#he was giving us a tour of the court building and all of their fancy statues and shit. people were mesmerized.

[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

And I'd love to be proven wrong, but I really think all of the ICJ hype is going to end in big disappointment for most folks

[aurora-light-blog]

Unexpected Treasures Part 2 of 3

Holo-photos of the Dathomir are all desolate. As Luthen Rael flew to the coordinates, he observed that this is only true of half of the planet. The other side was remarkable lush with vegetation. A few beings knew about the Nightsisters, though he wondered if anyone knew about this other clan.

Rubina had claimed to not be a Nightsister, but Luthen didn’t truly believe this until he spotted a small town with a starport. The buildings weren’t of the same design as the Nightsisters in the least. He realized it was dangerous to come here, yet he decided to risk it for the possible benefit of the mission. He left the ship with a locked suitcase in hand.

“Welcome to Dathomir, Luthen.” The gray skinned woman stood right outside of the starship’s hatch for him.

Luthen clutched his suitcase. “Are we doing the trade onboard?” It would give him the home court advantage.

“I figured that you would want a tour and to see all of our old collection.”

“That sounds lovely.” As long as he can leave the place alive.

“Follow me.”

He trailed behind her. The majority of the buildings were three to four stories high and common city type. Yet, the roads were all grass, if they were actually road. Luthen wasn’t sure. Cities and even most little towns didn’t have this much flora. There were several bushes and trees, which gave it a wild feel. He couldn’t identify any of the trees that didn’t come as a surprise to him, until they came near, “are those white wroshyr trees?”

“Yes. Amber is a form of currency here.”

“How did you …” His jaw dropped. “They’re extinct. They’ve been extinct for over a thousand years.”

“Oh, we didn’t know that. It’s been a long time since we have traded with the Wookiees. I’ll make a note of delivering some seeds to them.”

The rumors of her secret operation existing for a long time is now believable to him. He can carefully ask questions. “How do your people relate to the Nightsisters, Jedi, or the Sith?”

“That’s a long answer. How do you think we relate to the Nightsisters?”

“Are you a splinter group?”

She chuckled. “Actually, the Nightsisters are younger than us. They’re the third youngest clan, or should I say were.”

He noticed there were men in the town, and none of them had the appearance of the Nightbrothers. “So, were they a splinter group from yours?”

“Indeed, as well as the other older clans.”

“How do you relate to Jedi and Sith?” If they’re evil, he would buy the holocron and promptly leave.

“We don’t relate to either. We walk the path in the middle. Or you might say we work in the gray area. You can understand, Luthen, can’t you?”

That was the annoying and disarming points of dealing with Force wielders. They knew too much, which made a spy like him nervous.

“Ahh, we’re here.” She opened the door for him.

It was a three-story house. The first floor has a large collection of Sith armors and weapons. He recognized a Sith warblade. She led him up to the second floor. This had a large sinister table surrounded by skulls and having holcrons on top. She was not lying thankfully.

He slowly walked forward to examine the five Sith holocrons. One stood out to him.  It was a small purple pyramid. “That one. I’ll buy this Sith holocron.”

“You have the good but unfortunate taste of picking the only holocron not for sale. It also isn’t a Sith holocron.”

“Then whom is it?” Luthen tilted his head.

“This was Nightsister Jeonsa Min’s.” Rubina touched it but picked a red holocron. “This was Darth Lanh’s holocron. It’s a safer bet for Coruscant and won’t get any undue attention from the reigning Sith.”

“Who was this Darth Lanh? It would help me in selling it.”

“A petty Sith lord who fancied himself a would-be emperor. Jeonsa Min defeated him quite brutally. The nightmarish rumors of our people came from her. She was quite formidable. Would you like to hear the story?”

“Yes.”

“It begun in the dawn of the New Sith Wars, Darth Lanh to his credit was a great warrior by all standards. However, being a great fighter isn’t enough. You need an army. You need better weapons than your foes.

“Meanwhile, the Nighsisters were the smallest of clans. They were hungry for more territory and better lands if they had any hope for expansion. The Red Hills Clan was the largest Dathomiran clan and the most powerful with the best lands, so they fought them and lost. The clan mother of the Nightsister sought a solution to their problem, which led them to the Sith.”

*full story on Archive of Our Own under “Rise of the Nightbrothers” by Darth Chocolate this Friday. *

“Jeonsa Min defeated the plot and issued in a golden age for the Nightsisters. She had always intended for the Nightbrothers to have equal standing in the clan.” Rubina frowned. “Sadly, later clan mothers wouldn’t adhere to this, and the men became nothing more than slaves. Even worse, they ignored her warning and counsel against ties with the Sith. If Mother Talzin had only listened, the Nightsisters wouldn’t be a faded memory.” She handed Luthen the Sith holocron. “Be smarter. Don’t ally yourself with violent evil beings and value your people always.”

[taylors-fourth-cat-meow]

If tamlin is not retconned in book 2 and rhysand is still a villain, what do you think the plot of acomaf would be?

Hi anon!!

Anon, you have no idea how happy it makes me that u want to know what I think, but u shud know this may not be good cause I am literally a teenager with no writing affiliation but yay I am so excited to share this! think it wud sort of go about like this: (srry this turned out longer than I thought)

The book should obviously start with Feyre and Tamlin dealing with their Trauma, TOGETHER.

(Amarantha did SA tamlin. He was ready to marry her if only she let feyre go.)

Tamlin having Feyre educated with private tutors cause no he can't have an illiterate as the Lady of his court and frankly Feyre agress.

NO IANTHEE. Instead Tamlin's court. Like his two best friends (who are secretly in love with each other) from his war camp days and His governess' daughter (she is like his sister) and a bi disaster lesser faerie (whose kinda my self insert) who owns a bar they all love to hang out at.

Feyre and Tamlin taking a tour of their court (more scope for World building) to introduce her to her a subjects

That's when she realises she has powers. And Tamlin trains her himself cause he doesn't trust anyone. (Lucien helps too)

So I would have it like Beron finds out Feyre has taken his power and there is an assassination attempt. (For the drama)

Lucien is triggered by this and breaks down. Feyre and Tamlin realise they have been so caught up in themselves that they neglected Lucien. So they take him to the Singing Willow and have a heartfelt talk. (Character building)

Tamlin, who has been working to minimize the potential threat of hybern, learns they are looking for the cauldron.

Feyre finds about the threat of war and is furious at Tamlin for keeping it from her (more drama)

Then they take a tour of the Prythian looking for the parts of the cauldron under the guise of the "Saviour Of Prythian wanting to meet see her new world" None of the high lords buy it so courtroom drama

Everyone literally fall to their knees when feyre walks in and she just smirks. 🤌🏼

Feylin fluff ☺️ and feylin smut 😏

I would have Lucien and Tamlin's sis trying to retrieve the parts of the cauldron from hybern that they already have.

Now rhysie had allied with Hybern cause they promised him to be High King. But he is infact Feyre's mate and has feelings for her.

So basically there is no IC. No Velaris. He is all alone. Tragic family backstory is still there. When Amarantha takes over, he proposes to her so that he cud be High King. But she is too in love with Tamlin. Instead she uses her power to use him as her boy toy. He doesn't want that, his intentions were different and he is being forced and not as some noble "sacrifice" (basically more complexity to his character rather than just having a big fancy dick)

He calls in the bargain and Feyre has to leave to go to him mid tour. The first week he tells her about the mating bond. Second week she learns that the piece of cauldron is in the NC and Rhysie is trying to bargain it to Hybern.

Then what she did to Tamlin in acowar only no mind-raping. Pretending to start falling for Rhysie. Getting the information and giving it tamlin. She feels bad tho because Rhysand's feelings are genuine. He does want a mate.

Cut to Tamlin arrives at Savgravah finds the piece. Feyre escapes and goes to meet him there. But she isn't able to because rhysie looked into Feyre's mind and is like super furious about the betrayal. Like tears and all. Calling him out on SA and him being unapologetic saying I did what I had to do (MORE DRAMA)

Rhysand and Feyre fight (which she obviously looses) but she gets a glimpse into his mind and what his plans for Prythian are. She's knocked unconscious.

Hybern then arrives with Lucien and party as prisoners (yeah they failed :/) Rhysie gives them the part. But they need to sacrifice a powerful Fey (among other things) to activate the cauldron. Hybern wants Tamlin because even tho his father was an ally, as soon as Tamlin became HL he cut all ties and well it hurt Hybern's ego so now he wants revenge.

Tamlin gives himself in exchange for Lucien and his sis [All this is in Lucien's pov]

Book ends with Feyre locked in Rhysie's dungeon, waking up to find Tamlin taken. And she's like "I'm gonna get my beasty baby back and kill that son of bitch (Rhysie)."

[katedrakeohd]

What Happens in Paris...(8)

[Masterlist]

Feeling flirty and fancy..🍰🌹☕🍬

word count: ~ 5000

rated: PG for language and mature themes

Book: The Royal Romance, book 2

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Drake sat between Kate and Hana in the back of the limousine. Any other day he might have enjoyed being sandwiched between two beautiful women, but not today.  On the other bench seat, directly across from him, was Kiara sitting between Maxwell and Penelope. The way she looked at him made his skin crawl inside his fancy clothes. To add to his awkwardness, having Kate and Hana sitting so close to him meant he didn’t know where to put his hands, so he just folded his arms across his chest and glared at the privacy screen behind Kiara’s head.

Next to Kiara, Penelope had her eyes glued to her phone, trying to avoid looking at Kate. She was still mired in guilt over her part in the Tariq scandal, and felt uncomfortable being so close to Kate and her friends. She would have felt equally as lost in the other car with the King, Adelaide, Madeleine and Regina so she tried to lose herself in the ebook she was reading.

Hana couldn’t help but feel the stiffness of Drake’s frame as he sat next to her. Whenever the car turned a corner, or swerved to pass another vehicle he fought not to lean on either of them. If he wasn’t so clearly uncomfortable, it might have been endearing that he was making an effort to be such a gentleman. Leaning back on the seat, Hana tried to catch Kate’s attention with a glance but she had her head turned toward the window. Taking a cue from Penelope, Hana digs her phone out of her purse and sends Kate a text.

Drake glances at Kate’s purse in her lap when it chimes, watching her open it and fish out her phone. He feared the text might be from Liam, causing a sour feeling in his stomach. With her phone screen so close to him, Drake couldn’t help but see the message and he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Hana was the sender. He feigned indifference as he gazed out the window, but couldn't help but see their conversation.

Hana: <poke> <poke>

Kate: ??

Hana: Poor Drake, he’s trying so hard to be the polite thorn between two roses. 

Kate: Heh, I noticed. He’s super tense. It doesn’t help that Kiara is being a total sleaze and giving him the ‘fuck me’ eyes over there. I want to punch her in the face. 

Drake clears his throat, glancing at Kate with an amused twitch to his lip.

Hana: Shall we give Kiara a not so subtle hint that he’s taken?

Kate: Yes, let’s do that. Something to make her jealous AF.

Hana puts her phone away in her purse, and then crosses her legs to give Drake more room on the seat. He steals a quick glance her way, wondering what she’s doing. When she angles her upper body toward him and tucks her hand into the crook of his elbow he gets his answer. 

He leans over and mumbles to her out of the corner of his mouth, “Care to explain?”

Hana smiles at him and pats him on the arm, “Just roll with it,” she whispers. 

Penelope looks up from her phone, does a double-take and then nudges Kiara with her elbow. “Are you seeing what I’m seeing?” she hisses.

Kiara nods, a confused frown on her face. Her eyes cut back and forth between Drake and Hana.

Drake relaxes his posture on the seat, spreading his knees apart and dropping his hands down to fold them in his lap.  He gives Kiara a wide cheshire grin, and then waggles his eyebrows at her. She tilts her head, and then casts another glance over Drake, confused by the direct eye contact. What is he doing?

Once he’s sure that he has her undivided attention, he glances down at Kate’s bare leg pressed up next to his. Sliding his hand down his thigh he lets his pinkie finger graze along her skin and then he places his hand on her knee.

Kiara’s eyes go wide when Kate turns toward Drake with a smirk, tucking her arm under his to hug him across the chest and nuzzle her face into the side of his neck. Penelope gasps, picking up her phone again and tapping at the screen. Kate shoots her a warning look, shaking her head, and she drops her phone back down into her lap. 

Maxwell looks away and then coughs into his fist to get everyone’s attention when the car comes to a stop, “Ahem, we’re here. Showtime everyone.”

…..

Kate settles back against the seat, feeling just a little flushed after their little public display. Penelope and Kiara were still staring at her and Drake with dumbfounded expressions. Ignoring them, Drake sucks in a deep breath in an attempt to combat the adrenaline rush he was feeling. Looking past Kate to peer out the window he frowns at the surging crowd of people on the sidewalk outside. 

“Max, it looks like we’ve got a swarm of eager paparazzi waiting for us. Kind of overkill for a tea party don’t you think?”

Maxwell sighs, “Well we’re not the only high profile people here today. This event is being co-hosted by the wives of the French Prime Minister and the French Ambassador to Cordonia. No doubt the news outlets have been talking about it.”

“Oh great,” Drake mumbles.  “So what now? Do we swim our way through the sharks, or do we call for the Royal guards to clear us a path?”

“Would they do that for us?” Kate asks hopefully, reaching for Drake’s hand on the seat beside her.

He folds his fingers around hers and gives them a gentle squeeze, leaning in close to murmur in her ear. “I’ve got you Kate, even if I have to plough my way through those bastards to get us inside.”

“And Hana too? We couldn’t leave her to fend for herself,” Kate whispers back, glancing at her friend.

Hana gets her sunglasses out of her purse and offers Drake a weak smile when he looks her way. He reaches for her hand too, giving her a warm smile of his own, “What kind of gentleman would I be if I didn’t take care of both my Ladies?”

With Drake’s warm, strong hand wrapped around her cool fingers Hana can’t help but blush a little. She wasn’t used to such personal treatment, and for a moment she understood how it felt to be Kate.  On the other bench seat Kiara rolls her eyes, “Oh please, how much longer is this faux menáge a trois going to be dragged out? I know it’s all fake. He couldn’t possibly keep two women happy at once.”

Drake throws his head back and laughs when Kate cuts in with a sly grin, “Wouldn’t you like to know?”   

 The charged atmosphere inside the car is interrupted by a knock on the window, Max breathes a sigh of relief as he presses the button to lower the tinted glass. It’s Bastien. “Lord Beaumont, the royal guard and the venue staff security have pushed the media back to a safe distance. You and your party are clear to exit the vehicle now.”

Maxwell nods, puffing out his chest and squaring his shoulders in an attempt to appear serious and Lordly, “Thank-you Bastien.”

When Bastien opens the door, Maxwell climbs out first and turns to offer his hand to Kiara and then to Kate as she exits the car. Drake scoots over on the seat to get out ahead of Penelope so that he can place himself next to Kate. Grasping her hand firmly he turns to help Hana out of the car. With his ‘Ladies’ flanking him on either side, Drake strides confidently into the building with a cheeky grin on his face amid the flashbulbs and flurry of questions from the press.

Once everyone is inside the hushed interior of the foyer, Bastien rounds on Drake and grabs him by the arm to pull him aside. “What in the devil are you up to? Does protocol mean nothing to you?”

Drake shakes his arm out of Bastien’s grasp, “What does it matter if the three of us walk in together?”

“As a representative of House Beaumont, Lady Kate is the responsibility of Lord Maxwell and should be escorted as such. You should have brought up the rear after the Ladies have already entered.”

Drake scoffs, “Oh please, as if you care about Kate’s status at court. You and Poodle Penny over there were working together to get her kicked out!”

“The King cares about her reputation -..”

Drake scowls in disbelief, “Like bullshit he does! He cares more about his own.”

Kate holds her hands up, raising her voice, “That's enough! Bastien, I don't mind having Drake as an escort. Liam asked Drake to look out for me, so let him do it. And as a courtesy to my friend Lady Hana, whom Madeleine has welcomed back into her court, he's pledged to look out for her as well.”

Bastien takes a step back, giving Drake a warning look, before bowing his head to Kate, “My apologies, Lady Kate. I’ll give Drake some space to fulfill his protective...duties. But I must insist he use more discretion, so his actions do not reflect badly upon the Royal Court.”

Drake’s scowl deepens and he opens his mouth to protest further, but Kate rests her hand on his arm and shakes her head, “Save it. We've already created enough of a scene.”

Breathing a deep sigh of resignation, Drake closes his eyes. “Fine, let's get to this Damn tea party. I can't wait for this stupid engagement tour to be over with.”

Drake, Hana and Kate wait for everyone else to go on ahead and then approach the banquet hall together. Kate is on Drake’s right, holding onto his hand, while Hana is on his left with her hand tucked into the crook of his elbow. It's slightly awkward until they find a walking pace that works for everyone, with Kate and Hana both giggling as they try to keep up to Drake’s long strides. “C’mon girls, keep up.” he chuckles quietly. 

At the door to the hall they're stopped by someone from the hotel staff with a clipboard. “Names please?”

Drake introduces his flanking angels, first raising Kate’s hand, “On my right, this is Lady Kate Darling. And on my left” he raises his elbow, “Lady Hana Lee.” 

The girl with the clipboard nods crossing off the names as she finds them. “Mmmhmm, and you are?”

“Drake Walker.”

Sliding her finger down the list she raises an eyebrow, slowly shaking her head, “I’m sorry I don't see your name, oh wait...here you are near the bottom.”

Trying to hide his impatience, Drake nods his thanks with a thin lipped smile, and then escorts his Ladies in the door. Hana immediately gasps as she takes in the grandeur of the specially decorated venue space. Kate can’t help but be impressed by the decor as well, especially for something touted as being just a tea party.

The ceiling and walls were dressed in pastel pink, white and purple silk and sheer drapery. Large crystal chandeliers lit the space and lent a jeweled sparkle effect to every gilded and shiny silver serving platter and tall glass vase of flowers, of which there were many. Off in one corner of the room upon a stage, a four piece string quartet played a gentle classical melody. Instead of a formal dining room setting filled with many tables, there were only a few round tables set with chairs and table cloths. Informal conversational sitting areas with comfortable sofas and chairs were grouped along the walls and corners of the space, a design that encouraged everyone to mingle and chat.  Down the center of the room long banquet tables were dressed in white brocade tablecloths and ladened heavily with all manner of delicate sweets, buttery croissants and pastry, cookies, tiny sandwiches, fruits, cheeses and of course hot tea stations serving various varieties. 

While Hana and Kate oohed and ahhed over the spectacle and grandeur, Drake’s eyes were drawn to the various groups of people. The men looked bored, the women cheerful and chatty. He lamented being in such a large group of nobles without a drop of alcohol in sight to calm his nerves. Several sets of eyes drifted their way, prompting close conversations in hushed tones. Although he was thankful for the cool air conditioning, Drake still felt the prickle of heat rising up out of the collar of his shirt. He knew that the longer he stood next to Kate, the more stares they were bound to receive. It was time to split up and mingle.

Leaning in close to Kate he lets go of her hand and says, “Off you go now, Beautiful. Turn heads and make waves like the swan you are amongst these pathetic pretentious...ducks.”

Kate gives him a warm smile at the compliment, “I’m assuming you’re going to make a beeline for the snack table and avoid as many conversations as possible.”

Drake nods with a chuckle, rubbing his chin, “That would be a Texas sized ten four pretty lady. The more food I can keep on my plate and in my mouth, the less talking I’ll be able to do.”

Hana giggles at their lighthearted banter and steers Kate toward a tea station. “See you later, Drake.”

...

Across the room, Madeleine & Liam are standing with the French Ambassador’s wife, Marie and sipping tea. Liam is only half listening to the conversation going on between Maddy and Marie, because he keeps stealing glances towards Kate. She’s over at the tea table with Hana, and smiling over something Hana's saying. His stomach erupts with butterflies and he can’t stop a warm feeling from blooming in his chest. Damn she can light up a whole room with that smile. She used to smile like that for me. How can she look so beautiful and happy without me?

When Hana and Kate take their tea cups over to a sofa to sit down, neither giving Liam a glance, he feels the butterflies turn to cold sludge in his gut. Madeleine had a firm grasp on his forearm and he felt trapped, tense and uncomfortable. He needed a reason to sneak away so he could at least go over to say 'hello'. When there was finally a lull in the conversation he saw his opening. 

After gulping down the rest of his hot tea, he forced a smile. "Well that was an excellent cup of tea, and now I have a craving for something sweet. I think there might be some baklava on the far table."

Madeleine nods, releasing her grip, "By all means Dear, I wouldn't want to deprive you of your favorite treat."

