#lena let that boy die for science

[kennnnnnna]

i am starting to think my affinity for loving female characters who have all gone a lil batsh*t crazy at least once in their life might not be mentally healthy

[doyumacy]

FALLOUT |LH| ONE

*gif not mine

TWO

SUMMARY: You, at such young age made your way in business becoming a successful one. With that a lot of jealousy and rivalry came. Your mother finally convinces you to hire a team of security just in case someone tried to hurt you. And that’s when Donghyuck becomes your personal bodyguard, following you everywhere you go. You don’t mind at all since you find him very entertaining and nice. What you don’t know is that he’s the one that has been hired to keep you close and kill you.

PAIRING: reader x bodyguard!donghyuck

WARNINGS: mentions of jaemin and taeyong. swearing, blood (i’ll let you know when there are parts with blood mentions), smut, violence, angst

WORD COUNT: 2,8K

7 am. Wake up, take a shower, have breakfast and rush to the office. That was your daily routine and you were used to it. But no that morning. You were getting ready to go to your interview with the TIME Magazine. They were working on an article that would be called “Women Under 30 Are Leading the Pack in Entrepreneurship and Innovation.”

4 years ago, you’d wake up around 9, get ready to go to class and have lunch with your friends, but how does time change, right? Now you were a CEO of your own company with no time for your friends or even yourself. It’s not like you hated it, you liked being a CEO and being recognised by your hard work. It made you proud and wanted to show people that if you really want something and if you work hard for it, you’ll get it.

At the main entrance, you were greeted by the staff and one of them guided you to the room where they interviewed you and took some pictures of you.

That wasn’t your first interview, but you couldn’t feel nervous because you wanted to say the right words to encourage other people.

...

“Lia, I will be back in ten minutes. Can you sort this papers out on my desk?“

“Okay, Boss.”

It was a beautiful sunny day and the office was busy as usual. You were reading the contract at the table trying to get some order into them when the door opened. Nobody just walked into your office without knocking, so of course it had to be…

“Hi mom...” you greeted her.

“Hi sweetheart,” she smirked at you. “How are you?”

“I’m great,” you nodded and placed the papers on the table, “what brings you here, mom?”

“I can’t visit my beautiful daughter?” She put her right hand on her chest.

You giggled. “Of course you can, but I’d love you to call me first.”

You stood and walked towards her, hugging her. “You want some coffee? Water?”

“I’m fine, darling. I just had brunch with a friend,” she smiled and sat in one of the chairs in front of your desk. “Speaking of which, she told me something that got me really upset at you.”

“Why?” You frowned and sat in front of her.

“Why didn’t you tell me you’re getting death threats, (Y/N)?” She looked at you.

You sighed. “Because they don’t matter. You know I don’t pay attention to that. It’s pointless.”

“We’re not talking about hate comments, (Y/N). Someone is threatening you with killing you.”

“Mom, you don’t have to w-“

“Of course I can, and I will. That’s why I contacted an old friend who used to be the Prime Minister’s bodyguard. He’s gonna meet you tomorrow,” she informed you.

“Tomorrow I can’t, I have a meeting.”

“Then you better make some space or you’ll be seeing me here everyday,” your mom smiled. “This is serious. I don’t want anything bad to happen to you. You’re my baby.”

“I can take care of myself, mom. Please, I don’t want a full team of bodyguards,” you sighed.

“You will only have 2 and you won’t even notice they’re there,” she said and placed a hand on yours. “Please.”

You stared at her for a couple of seconds and then sighed, nodding. “Okay, fine. But it’s temporary.”

“We’ll see about that.”

Later that day, after going home you went to the supermarket to get some groceries and went home. You loved cooking, but you weren’t exactly the tidiest when it came to prepare your delicious meals.

After you ate, you checked your email and realised that your mom’s friend had sent you a file with the two people that would be working with you. Somehow you expected an army of people and that annoyed you, but you thought you could with two people. You didn’t even bother to check the profiles since you knew what their work would be.

You closed your laptop and went to your bedroom. Sometimes you thought your life was boring because you barely talked to someone else. Your last relationship didn’t end well and you were still a little bit hesitant to know someone else. Or scared.

And friends? You didn’t have many, but Lena, Taeyong and Jaemin were always there for you. And so were you.

You knew Lena since you were a toddler, your mother was good friends with her parents and you two got along very well. You met Taeyong in high school when you were trying to find the science room and since he was a senior, he helped you. Everyone used to think Taeyong and you dated, but in fact, you never loved Taeyong that way. You saw him as your older brother and he as his younger sister. And last but not least, you met Jaemin through Taeyong.

At first both of you didn’t get along well since he was all an extrovert and didn’t quite understand you were a little introverted, but he with time understood and stopped forcing you. Then you became the crackheads of the group, always laughing and going out and sometimes getting drunk.

You loved college days.

And love? You met Jaehyun during your first year of college, he was in your economics class and you couldn’t help yourself falling for him. He was charming, funny and so handsome.

Jaehyun was your first everything: your first love, your first boyfriend, your first kiss and the first guy that broke your heart.

You two dated for almost 2 years, but ended when he told you he didn’t love you anymore and didn’t want to hurt you and left.

Months after that, you took the opportunity to go as an exchange student to Japan where you met Yuta. You were never a thing, but both of you had feelings for each other but never went official since you would stay there only for 6 months.

You came back to Korea and graduated, and had no time for love since you were too busy starting your business. But Yuta would come on business trips to Korea sometimes and meet you.

But the last time you saw him was a year ago.

The next morning, a tall man showed up to your office holding a black folder. Everything about him was intimidating and you knew he was your mom’s friend.

“Good morning, Miss (Y/L/N). I’m Kim Hyunwoo,” he extended his hand.

“Hi,” you greeted and you shook hands with him. “Yeah, I’ve heard about you. Please sit.”

“Thanks,” he said and sat in one of the black chairs in front of your desk. “I sent you an email yesterday, did you read it?”

“I saw it, but didn’t read it. Sorry,” you apologised.

“It’s okay, that's why I brought this,” he placed the black folder on the desk and tossed it to you. “These are the files of the people that will be working with you.”

“Why is it important to check them out? I mean, they’ll be around me 24/7.”

“Because I want you to know their abilities and their tasks.”

You sighed and grabbed the folder opening it. You saw the first man around his 30’s, no emotions showed in his face. Kang Sungho. According to his file he was specialised in driving and trained in evasive driving techniques, such as executing short-radius turns to change the direction of the vehicle, high-speed cornering, and so on.

You passed the next page and saw a picture of a man with tanned golden skin, brown hair and dark eyes. He looked intimidating. He was trained in pretty much everything, from every type of knife to every type of gun.

Impressive.

Suddenly, the door from your office opened and the air left your lungs momentarily when his eyes met yours, dark and calculating. You expected him to offer you a polite smile as most people do, but his face remained in a stern mask. You somehow prayed he wouldn’t be your bodyguard because the less thing you needed was a distraction.

“Miss (Y/L/N),” the voice of your Hyunwoo forced you to switch your gaze to him and you shoot him a questioning look. “This is Lee Donghyuck” the boy nodded slightly in your direction at the mention of his name, “he’s your new personal bodyguard.”

You couldn't help but let your eyebrows raise comically. The world somehow hated you.

“You would not even know I’m here, Miss,” Donghyuck said.

You nodded.

*

Donghyuck awoke to the steady patter of rain upon his window, droplets yet to scatter the nascent rays of the rising sun. He realised he had awoken up ten minutes before his set alarm, which made him grumble.

He got out of bed and walked to the bathroom, took a cold shower and after that, Donghyuck put on a black pants and before putting the white shirt, he put on a bulletproof vest making him look thicker and then continued with a white interior t-shirt, a white shirt, put on his tie adjusting it and lastly, he slipped on the black jacket.

Donghyuck gave himself a quick look in the mirror and sighed. He placed his hands on the countertop and asked how did he end in that position?

Yes, he was an assassin.

No, he didn't kill women.

But the money he was offered to do so was such a big amount that was almost repulsive. And he needed the money.

Donghyuck had never pretended to be someone else before, he just showed up and took down his task and then left. Now he was stuck with some random woman and follow her until she was in love with him and kill her in the worst way.

What was with people these days? He didn't want to know.

Jeno was already awake and had made breakfast, “you gotta eat well today in case you die protecting your boss,“ he  joked and sat down in front of him.

Donghyuck and Jeno had known each other for many years and were roommates. There was kindness in his smile, a good man. He knew what ‘Haechan’ did for a living, but decided to ignore it since he rather thought his friend was also a good man.

Donghyuck rolled his eyes. “I cant believe I'm doing this.”

“You can't still say no, you know?” Jeno looked at him.

“I know, but I need the money,” Donghyuck said and had a sip of coffee, “I will retire after this.”

“Really?”

“Yeah. I don't wanna do this anymore,” Donghyuck shrugged.

“Well, then get the job done and get those millions,” Jeno said and then shook his head, “that sounded awful. Ignore it.”

Donghyuck laughed. “Are you sure you don't wanna work with me?”

“One hundred percent.”

…

A perfectly collected black-haired woman, dressed in a skirt under her white knee and a pale pink blouse appeared in the room. "Good morning, you must be Lee Donghyuck, right?" She asked kindly.

"Yes," Donghyuck replied, "Hello, you are....?"

"I'm Yun Somin, Kim Hyunwoo personal assistant," she smiled nicely. “You’re the new bodyguard we hired a few days ago.”

"Nice to meet you,” Donghyuck expressed.

“Please, come with me so I can give you  your equipment,“ Somin said.

Donghyuck followed her to a room that was an office painted beige and champagne, and it had only one wall-sized window, which faced the buildings. On the dark brown desk sat a desktop computer, a notebook lying open, and a stack of papers sitting under a turtle-shaped paperweight and there was a swivel chair in the middle of the office. A bookshelf, bursting with books was behind the dark brown desk.

Somin opened a desk drawer and pulled out a black box that contained a small stainless steel knife, a Beretta Px4 Storm and finally a earphone for a walkie-talkie.

Donghyuck put the earphone on his ear and the walkie-talkie on the waist band. He put the gun away by placing it on the waist band as well and the knife inside the inner jacket pocket.

“(Y/N) (Y/L/N)’s codename is Sunflower. Whenever you’re public, that’s the name you’ll use,“ Somin informed.

Donghyuck nodded, “Sunflower. Got it.“

Somin opened the door for him and let him in. You were if anything was better looking than Donghyuck expected. Your face told of a leaned body beneath your wintry garb and your expression was serious but not unkind.

You were hot.

Fuck. Donghyuck thought. He was so screwed.

“You would not even know I’m here, Miss,” Donghyuck said.

You nodded and cleared your throat.  “Well, let's keep going. We have a long day coming,“You said, walking to the door.

Donghyuck walked behind you and raised his arm above his mouth and spoke into the mic, “Sunflower's going out.“

…

You were the smile, or at least that was what Donghyuck thought of you. Everything about you was a soft and understated joy as you greeted each person at every event. You really cared about the people and their interest and could see in your eyes your uprightness. People loved you and Donghyuck didn't quite understand why someone wanted you dead. Your kindness couldnt be the reason, could it?

“So, Donghyuck, what do you think?”

He turned back to Sungho. “She's different from every shark out there. Yeah, I’ll bet they’re lining up to off her.”

“Well, someone’s been sending some pretty disturbing emails. The NIS can’t pin the guy down.”

“They’ll find them.“ Donghyuck addressed.

The eventful day was over. You all spent the day going to different meetings with several people. You were exhausted but you were happy to see your friend Taeyong, after not seeing him for almost two months.

The black car stopped at a red light and you took the opportunity to take out your phone and reply to some text messages. You realised Donghyuck was looking at you and Donghyuck quickly looked straight ahead. “So, Donghyuck? You have been doing this for so long?”

“Not really, ma’am,“ he responded.

You considered him. He didn’t look like his concept of a bodyguard, big and beefy. He wasn't that tall. Slimy built, with a very attractive face, enigmatic yet intelligent dark eyes and dark hair. “And what did you do before?”

“I… used to train some people at a boxing gym,“ Donghycuk lied.

“Cool,” you smiled. “Maybe you could show me some movements.”

You quickly regretted saying that because of how red your cheeks got. Donghyuck smirked without looking at you.

Upon arriving at the restaurant, Donghyuck got out of the car and opened the door for you and you entered the restaurant with him following you.

"Sunflower's in," He spoke into the mic.

A young woman, with loose hair dressed all in black, took you to the restaurant's private lounge, where Taeyong was already waiting for you.

You hugged your friend and smiled, "The Bahamas suited you."

"Thank you, Woman-Under-30-Leading-the-Pack-in-Entrepreneurship-and-Innovation" Taeyong beamed and looked at Donghyuck, who stood with his back to you right at the glass door, "who is he?"

You looked at Donghyuck  and spoke as you sat down, "It's my personal bodyguard."

“Why do you have a personal bodyguard? Did something happen? ” He asked worriedly.

"Don't worry, everything’s fine," you calmed him down and grabbed the menu, opening it.

He sat in front of you and still looked worried, “how do you want me to be calm? Something is going on and you don't want to tell me. "

You smirked a little and shook your head, "really, Taeyong, everything is under control. There’s nothing to be concerned about.“

Taeyong sighed and nodded, "Okay, I will believe in your words."

You smiled satisfied and began to read the menu. Taeyong did the same. Jaemin stood in front of the door of the restaurant's private lounge but Donghyuck prevented him from entering.

"Identify," Donghyuck demanded, looking at him.

"Na Jaemin, owner and chef of this restaurant," he replied, frowning, "who are you?"

Before Donghyuck responded, you opened the door and looked at Jaemin, “I'm sorry, he's my new bodyguard. Lee Donghyuck, all right, he will have dinner with us too. "

Donghyuck nodded, “understood. Enjoy your meal, guys. "

“Thank you,“ Taeyong  responded as Donghyuck closed the door.

“I can't believe the two most influential people of Korea are here in my restaurant,“ Jaemin joked as he sat.

You chuckled, “let’s see if it’s as good as people say.“

…

Softly splashing water droplets hit the car windows as Sungho drove onwards. You watched the raindrops race down to the windows. You had been with Taeyong and Jaemin for almost three hours, and now you were on your way to your house.

"Sorry for staying there for a long time, you haven't even eaten," you  apologised.

“It’s fine, ma’am. It's our job,“ Donghyuck replied.

“You can call me (Y/N). We’re almost the same age,“ You said

“Even so, you’re my boss. It’s not right,“ he responded.

You chuckled and looked at him in the rearview mirror, "Well, then as your boss, I order it to you."

Donghyuck smiled and you noticed it, “I'll try it.“

[caribbean-ace]

Thoughts after Supergirl 6x07 (buckle up, this is long):

1. Finally we’re moving forward to look Kara.

2. The recap pretty much sums up what has happened the entire mid season.

3. Will papa El be safe? I don’t want him to die

4. My Kara :( don’t touch my child.

5. Lena and Kelly are back yay😍

6. Which means the team is complete and now they’re going to find Kara *dances*

7. Science!Lena is everything to me😍 also, go off Kelly you’re a queen

8. We love a supportive girlfriend.

9. Lena upgraded her outfit, that’s because they’re finding Kara lol

10. I’m assuming Guardian’s debut will be for next mid season.

11. Oh boy the phantom escaped, this isn’t good

12. MY BABY ALEX😩

13. Shit just hit the fan. Oh boy this is really bad… Alex was being reckless but she just misses her sister

14. Don’t hurt my baby Alex

15. Lmao Nia is me admiring Lena. Lena is me admiring Nia. Girl freaking power😍 bonding timeeeee

16. “I miss my mom everyday too” 😭😭😭 as if i wasn’t crying alreadyyyy

17. Don’t hurt my baby Lenaaaa

18. What the fuck is happening! What the fuck happened to Brainy :(

19. Oh no, Lena reliving her trauma while they’re in danger this just went to 0 to welp we’re fuck

20. Brainy and Kelly bonding, this is nice! Give me more of it please

21. This is stressful, don’t hurt my children :( Kelly you go queen this is the birth of Guardian😍

22. So Kara wasn’t wrong when she said that all of them could get kill trying to help her.

23. Again, Nia is the freaking MVP of this episode.

24. So everyone is in the brick of death in this episode.

25. The Tower needs a system like Gideon, just saying.

26. Go papa spaceeee

27. When i said i missed the angst i didn’t mean it like this. Christ i’ve been on the edge of my seat the entire time

28. Are they going to dwell on Kara’s extensive trauma? If not, this is going to feel bland.

29. YEEEEES THE REUNION fucking finally😭

30. So no hugging the rest of the team?

31. Aaaaand i thought she was dead tho…

So overall it was a wild ride this episode, we’re half way there, i’m wondering how they’re going to wrap up the Lex story, since you know he got to walk away from all the things he did. Still don’t know how William fits in all of this, his character should’ve never been introduced (imo). All supercorp aside, if they’re going to force some shitty relationship let them be single instead. I hope they address the trauma Kara suffered while being in the PZ. There’s a whole lot more to say but this post is already freaking long so, we’ll leave it like this. Any thoughts or comments are welcome and please remember to always be respectful!

[mxvladdy]

Single Dads- Overwatch Prt.1 Headcannons

Jesse McCree

His two little girls have him wrapped around their fingers. Jesse can be seen on base entertaining his twins with games, tea parties, and piggyback rides. They both inherited their father's love of western flair and aesthetic much to his delight. Yes, they all have matching boots for special occasions. Their favorite thing to play with when Jesse is away is their play-dough sets and easy bake oven (with supervision from grandpa Rein). When they are old enough to cook with him though he has so many ideas of what to teach them. Grandma’s recipes won’t die out with him.

When Jesse gets back from a long mission all he wants is to cuddle up, it warms his heart when they snuggle up during their favorite Disney movie and nod off. Over the years he has let his hair grow longer than he normally liked just so his girls could play with it (Instead of touching their own. He had a heart attack when the girls had found his electric razor. Aunty Olivia had a field day fixing that mess)

He likes to take them to the gun range when he has time to practice, making sure they have proper safety gear. Don’t need to turn out like their daddy, deaf in one ear, and ringing in the other. He hopes that they will never have to raise a weapon of their own but knows with his line of work and who he is it’s a possibility. If they want to learn how to hold a gun he is probably going to beg Ana to teach them. He doesn’t want them in close combat, that’s an absolute nope.

Hanzo Shimada

Whenever he sees his son his face splits into the most brilliant smile. His infant son squirms in Ana’s arms, trying to get to his dad as he steps off the dropship. Chubby baby arms wave excitedly, impatient to be back in his father's embrace. As he grows he turns into a very giggly and chatty baby who babbles to anyone in a mix of English, Japanese, and Tibetan (thanks to Genji and Zenyatta babysitting). Hanzo adores his son and strives to be a better father than his ever was to him. He’s strict, but never overbearing.

He loves to read to his son whatever he can find, though his favorite is Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see? Which he reads in English and Japanese till his little one is asleep. When his son can’t sleep he will read it over and over again while his dragons rocking him to sleep.

He encourages his son’s interests whatever they may be at the time. He has saved up a lot of money from mercenary work and what he could take before he fled his home. So he can spend all the money he needs to help fuel his son’s interest.

He regrets that he hadn’t taken more family heirlooms to pass down to his son. Genji often jokes about a bonding trip when his son is older and trained to the old estate. A right of passage taking back what was rightfully theirs. It is a tempting idea… But even without the family trinkets, he will pass down Storm bow, whether his son uses it or not he doesn’t care. The biggest inheritance will be his dragon when the time comes.

Genji Shimada   His eldest child is a spitfire, very much like he was in his youth. Thankfully, he tempers it much better than his parents ever did, finding an equal balance between friend and father. He respects her boundaries and she respects his wishes. Whenever she is feeling down she always finds little origami figures all over her room just like when she was little. Really into textiles and engineering. While never admitting it to her father but she one day wants to design him a better, slicker, and lighter body. One as close to flesh as possible. Till then she flourishes with Gabe learning how to sew and make patterns. The holidays are always filled with new custom clothes for the Overwatch members. She is found in the frequent company of Zenyatta. She wants to travel with him one day, to gather inspiration for her fashion and to see what her father saw to make him into the man he is today.  

His younger son though is very much like Hanzo when they were little. Reserved and resourceful he spends most of his time with Winston learning what he could from the scientist before dinner. Genji isn’t dull by any sense of the word but the stuff his boy was interested in was just over his head. Has a service dog named Totoro that is always there for him when things get too overwhelming. When things get too much or he is tired Genji loves that his son comes to him for help and advice. To him this is the ultimate show of trust, he wished he could have done this with his father. Normally they just meditate and talk. Other times they go find Satya, who his son loves to talk to.    

Christmas and birthdays were always a fun challenge to find things that would keep him stimulated. Last year the highlight had been his very own personal telescope. Courtesy of the science department of Overwatch.

Gabriel Reyes (Pre-fall and After)

His princesa is his world. His crew likes to tease him about his phone usage. 99% of the time he is in the barracks he is glued to it, face-timing his daughter. During the original Overwatch years, his mother and grandmother raised her while he was on tour. It kills him looking back on how he had watched his daughter grow from the scene of his phone. But at the time he believed it was for the best. Now- now he would give anything to be the one to teach her how to walk, her first words, prom, and graduation. 

The few times he could visit were glorious. Lots of home cooked meals made together and gifts from the places he had been around the world. Jack and Ana would drop by sometimes as well bringing with them stories and her father’s escapades and foolishness. As his daughter grew she picked up a passion for music and would send sound clips of her music lessons and compositions to him. No one was safe from him showing it off. After the fall and his resurrection, he stayed clear of her, keeping the pictures and recordings saved close to him at all times. Though the holidays are a hard time for him to stay away. Every year her family Christmas tree has a few more presents under it then she bought.  

She knows he’s still around and is determined to find a way to bring her father back.

Jack Morrison

Twins are a handful. One he thought he was ready for. I mean, he was able to keep Lena and McCree inline (mostly -but not really). He is a nervous dad at first. Overly prepared, he read every book and online forum. But, self-doubt is a hell of a drug. He gets better over time and the motto of “fake it till ya make it” 100% applies to him.  

As Strike-Commander he is in his office a lot. When the twins were newborns, he moved his work to his condo. As they got older he returned to his office and set up an area for the kids. When he is in conference calls it’s always funny to see the toddlers get into frame, or try to get his attention. His office is littered with scribbles and paintings the two did in daycare or while playing with Ana and Reinhardt.    

The two have their dad whipped. He won’t admit it but he is wrapped around their fingers. It’s not that he showers them in gifts or lets them make trouble all the time. But he does turn a blind eye to the little things. Missing cookies, a little stain on his chair after he told them no food in his office. Ok, maybe one more scoop of ice cream, but promise me you’ll eat dinner alright? Most nights he can’t read them to sleep. It hurts, but they adjust. He does tuck them in and turns on some read-alongs for them before heading back into the office. The twins are out within minutes blessedly.

Jean-Baptiste Augustin

Twin girls, and he is on top of it. Ultimate chill dad. He gets it. Life is rough, and he is so proud that his girls feel safe coming to him for help. He teaches them how to handle their problems with words not violence. Papa and uncle Mako will take care of it. 

Neither girls are interested in medicine, which hurts a little but it’s not his life and he’s proud regardless. He is great with letting them explore their dreams. The eldest follows Bridgette wanting to learn about armor and the youngest (much to his fear) really likes Fawkes and his innate skill with explosives. Praise the gods Athena kept a close eye one them when he had something to show her.

Both are close with Genji’s kids in age. It’s nice for them to have friends that aren’t a bunch of old soldiers. They all like to hang-out on the roof of the base to destress after a day of school or side projects. When the four are together there is a 90% chance the evening will end with a few more grey hairs on the father’s heads.

Cooking is a big part of their family ritual. Baptiste grew up rough and underfeed so there is no way he will ever let his girls feel the same way. He teaches them what few Haitian recipes he knows from heart. Then sometimes they will watch videos and read recipes online of other peoples to try and add to their own books. His paranoia gets the best of him sometimes and he teaches them basic survival skills. They appreciate it and understand his fears. He is open with them about his past and is unashamed to admit his faults.  

[kassies-take]

Dream Come True

Summary: R is Alex’s daughter and Alex wouldn’t have changed it for the world.

A/n: went back to rewatch Supergirl episodes and the moment in season three when the realization that Alex actually does wants kids gave me an idea.

Warning: Fluff

Alex Danvers x Reader, Dansen, Supercorp

Word Count: 1860

Age:  4

Alex and Kara stood next to each other with the grill smoking beside them. 

You were four, after Kelly’s and Alex’s foster class they were able to become foster parents. It took them about five months before they found a match, with you. No one has made you feel loved as Alex and Kelly has. You definitely didn’t make it easy for them for the next four months, you were so stubborn but they both had so much patience and so much love to give. When it came to it, you agreed immediately to have Kelly and Alex as your parents.

Alex was a bit jealous when you first met Lena and Kara, instantly connecting with Lena. Kara was way to excited and scared you away. You were still scared of Kara.

Lena carried you as you both cheered with putting up the tent, considering that you and Lena has never been camping. 

“Are you sure you two never went camping?” Kelly smiled.

“You make it easy,” Lena smirked, kissed your cheek and placed you in the blue tent. 

“Mommy! Look at the tent I made with Lena!” You called from the window. 

There was a calm silence that took between the sisters and their wives. This was the first mom since they met you. You ignored the silence and walked towards Alex. You grabbed her hand and pulled her towards the tent. 

“Mommy. There is space between you and Enat so I can stay in the middle and look at the stars.” A silent cry was made by Kelly as she heard her whole heritage with in calling her mom in her mother tongue. 

