure, it was just an interview and tried to convince yourself he was merely playing the PR game but why had he kissed her hand like that? Why had he called her âsweetheartâ?
Sooner or later you would have to say something. Anything. But for now, you were going to let Thor think you would rather listen to Loki expound on how he tricked his own brother into a cave full of giant bats. The idea of a young prince being so easily deceived was amusing, but when it was revealed it had been well beyond Thorâs childhood, it was almost pitiful.
You walked with Loki through the halls, passing the tall pillars, and admiring the extravagant portraits of the Asgardian elite. On earth, no one lived like that anymore. It was more selfies and those dumb wall signs that read âlive, laugh, loveâ.
Then you saw the shadow. You had thought youâd spotted him before but werenât entirely sure. Lokiâs green eyes flicked behind you and his little smirk betrayed his own awareness. Thor was attempting to eavesdrop but wasnât very stealthy.
The dark-haired prince stopped you by a portrait of a mystical creature which resembled an elephant but had porcelain like skin.
âMy father saw the last of these beasts,â Loki said as he gestured to the painting. âI always thought it a tragedy. So regal. But they werenât anything you could tame. Not like...â He glanced towards the far end of the corridor and touched your shoulder. âSome.â
You realised what he was doing. For as conspicious as Thor was, you were just as bad. Surely Loki knew why you insisted on his presence but he didnât mind being a tool if it was against his brother.
He leaned in and lowered his voice so only you could hear.
âWhatever he did, he probably deserves this,â Loki winked and kissed your cheek.
âLoki!â Thorâs voice boomed around the stone columns and his boots echoed at his advance. âAway from her!â
Loki stood straight but stayed close to you as Thor stormed towards him. You stepped between them and stopped Thor from accosting his brother. He reached past you but you caught his arm.
âThor,â You said calmly. âWhat is the meaning of this?â
âI saw what he was doing!â Thor snarled.Â
âYou were spying on us?â You asked.
âHe kissed you!â Thor snapped.
âOn the cheek. It was only friendly.â You insisted. âYou think I would betray you?â
âI donât know what you would you do, youâve not talked to me since your arrival.â Thor retorted.
âDo not worry about her, brother, worry about me,â Loki taunted.
You held back a laugh as Thorâs face contorted with anger and Loki smoothly dodged another grab as you lost hold of his arm.
âThor,â You pulled him back by his hand. âLet him go.â
âYes, brother, you should attend to your affairs before mine,â Loki teased. âOr yours shall become mine.â
âEnough,â You warned Loki and he smirked.
He turned and strode away as Thor fumed next to you. When he was gone, you looked to the blond Asgardian and shook your head.
âWhat is this about?â He asked. âWhy do you spurn me? I thought we--â
âI thought we were good too, Thor,â You interjected. âAnd then I see you hanging off some woman in Times Square.â
âI--â His eyes searched. âIt was only an interview. I was having fun.â
âIt wasnât fun for me to see. Did you ever think of that?â
âI didnât think it was that serious,â He shrugged.
âAnd all this time I was ignoring you, you never asked me what was wrong.â You said.
âI suppose I didnât, but you also didnât tell me.â He returned.
âDonât do that,â You huffed. âDonât you think that was inappropriate?â
âIt wasnât real,â He insisted.
âSo I donât get an apology?â You asked.
âWhat about Loki?â He countered.
âWhat about him? He kissed my cheek, I didnât kiss his,â You said. :But if you are upset then I am sorry.â
Thor was silent and looked down. You waited. Nothing.
âYouâre not going to apologize?â You asked again.
âI donât see a reason for it. I was being friendly.â
âOh?â
âAnd you werenât there.â
âI wasnât there? So what does that mean? That you can do whatever you want?â
âI am a king so yeah,â He scoffed.
Your mouth fell open and you threw your hands up. You backed away from him and shook your head.
âI wanna go home.â
âYou havenât even spent a moment with me and all you do is argue,â He said. âYou havenât given me a chance to make up for it.â
âYou wonât even say sorry,â You accused. âWhat else can you do to make it up?â
âYouâre not going anywhere. No one leaves or enters Asgard without my say.â
âIâll find a way out,â You turned away.
âLoki wonât help you,â Thor was quick and pulled you back by your arm. âI wonât let him and heâs not that type.â
âAnd what are you then?â You tried to wrench away and he caught your other arm.
âIâm yours,â His voice deepened dangerously. âAnd youâre mine. Thatâs what you said.â
âThor, let me go.â You pushed on his chest.Â
âNo,â He said evenly. âWhy would I do that?â
âBecause Iâm telling you to. What is wrong with you?â
âYou have ignored me for the last week,â He marched you backwards as he spoke sternly, âI have welcomed you to my home, my kingdom, and youâve treated me like nothing more than air.â You hit the wall harshly. âAnd you thought you could me jealous by using Loki? Iâm not that stupid.â
âThor--â
âI brought you here because I wanted you to see my home. Your home.â He said tersely. âBecause I love you and no one can change that.â
âPlease--â
âAnd know I do love you and if I do stray, I still will, but every wife must accept that they cannot change the nature of man. The nature of a god.â He held you to the wall as he leaned in. âI will take what I want when I want it.â
âGet off--â
He crashed his lips into yours roughly. You grabbed at his chest frantically, almost suffocated by his kiss. You bit down and he pulled away suddenly. He pinned you to the wall with an arm across your shoulders as he touched his lip. You hadnât broken the skin.
âYou donât tell me what to do.â He snarled and grabbed the front of you jeans. âYou must understand that by now.â
He pulled hard on the denim and the button came of as the zipped split. He leaned his weight on you as he forced the pants down past your hips. You kicked out and he easily blocked you. He stomped your foot and brought his large hand to your cheek, resting it there.
âI never wanted to hurt you,â He said. âSo donât make me.â
You quivered and his hand crept back down your body. Your panties were nothing to him as he tore them away. He placed his foot in the crotch of your jeans and forced them down the rest of the way. He freed one of your feet and grabbed your leg. He bent it against him and kissed you again.
His arm left your chest and went around you. He held you to him as he devoured you. You turned your head away from him and he growled. His arm fell lower and he lifted you. He balanced you between his body and the wall as he reached down between you.
His movements grew impatient as you struggled against him. You grabbed onto his arm and tried to wriggle your leg free of his grasp.
âYou liked it before,â He purred as his fingers brushed your cunt. âDonât act so innocent.â
âPlease, Thor--â
âYou want to play the silence game, weâll play,â He grabbed his cock and rubbed it along your pussy. âDonât make a fucking sound.â
He pushed himself back to your entrance and you voice fizzled as he sheathed himself in you. You were breathless as he filled you entirely. He was big and you werenât used to taking him so suddenly, sometimes not even all of him. You clamped your lips shut before you could cry out and he hummed as he leaned against you.