With a polite nod to the ambassador's wife he takes his leave, feeling the tension in his shoulders dissipate. The further away he gets from Madeleine the better he feels. By the time he meets Drake at the buffet table he's wearing a grin. He sizes up his friend's dressed up attire as he reaches for a plate. 

"You clean up nicely Drake, it looks good on you."

Drake takes the time to chew and swallow the bite of eclair he has in his mouth. "You think so? Maxwell helped me pick this out."

Liam loads up his plate with some chocolate petit fours, cream puffs, and a couple servings of baklava. "Oh definitely, I've even seen some of the women looking your way."

Drake picks up a delicate finger sandwich and puts it on his plate, and  then picks up another. "Yeah, right. They're not looking at me."

Liam glances over at Hana and Kate. He catches Hana's eye and she smiles back. "Seriously dude, I think Hana is checking you out."

Drake nods, "Well I did sit next to her in the Limo, and things got cozy."

Liam chuckles and smacks Drake on the shoulder, "Well there you go! She's a beautiful woman Drake, I think you'd make a wonderful couple."

Drake tries to swallow the lump forming in his throat, but decides to play along anyway and forces a grin. He nods toward the trays of party food, "Which of these do you think Hana would like? She'd probably be impressed if I brought her back something."

Liam looks over at Kate and Hana again, and this time both women are looking their way. "Uhh, probably something chocolate. Do you think Kate likes baklava?"

Drake frowns and then picks up a fruit tart, remembering how Kate had put extra jam on her croissant that morning. He shrugs, "I dunno, probably."

"Splendid! I'll offer her a piece of mine."

When Liam walks over to Kate, Drake realizes that Madeleine has been staring at them too, and has an angry scowl on her face. He gives her a wave, which just makes her roll her eyes and shake her head at him. He dismisses her with a shrug that shows how little he cares. Turning back toward where Kate and Hana are sitting, Drake sees Liam on the sofa next to Kate offering her something from his plate.

Kate steals a quick look at Drake as he comes over, and then turns her attention back to Liam. He can tell that she's pretending to consider what Liam's offering, but doesn't want anything off his plate. Drake smirks to himself, because he's already winning in the game of knowing Kate better than Liam.

Drake approaches Hana with a shy grin on his face, and gestures to the sliver of cushion left beside her, "Is this seat taken?"

Hana smiles back, shaking her head and squeezes in closer to Kate to give him room. Drake gingerly sits down, perching on the edge of the sofa. He presents his plate of goodies to Hana with a flourish, "Would the Lady be interested in something sweet to go with her tea? I highly recommend the chocolate eclairs."

Kate eyes the delicate fruit tart on Drake's plate, and the elegant cucumber sandwiches as well. Neither is Drake's style, and she knows it. But she also knows he would suffer a cucumber sandwich and a tailored white shirt just to spend time with her. Meanwhile, Liam had brought over a plate of his own favorite things.

Hana picks up a chocolate eclair with a smile, "How did you know that I loved these?"

Drake tilts his head down and gives her a warm smile, lowering his voice. "Because I know you love chocolate and marshmallows just like I do, and this was the closest thing."

Kate can't help but feel a pang of jealousy over how Drake is laying on the charm for Hana, while Liam is trying to do the same for her but she's not interested.

Liam clears his throat politely to regain her attention, "Tomorrow is our last day in Paris, and other than this brief moment, I've had very little chance to see you. There isn't anything scheduled on the itinerary until the Opera tomorrow evening. I'd be greatly honoured if you'd share my private box with me to watch the show."

Drake tenses upon hearing Liam's invitation, hoping Kate will turn him down. The thought of her spending hours alone with Liam in a darkened theater was making him lose his appetite. 

Kate can practically feel the animosity rolling off of Drake in waves, but she considers Liam's offer anyway. "Won't Madeleine be sharing it with you?"

Liam shakes his head, "She doesn't care for the Opera, plus she's spending time with her Mother tomorrow.  Besides that, she wants to personally oversee the arrangements for the next phase of the engagement tour."

Hana interrupts, breaking into an enthusiastic smile, "Oh, yes. I'm so excited to show everyone my home city when the tour goes to Shanghai."

Drake looks over at Kate, waiting for her to answer Liam's invitation. They lock eyes for a moment and then she looks away. 

"Of course I'll accept your invitation, Your Majesty. I'd be delighted to watch the Opera with you."

Liam places his hand over hers and squeezes it fondly, "Wonderful! I look forward to it."

Drake hands his plate of party food to Hana, "Here Hana, you take these and I'll go refresh your cup of tea. Black tea with just a lemon slice right?"

Hana nods, handing him her tea cup, "Thanks Drake, that's very kind of you."

Drake shrugs, mumbling to himself as he gets up to leave, "You're welcome, I...I need something to drink too."

…

Kiara is standing at the table pouring herself a cup of tea when Drake approaches. He pauses a moment and then steps in next to her. She gives him a little smile as she puts the teapot back down again. 

"Hello there, Drake. I never took you for a tea drinker."

Drake sighs, looking at the various china teapots on display, each pot has a little place card next to it that says what type of tea is inside. Unfortunately each card is written in French.

"I'm not, but Hana is. Which one of these is just regular black tea?"

Kiara points to the one on the far right. "It's so sweet of you to bring her a cup of tea. Are you getting one for Kate too?"

Drake dumps the old slice of lemon out of Hana's cup into the trash bin provided, and then uses the silver tongs to pick up a new slice to drop into her cup. He shakes his head and then reaches for the teapot to pour the tea, "She's being entertained by Liam at the moment."

Kiara raises her eyebrows in surprise, and then blows on her teacup to cool its contents before taking a sip. "Oh really? That must really sting,  especially after that ridiculous show of affection she showed you in the car. But the tabloid rumors going around say she'll hop into any man's bed anyway."

Drake's hand shakes as he puts the pot back down, rattling the lid so that it falls to the table. He reaches over and picks it up, wincing in pain as it burns his fingers when he places it back on the pot. He wipes his hand on the cool material of his pants, before blowing on his fingers. "Rumors are just lies to entertain the foolish and bored losers of society." 

Kiara shrugs, glancing over at Hana, Kate and Liam as they sit together talking. "I saw you over at the sweets table earlier, and it's not hard to tell that you like your food." 

Drake selects an empty cup from the tray nearby and blindly chooses one of the teapots and pours himself some tea. The tea is pinkish red, and Drake sighs with disappointment upon having chosen a herbal variety. "Uh huh, so?"

"Do you have any recommendations?"

Drake picks up his cup of tea and gives it a sniff. It smells faintly like apples and cinnamon so he decides to chance it. Yeah, I recommend that you fuck off and leave me alone. 

Over Kiara's shoulder, Drake can see Kate making her way over. 

"The eclairs are okay. The croquembouches and palmiers look more promising, but I haven't tried them yet."

Kiara raises her tea cup and nods, impressed, "Mon dieu, Drake. I didn't know you were so familiar with French pastries."

Drake sips at his herbal tea, shrugging as Kate steps up beside him. "Eh, I figure I've been to enough of these parties that I can at least know which food is which."

Kate looks between Kiara and Drake with a grin, "Don't you two look friendly, am I interrupting? Cuz I'd like to steal Drake away if I can."

Kiara nods, giving them a knowing grin. "Of course. I was just going to sample the pastries that Drake has so kindly recommended to me. I'll leave you two alone."

When Kiara leaves, Drake chuckles at the frown creasing Kate's brow as she glares at her. "Did your Mom ever warn you about what sour looks can do to your face?"

Kate turns back to Drake, still wearing her frown, "Huh? What was that?"

"Nevermind. You look so cute when you're jealous."

Shaking her head, Kate smacks him on the arm. "Hey!  Don't make me spill my tea," he protests.

Kate turns toward the teapots to get a fresh cup of tea. "What kind are you drinking?"

"Dunno, something fruity and herbal."

Raising her eyebrows, Kate giggles. "Don't forget to hold out your pinky when you sip your tea, Princess Drake."

"Hah, ha. So funny. I just chose a random pot and poured."

"Whose tea is that one?" Kate points to the black tea with a lemon slice floating in it.

Drake winces, "Ah shit, that was supposed to be for Hana. Kiara distracted me with her small talk about pastries."

"Uh huh," Kate nods, her chin tilted up and giving Drake a suspicious look.

Drake refreshes his cup with some more hot herbal tea, "Put those silly eye daggers away. You know that you're the only girl for me, Kate."

Kate pours Hana a new hot tea with lemon, and then picks up her own cup. "Ok, fine. Let's go back over and sit down."

Drake is relieved to see that Liam has moved on to chatting with someone else. Hana sits demurely in the middle of the sofa, rearranging the remaining tea party treats onto one plate with her delicate fingers. When Drake and Kate return she smiles when Kate hands her a fresh cup of tea. 

"I saved the fruit tart for you Kate, although it was definitely tempting."

Drake settles down next to Hana again, turning sideways so that he can talk to both women more easily. He stretches his arm across the back of the sofa and tries to relax, wishing he could be sitting next to Kate but resigns himself to just admiring her from a distance. When she picks up the tart, he tries to hide behind his tea cup and take a sip so he can watch. She bites into the tart and then licks her lips, causing him to gasp involuntarily and almost choke on his tea. He coughs and looks away, closing his eyes and trying not to listen to her moans of pleasure. Pretending to only be Kate's friend in public was like torture. 

When he looks at her again she smiles and gives him a wink. Sucking in a deep breath he looks around the room for a distraction to build a conversation around, fighting to keep his arousal in check. Hana speaks up after finishing one of the chocolate treats from their shared plate, and Drake breathes a sigh of relief.

"With all of the high profile people here today you'd think there would be more visible security."

Kate sips at her tea to wash down the sweet tart, "There could be security guards in disguise. Drake, you've been to more of these parties than either of us. Is there anyone here that you neither recognize as a noble or as a foreign dignitary?"

Drake looks around the room, recognizing everyone from Liam's Cordonian court and their personal security. "The usual security people are here, but I don't know who looks after the French diplomats. The only guard I see as conspicuously absent is Bastien."

"Speaking of Bastien, what was with him today? Surely he didn't see you as a security risk," Hana asks, as she looks at the people around the room more closely.

"He's a servant of the crown so he does what he's told. Protocol is everything to him. Although I figured he'd trust me with you two."

"Unless someone told him not to."

Drake looks from Hana to Kate, "Do you think there's still some conspiracy at play here?"

Kate shrugs,"Well we still don't know who told him to use Penelope to screw Tariq and I over at Applewood."

Hana bites into the piece of baklava that Liam left behind on the plate and looks over to where he's sitting with Madeleine and Regina. "Now that Liam is King, Bastien works for him. But back then he would have been working for Regina and Constantine."

Drake grabs a raspberry mini cake off of the plate, which makes Kate smirk at him with amusement, "What?"

"Oh, nothing. I just think it's cute to see you eating dainty little cakes and sipping tea."

Drake pops the whole cake into his mouth in one bite, "Delicious," he mumbles. Kate giggles at him.

Hana is still watching Liam on the far side of the room and goes back to the subject of Bastien, "So if Bastien works for the King, and Liam has chosen Madeleine to be his queen, then why would Bastien be still so concerned about who Kate is seen with in Public?"

Drake hazards a glance in Liam's direction, and his suspicions are confirmed when the King looks away.

"Because Liam's still wanting Kate to be his Queen."

"But he and Madeleine are on a very public engagement tour, so why would he risk being seen with Kate while her name is generating such negative press?" Hana blushes and then glances at Kate, "..sorry, Kate. I meant no offense. I know the press has it all wrong."

Kate waves off her apology and pats her on the hand, "Don't worry, Hana. I know what you mean. Despite being engaged, Liam is still holding onto the idea that he can have a Queen and his not so secret mistress too. Why else would he invite me to watch the Opera with him?"

Drake downs the last of his tea, and then sets his cup down on the saucer with a little more force than necessary. The fine china makes a loud cracking sound and a chip breaks off the bottom of the cup. Next to him, Hana jumps with fright, ejecting the rest of their party food off of her lap and onto the floor.

"Why else, indeed. Did you have to be so delighted to accept his invitation?"

Kate rolls her eyes, "Relax, Drake. I won't let him touch me. Besides I need to talk to him about us."

Drake grumbles, "I bet that's going to go over well."

Hana looks down at their ruined party snacks on the floor, "Uh, I'll just leave you two alone to talk this out while I go fetch us some new treats."

Drake hands Hana his chipped tea cup as well, "I'm finished with this."

Hana smiles weakly at Drake and then leaves. Drake watches her go, and catches Liam's eye again. He seems rather interested in what's going on with the three of them. Drake shuffles the spilled food under the sofa with his foot and then turns back to Kate.

Drake shifts over closer, lowering his voice, "I'm sorry for the outburst. I know Liam's been my best friend for years, but right now I don't trust him."

Kate chews at her bottom lip nervously, knowing that they're being watched by so many people. She wanted so badly to be able to sit beside him in public and among the royal court and not have everyone whisper like it was some sort of scandal. "From the way he keeps looking at us, I don't think he trusts you either."

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[destroy-the-cannon]

Title Pending Olivia x MC Fic, Chapter two

Hellooo! I’d like to start off with a quick apology. I had a bunch of family drama this week, so I’m aware that this chapter is a bit lackluster. I swear  that it’s not just a lack of talent! That’s only like ten percent of the problem! Anyways, here it is! 

Warnings: Sexual language, cursing.

Story Tags: (Eventual) lemon, slow burn, enemies to lovers, angst.

Taglist: @kingliam2019 , @kamilahsayeet2063

“Woah.”

Maxwell was craning his neck to inspect Paige’s outfit from where she stood on the steps. It felt strangely like a grown-up prom, gliding down the stairwell with all eyes on her (well, Maxwell’s eyes). She gave a little twirl, showing off her devastatingly expensive gown. The gown she’d had to buy herself. You’d think that riding with a noble would mean that they’d be willing to shell out a dime or two, but alas, she’d spent her own damn money on this. Not that she was bitter or anything.

She’d gone with the angel outfit. A glittery, cold shouldered bodice gave way to heavy skirts of layered tulle and silk. A delicate lacey mask fit over her eyes, and a fluffy little halo floated above her head. She felt genuinely angelic, like she could float right around the room.

“Man, you look amazing! You’ll definitely get the ladies in court talking.”

It was the night of the first ball of the season. Just a day ago, Paige had hopped on a plane and flown out to Cordonia. She was staying in the palace with all the other nobles until the tour started up. They were set to move all around the country to the various duchies of the various suitors. In the meantime, Paige was staying in a fabulous room in the back of the palace she’d spent all last night marveling at. Now, she was marching down to the introductory ball with Maxwell by her side. It was a masquerade event, hence the angel outfit. She was set to make an excellent first impression, something that was crucial to building the flawless reputation she was determined to possess. According to Drake, she was about to walk into a room full of bloodthirsty snobs, so it was important to look the part of a future queen. Her wardrobe was her armour, Hana had said.

Hana. That was the name of the girl Paige had met in the dressing room, who happened to be the fourth of those five people who would one day change her life. The two had gotten dressed and acquainted, and Paige was hoping to run into her at the ball. She had been sweet, helpful, informative, and gorgeous. What was it with the people there? She had never seen such a consistent concentration of ridiculously hot people in her life.

“Okay. It’s time.” They stopped in front of the ornate golden doors. Maxwell turned to her, adjusting his mask. “Before we get into the actual ball, you’ll need to give the herald your full name when we go in. Since you’re with my family, you could technically be considered a Lady. You’ll give him your name, and he’ll announce you as Lady Paige…?”

“Langley. Lady Paige Langley.”

“Hm. Not exactly traditional, but regal enough.”

With that, he pushed open the doors, and they strolled in. Paige gave her name to the herald, and stood as straight as she could on the steps. Maxwell gave her a quick, reassuring smile, and she felt slightly better. He was good at that.

“LORD MAXWELL PERCIVAL BEAUMONT, AND LADY PAIGE LANGLEY!” The herald’s voice boomed through the enormous room. At the sound of an unfamiliar name, heads turned to watch Paige strut down the stairs. Little gasps and murmurs rippled through the room as they stared at her. She resisted the urge to tug at her hair or adjust her halo. Any move that betrayed how self conscious she was feeling would definitely get her noticed. People like those could sniff out an insecurity like blood in the water. The second a confident exterior faltered, they went in for the kill. Paige kept her back straight and her eyes ahead.

“Okay. I gotta go talk to my brother. You stay here. Mingle. You can do that, right? Just mingle.” Before she could respond, Maxwell was gone.

Paige turned, looking around desperately for someone she knew. She spotted Drake, looking vaguely angsty and annoyed in a corner, still in his basic denim. She decided she might as well try her luck with him. She walked over, trying her best to step slowly and gracefully.

“Well, well, well, aren’t you looking pretty.” He sized her up. “You fit right in.”

“Well, you’re charming as ever.”

“Ha! Compared to most of the nobles here, I’m your best friend.”

“God, Drake.” she rolled her eyes. “Everyone here’s been perfectly nice so far.”

“Sure, to your face. What do you think goes on the second you leave the room? The people here will jump at the chance to shove you as far down the totem pole as they can.”

“Well, let’s take a look at some examples of their behavior, shall we? They’re letting you attend an extremely high-brow event for free, in your day clothes. You have access to expensive foods, interesting conversation and a bar full of fancy foreign cocktails. And instead of being grateful, you choose to badmouth these people whenever you can, complain, and act like you’re being some big hero by being here. You’re not even wearing a mask!” She hadn’t realized how annoyed she was, but she found herself surprisingly worked up on this. At the sight of her pissed-off expression, Drake softened slightly.

“Look. I swear I’m not trying to be a dick, just trying to be honest. It may look glamorous here, but these people are completely two faced. You’re the newbie, and without someone like me looking out for you, you’ll get clobbered.”

His explanation didn’t exactly soften her up. “If your way of helping is to stand in the corner and bitch about this place, then I’d say you’re doing an excellent job.”

Drake looked like he was going to respond, but he stopped suddenly. He went stiff as a board and completely pale, his eyes fixed right over Paige’s shoulder. Before she could ask what was wrong, she felt a warm hand on her arm.

“Pardon me, but I must steal her away.” The voice was warm, seductive, completely unfamiliar. Based on the alarmed look on Drake’s face, it must not have been a friendly one.

“Um, I’ll just…” He all but sprinted for the opposite end of the room. Paige turned to face the intruder.

Oh. The tiniest of gasps escaped her lips as she gazed into a pair of emerald-green eyes.

If you were to take the moment she first saw Liam, and multiply it by about a thousand or so, you’d have some idea of how Paige felt. Her heart threatened to beat right out of her body as her stomach swooped dramatically.

The woman before her was like no noble Paige had seen before. Where some, like Hana, chose to present themselves as a sweet, soft sort of beautiful, this woman was more sexy. An edgy, almost dangerous sort of drop-dead gorgeous that made heat pool in Paige’s core.

She realized, dazedly, that the woman was wearing the devil costume Paige had almost bought. Little horns peaked out from her pile of crimson hair. The red velvet of her gown clung to her rounded hips, and the neck of it fell as far down her chest as courtly etiquette would allow. She gazed down at Paige, her lips slightly parted. She seemed surprised, as though the other woman had caught her off guard somehow, and Paige wondered distantly what that meant.

“I am Lady Olivia Vanderwall Nevrakis, Duchess of Lythikos,” she murmured. Paige fought to keep her eyes from flickering to the duchess’s candy-painted lips.

“I’m-”

“Lady Paige Langley. Yes, I heard the herald announce you. That’s why I’m here.” She shook her head slightly. Her gaze became sharper as she smiled at the other woman. “I make it my business to know every name at court, and I’ve never heard yours before. Perhaps you’re from one of the humbler duchies?” She didn’t give Paige a chance to respond. “In any case, since you’re the new girl at court, I thought I might give you a bit of advice. You’re not from here, I take it? Cordonia, I mean.” Paige could only nod.

“Well then, let me give you a little tip.” She leaned in with a conspiratory smile, and Paige could feel Olivia’s warm breath on her skin. Her legs grew unstable beneath her, as though she were about to faint.

“When you go up to see the king, bow and kiss his right shoe. It’s a sign of ultimate respect here.”

Could that be true? Unlikely as it seemed, Paige did recall reading about a similar custom from somewhere else in Europe. She frowned. “Really?” She made a mental note to ask Maxwell about that later.

“Oh, of course! It’s lucky I was able to tell you, otherwise you would’ve looked like a complete fool!” She gave a light laugh. As soon as she heard it, the waitress wanted to do whatever she could to hear that sound again.