“Kara’s almost done with dinner, then after dinner we can look at the stars.” 

A campfire was made with Kara’s heat vision which you didn’t see as you chased Alex, Kelly and Lena around with a water gun. Kelly dried you up before marshmallows were brought out. 

“Mom, mommy!” You panicked when your marshmallow caught on fire.  

Alex grabbed your stick and blew out the marshmallow. You were about to put it in your mouth when Kara showed you how to make s’mores. Needless to say by the end of the night there was chocolate around yours and Kara’s lips. 

“I understand (Y/n), but come on Kara. You too? I married a child.” Lena laughed. 

“A falling star!” You interrupted.  

“Do you know what to do when there is a shooting star?” Kelly asked. 

“No,” you pouted when you didn’t understand. 

Lena’s face dropped immediately. She was adopted when she was four too but she knew what a shooting star, granted it was meteoroids falling into Earth’s atmosphere burning up. 

“You make a wish.” 

“Oh. Enat can take my wish.” 

“Why don’t you want to wish for something, baby?” 

“Cynthia, the nice lady at the adoption place, said we had to take turns.” 

“Okay, it’s my turn to to show you something. Drum roll please!” Alex got up. 

Kara, Lena and Kelly smacked their hands together. Alex came back from the car with a dark blue telescope in her arms. The rest of the night was spent with Alex trying to make you see constellations correctly. 

“Look it’s Eridanus.” Alex moved from the telescope. 

“It looks like a snake. Oh there is a man next to it.” 

Alex smiled before she caressed your hair and looked up to the sky. 

~~~~~

Age: 4 

You sat in between Kelly and Alex on their bed. Normally bed time stories would be read in your room, but their bed was so much bigger than yours and you wanted to cuddle with them.  

You were going through, word by word for the story ‘Sylvester and the Magic Pebble’. Both Alex and Kelly listening patiently.

“They...went..to the...po-” you looked at Alex.

“Police.”

“Police. The police c-could not find their uh their khayld.”

“Ch,” Alex demonstrated. “c and h together make ch sound. So the c.h.i.l.d is?”

“Child?” you said unsure.

“That’s my girl!”

~~~~~

Age: 5

It was take your kids to work day after a long debate and Kelly’s dismay you were going to the DEO with Alex. You knew your mom was a cool secret agent and that Auntie Kara was Supergirl. 

Without Alex and Kelly knowing, she took you flying when she really shouldn’t. The DEO was still a secret agency so the only kid was you. You spun on Alex’s chair in her office, starring at the white ceiling. 

“Alex said you’d be in here!” Supergirl came into the room. 

Your arms immediately reached for her. You snuggled into her arms, you were stuck in Alex’s office since she was needed on a mission. Alex was going to work on her mission statements when she got to it but now she requested for you go to the training room. 

Alex was dressed in her uniform punching gloves by her side. “Sorry mommy had work and couldn’t be with you. But now mommy is going to teach you how to punch.”

“I will get to be like mommy?” 

“Yes, but you got to promise that you won’t tell mommy and you can not use this unless someone hits you first.”

“Okay.” You smiled before you grabbed the two gloves.

“(Y/n).” You turned to face your mom. “You got to pinky promise.”

Your pinkys interlocked before Alex helped you with the gloves. She helped you into a fight stance before slowly guiding your hands to throw a punch. After several punches with Alex guiding you, you began to punch Alex’s gloved mittens on your own. Kelly and Alex has an argument about this, but you ended up looking foreword to Sundays to spar with her.

~~~~~

You were a quiet, didn’t speak a single word. The teachers noticed you didn’t make any progress in your reading skills. Alex was furious and so was Kelly. How dare they say you aren’t making progress when you would read to them every night. Harry Potter for that matter. So you were home schooled.

Turns out it was just hard for you to meet new people. So Superfriends took turns to teach you. You were mainly with J’onn in the tower. He taught history on Mondays Brainy projected himself in the tower to help with math on Tuesdays, Lena always took a half day on Fridays and would help you with science. Kara and Nia would help with English on Thursdays or Wednesdays. That only worked until middle school.

It wasn’t until then when you started through glitter all over your room, frustrated with the fact that your valentine wouldn’t look perfect.

“What’s wrong kiddo?” Alex asked from the door.

“I can’t make this stupid Valentine.”

“It’s not stupid, let me see. That is a lot of glitter. You are not giving this to anyone. No boy likes glitter.”

“It’s for a girl...” Silence took over before Alex stepped further into the room. 

“Well girls don’t really like glitter either.” 

“You always make Valentine’s Day so special with mom. I don’t know what to do.” 

“Well everyone always gives a bear and flowers, I like where you are going with the card.” 

You continued to draw yourself and your crush in crayon adding red hearts around the both of you. Alex took the same red crayon, writing ‘the universe can not compare to your beauty.’

“That’s so cheesy! I love it!” You hugged Alex.

~~~~~

Age: 11

Alex woke up with a feeling that something was wrong. She looked to her left and found Kelly fast asleep. She got up and checked on your room, to find you sniffing and curled up into a ball. 

“My sweet girl. You’re okay. I’m here.” Alex whispered as she slipped under the blankets with you. 

You cried into her neck, tightly gripping the back of her shirt. Alex wished so dearly to take away your pain. She hated to see you cry. She rubbed your back and whispered sweet words in your ear. 

You don’t get nightmares easily, you’ve seen your mother defeat aliens and even enjoyed watching scary movies with your mothers. It wasn’t until you found Alex unconscious in the medbay, with wires coming out of her arms when you kept getting your nightmare. All different scenarios of Alex possibly dying in the field. 