He rested his head against the wall next to yours and his hand slipped down to your ass. He began to thrust, long, deliberate jerks that made your entire body ache. You let out little whimpers as he rutted against you, your arms pinned between your bodies.
âShhh,â He hushed you as he nuzzled your neck.
He didnât let up as the clapping of his flesh echoed down the airy corridors and his grunts interspersed the lascivious noise. You lifted your chin as your eyes rolled back in a mixture of pain and unexpected pleasure. His teeth grazed your neck and sank into your skin as he growled.
He jolted your body violently as his voice rose and his motion grew frantic. Your back was sore from the stone wall behind you and your arms were starting to buzz from being crushed against him. You let out shaky breaths as he gave several violent thrust and peaked with beastly grunt.
He stilled but kept you trapped between him and the stone. His breath lingered on your skin and he slowly lifted his head. He cradled your cheek and kissed your forehead gently.
âI do prefer it more when youâre loud.â He purred.
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â  JESSICA ALEXANDER  .  CIS FEMALE  .  SHE / HER    ⧜ â have  you  seen  the  786  latest  post  ?  sources  say  they  have  some  serious  dirt  on  the  child  of  a  big  time  COUNTRY MUSIC STARS  .  they  havenât  revealed  who  it was  yet  but  my  best  is  on  MADISON  DARLING  !  ever  since  that  last  update  about  how  she  ALLEGEDLY GOT CAUGHT SPORTING A BABY BUMP LAST YEAR BEFORE GHOSTING EVERYONE  i  donât  put  anything  pass  them  .  i  mean  ,  these  celebrity  kids  are  just  out  of  control  .  they  do  whatever  they  want  ,  whenever  they  want  and  are  ungrateful  in  the  process  !!  i  mean  take  MADDIE  for  example  ,  theyâre  a  TWENTY THREE  year  old  DANCER  ,  and  what  did  they  do  to  get  there  ?  have  famous  parents  !  like  hello  ,  just  because  you HAVE BEEN IN MUSIC VIDEOS WITH A-LIST MUSICIANS doesnât  mean  you  actually  deserved  it  .  iâm  glad  the  786  is  taking  them  down  a  notch  .  itâs  about  time  someone  does  .
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hey ... hey ... how yâall doinâ ? iâm sooo excited to be here , besties ! sorry iâm late with the intro , itâs been a looooong weekend for me but iâm eager to get the ball rolling . so hereâs the rundown , the google doc has a full bio + more stats + headcanons but i donât expect anyone to actually read all that nonsense so iâve tried my best to sum it up below ( itâs still kinda long tho iâm sorry yâall i ramble too much ). iâm always down to talk plots & threw a few wanted connection ideas at the bottom , so feel free to hmu on discord any time <3 but yes okay letâs get into it
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đđźđ„đ„ đ§đđŠđ. madison dallas darling .  đ§đąđđ€đ§đđŠđ(đŹ). maddie , mads .  đđšđ. april 14 , 1998 .  đđ đ. twenty - three .  đłđšđđąđđ. aries sun , libra moon , leo asc . Â ïżœïżœđđ§đđđ«. cis female .  đ©đ«đšđ§đšđźđ§đŹ. she / her .  đŹđđ±đźđđ„ đšđ«đąđđ§đđđđąđšđ§. bisexual .  đđąđ«đđĄđ©đ„đđđ. nashville , tn .  đĄđđąđ đĄđ. 5ft 5in .  đđđźđđđđąđšđ§. high school diploma .  đšđđđźđ©đđđąđšđ§. dancer / realty tv personality .  đđđŠđąđ„đČ đŠđđŠđđđ«đŹ. robert ârobbieâ darling - father . dixie darling - mother . delaney darling - sister .  đđ«đđąđđŹ. compassionate , imaginative , family-oriented  , devoted , generous , sympathetic , idealistic , self critical , naive , competitive , indecisive , impressionable , elusive , sensitive .
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tw : things like shitty controlling parents , injury , & pregnancy are mentioned
  born & raised in nashville , tennessee , madison is the daughter of two country music icons ( basically blake shelton & miranda lambert ) & has only ever known a life in the spotlight . her parents were a widely adored it couple who shared their lives with millions of viewers across the world with their reality tv show . at 7pm cst you could tune in to watch robbie & dixie raise their two daughters - having some good olâ wholesome family fun while juggling responsibilities that come with being famous artists . to any outsider looking in , they seemed like the perfect family . a loving father , a supportive mother , two prim & proper daughters that collected accolade after accolade in every pageant & talent competition they ever entered . but you shouldnât believe everything you see on tv , even if itâs deceptively labeled as ârealityâ .
  when the cameras werenât rolling , the darling sisters were left under their motherâs restrictive control . dixie darling treated her daughters more like dolls than living beings , madison & delaney were basically pretty little accessories . while robbie never dared to mistreat his daughters , he was around a lot less than the show made it seem - often touring the world rather than spending quality time with his girls . plus , dixie & robbie seemed to endlessly fight with one another - nearly every childhood memory madison has of her parents involves them yelling . if she wanted to see them looking happy & in love , sheâd have to tune in to the fabricated reality on their own show to get a taste of what a happy , loving family looks like .Â
  you canât be a child of dixie darling without being exploited in some way . while delaney was pushed into the music scene , madison was shoved into the world of dance . she took every class that was offered & practiced for hours upon hours to perfect her craft . her sister had taken after their folks with the singing voice of an angel & the looks to rival that of miss universe , meanwhile maddie was good for two things : dance & doing whatever her mother said . so when dixie said to twirl , she twirled , when she said do a grand jetĂ©, maddie asked how high & then over performed like the good little girl she was trained to be .
  it wasnât until her parents got divorced & maddie moved to miami to be with her sister , her father , & her fatherâs new girlfriend that she sort of came out ( or more accruately described as dragged out ) of her timid , non - confrontational , subservient shell . with a longer leash , she had more freedom to roam far & wide . no one tried to tell her what to do or who to talk to & considering she was just a privileged teenager with endless funds & the status to get away with just about anything , you can imagine how badly that went . every mistake she made was broadcasted onto peopleâs televisions or headlined in tabloids . it was stressful , growing up & messing up all under the watchful gaze of millions of people who felt entitled to berate her for her poor life decisions . just because they watched her grow up on tv didnât mean they actually knew anything about her . & yet so many people shared their unsolicited opinions on her & her life . it drove her insame .
