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Every time a woman rejects Melkor, Mairon has to turn into said unlucky lady later so Melkor can fuck "her" anyway
#ideas#for future reference#i know this may not be popular and tbh this isn't really a âfirm headcanonâ of mine or anything#more like a âfunâ idea#may be dark fic material#though the angbang is consensual#bisaster melkor#melkor#morgoth#mairon#sauron#angbang
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flowers most sweet
Masriel AU: Asriel returns from his North expedition, and the first thing he does is pay Marisa a visit.
*I have been looking at this gif for a little too long today so this came out (update the author shared a textless gif đ)
A word of warning: This is interactive fiction, because sometimes my fever brain just flips. That means that as you read the fic, you'll need to make some choices, and it will change the content to some extent. More details and the fic below the cut! <3
A few important notes:
While usually this format is used for x reader fics, I've spared you the cringe (not to say I haven't written those haha). This is a normal fic, but along the way, as I said, there will be choices to make, and some of them change the details of the story.
I am LAZY. There aren't different endings. It's just a sweet little thing that you can re-run in a different way if you want to get different scenes.
At precisely one point (because I am lazy), the choices you made before will determine the option available to you.
I think, a usual run should be around 1300 words? idk
You may need to click 'Start again' in the top right corner before beginning bc sometimes the instrument's brain doesn't work right
This was written purely for my enjoyment, so they are being silly and in-love okay
There are some achievement badges in the end??
To illustrate on the story map / general visuals a little:
So, you've been warned! Here's the link to the story: https://www.inklewriter.com/stories/155139. Go check it out <3
#also like it's late and i wasn't looking at the keyboard soooo typos#there may be some (or a lot) (or a whole fucking lot idk)#anyway this gif is haunting me and i'm not okay#hdm#hdm fic#interactive fiction#his dark materials#masriel#marisa coulter#asriel belacqua#marisa x asriel#asriel x marisa#young masriel
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đđđđđđ đđđđ | Marcus Acacius x reader
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summary | once your dad's greatest friend, now his greatest enemy. you cannot shake the desire and care you feel for the fallen general, even as he heads toward death.
author's note | LISTEN, none of this is going to be accurate. and frankly idc, i'm horny i needed to write this do not come at me. no source material? idc i'm still writing it. anyways, enjoy the p*rn. (if you're reading this prior to the movie coming out, none of this is canon. this is just an idea that i wanted to write and felt like posting, if you do not like the idea of writing without source material, please do not engage or send me asks to be combative, they will be deleted. i won't be continuing this specific fic and will not be writing for him again until the movie comes out.)
content warning | 18+ smut, this is dbf for the gladiator girlies (gn), sneaking around, descriptions of smut, oral (f receiving), fingering, unprotected piv, creampies, breeding kink, age gap (reader is early 20s, marcus is late 40s/early 50s), alcohol tw, innocence kink
word count â2k
You knew he would be here soon, he must.Â
You curled into the dark corners of the arena hall, having been here since dawn with your own father, a high military commander who struck down Marcus as punishment for such things even he wouldnât tell you about. You knew nothing, heard nothingâyou werenât allowed such privilege.Â
It has been days since you last saw himâMarcus. General Acacius to many, another esteemed leader amongst the masses, and a once great friend to your father. Though, that was no longer.
You often called him sir, finding that General Acacius was quite the mouthful. Or often just General, but his endearment toward you was blatant and he insists, almost pleading that you drop the formality when alone. Which was easier, as your fondness of him grew.
It started at a celebration, one of the many grand parties thrown in celebration of fight won or any reason for the men to drink, but Marcus liked to linger. Often tucked away in a corner watching the madness unfold, you were too curious to stay locked up in your room.
The first night he caught your eye, it was a smile around the edge of his silver goblet drowning in red wine, a hand crossed over his chest as he watched you slip away in fear that he may say something to your father.
But, he never did.
For weeks after, it progresses. From a smile, to a lingering gaze, eventually he finds himself inching closer to you, week by week. Until one night he finally finds the courage in himself to be waiting by the corner you often sneak around, watching curiously.
âYou are pushing it, dove.â He speaks softly, his eyes downturned to look at you from the step he was on above you, slowly inching down until he was level, âif he catches youââ
âHe hasnât,â You tell him in a clipped, hushed tone, âand you havenât said anything. You wonâtâŠ.will you?â
He bypasses the question, âWhy do you come here?â Marcus curiously asks, âThese men, they areâanimals, if they see you dressed like that, they would not hesitate toââ
You had on a pale nightgown, thin and barely enough to cover your modesty but it was enough. The sticky, summer heat prickled your skin, formed a line of sweat across your brow and you huffed out at his words, âMy father would murder them. Besides, you are not like them. So, why do you linger here?â
He was much more than a friend, closer and akin to family.Â
But, he had his own troubles. Stepson, a wife, he should be away caring for them. Yet, he was there with a disgruntled scowl and eyes only set on you.
âWhy not?â He shrugs, âIt isâŠquite entertaining. Isnât that why you sneak around here to watch?â
You mimic his shrug, shying away slightly as you pull away to leave, but his hand catches your wrist, his cup placed in the gap of pillars separating you both. His facial expressions show an internal battle of thought, like heâs fighting against the bad and hoping the good would win out.
Unfortunately, the bad prevails.
âLet us walk,â He tells you, nodding toward the exit a few feet away, âif you would accompany me?â
You nod eagerly, switching the grip on your wrist to curl around his bicep, muscular and hard from years of fight training. He flexes slightly at the touch, covering his free hand over yours in a comforting gesture.Â
He made you feel safe. And that was all that mattered to you.
â
The walk was the first mistake.
It wasnât more than a few minutes before you found yourself tucked away by a nearby tent, unbuckling and unfastening Marcus out of his gear hastily before he fucked you under your nightgownâgentle but firm. He was the first man, the first ever to have you in such a way. Youâd told him so as your hands shook under the weight of his gaze, the taste of bitter wine on his lips. Heâd kissed you as he pushed his cock inside of you and didnât stop until you were tipping over the edge.
Over time, you grow bolder. Sneaking him back into your home was easy, knowing the guards werenât as watchful in the late, late hours of the night. It was dangerous, reckless, but as you tug him down into the cellar and sink to your knees, it all fades away quickly.
His little dove, he often calls you. Sweet dove, so pure and innocent. His hand caresses your chin as you swallow him down, eyes locked on his half-lidded gaze before he comes down your throat, nose scrunching up slightly and his brow furrowing, biting at the back of his other hand to muffle the groan that escapes him.
It was always like thisâhurried and quick fucks that didnât diminish the feeling, but reminded you how easily you could both be caught. It continues for monthsâŠand months, until suddenly he stops coming around.
No parties, no visitsâMarcus had become a ghost.
But, enough digging had led you here, tucked away in the shadows againâbut watching as he fought for his life. The other man was much older, weaker, and Marcus struck him down within a matter of minutes, blood splattering across his face as he stuck again and again, bashing the poor manâs skull in until it was nothing, teeth gritting as his body surged with adrenaline.
Gladiator fighting wasnât a new thingâand you knew he wasnât the only one, but why?
Heâs making his way down the arena toward the pillar you are tucked behind unknowingly, alone and battered as the guards run off to dispose of the body. You arenât sure where Marcus is going now or when you would see him again, but you take the chance when you know no one is watching, grabbing him by the armor plate on his chest and pulling him away and into a dusty closet, knocking into a stack of buckets in the process.
You gasp as his hand wraps around your neck, fist cocked back in preparation of an attack.
But, then his eyes land on you.
âDove, what are youââ
You shush him quickly, hands molding against his face and the dried blood, his breathing quick and short as you attempt to calm him.
âI had to see youâI thoughtâŠI thought you hadââ
âI might as well be,â Marcus replies somberly, âwe cannot meet like this. We cannot meet at all.â
âItâs fine, Itâs fineââ You assure him, reaching forward to press your lips against his.
Marcus pulls away hesitantly, grabbing your face roughly until you look at him, eyes widening.
âThey will kill you. I cannot see you again. I should not even be here with you.â
Your eyes well with tears, forcing yourself forward again to capture his lips and this time he allows it, opening his mouth slightly as your tongue dips inside, working silently at the buckles to his chest plate.
âNo talking. Let usâŠenjoy this. If it is the last time.â
You were both well awareâhe would fight for his life or die, that was it. And he would fight until that point came. He was no longer a General, completely stripped of his power. But, he was still Marcus. And you would hold onto that for as long as you could.
Heâs shaking, the adrenaline raking his body and making him restless as you kissed him, tongue dipping into his mouth again as his hands roamed, squeezed, caressed.Â
âI will not break,â You whisper into his mouth, âtake what you need, Marcus.â
It was all he needed to hear, turning you around swiftly and forcing your down with a hand against your back, arms pressing into the shelf in front of you as he pushed up the silk, carefully woven and intricate fabric of your dressâso pristine and perfect. He wanted to rip it off you, be he refrains, squeezing at your hips while he kneels behind you.
âMarcus, you need notââ
âQuiet, little dove. Let me have this,â He licks against your cunt hungrily, noisy slurps as he lapped you up, squeezing less than gentle at the inside of your thighs as they shook, his tongue swiping over your clit, a broken moan slipping past your lips, âbeautifulâlet me hear you.â
âMarcus,â You plea, his fingers joining his tongue as they breached you and drag against the soft, but incredibly sensitive spot inside of you, your hand reaching for his wrist tucked between your legs as you whined out his name once more, twice, until your legs gave out, feelings his strong, broad shoulders flexing as he used his brute strength to keep you upright, licking up the gush of fluids that leak out of you, rising with haste and untucking himself from his garments, wrapping a gentle hand around the back of your neck before heâs pulling you upright harshly.
âWant to leave you something,â He whispers against the shell of your ear, âsomething to remember me, if I shall never leave here. Something of me for you to carry on. Alright, sweet dove?â
You nod knowingly, as Marcus had always been careful to pull himself out before breaching that point. He was always careful, hesitantâbut being on the brink of death, he found himself careless and desperate. He couldnât let you go.
He slips inside of you with a hand tucked around your throat, pulling your back to his chest as he snapped his hips into you firmly, groaning lewdly into the side of your neck as he bit down, squeezing at your throat with every soft sound you made and you want it just as bad, forcing your hips back into every push of his cockâyou were positive this pain would last you into next week, but you needed that reminder. His fingers dip into your skin, hard and uncaring and sure to leave marks, but that was what you wanted.
And his groans quickly turn needy, more high-pitched than youâve ever heard them
Heâs holding back, restraining himself. You turn your head, catching his heated gaze as he pants, your thumb tracing over his lip. His hand drags over your stomach, rests, curious of how beautiful you would look swollen and carrying his child.Â
It is a hopeful and distant dream, one that he will never foresee.
âGive it to me, Marcus,â You beg him, âI want it.â
It so easily undoes him, âTake it, my dove,â He growls, coming deep inside of you with a shaky thrust of his hips, squeezing you tight against him, âI think of you, always. You must knowâknow that.âÂ
It pulls at your heart, tugs in a way that makes your entire body ache. He pulls out with a low grunt, silently tucking himself away as you adjust your dress.
âAnd I love you,â You admit, watching as his gaze pulls up quickly, âeven if you cannot say it back. I know. I know you do.â
Marcus breathes harshly through his nose, crowding you once more but it is soothed by a gentle kiss, âYou need to leaveâdo not come back here.â
âMarcus,â You counter, sadness lacing your tone.
âIf, by some miracle, I make it out of here,â He drags his thumb along your jawline, pausing on his words as he looks you over, memorizes you, âI will find you.â
You nod jerkily, eyes never breaking from his, âJust like you always have.â
divider creds: @/cafekitsune
thanks to @chaotic-mystery & @pr0ximamidnight for being the absolute best friends ever and beta'ing this for me on a moments notice, ily both.
#pedro pascal#pedro pascal characters#marcus acacius#marcus acacius x reader#marcus acacius x you#marcus acacius x y/n#gladiator 2#marcus acacius smut#gladiation 2 fanficition#marcus acacius fic#marcus acacius fanfiction#my writing#ANYWAYS
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sacred monsters: part one
pairing: lee heeseung x f reader
genre: academic rivals to lovers, vampire au, slow burn
part one word count: 19.3k
part one warnings: swearing, blood and all sorts of other vampire-y things, semi graphic descriptions/depictions of violence, I don't know anything about publishing and wrote about it anyway, not quite as much in this part, but I want to forewarn you that while there is still nothing explicit, we do get a little ~sexier~ than most stllmnstr fics
note/disclaimer: I have been itching to write an enha vampire fic for ages because hello? the material is RIGHT THERE!! this is a story I'm super excited about, and it's definitely gotten me out of my comfort zone. in order to help build this world, I did draw from some outside sources. primarily, a lot of the vampire lore and some plot elements are inspired by the dark moon webtoon series. I did also pull some things from twilight and other well-known vampire myths. lastly, there is a section with "poetry" in it. these "poems" are translated lyrics from still monster, chaconne, and lucifer by enhypen. some are in their original form and some I altered slightly. everything else is straight from yours truly! as always, happy reading âĄ
soundtrack: still monster / moonstruck / lucifer - enhypen / everybody wants to rule the world - tears for fears / immortal - marina / supermassive black hole - muse / saturn - sleeping at last / everybodyâs watching me (uh oh) - the neighbourhood
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A literature student in your third year of university, youâve been dreaming of having your writing published for as long as you can remember. With a perfect opportunity dangling at your fingertips, the only obstacle that stands in your way comes in the form of a ridiculously tall, stupidly handsome, and unfortunately, very talented writer by the name of Lee Heeseung. Unwilling to let your dream slip out of reach, you commit to being better than the aforementioned pain in your ass at absolutely everything.
But when a string of vampire attacks strikes close to your city for the first time in nearly two hundred years, publishing is suddenly the last thing on your mind. And, as you soon begin to discover, Heeseung may not quite be the person you thought he was.
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The last sip of your coffee tastes bitter on your tongue. Acidic, like it was left to brew too long. Or maybe not long enough. Your limited knowledge of coffee extends to its effects on your alertness and little else.Â
Taste has always been an afterthought, something of little consequence. Besides, some bitterness is to be expected when you take your coffee black.Â
Suppressing the small wince that always follows your final sip, you set the reusable thermos down on your desk. Next to your open notebook and favorite ballpoint pen, it settles in nicely with your other class essentials.Â
Call it poetic or romantic or unbearably pretentious, but you actually do prefer to take your notes by hand. Partly because it feels more fitting for a literature major and mostly because your laptop is on its last leg and between tuition and rent, you donât exactly have the funds to shell out for a new one.Â
Frowning at the bitter taste that still lingers on your tongue, you feel another pang of regret for forgetting to pack your water bottle this morning. But no matter. Today is a day for optimism. The bitterness now only means that your imminent victory will taste that much sweeter in comparison.Â
Because today is the last day of the fall semester of your third year. Which means that this is the last morning youâll be sitting here in this lecture hall in the minutes preceding 9 am.Â
Which means that today is the day of your professorâs long awaited announcement. You still remember the day, nearly four months ago, when he first told the entire room of undermotivated, overcaffeinated students about it.Â
A publishing opportunity. A real, actual publishing opportunity. Something most literature students would sell their soul for.Â
Because Professor Kim, while a rather mediocre professor who prefers to dish out criticism and bite back praise, has an excellent eye for great writing. So much so that nearly twenty years ago, he founded his very own publishing house.Â
Known by the name New Haven Publishing, itâs a small operation that deals mostly in short pieces that are marketed more for niche literary circles than mass public appeal. Being published by New Haven may not be a straight shot to the New York Timesâ Best Sellers List, but itâs still professional publishing.Â
And a week into classes, he announced that for the first time ever, he would be choosing one of you to not only intern at New Haven the following semester, but also to publish an original piece of short fiction with them.Â
Youâve been fantasizing about it for months now. You can already imagine it. A piece of your very own, marketed and edited by professionals. Published and complete with Professor Kimâs stamp of approval.Â
Itâs what youâve been craving ever since you decided to switch paths and pursue literature studies at the end of your first semester. Itâs everything youâre sure you need. Validation that your writing is good, that your words are worth reading.Â
Hell, maybe it will even earn you the approval of your parents.Â
And, perhaps most satisfying of all, you will have officially beaten Lee Heeseng once and for all. You donât want to speak poorly of the rest of your classmates and their writing abilities, but this has always been a competition between you and him.Â
Or, at least, it has been for you.Â
Itâs the last day of the semester, and honestly, you wouldnât be surprised if Heeseung still had a hard time remembering that the internship was even happening. Then again, you wouldnât exactly be shocked if he couldn't remember your name, either. Â
And if you were hard pressed to choose only one thing, that would probably be what annoys you the most about him. Not the way his hair is alway somehow perfectly mussed. Not the way his writing is painfully beautiful and poetic that you swell green with envy just thinking about it.Â
No, the root cause of your infinite ire when it comes to Lee Heeseung is how damn aloof he is. Like his classmates and professors and even his greatest rival arenât worth the effort of remembering.Â
And itâs not like itâs because heâs got some kind of crazy social life outside of academics. Other than mandatory discussion groups, youâre not sure youâve ever seen him so much as talk to anyone.Â
But thatâs just the way he is, you suppose.Â
Perfect Heeseung with his perfect hair and his perfect writing and perfect attendance record doesnât need anyone but himselfâ
Wait.Â
Perfect attendance record.Â
Glancing at the clock mounted high above the front door of the lecture hall, you can hardly believe what youâre seeing.Â
8:59.Â
Thereâs no way. Thereâs no fucking way that the universe is rooting for you this hard, that the stars are aligning this perfectly.Â
Despite your doubts, the second hand continues its onward march. You suppress the sudden urge to bounce your leg in a matching rhythm.Â
He has five seconds.Â
Four. Three. Two. One.Â
And itâs official. A ridiculous amount of pent up tension drains from your shoulders as your spine straightens. You canât believe it was that easy.Â
A semester of agonizing over every word, every sentence, every assignment you handed in for this class. A semester of panicking over missed buses and waking up way too early just to make sure you always beat the clock.Â
But today is the day where everything comes to a head.Â
And Lee Heeseung is officially late.Â
Professor Kim, at the beginning of the semester, had only two pieces of advice to offer his students that were suddenly all gunning for a shot at being published:
One: âDonât make me read awful writing.â
And two: âDonât be late to class. I have zero tolerance for tardiness.â
Heeseung has just broken a cardinal rule. One row down, nine seats to the left from where you sit. Itâs the place that would usually be filled with an annoyingly broad set of shoulders and distractingly sharp jawline. In fact, Heeseung usually beats you here most days. Not that youâre keeping track, of course. And not that it matters.Â
Because this morning, this fateful morning, that particular seat, his seat, is glaringly, gloriously empty.Â
Your eyes flicker over to it again without your permission. But you canât help it. Youâre so antsy now, teeming with self-satisfied excitement. Itâs almost unbelievable actually. A golden stroke of luck that he chose today, of all days, to be late.
In fact, you think the more you stare at the empty seat, Lee Heeseung is such a reliable presence that the entire lecture hall suddenly seems a bit off kilter. Tilted too far in some precarious state of imbalance.Â
Your smugness is still there, yes, but now thereâs also a heavy feeling beginning to settle at the bottom of your gut. Why on earth is Lee Heeseung late?
Youâre so distracted by his absence, the endless loop of possibilities and explanations running through your mind, that you almost miss the second abnormality of the morning.Â
Because now the clock reads 9:04, and Heeseung isnât the only one missing.Â
All at once, your attention is on the podium at the front of the lecture hall. Itâs empty, too. And Professor Kim may be a hardass, but heâs no hypocrite. Never once throughout this entire semester has he ever begun a class even a millisecond late.
Frowning, you pull out your phone to confirm that the clock on the wall is not playing tricks on you. Maybe there was a power outage or something, and maintenance hasnât had time to correct it yet.Â
But your phone screen lights up, and 9:05 is the time that stares back at you.Â
Glancing around, no one else seems too particularly bothered by this. There are a few titters, a few annoyed grumbles that sound like hypocrite and double standard where they reach your ears.Â
But still, the clock ticks forward.Â
The minute hand has fallen another two notches when the front door finally opens, Professor Kim striding in unhurried. Despite his lateness, his steps are steady, even. Thereâs nothing frantic or apologetic about the way he sets his briefcase down next to the podium, pulling out his laptop and a small stack of notes before clearing his throat.Â
As the students around you fall silent, class begins as it always does. Other than the time, nothing is out of the ordinary.Â
But your spirits are still high, and you figure you can cut your professor some slack. Maybe he ran into a bad bit of traffic or spilled coffee all over his shirt. Maybe heâs too embarrassed to draw more attention to his error and has decided that not acknowledging it at all is the best course of action.Â
Oh, well. Itâs no use ruminating on it now. Settling back into your seat, you do your best to focus your attention on the front of the room and not that damn empty chair. But the distraction isnât necessary for long.Â
The clock is just striking 9:12 when a second late arrival draws the eyes of the class to the front door of the lecture hall. Like your professor, Heeseung maintains a certain air of composedness as he makes his way towards his seat wordlessly.Â
Thereâs a moment, a fraction of a second, where Professor Kim pauses, letting a sentence drift into silence.Â
Twelve minutes late. Itâs a rookie mistake. For a fleeting moment, you almost feel bad for him. Because surely Professor Kim is about to make an example of him. No one walks into his lectures late and leaves unscathed.Â
Wincing, you remember a handful of weeks ago when a poor girl that sits a few rows behind you arrived late. Not only had Professor Kim stopped the entire flow of his lecture to draw attention to her tardiness, he had also assigned her an extra short story for homework. One on the merits of punctuality.
But the ebb in the lecture begins to flow again, the moment passing as soon as it comes. Heeseung settles into his chair. Your professor resumes his sentence.Â
For the remainder of the class, you do your best to pay attention, but youâre having trouble finding a point. Itâs not like he can assign homework or an exam or a discussion on the last day of the semester.Â
Like you, most of your peers are fully zoned out, just waiting for him to get to what everyone has been dying to know for months.Â
Whoâs interning at New Haven? Whoâs getting published?
But distractions in this class have never been hard to come by. More than once, you find your wandering gaze drifting to the back of Heeseungâs head. Usually, youâd be bitterly admiring how soft his hair looks. But today, thereâs only one question that plays in your mind as you stare.Â
What on earth happened that made perfect Lee Heeseung late?
Your thoughts are only interrupted by the sudden shuffle of small movement around you as everyone sits up a bit straighter in their seats.Â
âAh,â Professor Kim glances at the time. âThat wraps up our semester, then. As promised, I would like to announce the student who will be interning with New Haven Publishing this upcoming semester. And, of course, the student that will have the opportunity to publish an original piece with us.â
He pauses for a moment, looking down at his notes. You wonder if the people sitting close to you can hear the way your heart pounds in your chest.Â
Please be me. Please be me. Please be me.Â
The rushing in your ears is so loud that you almost miss it. But not quite. Because the sound of your own name is something youâd recognize anywhere.Â
Because it was your name that he said. Not anyone elseâs. Not Heeseungâs.
You. You did it.Â
Youâre officially going to be interning with New Haven. Youâre going to be published.Â
When he asks you to stay a minute after class to discuss the details, itâs all you can do to nod. Butterflies are still scattered in your stomach.Â
As the rest of the students begin to file out, you pack up your materials with hands that shake slightly. It doesnât feel real. It feels too good to be true. You poured your everything into this all semester long, and now itâs actually happening.Â
Your mind is a mess, and an erratic movement almost sends your empty thermos flying. Luckily, you snap out of it long enough to catch it before it hits the ground. With everything packed back into your bag, you make your way down to the podium on slightly unsteady feet.Â
A handful of passing classmates congratulate you on their way out, and you smile in return.Â
Youâve almost made it to the front of the lecture hall when a body blocks your path. It takes a moment for your brain to register the identity of the offender. And once it does, it spits his name with venom. Heeseung.Â
Oblivious and self-centered as always, he nearly knocks you over. Rolling your eyes, you move to step around him. Apparently whatever gift he was given for writing doesnât extend to his spatial awareness or consideration for others.Â
But as you lean to the left, he follows the movement, still in your path. Your gaze snaps up, eyebrows raised when you find him already looking at you.Â
Oh. So itâs not a spatial awareness problem, then. Heâs in your way on purpose.Â
As always, his expression is infuriatingly blank. You canât get any sort of read on him, and it unnerves you. Irritates you. Here he is, blocking your path, and the only thing he has to offer you is an empty, silent stare.
You could just say excuse me, force your way around him, and be done with it. You should. The semester is over, your professorâs decision is made, and you have no stake left in this game.Â
But youâve been biting back snarky comments and masking irritated expressions with mild indifference for months. The nerve he has to block you. The utter gall of it all. To physically stand in your way when heâs been your metaphorical obstacle to success all semester.Â
When every time you look at him, you still remember that one sunny afternoon, early in the semester. The time you tried, actually tried to be his friend. When he waved you off like a buzzing fly that was nothing more than a nuisance.Â
You inhale, weighing your options. His head tilts slightly at the movement, and itâs your last straw.Â
Thereâs poison in your voice when you bite, âOh, what? Now that Iâve proved myself, you can spare some time out of your day to talk to me?â
Heeseungâs eyes widen, lips parting slightly. Itâs the most emotion youâve ever seen from him, and heâs wasting it on shock. As if he canât quite comprehend why the girl heâs been giving headaches for months might not want to stop and have a friendly chat with him. Not that you imagine heâd even be capable of that if you tried.Â
Already, you regret your comment. In a perfect world, you wouldnât have said anything. Youâd be just as detached and cold and aloof as he was on that day you hate to think about. You still remember it like it was yesterday. Without your permission, the memory floats front and center to your mind.Â
It was warmer, then. The last clutches of summer were still holding on tight. Sunlight was bright in the sky, and it felt like a good time to breach the barrier of your comfort zone.Â
Class had just ended. Usually, Heeseung was one of the first to leave. You had to pack up abnormally quickly just to catch him in the quad right outside the lecture hall.Â
But you did catch up to him.
And in a voice braver than you felt, you asked, âHey, itâs Heeseung, right?âÂ
Youâd been brighter, then. Still full of an energy you havenât been able to muster since midterms. Not yet burdened by the weight of assignments and rejection, your disposition was as sunny as the sky above.Â
Heeseung hadnât bothered to dignify your question with an actual answer, but he had at least stopped walking, and that seemed like an invitation at the time. Now, with the power of hindsight, you wince. You should have spared yourself the regret.
You remember watching as he pulled out his earbuds, tucking them back into his pocket before turning his attention to you. Or at least half of it. Even then, you never felt like he was truly looking at you, hearing you. His mind always seemed off in the distance, preoccupied somewhere you could never quite reach.Â
You recall being nervous, heat in your cheeks as you tucked a loose strand of hair behind your ear. His eyes tracked the movement like a cat tracks a ray of sunlight. Lazily, intently. With an energy you werenât quite sure what to do with.Â
Instead, you had stuttered, âI, uh, I wanted to tell you that I thought your analysis today was brilliant.â The worst part is that it really was a brilliant analysis. Although youâd never admit that today, and much less to his face.Â
Instead, you cringe just thinking about it. You should have taken his blank stare as a sign. You should have just let the one-sided conversation die there. With at least a little dignity and some of your pride left to spare.Â
But you hadnât.Â
âI never thought about the use of sunlight as a metaphor for life. I mean, now that youâve pointed it out, it seems kind of obvious.â The memory of your nervous giggles settle like rocks in your stomach. âAnyway, I feel like Iâm rambling, but if you ever want to get together and look through assignments or review each otherâs analyses, Iâd love toââ
Youâd heard his voice before, of course. In class discussions and presentations. But never this close. And never directed at you.Â
He kept it short, his interruption, his response to your shaky offer.Â
âIâm busy.â
And that was it. Two words. Two fucking words. And not even an explanation or an Iâm sorry or a sheepish expression to go along with them.Â
With that, youâd watched, a bit helplessly, as he pulled his earbuds out of his pocket, put them back into his ears and turned away from you before you could realize just how thoroughly youâd been rejected.Â
With a sudden haze in the air and hope dying in your heart, your friendly smile slipped into confused dismay as you watched him track a steady path across the quad.Â
If your cheekbones felt warm before, you were sure they must have been aflame by then. After all, it was your bodyâs natural response to the crushing weight of the embarrassment and thoroughly bruised ego heâd left you there standing with.Â
Fine then, youâd resolved after walking as quickly as you could in the opposite direction, sending a prayer to the heavens that no one from your class had just witnessed the most mortifying interaction youâve ever had. If Lee Heeseung wanted nothing to do with you, the feeling could be mutual.Â
In fact, it was probably for the best. You were vying for that internship and if the past class discussions were anything to go by, Heeseung would be your only real competition. If he was too busy for you, then you would just have to be too busy for him.Â
Too busy perfecting every assignment and acing every exam. Too busy drowning in dictionaries and thesauruses and reference materials to make sure everything you submitted was perfect â no, scratch that â better than perfect.Â
Too busy to attempt another conversation or interaction or do anything but nod along politely whenever he did make an unfortunately great point in class.Â
So, no. Heeseung doesnât get to dictate your time or attention or conversation now that youâve actually been awarded with a publishing opportunity, now that all of your efforts and dedication and late nights have paid off.Â
If Lee Heeseung wants a bit of your attention on today of all days, at this moment of all moments, then youâre just going to have to be too busy to entertain him.Â
Standing in front of you, still blocking your path to the podium, Heeseung has the nerve to look confused. As if you have no reason to give him the cold shoulder. As if youâre the one being unreasonable here.Â
His brow furrows further. âWhat?â Itâs the third word heâs ever spoken directly to you. It makes your blood boil. âNo, IâŠâ he trails off. You can practically see the gears running in his mind, like this wasnât the conversation he expected to be having. Like he has no idea how to navigate it now. âI was just going to say that you should maybe reconsider.â
Your voice is ice when you ask, âReconsider what?âÂ
âWellâŠâ Heâs treading in dangerous territory, and he seems to realize it too. âThe internship,â he clarifies, and itâs the second most insulting thing heâs ever said to your face.Â
You screw your eyes shut. Cold and detached. Blank and aloof. All the things you should be. But youâve always run a little hot. And end of the semester exhaustion finds you more willing to throw caution to the wind.Â
âYou have got to be fucking with me.â Eyes reopening, youâre met with that same expression of mild shock. Brows raised, lips parted. And god, he even looks good like that. âYeah, right. Let me guess, so you can do the internship and publish a piece of your own? If all you came over to do is insult me, then save your breath.â
âWhat?â He still looks so damn confused. âNo, Iââ
You donât want to hear it. âI have nothing to say to you.â If he wonât get out of your way, youâll just have to go through him. The shoulder check is maybe slightly more intense than it needs to be as you shove your way past him. He barely stumbles back an inch. It makes you want to rip your hair out. âBesides,â you add, not bothering to turn back to look at him. âIâm busy.â
Itâs a dig at him, yes, but itâs also true. You are. This is the opportunity of a lifetime, and Lee Heeseung is not about to ruin it for you.Â
To your unending gratitude, he doesnât try to intercept you again. Your path to the front of the lecture hall is clear, and Professor Kim is just tucking his laptop back into his briefcase when you reach the podium.Â
Ultimately, itâs a watered down version of the million times youâve imagined this moment in your head. Even coming on the tail end of the most annoying interaction youâve had in months. Professor Kim congratulates you again, and hands you a printed schedule of when youâll be expected at the publishing office for the first time.Â
There are also submission dates. Deadlines for you to submit drafts of the piece that youâll be publishing. You take it all in with a beam and enthusiastic nods, mishap with Heeseung from minutes ago all but forgotten.Â
That is, until Professor Kimâs gaze lands somewhere over your shoulder after he tells you heâll also send you a follow-up email with all the information you need.Â
You watch as his expression shifts, something uneasy, distrustful entering his gaze as he looks beyond you. âSomething I can help you with, Mr. Lee?â
Following his gaze, you turn to look behind you. The lecture hall is empty, students cleared out from the class that dismissed nearly five minutes ago. All except for one, that is.Â
Gone is the shock from Heeseungâs delicately sharp features. Instead, he wears his mask of indifference again, betraying no emotion. You must be imagining the way it looks almost strained this time, as if heâs forcing his expression into neutrality instead of it there of its own accord.Â
Wordlessly, his gaze shifts to you.Â
And now itâs your turn to be confused, but you wonât let it last long. At least not outwardly. Youâre quick to match his gaze with nothing but pure ire, venom dripping seeping from every inch of your glare.Â
Is he seriously still trying to ruin this for you? So much for being busy.Â
âNo, sir.â Heeseung shakes his head. Heâs addressing your professor, but heâs still looking at you. A muscle ticks in his jaw, betrays a hint of tension. âI was just on my way out.â
True to his word, he begins a steady descent towards the front door.Â
Your professor clears his throat, turns his attention back to you, resuming the wrap-up of your conversation.Â
Youâre extra grateful for that follow-up email now, given the way movement in your periphery distracts you from Professor Kimâs last few statements. Instead, your focus hones in on the even footsteps that carry Heeseung to the door, allow him to slip through it silently.Â
It must be a trick of the light, must be a figment of your overworked, over irritated imagination. But you swear you see him linger there, just on the other side of the small glass window carved into the door.Â
Professor Kim says his parting words, and you thank him one final time. If thereâs an unnatural quickness in your footsteps as you turn to leave, you tell yourself that itâs because youâre excited to get started on your draft, not because you have the sneaking suspicion Heeseung is still standing just on the other side of the door.Â
But you swear thatâs his silhouette you see as you draw closer, shrouded in shadows but distinct all the same. Youâre debating the merits of shouting at him or maybe accidentally shoulder checking him again as you pull open the door handle, a little more roughly than you intend.Â
But the only thing that greets you on the other side of the door is a nearly empty hallway, save for the pair of students bent over a laptop a few paces away. You ignore their twin expressions of shock as you let the door fall closed behind you, much more calmly than you opened it.Â
âŠ..
The blank expanse of your notebook stares at you accusingly.Â
Youâd stare back, if that would somehow make words appear on the page. Sighing, you reach for your long forgotten cup of tea sitting on your desk. Taking a slow sip, you realize itâs gone cold.Â
That just makes you double down on your frustration. How long have you been sitting here, waiting for inspiration to strike?Â
People always talk about the merits of a change in scenery, but ever since you started your first semester of university three years ago, your favorite place to write has always been here, at the small, simple desk that sits in the corner of your bedroom.Â
Back then, writing was a hobby. Something to do when the last of your biochemistry homework was finished. A way to release pent-up stress and tension from long days in the university lab and long hours feeling like you were drowning between all of the extra study sessions, TA workshops, and office hours.Â
At first, it had been worth it. You maintained high grades and high spirits. Mostly because of the small sprinkles of support your parents showered you with.Â
Every little You got this! that lit up your phone screen on dreary afternoons and We believe in you! that made your evening lectures a little more bearable felt like tokens of your parentsâ affection. Something tangible to show for the care they held for you.Â
Most of all, you cherished the Weâre proud of you messages. You canât remember the last time you received one.Â
And itâs not like they were mad, exactly, when you told them you wanted to change majors. They did their best to be supportive in the ways that they knew how.Â
For your father, that was concern. âAre you sure? Literature? What do the job prospects after graduation look like?â
And for your mother, that was letting you know that she thought you were capable of more. Of better. âItâs not that literature is bad, sweetie. Itâs just⊠Well, youâve always been such a smart girlâŠâ
You get it; you really do. All the questions and prodding comments that felt like criticism were wrapped in nothing but love. But that didnât do much to soften the sting.Â
In the end, it was this desk that made you follow through with your change in major. Slumped in your hand-me-down chair late one Friday night, half finished lab report sitting untouched in your bag, the threat of tears burning at the corners of your eyes, all you wanted to do was write. Â
To put into words the feelings and emotions and fantasies and frustrations that you could never seem to express otherwise. To commit a piece of your soul to paper and wonder if maybe, just maybe, there was someone else out there who would read it and find a sense of solidarity, of common ground.Â
You submitted your official change request the next morning. You never regretted it once.Â
But your parents still make comments, still share their concerns. And for the last three years, you havenât had anything to show for it except for empty promises. But now, you have something. A real something.Â
Publishing a story of your own is the exact validation that you need that your choice was the right one. And itâs the proof you need to assuage your parentsâ fears, to show them that pursuing literature was the right call. That you can carve out a life for yourself with it.Â
Youâve fantasized about this for years. For the chance to have your voice heard, your words read. There are a million half-baked thoughts and partially written drafts scattered in your notebooks and digital documents and on the corners of takeout napkins that have been lying in wait for a moment just like this.Â
But no matter how hard you stare at the page in front of you, the words just wonât come. The more old drafts you scour, the more amateur your writing feels. The more you feel like maybe Heeseung should have won the internship over you.Â
Itâs a miserable cycle your brain works itself into. The less you write, the more you criticize, the more you wonder.Â
What if he hadnât been late that morning? What if Professor Kim was hoping to choose him instead? What if the reason he didnât say anything when Heeseung finally arrived in class was because he was so disappointed that his first choice wasnât an option anymore?
Groaning out loud to an empty room, your head falls on your desk with a muted thud.Â
Itâs there, facedown on your desk, where an idea strikes you. If you canât manifest a draft out of thin air, maybe you just need some parameters. A general guide to get the creative juices flowing.Â
Lifting your head back up, you push your notebook to the side and reach for your laptop. Opening a web browser, you navigate to New Haven Publishing Houseâs homepage.Â
Itâs a simple website, reflective of its simple namesake. Chin in one hand, you click the link that reads Recently Published.Â
The list that pops up is modest. Unlike a larger, more corporate publishing house, your professorâs self-made enterprise is churning out new releases at a slower rate and smaller volume.Â
Perusing the titles and descriptions, you note that the vast majority of the works are short form fiction. There are very few full length novels. The majority is made up of essay and poetry collections, short stories, and memoirs.Â
Scanning the list again, a title close to the top catches your eye.Â
The Thirst for Revenge: An Analysis of Contemporary Vampire Activity. It was published less than a month ago.Â
Your cursor hovers over the link, brow furrowing. It strikes you as odd that something so⊠archaic would be published so recently.Â
Professor Kim has always come across as a discerning man. Someone that prides himself on his well curated taste.Â
But vampires⊠thatâs hardly a headline worthy topic these days.Â
While most people still practice caution walking down dark alleyways at night and some even go so far as to carry charms infused with garlic cloves, monsters of the night are by and large a thing of the past.
The entire species of bloodthirsty, ravaging immortals were hunted to near extinction almost two hundred years ago. Those that survived relocated to remote areas. Some adapted to life in the countryside by learning to enjoy the taste of animal blood. Others found humans willing to donate small portions of their own blood intermittently. You wonât pretend to understand, but you suppose itâs preferable to the alternative. Â
Some still hunted in the traditional way, of course, but vampire attacks on humans are few are far between these days. After all, vampires, as a means of survival, have all but forsaken major urban areas. Population density spells demise for their species.Â
Youâd have to confirm through research, but if you remember correctly, the last recorded vampire-related death in your city was nearly two hundred years ago.Â
Without bothering to click on the link, you continue scrolling down. Honestly, it was probably just a fluke. After all, who knows? Maybe thereâs some niche circle out there that enjoys analyzing vampire literature, regardless of how outdated it is.Â
The next title seems a bit more promising. Shadowless Nights. The brief description marks it as a short story published half a year ago.Â
You click on it, take a sip of room temperature tea while the page loads.Â
Night was my favorite time of day, the first line reads.Â
I loved the stillness of it all, the all encompassing serenity. With the moon in the sky and stars in my eyes, every moment felt like a secret between me and the universe. Something we alone shared.Â
I whispered secrets to the earth and held hers in return. My days felt like dreams. Distant, blurry, faded. It was only then, in the distinct stillness of midnight, that I truly came alive.Â
Interesting, you think. Itâs a bit more melodramatic than you expected, but maybe your professor prefers a poetic touch.Â
In the night, I earned peace. And in the night, I learned fear.Â
It came slowly at first, that sinking feeling of dread. The horrible suspicion that made the hair on the back of my neck feel sharp, the air in my throat feel shallow.Â
But if I have learned anything of monsters, it is that they revel in that fear. That sickeningly overt reminder of mortality, of humanity. The way I couldnât help the racing of my pulse, the darting of my eyes.Â
He enjoyed it, toying with me from the shadows. Watching me become desperate, watching me become weak.Â
But it paled in comparison, Iâm sure, with what came next. Every story has its climax, and every beginning has its end. For him, it was the sweet, clean taste of my blood.Â
Wait. Another vampire story? One was strange enough, but for the last two published works at New Haven to be vampire related doesnât feel like a coincidence. Especially since the more you read, the more you realize itâs not as much of a story as it is thinly veiled anti-vampire rhetoric.Â
The dramatized descriptions of a weak, innocent female lead being victimized by a faceless, bloodthirsty monster. It just feels⊠strange. Outdated. Irrelevant, even.Â
Clicking back to the list, you scan over the next five entries. All of them are more or less the same. Some are more metaphorical than others, abstract in their rhetoric, but the topic is always the same. And the conclusion always affirms the immense, inevitable, irredeemable blight that vampirism is to the world.Â
Itâs just bizarre. Especially considering that Professor Kim never once had you analyze any anti-vampire propaganda throughout the entire semester. In fact, you were never assigned to read anything vampire related at all.Â
If this type of literature is so central to his professional career, it doesn't make sense to you that he wouldnât incorporate it into his class. Especially considering the fact that he was awarding an internship at New Haven to one of the students.Â
You take another long sip of cold tea. Well⊠you could try to come up with something that aligns with the current profile of New Havenâs recently published works. Itâs not like youâve ever written anything related to vampires. Maybe you just need to think of it as a writing exercise, a challenge of sorts. Producing a piece that feels relevant and fresh even if the central topic is a bit out of style.Â
According to the revision schedule Professor Kim gave you, your first draft issue in a week and a half. The same day that youâre set to go to New Haven for the first time and tour the office youâll be interning at once winter break is over. Itâs an ambitious timeline, but he did specify that heâs looking more for a solid concept than a well polished draft. But something in you wants to have more than just a concept. You want his approval, to impress him.Â
So you have a week and a half to come up with a draft that will catch his attention, that will convince him that you were the right choice for this opportunity. Not anyone else in your class. Not Heeseung. You.Â
A concept that will excite New Haven Publishing Houseâs usual reader base, that will maybe actually earn you some commercial success.Â
A story that will prove to your parents that literature was the right choice for you. That your words do matter, that you can make a name for yourself with your writing.Â
Well, you think, suppressing an internal groan, it looks like you have your work cut out for you.Â
âŠ..