“Paige!” Maxwell ran up from out of nowhere. Paige did her best not to be annoyed with him for cutting her time with Olivia short. “Liam’s-” he cut himself off as he noticed the Nevrakis. “Um, I mean, Prince Liam, whose title I am always sure to use, because of my deep respect and admiration for him, is coming out to see everyone.” Olivia rolled her eyes and walked off to join a small cluster of ladies.

“Are you ready to see him again?”

Paige tried to paste on a convincing smile. “Totally. I’m totally ready for this.”

“Cool. Let’s go!”

The pair ran off to join a gathering of people at the side of the room, Paige resisting the urge to check over her shoulder for Olivia.

“There he is!” Maxwell pointed. And there he was, the prince himself. Liam stood at the end of the room, making conversation with a star-struck young woman clearly trying very hard to keep cool.

“Do you think he’ll be happy to see me?” Paige whispered.

“Only one way to find out, I guess. But first, you gotta meet the king.”

“Wait, what? You didn’t tell me that I’m meeting the king first thing! What do I say to him?

“Calm down. It’s easy. Just follow what the other ladies do, and you’ll be fine.”

“Wait, wha-”

“LADIES OF THE COURT!” An announcer’s voice boomed across the room. “LINE UP TO GREET THE KING!”

The women rushed to form a line leading towards the front of the room. Paige caught a glimpse of an older man taking a seat upon one of the gilded thrones at the front of the room, flanked by two guards. Hitching up her skirts, she hurried over to take her spot in the growing queue. She watched as each woman made her way up to the king, curtseying and-

And nothing. The bulk of heavy skirts and the towers of gelled-up hair completely blocked her view. It was impossible to tell if any shoe kissing had taken place. She tried her best to steal a glance, but the women in line seemed to take her rustling for attempted line-cutting. She received multiple dirty looks as well as one quick jab to the ribs.

The line was shortening quickly, and Paige was beginning to get panicky. She was already a commoner. She couldn’t afford to broadcast the fact that she also knew pretty much nothing of Cordonian culture. She’d be laughed right out of the court, right out of the country. She leaned to the side again, trying desperately to see what was going on. Nothing.

Finally, there were only two women left in front of Paige. She had given up on trying to see what they were doing, and was instead just trying to not let her nerves show. Elegant smile, straight back. She caught a glimpse of Liam standing across the room, making polite conversation with those who had already met the king. Out of his sweater and into his official suit, he looked so much more… official. That air of nobility that had seemed out of place at the bar suited him perfectly here. He looked so quintessentially prince charming, the poster boy for all that was good and wholesome. It was easy to see why so many ladies were here. In addition to the many gold diggers that Paige was sure were lurking about, many of these women probably actually liked Liam. She watched as a dark-haired young woman laughed a little too hard at a joke of his, slapping his arm lightly. Her eyes sparkled as she stepped closer to him. Her lips parted, as she pre-

“Shitshitshit!” She hissed under breath, before praying that nobody heard her. It was her turn to greet the king.

“Good evening, milady.” The king smiled kindly at her as she took a step closer. He was clearly expecting something.

“Good evening, your majesty. I am Lady Paige Langley, of House Beaumont.”

She dropped into a low curtsey. Her face was inches from the king’s shoe.

She risked a glance back at Olivia. The duchess was watching with not a look of hope, or excitement, or malice. She was looking on with a very clear expression of guilt on her face.

Paige stood from her curtsey, smiled once more, and left the line.

  * * *

“Hey! Where'd you go? I was looking all over for you!” Do you know how hard it is to find a pretty girl in a nice dress in a ballroom choked with pretty girls in nice dresses?”      

“Sorry. I got caught up talking to Hana.”

After the thing with the king, Paige had felt strangely paralyzed with anxiety. Well, maybe it wasn’t so strange. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that a total stranger had tried to humiliate her like a schoolyard bully. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that said stranger was gorgeous and intimidating and sexy and Paige had wanted for her to like her so, so badly. She knew that a trick like this alone wasn’t a big deal, but it hurt that much more coming from someone whom she had so desperately wanted to be some angel. So, instead of joining the growing crowd of women mobbing Liam, she had gone out to the balcony for a moment to breathe. That was where she had found Hana, and the two spent the next half hour talking. It had been nice to just talk to someone, with no expectations or rules. Hana was quickly becoming one of her favorite people at court.

“Wait, you know Hana? Actually, nevermind, we’ll talk on that later. In the meantime, you have to get in there with Liam. You’re one of the only people he hasn’t talked to yet.”

“You think he’ll be freaked out? We only knew each other for like a night before I decided to come out here, and now I’m trying to marry him? Isn’t that weird?”

“Ha! You think a night is too weird? That’s practically a year in royal time. He’s meeting some of these women for the first time tonight. If anything, you’ve got a leg up. He both knows and likes you.”  

“If you say so.”

“And I do. Look, I think he’s free. Go, go, go!”

Maxwell nudged her forward, and she strode across the room to meet Liam. He was finishing up a conversation with someone, and he turned to look at Paige as the woman walked away.  

“Hello, Lady-” He stopped short, his eyes going wide. “It’s you! Paige!”

“It’s me.” She smiled at him, hoping this was a pleasant surprise. Her hopes were confirmed when he broke out in a huge grin.

“Oh, Paige, I thought I’d never see you again! How are you even here?”

“The morning after I met you, Maxwell found me. He offered to take me here so I could represent House Beaumont and… become queen.” Though it was the truth, the thought of saying “marry you” out loud turned her stomach.

“That’s amazing! I’m afraid we don’t have too much time to talk, but that’s incredible news. For the first time all night, I’m actually enjoying a conversation.”

“Does this mean that you’re happy to see me?”

“Happy? I’m ecstatic. I truly like you Paige. I think we have something, and I’m glad we’re getting the chance to explore that together.”

Guilt stabbed at her insides. Liam looked so happy to see her, and yet she couldn’t say the same. She kept thinking back to the moment she saw Olivia. They had barely spoken, and still she had sensed more chemistry in those few minutes than she had after a whole night with Liam. He wasn’t the one she wanted, not even close. But he had deep, personal feelings for her. If she nailed those challenges, she had a real shot at being Liam’s wife. It was a thought that would have made so many of those courtly ladies cry tears of joy, but succeeded only in filling Paige with dread. He actually liked her. He wanted this.

“It’s a lot of pressure, isn’t it? All this, I mean. How are you holding up?” She hoped he wouldn’t notice how she changed the subject.

“I’ve known this was going to happen for some time now. It’s certainly not ideal, but perhaps it won’t be quite so terrible with you here.”

God, he really wasn’t making this easy on her, was he?

“Are the ladies here really that bad? Most of the people I’ve spoken to have been nice enough.”

“It’s not that the ladies themselves are bad, not at all. It’s the process I don’t enjoy. The whole thing is ridiculous and exhausting to all those involved. I know most of the women here, and they’re all incredibly smart and accomplished. And yet they’re being lined up like members of...of…” He paused. “What’s that american dating show? The one with the roses?”

“The Bachelor?”

“Yes! That’s it! This whole thing is one big episode of the bachelor.”

“I’m sorry you have to go through all of it.”

“Don’t be. It is my duty to serve my country however I can. If this is what I must do, so be it.”

Before Paige could respond, the guard behind Liam stepped forward to clear his throat. The prince winced apologetically at Paige.

“I’m afraid we’ve got less than a minute now. Before you go, can I give you a warning?” She nodded.

“This place, these people, are different. We’re not in New York anymore. There are codes, rules, that you’ll have to learn but never be taught. You’ll make friends and alliances, but be careful. Someone like you, here, can’t be too trusting. I don’t mean to scare you, but I care about you. I couldn’t stand to watch you get hurt.”

“Liam, I-”

“Ahem.” The guard coughed. “I believe it is time to move on, your grace.”

“Thank you, Bastien.” The prince turned back, looking regretful. “I’m so sorry, but I must move on. Shall we speak later?”

“Let’s.” She shot him what she could only hope to be a reassuring smile, curtseyed, and strode off, spotting a familiar figure by the drinks.

“Hey, Paige! It looked like that went well.”

“I’d say it did. He seemed happy to see me.”

“Of course he was! I told you he would be.”

“He was weirdly cryptic, though. He kept talking about how much of a drag this whole thing is, and how I need to make allies, and gather people I can trust, and watch my back-the list goes on.”

“Huh. That doesn’t sound like him. Are you sure you weren’t talking to Drake?”

“Unless Drake suddenly owns a body guard and a non-denim item of clothing, then no.”

“Hm. I’ll talk to him later. It’s probably just the pressure of everything getting to him. He’s not wrong, though. It’s good to form alliances with the other ladies. Most of them are outside right now. Go join them, grab a drink, socialize. Make some friends.”

“Got it. Any tips before I go? Who’s nice, who’s boring, who’s a snobby-ass bitch, et cetera.”

“Well, first off, save the cursing for later. One F bomb in here can and will get you kicked out. But to answer your question, Hana’s probably one of the nicest that you’ll meet. Friendly, not a known schemer. Penelope Ebrim is probably one of the more boring ones here, but she’s nice enough. Easily manipulated, but you didn’t hear that from me. Kiara Theron’s pretty interesting, but she can be sort of condescending, snobby. And if you want to talk about-” He paused.

“If you’re looking for witches with a b, then watch out for Olivia Nevrakis. She would kill, and I mean that literally, to become queen. She’s ruthless, cruel, and a known saboteur. Be on the lookout for her.”

“Oh. Good to know.”

“You’re welcome. Now get out there!”  

Hiking up her skirts, Paige strode out into a moonlit garden. The women were talking amongst themselves as they grabbed flutes of champagne. She was scanning the crowd when she felt someone come up behind her.

Turning, she found Olivia glowering at her, her friendly smile from before replaced with a pissy sneer.

“You seemed awfully friendly with the prince earlier, hm? You didn’t say you knew him personally.”

“It’s none of your business how I know Liam.” Paige savored the way the duchess blanched at the way the other woman skipped Liam’s title. “And can we get back to the way you lied to me about the shoe-kissing thing?”

“Yes, yes. Come on, even you have to admit that was funny.You’re the new girl, you’re going to get tricked.” Perhaps this would have been more bothersome if Olivia had been able to look the other woman in the eye, or stop fidgeting with her gown.

“Well, it’s done. You’ve gotten in your dumb little joke, and now it’s over.” At this, the duchess’s head snapped up, her mopey exterior suddenly vanished.

“It’s over when I say it’s over.” She took a step closer, her eyes blazing. Her voice had gone low and dangerous, and Paige hated the way it made her shiver. She tilted her chin, trying to look unfazed.

“Listen to me. I know you’re used to getting whatever you want from people, but that’s not how this is going to go. I’m not your servant, I’m not your follower. Whatever you may believe, you’re not entitled to Liam’s hand, and you’re certainly not entitled to my respect, fear, or loyalty.”

Olivia stepped back, surprised. Some of the women actually gasped as they watched the whole thing unfold.

“Excuse me? Clearly, you’re delusional. I grew up with Liam. I know him better than you ever will. Maybe you made for a fun distraction, but you’re nowhere near wife, or queen, material. The women here have been trained since birth to marry a prince, and if you think that you can just waltz in here and steal that from us, you’ve got another thing coming.”

“Is that a threat?”

“Not a threat.” She was close, too close, and Paige wanted desperately to grab her even closer.

“A promise.”

[xplrvibes]

SNC XPLR BUCKET LIST

Ok, so here is a list of eight places I would love to see Sam and Colby explore on the duo channel.  Since I don’t want a repeat of 2019, I selected places that are slightly less high risk than what they used to do.  There are a few that would be good for one off episodes in here, but a couple could actually probably be used for a longform series. 

I am not good at making things look all fancy at all, but I tried to include some info and links about each one. 

If anyone has any additional suggestions, let me know oooor better yet, send your suggestion to the amazing @traphousesuggestions blog!  

1. Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia PA: Built in 1829, Eastern State is considered to be the world’s first “true” penitentiary style prisons.  It’s also considered one of the most haunted places in the US, as it has had a long and brutal history.  

Al Capone served time here in the 1920′s; as did notorious bank robber “Slick” Willie Sutton, who actually dug a tunnel in the prison’s wall to escape in 1945! The prison was closed in the 1970′s and the massive building subsequently fell into a state of decay.  it was slated for demolition in the 90′s, but was saved by a grassroots effort to preserve the history of the imposing building.

Today, the building is in a state of suspended decay, although some areas have been restored to their former look. It is open to the public for tours year round, and they also do a special Halloween themed attraction there in October.

It has been featured on pretty much every travel and ghost hunting show you can imagine, including Ghost Hunters and Ghost Adventures and is very, very open to anyone wanting to do paranormal exploration.  Below is a link to their website:

https://www.easternstate.org 

2. Lizzie Borden’s Bed and Breakfast, Fall River MA: “Lizzie Borden took an axe...”

In 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were horrifically murdered in their home in Fall River, MA.  Suspicion fell on Andrew’s daughter, Lizzie, who was tried and acquitted of the grisly crime.  Though the murder mystery was technically never solved, the court of public opinion maintained Lizzie was the killer, and she lived out the rest of her life under suspicion from her fellow townspeople.

To this day, the crime technically remains unsolved, although many theories remain.  Chief among them is that Lizzie was indeed, the killer.  

Today, the house is a bed and breakfast and offers tours and an actual gift shop (how macabre).  This bed and breakfast is purportedly haunted, and was featured on several paranormal shows, including Ghost Adventures (and, hilariously, Supernatural-but we won’t talk about that here).  Below is a link to their website:

https://lizzie-borden.com/

3. Waverly Hills Sanatorium, Louisville KY: You just cannot make a list like this without including Waverly Hills!  This massive, imposing structure was first opened in 1910 and was built to accommodate patients suffering from tuberculosis, a horrific and deadly disease that ravaged the world during the early half of the 20th century.

During its time as a tuberculosis sanatorium, thousands of patients died there.  After the tuberculosis vaccine was invented, the sanatorium was no longer needed and was eventually converted into a retirement home, before being abandoned for good in the 1980′s.

Today, the building is available for guided ghost tours and has been featured on a number of paranormal shows, including Ghost Hunters and Ghost Adventures.  It has also been kept in a state of suspended decay, giving it that spooky abandoned vibe. Below is a link to their website:

https://www.therealwaverlyhills.com/

4. Zak Bagans’ The Haunted Museum, Las Vegas NV: I mean, come on.  He has a Dybbuk Box and items that were once owned by John Wayne Gacy and Charles Manson.  This would be up everyone in the traphouse’s alley, and it would be fun to watch them tour through and see some of the stuff Zak owns.  I don’t know that Zak would ever let someone other than him film in his museum, but...hey.  Worth a try!

Bonus points if they could get Zak to give them the tour.  My head would explode from all the hilarious awkwardness that would ensue.

https://thehauntedmuseum.com/

5. Cincinnati Subway Tunnels, Cincinnati OH: Ok, so this one is a liiiiitttttle illegal risky, but I think SNC would enjoy this and it would be super nostalgic, old school XPLR vibes.

In the early 1900′s, Cincinnati began construction on an underground subway system as an upgrade to their struggling streetcar system.  Over 2 miles of tunnels were completed before the project was officially abandoned in 1928, owing to financial struggles and the impact of the Great Depression on the city.

The abandoned tunnels were largely sealed off and forgotten about by the world above, and are not easily accessible today.  However, there are still entrances to the underground stations that are accessible, if you know where to look.

The youtube channel The Proper People explored the entire expanse of the tunnels back in November of 2017, so getting into the tunnels is not impossible. Below is the link to an article on Atlas Obscura about the tunnels:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-cincinnati-subway-cincinnati-ohio

6. The Bourbon Orleans Hotel, New Orleans LA: The beautiful Bourbon Orleans Hotel in the heart of the French Quarter in New Orleans has a storied history.  It was once a ballroom and theater before being converted into a convent and orphanage in the 1800′s.

The building has seen many tragedies during its years as a convent, including the deaths of Civil War soldiers and a yellow fever epidemic.  

These days, the hotel is well known for its haunts, and is a featured stop on many ghost tours of New Orleans.  Below is the link to the hotel’s history page:

https://www.bourbonorleans.com/the-hotel/history/a-haunted-new-orleans-hotel

7. Elkmont Ghost Town, Great Smoky Mountains NP, TN: The town of Elkmont, TN was established in the 1840′s, in what is now part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. When the Park was established, the town slowly declined and was completely abandoned by 1992, leaving behind empty buildings that fell into disrepair. 

The NPS preserved 19 of the town’s buildings and is in the process of restoring them.  The ruins of some of the former buildings remain visible in the nearby woods, along with other hidden gems!  

Below is the link to the Elkmont website:

https://www.visitmysmokies.com/blog/smoky-mountains/about-elkmont-ghost-town/

8. Gettysburg, PA:  Seriously, the entire town.

In 1863, the sleepy town of Gettysburg was forever changed when the Civil War showed up at their doorstep.  Over the next 3 days, the bloodiest battle of the Civil War occurred in the backyard of the terrified citizens of Gettysburg.  Thousands of soliders were killed bewteen July 1st and July 3rd, and the entire landscape of the war-and Gettysburg itself-were changed forever.

After the battle, President Abraham Lincoln traveled to Gettysburg and delivered his famous Gettysburg Address in the cemetery that had been created to bury the fallen. 

The town is a living monument to what happened over the course of those 3 days-many buildings still have bullet holes in them from the battle!  The Jennie Wade house, which is the cite of the only civilian casualty of the war, is a hotbed of paranormal activity, as is the nearby aforementioned cemetery-and the Battlefield itself, which is maintained by the National Park Service.

Although there are stories of hauntings in pretty much every building in Gettysburg, the Cashtown Inn, Farnsworth House Inn and Federal Pointe Inn are all good places to stay for an extra creepy hotel experience!  There are also campgrounds around the Battleground itself, for that extra spooky factor.

Gettysburg is considered the most haunted place in America, and has been featured on every travel and paranormal show there is, including Ghost Adventure and Ghost Hunters.  And entire SNC series could be made out of Gettysburg.  Below are the links for the Gettysburg travel site, as well as the NPS site for the Battlefield:

https://www.nps.gov/gett/index.htm

https://visitgettysburgpa.com/

I hope everyone enjoys this list-if you want to reblog and add ideas please do so and use the # traphousesuggestions!!  

[knightthunderis]

Ch 9 Explanations and Revelations

“Only one from there would know everything there is to know about all the other players in the game.” the duke admonished. “I would almost say for sure that your knowledge of us is equally thorough.”

“I also correlated and memorized the history of every house family from the first lock up to present day.” Reimeiko said. “Shall I give you the rundown of every house from the beginning to the present day?”

“Heavens no, that would take centuries for the long haul as you say.” Byron breathed. “And that would build up quite the appetite.  Which reminds me, now that you are here as our guest, the royal kitchens can make you anything your heart desires.  Go on ask for anything.”

“Anything huh?’ Reimeiko asked. “How about the biggest ice cream sundae I have ever seen with three spoons and I will share it with the two of you?”

“The finest chefs in the world and you choose an ice cream sundae of all things?” Byron sneered. After a few minutes they receive an ice cream sundae as big as Reimeiko’s head and three spoons. “Alright, I stand corrected, this is actually very good.”

“That is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.” Malachi said. After the dining room, the brothers showed Reimeiko the sights, starting with the lofty rooms that proudly displayed the Alliance history. “And here in the historic east wing, we have the national Taborian gallery.”

“In the days past, this was the throne room, the center of power where reigning monarchs would hold court.  But once the new throne room was built, this became a gallery devoted to the important relics like the Taborian crown jewels.  Those are over here.” They led her to a display case where an orb and the Taborian scepter sit glistening on pillows.

“It is very orblike.” Reimeiko replied. “The golden scepter.  Is everything themed?”

“Oh yes, pretty much.” Byron said. “They are the symbols of the crown.  Every king and queen has held these during their coronation.”  

“You know, if everything goes according to plan and you marry Prince Karyson, you might one day hold them yourself.” Malachi added.

“I know that you want to tell them that Reimeiko is already married to Karyson.” Tristan said. “But you need to wait until I can reconnect him to me and Knight Wolf.”

“I like your confidence.” Malachi said. “And here is the palace pool and deck.  Floating the days away has never been so attainable.  It is like we are at a fancy hotel.”

“If by fancy hotel you mean an enduring symbol of the strength and dignity of the Taborian government.” Byron snapped.

