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il-predestinato · 9 months ago
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Ollie Bearman (Jeddah 2024): “The drink is going everywhere except in my mouth!” Charles Leclerc (Abu Dhabi 2022): “Grazie, grazie… [chokes on water] Oh, I pressed the drinks button. Ohhhh! Grazie ragazzi!”
Name a more iconic duo than Ferrari drivers + struggling with the drink. 😓
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As tumblr fucked up my tags, here a few corrections:
"the" incident (in the 2. tag)
so called "chaos day" (in the 18. tag)
to "protest" and drink alcohol (in the 4. to last tag)
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#since everyone is sharing their stories in the tags here are mine#my school didn't really have incident but rather a few fucked up things over the years#there was one time when the seniors from the school next to ours had their last day#our schools have always been rivals and actual fights have happened often just for going to the other school#frequently these fights ended in the hospital for someone#anyway on that day the rivalry peaked#the other school destroyed blinds from our ground level classrooms which took a year to finally be fixed#also they put a shopping cart in the parking lot of our teachers and filled it with newspapers and then proceeded to burn the entire thing#and just the entire school yard was a mess basically#every senior year designed some form of stone as a memento kinda thing which would be put in the school yard#one from a few years ago got sprayed with graffiti which took a full semester to get rid of bc they couldn't find anything that erased it#i think you can still see it very lightly#anyway all that happened on one day after school ended and everyone went home#the next morning was VERY interesting#that was probably the most interesting incident#funfact: the same senior year ruined their own school as well#because of that their principal forbade the next senior year to do anything fun on their last day#although in my country it's basically a tradition to have a so called which would USUALLY just involve fun stuff#like balloons in the hallways for example or getting students out of class for one hour and playing games in the school yard with music#instead all the next senior year from my rival school could do was illegally drink alcohol off the school grounds#the first people got picked up by the police at 7am that day because they were alcohol poisened and started to break stuff#that was literally an hour before their classes would've started#turned out that they met there at 4am to and drink alcohol because they weren't allowed to have their#funfact number two: that was the same year I was a senior and our chaos day got allowed and we had the time of our lives#it was called one of the best chaos days our school ever had lmao#if you've read all the way until here congratulations#and apoligies for the ramble#cay rambles
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ofstarsandvibranium · 6 months ago
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Precious Truths: Part I
Fandom: Bridgerton
Pairing: Benedict Bridgerton x F!Reader
Summary: After your father finds out you've been writing under a male pseudonym, he threatens to marry you off to an atrocious man unless you find yourself a husband within a month's time.
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Ever since you were little, you found solace in poetry. Your mother highly encouraged your governess to have you read any and every poetry book that was ever made. The imagery and feelings it produced was something you never experienced before.
After your mother died, your father forbade you from reading poetry. He forbade you for ever mentioning your mother again. Their love was strong and true. As a result, it caused your father deep heartache. He became cold, heartless, and cruel. A drunkard and a gambler. Fortunately, his sister, your aunt, had moved in and became lady of the house. She became your mother figure, but she could only do so much.
She snuck you poetry books when she could. The words now being the only part of your mother you had to connect to.
Because of this love, you began to write poetry yourself. You only ever shared it to your aunt and friend, Kate Bridgerton nee Sharma, another lover of stories and poetry. Both having expressed their hopes of you publishing your writing some day.
"Maybe some day," you'd always say.
What they didn't know was that you did publish your poems. You went under a man's pseudonym, Arthur Talbot. His poetry books were becoming popular among the ton and it brought you joy and a sense of thrill whenever someone mentioned his name to you.
You'd recite your his poetry readings held at Lady Danbury's often. Everyone was always in awe of how the words poured out of you with intense and deep emotion.
But the one who was most taken with them and you, was none other than Benedict Bridgerton.
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The small group break out into applause and you curtsy. Lady Danbury walks up to you with a proud grin on her face, "Another splendid performance, Miss L/N. I can tell you deeply resonate with Talbot. "
You bow, "Thank you, Lady Danbury. His words mean a lot to me. It's as if he and I are one." You hold back a laugh as you express your gratitude to the hostess.
"Well, I think this calls for a break," the older woman turns to face her guests, "Everyone please enjoy some refreshments."
People begin to disperse, leaving the sitting room for other parts of the Danbury estate.
You're standing off to the side, watching those around you, when your dear friend, Benedict, approaches you. You smile wide at him, "Ben!"
"Another splendid performance, Miss L/N," he lifts his glass to you.
You chuckle, "Thank you. But I think Arthur Talbot deserves just as much praise. They're his words after all."
Benedict nods, "Yes, but you perform his words so beautifully."
You look away, feeling a heat crawl up your cheeks. Benedict clears his throat, "I take it you still have no marriage prospects since you haven't mentioned anyone courting you."
You look back up at him and snort, "Ben, this is my fourth year in society. I highly doubt I'll ever find a man willing to marry me at this point." You cast your eyes down to play with a thread on your skirt, "No one wants to be married to someone who has gambling drunkard father. Doesn't matter if he's a Lord or not."
"If my brother, Anthony, managed to find love and a wife, you will to, Y/N."
You scoff, "How dare you put me in the same category as Anthony."
"I agree," you turn to see said brother and Kate, approaching you, arm in arm, "You're much better than my husband," Kate says with a smirk.
"Still disgustingly in love, I see," you arch a playful look at your friend.
"Very much so, I'm afraid."
Anthony unhook his arm from Kate's and moves towards Benedict, "Come, brother. Let us let the ladies socialize." He takes Benedict's glass and downs it in a gulp.
The younger brother frowns, "I was drinking that."
"Then we shall grab another and drinks for the ladies," he pats his brother's shoulder and Benedict groans, following his brother out of the room.
You and Kate take a seat on the couch and catch up while the men grab drinks.
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"So, have you finally decided to court Miss L/N?" the eldest Bridgerton asks.
"We are friends, Anthony. Nothing more."
"So you don't love her anymore?" Anthony asks with a curious gaze, taking a sip of brandy.
"...I didn't say that. Besides, you originally didn't want me involved with her because of her father. Isn't that right?"
"Yes, well, we are the not the sins of our parents. Miss L/N is a lovely woman. She's smart, well-read, not to mention she laughs with you even when your jokes aren't funny."
Benedict's brows furrow, "I am funny!"
Anthony takes another sip of his drink and sighs, "What I mean to say is that I think you two would be a fine match. Besides, it's not like any other man is interested in her."
Benedict immediately clenches his jaw and takes a leering step towards his older brother, "Don't talk about her like that."
Stunned by the sudden change of his brother, Anthony takes a cautious step back, "I meant no harm, brother, but is it not true? It's been years since she's stepped into society and very few men have made an effort to court her."
Benedict lets out a deep breath and apologizes, "I'm sorry."
Anthony clears his throat, "All I'm saying is that you've had several chances to be with her. If you don't take the opportunity, you may lose her."
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"I apologize for missing another one of your recitals," Kate says, grabbing your hand and intertwining her fingers with yours. Ever since she married Anthony, you two have become acquainted due to your paths crossing whenever you came to see Benedict.
You shrug, "You've heard it all before, Kate. Just another one of Talbot's poems."
"You're quite smitten with this poet, it seems."
You laugh, "I can't help it! His words are as if he speaks to my soul!"
"Maybe I should write to this Talbot and see if he'd like to ever attend a Bridgerton ball."
You shake your head, "Oh no. Please, don't. People say never to meet your heroes, so I don't think I would want to meet him."
Kate shrugs, "As you wish."
Anthony and Benedict come back with drinks in hand. Anthony hands Kate a glass and Benedict hands you one.
"Thank you, Ben," you give him a grateful smile and he smiles back, "Of course."
He sits in the chair beside you and you two fall into discussion about the poem you recited, all the while Kate and Anthony give each other knowing looks.
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adragonprinceswhore · 3 months ago
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Aemond Targaryen x (Ex)Wife
Chapter V: Silver Springs 🎼 Masterlist
Summary: You think back to the tumultuous end of your marriage.
Warnings: 18+, AFAB reader, she/her pronouns, angst, fighting, possessive Aemond, toxic relationship dynamic, dysfunctional family dynamic, physical violence, blood, anger issues
Word count: 5700
A/N: As always, I’d like to acknowledge my love, Justine @theoneeyedprince 🩵 She’s writing a new series called Careless Whisper and it is a gem! ILY!
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“You excited for the big show tonight?”
Jace’s cheery voice greets you as you enter the backstage area of Winterfell Arena. You look up from your phone and acknowledge your bandmate with a smile, 
“Excited and more nauseous than I’ve ever been”, you joke, sliding your phone in your pocket. 
It looks like most backstage rooms have looked so far on the tour; sparsely decorated with fold up tables and chairs. There’s an array of snacks and drinks offered, and you make your way to the refreshments next to Jace to grab some coffee. 
He appears to already be wearing his stage clothes; a tight, purple silk button-down shirt that  shows just enough skin to get his fans excited. Despite the curse of being the overlooked bassist, Jace has a small yet rowdy fanbase, who tend to go absolutely mental whenever he winks at them from stage. He loves the attention, and you guess today’s extra slutty outfit choice is his gift to them. 
He moves to lean against the table, plastic coffee cup in hand,
“So, will you treat us to a new song tonight? I hadn’t heard ‘Dreams’ all put together before we performed it but damn, it sounded great”
You meet his eyes as you pick up the plastic cup by the small ear on the side, 
“I think I’ll do ‘Dreams’, it’s the only one I feel is really finished”, you reply and take a sip. 
There is another song you’ve been working tirelessly on, but you’re not sure if you feel ready to perform it. 
It is one of the reasons why your album is delayed. The members have all recorded their instruments and finished the back-up, yet you haven’t submitted a final version of your vocals. 
As a musician, you’re used to pouring your heart out when writing lyrics, not afraid of getting personal. And still, for some reason, this one almost feels too revealing; too intimate to sing out loud. 
You have the lyrics written down, and you’ve sung them to yourself at home. But singing them on stage, with him there, feels too exposing.
Too vulnerable.  
You haven’t seen Aemond since your regrettable tryst in his hotel room. 
After reading through the divorce papers, you called Alysanne back up, needing help to wrap your head around the entire situation. 
After a few hours of talking, she convinced you that this was for the best. 
You’d gotten what you wanted. 
And the mishap in Aemond’s room was, according to your best friend, nothing more than a chance to “bang one out” one last time. 
“Got it”, Jace replies in his typical cheerful manner. He reaches for a small biscuit on the table and pops it into his mouth, “I’m sure your song will sound great. They always do” 
His warm, brown eyes shine as he assures you of your abilities. It feels nice; how uncomplicated his praise is, and you smile back at him again, thankful to have at least one easy-going person in your band. 
You continue to chat light-heartedly as you wait for the other band members to arrive.  
When Jace heads outside for a smoke, you spot a familiar notebook on one of the chairs nearby. 
It’s open.
Curious and foolish, you head over to see what’s written. 
You glance at the paper, lyrics written by hand in impeccable handwriting. You know you shouldn’t, but you can’t help yourself. 
‘I don’t wanna stand ‘tween you and love, honey’‘I just want you to feel fine’
Again with the self-pitying? Fucking hell, he’s relentless. 
Did he want you to “feel fine” when he forbade you from attending events without him? Or when he went through your email without your permission?  
‘Oh, you say you love me but you don’t know’
You put the paper back down, already feeling your mood souring. 
Prick.
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When you first started dating, you quickly learned that Aemond was the rock of his family. 
If his brother had been arrested for drunk and disorderly behaviour, he was there. 
If his mum needed someone to help organise a charity event, he was there. 
If his grandfather needed him to go over a case at 3 am, he was there. 
Seeing the stress of such immense pressure weigh him down, you, in turn, tried to be his rock; supporting him in any way you could. 
You managed quite well. Like those times he came home late after spending 12 hours at the office, and you greeted him with a smile and a home-cooked meal, kissing his cheek. 
He’d sit down and grab you by the waist as you placed the plates on the table, keeping you on his lap while you ate and discussed your days together. 
When you finished eating, you’d stay like that. He’d lean into you, resting his face in the crook of your neck while he held you close, thanking you for the delicious meal. 
You knew that he was thankful for what you did for him; gratitude evident in his voice and how he complimented your cooking skills. Still, there was always this sadness inside of him, a pitiful tint to his tone. 
It was tough seeing how drained he got from being everything for everyone. 
Aemond’s older sibling never felt the crushing pressure of being Otto Hightower’s protégée. While he worked tirelessly at Oldtown Solicitors after finishing his degree, they chose to pursue the band full-time. A privileged career choice made optional by their generous trust funds. 
You took a part-time position after graduating so that you could stay in the band and write music. Aemond nearly convinced you to focus on the band full-time as well, arguing that he could provide for you if you ever needed anything. Despite the generous offer, you decided that he already had enough to deal with, and potentially adding further to his endless list of responsibilities didn’t sit right with you. 
You wanted to ease his troubles, not add to them. 
Consequently, when you recorded your first album, it was mostly at night, after Aemond had finished working with his grandfather. His natural talent and precision as a guitarist and singer meant that it usually only took him two or three attempts before he was satisfied with a piece. 
You, on the other hand, did not find the recording process as easy. 
You feel tears of frustration sting your eyes as you step out of the sound booth. Helaena, Aegon and Jace had already gone home, drained from a full day of recording. 
“Hey, what’s wrong?”, Aemond asks when he sees the way the corners of your lips pull downward. 
You let out a shaky breath to gather yourself, swallowing in an attempt to make the lump in your throat disappear, 
“I can’t do it, it just-, it sounds like shit no matter how many times I-”, you mumble, cutting yourself off as you try to take another deep breath, determined not to cry. 
You feel silly, getting so upset over something so nonsensical. Still, being unable to deliver in the way you’d like has left you feeling powerless over your own voice, like you can’t control it. 
Aemond stands up from his seat by the mixing table and slowly makes his way towards you. He moves one of his hands to cup your cheek and looks down to make eye contact with you, 
“Don’t say that”
His voice is soft as his thumb gently strokes your cheek, “It’s late and you’re tired, it’s okay to need a break. But never doubt yourself, love”. 
He leans down to place a kiss on your forehead and you crave his touch like nothing else, pushing yourself against his body as your arms hug his waist. He hugs you back, one hand stroking your hair, and you instantly feel the lump in your throat melt away. 
The tears that had threatened to spill, never do. 
He makes it all go away.
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The blood, sweat and tears you’d put into creating your first ever album as Dragon Dreamers proved to be worth it. Suddenly, your songs play on the radio and are featured on major playlists, where thousands of people can listen to them. 
The success instigated both you and Aemond quitting your jobs and focusing on the band full time together with Helaena, Aegon and Jace. You were certain that leaving Oldtown Solicitors and creating some distance with his grandfather would be good for Aemond, maybe even pushing him to open up to you more. 
He had a tendency of shutting you out, particularly when he was clearly distressed by something. He refused to even acknowledge some things, like he wanted to spare you from it. Yet all his secrecy did was make you feel lonely; like a stranger your beloved did not trust enough to let in. Every time he dismissed your concerns and refused to speak about what was upsetting him, another crack appeared on your weary heart. 
During the first year of your relationship you’d been under the impression that you and Aemond shared a connection so innate and deep, you didn’t need to discuss things like other couples did. 
You were able to understand each other wordlessly. 
And though there was truth in that assumption, time made you realise that Aemond’s inability to open up slowly tore a cavernous rift between the two of you. 
Music blasts out of the speakers in the crowded bar, making it hard for you to hear Tyland as he introduces you to one of his colleagues. 
It’s a man around 30, with a slightly crooked smile and long, dark hair pulled back in a bun. 
You move closer to hear what he’s saying, nodding along to his explanation of what next for your band. 
“We’d like to make a music video for one of your songs, maybe featuring a live performance?”, he asks and you feel yourself light up at the thought. A bright smile breaks out over your face, revealing your approval of his proposal. 
“That would be amazing!” 
You nearly have to shout for him to hear you over the ruckus in the bar, and you lean in a little closer. 
“Have you ever considered doing some solo stuff? On the side, of course”, he asks, grey eyes locked with yours. 
You open your mouth to answer, but before you have a chance you feel a warm hand on your shoulder, stopping you, 
“She wouldn’t have time for that”
Aemond’s firm voice answers right behind you. You didn’t see him come up, and you can hear the irritation in his voice. A quiet sigh leaves your lips, dreading what’s to come. 
The man Tyland had introduced you to appears a bit stunned by the sudden shift in atmosphere, and offers you both an awkward smile and stiff nod before heading to the bar counter. 
You turn to face Aemond, whose face is set in a frown,
“What was that about?”, he asks and you feel irate frustration bubble up inside your chest. 
This is not the first time he’s taken the liberty of answering for you, or scaring away anyone who dared approach you. 
“Nothing”, you reply before walking around Aemond, moving towards the door. 
You need air, your husband’s presence suffocating you. 
You step outside and spot Jace, leaning against the wall with a cigarette hanging from his lips. 
“You don’t happen to have one more?” 
He pulls out the pack together with his lighter and opens it for you in an invitation to steal one. 
You place the cigarette between your lips, mumble out “thanks”, and light it up. 
You take a drag, let the smoke fill your lungs, and you close your eyes. 
The nicotine gives you a slight high and your fingertips tingle pleasantly. 
“Give us a minute, Jace”
Aemond’s voice interrupts your serenity, and your companion leaves without a word of protest.  
You open your eyes to look at Aemond. You know he’s upset about what had just happened, but there is something else that he’s not telling you. 
Behind the angry facade, he seems sad. 
Or insecure? 
It is hard to decipher when he so persistently tries to push those feelings down. 
He doesn’t say anything. His hand seeks out yours to grab the cigarette and he takes a long drag before handing it back to you. You wish he’d just talk to you. Tell you what makes him act so hostile towards those around you. 
Towards you.
It makes you anxious; the uncertainty. Not knowing what’s going on inside. 
Aemond breaks the silence.,
“So, you really want to leave the band?”
You click your tongue in frustration and throw the cigarette on the ground, stomping on it until the bud stops glowing,
“When have I ever said that?”
“You sure seemed happy when that scumbag wanted to steal you away”, he says and moves to lean against the wall next to you. 
“Aemond”, you sigh, looking up to meet his eyes. He is so hard to read it infuriates you. 
You know there is no point in fighting. It’s like his mind is set on distrusting you; of thinking the worst of you. 
“Every time you act like this, you break my heart. It's like you don’t trust me in the slightest”, you say in a helplessly defeated voice,
“That hurts, you know”
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As Aemond got more and more possessive over you, he also kept you further and further away from himself. 
Sometimes you wondered if he actually hated you. 
Why else would you cause his ire to light up so fiercely? 
Whenever someone approached you, he was there, looming over you. 
Guarding you. 
Like you were his, and no one else was allowed near. 
No matter how many times you asked him to stop, he wouldn’t listen. 
Instead, after you found yourselves in a fight, something that had become a weekly occurrence, he’d head out without a word, leaving you alone in your shared home. 
He could be gone for hours, leaving his phone behind so you couldn’t contact him. It felt like torture, waiting for him to come back without any knowledge of what he was up to, or if he was okay. 
When he eventually came back and you confronted him about his behaviour, he dismissed your concerns, telling you that he just needed to “clear his head”. 
Everything about the situation felt unfair. 
Not just the fact that he opted for running away instead of talking to you, but also because you knew he’d be livid if you decided to suddenly leave in the middle of the night. 
After a year of meaningless fights, petty arguments and baseless accusations, you came to the realisation that you couldn’t be his rock anymore. And he’d stopped being yours long ago. 
Before the success of the band, you could provide him with reassurance and love. 
Now, it seemed like he’d made you the enemy, suspicious of everything you did, set on distrusting you. 
Staying with him, loving him, felt like too great of a challenge. 
And maybe it was. 
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Taking one last look in the mirror, you put on just a little more lipstick before tossing it in your handbag and walking out of the bathroom. You’d ordered a taxi for six o’clock, and it should arrive any minute now. 
“When were you going to tell me about this?”
Aemond’s harsh voice echoes in the quiet room. 
He’s leaning against the kitchen island in the middle of your open-plan flat. You feel the all too familiar pit of anxiety form in your stomach at his tone. 
He’s irritated again. 
He holds your phone up so that you can see the screen, an email from Tyland.
He’d contacted you earlier today about an opportunity for you to do a photoshoot and interview at Casterly Rock to promote the band's biggest hit yet, Landslide. 
Your eyes narrow as you look at Aemond, 
“Don’t go through my emails”
“Tyland wrote that he’s already booked you a ticket. You have to run that by me first”, he continues in a stern voice. 
As if he’s lecturing a child on bad behaviour. 
You stay silent, move to the sink to pick up a glass and fill it with water. You try to distract yourself enough to breathe, anger already making you feel hot all over. 
“It was a last minute decision, it’s only 2 nights next week”, you explain through clenched teeth. 
You really don’t want to get into a fight right before a show, and had already decided to tell Aemond after instead. Somewhere inside, you knew he wouldn’t be happy. 
“Were you not going to give me the courtesy of letting me know that you’re leaving?”
“I was going to tell you after the show”
Your body is still facing the sink so you won’t have to face him. 
You can’t decide if you’re more angry with him for trying to control you, or saddened by the fact that he doesn’t trust you. 
“You should’ve told me imm-”
“Aemond, you don’t own me. Stop acting like I’m your possession!”
Your irksome voice cuts him off. His still trying to keep his cool, tone refusing to match your intensity as he answers, 
“But I am your husband”
“It’s just two nights away. I’ll be with Tyland the entire time”, you say, softening your tone to not trigger him further. 
“Out of the question. You’re not going”, he replies stoicly and places your phone back on the kitchen island before standing up. 
“That’s not for you to decide!”
Your previous attempt to remain calm fails. You almost want to laugh at the absurdity of it all; being denied a business trip by your husband like he’s your guardian. 
“Yes, because we’re a team! I’d never fucking run away without you”, Aemond spits, clearly as incapable of keeping a level head as you are. 
“It’s two nights away to promote the band. I’m not “running away”, you clarify and turn to face him. 
You can see how exasperated he is by his stiff posture and the hard look in his seeing eye. He tries so hard to hide it, and yet you always manage to see through the facade. 
“It’s good publicity”, you say. 
“I said no”, is all he replies before he moves to the sideboard by the door, picking up the keys placed in a small dish resting on the polished surface. 
You feel your face heat up in anger at his dismissal of your words; of your agency. 
How dare he think he can dictate your life? 
“Well, I don’t need your fucking permission!”, you shout back at him, 
“If I want to fly to Casterly Rock, or any other fucking place, I will! You can’t stop me from doing anything, Aemond. I’ll fly to fucking Yi Ti if I so wish! You can’t-”
Your rant is cut off by a sudden loud crash by the wall next to you. 
The remnants of the dish where you kept your house keys lies in shambles on the floor next to you. Your wide eyes look down at the plate's remainders in disbelief before travelling towards Aemond. 
It’s like both of you are frozen in shock from his actions. His recovery seems to be quicker than yours, regret clear on his face and in his voice, 
“Shit. Fuck! Sorry, I’m so sorry”
He rambles apologies in panic, clearly stunned by his own action. He tries to shuffle closer to you, but you recoil as soon as he comes near.  
The shock of his action and the loud sound that accompanied it triggers something inside you, and you immediately feel tears well up in your eyes. 
You feel like a child; startled and scared. 
“Fuck. Sorry for scaring you, love”
His voice is much softer than mere seconds ago. Pleading. 