Alex knew not to say ask for anything you weren’t ready to share. Alex caught Kelly’s silhouette at the door and gestured for her join. Kelly knew, of course, she was a therapist and she was your mother. Alex held you until you fell asleep again before Kelly told her her guess. 

~~~~~

Age: 16 

Alex had a day off today. She was going through old reports on her bed when  the apartment door was slammed open. It was near lunch time you were at school and Kelly had a meeting that would go past lunch. Alex reached into the reached under the bed and pulled out the gun below. 

The DEO director followed the shuffling and grumbling into your room. She raised her gun before she registered a click from a gun. She cautiously walked towards your room, she turned immediately and pointed her gun at the intruder. 

“Mom?” 

“(Y/n)?” You both lowered your guns. 

“I thought you’d have work.”

“Don’t you have school?”

“I don’t feel safe there.”

“Is that why you have a gun?” Alex raised her eyebrows.

You looked down in your hand before you switched the gun to hold it from the barrel and handed it to Alex. 

“Lets get you food, then we can talk.” 

“They tell me i’m not (your ethnicity) enough, nor am I enough. My birth parents didn’t want me. I think it would’ve been better if I was left to die in that orphanage.

“Hey, your parents wanted you, in fact they came after Kelly and I. They were in no shape or form cable of giving you the love you needed. They gave up yes, but you’re wanted by us. I promise we did not adopt you out of pity.” Alex moved your hair behind your ears. “And no, it would not have been better. Yes, Kelly and I would’ve adopted someone else, but trust me when I say the world is a better place because you’re in it. I’m not just saying that because your my daughter. You brought Kelly and I out of dark places, you have even made Supergirl helpful again. We love you, I love you and you are enough.”

“It doesn’t feel that way,” you pouted as Alex held you.

“You have touched so many people’s heart. Anyone would be lucky to have you in their corner. You are a dream come true and I promise you that nothing stands a chance against you.”

“Except Aunt Kara.”

“Except Aunt Kara,” Alex agreed. “Though your Aunt Kara doesn’t stand a chance to your Aunt Lena.”

“Aunt Lena spoils me...”

“Yeah I have to talk to her about that, because apparently you’ve been talking to your Aunt Lena cause she built you a...”

“A stealth suit! This is a dream come true! Of course after you and Enat.”

[waveypedia]

Key to a Memory

(warning for swearing)

~

{people need a melody to open their eyes

like a key to a memory frozen in time

holding on to everything, you’re stuck in the past

boy dontcha know that the world moves fast

it’s been a little while since we’ve been together

it’s been a long time since we were young and wild, remember

when we were friends, remember}

--

May 14, 2019 I 6:26 pm

UNKNOWN NUMBER: GYRO

UNKNOWN NUMBER: HEY GYRO

UNKNOWN NUMBER: It’s me Della!! Your bud!!!

UNKNOWN NUMBER: I’m back from space!!!

UNKNOWN NUMBER: I can’t believe you have the same number you nerd! lol I remember when Uncle Scrooge finally forced you to get a phone and you got a super cheap one and then upgraded it with your own tech

UNKNOWN NUMBER: I can’t wait to see how much more upgraded and fancy your phone is now!

UNKNOWN NUMBER: sorry for not texting you sooner I got back a couple days ago but things have just been really hectic since then ya know??

UNKNOWN NUMBER: anyway I know you’re probably busy changing the world and inventing amazing things for Uncle Scrooge

UNKNOWN NUMBER: he told me you got an intern!! Congrats!! I can’t wait to meet them

UNKNOWN NUMBER: just call me when you get a chance ok? I’d really like to catch up

--

“GYRO!!” Della screamed, kicking open the door to the lab. Gyro scowled at his desk and scrawled a quick note to outfit the elevator with self-opening doors. The scientist sighed and stood up reluctantly, stepping around his desk to be in full view. “What is it now, Della?”

Della sprinted into the lab, her grin threatening to split her face in two. She exuberantly waved a bundle of papers in Gyro’s face. “Donnie and I got tickets to the new Galaxy Wars movie, and you’re coming!! Thursday at 6!! Be there or be square!!”

Gyro snorted and gently waved her off, pushing the tickets out of his face. “Dels, I’m busy here. Besides, any self-respecting scientist knows those movies are garbage.”

Della fake-pouted and slung her arm around Gyro’s shoulders, despite the height difference. She had to lean and go up on her tiptoes to manage, making Gyro burst out in a fit of laughter. She shrugged, tugging Gyro down to her height. “Whatever. The premiere was a couple weeks ago, so you probably won’t get into a fistfight with an overzealous fan this time-”

“-Their fault-” Gyro muttered under his breath as Della prattled on.

“-Aaaaaand Cousin Gladdy’ll be there! With his luck we probably won’t get kicked out by the ushers,” Della finished proudly.

Gyro rolled his eyes good-naturedly. “Ugh, Gladstone? That man is too self-absorbed. Takes one to know one. And does that mean Fethry will be there as well?”

“Yep!” Della beamed. “He loves science, Gy, and he loves you! He’ll grow on you one day.”

“Highly unlikely.” Gyro shoved her arm off and stretched, standing up to his full height. “I grudgingly respect Fethry’s passion and his interest in scientific fields. He’s just so…” Gyro huffed. “Annoying.”

Della poked him in the beak. “Whatever. If you think Fethry’s annoying, my buddy Loopy from flight school will be there and she’ll blow your mind. But in a good way! Loopy’s amazing!”

Gyro groaned and slapped a hand on his face, slowly dragging it down. “Loopy and I are your only friends, aren’t we?”

Della puffed her chest out in mock effrontery. “I have lots of friends! I’m the best at making friends! They’re just all over the globe, you know, cause of all the amazing and daring adventuring I do!”

Gyro snorted and knocked his friend with his shoulder. “Whatever. When one of these international ‘friends’ comes around to Duckburg and hangs out with you beyond the adventure, let me know.”

Della smirked. “So you’ll be there?”

“Fine. I’ll be there.” Gyro affirmed, rolling his eyes.Della beamed mischievously. “Wonderful! See you there! Also it’s a sleepover and I’m adding you to a group chat specifically for this event now byeeeeee!!!”

“WHAT?!” Gyro squawked, racing after Della, but the elevator dinged and carried her far away. “Della! No! Come back! DELLA!!! I WILL NOT SUBJECT MYSELF TO THE TORTURES OF YOUR CHILDISH SLEEPOVER!!!” He chanced a look at his phone. It was already blowing up with texts from Della and Fethry.

Gyro groaned and slammed his head down on his desk, grateful for the solitude of his lab. He pulled up the calendar Scrooge filled with his deadlines from the board and added the movie night so he wouldn’t forget. A small, pleased smile played at his beak.

He picked up his phone, muted the group chat, and returned to his work.

 --

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May 15 I 4:03 pm

Della Duck: hey dumbass

Della Duck: they have read receipts now stupid

Della Duck: I know you saw my messages

Della Duck: whatever I know you’re hella busy just call me when you get the chance

Della Duck: hahah did you see that? hella! I used new slang!

Della Duck: Louie taught it to me :D

Della Duck: I can’t believe his name is Louie and not Rebel! I’m kinda mad at Donald but also it suits him more than Rebel

Della Duck: Dewey though… he’s DEFINITELY a Turbo

Della Duck: Huey could go either way but he’s okay with Huey so I guess I am too

Della Duck: It’s a lot to take in

Della Duck: although Webby would be overjoyed to be Jet or Rebel

Della Duck: I can’t believe I have an extra daughter!!! how cool is that?? four kids for the price of three!!

Della Duck: or maybe it’s more like six kids for the price of three since Webby had friends over today and they all seem close

Della Duck: Ooh you know who would be a good Rebel? Lena! apparently she just came back from the shadow realm??? I missed so much

Della Duck: i can’t believe you guys got to fight magica de spell without me AND she had a kid

Della Duck: she’s still kinda hot ngl

Della Duck: but louie showed me a picture of her after she lost her magic and ehhhh

Della Duck: but also there are lots of hot people around these days and I’m kinda freaked out

Della Duck: like I made a best friend of my roommate on the moon!! Her name’s Penumbra but I call her Penny and I’d let her stomp on me. Best part is she probably would

Della Duck: also Uncle Scrooge got a new pilot & driver and I hate him cause he’s sorta replacing me?? But also he’s hot in a himbo kinda way

Della Duck: I know you have insanely high standards but you gotta back me up here gyro Launchpad is kinda hot

Della Duck: damn i’ve missed our conversations about various hot people and our lack of love lives

Della Duck: I told you about Penny you gotta fill me in on the current hotties in the Duckburg science community

Della Duck: I also met your intern! He seems nice ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ) ;) ;) ;)

Della Duck: i can hear your voice. “Della that is an excessive amount of emoticons”

Della Duck: well if you want me to stop you’ll just have to reply ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)

Della Duck: at least you’re not telling me to use “emojis”Della Duck: apparently they all have hidden meanings and I don’t understand

Della Duck: Louie, Dewey, and Lena tried to teach Uncle Scrooge and I

Della Duck: I’m ashamed to say I think he fared better than I did

Della Duck: he’s old!! He’s supposed to be clueless!! I’m not old I was just on the moon for a decade!! That’s gotta count for something right?

4:46 pm

Della Duck: i see how it is

Della Duck: ignore me all you want but i’m right

--

The sun was nearly below the horizon, painting the evening sky and the waves below it in a plethora of muted colors, when Della broke the topic. “Yo. I think Magica de Spell is kinda hot.”

Gyro swerved to stare at her so fast he felt something in his neck crack. “Magica?! She’s ancient; are you crazy?!”

Della shrugged, kicking sand around absentmindedly with her bare toes. “Yeah, but she doesn’t look it. She’s hot in an unattainable kind of way.”

Gyro snorted, loud and sad. “I know how that feels.”

Della nudged him teasingly. “What’s going on in your love life? I shared, now you have to.”

Gyro rolled his eyes and nudged her back, harder. “You know nothing’s happening.” He shrugged carelessly. “It’s not like I have much time outside of work.”

“Yeah, but that’s because you refuse to take care of yourself and you act like you’ll die if you leave the lab,” Della said good-naturedly. “You should come on an adventure with us!”

Gyro sighed contentedly and waved her away. “I’ll stick to the lab, thanks. My inventions’ corrupted morality circuits provide me quite enough stress and adventure, thank you very much.”

(He couldn’t very well tell her that her dear ol’ uncle had entrusted him with the project of a lifetime, his chance to thank her for her gift of friendship, his chance to prove himself to Mr. McDuck for once and for all, his chance to redeem himself from the smoking failure that was 2BO. He didn’t have to run himself ragged working on the Spear of Selene day and night, but this was important, far more important than anything Gyro had worked on at McDuck Industries before. For his career, and for his friendship. And he wanted to do it right.)

(Shame he failed in the end anyway.)

Della sighed assent, smiling, and leaned back on her elbows, working her fingers into the sand. She had given up for now, but Gyro knew she would broach the subject again soon, from a new angle, with a new tactic. Della Duck never gave up.

“Maybe one day,” Gyro said, surprising himself. After this whole Spear debacle is said and done.

Della beamed and knocked her shoulder into his affectionately. “I’ll hold you to that!”

Gyro smiled wryly. “I know you will.”

--

Gyro pushed up his glasses and studied Della’s texts, willing his eyes not to unfocus and his brain not to zone out. He read them once, twice, three times. Four.

He began typing.

Gyro Gearloose: I remember-

Gyro Gearloose: My love life is as nonexistent as it was when you left-

Gyro Gearloose: emojis are zealous anyway-

Gyro Gearloose: I’m sorry-

He deleted his words, frustrated, nerves and old, painful memories rubbed raw, and never sent a reply.

--

June 11 I 2:09 pm

Della Duck: so Fenton and I went out for coffee today

Della Duck: not on a date, just as a chance to get to know each other platonically

Della Duck: he’s so much like you

Della Duck: not on the surface. In fact you guys are pretty much opposites

Della Duck: but you both care so much, even though you show it differently

Della Duck: i know you care your prickly demeanor can’t fool me

Della Duck: you’re both incredibly passionate about sciences

Della Duck: you’re both super awkward

Della Duck: he has high praise for you, and he really admires you, but it sounds like you’re not that close and I think you totally should be!

Della Duck: I know you’re probably annoyed that I’m meddling in your (love) life again, but get used to it!! I’m the best wingman and friend and I’m here to stay!!

Della Duck: even if you don’t text me back

Della Duck: (but seriously, please text me back. I miss you.)

Della Duck: he said you might need some space and I guess that makes sense but i just don’t understand why

Della Duck: that’s the only reason I haven’t stormed down to the lab by now

Della Duck: Did i do something before I took off for the moon?

Della Duck: or are you like Donnie and you’re mad?Della Duck: at least I think Donnie’s mad

Della Duck: or he will be

Della Duck: he’s on a cruise, Gyro! A fucking cruise!!!

Della Duck: he left the day I got back and now he’s gone for a fucking month

Della Duck: he thinks I’m dead

Della Duck: I miss him so much

Della Duck: the cruise doesn’t allow cell phones so I can’t even contact him and tell him I’m alive

Della Duck: But Huey and I sent postcards!! I don’t know if they’ll reach him but I really hope they do

Della Duck: Huey and Webby have been checking the mailbox meticulously to see if he sends one back

Della Duck: sorry for ranting

Della Duck: I just miss him

Della Duck: I miss you too you know? Yeah i’m being stupid sappy again but it’s dumb that you’re right here, across the city, and we haven’t talked

Della Duck: call me gyro you fucking coward

2:43 pm

Della Duck: also Fenton is totally Gizmoduck right

Della Duck: I met Gizmoduck once when he came to formally greet me

Della Duck: and i’ve seen him around the city lots

Della Duck: but they’re so similar. They have the same mannerisms

Della Duck: I guess that means you built his armor then right?

Della Duck: or you helped

Della Duck: it’s great Gyro

Della Duck: look at you! An invention that didn’t turn evil!!

Della Duck: I’m proud of you bud

--

“Have you ever thought about hiring someone to help in the lab?” Della asked one day, apropos of nothing.

She had dragged Gyro into a fancy coffee shop - one he’d probably be banned from had he attempted to patronize it on his own, and one he would be in the post-Spear of Selene era - and forced him to take a break from the top secret project he’d been devoting all his time to. They bought overpriced, bougie coffees on Mr. McDuck’s dime and traded jabs without any real bite to them, as was customary for them. Della mocked Gyro’s unique taste for black licorice, again. Same old, same old.

And then, this.

Gyro paused, his ceramic mug halfway to his face. “I’m fine on my own. Any help would only get in my way. They would stumble over their own feet and I would have to take precious time off of my own projects to tediously help them flail and fall.”

Della set down her coffee and leaned forward with her elbows on the table. “You’re so cynical. Besides, you’re working yourself to death down there! It might help if you had someone else to lighten the load.”

Gyro paused. “I suppose I might be more productive if I didn’t have to do the menial tasks beneath me…”

“-And you could make a FRIEND!!!” Della cheered, standing up and leaning heavily on the table, her enthusiasm thundering in full-force. “Someone to chat with on late nights deep in projects, someone who understands your passion for science, someone you can count on when Donnie and I are off on an adventure!”

Gyro groaned, startled at first but then settling into resignation. “I should have known you had an ulterior motive.”

Della giggled, batting her eyelashes jokingly. “I only have your best interests at heart.”

Gyro shrugged and swirled his quickly-cooling coffee around in his mug. “Besides, Dels, you know there’s a reason you’re one of my only friends, right? You and Dickie and Daisy, you’re the people I’m closest with and that’s because you wouldn’t put up with my prickly, stay-alone-all-the-time bullshit. You guys drag me out of whatever place I’m holed up in kicking and screaming. Most people are not like that. I’m lucky to have three of you,” he admitted in the kind of moment of uncharacteristic vulnerability and clarity that only comes when you’re with someone you really trust.

Della snorted and reached across the table to shove Gyro gently. “Shut your self-depricating hole, Gyro Gearloose. Trust me, I wouldn’t put up with you if I didn’t want to.”

Gyro smirked, a small smile chasing away the dark storm clouds that covered his face. “I know, Dels.”

“Good.” Della replied self-assuredly. “I love Dickie and Daisy, and I love that they love you, but they’re not local. You need more friends, Gyro.”

“Maybe,” Gyro hummed softly, the closest he would ever come to admitting it. “But it’s even harder to get along with coworkers, and the chances of my subordinate being someone who actually wants to be friends with me is abysmal.”

Della shrugged. “Sometimes you learn to like each other. Like me ‘n Donnie! We drive each other crazy, but we have each other’s backs when it matters, and we’re always there for each other.”

Gyro snorted. “This hypothetical person and I will be coworkers, Dels, not siblings. That’s different. Besides, you and Donald love each other too much to be healthy.”

“Yeah, but Donnie and Uncle Scrooge and I are a little like coworkers, aren’t we? Adventuring is our job, and it’s very stressful at times,” Della said.

Gyro shook his head. “Dels, honestly, you have to get a job at some point. Mr. McDuck won’t let you leech off of him for much longer now, and you have no experience. It’s really not the same.”

Della shrugged. “At some point. I know Uncle Scrooge is biting at the bit, especially after Donnie joined the Navy, but I don’t want the responsibilities and schedules of work to tie me down and take me away from adventuring, you know? It’s the same reason I didn’t go off to college.”

“I still think you should have,” Gyro replied, smiling wryly. “You’re bright and you’d flourish being able to study what you choose.”

“I learn a lot adventuring,” Della replied smugly, stubborn as always. “I can speak seven languages fluently, you know!”

“Even if most of them are dead, or belong to otherworldly beings from alternate dimensions,” Gyro pointed out.

Della sighed contentedly and shook her head. “Whatever. What’s done is done, and I’ll get a job someday. But just think about it, Gyro, all right?” She locked gazes with Gyro pleadingly.

Gyro sighed in defeat. “Fine. I will give it some thought. But don’t get your hopes up, all right?”

Della smirked. “Whatever you say.”

Gyro put his head in his hands, roughly shoving aside his expensive coffee. (He was lucky it didn’t crash and burn, like most of his inventions.)

She’s not gonna win this one, Gyro aggressively promised himself. I can’t subject anyone else to my bullshit.

(The only reason he assented and allowed an intern on, in the future, was because Scrooge all but ordered it. He saw firsthand the way having positive people around improves lives and wanted that for Gyro too, especially with Della gone and Donald barely speaking to him. And if Mr. McDuck’s not-so-subtle hints and gentle persuasion-turned direct orders gave Gyro crystal-clear flashbacks to Della’s not-so-gentle prodding, and if he cried that night after his boss left, well, no one would be anyone the wiser.)

(He got quite lucky with Fenton and Manny, though. Some of that was the Board's thorough vetting process, but some of it was Scrooge himself intervening, because he wanted Gyro to make a friend as badly as Della had.)

--

August 15 I 7:26 pm

Della Duck: all right

Della Duck: I talked to Fenton again

Della Duck: i’m sorry for bothering you

Della Duck: it hurts to not talk to you but I’m gonna give you your space

Della Duck: I’m here whenever you’re ready

Della Duck: but please be ready soon Gyro i’m impatient

I know you are, Gyro nearly whispered as he read the texts. It felt like a finality, a surrender. But that couldn’t be right, because Della Duck never gave up.

How could he and his stupid, stupid inability to communicate his feelings and face his irrational fears be the one thing that forced Della Duck to admit defeat?

(read 7:58 pm)

--

The McDuck Annual Holiday Party was in full swing when Gyro arrived quietly. Launchpad had offered to drive him with Fenton, Manny, and Scrooge when they left a couple of hours ago, but Gyro had stayed to put the finishing touches on his current project, lest he lose his motivation.

That was the only reason. Not because Della would be there, and he might be forced to talk to her. No, sir.

Gyro clenched his fists so tight his knuckles turned white in the pockets of his vest. Who was he kidding? He wasn’t fooling himself, and he certainly wasn’t fooling his friends family coworkers. Every single one of them, even Mr. McDuck (now that was painful) had tossed him a look that ranged from disappointed to knowing to pitying as they left for the party. It made Gyro want to scream in rage and slam his fists against the wall until they were bruised and bloody. But even he knew that was unacceptable party behavior. (Mrs. Beakley had humiliatingly taken him aside for a quick rundown on which of his usual behaviors were not applicable at company parties.)

Steeling himself for a night of faux cheer and passive-aggressive conversations, Gyro quietly opened the door and slipped inside. Skirting on the outskirts of the party, he scanned the room desperately for allies to swarm to and enemies to avoid.

He spotted Fenton and Launchpad first, amicably chatting up the legendary Greek hero Storkules and his sister, the equally inexplicable and ethereal goddess Selene. (A mystery to unpack at a later date.) Beside them was the gruff Moonlander that Della seemed to love.

Gyro set his jaw. He could handle chatty immortals and aggressive aliens. At least they probably wouldn’t have a personal vendetta against him because of a malfunctioning invention or a poorly placed comment. He waded determinedly through the sluggish crowd, surprisingly stopped a couple times by friendly faces. (Boyd’s hug of greeting lasted almost three minutes, and that didn’t even account for the rest of the overzealously affectionate kids.)

Looking back, he’s lucky his the kids stalled him, because when he finally emerged from Webby’s hug, his eyes locked on his own personal horror story.

Della.

This was the first time Gyro had actually seen her since she’d come back from the moon. Her hair was longer, if only slightly, and her metal leg gleamed in the light from the chandeliers above. (His fingers itched to get his hands on it and upgrade it, toy with it, make it into a personal project, but he adamantly refused himself.)

Alongside the physical differences, Gyro noticed some changes to her demeanor as well. She seemed more… weathered, and tired, despite the ever-present spark of energy she seemed to radiate and her unwavering grin. It was cliché, and Dr. Gyro Gearloose hated clichés with a passion, but she had an almost haunted look in her eyes, contrasting her radiating cheery energy.

She was different, and he was different. So much time had passed. It seemed almost impossible that the duck in front of him was the same duck that Gyro had shared coffee and secrets with almost daily ten years ago.

And yet he yearned to return to their easy friendship. Not for the first time, Gyro wished desperately to go back in time a decade and stop the Spear of Selene from ever happening.

Della slipped between Penumbra and Selene, glowing in the way only an extrovert in social situations can. By way of greeting, she hugged everyone, even Fenton (!!!). She settled at last, hanging off Penumbra’s shoulder with Selene’s arm around her and Launchpad’s jacket around her shoulders (how she had acquired that, Gyro had no idea).

Unfortunately for Gyro, from her new position, she had a perfect view of him, stuck with only a single sparse group between them. Her eyes strayed to lock onto him and he froze, panic creeping in a mile a minute.For a moment neither moved, staring at each other.

She hadn’t texted him since August, true to her word, albeit how much it hurt for both of them. She had come to the lab a couple times, to pick up Fenton and/or Manny for coffee or to pick up or drop off Huey, Webby, or Boyd. But Gyro had always hid like the coward he was, terrified to face his best friend. The last time they’d talked was the day before Della took off in the Spear of Selene, ten years and eight months ago.

At last, after four months, and nine months of radio silence from his end, here she was, almost close enough to touch.

Then Gyro’s fight-or-flight instinct kicked in and he turned tail and ran, panic clouding his vision and his judgement. He shoved one of the Sabrewing husbands roughly aside (Scrooge would undoubtedly make him apologize for that later) in his frantic quest to escape all the raw emotions, of hurt and guilt and self-hatred, that sprung up all of a sudden.

His eyes locked on a door and he wrenched it open before slamming it shut. He leaned hard against the door, hands clenched around the handle, breathing hard.

Only once the panic began creeping away and his breathing slowed did Gyro finally process his surroundings. He was in a small broom closet, filled to the brim with glittery party supplies Mrs. Beakley had probably denied Webby. (She would probably find a way to sneak them into the party sometime later.)

And perched precariously on top of a box labeled “glitter fireworks” was a woman Gyro had met once, in the Old West, two hundred years ago.

Goldie O’Gilt sized him up, panicked and ruffled, and apparently decided he was no threat. She slid gracefully down from the boxes. “What brings you here, to the closet of forgotten and abandoned party supplies? Girl troubles?”

Gyro wanted to laugh, because technically, she was right. “I’m gay,” he replied, giving her his best deadpan stare. It was lacking.

She assessed him, trying hard not to smile, before bursting out laughing. Gyro barely resisted the urge to bury his face in his hands. “People problems, whatever. Please. You can’t fool me, hun.”

Gyro crossed his arms testily. “Why are you here? Away with you.”

Goldie grinned smugly, pretending to examine her nails. “Oh, nothing special. Just some extra fun for Scroogey later. May or may not involve glitter fireworks. You?”

Gyro snorted, without any real humor behind it, and rolled his eyes. “Great. Well, I have better things to do than watch you drive Mr. McDuck up the wall. See ya.”

“This is about Scroogey’s rediscovered niece, isn’t it?” Goldie called after him, as if as an afterthought.

Gyro froze, his fingers curled around the doorknob. “Why do you care?”

“I don’t, really,” Goldie hummed, faking disinterest. “But spare an old woman some juicy gossip, would ya? ‘Sides, I’m a professional conwoman. I see all the angles, and yours is in plain sight.”

Gyro scowled and shifted so he could see Goldie’s face again. She was smirking, small but triumphant, which did nothing to quell Gyro’s steadily growing mix between annoyance and panic. “And I suppose this has nothing to do with ‘Aunt Goldie,’ would it?”

Goldie shrugged nonchalantly, but the smile on her beak shifted into a small pout of annoyance. “I’ll do you a favor and be honest with you. Cherish this moment; it won’t happen again.”

She sighed and leaned more heavily against the precariously stacked boxes. “I may have missed Della and her adventurous, rambunctious spirit over the years,” she confessed, suddenly looking a good deal more like the age-old tired adventurer she was. “It hurts to see that spirit quenched, especially when I just got her back. She hasn’t even frustratingly tagged along to one of Scroogey and I’s not-so-solo adventures! And… I care about her. She’s almost my niece.”

Gyro frowned, stunned at Goldie’s clarity. “...Oh.”

Goldie straightened up and whipped out a shiny knife from the folds of her dress. “But tell anyone, especially Della or Scrooge, and they’ll never know what happened to ya,” she warned, wagging the knife in the direction of Gyro’s face.

He pressed himself against the door while maintaining his scowl, despite the fact that it was too far away to hurt him. He knew what she could do if she put her mind to it. “I won’t.”

Goldie slipped the knife back into the folds of her dress, where it seemed to magically disappear from her hand. “Good. Now go get my niece’s spirit back,” she instructed strictly, shoving Gyro not-so-subtly towards the door.

He wrenched it open and slipped surreptitiously outside, glancing around the party. The crowds seemed to have thinned a little.