Despite your admitted lack of vampiric knowledge, once you have your topic, the words start to flow. Youâre not sure if itâs your best work. Youâre not even sure if itâs good. But it feels a hell of a lot better than staring at a blank page for hours.Â
This afternoon finds you in the corner of your favorite coffee shop. Mostly because they offer half priced lattes on Wednesdays. As you make a dent in yours, the pen in your other hand continues to fly over the pages of your notebook, occasionally stopping to scratch out a word or rewrite a sentence.Â
The bare bones are there. Just like in the handful of stories you perused on New Havenâs website, your plot features a young woman. Itâs a historic setting, mostly because you still canât quite bring yourself to write vampires into the modern day when the reality is so starkly different.Â
And itâs not a vampire story. At least not at first glance. Instead, you weave an enduring metaphor to symbolize a parasitic relationship between two lovers.
The woman in your draft is young, full of life and energy and optimism. And she dreams. Vivid, brilliant dreams that she clings to in order to escape the harshness of her reality as a lower class woman in the countryside.Â
Her husband, however, is a brute. Older than her and with a decidedly less sunny disposition. When he learns that his health is failing, he discovers that he can heal himself temporarily by stealing these dreams from her.Â
So, no. Itâs not overtly about vampires. But it does fall into step with some of the more abstract anti-vampire tropes you came across in your preliminary research.Â
Crossing a dark line through the word you just penned, you sigh.Â
This is the fastest youâve put a story together in ages. Itâs cohesive, and the writing is solid. Your use of metaphor is strong and concise, and the prose feels true to your identity as a writer.Â
But something in you withers a bit with every new word you commit to paper. Itâs not that you hate your topic. If anything, itâs just that you have no stake in it at all. It doesn't feel innovative or exciting or representative of your creativity.Â
No matter how easily the words flow out of you, something about it just feels⊠flat. One dimensional.Â
You need something new. A different angle or an alternative perspective or⊠Or a fresh set of eyes.Â
Struck with a sudden idea, you pull out your phone, plan taking form in your mind. The literature club at your university hosts bimonthly peer review sessions, and you havenât taken advantage of them nearly as much as you should. Theyâre a chance for any writer, literature major or otherwise, to come together and workshop any piece of writing of their choice.Â
Tapping your finger impatiently on the table, you wait for the page to load. The fall semester did end almost a week ago, so it may be a long shot. Youâre not sure if the club typically holds sessions over winter break. But as you pull up the clubâs calendar of events, a small smile tugs at your lips.Â
Luck seems to be on your side this time. Itâs written there in plain, bold font that there will be a session this upcoming Friday evening. That means that if you attend the session and get some solid ideas for revision, youâll have exactly five days to refine your draft before you present it to Professor Kim.Â
The idea of having not only a topic, as the schedule outlined, but an actual complete, well-written draft to show him next Wednesday, turns your small smile into one that overtakes your features.Â
Energized with a new vigor, you reach for your pen again. It doesnât have to be perfect, you remind yourself, even as a turn of phrase makes you cringe. Even as a piece of punctuation feels out of place. It just needs to be written. You just need to have as much content as you can to share on Friday.Â
Besides, youâre sure that a second opinion will help you fine tune this story into something youâre proud to share, something youâre excited to attach your name to.
The afternoon is quick to blur into early evening, and youâre still bent over your favorite corner table. Coffee long drained, youâre full of a new confidence. The thought of proving yourself suddenly doesnât seem like such an unachievable, out of reach task.Â
And when you do finally gather up all of your belongings and make your way back to your apartment for the night, youâre sure that this is the exact boost you needed.Â
That same stroke of self-assuredness carries you all the way through a finished first draft. Itâs rough and messy and littered with loose ends, but itâs tucked away in the bottom of your tote bag with a smile as you haul it to classroom number 105 in the university liberal arts building Friday evening.Â
You pause at the door to the classroom, only for a moment. The inhale you breathe in is deep, full. Nodding to yourself once, you push open the door.Â
You havenât been to one of these workshop sessions since the second semester of your first year, back when you had just switched to a literature major. You remember being wide-eyed and incredibly protective over your work. It was hard to part with it, to let anyone else read over the sentences you were so unsure of. The writing you had little confidence in.Â
But your partner had been kind. Another girl in her first year, she had nothing but gentle feedback to give and reassurance that your writing was worth reading. Honestly, it was such an overwhelmingly positive experience that you would have come back for more sessions if you werenât constantly struggling to find minutes to spare in the day.Â
Youâre hoping that tonight will be just as rewarding as you enter the classroom, tote bag in tow. But as you survey the space around you, your face falls flat, easy going smile dropping from your lips.Â
You werenât expecting a big crowd, considering that it is winter break and most students are deliberately avoiding campus right now, but you were hoping thereâd be more than one other person in attendance.Â
Well, you think, deciding to look on the bright side of things. At least youâre not the only person.Â
The other attendee is sitting in the far corner of the room, occupying a desk near the front of the classroom. At the sound of your entrance, they turn to face you.Â
With that, your small disappointment is quick to snowball into an intense wave of exasperation. Because why is the universe so hellbent on playing games with you?
Your mouth drops open without your permission. âHeeseung?âÂ
Your sudden outburst fills the room and lingers long into the awkward silence that follows. You hadnât meant to say anything, but really, what are the god forsaken odds?
If heâs bothered by your reaction to seeing him, Heeseung doesnât show it. Instead he looks strangely⊠relieved. It makes absolutely no sense for him to feel any sort of relief at the sight of you, but itâs hard to put a more apt descriptor to the way tension drains from his shoulders, crease between his brows softening as he looks at you, scans you from head to toe.Â
A moment of stilted silence passes between the two of you. Another. Your heartbeat feels too loud in your chest.
You exhale, a cross between a scoff and a laugh so humorless it could freeze a flame. Weighing your options, the most tempting by far is to just turn on your heel and exit the way you came.Â
Heeseung seems to read your intention before you can commit to it.Â
Breaking the heaviness in the atmosphere, he acts as if youâve greeted him like an old friend, not as the source of all your recent headaches.Â
âHi,â he nods, so tentatively you almost want to let your jaw drop open in shock. Almost.Â
Because what the fuck does he mean by âHi?â This has to be some kind of mind game, some way to get in your head and ruin this for you.Â
âRight.â Your lips pull into a tight line. You donât bother to return his greeting. âIâm just gonna go, then.â Hiking up your bag on your shoulder, you turn to do just that. Your first draft will just have to be unpolished. Oh, well. Youâre sure Professor Kim will have better feedback for you than Lee Heeseung ever would anyway.Â
Once again, Heeseungâs voice cuts across the classroom. âWait.â Thereâs a command in his voice. Gentle, but firm. Insistent. So pervasive that you find yourself following without really meaning to.Â
Mind made up and dead set on leaving, now youâre just annoyed. What a waste of a Friday evening.
âWhat?â You turn back to him. Youâre not sure if thereâs more venom in your voice or your eyes.Â
And Heeseung, who commands a classroom with quiet grace, with his steady, unwavering presence, suddenly looks so damn unsure. As if tormenting you is uncharted territory. As if heâs never once left you in the cold with flaming cheeks and a thoroughly shattered ego.Â
âIâŠâ he trails off, not quite meeting your furious gaze. âDidnât you come here to get feedback?â
âRight.â You scoff again. âBecause Iâm sure youâd love nothing more than to tear my writing to shreds. Forgive me, but Iâm not interested in being the butt end of your joke tonight.â
âWhat?â If you didnât know any better, the ignorance he feigns would be rather convincing. âThatâs not why Iâm here.â He shakes his head. âI brought something I want reviewed too.âÂ
Your brow arches. He canât be serious. âEven if I did stay,â you counter, âyouâre actually the last person I would want to read my work. Feel free to be offended by that, by the way.â
For a solid minute, Heeseung just looks at you. He wears that same damn deer-in-the-headlights expression he had after you brushed him off when he intercepted you in class the other day. He pauses, weighing words on his tongue. âLook, ____.â The sound of your name on his lips strikes a strange chord in you. Until now, you were certain he didnât even know it. âDid I do something to offendââ
And no. Absolutely not. No way are you rehashing that day in the quad with him now.Â
âYou know what,â you interrupt. You need to go. Now. You need an out. âIâm actually, like, super tired. I think Iâm just gonna head back, andââ
But then itâs his turn to cut off your train of thought. âItâs your piece for Professor Kim, isnât it?â Heeseung takes your silence as confirmation. âPublishing is a big deal. A second set of eyes will only make your work stronger. And if you hate my feedback, itâs not like you have to use any of it.â
You hate it. You despise the way his reasoning matches your internal monologue nearly word for word. The way your thoughts align exactly.Â
You pause, a decision weighing heavy on your mind. He is an excellent writer⊠There would probably be substance to his feedback. Real, actual, good substance that you could use to make your writing bloom into something truly amazing. He could be the exact spark you need to make your story come to life.Â
You purse your lips. âWhatâs in it for you?â
Heeseung smiles, a nearly imperceptible quirk of his lips. He knows heâs won. âLike I said, I brought something Iâve been working on.â Thereâs an intention you canât quite read behind his gaze when he adds, âI want to know what you think of it.â
Hook, line, and sinker.
With a grumble, you take reluctant steps towards where he sits on the opposite side of the classroom. And if you slide down into the seat next to him with a little more force than necessary, well, itâs just because youâve had a long week. No other reason. None at all.Â
âFine,â you relent, reaching to pull your notebook out of your bag. âYou get twenty minutes.â
âThatâs not nearly long enoââ
âThirty,â you concede. âAnd donât push it.â
Sensing your disdain, Heeseung doesnât respond. Instead, he accepts the notebook you reluctantly hand him with an outstretched hand and an open palm. The transfer between the two of you is gentle. You have the distinct sense that heâll treat your work with care, in more than one way.Â
Still, something in your heart seizes at the thought of letting your work be read. Of letting him be the one to read it.Â
In return, he offers you a notebook of his own. Bound in brown, aged leather, itâs certainly much more refined than yours. Of course.Â
He hands it to you still closed. Staring down at the cover, you ask, âWhat page?â It feels intrusive to start flipping through his writing uninvited.Â
âThereâs a bookmark.â Heeseung nods his chin towards the small piece of paper sticking out of the top edge that you missed at first glance.Â
And then the transfer is complete. A piece of your heart is spread open on his desk, and a piece of his soul is in your hands.Â
Ignoring the way your fingers tremble with a slight shake, you delicately open his notebook to the bookmarked page, letting it fall open on the desk in front of you.Â
At first glance, the writing strikes you as odd. The paragraphs are strange lengths, ending at random junctures instead of extending all the way to the margins. And then it hits you. Theyâre not paragraphs. Theyâre stanzas.Â
Poetry. Lee Heeseung writes poetry.Â
You sneak a sidelong glance at him out of your periphery. Heâs already engrossed in the pages of your notebook, pausing occasionally to jot a note down on a scrap piece of paper. His brow is furrowed, and thereâs a tension in his jawline that only makes it sharper.Â
Still, the image of his profile is shrouded in a distinct sort of softness. The kind of effortless beauty that feels like it should be reserved for intimate moments in the dead of night, secrets passed between lovers. Itâs wasted under the fluorescent lights and patchy, beige walls of an underfunded classroom, but you waste another minute staring at him all the same.Â
For a fleeting moment, itâs not hard to imagine those hands, those long, delicate fingers maintaining an even grip on a ballpoint pen to write something as romantic as poetry.Â
Shaking your head, you clear the errant thoughts. Instead, you turn your focus back to the page in front of you and begin with the first poem. Forcing your eyes to focus, you read.Â
As if nothing happened,
She looks at me
With shadowless eyes.
But it is me who has beenÂ
Forgiven and reborn countless times.
You inhale. Exhale. Short and succinct with a distinct twinge of tragedy. That was⊠not what you were expecting. Pushing forward, you move onto the next entry.Â
Even the stars in the universe
Will close their eyes one day.
Underneath their watchful gaze,
All of these moments are precious.
For memory, for regret,
I will carve them
Into the repetition of the moment.
Again, you pause, taking a moment to breathe. Itâs so⊠melancholy, so poignant in its evocation of pain, of regret. While youâve been familiar with Heeseungâs ability to analyze the hell out of a novella, this was not something you thought youâd find in his repertoire. And the more you read on, the more you realize these arenât flukes. This is his identity as a writer, or at least a significant part of it.Â
The world that abandoned us
Slowly turns to ash.Â
But I donât feel the pain.Â
I only feel the cold.
My god. You nearly close the notebook on instinct. Without your permission, your eyes flick ove to the desk next to you. The broad set of shoulders that fill the seat. What has this boy been through? Why is he letting you read this?Â
Heeseung looks up. Not at you, but the movement is enough to startle you out of your staring. Returning your eyes to his notebook, you read the last entry on the page.Â
A shaded castle with no sun
The thick scent of dying roses never fades.Â
In a broken mirror, I see myself.Â
And my reflection whispers, âMonster.â
The breath you release is long. Audible. Youâre overcome with the urge to run your fingers over his words, to feel the indents his pen made as he carved pain into the page. His writing is gorgeous. Itâs beautifully, tragically haunting. Of that much, youâre certain. But you have no idea what to do with that information.Â
His words feel too raw, too terribly intimate. Like something that was never meant for your eyes. You canât understand what on earth possibly possessed him to let â no â to encourage you to read these.Â
You canât fathom any kind of feedback you could offer him. These feel like pieces of his soul, not something to be commodified or commented on in a writing workshop. Discussed in the cold, unfeeling walls of an old classroom.
Despite the discomfort that lingers with each passing stanza, his writing has an almost addictive quality. Over and over, you find yourself rereading each brief poem. Youâre searching for meaning, for clarity, for something hidden between the lines that you missed on your first handful of reads.Â
Thirty minutes pass in a trance, and Heeseung, true to his word, is the one to break the silence when your half hour is up.Â
Mind still reeling, you realize with a sinking feeling that you have absolutely no feedback to give him at all.Â
Instead, you turn to face him. Throwing a meaningful glance at where your notebook still lies open on the desk in front of him. Doing your best to not look too hopeful, you ask, âWell?â
For a moment, Heeseung just looks at you, an unreadable expression on his face. Tension pulls at his temple, his jaw. Frustration seeps from beneath his skin, and you canât tell where itâs directed.Â
âOh, come on,â you prod when his silence extends even longer. âI know youâre dying to spill the gory details of how grossly incompetent I am and how horrifically amateur my writing is, so donâtââ
Heeseung wastes no fanfare. âThis is awful.â
Your lips flatten. âOr just cut right to the chase.â
Heâs quick to clarify. âBut not for any of the reasons you just listed. I mean, sure, there are some craft issues here, but even those seem like a result of your concept.â
âWhatâs wrong with my concept?â The edge of defensiveness in your voice escapes without your permission.Â
Heeseung just levels you with a look. Returning his gaze to your notebook, he reads from your draft verbatim, â...Stashing away the light from her life. Tucking it into his back pocket like extra change just for the satisfaction of temporary happiness. It was never love that bound him to her, but the promise of a never ending fountain of life. Of wishes and thoughts and hopes and dreams that he could use to sustain himself as long as he subjected himself to the numbing pleasure of existing at her side.âÂ
He raises an eyebrow, turns back to you. âI mean, really, ____? Iâve read some nauseatingly vitriolic vampire pieces in my life, and this just about has all of them beat. Besides, the whole vampire thing just feels so⊠irrelevant. Do people still read this stuff anymore?â
Your first instinct is to defend yourself, your work, even if his thoughts mirror your own. Before you can, Heeseung is pressing on. You donât have the space to get a word in sideways. âI mean, what happened to the writing from that piece you presented back in September? I donât remember all the details, but there was something about watching birds land on water and connecting it to the feeling of belonging but never truly fitting in.â He looks at you again. Thereâs more emotion, more glittering life in his eyes than youâve ever seen from him before. âThat was a fresh take and a well done metaphor.â
Your mind is reeling. Itâs far too much information to take in all at once. But something stands out amongst the rest. Because that almost sounded likeâÂ
âWas that a compliment?â It seems unlikely, but you canât find another way to take his words. âYou paid attention to my presentation?âÂ
You liked it? You donât ask that question out loud, but the needier parts of you crave his answer anyway.
âYeah, of course I did. Peer review was a mandatory component of the course.â Heeseungâs cheekbones remain the same, even, honey-tinted tone, but you swear you see a flash of embarrassment in the way he averts his gaze.Â
âWell, yeah.â Itâs not a justification that holds much weight in your mind. âBut you donât exactly seem like the type to really pay attention to other peopleâs stuff. Especially if you think itâs not worth your time.â
âI just told you your presentation was good, didnât I?â
You arch a brow. âYeah, right after you finished calling my draft horrific.â
Heeseung shakes his head. âI didnât say it was horrificâŠâ
âOh, please. Spare us both the semantics. Thatâs what you meant.â Youâre not sure why your mind always goes back to that day in the quad, but you find yourself still sore from his rejection, his new assertion of your work poking at old wounds. Picking at poorly healed scabs. âAnd itâs not like you were jumping for joy at the chance to review my work back then, either.â
Heeseungâs brow furrows. You can practically see the gears turning in his mind. Youâre not sure if it makes you feel better or worse, the fact that he doesnât seem to remember that day at all.Â
In the end, you decide to spare him the effort of empty recollection. With a sigh, you spill your shame. At least this time around, youâre the only two that will bear witness. âThat one day in class. Back at the beginning of the semester. We had to present our analysis of that one short story. You remember, the one about planting seeds in bad soil.â Heeseung nods, but thereâs no spark of realization. Not yet.Â
Continuing, it only pains you slightly to admit, âYour analysis was brilliant, and I gushed about it in front of the whole class. Laid it on thick with the compliments. And then after class, I stopped you in the quad.â Something flickers over Heeseungâs features. A memory tugging at the back of his mind. âWhen I asked if you wanted to review each otherâs pieces for the next assignment, you completely brushed me off.â
Brow still pulled downwards, Heeseung is thinking back to that day, too. But it doesn't seem to hold the same awful, leaden weight in his mind. âI didnât brush you off,â he argues. âI think I said I was busy.â
It takes a lot of willpower not to let your jaw drop open. âThatâs brushing someone off!â Your voice is too loud for the near empty classroom, for your close proximity. âLike literally the textbook definition. Everyone knows that âIâm busyâ is code for âleave me the hell alone.ââ
Almost imperceptibly, Heeseungâs features soften as he watches yours strain. The fluorescent light bulbs that fill the room suddenly donât seem quite as harsh when he says, âWell, that's not what I meant. I was busy.â
Itâs hardly a satisfying answer. But you suppose it makes little difference. If he wants to stick to his story, youâll continue to feign indifference. âWhatever. Itâs not like it matters now anyway.â
And then your mind is back on his poems. His beautiful, tragic, gorgeously phrased stanzas scribbled in his handwriting. Fragments of vulnerability that he handed to you without hesitation.Â
Itâs like comparing apples to oranges in a way, but there is no doubt in your mind that between the two of you, the writing he brought tonight is better. Better than your story, better than most things youâve ever written, probably. The imagery is evocative, striking in a way youâve never quite been able to achieve no matter how many seminars and workshops and lectures you attend.Â
Not for the first time, your brain dangles a dangerous thought in a place where you canât avoid it. What if Professor Kim chose wrong? What if Heeseung hadnât been late to class that day? Would you be sitting here with a mediocre draft and a raging inferiority complex?
Youâll never know, not really, but you find yourself asking anyway, âWhy were you late to class that day?â
As soon as the words leave your mouth, you wish you could take them back. Itâs not like his answer will change anything. And itâs invasive. Far too personal to ask someone you barely know. That up until thirty minutes ago, you actively avoided.Â
But maybe the universe is on your side for once. Maybe you got ridiculously lucky and he didnât hear you, despite the fact that itâs dead silent in this classroom. Maybeâ
âWhat?â
Or not.
Well, youâre committed now. âThe last day of class. When the winner for the publishing opportunity was announced,â you clarify. âYou were late. Honestly,â you add with a wry smile, âyouâd probably be the one writing overdramatic vampire slander right now if you hadnât been.â
Itâs a self-deprecating joke. It might land poorly, but youâre hoping it will lighten the atmosphere.Â
A dark shadow crosses Heeseungâs features. âTrust me, ___. You winning had nothing to do with me being late that day.â
If he thinks flattery will get him anywhere, heâs wrong. You can feel your frustrations bubbling in your throat, clawing at your mind. You won. You beat him. So why doesnât it feel like it? Why doesnât it feel like anything you do is ever good enough?
âCâmon, Heeseung.â He doesnât deserve your anger. At least, not now. But he gets it anyway. Insecurities and inferiority and frustration all wrapped in rage. âYou were practically a shoe-in, and everyone knows it.â
Heâs just as insistent. Leaning towards you slightly, he looks anything but aloof now. âNo I wasnât. Professor Kim chose you to intern with him. He read both of our submissions all semester and chose you to publish with his firm. I told you, your writing is good. Really good.â Glancing down at your notebook, he adds, âEven if this one is a bit⊠uninspired.â
A compliment and a slight. His version of the truth, wrapped up in a bow and delivered right to your waiting ears. You donât know whether to be furious or overjoyed. Maybe it would be best to feel absolutely nothing at all. It scares you, just how much weight his opinion holds.Â
But approval from him has its way of feeling like a long sought victory, and now the air feels fraught with something delicate, fragile. Precarious, even.Â
Itâs early evening in a threadbare classroom. The most neutral territory imaginable. But itâs the two of you, alone, secluded. And suddenly, that frightens you.Â
âRight.â You wonât tell him âthank youâ for the compliment or âgo fuck yourselfâ for the criticism. Both options feel like you would be revealing too much.Â
Instead, you take a glance at the clock. Itâs not late, but itâs an excuse. âI should probably get going.â
Heeseung exhales. Leans back in his seat. âOf course,â he concedes easily, reaching to hand you your notebook.
You do the same with his, almost sad to watch his poetry pass from your hands to his. Itâs odd, the way his words already feel like something youâll miss.Â
You realize then that he hasnât asked you for your opinion on his work. For your advice on how to make it better. In all honesty, youâre relieved. You havenât the slightest idea what you would say.Â
So instead, you busy yourself with repacking your tote bag. In your haste, you knock your pen off of your desk. The sound it makes as it strikes the thinning carpet canât be loud, but it feels thunderous in your ears.Â
As you reach to pick it up, Heeseung does the same. Thereâs a moment, fleeting but unmistakable, when the skin of his hand brushes against yours.Â
Instantly, Heeseung recoils as if youâve burned him. His hand is back in his own space at a speed so fast you nearly miss it.Â
It was an accident, a tiny blip with no real consequences, but the way heâs looking at you with those damn eyes makes you feel like you should be apologizing.Â
âSorry.â The severity of his reaction stings like rejection. Itâs not like heâs exactly your favorite person either, but at least you have the common decency to not look repulsed at the thought of touching him. At the accidental brushing of your hands.Â
Heeseung frowns. Shakes his head slightly as if to clear his thoughts. âNo, IâŠâ he trails off, letting his words hang in the air for a moment. âIâm sorry,â he concludes, but it feels disingenuous. And he doesnât bother to elaborate. Looking over your shoulder, he reads the clock on the wall. âItâs getting kind of late. Where are you parked? I can walk you to your car.â
His hands are busy putting his notebook back in his back. Itâs a considerate offer, but coming on the tail end of everything else, it doesnât hold much weight with you. His words donât match his actions, and you decide youâd be a fool to take them at face value.Â
âDonât bother. Iâm walking home, not driving.â
Heeseung freezes, hand still inside his bag. Heâs not looking at you, but you feel the weight of his attention all the same. âDo you need someone to walk with you?â
The way he phrases the question makes you feel like a burden. Heâs asking if you need someone to walk with you, not offering because he wants to. A subtle difference maybe, but the last thing you want is to feel like you owe him any favors.Â
âNo, Iâll be fine.â
âAre you sure?â He does look at you now, concern painted across his features. âItâs getting dark earlier these days, andââ
His words are wasted on you. Youâre already halfway to the door. âIâm sure.â But before you leave, you decide one more hit to your pride canât worsen the damage thatâs already been done. At least this time, it will be by your doing. Standing under the doorframe, you turn back to him. âThank you for your feedback. It was good to hear an honest opinion.â
Your words sink into the air. Linger for a moment.Â
Heeseung nods. Something in his jaw tightens. âYou know, if you do decide to change topics, Iâd be happy to read whatever you write.â
It almost sounds like another compliment. Or maybe another insult. Either way, youâre sure that even if you figure it out, youâll still have no idea what to do with it. You nod, only once, and then your back is turned again before you can linger too long on any of it.Â
But his words, the sweet ones this time, replay in your mind the entire walk home.Â
Maybe if you werenât so distracted by the ghosts of compliments, youâd have noticed the pair of quiet, even footsteps that trailed after you in the distance. That only retreated once the front door to your apartment was pulled shut and locked tight behind you.Â
Then again, maybe not. Heeseung has always had a knack for going undetected.Â
âŠ..
You wake up the next morning with Heeseungâs words replaying in your mind.Â
Awful. Irrelevant. And of course your favorite, ânauseatingly vitriolic vampire piece.â
In the faded glow of morning light, you groan out loud to your empty bedroom. The worst part of it all is that heâs not even wrong. But itâs Saturday morning, and your first draft is due on Wednesday. The thought of starting a new story from scratch and writing it to completion within that time frame is enough to make you want to curl into a ball and screw your eyes shut until you can pretend the world outside your bedroom is nothing but a figment of your imagination.Â
So no, you donât think you can start over entirely. But maybe, just maybe, you can rework things. Tweak the narrative to feel less cliche, less outdated. More true to you.Â
Part of you wants to abandon the vampire concept entirely, convinced itâs whatâs holding you down. The other part is hesitant to do so based on New Havenâs list of recently published works.Â
And while Heeseungâs criticism was the confirmation you needed that your story needs reworking, itâs not like he gave you any ideas as to what you should change. What direction you should take.
Nauseatingly vitriolic vampire piece. That seemed to be Heeseungâs biggest problem with your draft. Not that it alluded to vampirism. No, you think he disliked that it was a tired and rehashed propaganda piece on the inherent evilness of vampires.Â
Everyone knows that vampires were monsters. Writing about it, no matter how many metaphors and symbolic phrases you wrap it up in, just isnât interesting.Â
Thatâs the route youâll take, then, you decide. You donât have to invent a new concept out of thin air. You just need to find a way to bring something new to the table. Something worth reading. Climbing out of bed, you switch your pajamas for clothes more acceptable in public.Â
And then you make your way to the university library.Â
Just as you suspected, itâs essentially empty. Between long rows of meticulously shelved books, vacant study rooms, and community computers, the only other person you see is the librarian that greets you as you arrive. Even her eyebrows raise in mild shock to see someone else during the break, and on a weekend at that.
Heading to the second floor, the first section you peruse through is historical records. But between old newspapers, reports, and journals, the content itself is quite cut and dry. Detached descriptions of vampire attacks that only contain details of the date, time, and death toll arenât exactly riveting. And you donât think theyâll do much for your feeble draft.Â
Before long, you move away from the nonfiction section. Navigating to supernatural fiction on the third floor, you start browsing titles. Vampire stories make up a rather small portion of the texts, and from what you can tell, the vast majority align with what you found on New Havenâs website.Â
From Demons of the Dark to Left in Cold Blood, you doubt that most of what you find will offer any kind of new perspective. But on your third, slightly desperate scouring of the shelf, you make a discovery.Â
Itâs a small, nondescript book. The muted tones and faded lettering on the spine go easily undetected amongst the much flashier copies of anti-vampire propaganda itâs nestled between.Â
Pulling the book out from the shelf with a delicate touch, you flip the cover face-up in your hand.Â
Sacred Monsters: A Collection of Essays on the Origins of Immortality
It piques your interest. At the very least, it seems different from all the other novels.Â
Book in hand, you make your way to a nearby desk. Once youâre settled in, you pull out your notebook, opening to a new page with the intention of taking notes.Â
The book you lay on the desk next to your notebook seems like itâs lived a long life, the old scent of dust and aged paper and time all contained within its pages. Flipping open the front cover, you look for an author or publication date. But thereâs nothing there, not even a title page or a table of contents.Â
Glossing over the slight oddity, you decide the beginning is as good a place as any to start.Â
The Taste of Blood, is the title at the top of the page.Â
And the first sentence begins:
It is neither sweet nor particularly savory. There is no distinct aroma, no compelling flavor profile, nothing that appeals to the eye or excites the taste buds. The only merit is the fact that it is necessary. For even those blessed with immortality know what it means to survive. And even those cursed to live forever know what it means to die.Â
Frowning, you flip back to the cover, as if that will provide any clarity for the strange passage you just read. But nothing is different. Nothing new stands out. Just the same, faded title. No author or indication of any kind of publication date.Â
Intrigued, you turn back and resume where you left off.Â
Some are said to enjoy the act. The purity of release, of giving in to the instincts that can be convinced into domesticity but never fully silenced. I have never found such relief. The ghost of my humanity has always been stronger than the voice of the monster, even as he screams with unbounded ferocity.Â
Without it, I feel incomplete. With it, I feel irredeemable. Even now, I dodge the truth, omit the profane. I have seen many moons, enjoyed their silver glow. I have stolen the very same pleasure from countless others. And yet, I struggle to call it by name. I cannot reconcile the battles waged in my bones, the war fought in my mind.Â
There is no winner in either. All that remains in the taste of it. Lingering on my breath. Haunting my waking dreams. That which I cannot name.Â
The taste of blood.Â
In my fervor, it soothes like honey. In my regret, it turns to ash.Â
And still, nothing changes. And still, nothing remains the same.
-- Anonymous
Well, if you were looking for something different, you found it. Because what the absolute fuck are you reading? If you didnât know any better, youâd think it were written from the perspective of a vampire.Â
Then again, shelved in the fiction section, you suppose itâs plausible. Actual vampires may have housed little room in their consciousness for anything outside of bloodlust, but it is an interesting idea to think of vampires as conflicted. Haunted by the brutality of their innate instincts.Â
Youâre not exactly sure how or if this will be able to influence your own story for the better, but something about it makes you want to keep reading.Â
Alone, tucked amongst the dusty shelves of a neglected section of the library, you lose yourself between the pages of the mysterious book.Â
As the title indicated, itâs a collection of essays. Most are quite short, around the same length as the first one you read. And none are claimed by an author. All are signed off with the same boldface type that spells Anonymous. There are subtle differences in the writing though, stylistic choices that make you think that more than one person wrote these essays.Â
Despite that, theyâre all woven together by a common thread. The first essay, as you discover, was not a fluke. Every single one is written in first person from the perspective of a vampire.Â
The writing is compelling, humorous in places and deeply upsetting in others. It seems odd to you, just how much humanity is captured within the pages, within each turn of phrase.Â
You feel inclined to root for the narrator in some stories and abjectly horrified by them in others. But never once does the writing make you think that vampires are incapable of self-actualization, of reflection, of morality.Â
In all honesty, aside from Heeseungâs poems, itâs the most interesting thing youâve read in ages. So much so that by the time you realize youâve finished the last essay, the winter sun is teeming dangerously close to the horizon, and the library is nearing its closing hours.Â
The notebook page you intended to use for notes, to jot down points of inspiration, is still woefully blank. But as you make your way back to the front of the library, the small, strange book comes along with you.Â
Stopping at the front desk to formally check it out, the librarian frowns when she enters the number from the spine into the system. She clicks around on her computer for a moment longer before handing the book back to you.Â
âIâm sorry, but the book isnât coming up in our system for some reason. Would you mind writing down your student ID number for me? Iâll have to enter the information manually.â
You oblige her request, tucking the book into your bag before you leave.Â
Itâs chilly outside, the cold clutches of winter gaining a full grasp on the crisp, frigid air. After a long day in a stuffy library, the freezing air is almost soothing. Tucking your hands into your pockets, you turn towards the direction that will take you home.Â
Youâve barely taken five steps when a voice calls your name from behind. Pausing, you turn to find the source of the sound.Â
âHeeseung?â But thereâs no mistaking it. That is most definitely Lee Heeseung, currently jogging towards you on the otherwise empty sidewalk in front of the university library.Â
He catches up to you easily, no sign of perspiration or even a hint of breathlessness when he asks, âWhat are you doing walking alone at night?â As if youâre the strange one in this situation.
You give him a once over. The loose jeans and dark winter coat he wears are nothing special, but he wears them well regardless. You suppress the urge to sigh. âI could ask you the same.â
âFair enough.â His tone is too light, too casual. Like heâs forcing it. Like heâs hiding something. âAre you headed home? Iâll walk you there.â
And if you werenât suspicious before, you sure as hell are now. Why on earth would he want to walk you home? âIâm fine, thanks.â You turn away from him, heading in the direction of your apartment and hoping heâll take the hint.Â
Your wish goes ungranted. He matches your pace easily, even as you try to quicken it. âItâs after dark, ___. And there are a lot ofâŠâ He trails off, searching for the right word. âstrange people out at night these days. Iâm not letting you walk home alone.â
Lips tight, you donât bother looking at him. The idea of Heeseung letting you do anything makes you want to throw things. âIâll be fine.â
But heâs persistent. Heâs all smiles and a strange amount of desperate when he says, âEither you let me walk you back or Iâll just follow you at a weird distance, which will be far more uncomfortable for both of us.â
That makes you stop in your tracks. And now you do turn to look at him. âWell, when you put it that wayâŠâ
Heeseung nods, âExactly. Soââ
You arch an unimpressed brow, crossing your arms over your chest. âIt sounds like youâre the strange person at night I need to stay away from.â
Heeseung sighs, matches your eye. A strand of hair falls into his eyes, and he pushes it away with long fingers. âAre you gonna start walking or are we gonna stand here and argue a little longer?â
âYou donât even know where I live.â
âWhat a great night to find out.â
You stare at him a moment longer, lips tight. You donât want to be the one to give in, to hand him any kind of victory, no matter how small.Â
But it is getting late. The walk from campus to your apartment is never one thatâs made you uneasy, but it never hurts to have someone at your side. Besides, you think he was serious about following you. Heâs made it clear that heâll be tagging along one way or another.Â
âFine,â you huff, arms still crossed over your chest. âBut only because the streetlight a few blocks away is out.â
Heeseung inclines his head, a minute acknowledgement. Thereâs a hint of movement at the corner of his lips. âNaturally.â
You resume walking, and he falls into your pace with a practiced ease, hands in his pocket, eyes on the stars. Itâs a cloudless evening. The sky above you feels vast, immense as the last rays of daylight lie to rest on the distant horizon.Â
With a slight shiver, you pull your jacket tighter around your body. Heeseung notices the movement. Parts his lips as if he wants to say something. Changes his mind. Closes them.Â
Youâve just reached the far edge of campus when he breaks the steady silence.Â
âHowâs your draft coming?â
âItâsâŠâ You trail off, not sure how well honesty will serve you here. It feels vulnerable, like a blatant weakness to admit that youâve got nothing. But something about cold air and the vast expanse of night has you wanting to tell the truth. âNot great.â
Heeseung lets your response settle. Turns it over in his mind a few times. Youâve noticed that about him. Heâs careful with his responses. Weighs his words before breathing them to life. âStill looking for inspiration?â
âI donât know if itâs inspiration I need.â Itâs easier to talk to him like this, when your eyes have something to focus on, when your body has the constant repetition of steps to occupy part of your mind. Without little distractions like these, Heeseung has a way of becoming all consuming. âI feel like I backed myself into a corner with the vampire concept. Iâm not sure if there's really anything there to explore that wonât feel outdated and irrelevant.âÂ
âMm,â Heeseung muses. Itâs noncommittal, neither an agreement nor an argument. âMaybe. You said it yourself; vampires are nothing but bloodlust. Riled completely by instinct. Nothing left of their humanity.â
Frowning, your footsteps almost falter. âI didnât say that.â
âForgive me.â If thereâs a tinge of bitterness in his tone, you suppose it must be because of the cold. The fact that heâs wasting his Saturday night walking you home. âHeavily implied it.â
âHonestly, the only reason I even wrote that story was because there were a lot of similar ones on New Havenâs list of recently published works.â Your reasoning feels almost stupid when you admit it aloud like this. Youâve always prided yourself on your originality, your commitment to staying true to yourself as a writer. But when push comes to shove, you let your desire to impress your professor get in the way of that. âI wanted something that would align with their usual publications.âÂ
Youâve admitted a weakness, a poorly made choice. Youâre expecting ire, more of that haughty contempt. But Heeseungâs mind is going in an entirely different direction.
Heâs not questioning your abilities, not even alluding to them at all when he asks, âWhat do you think of vampires, then?â
His question catches you off guard. Why on earth would he care about that? âWhatâs it to you?â
âMy bad. We can just walk in awkward silence if you prefer.â
It takes a ridiculous amount of your energy to swallow the laugh that bubbles in your throat. Since when did Heeseung crack jokes? Since when did you have to fight the urge to giggle at them like a schoolgirl with a crush? You suddenly find yourself grateful for the cover of night, the way shadows make the heat on your cheeks undetectable.Â
But his question still lingers. Ruminating on it, your mind flickers to the small, odd book currently sitting at the bottom of your bag.Â
Sacred Monsters.Â
It feels like a strange combination of words, two concepts that shouldnât fit together.Â
âI think itâs more complicated than that,â you breathe. You donât know if it could possibly be true, the idea that creatures of the night have a high level of consciousness, the ability to moralize, to feel conflicted. But it certainly makes for a more interesting story.Â
âI mean, vampires had to have some level of base cognition, right?â Youâll never know for sure, but the more you think about it, the more it makes sense. âThey were hunted to near extinction, but they put up a good fight. They hid. They fled. They tried blending in as humans. Some resorted to drinking animal blood. I guess thereâs no way of knowing, but that doesnât feel like pure biology or an evolutionary response alone. It feels like⊠something a human would do.â
âWouldnât that be worse?â Heeseungâs voice is low. If the faint hum of faraway traffic were any louder, you might not hear him at all. âFor them to know what it means to be alive and still make the choice to take that away from someone else? To exist as a parasite.â
âIt would certainly be tragic.â The words of the first essay come back to you.Â
For even those blessed with immortality know what it means to survive. And even those cursed to live forever know what it means to die.
âItâs a fatal flaw, a cruel design. They need blood to survive. The very thing that their bodies used to create on their own. Itâs parasitic, yes, but that doesnât make it animal instinct. I canât imagine the horror of having to experience that with the burden of human consciousness.âÂ
You feel the weight of Heeseungâs gaze on the side of your face. âItâs still evil, is it not?â
His words feel heavy, weighted under moonlight. Though you canât imagine why, you have the distinct sense that your answer is important to him.Â
âLike I said, I think itâs more complicated than that. Taking someoneâs life is evil, yes, but that was never unique to vampires. Is a vampire that chooses animal blood still evil just because theyâre a vampire? Is a human that chooses to kill another absolved of their crime just by virtue of being human?â
Your words settle into the space between you.Â
âThat,â Heeseung finally breathes, âwould make a much better story than the one I read last night.â
This time, you do laugh, a light airy thing. It feels easy, lighthearted as some of the tension drains from the atmosphere.
âUnfortunately, Iâm not so sure Professor Kim would agree. Based on everything New Haven publishes, he seems to have some weird anti-vampire vendetta.â
As you round the corner, your apartment comes into view. Nodding toward the staircase that leads to your front door, you tell him, âThis is me, by the way.â
Heeseung glances at the stairs, then back at you. He shoves his hands into his coat pockets. âWhen is your draft due?â
âUgh, donât remind me,â you groan. âWednesday.â
âMm,â he winces, an offer of understanding. âWhat time?â
âIâm supposed to be at New Haven by three, soââ
âWhat?â Heeseung cuts you off, expression suddenly tense, voice suddenly sharp. âYouâre going to the publishing office?â
âYeah.â You nod slowly, unsure why that would possibly warrant such a strong reaction. âIâm dropping off my first draft and getting a tour. The internship starts right when spring semester does, so he told me I could come in person to familiarize myself with the space first.â
âRight.â Heeseung nods. The tension in his jaw doesnât relax.
Itâs all so strange. He always seems to be speaking in riddles, dealing with invisible problems you canât detect.Â
Youâre tired and confused, and the moon that hangs above you doesnât feel like a remedy for either of those things. In fact, it might be making things worse.Â
Because despite the way you feel like youâll never quite understand him, bathed in the shimmering glow of moonlight, Heeseung looksâŠÂ
He looks like all the things youâve been trying to avoid calling him for the duration of the semester. Ethereal. Beautiful. Maybe even kind, at least when he wants to be.Â
After all, youâre standing at the base of your staircase with company, and it wasnât due to any insistence on your end.Â
The silence lingers. A string somewhere is pulled taught.Â
Youâre standing still, and youâre still a little breathless when you tell him, âI should go.â You donât want to. Youâre not sure why.Â
Again, Heeseung only nods.Â
The movement sends shadows dancing over his features. The bridge of his nose. The plane of his cheek. The line of his jaw. Things youâve never let yourself linger on. Things youâre having a hard time looking away from now.Â
 But heâs seen you home safe and sound, and even nights under the stars have their inevitable end.Â
It occurs to you then that you have no idea how he plans to get home, or even how far away he lives.Â
After he walked you home,itâs the least you could do to offer, âDo you live far? I could help you pay for a cab or something ifââ
Heeseung shakes his head. He smiles, but it doesnât quite reach his eyes. âIt wonât take me long. Besides, I like to walk at night.â
âOkay.â It feels strange, trading these bits of kindness. Youâre craving some normalcy, something unwavering. So with a final wave and a small goodnight, you climb the stairs to your door.Â
You couldnât say for sure if his eyes follow you on the way up. You feel the heat of them, the weight of a steady gaze on your spine. But itâs a fickle sensation and youâve been wrong before. And you canât quite bring yourself to turn around and look.Â
The door closes behind you. Surrounded by the stillness of an empty apartment, you release a long held exhale. It drains out of you audibly. You hadnât even realized you were holding your breath.Â
âŠ..
