#i miss kaylee i hope she is well

[hyunjins-orange-slice-too]

dear JYP, i pray to thee,

please let kaylee feel well enough to come off hiatus and please let VCHA open for stray kids on this upcoming tour.

amen 🙏🏻

[richeeduvie]

heyyyy same anon that ask abt bullying princesa….and thinking of 2 scenarios

1. princesa stalking lalo (not really ig maybe observing at best) in their early relationship

she has his number when they met in the park and maybe she wants to (or hope to) go out with him right? so in the short period of time after dropping kaylee. she goes to the local store (or the mall again) to buy new clothes in hope she will have a chance to use it.

she gets there and really surprised that lalo is there too and hes looking around (maybe with one of his members). and then he stop in front of the skirt section and look at this particular flared skirt a little too long and walk away. and she walks to it tries it on and buys it. she feels like a fricking creep but also she wants to be the prettiest girl hes ever seen so she just guiltily buy it.

and there is just this creepy ass lalo in the corner watch her buying that skirt. thinking and thinking. he feels flattered knows that she bought the skirt hes interested in.

basically it just lalo makes himself known without interacting “to make it less suspicious since they just met in the park”. and princesa is princesa so she wont make a move to him first.

or 2 shes looking around and when she picks on that skirt then BOOOM lalo comes out of nowhere and “have a friendly little chat with her” - full on flirting and bullying and saying something like “oh you will definitely look pretty in this” while shes blushing like crazy and on the verge to pass out- then he makes some half ass excuse and skedadle out of there (yes ans without paying it because again they are not “official” yet) then watch her buys the skirt from a corner.

Princesa is so stereotypical. Pretty girl that doesn't know she's pretty like if you don't stand up, woman!!! But you know her so well (you are her but) that she is buying any article of clothing Lalo has his eye on. She's not even gonna realize that flared skirts are her style. Or the style she can afford. Slutty but holy vintage housewife/hollywood starlet is not in her budget just yet. She needs Lalo for that.

She wonders why he picked out the skirt to look like, what Lalo was thinking of, again, not realizing that that's what she wears, but her hands fiddle with the material, head tilting down and to the side.

Guilt follows her down the aisle. It's creepy, it's unneeded. She's buying it for what? To impress a man that she never might see again? Why does she want that?

Princesa's quiet when it's purchased, scratching her neck and arm. Lalo could tsk a tease as he watches her. But Dios mio. Does everything hot rush in, everything like a tease. What a girl. He puts his thumb to lips, then he smiles.

"How sweet you are."

Princesa already burns when there's someone calling out to her from behind. That voice. Slightly low and throaty, already ready with charm.

And a bullying she doesn't know is happening.

"Look at us, meeting again already. What did you treat yourself to, hm?"

"Oh, hi."

Lalo already laughs. She didn't answer his question, but that's okay.

"What's got you so scared-looking? Can't be me, can it? All I did was ask you a question."

"I-I just...I'm just surprised to see you."

He smiles wide. "But you're happy to see me?"

Princesa nods quickly. Lalo ahs.

"You good girl. I'm happy to see you!"

Princesa's eyes widen. She thinks she might die. That she might fall over, or trip over her own feet if she decides to run. She wants to so badly, but she can't stop staring at him. She can't look at him either.

"I don't mean to put my nose in your things, miss - just curious."

"Just...just a skirt. I thought I would buy something I like."

"Can I see?"

Lalo seeing her like this, like her little heart is about to fall out of her chest. He doesn't want to think so cockily, but it gets him warm. He wants to hold and tease her all at once. He can only do one.

And Princesa doesn't want to deny him. She couldn't ever really, even if she doesn't know it. But at the same time, the thought of Lalo seeing the skirt makes her stomach flip and her nerves bloom. Like it's spring, but she could sweat like it's July. But August has never been hotter.

"Sure, only if you want."

"I did ask."

Princesa blinks, then sniffles. Lalo pats her shoulder.

"I'm only teasing."

Then she smiles, slightly and warm against the way he's touched her. Only her heart knows how bad it's getting. She opens the bag and Lalo peeks in.

He smiles with his teeth apart.

"Ah, what a pretty skirt. What made you buy this?"

"I-I just...I don't know, I thought it was pretty."

Even though this girl couldn't know he knows, the embarrassment on her perfect, little and stressed face is enough for Lalo's body to roll in a fire.

"I do think it's pretty too. You will definitely look like it in this."

Princesa wants to pull her body in herself. She smile shakes and her shoulders roll. She'll run soon, but her legs are jelly and she's afraid she'll fall into the floor if she tries to.

Lalo smiles with all the smugness in the world, looking down at her.

"Thank you. I have to...I have to go. I'll see you around."

His brows curve. Then one raises. "You won't call?"

Princesa stiffens. She's not doing anything right and she wants to keep staring at him.

She looks to the floor.

"I-"

"I'm only joking, funny girl. Do what you want. But I'll talk to you later."

He'll see her later, whenever she gets home.

Go now. He'll know just where to find you. Run off.

"Bye."

She says it quickly before she's out of his sight. All the blood is rushing to her face and Princesa will feel stupid that it lingers there long after her time with him.

Lalo smiles before he doesn't, making sure he's in time to follow her home. Not a good thing that she takes the bus.

[jillsandwhichs]

Cleon Oneshots/AUs Collection , Chap 6 , Still Loveable

Masterlist

Pairing: Claire Redfield & Leon Kennedy

Summary: Claire gets hurt during a mission at terrasave & Leon visits her in the hospital

Status of their relationship in this oneshot: Dating

WC: 2.5k

Type: Sfw

A/n: Hi! Hope you all enjoy. Please check out my masterlist, there's a lot of stuff there. You can get to know me, you can see the rules of my blog and then you can see all of my fanfictions. You'll be able to find the previous chapters to this fic and upcoming ones. You'll also be able to find my Wattpad & AO3. Thank you

The bright white lights were beaming in the tranquil, pristine room. It was also quite a small room, clearly meant for only one person to be staying in, but it was extensive enough to allow visitors to stay in. It smelt very bland, as if it had no smell, it was a boring scent. There weren't many windows either, just a few along the left wall, which showed the busy outside world, people who were actually able to live their lives outside of a hospital.

Claire didn't like it here - she absolutely despised being in the hospital. If only she would've been more careful, she wouldn't have ended up here, in this plain, depressing room. All she wanted was to be back at her house, laying in her bed and watching TV or reading a book. Here, she can still do that, but not like she can back home. Now she doesn't even know when she'll be out of here, the nurses haven't given her a clear set time yet.

Her entire left side hurt, it was beyond bruised up, it was all black and purple. Her left arm was also banged up too, having red scratch marks all down it and a huge dried bloody scab on her elbow. Her body hurt, but it wasn't an unbearable pain. She's sure if she was in the comfort of her own home, she would feel a whole lot better. But alas, she has to stay here to make sure no further damage occurs to her well being.

Not only does she miss her home, Claire also misses being at work. Despite her mission at TerraSave causing her to get hurt, she doesn't really care, she just wants to get back out in the world and work, it's her ultimate passion and it's all she ever wants to do aside from being home. She misses some of her co workers, luckily a few of them have visited her. Gabe is the one she misses most, the two have a tight bond, he's like a second brother to her.

All Claire was trying to do was get her mind off of the fact she's rotting in a hospital bed mid day, when she could be at work, being productive and useful. She feels lazy, which is a feeling she hasn't even felt since her days in college, back then she was lazy, she'll admit that. Although, it's kind of hard to keep her mind off of it when all she can even hear is the sounds of the lights buzzing above her, they were clearly old and in utter need of being replaced.

Once she's all healed up, the first thing she's doing is going to HQ and asking when the next upcoming mission will be ; that is if they even let her go on one. TerraSave happens to be rather safe than sorry and sometimes they'll force workers to take breaks from serious missions after a messy injury, which Claire has sadly suffered. It's like all she can think about - working and being home.

Whilst Claire was deep in thought, she hadn't even noticed a nurse walk in. The woman seemed young, even younger than Claire. She finds it admirable that young people are working towards such tough and hard working jobs ; a nurse being a great example of that. It encourages her more than anything. "Hi Claire, I'm Kaylee, it's nice to meet you, your usual nurse had the day off today so I'm here just to check in on you!" Kaylee spoke, her tone kind. "Oh, yeah, sure." Claire responded, attempting to sit up.

"Oh, no hun, just stay layed down... You did a lot of damage to yourself." Kaylee chuckled to herself, seeming very friendly. "Yeah, guess that's what happens when you work in the force though." "I imagine so... TerraSave, correct?" "Yes, that's the organization I work for." Claire responded, her eyes gandering up at the nurse. "What's your position there?" Kaylee questioned, holding a clipboard in one hand and a pen in the other, most likely needing to gather some info from Claire.

"I'm a representative for the company." Claire answered, sliding some of her loose hair behind her ear, although it hurt her arm a bit, she still wasn't recovered at all. "Nice... And your organization just basically helps people and the aftermath of terrorist attacks? Or just attacks in general?" "Pretty much, yeah." Claire spoke, her tone brittle. "I see now... And how exactly did you end up injuring yourself?" "Well, I was on top of this steel platform, trying to get a better angle of where our missing chopper was, because it literally vanished, then boom, the platform starts swaying and I fell from it onto a rock, it fucking hurt." Claire snorted, rubbing her temple. "I bet." Kaylee replied, her tone empathetic.

"I'm honestly surprised you're okay, for the most part. You bruised your ribs pretty good and your entire arm is scratched up and it's swelled... Like a lot... You're a tough girl." Kaylee complimented, placing the clipboard down. "Thanks, I try." Claire tittered, sighing deeply to herself, her eyes staring down at the white marble floor, Claire imagined it was cold to be barefoot on, but at least the cot was warm enough.

"Alright well, thank you for answering those questions, I appreciate any information I can get." Kaylee stated, smiling kindly at Claire before speaking once more, "Oh and by the way, Barbara, the receptionist currently working told me that you have a visitor on the way, not much has been told to me but I know their name is Leon, does that ring any bells?" Kaylee asked, seeming skeptical. "Oh, yes, that's my boyfriend. Jesus, in all honesty I forgot about him." Claire giggled, she wasn't being serious but she won't lie, he wasn't on her mind much.

"Don't worry, you hit your head and got hurt, you tend to worry about yourself more than others which is valid in this situation but I'll keep your secret." Kaylee reassured her. "Thanks." Claire chuckled, folding her arms. "Yeah... Anywho, I'll see you soon, I'll check your vitals and all that good stuff in about an hour or two, will you be okay until then?" "Yeah, don't worry about me!" Claire expressed, giving Kaylee the queue to know she could leave not worrisome. "Okay then, just hit the button on the right side of your cot to alert a nurse and one of us will come to you, sound good?" "Yep!" "Alrighty then, bye bye Claire." Kaylee said with a bright, cheerful grin before walking out of the room.

Breathing out deeply, Claire reverted her eyes to the TV directly in front of her bed. It was a small, black square one and it was mounted onto the wall. What was playing was Steve Irwin, the guy was playing with some Cheetahs, it was adorable. Sadly, the man had passed away not to long ago, Claire remembered how girls at her high school fawned over him. She has no doubt girls will continue doing it once his son is older.

Through the small windows in the compact room, Claire spotted a few different breeds of birds finding their ways to the sills of them, relaxing and pecking away at whatever goods they were able to acquire. Claire adored wildlife, it was so natural, like truly. It isn't even debatable. It sort of kept her mind off of the fact she was hurt pretty badly, but nevertheless, she would recover soon, it's just a matter of time.

Lost in her own thoughts, Claire was startled when she suddenly heard the door creak open, black shoes were visible from the bottom, indicating it was Leon. He must've just gotten out of work, he dresses quite nicely for it too. "Leon?" Claire spoke aloud, hoping it'd be him. "I'm here babygirl." He said back to her, opening the door fully to show himself off. He looked as handsome as ever.

"Hi." Claire mumbled, tilting her head upwards, catching a glimpse of his face. "Hi baby... You doing okay?" Leon questioned, striding over to her cot and immediately grabbing her hand, knowing to be careful, despite it being her not damaged arm. "Yes, I'm okay, just sore and hungry." Claire responded, her voice soft & timid. "I imagine honey, I heard you had quite the fall. Pedro told me you were unconscious afterwards, I wish I could've been there, my love." Leon spoke with sincere, he felt horrible that he couldn't be there for her the day it happened.

"It's okay, you were at work, you aren't obligated to come to my rescue." Claire tittered, beaming at him with love plastered on her face. "I kind of am though..." Leon whispered, caressing her hand with his thumb. "You said you were hungry?" "Yeah, I haven't eaten since yesterday, before all this happened." Claire chuckled, sighing deeply to herself. "I can pick you up some food here in a bit, I don't need you trying to eat this shitty hospital food." Leon snickered, firmly holding her hand, making sure she knew he was there for her.

"It's okay, I'll live." "No, I insist, I can get you whatever you'd like, from wherever." Leon insisted, sitting down in the chair beside her hospital bed, being careful to not bump anything. "Well... A bagel from the bakery sounds good." Claire giggled, gazing up at her man. "You ask and you shall receive." Leon smirked down at his girl. "Before you go, just stay here for a bit, it's been literally two days since I've seen you." "Okay beautiful, I'm more than happy to stay here with you... When will you be able to come home?" "Don't know yet, I imagine I'll find out when the nurse checks my vitals again." Claire replied.

"Okay. Whenever you're able to, whether it be tonight or tomorrow or whenever, I'll bring you back to my place, it'll be safer that way. Pedro told me you're getting some time off, he told me you were pretty rough looking." Leon heaved, letting go of her hand and moving it to her hair, slowly running his fingers through it. "I bet I was." Claire blew out, adjusting her upper half and attempting to turn her body to get a better view of Leon. "No, just stay there, you're so stubborn." Leon chuckled. "I just wanna be able to move again." "Give it a day or two babygirl."

Claire cutely rolled her eyes and let out another deep breath, she seemed very bored of this place, which Leon didn't blame her. He wishes that she could be home, with him. It's all he wanted for her. "Come here." Leon mumbled, standing up and drawing himself closer to her body, embracing her with open arms. Claires lips formed a half smile whilst she wrapped her right arm around him, using her fingers to grasp onto his shirt.

Leon nuzzled his head into her neck, breathing gently and taking in this moment with stride. He was grateful she was okay, he doesn't know what he would've done if she would've gotten more injured than she already is, or worse. Leon can't imagine a world where Claire isn't his soulmate. "I'm glad you're ok." Leon uttered out in her ear, kissing her cheek a couple times before officially pulling away. "I love you Claire." "Me too and I love you more, Leon." Claire said, her heart was swelling with care and love for him.

"Do I look dumb at all? My hair is a mess, I haven't showered in two days and my entire left side is just beyond beat up... Ugh..." Claire scoffed. "No, no babygirl, you look fantastic always. You could like..." Leon stopped in thought before finishing his sentence, "You could have literal shit smeared on your face and I'd still view you as perfection." Leon laughed, lightening the mood. "Ew, you sicko." Claire chortled, slapping his arm lightly. "Just speaking my mind." He mumbled out to her.

"Oh, by the way, Chris let me know he's gonna fly down from New York to check on you. I wouldn't dare try and deny his request." Leon joked, he somewhat feared Chris but respectively. "What? Why? I'm fine! That's a waste of money, he has absolutely no reason. Oh Jesus." Claire groaned out. She wasn't a teenager anymore, yet he still tries his best to take care of like she is. "Hun, he's your big brother, he's going to worry." "I get that, yes, but it's beyond unnecessary, I'm okay." "Well, it's your problem now, not mine." Leon teased, pinching her cheek playfully.

Leon leaned over towards her face and planted a gentle, warm kiss on her lips, breathing in her scent as he did so. He felt a load of sorrow deep within him. Seeing his girlfriend hurt like this was the last sight he wanted to bare. And when she had asked, "Do I look dumb?" He just felt his heart break a little bit. He was never much of the soppy type, but Claire has definitely made him softer, more affectionate. She will always be his love, she'll always be loveable, no matter what state she's in.

