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Your ship strikes me as a pile of old, well-loved books and fruit tarts.
Nothing beats a pile of books, especially for those two XD. And oh man, now I want fruit tarts XD. Thanks for the reply!
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Stray Kids as the Friendly Ghost
I.N •You were intrigued for many years about the mysterious boy who lives in your twin house. You have seen him randomly either in your shared garden or at the doorstep of his side of the house. Even though you had always wanted to strike up a conversation with him you always decided to do it later because you were afraid that you might embarrass yourself by going there and stuttering (cause you knew pretty well that you were most probably having a crush on him)
•Speaking about crush, it all comes crashing down when you tell a friend of yours about him and she goes on to reveal that the other side of your twin house is actually empty?? You don't believe it until a little call to the person who sold you the side of your house reveals that the other side is indeed empty.
•however when you walk back home you find him sitting on the swing in your shared garden his eyes closed as he silently seems to sing along to a song that plays from his headphones.
•You trip on a stone and nearly fall. He opens an eye and looks at you and notices you look at him. His eyes widen in surprise as his palm flies towards his mouth. he then runs towards his side of the house.
•Your mind is completely in turmoil as you wonder who this mysterious person is. After a sleepless night, you decide to find out the truth for yourself. So you march up to his side of the house and loudly knock on the door. You earn a few suspicious glances from your neighbours but no one answers the door. •You wonder if studying too much has made you go crazy and see things. But this guy was your crush! Is his presence also like your non existent love life?
•However your efforts are fruitful. One day as you stand at his doorstep ready to knock on his door,he opens the door right at that moment. "oh hii" you greet him and his eyes widen again before he shuts the door right in your face. "rude.." you mutter before he opens the door again and looks at you in disbelief. "you can see me?" he asks. "yeah" you shrug. "no wayyy...no.." •you notice a few tears falling down his eyes as he suddenly hugs you. He seems to be shaking as he sobs. You are frozen unable to understand what's happening but you pat his back hoping he would calm down. • "No freaking wayyyy" It is now your time to express your disbelief as he reveals that he is a ghost? He introduces himself as Jeongin. • You are soon able to accept that he is indeed a ghost. (rip your non existent love life/and crush) • Even though you both were awkward at first after some time you both become good friends. However a few days later you wake up to find seven ghosts glaring at you. "If you hurt him we will kill you" One of them threatens while holding a knife at your direction. "No minho is just joking. we won't kill you but please take care of Jeongin yeah?.." the ghost with an Australian accent says before he pulls his friend away and the seven of them disappear.
•"Jeongin the ghost" as you now fondly call him ,drags you on his random late night walks as he explores various parts of your little town. •Judges your fashion taste like Anton ego judges food. What kind of garbage are you wearing in this household? This is uhh a hoodie.. skirt and trousers.". Shakes his head in disappointment while mumbling something that sounds like "looks like a Disney series came to life"
•you wake up one day with a whole fashion critic report on your bedside table. you only have three black hoodies,two jeans,one skirt,and 2 black tee shirts? Let's go shopping bitch.
•Every messy person like you who has a gold fish memory deserves a friend like him. "Did you see my note book?" "You left it on the chair" "Did I visit the doctor last month" "yes you did..you even brought a guide to crocheting on the way back here" " oh shit I forgot that I brought such a book" "jeongin did you take my chocolate chip tart?" "You ate it last Sunday remember?" •Helps you pack your clothes for your three day college trip.But he literally overpacks amidst your protests. "come on jeongin it's just a three day educational trip. I don't need 5 t shirts" He is not pleased about the fact that you removed all the extra clothes he had packed for you. So later that night when you are asleep he adds all those clothes back into your suitcase. Fast forward- 1st day of the trip night, you open your suitcase to find a whole ton of clothes. "YANG JEONGIN!!!!!" ------The ghost who is chilling back at home suddenly sneezes. "I guess she is thanking me for adding the extra clothes" He smiles and shrugs. •If you need someone's true and honest opinion on anything he is the number one choice. No sugar coating just the honest hard truth. •When you ask him if he can help you with your college assignments, "do i look like someone who survived past the 1st year of college?" he deadpans before disappearing. • He gifts you with a pair of shoes and a cake on your birthday. You are so happy and grateful so you try to hug him. But he runs away out of your reach. "come on dude let me hug you once.." "no" he runs around the house ( he doesn't disappear like usual though?) "you hugged me first" you remind him of the day he hugged you after he realized that you could see him. "that was a one time thing" he shouts as he leaps away from your reach. BangChan / Lee Know / Changbin / Hyunjin /Han Jisung / Felix/ Seungmin
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"TELL ME ALL ABOUT IT" - K. NANAMI
· • . ° . nsfw drabble feat. nanami kento!
˚ ˚ · • . pairing ⇢ nanami, kento x black fem reader
↳ while I encourage anyone to read, I intend to write a black-coded reader unless stated otherwise
· • . ° . synopsis ⇢ you expected your boyfriend to be punctual, like always, but nanami missed your dinner reservation tonight! you had every right to be a little upset when you heard the front door open. and he’s ready to let you get it off your chest, among other things…
˚ ˚ · • . content warning ⇢ face sitting, fingering, spanking, squirting, slight praise
· • . ° . ( inspired by this corny ass tweet I saw a while back )
· • . ° . AUTHOR'S NOTE ⇢ the way my first fic on here was supposed to be Castlevania related.. (imma still do it I just wanted to get this out my system first) I’ll call this a test run? 🫣 and happy black history month too
MINORS DO NOT INTERACT! UNSPECIFIED ACCOUNTS DO NOT INTERACT!
You couldn’t really be mad at Kento, it truly wasn’t his fault that work kept him so late. You were just being a brat because you’ve been wanting to visit this restaurant for a good while. And the one time you try to have a nice outing with your boyfriend, leave it to none other than Gojo Satoru to fuck that up. When Kento is assigned to a mission (unwilling and without prior notice) with him, who highly suggested they split up so that Gojo can 'have a little fun', things were bound to take longer than necessary.
Your eyes glared at the clock as each second ticked by, slowly tapping your nails along your kitchen counter. It's been three hours since your boyfriend sent you an update.
my sweet love: Don't worry sweetheart, I'm okay. I'll make sure I get back in time for our dinner 🤍 (7:38 pm)
You tore your eyes away from the wall to uncork a wine bottle and pour yourself another glass. The sweet burn of the liquid rushes over your tastebuds and you tilt your head back to momentarily rest your eyes. The silence of your two-story complex engulfs you, and the irate thoughts you stifled begin to resurface.
I'd probably be on my third glass of Malbec by now. Eating paella and steak. Maybe some pasta. Kento and I would be on that gorgeous balcony sharing a fruit tart. Maybe crème brûlée. Enjoying the view of our city and each other's company after so long. I can't even remember our last dinner date. Fuck that mission. And most importantly, fuck Gojo Satoru.
The longer you thought about your night going to shit, a frown slowly stretched crossed your brown lips. A deep exhale escapes you as you take a generous sip, unconsciously gripping the stem of your glass tighter. Secretly, you're hoping to do the same to the six-eyed sorcerer whenever you see him. The sound of keys unlocking your front door reaches your ears and you lift your head and slide yourself off of the counter.
"Y/n honey, where are you?"
The warmth of his words made your heart flutter but it wouldn't rid you of your sour expression. Usually, when Kento arrives home, he is greeted with your beaming smile and a barrage of kisses as soon as he's setting his briefcase down. But your absence today throws him off a bit. Maybe she's napping? Or taking a shower?
He calls your name once again and you roll your eyes, realizing you can only hide from him for so long until he finds you himself. You take your time to finish your glass before setting it in the sink and shuffling your way to the front door.
"Y/n, are you home?"
Kento's tired gaze brightens as he sees you rounding the corner to greet him. You were only dressed in a powder blue robe but you looked so beautiful. An adoring smile stretches across his face and he opens his arms, ready to accept his usual welcome.
You approached him with your arms crossed before standing on your toes to peck his chin as you mutter a monotone "hello Kento". You didn't even meet his gaze before turning on your heels and making your way upstairs. He blinks and furrows his brows at the abrasive manner you greeted him in. You've never welcomed him home this way. It hurt him a bit, but a quick glance at his watch tells him exactly why you weren't exactly eager to see him.
Your lover runs a hand through his hair before sighing to himself. This is the first time Kento has missed any outing with you, and he can admit he does not like seeing you unhappy, especially with him. His feet slip out of his shoes and he makes his way upstairs to your bedroom.
Kento didn’t even need to say anything to you for you to see the exhaustion in the slouch of his shoulders and the heavy look behind his glasses. Your eyes quickly flit toward his figure before returning to your own reflection in the vanity mirror. You had spent so much time fixing your hair into an updo and getting a picture-perfect makeup beat, and you can't believe it was all for nothing. He walked to your vanity and pressed a quick kiss onto your forehead as he adores how you dolled up for him, even as you pout at him. Before you could open your mouth to complain at his slight dismissal, Nanami’s voice fills your ears.
“I’m sorry it took me so long to get home, sweetheart.”
You watched as he discarded his suspenders and button-up with his back turned, switching out his clothes for some sleeping pants. “But just let me get comfortable and you can tell me just how upset you are.” Nanami walked back over to you and leaned down, raking his eyes over your profile and humming to himself as he placed his watch and glasses on the vanity.
“You look so darling, y/n. You did this for me?” His amber eyes took note of your robe exposing your cleavage, and it made Kento’s dick throb knowing you wore one of his favorite lingerie sets. All for him, just for him. “Yes, my love, I was excited.” You grumbled as you relish in the feeling of his rough, slender hands traveling up your legs to slide under your robe and give a teasing squeeze to your inner thighs. Nanami lowered his head to your neck, knowing where to kiss and bite at to get you quietly whining and gasping in his ear.
His hands moved under you, grasped at your ass, and carried you to the bed to straddle him. You maintained a slight frown on your lined lips, contradicting the soft grind you’re doing on Kento’s bulge, and it made him smirk. “I’m sure you were so disappointed I missed our reservation. Probably extremely mad.” He swiftly brings his fingers to slide your robe off of your shoulders and expose your breasts to him.
He gently squeezes at them and you mutter a “sure was, actually”, the end of your complaint morphing into a light moan. Your nipples were hardening through the fabric of your sheer bra, and Kento couldn’t help but circle his tongue around your nipple, humming an “I bet you were” before placing it into his eager mouth. Your hips bucked into his at the sensation, the warm feeling in your lower area spreading heat throughout your body. Nanami groans against your chest at the friction before pulling his head away, leaving wet kisses and deep red marks across your collarbone and breasts.
"I was excited for our evening, too. I was thinking about you in that dress all day. I have yet to see you wear it."
Kento’s words vibrated against your neck as his lips continued their passionate assault. Your eyes shifted to the silk piece hanging on the door Kento had bought for you recently. “You know I hate doing anything to upset you.” You found yourself humming lowly into Kento’s ears and it only encouraged him to squeeze your ass tighter and roll his hips into yours.
“I don’t like seeing you upset, my love.” He lies back on your assortment of pillows, and with a quick lift of your lower half, Nanami is face to face with your lacy underwear. You barely had time to properly grab onto the headboard before you felt your panties get pulled to the side and two fingers spreading your pussy lips open.
A low moan slips from the blonde below you and you feel your insides clench at the sinful display. “Now, tell me what you were mad about, princess.” His hazy eyes stayed locked with yours as he ran his tongue through your sticky folds and you hunched over and planted one hand in Kento’s hair. Your eyes squeezed shut when you felt the fingers that spread you open start to tease your entrance, lightly slipping past the tight threshold.
“Fuck- I- I was upset that I did all this to get ready for you.”
Nanami hums into your pussy as he leaves light kisses on your clit before fully sliding his fingers into your wetness. He felt his cock leaking a wet spot into his pants at the way you clenched around his fingers. He could feel his entire length throbbing in need, but right now was not about him. He gently pumped his fingers all the way in and out, thoroughly amused at your attempt to maintain the ounce of composure you had left.
“A-and I cleaned the apartment. So I-”
A curl of his long fingers into your g-spot forces your next words to come out as a moan that makes Kento’s eyes roll back. Not like you’d notice with the way you just arched your back and pulled harshly at his honey-colored strands. “Yesss, Kento, that feels so good,” you panted, rolling your hips into his ministrations. When you looked between your legs, you saw a heavenly sight — Nanami with his hair hooked between your knuckles, irises cloudy with his desire, his cheeks and ears flushed, and his chin lathered in your arousal as he slurps away at you with no restraint. He groaned into your sticky mound as he pulled away to speak to you, a string of slick attached to his bottom lip.
“You’re right, baby. I understand and I’m so sorry. You know we can always reschedule and go any time, right?”
Kento’s fingers continued to plunge into your soaking pussy as he spoke, your juices flowing into his palm. He was inching you toward your orgasm, and it was evident in your uneven breathing and mewls. Kento brought his other hand from your hip to slap your ass, taking a mental note of the surprised sound you let fall from your lips. “You know that, right, angel?” he asked once again, squeezing your soft flesh. You nodded repeatedly, tears beginning to grow heavy in your eyes with how well his fingers were fucking into you.
“Yes, Ken, I know, can you- just please- I’m so close.”
You could feel the grin spread on his rosy lips when he chuckled to himself. Kento didn't hesitate to place chaste kisses on your pussy before sucking harshly on your clit. Your hips jolted away from his face and you let your whines and jumbled praises fill the bedroom. Nanami quickly wrapped his arms around your thighs to lower you again. Another quick slap to your ass had you clenching tighter around his fingers. “You know how I feel about you running,” he grunted below you.
The knot in your lower stomach was a few strokes away from snapping. Your hips swiveled back and forth on his face, the slight tremble in your legs telling you your orgasm was surely approaching. “Ken, I’m gonna cum- fuck, I feel it.” Nanami’s fingers repeatedly curled inside of you while he licked and sucked at your swollen clit.
“Cum for me, baby. I’ve been waiting for this all day.”
His free hand replaced his mouth as he pulled back to watch your reaction. And a few circles rubbed into your clit combined with his words made you snap. You let out a shameless moan as your back arched and your head tilted back in bliss. Your orgasm washed through your every nerve and you felt your pussy convulse, squirting your release onto Kento’s fingers. You could hear a ragged moan slip from his lips, reveling in the aftermath of the mess you both created.
You forced yourself to look back down through your tears, trickles of your essence dribbling onto your boyfriend’s face and neck. And Kento looked in absolute euphoria, his low-lidded eyes focusing on the slick between your thighs. His brows furrowed with his mouth parted to capture as much of your juices as you’d allow him to. Your hips stutter as your orgasm subsides and Kento slows his fingers to slide them out of you. He gives you a few seconds to catch your breath, silently admiring the aftershocks of your nerve-numbing climax. He brings his soaked fingers to his lips and sucks them clean of your essence, and you can't help but bite your lip at his lewd act.
You lift your hips up to scoot down his torso, leaning down to press your lips onto his. You slipped your tongue into his mouth and he moans into the kiss, resting his sticky hands on your ass. Kento pressed your pussy into his throbbing bulge, sighing at the brief satisfaction. Pulling away from the kiss, you bite at his lip and say, “I accept your apology.”
Kento hummed, an adoring grin slowly spread across his face. He let his hands aimlessly roam over your backside as you gently wiped him clean. While you leaned over the side of the bed to toss the tissues, Kento decided to use the moment to his advantage. He lifted his hips up, pulled his pants down, and grabbed a firm hold of your thong before a snap! made your eyes widen a bit.
You direct your attention back to the honey-haired man, whose smile had morphed into a sly smirk. The familiar feeling of his swollen tip sliding through your lips and teasing your entrance forced a whine out of you. Kento's hands kept a firm grasp on your cheeks, guiding your hips into a slow grinding motion.
"If you'll let me, I'd like to properly apologize to you."
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But it felt true. Sometimes it felt as though he moved through life out of habit, doing things just because they needed to be done and no one else would see to them. It had felt, long before the crown had sat upon his young head, that his life had never been his own, always meant for a greater purpose —one he hadn't always excelled at. And that feeling of failure, of thinking this task was too great for someone like him, was what fuelled those episodes in which Gil-galad spent his days half locked in his office and half glued to the courtyard, working and training as though war would be declared within the hour. He felt he had been dragged away from his duties and had grumbled about it all the way to this little valley and while he helped Aunt Aredhel set their blanket down on the grass, but her smile was so bright it was hard to stay mad about it. "When was the last time I—" Gil-galad turned where he knelt, by the basket, to look at his aunt, then let out a quiet snort. "Never?" The young High King rolled his eyes in fond irritation, instead of recognizing that this was not bad, actually. Aredhel wasn't wrong in her assumption, either, and Gil-galad soon found himself sitting cross-legged against a tree trunk, cradling a mug of cider in his lap.