“This is not the Thaddea I know and remember.” Reimeiko thought. “I just do not understand what happened to invoke all of these crazy changes?”

“The parents are still working on that.” Tristan said. “We need to find out who is ruling Thaddea in Dad’s place so we can fix the main situation.”

“Why is a bathroom part of the tour?” Reimeiko asked. “Do not get me wrong, it looks perfect for bubble baths.  Why is this particular bathtub and bathroom on the tour?”

“This is the biggest bathtub in the entire palace.” Malachi said. “It is perfect both in shape and height to achieve the optimal ratio of water to bubble levels.  I will share my formula with you later.”

“Please tell me when you say that this is the biggest tub in the entire palace,” Byron asked, “that you have not actually tried every tub in the royal palace? No wait, do not answer that.  I would like to maintain some level of plausible deniability on this.”

Malachi chuckled as he and Byron led Reimeiko to the last room of the royal tour, the royal throne and hall of portraits room.

“The royal throne room looks like it was totally made for me and the future.” Reimeiko replied. “I will gain him and everything about him for the sake of the future.”

“As it should be.” Byron said. “This is where the King and Queen sit to meet with foreign dignitaries and their people.  In the old days, it used to be that people and nobility alike had to pay their respect by kneeling and touching the hem of the king or queen.  But ever since a successful assassination on a queen several hundred years ago, that was outlawed.  In fact, you must never touch the king or queen physically without their permission.  Now, if you will follow me this way.”

Byron walked away from the thrones to the hall of portraits on the far end, but Reimeiko and Malachi hung back to really look at the thrones.

“I have always wondered if those thrones were comfortable.” Malachi asked her. “I wonder if they are as comfortable as they look from here at this vantage point.”

“As tempting as trying them on for size is.” Reimeiko replied. “Maybe we should respectfully look at them from a distance although, I know it is only what you have been doing your whole life.  Shall we catch up to Byron before he realizes that we are not listening?”

Without thinking twice, Reimeiko and Malachi hurry to catch up to Byron before he could turn around and find they were not with him.

“And this portrait of King Keitaro was bequeathed to him by the Count of Evedia as a gift.” Byron said.

“Wow, King Keitaro was extremely handsome.” Reimeiko replied, “He also has a very commanding air about him and is very hypnotic. Karyson, Racine, Koridon and Garyson’s great great grandfather on their mother Seidre’s side of the family was quite the fierce protector and defender as well.”  As Malachi skipped off to scout ahead, the grandeur of everything that had been seen hit Reimeiko hard but she had to act like she really did not know anything about her Karyson and Garyson’s royal home. “Wow, Karyson was not kidding when he said he was crown prince of Thaddea, was he?”

“I would much prefer it if you did not use his first name so much in public.” Byron said. “There is royal protocol to follow you realize after all.  But I am curious, what exactly are you doing here in Taboria?” 

“Well Your Grace, have you not ever been in love?” Reimeiko asked. Byron dumbfounded and blushing caught her attention. “I knew it! Alright wiseguy, who is the lucky lady in your life?”

“There is no one.  I do not have time for such diversions.” Byron said. “It is you we are talking about.  Why are you here trying to win the hand of Prince Garyson Walters?”

Reimeiko knew that she had to be careful how she answered for the sake of not blowing her cover, but also to make sure that she did not reveal herself too soon like Daryien said although Byron and Malachi already knew who she was and where she came from.

“Byron, believe it or not, fate led me here.” Reimeiko replied. “I am not sure why fate put Garyson in my path and brought me to you, but Karyson is special. I knew it from the moment we met and I did not even know that Garyson was a prince then unlike Karyson who is from Thaddea.  And now I have this incredible chance to reconnect with him thanks to you and Malachi.  Should I not follow through and see what happens next?  Do you think it is too sentimental?”

“No, Your Highness, I think I see it now.” Byron acknowledged. “You have a certain something about you, maybe a charm, I am not sure, but I sense something very familiar about you like you have been here before.  Perhaps you do have a slim sliver of a chance after all.”

“I knew there was something I did not like about him.” Tristan growled through the earpiece. “Byron Blanchard was not always a stuck up blowhard like he is now.  Back in the days before old man Blanchard deserted and abandoned them, Byron used to be cool.  Nowadays, he is just as stuck up as his old man. I wonder if there is more that happened to make him such a stiff.”

Reimeiko chuckled at Tristan’s rogue assessment. “Do not celebrate yet.” Byron said. “We will still have our work cut out for us.  If you are not careful, it could all end tomorrow.”

“Typical grouch.  You just could not end it on a high note could you?” Reimeiko asked.  Byron shrugged as Malachi returned to them.  To herself she thought. “I hope I do not regret making this move.  It would be a shame if the man I am already married to gets caught up in a bad case of bigamy.”

“Hey what is up?  Are you two coming?” Malachi asked. “Come on, I hear it is almost time for dinner and I am totally starved.  And it will be an excellent time to see what you know about the different silverware.”

“It sounds like a party.  Lead the way.” Reimeiko replied. Later on, after the tour of the palace and the dinner, Byron and Malachi walked with Reimeiko back to her room. “You know, I have to really say that this was really fun.  We are going to have so much fun together and thank you both for picking me for your house.”

“It was the best decision I have ever made as far as I can really tell.” Malachi said cheerfully

“The dye is cast, is it not?  I suppose we shall see just how you fare in the days to come and how much you have learned tomorrow in any case.” Byron added ruefully. “Good night, Reimeiko, we will find you tomorrow to plan for the masquerade.  If you need anything, we will be in the suite next door, otherwise, sleep well.”

She returned to her room and after her things are unpacked and put away, she sat at the table on her balcony and began typing away into her latest entry in her computer journal:  After the final battle with Chaotic and Nemesira, I thought we were done facing off with tyrants, dictators and conspiracies, but it seems there is another conspiracy to face off with.  Something has happened to separate Karyson from Tristan, Knight Wolf and his memories of being connected with Reimeiko Thunderis and where she fits into his life: A video call from Pepper paused her musings.  She knew that Pepper was going to have a ton of questions knowing the truth.

[lassieposting]

How about the Lucifer OT3 for the domestic ship meme? 😁

domestic ship meme!

send me a ship and i’ll tell you:

who reaches out to new neighbors

a lot of the time, it’s lucifer. he’s a) incredibly sociable, b) nosy and c) faster than the other two, and demons are incredibly territorial, so if there’s someone new in the neighbourhood he wants to investigate immediately. he’s very friendly, but he flirts with the neighbours, or tries to make deals with them, or turns up with Fun MuffinsTM, so he’s a bit of a menace. chloe is pretty savvy and if she’s around she can usually grab him before he makes a break for the door, otherwise she and dan end up making the Lucifer Apology Tour. 

who remembers to buy healthy food

chloe and dan are both pretty responsible about this; they’re parents and have to feed trixie. dan is more inclined to be a health nut, because he’s very into staying in shape and eating healthy is a big part of his lifestyle. they both like to (get trixie to) try new foods, but neither of them have a lot of free time, so even their healthy meals tend to be chosen for being quick and easy to prepare. lucifer doesn’t shop for himself - he has a fancy grocery delivery service for that - but he also eats out a lot at various expensive restaurants whose owners owe him favours, so he doesn’t need to “shop” often. when chloe and dan stay over it’s always a toss-up whether his fridge will be fully stocked or empty except for wine, whip cream and strawberries. 

who remembers to buy junk food

lucifer, ably assisted by trixie. he’s a decent stepdevil, but he thinks showering your kid with money is good parenting. he snacks a lot as it is, bc supernatural metabolism + celestial young adult = constantly hungry, and trixie knows that if she says she’s hungry or suggests something new for him to try, he’ll take her to the store for a snack raid. he’s got a big sweet tooth and never says no to desserts and unhealthy junk. 

who fixes the oven when it breaks

dan. chloe can do basic DIY - put up a shelf, change a fuse - but fixing the oven is a bit beyond her. lucifer is useless; he doesn’t repair things at all, he throws them out and buys a new one. he does very much enjoy watching dan when he’s sweaty and a bit dirty and wearing a tool belt, though, so he hangs around and leers and makes unhelpful suggestive comments while dan is working. 

who waters the plants/feeds their pet(s)

lucifer is banned from looking after anything that can’t speak for itself for the foreseeable ever. he’s allowed to watch trixie occasionally, because trixie can and will remind him to feed her/take her to school/etc, but he’s too selfish to watch something that isn’t at least semi-independent. if they had a pet dan would look after it for the most part, and chloe is the only one who has any plants - she keeps a couple succulents, including the one on her desk at the precinct that lucifer doused with scotch that one time. 

who wakes up earlier

dan usually wakes up earliest; he goes to the gym to work out before heading to the precinct for 9. during the week, chloe wakes up next, because years of being a parent and doing the school run has made early mornings a habit, but at the weekends she’s happy to sleep in. lucifer is very much a night owl, and does not do early mornings. he doesn’t have to be at the precinct as early as the other two, since he’s a civilian consultant and not a detective, so he has a bit more leeway to stay in bed and doze. he does try very hard to get them to stay and cuddle with him though. sleepy lucifer is a snuggler. 

who makes the bed

lucifer is the only one who really cares about bed tidiness. dan doesn’t bother making it at all. chloe will straighten the comforter if she’s not in too much of a rush, but lucifer fluffs pillows and does hospital corners on the sheets and is just generally fastidious and overly tidy. 

who makes the coffee

lucifer. when he first started working with chloe, he realised he could offer to do a coffee run as an excuse to get out of doing paperwork. his memory’s on the scary side of eidetic, so he remembers all the hot beverage preferences for their entire department, and he’s loaded, so he always goes to the fancy, ridiculously overpriced coffee shop no one else can afford and usually comes back with donuts. eventually it just becomes a habit. 

who burns breakfast

chloe is a decent cook as long as the dish is simple and doesn’t take long to make, but she’ll put something on to boil and then get distracted by whatever case she’s working on and completely forget about whatever’s on the stove until it boils over or the fire alarm goes off and she has to go rescue it.  dan is a pretty good cook, but he doesn’t hold a candle to lucifer, so normally luci will make the dinner and chloe and dan will alternate washing up and putting things away. drying the dishes is trixie’s job. 

how do they let each other know they’re leaving the house

dan shouts bye from the door once he’s got his jacket and shoes on; chloe usually shouts bye back and lucifer’s normal response is “don’t do anything I wouldn’t do.” chloe gives cheek kisses before she leaves the house, and reminds whoever’s looking after trixie to do whatever they need to do for her that day (lucifer because he needs reminding, and dan out of habit even though he’s a perfectly capable caregiver). lucifer usually wants a hug before he goes out, mostly because having people who are willing to give him that kind of affection is still a big novelty and he’s living for it. 

how do they greet each other when one of them gets home

dan and chloe have lived together before, for years, so usually they just come in, toss their keys on the side and call out “hey”. living with other people is still new to lucifer, though, so he gets very excited when someone comes home; it’s an opportunity to get kisses and cuddles. when it’s him coming home, usually he just bursts in already talking about something that happened to him while he was gone, sometimes mid-sentence. 

who brings home little gifts like flowers/chocolates more often

lucifer is the classically romantic one. he’s always picking up takeout from dan’s favourite vietnamese place or bringing chloe lemon bars or surprising them with a candlelit dinner on the penthouse balcony. neither of them really expected him to be the romantic type, but it makes a lot more sense once they realise that most of his knowledge about human courting practices comes from movies and TV. 

who picks the movie for movie night

if trixie is with them, she usually picks; otherwise, they take turns. this was implemented because chloe kept getting outnumbered - the boys both like action films like body bags and the weaponizer with plenty of nudity, explosions and unrealistic fight scenes. chloe’s not really a fan. 

their favorite kind of movie to watch

chloe likes comedies and dan likes action films. lucifer’s favourites are also action films, but he usually picks a horror for movie night. not because he has a particular fondness for scary movies, but because chloe will end up pressed into his side and he loves that of all the strange, comfort-seeking behaviours humans have, she cuddles up with the devil. he’s used to people being terrified of him. being seen as a protector is new and thrilling.

who first suggests a pillow fort

technically it’s trixie, and she’s horrified that lucifer’s parents never taught him to make one. he hates missing out on shit so he brings it up on date night cause he wants to see what the big deal is. 

who builds the pillow fort

dan is in charge of actually building the pillow fort, and chloe is in charge of furnishing it with plenty of blankets and cushions and soft cuddly things. lucifer lounges on the couch and “directs”, which is what he claims he did when the demons were building his palace in hell. once the chloe and dan have finished building the damn thing, they then fuck him in it, which is very pleasant if not the original intended purpose. 

who tries to distract the other during the movie

10000% lucifer. he lasts all of five minutes before he’s trying to undress someone. it’s always risky taking him to the movies because he’ll inevitably want to make out/give head/get head in the back row. chloe is surprisingly easily corrupted and makes a game out of how long she can edge him for; if he makes it to the end of the movie, he gets a reward. 

who falls asleep first

unexpectedly, it’s lucifer. he’s just spent six months (for dan and chloe)/thousands of years (by his count) in hell, with nobody to watch his back. he hasn’t had a good night’s sleep for a very, very long time; he’s been constantly watching his back, heading off rebellions and assassination attempts and game of thrones-level political bullshittery. with chloe and dan, he’s safe. he can get his head down and sleep knowing that at least one of the three of them will wake up if there’s danger. also between them they fuck him till he’s ready to pass out so yeah, he crashes first

who is big spoon/little spoon

dan is very much a big spoon, which suits the other two just fine. lucifer will be the big spoon for chloe, because he knows she likes cuddling into him, but he’s a little spoon at heart. he loves being held. he likes tucking his head under dan’s jaw and dozing off to dan’s fingertips stroking his back. chloe will also switch, because she loves how soft and affectionate lucifer is when she’s cuddling him, but she prefers being the little spoon. 

[harryandmolly]

The Emancipation of Ginny ~ 5

summary: shawn and ginny could’ve ruined everything six months ago, and sticking together despite their past could make or break them now as ginny stays on as his personal assistant. but what happens on tour doesn’t stay on tour.

warnings: Language, opulence, the island of Ibiza which tbh should come with a warning label

WC: 5.5k

Andrew sighs, loud and dramatic through his nose so he looks like an adorable little aggravated dragon. Ginny pats his shoulder with a sympathetic smile.

“It’s gonna be fine, love. I promise no one…” She pauses, considering what exactly she’s willing to promise to her boss, “...Will get arrested.”

Andrew grunts and it’s almost pained-sounding. Their gazes are drawn by a loud whooping and laughing from the group of men behind them. Ginny peeks over Andrew’s shoulder at the already rowdy squadron of bachelor party-bound men with a whisper of a conspiratorial grin. It rights into a confident, optimistic, responsible smile when Andrew looks back at her.

“It’s fine. It’s fine, I trust you, it’s two days, it’ll be fine.”

Ginny’s brows lift. “Are you trying to convince yourself or me?”

Andrew huffs again and Ginny can see him start to scroll through the list of reasons building in his head that maybe he really should skip those meetings in LA and just go with them and --

“Andrew, it’s two days,” Ginny assures him. Andrew seems to settle again. He and Ginny exchange a hug and with a few calls of ‘good luck’ and ‘no felonies’ to the guys, he’s out the automatic doors of the private terminal at Toronto Pearson.

Shawn is the first to notice Ginny’s unoccupied. He turns from the group and smirks at her. She wiggles her eyebrows and glides over to him.

“You ready, mate?” she teases, looping her arms behind her back.

Shawn laughs. “Definitely not.”

Ginny giggles along. “Smart boy. I didn’t plan this stag do with the intention of us making it out alive.”

Shawn makes only half an attempt to disguise the awe on his face as she skips away to wrangle everyone.

Shawn’s wedding gift to Josiah is the bachelor party of the century, and Ginny’s gift is to plan it. He told her to use his black card and when she asked about a budget he just shrugged weakly.

“Go nuts, Gin.”

That was his first mistake.

The second, he’s thinking, while he watches her strong-arm the already tipsy band of six twenty-something guys to their chartered jet, is not backing out when Josiah insisted Ginny come along.

She tried to demure her way out of it, insisting it was her gift to him, that she was perfectly fine planning it and not coming along, but Josiah dug his heels in.

“Honestly, Gin, if you don’t come, Shawn’s going to be the default responsible one.”

At that, Ginny blinked in horror and agreed.

It’s not that Shawn doesn’t want to hang out with Ginny, obviously. He’s just… it’s a weekend in Ibiza on private jets in fancy villas drinking and dancing and wearing very few clothes. It just might be tricky.

Tricky. An understatement, he thinks with a wince.

He finds himself chanting in his head the same words Andrew was muttering to himself only moments before. They’re drowned out by the music already playing on Geoff’s Bluetooth speaker as he steps onto the plane, the last of the group.

They’re spread out among the seats as the stewardess, thankfully already chuckling at them instead of looking annoyed and full of dread, takes drink orders. Shawn smiles at her when she walks past and murmurs for a beer with a quiet “thank you” that has her blushing and heading for the galley with her head ducked.

He turns back to see Ginny holding court. She’s gripping two seats, standing in the center of the aisle, laughing at something Josiah said and grinning wickedly. When she whistles through her fingers, she gets the attention she wants easily. The bleary eyes of the boys settle on her and their mouths seal shut. She relishes their reverent silence before she speaks.

“Gentlemen,” she begins in her silky West London brogue, “We’ve gathered this weekend for a very special occasion. Our good friend Josiah,” She pauses to allow for raucous applause and shrieking, “Has met the love of his sweet little life, Sami.”

“SAMIIIIIII!!!!!” Chris, one of Josiah’s hometown buddies, cries from the far end of the plane, beer in hand. The boys laugh and lift their various beverages in a toast to the bride-to-be.

“And to celebrate this glorious union,” Ginny continues, hamming it up for her audience, “We retreat to the one place on earth more suited to a stag do than Sin City -- the island of Ibiza.”

They’re eating up her theatrics, Shawn included. He howls along with the rest of them, drumming the flat of his hand on the leather seat in front of him. He feels a surge of adrenaline. They were already excited, but Ginny’s ringleader speech has got them fucking wired.

“So, boys,” She lifts her bottle with a quirk of an eyebrow, “Here’s to Josiah, may we keep him alive to see his wedding day.”

The group laughs and gathers to knock their bottles in cheers. Josiah, being Josiah, manages to clink his bottle in one hand while taking a picture with the other. He stows his phone and commands the group’s attention before they stray.

“And to Ginny for planning it!” he barks, swinging an arm around her neck to drag her onto the couch next to him, planting a kiss on her temple. The boys cheer again, seeming to never tire of a reason to scream about something.

Ginny stays where she is and Shawn feels her distance. He inches closer, shifting from seat to seat in what he hopes is a somewhat subtle way until he’s buckling into the seat beside hers with a sheepish grin.

“Hey, you,” she greets, pleased to see him. Shawn beams back. Sometimes Ginny’s attention feels like the sun -- warm, life-giving, essential. When he doesn’t have it, he craves it like a junkie.

He sits back in his seat and watches the runway past her curls as they begin to taxi.

“Thanks again for doing this,” he murmurs earnestly. It feels especially intimate over the bounce of “Careless” by Dusky on the speakers. Ginny turns her head from the window. She flashes that dangerous smile again that makes him shift in his seat.

“Don’t say that until see your next credit card statement.” She clinks the neck of her bottle against his. Shawn rolls his eyes and forces himself to look away from her.

+

If the flight is any indication as to the way the rest of this weekend is going, Ginny will have her hands full.

Getting them drunk on the plane was a strategy. The flight was long enough for them to get drunk and sober up again, long enough for her to observe their drunken behavior in a closed, controlled environment. She had to study up.

Chris is a sleepy drunk, he should be easy enough. Jack is a happy, loud, laughing drunk. Gabe is somehow both sleepy and loud all at once.

Geoff, Shawn and Josiah are no mystery, though. Geoff is rowdy, the troublemaker. Josiah is affectionate and happy and… sloppy. Shawn?

Shawn’s a tricky drunk.

It makes sense. He’s such a good boy most of the time. He gets told to be places all day every day. He’s nice to everyone all the time. He’s under insane pressure and refuses to crack. So when he’s got some whiskey in his system, he’s like an easily distracted giant Pomeranian puppy with too much energy. He bounces around, dances, laughs, bolts away from the group on his long, powerful legs just to be obnoxious. He’s a pain in the ass right until he crashes and then? Then he’s impossible.

