#i’m hoping by stretching and strengthening that area slowly it makes such occurances less likely

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for real i’m just gonna recommend to everyone of any age at all to start stretching at night. at the very least do some back stretches if you sit all day!! i have a squiggly scoliosis back which is prone to acting up, so right before bed i do some cat/cow and cobra stretches along with toe touches—or attempts at them when i first started out. took some time but i can touch now! it’s definitely helped me out!!

right now i’m trying to improve my hip and calf flexibility by continuing the toe touches to be deeper and even trying to work towards splits with deep lunges and cobbler’s pose. we’ll see if that goes anywhere, but the point is if your back hurts even a little bit of light stretching can probably help you out!

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By Bast - Chapter 10 (Erik x Reader)

A/N: comments as always appreciated! Happy New Year everyone!

A mediocre-looking American, a mediocre-looking American… You chanted over and over to yourself as you ran.

Normally you would berate Shuri for the language, but you could not help the smile spreading your lips as you ran through the fastest course to Mount Bashenga.

Shuri was back, and almost as importantly, T’Challa was alive! You had seen him die… had you seen him die? Despite having occurred only days ago, those events were now a blur. Thankfully so.

You ran and ran, the vacancy through the palace revealing the intensity of the fray on the outside. As you leapt over and side-stepped several slumped bodies, your heart began to race.

This was it. This was the end of this monster’s reign. It would all be over, and he would be gone. Forever.

Once you boarded the restricted two-person underground shuttle from the palace to the laboratory, you let out a sigh of relief. The moment you reached the Wakandan Design Group hub, your target was in view.

Shuri’s description hadn’t been too far off – a middle-aged white man of average stature stood pacing back and forth at the center of the room, muttering frantically to himself. So preoccupied he was that he didn’t notice you approach him cautiously until you lightly tapped his shoulder and reflexively, narrowly dodged a frantic right swing.

“Who the hell are you?!” He demanded to know, fists raised now in an unsteady defensive stance. Rather than respond, you turned to a glass workstation and laid the card you had been given against its surface. It lit up and revealed a control panel.

“Shuri sent me.” You motioned him over to your side and pointed to a hologram of an American jet’s cockpit controls, now projecting from the card. “It looks like she needed you to fly this plane, right?”

He nodded, his lips slightly parted in a mixture of apprehension and confusion.

“Y-yeah, that is correct but-”

“What are you waiting for? I don’t know how to fly planes!” You cut him off, in no mood to assuage his anxiety. The curtness in your voice seemed to spring him back into action.

While the hapless foreigner activated the remote piloting system and listened for Shuri’s further instructions, you used the card’s settings to seize control of one of Wakanda’s aerial satellites. You were hoping to get a good survey of the land and determine exactly what was going on outside the deserted palace.

Just like your vision had prophesized, you saw your people strewn across the land locked in physical struggle. For as long as you had lived, you had never seen a mere riot, much less a battle of this magnitude.

“What exactly is going on?!” You demanded to know from your new comrade-in-arms, while taking note of the exact number of ships that had been deployed, likely taking weapons overseas. Still focused on the simulated battle before him, he tried his best to fill you in.

“It seems that your new king is one of our folks, an American on our wanted list.”

It’s not that this was something you hadn’t exactly pieced together, but the statement made your quick vision of N’Jadaka’s past feel all the more real.

“Now, we just have to stop these weapons from leaving your country, and then… I don’t really know what happens from th-“

His speech was again cut off by the sudden impact of a barrage of blasts aimed at one of the immense reinforced glass windows to your opposite side.

Shit…

“I’ll try to see if we can beef up our security!” you reassured, hoping he would stay focused on his more important task. Unfortunately, this statement was a bluff given that you were minimally tech savvy, at least by Wakandan standards. Regardless, you assumed you were smart enough to have at least an idea of how Shuri would set her controls.

Floundering through her presets to figure out how to strengthen the glass, you kept an eye on the video feed of the battle. Eventually, N’Jadaka came into view, clad in a golden version of the panther suit, just at the moment he was tackled into the vibranium mine. It was so fast, you nearly missed it, but you knew the dark figure had to be T’Challa in the original panther suit. Shuri was bent over the end of the huge opening and appeared to be screaming. Screaming… but safe.

Despite reinforcing the vibranium signal on the building, you could hear the cracks in the walls begin to spread and the glass shatter and break under the impact.

Glass integrity at 15%, the overhead system warned.

“We have to consider getting out of here soon!” You alerted the trained pilot. In the meantime, you were hastily trying and failing desperately to locate a failsafe that would automatically shut down all aerial vehicles. You were sure Shuri would have programmed something of the sort if she had had the foresight to.

Then again, Wakanda was the safest place on Earth, was it not? Who could have expected their aircrafts to be turned against the people?

“How many do you still have to stop?!” You asked.

“Just.. this!” A loud crash ensued and the simulation abruptly disintegrated, leaving the man in a hard drop on his bottom. While you looked at him in surprised horror, he jumped to his feet with the excitement of a teenager having reached a new video game’s high score.

“Yes!! We did it!” he yelled.

You blinked once to process then snapped back into action. “Okay, great! Let’s move!” You announced, quickly slipping the keycard back into your pocket. This place was no longer safe for the two of you.

“Follow me.”

The two of you deserted the workspace in relative silence, considering the laboratory was under attack, for the next few minutes. The quiet may have been a tad uncomfortable for your new companion, because he soon broke the silence.