Dawn breaks Wednesday morning and carries with it a certain kind of dread.Â
Despite your efforts, and there have been many, your draft remains far too close to its original state for your satisfaction. No matter how many times you pour over Sacred Monsters, you can never quite seem to find a way to make your submission more interesting while also staying true to New Havenâs general themes.Â
If anything, the book has been a distraction. Long hours that you could have spent editing or revising or rewriting were instead dedicated to detailed web searches with a variety of keywords and spellings that never seemed to bear any fruit.Â
It doesnât matter which search engine you use. It doesnât matter which database you browse. Other than the copy sitting on your desk, Sacred Monsters doesnât seem to exist.Â
But the annoying, wonderful, awful thing about time is that it passes. Time doesnât care that you havenât found it in yourself to produce a draft youâre proud of. Time doesnât relent just because you always feel like itâs slipping through your fingers.Â
And Wednesday morning turns to Wednesday afternoon with the same steady predictability as always.Â
Youâd like to think that you know the area around your university quite well, but New Havenâs main office is in an entirely different part of the city. Youâll have to leave now if you want to catch the bus with a little cushion of time to spare. The last thing you want to do is be late to your first day. Especially since the draft tucked neatly into your bag isnât one you can hand over with confidence.Â
To your relief, the bus is relatively empty. You tuck yourself into a seat and thank your lucky stars that you missed the afternoon rush.Â
Popping your headphones in, youâre searching for something to fill the time. Thereâs the draft sitting in your bag, of course, but the last thing you want to do is spend the next thirty minutes agonizing over it. For now, it will just have to be the mess of mediocrity that it is.Â
Instead, you reach for your phone. Maybe some mindless scrolling will be what you need to put your nerves at ease.Â
But when the app loads, the first post you see doesnât have you giggling or rolling your eyes or scrolling on without a thought at all. Instead, your spine straightens, shoulders suddenly tense.Â
Because the words youâre reading are not something you ever expected to see in your lifetime.Â
Three dead in suspected vampire attack, the latest headline from your local news reporting channel reads.Â
Clicking on the article, the details are hazy, but that does little to lessen the grip of fear that makes a sudden grab at your throat. Fragments of sentences capture your attention as you scan the page.Â
Three bodies found near the riverâŠ
Bite marks on their necksâŠ
No trace of recent animal activity in the areaâŠ
Eyes widening with every new piece of information, fear claws at your throat.Â
Bodies completely drained of blood.
Two hundred years. Two hundred years of the belief that vampires have all but been eradicated. Shattered in one fell swoop.Â
And in your city, of all places. At the river. Somewhere youâve been. Somewhere you wouldnât think twice about going. Itâs not particularly close to your apartment or university, but itâs not exactly far enough away for comfort.
You shudder, suddenly grateful that Heeseung was there to walk you home last night. Not that he would be able to do much if you did stumble across the path of a vampire, butââ
Oh god. Oh god.Â
Heeseung.Â
You have no idea if he made it home safe after parting ways with you and you have no way of checking. He hadnât made any indication as to where he lived before saying goodnight. For all you know, he could have been heading in the direction of the river. He could have been at the river. Right when the attacks occurred.Â
Doubling down on your phone, you scour the article for any information you can find on the victims. Objectively, itâs probably a good thing that theyâre described only vaguely. Probably an intentional choice to protect the privacy of grieving friends and families.Â
But âthree victims, two men and one woman, all in their early twentiesâ does very, very little to assuage your terror. In fact, it only heightens it.Â
Blood pounding in your ears and dread pooling in your stomach, thirty minutes passes in the blink of an eye, you nearly miss your stop. But as you get off of the bus, youâre spiraling. Should you even be here? It feels wrong, leaving such a terrifying loose end untied.Â
But then you think it through a little further. Even if you got back on the bus, rode it all the way to the stop by your apartment, you have no idea where youâd go from there. You may have shared insults and confidence and a moment under the moonlight with Heeseung, but you donât know anything about him. Where he lives, where to reach him, where he could possibly be right now.Â
But Professor Kim might. Youâre sure that student information is strictly confidential, but if you explain the situation to him, he might be understanding, might just be willing to bend the rules a bit for you.Â
So with a heaviness in your heart and fire in your footsteps, you double check the address of New Havenâs office and start walking away from the bus stop. Your surroundings are not a primary area of your focus, but it does strike you as odd how deserted the whole area seems.Â
Other than a few residential looking buildings, the street you walk is mostly empty lots. Abandoned houses. Not the kind of place you would consider ideal for any business.Â
Despite the cold morning sunshine, the afternoon has brought a cover of clouds. Squinting towards the distance, you wonder if you should have brought your umbrella, just in case. It almost looks as if itâs going to rain.Â
When you do finally find the building, you have to stop to double check the address. Not only is there no signage, but New Havenâs supposed headquarters looks just as run down as all of the other buildings in the area.Â
Frowning, you reread your email. The address does match the faded numbers next to the front door, and Professor Kim seems too meticulous to make a mistake like an incorrect address. Then again, he also seems too well off to run his publishing company out of a decrepit building far away from any of the cityâs major business centers.Â
But you wonât bother worrying about it now. Even your dreary first draft feels like an afterthought at this point. Who cares if the buildingâs not what you expected, if the location isnât ideal? Right now, you need to focus on finding Heeseung, on making sure heâs okay.Â
Because the alternativeâŠ
No, you refuse to let yourself spiral there either. But the pressure of grief borrowed from the future is already pressing firmly against the backs of your eyelids, blurring your surroundings.Â
As you approach the front door, you notice a small, faded placard.Â
New Haven. Well, at least that confirms that youâre in the right spot. Even if it is a bit odd that they left off Publishing.Â
Standing at the door, you hesitate. Should you knock? Just walk in? You take a sidelong glance at the window, scanning for any sign of movement. But thereâs nothing there. In fact, it looks as if the lights are off.Â
Dark, quiet, desolate. Strange, yes, but not something youâll waste time ruminating on now.Â
You knock once. Twice. The sound echoes; the only response is the whistling of the wind.
Deep in the pit of your stomach, a sense of unease begins to build. It feels off, like something is wrong. Senses on high alert, you force the feeling aside. You need a way to find Heeseung, to make sure heâs okay. Besides, the lingering unease is probably just the anxiety of not knowing if heâs safe.Â
Steeling your resolve, you reach for the door handle, twisting it tentatively. It opens slowly, the hinges groaning in protest. As if the building itself doesnât want you there. Stepping inside does little to shake the feeling. Dark and devoid of any decoration, the interior is nearly as gloomy as the sunless sky outside.Â
And even the layout of the building is strange. The front door opens to a long, dark hallway with no lights on. Itâs eerily quiet. Too quiet. Too empty. You werenât expecting a welcoming party by any means, but itâs hard to imagine anyone, much less Professor Kim, even being here.Â
âHello?â You call, clutching your bag a little closer to your body, suppressing the shudder that licks at the base of your spine. âProfessor Kim?â You wait a moment, but sustained silence is the only response.Â
Forcing your footsteps forward, you tread tentatively down the hallway. After all, you didnât come this far just to turn around. Especially now that Professor Kim might be your only way of finding Heeseung.Â
Taking slow steps down the dark hallway, you pass two doors, both of them pulled shut. The end of the hall opens into a larger room, still empty of any furnishings. It certainly doesnât look like a publishing house. It doesn't look like much at all. At the very least, thereâs a bit more visibility here, faint traces of faded daylight streaming in through the half drawn blinds on the other side of the room.Â
Turning to your left, you see another door. This one is also pulled shut, but thereâs a name placard on the front. Drawing closer, you read your professorâs name. It still doesn't feel right. Ducking down slightly, you check the gap between the bottom of the door and the hardwood floor for any sign of light, of movement. But itâs just as dark, just as quiet as the rest of the strange building.Â
As you stand back up to your full height, you raise a hand to knock. Just before your knuckles make contact with the door, you see it. An odd array of crimson stains near the handle. Peering closer, your brow furrows in a combination of disgust and confusion.Â
If you didnât know any better, youâd almost think it looked like blood.Â
But that doesnât make any sense. None of this does. You wonât pretend to know Professor Kim, but heâs never shown up to a lecture with so much as a hair out of place. Why on earth would he run his publishing company out of a building thatâs nearly falling apart? Why would there be strange, suspicious looking stains on the door to his office? Why would it be empty at the time he asked you to come present your draft and tour your future internship location?
You have no idea what to do. Opening the door to his office and letting yourself in would feel like an inappropriate invasion of privacy, but youâre at a loss. This entire thing is so strange.Â
Before you can decide how to proceed, you hear something. A faint noise, barely there, but distinct from the wind that still whistles outside. Itâs disjointed, arrhythmic like the sound of hushed voices. Overlapping. Arguing, maybe.Â
Inclining your head, your brow creases further. It sounds like itâs coming from your professorâs office, but how could it be? The noises are too muffled, too distant to be coming from right in front of you.Â
You lean closer. Deciding youâre past the point of maintaining decorum, you press your ear to the door, careful to avoid any of the suspicious looking stains.Â
For a moment, you hear nothing. Half convinced the voices were nothing but a figment of your overactive imagination, you almost pull away.Â
But then you hear them again. Still muffled, still indecipherable, but undoubtedly louder than before. Which means they must be coming from behind the door. The voices pause, suspend you in silence once again.Â
And then you hear another noise, different this time. Less like a voice and more like movement. Scuffling, maybe. Feet dragging against the floor. Itâs punctuated by a strange gurgling noise. Something wet and thick and throaty. The kind of sound that makes you wince in a subconscious reaction.Â
And then a sudden thump has your bones jolting beneath your skin, everything muscle in your body tensing as you suppress an uninvited gasp. Because that didnât sound far away. It was loud, too loud to be anywhere but right on the other side of the door.Â
Mild unease is quick to transform into sheer panic as you stagger backwards on shaky footsteps. You need to leave. You need to leave now.Â
Youâll find another way to get ahold of Heeseung, to make sure heâs okay. And maybe thereâs a rational explanation for all of this. Maybe this is an old New Haven office and Professor Kim forgot to send you the new address. Maybe thereâs an email in your inbox now, and heâs apologizing for the oversight and rescheduling your draft meeting. Maybe heâsâ
The sound of the front door you walked in through minutes ago slamming shut kills the train of thought. This time, you canât bite down the noise that crawls up your throat.Â
Itâs stupid, from a logical perspective. A fatal flaw of human nature that your first instinct is to scream. To alert whatever danger surely lurks nearby of your exact location, the precise depth of your fear.Â
But the terror that leaves your lips is muffled. It comes from behind, the palm that covers your mouth. The outline of a body that presses into your back, forces you into submission with a hand around your wrist. Â
You thrash against the ironclad grip to no avail. Dig your heels into the ground but find little purchase in the hardwood floor as youâre dragged backwards, every nerve in your body singing with terror as youâre forced into a dark room. Even with your elbows flailing and head jerking, the grip on you remains steady, firm.Â
In the end, itâs a bite that frees you. The hand that covers your mouth drops away as soon as you sink your teeth into the flesh of your captorâs fingers. Thereâs a muffled grunt of pain in your ear as you spin on your heel.Â
Again, itâs stupid. You should be running, sprinting in the opposite direction, but everything in you is begging to know. To gain some sense of control over the situation. Eyes still adjusting to the dark and blinded by fear, you turn to findâ
âHeeseung?â Your mind is spinning a million miles a minute. There are too many thoughts, too many emotions to keep up with. Relief. Fear. Confusion.
Relief, because heâs okay and heâs here, butâ
âWhat are you doing?â You have a million questions that demand answers. âWhy are you here? Why did you grab me like thââ
âAre you okay?â Heeseung takes a step closer to you, reaches his hands out as if to grab you again. Thinking better of it, he lets them fall back to his side with a slight shake of his head. Thereâs terror in his eyes too when he clarifies, âYouâre not hurt?â
âNo, IâŠâ What the hell is going on? âIâm fine, butââ
A flash of relief makes itself apparent on Heeseungâs features before theyâre morphing again, regaining all the urgency, the fear that was there before. Heâs serious, gravely so when he tells you, âWe have to get out of here.â
âOkay,â you stumble forward as he reaches for your wrist again, intent on tugging you behind him. âBut I donât understand. Whatâsââ
âIâll explain everything later.â Heâs frantic, you realize. Desperate. And so terribly afraid. Emotions youâve never seen him wear. Not in the cool, calm mask of indifference he had in class. Not in the faint flickers of vulnerability from stolen moments under moonlight. This is different. This is so much worse. âBut we have to go. Now.â
With that much command in his voice, that much fear in his eyes, youâre putty in his hands. But in the end, it makes little difference. The door to the room heâs dragged you into opens with a resounding bang before the two of you can make your escape. The sound is so loud, so frightening that you feel reverberations in your marrow as the door collides with the roomâs interior wall, no doubt leaving a sizable dent.
And standing there, shrouded by the gray tones of sunless winter daylight, your professor blocks the roomâs only exit.Â
Instinctively, you take a step closer to Heeseung. He does the same, pulling you towards him, behind him, until half of your body is covered by his. Peering over his shoulder, the sight that greets you is one that will haunt waking nightmares for a long time to come.Â
Professor Kim, who always prided himself on maintaining a neat, clean appearance couldnât be further from that now. His clothes are ripped, hanging from his body at odd angles, adding an element of disfigured monstrosity to his silhouette.Â
And his eyes. His eyes. Bloodshot and so wide they must hurt, they dart around the room, narrow in on you and Heeseung like he doesnât see humans. Only targets. Enemies. Prey. Mouth open and snarling, you swear you see a glint in his mouth, the shape of a tooth far too long and pointed to belong to any normal person.Â
But even those things you could force yourself to forget.Â
What horrifies you the most is the blood. Even in the shadows, the unnaturally potent shade of crimson is unmistakable. It stains him, covers him, drips from him. Seeps from his clothes and his skin and his mouth.Â
Panic clawing at your throat, you suppress the urge to vomit.Â
âGet behind me,â Heeseung whispers, low. âNow.â
But a split second of averted attention is all your professor needs. Professor Kim, lover of literature, beacon of taste, a role model youâve looked up to since the first time you stepped foot in his class a handful of months ago, pinches a tiny object between his long, bony, blood-covered fingers. And then he throws it.Â
With startling precision, it whistles through the air, races through a hazy cloud of confusion and panic before it strikes its target true.Â
It doesnât hurt, not really. The hand that flies to the side of your neck is instinct, more than anything. But the fingers that linger on your pulse point donât find the smooth expanse of your unblemished throat that they usually would.Â
Because thereâs something there now. An object lodged just beneath your jaw. Delicately, you draw your hand back in front of your face. Thereâs no blood on your fingers, but that doesnât stop them from shaking.Â
As you look over Heeseungâs shoulder, the world starts to blur around the edges. Darken, as if your eyes are closing of their own volition, against your will. You see him retreat, the terrible ghost of your professor. In the dark, he looks almost forlorn. Regretful.Â
âFuck,â Heeseung whispers. He doesnât see the way your professor spins on his heel, runs in the opposite direction. His attention is trained fully on the space beneath your jaw. âFuck.â
âHeeseung?â Your voice sounds strange to your own ears. Distant, muffled as if youâre submerged beneath water. You have so many questions.Â
But itâs suddenly so cold. And youâre so tired. Wouldnât it be nice to just lay down? Rest for a moment? Surely that couldnât hurt anything.Â
Your legs are wobbly beneath you, and you would collapse to the floor in an ungraceful heap if it werenât for the two hands on your waist, supporting your weight.Â
âIâm here,â he tells you. Cold. When did it get so cold? Your eyes try to focus on Heeseung, but your vision is swimming. You wonder if he would be warm. âIâm right here. Just⊠fuck.â
Gently, he eases you both to the ground. The floor is hard beneath you, but it feels like a reprieve. Youâre tired of holding the weight of your body upright. Your blinking is becoming slow, lethargic. Your head is suddenly far too heavy for your neck.Â
Slowly, Heeseung removes his hands from your waist, relocates them to either side of your jaw. With the care of someone well versed in patience, he delicately maneuvers your head to the side, exposing the length of your neck.Â
Whatever he finds there must be displeasing. You canât imagine why. You canât think much of anything. The world has taken on a sort of dreamlike quality in which everything feels loose, fluid and unburdened by the laws of any physics.Â
âFuck,â he whispers for the fourth time. The curse scatters over your cheekbone like a kiss.Â
Pulling back slightly, he meets your half-closed eyes. âIâm sorry.â It sounds like a prayer. âThis mightâŠâ he swallows, something in his resolve wavering. âThis might hurt.â
Pain. You can barely conceptualize the sensation. It feels like a distant memory.Â
And then heâs tilting your head to the side again. His face draws closer, overcomes the last of your remaining senses, demands the full attention of whatâs left of your consciousness.Â
You think he might kiss you. Whatever desire remains in you almost wishes he would.Â
Your eyes flutter shut, lips parting slightly as your eyelashes fan against the tops of your cheeks.Â
But his mouth never finds yours. Instead, you feel the soft caress of his lips against the side of your neck, a fleeting touch against the sensitive skin just beneath your jaw. Inhibitions whittled to nothing, you shudder against the sensation, release the airy ghost of a sigh.
He was wrong, you think. With his mouth on your neck, pain is the last thing you feel.Â
You feel his lips part against your skin, chasing away some of the cold that has only seeped deeper into bones, into the very essence of your being.Â
And then you feel it. Whatever capacity for sensation that remains all focuses on the sudden flash of agony as his teeth pierce the skin of your throat.Â
The tiny moan that escapes your lips is pitiful. Your ability to think, to rationalize, feels like something thatâs dangling in front of you, just out of reach. Your body is too heavy, too weak to respond to the flash of searing pain as your skin is pierced deeper.Â
He canât speak, but you feel the shallow vibration of a hum against your neck. Soothing, calming. His hand that doesnât bear the weight of your head moves to push a stray strand of hair from your forehead. Itâs gentle, reverent. In complete opposition to the war he wages against your neck.Â
Mouth still full of you, a groan escapes him. Itâs heady, throaty, and you feel it travel the length of your spine, settle in the pit of your stomach. Sensation is the only thing tethering you to this world, and you canât quite tell if this is pleasure or pain.Â
He pulls back, the absence of his steady heat leaving your jaw vulnerable to the chill in the air.Â
âHold on,â you hear. You canât pinpoint where the noise comes from. Sound surrounds you, washes over you in a strange uniformity. You feel the ground fall away, something warm and solid behind your shoulders and under your knees.âWeâll be there soon.â
Floating, you think. You must be floating. Itâs hard to tell. Moments are bleeding into one another too quickly for you to keep up.Â
Eyes closed, body molten, you relax into the steady grip that carries you.Â
And the last thing you hear before reality loses its hold is the fervent, whispered sound of your name.Â
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CONTINUED IN PART 2 (which can be found on my masterlist!)
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note: THANK YOUUUUU for reading!!! this is pretty different from what I usually write plot wise, so I hope it made for a good read. vampire heeseung and this oc are near and dear to me, and I'm excited to continue their story. the rest of this fic is fully plotted and partially written. I'm actively continuing to work on it, and hearing your thoughts/theories/screaming/feedback/etc. is great motivation! as always, I love know what you're thinking. âĄ
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Comfort Has A Name
Pairing: Joel Miller x fem!Reader
Summary: For you, comfort has a name: Joel Miller.
Word count: ~1.1k words
Tags/Warnings: fluff, freezing your ass off, soft!Joel, jokes about saggy balls in hot weather
A/N: Look at that, I actually wrote something. I'm literally drowning in uni work atm so I have no idea when I'll get back to my other fics, but I'm too overwhelmed with my task list tonight so naturally I had to procrastinate and think about a comforting Joel situation. This is literally no more than a drabble, but maybe it can provide some comfort for you too đ„Č
Tough and gruff as he may be, Joel Miller is still your comfort person.
Occasionally, people will ask you how the hell you deal with him on a daily basis, and you never know what to reply. Where do you get the patience?
You're not a saint, by no means. Your patience does not exceed the normal amount, but you've never found Joel testing it.
It's more the opposite, really.
Where other people complain that he grinds their gears, you think of him as the drop of oil that smoothes out the kink in your own system.
Like that day him and you got surprised by a thunderstorm and had to take shelter in an abandoned building. Nothing about the complex provided a sense of comfort; bare and crumbling walls, dust and rubble-coated floors, and more broken windows than intact ones to show for. It was a miserable night. You were freezing, drenched from the downpour the two of you had gotten caught in, and the wind wasn't helping either, howling through the cracks and holes in the ceiling and walls like a wailing ghost.
Joel and you had taken cover in one corner of the building. In the dim twilight of the early night, your two cowering figures could've easily passed as two more large pieces of rubble to the untrained eye. Your soaked clothes lay strewn around, hastily discarded and exchanged for dry clothes from your backpacks in an attempt to not lose more body heat than necessary. (Joel hadn't looked, of course, and neither had you. Both of you had turned their backs to each other as you'd quickly stripped off your clothes, as quickly as the soaked garments would allow.) Still, your teeth were chattering relentlessly, adding a rhythmic element to the white noise provided by the downpour outside.
You reached for your backpack to retrieve your sleeping bag, hoping to wrap it around you like a blanket for extra warmth, but you noticed the mishap as soon as your fingers found the side compartment of your bag. The flap hung loose, and your sleeping bag underneath it was drenched.
"Fuck." You muttered under your breath.
The flap must've had come loose sometime during your sprint through the rain, which left your sleeping bag drenched and you without a plan to warm up. With a sigh, you pulled the bunched up material from its tiny compartment and rolled it out over the floor next to your drenched clothes. You were doubtful any of it was going to be dry by morning, but the chances were still higher than if you kept it all bunched up in your backpack.
You'd slept on solid ground enough to know how cold and unwelcoming any stone surface could be, but that night, you truly understood whoever had coined the term 'stone cold'. The hard concrete against your back was drawing out more heat from your limbs than you could conjure, despite your best efforts. You had curled yourself into a ball, knees tucked tightly against your arms which were crossed over your chest. Your hands, formed into tight fists, were buried in your armpits, but it wasn't helping. Frost was settling in your every limb, slowly working its way from the tips of your extremities all the way to the core of your bones.
That's what you got for getting caught in the rain in early November.
"Hey." Joel's voice grumbled next to you, barely distinguishable over the rain splattering outside. You shifted your head and squinted at him through the dark.
He too was curled up into a human ball, but he'd extended an arm to you as if inviting you for a side-hug.
"C'mon," he said and beckoned you over with a flick of his hand.
You didn't need to be told twice. With your backpack in tow, you scooted over to him, dragging both your belongings and your butt over the dusty ice-cold floor.
"Whoa." You breathed out in surprise as you tucked yourself against Joel's side. His arm came down around you instantly, locking you in place and holding you closer to him than you might've allowed yourself. Heat radiated from his center like he secretly harbored a little white dwarf in his abdomen.
Before you could even think about what you were doing, you pushed yourself into Joel's side as much as physically possible. Your arms snaked around his waist and just barely touched on the other side, while your head came to rest below his chin on his chest, your legs all jumbled up into a big knot drawn as close to yourself as possible. It wasn't really a comfortable position, and yet it was as comfortable as you were ever gonna get.
"Are you an oven or something? How the hell are you so hot?"
Joel snorted. You could feel the low rumble of laughter vibrate in his chest that followed. "Guess that's genetics for 'ya," he retorted, and you only then realized the ambiguity of both your remarks. A lazy smile formed on your lips and you softly boxed his rib cage.
"Not what I meant," you said with half a laugh and quickly wrapped your arm back around his torso. His warmth was too delicious to give up for even a second. Already you felt ten times warmer than you'd had on your own, and that was just from a few seconds of being wrapped around Joel's middle like a jacket you had been reluctant to bring and now regretted.
"I know, sweetheart," he replied and you could hear the smile in his words. "Always been warm-blooded. S' a blessing in winter and a curse in summer. Always sweatin' my damn balls off from May to September."
"Hmm." You feigned a sound of delight. "Tell me more."
His chest vibrated once more as another round of laughter rumbled through him. This time, it was him who faintly smacked your head at your jest. "I'm serious. Ain't no fun having your balls basically stick to your knees all damn summer."
Your eyelids fluttered close as you rolled your eyes. What a charming picture he was conjuring up in your brain.
"You know, when I said tell me more? I really didn't mean that." You shook your head at the picture of a sweaty ballsack stretched out all the way to the knees. "Christ."
Joel chuckled under you. "You said I'm hot as a' oven. I didn't start this."
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pairing â fem!nun!reader x sin of lust!seonghwa ft. ateez as the other sins
rating â smut | mdni
wc â 13.7k
synopsis â life is dull when you are an immortal being such as seonghwa. every day is the same and you live (or rather, merely exist) through the times crushed by the burden of boredom. until something new comes along in the form of a kind, compassionate and righteous newly ordained nun. and so the sin of lust makes it his personal mission to corrupt the purest of souls: yours.
nsfw tags under the cut
tags â *strap up babes this is a wild one*, a tad of plot, my attempt at humor, heavy religious/blasphemous themes (don't read if you're uncomfy <3), inclusive writing (reader is not physically described), also reader is the embodiment of purity, 20240127 hwa (moodboard here), kinda slow burn kinda vibes, so much tensionnn, mentions of a pxrn magazine, sooo much teasing, hot make out sesh, dom!hwa, also very sly demon!hwa, virgin!reader, supernatural sex, corruption kink (obviously), masturbation (f), oral (f), the (un)holy trinity =teasing, begging, mind breaking), thigh riding, nipple play, clit play, some light impact play (kitty slaps + 1 face slap), breath play, hair pulling, fingering (f), monster cock!hwa, size training, pet names (angel, love, darling, sweetheart), praising, degradation (slut, whore), unprotected sex (donât recommend), denied and ruined orgasm (f), dumbification, multiple orgasms (f), overstim, an ungodly amount of cum, cumflation, lil breeding kink at the very end
playlist â me and the devil by soap&skin, unholy by sam smith, going to hell by the pretty reckless, smells blood by kensuke ushio, american horror show by snow wife, toc toc toc by zazie
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a/n: i had an absolute blast working over my fave fic ever posted. i love it even more now <3
also wanted to say a special thank you to @hwaightme who really helped me pulled through with one <3 ily bai <3333
Seonghwa was bored out of his mind. Like he had been for decades now, even centuries. He couldnât remember what it was like to feel⊠well⊠anything at all really. And after years upon years of vegetating he didnât care enough to even try anymore. He just laid there, endlessly staring blankly at the emptiness. He tapped his slender finger on his thigh, comfortably set on the bed of dark purple smoke he had materialized out of thin air.
He let out an audible annoyed groan as he was nonchalantly stretching out his long limbs which didnât fail to catch the attention of the others.
âWhatâs wrong?â Yeosang asked as he was feasting on some delicious meal he poofed out magically. He didnât even take a second to look up the bucket full of chicken drumsticks, wrapping his greasy fingers around the bone and eyeing the meat like one would their life long partner. But then again, that wasnât too far from the truth for Yeosang.
âIâm boredâ Seonghwa complained, pushing his long silky black hair back on his forehead and choosing to ignore Yeosangâs lack of interest, dragging out the word on his tongue, transmitting his state of utter apathy to the others.
âWhy donât you go up and play with the Humans?â Mingi suggested while checking himself out in the mirror, readjusting his bangs and sliding his sunglasses up the bridge of his nose before striking a pose to himself, remaining completely self absorbed.
Once again, Seonghwa wasnât getting much attention from his counterparts but he was somewhat used to it when it came to Mingi.
âWhatâs the point? They are no fun anyways!â Seonghwa sat up straight and crossed his long elegant legs on the cloud of cotton like smoke.
âWhy?â Jongho asked, unlike the others he deigned looking in Seonghwaâs direction with somewhat surprised eyes. âYou used to love going around and breaking up happy marriages, luring men and women in with your charms⊠That was always fun!â He said a little sluggishly, but still with as much enthusiasm as he could muster.
âYeah⊠Maybe it wasâŠâ Seonghwa replied. âTwo millenniums agoâŠâ Another prolonged sigh. âWhen everything still felt fresh.â He got up from the comfortable cloud of smoke, pacing the endless void as his heels clacked and echoed with each step. âNow I know that Humans are only self centered vile creatures who only claim to have better morals than us because they are scared of the consequences that inevitably ensue from succumbing to their primal desires. When in fact, all they want is to eat, kill, have sex or not do anything at all. They are nothing short of underdeveloped, unevolved, spineless piles of meatâÂ
âMeat? Where?â Yeosang said, finally lifting his head from the bucket of fried chicken to look around, eyes rounded in panic.
Not a single one of them reacted except Mingi who side eyed him with disdain before returning to more important matters at hand such as swapping the aviator sunglasses for narrower, more rectangular ones.
âThatâs not entirely falseâ Jongho concluded, shrugging, easily giving up on the idea of comforting Seonghwa.
âI mean whereâs the fun if you canât break their minds to give in?â Seonghwa placed both hands on Jongho's shoulders, slightly shaking him while the latter lifelessly swayed back and forth. âWhat is the point if they donât resist the call of evil? If you canât erode their will like a rock made smooth by the incessant beating of the waves of the cruel sea.â Seonghwa huffed in a quiet, defeated voice, letting go of Jongho's shoulders to let his arms hang at his side while the other one stared at him blankly.
âHm⊠okayâ Jongho said before slipping off Seonghwa's reach to take his place on the fluffy bed of purple smoke, crashing head first onto the soft cloud.
A silence settled for what seemed like a long moment, even for them, immutable creatures to whom the very concept of time couldn't grasp at their permanence.
âWell you never tried with that girlâŠâ Wooyoung said, slithering his way to Seonghwa without a sound. He had been watching the scene unfold from afar up until then. âWhat was her name already?â He snapped his fingers and looked to the side trying to access his memory. He turned to Mingi for help but he was too busy looking through the mirror, slipping on yet another dangling necklace and smirking, satisfied at the results. Wooyoung then tried his luck with Yeosang but he now had his face buried in a huge bowl of chicken broth, the empty bucket of fried chicken abandoned and slurping up a big mouthful of noodles in a rather unpleasant way. âJongho?â he called, finally settling for the one that looked almost passed out on the bed of smoke, but still this one wielded the most positive result.
âY/nâ Jongho responded without conviction, still laying flat on the cloud of smoke, eyes growing heavier by the second.
âYeah! Thatâs right!â Wooyoung exclaimed. âThat girl is unbreakable,â he affirmed. Seonghwa scoffed and threw an unconvinced look to his peer.
âNo really! Iâve tried to corrupt her but I really couldnâtâ. Wooyoung said, raising his brows and talking loudly to support his point. But that did little to persuade Seonghwa, he was convinced that Wooyoung was just not as good as him at breaking the mortalsâ souls. So yes, it was possible that Wooyoung had struggled with that girl. But not him, surely not him.
When Wooyoung saw Seonghwa was not budging his face dropped, and he turned to the others. âPlease someone back me up on this oneâÂ
âOh yeaaah⊠I remember herâ Yeosang said, voice cut by various sounds of loud lips smacking and open mouth chewing. âEven I tried!â
Now, that was different. Seonghwa was interested. Most people are quick to indulge themselves when it comes to food. It was, so to speak, the easiest sin of the seven to succumb to. The Humans often say âthereâs always room for dessertâ and innocently eat a generous slice of cake after devouring a full meal. They donât even notice Yeosang forcing the big spoon full of buttery sugary goodness into their mouths. They donât even know Yeosang, himself, made this saying.Â
âShe refused to even do as much as taste the delicious meal I made her sister cook for her even though she was starving⊠instead she gave it to the homeless man living not far from her apartment.â Yeosang stated with aberration shaking his head in disappointment before plunging right back in the ramyeon bowl.
âHmmmâ Seonghwa scratched his chin, his curiosity for the mysterious righteous girl was piqued.
âOne day I tried to make her give inâ Jongho chipped in from the dark purple smoke bed, even pushing himself on his elbows to look at the others, to Seonghwaâs surprise. âMade her miss the train and the bus she needed to take to get home after work and conveniently laid a juicy wallet stuffed full of even juicier bills in the gutter. All she had to do was to bend down and get the money to take a taxi to her apartment. But instead she took the money and walked to the police station to report the lost wallet, which was in the opposite direction by the way and then walked back home only to take a shower and leave right after to attend the charity soup kitchen. Anddd⊠Explaining this made me tired. Please don't talk to me for the next two hundred years, thank you.â Jongho concluded in one single breath before laying back down and turning on his side to nap comfortably.
âMaybe that one can be interesting after allâ Seonghwa thought aloud, his pretty face taking on a pensive frown, his sharp brows joining on his forehead.
âYeah no kiddingâ Wooyoung added. âAnd you donât know the best part yetâŠâ A perfidious and sly smile pulled on his handsome features. âShe was just ordained nun.â
Seonghwaâs face turned serious as his eyes snapped back to Wooyoung. All of a sudden the girl went from distraction of the day to possibly the ultimate challenge of corruption Seonghwa has been waiting for god knows how long (and he surely did not use the expression lightly).
âDonât mess with me, Envy!â Seonghwa spat, suddenly calling Wooyoung by his biblical name, testifying the gravity of his statement.
âIâm not kidding, Lustâ Wooyoung mocked Seonghwaâs serious tone by also using his sin name. âShe decided the life of material things wasnât the way to happiness so she devoted herself to a humbler one, gifting her time and belongings to the poor and destitutes while she devoted her body to God. God onlyâŠâ Wooyoung said, feigning nonchalance while he snaked an arm around Seonghwaâs shoulders. âLook⊠Here she isâ he purred in his neck.
With a flick of his wrist, green smoke emanated from thin air and formed a pierced circle where in the middle the reflection of a girl could be seen. She was quiet, in the very humble room, a single window shone down onto the bed as she knelt at its side, palms joined, retreated into silent prayers.
Sheâs perfect.
That was Seonghwaâs first thought as an obscene smirk tugged at his mouth, his tongue swiping across his lips making them shiny and wet. He eyed the girl kneeling by the bed as he lowered his chin, one strand of hair falling over the piercing siren eyes. The black and white uniform she was wearing, the habit, couldnât fool the seasoned eyes of Seonghwa. All the fabric in the world couldnât hide away the glorious curves of her body, the beautiful arch of her back leading to the roundness of her bottom gently resting on her heels. The holy swells of her chest softly lifting the thick black material of the habit and the simple wooden cross held by humble twine she was wearing around her neck.
Divine.
Was what described her best.
âSheâs stunning,â Seonghwa huffed in a soft murmur, mesmerized and captivated by the image Wooyoung was showing him. And he smirked in victory, relishing on the way he had convinced his peer, once again living up to his name and very nature.
âYeah I know.â Mingi said, finally turning his face away from his reflection to address Seonghwa. âI thought with such a pretty face sheâd be easy to convince that sheâs above everyone else and just make her a pretentious too-far-up-her-own-ass bitch. But I quickly realized she was a lost causeâ he concluded, shrugging and stepping away from the mirror, sitting down next to Jongho, already fast asleep only to materialize another handheld mirror. seconds later.
âYesâŠâ Seonghwa spoke softly as he stared intensely at the girl. âShe just might do.â
***
You were on cleaning duty at the church today after the mass. Even if the church was quite big it didnât intimidate you. You settled the two buckets of warm soapy water and your floor cloth before tying your hair up in a rather unaesthetic but very practical hairdo and stretched your shoulders before giving yourself a determined little nod.
You started with scrubbing the ancient cobblestone of the old church with soap and a lot of elbow grease. Then you immediately followed up with dusting the chairs, the altar and the numerous effigies.Â
You diligently washed, dusted, scrubbed, cleaned, polished, until everything was neat and right. Simply happy and content with the idea of being useful to the community. The rhythmic sounds of your hard bristle brush against the pavements were setting the pace of the silence which helped you connect to the spiritual nature of the ancient place of worship.
But as you were tidying the confessional booth you noticed a small piece of colorful paper peeking from underneath the bench lined with worn burgundy red velvet. When your hands reached under the seat and hazardly caught the object you knew it was a magazine from the glossy feeling of the paper underneath your fingertips and when you finally let your eyes fall on it you realized the nature of the magazine.
Porn. A pornographic magazine.
The cover displayed several nude women adopting very suggestive poses, one of them even dangerously leaning her face towards the intimate parts of another one.
The obscene imagery made your heart race and you started to feel dizzy. You sat yourself on the bench and rested the lewd magazine in your lap. You took a deep breath and, very slowly, parted the red curtains to make sure you were alone in the church. Then you opened the magazine and flipped the cover page.
âOh my⊠Look at that! She is flipping the pages!â Yeosang exclaimed.
âOh sheâs definitely curious about it,â Mingi laughed, his lips stretching into a satisfied half smile. But Seonghwa was more cautious, he refused to believe it just yet. Something about your body language was not right.
âShhhâ he shushed the others and motioned for them to keep looking through the green smoke.
As your fingers glided across each page. You felt hot in the face with each scene more obscene than the last one, tension building in your neck.Â
Seonghwa didnât lose sight of you for a second, his lips curling on his teeth in a vicious smile as your trembling fingers went over every single page, your wide open eyes darting to every corner of each page. He could almost hear your heart thumping in your chest he could almost taste the adrenaline in your blood.
When you came to the end of it and closed out the magazine you sighed, letting your shoulders drop, closing your eyes in relief.
âWellâŠâ you started ânobody left their name in itâ you said to yourself, completely unaware the demons were spying on your every move. Not that you expected that anybody would leave their signature in such a piece of literature but still you had to at least try to find the rightful owner before taking actions.
A loud complaint erupted from the demons. All in disbelief. You looked at the magazine, true. But it was not for an impure purpose. It was only in the hopes of finding the name of the true owner and hopefully, returning it back to them. You had no interest in the salacious scenes presented in the glossy pages. The rushing blood to your cheeks wasnât due to any feeling of arousal or libidinousness. It was only the shame of invading someoneâs privacy.
Once again your intentions were completely commendable. Immaculate.
As the demons protested and complained, Seonghwa, on the other hand, stayed completely silent as he watched you bring the magazine to a trash bin without an ounce of regret. He wasnât disappointed, he was excited. He felt excitement. A feeling so distant and faded that it felt foreign. Seonghwa had forgotten all about this thrill. He didnât remember how tingles tickled the tip of his cold fingers or how his guts swirled around in frenzy. This feeling was joy. Pure joy. Sweet intoxicating euphoria. And it was all thanks to you.
âIâm gonna have so much fun with youâ he whispered to you, as if you could hear him, his eyes glued to the reflection in the pierced circle of deep green smoke, he whispered to the image of the unsuspecting girl discarding the impure magazine. A paltry, too poor of a stratagem to have you yield to the darkness. You, the pious and saintly nun.
***
You never really liked cooking, before you joined the covenant your sister was always the one in the kitchen preparing delicious home cooked meals for the family. But what you did like on the other hand was helping. Usually you cleaned up the kitchen but when your sister was running out of time she would ask you to peel the vegetables or cut them. So naturally cutting the vegetables was not your favorite task around the convent. You liked cleaning and tidying up better. Only because you were more on the active side and you liked how cleaning would make you break up a sweat when the whole monastery needed a dust off but nonetheless what you liked most was to help the community. And knowing the soup you were cooking up with the help of two of your sisters was going to feed everyone was a fulfilling feeling. Well enough to make you happy.
So you were contemplating life cutting off the homegrown zucchinis when Sister Chaeyoung started to giggle. You didnât pay much attention until Sister Nayeon started to snicker along with her.
You lift your eyes up and the both of them instantly stiffened up and started to act suspicious.
âWhat are you laughing about you two?â you asked, an amused smile playing on your lips.
âOh nothingâ Nayeon said, hiding something behind her back.
âCome on, I want to laugh tooâ you said, the smile spreading further on your face, lifting up your cheeks adorably.
You three were the youngest in the convent so you did many duties together, you grew quite close with the girls.
Chaeyoung ripped something from Nayeonâs hand and proudly showed it to you.
âLook at this carrotâ she said, puffing an adorable laugh.
It was true the carrot had quite the⊠interesting shape. First of all it was quite large, abnormally thick for a simple carrot. Homegrown vegetables were never like the perfectly shaped ones you could find at the store and it was definitely the case for this one. It had a slight upward curve and the extremity had a very distinctive shape. It was phallic.
You delicately took the vegetable from the hands of Chaeyoung to examine the orange root closely.
It was almost unnatural how close the resemblance was, like it couldnât be due to fortuity⊠The thick tip, the robust and curved upright shaft, the asperities reminiscent of the blood engorged veins, even the small slit at the top⊠The details were impressive.
âLook lookâ Mingi exclaimed, nudging Seonghwa in the ribs as he observed you through the green fog. âShe looks interested. I think sheâs done this timeâ. He declared self-assured, cocking a single eyebrow. But Seonghwa remained completely silent but a smirk pulled on his lips when he noticed how you were eyeing the forbidden vegetable (no pun intended), how your throat seemed to thickly swallow and how your lip slightly trembled.
It felt so empowering, finally getting to chip away at your strong willed spirit, finally getting lust to creep under your skin. For these long seconds of contemplation, Seonghwa could only imagine the wicked places your mind raced to. But right when he was about to open his mouth and declare victory. You laughed.
Seonghwaâs eyes nearly popped out of their sockets as this laugh ripped through him, like a dagger through the skin.
You laughed so openly, your head hung back, eyes creased. The laugh was like the rest of you, joyful, clear and pure.
You are only amused by such a coincidence. Nothing more, nothing less. Of course it was funny and you were never the stuck up kind and it felt right to have a bit of lighthearted fun with your younger sisters.