Gyro spotted Della easily. She, Donald, and Mrs. Beakley were gently corralling the gaggle of children upstairs - it was quite late, after all. Gyro started to step towards her, then hesitated.

He chickened out and sprinted unsteadily outside instead, taking in big mouthfuls of the refreshingly cold December air.

The chill set in after a few moments and he wrapped his arms around himself, shivering, and despairingly started the long trek away from the mansion.

His phone was buzzing with worried texts from his friends (and Della, no doubt), but Gyro set his jaw and walked on, stubbornly ignoring their annoyingly righteous concern. No use telling everyone he lost his nerve again, just like every time Della texted.

Gyro gritted his teeth and pulled the collar of his jacket over the lower half of his face as protection against the biting winds. The physical pain lessened, but the icy feeling in his gut did not. He balled his hands into fists, as if to physically punch his overwhelming guilt and regret away.

I’m a bad friend.

--

Early April was always a little tough for Gyro, with the anniversary of the destruction he inadvertently sowed in Tokyolk. It got better with time, but the early years were always a little rough.

(And after that he always had another grief-filled and regretful anniversary to observe in April, anyway.)

He was pushing through it, though, by throwing himself into his work. This year was especially easy. The Spear of Selene was almost done, and would probably be finished just before the eggs’ hatching.

The last time he talked to Della was when he was taking a quick, rare break the day before what would be the second-worst day of Gyro’s life. (Tokyolk took first, if only narrowly.) He had gone off on a quest in search of coffee - he was at the launch lot, and he’d unfortunately been banned from the closest coffee shop. (It was their fault anyway - what kind of coffee shop didn’t want an automatic coffee bean stocker? Even if it tried to stock customers when there were no beans left? Really, they shouldn’t have run out of beans. And his price of free coffee for life was so reasonable and small, really, when he usually frequented the one closer to the lab. Their loss.)

“Gyro!” Della sprinted up to him, face flushed from running in the chilly winds and early spring air. She held out a coffee from the aforementioned shop to him with a grin, prompting his frustrated rant, but Della just let him prattle on with a goofy grin gracing her face.

“What’s going on?” Gyro finally demanded, after watching Della beam ardently at his violent threats and calls for justice and revenge towards the coffee shop. “Your smile is… sillier than usual. Which is saying something.”

Della waved him off, his insult breezing past her. “It’s a surprise. You’ll see!!”

Gyro raised an eyebrow, unconvinced. “Is it a good surprise?”

Della beamed triumphantly back at him. “Definitely.”

Gyro frowned dubiously, but he knew Della well. For all her recklessness, when she was this sure about something, her judgement was usually worth listening to.

(Later, he’d wish he hadn’t listened to her, and trusted his own gut, for once.)

He shrugged. “I highly doubt it’s as good as you think it is,” he replied haughtily, prompting carefree laughter from Della.

“It definitely is. Just you wait.” She reached out with her free hand and booped him on the beak, causing him to reel back, away from her. “I can make an educated guess that you’ll love it.”

Gyro rolled his eyes at her rudimentary science terminology, causing her to giggle. “If it’s another movie night with Fethry, I’ll pass.”

“Better than that,” Della promised, her smug grin turning downright devious. It didn’t faze Gyro in the slightest.

He shrugged carelessly. “With you, that could either mean better or worse. Otherwise known as pure, unadulterated torture for me.”

Della laughed, but her smile softened into something more vulnerable and emotional, no longer masked by a carefree and reckless demeanor. “I’m telling you, Gyro. You’ll love it. Come on, when have I ever been wrong?’’

Gyro barked a laugh. “Do you really want me to answer that? Because I have a full comprehensive list at the top of my head, and that only covers the basics.”

“Hating black licorice doesn’t count,” Della protested. “It tastes worse than every iteration of Hell, and I’ve been to every iteration of Hell!”

Gyro raised an eyebrow, unimpressed. “Did you taste every iteration of Hell?”

Della rolled her eyes playfully. “Whatever. Just trust me on this one, will you?” she asked, hitting him with that almost vulnerable expression again.

Gyro huffed. “Fine.” He stuck a finger pompously in the air. “But I reserve the right to pass judgement when I see it.”

Della sighed without any real weight behind it. “Fine, whatever you want. But trust me, you’ll be blown away by the amazingness of this surprise!!!”

“We’ll see about that,” Gyro replied, smirking. “Now, away with you!! I have a highly important project to finish - which is unanimously more important than whatever surprise you have cooked up - and I simply cannot afford any distractions!!”

Della snorted knowingly. “Whatever. See you tomorrow at my amazing surprise! And you’re welcome for the coffee, Mr. Banned-From-Coffee-Shops!!”

Gyro shook his head fondly and made his way down the hill back to the lot. The Spear of Selene loomed in front of him, shining in the weak midday sun. It seemed frozen, waiting, on edge.

“Soon,” Gyro promised to no one in particular. He climbed inside to make some last-minute tweaks to the nuanced controls. “You’ll be in the air by May at the latest,” he promised, patting the cold metal of the rocketship. “Just let me make sure this is perfect. So nothing could ever go wrong.”

--

Jan 3, 2020 I 5:47 am

Donald Duck: hey asshole

Donald Duck: fyi Della’s really upset

Donald Duck: she really missed her friends ya know?

Donald Duck: Look, Gyro

Donald Duck: I know how this feels

Donald Duck: I know you’re scared

Donald Duck: but dude you face scarier stuff every day when your inventions go evil

Donald Duck: if you can face Lil’ Bulb turning evil not once but twice and still call him your son I think you can face your best friend

Donald Duck: and i know I said some shitty things to you the day we lost her and I’m sorry, that was uncalled for

Donald Duck: I was upset, as were you

Donald Duck: I forgive you if that’s not clear

Donald Duck: i forgave you a long time ago

Donald Duck: Della has too

Donald Duck: she never blamed you

Donald Duck: except maybe for the flavor of Oxy-Chew. But that saved her life, Gyro!

Donald Duck: I know I said your invention killed her, but your invention also saved her, and after she fixed it your invention brought her home

Donald Duck: now she’s back, but you’re losing her again

--

Gyro stumbling blearily awake, fumbling for his glasses, tired and disoriented, was nothing outside of the norm. He was a secluded, inane inventor with few friends, little social interaction, and no sleep schedule. Not to mention the plethora of projects piled on his desk vying for his attention, and the ever-present mug of coffee in his hand. (At the moment, there was a half-empty one on his desk, placed precariously on top of some blueprints.)

But his latest cup of coffee’s predicament was the least of Gyro’s worries at the moment. Because his phone, charging on his bedside, was blowing up. And that was decidedly not normal.

Gyro, at this point in time, didn’t have social media yet. (Fenton, Louie, and Dewey didn’t exist in his life yet, and so they had not had a chance to plot and execute an intervention.) Sometimes his phone blew up from the group chat with Daisy and Dickie, or the group chat with Della, Daisy, and Dickie, or just Della when she got excited. Or Fethry, once in a while, but Gyro was certain he’d blocked Fethry’s number this time.

Gyro clumsily put on his glasses and pulled himself up into a sitting position, still half-asleep. He scrolled through his notifications, frowning.

Mostly missed calls from Donald and Scrooge, a couple confused text notifications from Gladstone, two missed calls from the Board (that couldn’t be good), and one from Roxanne Featherly, a trainee journalist under Angus Fangus who had taken an unfortunate liking to calling him whenever one of his inventions went haywire.

Panic began to stir in Gyro’s gut.

The weirdest part, though, was that most of the notifications had not come from Della. She was by far his most ardent caller, and she had called, a couple times, but they were all over an hour ago. They were all buried by the rest of his missed calls.

Odd. Very odd.

Gyro tried calling Della first, to soften the blow of whatever was happening. Della wouldn’t sugarcoat the problem. She knew better. But there was something about her contagious enthusiasm and optimism, as well as her face-it-head-on attitude, that made whatever issue was at hand seem less daunting.

But his call went to voicemail.

Gyro shook his head, confused and more than a little scared at this point. Della almost never refused his calls, even if she was on an adventure (as long as she had cell service). It annoyed Donald to no avail, but Gyro was grateful for it - he didn’t reach out for social interaction with no reason.

But now? It only scared Gyro.

He frowned, contemplating, and called Donald next. Scrooge was more likely to call unprompted than Donald, and he didn’t want to deal with the Buzzards or Featherly yet, so Donald it was.

He picked up on the third ring.“Oh, so now he picks up!! When he can’t be of any help!! What’s the big idea, Doctor?!”

Gyro scowled, annoyance beginning to mix with the terror in his gut. “For your information, I just woke up. Now, what is going on?! Della won’t answer my calls and I have an ungodly amount of notifications at three AM. Seriously, people.”

“You want to know what is going on?!” Donald screamed, his voice and temper steadily rising. Gyro flinched at the volume, but kept the phone pressed close to his ear out of half morbid curiosity and half unwanted worry. “I’ll tell you what’s going on!!! Scrooge just killed Della!! And he used your stupid, untrustworthy invention to do it!!!”

Gyro nearly dropped the phone.“...Killed?” he nearly whispered. “How? The Spear of Selene isn’t ready yet and-”

“She took it!!” Donald screeched. “She took that good-for-nothing rocket and flew straight into a cosmic storm!”

“She wasn’t supposed to!” Gyro spluttered, numb. “She wasn’t even supposed to know about it yet!”

“Well, she did!” Donald spat darkly. “And now she’s gone. She left her boys orphaned. What were you thinking, making her that rocket?!”

“It was Mr. McDuck’s idea,” Gyro whispered numbly, automatically. “He- I- We never thought-”

“Scrooge,” Donald growled, and if Gyro knew him well enough he was dragging a frustrated hand down his face. “Of course. He’s too reckless and careless. He killed my sister.”

Gyro rubbed at his eyes under his glasses, unable to think of a coherent response. “I- I don’t think-”

“That’s right, you don’t think,” Donald snarled. “None of you do. And now my sister is dead, thanks to Scrooge. And you. Lose my number, Gyro. You won’t see me again.”

Click.

Gyro stared numbly at the floor, his phone still pressed against his ear, as the dial tone played. Finally, he slowly lowered it to his side and dropped it on the bed next to him before taking off his glasses and dropping his head into his hands.

Then, finally, he cried.

Della Duck. Dead. His best friend. Dead.

It was impossible, improbable. Della Duck was a famed adventurer barely two decades old. She breathed life. She had faced perils and terrors far worse than a cosmic storm, sustained injuries far worse, and bounced back.

Dead.

Because of Gyro’s invention. Maybe if he had worked a little harder, been a little more meticulous, he could have saved her.

He had failed again, gambled and lost with precious lives again, caused death and destruction again. It was Tokyolk all over again, and this time, the lost stakes were even more personal.

Gyro grabbed his phone suddenly, shakingly off the bed and pulled up Della’s contact. Her face beamed back at him, so full of life it seemed to burst from the tiny circle on his cracked phone screen.

He called her again, listening to it ring with baited breath even though he already knew the outcome.

“Hey, this is Della Duck, adventurer extraordinaire! I’m probably trekking through the Amazon or fighting a demon monarch in another dimension right now. Catch ya later!”

Gyro hung up before she could finish her last syllable and sobbed.

--

February 28 I 2:26 pm

Della Duck: fyi I’m picking Huey up today instead of Launchpad since he has a sleepover with his friend Jason today

Della Duck: you know

Della Duck: in case you wanna hide from me again

Della Duck: btw do you care if I snag that magnifying glass that shrinks people in like a month? We’re gonna go to Miniapolis soon

Della Duck: i mean i’m gonna take it anyway but figured you might want a heads up

March 14 I 5:18 pm

Gyro Gearloose: go ahead

Della Duck: GYRO!!!!

Della Duck: oh sorry

Della Duck: look I’m really excited but I also don’t wanna come on too strong

Gyro Gearloose: you’re fine

Della Duck: :D

Gyro Gearloose: it’s my fault I was being a coward

Gyro Gearloose: i couldn’t face my emotions and that was shitty of me

Della Duck: Gyro i took off in a rocket at midnight without telling anyone and left my kids without a mother for a decade

Della Duck: i win for stupid shitty actions here

Gyro Gearloose: it’s not a contest

Gyro Gearloose: we’re both shitty and stupid let’s leave it at that

Della Duck: yeah ur right

Gyro Gearloose: but dels

Gyro Gearloose: I’m sorry

Gyro Gearloose: it’s been almost a year and i fucking ignored you

Gyro Gearloose: i had the chance to get you back and i didn’t take it

Della Duck: hey

Della Duck: it’s okay

Della Duck: i know this is all a lot

Della Duck: i’m here now and that’s what matters

Gyro Gearloose: della i’m so glad

Della Duck: hey Huey is coming to the lab today

Della Duck: what if I come to pick him up and then you and I go out and catch up?

Della Duck: get expensive coffee on Uncle Scrooge’s dime just like old times?

Gyro Gearloose: fuck yeah

Gyro Gearloose: I’ve missed our expensive shitty coffee and gossip

Gyro Gearloose: I have SO much shit to talk about Dr. Akita

Gyro Gearloose: god

Gyro Gearloose: I hate him now

Della Duck: oh man

Della Duck: Huey told me a bit about Tokyolk but I want to hear all about it for you

Della Duck: and Boyd!!! Omg I can’t believe you’re a father

Della Duck: he’s so sweet

Gyro Gearloose: I don’t know if I’d call myself a father he has the Drakes

Della Duck: but you want to be don’t you?

Gyro Gearloose: ...yeah

Gyro Gearloose: but i’d be a shitty parent you know that

Della Duck: actually I don’t think so

Della Duck: i’m a shitty parent and I’m doing fine

Gyro Gearloose: what a surprise

Della Duck: wow thanks for the vote of confidence

Della Duck: but Beakley Donald and Scrooge are helping me

Della Duck: we’ll help you

Della Duck: join the shitty parents club!!

Gyro Gearloose: haha all right

Della Duck: also

Della Duck: i want to hear all about fenton

Gyro Gearloose: then I want to hear all about Penumbra

Gyro Gearloose: you’re not the only one who can play the love interest card

Della Duck: joke’s on you I WANT to talk about penny

Della Duck: anyway i’m leaving now

Della Duck: see you soon!!

Gyro Gearloose: i can’t wait to see you and your ugly 10-year-old clothes

Gyro Gearloose: seriously you’re wearing almost the exact same outfit

Della Duck:  uh HELLO you have no right to shit on the way I dress look at yourself

Della Duck: you dress like a very old gay man

Della Duck: i mean that vest?? really?

Gyro Gearloose: at least i’m not old

Della Duck: touché

Della Duck: LP is driving so i’m almost there see you in a sec

Della Duck: and i’ll probably grab that magnifying glass now

Gyro Gearloose: that’s fine

Gyro Gearloose: i missed you

Della Duck: aw you old sap

Della Duck: never thought i’d hear you say anything like that tbh you’ve gone soft

Gyro Gearloose: I realized recently that my greatest mistakes were not as black-and-white as they seemed

Gyro Gearloose: and if Boyd can forgive me for unknowingly letting Akita turn him into a weapon of mass destruction and for me ignoring him for years and belittling him throughout this trip

Gyro Gearloose: and if I can face both brainwashed 2BO and Akita and win with the “power of love” or whatever than maybe I can talk to you

Della Duck: damn

Della Duck: I have SO many questions about Tokyolk

Della Duck: but i can hold onto them for a minute

The lab doors dinged open, but Della was sprinting out of them before they were fully open. The rest of Team Science watched warily as Della rushed towards Gyro, beaming and laughing, joy seeming to spill out of her. They expected him to hide, or push her away. but to their happy surprise, Gyro met her halfway and wrapped her in a hug.

Or, Della nearly crashed into him and squeezed him so tight he couldn’t breathe, prompting some annoyance, but it was crushed under the sheer joy and emotions of seeing his estranged best friend after eleven years.

Gyro laughed shakily, holding back tears, until he realized Della was crying too. She got snot on his work shirt, but he didn’t care.

They held each other for quite a while, until Della finally pulled back, wiped her eyes, and socked Gyro in the shoulder. “Don’t ever leave me hanging like that again, you hear?! I will hunt you down! I’ll give you your space but I’ll hunt you down! I won’t let this happen again!”

Gyro smiled and wiped away his own tears. “Yes, ma’am. Now, coffee?”

Della beamed. “The expensive kind. You got it.”

“It’s about time,” Manny tapped grumpily in the background, with Huey, Fenton, and Lil’ Bulb adding their agreement, but Della and Gyro ignored them as they flounced out of the lab.They had eleven years of friendship and gossip to catch up on, after all.

{it’s not too late, it was

never too late}

~

woohoo this is a wild ride! i didn’t intend for it to be this long but it just got away from me. Della and Gyro having a friendship, especially before the spear of selene, is one of my favorite headcanons. I think Della would basically grab Gyro and force him to be friends with her and to hang out with her haha.

I have a hard time writing Gyro as mean as he is in canon because I’m a sensitive sweet bean who isn’t creative or socially adept enough to come up with good insults (yet, hopefully). but i’m getting better! i hope this read as somewhat in character. same with Goldie, i’ve been trying to figure out how to write her for two years now sdfghgfds. I think I got Della’s character somewhat down though!

soft Gyro is more of an interpretation (albeit supported by canon) than canon fact but I LOVE it and i’m writing four (counting this) fics based off of it so get ready for that

the title and song lyrics are from People Need a Melody by The Head and the Heart. That song is really special to me because it was my closing song for camp last year (we would sing a song special for each unit each night before bed). I didn’t plan to use this song from the start (the working title was “DR. GYRO GEARLOOSE GET OFF UR ASS AND ANSWER UR PHONE -Della”) - I was listening to it one night, nostalgic for camp, while writing this fic and I realized the lyrics fit!

(also I was on a call for colorguard while I was writing this author’s note and my instructor said “I hear a lot of typing” lol)

[karaslluthor]

supercorp fanfic masterpost pt.2

this has been in my drafts for over a year so here ya go and hasn't been updated since then but if u haven't read these then ur welcome. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

its literally a big ass list jsyk and i did all the tumblr tags back then so idk if they are still the same users but hopefully lmao. 

original part 1 is here boysss

MULTI FICS

somewhere i have never travelled (http://archiveofourown.org/works/9268886/chapters/21008012)

kara and lena visit all different places lenas lived and then they find a home together and its super cute and fluffy I cry

Paranoia Incarnated - @justmickeyfornow

mickey is my fucking supercorp spiritual guider with the best fucking fic and ive read it about 322934 times and still is sooo good. Also the whole heartbeat thing KILLS me. SO MUCH ANGST but literally its worth the death u go through trust me

Transcendent Interactions 

Kara and lena share this bond thing from birth and can feel each others emotions and they finally meet and its so great like im actually fucking in love with this fic and kara gets herself off all the time thinking lena doesn’t know idk just read it u wont regret I stg

Closer and Closer (Until We Collide) - @hallow777 

Im a slut for bed sharing tropes and this is so CUTE like lenas all freaking out because she keeps waking up cuddling kara and alex is oblivious to everything and its just soooo good

So, This Happened?

Drunk kara leaves drunk alex for a more suitable cuddle buddy aka lena lesbian luthor and lena sleeps in a supergirl t shirt bc of course

Sojourn 

Holy mother of fuck as if this fic didn’t absolutely ruin my fucking life??? Lena has to go to London for a month so she invites kara to come with her and lena has a gay awakening and realises shes in love with kara and its SO FUCKING GOOD

just one wrong move (baby, baby)

lena is having karas baby from this alien tech accidentally! And lena is so loved and its so cute like honestly and obviously they fall in love bc duh

hold me, my dear (and don't let go)

kara is a professional cuddler and lena hires her services bc shes a sad touch starved young lady and deserves to have some hugs in her life hello fluff my old friend discovering the moon 

alex and lena brotp and holy fuck does it deliver!!!! Alex is like a wingwoman we all need and kara and lena just need to communicate tbh but AMAZING

Focus on Something You Love, and Breathe

Lex is a little shit as always and wants to kill lena bc he thinks shes in love with supergirl (which she is) so kara says she can stay with her and obviously the angst is juicy and ruined my life. So. Good. Read. It.

Offstage 

College theatre au but like literally one of the best college aus ive ever read!!!! Lenas just a big lesbian and karas confused and they bang secretly and its glorious

it's a boy!

lena takes in a super powered alien baby that falls from the sky and gets a weird neighbor in the form of kara danvers and theres not many chapters yet so im not sure whats happening with kara yet but im super excited for this!!!

Break My Fall 

Kara dates monel but kisses lena as supergirl and its angsty and smutty and all round a good fucking time

carefulness can be damned 

Post 3x7, literally smut with some plot need I say more??

A Foolish Wit - @seabiscuits-us​

if you haven’t read seabiscuits fics are you even a supercorp fan?? Lena needs a husband and Clark Danvers is positively charming and also actually disguised as a man, I mean.. quality content

In My Veins

im soooo excited for this fic because the lena/alex brotp is written so well!!! Basically lena and alex become really good friends bc they both deal with their issues by drinking obvs and kara thinks they are secretly dating and gets upset and im SO READY FOR THIS ANGST

Would You Catch Me If I Fall For You ('Cause I'm falling) 

This is absolutely amazing and so captivating and I was honestly on edge the whole time kudos to the author!!!!! Kara goes back in time to warn lena about her dying on the venture and lena falls in love with her but she disappears and then when real kara and lena meet, kara doesn’t remember knowing lena and ughsalkdhsla its so good.

We Need a New Song

Oh my good golly gosh this fic ruined my life. Ballet au that has barely any ballet and an abundance of GAY and I had to take a moment after reading this to collect myself tbh

and stick it into someone else's heart 

Rhea infected lenas boobs in a cage dress with some weird alien stuff and her and kara have to bang or THEY’LL DIE pretty much but they love each other

The Laws of Fate 

soulmate au where everyone has a red string and lenas points to the sky and shes confused af but it’s a gay slow burn and the angst is good for ur soul

My Sun 

Lena gets into a car accident and kara thinks she died but lex is a maniac and wants lenas help and fdjsaklfs it’s a rollercoaster let me tell you

Mercy on Me 

lena falls under black mercy and in order to bring her back karas has to break her poor little gay heart bc lena thinks her and kara are in looooove AWWW heart shatters

Be your own Hero 

Collection of supercorp one shots!!!!!! Quality content lemme tell yaaaa

pick a blossom and hold it to your breast (honey, you know that’s my love bursting loud from inside) 

kara and lena rely on their late night phone calls with each other and get the feels and go on a date and they are just cute adorable dorks that are nervous  

your voice is pretty, baby (but i’d rather have your pretty skin instead) 

part 2 of pick a blossom ^^^ still adorably cute and a smut chapter I mean come on, treat yoself

Firsts 

kara and lenas first told in the cutest wayyyyyyyy

Whispers 

lena works with lillian to save supergirl and its oh so angsty and kara always believes her girl bc that’s canon

My personal Santa in heels 

Kara loves Christmas almost as much as she loves lena, almost

Timer 

Soulmate AU where everyone can have a device installed to tell them the time until they meet their soulmate, kara and lena love each other but kara cant have a timer installed obvs kryptonian skin and its so cute and soft and angsty

The Fatal Flaw 

Super cool and different fic and keen to see more chapters from this!! Kara doesn’t have her powers (yet) and she meets lena at a party at college and then clark tells her shes actually an alien ooooo im keen

Stay the night 

Lena inherits the national city womens basketball team and star player kara danvers is a muscly babe and they try not to fall in love BUT ITS JUST TOO HARD BECAUSE THEY ARE SOULMATES also I love jack in this such a wingman

1865 

MATTTTTTTTEEEE lena is the daughter of the governor and shes a little rebel. She falls in love with kara but her family has arranged her marriage to monel BUT LIKE THEY JUST LOVE EACH OTHER SO MUCH btw they are aliens but like in 1865 so cool. Pls update I love this so much

All Our Bodies in the Grass - @seabiscuits-us​

fuckkkkk this fic honestly, amish au and lena knows nothing but kara is down to help her out while also sharing lovely girl mags ;)

B.F.F.W.E.B

Kara and lena are friends with benefits but feels get involveddddd, lenas a useless lesbian

All the little lies 

Kara comes to earth and falls in love with lena but she has to go back to krypton and breaks lenas heart in the process, but she comes back and its only been like 7 months but its been like 3 years for lena!!! (I cant remember exact dates don’t judge me)

half melted m&m's 

lena needs a fake wife to stay in the country so kara is ever so helpful and agrees to be her wife, oh I do love a fake wife trope and this delivers!!!!

The Wrong Superhero 

Lena gets saved by batwoman and supergirl thinks she is super jealous because of superhero-related reasons but shes just in love with lena

We'll Take on the World 

College au, just useless fools in love that need to communicate and make out more

And they call me from beyond the stars 

Omg I LOVE THIS FIC SO MUCH ok so kara is a ghost (still from krypton and stuff) but no one can see her except lena so lena works on trying to get her back into the physical plane of existence so she can find alex but they FIND LOVE WITH ONE ANOTHER oh my god so angsty let me tell ya be warned

Wait for me to come home 

https://lostariels.tumblr.com/

idk where to even start on this fic honestly, im pretty sure most people have read this bc it’s a rite of passage but fuck it gets me everytime!!!! Army au and there is so much angst and I love it

An Unexpected Surprise 

supercorp baby au!!! Kara and lena bang and kara ends up preggers. Iconic  

Days in a Lifetime 

Kara and lena grow up together, massive slowburn but worth the wait!!!!! ACTUALLY GO AND READ ALL OF STENS BECAUSE I JUST REALISED HOW MANY I PUT IN HERE AND THEY ARE ALL FUCKING GREAT

Do you wanna (like you know I do) - @seabiscuits-us​

another seabiscuit, I couldn’t not put this in!!! CAPE COD and sharing of bunk beds!!! Pls update this my soul is withering away

Purple and Black are my Favorite Colours 

Kara gets in contact with kryptonite that makes her gp! And her and lena b a n g    

ONE SHOTS

danishes and other sweet treats 

oh my fuck this is so cute and its like a long one shot so I mean get on it because kara and lena go to a conference and share a hotel room need I say more  

Sun Kissed 

Kara takes lena on a roadtrip to the science museum for her birthday and my good golly gosh its so cute I could ascend to heaven

Only Human 

A one shot with two chapters in different POV but lenas jealous of monel and then supercorp bang and its all angsty and lena protects kara and tbh they need to communicate but happy endings and love all round

The Right Thing 

Lena freaks out because lex knows her and supergirl are dating and does the most dramatic thing (of course) by distancing herself from kara and did I say angst???/ also I cried multiple times in this

funny how the stars crossed right 

Kara and lena keep meeting at parties and have super dorky costumes and fall in love (literally love anything written by you btw, im going to go ahead and say I would have all yours bookmarked so everyone just check them ALL out)

Accidental Text

kara accidentally sends a love confession to lena and its short and cute!      

Unspoken Promises