Aemond brings his hands up slightly, a sign of surrender, and moves closer to comfort you. 
You wince and back away from him, eyes still widened in disbelief. 
“I’d never hurt you”, he tries to assure you. 
You still can’t fully comprehend what had just happened, 
“How the fuck am I supposed to believe that?”
Aemond opens his mouth to answer just as the intercom rings, signalling that the taxi is waiting downstairs. 
You try to gather yourself somewhat and take a deep breath before moving to grab your bag and jacket from the hallway. 
Aemond’s pitiful expression observes you, and you tell him, “When we get back, we need to talk about this. About us. I can’t take this any more”
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The taxi ride to the venue is excruciating. 
Aemond hasn’t said a word, but his fingers are tapping restlessly against his thigh, something you’d learned to be one of his most prominent nervous habits. 
In the corner of your eye, you can see how his gaze repeatedly seeks out yours, but you refuse to look at him. 
He reaches out to lightly touch your fingers, but you move away from his touch,
“I-, I don’t know what came over me, love. I am so sorry for scaring you, I promise it will never happen again”
You’re too tired to respond, and stubbornly continue to watch the city pass by through the car window. 
When the cab pulls up to the live house, you can still feel the tears of shock drying on your cheeks. You thank the driver and step out of the car, before entering the backstage area. 
The small room you’d been assigned to prepare in smells musky and the lights are toned down. 
Helaena is nowhere to be found, but you immediately notice Jace’s brown locks in the corner of the room, seated in an armchair with his base in his lap. 
On the large, brown leather sofa placed in the middle of the room sits a slouching young man with ruffled, silvery hair and purple bags under his eyes. He lights up when he sees you enter, voice slightly slurred, 
“There she is! King’s Landing’s new little, uh-, fucking-, romantic, sexy sweetheart!”, Aegon drunkenly declares, smiling from ear to ear, 
“Charming everyone with her sad songs”
“Hi Aegon, are you okay?”, you ask gently.
You try as hard as you can to hide the fact that you’re disappointed in seeing him so clearly intoxicated. 
You know he has problems with alcohol, and despite a recent trip to rehab, he hasn’t gotten much better. 
“I am, now that you’re here”, he replies with a sloppy wink. 
You move towards the small fridge by the wall of the cramped room, pulling out a water bottle and handing it to him without saying a word. 
He brings the bottle up in a mock cheer before opening it and taking a large sip, possibly to show you, and Aemond, that he isn’t as drunk as you assume he is. 
“Always so fucking sweet to me”, he smiles at you, “Mondo, you’re a lucky guy, you know”, he addresses his brother, who’s leaning against the door, clearly displeased with the fact that Aegon hadn’t been capable of waiting until after the show before he got shit-faced. 
The hostility between the brothers is clearly one-sided as the older Targaryen continues,
“I just saw the most unhinged shit online man! Some fans were discussing what her favourite position is”, he laughs out as he addresses his brother. Aemond’s face is stoic, but you can see the tension in his jaw as he fixes his eye on Aegon. 
“Is it true, baby? Is it really doggy?”, he asks as his eyes shift from Aemond to you. 
You’d gotten more or less used to how lewd your brother-in-law could get when he’s drunk. But being asked something so crass after the day you’d had only leaves you feeling disgusted. 
“Knock it off”, Aemond’s stern voice cuts through the cramped space. 
You notice Jace shifting uncomfortably in his seat, picking up the pack of cigarettes in front of him on the coffee table before standing up and heading out of the door. 
You wish you could run away as well, but the tension radiating from Aemond tells you to stay put.
“Oh, come on, it’s all in good fun! I’d die to have a girlfriend with tits like that”
Whatever game Aegon thinks he’s playing with his brother is clearly one-sided. Aemond quickly jerks his head to the side to look at his brother, seeing eye darting at a speed that his blind eye’s incapable of. 
“Uh oh! Eyes going two different directions!”, Aegon says with a laugh, crossing his eyes to mock Aemond, 
“Can Lazy Eye look you in the face when he’s fucking you?”, he asks and he turns to you, eyes still meeting over the bridge of his nose. 
“Seriously, Aegon, knock it off”, you plea. 
He can turn so fucking mean when he’s drunk, hiding his own displeasure with life behind jabs at his brother. 
He continues to laugh when he adds,
“One eye on your face and one on your tits? A pity he can’t see through it”.
Before you have a chance to reply, Aemond lunges forward, fist held high as he smashes it against his brother's face. Aegon keeps laughing even as blood spills from his nose, staining Aemond’s hand going in for blow after blow. 
You’re frozen for a millisecond before you start to yell at him to stop, but it’s like he doesn’t hear you.  
Neither does he hear his older brother’s laughs turn to grunts of pain as he begins to sober up under Aemond’s assault. 
You see Aegon’s face turn slack, eyes fluttering shut like he’s going out of consciousness. Aemond continues to land punch after punch on his brother’s face and you feel panic rush inside of you. 
You throw yourself on Aemonds back in an attempt to pull him away. He’s inaccessible, not listening to your desperate pleas for him to stop.
Drops of blood are flying in front of you, landing on the worn leather sofa underneath Aegon. Your arms encircle Aemond’s shoulders as you try to pull him off of his brother with all your might. 
He tries to shrug you off, but as he goes in for the next hit, his elbow accidentally retracts against the side of your body, making harsh contact with your ribs. 
You wail out in pain and Aemond immediately stops his assault on his brother to turn around and look at you in panicked worry. 
Your body’s folded over the coffee table next to the sofa, hand placed over the spot that's hurting on the side of your stomach. 
He moves away from Aegon to make his way towards you, but you back away from him by reflex, suddenly too aware of how dangerous his temperament can be. 
You hurry up on your feet to quickly leave the backstage area, Aemond’s strained voice calling out your name behind you. 
He’s fucking lost it.
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Thinking back to everything that led up to your divorce leaves you feeling a mix of emotions, misery being the most prominent one. 
This is supposed to be the highlight of your career; the band’s biggest show yet. 
You don’t want to feel like this; a constant state of being filled with sorrow. 
You want to enjoy performing again. 
You can hear the crowd call for you to come out on stage, and you feel nerves ebbing through your veins in anxious waves. 
“Aemond wanted to perform ‘Never Going Back Again’ as the first part of the encore later on”, Helaena says and looks at you. You feel even more restless. 
“And I thought maybe you have another new song to sing? Maybe the one you sent me a recording of?”
Her hand comes up to rest reassuringly on your upper arm. You know which one she means, even if she doesn’t say anything else. The song. 
“I told the guys it’s called ‘Silver Springs’, they’ll know which one it is from recording. I know we haven’t practised it together but Dreams was such a hit with the fans, I’m sure they’ll love this one too”, she says and smiles gently in that way only she’s capable of. 
The thought of Aemond performing ‘Never Going Back Again’, on top of singing ‘The Chain’ and ‘Go Your Own Way’, lights a fuse inside of you. 
You look over at him, 
“Okay”
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This is it. 
The stage, vast and intimidating, seems to close in as the intro to ‘Silver Springs’ starts to play. 
You have no idea if Aemond had listened to the voice recordings for the song.
You asked Helaena to do backup vocals instead of him on the track, hoping that would make the song feel less of a testament to your heartbreak. 
‘You could be my silver spring’
‘Blue-green, colours flashing’
‘I would be your only dream’
‘Your shining autumn, ocean crashing’ 
What if he had read the lyrics? 
Had he pondered them weeks after, dreading to hear you sing them on stage? 
‘And don’t say that she’s pretty’
‘And did you say that she loved you?’
‘Baby I don’t wanna know’
Had he even cared?
Your longing gets the best of you, and you glance over at Aemond. 
‘So I begin not to love you’
‘Turn around, see me runnin’’
‘I say “I loved you years ago”’
‘Tell myself you’d never loved me’ 
His face is stoic; good eye already observing you.  
He might look calm to the audience, but you can see the tension in his jaw. You see how he’s breathing heavily out of his nose. 
His grip on the guitar seems bruising, fingers moving skillfully; never making a mistake. 
You quickly look away. 
Why do you suddenly find him so intimidating? 
‘And don’t say that she’s pretty’
‘And did you say that she loves you?’
‘Baby, I don’t wanna know’
‘And can you tell me, was it worth it?’
‘Baby, I don’t wanna know’ 
Your own lyrics prickle your heart. 
Do you tell yourself he never loved you because that’d be easier? 
What if it was true, that he never really loved you? 
He’d been possessive over you. And he’d been controlling. But that’s not love. 
Loving someone means you care for their well-being and happiness, over anything else. 
You know he loves Alicent and Helaena. He treats them differently from how he’s been with you; he was so much gentler with them. 
Picking fights with you over nothing, controlling your life and not letting you be happy, that's not love. 
Worst of all, he doesn’t act like that with Alys. 
Does he love her?
‘Time cast a spell on you, but you won’t forget me’
‘I know I could have loved you, but you would not let me’
You think back to how your relationship once was. 
When he was your biggest supporter, erasing any doubts you had about your own talent. Always reassuring you that you were worthy. 
That man is not the one sharing a stage with you now. 
The sorrow over losing your beloved husband turns to anger, and you need him to know. 
He needs to see how much he hurt you. 
‘Time cast a spell on you, but you won’t forget me’ 
You can’t look away, not even when tears start forming in the corners of your eyes. 
Aemond’s seeing eye looks so dead; completely void of emotion. His knuckles are white from the force in which he’s holding his guitar. 
‘I know I could have loved you, but you would not let me’
Every emotion you’ve tried to suppress comes crashing over you; 
Anger.
Hurt.
Betrayal.
Grief. 
But you won’t let him win. You can’t give him the satisfaction of seeing you broken. 
You feel a tear escape down your cheek, but you refuse to look away from his face as you keep singing, 
‘I’ll follow you down ‘til the sound of my voice can haunt you’
‘Oh, give it just a chance’
‘You’ll never get away from the sound of the woman that loved you’
Despite standing in front of thousands of people, despite what happened in his hotel room, this feels like the most intimate exchange you’ve had in months. You want him to see how much he hurt you. 
You want him to feel bad. 
To hurt too.
‘Was I such a fool?’ 
‘I’ll follow you down ‘til the sound of my voice can haunt you’
Your voice almost breaks from the sheer force of the emotions pouring out of you, but you manage, singing with nothing but raw emotion and sorrow-fuelled rage. More tears slide down your cheeks. 
‘Oh, give it just a chance’
‘You’ll never get away from the sound of the woman that loved you’
‘Time cast a spell on you, but you won’t forget me’
‘I know I could have loved you, but you would not let me’ 
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You finish up the concert on auto-pilot, not really present anymore. As soon as you finish playing The Chain, you make your way back to the hotel. 
You throw the door to your room open, kick off your shoes, and dive into the back of the closet where you store your clothes. 
You pull out Aemond’s university hoodie from the black bin bag you’d tossed it in, anger consuming you just by the sight of it. 
Fuck him. 
You look around the hotel room for something sharp; a pair of scissors, a wine opener, a fork, anything. You spot the small pair of scissors you use to trim your nails with on the nightstand and grab them before stabbing one of the tiny blades into the soft material of the hoodie. 
Fuck him. 
Your vision turns blurry as tears well up in your eyes for the second time this evening, but the tiny bit of relief you feel from ruining something of Aemond’s is intoxicating. 
You put your fingers through the small holes you’d made in the fabric and pull with all your strength, ripping the shirt over and over until it’s nothing but a pile of scraps of fabric. 
Fuck him.
A/N: Thank you for readig! 🫶
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perlelune · 9 months ago
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Training Wheels | Coriolanus Snow | ii.
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Your mother's macabre work never appealed to you as you always preferred the comfort of your books, but when her apprentice takes a special interest in you, your safe, quiet world is flipped upside down.
Warnings: DUB-CON, NON-CON, Gaul!Reader, Shy Reader, Manipulation, Parental Neglect, Drinking, Peer Pressure, Hazing, University set, Loss of Virginity, Dumbification, Insecurities, Abusive Relationship, Degradation, Suicide Attempt
This is a dark story. Heed warnings before reading under the cut.
𝖘𝖊𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖘 𝖒𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖑𝖎𝖘𝖙
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The clock catches your eye the second your ethics class ends. You pick up your things and make your way to the exit. It’s lunch time. You can’t erase the conversation you had with Coriolanus from your mind. His eyes, his smile, his smell, his voice…everything about him makes your head a little cloudy. Boys have never been your concern before, especially because of Mother. It’s not that she ever forbade you to date, experiment. It was more of a silent understanding, a quiet agreement. There are more important things than boys in this world. Like science, or rebuilding the world after the war. Mother herself has only one love. Her research. So you always supposed it is your duty to aim to be the same way. Therefore, while everyone around you talked about crushes and first kisses and…other things since middle school, you’ve kept your head in your books.
It’s not like you never noticed how pretty some of the boys at the Academy were. Boys like…Coriolanus Snow. It just always felt forbidden. As Volumnia Gaul’s daughter, you had to be above it all.
Hence your predicament. What does someone like Coriolanus Snow want from you?
The question keeps swirling inside your head as you approach the cafeteria. His attention never swayed in your direction before. Towards girls like Persephone, Clemensia or Livia, perhaps. But you? The very idea is ludicrous.
You make a stop near the lunch room’s door. It’s already brimming with students. Animated chatter fills the cafeteria and you dourly note the groups that have formed. Even Lysistrata, the infamous loner, has found her tribe with the likes of Io Jasper, Persephone Price and some red-haired boy you don’t know. A few months have already passed. You should have found a crowd by now, a group of like-minded people that’d tolerate your presence. But every time you approach someone, you get tongue-tied and your mind blanks. How does one even strike up a conversation out of the blue? It still stuns you that Coriolanus spoke to you with such ease. Though you surmise the Snow heir is comfortable with people in a way you’ll never be.
Your gaze travels to his table. Coriolanus and his friends. They seem absorbed by an intense conversation, Festus waving his arms while Clemensia shakes her head in apparent disbelief. 
You shift the books between your arms. Feet rooted to the floor, you struggle to move. You watch the exchange, pondering how to weave your way through the cafeteria without drawing too much attention to yourself. 
As you contemplate your next move, blue eyes find yours across the cafeteria. Coriolanus’ lips curve upwards. Your pulse soars. The rest of the table seems to note your presence. Clemensia places a hand in front of her mouth and laughs. Then the rest of them, bar Coriolanus, begin to laugh as well. 
Your chest clutches, fire creeping inside your cheeks. They must be laughing at you. Of course. It’s the only explanation that makes sense. This was a stupid idea. Stepping back, you dash through the hallways. The library will be a more appropriate spot for your lunch break, as it often is. Quieter. Less crowded. Safe and familiar. The wooden rows brimming with books are your shield against the noise and chaos of the world outside.
It’s where you belong anyway. Besides, you still have your notes of the morning to peruse and memorize. You can’t afford to fall behind.
The rest of the week transforms you into a nervous wreck. After you fail to show up for lunch, Coriolanus’ unnerving cobalt stare appears to follow you everywhere. Whether it’s in the lecture hall, the hallways or even the library, your safe haven, the Snow heir’s presence always lingers near. Still, you try to resume your usual routine, both at the Capitol University and the Citadel.
Tasks are never amiss in Mother’s lab. Between the mutts to feed, filing the archives and cleaning the subjects’ glass cases, something always requires your attention anyway. All the important jobs aren’t yours to have. Just menial tasks. It’s all Mother said you can manage anyways. Back when you were little, your mother paid sporadic attention to you. She’d spend time with you, show you the specimens, talk about her work. However she quickly lost interest in you once she realized your lack of ambition, intellect and inclination for casual cruelty. For a fleeting stretch of time, you know your mother harbored hope that you could succeed her, continue her research, complete her breakthroughs. Those hopes are now forever buried, along with any sliver of expectation Mother had for your future.
You couldn’t stomach the thought of her experimenting on live creatures and kept asking if they were in pain, or if they missed their family, if once she was done, she would send them back home. Mother grew annoyed by it. To this day, you feel she still holds that against you.
Once your work for the evening is done, you take a rare break in one of the empty offices. While you’re aware it’d be best to go over your flash cards for the upcoming exams, the motivation to do it isn’t with you today. The entire week all you’ve done is study, burning the midnight oil at both the University library and home. A break would be welcome. You’re craving it in fact.
So instead of your study books, you collect a novel from your leather satchel. Heart fluttering in anticipation, your fingers sweep over the cover. This one details the forbidden tryst between a prince and a castle maid. Your cheeks warm as you land on the scene you didn’t get to finish last time. 
As you sink into the story, oblivious to the world around you, you don’t hear the soft steps circling closer to you. 
Warm air fans over your shoulder as a deep voice erupts from behind you.
“I didn’t realize smutty romance novels were on the curriculum.”
Astonishment plucks a gasp from you. The swivel chair spins as you bolt to your feet, the book in your hands dropping to the floor with a heavy thud. Your eyes widen as Coriolanus’ towering frame invades your line of sight.
He slowly crouches to pick up your novel. As he gives it a quick once over, flipping through the yellowed pages, a smile blooms on his lips. 
“These are smuggled from the Districts, aren’t they?” he inquires, a hint of disdain coating his utterance of the word ‘district’. Embarrassment flushes through you as Coriolanus’ gaze roams across the pages. “Interesting choice.” His eyes rise to meet yours. Your heart misses a beat. “Does Dr. Gaul approve?”
“N-Not really,” you confess with a small voice, fiddling with the cuff of your lab coat. 
His smirk broadens at that.
The blond causes you to leap back as he snaps your book shut. 
“I was expecting you at lunch the other day,” he says, edging closer to you. 
Your mouth dries. “I was busy.”
Coriolanus’ brow quirks.
“Too busy for lunch with me?”
“It wasn’t just you.”
He pauses, searching your face. His silent scrutiny makes your nerves thrum. You freeze in your spot, hands squeezing the edge of the desk behind you. 
After an eternity goes by, he states gently, “We weren’t laughing at you.”
Your jaw hangs slack. You feel self-conscious as his keen blue eyes hold yours, peeling the layers of you. 
He heaves out a long sigh. 
“Festus just said something stupid and Clemmie happened to look in your direction. I’m sorry you thought that.”
“I didn’t think anything,” you mumble, shrugging.
His face pinches ever-so-slightly.
“Yes.” He gets even closer, chest almost brushing yours. Your stomach tightens. “Yes, you did,” he articulates. “So I’m making sure you know. No one was laughing at you that day. And Clemmie wouldn't do that. She’s the nicest girl I know.”
You study Coriolanus, struck by the sincerity laced in his tone. You aren’t used to anyone considering your feelings. Besides, you don’t find it in you to argue, remembering Clemensia’s kindness on multiple occasions at the Academy. She is also one of the few wealthy students who never picked on the departed Sejanus Plinth for his roots in District Two, even defending him from Arachne’s cruelty on one occasion. Relief flows inside your chest. So you weren’t the reason behind their laughter that day. It feels strangely good, knowing that, especially coming from Coriolanus himself. 
He cocks his head and scoffs, “We aren’t at the Academy anymore. Why would we do something this childish? That’s silly.”
“Yeah, I guess it’s a little silly,” you mechanically reply, something about his definitive tone making you feel dumb for even letting your mind wander there. You give a shaky nod. “Thank you.”
He hums as if he were lost in thought. His fingers then slide below your chin, startling you.
“You don’t have to lie to me, you know?”
Confusion has you blinking rapidly.
“I’m sorry?” 
His digits latch around your jaw, his features disturbingly still.
“Just then, you lied,” he notes. “About it not bothering you. You don’t need to do that with me.” He pauses, tracing the curve of your bottom lip. “Besides, between you and I, you’re very bad at it.”
An anxious chuckle peals from your lips.
“What’s so funny?” he asks, curiosity evident on his features. 
A hollow smile tugs your lips.
“It’s just that Mother says the same thing, that I’m a horrible liar.” It’s just one of the myriad of things you’ve always failed at. Fooling others and pretending. 
Wars are won with heads, not hearts.
Coriolanus places his hand besides you on the desk, looming over you in a way that has your pulse quicken. You grow dizzy as his scent coats the air.
“You know…Clemmie and the girls were looking forward to meeting you,” he intones. 
Disbelief fills you. “T-They were?”
“You’ve been so discreet during our Academy days. Everyone was just curious, that's all.” His feathery lashes sag, caressing his cheekbones. “About what you were like.”
“Oh.”
“Well, you’re a bit of an enigma, angel. The daughter of the Head Gamemaker who never talks to anyone. That makes people wonder.”
“I’m not that interesting.”
Coriolanus takes a long minute to drink you in. Your skin tingles with his intense focus. Somehow in the dim light of the office, his blue eyes seem to come alight with a strange glint.
“I disagree,” he slowly states. “I think you’re very interesting.”
You lick your lips. “I’m really not.”
Your only answer is that cryptic smile he likes to wear. 
“So…you still owe me lunch.” He slants his head. “We can go together if you like.”
“Together?”
“Yes. You don’t have to feel scared if I’m with you.”
When you bow your head, hesitation lingering within you, he tilts your chin up. 
“No one would dare make fun of you if I’m around. Trust me, angel.”
There’s an unfaltering certainty cinching his tone, as if repercussions were sure to befall whoever questions him.
Your forehead creases. 
“You don’t have to do that, you know.”
“What?” he asks, his dark brows knitting.
“All of…that.” You turn away from him, reflexively gripping your forearm. “I-I’m fine on my own. Always have been.”
Surprise floods your insides when no snappy reply pours from his lips. Instead of answering, the blond leans away from you and releases your chin. He observes you as you remain still. You can’t help trying to figure out what thoughts bounce through his head. He must think you’re an idiot, isolating yourself like that, missing out on everything the world has to offer. If only he knew. There is no space for you in the world. Nowhere for you to fit.  As Coriolanus heads for the door, the tension in your body melts a bit.
“I’ll see you in class,” he announces after several harrowing minutes of silence. 
As he makes to leave, you’re hit with the realization that he still has your book in his hand. 
“Coriolanus?” you call. He stops in his tracks, head pivoting towards you. “My book…”
This draws a subtle smile from him. Coriolanus makes no move to return your novel, turning his back to you as if you hadn’t called him out. 
Mouth agape, you watch him take his leave without another word.
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The next day, you think yourself free of Coriolanus Snow’s peculiar scrutiny. Right after the morning classes end, you head to the library. You are determined to enjoy a peaceful lunch break, have a few unenthusiastic bites of the stale sandwich you packed this morning and maybe get a head start on your molecular cell biology courses. Another topic that has you drowning in class, that you’ll need twice as much work to pass.
Naturally, however, the blond has other plans.
He shows up again while you’re sitting at the bottom of a shelf so high it nearly touches the vaulted ceiling of the library. You find him staring at you from the corner of your eye.
Your heart bounces inside your chest as your gaze crosses his.
He plops down next to you on the floor.
“Coriolanus,” you chide hotly, your voice just above a whisper. “You have to stop doing that.”
A lopsided smile decorates his handsome features.
“I like how flustered you get. It’s cute,” he replies, mirth dripping from his soft timbre. There isn’t an ounce of guilt in his words, as if the mere fact that your reaction entertains him is justification enough. 
A frown mars your brow as your focus shifts back to your Biology book.
“Shouldn't you be having lunch with your friends?”
“Hm…someone’s missing at my table.”
Your nails sink into your palm, your frown deepening. 
“You’re persistent.”
His raspy chuckle ripples through your skin.
“I prefer determined, angel,” he mutters, much closer than you’d like. “What are we reading today?”