"It does not feel like a weight —most of the time, anyway," he amended, but offered a warm smile to the elleth. "I feel like I should thank you for your wisdom, nánig, but that will not happen before I see the desserts you have brought with us."
"There are a few things. Shortcake, brownies--and some lemon custard tarts, I wonder who likes those?" Aredhel winked as she reached into the basket and withdrew a smaller basket in which was a towel covering her nephew's favorite sweets. Leaning over to drop a kiss to his temple, she laid the basket gently in his lap and then returned to where she'd been. Bread, butter, fruit and some chicken which she'd managed to keep warm all followed.
In moments like this, she forgot many troubles she had suffered over the millennias, and yet remembered others. Gazing at her nephew, she thought of Findekáno, of her father, and of course of Ereinion himself. He was so young, and bearing a legacy of legends, and yet he said it did not feel like a weight.
She found that hard to believe.
"Never?" She huffed. This was a conversation she'd had often with Turukáno, though he had a saving grace in a daughter who offered him some relief in her presence. Ereinion had himself. "Well, that's hardly good. You do realize even elves can reach a limit. How can you serve your people if you don't care for your own needs, súyon?"
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Ooooh we gotta birthday boyyyy when’s the party??? Where’s the cake??? Edward, Jervis, Hope, any last minute b-day plans for the esteemed Mr.Crane? 🎉🎊
-@aego-philautia
Jonathan: No-
Jervis: We simply must 🥺
Jonathan: No, Edward and I already celebrated, he took me out for dinner. That was all I wanted, I'm not one for big parties, you all know this.
Edward: Jonny's a killjoy. A spoilsport. 😔 Jonathan, you just know Hope will be so disappointed to find you never told her.
Jonathan: ...I- I suppose you're right...
Edward: And just look at poor Jervis! Look, he's downright miserable he wasn't invited!
Jervis: We could have a tea party ☕👉👈 With all four of us!
Oh I'd break out my finest tea sets for you, Jonathan, my finest blends of tea leaves. I'd even bake you some fruit tarts! Oh, we'd have a frabjous time!
Edward: Yeah c'mon Dormouse 🥺
Jonathan: ...what-
Edward: That's what Jervis calls you. You're the Dormouse, I'm the March Hare and Hope is the Queen of Hearts, don't you remember? God Jonathan, you're getting forgetful in your old age. 😔
Jonathan: Oh... Right. Yes, I had forgotten. Hm... fine, just the four of us, please, don't invite anyone else.
Edward: Hmmmmm~ No promises~ But fine!
Jervis: CALLOOH CALLAY! 🎂☕🎉✨
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"Linhardt!"
Caspar catches up to his friend with bounding steps, brimming with extra enthusiasm. It's a special day, even if Linhardt himself doesn't usually pay it much mind. The precarious little tower of gifts bundled up in Caspar's arms are a testament to that.
"I got this little artifact from a guy saying it's from Zanado." He says, offering an explanation for the silky drawstring bag at the top of the gift tower. "But then I was like- wait, how do I know it's even real? So then I found a book from a scholar who studies all the stuff they find out in the ruins there."
With the rectangular base accounted for as well, all that remains is to explain the cloth-covered basket that wobbles in the middle. Caspar smiles. A smudge of flour scrunches up into the space between his cheek and his nose.
"You can definitely trust the guy who made the fruit tarts, though. He's got plenty of practice spotting his own mistakes and throwing 'em out, heheh."
Even if both the book and the relic turn out to be bogus, it can still be an interesting journey for Linhardt to uncover the truth-- that's what Caspar hopes, anyway. Journeys with Linhardt are never boring.
"Y'know...letting you sleep in was your first birthday present today, but maybe next year I should toss that one out and take you out to those old ruins in person instead." You can see the sights for yourself, and I'll protect you from any dangers. That part goes without saying. "Whaddaya say?"
upon waking up this morning, linhardt had forgotten what day it is. thursday, certainly. professor hanneman wants a literature review on monday, so that's four days from now, depending on how you count them. it takes an absurdly long amount of time (and an entire extra student wishing him well) for him to remember his own birthday. from that moment forward... linhardt expects something.
caspar can't leave well enough alone. they know this to be an immutable fact about their best friend, and past experience and pattern recognition dictates that soon enough he'll appear with his own attempt to wish linhardt a happy birthday today.
linhardt relishes that feeling - the familiarity of it, the fondness he holds for caspar, and the combination of the two being just for him. he is a selfish person, he knows, but this is the one day it's completely permissible. that means it's one more day for him to put off the introspection.
the expectation wears on them though. caspar could be around that corner, but when they round it, he isn't. what is he doing? what could be taking so long? that expectation builds. now, they might call it suspense. it could also be something else, though. part of them just wants to spend the time with their best friend.
linhardt has been enjoying garreg mach so far, but that has been a problem since day one. there's no long carriage ride to bergliez territory, or staying at the hevring estate in enbarr, or any other unbearable social event standing in between caspar and linhardt now, but there are still days that go by in which they don't see each other. today, that problem seems as obvious as it's ever been. they should do something about it. if linhardt's noticed it, then surely caspar has twice as many times.
he takes the long way back to his room. the last chance for caspar to drag him to dinner so that he can complain about caspar's eating habits, fondly, or surprise him with some absurd combination of gifts that...
linhardt doesn't have a chance to finish the though before it manifests before them: that is caspar carrying a pile of gifts, and they simply must be for linhardt.
there's no need for compunction between the two, so linhardt's hands reach for the top gift before caspar's explanation is even finished, even before they have an even better reason to see what's hidden inside.
a zanado relic, and a guidebook to verify its authenticity themself. caspar surely doesn't realize what a wonderful present that is on its own, or he wouldn't have gone through the trouble to put so much work into... is that blackberries linhardt smells? he's realizing he's skipped dinner, and his stomach is angry about it.
"you never disappoint, caspar," he says. he plucks the second package off the stack to lighten his friend's load - that, and the first chance linhardt gets alone he's digging right in to this mystery. if not for the unpleasant memories linhardt has surrounding that place, he's certain he would be begging to join some expedition the archaeologists go on.
zanado is the place where linhardt killed some one. step one to blocking out that horrible memory, that trauma, is to never return. he can run away from what he did there, and he doesn't have to remember or think about it ever again. he's long come to terms with zanado simply being untouchable since then. could he go with caspar? linhardt has trouble holding onto painful memories with his best friend around. he could do anything with him, probably. they could do anything together.
"i'll thank you for letting me sleep this morning, even if i admittedly didn't realize it," they say instead, pondering the offer still. "zanado is... i'd like to go there one day."
he says it as though he hasn't already been there. beside caspar, it will be new anyway. he could actually enjoy it, probably. caspar could tackle any demonic beast, and even triumph over linhardt's personal demons. "for a birthday gift, the chance to unravel an ancient secret and spend more time with my best friend at the same time would be hard to surpass. careful, you might ruin my expectations for every year afterwards."
their mouth curves into a playful smile, two of the three gifts held tight to their chest. even without giving either a proper glance, they've instantly become cherished treasures, just because of the day and the gifter and the thoughtfulness with which they were chosen. as pleased as they are, and even with the warm feeling in their chest, linhardt has the audacity to request a fourth gift.
"now, it wouldn't behoove me to overeat, so while i trust the cook was able to bake a basket of scrumptious treats, would you mind helping me eat them, too? i accidentally skipped dinner again. i'm in a good mood so i'll only complain about you talking with your mouth full a tiny bit. well, maybe a bit more than that, but..."
#berglietz#i'd like to take it easy ;; ic#simple logic ;; answers#unbreakable ;; caspar#i certainly don't mind this kind of attention ;; hbd linhardt!#THIS GOT WAY TOO OUT OF HAND I'M SORRY IT'S SO LONG#or maybe i'm not sorry i love them so so sososososososo much#thank you for the ask.......... caspar is so wonderful i love him#he just shows up and linhardt is like FOND! NOSTALGIA! WARM! YAY FRIEND
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The First (and Last) Night of the Rest of Their Lives
As Aziraphale studied the statue of two wrestling angels in the entry, Crowley was immediately ashamed and embarrassed to have suggested staying over. His flat, which had always seemed at the very leading and exceedingly sharp edge of luxury and taste now seemed cold and empty, as if no better than a stage set in a luxury home design catalog, but done in bare concrete as if the designers could not be bothered painting the walls or hanging up some proper art.
Compared to the bookshop, it felt like an empty warehouse.
Crowley scowled to himself, and felt a tiny bit of gratitude for Past Crowley who had at least had the decency to close the concealed entry to the office so that the angel could not see his massive gilt and velvet chair that had always reminded him of the thrones of Heaven, but now felt like a mortifying reminder of the Fall.
And then he remembered the fridge.
“Care for...erm. Supper? Soup perhaps? A fruit tart?” Crowley suggested, thinking up food on the fly. Whatever he fancied or suggested usually was in the fridge, chilled to perfection even if it had never quite been plugged in since he had bought it. In fact, the freezer tended to output hot foods too; he had had quite a tasty pizza more than once from the freezer, as hot and crisp as if it had come directly from a blazing wood-fired oven.
“That sounds lovely.”
That was the problem with bodies, Crowley thought as he walked to the kitchen, was that bodies had Needs and all of them were so mundane. Water, food...not that they really needed them, but it helped make things feel better inside, as if wearing a nice coat but in your interior. Then again the corporeal life was so much more interesting than the sullen grinding misery of Hell where it was always 4:45 PM on a miserable Friday afternoon in early January, but the work day was just never going to end.
Crowley began pulling things at random from the gleaming stainless-steel fridge. A bottle of Champagne whose temperature was the exact temperature of a chilly cave in Reims, not now of course, but the temperature at the time that the Roman salt quarry that had preceded the later champagne caves had been dug. A plate of soft and hard cheeses of varying provenance, some of them imaginary. A salad that was mostly edible flowers and rare local fruits that were never exported and only in season briefly in the very far south of the Southern Hemisphere, which meant that it was not in season now, anywhere. And from the bottom freezer drawer, a big steaming earthenware pot of Brandy Broth as it had been made in the late 19th century by a loving Welsh coal mining family in a lush green mountain valley whose lives were being threatened by modernity and a growing mountain of mining slag. The last because Crowley liked soup. And of course, the promised fruit tart.
Aziraphale watched with a curious eye.
“How dreadfully useful. Where did you get this? How does it work? How did you make that happen? Are these all miracles?”
“I don't know,” Crowley confessed. “I think it's a Hotpoint.”
It never took him very long to eat, but it was a delight to linger and watch the angel eat, who exclaimed at every new flavor and even at the familiar ones, who savored every bite as if it were the last.
Which it nearly was. And probably would be soon.
Crowley slumped back in his chair, and as his hand languidly reached for his espresso, it grew warm again and fresh. That too had been in the fridge, in the middle drawer in a carafe. As far as Crowley knew, coffee always came from a carafe, even if it was espresso. At least he took that black, like everything else.
The angel was relating a story, something about a dream or perhaps the story was about someone named Dream but it wasn't very clear and Crowley didn't mind the details, just letting the sound of Aziraphale's voice wash over him like the way a person listens to a favorite symphony, familiar and yet wandering, every note sending a pleasing thrill of pleasure through the heart.
“Well then. Thank you. That was lovely. We should have dinner in more often,” Aziraphale said, wiping his mouth fastidiously with a cloth napkin which he refolded and set down by his empty plate.
“Yes, of course. Not that there's more often left for us.” Crowley glared at the dishes, which did not dare stay dirty for long as they knew what happened to stragglers; immediately they were spotless.
“We might as well make the best of it while they're deciding what to do with us. Now what?”
It was summer, and night this high up on the Northern Hemisphere was a fleeting commodity. But time seemed to tick on slower than usual, and Crowley wondered if it had something to do with the young Antichrist. After all, warm summer evenings were the best for chasing after fireflies, for swimming in cool ponds, for hunting earthworms in the soft soil to go fishing the next day, and for lying in sweet meadows of flowers and grasses, your head pillowed in your arms, staring up at the sweep of stars in the vast expanse of the heavens and naming the constellations with your best friends by your side, making up names when you didn't remember what they were called.
“Cards. Books. Chess. CDs?” Crowley thought it over. “I have a television,” he admitted, saying it quietly as if hoping that the angel would not ask where it was. “What do you usually do in your shop?”
“Read. Listen to music. But you know, that's something to do by oneself; it's not the same when you're with a friend.”
Crowley felt his mouth twitch in three or four different directions at once. “I have a nice lounge with lots of plants where we could sit on the white leather...no wait. How about this, let me show you this thing that mortals enjoy.”
“Are you tempting me?” Aziraphale grinned; it was the angel's oldest and most favorite joke and Crowley had been on the receiving end of it since at least the Roman era. No, it was Sumeria, and that was sometime after the Flood. Except back then it wasn't called Sumeria yet and they had both briefly struggled over a wild young man named Enkidu and nearly discorporated each other in the process.
“Sure. Why not.”
“This is...nice.” Aziraphale's hands spread out, palms stroking the crisp clean linens. The comforter was folded down; Crowley knew in theory it was supposed to go over the body, but liked folding it into an ersatz bolster to kick his feet up on.
“The mortals call it 'Sleep'. But surely they do it now with more civility than they used to.”
“Oh heavens, remember when it was no more than little green bowers made out of leaves? Or when the cow was in the same room, and they'd just shovel the dried manure right into the fire to keep warm? Absolutely appalling.”
“Don't remind me of the 14th century; just don't.”
“It's so soft and cool to lie here.” Aziraphale folded his hands over his chest politely, staring at the blank concrete expanse of the ceiling. “And you just do this for a while?”
“Until I feel like getting up,” Crowley said, leaving his hands limp at his sides. He too stared at the ceiling but for different reasons than the angel, reasons that mostly involved jangled nerves and the proximity of the other. “Sometimes I close my eyes. Do some thinking. Shall I put on some music? I have some Soul Music that perhaps would be to your taste...”
“No, this is enough.” A breath and a pleased sigh; a wiggle that sent a tiny earthquake moving through the memory foam and spring and feather mattress. “Oh, that is nice. No wonder the humans like it.”
“Shifts all that gravity around the body. Redist... Redistri-boo. Gkh. You know what I mean.” Was that a lot of champagne with dinner? Crowley didn't know for certain but then the bottle never seemed to empty.
“Yes. I always do.”
The gentle press of another hand against his and this time Crowley felt his mouth moving in four or five directions at once. The angel had sharper senses than him when it came to peeping ethereals; if Aziraphale was doing this, it meant that no one was watching.
No one was watching.
Suddenly he gripped the angel's hand tight.
“Do you think this is a dream, angel?”
“Why do you say that?”
“Maybe the Apocalypse did happen? Because it seems that we've...died and gone to heaven?”
“Do you remember it? The Fall.” Crowley asked abruptly. It had been on his mind for quite some time but he had never dared asked the angel, though he came close once in Abydos, a long time ago.
“No, not really,” Aziraphale confessed. “It's strange isn't it? That you remember it so clearly and I don't. I'm not sure any of us do. By which I mean...”
“I know what you mean,” Crowley said, a little sharper than he meant it. “Sorry. Don't you think it's strange that you don't remember?”
“Sometimes I wonder if our memories of it were torn right out of us,” Aziraphale said. “It always seemed as if something was missing afterwards. One moment we're all together and the next...”
“Why do you think we all have a counterpart?” Crowley interrupted. “Mirror images staffing Heaven and Hell.”
“It seems as though you've put some thought into this.”
“Yes. Bit more than six thousand years worth of thought, if you can imagine.” Crowley's hand twitched, and he felt the warm press of the angel's hand against his, giving him a squeeze.
He continued to stare at the ceiling; that was better than seeing the gleaming heavens implied in the angel's bright eyes.
“I think that we were all one once,” Crowley said. “And the rebellious parts were split off and thrown away like cutting the bad part off of a pear.”
“I don't think I've ever had a bad pear.”
“Maybe pears are always good for you,” Crowley said, “Because they couldn't bear to to be otherwise.”
“Oh.” The angel was silent for a long moment; he had never considered that possibility.