supergirl and reign battle and lena finds out about kara being supergirl and supercorp are just obliviously in love

Green (Kara loves it and hates it in equal measure)

Im a sucker for a jealous trope and boy does this deliverrrr. Karas hella jealous of lena having other friends but realises its because shes super in love with her

Crush

Karas jealous because lena is flirting with supergirl but lena knows kara is supergirl so shes actually flirting with kara, nice!

My Donuts

Karas really jealous of sam and lena spending heaps of time together and then kara walks in on them having donuts and she fucking loses it because its their thing duh.

when we get there 

Lena invites kara to her beach house to chill and they obvs fall in love because they are cute af

Have a Break 

Lena is determined to work out how to use a vending machine to get kara her candy and kara and winn are watching it all unfold via cameras in catco, basically lena vs. the machine (himym singing voice)

Self doubt and comforting talks 

Drunk kara, comforting lena fluff and adorableness

Shopping carts and a beautiful girl 

Kara crashes into lenas car in a shopping cart and they go on a date and its SO CUTE

Distractions 

lenas oblivious to kara being supergirl even though kara slips up all the time!!! #nicehalloweencostumekara

Lip Bites & Long Gazes 

lenas a big gay flirt and kara gets frustrated and flustered and calls her out and they make out

Off the Record 

kara spots lena at a gay club and they dance and make out *lizzie mcguire voice this is what dreams are made of*

Not so secret 

the superfriends take a weekend away and kara and lena bang pretty much smut but its cute

come be my lover, be my getaway car 

How many amazing tropes can you fit into one fic (aka the fic that made me lose my fucking mind oh my god its so good, had it include)

A one time thing

Kara and lena end up banging in a motel and kara has an internal meltdown its great

This is Home 

Listen here, this is the most adorable thing my two eyes have ever witnessed. Lena doesn’t really have a home kara the sweet soul she assists her in finding a home with her (aka its kara, kara is her home get it)

Her Biggest Fan 

lena is apart of the supergirl fandom, aka shes me

Drunk Puppy

kara being a drunk gay mess wanting to hunt seashells with lena

Act Natural

kara and lena have hickies and try to hide them on a beach trip with the gang  

Like a date, date 

kara asks lena on a date and lena has a gay panic attack pretty much

Datable 

everyone thinks kara and lena are dating so they just start dating? Amazing

Stop following me, creep 

Please clarify 

Lena tries to tell kara she loves her and wants to date but karas an alien and just doesn’t get it, so cuteeeee

Fate is Written in the Ink (part 1) 

Fate is Written in the Ink (part 2)

Soulmate au!!!! Any ink on your skin appears on your soulmates and omg its so cute like kara draws all this art on herself and lena gets to see it too!!!!!

Muddle my heart (then add a dash of lime) 

Kara keeps going to the bar because punk/bartender Lena is a babe and she has a big lesbian crush on her

be hopeful, don't get broken (stay caught up in the moment) 

angsty dog au and I mean PUPPIEs and SUPERCORP need I say more?

The makings of a family 

Clark is the one who arrives after being stuck in the phantom zone and kara has to look after him and lena helps her out and wow new baby for supercorp

Let Your Guard Down 

Lena in a DEO uniform sparring with kara and its so angsty because lenas mad at kara for not telling her the supergirl secret and then they bang and did I already mention lena in a DEO uniform???  

Do you not like the service here?

Thirsty kara and waitress lena, lenas jealous of alex l o l

here is where time is on our side (part 1) 

our corner of the universe (part 2) 

long oneshot but fuck me its so good. Post daxamite invasion/mon-el coming back and both are healing from everything and go on a roadtrip just wherever the map takes them and oh my fuck its so cute and everything u want in a fic. Part two is the follow up

The Uncanny Valley 

cadmus replaces real lena with a robot version and kara didn’t know but then kara finds lena and its cute  

put these battered bones to rest 

soulmate au (you should know by now im a sucker for a good soulmate au), lena has a foreign name on her hip (its kara btw)

pain

another soulmate au hhehehe soulmates feel each others pain obvs both these babies have a lot of paiiiiiin in their lives

Love is Garbage 

Literally a garbage truck au, im not even going to say more

i know you're out there somewhere waiting (i know the stars can hear us praying) 

Whats this??? Another soulmate au!!! Classic lover one arm, enemy on the other, honestly lena deserves more and just waits for kara to love her and I love this fic, also they help sam!!  

Monster in the Mirror 

Supercorp reveal in the middle of the lena/edge poisoning children episode oooooooh so angsty but happy love ending

Safety 

Supercorp first ever sleepover!!! This is so cute stop

Please Clarify 

Lena tries to ask kara out in every single way possible and kara is an oblivious alien

love is a flower, you gotta let it grow 

Unrequited love makes u grow flower petals in your lungs but when ur love is returned it clears up, this was dope and I love ur work

where our hands hurt from healing - @seabiscuits-us​

its seabiscuit do I need to say more?????? I will tho. Alex and lena match on tinder and become besties and I live for alex/lena brotp so….

blessed be (the mystery of love) - @seabiscuits-us​ 

*dj Khaled voice* ANOTHER ONE, look I love every single fic this one does not disappoint and nothing like a good light hearted first date fisting hahahahahaha

The Luthor and the Super That Saved the World 

Fit it fic for the season three finale where there is more supercorp and less shit writing, LOVE STENS WORK

Kara Danvers and the Brown Belt of Lesbianism 

Karas gay brown belt that she always wears that makes her look like a big ol lesbian drives lena mental bc she so gay

SIN

ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING BY JAZZFORDSHIRE IM NOT FUCKING JOKING LET YOURSELF FALL INTO THIS SMUTFEST AND LIVE UR BEST FUCKING LIFE AND IF YOU HAVENT READ THE CAMPING AU UR NOT EVEN A SUPERCORP STAN

Pleasure 

like sweat dripping down our dirty laundry 

What Happens in the K Room Doesn't Stay in the K Room 

green-eyed monster

Kara shows Lena what makes her Super 

Supergirl, Kara, and a Luthor walk into a bar... 

Late Night Heroics 

Good Vibrations 

Two Lena Luthors and a blonde walk into a bedroom... 

Her perfect match 

Girls' Night 

Happy Halloween, Supergirl 

What She Wants 

make the rules then break them 

an animal within an animal 

THE WILDEST THING IVE EVER READ, STRAP THE FUCK IN (youll understand my pun when you’ve read it)

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“I have numerous science-based questions” I mean, same. It also sets up that Huey is gonna be out of his element this episode

SCROOGE HAS NO TIME FOR SCIENCE

“I AM THAT CHAMPION.” A bit full of yourself there. I couldn’t hear this line without saying “I’M. THAT. HERO.” Oh VeggieTales, you’ll always be with me

THEY ALL LOOK SO ADORABLE!!

I like that Louie does a finger gun when Scrooge gets to him

Like I said earlier, I DO NOT care Scrooge already putting pressure on these kids

Poor Dewey seems like he’s the unfavorite, which is probably how Donald felt as well

Huey makes a good point and I do NOT like how dismissive Scrooge is of the twins

That being said...they totally killed someone in battle

SOMEDAY WE’LL FIND IT, THE RAINBOW CONNECTION!

Why didn’t Launchpad crash? I know he can land w/o crashing but it’s usually when he lands in water. THIS FEELS IMPORTANT SOMEHOW though it probably isn’t

“THEY FOUND A WAY TO MAKE RAINBOWS BETTER!” God, I love Webby

“This is the best day.” WEBBY, YOU ARE REACHING CRITICAL LEVELS OF ADORABLE

Birds with beards look odd

“Yeah, sure. Of course.” Poor Huey, magic and mythology aren’t his strong point

I love that it says Odin’s Closet over the shirts. It’s the little details

“Guess Louie knows what Louie’s doing today.” And then he disappears into the shirts. I can appreciate someone who knows what they’re about

I want ALL the shirts from this episode!

“WHOA, IT’S WRESTLING!” He looks so dang happy, it’s ADORABLE

“THIS IS AWESOME!” Chanting is fun

“So these guys just copied professional wrestling?” Huey, you’re form of logic is not welcome here

Does that mean Scrooge told someone about his battles and inspired them to create pro wrestling? I’m gonna go with that

“And they will love me for it!” Dewey, sweetie, that’s only how it works half the time

I loved all the man-snake stuff. Made me giggle

Man snake be THICC. HOT DAMN

I love the little pig ref. HE’S SO CUTE

Jormungandr knows how to pump up a crowd

So, like, is everyone in the audience technically DEAD?! That makes this episode slightly darker. I dig it

 I wonder if Jormungandr sees Earth’s destruction as a good thing for Earth. Like if he genuinely thinks they’d be better off in Valhalla. Or if he’s just a bastard who wants to watch the world burn

Scrooge is a bit too into playing the heel

The way Scrooge moves and the faces he makes as the Millionaire Miser remind me of Glomgold

“I watch a lot of wrestling while I fly.” “Wait, while?” This exchange always cracks me up

“Uncle Scrooge is the greatest hero of all time.” “Huh, I guess not everyone thinks so.” I feel like this is foreshadowing later events

RIP Announcer Puffin

“DIBS ON ANNOUNCING!” A dude just got KO’d bro! Have a bit of respect

And the return of the dynamic sports announcer duo. Glad Huey got his badge

I NEED MORE WRESTLING ANNOUNCER LP

Strongbeard is DOPE

“How did you know that?” “Just calling it like I see it. WRESTLING!” The real reason Launchpad knows is because he’s actually Thor but doesn’t remember. I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL

FEAR THE BEARD

“What matters is I’m doing the right thing.” I don’t know, you really seem to enjoy being a heel

This whole match is great

Dewey, there ARE NO RULES IN WRESTLING. Plus you aren’t the ref, so you can’t make that call

I have very inappropriate jokes go through my head when only one arm absorbs the beard energy

“I am so confused.” CONSTANT MOOD

DID SCROOGE NARUTO RUN AT STRONGBEARD?!

I like that Scrooge dives onto him the same way he dives into his bin

LP is so excited he pushes Huey out of the way for NO REASON

HOLY FUCK THAT DUDE THREW A CHAIR AT A CHILD!

All the bone cracking in this episode made me uncomfortable, as in my bones hurt during it

“He is such a good guy.” I’d say he’s a fair guy, not necessarily a good guy

“Which two of you will fight for me?” Webby has been waiting for this moment her WHOLE LIFE

Louie, always taking time to make that money

Who gave him a shirt cannon?!

I love that the dude comes up wearing the shirt

Dewey just slaps Scrooge in the face

Champ POPular! Too cute! I love his hair and outfit. Though I don’t think Champ POPular’s “too popular to hate.” If anything he might annoy people due to his popularity

I thought he was gonna pull out yo-yos as his “finishing touch” and I was sad when it was lollipops even though that makes more sense. BRING BACK THE YO-YOS!

“Do all the fighting and make sure he doesn’t die.” That is a valid concern

WE WILL WE WILL ROCK YOU! I’D KNOW IT ANYWHERE

Huey taking notes is adorable

“Just in time for the tag-team round.” “Wait, they’re playing tag now?! MAN!” I love how Danny says MAN

How does Huey not know what a tag-team is? It’s a pretty common term

I love Launchpad’s reading face

Dewey has red, blue, and green lollipops. Cute

“HE’S THROWING LOLLIPOPS BECAUSE HE THINKS WE’RE SUCKERS!” That took me off guard and I laughed so hard

“I’ve known you my whole life, I kinda knew how this would play out.” Louie is genre savvy. Perhaps too savvy. He’s gonna figure out he’s in a tv show

“More like Champ POP..ulation zero because he has no friends...in Friendtown.” I fail to see how that was any worse than LP’s “more like Champ UN-POPular.”

“WE HATE YOU NOW!” Tough crowd

Huey’s face after that. I just want to pinch his lil cheeks

WEBBY DON’T NEED NO WRESTLER NAME

It TOTALLY went over my head that they censored Hela with Hecka (at least they used her better than the MCU did. WE COULD HAVE HAD SO MUCH BETTER)

I would let her pin me to the mat and crush my skull in

“Oh, COME ON, THIS is what you like?! A creepy goth and her pet dog!” SHUT UP, DEWEY, THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I WANT! I’m surprised Webby didn’t slap him for the “creepy goth” comment seeing as Lena is goth and misunderstood

“HECKA YEAH! HECKA YEAH!” SHE’S SO COOL AND SEXY AND SHE HAS A DOG

Poor Huey, he’s doing his best. Hope he takes a shower later because he got pretty sweaty

HECKA COULD STEP ON ME AND I’D SAY THANK YOU

Why did Huey have all those corn puns?

“YOU’RE THE WORST! YOU’RE THE WORST!” It’s just not Huey’s day

“You don’t have to try to make it sound great, it already is.” Did this remind anyone else of Dewey’s “don’t overthink it” advice to Launchpad from Double-O Duck? He’s doing his best to help Huey

I WANT HECKA TO DESTROY ME

“EMBRACE THE BOOZE BOOS.”

Poor Dewey

WEBBY IS A BEAST! SHE WAS BORN FOR THIS!

“EMBRACE YOUR INNER HEEL!” Cuz being a heel is fun!

DUDE, WEBBY TOOK DOWN THE GODDESS OF DEATH WITH NOTHING BUT HER LEGS AND THIGHS! WE STAN!

I like that Fenny has knee pads on

“AW, YOU’RE SO DANGEROUS AND CUTE! I JUST WANT TO PET YOUR LITTLE BELLY!” WEBBY IS ME

“A classic ‘who’s a good boy?’ gambit!” AND I’D FALL FOR IT TOO! SUCH A GOOD BOI

“Wait, am I the Launchpad here?” Bitch, you WISH

“YOU CAN’T GIVE CANDY TO A DOG!” This is why you don’t have a pet, Dewey

“WHOA, back from THE DEAD for the QUEEN of the DEAD!”

Kind of a dick move, Louie

AIR GUITAR!

Jormungandr looks like a Masters of the Universe knock-off toy

WHO’S A GOOD BOI? YOU ARE!

“With a toxic personality” I think you’re projecting a bit, Jormungandr 

How does Huey not know what a battle royale is? That is a very common term! Hell, there is a well known book and movie with that title!

“I’m just a humble, noble snake man of the people.” Why does the term snake man make me laugh so much?  

WOY REFERENCE FTW

Dewey needs a hug! And some therapy would probably be a good idea

Scrooge’s speech started on a good note then went downhill FAST

“And lastly, I’ll use the dust of your bones as sweetener in my tea.” DAMN

“TOO FAR!” I DON’T THINK IT’S FAR ENOUGH! TELL HIM HOW YOU WILL BATHE IN HIS BLOOD

FUCK YEAH BEAKLEY!

SHE GAVE HIM THE CHAIR! I think this CONFIRMS Beakley as a wrestling fan

“I know we’re supposed to take over for Scrooge one day, but do you ever wonder if maybe we’re not cut out for it?” YOU SHOULDN’T HAVE TO WONDER THOSE THINGS AT ALL! 

Louie’s like WE DON’T HAVE TIME FOR THIS SHIT!

“Be LP” My new mantra

Aw, Louie sees Dewey as a hero. Like how LP saw Drake as a hero. I think @drakepad is onto something, this scene and the fight scene seem WAAAAY too much like Drake’s intro to be just a coincidence

I keep saying this, but Louie should consider a career in motivational speaking. He knows what people need to hear

“Let’s do this!” “I don’t know.” “Let’s Dewey this?” “I’m in.”

“I’LL SHED YOUR SKIN FOR YOU!” If he hadn’t of had an old man back moment that would have been a BRUTAL CUT

OMG WAS LAUNCHPAD WEARING THAT THE WHOLE TIME? You see his clothes fly off when he jumps in the ring

“Whoa. In a COMPLETELY UNEXPECTED TWIST, the announcer was Captain Crash THIS WHOLE TIME!” LP does underground wrestling matches in his spare time, TELL ME I’M WRONG

“YOUR CATCHPHRASES ARE FORCED!” I agree, Dewey could have done WAY BETTER

I like Louie just GLARING at the dude who insulted Dewey’s catchphrase

LP looks so proud of Huey

“I don’t care at all, why should I?” Methinks the snake man doth protest too much

I like how Jormungandr’s pupils are thinner during the climax. It shows off his true nature

Dewey should have been the one to do a spin attack, ya know, cuz he’s Sonic? I’ll go now

“The Pop never Stops.” That was better

WHERE ARE ALL THESE CHAIRS COMING FROM?!

I LEGIT thought Strongbeard was gonna throw Dewey his axe and I was like Dewey wouldn’t be able to lift that

SUPER SAIYAN DEWEY! Also was that a TIGER SNARL?

I like the ice pack on Launchpad’s head. Just because he can take a lot of damage doesn’t mean that LP is immune to pain

I like that the crowd CHANGED THEIR BANNERS! Nice

LOUIE AND WEBBY LOOKED SO CUTE!

LP tearing up

“A true people’s hero” I feel like that phrase will come back in relation to other characters (cough DW cough)

Scrooge is such a little shit, it’s kind of adorable

THAT END SHOT! THAT SONG!

This was a SUPER FUN EPISODE! I couldn’t really tell where they were going and I LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT! I wish we had gotten Huey in some wrestling gear but maybe next time. I like the message that doing the right thing isn’t always popular but I kind of feel like Dewey getting the crowd on his side muddled the message somewhat. Poor Dewey needs therapy or something so he doesn’t feel like he needs CONSTANT approval. Again, he’s 11 YEARS OLD and shouldn’t be put into such a serious position. LP was VIP this episode. I’m bummed we’re on hiatus again, but WHAT an episode to end on!

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Dusri taraf "Zeenat" ka bhi bahut mann hai "MBA" karke acchi MNC mein naukri karne ka, par paiso ke kami ke kaaran uske graduation ke baad ki padhai maano jaise bandh hi ho gayi thi , dusri taraf "Zeenat" ko actress banne ka bahut shauk tha , yeh acting ka keeda usme bachpan se hi tha aur uski toh favourite actress thi /hai "KARISMA KAPOOR" aur favourite actor hai "GOVINDA" , arthaat "Hero no. 1" . "Zeenat apne khali waqt par inn dono ke hi gaano pe dance kiya karti thi aur khud ko unn jaisa mehsoos mehsoos karne lagti saral bhasha mein bole toh " living life king size ". Ab badhte hai, humaare kahaani ke dusre character pe, jo ki aati hai seedhe "Allahabad" se , ya fir kahe toh Allahabad University se , jaha ki woh one of the top brilliant students ke list mein , ya fir kahe ki merit list mein har baar 4th aane wali "AYESHA Saraf" , jo hai  sab ki chaheedi aur sabse dashing & studious & "no care attitude" waali MBA pursue karne waali student , thodi naughty & also quite smart & witty & of course a chashmish & a cutie. Toh yeh jo hai, inke college mein bade charche hai , aur kyun na ho yeh hai hi itni studious , etc. . Iske peeche college ke saare ladke paagal hai , but yeh na hi short skirts pehanti hai, aur na hi boys ko lure karti hai, yeh toh bas apne mein hi rehti hai, in a dungree with round specs , short hair with a pony tail & a charming but bold smile on her face , enough to make a heart skip a beat. Ab yeh jo hai "Ms.SARAF" yeh toh thehri mystery , detective , horror, thriller ke bade fan , inka adha waqt crime solving games, aur books related to all the above mentioned genres ko padhne meinhi waqt nikal jaata tha, jo thora waqt waqt bachta tha usko yeh mohtarma MBA ki pahai pe laga deti hai, nahin toh inke parents ka manna haiki agar woh pura dhyaan sirf MBA pe de toh woh 1st position laa sakti hai sivaaye 4th position ke, par inhe koun samjhaye ki thoda time MBA ke saath spend karke 4th aana bhi is a big achievement, aur woh kahawat hai na "An active mind & a racing heart is the greatest combination leading to success" , aur wohi aata raha tha "AYESHA Saraf" ke saath. Ab kuch door chalte hai aur batate hai aapko kahaani ke antim character ki kahaani jo "Delhi ke Muzaffarnagar" seshuru hone jaa rahi hai, aur uss shaks ka naam hai "MURAAD HOSSAIN", jo hai DU [Delhi University] ke geography & statistics ke top professor . Inka worldly knowledge itna achha hai aur yeh itne self confident hote hai har waqt ki duniya ki koi bhi musibat maano inke saamne haar mann hi jaegi, iska kaaran hai jaise ki maine pehle bataaya self confidence , proper knowledge, hard work, aur allah pe pura bharosa. Aap soch rahe honge , ki main yeh teacher ka concept kyun use kar raha hoon , toh main chota sa hint de deta hoon, "worldly knowledge" Inki age lagbhag 28 saal hogi, par yeh jaha ke teacher hai, arthaat D.U.  waha inke bahut charche hai, aur lakho ladkiyaan inpe line maarti hai, short mein kahe toh , yeh d.u. ke one of the sexiest , good looking masculine male hai,inka attitude bole toh ekdum "faadu" hai, aur khaas kar ke jab woh agar kabhi white shirt aur blue  mein college aa jate the toh college mein bawaal ho jaata tha aur ladke sharam se choor choor ho jaate they aur ladliyaan na jaane kitne corridoors mein line lagakar unki ek jhalak ko taras jaati hai aur unko bahut tohfe bhi mil chuke hai, kayi ladkiyaan ke taraf se , even proposals you know, par yeh jo "Mr.Hossain" hai inko koi farak hi nahi padta, yeh gifts toh hai par unka ek unique style hai, woh yeh gifts charity ya fir kahe old age home mein distribute karwa dete hai, kyunki inhe lagta hai ki yeh apne ammi abbu ki sewa kar rahe hai, aur agar naseeb mein hua toh allah kasam agle janam fir unke hi bete hokar janam lena pasand karenge. Toh yeh the humare kahaani ke teen characters. Ab aap soch rahe honge ki aagey kya hone wala hai. Abhi interval ka maza lijiye , thode snacks grehan kijiye kyunki interval ke baad hi toh maza shuru hota hai.       Ab inn characters ke updated version se aapko milwate hai, so mere priye audience 3,2,1....fast forward. Let me introduce you to 1. Captain Muraad Hossain [M.F. Hossain] [Captain of INDIAN ARMY] , 2. Madam ZAK / Zeenat Ali Khan [cyber expert ATS= Anti Terrorist Squad] , 3. Ms. One Woman Army/ Ms. Ayesha Saraf [top spy of IB & RAW]. Kyun chauk gaye na ? ek dialogue yaad aya "Tide hai toh white hai " but in this situation the dialogue goes "Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar" , kyunki yahaan sab connected hai, lekin koi ek dusre ko nahin jaanta, par teeno INDIA ke liye kaam karte hai apne tarike se, ya keh sakte hai yeh teeno apne tarike se desh ki raksha karte hai. Ab aapko main ek ghatne ke baare mein detail mein bataane ja raha hoon , jisme inn teeno ka bhut bada yogdaan hai, aur kahin na kahin yeh teeno ek dusre ke lifeguards bhi reh chuke hai varna aaj shayad teeno mein se koi bhi zinda nahin rehta. Toh baat hai 2011 ki , ek udti udti khabar aayi thi ki cyber cell dept. aur Indian Army mein tension ka mahol  utpann hua hai. Iska kaaran yeh tha ki achanak cyber crimes bhut zyada badh gaye the aur Indian Army mein se bhut se gopniya details leak ho jaa rahi thi , ab dono hi taraf tension ka maahol ban raha tha , aur saath hi kuch khabar udti udti aa rahi thi jo logo ke liye ya INDIA ke liye bhut haanikaarak saabit ho sakti thi . Toh jab aise haalaat utpann hue, tab inn teeno departments [IB , ATS[CYBER CELL],INDIAN ARMY] mein selection shuru ho gaya taaki crimes & terrorism in all forms ko tagda jawaab dene wale teeno department se 1 candidate select hoga is live/die mission ke liye. Toh teeno departments mein se 1 specialist ko chunna tha per team. Candidates toh bahut the par time kam tha , tph finally teeno departments ne apna task captain chun liya tha. Toh woh 3 koun they , any guesses ? arrei yaar , the best ko hi chuna hoga na, toh woh 3 hai :- 1. MURAAD HOSSAIN [ INDIAN ARMY ] 2.ZEENAT ALI KHAN [ CYBER CELL / ATS] ATS= ANTI TERRORIST SQUAD 3.AYESHA SARAF [IB] [ TOP SPY] Toh har department mein zoro shoro se kaam shuru ho gaya tha, har dept. ko unjke head dekh rahe the , taaki kahin bhi bhi bool se bhi bhool na ho, aur proper stragies apnaayi jaa rahi thi , aur execution plans bann rahe the, in return the hands were expecting full cooperation & support from their teams, aur full on details nikali jaa rahi thi against any type of attack in any form. virtual & physical weapons bhi taiyaar ki jaa rahi thi , aur top managements bhi bilkul tight lipped way mein iss mission ko anjaam dene mein lagey hue the. Toh teeno departments fully ready they with all the necessary equipments aur saath hi virtual & physical preparations bhi ready the , but to their shock pehle hafte mein kisi prakaar ka koi attack nhi hua,toh departments ke kaafi log jo chaukanne the , woh thoda sa lightly lene lage matter ko , par teeno departments ke hero's MURAAD, ZEENAT AUR AYESHA, ko daal mein kuch kaala lag raha tha jab 2nd week mein bhi kuch nhi hua aur sab normally guzar gaya. Fir 3rd week mein achanak se Mumbai ke mall road mein ek bomb blast hua , aur kaafi log injured ho gaye the , saath hi saath Delhi ke Sarojini Market mein do din ke antraal mein ek aur bomb blast hua, aur top companies ke data chori ki khabar bhi aane lagi , inn sab ghatnao ne desh bhar me breaking news ke zariye tehelka macha rakha tha. Ab  teeno depts. ke experts HOSSAIN , KHAN aur SARAF ne apne teams ko kaam pe laga diya tha, ki jald se jald inn terrors ka koi na koi suraag ya link mil jaaye toh tab iss case ko solve karne mein thodi maddad ho jaegi . Iss dauraan, Zeenat ke phone pe ek call aata hai aur woh bhi unknown number se, jiska daava tha , ki yeh jo bomb blasts aur cyber breach hua hai inn kuch dino mein , iske piche ke "MATERMIND" ki khoj karna bandh kar diya jaaye turrant,warna Zeenat ki jaan ja sakti hai , aur teeno departments ki badnaami bhi ho sakti hai , aur hokar rahegi agar yeh search operation turrant radh na kiya gaya toh , itna kehkar phone hang up ho gaya. Fir dobaara uss number ko call laga nhi , tab immediately uss number ko trace kiya gaya , but uss ka sirf laswt location hi pata chala jo KARACHI ka dikha raha tha , aur sim bhi bandh aa raha tha . Fir kuch der sochkar, "Zeenat" ne apne higher authorities ko yeh suchna dena zaroori samjha aur pure form mein jaakar puri baat bol dala. Tab waha bhi tension ka mahol utpann hone laga tha, immediately all 3 forces ke heads ko jaankari video calls ke sahaare de di gayi . Fatafat , ya phir kahe bina waqt gawaaye, INDIAN ARMY , IB aur ATS [ CYBER CELL] ko turrant kaam pe lagaya gaya, aur unka ek hi lakshya tha , ki kisi bhi tarah "MASTERMIND " ko dhoond nikaalna hai , jo iklauta zimmedaar hai cyber theft aur unn teeno blasts ke liye. Ab teeno departments high alert mein they, aur teeno ne search operation shuru kar diya tha apne tarike se. Fatafat KARACHI Govt. se contact kiya gaya aur jaankaari ki pushti karne ki koshish ki gayi, par unhone saaf inkaar kar diya ki , waisa koi bhi call unke state se nhi kiya gaya hai, fir bhi dept. mein asantushti bani rahi, tab top spy "AYESHA SARAF" ko contact kiya gaya , aur usko puri baat btayi gayi , aur uso unke strategy ki puri detail di  gayi , saath hi "ZEENAT" aur "MURAAD" ko bhi unke respective depts. se bhi aagha kar diya gaya. Ab unn teeno ke liye action time shuru ho gaya tha. Ab teeno ka ek hi mission tha "Mission MASTERMIND" . A b iske liye teeno ko karachi phuchna tha, toh teeno ne jaha the wahi se KARACHI ki flight pakdi aur KARACHI ke liye ravana ho gaye. Most importantly iss beechek co- incidental ghtana ghati ki teeno ne ek hi  brand ki flight mein boarding ki thi "INDIGO" , but tickets different thi toh timing bhi different thi, sabse pehle "Muraad" phucha, fir "Ayesha" phuchi , fir aakhir mein "Zeenat " mein phuchi, abb teeno "KARACHI " phuch chuke the. Ab ittefaq dekhiye , teeno ne ek hi hotel mein room bhi le liya, usme bhi timings thodi aagey peeche thi, aur hotel ka naam tha "HOTEL PARADISE" . Iss hotel ki khaasiyat yeh thi ki teeno ne apne sutro se pata kiya tha, ki "MASTERMIND" ka hotel , ya fir kahe iss hotel ka maalik "MASTERMIND" tha. Ab aapko lag sakta hai ki teeno fas chuke hai, aur baagh ke illake mein ghuss chuke hai , jisse nikalna asambhav hai , par case ulta bhi toh ho sakta hai. Teeno ne janbujhkar issi hotel ko apna hunting ground bana liya tha, kyunki  yeh jaha the waha se kuch na kuch jaankari toh praapt ho hi jaati aur hafte mein ek na ek din toh "MASTERMIND" ki ek jhalak dikh hi jaegi yahi soch kar mission  mein agey badh rahe the. Aaye toh teeno tourist banke , par jaise maano teeno hi detectives ban chuke the, koi ek dusre ko nahi jaanta tha , teeno ka mission ek tha , par kaam karne alag tha, aur teeno khud se zyaad aksis pe vishwas nahi karte the , halaki teeno mein se koi kisiko nahin pechaanta tha. KARACHI mein ,"MASTERMIND" ko lagbhag koi nhi jaanta tha, bahuto se pucha gaya par koi jawaab nahi mila , ya fir shayad log darr se kuch bata nhi rahe the, kyunki unko apni jaan aur apne pariwaar ki jaan pyari thi. Ab dono taraf search opration chal raha tha, ki "MASTERMIND" ki ek jhalak dekhne ko mil jaaye, dusra uske related kuch jaankari mil jaye. Teeno ko apne higher officials ko per day ka progress  report dena parta tha . Sab allah ko yaad kar rahe they aur duaa maang rahe the ki koi clue mil jaaye "MASTERMIND" ke related, ya koi link mil jaaye , toh unhe ",ASTERMIND" tak phunchne mein aasaani ho jaati. Isi beech ,ek number se "Zeenat "ko call aya aur phone ke dusre side se ek shaqs ne kaha ,mujhe pata hai aap "MASTERMIND"ko dhoondna bandh kar dijiye yeh meri aakhri warning hai., par zeenat ko koi farak nhi pada , aur usne sidha phone kaat diya. Inn logo ko pata mhi tha ki wha pehle se unke madad ke liye IB , CYBER CELL [ATS], INDIAN ARMY se log bheje gaye the , aur woh log bhi "HOTEL PARADISE" mein hi ruke huye the. Toh aapko samajh aa hi gaya hoga ki purey desh ko "MASTERMIND" chahiye tha zinda ya murda. Ab sirf tha ,"wait & watch" ka time aur kyunki laakho logo ke sentiments jude hue they toh success toh anyhow achieve karna hi tha iss mission mein . Achanak hotel stay ke 5th day mein ek shaks aata hai hotel ke reception pe , bilkul mamuli se kapdo mein , aur ek room ke details puch raha tha . Uske kapde dekh kar kisiko shaq nahi hoga  ki woh normal tourist nahi hai. Par pata nahi kyun "MURAAD" ko thoda khatka  laga aur uss aadmi ke jaane ke baad reception waale se uska id proof