  maddie wasnât handling the stress of being well known very well . she wanted a break from it all , to just go somewhere far away where no one knew her name & just live by herself . it was a silly dream . nothing sheâd ever actively pursue . but the universe has a funny way of giving us a taste of what we think we want just to teach us a lesson .Â
  so over a year ago , maddie found out that she was pregnant . it was a shock to say the least . she kept it a close guarded secret from everyone but her sister for awhile . not only was it a life changing development , but it was one thing that she was determined not to share with the rest of the world . with the idea of running away in continuous loop in the back of her mind , she came up with a plan to buy herself some time . she faked a really bad injury during a performance & let the media run with saying she might not be able to walk , let alone dance ever again . pushing the cover story even further , she claimed to be in need of intense physical therapy & sought after it in a luxurious private lodge in new zealand . thatâs where she stayed during her year away , letting no outsiders come visit while she figured out how she was going to move forward with this baby growing inside of her .
  so maddie finally got the break she was looking for even if it wasnât under the circumstances that she wouldâve liked . but she adapted to the situation . in her time away , she went through the entire pregnancy but it was basically decided for her by her parents that it was best to give the baby up for adoption . the little girl would be in good care by a couple that was a family friend of the darlings . better to bless someone who wanted a baby but couldnât have one than for maddie to keep her daughter when she wasnât in a place to take care of her . it broke her heart , honestly . she had grown quite attached to the baby & even entertained the idea of being a single mom even though she knew her own mom would never let that happen - it would go against the strict narrative that they try to put out there about the darling family .
  after a year away , maddie is back in miami without anyone knowing what really happened . she keeps using the âinjuryâ as the excuse for her absence from the spotlight . anyone really close to her might be able to tell that somethingâs off , but sheâs trying so hard to act like everything is fine & nothing has changed at all . she might even be able to get away with her lies - if it wasnât for that damn 786 website threatening to spill the tea & make her life hell .
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  a wannabe good girl gone bad but harbors a deep rooted fear of being a disappointment & a failure due to her momâs strict parenting style . so like she wants to be rebellious & come across as carefree but internally sheâs panic screaming always ( honestly relatable like same , girl )
  well - mannered in a sweet southern belle kind of way with her pleaseâs & thank youâs & calling everyone maâam & sir out of respect & what not
  biiiig mom friend energy . she just wants to make sure that everyone is taken care of . she can get very protective & a little helicopter parent-y with her friends . it probably has something to do with control issues that she doesnât realize she has but we donât have time to unpack that rn akjsdbk
  before her year away i want to say that she was a lot more people please-y / overly eager to please ?? like rarely said no to people that asked for favors , always agreed to any plans people invited her to out of courtesy , & what have you . but now i see her as being a little less patient than before & a little bit more unhinged & quick to shut down or snap
  guillable ! naive ! dumb as hell ! believes that everyone was raised with the same values as her & has a big of a heart like she does so sheâs easily subjectable to getting her feelings hurt & i say let it happen !!
  wants to be mysterious so bad but there is very little known about her & her life that isnât public knowledge . she could get shit on by a bird & itâll probably become a twitter highlight idk she just wants to believe sheâs imperceptible & acts all evasive in order to keep her private life private but that rarely ever has the desired effect
  one of those annoying rich & famous people thatâs like âi wasnât meant to be famous . i was meant to have a normal life & be a normal personâ but like !! she is actually so out of touch with reality & probably couldnât tell you how much milk is at the grocery store because she has people to do mundane day to day things for her . spoiled little privileged rich girl , letâs be real . her dad tried to keep her humble , idk what happened
  dance style / career is pretty much inspired by maddie ziegler but also not really bc i am very picky & choosey about which aspects of her career iâm pulling from
  boring on social media because she hardly ever posts & is very short with her captions & tweets when she does make an appearance online every blue moonÂ
  dodges questions about what sheâs been up to while she was gone like sheâs in the matrix or something . all that pr training her mom put her through when she was younger is coming in handy because she has not given a single honest , straight answer in the months sheâs been back . would rather talk about anything else than herself right now so donât be surprised if she pulls some random subject changes out of her ass if people get nosy . iâm sure the common conspiracy is that maddie was so embarrassed by the fall on stage that she went into hidingÂ
  delaney is the kim kardashian & britney spears of the family while madison is the kourtney & the jamie lynn xoxo
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ride or die , bad influence , frenemies , family friends , good influence , confidant , rival , girl squad , non judging breakfast club , childhood friend , unlikely friend , exes on good terms , exes on bad terms , neighbors , pr friendship , pr enemy , social media mutuals , party buddies , secret friend , secret hook - up , crush , friends with benefits , adventure buddy , enemy with benefits , dance partners , mentors , mentees , sibling like relationship , will they wonât they , people suspicious of her & her supposed âinjuryâ , father of her baby đ jk ..... unless
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A Jensen x Reader oneshot
Y/Nâs never considered how many suspiciously snuggly photos there are of her and her best friend. Then they all come out in a Buzzfeed article, published just in time for everyone to grill her during her solo panel. Now what?
Word Count: 4000
Warnings: Really dumb fluff, everyoneâs anxious, Jared and Briana are sick of everyoneâs shit
A/N: This is dumb and fluffy and dangerously song-fic territory but it showed up and demanded to be written so here you go. I have no idea if this is actually any good. Enjoy?
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You were the epitome of normal, growing up. You had decent grades, run-of-the-mill hobbies, and an average high school cashier job. You could hop on your bike (and later, borrow your parentsâ car) and take yourself to the coffee shop, or to a friendâs, and the only people that would look twice at you were drivers checking to make sure the kid on the bike didnât steer into traffic.Â
You didnât win any âmost likely toâ awards in the yearbook, your college major was undecided for an embarrassing length of time, and your 300-odd Instagram followers were comprised of friends and some polite acquaintances from welcome week. And you didnât mind. You were perfectly happy to go through your day-to-day without turning heads and making waves.Â
That was all before youâd answered an open casting call on a whim, strapped for cash and mostly there because a sparkly website proclaiming â50 Easy Side Hustles!â had suggested spending your weekends as an extra if you lived in a big filming city. Before your three-episode contract in a show youâd never bothered to watch turned into a series regular.
Now, youâre pretty much guaranteed to have your face splashed across the internet every time you stick a toe off the end of your L.A. property line. Even if the paparazzi arenât there to get you in Page Six with some wildly exaggerated nonsense, a fan somewhere will snap a blurry photo and upload it somewhere for people to shout about you in the comments section. Youâve never gotten used to being tagged in edits of your own face, or watching your follower count creep steadily upwards. Youâre just⊠you. Youâve always been just the normal, average girl from a nothing-special hometown. Â
Even after your third year running on Supernatural, you still forget. You still make it all the way to the end of the block before you remember that the person shouting your name is the bodyguard you accidentally abandoned two errands ago. You still get confused when the restaurant wait staff stares at you, still get annoyed calls from your publicist begging you to at least try to appear in fewer coffee shop paparazzi pictures looking like a disgruntled zombie whoâs never seen a hairbrush. (Sue you, you canât be expected to be functional before a cup of coffee.)