“That. Was supposed to be funny. Or not. I don't know. Look. All that to say...maybe that's part of the design flaw and why we're here right now. Always seeking to return to that other half, as they say. Makes sense why we can't seem to stop running into each other. Canceling each other out. Et cetera.”
“You mean, like the Greeks?”
“Shut up,” Crowley said crossly.
“I think maybe you're right.” Aziraphale's voice seemed fractionally closer than it was before. Crowley finally glanced over and realized that the angel must have been looking at him the entire time.
“Y-yeah?”
“Maybe that's why I don't remember. I just...remember the announcement afterwards and feeling kind of...oddly still. Like. Like something was gone, but it was impossible that something was gone because how could it have ever? We have always been and we always will.”
“The Will of God,” Crowley said, and an old sadness fell over him, an old longing. And he sighed but when he did, it seemed as if something inside of him loosened.
A feeling crept over him, starting from the tips of his fingers, and for a moment he did not know what it was; he had never felt anything like this before. It was a closeness he had only fond and distant memories of, like the quiet and sweet intimacy that comes in the silent moments when two pairs of eyes meet in fondness, but it was something much more than that. Suddenly he was taken to the heights of the deepest understanding and knowledge and being, and he could feel his very soul embraced by that sensation. Denser than emotion, more profound than love, more intense than all the fires of Hell or all the glories of Heaven put together. It was like the first moment of oxygen after a long dive into the depths, a relief and closeness and togetherness that he had not felt in eons.
It flowed through him like a vast tide and he was caught up in the surge of feeling, a poor pitiful swimmer on the vast ocean, and for one brief moment it seemed that he could see it again, the tiny blue pearl of the earth as seen from the distant starry heavens, the sweet murmur of angelic voices all about him in celestial harmony, until suddenly when he opened his eyes and came to again, he was looking at himself.
“Oh my,” Aziraphale – no, Crowley said.
“I think that was...”
“A union of souls.” Aziraphale blushed, and Crowley felt weirdly hot seeing his own face look like that.
“You feel...” Crowley felt himself in Aziraphale's form, in the pleasing intimacy of all its curves and bumps and edges. It was like being in the direct warmth of sunlight streaming through dappled summer leaves, on a day so perfectly warm that it seemed that the air itself was wrapped in a toasty and comforting blanket around his whole body. It was the warmth of baking, of hugs, of sunny meadows, and plush toys, things that he had only seen depicted by mortals on the television and had never really experienced himself, not since...
“And you...” Aziraphale sighed, and it was the same sound the angel made when he had something breathtakingly delicious.
“Brisk? Chilly? Cold?”
“No. Not at all. Just...very much like you.” Aziraphale smiled from Crowley's body. He knew all the angel's expressions and it was not that indulgent smile that he liked to press onto mortals as if it would get the angel his way (though it often did), but a rare and genuine private smile, the kind that Aziraphale only made with his eyes and not quite his mouth as if realizing some particularly warm and peculiar emotion.
Something was wrong with this body's eyes; for a moment everything blurred but blinking more seemed to help refocus the lenses of the eyes. Crowley reached up as if to heaven, but it was to explore one hand with the other, feeling each joint of the fingers, the creased flesh of the knuckles, the cool golden crown of the ring, and to look at the fine pale hair that stood nearly invisible at the back of the hands.
And oh, the hands! He set them down, and they rested naturally on the soft expanse of a belly, the tips of the fingers of his left hand running past the golden watch fob that hung from the pale waistcoat.
“Oh, I wish you wouldn't do that,” Aziraphale exclaimed. “It's embarrassing to have such a round gut. Whereas you're all muscle under these clothes. That's rather amazing. I had suspected but had never quite known for sure.” Aziraphale patted the limbs of the borrowed body, surprised.
“You mean, like a snake. No, I rather like it this way. I mean you,” Crowley said. “Whoever told you otherwise is a fool that should be ignored. It's so very nice to be soft. Lovely warm feeling. Comfortable.” He said the word slowly, stretching out each syllable.
Aziraphale was silent for a long time. But then when he spoke, he sounded nervous. ���Should we? We should, shouldn't we? Switch back that is. I mean, any moment now they could be looking in on us...”
“Naaaaah.” Crowley hugged himself, chafing his arms. It was a good sensation, warm and cozy, like a cup of hot coffee on a cold wet morning but without any of the bitterness. “Let's just stay like this. Spend the day in each other's shoes. I like how you feel. You feel good. So warm and cozy.”
“I think...” And Crowley felt himself tense, expecting the angel's outrage, expecting to be immediately evicted from the pleasing confines of this soft warm body. But then the angel surprised both of them. “I think I'd like that.” Aziraphale's voice seemed distant, and when Crowley looked over, his eyes were shut and he was well and truly asleep.
“Sleep well, my dear.” Even his voice sounded like Aziraphale's and that made Crowley smile with a wistfulness that his usual face did not often show. Leaning over, he saw that Aziraphale had fallen asleep the way Crowley often liked to, head tilted to one side and a palm pressed against his cheek, fingers dug into his thick dark hair.
Carefully, Crowley reached up and ran his fingers through his – well, Aziraphale's hair. It was as fine and as soft as he had imagined, perhaps finer and softer, and lying back down, Crowley let the body do as it wanted to do to relax. And oddly he was not surprised when found himself with his palm pressed against his cheek, feeling springing blond curls beneath his fingertips.
Though he didn't sleep, Crowley's thoughts drifted. However much longer they had together, whatever they had to face, this would have to be enough, he thought. Even if it were the end of this life, of this existence, it seemed that it would have all been worth it, just for this one fleeting night.
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#good omens#good omens fanfic#aziraphale#crowley#ineffable husbands#aziracrow#there was only one bed#ao3 outage#here have some reading :)#I'll post some of the shorter stories#these may not be quite the same as those posted on ao3#as sometimes i made minor edits#there are a few more bits of this with aziraphale as a snake#doing ridiculous things like trying to climb a tree and scaring humans#ao3 outage reading
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Can you match your mutuals with CSM characters and troupes? Pretty please 🥺
Thanks for the game <3 !!! I wanna apologize upfront bc this is a very very short one. I don't remember CSM super well apparently so i apologize for how few of yall are included here. This was what I could manage after tumblr fucked up my draft and if i dont post it tonight it'll rot in my drafts forever. Idk man send me a part two and ask for a different set and we'll see what we can do (probably reusing characters tho)
@feitania and Kishibe - roommates
Kishibe doesn't need a roommate and he reminds you of that at least 12 times a week but he wouldn't dream of having you leave. He's so much more sentimental than it seems. Who would've thought that stone cold bastard had such a big soft heart? He lets you decorate any room you like for the most part and he'd be lying if he said he didn't appreciate the warmth that comes with another life in his home. You two don't need to fill all the space with chatter but after a while, you do get him to open up a bit and you learn a lot from the man's life. He learns a lot about yours too. Idk, it's just the right amount of cozy.
@the-travelling-witch X Aki - cafe au
Baker!Aki is dying for your attention after the fist time you visit his shop. It was dead on a weekday afternoon. He gave you a deal on some cookies, insisting it was the end of the day, that they'd go to waste. Since then he's tried to catch your eye and your fancy through some new desserts, pastel macarons, and cute little pastries, and delicate fruit tarts. He listens to you talk when you bring some friends to study there. He's not trying to be weird, but he hears you're not from Japan and starts making German treats he think maybe a taste of home could be nice or well he's ... he's trying okay? He thanks the gods the day you ask him why the menu always changes because you finally give him your number with a promise to teach him how to make some real bread.
@sleepy3 and Beam - childhood best friends
Yall have been inseparable for the last two decades. You spent your youth together. You shared nearly all your elementary and middle school classes together and and never struggled to make time for one another. You're the only one who can calm Beam down, you're his favorite cuddle buddy, annnnd the only reason he probably graduated because got he's adorable and all but his attention span is not it! For his part, he gives you energy and hypes you up all the time. He even hypes you up for that date he doesn't particularly like that you're going on tonight because he doesn't think the guy is good enough for you. But he's still gonna help you pick an outfit and tell you how great you look because he's honest and he cares about you and well, he trusts you to make smart decisions.
@drakenlvr X violence fiend - fake dating
He doesn't seem all that interesting at first and I don't blame you. There's not much to talk about since you finished that one project together. You know, the one you two did all the work for while your asshat classmates sat with their thumbs in their asses? All you really knew about galgali was that he was maybe a bit of a pushover sometimes but he was definitely nice. When he came up to you in the dining hall and asked for you to go to a work event with him as his partner just once god i know its weird but please- you figured, fuck it. There are worse ways to spend a Friday evening than hanging around an acquaintance and getting free food and drinks. Turns out he has a crazy history, a crazier job, and a shockingly cute streak.
@violettierre x Power - enemies to friends to business owners lmao
Look I'm not gonna get into the gory details about that relationship you just got out of, okay? It was messy and not at all your fault, but isn't it crazy how all it took was a mutual enemy (the ex in question) to become thicker than thieves with Power? I can just see you and Power skipping down the street and dancing and being chaotic. Plus there's just nothing like it when Power is soft for you. Y'all end up roommates and maybe go in halfsies on a cat cafe for the broken hearted to find their new halves.
#im so sorry friends#more of you should be here#i will try harder next time#maybe i'll give these guys a break and appreciate some more moots#idk im a mess lmao#someone tell me to eat dinnner#or something#hush virtue#but really anon if you're a moot and you;re not here ill cry send another and iwill do it again
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“OH MY GOD DID YOU TAKE MY FRICKIN CORNFLAKES” — steve lol
@harringtontm & @musecraft
School runs were Steve's domain. Actually, most things to do with the boy's school were Steve's domain. The place made Eddie feel a lot of uncomfortable memories of his own educational experiences, and he avoided going near it when possible. Plus, everyone knew that Sam and Rian's dad happened to be a very famous rock star, and he held no desire to make his kids' lives more difficult because of that. But not even a cosmic supernova could keep him away when one of his boys graced the stage for school plays. Sam had aced playing the role of his namesake last year in a production of The Hobbit, of which Eddie helped him learn his lines for weeks before. Then when the moment came, Eddie sat front and center with Steve, recording the whole thing half in tears with pride.
Rian wasn't as dramatically inclined as his older brother but had still bagged himself a role as one of the mice in this year's production of Cinderella. And Eddie still meant to sit front and center, maybe let Steve record this year since they intended to bring Joan with them to watch, too, who managed to sit without fidgeting as much nowadays compared to a year ago. But that wasn't for a few weeks yet, so Eddie awoke one Friday morning to find Steve had left early on the school run to drop Rian off for a rehearsal before school. Leaving Eddie to his usual yoga routine on the deck with his feral daughter. He had a feeling that Joan was just in it for the fruit smoothie afterward, and he respected her decision to pretend to like something to get what she wanted. It was a very Munson move on her part.
At some point around the time Eddie and Jojo were settling into their downward dog pose, Steve returned home and started grouching about his cornflakes from the kitchen. Father and daughter shared a look across their yoga mats, the latter whispering, "he's hangry," with a childish giggle that nearly made her topple over. Eddie, on the other hand, resisted laughing, mostly. When the kid was right, she was right. Steve sounded pretty hangry. Undoubtedly, he'd skipped his usual breakfast to get Rian to his rehearsal on time, and he now needs to pout over it. Eddie could hardly contain his affectionate smile despite their daughter being the only one to witness it.
"I don't know nothing 'bout your cornflakes, babe. I'm not allowed to purchase food, remember? I can't be trusted with that, according to you." Apparently, beer, instant ramen, and pop tarts were not what growing kids required for nutrition. Bummer. The memory of Steve's outrage still amused him to this day. "But if you come sit your ass out here for a little bit and chill. I'll make you a smoothie once we're done, yeah?"
"Smoothie!" Joan squealed, dropping back to her knees with her selective hearing in full throttle, under the impression that she was getting her heart's desire immediately. Ah, impatience, a folly of having Munson DNA. It was good at getting in the way of their manipulative schemes.
"In a bit, baby bug. We ain't done here yet." He replied as Steve appeared, pouting, as Eddie had predicted. Then, Joan decided to take the news that she'd have to wait badly and rolled onto her back with an exaggerated groan, kicking her miniature legs about like an angry cat. Honestly, these people thought he was the dramatic member of their family? For a brief moment, Eddie suddenly felt mildly offended at the common accusation of his character. Clearly, his husband and daughter were just as bad. But he didn't hold it against them this time, deciding to finish early and feed his two drama queens.
"Alright, alright, no need to assault me with harpy noises and sad eyes. Joany, go get the blueberries and bananas. Papa Steve can cut up the peaches. Now get going before I change my mind." Smiles emerged all around before Steve and Joan raced to the kitchen, and it gave Eddie the warm fuzzies to know that he'd done that; he'd made them smile and turned their sadness into happiness. It was a far cry from where they'd been two years ago. He meant to keep it that way. Making his family smile. That would be Eddie's domain.
#ship. whenever i’m alone with you; you make me feel like i am whole again ( harringtontm ) 💙#Harringtontm#v. volume 6 / arc: the middle of nowhere feat. harringtontm.#have some family feels 🥺
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Last night of the year at the bnb my family have been going to for longer than I've been alive and I'm struck with how I know the rules of this house.
And they're not rules the owners have set, though I do also know to not snack in the bed, no noise after 9 pm, not to touch the wall hangings and not to argue with Mrs. R when she insists you will drink two pints of coffee/milk/cocoa for breakfast. (It's okay if you don't finish it, she needs to know you won't go hungry.) It's a house that's beginning to get old-old, and it's started acting in a way of its own.
I know the carpeted floors get vacuumed every day and still retain dust after 50+ years of use. They will trigger allergies if you have them, and sometimes if you don't, and there's nothing you can do. The one room with new carpet is no different. It has never been different. Every floor with tiles is cold, even in summer.
The wallpaper will hide most mosquitos. Some years, you'll hear them. Other years, you won't. You can try keeping windows and doors closed, it won't help. You can try using citronella and skin friendly roll ons and wearing your pajamas tucked into your waistband and socks, and they'll find the gap you missed, or sting through them. The bites will get infected and swell beyond the usual no matter what you do. The only option is lying to the pharmacist that you're going on a tropical holiday and not idyllic Rhineland Palatinate and get some deet. Or close all windows and doors in a post-war German house in the middle of summer and put in an insecticide diffuser. No, that's not healthy. Neither is the prescription strength steroid cream you need for three weeks if you get stung.
I've looked for standing water all over this property for over twenty years. There is none. No neighbor has a stagnant pool or open rainwater through. We're surrounded by inclines. The brook flows too rapidly for mosquito eggs. The mosquitos do not care.
I know which toilets will wake someone up at night. Which outlets and lamps are iffy. Which of the beds creak too much for fun (most of them). How to use the showers without slipping. What vibes are necessary for the wifi to work. How much you can safely lean on the stair banister. Why not to walk on the stairs in socks. Where to keep what food so it stays fresh and unmelted, even if there's only a shared dorm fridge between six rooms. Which curtains only work while you're demonstrating how they never work.
There's one room, despite being no different from the other rooms, has repeatedly caused conception in people who had thought that was no longer an option. The owners insist it's not a thing. It's happened at least three times. One of the kids who was conceived in it, and knows she was, insists it's just letting go of stress and expectations for the duration of a vacation. Except it's only that room, and the bed is one of the creaky ones. She's also never slept in it with her partner since they decided they want kids eventually. Eventually, but not yet.
I know which rooms are most likely to keep a piece of you until your next visit. Something you can live without, but which Mrs. R will find while cleaning, even if you checked a half dozen times to make sure nothing was forgotten. Something big enough, important enough, that she'll keep it safe for you until you come back. It won't happen every year, but every so often. More for kids, but adults aren't immune. I'm laying awake in one with medium danger.
I know the garden trees are fickle about growing apples. Most years it's just one of them. Rarely both. You have to eat the apples directly after picking, or they go mealy. No one quite remembers what variety the tree is, but it's an older one, meant to make apple sauce and preserves (or stronger things) more so than fruit tarts or snacking apples.
The grape vines always have fruit, occasionally far too early or late in the season, until they die from... Reasons. Mostly deer. The deer have to get bad for them to kill a grape vine, and they usually go after Mrs. R's favorite flowers in the years that they do. She protects her vegetable beds more fiercely than the flowers these days.
The little hut for eating takeout smells like cigarettes even decades after people stopped smoking there. There's a lamp that stopped working a few years back and I'm still not sure if the bulb never got replaced or if the wiring died. Possibly both. It doesn't get used enough for Mr. R to look into it.
