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goodmusicandcheapbeer ¡ 5 months ago
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SINCE IT’S FREAKY FRIDAY YALL
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I SWEAR IT LOOKED AT ME FIRST
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abbatoirablaze ¡ 2 years ago
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Burning Up, Chapter 2
Word Count:  1.5k
Warnings:  personal injury
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You felt embarrassed. 
You felt beyond silly. 
It had been nearly four days since the party, and you and Curtis had been texting non-stop. 
You really hadn’t believed that he was a firefighter up until the point you’d seen him board the truck and disappear into the night.  But there he was in all his glory; a real, living, breathing fireman.  And it secretly drove you wild. 
He seemed to be reveling in the fact that you loved his profession though, going so far as to invite you to see the station.  You, of course, couldn’t refuse the offer.  But you also wanted to make a good impression. 
Which was how you ended up parking your car in the lot and grabbing the tray of cookies you’d made for them. 
Anxiety coated your nerves, making you overthink every little detail. 
Was your dress nice enough?  Was the light amount of makeup you put on too much?  What if they didn’t like the cookies?  Should you have made cupcakes instead?
But a knock  on your window made you jump, nearly dropping the wrapped tray of cookies back onto the passenger seat.  Smiling on the other side of the window was the friend that you’d briefly met. 
“Johnny!”
“Hey there sweetheart,” he chuckled as you opened the door and handed him the tray of cookies, “glad to see that you took up Everett on his offer to come by the station.”
Your eyes widened, “he-he told you that I was coming?”
“Told all of us to be on our best behavior,” he teased, already calming your fried nerves, “he really wants to make a good impression on you.”
“I don’t think he has to worry about anything!”
He smirked, gently nudging your side, “got a thing for the firefighter, little flame?  Tell me, is it the uniform?”
You felt a blush rise to your cheeks once more as you instantly felt like you were falling into a comfortable friendship with the relatively unknown, but flirty man, “Johnny, stop!”
He smirked a little bit more, “you’re too sweet and reserved…perfect for Everett.”
“STORM!”
The voice made you jump into the air yet again, and suddenly you were happy that Johnny had taken the cookies from you, because you knew that would have made you drop them all over the ground. 
“HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU!” the man growled in an authoritative tone, “THE STATION IS NOT YOUR HOOKUP SPOT!”
“Not mine, honestly cap!” he said quickly, holding up a hand, “scouts honor.  This is Everett’s girl.  She-“
“Everett?” the man asked, confusion lacing his features, “Curtis isn’t seeing anyone.  He-“
“Met her at that Halloween party with the smoke machine,” Johnny reminded the dirty blonde, “she’s the schoolgirl that gave her his number…the one that’s had a smile plastered on his face every day since then.”
The man chuckled before his brow raised, “and she brought him…cookies?”
“You guys don’t like cookies do you?” you nervously asked, “I-I’m sorry.  I knew I should have made cu-“
“It’s fine, kitten!” the captain chuckled, “the boys around here will eat a woman out of house and home if she let them.  My wife knows all about that from when we were dating.  My best friend and I used to work at the same station, and she learned that the best way to a fireman’s heart is through his stomach.  Hell, me and Buck-“
“Cap…I don’t think Everett wants you scaring off his new girl with stories of ‘the good old days,’ or nothing,” Johnny laughed, “not that your stories aren’t funny…it’s jus-“
“I-I don’t mind…”
“Steve Rogers,” the captain smiled, holding out his hand to you, “you’re welcome at the station any time, sweetheart…haven’t seen Everett smile so much in my entire career with him…the amount of smiling he’s done staring at his phone…you’re welcome here, kitten.”
“Th-thank you sir!”
“You know…I’m starting to think you’re stalking me.”
Your attention turned towards a door near the back of the garage.  Curtis was standing in its frame, making the doorway look smaller than it really was.  You couldn’t fight back the smile that worked its way onto your face as he walked out to you. 
Your breath caught in your throat the closer he got to you.  It felt like there was electricity in the air as the small hairs on your arms stood on edge, “Hey…”
“Hey…”
“Well, I’m going to take these upstairs to the kitchen…and I’m going to take cap…” Johnny said awkwardly, “Maybe you want to give her a tour of the station?”
“Oh…uh, yeah…” he smiled bashfully, “do you want to see the firehouse (Y/N)?”
“Sounds great!”
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You bit your lip as Curtis led you back through the garage to what he called ‘the grand finale’ of the tour, the fire truck.  
He’d shown you the entirety of the station; where they hung out in a common area, the kitchen and offices, the bunks, and he even let you slide down the pole after showing you how to properly do it.
“Alright, so there’s really nothing to it,” he offered sweetly, wrapping his arms around your waist to put you in front of the pole, “you’re going to hitch your legs around it, and hold on for the ride…”
You looked down at the hole in the ground, the pole sturdily sitting in the middle of it, but a much larger part of you was too afraid to do it, too unsure of the uncertainty that lay below.
“Curtis?”
“It’s okay,” he whispered down into your ear.  One of his hands trailed away from your waist, and down to your leg; his calloused hand on your bare, toned thigh making you shiver.  Instinctively your back arched as he lifted the leg, hitching it around the pole.  You heard him muffle a groan and take a step back, his hands falling away from you, “I-I can do it first if you want…show you how to do it…”
“Y-yeah…yeah.  O-okay.”
You unlatched yourself from the pole and took a few steps back.  When you looked back at Curtis he was blushing.  Your eyes trailed down and you noticed a growing bulge in his jeans.  Your thighs clenched as you began to see the outline of his massive appendage.  A blush rose to your own cheeks as you looked away while he stepped up to the pole and slid down without sparing you another glance. 
Your heart raced as you thought about the outline from his jeans; your mind racing to re-produce the unsavory thoughts you had been having about him the past few days.  No longer was it you innocently riding his thick thigh…now you were whining needily for his massive cock, begging him to split you in half.
“(Y/N)?”
You shook yourself from your thoughts and looked down at him through the hole.  He instantly turned beet red and looked away. 
“I-shit…shit…sorry.  I forgot about the dress!” he muttered. 
Your eyes went wide, and you took a step back, embarrassed that he’d seen up your dress to the sex red lace you were wearing beneath it in an attempt to feel sexy seeing Curtis for the first time outside he party. 
“I’m sorry I didn’t think about that…”
You looked up at him, surprised that he was referencing the pole.  A blush rose to your cheeks again as you tried to shake it off, “i-it’s okay.  I shouldn’t have worn a dress…”
He chuckled, “I mean…you didn’t know that you were going to be sliding down a pole…”
“You’re right,” you teased, “someone should have given me some warning.”
Curtis blushed yet again, “sorry.”
“Speaking of warnings…Johnny mentioned when I got here that you warned all of them to be on their best behaviors?” you teased yet again.  His blush deepened and you smiled, feeling like you finally had the upper hand, “I thought you were Mr. Self-assured…sexy firefighter?”
“Maybe I just wanted a little extra assurance,” he smirked, going to lean against the front of the fire truck, “I mean-“
But his words were cut off the second he touched the truck, the loud alarm going off around him.  It made him freak out, missing the hood and sliding down the front of the truck, his head hitting the grill on the way down.
“Oh my god, Curtis!” you squeaked, your eyes going wide as the large firefighter cut his brow on the grill.
You followed his gaze as his hand went towards his brow, and saw a few of the guys, Johnny included, giggling as the alarm to the truck turned off.  But their alarm turned to concern when they saw their friend bleeding.
“Fucking asshats!” Curtis growled, “shit…I’m bleeding…I-I gotta go upstairs and get myself cleaned up!”
“Let me help,” you offered gently, reaching for his free hand, “I’m actually an ER nurse…I-I can stitch you up…”
“Okay,” he smiled sadly, upset that his date ended in him getting hurt, but happy that you were wanting to be there for him, “thanks, (Y/N)!”
“Of course, Curtis…”
Chapter 3
Tag List:  @tenaciousperfectionunknown, @lohnes16, @wintasssoldier
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doubtfulidealist ¡ 2 years ago
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scout's honor
when i was a child i joined the girl scouts
i sold cookies to strangers
knocked on their doors and prayed no one would answer
too shy to be a salesman
too young to be alone
some people smile
some give in
some slam the door, but not many
i learned the art of presenting myself
my brother learned to tie a rope
i'm twenty one years old and i cannot build a fire
when flames are around i approach them eagerly
knowing i don't have the skill to keep them alive
no one ever taught me survival
mom told me never to get too close or i'd get burned
but when it's cold i'm supposed to move nearer
i don't know how to start a spark
i'm sitting next to the empty fireplace
i know how to sit nicely
i know how to look pretty and cold
so maybe someone will offer to light it for me
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nelapanela94 ¡ 3 years ago
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Of ginger and cranberries
Fluff!
LevixYou
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It was a cold Sunday morning of early winter. You were walking through the market stalls looking for the most important ingredient for your ginger cookies: ginger. The town's main square was crowded, the bustling sound was getting louder and the smell coming from the different food stalls engulfed the place. People were gathering supplies for the upcoming new year celebration that would take place within a week.
After stopping by several stalls without success, you found an empty bench and took a seat. Walking around with a heavy jute bag on the shoulder was exhausting, and you deserved a rest. You placed your cane next to your leg where you could feel it and put the groceries bag on you lap just to make sure ginger was the only ingredient missing.
As soon as you opened it, a smell of cloves and cinnamon greeted your nose making you smiled. That's how winter is supposed to smell. Putting your hand in the bag, you hissed. The only thing you hated about winter was wearing mittens. Hands were the eyes for people like you, and having them covered make you double blinded. You took one of the mittens off and proceeded to check the content.
Flour. Checked.
Sugar. Checked.
Eggs. Checked.
Butter. Checked.
Cinnamon and cloves. Double checked.
You put the mitten on again before your hand froze and rolled your neck to stretch, placed the bag strap on your left shoulder and took the cane to continue your quest. Ginger was not slipping away from you; but the smell of freshly-baked cranberry pie filled the air forcing you to take a little detour. Your pace fastened following the source of the sweet, luring scent; however, someone blocked your way and in matter of seconds your bottoms hit the cobblestone ground. You whined, and your hand patted your surroundings looking for your guide.
"Tsk. Are you blind? Watch your step, brat" You heard and turned the head towards the voice's source. The man you had bumped into turned around and facepalmed inwardly.
"Sorry, but you're right, as you can see I am blind" You chuckled and waved a hand in front of your face. Levi sighed extending a hand and 'tched'' at himself when he realized his idiocy, you could not see his gesture.
"Give me your hand" He ordered.
You raised your hand in front of you, waited for him to take it and stood up with his aid. "Thanks" You smiled at him, or so you thought.
"I'm right here" The man lifted a brow crossing his arms over his chest.
"Oh" You turned towards the voice and thanked again.
Fortunately, all the ingredients were safe and sound in the bag, even the eggs. Nonetheless, your cane was still missing.
"Do you know where my cane is? I couldn’t find it" He looked around and found the stick broken in two. "I don't think it'll take you anywhere" he replied.
"Holy Walls!" You scratched your head and sighed. "Hey, stranger, are you free until noon?"
"I have no intention of becoming your guide" He harshly responded.
"But... would you let this poor, blind girl wander around on her own?" You sniffled with your bottom lip jutting out.
"Alright" He rolled the eyes. "What's our next stop?" You celebrated your little victory by throwing your arms in the air. Levi, indeed, was free until dinner time. Hange and the others had kicked him out of the headquarters and told him not to be back before seven bells. That's why he decided to go to the market and try his luck finding rare herbs and special blends.
"Wait, I'm not supposed to leave with strangers" You said adjusting your woolen cap. "I'm (name)"
"Levi"
"Pretty name" you noted. "Well Levi, I'm on a special mission to find ginger; but first, we must make a strategic stop at the cranberry pies stall" He took your hand and placed it right above his elbow. "Thanks" You muttered and gently squeezed his arm, feeling the muscle beneath his coat.
"Oi!"
"Sorry about that" You lowered your head in embarrassment, your cheeks getting warm. "but, you feel good" You mumbled. Levi snorted and shook his head, the corner of his lips lifted. "You're not bad looking yourself"
You lifted your head batting your lashes in a flirtatious manner and leaned closer to him. "You think so? Well, you're good looking too" You laughed. "No, but seriously, your voice is really attractive and I like the smell of fresh lavender of your hair"
Your words made him blush slightly.
As you walked, Levi studied you and found odd that your coat, cap, mittens, scarf and boots were all the same blue color. "Who picks up your clothes? An eight-year-old?"
"A ten-year-old actually. But my winter clothing is all blue because it's my favorite color, and I don't have to waste time matching each piece"
"So, you know about colors" His curiosity sparked.
"Yeah, I wasn't born blind. I lost my eyesight due to an infection when I was a child" you explained. "At first, I felt insecure and vulnerable, but as I grew up I started to accept my reality and learnt to adapt. Besides, I've been blessed with the people I've come across, they're always willing to help." you smiled.
You reached the pastry sale and bought two pies to go. You wanted to surprise your older brother, and if you were lucky enough, he would forget about your broken cane;  the other one was all for you.
"Aw, you two make a good couple" The old lady commented while packing the sweet treats, making you blush hard. Luckily, you couldn't see the red shade creeping across your companion's face.
"We're not dating" You stated in unison. Levi shoved his hands in his pockets and his eyes darted around while you toyed with a lock of hair.
"I thought someone had finally stolen Captain Levi's heart" The elder woman winked and handed the bags to the ravenette. "Have a good day!"
When you were on your way to get the spice for your recipe, you were first to break the silence. "Captain Levi from the Survey Corps? Humanity's Strongest Soldier?"
"Are you a fangirl?" He lifted a brow looking at you.
"Nope, not me. My nephew is the fanboy" A chuckled scape your lips. "He wants to join the Scouting Legion when he grows older. My brother is not so happy, though." You shrugged.
Once you found the final ingredient, Levi offered to take you home. You didn’t live far from the main square and, even though you insisted you knew the way by heart, he didn't feel like taking any risk. In truth, he wanted to spend as much time as he could with you. In such brief time, he had fallen into your spell. It might have been your looks, or your charismatic, cheerful personality; or perhaps the combination of both. He wasn't sure about his feelings, but he wanted to learn more about you.
You didn't want to say goodbye either. The little time you had spent with him had sparked your curiosity. You had heard the rumors about Captain Levi, but you knew there was more behind his unfriendly personality and sarcastic remarks. There was more behind that hard shell and you were willing to crack it.
"Here" he handed you the two bags of pies and only released his grip when he made sure you had them secured in each hand.
"This one is for you" you kept one of your arms extended in front of you for him to grabbed the bag. "Happy Birthday Captain Levi"
Levi was taken aback and shyly took the craft paper bag from your hand. "Thanks, but..."
"I told you my nephew is a fanboy, and that lady said cranberry pies are one of your favorites"
You remained silent for a while; you opened your mouth then closed it again, as you regretted what you were about to say. Your heart was beating fast, and the warm feeling invaded your cheeks again. You removed your mittens off and put them in your pockets. With your bare hands you took your necklace off and walked closer to him, patting his coat until you found a pocket and put the piece of jewelry inside.
"What are you doing?" He asked squinting his eyes.
"I'm making sure we'll meet again. You already know where I live, all you have to do is to knock on my door"
"Clever brat" He admitted.
"And, I'm giving myself an excuse to touch you" You winked.
Levi leaned closer and whispered to your ear. "You better have freshly baked cookies for the day I come back"
"Count on it" you grinned.
After that day, you woke up every morning to make a batch of your best recipe of ginger cookies, yearning for his return.
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fefipranon ¡ 3 years ago
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Rivamika Fic Preview
Topic: Mikasa, a hardcore feminist, kidnapped by Levi, the leader of one of the most powerful gangs and who is the book definition of a dick.
Mikasa Point of View (P.O.V.)
Here I am, another restless night. Turning on my bed like a hamburger patty being flipped on a grill, trying to find a comfortable position to sleep. I can hear birds chirping outside so it's probably already morning but my thick light-blocking curtains make my room look as dark as night. Whoever invented those, has a special place in my lazy heart.
I started hearing shuffling sounds outside the door of my room. These two have no sense of self-preservation, I thought. My two roommates, Eren and Armin, have been living with me for a year now. I met them ten years ago, starting my teenage years, a tragic event brought us together. Since 'that event', Eren's parents took me in as their own and he introduced me to Armin, his best friend since childhood.
We are inseparable, even now as adults. Even though Armin works as an accountant for a law firm, I work as a Computer Engineer for the CIA, and Eren works as a veterinarian, when we are together, we still act like silly kids. I love them like siblings love each other, which means that we also fight like siblings, and right now they are breaking a golden rule.
You see, I love them. I would give my life without a second thought for them, but, there is something I love more: my bed. I can be a charming and decent person, AFTER my morning coffee, and AFTER I wake up on my own. If anyone dares to wake me up from my precious sleep, there will be hell to pay. I am not a morning person, who is it really? Those who said they are, are not to be trusted, they are probably psychopaths and serial killers. I also don't trust people that don't like cheese, how could you not like cheese?! They are probably part of those reptilian people that conspiracy theories warn you about from alien abductions and shit.
I heard Armin's voice, "Are you sure you want to do this?"
I walked to the door to better listen to their conversation.
"She promised to join us for our traditional 'Sunday pancakes' today since she has failed to wake up early for the last four Sundays in a row! It's her fault!", Eren said.
"You know she is not a morning person! She will kill both of us!", Armin said.
I saw the bolt of the door shaking. Eren was clearly picking the lock from my room. He really has a death wish. I stared around my room looking for ideas on how to greet him, and my eyes landed on my hamper which was almost full of my dirty clothes. I walked to it and grabbed two dirty socks and rolled them together in a ball.
"You can still run away and save yourself.", Eren said.
"I will just stay out of her room, and watch how she kills you while eating popcorn then."
No Armin, you are going to get it too since you are not stopping him, I thought. Then, I heard the beep sound from the microwave. He really made popcorn, unbelievable. I rested my back against the wall next to my door, waiting for their intrusion.
"Do you even know how to pick a lock?", Armin asked.
"I've seen it in movies, they open everything with bobby pins on those spy movies so, how hard can it be?", Eren said.
I pinched the bridge of my nose thinking, he can't be serious. But knowing the bastard, he probably was, and I didn't have the patience to wait for him to finally open my door. So I opened it myself.
He looked at me in shock and said, "Mika-"
But I cut him short by shoving to his open mouth the ball of dirty socks. Armin was on the way to the microwave and yelped at the sight of Eren spitting the dirty socks from his mouth and coughing. I gave him a death stare and yelled:
"You are next!"
"Fuck no!", He yelled as he ran to his room with me running behind him.
He got into his room and closed the door before I could get to him.
With a sing-song voice, I said, "Oh, Armiiin, open the door now and I might forgive youuu."
"Bullshit! I will only open the door after you have your morning coffee!"
Suddenly, the smell of popcorn hit my nose making me smile. Armin never got to get his popcorn out of the microwave. He and I have this unhealthy addiction to popcorn for years now. I mean, who doesn't like popcorn? Those are other types of people I don't trust.
I walked to the microwave and took the popcorn out. I grabbed a fan and pointed it directly to the door of his room. I opened the bag and started eating in front of the fan. He will smell it eventually.
"That's a low blow, stinky feet!", Eren said.
"Is that!? Are you eating MY popcorn!!?", Armin shouted.
"Mmm delicious and extra buttery. Thanks for making popcorn for ME, you are so considerate. You shouldn't have-", I was cut short by Armin slamming his door open and running towards me.
I started running away but he tackled me, making me drop the bag causing the popcorn to fly out, "Give me back my popcorn you thief!", he shouted.
"Did you stuck your socks inside somebody's ass?! This smell is not human!", Eren shouted.
Ignoring Eren, I shouted to Armin, "No! I'll take it as a peace offering apology from you two for waking me up!", while we both struggled to get the bag making a mess of popcorn all around the apartment in the process.
Armin managed to run away while Eren grabbed me and tried to get the dirty socks into my mouth when someone knocked at our door.
We all froze, Armin stared at both of us and asked, "Are any of you expecting someone?"
We both shook our heads in response. I ran to my room to get my gun, Eren did the same while Armin watched the door and grabbed the gun we stored in the kitchen for emergencies.
I immediately started thinking of all the possible threats that could be behind our front door. This is all Eren's fault, I thought.
You see... I was deemed a 'child prodigy' at a young age. I started college at the age of 12, my studies were disrupted for a couple of years when 'that event' happened. Later I resumed my studies and by the age of 18, I already had a bachelor's degree in computer engineering. I joined a couple of hacktivist groups and helped them with the usual stuff: DDoS attacks to government websites, machine learning algorithms to find patterns in social media of government bot accounts, you know, the usual stuff.
One day Eren challenged me to hack into the CIA so I started with a social media scan looking for stupid people that post their work information, I just needed someone with access to the building. In summary, after finding a few victims I did a MITM attack on their phones and computers. From there I got access to the network, installed a backdoor, and had access to everything. I did a similar process to gain access to other intelligence agencies' networks from different countries.
Since we were broke at the time, I did ransomware of the data but instead of money, I asked for a job and immunity for the crime. I also sent them part of a list of vulnerabilities in their system and told them that if they wanted the full list they had to comply with my demands. Since I was already deep in trouble I decided to also give them evidence of the access I gained to other countries' intelligence networks. Not even an hour passed by, and they were already begging me to take the job.
Thinking of who could be behind my front door right now, I thought about the time I got access to the Russian 'Federal Security Service' agency and replaced their data with, well, some 'not-so-innocent' pictures. I think Putin hates me. There is also what I did to the North Korean Reconnaissance General Bureau agency... I think Fluffy Kim hates me too.
None of it would've happened if Eren didn't challenge me in the first place! It's completely his fault!
I got out of my train of thought when we were back at the door and Eren asked us, "Ready?"
We nodded in response, and Eren slowly opened the door.
He quickly pointed the gun at the unexpected visitor who was... An innocent girl scout who was trying to sell cookies.
The kid yelped scared, but Eren quickly hid the gun and said, "Oh, we don't want cookies."
"I want cookies!", I protested and pushed Eren away from the door.
"Order for me too!", Armin said.
Author P.O.V.
After getting their girl scouts cookies, Eren started making pancakes while Armin and Mikasa sat in seat stools behind the small kitchen island facing him. They had popcorn on their messy hair, and on their clothes. "You two better clean the mess you made!", Eren shouted.
"It was Armin's fault!", Mikasa shouted while Armin gave her a death stare.
Eren started to stick his tongue out while making disgusted faces.
"What's the problem Eren? Are you having a stroke?", Mikasa said teasingly.
"For fucks sake Mikasa! I have washed my mouth around five times already and I can still smell your stinky socks! Those things are a hazard!", Eren said while walking away to the bathroom to wash his mouth again.
"The pancakes are going to burn!", Mikasa shouted.
"You take care of them, stinky feet! I am on my way to drink some bleach!", Eren shouted back.
Mikasa rolled her eyes and walked to the stove while Armin stood up to turn on the television. While flipping the pancakes Mikasa took a look at her phone notifications and messages. She started looking through the messages from her girlfriend's group chat:
Sasha: OMG! I just saw the cutest guy ever!
Annie: Did you banged it already? 👉👌🍆
Sasha: I wish! I don't even know how to talk to him yet!
Christa: Where did you saw him?
Sasha: He works at a new bookstore that opened near my apartment.
Christa: Did you tried to talk to him somehow? Or just stared at him like a mentally unstable stalker?
Sasha: Well, I asked for book recommendations, he started asking me about what I liked so he could give me a more accurate one but the dick of his boss cut him off telling him to go back to the cash register.
Annie: Maybe we should meet up for lunch to come up with a plan.
Ymir: I just saw that I have new messages. I tried to read them all but my lazy ass just read 'cute guy' and 'bang it already' and skipped to the end. I am up for lunch and the 'banging plan'. Speaking of people in need of banging, @Mikasa wake your ass and join us!
Annie: 😂😂
Mikasa rolled her eyes and replied:
Mikasa: I am awake, count me in for lunch, and the 'banging plan'.
Christa: Girls, call the police, that is not Mikasa, that's an impostor! There is no way that woman is awake this early!
Mikasa sighed and typed,
Mikasa: Eren woke me up, putting his life on the line.
Suddenly Eren's phone made the sound of a new message notification. Mikasa rolled her eyes and thought, here we go.
Eren grabbed his phone, unlocked it, stared at his messages, and started laughing. "Sasha just asked me if you are okay because you are awake. She wants to know if it's really you before calling the police. She also wants to know if I am still alive."
"Hey guys check this out.", Armin said while turning up the volume of the TV.
The news was on. Mikasa served the pancakes on the plates. She took two of the plates and gave one to Armin while sitting next to him. Eren grabbed his plate and sat next to Mikasa. The three of them were seated on the sofa in front of the TV watching the news.
Breaking News:
'We are reporting live outside of Mitra's bank. Just moments ago, criminals robbed the bank and took three hostages with them. The police are tracking their whereabouts at the moment, avoid the area. The perpetrators' identity has been confirmed as the gang that calls themselves "The Scorpions". They are commonly identified with a Scorpion tattoo on their necks, reach out to the police if you see anyone suspicious.'
"These guys again, they piss me off.", Mikasa said.
"They are the same ones that robbed one of the stores of the mall right?", Armin asked.
"Yes, those assholes take hostages with them but they end up always killing them.", Eren said.
"That's the gang that posts the videos about they killing the hostages like is some sort of sick hunting game?", Armin asked.
"Yes, they take the victim to a secluded wood area and tell the victim to run, after a minute or so they run after the victim to kill it, recording the whole thing.", Eren said.
"That's sick.", Mikasa said.
"That's why they are one of the most feared and powerful gangs around.", Eren said.
"It doesn't make sense, the tattoo I mean, who would be so stupid to get a tattoo that clearly dictates that you are a criminal? Why have the police not caught them yet if they have a fucking mark on their necks screaming I'm the killer?", Mikasa said.
Suddenly Eren's phone made the notification sound again. "Oi, Mikasa, Dad wants to meet with us today for dinner, he is in the area."
"Tell him to pick us up then.", Mikasa replied.
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Mikasa P.O.V.
I arrived at the restaurant where the girls planned to meet for lunch. As I was walking from the parking area to the restaurant I felt the unease sensation that someone was following me. I've been feeling this for two weeks now. Even though I have gained many enemies by my hacking 'activities', and I joke about Putin or someone else knocking on my door, the reality is that it's highly unlikely that they know my identity. I didn't use my network, on top of it I used nested VPNs mixed with virtual machines with an eastern VPN added on top. Even though the probability of them knowing my identity is almost zero, my job provided me with an apartment in the most secured area in town plus extra police patrols around the building. But, of course, you can never be too cautious, so I always assumed the worst.
I took my phone out and texted my boss: "Activating precaution protocol."
Almost instantly he replied: "I will be on the lookout."
My boss, Pixis, has been very overprotective of me since I started working for the CIA. Since the first day that I arrived at the office and introduced myself, he personally asked to work with me. He was impressed by the stunt I pulled and introduced me to everyone on his team like I was some sort of Messiah sent by Thor itself from the land of Narnia. But not everyone reacted the same way he did when he saw me. It seemed like I wasn't what they were expecting to see since I do not fulfill the stereotype of a programmer. I am not a gamer, I am a ballerina, and what seems to be the worst of all to them is that I am a woman.
The biggest fear of a male chauvinist pig is a woman with confidence having success on a field dominated by men. When will they understand that women can do everything men do while even wearing high heels?
Ever since college, I've heard crap like:
"She probably slept her way in."
"Too pretty to be a programmer."
"A woman in my team? She will probably end up making us do all her work."
"She will probably need to be trained in the most basic crap. She doesn't look like she even knows how to do basic programming."
It's exhausting being a woman, why do we have to put double the effort to at least be noticed or recognized? When will they stop calling us 'emotional' or 'bossy', and start calling us instead 'passionate' and 'leaders'? We intimidate them because they can't control us and they know we have the potential to kick their asses.
I was snapped out of my mental rant when I received another text message from my boss: "Location received. As always, call me if you need to talk."
Good, from now on, until I turn it off, my boss will have a constant live feed of my location using my phone's GPS. Also, in case of emergency, I only have to press twice my phone's power button and in a matter of minutes the police, FBI, and the SWAT team will arrive at my location ready to get rid of any threat.
I can relax now, I thought as I opened the door of the restaurant and met my friends.
"Mikasa! We are here!", Sasha shouted while shaking an arm up to get my attention.
I sat at the table and grabbed the menu, the waiter was already taking the orders so I ordered the first thing I saw that was to my liking. Then I took out from my purse a box of girl scout cookies that I bought for Sasha and gave it to her.
She yelped excitedly and said, "This is why I love you!" while hugging the box.
"So, we've been booked for three schools next week.", Christa said.
Christa was referring to a feminist organization we all created that focuses on motivating girls to pursue a college degree, especially in fields dominated by men.
"I think that it's the most we've had in a week so far!", I said.
"Yes, people are helping by sharing our social media accounts. I have messages of people who want to join us.", Ymir said.
"We should hold a meeting for newcomers, we are going to need more people eventually anyways.", I said, and Ymir nodded.
"So Sasha, what do you have in mind so far to talk to your cute guy?", Annie asked.
"I have no idea, someone needs to distract the manager of the library so he doesn't interrupt us again.", Sasha said.