At least on the plane when he crashes, they don’t have anywhere to be. Ginny remembers once before they got together that he once crashed in the cab heading back to a hotel in Madrid and Ginny had to physically drag him, mumbling and mostly asleep, out of the car. He’s a heavy nightmare when he crashes.

Ginny is a mom drunk. She can seem like she’s trashed, having as much fun as everyone else, getting just as rowdy and wild, but the moment someone responsible is needed, she snaps into sobriety so fast it’s like she never had a drink at all. It’s handy with people like Hannah and Shawn, both of whom will whine at her to “drink more! Catch up!” if they feel insecure about being drunker than she is. Plus, both Hannah and Shawn get tricky at the most inconvenient times.

Just before the crash, Ginny feels it in the air and passes out water bottles and aspirin. No hangovers on day one, she won’t allow it. She plants herself in her seat next to Shawn looking very self-satisfied as she turns down the music. She props her feet up on the edge of Josiah’s seat while he naps, head tilted, long, silky hair billowing with each of his heavy, gin-soaked breaths.

Shawn looks up from her warm brown legs and smiles drowsily. She mimes sipping water and he obeys, his tricky Gremlin side stowed for the time being.

“Were you the mom friend for Hannah’s bachelorette party?” he slurs.

Ginny tilts her head at his voice and laughs. “I was.”

Shawn grumbles under his breath and starts peeling at the wrapper on his bottle. Ginny lifts her eyebrows and hums. He sighs.

“You should let loose more, Gin. Let someone else be repson-- I mean… respond… responsible.”

He’s so cute. Ginny wants to lean over and squeeze his ruddy cheeks. She giggles, flexes and points her feet in flower printed Keds. Her legs are so long. Have they always been that long? He drunkenly wonders.

“Oh yeah? And who would you nominate in my place, then? Geoff?”

Shawn snorts and knocks his knees together, swinging them back and forth so they bump into hers.

“No. Geoff would kill us all.”

They share a glance at Geoff whose face is smashed into a pillow propped up against a window. His arms are crossed. They snicker in unison until Shawn looks back at Ginny. He tilts his head back and sighs dramatically.

“I could be resp--”

“You can’t even pronounce responsible, love.”

Shawn’s smile is slow-spreading and so sexy Ginny’s thighs press together. God, her legs are looooooooon--

Wait.

“You haven’t called me ‘love’ since before we broke up.”

Ginny’s head jerks at the rapid change of subject. She blinks quickly. “What?”

“You used to call me ‘love,’” he explains with another sigh, like slowing down to catch her up is totally cramping his style, “All the time. Even before we were together. And when we broke up you stopped.”

Ginny’s lips come together as if sucked in by the corners. Shawn studies them, imagining if he pressed a napkin against them he’d come away with a perfect lip print. He remembers her lipstick is long wearing and huffs.

“I won’t call you that then,” she replies breezily, reaching for her water bottle.

“‘S fine,” Shawn says with a shrug, knocking his knees back and forth again, slumping down further in his seat, “I don’t mind.”

Ginny’s face softens. She takes a slug from her water bottle and picks at her own label. They’re quiet for a few seconds. Ginny looks over, inhales to speak, but the words stop in her throat when she sees him asleep, pouty lips parted, head hanging heavy against his shoulder. She blinks slowly and sinks her teeth into her lower lip. She presses her finger into the recline button on his armrest that sends him slowly, gently into a more comfortable position. He settles in, smacks his lips and wriggles until he’s comfortable. Ginny sips more water to feel like her heart isn’t exploding out of her chest.

She’s mostly successful in keeping the hangovers at bay by the time they land. Due to her excellent planning, the massive dark-windowed SUV is waiting for them on the tarmac. The boys’ praise is slightly less enthusiastic than pre-flight, chalked up to the fact that they’re still recovering from their mile high party.

It’s another story when they pull up to the villa.

Climbing past expansive Spanish style chateaus and gaudy marvels of architecture, they arrive outside a two-level modern mansion planted on the edge of a cliff overlooking the Mediterranean. It’s gleaming white against the battling blues of sky and sea, dotted with massive windows, floor-to-ceiling on the side of the house that faces the infinity pool, which seems to spill straight into the water below.

The praise is ebullient as they roam the house -- “look at this fucking fridge though!” “Is that an infinity pool?!” “Fuck, we’re never fucking leaving!”

Shawn watches with pride that he supposes isn’t really his to feel when Josiah sweeps Ginny into a swinging hug on the deck overlooking the pool. When they separate, Ginny looks to Shawn automatically and his heart gives a squeeze, like she’s waiting for his approval.

He grins and holds out an arm. She hurries up the stairs to tuck herself under it, wrapping her arm around his waist as they look out at the idiots gleefully throwing themselves fully clothed into the 82-degree pool.

“You’re fucking amazing, you know that right?” Shawn offers, quietly enough that it’s just hers. She chews on her lips and cocks her head like a bashful puppy.

“He deserves a kickass stag,” she replies, like anyone would’ve and could’ve done this. Shawn squeezes the arm around her shoulders.

“And you deserve a goddamn crown for this.”

He swipes his thumb affectionately over the skin of her bare shoulder just once before letting her go, running to launch himself, $250 jeans, Chelsea boots and all, into the deep end, jackknife style.

Ginny squeals, laughing heartily with the rest of the guys as he pops back up, shaking his head like a wet labradoodle. This time it’s his turn to look back to her for approval. She lifts her arms over her head to clap. He preens, splashing around, insisting she jump after him.

It doesn’t take much coaxing for Ginny to kick off her Keds and send herself after the screaming boys by way of the best cannonball any of them has ever seen. She emerges into a wall of rowdy boy voices over the pounding of “One Kiss.” She floats on her back, closing her eyes at the almost throbbing cornflower shade of the sky, not feeling Shawn’s eyes from a few feet away.

+

The night, as is everything else, is pre-planned perfectly. After a few hours of romping in the pool, hitting a joint rather inexpertly rolled by Chris, they retreat to their rooms to nap. Ginny wakes up around 8pm to Shawn plucking at his guitar quietly, wandering around the house like a traveling minstrel.

Dinner is a truly terrifying amount of pizza ordered to the house eaten in the outdoor lounge with the day’s football highlights (in Spanish, of course) on the TV. Ginny mutters bitterly, as is customary, about Arsenal’s “chronic full back problem” through tiny bites of pizza and huge slugs of Stella.

By around 11, pizza and beer are put aside for harder stuff. Some switch to liquor, some carry on with weed, everyone gets ready for their first night out.

Shawn, in signature black skinnies, Chelsea boots and a silky black button up, finished his hair routine earlier than expected and wanders the west end of the house aimlessly, pretending to study the odd modern art and furniture. He’s fiddling with his necklace and second guessing his bracelet choice when he hears her voice.

Shawn follows the lilting sound of it singing The Temptations down a hallway he doesn’t even think he’s found yet because god, this place is huge, like he’s Prince Philip searching for Aurora in the forest. He finds her door and knocks twice with a light rap of his knuckles.

“Come in!”

Shawn lets himself in and gravitates to her, glowing in the slightly orange light of her bathroom. With a tube of MAC lipstick and her vape pen in one hand, Ginny is hovering about two inches from the mirror, her finger poking at her eye.

“Hiya,” she hums, wincing when she makes a jab that misses its target. He wrinkles his nose and steps closer.

“What are you doing?”

Ginny recedes from the mirror and blinks, moving her finger. There’s an uneven patch of gold leaf clinging partly to the inner corner, partly to her finger. Shawn chuckles. She pouts.

“Looked easy on YouTube…” she defends weakly, leaning back in to the mirror, closing one heavily mascara-ed eye to focus on fixing the other. Shawn watches her prod a few more times before he steps in with a clearing of his throat.

“Kay, let me try?”

He’s tugging on her arm and leaning in before she can answer. She flutters both eyes shut and feels the gentle pressure of his fingertip in the corner of her eye, adjusting gently until he’s satisfied.

“There.”

Ginny looks up. His smile is placid, his cheeks are pink. She blinks quickly and checks the mirror. He matched the other eye perfectly. She grins.

“For that you’ve earned a hit of this.” She offers the vape pen with a wink. Shawn accepts it, inhaling deeply, holding the vapor in for a few seconds and releasing it slowly behind her as she swipes on her lipstick.

He likes watching her get ready, always has. He used to be a bigger pain in the ass, standing behind her, sucking on her earlobe while she was trying to apply eyeliner or something. These days he stands back and watches her work.

While she’s distracted by carefully outlining the plump curves of her lips, he can check her out subtly. She’s in a deep maroon crop top and clingy skirt set that makes her deep caramel skin seem to shimmer. She smells like her coconut body oil, the only kind of fragrance she ever wears. Her curls are springy and bright. She’s unabashedly tall in strappy platforms that have her at his height even without her hair.

She’s fucking radiant. He won’t say a word about it.

She pulls back from the mirror for a look. She’s abandoned her signature red matte lipstain tonight for a dark burgundy shade that matches her outfit and sports a glossier finish. It makes him lick his lips and try not to wish he was licking hers. He tells himself it’s the weed talking. He takes another hit from her pen.

“Gonna share, Mendes?” she prompts.

You? Never.

Yep, the weed is going to his head. He hands off the pen willingly and watches her lipstick leave a splotch of her behind before she tucks it into her little clutch and leads him outside.

He’s got to shake this. He’s been so good about not indulging in his feelings, all of them, any of them, that pertained to her. Up until this weekend. They’ve had six months of good, solid recovery time since the break up. With the way his mind is babbling at him right now, it’s like it wants him to fuck all that up. He can’t let that happen.

At least not until he knows he’s ready for her.

He accepts the swig of scotch from the flask Geoff offers him as they’re piling into the car to take them to their first stop, Pacha.

A flash of Shawn’s smile is all it takes to get them ushered quickly to their reserved table in the VIP section behind the DJ booth. Once again, the boys look impressed, so Ginny sits smugly with her legs crossed, gazing around the club. It’s high season in Ibiza -- Pacha will be filled to capacity all night with a line snaking around the block until they close at 6am. They won’t stay that long, they have another table waiting for them at Amnesia, a 15 minute drive inland.

This is not Ginny’s first tangle with the White Isle. She’s been flying out for weekends here and there since she was 17. Ibiza has long been a favorite of Ginny’s and Hannah’s, but Ginny has never experienced it like this. Like everything else that comes with Shawn, it’s a step above. The table is already littered with booze. A very attentive and attractive waitress makes herself available immediately. She watches Shawn grin up at her politely and order a whiskey ginger, and then looks to the waitress to watch her shoulders drop, her smile spread and her giggle rise up in her throat. Ginny tries not to roll her eyes.

“Take it easy, Mendes, the megawatt smile is a lot for the uninitiated to take.”

Shawn’s at the part of the night where he smirks at her instead of blushing and insisting he’s just being polite, that he doesn’t know what she could possibly mean by that. He sits back in his chair and bites at the inside of his lip.

“Uninitiated? What does the initiation involve?”

Ginny plays along, leaning across to him as she thinks. He watches her eyes turn up to the light rigging in the ceiling and lets himself indulge in admiring her.

“Well first comes the superstar smile. Once you can handle that without your knees turning jello-y, you come up against the gentle Canadian boy modesty and the ‘eh’s and ‘a-boats’ that come with it,” She pauses to watch Shawn tip his head back and laugh hard, “And the trifecta. That laugh that makes me want to put on a performance and make you laugh all day long. I’d raise hell for that laugh.”

The silence that follows is as charged as the room around them that they ignore. They stare at each other in a way they haven’t in months. Neither looks away while they try to understand the moment, and even more so, try to make it last because neither of them knows when they’ll get the chance to look at each other this way without the possibility of getting caught by the people that constantly surround them.

Ginny breaks first, being the more sober of the two. She clears her throat and tucks a hand through her hair, scrunching some curls back into place. Shawn keeps watching.

The chance of being caught by friends or fans is very low. First of all, their friends have scattered to explore the pulsing club, scouting for girls or for other celebrities. Secondly, Shawn is not nearly the most interesting famous person in the room tonight. On their way into the VIP section, Ginny spotted at least half the cast of The Only Way is Essex plus Martin Garrix plus Paris Hilton and their corresponding crews, all of whom attract more attention than the sweet Canadian kid who doesn’t get tricky until at least three drinks in.

Ginny stops Shawn just short of “tricky” and gathers the boys into the car again to skip off to Amnesia. They stick together this time, tucked away in another VIP booth that feels more private than the first. Ginny is bouncing Euro coins off the table and landing them in her friends’ drinks with a wild gleam in her eye. When she catches him watching her, she slips him a coin of his own with a wink.

The coin corresponds with drink number four. Shawn gets creative, positioning a coin on one end of a spoon and smacking the other to aim it at his friends’ foreheads. When he gets Chris in the eye, Ginny takes the coin back, plucks it out of Shawn’s scrabbling fingers as he apologizes profusely.

David Guetta goes on at 3am for a special set and gets the rest of the guys off their asses to dance. Shawn, even at his trickiest, doesn’t get on the dance floor. Ginny usually can be persuaded, but tonight, she hangs back with him, her chin propped on the table as she flips the coin against the surface by pressing onto the edge with her thumbnail.

She’s mouthing the words to “Titanium” but her chin is flat to the table so her head bobs oddly as she opens and closes her mouth. In his drunken state, Shawn is mesmerized. The motion of it, rather inconveniently, reminds Shawn of other times when he watched her head bob rhythmically like that.

“Hey, do you remember the last time we had sex?”

Ginny looks up, looking less startled than he imagines they would if they were both sober. She pulls her brows together and looks thoughtful.

“I think so. The first night in Tokyo.”

Of course she remembers. She’s Ginny. She remembers everything.

Shawn turns his head down guiltily to his lap. “I don’t really remember.”

Ginny smiles at her secret. She presses the pad of her thumb into the coin and decides to ignore potential consequences of getting into this with him.

“We were unpacking in Tokyo. You couldn’t keep your hands off me,” she relays with a smirk. He doesn’t argue. That sounds like him.

“You were mumbling something into my neck about the schedule for the next few days but you pushed your hand into my leggings at the same time. I kissed you and told you we can either talk schedule or fuck, but we couldn’t do both at once.”

Shawn grins at the memory she’s dug out of his subconscious. “I picked fuck.”

“You certainly did.”

Ginny doesn’t choose to elaborate further about the way he grunted with each heavy stroke into her body, that he felt like he was chasing something down inside her and she was willing and eager to let him try. Ginny lowers her gaze, thinking now that whatever it was, he didn’t find it.

“Sometimes with stuff like that you wish you knew it was the last time,” Shawn muses.

Ginny swallows awkwardly against the table and lifts her head. She props up her elbows and knows her brain will shift to overanalysis when she’s sober about the fact that he basically just admitted that he wasn’t planning for very long to end things with her. There’s a lot to unpack there.

“You remember the last time we kissed?” he prods. She looks up again. She shakes her head.

“Me neither,” Shawn breathes, “You deserved more from me.”

Her eyes flutter shut. She doesn’t know why he’s talking like this and she doesn’t know why she’s not stopping him.

Her eyes startle open again when she feels his fingers link with hers across the table. She looks down at them because it’s safer than looking at him.

“Let me give you something good, Gin.”

She’s nodding before he even says her name. When she looks up, he’s leaning halfway over their table, scooping his hand under her chin to press his lips to hers. Despite his intoxication, he’s smooth and slow and molten hot, murmuring gently into her mouth before he sucks on her lower lip and releases her.

“Oh god, yes,” Ginny moans, reaching up to yank him back in by his collar for more.

Shawn’s lips are wet and swollen; he’s been chewing on them all night. They’re both drunkenly panting into the kiss, it’s not a particularly sexy kiss to witness, but to them, it’s everything they’ve been craving since they let each other go last year.

Shawn grunts when he tries to get closer and feels the edge of the table jut into his ribs. He pries himself away long enough to scurry around it and climb into the booth next to her, throwing an arm around her shoulder and sucking her back in.

If they don’t think about it, it’s not bad. This does not have to be a disaster. This can be just a bachelor weekend thing, the equivalent of them hooking up with strangers, only it’s safer because Shawn runs a risk any time he takes home someone who could open her mouth and blab about it on the internet. This way, with Ginny, he’s safe.

Plus, they’re just making out. No way this leads to fucking. I mean, it could. And maybe that wouldn’t be so bad either. Not unrecoverable, at least. It’s just fucking. It’s a biological imperative. And after all, who are Ginny and Shawn to turn their noses up at biology?

Shawn sucks at her tongue and makes her moan into his mouth like a porn star. She actually feels the hair on the back of his neck stand up from where she’s raking her fingers through his curls.

“Goddamn, we leave you alone for ten minutes and you’re trying to swallow each other in public,” Geoff groans from over Shawn’s shoulder. Shawn’s closed eyes squeeze and he pulls away to Ginny’s cheek. When he collects himself, he turns his head to glare at Geoff.

“What do you want?”

Geoff looks delighted to have interrupted. He nods back to Gabe and Jack who have one of Josiah’s arms over each shoulder.

“Time to go. Groom to be’s had it.”

Shawn looks back to Ginny who, in true Ginny form, already has her phone out texting the car service to meet them in the VIP pickup area.

They stay close, though. Ginny hands him a napkin to swipe at the purple lipstick all over the lower half of his face, but she doesn’t drift. While they wait for the car, she even lets him kiss her again, and it’s less frantic and hungry than in the club. It feels more like it did when they didn’t know which kiss would be their last. Shawn likes it better this way.

They continue kissing in the car, ignoring the barfing noises the other guys mime to drown out the wet sucking noises of their lips. They kiss at the front entrance while Ginny hands Jack the keys to the villa. They kiss while they walk down the hall all the way up to where Ginny presses Shawn into his door and nips at his lower lip to feel him growl one more time.

She slides her long fingered hands up his chest and pushes away. Her bleary eyes meet his. He looks half fucked, lips almost comically swollen and again smeared heavily with her lipstick that he’s licking at like it’s melting ice cream, eyes glassy, hair a wreck. He looks like a caricature of someone who’s been necking for 45 minutes.

Ginny takes a deep breath and nods once, all business. “Goodnight, Shawn.”

She twists his door handle and lets him stumble backwards inside enough for her to close it behind him and disappear, clomping away in her loud shoes to her own room.

+

Ginny wakes with a start at the sound of a splash from the pool. Her shoulders clench, her back tenses, her fingers tighten around their grip on the pillow she’s smashed her face into. Her heart sprints for a minute until she recognizes she is, in fact, alone.

She pushes up on her hands, sniffs and sighs. She’s stark naked, having shed her clothes in a haphazard line from door to bed. When she opens her eyes, she winces at the sight of her pillow, which looks like her face melted into it -- patches of foundation, mascara and lipstick dotted with two bits of gold leaf right where her eyes would’ve been.

Thank god she went to bed alone. It is her only mercy from the night before.

She stumbles into the shower and scrubs at what remains of her face. Tequila leaks out of her pores. She throws on a red cotton romper that skims the swell of her ass and goes outside to find the boys and hydrate.

Half are lazing in the pool playing more EDM that for some reason sounds a lot less appealing than it did yesterday, half are sitting under the cover of the outdoor lounge. Someone made bloody marys. Someone ordered breakfast burritos. Ginny grabs a water bottle and makes a beeline for Shawn, splayed on a couch in a t-shirt and boxers with his guitar in his lap.

“We are morons,” she announces on her approach, flopping down across from him, propping her feet up and taking a sip.

“Fucking idiots,” he agrees without looking up at her, bobbing his head as he riddles out a melody.

“We’re ok, though, right? No feelings hurt?” she checks, ignoring the wailing voice in her head that reminds her of her own stupid feelings.

Shawn does look up now, an easy smile on his lips, smooth from practice, a smile that doesn’t hint at all at the crying of the voice in his own head. “All good. No worries, Gin.”

The day is lazy. There’s napping, smoking, football and more bad takeout. Night two is at Ushuaia and it goes unspoken that Ginny and Shawn are to stay sober and, more importantly, away from each other.

They’re successful. Ginny shimmies in body glitter and a rusty orange bikini. Shawn is in a tank top and skinny jeans again and the body glitter he borrows is his idea, not hers, and he doesn’t ask her to help him put it on. They stay ten feet from each other all night, spinning like tops, trying not to be the one who falls down first.

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Phantasma Magica Ch. 6

STORY SUMMARY

Clockwork and the Observants send Danny to Hogwarts on a special mission. But, cryptic as ever, that Old Stopwatch never actually told him what would happen on it!!! “All you need to do right now, Daniel, is stay focused on your mission. And remember, the-” “‘The Lions with the time-turner, lightning-bolt scar, and hair like fire are friends; watch out for the rat; and the black dog is not a threat.’ Yeah, you’ve only repeated that a few dozen times today.”