I'm here maybe five days a year. The rest of my family, maybe ten, fourteen at the most. Even if I add up all the days I've been here, I won't get to a half year.
Why do I know this place better than the apartment I've lived in for six years?
#ramblings#vacation#old places#i swear it's nicer here than this makes it seem#also more affordable than most hotels#I'll miss it when it's gone from my life
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jour 31: 9 février
to start off, i figured i would try and type out my days since writing them physically hasn't really been going well. i've skipped many days in my journal and couldn't really keep up with sending texts of my days to mom and dad. i don't think i'm really going to censor anything but i'll just be vague when the situation calls.
so, today is friday. we don't have classes on fridays, so aia and i usually go to the ste claire market in the morning. today we went with pilar, who lives pretty equidistant to the tram stop as we do. on the way over we went to the atm round the corner by the tourist office, only to find that both of them were hors de service :( in any case, i tucked that away for later, because we went into the market and everyone got a tart. last week, i got a tarte aux fruits mélangée, but this week i saw the fraise one so i just had to get it.
we were kind of aimlessly walking around after getting our tartes, but then i remembered that trisha got weird pink tp and i've heard that dyes aren't safe in tp so i don't want to take chances. so i asked if we could go to the casino that was really close to look for regular white tp, and lo and behold, none!! contrary to popular belief, i'm finding it really hard to get a four-pack of regular white toilet paper. aia then suggested that there's a carrefour around here somewhere, so we set on our way for that.
we got a bit tied up at tower coffee for like two hours and i got really fatigued while we were there. it was almost 1, and we'd been out since 10:30, so i ended up eating my tarte. i really wish i had gotten a photo of it, but it's fine, i guess. it was really good and i miss strawberries. i haven't seen any like anywhere since i got them that one time at casino.
once we dipped from tc, we set back out on our journey to find this carrefour. get this-- there was regular, white, non-dyed, non-scented toilet paper! woo hoo!! i got a six pack, which i guess is fine, along with two sugarfree monsters (at 1,80€ each, which is astounding!! lowest price i've seen yet.), some apple juice boxes, and a small thing of haribo crocos (1,68€... the tabac ones, same size, are 2,20€!)
on our way back to victor hugo aia suggested i try the atm there while they looked for the nut guy by les galéries. they didn't find him, and i was able to withdraw some cash for the excursion tomorrow. money freaks me the fuck out, man. these exchange rates are crazy and i'm so weirded out because i can't get a job here even if i wanted to.
i sat in the bedroom for a bit after i got back, and then decided to make the rest of the ravioli that's been sitting in the fridge for a few days. i had that and then some of my salt and vinegar chips on the side for a late lunch at like 3:30 something.
sooo i'm continuing this from memory on dimanche 11 février bear with me
i don't really remember what i did in between late lunch and the evening, but at 7pm i met aia and waited for emilio and caleb in the lobby so that we could go to the tram for, get this, a showing of la la land at a local theater! it was scheduled for 7:30 but a) i wanted to see how the ticket process was like and if we could use our fancy newfangled student id's for discounts and b) i wanted to be early enough so that it wouldn't be sold out. unfortunately though, tickets were bought on kiosks. also, the showing was sold out! however there was one other showing in town that we decided last minute to go to as it was at 8pm and we were only like a 15min tram ride away.
once we got there, we discovered through the kiosks that the showing we initially were going to see was a VOST showing: version originale sous-titré, or the original version with french subtitles. the one we were at now was VF: version française, or dubbed french! personally, i was a bit excited, because this is one of my favorite movies and i really wanted to see it on the big screen. i didn't really care about the audio except for the music. however, emilio and caleb are both not the highest in their french proficiency (B1.1 and A2, respectively) but they were both willing to see it anyways, which i appreciated. caleb was the only one who hadn't seen it before, so i can only imagine what that must've been like to see it for the first time!
the movie was really good, and a bit weird in that the songs were actually their original versions, just subbed french. i guess the dub actors didn't want to sing lol. there was like a 20 minute portion at the beginning of some guy that runs the theatre talking about the movie and stuff... i don't know but i was really bored of him.
after the movie, and it was like 10:30 almost 11 by then, we decided to go get food at a burger place nearby called point b. i got a burger meal (burger, drink, fries) for just 5€! not too bad, and it was also tasty! we then rode the tram home and of course all the doors were closed and lights off so i called my grandma quickly before heading to bed.
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Unique Kisses: Heartslabyul!
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Riddle R. (strawberry kisses)
If it wasn’t for this situation, Riddle would consider removing strawberries from a cake a blasphemy.
Fortunately for you, and also his joy, which he could not admit to if it wasn’t the last resort, Riddle isn't sure if his judgement would be a fair one. He is drunk on the taste of strawberries and fluffy cream, but also your fragrance, which has been his favourite aroma even before he thought he would dare to confess his feelings to you.
Riddle knows he doesn’t think soberly, but also believes that Trey didn’t change a recipe for his favourite dessert.
So, it is your fault.
“You should have taken yourself a piece of cake if you crave strawberries so much,” he says, regarding how you stab a little strawberry from his tart on a silver fork. It shimmers softly with honey or frosting or whatever Trey had added. Right now, Riddle can’t remember what his favourite dessert tastes like, and it was your fault as well.
“Kitchen is too far away,” you almost sigh, but don’t do that because it’s not a reason to be disappointed. “And, by the way, you are the one eating your tart. The greater part is still yours.”
“I have an irresistible impression that my serving disappears too fast.”
“You’re such a gourmet then. You will have to take bigger pieces next time.”
You chuckle at his stern facade, face fully covered with blushes, not matching the crossed arms that were probably meant to give his figure a more serious tone.
The strawberry on the fork you put against his lips, and he - used to this, after your multiple pleas - swallows his dignity and bites the fruit enough, not to cut it in half. He blinks a little faster, a little more nervous, and can’t bear to hold your stare when you smile and put the fork aside.
And then, you bite a strawberry held by his lips. A soft crunch attends the moment where your lips brush against each other. You feel how a sweet juice fills your lips and you have to move away to not let it drain over a corner of your mouth.
Satisfied, now less frustrated with your idea, you lick your wet, slightly sticky lips.
You glance at Riddle.
It… was a surprise that he went with your idea. It was a plan to soften him up a bit and have another reason to laugh when he would scold you again for your “preposterous suggestions”.
Surely not for you to stand in bewilderment and quick-paced heartbeat when Riddle pulls out a strawberry on a fork towards you. And as his face is red, crimson almost, his gaze is tainted with warm grey.
“Now it’s your turn.”
And that was an order.
Trey C. (hand kisses)
Trey Clover is a gentleman.
He opens the door whenever you go with him. Helps to carry supplies to the alchemy room at the far end of the school. Forbids you to prepare snacks for yourself, just to serve you beautiful little tarts during a break, that can be eaten in one bite.
His love is elegant and attentive. He likes to hold you in his arms while reading books. By highlighting the most important things in notes he helps you prepare for exams. He doesn’t even complain when you rob his wardrobe and usurp his clothes. He collects - by following all the Queen's rules or while avoiding Riddle's eyesight -- and offers you roses for every greater or lesser success.
A dreamy gentleman.
The only thing that mystifies you every time, is his touch.
You always quiver slightly as he takes your hand in his and entwines your fingers. He turns it over and brings it to his mouth, kissing the back of your hand. You don't know what is more delicate: the way his fingers slide over yours, or your heart, which will probably quickly tear apart itself, not able to bear the darting beat.
It would definitely be a nice death, but more than choosing that, you'd still rather live through this moment.
Trey's lips brush against your skin and move towards your fingers. There, he places another kiss and when he finally releases your hand, he still holds you. A grip slightly tightens when you look at him bashfully.
It was a gentleman's kiss.
Or maybe not gentleman’s, but from a man who pretends. You are not sure if a gentleman would do something like that to his lady: watch her lose her mind with each kiss as she becomes more and more addicted to her gentleman who smiles with a subtle but private smile.
Even as he pulls away, you feel that the spot on your skin where he kissed you tickles you lightly.
"Good morning to you, too, I should say”, you exclaim with a big smile. But you already like that greeting very much, and you're sure Trey knows it as well, as he repeats the gesture every day.
"Ah, and that's not the reaction I was expecting," he snorted as you rolled your eyes. “You got used to this trick already. Should I stop or…” now he smiles, mischievously. Certainly not like a gentleman. “...change the offensive?”
Cater D. (kisses on the eyes)
“Smile!” and snap! With a soft sound, another photo saves itself on Cater’s phone. He immediately enlarges it with his fingers, brings the image closer to your faces and clicks his tongue with dissatisfaction, but doesn’t remove the photo. “No, that’s not it. We look lovely, but- Sweetie, come closer!”
“Yes, yes.”
You take another step towards Cater. He instantly places his arm over yours, drawing you a little closer, as he holds the phone in the other hand. He observes the preview of the photo. And then, he directs you to turn a little to the west, so the sun would colour your faces even more.
An artistic wind begins to blow and ruffles the leaves of the trees behind your back. They form your main background, which Cater wanted to expose as they were famous for their multicoloured flowers. It was the main reason to choose this park as the next place for your date. The strands of your hair began to wave, and you gently brushed a few away from your eyes.
But before Cater can snap that hundredth picture, you lower your head and put hand to your face.
“Ah, I think something is in my eye,” you murmur, with all your will trying not to rub your eyes. “Probably sand, ewh.”
“Oh, oh, wait, wait, wait,” Cater quickly tucks the phone into the pocket of his jacket and with one movement unbuckles his backpack. He pulls out a bottle of water -which he immediately hands to you - and then finds a package of tissues. “Here. Try to wash it out. And blink. You're supposed to blink a lot at times like this, right?” … Luckily for you, you don’t have to vex with it for long, because after a short while you manage to get the sand out of your eye. Cater’s phone is used as a mirror, and he checked himself if there might be any irritation visible in your eye.
You crumple a wet tissue and throw it in the trash can near your bench.
“It’s all right now, I think.”
Cater puts his stuff in his bag and gets up. With a short wave, he says that he wants you to stay where you are.
"I will cast a healing spell on your eyes," he announces and crouches in front of you. He smiles. “Metaphorical one. Please don't trust me when it comes to healing magic.”
And then he moves closer to you, and his hands are on your cheeks. They hold you in place as he gets closer and closer until he completely fills your view and asks you to close your eyes. You don’t have to look at him to know his gaze is trailing your face. And when he stops, it’s because he wanted to turn your attention to the touch as he places warm kisses on your eyelids.
These are some of the softer kisses Cater gave you. They are almost imperceptible and uncharacteristic of him, but you can feel the care in each one... and have a scent of his cologne – jasmine scent, slightly spicy in smell - that he put on himself surround you.
He steps back only when each eye receives at least three kisses.
“I think I feel better now...” You say with a smile which he reciprocates. He pulls out his phone, once again, and points its lens at you. He hums with pleasure, as he finds the perfect angle.
“So~? Will you smile for me once more?”
You can’t say no after such a satisfying spell.
Ace T. (feigned kisses)
“Hey, hey, come here, I want to tell you something...”
You tear your gaze away from your notebook, where the next line of your essay on the history of magic is now cut halfway. Ace's whisper snapped you out of the monologue you've arranged in your head, and you know you won’t recollect it soon. Not even a passive focus spell applied to the library could help, as Ace acted as a truly sterling distraction.
“Come here yourself.”
“It's important”
It’s probably not.
You sigh and shake your head. Ace does the same, but rises from his untouched textbooks. "I lack the motivation to study today," he tells you every time you drag him along to prepare for your next exam together.
He stops in front of you and turns your chair around so that you can directly face him. He smiles mischievously. Almost malevolently, but warm enough.
He places his hands on both sides of your chair and—oh, since when is he so close to you?
It's not that Ace isn’t in the habit of kissing you—he likes it as much as you do, although he never fails to roll his eyes when you ask for a kiss, or tease you ("ah, so you need more of my attention, hm? Heh~") before pressing his lips to yours.
And you are expecting the latter option until Ace stops inches from your face and snarls.
“Heh. You wish”.
He tries to whisper something more, but you don’t give him an opportunity to do so, as you throw your head back. And then he greets you with a look, you could describe as mean.
“Yes,” you admit quietly, genuinely disappointed. You turn your chair around and quickly tuck your books into your bag. Maybe you'll find Riddle or someone who can chase Ace away a bit with their presence, so you will have some peace. “But I'm feeling less and less sorry that it didn't happen. See you later, I'm off to class…”
...
Huh.
He didn’t expect that. Did you have a bad day today? Did he do something wrong or- Did you really care about getting a good grade on that essay? He couldn't guess, but he knew that if he doesn’t make a move now, you will try getting back at him.
“Hey—!” He wheezes, grabbing your hand. “You can't give up so easily. Fight for what you want!”
“Too much work.”
Ace sighs and tilts his head. He pulls you towards him by the strap of the bag you carry, almost knocking you off balance. And then, he presses your lips to his—they are unexpectedly soft and you start to wonder if it was because of the honey he added to his tea at almost every unbirthday party (to break another rule of his dorm)—and then... And then you both lost the air in your lungs that you hadn't managed to take in before kissing.
You look at him from under your lashes as you take a deep breath. “To quote, "Ah, so you need more of my attention?””
“Ughh,” Ace breathes out, and you feel that quiet sigh on the skin of your neck. He is still incredibly close, but for that moment you can’t bring yourself to push him away. “You're lucky I like you. …And, by the way, you choose very wise man’s quotes.”
Deuce S. (forehead kisses)
“…”
“...”
“...Are you asleep?”
“...No. Not yet.”
The quilt rustles quietly as you sat up on the bed. You feel tired, your head aches, and your eyes seem too heavy. You are sure you've already yawned about five times since you said “goodnight”, but even after forty—you counted each one with agony—minutes of lying down, sleep wasn't taking you away.
Neither did Deuce, and that was your current greatest comfort.
“I don't know if I'll be able to sleep tonight,” you whisper, trying to make out his features in the darkness that merge into a dark room. But you are sure that that darker patch of shadow—Deuce—is looking at you as intently as you are looking at it. “Not after the movie that Ace picked out.”
Deuce slowly gets up and you can finally tell where his face is.
“He picked the wrong title,” Deuce agrees, sighing heavily. “I don't know if I can-... Erm, I mean, I'm not a fan of horror movies, but it's not that, that, I-.”
“Yes, yes, I understand,” you interrupt him gently and squeeze the duvet lightly in your fingers. You turn your gaze to a window where a hint of light shines through the gaps between the curtains. The moon must be very visible tonight. “I didn't like that film. You know what, Deuce? We can't let Ace choose movies ever again.”
“Right,” he put his hands through the strands of his hair. And then laughs at the memory he proceeds to describe you. “...When I was younger, my mother would often kiss me on the forehead whenever I felt I was too upset to sleep. I often tried to watch horror movies on my own so I could talk about them later at school, but... Haha. Anyway, somehow it always worked because I would go back to bed later and then—I think—I would fall asleep…”
“...Do you want to kiss me goodnight?”
“Ah-! N-no! That's not what I meant!” he protests. And then tries to look at you but finds it impossible. “Ah... Was that a request or a question?”
“An offer of a lifetime.”
Deuce remains in his bed for a few more moments but finally gets up. He pushes the curtains a little more and the room becomes much brighter. You could now see the games scattered on the floor that you had vowed to clean up in the morning, the outline of your beds and finally, and most importantly, yourselves.
He approaches you, quietly and carefully. You wait with a smile that you try to hide. You straighten up, put your feet on the floor, but still sit on the bed as Deuce brings his fingers to your face, and touches it with care as if you were a porcelain doll. Or a dream and Deuce was willing to believe in both cases.
He brushes your hair from your forehead and holds loose strands with one hand; the other is placed on the back of your head. He leans in. You hear him hold his breath and feel warmer as he presses his lips to the top of your head. You are sure he must have sensed the scent of his shampoo (you had a good reason for that: you had forgotten to take your own with you) because he quivers subtly as he inhales the smell bashfully.
And he must also be glad that it was still dark in here because, when you raise your gaze, his head is titled, as he often does when conscious of his blushes.
“…Are you calmer?” He whispers the question.
You nod slowly. Deuce carefully, almost reluctantly, steps away from you and sits down on his bed. Although he is no longer beside you, you can still feel the memory of how warm his skin and lips were. You gently touch the spot on your head where he had placed his kiss.
“If we don't fall asleep in the next half hour, we're going to go get some late-night snacks,” you decide, as you lay down, and you even notice Deuce smiling.