"Who volunteers as a tribute?", Ymir asked.
"Is the manager at least cute?", Annie asked.
"He was hot but had this unapproachable vibe, and on top of that, a jerk.", Sasha said.
"In that case, I offer Mikasa as a tribute.", Annie said.
"What!? Why me?!", I shouted.
"Because you never get intimidated or scared, and you always speak your mind. That personality is the greatest weakness of self-absorbed jerks.", Annie said.
I stared at her in disbelief while Sasha yelped excited looking at her cellphone.
"Girls! The package arrived! Just received the amazon notification.", Sasha said.
All of them gave me a devilish smile, confusing me, I asked, "What the hell are you talking about?"
"Mikasa, this is an intervention.", Christa said with a serious tone.
"We've noticed that you've been grumpier than usual. We also know that you haven't, well, how do I put this?", Ymir said.
"You haven't had a good fuck in a while!", Annie shouted.
I wanted the earth to swallow me whole right there. Annie said that a little too loud for my liking.
"Where are you going with this?", I asked.
"Well, we bought you a little something to help you deal with, you know, the grumpiness. It just arrived at your door.", Sasha said.
"Are you crazy! You know I live with Eren and Armin!", I said.
"Come on is just a package in your name, they are not going to open it.", Annie said.
"You definitely don't know Eren.", I said in disbelief.
When we finished eating I rushed to my car and drove as fast as I could to my apartment. I ran to the elevator and then ran to my apartment's door. The package wasn't there. I panicked and opened the door and saw Eren about to open it. I ran and tackled him making us both fall to the floor.
"What the fuck Mikasa!", He shouted.
"Why were you trying to open MY package?!", I shouted back.
"Because it could be something dangerous sent from one of your enemies, like Fluffy Kim for example.", Eren said.
"Why would Fluffy Kim send me something life-threatening via AMAZON!?"
"I don't know! Amazon sells some weird shit and they ship from all around the world, I am pretty sure North Korea is included."
I gave him a death stare, snatched the package, and went to my room closing the door behind me.
I sighed and ran my fingers through my hair. I opened the package and found the box of a pink glow-in-the-dark vibrator. I grabbed my phone and wrote in the group chat:
Mikasa: Got the 'package'.
I put the phone down and opened the box. The thing brought batteries and had a little plastic paper that said, "pull here". I think is to protect the device from direct contact with the batteries, I thought.
I pulled the damned paper and the thing started having an epileptic attack. That thing had a demon inside and I didn't know how to do a fucking exorcism! Scared of it, I screamed and dropped it to the floor.
Apparently, Eren heard my scream because he shouted, "I knew it! I am not letting you kill her Fluffy Kim!" while slamming open the door of my room.
I panicked and jumped on top of the frantic thing that looked like it was break dancing on the floor, to hide it.
"What happened?!", Eren asked me.
"Nothing! Get out!", I shouted, trying to stop the damned thing from moving. It felt like I was riding one of those mechanic bulls.
"You screamed! Something happened!!", Eren shouted worriedly.
"What's all the fuss about?", Armin appeared.
"Fluffy Kim sent something dangerous from Amazon to Mikasa!", Eren shouted.
"Fluffy Kim didn't send me shit! Get out!", I said giving a pleading look to Armin.
He got my message and pulled Eren by the back of his shirt, out of my room, and closed the door. I took a deep breath and found the button to turn that demonic thing off. I checked my phone again and read the messages:
Sasha: Yay! You have to name it!
Annie: She's right! Put a name on it!
Mikasa: The thing tried to kill me! I literally just pulled out a piece of paper from it and the thing started to have a panic attack!
Annie: 😂😂
Christa: You can control the intensity, check the instructions! But first, name it!
Ymir: It has to be a sexy name.
I rolled my eyes knowing that they won't drop the subject until I give the thing a name.
Mikasa: Any suggestions?
Sasha: Just think of something that turns you on. 🔥🔥
Something that turns me on, something sexy, I thought as my mind went blank. I started looking around my room. I had a stack of letters and spam stacked on top of my nightstand. I sighed and went through it, I stopped at a promotional flyer for men's underwear. It had a couple of men modeling the underwear. This could work, I thought.
Mikasa: I found a flyer of men's underwear, the models are kind of hot.
Annie: You are messing with us right? 🤦
Sasha: Hold on, she might be onto something. What's the name of the brand?
Mikasa: Levi's, I like it, I will call it Levi.
Christa: 🥳🥳 Now, it's time to let Levi give you a good time!! 🥳
Mikasa: 🤦
I put my phone down and stared at, well, the Levi thing. I still have a couple of hours until dinner, how do I start? Porn? I thought making my mind go into another rant.
Another industry dominated by men, made for men: the porn industry. They try to sell a ridiculous idea of what 'good' sex is supposed to be. They show a man sticking his penis in a woman's vagina with little to no foreplay time. After that, they start going ridiculously fast, like the world is about to end, and start changing the poor woman to different positions like she is some kind of rag doll. They do all of this while ignoring the most important thing: the clitoris. If the poor thing could talk it would scream something around the lines of:
"I'm fucking bored dude!"
"She is faking it!"
"Feeling nothing bro!"
"If I would describe this whole experience with you, I would use the forever-alone meme!"
I locked the door and grabbed the thing, "Let's see, please don't kill me."
-----2 hours later-----
Mikasa: Levi, oooooh Leviiiii!!!!
Annie: 😂😂
Sasha: 🥳🥳🍆🍆🥳🥳
Christa: 😎🔥
Ymir: 💥💦
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Author P.O.V.
"Mikasa, are you ready? Dad is already here!", Eren shouted.
"Yes!", Mikasa said, opening the door of her room ready to go.
"Well, someone is in a good mood.", Eren said while raising a brow.
Ignoring his comment Mikasa said, "Let's go, we don't want to make Grisha wait."
"You are right, Dad has texted me like 5 times already since he arrived.", Eren answered.
They took the elevator down and walked by the building lobby. Eren looked at the security guard and said, "That's a new guard right?"
"Yes, he arrived around two weeks ago.", Mikasa responded.
They went out of the building where Grisha, Eren's dad, was waiting for them inside his car.
"We have to make a quick stop at the bank first.", Grisha said.
Mikasa groaned in protest and said, "You know that nowadays you can do mostly all bank stuff through the internet right? I can teach you."
"I need to speak with a manager, is an account that locked me out and they told me to go to the bank directly. It will be quick.", Grisha explained.
"Why do old people avoid using technology?", Mikasa whispered to Eren.
"I heard that!", Grisha said.
They arrived at the bank and Grisha took a piece of paper and started to fill it out with his account information. He told Mikasa and Eren to start making the line for him. He finished filling up his account information and walked to the spot they were in the line.
"I'm hungry, they look like the Zootopia sloths.", Eren said looking at the bank employees.
Suddenly, a loud sound was heard that shook the whole building. Grisha jumped on top of Mikasa and Eren throwing them to the floor. Smoke was coming from everywhere. A huge truck had collided with the bank's main entrance, making a hole. In an instant, a bunch of men with guns, wearing hoodies, and a clown mask entered the building.
"Hands up! And sit on the floor now!", one of them commanded.
Mikasa P.O.V.
Grisha sat on the floor hugging me, and Eren sat in front of me protectively. A couple of the men grabbed an employee and went through a door. After a minute they started going out with black bags. I remembered that I still had my GPS location shared with my boss since lunch. I grabbed my phone and double-clicked the power button, it was programmed to send a high-priority emergency signal to different agencies. I hid my cellphone, pinching it with the inside border of my jeans and pulling my shirt over it. At that moment, one of the men was walking in front of all of us. He was staring at each one of us on the floor.
Eren was covering me with his body when the man said, "You, move!", to him.
Trying to still cover me Eren asked, "Where?"
The man moved closer to him and said, "To the side, now!", and pointed the gun at his head.
Eren hesitated for a moment but then he moved. I was looking to the floor avoiding the man's gaze, hoping that it had the same effect as when a teacher asks a question in a classroom and you avoid making eye contact in hope that he doesn't pick you to answer.
I saw him with the corner of my eye as he lowered the gun and tilted his head. It seemed as he was confused for a moment.
Grisha tightened his hold on me and I saw the man pointing his gun again.
"You!", he said.
I felt a cold metal being pressed against my forehead. When I lifted my gaze I was staring down the barrel of a Walter Q5 Match Semi-auto pistol, held by a man who had... a scorpion tattoo on his neck and grey eyes.
"You are coming with me."
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ticklishtimothee ¡ 5 years ago
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a part of the family (spencer reid x reader)
summary: spencer hasn’t told the team about your relationship yet, but when morgan accidentally learns about it, spencer finally gets the courage to introduce you to the rest of the team.
a/n: i still have a few prompts to fill but this idea wouldn’t leave my head and i’m on a huge criminal minds binge atm so i hope you guys enjoy!!
words: 1,640
You awoke in Spencer’s bed, still mostly undressed from the night before, the memory making a sleepy smile curl on your face. Begrudgingly pulling back the covers, you stood up and pulled on one of Spencer’s sweaters, as it was way too early to get dressed back up in your jeans and own top.
Plus, you just liked stealing his clothes. He didn’t seem to mind one bit, so why stop?
You two had been together for about two months, but he still hadn’t gotten around to telling his team. You weren’t offended, after he explained why.
“I’ve never had a really serious relationship before, and they’re all so used to me being the kid of the team, I’m afraid they’re going to make a huge deal of it. My first kiss was during a case, and Morgan made fun of me about it for weeks after. I love them all, but I’m with them all the time, and I just...I want something that’s just for us right now.”
You were more than content with that, for the time being, although you were also itching to meet the people who were so important to your boyfriend. Whenever he was ready, you would be.
Faintly, through the closed bedroom door, you heard voices. Was there someone at the door? Spencer wasn’t one to talk to himself while he brewed coffee, and he wasn’t on the phone, because you could hear two voices, and he never put his calls on speaker.
Curiosity getting the better of you, you tiptoed toward the door, and let it slowly creak open.
In the small apartment, you could see straight down the hall to the front door, which Spencer had opened about a quarter of the way, and he was talking to someone through the crack.
Deciding that it was nothing important, just someone from the building asking if he’d buy their daughter’s Girl Scout cookies (he would say yes, of course), you opened the door the rest of the way and started making your way down the hall.
“C’mon, pretty boy, re-reading War and Peace is not the same as being busy—”
Without warning, the person who had spoken pushed Spencer gently in the chest and made their way through the door, a tall and muscular black man who you recognized from the few pictures that Spencer had shown you of the team.
“Morgan!” Spencer cried, confirming it was exactly who you thought the intruder was.
It was too late, though. Morgan’s eyes had already locked on you, surprise spreading over his features.
Remembering your state of undress, you hurriedly crossed your arms over your chest. This wasn’t at all how you planned to meet Spencer’s co-workers. You had at least thought you’d have some more clothes on when it happened.
Morgan looked between Spencer and you for a moment.
Sensing the awkwardness in the air, you spoke up. “I’m Y/N. It’s nice to meet you, Agent Morgan.”
“It’s just Derek to you, sweetheart,” he replied, shooting you a smile. “I’m really sorry to barge in like this, I just wasn’t expecting Reid to have anyone over.”
Spencer flushed pink, and it made you giggle softly. “It’s no worry. I am gonna go back in there so you guys can talk, and maybe put on some pants while I’m at it,” you said, shooting a smile between the two men before dipping back into the bedroom.
You caught some parts of the conversation, mostly Derek apologizing, and Spencer apologizing back for having not told him. But the one thing you did hear that made a hopeless smile spread across your face was Derek’s voice.
“Y/N seems like a catch, kid. I’d love to meet them again when you wanna introduce us all, formally this time.”
Spencer laughed softly. “Yeah, they’re great. Maybe next weekend, if we don’t have a case...I’ll see if Y/N is up for it.”
After Morgan left, Spencer came back into the bedroom with two mugs of coffee in his hands, his face still flushed and a shy smile.
“I’m so sorry about that,” he said immediately. “I see him almost every day, but just because he assumed I wasn’t doing anything, he dropped by to see if I wanted to get lunch with him and Penelope.”
You chuckled, gratefully accepting one of the cups. “He seems great. Although it isn’t exactly how I pictured meeting him, I see why you like him so much.”
“Do you think...I mean, would you want...to meet the rest of them, sometime?” he asked, and you could hear the nervous twinge in his tone.
You reached out with one hand to cup the side of his face. “I’d love that. Anyone who is important to you is someone I want to meet.”
He grinned, and pulled you in for a quick kiss.
***
The next day, Spencer was called away on a case, and you sat in your apartment, engrossed in a book that he’d lended you when your phone dinged.
Although he wasn’t much of a texter, he did it occasionally when he was too busy to give you a call. It read: “I asked the team if they’d like to meet you. They’re so excited. We should be on a plane out of here by the weekend. How does Saturday sound?”
Smiling to yourself, you replied: “It sounds perfect. Tell them I can’t wait.”
Carefully marking your place in the book, you went to your closet to pick something to wear. 
It was only Thursday, but you wanted the team to like you. Their entire job was to judge off of appearances, off of first impressions, and so you knew you had to make a good one.
You dug through endless outfits before settling on one that you decided could suffice: classy but not overdressed.
You went to bed that night, and the night after, feeling like you had first-day jitters like a kid in high school. You went about your usual routine, just with an added excitement beneath your actions.
Spencer texted you Friday evening: “The jet just landed. Instead of going to a bar, Rossi offered up his house, if that’s alright. I can come pick you up.”
You replied. “I’ll start getting ready!”
Spencer’s lack of texting skills were a running joke between the two of you, and so he had started using emojis to show off the fact that he did  know how to work his phone, and therefore sent back a thumbs-up.
It made you laugh, looking at the screen fondly, before you started getting ready.
There was a knock on your apartment door just as you were finishing, and you hurried over to let Spencer in.
His eyes widened a little when he saw you. “Wow,” he said instead of a usual greeting.
You grinned. “You like it?”
“You look amazing,” he said, before pulling you in for a kiss.
You kissed him back, before running back inside to grab your bag and put on your shoes, and the two of you set off in a cab to Rossi’s home (or rather, mansion).
You walked towards the front door with bated breath, Spencer squeezing your hand reassuringly as he rang the doorbell.
A short, bearded man who you knew was Rossi himself answered the door, and his face lit up like a Christmas tree when he saw you. “You must be Y/N! Come in you two, come in.”
“Dave, where are your manners? At least introduce yourself before you heard them in here like cattle,” a taller man, Hotch, you remembered, said.
“Oh, hush Aaron, I’m sure Reid told them our names,” he replied. “But, in case he didn’t: David Rossi, it’s a pleasure to meet you.”
You giggled, taking the hand which he extended to you and shaking it. “It’s great to meet you too.”
“Aaron Hotchner,” the other man said, coming over to shake your hand as well, and you felt yourself begin to turn pink under all the attention.
“I’m Penelope,” one of the women came forward, and her smile could have lit the whole room. “You are so adorable!”
“Thank you,” you laughed, assuming she was that straightforward with everyone. “I love your dress.”
Penelope pulled you in for a giddy one-armed hug. “Spencer, they’re a keeper,” she stage-whispered.
JJ approached you next, an older-sister like glint in her eye as she assessed you, but you seemed to pass her test by the way she smiled, after a very firm handshake.
Then, Emily, already with a glass of red wine in her hand, took her time to compliment your shoes. You knew that was a high compliment coming for her, as Spencer had told you about her extensive collection of boots and heels.
“It’s good to see you again, Y/N,” Morgan said.
“Again? What do you mean, again?” Penelope asked, shooting him a look.
Spencer went red. You assumed that he hadn’t told them about the incident at the apartment, and you hid your laugh in your sleeve as Derek began to retell it, mischief dancing in his eyes.
You should have been more embarrassed, but it was hard to not feel comfortable around them all, and besides, they had heard way worse stories in the field, so it didn’t seem to phase them besides some laughter and poking fun at Spencer, who you knew secretly didn’t mind one bit.
“They always make you feel like part of the family,” he had once told you when describing his team.
At dinner, Rossi made a show of clinking a fork on his glass and standing.
“A toast, to Spencer and Y/N,” he announced, and he caught your eye with a smile, and as everyone said “cheers!”, you knew you were officially a part of the family.
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starrynite7114 ¡ 5 years ago
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Misconstrued: Part 2
A/N: Good evening my lovelies! I was going to post this last night, but it became too late when I got home. Hopefully you all will enjoy this one! Snapshots and another request will be posted after this! Hope you all will enjoy the update as much as you liked the first one! 
Anon:  I don't know if this is too specific but could you do something about Angel ruining a date and later admits it because he loves them and then they have some angry smut and late night fluff
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Ever since your date two weeks ago, Angel has not been around you as much. Whenever you were around the clubhouse, EZ was your constant companion and if it veered from the norm, it would be Coco or Gilly. From time to time, you hung out with Riz. It was always fun to exchange information about hair care products with Riz. It was ridiculous just how nice his hair was.
But you missed Angel. 
You’re not sure why he avoided you like the plague, but you figured it had something to do with the date and how you confessed your feelings for him. You appreciated the distance cause maybe you can resume the friendship between you two. He would be pleasant with you, but he wouldn’t stay around like he usually did. 
And it was fucking hard for Angel.
He tried his best to stay away from you. It would become difficult at times. He missed hearing your ridiculous ass stories about car owners and how much their egos reflected on their cars. He missed hearing you babble about the newest recipe you made for yourself and how you couldn’t wait to share it with him. 
It broke him when you would come by the scrapyard looking for him. He would send Ezekiel to deal with you.
=================
“Come on Angel, don’t be a douche, just go talk to her.” EZ snapped. He was so annoyed by this whole situation. This had nothing to do with sponsor and prospect. This was between brothers and EZ was going to strangle Angel soon.
“Ezekiel, I’m busy, just talk to her. I can’t play hard to get if I’m readily available.” Angel argued. 
“You’re such a fucking idiot.” EZ walked out of the clubhouse to meet with you. Chucky had informed them that you were at the front office, asking for Angel as you had brought him something.
Angel waited for EZ to come, slightly anxious. He should stop playing this game, he fucking knew that, but he was already invested, he had to follow through.
EZ came into the office and found you sitting down, with a tupperware in your lap, and your right knee shaking away. He noticed it was something you did without noticing and from Angel told him, it was due to you becoming anxious. Angel was such a pain, the fact he was doing this to you made him that more annoying.
“Hey,” EZ greeted you.
You looked up at him and he saw the deflated look on your face that you quickly tried to mask. “Hey Ezekiel.” You greeted him. “Angel isn’t around?”
“He’s working on something, can’t pull him away, you know him. Once you distract him once, he’ll never get back to it.” EZ attempted to joke with you, but you just gave him a tight smile.
“I made him cookies, some sort of peace offering.” You extended the container towards EZ. 
EZ gave you a small smile and nodded his head. “There’s no need for a peace offering, Angel isn’t mad at you.”
“Yeah?” You stood up. “Doesn’t feel like it. I’ll see you later boy scout.” You left before EZ could even say anything else. 
EZ shook his head, cussing his brother’s name under his breath. He made his way back to the clubhouse, debating if he should just keep the cookies to himself. Angel didn’t deserve these cookies, especially with the way he was making you feel. 
“Here, you douchebag.” Ezekiel placed the Tupperware in front of Angel, who was sitting in the clubhouse while EZ spoke with you at the scrapyard.
“What’s this?” Angel opened the Tupperware and it was your infamous cookies that he could devour without a problem on his own. They were addicting. They were white chocolate macadamia. “Fuck.” His mouth watered.
“You know this is really fucked up. She thinks you fucking hate her now.” EZ scolded his older brother. “This is a stupid game Angel, just tell her what’s going on.”
“I did, she brushed me off. I can’t be the only one putting in some effort.”
EZ rolled his eyes. “God, you’re so fucking stubborn.” EZ stood up. “She brought those as a peace offering. She knew how much you love those cookies and that maybe now you’d speak to her like before.”
Angel remained quiet, eating the cookie as EZ watched him.
“You don’t deserve those cookies with the way you’ve been acting towards her.” EZ hissed as he walked away. He paused by the door and turned around, grabbing the tupperware from Angel. “You don’t deserve these cookies.”
“Hey! Ezekiel!” Angel chased after EZ.
After that day, you kept trying to leave Angel food, but EZ was always there to intercept. It got tiring for you that Angel kept avoiding you, so you decided to give him his space. The excuses were lame and EZ knew that, but he tried to cover for his brother. 
So you started giving EZ the things you were supposed to give Angel. 
The one time you happened to run into Angel, he wasn’t exactly happy about your choice.
“Hey, shocking you’re here, is EZ here?” You asked Angel, trying to keep your focus. Angel was currently shirtless, wiping off all the sweat dripping down his body. You’re thankful that the sun was hitting your glasses so you could squint and not truly see Angel’s ridiculous body.
“Ezekiel? Why the fuck are you looking for him? You need someone to go with you?” Angel was avoiding you, but if he knew no one could be with you, he would go.
“No, I brought him food for lunch.” You held up the plastic you were holding. 
“What do you mean they’re for EZ?” Angel noticed that you stopped dropping stuff off from him, or maybe his little brother had decided to keep things for himself. 
“Yeah well, you’ve made it very clear you don’t want anything, so I don’t want to push myself onto you.” You placed the food on the picnic table. “Can you just give it to him? I gotta get back to the shop.”
“Hey, why won’t you and I grab lunch? I’m sure you haven’t eaten.” Angel was starting to see that maybe Gilly’s way was not working. He didn’t want to keep pushing you away.
“It’s okay, I have work to do, I just came to drop this off for EZ.” You slipped back inside your car, leaving the yard. 
Angel cussed under his breath. EZ came out from the clubhouse, giving him a questioning look?
“Was that Y/N?” EZ questioned.
“Yeah, you making moves on my girl?” Angel knew it sounded stupid, especially how he saw the expression on EZ’s face change. 
“You fucking serious right now?” EZ demanded. “You’re the one playing this stupid game.” 
“Fuck you Ezekiel.”
“Yeah, well you can go fuck yourself Angel.”
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Currently you were getting ready for your second date with Damien. You didn’t tell anyone at the club where your second date would be or that there was going to be a second date. All you wanted to do was enjoy the night with Damien and truly get to know him. 
You needed to know if there was a spark, to know if this was going to be worth it. If not, you were definitely staying away from anyone under the club’s influence.
You heard a knock on your door and opened it, the smile on your face slightly faded when you saw Angel on the other side. 
“Hey.” You greeted him. “What’s up?”
“Can I come in?” 
You opened your door a little wider and stepped aside to let Angel in. He scanned the room making you roll your eyes. 
“Who told you I have a date tonight?”
Angel chuckled. “Not important, Damien warrants a second date?”
Angel broke his deal with Gilly today after EZ overheard your plans for a second date. He couldn’t let you go on that date, even if he’s been MIA lately.
“Why do you care? You’ve literally avoided me for the last two weeks Angel, you don’t have a club hang-around to stroke your ego tonight?” That was a low blow, but Angel needed to know that he wasn’t going to always have the upper hand.
“You jealous?” Angel smirked.
You were surprised by his question and you opened your mouth to reply no, but nothing came out.
“I think it’s cute you're jealous, cause you know how much I don’t like Damien.” Angel stepped closer to you, your back was against the door. “I’m jealous querida, I fucking hate knowing that you’re going on another date with him. Why won’t you just cancel and you let me take you out?”
“Angel, I told you, stop with the games.” 
“What fucking games? I told you I fucking want you, I like you and you’re still entertaining this fucker.” Angel stepped away from her, frustrated with her. 
“You’ve ignored me for two weeks, you expect me to believe you want to be around all of a sudden?”
“It was Gilly’s idea, play hard to get. You have no idea how much I fucking want you.” Angel felt like he was going crazy. All he wanted was to be with you, to start this relationship. 
“Listen, I don’t need this right now. Go to Vicky’s get your dick wet, you’ll forget all about this.” It hurt you to say that, but you didn’t want to play this game with Angel. You were trying to put yourself out there. And Angel was your friend, you didn’t want to go back down that road again.
“Do you know how hard it is to fuck another woman when you’re the only thing on my mind? I can’t even get fucking hard without thinking of you.” You slightly gasped at Angel’s confession. You’ve never known anyone as blunt as Angel. He wore his heart on his sleeve, which was why you were surprised to find out he likes you or apparently does. You’ve had conversations like this with another man before, nothing came to fruition, but it was eerie to you how familiar this conversation was. He wasn’t as blunt as Angel, but he always knew what to say to keep you around. Not this time, you wouldn’t fall for it.
“Cat got your tongue querida?” Angel knew he had you. He should have been more straightforward, but he was out of his element. He was finally getting his footing.
“Angel, I have something good with Damien, please don’t ruin it.”
“Is he better than me? Is that what you’re trying to show me? I bet that he won’t make you feel as good as I do.” 
“You know what, fuck you Angel. If I want to fuck anyone, I’ll fuck Damien.” You weren’t even sure why you said that. You had no plans on fucking Damien, none whatsoever. But you knew it would get to Angel and quite frankly, you felt good digging it into him. 
Angel’s phone rang, preventing him from even replying to your ridiculous ass though.
“This is not finished. Have fun on your date querida.” Angel left after the phone call, most likely club business. 
“He is so infuriating.” 
You sat back down on your couch, awaiting Damien’s arrival, but he never came. Just a text message. 
‘I’m sorry, I don’t think this is going to work out. You’re a nice girl, very beautiful, but I just don’t think there’s a spark here.’
You reread his text message a few times, but eventually you placed your phone down, letting out a sigh. 
Guess you’re back in the dating game. 
=================
Currently you were at a club party. You had just walked in with EZ and your eyes immediately roamed around the outside of the clubhouse and found Angel. A beer in one hand and his other resting on a girl’s lap as he whispered into her ear. It was like what happened a few days ago didn’t even fucking happen. He was back to ignoring you, which was so much more difficult with Damien not distracting you. 
“Well that’s nice.” You bitterly chuckled. “EZ tonight might be a short one.”
It was always a short one, but EZ wasn’t a dick. He wasn’t going to let Angel play his game and get a reaction from you. Angel’s game plan was simple, distance himself from you so you could seek him out and to make you jealous so that you would break and proclaim your undying love for him. But you did technically do that, Angel was just being irrational. Gilly was talking him through the whole thing while Coco and EZ just shook their head, not wanting to further egg on Angel’s stupidity.
You looked around, trying to avoid Angel. You noticed then that there were more bikes than usual. When other charters came to Santo Padre, you tried not to come to the parties since you didn’t want to run into him. You knew that he was a full patch member of Stockton. There were times you couldn’t avoid it, but when he would come, Angel was around so he didn’t even try to come near you. But it was different this time, Angel wasn’t around. 
“Which charter is here?” You saw plenty of Mayans' kutte's on their backs flashing that pride proudly, but you couldn’t exactly read the patch at their front. 
“Stockton.”
“Okay, I don’t know why I come to these club parties.” You shook your head. You should be over it by now, it’s been years since your last encounter with him. But knowing he used you just to get some head with the Mayans, it never sat well with you. Five years you were his so called friend and every time you tried to walk away, he gave you enough for you to stay. He kissed you once or twice, just to keep you with him, but as soon as he was a full patch, it was like you were beneath him. You never told your Tio Bishop or Tio Marcus. He was a good foot soldier and the last thing you wanted was to cause drama. This was why you promised yourself to never fall for a Mayan, you had too many connections for there to be no ulterior motive. 
“Come on, you know you don’t mind the free food.” EZ teased you.
“Does your brother hate me now?” No offense to EZ, but you would really much rather have Angel as your protection detail. He kept any other club member from coming up to you. EZ was a prospect, he was technically their bitch. 
“What? Don’t be ridiculous. Angel could never hate you.” And this was why EZ thought Gilly’s plan was ridiculous. You weren’t going to seek out Angel. For people who claimed they knew you, they don’t seem to know you at all. You were going to shy away. You wouldn’t put yourself in the position that would make you more vulnerable. You already thought Angel didn’t like you in the way you like him and this further cemented it. 
“He doesn’t really hang around me anymore. Guess the guard detail changed.” You tried to joke around with EZ, but he could tell you were hurt. The incident a few days ago was most likely a fluke. You tried to text him after, and no answer. 
“Look, you’re not an idiot. Angel told you he liked you that night at the fair right?” If his older brother wasn’t going to be smart about this, then EZ would take matters into his own hands. 
“Yeah, I mean, I don’t know if he actually meant it seeing as how where we are now.”
“It was difficult for him to tell you that and you just kind of brushed it off. We all have our insecurities, but don’t be obtuse, Angel only hung around you whenever you were here. He likes you, a lot.” EZ could see Angel watching them as your back was towards Angel. “Why not put all of us out of our miseries and talk to him?”
“Hey Diego.”
Your reply surprised EZ and he turned around. The man behind him was almost as tall as Angel, muscular built with black short hair. His eyes weren’t even on EZ, it was just on you. 
“Hey, you mind giving us a minute prospect?” Diego acknowledged EZ.
“Sure, not a problem.” EZ looked over at you for some confirmation and you couldn’t exactly escape this conversation now. You just gave him a smile. 
EZ made his way over to where Coco, Gilly and Angel were sitting. His older brother looked at him as if he grew another head, pointing at you.
“The fuck are you doing?” Angel demanded, watching as Diego spoke to you.