He kept the kiss going for a bit longer, very lightly touching her hip considering it was the bruised up one. Claire's right hand held onto his forearm, her eyes were closed too. "I just wish I could've visited you sooner, I'm sorry that I was working." Leon spoke, his tone blue. "No need honey, I understand. I'm just appreciative that you're here now, that's all that matters Leon." "I'm glad beautiful. I'll make sure you get home soon, I don't need you stuck here in a hospital." "Trust me, I know." Claire tittered. "I can't wait to get back to work." Claire exclaimed.

"Well sweetheart, I hope you understand you aren't going back anytime soon, you need time to heal, you could've... You just really got hurt, alright?" "I'll go back whenever I feel okay." Claire pleaded. "No Claire, you'll go back once your body is okay. You're so stubborn and so damn ambitious, it's attractive." Leon laughed, telling her how he felt. "I got my ways." Claire snickered. "But seriously, I want to get back to work asap, I hate being lazy, you know that." "This isn't lazy, this is called recovery, you need it babygirl." Leon persisted. "Fine." Claire sighed, laying her head back onto the hard yet comfortable white pillow.

"You're dramatic." Leon teased, plopping back down into the chair and gleaming at her. "How about I go get your bagel, how's that sound?" "Yes, please, I can feel my empty stomach each time I move." Claire chuckled, tossing her right hand onto her lower stomach. "Ok. I'll be back soon, just hang tight and don't fall asleep on me, yeah?" Leon spoke, pulling his head down to hers and pecking her forehead with carefulness.

"I'll be back, I love you." Leon stated, kissing her lips quickly before beginning to tread lightly out of Claire's hospital room. "Love you more handsome." Claire responded, waving goodbye with her healed hand.

[jj-nhlgirly]

Summer of Love:- Sticks & Stones

Jack Hughes x F!Reader

AN this was requested by @astars-things thank you so much for requesting I hope you enjoy! This is a longer one again. Also to the anon who requested I will be starting that now so should be out either tonight or tomorrow.

TW:- swearing, slut shaming, assault (once), psycho and gold digger curse, seizures. I think that’s it, if I’ve missed anything please let me know.

(Not my gif, credits to who made it. I’ve also put the song I’ve mentioned further down so you can listen if you wish.)

Mackenzie woke up to the feeling of soft kisses being placed around her face, fluttering her eyes open, she saw Jack leaning over her smiling down greeting her with “Good morning beautiful.” Mackenzie smiled “good morning handsome” leaning up to kiss him. Jack pulled away sliding off the bed, reaching out to help Mackenzie up.

“Come on, we have a very special day planned” Jack smiled before helping her into the shower, leaving her in peace as he picked out an outfit for her to wear leaving it on the bed.

“Kenz?” Jack knocked on the bathroom door, “yeah babe?” He heard a muffled Mackenzie call out. “I’ve put some clothes on the bed for you, do you need any help before I go downstairs?” Jack offered, “erm I should be fine? Just gotta shave my legs” Mackenzie muffled out again, “want me to help?” Jack offered, “if you could that would be great.”

Walking into the bathroom, Jack found Kenzie with the shaving cream in one hand trying to grab her razor off the counter. Grabbing the can from Kenzie, Jack squirted some foam into his hand, he squatted on the floor and rubbed it down one of her wet legs, turning to reach for her pink razor and began shaving. “What are we up to today then lover boy?” Mackenzie asked, looking down at Jack.

“Well that’ll ruin the surprise, but just know you’re gonna love it” Jack promised before changing legs and shaving the other one. “Am I getting a new car? Since my one is no longer with us” Kenzie teased but before Jack could answer a voice called out from the bedroom, “Kenz? Are you here?” Kaylee’s voice filled the bathroom.

“Yeah just showering, Jacks here” Kenzie replied warning her best friend in case what she wanted was something personal. “Ooo sexy shower time I see” Kaylee teased, Mackenzie bursts out laughing “he’s shaving my legs Kay. it’s hardly sexy but what do you need? Everything ok?”

“Oh yeah, I’m taking some tampons, where are they?” Kaylee asked, “In the zipped side of the turquoise case babes, you want me to pick you some up from the store whilst Jack and I are out?” Kenzie offered, “yeah if you could, and some m & m’s?” Kaylee replied, walking over to the case, grabbing a few.

“Yeah of course, can you keep an eye on Skylar whilst I’m out?” Kenzie asked, “girl you know I’ve been keeping an eye on the both of you my whole life, you don’t even have to ask. Enjoy your day out, I love you both” and with that Kaylee left.

“Ok my love, you are all good”Jack said, wiping the excess cream with a washcloth. Jack stood up reaching into the shower to turn the water off before grabbing a towel to wrap around Mackenzie, leading her back to the bedroom.

“Do you need anymore help babe?” Jack asked, wrapping his arms around her from behind, placing a kiss on her cheek.

“Yeah if you could tie my shirt and clasp my bra” Kenzie turned in his arms, leaning up and pouting her lips out for a kiss, Jack leans down giving her a kiss before reaching for her white bra and helping her put it on, along with tying the straps of her shirt.

Leaving her to finish up getting ready, Jack heads downstairs to make them breakfast, opting for a small fruit salad. Skylar walks in sitting at the breakfast bar eating a pot of yoghurt, “Hey Sky, you want some fruit salad?” Jack offers her looking over his shoulder, Skylar however ignores him.

Furrowing his eyebrows, Jack continues making breakfast before glancing over at Skylar just to see her gone. “Kenz baby, breakfast is ready” Jack shouts up the stairs hearing the soft padding footsteps of his girlfriend walking towards the stairs.

After eating breakfast, the couple head out in Jack's car, Jack reversing slowly out of the driveway before driving down the road. “So do I at least get to know where we’re going?” Mackenzie questioned lifting an eyebrow, Jack chuckled at his girlfriends impatience. “No baby, it’s gonna be fun though” Jack promised. “How do I know that you haven’t made me dress all pretty just to murder me?” Mackenzie huffed out.

Jack laughed “well firstly you look beautiful no matter what, secondly if I wanted to kill you why would I wait nearly 3 years to do it? Surely I’d have just killed you at the party or on our first date” Jack pointed out.

“Maybe you just fell for this sweet piece of ass and your plan was foiled” Mackenzie pointed out, “Maybe my only plan was to trick you into dating me, looks like it worked eh?” Jack teased.

“Wasn’t hard to be tricked with that gorgeous face of yours, or your personality. You had me as soon as I walked through the door, just hoped you’d make the first move” Mackenzie admitted, “oh really? Well since we’re admitting things from that night, my breath hitched in my throat as soon as you walked in, I’d never seen anyone as beautiful as you” Jack replied, smirking as Mackenzie’s cheeks flushed red.

“You're just saying that because you got laid last night” Mackenzie tried to cool her cheeks down by changing the subject.

“Mhmm keep changing the subject baby, I knew you thought I was hot, Freya came over to me and told me. Said to make a move on “the small blonde girl in the black dress, she thinks you’re hot” Jack admitted.

Mackenzie groaned, “ugh she wasn’t meant to tell anyone let alone the guy i was talking about! That's so embarrassing. Would you have approached me though?”

Jack furrowed his eyebrows, “what do you mean?” “Like had Freya not told you I thought you were hot. Would you have still approached me and asked me to dance?” Kenzie questioned, it wasn’t a trick question or anything she was just curious.

Jack sighed out, “honestly?” Looking over as Mackenzie nodded. “Yeah I would have, granted I thought you’d for sure have a boyfriend. Like a girl as gorgeous as you shouldn’t have been single but I thank my lucky stars you were. I dunno what it was but as soon as our eyes locked I was drawn in. I knew I had to at least try, I thought you knew who i was which made it scarier if you rejected me. Especially in front of the Scooby gang.”

Mackenzie laughed, “I was gonna approach you, you know but you had Trev and Cole with you and I felt a little intimidated and I wasn’t sure if you were interested” Jack laughed, “They’re the least intimidating guys!”

“How was I supposed to know that!” Mackenzie laughed out, reaching for Jack's hand that rested on the gear stick, giving it a gentle squeeze. “Because Trev looks like a damn teddy bear? You literally call him Trevy-bear” Jack deadpanned.

“Careful Jacky, your jealousy is showing” Mackenzie teased giggling as Jack rolled his eyes, before focusing on the road.

The couple soon arrived at their first destination of the day, the Starbucks drive through. “Hi I’m Melanie, welcome to Starbucks, can I take your order?” A female voice spoke through the speaker, “Hi Melanie, can I get a grande pineapple passion fruit refresher and a grande strawberry acai lemonade?” Jack spoke out the window.

“Sure thing, that’ll be $7.95. Drive round” Melanie responded as Jack drove round to the next window, as he pulled up Jack reached into the cup holder for his wallet. Mackenzie however pushed his hand away and grabbed her purse pulling out a 10 dollar bill. “I’ve got this one baby” Mackenzie passed him the bill, “baby this was my date idea let me pay” Jack pouted.

“Just pay for the next one bubs” Mackenzie kissed his cheek and placed the $10 dollars in his hand. “Fine” Jack huffed out before passing the money to the worker. Driving to the next window for their drinks, Jack placed his in the empty cup holder, passing Mackenzie hers.

Jack began driving again, heading in the direction of the mall. Mackenzie looked over at Jack confused, “why are we heading for the mall baby? We don’t need anything?” Mackenzie questioned.

“I was thinking we could have a look around, and I need to pick up a package” Jack replied, focusing on the road. “Oh ok bubs, maybe we can look in Victoria secret?” Mackenzie smirked knowing how awkward

and embarrassed Jack felt, going into the store.

“Maybe you can look as I pick up my package?” Jack suggested. Mackenzie shrugged, assuming the package was some new equipment he needed for hockey as he’d been talking about getting some new grip tape and pucks for practice at the house.

Arriving at the mall, Jack parked. Grabbing his phone and wallet, Jack climbed out before walking around and opening the door for Kenzie. Mackenzie climbed out with Jack's help, reaching up on her tiptoes to give him a kiss on the cheek as a thank you.

The couple made their way to the mall entrance, Jack reaching out to grab Kenzie’s good hand to hold, swinging them as they walked. Mackenzie pointed out Victoria Secret, “can we go in here? I wanna see if they have the jacket Kaylee was talking about.”

“Why don’t you have a look around whilst I go and get my package? And I’ll meet you here” Jack leaned down to give her a kiss as he walked away.

Mackenzie walked into the store reaching for a basket as she passed the door, glancing to the left she saw the clothing section. Reaching up she grabbed two of the track jackets Kaylee was talking about, one in a royal blue for Kaylee and the other in a mauve brown for herself.

Further into the store, Mackenzie spotted the underwear section. Looking around the sale section she picked up a few bra and pantie sets, as well as some sports bras for Kaylee and herself. Walking to the cashier, she also picked up some body mists to go with the other things she’d picked up for Kaylee’s birthday presents. After paying, Mackenzie walked out and waited for Jack.

Meanwhile, Jack was at a jewellery store. He’d placed an order a few days ago for two gold chained necklaces, one for him and one for Kenzie. Jack’s necklace was a thick chain with a M charm and the number 27 on it as that was Mackenzie’s hockey number. Mackenzie’s necklace was still a thick chain but slightly slimmer than Jack's one, it had a J charm and the number 86, Jack's hockey number. After looking over both necklaces, Jack was happy with them and so the worker boxed them up separately and Jack paid.

Jack made his way back to Victoria secret to see Mackenzie standing outside holding two bags. “Hey baby” Jack greeted leaning down to give her a peck on the cheek. “Hey bubs, are you ready?” Mackenzie reached her hand out to grab his hand as Jack took the bags off her.

“Yeah, you wanna walk around for a little?” Jack suggested, Mackenzie nodded as they walked off. “Can we go to Sephora? I need to pick up a few things for Kaylee’s birthday present” Kenzie asked, Jack nodded before replying “as long as you help me pick out a present for her.”

With Jack and Mackenzie dating for nearly 3 years, and Kaylee being Kenzie’s best friend, the two had become close friends, and every year Kaylee and Jack brought each other presents for their birthdays and Christmas. It started out with Kaylee buying Jack a small gift for Christmas the first year the couple had started dating. Kenzie could recall Jack pacing in her dorm bedroom panicking as he hadn’t gotten Kaylee anything, a quick mall trip later solved that.

“Sure bubs, you have any ideas?” Kenzie asked as they walked through the doors of Sephora, Jack grabbing a basket. “Hmm a few, not much though” Jack sighed out, “well why don’t you get her something for our trip coming up?” Mackenzie suggested, “I wouldn’t even know where to begin with that, what size do I get? What does she need?” Jack began thinking, trailing behind Mackenzie as she made her way to the Clinique counter picking up a lip gloss and putting it in the basket before turning and walking over to Fenty.

Mackenzie sighed, picking up a few pieces from Fenty, “why don’t you get her those and a dress from PacSun?” Jack looked into the basket, “will she like those? Would that be enough?” Jack worriedly asked. Mackenzie giggled, she thought it was sweet that he cared about her best friend so much, “she’ll love it baby, don’t worry.”

After checking out of Sephora, they headed to PacSun. Finding some cute dresses, Mackenzie picked two out in Kaylee’s size. Before picking out a few for herself in her size, also buying the one Jack picked out for her, although he insisted on buying all of it.

Leaving PacSun, Mackenzie and Jack walked hand in hand back to the car. Jack placed the bags in the trunk as Mackenzie waited for Jack to open her door, knowing he liked being a gentleman because “his mom raised him right” his words not hers.

Pulling out of the parking lot, the couple made a brief stop at Target so Mackenzie could pick up tampons and m&m’s for Kaylee as she promised.

“What do you wanna do now baby?” Jack asked as he pulled out of the Target parking lot, Mackenzie holding Jacks hand. “Hmmm, wanna go to the movies?” Kenzie suggested, “sure babe, we haven’t been for a while” Jack replied indicating left to head towards the movie theatre.

The couple walked into the theatre after parking, Jack went to get the tickets whilst Mackenzie went to grab the snacks, She chose popcorn and a large cherry cola for them to share. Jack walked over to her with the tickets, grabbing the popcorn from her as she struggled to hold it all with one arm, and led her to the screening room, sitting down. Jack placed the drink in the cup holder in between him and the empty seat beside him, placing the straw in, he placed the popcorn on the free seat next to him.

Jack draped his arm across Kenzie’s shoulders lifting the arm rest between them so Kenzie could cuddle into him. Leaning up Mackenzie pouted her lips out, tapping Jack's thigh so he’d look down. Laughing softly, Jack leaned down to kiss her as the advertisements started.

What was meant to be an innocent kiss, soon started heating up. Jack pulled away first just as the movie started, Mackenzie snuggling into the crook of his neck, Jack leaned his head down to rest on hers. Placing soft kisses to her head every now and then throughout the movie,feeding her pieces of popcorn, and holding the cup as she sipped.

The movie finished 2 hours later, just as it was starting to get dark. Jack drives back to the house, deciding on taking the scenic route, pulling over. Reaching for his phone Jack played ilym, climbing out and helping Kenzie out. He pulled her into him, Kenzie wrapping her arms around his neck loosely, Jack placing his hands on her hips as they slow danced in the field.

After the song ended they climbed back in the car, heading back home. Until Mackenzie saw a carnival and begged Jack to go, not that it took much convincing. Jack paid for some tokens much to Mackenzie’s dismay as she wanted to buy them. The two headed for the basketball stand, Jack winning her a small blue turtle. Jack wanted to go on the bumper cars but due to Mackenzie still having a broken arm and ribs, she stayed out watching him. She loved watching him smile, his smile was one of the many reasons why she fell in love with him.

They went on the ferris wheel last, watching the amazing view of Michigan. When Mackenzie was distracted Jack pulled out the two necklaces, tapping Kenzie on the shoulder as he pulled out her box. Mackenzie gasped softly, “Jack” she warned, tears already pooling at her eyes. “Before you get too emotional, this isn’t a proposal” Jack smiled at her. Mackenzie relaxed slightly, whilst there was no doubt in her mind that she wanted to marry him, they’d had the discussion and both agreed they weren’t quite ready yet.

“Mackenzie, you’ve truly changed my life for the better. If someone asked me where I wanted to be in the next 5 years, I’d say it didn’t matter as long as you were by my side, you make me the best version of myself, I love you unconditionally and endlessly, so I give you this necklace as a reminder that no matter how far apart we are on roadies, I’ll always be with you and you’ll always be with me” Jack finished as he opened the box to reveal the J86 necklace. Mackenzie was crying as she leaned forward and placed a hand on his cheek, kissing him passionately. Pulling away, resting her forehead on his, “Jack, that was so beautiful. The necklace is so beautiful, I love you so much.”