“N-Nothing. Just going through my notes.”
“You don’t have to study all the time, you know.”
“No, I do.”
He hums his disapproval.
“You don’t.”
“I’m not like you, Coriolanus. I’m…” Your voice trails off. Your mind whirls as your spirits plummet. Mediocre? Dumb? Average? You couldn’t conjure the exact word, as each encapsulates a little bit of what you are. An anomaly amidst the best and the brightest in the Capitol. Regardless of your shortcomings, you want to prove Mother wrong. Besides, you’d feel so proud of yourself if you could stand on that stage one day and collect your diploma with honors. You bite your lips closed. “Nevermind.”
“You put a lot of pressure on yourself, angel.”
“Well, I don’t have a choice.” You try to ignore him. However it’s all for naught, the words blurring on the page as all sense and logic in the text is siphoned by Coriolanus’ unsettling blue stare. Your teeth clench as you sigh. “Are you just going to watch me…the entire time?”
“Maybe.” He pauses, licking his lips. “Or we could go to the cafeteria like I said.”
You gasp when he slams the book in your lap shut. 
“I already told you-”
“You can’t hide away forever, angel,” he interrupts.
Ignoring your protests, Coriolanus grabs your hand and pulls you to your feet.
“Come,” he urges, already dragging you through the library. 
“Wait, Coriolanus…” You almost topple over your own feet as you’re forced to keep up with his long-legged steps.
“I’m making a different choice for you, angel,” he chimes. He tosses you a teasing glance above his shoulder. “It’s okay, we don’t bite…Most of the time.”
Apprehension tangles your insides as you and Coriolanus approach the cafeteria. Coriolanus doesn’t hesitate as he crosses the threshold with your hand in his. All eyes rest on you and the Snow heir, some of the chatter dwindling while whispers fill the room. Heat creeps inside your face. Coriolanus ‘ friends too admire the strange spectacle, a mix of shock and interest mingling on their faces.
Once you reach his table, he pulls a chair out for you. You take a tremulous seat, trying your best not to cower beneath the curious eyes cast your way. Coriolanus sits next to you, his fingers clutching yours in encouragement beneath the table before he lets go of your hand.
Briefly lifting your eyes, you give a bashful wave.
“H-Hi,” you say. 
Livia Cardew doesn’t say anything, her narrowed eyes drifting between you and Coriolanus like she’s desperately trying to solve a riddle that won’t yield its meaning. Ivy Briarose is too focused on her nails to pay attention to you. 
Clemensia’s much perkier. She offers you her hand to shake. You take it.
“Nice to meet you, I’m-”
“I know who you are,” you reply. Your eyes widen as you note how strange a thing it is to utter to somebody you’ve never spoken to. But she takes it in stride, flashing you a sunny grin.
As you and the brunette shake hands, the sleeve of her dark blouse slides up her forearm, exposing a hint of the skin of her wrist. Your mouth drops in shock. The small patch of flesh is covered in scales, mottled in faint neon colors. This looks eerily familiar and your gaze lingers longer than it should. 
Clemensia rushes to cover her scarred wrist.
“Sorry,” you sputter, your embarrassment reaching its crest. It was rude to stare. You should have caught yourself. 
But the brunette brushes it off with a nonchalant huff.
“Oh, that? Looks familiar?” Clemensia bends to whisper in your ear, “Little gift from your mother.” Your blood turns to ice. She flashes her pearly smile, tossing her glossy black strands over her shoulder. “It’s alright though. Most of them have faded.” She unleashes a wry laugh. “It was much worse before…during the Games.”
You open your mouth, your brain scrambling for something to say…Anything. Mother hurt Clemensia, to prove a point probably, knowing her. You should say something, offer comfort, an apology perhaps. But your mind turns up blank. You shift awkwardly in your seat.
The panicked flurry of your thoughts is halted when Clemensia abruptly seizes your hands, squeezing them between hers.
She beams at you.
“You know what? I get the feeling that you and I are gonna be great friends.”
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prettybillycore · 6 months ago
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A Girl in the Men of Letters || Thomas Shelby x Winchester!Reader
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Pairing(s): Winchester!Reader x Thomas Shelby, Minor Dean Winchester x Castiel
Universe: Peaky Blinders + Supernatural 
Summary: When Dean and Cas’s daughter (Reader) is left home alone in the bunker, she discovers a door that leads to the dangerous world of 1920s Birmingham. It doesn’t take her long to meet the one and only Thomas Shelby, who is quickly captivated by her Winchester charm. Will Reader fall head over heels for Tommy too or will she recognize the dangers of the Shelby family and stay away?
Rating: Mature (18+)
Word Count: 6.0k
Warnings: unprotected sex (p in v), age gap relationship (reader is in their 20s and Tommy is in his 40s), fingering, swearing, drinking, mentions of underage drinking, alcoholism 
A/N: WOOO! My first smut??? Are we really here??? Oh my god….
Read it here under the cut or on AO3
You were never supposed to go snooping around the bunker without your dad, his boyfriend, Castiel, or your uncle, but when did you ever listen to the rules anyway? You were an adult, you shouldn’t have to follow rules set by your dad all the time. It felt silly and childish. Yet, here you were, sitting by yourself in the bunker, not doing anything.
Since Castiel had gone missing, and the angels were out to get your family, your father pretty much kept you under lock and key. You were in the library, staring at another book about angelic lore and the words were no longer making sense to you. You slammed the book shut and groaned in annoyance. Uncle Sam and your dad had been gone for five days so far. You were starting to go stir-crazy. This is what led to your exploration of the bunker alone. 
A lot of the doors in the bunker were unexplainably locked. They had been since before your family had arrived at the bunker. You and your family had no idea how to open the doors, and after some monsters crawled out of a previously locked one, your dad forbade you from opening any that didn’t open on their own. What your dad didn’t know is that you found an old key ring a few weeks ago stashed in one of the boxes in the library when you were researching vampires with Uncle Sam. Now that no one was here, you could actually see where they might lead. The last locked door that opened was an accident. A witch from the 1980s came through the door and gave your family quite the trouble. Eventually, Uncle Sam and your dad were able to catch her and dispose of her, but not before she nearly took you out with a few of her spells. You didn’t know what would be waiting for you on the other side of the new locked doors, but you hoped it would be something to spice up your days.
None of the keys on the ring you found were labeled, so you just had to guess where they might fit. You hoped they fit into any doors at all. You would hate if you went to all the trouble of hiding the key ring just for the keys not to open any of the doors in the bunker.  The first door you tried was at the end of the hall where your bedrooms were. It didn’t unlock with any of the keys, so you moved on to a door near the entrance to the kitchen. No luck there, either. You were becoming slightly frustrated, but you pushed forward. Two more doors down another hall didn’t open. You were starting to think maybe your worst fear was true, that the keys didn’t open any doors in the bunker at all. That is until you tried door number five. The first key didn’t work, and neither did the second. However, when you placed the third key up to the lock, it slid perfectly. The sound of the key turning and the mechanism unlocking filled your heart with excitement. Finally, there was going to be something to do while your Uncle Sam and Dad were gone. Surely, your adventure into this door wouldn’t be more than a few hours. They wouldn’t even know you were gone in the first place. You pushed open the door with all your might and were disappointed when you were met with a small, dark coat closet. Really? A coat closet? You thought to yourself. Was this all there was to it? Just an entryway into someone’s dusty old coat closet? You thought surely there had to be more to it, so you filed through the coats hanging up. They were women’s wear and what you assumed was stylish for the time period, though very different from your regular clothing. You could hear muffled talking coming from somewhere on the other side of the closet, and you were just dying to know what was out there. You took one look back at the bunker before slipping on one of the coats and a pair of creme-colored high heels. 
On the other side of the coats was a large wooden door; the detailing looked old and pretty. The door itself looked old and heavy. You shut yourself into the closet, leaving the bunker behind, and walked forward into the new door. You opened it slowly and quietly, not knowing what was going to be waiting for you on the other side. You jumped out of your skin when you were almost immediately met with the sound of a woman’s voice. “My my, the men of letters don’t usually send women; what do I owe the pleasure?” Her voice was raspy yet smooth, with a thick accent that you couldn’t quite place. She was sitting in a chair across the room from the closet. She was eying you closely. She may have sounded somewhat friendly, but she was definitely still assessing whether or not you were a threat. She was older but still had a fire in her eyes. She was smoking a cigarette and was waiting patiently for an answer. 
You dusted off the front of your coat, not that it did you much good, in an attempt to look more presentable to the woman in front of you. Of course, she thought you were from the men of letters; they must have some connection to every place the bunker leads. “There have been some issues within our organization and so some of our records have not been kept orderly. I’m here to check up on how things are going.”
She seemed to believe you. “Dreadful. I hate the man they usually send anyway. It would be much nicer if they sent you from now on. I’m guessing I’ll need to fill you in on some of our operations since your data has been lost?”
You nodded. “That would be wonderful, Ms–”
“Everyone around her calls me Aunt Pol.”
“Duley noted. That would be wonderful, Aunt Pol.”
You now noticed the second presence in the room you were in, who Aunt Pol had been talking to while you were in the coat closet. A man, leaning against the door, smoking a cigarette, much like Aunt Pol was. He caught your attention immediately. He was decently older than you, you being in your early twenties, but that didn’t really seem to matter. His eyes were a crisp blue like the sea and his hands were worn in the same ways yours were– what years of hunting will do to you. “You’re free to leave, Tommy. This is women’s business,” Aunt Pol said with a smile. 
Tommy blew the smoke out of his chest. He eyed you carefully. It was a look you recognized from your work. He was trying to get a read on you. “I’d like to hear what the lady has to say for herself, and I’d love to know how you explain our business, Aunt Pol,” Tommy replied. He took another puff of his cigarette. 
The air was heavy with smoke now. You did your best not to let the smell bother you. Aunt Pol smiled at you this time. “Why don’t you have a seat–”
“Y/n.”
“Y/n, why don’t you take a seat, and we can talk business? Tommy, you can stay if you so please,” Aunt Pol gestured vaguely to the couch across from her spot in the chair she had been perched in. 
Tommy began to walk over from his place near the exit. “I wouldn’t miss this meeting for the world,” he said.
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After your meeting, you let yourself fall into this world. There was something charming about Tommy that you couldn’t quite put your finger on. His voice was smooth, and his accent was thick. You found yourself hanging on every word that came out of his mouth. Aunt Pol was quick to notice your feelings toward Tommy, but she said nothing. She was curious how it would all play out. You were now in a pub, your system buzzing with cool liquor. You were no stranger to drinking. You had been drinking since far before the legal age of twenty-one. You were barely past twenty-one now, but that didn’t matter with Tommy, not with him, not within this pub. The legal drinking age was definitely lower, and no one even questioned your presence in the space. What you did notice people questioning was Tommy being seen with someone substantially younger than himself. You felt the creepy eyes of the older patrons of the pub tracing your curves. You grimaced and tried to drown the feeling in whiskey, something you learned from your dad, but it wasn’t really working this time. You and Tommy were standing at the countertop, receiving free drink after free drink from the barkeep. He was no fool. He also noticed the looks that you were attracting from around the bar. No one dared look at him the wrong way, but that didn’t mean they left his dates alone. Wordlessly, Tommy wrapped his arm around your waist, pulling you into his side. He was almost using his body to block yours from view. His fingertips ever so slightly pressed into your skin. You felt heat rise to your cheeks but said nothing. Another drink was placed in your hand as soon as you finished the one you had. 
“Tommy!” A voice cut through the crowd. “Who do you got here?” You turned your head to look at the person speaking, but Tommy’s arm kept you from fully turning around. Two men were looking between you and Tommy: a younger man with a cigarette in his mouth and a slightly older man with a thick mustache. “Does she have a name?” the younger one asked. He was the one who had originally called out to Tommy, too. 
“Boys, this is Y/n. Y/n, these two are my brothers, Arthur and John,” he explained. 
You smiled at them both. “Lovely to meet you.”
John grabbed the cigarette from between his teeth and grinned. “Where did you find a fast woman like her? Don’t see her type around the city often.”
Tommy’s eyes darted around. No one was paying much attention to the brothers’ conversation. “Would you believe the Men of Letters sent her?”
Arthur laughed. “Those bastards sent an angel like her? What changed?”
“New management,” you said with a smile. 
“I’ll drink to that,” John replied. 
Tommy gestured to a door off to the side of the bar. “Let’s take this somewhere more private.”
“Agreed. It’s crowded out here tonight,” Arthur started. 
“Probably all the patrons staying extra long to gawk at your girl, Tommy,” John said with a laugh. 
You felt Tommy’s fingers grip your hip a little bit tighter at John’s words. You were surprised by his interest in you. It was no surprise that you were interested in him– he was everything that a girl could dream about. Handsome, powerful, rich, and mysterious? Sign you up. However, you found his interest in you a little shocking. You didn’t know what he could possibly see in you. Still, you didn’t mind being the object of his affection for the time being. You were interested to see where it would lead you.
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You and Tommy were the last ones in the pub. Even his brothers had long gone home. Tommy was behind the bar, pouring himself yet another glass of whiskey while you leaned on the countertop. Your whole body was fuzzy, and your heart felt like it was about to burst every time you made eye contact with Tommy. The alcohol in your system was not helping how much your little crush was affecting you. His eyes trailed up and down your form. “What? What are you staring at?” You asked.
He seemed slightly taken back by your boldness. “You’re the only thing to look at in here, love.” He took a small sip of the drink in his hand. 
“It’s late,” you started, “I should be getting back home.”
Tommy shook his head. “No can do, Dove. Aunt Pol is definitely asleep by now. Your only option is to spend the night in Birmingham.”
“But where would I stay here?”
“Well, seeing as you are drunk and we’re the only ones left in the pub, you can spend the night at my house. I’m not letting you go anywhere else alone. It’s too dangerous,” He said. His mind was already made up. 
“I guess I will accept your invitation then, Tommy. Lead the way whenever you’re ready,” you replied with a soft smile. 
| < ♥️ > |
Tommy insisted that you take his bed, and he would take the couch, no matter how much you protested. He showed you to his room; it was quaint and quiet. The only noise that could be heard was a bit of movement from the world outside. You shrugged off the coat that you had stolen from Aunt Pol’s closet all those hours ago. You could feel Tommy’s eyes watching you closely. You didn’t feel like there was much to show– you were wearing a simple T-shirt and shorts with one of your dad’s flannels draped around your shoulders. Still, Tommy’s eyes searched the little bits of your skin that had been revealed. You pretended not to notice. “Thank you for giving me a place to stay. It’s very kind of you.”
“I wasn’t going to leave you out in the cold, Love.” His words were simple, but you could tell that he genuinely meant them. 
“I’m not sure what exactly I’ll wear to bed. I didn’t plan on spending the night here,” you replied. Tommy had already put on a nightshirt while you used the bathroom when you first arrived at the house. His eyes flicked between you, and the shirt draped across his chest. 
Without a word, he pulled the shirt up over his head. He held the fabric out to you, a small smile on his face. “This looks like it will fit you,” he said. You could feel the heat rising to your cheeks as your eyes scanned over his bare chest. His muscles were toned, and his skin was scarred and tattooed. A familiar warmth rushed to your core at the sight. Tommy’s appearance utterly took you. You didn’t know where to look as you took the shirt from his outstretched hand. Everywhere felt like too much, but your eyes settled on a tattoo on the upper part of his chest. “Oh, that? I have tattoos older than you, Love.”
You smiled at him. “I have one tattoo myself.”
“Really? Care to share?” He asked.
You, without much thought behind the action, pulled your shirt over your head, revealing the anti-possession tattoo that graced your chest. Every hunter needed one; you were no exception. That didn’t matter to Tommy, though. His eyes traced your newly exposed skin. With the hand that had the shirt in it, he reached out and traced the inner circle of the tattoo, taking a step closer to you. His breath was quiet and steady. Yours was louder and more breathy. This did not go unnoticed by Tommy. His hand moved from your tattoo to your upper arm, gently pulling you closer to him. “Tommy?” You questioned quietly.
“Hush, Love,” he replied. He brushed your hair out of your face with his hand and leaned in, firmly pressing his lips to yours. Your stomach was doing flips, but you chose to ignore it. You dropped the shirts in your hands and wrapped your hands around his neck, losing your fingers in his hair. Without breaking the kiss, Tommy slowly backed you up toward the bed. When your legs hit the edge, you squeaked in surprise. He chuckled lightly at your reaction. Tommy gently moved his hand to your back and guided you down onto the bed, only briefly breaking the kiss. Once you were properly on the bed, Tommy positioned himself over you and connected his lips to yours again, even more passionately than the first time. His hands were on either side of your body, trapping you on the mattress, but you didn’t really mind. You placed your hands back in his hair, ever so slightly pulling on the ends. He nearly growled at the contact, moving his lips from yours to leave a stream of kisses on your neck. “T… Tommy…” you moaned as he started nipping at the skin on your sweet spot. 
He groaned at the sound of his name falling from your lips. He would do anything to hear it again and again and again. He continued his exploration of your upper body, biting not hard enough to leave marks but just enough to make you moan his name. He pulled away for a moment and sat up; you whimpered at the loss of contact. “You can’t be making pretty sounds like that, love… That’s dangerous…” He helped you sit up just enough that he could take off your bra. As soon as it was off, his eyes were exploring the newly exposed skin, hungry for more of you. “Fuck… You’re gorgeous…” The words rolled right off his tongue. He didn’t even think about it. You blushed slightly at the compliment. Suddenly feeling slightly exposed, you tried to cover your chest with your hands and arms. Tommy instantly wasn’t having that, he grabbed each of your arms and pinned them to the bed. “Don’t hide from me, Y/n… I want all of you.” His face was only a few centimeters from yours, the words hushed, almost just a breath that came out of his mouth. 
“Okay…” You replied quietly, still feeling a little unsure.
Tommy caught on to your nervousness, moving his hands to be next to yours instead of pinning them. “You’re okay, Love. You tell me to stop, I’ll stop.”
You shook your head, “No. I want this. I want you…” Your blush grew, but you didn’t attempt to hide your face. You kept your eyes trained on Tommy’s.
He smiled softly, gently connecting his lips with yours again. One of his hands moved to your face, cupping your cheek. The kiss was passionate but gentle. You smiled into the kiss, hardly able to contain how happy you were to be experiencing this, to be experiencing Tommy. He broke the kiss and began working to unbuckle his pants. You blushed even redder at the idea of what was coming next, but you were thrilled. He threw his pants and boxers to the side, and the sight of him nearly took you out. His hands found their way to your hips, and he grabbed the waistband of your shorts, his eyes flicking up to yours. “Are you okay with this, Love?”
You nodded vigorously. “Yes.”
He made quick work of your shorts, pulling them down and throwing them somewhere else in the room that didn’t matter to either of you. He chuckled a little bit at the sight of your underwear. “My… Someone’s wet…” He teased, gently rubbing your core through the thin fabric. You couldn’t hold back a moan. “All this for me?”
He quickly maneuvered his fingers underneath the fabric, finally making contact with your dripping center. “Fuck Tommy…” you moaned as he began to move his fingers.
“Oh yeah? Does that feel good, Love?” 
“You feel so good, Tommy…” You breathed. 
“You are the prettiest woman I’ve ever seen… keep making those pretty little noises and saying my name, Love…”
“T… Tommy…” You mumbled. It was almost hard to hear you said it so under your breath.
“You can be louder than that, Love,” he stated. 
“I need you… inside me…” you moaned. He pulled his fingers away almost instantly, and you whimpered again at the loss of contact. “Tommy…”
Without a word, he pulled your underwear down your legs and threw them into the dark abyss of a room. He lined himself up and looked you in the eye. “You’re sure?” He asked.
You nodded. “Yes, Tommy. Please… Please, for the love of God, fuck me…”
He chuckled lowly, almost growling. “I think God left us a long time ago, Love…” With that, he slowly pushed himself inside you. He gave you a couple of seconds to adjust before he began moving, but it felt so good it didn’t even matter once he started. Your moans quickly became louder and closer together. You couldn’t hold them back.
“Fuck fuck fuck… Tommy…” The words tumbled out of your mouth like a prayer.
He looked at you, his eyes dark. “You feel so fuckin’ good, Y/n…”
“Fuck… Tommy, I’m close…” You whispered, feeling your climax building.
“Me too,” he replied in a similar hushed tone. “Cum for me, Love.”
You moaned again at his words, feeling the knot inside your stomach build and then release into the best orgasm you think you’ve ever experienced. You were breathing hard, and Tommy wasn’t far behind you; you felt his cum enter you. After he finished, also breathing hard, he let himself drop down on top of you, laying his head on your chest. The room was quiet, and you felt at peace with Tommy lying on you. You ran your hands through his hair, and he wrapped his arms around your waist. You close your eyes, feeling the most relaxed that you think you’ve ever felt. There was just something about being with Tommy that made you feel safe. His breath slowed and steadied; yours did, too. You let yourself fall into a deep, peaceful sleep in Tommy’s arms. 
| < ♥️ > |
The next morning, you awoke with Tommy’s arms wrapped protectively around you. He was still asleep when you woke up. The rise and fall of his chest was steady and soft. It was the first time that you had seen him look truly peaceful. You smiled at his resting form. He slowly opened his eyes, raking them over your exposed skin before meeting your eyes. He smiled back at you. You think it’s the first time you’ve seen him actually smile. “G’mornin’.” The word falls from his mouth. His accent was thick with his morning voice. God, this was a sound and sight you could get used to. 
“Morning…” You replied, a soft look gracing your features. 
“How are you, Love?” He asked. 
“Good. I could stay like this forever.”
The idea brought that smile back to his face. You wanted to see it over and over again. “You’ll have to come back the next time the Men of Letters have business with us. I’d be happy to have you as my guest again.”
“That won’t be difficult… The Men of Letters like me a lot…” you lied through your teeth. You felt a small pang of guilt for lying to Tommy after you two had become so close, but you knew you couldn’t tell him the whole truth… there was no way he would believe you. 
“I can see why,” He mused, gently playing with the tips of your fingers.
“All the screaming stops when I’m with you…” you said quietly. 
He furrowed his eyebrows. “What screaming?”
“I’ve seen a lot,” you started. “I’ve seen a lot of people die. I’ve heard a lot of screams, a lot of death rattles. Normally, when I lay in bed and close my eyes, I hear the screams of all the people I couldn’t help or I couldn’t save, but… with you, the world is quiet. I don’t hear the screams anymore…”
You assumed Tommy continued to play with the tips of your fingers in an attempt to comfort you. It was a sweet gesture that made your heart go soft. “I can’t hear the shovels when I’m with you, so I guess we’re even.”
“The shovels?” You asked.
Tommy sighed. “Troubles from my time as a soldier… I always hear shovels coming against the far wall. Usually, they break through before the sun rises, and I am jolted from my sleep, but not last night… not with you.”
“I’m glad I could bring you a little bit of peace,” you replied, grabbing his hand and intertwining your fingers. “I could get used to waking up next to you…”
Yet again, Tommy flashed a smile at you. It made your heart swell. “We’ll have to do this again sometime soon.”
“I would love that,” you returned his smile. He gently placed a kiss on your forehead before pulling away from you and getting himself out of bed. The lack of warmth saddened you that this caused, but you were made curious by Tommy sticking his hand out toward you. You sat up in the bed and reached your hand out to his. He swiftly pulled you from the bed into a warm embrace, his arms draped around your midsection, his forehead leaning on yours.