“He asked to talk to her, he’s full patch Angel.” EZ explained, he knew the rules. As much as he wanted to stay, a patch asked him to walk away. There was hierarchy for a reason. 
“Yeah, well he’s not your fucking sponsor. If I tell you to stay with her, you fucking stay with her.” Angel’s jaw clenched. Your conversation from a few days back was fresh in his mind. You texted him, but he was across the border dropping off Creeper after he was injured on a run. 
Coco knew Diego. Both by association to the club and from what you told him. He was your confidant, the person you trusted with your secrets. Coco was the first person you befriended in the MC and you two remained close since then.
“Shit,” Coco stood up, thinking of a way to get you out of this conversation. He knew you could fight your own battles, but from what he understood, you had a weak spot for Diego, the man who basically used you to get into the good graces of the MC. “Boy Scout, tell Y/N I gotta talk to her.” If Diego had a problem with that, Coco would handle it then. 
EZ and Angel, who were arguing about EZ’s duties looked over at Coco, who interrupted their bickering. “What?” They asked in unison.
“Just do as I say, go get her.” Coco would do it himself, but he didn’t trust himself to not give Diego a piece of his mind.
“Shit, is that him?” Gilly knew of Diego as well. Him and Coco came over one night and you three happened to get drunk. You told Gilly all about Diego and all about your crush on Angel. Gilly had a soft spot for you as well. The MC were tough bikers, but they were sweet guys, as long as you didn’t fuck with them. 
“Yeah, that’s Diego.” Coco nodded his head. “Prospect, go get her.” He ordered EZ once again. 
“What the fuck is going on?” Angel looked at his best friends, wondering what was going on. Who the fuck was this guy?
Gilly and Coco both ignored Angel, keeping their eye on you. 
“How are you?” Diego wasn’t going to approach you. He would have done so the few times he had been down here with his charter, but Angel Reyes was always attached to you. He didn’t want any unwanted attention, so he didn’t pursue you. Also, he was certain that you weren’t exactly happy with him after everything that transpired. 
“Good, you?” Diego still looked the same, maybe a little older, but he still looked like the same person you had fallen for all those years ago.
“Good, just the same old shit.” He grinned, stuffing his hands in his pocket. “Big move to Santo Padre. Doesn’t look like your scene.”
You nodded your head. “Time for a change of scenery. Besides I followed my mom here and she decided to move back.”
“Yeah, I’ve seen her a few times, she still gives me the death glare.” You two laughed at that, knowing well how that looked like. “I don’t blame her.” He bowed his head, looking at the dirt beneath his feet. Diego was thankful that the clubhouse was full of life. 
You didn’t want to have this conversation, at least not a a fucking party. 
“Don’t,” you shook your head, holding up your hand. “It’s fine. We’ve all moved on.”
“I haven’t, I hurt you. I’ll always be sorry for that.” Diego knew how it looked. He led you on, which he did for his own benefit. But he truly did cherish you. All that hardships you two had shared together wasn’t for nothing. “Can you just let me explain?” He appeared remorseful, but you couldn’t fall for this again, he always looked remorseful. Even when he tried to apologize for that incident with Regina. 
“Some things are best left unsaid.” The last thing you wanted to do was talk about the past that you’ve tried so hard to bury. It didn’t seem like a big deal, but your life revolved around Diego for five years. After he got his patch, he didn’t exactly stop talking to you, he kept you around. You were his unofficial girl that never came into fruition. He would become jealous whenever another guy was around you. He would always reel you back in with sweet promises. To this day, you’re not sure why you let his sweet words get to you, but here you two were now. 
“No, it’s not, I fucked up.” Diego tried to talk to you. Everything fell apart when he fell for another woman. You guys were never official and if he was honest, he felt like a dick for keeping you around. He knew that he would be favored since he was close to Alvarez and Bishop’s niece. Was he a bastard? Absolutely, especially when he realized just how much you did for him. “I hurt you, you didn’t deserve that.”
You are tapping your foot now. Anxiety coursing through your veins. You were not ready to have this conversation even though you thought yourself to have moved on.
“Diego, please, it’s okay. Let’s not open back up old wounds.” You couldn’t even look at him. You were awful at confrontations and you tried to look anywhere but him. Where were Coco and Gilly? Where was EZ? Hell where was Angel?
“Look, I get it, but I think it would be best for both of us to try and get closure. I can’t keep avoiding you and I don’t want you walking on eggshells around me. You were my best friend and I took advantage of that.”
“Will told me that she left you. Is that why you’re speaking to me now?” You hated Regina. She was the one who basically put you on blast over your “annoying obsession” with Diego. You felt like a fool, especially since Diego didn’t do anything but watch. 
“You know that’s not it.” Diego said through gritted teeth forgetting how stubborn you could be. “That bitch has nothing to do with this.”
“She has everything to do with this.” You gnawed at your lip again, not liking the fact you said that. “Just please leave me alone, you’ve done a good job for three years, let’s just keep it that way.”
“You good sweetheart?” You heard Will Medina, the sergeant of arms at Stockton, asked from behind Diego. He was the only one who knew of your plight with Diego. Your tio’s former prospect who used to pick you up from school as one of his duties as a prospect. One of the hardest things to do was leave him, since he was like your pseudo older brother, but you had to go with your mother, just to get a chance of scenery. It was hard whenever you ran into Diego and Regina. 
“Will,” you greeted him warmly. “Yeah, we’re good, right Diegito?”
“For now,” Diego decided to let you go. He’ll try again. He wanted you back in his life. You didn’t belong in Santo Padre. You belonged in Stockton, with your family, with him. He was a bastard, but he was going to make it up to you. This wasn’t about Regina, this wasn’t about the club, this was about you two. 
Both men watched you walk into the clubhouse, not speaking till you were inside.
Medina shook his head, sighing at Diego. “She has a good life here Diegito, stay away. She’s happier here.”
“You know her, she’s good at masking her emotions.”
“And you think she’s hiding her unhappiness?”
“No, I just think she wants to come back home, but doesn’t want to because of Regina.”
“Whole world revolves around you, huh?” Medina knew that they may have been part of the reason why you didn’t want to come home, but he doubted that was the main reason. 
“You know that’s not what I meant, but her mother couldn’t stand the heat, she won’t be able to do so either.” At least Diego hoped you couldn’t. He wanted you back in his life, and he would make sure of it.
“Who the fuck is that guy?” Angel was standing up now. He saw your foot tapping and he was going to make his way over to you, but he saw Medina approaching. You didn’t even look his way when you made your way inside the clubhouse. 
“She really has never spoken to you about Diego?” Coco was surprised that Angel didn’t know about Diego. You were comfortable talking to him and Angel knew a few things, but you withheld a few things from Angel.
“Is that him?” He didn’t know who the fuck Diego was, but he would gladly beat his ass for you. The way your body language changed when EZ left you alone with Diego, it bothered Angel. 
“Yeah, look, I don’t want to step on things. She obviously told me in confidence and Gilly since she was drunk. You can ask her about it.” Coco didn’t want your business out in the open like that. Diego was a big part of your life.
“Coco, you’re my best friend. You’ve known how I felt about her and she apparently confided in you that she likes me, why didn’t you tell me?” It was burned in Angel’s memory that Coco knew everything. He wondered why Coco never said anything to him. They were best friends, brothers. 
“Because she was so afraid to tell you. I didn’t want to do it for her even if I knew how you felt about her. I encouraged her to tell you, but it’s due to her experience with Diego that she didn’t want to do it.”
“She liked him?”
“Fuck.” Coco closed his eyes, taking a deep breath. He looked at the women around them. “Leave us.” They dispersed quickly, he didn’t need them gossiping about you. “Diego was her best friend, they became friends their senior year of high school. Once they graduated, Diego expressed his desire to prospect for the Mayans, but they didn’t take him. Using her connections, she somehow convinced Medina to sponsor him.” Coco lit up a cigarette and took a puff before continuing. “He treated her just like you did. He pretended to have feelings for her to keep her by his side even after he got his patch. A few years after he got his patch, a woman came and he fell for her. Bitch called Y/N out, saying that Diego will never have feelings for her and her obsession with Diego was annoying. He just watched as she berated her and after that, Y/N has stayed away from him. She was humiliated and broken apart since she thought Diego had feelings for her, but he didn’t.”
Angel sat back down then, upset at what he was hearing. Who the fuck did Diego think he was? He used you and couldn’t even defend you from a psychotic woman.
“How could Bishop and Alvarez let him patch?” Angel finally spoke up after a few minutes.
“Because she’s never told anyone. She cared about the guy regardless of his past indiscretions.” Gilly answered. “Fuck, I didn’t know all of that.”
“That’s why she thinks you’re just talking to her because of Bishop. That you were bestowed with the duty of being her bodyguard.” Gilly explained.
“I’m already a patch, and even if I wasn’t, I wouldn’t fucking use her to get my patch.” Angel fumed.
“Hermano, calmate, that’s not what I meant.” Coco shook his head. “She knows who she is and who she’s connected to. It’s just her thinking that you stayed around her because of orders from prez. She just has a hard time separating the two due to being burned before.”
Angel felt like an asshole now. What he’s been doing, it basically cemented your thoughts about the whole situation. 
Angel was done with the games. He was going to show you that he was serious. Fuck Diego. He’ll show you how much you were worth it.
You were able to avoid Diego the rest of the night. You were also able to ignore Angel who for some reason decided he was going to talk to you now. The mixed signals and mood swings were too much. Thankfully he left early and you didn’t have to deal with him. He most likely brought a woman home, which you didn’t look forward to since he was your neighbor. 
That’s right.
You lived right next to Angel. 
It was opportunistic, but Angel had told Bishop that the apartment beside him was open. Better way for a Mayan to be close by to ensure your safety. 
Opening the door, you almost had a heart attack when you found Angel waiting for you at your apartment.
“Fuck! Angel, what the hell is the matter with you?” You closed the door behind you, taking a deep breath to calm your heart rate.
“You wouldn’t talk to me, so I figured I’d wait here.” Angel was smoking, sitting on your couch in silence. He looked so damn good. 
“Couldn’t you just have waited at your apartment?”
“Last time I waited at my apartment, I had to barge in here to make sure you weren’t going to fuck Damien.” You has dropped something, causing you to shriek. Angel thought you had come home with Damien, but in reality, you had been at your apartment the whole day and dropped a glass. Angel barged in anyway, looking around wildly to see if Damien was there. You haven’t exactly told anyone that Damien was no longer dating you.
“And as I’ve said before, I don’t know how that is any of your fucking business.” You’re not sure where this confidence came from, but it was here and you plan to utilize it.
“It is my fucking business, why wouldn’t it be?” Angel stood up, putting out his cigarette on the ashtray. “You doing okay?”
“Yes, why wouldn’t I be?” You walked past him, not wanting to be close to Angel right now. Taking off your jacket, Angel whistled at the shirt you were wearing, thankful you never took off your jacket. 
“Who was that guy at the clubhouse?” Angel came in here with the intention of having you tell him about Diego. He didn’t want to throw Coco under the bus.
“None of your business.” The last thing you wanted was to talk to Angel about Diego. The man who you thought would end up like him.
“Come on querida, I didn’t come here to fight. I’ve missed you. Talk to me.”
“There’s nothing to talk about. He’s just an old friend from up north.” You gave him the cliff notes version of your relationship with Diego. This wasn’t Angel’s business anyway.
You went inside your room, closing the door hoping Angel would get the hint. You changed into some basketball shorts that you absolutely loved due to the comfort and a white shirt you had stolen from Angel during one of the times you slept over his home after a scary film, not wanting to be alone. Coming out of your room, you weren’t surprised that Angel was right outside of your door, what did surprise you was when he crashed his lips on yours, your eyes widening as he did. Before long, your eyes closed giving in to the kiss. How could you deny him? You’ve liked Angel for so long and now he was kissing you.
His hands slipped under your shirt, caressing your sides as he opened your mouth with his tongue. You sighed arching your back against him. 
Pulling away from you, you two were breathing hard, his head resting on your forehead. 
“I like you, Y/N.” He didn’t want to say the other L word yet, that might just scare you away. For now, he would settle with the word like.
“I like you too Angel.” You replied, kissing him one more time before pulling away.
“I know you’ve been burned before, but I won’t do that to you, I could never do that to you.” He began to walk as you walked backwards, your knees hit the edge of your bed causing you to sit down. “I want you, do you want me?”
Was this the right time to tell Angel you were still a virgin?
“Yes.”
Angel groaned, kissing you again as he laid you down on your bed. He hovered over you, making sure he didn’t put his weight on you. Pulling away, your lips chased after him making Angel chuckle. 
“I’ve been dreaming about this mi dulce,” he moved your shirt up, well his shirt, shivers running up your spine. You’ve never gotten this far with anyone. You’ve kissed people, but nothing like this. “Your skin is so fucking soft.” He assisted you on taking off your shirt, your bra was a deep shade of purple. “Purple’s my new favorite color.”
You became nervous then when Angel caressed your breast, softly squeezing it causing you to moan. You’ve never felt that sensation before, everything was so new to you.
“Angel, before we go any further, I have to tell you something.” You placed your hand on top of his, stopping his sinful ministrations. 
“What’s up baby?” Angel’s eyes were dilated, looking at you wish such desire.
“I’m a virgin.”
“You’re a what?” Angel gave you an incredulous look.
Before you could reply, there was a knock on your door. You two looked at one another, before you grabbed the shirt that Angel just discarded. You quickly made your way over to the door, embarrassed by Angel’s reaction. You were certain he would leave after that bombshell. 
Reaching to open the door, Angel pulled you back against his front, “I got it.” He informed you as he moved you behind him. He opened the door and your breath hitched when you saw Diego on the other side.
Diego’s face went from worried to anger in less than two seconds after his eyes landed on Angel.
“What the fuck is this?” He demanded.
“Diego, can I help you?” Angel further blocked you from Diego’s view, putting himself between you and Diego.
“Yeah, I need to talk to Y/N.” Diego straightened his form, trying to assert some type of dominance. But it wasn’t working on Angel. “So if you don’t mind, you can leave her with me.”
“Don’t think that’s going to happen. She’s my girl, you expect me to leave you all alone with her?” Angel scoffed. “What business do you have with her?”
“Your girl? She wasn’t with you a few hours ago. If I remember correctly, you had a whore sitting on your lap for a major part of the night.” Diego smirked. He wasn’t sure why the fuck Angel was here, but he wasn’t leaving till you two spoke.
Angel smirked. “I suggest you walk away before we have a problem here.”
“We already have one.”
Next thing you knew, Angel punched Diego on the face, tackling him to the ground. 
“Angel!” You yelled his name, trying to pull him away from Diego. “Stop it, come on, he’s not worth it.”
But he didn’t hear you. Angel continued to land shots on Diego’s face and body. But then Diego was able to hit Angel on his rib cage, knocking the air out of Angel. He turned them around, with Diego now landing the blows.
“Diego, please stop it!” You pleaded with him and tried to push him off Angel.
“Diego!” You heard Medina running towards you three, pulling off Diego from Angel. He came with Diego to assure that he could intervene when you became upset. He was smoking by his motorcycle when he heard the commotion.
Angel stood up, and was going to lunge for him again, but you wrapped your arms around him, trying your best to hold him back.
“Please stop, he’s not worth it.” 
Angel and Diego glared at one another. Diego was bleeding profusely from his lips while Angel had some blood coming out of his as well. His ribs hurt the most, but he had too much adrenaline coursing through his body. 
“Stay the fuck away from her.” Angel wanted one last time. Spitting out the blood that formed inside his mouth.
“Fuck you Reyes,” Diego snarled. “She can’t be yours when she’s always been mine!” Diego shouted back as Medina pulled him away. 
Angel led you back in your apartment, closing the door and locking it. You looked at him as he leaned against the door. 
“You didn’t have to hit him.” You crossed your arms across your chest.
“I know mi dulce, but he didn’t get the fucking hint.” Angel pushed off your door and walked over to you. “Why the fuck is Diego claiming you?” He knew what he was, but again he didn’t want to throw Coco under the bus. You walked away to the kitchen to get Angel a bag of frozen vegetables to put on his face. 
You gnawed at your lip as you handed him the bag. You knew you could trust Angel, you just didn’t know what to say. He was definitely your best friend once upon a time, but he proved that wasn’t the case. “We went to high school together and became close during senior year. He wanted to prospect for the Mayans and was rejected so I convinced Will to sponsor him. He became a patched member and nothing really changed. I always thought he had feelings for me because he acted as if he was my boyfriend. I always reasoned that he was protecting me or that we didn’t need the labels.” You pursed your lips, your arms crossed once again, but it looked more to Angel that you were holding yourself together. “I, I felt foolish, especially when his girlfriend called me out. It was his birthday and I came to his apartment with cake and his gift. I got him this new riding sunglasses that he had been eyeing for months.” You smiled sadly, trying your best to keep your tears at bay. “She threw my cake to the ground and told me that they were together, she berated me about my obsession with him and how he didn’t feel the same. That he kept me around since I was connected to Mayans royalty.” You looked up at Angel, his heart broke as he saw just how much it hurt you. Even after all these years and he couldn’t blame you. “Five years, I waited on him hand and foot thinking we would be together at the end, but instead I was the dumbass. I couldn’t stay there, it was the reason my mom moved to Santo Padre. Sure, she wanted to be closer to Tio Bishop, but it was due to me.”
Angel watched as your shoulder shook, head towards the ground. How could he do that to you? Use you and throw you away like a piece of trash? His blood boiled just thinking about how heartbroken you must have been to have that happened. It made sense why you kept him at arm's length at the beginning. You were very nice and cordial, but whenever he would try to get to know you, you would just excuse yourself. 
He walked over to you, lifting your face with his finger under your chin. “I would never do that to you. I get he hurt you and the mother fucker is going to pay. But you’re safe here with me. He’ll never be able to fool you again.” He wrapped his arms around you, letting you cry into his chest. Kissing the top of your head, he promised himself that he would do everything he could to make sure you never cried. The way his heart clenched as he just imagined you at Stockton, giving everything you had to a motherfucker who didn’t deserve it.
“I’m sorry,” you pulled away from Angel, wiping your eyes. “If you’re totally not interested in me anymore, I completely understand.” Who would want someone with baggage that involved one of his brothers? Though you were certain Angel never saw Diego in that way. 
Angel rolled his eyes, cupping your face and forcing you to look at him. “Listen I’m fucking here to stay. I’m not Diego, and all you have to do is let me prove it to you. Querida, I like you, why won’t you let me take you out and show you a good time?” Angel wasn’t even sure when he’ll find the time with everything going on, but he’ll make time, for you he would.
“Okay.” You grinned.
=================
Medina pulled Diego to the side, shaking his head. “Haven’t you done enough damage?” He pushed Diego, smacking him upside the head. “We had a deal. I agreed to let you come if you stayed the fuck away from her.” Medina knew he should have never let Diego come. He was too persistent for him to not do anything. 
“I have to get her back.” Diego spat out the blood in his mouth. “I know we had a deal, but when I saw her, I couldn’t help myself. I miss her.”
“I don’t give a fuck. You fucked up. Just because the pussy you gave her up for left you, doesn’t mean you should disrupt her life.” Medina has his hands on his hips, watching as Diego sat on the floor collecting his breath. 
“I love her.”
“No you fucking don’t. You romanticized her because of her connection to Bishop and Padrino, but she’s more than that. She fucking did everything for you and what did you do? Break her fucking heart. You don’t love her, you just missed how she waited on you hand and foot.” Medina scoffed. “Stay the fuck away.” He warned. He never told Bishop or Padrino, but maybe it was time to do it now.
“I listened to you once and I’m not going to stay away. You can’t tell me how I feel about her. I know what I feel regardless of my past indiscretions.” Diego stood up then, spitting on the ground once more and dusting off his clothing. 
“Angel would never let you near her.” Medina knew of Angel’s liking towards you due to Bishop. He kept him updated since Medina had been around you for years. 
“He won’t always be with her, after all, I’m gonna be here for the next few months.” Diego smirked. 
“What?” Medina was confused. What the fuck was he on?
“Santo Padre is down a man, they need someone to fill in, so I volunteered.”
“Diego, this is a bad fucking idea.” 
“She was mine first and once I treat her like how she deserves to be treated, show her how much I love her, she’ll come back to me.” 
Medina knew that wasn’t going to be the case. 
Angel wouldn’t let that happen. 
He had to make sure Angel wouldn’t let that happen.
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multific ¡ 5 years ago
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The Girl Next Door
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Chris Evans x Reader
Request: Hello! First, happy new year and that this fresh new year presents you with good energy and positive vibes ✨ I would like to make a request for Chris Evans. Maybe him buying a house next to the reader and moving in and he watches her reading on her balcony catching his attention at the quiet evening in the neighborhood. The next day he meets her when she knocks at his door with the girls selling cookies (i think it's scot girls? I am not sure sorry :) ) and they start from there? Thank you!
A/N: Thank you! I wish you a happy new year as well!!!
 A year ago Chris made a promise to his family that when the time will come, he’d move so he could be closer to them.
A finally, the day has come.
Since he was done shooting for Avengers and the press tour was also over, he had time to look for a new house, a house he hoped he would bring a wife home and with time, maybe even children.
But for now, it was only him.
All alone in his new four-bedroom house. Well, not completely alone, Dodger was there to give him company.
After the moving company left, leaving him to open his neatly packed boxes and peel the protecting plastic off of his furniture. Chris finished these easily and the living room already looked presentable, but since the day was ending he decided to just call it a day and have dinner. He ordered something for himself and sat down at his table in the kitchen.
As he was enjoying his food, he took a deep breath and let a long sign out. He felt tired. Then he looked out of his window. And that’s when he saw her for the first time.
You were sitting on the balcony reading a book while drinking something hot, Chris knew that because he saw the mug smoking. But there was more to you than beauty that attracted the male. You looked absolutely stunning, yes, but just as intelligent and gentle as you turned the page with elegance. Chris wasn’t even sure if that’s a thing, but it was true none the less.
***
The next day Chris was still unpacking when he heard the front doorbell, he thought that it might be the delivery guy since he ordered a new fridge. But it wasn’t.
Instead, he met with two little girls, dressed as girl scouts. Behind the two stood his neighbor that he shamelessly checked out the other night.
“Hi!” he greeted the ladies.
“Hello, Sir! Would you like to buy some cookies from us? We are selling all kinds! And the money will go to a good cause!!!” explained one of the girls with a lot of enthusiasm.
“Sure! What kinds do you have?” Chris noticed that whenever the children smiled, you smiled just as bright.
As the girls ran to get the cookies, you decided to have a few words with him.
“My name is Y/N. I live next to you, sorry I wasn’t able to greet you yesterday, I figured that the moving tired you, so I wanted to do it today! So, nice to meet you!”
“Hi! My name is Chris, nice to meet you as well. So, you work for the girl scouts?”
“No, actually, I’m a teacher at the kindergarten and one of the mum’s asked me to fill in for her since she’s sick.”
Just as you finished your sentence the girls arrived back with the boxes and Chris choose the flavours that he wanted. He ended up buying a lot more than he initially wanted.
“Girls, go to the next house, I’ll be with you shortly.”
“Okay, Y/N.,” they said at the same time.
“It’s a good neighbourhood in general, but I must warn you about Ms. Fatcher. She likes to flirt with men, whether they are married or not.”
“Oh, thanks for the heads up. But I’m single.”
“Single? You? How?”
“Well… my line of work is not exactly designed for dating…”
“Nonsense. Acting or not, you still should live your life. Oh, I have to go now. Would you like to come over sometime? I can tell you about the place a bit more.” Chris offered you a kind smile.
“That would be lovely.” he watched as you waved and went after the girls.
Chris went back to unpacking his boxes while eating some of the cookies, he thought about two things.
One, he would have to do a bit more work out thanks to the delicious treats and two, he hoped to get a date with you.
And that is how a new chapter of his life started.
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howrry ¡ 5 years ago
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ice
a/n: finally! i’m settled into skool lyfe and bella is back in business bitch (we love alliteration) here is that full fic of ice i’ve been hinting at :~)
w/c: 4.2k
warnings: this fic has an age gap of about 4 years and one of the characters is an older teenager! this is totally legal where i’m from but if it’s not where you are or it makes you uncomfortable then maybe don’t read this? also smut
***
Waiting for that one Facetime was like watching a huge pot of water boil. It was cliché, but you were running out of mundane things to do since you’d gotten home from uni. Seriously—laundry, reorganizing your soulless childhood room, even fully unpacking despite having weeks to get comfortable. Of course, as soon as you came back, you had your reunion with your parents and other family, but you hadn’t quite reached the seeing-friends phase of coming home.
At least, not until that lovely ringtone hummed through your room and you pounced on the bed, swiping on Gemma’s beautiful face. “Babe!” you cried.
“Hush,” she joked, crunching on a red apple on her side of the screen. You could hear her turn down the volume by clicking the buttons on her phone.
“Are you ready for me, then?” you asked, bouncing up and down on your tippy toes.
“No, don’t want to see you,” she crunched again, “just wanted to call to see how your mum’s doing. Of course I’m ready, twit!”
“Watch your language!” you chastised. “But I’ll be over in a New York minute.”
Getting ready was a rush—at this point you were just ready to get down the street. You shoved your feet into your Birks and grabbed your phone and keys, and once you’d padded down the stairs, your parents merely got a “be at Gem’s, later!” before you slammed the door.
When you got there, it was Harry who greeted you. You’d knocked and waited, since their house was always locked anyways. He threw the door open so fast that his cross necklace was still swinging when he rested his head on his forearm propped up on the doorframe. “Sorry, we don’t want any Girl Scout cookies,” he joked, smirking around his own jab.
“Ha ha ha,” you sarcastically bit. “Move it, Fisher-Price, I’m here for your sister.”
“I had a great semester, thank yeh for askin’,” he smiled, moving back and letting you in. “What about y’self?”
“It was productive, actually. Good to see you again, H,” you responded congenially. Ahh, the smell of your friend’s home was so nostalgic and inviting. It was fall all year round with the pumpkin in the living room, vanilla in the foyer, pine needles upstairs…
“Likewise,” he winked just before you went upstairs to your friend’s room.
Harry had always been a little charmer. Anne raised him to be very polite and he was naturally entertaining despite his introverted tendencies, but he’d always been Gemma’s annoying little brother to you. He always tried to butt into your hangouts with her, as far back as when he was four and you were eight and he wanted to play outside with you two, up to when he was 15 and you were 19 and he tried to buy beer from Gemma.
But soon, things changed. Harry got taller and his voice dropped and his skin got clear, and suddenly he wasn’t just the annoying little brother anymore. He was almost an adult, and he certainly developed a way with girls. The first time you went to see Gem and Harry had a girl over, something you couldn’t describe churned in your stomach. There’s no way Harry didn’t notice the way you cut your eyes when you initially saw her.
Ever since then, he just took a different light in your eyes. Going to Gemma’s house suddenly had double the benefits since you were seeing your best friend and her stupid hot little brother. If she left you alone for any period of time, you’d do anything to get Harry’s attention. He would chat with this amused smirk, one hand in his pocket and the other fiddling with his cross necklace, as if he knew you were subtly pining.
It was honestly kind of pathetic. He was still in high school, and you were in the home stretch of university. You had a potential hook-up pool that was at least five times the size of his and a much better selection, yet you were yearning for a guy who can’t even buy his own cigarettes.
But you didn’t care, and obviously Harry didn’t either. He humored your goofy flirting and gave it right back to you. For the most part, it was just harmless compliments and light schoolyard jabs and never escalated past that, until, well, it did.
You were going to go to brunch with Gemma that day. She’d gotten a part-time job as a photographer’s intern downtown that year, and invited you to try a new café with her. It was the perfect excuse to wear that flowy Free People dress you got, so you agreed.
While getting ready, Gemma called you in a panic. “Y/N! I forgot my wallet on my vanity at home,” she breathed. “Do you mind getting it before coming over?”
“Not a problem,” you hummed, checking your lipstick.
“Thanks, love. My mum left the front door unlocked when she got in this morning so just make yourself at home looking for it. See you soon!” Gemma blew a kiss into the phone before hanging up.
Her front door was open, just like she warned, and you hopped up the stairs to her room. Unfortunately, Gemma was more of the messy type, so finding her wallet was no easy task. Her vanity was covered in makeup and hair care bottles and papers from the previous semester. Where the hell could the wallet possibly be?
“Looking for somethin’?” Harry asked, leaning on the door frame with a Coke can in hand.
You looked up, pushing the hair that had fallen in your face to the side. “Need your sister’s wallet. It’s brunch time.”
“Ooh, bring me back a ricotta toast,” he ordered, reaching into Gemma’s Louis purse hanging by her door and pulling out her black wallet.
“You’d be lucky if I brought back a napkin,” you sneered, taking the wallet from him and going to shove past him.
He blocked your exit and held a hand up to your shoulder. “Wait, doll. Your earring is twisted backwards.” The hand that stopped you trailed up to softly ghost across your face and fix your earring, which must have gotten tangled in your wild goose chase.
Fuck, he was close. You could hear the soft breaths fanning out from his nostrils, his almost disinterested gaze slowly morphing into his classic smirk, and hand not leaving your skin in a timely fashion. His piercing green eyes rendered you stupidly frozen.
And the tension snapped. Within minutes he had you out of your dress and was fucking you into Gemma’s floral duvet. Everything was happening so fast; you didn’t even stop to think about how wrong it was. The feel of his teeth dragging across your neck and the stretch of his cock inside you were really the only things on your mind at that point.