âI guess sheâs only laughing at your stupid tricks,â Wooyoung said, his sly smirk mocking Seonghwaâs failure.
âFuck off Wooyoungâ Seonghwa spat as he watched the scene unfold.
The three of you just laughed, enjoying this bonding moment together while the stricter, older sisters and the Mother Superior werenât there to dim down your childish and silly amusement. It was just some playful, innocent humor to you.
Nothing to shake your faith or virtue.
âNow letâs finish up the soup, girlsâ you said, setting the amusing carrot on the cutting board. Before chopping it up and tossing the pieces in the big pot.
âMaybe we should have kept itâ Chaeyoung whispered with pouty lips. âIt could have been useful.â
âDonât be silly,â you replied with a smile.
Seonghwa felt anger bubbling up in his stomach and rushing through his veins to burn down his chest and neck. As much as he hated to admit it⊠Wooyoung was right, these stupid tricks were no match for the unwavering righteousness of your mind. These would certainly suffice if it was any other soul but not yours. Not you.
So Seonghwa resolved to resort to drastic measures. Something he hasnât done for centuries. But something necessary. This anger he felt, the deception upon failing once again. He hadnât felt that in so long, he felt alive finally. It was ironic how an immortal soul would forget how to feel alive for the simple reason that nothing is a threat to their existence. Their presence is immutable, infinite, certain. Therefore unexciting, monotonous and lifeless.
The negative feelings reminded Seonghwa of a purpose he once had, they reminded him of the stakes that used to be. In a way you reminded Seonghwa what it felt like to feel. You reminded him what it meant to be alive. Him, the unholy and vile Sin of Lust.
***
âYou cannot be serious,â Hongjoong exclaimed, rubbing the deep crease between his eyebrows, this conversation was starting to give the Guardian of the Gate a headache.
âI am most certainly serious,â Seonghwa assured. âNow is the best time.â
âWhy?â Hongjoong asked. âIâm sorry but I canât let you through unless you give me a solid explanation.â
âCome on Joongie~â Seonghwa said innocently smiling at him leaning on the smaller man in front of him, wrapping his arms around his waist and tilting his head adorably. âYou and I go way back, right?âÂ
âYour ways have no power against me, Lust. You know that.â Hongjoong just looked at him scornfully. âNow if you donât tell me your plan Iâll shut the gates for the next century.â
âWhat has this place come to? We used to be able to go and play with humans all day and not get questioned,'' Seonghwa complained, throwing his hands in the air and slipping away from Hongjoong. But the latter didnât budge. âFineâ Seonghwa spat.
âYou see my dear friend, today sheâs ovulating. Her body is most likely to respond to the primitive instinct of the survival of the species. Meaning that her spirit is most likely to be weaker.â Seonghwa explained his reasoning.Â
âBut how do you plan on actually interacting with her? You know you wonât be able to have physical contact, you'll go through her like a ghost. Unless she summons you. And I donât see how or even why she would call your name three timesâ Wooyoung pointed out, as he was watching the feud from afar.
âI know that Iâm not stupidâ Seonghwa said with an eyeroll and a sigh. âI wonât need to touch her to break herâ he assured.
âBut how if she canât even see you?â Hongjoong yelled, ready to pluck the hair out of his head. Seonghwa was about to become the Guardian's breaking point.
âHey relax, okayâ Seonghwa said, slipping behind the man and gently pinching the muscles of his shoulders. âYou are starting to look like San.â
âWhat did you say about me? â San yelled from across the empty space, interrupting his card game with Yunho.Â
âJust playâ Yunho instructed with a monotonous fed up tone, pointing his chin towards the deck of cards.
âThis game is stupid anyways!!â San screamed before flipping the table over in a loud grunt as the cards flew everywhere, floating gracefully to the ground. Yunho sighed deeply.
âHe always does thisâŠâ he whispered to himself, getting off the chair and walking to Hongjoong and Seonghwa as Jongho was peacefully snoring close by.
âHow can he sleep through this?â Yeosang looked at Jongho in disbelief, as he was stuffing more cheesecake into his mouth. Yunho scoffed.
âHow can you eat through this?â Yunho underlined and Yeosang just shrugged before smiling with his mouth still full, earning disgusted grunts and complaints from the others.Â
âCan we focus for one minute here?â Hongjoong interrupted, desperately trying to get back on track. âHow are you going to corrupt her if she canât see you?â
âOh but she will see meâ Seonghwa smirked.
âNot in the monastery she wonât, not on sacred groundâ Wooyoung mocked his overly confident tone.
âItâs true, you knowâ Yunho chipped in, putting his large palm on Seonghwaâs shoulder. âI canât believe Iâm about to say that but⊠I think youâre being greedyâ Yunho concluded, as Seonghwa whipped his head to him.
âWow⊠Thatâs so out of character for you.â
âWell that should speak volumes about the foolishness of your planâ Yunho shrugged, taking his hand back.
âItâs not foolish because she will see me. For the simple reason that she will invite me inâ Seonghwaâs smirk grew wider as silence settled in the unholy space between hell and earth. Wooyoung laughed hysterically, holding his ribs as he wiped off a tear in the corner of his eyes.
âAnd how will you manage that?â Hongjoong asked with a raised, unimpressed eyebrow.
Just then a chiming sound could be heard in the emptiness. Seonghwa fished out of his pocket a small human device. All in the room looked incredulous As Seonghwa smirked at the small screen illuminating his pretty face.
âSince when did you-â Hongjoong started but Seonghwa simply brought his long pointer finger to his lips and shushed him.
âSheâs waiting for meâ
***
âA disasterâ Mother superior exclaimed as she threw her arms at her side, looking at the flooded basement. âWe cannot go to the retreat and leave until the problem is fixed. The humidity can damage the foundations of the monastery. âIâll stay and sort it out.â
The sisters all let out frustrated sighs.
âYou should go Motherâ you stepped in. âThe sisters need you at the retreat as well as the faithful⊠Iâll stay and get things in order. You can count on meâ you said with a determined nod and a smile, tightly holding the wooden cross on your chest.
As much as you wanted to go. Someone needed to stay, that much was undeniable and the wisdom of the Mother Superior was needed at Lourdes. So it wasnât without a little sting at the heart that you waved goodbye to a bus full of your friends, your sisters.
You went back in and sighed at the mess. The ancient timber beams were slowly soaking up the stagnant water, the old stones of the walls were being eroded and the humidity was not good news for the cheeses you were maturing, not even mentioning the ruined mushrooms you were about to harvest before the disaster. Of course the boiler was old and rustic but Mother Superior always made sure it was checked annually and repaired when it was needed before any damage could be done. But even the most diligent measures sometimes canât prevent the unforeseeable hazards of life.
You went back up and searched for a plumber in the local newspaper. Luckily there was an ad for one that was living in town.
Park, plumbing/heating engineering at your service, the flashy ad read.
You looked at the time, it was late afternoon, probably a little too late to take up a new job, but you figured there was still hope he could at least pick up the phone and maybe appoint a day to come have a look at the leakage. You didnât waste anymore time and dialed the phone number in the ancient and only phone located in the Mother Superiorâs office.
As the tone rang you suddenly got nervous. Ever since you joined the convent you didnât interact much with the outside world except the followers coming to church or the people you were helping. So this upcoming conversation was making you agitated.
âHello, Park, plumbing and heating engineer, how can I help you?â You are surprised by the voice at the end of the line. You never expected such a smooth, melodic voice to pick up the phone.
âH-Hi! Iâm Sister y/n from the Monastery of the Sacred Mission, our basement flooded, we think the boiler possibly needs to be replaced. Is it possible for you to come take a look?â
âOh! Sorry to hear that. Iâm guessing much damage has been doneâŠâ his concerned tone somewhat eased your nerves.
âUnfortunately yesâ
âI see⊠I can come right nowâ
âReally?â you blinked your eyes twice in surprise. âWell that would be marvelousâ you said cheerfully âbut wouldnât you be working past hours? I fear thereâs quite a lot of workâ you ask concerned.
âItâs okay. You help others so much. Now itâs my time to help youâ his tone changed, a subtle switch you canât put into words but the difference sent a shiver down your spine.
âThank youâ
***
âThank you so much for coming this quicklyâ you thanked the man as he stood in the impressive frame of the heavy convent door.
You took a step aside to let him in but he just stood before the front steps not moving an inch. You threw him a puzzled look but he just stared back blankly at you. There was a moment of hesitation on his behalf that left you quite perplexed.
âPlease come inâ you hesitantly said while amicably smiling at the man.
âThank youâ he simply responded, almost sounding relieved.
As soon as he stepped foot in the door frame you felt a cold breeze run on your neck under the habit and shivers run down your spine. Autumn was indeed well advanced now but such cold winds were usually never felt before winter. Of course, you made little of a simple gust of wind.
âHi. Iâm Sister y/n. Nice to meet youâ you stuck your hand out to him. He looked down at it and fumbled with the tool boxes but opted for a polite nod instead of a handshake.
âSorry, Iâve been working all day and my hands are dirtyâ he laughed nervously âand the name is Seonghwaâ he flashed the brightest smile you have ever seen. For a second your heart skipped a beat and a foreign feeling blossomed in your chest. You never expected this unknown plumber to be this handsome.
He had long and shiny raven black hair perfectly framing his face and just as healthy thick eyebrows complimenting the dark, round and benevolent eyes, reminiscent of boba pearls. A long elegant neck, a defined jawline, high cheekbones and tanned olive glossy skin.
His body was cladded in an unbuttoned navy blue overall that let peek out a simple white t-shirt underneath. You could tell the outfit had undergone various difficult jobs as the fabric was thinned out at his knees and had various stains of paints and plaster.
He looked like a kind man. Like the kind of person you would give communion to without confession. The kind of person that just has a good heart. It was that kind of reassuring and warm aura that you felt from him, something that put you at ease right away.
You led him to the faulty boiler.
Right away he got on one knee and started to inspect the recalcitrant piece of machinery.
âWell Iâll leave you to work on your ownâ you said as you retreated to take your leave. Seonghwa only politely nodded and smiled in your direction before turning his attention back to the problem.
While the plumber was working you put your time to good use and organized the paperwork of the Mother superior. Doing such work was always tedious for her because she wasnât exactly the organized kind of woman but you were. You knew doing that you would be of great help. Since the task was quite large, it took quite a long time and itâs only when your stomach emitted a loud grumble that you realized the evening was well advanced.
You figured Mr. Park was hungry or at the very least thirsty after working for so long. So you grabbed a metal tray and brought him a set of the specialty sugar cookies the convent was selling along with a generous serving of cold water embellished with a dash of freshly squeezed lemon juice to make sure Mr. Parkâs thirst would be thoroughly quenched.
When you passed the archway that was leading to the boiler room your heart nearly stopped beating when your eyes met the working man.
Swiftly you spinned on your feet and hid behind the wall, only peeking an eye out the corner to still be able to witness the novel scene taking place in front of you.
Seonghwa had tightened the sleeves of his blue overalls around his waist and was wiping the sweat off his forehead with the back of his hand, clearly the labor was not restful. You couldnât tell if it was from sweat or from the leaking water but his white t-shirt was wet and sticking to his skin, making the fabric lightly translucid. You could guess the dark pinkish color of his nipples and the outline of his well built body underneath. The short sleeves of his t-shirt were rolled up and were tightly hugging his arms while his long fingers were wrapped around a wrench as each twist of his wrist was making the veins of his forearm bulge out.
You loudly gulped down a lump in your throat. Your hands tightly held onto the tray in fear of letting it fall to your feet.
But your misery was far from over because before you could realize it Seonghwa was pulling on his shirt and passing it over his head. Every muscle of his back moving around, contracting and relaxing in a beautiful dance, shining under the golden hour sun seeping through the small single window of the basement. Water and sweat was running down his back and at his flanks, when he turned around, your eyes dashed around his naked upper body. You couldnât decide where to settle them. His collarbones, his pecs, his abs, the dent at the sides of his abdomen, his (very) low resting overallsâŠ
Your heart was about to give out. You had seen male bodies before, never in real life that was true but you did once or twice on TV or on billboard ads of menâs underwear.
But, never, you felt something like that. That feeling. This tingly feeling budding in the low pit of your stomach, making your guts stir around, making your palms sweaty, making your heart helplessly hammer against your ribs, making your eyes widen as you couldnât peel them off the naked wet skin of the handsome stranger. This feeling of immoral interest for another personâs body, this longing for somebody elseâs touch.
This feeling of Lust.
It was completely foreign to you.
If it wasnât for Seonghwa you would have chugged the whole carafe of lemony water by yourself because you never felt your throat as dry as it felt right now.
âLook! Look!â San shouted, wrapping a strong hand around Wooyoungâs forearm and making him wince in pain as they both stared at you through the green smoke. âY/n is giving in!â
âLook at the way sheâs staring at him!â Yeosang said, briefly reaching for a napkin to wipe his mouth.
âWowâ Yunho added âShe definitely isnât thinking about church-appropriate thingsâ. Yunho laughed but Mingi scoffed.
âIf she likes him, wait till I show my human form. Iâm infinitely more good looking than himâ
âNot everythingâs about you, Mingiâ Yunho scolded him.
With trembling hands you settled the metal tray onto the window sill. You poured a glass of water and presented it to Seonghwa.
âHereâ you unexpectedly manage to keep your voice calm and steady. âI figured you might be thirsty or hungry.â
âOh thanksâ he said, wrapping his hand around the glass, carefully avoiding touching your hand in the process, probably trying not to get sweat and dirt smeared on you. âI just got done actuallyâ
âOh wonderfulâ you exclaimed, maybe a little louder than expected. Maybe eager to get rid of that immoral feeling that was awakened by his presence. Seonghwa cocked an eyebrow and gave you a puzzled look at the unexpected outburst of joy.
âWhy? Are you impatient to throw me out?â he smirked, pushing his long and soaked hair back as he took a step closer, doe eyes narrowing, becoming sharp. You did your best to lock your eyes with his, not to let them wander down his still half naked body. Seonghwa didnât make any effort to cover himself. Your heart seemed to be trying to break through your rib cage to get a chance to beat closer to Seonghwaâs chest.
âNo, itâs just thatâŠâ you took a step back âyou have been working for so long you must be wanting to go back to the comfort of your homeâ you quickly get back on your feet before smiling politely at him, trying to conceal your uneasiness.
âWhy?â he asked tit for tat, taking a step closer again, siren eyes bored deep into yours, trying to lull you in. âNo one is waiting for me at home.â
Seonghwa heard the faintest little gasp escape your lips and he knew you were shaken. You, the unwavering nun, the faithful saint. You were at last considering him. Contemplating giving in to the primal and lowly instinct of desire.
Seonghwa sensed it. He saw it in the way you hurriedly licked your dry bottom lip, he saw it in the way your eyes darted between his lips and his eyes, he saw it in the way you stopped backing away from him.
You, y/n, you were giving in to pure sensual need. No love, no sentiment involved. Only desire to feel a complete strangerâs body against yours, only pure, untainted lust.
If only he could touch you. If only he could, it would be so much easier to help you gently fall into the welcoming and serene arms of corruption. But he couldnât and that was making the whole experiment that much more exciting. He had to use deceit and trickery. Like a siren numbing your mind with a beautiful song.
But if you gave the slightest hint of submitting, if you let your guard down and let him into your heart then he would have won and that was all that mattered. If you tilted your head and you puckered up your lips to kiss him, if you took a step towards him to press your body against his, if your lifted your hand to feel his wet, glistening skin under your fingers, if you did anything to welcome the unholy desire, if you opened yourself to lust, then touching you would have been unnecessary because Seonghwa would have won and you and God would have lost.
And victory was oh so close. So close when he was as near to you as he could. So close when he slowly approached his face to yours. So close when your heart was pumping scorching hot blood through your veins, so close when your mouth started to water, so close when your lips started to quiver, so close when your eyelid started to flutter butâŠ
Again, you stepped back.
âWHAT?!â San shouted.
âNo way!!â Yeosang added, staring at your unsuspecting reflection in the green smoke.
Seonghwaâs shoulder dropped along with the satisfied little smirk.
âThank you for fixing the boiler this quickly, Mr Parkâ you said, averting your eyes, finally breaking the spell he had casted on you and peeling your eyes off him.
Seonghwa had cried victory too soon. He had counted the chicken eggs before they hatched, he had put the cart before the horse. In other words⊠he had underestimated you.
He underestimated your will, your faith and your unwavering sense of righteousness. The other Sins had warned him though but he didnât listen. They told him it was impossible to bend you. All of them had tried before and none succeeded so it was undeniable now that Seonghwa was just going to join them in failure.
âDonât worry about itâ he smiled at you, disappointment peeking behind his shiny brown orbs.
Seonghwa had accepted defeat when you led him back to the door of the convent. He walked away but turned around half way only to see your still body standing straight in the doorframe, perfectly incarnating your strong, unbending mind.
You only politely smiled when you pushed the big heavy door with difficulty, finally closing it in with a loud thud.
âFuck⊠I guess Seonghwa failed tooâŠâ Yunho stated as he watched you close the door. But Wooyoung looked at you with a knowing grin.
âIâm not so sureâŠâ he said as the smirk tugged further at his lips.
***
When you finally escaped Seonghwaâs taunting eyes, you leaned your back on the sturdy door, your spirit drained, your mind exhausted. You closed your eyes to catch a breath but the only thing you could see was the working manâs godlike figure carved onto your retinas, the translucent white t-shirt clinging to his golden skin, the sweat dripping down his temples and wetting the beautiful long strands of black hair, the bulging veins of his forearms and the dents engraved at both side of his lower stomach. And the more you thought about it, the quicker your breathing got.
You were all alone here⊠Your sisters and Mother superior were all gone. What wrong could it cause if you gave in just this once? Not that much, right?âŠ. Just this once.
With big strides you walked to the kitchen and handpicked a nicely shaped carrot, almost regretting not listening to Chaeyoung and keeping that other one.
But this one was going to do the trick. It was not too thick and just long enough to help you carry out your shameful business but not too big to actually taint you and strip you of the precious veil of chastity that you managed to keep intact all of these years.
You climbed up the stairs with haste, avoiding the marble eyes of the holy figures represented in the halls only to take refuge in your bedroom.
You slipped out of your shoes and laid on your bed. You didnât even bother taking the habit off, it wasnât going to take long anyway, you simply pulled it up.
When you slid off the white panties you realized how soaked you were. You couldnât believe it. Your whole life youâve never felt this way, the feeling was overwhelming and needed to be dealt with immediately. Yes, that was what you were doing simply ridding yourself of an impure feeling!Â
You whipped out the orange root and clumsily rubbed the thinner tip on yourself. The cold sensation took you aback and pulled a small gasp from your lips.
You coated the root with your juices and then you aimed it at your entrance. You slid the carrot inside, it was too thin to hurt in any way but it was well long enough. When you reached the bottom of yourself you couldnât help but to let out a satisfied grunt at the sensation of the vegetable rubbing against your sensitive spot.
You pulled it back out and slid it back in, this time a little faster. Heat gained over your body as your eyes fluttered close and you recalled the unfairly handsome and devilishly sexy working man.
The muscles of his back, his long slender neck, his collarbones, his beautiful sun kissed skin.
âAaahâ you sigh. âSeonghwaâ his name rolled off your tongue so naturally, almost like it was meant to be said like this.
His long and dark wet hair, his plush lips getting close to yours, his warm breath fanning your face.
âSeonghwaâ you moaned again, more high pitched this time as your wrist was getting more and more reckless, each time deliciously scrubbing your walls in divine and forbidden pleasure.
The way he looked at you, the way his dark eyes were filled with the same desire you had for him. The way they spoke volumes about the sinful things he wanted to do to you. And God⊠did you almost let him have his way with you.
You started to clench around the root, each time you pulled it out your walls were eagerly gripping on it, refusing to let it go, so you smashed it back in with force to grant their wish. Your walls quivered around the vegetable, a foreign and unknown euphoria was taking over you and you knew you were done for.
âIâm⊠ngh⊠c-cummingâ you whispered to yourself as you felt the tightness in your core reach a brand new level. âSeonghwaâ you cried out one more time, being only a few back-and-forths away from your sweet release but alas you couldnât pull it through.
Because without knowing, without realizing, completely unsuspecting, you called his name. You called his name three times. You summoned him.
Purple smoke started to erupt from the corner of the small dimly lit room by the late evening sun. With terror you ripped the vegetable out before you could finish and covered your modesty with the habit you were still wearing.
From the smoke appeared slick black leather chelsea boots resting under a pair of anthracite gray dress pants coated with a shiny silverish finish. As the smoke got thinner you could distinguish a matching cropped blazer with an asymmetrical and deconstructed silver vest underneath that was held together by one single button right under his neck, you could see the soft and glistening golden skin underneath. And finally when the smoke was completely gone you saw his face. The sharp features and the slender slithering body reminiscent of the one of a serpent, eyes just as sharp and presence just as menacing. A face you hadn't known for long but couldn't forget. Seonghwaâs face.
But he looked different. His long bangs werenât framing his face anymore, instead he had tied the long wavy strands in a high half bun. His aura was also different from when he was wearing the blue and spotted overalls. Now cladded in the revealing ensemble he looked expensive, confident and sensual.
Your jaw practically dropped to the floor when your mind finally wrapped around the information your eyes were transmitting.
âWell wellâŠâ Seonghwa stepped closer while you jolted yourself up the bed, your body cornered between the headboard and the wall.
âWhat are you?â you whispered with trembling lips, heart pounding, adrenaline rushing through your veins, ready to flee if need be.
Seonghwa looked at you, puzzled for a second. Then he laughed, head tilting back. The laugh made the hair in your nape stand. It was unnatural, cold and fundamentally evil.
âMe?â he asked. Right then you felt your body being magically lifted from the soft mattress. You shrieked again, utterly confused while Seonghwaâs magic slammed you against the bare walls of the humble bedroom, the tip of your toes barely scraping the worn out wooden floor.
âOh my, please pardon my awful manners,â he said in an overly polite tone. âIâm Seonghwa, Cardinal Sin of Lustâ he said, bowing respectfully, elegantly bringing his right hand on his chest in a princely manner. âBut for you, loveâŠâ Seonghwa stepped towards you, taking his time to look at you. He leaned on your ear to whisper.
âIâm a dream come trueâ his voice was deep, sultry, self-assured. Everything youâd imagine it to be.
A faint gasp escaped your lips as you felt his warm breath on your neck.
You wanted to scream to all heavens, you had brought a demon into the convent. You had desecrated the sacred ground of this place of worship, your home. You led the wolf to the sheeps. But you couldnât scream, you couldnât even if your life depended on it.Â
âW-what do you want?â you managed to push the few words past your teeth. Your voice, perfect opposite of the one of the demon: muted and trembling.
âJust want to finish my business with youâ his face stayed right where it was, nestled in the crook of your neck. Lips so close you could feel the heat radiating from them but somehow they were still too far, unable to touch you.
âWhat business?â you whimpered.
âDarling.â Seonghwa clicked his tongue and shook his head in disapproval. âThereâs no point in fighting anymore. Stop playing dumb with me. I know youâre a smart girl.â He took a deep breath, inhaling the sweet scent of your shampoo. âI already won, darling⊠that very second you decided to give in to the thought of me. That second you closed the big heavy door and thought you escaped my eyes. That very second I had won.â A wicked smirk pulled on his lips. But his words didnât make any sense to you.
This languish was torture, this state of expectation, of suspense. This proximity. You wished it would just stop. Be it touching you for good or get away finally. Just as if he read your mind he got even closer. Now it wasnât only his lips taunting the thin skin of your neck, it was his whole body, hovering over yours; but still⊠Not touching you.
âSure winning felt good. But you know what feels even better, darling?â You couldnât bring yourself to formulate words and only whimpered in response.
âI asked you a question, sweetheartâ he grinned, relishing on your anguish, placing both of his palms at both sides of your face, trapping your frail figure between his arms and the wall.
âItâs to finally touch you.â
So he finally let himself take a deep dive into you. The plush warm lips crash onto your neck, giving wet sloppy open mouth kisses while you couldnât help but to tilt your head back giving him more access.
âWhat a good girl you areâ he purred, not taking the time to part his lips from you.
His left hand went to your chin and turned it to make you face him, without much hesitation he planted a wet kiss on your lips, your cute whimpers and gasps were the perfect opportunity to deepen the kiss.
The kiss got heated as Seonghwa pried your hesitant mouth open with his long thumb and pushed his tongue inside to breach your lips. His delicious taste spread through your mouth, making your head dizzy. He tasted like candy, like you just took a bite of the juiciest strawberry. Ripe, just in season, absolutely delicious.
You moaned into his mouth and he smirked as his grip around your chin got tighter, he lifted his knee to part your legs and his thigh rubbed against your center through the habit. You couldnât help but to moan louder, the unsolicited pleasurable friction made you incapable of reciprocating the kiss, your dangling feet nervously giving small kicks in the air.
Seonghwa finally parted from you, allowing you to catch your breath. But he was far from done with you.
âI know you long for more than this, angelâ he whistled while his hand went up your thigh, still clothed with the thick black fabric of the habit. âI know you languish for pleasureâ his blunt nails went up your arm and you realized you were still holding onto the carrot. He ripped the root from your hand.
âYou wonât need this anymoreâ he said before smashing the poor vegetable on the ground sending millions of orange pieces flying across the room, you flinched once more at the demonstration of strength.
âMine is much bigger than this. But donât worry, love, Iâll make you nice and ready for meâ he purred before placing both of his strong hands on the habit and just like that with astonishing ease he rips through the black gown. But not only, everything covering you is ripped in two and that also goes for your bra that fell to the ground. With the deafening sound of the fabric ripping you found yourself completely naked in front of the demon apart from the veil on your hair and the rosary beads laying on your chest.
You flinched and your hands flew to cover your nude frame but Seonghwa once again laughed and you felt an irresistible magical force pin your wrists at each side of your face. You sniveled and squirmed trying your hardest to go against the invisible force to hide away from the avid eyes of the demon.
âHow cute.â The demon snickered when you failed to fight back. âSweetheart, you donât get to hide anything when you look this goodâ he said in a breath, eyes darting over your naked figure. From your dangling feet, to your thighs tightly pressed together, to your flushed face and to the Rosary beads sitting between your gorgeous breasts, swaying every time you kept trying to break away from the spell pinning you against the wall.
He brought a cold hand to the side of your breast, you couldnât help but to moan as you felt his soft hand against you, his finger suddenly pinching your sensitive and hardened nipples. You let out a high pitched whimper.
âSo sensitiveâ Seonghwa mocked you before he flicked the sensitive bud. Then he lifted his hand to harshly slap against the innocent lump of flesh, you jumped in surprise at the sensation. The surprise didnât lie in the sudden surge of pain but rather from the enjoyment you got out of it, the sting sending electricity down your spine to light up your core.
With another faint movement of the head Seonghwa made you open your legs widely. You whimpered and felt tears build up in the corners of your eyes when he finally laid eyes on your most private part. And you realized with dread how wet you were. Soaked. Juices streaming down to your inner thighs making them glisten under his persistent gaze.
âFuck, sweetheartâ he exhaled out one heavy breath. âYou got this fucking wet for me?â he said as he crouched down, inching his face dangerously close to your exposed center.
Embarrassment and shame reached an unbearable level, tears finally spilled out of your eyes, wetting your cheeks as you squirmed, trying your best to escape Seonghwaâs spell.
âSo hereâs the little hole Iâm going to split in twoâ he said as his breath brushed over your wet folds.
You squirmed even harder, somehow feeling Seonghwaâs spell loosen around your wrists and ankles. But when he aimed his pointer finger right on your swollen bundle of nerves, earning a loud scream from you, the sudden pleasure from the perfect amount of pressure he applied on you made you completely immobile. Torn between the need for more of the foreign forbidden joy but also the fear and shame of letting the demon have his way with you, tainting you, taking away your most precious possession: your purity.
âWhat? Are you not fighting me off anymore?â He started to draw small circles on your bud. Your wetness made it easy for his finger to glide across the small and stiff nub. You moaned a little louder and he started going faster.
âDoes it feel good, angel?â his voice went down an octave as pleasure got to your head, making the room spin, luckily you donât have to stand on your legs.
Seonghwa went even faster when you didnât reply.
âI said, does it feel good?â his tone was as harsh as his restless teasing of your clit. Hellish circles sending blazing heat to your whole body as you felt the pleasure rising in the deepest part of your core, your walls quivering on themselves.
But Seonghwa slowed down at the worst moment, a wicked smirk pulling on his plump lips, narrowing his piercing siren eyes.
âGood little sluts should answer when asked a question.â His pace was now just fast enough to keep you at your limit, each spasm of your core, testifying of the agonizing muted pleasure he was inflicting on you.
âAnswer!â he ordered while he delightfully pressed on your painfully sensitive bundle of nerves.
âYES!! Yes it feels goodâ you blurted out, panting, sweat pearling between your breasts, giving in to the pressure.
âGood girlâ he praised as he finally lifted his hand from your sensitive parts. You sighed in both relief of finally being let off the hook but also in frustration at the displeasing feeling of his denial.
But before you could celebrate or pester he pushed that very same finger inside you. You didnât know by what ungodly miracle he managed to aim straight at your sensitive spot, but he did, applying divine pressure deep inside you. Your eyes instantly rolled to the back of your head as you felt the will of fighting off slipping through your fingers.
Seonghwa chuckled at your reaction, he was enjoying himself very much. After centuries of boredom he intended to savor every second of your agony.
âDarling, you really are hungry for my fingers, arenât you? Your slutty little cunt is gripping so tightlyâ he chuckled again while he pulled his finger back. You hated how right he was. You hated how you felt your walls clench around him, how you felt your own body crave for more of him as soon as his finger slipped out.
But the yearning didnât last long because he pushed past your entrance again, this time fitting two fingers inside you, taking the time to gently stretch you until his blunt nails reached as deeply as they could.
You let out a moan through gritted teeth, the pleasure making beads of sweat pearl at the sides of your face.
âFuck! Your virgin little pussy just loves to be stretched out like this, doesnât it?â He leaned even closer to your sopping center.
Tears continued to run down your cheeks as pleasure rose again. Seonghwa picked up the pace, stretching your walls so deliciously, pumping his two fingers in and out of you, each time he pulled out he ripped a moan out of you. Again, you started to twitch around his fingers and he smirked down on you. Pleasure continuously grew as you made this silent prayer that he would finally take you over the edge, over the barrier of this beautiful and forbidden land that you stayed away from all these years.
But again he slowed down and came to a stop. This time tears of pure frustration ran down your cheeks as you pathetically bucked your hips up trying to fight against Seonghwaâs spell pinning you down the wall.
âAww.â He cooed in a mocking tone. âDarling, Iâm sorry⊠were you about to cum?â He said while you shot him a death glare. He chuckled at your reddened cheeks and your frowned brows.
His finger swiped across your fold, pressing on the lonely bud once and you instantly dropped the angered look, your eyes drooped at the sensation and you couldnât help but to grind against him, your womanliness made so eager by his touches.
âFuck, look at youâ he slipped one finger back inside, pumping it very slowly in and out. You bit down on your lip. âActing so fucking distant only a few minutes agoâŠâ he added a second one as you moaned out in bliss. âWhen in fact you were craving this⊠craving meâŠâ he fitted a third one inside your already crowded heat as your moans now mixed with confused sobs. The intense feeling of pain and pleasure blending into a dangerous cocktail.
âFuckkkâ you cursed out, allowing yourself another sin you managed to avoid up until now, which has the demon showing more teeth.
âWhat a good little slut taking all of my fingers so goodâ he said as he took his time thoroughly stretching you out, his blunt nails pushing against your sensitive spot, while his face was closing in the distance with your intimate parts. Your eyes fluttered close as the muscles in your neck gave out and you let your head hang back on the wall.
âLook at meâ Seonghwa grunted and your eyes snapped back open instantly meeting his dark ones, his irises seemed to go black with perversion.
âNow Iâm gonna make you cumâ He announced as he picked up the pace once more, you can tell he didnât intend to stop before it was over. âI want you to never forget this. This feeling youâre about to experience.â His wrist took on a punishing pace as your eyes were locked with his. Pleasure sending radiating heat through your body, chest heaving up and down as you moan out loudly with your jaw hanging open. âEvery time youâll think of me I curse you to feel exactly⊠like⊠thisâ
Seonghwa finally wrapped his mouth around your lonely and eager little clit, flicking his tongue on it as his fingers relentlessly punched your g spot, both sources of pleasure go to your head and your first orgasm finally drops over you like a wave, taking you away with its raging current.
Your cum squirts out of your body, water like fluid rushing out of you and filling Seonghwaâs mouth, drenching his neck and exposed chest in the asymmetrical silver vest. He moaned, lips against yours and sending delicious vibrations into you.
You screamed out as the level of pleasure ripped through you, your walls clenching around Seonghwa and twitching uncontrollably as your whole body shook, still magically pinned down to the wall.
When you finally settled down he slowed down and took his fingers out of you, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand and licking his fingers clean.
âHmmmâ he hummed contentedly and smacked his lips, seemingly enjoying your taste. âItâs true⊠Good little sluts, like you, taste much betterâ.
Seonghwa cut the spell and stood back up, your exhausted body dropping to the floor, your weakened legs unable to support your weight.
Seonghwa had enough of this teasing and had grown impatient. He brushed back the cum-soaked locks of charcoal black hair sticking to his forehead and cheeks, the wet skin of his chest glistening under the silver asymmetrical vest. Your eyes trailed down below the belt you gasped as you saw the outline of what was hidden from your eyes all this time⊠Even still restricted by the fabric of the shiny gray dress pants, the thickness and the length had your heart racing again.
âI want to feel you around me. Now.â he ordered, in a sultry tone that lifted goosebumps all over your naked skin.
Suddenly your body was magically lifted up again but this time Seonghwa threw you on the bed. The veil was barely hanging onto your hair anymore.
Seonghwa walked to you as he took off the cropped blazer along with the rest of his clothes. You gulped down at the sight of his nude and perfectly sculpted body standing beside you. The glistening chest made wet with sweat and cum, dripping down his abs even down to his groin where you barely even dared to look.
There it was. The Absolute Sin.
Seonghwaâs long, thick, twitching, veiny, hard cock.
You could have screamed at the monstrous thing if you werenât still in a daze from your first crushing orgasm . It was so thick, so long you couldnât even begin to imagine how this was about to fit inside you.
Seonghwa chuckled when he caught the panic swimming in your wide eyes. He thrived on this fear. And he knew exactly how it was going to go. And he couldnât wait. He couldnât wait to see the very same doe eyes grow heavy with pleasure and look back at him with need when you will inevitably beg him to keep going, to never stop fucking you. Because he broke you once and he intended to do it over and over and over again until you will no longer remember anything but him.
Seonghwa dipped both his knees at your sides, his body weight making yours sink in the soft mattress while he shimmied his way up between your wide open legs.
He rubbed the thick blazing hot tip on your still very sensitive bud while he stared down at the place your two bodies met. You tried not to moan by biting down on your bottom lip.
âPleaseâ you meekly whimpered, his dark eyes shot back to yours.
âPlease what?â he slithered between his teeth, smirking.
âPlease donât⊠do thatâŠâ you puffed, as fear crushed your chest. Seonghwa snickered again and brought his hand to very gently and softly brush his thumb over your wet cheeks and lips.
âDarlingâ his deep voice purred so softly. âYou are not under any spell here. You can control this tiny little body of yours. So go aheadâ he taunted you as his hand went down from your face to your sensitive nipples. âGo ahead and close your legs.â
What? No⊠It isnât possible.
There was no way he was not the one forcing your thighs apart like this. But when you gave it a try, when you attempted to lift your ankle it actually worked. You indeed could move. But⊠somehow youâŠ. still didnât.
âCome on show me. Go ahead, prettyâ his hand went down again to your stomach. ïżœïżœïżœClose your legs on this poor, aching, desperateâŠ.â he flicked his pointer finger on your clit âvirgin little pussyâ. The sweet sting made you moan out and arch your back instinctively.
Seonghwa waited a few seconds staring down at you with amusement as you didn't move an inch. Your body kept your legs nice and wide for him against your own will.
âYou know what?â he took his hand back and you swallowed back a whine and the loss of contact. âOkay, I wonât⊠if you are still this strong headed after all of this maybe youâre right. You are a pure spirit and I can admit defeat when I have lost.â
The smug look he wore completely gave him away. You knew it was a ruse, a ploy to get to you, to toy with you but you werenât listening to reason anymore, only your delirious body tortured with vicious need and you just couldnât risk it. You couldnât risk him leaving you, not like this.
âNO!â you wailed, extending your hand to him as he was already getting off the bed and on to his feet. âI-âŠI-⊠Ok⊠do itâ
Seonghwaâs expression here took a turn. The smug smile was completely wiped off his face, only dark brown and grave eyes looking down on your naked frame.
âYeah?â he came back to bed and laid over you. He brought his lips close to your ear and he seductively whispered against your neck as your eyes fluttered close. âIf you want it, sweetheart. Youâll have to properly beg for itâ.
Your eyes snapped open. But Seonghwa only looked dead serious.
âI- I-â you started but Seonghwa lifted his hand to let it slap against your wet cunt. The whacking sound bounced off the bare walls and the stinging pain had you grunting in unsolicited pleasure.
âI said properly. I want to believe youâ his voice had nothing of the playful undertone it had a few moments ago. You didnât think twice, maybe not even at all.
âPlease, Seonghwa. I implore you to fuck me. Please fuck and use my slutty virgin cunt as much as youâd like. Please hurt me and rip my virginity away. I want to scream and cry out your name. I want to be yours. I want to forget everything about the good girl I used to be, I want to be your whore. Forget about my soul, just take it with you back to hell.â
Silence fell as a grin played on his lips. Itâs not smug or playful, itâs wicked, downright evil.Â
You were not just begging him. The desperate prose was not just a plea. It was a prayer. You were praying for him to taint you. Begging him to take away your purity like it was nothing but a nuisance to you, discarding it. Seeing you abandon your values and principles was the greatest achievement, a victory so sweet it made Seonghwa lose control. The feeling was intoxicating, blissfully filling his veins and making his evil heart thump. In his infinite existence he had never felt that. And it was all thanks to you.
Suddenly his body was elevated in the air and purple smoke enveloped him again. For a second you were scared that he was actually leaving you but the thought vanished as quick as it appeared when you heard the distinctive shrill sound of the metal scraping against the wall. You looked above your head and you witnessed with dread the crucifix above your bed being slowly turned upside down, engraving the white plaster of the bare walls. The foreboding omen lifted goosebumps off your skin and sent a cold shiver down your spine.
Soon you saw his body peek out as the smoke evaporated. It was still him but he had changed.
Huge wings were open behind his back, covered in raven black lustrous feathers, shining under the moonlight peeking from the window as the dark night was now settled. Two black horns have pierced his skin at each side of his head, pointing upwards, resembling the ones of a spanish bull. His body, somehow, looked even more defined, the muscles of his abs and shoulders seemed to bulge out. He looked strong, ominous, dangerous.
âYou have such a way with wordsâ he said as he floated back between your legs and settled his huge cock on your stomach. âNow Iâm gonna make all of your wishes come trueâ. He brushed the tip of his cock, wet with precum, once again on your slick folds. âI've never fucked a mortal in my true form before.â he started, still rubbing against you, the muted pleasure making your brain fuzzy. âI canât guarantee youâll come out of this aliveâ.
But you were already set on it and if you had to die, so be itâŠ
âI donât careâ you whispered as your eyebrows met and you looked back at him with need.
You braced yourself when you felt him finally push himself inside you. You could practically hear your hymen rip in two to make way for his huge cock. The puny little carrot could have never compared to the size of him.
âWhat a good little slut you are,â he cooed, before grunting as you were gripping around him. âWilling to die for a round of fun on my big cockâ.
Sharp throbbing pain ripped through your lower stomach as you frowned and grunted.
âI knowâŠâ Seonghwa purred as he leaned over in your ear âIâm bigâ he said as he finally reached the bottom of you, linking his hips with yours. And he pulled out a lot faster than when he came in. Your eyes rolled back and you crushed the pillow over your mouth to yell in it.
But when he went back in again somehow the ache had lessened and pleasure was slowly taking its place. Soon the pain, as sharp as it was, vanished to become only a vague memory you couldnât even recall as your mind was too preoccupied by the incommensurable pleasure Seonghwa made you feel.
âFucking whoreâ Seonghwa grunted as he mercilessly ramed up your pussy, making it the shape of his cock. âCheating on God feels good, doesnât it? Your whorish little cunt canât resist this fat demon cock, can it?â he growled.
You started twitching once again around him and Seonghwa instantly recognized the familiar clench he felt earlier around his fingers.
âAre you going to cum?â he asked, panting above you.
You couldnât even process the words you were hearing as your eyes rolled back and your jaw fell open. But you were brought back to your senses when Seonghwaâs big clawed hand slapped your cheek forcefully. The burning pain took you aback and stopped your never ending ascension to pleasure. You whined a complaint and Seonghwa grabbed your face into a strong grip making your lips pout.
âGood little whores have to ask firstâ he said, still deeply pounding your precious little pussy.
âPleasepleaseplease⊠C-can I cum?... F-fuckk⊠Pleaseâ you mumbled as his pace made it hard to hold yourself back.
âNo!â he responded sternly. âNot nowâ he said, smirking evilly. Enjoying this anguish in your eyes as you tried your best to control your body. He brought his hand and pinched hard on your swollen little clit.
âAaaahâ you screamed, arching your back and pressing your head back into the soft mattress.
âYouâll cum when Iâll tell you tooâ he snickered, looking down at you. And the pleasure kept on building, frustrated tears starting to wet your cheeks again.
âMy God pleaseâŠâ you whined, as tears streamed down your face and your pussy clenched around his thick cock. Seonghwa scoffed.
âSorry but he has left you, darling.â He started to draw circles on your sensitive and aching clit, still maintaining the punishing pace of his cock rearranging your guts, making the rosary beads jump along with your breasts with each powerful thrust. You cry out as itâs becoming nearly impossible to keep yourself from cumming. âHe abandoned you to meâ he growled, his low voice sending electricity down your core.