“We should get you back to Aunt Pol’s house,” Tommy said in a hushed tone. “Get you home. You’ve already been here much longer than you originally planned. Someone on the other side of that door is bound to be worried about you.”
You sighed, leaning up, stopping just before your lips touched his. “Just one more kiss for the road… something to remember the night by…” you said before grabbing him by the back of his neck and smashing your lips onto his. 
| < ♥️ > |
You hung the coat you had taken back up; you felt like it was only right. You could hear Aunt Pol and Tommy talking through the door. You couldn’t make out what exactly they were saying, but you could hear Tommy’s low, raspy tone through the wood. It made it so hard to leave. You let out a soft sigh. What was the harm in staying a little longer? You were about to walk back out into Aunt Pol’s sitting room when you heard voices on the other side of the Bunker’s door. Your heart nearly stopped. Your family must have gotten back from their hunt. You quickly opened the Bunker door and fled through it, fumbling to lock it behind you with the keys. “Y/n!” Your dad called, “Y/n, we’re home!”
Once the door was shut and locked, you brushed off your pants and briefly ran your fingers through your hair, trying to make sure that you looked presentable. When you felt ready, you ran down the hallway and made your way to the main area of the Bunker, a large smile on your face. Your dad and your Uncle Sam both were smiling brightly at you as they came down the stairs. “Oh, Y/n, there you are,” Sam said, still beaming. 
“Sorry, I was all the way in my room… What’s got you two so happy?” you asked, genuinely curious about their current state.
“We have a surprise for you,” Dean replied.
“Oh?” You questioned.
“Come on in!” Dean called.
Suddenly, Cas was standing directly in front of you; his smile was also wide. “Castiel!!” You cheered, engulfing him in a hug. Since he and your dad started dating, he has become like a second father to you. You had been so worried about him since he had gone missing, and you were thrilled to have him back. He hugged you back tightly, his arms wrapped around your back, gently swinging you side to side. 
“It’s good to see you, Y/n… I’ve missed you,” he said quietly.
“I’ve missed you too… so much… I know my dad has too…” You pulled back from the hug so you could look him in the eye. You couldn’t stop the huge grin on your face. “This is a huge win for us. We have to do something to celebrate having Cas back.”
“Drinks are on me tonight. Do we feel like going out, or do we just want to get something from the store and watch a movie or something?” Dean asked, rubbing his hands together. 
You laughed. You knew his go-to was to get a drink, but he hardly ever bought you a round when he had one. “I’m included? I’m honored,” you teased.
Your dad rolled his eyes. “So what are we feeling?”
“Probably safer to just get something from the store and stay in,” Sam replied. His face looks a little more gloomy than it did before. “Going out would be fun, but I don’t think it’s worth the risk right now.”
Dean sighed. “I hate that you’re right.” Dean ran his hand through his hair. “Cas and I will run and get drinks from the local convenience store, and then we can all have some and pick a movie to watch together. Sound like a plan?”
“So I’m still trapped in the bunker?” You asked, crossing your arms over your chest.
Dean let out another sigh. “We’ve been over this–”
“You were just talking about going out to a bar, and now I can’t even go to the store?” You snapped back. “I am tired of being in here. These walls get boring after a while, Dad.”
“Guys, let’s not do this,” Sam intervened, “We just got Cas back. This is a happy moment. It’s safer for you to stay in the Bunker, Y/n, but I’ll stay here with you while Dean and Cas go get the drinks, so you're not alone this time, okay?”
It was your turn to sigh. “Fine, fine. I’ll stay here. You better bring back something good to drink.”
“I always pick the best drinks!” Dean replied.
“Untrue,” you responded, completely deadpan. 
“Cold,” your dad answered. “Come on, Cas. Let’s go.”
| < ♥️ > |
You, Cas, Sam, and Dean drank mostly beer and sat around the Bunker’s TV, watching movies into the early hours of the morning. Things felt almost normal again. You missed this; you really missed Cas. Now that he was back, things were starting to look up again for Team Free Will. You waved goodnight to everyone around 3 am and headed for your room. It was about the same size as the other bedrooms in the bunker, but you had really taken the time to make it your own. You had painted the walls your favorite color; there were thrifted decorations lining the walls and a cozy comforter covering your bed. You turned off the overhead light and turned on your bedside table lamp as you got ready for bed. You changed yourself into your pajamas and decided you wanted to run to the kitchen for a glass of water. 
On your way to the kitchen, you pass Tommy’s door. You stopped at it for a brief moment, thinking about the events of the last day, and you blushed. You missed Tommy already, but you knew it would probably be a while before you could see him again. Your family was all back in the bunker, and they were definitely going to notice if you disappeared for hours on end. What you weren’t expecting was a soft knock coming from the door. You almost thought you were mistaken, that the sound wasn’t real… but then it happened again. You sprinted down the hall, back to your room, and grabbed the keys to the door as quickly as you could without being too loud in your footsteps. You fumbled briefly with the keys as you tried to open the door but eventually managed to unlock it and quietly pulled it open. On the other side, you were surprised to see Tommy. He looked tired, slightly bruised, and bloodied, though you had no idea what from. “Sorry to bother you at home, Love,” he said, his voice deep and grainy. 
You looked both ways down the hallway. There was no signs of life. No one else in the bunker seemed to have been stirred by the knocking. You were in the clear (at least for now). You grabbed Tommy’s hand and pulled him all the way into the hallway, your voice barely above a whisper. “You’re not a bother. Never will be. What happened to you?”
The door shut quietly, leaving you both standing in the bunker. Tommy looked out of place. He didn’t fit the aesthetics of the bunker at all, but that didn’t matter to you in the slightest. He was perfect in your eyes, even if he was from a different time. “Doesn’t matter,” he replied. “I just needed to see you after the day I’ve had.”
Without saying anything else, you pulled him along quickly, taking him to your room. You let out a breath you didn’t realize you were holding in when the door shut behind you both. Tommy chuckled. “Based on how you’re acting, I’m assuming we’re not alone in this place.”
“Far from it,” you replied. “My parents are here, as well as my uncle.”
“Oh Christ…” Tommy muttered. “So your whole family are Men of Letters then?”
You felt another pang of guilt, similar to the one you had felt last night. You hated that you had to lie to him, but you felt like it was the safest option. “Something like that.”
“We’ll just have to be extra quiet then…” Tommy said. He closed the gap between the two of you, resting his hands on your hips. He pulled you closer by your hips, his lips hovering over yours. The only sound that could be heard was the noise of you both breathing. You put your hands on either side of his face and took the plunge, connecting your lips to his. One of his hands instantly started to slip under your pajama bottoms, causing you to moan quietly against his lips. He pulled away slightly, putting the pointer finger of his free hand up to your lips. “Quiet Dove… Wouldn’t want anyone to hear us…”
Suddenly, there was a knock at your door. “Y/n?” A voice called through the heavy wood. It was your dad. Your eyes went wide. 
“Fuck!” you whispered. “You have to hide.” Tommy pulled away from you, and you were so close to whimpering, but you did your best to hold it together. “Just a second!” you called through the door. You grabbed Tommy by the hand and led him over to your bathroom. “Go in and lock the door. Turn off the light.”
He didn’t argue with you, though you could tell by the look on his face that he had some thoughts about your plan. You shut the door behind him and watched the light turn off from the crack under the door. You did your best to straighten out your clothes and hair before putting a smile on your face. You walked back over to your door and opened it, greeting Dean with that smile. “Hey, what can I do for you?”
“Everything alright? I could have sworn that I heard someone else’s voice in here…” 
You gulped. “What? No… There’s no one else here. Just me getting ready for bed. I did have my TV on, though. Maybe that’s what you heard?”
Dean’s eyes searched your face. You knew he was trying to read you to see if you were lying. You held your ground. “Yeah, maybe that’s all it was. Let me know if there’s any trouble though, alright, Y/n?”
“Of course, always…” 
“Goodnight, Y/n,” Dean replied with a yawn.
“Goodnight!” You shut your door behind your dad and locked it, taking a big deep breath when you couldn’t hear his footsteps anymore. Tommy let himself out of the bathroom, chuckling softly at your performance. 
“I can’t believe you would lie to him like that,” Tommy teased as he walked over to you, resting hands back on your hips. “Where were we?”
You cupped his cheek, smiling brightly at him. You hate that you had to hide something as big as a lover from your family, but there was something about Tommy that made you not care about any of that. When you were with him, you could just be you. Not a hunter, not a Winchester, just you. “I believe you were about to kiss me again, Tommy…”
You smiled before he leaned down, once again connecting your lips to his.
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tags: @anijamess @weaponizedvirtue @deanwinchesterbrainrot
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Summary: Y/n has a bit of a crush on Dean but there's kind of a problem. He's a Winchester
paring: Dean x reader
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Warnings: Language, SMUT 18+
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Monsters- Vampires, werewolves,ghouls and those aren't even the scary parts of my life. Try to deal with creepy men while working at a bar. Not just any bar, a hunter's bar, my family's bar. My mom Ellen Harville is one of the most badass women you'll ever meet and one of the toughest people but a loving mom. My little half-sister Jo is the other most important person in my life. Well, she’s twenty four so not so little but she will always be to me. My Mom had me with a random hookup she had when she was younger, told him and he took off so when I met Bill I was hesitant but then he became the best father that I ever got and I got a little sister out of the deal too. But then he died in a hunter accident so my mom forbade Jo and I not to hunt but then two sons walked into the bar and a particular Winchester got me not just enthralled with helping people from monsters but in him.
I was wiping down the bar when two tall handsome strangers walked in. “Hey there, welcome to the roadhouse. What can I do for you to get information, a drink, or both?” I finished with a smile mainly focusing on the blonde one. What can I say? I'm a sucker for green eyes. He gives me a flashing smile. “Hey there…” “Y/n” “Y/n, we’re looking for Ellen Harville do you know her?” “I better she’s my mom I’ll be right back.” They both look at each other in confusion. I walk back to the little kitchen. “Hey Mom, two guys are here looking for you.” She gets up and follows me back to them. “Hey there fellows I heard you're looking for me.”
“Uh yeah we’re John Winchester's sons and we got your call.” And the rest flew by so quickly. Ash helped Sam to look up information on the case and while that happened Dean and I had a talk. I poured him a drink and slid it to him. “What’s this for?” I shrugged while sipping a coke. “For your Dad, I'm sorry for your loss.” He took it and shot it back like it was water. “Thanks, you sound like you know the pain.” “My dad passed when I was thirteen so I know how it feels.” My heart panged with pain a little like it did every time I thought of my Dad. “Oh well, I'm sorry for you too, cheers to our dad’s.” We raise our glasses and I'm left with a thought that Dean Winchester doesn't seem like a bad guy.
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After that, Sam and Dean would visit us whenever they could and when they needed info. Dean’s and I’s relationship just grew and grew with every late-night talk, pool game, and drink. And it was scaring the shit out of me. I was closing up the bar and Dean and I were having another one of our talks. “Burger or hotdog?” he asks me. “Uh hotdog, is there any other choice.” I playfully responded. “What do you mean hotdog crazy lady?” “So I'm assuming your burger.” I leaned down to his level and he gave me his signature smirk. “Of course.”
With that, he swiped his tongue over his lips while he was staring at me. We both had the same idea we leaned in and to be this close was intoxicating, his breath hot and our noses were touching but my mom did not like our idea. “Dean we are closing for the day.” my mom said from the doorway and we quickly pulled away. “Uh right sorry I'll see you guys later.” He grabbed his jacket and gave me one more look before he walked out. “Mom! What the hell!” “You can not be with that Man!” “Why?” She looked down thinking about something but decided against it. “Just please be careful with those boys.” She turned away before I could ask any more questions.
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Dean and Sam had not been back since night. I mean they're busy but it felt personal to me. I tried to forget those butterflies that I got every time I got around Dean but for some reason I couldn't. Every guy that I had been with wasn’t really serious and I was fine with that but then I met Dean and in my locked trunk of hopes in my heart that maybe he was different. And he was. 
It was early in the morning and I was waiting at the table for Jo. She sneakily walks in going to the fridge. I flip on the light. “Late-night snacks sis?” She jumped at me. “Jezze Y/n I thought you were Mom.” I get up and go to the fridge to get a beer. Yes, I did need it to deal with my little sister’s attitude. “No, I'm worse. Mom would go easy on you compared to me.” “Y/n please let me go, I can do this!” I sign and sit down. “Sit down Jo.” she does. “Jo look, the reason I'm like this is because I couldn't bear if anything happened to you like… Dad and mom would agree.”
She looks down at her fiddling hands. “N/n I'm doing this because of Dad you got more time with him all I remember are the short times he came back from hunting. If I can do this I won't feel like I barely know him.” She was right. I couldn't take that away from her if this was her way of feeling closer to our Father then I would have to let her, even if that meant hunting. I sigh deeply, standing up and taking out my knife and handed it to her. “What is this?” “It was Dad’s” She looked up at me like I had given her gold.
“But he gave this to you.” “He did but it was his hunting knife and it's just been sitting in my pocket not doing much hunting so it seems right that you take it.” She jumps up and hugs me tight. “Thank you, thank you.” I pull back to look at her. “You can thank me by sending me the case and the location and call me everyday to make sure you're safe.” She nods her head. “Okay, that’s fair.” We let go. “Okay get out of here before Mom gets up.” She smiles excitedly grabs her bag and practically skips out the door.
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She had Ash set up a paper trail of casinos down the state line so Mom wouldn't really know where she was. Mom did not like it but had accepted it. It was about two days in and she finally called me. “Hey, I thought we said every day.” “Sorry, I got distracted.” “By what?” I asked a little confused. “Sam and Dean.” “They're there!” “Yeah I guess we picked up on the same story.” “So you have help good good.” All that was running through my head was Dean. “N/n you okay?” She asked, hearing my pause. “Yes, I am, well call to update me. Love you.” “Love you too sis.” She hung up and I just sat there for a second and the next one I decided what I was going to do.
I walk to the apartment door and knock on it. The door opened and there was Dean. My heart quickens but I play it off cool. “Hey, Dean.” “Hey, Y/n.” He steps aside and I come in. “Y/n what are you doing here?” Jo questioned. “Uh, I wanted to get in and gank this ghost.” “Why didn’t you just come with me in the first place.” That’s a good question and now for a good lie. “I was scared but I fought off the nerves.” That was a shit lie. “Okay well I'll catch you up.” I walk over to the map but not before looking at Dean and he looked back.
We had determined that the ghost was H.H Holmes I know it does sound insane and it is. I was mostly worried about Jo seeing she was exactly Holmes type. We were going to split off in pairs to search but not before I talked to Dean. “Hey” I stepped up to him.”Hey, you ready.” “as I'll ever be.” “Good well I'll be one phone call away.” “I know and if anything happens to Jo-” He put his arm on my shoulder. “It won't.” His eyes are so trusting. “And Dean.” “Mhh.” “You be careful too.” “I will.”
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Sam and I were checking upstairs while Jo and Dean went downstairs. “So… did you really want to come.” He asked casually looking around. “Of course, I did for my sister.” He stopped to look at me. “Really that’s what you're going with I mean why not go in the first place and you're scared Y/n I've seen you punch a man square in the face for trying to take your tip.” To be honest I didn't even know myself. “I-” We were rounding the corner and straight into Dean. “Dean Dean!” He kept on walking. “Where’s Jo!” He stopped dead in his tracks and spun to face me. “She was taken.” He keeps on going and I'm frozen.
We were back in the apartment and I kept walking back and forth. We are looking in the blueprints to see where she could be hidden while Dean’s phone rings. It was my Mom. Fear got stricken through my body how would my Mom even look at me? How would I?” “She's gonna have to call you back, she's taking care of, uh, feminine business.” Dean responded back and I thought my lie from before was shit. “Look, we'll get her back.” My heart was thumping.
“The spirit we're hunting, it took her.” I could hear from where I was how worried she was. “She'll be okay, I promise.” “You promise. That is not the first time I've heard that from a Winchester.” What the fuck does that mean. Dean had the same response. he lowers the phone and hands it to me. “She wants to talk to you.” I shakily take it. “Mom I-” “Dont even how could you let her!” The tears started to fall from my eyes and my face turned red from burning anxiety. “I'm sorry I just wanted her to feel closer to Dad.” “Well, she may be closer than you wanted now!” “You're her big sister!... Im so disapiontted in you.” She hangs up the phone with nothing else. I drop the phone on the bed. “I'll be right back.” I sobily say and run out.
I go out to the alleyway and kick the trashcan out of anger. “AHHH! Fuck!” I punched the wall and in my anger, and I had forgotten it was made out of brick. My knuckles started trickling blood and I slumped down the wall just feeling defeated. A pair of boots showed up in front of me. “Hey” I looked up and it was Dean. “Hey,” I respond softly my voice feeling raw. He sat down next to me. “We're going to find her N/n” I wipe my eyes.
“I shouldn't have let her go she was so desperate to feel something to our dad that I let her go… I'm so stupid.” I put my head in my crossed arms against my knees. “You are not stupid, you're a good sister.”  I dryly chuckle at myself. “I'm a sister who let her only sibling go hunting when I knew the danger.”  He sighs. “When I was sixteen and Sam was twelve we were hunting and I let him go look on by himself a ghost almost killed him.” I turn my head at him.
“Uh, no offense Dean but pep talk sucked.” “I not done the reason he didn't die is because he remembered what I had taught him and he had his tools not just weapons but knowledge and he was ready so is Jo she fine she has an amazing sister looking for her.” I wipe my tears and throw myself in his arms and he catches me. He pets my head in comfort I whisper. “Thank you.” We split apart really close. He leans forward pur noses touching. Then Sam comes running towards. “UH guys I think I know where she is.”
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She and the other missing girl had been in a storm drain. When had trapped H.H. ghost and Jo and I got topside. She threw her arms around me. “Are you ok!?” I put my hands on her face. “No no I'm fine just some scratches.” She took out Dad's pocketknife. “This protected me. So thank you.” “Anytime sis.” The boys get out of the drain. Sam and Jo go off to talk and that leaves Dean and I alone. “So….” He starts. I Bear hug him. “Thank you for helping save my sister.” “Of course.” This time I'm going do it. I grab his face and he accepts it, “Ah am.” I look behind him and it's my mom I'm so tried of people fucking cock blocking me.
The ride home let's just say that Christmas with a stepmom twenty years old is more comfortable. We get to the roadhouse and Mom practically drags us in. “Ellen? This is my fault. Okay? I lied to you and I'm sorry. But Jo and Y/n did good out there, I think their dad would be proud.” Dean tried to reason. “Don't you dare say that. Not you. I need a moment with my daughters. Alone.” The boys leave. “You're angry. I understand.” Jo started.
“Angry? Angry doesn't begin to touch it.” I mean I know why she’s angry with me but Sam and Dean? “Is this about me hunting, or something else?” I tried “Mom they were right there, backing us up the whole time.” “Like father, like sons.” “Mom what the fuck is that suppose to mean.” “I’m sorry I shouldn't have said anything.” Both Jo and I look at each other. “Mom what are you not telling us.” 
I went on a little walk after I learned what happened I guess Jo talked to them about it but my emotions were all over the place. Jo and I had a talk which ended in crying and a hug. I didn't know how to feel especially now with Dean.
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I was taking the trash out behind the roadhouse when I turned it was Dean. “Ahh Fuck! Dean, I almost threw this trash bag full of dirty napkins at you.” “Yeah shaking in my boots.” We just had a silent silence. “Look I just wanted to say sorry.” I was puzzled. “Why are you sorry?” “Because of my dad.” “Dean that wasn't your… fault.” He steps closer. “I know, but my dad's not here and I am so I'm sorry that Will is not here because of him.” I drop the trash and I kiss him. I didn't care at that moment that my clothes were covered in grease stains and a mix between blood and beer I had to. His lips were a little chapped but still were soft as a cloud. Our lips separated slowly. “I'm sorry I just..” His hands were on my hips now. “Had to.” He finished. 
18+ SMUT……
“I have about thirty minutes before my mom comes looking for me so do you wanna do this ?” He grabbed me and backed me to the wall. “Oh, I wanna do this I've been wanting to do this since I first saw you.” “Dean you-” I didn't get to finish my sentence before he kissed me again. And yes it was heaven. His tongue starts to prod my lips and I let him in. “Mhh Dean.” “You like that.” “Yes,” I said practically moaning. “How about this.” he goes down my neck slowly sucking on my sweet spots. “You are too good at that Dean.”
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“Yeah, hopefully I'm good at this too.” He unbuttons my shirt slowly and kisses down my stomach. To my pants. “This okay.” He was on his knees his hands on my pants band. “Yes.” He pulled down my pants. Grabbed my panties with my teeth to easily pull down. He starts to kiss my inside thigh. “Oh my gosh.” I throw my hand to the wall to steady myself. He kitten licks my slit. “Ahh” He then puts his tongue in me. “Ohh Fuck Dean!” He goes fully in and eats me out like a madman. I am so close. I grab onto his shoulder and grip it tightly. “Just let go honey.” I did and he lapped it up.
“Oh my gosh did you go to school for that.” I breathily let out. “Yeah, I majored in it.” I chuckle and my hand goes to his pants. “Do you want me to return the favor?” He takes my hand. “I would love that but we have about ten minutes left and I want to show you why I graduated at the top of my class.” I nod and he unbuckles his pants and drops them. I look down and his shaft is standing proud. He pulled down his underwear and it was bigger than I expected. “You ready sweetness.”
“Always.” He gently grabs my head kisses me again and starts grinding against me. He then slips in. “Ahh Dean!” “Tell me when I can move,” It feels a little burning but then it turns into pleasure. “Dean you can move.” He goes in and out moving slowly. “Y/n you feel so good.” He grabs onto my hips to pull me up onto around his hips. He thrusts in and out faster and faster. He breaths into my neck and I wrap my arms around his neck.
“I'm almost there are you Y/n” “Yes!” “Let's do it together!” He moves down to rub my clit. “Ahh fuck!” “Ok, one two three!” And we did. He pulled out his cock dripping with our fluids together. I then realized the time. “Dean I loved that but you have to go.” he grabs me one more time to leave a sweet kiss. “I'll call you.” “You better Dean Winchester.” He gathers himself and leaves. I didn't know where that left us but at least we would always have behind the roadhouse.
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bokutosbiceps · 1 year ago
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don't overthink it
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tokita ohma x gn!reader | fluff | 1.3k words
prompt: ohma + “since when do you blush around me?”
warnings: some suggestive/18+ themes but nothing explicit
a/n: the more i write for ohms the more i fucking love him 🥺 it’s so pathetic. ALSO, AGAIN, OHMS IS NOT A TYPO. IT’S MY CUTE NICKNAME FOR HIM THAT NO ONE CAN TAKE AWAY FROM ME. also i’m p sure i made this gn, but please let me know if there are any gender specific identifiers so I can fix that 😉
18+ MINORS DNI
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You scrunched your nose at a tickling sensation that woke you up. Willing your eyes to creak open, you squinted at the bright afternoon sunlight flooding into your window. Not really bothering to find out the source of the tickling, you made an effort to turn around in bed but a sturdy hold on your waist forbade you from doing this. You figured you had just wrapped yourself too tight in your blankets again and made a pushing movement to whatever was around your waist.
The feeling of your fingertips coming into contact with skin made you jolt from your stupor and you fully opened your eyes to see a mess of wavy, brown hair just below you. You knew exactly who this unruly head of hair belonged to. Looking down, you saw Ohma holding on to you tightly, his face nestled in your bosom. You felt your face heat up at the intimacy of the situation and wondered when you ever got this close. Then you remembered.