It was rough and quick and dirty (and quite possibly the hottest thing you’ve ever done) but by the time you two were adjusting yourselves and catching your breath, you were twenty minutes late to lunch. You blamed it on traffic and Gemma didn’t care to push it.
So that’s how it started. It wasn’t anything exclusive, it wasn’t intimate, and it certainly wasn’t something you talked about outside of the bedroom. “The bedroom” being figurative, of course, since Harry and you liked to get it on whenever you had the chance. It wasn’t weird if you ended up bent over a washing machine or on your knees in front of him pressed up against the wall in a hallway.
When you thought about it, like reallypondered in a hot shower, you knew it was fucked up to be doing what you’re doing. It’s not like it was illegal—you just felt like you were betraying Gemma. You were closer to her than anyone else in the world and you were sneaking around with her brother.
He didn’t make it fair, though. He was so poised and smooth and fucked like he wasn’t still in AP Physics. The way he bantered with not only you but his sister and mother was definitely more witty than most boys his age. It only made sense to let him rearrange your guts.
So you had a bit of an internal dilemma. Frankly, if your little affair is well kept from Gemma, it shouldn’t be a problem at all. So you thought.
***
“So, do you have lice or something?” Gemma asked, raising an eyebrow from behind her magazine. The two of you had finally settled into winter break time and were taking turns spending at each other’s houses. Today, it was girls’ night at the Styles’ home.
You froze, one hand ruthlessly digging in your hair. “What? No. There’s just a wicked knot in my hair and I can’t get it out.” It was in the most unfortunate location on the back of your scalp, and your fingers could make no sense of the mat of hair.
“Do you need some help?” she offered, setting down her literature.
You reared back even though she was sitting at her desk across the room. “Gross, you just painted your nails! No thanks. Besides, I think I’m getting it.”
She shrugged and blew on her soft blue nails. “Whatever. I’m getting a yogurt.”
“I want one too,” you hummed, sliding off her comfortable duvet and gently pulling out a few strands of broken hair. A tiny plopaccompanied your feet on the rug and you spun in confusion. The noise was too soft to be a phone, but you still checked that yours was in your pocket. Barely visible in the fibers of the shag rug rested a solid black metallic ring. It was Harry’s.
You stared at it in horror. The ring had been in your goddamn hair. Earlier that day you’d given Harry a blowjob that left him slack-jawed and pink-cheeked and his hands had been so tangled up in your hair that your hair stole his ring. Which just fell out onto the floor in Gemma’s room.
“Is that Harry’s ring?” she hissed, gaze locking on the ring standing out from the white rug.
Oh no. Oh fuck oh fuck fuck fuck—
“He’s such a twat. Why does he leave his jewelry everywhere? You could’ve stepped on that!” she continued, reaching down to pick it up. “I’m gonna throw it in the trash.”
When she moved to her trash bin, your eyes widened and you squealed a “don’t!” That ring was really nice and you knew Harry would be devastated if she threw it out.
Gemma turned slowly. “Why?”
Your mind raced to think of a good excuse. “Because, if you throw out a ring he wears all the time, he’ll throw out something of yours that youcherish.” You gestured towards her vanity where the Tiffany box sat. She’d just bought herself a necklace for doing so well on her exams and you knew that Harry would retaliate with it.
Your best friend eyed the necklace and then the ring in her fingers. “You’re right,” she finally agreed. You let out a huge breath—there was always the risk of being too weird about Harry and blowing your own cover, but once Gemma ducked into her brother’s room and pinged Harry’s back with the ring, you knew the cover was totally intact.
***
God, you didn’t want to party. The break ended next week and soon it’d be books and schedules and debt again. Who could be shotgunning 4Lokos at a time like this?! Plus, none of the bars were open this day of the week so the only option was a freakin’ house party. What uni students over the age of 21 go to house parties?
But Gemma wanted to, and what she wants, she gets. Though you loved her tenacious attitude at times, all you cared about right now was taking off your revealing top and climbing into bed.
You nursed on straight Coke in the kitchen and absentmindedly watched Gemma go hard. You trusted her and vice versa; she knew her limits but still could have a really, really good time. The men of the party were in awe as she threw back tequila and slapped the bag right after, and even the inside of yourmouth was feeling withered just watching her.
“Hey, there,” you heard from off to the side. You casually lulled your head over to see a shockingly attractive guy. He had thick, dark hair with a sprinkling of light brown freckles on the bridge of his nose.
“Hi. You lost?” you joked, moving to make room on the upholstered bench next to you, where the mystery man joined you.
“Not anymore.” Mm. The faint scent of alcoholic breath wafted to your face but this stranger was keeping his composure quite well. “I’m Russell.”
“Y/N, pleasure,” you hummed, shaking his hand.
He started chatting you up, but to be fair, it was in one ear and out the other. He was clearly throwing words to the wind, and not even his good looks or nice cologne could draw your attention. It wasn’t like Harry, who could entice you with conversations about chopped liver if he so wanted to.
Ahh, Harry. You wondered what he was up to right now. He was probably at a party himself, drinking watery beer and flirting with any bird with eyelash extensions that gave him attention. God, why were you getting so jealous of him? You certainly didn’t owe him any loyalty and neither did he. In fact, if you so desired, you could go out and get laid right now and he couldn’t do a damn thing about it!
Your attention drifted back to the cute boy next to you. Somehow, as Russell droned on about his recent physics prof, you started to see Harry in his features. Certainly not in anything coming out of his mouth, but the curls that flopped down into his face were just like H’s after he’s played footy all day. Russell’s hands had prominent veins on them, just like Harry’s hands when they were grabbing at your skin and smacking your ass. Even the way he toyed with his bottom lip while thinking aloud.
Though H was really the last person you wanted on your mind right now, all these physical thoughts were making Russell more and more attractive by the minute. He wasn’t Harry, but maybe he could be Great Value Harry. You reciprocated his flirty chatter and got touchy with him, and things quickly devolved into kissing in the corner of the kitchen you two occupied.
Things were happening surprisingly fast for how sober you were. You went upstairs with him, you made out with him on a random bed, you undressed each other, and before you knew it he was rolling on a condom and pushing himself into you.
It wasn’t necessarily that it was bad sex. Russell had soft lips that kissed your neck as he thrusted and he certainly wasn’t small, but it didn’t really blow you out of the water. Your toes didn’t curl and your eyes didn’t roll back into your skull. He even lasted a decent amount of time, but once you made your mind up about not getting an O, you kinda just wanted it to end.
Once it did, he got busy falling asleep and you tried to not take it personally (c’mon, it’s pretty taxing for a guy to cum). You tugged your clothes back on and went out to look for Gemma, and of course she was upstairs as well, throwing up into a bathroom trashcan.
“Hey, Gem, how you feel?” you asked, rubbing at her back and tucking your hair behind your ears.
“Better now that this is out of me. Wanna go home?” she mumbled, sighing and wistfully staring at the toilet that she was seconds from making it into.
“Yep. C’mon, I’ll call an Uber,” you said to no one, hoisting a lackadaisical Gemma onto your shoulder and out of the house.
Once home, getting Gemma situated was the most difficult part. Her mother worked late and Harry was probably out, but even without the chance of running into one of her family members, she was still heavy. Her choice to not use her legs at all certainly didn’t do you any favors, either.
When the front door opened and the familiar smell of her abode hit Gemma’s nose, she perked up. It became minimally easier to hoist her up the stairs and into her bed. You did your best to scrub at the makeup that had lasted through her dancing and puking without waking her, but she was so tired and lulled to sleep by her drinks that an earthquake wouldn’t make her stir for at least eight hours. You nodded at the unopened cheap water on her nightstand, reminding yourself to get her a reusable bottle.
Your work was done. Gemma was snoring smoothly within minutes with a clean face and a drink waiting for her in the morning. You got laid, even though you were completely sober, it wasn’t exactly a great dick review, and you’re a 21-year-old who got fucked at a house party. Maybe it was just time to go home and accept the night for… whatever it was. You padded downstairs softly despite the minor coma your best friend was in. Common courtesy, you supposed.
Thump.
Face first into a chest. It was totally dark in the house and you definitely didn’t expect there to be a solid torso in Gemma’s living room for you to bump into. A sharp gasp filled your lungs and the figure reached behind and clicked the lamp on. Harry, of course.
“Jesus Christ, you scared the hell out of me,” you breathed, slapping a hand to your chest.
“It’s my house,” he grumbled. As your eyes adjusted to the light, you saw his puffy eyes and messy hair and wrinkled clothes. He’d been sleeping.
“I’m sorry, did I wake you? I thought you’d be out.” Just seeing him in such a soft state made your lower belly swirl.
He shook his head a bit. “What are y’doing here?”
“Went to a party with Gem. She got too wild so I put her to bed,” you bluntly explained.
Harry pursed his lips, crossing his arms and eyeing you focusedly. “Did you have a good time?”
“No,” you answered quickly, because you didn’t. “I didn’t drink and I had to take care of Gemma and I fucked someone.” That last part fell out of your mouth before you had a chance to think twice.
There were a few beats of a heavy silence and you wondered if you made a mistake. “Did they fuck you good, baby?” he finally asked, no emotion inflecting his words.
You couldn’t have been less prepared for that response. “No,” you whimpered, face getting hot at his critical stare.
“Oh, doll, they couldn’t fuck yeh like I can, huh?” His voice was pure sex—every response he had to you threw you off more than the last. Everything he said just floated off his tongue and danced into the room and onto whosever’s ears they were around.
“No, they couldn’t,” you choked out. You felt like your throat was closing. “No one fucks me like you do and I can’t understand it. I shouldn’t be seeing you because it’s so wrong but...” God, shut up shut up shut up. Your word vomit amused Harry beyond belief. The smug look on his face was making you feel even smaller than his height already did.
“Oh, I know what you’re sayin’, doll,” he laughed. “You wanna do the right thing by m’sister but yeh just can’t. Deep down y’know you’ll always come back to me, hmm?” Harry took a step towards you, and you completely froze. You thought that he was about to bend down and kiss you but he surprised you yet again by snapping a hand up and gripping it around your neck. “I own you, y’hear me?”
You nodded, or at least the best you could with his vice grip on you. Every breath you tried to take stopped short in the back of your throat, and it almost felt like your feet were about to lift off the ground. Your own hands flew up to claw at Harry’s hand before his grip finally softened. A thick gasp sucked in and your legs threatened to not support your body, but he grabbed at you and steadied you. His fingers grazed your quivering lips. “Who’s mouth is this?” he asked, intently staring.
“Yours,” it came out as a whisper. Normally he’d be much meaner and wouldn’t accept such a quiet response, but he was feeling generous, apparently. He leaned down and kissed you, sucking in on your bottom lip and biting the red flesh.
The two of you made your way down to the couch, such that you were straddling Harry and he was cupping at your ass. Your hair kept falling in your faces, but he didn’t care and continued to kiss you and grab at your throat.
He took a break and leaned back on the couch, taking his time to lazily cup at the soft skin behind your thighs. “Mmm, and who’s ass is this?” When you breathed out another “yours” he smacked it audibly. “Goddamn right, pet.”
He didn’t take your shirt off, nor any of his clothes. He lifted you just enough for you to tug your shorts and panties down, and for him to pull his leaking cock out of his dark sweats. You tried to tease for a moment, grinding your bare center against him, but he put a stop to that. “Do I even have t’ask if this is mine?” he growled, assertively cupping your cunt with his big hand. You shook your head and he smirked, guiding his tip up and down your slit.
“Nope, because I know it’s mine,” he whispered, letting you slip his whole length inside your wet pussy. He shoved his hands up the back of your shirt, dragging his nails down the soft skin. Once you’d bottomed out and you were desperately grinding your clit against his pubic bone, he put a hand flat on your chest. “Lean back and ride me, pet.”
You obeyed to the best of your ability. You put your hands behind you on his knees and shifted your weight back, allowing him to fully watch himself disappear into you. The coarse, dark curls at the base of his member lightly stimulated your clit on the downstrokes, making you helplessly whimper while you fucked yourself on him.
“Are yeh sure you fucked someone?” he grunted. “So fuckin’ tight, I just don’t believe it.” His fingers snaked down and played around with your clit, which undoubtedly threw off your bouncing. Your hips begged to stay down and enjoy the circles he was tracing over your button, but he wouldn’t let you. His free hand went to your hip, just above where it bent into your thigh, and guided you to start moving again. “Uh-uh. Keep ridin’ me, love. I know yeh can keep a rhythm, hmm?”
So you kept riding. The pressure of his tip ghosting around your G-spot combined with him stimulating your clit was making it difficult to stay quiet. Sure, Gem was asleep, but she wasn’t dead, and if you made a ridiculous amount of noise, she’d definitely investigate.
“Gonna cum, aren’t yeh?” he asked, and fuck, he was right. That knot was already starting to form in your lower belly.. “I can tell. Yeh gonna let go, all over m’cock? Gonna make a mess fo’ me?”
His words caused you to spill over, and you were no longer able to hold yourself up leaning back. He was very forgiving of this, and let you grab at his shoulders while riding out your high. Once you’d stopped shaking and panting into his neck, he thrusted his hips up into you once, twice, three times and came inside of you with a grunt and some more nail-digging, this time into your thighs.
And then it was silent. You meekly got off of him and shakily pulled your shorts back up. You two quietly redressed, Harry nearly dead from his draining orgasm and you weak in the legs from your sexual workout. The only noise was the scratch of fabric on fabric and your shared heavy breathing. Finally, when you were gathering your things to leave, Harry spoke in his sultry, hoarse voice.
“I like when you come around,” he smiled, and you immediately returned it. It didn’t seem like much, but this was Harry’s way of expressing affection. Regardless of how good he was in bed or how witty and charming he came off, he was still a goofy teenage boy who had trouble talking about his emotions.
A little giggle came out of your nostrils. “Thanks, Haz.”
“I’ll see you tomorrow, hmm?” he asked, pinning that unconfident noise at the end despite knowing you’d be back. He was already relaxing, crossing his arms behind his head and lazily eyeing you scramble towards the front door.
“Yeah,” you dreamily affirmed, giving a quick wave to Harry (which he goofily returned) and floating out the front door. “Tomorrow,” you said to the empty street in front of you, toying with your car keys in your hands.
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robinskey ¡ 5 years ago
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Wheels (Steve x Wheeler! Reader)
Request: hiiiii! could you make steve x fem! reader where she is nancy’s middle sister and steve has a crush on her but she thinks she is just a rebound because of nancy !! thx!!
A/N: Sorry this took so long, anon! I struggled with the best way to go about this story for a while. But I really like the direction it ended up taking. Hopefully, you do, too! Thanks for requesting!
Warnings: Season 2 Spoilers, I guess. Oh, and a bit of swearing.
Steve Harrington, the school heartthrob is in love with your sister long after she dumps him. You always catch him staring at her while the two of you are walking through the halls. At the Snow Ball, while helping Nancy serve punch to middle schoolers, you swear you see his car lingering outside the window. You try to get Nancy’s attention, but by the time she turns around, his car’s gone. After that, you decide that Steve is probably a creepy stalker who will never give up on your sister, even though she’s with someone else now. You may be younger than Nancy, but you’re still fiercely protective over her.
Christmas break comes a few weeks later. You spend most of the break lounging around in your living room. In the corner of the room, a lonely fake evergreen stands tall. Since Nancy and Mike helped you remove all the ornaments the day after Christmas, the tree is completely bare, except for a few straggling strands of garland. Your mother has been nagging your father to take it down for the past week. He always says he’s too tired and that he’ll do it tomorrow.
You’re home alone. It’s a rare occasion in your typically-chaotic household, so you’re savoring it. There’s a steaming mug of hot chocolate in your lap and a cheesy romance novel in your hands. Unlike your cold-resistant family, you have no inclination to go out in the bitter cold.
And then the dang doorbell has to ding. 
You grunt as you drag yourself off the sofa and over to the front door. Standing on your tiptoes, you can see through the peephole. You stifle a groan as you recognize your guest. The concave glass distorts his features, but you can make him out just the same. He holds something in his hands-something that looks suspiciously similar to a bouquet of white roses.
How do you even get flowers in the middle of winter?
As much as you want to ignore the visitor and pretend no one’s home, you know you probably shouldn’t. If you do, he’ll probably just be back tomorrow. And as frustrating as Nancy can be, she shouldn’t have to deal with him. 
You crack open the door. 
Steve Harrington stands on your porch. Snowflakes fall around him, and the white flecks speckle his dark hair. He’s wearing a navy windbreaker that’s simply inappropriate for this type of weather. 
What an idiot. Not only is he incapable of understanding that your sister is over him, but he can’t even dress himself properly.
“Nancy’s not here,” you say bluntly, already letting the door slam shut, “and she’s not interested, anyway.”
You head back towards the couch and have just plopped down on it when the doorbell rings again. 
“Go sell your Girl Scout cookies to someone else, dipshit!” you yell.
Ding-dong.
“Oh, my god,” you huff, stomping over to the door again. 
When you fling it open, Steve has one fist raised, like he’s preparing to knock. Steve towers over you, but that’s the least intimidating thing about him. The only thing that scares you about him is the sheepish smile on his face. For a moment, you wonder if he’s drunk or something. Why is he grinning at you like that? And why does it make your heart skip a beat?
You gesture at the flowers in his grasp.
“Nancy doesn’t even like roses, you know,” you say, smirking as his cheerful expression morphs into a frown. “What? You didn’t know that? Wow, you must have been a pretty shitty boyfriend-oh, wait! You were.”
Steve swallows. Clearly, whenever he pictured this interaction happening, it wasn’t like this. Of course, you’re surprised, too, when he agrees with you.
“Yeah, I was,” he says. “I was the worst, honestly. And as much as it hurt initially, I’m...I’m actually glad she’s with Jonathan now. He treats her a lot better than I ever did.”
“Right,” you say, eyeing him suspiciously. “You’re happy for her. And those-” you point to his bouquet “-those are what, exactly? ‘Congratulations-on-the-upgrade’ roses?”
“They’re not for Nancy,” Steve blurts out. His voice softens as he says, “They’re for you. I was wondering if, maybe, you’d like to go on a date sometime?”
“Me?” you ask. 
Before you can stop yourself, you start to reach for the stems. But then another burst of cold air rolls over the porch. The sharp sting smacks your bare face, jerking you back into reality. Steve and your sister dated for the better part of a year, and they’d been broken up for a little over two months. He didn’t want you; he just wanted someone. 
“Well, thanks for the offer, but I’m not interested in being your rebound,” you say. 
“It’s not like that. I really like you, Y/N.”
“Yeah, well, I really like my sister, and I’m not about to hurt her by hooking up with her ex,” you say, releasing the door. It slams shut on Steve and his huge, stupid, brown puppy-dog eyes.
There’s silence for a moment, and you wonder if he’s finally walked away. 
“Nancy knows I’m here,” he calls through the door. “She gave me permission to ask you out, as long as I treat ‘Baby Wheels’ right.”
You can’t help yourself. You’re back in the doorway in a second.
“How did you know she used to call me that?” you demand. 
It was a stupid nickname from your childhood, when you used to tell people your last name was “Wheels” because you couldn’t pronounce the “r” in “Wheeler.” For a while, Nancy referred to you almost exclusively as ‘Baby Wheels’. However, after you cut off one of her ponytails as revenge for embarrassing you at a middle school dance, she started using the nickname more sporadically.
“I told you! I talked to Nancy,” he says, wrapping his arms around himself. His lips are starting to turn the color of his jacket. “Jonathan was there, too, actually. He said my ass was grass if I ever hurt you, and after the first time he beat the shit out of me, I’ve learned to take that threat seriously.”
“You’re...not joking? You seriously talked to them?”
“Yeah,” he says, the sheepish smile returning. “Like I said, I really, really like you, Y/N. The way I feel about you is different than how I’ve felt about anyone else-including Nancy. I’m well aware that you may never see me as anything other than the douche who hurt your sister, but everything that’s happened over the last few months has made me realize how badly I need to change. I’m trying to be a better person, I just-” You stop his rambling by launching yourself onto the tops of your toes once more and giving him a peck on the lips. 
Steve’s eyelids flicker shut and stay that way for a moment. When they flutter back open, his chocolate eyes are sparkling. His cheeks are already red from the cold, but they turn a darker hue after the kiss. You giggle at his dazed state.
“Can I-can we do that you again? Please?” he finally manages to stutter through his purple lips. “Maybe a little longer this time?”
You laugh again, take the flowers from his grip, and grab his now-free hand in yours.
“Maybe. Probably,” you say, using your hip to prop open the door. “But first, let’s get you inside before you freeze to death, okay?”
“Mmkay,” Steve hums. 
The door slams shut for the final time that afternoon-this time, with two lovebirds on the other side.
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aboyandhisstarship ¡ 5 years ago
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and old idea now in progress
this is a story i’ve had bouncing around for a while, and now the first part is coming. 
here we go:
Gwen woke up in her motel room in the shitty county…honestly she was a techy, Intelligence and analysis so she figured she would never have to leave the office, but nope Agent Johnson needed someone with her skills in the field and here she was, she poured herself a cup of coffee, before thinking she should probably meet up with Agent Johnson …Scott she corrected herself with a shake of her head as she pushed open her room door.
What happened next was not something she would ever forget; as she swung the door opened a lynched body moved with the motion leading in front of the FBI agent who jumped dropping her coffee. The face was burned and bloody with a black cross tattooed on his forehead…the same Tat they make the new cultists wear, but Gwen recognized the puff of blond hair, and said quietly “Agent Johnson ?” before turning around and vomiting hard.
Gwen cleaned herself up before coming to the logical conclusion “if they knew about him…they knew about me.”
She grabbed her gun with shaky hands and a sat phone and made a break for it.
Clearing an hour later:
Gwen sank against a tree still dressed in her pajamas a gun in one hand and a phone in another, she took a deep breath pressing the redial button and a voice answered “director Philips.”
Gwen took a deep breath saying “sir…it’s agent Santos…” and then started to freak out “they killed him! They lynched him! Tortured him, FUCCCCKKKKK”
The director said quickly “slow down Agent…who…are you ok?”
Gwen answered in a half shout “Agent Johnson…oh god they killed him…sir it was brutal…every time I close my eyes.”
Philips sighed “ok Agent stay calm…are you ok?”
Gwen nodded “uhh yes sir…I’m still in my pajamas…they left the body on my door step I grabbed my gun and my phone and bolted.”
Philips nodded “Agent stand by…these guys are well armed…but we can get the National Guard out there and shut them down.”
Gwen yelled “SIR YOU CAN’T!”
Philips asked “why not agent…?”
Gwen sighed “sir…Agent Johnson had my look over some Intel some locals got…it is nothing confirmed…but the cult may have smuggled in nuclear weapons.”
Philips paused before saying “Agent… get somewhere safe…we will be in touch.”
The Director hung up his phone saying “Get me the Pentagon!”
 Safe house:
Gwen supposed the word House was subjective…it was a spot her and Scott used to monitor Cult activity…no one knows about it but them, and if the cult did they would have destroyed it already…so she felt mostly safe. She had food, real clothes (Jeans, a shirt and her FBI jacket) and her bosses were getting back to her soon…hopefully with an escape plan.
Then as if on cue her phone beeped and she answered shakily “Agent Santos…”
A Voice answered “Agent Santos…My name is General Casey.”
Gwen blinked “General…”
Casey spoke simply “Agent…help is coming four of our finest will be coming in VIA parachute to assist you and any other assets in the region…this is your Mission so just point them in the right direction.”
Gwen said “Sir…I’m barely a field agent surely there is someone else for this…”
Casey answered “you have your ear to the ground Agent… these men are pro’s trust them…”
Gwen nodded “ok sir…”
Casey finished “by the way no Names Agent…the leader is a red head…call him Nomad.”
And with that Casey hung up as Gwen cruelled into a ball and cried.
 Safe house 2 hours later:
Gwen was mumbling “I have an ear to the ground…really! This Is nuts…and who on earth are they sending! No names! That can’t be good…”
She sighed “just stay cool…these guys are pros…whoever they are.”
Just then she heard a thump, followed by 3 more thumps. Gwen grabbed her gun taking a deep breath as a voice knocked on the door saying “Agent Santos?...it’s Nomad.”
Gwen lowered her gun carefully and opened the door ready to fire, what she saw was a red head about her age dressed in black, with a black hat covering his hair, he was armed with a suppressed Assault rifle and a pistol strapped to his leg, the rest of his team were dressed similarly, there was girl with a blond hair, another blond man, and burley man in the back.
Nomad smiled at her gently saying “Cool Breeze, Redcap…burry the chutes, Dirt diver your on watch.”  
Gwen nodded gesturing into the odd Bunker with the Solider behind her. Gwen tried to stay calm as she briefed “This morning I found my boss Agent Johnson…dead…the cult offed him.”
Nomad reached out gently “Agent Santos…”
Gwen said simply “call me Gwen…Nomad.”
Nomad smiled “Ok Gwen…this is hard for you…your file says you are rather new to the agency, that is part of the reason why my team were brought in so quickly. We are here to help you, but we need to know everything you do.”
Gwen sighed “right…the cult is built more like a militia…they own the entire county and have it divided into four regions one is central and where that snake Daniel is…the other 3 are run by his ministers…”
David smiled gently as Gwen explained “Agent Johnson and I referred to them simply as A,B,C the cult has some name for them…but I’d rather call them A, B,C…A is run by a punk by the name of Pike man…he was military, no idea what happened to him…but he ended up here and runs the cult training center…and they train hard. there forces are an army in every sense of the term it is nuts…B is run by an Ex Con known on the streets as dirty Kevin…he is the reason the bureau got interested in the cult to start with…we think the cult and Dirty Kevin are using his drug connections to produce and ship massive amounts of a designer drug called Haze… Haze maybe how the cult is funding there other…areas, Area C is the intro area it’s there where new cultists and brainwashed and assigned there new jobs…the region is run by Daniel wife… a woman named Jen…I have next to nothing on her…so there you go that’s the run down…”
Nomad touched her arm gently saying “thank you…our briefing mentioned a group of locals, resistance fighter’s types?”
Gwen nodded “Sleepy Peak county fireballs…local bowling league before all this… the leader is an old tough guy type…I think he was a marine.”
Nomad rolled his eyes “figures”
Gwen chuckled as she kept going “they got guns and the motives to fight the cult…and have and do…me and Agent Johnson made contact…Quartermaster likes me…I think.”
Nomad nodded “right then Gwen…just remember we are not here…that means the locals did everything understood?”
Gwen nodded “right…”
Nomad smiled “we should make contact and start coordinate…”
Gwen asked gently “I can do that…but you sure you want to go dressed like that.”
David blushed asking “do you another option?”
Gwen pointed to the back as the rest of his team chuckled amused.
David came out wearing a pair of jeans and a red plaid shirt he concealed his pistol under his shirt, he shoved his hat into his pocket asking “shall we?”
Gwen nodded stunned honestly he looked cute…enough she could almost forget he was a trained killer who was here to literally destroy an entire cult.
The pair left the safe house climbing into a jeep with David driving who said calmly “Gwen…if anyone asks my name is Michael…I was camping and came down and stumbled into you in the woods…you then filled me in on everything.”
Gwen frowned testing the name “Michael…is that your name?”
David chuckled lightly “do I look like a Michael?”
Gwen paused before conceding “No you do not…then what do you look like?”
David shot her a wink “Nomad…”
Gwen rolled her eyes “I should have seen that coming…well your entire team has cool call signs…do I get one?”  She half joked.
David kept driving asking gently “do you want one Ma’am?”
Gwen was rocked back into her new position she mumbled “right my op…uhhh do you think it is wise…Nomad?”
David slowed down slightly looking at her directly “Honestly Gwen…You don’t need to worry about our coms being tapped…and they likely already know about you…but if it makes more comfortable than absolutely.”
Gwen nodded “can I get back to you on this Nomad?”
David nodded “anytime…alright we are here…Sleepy peak…the town of.”
The jeep pulled over into the small town some locals looked at him with looks of vague fear before seeing Gwen and there expression’s turning into relief, Gwen sighed “QM should be in the local bar…come on, Nom…Michael.” She corrected herself.
David fired her a smile “relax…the others are nearby…if things get hot they will be able to back us up.”
Bar:
David walked in and made contact with the man known as Quarter master, he was older and had a hook for a hand as he drank a beer; he took one look at David and said casually “Let me guess, Force recon, no Seal.”  Opening and offering David and Gwen a Beer
David sat next to him declining the beer “No comment.”
Gwen accepted and chugged the beer nervously as Quartermaster grumbled “figures, damn operator’s, let me guess officially you’re not even here?”
David nodded “yep that’s the op.”
Quartermaster grinned evilly “Yea sounds good…so what are you called?”
David reached out to his hand “Nomad.”
Quartermaster didn’t accept the hand saying “Quartermaster.”
Gwen sighed “you made me come up with a whole story only to not even use it!?”
David shrugged “Quartermaster knows the deal…”
Quartermaster grunted ���is what it is.”
David asked “so what are we looking at.”
Quarter master pushed over a file “this is who we have been trying to get at for months now and we finally have an opening.” As he took a big beer sip
David read the name “Sasha Monty…Who is she.”
Quartermaster grumbled “rich Prick of a girl.”