Mackenzie grabbed the necklace, passing it to Jack and pulling her hair to one side as he clasped it around her neck, “we need to get you one now bubs.” “Already one step ahead of you” Jack said, pulling the other box out and revealing the other necklace, Jack went to put it on before Mackenzie stopped him “Wait, let me give you a heartfelt speech.”

Wiping her tears, she looked into his blue eyes, “Jack, when my dad left I thought I was unlovable, trapped in a world that deemed me unworthy of the special kinda love, that I wasn't worth loving but then I met you and you showed me that that wasn’t true. You taught me how to love and what it feels like to be loved, you make me feel like the only girl in the world. You are so sweet, gentle, caring, beautiful inside and out. You are so effortlessly you and I can’t believe I get to call you mine, I wake up every day feeling like I’m dreaming. Like I’m living in a fairytale and I’ve found my Prince Charming. I love you more than anything in this world” Mackenzie finished reaching for the necklace so Jack could clasp it. Stepping back onto the ground, Jack kissed her, pouring every emotion he felt into the kiss as did she.

The pair walked back to the car, driving back to the lake house, screaming out the lyrics to their playlist songs, laughing at the strange looks they got from passing cars. Pulling into the driveway at 9:30PM, shutting off the car, Jack walked to the trunk grabbing the bags as Kenzie undid her seatbelt. Jack opened her door for her in passing, opening the door and holding it open for her as they walked in. Jack headed straight for their bedroom to drop the bags off, he headed for Trevor, Kaylee’s and Quinn’s room next with Kaylee’s Target bag. Finding Kaylee and Trevor cuddled on their airbed, “well this looks cosy” Jack teased.

Trevor looked up at Jack, “hey buddy, how was your date? Did you give her the thing?” Kaylee’s head shot up from Trevor’s chest. “What thing?” Kaylee asked confused, “Jack brought Kenzie and himself matching necklaces, with each other's hockey number and initials on them” Trevor answered.

“Awww Jacky boy, that's so sweet!! Did you give it to her?” Kaylee smiled. “Yeah, gave it to her at the top of the ferris wheel, gave each other a speech as well” Jack chuckled at the look on Kaylee’s face, she looked like she was about to cry.

“Aww trevy-bear, why don't we have matching necklaces” Kaylee pouted, “erm because we’re not dating” Trevor deadpanned. “I’ve told you, you can be my fake boyfriend. The closest thing my parents will ever have to a son-in-law” Kaylee teased, the two got on so well together, that if you were unaware that Kaylee liked girls you’d think they were dating.

“Sounds like a sweet deal to me babe, I’ll make the order” Trevor winked. Jack rolled his eyes at the pair, “Kay I’ve got your requests from earlier, tampons and m&m’s quite the combo if you ask me.”

“Oh you’re a lifesaver! I was very close to sending Quinn out to get me some more snacks” Kaylee smiled as she tucked into her m&m’s, slapping Trevor’s hand as he tried to grab some.

“Ok Jacky boy? What’s boyfriend period rule number 2?” Kaylee questioned, Jack sighed having gone through this “training” as Kaylee called it many times before “never eat your girlfriend’s period snacks unless you want your dick cut off” Jack said nonchalantly.

“Wait wait, what’s number one?” Trevor quirked an eyebrow up, “for the next 3-7 days you are her bitch, you get her whatever she needs whenever she needs” Jack replied before Kaylee could open her mouth. Kaylee looked impressed “see now I knew you were paying attention”, “no I’ve just become a pro at looking after Mackenzie during that time of the month” Jack shot back.

Jack turned around as Trevor kept asking Kaylee about the boyfriend period rules, leaving the room Jack walked back to his bedroom. Poking his head in to see if Kenzie was in there, she was not so he jumped in the shower.

Meanwhile, Mackenzie walked into the living room, to see Skylar sitting on the couch, in a hoodie she assumed belonged to Ethan. “Hey Sky, how was your day?” Mackenzie smiled at her sister, however Skylar ignored her. “Erm hello? Sky I’m talking to you” Mackenzie stated, “oh really, never would have guessed that” Skylar replied sarcastically.

Mackenzie furrowed her eyebrows before asking “What’s going on?” “Nothin’, why don’t you just go back to your boyfriend, you puck bunny” Skylar huffed out. Mackenzie scoffed out “what did you just call me?”

“A puck bunny, that’s what you are. How long till you get bored of Jack huh? I’m impressed you’ve managed to trap him for this long” Skylar shouted out.

Mackenzie was stunned, Skylar had never acted this way before. “Skylar. Where is this coming from? What do you mean trap him? I’VE NOT TRAPPED ANYONE” Mackenzie shouted out.

“Oh my GOD, are you that stupid? Clearly your ex boyfriends had the right idea to drop you. I’m surprised Jack settled for you” Skylar shouted out again, louder than before, looking at her sister disgusted.

“AND WHAT IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?” Mackenzie shouted back, not caring who heard. “IT MEANS I CAN’T BELIEVE HE CAN’T SEE YOU FOR WHAT YOU REALLY ARE!!” Skylar shouted back.

“OH REALLY?” Mackenzie shouted back, “YEAH REALLY!” Skylar folded her arms across her chest. “AND WHAT AM I REALLY? COME ON SKY WHAT DO YOU REALLY THINK OF ME HUH?” Mackenzie screamed back.

Quinn was running to Jack's room after hearing the girls shouting, frantically knocking on the door.

“YOU’RE A FUCKING SLUT. I BET MOM’S REAL PROUD KNOWING SHE RAISED A SLUT” Skylar screamed back.

“A SLUT? WOW THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT. REAL CLASSY OF YOU. TELL ME HOW I'M A SLUT WHEN THE ONLY PERSON WHO HAS FUCKED ME IS RIGHT UPSTAIRS” Mackenzie screamed back.

“SORRY I'M GONNA NEED SOME CLARIFICATION ON THAT. WHO HAS BEEN THE ONLY ONE TO FUCK YOU? THERE’S A LOT OF BOYS UPSTAIRS, WHO KNOWS MAYBE YOU’VE FUCKED KAYLEE AS WELL” Skylar screamed back.

“OH SO NOW I'M A CHEATER? HMM?” Mackenzie was starting to feel her hands tingle.

“WOULDN’T PUT IT PAST YOU!! I MEAN THERE’S CLEARLY NOT A LOT GOING ON UPSTAIRS IN JACKS HEAD” Skylar screamed now standing up.

“EXCUSE ME WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST SAY?” Mackenzie was furious.

Quinn was still pounding on his brother's door, “JACK, JACK GET OUT HERE NOW!” Jack swung the door open in joggers with wet hair, “what? I was showering”

“It’s Kenzie and Sky, they’re…” before Quinn could finish both boys heard “I’M JUST SAYING, HE’S CLEARLY DERANGED IF HE FELL IN LOVE WITH A WHORE PUCK BUNNY LIKE YOU” Skylar’s voice carried through the house.

Multiple doors flew open at that, multiple heads poking out. “What the hell is going on?” Luke asked, visibly confused, before anyone could answer they heard Mackenzie yell, “OH SO NOW I’M A WHORE? I THOUGHT I WAS A SLUT SKYLAR MAKE UP YOUR MIND! AM I A SLUT OR A WHORE?”

“WHY NOT BOTH?! WHY DON’T YOU GO ASK JACK TO MAKE IT ALL BETTER, YOU’RE CLEARLY INCAPABLE OF DOING ANYTHING YOURSELF WITHOUT FUCKING IT UP” Skylar screamed.

Everyone upstairs turned to look at Jack, “don’t look at me I have no idea what the fucks going on” he defended himself. Kaylee sighed, “I knew this was coming” she whispered but every head shot to her.

“What do you mean?” Quinn asked, Kaylee sighed again before being cut off. “OH SO NOW IM INCOMPETENT? KEEP EM COMIN’ SKYLAR I’VE GOT ALL DAMN NIGHT YOU BITCH” Mackenzie screamed.

Everyone’s eyes widened at that, “Skylar, she has abandonment issues after their dad. It’s never gotten to this though” Kaylee sighed out.

“OH I’M THE BITCH? AT LEAST I’M NOT A FUCKING GOLD DIGGER. I MEAN WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU EVEN SEEN IN JACK? MONEY? LOOKS? COZ CLEARLY THERE'S NOT MUCH ELSE GOING FOR HIM!” Skylar shouted.

Every pair of eyes flitted back to Jack, sighing he said “someone needs to go down there before they kill each other” before anyone could answer they heard a slap.

“DID YOU JUST FUCKING SLAP ME?!” Mackenzie screeched. “YEAH SO WHAT?” Skylar screeched back. “WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU? WHY CAN’T YOU BE HAPPY FOR ME? I LOVE HIM, MAYBE IF YOU WEREN’T SUCH A PSYCHO SOMEONE WOULD LOVE YOU” Mackenzie screeched back, starting to feel her leg jolt.

“I’M NOT A PSYCHO!! WHY DON’T YOU RUN TO JACK JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN’T HANDLE A SLAP” Skylar screamed.

Jack,Trevor, Kaylee and Quinn were running down the stairs, taking them two at a time.

“OH YOU WANNA TALK ABOUT HANDLING SLAPS YEAH? LETS SEE HOW YOU LIKE IT?” Mackenzie raised her hand, but before she could even attempt to move her hand, her eyes were rolling back and she was falling forward.

“M-MACKENZIE?” Skylar shouted out, just as Jack, Kaylee, Trevor and Quinn entered the room. Kaylee and Trevor ready to grab Skylar as Jack and Quinn were ready to grab Kenzie.

Instead the four were greeted with Skylar standing by the couch, face red from screaming. Mackenzie layed on the floor face down by the coffee table, “Mackenzie? Babe?” Jack called out slowly approaching, but as he did so Mackenzie started convulsing on the floor. As Jack moved quicker towards her he called out a set of instructions, “Kaylee, get Skylar out of here before I kill her”Jack seethed as Skylar's eyes widened as Kaylee ushered her out of the room. “Quinn I need you to pass me a pillow, and start a stopwatch. Stop it once her seizure stops.” Quinn immediately passed Jack a pillow and started timing her seizure on his phone, Jack placed the pillow to the side of her head. “Trev, I need you to help me move her to her side and move anything around her that she can hit her head on” Trevor helped Jack move Kenzie on her side, head resting on the pillow and moved the coffee table with Quinn’s help.

“Trev can you grab a bottle of water please?” Jack asked, looking up at his best friend. “Kenzie baby, it’s ok. You’re gonna be ok” Jack watched as she continued to convulse on the floor, “I’m here angel, Jacks here. I’m not going anywhere” he reassured her.

“Quinn how long has it been?” Jack questioned, worried that she wasn’t stopping. “Erm 3 minutes” Quinn stated, “shit ok” Jack whispered. “What does that mean?” Trevor asked. “It means if she doesn’t stop in the next 2 minutes we need to call 911, her’s usually only lasts 5 minutes any more than that and she needs an ambulance” Jack replied.

At the four minute mark, Mackenzie was still convulsing but they were slowing down, Jack was still talking to her as was Quinn and Trevor. At 5 minutes she’d stopped convulsing but was still unconscious.

It took a while but eventually Kenzie came back around, “hey baby” Jack whispered. Mackenzie squinted at the bright lights of the living room, Jack asking Trevor to turn the brightness down. Jack looked down at her brown eyes as they opened again, “you want some water baby?” Jack asked. Mackenzie nodded, “slow sips yeah baby? That’s a good girl” Jack praised as she slowly sipped the water.

After 20 minutes laying on the floor, Jack helped her up, yelling out as her ribs were sore from convulsing, “I know baby, I know” Jack soothed. “You wanna head up to bed?” Jack questioned as he saw her nod her head whispering a small thank you to Trev and Quinn.

Jack carried her upstairs, being met with multiple heads still sticking out of doors, “she had a seizure” Jack spoke softly. Some looked confused as others nodded, Jack could hear Luke begin to explain to the confused ones about Mackenzie and her seizures. Placing her gently on the bed, Jack grabbed the clothes he’d laid on the bed for her, “kenz baby? I’m just gonna change you into some pjs. Wanna help me?” Jack asked knowing that sometimes she liked to help, other times she just had no energy. “Jacky?” Mackenzie called out, “what happened?”

“You had a seizure baby, but you’re ok I promise. Brought you up to bed, wanna help me get your pjs on?” Jack softly spoke. Mackenzie shook her head, as her hands and legs still felt tingly, “ok baby that’s ok” Jack reassured her. Jack changed her into some comfy clothes before tucking her in, he went to leave to tell Kaylee she was fine but Kenzie made grabby hands calling out for him “Jacky? Don’t leave me?”

“I’m just gonna tell Kay you’re ok baby, I’ll be back in two seconds I promise” Jack could see her eyes drooping. Quickly, Jack walked out knocking on Kaylee’s door. Kaylee quickly opened, “how’s my home girl?”

“She’s fine, still a little shaky, couldn’t help me get her changed this time” Jack summarised. “How long did it last?” Kaylee questioned, “nearly 5 minutes” Jack responded. “Shit, Is she asking for me again?” Kaylee questioned, if not Jack, Mackenzie would usually call out for Kaylee. “Not this time, she’s just calling for me, I better get back to her, but did you find out what the hell happened?”

“No, I’m just as furious as you are. Skylar had no right to be saying that shit. Kenz has done nothing wrong! I cannot even look at her right now, I dropped her off at Ethan’s room” Kaylee stated, before hugging Jack and walking back to cuddle with Trev.

Jack makes his way back to Kenzie, climbing into bed pulling her still slightly shaking petite figure back into his side, kissing her head whispering “I love you kenz”, Kenzie whispering “I love you Jack.” Before drifting to sleep, Quinn poked his head through the door making sure his brother and future sister in law were ok, receiving a thumbs up from Jack he walked in, sitting by Jacks legs. “Is she ok?” Quinn asked, looking over at Mackenzie, who had snuggled into the crook of Jacks neck. “She’ll be ok, she’s still a little shaky but that’s normal” Jack replied leaning down to kiss Kenzie’s head. “As long as you two are ok, if you need me just come and get me” Quinn stood up and shut the door as Jack drifted off to sleep with his girl safe in his arms.

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Kenzie.Havener I’m only incredibly lucky girl, I love you endlessly jackhughes🥹❤️

Ps Jack was an absolute menace on the bumper cars 😂

jackhughes I’m the lucky one baby, i love you always ❤️

Kay.Johnson when can we go on a date like that fake bf trevorzegras 🤨

trevorzegras planning it now fake gf, love you babes 😙

Kay.Johnson love you too trev 😙

Frey.Lodge I need a relationship like that 😩, I’m accepting applications 🙏🏼😇

Cody.Griffin yeah erm why does it say charity work at the top of the application? 🤨😂

Frey.Lodge blocked 🤚🏼

Elblue06 aww looks like you two had fun 💙

Kenzie.Havener we did thank you for raising such a gentleman 💙😩

Elblue06 you are most welcome, hope he’s treating you well 💙

Kenzie.Havener the best 💙

Olivia.Autumn maybe you should take notes for Jacky boy 🤨 Chase_Lukas

Chase_Lukas calling him rn 🏃🏼💨💨

jackhughes I can confirm he is in fact calling me 😫

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jackhughes the luckiest boy in the world right here ❤️🥹 I love you always baby @Kenzie.Havener

Kenzie.Havener the love I have for you is endless. I love you bubs ❤️

trevorzegras ok but like why do they have to be so cute 😭😫

Kay.Johnson trev pass me the tissues again 😭😭

trevorzegras I’ll need a whole box 😭😭🥹

_quinnhughes glad you’re happy rowdy 🙂

Kenzie.Havener that felt like the most sarcastic comment ever 😫😭

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_quinnhughes I can’t win 😫

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Kenzie.Havener thank you admin 🫶🏼❤️

Colecaufield thank you for your charity work 🫡 @Kenzie.Havener

Kenzie.Havener it’s not charity work but thank you ���

[dimmadoome]

The Black Creek Diner

For: anonymous

Prompt: New waitress in northkill Laura and oh Travis just really likes the food there trust me guys TRUST ME ( Kaylee Chris are with him when he first sees her and they know he’s gonna be a goner )

Pairing: Travis Hackett/Laura Kearney

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The first time Travis ate at the Black Creek diner, he didn't think much of it. The food was mediocre at best and the atmosphere was bland and boring.