You had been invited by Ohma to come watch the Kengan tournament, and weeks of watching him train and watching him win matches had ensued, and you were always there after the matches to keep him company. You were one of the few people that Ohma could stand for more than a few minutes; he liked your personality and he liked your face. He really couldn’t complain. But he especially liked how you doted on him after his matches, always worrying over his bruises and scrapes or gaping in awe at his strength despite his injuries.
The events of last night flooded back to you as your brain sprinted to catch up with your thoughts. Ohma had showed up to your hotel room at two in the morning, completely unannounced. You quickly allowed him inside after seeing an unusual look on his face. You had only seen him like this once, and that was after meeting Setsuna for the first time after many years. He looked like he could’ve killed a god in that moment.
After an hour of him silently laying on his back, staring at the ceiling, you coaxed him into speaking. He started to talk about his childhood, his past. You were worried, he was not a sentimental person. You asked him about the future, since it seemed like he was specifically avoiding that topic.
“I don’t think about the future much.” Ohma blinked at the ceiling before turning his gaze to you.
“How can you say that? You’re always thinking about your next meal.” You teased, reaching over to flick him from where you sat cross legged on the bed with him.
“True.” He sat up and propped himself on his elbows still looking at you. “Thinking about the future is pointless, though. I don’t know what will happen and thinking about it won’t change anything.” His gaze was unusually soft.
“Ohms, what’s going on with you? You’re scaring me.” You scooted closer to him and placed your hand on his knee, almost pleading with him. “We’re friends. You can talk to me about anything.”
With speed that only Ohma could muster, he grabbed your hand from his knee and used it to pull you forward into his lap, keeping his eyes trained on yours. Before you could ask what he was doing, he moved your hand to the back of his neck and you gripped it, allowing Ohma to pull you to his lips.
He kissed you roughly, but with a slow sensuality that seemed almost like he was savoring it, drinking in every second. He laid back down on the bed, pulling you on top of him and continuing to move his lips with yours.
You placed your hands on his chest and pressed, effectively pulling your lips from his, only a thin string of saliva connecting you.
“What are you doing?” You panted, somewhat shocked that Ohma had just crossed that bridge with you but also somewhat pleasantly surprised.
“Kissing you.” Ohma smirked up at you, letting his head rest back on the bed, your face still in his large hands.
“Why?”
“Because I’ve been wanting to do it for a long time.” Ohma traced your lips with his thumb, still looking up at you. “Do you want to stop?”
“No.” You muttered, and before you knew it, your head was dipping back down to connect your lips again. Ohma rolled over so that you were under him and separated his lips from yours to pull off his shirt before making quick work of yours.
You and Ohma had crossed the bridge that you never dreamed that you would cross, but you had always hoped you would. And you didn’t know it, but he had been hoping, too.
And now, here he was, cuddled up to you and snoozing peacefully.
You felt your eyelids begin to feel heavy once again and cast aside all of your frantic thoughts to welcome a short nap. You would deal with this later.
Two hours later, you woke up to an empty bed. You assumed you must have been dreaming about the romp you had shared with Ohma last night, or that you woke up in his arms, and turned over on your back to stare at the ceiling. You thought back to how nice it felt to be held by him, kissed by him, touched by him…
Once again, you were jolted from your thoughts by the bathroom door opening and shutting, producing a very naked Ohma.
You sat up quickly, blushing deeply once you realized this was real and you were also very naked, and gathered the sheets to cover your chest.
“Since when do you blush around me?” Ohma cocked an eyebrow as he approached you, standing next to the bed. You averted your eyes from his body, trying your hardest not to stare.
“Since you came in here last night and fucked me?”
“Was it that surprising to you?”
“Yes! I thought we were just friends! You never seemed interested in me, or anyone, for that matter!”
Ohma let out a dry laugh. “You didn’t know I was into you?”
“No, Ohma, I didn’t!”
“Well, now you know.”
Silence ensued for a couple of seconds, both of you wondering how this would continue. You were the first to speak up.
“So, what are we?”
Ohma frowned.
“Labels are stupid, you know? Isn’t it enough to know that I love you?”
Your mind was thrown into a frenzy. He loved you? You had barely ever seen emotions come from this man, but here he was, telling you he loved you?
“Ohma…love? What do you mean by love? As in, like, a friend or a girlfriend, because, we just had sex and—” Ohma shut you up with a kiss and a sigh, a small smile playing on his lips as they met yours. He held your face by your chin once he pulled away. You relaxed a little bit.
“You remember when you asked me what I think about the future?”
You nodded slowly.
“I think about you.” Ohma let go of your chin and gazed down at you. You tried extremely hard to avoid looking at his tanned and toned body before you, since the guy had just confessed to you, but you found yourself really struggling. He spoke again, snapping you out of your lustful daze. “Does that answer your question?”
You thought about it. Ohma was the type of man to mean what he said and say what he meant. If he was telling you he loved you, it must have been because he truly meant it. You stood up and placed your hands on either side of his face, watching your thumbs as they lightly skimmed over his cheekbones. You felt him staring at you as you took your time admiring his features, likely awaiting your response. You placed a chaste kiss to his lips.
“Yes.”
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justmeinatree · 1 year ago
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i feel like i don’t see enough louis one shots and it’s criminal😭
could you possibly do a one shot where the relationship between louis and reader is forbidden like reader is one of the boy’s sister and forbids anyone dating her etc. and they sneak around and almost get caught?
love reading your work!!🩵
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@tommomylove91
you know what ? it IS fkn criminal !! these requests were mixed together .. they both just seemed to flow together too nicely ! hope you both enjoy ✌️
TW : alcohol consumption, smutty-esque
Word Count : 2k
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“fuck do you think you’re doing ? someone’s gonna see,” louis exclaims, pushing your hand away.
you were out celebrating niall, your brother’s, birthday. you were excited when he had asked you to join him and his friends, always having had such a crush on louis. and you knew he’d obviously be there.
ever since the day you’d met him, so many years ago now, when the band was formed, there was an intense attraction between the two of you. and well, tonight, with the amount of alcohol coursing through your bloodstream, and the unquestionable amount of luck you’d gotten with the seating arrangement, your drunken mind decided to have a little fun.
what you didn’t know is that, as much as louis wanted nothing more than to bend you over the table, and fuck to hell anyone who sees, niall had forbade any of his bandmates from even coming close to hitting on his sister. now, that may have been a promise that louis made well over 10 years ago now, but it does still remain. and he can’t say he totally blames niall. couldn’t imagine any of those lads trying their luck with any of his sisters. knows what those guys are like, and he would not second guess sending his fist into their jaw if they did anything to his siblings.
but with a buzz induced fog, damn all those rum and coke’s, you don’t really care about louis’ warning, your hand softly trailing from his knee, following the inseam of his pants, slowly gliding up his inner thigh, occasionally squeezing into his clothed flesh.
and well, louis was only human, his resolve slowly fading with the continuous sips of his vodka and sprite. he can feel the interest springing in his cock, his heartbeat starting to accelerate. he wants you. wants you more than he’ll ever admit to you. or to anyone, really. but niall’s right across the table, and your arm’s suspicious stretch over to louis’ lap isn’t quite as subtle as you probably think.
“c’mon love,” he groans, hastily moving your hand away as it’s gotten fairly close to touching a certain hardening appendage that’s tenting louis’ pants. “the others will see. seriously what’s gotten into you ?” he murmurs quietly against your ear, in an effort to keep the conversation to a low volume.
a shiver runs down your spine, louis’ warm breath hitting your neck and ear, the heat shooting straight down to your pussy, getting wetter and wetter by the moment. you bite your lip, your shoulders relaxing into an almost slump, as you look over at him, need evident, no, screaming, at him through your gaze. “i can’t resist you anymore,” you whisper embarrassingly, your cheeks warming at your confession, as your hand darts out to touch his leg again, fingers gripping into the meat of his thigh.
“louis !” niall shouts at him, “you’re not even fuckin listening mate,” he shakes his head. “fuck are you two on about over there anyway ?”
louis’ head snaps quickly to face niall, a nervous chuckle leaving his lips, shaking out his hair, as his brain gets snapped back into the reality at hand, “sorry mate, sorry. you know how annoying your little sister can get,” he chuckles, no malicious intent evident in his tone, clearly needing an excuse. and honestly, it wasn’t all that far from the truth, with the amount of times your hand ends up on him. “what was it you were saying ?”
you huff, leaning back in your chair, arms crossing over your chest for a moment, before reaching out for your drink again, taking a few sips, throwing your leg over your knee, your foot now rubbing up and down louis’ calf. 
it was more subtle, which louis was thankful for, especially as he attempted to keep his cool and have a full blown debate with niall and deo. but as your heel gets slid off, and your toes make contact with the end of his pant leg, he can feel you sliding up his calf, skin to skin. you were so warm, leaving a trail of fire as you work your way higher up, close to reaching his knee, and for a moment, he was cursing himself for having worn sweatpants instead of jeans.
“stop,” he groans with more vigour against your ear, as niall and deo delve deeper into the debate, knowing that his request will surely be falling on deaf ears, apparently doing as you please, without much regard for anyone else tonight.
you turn yourself more towards louis, your back practically facing the table, murmuring against his ear, “and what if i dont ?” quickly taking his earlobe between your teeth, and tugging.
louis’ swift to bite his lip, holding down the moan that’s threatening to escape, his hand shooting out, nails digging into your hip, from under the table, as a form of warning. he cannot get caught. especially not on niall’s birthday. it would ruin it for him, and louis’ not about to let that happen.
“fuckin christ, y/n, leave louis alone,” niall snaps at you, shaking his head, adding playfully, “don’t make me separate you two.”
you turn back to face the table, rolling your eyes at your brother, “m’not doing anything you wanker.”
niall flips you off, a smirk pulling at his lips, knowing that you wont take him seriously for a second, before getting up and taking everyone’s drink orders, heading off to the bar for another round.
louis turns to you, the others at the table not paying so much attention, “fuckin hell, love,” he groans, “you’re going to get us both in trouble. niall’s not that stupid, he’s surely reading right through this.”
“have you met him when he drinks,” you giggle, “s’not gonna remember anything. but if it’s more privacy you want, meet me in the bathroom in a few minutes.” and with that, you stand, not waiting for any form of confirmation, heading off to the washroom.
you head down the hallway, going into the bathroom, leaving a small crack in the door, hoping to see louis coming by, in search for you, very soon. your resolve was waning, and if he wasn’t going to come back here in the next few minutes, you’d shimmy your underwear off and take matters into your own hands.
your patience was thankfully not tested tonight, as a moment later, you notice louis, making you pop your head out of the door, and beckoning him over. he checks his surroundings quickly, making sure no one’s paying attention, before slipping into the washroom, clicking the door locked behind him.
instantly, your hands grip into his shirt, right over his chest, pulling him closer to you. but louis’ quick to grip into your wrists, stopping you dead in your tracks, tutting at you, “m’not here to hook up with you. you’re drunk aren’t you ? there’s no way you’d be doing this if you were sober.”
you look up at him, sadness mixed with need mixed with years of pent up arousal and want, biting your lip as you hum, “i wouldn’t be doing this sober,” you admit. “but it’s not because i dont want to, it’s because i wouldn’t have the courage to.”
“love,” louis sighs, feeling your hands slide from their perch in his chest, down to his hips, pulling him closer, in a silent plea. “i can’t do that to niall. he’s like a brother to me, he’d fuckin kill me.”
“well, he’ll have to go through me first,” you huff, pressing him against you, feeling his stiffy. “what is it you want ?”
you can see louis’ determination diminishing, his hand gently cupping your jaw, thumb rubbing against your cheek, trailing over the plushness of your bottom lip, “wanna do this,” he hums, leaning in, and pressing his lips to yours, because, really, fuck it all. he’s a saint for having resisted you so long anyway.
a groan instantly works its way up from your chest, hands instinctively gripping into his soft hair, holding him as close to you as you can.
you moan breathily, your mouths fighting for dominance, a decade of pent up attraction finally finding its way to the surface. with louis’ one hand against your jaw, the other gripped tightly into your hip, he begins to walk you backwards, your back hitting into the wall, his hips rolling against yours, a moan leaving his lips at the friction his cock has been desperately craving since your hand first made contact with his thigh.
“you’ve no idea how long i’ve wanted this,” louis whispers against your mouth, his teeth biting into the flesh of your bottom lip, as he grips your thigh, throwing it over his hip, giving himself much better access to grant you some pleasure as well.
the newfound angle makes you whimper, your breath picking up, losing yourself into louis. your fingers scratch at his scalp, foot digging into his bum to hold him close, closer. 
your cunt was an absolute mess, clenching around nothing, your panties completely soaked through, clit throbbing for attention, fumbling your way to try and discard his pants.
“christ, not here, darling,” louis groans, hips bucking instinctively into your touch, his lips working their way over your neck, finally getting a taste of your skin, something he’s begrudgingly withheld himself from for so long. “make it so hard to resist you,” he moans, nipping at your sensitive skin, where your neck meets your jaw. “you’re so fuckin gorgeous, and you know it don’t you ? always teasing me, fuckin gagging to get into my pants, christ, look at you.”
you whimper louder, tugging on him, needing him, craving absolutely any form of touch at this point.
you’re both quickly startled, frightened as you’re both caught off guard, a loud knock rasping against the door, “louis, you in there ? have ya seen my sister ?”
“fuck,” he whispers too quietly for niall to hear, adding louder, “yeah, m’here. haven’t seen her though mate.”
you both wait, holding your breath, hearing niall mutter a curse under his breath, the faint thumping of his footsteps retreating.
“fuckin hell,” louis groans exasperated, his heart about to burst out of his chest.
your eyes were closed, forehead pressed against louis’ chest, shaking your head, “that was way too close.”
“we can’t do this here,” louis murmurs sadly, catching sheer disappointment plastered across your features, as you roll your head back against the wall, needing a breather, knowing full well that your chance has flown out the window.
and for a moment, louis feels his heart squeeze. he can’t leave you high and dry, and quite honestly, doesn’t want to hold back from you anymore. he’s pretty sure he could take niall anyway, if the day ever comes. “think you can hold it together ? just a little longer,” he murmurs softly, lips pressing a soft, comforting kiss into your chin. “we can sneak off together later, smuggle you into my uber,” he chuckles breathily, “do this alone. no brother to get in the way.”
and if the way your face lights up was anything to go by, louis can bet that he’ll be having the best night he’s had in a long while.
Part 2
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Masterlist
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theoceanoasis · 16 days ago
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People flirting with Soundwave and the cassettes stopping them.
Someone leaned closer to Soundwave obviously flirting and even though the Decepticon ignored them they refused to take the hint.
Annoyed Laserbeak flew at them scratching at their face until they quickly left.
This wasn't the first time this has happened and it wouldn't be the last. Everyone thought Soundwave's cassetticons we're just protective of him but that wasn't the only reason.
There was an Autobot they all liked after he saved Ratbat and they wanted Soundwave to get together with him. Which is why they've been chasing every suitor away.
A seeker smiled at Soundwave trying to hand them a drink. Their wings flicking behind them in order to grab his attention. Since a lot of people liked wings they assumed it would work.
They held out a cube of energex which ended up all over them when Buzzsaw flew past. They tried taking a step back and Ravage tripped them humiliating the seeker in front of everyone.
They'd stormed off cursing Soundwave's cassetticons. Many Decepticons tried flirting with Soundwave in order to get ahead. Soundwave was Megatron's third in command and closest friend which means he has a lot of power and Decepticons liked power.
However none of them were ever going to get that power because Soundwave was off limits.
Next came a speedster with her pretty green and golden frame. Soundwave had glanced at her before his cassetticons pounced.
Rumble had caused an earthquake so bad she'd hurt her leg. When she tried asking Soundwave to assist her to the medbay Frenzy tried breaking her other one until she quickly left. Limping out of the room with Soundwave's cassetticons after her.
You'd think after watching that no one would flirt with him again. However some had taken note that Soundwave had payed her attention.
The next to try was a motorcycle she had the same paint color and was also very pretty.
Soundwave had completely ignored her and Ravage had pounced causing her to run away with a shriek.
The next was a speedster who confidently strolled up. Soundwave looked at him before he was chased away by his cassetticons. However people had noticed and other speedsters began to flirt with him.
Curious about their third in command the Decepticons began betting on his type. They already knew he liked speedsters but they wanted to know more.
They watched as he paid more attention to those with warmer paint jobs like reds, yellows and oranges. Especially when they had some kind of combination. He also payed attention if they had a spoiler on their back. Which pissed off a lot of seekers who thought their wings were better than some stupid spoiler.
The cassettes didn't like it. But hadn't put a stop to it so far because they were so busy with all the people bothering Soundwave.
Even though they tried chasing them away they'd begin to distract Soundwave and Megatron finally had enough.
He forbade anyone from flirting with Soundwave unless they wanted to answer to him. He also ended the bet nearly killing the one's who'd started it.
As fast as it started it ended and the Decepticons quickly moved on to other things.
Ravage had been sitting with Megatron in his private room when his leader turned to him.
"You didn't like any of the suitors that were after Soundwave's spark?"
"No. We have someone else in mind?"
He gave him a curious look and Ravage showed him a picture. It was a speedster with red, yellow and orange paint. Who had a spoiler on his back.
"Oh..."
"We know he's Soundwave's type however he refuses to do anything because he's an Autobot."
"Let me handle it."
Ravage gave him a surprised look but decided not to ask any more questions.
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buckysmith · 1 year ago
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How they met you
Spiderverse
Includes: Miguel O’Hara, Jessica Drew, Hobie Brown, Miles Morales, Peter B Parker
Let me know if I have to put a warning
Reading is on your own. Not proof read
Miguel O’Hara:
- after destroying an entire universe to live a life that was not his, he forbade himself to ever open his heart again.
- no matter if it was for love or friendship
- he was afraid to lose everything again
- to see again how the people around him not only die but dissolve into nothing
- it seemed like he was cursed and had no right to happiness or better an Happy End
- he met you for the first time when he followed an anomaly
- into a world where there was no Spider-Man, no Iron Man, no Captain America.
- although he only found that out later, because before that he literally met you in person first
- the villain, who didn't belong in your universe, managed to give him a punch which threw him right through your window
- and to your sorrow, his body collided with yours, even if he tried to hurt you as little as possible he still knocked you both into the next wall/ground
-your eyes met as he got up from you
- you could not see his eyes, but he saw yours crystal clear
- something in your eyes reflected trust, care and security
- it was as if he had met you before, as if you were no stranger to him
- he didn't have much time, so he averted his eyes and went back to doing his job.
- It wasn't long before the bad guy disappeared through a portal and Miguel disappeared as well.
- but he couldn't get you out of his mind and one day the portal to your world opened again....
Peter B Parker:
- it was a typical cliché how you two met for the first time
- he had run full force into you in the New York rush, knocking your drink out of your hand and dousing you with it
- you looked like a wet poodle
- and as if that wasn't bad enough, you also had an important appointment that day
- and of course you didn't have time to go home and change your clothes
- to say you were pissed was an understatement
- especially since that joker in front of you started making jokes to lighten the mood.
- Spoiler: it didn't work
- so you just grumbled, thought your piece and continued on your way to the next store to buy new clothes
- and they say you always meet twice in life
- you wish you never saw that grinning idiot again in your life
- yeah, you thought wrong.
- but the second time was just as shitty as the first time
- because this time you walked too close to the road and when a car drove through the puddle you literally got showered with that dirty water
- the driver stopped only a few feet later, backed up and when the window went down you were greeted with the same grin as the first time
- to say it legally, you thought about how you would look in orange...
Jessica Drew
- You were on the way when you saw her for the first time
- it was already quite late and actually you wanted to be at home since 6 pm and it was near 12 pm and to your dismay you had to walk through a not so good area
- you saw her putting bags out of her car, probably she had just been shopping
- and she was pregnant.
- Hof did you know?
- her belly was hard to miss…
- you thought nothing of it and kept on walking
- the hood pulled low over your face to look dominant you kept walking until you heard several voices and a thump
- you turned around, saw how the men had knocked the bags out of her hand and were harassing her
- you wanted to look away and ignore it, but she was in danger and you couldn't accept that for the life of you, so you walked to her with quick steps
- you smiled at her while you walked between the men and hugged her
- you started telling lies that you were looking for her, that Josh and Luke were already waiting for you because they were really hungry after their shift at the station and looked at the men questioningly after that
- you looked at her and then asked how she knew those men
- with the information that she was now no longer alone and potentially two policemen were waiting for her, they left
- she thanked you and wished you a nice evening after she gave you her number
- if she hadn't seen you coming towards her, she would have dispatched the men with ease.
- but to see someone without superpowers put himself in danger impressed her
- from that day on you had Spider-Woman on your side
Spider-Punk Hobie Brown
- who would have thought that there were more universes
- sure you had it in class and always hoped there was a way to travel to them but your common sense knew that was impossible
- well until the time you fell through a portal that took you out of your universe and brought a villain into yours
- the pain you had until you were found was unbearable
- but fortunately for you, you were quickly found
- when you heard a voice saying you did not belong here and tying something around your arm was quiet and dark
- when you looked up you could hardly believe your eyes, he looked so, so animated and yet so real
- he personally brought you back to your world
- from that day on, you began to learn more about multiverses
- and from that day you had a new friend from another universe
Miles Morales:
- you wanted to do something illegal for the first time
- Spray graffiti to be more precise
- but who would have thought that you would run into Spider-Man of all people
- there was an awkward silence between you while he looked at you and you at him
- he had caught you red-handed, shortly after the first spraying attempts
- you were uncomfortable and you reached for your bag to leave, but he stole your notebook out of your hand to look at your drawings
- you expected anything, but not to get art lessons from Spider-Man
- you came every week on the same day at the same time to the point where you had met for the first time
- and he was there every time
- waiting to see you again to share his passion.
- who would have thought that the old subway station could give him not only superpowers but new friends as well
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aldryrththerainbowheart · 10 months ago
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Another BG3 companions appreciation post, this time after the tiefling party. (Updated ver.)
When I say I love all the companions what I mean is I love all their traits, even the negative ones.
I love Gale who flexed big words and magical knowledge and his connections to Mystra since day one. Call me crazy but without knowing the background I AM impressed by his achievements and knowledge. Of course, his ambition led him too close to the sun, and like the fabled Icarus, he fell. But he's trying to make amends. He's completely surrended to the idea of finding an empty lonely spot for himself and dying alone in excruciating pain and filled with regret. Not even once did it cross his mind that Tav or others would want to continue journeying with him after he confesses about the orb. The moment he told me about his cat I stared at the screen in disbelief because I knew I'm suck his di-
I love Lae'zel who could've killed me right away on the Nautiloid but instead shared all the information with me, helped me fight my way through, tolerated everyone else, and from what I've seen from others Githyanki is actually really nice. She never lets Shadowheart's sneers get to her, offers Gale to teach him to fight, and answers all questions Wyll asks her about her culture. I was genuinely surprised when she not only complied when I ordered her around during the interrogation of Zorru or the confrontation of the Githyanki patrol but also thanked me for stepping in. Her honest, no-nonsense attitude is so refreshing in the story where everyone has secrets and you always know only half of the information if any at all. Everyone in the camp is hiding something from Tav except her. Say what you want but with Lae'zel, what you see is what you get and I really, really like that.