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When Danny returned later the next day, things were mostly how he had expected to find them: most of the students had left for the holidays, the Trio were talking in front of the fireplace in the Gryffindor common room, and Harry looked absolutely exhausted. Against what he had expected, however, the other two weren’t trying to comfort Harry. Ron was getting angry. Hermione was on the verge of tears. They were trying to convince Harry not to go after Black. That it was too dangerous. That the dementors and other authorities would catch him. That the biggest piece of Pettigrew they could find (after Black blew him up) was his finger.

Danny didn’t interfere; it really wasn’t his place to. But if Harry wanted to go after Black, he would gladly help him. Ron gave up, suggesting they should go visit Hagrid. Harry, wanting to ask Hagrid why he had never told him about Black, readily agreed, and Danny (both because he dared not let Harry out of sight in this state, and because he wanted to hear more about Black himself) followed them to the hut -- which was far too close to the dementors’ patrols for the phantasm’s comfort.

But when they arrived, it was far from a happy holiday greeting that they received -- the half-giant was sobbing and, after letting them inside his small hut, shoved a letter toward Harry to read. Danny, having learned his lesson about getting distracted and tuning people out, listened… But was still slightly distracted, not by the large dog, but by the EVEN LARGER… horse… eagle… hybrid creature- it looked like if someone had decided to make a pegasus, but added the head of the bird too. BUT! Danny did manage to listen past his shock (for the most part). The letter was some court order, saying that Hagrid’s “hippogriff” (which, he figured out, was the not-a-pegasus) named “Buckbeak” did something bad, and, after a hearing (which sounded like it would be completely bogus), the Ministry’s “Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures” were likely going to execute the poor thing.

Ron, Hermione, and even Harry -- his anger now thoroughly diffused -- did their best to comfort Hagrid, promising they’d help him make a good case for Buckbeak’s innocence. Calmer, petting his dog’s head and with a cup of hot tea in front of him, Hagrid admitted, “I’ve not bin meself lately. Worried abou’ Buckbeak, an’ no one likin’ me classes--” “We do like them!” Hermione said, lying rather convincingly. “Yeah, they’re great!” Danny noticed Ron’s fingers crossed under the table. “Er-- how are the flobberworms?” “Dead,” Hagrid said gloomily, “Too much lettuce.” “Oh no!” Ron’s lip twitched, making his lie rather unconvincing.

“An’ them dementors make me feel ruddy terrible an’ all.” Hagrid shuddered. “Gotta walk past ‘em ev’ry time I want a drink in the Three Broomsticks. ‘S like bein’ back in Azkaban--” He cut off, and the room went silent. ‘Azkaban…?’ “Is it awful in there, Hagrid?” Hermione asked timidly. “Yeh’ve no idea. Never bin anywhere like it. Thought I was goin’ mad…” He described, to Danny’s disgust, a prison guarded by dementors sucking the happiness and, eventually, the very life-essence out of every prisoner, night and day.

“But you were innocent!” Hermione cried. Hagrid snorted. “Think that matters to them? They don’ care. Long as they’ve got a couple o’ hundred humans stuck there with ‘em, so they can leech all the happiness out of ‘em, they don’ give a damn who’s guilty an’ who’s not.” He was quiet, then said, “Thought o’ jus’ letting Buckbeak go… tryin’ ter make him fly away… but how d’yeh explain ter a hippogriff it’s gotta go inter hidin’? An’--an’ I’m scared o’ breakin’ the law…” He looked up, tears leaking out his eyes, “I don’ ever want ter go back ter Azkaban.”

If there was anything that his best friend Sam had rubbed off on him while he was still human, it was her dual loves of nature and freedom. And Danny already had not-so-friendly feelings for the dementors around this castle. So to hear about a prison guarded by them, and then a section of government devoted to “disposing” of creatures they disapproved of… Danny was developing some not-so-friendly feelings for the wizards’ “Ministry” as well…

So Danny was quite eager to help with the Trio’s research in building a defense for Buckbeak. He helped them pour over volume after volume, and article after article, for anything even remotely relevant to Buckbeak’s case (He had clawed the arm of a student -- ‘Malfoy. Why is it always Malfoy???’ -- who’d provoked him, directly against Hagrid’s instructions to the class). The research, to Hermione and Ron’s relief, also distracted Harry from searching for and worrying over Sirius Black.

Eventually, Danny needed a break. He’d been stuck inside this castle (which, though big, consisted of the same rooms as ever) for too long, his eyes were swimming with fancy law terms and news articles, and his visit to the side-town “Hogsmeade” was cut short before. So, after satisfying himself that his friends would be safe for a few hours without him, Danny followed the tunnel under the Whomping Willow -- eager to investigate why it had been blocked off.

The tree’s flailing branches passed right through him, and he entered a tunnel that was dark even for Danny’s night-vision. It let out into what seemed to be an abandoned house -- only this one had scratches and claw-marks all over the inside. ‘I wonder what this place is…?’ Turning invisible and intangible, Danny flew straight up and through the ceiling and the roof, then turned around. ‘Oh! This must be the “Shrieking Shack!”’

He had heard about some of the highlights of Hogsmeade from Ron and Hermione. Judging by the run-down appearance of the house below him, and the fence around the yard, this was the house that was supposed to be haunted. ‘I don’t feel any presences, though… Except maybe a few animals. But I guess that’s not surprising! Figures that it’s not actually haunted, heh!’

Danny surveyed the rest of Hogsmeade from above. He couldn’t buy anything, but it could be fun to look around the shops anyway. Especially that joke shop! ‘I’ll leave that for last!’ He floated down to street-level, deciding to start with the post-office. It was like a busy zoo enclosure, with owls of all sizes flying around and waiting to have letters attached to them. Next was the candy store -- which seemed almost like a joke shop unto itself! There were some free samples, too, which he took a few of for later. In one barrel was some blood-flavored lollipops, though… which reminded him: ‘There’s something to mention to Professor Lupin later… Phantasms’ worst enemies aren’t dementors, they’re vampires. Guess they’re part of this… “magical community.” Better keep my eyes out.’

The joke shop was just as fun as he thought it’d be and better. There were several items he knew Tucker (his other best friend…) would’ve gotten a kick out of -- and plenty he knew Sam could’ve found all sorts of uses for! ‘Oh, man… A quill that misspells EVERYTHING you write…! I mean, I would’ve had to convince him to use a quill first -- but Mr. Lancer would have HATED this thing…!’ So, with a mental list of things he wanted for Christmas (in case anyone asked), Danny turned back toward the Shrieking Shack for one last look at it before returning to the castle.

‘How did this place get SO torn up…’ There were claw marks going from ceiling to floor. The floor itself was a network of scratches in every direction. There wasn’t a single piece of untouched furniture… ‘Well, something clearly used to live here--’ His tour came to a halt when he entered a bedroom. Sitting on the bed, staring him straight in the eyes… A face from a wanted poster flashed through Danny’s mind…

‘Sirius Black…’

Silently, and before the man could react, Danny dove, grabbed him by the throat, and pinned him to the wall. His ethereal flames danced in his right hand; the claws of his left pricked the skin of Black’s throat, dripping a tiny bit of blood on his prison uniform -- before the wounds froze over, frost covering his shoulder and the wall behind. The windows faced away from the sun -- Danny was the only light in the room. Sirius was frozen -- though not literally. His mind was back in Azkaban. Except… this wasn’t a dementor in front of him- WHAT WAS THIS?!

Danny couldn’t decide whether to kill him now -- ‘I’m NOT an animal! I am NOT a MURDERER!!’ -- or bring him to the castle -- ‘They’ll just kill him anyway!’ Danny growled, frustrated and hungry -- vibrating and shaking Sirius’ heart in his chest. Which was all Sirius needed to snap out of it and remember how he escaped the dementors--

Danny couldn’t do a thing as he watched the criminal morph -- into a BLACK DOG -- ‘The black dog is not a threat’ -- escape his grip -- ‘Black dog is not a threat’ -- and run for the tunnel under the Whomping Willow...

‘Black is not a threat…’ …

Danny floated there, in that bedroom, with his arm outstretched, for a good half-hour out of shock.

‘What… do I do now… ‘Clockwork…?’

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Back to you: Chapter 15 pt 1 - Welcome to New York

Characters belong to Pixelberry, except those created for the story.

Summary: We pick up the morning after the fight at the speak easy, where Leo and Aria spend the night together. We say goodbye to Paris and Hello to NY! Someone has left court,and Leo comes face to face with Arias Best friend Ellie, who is NOT his biggest fan. Catch up on past chapters HERE

Rating: 18+ Slight NSFW, Fluff and sort of angsty..

Chapter/title inspiration: Welcome to New York - Taylor Swift

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Bang bang bang

Lady Aria

“Ugh make it stop.” Aria groaned

Bang bang bang

Lady Aria I can not believe you are still asleep, have you learned nothing?

Aria jumped up out of bed stark naked. “shit I need clothes.” She fumbled around the floor, finding a button up dress shirt she buttoned the middle two buttons as she hopped around trying to put on the boxers she found crumpled on the floor

Bang bang bang

Lady Aria we have a schedule to keep now get u-

Aria flung the door open cutting Bertrand off “what Bertrand? what the actual fuck?” She snapped. Bertrand assessed her attire, his face flushed “ah well ah, yes plans have changed we are headed for New York, flight leaves in 5 hours. ” Bertrand hastily walks off embarrassed.

“I thought Bertrand was going to curl up into the fetal position. ” Leo chuckled now sitting up in bed. Aria smiled at his joke. “Shut up, Bertrand knows I hate that shit.” Leo grinned looking her up and down. She was beautiful all dolled up, but he loved when she was wearing his boxers and shirt, her long brown hair thrown in a messy bun. “What?” Aria noticed his gawking. Leos smile spread across his face “just admiring the view.” He tilted his head in appreciation . “Well shows over its time to pack.” She advised waking over to the night stand to check her phone. Leo grabs her by the waist and pulls her onto the bed. “Leo!” Aria giggles as he rolls on top of her, kissing her neck and un buttoning his shirt she was wearing. “Hey you heard Bertrand, we have a plane to catch.” Aria protested in between kisses. “What I heard was we have a plane to catch in 5 hours.” He whispers as he kisses her down her chest before removing the boxers and settling in between her legs . “Leo. We cant.. OH, mmmm, ok.” Aria moans, she could feel the grin on his face between her legs.

***********

4 hours later Aria was packed and waiting in the lobby. She was so excited to be going home. She missed Ellie terribly, she would have to carve out some down time to visit with her before they headed back to Cordonia. Cordonia she thought. So many questions swirled around her head. What if Tariq wasn’t found? What would she do then? She couldn’t be Liams mistress, she wouldn’t. What was she going to do about that mess? She loved Liam, still after everything that had happened, but then there was Leo. He was so amazing, helping her through everything, so protective and caring and the sex. Well the sex was amazing, but was it just sex? No, it was more then just sex. Last night during his fight with Liam, Leo let it slip that he loved her. She didn’t know how to approach it so she didn’t bring it up. She knew she loved him, she never stopped. Part of her wanted to lose herself in the feeling again, but that cautious side hit the breaks hard. She loved Liam, and she loved Leo, what the hell was she to do?

“I hope im not interrupting anything.” A voice pulled her out of her thoughts. She smiled “Liam. No you are a welcomed distraction.” She patted the bench next to her for him to sit. “Where’s your shadow?” She wondered sarcastically. Liam rolled his eyes and groaned. “Madeline caught and earlier flight, something about shower arrangements. I could care less honestly.”  “Hey how are you? After last night? ” She questioned looking at his puffy lip. “I am very sorry about the way I acted in front of you. I should have never allowed my jealousy to put you in a position to be harmed. ” liam hung his head in shame. “Liam i’m fine, sometimes we lose our cool.” She lifted his head up, stroking his cheek gently. “How have the blackouts been? Have anymore episodes?” 

“No I haven’t had an episode in a few days, not since, well that terrible day in your room.” Liam winced at the memory. “ when you have them, are you doing anything before?” She prodded. “Well, it happens different times, I am never doing the same thing its sporadically.”. Aria reached out to take Liams hand. His heart skipped a beat. “Aria, I miss you, I miss us.” His voice a low whisper. “I miss you too Liam, everything is just.” “Complicated?” He finished her sentence for her. 

“There you are.” Leo calls out interrupting the moment. “Leo.” Liam acknowledged “Liam.” Leo nods, his voice dripping with sarcasm. Liam stands and takes Arias hand, placing a soft kiss on it “I will see you later, perhaps we could talk a little more once we’ve landed in New York?” “Yes, that would be wonderful. ” Aria gives a polite smile as Liam walks away giving Leo a dirty look.

Leo pulls out a box from behind his back “for you my lady.” “Are these?” She starts to say staring at a beautiful pastel arrangement of macaroons. “they are.” He beams as he hands her the macaroons from her favorite bakery in the city. . She jumps up into his arms and kisses him on the lips. “You really are my super man.” She giggles pulling a macaroon out and biting it. Savoring its Devine flavor.  Leo smiles and takes her hand “we’ve got a plane to catch.”

After a long flight their plane touches down at JFK international in New York. They gather their luggage and a short ride they arrive at their hotel. Madeline greets everyone in the lobby. “I have made everyone’s room arrangements. Liam and Leo will be on the 2nd floor with Kiara, Peneolpe and myself. The Beaumonts, Aria, Olivia and Drake will be on the 6th floor. "What about Hana?” Aria asked, noticing her name wasn’t mentioned. “Ok so everyone get some sleep, we have brunch with the mayor tomorrow.” Madeline turns and walks away, ignoring Arias question. Liam, Bertrand and Maxwell head off to their rooms. “Madeline where is Hana staying?” Aria followed after her demanding an answer. Madeline turned and let out an annoyed sigh. “Lady Hana has left court and returned home,if you must know.” She turns and calls for Penelope and Kiara to follow.

Aria stood their stunned, why would Hana leave without saying goodbye? Something did not feel right. First Liam is having black outs and now Hana is gone? “You ok Beautiful?” Leo approaches placing his hand on her shoulder. “No, Hana would not just leave without saying goodbye. Its 4:30 am in shanghi. I will have to call her later.” Aria sighed. She grabs her room key “I guess I will see you later.” Aria gives Leo a quick peck on the cheek and heads to her room.

She sits down on the bed and stares at the trunk containing all of her dresses and proper clothing. Its been nothing but dinners, teas, balls, formal events for months. She longed for some greasy food and a soda. She pulls out her phone and sends Ellie a text

Aria:What are you up to tonight?

Ellie: Hello stranger!! Lindsay and I are meeting Jay and Rob at Timothys. You?

Aria: Omg I would kill for some honey bbq wings from Timothys right about now.

Aria: another day another fancy hotel. You at home? Hows the apartment? What time are you guys meeting up?

Ellie: around 7. Apartment is fine, im at Lindseys. just getting out of the shower, gotta get ready. Call me later, I miss you.

Aria: miss you too.

Aria tosses her phone on the bed. She digs around in her duffel bag until she finds her keys. She could have told Ellie she was in New York, but that would ruin the surprise. Aria was going to stop at their Apartment and get some clothes before heading to Timothy’s. She opens the door to find Leo standing on the other side. His hand lifted like he was just getting ready to knock. Aria jumps back “oh shit, you scared me.” She puts her hand on her chest. Leo chuckles “sorry. You going somewhere?” He notices her keys in her hand. “Actually, i’m going to my apartment and I think i’m going to surprise Ellie, shes going to Timothy’s and i’m dying for some wings!” Aria bites her bottom lips and twirls her hair. “Oh I see, I ah, I came to see if you wanted to grab a bite to eat, but I see you’ve made plans. Ill leave you to it. ” he turns to leave “Hey Leo, want to come with me?

Leo smiled "Yes, absolutely. ”

They head to the lobby about to leave when Leo re directs her towards the parking garage. “I have other transportation arrangements.” He grinned leading her over to a shiny black motorcycle. Her eyes light up. “This isn’t the same bike is it?” “I had it brought here, to many memories to let it go.” He handed her a helmet before swinging his leg over and mounting the bike. Aria climbs on the back, she gives Leo the directions to her place and they drove off.

They arrive at a stone building that was one of the nicer places on the block. There was no elevator so they had to walk up a few flights of stairs until they reached the 3rd floor. They walk into the apartment, Aria half expected to find a huge mess but it was clean. “So this is me.” She motioned around the small space. “Its not much but its home.” She fiddled with her fingers, she was nervous bringing him there. “It suits you, its very comfortable and inviting. Much like you.” There were pictures of her and Ellie growing up, pictures of their friends having fun all around. “Bathrooms down the hall, along with the bedrooms. El is on the right, i’m on the left. "Oh, yeah?  Is there a tour.” He perks up. They start walking down the short hall “Yes, I need to change.” She turns and gives him a serious look “hands to yourself Rhys we don’t have time for your shenanigans right now.” He puts his hands up waving them in defense. Aria walks over to the dresser pulling out a bra and pantie set, Leo arches his brow. “You turn your head.” She orders. “I’ve seen your ass love.” He smirks “turn it Super man.” She motions her finger in a circle If he played his cards right he would get to see them later on

. He puts his hand over his eyes, he parts his fingers to steal a peak. He sees her putting on a lacey black thong. He groans as he tilts his head slightly. “Hey I said no peaking. ” she hollars. She throws on a pair of tight jeans and pairs it with a black off the shoulder shirt. She threw on a pair of sandals, and let her hair down. “Ok, let’s get going.” She called over to Leo who was now lounging across her bed. “Yup.” He jumps up and the leave for the bar. They arrive at Timothys a short time later. “So before we head in, I should probably tell you, you are not Ellies biggest fan.” Aria mentions biting the bottom of her lip. He tucks her hair behind her ear and drops his voice low. “If you keep biting that lip were never going to make it into the club.” He winks and leans in giving her a deep kiss before pulling back, leaving her breathless. 

They walk into the crowded bar, Aria searches out her friends in the crowd. She spots them but she makes a B line to the bar. She knew a few of the waitresses so she stopped one asking if they received their order yet. The waitress informed them she was just getting ready to take it over. Aria whispered something into her ear and the waitress agrees. Leo stood there and watched her work her magic. They follow the waitress to her friends table. Aria and Leo stand off to the side so they weren’t spotted. Once the waitress distributed the order she turns to Ellie. “I have something else for you but you have to close your eyes.” Ellie looks at her and reluctantly closes her eyes. Aria walks over and stands where the waitress was, right in front of Ellie. “Did someone order a side of best friend?” Aria giggles. Ellie’s eyes fly open and she screams, jumping up and hugging Aria. “Oh my god, you’re here. When did you get here, oh my god.” Ellie hugs Aria while jumping up and down. “We just got in today. I had to come see you. And we wanted wings.” Aria chuckled. “Wait, who’s we?” Ellie looked at her curious. “Hello Ellie.” Leo joins Arias side. Ellie eyes him coldly. “You brought him?” Ellie turns to Aria with her hands folded across the chest. “What the hell for?” Aria swallowed hard, this was going to be a disaster.

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the fifth date

summary: the story of how you met your alpha

pairing: alpha!bucky x omega!reader. non-avenger!au

words:  1870

trigger warnings: some mentions of a divorce, shitty childhood/boyfriend, etc. they watch ahs and there’s some mention of murder bc of it but it’s not super descriptive, mentions of some nsfw stuff

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The minute Bucky met you on your first date, he knew you were the one. It was a blind one, set up by your mutual friend.

Bucky thought he was just an excuse to get him out of the house, but no. It ended being the best thing that ever happened him.

The way you laughed, the way you bit your lip, the way you asked him about his day, the way you crinkled your eyes when you smiled. You were perfect, still are. The perfect mate, the perfect life partner, the perfect lover.

The next day, he started nesting in preparation.

“Stevie, I swear. I know she’s the one!” he told his best friend while buying almost a truckload of blankets and pillows at Bed, Bath, and Beyond.

“Whatever you say, Buck” Steve told him as he struggled to close the trunk of the car.

When they reached his apartment and piled all the plastic-covered bedding in the living room, he shooed Steve out. He’s an alpha, this is his job and his alone.

When he mother told him about the process of courting his father, he knew it was something special. The process of nesting, the buying and making and killing of gifts, the scenting the first time they mated. It’s such a beautiful, sacred ritual, Bucky knew he had to do it perfectly for you.

“Whoever you choose,” She told him. “Know that it isn’t just about making you feel good, it’s about building a strong foundation to a lifelong commitment.”