“Okay,” he chuckles. “And we can watch a better movie. But now try to fall asleep.”
“If I fall asleep now, I'll regret it.”
“You will say something else in the morning, tired.”
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Strawberries & Cigarettes
Pairing: Jungkook x reader (Soulmate!AU)
Genre: angst, fluff
Warnings: mentions of sex (once), swear words, talks about death of minor character, mentions of smoking (don't do it kids)
Summary: As a child you detested strawberries, convincing yourself that you have an allergy to them. But imagine your shock when you grow up and realise that your soulmate connection has to do with the wretched berry.
Word count: 7.7k
rating : pg
A/N: This is square 4/25 for the @bangtanwritingbingo (Square: Strawberries) I have not written something remotely angsty in a while so this has been a challenge but i did it! And i am somewhat proud of it! Thank you @mochi-molala @sunshinejunghoseokie for listening to me complain about this it has been a journey. And most importantly, thank you @min-yoon-kween for being a beta queen and trying to read through this mess and managing to make 3am rambles onto words. I really appreciated all the support and tough love! @yoonjinkooked, @sunshinekims and @yoonia thank you for being there and listening to my 3am complaints whilst i was getting this done, your encouragement has been a massive help!
Copyrights @joyfulhopelox for both the work and the banner
As always please leave feedback and/or talk to me as i love to hear from you! Enjoy <3
The sweet, fragrant, slightly tart taste invades your senses once again causing you to sigh in frustration. How are you meant to find your soulmate if this unknown taste is all you have to go by? You couldn’t even pinpoint what it could be, the flavour being unlike anything that has ever touched your tastebuds.
“For real now Y/N, what do you have against fruit?” Your friend, Taehyung, inquires. You’ve adamantly refused his offer to share a fruit snack. It’s not like you had anything against fruit, far from it. You loved fruit. It was just the wretched strawberries lying there innocently on the bed of other berries, tainting them.
“It’s not fruit! I love fruit, you know that! Remember that time we snuck out into your grandfather's garden to steal apricots?” Your friend snorts. He remembers that time extremely well. You ate way more than you should have and ended up with indigestion for days after that.
“It’s just…” you grimace, looking once more at the red offenders. “Those”
“Strawberries?!” It was Taehyung’s turn to grimace. “How can you still hate strawberries after all this time? They are the best berry out there!” As if to prove his point he reaches for one and pops it in his mouth. You look away in disgust. “Oh come on Y/N, give them a try. You never know, you may like them now.” He pushed one towards you. Glaring at him, you rejected his offer.
“Tae, you know I can't! It’s not that I don't like them, I am allergic to them!” He responded with an incredulous look but didn’t say anything. Reading too much into his look you go to defend yourself. “I am! Since I was a child!”
“How do you know?” He raised an eyebrow at you. Shrugging, you tried to find a good answer.
Truth is, you didn’t know whether or not you were allergic to them. All you had was a bad memory from when you were a child. You had a very bad encounter with said berries. It was not a near death experience by any means, and it was not an allergic reaction. You were just a child, excited at the thought of trying a new fruit and so in your exhilaration you shoved it a bit too readily in your mouth. The innocent berry happened to go down the wrong pipe and causing you to choke and your family to panic. Ever since then you had sworn to never touch them again, telling everyone around you that you were allergic. That way you didn’t have to face the shame of retelling this childhood story and they couldn’t try forcing you to eat them.
It happened so long ago that you couldn’t even remember the taste. You couldn’t understand why everyone around you seemed to find them so delicious.
“I- just do ok? I had a bad reaction to them a long time ago, and I don’t want a repeat experience” you shrugged hoping that he would not catch onto the white lie you had just blatantly presented to his face. Side eyeing you suspiciously, Taehyung made sure to eat the strawberry he had picked up, sighing in the most dramatic way possible.
“Well then, more for me” his mouth was so full you could barely understand him. Disgusted you pushed his shoulder playfully. “Ew, that is bad manners. Did your mother not teach you to chew with your mouth closed?”
Taehyung pretended to look thoughtful whilst still chewing. “Nope, now take a blueberry and shut up” he pushed the assortment of fruit your way once again, this time making sure that the strawberries were out of your sight.
“Thanks Tae” you smiled gratefully at him, picking a blueberry out. Before it could reach your mouth, a loud thump resounded from next to you making you jump. Surprised your fingers let go of the blueberry you were holding so preciously.
“Oh man, don’t waste food!” a voice you recognised all too well spoke, whilst a hand made its way past your face and into the bowl of fruit Taehyung had so carefully prepared for the two of you. Long slender fingers wrapped themselves around the green stem of a strawberry. You followed the movement of the hand holding the strawberry to come face to face with the culprit.
“Hello to you too, Jungkook” Taehyung sighs, his smile instantly dropping. “What brings you here?” His deadpan expression was a good indication of how happy he was to see him.
“Uh, it’s lunchtime?” Jungkook looked at Taehyung as if he had grown a second head. “Is this not where we are supposed to eat lunch?” disposing of the green stem of the strawberry, he pops it in his mouth. You wanted to grimace, you had enough of Taehyung making a scene whilst eating that damned fruit. Now you are forced to witness the office heartthrob lick his fingers clean of the fruit juice that coated them. Simultaneously expelling a moan so sinful it was definitely not appropriate for office hours. You doubted it was healthy for your heart.
“Yes, but you guys in the graphics team have a separate kitchen. You know, the one you took from us last year? The big fancy one?” Taehyung was still bitter about that incident. It had been his favourite break room to spend time in. The room was spacious and had more than just a few tables scattered here and there, divided by a couple of couches where employees could lounge during their break. There was also a terrace with a lot more space and a pool table. Most importantly,Taehyung’s pride and joy, a gaming room. He would get lost in there during his break, and sometimes even after work until you would come and retrieve him worried for his health.
That is where he met Jungkook, and that is where he ruined your life by introducing you to said office heartthrob. At the time your department and his rarely interacted outside of company meetings. You were working as a business analyst and he was working as a graphics developer. Your jobs could not have been more different from each other.
Truth be told, you had seen Jungkook around the building on more than one occasion. You had the chance to speak once at a company gala in a drunken haze, where you realised you had a lot of interests in common. But you only got to know him the second time you bumped into him, when Taehyung decided to introduce you two. His handshake and shy presentation told you he was too drunk to remember talking to you that night so you did not mention it either.
Once you’ve been introduced, his presence turned into one of the ones you sought out during lunch breaks, you became more aware of the rumours flying around the company. Out of all of them the ones you heard the most were about him and his love for “dining and dashing” all the women he had taken out on a date.
Normally, you wouldn’t be the person to listen to such rumours and allow them to sway your opinion of someone. But you had witnessed on one occasion how he had indeed left a woman in the middle of a restaurant and fled the scene. After that you wondered if maybe you should be more weary of him and his bad habits.
Talking to him in person was a completely different story. He seemed incredibly shy at the beginning, it took him a couple of weeks to be able to look you in the eyes. Taehyung would laugh and say it is because he had a crush on you but you doubted that. How could you believe that? Not when you lived in a world where lovers were predestined. You were born with a bond that tied you to someone else, a bond that's unbreakable. Your soulmate was made for you and only you. You could have other lovers until you found your true one, you have seen it happen on multiple occasions but once you found your soulmate and that bond was complete you couldn’t be apart from them.
Soulmates, a subject that ruined your life as soon as you became aware of it. At the age of ten you found out that all humans on this planet have a person they are meant to be with forever. A person that is yours, and only yours. At such a young age you fell in love with the concept. Fairies and princesses in the stories your parents would read you before bed, they all had their one true love. When you found out that you were meant to have one true love, a soulmate, you were beyond ecstatic. For years after, it was all you talked about and all you dreamt about. It all came crashing down when one rainy night your father had a car accident on his way home from work. The crash took a parental figure away from you. Aside from having had to deal with the pain of losing your hero, you also went through the misery of witnessing the painful heartbreak that comes with having a soulmate.
Your mother mourned for days, she could not eat or sleep, she withered right in front of your eyes. It was heartbreaking to experience your only remaining parent destroying themselves right before your eyes. You were only sixteen at the time and could not do anything to help alleviate the pain she was going through. So you helplessly stood at her side for another three years until one day, her soul finally gave up.
Her funeral was a relief for you, it meant she didn’t have to struggle anymore. The pain was gone. So, at the age of nineteen, you became an orphan.
Turning twenty and a struggling pen pusher, you met Taehyung in a cafe. You crashed into him soaking his expensive suit in coffee as you rushed out the door, late for work. Apologising profusely and promising to pay for his dry cleaning you gave him your number. That was the first time you had hit a stroke of good luck in years. Later that day, when a text came through from an unknown number you expected it to be an extortionate dry cleaning bill. Instead all that was written was: ‘Coffee’s on me next time (not literally though) haha.’ You couldn’t help but laugh, he gave you a place and time and signed it with Taehyung. That had been the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
For the first few years of your friendship you’d wondered if he was your soulmate; and so, despite your aversion to the concept, you two started dating. It was difficult not to like him, he was good looking and you two seemed to have a lot in common. It didn’t help that the sex was also great, you had to admit he knew what he was doing. But after one too many nights of netflix and takeaways at his apartment, which ended in his bed, you both decided that you were not the one for each other. So, two years into your relationship you separated. Fortunately, the friendship you two forged remained, your bond stronger than before. At the age of twenty three, you moved in together as housemates. It was the most logical thing to do, you were attached at the hip anyway and rent was too expensive for a single person to bear. Twenty four came and went, stressed and always low on money, when luck struck you for a second time the day Taehyung told you a position had opened in his team. You decided to apply and rejoiced when you got the job offer. That night you and Taehyung celebrated with pizza and champagne.
Here you are three years later having worked in the same company, being promoted from a trainee to a junior business analyst, and life couldn’t have been better.
There was one thing that bothered you, and that was the strange taste in your mouth that you had begun to notice. At first it was so faint that you didn’t notice it. As time passed, it got stronger and stronger, until you could not ignore the slight tangy, sweet taste that lingered on the tip of your tongue. It wasn’t a bad taste, in fact you quite liked it. You were just annoyed at the fact that you could not place it. You tried multiple foods which you thought may have a similar taste but none of them satisfied that craving. You hid this information from Taehyung for a while, not wanting to make a big fuss out of it until the day he found you rummaging through the fridge mumbling to yourself.
“What are you doing Y/N?” he stood in the doorway confused as to why your head was buried deep into the fridge. You jumped not having heard him move into the kitchen and looked at him in surprise. The sight that greeted him was something he was not expecting. The hilarity of your wide eyed expression paired with the cheeks stuffed full of cherries made him double over in laughter.
Mumbling something akin to “stop laughing at me, i had a craving” you stood up and walked to the table dejectedly plopping yourself down on a chair. Taehyung sobered immediately noticing the forlorn expression on your face and whilst still wiping the tears from his eyes he approached you and sat down. “What’s up chipmunk?” he could not resist making a jab at you. Sighing you started picking at a stray thread off your sleeve. You decided it was time to tell him what has been bothering you for months, despite fearing his judgement.
“Have you ever had cravings?” you turn to look at him, your expression so innocent that he could not make fun of you for such a trivial question. “Of course I have! All the damn time” he scoffed at you.
“No, no what I mean is; have you ever had a taste at the tip of your tongue, on your lips something that isn’t what you have eaten that day, but it is there continuously lingering in your mouth?” the more you were explaining this out loud the stupider you felt. Your own words were confusing even to you. But it seemed like Taehyung knew what you meant because in an instant he jumped up from his seat and looked at you wide eyed.
“Y/N!” the grin on his face intensified. “Do you know what this means?” he grabbed your shoulders in excitement. “It means that you have found your soulmate!” your eyes widened in fear, your body stiffened under his hold. Realising what he’d said, and how you felt about soulmates he backtracked quickly. “Nonono, it means you are close to finding your soulmate. It means you have met them at last!” When your frozen body refused to move he realised that maybe that was not the best way to phrase it either. But the damage has already been done. Wide eyed, you flew off the chair and rushed out of the kitchen towards your own room, slamming the door in the process.
You called in sick the next day, and the day after, not leaving your room until you were certain Taehyung had left for work. He tried on multiple occasions to coax you out of your room, but to no avail. You stubbornly refused to acknowledge him. Mulling over your thoughts in the comfort of your room, conflicted at the realisation that he was right. You had met your soulmate, just not completed the bond yet.
“Y/N, are you ok?” the worry in his voice broke your heart, but you were too absorbed in your own thoughts to respond to him.
Memories of your parents, together and apart, thoughts of your mother and her suffering, memories of you together as a happy family all swirling around in your head. It was all too much to bear, and in the end your brain gave up exhausted, only to wake up the next day and start all over again. For a week you stayed in your room, but when Taehyung decided that enough was enough he formulated a plan in his head hoping it would get you out of your room. If you refused to come out for him, he would have to resort to other methods. He would invite people over, he knew you would not be able to resist the temptation of being a good host. So that day he called your colleague and his friend, Jungkook.
Later on that night, you laid in bed, thoughts ruminating through your head at a fast pace when you heard voices from the entrance. You could easily recognise Taehyung’s voice, the low timbre echoing through the house. It was the second voice that you could not pinpoint, and so, intrigued you got off the bed.
Your joints ached, having sat in the same position for so long and your head hurt from exhaustion. You knew you probably looked like a mess but curiosity was eating at your insides. So you took the chance and opened the door slightly trying to peek into the corridor. Unfortunately, your room was the first along the corridor, right around the corner from the kitchen. The kitchen where Taehyung and his mysterious companion were now exiting from. Your delayed reaction ended up with them coming around the corner almost bumping into you. Gasping, your eyes took in the unknown person whose voice drew you out of your miserable state.
“Jungkook '' you yelped. Startled at the intrusion, you slammed the door in their faces, your back now leaning against the door. You didn’t ponder too much on Jungkook’s shocked expression or Taehyung’s pleased one. Your heart was pounding, and for a second the blood rush from the adrenaline made your ears ring and your lips tingle. You were so focused on your embarrassment that you didn’t even notice the lingering sweet taste residing on your tongue.
Sliding against the door to keep yourself from falling you tried to regulate your heartbeat by taking a few deep breaths in. After a few moments, your eyes opened and took in the darkness of your room. Deciding that you were calm enough you got up, your legs slightly wobbly from crouching for so long. Turning on the light you looked at yourself in the mirror. Your hair was in disarray, your skin looked dull and the red that rimmed your eyes accentuated the eyebags under them. Grimacing at your appearance, you patted your hair trying to make it look more presentable only to give up after a few minutes. Throwing another worried glance at your door, as if you were expecting the boys to barge in at any moment, you contemplated going out there. You sighed deciding that you didn’t care if Jungkook would think you were impolite, you were not ready to face the world.
For the next couple of hours you tried to distract yourself from your thoughts accompanied by the loud hollers coming from the living room where the boys were playing video games. Too absorbed in your own thoughts you didn’t realise how late it had gotten, the rumbling of your stomach waking you up from your trance.
Opening the door you listened intently but there were no sounds coming from the living room. You assumed the boys had finally fallen asleep do as quietly as you could you tiptoed to the kitchen. The corridor was dark, the only light coming from the TV in the living room where you assumed the boys had passed out. Turning on the light in the kitchen you contemplated stealing Taehyung’s last pack of ramen when a voice from behind startled you.
“What are you doing?” you yelped, not having expected to have company.
Jungkook stood in the middle of the doorway, his eyes bleary with sleep, his hair poofed up and judging by the groggy voice, still half asleep. You tried to ignore the way your heart somersaulted at the sight of his messy hair, the way his hooded eyes were blinking sleepily at you and the way his small yawn made him resemble a rabbit. He was adorable and for a second you entertained the thought of telling him that.
“Food” was all you finally replied, secretly trying to fix your messy appearance. Jungkook hummed in acknowledgment. You looked away trying to ignore his eyes on you. The silence that followed was awkward, neither of you knew what to say. “Uh, I don’t know if that rascal fed you but uh….would you like some ramen?” you stuttered trying to break the awkwardness. His stomach growled as if prepared for your question. You stared at him in shock for a couple of seconds before you burst into laughter.
Jungkook smiled at you bashfully, too embarrassed to respond so you took it upon yourself and pulled another chair out for him to sit in.
The silence that ensued was comforting, neither you nor Jungkook feeling the need to interrupt it with small talk. You observed amusedly the way his eyes seemed to lighten up at the sight of food, the way the corner of them would crinkle in excitement and the small satisfied sounds at the food gracing his taste buds was something you found adorable.