Youâre a brilliant actress, an unexpected fan-favorite, relatable to everyone in your autograph line...and youâre kind of a terrible celebrity. Unlike certain child models turned actors straight at 18 you may know, this isnât a world you were trained in. Which is probably why it doesnât even occur to you that being caught frequently in the company of your best friend might look like something until youâre staring at your own name in a headline on your phone screen, in line at Starbucks before your first panel of the con weekend.Â
Y/N L/Nâs Secret Relationship With Co-Star Jensen Ackles, howls the bold-printed headline, and you blink stupidly at the letters, uncomprehending, until you realize that someoneâs trying to get your attention. âSorry, what?â
The barista looks impatient, suppressing an eyeroll and starting her spiel before cutting off halfway with a squeak. âOh, my god, youâre her! Iâm sorry, Iâm just⊠youâre literally my favorite!â Sheâs blushing and stuttering and has a near-death grip on the empty coffee cup she was preparing to write your name on.Â
âOh,â you reply, forcing the fog of confusion from your brain and slapping on a smile. âHi, you caught me.â
âCan I...umâŠâ the girl reaches into her back pocket and sheepishly produces her cell phone, complete with a flaming pentagram case. âUm, selfie?â
You smile indulgently, leaning over the counter. The fans are one of the best parts, really, and itâs never a hardship to make someone smile. (That is, when theyâre not selling rumors and lies to the tabloids, you think grumpily.)
The barista girl pulls back with a wide smile and a full-face blush, and keeps glancing shyly up at you while she punches in your usual order, plus the second coffee Jensen texted you this morning to beg for. âSo I guess Jensenâs around here too, then, right?â she asks perkily, taking your card.Â
âUh...sorry, what?â
She shrugs like itâs obvious. âSince you flew in together,â
You blink rapidly, feeling stupid. Youâre obviously missing the punchline somewhere. âWe, uh...didnât. I mean...I flew out of L.A.,â you say cautiously. Your home city is already public knowledge, as is the fact that Jensen lives in Austin, and you canât imagine she doesnât know this.Â
Her eyes pop wide with curiosity. âWait, so youâre not staying with him?â
This conversation is too much for your poor, jetlagged, coffeeless brain. âNo?â you try weakly, so far past confused at this point that you might actually be getting a headache. âWhy would IâŠâÂ
Not that Jensenâs Austin house isnât lovely, and not that youâd object to staying there, and not that you havenât stayed there plenty of times before, but youâre pretty sure youâre still missing the point.Â
The barista lunges forward over the counter, leaning in to ask in a hushed voice, âDid you guys break up?â
An emphatic âNo!â leaves your mouth so loudly that the old man in line behind you starts grumbling. âNo, you donât--âÂ
âGet a move on,â Old Man grouches in the background. âI donât care who you are,â
âOh, good,â the girl cuts you off with a relieved grin. âYou guys are so cute, you know? I mean, I kinda figured you had to have something going on, but actually seeing it--itâs going to be so much cuter if Dean and Sierra ever kiss now, oh my god--â
She devolves into a squeal, and the weâre not actually dating dies on your tongue. You have better things to do this morning than correct the misinformation of one teenage barista, so you end up just shaking your head and taking the two cups of coffee wearily. âRight, well, Iâve gotta go, so--â you duck around the old man and beeline for the door before anyone can say anything else. Oh, god, your publicist is so going to kill you.Â
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Jared and Jensen are both in the green room when you make it back to the convention hotel, and you groan softly as you walk into the room. Once Jared hears about your so-called relationship, youâre never going to hear the end of it. Then again, better he hear it from you than find it in the tabloids. May as well bite the bullet now before it comes up in a Q&A.Â
âHey,â you slide up to Jensenâs elbow, holding out the requested coffee cup as a preemptive truce. âSo, weâre apparently dating now,âÂ
Jensen snorts, shaking his head and swapping the coffee cup into his other hand so he can wrap his arm around your shoulders in greeting. âYeah, I saw that.â
âI think I may have given a barista the impression weâve had a tumultuous breakup,â you say ruefully, tilting your head up to look at him in apology. âSorry,â
Jensenâs green eyes are dancing, though, and he throws back his head and laughs, still keeping you tucked close enough that you can feel his whole body shake. âOf course you did, sweetheart,â
Itâs pretty much the reaction you expected from Jensen, whoâs so used to your antics at this point that he just gives you a fond smile and moves on to damage control. Jared, on the other hand, is...not commenting, and suspicion cuts short your quiet enjoyment of being hugged against Jensen. It took the boys a while to feel comfortable messing with you when you first got on set, but after they figured out you gave as good as you got, theyâd never yet missed an opportunity to tease and prank you.Â
You squint at Jared warily. âWhy arenât you reacting?â
Jaredâs lips immediately start twitching, but he makes a valiant attempt at a mock-concerned face. âOh shit, sorry. Here, tell me again and Iâll pretend like Iâm surprised this time,â
Unwilling to bother unwinding yourself from under Jensenâs arm, you extend a childish foot in the direction of Jaredâs shins, scowling at him. He dodges easily, laughing, and tosses out, âSomeone should really tell Buzzfeed theyâre reporting really old news,â
âShut up and drink your damn coffee, Padalecki,â you shoot back without any real venom.