Bucky always listened to his mother, but this he held especially near to his heart.

On your second date, Bucky brought you cupcakes from your favorite bakery. You ate them together on your couch and introduced Bucky to your favorite TV shows.

You had a really hard day at work, and when you tried to cancel the fancy dinner date Bucky had planned for you, he refused.

If you wanted to sit a home in fuzzy socks, leggings, and a comfortable sweatshirt, then that’s what you were gonna do. The only condition is that you had to do it with Bucky.

“I feel like this is a shitty second date,” you told him while liking some stray frosting off of your finger.Your legs were draped over his, your back supported by a few pillows. All Bucky wanted to do was lay there, inhaling your scent. But you needed something to keep your mind off of one of the worst days of your career, and reruns of Dr. Phil sure as hell weren’t gonna do it.

“Nonsense,” he said, wiping a smudge of cupcake from the side of your mouth. Heat rushed to your face at the intimate contact. “This is the perfect second date.”

You laughed a little, eyes glued to the screen across the room. “And why is that?”

Bucky smiled down at you, using his metal hand to turn your face to him. He knew what you were doing, trying to avoid eye contact because you were scared of...well, actually, you weren’t sure what you were scared of. All you knew was that you were absolutely petrified. “Because I get to spend time with you.”

All you could do hide the warm feeling in your face, you and him laughing at the woman who had hidden not one, but two pregnancies from her overbearing in-laws. You fell asleep soon after, with you head on Bucky’s lap. He readjusted you so that you were on top of him, and rubbed your back while you slept off the day.

On your third date, Bucky basically asks you to mate with him. Kind of. Maybe.

“Do you wanna come back to my place?” he asked on your way home from dancing. That’s when you realized you had never seen it. Ever. You’d heard stories, heard him talk about his home. His large bachelor bad which he kept impeccably decorated for work. You were dying to see it, but you worried it was too early. He fell asleep at your apartment three days ago, why did you care so much about traditional timing.

“Mmm,” you say, genuinely thinking it over. “Depends on what you want to do after.”

He grabbed your hips, pulling your close to him on the street corner. It was surprising, but not unwelcome. The night air nipped at your sweaty, exposed skin and made you shiver. You leaned into him, watching the traffic go by.

“Anything you want, darling” he whispered into your ear. This, too, sent goosebumps all over your body.

You pushed him away. Lightly, playfully. A shove to let him know he needed to wait a little longer. Not a “never,” but a “not yet.”

Instead, you find some fast food place and eat your weight in french fries while you fight about the best tropical fruit. Bucky had argued pineapple, you chose mango.

At first is was friendly competition, but then it got heated. Now you were playing to win.

“I’ll kiss you if you agree with me,” You offered, munching in the last fry.

“Deal,” Bucky said, leaning over the couch for his smooch. It was your first kiss, but it felt like you had known his lips forever. It was beautifully and wonderfully cliche.

The day of your fourth date, you fell ill with a nasty cold. Your throat felt like a broken garbage disposal, your nose was running, your stomach hurt. You felt like the word “ugh.”

First you called out of work. Then you texted Bucky in an effort to cancel your date.

But, yet again, he wouldn’t let you. He texted back he’d be at your place with the perfect care package and that he was determined to take care of you.

You texted back he was being dramatic - it’s a cold, not pneumonia - and fell back asleep.

He showed up less than an hour later, knocking on your door with soup, Gatorade, ginger ale, and every season of American Horror Story.

Three pieces of toast and half the soup later, you’re cuddled under a thin blanket - the same one as last time, soaking up his warmth and comforting smell.

Occasionally, you’d use the cold of his metal arm to cool your forehead down. You weren’t running a big fever, you maybe were at 99 degrees, but it still felt really good.

“This is nice,” you murmured.

“Yeah.” he agreed, noticing your sleepiness. He turned the show down just as someone was being gutted, wanting to make sure you were able to get the rest you needed. You were cuddled in his chest, surrounded by him.

You felt safe with him wrapped around you, just like a good alpha should make you feel. After a short nap and two more characters brutally murdered, you start having deep conversations.

It started with him asking you met Steve and how you trusted him enough to set you up with his greasy, but adorable, best friend.

Bucky talked about how he lost his arm, how his prosthetic is one of kind. How he’s a lab rat, how it was the the only thing that got him out of losing his arm.

You talk about your childhood and how shitty it was. How you ended up with a shitty boyfriend in college who made you feel like shit all of time before you got up the courage to leave him two years after he asked you out.

“My old boyfriend never did this type of stuff with me.” you admitted. “He only liked to do stuff when he knew people he knew would be around. It’s like he needed someone else to get him through our dates.”

“Sounds like a real dick,” Bucky said. He traced the indents the blankets on your skin. He could stay right here forever, never moving again.

“Yeah,” you agreed. “He was. Almost made me swear off alphas forever.”

Bucky smiles, wide and toothy. “Glad you didn’t.”

“Yeah,” you joke. “Or else I wouldn’t have met the total hunk I’m cheating on you with…”

Bucky laughs, him lighting pushing you away in faux-disgust. “How could you!? Is it Steve, tell me it’s not Steve!”

It’s your turn to laugh, the deep cackles soon turning into coughs. You recover quickly, though, smile plastered on your face. This one’s a keeper.

You have your fifth date a few weeks after you feel better, both of your crazy work schedules preventing you from seeing each other sooner.

He takes you to an aquarium, and you both watch the sea turtles gliding through the water. It’s so beautiful, you’re both breathless from wonder.

After, he takes you to home. To his home, you mean. Or apartment. It doesn’t matter. It’s his.

He offers you a drink, which you gladly take. While he makes it, you take a look around. You admire the art, the beautiful decorating, the gorgeous marble countertops.

He gives you a tour, showing you around the kitchen, then the living room, then his office, then he bedroom.

The minute you step into it, you almost start crying. The large bed, the thick blankets, the distinct scent, the displaced furniture showing he had shoved his bed into the corner farthest from the door. All the signs were there.

“You started nesting,” you whisper, wiping tears from your eyes. The space is filled with Bucky, and it instantly makes you feel at peace, just like a good mate should. You feel so calm and happy and...is this what if feels like? To be in love? If so, you never want to let Bucky out of your sight. Ever.

“Yeah,” Bucky comes behind you, holding your back to his chest. “Knew we were gonna be mates the moment I first saw you, the night of our first date. Knew I wanted to be with you forever, and ever. Wanted to mark you. Wanted to be yours. Wanted to knot you real good. Wanted to make sure not a single shitty alpha ever touched you again.”

His brings his arms around you waist, talking lowly into your ear. “Then I heard about your awful boyfriend. About your parents bitter divorce. The custody battle. Knew you needed some lovin’, needed someone to show you how beautiful you are.”

He’s releasing calming pheromones, you can tell. It runs through you, sticks in your blood. The last few weeks have been hard, on both of you. This, whatever this is, is exactly what you need.

The pheromones release your tense muscles and give you a moment to forget the shittiness of everything.

He kisses your neck and you whimper. You got to grip his hips behind you and he rubs between your thighs.

“Eager, are we?” Bucky asks, his baritone voice sends shockwaves through your spine. It’s amazing, like a drug.

“Yes,” you moan. Your skin is on fire and it feels so fucking good.

He sets you down on the bed, pulling your clothes off. Your body is flush against the pillows and you feel so exposed. Normally, you’d be uncomfortable, but you trust Bucky. Trust him a lot. Trust him with everything.

“Then let’s get started, my beautiful little omega.”

You moan again. “Let’s, wonderful alpha. Let’s.”

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Never Forgotten:  Chapter 3 (Drake x MC, Liam x MC)

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6/12/18 - Chapter 3 is here! This is where our love triangle (or quadrilateral ;) ) truly begins.  Get ready for some major angst and a lot of will she or won’t she moments. :)

Chapter 3

“Do I look okay?” Riley asked Drake hesitantly as she looked herself over in the mirror.  “It’s the nicest dress I have,” she shrugged.  “I was going to wear it to the wedding . . . but then the garden party came up,” she explained.

“You look beautiful,” Drake murmured, kissing her neck softly.  “Sorry again . . . about last night,” he said softly.  “Shouldn’t have gotten so mad at you.  I know it wasn’t your fault.  Maxwell can be a persistent pain in the ass,” he cringed.

“I’m sorry, too.  Coming back here has me on edge.  Apparently it has you on edge, too,” she added.

“Yeah, well . . . memories and all that,” he muttered.  “But it’s my problem, not yours, and I shouldn’t have been such an ass,” he admitted.  “I know this is just as hard for you as it is for me,” he shot her a half-smile.  

“But at least we’re together, and you know what, this week will go by fast then we’ll be back in New York . . . and no more awkwardness,” she smiled.

“Right.” He said confidently.

They took the town car that Maxwell had sent over much to Drake’s disapproval.  He didn’t want to be treated any different while they were in Cordonia.  He would have preferred they take a cab or even rent a car for themselves.  He didn’t like the idea of having to owe somebody for their generosity, but Riley reminded him that it was Maxwell . . . and if they fought it, Maxwell would only fight back harder and get quite offended if they continued to decline his offer.  She had convinced him that it would be much easier to just smile and say thank you.  

When the car had arrived, they were a bit surprised to find that it was completely empty.  Maxwell was nowhere in sight.  The driver explained that there was a second town car scheduled to take Maxwell to pick up his date before heading to the venue for the garden party.  That tiny tidbit of information blew Riley’s mind.  His date?  Maxwell?  Drake was equally surprised at the revelation.  They didn’t know Maxwell was seeing anyone, and he never indicated as such in any of their conversations.    

As Riley and Drake animatedly discussed the possibilities of Maxwell’s secret date, Drake began to point out various sites that Riley hadn’t been exposed to during her previous visit to Cordonia.  Despite spending so much time in Cordonia, she never really had the opportunity to explore it beyond the court functions and what little places they were able to sneak out to.  She enjoyed being able to see a different side of Cordonia through Drake’s eyes.  It felt incredibly special, and it allowed her to see a different side of him as well.  In New York, he was Mr. Tough Guy who played it cool when it came to his emotions. Back in Cordonia, he seemed softer, and a lot more open.  She liked this side of him, and she also liked the fact that he talked about his family a whole lot more while being here.  She often felt like she had to beat any sort of information about his past out of him before he would give her the tiniest detail.  When they passed a beautiful park shortly after they left the hotel, he talked about the many picnics he and his family shared there before his father passed away.  He remembered feeding the ducks that lived in the pond, and chasing Savannah all around while they played tag.  He pointed out the tree he fell out of when he was ten years old and ended up breaking his arm.  All of these stories were a part of a Drake she had only small glimpses of.  She enjoyed seeing a bit of the bigger picture.  Although she had doubts about coming back, spending time with Drake in the place where he grew up, had been worth it.  

Before they knew it, the town car was pulling up to a large estate that Riley swore was much larger and grander than the Cordonian palace.  The building itself had to be at least half an acre in size.  The party was hosted by some fancy Duke whose name Riley couldn’t remember for the life of her.  Maxwell told her that she had met him once on the early stages of the engagement tour, but she really couldn’t recall.  Everything back then was still a blur in Riley’s memory.  It didn’t matter that she didn’t remember him, it wasn’t as if she’d be meeting him at this thing.  She and Drake were commoners, and although they were invited to the party because they were attending the royal wedding, they weren’t significant in any way, shape or form.  It was a courtesy invitation.  They were nobodies.  No title, no courtly connection.  They’d easily fall into the crowd and blend in.

“Well, some things never change,” Drake muttered as the town car pulled into the driveway of the massive estate.  Various pops of various colorful flowers greeted them from the entrance.  “Still a bunch of hoity toity nobles running around trying to compete with one another,” he sighed.  

“That’s a whole lot of flowers,” she murmured, taking in the vibrancy and aromas around her.  “Seems like such a waste when they’ll all just die in a few days,” she said sadly as she looked around.

“You sure you don’t want to just ditch this and head out to a bar somewhere?  I can ask this driver to take us right back to the city,” he suggested.

“Drake,” Riley shook her head stepping away from the town car.

“Come on, Lawson.  We can play that ‘I Never’ game you like so much . . . maybe turn it a bit dirty,” he murmured into her ear, gently nipping her earlobe.

“No,” she said firmly.  “As enticing as that sounds, Maxwell is expecting us.  Aren’t you the least bit curious about who his date is?” Riley asked, a bit too eagerly.

“Well . . . yeah, but once we meet the girl, we can bail, right?” He asked hopefully.

“I don’t think that’s how this is going to work,” she chuckled.  “But how about this?  When things get a bit boring, we can leave early.  It’s not like we’ll be missed,” she elbowed him playfully.

“You’re no fun,” he sighed, wrapping his hand in hers as they walked through the entranceway.  

It had been some time since Riley had been to a court function, and it was as grand as she remembered.  The fancy clothes, the exotic cuisine, the glamorous people.  She found it all to be a bit overwhelming.  When she had first come to Cordonia, it had all been very new and exciting.  She enjoyed getting dressed up and styled for the various balls, but after a while, she couldn’t help but feel like some prissy Barbie, getting done up to make the members of court happy.  She started to feel like she wasn’t herself anymore.  The party today reminded her of why she didn’t want to be a part of this sort of lifestyle . . . it was all so empty.

Drake pulled her along, leading her out toward the appetizer table.  “Might as well get some free food out of this shindig,” he chuckled.

She smiled, as she allowed him to pull her along.  Just as they reached the table, loud music started to play in the background, and the party seemed to come to a complete halt.  Everyone’s conversations began to taper down, and all eyes turned to the front of the estate.  It’s as if they were waiting for something.

“What’s going on?” Riley asked, covering her ears.  “And why is that music so annoyingly loud?” She cringed, trying to figure out what the heck was happening.

“Oh,” Drake sighed.  “Liam’s here,” he explained.  “They make his arrival a big thing at these sorts of things,” he sighed.  “Like I said . . . everything is so over the top.  These sorts of things never change.”

“Oh,” Riley murmured.  She instantly became a bit self-conscious.  She had expected that Liam would be here.  It was a celebration in his honor after all.  She just hadn’t expected to feel so uncomfortable about it.  Of course, she had expected to be a little sad and maybe a bit anxious . . . but the unsettled feeling deep in her stomach made her want to throw up.  “I don’t see them,” she whispered to Drake.

Drake motioned to the entrance of the estate where they had just walked in moments ago.  When they had arrived, the area had been bustling with activity.  They barely could get through without losing one another, the area had been so crowded, but this time, the area was a lot more open.  It was as if the way had been cleared for Liam to make his grand entrance.  

“Announcing, His Majesty, King Liam Rys of Cordonia and his betrothed, Duchess Katherine Sheffield of Valtoria,” a loud voice boomed on the speaker system.  The noised echoed all around them.

Riley sucked her breath in.  If she was going to blend in and get lost in the crowd, now would be the time to do so.  She couldn’t risk running into the happy couple . . . that would only make things far more uncomfortable than she already was.  Avoidance, that’s what would get her through the party.  Blend in and avoid.  That’s all she had to do.  But then . . . they walked through the entryway and she felt as if she were about to fall over.  She held Drake’s hand a bit tighter, forcing herself to stay steady on her feet.  He looked exactly the same, and as much as she tried, she just couldn’t stop her heart from swooning.  She had promised herself that she wouldn’t do this, but she just couldn’t help herself.  He was just as handsome as she remembered, but he did look a tad bit fitter than when she last saw him.  Of course, because he wasn’t already desirable, he had to get a fitter body to make himself more attractive.  Her eyes shifted to the woman next to him, who held his hand so proudly and wore a beautiful smile on her face.  She was gorgeous, of course.  Riley had expected that, but there was also an air of elegance and regality about her that Riley couldn’t help but feel a bit jealous of.  As much as she tried to ward the feelings off, she couldn’t shake it off.  Liam’s eyes met his future wife’s in pure adoration, and Riley’s heart ached a bit . . . even though she knew it shouldn’t.  She tried to force the memories that were starting to stir up away.  She couldn’t rehash those feelings.  She didn’t love him that way anymore.  Those days were long gone.  She had Drake, and they were in love; they had built a life together.  Liam was the past . . . Drake was her present.

“Are you nervous?” Drake asked, rubbing his thumb over the hand that was gripping his fingers ever so tightly.

“A little,” she fibbed.  She was more than nervous, she was a basket case.  She felt like the butterflies in her stomach were going to burst through at any given moment.

“Well, Lady Riley Lawson . . . I haven’t seen you in ages,” a female voice murmured from behind Riley.  She turned around, and her green eyes met the beautiful brown eyes of Hana Lee.

“Hana!” Riley exclaimed, engulfing her friend in a crushing hug.  She hadn’t expected to see her.  She had meant to reach out to her and let her know they’d be attending the wedding, but in all the rush and chaos of making the arrangements and getting packed, it had completely slipped her mind.

“Hello Drake,” she waved politely, and he nodded his head in response.

“It’s so good to see you, Hana,” she exclaimed, still holding on to her tightly.  She’d missed Hana so very much while in New York.  She had girlfriends there, but none that compared to Hana.  They had grown quite close during the social season and subsequent engagement tour . . . she had confided in Hana about everything.  Even her feelings about Liam and how she wasn’t sure she wanted to be queen.  Hana had stayed steadfast by her side, reassuring her every step of the way.  Even when things had gone so terribly off course, Hana stood by her every step of the way, even when she had decided to stay in New York.

“Well, I’m going to give you two a moment to catch up,” Drake smiled.  “I’m going to go find the bar . . . it’s never too early for whiskey,” he reasoned.  “Especially at this sort of event,” he motioned around him, as he headed straight toward the bar.

“I didn’t expect to see you here,” Hana explained.  “I knew you both were coming for the wedding, but I figured you’d skip all of the events leading up to it,” she explained.

“We were thinking about it,” Riley admitted.  “But Maxwell can be ever so persuasive,” she smiled.  “I’m glad he convinced us to come, because now we get to catch up,” she exclaimed excitedly.

“Oh yes, that’ll be fantastic,” Hana agreed.  “Come on, let’s go find Maxwell.  He was supposed to bring me a mimosa, but I’m sure he must have found some sort of distraction to keep him away,” she mused.

“You’re Maxwell’s date?” Riley asked, piecing the information in front of her together.  “Like as in a date-date, or just friends date?”

“Oh . . .” she blushed, clearly caught off guard by Riley’s question.

“Little Blossom!  Sugar Fairy!” a booming male voice called out to them at a distance.

Riley was momentarily distracted by Maxwell.  “Sugar Plum?” Riley asked, arching an eyebrow, but Hana merely looked away in embarrassment.  Clearly, a lot had changed since she was last in Cordonia – including the dynamic between her two very best friends.

“I’ve been looking for you all over,” he said, taking Hana by the hand.  “Riley, I’m so glad you made it.  The town car was acceptable, I presume?”

“Yes of course, Maxwell.  Really, it’s too much,” she waved him off.  “We really could have just taken a cab,” she reasoned.

“Nonsense,” he shook his head.  “My Little Blossom deserves the best,” he smiled brightly.  “Where’s Drake, by the way?  Did he manage to escape already?”

“Oh, he’s just off at the bar,” Riley shrugged.  “You know how much he loves his whiskey,” she joked.

Maxwell’s face dropped.  “Darn . . . I knew I forgot something.  I didn’t get our drinks,” he murmured.  “I was too busy looking at the ice sculpture next to the appetizers.  I’ll be back,” he assured the women.  “Riley . . . do you want a mimosa, too?”

“That’ll be great, thanks, Maxwell,” she nodded.

After Maxwell had left to get their beverages, Riley decided that it was time to get the low down on what was going on between her two friends.  “So, you and Maxwell, huh?” Riley elbowed Hana in the arm, causing her to blush an even deeper red than she already was.  “I don’t recall getting an email talking about that tiny bit of information,” she smirked.

“It’s still very new, and still very casual,” she said vaguely.  “No talks of exclusivity have been made yet,” she said quietly, but Riley noticed a small smile peaking through her calm demeanor.  “My father is thrilled though, which kills me a bit.  If I weren’t so happy about this, I’d call the whole thing off, just to spite him,” she sighed.  “But Maxwell makes me so very happy, and I hope in time it leads to an exclusive relationship,” she admitted.

“I’m happy for you,” Riley grabbed her hand squeezing it tightly.  “You deserve to be happy, and Maxwell is quite a catch,” she assured her.

“He is, isn’t he?” Her eyes searched the garden for him, she found him in line at the bar, chatting wildly with another noble.  Riley could see the admiration in her eyes.