The feeling of contentment that enveloped you was entirely new. As the calmness washed over you, you realised it felt like coming home. Not knowing what to make of it you continued to stare at Jungkook, hoping that the answers were hidden somewhere in his smile. Catching you stare at him mid bite Jungkook stopped and tilted his head in confusion.
“Is there something on my face?” realising you were staring at him for a bit too long you squeaked in embarrassment.
“Ah, no no no I was just lost in thought.” Hoping he would buy that excuse, you offered him a bright smile.
Jungkook had known you were staring at him, and for a brief second, along with the spiciness of the noodles burning his tongue, he felt something smoky intertwine. He wondered if it was the food, but the taste was too distinct. In an instant he could place it, the taste of cigarettes. It was faint but he recognised instantly that ashy fragrance. He wondered if his soulmate was a smoker and if so why would the taste bother him now?
He found out about the soulmate connection years ago and how he was meant to figure out which person was meant for him. Meeting your soulmate was supposed to trigger a taste that was only attributed to them. His trigger happened a few years ago when he started working for the company. To say he was excited was an understatement. He has dreamt of meeting his soulmate for so long and to know that they were in proximity was exhilarating.
In his naive search for them he decided to accept all the requests he has gotten from his colleagues to go on dates. Unfortunately for him, he realised too late that it was not the way to find the one that was meant to be for you. Just like the concept of a soulmate, if it was meant to happen, it would happen. He realised too late and after too many failed dates that he could not rush the process. So he stopped trying. Until that one day when he saw you on the roof of the building, during lunch time. You had no idea that you were not alone, had you been aware of that fact you may have not gotten out your pack of cigarettes. Jungkook could tell by the way your foot tapped the ground impatiently and the way your hands kept grabbing at your hair that you were stressed. He sat in silence not wanting to disturb you as you seemed to be hyping yourself up about something. You didn’t interact that day, but in his head he knew he had found you. The taste of cigarettes on his lips was as strong as the smell wafting through the air.
Normally he would not have been happy about someone who smoked in his vicinity, the harsh smell causing his nose to tingle in an unpleasant fashion. Watching you stress smoke that cigarette with the knowledge that you were his soulmate he found himself unbothered by that knowledge. He knew who you were, your mutual friend being Taehyung. He had introduced you two as soon as you started working for the company.
He will always remember that specific moment, the time when you smiled shyly at him extending your hand. He felt an unusual warmth all throughout his body, but he didn’t realise at the time it was your soulmate bond tying itself together like the ends of two loose strings.
He tried with all his might to figure out whether or not you had the faintest idea about your soulmate connection and for a few months he would insist on taking his break on the floor below just so he could spend time with you. Your lack of interest towards him and his advances told him that you were oblivious. You weren’t treating him differently than you would treat Taehyung and for a while he questioned himself. What if he had been wrong? Instead of keeping up appearances, he let himself slip into the friend's mould. If he had been wrong then it would spare him the embarrassment, if he hadn’t been wrong then it would do him no harm to be friends first.
The memories still fresh in his mind he knew now that you were his soulmate. Still a bit tipsy from the wine he had shared with Taehyung earlier he plucked up the courage and jokingly asked, “Is it because I am handsome?” The shocked look on your face and the silence that ensued were far from comfortable. Slowly Jungkook could feel the heat of the blood rushing to his face and he tried his best to hide his embarrassment with a cough. “I mean-“
At the sight of his wide eyes and red cheeks you started chuckling, not being able to hold your composure for any longer. “It was bad, but you’re adorable.” This time your face turned beet red. You both looked at each other like deer caught into headlights for a few moments, only to dissolve into laughter once again.
That night you talked to Jungkook as if he was an old friend. It felt comfortable to share stories with him, to laugh and to make jokes. It felt good to be out of your head for once. The worries that had plagued your mind completely dissolved in between the laughter and the wine that you were sharing.
At some point during the night you both moved into the corridor in front of your room, both sat on the floor, your back leaning against the wall. Passing the wine bottle in between the two of you the conversation carried on into the darkness of the corridor. The only available source of light coming from the kitchen dimly lighting both of your faces, casting shadows across the floor. You didn’t know when you got so close to him, your skin prickling at the heat emanating from his body. Or when your head dropped onto his broad shoulder, your eyes fluttering, heavy with sleep.
“Y/N” Jungkook whispered and you hummed in response. The familiarity of the scene made him smile. You looked adorable, cuddled into his side, your eyes laden with sleep.
“What if I were to tell you I found my soulmate?” His voice was fearful but his heart was hopeful.
Wide awake now, your head snapped up. “What?”
Even though it was meant to be a whisper your voice reverberated through the corridor. Gasping you stopped to listen for any signs of Taehyung waking up. When the corridor stayed silent you breathed a sigh of relief and cleared your throat. “What?” you looked alarmed at Jungkook.
“Is it that bad? That I found my soulmate?” he looked wounded and you quickly tried to clarify. “Nonono, definitely not bad, just...i am surprised” you looked hesitant. You didn’t know what to make of that information, on one hand you wanted to be happy for him. Not everyone thought like you about the soulmate bond. On the other hand you couldn’t fathom the idea that he may have found his intended love in life. The pain blossomed in your chest and you readily assumed the reason behind that being your aversion towards the concept.
“But what if….” Jungkook stopped. He looked unsure of himself and something pulled at your heartstrings. In an attempt to comfort him you placed your hand on his grasping it gently.
“What if, the soulmate doesn’t want me” he tried again, his voice meek. You gave him a sympathetic look, in a way you could relate to his worries. “There is no way your soulmate wouldn’t want you” you tried to ease his worries, your hand subconsciously tightening its grip on his. Jungkook didn’t respond looking lost in thought and for a moment you thought you had said the wrong thing when you felt his fingers intertwined with yours. The feel of his warmth combined with the softness of his hands cause butterflies to erupt in your stomach. The feeling so foreign to you, but not unwelcome.
“But what if I said my soulmate was you?” he tried again, his grip tightening, as if he was afraid you might slip through his fingers. Your heart stopped, your mind trying to catch up with his words. Taking the risk, Jungkook slowly cupped your face. Leaning towards you until your lips were only one whisper away he stopped. His warm breath fanning over your face, it smelt sweet, tangy. Before you could process your thoughts bumped his lips onto yours in a timid touch. Once, twice, three times, his lips ghosted over yours.
You could not react, the surprise from his confession still wrecking havoc through your body. Your eyes fluttered closed as you felt his soft lips touch yours with a bit more conviction. You almost allowed yourself to melt into the kiss a small moan leaving the back of your throat. He tasted sweet, just like...you could not place the taste, and yet it seemed so familiar.
You jolted out of the trance pulling away from him entirely, almost sliding yourself on the opposite side of the corridor. Like a deer in headlights you observed his every move, ready to flee the scene if he got too close to you. “Y/N”, Jungkook tried to reach a hand towards you. You flinched away from him and he halted. You looked scared of him. He could feel his heart break in two at the sight of your distress.
“Y/N” he tried again but you would not have it. You were unable to listen to any reasoning, your fight or flight reaction at an all time high. “Please go” you managed to utter.
When he tried to approach you again you let out a sob, the emotions of your revelations catching up with you. “Please” you pleaded, looking at him in despair. Jungkook’s heart dropped. The look on your face told him you wanted him gone, and as much as it hurt him he would listen to you.
Giving you one last pained look he turned around on his heels and walked down the corridor, swallowed by the darkness of the apartment. When with a click of the front door you knew he was gone, and you broke down in tears.
“Y/N? What’s wrong?” Taehyung, fully awake, having heard the front door close and your sobs echoing through the apartment, rushed to your side.
“I fucked up” was the only thing you could mutter over and over again. Taehyung was confused. Looking around him trying to find something that may indicate the reason for your cries, he spotted the wine bottle by your leg. Alarmed, he picked it up. “Fresh notes of strawberries”....
“Y/N are you daft? This has strawberries in it!” he tried to pry your hands away from your face to check for any signs of swelling. Your incessant cries lessened at that. Taehyung could barely discern what you were saying and so instead, he hugged you tightly to his chest letting you cry it out.
“I think I know the taste that has been bugging me” a couple of days after that night, you were in the break room with Taehyung prepared to have your lunch break. You had been successful at avoiding Jungkook, and you had a strong suspicion that he had stayed out of your way on purpose. That lessened your worries, you didn’t know if you would be able to confront him about what had transpired between the two of you.
“Really? What, when and how?” you could tell Taehyung was trying to hide his excitement underneath his grin. You refused to give him more information on the subject, not yet ready to talk about it. But if you underestimated something, it was his ability to put two and two together. “Is it Jungkook?” you stopped dead in your tracks, your heartbeat picking up the pace. At your reaction Taehyung almost grinned, he was happy his two friends had discovered each other. His grin faltered at something behind you.
You tried denying it, telling him he was mistaken. but with the sweet taste of strawberries lingering on your lips, even you knew that there was no mistake.
“Uhh, Y/N, I have to rush, I forgot that I needed to send some documents over” he quickly got up and rushed out of the room. Your bewildered eyes followed his retreat only to come across the man that had just entered the break room. You gasped at the sight of his athletic frame dressed in the dark coloured suit he normally wore for work. He looked handsome.
“Jungkook” you acknowledged him with a nod. He stood there looking at you for a moment, a strange look on his face as if he was prepared to say something but then changed his mind at the last minute. Instead he mirrored your nod and headed towards the coffee machine.
He passed by you in an attempt to reach for the pods that were on the table behind you. To get to them he had to step around your still body. You could not move, still in a daze, your lips tingling from the kiss you two have shared earlier. Your hands were trembling and you tried your hardest to stay calm and not give away the mixed feelings raging through your body. You cleared your throat and looked away in an attempt to hide your blushing face from him. Jungkook took you in silently, he didn’t know what to make of your reaction. Earlier when he had kissed you, your lips moulding together, you pressed tightly against his form, hands raking through his hair. You seemed to be reciprocating the feeling but now, when you were acting like a deer caught in headlights, he was not so sure of himself anymore.
Cautiously he approached you, his gaze unfaltering, he was afraid that if he stepped over the line you would run away from him again. He didn’t know if his heart could take it.
He couldn’t imagine that if you’d figured it out you’d react to him like this. He was waiting for you to realise it was him. However, the blank look on your face and your stiff posture told him otherwise. The soulmate connection urged him to take you in his arms and take the pain away, to make it better. But you didn’t know yet it was him, and he debated whether or not he should tell you. His heart lurched in pain, he didn’t know how to approach the issue. Knowing himself he’d make a stupid comment which would drive you further away. So he settled for actions rather than words.
It felt like an eternity until he reached you, toe to toe, his hand hesitantly cupped your face. You couldn’t move, your breath coming into short pants, your heart flipping inside your chest. For a second you feared you would faint, but the warm touch of his hand kept you grounded and so you focused on that. Closing your eyes you leaned your head onto his hand soaking up the comfort. Even though you were apprehensive about Jungkook and your connection, he has been nothing but kind and understanding to you. His awkward demeanour paired with his confident looks, an endearing combination in your eyes. After that night you two spent together in the corridor of your apartment you understood very well why most women in your company fell in love with him. What you didn’t understand though, was why he would break their hearts like that. Thinking about the rumours once again your eyes snapped open and you pushed his hand away.
“Jungkook,” you cleared your throat. You needed to get your feelings off your chest otherwise you would implode. You wanted to make sure you were both on the same page. You didn’t want to end up heartbroken like any of the other women in the office. Your stomach lurched at that, the thought of him rejecting you like he did those women sending shooting pains through your whole body.
Jungkook’s hands stayed a few centimeters away from your face, his face morphing into anguish. But as soon as it appeared, it was instantly gone, replaced by a smile, the same heartfelt smile he gave you the day you met. The day you had signed your fate. The day the taste of what you could place now as strawberries had invaded your tastebuds. He waited for you to say something, he was not going to push you, but his gentle eyes told you he was going to listen to whatever you decided to tell him. Taking a deep breath in you decided to continue.
“I- am not sure how to put this into words, so I am going to just come out with it.” tears pooled into your eyes at the thought of what you were going to say. He nodded but you could tell he was anxious by the way his hand helplessly dropped to his side and started fiddling with his pants. You blinked the tears away but they just kept coming leaving a hot trail down your face. The pain of losing your parents resurfacing at the memories flooding your head.
“My parents, they uh, died” you stumbled over your words, finding it very difficult to get a grasp over your emotions. You took Jungkook’s silence as a sign to carry on, “my dad passed away in a car accident, after that, my mother she uh” a sob wrecked through your body and you couldn’t carry on. Watching as your whole body broke down in front of him Jungkook decided to throw caution out the window and steadily wrapped his arms around you. In an instant you relaxed, the warmth and the comfort provided by your soulmate embracing you calmed you down enough for you to carry on with your story.
“My mother, she died heartbroken three years after my father” you sniffled embarrassed at the snot you could see on his shirt. Trying to pull yourself away from him you found yourself nose to chest with him as he tightened his grip on you. You didn’t have the strength to fight against his hold.
“Jungkook,” you pleaded, slumping against him, your forehead resting on his warm chest. In that position you could hear his heartbeat, the strong thump reverberating through you. The knowledge that you were about to break that rhythm pained you. “I don’t want to have a soulmate.” A fresh wave of tears soaked through his shirt. Jungkook felt as if your sobs had not only penetrated the material but also his heart, the coldness that gripped him rendering him speechless.
Despite the unbearable ache that your words have caused him, he remembered that you were also suffering. He decided that his pain was irrelevant to yours, the soulmate bond that forged between the two of you pushing him to alleviate your sorrow and forget about his own.
“Y/N” his voice sounded foreign to him, the anguish seeping through. He cleared his throat and tightened his grip on you, trapping your arms in between the two of you. You knew you were being selfish, your hard words chipping away at his heart. Despite that he was being patient and understanding, lending you the last of his strength. “Don’t, please” was his last attempt at asking you not to crush him. A plea followed by a soft kiss on the top of your head, his own tears threatening to spill down his cheeks.
His words pierced through you, a heavy feeling settling in your chest. It felt as if someone had placed a weighted lead over your heart. Your mind was fighting against the soul’s desire to mould together as one, to form that bond fully. But by doing so, you were fighting against the laws of the soulmate connection, the broken promise of being together forever caused you to feel agony like never before. Desperate, you managed to free your hands and wrap them around him, your fingers digging into the muscles of his back in an attempt to steady yourself. You let the pain course through you, letting Jungkook’s soft cries in your hair be a reminder of your self-serving fears. His breath was hot on the crown of your hair, his breath coming out in broken gasps and you finally understood.
This is what your mother had experienced. This is the pain she must have gone through when your father was gone. Only, you were voluntarily putting yourself and him through it.
You felt despicable, but most importantly, you were terrified. Thoughts running through your head, scenarios in which you and him were bonded and living a happy life, only for it to be swept from under you. You didn’t think you could bear that, but you knew that what you were doing now was not right either. There was no such thing as a bandaid when it came to a soulmate bond. You would suffer forever and it never got easier.
“Y/N, please talk to me.” Jungkook’s voice wavered but his tears had stopped. He was doing his best to stay strong for you. Burying your head into his inviting shoulder you inhaled his scent, it was something sweet. Sweet like that night when you kissed, that significant night when you realised he was yours and you were his. Trying to recall the happiness that you felt when you two kissed you whispered, “I’m afraid.”
Jungkook had never felt more helpless. Hearing you admit this felt even more painful than you rejecting the soulmate bond. He could do very little to alleviate your worries, he couldn’t promise you forever because he himself had no power over the future, but he could promise you that he would try his best to be there until it wasn’t possible anymore.
“I can’t promise you that we will last forever, but I can promise you that as long as we are alive and have a forever to fight for I will do my best to reach it” his soft words brushed through your hair, the hand on your back tightening its hold. Fresh tears spilled from your eyes, the hot trail competing with the warmth that was growing in your chest. His words were not enough to alleviate your worries, but they were enough to pacify the inner battle between your soul and your heart.
“Hey,” he gently grabbed your shoulders, breaking your hold on him. With some distance now in between the two of you, it was easier to look at him. Your heart broke at the sight of the tears silently running down his face, a contrast to the small reassuring smile he was offering you. If not for the pain in his eyes you would have thought he was crying for you only. However, his eyes spoke of agony for two. The relationship that was meant to be, the relationship that your souls craved and you had power over. The understanding encouragement he was offering told you that he would take whatever you decided. If your decision was to not pursue this, he would accept it and never question it. With this in mind you took a deep breath in, your hands hesitantly reaching out and wiping away at the trail of tears.