Gwen cut in “Sasha monty, real live daddy’s girl from California, or at least that’s what everyone figured until one day she killed her parents, burned down her boarding school and disappeared off the grid. About four months later the DEA got a tip that she was dealing cookies laced with Meth, disguised as flower scout cookies.”  
David blinked “are you kidding me? That’s a 180”
Quartermaster grumbled “they were not even good cookies.”
Gwen nodded “yep…Well naturally the DEA tried to grab her in Texas, but after a firefight she escaped to Mexico where she met Dirty Kevin…who showed her the light…now we think she is a big name in the cult smuggling operation.”
David said “so she is smuggling Haze?”
Gwen shrugged “that is what the Intel suggests.”
David sighed “alright...what do you need us to do.”
Gwen pulled up her laptop typing quickly before saying “the cult owns a rail company, about 40 miles due west of here… destroy the haze before it leaves and when Sasha comes to investigate….Take her alive if possible.”  Gwen said hesitantly
David nodded “A stockpile like that is bound to be guarded.” Addressing both Quartermaster and Gwen
Quartermaster shrugged “armed goons, likely Ak’s…”
David asked “Level of force against the guards Gwen?”
Gwen breathed deeply before saying “Nomad…I leave it to your judgement…just bring me Sasha.”
David stood up “Yes ma’am…take the Jeep back to the RV…my team and I will secure our own way.”
And with that David walked out saying “you guys hear that?”
Jasper responded “roger Nomad…we heard…we got a ride and your equipment…meet on the edge of town.”
 Tree line:
David adjusted his Jeep hat as he whispered “redcap report.”
Tabii looked up from her drone control saying “the place is woefully under guarded nomad…I see four guards AK…there half asleep.”
David nodded “dirt Diver.”
Nurf nodded “charges are ready.”
David lifted his rifle “pick your targets on my count.”
David turned his hat to face backwards as he looked down his scope picking his target “ready?”
The team all answered “yes.”
David said simply “on my count, 3,2,1, execute execute execute.”
4 suppressed gun shots later the guards dropped dead.
David moved to his feet advancing towards the depot as his team quickly swept the building before he nodded “clear…dirt diver…let’s do it.”
30 minutes later:
David hid it the shadows as Sasha drove up yelling “what in the actual fuck did you idoits do!”
David slowly pulled out his pistol as Sasha threw open the door to the burned out drug stash where David hid “where are you morons jeez.”
She was answered by David grabbing her pressing a gun to her head, she yelled “it’s me idoits.”
David answered “trust me I know.”
Sasha said “who the hell are you?”
David forced her to move “I’m your uncle Sam and we need to have a conversation.”
Sasha said fought but was forced into the trunk of a car and taken to the safe house
Safe house:
David pushed her into the small building forcing her into a small chair he aimed at her, if she made a move he would shoot her.
Gwen entered glaring “hello Sasha.”
Sasha tilted her head “Awww the FBI Hoe.”
Gwen sighed “really Hoe…that’s the best you come up with?”
Sasha scoffed “I thought we run you out when we killed that other agent…what was name.”
David could tell Gwen was getting angry as he said calmly “Gwen…”
Gwen nodded “Nomad…I got this.”
Sasha demanded “who the fuck is Nomad!?”
Gwen paused before saying “that is a fun question to answer, you see your cult buddies did something stupid…very stupid.”
Sasha shook her head “…these guys are not Swat…”
Gwen smiled evilly “oh no, they are some of this great country’s finest Special forces, and they have a single mission here…fucking up the cults day.”
Sasha looked over at David who firing her small wave with the hand he was not holding his sidearm with, Sasha sighed “killing one agent…is not worth this response.”
Gwen nodded “your right…do you know what this is?”  Plunking a picture on the table
Sasha looked before shrugging “no clue.”
Gwen said coolly “it’s a warhead, a nuclear warhead that was stolen 3 months ago…and recently popped back on our grid…can you guess where?”
Gwen didn’t wait for Sasha to answer saying “you are all a threat to national security…more than a threat really…so if you want to live you are going to start talking.”
Sasha held up her hands “I don’t know anything about any nukes…If anyone did that…it was Daniel.”
Gwen narrowed her eyes “what can you tell us?”
Sasha said “Dirty Kevin…I know where his lab is…”
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royalbloodedbastards ¡ 5 years ago
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chatzy // weed closet pj party
DATE: Friday, March 27, 2020 CHARACTERS: Chase, Jesse, Malia, Alec, Casey, Blue, L, Parker, Jack ABOUT: The Morpheus cabin hosts a PJ Party. Mammals smoke marijuana and Twister ends with a twist.
Chase made sure that all the lights were placed well and all the blanket walls were secure. He picked up a cat from the twister mat and flipped it onto its back so he could hold it like a baby. He unlocked the door and stood to the side, wondering if he should wait there and be a fake psychic that was standing there the whole time or step back so he wouldn’t be weird. He swayed a bit and then walked over to take his cookies from the oven.(edited)
Malia held her mug of hot chocolate in both her hands as she shooed Killer # 1 from pulling at the blanket fort. She followed Chase into the kitchen and smiled. "Any pronoun preference tonight? I don't want you to like, explain yourself if you don't want to."
Jesse was finishing washing the few dishes that had piled up over the day and didn't hear Malia's question to Chase between the sound of the water running and some vague daydreams. As he put the last plate on the drying rack, he turned around and absently pet Killer # 2 on the head, still in his own world.
Chase set the cat down on the counter, pulled the cookies from the oven, and then picked the cat up again as he turned the oven off. He grinned widely at Malia, heart full. “No, no preference. Thanks for asking. Say whatever feels right.” He leaned against the counter. “Did either of you want a cookie? They’re vegan and don’t have nuts, but they do have weed.” 
Malia considered it, then glanced at Jesse. "Want to split one?" 
Jesse tuned in to catch the last part of Chase's offer, once he realized he was being addressed. He smiled at Malia, shrugging one shoulder. "Sure, okay." 
“I’m actually gonna put a note on them to only take half, so y’all might wanna take a quarter.” 
"Oh shit, okay." Malia pulled off half a cookie and then held that half out for Jesse. 
Jesse took it from her. "Thanks. Who're you expecting to come?" he asked Chase. 
Alec let themself into the Morpheus cabin and wandered over to where the three were standing in the kitchen, looking around as they go. "Hey gang! Are there new sheets up in here? It looks swanky. Do those have weed in them?" 
Jack doubted his decision up until the moment he knocked on the door, but he was determined to push himself. "Let yourself blow, Jack," he whispered. After waiting half a minute and hearing voices from the inside, Jack decided to let himself in. "Is this..." The room was much emptier than he expected. "Oh my actual gods," he muttered. "Why am I always so fucking early."
Malia brightened at the sight of Alec and waved her quarter of the weed cookie at them. "Hey! Yes they do." She walked over to Alec to give them a quick cheek kiss and noticed Jack in her peripheral vision. "Hey! You came!" She walked over to him. "I gotta say I wasn't sure if you'd come." 
"Uh, yeah," Jack smiled. "Me neither, TBFH," he chuckled. "It smells like the inside of Martha Stewart's purse in here."
"Oh yeah, Chase made weed cookies." She held out her quarter for him. "Take this, I'll go get another piece for me." 
Chase shrugged. “Um, it was more of a general invite? Alec said they were co–“ As if summoned, they were there. “Hey!” Chase turned his attention to them. “Sure do! But don’t have any eggs, dairy, or nuts.” He turned to Jesse again. “Uh, I dunno who else. Blue, maybe?” 
"Uh," Jack took the quarter cookie in his hand, eyes wide. He hadn't been high before and had no idea this is how the night was going to go. But at the same time, the cooke did smell great... 
Malia noticed his hesitation. "You okay?" she asked. "Oh my gods, did I just peer pressure you? I totally did, didn't I? I'm sorry, you don't have to eat this." 
Jack laughed. "No, I mean, that's fine. I've just never... Done this before? I've always been curious but, like... Just have not." 
Alec beamed at Malia, then bounded over to Chase and Jesse. They scooped up a cookie and broke it in half. "Oh holy mackerel, awesome! You're the fucking best." As they happily chewed away at it, they started petting the cat in Chase's arms. "Can I hold him?" 
"Oh, okay." Jesse closed his eyes for a half second and exhaled when Alec came over, and then put on what he hoped was a polite smile.
"Ah." Malia tapped her lips. "Okay, eat like, half of that and check in with me in like, 20 minutes. We'll just pace you." 
"Okay," Jack brought the cookie up to take a bite. His first was cautious and amounted to nothing more than a nibble. Swallowing the crumb down, Jack thought to himself, It's already quartered, it's probably not that much, and ate the rest of the piece in one bite. "Ugh. Butter makes everything taste so good." 
Chase opened his mouth when Alec took the cookie and then closed it when they only took half. He smiled and held the cat out to drop into Alec’s arms. “I’m gonna go make a sign for the cookies. Can y’all stay here and make sure people don’t take more than half?” 
Casey pushed the Morpheus cabin door ajar and poked his head inside. "Knock, knock! It's your friendly neighborhood drug peddler—I mean girl scout!" Casey held his arm through the door, showing off two boxes of Girl Scout cookies in a little plastic bag.
Alec gave Chase two thumbs up and hopped up to sit on the counter beside the tray of cookies. "You got it! I'll guard them with my life." They hugged Killer # 2 close to their chest. "If anyone tries to take more I'll sic Killer here on them." Jesse looked between Chase and Alec, then rubbed his temple and nodded. 
Malia blinked as he watched the whole quarter go into Jack's mouth. "Or, you can do that, too." She laughed and sipped her hot chocolate, finding it finally warm enough to drink. "It'll be fun! Here, uh, I dunno if you know everyone here?" She walked back into the kitchen. "That's Chase," she said, kissing their cheek as she walked past. "And that's Alec, and that's Jesse." 
Alec waves at Casey from the kitchen with the arm they aren't using to hold Killer. 
Jack rubbed his hands together to get off the crumbs. "I don't know anyone," Jack half-laughed. He waved along as Malia pointed people out, being careful not to make contact. "Uh, hey. I'm Jack. Thanks for inviting me." 
"Oh my gods, kitty!" Casey launched into the room, setting the girl scout cookies on some surface along the way. "Hi kitty," he sang. "You're such a beautiful little mammal!" Casey smiled up at Alec. "And you're a beautiful mammal too, of course." 
Chase smiled at Malia and waved at Jack, then waved at Casey. “Hey Case!” He smiled at Jack. “Ah, Chase.” He shoved a thumb into his chest. “Make yourself at home. It’s real cosy here.” 
Jesse has only ever had one interaction with Jack before, and he isn't too keen to remember it. Still, he smiles at him– this is a better place to meet than on a frozen lake. "Uh, hi. I'm Jesse." He rubbed the back of his neck. "But Mal just said that, sorry." 
Alec held Killer out to Casey so he can pet him, and then they reach out a hand to pat the top of Casey's head too. "Aw! We should make a club. Founding three members right here. There's vegan weed cookies!" They wave at Jack as well. "Hi Jack!" 
Malia moved back into the kitchen to pick up another quarter of a cookie. She popped it into her mouth and kissed Jesse's cheek, too. She wanted to tell Jack that she also invited her brother, but wasn't sure how either person would take the news at the moment, so she refrained. "Should we put on some music?" 
Jack waved and smiled at all the greetings, not sure if he was supposed to respond or if everybody else had just convened before Jack arrived and agreed to be nice to the weird guy. "Uh, yeah. Let's put some music on please." 
Chase sprinted upstairs to grab a pen and paper and wrote “STRONG: TAKE HALF” on it so that people would get the message. He took a moment to rummage around his room and then ran back downstairs so that he could put the sign next to the cookies and hold allergy medication out to Alec. “Thought you might need this.” He leaned against the counter and looked around. He raised his eyebrows and pulled out his phone. “Does anyone have any requests?” He put on Toxic by Brittany Spears. 
"Oh my god," Casey crooned as he stroked the cat. "Cute mammals and vegan weed cookies," he repeated under his breath. His active listening turned off at first contact with the cat and the verbal response was just his way of saving the memory in case it came up again later. 
Jack narrowed his eyes at Chase when Toxic came on. He whispered to Malia, "Is Chase... Gay?" 
"Ooh, yes, put on—" But the music started playing before she could finish her sentence. Malia laughed, slapping a hand over her mouth. "What would make you think that?" she replied quietly, giggling again. 
"Two of the best parts of life," Alec replied cheerfully, breaking off a small piece of one of the cookies and popping it into their mouth. They almost spit it out in their excitement when Toxic comes on and they immediately hop off the counter. "Chase, I would die for you!" 
"Um, do you not hear and see what is happening in front of you?" Jack gestured vaguely in Chase's direction. "I mean, like, it's great. But..." Jack laughed. 
Jesse exhaled a laugh at Chase and leaned back against the counter, crossing his arms over the pastel pyjama shirt he's borrowing from his brother.
Malia laughed again. "Oh don't worry, I see it. Jack, I think me and Jesse are the only straight people at this party right now." 
Chase laughed at Alec and blew them a kiss before looking at Malia. “I can queue up a song that you want!” 
Jack looked around the room, brows furrowed. "Um... Since when?" If what Mal was saying was true, then Jack had to fight the urge not to kick himself for coming out to these events sooner. 
Alec picked up one of Killer's paws in each hands and made him dance along to the song with them.
Casey pulled a pen from his pocket and took a deep hit, watching Alec dance with Killer. "So debonair!"
Alec cracked up and let Killer jump down once he started to struggle. They sneezed three times in quick succession and picked up the allergy medication Chase had given to them a minute earlier. "That's what they call me!" @spexile
Malia laughed. "I mean... since always? But since we've all been aware? A few years." @spexile
"Oh my gods, are you allergic to the kitty?" Casey sat down to let the cat brush by him as he walked away. 
Jack widened his eyes and laughed. "Ugh. Of course. So are there, like, no straight boys at this camp at all because..." Jack's sentence trailed off as he remembered who he was talking to. 
"Nope!" Alec replied as they took one of the  pills. "I'm allergic to all kitties! And everything else with fur. Do horses have fur, or is it hair? Maybe I'm not allergic to horses. I haven't really tested it out, I think they're some creepy." 
Malia raised an eyebrow questioningly. "What do you mean?"
Chase took half of a cookie and nudged Jesse. “What’s up? You look like you’re leaving your body.”
"Huh?" Jesse blinked a few times and turned to Chase, breaking into a smile. "Sorry, zoning out. Everyone looks really nice, yeah? Especially for a pajama party." He ran a hand through his hair, watching Malia as he said this. @caitlin
"Oh my gods," Casey gasped, pushing Killer away. "That's so tragic, I'm so sorry for your loss. I mean, I don't have any cats or pets or anything, but I love being a pet uncle." 
Chase smiled and leaned against the counter. “Yeah, not everyone just wears sweatpants to bed.” He looked at Malia as well. “I really like her robe.” 
"Nothing!" Jack quickly covered up. His eyes scanned the room, looking for something to change topics to, but he came up short. "So, pajamas..." 
"It's horrible," Alec sighed dramatically, their expression giving away how much they were exaggerating their distress. By the time Killer was out of sight, a grin had spread back across their face and they waved their hand. "I used to work in a pet store, I can handle a couple cats." 
Malia gave him a knowing smirk. "Were you going to say something about my brother?" 
"What? Why!" Casey laughed. "That's so masochistic of you but also feels so correct for your vibe and I love that for you." 
"Um, what?" Jack turned red, unable to help the smile forming on his face. "I have no idea what you're talking about, shut up." 
Chase sings along to Womanizer under his breath.
Chase also looked around. “Uh, if we don’t all want to stand, we can move to the couches?” 
"Working around animals all the time's a dream come true, eh? But they fired me after four days." Alec laughed. "'Cause I was allergic to everything in the store except the fish." They turned to Chase. "I love couches, let's go!" 
"Okay, I'm pretty sure you'd be super obvious to anyone, but I literally have a superpower about this stuff so don't play dumb."
"Oh my gods, you're incredible," Casey laughed, getting up to join everyone on the couches. "I want the side seat!" 
"Ugh." Jack flushed. "Wait, what do you mean you have a superpower?" 
Chase grabbed the tray of cookies to take with him so that the cats wouldn’t be able to get at them while he wasn’t looking. “Case, I put up the shamrock stained glass.” He smiled and pointed it out to him as they sat down. 
Malia shrugged and finished her hot chocolate. "I have a superpower. I like, know who everyone likes, who everyone is fucking. All that good stuff. I used to think I was just really observant? But I'm pretty sure it's because of my mom. Oh my gods, but my brothers don't have it, before you like explode with embarrassment. Parker is so clueless and if Kieran did have the same thing I'm pretty sure he wouldn't care enough to do anything about it." 
Casey gasped. "Oh my gods!" He went up to the glass to admire the details. "Oh my gods, wait, Chase, now that I'm not drunk, this is actually so good!" 
Jesse waited for Chase to leave the kitchen before he followed. He paused to smile and shake his head at the twister mat in the middle of the room before taking a seat on one of the couches.  
Alec veered away from the couches to go over to the glass as well. "Aw, shit, it is really good!" They looked over their shoulder to smile at Chase. "You have a new calling!" 
"Wait, so, like... Can you tell if someone, like..." Jack didn't know how to phrase the question without sounding pathetic. "What do you think you sense with me and your brother, then?" 
Chase set down the cookies and then turned to lean over the back of the couch to look at where his art was hanging near the window. “Aw, guys, you’ll make me blush!” He nodded sagely. “Drunk art is a talent of mine.” 
L knocked at the door and smiled at Blue and Parker. “This was a good idea for a party!” Parker shrugged. 
Malia hummed and turned toward the sink to start washing her mug. She had a huge grin on her face. "Well, I don't think you need a superpower to tell?" She glanced at Jack. "Let's just say there's a reason I left you two alone on St. Patrick's day."
Jesse got back up from the couch to get the door when the knock came. He opened the door and looked at Parker, then Blue, then L. "Oh, hey. Come in." 
Blue nodded, taking L's hand in hers. She slapped Parker lightly on the back. "It is! I don't know why Parker is being so grumpy about it." When Jesse opened the door, she grinned at him. "Sup." She pushed Parker in ahead of her and followed after him. 
L stepped in and gave Jesse a hug in greeting. “Hi! I hope we’re not too late!” She pulled away and took Blue’s hand again. Parker sighed and stepped in. “I’m not grumpy, I just don’t see the point in buying clothes specifically to sleep in.” He smiled awkwardly and looked at Jesse. “Um, hi.” 
Jesse nodded at Blue and gave L a one-armed hug back before stepping away to give them room to enter. "No, no, not at all." He rubbed the back of his neck and smiled back at Parker. "Hey," he repeated. "What's up?" 
Jack's sheepish grin fell off very quickly as Parker, L, and Blue all walked into the cabin. Breathing deeply, Jack pressed his lips together. After the jacuzzis he had mentally prepared himself for a moment like this, but now in person, his heart and brain still felt like they were operating miles apart. 
Blue wandered into the living room and, of course, Jack was there. She immediately Did Not look at him and instead put her focus on Casey. She rushed over to him. "Fuck yes, we look so good!" 
"Oh my god, trash babies!" Casey squealed and ran over to celebrate with Blue. "What is this recurring mammal theme tonight?" He turned to Alec and called out, "Watch out, we've got some allergens coming through!" 
L followed after Blue and waved goodbye to Jesse. “Oh, Alec, do you need any antihistamines? I don’t have any on me but it’s probably not a far run to my cabin.” She teased. 
His reaction was not quite what she expected, but looking at what he was staring at told her why. She took a deep breath and dried off her hands quickly. "Want me to go get Parker?"
Alec moved to sit on the back of the couch and pretended they were trying to lean even further away from Casey and Blue. "No! Keep them away! Also you guys are cute as all hell, aw." They shook their head at L. "I'm good, I'm good! Chase got me some already." 
Parker shoved his hands into his pockets and shrugged. “Um, nothing. Cool idea for a party.” He hoped Jesse hadn’t heard him bitching about it to Blue a moment ago. 
"Oh, yeah, it was Chase's." Jesse cleared his throat and glanced back at the couches. "Yeah."
"Um, no, I mean, he can live his life. it's cool." Jack tried to sound casual but wasn't convinced that he did. 
Blue gasped, clutching Casey as if in need of support to stand. "You're allergic, to mammals?" 
“Oh.” Parker frowned but didn’t know how to retract his statement without sounding like a hypocrite. “Um, Mal said she was here?” 
Jesse relaxed. "Yeah, yeah, just over there. Talking to Jack." 
"I know, right?" Casey confirmed. "It pains my heart and I'm not even involved." Casey shook his head piteously toward Alec.
"I am," Alec responded mournfully. "Like, all of them. Wait." They scrunched their eyebrows together. "Not humans. Humans are mammals? Yes." 
Parker felt the blood drain from his face. He looked over at Jack and made sure that was far away from where Blue was. “Um, did your brother choose the guest list?” 
"I guess?" Jesse shrugged– he's not sure what Parker's really asking, and he has no desire to find out. "I think it was open invite, kind of." 
Malia watched Jack carefully, then checked the time on her phone. "Well, okay, that edible is probably going to hit you in a hot sec. We can just chill in here for now?"
L nodded. “Humans are mammals because we make milk! I’m pretty sure you’re just allergic to, like, fur an dander though. But, actually, going back to the milk thing...” she squinted. “I guess you are... allergic to all mammals.” 
"That was a gross sentence!" Alec said to L, brightly.Casey fiddled with the ears of his onesie. "Dude... That's so rough," he laughed. 
Blue laughed and kissed her girlfriend's head. "You're so fucking cute." She turned back to Casey. "So, I was told there was weed? Where's that?" Jack nodded. "Uh yeah. I mean," Jack looked for a place to sit on the floor. "How do I know when it happens?"
“Ugh, okay.” He frowned again and looked at the two groups of people, and then made his way over to Jack and Malia when he made his decision. “Hey. Hi.” He smiled at them a bit. 
"Oh, you'll know." She looked to Parker when he walked over and smiled. "You came! Hi." 
L laughed. “I know! I regretted it as it was coming out of my mouth!” She smiled at Blue and tugged at one of her raccoon ears. “Says you in this.” 
Jack smiled at Parker as he walked over. "Hey!" Jack noticed that the question he had just posed Malia was echoing now in his brain. How do I know when it happens? 
Parker took a seat near Jack. “Hey,” he repeated and shrugged at Malia. “Yeah, Blue invited me.” 
"That's cool," Jack mentioned a little too quickly. "Mal invited me." Jack felt a tingle slowly rise up his spine and a smile started forming on his face. "Yeah," he chuckled. 
"And so did I! Jerk." She crouched down so she could look at the both of them more easily, smiling despite the weirdness between her and her brother right now. She watched Jack's smile slowly travel across his face and then looked back to Parker. "I was just telling Jack that he might start to feel this edible soon. He took a quarter of one so it should be fine, though." 
"Ah, c'est la vie," Alec responded to Casey (on time) and stroked an imaginary beard to give the impression of wisdom. "You can quote me on that." 
Blue giggled and pressed her mouth to L's neck briefly. She came back upright and slung her arm across her girlfriend's shoulders. "Very wise," she said to Alec. "I don't think I've ever heard anyone say that before." 
Casey scampered away from Blue and L to give them space, taking a seat beside Alec on the couch instead. "Is this distance okay? You'll let me know if you get allergic to me?" 
“Oh. Yeah.” Parker flushed. He’d mentioned Blue inviting him to get at Malia and hadn’t even thought of Jack in the moment. He frowned at her. “You gave him an edible?” He tried not to sound too judgemental. 
"Thanks! I should put it on a t-shirt." Alec grinned at Blue. They slung an arm around Casey's shoulder and leaned against him. "I'll let you know by sneezing on you, does that work?" 
Jack shrugged. "I took it, she didn't peer pressure me." With each wave of static rising up his back, Jack felt his smile grow wider and wider. "This is... Great." He laughed. 
Malia sighed. "I gave him a quarter of an edible, and told him to eat half of that to take it slow. Jack," she smiled at him, more teasing this time, "decided to eat the whole thing. But I promise, it's fine. You look very chill, Jack." 
"Yes, that's wonderful, right into my hand." Casey cupped a hand under Alec's chin, pinching their nose twice in the process. 
"Ugh, shut up, I literally look the same." Jack grinned goofily. 
L blushed and nodded at Alec, though she hadn’t really been paying attention to what they were saying. She took a seat on the couch. “Were you asking about something, babe?” 
Parker squinted and then hummed in acknowledgement at Malia and then looked back at Jack, and then at the floor. “You do. I’m actually surprised you’re not wearing a power ranger’s suit, since it’s a pajama party.” 
Alec scrunched their nose up after Casey pinched it and shook their head like a wet dog. "Gross!" they laughed. "Is there enough like, DNA in that to clone me if I do? I feel like I talk about cloning a lot. Maybe I just talk about everything a lot." 
"Um, you told me that we were never gonna talk about that again." Jack pointed at the ground in front of Parker. 
Malia tucked her hair behind her ear and stood. "I'm gonna go say hi to everyone else. I like, barely spoke to Alec since they got here." She winked at Jack and then lightly squeezed Parker's shoulder, even though he wasn't looking at her. She walked away from them and wandered over to Jesse, grabbing his hand as she moved to his side. "Hey."
"Yes you do, but so do I." Casey leaned into Alec's embrace and kicked his feet up onto the couch. He pulled his pen out of his pocket and took another hit before holding it out to Alec. "Do you want some of this? It's CBD." 
Jesse had been caught between heading back to the kitchen or sitting by Chase on the couch, so he relaxed when Malia approached and gave him something to do besides examining the shamrock stained glass. "Hey," he replied, squeezing her hand with a smile and turning to face her fully. 
Parker laughed and ducked his head. He looked back at Malia, smiling a bit as she walked over to Jesse, then shook his head at Jack. “No, no. I promise, my lips are sealed. It was just too perfect to not bring up right now.” 
Blue dropped onto the couch and pulled L a little closer to her. "Oh, I was gonna ask about the edibles, but I think they're in the kitchen and uh, someone is in there." She looked around, frowning when she didn't see Parker. "I don't want to make it weird so I'll just— Oh! Casey," she rolled her head over so she was looking at him, now. "Can I have some too? Pleaaaaase?" 
"Okay, but actually," Jack leaned it. "If I got like, not a morphsuit, but a headless one? Like a turtleneck with gloves? Would that be weird? Because I feel like it could be like, a thing?" Jack cackled. "Oh my gods. Wow. No sorry, I heard it as I was saying it." 
Alec was beginning to feel the edible kick in. "Yell heah," they sighed happily and took the pen, settling against Casey more. "You are an angel and also so comfortable I never want to move again. But hat could also be the, uh," they waved a hand around. "–decor? Yeah, the decor speaking. It's so cozy in here!" Alec passed the pen to Blue. 
Chase blinked out of his momentary suspended animation and looked at the people around him on the couch. “Oh, uh, Blue, the edibles are here.” He smiled and pointed at the coffee table. “Didn’t want the cats to be able to get at them.” He blinked again. “Also, hi!”
Malia could feel the edible hitting her slowly, and she smiled up at Jesse easily. "I," she said a little smugly, "stopped a potential disaster. Jack is safe and stoned in the kitchen." 
L nodded approvingly at Chase not wanting the cats to consume drugs. She backtracked when she thought of who she might have seen in the kitchen. “Ah, good idea.” 
"Yeah, Blue, just take it," Casey waved a hand nonchalantly. "Um, don't take my comfiness away and credit it to inanimate objects! I'd like full recognition for everything you're feeling right now, thank you." Casey pulled his feet onto Alec's lap and nuzzled his raccoon hooded head into Alec's neck. "If they're gonna be cute on that side of the couch, then so are we!" 
Parker tilted his head to the side, a smile spreading across his face. “No, no, please let me hear about this thing.” 
"Oh shit, I'm blind," she said, laughing. "Okay wait, I don't want your pen." She grabbed a half of a cookie and started to eat, then snuggled back into L's side. "It is a good idea. I have a lot of them, surprisingly."
Jesse didn't bother glancing at the kitchen to check, too busy smiling at Malia. He rested his free hand on the side of her arm. "I guess that makes you the resident peacekeeper." 
Chase picked up the nearest cat since everyone seemed to be pairing off. He looked at Casey and then at Blue. “Are you guys matching on purpose, or was this a coincidence?” 
"Ugh!" Jack cackled again. He wasn't sure if he could feel his face turning red or if that was just the high. "I was thinking like it'll be like a turtleneck but with the morphsuit hands. And I could just wear it under what I normally wear and it would just look like gloves, but then I could like, poke your face or hold your hand or something stupid like that, blah, blah. Ugh," Jack pulled his face down with his hands, half laughing, half whining. "What am I right now?" 
Alec wrapped both of their arms around Casey fully now. "I take it back! You can have 110% of the credit." They rubbed their cheek against the top of his head. "You're saying we're not always cute? I'm betrayed!" 
L moved so she could put her arm around Blue. “That’s not surprising! You had the idea about the solar panels!” 
"Literally just a coincidence, I don't even know this woman," Casey called out to Chase, scowling at Blue. "And nooo, we are! Sh, shh." Casey gave Alec a reassuring stroke on the back of their head. 
"Oh shit, you're right!" Blue laughed as she swallowed the rest of the edible. At Chase's question, she leaned over and flicked Casey's head. "Don't lie because I look better than you!" 