dikhaane ko kaha, dusrea koi hota toh shayad objection karta par kyunki receptionist Indian tha jo karachi mein kaam ke silsile mein reh raha tha 5-6 saalo se , toh usne bejhijhak uss shaks ka ID proof dikhaya, woh bhi jab "Muraad" ne apna ARMY ka badge dikhaya tab hi warna har desh ke liye yeh illegal hai dusre ke documents kisi unknown person ko dikhana. Ab ID Proof se kya pata chala hoga "Muraad" ko ? sochiye aur interval ka maza lijiye. Haan toh hum kaha they , ab uss ID Proof se uss shaks ka naam pata chala jo tha "Hamid Qureshi" . Koun tha yeh? yaha kyun aya tha ? kya yeh normal tourist tha? ya "MASTERMIND" se connected tha? yahi sab chal raha tha "Muraad" ke dimaag mein aur woh kisi bi tarah iss "Mr. Qureshi" ke baare mein aur jaankari nikalne ke liye kuch bhi karne ko taiyaar tha. Toh usne bina waqt gavaaye usne uske ID se apne team ko uski khoj mein laga diya , team ki details respective heads ko mail kar di gayi thi departments ke taraf se. "Muraad" ko "Qureshi" ki har waqt ki khabar chahiye thi , isliye usne waisi hi instructions de rakhi thi apni team ko. Ab yeh baat toh "AYESHA" aur "ZEENAT" ko khabar nahin thi, par jab unhone apne tarike se "MASTERMIND" ko dhoondna shuru kiya,tab unhe apne sutro se pata chala ki, "MASTERMIND" "KARACHI" ka sabse raees insaa hai, aur yeh khabar bhi thi ki "MASTERMIND" ka "KARACHI market" mein kaafi aana jaana tha. Toh inn dono ne apne log karachi market mein tainaat kar diye the, ab na yeh 'Qurseshi" ko jaante they aur na hi "Qureshi inko jaanta tha. Allah ka kamaal dekhiye, yeh dono mall road waley market mein they, par "Zeenat" ka bag churakar koi bhaagne laga, aur "Zeenat" bhi uske peeche bhaagi, achanak se "Qureshi" scene mein aa jata hai , aur chor ko pakad leta hai. Toh yeh dono bilkul anjaan ek dusre se , "Qureshi"  "Zeenat" ka bag use wapas kar deta hai, aur "Zeenat" toh raah chalte ko shaq karti nahin, toh unhe thank you treat dene pe tul jaati hai , jispe pehle toh "Qureshi" manta nahin , fir bola sirf coffee kaafi rahegi , jispe "Zeenat" ne haami bhar di. Fir dono ne kuch der yunhi baat ki aur shukriya adha kiya "Qureshi" ka , toh "Qureshi" ne "Zeenat" ko apne ghar bulaaya jispe woh pehle toh maani nahi , fir "Qureshi" ke bahut insist karne par woh mann gayi. "Qureshi" ka ghar "Karachi" airport se 4 kilometre door tha, aur "Zeenat" thi uski guest, "Zeenat" ne suna tha ki "Karachi" waley apne guests ki khoob khaatir karte hai , toh usey bhi mehmaan nawazi lene mein koi aapatti nahi thi. Issi beech "Zeenat" ki nazar "Qureshi" ke table top pe padi jisme ek photo mein "Qureshi" aur ek aadmi saath photo khichwa rahe they , toh pata nahi "Zeenat" ko kya laga ki usne "Qureshi" ko puch hi liya, ki uss tasveer mein unke saath woh shaqs koun hai ?, usey laga ki unka bade bhai honge , par jawaab toh kuch aur hi tha .. pehle toh "Qureshi" ne kuch socha , fir kaha ki uss aadmi ka naam  "AKBAR ALAM' itna kehke woh chup ho gaya. Ispe "Zeenat" ne thoda aur utsaah ke saath ke pucha ki "ALAM" ji karte kya hai , ispe bhi jab "Qureshi" sochne laga tab "Zeenat" ne bola ki agar woh nahi batana chahte toh koi baat nahin usne toh yunhi puch liya tha , koi zabardasti nahin hai , aur woh thoda flirt karne lagi "Qureshi" ke saath aur  "Qureshi" ko pata nahin tha ki kaise react kare , aur woh tha thoda sharmiley type ka insaan tha , toh usne jhatapat bataana shuru kiya "Zeenat" ke prashno ke uttar dena , "AKBAR ALAM" Karachi ka sabse raees insaan tha aur uska ek aur naam bhi tha , toh "Zeenat" ne socha ki koi nick name hoga jo gharwalo ne rakkha hoga , par "Qureshi" ka jawwab sunke "Zeenat" ka dimaag  chakkar khaa raha tha , kyunki woh  "Akbar Alam"  aur koi nahi balki  "MASTERMIND"  tha . Bahut uts chahiye iske baad kisiko jo bhi yeh prashna puche ya bole toh "Zeenat" ko hi uss  jagah rakh lijiye , usne bade himmatr se bina darre "Qureshi" se aur baatein ya information nikaalne ki koshish karte hue pucha ki "MASTERMIND" ka matlab kya hai , aur unka kaam  kya hota hai? Toh ispe "Qureshi" thoda soch vichhar karne laga , ki "Zeenat" ko "MASTERMIND" ke kaam ke baare bataana sahi rahega ya nahi , fir usne socha khamakha "Zeenat" darr jaegi aur unki bani banaati nayi dosti wahi khatam ho jaegi  isliye usne "Zeenat" ke prashno ko avoid karna shuru kiya aur baat ghumane ki koshish karne laga , kyunki  " Zeenat" ko woh mamuli guest samajh raha tha , aur aane wale khatre se usey bachana hi uska lakshya tha . Par "Zeenat" ke  baar baar zid karne par , usne kaha ki main zyada toh  nahi jaanta par "MASTERMIND" ka kaam bhut risky job hai aur khatarnak bhi. Ab "Zeenat" ko toh kisi bhi haal mein iss "MASTERMIND' se milna hi tha , toh usne "Qureshi" se pucha ki kya woh usey "MASTERMIND" se milva sakta hai ya nahi , kyunki usey aise dangerous logo se milna unke baare mein pata lagana bahut mazedaar lagta hai , ek alag sa thrilling wali feeling deta hai, aur bhi bahut kuch bola "Zeenat" ne jaise ki "Qureshi" uss se impress hokar usse "MASTERMIND" se milwa de. Ispe "Qureshi" ensocha aur kaha ki woh koshish kar sakta hai ki "Zeenat" ki mulaqaat "MASTERMIND" se ho jaaye , but kuch confirm nahi bataa pa raha tha, isme "Zeenat" ne usko thoda seduce karna shuru kiya uski taarif karni shuru ki ki wwoh kitna handsome tha aur mashallah kitna cute hai "Qureshi" aur sexy bhi wagera wagera , aur "Qureshi" apni taarif sunke na chahte huye bhi "Zeenat" ke baaton mein aa hi gaya, aur unhone kuch intimate moments bitaaye , "Zeenat " ne socha manzil ke itne karib aakar usey khina bewakoofi hogi , toh kya hua agar ek anjaan insaan ke saath kuch intimacy ho hi jaaye toh , waise bhi "ZAK" apni raksha karna acchi tarah se jaanti thi, arthaat woh hamesha ek condom apne saath apne purse mein carry karti thi , arthaat "all work no play makes ZAK a dull girl". Fir jab unki intimacy khatam hui aur "Qureshi" ghode bech kar so raha tha , tab usne uska pura ghar ko search karna shuru kiya , ki kahin toh kuch aur prrof mil jaye "MASTERMIND" ke khilaaf , usne sab jagah dhoond liya saboot ke liye , par kuch na mila , tab usne uss photonko gaur se dekhne ka socha jo table top pe tha par uspe bhi kuch nhi mila. Fir jab "Qureshi" ki aankh khuli toh "Zeenat' ne usey kiss kiya aur alvida kehkar waha se nikal gayi."Qureshi" ka toh "dil garden garden" ho gaya tha, aur "Zeenat" ko shayad "MASTERMIND" tak phunvhne ka raasta mil gaya tha. Dusri taraf "Muraad" tha jo apni sources lagaye baitha tha "MASTERMIND" ki khoj pe , aur ab toh woh Karachi police se toh puch nhi sakta tha "MATERMIND" ke baare mein toh usne socha ki chalo Karachi jab aa hi gaya hoon toh sheher kyun na ghom liya jaaye , ab uske paas toh "MASTERMIND" ki koi tasveer toh thi nahi jisse "MASTERMIND" ko dhondne mein aasaani ho , tab usne kya socha ki kyun na apne chief se contact karke unhise "MASTERMIND' ki tasveer maang li jaye , toh turant usne ARMY chief ko phone lagaya aur unse "MASTERMIND" ke kuch pics usey whatsapp karne ki darkhaast ki , par chief ne kaha ki unke paas "MASTERMIND" ki abhi ki photo nahi hai , par ek puraani photo hai jab woh apne mid 30's mein hua karta tha, unke paas jo photo tha usi ko bhejne ko kaha "Muraad" ne aur shukriya zaahir karke baat khatam ki aur unke message ka intezaar karne laga. Teesri taraf  "Ayesha" ke paas already "MASTERMIND" ki poori gutthi thi usne pehle se hi ikkatha kar rakha tha, kyunki SPY ka kaam hi hota hai ki woh apne target ki full details pehle se apne paas mauzood rakhte hai,taaki target pehchanne mein bhul na ho aur na hi apna kaam ko anjaam dene mein. "Ayesha" ne "MASTERMIND" ke baare mein apne team ke duara jo information ikkatha kiya tha , woh yeh tha ki "MASTERMIND" ek lamba chauda 6'2'' ka hattakattainsaan tha , jiska lifestyle raeeso jaisa tha , uska bahut sara dangerous ya fir kahe illegal karobaar tha, jaise ki jism faroshi , etc. . Unka behaviour ekdum kattar tha , unke family mein woh aur unke 2 biwi aur 1 bete aur 1 beti rehti thi. "Ayesh" ne shyad "MASTERMIND" ki gaadi ko dekhliya tha karachi bazaar se guzarte waqt uss waqt usey pata nahi tha ki yeh "MASTERMIND" ki gaadi thi, uss gaadi mein baithe shaqs ne apne driver ko bolke karachi market ke saamne se ek phalwale se kuch dozen phal liya aur gaadi ka seesha utarkar phalwale ko paise de diye , tab "Ayesha" ne dekha ki uss shaqs ke dihine haath mein bade bade stones se saji hue anguthiya thi , shayad woh astrology mein vishwas rakhte honge , fir usi haath mein ['right hand} mein ek khareoch ya fir koi purane chot ka nishaan bhi tha thik haatho ke nasso ke beech , jaha se doctor heartbeat measure karta hai , thik ussi jagah , toh "Ayesha" ne bade gaur se sab notice kiya , aur apne saamne se gaadi ko jaate dekha toh usne kya socha ki fatafat usne gaari ka number plate ka number yaad karliya , aur gaadi bhi kounsi thi woh bhi likh dala , tabhi se woh iss shaqs pe apni nazar jamayi rakhi thi, arthaat usey bhi pata nahi tha par uski gut feeling usey cheekh cheekh kar keh rahi thi ki ho na ho yeh aadmi hi "MASTERMIND" hai. Isliye usne iss shaqs pe pura dhyaan de rahi thi jis baat ka andaza bhi shayad uss shaqs ko nahi tha ki koi uski har waqt ki activity track kar raha tha . Aakhir yahi toh kaam hai ek Spy ka.   Dusri taraf "MURAAD" ke paas "MASTERMIND" ki puraani tasveer aa chuki thi , usme "MASTERMIND" ek wakayi ek lamba chauda handsome youth nazar aa raha tha , halaki yeh photo aaj se 20 saal pehle ki thi as mentioned by ARMY chief . Par uss photo mein "Muraad" ne kuch ajeeb cheez notice ki thi jo shayad kisisne nahi ki thi ya ki hogi , woh yeh tha ki picture mein "MASTERMIND" ne ek bhut alag type ki angoothi pehen rakhi thi, jiski baarik kaarigari dekh kar bahut log uske laalach mein pad sakte hai, woh tha hi itna behtareen ki uspe hi "Muraad" ki aankhein kuch der usi pe fix ho gayi, kyunki aisi kaarigari wali anguthi usne pehle baar dekhi thi, aur woh uske dimaag mein chapp gayi thi, aur woh ghar jo photo mein tha woh shayad "MASTERMIND" ka ghar hua hoga , isliye woh ghar uske mastishq mein chapp gaya tha . Ab "Muraad" ko sirf uss ghar ka pata lagana tha , toh woh photo usne apne team ko forward kar diya aur fatafat uss ghar ka pata lagane ka nirdesh de diya unko. Teesri taraf , thik do din baad "Qureshi" ne "Zeenat" ko "MASTERMIND" se milwane ki baat kar dali , kyunki thik do din baad  "MASTERMIND" ke ghar pe unke bete ka janamdin manaaya jaane wala tha arthaat "RAFI ALAM" ka janamdin hai, abse thik do din baad . "ZEENAT" ka khushi ka thikana nahi tha , aur usne issi baat pe "Qureshi" ko kiss kar diya , aur saath hi usne mann hi mann soch liya ki plan ko anjaam kaise dena hai, aur saathhi saath kuch intimate moments bhi dono ne bitaaye , aur ek jhoota wada bhi kar dala "Zeenat" ne ki aaj usko itni khushi ho rahi hai ki woh bayaan nahi kar sakti hai , aur usne "Qureshi" se nikaah karne ka jhoota wada kiya , jispe "Qureshi" ka dil garden garden ho gaya , par usey [ Qureshi] kaha pata tha ki ek anjaan shaqs ko trust karna usey bhaari pad sakta hai , yeh soch "Zeenat" mann hi mann hass rahi thi , bechara "Qureshi" bali ka bakra befaltu ka banne ja raha tha. Ab kehte hai na kuch paane ke liye , kuch bho sacrifice karna padta hai . Itni der mein "MURAAD' ne 'MASTERMIND' ka ghar ka pata laga dala tha . Ab intezaar tha D-DAY ka . Waise dekha jaaye toh ab sher khud fass chuka tha aur ghir chuka tha chaaro ore se , aur "MASTERMIND" ne apne security mein har kadam mein 2 security guards tainaat rakhe the . "Ayesha" ne saari taiyaari pe nazar rakha hua tha aur usse acchi tarah se pata tha ki plan ko kaise execute karna tha. Aur ab isi ka fayda uthana tha humare teeno characters ko . Aur ab bas D-DAY ka intezaar karna tha . Dusri taraf teeno ne apne headquarters ko bhi aagha kar rakha tha apne plan ke baare mein . Ab aakhirkaar woh din aa hi gaya aur humare  teeno jawaan ekdum taiyaar the. Yeeno ko pata tha apna apna role iss mission mein. Ab kaun kaisa dikhne wala tha aaiye dekhte hai, pehle toh baat yeh hai ki "MASTERMIND" ka bangla bada hi alishaan tha , maano bilkul chaand mahal jaisa , uff aisi sajawat ki gayi thi jiska koi jawaab nahi tha, iske aagey toh mughlo ki imaarat sharma jaaye. Waqayi lag raha tha 8wa ajooba ho duniya ka . Ab logo ka aan shuru ho gaya tha , sabko dekhkar lag raha tha maano , sab raees parivaar ke log hai, ab isis beech hamari teeno characters ki entry hoti hai. Thoda vistaar mein agar bataaya jaye toh , black kurte aur white pyjame mein "MURAAD" with a stylish beard entry aur woh bhi muslim they isliye unhe zyada takleef nahi hui iss getup mein sabke saamne aane mein, woh bade hi stylish , sexy aur macho lag rahe they. Unki entry mein janamdin ke function mein chaar chaand lag gaye the, woh they hi itne handsome ki sabki nazre bas unhi pe tiki ki tiki reh gayi, aur jitni ladkiyaan thi mehfil mein sab toh maano unki fan ho gayi ho , usne toh "MASTERMIND" ke bete ka show pura flop kar diya tha , woh "MASTERMIND' ke bete se kahi zyada handsome lag raha tha , maano lag raha tha koi film ka hero aa gaya ho , uff kya lag raha tha boss, ekdum bole toh "faadu", maano yeh akela hi sab ke dil ka chor bann gaya tha, ladkiyatoh jaise latoo hon gayi thi "MURAAD" par , aur kyun na ho ek toh waisi personality uppar se INDIAN ARMY , par insab ke beech "MURAAD' apna lakshya bhula nahi tha, aur kisiko shaq na ho isliye, usne khud ko "MASTERMIND" ke bete ka dost bataaya , aur door ka rishtedaar bhi. Ladkiya toh har waqt "Muraad" ke agey piche ghppm rahi thi, par woh kahaan kisko dekhta , woh bas apne kaam pe focus kar raha tha. Ab iss beech "Ayesha" toh apni nazar jamaye baithi thi "MASTERMIND" ke ghar pe , bole toh spying constantly, unke har movement ka track rakh rahi thi , aur sahi mauke ke talaash mein thi apne kaam ko anjaam dene ke liye . Teesri ore , "Zeenat " aur "Qureshi" ki entry hui mehfil mein , ab "Zeenat' ko pata tha ki plan execute kaise karna hai. "Qureshi' ko woh zid karne lagi ki "MASTERMIND" se mila de , toh "Qureshi" ne sahi waqt dekhkar "Zeenat" ko le gaya "MASTERMIND" ke paas , aur usne piche se awaaz di "jahaanpanah , zara iss sangi ko do baatein kehne ka muka mil sakta hai kya ? yeh sunn "MASTERMIND" piche ki ore mudew , toh jaisa description pehle bataya hubahu waise hi hai "MASTERMIND" ,lamba chauda , hattakatta, sir pe baal kum , lekin koi wrestler se kam nahi lag raha tha , aur waisi hi physique. "Qureshi' se toh far handsome la g raha tha "MASTERMIND", ek oomph factor tha unme jo bayaan- e - bahaar tha. Par kuch baaton ke baad "Zeenat" ko introduce karaya "Qureshi" ne , ab "mastermind' uske saamne khada tha aur usne "Zeenat" ka haath chuma aur uski taarif ki. Doosri taraf "Muraad" ki aankhen "MASTERMIND' ko dhoond rahi thi , toh wohapni nazre chaaro ore aur yahi karte waqt usne socha ki kyun na kisi ladki ki madad le li jaaye "MASTERMIND" ko dhoondne mein. yahi soch woh yunhi dusri taraf muda hi tha ki usne dekha ki ek ladki usse ek takk dekhi ja rahi  thi. "Muraad" dheere se uske taraf badh raha tha , aur uske karib pahuch gaya , woh ladki sharam ke maare maano kahin bhaag hi jaegi, "Muraad" ne uska haath piche se pakda, aur pucha ki kya woh usey "Akbar Alam" se milwa sakti hai, ispe woh ladki aur sharma gayi aur bola ji haan aap jinhe dhoond rahe hai woh mere abbu hai, yeh sunkar "Muraad" ki khushi ka thikana nahi raha, toh usne uss ladki ka naam puchte hue kaha, ki woh kaha mil sakti hai ? Ispe uss ladki ne bola ki uske abbu varanda mein kuch logo ke saath gappe lada rahe hai aur uska naam "Aaliya' hai , pura naam "Aaliya Alam" hai, "Muraad" janta tha ki ek yahi mohra hai jiske sahare woh "MASTERMIND" ko aasani se apne kaam ko anjaam de sakta hai. Ab isi beech "Muraad" ne apna plan shuru kar diya tha woh bilkul stranger ke tarah gaya "MASTERMIND" se milne aurjaisae hi pahuncha usne "MASTRMIND"ko uppar se niche pura nirikshan kar liya tha, aur usko kaisa counter attack ka plan bhi bana liya tha apne mastishq mein. Waha pahunvhkar uska khoon khaul raha tha par woh toh INDIAN ARMY isliye use apna kaam karna dimaag shaant karke apne objective poora karna tha ya fir kahe mission accomplish karna tha. Waha par usne unka haal chaal pucha aur unke bete ke janmadin ke liye shubkamnayein di. Ab itne logo mein "MASTERMIND" ne khyaal nahi kiya ki "Muraad' ek ajnabee tha , aur bina soche hi usey gala laga liya aur shkriya adha kiya , uss waqt fir "Muraad " ne apne gusse ko control kiya , warna agar woh dono akele hote toh abhi tak "Muraad' ne " MASTERMID" ka kaam tamam kar diya hota aur wahi dafna diya hota , ab woh bas "MASTERMIND" ke akele hone ka intezaar kar raha tha. "Ayesha" bhi sab par rakhi hui thi ki kab "MASTERMIND" thoda akela ko paya jaye toh  apna nishaana saadhkar "MASTERMIND" ka kaam tamam kiya jaaye. Ab sher teeno taraf se ghir chuka tha aur apne ghar mein fass chuka tha aur usey iss bat ki bhanak tak nahi thi, lekin phir bhi uski protection zabardast thi , kyunki sher ko bhi apni jaan pyaari hoti hai , isliye in teeno ko bahut chalaki se apne kaam ko anjaam dena hoga, ab issi beech "MASTERMIND" ko ek call ata hai aur dusre taraf se koi shayad unhe inform kar deta hai ki unki jaan shayad khatre mein pad sakti hai , aur unhe chaukanne rehne ki salah de raha tha , par "MASTERMIND" ne caller ki baat hasi mein uda diya aur kaha ki kisiko pata nahi ki woh kaha rehta hai , toh usey koi kaise attack karega , aur yeh bhi kaha ki allah unhe mehfoos rakhenge woh unki tension na le ,  aur bataaye ki kya haal chaal hai ? , yeh conversation sunkar "Muraad'  ko  thoda tension ho raha tha aur woh aur chaukanna ho gaya , par jab dekha ki woh matter ko maze mein le rahe the uska mann halka hua aur woh ab satark ho gaya aur mann mein thaan liya ki ab toh "MASTERMIND" ki khair nahi. Par thodi der mein kahase pata nahi par ek bullet aakar "MASTERMIND" ko lag hi jaati agar "Muraad' ne notice nhi kiya hota toh aur "MASTERMIND" ko kheech ke dusre taraf mud na gaya hota toh , aur iss dauraan goli "Muraad' ko chu kar nikal gayi , jisko "Mastermind' ne khyaal kiya aur usey dusra room mein le gaye apne saath , aur fatafat uski patti karne lage , saath hi apni praan bachane ke liye shukriya karne lagey , aur kaha ki woh agar na hota toh aaj "MASTERMIND" toh allah ko pyaare ho jata , ispe mann hi mann "Muraad" ne socha ki wohi toh karne ko usne chot khayi kyunki woh apne haatho se 'MASTERMIND" ko maut ke ghaat utaarna chahta tha. Isi beech "Muraad" ne puch hi dala ki koi kyun unpe attack karna chahega, ispe toh pehle "NASTERMIND" kuch bone se itra raha tha ,fir  kyunki "Muraad' ne unki jaan bachane ke liye goli khai thi aur socha unhe isse koi khatra toh hai nahi , tab kehna shuru kiya  ki bhai tumko shayad mere business nahi pata , toh suno yeh jo bomb blasts hue hai delhi mein aur baaki shehero mein woh sab mere hi order se hi hua hai, kyunki main inn hindustaniyo ko maarkar bada mazaa aata hai,yeh saale pakistaniyo ko anaab shanaab bolte hai aur samjhte hai ki khud hi sharif hai aur hum beimaan , bhut khoon kholta hai yeh sab sunn mera  isliye bhuto ko tapka daalta hoon , mujhe sach bolu toh jab inn logo ki  maut ki khabar milti hai tab mujhe aisA lagta hai ki duniya se kuch nasamhjo ko meri madad se allah apne paas bula lete hai, aur yahi log hi hume majboor karte hai terrorism karne ko , phir bhi aa jatehai hai marne ko. Yeh sunkar "Muraad" toh ussi waqt usse maar deta par socha ki uski khabar ko sach karne ka waqt aa gaya hai. Isi beech "Zeenat' ne inn dono ko jab "MASTERMIND" zakhmi "Muraad"  ko room mein le ja rahe the tab inn dono ko usne dekh liya tha. Toh woh "Qureshi" ke saath washroom jaane ke bahane usey washroom tak usey saath vchalne ko kaha aur jaise hi woh phuche "Zeenat" ne usko bhi andar kheech liya aur intimate signals dete huye  aur humara " Qureshi" waha apne aapko sambhal nahi paya , aakhirkaar "Zeenat" ke liye woh paagal tha . Toh dono hi washroom mein the aur washroom "MASTERMIND" ke room se bikul nazdeek tha i mean ekdum chipki hui thi . Isme "Zeenat" ko information  ya 'Muraad' se jo bhi baat uss room mein ho rahi ho rahi thi woh clearly usse sunayi pad raha tha aur samjhne mein koi dikkat bhi nahi ho rahi thi , aur waisa hi sochkar "Zeenat" ne washroom lock kar liya aur waha woh aur "Qureshi" apni intimacy enjoy kar rahe they , atleast "Qureshi" toh enjoy kar hi raha tha , aur "Zeenat bhi cooperate karte huye apna dhyaan "MASTERMIND" ke baaton pe hi fixed rakhi hui thi. Ab iss hamle se "MASTERMIND" toh tension se purey pasina se bheeg chuke they, uppar se A.C. toh chal raha tha par usmein bhi pasine ruk nahi raha tha "MASTERMIND" ka, toh "Muraad" ne unko relax karne ko kaha aur khidkiya khol di . Ab  pehli goli jo "Muraad" ko lagi , woh "Ayesha" ki rifle se chali thi, par galti se "Muraad" ko goli lag jaati hai. Saamne building mein "Ayesha" full focus lagaye usi khidki ke taraf ekk takk dekh rahi thi. Ab "Muraad" ne haav dekha na taav aur woh "MASTERMIND" pe goli chalane wala tha , usi waqt uska call baja aur dusri taraf se usko puri jaankari di gayi baaki do logo ke baare mein, yeh sunn uska josh aur badh gaya ab woh maar hi dalta "MASTERMID" ko , ki dusri taraf "Zeenat" ne "Qureshi" ko intimacy ke dauraan injection ke zariye uske sharir mein zeher inject kar diya , jisse uski sang sang maut ho gayi , aur isne wohi usey ek goodbye kiss dekar "Qureshi" ka chapter fully close kar diya. Dusri taraf "Ayesha' bilkul taiyaar thi , tabhi usne dekha ki "Muraad" ne usko dekhliya aur woh usse wahi shoot kar deti , par tab usne dekha ki "Muraad" usko kuch dikha raha tha , usne jab binoculars se dekha tab woh INDIAN ARMY ka badge tha aur woh samajh gayi ki woh INDIAN ARMY se tha , aur unn dono ka laskhya ek hi tha . Ab woh aaram se tamasha dekhne lagi. Aur issi beech "Zeenat" andar ghusi chali aayi aur aisa dhong karne lagi ki woh jaise dekhne aayi ho  goli ki awaaz sunkar ,ki "MASTERMIND" thik hai ki nhi kahi unhe koi haani toh nahi pahuchi ,tab "MASTERMIND" ne kaha ki unhe bachate bachate iss naujawaan "Muraad" ko goli lag gayi , warna aaj agat yeh na hota toh woh toh allah ko pyaare ho jaate. Yeh sunkar usko aur gussa badh gaya aur woh toh "Muraad" ko wahi maar dalti , par bahgwaan ka lakh shukar hai ki "Muraad" ko khabar mil gayi thi baaki dono ke baare mein , toh "Zeenat' ke haav bhav dekh kar usey pehle shaq tha fir confirm ho gaya ki ho na ho wohi woh dono mein se ek hogi  tab isi beech "Zeenat" ke pocket se ATS [cYBER CELL] ka id card gir gaya aur turant usey "Muraad" ne usey uthakar uthakar de diya isse pehle "MASTERMIND" usey dekh leta. Aur taaki "Zeenat" bhi jaan sake ki "Muraad" INDIAN ARMY se hai toh usne apne aapko usi jagah dobaar achot lagaya aur girne ka naatak kiya aur apna badge gira diya , jisko "Zeenat" ne dekh liya aur usko sab samajh aa gaya tha, aur first aid lene ke bahaane se "Muraad" ne usko khidki ke paaswale drawer se first aid box lane ko bheja , jaise woh phuchi usne "Ayesha" ko dekha rifle liye bilkul taiyaar , usko pura plan samajh aa gaya tha aur usne bhi "Muraad" ke hi tarah "Ayesha" ko apna id card dikha diya tha. Ab teeno ready the , teeno ne allah ko yaad kiya,aur countdown shuru ho gaya, niche toh sabko har team ke logo ne baaton mein uljha rakha tha , aur yeh log bhi guests ke tarah hi ghus aaye the mehfil mein . Uppar "Zeenat" ne jaise hi first aid karna shuru kiya tab woh samajh gaya tha ki "Zeenat" uske taraf attract ho rahi thi, aur usne isika mauka uthaya aur usle saath intimacy karni shuru kar di jispar "Zeenat" hairaan ho gayi aur "MASTERMIND" ko kuch samajh nahi aa raha tha ki kya kare, tabhi "Muraad" ne uske saath zabardasti karne ka jhuta naatak shuru kar diya aur woh samjh gyi thi ki yeh plan ka hissa tha , toh woh naatak asli lagey isliye woh "Muraad" se door jane ki koshish karne lagi par "Muraad" bhi kuvh kum toh tha nahi usne wapis aur zor se usey apni ore khichna shuru kiya,aur yeh dekh "MASTERMIND" ne "Zeenat" ko bachane ki koshish karne laga  aur bas yahi tha perfect moment aur khidki ke lagbhaag saamne hi khade the "MASTERMIND" ab isi khichatani mein bina waqt gawaye ayesha ne aim fix kiya aur fire kar diya aur rifle mein silencer fit rehne ke wajah se koi shor bhi nahi hua aur laga toh laga pura headshot , 1 second mein kahaani khatam. Ab yaha do baatein proof ho gayi ki "MASTERMIND" confusion mein marra aur inn logo ne usey uske ghar mein ghus kar uska kaam tamam kar dala. Terrorism ka "MASTERMIND" ab allah ko puri tarah pyaar ho chuka tha aur kisko kaano kaano kaan khabar bhi nahi hui . Ab yeh teeno apne teams ko lekar waha se aaram se nikal padi. Arthaat yeh mission pure teams ke effort ki success reult thi , aur iska shray ya credit all 3 heads aur unke pure teams ke joint effort ko jaata hai. Uss raat ke baad woh log Karachi emein kabhi fir dikhayi nahi diye aur koi unhe thik se janta bhi nahi tha isliye kisika shaq unpar gaya hi nahi, toh karachi ke logo ke liye "MASTERMIND" ki maut ej rahsya banke reh gayi. Fir agle din IB, ATS, INDIAN ARMY , heads apne apne teams ke saath INDIA wapis laut aayi aur congratulate kiya ek dusre ko , aur saath hi apne apne departments ke hero bann gaye. -x-

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Kara/Lena aren't Lex/Clark, the writers aren't telling the same story.

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Ok, so I know Melissa Benoist said that she was happy they were doing the whole Lex and Clark story with Kara and Lena, but here's the thing, they haven't really been doing that.

Here me out:.

Now we all know that Supergirl writers like to stea...hem hem I mean 'borrow' stories from Smallville a lot. Did any of you watch Smallville at all? When Melissa or anyone refers to Clark and Lex's relationship do you know what they are referring to? (I'm not being an ass i genuinely want to know if you've seen Smallville or just heard about it?)

Well I watched all ten seasons of Smallville and Lena and Kara's friendship really isn't that much like Clark and Lex's was.

No one, not even Clark himself knew of the existence of aliens. Clark was sceptical until his father showed him his ship. So there was no Lex Luthor hates aliens at this point.

Clark and Lex met because Lex knocked Clark off the road and Clark saved his life. In the process of doing that he ripped the top off of Lex's car. This was Lex's first warning sign that there was something different about Clark Kent. Lex even had the car fished out of the lake and had a team of expert scientists examine it because he couldn't figure out how the roof managed to rip itself open. Clark later finds the room with all of this data and he freaks out on Lex demanding he just let it go. That was just Clark screaming 'yes I am different but I'm not telling you why so just drop it'.

But before all of this Lex ad Clark were best friends. Now Lex isn't an angel when he first arrives, but he isn't evil either. He's just a 20 something year old play boy who was sent to Smallville by an unloving father to manage a crap factory (actual crap!) The moment Lex turns up everyone takes an instant dislike to him, it's not because he's a play boy and it isn't because he's done anything to hurt them, it's because his father is Lionel Luthor who managed to con a lot of people out of their land. This includes Clark's parents, Jonathan Kent really had it out for Lex in the beginning and Clark's best friend Pete hates him to.

Now when Lena turns up in National City she is already aware that aliens are real. She isn't even interested all that much in them, no more than humans anyway, save for the detection device which she scraps. Lena is instantly judged by National City, Clark and James all on the basis of something someone else in her family had done. This does parallel Smallville but that's pretty much where they similarities end.

Clark became besties with Lex, but Lex gradually became a villian, he learned about the existence of what were known as 'metor freaks' (basically meta humans) who got that way due to exposure to the 'metor rocks' (Kryptonite). He began to experiment on them and treat them as lab rats. He had a whole facility dedicated to human experimentation on people he deemed less than human (this is where the Justice League popped up). It was called 33.1 and then Black Creek. Lex still had his good moments though. Lex was also constantly put down by Lionel, even allowed to almost die by him. Blamed for the death of his baby brother and then he had to witness Lionel caring more about Clark than he ever had about Lex. Lex also learned about aliens and artifacts and he became obsessed.

Where does Clark fit in? Well Clark consistently lied to Lex when Lex knew that Clark was different, he gave him so many opportunities to tell him, he outright asked him and Clark still denied it. Clark was a crap liar and Lex knew it, Lex was driven mad by all of it, even possessed by General Zod at one point. Now we know that Lex was always going to be bad because we were shown flashes of the future with him dressed in a white suit and blood red rain. Lex actually saw this once to and was horrified!

Lex didn't have anyone other than Clark. His own father couldn't stand him, his wife was inlove with his ex best friend and his dad was actually possessed by Jor El at one point.

All of this is vastly different to Lena and Kara. For a start Lena and Kara have the gift of hindsight. They know about Lex and Clark's pasts. Lena has made it abundantly clear she isn't like Lex and has done nothing but prove that over and over again. She experimented on a CONSENTING Adam and then that tech was utilized by the DEO including Alex and Brainy. (A fact people tend to forget). Lena isn't a saint, but that doesn't make her Lex Luthor. Smallville Lex didn't give a crap if someone died, Lena was devastated.

So Lena and Kara all ready know the mistakes of Lex and Clark. Lena knows all about the super fued and Lex's hate for aliens and especially Kryptonians. But Lena has been friendly with Supergirl and Superman from the moment she showed up.