âPleaseeeeeâ you pleaded once more, desperation oozing out of your broken up voice and finally Seonghwa pronounced the magic words.
âCum. Cum for me like the godless little whore that you areâ
Finally you let go. You let Seonghwaâs skillful hand and monstrous, merciless cock take you down to the hellish pit of lustful sin. Pleasure took over you and clouded your vision, everything came to a blur as you could only concentrate on the throbbing of your cunt around Seonghwaâs thick dick. You moaned out his name in pure agonizing bliss. The orgasm was even longer lasting, even stronger than the one he gave you moments ago. And you knew for a fact now that there was no going back.
The good girl that you were had died, Seonghwa killed her. And you had let him do it without batting an eyelash. But fuck did it feel good. You felt no shame, no regrets, only unholy desire for the demonâs heavenly cock.
Soon the high wore off but Seonghwa didnât seem to care and kept on pounding you, taking a bruising grip on your parted thighs with both his hands.
âPleaseâ you whimpered again as your poor little pussy might split in two from clenching and throbbing this much right after an earth shattering orgasm. Seonghwa chuckled in between heavy breaths.
âI just cameâ you cried out, turning into an over-stimulated mess.
âI donât careâ he spat, using you like a fucktoy just like he pleased, after all you had asked him to do so⊠âto fuck and use your slutty virgin cunt as much as heâd likeâ. The exhausted quivering of your restless pussy started to build up again and before you could even realize it, Seonghwaâs thick cock had you flirting with the edge of the bottomless pleasure pit again.
âPleaseâ you whined âPlease stopâ you begged him, breast lewdly jumping up and down with each of his brutal thrusts. But he kept on going, growling as his eyebrows met, handsome face contorted in pleasure, biting his lip. Body pressed over yours and full black feathered wings completely concealing you, one of his horns even scraping the wall with one too violent move.
âPleaseeeeeâ you whimpered yet again. And suddenly your body was being lifted and flipped over by Seonghwaâs spell. You land on all fours, completely confused but worst of all, completely empty.
âDonât you get it?â Seonghwa said as he slowly pushed himself back into your soft, warm little throbbing cunt. You moaned as you gladly took him back. âYou sold your soul to me. You donât get to ask for anything anymore. So Iâll fuck you for as long as I see it fitâ He said before pushing down on your face, shoving your head into a shamefully submissive position, your ass up in the air, ready to be destroyed by him once more.
His fat cock parted you so deliciously as lewd wet sounds rang to your ears. It was like your once virgin pussy had completely taken the shape of his monstrous dick. Every movement he made ripped a delighted moan out of your lips, you didnât have the will to fight anymore. You only wanted him and this delectable high he made you feel.
âFuckkkâ you cried out as he started to go faster again, the quiver in your lower stomach making a quick return.
âYouâre my thing now.â He ripped the veil of your hair, the last relic of your past self and sent it flying across the room. He grabbed a fistfull of your hair, harshly pulling on it maintaining your face forward but your chin still firmly planted in the mattress, asserting his dominance on your frail figure. âMy toy, you hear?â the sting on your scalp added to the full feeling of his cock had you completely fucked out. Your eyes rolled as heat spreaded through you again, your jaw fell open and your tongue slipped out. You were fucked out dumb, completely. Brain nice and thoughtless just from him.
âYeshhhâ you mumbled.
âIâm gonna make you cum again and this time I will fill your dirty little cunt with my cumâ The obscene sounds of his balls slapping against your slick folds and clit bounced off the walls.
âYesshh pwweatheâ you replied as your tongue slapped against your chin with each inhuman thrust of his hips deep into you, sending strings of drool on your chin and staining the sheets.
âToday youâre ovulating, you know what it means?â
Your eyes snapped back open.
âIâm gonna force a child into you. Youâll take my seed into your fertile womb and life will sprout inside youâ His grip on your hair tightened and you felt him start to twitch inside you.
âYouâd like that?â he teases, knowing the answer.
âYesssshhhhh!!!â you yelled, you were ready for anything if it meant heâd let you cum again.
âThen take it. Take my cum you depraved slutâ His second hand left your hips to grab the rosary still around your neck, twisting his wrist to wrap the beads around his fingers and pulling on it while still maintaining his grasp on your hair.
Bloodstream to your brain became restrained and you started to feel dizzy. A deliciously light headed sensation filled your head up as your pussy quivered with a third orgasm. Your hungry cunt squeezed Seonghwaâs thick length as if its life depended on it, demanding every last drop of cum the demon had to offer. You clenched and throbbed around him in pure joyful sin as he took you to the deepest part of this abysmal and cursed pleasure, taking your sanity and everything that was left of the old you to the pits of hell with him.
Seonghwaâs rhythm faltered and he shuddered and grunted in bliss as his throbbing cock gushed out streams after streams of piping hot cum that stained your walls with white, shooting straight up to your womb, assuredly knocking you up in the process.Â
You yelled and moaned one last time. You were so full of him, belly round and swollen with the ungodly amount of cum Seonghwa gracefully gifted you. You were so unbelievably full that you couldn't help but to let it flow out of you and run down your thighs, no matter how much you clenched to keep it all inside.Â
You were in heaven. This was pure euphoria. A kind of contentment not any amount of spirituality and virtue could ever give you. The kind of happiness you could only experience when you let go of everything youâve ever known to throw yourself into the arms of the most pleasurable sin of all.
Lust.
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The next morning when you woke up at dawn with the chirping birds you felt nauseous and disoriented. You looked around the room and found it immaculate. Your habit was not ripped in two, it was neatly folded on the wooden bedside table along with your veil and underwear. The room was clean and neat: no traces of small pieces of orange carrot anywhere or puddles of cum on the wooden floor. And you were wearing a comfortable full length pyjama gown.
In a flash, disjointed memories came back to you. You remembered the anthracite gray suit, the black bull horns, the raven wings, the defined abs, the devilishly handsome good looks, the tempting smirk and the huge thick angry cock and the immense forbidden pleasure that came along with it.
You sat up and looked behind you hastily, the wall was perfectly smooth, no scrapes of the black horns and most of all the crucifix was perfectly normal, hanging right side up.
You spotted the small, thin, intact carrot next to your pillow and sighed in relief. Yes, you had sinned but you knew if you confessed and prayed hard enough God would forgive you. Afterall, you had never done such a thing and it was shameful and wrong, yes, but they were far greater sins than this one, like selling your soul to the Sin of Lust and bearing his child⊠You shook your head, chasing away the blurry memory of the nightmare, feeling a weird tingly build up in your lower stomach as you saw flashes of the evil smirks and the huge monstrous-
âIt was a dreamâ you said out loud, sighing, hoping the sound of your own voice would prevent your mind from imagining more of the sinful imagery. âJust a meaningless dreamâ you told yourself again.
Convinced the soreness between your legs was only due to masturbating for the first time, that the nausea was nothing to worry about and that the spasm inside your belly were benign little cramps.
Seonghwa smirked in victory as he looked at you through the pierced purple smoke. He made it. He broke you beyond repair. He went, won and marked you. And soon he would back to take what you had promised him: an offspring and your soul, body and mind, you.
âSee you soon, y/nâ he chuckled.
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Dead dove: do not eat đ Hiii, it's @ariestrxsh and this is my secondary account. Here is my contribution to kinktober. I know the Ghostface trope has been done so many times, but I figured it would still be a fun little smut to write in honor of Halloween.
đ»đ content warning: smut, degradation, predator/prey dynamic, restraints, knife play, blood play, ghostface!matt, ghostface!chris, slutty!reader
đ»đ author's note: idk if this would be considered a dead dove: do not eat fic, but it certainly contains some rather dark material, so i'd rather label it that way to be safe. also, my reader's slutty nun outfit may offend you if you're religious, so please scroll and don't read if it's going to upset you.
đ»đ summary: you're throwing a halloween party at your house in a remote area. the night becomes like a thrilling, real-life horror movie after your friends, matt and chris both show up dressed as the infamous ghostface.
masquerade
"What are you guys going as tonight?" You asked Nick, Matt, and Chris as the four of you aimlessly wandered around the Halloween store that was littered with all the decor you could dream of for the party you were throwing later. You'd done most of your holiday shopping a few weeks prior, but you just needed a few final touches to complete the vibe you were going for.
"I'm going as Stu Macher," Nick responded, fiddling with some tacky Halloween decoration. "I'm going as Ghostface," Chris confidently replied, and your gaze softened as you pictured him in one of those sexy masks.
"Hey, what the fuck, Chris? I'm going as Ghostface," Matt slugged Chris in the arm. Your breath caught in your throat, and your lips fell open as you pictured them both in the Ghostface costume. "Relax. That'll make it more fun. Then no one will know who's who," Chris smirked. "People already have a hard time telling us apart," Matt rolled his eyes.
"What are you going as?" Nick asked you, ignoring his brothers. "Well, I'm going to be the only one out of the four of us who isn't going as a Scream character. But it's going to be a surprise," you told them, wandering over towards a giant cauldron that caught your eye.
"What are you going to use that for?" Matt asked. "Punch bowl! Isn't it perfect?" You asked, picking it up and cradling it in your arms as the four of you continued through the store. "Can you at least give us a hint about what you're going to dress up as?" Chris playfully poked you in the side.
"All I can tell you is, it's gonna be sexy, and you're gonna thank God when you see me in it. I'm trying to get laid tonight," you proudly stated as the four of you headed over to the checkout counter to pay.
Nick, Matt, and Chris dropped you back off at your place, which was out in the middle of nowhere, so you could finish setting up, and so they could change into their costumes. You thought it was fitting you lived in a secluded part of your town's national forest and didn't have any neighbors for miles.
You'd just finished putting out the last of the decorum when people started trickling in. You had fake spiderwebs strewn in every corner, a smoke machine, and a black light.
You were just thinking about how excited you were for the boys to see you in your glowing slutty nun outfit when the doorbell rang, and as you pulled open your creaky front door, you saw Nick covered in fake blood accompanied by a pair of Ghostfaces, the whites of their masks lit up by the black light. "Look at you!" Nick gasped as you gave them a twirl. Chris and Matt's eyes were immediately drawn to your exposed chest and your bare thighs.
"Please, Mr. Ghostface, don't kill me!" You jokingly shrieked, placing your hands on your cheeks and making a fake surprised face. "You look really good," one of them said to you. "So do you guys," you seductively replied, nibbling on your lower lip and looking at the three of them, but especially Matt and Chris. You had a bit of a thing for masked men.
They shuffled into your house, admiring the way you had decorated. More guests started arriving, and the party started to really take off. Nick started hitting it off with a guy you worked with who was dressed as a skeleton, which left you, Matt, and Chris alone.
"You guys wanna scare Nick tonight?" Matt asked menacingly, tilting his head in his ghostface mask, which had no business being as hot as it was. You bit your lip at him.
Chris could tell you were entranced by the costume. "Like the mask, sweetheart?" Chris asked in a deep, menacingly voice that was strikingly familiar to that of the original Ghostface, taking his 'prop' weapon and running the edge along your cheek, but the metal was sharp and cold. "Shut the fuck up. Oh my god, is that a real knife?" You asked him, staring wide-eyed at it.
"Yeah, why does that scare you? Or do you like it?" Chris said in a spooky voice. You narrowed your eyes at him. "Neither. You guys are so immature. Have fun scaring Nick. I'm gonna go enjoy my party and try to find someone to hook up with. Try not to cut anyone with that thing."
You rolled your eyes at them and pushed past them, trying to hide the effect they were having on you. Both sets of eyes traveled to your ass as you walked away. "Why don't we play a prank on her instead?" Matt inquired. "Yeah, she could use a little loosening up," Chris responded.
You couldn't deny that the way Chris had put that blade up to your cheek while he was dressed like that was having a rather strong effect on you, an effect so strong that you desperately wanted to turn back around, grab them by their solid black robes, and beg them both to rail you while they wore their Ghostface attire.
You'd always found them both attractive, but they were your good friends, and most nights that the sexual thoughts about them creeped into your psyche, you were able to will it away, or something you'd never admit out loud to - sometimes you'd just take care of the aching between your legs really quickly, and the thoughts would usually dissipate on their own, but tonight was different.
You could feel a damp warmth between your thighs as you sauntered off in another direction to greet some of your other friends, but even as you asked them how the party was and tried to get your mind off of the Sturniolo boys, you found yourself peeking over your shoulder, stealing glances at them, and losing your inner battle with yourself to fight off your urges.
It had been so long, and you were so horny.
"I think that guy over there is checking you out," your friend who had animals ears on nudged you and glanced off in the direction of the punch bowl you'd bought earlier. Your eye caught a tall man with zombie makeup on that you didn't recognize grabbing himself a cup of spiked punch, his gaze flicking up at you every few seconds. You thought he was kind of cute.
"Go talk to him," your friend urged you, lovingly squeezing your arm. You took one more glance in the direction of where Matt and Chris had been standing just moments ago, seriously considering trying to pursue one of them instead, but when your eyes scanned over the crowd, you didn't see either one of them. You'd missed your chance.
"Okay, fine," you whispered to your friend, rolling your eyes and working up the courage to approach him. You took a deep breath and headed in his direction.
"Hey, do I know you?" You asked, grabbing yourself a red solo cup and serving yourself some alcoholic punch. "You know, some would say your costume is offensive," he said, ignoring your question and motioning towards your exposed breasts in your very ungodly outfit.
"Then why don't you rip it off of me?" You flirtatiously shot back. He looked unamused with you.
"Hey, so, what's the deal with your friend?" He asked, taking a sip of his drink and his gaze looking past you to where you were previously standing. "Oh, my friend," you said in a slightly disappointed tone, realizing you'd just approached and been very forward with a man who had been interested in the girl standing next to you the whole time.
You started back off in the direction you came from, and your friend glanced over at the embarrassment in your expression. "What happened? Was he a dick to you?" She asked, concern in her eyes while she cradled your face. You could understand why he was looking at her instead of you.
"No, nothing like that. If you think he's cute, you should go talk to him. I'll be right back," you responded, feeling your face get hot. You pushed past a crowd of people to get to the bottom of your staircase, and you hurried up the steps before your tears could fall.
It wasn't so much that you were upset about not getting the guy. You weren't even that interested in him. It was a combination of a few things, really.
It was the humiliation of misreading the situation, the insecurity you felt about not being as pretty as your friends, and the constant self-doubt you had about whether you really were a slut like everyone called you and if any guy would ever want you again because of it.
Through your teary vision, your bedroom door caught your eye. You stopped dead in your tracks, sniffling and wiping away your tears as alarm bells went off in your nervous system.
Your bedroom door was wide open, and you swore you'd shut it before the first few guests had arrived. You walked through the door frame cautiously, overwhelmed by a sensation of having eyes on you, studying your surroundings to see if anything else was out of place.
You shrugged off the feeling of being watched, chalking it up to the fact that it was Halloween, and you had been watching a lot of thriller and horror movies in the couple weeks leading up to your party.
You made your way over to the bathroom sink, setting down your red solo cup on the cold countertop and peering at your reflection in the mirror. You didn't want to spend Halloween night sulking in your bathroom while your two hot best friends were downstairs, strutting around in their sexy Ghostface attire and probably finding other girls to sleep with.
You cleaned off the eyeliner that was smudging on your bottom eyelid, glued the corner of your eyelash back down, and readjusted your breasts in your costume.
After fixing the imperfections with your wardrobe, you decided you weren't going to let the night end without taking a stab at trying to have sex with whichever one of the Sturniolo brothers you saw first, excluding Nick of course. You were done pretending like you weren't completely taken with them.
Your gaze flickered over to the reflection of your partially open closet door in the mirror. Again, you could have sworn you'd left it closed. Filled with dread, you slowly tiptoed out of the bathroom, past your bed, and over to your closet. You rested your hand on the round, metal door knob and slowly pushed it shut.
You realized how ridiculous you were being, rolling your eyes at yourself and letting out a sigh at how jumpy you'd been lately. You turned back around and started to head out of your bedroom when all of a sudden, you heard the sound of the closet door creaking open again.
Before you could spin yourself around and identify the threat, you felt a gloved hand cover your mouth and a cold, sharp blade resting against your neck. "What's your favorite scary movie?" The way his voice came through sounding just like Ghostface had you both scared and turned on.
Your eyes rolled back in your head, and you let out an audible moan against his palm, causing him to pull his hand back. "What was that?" Chris accusingly asked, speaking like himself again. "What the fuck? How do you make your voice sound like that?" You asked in a shaky voice.
He chuckled in your ear, avoiding your inquiry. "Answer me first. What was that sound you just made?" Chris posed the question again. "Nothing. Real funny, Chris. Let me go," you responded.
Another figure appeared in the corner of your eye as Matt walked around in his Ghostface costume, shutting your bedroom door closed. Your heart dropped as you watched him lock it and make his way back over to you. "Let you go? Are you sure you want that?" Matt cooed, running the back of his gloved hand along your cheek and tilting his head down at you. You gulped.
"Is this turning you on?" Chris whispered into your ear. "Gross," you rolled your eyes. "Only one way to find out," Matt menacingly replied. "Why don't you check her, Matt?" Chris smirked under his mask.
Your mouth fell open, and a strangled whimper came through as Matt reached between your legs, lifting up your skirt and slipping his fingers into the waistband of your panties. Immediately, he felt the wetness leak through his glove.
"Oh, she's soaked. Her clit practically has its own heartbeat," Matt relayed to his brother, drawing circles on it with his fingers and talking about you as if you weren't in the room with them. "I bet she'd like it if we took care of that. Don't you think?" Chris wondered, dragging the blade across your collar bone and between your partially exposed breasts.
You couldn't hold back your delighted sounds as they both put their hands on you. It was like a dream come true. Your prayers had been answered. You'd fantasized about them each separately, but the idea of having them both take you on at the same time didn't even seem like an option until now.
"What's turning you on so much? The mask? The knife? The fact that it's me and Matt?" Chris cooed at you, pulling your top down to reveal your tits. He took the knife and started running the sharp edge against your nipples that stiffened at the touch. You immediately shuddered and let out a whimper.
"All of it?" Matt wondered, continuing to play with your pussy that was becoming wetter by the second. "Answer him, slut. What's got you all wet, hmm?" Chris growled into your ear. Of course, it hurt your feelings to be called that, but there was something about the way Chris said it so endearingly that it didn't seem like he was trying to do anything other than turn you on, and it was working.
"Nothing, it's completely unrelated," you lied, biting your lip to hold back another moan, but your attempts failed, and your head fell back against Chris' chest. You felt his hard cock against your backside, and it twitched at the way you struggled to keep yourself composed. "Yeah, mine's unrelated, too," Chris replied sarcastically, staring down at your tits as he continued to tease them with his knife.
You felt Matt's fingers slip into your hole as he started to fuck you with them. "You want us to stop?" Matt asked. You nibbled on your lip and softly shook your head no. "That's what I thought. She's such a little slut," Chris said to his brother. "Don't you know it's always the slut who dies first?" Chris rasped into your ear.
"Oh, she likes that," Matt cooed, feeling your pussy start to throb around his fingers. You tried to hide your reactions, but your body language couldn't keep your secret from the two pairs of Ghostfaces who manhandled you.
"You still never told us your favorite scary movie," Chris pointed out. "Blair Witch Project," you hesitantly answered. "Mmm. That's a scary one. Especially when you live out here," Matt replied. Chris leaned over to Matt and whispered something in his ear that you couldn't quite make out.
"Lay on the fucking bed, slut," Chris responded as they both let you go. "We're gonna go have a little chat in the other room, and you're gonna lay right here and behave," Matt ordered you. "And if you try to run, you're gonna be really sorry," Chris said, waving the knife in your direction.
They both disappeared behind your bathroom door. You heard the sound of Chris and Matt arguing behind the wooden barrier about who was going to have their way with you first, but you had another idea.
When they both emerged from the bathroom, you were gone, and on your nightstand was a note that read: "come find me in the woods, mr. ghostface. xoxo, your prey" with a heart drawn below the lettering.
"Oh, that sneaky bitch thinks she can be in charge of her own fate. We're gonna have fun with her tonight," Chris told Matt as he picked up the note.
They both disappeared out of the room, down the stairs, and out the backdoor towards the dense treeline behind your house with a flashlight Matt had snagged off your kitchen counter.
All they had to do was listen quietly for a few minutes beneath the blanket of stars and clouds, and then they heard you, crushing twigs and leaves under your weight as you tried to stealthily make your way through the forest.
All of a sudden, you were lit up by the flashlight Matt held in hands. "Gotcha," he said in a menacing voice. You froze and stared at them both, unable to move a muscle. "Think you're so slick, huh?" Chris asked in a low, sexy rasp.
"You know what would make this so much more fun? If she had to guess who's who while we take turns fucking her," Matt suggested, taking a few steps towards you. "And if she guesses wrong, we'll make her bleed," Chris laughed, closing in on you as well.
You'd never seen this side of the two brothers, but it excited you more than you were willing to admit.
You started slowly walking backward until you backed into a tree, and you swallowed hard as you felt its rough trunk under your palms, realizing you didn't have anywhere to go.
"Please, Mr. Ghostface. Spare me!" You whined, but you couldn't hold back your smirk as Matt pulled the knife out of his robe and cut your costume from your body. You gasped as the fabric fell the floor in front of your feet. You'd never imagined your night would go like this. In fact, this was hotter than anything you could have ever dreamt up.
"We told you that you'd regret running." It was that same ominous, threatening, and sexy voice that Chris had used earlier in the night, so that must have been him. "I thought we told you to behave," said the other, sounding just like the first one. Fuck, you thought.
You watched as the boy with the knife started to cut a hole in his robe, and your eyes widened, and your jaw fell open as you realized what he was doing. You watched as his dick poked through the black fabric, staring you down. He handed off the knife to his brother.
"Since you like to run, one of us is going to have to hold you still," the second one said pinning your wrists above your head with one hand with the other, he held the blade up in front of your face. You saw yourself in the reflection of the sharp metal accompanied by the man in the Ghostface mask beside you, and it sent goosebumps across your flesh.
He closed the distance between the weapon and your breasts, and he started tracing your nipples again with the knife's edge. Your chest rose and fell as your breath quickened. You peered at the boy who was settling between your legs, grabbing ahold of his big, veiny cock with his gloved hand as he started pumping it back and forth a few times, making sure it had reached its full potential.
He hiked up your leg, wrapped your thigh around his waist, and pulled your panties to the side before sinking it into your heat and stretching you out. "So tight," he groaned deeply, feeling the way you gripped his dick. You let out a few loud moans as you adjusted to his size, taking every inch of him.
"That's it. Take it like the slut you are," he gruffed, picking up the pace and wrapping his gloved fingers around your neck. "Like that?" The boy who was holding your wrists cooed as he dragged the sharp object across to your other peak.
You loved the way both Ghostface masks reflected your fear back at you as well as your pleasure, their empty eyes, and their contorted mouths, taunting you. You glanced back at the brother who was between your legs, focusing on his thrusts. His fast and powerful thrusts.
Every time he bottomed out in you, a desperate mewl escaped your lips, filling the atmosphere. The masked man started to mimick the sounds that poured from your mouth while his brother fucked you, and you adored every second of it.
You loved the way they were feeding your sick fantasies, holding you at knife point, wearing their sexy costumes, and fucking you dumb while they degraded you. Your sounds became louder, more urgent, and less inhibited. You could feel the intensity building.
"Scream for me, bitch," the man between your legs chuckled. His mean words, his hand around your throat, the movement of his hips, and the cold, sharp metal dancing across your skin were enough to cause you to snap.
You hit the point of no return, clenching around the mystery man's rod, sending him to the same fate shortly after. You could feel his twitching cock filling you up as your orgasm took its course, the two of you moaning in unison while you finished together. Your legs grew weak as you came.
"Oh my god, Chris. Matt. Whoever you are," you breathlessly panted. You thought for sure you'd be able to tell them apart by now, but you had no idea, and you found it all the more enticing.
"Such a good girl for me," he cooed, slowing down his thrusts, pulling out, and watching his seed flow out of you. He stared down in awe at the mess he made, taking in the sight and savoring it while his breathing pattern returned to normal.
"I've been waiting for this," the boy to your left said as he switched places with his brother. He took the knife, hooking it into your panties and slicing the delicate material, watching the fabric fall to the ground and revealing your pretty pussy to him.
Then he cut a hole in his robe like his brother had done, and you peered down at his gorgeous cock poking through the tear in the material.
He roughly pried open your legs, guiding them open with the blade. He dug into the inside of your right thigh with his gloved hand and rested the knife on your lower stomach. You couldn't keep yourself from admiring his big, throbbing dick, and you sharply inhaled as you felt him slip his tip into your entrance.
"Oh, fuck," he moaned as he bucked his hips forward, his entire length vanisihing into your tight hole. Your eyes flicked back up to his Ghostface attire, taking in the incredible view of being fucked by a man in such a sexy mask.
The man beside you restrained your wrists, pinning them above your head again. "Alright. Time to guess. Who am I?" The boy beside you asked in his creepy Ghostface voice, tilting his head at you as he tightened his grip. You innocently peered up at his mask, searching for some kind of hint in his demeanor.
"Chris, is that you?" You asked uncertaintly. "Wrong. Remember what happens when you guess wrong?" Matt cooed, running his gloved finger along the underside of your chin. Your eyes were glazing over, your lips fell open, and your cheeks were flushed.
Chris applied more pressure to the knife, running the blade along your lower stomach and drawing blood. You let out a satisfied whine as you felt the release of the knife cutting you. The warm, sticky red fluid glistened in the moonlight as it slowly dripped down your abdomen.
"So pretty," Matt whispered, brushing your messy hair out of your face and his eyes dancing between your desperate expression and the way the blood looked so beautiful on your skin. Moans began pouring from you again as Chris fucked you senseless up against the tree.
"Please, Mr. Ghostface. Harder," you begged, your eyes lazily rolling back into your head as your breasts bounced to the cadence of his thrusts. "Cock dumb little slut," Chris menacingly chuckled at your pathetic pleading, but he still gave you what you so enthusiastically craved, relishing in your desperation for him.
You loved feeling helpless and giving yourself over so willingly to both brothers as they used you for their own pleasure. Your whimpers became louder and fuller as you neared your tipping point again.
"Harder," you cried out again before your orgasm took over. Your gaze danced between both of their masks, and your pussy started rhythmically throbbing around Chris' cock as he delivered a few more monumental strokes. You felt a wonderful, relieved feeling in the pit of your stomach as you came unraveled under the control of both boys.
Your brows pinched together, your knees weakened, and your stare began to lose its focus until you couldn't concentrate on anything except for the pure pleasure and ecstasy coursing through you. You were pumped full of Chris' cum as his cock twitched inside of you, and as you came down from your intense adrenaline rush, you felt all your muscles relax.
Both men chuckled, removing their masks and revealing their identities to you. Sure enough, you had guessed wrong. Chris leaned in and chuckled into your ear.
"Don't worry, sweetheart. You may have guessed wrong, but we're going to spare you. You're worth way more to us alive than dead."
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Angel of Music (18+)
⥠Pairing: Phantom!Minho x Opera Singer Fem!Reader
⥠Genre: phantom of the opera inspired au, horror themes, dark romance, age gap, smut, dead dove? read the warnings carefully and come to ur own conclusion on what you're willing to read before engaging pls :'), the ending is also a lil dark, sorry!
⥠Word Count: 5.8k
⥠Summary: A phantom exists in the opera houseâ he controls every production from the shadows, lurks around every dark corner, always watching. In your dreams exists an angelâ a guardian that sings to you, guides you, and comforts you. When The Phantom appears before you in your dressing room mirror, you begin to realize that he and your angel may be one in the same.
⥠General Warnings: slightly less extreme age gap than the source material that inspires this fic but it's still fairly large (reader is ~mid 20s and minho is ~40), briefly described attempted murder of minor characters, implications of stalking, hypnotism, hallucinations + doubts of reality, so much usage of the words "phantom" and "angel" it's not even funny, this fic is not an accurate representation of how hypnotism works irl but it's fiction so i'm taking liberties!
⥠Smut Warnings: dubcon (due to reader being hypnotized), additionally to not being in their proper state of mind, there are also moments in which reader does not feel to be in full control of their body, light dom/sub dynamics, soft pleasure dom!minho because i want more of him !!, mask kink (does it still count if the mask doesn't cover his whole face?? idk i hope so!), some biting, oral (f rec), overstim, multiple orgasms
⥠Notes: i've known for ages that i wanted to write a phantom!minho fic, and my kinktober series gave me the perfect reason to finally write it! also the fact that both my uploaded minho fics are age gap romances?? that was not intentional i swear lmao
⥠Disclaimer: please read responsibly, and remember that this work is fiction and meant strictly for imaginative fun. the idols used in fics are more accurately faceclaims and personality outlines for imaginary characters, and should not be interpreted as factual representations of existing people.
All inhabitants of the opera house have been on edge these daysâ consequence of the new owners of the Opera Populaire, who decided to disregard all of The Phantom's demands.
The Phantom, as the name suggests, is a ghost story of sorts. According to your castmates, he has been here since long before you joined the Opera Populaire's trainees last year, but his activity has begun to increase since your arrival.
He controls all in the opera house, and his demands of the previous owner were always quite simple; perform what shows he instructs you to, follow his casting down to the letter, and keep the seats in Box Five free at all times. Evidentially, Box Five is his favorite place to watch the shows fromâ and sometimes, his dark silhouette can be spotted in the shadows of the booth, indiscernible but unmistakably there.
No one has ever truly seen The Phantom beyond a shadow, nor have they heard him speak. He communicates with notes, always left within feet of the recipient without anyone having seen him come or go. His notes will even appear in broad daylight, with not a single person having caught a glimpse of him despite all the eyes in the room.
Well, more accurately, no one has seen him apart from the Madameâ an older woman who used to be a performer for the Opera Populaire herself, but has taken the role of choreographer since her retirement from the stage. In the 15 years it's been since The Phantom made his presence known to the opera house, she's the only one who's ever seen him, or heard his voice.
A brief encounter, she explained when asked about itâ had barely seen him for more than a few passing moments. He spoke little, but the beauty of his voice was striking, completely unlike any other sheâd ever heard. And all he asked of her, in that fleeting moment, was to remember that the Opera Populaire is his homeâ and as long as the inhabitants respect him, he'll respect them in turn.
The previous director, the Madame, and The Phantom all had a mutual understanding of what was to be done. As long as they listened to him, shows would go off without a hitch; but refuse, and there'd be dire consequences. As such, the Madame has been doing her best to express the importance of listening to The Phantom to the new owners.
The Monsieurs view it as no more than silly superstitionâ every opera house has their own beliefs and customs, things they consider good and bad luck before a show, things they view as omens of a show's future success. The Phantom is simply one of those thingsâ and with a guiding hand, they can dispel such superstitions, show the cast and crew that there is no shadowy phantom to fear.
The first note left for the Monsieurs went disregardedâ a barking laugh leaving the elder of the two before he tossed it in the bin. The instructions on the note were clear enoughâ you were to take the role of Eurydice in the opera house's production of Orpheus and Eurydice, and not Carlotta, as they originally casted.
You were just as baffled as everyone else to learn that The Phantom wanted you to take such an important roleâ you'd only been here a year, were still so new to your opera training. It's true enough that you have a good voice, and your dancing has improved with all your diligent practice, but you're still young, and the tragic role of Eurydice is not so easily performed.
Natural talent for bringing emotion to performance aside, you lack stage experienceâ experience that you can easily gain from background roles. To make you such a crucial stand-out role after only a year of training was simply unheard ofâ no opera house would do it!
This is to be your first production, your first time on stage in front of an audience; and so regardless of what The Phantom wants, Monsieur Reyer opted to keep you strictly in the supporting chorus roles, where you would go from shepherdess, to nymph, to spirit as the acts progressed. Not a glamorous, shining position in the cast by any means, but more than enough to help familiarize you with the reality of performing with hundreds of eyes watching.
It wouldn't take long for The Phantom to make his displeasure with the decision known. And what started off as just small accidents and stage mishaps quickly turned violent and dangerous as each week passed with you still not given the role that The Phantom felt you deserved to have.
The first violent turn came during rehearsals for Act 3, right in the middle of Eurydice's climactic aria, when the chandelier above the stage came crashing down. Carlotta was standing directly beneath it just before it fell, and it narrowly missed herâ purely because she happened to take a few steps forward whilst singing.
âAn unfortunate accident,â the Monsieurs said, âit had nothing to do with The Phantom!â But the veterans of the opera house knew betterâ and the conductor swore he saw a dark shadow on the scaffolds just before the chandelier fell; a shadow that could belong to none other than The Phantom.
Carlotta screamed as it crashed just mere inches away from her, right where she's just been standing, and cried as everyone rushed to her side to ensure that she was unharmed. Again, the Madame tried to persuade them to heed The Phantom before another such âaccidentâ occurred.
"Good God in Heaven, you're all obsessed! These things just happen sometimesâ there is no phantom!" Reyer cried in exasperation over everyone's insistence, still unwilling to give in to the idea that the opera house's ghost was real.
And tonight, just after rehearsals came to a close, another terrible stage accident occurredâ this time happening to Monsieur Reyer himself. He was up on the scaffolding when it happened, making sure all the stagehands properly rigged the lights in preparation for tomorrow night's premiere of Orpheus and Eurydice.
He was bent down, inspecting the bulbs and wires, when a dark figure appeared behind him. The shadow wrapped a noose around his neck faster than anyone could even react, pushed him off the scaffolding before swiftly retreating back to the shadows.
Reyer almost didn't surviveâ he was lucky that the nearby stagehands were quick on their feet and in their wits, managing to grab his arms and pull him up while another cut the rope that served to hang the poor man. And as if the message from the accidents alone weren't clear enough, another note was left behind right in the middle of the stage.
It was astounding, really, that not a single person saw The Phantom leave the note behindâ and while some could argue that it was because all eyes were on Reyer, or because the stage became chaos as they worked to save him, the Monsieurs realized that maybe they should start to believe that there really is a ghost inhabiting the Opera Populaire.
The moment the note was noticed, the Madame picked it up, and read it aloud for all to hear. "Again, I remind you that Y/N will play the role of Eurydice. As I instruct, Box Five shall remain open for my use. These seats will not be used by another. This is my final warningâ disregard at your own risk."
Realizing they had no choice, lest they wish to continue putting themselves and other cast and crew in danger, the Monsieurs begrudgingly declared you the new Eurydice, right then and there.
Given that you're at every rehearsal, you know Eurydice's lines by heart, and are confident that you can sing them wellâ but still, you're nervous. It's your first production, the premiere is sold out, is set for tomorrow night, and suddenly you're in one of the most pivotal roles in the entire opera.
You don't even understand why The Phantom is so adamant about giving the role to you; what is it about you that he likes, what is it that he sees in you? You wish you could ask the Madame, but she met him so fleetingly, and so many years agoâ she has no way of knowing The Phantom's heart beyond an educated guess.
Sitting before your dressing room mirror, you sigh, utterly exhaustedâ now that you're Eurydice, it was vital that you do a last minute costume fitting and makeup test. As such, you've been in the opera house hours past the time you'd normally be here. The moon hangs high in the sky now, you're sure; you wonder if you should just spend the night here, sleep in the dressing room instead of making a late trek home.
Regardless, you hope your angel comes to you tonight. You know no one would believe you if you told them, but you really do have a guardian angel; and in your dreams, he comes to youâ always when you are most lost and in need of guidance. He's a gentle, calming presence; always comforts you, talks to you sweetly when you're filled with self doubt, sings to you in the most beautiful of voices.
You've never actually seen your angel clearlyâ only heard his voice calling your name and whispering, singing, in a way that could only be described as angelic in its serenity. In your dreams, he's nothing but a vague, blurry imageâ even at his most clear, you can't define any of his features.
Still, you think of him fondlyâ and you suspect that as an angel, you aren't meant to be able to fully perceive him. And your angel always, always, knows when you need himâ you suspect that even now, he's waiting; waiting for the moment you fall asleep, so that he can come to your side.
You look at yourself, still dressed as Eurydice. A beautiful, off shoulder bateau gown in the prettiest, purest ivory. There's lace appliques throughout the gown, has a beautiful cinched bodice before the tulle skirt fluffs out. It's elegant, makes you feel like a bride waiting to walk down the aisle.
Your makeup shimmersâ extra glitter applied on your eyelids to make sure the stage lights catch it. Your jewelry too, is extravagantâ made to sparkle and shine every time a light shines on you, to twinkle with each subtle move you make. It's a shame you have to take it all off just to put it all back on tomorrowâ but the effort to make sure everything fits you was necessary.
You reach your hands up to one of your ears, prepare to remove one of your dangling earrings when you hear a voice you know all too well call your nameâ your angel's voice.
You look around the room, bewildered, but see nothing and no one. And surely you were mistakenâ you're still awake! Your angel only comes to you in dreams, and you haven't fallen asleep... right? You are still awake, aren't you?
Again, you hear his voice, another whisper of your name. You rise from your chair, look around the room once moreâ no one. You turn back to the dressing room mirror, and jump in surprise, realizing that the view reflected in it has changed. You no longer see yourself, or the reflection of the dressing room around youâ instead, you see a man.
He looks just as the Madame described her memory of The Phantomâ dark hair, and even darker eyes, with a white mask that covers the right half of his face. Not completelyâ just from his hairline, down to his pretty, plump lips. Every inch of his skin is covered, head to toe, all of his clothes pure black apart from the ornate red vest.
Sleek boots and dark trousers, a tall collar that obscures most of his neck, long sleeves that cover his arms, even gloves covering his hands. He wears a cape, long and as dark as the rest of his clothes, and it blows behind him as if thereâs a breeze rolling through.
Youâre confused, a little frightened, but you canât tear your eyes away or will yourself to fleeâ and as the figure speaks your name, you gasp; he truly has the voice of your angel. But heâs The Phantom, isnât he?Â
The blurry, vague scenery behind him begins to sharpen, coming more distinctly visible to your uncertain eyes. A dark corridor full of candelabra, glowing in dull yellows and shades of orange, held by incorporeal hands with no discernable origin.
What little of your dressing room you see in your peripheral shifts and warps as you stare at him, blur together into dark shadows as the table holding your hairbrush and makeup begin to fade and disappear, leaving the view through the mirror as the only thing you can see.
The figureâ your angel, The Phantom?â holds his hand out to you through the mirror, as if the glass that should separate you no longer exists; perhaps it doesn't. Smokeâ or maybe fog, mist? you can't be certainâ pours into the room as you approach the mirror.
As if under a spell, you reach out to take his hand, thinking not of logic as you follow the beckoning call of your name. Your angel; you trust your angel. He smiles as you place your hand in his, and carefully, you step through the mirror, into the corridor.
Entranced, you stare at him; even with half a mask covering his face, he's utterly beautiful. He appears to be older than you, hints of fine lines beholden around his mouth and eyes, and even that adds to his mysterious charm. He holds your gaze as he takes a step back, a candelabra in his hand now, beckoning you to follow him down the corridor.
You squeeze his hand as you follow, and finally he turns around, walks with purpose as he guides you, glancing behind every so often to look at you in what you think to be adoration. You too, glance behindâ and where the mirror once stood is now a desolate, barren wall.
You do not see any hint of your dressing room, or of the mirror you stepped through. And as you continue further down the corridor, the candelabra that were once behind you slowly begin to blink out and vanish from sight, leaving only pitch black darkness behind. A spiral staircase made of stone manifests, and you descend it, hand in hand with your angel.
You're so enchanted and bewildered, you can't seem to find your voiceâ all you can do is follow, let him guide you along to where it is he wants you to be. Even the staircase dissipates when you've finished descending, and for just a moment, you wonderâ is any of this truly real?
Finally, you stand in the middle of a beautiful room, lit candles both resting in more candelabra and strewn about the floor, with dark, intricately woven tapestries hanging from the stone walls. Thereâs a grand piano, sleek black with gold accents, with even more candles resting atop it, as well as a sheet of music sitting pristine on the music desk, black ink seemingly freshly dried, just waiting to be played.Â
There are several mirrors, though only one remains uncoveredâ the rest are obscured by cloth, for reasons you do not know. There is a bed, in what you suppose would be called a âcornerâ in this otherwise circular space, inviting and plush in its appearance, with blankets colored a rich red. Naturally, candles surround the bed as well, covering it in a beautifully soft, yellow-orange glow.Â
âWhere are we?â you finally find your voice to ask, and the man smiles as he beckons you to follow him towards his bed. âWe are home,â he replies, and though itâs a strange answer, you feel you understandâ yes, you are home. This is home.Â
You gaze at him curiously after you sit on the bed, just as comfortable as you expected it to be, and he mimics the way youâve tilted your head at him. âYouâre.. My angel, arenât you? Or are you The Phantom?â you ask, and the man laughs ever so softly, melodious and beautiful.Â
âI am Minho,â he responds, as if that alone is a sufficient enough answerâ in a way, you suppose it is. What else is there to know? He is Minho. That is enough.
âI have longed to touch you, to bring you here,â Minho whispers as he reaches one of his gloved hands to your face, strokes your cheek slowly, gently. The sensation, though simple, feels so tenderâ it sparks something inside you, fills you with a warmth youâve never felt before. You close your eyes, bask in the comfort his touch provides you.Â
You feel his hand move, travel down until his fingers are under your chin. He tilts your head up, and you open your eyes to see him gazing down at you warmly. âYou are so beautiful,â he whispers, speaking to you as gently as he always does. Heâs said it before, in your dreamsâ that you are beautiful, talented, deserving of all you wish to have.
He never lets you linger on self-doubt, never allows you to think you are lesser than someone else, or undeserving of the opportunities youâve been granted. Your angel knows youâ you think heâs appearing to you now, like this, because he knows you are uncertain of playing Eurydice; he must think that he needs to remind you of just how special you are.Â
All of your doubts about tomorrowâs premiereâ he will dispel them from your mind, as he always does. He kneels before you, gazing at you carefully as he inches closer to you, his hands softly rubbing over your shoulders and down your arms. His attentive stare as he caresses you makes you breathing quicken, your heart starting to pick up speed.