“I am afraid” you stopped glancing away from him for a split second. Jungkook’s breath caught in his throat anticipating your next words. You had the power to make him or break him, his heart in your hands. With your next exhale, you let all your worries out, your stance visibly relaxing.
“But I am not afraid to fight for a future forever, with you.”
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Festival monkey 🐒
How?
Why?
When?
Who?????
Those are the questions that are going through your head right now.
You woke up lying in your bed naked, which is pretty normal since it's hot on the island, but there was a guy taking up your bed at nearly 10 feet, with his face buried in your breasts.
You are in shock, in denial, but the worst part is that you don't remember anything that happened.
Then you watch the stranger sleeping over you comfortably. Only now do you notice the marks on his body, scratches, bites, spanks, you name it.
It must have been a long night.
Getting bored, you start stroking the stranger's hair, you love playing with others' hair and his is incredibly tempting. Though, what is stroking someone's hair after how far you two have gone already. You two did things that would have made the devil shy.
Gently touching the curly hair with gray strands, you feel the person shiver in delight and snuggle up to you contentedly.
Once you get bored after about 15 minutes of petting this man, you use all of the ninja skills and mastery that you trained for 10 years to carefully get out without waking up the stranger.
Going to the kitchen, you start to make food for your guest. Being hospitable is important, especially to seduce the enemy and get information. Yes, you want answers. So you begin making miso ramen and a fruit tart with strawberry filling.
The smell of food wakes up the man sleeping in your room for the second time. He was awake when you started to massage his scalp, and it felt sooo good that he fell asleep again.
Who is this giant you might ask?
Well, you slept with a navy admiral, particularly the yellow colored one.
You were the top, him the bottom.
Let's say, you were the only woman who had completely dominated him. He was smitten. He never thought that one day there would be a 5 foot 7 woman who would make him, at 9' 11", so aroused to the point of becoming completely submissive and obedient. To the point where he was just a little bitch under your control.
Getting up from his bed, Kizaru, or Borsalino as he prefers to be called, begins to observe the room in which he had one of the best nights of his life. It's quite a cozy room, with an incredibly comfortable bed that's even big enough to fit a man like him. The wonderful smell you left in the bed makes him want to lie down again, but he still has to go back to the Navy HQ.
He starts looking around the room for his clothes, finding them in a corner and smelling ramen, his favorite food. He can be a little late, no? Clad in only his underwear, he goes after the smell and is faced with a scene that makes his heart pound.
You in a yellow apron, with just panties and a bra underneath, cooking his favorite food. He needs to get a wedding ring. You are so cute that he doesn't want to disturb you, because who could suspect that such a little thing, hardly half his size, is such a beast in bed. Just remembering last night, he gets excited, the memory is still very much alive and proof lies all over his body.
"Take a photo." Your voice surprises him, pulling him away from his imagination. "It lasts longer."
"~oya oya, I didn't know you noticed me." He replied, approaching and sitting in a chair at the table, which was already set and organized.
"It's not difficult to notice someone with your size."
"~Really? Last night you didn't notice me at all." He said, resting his hand on the side of his face.
"How are you at my house then?"
"Touché."
Finishing the plate of food, you serve it and sit in front of the giant.
"Bon appétit, cheré (Good appetite, dear)." You say, your accent destroying him inside even more.
The food is wonderful, and he goes for seconds. Fortunately, you made enough, considering the height of this giant, you made sure to be prepared.
"You haven't answered my question yet." You say, looking into the admiral's droopy eyes.
"What haven't I answered dear?"
"How are you at my house then?" You look sideways, narrowing your eyes and smiling off to the side with your hand on your cheek.
"Ohhh, don't you remember dear?" He smiles at you, but seems rather sad that you don't remember last night for some reason.
"It's all fuzzy."
"Well, what do you remember?"
"I remember drinking and dancing at the spring festival."
"What's the latest you remember?"
"Around my 4th dance."
"Do you remember who you were dancing with?"
"Nope."
"A pity indeed, you and Garp-san had a dance competition, until he fell asleep and you looked for someone to dance with."
"Hmmm, and you were my partner in one of them?"
"Yes~"
You respond by getting up and sitting on the admiral's lap, who now has hearts in his eyes. Leaning forward, you look deep into his eyes and brush your nose against his.
"Tell me, how did you manage to steal my heart enough to make me want to do such things..." You trace your hands over the marks from last night on the body in front of you, causing Borsalino to shiver under your touch.
Suddenly he stands and picks you up, going towards your room. Once there, he starts to get dressed. You are much too tempting for the poor man of light's heart. Now with his yellow suit and sunglasses on, he feels better. As if he hadn't been a whore in your hands, and as if he didn't want to again.
"I didn't imagine that one day I would seduce a navy admiral."
"That's not all you did to me... For a moment I thought you were a pirate and wanted to kill me."
"You don't look too sad about that."
"Hmmm~ In fact, it was an emotional experience."
Sitting next to him on the bed, he starts to tell you what happened to lead up to this moment
~Flashback~
Kizaru was doing his paperwork when the snail rang.
"Moshii moshii"
"BORSALINO!! COME TO THE ROOM IMMEDIATELY!" Sengoku had called him, apparently with urgent news.
"Haii haii, fleet admiral. What do you want?" The man in yellow calls, appearing from a beam of light that passed through the door.
"GET GARP IMMEDIATELY!!! What does that old man think he is doing, going and coming back whenever he wants to..." Sengoku was freaking out yet again for his friend's irresponsibility? Or as he'd probably say, his subordinate.
Sighing, Borasalino gets up and heads towards the port to catch a ship, going out to look for a certain person who's a complication in the life of the fleet admiral.
"Admiral Kizaru, the ship is ready to leave." A soldier came up and announced.
"Hmm, yoku yatta! (Well done)"
Climbing aboard the fastest ship they had, Kizaru focuses on tracking a certain customized ship with the face of a dog.
1 day, 2 days, 3 days pass
On the 3rd day he finally finds the vice admiral's ship, moored on an island with crystal clear waters. The island was very busy and full of life, with lots of flags and music in the streets.
Using the powers of Pika-Pika no mi, he materializes on the moored ship, finding no marines or vice admiral. So, sighing, he begins to search through the streets, asking people if they have seen Garp-san or any other marines.
"Sumimasen, kono atari no kaigun mimashita ka? (Excuse me, have you seen any marines around here?)"
"Oh yes, some went to the Dionysus bar, it is in the middle of the main street. It's usually packed long before night, you can find who you're looking for there."
"Ohh Arigatou." Going back, this time he arrives in front of the Bar. It really was crowded, but what drew his attention was a vice admiral drinking with a woman like there there was no tomorrow. She has a very childish face, but her body showed that she wasn't, or maybe it was her way of downing alcohol like a camel drinking water.
"Oya, Vice Admiral Garp san! So this is where you have been coming instead of work." He says, approaching the duo.
"Oh, Borsalino! What are you doing here?!" Garp asked with a look of surprise on his face.
"I came to pick you up, Sengoku san has been a bear since you abandoned your post at HQ."
"Awhhhh, Sengoku ne! I WON'T GO! I just got here. The PARTY IS JUST STARTING!! BWAHAHHAH!!" Slamming his fist on the table, he goes back to drinking with the little girl from before.
"Vice Admiral, please listen to me. We have to go back, Sengoku san is like a rabid animal in your absence~"
"Sore wa watashi no mondaide wa arimasen! (THAT'S NOT MY PROBLEM)"
"Watashi wa sore o torimodosanakereba naranainode, kore wa watashi no mondaidesu (It's my problem since I have to take you back)"
"Kankenai!! (I DON'T CARE)"
Borsalino was eventually forced to stay with Garp san to make sure he didn't run away, or simply giving up on the goal.
Borsalino was faced with the woman's ability to hold alcohol better than several men, even better than the vice admiral. Without realizing it, he was already drinking with the pair, perhaps because he didn't want to be excluded or because he needed to take his mind off of the paperwork that awaited him back at the Marine base.
The atmosphere on the island was really nice, with barbecue, drinks, and music (pagode, bossa nova, and others). Just when he thought it couldn't get any better, a music festival started to top everything else.
Again he was surprised by the young woman, seeing her drag the vice admiral onto the dance floor, but what really made him choke on his cachaça was to see the vice admiral dancing as well, and of his own free will.
You and Garp danced very happily and freely, catching the attention of locals and tourists, some of who even gathered outside the bar to dance with you. Since Garp-san was coming more often before the party, you taught him how to dance. Well, the basics at least. The two of you managed to dance to 3 more country songs/brega together. It was amazing until he had a narcolepsy attack and fell asleep
You were a little upset, since you wanted to dance even more. Seeing this, Kalim decided to be brave and dance to a more daring song with you. He finished the dance with a quick peck and snuck out saying that he was thirsty. (He was screaming in the bathroom and probably vomiting, since he tried to accompany the trio on drinks and was already dizzy before this dance did a number on him)
It was magnificent at night, with flashing lights and a beach breeze, a full moon on display in the starry sky.
Meanwhile, you were dancing alone, in your own style, and you started humming Team da Lorde while walking the streets lit and decorated. Captured by your beauty, the admiral starts to follow you without even realizing. Borsalino did not want to admit it, but the festival was quite interesting, and his dances kept him captivated at all times.
He decided to join one with you in another part of the city where there was another style of music playing. It was an incredibly lively dance, full of moves from the 70s / 80s.
"I didn't expect to have so much fun at festivals!"
"Things like this? Don't you like festivals!?" You were astonished at such a revelation.
"Hmm... I love festivals, I just didn't expect a little thing like you to be able to entertain me." He replied, not being able to imagine the consequences of his words.
"L-little? WHO ARE YOU CALLING SHORT??? I'LL SHOW YOU WHO'S SHORT!!"
You wouldn't stop surprising him, who would say that something so angelic- (never mind, we know it's a trap)
"Oya? And how are you going to do that??" Wanting to annoy you even more he starts purposely provoking you, without thinking about the possible repercussions. After all, what could a simple civilian woman, a young adult, do against a user of one of the strongest logias?
He was answered by you hugging him at waist level and-
SUBMISSION HOLD
Unable to explain how you were able to touch him, you hugged him and wrapped your boa around his neck, causing him to lose his balance and fall. (vm.tiktok.com/ZMJq4HFKq/ - Like this)
You pulled his body down and pressed your forehead against his, holding him by the collar of his shirt.
"Who's the short one now, huh?"
Kizaru couldn't find words to describe what he felt, left in a stunned silence.
"Cat got your tongue dear?~" You purr out to the admiral in a playful tone.
"Actually," He smiles, "it was a kitten who took my breath away."
"Hmmm..." You stop to analyze his body language, not that it helped you much with so much alcohol in your body. "Maybe I should try mouth-to-mouth resuscitation then??"
Deciding to stir him up even more, you tried it.
-v - ^ - v - ^ ------ (Kizaru.exe.404 has started malfunctioning)
His heart missed a beat, and Kizaru took her by the waist, forcing her into a kiss with one hand on the back of her neck. A hot, wet, deep, kiss with a fight for dominance. Exploring each other's mouths and leaving the refreshing atmosphere aside to give space for breathless gasps and excited bodies.
You were in shock, your mind was confused with one thought running through your mind. "Weren't you asexual bitch, what are you doing?"
Your body, not having been touched in that way for a long time, warmed up. Although your body till felt that such contact disgusted yourself a little, he asked for something that your mind did not know how to give him, also bringing up several memories that you wanted to forget.
Noticing how the yellow one looked at you with a smirk on his face, he starts to speak.
"What? Surprised that you weren't the only one able to take someone's breath away? Well, if this is too much for you, we can-" Borsalino cuts himself off, realizing your reaction after a mere kiss, and not wanting to take advantage of a drunk young woman.
You don't give him a chance to finish his sentence as you pull him if for another kiss. This time it was slow, intense, your hand raising up to the nape of his neck, causing a shiver to go through the admiral, who ends up moaning. Caught off guard, he loses the ability to think for a moment, and brought back to reality when you roughly pull his curly hair, making him moan in pain this time. You slide your hand over the admiral's covered chest, still in shock, and your hands start to go lower and lower until you reach the yellow monkey's bottom (kizaru = yellow monkey) and squeeze it tight, making him jump slightly.
He was speechless.
"Let's see if you can handle it!” You pulled him by the tie and looked him in the eye through the lens. "Unless you want to back out now."
Resolving to let him have a taste of his own medicine, you send a mocking smile to him.
Somehow you got to your house extremely fast, and he doesn't waste any time undoing his tie and taking his shoes off of his feet. Going up the stairs to his room, he grabs you around the waist and continues with another kissing session until he grinds up against you heatedly. You start taking off your clothes, discarding them somewhere in the room, before going back to exploring each other's bodies. Sliding your hands across the body before you, squeezing, licking, and giving hickeys to each other.
He gently lays you on the bed, not stopping kissing you or taking his big hands from your waist, rolling his pelvis against yours, rubbing his little friend on your pussy, both excited and wet.
The heart of the yellow giant was beating like crazy, it had been a long time since he had felt so excited.
Not being able to take it anymore, he doesn't waste time and he sticks his cock in you without hesitation. He lets you get used to the strange object inside you in the same dragged Bahian way that he spoke, already starting to move slowly. Your interior perfectly fit the man somehow. It could have been his military years which strengthened your body to withstand pains, blows, shots, and now thrusts, though the latter hadn't been included on purpose.
Not feeling comfortable under this man, you wrap your legs around his waist once again and use your strength to rotate your bodies so that you're staying on top of the admiral, who stopped what he was doing to look at the goddess who now on him, tracing and savoring all of your curves with his eyes.
In the dominant cowgirl position, you start going up and down on him even more slowly, going up enough for only the head of his little member to be left in you. What got you grunts and snarls from the admiral though, was when he was trying to take control of the rhythm, after the tenth movement moaning loudly when you went down quickly. Scratching your torso until it stopped at your neck and giving you a hickey while your pace kept increasing with each movement, getting wilder and hotter. Rapidly increasing the pressure on your bodies, the warmth of the room was filled with erotic body-to-body sounds, moans, grunts and the smell of sex. Maintaining this rhythm, both of your fit and tough bodies begin to tense up significantly. significantly.
Tired of that position, Kizaru gets up to sit in the butterfly position, kissing you again. Honestly, he couldn't get tired of kissing you, you took away his ability to reason. Separating from the kiss, a bridge of saliva connects your mouths for a moment before he starts to mark your neck with hickeys, while you scratched down his back. Quickly, he changes positions again, since your nails would not last him any longer. Wanting to release the tension built, he puts your legs on his shoulders and uses the powers of his akuma no mi to further increase the speed until it was no longer humanly possible, making the bed tremble so much you thought it might break, for real.
"I can't take it anymore!!!" You hear as, with that sentence, you feel your uterus heat up as it fills with a gush of liquid, forcing your orgasm along with a loud cat-like mewl.
*huff- huff, huff*
Trying to catch his breath, Kizaru looks down at himself and sees a flushed, breathless (y/n), with eyes full of lust.
'It's not over yet.' The thought went through the admiral's head, only to be confirmed a moment later.
"What happened, old man? Can't take it anymore? Because I'm going to continue until you can't take it anymore.~"
Worn out from the first round, Kizaru isn't able to do anything but watch as you get up and pull him by the chin, whispering in his ear. "I want to break you!"
Kizaru's member stiffened at the speed of light once again with those words, excitedly waiting for you to continue.
"You're going to be my bitch today!~" You tell him excitedly before maneuvering the man. Having him forced to lie down again, you bind his hands with the tie that ended up falling on the bed earlier.
"Oya!" Stunned by the situation, Kizaru started to laugh. Coming here really was the best thing he's done. He wants to see if you'll dominate him, he wants to see how far it will goes.
'Orgasm control, pet play, breath play, light bdsm, masochism, erotic humiliantion, age play.'
Even the admiral's war-trained body couldn't take so much stimulation anymore, all he knew how to do by now was beg for more, move his hips trying to increase the rhythm. This further stroked your sadistic side, which slowed down the tempo to an unbearably slow speed.
"N-no, ah ah ah-, (y/n)!!"
"You are being a great whore, but aren't you a little bit too greedy??~"
"No- no, I deserve it, please give it to me!!"