Malia flicked her hair over her shoulder. "Oh, me? What an honor! Glad to be of service." She leaned a little closer to him as she laughed, lifting her hand to pull at his shirt. She thought better of it at the last second and lowered it again. "Everyone is on the couch, should we like, actually use the blanket fort?" 
Parker felt his chest swell and pressed his face into the cupboard next to him to try to cool his cheeks down at least slightly. He pressed his palm into his mouth to keep from smiling too much and to keep down a small, strangled sound at how cute Jack was. He covered it up as a cough and nodded at Jack, face still against the cupboard. “Wanna hear something lame?” 
Alec flopped backwards when Blue leaned over so they were half twisted and lying over the arm of the couch now, still somewhat entangled with Casey. "I hate it when you fight!" they said with a laugh to the two of them. "Not in front of the children!"
Jack sighed, smiling at Parker. "Please. Let me be the not lame one for like, two seconds," he laughed.
Chase laughed and put his hands up. “Woah, woah, calm down everyone, didn’t mean to start anything. This is actually a zero violence household, so I’m gonna have to ask y’all to cool it, you both look great in your fursuits.” 
"Aye!" Casey flinched in exaggerated offense when Blue flicked him. "Don't you flick me!" Casey swatted Blue away, his other hand grabbing Alec's shoulder to keep himself steady. "I'm the good parent!" Casey protested to Alec and Chase. "She literally started it." 
L pressed her hands to her cheeks and fake-sobbed. 
Parker spoke quickly so he couldn’t stop himself. “I brought plastic gloves with me from work so that maybe we could hold hands on Saint Patrick’s day, but I didn’t know how to bring it up.” He leaned back on his hands. 
"Sure." Before letting go of Malia's hand so they could move, Jesse ducked his head to lean closer to her so he could still be heard. "You really look amazing tonight." 
Jack closed his eyes. His body was frozen still, but a huge smile grew on his face. "Wait... Are you... Being serious?" 
Alec pretended to wipe tears away. "This is the way the world ends, this is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but with raccoon fisticuffs on a chesterfield." 
“Ugh.” The cabinet wasn’t even cool anymore. Parker sighed. “Yeah.” 
“Yeah, and I’m finishing it.” Chase did his best to sound serious and not to laugh, but utterly failed when Alec spoke. “Not with a bang, but with the most Canadian sentence I’ve ever heard in my life.” 
"Yo, I have no fuckin clue what you just said, but yes." Blue turned a exaggeratedly mean face to Casey. "You're going down, Casey." 
Casey threw his head back laughing at Alec's lament and wrapped his arms around Alec's shoulders again. "Raccoons are very vicious, I can't help it. We fight to the death, we eat trash, and we loan out money for desert island real estate." Casey stuck a tongue out at Blue. "Try me, Nook." 
"Do not insult me like that! Nook? The evil capitalist scum? You're really dead for that." She disentangled from L just to get close enough to flick Casey between the eyes, then moved back to her spot. "Try me again." 
Jack felt like simultaneously melting and fizzing up like a bottle rocket. "You don't like..." He drew a circle on the floor between them with his finger. "Have them right now... Do you?" 
Malia's face uncharacteristically flushed, and she turned her head a bit into his so the rest of the room wouldn't see. "So do you, and I mean it. You look sexy in stripes." 
Casey gasped and sat frozen, mouth agape. "You just—Chase!" Casey turned his head toward Chase and yelled out. "Blue is bullying me again!" 
"You brought that on yourself!" Blue shouted back, trying to hold in a laugh and keep up the bit. 
Parker had never regretted not taking plastic gloves with him to a party more. In all honesty, he considered it, coming to the Morpheus cabin. He pulled his face from the cupboard and buried it in his hands. “No. I didn’t know you’d be here.”
Alec lifted their head more to look at L past the ruckus on the couch. "Did you know koalas have smooth brains?" 
Chase tutted and wagged a finger at Blue. “Hey, hey. What did I just say? Raccoon or not, you gotta keep your paws off each other.” 
L tilted her head at Alec. “What does that mean?” 
Jesse touched her cheek , then remembered where they were and dropped his hand. His ears were warm, and the flush was quickly spreading to his cheeks. "Should we sit down?" 
"Their brains are smooth," Alec repeated to clarify. 
“What does that mean!” L laughed.
Jack pressed his hands into his face then laughed and shook them away. "That's okay! I'm like—I feel so good right now and I'm just really happy that you're here." Jack scooted closer and touched his index finger to Parker's knee. 
Casey stuck out his tongue at Blue again, but he was smiling. He gave Alec's shoulder a squeeze before standing up and walking over to Chase. "Hey! Are we gonna play Twister?" 
Malia glanced around the room. "I think I actually left something upstairs," she said quietly, brushing her hand lightly over his chest. "I should go get it now before a game starts or something."
Parker smiled so hard that his cheeks hurt. He touched Jack’s knee, careful not to make contact with his skin. “Me too.”
Alec held their hands out until Casey was fully out of reach, at which point they wrapped their arms around themself instead and turned their attention back to L. "You know how our brains are wrinkly, like coral? Koalas don't have wrinkles, their brains are right smooth! That's why they're bad at crosswords."
Chase tilted his head and then perked up a bit. “We should!” He stood and looked around. “Does everyone wanna play Twister?” He addressed the party. 
Jesse didn't get the chance to agree before Chase spoke. He closed his eyes for a moment, then laughed and rubbed the back of his neck again. "Spoke too soon, I guess."
Jack savored the moment for only a second before hearing Chase's announcement. He dropped his head and laughed. "Ugh. Of course it's Twister." He smirked up at Parker. "That's like, a total disaster if I play, right?" 
Malia's eyes closed in frustration. "Okay, well, maybe we can go get it later?" she asked him quietly. 
L tilted her head, blinked, and then laughed. “Are you serious? About the smoothness, not about the crosswords.” 
"Twister!" Casey yelled in repetition, throwing his arms up in the air. 
"Fuck yes, Twister!" Blue clapped. 
Jesse tucked a piece of hair behind Malia's ear and gave her a half-smile. "Of course." 
Parker exhaled a laugh and shrugged. “I bet you could do really well, actually.” He shook his head. “Ugh, nevermind, I didn’t say that.” 
Chase picked up the spinner and put it on the floor. “Okay, so, either if someone doesn’t want to play or if someone’s closest, they can spin the wheel for everyone else?” 
"Deadly serious!" Alec exclaimed. Without sitting up they slowly slid off the couch, head first, so they could lie on the ground by the twister mat. "Sounds good, Chase!" 
Jack laughed and rose to his feet. He pulled the sleeves of his sweaters down past his fingers and held his covered hands out to help Parker up. 
It was physically painful to rejoin the party and sit at the Twister mat, but Malia managed, somehow. She pulled Jesse along with her so they were sitting beside each other. 
Casey bounded across the floor to sit beside the mat. "Has anyone ever played this in underwear covered in oil?" He asked nobody in particular. 
"Only you, weirdo," Blue said as she moved, pulling L along with her. "But that does sound fun." 
"I've played it in a swimsuit covered in oil, does that count?" Alec asked, sitting up so there was more room. 
“That’s very Greek.” L nodded as she followed after Blue. 
"Um, I've never done it," Casey clarified. "I just think it sounds fun! Did you have a good time?" he asked Alec. 
Jesse followed Malia easily and nodded his head towards the blanket fort before he sat. "Want a pillow?"
Parker took Jack’s hands through his sleeves despite not needing any help up. He stood there for a moment, the  dropped his hands, heart pounding in his chest. “Um, were you gonna be spinner?” 
"It was crazy hard, but fun!" Alec moved to sit up on their knees. "We did it on the beach with way too much spray on sunscreen. Slip-sliding everywhere." 
"Uh, I guess." Jack's heart sank a little bit. A naive part of him was hoping he'd be able to play, but he wasn't sure how. "Do you think—" Jack turned to Parker. "If they have gloves, maybe I could play? I could just, like... Wear a scarf and gloves?" 
"Oh," Malia didn't want to be not at his side for ever a few seconds. But, her ass would start to hurt, sitting here, so she nodded. "Sure, yes, thank you." 
Parker blinked and then nodded quickly. “Uh, yeah, I don’t see why not!” He looked around. “Do you want me to ask?” 
"Oh my gods, sunscreen, that's genius!" Casey clapped his hands in recognition. "I bet tanning oil would work too. Except for the radiation but whatever, beauty is pain, right?" 
"Yeah, please. I like, just officially met half the people here and I'm afraid I won't remember their names," Jack laughed. 
Chase crouched to pick a cat off the mat again. “Should I change?” He asked Malia and Jesse, since they seemed least likely to make fun of him and most likely to tell him the truth. 
"Well," Malia looked over to Chase. "I love the shorts, but if you're in a compromising position it might be... a bit of a show, for us?" She giggled. "Up to you." 
Jesse disappeared into the blanket fort and came back out with a pillow in time to hear Chase's question. He glanced between Chase's shorts and the twister mat. "Maybe, yeah, you might want to." He held out the pillow for Malia, then sat down next to her.  
Parker smiled and reached out to touch Jack’s sleeve again. “Cool, I know...” He looked between Chase and Jesse and frowned. “I can ask Jesse.” He dropped his hand and walked over to Jesse and Malia as Chase left, figuring Jack would follow. 
Chase bobbed his head and scampered up the stairs.
Alec laughed and leaned against Casey again. "But the tanning oil would rub off some places and stay on the other! Your skin would look right fucked up." 
Jack followed Parker. The sensation of walking was very interesting to say the least. Jack found his mind drifting to several different places in the short span of distance between where they were sitting and where Jesse stood. Casey put an arm around Alec. "Okay, good point, good point. So then maybe the beauty is in the fun and laughter you share with your friends and then you just wear long sleeves the next day!" 
Blue was leaning on her hands, her eyes mostly closed and lazily leaning in and out, lightly pecking L's lips every time she was close to their face. She wasn't paying attention to the rest of the room. "What did you learn about koalas?" she asked.
Jesse blinked when Parker came over and looked to Malia, remembering now something about a fight between them. He assumed Parker had come to speak to his sister, so he waited for one of them to speak with hopes that it wouldn't turn into an argument.
Malia accepted the pillow from Jesse and moved so they were practically touching while sitting next to each other. She looked up at her brother from her place on the floor and gave him a little smile. "What's up?" 
“Um.” Parker cleared his throat and looked at Jesse mainly. “Do you have, like, gloves and scarves and stuff?” 
Alec smushed their face into Casey's shoulder. "You're a genius. We could do that in my loft! Except I don't have tanning oil or money to buy it. I have vegetable oil?" 
L was in and out of conversations. She smiled. “They have smooth brains! No wrinkles, and can’t solves puzzles because of it.” She nodded a bit, then looked at Casey and Alec. “If vegetable oil comes from vegetables and olive oil comes from olives, where does baby oil come from?” 
Jesse rested one hand on the ground behind Malia so that even though his arm wasn't around her, there was still a semblance of it. He drew his eyebrows together. "Winter clothes? Uh, yeah, some. Why?"
"Vegetable oil is probably so bad for your pores but maybe, like, olive oil? Is that expensive?" Casey laughed. "Or bubble bath! Oh my gods, this Twister idea is getting steamier and steamier."
Blue laughed at L's joke, resting her head on her shoulder. She glanced around the room finally, not sure how much time had passed since she sat down. She saw Jack standing in the middle of the living room and stared maybe a little too long, then turned her head in the opposite direction, staring at the floor.
Parker shrugged and shoved his hands in his pockets. “Because Jack wants to play Twister?” 
Jack smiled and waved awkwardly at Jesse from past Parker. "I'm a freak, I'm sorry." 
"Oooooooh," Malia turned to look at Jesse. "Do you have rubber gloves? They might have more traction than fabric." 
Alec laughed at L. "Olive oil is so expensive," they lamented to Casey. "But I have bubble bath! Oh! Oh! I have bath oil. Or, Ime did, but they left it behind so it's fair game!"
Jesse fully noticed Jack behind Parker now. "Oh. Right." He realized how that sounded and flushed again. "Yeah, yes, we have rubber gloves in the kitchen. And you said a scarf, too? I can grab that."
L tucked a piece of hair behind Blue’s ear when Jack walked into the room and cuddled up next to her more. “Are we waiting for Chase to get back?” 
"Wow, this is like, the most intimate game of Twister I've ever heard of and I am so in." Casey squeezed Alec's shoulder. "I'll bring the scented candles and red wine."
"Cool," Jack nodded at Jesse. "Good thinking with the rubber," Jack mentioned to Malia. 
Parker nodded and resisted the urge to take Jack’s sleeve again. “Thanks.” He felt weird being the only people in the room standing and took a seat next to Malia. “Hey, what’s up?” 
"I'll get the gloves?" Malia offered to Jesse, then turned to Parker with a smile. She wasn't sure if Chase would want to sit there, but her brother was talking to her so she didn't say anything about it. "I'm great, how are you? Actually, hang on, let me go get the gloves." 
"That'd be great," Jesse replied to Malia. He smiled at Jack but was careful to keep a decent bit of distance between them as he got up and moved past to go get a scarf from the closet behind the door. 
Alec heaved a sigh and pressed the back of their hand to their forehead. "You can't say things like that and not expect me to fall head over heels in love with you!"
Jack glanced around the room while waiting for the scarf and gloves. For a moment, his eyes found Blue and he pressed his lips together in a terse smile before quickly looking elsewhere. 
Malia stood and walked over the mat and into the kitchen. She found the gloves in the cabinet underneath the sink and brought them back to Jack with a smile. "How are you feeling?" 
Parker opened his mouth to speak to Malia and then closed it again. He folded his hands in his lap and pretended not to notice Blue. 
Jack's attention fell back to Malia and he smiled, taking the gloves. "Honestly, so good. Like... Great." He pulled the rubber gloves on with a loud snap. 
Blue didn't know what to make of that facial expression, but she was more focused on Parker sitting next to him, clearly with him. She turned her head back to L. "He just gave me the weirdest smile ever? What the hell?" 
L frowned and tilted her head “Maybe that’s how he smiles?” 
Jesse returned with two scarves, one large and one small. "Uh. I didn't know if you wanted a big one or not." He held them out, carefully. 
Malia nodded, briefly squeezing his hand once the gloves were on. "Great." She returned to her spot at Parker's other side and bumped shoulders with him. "Okay, hi, I'm good. How are you?" 
"Uh," Jack opted for the smaller one. "This is probably good. So it doesn't, like, drag or anything. Thanks." He wrapped the scarf around his neck, tucking the excess into his sweater. He sat down beside Parker, his face wrapped in a hand-knit neck brace. "This is great." 
Parker moved his hand to the space between himself and Jack and looked at the Twister mat. He shrugged at Malia. “Um, I’m fine.” 
Casey let his head rest on Alec's and brought up the hand that was wrapped around Alec's shoulder to cradle their face. "Fall in love with me, baby. That's all I've ever wanted." 
Jesse nodded at Jack and wrapped the end of the other scarf around his wrist absentmindedly. "Should I check if Chase remembers the game?" he asked Malia. 
Malia was debating trying to press for more conversation from her brother when Jesse spoke to her. "Oh, yeah," she frowned. "He's been gone for a while?" 
Jack's gaze fell to Parker's hand. He shifted his weight to sit more comfortably before letting his hand settle beside Parker's, so their pinky fingers stacked. 
"Hmph," Blue sighed, looking ahead and not at Parker again. "Maybe." 
Alec could feel a blush spread across their face despite themself and they grinned at Casey. "I see now! You orchestrated this whole thing to seduce me! Keep going, it's working– flattery is accepted 24/7 in this town. By 'this town' I mean my brain." 
Jesse shrugged one shoulder, but he glanced at the staircase. "He might've fallen asleep. I'll go check." 
Malia's frown deepened. "Fallen asleep?" 
Casey laughed. "Yes, good, then my plan is working beautifully." He let his hand move up to the side of Alec's head, gently scratching his hair. Casey suddenly remembered that he had brought cookies, but couldn't recall where had placed them. He pouted slightly as he wracked his brain for the memory. 
Jesse glanced at Parker and Jack before deciding how much to say. “Yeah. He hasn’t been sleeping well. I’ll be right back.” 
Malia nodded as Jesse walked away. She knew Chase hadn't been sleeping well but it was concerning to realize that he was this tired. She eyed the mat, brow furrowed in thought.
Parker stifled a smile at touching Jack’s hand and moved so the tips of his other fingers touched Jack’s. He tried to make it so that the line of sight between Blue and his hand was blocked and acted Fully Natural. He looked at Malia and tilted his head at her. “Are you okay?” 
L frowned a bit at the mat and extended her legs in front of her. “Have you guys played Twister with paint? It’s awful.” She smiled. 
“I’m high as all hell right now,” Alec sighed happily, feeling as though Casey was slowly pulling their soul from their body through their hair. “L! That sounds like a dream come true.” 
Jesse headed upstairs and knocked on the wall beside Chase’s door, even though the door was ajar. “You okay in there?” 
Jack relished in the sensation of having Parker's hand on his, as strange as the method was. Both physically and mentally, he was buzzing. 
Chase was curled up on his carpet, pajama pants cuddled to his chest when Jesse knocked on the door. He sat up with a start and looked down at himself, shook his head, and sighed. He pulled the pants on and ran over to the door. “Ha, yeah, sorry.” He smiled and started back towards the stairs. 
Casey laughed at Alec's declaration. He didn't have as much of a head high as he figured everyone else did, but the sensation of playing with Alec's hair was really satisfying multiplied with the CBD tingle. "Oh my god, wait, paint twister actually sounds so fun. Or like pigment powder twister, like they do in Holi?" 
Malia looked over and Parker and smiled. "All good." 
Jesse put an arm out to stop Chase before he reached the staircase. He was going to say something about how Chase didn’t have to go back down, or how he could stay with him upstairs if he wanted, but neither seemed quite right. He sighed and patted Chase’s shoulder instead. “Want me to make some coffee to get you through the party?” 
Parker wanted to take Jack’s hand fully, but was somewhere between not brave enough and not stupid enough to do so in front of Blue. He frowned slightly at Malia. “Okay.” 
Blue was trying very hard to ignore Parker sitting next to Jack but was only halfway succeeding. She turned to L and raised an eyebrow. "With paint? That sounds terrible, I kinda love it." 
L bobbed her head at her friends. “It’s super messy, but I think it’d be fun. I’ve never done it, by the way.” She tilted her head at Casey. “Is that a thing? Do people end up inhaling it?” 
“Pigment powder. I love the alliteration. And that sounds amazing! But less slippery than paint? So lower stakes.” Alec looked around at everyone. “All of the hosts have fled the circle. Oh, hey Parker!” They waved at him considering he was the only one they had yet to greet. 
Chase stopped and frowned slightly, then shook his head. “Nah, man, I can make it though a party.” He exhaled a laugh as though this was obvious and started down the stairs. “Were y’all waitin’ for me?” He asked once he was down. “Y’should’ve started!” 
"Oh good points," Casey conceded. "Okay, yeah, paint is probably better. And if the colors are all good, probably more aesthetic too?" Casey followed Alec's focus and waved at Parker and Jack. 
Parker looked somewhat less than pleased to have Alec bringing attention to him and flushed, glad Jack wouldn’t feel how sweaty his hand was. He coughed. “Um, hey.” 
L nodded. “I think I wouldn’t do all the colours on the board! Because then you’d just get brown, right? I’d pick nice pastels or something.” She looked over at Parker when Alec and Casey waved, but thought she probably shouldn’t wave. 
“How’s it going?” Alec asked Parker since it was clear Parker didn’t want a conversation. They laughed at Chase when he returned. “Howdy,” they replied in a poor imitation of his accent. “Yeah, w’all were waitin’!” 
Jesse returned to his seat beside Malia, watching Chase carefully. 
"Yeah, that's a good point. Wow, look at you, Apollo kid over here with the color consciousness," Casey snapped for L with his free hand. 
Malia bumped Jesse's shoulder with her own and waved at Chase. "We were! Ready to start?" 
Blue is pointedly not looking at Parker. "Who's spinning?" she asked the group. 
"Well, we probably can't all play at the same time right? Maybe we could do teams and spin for our teammates," Casey suggested. 
“Um, I’m fine.” Parker’s fingertips started to tingle, but he brushed it off as anxiety. “I hear you’re well? High as a kite, was it?” 
"Ooooh, good idea." Blue nods. "Okay...." she scans the room. "Teams of three?"
"Close enough," Alec replied cheerfully. "I'm glad you pay attention!" They counted the number of people in room, then nodded. "So like, teams of three where one person spins and the other two duel to the death?" 
Chase shook his head and mussed up Alec’s hair as he passed them to take a seat next to Jesse. “Sorry! Killer was bein’ real cute.” He looked around and bobbed his head. “That sounds like a good idea.” 
"Don't even joke about death matches, Alec, because I will make it happen," Casey replied seriously. 
L looked around. “Should the teams be random?” She suddenly felt like that could turn out terribly. “No!” She replied to herself. “I wanna be on Blue’s team!” 
Also she was totally like “omg Casey I AM a color conscious Apollo kid!!!” on time
Blue laughed and pulled L closer. "Okay! And..... Chase, come join us!" 
"In.... in Twister? How would that even work?" Alec glanced around the circle again. Their eyes settled on Jack and Parker's hands for a second and they smiled to themself, but it quickly faded and they drew their eyebrows together and pulled their phone out to text Parker.
arent u allergic to latex???
Chase scooted closer to Blue and waved goodbye to Jesse and Malia. “Godspeed without me, guys.” 
Malia glanced between the two clearly forming couples on either side of her and Jesse. She put her chin on his shoulder. "We might have to split up," she pouted. 
Jesse smiled at her and rested a hand on her back. "Did you want to play? Because I really just want to spin." 
Malia laughed. "I also really just want to spin."
Parker checked his phone and made a weird face at Alec when he saw it was them that texted him. He checked the message and the color drained from his face as he realized his fingertips were not pounding in time with his heart but because they were starting to swell. He pulled his hand away and shoved it in his pocket. “Um, where’s the bathroom?” 
"Seems it's for the best, then." Jesse blinked and looked over at Parker. "Uh, just over there." He pointed to a door under the staircase. 
Feeling Parker's hand pull away, Jack looked down at his own. At took a second longer than it normally would to register the question being posed. "Uh..." Jack turned to Jesse for an answer. 
Parker nodded and rushed to the bathroom so he could run his fingers under cold water. 
Casey, ever eavesdropping, cupped a hand beside his mouth and called across the room to Malia and Jesse. "Give us your boyfriend!" 
Malia sighed. At Casey's suggestion, she closed her eyes and smiled. "I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that!" she said to Casey. She ran a hand down Jesse's back. "Good luck," she said to him before scooting closer to Jack. "Where'd Parker go?" 
Alec laughed at Casey and hopped to their feet. "I'll BRB!" They grabbed the allergy medicine Chase had given them earlier and put it on the ground outside the bathroom. "There's Reactine right outside," they said to Parker through the door ."Don't die!" With that, they hopped back over to Casey. 
Chase looked at Blue and L and kept his voice low. “Who’s spinning? Also, should I use my powers to cheat?” L shook her head. 
"Same to you," Jesse replied, also choosing to pretend not to have heard Casey. He moved over to sit by Casey and Alec. "Are you guys okay if I spin?" 
Blue shook her head. "It's too obvious if you cheat in such a small room." 
Jack nodded his head toward the bathroom. "To the bathroom." He folded his hands in his lap and smiled idly at the Twister mat. "This is great." 
Malia giggled. "Still feeling good? I think you should be plateauing by now. I'm gonna spin, okay?" 
"Yeah! Spin away," Casey chirped, scooting a bit to give Jesse room. As Alec came hopping back, Casey looked up at them. "Everything cool?" 
Parker groaned quietly when he heard Alec outside the door and grabbed the allergy medication on the way out. He took a few and downed them with tap water before returning, hand still in his pocket. He sat between Jack and Malia. “We’re a team? Can I spin?” 
Alec gave two thumbs up, one for Jesse and one for Casey. "Yep!" they replied to both. "We should get the Killers in on this." 
"I just feel so calm. This is what Linda always talks about in my podcast. I just... Ugh." Jack sighed. His hands came up to the scarf to play with the knitting. "Your sister is spinning too," Jack mentioned to Parker as he came back.
Chase sighed and shrugged. “Pretend people are just really high.” L shook her head again. “No way!” 
"Yes we are and absolutely not, I can't play twister in this outfit," Malia said to her brother. She grinned at him. "Sorry, deal with it." 
Blue cackled. "Nah, we'll play fair." She wrapped her arms around L. "Okay but, who is spinning?"
Parker sighed. “Fine.” He smiled as Jack brought up his podcast. “The uterus one?” He pulled out his phone to text Alec quickly.
Pls dont mention it to anyone?
"The Power of U," Jack smiled. "Hosted by Linda Ballerini, expert in hollistic healing and women's health, thank you for joining us today." 
L rubbed her cheek against Blue and smiled. “I can spin if you guys really want to play!” Chase hummed. “I am tall but not bendy. I have trouble touching my toes.” 
Malia's mouth opened a little and she smiled. "Why do you listen to a women's health podcast?" 
Alec winked at Parker, then realized that could be misinterpreted so they texted him back as well.
u got it!! u should also get new gloves for him tho if u guys are playing tweester together??
They laughed at how 'tweester' sounds for a couple seconds then put their phone away. "Are we against each other Casey? 'Teams' is misleading, eh?" 
Parker smiled at Jack more and shook his head at Malia. “It sounds calming!” He checked his messages again and shrugged before putting his phone away. 
"She's just so affirming and understanding and empowering. And her voice is like honey." Jack shrugged. "Helps me relax." 
Jesse was getting more confused by each addition to the rules. "Wait, I thought we were playing as a team? Is it against each other?”
"Oh my gods, are we?" Casey thought about the logistics for a second. "I mean I guess if it's like every person for themself on the board then that makes sense," Casey shrugged. 
"I was thinking like, the two non-spinners face off and whoever wins goes against the winner from another team! But we can also try and cram six people on the mat. That sounds hectic, in a great way." Alec nodded. 
"Six people on the mat could be chaotic but also I love chaos," Casey suggested. "Or we could try to tie teammates back to back and have them play as a conjoined unit!" 
Alec snapped their fingers. “I love that! Let’s do that.” 
Jesse frowned slightly. “Or one from each team at a time?” 
Malia still looked a little confused but nodded. "Okay, okay, fair enough." She overheard Alec and Casey's scheming and leaned over the mat. "Um, friends," she sing-songed. "How about, one from each team, when the first person falls the second person swaps in. Last person standing wins for the team?" 
L smiled. “Hey, that way nobody has to just spin!” She nodded at Blue like this was the perfect solution. 
Casey rolled his eyes. "I mean, Alec and my idea sounds way more fun but sure we can go with the rational thing." Casey leaned towards Alec to whisper, "Okay, so our game is gonna have bath oils, scented candles, and hand cuffs." 
Malia shook her head. "Nope, no, I'm just spinning. Two people per team so it doesn't take too long?" She smiled sheepishly between Chase and Jesse. "Please?" 
Alec grinned at Casey. “I have two of the three! Do you have scented candles?” 
Casey shook his head quickly and put his hands up. "How is scented candles the thing that you don't have?" 
Chase gave Malia a thumbs up. “I love not bending and stretching!”
“That’s a good idea,” Jesse answered quickly to Malia, then nodded and laughed at Chase. 
Alec cocked their head to one side. “Huh, is that surprising? My cabin used to be full of explosives so I steered clear from candles.”
Satisfied, Malia moved back to her side of the mat. "Okay, Parker and or Jack, one of you get out there." 
Casey blinked. "Wow. Amazing. Okay, no, yeah, I have scented candles." 
Blue realized too late that Jack was not the spinner for his team and frowned. "Um," she scooted closer to Chase and spoke very quietly to him. "Hey, do you think this is a good idea?" 
Parker looked from Malia to Jack and tilted his head. “Should I start? Not to brag, but I’m pretty flexible.” 
"I," Jack slapped the floor in front of him, "would love to see that." 
"Ew, Parker," Malia shook her head. "Go for it." She addressed the rest of the room. "Who has the spinner?"
“So now I’m thinking about it and being covered in oil with reduced mobility in a loft that has no railing and surrounded by fire is kinda fucking bananas?” Alec laughed. “Sounds thrilling! I’m glad I’m lucky!” 
Chase chewed on the inside of his cheek, only now noticing Jack’s Lewk™️. “Um...” He looked at Jesse. “Probably not? Should... uh.” He tried to message Jesse through telepathy and looking at him. 
L frisbee’d the spinner over to Malia. 
Jesse glanced over at Chase and raised his eyebrows in question when he noticed his look. “Huh?” 
Parker laughed and stood. Then, when he noticed nobody else was standing, he squatted so he seemed more ~casual~.
"You... Are incredible." Casey was at a total loss for words. "And also your cabin needs a visit from the fire marshall." 
Chase looked at Jack, then at the mat, and then raised his eyebrows at Jesse in question. 
Blue saw that Parker was up first and pressed her lips together. "Whatever," she muttered, and moved to stand on the mat. "Casey," she said to her friend. "Come on. Parker versus the raccoons."
Casey clapped, hearing Blue's challenge. "Yes! Let's go!" He stood up and moved to the edge of the mat. "Three competitors! Two species! One victor!" 
Alec just laughed at Casey and waved a hand. “Go Casey! You got this!”