âOh, you mean my hotel coffee? The coffee I got stuck with because you only buy Starbucks for Jensen?â
Jensen straightens up proudly, no doubt making a face at Jared over the top of your head. âY/N just likes me better. Thatâs why sheâs my best friend.â
You roll your eyes, ducking under Jensenâs arm and a few steps away. âYou both suck,â you deadpan, resisting an internal wince at the friendzone. âNow shut up and let me drink my coffee, I have to be on stage in fifteen minutes,âÂ
And God, but your head is way too scrambled for a panel right now. Fifteen minutes is nowhere close to enough time to get your shit together, and youâre going to have to somehow walk out there and not let everyone know.Â
You take a seat halfway across the room, watching Jared and Jensen still standing there, heads bowed together, arguing quietly about something. Jensenâs starting to wear an annoyed expression and he still manages to look beautiful and goddamnit this is how you got in trouble in the first place.Â
You scroll listlessly through your phone, a headache beginning behind your eyes, and freeze when you realize that you left the damn article open. The headline photo is a picture of you and Jensen on a sidewalk in L.A., caught mid-conversation with Jensenâs hand on your back and a stupid, dopey look on your face while you stare up at him like he hung the moon. Fuck, youâre an idiot.Â
A hasty scroll through the rest of the article reveals more of the same, and you could kick yourself for making your dumb crush so obvious. The photo captions are practically mocking you, labelled with things like âan intimate evening for Ackles and L/Nâ and, under a picture of the two of you at a beach, âWe might be a little mad that the two most attractive people are togetherâ.Â
Well, at least now you know what every single question at your panel is going to be about. And somehow you have to figure out how to play this off like itâs nothing. Of course I donât have a crush the size of a mid-sized whale on Jensen, hahaha, thatâs such a hilarious idea!Â
Your only saving grace is that clearly, Jensen doesnât think anything of it. Itâs nothing more than a brief joke to him and Jared, and as much as that should bring you relief, it still stings to know that heâs obviously never bothered to think of you that way. And why would he? For all Buzzfeedâs nonsense about you making an attractive couple, Jensen Ackles miles above your league.Â
Youâre pulled out of your thoughts by Misha sitting down next to you, an easy smile on his face as he nudges your shoulder with his own. âSo, welcome to the club,â
Typically, you and Misha are pretty close friends, but your patience is too short this morning for any of his shit. âWhat club?â you shoot back grumpily.Â
âPeople who the internet have declared in love with Jensen Ackles,â Misha returns, grinning like itâs obvious.Â
âHa, ha. See, except when that happens to you, people think itâs funny,â
âIt is funny,â
âNot for me!â you explode, belatedly wincing at your harsh tone. âYou and Jensen fuck around on stage and that works for you. If I donât get my shit together in the next five minutes, Iâm getting my name dragged through stupid tabloids and laughed straight off the show because I couldnât keep my goddamn stupid pathetic crush under control!â
âHey,â Misha waits until you meet his blue eyes. âThatâs not going to happen. Okay? Itâs not,â
âMisha--â
âY/N,â Misha returns firmly. âItâs going to be okay. Jensen would never let anything happen to you. And you donât have to answer anything you donât want to.â
You sigh softly, nodding. Rationally, you know heâs right. But mostly, as much as youâre worked up about the panel, your fear is that Jensen is going to be the one laughing at you, and you donât know how to explain that. âYeah,â you say dully, just as a convention worker comes forward to collect you.Â
âIf itâs really going to shit, Iâll come distract everyone,â
âSomehow, I think that would be worse,â you shoot back over your shoulder as you start walking to the stage. Breathe, Y/N. Youâre fine.Â
You wait for the introductions to finish and take your place on the stage, a slightly breathy laugh escaping into the mic as you look out at the crowd. That is a lot of eyes watching your every move. And theyâre on your side, you remind yourself. Itâs the fans whoâve been tireless supporters of you and your character, this whole time.Â
âHey, guys,â you clear your throat. âWhatâs up?â
You chatter for a while about whatever you can think of, telling an edited version of the grumpy Starbucks man this morning and rambling a little about Jaredâs latest on-set antics. All too quickly, though, you run out of things to say, leaving you with no choice but to ask for questions.Â
At first, to your great relief, theyâre pretty tame. You spend a solid few minutes breaking down Sierraâs latest character arc, and the time sheâs spending hunting on her own. You do get a few questions about whether she and Dean could get together when she gets back with the brothers, but as long as it stays firmly in the realm of your characters, youâre not worried.Â
âAnd whatâs your name?â You ask gently, trying to reassure the nervous young woman at the microphone.Â
âUh, Y/NâŠâ
âI love that name!â you wink at her, rearranging yourself in the chair to be more comfortable. âWhat do you want to know, Y/N?â
âUh,â she stutters, her face blushing pink. âYouâre my favorite actress, and, I, um,â
âThatâs very sweet,â you interject, nodding to encourage her.Â
âI just, uh, really want good things for you, and I just wanted to ask if, um, areyoureallydatingJensen?â she spits out all in one breath. âCause you deserve him,â
You blink, shifting in your seat. Youâd arrived at the elephant in the room. Damn.Â
âUh,â escapes your mouth as you frantically try to construct a diplomatic sentence. âNo, actually, no, weâre not.â I wish. âThe, um, the article was a surprise to us too!â You added a little shrug in as punctuation, trying to play it off.Â
âBut you guys look so cute together!â Other Y/N exclaims. âHe looks at you like--â she cuts off, biting her lip so hard you can see the white from the stage. âNevermind. Sorry.âÂ
âNo worries,â you assure her casually, like youâre not dying to know what she was going to say. âNext question?â
The next one up is another young woman, this time much bolder in her question. âBut if you were given the opportunity, would you date Jensen Ackles?âÂ
God, Chuck, literally anyone please kill me. âI donât know how to answer this without getting in trouble,â you finally laugh nervously. âThis is a dangerous question,â
The audience all laughs loudly, some of them throwing out comments and suggestions. âIn the interests of not getting killed in my bed tonight,â you say lightly when theyâve quieted. âIâm going to skip that question,â
Thereâs really no saving you, though. After that first question, itâs like a dam has broken and everyone wants to know about your relationship with Jensen. What do you think of his house in Austin and does he cook for you and what do you do between takes and whereâs your favorite place to go together. Someone even asks if youâre hooking up even if youâre not dating, which youâre positive turns your face completely purple before you get through redirecting that fan.Â
An hour later, you stagger off the stage mentally exhausted and thoroughly grumpy.Â
âOuch,â Briana sympathizes, sliding up beside you as you grab a water bottle in the green room.Â
âCanât wait for my dumb red face to trend on Tumblr,â you mutter, wondering darkly if you could just jump out one of the windows.Â
Briana laughs like she knows something you donât, and rubs a hand over your back soothingly. âCome on, letâs get you out of your head before your photos,â
The two of you end up on a walk a few blocks from the convention hotel, fresh coffees in hand and Briana chattering away while you nod along. Itâs not that youâre tuning her out, exactly, youâre just...overwhelmed. You do, however, notice when she stops talking.Â
âAre you listening to me?â she looks at you sharply.
âSorry, B,â you mumble. âGot distracted. What?â
Briana shakes her head with loving exasperation. âI asked what youâre wearing to karaoke tonight,â
âIâm probably not going to--â you start.