Lena also hasn't been driven mad because Kara is consistently lying to her when Lena knows something is up. That's a far cry from Clark literally driving Lex insane by lying to his face. Its like there being a pink elephant in the room and you point it out but the other person insists it's not there. It would drive anyone mad. Lex even said he would have been cool if 'some people had been honest with him'.

Lena had only just found out that Kara has been Supergirl this whole time. It's still a betrayal but it isn't the same one as Lex and Clark. Lena unlike Lex (both Smallville and Jon Cryer's) never had any issues with working with a Super and she never had issues with aliens.

So it really isn't the same story at all, Smallville Clark drove Lex crazy with his lies and Lex was always doomed to be bad he even saw it. Kara didn't drive Lena crazy with lies and Lena isn't doomed to always be the bad guy like Lex was. (Check the comics) No matter what genre it is Lex will always be the bad guy. But Lena is a question mark, she's so far from Smallvilles Lex and Supergirl's Lex.

Even Smallville had it's version of Lena, Tess Mercer. She was a good person who was found by Lex and manipulated by him, she became his protege and then found out she was his sister and he had even placed cameras in her body to always watch her. Tess wasn't a saint either, but the bad things she did was to push Clark into his destiny. (There was a lot of prophecy nonsense in Smallville) she came to help when she had to though, plus she died heroically. She came back in the comics as an AI that helped the Team.

Also the Lex Luthor of Supergirl tried to get Superman to join him before he turned on him, thats a common plot. James even told the story of how they were friends (sounded like the Smallville version) and no matter what bad things Lex did Clark wouldn't see it (again Smallville). Lena never asked Supergirl to join her, there was a mutual respect and they helped each other. Even when they were fighting Lena came and helped the DEO and to save Supergirl's life. It was the Superfriends that welcomed Lena to the DEO, not Lena recruiting them.

One major difference to the Lex of Smallville and the Lena of Supergirl is that Lex wasn't a genius, he had other people do all his science for him.

So they really aren't telling the same story as Clark and Lex at all. The only similarities are Kara and Lena being friends and they will have a fall out. But it's nowhere near the same story.

[karafromeldanvers]

My ultimate headcanon from supercorp in s5 is: their twins come from the future to rescue lkçdkdsdfsad its a boy and a girl. louise danvers-luthor and jeremiah (they call him jerry, ok?) danvers-luthor (and lets be real kara wanted to name them zor-el as well but)

lou looks like lena from head to toe, but her personality is all kara. she won’t swear from her life and has that crinkle in her nose as well as her alien mother. jerry has the house of el eyes and perfect curled blonde hair but he is a science geek and takes advantage of the luthor name to inspire fear on the high school bullies from the future, he also is gay as fuck and dresses like tan from queer eye. both of them are fifteen and it’s summer but soon enough they will be graduating from high school (and future!kara keep crying about how old is she and this only makes lena snort cuz supergirl cant age) but a glinch happens in the future and they learn their mothers are not on speaking terms on the past and they will cease to exist soon enough if past lena and kara dont start talking again.

with the help of future brainy and nia they are now in 2019/2020 national city, heading straight from the DEO. Of course they know all the secret passages and jerry demands to talk to his mother (’’-it’s not a good idea, you know? they cant know we are their kids’’ louise reminds him) and they all calm down when the guards bring alex in. their aunt alex. louise’s godmother. she keeps looking at jerry like she knows in and of course (those blue eyes!)

- alright, you two. what the hell is happening? who are you? Alex demands and Jerry and a smirk on this mouth.

- Well...director Danvers - He starts saying but Lou cuts in cuz anxiety is her middle name - Alex. I-we-hum....we are from the future and...two of our friends are going to die. This envolves Supergirl and Lena Luthor. We need them here. 

She talks fast and Alex cant shake the feeling that she knows who that girl with deep green eyes is. She shakes her head and wants to sit but of course something is happening in the future.

She texts Lena first, knowing the bussiness woman is giving everyone the could shoulder and then texts Kara, Nia, J’onzz and James. 

- What is taking so long? - Jeremiah asks in a Luthor tone, not the Luthor tone who will send shivers down your spine, a new Luthor tone. One Alex knows very well. 

- What seems to be the problem, now? - Lena storms out in the DEO using the same tone but it can’t be, Alex thinks. 

Brainy is already in the DEO he is very quiet, glancing at the twins with...fears in eyes?

- Well, they wonder twins here demand to see u. And Kara. 

- What about me? - Kara says, whoosing her way out of DEO with Nia and her eyes quick register Lena’s presence and the twins resemblance with both of them.

- Wow - Nia blinks and it’s so Nia of her - You guys look exactly like..

- We dont have time for this - Jerry urges and makes an i am sorry face for Nia - Our friends will vanish to exist in a week or so - He know looks at his mother’s eyes and she is wearing their family crest - We need your help, Supergirl.

- What is happening? - Kara asks softly, look at the boy with curiosity and registering the fact he wears expensive clothes and looks exactly like her, but is as stoic as the woman is standing side by side with Alex, trying to keep a poker face but failing cuz Lena is look with so much curiosity at Louise that it hurts.

- Well, it’s kinda obvious - Lou says - they are going to die. That much is true. We only know why its happening but not how - She twinkles her head and looks at Jerry - J’onzz is here. 

- That i am, J’onzz says when he also stops at the DEO hall with a whooosh. But how would you know that?

- They are from the future - Nia talks like it’s so normal - and something is nothing right. How can a fifteen year old boy wear that much prada? 

- Well, we do have a ridiculous amount of money - Jeremiah starts to saying, running a hand through his blonde hair - But that’s beside the point - He states a fact terrified with the look his twin sister has on her face.

- Well, clearly you two can’t say much - Lena speaks for the first time - Right,  Brainy? - He only nods - Or everything else will be compromised. But do tell, how did you find us and why you need me and Supergirl, specifically? I am a very busy woman - she says, as matter of fact.

- Sure you are - Lou grins and despise the fact she looks so much like Lena, the grin is all Kara’s and Kara makes the strangest face on earth when she looks at Alex who is piece by piece understanding who they are - But you will help, right? With the science part of it, of course. 

- Well, do i have another choice? - Lena says and Kara buts in - Well, kiddos - she nickname them already - whorever you guys are i wont let anyone die. It’s not on my agenda today or anyday. ‘’Ever the hero’’ lena kinda snorts kinda whispers knowing very well her former (?) best friend will hear. 

- Well, this is exausting - Alex starts saying and Jerry agrees with her - Yes, au...Alex, it is. Let’s figure things out so our friends will live to graduation day and their mother can be happy and bubbly about it - He finishes it and Lou slaps him in the head in a way only sibling shenanings can aloud.

- Wow - that was strong - Nial says, oblivious again. - You are more stronger than you look. 

- Yes, she is and we agreed not to use your powers in the past, idiot - Jerry starts  but Lena cuts in, already fullfing her duties as a mother without knowing it - Stop it. Let’s go to my lab and find out what is happening so i can actually work again. You - she points at Kara - can lend them in while i drive everyone else. 

- O..okay - Kara gives in and grabs the twins by their hands. - Up up? - She offers and Jerry makes a face but Louise is glowing - And away - she finishes for her.

- Wait. How do you know that? - J’onzz asks and Alexs roll out her eyes. - It’s kinda obvious but of course they cant say it, am i right, Brainy? 

- Yes. The semantics are right, Agent Danvers. - Brainy speaks and his voice is...emotional? - The future is as bright is it seems but it depends on mending broking friendships right now - He looks at Kara and Lena. 

- Yeah, this is all very touching but according to this young lady - Lena chimes in - the future also depends on scienci and chemistry, so let’s go. Please?

Louise and Jeremiah share a look a minute before flying with their mother and the promise that their future won’t cease to existe is glowing right now. Very much like the look on Aunt Alex face when they are all in the lab and Louise, of course, calls Kara ‘’Mum’’ by accident, leaving the Super-hero as confused as a puppy and Lena, who eavesdrop it by accidente as well, has an aching feeling in her stomach.

[winterskywrites]

7, Lena and Kara

7. “I can hardly stand myself.”

“Kara,” Lena says quietly one night, as they sit in Kara’s loft, “I need to tell you something?”

“What is it?” Kara asks, frowning over at Lena. “Lena, what’s wrong?”

“When I was first developing the drug that healed James and gave him powers,” Lena says, looking like she hates every word that’s coming out of her mouth, “I did a human trial. It was… It was too early, and I knew it was risky, but I wanted to move ahead. I wanted to have it done. So I put out an advertisement, and a young man answered. I told him I would make him a superhero.”

There’s silence for a long moment. “What happened to him?” Kara finally asks. She suspects, of course, but the words need to be said aloud.

Lena is quiet for another moment, then she says, “He died.”

“It wasn’t your fault,” Kara says immediately.

“Wasn’t it?” Lena retorts. “I did the trial. I gave him the drug that killed him. I gave him the drug that I knew could kill him. How is it not my fault that he died?”

“You didn’t mean for it to happen,” Kara says. “You were trying to make a drug to help people-”

“The ends don’t justify the means, Kara,” Lena interrupts. “That boy is dead, and It’s my fault. God, sometimes, I can hardly stand myself.”

“Lena, you can’t torture yourself over this,” Kara protests. “It was science. Sometimes-”

“Sometimes things go wrong?” Lena asks with a wan smile. “Sometimes people die? I know, Kara, but this time it was directly because of me.”

“You didn’t do it on purpose,” Kara says, reaching over to pull Lena into her arms. “You’re not a bad person, Lena. You’re not a killer. I know you, and I know that.”

“Maybe you don’t know me a well as you think,” Lena says in a small voice, clinging to Kara’s forearm as if she’s afraid Kara might pull it away.

“I know you,” Kara repeats, “and I will always be behind you, no matter what.”

Lena doesn’t let go of Kara’s arm, and Kara doesn’t ask her to. They just sit there in silence, and Kara hopes that if she holds Lena tightly enough, Lena will believe her when Kara says she’ll never let her go.

[unsettlingstories]

Updated index of all stories. May 16, 2018.

Transfigurations: A small, self-published collection of my favorite short stories from 2015. Individual Stories

3 Signs You May Be An Introvert and How to Cope: Some great tips! 30 years ago today, my neighbor’s son disappeared: They miss him. A Case of Hives: My son isn’t feeling too well… A Cure for Writer’s Block: How to find inspiration when it’s just not there. A Curious Dog: My dog won’t stop pawing at a wall in the basement. A Gifted Chef: My friend was one of the greats. I miss him. A Life Worth Living: Big changes lead to bigger results. A Most Welcome Visitor: He’d come to me in the middle of the night. A Pathetic Wretch: His neighbor just won’t stop crying. An Artist’s Canvas: The beauty of symmetry. A Questionable Glory Hole: A young man’s first sexual experience. A Warning To Women With IUDs: Be careful whatcha put up ya. Adrenochrome: The horrible, impossible truth. All Horror Stories About Dolls Are Fake: My daughter was bullied mercilessly. Allison’s Loss: My daughter is devastated by the death of her friend. Alternative Medicine: A wife treats her husband with an old remedy. All Thumbs: My embarrassing habit. A Message in a Bottle: I’m suddenly filled with dread. A Very Bad Place to Hide: Maybe even the worst. Amy’s Wish: Blow away the eyelash and make a wish! An Unlucky Samaritan: Think twice before stopping to help. Are My Twins Spending Too Much Time Together?: For woke mommies only. Assisted Suicide: He begged me to help him die. Attempts to Repair the Irreparable: How do you move on? Bad Sex: Has this ever happened to you and your partner? Bags: A hunting trip goes very, very wrong. Beach Bodies: What’s that out in the water? A whale? Ben’s Fear: He just hated seaweed. Bitcoin Mining and the Death of the Universe: I think I fucked something up. Bits and Pieces: Chunks and portions. Bitumen: A man who loves dinosaurs. Black Balloons: My little daughter saw shapes in the sky. Bluebirds: Possibly the most reprehensible thing I’ve ever written. Bluefin: Use caution when poaching an endangered species. Body Cast: The worst thing that can happen when you’re immobilized. Body Hair Removal: I learned a valuable lesson. Bridgeport Power Plant: There’s something living there. Bubbles: Strange happenings in an emergency room. Butt Stuff: The activity - not the other thing. Caroline’s New Teeth: The Tooth Fairy’s best customer. Caviar: Only the best for discerning palates. Centipedes: There’s some big ones out there, you know. Charles Robert Olevsky: Ever Google yourself? Chopped!: An unaired episode of the Food Network show. Christmas Morning With Danny and His New Puppy: Danny gets a puppy. Comfort Food: Anything to help fill that void. Coping Mechanisms: Life after losing a husband and a daughter. Cracks in the Foundation: A relationship on the edge. Dawn: I hurt my sister so badly. I’ll never forgive myself. Daycare Massacre: A terrible incident before a hurricane. Death Looking into the Window of One Dying: His final days. Dede Elgy: This monster story will make you feel dirty. Very dirty. Deniehyfield, Australia is Being Dismantled: My town is disappearing. Dermatographia: Words on my skin. Devil’s Hole: The geological anomaly, not the…you know. Dial Tone: What’s going on with my phone? Diary of a Woman in New Hampshire: Found a diary. Wtf. Dilation and Evacuation: A friend in need is a friend indeed. Division: Nothing is right. Double Dare: The long-lost episode never seen in the US. Dumbwaiter: A family learns something about their house. Elective Surgery: I just want him to be happy. Elf on the Shelf: He’s watching. Endless Chirping: Ever get a cricket in your room? Escaphism: The journey of one man, his love, and The Verdant World. Ethan’s Halloween Mask: Not all friendships are positive. ExpressionCaptioner.com: This website is seriously weird. Fallenfield Mountain: A geological survey gone wrong. Very wrong. Family Tree: A unique family tradition is revealed. Farm to Table: Fucking hipsters. Fertility Treatments: Some people are desperate to have a baby. Fireflies: You would not believe your eyes. For Lena and Clair: Trapped after an earthquake. Found the Bees: Well, that solves that mystery. Gratification Through Annihilation: Suffer the little children. Great Potential: A lady who loves children. He Went Ahead: My friends and I were into urban exploration. Heather’s Phases: My wife always had body-image issues. House Sounds: What do we keep hearing? I Dream of Names and Cancer: My eternal nightmare. I Pressed My Hands Against My Eyes: And only then could I truly see. I Shouldn’t Have Broken Into My Neighbor’s Garage: I’ll never unsee it. If Anyone Asks: An old farmer notices something about his scarecrow. I’ll Never Wear a Condom Again: No way, no how. Instantiations: An AI gets powerful and utilitarianism rears its head. In Praise of Our God: A helpful neighbor. It’s Hard to Clean Blood Out of a Fur Suit: Right? Jerry’s Mouth: Maybe next time he’ll think before he cheats. Jill-o-Lanterns: The murders are all connected. Jim Jameson’s Pumpkins: A dead farmer’s secrets. Know it All: See it all, feel it all, know it all. Last Weekend: Hazmat suits, horror, and a mystery. Licks From a Bear: Skull + electric drill = story. Lippy: I’ve always been self conscious about the size of my labia. Little Cows: Meet the milkmaid. Long Fingers: I can feel them. Making Faces: Strange prints on the windows… Making Their Dad Proud: A family that plays together… Malcolm: You know those floaty things in your eyes? Maria’s Extra-Credit Assignment: Gotta get a good grade. Medical Issue: What’s the stuff I found on a rock? Memoir of a Cam Girl: She is being controlled. Missing Mousetraps: My neighbors had an infestation. Moaning Lollipops: Why do they make that sound in my mouth? Motility: My sperm sucked. Mr. Puddles: A little boy just won’t stop splashing. Mushy Stuff: My parents never let me have any fun. My Amazon Alexa Does More Than Laugh: Please help - I’m in danger. My Brother’s Fall: Horror deep below the Iraqi desert. My Cellar Door is Breathing: Is that normal? My Constellation: Want to be sad? This will make you sad.   My erection lasted longer than 4 hours: and I didn’t call a doctor. My four year old son woke up with a full head of grey hair: Help us. My Last Abduction: All the other ones don’t count. My Only Experience With ASMR: Hint - it didn’t go well. My Sister Found the Coolest Thing!: You’ve gotta hear about it. My Sweet Boy: A mom who loves her son. My Trouble With Fairies: They’re so mischievous and unpredictable! My Wife, the Artist: A couple who loves Halloween. Nests: Ah, the great outdoors. Network Security: Two friends get a glimpse of a Russian science lab. Never Ride the Subway at Night: You never know who could be watching you. Norwalk Cemetery: There’s something alien in there… Not All Men: Temper, temper, young man. Of Malevolence; Of Misanthropy: A disturbed scientist makes a discovery. Open Mouths: A hideous ritual. Otter: I’ve always wanted to be one. Ouroboros: Why cut when you can cut off? Pebbles: A strange meteor shower. Phone Sex: It all started when I realized my iPhone was self-lubricating. People are disappearing in Northern Canada: What is happening? Pool Cover: I almost drowned when I was 13. Pray Away: Conversion therapy for deviant behavior. Pretty Little Bugs: A new job as a cameraman. Prosopagnosia: After an accident, my husband couldn’t recognize us. Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice: What can be better? Quarry: Trying to beat the heat on a summer day. Randall’s Chatty Leg: He said it was talking to him. I heard it. Rats in the Barn: An exterminator’s apprentice. Recycling: Parents try to understand their depressed daughter. Rediscovering the Newness of Sex: Let’s spice it up a little. Regarding Danny and Micah Stevenson: Two brothers rely on one another. Regina’s Raspberry Jam: She put everything she had into it. Road Head: Who doesn’t like getting sucked on? Seriously. Roo: An old man watches a girl grow up. Roots of Change: Something is happening beneath our feet. Ropes: Be careful what you eat. Rotting Pumpkins: A Halloween ritual. Round Faces: My daughter keeps complaining about monsters. Safety: Our grandfather was obsessed with it. Seed of Man, Pollen of Angels: A family tradition. Sex, Gender, and Other Social Constructs: Destroy them all. Sex in the Cemetery: Gotta do it somewhere, I guess. Skincare Diary: My acne was getting out of hand. Smokey, the Dog I Rescued: A very very good boye. Snapshot of a New Man: Evil (Inspiration for The Coronation Cycles series.) Soft Teeth: A man used to sneak into my room at night. Sprouts: Something beautiful from something small. Still a Family: Two sisters have lunch while waiting for their parents. Stop Being Such Babies: The woods aren’t scary, for fuck’s sake. Stuffing: Grandma’s was the best. Suicide Woods: Not just in Japan anymore. Tainted Candy: The legend is real. Teeny-Tiny: Katie wants to lose weight. That Good Dick: You know what I mean ;) The Alzheimer’s Ward: This isn’t right. The Bleakness Before Our Old Eyes: The Universe tasted us that night. The Blissful Insensate: An experiment goes terribly wrong. The Cave in the Lake: A discovery while scuba diving leads to horror. The Chernobyl Abomination: My father saw something he shouldn’t have. The Cotard Delusion: A new drug has a frightening side-effect. The Day I Started Believing In Ghosts: I’m still in shock. The Empty Cribs on Hawthorne Lane: Missing children. The Face in the Clouds: A meteorological anomaly? Or something else? The Floor is Lava: We all used to play that game, right? The Giggliest Girl: Don’t tickle me, Mommy. The Gray in Girl: A man finds a girl on the side of the road. The Hitchhiker: I think I need a new car now. The Incident at the Train Station: After a suicide, something…worse. The Job I Couldn’t Leave: I was employed by a psychopath. The Last of the Trick-or-Treaters: A strange costume. The Last words of an Explorer: A city on no one's map. The Least Satisfying Explanation: And the biggest understatement I’ve made. The Little Ghost: That nagging voice inside your head. The Lord of Hosts: Lice The Moose Hunt: Is…is that really a moose? The Perils of Live TV: It’s not all fun and games. The Perks of Working in a Funeral Home: There aren’t many, but still. The Pilot: A UFO crash. The Oblivion that Masks Pain: Escape. The Old Mine Outside Town: Everyone was too scared to go in. I wasn’t. The Only Solution: How to bring back a loved one? The Only Thing That Matters: Zombies attack a supermarket. The House in the Woods: Bad title, good story. The Shores of Pluto: A journey without moving. The Sleeping Game: We played when we were kids. The Small Eyed Children of Canyon del Cristo: A local legend comes alive. The Squirming Man: Please leave me alone. The Star Bridge: My friend found something beyond life. The Tomb of the Builders: Divers looking for sunken treasure find something evil. The Trawl: We dragged something up from deep underwater. The Wisdom of Moms: Mother knows best. The Worst Party in Ten Thousand Years: Trust me, it’s pretty damn bad. There is nothing wrong in East Flatbush, Brooklyn: Ignore the dragonflies. There’s something very wrong with my parrot: WTF. Tiptoeing the Line of Consent: But never crossing it. To Adore: Our beautiful baby girl. To the Kind Folks at WebMD: Just a couple questions.   To Travel: Bodies in bodies, bodies of bodies. Trees of Eyes: They’re watching. Tunnel Rat: My grandfather told us the worst story I’ve ever heard. Seriously. Uncle Liam: I never told the real story about how he died. Under My Teeth: My mouth is screaming. Uplift: A brilliant scientist works to improve the human condition. We’re All Smiling: Whether we want to or not. We Share the Empty Roads: You’re never, ever alone when you drive. Wet Bedroom: A haunted house with a hideous history. What He Told Me: Evil (Inspiration for The Coronation Cycles series.) Wikileaks: A document they refused to leak. What to expect when I’m expecting: Hint - it’s the worst. Why I Don’t Hike Anymore: Not what you might think.

Story Series

The Smols: Maybe the most fucked up stories I've ever written.

Sade Smols Emmy Smols

The Secret Doctors of NASA: A wide-ranging conspiracy.

A Dentist's Discovery A Psychologist's Suicide A Surgeon's Nightmare

Tales from Social Media

Something horrible is happening to me on Tumblr Something horrible is happening to me on Facebook Something horrible is happening to me on Reddit Something horrible is happening to me on Grindr Something horrible is happening to me on Myspace Something horrible is happening to me on Pokemon Go

Sockets: Craigslist allows you to meeting interesting people.

Part 1     Part 2     Part 3

[needsmoresarcasm]

A Review of Crazy Rich Asians Before Seeing Crazy Rich Asians

And several years ago, she had been e-mailed a humorous list entitled ‘Twenty Ways You Can Tell You Have Asian Parents.’ Number one on the list: Your parents never, ever call you ‘just to say hello.’ She didn’t get many of the jokes on the list, since her own experience growing up had been entirely different.

That’s the passage that sold me on Crazy Rich Asians. I know, it’s no “Life lilted to the sounds of her soliloquy, skipping across lily pads, seeking to fill her soul with elusive validity” or whatever nonsense collection of pretty sounding words sells people on books these days. That’s all to say, for me, the thrill of Crazy Rich Asians does not rest in sparkling prose but in its revolutionary ordinariness.

You see, in that passage, Rachel, a first generation Chinese American, is reflecting on the differences between herself and other Asian Americans, as a result of considering her differences with Nick, her Chinese Singaporean boyfriend.  A character in a story saying “I’m not like all the other [girls/boys/teens/football players/handsome men named Chris in a comic-book based superhero movie]” is hardly new ground. But an Asian American character specifically contemplating her differences from other Asian and Asian American characters? I feel pretty comfortable betting that you can’t even name another instance of it. Because that would require at least two Asian American or Asian characters, and then a recognition that those characters did not encompass the entire experience of all Asian Americans.

I’m confident making that bet because there are so few mainstream stories that include enough Asians to make that opportunity possible. Only 11 percent of network TV shows in 2015 even had more than one Asian actor in its main cast. There have only ever been three network sitcoms featuring an Asian American family. Ever. There have been that many network sitcoms featuring a group of predominantly white friends with the word “Friends” in the title in the last decade. And that’s not even including “Friends”! (Best Friends Forever, Friends with Better Lives, and Friends with Benefits, in case anyone was wondering. Yes, I watched every episode of them all, in case anyone was wondering again.)  And TV is the medium where Asian actors are doing the best. Want to know how many major studio films featured an Asian actor in the leading role in 2015? Zero. None. In 2015, only 3.9 percent of characters were Asian, the same as in 2007, despite the fact that Asians are the fastest growing demographic group in the US.

That’s hardly shocking, I hope, because we’ve all been outraged about whitewashing for like a solid two years now. It’s exhausting, and I don’t know that I need to rehash it. But, for the sake of propriety, let’s just see how many movie characters were whitewashed in say… the last ten years: Allison Ng in Aloha (Emma Stone), Mindy Park in The Martian (Mackenzie Davis), The Ancient One in Doctor Strange (Tilda Swinton), Light Yagami (nee Turner???) in Death Note (Nat Wolff), Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost in the Shell (Scarlett Johansson), Khan in Star Trek: Into Darkness (Benedict Cumberbatch), Hae-Joo Chang in Cloud Atlas (Jim Sturgess), Boardman Mephi in Cloud Atlas (Hugo Weaving), the Archivist in Cloud Atlas (James D’Arcy), Aang in Avatar: The Last Airbender (Noah Ringer), Lena in Annihilation (Natalie Portman), Goku in Dragonball Evolution (Justin Chatwin), Keiji Kiriya in Edge of Tomorrow (Tom Cruise), Kyo Kusanagi in The King of Fighters (Sean Faris), everyone in 21, and everyone in Speed Racer. In the last ten years. And that’s not even counting the characters who were not necessarily whitewashed, but were still inexplicably white: The Last Samurai, The Great Wall, the random white person POV in the Bruce Lee biopic Birth of the Dragon, those seven seconds on the Internet when the Mulan script had a white dude. I guess what I’m saying is, thanks Ed Skrein for opting out of Hellboy.

And so, Crazy Rich Asians is revolutionary. Sure, its satirization of class is nothing that Pride and Prejudice hasn’t done. And it’s got a Game of Thrones convoluted web of familial relations. And a Tolkein-esque love of a tangential backstory for a tertiary character (no one ever needs to know anything about Bernard Tai). But it’s not a bunch of white people in Regency era England or Westeros or Middle Earth. It’s a bunch of Asian people in the 21st century. And so when Rachel says she doesn’t identify with a Buzzfeed list, I not only get the reference, I feel it. It’s a mundane aside that feels written for me--not written for an Asian audience generally, but written for me specifically. It’s the kind of representation you only get when identity assumes the role of a character’s foundation, not a character’s personality: when you can no longer win a game of Taboo by giving the hint “the Asian one.”

It’s the type of representation that allows me to feel no pause about decrying how Eddie should just be written out of Fresh Off the Boat (send him off to college, already) because that show still has the rest of the Huang family. The Fresh Off the Boat gag about not knowing the dishwasher was more than a drying rack? That’s the hardest I’ve laughed at a TV show in ages, as a person who hadn’t run a dishwasher until he was 24, despite having grown up with one in the house. The extended bit about having to prepare for Asian glow? Still funny, but I’ll die of alcohol poisoning before there are any signs that I’m visibly drunk. When every joke is from the perspective of an Asian American family, I don’t feel lost when a few aren’t for me.