I love Shadowheart because she tries to be a bad guy but that just isn't her. Despite her church's teachings and her secretive and prickly attitude. At the end of the day, she's just a lonely, scared, and lost young woman who was put on a dangerous mission and is expected to deal with it alone. I don't know much about her yet but it's clear from her talks about Sune and various scriptures I found in the game about Dark Justiciars and clerics of Shar... and in all those stories, when they finally got the recognition of their goddess or they've completed their task, all that awaited them was emptiness... That's no way to live for Shadowheart. I can see the small glimpses, just like in Lae'zel, of desire, curiosity and so much want. She was forced to live in a place that forbade any individuality or anything except blind obedience. To just be a pawn for the big guy. But both she and Lae'zel could be so much more than that. Drinking up everything the world has to offer. I really wish that for them.
I love Wyll because...it's Wyll?!? I cannot stress enough how much I am fond of characters that are just good, kind, and selfless. I never get tired of heroic characters who honestly are in it just for helping people. Wyll was living a life of leisure and could be the prodigal son for the rest of his life. Instead, he picked up his sword, donned his stupid superhero name, and went on saving lives. He even went as far as making a deal with the devil just so he could be the hero of the people, not because he enjoyed the fame but because of his ever-present need for charity. He doesn't let anything, not even the tadpole or Mizora get in his way. He could've been one of those Martyrs who blindly follow the black-and-white definition of good and bad, killing Karlach right away. But he spared her, even if all it gained him was punishment. There's something so pure about him in the way he just wants to believe. I'm pretty sure he saw his fair share of fucked up shit while adventuring but he still wants to uphold these ideals of heroism. The boyish chuckle when I insisted that I wanted to dance with him... I'm not smiling like an idiot you do!
I love Astarion not for being the seductive vampire fantasy I thought him to be, but for the absolute chaos gremlin menace he truly is. He's the orange cat, the possum screaming at you from a garbage can, the raccoon hugging a chewed piece of moldy bread. His snark is impeccable, and his over-the-top mannerisms never fail to make me grin like a maniac. I'm strictly good-aligned but I watch him run around causing Situations and I'm like "Yes, you do that sweetheart. You deserve it." There are already many long detailed posts that describe shit he's been through so I'll only say this. I never pitied him or felt sorry for him. I admire him. Sure his path to recovery is nothing short of a mess. He hasn't had much chance at a good ending. But he took every fight kicking and screaming, not willing to give up and he has my respect for that. Because sometimes hope comes in the form of spite and anger. I love watching him rediscover himself at all points in life. I love Astarion the way he is (little shit) while simultaneously believing he can get better, and if that's wrong I don't wanna be right.
Ugh. I'll edit this later and other companions, I'm too tired now.
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writingpei · 2 years ago
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felix | 필릭스: soulmates
when your friends from college were shocked to discover that you had never, ever been attracted to anyone you've met before, you realized that maybe there was something wrong with you.
you hadn't lied. you were out at night, a couple drinks in your system, and when they looked at you with wide eyes and itchy throats from so many questions, you were taken aback.
“not even when you were much younger?”
no.
“but what about high school? everyone gets a crush in high school!”
the last thing you thought about in high school was romance, not because you forbade yourself from it, but because it never crossed your mind at all.
“not even in college? this is crazy…”
much less in college. work was piling up on your desk, and you didn't even have time to sleep properly, let alone pay attention to someone else.
that conversation haunted your mind for many days. you had never thought much about your (non-existent) love life, and how weird and abnormal it seemed to those around you, an anomaly in the form of a person.
the hustle and bustle of the city was overwhelming, but it was just another day for you. your head was down, avoiding unnecessary conversations with anyone, those conversations roamed your mind for many days.
the path to your regular coffee shop where you always got a latte was already memorized in your head, taking the same path and stepping where you always stepped every day.
your head was full, and minho seems to have realized that days before he actually asked you anything.
“what is wrong with you these days?” he asked in his usual tone of voice, sassiness escaping his lips as his hands worked quickly to make your order.
minho was your barista, he had always made your coffee since the day you first stepped inside the place, a few months before.
“i’m very, very confused” you confessed, sitting on the stool at the counter, on the opposite side of him.
“about what?” he asked, sliding the warm cup with the good smell that always brings you comfort and the fog that rises from it.
“is never being attracted to absolutely anyone i've ever met normal?” you asked quietly and looked around quickly to see if anyone had noticed.
minho stops for a few seconds and blinks, deep in his thoughts.
“i don't know. how old are you, twelve?” you roll your eyes as soon as he says this, throwing your arms up on the counter and sighing.
“20…” you whisper back, putting your hands over your face to hide the shame gnawing at you.
“oh” he says, and even without seeing him, you can tell he's holding back a smile. “that’s… that’s different”
“is it weird?” you ask, desperately wishing he'd say no, but when you take your hands from your face and see him, his slouched posture propping himself up with his elbows on the counter, you know he's going against what you expect.
“kinda, yeah” he replies. “but have you really, really never been attracted to anyone at all? no one ever stood out to you?”
it is then that the brown hair you know so well appears in your memory. cheeks washed by a sea of ​​freckles and red lips you could never escape.
you are in an almost state of shock for a few seconds, mind completely dominated by the inherent figure of the boy inside your memory.
“have you thought of anyone?” minho questions, but even with open eyes, you can't see him. it was like you were in a trance, coming to a conclusion you definitely didn't want to come to, feeling your heart beat faster for something you didn't want it to.
“hum” you begin, trying to pull yourself together within reality. “if you thought what i asked you was weird… this is even weirder…”
“minho!” someone behind the counter calls out to you loudly, taking their attention away from you.
“what is it, jisung?” he asks, already irritated.
“we have more orders, you need to help me” the dark haired boy complains, steaming some milk nervously.
“can’t you see i’m busy right here?” minho retorts, offended frown etched on his face. “go on, i’m free to listen”
“um…” you look at him and then at the boy who was now making shots of espresso at a speed you couldn't imagine was possible. “sure…” you says uncertainly, then taking a deep breath and thinking about where to start. “there is this guy”
when you suddenly stop talking, minho approaches with his arms on the counter, as if you're telling him a secret.
"ok…?" he encourages you to continue.
“i know him since i was a kid”
“wow, that’s cute” minho says, putting his face in his hands. “like a puppy love or something?”
“no, no” you say. “i… i never met him, like, ever”
minho is visibly confused again, eyebrows rising.
"what do you mean?"
“i’ve never met him in my life”
“but that’s not possible. how do you know him then?”
“through my dreams” you try to explain yourself, but the words being said out loud make you extremely self-contious and realize the craziness that was spewing from your mouth.
after a few seconds of silence and awkward looks, minho finally responds. “well, that’s unusual”
“don’t you think i’m weird?” you ask, taken aback by his lack of reaction.
“because of this? not much. because of the amount of sugar you put on your coffee sometimes? hell yeah”
“i really like sweets…” you slump back in your chair and he just crosses his arms, rolling his eyes slightly.
“tell me more about this guy of your dreams. what's he like?" minho's interest had images of the boy popping into your head so quickly you felt dizzy.
the shy smile that appeared on his pink lips, the low voice when he spoke to everyone, the false and treacherous memory of his house, his bedroom, his school, his clothes.
his name was felix, and you don't remember exactly when or why you started dreaming about him every night, but you know it was when you were very young.
he lived with his grandmother in a large but simple house in the middle of an open field, and he had to walk a long way on a completely empty road to get to school. he was shy but not aloof; he cared too much about everything, actually.
the dreams were very strange, it was like you entered his body and lived in his skin. the warm sweatshirts he liked to wear warmed you up, and his grandma's food that was so delicious that it seemed too real to be just a dream, coming from your imagination. you soon found out that he had the same birthday as you, and every year the dream of that night was the most awaited one, the taste of the birthday cake his grandmother always made became a concrete memory in your head.
by your teenage years, you thought you were going crazy. he could only be a figment of your brain. you never told your parents out of shame, it was like those imaginary friends you have when you are a kid, but yours appeared too late in your life. it didn't make any sense, the dreams were extremely real, the feelings too. you never managed to talk to him, because it was in him that you resided, inside his body and his mind, in an unbelievably strong connection. you tried several times to write small messages in notebooks or walls that you were trying to channel everything you wanted to say, but in the next day's dream, their presence had already been erased, washed away by time.
the moment things took a different turn and you were sure it was real was when a communication began to exist between the two of you. well, sort of, at least. it all started when you woke up one day with tears running like waterfalls down your cheeks, a huge heart ache. you couldn't understand what was going on and what had upset you so much, having just woken up from a dream, but the feeling was so raw and present that it couldn't be anything. he had to be sad and it canalized on you too.
it went on. at completely random times of the day, you would feel an intense urge to laugh, cry, smile, sleep. it was as if his strongest feelings crossed a threshold and flew straight to you.
it wasn't uncommon for dreams you had just sitting in front of a mirror, staring at felix's complex. your fingertips tentatively touching everywhere on his face, feeling the soft, delicate skin beneath your skin. the constellation of freckels on his cheeks made something inside you bubble.
with time you decided to let it go. the strange feeling that consumed you every time you saw him or thought about him started to scare you, that's why lately you refrained from looking in any mirror during the dreams, and also avoided talking, not wanting the thick and deep voice to reach your ears more than it should. you tended to pull away from him even if he didn't know it. whenever you woke up, you tried to keep your mind off felix's memory as much as you could.
that's why you never considered looking for him. the burning fear that maybe he really didn't exist always scared away the idea of ​​looking for him. you knew where he lived, where he studied, you knew everything he liked from the posters spread across the walls, the books in his shelves, and the video games in his room. but you also knew that you couldn't bear the weight of the truth of knowing that he wasn't real, that the boy never existed, so you closed yourself off from him, starting to sleep less every day so that your dreams would be cut short, and that's how you met minho, the need for coffee that entered your life from the exhaustion and fear that dominated you.
“he, well… he's…” you started to say, but couldn't finish, intending not to let your mind linger on him any longer than it should. “better let it go, minho. guess I'll be a weirdo forever then"
minho sighs and walks over to the pastries counter, pulling out a cookie and holding it out to you.
“take it here,” he says, and you take it from him reluctantly.
“are you feeling sorry for me?” you ask, feeling slightly offended.
“no, definitely not…” he trails off, but you know he's lying.
“thanks for the free cookie” you shrug, biting into the candy.
“anytime” he answers and starts making espressos.
in the following days after this conversation the world appeared to be moving in slow motion. the clouds hung low in the gray sky as if they were weighed down by the heaviness of the gloomy days. the dreams were brief and impersonal as you were sleeping less and less. all you wanted was to be able to escape his life, the deep feelings that invaded your heart without your permission, the melancholic hue of the days that passed slowly.
that was a day like any other, classes were endless and you felt a sense of lethargy settle over your head like a heavy and slow clock. all you wanted was to get back to the comfort of your own home, but when the teacher asked for a few more minutes after class to explain an assignment, you knew you were going to miss the subway.
when class finally ended, your steps were dashed down the street, heavy drops of rain hitting your skin until you found shelter inside the subway tunnels, running to catch the one that was coming. your luck was clouded like the weather outside, the sound of rain echoing like an endless song.
your effort was in vain, as when you arrived the train had its doors closed, the sound of metal on metal emerging as it began to move. a weight was somehow lifted off your shoulders, a sense of being a spectator, watching the world move around you without really being a part of it.
everything suddenly went quiet, and your eyes were unconsciously drawn inside the train, when you see a pair of eyes you never imagined you would see.
your heart raced and burned in your chest as his eyes lock with yours. you feel unable to move or breath, dizziness taking over your body. in that moment, it was as if time stood still and all that existed was the two of you. he seems to have been surprised as much as you, but he wasn't frozen, on the contrary, he took steps to get closer to the train window, but it was too late. the starting noise became deafening, and it felt like it was being pulled away from you.
maybe you were imagining things, the lack of good nights sleep finally catching up to you making you hallucinate. your mind raced with questions and your emotion were a jumbled mess. you couldn't get your mind off his brown hair that he started to grow out, or his cheeks adorably rosy and covered in freckles, his favorite gray sweater that looked more comfortable and handsome than ever, seen on his body.
when the train passes again after a few wasted minutes, you have to force yourself out of the seat and onto it before you miss this one too. the drive home is consumed by a stunned silence, and you think you've finally lost your mind.
when you leave the station, the rain starts to wet you quickly doesn't bother you. you're too in shock to worry about getting soaked, and now more than ever you want to get back to the safety and comfort of your home.
out of nowhere, the rain stops all over your skin and a shadow looms over your head. being pulled out of your thoughts, your gaze rises to see an unfamiliar umbrella being held over your head, and when you turn your back to see who was protecting you from the rain, your thoughts almost gave out.
it was one thing to see felix in the mirror, through a filter, a thin line that separates what is possible and what is not. it's another thing to see him so close, this time inside his own body. he blinks at you several times, as if trying to check if he's seeing correctly or not.
“excuse me, um…” he starts to say and scratches the back of his head with his free hand. his deep voice cuts through your chest like a blade, that velvety voice that has sent a shiver down your spine more times than you can remember. “i know this might sound crazy, but have we met before?” he asks, but you don't answer, you can't. it's like your lips are glued together. “in my dreams, i mean” he explains.
his big, hopeful eyes wait for an answer, he unconsciously leans in closer to look at you more closely. you give in to your instincts however and your fingertips fly out to touch him on the cheek, the familiar soft skin coming into contact with your skin.
the truth of his existence is overwhelming, and you can't stop the tears shyly welling up in your eyes. “you're real…” is the only thing you manage to get out, and your other hand comes up to his face, cupping his cheeks.
a look of relief appears on her delicate features, and he snuggles into her touch.
“you're real. i cant believe it. I've dreamed about you my whole life,” you whisper to him, voice muffled by the raindrops hitting the umbrella over your head.
“i never thought i'd actually find you in real life, it's surreal” he speaks softly too, a smile that wasn't able to be repressed appearing on his lips. “i came looking for you here because i remembered your address from the dreams. i also dreamed of you my whole life, i just… i just couldn’t keep imagining you and not being able to see you in front of me”
discreet tears run lightly down your face, and he gives you a weak smile.
"it's like all the pieces of the puzzle are finally falling into place" he says, placing his free hand on your cheek the same way you placed it on his earlier. "i don't know how to explain it, but being near you feels like coming home"
you finally crack a big smile in his direction, and you could have sworn you saw his eyes light up with it.
“i feel the same” you say, and the feeling of the rain hitting your face quickly appears.
felix lets go of the umbrella that was in his hand and snakes his arms around your waist, pulling you into a warm, tight hug.
“that's nice” he whispers in your ear, and you don't hesitate to hug him back. “because to me it feels like all my dreams came through”
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Paring: Aemond Targaryen x Niece!Reader
Summary: Aemond doesn't know how he feels every time he sees you. Neither do you when you look at him. Your father Aegon has always been absent from your upbringing ever since he divorced your mother. That role has been filled by Aemond until last summer, when everything changed.
Tags: Alternate Universe – Modern/ Setting Emotional Hurt/ Comfort/ Drama & Romance/ Eventual Smut.
Warnings: This fic includes manipulation, violence, death, and inc3st, at some points. Reader has purple eyes and her mother is from Dayne House, the rest is complete free :D
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Acknowledgment: To @ammo23 for the brilliant corrections and the wonderull work as beta reader, for all the patience and the love that always shows to this story. Thank you so much :D
Word Count: 5K
"There are certain situations where she doesn't need you ",Helaena spoke harshly after being interrupted by Aemond for the third time while speaking in whispers with her mother. Alicent looked at her son, who was sitting at the kitchen island while his older sister and her mother talked about something that had happened to you, and they didn't want to share it with him. That summer, you were twelve years old. They had both been gossiping about you since Aemond had come home from work and hadn't seen you once, not even in the pool, and that was your favourite part of the house. The place where you would sleep if they let you.
"I don't know what's wrong with her, but she always needs me. She is my little dragon," Aemond replied as Helaena narrowed her eyes in annoyance. Aemond could become too demanding with you when you were at the family home in the summers.
"Believe me, Aemond, I don't think you can help her this time," said her mother as she poured herself a cold tea. It was Alicent's favourite drink, and she could still drink it with sugar back then before the doctor forbade her to do so.
"Why not?" he asked, annoyed, and Helaena jumped up angrily.
"Okay, great. Are you going to get pads at the supermarket, or will you teach her how to put in a tampon?" she blurted out, not wanting to continue arguing with her brother and how nosy he could be when it came to you. Aemond swallowed hard, almost pale. He didn't say anything. "Okay, well, that's what I expected. I'm going to buy the pads myself," Helaena replied, picking up the car keys she had left on the island.
Alicent looked at her son with concern. He seemed to have frozen at such a revelation. The truth is that your grandmother could not stop thinking that it was the worst thing that could have happened to you.
Those things were essential for your grandmother, a moment when you should be with your mother and have her explain things to you. She surely had already done it, but still, she didn't know how you had taken it. You had only gone up to your Aunt Helaena that morning and told her in a whisper, all blushing. Luckily, Aemond was at work at the time, as was Daeron, and your father hadn't been seen returning from last night's revelry. Luckily, you had only had your grandmother as a witness for such an embarrassing moment. You had told your aunt because, according to your mother, if something like that happened to you at your father's house, the most logical option was Helaena. Your mother had explained to you that later it was Alicent who you could inform and that she would understand. Afterwards, if none of them were there, your Uncle Daeron seemed the most sensible of your mother's choices. Aemond was next to last on the list since there was only one option in your mother's head where he would tell you something offensive about the nature of women. Lastly, your father, who your mother knew would not be there present and also would not know how to handle the situation.
And so, with a list of who contact in the event that you started your period  while you were there, your first period had arrived during a summer vacation at your father’s house during a time when your parents had  joint custody. Your mother couldn't imagine a worse scenario, but it had been, and now it was Helaena's turn to take care of something so delicate, much to your aunt's chagrin.
Aemond remained silent, looking at the stone on the island, almost not knowing what to do in this moment. It was clear that this was going to be the last summer you were his little girl, and he couldn't be more horrified. Now you would start talking about boys, putting on makeup, and hanging out with your friends. You would no longer have time for him or to play Scrabble together, much less to stay with him watching TV until late. He felt like a father when he had to say goodbye to that happy period of childhood. And the worst thing was that Aemond didn't think he could say anything to comfort you. It was impossible. What did he know about those things? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. He felt useless saying goodbye to his little soul. The good harmony had ended between the two and…
"Aemond, I don't know what you're thinking, but could you please come upstairs and see if she's okay? She has locked herself in the room and hasn't come out since this morning", his mother informed him, but Aemond just looked at her defiantly.
"And what am I going to say to encourage her?" he asked his mother, almost desperate for the changes that were going to happen in your relationship;  at least inAemond's imagination, they had already happened.
"It is not about you encouraging her. It's about you supporting her," Alicent told him, and Aemond sighed. His mother was right. He should always be there for you. You were his little dragon.
"My stomach hurts", Aemond heard you speak in the room. Just when he went up the stairs and was in front of your door, slightly open, he heard you sob lightly. And he passed his hand over his face in a gesture of disgust. How was he going to deal with that? He preferred a meeting with all the supporters of Daemon's administration. That was easy. This was not. "I just don't feel well, Mom", he heard you say again. Okay, so you were talking to your mom. Through the small opening in the door, Aemond saw that you were lying on the bed, wearing your pyjamas and looking as if you hadn't slept all night. He was worried about seeing you in a bad shape and opened the door. You looked at him as if he was the last person you wanted to see, embarrassed and said a quick goodbye to your mother. "Aemond", you greeted him as he approached the bed to sit next to you while you also sat up in pain next to him on the bed.
"I was wondering if you needed something," he said without looking at you, with the patch off; when you were little, you liked to see him like that. He wondered if you still found him nice or if you were already like the others, but that didn't last long in his mind as a concern. He had to take care of you, he had to protect you, even though he had no idea how to do it.
"Uhm… no, I'm fine," you replied, sitting down next to him. "I've watched the last episode of Samurai Jack, and…" you began, and Aemond smiled at you for continuing to worry, but he quickly changed the subject. His mission was now supposed to be to fill in for Aegon.
"Grandma told me what's wrong with you and... I was wondering if you needed something," he snapped at you, almost regretting what he had said when you made a funeral face, almost like a brutal change in such a small face.
"No, I'm fine," you said in a breath, grabbing your knees, changing your position. Aemond had observed that it was the same position you used when you felt bad, and it was something that really worried him. It wasn't healthy for you to always take that stance.
"Okay, um… Has your mother talked to you about what happens now?" he said, scratching his head, almost remembering the lack of any kind of sex education in his house. He didn't want to be like that, he had realized that he wanted to be there for you.
"What happens now?" you said, almost scared, your eyes widening, and Aemond felt again that he had screwed up.
"Well... about the changes in the body and how babies are made and..." he began listing. You opened your mouth in a gesture of disbelief as if you didn't believe your favourite uncle was capable of talking about such intimate things, not even with you nor with anyone. It almost seemed comical, although you could feel the burden inside him.
"Please, yes, Aemond. Mom has told me all those things," you almost yelled until blushing.
“That´s good” he sighed with relief. A half smile appeared on his face. You would become quite a woman, and he would always be there for you. He imagined you following in his footsteps. He was beginning to accept that what was happening to you was the law of life and that perhaps this new stage would not be so bad. Above all, he thought about it when he saw your face of disgust before a subject as delicate as that one.
"Please, let's never talk about it again because I'm not going to kiss anyone ever, ever", you declared emphatically, hugging your pillow, and Aemond just laughed.
"You say that now, my little dragon," he told you while he got up from the bed with a smile and looked at you with his only good eye while the other one continued static.
"I promise," you said, hugging the pillow even more as if that would ease the pain in some way.
"Don't promise me things you won't be able to keep," he ruffled your hair with a smile. You would always remember such a beautiful smile, so captivating.
"It's true," you told him, convinced. At that moment, your eyes reflected tremendous sorrow, and you spoke with a trembling voice, almost afraid to verbalize what scared you the most in the world. "Tell me that you will continue to love me even if I get older", you said, scared, almost as if you were afraid of losing Aemond because of getting older. You couldn't lose the only person who showed you some affection in your father's house.
"I will always love you, (Y / N)" Aemond sighed, and his heart broke to see you like this. "You will continue to be you, no matter what." He said, trying to reassure you, and he caressed your shoulder in a protective gesture. Aemond would always be the best uncle in the world to you.
"Thank you", you smiled calmly and happily. Aemond saw how your whole body relaxed. A new stage in your relationship began.
"Then my task here is finished. My planet needs me," he teased as he let go of your shoulder and turned to leave.
"Noooo, don't go. We have to watch the latest episode of Samurai Jack. Together," you begged him with a feigned pout. You would always need him. Always.
"Why do you tell me what happens in the middle of the chapter? No, thanks," he declared theatrically as you rose from the bed to follow him.
"I promise not to spoil it. Pinkie promise." You ran to get in front of him, even though the cramps were running through your lower belly. You were starting to think that period thing was bullshit. However, you stopped thinking and just offered him your pinky finger raised up.
"Alright. Pinkie promise," he offered you his little finger, and you intertwined it like you always did with him, the only person who did that kind of lovely simple nonsense. And Aemond sighed with relief. He thought things would never change between you. Targaryens never take into account their own blood drive.
Aemond entered the house after a long day at work. He needed you. It was what he was thinking while he walked the hall. That day he had booked a hotel room. Again you would spend the afternoon together. You would soothe him while he told you about his day. You would make love. He would take you to a nice restaurant. You would be happy.
He heard your happy laugh, and he smiled unconsciously. Then he heard a laugh from his brother, too, and that made him worry. Aegon had never cared about you; what were you doing laughing with him?