âOh, no you donât. You canât leave me there alone,â Briana interrupts, folding her arms across her chest.Â
âWhat do you mean, alone? Kim and Rich and literally everyone will be there,â
âYou are not allowed to skip karaoke.â Briana says firmly, and you suddenly know how her daughter must feel when sheâs misbehaved. âBesides, Jensenâs singing with Louden Swain beforehand. Donât you want to see it?â
âFine. But Iâm wearing this,â you gesture to your plain black top and jeans. To be honest, youâre not sure if you actually do want to see Jensen perform, or bother with the rest of karaoke night. Mostly you just want to crawl into bed and put the covers over your head and pretend that you havenât been making a fool of yourself all morning, but Briana is a force of nature when she wants something.Â
She smiles excitedly at your acquiescence, pulling out her phone for a moment to type something before you start heading back.Â
You nudge her teasingly with your elbow. âYour phone more exciting than me?â
Briana just slides it away hastily before you can read more than Jaredâs name over her shoulder. âJust taking care of something.â
Thereâs something sheâs not telling you, but you donât feel like digging right now. Youâre just focusing on getting to the end of this convention without spilling all your secrets and looking like an idiot.Â
By the time youâre sitting down in the seats for Louden Swainâs set, your face is indeed all over Tumblr. (You always deny having the stupid app, but sometimes a girlâs gotta know what people are saying about her and her hot costars.) Thereâs comments full of stupid speculation that youâre hiding your relationship, including a whole thread about how youâre clearly hiding your secret threesome with Jensen and Misha. Great.Â
âUh, okay,â a familiar voice snaps you out of your thoughts. Jensenâs on stage in front of the microphone, holding his guitar. âThis was not part of my original plan, so...if this goes badly, itâs all Jared and Brianaâs fault.â
The crowd laughs good-naturedly as your gaze snaps immediately to Briana. Infuriatingly, your friend just shrugs.Â
âThis is a cover of a song neither of us wrote,â Jensen continues, gesturing between himself and Louden Swain behind him. âBut I thought it could be fitting,â
Heâs nervous, you realize, watching the way heâs fiddling with his guitar strap while he talks. But you have no idea what heâs doing. And you have no idea why he didnât tell you. The two of you always know what stupid thing the other person is planning, especially stunts in front of the fans. But clearly not this time. With a sinking sense of dread, you wonder if maybe he does hate you a little bit after today, and that article. Maybe thatâs why heâs not talking to you. You swallow hard against the sting in your throat, and Jensen starts playing.Â
The opening chords are definitely from a country song you vaguely recognize from the radio, and you wonder why this is Jensenâs choice over one of his own songs.Â
âGirl, you know I've known you forever / How many nights we hung out together,â
Across the room, Briana has an enormous smile on her face.
âMy boys are laughing and tap me on the shoulder / Making a motion like, âCould y'all get any closer?ââ He punctuates the words with a little scowl in Jaredâs direction.Â
âThere's a rumor going 'round about me and you / Stirring up our little town the last week or two / So tell me why we even trying to deny this feeling / I feel it, don't you feel it too? / There's a rumor going 'round, and 'round, and 'round / What d'you say we make it true?â
There are a lot of people suddenly making noise around you as they come to the same realization that you are, but youâre frozen in your seat. The rumor is you. Heâs talking about you. Jensenâs singing for you. And you should be elated but your mind is stuck on a loop of what the fuck thereâs no way this is real.Â
You donât even realize that the song is over until everyone is clapping and youâre still stuck staring with embarrassingly wide eyes, Jensen up on stage with an embarrassed dusting of red across his face and a slowly deflating expression.Â
âHey,â Jaredâs elbow digs hard into your ribs suddenly. âPlease do something. I canât take any more of him like this,â
âWhat--oh--shit!â spills out of your mouth as you stand hastily, your phone tumbling off your lap. âIâm just gonna--â
By some miracle, you make it through the crush of people and around to the backstage area, your heart racing unevenly in your chest. You have no idea what youâre supposed to say, or if Jensen will be there, or if youâre even interpreting this right. Maybe itâs all just wishful thinking. No, Jared wouldnât have encouraged you if that were true. Would he?
Youâre so lost in your thoughts that you end up plowing straight into Jensenâs chest, his arm sliding automatically around your waist as you wobble off balance. âShit, Iâm sorry!â
He steadies you, green eyes searching your face with a flicker of vulnerability. âHey,â
âHey,â you whisper back. You have no idea what happens now.
With his free hand, Jensen rubs the back of his neck awkwardly. âLook, if that was too much--â
âNo!â you shake your head quickly. âIâm sorry, I was just...processing. I...it was really sweet, Jen,â
âYeah?â
âYeah,â you confirm. âI just⊠me? Are you sure?â
âWhy not you?â Jensenâs face wrinkles in confusion. He moves both hands to your waist, the warmth of his skin bleeding through your thin shirt as he tugs you closer. âY/N,âÂ
Thereâs something in you screaming that you might not get to do this again, that heâs going to come to his senses, that the whole thing is a dream, and before you can second guess yourself you launch yourself up onto your tiptoes and kiss him.Â
Your arms go around his neck while Jensen wraps you up tighter against his chest and itâs not fireworks, or earth shattering, or anything so dramatic. His mouth moving against yours just feels like home and love and of course. Of course you were going to get here, of course it was going to be like this.Â
Jensen lifts you off your feet for a moment before breaking the kiss, and he looks just breathless and flushed enough that youâre equal parts proud and turned on.Â
âOf course itâs you,â he murmurs, one hand under your chin to tilt your head up to him. âOf course I love you. Youâre my best friend.â
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based on this hilarious post, by @profoundinqq! and written for @mystybloo.Â
sam looks at his brother, a fast-growing-familiar eye crinkling smile making him look perfectly content as he leans on cas, relaxing his weight against him with an arm wrapped around cas's shoulders. they're all drinking â have been a while, but that's not where dean's smile stems from, and sam knows that. he looks carefree, younger, and so happy, and it's a constant sam's been noticing a while now, though tonight, and lately, it just seems normal.
(that's the thing. it is.)
sometimes sam wonders how it all began.
he's obviously ecstatic it did - honestly, he could think forever, and not come up with two individuals more deserving of such profound happiness, as dean or cas. or the love, abound when they're together, so incredibly obvious, and somehow, almost hope-kindling in a ways.
but it doesn't stop him wondering, right now, at this moment, how they finally ended up taking the leap. facing the music, falling into each other's arms, ending their ridiculous, decade-long dance of pining, confessing.
dean's never volunteered the information, and sam's never felt it urgent enough (or himself, earnest enough) to ask cas - but oh, it's probably been buried in the back of his mind for long, bundled with all the other pleasanter questions about life and living it â and today, it leaps to the front when the empty, green bottle spinning ambitiously under everyone's pointed stares, ends up stuttering to a pause, pointed at his brother.
they're playing truth or dare - a significant percentage of their adopted family present, although only a few remaining cause it's past midnight. they're sitting on the floor in a circle, all varying degrees of drunk - and sam winchester seizes his chance.
"truth or dare, dean."
*
dean doesn't really hesitate, which is commendable; he just disentangles himself from being draped over his boyfriend, and takes another swig from his bottle. "truth."
"how did you and cas -" sam pauses. his eyes shift to cas, and the angel faintly smiles back.
"- finally grow a pair?" gabriel finishes for him prematurely, leading to sam glaring in his general direction, because it's a little hard to know his exact coordinates at sam's current levels of inebriation.
"we haven't been growing anything." cas says, a hint of humor in his squint but that's about it. "or pairs of things."
"yeah, sammy." dean agrees, though his is not a wooden face. he doesn't pretend to not understand what sam - or well, gabriel, is going for. "me and cas? we're old news."