âDo you trust me?â Minho asks suddenly, and with not an ounce of hesitation, you nod. Youâve no reason not to trust himâ in the year it's been since your angel first appeared to you, youâve always trusted him. There is no one else that makes you feel so secure, so at peace, so.. Loved, cared for. Yes, your angel, Minho, loves you, cares for you like no other. You trust him.Â
âI wish to clear your mind of worry and doubtâ to make you think only of me, and the music we can make together. I wish to touch you, to kiss you, to hold you," he says, and oh, he knows he shouldnât be pouring his heart out like this, for itâs too soon, much too soon. But heâs been enamored with you since the first moment you stepped into the Opera Populaire, has been infatuated with you since first hearing the passion in your voice.
He canât help it, it seemsâ now that he has you here, in his lair, his defenses falter, all of his desires pouring out of him. To have you here, and to touch you like this, even so simplyâ itâs everything heâs wanted. And instantly, unconsciously, you reach out to him. Your angel sees you, knows youâ you wish to know him too, to understand him the way he does you.
Your mind is somehow as clear as it is hazyâ clear, because you know what it is that you want. Regardless of who he is, what he is, you want Minho to have you. Anything he wants, you feel compelled to give, as if itâs all you know; and in this moment, perhaps it is. In the very back reaches of your addled mind, a reminder blaresâ The Phantom always gets what he wants.Â
And what he wants now, most of all, is you; and despite what logic may tell you to feel, you trust him to have you. He sees all that you feel in your expression alone, knows all that you think as if heâs seen into the depths of your mind. Even now, perhaps more than ever before, he sees you.Â
Sees all that you are, and all that you wantâ and a charming smile plays on his lips as you gaze at him with wanton desire to let him take you. To let him have, to give yourself overâ you wish to offer yourself wholly to your angelâs desires.
Your eyes flutter closed as he kisses you, a soft press that you could almost call chaste, his hands slowly moving over your body, each soft touch lingering. You donât feel his gloves anymore, you realizeâ did he take them off without you noticing? You suppose it doesnât matterâ his hands are warm, a bit rough and calloused against the soft skin of your arms, and you like it.
Even as his kisses become less chaste, deepen as his hands travel to your hips, they remain slow and purposeful. His hands eventually find the bottom of your dress, begin to lift it ever so slowly up your thighsâ not to expose you, but so that he can slot himself between your legs. Somehow, innately, you understand thisâ and easily, you spread your legs for him, allowing him to find his place between them.
His arms wrap around you after, pulling you closer, pressing your body to his. Your chest is rising and falling rapidly by the time he pulls away, breathless as you look to him with eager, impassioned eyesâ a gaze that heats his otherwise cold heart. You reach up, bring your hands to his face; he nearly flinches when you touch his mask, though he knows you mean no harm.Â
Minho feels himself ugly under his maskâ too scarred and disfigured to be appealing to you in any regard; at least like this, with only the good parts of his face on display, you may find him handsome. Your touch is as soft as your gaze, and though perhaps you should, you make no move to remove his mask; you simply rub your thumb over the cold porcelain.
Itâs a vulnerable thing, reallyâ how softly you touch his ugliest spots. It doesnât matter that you canât see them from beneath his maskâ the tender regard you seem to feel for him, even without having seen the scars that mar him, is more than enough. Itâs ironic, in a way, that you seem to think heâs an angel; in reality, the only angel in this room is you.Â
âI want to please you, if you'll let me,â he breathes as his fingertips ghost over your thighs. It makes your breath hitch, blinking at him slowly as you process his intent. There is much your angel wantsâ but chasing the pleasure of his own flesh isnât one of those things. He doesnât need it to feel satisfied; your pleasure will more than suffice him.
His dark eyes bore into yours as he awaits your answer, can tell from his wanting gaze how serious he is about pleasing you, and it makes your cheeks slowly bloom with heat. And itâs not just what he wantsâ itâs what he needs, really; when you surrender yourself to him, he wants it to be for your pleasure, not his own.Â
âOh, pleaseâ touch me,â you answer, pleadâ because something from deep inside you screams for it, wanting it beyond all comprehension. Your darkest, most innate desires manifest for him; desires that you didnât even fully realize you had. They possess you, drive you to kiss him again, urgent and passionate.Â
Minho returns your kiss with equal fervor, lets his tongue slip past his lips to meet yours. They share a dance, swirl around each other until youâre breathless again; and then heâs guiding you back, urging you to lay down as he hovers over you. He pulls the skirt of your dress further up your body, until your thighs are entirely exposed and he can see your dampening panties.Â
He lowers himself to you, but doesnât go immediately where you expect him tooâ he takes his time trailing wet, lingering kisses over your thighs instead. Your inner thighs are sensitive, ticklish, and you canât help but squirm from each kiss he grants you.
You also canât help but jolt each time the cool porcelain of his mask presses against the hot skin of your thigh, and again when he carefully sinks his teeth into your pliant flesh. He doesn't do it hard enough to hurt, or even fully leave indents of his teeth behindâ just enough to leave you panting and squirmy; and he lets out a soft, airy laugh every time he succeeds in the endeavor.Â
Your bunched up skirt is so full that you can hardly even watch him work you up; but there are times, while kissing and biting over your trembling thighs, that he lifts his head just enough to let you catch his gaze. It makes your heart skip a beat, butterflies dancing in your stomach every time he locks eyes with you while kissing around where you need him most.
You reach a point where youâre no longer squirming because his attention tickles, but because youâre becoming desperate, impatient; and the way he stares at you as he does it all doesn't help in the slightest. âMinho, please,â you whine, shameless; and you can feel him smile against your skin before he lifts himself up from his place between your legs.Â
âNeedy are we, angel?â he asks, grinning as you pout and nod. âNeed you,â you mumble, but he hears you loud and clear; heâs attuned to you, your angel is. He lowers himself between your thighs once more, kisses your pussy over your pantiesâ and itâs not quite what you need, but itâs enough to have you gasping and quivering.Â
Again, he takes his time, as if not a single ounce of urgency resides within him. And make no mistake, it doesâ but Minho knows how to restrain himself. Heâs a stubborn man, that is certainly true, but heâs also perfectly in control of himself; for now, anyways.Â
And he likes the way you whine for him when you feel his tongue lick you up over the fabric of your panties. Itâs not a full enough feeling for you, or a full enough taste of your pussy for him, but the desperate, whiny sounds it draws out of you are delicious enough to satisfy him. Â
Still, while heâs enjoying the way his soft kisses and kitten licks over your panties is making you writhe and cry for him, he also canât deny how badly he wants to finally taste you directly on his tongue. Heâs been patient enough, he thinks, and so have youâ why not indulge just a little sooner than planned?
In contrast to how sweetly heâs treated you up to this point, heâs quick to tear your panties away from your body. The sound of the fabric ripping makes you gasp, and maybe later heâll apologizeâ but for now, lapping his tongue between your folds is of more importance. You moan when his tongue finally meets your bare pussy, as does Minhoâ and despite the hunger that he feels, he continues to lick you over slowly.Â
The languid pace makes you crazyâ you want more, so much more, but your angel has been waiting for this; he needs to take his time with you, needs to embed the taste of your dripping sex on his tongue, needs to make sure itâs something heâll never be able to forget. And he isnât trying to tease you by keeping the slow paceâ well, maybe he is a little; he does enjoy it, after allâ but heâs sincerely craved this for too long to let the moment quickly pass him by.Â
He brings his hands to your thighs, squeezing them in his hands and preventing you from closing them around his head. Youâre sure itâs partly so he can keep you spread out for him, to keep enjoying the easy access to your pussy, but itâs also so that your trembling thighs donât cause his mask to shift, and fall from his face.Â
You gasp when the cool, smooth and rigid porcelain covering the right side of his nose bumps your clit as he shoves his tongue into your hole. And while he isnât purposely trying to get you to cum just yet, his slow but diligent ministrations are getting you there regardlessâ with his tongue dipping in and out of your heat, always pushing in as deep as he can make it go, and his mask-covered nose nudging your clit.Â
You let your head fall back against the bed, your every high pitched whimper and moan echoing off the stone walls surrounding you. You try to tell him youâre going to cum, but you fail miserablyâ all that leaves you is a quick succession of whines before your eyes are rolling, back bowing off the bed as release on his tongue. Minho moans with you, hums happily as he licks the mess from your pussy like the cat that got the cream.Â
He laves over your clit when heâs done licking up your cumâ and it's sensitive, swollen from your orgasm; but that doesnât stop him from swirling his tongue around it, and positively knocking the air from your lungs. The sensation is overwhelming, he knows it is even without you telling him, but itâs still so good that you donât want to squirm away, or ask him to stopâ or perhaps you canât.Â
You get the distinct feeling that even if you tried, your limbs would resist, would fight to keep you in placeâ despite your best efforts, you would remain just as you are now. Spread open and trembling, exactly how Minho wants you. âYou make the prettiest music, angel,â he separates from you long enough to speak, âwant you to keep singing for me.â
And sing for him you do when he dives back in, flicks your clit with his tongue a few times before wrapping his lips around it, sucking it like a piece of hard candy. Your moans, the smacking sounds of his lips, the way he hums when he returns to your hole to collect the creamâ itâs an orchestra, just for the two of you.
You cum again in record time, of course you do. Minho finds it cute, the way you incoherently babble away as you let go for him again. And he isnât done just because you came againâ no, heâs far from finished with your pussy. He doesnât tire in the slightest, ceaseless in the way he lavishes with you his tongue and suckles with his pretty, perfect lips.Â
When you cum for the third time, you donât even know if you truly ever stop cumming at allâ the pleasure just keeps coming in waves, never fully receding before it builds again, washing over you like a tsunami before it all repeats. You writhe and twist, back repeatedly bowing off his bed before falling back, but your thighs stay spread for him, even when his hands stop holding them down.Â
His hands have found their way beneath you, cupping and squeezing your ass as he eats away. Your hips wriggle, and he helps grind you up against his face, moaning and humming all the while. Itâs too much and not enough all at once; your body screams that it canât take it, and yet your mind screams that it needs more, and God, you canât think straightâ but is there any point in this night that you were?
Youâre hot and heaving, sweat dripping from your brow as you tremble and bend. Minho is hot too, of courseâ his hair sticking to his forehead with sweat, his face red from his cheeks to his ears, and even down his neck. And were you not so far gone, youâd have noticed that his mask has shifted and fallen from his face.Â
It was because of you, tooâ when another high took you and tugged on his hair hard, crying as your hips jolted and bucked against his face. He shouldâve swiftly put it back on, lest you see his scars, but he didnâtâ he just shoved it aside, against his better judgment, so he could keep licking you up without interruption.Â
You feel positively delirious by the time heâs finished, eyes heavy and bleary, body utterly limp and boneless. He crawls his way up to you, and your gaze is unfocused, blurry; you can hardly distinguish his features anymoreâ similar to the way he always appeared in your dreams before now.
Regardless, you smile at him before you close your eyes; a weak, but content one that Minho finds oh so endearing. Youâre beyond fatigued, but also feel an unmatched sense of elation as your angel strokes your head and whispers sweet nothings for you to fall asleep to. âYou belong to me now,â you hear him say, just before you drift offâ and you know itâs true.Â
You think, perhaps, youâve always belonged to him. From the very first moment Minho saw you, he knew he was never going to let you go. And just as Orpheus had done for Eurydice, heâd gladly walk into the depths of Hades itself if thatâs what it took to keep you by his side.Â
He gently caresses your cheek as you fall into a deeper sleep, presses a soft kiss to your lips and whispers a final soft utterance of love before he covers you with a blanket, and your mind goes completely dark for the night.Â
You wake the next day with a struggleâ at least, you think itâs the next day; itâs too dark in the room youâre in to tell for certain. You reach out for Minho, but donât feel him anywhereâ and as you sit up, and your eyes adjust to the darkness, you realize that you are alone. Your brows furrow as you look around; youâre still in his room, but it doesnât look quite the same.Â
There are no candles, not on the floor or in the candelabra that now lie empty. The tapestries adorning the walls are torn and dulled in color, the piano dusty and the gold decorating it chipped. The sheet of music that sits on the pianoâs music desk, that last night looked so fresh and pristine, now appears weathered and yellowed.
As you grab the blanket to pull it off you, you realize it isn't a blanket at all that is covering you, but a capeâ Minhoâs cape. And on the bed, just an armâs reach away from you lies a noteâ the same kind that The Phantom always leaves behind inside the Opera Populaire.
Your hand trembles as you pick it up, eyes straining to read it in the darkness. The message he leaves behind, when your eyes focus on the words well enough to read them, is quite simple. âTo my beloved and beautiful Eurydice; welcome home.â
#skz x reader#lee know x reader#skz smut#lee know smut#skz fanfic#lee know fanfic#skz imagines#skz scenarios#mdni + divider graphic credit: @cafekitsune#don't ask me how many times i listened to the poto soundtrack while writing and editing this#the answer is obscene (several hours)
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Roadkill
Old! Logan gets hit by a car right outside your apartment, and since his healing isnât as fast as it use to be he begrudgingly agrees to let you take care of him for the time beingÂ
Word Count: 3009Â
Tags: Old!Logan x Reader, Logan Howlett x Reader, Wolverine x Reader, Fem!Reader, age gap (obviously), kinda pervy logan, blood, description of injuries / mild gore, Car accident, wound dressing, alcohol consumption, bed sharing, P in V, Fingering, Some dirty talk, creampieÂ
AN: Okay so I did a poll about what you guys would want next, and a "Funny Old Logan" fic won... so like the concept is the funny part (at least to me), But I tried to make it rather light hearted because I hope it wasnât a misleading poll choice. Maybe the length of it will make you forgive me for my poor sense of humorÂ
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It was rather late at night, your street barely illuminated by the poorly maintained street lamps. You sat by your window, watching the empty street. The autumn air wispy through the trees, dead leaves skittering across the concrete. You liked looking outside at this time of night, reminding yourself of how quiet and peaceful things can be.Â
An older man was walking along the edge of the sidewalk, his head hung down, his gait slow and particular. You were surprised to see someone out walking at this time, but thought it not too unusual. As he began to walk along the curve of the road, as if materializing from thin air, a black vehicle sped around the curve, colliding with the man and sending him falling over into the pavement, the screech of tires, the sound of impact. You could hardly think as you rushed down the stairs and out the door.Â
The vehicle had disappeared much like it had appeared, and the man lay unmoving on the cold concrete. There was a small puddle of blood forming beneath him.Â
âAre you alright? Iâll call 911.â You shouted as you approached him, holding out your hand.
âDonât,â He groaned, pushing himself over so that he was laid on his back. The blood was seeping through his shirt around his abdomen, but it seemed not to bother him. âIâll just be on my way.âÂ
He breathed heavily, trying to stand from the ground. Cursing to himself. He couldnât seem to sit up.
âHere, let me help you.â You leaned down and helped him to his feet. He winced in pain as he tried to stand up straight. Looking at you in a peculiar way, as if he had never expected kindness from a stranger. You were young, and bright, and despite the suddenness and seeming severity of his situation, came rushing in to help. Great contrast to his old, dark, and brooding disposition. âAre you sure you donât want 911? If your worried about ambulance costs I could always drive you to the hospital.â
He tried to laugh, but ended up coughing and a splatter of blood spewed from his mouth. âDonât worry about me, Iâll be fine. Just need some rest.â
âWhy donât you come inside, Iâll help you,â You gestured towards your building, the window of your apartment the only one light up in the night.
âReally, itâs no big deal-â He started, only for a little more blood to dribble from his mouth, he wiped it away with his hand and before he could protest any further, you slowly led him up to your apartment. Careful not to take the stairs too fast, or pull too hard on his arms.Â
Despite his current state, he was rather well built. You could feel the lines and curves of muscle under his jacket as his arm rested across your shoulders. His face wasnât all that bad either, minus the blood staining his graying beard, he was rather handsome and you suddenly felt rather embarrassed by your choice of bringing him into your home.Â
You brought him inside, and helped him sit down in the living room. Tossing the decorative pillow off of the chair so that he may lean back comfortably. He looked around your apartment, it was nicely decorated, a little girly, but not too extreme, and there were some pumpkin and mushroom themed items here and there for the fall season. He leaned his head back and closed his eyes. Listening to you frantically search your cabinets for first aid materials.Â
When the searching had stopped you managed to find a first aid kit, a washcloth, and some pain meds.Â
âCan we take off your shirt and jacket so I can see the damage?â You once again held out your hands to him. He grumbled and nodded, helping you remove them. The fabric luckily wasn't sticking to the wounds, despite being drenched in blood. âIâll wash them for you.âÂ
He watched your face as you took in the sight of him. He was much more in shape than you would expect for an older man, not that you could guess how old he was, but he seemed to be the active kind based on his physique. You shakily reached out with the washcloth, gently dapping away the drying blood, trying to get a better look at the wounds. They didnât seem too deep, but the lacerations and road burn were rather gruesome. You decided it would be best to apply some antibacterial and wrap them in gauze. You were worried that you wouldnât have enough, but as you wrapped the last bit around him, you were relieved to find it had been the perfect amount. He didnât have the energy to argue with you, nor to explain that by the morning, or at least the late afternoon tomorrow, he would be mostly healed up and able to leave.Â
âCould I see your hands?â You took them in yours, looking at his palms, happy to find them not all that scrapped up. He huffed when you put them back down. âCan I get you something to drink?â
He perked up a bit, âYou got any whiskey?â
You pull up a step stool and search through your liquor cabinet, you had a modest amount of choices for when friends came over. But your whiskey selection was rather poor. He watches you as you try to balance while you move bottles out of the way.
âI only have Screwball and Jack Danielâsâ you call out over your shoulder.
He groans and rolls his eyes, he should have expected that from a young girl like you. âDanielâs.âÂ
You get the bottle down from the cabinet and grab him a glass. As you go to pour it he stops your hand, âJust give me the bottle sweetheart.âÂ
You oblige, and sit on the couch across from him. Watching as he takes a swig from the bottle, swishing it around in his mouth before swallowing. You are almost entranced watching him, something about him draws you in. Admittedly it was strange for you to be ogling a complete stranger, whom you had just witnessed get fully hit by a car, but you couldnât help yourself. You shift on the couch, trying to find a comfortable position.
âWhatâs your name?â
He sighs, placing the bottle down, âLogan.â
âAre you sure you donât want to go to the Doctor, Logan?â
âIâll be alright.â
âNo offense, but you just got knocked on your ass by a speeding car.â
âBeen through worse.â He says, and you believe him. âIâll be good to go tomorrow, donât worry your pretty little head about me.â
You nod, and resign to not ask him any further. Instead just watching as he drinks, and wondering what someone like him was doing in the neighborhood anyway.
-sit watching him, as he starts to get sleepy, you offer to bring him to your bed to sleep
âYou invite a lot of strange men into your bed?â
âNo.â
âIâm the first?â
You donât answer, helping him lay down and get comfortable. Taking his shoes off for him and asking if he needs anything else.
âIâm alright.â
âOk, Iâll be on the couch if you need anything.â As you walk away, he can sense how you sigh. Knowing you probably canât sleep on that couch, he gets a little smirk on his face.
âWhy donât you stay with me, Princess?â He can hear your breath catch in your throat and your little kind heart starts to race. âMake sure I stay breathing, ya know?â
You nod, feeling silly for how quickly you want this attention from him. But you canât help yourself and you crawl into bed with him. Trying not to bump him as you get under the blankets. You face away from him and close your eyes, trying to fall asleep as fast as possible, the adrenaline of the whole situation quickly fading. He shifts in the bed, you can feel his warmth radiating from him. He places his hand on your waist and pulls you closer to him. His mouth against the back of your head, your back pressed against his chest. He whispers something to you, but you can barely hear it over the sound of your heart hammering away.Â
You arenât sure how but you were able to fall asleep like that, Logan holding you against him, and you hiding your face in your pillow hoping you could get through this without any more strange feelings bubbling up in your stomach.Â
When you woke up, Loganâs mouth was pressed to your neck, softly mumbling against you. The scruff of his beard scratching against your skin. When you shifted he pulled away, but his arm remained around your waist. You patted him and tried to squirm out of bed.
âMmm...â he groaned. âMorning.âÂ
He stayed in bed as you went to the kitchen to grab a glass of water. He watched you, your pj shorts riding up, and the tank you wore hugging tightly to you. You felt a little sweaty, probably due to having something so warm in your bed for once. You lean in the doorway to the bedroom watching as he slowly sits up.
âHow are you feeling?â
âCould use a shower,â He groans as he stands from the bed, stretching and feeling all the aches slowly coming back.
You lead him to the bathroom, bringing him a towel and washcloth. You help him unwrap his bandages, and as you do you are surprised to see them mostly scabbed and scarred over, only a few of the deeper ones were still periodically dripping with blood.
âThatâs quite impressive,â you remark, tracing your finger lightly over one of the scars.
âNot as good as it used to be,â He shrugs. You turn your back to him as he gets into the shower. Once the curtain is closed you grab his clothes and as he showers you wash his clothes and your bed sheets, grateful to have the luxury of in unit laundry.Â
You hear him drop some stuff in the shower and check on him, he says he's okay and that his shoulder is just stiff. You return to your spot on the couch, wondering how he managed to heal so well overnight, maybe he just had good genetics. His muscles and features already seemed unfair to be on a man of his presumed age, so perhaps he just had quicker blood clotting than your average person.
You hear the shower shut off, and a few moments later he steps out. Wrapped in only a towel, your breath catches in your throat at the sight of him. You couldnât help but imagine being pressed up against him, much like last night, but without the barrier of injury or clothing. The way the towel clung to his waist, droplets of water stuck to his skin, his hair wet and dripping. You shook the thoughts out of your head and offer him the biggest bathrobe you have while his clothes are drying.
You make a pot of coffee and sit next to him on the couch. He seems much more relaxed this morning, and maybe even a bit more interested in your company. He reaches his hand out to you, placing it right above your knee, âI appreciate you going through all this effort for an old man.â
âOf course, I couldnât just leave you on the street.â You squirm a bit as he rubs his hand gently back and forth.
âAnything I can do for ya, you know return the favor?â You could see a bit of a smile spreading as he looked towards you. God he was much more attractive in the light of day.
âOh-â You feel heat rising to your face and you look away towards the window. âNo. No, itâs no big deal.â
He smirks, he can hear your heart racing. Hell, he can even smell your desire pooling between your thighs. Sweet girls like you always seem to be affected by him. He drops his hand from your knee, leaning back into the couch, âCome on, be honest with me Sweetheart,â
You scoot a little closer to him, your thigh pressing into his.
âThat's it, I donât bite.â But deep down he would, if you begged him too. Heâd rip those pjs off you and treat you like a doll. Make you squirm and scream until your mind goes hazy and your eyes water.Â
You lean closer against him, your shoulder pressing up against his, trying to build the courage to ask him for what you really want. Before you can find the words he brings his hand up to your jaw and turns you to face him. He searches your eyes for a moment, giving you space to protest, and when you donât he closes the gap and kisses you. Gentle and soft, you can taste the coffee on his breath but you donât even care. He pulls away and you whine involuntarily.
âNeedy, are we?â You nod and push yourself closer to him, he kisses you again, dropping his hand down to trace along your arm, until he reaches your waist. He pulls you in, his hand against the small of your back. He kisses you deeply and passionately, savoring the taste of your mouth as he slips his tongue inside. Feeling pleased by the soft whines and moans youâre making against him.Â
He slips his free hand down between your thighs, groaning when he feels how wet you are through the fabric of your pajama shorts. Practically smiling into the kiss when he slips his hand under the waistband and realizes you werenât wearing panties this entire time.Â
âBringing me into your house, and you didnât even have panties on?â He brings his fingertips to rub your clit in little circles. You whine, knowing that you could never expect your night to unfold the way it did. His hand is so rough and calloused but his movements are so gentle, teasing you so softly. You press your head into the side of his arm wanting him to be rougher, wanting to get there faster.
He pulls his hand away and you groan at the loss of contact. He pulls you into his lap and removes your shorts. With you resting on his thighs he leans you back against him and brings his hand back to toy with you. His touch is electrifying and you rock your hips up against him trying to get more, but he keeps the same languid pace with just a small bit of pressure.Â
He uses his other hand to wrap around your waist and hold you in place. You can feel him pressed up against your back, the soft fabric of the bathrobe you gave him gliding along your skin. As you shift and whine he keeps you steady, not giving you enough to make you cum, but just enough to make you feel dizzy as the frustration starts to build.
âLogan⊠please,â You plead with him and he kisses your neck.
âWhat do you need, baby?â
âMoreâŠâ He laughs against your skin as you try to press yourself up against his hand again, but he just keeps you in place, his grip tightening.Â
âIâll give you more.â And he does. Finally speeding up the motion of his hand and adding more force. Youâre so happy that you hardly notice as your orgasm quickly washes over you. Your thighs trembling against him. You donât even register it as he flips you around to face him, using both his hands to hold your hips and lower you down onto his cock.Â
When you come back to earth, youâre met with the feeling of being utterly full. You hadnât gotten a good look at his dick before, but just based on the feeling of it, you knew you were in trouble. It was thick and stretched you open, making you shiver as he bounced you slowly up and down. The way it dragged along your walls, the way the tip of it brushed against that sweet spot inside. You were reduced to moans and whines, and hardly any thoughts could form in your brain that werenât regarding Logan fucking you. He kissed you while he continued to fuck into you. His pace picking up and making you see stars.Â
âFuck⊠that pretty little pussy of yours feels so good.â He groaned into your ear and you shivered around him. âWere you gonna hide this from me?â
You shake your head, and try to say no but all that escapes your mouth is another choked whine. He grins as he admires your fucked out expression. You can feel yourself getting closer and closer to release, as he pounds into you, hitting that spot and pressing against you. Youâre breathing becomes ragged and your whines and moans blend into nothing but noise as you clench around his cock and come undone.
âThatâs it, Doll. Cum all over this cock.â He fucks you through your orgasm and you drop your head onto his shoulder. Whining and moaning and cursing under your breath as he doesnât stop. Heâs getting closer too, his thrusts start to falter and his composure starts to slip. You feel him twitch and in moments warm, thick cum floods your insides. He holds you there, and kisses the top of your head. Murmuring about how good you feel, how youâre such a good girl for taking all of him. Your fuzzy little head canât even reply.Â
When your brain finds its way back to you, and you can breathe in a regular manner, you feel his cock slide out of you, and his cum seeps from you, coating your thighs and his. He shifts under you and you stiffen.
âDo you have to leave?â You arenât sure why, but you donât want to let go of this strange man just yet.Â
âI can stay a little longer for you, Princess.â
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Your Daddy Did It Better
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summary | James Barnes Jr, or JJ as the world calls him, doesnât quite know how to treat a woman. Luckily for you though, his daddy sure does
warnings | smut, age gap (reader is in her 20's), riding, couch sex, light drinking, billionaire!bucky, oral (f. receiving), bucky gives the reader a facial if you know what i mean, 18+ ONLY
this fic is eighteen plus. minors please do not enter
divider by @princessbellecerise
James Steven Barnes was a fucking asshole.
You suspect that he may have gotten that trait from his father, Bucky; but even in the few times you had met the billionaire, he had never acted quite as douchy as his son did.
The Bucky Barnes that you knew and grew up seeing in tabloids was at least respectful after he got done with women, and at least had the decency to tell them that it was over to their face before he moved on.
Unfortunately though, it seemed somewhere along the lines he forgot to pass that trait onto his son, which was precisely the reason you were fuming and stopping your way through Barnes Tower, fists nearly ripping the paper of the magazine due to your death grip.
Anger coursed through your veins as you thought about the front page, which showed your supposed âboyfriendâ front and center at a Knickâs game with some model that was way too old for him. But, there was no doubt that she was beautiful.
You couldnât lie; that was part of the reason you were salty. But the other part was because you had just seen JJ two days ago, and he made no mention to tell you that whatever you guys had was over. Nor that he was already back on the market.
He didnât even have the decency to send you a text, so, after staring at the picture for a while and slightly crying your eyes out, anger began to replace your sadness and you came up with a plan.
Sure it wasnât the best of plans, and sure you may be a little out of your mind, barging into the most elite building in New York. But you need to confront him, face-to-face. And since you still had your keycard JJ had given you since he was too lazy to come to your apartment, you marched right on in the tower like it was your own home.
The elevator dinged and your high heels clicked against the polished tiles, your eyes blazing as you made your way across the floor.
The fancy decor that you usually marveled at was the last thing on your mind. You were on a mission, and nothing was going to stop you. Nothing was going to get in the way of you laying into JJ, or possibly throwing the magazine at his head. You were going to make him pay and not even security was going to get in your way, if he called them.
You would only leave this building kicking and screaming, you decided. And if JJ tried to kick you out, well thenâ
âOof!â
Your whirlwind of thoughts were suddenly cut off when a figure smacked into you, knocking the breath out of your lungs and almost knocking you over until hands reached out to grab you. They wrapped around your figure and pulled you close so that you wouldnât hit the floor. Shocked, a gasp left your lips, and you quickly held onto whoever it was, your fingers digging into the expensive material of their suit.
For a moment, you thought that it was JJ that caught you and anger bubbled in your stomach. After all, the tufts of dark-haired you saw were exactly the same shade, and his build felt roughly the same.
But when the person set you back on your feet, it only took you a second to realize that it was not JJ that caught you.
It was his dad.
âBucky!â
Your eyebrows shot up in surprise, as did his while you both stared at each other. Not really sure what to do, Bucky let go of you, and he awkwardly cleared his throat while you shuffled back.
âY/N,â He said, equally shocked. âI wasnâtâŠexpecting you today. Is everything alright?â
His light blue eyes glanced you over and while you didnât seemed to be dressed in any kind of date attire, he was under the assumption that you were there for JJ. He knew that your relationship with his son was mostly physical, but Bucky still hoped he raised him well enough to at least treat you to a date every once in a while.
âNo, no everything is not okay,â Is what you wanted to tell him. âYour son is an absolute asshole.â
The words were so close from falling from your lips, but you held back, pressing them together so you wouldnât say something youâd regret. It was already bad enough that JJ probably didnât want you there, you didnât need his dad trying to kick you out too. So you held it together and tried to make it look like you werenât crying just a few minutes before, tilting your head away from Bucky and focusing your eyes on the floor as you spoke.
âEverythingâs fine,â You said, your voice a little weak but normal nevertheless. âI was justâŠI was just looking for JJ. Have you seen him?â
Bucky reeled back in surprise once again. âJJ?â He repeated your question and answered before you could even confirm what you said. âNo honey, Iâm afraid JJ isnât here. I think he went to see a basketball game or something. I wouldâve thoughtâŠI did think you were going with him.â
So he didnât know.
You swallowed the lump in your throat, trying not to start crying again as you slowly shook your head.
âWe broke up,â You said, unfortunately having to break the news to him. Buckyâs eyes widened. âHeâŠHe went to that basketball game with some other chick, and I came here to hopefully confront him. IâŠâ
Wordlessly, you held out the magazine for Bucky to grab, and he did. His blue eyes scanned the paper, eyebrows furrowing together until eventually, anger settled on his face.
He looked at the cover of the magazine and noted that the girl was not, in fact, you. Bucky had never seen her in his life. As a matter of fact, he was pretty sure JJ had never met her either, which made the situation even worse.
He sighed, lowering the magazine to look at you. When he did, thatâs when Bucky finally realized that you had started crying, even though you tried your best to hide it from him.
âOh doll.â
âIâm sorry,â You instinctively tried to move away from him as he reached out, attempting to comfort you. But you just thought he was trying to pity you, shame festering inside of you as you sobbed quietly.
You didnât want to cry, but seeing how his own father reacted made you think that JJ really was an asshole.
âIâm sorry. Iâm sorry, Iâm sorry. I donât mean to cry itâs justââ
âHey,â Bucky reached out to gently tug you towards him, and somehow you found yourself crying in his arms as he shook his head and wrapped you in his embrace. Your tears stained his Tom Ford suit, your mascara no doubt ruining the expensive fabric. But Bucky didnât seem to mind as he awkwardly held you close, letting you cry into his chest like many other young ladies had before you. âItâs okay. Itâs okay, I know.â
âItâs just that,â You sniffle, pulling away with tears still your cheeks, âItâs just that we were together only just two days ago and I canât believe heâI canât believe he just ditched me like that. Like what the fuck man? Who raised you?â
Bucky slightly chuckled as you shook your head, disbelief settling on your face. You wiped your tears, your hands coming back stained but at the moment you didnât care.
You were heartbroken, and you hated to admit it but you really did like JJ. Despite knowing the type of guy he was rumored to be, you thought youâd just give him a chance. You thought youâd give him an opportunity to prove that everyone was wrong about him. JJ wasnât an asshole. He was just a typical rich kid that had everything at his disposal. Sure he went through girls quick, but you never once thought heâd dispose of you.
Not like this. Not to the point where you were crying in front of his father as Bucky looked at you sympathetically.
âWelp, not my proudest parenting moment,â He admitted, âBut the kid does have his way of charming people. I honestly thought he would use it for good as he got older. You know for like business and stuff? But it seems the more he grows up, the more broken hearts he leaves in his trail.â
âHuh. Well I guess that makes him just like his father then,â You chuckled bitterly through your sniffles, causing Bucky to laugh little bit. The sound took you by surprise, not expecting him to laugh over your dig. But you liked the way it sounded: soft, but mature. Everything that a man shouldâve been. Everything that his son shouldâve been.
âYeah, I guess you could say that,â Bucky shrugged. âBut believe meâI never once raised him to act like this. I wanted him to be better, you know? But I guess eventually, everyone goes down their own path.â
âYou should cut him off then,â You quickly suggested, before you could even stop the words coming from your mouth. âIf you cut him off, he canât charm girls anymore and he most certainly wonât be sitting courtside with anymore models.â
You were dead serious, but thisâthis was what caused Bucky to double over in laughter, clutching his stomach and letting out a hearty, genuine laugh. He shook his head at you, pointing his index finger, and you couldnât lie, you laughed too. After all, who just goes around telling rich dads to cut off their entitled sons? Not enough people apparently, because there were still a plethora of entitled sons out there.
Bucky may have thought JJ was one, but after losing his mother, he was all he had. You suppose you understood why Bucky kept enabling him in that way, but it still made you no less salty that he got to live the good life while everybody else around him got left in the dust.
âYou,â Amusement danced in Buckyâs eyes as he chuckled some more before finally sobering up, pressing his lips. âYouâre funny.â He said like it was a compliment. âYouâŠyouâve got a sense a humor, Iâll tell you that sweetheart. Not a lot of girls my son brings home actually have a decent personality.â
âWhat can I say? Itâs probably the reason he ditched me,â You said.
âProbably,â Bucky agreed. âUnfortunately, he doesnât do well with actual conversation. As a father, itâs a little embarrassing when your son goes for beauty instead of brains and beauty.â
âOh, is that what you think I have?â You teased him slightly, your mood beginning to pick up a little. Bucky nodded. âWell, youâd think if I was smart, I wouldnât go after somebody with an obvious track record.â
âWell we can all be dazzled by the charm,â Bucky said, staring intensely. âBut you gotta know that eventually, all of that stuff goes away and in a few years time heâll realize how stupid he was to let you go. Trust me, beauty fades fast and when thatâs all you have in common with someone, most relationships tend to not to last long.â
âSo what youâre saying is JJâs gonna break up with the model?â You questioned.
ââŠEventually,â Bucky hesitated to say, âBut for now, sheâs young. So heâs gonna be all over her like white on rice.â
âBucky! What the fuckâ you are not helping!â
Instinctively, you reached out to shove his shoulder which caused Bucky to be even more surprised. But he could see the smile tugging at your lips, hear the playfulness in your voice as you said this, so he laughed even harder.
He appreciated someone joking around with him without being all cautious about his titles. Bucky didnât know what it was, but something about the way you seemed to just relax around him made him happy. It made him inch forward, taking a cautious step while you watched him.
âOh yeah?â He challenged quietly, and you never took your eyes off of him as he stepped as close as he could. âWell then do tell me Miss L/N,â Bucky copied your playfulness, âWhat would help you get over my son?â
The tone of his voice made you shiver slightly, as did the closeness of his body. You just now realized it, but Buckyâs eyes were awfully brown, so dark that you found yourself almost getting lost in them. You felt like your world was swirling as you looked inside of those mischievous brown eyes, but yet you couldnât find it in yourself to look away.
Daring to be bold, you stepped closer, and Bucky was nearly on the floor when suddenly you crained your head up, put your lips straight to his ear and whispered,
âHow about a drink, Mr. Barnes?â
âAnd then I said: I thought you were smaller!â
You laugh loudly as Bucky very proudly told you the story of how he reunited with his best friend Steve, the man JJ had also been named after. It was sort of a sad story, but you didnât know that because Bucky left out all the bad parts. He just wanted to make you laugh and was just glad to see that you were entertained nonetheless.
It was a stark contrast to the way you had shown up on his doorstep only an hour ago. Now, your tears were replaced by laughter, your frown with a large grin, and there were no longer any traces of anger on your face. You were only content as you sipped on your drink, playing into all the jokes and shenanigans Bucky had presented you with.
Honestly, hanging out with him had been pretty fun and you had no fucking clue how it all started but you werenât complaining as you downed your drink. This was your first one, so you werenât even tipsy, just relaxed enough to have a good time. It also helped push away the feeling that maybe hanging out with your exâs father wasnât such a good idea.
Nonsense though, your brain had told you multiple times, because Bucky was funny, charming and most importantly: he was nothing like his son.
As he entertained you, you began to see less and less how JJ could even be related to a man like this. A man so confident and hilarious, and just so sure of himself. It was like every move Bucky made, he made with a purpose. He did it because he knew exactly the reaction he would get from someone. He was so perceptive, and he picked up that you needed cheering up, so he kept making a fool out of himself just to make you laugh.
And honestly, you were beginning to question why you ever wasted your time on JJ in the first place. When clearly, you had chosen the wrong Barnes.
The thought had struck you several times in the last hour, but you never once entertained it, refusing to give your brain that satisfaction. You told yourself that Bucky was just being nice inviting you for a drink. That he just felt bad and didnât want you stumbling home angry and sad.
You told yourself that it was better for him that you didnât come looking for his son again. ButâŠa part of you wanted to believe there were other reasons.
It only made heart your pound faster as he began to speak again.
âMan. I swear I can never get enough of telling that story,â He said cheekily, leaning back on his fancy sofa. The suit that he was wearing crinkled, and the scotch in his hand swirled before he took a sip of it.
You admired him.
You admired anybody that could drink straight liquor, because Lord knows you couldnât. Lord knows not even his own son could, which made you snort at the thought.
âWell, it is a wonderful story Mr. Barnes,â You told him, swirling your own drink. âIâm sure it was even better to witness all those years ago.â
âOh, come on now darling. Donât make it seem like Iâm a fossil,â Bucky waved you off, and you couldnât deny the way your stomach fluttered at the nickname. It made you feel something that you hadnât felt before; an emotion that you desperately wanted to push down but was rising the more time you spent with Bucky.
Desire was beginning to creep into your veins, and it didnât help that you had certainly took notice of just how handsome Mr. Barnes was, and just how good that three-piece suit clung to his body. You began to wonder things that you should most definitely not be wondering. But still, it was like your brain produced the thoughts on its own and you couldnât help but think that Bucky looked sexy all relaxed like that.
You curled your lips, and you knew you were beginning to get yourself into trouble. You sipped your drink once again.
âOh, trust me. The last thing Iâm calling you is old Mr. Barnes,â You retorted kindly. Bucky looked up as a smirk began to form on your cheeks. âIn fact, youâre probably one of the youngest people I know in spirit, most definitely. It seems that even though the years have passed, they havenât yet caught up with you. And well, youâre pretty spry for an older fella.â
You batted your lashes at him, causing Bucky to sputter a little bit. A mischievous look grew in your eyes, and when you winked at him something began to stir inside of him.
Perhaps it was your humor, or the way you knew just when to be sarcastic and when to be genuine, just like him. Maybe it was that that drew him towards you, making Bucky sit up a little bit as he studied you.
With blue eyes observing everything, Bucky noted that you were young, yes, but you certainly werenât new to the world, nor ignorant of it. From what you had told him, you were in grad school and had experienced heartbreak and failure. And though you werenât nearly as old or mature as he was, Bucky could sense that you definitely were years above your own peers.
Years above his own son, which Bucky began to question if he really was his son, if he had passed up a woman like this.
A woman so easy to get along with that he didnât even notice it was beginning to approach two hours since you had been there.
âSpry?â Bucky rose an eyebrow and chose to ignore the thought that you might need to go home soon. Nodding your head, Bucky laughed at your words.
âOh very spry indeed Mr. Barnes. In fact, I bet you could run me and outlive me,â You giggled.
âWellâŠâ Bucky pretended to be in thought before carefully shoving off his blazer, flexing his biceps which made the most unholy of thoughts come into your mind. âI suppose I do lift a little on the side. Mostly when Iâm not busy with meetings, but I mean the biceps speak for themselves, donât they?â
âI suppose they do.â You sipped on your wine so that Bucky couldnât see how bothered you had gotten. Your legs crossed, your body language beginning to change. Something stirred in the pit of your stomach, causing you to shift slightly.
You could still see his biceps peeking out from under his shirt even with him not flexing. It made your mouth just the tiniest bit dry as Bucky looked at you.
He didnât want you to go home, but he knew that it was entering the odd hours of the morning and the last thing he needed was paparazzi photographing a young woman leaving his tower this late. Not to mention a young woman that had been seen with this son. Oh, Bucky realized the scandal it would cause and decided he was way past those days.
So, a plan began to form in his mind.
Maybe you didnât have to leave, he told himself. MaybeâŠmaybe you could stay after all. He thought about this, and then before he could stop himself, Bucky began to speak.