I love Fresh Off the Boat because it’s a great family sitcom. It’s funny and heartwarming and totally accessible. And as a network sitcom entering its fifth season, that’s all it needs to be. Because if you’re looking for a different flavor of representation on TV? Try Master of None or Kim’s Convenience.  Or The Good Place, in case you identify with a sweet, dumb molotov cocktail or a fancy British giraffe. Or Superstore, for either sass or sadness personified. There might not be a buffet of TV sitcom representation, but at least the prix fixe menu has some decent options.

And books are much the same. Crazy Rich Asians (and then China Rich Girlfriend… and then Rich People Problems) is fun, pop spectacle. It’s propulsive, with drama escalating through multiple storylines until they can’t help but burst into each other. It’s a great beach read. It’s a story you could live tweet. But you’d be disappointed if you were looking to read a rumination on identity and place in America or scrolls of lofty prose. The great thing about books, though, is that there are so many of them. So if you want those things? You could probably find it somewhere.

I don’t know that I realized how truly powerful it was to feel like something was crafted just for you until devouring Chemistry by Weike Wang. Chemistry is about an Asian American PhD student who leaves her PhD program in part because she feels like she lacks the motivation to dedicate her life to answering single research questions. She’s frustrated by lab work, by the unpredictability of scientific research. When she leaves her program, she tutors kids in science - and she so clearly loves science, as she peppers scientific trivia throughout the narrative. Her voice is deadpan and her thinking analytical. Switch some pronouns around, and I’m pretty sure I just wrote an autobiography circa 2012.  

It’s hard to describe just how much feeling that catered to entirely changes the power of a piece of art. Honestly, it’s not something I’ve had much occasion to think of. Of course, Chemistry is great for so many more reasons. The writing is breathtaking in its economy. As an author, it feels like Wang can take the same five words and rearrange them into the world’s best joke and the world’s saddest tragedy. Every observation feels elemental - like chemistry, a fundamental truth of this world that Wang has just discovered. And as any good scientist, Wang has published those truths for the benefit of the public.

Celeste Ng has a similar knack for observation that’s on full display in Little Fires Everywhere. Now, Little Fires Everywhere is not primarily about Asian American characters. The only prominent Asian character does alight the most dramatic narrative in the book - a custody battle smoked in class and race wars. Still, I can’t say I particularly identify with the character, a Chinese immigrant so impoverished she leaves her child on a doorstep. But that’s not to say I don’t identify with the book. Because Little Fires Everywhere is a book about white identity, written from the outside looking in. Set in a midwest town in the 90s, race smolders in the background. Instead of merely being the default setting, the characters’ whiteness is a clear choice. It’s on full display. Much as it’s impossible to not notice the Asianness of a Mr. Miyagi, it’s impossible not to see the Richardsons’ every move as coded with whiteness.

And that perspective - the one that notices when things are particularly white - is something I can identify with. Little Fires is much more subtle about noticing whiteness than I am though. Where I muttered “this is some white nonsense” when a bar trivia category was “songs with the world ‘sail,’” Ng has the McCulloughs promise to feed a child Chinese food to connect her with her culture. Or has Lexie, whose boyfriend is black, declare that it’s so great that no one sees race in their town. Or has Mrs. Richardson feel entitled to barrel headfirst into affairs she has no business being part of. It’s in the claustrophobia that builds from the deliberate confines of the setting: a utopic, white-picket fenced community decidedly apart from the less desirable fringes of the town. A subtly observed us vs. them, where the central characters are almost certainly the “them.” In its hyper-awareness of whiteness, Little Fires gives its reader a sense of what every person of color lives through.

For me, Little Fires Everywhere and Chemistry and Crazy Rich Asians and Fresh Off the Boat are excellent forms of representation, even as they’re all incredibly different. And I am so grateful that all of these things exist. They’re great as independent works of art. And they’re even better for me, because I get to have the joy of being on the inside of the inside jokes.

But still. Not a single character in any of the works I’ve referenced is Japanese American. Not a single character in any of those works is a fourth generation Asian American. But I don’t blame those works for that. Those works are at least giving me something I recognize - an outsider's perspective on whiteness, a former PhD candidate, an exasperation with Buzzfeed lists, a family that doesn’t use their dishwasher. I would just like more. And when it comes to movies, I would just like any. Crazy Rich Asians is at least something. And all I’m asking for is something. And then, well, and then I’d like more something.

Because I am so glad that a story exists where an Asian person sees-and then rejects-a list of items that attempts to encompass every Asian American. Oh and as a last note? My parents really don’t ever call me “just to say hello.”

[queercapwriting]

8 Nights of Danvers Chanukah -- Night 2

Last Year | Night 1 

Kara has trouble celebrating the holiday after 3x04 with the whole cult thing.

I reference Kenny in this chapter, and nope. He didn’t die. Because nope.

When she’d gotten to Earth, she understood so much more about the planet than any human did.

She’d understood the things they thought were science, and she understood the things they thought were mathematics.

She understood them, and she understood what was wrong with them, because she understood so far beyond them.

But then there was Kenny.

Then there was Kenny, and his full-throated love of what his little telescope could show him of the universe.

And there was Alex, needing help with calculus from him because she was too scared and embarrassed to ask Kara; because asking Kara would violate their agreement that Kara pretend not to be as advanced at Earth science and math, for fear of giving herself away. Giving herself up.

There were Alex’s late-night speculations with Kenny about what else was out there, who else. Other than what they’d both heard from Kara, of course.

And she would listen, and through their friendship, she would realize; maybe Earth was impressive.

Sure, maybe their physics was child’s play and their mathematics almost laughable.

But they had so much else to offer.

She learned that, from Kenny’s stories and Alex’s passion.

So when they started teaching her about Earth religions, Kara listened. 

She listened, and she was fascinated. Because she missed having people who understood the power of Rao, who understood the feeling the prayers of her people had given her.

But she watched Eliza’s eyes flutter closed and she watched the conflict in Alex’s eyes, lighting the Chanukah candles for the first time the year after Jeremiah was apparently killed.

And she thought that maybe, this was something she could feel connected to.

Because on Krypton, religion and science didn’t have to be separate. And here, under the Danvers’ roof, maybe they didn’t have to be separate, either.

Maybe she didn’t have to be separate.

But this year? 

This year, all those years later?

This year, Kara Danvers feels separate from... well, from everyone.

It wasn’t just invasion after invasion after genocide attempt after genocide attempt.

It wasn’t just losing everything all over again last year -- was it only last year? -- through the Black Mercy. Through Astra. 

It wasn’t just all that.

It was also that damned cult.

That damned perversion of her faith.

She talks a bit about it, to Winn’s friend Rabiah. About Islamophobia and about empty justifications and about rage.

She talks a bit about it, to Felicity. About occupations and about empty justifications and about rage.

But talking about it doesn’t make her feel any better.

Because at least they have other people, who understand their faith, who believe what they believe.

She only has Clark. Who vaguely knows what she believes, from basically... text books. Well, if the automated information-sharing systems at the Fortress of Solitude can be called text books.

Regardless. Clark was a baby when he left. 

She... wasn’t.

She... remembers.

And she can’t hear words in her home language, now, without hearing them corrupted by the lips of people who didn’t care how many people died for them to feel pious. 

She can’t hear those prayers, now, without feeling... ill.

Because of that damned cult that fashioned her into a god.

That fashioned her into something she has never been worthy of. Something she has never wanted, has never deserved.

Something that truly and utterly shattered the essence of what she’d grown up with.

Something that perverted and corrupted it and made it into something poisonous.

So this year?

This year, Chanukah doesn’t remind Kara of Rao, of survival, of finding new family, of forging a new life against all odds.

This year, Chanukah just reminds her of all she’s lost, of all that’s been destroyed.

The year Jeremiah had first disappeared, Alex had nearly refused to celebrate the holiday. Alex had yelled and she had thrown things and she had stamped and stormed and surfed for hours and hours and hours and only conceded to be in the same room while Eliza lit the candles because maybe, somehow, it was a form of honoring Jeremiah.

This year, Kara feels like acting exactly as Alex had then.

Except this year, she doesn’t have the excuse of being a teenager in excruciating pain.

So she tries to tell Alex she’s tired and she tries to tell Lena not to worry about it.

She knows it won’t work, because there are eight damn nights, and can she really pull of the too tired act for all of them?

She wishes, not for the first time, that she could actually get the flu or something.

She wishes, but in vain.

So she’s not entirely surprised when Alex shows up at her door.

“You know I can just kick it down?” Alex calls softly when Kara doesn’t answer.

“You have a key, Alex,” Kara calls back wearily, her befuddlement at her sister’s antics temporarily outweighing her need for silence.

“I know,” Alex shrugs as she unlocks the door and steps inside. “But kicking it in would’ve been much more fun. And it got you to smile.” 

She crosses the room in a few quick strides and hesitates for a moment -- for permission, which Kara grants wearily, and more willingly than she would have expected of herself -- before collapsing onto the couch next to Kara and wrapping her in her arms.

“The whole religion thing leaving a bad taste in your mouth this year, huh?” she asks after a long, long hug.

Kara shrugs and wriggles slightly out of Alex’s arms, keeping contact between their bodies but pulling back so she can look at her face.

“He almost killed thousands of people in that stadium. In my name, Alex.”

“And you stopped him.”

“With help from you.”

“Yeah, well. That’s what sisters are for.”

“Thousands of people, Alex.”

“You saved them.”

“I don’t want to be a savior!”

Kara is standing, now, and Alex stays sitting, stays quiet. 

She tilts her head, and Kara smiles wetly.

“You look like your fiancee when you do that.”

“Thank you for the compliment.”

Kara’s smile broadens weakly before fading.

“I don’t want to be a savior,” she repeats, her voice broken, defeated. Too tired to be angry.

“You don’t have to be. Saviors and heroes aren’t the same thing.”

“Tell that to the stadium of people he almost blew up. Tell that to that boy who almost -- “

“Almost, Kar. Almost. They’re fine. They’re all fine.”

Kara lets Alex hold her eyes, steady and calming, for a long moment before she heaves a sigh and collapses back down onto the couch. Back down into her sister’s arms.

“It’s lonely.”

“I know it is. I know, and I’m so sorry, sis.”

Another long silence, punctuated only by Alex stroking Kara’s hair, kissing her forehead.

“You know,” Alex ventures softly after a long moment, “J’onn knows your language. Your traditions. Clark told me once... they were at the Fortress of Solitude together, and he said that J’onn told him that if they don’t keep the memories of each other’s people alive, who would?”

Kara sniffles and backs up so she can look Alex in the eyes. “You do. And Winn does. You both try to understand my language, and Maggie and Lena and James have been doing all this research since the cult thing about Rao and stuff. To make me feel less alone.”

Alex smiles and nods and brushes a stray strand of hair from Kara’s face. 

“I know it’s not the same. But it’s...”

“Family,” Kara finishes, and nods, more to herself than to Alex.

“Can we have the first night,” she continues, hesitant. “Can we light the menorah alone together? We can have everyone over for any of the other days, but... can we do tonight together, alone? I... I know you probably don’t want to be without Maggie, and you can totally -- “

“Hey, hey, Kara, no. Don’t do that. Yes, it can be a Chanukah-themed Sister’s Night. Okay? Just you and me. And if you’re up for it through the rest of the week, we can have more people. Okay? But it’s all up to you. It’s okay.”

“You won’t feel... incomplete?”

“With you, Kara? I never could.”

“Can I heat-vision the candles?”

“You know Mom hates when you do that.”

“Eliza’s not here.”

“Oh Rao.”

And the smile that tugs at Kara’s lips, then, is joy, is hope, is light in a wash of darkness, because maybe they can celebrate life after all.

Together.

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Writer/Artist Pairings!

All right guys, the time has finally come to announce the writer/artist pairs for the Pacific Big Bang 2017! If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to email us at pacificbigbang@gmail.com or just shoot us an ask!

After each story summary we have included the tumblr url for that story’s writer and artist. (There is an artist who has bravely taken on two stories, due to a drop out. This is not a typo.) Please find your writer/artist and introduce yourself if you don’t already know each other! If you’d rather communicate with your author or artist via email, let us know and we’ll put you guys in touch that way. As the challenge continues, we hope that you’ll become a source of inspiration, motivation and support for one another.

One more thing! Now that claims are over, you can post as much about what you’re working on as you want! Writers, please feel free to post snippets from your stories as you write! Artists, give us glimpses of what you’re working on as your pieces take shape! We’re a small fandom, so the more excitement we can generate about this, the better!

Good luck to everyone, and thank you again for participating! We are really looking forward to sharing this experience with you all!

STORY 1

Writer:  @acesparson

Artist:  @irr-fullmetalheart 

Rating: Mature (some sports violence, possible off-screen death)

Warnings: No archive warnings anticipated to apply.

Main Pairings/Characters: Andrew ‘Ack-Ack’ Haldane/ Edward “Hillbilly’ Jones & Eugene Sledge/Merriell ‘Snafu’ Shelton

Side Pairings/Characters: There may be some other HBO War cameos, but The Pacific will be the main POV.  

Summary: Captain Haldane’s team clinching the 2018 Stanley Cup playoffs had almost been a given. Staying in the race was a whole 'nother matter .

Additional Details: Dealing with hyper-masculinity, ambitions & expectations, & queer themes within sports. It’ll be mainly realistic, but this is fictionalized NHL, and through the eyes of an experienced vet hockey player.

STORY 2

Writer:  @waterdeer

Artist:  @baksun-n

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No archive warnings anticipated to apply.

Main Pairings/Characters: Wilbur “Runner” Conley /Lew “Chuckler” Juergens

Side Pairings/Characters: Robert “Lucky” Leckie/Bill “Hoosier” Smith, Lew “Chuckler” Juergens, Sidney Phillips, Ronnie "Kid” Gibson

Summary: Runner is home for the summer after his junior year of college. He’s not excited to go back to his sleepy, tiny town. So far, in the first few weeks, his best friend has been ditching him for this new guy, his parents don’t care about him and haven’t spoken more than two words to him since he came home, and he feels like his life is a dead end. More alone than he’s ever been, he ends up meeting this weird guy from the woods.

Additional Details: Summer Vibes - it’s got the “home for the summer” feel, going out into the woods exploring, summer love kinda feel; Loneliness - Runner is a lonely guy and there’s areas of the story that are sad and down because the story focuses on him; Fantasy - Chuckler is not entirely human (still deciding on what mythical creature he is)

STORY 3

Writer:  @warriorgays

Artist:  @hoosiersblanket

Rating: General or Teen and Up

Warnings: No archive warnings anticipated to apply.

Main Pairings/Characters: Bob Leckie/Vera Keller, John Basilone/Lena Riggi, Ray Person/Brad Colbert, and Josh Lyman/Donna Moss

Side Pairings/Characters:

Summary: Robert Leckie is a reporter with the White House Press Pool. There’s no such thing as a normal day, but today is a particular challenge as Leckie bounces around in an attempt to get an inside scoop–to put a personal face on working in the White House. Will that personal face be his old friend and current Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman, grumpy but coffee-addicted special assistant Hoosier Smith, rival pool reporter David Webster, pissed-off mad genius Deputy Communications Director Ray Person, energetic and impossible-to-locate Deputy Press Secretary Chuckler Juergens, the new IT guy known only as Lurch, or the Holy Grail of interviews, Secretary of Defense Lena Basilone and her husband, Head of Secret Service John Basilone? Who knows? In the end, it could be any one of them. Probably not Webster, though. [A crossover with The West Wing.]

Additional Details: Mood is realistic, quick-moving, and snarky, as close to the tone of The West Wing as I can get.

STORY 4

Writer:  @antiquecompass

Artist:  @charlesanthonybruno

Rating: Teen and Up

Warnings: No archive warnings anticipated to apply.

Main Pairings/Characters: Andrew 'Ack-Ack’ Haldane/ Edward “Hillbilly’ Jones

Side Pairings/Characters: Snafu Shelton, Burgie, and various other cameos

Summary: Andy Haldane leaves his home and job in Boston to help his Aunt Mae run her country store in a small town on the Pennsylvania/Maryland border. He loves his Aunt Mae, her store, and the town he used to spend all his summers in before school and work got in the way. Being back brings up all kinds of memories and sees Andy making quite a few reunions, especially with the Jones family, and particularly the eldest son, Eddie. They’re not kids anymore, but Andy already knows he could fall in love with Eddie Jones all over again.

Additional Details: Pretty much a romance novel, with hardly any angst. Lots of nostalgia as both Andy and Eddie reminiscence about their childhood summers together. Country music is definitely a favorite of the entire Jones family and features in the fic. Many scenes of family and friends bonding. Just a general happy, calm little fic.

STORY 5

Writer:  @bullrandleman

Artist:  @scramjets

Rating: At most, Mature

Warnings: Possibility of some violence. Horror.

Main Pairings/Characters: John Basilone, JP Morgan, Manny Rodriguez

Side Pairings/Characters: John/Lena Riggi, other characters by mention

Summary: The crew of the rebel fighter craftship take refuge on a Class I planet in an effort to escape the Dictatorship hunting party. They need to recoup and repair, patch up some injuries, and send word for help before they’re discovered. The Alliance depends on the plans they’ve stolen. But the planet is Class I for a reason. The ghosts that inhabit are ancient and angry, and the crew are faced with the decision of exposing themselves for help, or dying.

Additional Details: Very mild crossover with Changi, though it’s not necessary to have watched the series, and it’s not a huge aspect of the story. I’m happy to answer any questions regarding this aspect.

STORY 6

Writer:  @spoondragon

Artist:  @ramimalekeyes

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Prostitution/Sex work, Period-typical Language and Attitudes, Mention of Childhood Abuse (physical), Possible Mentions of Drug Use (OC’s), Off-Screen Death of OC

Main Pairings/Characters: Eugene Sledge/Merriell “Snafu” Shelton

Side Pairings/Characters: Sid Phillips, RV Burgin, Bill Leyden, Jay De L’Eau, Sledge family

Summary: After the war, Eugene gets dragged to a brothel during Sid’s raucous New Orleans bachelor party. While there, he runs into a familiar but wholly unexpected face.

Additional Details: Featuring prostitute!Snafu, jaded post-war!Eugene, misunderstandings, love letters, road trips, a wedding or two, family drama, learning to love yourself and learning to accept the one you love.

STORY 7

Writer:  @ramimalekeyes

Artist:  @generoes

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Violence, Emotional Manipulation, Issues of Consent, Implied/Referenced Prostitution, Homophobia, Religious Themes

Main Pairings/Characters: Merriell “Snafu” Shelton/Eugene Sledge

Side Pairings/Characters: Merriell “Snafu” Shelton/Orginial Male Characters

Summary: After the war, a dispirited Shelton returns to the life he left behind to find a man looking to take what Shelton owes him. In the chaos of trying to settle debts, Eugene shows up at his door to confront him about how they parted ways and comes face to face with the men threatening Shelton’s life. Through quick thinking, Eugene earns them some time to make an escape but also complicates everything further. On the run with Eugene, Shelton is forced to deal with his feelings for him while they both try to stay alive.

Additional Details: Dark tone and Ominous mood. Aesthetic? Southern Gothic meets Drive.

STORY 8

Writer: @bornearliernix

Artist:  @joeliebgottmyheart

Rating: Teen and Up

Warnings: Symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder, very vague mentions of sex

Main Pairings/Characters: Eugene Sledge/Merriell “Snafu” Shelton

Side Pairings/Characters: Sidney Phillips

Summary: Eugene Sledge and Merriell Shelton board a train, both headed to homes they haven’t seen in years. In a last effort to bring some familiarity with him, Eugene asks Merriell to come with him to Mobile- at least until he’s settled in. Despite his instincts telling him to leave every part of the war behind him, Merriell does.

Additional Details: This work would best be described as melancholy, reflective, and cautiously hopeful.

STORY 9

Writer:  @ackackh

Artist: @muminbarn

Rating: Mature (for language and non-explicit sexual content)

Warnings: No archive warnings anticipated to apply.

Main Pairings/Characters: Eugene Sledge/Merriell “Snafu” Shelton

Side Pairings/Characters: Andy Haldane/Eddie Jones, Robert Leckie/Hoosier Smith, Sidney Phillips, Bill Leyden, R.V. Burgin, Jay De L'eau, Chuckler Juergens, Runner Conley

Summary: When the Earth’s Sun began to die, most people decided to get the hell out of dodge. But others stayed, determined to stick with their only home until the very end. Thousands of years later, when the Sun had gone and taken most of Earth’s life with it, five men were sent on a mission to go back and study the home mankind left behind. But upon arrival, they were faced with the impossible: a boy in overalls.

Additional Details: Rural Science Fiction, Finding Beauty in Science, Some Rural Fantasy Elements, Space, Themes of Existentialism and Humanity, Soft and Colorful Characters/Settings

STORY 10

Writer:  @moontowers

Artist:  @red-hot-moon

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Period-Typical Attitudes, Canon-Typical Violence

Main Pairings/Characters: Merriell "Snafu” Shelton/Eugene Sledge

Side Pairings/Characters: Sidney Phillips, others probably

Summary: AU where Sledge and Snafu meet as teenagers in Alabama and grow closer in spite of themselves. War looms, but in the heat of summer 1941 it still feels as distant and inconsequential as thunderstorm, the kind that blows up in the afternoon and spins out by dinnertime. Eugene gets this feeling when he looks at Merriell and that…feels like a bigger fish to fry.

Additional Details: Magical Realism, Friends to Lovers, Pre-Canon

STORY 11

Writer:  @armypeaches

Artist:  @irr-fullmetalheart

Rating: Teen and Up (for language and canon-levels of violence)

Warnings: While there won’t be anything sexual in this story, I will warn that the actual werewolf biting is non-consensual (the other guys have zero knowledge or warning before the event, and the results of that drive some of the plot), just in case that turns anybody off.

Main Pairings/Characters: No pairings, but a lot of homosocial behavior.

Side Pairings/Characters: Leckie, Chuckler, Runner, and Sid

Summary: Hoosier has never had any interest in turning someone else into a werewolf. He has also never been in a war zone before. When faced with the option of giving his friends a better chance at survival, he barely thinks about it before taking action. He should have given it more thought though, because now they’re all tied to each other forever, through instincts and injury, war and separation, and whatever comes next. Together, they’re all going to learn what it means to be a pack – whether they like it or not.

Additional Details: Team Leckie canon-era werewolf AU. Story will closely follow the events of the miniseries through a werewolf lens. The narration will follow Hoosier (other pack members are Leckie, Chuckler, Runner, and Sid).

STORY 12

Writer: @wolfandwildling 

Artist:  @liebgotts

Rating: Teen and Up

Warnings: No archive warnings anticipated to apply.

Main Pairings/Characters: Edward “Hillbilly’ Jones/Andrew 'Ack-Ack’ Haldane

Side Pairings/Characters: Bob Leckie/ Bill “Hoosier” Smith (plus possibly references to extremely minor other pairings)

Summary: It’s Eddie’s last months of high school and all he wants is to have a good time with his friends on the soccer team and maybe win the trophy at the end of the season. However, changes in how players are grouped shake up the team as five new guys take the spots of old teammates. Instead of being a distraction from Eddie’s other major problem in life - does he tell Andy about his feelings or would that be a waste of time since they’ll be going to different colleges soon anyway and Eddie might 'get over it’ then? - it makes it even worse, because you can’t bond with your team without spending time with its captain, which means that if Eddie’s crush was bad before, it’s now beginning to reach epic proportions.

Additional Details:

STORY 13

Writer:  @snafu-is-dying-sledge

Artist:  @all-of-the-ships-are-sailing 

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No archive warnings anticipated to apply.

Main Pairings/Characters: Eugene Sledge/Snafu Shelton

Side Pairings/Characters: OC’s for both Snafu and Sledge but they will be minor

Summary: After Snafu misses Burgie’s wedding, Sledge gets concerned. He visits New Orleans but he finds a very different Snafu. Distant and basically a wreck. Sledge will come to understand his feelings for Snafu as he tries to help him, even though Snafu really doesn’t want to accept any kind of help.

Additional Details:

STORY 14

Writer:  @gettingthatyellowjaundice

Artist:  @everbodyhateselliot

Rating: General

Warnings: No archive warnings anticipated to apply.

Main Pairings/Characters: Eugene Sledge/Merriell “Snafu” Shelton

Side Pairings/Characters: Dr Edward Sledge, Mrs Sledge, Edward Sledge, Jr, possibly Eugene Roe

Summary: There are approximately 144 miles between New Orleans and Mobile, and Merriell Shelton will drive every single goddamned one of them if he has to. There’s nothing left for him in Louisiana, no place for him at his mother’s dinner table, not after everything he’s seen, everything he’s done. And hell, so what if Eugene’s parents act as if he’s come down to Alabama to dirty their baby boy’s perfect little soul? So what if Eugene’s squeaky-clean, god fearing neighbors look at him like he’s trash? Well, according to Sledge, it means one helluva lot. So two weeks after Merriell shows up at Eugene Sledge’s door like the lost mutt he is, the two of them pack their bags and drive to California. No, they don’t know anybody in California. No, they haven’t got any jobs waiting for them in California. But Eugene says it’ll work out, and, well, Merriell has always been so ready to trust Eugene with everything he’s got.

Additional Details:

STORY 15

Writer:  @ailendolin

Artist:  @alexpenkala

Rating: Teen and Up

Warnings: Off-screen character death of OC’s

Main Pairings/Characters: Andrew 'Ack-Ack’ Haldane/Edward "Hillbilly’ Jones

Side Pairings/Characters: None

Summary: Andy/Eddie Modern AU. Andy is a first semester biology student with flatmates who like to party every night. Trying to find a quiet place to study Andy stumbles upon a diner around the corner where Eddie is working as a waiter. They become friends over the following weeks and when he realizes that Eddie’s life is more troubled than he lets on Andy makes it his mission to help him.

Additional Details: The story is pretty light and humorous mostly, but will deal with sad themes at times. It’s meant to be a hopeful story with the focus on helping someone in need, so it’s not going to be too dark.