Jesse frowned slightly and shrugged one shoulder. “I think it’s okay,” he answered Chase. 
Chase bobbed his head. “Alrighty. Spin, Malia. Raccoons should team up and get the human out for now! Then deal with each other.” He smiled. “No alliances!” L protested.
Malia laughed and spun the arrow. "Okay, left hand green."
Parker takes his hand out of his pocket and puts it on the mat, apparently Extremely skillfully.
Chase leaned over and spun the arrow. "Right foot red!"
Blue yawned as she put her hand down, a little off balance.
Casey feeling cocky, turned to face away from the mat, stretched his arms up overhead and leaned back, falling into a backbend with his left hand on green.
Alec whistles at Casey. "Holy shit!" 
Parker put his foot on red.
Blue also whistles at Casey and stretches her foot out to hit a red circle. "Don't get too cocky, Case." she teased.
Casey, grinning cockily, slid his right foot over to land on a red circle. "I will be as cocky as I deserve, thank you."
Jesse spun the wheel now. "Uh, right hand green now."
Parker slid his hand over fairly easily to the green circle.
"Already there, baby!" Casey nudged his right hand over an inch to reach another green circle.
Parker put his hand exactly where Blue was reaching and it knocked her off balance. "Uuuugh," she groaned as she slipped out of place. "You screwed me over, Valentine!" 
Parker blew Blue a kiss and smiled, hoping that this was a joking anger rather than a threatening one.
Casey tried to angle his head up so all the blood wouldn't rush into his brain.
L jumped up and took Blue's place. "I'll knock 'em dead, baby!" She was secretly glad that Blue was out before Parker.
Malia took the spinner back and twirled it around. "Okay... Left foot yellow."
Parker skillfully moves his foot to yellow.
L moves a leg next to Parker's.
Casey steps his left foot yellow, crossing his legs so that he's holding himself up sideways.
Chase took the wheel from Malia and flicked the spinner. "Left hand red!"
Parker moved his hand and leaned on his blisters. He inhaled sharply but managed to save it.
Casey calculated his next move in his head. With a quick switch, Casey managed to flip himself into an upright position on all fours, with his limbs in the appropriate places.
L moved one arm around but simply wasn't tall enough to reach the other colour. "Oof." She fell and sighed. "Sorry guys." She stuck out her lip as she crawled back to Chase and Blue.
"All good!" Chase patted L on the back. "You did better than I could've." He smiled. "It's all about having fun, anyway. Now we can watch them and mix up all the colors on the mat."
Blue booed. "This is rigged!" she protested, then pulled L close to her to kiss her cheek. "You were the cutest one out there." 
Parker is also going After everyone to see which row he's supposed to do because I forgot that he was colorblind ok
L wrapped her arms around Blue and smiled. "Only because you weren't there!" 
Jesse spun the wheel next. "Left foot red, now."
Casey deftly brings his left foot over to a red circle. "We're killing this, baby!"
Parker laughed at Casey. "Are you saying that to yourself?" He slipped as he twisted and hit his back. "Ugh." He rolled. "Jack, get in there." He smiled up at him.
"I'm saying it to my beautiful teammate and supporter over there," Casey nodded his head toward Alec.
Malia smirked at her brother. "Now that you're out you can spin," she teased him. 
Alec cheered as Parker fell. "Whoo! Twister master Casey!"
It took Jack a solid moment to bring himself up to a standing position. "Oh my gods, okay. Ready to watch me fail?" He went over to the side of the mat and tried to visualize how he was going to take Parker's place.
Parker held up his hand to Malia. "I can't. Out on disability." 
"Ugh," Malia swatted his hand away. "Fine, whatever. You ready, Jack?" 
Chase whistled at Casey as well. "I believe in you, Nook!"
"Yep!" Jack called out from the mat. He crouched slowly and carefully placed each limb on a circle. "Oh my gods. Oh my gods. Ohhh my gods." Somehow, he managed to get into the correct position. "Oh my fucking gods, wait, am I doing it?" Casey laughed beside him. "Yeah man, that's it."
Blue took great interest in playing with L's hair now that Jack was on the mat.
Parker pulled his hand away, in fear of it actually hurting, and then grinned at Jack. "Oh, you're a natural!"
"Can you braid my hair?" L asked. 
Malia spun. "Left hand yellow!"
Both Jack and Casey reached for the same yellow circle and for a moment, their bodies wobbled together on the mat. With clutch reflexes, both of them caught their balance, planting their hands on adjacent yellow circles. "Fuck," Jack hissed, chuckling all the while.
Chase bungled the colours up to throw them off, but did it too late
Blue couldn't help but watch as Jack got way too close to her friend's hand. She eyed the shared circle with suspicion then, finally, turned back to L. "Oh yeah, no problem." She ran her fingers through L's hair and started putting it into sections. 
Chase leaned over to flick the spinner, then tossed it in Jesse's direction. "Uh, left foot green, I think it was?"
Casey saw that the easiest green circle was the one caught between them. Trying to move quickly, he launched his foot toward the circle. However, in his haste, he overshot the distance and accidentally kicked Jack's leg out from under him, sending them both toppling to the floor. 
"Ow, fuck," laughed Jack. 
"Sorry! My bad. Here—" As Casey brought himself up to sitting position, he offered a helping hand out to Jack. Jack reached out in response and before his high mind could perceive what was happening, Casey had grabbed onto his exposed wrists and pulled them both up to a standing position. Casey gave Jack a congratulatory pat on the back and turned to Alec, cheering, "Ay! Who's your man!" Behind him, Jack stood open mouthed, frozen.
Alec pointed at Casey and jumped to their feet. "You are! Wow, that was amazing! Did we win?" 
Parker watched the interaction, opened his mouth to say something, and closed his mouth before anything could come out. He tilted his head at Jack and opened his mouth again, but didn't know what exactly he was supposed to say. He pushed himself up and raised his eyebrows at Malia. "Did you see that?" 
"Hell yeah we did!" Casey ran over to Alec with his hands up for a celebratory high five. "Mammal power, baby!" 
Chase smiled at Jesse, seeing nothing wrong with the interaction. "Good job! You won." 
Blue watched them both wipe out with trepidation, and almost stood to interfere when Casey grabbed Jack's arm. But, nothing happened. Blue blinked and sat back.
Malia looked up from readjusting her robe. "What?" 
Jack wasn't sure if he was having trouble processing what just happened or just having trouble processing. He looked back at Parker and Malia and stepped off the mat, his brain struggling to form a continuous thought. "Uh, sorry guys. I guess we lost."
Jesse smiled back. "I guess so. I got lucky with my team." He looked up at Casey. "That was really impressive."
Before Parker could say anything to Malia, Jack was back, so he just shook his head at her. "Nevermind." His heart pounded in his ears. "Oh, well. That doesn't matter, the teams were stacked. Alec, like, never loses games."
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I was beyond Happy when I head my Aunt Kate was here. I quickly bounced out of bed and rushed over towards the guest bedroom down stairs after I'd finished breakfast. Once I saw the door was wide open I squealed in excitement and rushed in, Kate turning around with a huge smile on her face.
She laughs with me and gives me a big hug. I pull away and excitedly jump onto the bed, eagerly wanting to hear what she has been up to lately.
''God I've missed you...'' She trails off as she skims over my pj's.
''And your crazy socks!'' She finishes. I was known by always mis-matching my socks with any outfit I wore, even my pyjamas.
''I can't believe I don't see you for a year and you turn into a freaking runway model? Look at you! Ugh, I hate you'' I shy away and put a hand in front of my face.
''I haven't even showered yet'' It was nice to know that I've grown a bit over the year. The last year had been the... hardest on me. School wise and body wise.
''Sweetie you're a knock out. In fact, I hope you have the boys knocking each others teeth out for your attention'' I giggled and blushed at the compliment.
''I kind of have a lot'' I murmured. She smirked proudly.
''That's my girl, you have a lot? Well you should kinda have a million'' I laughed happily at this.
''Do you need some help unpacking?'' I reached forwards but as soon as I did she gripped my wrist tightly, preventing my movements. It was so tight that it actually hurt.
''No, not that one'' I frowned. She must have saw this because I heard her sigh and slowly release my wrist.
''See? You turn out beautiful and I end up with this Kung Fu death grip'' She jokes, both of us laughing once again.
''Sorry, Sweetie, I didn't mean to be so rough'' I could hear how genuine she was.
''No worries'' I piped up as I hoped of the bed and made my way out of the room as she headed into her en-suite. I frowned to myself as I left, walking back out into the kitchen.
That was beyond strange.
~*~*~*~*
''If Derek Isn't the Alpha, if he's not the one that bit you, then who did?'' Stiles tapped the back of Scott's during History.
''I don't know'' Scott shakes his head in confusion.
''Did the Alpha kill the bus driver?'' Stiles lent forward to whisper to Scott.
''I don't know'' Scott replied again. Stiles pulled back harshly in his chair and sighed to himself. His eyes soon widened.
''Does Allison's dad know about the-'' He was cut off.
''I don't know!'' Scott snapped as soon as he turned around to face Stiles. It was loud enough for the whole class to hear. Once they had lost interest Scott turned back around and lowered his head.
He kept his head down till the graded paper came around. Once his was in front of him he picked it up and read it with a frown, not realising his best friend was reading it over his shoulder.
''Dude, you need to study more'' Scott put the piece of paper down and ignored Stiles.
''That was a joke. Scott, it's one test. You're going to make it up'' Stiles encouraged with a warm smile.
''Do you want help studying?'' He offered.
''No'' Scott sighs.
''I'm studying with Allison after school'' Scott says. Stiles perks up and smirks.
''That's my boy'' He bellows. Scott turns his head slightly.
''We're just studying'' He states.
''Uh-uh. No, you're not'' Stiles shakes his head, frazzled.
''No, I'm not?'' Scott questions back confused.
''Not if I am forced to live vicariously through you. If you go to her house today and squander that colossal opportunity, I-i swear to god I'll have you de-balled-''
''Okay'' Scott soon got the picture.
''Just, stop with the questions, man'' Scott murmurs over his shoulder
''Done. No more questions. No more talk about the Alpha or Derek. Especially Derek, who still scares me''
~*~*~*~*
‘'You know you're kind of an ass to her'' I spoke up to Jackson as he fished out things from his locker. He turned to me and frowned before returning to what he was doing.
''I know'' was all he said. I furrowed my eyebrows.
''So why?'' I asked, I was curious by nature. He sighs and peeks at me from behind his locker.
''It's who I am, come on, you've known me for a week, you really going to try and psychoanalyze me in such a short period of time?'' I huffed and crossed my arms over my chest.
''I am not trying to psychoanalyze you, just trying to get to know you better, see into your dark soul and yada-yada'' With this the both of us share a laugh.
''Come on, lighten up Mr Broody'' I playfully slapped his shoulder and he smiled.
''Why are you defending Lydia anyway? I thought you hated her'' That was a good question. I pondered over the question for a minute.
''She's not all bad I guess'' I answered. He smirked and looked over at me.
''Looks like Miss Perfect does have a heart after all'' I playfully shoved him causing up both to laugh even harder this time. It was nice to have a genuine friend.
''Where's Scott McCall?'' came a deep male voice from behind Jackson. I looked up to see a sickly pale, dark haired guy who looked as if he was very ill. Jackson closed his locker slowly before turning to face the stranger.
''Why should I tell you?'' Now was probably not the time to be a smart-ass Jackson.
''Because I asked you politely'' This guy was beginning to give me the heeby jeebies.
''Jackson?'' I spoke up, gaining both of their attention.
''Where's Scott McCall?'' The guy now turned to ask me, stepping closer. He seemed to say it with such authority that it made me cower slightly. Jackson stood in front of me.
''Hmm, okay, tough guy. How about I help you find him if you tell me what you've been selling him'' Selling? Scott? He didn't seem like the guy to be taking drugs.
''What is it? Is it Dianabol? Hmm? HGH?'' Scott's on steroids?
''Steroids?'' The mystery guy responded.
''No, girl scout cookies'' I rolled my eyes and uncrossed my arms at Jackson's remark.
''I'm leaving'' I put my arms up in mock surrender before turning to walk away. There was no way in hell I wanted to be apart of that conversation with... them any longer. The guy gave me the creeps. And he smelt, awful.
I walked around the corner and spotted Ally and Lydia walking up the stairs. I quickly rushed over to them, as fast as I could in high heeled boots.
''Scott's coming over, tonight?'' I heard Lydia ask Allison in a tone.
''We're just studying together'' She defends.
''Just studying never ends with just studying'' I almost wanted to puke by what she was insinuating.
''Gross, Lydia'' I spoke up, catching both of their attention. She turned to face me and rolled her eyes.
''As if you've never 'studied' with a guy before'' She says with sass, flicking her hair over her shoulder as she walked up the steps. Allison stopped to face me but I quickly glared at her, telling her to keep her mouth shut.
''So, what are you saying?'' Allison asked Lydia, getting her to stop once again.
''I'm just saying, you know, make sure he covers up'' She has got to be kidding me. I rolled my eyes as I walked up along Allison's side.
Poor Allison seem confused. Lydia rolled her eyes once again.
''Hello, Snow White, I'm talking about a condom'' With this her eyes widen. Both Allison and I laugh.
''Are you kidding? After one date?'' I spoke up for my sister. Lydia turns to me and smirks.
''Don't be a total prude like your sister'' I loved how Lydia just assumes stuff.
''Give him a little taste'' Lydia says to Allison.
''Well, I mean, how much is a little taste'' I had wanted to hit my head against the bricked wall.
''Oh, god. You really like him, don't you?'' She asked, slight aww in her tone.
''Well, he's just different'' I kept listening to their conversation as all three of us climbed the remaining steps, turning to walk down the hallway.
''When I first moved I had a plan, no boyfriends till college I just, move to much. But then I met him and... I don't know, I can't explain it'' Allison rambled on causing me to smile.
''I can, it's your brain flooding with phenlythylamine'' I piped up once again, both of them stopping to face me. Allison was confused while Lydia just nodded her head in agreement.
''What?'' Allison laughed confused.
''Don't worry'' I responded.
''I'll tell you what to do, when is he coming over?'' Lydia continued on with the conversation, Allison's attention now back on her.
''Right after school''
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I was happy to hear the home bell ring. I raced out of class and over towards my car which was parked in the middle of the parking bay. I went to unlock my door when I began to hear cars honking. Confused, I turned around to see a pile of cars behind an old blue jeep.
''What the hell?'' I popped the keys back into my jacket pocket and jogged over towards the blue jeep noticing three guys there. The one lying on the ground being the same guy from earlier today.
''Are you okay?'' the other two quickly turned to face me with raised eyebrows. I recognised Scott and Cutie.
''Scott?'' Brown eye's seemed to dim a little before he turned to face Scott who was looking at me with wide eyes.
''U-u-um Avery, it's okay, we've got this'' I shook my head, noticing the guy on the ground was bleeding.
''He's severely injured, we need to take him to the hospital'' I spoke, walking forward to kneel on the ground beside the guy. The guy groans and tenses in pain.
''What are you doing? Stop that!'' Scott yelled at the guy. I glanced over at Scott with a 'what the hell?' look
''That's what I'm trying to tell you, I can't''
''Scott pass me your jumper'' I spoke up, grabbing onto the guys bicep causing him to jerk in pain. I could have sworn I heard him growl but I ignored it.
''What?'' Scott asks confused.
''Your jumper, now!'' I urged. He swiftly pulled it of and passed it to me.
''What are you doing?'' He asks.
''I'm making a tourniquet to reduce the bleeding'' I explained as I began to wrap the jumper up into a make shift rope, tying it around the guys bicep making him groan in pain.
''Derek, get up'' Scott says sternly. Wait, they knew him?
''Help me put him in your car'' Scott asks his friend to help lift him. They both placed him int the passenger seat of the car, closing the door. I walked over towards the car and opened the drivers seat.
''Uhhh, what are you doing?'' Brown eyes spoke up once he saw you climb into his jeep.
''Coming, duh'' I spoke out before piling into the backseat before either boy could argue.
''Why should I help you?'' I listened in now into Scott's and Derek's conversation.
''Because you need me'' Scott is on drugs and this is his meth dealer, great. Allison is dating a total junkie.
''Hey, get him outta here'' Scott says to his friend as he hops into the car.
''I hate you for this, so much'' He turns over the engine and begins to leave the school parking lot. I frown to myself and pull out my phone, debating whether or not to text Ally.
I notice after a few minutes that we weren't travelling in the direction of the hospital.
''You should have taken the turn a few miles back for the hospital'' I spoke up, brown eyes looking at me through the mirror.
''We're not going to the hospital'' he says, then looks like he quickly regrets it. I lean forward in between the two chairs.
''No, we have to go back' I say urgently.
''He'll bleed out and possibly lose his arm! This is serious!'' I spoke again. The boy turns to face me and frowns, shaking his head as he glances over at Derek.
''He won't'' He stiffly replies.
''Like hell he won't, turn around'' I was rarely bossy, but in circumstances like these I was.
''No'' I narrowed my eyes into slits.
''Are you insane? Do you want him to die?'' I ask exasperated.
''He's not going to die...come on!'' He looks at his phone then throws it back down onto his seat.
''Hey, try not to bleed out on my seats, okay?'' I was beyond disgusted at this point. How could Scott be friends with this guy.
''He can't control his bleeding you asshole!'' I yelled. He seemed to ignore me.
''Where almost there'' He speaks.
''Almost where?'' Derek asks, still grunting in pain.
''Your house'' Stiles add.
''What? No, you can't take me there'' Derek sounds like he's becoming worried. I don't blame him.
''I can't take you to your own house?'' I wanted to strangle him. I was about to speak up when I was beaten to it.
''Not when I can't protect myself'' Derek chirps. He quickly swerves his jeep over to the side and and turns the engine off.
''What happens when Scott doesn't find your little magic bullet? hmm?'' Thy can not be seriously talking about making drugs right now. Now Scott was a messenger boy to get drugs or... make drugs?
''Start the car, now'' Derek breathes heavily.
''I don't think you should be barking orders wit the way you look. In fact, I think if I wanted to, I could probably drag your little werewolf ass out into the middle of the road and leave you for dead'' Once again I turned to glare at the boy.
''Start the car, or I'm going to rip her throat out with my teeth'' Just as your mind ha just registered the word werewolf, my eyes widened at this statement.
''You touch her and I'll-''
I feel Derek soon reach for my arm, tugging me forwards aggressively as he pulls my head over the seat. The engine soon starts and my arm is let go, my body jerking back with the car taking off. I try to calm my racing heart as I lean as far back as I can.
''Let me out of this car'' I spoke up in a timid voice. Derek doesn't acknowledge me while brown eyed boy looks at me sadly.
''Let me out of this car right now or I am calling the police!'' I yelled, tears blurring my vision. Derek doesn't flinch whereas the other guy does. He glances down and sadly sighs, shaking his head.
''I can't, not till I get a hold of Scott'' he says it like he felt guilty. I reached for my phone and started dialing 911.
''My dads the sheriff...'' I look up in surprise, my eyes still coated with un-shed tears. It almost started to feel like I couldn't breathe inside this jeep.
''I need you to trust me, ok?'' I stared at him in disbelief. Trust him?
I slowly shook my head, pulling the phone slowly away from my ear. I hung up swiftly and placed the phone onto my lap.
''Thank you'' He rushes out, reaching for his phone as soon as it began to rang.
''What am I supposed to do with him Scott?'' I perked up at the mention of Scott's name. It's silent for a moment before he smells.
''And by the way Avery is totally freaking out here and I have no idea what to do, Derek's smelling like-'' He stops abruptly then doesn't speak for a few seconds.
''Like death'' again, silence.
''What about your boss?'' He asks.
''You're not gonna believe where he's telling me to take you'' He sighs and passes the phone over to Derek.
''Did you find it?'' All this over some petty drugs?
''If you don't find it, then I'm dead, alright?''
''I'm beginning to think that's not such a bad thing'' I murmur underneath my breath but obviously the boy heard me and smiled softly.
''The Alpha called you out against your will. He's do it again. Next time, you either kill with him or you get killed'' My eyes almost felt like they were going to fall out of my head. Alpha? Kill? Be killed? What kind of sick, twisted game was this?
''So if you want to stay alive, find the bullet'' Derek hangs up.
''Wait, this whole time you're talking about an actual bullet? like a gun bullet?'' I only heard the both of them sigh in response.
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''Okay, okay'' The boy beside me tried to wiggle out of Derek's firm grasp. He also had his other hand on me, leading me inside the animal clinic. I groaned and realised that I may have just gotten myself into some shit. I was just trying to be nice.
''Can you get your hands off of me Creep?'' I groaned out, trying to shake him off of me. Even in his wounded state he seemed to be stronger than me.
''Look she has no part of this okay? Just let her go'' The boy pleaded with him once he had let us both go. He soon came over and stood right beside me at the opposite side of the bench of Derek. I couldn't control my hands from shaking with fear.
It wasn't till I felt a small arm on my back where I began to calm down a little.
''She's an Argent, of course she's involved in this'' Derek groaned out, ripping of his shirt. If it wasn't for the fact that this guy was indeed a freaking psycho I may have awwed over his perfectly god like body.
''But she doesn't know, please'' The boy beside me begged. He had certainly changed his attitude since the car. For some reason I felt more safe around him then Derek opposite us, that may have been the only reason why I lent into his side.
I heard a phone soon chirp in the silent, the boy quickly reaching for his phone.
''Does Nordic Blue Monkshood mean anything to you?'' The boy asks, now looking Derek straight in the eye as he continuously groaned in pain.
''Aconit Napel bleu nordique?'' I questioned very confused. Derek looks at me as if I just said the winning answer.
''It's rare form of wolfsbane, he has to bring me the bullet'' Derek says, now resting against the bench.
''Why?'' The boy questioned before I could. He seemed to be just as curious as me.
''Because I'm going to do without it'' Derek says seriously. It felt like a chilling shiver was going through my spine with these words. I'm about to watch someone die. It was also the first time I bothered to glance down at his wound. It was making me sick to my stomach.
''You know, that really doesn't look like anything some echinacea and a good nights sleep couldn't take care of'' If Stiles wasn't so worried he would be very proud of the brunette standing beside him.
''Once the infection reaches my heart, it'll kill me'' Okay this was getting beyond freaky for me. I looked down at the table and rested my hands against it.
''Positivity just isn't in your vocabulary, is it?'' The boy beside me sarcastically remarked. We both watch as Derek walks away from the bench and over towards the medicinals.
''If he doesn't get here with the bullet in time, last resort...'' My eyebrows furrowed at this as I'm sure the boy's one did too.
''Which is?'' He asks, Derek searing through all the cabinets trying to look for something.
''You're going to cut off my arm'' I stared wide eyed at the hand saw in his hands. Was this guy insane?
However, brown eyes picked up the handsaw nonetheless and turned it on, the machine coming to life.
''Oh my god! What if you bleed to death?'' I was too shocked on the actual handsaw itself to even move or so anything.
''It'll heal if it works'' Derek pipes up, wrapping a small piece of cloth around his arm as a tourniquet. I squinted my eyebrows in disgust and quickly looked away, not wanting to see any of this. My mind still pondered over the word 'heal' but yet again, I chose to let it creep to the back of my mind.
'Look, I don't know if I can do this'' Brown eyes backed away a little from the table once my eyes were firmly back on Derek.
''I know, that's why she is'' Derek motioned to me once he finished tying the knot.
''Excuse me?'' I asked incredulously.
''No way'' I argued, finding some courage to utter these words.
''All right, fine. How about this?'' Derek began, not glancing at the both of us but mainly towards the boy.
''Either you cut off my arm, or I'm going to cut her head off'' My eyes widen once again at this threat. I slowly begin to creep away from the bench.
''Okay, you know, I am so not buying your threats anymore'' Derek angrily reaches over the table with his good arm and grabs a hold of my dress pulling me forward. He pulls me down right next to his mouth where I began to feel hot air over my neck sending me goose bumps.
I wanted to scream, cry, literally anything to get me out of this situation.
''Oh my god! Okay, fine, all right, bought, sold, I'll totally do it just... let her go'' Derek's grip loosen and I quickly take that as my chance to jump back where an arm quickly snaked around my waist in a protective manner.
Derek begins to lean over the bench to the side and throws up, my eyebrows furrowing in disgust.
''Holy god! What the hell is that?'' I heard him speak up from behind me.
''It's my body. It's my body trying to heal itself'' I rolled my eyes before stepping away from the boy, stepping further back from the scene.
''Well, it's not doing a very good job of it''
''Now, you gotta do it now'' for the second time today my eyes began to tear up in fear.
''Look, honestly, I don't think I can-''
''Just do it!'' Even I jumped a little at his raised voice. The boy picks up the handsaw while muttering to himself as he places it against Derek's arm. I turned my head to the side and looked away, not wanting to see what was about to happen.
''Stiles?'' I rose my head to see the one and only Scott McCall just in front of me. He glanced between all three of us with furrowed eyebrows.
''Avery, what-'' I was sure he was about to question the tears but was soon cut off by his friend 'Stiles'.
''Oh, you just prevented a lifetime of nightmares'' His friend chuckled humorlessly.
''What the hell are you doing!'' Scott yells, walking over towards them. I turn back around and bit the bottom of my lip to try and control the tears. All of this was just, too much.
''Did you get it?'' Derek asks desperately. I quickly wipe away the tears and walk over to them slowly, feeling safer now that Scott was here. Scott the delinquent drug user but still.
''Did you come back with his stash?'' I asked the boys sarcastically but neither of them seemed to pick up on it.
''The drugs, McCall'' I groaned. Scott's eyes widen as Stiles just gestures around the room.
''You really think all of this has anything to do with drugs?!" I glared at Stiles.
''Obviously not anymore!'' I yelled back, watching his face soften a little. Scott shakes his head but soon walks over followed by me. He reaches into his pocket and passes Derek what looks like a bullet.
''What are you going to do with it?'' Stiles asks, myself now standing beside him.
''I'm gonna... I'm gonna...'' Derek's eyes soon close as he falls to the ground unconscious.
''You have got to be kidding me'' I murmured to myself as I rushed over to Derek's body with Scott and Stiles.
''Derek? Derek come on, wake up'' Stiles leans over his body as he tries to shake him awake.
''He's unconscious dummy'' Stiles sighs but ignores me, trying to wake Derek up. Scott, however, runs over where the bullet when and hops onto the ground, trying to reach for it.
''Scott what the hell are we going to do?'' I ask nervously, seeing Derek not even flinching at Stiles hard slaps.
''I don't know!'' Scott answers in a scared tone.
''I can't reach it'' He says more calmly this time, though the nerves were still there.
''He's not waking up!'' I drop down beside Stiles and begin slapping Derek myself.
''I think he's dying, I think he's dead'' Stiles stresses.
''Just hold on!'' Scott replies. I place my hands over Derek's heart and begin to do compression's.
''I got it! I got it!'' Scott bellows as he sits back up with the retrieved bullet.
''Please don't kill me for this'' I hear Stiles mumble to himself as he punches Derek in the face. The both of us jump back as Derek awakens.
''Give me that'' Was the first thing he said as he reached for the bullet. Both Stiles and Scott lift him to the bench as I walk around towards the other side.
Derek chews off the lid of the bullet and begins to tip the contents from inside out. He gets the lighter from the side and lights it up, causing the contents to spark and flare up, leaving a blue smoke afterwards.
''What the...'' I muttered to myself as he soon tips the contents into his wound, pushing it in as he begins to scream in pain. He drops to the ground on his ac and thrashes on the ground as the blue smoke kept leaving his arm. Though the strangest part was watching the wound heal itself completely.
''That. Was. Awesome!'' I turned to give a Stiles a 'what the hell' look. None of this was awesome.
''Sorry'' I heard him mutter as my eyes were now focused back on Derek.
''Are you okay?'' Scott asks as he begins to sit up.
''Except from the agonizing pain?'' I stepped back as he began to rise to his feet.
''I'm guessing the ability to use sarcasm is a good sign of health'' Stiles spoke. Derek glares at Stiles in response. I cower back slightly and took small steps away from Derek, making my way over towards Scott.
''Okay, we saved your life, which means you're gonna leave us alone'' Scott literally growls.
''You got that? And if you don't, I'm gonna go back to Allison's dad and tell him everything'' What does my dad have to do with any of this?
''You're going to trust them?'' Derek made sure to glare at me when he said this.
''You think they can help you?''
''Why not? They're a lot freaking nicer than you are!'' Scott stresses. It looked as if Derek was just slapped in the face with shock.
''Yeah, I can show you how nice they are''
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Chapter 9 The Bell Doesn’t Dismiss You (Tedgens)
Ted: I'm not sleeping with Charlotte
It's been a couple of hours since I left school. I haven't looked at my phone since. I knew my pesky friends would be messaging me because they care or whatever. And that is the message I am greeted with when I finally pick up my phone again.
Phenomenal.
He sent it two hours ago. That's a long to be left without a response with such a heavy text. The things that this message implies makes my head hurt.
So Norah or Zoey but probably Norah, but together that hearing Ted was sleeping with Charlotte upset me. Then she told ted that that made me upset, for some reason. Even though it barely concerns him. Then he cares enough to try and reassure me that he isn't. He saw me in the hallway he knew I wasn't doing good. So he probably asked Norah, again for no clear reason. He probably thinks I'm upset about him. Not that I wasn't. He knows I'm gay.