âYou knowâŠitâs getting kind of late.â He tried to sound as casual as possible without his words sounding rehearsed. Immediately, you perked up, worrying that he may kick you out. But luckily, it was just the opposite. âI know JJ once told me you lived a little ways out of town. A far walk I imagine; and getting an Uber probably wonât be easy. Iâm sure you know this by now, but this tower has a lot of rooms. Why donât you take one for the night and rest up here? You can leave first thing in the morning but Iâd just hate to see a young lady be out on the streets of New York by herself.â
At this, you couldnât stop the smile that made its way over your face, nor the laugh of delight as you found yourself eagerly accepting Buckyâs proposal.
âYes. I think that sounds fair. Thank you, Mr. Barnes. For being so kind.â
âYeah.â
Was that what it was? Bucky truly being kind, or was he only letting you stay for his own selfish intentions?
Probably both honestly. But truly, Bucky knew he wasnât a bad enough person to expect you to do anything for him in return. His thoughts may have been running wild, but he wasnât so bad as to bribe a young girl like that. Not that he had to, because you were already halfway on that road before you even stood up.
When you did though, you were suddenly reminded of how long it had been since you had drank and you couldnât stop the woozy feeling in your head as you set the glass down. Bucky caught you once again before you hit the floor, your nausea causing you to trip over the expensive carpet. You landed in his arms almost like a fairytale. Your eyes met his, and you could see the worry that spread in them.
âAre you all right?â He asked.
It was a simple question. So, so simple that you shouldâve just been able to answer with âyesâ and been done with it. You shouldâve been, but somehow you just couldnât. Somehow all the decency and all the warning bells that told you this was not a good idea suddenly left your mind. All of a sudden, you were lucid but you didnât even feel like it as you leaned up and did something you never in a million years thought you wouldâve done.
You kissed Bucky.
You donât know what the hell got into you. Truly, you didnât. You didnât know whether it was the alcohol, sheer stupidity, or just a fuck-this-Iâm-going-for-it mentality. But whatever it was, it had you kissing Bucky Barnes like it was your last day on this earth, your head spinning from how hard you pressed your lips to his.
Your lips were on his, and honestly it took Bucky more time than heâd like to admit to do something about it. At first, he just stood there a little bit confused. He didnât register that you were kissing him until you tried to move your mouth and he justâŠstood still. He didnât register that youâŠthat you wanted him until you suddenly pulled away with slight panic on your face.
âOh my God,â You said in realization, âBucky Iâm soââ
Bucky didnât even let you finish the sentence, because the fuck-it mentality embraced him too and suddenly you were both carefree as you swapped spit.
Bucky had his mouth on yours, and you were kissing him with so much passion and oh my God you were so young and this was so wrong but the man couldnât find it in himself to stop.
Despite everything in his brain telling him that this was a bad idea, his body simply would not allow him to listen, too engrossed by the feeling of your soft lips.
Cherry Chapstickâthatâs what you had been wearing. But Bucky was sure that by the time he was done with you, that taste would be nothing but a fleeting memory. He pressed his tongue out to try to get some more of it, and thatâs when his tongue started to slip into your mouth. Gasping, you let him in and thatâs when your bodies began to fall back onto the couch.
Bucky landed first with a small grunt, and with this new sitting position you were able to straddle his lap and hook your legs on either side of him.
Buckyâs arms then came to wrap around your waist, wasting no time to explore your bodyâregrettably through your clothes. You had been wearing a simple skirt and top, but even that felt like too much as Bucky suddenly became desperate to get underneath them.
A hot desire developed over you both, and you couldnât stop yourself from suddenly breaking the kiss, putting your hands on his nice blazer, and tearing it off with ease. You threw it somewhere in the corner that you didnât quite care about, looking at Bucky for only a second before devouring his lips once again.
He tasted like scotch and cigars, the pinnacle of maturity in your opinion. He was so experienced and the thought of all the things he could show you, all the ways he could make you feel suddenly made you groan and start to grind on his lap.
Bucky panted into your mouth as he felt your warm heat moving against him, the perfectly tailored pants suddenly feeling too tight as his erection grew bigger.
You were greedy as you drank him in, like Bucky was the sweetest nectar you had ever tasted. And now that you had gotten a sample, you couldnât get enough.
You were insatiable as you eventually managed to get his button down shirt off, feeling him slip his own hands under your clothes.
He felt your soft, hot skin and squeezed, liking the way you jumped in his arms. He never once broke the kiss, liking the taste of your mouth far too much. But that didnât mean Bucky couldnât explore other areas with his hands, and before you knew it, he had his hands touching all over your body and leaving fire in its wake.
You wiggled a little bit as Bucky traveled lower and lower, eventually jumping again when he made contact with your cotton panties.
Bucky smiled into your mouth, satisfaction flooding his veins when he noticed your arousal had already dampened them.
Slowly, you began to grind a little bit on his hand and Bucky groaned as the sensation of it all made him feel like he was burning up. He felt like if he didnât do something now, he would literally burst into flames. So, as much as he loved the taste of your mouth, he decided he needed something more than that.
Pulling away from you, a trail of spit dribbled down your chin and coated the frown that you were now sporting. You didnât wanna pull away from him, but Bucky reassured you with his eyes that what he had planned was much better.
He tapped on your thighs and pushed on your chest a little bit, letting you know that he wanted you to lay down.
Excitement flooded your veins as your back suddenly hit the couch, your shirt pulled almost all the way up and your skirt flipped.
Bucky could see nothing but your stomach and your cotton covered pussy, choosing these two things to focus on as he got on his knees on the couch.
He hovered over you, and at first, you thought he was going to kiss you again until suddenly, his head dipped down. You moaned as his hands begin to massage your breasts, the feeling of his touch driving you crazy. Even though it was only through your clothes, you began to squirm; pushing down on his hips with your foot so that Bucky quickly got the message.
âWow. Eager are we?â He smirked, and the whine that you let out went away as quickly as it came, when Bucky suddenly yanked your bra down.
You were sure that the front straps had broken, but that was the last thing you cared about. You were only focused on his plump lips that were headed towards your breast. And sure enough, Bucky finally made the first contact with your body when he wrapped his lips around your sensitive bud. Th action caused you to moan out, quickly running your fingers through his hair as he licked, sucked, circled the bud with his tongue.
Skilled he was, because you swore you had never gotten this much pleasure from a man sucking on your tits. Sure many had tried, but it never felt like this. It never felt like actual pleasure until now, Buckyâs tongue working miracles.
Honestly, it made you wonder just what else he could do. And as if he could read your mind, Bucky suddenly abandoned your nipples and trailed his mouth further down your body. At first, you wanted to protest at the lack of stimulation. But the feeling was quickly replaced when Bucky got rid of your panties in one swift pull. He looked you in the eye, and you could see his smirk as he took in your pouty lips, the way your chest heaved and the way your eyes got wide. He took in how fucking gorgeous you looked but man â he bet you sounded even better.
It was this thought that lead Bucky to finally dip his head where you needed him to be; you letting out the sweetest of moans as his lips attached to your clit.
Bucky pleasured you in a way that most boys your age refused to even consider. They never seemed to consider what women actually wanted, but Bucky knew. And damn, did he know it well.
He took your clit in between his teeth and gently grazed over it, teasing you and enjoying the way your hips bucked against him. He had to hold you down before he really got started on you, and when he did, and there was nobody on this earth that could convince Bucky that what the two of you were doing was wrong.
So what if you had dated his son. His son was stupid; even Bucky could see that now.
JJ was beyond stupid to pass up this gorgeous woman, who tasted just as sweet as she looked. Who tasted so fucking good that Bucky lapped and sucked up every little dribble of arousal that you had. He sucked on your clit and even began to use his fingers, absolutely determined to taste you and your entirety. Nothing in life had ever enticed Bucky more, except for maybe the sounds that you were making.
Man, did you sound absolutely gorgeous as you wiggled and thrashed, but never quite fully pulled away from his pleasure. Man, did you look so sexy with your head thrown back, eyes closed, and lips parted. Bucky swore he never saw a better site in his life, which egged him to pump his fingers even faster. He was determined, determined to make you cum on his tongue and determined to show you that this was how a real man pleasured a woman. A real man always put her satisfaction before his, which was why Bucky wasnât even gonna fuck you until you had came at least once.
And fuckâdid you.
You swear you had never screamed louder in your life, your body shaking as you came all over Buckyâs expensive suit and couch. You were crying out from the almost abusive pleasure, but not once did Bucky remove his mouth from your pussy. Not until he was sure he had gotten every last drop.
He wanted to taste everything that he could. Every little part of you; and when he succeeded at that he then wanted you to taste yourself.
He wanted for you to know how sweet and absolutely incredible you were.
He brought his mouth back up to latch his lips on yours, and it wasnât long before your tongue was tangled with his. Bucky got what he wanted when you suddenly squeaked, surprised at how you tasted. It was indeed sweetâthanks to you prioritizing fruit in your diet. Bucky almost chuckled at the way your eyes flew open, but he was too busy breaking the quick kiss to pull down the last bit of clothing that separated the two of you.
It seemed like he couldnât get those damn panties off fast enoughâyou giggling and offering to help when he cursed more than enough times.
Bucky leaned over you and, while you worked on your underwear, he began to focus on his own. He unbuckled his belt, yanked down his pants, and freed himself from the torture that was that damn suit.
Now that you were both naked, you eyed his erection deliciously as you both suddenly set up.
It wasnât like you were a virgin, so you both silently agreed there was no need to take it easy in missionary. So, you got on top of Bucky and hooked your legs over his once again.
A silent glance was shared between the two of you just moments before you sank down on Buckyâs cock, pressing your hips until there was nothing left out except his balls. They pressed against your ass and reminded you of how deep he truly was, how absolutely delicious it felt to have him sheathed inside of you.
Bucky let out a sigh of content, and it wasnât long before you had him moaning, standing on your toes and lightly bouncing yourself on his cock.
Fuckâyou sure did know how to make a man come quick, seeing as you were currently squeezing the dear life out of Bucky. He could barely keep it together as your walls sucked him in, it having been a while since he fucked somebody this tight.
But tight you were, and youngâthough heâd never guess it by the way you rode him like a pro. You swirled your hips, placing your hand on his chest to steady yourself and then kept bouncing. Up and down your tits went, mesmerizing Bucky almost as much as your pussy did.
You yourself were just enticing, if there ever was a word for it.
Bucky wasnât quite sure how heâd let you go after this, or if he even wanted to. The feeling of you wrapped around him was definitely something he could get used to, so he tried not to think about that and focused on the present.
He focused on the way you moaned and clenched around him. On the way your pussy squelched every time you bounced yourself up on your feet. He focused on your eyes, staring at him intensely, and then your lips as he leaned in to capture them.
Due to his swift kiss, you had lost your pace, but that was all right because Bucky decided to take over then. He held you close, and then he bucked his hips upwards, fucking into you at a rapid pace. You moaned into his mouth, and Bucky could feel your ass jiggling, your tits bouncing as he pounded into you. He could feel the way your stomach was beginning to clench again, a telling sign of yet another orgasm.
He smirked, satisfied when you started to grip him for dear life. Not even a few seconds later, you did, in fact, cream all over him with a small cry.
The mess on his couch and on his thighs was inevitable, but as Bucky reached his own high, he thought it best not to dirty up his furniture anymore.
Instead, as the pit in his stomach finally grew to its peak, he suddenly pulled out of you and got you on your knees, cumming on your face right as you opened your mouth.
Eagerly, you let the hot ropes paint your face and even swallowed some with a grin on your lips. You couldnât open your eyes to see the pleasure that you had caused Bucky, but you could hear him groaning, the sound of him jacking off invading your ears until there was nothing else left to decorate your face.
He smiled in satisfaction, loving the way that you had been the one to bring him to his wits end and it wasnât long before you could see Bucky again.
He retrieved his extremely expensive shirt and used it to wipe off your face, you giving him a giggle as your vision became clearer. You stuck out your tongue, showing him evidence that you had swallowed the bit of cum that had gotten on your lips.
Bucky chuckled, and it was at that moment he realized that yes, his son was an idiot for letting you go.
Heâd be damned if he made the same mistake.
BONUS
You made your way into your chemistry class, not even bothered by JJâs presence as you passed him. In fact, the last thing you were thinking of was that Barnes, seeing as the remnants of his father still lingered just underneath your shirt.
Had it been any more see-through, you wouldâve had a reason to be extremely smug as JJ made his way over to you with his friends snickering in the background.
You knew they were talking about you, but you barely paid attention to any of them until suddenly, the youngest Barnes was standing beside you with his arms crossed.
âYes?â
You looked up at him, and if you didnât know any better, you would say he was annoyed by your lack of reaction. Your indifference towards him and the model situation clearly bothered him, which made you wanna smirk but you didnât.
âWell you certainly donât look bothered,â He commented, casually leaning against your desk. You rolled your eyes, but you werenât too irritated until he began tapping his pencil on your table.
âWell thatâs because I had a pretty good weekend â besides the fact that you ditched me,â You snapped, trying to push him away.
But JJ didnât budge.
It was then that you remembered he was every bit as stubborn as his father was, despite being less than half the man Bucky was.
âOops,â A sarcastic smile ghosted on JJâs face. The bastard didnât even have the decency to be ashamed of what he did. âI just got caught up you know; business and such.â
âBusiness.â You pondered on this word before you slowly turned to look at him, confidently being able to stare into his brown eyes. After all, you had found yourself growing fonder and fonder of that shade, just not on him. âThatâs interesting. I didnât know business meant going on a date with a model.â
âSuper model,â He made sure to correct you, âAnd well, you know how it is these days. Iâm a Rolling Stone; just like my daddy I hear.â
God bless him, he sounded so proud and it took everything in you not to tell him right then and there. It took every particle of self-restraint you had not to scream out to the entire university that you had fucked his dad, cause you were no longer in the mood for JJâs childish games.
But instead â thinking of Bucky â you restrained yourself and simply offered JJ a smile.
âWell, the way I hear it, your daddy did it better,â You winked at him, and suddenly nothing in the world could seemed to bother you anymore. Knowing that you had completed the ultimate form of revenge and gained yourself a new suitor in the process put you at peace.
But unfortunately for JJ, you were just getting started.
Just you wait, asswipe. Iâll be your step mama soon enough, you thought devilishly, your phone buzzing just as the boy made his way back to his seat.
Bucky Barnes
Hey honey, you free tonight?
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Masriel + huddling together for warmth (for 3 sentence fic) I know this is very clichĂ© but I feel like it fits them especially if they were somewhere in the NorthâŠ
three-sentence fics:Â reqs are welcome!
*holds every cliché on a palm forever because there are no bad ones*
'Oh, come on, don't be a pest,' Asriel humphs, and it's not the busted heater he addresses, giving it a generous kick, but Marisa, who suggested waiting the storm out in the tent that, as it turns out, protects them well enough from the wind, but not the cold; trying to crawl deeper into her furs, she gives him a miserable glare when he adds: 'I can hear your teeth clattering.'
He gestures once more to his unbuttoned anorak, and finally, with all snarky remarks miraculously frozen, Marisa gives up and slides towards him, contouring his body with hers; her hands find their way under a layer of his sweaters while Asriel covers her with the floor of his anorak as they nestle in together, enjoying the precious warmth.
'Better?' he asks and feels Marisa nod, then press her lips to his throat: her hot quivering breath against his open skin makes Stelmaria growl excitedly at the back of the tent, curling around the golden monkey; in the air, the smell of clean, harsh snow is mixed with that of Marisa's hair so, absolutely content, Asriel brings her even closer, teasing: 'See, wasn't so hard at all, you stubborn thing.'
#they are bastards but they are also a sitcom!! love them#also: i see all the reqs and love them!#but im also a dumbass whose time management skill went through the window#it may take me a bit longer to post but i will#hdm#his dark materials#masriel#marisa coulter#asriel belacqua#marisa x asriel#asriel x marisa#hdm fic#three sentence fic
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summary | A female gladiator plucked from the arena by the most powerful general in Rome, convinced to serve under his command. You learn that his taste for blood might not be so different from your own.
author's note | the horny demons strike again. this has a little plot, thanks to the beautiful minds of @ovaryacted and @kedsandtubesocks who deal with my crazy so generously.
content warning | 18+ mdni, set pre-gladiator ii, description of war & mistreatment of women in roman society, female gladiator, dark-ish!acacius, reader has minimal backstory, but is revealed to be nameless (uses monikers given to her: medusa, fury, minerva), fighting, m*rder, blood tw, gore tw, sa warning (i have it annotated further below with content, but nothing graphic) acacius covered in someone elses blood as he fucks you, copious smut, biting as a little treat
word count â 8k
âHow much?â Acacius inquires, tapping his finger against the iron bars holding you prisoner, staring back at the men. The ginger twins and a manâno, a general. Dressed in a toga of thick material, embroidered with intricate designs, gold bangles at his wrist, a telltale sign of high honor.Â
âOh, she isâŠâ The older one, Geta, teeth digging into his bottom lip as he shakes his head, âpricelessâquite the fighter, too.â
âDoes she have a name?âÂ
Geta smirks to himself, âThey call her Medusa. She favors beheading, it seems.â Geta waggles a finger through the bars and smirks, nose scrunching as he addresses you, âCorrect?âÂ
You ignore him, responding with a stareâmuch like your given moniker; if looks could kill.
âSheâs bested them all,â Caracalla boasts from beside his brother, Dundus fiddling with his hair from where she was perched on his shoulder, âeven our lion that weâve had since kids.â
âIt was a stupid idea, your fault,â Geta retorts, âbutâagain, sheâs not for sale.â
âIâll conquer India within the next few nightfalls, a handful of new gladiators fresh for the choosing, for your entertainmentâhow does that sound?â
Greedy as they were and entirely too incompetent, Caracalla agrees before his brother can open his mouth.Â
âWill you bring her back to visit?â Caracalla inquires with an underlying excitementâthe poor brother was nothing but a dunce, erratic and impulsive, but all too easy to manipulate. âThe others may miss her.â
âIndeed,â Another swift but convincing lie, Caracalla and Acacius shake hands on the deal before Geta can retort, fuming with rage as he stomps away.
Heâd taken a liking to your fighting style despite his distaste for the arena. Strategic and skilled, brute strength and a drive that was built around pure survival but somehow all while maintaining the perfect amount of gracefulness that men did not. Constant calculation, finesse, it was like an art.
Heâs gone through several guards over his rule, some from sacrifice but others out of pure ignorance. He needed a strong base, malleable but resistant. He could shape you into a leader, he thinks. He knows.
Your hard stare is like ice as the keys jingle into the lock, a defining click a resounding echo of freedom and General Acacius extends his palm.
A gesture of freedom, a new life, trepidation fills you despite your yearn for a way out of this prison. Here it was, served up on a platter covered in intricate facets of white and gold, stubble brushing his cheeks and soft brown eyes offering kindness.
This was not a man of sheer violence, not the tales they tell about himâthis was a man of trouble, conflict, and an instinct to protect himself. And heâd chosen you.
Your hands slips into his, a similar roughness to match his own and scars that Acacius knew well enough ofâyou were a true fighter, a warrior.
The two boysâcalling the men would be too easy, they often acted like spoiled children, were already off to their own chambers, and Acacius had only dropped his hard facade slightly, still under the watchful eye of Romeâs guards, he led you onto your new life.
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âI cannot accept,â You argue, as respectful as you could manage, hands crossed firmly over your front, near your waist as you spoke to General Acacius in his private office at home, a place few have stepped foot into, but yet somehow, again, you were given a free pass.
âAre you refusing my order?â Acacius counters, thereâs pillowyness to his tone, almost taunting.
âSirâer, General,â It was all new to you, formalities, structure, rules, âIâŠam a woman.â
âI am not blind,â Acacius squints his eyes slightly, before leaning back in the creaky chair, âmy menâthey will not question my choices. They listen, they do their duties. They need strong leadership. Gladiator, I believe you can bestow that upon them.â
âI am a stranger to you, you know nothing of me,â You tell him, a full truth, âGeneral, I fear you may have made the wrong decision, I am not what you think Iââ
Silently, Acacius fingers curl around the handle to a drawer hidden behind his desk, pulling out a sharp knife with a handle carved of bone, twisting it in his grip before heâs rearing his arm back, throwing it in your direction.
It zips by with force, the tip of the knife snagging and burying itself deep into the wall behind you, your head whipping to the side to follow it, the sharp blade barely missing the skin of your ear.Â
Quick reflexes. You turn back to a smirking Acacius.
âI am positive, had I thrown that between your eyes you would have caught it without overthinking the consequencesâmost of my men would do the same,â Acacius lectures, standing with his brutish frame and walking toward the wall, the soft flow of a breeze kissing at your fists.
âThough, I have another proposition,â Acacius says lightly, twisting the knife in his hand, the pointing spinning against his fingertip as he circles around you, ââattack me.â
âSir,â You argue, âthat surely defeats the purpose ofââ
His fist balls up tight and aims for your side. Acacius sees it, the anticipation as you block his hand. He chuckles underneath his breath, âPlease, continue,â He teases, twisting out of your grip to pull another punch that you block with easeâhe was going easy, you think.
Natural reaction takes hold and his test quickly turns into a full-out brawl, twisting and slipping underneath his grip until you have him pinned against a nearby wall, teeth bared with his forearm pressed against his throat, struggling to grip his free arm.
The real test is here, as Acacius bares the knife near your neck, an immediate reaction to protect yourself rather than go for the kill shot, knowing that anyone of normal skill would be too full of bloodlust to think of anything other than killing you. Protection and defense came first, taking the small nick of a cut to your own forearm before youâre knocking the knife out of his hand and wrestling him to the ground with a swift kick to his leg, rendering him helpless.
âIndeed, you are exactly what I think you are,â Acacius says with finality, âI want you to lead my personal guard. Whatever it is I must do to obtain that, my lady I will doâriches, briberyââ
You push away from him with a heavy exhale, standing and adjusting your clothes, brushing your hair away from your face, âNo need, I will do it.â
Acacius rolls to his back, hand extending once more.Â
This time, it is you offering the help as he uses the leverage to rise to his feet before speaking to you with a triumphant tone.Â
âCommander,â He grins, âlet us plan.â
â
He often asks of your lineage, your home. But, there is nothing to offer. A long conquered piece of land now under the rule of Rome and a home that was never a home. An orphan you had always been, nameless, taking greedily whatever name was bestowed upon you.Â
In the arena it was Medusa, the tale of a vicious woman with god-like power. Caracalla had told you of the story, the boys having taken a liking to you in different ways. Geta was fiendish, hungry, often seeking you out for his own pleasure to which you wouldnât deny. Couldnât. He could be rough, but he wasnât.
He seemed lonely, the poor boy.
Carcalla was only searching for a friend despite his unruly, chaotic nature. When he wasnât ruling with tyranny over Rome, terrorizing the townspeople, he was telling you stories.
Other times it was only she. Or her. Or just girl. The girl.
You were only what people assumed of you, expected you to be.
âMedusa, ay?â A greasy looking man confirms, one of the six men who were to be under your command, âThe gladiator?â
âYou will respect her,â General Acacius had warned them, âor an apology will be your dying breath.â
It had struck most of them with fear. Most of them.
And for many nights, countless, it seemsâthe transition of leadership was smooth. You had an unyielding grip on them, awaiting direction, following your orders. It was the kind of rush most would only dream of, and as a woman, it was an unforeseen privilege.Â
âThey address you as Medusa, too,â Acacius notes during a roundtable session as the other men wander off for dinner, âdo you wish for them to address you differently?â
âI have no name, General,â You admit, âI am whatever I must be. If they think of me as so, that is what I am. Though, I would love to turn a few of them into stone, given I was granted her powers.â
âI believe you could manage that feat without them,â Acacius jokes, ââbut, nameless? Even at birth?â
âI know nothing of my birth parents. They told me I was found wrapped in cloth under the bridge that led into the town your army eventually turned to rubble,â A bittersweet feeling, speaking unusually out of term, facing him with the facts, âthough, it does not matter. I enjoy the fear they have of me, keeps wandering hands at bay.â
Such an enigma, Acacius eyes you curiously. It was the most youâve opened up to him since retrieving you from your cell, and even then, still forcing him to face the consequences of war.
The guilt followed him at every waking moment.
âDo you need anything further of me, General?â You ask politely, âYou have spoiled my appetite as of late and your men are greedy with the stew.â
âYou are dismissed,â He speaks distantly, turning over the thick, coarse paper with a drawn out map of the territory they were to invade soon, a lingering well wish leaving his lips, âsleep well, commander.â
Unfortunately, youâve turned to sleeping with a knife under your bedrollâwith a lingering ache of betrayal, you werenât allowing yourself to lower your guard.
-
The attacks do not start at night. Rather during the day, when the General is off and away, scouting ahead further when half of his army while the other half sticks at camp, keeping claim.
That is when the insults come, the disbelief, the mockery.
Most of his men settled with the idea, having accepted your position even if it displeased them.Â
But, there was one. Like a bullâhardheaded and stocky, fists and arms like clubs, testosterone radiating from his body in crashing waves. He wants you to fear him, submit to him.Â
You feel it. You see it. And youâve been through it before, other large and brutish gladiators thinking with their muscles rather than their brains. It wouldnât take long for them to meet their demise, but this one wasâŠdifferent.
He approaches you with a smile than anyone could see right through, a finger brushing your cheek as he pushes a strand of hair behind your ear, leaning in to brush his lips against the shell of it.
âThey are hungry,â He drips of vicious intention, ââI say, you give us a show. Entertain us, Medusa.â
Your eyes snap to him, staring him down.
âPitiful Acacius isnât here to save you,â He warns, âthough, I have reason to believe he is as weak as most menâspread your legs and heâll be begging for a taste, too.â
âI will gut you where you stand,â You warn, reaching for the thick machete at your waist, âyouâre like a pig. Brainless and greedy for whatever you can get. Touch me, I dare you.â
The rest of the men are relatively quiet, but they do not stop him. Smirks and half-smiles hidden behind their cups, lounging on a log near their tents, enjoying the entertainment.Â
It was nightfall, the fire crackling between you and them, a towering presence at your backside.
And as he dares to, his hand slides up your waist.Â
Without hesitation you flip the weapon in your grip, grabbing at his wrist and slicing at his armâa featherlight touch, it was merrily a glorified papercut, but his eyes widened in shock.
âLet us see how well you touch without fingers,â You threaten, flipping the machete until it is pointing in his face, death grip on the handle if he dared to take it, taunting him with the sharp end of your blade, âhands?â
That deep, rumbling sound of hooves approaches through the darkness, everyone slowly falling back into their paces as you welcome back your General with a forced smile.
Acacius hands off the reins to another rider, taking scope of the situation that seemed to be defusing in front of him, but stillâhe notices. His eyes trade glances between you both before he nods at you to follow him.
Speaking under his breath, âThe others have coined you as fury,â He laughs softly at the pseudonym, âlittle fury, they tell me. Like the Furies. I cannot say I disagree with them. Has he been pestering you long?â
Your brow furrows at the reference, lost on your ill-informed mind.
âLong enough,â You answer honestly, âthough, he was bestowed a parting gift this time.â
You raise your blade, his blood still painting the weapon.
He raises the curtain to his tent, allowing you to enter before him.
âDo you know nothing of the Furies?â
âI was not privy to bedtime tales, General.â
He nods, thoughtful as his lips pull together in a thin line, slowly removing his armor as he sits, directing for you to take a seat opposite of him, a few feet away on a decaying stump.
âGoddesses,â He states simply, âof vengeance, striking the wicked down. You haveâŠfire, deep within you. Do not let them put it out, it is your weapon.â
You nod obediently, feeling the humidity stick to your skin, clothes glued to your body as you sit in the uncomfortable heat. There was no world in which you felt safe enough to strip down, quell your body of this unbearable summer weather. You would rather suffer, thick garb covering your body.
Acacius tilts his head, but does not comment.
âI require your protection tomorrow, we must scout an additional day and I fear danger is imminentârelay this to them,â He instructs, âand my lady, if you fear they will visit you at night, that they might strike when youâre vulnerable, you are welcome here.â
He already anticipates your responseâhe knows, but the gesture was an offer. A kindness.Â
âIf they try, you will be searching for new men by sunrise, General.â
Acacius smirks in amusement, nodding to your words.
âIt would not be difficult to replace them,â He notes, âthough, little fury, you are irreplaceable.âÂ
-
General Acacius wasnât an easy man to protect, but you managed. Over the few weeks that you had taken point within his guard it has leant you plenty of opportunities to prove your worth, slaughtering opposing soldiers like cattle for the glory of Rome, his booming voice pronouncing vie victis as the dead are laid rest under fire and smoke.
But, conflict comes when you are faced with a decision as the camp was raided under complete, utter darkness. It was your shift to guard the General, perched outside of his tent with constant, roaming eyes. Eventually, you drift. It was peaceful, nature taking hold and pulling you under, awoken to the sound of blood curdling screams, the ground painted with the innards of both Acaciusâ men and the others.
You were forced with a choiceâdefend the camp, something Acacius would have told you to do in a moment of desperation, a self-sacrificing man himself. Ironic, given your position, that you even think otherwise. Of course, your feet pull you toward him, whipping the flowing fabric of his tent door back.
There was a knife at his neck, a man towering over him. Heâd snuck pastâtaken advantage of your exhaustion and your mistake was putting the Generalâs life at risk, his face stoic as he pushed back against the blade with his palm.
Without thinking, you rush toward the man, pulling back at his collar to plunge the knife pointed at Acacius into his own throat, a silent death through the notch of his neck, the blood flowing out like a river, tossing the lifeless man to the side before youâre reaching for your General.
âDo not worry,â He assures you as he rises, still groggy from sleep, âgoâprotect our camp.â
âBut, General,â You plead, not realizing that your hand was grasping on his own, or that he had initiated the touch as a gentle push, a confirmation that he was truly alright, âit is my fault.â
His eyes peer behind you and to the man lying lifeless on the floor, blood pooling around his body.
âThough, it seems you have done your duty,â Acacius comments, head turned down as he stares at the body before his eyes peer up at you under his dark lashes, pensive, ânowâkill them.â
-
You had lost a hundred or so men, nothing to the army of five thousand, but any loss was felt within General Acaciusâ armyâmen of honor, with families or not, deserved a proper farewell.Â
Covered in the blood of many, some of your friends and some of strangers, hair matted and reeking of death, you approach General Acacius who was sending off a group of men to begin digging the mass grave to dispose of the bodies.
Your body ached, bruised and nicked from battleâyou had killed at least five hundred men alone. Pure rage and fury, not a memory of it as you approached him now, a blank stare void of emotion that concerns Acacius, his hand reaching for your wrist as you begin to pass him, heading for your own tent to collapse in exhaustion.Â
âYou did well,â He notes, catching your gaze as he turns his head to infiltrate your line of sight, âwash off before you turn in, youâŠreek. Thereâs a river beyond the bendâclean, warm.â
You nod despite only paying half-attention to his words, walking mindlessly toward the river before you are faced with the unfortunate crowd of men, undressed to their natural state, avoiding the watchful eyes and preying gazes, stripping your armor off down near the empty end of the river, pulling at your tangled hair, pulling off each remaining piece of clothing despite your bodyâs protest, screaming for relief.
It wasnât unfamiliar, the looksâyou bathed alongside all the men under the arena without a thought, knowing most of them were vying for freedom and wouldnât dare risk it by allowing their cocks to work overtime, forgetting rational thought.
But, to them, you were a trophy. Someoneâsomething, to be conquered.
The thin, flimsy undergarments come off last, stepping into the water and sinking down slowly. The blood washes away as you scrub, back turned as you dip your head into the water before committing entirely, plugging your nose as you dip underneath the water, finding peace in the silence.
âI had my doubts, Medusa,â A voice bellows from behind as you rise, your eyes peeling open with a quickly growing annoyance, âof you being a true woman, butââ
âCareful,â One of the men warned, a stable boy, âshe will run to the general.â
It was the same man from many nights ago, big and brutish, always looking for a fight, even with the other men. He hadnât learned his lesson, clearly.Â
âAcacius is busy,â He retorts, âsoâwhat say you give us the show you owe us?â
You stand frozen in place, staring daggers at the man who seems only more amused as the anger in you builds, permeates.
(sa themes below: noncon touching, reader is naked in front of several men)
âGet out of the water,â He demands, âunless you prefer I come get you.â
You survey your choices, knowing that staying in the water wasnât a safe option. They can and will wait you out. Your eyes track toward your clothes, further away than you had left them. Your eyes track the scar on his forearm and you smirk, teething peeking out behind your lips, âHow beautiful,â You tell him, his eyes slowly following your own, âquite the scar, is it not? Fancy another?â
You spot the knife sheathed in his leather belt, taking your chances despite the vulnerability that remains with your naked frame on full display as you retreat from the water, he nods with confidence as you approach, a faint whistle in the distance that youâve heard before. The oaf seems to ignore it, though. His large hand comes to your breast in an instant, body dripping wet and a sickness churning in your gut as the sticks of torch and fire approach amongst the murmuring crowd of men, less than subtle about the rowdiness that was ensuing.
He pulls you into his body with a greedy hunger as his opposite hands gropes at your backside, following the curve of your ass as your hand snakes toward the blade, but the voice that rips through the crowd is enough to wake the dead, silence falling over the area in an instant.
âRemove your hand,â Acacius voice travels, the same booming voice he uses to declare victory over a new territory, âor I will remove it myself.â
âGeneral,â The man addressed in a drunkish manner, inviting, âshe was offeringâMedusa, tell him.â
Your silence is expected, his hand wandering toward your other breast, biting hard enough at the inside of your cheek that it draws bloodâAcacius sees your hand wrapping around the blade and speaks again, approaches closer as the mud sticks to his boots, âI will tell you once more. Remove it.â
The man eyes you with disdain, dropping his hands away as you relinquish your hold of his weapon, allowing the breath caught in your chest to escape, but it doesnât stop the touch that follows, taunting with its intention as his palm curls around the back of your head, tilting your head to the side as he squeezes, âI forgetâyou are the Generalâs property after all.â
(end of sa themes)
âTake him,â He orders the other lingering guards, men whoâve never shown you anything other than respectâthey value their lives and limbs, as any sane person would, âand start the fire.â
Acacius looks around at the lingering eyes, âI suggest all of you return to camp. Now.â
That was all it took, most of them scrambling for their own clothes and armor as they retreated like scurrying mice or dogs with their tail between their legs, leaving you under Acacius' careful gaze. He reaches down to fetch you dirtied clothes, looking them over with disgust.
He removes the black cape around his shoulders without a word, opening it as an offering. Desperate to cover yourself, you slip your arms in the sleeves with his help, his eyes wandering no further than your face as you turn to him, tucking the cape around yourself. He reaches for the hood, pulling it down.
âCome,â He demands, âI would like you to witness.â
â
The screams are audible as you approach camp, a few feet behind Acacius as he rounds the fire and separates the crowd to create a path, approaching the man bound at his feet, one arm roped at his side and secured away, leaving him to fight the men that held him down.
âGeneral, genâgeneral, I am sorry,â He pleads, âsheâyou do not understand, she taunts. She is poison, not a leader,â He continues, despite Acacius lack of response, making a motion with his hand to remove the manâs weapon and hand it to him, pulling it from itâs leather cover and examining the blade, he makes a soft sound to himself, âAcaciusâyou have known me for years. Do not let this woman trick you.â
âGag him,â He ignores his pleading, leaning down to grip the hand of the man bound below, âyour humility is amusing, but your greed is what is costing you. She has shown you mercy, but I will not.â
The cut isnât a clean slice, either. It takes several swings before the limb detaches, blood spurting out of the appendage as the man screams in pain, dragged helplessly toward the fire before theyâre cauterizing the woundâyour body unreactive as you watch but silently stewing with frustration.
He had spared the man, sure. But, making a show of it? A mockery?
âCommander, with me,â General Acacius demands, waiting for you to snap back into reality, your eyes meeting his face, blood covering his armor and hands, somehow avoidant of most of the mess.
When you are alone, you donât hold back.
âI would have handled him,â You tell him, âkilled him myself.â
âThis is not the arena, we do not go around slaughtering our men without reason,â Acacius retorts, âhe will be demoted and replaced and be a reminder to the others that youââ
âI do not need you defending my honor, General.â
âMen will not change, thisâsociety, it does not cater to your safety. To them, women are nothing but vanity and pleasureââ
âAnd property,â You remark, âlest you forget how you obtained me, General.â
Acacius approaches you near the table at the center of his tent, only a foot away as he removes his armor plate, pulling it over his head, âHad I not, you would have paid for your own freedom eventually. I needed a leaderâstrong, smart, powerful.â
âBy punishing that man, you are sending the message that I need my battles fought for me,â You argue, âand as if these men did not already think I was the Generalâs plaything, what will they think now?â
Acacius sighs through his nose, pulling at the fabric of his tunic that bares his chest, âI believe they will behave,â He tells you, âbecause you will not be as kind when you take their heads. He was an example and a pain in my ass for years, he deserved more than that.â
âAnd what will they think of me now? I am naked under this cloak, your cloak. I must walk the path back to my tent surrounded by men deprived of the things your bestial minds crave.â
Acacius chuckles to himself, âI have been thinking,â He begins, âthat you deserve a new name. Something indicative of all that you are. Some of the men award each other with monikers of war. Medusa seems to have become more of a taunt, in light of recent events.â
He unties the leather bands at his wrist, eyeing you with a mischievous gaze as he keeps you waiting, âHave you heard the tale of Minerva, my lady?â
It isnât a surprise, but you shake your head.
âA goddess of many thingsâstrategy, warfare, victory, and justiceâŠbut mostly importantly, wisdom. I have seen the way you command the battlefield, it is not lost on me.â
âYou haveâŠmany stories, General.â
âMy mother told me one every night as she tucked me, it seems they have stuck with me.â
Tell me more, the words linger in the back of your throat.
âI am barely standing, General. I must retire for the night.â
âIndeed,â He agrees, shamelessly stripping down to his undergarments to walk toward the clean bowl of water and wash away the drying blood, âand Minerva,â the name is completely foreign, but you respond with a hum, âyour position is yours alone. You have earned it. Do not let them tell you otherwise.â
-
Like Medusa, the name sticks.
And thankfully, you were a few weeks away from a much-earned break from war, returning to Rome as a free woman for the first time, having finally fallen into a comfortable rhythm with the rest of his personal guardsâa mutual respect that had been missing, men waiting for your command.
Long nights of planning spent in Acacius tent, surrounded by the other guards until they filter out one by one, growing curiosity and questions lead to many hours of conversation that you, for many months, had been deprived of in the arena.
âYou did promise my return,â You remind him, âthey will be expecting you to keep that.â
âThey are young, fickle men,â Acacius berates with amusement, âI am sure they have moved on.â
âDo you fear them? The emperors?â
âThey are spoiled brats,â Acacius responds, an answer in itself.
âThey would visit me often,â You admit, âCaracalla seemed to beâit seems the syphilis in his loins was truly affecting his brains, often he would not even make sense. Or he would come to me, complaining of his brother.â
âYou had built quite the rapor,â Acacius notes with a smile, sipping at the broth from his stew as he invites you to sit on his fancy, expensive bed cot. Much nicer than your own, cushioned and wrapped in velvet, âWhat of Geta?â
âHe liked my breasts,â You begin bluntly, âand myââ
âHe forced himself upon you?â
âI was property of Rome, Acacius,â You didnât often say his name in such a relaxed way, blaming it on the full belly and exhaustion, âtherefore I was his. I have suffered much worse than a lonely man searching for comfort.â
Acacius seems thoughtful, pensive as he stirs at his quickly diminishing stew. He does catch your lingering gaze on his face after a while, mesmerized by the scar underneath his eye, he encourages you.
âAsk, if you are so curious, my lady,â He places his bowl to the side, empty.
âYour scar,â You nod, pressing your finger in a mirroring way under your eye, âis there a story?â
âNothing to be told with boast,â He chuckles, âa wound of battle, is all. Like many of the scars on my body,â He tells you, raising his naked forearm to display the various scars, noting the few that paint his clavicle, âand you, Minerva?â
It seems to have become a particular quirk of his, a lilt to his voice as he calls you by your given nameâthe others have become accustomed to it, too. But, with Acacius, it felt special. Treasured.
You raise your eyebrows at his question, quietly unlacing your top to pull it down your shoulder, sliding a hand over your breast to respect the dynamic between you bothâhim being your general and you, his subordinate. His eyes squint as he examines the jagged and staggered scar on the side of your breastsânot quite faded, healed but relatively fresh.
âHe is a biter,â You warn him with amusement, âGeta.â
Only one scar, given by one of the emperors, somehow untouched from real battle. It was miraculous. You readjust your top, feeling the heat from your neck rise to your face at what you had just willingly offered over to Acacius. Unfortunately, he had a way of lowering your guard.
With that talk, it seemed like a true breakthrough in your partnership with Acacius.
He always allowed you to speak for yourself, never overstepping the boundary you had argued with him over, leading the charge with an iron fist and handling the younger, fresh faced soldiers who just seemedâŠlost.Â
It was hard to ignore the lingering glances over time, often during meetings as you spoke, not a look of attention but ratherâŠravishing. Hungry, but in a subdued manner. You werenât sure where the lines had blurred, but they had.
Possibly somewhere within the long nights of conversation or the lingering touches that shouldnât have been as charged as they were, handing over a piece of armor or blade and his calloused fingertips would circle your wrist, pause, before his brain would catch up to his actions.Â
âGo on,â He encourages after a final night of victory and triumph, many of the men howling and singing tunes around the fire, drinking from their cups and enjoying the pleasures of alcohol and comradery, âyou are missing the fun,â He was unnaturally quiet, subdued to his quarters, leaning against the outside of his tent as he watched with amusement but subtle dismay.
A younger man approaches with his hand extended, a gleeful expression on his face, âMinerva, pleaseâcome, you must enjoy the party, too.â
The general gives you an expectant look as you let the young man lead you away, curling his fingers around your own and pulling you with vigor, cheering loudly to blend in with the energy of the men despite how you worry about the man several feet away, your eyes tracking his disappearing figure as he slips into his tent, eventually pulled away by another man, one of the guardsmen who adored you, asking for a dance.
You agree hesitantly as the crowd roars louder, eyes searching for the exact reason as you see a few men leading a line of women into camp, little clothing to allow them modesty, a less than subtle shushing come from the men as they lead them deeper into camp, and the fear in you tells you to run to the General.