"you're a blank page." sam frowns, prissy and self-righteous, and somehow pulling off an annoyed little brother vibe on top of that. fuck that, he's the same distance from forty as dean, just the less prone-to-forgetting-the-reasons-he-enters-a-room side. "with a question mark at the end of the headline."
"how did you end up together?"
it's not his best comeback, but dean rolls his eyes â admission of defeat â with no real passion in the practiced habit. "what do you want to know?"
cas looks at dean with a substantial amount of surprise.
"he gave me a pick-me-up, back in hell." dean throws back, before realizing he's earned eye rolls from almost everyone in the room. sam takes it a step ahead, slipping into bitchface territory, as if to remind dean that he gets to ask these questions now - they're over lying about breaking the world to each other, at this point. they have to be.
another eyeroll, and then dean sighs.
"goddamn saps, all of you." he looks accusingly around the room, meeting eileen, charlie and gabriel's twinkling eyes. "fine. what version you want?"
"well, the long -"
"trick question. there's only one." dean cuts him off, with an age-old rendition of a shit-eating grin. if sam can spend his entire life and then some, perfecting the bitchface, at least dean's got this. "so, uh. me and cas."
charlie giggles, but shuts up immediately when dean starts speaking.
"guess we were playing truth and dare then as well." dean frowns. "man, for a bunch of badass dudes and ladies who save the world, we sure play a lot of middle-school games in the afterparties."
"i like it." cas defends, and that's that on that, because dean strokes cas's knee with his thumb and a smile, and they stare until the fork in the conversation is forgotten and sam clears his throat impatiently. (it's gabriel's turn to giggle.)
"right. right, yeah." dean swallows. "well, so it landed on me, and cas asked me to choose -"
"he dared you to kiss him!" charlie guesses, or actually, declares, beaming.
"no, katherine heigl, this isn't a chickflick."
"if you went for katherine heigl, you should've gone for romcom." gabriel inputs, almost serious for a fraction of a second.
"does it matter?" eileen signs, and sam reads her hands out loud absentmindedly, and with enthusiasm.
"dean, would you just say it minus the drama pauses?"
"yeah, instead of being grossly inaccurate in your movie genre references?" gabriel piles on top of it, and charlie nods in sympathy.
"of course you are, but i think i specified your face was." cas points out, and it's the first time he's spoken up, and dean almost blushes for it.
dean pulls a face. "go to hell, i don't have to take this." but he goes on anyway, cause that's dean, isn't it? "just - i chose truth, okay?"
no one breathes for a moment.
"and cas told me i was beautiful."
there's a gasp. probably charlie â but not completely unlikely to be gabriel.
"yeah, 'kay." dean dismisses, though it's mostly directed at the other four (hunter, hunter, nerd, ex-trickster, not necessarily in that order) who've taken to gushing by now. "and that's it. story over. cas messed up, billion year old angel style, and it led me to realize he was the most adorable dork i've ever loved. or like, the only one. ever."
sam, charlie, eileen and gabriel bat their eyelashes in undisguised wonder.
"you're allowed to disperse to your rooms to cry now." dean retorts, and he's about to add more to it considering he's well settled on the wisecrack wavelength, when cas suddenly interrupts.
with an inscrutable, "no."
"no?" dean repeats, eyebrows raised.
there's a speck in cas's eyes, the curve of his lips too whimsical. it's almost un-cas-like, except no, it isn't. doesn't stop dean from staring anyways - eyes falling to the latter's lips, before returning to his eyes.
"dean, i knew how the game worked."
dean frowns.
"i 'messed up' the rules on purpose." and he accompanies it with the fucking air-quotes, so he might sound completely nuts, but it's definitely still him.
"what does that mean?"
there's pin-drop silence.
"you'd call me adorable when i didn't understand aspects of human behavior or games often. and it always made you smile. so at some level, i wanted that, even when i did understand those things. sometimes, i'm compelled to draw the conclusion, i wanted you to think i was adorable." cas pauses, blinks. "that time, it was an added, and wholly unexpected incentive when you decided to give up on trying to explain it to me, and kissed me instead."
"cas -" dean stares at his angel in gap mouthed bewilderment. he doesn't know what he's supposed to feel right now - though it's hard to feel any kind of manipulated, when cas is being this honest about it. alternatively, when it's gotten him the best part of his life. "you lied to me."
"of course i didn't." the bastard has the balls to sound indignant about it. "your face is exquisite."
"stop that." dean swallows, trying to keep himself from getting flustered. "you literally played dumb."
"stating entirely true facts about your bewitching face hardly sets back my intelligence, dean."
a traitor snickers in the background.
dean is officially too drunk to deal with this. he's going to give it more thought tomorrow - that is, if he remembers it at all. right now, what's way more important, is that his boyfriend apparently flirts by pretending to misinterpret rules, and accidentally compliment dean, and that's the most ridiculous thing dean's ever heard, in a life stuffed to the damn brim with ridiculous things.
"you're so fucking weird, cas."
"no, dean. i'm adorable." cas deadpans at him, and dean lets out a high-strung laugh, short, after which he finds himself able to do little else but shake his head fondly. mostly, at the floor, because if he'd been looking at cas, he'd probably also have been kissing him.
"and you agree." sam points out, to dean, and in return, dean snaps up a look pissed off enough for sam to truly feel sated enough by this ordeal, because he shrugs, and eileen sets the bottle spinning again.
nobody protests.
*
a few chances later, after charlie's rushed off to throw up, and sam and eileen have gone to bed, and gabriel's sort of wandered away at the very least - cas spins the bottle again.
it's just the two of them, so when the bottle points at about forty degrees from straight at dean, they decide to forego asking the lamp in the bottle's true line of questioning, in favor of cas asking dean.
"truth or dare?"
"dare."
"alright, i shall." cas whispers, reaching out to cup dean's face as he kisses him, and pull him closer. and dean goes, obviously not arguing with the concept of cas kissing him, even if he's doing it 'as a dare', in a hilarious, mindboggling, and adorable callback to that time dean realized he was in love with him â because he's a weird ex-angel-who-apparently-understands-humans-now, and also, definitely, the love of his life.
*
("cas." dean psst's, later in bed, when cas is turned away from him, hugging a pillow with his knees. "truth or dare?" cas groggily turns, "truth." dean breaks into a smile. "will you marry me?" cas freezes for a beat, and then drags dean to himself, kissing him with his eyes closed, still stunned, but no less enthusiastic for it. when they separate, cas's cheeks are wet, and dean feels like he's floating. "you know, sweetheart, we can play the old-fashioned way, and you'd still be the most adorable thing in my life." dean mumbles, kissing cas again, this time on his forehead, and in the same, shared breath, cas breathes out, smiling. "yes.")