"Deserve? ...hmmm" You watch him while pretending to think about it, leaving him moaning nonsense while trying to get back to the rhythm from before. Accidentally taking it out of you and you leaned it back on your stomach. Before he could continue pleading, you penetrate him with a finger, making his hole sizzle and tremble in excitement.
"You like that eh, don't you kid! You love being fucked with my hand! What a dirty old man!" You slap him hard on the ass, the sound reverberating across the room
"I like you that way! Now tell me, who is your owner d a r l i n g?~"
Both of you were tired, especially the admiral, who had never had such intense sex. He felt like his body was going to shatter any minute now. Was this how virgin women felt after losing their virginity? He has never been so humiliated, used, or abused. Right now his conscience was weighing on him heavily, did he really like to be humiliated and encouraged to the point of crying? He was taken out of those thoughts when he felt a small, warm hand caress his head and pull him close.
"You were great!" As his face is covered with sweet and gentle kisses, he felt his heart calm down, enjoying the cute side of you. Hugging you around the waist and snuggling his face against your breasts, he falls asleep listening to your heartbeat and relishing in your post-sex caresses.
Authors note
I have no idea how I wrote this. I felt so weird. Jesus ✝️. I’m sorry.
This was heavy inspired by @cacti-are-like-flamingos @one-piece-dumpster-fire @myonepiece @some-piece @trashytoastboi
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Kashmir Pt. 2
Written with @where-the-hot-springs-blow
Forever editing~...
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The girls were so close now, both Heston & the Hermit feeling their springlike, wild energy rapidly filling the air, slowly making its way into the library. It was heady, dizzying, nearing soporific. Like the sweetest, richest of opium smoke. Like standing in a full-blooming lavender field at dewy daybreak.
Their hands tightened in desire, in fascination.
"Restrain yourself, magician. Seek potential, ability, knowledge first. Separate yourself from earthly boundaries."
The Hermit’s voice was firm, yet somehow gentle. But it was a warning nevertheless. Dedicated magicians needed to cut past earthly pleasure, superficiality, ordinary enjoyments, all in the name of attaining knowledge & ability.
As an adept, with centuries of practise & ability, he knew well how to seclude himself from baser corruptions & distractions. Many knew him to spend days locked away in his own manor, ignoring even a violent siege by the local villagers on occasion!
But this was different.
The presence of the girls so near...
Such innocence combined with such unpolluted potential...
It perfumed the very air of the castle, teased him with phantom whispers, fingers, even visions. Visions of moonflowers opening at nightfall, images of plum trees shedding their delicate pink petals in torrents, the carpets of them being blown away on a soft breeze.
He could even scent flowers in the air, the longer the girls remained in the castle. Jasmines, honeysuckle, lilies, & gardenias. All flowers that blossomed best at nightfall, warmed themselves by the light of the waxing moon phases.
The air had even begun to taste different to them once the girls had stepped inside. Apples, freshly-picked at the height of their ripeness, the tartness of their juices, the crispness of the first bite. Luscious, ruby-coloured pomegranates, splitting & spreading apart under firm thumbs, their jewel-like seeds spilling free, the sharpness of blood-red juices the strongest taste upon their tongue. Both of them could almost feel the sweet flesh between their teeth, feel trickles running over their lips.
The Hermit remained standing proud & tall, but Heston could not. He craved such innocence too deeply, even being merged with the Hermit. He’d often found the deepest, most enlightening of magickal experiences with such maidens, when surrounded by such innocence. Even if the Hermit did not approve, it was a path he preferred to walk, & would do so alone if need be...
...
The storm grew fiercer outside, beating the windows with torrents of rain, the trees shedding blossoms & fruits all over the meadow."Excuse me?" Charissa inquired, tilting her head with a curious look on her face. "What was that you just said?
Robert shook his head with a disarming grin. "Nothing, Charissa love. Nothing at all!" He sipped from his cup, draining the last of his tea before delicately placing it on the table in front of him. "And as for my name, dear..." He tossed his head back with a flourish, sending yet another sparkling, playful grin in their direction. "Count Robert Anthony Plant at your service. Or Lord if you prefer?" His grin widened. "Lord... Lord... Lord Kidderminster of Worcestershire. And of this here Wolverhampton Manor that is... Quaint & humble abode that it is..." He added with a chuckle, remembering their earlier gaping at the ornate, palatial splendour of it all.
"I knew it!" Sibby gasped, an incredulous smile brightening her face, bouncing happily in her seat, strawberry blonde curls bouncing along.
He laughed at the young girl's youthful enthusiasm, enjoying how it only added to the strength of the energies swirling in the air, the lingering fruity scents intoxicating him all the more with each breath. Turning to Charissa he saw her energies haloing around her in an altogether different way. While Sibella's enveloped her in a warm pink glow, Charissa's energies crackled around her like what he initially termed to be similar to static. Little intermittent flickers and flashes of white light, lighting up & disappearing in a snap. But then he saw that as she cast a wary look at her enthusiastic friend, the wariness melted as she leant in to towel off a few errant lingering drips from the ends of a lock of Sibella's hair, with a small scoff & warm smile. The action in all its warm affection took the crackling flickers away, replacing them with a strong red orange glow that haloed Charissa just as Sibella had been in pink. Now he figured that it wasn't static electric energy after all that surrounded Charissa. It was fire. This notion made him chuckle lowly to himself. Well, Pagey WAS always going on to him about how Robert's star sign of Leo was a fire sign & all the things that that entailed. Perhaps he would then also say that this was yet another sign. Perhaps Robert was meant to surround himself with these girls with their respective playful bubblegum pink & fire red-orange glows. Perhaps he should then take steps to ensure that he was surrounded by them...
In a sea of pillows and blankets...
Adrift in a sea of perfumed hair & soft skin...
Lose himself in the midst of fine curves & mile long legs...
Perhaps in bed?...
Perhaps...
Perhaps...
Perhaps...
Preferably in bed.
And if Robert had anything to say about it, that was exactly where it would occur.
He just needed a way to get there.
His idea.
"You don't believe me, dear?" He asked Charissa with a cute pout. She laughed softly, nervously & shrugged. "I don't know... I don't know exactly... See, I... I... I don't know what to believe, really..."
He nodded, smiling comfortingly. "I see. Now that's perfectly alright, dear." He leant in to pat her hand in additional attempt to allay any fears or nerves that she might still have, before then rising to his feet with the announcement. "I have an idea! See, I noticed the two of you gazing at my artwork here. You seem to enjoy it. You've been admiring it this whole time!"
"Yes." Charissa nodded. "Yes, its quite gorgeous. You have a splendid collection here."
"Perfectly wonderful! The paintings, sculptures, all of it!" Sibella enthused with yet another joyful bounce.
That gave Robert the in he needed. "Thank you both very much." He said with his right hand over his heart, bowing with another flourish. "You're too kind." Grinning at the giggles that he received from the two, he then made an offer. "You haven't seen the half of it though. Which leads me to ask... How would you two lovely ladies like a tour? What do you think?"
"Ahh! Yes! Yes! Yes, of course!" Sibella enthused bouncing again. "Oh my God! Thank you so much, Lord Kidderminster! You're too kind!" As ever Charissa was a bit reluctant. "Too kind. Too, too kind. You've um... You've opened your house to us in the midst of this dreadful storm. A rather sudden storm at that! You've lent us these cloaks & towels to dry ourselves, sat us by the fire & gave us tea to warm up. You've even chatted with us. Two strangers you caught dallying around the grounds of your splendid home. You've done so much already. I'm not sure that there's much more that we could ask of you. Nor is there much more that I think that we should ask of you. I wouldn't want to impose. I'm sure that you have better things to do than waste away the rest of your evening with the likes of us. You needn't worry or trouble yourself, sir. We'll be out of your hair by morning. Or as soon as the storm lets up." Like clockwork, as if on cue as she said that a flicker of concern and something imperceptible flashed across Robert's eyes and another clap of thunder sounded startling her & Sibella into another mutually comforting embrace & the sky opened anew with another almighty downpour.
Robert just chuckled and shook his head. "Think nothing of it, my dear. Nothing at all. I'm only too glad to show my home with people who hold such interest & admiration for it. Especially two such lovely ones as yourselves." Sibella blushed & giggled at those words. Try as she might, even Charissa's cheeks colored. With that, Robert bent down & extended a hand two both girls. "Now... Shall we be off? We have a great deal to get around to..." Sibella took his hand & bounced up happily with an excited nod before looking to Charissa. Charissa met her gaze & shrugged with a sigh, taking the hand extended to her & rising as well.
Robert couldn't help but grin, now draping the girls in their capes yet again before wrapping an arm around each of them yet again & starting down the hall. "Let's go..."
The corridor they turned down was a bit dark at times what with the heaviness of the black clouds outside dimming everything quite a bit. Sibella did her best to combat this by handing her beloved books to Charissa, taking up a candle from one of the little nooks & using it to help light the way. She used it to illuminate the pieces that Robert pointed out.
"This painting dates back to the mid 1800's..." Both Sibby & Rissa were struck with the uncanny resemblance of the blonde figure in the painting to the surprisingly warm & open Count they had in their midst as he played makeshift tourguide for them. Down to the fur trimmed cape, turquoise jewelry & down to the last little blonde ringlet. It was stunning, almost eery & unnerving how close the resemblance was. Sibella gasping. "It's gorgeous! Unbelievable! Positively Pre-Raphaelite, Lord Kidderminster!" Even Charissa had to agree, nodding as she remarked. "Like a Rosetti. The warmth & attention to detail. A truly gorgeous piece. The same as that bust you last showed us. Or the sculpture of My Lord with his beloved hound, Strider."
Robert puffed up his chest with all of the favorable attention & compliments. Even if they were of his artwork & directed towards his artwork. Seeing as the pieces were primarily of him & his beloved Strider, naturally he took no small pride in the compliments of him & his "gorgeous, unbelievable, positively Pre-Raphaelite" good looks that brought to mind works by the likes of the great Rosetti. As such there was no way the smile on his face could get any bigger or any wider. "You're too kind, darlings. The both of you. And very well versed in your art history it seems. Are either of you devotees of the Brotherhood as it were?"
"Oh, yes! Those pieces are some of our favorites! We even both love Christina Rosetti! Goblin Market! All the scents & tastes! The imagery! The-- OW!" In all her enthusiasm over everything Sibella had begun to talk with her hands & in her gesticulating had tilted the candle slightly, leading it to drip hot wax onto the side of her index finger. Charissa gasped. Robert took the candle from her & moved it to a nearby shelf, moving his arms from around both of them to take Sibella's hand in both of his to inspect. He carefully peeled the wax from her finger before bringing it to his mouth to kiss it & "make it better". As he did so his gaze locked onto Sibella's as again the scent of fruit intensified at the contact, growing intoxicatingly thick. Sibella just blushed & fidgetted under the heat of his gaze, gasping softly. "Lord Kidderminster!"
In all of the commotion, neither of them noticed that Charissa's gasp wasn't for Sibella.
Well...
Not entirely...
It was more along the lines of half / half.
Half for Sibella's sudden cry at injuring herself...
And...
Half at finding herself suddenly pulled into a room behind her by a mysterious figure after which the door to the room was quickly sealed shut & locked.
At that sound however both Sibella & the Count looked back & noticed the sudden absence of the young brunette with a mutual gasp. But only Robert had anything to say about it seeing just where they were in proximity to the library, gritting out a terse & low. "PAGEY!..."
#jimmy page fanfic#jimmy page fanfiction#untilthenextencore#robert plant fanfic#robert plant fanfiction#led zeppelin fanfiction#led zeppelin fanfic
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I don’t talk much about her, but I have a hypmic OC. Her name is Shizuka/Serena and she is a hafu. Anyways, here is a little thing I wrote about her, in case anyone is interested. This is her meeting Ichiro, pre-TDD era.
It wasn't the first time Shizuka ran away from home, and it wouldn't be the last time. Being an ojou-sama meant she didn't have any freedom to go outside and play with the other children. But it also mean she was special enough not to get a severe punishment.
Her mother was a famous American actress with blonde hair and blue eyes. As the leader of a Japanese clan, Shizuka's grandfather was against the marriage of that woman to his son. However, even though he would say bad things about Shizuka's mother, he loved Shizuka deeply, even with her big blue eyes and messy black hair. She was his only grandchild, after all.
But even with all that love, she didn't feel well in that place. She hated having to act ladylike, and yet, that was the only way she knew how to act. She hated how they straighten her hair and she hated how she couldn't choose her own clothes. She hated how they changed her name—the name her loving mother gave her—so she wouldn't sound like a foreign. She hated it all. But she endure it, for her father. At least, most of the times.
Shizuka left in the early morning, before anyone could had seen her. She tried to pass as a commoner, but she wondered if she even had clothes that didn't scream rich child. She was already 15 years old! When would she be able to buy her own clothes?
But despite that, it wasn't like Shizuka hated her clothes. She had some beautiful kimonos and hair ornaments, but they were a source of too much attention.
Shizuka decided to wear a light blue kimono, with a hair ornament from her mother—her only memento. Then, she left, with few money in her purse.
It was the first time Shizuka visited that area. She had two reasons to do so: she wanted to visit a new place and it was far from her home, so it would take a while for her family members and bodyguards to find her.
She smelled something nice and her stomach growled. That was when she realized she hadn't had breakfast. Maybe she could buy some tarts or fruits…
Then, Shizuka heard something. Was it a fight? No, it didn't look like so. A man with two different eye colors was beating up some child. He was robbing him.
Shizuka was shocked by what she was seeing but something inside her told her to run, not away, but near the bully. Then, she remembered what her father once told her.
“You are so courageous, Shizuka. Just like your mother.”
And so, Shizuka slipped and fell between them.
“Ah, I forgot I was wearing sandals.”
Both the bully and his victim stared at her while she got up, as if she was the craziest person they had met.
“Stop!” Shizuka screamed, massaging her own head. Ouch. “Don’t fight!”
“Huh?” The bully asked. Was he also a foreign? What incredible eyes. “Who the fuck are you?!”
“It doesn't matter!” Shizuka said with her pitch a little up, but instead of scaring them or making them pay attention to what she had to say, it only made her sound childish. “You should just stop! Fighting is wrong!”
“What the hell man…” The bully sighed and when he noticed, his victim had ran away. He tried to catch up to him but it was too late.
“Hey…! You…! Fuck!”
The man sighed again, that time looking angrier—and he was angry at Shizuka. Ok, she wanted to ran away. But at least the fight was over.
“You got what you want,” The man spoke. But what are you going to do about this, huh?”
“A-a-about what?” Shizuka asked with her low voice.
“Money! Of course it's money!”
“Ah!” Shizuka exclaimed, remembering about the money in her purse. “I can give you some money…”
“You… You've got money?” The man stared, wide-eyed. Then, he finally realized.
“Wait. Those clothes… That hair ornament…”
No!
“Of course. I should've known sooner. Sorry for my rudeness, ojou-sama.” The man said sarcastically, whispering the last word.
He took her purse from her hands.
“Ah!” Shizuka exclaimed, shocked.
“I will be taking this. Thank you for your kindness, ojou-sama.”
“... Don't…”
“And just so you know, I hate rich people.”
“... My phone!”
The man ignored her and walked away, leaving her without any money in a place she didn't know.
He left before she could tell him “me too! I also hate them!” and even though she knew where he went, she didn't move, completely frozen.
It was ironic. She had ran away to feel free, but she only had felt more dependent. She wanted to go home.
And, as if reading her thoughts, her family quickly appeared, finding her sitting on the floor, with tears flowing through her face.
“Shizuka!” That voice… it certainly belonged to her grandfather.
“I'm sorry grandfather… I'm a bad granddaughter… I'm so stupid…”
He didn't say anything, just hugged her tightly.
“Tell me, what happened? We were so worried about you… I love you, Shizuka.”
“A-a-a man took my money away. And my phone t-t-too.”
“Did you see where did he go?”
Shizuka knew. She also knew her grandfather could take care of him in an instant. But she also knew the man wasn't a bad person. That was what she felt. Despite what he had done to her and to the boy earlier. She trusted him, while remembering his words.
Shizuka shook her head.
“No. I didn't see him.”
Shizuka's grandfather sighed, while her dad ran to hug her too.
“Let's go home, then. We will be deciding on your punishment later.”
“What?! Are you sure you are going to punish her, father?!” Shizuka's father spoke.
“Of course. What happened was unfortunately, but none of this would have happened if she had behaved herself.”
Too tired from crying, Shizuka just nodded. That seemed fair enough. That was how her grandfather did things. She didn't expect him to change so soon.
“You are right, grandfather. Let's go home.”
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