At least the coffee was good.

Black Creek resembled any other backwoods diner he had ever entered. The one difference between Black Creek and any other diner was the frequent patronage of his brother and the presence of their new waitress.

He shoulda known what was happening the second Chris rode up with his kids and a sparkle in his eye, begging Travis to go with them and "be a family for once in your life Trav."

A step into the diner and Travis was acosted with three things at once.

First, the diner smelled like burning grease.

Second, Mr. Bronson was making a fool of himself again.

And third, the absolute knockout of a waitress he was trying to yell at was having none of his shit.

Waiving Chris and the kids into a booth, he made his way over to the source of the commotion.

God damnit its his day off too.

Travis has had plenty of experience dealing with John Bronson. The man was loud, disgusting and drunk 90 percent of the time. He's spent enough time locked up in the station that Travis probably knew his whole life story by now.

"What seems to be the problem here?" Travis wore his role as north kill sheriff well. He knew he could act as stern and hardass as any of em. Today was just one of the days he didn't want to have to do it.

Travis towered behind the waitress. Glowering over the top of her head to scare the man in the booth.

"You know you ain't supposed to be causing trouble John"

He could feel the woman stiffen at his proximity. From the corner of his eye, he watched her turn and gape at him.

The drunk bastard paled. Even had the audacity to look at the waitress he was just harassing for help. As if help was going to come from her after all his bullshit.

"Sheriff Hackett I was just.."

He held up his hand to stop the man from continuing his excuses. Earning a huff of amusement from the woman standing beside him.

God n everybody knew what he was "just" doing. Travis wasn't gonna have it today.

"I don't want to hear your excuses John. Get outta here before I throw you in the cells for a cool down. Don't make me have to do my job today"

Travis watched as the portly man pulled himself from the booth to stumble home. Pulling the man back. He looked him dead in the eye to deliver his next line, making damn sure the man heard him.

"And for the love of christ John. Pay for your meal and call your sister to come pick you up."

He released John and stood back. Raising an eyebrow to show that he was dead serious. the man probably sensed how done Travis was with him because he nodded, red-faced and shamed.

"Sure thing Sheriff"

Travis wanted to make damn sure that waitress wasn't going to get harassed more. So he stood with her until John finally opened the door to leave.

Well...he might also have some ulterior motives by keeping her company.

"You didn't have to do that" The waitress moved to stand in front of him. Peering up at him with a wry grin on her face.

Beautiful blue eyes danced with mirth. He couldn't help but feel enchanted by her. Travis fought the urge to reach down and tug at a stray piece of her hair while she was talking. He wished he could feel the silky golden locks tangle through his fingers as he played with it.

Shaking his head to clear the fantasies from them, Travis turned his attention back to her. He fixed her with his best smile.

Hoping she didn't notice his absentmindedness.

"Well miss ......" Travis trailed off. He didn't know her name.

He looked down to read the name tag pinned to her chest and caught himself looking a little to hard at parts that weren't a nametag. Feeling the sting of mortification, he blushed.

He shot his eyes back up to hers quickly. Travis coughed, really hoping she didn't notice where his gaze went.

It'd be just his luck to scare away the prettiest girl hed ever seen by accidentally being a pervert.

When he caught Laura's eye. He knew he'd been had. The twinkling in her own blue gaze set the tips of his ears to burn in embarrassment. He rushed to finish his statement. Hoping to go sit down with his family and not cause the poor woman anymore trouble

"I'm just doing my job. The local Sheriff can't be off duty, even when he is."

She smiled a bright, toothy grin at him and waved him off. The swish of her checkered dress at her thighs hypnotized him.

Turning to old Marge behind the counter, Laura leaned over it to speak to the old woman.

"Hey Marge, can we get Sheriff Hackett something on the house?"

"For scaring away John? Absolutely sweetie. Whatever he wants"

"You didn't have to...." Stuttering, Travis finally got himself to moving. He caught the end of the booth his family was in and tried to look nonchalant.

He didn't notice Caleb had been smearing ketchup along the top of it until his hand rested smack dab in the middle of it.

Disgusting.

He must have made a face at the mess because Laura's responding laugh was the most beautiful thing he'd ever heard.

Travis nearly missed grabbing the wet rag she tossed at him.

What a fool. Turned into a nervous wreck at the sight of a beautiful woman.

"Of course I did." Laura took back the rag and waved him into the booth, "Now, sit with your family. I'll be back to take your order"

Travis shakily took the menu from Chris. Catching his brothers eye and narrowing his own in return. He could see the wheels turning in his brothers head

What mischief did Chris have planned?

"You just earned yourself an admirer Trav."

"Shut up man, I was just doin my job"

"Miss Laura never thanks anyone for helping her out. You're the first....ever"

Travis just about reached over to smack Chris with the menu. Luckily for Chris, his children were present and Ma taught him better than that.

he still really wants to do it.

It was then that little Kaylee started screaming about waffles and the whole incident was quickly forgotten.

Travis ended up spending the rest of his meal dodging little fingers covered in syrup and helping Chris contain the mess that his two children were determined to cause.

His brother's little quip about Laura was quickly forgotten in the aftermath of the 2023 pancake apocalypse.

The woman herself wasnt.

The next week. Travis came in alone, hoping to catch a glimpse of the beautiful waitress and knowing he'd chicken out when it came to actually asking her for anything.

The tinkle of the door alerted Marge to his patronage and she waved him over.

Walking up to the counter, he looked around for Laura. Hoping to catch a glimpse of her golden curls or ocean blue eyes.

Unluckily for Travis. He didn't see her. Just old Marge manning the register and snapping at Mickey in the back. He stopped at the seat that would be his usual and adjusted his collar in anticipation. Fidgeting with the too hot uniform was a nervous habit he could never quite break.

He really hoped Laura was here. Maybe she was just somewhere in the back.

Travis jumped as the older woman slapped down a menu and some utensils. Smirking at him with that knowing smirk she's had since he was a wee one clinging to his mothers skirts.

"Laura's on break round back if you want to see her?"

Travis startled visibly. All wish for coffee deserted him in the wake of her cheerful accusation. He felt the tips of his ears burn again and stuttered out a response.

Is he that transparent?

"I don't..... I don't really know her that well Marge." His hand reached back to run through his hair. It was another nervous habit he couldn't seem to break.

The old woman turned to wave him away. Grabbing the coffee pot and setting that and a cup in front of him.

"Just between you and me Travis, she couldn't shut up about you. Every time Chris and the kids come in, she's always asking about you. Take it from me kid, go round back. Give her a holler."

If Travis just happened to miss the woman pull out her phone in his haste to get out the door...well. He can blame it on the poor lighting.

Somewhere in a house down the road, Chris recieved a text from old Marge and cheered.

[cellard0ors]

They spend the next few days indoors, not leaving Travis's home.

They're either catching up on what they missed or making love. There's little in between.

Travis turns off his cell, he unhooks his landline, he calls into work and takes the vacation days he's been accumulating ever since he began. All because he wants to focus on Laura, just Laura.

As such, it's not a huge surprise when one day the knocking on his front door becomes unavoidable. There has been knocks before but they'd been...busy.

This time, thinking it's the pizza they ordered as they'd finally run out of food, Travis answers to find it's not a delivery, but family.

Specifically Kaylee and Silas.

Travis has never officially met Silas before, but he's sure the pale, big eyed boy cowering behind Kaylee is him.

His face is apologetic. Kaylee's is not.

"UNCLE TRAVIS! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?!?"

Thankfully dressed (but unable to stave off a blush) Travis scratches behind his head and shrugs, "Um? Here?"

"I've been calling you! Texting you! I've stopped by before and knocked! No answer!"

"I was...probably sleeping?"

Kaylee's jaw is set and the classic Hackett temper is coming off her in full force, "Uncle T, you disappeared! After a full moon! No one knew where you were, your work said you took vacation which you've never done before and if it hadn't been for Silas tracking me down-!"

"Whoa, wait - Silas?" Laura enters and, while she is dressed, it's not by much. Mainly because she's wearing Travis's robe. And, no doubt, nothing beneath.

Normally Travis would be ecstatic at this knowledge, but with the two young people present it's beyond awkward.

...well, for him and Kaylee at least.

Silas, however, perks right up at the sound of Laura's voice and he cries her name in delight, sidestepping Travis to go into his sister's arms.

Laura hugs him close and kisses the top of his head, his voice near silent even though he's speaking, "I was worried I'd lost you!"

"Never." Laura promises with another kiss and he shakes his head, "But-? I thought-? D-didn't I hurt you? I thought I remembered-?!"

"It's okay. Trav-! I...I mean Sheriff Hackett took care of me." She rubs his slight shoulders, "Remember? Back when I sent the tickets? I said he'd help us."

Silas frowns, confused, "But he didn't "

He gestures to Kaylee, "She did."

"Yeah, well..." Laura just pushes it aside, but Travis feels like a complete asshole. Something Kaylee makes sure to rub in, "So, what? You've just been here this whole time?!? Screwing a hot blonde?!?"

"Kaylee Amelia Hackett!" Travis cries, scandalized, "Where did you-?"

Kaylee groans and rolls her eyes, "I'm not a baby, Uncle T. It's pretty obvious what you two have been up to! It even smells like sex in here!"

Travis doesn't think it's possible to be any more mortified than he is right now.

But then Silas sniffs the air like a dog and nods, "... she's right. I do smell sex."

Travis was wrong. NOW he can't be any more mortified.

Laura too is, at least, a little flustered as she resumes rubbing her brother's arms and clears her throat, "Ah, yes, well - um? Sorry I didn't go looking for you sooner, sweetie."

Silas just gives his own shrug, "It's okay. I found her."

He jerks a thumb in Kaylee's direction, his own cheeks a little pink and Laura can't help but grin, "Well thank goodness for that! Now that we're all back together again we can start brainstorming as a team to get one of Eliza's bones and make that cure."

"Cure?" Kaylee asks with interest, her anger lost quickly at the mention of possible salvation. Laura quickly details how, in the six years away, she managed to uncover a way to cure humans-turned-werewolves.

She also gives a little side story as to her and Travis's history, something Silas already knows but Kaylee is learning for the first time. By the end of it, Kaylee looks the most hopeful Travis has seen her in years, "So, we just have to get a bone?"

"Easier said than done." Laura admits sadly, "The shroud Eliza has in place over her corpse no doubt only drops when the full moon is up and, when it is, you'll turn and Silas will be vulnerable to her coercion."

Travis scowls, "Not to mention she'll be there in spirit. Can't imagine Eliza will just stand by while we take what we need."

"Oh, she will." Kaylee vows, "Because I'll keep Silas in line and she'll want to investigate that, see why he's distracted."

Travis puts his hands on his hips, "And just how are you going to do that, young lady? It's not exactly like you're in full control of your faculties when you turn."

"True, but I'm always - ah, up for a fight when I change." She looks at Silas guiltily, "Pretty sure you put us near one another when the change hits and it'll be like Mortal Kombat."

Laura shakes her head, "No. I don't like this idea. I don't want either one of you getting hurt."

"We're already hurt." Kaylee returns, "The only way to truly stop this is to do this."

"What about Chris? Caleb?" Travis asks, not adding in the rest of the family because he knows what a bad idea that is.

Kaylee apparently views all of it as bad, "No. I know my Dad, my brother - they won't hesitate to take the easy way out."

"The easy way-?" Laura starts and then sees Kaylee look pointedly at Silas and immediately tugs him close, her protective nature on full display, "No! Absolutely not!"

"Okay, well then, that just leaves my idea." She counters and Travis and Laura look at one another worriedly. They almost seem to share a mental connection, nodding at one another before Laura says, "Unless we think of something else."

"Of course." Kaylee offers and then, cryptically makes sure to add, "You've got until the full moon."

+

They don't come up with another idea.

In the end, Kaylee manages to lead the bulk of the Hackett family off course so she can join up with Travis, Laura, and Silas for their plan.

Travis and Laura make sure to douse themselves in werewolf blood for good measure and, the moment the moon rises, Kaylee and Silas change

True to her word, Kaylee - even as a werewolf - seems fixated on attacking Silas. He gives as good as he gets and Laura watches on with worry, but Travis manages to drag her away, expressing the importance of getting the job done.

Once more they find the remains of Harum Scarum and, more importantly, the remains of Eliza Vorez. Travis is brushing aside the thorns and brush when Eliza appears, her spiteful face twisted with hate, "What do you two think you're doing?!"

"What we couldn't do before." Travis snaps and he reaches in, taking a firm hold of one of her ribs. He does his best to pop it loose - age and fire doing a decent job of making the bone brittle.

Eliza, however, veers towards him, "I gave you your memories back, you son of a bitch! I can take them away again just as easily!"

"The hell you will!" Laura cries and she positions herself between Travis and the witch, "You might be dead, but death has a funny way of weakening your powers, Eliza - and clearly - you can still hear."

Eliza makes another move for Travis, but is stopped as Laura sings. Travis can't hear the words, but the melody of it...slows him.

It slows him just as much as Eliza but, with his hand already on her bones and her not yet within reach, the song does it's job.

It keeps the ghost at bay long enough for Travis to get a piece of her and, once in hand, Laura's song draws to an end and the ghost shrieks in anger. Horror is written all over her face and both Travis and Laura delight in the sight of it.

They do not - however - celebrate for long as Silas comes crashing through the woods. His intent is clear and Travis, refusing to have a repeat of what happened last time, shields Laura from any potential threat.

He doesn't have to for long, as Kaylee comes crashing through, followed by another werewolf that Travis is fairly certain is Caleb.

How Caleb appeared remains a mystery, but it matters little as all three creatures suddenly engage in a rather brutal fight. Laura looks like she wants to interrupt, her fear for her brother obvious, but Travis takes a firm hold of one of her arms, "C'mon - we can't let the kids actions be in vain."

"But what if-!"

"Later." He hisses and, seeming to recognize the hard truth of it, Laura allows herself to be led away.

It's the right move.

Thanks to the werewolves interruption, Travis and Laura manage to get away and, from there, it's very much like the stories they read as children in comic books and novels.

They use the bone and other ingredients to make the cure, to distribute, to end the curse for the Hackett family once and for all. Laura and Silas stay hidden from the rest of the Hackett's for good measure, at first - but eventually - they go for introductions.

There are some weak jokes from Chris about how Travis used to 'date' an imaginary girl named Laura and how they used to have issues with someone named Silas.

The people in the know play it off as if it's 'so ironic' and 'funny' but they know the truth of the matter.

Silas is quickly inducted into friendship by both Kaylee and Caleb, albeit Laura still sees the traces of the crush her brother carries. Travis might see it too, but if he does, he doesn't voice it, because in the end he only has eyes for Laura.

It's only fitting, as she feels the same.

They find a little cottage down by the lakeside and it's the perfect place for them to live together, to be together. Laura submerges herself in her home waters now and then - sometimes Travis joins her, sometimes he doesn't - but either way, she makes sure to flick her fin out at him as she swims.

Travis Hackett, fifty-six years old, sees his first mermaid, his only mermaid, his loving wife, swim away to have her fun knowing she'll always swim back.

Swim back to him, to their life, and to the love they share.

The End

[queenofbaws]

Hi Queenie, hope you're enjoying what is left of the weekend. If this is too late, just ignore me 😊

 “you know when i was little, i always thought my toys would come alive when i’m not around like they would in Toy Story. i still think they do.” Kaylee to Caleb

"Oh, they do," Caleb said in that way of his, the one pretending to be self-assured for the sake of the story he was starting to spin in his head, "I've seen it myself, even...only you always had boring toys, so there was never anything fun for you to miss."

Kaylee spent maybe a second longer than she needed to in the fridge; she cracked her pop open, then struggled to squeeze her smile down into something less obvious. If Caleb thought you were paying too much attention to him or one of his yarns, he had a habit of pulling into himself and snapping shut tight as a clam. "Uh huh," she said as she shut the door and took a sip, walking out to join him in the foyer, "I bet your toys got up to wayyy more interestin' shit, huh?"