"What are you doing?" Aemond burst into the hall. You looked at him with a radiant smile, and your father next to you had a stupid smile painted on his lips. Both sitting on the sofa. You, with your computer on your legs, wanted to jump to hug Aemond and kiss him. But you controlled yourself. You just greeted him with a beautiful smile while he left his briefcase on one of the chairs. No one in that house could ever know about you. Your attention on him was short-lived, however, and you looked back at the laptop. You were beautiful, so full of happiness, with his pendant around your neck as always. You were his, simply his, forever. That necklace would prove it to anyone.
"We're finishing enrollment for Sunspear School of the Arts," you explained, and then your father pointed out a subject on the screen that seemed interesting to him, who had no idea about anything. And you laughed. You were grateful for that moment between the two of you. However, just as you laughed with your father, Aemond's face darkened, and he left the room without a sound. No doubt he thought things were going to be different.
Aemond made one last thrust and emitted a muffled moan. His eye closed in a grimace of pleasure while the other remained open and static, almost as if he was watching you. You felt his cock vibrate inside you. The hot seed flooded you. You made a pleasurable moan just below him and kept moving your hips in circles, almost as if inviting him to continue fucking. He had already climaxed and just looked at you seriously as he pulled away from you and sat on the edge of the bed.
Your smile disappeared, and your whole face twisted into a worried grimace. Aemond always hugged you right after making love. He hugged you tightly while you leaned on his chest. However, that day he just lit his cigarette, and he didn't even look at you, smoking with his back to you. The truth is that he had been serious all day, but you had justified it by telling yourself that he had a lot of stress from the intense and endless days at work. You thought that after getting laid in that hotel room that he always booked on Thursday afternoons, he would feel better. It hadn't been like that.
"Surely there is something I can do to ease my dragon", you whispered in his ear, just after slipping between the sheets and sticking your body to his back while your arms wrapped around his neck. You wanted to see him like you normally did in those encounters, not terribly angry and distant with you. That day you were just happy. Very happy. You had finished applying for admission to Sunspear School of the Arts; what more could you ask for? Nothing. Were you happy? That was all. You just wanted Aemond to share that happiness with you.
"I'm going to take a shower." That was all he said, pulling out of your embrace, not even looking at you. Showers always meant that you were leaving, that your only time together like that was over. And that already broke your heart as you saw him go to the shower. Alone. Without heading towards you. The tension could be felt. You realized that that time he hadn't kissed you even once while you were fucking, and you couldn't help thinking that it was all your fault. You felt your heart race as if you knew something was wrong.
"Is everything alright?" you asked, almost nervous, still sitting on the bed like a jilted and abandoned lover. He just turned and looked at you with a shrug.
"I don't know. You tell me: Is everything alright?" he responded arrogantly as if his ego was hard for him to admit that he was hurt. He could never admit how very, very hurt he was with you at that moment. Your eyes simply reflected concern, sorrow and bewilderment. What was happening?
"I- I don't know. You are different. Today you've been weird all day," you confessed, almost on the verge of tears, as if you were afraid of losing him after all.
"Maybe if the person you love wants to get away from you, you would be like that too," he told you coldly, fixing his only eye on you. And your whole world fell apart. This was all because of…
"I'm not going far. It's just Sunspear," you replied, trying to defend yourself. You looked elsewhere, trying to suppress the tears that welled up in your eyes.
"Like it was High Garden. It's away from me. It's not something I find funny," he confessed to you again without giving in. He wasn't going to give up. He felt abandoned by you. He was going to be left without what he had fought so hard against, even himself. You left him to continue your life, while he stayed only after taking a fundamental step. After this step, he would never be the same again.
"You could come to see me," you said, almost hurt by his words, and you remembered how Cregan had encouraged you, how he told you he was going to Sunspear. Aemond almost seemed the opposite.
"Okay," he replied with a shrug, turning back to go to the bathroom.
"Aemond, please, I just want to talk about it," you told him, getting up from the bed, almost scared to lose him like that. He simply stared,stirred as if he couldn't take it anymore.
"We've already talked about it, haven't we?" he answered you, terribly angry. He wanted to hit something, but he wouldn't; he was always in control. He never lost his temper. "You are going to leave, and I am going to stay here. That's all I know."
"What do you want from me, Aemond?" you almost begged him, desperate not to see him like this, and he just grabbed your face and kissed you angrily. You could feel all the frustration that his lips had while he kept kissing you hard. At the end of the kiss, he was only honest with you. And selfish, terribly selfish, but he had never had anything for himself. You were his, all of him. He couldn't lose you. His hard-won throne meant nothing if you didn't sit quietly in the shadows beside him.
"Stay in King's Landing. That is all I ask of you. Stay with me," he whispered to you almost desperately, without letting go of your face from his iron grip. His forehead resting on yours. A sad smile on his face. And you sighed, almost broken to see him so desperate for you to leave his side. "You can be happy here, study a degree at the university here," he explained without letting go, but he separated his face just so you could see how he explained a plan that was infinitely better for him. "I still have contacts in the faculty; they could admit you even if the deadlines are already closed." He told you again, with a wide smile on his face. He had found the solution for both of them, for him. Just for him.
"But, I have already filled out the application for Sunspear, and my father has paid for it today," you said sadly, trying to hold on to your dream, but Aemond just continued his arguments, desperate for you to stay with him. He needed you much more than he wanted to admit.
"We can lose that money. We have plenty. You would continue living at home, and in the afternoons, we would go out as we do now, and even Aegon would be happier," the mere mention of your father hurt you. What was going on? Why was he doing this to you? "You and I. Together." He returned to counterattack, and you did not respond. You just wanted to not lose Aemond. Your family's heraldry necklace has never weighed so heavily on your neck.
It was your birthday. It was something Aemond would never forget. Although, his mother, his sister and Daeron had reminded him all the time that morning. Another year, he would have been the one to remind everyone, but this was not another year. It was the day you came of age; it was the year in which he had been haunted almost every night by a feverish dream in which you appeared night after night, naked, advancing towards him, who was waiting for you more than willing in his bed. You rode him like a dragon and called yourself a Dragon Rider. He would be your dragon; he would be whenever you wanted him.
He hated himself. You were his niece. His niece. His niece. And nothing more. Nothing else. He didn't want to accept what was happening to him with you. He would never accept. He would never do it. He had to distance himself, and what better distance than not to congratulate you that day? He knew that he would hurt you, but by doing so, he was preventing both of you from turning into monsters. He looked at the phone, sitting in his office. Saw your last status. It was you with your friends in some ridiculous bar in Starfall, another photo with more friends, and another with your mother. You thanked everyone who had congratulated you, and he wasn't even among them, but he just couldn't. He never could. He had to distance himself. Distances."Alys, can you come here for a minute?" He asked his secretary, and she entered his office, closing the door behind her. He was the responsible adult. He was the one who had to distance himself from you, even if that was causing him more pain than expected.
"Waiting for your one-eyed boyfriend to congratulate you?" Your uncle Gerold, your mother's older brother, broke the silence as he drove to your maternal grandfather's house. They were all waiting for you there to celebrate your birthday party with your entire maternal family and your friends and, as Gerold said, without a single dragon bothering you. You narrowed your eyes angrily at the attitude of the most irreverent of all your mother's brothers.
"I don't like you addressing Brynden like that," you said rudely, dropping the phone on your lap. Your uncle smiled. Violet eyes. Aquiline nose. Marked jaw and silver hair, divided by a black lock. The future heir to your grandfather's oil kingdom, much to his regret. At another time, Gerold's nicknames would have amused you. Theat day of your birthday was not that moment. You were just mad, mad and sad because it was eight o'clock in the evening and Aemond hadn't congratulated you. They had all done it, even your father. Everyone except the one you really cared about. "Also, he congratulated me this morning as I woke up. I already had a message from him", you replied, picking up the phone again and looking desperately at the screen.
"Who, stoat?" he asked, turning to look at you with a mischievous smile. "You know I don't mean that boy. I like him quite well. He's an asshole, but he's the kind of asshole I like," he laughed at his own quip and kept driving. You looked up from the phone again and just looked at him strangely, wrinkling your face while he kept laughing. "Okay, keep pretending. I don't care," he shrugged.
"I don't know who you're talking to me about," you told him angrily, fed up with his mouth always full of insults. Your older uncle, your father figure in Starfall, always had something for everyone, all the time.
"Of course, you haven't been on edge all day because he hasn't deigned to call you," he said sardonically. "That asshole thinks you have the eyes of adragon but believe me. Genetics is a bitch, and you gouged out my eyes. My eyes. Sorry for those sad fucking dragons, but you're a Dayne. (Y/N) Dayne, it does sounds better than (Y/N) Targaryen. Much better." At that moment, you realized that he was talking about Aemond and looked out the window, slightly flushed.
"Aemond is my uncle, just like you," you told him, looking out the window at that sunset in Starfall, the beach in the background, right next to the road. "And today, he will have a lot of work to do", you tried to justify, and Gerold laughed. He laughed like he did every time you said something stupid. He always thought he was the smartest in that place.
"Come on, (Y/N), Just like me? Oh, really?" he said, laughing even more. "I wouldn't lean you against the first smooth surface I came across. It doesn't even cross my mind, and you would much less let yourself."
"You are disgusting!" you yelled at him, almost indignant, and he laughed even harder. "In what sick mind does that fit?"
"In the mind of someone sick, of course, but I, unlike others, see what others refuse to see. He is in love with you, and you are with him. It is a reality," he confessed to you, stopping the car at the speed bump. He looked at you, the only understanding look you were ever going to have in your life on that subject. "Look, (Y/N), I am not a good example of anything, and I will never be, but I have known how to be happy without harming anyone. And if he makes you happy, that's what I want for you."
"Uncle Gerold, I don't know why we're talking about this," you told him, almost desperate to get the subject over with. You were not in love with Aemond. You would never be. Never. That was just crazy. What was happening to you was unreal. Aemond was your uncle. Your uncle. Your uncle. Just like Gerold, and yet you didn't look the same at the Dornishman, nor did your heart beat the same when he looked at you.
"You don't know why we're talking about this. But I do know. I'm a Dornishman; I've done crazy, terrible, exciting things where they had to be done. And I want you to experience the things you want to experience, especially now that you are of legal age," he told you again with sincerity and understanding. Oh, gods. That was just what you needed to take the plunge, understanding. "I'm not telling you that the world has to find out, just do it", he advised you, worried about your happiness.
"Please, can we stop talking about this repulsive subject?" you begged him, and your Uncle Gerold started the car.
"Be that as it may, leave stoat because that way you're only going to hurt him?" he told you and started driving. You followed the rest of the journey in silence, and upon arrival, you sadly celebrated your birthday party. All your friends and family gathered there, happy and festive, while you looked at your phone at all times. Where was Aemond that year? Where?
That day, right after the birthday party, you broke up with Brynden, much to his dismay, and went to bed thinking about how Aemond hadn't called you all day, how much you needed him and how frustrated you were. You didn't want to accept it or even think about it, but your Uncle Gerold was right, and that conversation you had with him was only the first step in accepting it. You had, after all, broken up with your boyfriend at the mere prospect of going back to King's Landing. At the only prospect of seeing Aemond again.
Aemond had been very specific about what he wanted on this special day. He had entered that club on Silk Street through the back door. It had all been arranged by Alys, who, like always, asked no questions. She had just executed orders perfectly. He sat on a large lonely sofa in one of the VIP rooms of that place. No one had seen him enter, and no one would see him leave. Only the owner of the establishment and the girl who had prepared him would know. He looked at his messages. He should write to you. At least write you a 'Happy Birthday', but he couldn't bring himself to do it. He was a coward. He would always be a coward.
The girl entered with a smile and an innocent dress. She looked like you. Same hair. Same complexion, but her eyes weren't purple. They were so blue they almost looked like violets, but they weren't purple. Enough was that with the little time he had given them to prepare it. The girl approached him with a half smile, and he only told her that he had a present for her. The girl looked surprised, but she excitedly opened the birthday box. Aemond thought that if he squinted at her, he could see you in front of him. He shook his head. He was sick. What was wrong with him? The girl opened the box, and Aemond smiled as he tied the gag inside the box. He didn't want to hear her moans or her screams because they wouldn't be yours. He put her on all fours and entered her hard without lubricating the girl. It hurt. You would not hurt him, you would enjoy him under his touch. It was what he said to punish himself immediately afterwards. His mind was a sea of contradictions, that that girl looked like you was a mere coincidence, that he was going to fuck her on your birthday, another one.
It was the best way he could think of to celebrate your majority of age. However, unknowingly and unconsciously, he couldn't stop thinking about you while bumping his hips against that prostitute's, and he would cum with the thought of wishing you a happy birthday because that was his way of celebrating it. His sad and lonely way of celebrating. He had never felt so alone or a failure in his life, and it was all because of what was produced in his body when he looked at you. That scared him and transformed him into his worst fear: being Daemon.
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missvelvetsstuff · 9 months ago
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Just a Number
Bucky Barnes x Reader
Summary: Reader meets Bucky at a party and the attraction is more than either one of them wants to resist. Of course nothing is ever that simple.
Notes: Since most stories are younger readers I felt like having a more mature reader could be a nice change of pace. Especially since I'm creeping up on senior discounts and want to believe Bucky could fall in love with someone like me.
I try to keep my readers description vague but, as always, she's female, tall and this one is obviously 40+
Chapter 10
Warnings: swearing, vague sex talk, angst
"John's dead"
Olivia's words rang in her head and her imagination immediately concluded that something had happened to James since they were on the same mission and his phone call had been abruptly disconnected.
Dawn was finally able to get Olivia calmed down and Y/N took the letter she had been waving around. It wasn't as bad as Olivia sobbed but it wasn't good. John was MIA, the letter didn't mention Bucky or Sam.
The two of them sat on the couch while Y/N poured drinks for them. She downed hers and refilled the glass before setting the bottle on the table, giving them their drinks and sitting down.
"So this doesn't say he's dead, he's just MIA. Which isn't great but there's still hope." Y/N offered, trying to sound positive even though her chest was tight and her stomach tied in knots.
Olivia was calming down and looked over at her "That's what Val said but I don't know if I can trust her."
Dawn looked at her questioningly "Val? Who's Val?"
Olivia shrugged "She approached John after his court martial. Said she would have work for him but didn't really clarify. She works for some govt agency, I'm not sure which and has a crazy long name that I can't remember." Olivia sighed "She told me to be strong and not to lose hope but I...." She held back a sob. "I don't know how to live without him. How do you do it, Y/N? I mean without Mike?"
Y/N shrugged "You just keep going, sometimes you have to lie to yourself and pretend you're ok. I had Dawn and if this does turn out to be the worst, you have us. You can stay in Jessie's old room tonite and as long as you need."
Olivia nodded "Thank you. I would like to stay, at least for tonite."
Dawn smiled softly at her "We're your sisters and will do whatever we can. For now, lets just take things one day at a time."
One day turned into a week, then two until over a month had passed with no news at all.
Jessie visited a few times a week to keep Olivia company while Y/N and Dawn worked. Her dog, Luna, was very comforting and made Olivia wish for a pet of her own but John hated animals and forbade it.
Michael came by a couple of times during the day but was careful to be gone before his mother returned, his anger at himself combined with the shame over how he had treated his mother prevented him from reaching out and apologizing.
On a Saturday, a couple of weeks after the letter, Dawn and Y/N went to the shelter and adopted a pair of pit mix puppies, brothers. One was black with dark eyes and immediately bonded to Y/N. The other was tawny with gold eyes and took to Dawn almost as quickly. During the day they kept Olivia company but at night they came alive when their two favorite people returned home.
One evening about 6 weeks after the letter there was a knock on the door. Y/N excused herself from dinner and hurried to answer it, hoping that John or Bucky had returned, or that Michael had come to his senses.
She wasn't that lucky. Instead it was Sam looking tense and she could see the concern on his face. He looked haggard with circles under his eyes and a scraggly beard.
"Sam! We didn't expect to see you here. Please come in we're just finishing dinner. Would you like something to drink? Have you eaten yet?"
Sam shook his head "I'm fine, thank you. I need to talk to you and I heard John's wife is staying here and-"
Before he could finish he was almost knocked down by the dogs who had grown quickly and were very affectionate with people their alpha moms were comfortable with. He chuckled at their antics.
Once the dogs had thoroughly inspected him they went to lay on their pillow and he was able to talk again. Dawn and Olivia had finished cleaning up from dinner and came to see what the commotion was about. When she saw Sam, Olivia felt her eyes tearing up and started shaking her head, assuming it was bad news.
Sam tried to soothe her speaking softly "Hey, it's alright Olivia. Is it ok if I call you Olivia?"
She nodded silently
Sam sat on the couch "I'm not supposed to be here but I wanted to let you know that it's not as bad as it might seem and you shouldn't lose hope." He looked at Olivia and then to Y/N "Both of you. Please keep the faith and know I'm doing everything I can. I'm sorry I can't say any more about it. Take care of yourselves."
Before any of them could ask any questions he quickly stood and excused himself, leaving Olivia and Y/N staring at the door he left through.
The next day while Y/N was at work, Peppers receptionist, Brittany, called to let her know she had a visitor.
Y/N felt her nerves flare, she wasn't expecting anyone today but she told Brittany to send them in.
Y/N stood to greet a well dressed, petite woman with dark hair.
The woman spoke first "I'm Contessa Valentina Allegra deFontaine but you can call me Val. I need a moment of your time."
Y/N looked at her, appraising her, for a moment "Why do I have the feeling that you aren't really asking?" Shrugging, she waved at the chairs in front of her desk. "Have a seat, Val. Would you like something to drink? Coffee, tea, water?"
Val shook her head Y/N sat down.
Y/N waited for Val to say something while Val looked around her office before sitting. Y/N sighed, she had too much to do. "How can I help you?"
Val finally spoke but not about her reason for being there "The short blond in the pictures, that's your adopted sister Dawn Walker? And the others are your kids, Michael and Jessica? You have a beautiful family, shame about their father. We saw a few cases like his, people materializing in dangerous places. Very sad."
She paused but started back up before Y/N could reply "I'm surprised there aren't any pictures of James, or the two of you. John made it sound like you were attached at the hip."
She looked at Y/N knowingly "I get the feeling that there's some jealousy issues there, unhealthy for siblings, adopted or not."
Y/N finally had it "OK, I get it, you know all about me and my family, my life. I'm appropriately scared so can you just get to the point. What is this all about?"
Val tutted at her "No, no dear, oh no, I'm not trying to frighten you. I have large, well armed men for that. I'm just letting you know that I know all about you so, no point in trying to keep secrets."
She stood and started pacing the room before speaking again
"We have someone in common. You're closer to him than I am but I also have a vested interest in Sargeant Barnes. I think you can help me with that."
Y/N's face hardened "I haven't spoken to James in weeks so don't know how I could help you with him. Honestly I'm not sure I would help you if I knew anything. He has had enough people messing with him and I won't be one of them."
Val smiled as she sat down "I knew you were a woman of integrity, a lot of kids who lose their parents young go the other way. Protecting him even after those horrible pictures." She gave Y/N a look that seemed to be trying to convey sympathy but seemed more pained than anything else.
"I want you to know I had nothing to do with that mess. That Sharon is just bad news around attractive men but I need her too. For now." She chuckled darkly then shook her head and smiled at Y/N.
"But that's not why I'm here. I work for the US government and we need James' cooperation on a project I'm working on. I think your encouragement would go a long way for him, make it easier for him to make the right choice."
Y/N shook her head "I think you're overestimating my relationship with James. We've only seen each other a handful of times. We haven't even had any kind of contact in over a month. Then there's those pictures. He's obviously not that into me."
Val kept swinging and missing that sympathetic look on her face "Based on what I've heard, I don't think thats true. Regardless, if you do see or speak to him I need you to try to encourage him to take my offer. I'll make sure to keep you and your family safe if he does."
Y/N gasped and her eyes grew wide "Was that a threat? James better do what you say or you'll hurt my family? Who the Hell are you?"
Val smirked "No, of course it wasn't a threat. Goodness, you watch too many movies. Just keep me in mind when you see him. I think you'll be good for him and I'm never wrong." She quickly stood "Lovely meeting you, I'm sure I'll see you again."
Y/N sat at her desk, speechless and bewildered, trying to figure out what just happened.
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On another continent, Bucky was sitting alone in a tiny motel room looking over a map to figure out where John and Sharon might have disappeared to. He wasn't convinced that they weren't intentionally evading him as opposed to being hurt or taken by some bad guys but he wasn't going to just leave them behind without trying to figure it out. He might hate both of them but they were his team, if you could call it that, and he knew better than to leave anyone behind.
The next morning he heard from a couple of old contacts in the area and he was almost sure that he had found the Power Broker. He went to the compound where they were supposed to be located and watched the activity until nightfall when everything looked quiet. He found a way in and crept through the site until he reached what looked like the main house.
He heard crying that sounded like Sharon and picked the lock to get it. As soon as he opened the door he could hear softer moans and the room smelled like sweat and sex. The noises stopped but John kept thrusting into her, under a blanket thank goodness, as she spoke.
"Well Bucky? Aren't you coming in? There is plenty of room if you want to join us." Sharon giggled "Have you figured it out yet?"
Bucky shook his head, looking away from them. "What that you'll fuck anyone and he's no better?"
Sharon laughed again "Don't be a prude and no, that's not it."
John groaned loudly and stilled, laughing "Sharon is the fucking Power Broker stupid."
He moved away from her and pulled a pair of sweats up as he stood. "I can't believe you were some fantastic spy and assassin but couldn't work that out." He shook his head "So much for the Winter Soldier"
Bucky shook his head "I'm not him anymore."
John stepped up to get in his face. "Obviously. You should retire if this is all too much for you. Wouldn't want you to get hurt or anything."
He gently pushed Bucky back, away from Sharon. "Keep your hands off, Sharon's mine. I let you have a taste and that's all you get."
Bucky shook his head in disgust "I have no interest in Sharon. Or you for that matter. If I'd known that you two were safe I would have headed home ages ago. So I'll just get out of your hair."
He turned to walk away but John grabbed his right arm. "Sorry Barnes but we're not done with you yet, I-."
Before John could finish his statement Bucky pulled out of his grip and punched him with everything he had and again until he knocked John to the ground.
Bucky towered over John, breathing heavily "I don't care, I'm done with you."
John looked over fearfully, holding his jaw "No, you can't go. I have someone who needs to talk to you."
Bucky gave John his best murder glare "Well, where are they?" His left hand whirred as he clenched it.
A woman's voice came from the balcony "I'm right here Sargent Barnes." She was petite with dark hair and reached out to shake his hand "I'm Val, nice meeting you but I will have to ask you to back off from Walker. I need him too."
Bucky shook his head "Val who? Who do you work for?"
"Contessa Valentina Allegra deFontaine but you can call me Val. I work for the U.S. just like you."
He scoffed "What do you want from me?"
"I'm helping president Ross put together a team. Like the Avengers but without the laws and rules that constricted them. People like you and your friend John over there who have dubious histories. Some familiar faces from the Red Room as well. We need you on that team."
Bucky looked at her confused. "Ross isn't president, the election isn't until November. Besides, I'm not much of a team player."
Val laughed "You worked pretty well with Wilson. Besides, it doesn't matter what excuses you come up with you will be on that team." She grabbed his left hand and looked over the prosthetic "This thing is beautiful, by the way. The Wakandan's were really holding out on us."