“You can call me Ross. Agent Ross.” The American stretched out his arm for a handshake but you were too heavily preoccupied with worry over the possible outcome of a rematch between T’Challa and N’Jadaka to acknowledge him.

“I think there are hoverbikes we can use to make our way out of the building faster.” You responded, disregarding his self-introduction as you lead him down to the section of the edifice designed for evacuation in emergencies precisely like this one.

Agent Ross let out a small snort of disbelief while you rummaged through a password-protected safe and handed him the key to a bike.

“Hoverbikes... really?” you heard him murmur under his breath.

“We’re going to use these to leave through the exit I am about to open up.” With that, you slammed a large red button mounted beside the entrance with the side of your fist and a wall at the other end of the chamber fell away, leading to the open air of the vast mine. The pathway looked almost like a runway into the void with how dark the outside environment was, illuminated only by the glowing flecks of raw vibranium metal.

Ross gave you an incredulous look.

“There are clear arrows for this path that we’re going to follow if we want to make it out of this mine the fastest way. They’ll show up on the dashboard of the bike,” you reassured.

You hopped on a hoverbike of your own.

“Or you could just follow me,” you added. In mere moments, you sped off and after a few seconds of familiarizing himself with the equipment, he followed suit.

Will you let this end this way?

As you and Ross rode, just minutes out from the fray, a lump began to form in your throat at the sweet, sultry voice in your ears for the umpteenth time.

Is she fucking serious? You couldn’t help but think to yourself. But you knew, deep down, you needed to know where they were, where he was.

Would T’Challa end his life this time? Could T’Challa end his life this time? Should T’Challa end his life this time?

Bast had already given you the answer to the last one. But the first two were up to T’Challa. And somehow up to you.

You pulled out Shuri’s master card once again and attached it to the dashboard of your hoverbike. You already knew the two of them were somewhere in the mines. Using the card to sweep the area around you for body heat signatures would tell you exactly where you could locate them. You came up with nothing and realized you would have to go searching.

“Ross!” You slowed down just enough to meet him side by side.

His excited grin sublimed into an inquisitive look, perhaps in response to the wistfulness plastered all over your face.

“What’s going on?”

“I’m going to part with you here but keep following the dashboard. You’ll make it to the rest in no time!”

“And where exactly are you going in the middle of a conflict?”

You swallowed hard. Interfering, yet again, would cause you more problems than not in the long run. You were well aware of this. On the other hand, you already knew the goddess would not let you continue to exist if you decided to stay out of it.

“I have to check on something.” You responded. It wasn’t a lie. “Get back safely!” You said, as you sped off full throttle in the opposite direction.

By the time you reached them, it appeared that T’Challa had already won. Yet N’Jadaka appeared to be very much alive, despite being obviously injured. T’Challa supported N’Jadaka’s weight as they rose together on a levitating platform, and you, very many feet away, watched them from afar.

The two men clad in these parallel suits, with opposing upbringings and clashing ideologies, for the first time appeared to look like family. It was a mellowing sight. Wondering where T’Challa was taking him, you followed at a distance far enough to allow them privacy.

You found yourself at a cavernous opening to the mountain, looking towards the horizon, where the sun’s rays gleamed over the untamed brush’s treetops. T’Challa lowered his cousin to the ground slowly and the latter supported himself on his knees, basking in the warm pink, orange and yellow hues of the sunset.

You dropped to your feet and muted the slow hum to your hoverboard to remain undetected, contemplating this strange development.

Had N’Jadaka had asked to see the sunset?

What could they possibly be saying?

You remained too far to hear them speak but weighed the risks of getting caught eavesdropping on the royal family to satisfying your own curiosity. It was not worth it. You knew boundaries all too well.

Backing away slowly now instead, your heartbeat began to slow, your anxiety finally dissipating. T’Challa was in control here, and N’Jadaka was still alive. Whatever Bast wanted with N’Jadaka, there would be another day to contemplate. Thankfully, things would be back to normal.

It was a good time for you to leave. Before you could turn around to leave, N’Jadaka’s voice, weak and wavering, seemed to echo into the cavern.

Just bury me in the ocean, with my ancestors that jumped from ships. ‘Cause they knew death was better than bondage.

“Nkiru, get over here!” T’Challa’s voice, stronger and clearer, boomed louder than you had ever heard in your entire life. Your heart almost stopped.

“I know that you’re listening! This is an order!”

Had you forgotten about superhuman hearing as a side effect of the Heart-Shaped Herb?

N’Jadaka was collapsed, supine and pale, with a wound on the same location you had seen his father’s decades before. In a blink of an eye, T’Challa had brought you over to where they had been talking. A little disoriented from the rapid acceleration and deceleration, you knelt over N’Jadaka’s side and looked nervously at T’Challa.

You knew from his facial expression that he wanted you to save him. But was he sure?

It didn’t matter. You placed a hand lightly on his wrist to sense a fading pulse and quickly forced your hand into his wound to re-tamponade it. If you had carried a healing bead, you could have just slipped one into the injury but as luck would have it, your bracelet had slipped off your arm at some point.

T’Challa did not need further instructions. You straddled N’Jadaka, keeping your hand firm in the injury to decrease bloodflow and somehow balanced on his body while T’Challa lifted both of you

N’Jadaka, Erik Stevens, would be spared.

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Zinc Tmj

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