He pulled a face like she'd gone and said something stupid, but it only lasted a second before he was shaking his head and waving her forward. "My toys were boring too, but Papa's stuff, well - " with a wave of his hand, he had her looking at the trophy wall, all of the skulls staring down at them with their big, empty eye sockets...which gave him the perfect opportunity to bring his fingers down on her arm like a munching mouth, making her yelp in surprise, " - you'd'a gobbled up the shit they said when you weren't around!"

six sentence sat(or)sunday!!!

[kimmipettie]

7/2/24 - Good morning! Today is going to feature a different set of posts, and I am still trying to decide how many.

Three years ago today, my wonderful friend Sandy Brown died in a tragic, horrifying accident. Sandy was a prolific Tumbr poster, over 51,000 in fact, as well as a wonderful writer of TG fiction on Fictionmania.

Sandy's Tumblr account was closed in November 2022. Fortunately, a number of her posts survive, including this one and those that follow today.

I knew who Sandy was in real life. Sandy's last posts here were late on the morning of July 2, likely within an hour of her death. For some time I assumed Sandy was away on a trip. But by late July I was extremely concerned, as was Kaylee (kellijwill), a long time friend who I introduced to Sandy.

I never expected to find Sandy when I did my Google search. Sadly, I did. One of the most difficult things I had to do was tell Kaylee that Sandy was gone.

Today, though, I am going to focus on the magic that Sandy created for so many of us, both here and in her stories on Fictionmania. Sandy had so many friends,

All of my posts today are ones that Sandy made or commented on, or allude to her. Some include prior posts and comments of mine, Kaylee and other friends. Others are simply Sandy herself.

I hope you enjoy all of them and recall the positive influence Sandy had. And if you didn't know Sandy, I hope you will sense why she became a friend to so many.

Sandy, I miss you.

Kimmi

July 2, 2024

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Nicky Whelan

[needsmorewlw]

The Quarry/zombie apocalypse

My love for The Quarry was inevitably gonna combine with my endless obsession with the zombie apocalypse genre. Nothing hits harder for me than the raw horror of the world falling apart from the inside out and getting ravaged by monsters with the faces of your friends and family, so this is just an AU prompt I've been plaguing myself with now I'm forcing on everyone else.

Some mysterious virus is turning people into zombies. The government knows about it and were concealing reports of the zombies from the public so they could do their bullshit. The government of several states with major cities is doing classic evil government things and snatched up "significant/indispensible persons" days before everything fell apart.

They went to universities and essentially kidnapped smart people. Though they refer to it as "salvaging" like they're resources. Mostly medical and science students and if there's any room on the transport vehicles, they grab the athletes too, the most physically fit young people. Keeping them safe with a goal of salvation and restoring humanity one day.

So Dylan winds up swept into this crazy military base. None of them have a sense of humour and absolutely none of them care for his nervous charm and jokes.

They grab Laura too. Vet students count as medical. She's like a bull in a pen, she's not putting up with being literally kidnapped but there's not a whole lot she can do to resist.

Dylan and Laura being smart bros. It's all I want. They connect on an intellectual level as well as a deeply sarcastic one.

They play detectives and sus out this fucked up place where the people running it have all these plans to rebuild humanity, plans to go and scoop up more important people.

They go to settlements, bust down the gates, take anyone useful and leave the rest. They have job allocations and full-on like, breeding match-ups as well. There's no elderly or physically disabled people in the whole place.

Our duo is like; "This place is absolutely fucked, we gotta go." Luckily for them, the super safe secure military base inevitably falls to a hoard because it's run by myopic idiots. However not before their snooping got Dylan bitten by a zombie the military people were experimenting on.

He gets his hand cut off and when the place gets overrun, Dylan's still recovering from the realistic side effects from having your hand removed and losing a lot of blood. He's halfway to comatose in the medical ward when everything goes to shit and Laura can't do anything to get him out.

She tosses supplies and anything she can gather up and spare, into his ward and barricades the door, leaving a scrawled note that says "I'll come back - Laura" she figured all she had to do was wait for the hoard to move on so she could get back in and get him but there wasn't anywhere safe nearby to use as shelter.

So she fled a bit, then a little bit more, until she realised she needed help to get back in to get Dylan and any of the others who were taken that survived. And as the already massive hoard combined with the hundreds of people in the base, Laura knew she had to get the fuck away. Especially when the hoard started moving in her direction.

She tried to do a big ol' circle back so she could turn around back towards the base but miss the hoard and not just attract their attention and she runs into Ryan! Dylan's very angsty, angry boyfriend, traveling with a family of rednecks Chris, Travis, Bobby, Kaylee and Caleb (Constance and Jed absolutely beefed it and/or refused to leave their house).

Ryan doesn't start off angry but he gets angry when she tells him what happened. Ryan and Laura just have to argue all the time, it's important to me that they kind of hate each other. But it progresses from regular hate to hate in a sibling way.

So she tells him about Dylan but the time they makes it back to the base, he's gone. But so are the supplies so they have a slight hope that he's ok.

So Ryan's absolutely pissed because from his point of view, she put Dylan in danger, got him bitten, then left him behind and now he's either dead or out there alone. She's like "fuck you loser you don't know anything, also if we're talking about boyfriends have you seen mine?"

ENTER MAX. Who was on a quest for his beautiful gf and ran into Emma and Abi two girls who totally-arent-in-love. Just a couple of gal pals. Max accidentally male-wifes his way into helping them realise their feelings for each other.

They eventually link up with Jacob, Nick and Kaitlyn who were on a camping trip when everything got fucky and straight up didn't even know anything was wrong until they tried to come home, their phones reconnected to signal and they got a million texts and notifications all at once. But they had a big ol' van and a bunch of useful supplies.

None of them had any idea about the government scooping people up but Max was loveable enough for all of them to be roused into action by his cause.

They came from the opposite side the hoard was on, so they didn't even run into it. But it takes them a long while to find the base (like the entire time Dylan and Laura were there) and find it after it's been overrun.

They totally cannot get in. There's still way too many zombie people in there and no visible living ones. Max is distraught but is convinced he saw some "intelligent movement" inside the base.

Cut to Dylan who had a Rick Grimes moment, waking up weeks later, alone in an empty ward. He makes use of the supplies and the note but knows he absolutely cannot stay here, at least not in the med ward. He gathers useful medical stuff and skedaddles.

There's no one else alive, all of the terrible army people are dead but so are the people they took. He does some big-brain moves, a distraction here, some mildly successful stealth there. He attaches a fkn knife to his stump. All with his panicked narration/monologue to keep himself somewhat sane while he's by himself, surrounded by zombies.

Dylan's breaking out right as the crew is breaking in. Dylan gives Max the note to prove he knows his girl and the crew does a whole heist situation to get as many supplies out of the base as they can, into their van before they leave.

I haven't really thought about how they find eachother but one idea was that the crew finds a settlement that lets them in and they become a part of that community. I like the idea of a community inside a mall. All the shops are like little flats for familes or roomates and it's basically a mini city inside a mall.

Meanwhile Laura, Ryan and the Hacketts are typically unfriendly to anyone and everyone and are just this crew of badasses with just so many fucking weapons. They're a well-oiled strategic machine that nasty people think they can fuck with but are quickly proven wrong.

While they generally refuse to interact with any other survivors, (it's mostly Travis making these orders to keep them all safe because he doesn't trust anyone, for good reason.) Ryan and Laura do try to talk to (interrogate) anyone who might know where their bfs are. Eventually, probably Kaylee, gets severely wounded. Laura can help her a little but they're forced to find a settlement to save her. They find the mall, there's this whole moment at the gate where the guards are like "You guys look nasty idk about letting you in." But are eventually swayed by the dying girl.

Cue the double reunion at the gate. And then probably more post apocalyptic politics happen. Just imagine the stares air disbelief as the gates open and eyes meet. So romantic so heart felt bark bark I'm done now it's 2:42am

[georgecostanzaatemysoup]

The metallic taste of blood sticks to the back of Dylan's throat. His ears are ringing, his skin sticky and itchy, and it takes effort to pry his eyes open.

He's laying in the middle of the scrap yard, one arm bent under his body, the other resting on a piece of an old Honda.

He's not wearing any clothes (bummer he really liked that t-shirt), and it's a fuzzy mess when he tries to recall what exactly happened.

His memories come back in small increments. The werewolf, or whatever, biting his hand. Ryan unable to cut off the limb in order to stop the inevitable transformation.

Laura murdering Kaylee. Nick turning into a werewolf after trying to kill Abi. Laura's insane story. Them plotting to potentially kill Mister H.

Dylan and Kaitlyn leaving Abi and Emma in the storm shelter, after Ryan and Laura went off to find Mister H, and heading towards the scrap yard hoping to find a way to fix the van.

The werewolf attacking Kaitlyn. Dylan barely managing to save her despite feeling the transformation starting to take hold of him, and finally him yelling at her to run.

The rest is a blur, and the harder he tries to remember, the more his head hurts. He gives up, dragging himself to his feet.

He shivers when a breeze blows through the trees, wrapping his arms around his body in an attempt to stave off the chill, and staggers towards the exit.

Somehow he avoids cutting his bare feet, small miracle, and soon he's back in the woods. He debates heading towards the road, flagging down a car, but he's naked and covered in blood.

Dylan doubts anyone would actually stop for him, mistaking him for some sort of crazy person. He figures it's not worth the long walk. He starts heading towards the lodge instead.

About halfway there, he hears someone calling his name. Several someones. He heads towards the voices, figuring werewolves wouldn't have the forethought to actually call his name.

Maybe.

He hesitates for a moment, wondering if maybe that creepy old lady voice found some friends, but he shakes it off. He'll take creepy, old lady voices over possibly getting attacked by another werewolf any day.

He sees his friends before they see him, flashlight beams lighting up the path as they look around for him, Jacob, and Nick.

Laura isn't with them, probably on the island looking for Max, but Dylan is okay with that; he's not really looking forward to seeing her right now.

"Hey," he tries to call out, but his voice barely works. Great, another thing he has to worry about; he clears his throat and tries again. "Hey!"

Kaitlyn hears him first, her flashlight immediately blinding him as she shines it in her eyes.

"Ah." He shields his face, blinking away a few stray tears that suddenly began stinging his eyes.

Right now is the worst time to start crying. Maybe later. When he's alone and in the shower; the water covering up his sobs.

Kaitlyn runs towards him, throwing her arms around him and hugging him closely. He hugs her back, chuckling softly.

"If I didn't know any better, I'd say you missed me," he attempts to joke, but it falls flat when his voice cracks.

He really does not want to cry right now.

"Shut up," Kaitlyn says, but he can hear her smiling. She pulls back, looking at him, and asks, "You alright?"

"I'm okay. Cold, in desperate need of a shower. Maybe a nap."

"You're thinking about sleeping after tonight?" Ryan comes up behind Kaitlyn, concern in his eyes.

"I can nap anywhere, anytime," Dylan replies, attempting to smile. "Werewolf inducing nightmares are just an added bonus."

He holds eye contact with Ryan for a long moment, just happy to see he is alive (along with the girls). He's hoping Nick and Jacob are also okay, but for right now he only has eyes for Ryan.

"Well," Kaitlyn says suddenly, breaking the moment. "I'm going to go and help Emma and Abi find the others." She walks away, giving Dylan a 'you owe me' look over her shoulder.

"So, uh..." Ryan rubs the back of his head. "You good?"

"I'm dandy," Dylan says, rubbing his nose. "I now have a story to tell our grandkids."

"So, we're having grandkids now?"

"Yeah, three or four. But just grandkids. I always wanted to be a grandpa. Dad's have to take the kids home, but grandpas just give them some Werthers and send them home."

Ryan laughs softly, shaking his head.

"Hey, uh, can we head inside? I'm kind of naked and cold."

When Ryan finally notices Dylan's state of dress, his cheeks turn red and he quickly looks away, nodding rapidly.

"Yeah, yeah man. Let's, uh, let's get you something to wear."

"Were you checking out my bod," Dylan teases, posing. "The blood and dirt doing it for you?

Ryan snorts, shaking his head, and says, "Let's get you something to wear." He reaches out, grabbing Dylan's hand, and gently pulls him towards the lodge.

Dylan blinks away a few more tears, his emotions all over the place. He can feel the inevitable breakdown bubbling towards the surface, but he'll deal with it later.

For now, he just trails behind Ryan, knowing he'll keep him safe.

[jj-nhlgirly]

Summer of Love:- Insecurities

Jack Hughes x F!Reader

AN:- thank you for the request anon, I hope you enjoy!! I used google translate so I apologise if any of it isn’t 100% accurate 🫶🏼 ALSO I KNOW THAT JACK AND THE BOYS ARENT PART OF THE US TEAM ANYMORE BUT WE’RE ALL GONNA PRETEND THEY ARE 🙌🏼

TW:- mentions of toxic ex’s, hate comments and death threats, swearing, I believe that’s it if I’ve missed anything please let me know.

(Not my gif, credits to who made this)

It had been a few days since “shark week” as Jack so eloquently put it, had been and gone. Both Jack and Mackenzie glad it was over, as much as Jack loved Mackenzie there was only so much he could do when she’d burst into tears over seemingly nothing.

Mackenzie was relieved that she’d finished just before the world friendlies, Jack and the boys were due to leave in two days. The girls were unable to attend the first match as the Scooby gang were due to arrive at the lake house in 4 days time.

Mackenzie was sitting on the window sill in their bedroom looking over the lake thinking about Jack, how upset to be away from him she was going to be, but proud beyond belief at everything he had achieved. How incredibly lucky she was to have him in her life, to call him hers, sure Mackenzie had dated boys before Jack came along but no one had ever made her feel the way he did, in her mind there was no competition, no comparison, he was it for her.

A knock at the door pulled her from her thoughts, Mackenzie turned her head in time to see the door being pushed open, Skylar popped her head through. “Hey Bambi, can we talk?” Skylar asked slowly, walking into the room. “Hey Sky, course we can” Mackenzie patted the space next to her, “what’s up pickle?” Kenzie asked. “I want to say I’m sorry, I’m so sorry. The way I acted was so wrong of me and I don’t know what came over me. Well actually I think I do, I think I was worried that I was loosing you to Jack, that you’d forget about me like dad did. It’s no excuse for the things I said and I don’t think that about you at all. I’m so lucky to have you as a big sister, a best friend and a role model. Everything you’ve done for me, and continue to do for me is amazing. I’m so grateful to have someone like you in my life, to guide me, protect me, be there for me no matter what. I know that you’ll always be a phone call away, day and night no matter what time it is.” Skylar finished.

Mackenzie sighed, “it still hurt to hear that Sky, do you know how disrespected I felt? How disrespected Jack felt? I’ve always valued your opinion, you know that. You knew how worried and nervous I was for you to meet Jack, I wanted you to like him, to get along, because if you didn’t then I wouldn’t have carried on dating him. It’ll always be you, Kaylee and I against the world and nothing and I mean nothing will ever get between us because I won’t let it. Just because I’m dating Jack, doesn’t mean I'm gonna stop being your sister. I will always be there for you but I can’t and I won’t let you disrespect Jack like that, not after he’s been nothing but incredible to me, I love that boy to death and I won’t let you ruin that” Mackenzie said firmly. Skylar nodded, “I know Kenz, and I’ve already apologised to Jack.”

“It’s gonna take time for me to forgive and forget about it all, but we’ll get there, and as long as you and Jack will try to get along again hmm? Can’t have my sister and my future husband not getting along” Mackenzie teased. “Future husband? You two might as well be married now” Kaylee teased as she walked in. Kaylee walked up to the two girls, giving each of them a cuddle and a kiss on the head before dragging them both downstairs to the boys.

“Finally!” Mackie exclaimed, “oh please Mack, we weren’t even waiting that long” Ethan defended. “Waiting for what? Where’s Jack?” Mackenzie asked as she scanned the room not seeing him, “I’m right here babe” Jack walked in from the kitchen. Mackenzie bit her lip, damn he looked good today she thought.

“We were thinking about going out for the day, before we leave for worlds” Trevor explained. “Sounds fun, what did you guys have in mind?” Kaylee asked. “Erm well we could go bowling?” Luke suggested, “oh yeah! Or mini golfing?” Mark suggested, “or skating?” Mackie joined in, “Boys, boys” Jack said, gaining their attention, “as much as they all sound fun, you’re forgetting Kenz only has one arm” Jack laughed as he gestured to Mackenzie, who waved her good arm up.