And sighed "Look, if you don't agree to join our team, we'll create a situation that demands your pardon be revoked and your new residence is the Raft. Then you'll never see your little girlfriend again. I don't think either of you would like that very much."
She turned to John "Would you please stop fucking every woman who comes within 10 feet of you? Selling you as the all American hero who made a terrible mistake doesn't work if you're cheating on your wife. And Sharon? Find someone else who can recreate the serum, before the election instead of wasting your energy on every slightly attractive man you meet."
Val turned to leave "I'll give you a week to decide Sarge. Don't disappoint me."
Bucky watched her walk out, more confused than ever.
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At first sight Chapter Forty-Four
(m!reader x Bonten!Haruchiyo Sanzu)
Fluff/slash/reader is male/cursing/BontenTimeline/drugs and alcohol mentioned/violence/blood/death
All characters that appeared in the Tokyo Revengers manga and anime belong to Ken Wakui.
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You were sipping your drink, sitting in one of the bright armchairs in your living room and watching the hands of the clock that hung on one of the walls. The conversation with Takemichi Hanagaki had clarified many things, but at the same time left a few questions unanswered. One of them was who could be the time traveler who had messed up your life so much that most of your family members were alive and well, leading normal lives. 
No one came to mind. At first, you thought it could have been Yuji himself, but wouldn't he do anything to make Mai his property? He wouldn't give her up, so that option was out of the question. 
Your house seemed strangely quiet. After a few days and nights that Sanzu had spent here, everything was too quiet, but you just had to wait a little longer and Yuuta would be able to stay with you this coming weekend. Two whole days with your son... You couldn't wait. At least for such a short time his grandfather and your father will be able to rest from him. 
Kenzou L/n never complained about your child's antics, although Tomoko, who also lived there, often reported to you how much your firstborn could get on the nerves of the aging man. 
You were a troublemaker, but your mother knew how to stop you from doing many things, and Yuuta... He was only about 6 years old, and a few days ago he tried to sneak out of the house into the garden through the window. From the first floor, on a rainy evening, because his grandfather wouldn't let him jump in the puddles. 
You could lie and claim that such actions didn't happen to you, but... For God's sake, you were 14 then... Where did he get such ideas? 
"He's bursting with energy. He needs something to do, something to tire him out." Your oldest sister kept repeating, and you couldn't disagree with her. 
Only what could you suggest to the boy? Some sport? He liked football, but ever since he broke the newly replaced panes of glass in the kitchen window, your old man forbade the boy from having any balls on the property. Which was quite a funny situation, because at that moment the detective in your father woke up and Yuuta's beloved toy was secured and hidden in the closet like evidence of a crime. 
Later, seeing how sad his grandson was, he took him to the stadium as a consolation, so he could watch the older boys during training. For a while, that was enough for Yutta. He knew that he had messed up and the last straw was enough, so he didn't try to stand up to his only grandfather, trying to gain his trust in kicking balls again... From your own experience, you knew that he had a long and difficult road ahead of him. 
You finished your drink and took the empty glass to the kitchen. You went upstairs and got ready for bed, wondering if Sanzu was having a good time. If not, you were 100% sure that regardless of anything, he would wake you up with a phone call or a series of messages. He was understanding towards you, but if his mood suddenly worsened...  
You were supposed to suffer with him. If he didn't sleep despite the overwhelming tiredness, you didn't sleep either. If someone raised his blood pressure by getting on his nerves or provoking him into something, he did the same to you. After such incidents, he always showered you with some small gifts or affection, on the one hand apologizing to you and promising that it would never happen again, and on the other hand reminding you that he was the one in charge in your relationship and that you had to be submissive to him. 
In all those years of hiding what was between you, you had never once broken up with each other. Of course, women appeared in your lives, after all, you were now divorced, but in Sanzu's case, affairs never lasted long. So far, you were the only person who was actually able to put up with him. 
You also set an alarm so that you could calmly pick up the cake for your father and Natsuko and safely deliver it, together with the presents, to the house where the older birthday boy lived. By 12 noon, only your sister Tomoko should be home, so the surprise shouldn't be revealed. 
You laid down in the bed, which also seemed empty and almost cold, so you took the pillow that the pink-haired man usually slept on and buried your nose in it, inhaling his delicate scent that was still present on the material. 
It wasn't long before you started to drift off to sleep... 
You were standing in front of the door of some house and staring into the impenetrable darkness that stretched out in front of the building. The only thing you could see was the delicate outline of ornamental bushes illuminated by the light that was coming out through the windows. 
You tried to look inside through one of them, the one closest to the door, but surprisingly you couldn't see anything at all, only light. 
You carefully placed your hand on the door handle and very clearly felt its coldness, but when you were about to press it and open the door, you heard a rustle somewhere behind you. You turned around, but again all you saw was darkness. However, you had the impression that this time it had thickened a bit, if that was even possible. 
You heard the rustle again, this time closer, and the hairs on the back of your neck stood on end. You felt watched, and after another rustle, the disgusting smell of rotting meat reached your nose. 
You grimaced and turned your head to the side slightly, trying to get away from the stench, but then, out of the corner of your eye, you saw the outline of someone's figure and it caught your eye. 
The figure was quite short, but you were sure it was an adult, possibly a woman. 
*rustle, rustle... rustle* 
You felt your eyes widen. The figure stopped just before the steps of the porch you were standing on. The light from the windows gently illuminated the naked body of the woman, dirty with blood and something else. Her naked chest was mutilated, as if a piece of skin had been cut out of it, and you could see that all the wounds on her battered body were infected to the point that they were starting to rot. 
That wasn't what scared you the most. Her face was the most horrible. Like someone was hitting her with a hammer, and her eyes... 
Your breathing quickened, and your hand tightened on the doorknob as you looked into the two gaping holes where the woman's eyes should have been. 
*pat... pat... pat...* 
You watched as she slowly climbed the stairs towards you and began to raise one of her arms as if to grab you, but before she could touch you with her broken fingers, you pressed the handle of the door you pushed open and rushed inside the building, kicking the door shut in front of the terrifying figure. ... 
You were half lying on the floor looking at the door, your heart pounding in your chest like crazy. You took in more air and held it, trying to calm yourself down, listening for any sound from outside, but you heard nothing at all. 
You stood up from the floor and walked over to the window, through which you looked outside. Apart from impenetrable darkness and an empty porch, you saw nothing at all. 
“Fuck.” You cursed quietly and closed your eyes. 
“Y/n? Is Mikey alone or is Sanzu with him?” You heard a thin female voice and jumped. 
You turned around abruptly and realized that you were not in any house, but in the richly decorated hall of Bonten's hideout, and in front of you stood a petite woman with shoulder-length curls, into which on one side she had attached an expensive ornament with shiny stones. 
She was wearing a beautiful dress, from the neckline of which a fragment of a colorful tattoo was sticking out - a tail connecting probably with cherries. 
"Yukiko..." You said quietly, recognizing the girl, who was probably the only prostitute Mikey allowed to get close to him. 
She smiled shyly and suddenly all the lights dimmed enough that you could barely see what was standing by the walls. 
“Yukiko?” You called out and again you smelled the stench of rotting flesh. 
You turned around and then small, dirty hands grabbed your shirt, and you looked again at the woman's battered face. She approached you, opened her mouth and a terrifying, long moan escaped it filled with indescribable pain... 
“No! No!” You screamed, sitting up in your bed, drenched in sticky, cold sweat. “Fuck, no... Leave me alone!” 
You hid your face in both hands and held your breath for a moment. You rubbed your face and pushed back your matted hair. Your heart was beating like crazy, and you felt frustrated. This was the second time you had dreamt about this woman. 
You saw her for the first time before your life, your future changed, and those memories couldn’t leave your mind for reasons unknown to you. You didn’t have any new memories of Yukiko, and you had no idea if the woman worked for Bonten or if her life had changed as well. 
Why didn't she leave you alone? You didn't do anything to her, damn it! 
Right?... 
You rubbed your face with your hands again and glanced at the clock. It was a little after 3 am and you already knew that there was no way you would be able to fall asleep again. You got out of bed and, feeling angry, went to the bathroom to take a shower and try to wash off not only the sweat, but also the memories of your nightmare that were starting to bore into your memory. 
Refreshed, you went back to the bedroom and put on sweatpants and a plain t-shirt, then gathered the sweaty sheets from the bed, the dirty clothes from the laundry basket and went downstairs to put on the laundry in the utility room. You had some time to kill, and you didn't want to leave anything to the last minute, especially since you had an appointment with Sanzu after the birthday party and maybe, just maybe with a bit of luck you would be able to convince him to spend the night at your house again. Not that you couldn't live without it, but... 
You scratched your head feeling slightly embarrassed and somewhat sad. You went to the kitchen and turned on the coffee machine. The smell of freshly ground beans wafted through the air and after a short while the machine brewed you a strong coffee, which you calmly sipped while sitting at the kitchen table. Thanks to the warmth of the drink in your empty stomach, you started to feel better and fragments of memories of the nightmare began to evaporate from your head. 
Suddenly a thought appeared in your head. Your hand froze with the cup of aromatic drink halfway to your mouth when a piece of the puzzle clicked into place. 
You vaguely remembered that your mother's death was explained by your oldest sister's earlier suicide, but now she was alive and your mother was not. But what if preventing Mai's death was the turning point? What if that event was fixed? 
If so, you were even more curious about who was responsible for it. Who was a time-leaper like Hanagaki? Who cared so much about the girl's life that he decided to save her by using this gift or curse? 
You looked at the kitchen window, on the windowsill of which stood pots of herbs. Your mother kept Mai close to her because of your stepbrother and his feelings for her... But was it possible that she had some kind of sympathy? For example, at school, where Yuji was not allowed due to his age? 
You had no idea, but you knew perfectly well that the man Mai married and had a child with was not a long-time friend of hers. She met him at work. 
You took another sip of coffee, deciding that you would have to try to talk to your sister about it, although you knew it would be a difficult task. For some reason, Mai avoided talking to you about love. 
And Tomoko? Yes, that could work. Girls often giggled about boys, maybe she would know something more. 
You finished your coffee and feeling a surge of energy, decided to start cleaning and doing household chores took you a good three hours, which you were extremely happy about. 
You took out the laundry and put what you could into the dryer, and hung the rest on the drying rack on the terrace. You looked at the sky and, seeing no rain clouds, went back inside the house. Before you have to leave the house, you'll put a dryer in the living room, just in case. You hated it when fresh laundry got soaked in the rain and it irritated you when your neighbors sometimes didn't keep an eye on their laundry. 
You sat comfortably on your couch and turned on the TV to watch some morning news and a moment later your phone vibrated, informing you that you had received a message. 
You looked at the screen and raised an eyebrow. A multimedia message from Sanzu. 
You opened it and snorted in disbelief. 
“And I'm the pervert, huh?” You asked out loud as you watched a short video of the pink-haired gangster cumming on the face of the girl you saw him with the day before at the Bonten hideout. 
*bzzt, bzzt, bzzt* 
“Yes, Sanzu?” You answered the call and heard music playing softly on the other end. 
“How did you like the message?” He asked, very pleased with himself. 
“You're mean. You know I slept alone.” 
“You did? Were you able to actually fall asleep?” He asked with mock surprise. 
“Scumbag.” 
“She's good.” He added calmly, letting out a quiet groan as if he was stretching. “She lasted all night.” 
“Congratulations.” You laughed quietly. 
“Hey, Y/n...” 
“Yeah?” 
“If only you could see how her eyelashes stuck together... The fake ones peeled off halfway.” He laughed, genuinely amused. 
“Hmm...” You smiled to yourself. “You know, I prefer yours sticking together, honey.” 
There was silence on the other end for a moment and you clearly heard something, probably the sheets rustling loudly. Your smile widened and you regretted that you couldn’t see Haruchiyo’s face at that moment. 
“I swear I’ll strangle you one day, you pervert.” Your interlocutor growled more quietly, and you laughed harder. “I’m not kidding. Just wait... I’ll make your eyelashes stick together. Fuck, I’ll do you so bad you won’t be able to open your fucking eyes. What's more, it will pour up your nose..." 
“Will you drown me in your cum?” You purred, settling even more comfortably on the couch and spreading your legs further, your free hand began to mindlessly wander over your stomach. 
“You’ll lick my cum right off the fucking floor…” He growled and your hand slid into the sweatpants you had put on your bare body. 
“Oh, talk to me like that more…” You said quietly and bit your lower lip slightly. 
“You’ll see, L/n. I’m not kidding. You’ll lick it clean…” 
“Haru, I can lick your ass with the purest pleasure, so the floor doesn’t scare me…” You said, smiling cheekily as you calmly stroked your penis. “I just love devouring you, kitty.” 
“You’re disgusting…” Sanzu said with a faint conviction in his voice. “It’s not hygienic… Dirty…” 
“And how nice…” You purred, pulling your hand out of your pants to slide them down slightly. You were aroused and the mere memory of a naked Haruchiyo made your desire grow. “Your moans and muscles tensing under the influence of pleasure…” 
You grabbed your cock in a full fist and started moving it up and down, listening to the quiet curses on the other end of the call. 
“Stop it…” He said, feigning anger, but you laughed, squeezing the head of your cock gently. You groaned involuntarily and exhaled more sharply through your nose. “What are you doing now, Y/n?” 
“What do you think?” You asked, dropping your cock and pulling your t-shirt up, exposing your nipples to the air. 
“You’re jerking off.” He said with a hint of disbelief, but as soon as he heard your grunt of confirmation, he snorted. “Show me.” 
“Hey, I’m the pervert here.” You said, trying to sound indignant, but you actually felt amusement. 
“Don't piss me off and show me.” He demanded and you turned on the front camera, showing him your exposed chest and erection. “You're really doing it…” 
You tensed your muscles and your cock twitched. You smiled at Haruchiyo's uncertain expression and your free hand returned to cupping your cock at the base and after a moment, began pumping slowly. 
“Y/n...” 
“Uh-huh?” 
“I want to see you cum on your own chest.” He said in a tone that didn't brook any argument and you groaned, starting to move your hand faster and more rhythmically. 
You caressed yourself with increasing affection and focus, ignoring everything else. In that moment, only you existed, the memories of sex with Sanzu, your hand and your penis. Your lover found satisfaction in the arms of a woman, but you had to take care of your own. 
“Fuck...” You groaned, feeling that you were getting closer to reaching orgasm and looked at the screen of your phone, where you saw the slightly blushing face of the pink-haired gangster, his sweet, slightly parted lips and eyes darkened with lust. “You're beautiful, Haru…” You said and his eyes lifted for a moment as if to look at your face, but they fell again, focusing on your hand and member. 
“Don't stop...” He said almost in a whisper, and you felt the first drops of milky-white liquid under your fingers. “Faster...” 
You obeyed him and soon after a strong shiver shook your body and a stream of cum spurted from your member, landing on your spasmodically rising chest and stomach. 
“Fuck...” You moaned, releasing your member, which was still twitching from time to time, from which a smaller amount of cum was still leaking. “Ah... Sanzu...” 
“Grab the cum on your fingers and put them in your mouth.” He gave you a new order and you obeyed immediately. You were used to the taste of your semen and licked your fingers clean with pleasure. 
“Should I do anything else?” You asked in a hoarse voice and Sanzu smiled mysteriously. 
“Come pick me up like we agreed and you'll find out.” You smiled at those words and the man said goodbye to you, ending the call. 
You put your phone aside and looked at the mess you had made a moment earlier. You laughed, feeling slightly embarrassed, and took your pants and t-shirt off completely. It looked like you'd have to do another load of laundry soon. 
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“Stop complaining and bring it inside.” Tomoko snapped at you, urging you on the path leading to the door of your father’s house. 
“You could at least help me a little, you know?” You grumbled, trying not to drop the cake box you were carrying, placed on top of the present for Natsuko. “You only took an orchid...” 
“Don't whine. What kind of guy are you if you can't handle a dollhouse and a cake?” 
“You're awful... Who stepped on your toes, huh?” You asked as you passed her in the doorway. 
“Nobody.” She closed the door behind you, took off her shoes and walked briskly towards the dining room where the birthday party was to be held. 
“Hey, Tomoko, don't leave me like this...” You fretted, unable to take off your shoes because your hands were occupied. 
“Pussy!” The woman replied and you began to curse under your breath, carefully putting the packages on the step in front of you, then you put your shoes on the empty space and again, you picked up the cardboard box with the cake and stopped mid-step. 
“Where should I take the cake?” You asked out loud and your sister answered from the room she had disappeared into. 
“Put it in the fridge in the pantry!” 
“You have a fridge in the pantry?” You asked in surprise, heading to the right place. 
“Yeah, dad thought it would be a good idea... Don't ask.” 
You shrugged and hid the cake in its designated spot before heading back to the genkan to get a present for your niece. You walked into the dining room with it and raised your eyebrows at the ongoing decorations. 
“Wow, you did this by yourself?” You asked in appreciation and the woman nodded, trying to blow up another balloon in the girl’s favorite color, light green. Funnily enough, it was also your old man’s favorite color. “It looks great.” 
“Stop sucking up and get to work.” She replied in a softer tone, letting you know she accepted your praise. “Did you manage to do anything with those papers I gave you?” 
“Sure.” You replied, blowing up another balloon. “I saw him, Tomoko. I saw Yuji with my own eyes.” 
The woman accidentally let go of her balloon, which flew across the dining room with a piercing whistle and landed among the monstera leaves. 
“What?” She asked, shocked. 
“I saw Yuji in Toshima. He’s hanging out with the owner of one of the restaurants. Minako Hakugawa…” 
“Who the fuck?” she asked, lowering her hands. 
You looked at her in surprise. “Minako Hakugawa... Maybe you’ve heard her nickname...” 
“Mina.” She stopped you in your tracks and looked somewhere at the wall behind you. 
“Well… Yeah… Mina.” You nodded in confirmation. “Did something happen?” 
“We were in the same year at college.” She explained, walking over to the plant to pull out the deflated balloon. “She didn’t seem interested in committing crimes...” 
“Oh... I see.” You turned your attention to tying the balloon and tying its stem with a colorful ribbon. “Just like you, right?” 
“Huh?” 
“You know what I'm talking about, Tomoko.” 
“Who's talking, huh? Fuck you.” She grumbled, blowing up the balloon again. 
You laughed quietly and let go of the ornament, which flew up to the ceiling, swaying happily from side to side for a moment. 
“Is Mai at work today?” You asked after a long moment. 
“Yeah, but she's finishing early today. Her boss agreed to replace her.” Tomoko replied, not taking her eyes off her balloon, which she was finishing tying. 
“Her boss?” You asked with a smile. “Will anything come of it?” 
“Watch your ass, for your sake.” This time the dark-haired woman gave you a warning look, to which you raised both hands in a gesture of peace. 
“It's just an innocent question...” You sighed. “You've always excluded me from these kinds of conversations...” 
“I know... Sometimes I forget that you already had a wife, a child, and started an affair with your old flame...” The woman said in a calmer tone. “You have a similar life to Mai’s in that regard, you know?” 
“Divorce and a child?” 
“And an old crush.” She picked up a bottle of water and poured the contents into two glasses. She handed one to you, signaling a break. 
“Mai had a crush?” You asked, seeing this conversation as your opportunity to perhaps get answers to a few questions. 
“Uh-huh, yes.” She took a drink from the glass. “She had a... Let's say a close friend at school. They lost touch because he had to go to Korea with his father, but after he came back, about a year ago...” She looked at you and shook her head. “Y/n, if only you had seen him when he came across our sister. The unimaginable joy on his face and the boundless love in his tear-filled eyes. Terrifying.” She shuddered, and you had a feeling that this could be that whole time-leaper Takemichi mentioned. 
“Like he got his lost treasure back?” 
“What?” She looked at you strangely but shrugged and nodded. “You could put it that way.” 
“What’s his name?” 
“I don’t think you’d recognize him… He’s been gone from Japan for a few years. Maybe you’ve never even seen him.” She took another sip of water, then set the glass on the table. “Yasu Ueno.” 
You thought about it for a moment, then shrugged and took a drink from your glass. "You're right, I don't know the guy." 
“Uh-huh. He really liked Natsuko, and she liked him.” 
“Yeah?” You feigned disinterest, feeling uncertain. 
Tomoko looked at you closely and laughed sincerely, patting your shoulder. 
“Come on, you’ll always be her favorite uncle, Y/n.” She said, sensing your unease. 
“I’m the only uncle she has.” You grumbled, avoiding eye contact as embarrassment from your newfound jealousy took hold of you. 
“Unofficially, she also has Sanzu…” 
“Which she doesn’t know, and maybe let’s keep it that way… At least while he’s in drugs…” 
“And in a gang.” 
“He won’t give up Bonten.” 
“And he won’t give up drugs.” She added, and you opened your mouth to say something, but closed it again. 
“Maybe. I haven't broached this topic with him yet.” 
“How many times have you saved him from an overdose?” 
“Tomoko...” You didn’t want to talk about it. Despite the seriousness of the topic, it was unpleasant for you. 
The woman sighed and began folding colorful napkins into lily flowers. “Can you bring the plates from the cupboard? The ones with the silver rings on the edges, please?” 
“Sure... How many should I bring? I mean... Is it just us or did dad invite anyone else?” 
“Just us, so 6 pieces.” 
You walked over to the cupboard and opened it to pull out the appropriate tableware, but scenes from the last time you thought you would lose the pink-haired man forever flashed through your mind. 
It took place on New Year's, when exhausted from the fun and carnal ecstasies, you were getting ready for bed. When you came out of the bathroom, warmed up by the shower, you saw Haruchiyo's limp body lying on the bed with his arms spread out. His eyes seemed empty, and his pupils looked almost like pinheads. You had never seen Sanzu's pupils so narrowed. When you touched his body, it was colder than usual, and his heart slowed down a lot. You had never been as scared as you were that night... 
"Hey, Y/n... You have those plates in front of your nose, you know?" Tomoko's voice tore you out of your thoughts and you shook your head, trying to get rid of the images your imagination was giving you. 
“Yeah, yeah... I know, thanks...” You would probably kill yourself if Haruchiyo Sanzu died. You were sure you would. 
You put the right amount of plates on the table and opened your mouth to ask a question, but your sister beat you to it with an answer. 
“They're clean. Dad likes to polish them at least twice a week.” 
“Seriously?” You were surprised. “He must be bored...” 
“That's how he calms his frayed nerves.” 
“Yuuta?” 
“Come on. It's your blood. No one expected anything less.” The woman snorted in amusement, giving you a quick look. “Better for him to be like you than his mother.” 
“Thank you. I am the lesser of two evils, as I understand it?” You said, irritated, and your sister responded with a wide smile. “You're mean.” 
“Poor thing.” She pinched your cheek lightly. “My poor little brother.” 
“Fuck you, you witch...” 
“I love you too, little brother.” 
You stuck your tongue out at her and she made a hand movement as if she wanted to catch it and you immediately moved away. When you were still a child, she had managed this trick a few times and you regretted it very much. Pulling your tongue is a very unpleasant feeling. Very unpleasant. 
“What are you planning about Yuji?” She asked after a moment, and you frowned slightly. 
“You know what. I intend to wipe him off the face of the earth. There will be no mercy.” You replied in a calm tone, placing the plates on the table one by one. “This man must die.” 
“You will break our father's heart...” 
“I know. L/n loves all of their family members.” You said more somberly than you intended. 
“I wish you luck, Y/n. I will do everything possible to make sure our father never suspects you of this crime.” 
You nodded in thanks, knowing that Tomoko would keep her word. 
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