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if ur still doin the kiss prompts, can u do the 51. public kiss but its em kissing kim and kells sees?
51. Public kiss (Eminem x Kim, MGK witness)
"What the fuck is this!", Colson's voice was too loud.
Marshall hadnât closed the hotel room door yet, only a confused "Huh?" left him.
"Donât play dumb with me", Colson snarled, "I shouldnât even be here, you ... What the hell is it with you two?"
"Who?", Marshall asked still confused and walked closer.
Colson threw a magazine at him. "You and her. I donât get it. Was this all just a trick to get her back? Or some weird revenge for the beef?"
"What the-?" The cover of the magazine had Marshallâs face on it and the headline read: Eminem and Kim, is it real love this time? "Oh come the fuck on!", Marshall huffed indignant and threw it on the couch table. "You know not to believe that shit. They always lie."
"Oh really?" Colson picked the magazine up again and opened it, shoving the page with a bunch of paparazzi photos into Marshallâs face. "Pictures donât lie!"
Pictures of Marshall kissing Kim. New pictures of them.
"You swore it was over. In how many songs did you swear it was over?" Tears gleamed in Colson's eyes, but the anger kept them inside. "Am I just a joke to you? Fucking asshole!"
"Colson, hon, I-", Marshall started but his words wouldnât be believed. Itâs not what it looks like, yeah thatâs what they all say. "Letâs talk about this", he said instead.
"No! Donât butter me up or some stupid shit. Just break up with me, alright. Letâs get it over with. I canât win against here anyway âŠ", voice fading on the last words. Anger fading for sadness, the real feeling of the moment. "I shouldâve never done this in the first place."
"But-" Marshall looked at his boyfriend - apparently soon to be ex-boyfriend - unbelieving and shocked. It was this easy to end? Didnât they mean more to each other? A few stupid photos and it was over already? Then what was this even? Merely a fling, meaningless and without substance.
But Marshallâs heart hurt. "How can you even think that!", he yelled back, "Donât you know how much bullshit that woman put me through? And I her? How can you even for a second believe Iâd take her back? I learned my fucking lesson, you fucking idiot!" Fists balled and shaking, not with anger but pain. Heâd thought this was good now, a relationship worth having. Not perfect by any means, but one where they understood each other. Thatâs all Marshall was really yearning for. Somebody who understood, somebody who knew, somebody to seek comfort with when life was getting too much.
And heâd thought to be that person for Colson, too. But perhaps Colson didnât want that. What did Marshall know what the other wanted from this?
"I bet you said that the first time, too", Colson threw back at him. The anger sounded exhausted, easier to keep it up than to face reality.
Marshall knew that feeling but he never found how to break it. "Shut the fuck up! You know nothing!"
"I know enough!", their voices were both too high, too loud, "You still love her, donât you. So you kiss her and take her back when she comes crawling! And Iâm just a side piece!"
Marshall kicked against the couch table and it fell over from the force. "Shut! The fuck! Up!" That wasnât what had happened, not this time. "It was just a stupid fucking kiss! Shit!" Why was this going so bad?
~.~
Kim smiled earnestly, almost shy. "This was surprisingly nice. Kinda weird but nice", a short look around the restaurant, empty but for them. She wasnât used to this.
Neither was Marshall. This always felt eerie and weird to him, but this was his life and he had learned to live with it eventually. "Yeah, it was." Not being with each other for years had calmed down the waves, both of them hot heads, both of them finding this life stressful but perhaps for different reasons. Marshall wanted to say sorry. If it wasnât for him, her life mightâve not been such a shitshow. Perhaps it wouldâve still turned out this way, just less public. Who knew? He didnât say it though.
They stood up from the table and their dinner, it felt like the last dinner they would ever have together. All three of their daughters grown up now, the last band holding them together grew thinner and thinner each year. There was no reason to meet anymore, less reason to have a real conversation.
Once Marshall had thought heâd never be without her, now he couldnât imagine a life with her. The love that once was left nostalgia and obligation and memories, but looking at her now how she corrected the collar of her coat ... She was a woman he didnât know and that was okay.
He held the door open for her and as she stepped through, he held her back for a moment. "Have a good life", he said quietly, honestly and kissed her goodbye.
Mild surprise on her face. "Good night, Marshall." She left for her car, only once looking back and waving at him briefly. Did she feel the same thing? He could never tell.
But tonight he didnât mind. It didnât matter and it would never again. She was just a woman securing her alimony now with the children out of the picture. And to his own surprise he didnât mind that either.
~.~
"It was just a stupid kiss", Marshall repeated, not willing to let the hurt show. Colson didnât deserve to see it if he believed this bullshit. "It didnât even mean anything! Whyâre you making such a mess?"
"Iâm making the mess?", Colson asked indignant, "You fucking kissed her! Her of all people!"
Marshall threw his hands in the air frustrated. "Yes, you! Sheâs just a woman, donât blow it out of proportion."
"No, sheâs not", Colson huffed. "And you know that."
"Yes! I know that, so fucking believe me when I tell you sheâs just a woman." He stared at Colson through slitted eyes, to hide the plea he felt filling them up with wetness. "And as a reminder, I donât really like women all that much, aight."
Colson crossed his arms in front of his chest, his height always had him looking down on Marshall. "Thatâs hard to believe. Then why were you kissing her? Her of all people."
"Because ...", she wasnât a part of his life anymore and he was sentimental enough to think of that as sad, right in every way but sad still. Marshall shrugged, "I can kiss whoever I fucking want."
"No, you canât, asshole. Are you this stupid? You definitely canât kiss her!" Desperation was gleaming through the anger, through the tears hard fighting not to be cried.
Marshall didnât want to kiss her, not the way Colson thought. He really didnât want to kiss anyone but Colson that way. Not necessarily meaning he wouldnât end up doing something stupid at some point, but right here right now he wanted to kiss Colson, his boyfriend, the person he loved. But it seemed impossible.
Why was this so hard? Just one step, a few words, an apology and this whole thing could be over. But Marshall wasnât in the wrong here. He hadnât done anything and nothing that warranted yelling and shouting. Colson needed to make the first step.
But the only step Colson took was towards the hotel room door. "Fine! If you wanna kiss her so badly, do it. Be with her. Try it again with her. But donât come running to me when you end up being burned again. Thatâs entirely on you!"
He held him back for a moment. "Donât leave me, Colson", he said quietly, honestly and kissed him to stay.
Marshall was losing the fight like he always did when it came to love. Once he swore not to allow this shit again, to rather stay alone than let this happen again. But he hated being alone. He wanted to be with somebody who understood, somebody who knew, somebody to seek comfort with when life was getting too much.
But right now he wanted to be with Colson regardless. Perhaps some day the man could be one of those things, there was always hope underneath the pain.
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