“Which makes activities we can all do limited” Quinn added, “and as much as skating sounds fun, I’m not confident in my ability to skate with one arm, I’m not trying to break the other arm here boys” Mackenzie laughed, causing everyone to laugh as well.

“We could go to the beach?” Luca questioned, Jack looked at Mackenzie unsure, “I’ll be fine at the beach I just can’t go in further than my knees in the sea” Mackenzie reassured. After agreeing to the beach, everyone made their way upstairs to change into bathing suits and pack some beach supplies. Entering their bedroom, Jack headed to the closet as Kenzie sat on the bed.

“Jack?” Mackenzie called as she laid back on the bed, “mhm” Jack hummed in acknowledgment as he picked out some swim shorts, moving onto Kenzie’s side of the closet to pick out a bikini for her. “I love you” Mackenzie spoke lovingly, “I love you too” Jack repeated before walking back over to the bed, climbing on top of her.

“Mhm well hello” Mackenzie mumbled as Jack leaned down to kiss her, “mhm, don’t think I didn’t see the way you were looking at me downstairs” Jack mumbled against her lips. Mackenzie smiled before wrapping her arm around his neck pulling him closer, “not my fault you look so hot today” she mumbled back.

“Really?” Jack pulled away, before being pulled back in, Mackenzie heating up the kiss by sliding her tongue across his bottom lip. Jack parted his lips to allow her access, their tongues fighting against each other for dominance. Jack placed his hands on her waist slowly sliding them up her torso, as his lips made their way across Mackenzies face and down her neck, sucking on her sweet spot.

“Mmm Jack” Mackenzie moaned out, wrapping her legs around his hips to pull him closer to her, grinding against Jack’s crotch. “Jack please” Mackenzie whined as he pulled away, “we can’t right now baby, we need to get ready” Jack sighed. Mackenzie whined again as Jack climbed off her, starting to get changed. Kenzie sat up walking to the closet to pick out her bikini as Jack got distracted.

“You’re so mean, you know that Rowdy?” Mackenzie huffed as she began getting changed. Jack laughed as he pulled his swim shorts on, “how am I mean?” Jack laughed again as he saw her huff when she couldn’t tie her bikini bottoms, walking over to help. “You get me all going, and then you shut it down. AGAIN, you do it all the time” Mackenzie pouted, Jack sighed knowing something else must be going on.

“What’s up baby? What’s really going on?” Jack pulled her into a cuddle. Mackenzie relaxed instantly into his arms, “I’m just gonna miss you, and I don’t want you to forget about me” Mackenzie mumbled, Jack however couldn’t hear her, “what was that baby?” Jack pulled her face away from his chest but before she could repeat herself there was a knock on the door.

“Are you two ready? We could use Jack's help loading the car, some of the boys have gone to the store up the street for some snacks and drinks for everyone” Quinn spoke, Mackenzie sighed, “yeah that’s fine, Jack’s ready.”

Mackenzie turned away from Jack far quicker than normal and didn’t even give him a second look before walking into the bathroom. Jack furrowed his brows, a feeling of dread and guilt washing over him as he left to help his brother. Mackenzie’s actions seeming far too familiar for Jack. Quinn noticed the anxious look on Jack’s face as he left the bedroom. “You ok Rowdy?” Quinn asked, “yeah fine, what needs moving?” Jack asked as he made his way downstairs.

Meanwhile in the bathroom, Mackenzie was attempting to tie her hair up, and put on her bikini top, shouting for Kaylee to help her. “Well hey wifey” Kaylee smirked as she walked into the bathroom. “Hey” Mackenzie mumbled, Kaylee frowned as she tied Kenzie’s neck bikini strings up. “What’s up Kenny-bear?” Kaylee asked, moving onto the back strings, “Just worried about Jack” Mackenzie mumbled.

“Why, He’s fine isn’t he?” Kaylee asked confused, “yeah, yeah he’s fine. I mean I'm just worried about being away from him. The girls love him, that's no secret, and whilst our relationship is public that doesn’t mean some girls are gonna respect that, what if he forgets about me? Find someone better?” Mackenzie rambled.

“Girl… do you remember your name? Your birthday? Who am I?” Kaylee checked Mackenzie’s temperature. “Kay what are you doing?” Mackenzie swatted her hand away. “Oh so you haven’t been possessed or woken up with amnesia” Kaylee teased.

“What?” Mackenzie looked back at her confused, “if you think that boy is gonna forget about you, you’re stupid. Yes he gets a lot of online attention from the female fans but he doesn’t care what they have to say, or what they do to get his attention. And maybe if you weren’t so busy drooling over him everytime he walks into the room, you’d see how he’s looking at you and only you.” Kaylee finished as she tied the hair tie around Kenzie’s hair.

“It’s not Jack I’m worried about, it’s the fan girls. You know what it was like when we became public, it was a wild time in the comments. The hate comments, the death threats, the threatening to harm you and the Scooby gang, what if for some of them it’s not a threat anymore. What if something happens at a game?” Mackenzie stresses as the girls head into the bedroom. Kenzie grabs her yellow beach bag laying it on the bed, as she reaches for two towels, suncream, her sunglasses, Jack’s sunglasses, Jack’s devils hat, and their Bluetooth speaker. After packing everything, Kenzie throws on an oversized T-shirt before they head downstairs to join half of the boys and Skylar.

Walking past the living, Mackenzie and Kaylee could hear Skylar talking on the phone. “Hey Mama... nein, Mackenzie geht es gut... sie ist oben... wir gehen bald an den Strand... Ich bin mir nicht sicher... Ich glaube, er geht in ein paar Tagen... Ich kann Kenzie holen, wenn du willst... Kaylee ist hier... nein Mama, Jack’s hat sich um uns gekümmert... ja Mama” Skylar paused. “Hey mom... no, Mackenzie is fine... she's upstairs... we're going to the beach soon... I'm not sure... I think he's leaving in a few days... I can get Kenzie if you want... Kaylee is here... no mom, Jack’s took care of us... yes mom”

“Does mom wanna talk to me?” Mackenzie asked as she walked into the living room. “Möchtest du mit Mackenzie sprechen? Ja, Sie ist hier” “would you like to talk to Mackenzie? Yes, She’s here” Skylar asked on the phone, "Ja Mama, ich liebe dich auch.” “Yes mom, I love you too” Skylar passed the phone to Mackenzie before walking with Kaylee outside.

“Hey Mama, Ist alles in Ordnung?” Mackenzie spoke to her mom. “Hey mom, is everything ok?” “Hey Schatz, alles ist in Ordnung. Ich vermisse nur meine Mädchen, wie geht es Kaylee” “hey honey, everything’s ok, I’m just missing my girls. How’s Kaylee?” Angie spoke.

“Ich vermisse dich auch, Mama. Kaylee geht es gut, sie ist draußen und hilft beim Laden des Autos” “I miss you too mom, Kaylee is fine she’s helping load the car” Mackenzie replied. “Gut, wie geht es Jack? Freut er sich auf Welten?” “Good, how's Jack? Is he looking forward to worlds?” Angie asked.

“Oh, er wird nicht aufhören, darüber zu reden, es ist wirklich süß” “Oh he won’t stop talking about it, it’s really sweet!” Mackenzie replied, looking over at Jack as he stood in the doorway. “ Mama, Jack ist hier, also muss ich gehen. Ich liebe dich und rufe dich später an”“Mom, Jack is here, so I have to go. I love you and will call you later”

Mackenzie informed her mom, “Ich liebe dich auch, Süße” “I love you too, sweetie” Angie replied before hanging up.

“Is everything ok?” Jack asked as he walked into the room. “Yeah everything’s fine, mom was just missing us. She’s not used to the house being so quiet” Mackenzie laughed. “I mean with us” Jack stated, grabbing Kenzie’s hands.

“Jack, baby we’re fine. What are you talking about?” Kenzie looked up at him confused. “Nothing doesn’t matter. Let’s head out before they send in Kaylee” Jack faked a scared look, “JACKSON ROWDEN HUGHES, MACKENZIE REESE HAVENER MOVE YOUR ASSES” Kaylee shouted from outside, causing the couple to burst out laughing before heading outside themselves. “THAT’S STILL NOT MY NAME, YOU KNOW THAT!” Jack shouted back.

Mackenzie walked out first, as Jack turned to lock the door. Quinn grabbed the beach bag off Mackenzie placing it in the trunk, before walking to the driver's door. Jack led Mackenzie over to his car, opening the front passenger seat for her. After climbing in and buckling up, Mackenzie turned to look at who was occupying the back seats. Ethan and Luca smiled at her, whilst Skylar was resting her head on Ethan’s shoulder playing with his fingers.

Mackenzie turned back to look at Jack as he backed out of the driveway, “so Jack how are you feeling about the friendlies?” Luca started up a conversation. “Yeah, it’ll be nice to see the boys again. I have a good feeling about them, our team this year is looking so promising! I’m getting to wear the C again which still feels weird” Jack spoke excitedly.

“Alright Jack calm down, it’s not even an official tournament” Skylar laughed out causing Luca and Ethan to chuckle. Mackenzie frowned when she saw the look on Jack’s face. “Well I’m still proud, no matter if it’s official or not” Mackenzie smiled hoping to reassure him.

Jack stayed quiet for the rest of the journey as the boys and Sky chatted amongst themselves. Mackenzie reached to grab his hand, giving it a gentle squeeze, Jack glanced at her briefly before focusing on the road. “What’s going on in that pretty little head of yours Jacky?” Kenzie asked, looking worried.

“Nothin’” Jack replied, concentrating on the road. Mackenzie sighed, rubbing her thumb across his knuckles, “we both know that’s a lie bubs” Kenzie stated. Jack didn’t respond, instead he pulled the car into park before climbing out, pulling Kenzie’s door open for her as he walked to the trunk.

Mackenzie sat still for a second, furrowed brows as she looked out at the sand. “Kenz? You ok?” Ethan asked, leaning forward. Mackenzie jumped, before groaning, “uggghhhh fuck Ethan whyyyy.” “Shit I’m sorry, are you ok?” Ethan worried.

Mackenzie breathed heavily, gritting her teeth, “mhmm” she hummed out. Ethan looked over at her worriedly, glancing as she grabbed her ribs, “J-Jack!” Ethan shouted climbing out the back seat. “Jack’s not here, what’s wrong?” Skylar called back. “What?!” Mackenzie climbed out of the car, and began walking toward everyone else. She was confused, worried, Jack had been acting off, he was never off with her. Mackenzie was trying to think of anything that she’d done to upset him but came up empty.

“Hey sunshine” Kaylee hugged her but moved away quickly when she yelped, “kenz?” Kaylee questioned. “Ethan made me jump and I jolted my rib. I'll be fine” Kenzie smiled, “now where’s Jack?” She began to scan the group for him.

“Jack? I thought he was with you?” Kaylee began looking around confused. “He was but he disappeared, I’d figured he was here” Mackenzie spoke before catching a glimpse of the back of Jack's head, it seemed he was talking to Luke and Quinn.

“Hey Kay he’s over there” Mackenzie tapped her best friend to get her attention. Quinn looked in the girls direction, before saying something to Jack and Luke, causing the boys to turn to look at them. Mackenzie and Kaylee made their way over, Mackenzie leaning up to kiss Jack as they stood in front of them, Jack however turned his head so her lips landed on his cheek. Mackenzie flushed in embarrassment as Luke cleared his throat, Mackenzie stepped away and began heading further down the beach to help set up as Kaylee stayed back, giving Jack a look before following. Kaylee wrapped her arm around Kenzie when she caught up, rubbing her shoulder comfortingly.

“I dunno what his problem is, but he’s leaving in 2 days and I wanted to make the most of the time we have as I’m not gonna see him for 6 days” Mackenzie sighed. “I know babes, I know. He’s not said anything to me but maybe he’s just worried about the friendlies? It’s a big responsibility being captain we know that more than anyone” Kaylee replied kissing Kenzie on the head just before they reached the umich boys.

“Do you know what’ll cheer you up?” Kaylee smirked. “Wine?” Kenzie laughed, “no— well yes but I was gonna say an improv photoshoot but we can do both” Kaylee laughed. “Hmm ok you’ve sold me, which first Lady Johnson?” Kenzie spoke in an awful British accent, “hmm wine first Lady Havener, always wine first” Kaylee replied back carrying on the joke, both girls cackling as Kaylee reached into the cooler pulling out a bottle.

The girls moved just to the right of the boys, spreading out so everyone had a seat. Mackenzie glanced back at Jack, who looked worried but talking to Trevor. Mackenzie frowned at her boy, Jack wasn’t like this, he wasn’t a worrier and Mackenzie made a mental note to talk to him later about it.

Kaylee cracked open the wine, taking a swig out of the bottle before passing it to Kenzie. “And what wine have we got today Lady Johnson?” Kenzie asked, carrying on the joke, “well my dear, it’s a lovely vintage—20–15 bottle of Malbec made with the finest grapes, it has—- a sweet vanilla undertone— with a hint of citrus best— paired with rich red meats” Kaylee spoke, pausing at times as she read the label.

Kenzie shrugged and took a swig, “I can’t lie that slaps, where did we get this from?” Kenzie asked as she read the label. “I’m not sure, I think Quinn brought it” Kaylee replied, reaching to drink again. After passing the bottle back and forth as they talked mindlessly about anything and everything, they soon finished the bottle. Mackenzie laughed as Kaylee struggled to stand up in the soft sand, “oh that’s right, laugh it up. I’ll remember that!” Kaylee laughed along.

“Come on sexy you can do it!” Trevor shouted across the group, “oh fuck off Trev, now isn’t the time!” Kaylee huffed out sending Mackenzie into another laughing fit. Kaylee finally stood, reaching a hand out to help Mackenzie up.

“Aww you’re still gonna help me up even after I laughed at you?” Mackenzie pouted as Kaylee pulled her up “It’s in the contract babes” Kaylee winked. “Now it’s photoshoot timeeeeeee” Mackenzie shouted before walking off to find a good spot. “Well you heard the lady, we’ll be back” Kaylee promised the boys.

After laughing and posing for pictures the girls headed back to the group, Mackenzie walking over to Jack and Trevor. “Hey trev, mind if I borrow our boy for a sec?” Kenzie asked, “yeah course” Trevor stood, wiped down the sand from his shorts and left.

“Hey Jacky” Mackenzie sat down and leant her head against his shoulder. Jack sighed, “hey baby” he mumbled. “What’s going on with you bubs? And don’t say nothing” Mackenzie mumbled against his shoulder.

It was quiet for a few minutes as if Jack was trying to figure out what to say. “Jack, baby, if you don’t wanna talk to me about it or you’re not ready to, I understand. Just please don’t push me away, I wanna help” Mackenzie reassured him.

“It’s not that I don’t wanna tell you, I’m just worried that you’ll think the same as she did” Jack sighed out. Mackenzie furrowed her eyebrows, “she?” Kenzie questioned. “Holly” Jack hummed out, Mackenzie was even more confused, “who’s Holly? And what does she think? Well thought?” Mackenzie was beginning to panic.

“Holly was my ex-girlfriend, we broke up nearly a year before I met you. It wasn’t a good relationship at all, she’d belittle me about the most random shit, constantly trying to rile me up against my brothers. Comparing me to nearly everyone we knew, made me feel dumb for getting excited about things, even getting drafted. She told me it was pathetic how excited I was and I guess Skylar telling me to calm down about the friendlies kinda brought it all back” Jack explained, picking at the skin of his thumb, a nervous habit Kenzie had picked up on within the first few months of dating.

“Jack, why didn’t you tell me? I’m so sorry you went through that, you didn’t deserve that. No one deserves that, but hey you’re here. You’re better off without her, you wouldn’t have met me if you didn’t let go. Can I let you in on a little secret?” Mackenzie reassured him, Jack nodded.

“I love how excited you get over the little things, hearing you ramble about the things you love is one of my favourite things in the world. I love how passionate you are, I’m in awe of how talented you are, how humble you are, how truly incredible you are” Mackenzie praised, kissing his cheek.