He's probably assuming that it's all about him, that it's his fault. God straight people are frustrating. I have a whole range of emotions and thoughts that persist if more than just guys.
Henry: ok.
That seems like a cold enough response.
Ted: I want to talk
Henry: and what if I don't
Ted: Please
Why does he care? That will remain a mystery unless I here him out. I don't get along with the unknown
Henry: About what
Ted: A lot of things
Henry: Specific
I don't like being this bitchy. My head still hurts and I don't want to deal with straight peoples bullshit.
Ted doesn't respond for a while. He probably wasn't expecting the dorky little Henry to have any thing negative to say.
Ted: Can I call you?
Henry: Why
Ted: I want to make sure you're ok
Henry: And how exactly would a phone call do that
I don't know what he's trying to pull but I don't trust him. He's given me know reason to trust him. People aren't honest.
Ted: Well texts don't really tell me anything about how you're doing
Don't trust him.
Henry: yes they do
Henry: I'm fine
Ted: That is the most told lie of all humanity.
What does he know? He knows nothing about me. He's not Emma, he's not my mother, he knows nothing about me.
Henry: Right next to "I love you" and "You look great."
Ted: Henry are you ok?
Why does he care? He doesn't know me. He knows nothing. I'm not just the gay theatre guy! I'm a person. God damnit.
I feel a tear roll down my cheek.
Jesus Christ I'm a mess. Good thing my mom isn't home. I can just cry and sing and be a mess and not bother anyone.
I flop myself down on my head and stare up at my ceiling. I don't want to respond. So I guess I'll just listen to music and ignore all text notifications!
Many songs go by and I'm just laying there staring at the ceiling. I don't care enough to do my homework. Just music and the ceiling and this bed. Why do I need anything else?
"Rain,
Falls,
Hard,
Burns,
Dry," I love this song. I want to die listening to this song. It's just pretty.
"A dream
Or a song
That hits you so hard
Filling you up
And suddenly gone"  I can't help but to sing along. What else would I do with my time? Singing home alone.
"Breath,
Feel,
Love,
Give,
Free,
Know," It's therapeutic really. Just singing a pretty song without thinking. It makes life so much nicer. I wish life was this simple. I could just do this for the rest of time.
"In you soul
Like your blood knows the way
From you heart to your brain
Know that you're whole" I know I'm getting louder and louder but I don't care. How could I care?
"And you're shining
Like the brightest star
A transmission
On the midnight radio
And you're spinning
Like a 45
Ballerina
Dancing to your rock and roll" I close my eyes and let myself slip away into the song.
"Here's to Patti
And Tina
And Yoko
Aretha
And Nona
And Nico
And me
And all the strange rock and rollers
You know you're doing all right
So hold on to each other
You gotta hold o-"
Knock knock knock
God damnit.
I reach over to my phone and turn off the music. Why do I need a nice moment, when I can have someone knocking on my front door?
I lift myself off my bed, and out of my bedroom. I catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror. I've looked worse and I have definitely looked better
I start down the stairs.
Knock knock knock
Oh wow they're impatient. What has it been 45 seconds?
I hurry down the rest of the stairs and get to the front door. Whoever this is better have damn good reason for interrupting my music. It better be Girl Scout cookies. If it's someone trying to convince me to convert I swear to god I will slam the door in their face.
I open the door and...
What the fuck.
"Hey Henry." Ted smiles awkwardly.
"What the fuck are you doing here?" I have no need to be polite. He came to my house? Like what the fuck.
"Emma gave me your address." Ted looked very uncomfortable, as he should. You don't just show up at people's doors unannounced.
"Without my permission."
Ted blushes. Fuck if he isn't cute, but he's way out of line.
"Why are you here?"
"We're worried about you." Ted's voice is warm and soft. Under different conditions that voice would make my knees go weak.
"Who is we?"
"Me, Emma, and Norah." Ted is to the point. I can appreciate that despite the fact that I'm pissed he's here.
"Why didn't Emma or Norah come?" Ted is the last person I would send. He knows me the least and he's the easiest to get mad at.
"They both said I should go. So I'm here." Ted takes a deep breath, "do you want to talk?" Oh that deep wonderful voice.
"Not particularly." I'm not going to let it be easy for him.
"Well that sucks, because it was a 20 minute drive, and I want to talk." He takes a beat, "I'm not leaving until I find out what's up."
"Why do you care?" We are acquaintances at most. This is not how you act towards an acquaintance.
"Because you seem like a cool guy. And you deserve to be happy." Ted must know how this kind of behavior can effect someone. You don't just say that.
"How do you know that I'm not happy?" I feel like I'm attacking him with questions. He's the one who can't knocking at my door, not the other way around.
"You didn't seem happy. You still don't seem happy." Who does he think he is?
I feel bad for making him just stand there on the porch. Even if he's being a pain, I should still be polite.
"Do you want to come inside?" It's the least I can offer, I guess.
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Dex X Reader : Sugar Crush Chapter 6
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Notes: I hope you guys like the new characters ! Sorry for the lack of Dex in this one but the next chapters make up for that. 
Summary:  Reader moves into the same building as one Agent Poindexter. A bond starts to grow between them. Can the reader move on after a traumatic past ‘relationship’ ?
Chapter: 6/?
Trigger Warning:  Mentions of physical and emotional abuse ! YES this one will come with trigger warnings. I tried not to post too much into detail stuff but this entire thing comes with a trigger warning !
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It had already started to get dark outside when you arrived home. You placed the groceries in the fridge, only leaving the things out that you would need to make the waffles.
A knock on the door pulled your attention, you were not expecting anyone and you became wary. You opened the door and were confused when you saw a blond haired girl. She couldn't have been older then 15. Her curly hair losely tied in a ponytail. Piercings in her ear and nose. She looked you up and down before she gave you a half-hearted "Hi." As she continued to chew the gum in her mouth. You narrowed your eyes at the girl "Hi...can I help you ?". She shrugged her shoulders "Just wanted to see who the newbie was in the building." "You live here too ?" You asked her. "Yup, floor below this one. Together with my parents." The girl sounded like she was bored. Really bored. It took you a moment to remember what Mr. Wilkinson had told you "Wait, is your last name Smith ?" "Bingo." She raised her arm and opened her hand while making a noise that reminded you of firework. "I'm Ally." "Nice to meet you, Ally, I'm (y/n) (l/n)." You opened the door a little wider "Do your parents know you're here ?" She half-laughed at that "Yeah. Mom knows I'm here. Pretty sure she doesn't care." Her cold attitude dropped for a second and was exchanged for a sad expression before she continued "She's got her boyfriend over." She was pretending to be casual about all of it but she was clearly not okay. "Oh, you don't like him ?" She gave you a look before she scoffed "I usually leave the place until my dad comes home." "Oh." your face fell at the realisation. "Yeah." She looked pale, like she hadn't slept well in days. You tapped your fingers against the door "Are you hungry ?" The question suprised her "Uh.." You opened the door wider "I still got some pancakes left that I made." You motioned your hand to invite her inside. Ally looked past you into your apartment, uncertain as to accept your invitation "This isn't some Hansel and Gretel stuff is it ?" A laugh escaped you at hearing that "I assure you, you will not find any gingerbread inside this place." She hesitated one more moment before she walked inside. You closed the door and she looked around your place. "You got cool stuff. A bit too much carton for my taste but who am I to judge, right ?" Letting out a chuckle you walked past her to the fridge "Haven't bothered unpacking yet. Besides, I travel light." "Sounds like something a serial killer would say." She noted. "Or someone hiding from one." You countered. She looked over at you as you placed the plate with pancakes in the microwave. She shrugged her shoulders again "So, you dating that guy from the other floor?" Her unexpected question startled you and you shook your head quickly "No, we're ...we're just friends." She let out a noise that made it clear that she didn't believe that "Funny, that's what my mom says about her boytoy." You turned towards the microwave ignoring her comment and prayed you were not turning red. You heard her walk around the place before she plumbed down on a chair at the table "I once went up there to meet him, he thought I was a girl scout. Me, a girl scout, seriously ? What about these clothes screams 'girl scout'." You swallowed a laugh when you heard how offended she sounded "Depends, were you carrying a box of cookies ? That could have given him the impression." Your voice was filled with sarcasm. She rolled her eyes "ha ha ha, no." She shrugged again "Never got a chance to talk to him like I'm talking to you now." The microwave beeped "I hope you get a chance, because he is pretty cool." "And a fed." She added. You looked at her in suprise. "Saw his badge once when he was going up the stairs.”
You took the pancakes out of the microwave and placed them in front of her. “He's a special agent.”
“You can say that again.” she muttered.
You shook your head and snorted “No, I mean he's FBI. Special Agent Poindexter. I call him Dex.”
She raised a brow “Already calling each other nicknames, huh?”
“Uh.. you want some powdered sugar on those ?” you tried to bring the conversation to another topic.
She shook her head and grabbed the fork “Got any syrup ?”
You nodded and opened the fridge to take out the syrup “Yup, here you go.”
Ally added a glorious amount of syrup on top of the pancakes, and you could almost feel your teeth hurt at the sight of it. She ate like she hadn't eaten a real meal in days, and part of you believed that this was most likely the case.
“So, how did you become friends with him ? That guy never talks to anyone in the building unless he has to.” she asked before she took another bite.
“Well, it started when I wanted to make these..” you pointed at the pancakes “...and I needed an egg, which Dex kindly offered. Then, when I was jogging, he stopped a guy from running off with my bag.”
“Huh, guess you were lucky he was jogging where you were then.” she nodded with a baffled look on her face “And ?”
You looked at her confussed “And ?”
She sighed “And what happened then ?”
You shrugged your shoulders and sat down at the table as well “Then I asked him to go and grab a coffee with me. I paid of course, considering he just stopped a thief and got me back my bag.”
She looked up at you with amusement “So, he saved your bag and you asked him on a date. Got it.”
Your mouth fell open “No, that's... not wha- what I said...” you stumbled over your words. “We're just friends..”
“Uhuh.” she didn't believe you at all “You keep saying that. Perhaps you'll start to believe it yourself.”
You groaned in defeat.
Ally finished the last of her pancakes “Friends ?”
“Yes.”
“So, you're really trying to convince me that you don't have googly eyes for him ?” she wiped her mouth on her sleeve.
You narrowed your eyes at her.
“I can keep a secret, you know.” she added.
“Fine, maybe I like him.” you avoided her stare, but you knew she was smiling at her small victory. “But I've only known him for a couple of days.”
“So ?”
“So, I can't be in love with someone I pretty much just met.” you explained.
“Perhaps, but it doesn't change the fact that you have googly eyes for him.” Ally was clearly the type of person who could see through people's bullshit with ease.
“Alright, I surrender.” you threw your hands in the air before you stood up and put the plate in the sink.
She got up from the table too “ Dad should be coming home now. Mom will have tossed her boyfriend out by now. I should get going.” she stood there a little awkwardly “And uh.. thank's for the pancakes. You're pretty cool.”
A smile formed on your face as you walked her to the door and opened it “You're always welcome here. And you're pretty cool too. Nosy. But cool.”
She gave a genuine smile “I'll see you around. And uh.. good luck with that special guy.” she said as she stepped outside.
“Special agent.” you corrected her.
“Whatever you tell yourself.” she looked at you smugly before she walked away.
You let out a chuckle and shook your head, before you closed the door you saw Mr.Wilkinson heading in your direction with a woman by his side.
“Y/n !!!” he waved to you as he walked to you, the woman's arm hooked in his.
“Hi, Bob !” your eyes landed on the unfamiliar woman “Ma'am.” you acknowledged her.
He tapped the woman's hand that was resting on his arm reasuringly “I am glad to bump into you. I wanted you to meet Nancy.”
“Oh ! Well, it is a pleasure to meet you, Nancy.” you shook her hand gently.
“Pleasure to meet you too.” she looked like she could belong in a storybook. A wide and sweet smile spreading on her face.
“We met at the monthly Bingo gathering. Lit up the room this one.” he said and Nancy blushed at his words.
“Oh, Bob.” she squeezed his arm.
“Well, I believe Bob. You two look very happy to be in eachother's company.” you noted.
“We are indeed very happy.” Bob patted Nancy's arm gently, earning a love struck look from Nancy again.
“I'd better get back inside, I am going to bake some more so...” you held out your hand to Nancy and she shook it “It's was great to meet you, Nancy. I am glad to see Bob so happy.”
“Aw, good luck with the baking, dear.” she said before she and Bob walked to his apartment.
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Mark of the Wolf Part 7 (Derek Hale x Reader)
Catch up here!
A/N: So I take major liberties with the lore of transferring memories between werewolves in this chapter, but it’s still bordering the line of the established lore in the series so... But now I can happily say that the mystery of who the Order are and what they want is slowly unravelling. Now about that slow burn... (Also when you read the dream state part where the reader's eyes change colour, that’s just the eye colour of her inner wolf).
Note: I had previously described Derek’s eye’s as being Hazel but I was corrected and was informed that they are in fact Green, so I edited the eye colour descriptions.
Words: 3660 (this chapter was long!)
Warnings: Violence, Past Trauma??? That’s it I guess.
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"I'm like you. I'm a werewolf."
The words rang through the room as all four sets of eyes were on you.
Scott's face was scrunched up in thought, he had found your reveal to be quite the shocker. You guessed he was probably unsettled by the fact he had never sensed the werewolf in you. Not that many could. Even your own family had a hard time sensing your other half. They had said it was because the wolf had remained buried, never once surfacing to take to its own unique scent and feel.
Stiles and Liam seemed the least shocked. If anything Stiles seemed to find some credibility in your being a werewolf. After all, just as Liam put it, the Order hunts other supernatural creatures, not humans.
Derek, however, had an unreadable expression on his face. It bothered you somewhat. You didn't want him to look at you with that same level of distrust and caution as he used to. You had hoped things would be different after the attack on the clinic.
You waited in deafening silence as the boys mulled over your words. Until finally Derek spoke.
"How did you know the sage would work?" Derek asked, to your delight he regarded you no difference on account of your secret being made known. You felt more at ease for some reason.
"I'm not sure. I just knew," You told him, surprised by his choice in question.
"How come we couldn't sense you?" Liam asked, bringing the focus back to your newly revealed secret.
"You and I both know the wolf form and the human form can have two very distinct scents. Also, I'm what you call an 'afflicted,'" You said in a hushed voice, the word afflicted rolled off your tongue with a slight sting to it. You always hated that word.
"What is that?" Scott asked, finally breaking from his stupor.
Derek's brow was drawn together as he wore his signature scowl whenever he was deep in thought.
"I thought they were a myth. My mother told me stories as a kid… the Afflicted are pure born shape-shifters who can't shift," Derek looked at you with what you assumed was pity in his eyes.
"Yahtzee," you said sardonically, "give this man a prize."
"That's a thing?" Stiles asked.
"Yeah, my mother would tell me these stories about werewolves being cursed to stay in their human form forever. To be honest, I always thought it was just a scary story to keep me from turning outside a full moon," Derek had a fond look on his face, the memory brought about a bitter-sweet touch to his chiselled features.
"It's actually a recessive gene. My family are one of the last few remaining carriers. It only runs in pure-blooded werewolf families. My brothers and sisters can shift, my mother is the carrier and I'm the one with the genetic predisposition, that is, assuming lycanthropy works the same way as gene expression," You said brazenly, a solemn smile gracing your lips.
Stiles' eyes went wide as he flailed about trying to open one of the leather bound books he had in his possession. His actions caused quite the ruckus and you had to stop yourself from laughing at his goofy behaviour.
"Okay so on my way here, I started thinking about the name they gave the hunted:  Ex Alia, right. And it's an odd phrase because combined Ex Alia actually means 'from the other' and that can also mean 'apart from', right."
"Stiles, we've been over this," Derek said running his fingers over his thick eyebrows.
Stiles mimed Derek's words back at him in a comical way, "If you would just let me finish!"
Derek held up his hands and folded them over his chest, eyeing Stiles intensely for the loud tone he had shouted at him with.
"Thank you," Stiles said condescendingly, "Now, what if it's in reference to werewolves who are apart from their kin. Like for example..."
"Werewolves or other shapeshifters who can't shift," Scott finished Stiles' thought.
Even though Stiles argument made sense to you, you couldn't help but fight against his logic, "Even if that were true, they still went after Alex, and he could shift," you rebutted.
"Yes, but you said it's genetic. So what if Alex was a carrier?" Stiles rebuffed.
You went silent. Stiles had a point.
You knew Alex since childhood, he was a third generation werewolf. Your family had a close relationship with other legacy families, that's how you met. It was completely plausible for Alex to be a carrier for the same recessive gene you expressed.
You were startled from your lamentation when you heard a booming knock come from the bunker door. Everyone in the room exchanged questioning glances as they silently asked each other if they knew who it could be.
Stiles drew the short straw and offered himself up to go and see who it was. You were still standing there, numb from everything that had transpired.
You heard Stiles pull open the heavy metal door of the bunker, mutter a quick "Nope," like he was rejecting Girl Scout cookies and shut it behind him before he came to re-join the half circle again.
"Who was it?" Liam asked.
"No one important," Stiles said coolly as he waved the question away and wore an upturned frown. It was certainly a dubious look. Derek wasn’t convinced as he raised a brow at him.
A second later, Derek and Scott's heads snapped to the doors direction just as the door flew off its hinges. Their claws and fangs protruding outwards, their wolfish features taking shape.
Liam was already fully shifted, his nostrils flaring as he let out snarls for breaths. The energy coming off him was powerful and angry, making you instinctively take a few steps back.
All three of them lined up in front of you and Stiles, their eyes creating a gradient from red to yellow to blue. Their animalistic growls echoing through the room.
A set of footsteps descended the steps in a relaxed, languid manner. They belonged to a handsome faced man, slightly older than everyone else in the room, with the same dramatic streak as Derek. He smiled wickedly as he opened his arms in a warm mocking embrace, his head held up high like some entitled prince. His own blue eyes glowing with the same intensity as Derek.
Derek, Liam and Scott retracted their fangs and claws and dropped their defensive stances as soon as they registered who it was that had just punched the door in.
Apparently, the man making the needlessly dramatic entrance wasn't a threat.
"Anyone ever tell you it's rude to shut the door in people’s faces?" The man asked Stiles in a low threatening voice. His clawed fingers dusting off none existent dust from his leather jacket.
"Yeah, well I was also told not to invite homicidal maniacs into any enclosed spaces with me, so..." Stiles shot back.
"Peter, what are you doing here?" Derek asked with a hint of familiarity.
"Why dear nephew, I heard your call."
"Okay who called the homicidal maniac?" Stiles said as he looked over at Derek, Scott and Liam with exasperation.
"He meant the howl," Liam told Stiles.
"Oh, this is just great," you sighed, plopping yourself down on the stool where Liam had previously sat. "More werewolves."
Stiles just patted you back and gave a weak, "There, there," in place of consolation.
"So what have I missed?" Peter said with a large smirk on his clean-shaven face.
The next hour was spent catching Peter upon what was currently plaguing Beacon Hills and your life.
Peter stopped Scott from talking with a single look when he heard you had repressed the memories from the night Alex died. He had an idea, you could read it on his face.
He came and stood a few inches away from you, looking down at you like you were some mathematical theorem to be solved. He held up one finger after much silence and ushered Derek closer to you.
"Derek, come here a second," he said. Derek obliged but made sure to drag his feet a little so Peter didn't think Derek was open to being summoned.
"I hear you have amnesia," Peter directed the statement to you, you just stared up at him and didn't reply. "You're a werewolf, right? So that means even though you can't shift, the same rules apply to you?"
"In a way. I can heal faster than humans, my sense of smell is better and in some cases, I can hear better, but without the ability to shift those powers are significantly weaker to that of actual shapeshifters. But… yes, the same rules apply. Wolf's-bane is still toxic to me, I still feel the pull of the moon, and my abilities are magnified when I'm in a pack. Why do you ask?" You were curious as to where Peter was going with this.
"Just making sure this won't kill you," Peter just gave an innocent smile before he extended his claws and dug them into yours and Derek's neck, linking you to one another, using himself as a conduit. Before you were lost in the spiral of memory and shared consciousness, you heard Stiles say "Oh my God!" in shock and Scott shout Peter's name in an alpha male voice.
It was too late though, you and Derek were already linked and pulling you out now would just cause more harm than good.
***
It felt like you were free falling through an endless white space. Incoherent chattering and sounds playing all at once like someone had overlapped several songs onto a single track.
You were lost in the cacophony of your mind in disarray, until you felt Derek's hands link with yours, pulling you from your confusion.
"Where are we?" You asked him.
Derek looked around at the white empty space, it was like staring at a blank canvas that had no end. His brows knit together for a moment before he realised what was going on.
"We're in your mind, Peter linked us in a shared dream state. Werewolves can sometimes share memories by a bite or a scratch. I think in this case he figured you couldn't grow out your claws or fangs, so he used himself as a proverbial telephone cord."
You were familiar with how the sharing of memories worked. Your father had done something similar with your older brother Markus when he had passed on the mantle of Alpha to him.
Just as you were reliving the memory, the blank canvas of your mind bled through with colour and voices and suddenly a clear image of that day began to replay as though you had just stepped back in time.
Your brother was lying in the centre of a field by the meadow you had spent much of your childhood watching your sibling’s roughhousing.
Markus was writhing in pain as his eyes shimmered between his former vibrant gold to the frightful red they were now. Your mother, sister and younger brother were standing alongside you as you all watched your father transfer his powers onto Markus.
"What is this?" Derek asked
"The Markolf tradition," you said with a hint of pride at your legacy and sorrow for the pain your brother was enduring.
Your brother let out a howling scream, you winced. so did Derek.
You continued, "We differ from most werewolf families because we have the ability to pass on the mantle of alpha when we are no longer fit enough to carry it. That’s partially where we got our name from. Markolf is old High German, it combines the words ‘border’ and ‘wolf’ because we aren’t like most werewolf families. The transferral is painful and can only be done during a full moon. If none of the pack contests, and if the progeny is strong enough, then passing on of the mantle is usually successful."
"I've never heard of this..." Derek was perplexed and in awe of what he saw unfolding.
"My great-grandfather was what you call a True Alpha, he discovered it was possible to pass on the gift by focusing his power through a bite. However, in doing so, you also relinquish most of your strength, making you considerably weaker."
Derek shook himself of his astonishment and tugged at your hand to make you face him, "I think I know why Peter did what he did. If you can't remember what happened to you, then maybe I can. Earlier, you were having a nightmare, I think it was about the night Alex dies."
You squinted your eyes at him, not having any memory of having had a nightmare earlier, "I don't remember having a nightmare."
"It must be your subconscious protecting you from the trauma. All I need you to do is just think about that night. Close your eyes and picture it, what's the first thing that comes to mind?"
You closed your eyes and let your mind wander.
***
Derek kept his eyes on you while yours stayed shut. He held onto your hand to be your anchor, your guide. He watched silently as the canvas began to bleed through with new colours and images and sounds again.
It started with a laugh.
A sweet, sing-song laugh that tugged at Derek's heartstrings. He turned in the direction of the laugh and saw a younger version of you. A version from the past. He couldn't help but think how beautiful you looked with a bright eye-creasing smile and a glow to your skin from the beams of light falling against your body from the moon.
Derek's breath hitched in his throat as he saw the younger version of you wrapped in another man’s arms. A strong man’s arms. Alex, no doubt.
Alex tucked a strand of your longer hair behind an ear. There were accents of playful red streaks hidden amongst the darker parts of your hair. He enjoyed your vibrancy and so did Derek.
You had seemed a different person in the memory. More carefree and easier with a smile, it had managed to coax an unexpected smile from Derek too.
Alex whispered sweet nothings in your ear as the camp sight materialised behind you, and soon so did the trees and the speckled night sky.
Derek couldn't help it when his jaw tightened and his eyes filled with what held the familiar tang of jealousy. He didn't understand where this feeling was coming from, but he was sure it had to do with the fact the younger, longer-haired version of you was looking longingly into the eyes of another man.
Was Derek jealous of a dead man?
Derek grew annoyed at his boyish behaviour, he was here to help you uncover your memories, not be yearning after a version of the woman whose hand he held.
Once the memory had been constructed it was time for Derek to relive it for you while you kept your eyes shut.
The memory shifted from its pleasant sweetness into a slightly more darkened tone. Derek saw the younger version of you having an argument with Alex. Your face frowned and your eyes held a stubborn conviction, Alex appeared more worn out, as though he was slowly realising he was losing the fight:
"I just don't understand why you would take the job in Vancouver without talking with me about it…" Alex said with gloom.
"Alex, I don't want to fight about this again. It's not every day that someone gets offered such a desirable job straight out of university!" The younger version of you shouted, tired of arguing about the same thing for the past month with Alex. "You know I couldn't pass it up."
"But you did so without talking it over with me first. It's like you're using the job as an excuse to end things with me. I know we haven't been ourselves in a while now, I know we fight a lot but--"
"Alex, please stop. We can talk about this when we get back home."
Derek noticed that your smile began to falter as you heard the words the younger version of you shouted at Alex. He squeezed your hand slightly to let you know he was still with you. That you weren't alone.
The memory grew darker still.
The night was less illuminated and the moon was obscured by rain clouds. In the memory, you were holding a hand over your mouth to keep your ragged pants as inaudible as possible, hunkered behind a sage bush as Alex slowly bled out a stone’s throw away from you.
Alyster -the man in the green robe from before- was scanning the forest, he was searching for you. His eagle eyes still every bit as disconcerting as before. The compass around his neck slowly losing its green glow.
The blonde archer from before came to his side, "Alyster," she called out, "the girl, can you sense her?"
Alyster shook his head, his red hair weightless against the howling wind, "Her aura has been shielded from the Oculus," his bony fingers clasped the compass around his neck, "its ability is being obscured." Alyster pointed at a burning cluster of sage close by.
The archer grabbed a hand full of sage growing on one of the many bushes closest to her and crumpled it in her hands with distaste, "And the boy?" the archer asked, glancing down at a slowly dying Alex.
"He carries the magic in him as well, but the girl’s was stronger. She is the one we need if we hope to keep the Mother Tree fuelled. I fear, she may be the last." Alyster glanced down at his arm. A tattoo made up of a strange marking etched onto his forearm, previously hidden under his green robe.
When Alex finally drew his last breath, a green mist came into view around his body, the mist was drawn towards the tattoo, embedding itself into it. The tattoo glowed the same shade as the Oculus for a brief minute before it returned back to normal. Alyster let out a pained growl.
"The rest of the pack have scurried off, do we make with the chase?"
"No. They do not possess the magic. Leave them be, tell the others to return. Daybreak is upon us."
Derek noticed tears streaming down your face.
Your hand had clutched his in a death grip as the memory began to unravel and spiral into chaos. It played over and over again: the lone arrow whistling through the tree line, embedding itself into Alex's chest after your argument; Alex shouting for you to hide as another arrow flew out; you scurrying behind the bushes and holding your breath as you listened to Alyster and the female archer converse; Alex losing the light in his eyes; the eagle eyes that scanned the forest belonging to Alyster and the green tendrils that felt out for you emerging from the Oculus.
It just kept repeating.
"Y/N, snap out of it," Derek shook your shoulders. You didn't budge, your eyes shut tight, refusing to open.
"Y/N, wake up, listen to my voice," Derek tried to reassure you, "I'm here, I'm right here, don't lose yourself in the memory. Stay with me!"
He was shaking you violently but you were lost in the chaos. Derek watched as the memory replayed itself, getting corrupted and altered the longer it stayed in its loop.
Derek couldn't think of anything else to do, he needed to draw your senses to him, to pull you out of your hell.
In desperation, he gripped your face between his hands and drew you in for a kiss. Your lips were stiff and unmoving at first, but soon enough he felt you loosen in his arms as you began to instinctively kiss him back.
In the background, the horrific memory dissipated into blackness and the dark canvas mutated into a beautiful rendition of a romanticised full moon and starry sky.
Derek felt himself let go of all senses and logic as he deepened the kiss and wrapped his arms around your waist. He felt your fingers grace his jawline as his tongue practically serenaded you into a peaceful quiet.
You were drowning in each other.
When Derek pulled back, he was utterly thrown by what he saw. Your eyes, they weren't their normal colour, they glowed a magnificent silver, like the moon itself. And your body was surrounded by a shimmering green aura.
If the moon were personified as a woman, Derek imagined she would not be able to hold a candle up to your spellbinding beauty.
You had taken the very air from his lungs.
His eyes turned their werewolf blue, but it wasn't from being on the defensive or from anger. They were blue for another reason.
"Why did you--" you couldn't finish your question, a deep flush colouring your neck and cheeks.
"It was the only thing I could think of to snap you out of your… daze," Derek explained, his chest heaving up and down.
Without any warning, just as you were mere moments from placing your hand back on his face, to feel if he was real even in the dream state, the dream melted away.  Derek and you were pulled apart in opposite directions as reality bombarded your senses again.
***
"Welcome back," Peter said in between ragged pants as his head was coated in sweat and he was hunched over, holding onto his knees to keep him upright.
Your neck bled from the claw marks, staining your clothes red. Your eyes struggling to open.
You gasped out loud as you almost toppled over from the stool. Derek caught you before you touched the ground, his arms struggling to hold you up, Liam rushed to help him.
As you lost consciousness, the last thing you saw was his soothing green eyes looking down at you with worry and Liam’s own panic riddled expression contrasting deeply with the calm that was settling over you.
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