“He’ll make a great husband one day,” she murmured to Hana, and she nodded in agreement.

“Maxwell tells me that you and Drake are together,” Hana says quietly.  “I’m not sure if it’s common knowledge – “

“We don’t really do the whole titles thing,” she blushed.  “We’re exclusive . . . live together, spend all of our time together,” she shrugged.  “I guess he’s my person?” She said uncertainly.  “I just never really expected to be so content,” she explained.

“Just content?” Hana questioned.  

The way she asked the question gave Riley a bit of pause, as if she didn’t think the match was something that would last.  Riley didn’t know why she used the word content.  It just sort of fell out of her mouth.  But thinking about it now, it seemed like such a bland word to use to describe her relationship.  Of course she was happy; exceedingly so.  They had a great time together, and he made her laugh every single day.  What more could she ask for in a relationship?

“Well, I mean, of course he makes me so happy . . . it’s just nice to have something be so easy and carefree, you know?  Not have to worry about etiquette and rules,” she motioned around her.

“I never would have thought the two of you would be together,” Hana mused.

“You and me both,” Riley chuckled.  “I don’t know, it just works, you know?” She laughed.  “I guess that’s why I said content,” she smiled.  “Trust me, the moment, I realized I had fallen for him, I spent about five hours trying to talk myself out of it,” she laughed.

Hana’s eyes shifted behind Riley, darting back between what she was looking at behind her and Riley.  “What?” Riley asked, looking behind her.  She saw Liam and Katherine making their rounds, greeting the different guests at the party, and her face fell a bit.  She should have been happy for him.  He had found his Queen.  That’s all he had ever wanted . . . someone to love him with the same love he had felt as well.  Riley thought she’d be able to give him that . . . but the weight of the Cordonian monarchy weighed too heavily on her mind.

“She’s truly beautiful,” Riley murmured to Hana as she continued to watch them walk around.

“Isn’t she though?” Hana agreed.

“And absolutely perfect in every way,” Maxwell sighed from beside them, their drinks in hand.  “Really.  She has Hana beat on that front.  She’s literally Regina’s dream come true,” he explained, handing their drinks over to them.

Hana shook her head at Maxwell’s candor, accepting the drink from him.  The woman was used to his off the cuff remarks by now.  Riley, on the other hand, felt a bit slighted by his remark.  She remembered how many hoops she had jumped through desperate to gain Regina’s approval so that she could marry Liam . . . for what?  Only to have their attempt at a relationship thwarted time and time again.  The pomp and circumstance of court became exhausting after a while.  Riley couldn’t imagine spending the rest of her life in that circus.  Katherine, apparently, had no problems fitting in.  She watched as she easily joked with the various nobles and chattered away effortlessly.  Riley had always felt so uncomfortable at these things.  She always felt like she was screwing up left and right.  Katherine was handling herself perfectly; far better than Riley ever had.  She didn’t seem to need to jump through all of the hoops that Riley had needed to back then.  She had won the man Riley thought she’d spend the rest of her life with by simply being her graceful self.

“Riley?”

“Hmm?” She asked, taking a sip from her mimosa, still a bit lost in her thoughts.

“I asked where Drake ran off to?  I didn’t see him at the bar.” Maxwell said.  “I haven’t seen him anywhere for that matter,” he said quietly.

“I’m not quite sure,” she frowned.  Drake had only mentioned going to the bar.  It wasn’t like he had many friends at court except Liam and Maxwell, and both were currently occupied.  Maybe he needed to get away for a bit away from all of the nobles.  “If you guys will excuse me, I’m going to try and find him,” she smiled.  “I hope he didn’t run off without me,” she chuckled.

She decided to head out to the back of the gardens.  If he needed some time away from all the hoopla, he’d go where no nobles were in sight.  Not seeing him, she decided to try his cell phone.  She heard a faint echo of his ringtone for her, and she figured he must be close.  She wandered off into the distance, but the call was cut short, and she was sent instantly to voicemail.  She found that to be rather odd.  Maybe the call had gotten dropped, or he had accidently swiped his phone off?  Huh.  Why on earth would he go this far behind the estate?

She walked a bit further toward the back of the estate, when she heard angry voices chattering back and forth.  She turned to walk away, but she heard one that sounded distinctly like Drake’s.  Who was he arguing with?  She listened a bit closer, and she realized he was arguing with a woman.  She didn’t want them to see her looking in on them, so she carefully stepped around the corner of the building and leaned in slightly.  The woman had fiery red hair.  It was Olivia.  Her heart sank to her stomach.  He had snuck off to see Olivia . . . so much for him having a difficult time dealing with her.  She sighed, wondering if she should interrupt them.  She decided against it when she saw how angry Drake seemed.  As she got a closer glimpse of Olivia, she noticed that her face had tears streaming down her face.  What were the arguing about?  It was obviously something serious.  His hands were flailing all about and Olivia continued to cry in front of him.  Riley felt a pang of guilt.  It felt wrong for her to be spying on them.  After all, they had once shared a life together, too.  Maybe they needed some sort of closure?  Drake rarely talked about their breakup, and she never saw it as her place to ask about it.  Maybe after all this time, they just need to get out all of their anger and sadness so that they can be civil one another.  They were going to be here for the next week, and she was certain they’d be running into her at least on another occasion.  

Then, in an instant, Drake was wrapping Olivia up into is arms, and cradling her as she continued to cry.  He placed a soft kiss on the top of her head.  Riley bit back her own cry that threatened to escape her lips.  What was happening?  She couldn’t have seen what she had just seen, right?  She and Drake . . .they were together . . . they were happily in love.  They lived together.  They shared their lives together in every way imaginable.  She came here for him.  Against her better judgment and all her doubts, she had gotten on that plane and came back to the country she never wanted to see again.  But had he come here for Olivia?  She remembered him being so enthusiastic to attend the wedding, even when her own doubts were screaming that they should just stay home and send a message of congratulations.  Yet, here she was, having her heart broken a second time in this stupid country as she watched the man she shared her life with cradling his ex-girlfriend in the same arms that he cradled her in.  She felt like she was going to be sick.  She watched as their entire relationship crumbled in front of her eyes.

Riley needed to get out of there.  She couldn’t bear to see any more of it.  She started to rush, as quickly as her wedged heels would allow her to.  She couldn’t deal with this now.  If she did, she’d yell and scream and make a whole big scene.  She needed to get back to her hotel, and figure out what she was going to do.  Was she going to confront him?  Was she going to leave?  Go back to New York?  She felt like flying home, packing all of her belongings and just leaving him.  If Olivia wanted him, and he wanted her, then she could have him.  She wasn’t going to be somebody’s option . . . she couldn’t bear to go through another devastating relationship.  Her heart had been broken by Liam, and Drake helped her pick up the pieces . . . now he was the one smashing her heart to pieces.

She suddenly couldn’t breathe.  She wasn’t paying attention to where she was going, she was bumping into nobles left and right, until she finally ran smack dab into someone’s firm chest right as she was about to exit the estate.

“I-I’m sorry,” she mumbled, trying to hold the tears back that kept threatening to fall.  She needed to be strong.  She couldn’t cry here.  Not in front of all these people.   She started to pull away, and continue her quickened pace to get out of there, when a firm arm pulled her around.

“Riley?” The deep voice questioned.

She looked up at the man she had bumped into, and was a bit taken a back to see who was standing before her.  “Liam,” she whispered.  

This was all too much for her, the tears she had been so careful to keep inside of her, flowed freely, pouring down her cheeks until she crumbled to the ground.  All she remembered before passing out was being engulfed in a warm embrace, and carried back into the estate by Liam’s strong arms.

[i-want-my-iwtv]

I'm going to be living in the french quarter for a week in march for work - any recs on places i should visit etc?

Yes! A whole week is plenty of time to wedge in VC location visits around the work-related stuff ;D

FYI in my list, I have things in the French Quarter, the Garden District (you can take the streetcar to get there, or walk, if you have the time/interest, it’s 2.5 miles away), and then outside the city are swamp tours (which I really want to do next time I visit) and the plantation houses (Pointe du Lac!).

These aren’t in any geographical order, just the order I’m thinking of them:

+ Gallier House - A must-visit, this is the flat AR based Rue Royale on. They give tours bc it’s a historical site. It’s not expensive, book in advance. They also have a gift shop and I got a nice necklace there. 

^My estimation of the room assignments bc reasons. Re: “slave quarters,” that’s unfortunately part of the history of that building :P but I think by the time L/L were there, those rooms were used for storage bc there’s little closet space in the living quarters, and the maids they hire don’t live with them.

Note: @gairid considers the flat across the street (1127) to be the true home of L/L bc the balcony is much more verdant, and you know Lestat would have all kinds of flora on their balcony! It’s a private residence, though.

+ Oak Alley Plantation - this was used for Pointe du Lac plantation in the movie. It’s a ways away, like 45 min outside NOLA?  Maybe more, but worth the trip! You can pay for the bus tickets and tour package, get there and wander around, there’s food and historical info, highly recommend. Allegedly, Brad Pitt still visits and he stays in one of the guest houses.

Note: They also filmed at neighboring Destrehan Plantation, but I haven’t been there, idk if it’s worth going.

+ Madame John’s Legacy - 632 Dumaine St, this is the scene in which a family’s worth of coffins are carried out; Lestat & Claudia had been so gluttonous. This building is sometimes open to the public, the last time I was there they had a cool ceramics exhibition.

+ Jackson Square - mentioned in canon pretty often, you can’t really go to NOLA and not visit.

+ The Cabildo at Jackson Square - I didn’t go in, I think you can. This is where Lestat watches Claudia kill, that same gate is there, you can go hang out in front of it and pretend to watch your vampire daughter kill a victim.

+ Court of Two Sisters - 613 Royal St, I really enjoyed the Sunday brunch, there’s a cute little courtyard with fountains, and live music sometimes. They had this oreo pie that like… dangerous. 

+ Cafe Du Monde - mentioned in canon, they serve like 2 things, beignets and coffee (nothing super fancy), very affordable, and are almost always crowded, but totally worth it. If you go around the back there’s a window where you can see them making the beignets!

+ Arnaud’s - very good restaurant in the French Quarter

+ Port of Call - 838 Esplanade Ave, stardustschild, I see in your profile that you’re not over 21, but for OTHER ppl reading this post, this is a good place for a go-cup drink ~$10, it’s large and 1 is enough to catch a good buzz.

+ NAPOLEON HOUSE - Muffalettas, po’ boys & other Creole staples in a circa-1914 house with a palm-filled courtyard. @gairid recs the SAZERAC (for the 21+ people reading this post, not you, stardustchild) here.

+ French Market - that’s a pretty standard suggestion so I have to include it but I didn’t think it was all that big of a deal. 

+ Trashy Diva clothing boutique - 537 Royal St, they have a few locations. I got a great little black velvet jacket here!

+ 2301 and 2524 St. Charles Ave, Garden District - AR’s childhood homes

- (Not a location really) 1233 COLISEUM ST. - where the Coliseum theatre was in the scene when Louis goes to the movies, it burned down ;A; But that neighborhood is kind of fun to walk around and just look at the nice houses on your way to Lafayette Cemetery. 

+ Commander’s Palace, Garden District - good restaurant but pricey. I had an elder flower liqueur cocktail that was pretty special there. This restaurant is a favorite of the Mayfair family.

+ 1239 First Street, Garden District - This historic property was for many years Anne Rice’s primary residence. 

+ Mayfair house, Garden District  - 3711 St Charles Ave. Not really as crucial on my own list of locations but still.  @cloudsinvenice had posted: “Anne Rice’s former New Orleans home is back on the market again, as per this Curbed.com article, from which I’ve selected some photos. This is the house that inspired the Mayfair witches’ haunted family home…”

+ Lafayette Cemetery No. 1, Garden District - mentioned in canon, free but only open during daylight hours tho!

+ St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 - There are tours and I think Nicolas Cage’s very weird pyramid tomb is there, he’s paid for it, and that’s where he plans to be when he’s shuffled off this mortal coil…

+ Bourbon French Parfums - 805 Royal St. bc Louis was all about the jasmine and stuff, they have great sets of perfumes and their own concoctions.

+ DeVille Coffee House & Creperie - 2045 Magazine St, I just really like their crepe suzettes

+ New Orleans Pharmacy Museum - I didn’t get to go here but it was on my list. I think it’s like $5 to go.

+ Marie Leveau’s Grave and Voodoo Shop - has cool stuff, like coffin nails!

+ Boutique du Vampyre - 709 ½ St. Anne Street, IIRC I got a cool poison ring here, they have vampiry wares.

... A few additions!

@nixsrebellionoflies​ added: may i add that you can go into port of call if youre not 21 and over? they have great burgers and a very interesting aesthetic. you might have to wait a while tho to get in

^Thanks for that! I haven’t tried their burgers myself, now I have to be sure to put that on my list for my next trip ;)

@jeezycreezysuperstar​ added:Some of the cemeteries are now only open to the public via tour group, just fyi

^RIGHT I forgot about that, it’s a relatively recent rule, within the last few years I think? Partly bc of the vandalism that was happening, and offerings/graffiti on some of the famous tombs like Marie Laveau's Tomb. But do take a tour if you have the time/money/interest, bc they are informative and spoopy.

[ajay-gayle]

Watch_Dholes

Ajay was just an aimless hacker, a street rat running with a gang in San Francisco. When his mother dies and with her dying wish secures him an internship to Pagan Min's own private company, he finds himself traveling to the country of Kyrat. But everything is not what it seems, and he soon finds himself immediately dragged away from the safety of his internship and into North Kyrat's seedy criminal underbelly by a hacker faction of revolutionaries called the Golden Path. [Watch_Dogs AU] 0_1: Entry

The sun rises over North Kyrat, illuminating the skyscrapers in its gentle glow. Light reflects through the empty windows of hollow, unoccupied shells. People mill about the city, beginning their day. Most of them flock to the Kyra Tea building that looms over the rest of the city. Buildings stand cold and empty, posing more as monuments than functional spaces. The desolate streets gives the city an eerie, almost liminal feeling. There are other corporations that occupy the city, evident from the glow of neon reflecting off of the multitude of windows that make up the large structures. In the distance, the basic, barely developed plains of South Kyrat can be seen.

Pagan Min’s business influence had called major players into the city, and their companies stand in both harmony and opposition. Development had began almost immediately under Pagan’s critical eye. Not that the citizens of Kyrat wanted this sort of thing. They didn’t have much of a choice under their monarch.

A rickety bus rattles over the bridge into North Kyrat and heads for the very heart of the city.

Ajay stares out the window of the bus and watches the buildings pass by. He takes note of the strangely empty streets. It’s almost as if this one city was built for more people than there are in the whole country. He sighs to himself and looks down at the Kyra Tea intern badge hanging around his neck. Ajay is finding this whole situation equal parts uncomfortable and concerning. He knows he’s not qualified for any kind of internship or job here, but… His mom signed him up for this just before she died. Sort of like a dying wish. He loves his mom but this…. Isn’t what he wanted to do with his life. Though, it’s not like there was much of an alternative. He could have easily gotten out of it, but if he did, his mother would probably haunt him until he complied anyways. He takes his earbuds out and frowns at his tired reflection in the window. The bus rolls to a stop near the Kyra Tea building and Ajay gets out. He doesn’t bother tipping the driver: it’s a bit hard when he has almost no money, really. Along with leaving him with no money, his mother had also told him nothing about the job or the country of Kyrat. A quick Nudle search had revealed some rather unsavory things, but… this is his mother's dying wish. He’s not sure why she wanted this for him. At all. Ajay pulls out his phone to check for a wifi signal and pulls up a hacking tab on his app, Halogen, to search the area for cameras. He finds that the only building nearby that has any is Kyra Tea. He manages to tap into the network easily, despite the ridiculous amount of protection. Who needs this much protection against hacking anyways? He takes a quick glance at all the camera locations, and the feed they are receiving. Kyra Tea seems…. Exactly as a normal company should. Ajay stops at the front doors and stares up at the towering building. A scowl crosses his face. Something feels way off, but he can’t put his finger on it. He sucks a breath in through his teeth, then walks inside. He’s immediately accosted by a bright middle aged man in a garish pink suit. “Ah, Ajay! I’ve been expecting you, boy!” He claps a gloved hand on Ajay’s shoulder and smiles. “Uh…?” Ajay takes a minute to find his bearings. “I, um, I’m here for the internship. My mom-” “Yes, of course! Ishwari sent you. I’m well aware of your situation and believe me, at my side, you’ll have nothing to worry about!” The man links his arm with Ajay’s and leads him along. They pass through several very similar-looking office spaces. They almost look too similar. Ajay scans his eyes over all the faces in the crowd. All Kyrati. They wear the same uniform; a white shirt with the Kyra Tea logo and black slacks. He feels a jolt of nervousness run through him. He’s never been in a corporate space like this. Well, that’s not true. His mind drifts to the past. He remembers a time back in San Francisco when his little hacker gang tried to infiltrate a large corporation to get some info and place a damaging virus in the mainframe. It had ended with some employee getting shot after one of the twitchier gang members was startled. They had tried to run away, but police arrested them all. The shooting hadn’t been Ajay’s fault, but they had planned to make an example of him. Luckily he’d been able to fudge some details on the court records and got off scot-free. Ajay has a realization after a few minutes of being lost in his mind. This man is Pagan Min. The Pagan Min. Monarch and corporate leader of the country of Kyrat. “A-at your side? I’m just an intern.” Pagan scoffs, then looks at Ajay. “Just an intern? Didn’t Ishwari tell you?” Pagan leads Ajay down a hallway. Ajay peers into an open door and- was that blood on the floor? Pagan shuts the door in his face before he can get a better look inside. “Ah-ah. No snooping. Yet.” Pagan laughs. After taking a moment to recover, Ajay shakes his head. “Mom told me nothing.” He furrows his brows a little at the troubling new information. Thelack of information also concerns him. “Well, boy, you-” Pagan’s cell phone rings. He groans like it’s the worst thing in the world and pulls out his phone to check who it is. His expression sours further and he pulls Ajay into a fancy break room. “I need to take this call, Ajay. Don’t move, I’ll be right back. Take a seat in the room here, and enjoy the cucumber water.”

Ajay stares at the blank wall in front of him, trying to connect dots in his head. There’s something bad here under the surface. He didn’t see any evidence of it on the cameras, but of course he wouldn’t. Something is off about Pagan Min… and what his mom didn’t tell him. She had to have known about all this. He knows that was blood he saw. A few minutes of pondering pass before he gets to his feet and pulls out his phone to check the cameras again. The motion is interrupted as someone comes through the door. “Ajay?” A Kyrati man stands at the door. He’s a bit shorter than Ajay and has his hair up in a messy ponytail.  A distinctive scar crosses over his eyebrow and nears his eye, but it’s almost as if he tried to cover it up with a bit of concealer that doesn’t quite match his skin tone. He holds a hand out. “I’m Sabal. Pagan sent me to finish giving you this tour. His business will take a bit... longer than he expected.” Sabal fidgets with the pager he’s holding. Ajay can’t recognize the make or model of it, which he finds odd. Not as odd as some of the other things he’s seen so far, but it puts him on edge. Ajay takes his hand and shakes, feeling a bit wary of anyone Pagan sent. He notices the way Sabal glances over his shoulder, and the quick turn made as a security guard passes. Sabal lets go of his hand after an almost awkwardly long hold. “Right this way.” Sabal takes a second to peer out of the doorway to check for security. He probably doesn’t realize how suspicious this looks to anyone, namely Ajay, watching. He steps into the hall and waves Ajay to follow him to a nearby elevator. Once his charge is inside, he lets out a sigh and makes sure the doors close quickly. He checks around for cameras, then spots one in the corner and taps at his pager. The camera fizzles and melts a little. “We need to get you out of here. I’m sorry for being deceptive, but I’m not working for Pagan.” Sabal is not used to this type of mission or potential confrontation. He glances to the side at Ajay. Being on the front lines like this isn’t something he’s comfortable with, but someone skilled had to get in. He’s supposed to be looking for Darpan, but he can’t find any sign of him. Every camera shows nothing, and he’s checked everywhere that didn’t have a feed. There must be something that he’s missing but there’s no time to go around again. Especially not with Ajay in tow. “No shit, Sherlock. Who are you?” Ajay raises an eyebrow at him. “And is this going to get me killed? Because I’d rather not die this week.” It’s almost like he can feel Sabal’s nervousness. “I’ll explain once we’re out of here.” Sabal replies curtly. “We don’t have much time before-” As if on cue, the alarms scream to life. He dips his head in resignation. “Before… well, that.”