Jack sighed, “what did I do to deserve you?” He thought aloud. “You were just yourself bubs, that’s all you ever need to be, I don’t care if we’re living in a cardboard box eating cold spaghetti o’s. I’ll still love you just as much as I do now. All I need is you and your love” Mackenzie spoke lovingly.

“You’ll always have my love angel, I still can’t believe you’re mine” Jack kissed her head, “you better believe it lover boy, and if you don’t… well I’ll just have to prove it to you later” Mackenzie teased.

“Now what do you say, are we gonna start this bbq before someone burns the beach down?” Kenzie laughed standing up, reaching an arm to help Jack up.

“Kenz?” Jack grabbed her arm, “hmm” Mackenzie hummed in response.

“I love you” Jack whispered, Mackenzie gave him a beaming smile, “I love you too.” She leant down to kiss him.

Walking back to the others, Jack seemed more relaxed, Trevor shot Mackenzie a knowing look before smiling at Jack. “Jack, can you please for the love of god help them with the grill?” Skylar pleaded. “Yeah, what do they need help with?” Jack walked over to them, “no you need to turn the ignition on” Jack sighed.

“Get you a man who can grill, am I right?” Kaylee teased Kenzie. “Hmm get you a man who can provide” Kenzie hummed back. “Is there anything he can’t do?” Kaylee jokes. “You don’t wanna know the answer to that” Mackenzie deadpanned, causing Skylar to fake gag, “didn’t need to hear that, thanks for the trauma.”

“Hey! Kaylee asked, don’t blame me!” Kenzie exclaimed, “and I regret it” Kaylee faked a disgusted look.

“Babe, can you pass us the hot dogs?” Jack looked over his shoulder at Kenzie. “Yeah, which cooler are they in?” Kenzie asked as she walked to them. “Erm, I think the orange one?” Trevor questioned. Kenzie reached into the cooler pulling out the hot dogs along with the burger as they’d no doubt want them as well before walking back over.

“Here you are babe, anything else” Kenzie asked, kissing Jack's cheek. “Nothing at the moment” Jack replied. Kaylee passed Jack a bottle of water, “looked like you needed one” she explained.

“Quinn do you wanna put some music on?” Skylar suggested as she passed him the speaker, connecting to it Quinn selected a random playlist before turning the volume up. Flowers started blasting from the speaker causing Jack and Mackenzie to shoot their heads up at each other before smiling, it was the first song Jack and Mackenzie ever danced to. “I’ll bring you flowers in the pouring raiiinnn” Kenzie sang, “living without yoouuu is driving me insane” Jack sang back smiling.

Kaylee smiled, remembering that night and how happy Mackenzie looked dancing away with Jack. Kaylee shook her head as Mackenzie started slowly dancing and singing to the music, before joining in. Soon everyone was dancing to the music, laughing and joking around, Jack smiled at them, dancing carefully as he was still grilling.

Jack started serving the food, grabbing a plastic plate to share with Kenzie before assembling their burgers with the toppings he knew she liked. “Here you are my love, one cheeseburger with extra pickles, ketchup, mustard” Jack listed before pulling her into his lap as he sat on the sand. “Mhm looks delicious babe, thank you” Kenzie held her wine up, “cheers to our favourite grill master Jack.”

Kaylee clinked her bottle against the empty one Kenzie was holding, before taking a swig after Kenzie. “How many bottles have you two had?” Trevor questioned, “this is bottle number two, which is pretty tame for us” Kaylee responded winking at Kenzie.

“Hmm thanksgiving was a tragedy” Skylar butted in from her seat in Ethan’s lap, “what happened on thanksgiving?” Mackie asked. “What happened? Oh I’ll tell you what happened, these two thought it would be a good idea to drink the entirety of the wine collection in Kaylee’s dads shed, eat the whole pumpkin pie and then ride around the neighbourhood on Frasers electric scooter shouting my happiness is chronic but my ass is Iconic and beyoncè is my mom” Skylar listed, Kaylee and Kenzie looked at each other before bursting into laughter.

“It was the night before thanksgiving actually, severely hungover and many breakdowns later we made a new pie” Kaylee defended. “Please tell me you have videos” Jack pleaded, “hmm I have a whole album dedicated to their shenanigans” Skylar smirked.

“No!” Kenzie exclaimed in horror, “not Kaylee’s birthday!” “Oh especially Kaylee’s birthday” Skylar smirked.

“You weren’t even there!! How do you have videos?!” Kaylee exclaimed in protest, “I have my sources, plus it was all over your socials” Skylar explained, “ok but Mackenzie rode that bull like no other, like babe I was mesmerised” Kaylee praised, “not the only thing I’m good at riding” Kenzie laughed.

“Really Kenzie?” Luke asked, looking disturbed. “Mhm” Kenzie winked at Jack who laughed.

After cleaning up the food and utensils, everyone decided to dip in the ocean, Mackenzie standing just so the water would hit her knees, Jack standing behind, wrapping his arms around her.

The couple laughed as Kaylee and Skylar had a chicken fight with the help of Ethan and Trevor. Mackenzie sighed in content watching everyone have fun, “life would be so dull without them huh?” Jack hummed out, “you wait till they meet the Scooby gang” Mackenzie laughed. “Oh god yeah, you lot are on another level” Jack chuckled.

“It’s crackhead energy at it’s finest” Mackenzie replied, “you’re the calm in the storm around them, you keep us balanced” Mackenzie added, “someone’s gotta make sure you lot don’t get arrested for something dumb” Jack laughed.

“Hmm but you love it” Mackenzie smiled, “I do, I really do” Jack said as he leaned down to kiss her.

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Kenzie.Havener a lil wine and an improv photoshoot never hurt nobody 🥲💓

📸 :- @Kay.Johnson

jackhughes beautiful ❤️

Kenzie.Havener I love you ❤️

jackhughes I love you ❤️

Kay.Johnson damnn am i a good photographer or what? 👀😜

Kenzie.Havener THE best 🙌🏼 silent appreciation for photography classes junior year 😌

Kay.Johnson 😔🤫

trevorzegras I wondered where the wine went 🤔

jackhughes no you didn’t, we all knew where it went 😏😂

Skylar.Grace ✨thanksgiving✨

Kenzie.Havener BLOCKED 🚫

Frey.Lodge not the thanksgiving slander 😩😂

Olivia.Autumn we don’t talk about it 👀

Chase.Lukas it never happened 👀💀

Jaden_Roman it was a figment of our imaginations 👀

Maddy.Elizabeth I was there and it was a wild time 😩😏 wasn’t it pumpkin? 😉

Kay.Johnson ok now that was uncalled for 😩😂

jackhughes HOW do you all know about it? 😒

Cody_Griffin it. Was. All. Over. The. Groupchat 🙌🏼😔

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Kay.Johnson shoutout to trevorzegras for taking fake couple pics with me, thanks homie 🙌🏽🫶🏽

Special throwback to ✨thanksgiving✨

tagged:- trevorzegras

Kenzie.Havener for anyone wondering the second picture is our reaction to finding Frasers wine stash 😏😜

jackhughes I-I- I’m speechless 😶

trevorzegras is the first picture what I think it is? 😩👀

Kay.Johnson it is indeed 😏

_quinnhughes it’s giving a cry for help 💀

Frey.Lodge Idk how many more cries for help they can give 😩

Maddy.Elizabeth Kaylee’s birthday is the biggest one for me 😩🙌🏼

Kenzie.Havener i rode that bull like a damn pro, get in line 💅🏼

Jaden.Roman I’m still speechless at that, the ✨talent✨

Cody_Griffin it was ✨absolute perfection✨

Preston.Thomas the best mechanical bull rider in the west 💅🏾🫶🏾

trevorzegras do i get boyfriend points for the couple pics? 🥹

Kay.Johnson better you get a gold star ⭐️ and some 2 day old popcorn ☺️

trevorzegras better than nothing I suppose 😒

Kay.Johnson i can take the gold star back 🤨

trevorzegras no! No I’m sorry 😨

Kay.Johnson mhm that’s what I thought 😏

[spookyblazecoffee]

Love your thoughts on this. Heckyl would definitely be a lifeguard. However, I also think that he's barely able to swim for some reason.

I would love to hear more of your Kendall/Shelby thoughts on this, but if we go the Tyler/Shelby route, the joke thing could apply to them as well.

Also, if we go the Tyler/Shelby AND Kaylee/Shelby route, Kaylee flirts with Shelby as much as Matt flirts with Ivan.

Riley (who made friends with Ivan and Shelby) is just like: *What the actual fuck?*

Also, Matt knows how to surf because of visiting Jerry in California or because Hope took him, Kaylee, and Riley camping near a beach in Texas, and he learned there.

Ivan's just trying to instruct a group of teenage boys (that won't stop making dirty jokes out of every single thing he says) how to put their scuba masks on. Then he sees Matt on a fucking surfboard?! Man's dead. He's gone. He's not breathing. Kendall or Tyler has to take over his class for a few minutes while he collects himself.

Matt definitely befriends Kendall, who takes him to a party on the beach.

Guess who's at that party? IVAN!!

Ivan's wearing one of these shirts with some swim trunks. (I'm too indecisive to choose, so imagine whichever one would make Matt go the most insane)

Matt's standing there, staring at Ivan, while Kendall's laughing at his reaction, teasing him.

Kendall: "You alright there, Matt?"

Matt: "Who gave him the right?!"

Kendall: "Okay, loverboy, calm down."

Matt tries not to talk to Ivan for... some reason?!

But then, a drunk out of his mind, Ivan comes waltzing (strutting?) Idfk, but his James Potter acting ass walks over to Matt and Kendall and flirts with Matt like he HASN'T been avoiding being the one to teach Matt this whole time, so he can stay professional.

And Matt's just sitting there like: 😳

Because Ivan is flirting with him!!

And Ivan is being so fucking touchy. Like, he's got a drink in one hand, and his other hand is on Matt's arm or shoulder or knee or something. Kendall even has to go as far as snapping her fingers in front of Ivan's face to get him to pay attention to someone other than Matt, and even then, he is STILL twirling a strand of Matt's hair around his finger!!

And Matt's trying to keep himself calm because Ivan's drunk, and he doesn't know how Ivan will feel in the morning if Matt kisses him (or if they hook up)

Kendall ends up having to take Ivan home. Much to her dismay because she was gonna try and hook up with Heckyl or Shelby, depending on which one she's shipped with in this, but NO!! She has to take the dumbass that can't handle his alcohol back to her place where he throws up on her floor!!

Either that or Ivan's place is really close to the beach, and Matt ends up walking him there and crashing on Ivan's couch after getting him some water and placing some Tylenol on his nightstand for the horrible headache he'll have the next morning.

The thing is, the next day, Matt thinks Ivan doesn't remember anything, but Ivan remembers everything!!

Guess what Ivan decides to do? He decides to – albeit more sutbly – FLIRT WITH MATT EVEN MORE!!

So now, Ivan’s NOT avoiding being the one to dive with Matt. In fact!! He's taking every chance he has to be near Matt so he can flirt with him.

So it just goes like this:

Matt: *Flirts with Ivan*

Ivan: *Flirts back*

Matt: *Gay panic*

Kendall: *Face palming in the background* "Oh, good grief!"

Also, their vacation is somewhere in South America, just because.

And now you get an incorrect quote that's basically just how Ivan would flirt with Matt.

Ivan: "There are 20 letters in the alphabet, right?"

Matt: "Nope, there's 26."

Ivan: "Ah, I must have forgotten U, R, A, Q, T."

Matt: "Aww, that's cute, but you're still missing one."

Ivan: "You'll get the D later." *winks*

Just finished watching 47 Meters Down: Uncaged (a horror movie with Davi Santos) and thinking about a Modern, no Rangers, Mivan AU where Matt, Kaylee, and Riley go on a vacation with their parents.

Ivan's a scuba instructor, along with Chase, Shelby, Kendall, and Tyler. Riley becomes friends with Ivan, and Matt just won't stop hitting on Ivan.

Thoughts or additions??

1, LOVE THIS

2, Heckyl is also there, he's a lifeguard, just because.

3, There constant jokes that Kendall and Shelby are kissing whenever they put equipment away

That's all for now

[hopemikaelsonismywife]

Okay I just finished the new legacies episode and I don’t even know where to start. So much happened. First of all, Kaylee leaving. I just found out about this after the episode and I’m so sad about it. I saw the theories but I didn’t believe it. I love Josie and Kaylee and I’m going to miss Kaylee on the show so much. I hope things go well for her, though.

The next thing I want to discuss is Aurora in Hope’s body not knowing how to use her magic was a really nice touch. I actually really loved Lizzie in this episode. I loved the scene in that restaurant and her double crossing Aurora and everything she said to Hope. I really liked those scenes. I knew Hope hadn’t turned her humanity back on. Her reaction was way too mild to have just turned it back on. The ‘making me love you’ line, I almost screamed. I love hosie yes but I would not be opposed to hizzie happening. I really saw it this episode. Hosie is still my favourite ship but i see the chemistry. I saw that scene. I have always preferred the idea of them as best friends but like if it happened I would not be mad.

Josie leaving and breaking up with Finch to go after Hope made my hosie heart way too happy. That bubble quickly broke when she bought a sedcond ticket. Although I did really like the way Finch was this episode with Josie. I felt bad for her. But Josie wearing the necklace from Hope was amazing. I loved that getting brought back. We haven’t seen that since that episode. Kaylee leaving can’t mean no more Josie until the end of the season, right? Because she left to go and save Hope. So her not coming back doesn’t make sense to the story. My theory is that after Hope’s humanity is back on, we’ll see Josie leave. The executive producers said that the door is always open so she probably won’t die, although her 

I’m glad Hope is back in her body. I’m not a huge fan of body swapping. However, I do want to see more of Aurora. I really like her as a villain. I also hope her being introduced means Hope learns more about her family history because Klaus had a lot of enemies. The whole family did. She needs to know about her own history yet alone the rest of her family’s.

Right, onto the big thing of the episode (minus Kaylee leaving), Lizzie oh my fucking gods. Hope actually killed her. I can’t believe she actually killed her. I screamed. I’m still in shock. Lizzie is in transition. She’s going to be a heretic. I am so excited for this, you have no idea. And based on the promo, her and Hope are going to team up by the looks of it or at least having screen time together doing something that doesn’t seem to be fighting. And her scene with Josie just I can’t so many feels that broke my heart I love them and I love their relationship and how much it’s developed. And when Josie could feel that something was wrong was just so sad.

I also want to point out that if Lizzie is a heretic now then that means the Merge is no longer an issue right? Which means Caroline no longer has an excuse to be away from the school so I wonder how they’re going to explain it now. Also, Lizzie becoming a vampire and Caroline not coming back would make absolutely no sense for Caroline’[s character but I know she can’t come back because Candice doesn’t want to come back. So I’m just really wondering how they’re going to deal with all of that.

These are just my primary thoughts on the episode but so much happened so I’ll probably talk about it some more later. Right now I’m just going to scream into a pillow for a bit because I am still freaking out over this whole episode. It was such a good episode. The whole Lizzie, Hope and Aurora plot was amazing.

[ryanflrblog]

Embarrassing revelation

I was so humiliated I just wanted to disappear. I was blushing so hard I thought my skin would burst into flames.

Both outcomes - disappearance and bursting into flames, were both preferable to what was actually happening to me.

Keri, my girlfriend with whom I am in a female-led relationship, had arranged for the two of us to accompany her young sister, Kaylee, out onto the lake in their family’s boat. It was just the three of us, and the day was going very well. After I’d gone for a swim in the water while the two of them were talking, I emerged from the lake onto the deck, and that’s when things turned for the worse for me.

Keri sat near the back of the boat - the stern, of course - and regarded me with a look I knew spelled trouble for me. I stood dripping wet, clad in only swimming trunks, the lake basically deserted around us, and felt the rising tide of dread within me, not wanting to face the reality this could actually happen.

“Derek,” Keri began. “I wanted to bring you out here, onto this lake, on this boat, for two reasons. One, so that I could show Kaylee the reality of our relationship, and two, so you couldn’t escape.”

I trembled. No way she was really doing this here! Please no!

She brushed her hair from her face. “While you were swimming, I told Kaylee everything about us, including my total disciplinary control over you. I told her that you had committed several punishable offenses during this trip by looking at her body and her feet, and that you were going to be spanked. I gave her the option of participating or I could wait to take you home. You can imagine which she picked.”

Tears started to form in my eyes as Kaylee, who had moved behind me, whisked down my trunks, leaving me standing naked on the deck. I started to breathe quickly.

“Please don’t,” I said.

“I advise you to stop talking now,” Keri told me. “Tie him up, Kaylee.”

I couldn’t even glance at Kaylee, who was only 18, as she pulled my hands behind my back and crossed my wrists. She tied me up, roping my wrists together tightly, and I noticed I was fully erect as she did - the shame and embarrassment hadn’t taken away the overwhelming arousal I usually felt when it was time to be punished.

“She told me you liked it,” Kaylee mocked as she pulled the knots tight. “Now you can’t hide it.”

“On your knees and kiss Kaylee’s feet,” Keri ordered. “Ask her to participate in punishing you.”

I couldn’t take it. Part of me wanted to jump into the lake and simply sink to my death, but there was no way I could escape. I wanted to dissolve into sobs and hope I was dreaming, but when I sank to my knees, the feet before me were all-too-real.

I kissed Kaylee’s feet softly. “Please, Miss Kaylee, please participate in my punishment.”

“With pleasure,” Kaylee answered. 

“Get across my thighs,” Keri told me. “I’m going to spank you first, so Kaylee can see how it’s done.”

I moved to Keri, and kissed her feet as well - she didn’t have to tell me, this was required of me for all spankings.

“Please spank me, Miss Keri,” I asked meekly.

“Get into position,” she replied.

I moved to get over her lap, and Kaylee helped to lay me down over Keri’s legs. I was under the control of two beautiful young women.

“Now that she knows everything,” Keri said. “Kaylee can see me spanking and punishing you whenever she visits, and, of course, I can use her as a babysitter if I have to leave you alone.”

“And I have the feeling if I do babysit you,” Kaylee said. “You’ll be getting spanked.”

The women laughed, and I started to cry even before the spanking began. I couldn’t have been more ashamed!

[queenofbaws]

how is it wednesday again??? man oh MAN! i’m still in the process of getting back into the swing of things, but keep your eyes peeled for a hackett update in the near future ;)c there’s only one member of the racket we haven’t checked in with yet, and...well, we’re gonna see what’s going on with her real soon.

other than that, i’ve been slowly, slowly, slooooooooowly working on a few projects in the creepiverse, and i’m hoping i’ll be updating that soon too!!! until then, here’s a teaser of what’s to come for our favorite ghost hunters once we wrap conrad’s story - a fun little number i’ve been calling ‘crepey but bonafide,’ hehehehehe.......

“Ryan used to talk about you guys all the time.” Kaylee stretched her arms out wide, then laced her fingers behind her head as she walked. “The weird and the wonderful. Pfft. We got one of those here…”

“Oh, is he a friend of yours?” Grace asked, flashing Anton a huge, cheesy grin. It wasn’t returned. “Always love that good ol’ word of mouth advertising! Friends telling friends—”

But in her head, something clicked. Ashley slowed her step. “Wasn’t…uh…I mean, maybe I’m misremembering, but…Ryan was the name of one of the counselors who went missing here, I think.”

Finally breaking his stony silence, Caleb glanced over his shoulder. “Spooky,” he said, never breaking stride. As quickly as he’d deigned to look at them, he turned away again, leading their group deeper and deeper into the woods.

as always, hope you’re all doing well out there <3

[lycan-troth]

Yeah, I can see that. It would be awkward for him in that aspect, and from Kaylee's (in your fanon), it makes sense for her to not feel as uncomfy. It must be pretty awkward to have their dad dating someone around their age, I don't think it'd be good irl, but it's fiction ✨️I really like how you flesh out their relationship,I find it interesting and they have good chemistry, and all based/inspired from what is in the game too 👀 Haha, thanks for entertaining that thought, it could be he'd have one in wolf form, but don't they have no genitals? I've always thought that detail was a bit odd, like they'll show you a decapitated head and someone getting their face blown off, but they draw the line at werewolf bits it's kinda amusing tbh.

That's sad, but it does make sense for your fanon of him, and in canon tbh. He seems sort of lax about it in the game. Obviously, finding Silas would be great, but you're right it's mostly Travis who is pressured and actively goes looking for Silas. Your version of him deep down accepting his curse as being something he's stuck with adds up to me. He needs to keep hoping for the sake of his kids, but it's been years, and still nothing. I don't blame him for losing faith in finding Silas. It's a depressing situation with their family life, mental health, work, trying to keep his thing with Ryan neutral, and the hikers he sometimes has to bury. I think a lot of the fandom focuses on Travis more because he gets more screen time. Therefore, he's more likeable than Chris, who doesn't get much screen time and is depicted as a bit sus and strict during that time. This is honestly one of the things I was disappointed about, I wanted Chris to get more screen time. David Arquette did what he could with it and left me wanting to see some more, so I think he did good depicting him. Also, I realised I'd seen Travis (Ted Raimi) before and couldn't remember where, anyway I was rewatching early seasons of Supernatural and he's in S4 during the episode "Wishful Thinking" it's not relevant to my ask, but I also found the ep name ironic considering Travis yk, but it can appeal to Chris too. I'm honestly low-key, surprised that Travis/Laura fans haven't done an au of that episode yet. His character in that (Wesley) makes a wish with a magic coin to make a girl fall in love with him, and she does, sort of. The coin takes wishes and twists them, so the girl becomes obsessed with him to the point that she doesn't have any autonomy. It gets so bad that she goes and makes a wish too, and her wish was for lightning to strike down the mc (Sam), who wanted him to take back his wish of her loving him. Sorry, I know this bit is super rambly and you probably don't know the show I'm talking about, but idk I feel like Travis/Laura shippers are missing out on a potentially interesting au there, lmao.

I think you're depicting his obsession fairly well atm. So far, we've seen the cracks like you've said, Chris is slipping more and more each day. I can only imagine what he's going to be like when it's out in the open. It's funny I still don't quite get why Chris enjoys watching him so much. Don't get me wrong, the content you're serving us is delicious, and I love it as always, but I still don't quite get it. He's obsessed fr, and I'm living for it. He just loves watching him, ig. It makes me think of this sound on tiktok I saw one time: "Despite his criminal mind, this man is behaving well. His reward is the canoe. This time, he can sit in the canoe for up to an hour." I know before you told me it was about feeding his obsession, of being able to be up close to Ryan but not really. I just know Ryan is gonna like the attention (in theory). The barn scene was so awkward for him, like damn, lmao. And the way you showed us Chris cracking a bit there was great. We could just tell what was lurking underneath it all, and Ryan, too, to an extent. I feel bad for Chris fighting back and forth with himself like he does. It makes sense for him to wanna "protect" Ryan from himself by staying away, but he wants him to come back at the same time. I find that element of Chris, that selfish part of him wanting Ryan to keep coming back, to stay close to him; I find it kinda cute tbh. I feel like it shows what you said about him not really having someone like Ryan in his life, so it's easy to obsess. To have a person that needs him and wants him in the same breath. Tbh, before I was thinking of Ryan being the clingy one, which he totally still is in my mind, but with this insight, I can see Chris being a bit clingy too. I know this is probably maybe gonna be a given since GP is the more obsessive darker route for them, but will we be seeing an openly possessive/obsessive/territorial scene of them? When I say open, I mean that it's not really something they hide from each other like they did in ASB and have been doing more or less so far in GP. Buuut back to the previous ask, Chris willing to push back his selfish wants to prioritise Ryan's wellbeing/needs is the angst that keeps on giving. It's like he (you) are dedicated to making me sad, lmao. Ryan really wouldn't appreciate it much at all, haha, and yeah WCA depicts that very well. Ooh yeah, that most certainly was a dick move on Chris's part. I was thinking the same like "Chris, what do you mean 'shoot me'? He's just killed someone for you, wdym you wanna die now? *sigh* smh." Ryan's refusal to kill Chris in that, and him feeling like Chris wants to abandon him was SO sad. I'm still not over that 🥲.

Aww, that'd be cute! The moving in together au without moving in together, haha. I can imagine Ryan settling in a place near/in town or something when/if he'd get the money to buy his own place. The differences he'd face in the country I can only imagine, haha. I grew up in a busy place/main road, not in a city but yk, we didn't have a garden or amything that was very uh "nature" 😂. I remember going to a forrest/wild nature walk place where I live now, and I was sooo out of my element, haha. The bugs, the animal shit, the smells, the ground hurts depending on the type of shoe you wear, and my sense of navigation is shit. So I can only imagine suddenly living in a place like Hackett's quarry, especially with it being SO hot, I'd perish for sure in that heat, haha. I like the idea of them spending a lot of alone time like that. Aww, it's so cute when Ryan doesn't wanna worry, Chris. He knows he'd go out of his way for him when he probably shouldn't considering their financial situation. feel like there'd be good opportunities for bed sharing. It's not like there'd be anyone to question or hide it from.

Apart from maybe Kaylee or mostly Caleb, lol. Maybe Kaylee and Caleb would finally have somewhere else to run off to when they're sick of being at the house with their grandparents. Imagine Ryan's just settling in for the night when suddenly they just pull up to his cabin and state that they're staying the night. Ryan just gradually gets used to spontaneous sleepovers forced upon him. Poor socially awkward introvert hassled by werewolves, tbh that could be a way he finds about them. Like they just become so comfortable around Ryan that they let him in on their secret, and wouldn't that resolve how they were feeling, or at least how Kaylee said they felt in her letter to Constance? They'd finally have someone to confide in, or at least not hide from. Their whole thing was being upset at hiding from people, so maybe having that one person, a bit similar to Chris being able to listen to them and understand/validate them could be enough to soothe them a bit.

Haha, I think I beat you with my response. It's a bit more rambley and longer than yours, lmao. I get carried away with my ideas/ramblings. There's no judgment here, haha 😂

How do you think Kaylee and Caleb think about Ryan and Chris? In ASB, Kaylee was trying to subtly push them together a bit, so I got to wondering how they view Ryan liking Chris and their dad liking Ryan. This sent me down a mini rabbit hole of thoughts that somehow led me to thinking, "Does Chris have something like a knot like in popular werewolf fiction?" I honestly can't remember how I got to wondering about that, and idk how it'd even work either, lmao.

Then, from that thought, I naturally jumped to the next randomised one, which was wondering about how Chris spent the year when Ryan wasn't there? The tapes he has of Ryan wandering around and staring into space got me thinking that maybe he'd watch those sometimes? They have eachothers phone number, too, so they call like they did a bit in ASB. It was just interesting to think about in the context of GP because the nature of their relationship is different. Chris has his obsession, and Ryan atm isn't quite on the same level rn, but he's still pretty fixated on Chris. With these things in mind, I just wondered how it might change how Chris feels/reacts to Ryan's absence during the off-season of camp.

Then, finally, I thought, "What if Ryan stayed with Chris during the off-season?" Idk what the circumstances would be, but Ryan just doesn't go home or doesn't live with his family anymore? I was thinking about what they'd do, obviously with Chris's parents around, he can't bring Ryan to the house. So they'd be at the lodge, or at least Ryan would be. It leaves a lot of room for potential domestic fluff or smut. Without the campers and counsellors around, Ryan would truly be in the wolfs den. I'd imagine Kaylee and Caleb might visit more without the noisy campers and nosy counsellors there.

i’d say, that they prob don’t think about it too deeply. like, ryan’s crush is pretty clear to everyone, who bothers to inspect his and chris’s relationships for more, than 2 minutes. but while kyalee thinks, that it’s fun and might be good for chris, i feel like caleb sort of avoids the topic. and not bc the hates the idea of it, more so, bc it’s very awkward lol. i mean, he’s the older out of the 3. he views ryan on the same level as kyalee, like as someone, who’s clearly younger than him. and his sister has a habit of having new, non-serious crushes pretty often. so he might assume, that ryan is the same in that regard. like that he’s confused or smth. and then, chris is his dad, who he considers to be good-natured, but a bit lame. not to mention, that ryan is around the same age category as them, and learning that your father is a ‘dirty old man’ surely doesn’t help, haha. so yeah, caleb would try to not dig too deeply into it. and nope, chris doesn’t have it, haha. i mean, in human form surely not. in werewolf one, he prob does, haha. but i struggle to imagine ryan surviving such an encounter tbh. 

ah, that’s a good question. i imagine, that chris has a lot to do around the campground, even when no one is around. then, he and the rest of the hacketts prob try to track down silas and all that business as well. but i feel like, chris doesn’t really believe, that they would ever find him. one would imagine, that it’ll be travis, who low-key gave up on everything, when in fact, trying to kill silas is in part of what keeps him going. compared to this, chris has a more cynical view on it. at least, in my fanon, haha. i guess, i always picture him as a guy, who really wants to help others, but considers himself to be beyond help. or maybe, not even worthy of it. i mean, i feel like while fandom adores fawning over travis’s situation, no one ever considers why chris had to be the one, who runs the camp. i don’t think, that it was a gift from his parents. i actually, assume that he was ‘trusted’ (read conditioned) into that position, bc travis was always a scapegoat of the fam, but in a way, he was ‘let go’. he could do whatever, bc no one cared all that much, which is still pretty bad, don’t get me wrong. but with this in mind, and added fact, that bobby is clearly the favorite child, it would mean that chris was automatically put into position, where literally no one, but him could ‘inherit’ the hackett’s quarry. and where he had to be the one to have a family, and be ‘the ideal man’ or whatever. all eyes were on him, bc there were things expected from him. nothing was expected from bobby. and in a way, from travis as well, but for different reasons clearly. with this being said, i don’t think that chris had it ‘worse’ than travis or smth, it’s just that he had to suffer through different sorts of parental pressure and most likely abuse too. travis has a stockholm syndrome toward his family, and chris was basically conditioned into filling the role, that no one else could. sorry, tangled up, haha. 

but like with all this in consideration, it’s fairly easy to imagine why he would get so obsessed with ryan. and yeah, he for sure would rewatch the tapes, and enjoy phone talks, that they have. he never had anything like this before. a thing to truly look forward to. his kids are adults, so in all fairness, they no longer need him like they used to, and i feel like chris gets very aimless, when there is nothing for him to do, no one to care for, bc he has no idea how to live for himself at all. and yeah, in GP ryan’s and chris’s levels of obsession are a bit different. i suppose, partly bc chris’s mental state is also worse, than it was in ASB. he tries his best still, but cracks are starting to show more and more often. as for how he feels, when ryan is not around for months, i think that it’s a tricky question. chris is party terrified of himself and what he can do, so rational part of him says, that it’s good that ryan is far away from him, and that it might be better if he never comes back. but then, he also always longs for him to be back all the same. need vs care. obsession vs common sense. chris is very morale dualed, haha. esp when it comes to ryan. but i feel like, he’s prob one of the rare kinds of characters, who can overpower his own selfishness more often, than not. like, if i had to put all my supermassives otps into situation, where they had a choice to basically keep their ‘better half’ with them or have a chance to let them go with hope, that they can do better, that it would essentially be better for them, only chris and andrew would be capable of smth like lmao. everyone else, ryan included, would have the ugliest tantrum imaginable. even john with a similar level of self-hatred as chris, wouldn’t have been able to stop himself from being terribly selfish and keep andrew, no matter what it would have taken. this is partly why chris was okay with ryan killing him in WCA. he just assumed, well, it would be better for ryan. kinda a dick move tho. like ryan killed people for him, and he then, asks him to shot him lmao. 

and oh, funny enough, i had un-used plot, where ryan gets kicked out of the house by his mother. idk, where his grandparents are. maybe, they don’t exist in that au or they’re not close. so as result, ryan literally has nowhere to go. he asks kyalee and caleb, if they can hook him up with some temporary place, until he finds a job and will get out of their hair. but naturally, they call him an idiot and say, that he can just stay on the campground during that time, chris won’t mind. i imagine, that ryan would ask them to not tell chris why he’s here, make up some story. it also leaves a lot places for humor, bc ryan is city kid, he doesn’t know much about life in the country. but chris be there to teach him. so yeah, they would spent a lot of time together. just two of them. kyalee and caleb would also indeed have a chance to hang out with ryan more often, show him around and such. for a while everything will be alright with the world. which is smth that i really about the quarry tbh. their set-up is so deceptively cozy.