âIt is not what you think,â The young man tells you, âthey are dancersâno harm willââ
You bypass him, straight toward the men leading the path, stopping them cold.
âThey are not here against their will, my lady.â He assures you, though, that could be argued.
âMinerva, Acacius has made it clear that harming women, youâis far worse a crime than anything else. Truly, it is not what you believe it to be.â
âI am telling the General, informing him of their presence,â You admit, âso I suggest you and the rest of the cattle be on your best behavior?â
They both give crisp, curt nods.
As you make the direct line for Acaciusâ tent, you are ignorant to his silent plea for privacy at the tied rope, intertwined with gold fabric, pushing apart the fabric doors without much of a thought, reality hitting you as you catch a glimpse of his naked frame, patting down his body with a clean cloth as he washed himself, other hand curved around his cock as he stretched his neck up and back, the water splashing as he dipped the towel into the basin, only aware of your present when you make a small, unrecognizable sound as a result of your own stupidity.Â
âIâGeneral,â Your eyes widen as they take on a mind of their own, straight down the valley of his chest as he turns to you, quickly spinning on your heels, âI should haveâI apologize, uh, the menâŠthey areââ
âI was informed,â He assures, âand they have been warned, I assure you.â
âYes, hmâum,â It was the only time Acacius had seen you flustered
âI assumed the rope was a clear message,â Acacius teases, âbutâit is not your fault. I should have informed you of theirâŠantics.â
He pulls the tight, fabric shorts over his hips, clearing his throat, peering over your shoulder you breathe a sigh of relief, âGeneral, I would like to apologize forââ You swallow, watching as he turned barefoot on his heels, the fabric of the immodest undergarments curving around the stretch of his cock, half-hard under the fabric and the outline of thick head pushing against the linen.
You donât realize how long youâre staring until heâs approaching with a tap of his finger on the underside of your chin, âThere is no need for that,â He assures you, your nose scrunching up in confusion at the sudden touch, feeling the subtle shift as he reaches behind you for the clothes folded on the table at your backside, âsurely you must return to the party,â He encourages, âcelebrate a well-earned victory.â
âWhy?â You counter, âWhen you will not.â
âMinerva,â He warns.
âYou are distracted,â You note, watching as Acacius now avoids your gaze, âit is worrying me.â
He cannot admit the reason why. That it may be you.Â
âAcacius,â You call his name, hoping that will break through to him.
âLeave me,â He asks, rather than demanding, âI need to rest.â
It was a lie, but you do not fight him on it.
â
Silence blankets the camp in the early morning hoursâthe witching hours, as youâve come to know them. Sleeping securely in your tent, bedroll tucked under your head as you drift. Unaware of the creeping men planning your untimely demise, assuring that the entire camp was asleep before they strike, arms and legs rendered useless as the third shoves a piece of cloth into your mouth and ties it around the back of your head, screams muffled behind the fabric, stripped of your weapons. Helpless, they think.
During the struggle, one of them grows frustrated, banging the hard rock against your skull and plunging you back into darkness.
When you come to, you are unclear of where you are, but it was outside, arms above your head against the thick limb, feet bound tight as well, a sting and a string of wetness running down the side of your face as your blurry vision becomes clear.
âLittle Minerva,â the voice begins mockingly, all too familiar to your ears, âhe has named youâyou must feel special, ay?â
He kneels in front of you, the one hand he has left curling around the forearm of what was left of his other appendage, âAnd you expect to return back to Rome as a free woman,â He laughs, snorts wetly through his nose, âI assure you that will not happen. Rather, you will be a dead one.â
The other two lingering figures join in on the laughter.
âHow did you say it?â He taunts, âI will gut you where you stand?â
âIt took three of you to capture me,â You retort, âyour confidence is lacking sorely.â
He clears the back of his throat, rearing up a ball of saliva in his mouth before heâs spitting at you.
âI will slaughter all of you with my hands,â You promise, âuntie me, unless you are fearful.â
Driven by ego, it doesnât take much for him to agree.
But, as he had underestimated you the first time, and the second, he would regret the third.
The two men come at you first, enough tussling and your teeth ripping into the ear of one of them, searching blindly for a thick, heavy and sharp edge branch that would handle the weight of piercing through skin and muscle, finding the right weapon at the perfect momentâthe attacker rearing back as the other approached, driving the make-shift stake through his chest as the other tackled you to the ground, a poor miscalculation on his part as you get your legs around his neck, arms pinned at an painful, awkward ankle until his neck snaps from the force, the ox-like man awaiting in the shadows like a coward, blood spilling from your mouth as you scream.
The heavy hooves approach like roaring thunder and the instant your attacker catches on, his attempts to flee are ruined by the barricade of men at all angles, General Acacius at the head of the charge, a rageful expression on his face. Feral unlike you have ever seen.
He jumps off of his horse, ordering the men to capture the surviving man once again, looking around at the lifeless bodies beside you, assuring his men he would handle you and the mess, demanding they return to camp at once.Â
You look around aimlessly, blood staining your face as Acacius struggles to capture your attention, eventually resorting to a strong, demanding hold on your face, cradling your head with his hands.
âAre you wounded?â He asks, then notices the trail of blood from your scalp, pushing away the hair to reveal with gash from the rock they had attacked you with, grimacing as he runs his finger over the wound in worry.
Suddenly, you are stricken with a need, âGive me your sword,â You tell him, eyes flicking up to meet his own, âI need your sword.â His movements are too slow, still concerned with you that you reach for the weapon yourself.
Pulling away, you approach one of the dead men with the sword, swinging it up over your head and down with force, beheading him in one go, before switching to the other man, less finesse as you swingâagain and again, until there is nothing but a pool of blood, bone, and brainâAcacius steps in eventually, tossing the sword away as he holds you arms in his fierce grip, letting the screams rip from your chest as he sways with you, eventually falling to your knees in exhaustion. He uses his bare hands to wipe the blood away from your neck, your face, feeling the soft shake of your body as you sob in silence, overcome with an emotion you so rarely let surface.
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The public execution follows the next morning, everyone rousing from their tents to the loud, blaring horn from the ship just off shoreâAcacius had assisted you back to camp on his horse, slumped against his back as you rode until the trampling finally stopped, sliding off the horse and into Acaciusâ arms as he led you inside his tent.
He didnât sleep the entire night, watching over you insteadâhe rarely blinked, staring off into nothingness as he tried to keep the vicious rage at bay, by morning, he was itching.
âYou may stay,â He tells you, âyour headâI cleaned it while you slept.â
You shove his hand away as he attempts to help you sit, slowly dressing yourself, eventually putting together the fact that Acacius had undressed and bathed you at some point throughout the night, not a speck of blood or spit remaining.
âAre you ordering me to stay?â
Acacius shakes his head, his hand still hovering close by.
âThen I will attend.â
He doesnât argue against it and there is, despite your weariness to admit, a relief of your chest as Acacius rears back his blade, silencing the final scream the man lets out, pleading for his life. The blood sprays over his face, a strong grimace at the sheer strength it takes to behead the man, but the general manages it with one strike of his blade.
His speech follows, a deep and unsettling warning to all of his men. A final one.
Men, wide-eyed with fear, agree without resistance before he sends them off to ready the ship for departure and a meal before they begin their long trek back to Romeâhe is less than gentle as he grabs your wrist without warning and pulls you alongside him, back to his tent.
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He ties the rope with a stiff tug, before turning to you, stumbling on your feet as pull off his cape, having offered it to you for a second time, assuring that dressing in your usually armor wasnât needed today, not as you began your travels, a flowing dress tied at your shoulder and waist that you were used to wearing during the showings back in Rome, parading you around like a prize.
âAcacius, perhaps you should sit,â You suggest, watching his hands curl into fists at his sides before heâs spinning on his heels and toward you, cradling your face like he had the night prior, but even this close, it felt like he was trying to keep you at a distance, ââI am sorry, if I did somethingââ
âI crave you,â Acacius admits, âyou must know.â
Your lips part, gearing up the courage to speak, but falling short.
âNights I have spent,â He breathes, shaking his head, the curls tickling your forehead as they meet, âthinkingâwonderingââ
âAcacius, why now?â You question him, âAs we are homebound, back to your wife. Surely, she would have my head.â
Acacius shakes his head with a soft, but fond laugh.
âOur marriage is complex,â He explains, âSomething I do not care to explain in great detail at this moment, you seeâ,â His hand curves around the side of your neck, tilting your head up, lips grazing against his own as he speaks, âI had no such intention for things to get like this, but you have proven to make thingsâŠdifficult, for me,â He breathes out through his mouth, his eyes opening slowly to meet yours, âand I need you, should you have me.â
You could easily deny him, knowing he would back off in an instant. But, like this, clearly driven by adrenaline and instinct, riding the high of such a charged execution, he was craving something deeper than an outlet to release the built up tension.Â
He craved connectionâthrough little moments of conversation and touches, someone at level-ground, an equal. You were his equal. Heâd given you so much since, and you would be lying to yourself if you denied the thoughts that had riddled your mind too.
âI do not much prefer a soft touch,â You finally reply, âor gentle care.â
He silences you with a kiss, bruising and tense as he licks into your mouth, hungrily searching for more areas to taste and devour, licking along the column of your neck as the blood of another smeared into your skin, his fingers working quietly to undo your dress, in turn wrestling with his armor and clothes, nearly ripping the fabric of his shirt from his body as you claw at him.
Wet kisses and clashing tongues fill the silent room, a screeching sound as your back hits the roundtable before heâs lifting from the back of your thighs and scooting you onto the surface, naked and bare as he spreads your thighs apart to move between them, clearly restraining himself as he licks, teeth grazing carefully.
âI enjoy them,â You admit, âDo not hold back, Acacius. They are what I will keep with me, if this be the only time.â
Like a dog cut loose of his chain, his teeth sink into the breasts mirror the mark of the other, hissing as his teeth break through the skin just enough for the subtle trickling of blood to rise to the surface before heâs soothing the wound with his tongue, staring up at you through a half-lidded gaze, prowling for more. He dips lower, falling to his knees as he pulls you toward the end of the table, ass hanging near the edge as his teeth sink into your thigh, near the swell of your cunt as you moan, fingers digging into sweaty, matted curls.
âAcacius,â You plead breathily, âI want your mouth.â
Whereâit did not matter. But, Acacius fulfills that need as he licks a broad strip through your cunt, nose buried in the coarse curls, still smelling of the fresh soap he had bathed you in, taking delicate care as he washed your body, letting you slump into him, soaking him in the process.Â
âYes, thatââ You respond airily, eyes fluttering shut as his tongue dips inside of you, swirling your slick around on his tongue and sucking harshly at your clit, staring up at you daringly from his position beneath you, unwavering, âoh, gods aboveâŠâ
Acacius chuckles below you,the sound vibrating against your cunt as your moans increase rapidly, thick fingers dipping inside your pulsating core, âThis highâit feels likeââ
He rises to press a kiss against your stomach, climbing, tongue licking over your belly button and between your breasts, ââlikeâŠâ He encourages, âcome on, my lady, do not sell out on me now,â
âLike a battle high,â You admit with a faint laugh, âthough, different, butâŠ.â
He understands, driven by unbridled need, uncapped adrenaline.Â
âWell, vae victis,â He taunts, ânowâcome here,â He squeezes at your hips and pulls you to him, his cock stiff, throbbing between your legs before he is twisting and spinning you around, feet planting against the ground as he bends you over, fisting himself tight as he rubs his thick cock head between your folds, watching as your wetness coats him, sinking into your fluttering hole with little resistance, a sweet cacophony of noises releasing from your throat as you grip onto nothing, hand curling into a fist as you moan, open-mouthed and shameless.
âHarder,â You beg, forcing the word out between thrusts, blunt fingernails clawing at your hips, attempting to pull you in closer despite your proximity, as if he could consume and even that wouldnât be enough, âAcacius, please.â
It was like instinct, his hand sliding up the back of your thigh to lift your leg up, pinning it upâup, until you feel the ache in your sore muscles as he holds you in place with a fist between the bend of your knee, heaving breaths at your neck as he fucks you into the hard surface of the table.
It was a pain you would feel in your bones, that would carry with you into the morning, marks that would last for longer, a remnant of this moment, the mess of blood smearing on your own skin as he melts against you, forehead resting against your shoulder as his gaze follows the movement of his hips, slow but powered thrusts that drilled into you, clawing at his skin to leave your own bruises. The hand that brushes against your core is your ultimate demise, feeling breathless as your orgasm pulls you under, muffled sobs into your fist as you bite down, fearful that it might draw attention. Though, Acacius seems preoccupied, still.
His hand seeks your neck, digging in as he pulled you up, âTo your knees,â He demands softly, your body moving out a memory, dropping to the floorâthough, the sight is much more tantalizing, Acacius fisting his cock tight, feral as he teeth were bared, like a man fresh from the slaughter, he comes with a deep and guttural groan, your tongue sliding against the underside of his bulbous head, thick spurts coating your tongue, his body shaking as you pull away, swallowing all that he had offered with a steady, locked gaze. He assists you upright, steadying you.
âFor a man who has such a distaste for unnecessary violence, you wear it well,â It wasnât a compliment, rather an observation, his eyes tracking your naked frame, fingertips tracing the curves of your body in admiration.Â
âYou are quite inspiring, Minerva,â He admits, gathering your thick dress and helping you redress in silence, tying the material around your body, ânot everyone deserves mercy.â
Your smile is rare, but it is beautiful. And he wasnât a man for such dramatics.
But, it could bring him to his knees, he thinks.
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Jujutsu Kaisen
unfortunately, I pick favorites
đȘ - will have dark undertones (or full blown black flags).
đ - will have smutty content.
⥠- a request fic I got
warnings will be put for the stories that have less traditional dark undertones. most of my work will have themes that may be unsettling or uncomfortable so please do not interact with these stories. this can include dubcon, toxic relationships, manipulative behavior, potential poor decision making on the Y/N perspective. I write things I find interesting and if that offends you, then please donât read.
Red in the title means its a WIP (typed up concept in my Docs just waiting to be finished/edited/published), and will hopefully be released soon.
Gojo x You (my golden boy makes me feral)
believe it or not, this man has his own masterlist
Gojo x You x Geto
â°ââ€Nanny đȘâsummary: Isekai'd into the world of Jujutsu Kaisen, you sell yourself to the Gojo Clan in an attempt to change your favorite characters fates. You change many things, and are able to see the boys grow peacefully. Yet now with them out of the clan house you find yourself in a predicament. Your arranged marriage. warnings: small age gap, abnorm dynamic
this is a series: a second?,
â°ââ€Sweeter ⥠đȘ đâ summary: entering high school only to be met with the two hottest strongest sorcerers of your generation was not something you were prepared for. so, what happens when they take a strange liking to their cute, sheltered underclassman?
this has a smutty p.2
Geto x You (he never comes far behind)
â°ââ€pretty (older and discontinued, but if you reallllly wanna read it?)
â°ââ€Pretty đȘâ summary: You're Gojo's cute little sister. And Suguru just cant get enough of you.
this is a series: did you want a 2?, a 3? and a 4?,
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â°ââ€Try the Priest đȘâ summary: Your best friend, Suguru Geto, has a warrant on his head. You hadn't heard from him since then, and you thought your friendship was as good as dead. So why is he on your front porch?
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â°â†My Leader đȘđ â summary: suguru geto was all for the betterment of the world--eradicating the non-sorcerers in society, and collecting people to stand in the new world with him. it's no different when he finds you--an untrained sorcerer, so eager and desperate for validation-- a hint at sanity when no one else could see the monsters around you. but what happens if he takes you in only to find himself changing his mind. warnings: pwp, voyeurism, gore, blood, murder, dark undertones, size kink smut, you aren't in your right mind either, fingering, marking, manipulation, belittling and teasing
Toge x You
Yuji x You
â°ââ€Shine đȘâ summary: You're a famous pop idol that Yuji adores. what more is there to say?
Megumi x You
â°ââ€Sheets đȘ â summary: Your arranged marriage to Toji Fushiguro had been sudden and unexpected, but now you found yourself living under his roof alongside his moody stepson. Your only directive from your clan head before moving in was clear: keep a close eye on Toji, the notorious Sorcerer Killer, and his son, a potential sorcerer prodigy. warnings: arranged marriage, forced marriage, violence, step-cest, mommy kinks, age gap
this is a series: another? , and another? , this 4?, a 5?, is that a 6?, did i spy a 7?, an 8th??, a 9, 10,
Toji x You
Choso x You
Yuta x You
â°ââ€Desperation đȘđ â summary: Yutaâs really gotta thing for you and youâve got one for him. warning: abnorm dynamic, knife play, borderline somno, dom material
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â°ââ€Yuuuuutttaaaa đȘ đȘ đ â summary: You and yuta have been best friends for years warnings: somno, dub/non- con, forced breeding, this oneâs a little intense
Nanami x You
AN: This anime has been my obsession for the last few months
I post updates in this community so feel free to check it out: https://www.tumblr.com/communities/obsessedjjk
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Eddie Munson x Fem!Reader {Dark}
Part 2: Run, Rabbit, Run {Steddie x Reader}
WC: 13.1 k
â ïž +18 MDNI, Slightly dark fic due to wickedness of characters, chasing kink, mentions of bones breaking, tendons splitting, dark woods, blood, knife play, explicit sexual scenes, many forms of Paraphilia described inside the story, owning kink, breeding kink, obsession.
Plot: Once a year, the Haunting Ground event takes place, where the prize is a White Rabbit. This year, the head of The Black Dragons decides to finally join the trial, and claim what is rightfully his. No matter who he has to take down for it.
Author's note: Well shit, I just... wanted to write something out of my comfort zone, and well... this happened. If I missed any warnings please say so, but I hope you enjoy this, and if you don't like any of the warnings above, please, don't read. There isn't any gore at all, js. Also, I didn't proofread this. Please SEE THIS ART of how Eddie ACTUALLY looks in this story. Can't thank Corpse enough for it!
You can always support me by hitting the reblog button with tags, and I always enjoy reading your comments!
BUNNY, BUNNY, BUNNY
The rules are simple:
1- You must keep running, only hide when threatened.
2- You can hurt your opponent, make them unable to keep moving, but you cannot kill them.
3- No water and no food will be provided.
4- No weapons except makeshift ones you may create with natural materials you find.
5- The chase ends once everyone has tapped out of it or one person was chosen.
6- Medical care will take out injured opponents, as well as waiting outside every exit in the woods.
He looked all around him in the big wide center of the room, a ball room. There was a big buffet, serving various kinds of foods to fill a whole army, as well as drinks, non alcoholic, were being served around. He scanned all around him, looking at the various masks everyone wore.
A wolf.
A fox.
A blank face.
A goat.
A clown.
There were many varieties, many kinds but mostly were in animal masks. Coming to this kind of event was not something he ever thought of doing, at least not by his own accord. But here he was, in a demon mask, a black skull that covered half of his face, with its black horns going up. He stood out, definitely stood out, and he noticed by all the faces turning towards him.Â
He was recognizable, his dark hair tied in a bun, his lips under the top sharp teeth of the skull mask, his eyes showing in the holes of the eye sockets, and then, unlike anyone else in the room, he was only wearing a blazer over his torso, leaving his skin exposed. People looked at him as if he were insane for doing this stunt, others thought he was cocky for trying to think he had a chance dressed like that, but others were simply scared of him.
Tonight, his name was Demon.
He glanced around once more to see the many different people he clearly recognized. Sons of rich families, looking for some fun, for some sense of victory that they can just get with daddyâs money. He also recognized the rings of various people that were only hired to enter this competition and win the prize for their boss. And then, there was him. The only Mafia Boss entering the competition, and thatâs why everyone was looking at him.
Mafia bosses donât often do the dirty work unless itâs a very important client, business or victim. In this case, there was a treasure he wanted, something he had been intrigued by ever since it was mentioned to him, and all he had to do was step over everyone else that was standing in this room with him.Â
There might be forty people, all waiting for the presentation to finally start. He knew the time to go out was coming close, so they should do it any time soon. A man stood next to him, and he immediately recognized his voice. Carver Jr. Son of the CEO of Kirasoft. Inc.Â
âI am telling you, this year she is getting caught, man.â He hears him say to the other guy next to him, who he didnât recognize, but probably from the same rich kind of family.
âCanât believe itâs been the same White Rabbit for three years⊠How did she manage to do it?â
The lights dimmed and he looked up at the ceiling, knowing there was a specific light that was above him, making him visible even in the dim room. He smirked and looked back down towards the stairs that lead down to the ballroom. He sees the man, the man who hosts this event, the man who gets the money of every single person that pays to participate.Â
âWelcome to the annual Haunting Ground night.â Claps were heard around Demon, but his hands were kept inside his front pockets as he waited for the man to continue his stupid speech. âEvery year we host this marvelous game, in which there is a prize to be won, a marvelous prize.â
The snicker in the manâs face made Demonâs blood boil, as his hands fisted in his pockets. The need to murder him, the need to see his flesh gush out as he talked was increasing, each second it passed. He looked around again, seeing all the women, the men, the people with masks, smiling with confidence towards the stage.Â
âHearing the rules for a third time is quite annoying.â Demon hears a woman talk next to him to another contestant. She had a deer mask on, her whole face covered so he didnât know who she was, but it didnât matter, none of the people inside the room mattered, the only one that did was the person in all white that was going to appear at the top of the stairs.Â
And no one, absolutely no one, was getting her except him.
âThe rules, you all know about them, but I want to remind you about the emergency beeper you all will have in your pocket. If endangered, if in extreme pain, or you just want to tap out of the contest, you press it, and the emergency team will know your location and come get you.â The man says and Demon only rolled his eyes to the sky, knowing he wonât be using it, but actually making other people use it.
The fact that he couldnât bring any weapons irked him. He always thought things like this would end in blood baths, but they were being pretty humane about this. Yet, he wanted to murder every single person in this room at the moment, because how dare they even try to steal her away from him? Not that he didnât kill a few past contestants from the past two years. He heard from the men that participated, that some had grabbed the White Rabbit, just by an inch, but a scratch here and there was done to her skin.
Of course he wasnât going to let them go unharmed for that.
âIf you endanger someone to the point of killing them, you will be disqualified and brought to authorities.â Demon scoffed at that. He has the police wrapped around his finger, and there is nothing anyone can do about it, but he will keep his hands to himself, as much as he can, just so he wouldnât be disqualified from this.Â
He could hear the whispers surrounding him, and also knew that they were about him. He was the most dangerous person amongst the people, and if anyone had a gram of brain cells, they would let him get the prize. But of course, he knows many will try to defeat him, try to throw him to the ground, hurt him, because there are also people from families he had destroyed during the years, just like his uncle did in the past.Â
Being the nephew of one of the biggest Mafia bosses didnât mean anything, you werenât automatically feared or respected just for being a direct link, a family member. You were respected when you were entrusted with the men, the organization and the operations at such a young age, and even more so, when you are not merciful at all, except when needed to.Â
Demon never hurt women or children, and the only time he had to kill a woman was because she had backstabbed his uncle, almost to the point of killing him. She was his right hand, but all this time, even if killing for him, she was planning on taking over him, completely over stepping on Demon. He found her taking out her gun when they were in a transaction between crews, and got her in time before she could actually take it out. His uncle fought that she was protecting him, but Demon saw how she was looking at the back of his uncleâs head, right as she got her hand inside her coat.Â
She was operating for the other crew they were doing a transaction with.
So of course, Demon immediately took care of it, eliminating her in front of her brother, the other boss that was sitting in front of his uncle, just so that he knows they are not to mess with. And Demon did all that, at the mere age of 17. Now, at 28 years old, he was a man to be feared, respected by many, and to never try to backstab him, in any sort of form or way.Â
But three years ago, he got fixated on something, on someone, when he visited the house of the Red Flies, the second most known Mafia family in the eastern states. He knew he was obsessed, he knew that he shouldnât even try to get her, but he was immediately swept by her presence, by her voice, by her eyes, in a way no one had made him feel before. This only happened when he locked eyes with her, a small smile appearing on her face, and he knew, he immediately knew, that she was meant to be his.
She was going to be his, no matter the cost.
âEveryone, I present to you, the White Rabbit.âÂ
And there she was, at the top of the staircase, with a spotlight over her head, the white rabbit mask covering half her face, with the ears going up to the ceiling. She was wearing a white short dress that stuck to the body but was loose at the end. Her lips were drawn into a thin line, as everyone was clapping at her, in awe, with desire in their eyes as well as ambition and greediness.Â
The reason why everyone wanted the White Rabbit was simple. They were from a high, a very high association, be it a company or a mafia gang, but they wanted out of that. The White Rabbit holds the power of bribery towards bosses, as well as threats and blackmail. More likely daughters and sons that want to destroy their own lineage.Â
Many people here knew who the White Rabbit was, but just by name, even if three years had passed. She was never caught, and she never gave herself to anyone because that can also be done. The White Rabbit can willingly choose who to go with if they so desire. And thatâs why Demon was with a smile to his face, his jacket still open as he looked at the White Rabbit. She was scanning the room, looking at all the contestants and then, her eyes landed on a torso, her eyes hazing over as she kept staring at his chest.
You see, Demon also possessed that knowledge, and of course, he studied her, knowing more than her name. Over the last three years he had sent his own men to participate in the trial, but with no intention of winning but just to see what the participants did and how she moved in the woods.Â
Demon knew her name, how she looked like, the sound of her voice, who her father was, and also, he knows the things she likes, the things she desires, the things that make her tremble, and thatâs why he is exposing his torso, and as she kept her eyes on him, a small grin appearing on her face, her tongue licking her bottom lip even slightly as her eyes clouded with pure lust, her mouth watering just at the pure sight of his tattooed chest and even more when he suddenly takes his tongue out, running his tongue piercing all over his top lip.
Stigmatophilia: Sexual Arousal for body modifications, such as piercings or tattoos.
âAlways looking like a diamond in the rough.â He heard Carver say, almost a mumble, and Demonâs blood was boiling already. How dare he look at her? How dare he even think he has a chance? How dare he touch or imagine touching something that was his? How fucking dare he even comment on his prize?Â
âWe all know how this goes. The White Rabbit will have an upper hand of five minutes to infiltrate the woods. Do not, by any means, hurt the White Rabbit. If the White Rabbit is caught, the decision to go with that person for a limited time, or to be completely owned, is up to them.â Demon smirked at those words. There is a contract the White Rabbit has to sign before submitting themselves as the prey. If they decide they want to do a temporary ownership of their body, then the contract is not signed by the captor. But if they do decide for a complete ownership of body and soul, the contract will be signed by both parties, kind of like a marital contract.
This was all in the Mafia organization of course, itâs not legal, but it is something to be respected in between the groups and companies. Demon does not like this idea, because no person should be owned, no person should be held like an animal, no person should be treated like an object. But in the White Rabbitâs eyes, he saw that longing, he saw the need of belonging to someone, of being owned.Â
And he was more than happy to oblige.
âDo you think this year is the year? Will she get caught?â He heard the woman next to him, and for the first time in the night, he finally talked, with a gruff voice coming out of his lips.
âShe will.â
The people around him all turned with widened eyes, shocked faces behind their masks, as whispers erupted all around them. He was still locking eyes with the White Rabbit, whose smile was still on her lips, almost a snicker, a wicked grin, and he couldnât wait to start running, he couldnât wait to start chasing, his body was already trembling at the need of wanting to earn his prize.
âNo more food, no more water. The trial starts now⊠Rabbit⊠Run.â The host finally said and Demon saw how the light over her head turned off, and in two seconds it lit up again, only for her to be gone. âGet ready and line up to the edge of the woods.â
At his queue everyone started heading out of the ballroom, but Demon just walked, calmly, hands still in his blazer pockets, heading towards the big doors and finally being hit with the wind of the night, the sound of the leaves ruffling all around and the trees merging up in front of him, a sea of trunks and bushes that he will have to run through.Â
He stood next to Carver, who was already in a stance of pounce, waiting for the sound of the gun so they could all start running. Demon slowly took off his blazer, throwing it in the ground, revealing his completely tattooed torso, with many ink designs such as dragons, or skulls, or demons, and they go all over his arms and back as well. There are some patches of untouched skin, but overall, he is completely covered in them.Â
The many people that stood next to him on each side were looking at him, gulping, except for Carver who simply rolled his eyes at him. Demon looked up at the full moon that was going to help him look through the deep woods, the light that he knew how to follow to keep a steady pace, and the shadows that would help him knock down any person that might come in his way.Â
After a minute, he saw the man, the host, walking up on the balcony of the building, his silhouette shining with the moonlight as he raised the flare gun up. Demon took a deep breath in from his nose, getting his hair up in a low ponytail, calmly, as his chest rose and fell with his breaths. His eyes gazed back to the woods, a small grin appearing on his face as he fixed the rings that were on his right hand.
BANG.
His fist immediately collided with Carverâs Jaw, sending him backwards, and the only thing that could be heard was the crack of teeth and a gurgled grunt as he fell to the floor. He quickly turned to grab onto the ponytail of the woman that had screamed at the vicious act, the woman with the deer mask on, pulling her back towards his chest. He wrapped his right hand over the womanâs neck and her hands immediately flew to his forearm, trying to break free.
âLet ME GO!â She yelled with a choke and he scoffed with a roll of his eyes when he raised his left hand up, pressing it at the back of her hand to bend it forward and then with his right arm he started pressing onto the sides of her neck to start cutting her blood flow towards her brain.Â
Her body started to go limp and when he felt her arms fall from him, he instantly let go of her, letting her fall to the ground, completely unconscious. He doesnât hurt women. It will take more time if he does this trick every single time, but even if they try to go after him, he wonât hurt them. Many had already taken off, but some, a very few, stayed to look at what heâs done.Â
One by one, they started backing up back into the house as they saw Carverâs mouth going slack as he tried to talk, making Demon turn to throw a wicked grin his way. The blonde man took the beeper out of his pocket and groaned as he pressed the button to finally call assistance. Once Demon heard the beep, he took off running into the woods.Â
His blood was pumping with adrenaline, his breathing steady as he rushed by the trees, jumping over boulders, hearing some screams and passing by some men injuring one another. When he arrived at a cleared up area, he stopped running at the sound of some bushes rustling, right next to him, the crack of a twig catching his attention.Â
He instantly jumped forward when he saw the bushes finally moving and a man, a bigger man than he is, jumped out of them and onto him, but missed thanks to Demon's premeditated step. The big man steadied himself, wearing a bear mask as he glared at him, a sly smirk on his lips.Â
âWell, well, well⊠Didnât think the Boss of the Black Dragon would be in a thing like this. Donât you have many women to choose from?â The Bear chuckled at his words but Demon only grimaced at them. He thinks The White Rabbit can be compared to any woman? To any person?Â
âIf you want all your limbs in the same place, you would close that mouth of yours.â Demon threatens but Bear only belly laughs at him, shaking his head.
âItâs just you. You know, your uncle really fucked me over with my company.â At those words, Demon could only roll his eyes, not wanting to waste another second in this mindless conversation.
âYou probably didnât pay up in time, or, if I remember correctly, didnât you kill your wife?â He remembers the deal. This man, and his wife, were going to share half and half of the credit The Black Dragon crew was giving them. The wife asked for a divorce, which would have made the contract void, and the money had to be returned in its entirety to the organization. She had her half untouched, he didnât. She was going to be free, he wasnât.Â
So in his anger, he killed her, making it seem like suicide to the legal eye, but to the organizations he was seen as a murderer. Now, seeing him in this trial, wanting to get the White Rabbit, Demon felt his blood burning up in anger, because he wasnât going to let a man like him get her⊠He wasnât going to let a man like him get any other woman or person.
âShe killed herself. I made that very clear.â The Bearâs face fell, as he clenched his fists next to his hips. Demon knew what was going to happen, so he fixed the bloody rings on his right hand again, his smile spreading knowing it was Carverâs blood.Â
âYou wonât get her.â Demon says in a dead tone, which the bigger man only chuckled at, unamused, and he took a step forward, and Demon only cracked his neck once.Â
âWeâll see about that.â And the first fist was thrown by The Bear, only to be dodged easily by Demon, moving aside. He raised his leg up and immediately hit the bigger man at the right shin with his combat boot. The Bear groaned loudly, turning his whole body to tackle Demon into the ground, his upper body slamming with Demonâs torso, sending him to the floor with the big man on top of him.
He cursed under his breath as the air in his lungs got knocked out slightly thanks to the impact, feeling a sharp sting on his shoulder, making his eyes go wide and groan in pain, looking at the side. The Bear cheated, a small swiss knife now was on Demonâs shoulder, pressed by the man that was on top of him.Â
âI see youâre still playing fucking dirty.â Demon almost but snarls at the man on top of him who only laughed out loud and shook his head at the words.
âYou donât get anything in life if you donât do it my way. My wife knew that, yet, she decided she wanted to fuck me over.â He was laughing, and Demonâs veins were popping out from the anger, from the rage, from the images of this manâs hands over your body, tracing his knife on your skin until he could bury it into the deepest of your gut if you made a wrong move.
His left hand was free to roam, and he grabbed onto a small boulder that was on the floor, immediately clenching his fingers around it to throw his arm up, swinging it towards the manâs head, making him yell in pain as the rock busted his ear and ripped open the skin on his temple. He fell to the side, holding his side of the head in pain while Demon sat up in one quick movement, taking the swiss knife out of his shoulder and throwing it away. Wasting no time, he lunged himself over the other manâs figure.
He was now on top, having won the wrestling match, or the kid fight he just had, and the man below him yelled for mercy, which made Demon only grin wider and wider, knowing that he was a step closer to his prize. In one swift move he pressed his knee against the manâs thigh, while his hand grabbed onto his calf, pulling it upwards, and he just needed one snap, he can at least make it quick for the guy below him.
SNAP. CRACK.
âMY FUCKING LEG!â The Bear yelled below him, only for Demon to scoff at his cries. He stood up and walked off the wailing man who was already taking out his beeper to call for medical care. Demon grabbed onto the beeper, a glare in his eyes as he looked at the man below him.
âAfter this, you better hide⊠Because I will kill you.â He threw the beeper far away from The Bear. He would have to crawl with his broken leg to get it, making that task torturous to say the least.Â
âP-Please, spare meâ This is just a gameââ Demon pressed his foot onto the manâs broken leg, and another yell of pain could be heard through the open field.Â
âNo. You should have noticed that this is not a game to me, and you should have known that messing with me today would be a very bad choice.â He let go of the man, stepping away. The Bearâs face was stained from the tears of pain he was induced to, but Demon could care less.Â
The black haired man immediately took off again, running through the bushes as he heard a few screams and yells of victory. His mentality started spiraling as he felt himself growing impatient by how long this was going to take. If he had to take out every single contestant he was going to end up doing a massacre and that was against the rules.
Because he would kill for The White Rabbit.
He was hearing many beeping sounds around him, some grunts and people that were writhing on the ground in pain as he walked by. So many were with broken bones, some had scratches all over their bodies and thatâs when he remembered the wound on his shoulder. He looked at it as he walked, moving his shoulder in circles to see if it caused any damage. He scoffed and chuckled as he noticed he could still move his arm freely even if the wound was open.Â
The bastard couldnât even aim a knife right. He didnât really deserve to live, not if he is going to threaten death right in the face and expect to come out alive from it. Thatâs what Demon was. Death. Crossing him meant bargaining with life, and backstabbing him with treason meant instant death. He didnât do most of the dirty work, only when itâs necessary and when he would get pleasure from it, and that man he just fought, he wasnât going to be killed by a stranger in his organization. Demon was going to cut his head off himself.
He stopped walking when he heard a rustle, but it wasnât on any of his sides. He turned his body, scanning all over when he heard it again. He smirked as he put his hands in the front of his pockets, his heart beating into his chest from the adrenaline and from the excitement of getting closer and closer to his objective.
âYou should come down from the trees.â
A small giggle could be heard from his back as he slowly turned to finally see the person he wanted most climbing down from a tree. Her white dress flowed with some white shorts underneath, but the white was now smudged with some dirt, and some blood as well. Her white ears moved as she tilted her head at him, scanning him all over, her body rocking on the balls of her feet.
âYour ears are very perceptive.âÂ
 âYouâre just too loud.â He says in a low voice, watching the White Rabbit start moving, circling him, with her hands behind her back, swaying her head from side to side as if humming a song. His head followed her, seeing her bare feet covered in mud as the leaves crunched under them.Â
âHmm⊠Someone got you.â She says, pointing at the wound on his shoulder, in which he simply shrugs as if to show her that he wasnât fazed by it.
âBy playing dirty.â She hummed again as she looked down at the floor, still circling all around him as if inspecting him, scanning him, and her mouth watered at every single patch of skin she saw inked. She was already imagining what his legs looked like, and she was already trembling with the idea of using her nails to give him new scars.
âAre you here to get me?â She asks him, finally stopping right in front of him, just a few feet away, her hands still behind her back with a grin on her face. He took his hands out of his front pockets, letting them hang on his sides.
âTo claim you.â She tilted her head at his voice, her smile widening, creepily so, as her eyes glistened with sudden excitement and adrenaline and Demon knew what was coming, because he had studied the White Rabbit after all.
âYouâll have to catch me first.â And she turned on her heel, and sprinted off into the darkness of the woods, and Demonâs teeth showed as his wicked grin grew, and grew.
Autassassinophilia: Sexual arousal when being in a dangerous situation, such as being chased, or wanted for murder.
His feet started working, running forward to where The White Rabbit went, listening to far cries that were deep into the woods, and he wondered just how many other people were left, not that it mattered, because he already won. He knew he already won when he decided to sign up for this trial. He knew he had won the moment he stepped into the ballroom. He knew he had won when she had smiled at him, right at the top of the marbled stairs.
He stopped running when he came into an empty spot, surrounded by trees, looking all around him. His eyes twitched as he tried to listen to the sounds, knowing now that it was just him and her. He was preying on her as much as she was preying on him. He knew she was circling him, his little rabbit, trying to be sneaky, but a twig was heard from his left side and his feet immediately moved to that sound.
Long strides were taken thanks to his long legs, his belt clinking as he ran, going past the trees once again. He ran in between trunks, jumping over the fallen logs, but his eyes sparkled when he heard a giggle from behind him, making him stop in his tracks, turning around rapidly to see her retreating figure, running away from him. A smirk appeared on his lips. She had run past him and he didnât notice.
He started running after her, deciding to swerve left, going deep into the woods again, no longer following behind her. She kept running, her breathing completely accelerated, her belly turning with anticipation, with adrenaline, with arousal, with desire. Oh, she wanted him. She had waited, and waited. But his footsteps were no longer heard behind her, making the White Rabbit stop, turning around to try to listen to her surroundings.
He wasnât following her, did she run too fast? Did he lose sight of her? But she was sure she was hearing him behind her, not even five seconds ago. She took one step, then another, passing by a tree but she stopped her movements again, her eyes widening, goosebumps emerging on her skin as she slowly turned her head to see the figure that was just behind the tree, waiting for her.
âCaught you.âÂ
Demon immediately pounced on her, grabbing onto her shoulders and tackling her to the ground, a crazed smile on his face as she struggled to get free, but it was already done. He was on top of her, his calves over her thighs to pin her down while his hands were on her biceps now, digging deeply, pushing her onto the ground. She was panting heavily as she opened her eyes to finally see the man that was on top of her.
âDirty.â She spats and he scoffs, licking inside his bottom lip as she relaxes under his hold. A small smile appeared on her lips, the moonlight shining through the woods, just enough for him to see her. He took one hand away from her bicep, getting hold of the bottom of her mask, pulling it up to finally reveal that beautiful face he got mesmerized with three years ago, at a simple meeting. That face that told him, weâre equal. That face that told him, I will serve you if given the chance. That face that he wanted to see, everyday, at every hour, for as long as he lives. That face that claimed him that same night, with a smile, with the stares, with the intense stare in the eyes.
You.
âHello, Bunny.â That was your nickname in your fatherâs organization. Bunny. Too pure, too innocent, too charming, yet, you were the complete opposite. You were nasty, you were evil, you were vengeful, you were a freak. A complete and utter freak. And he was the same, he was your exact same, and you were expectant of him. You were waiting for him to appear. You were in this trial behind your fatherâs back for three years, because you wanted him. You wanted the man that had whispered in your ear âYouâll be mine.â three years ago. You wanted the man thatâs been said to have killed and destroyed many organizations and the members inside of them. You wanted the man that you knew could own you, yet, wouldnât cage you.
Your fingertips from your free hand raised up, finally touching the teeth of the black demon mask he was wearing, first grazing it, gently, as if taking in this moment with him, this moment where everything will change, this moment where your life will finally become yours, and his. You gripped onto the mask and finally lifted it up, and he helped by bending down slightly so you could rip it off his face, throwing the plastic far away from you both.
âMunson.â A smile appeared on your face as you saw him, your cheeks flushing at his sight, as if you were a bitch in heat in front of her master, and you werenât far from it. You knew Eddie owned you that same night you met him, and he also knew you were meant to be his.Â
âWhat are those?â He asked, placing a hand on your waist where a stain was on your dress, a shiver running down your spine as a soft moan escaped your throat, knowing his hand was covered in ink and touching you.
âI might have snapped a few tendons here and there⊠Putting the competition away for youâŠâ Your eyes were already looking up at him with desire, with the need of being alone with him, of him claiming you, completely. He smirked down towards you, leaning down to talk closely onto your face.
âWhatâs your choice, Bunny?â He softly asks, his eyes hinting of desperation, but also insecurity of some sort, but he didnât have to worry. He shouldnât, because you are his, youâve always been his.
âIâll stay with you, forever, if youâll have me.â His eyes widened slightly with emotion, his gut turning at your words and his hand flew to grab onto your jaw, harshly, to pull you towards his lips, into a messy yet wanton kiss. A kiss that he had been craving for far too long. You moaned onto his lips, wrapping your arms around his shoulders as he finally let your thighs go, his calves resting on the floor now.Â
His teeth caught onto your bottom lip, and you could already feel the iron taste filling your mouth, knowing he was piercing your skin, but that only made your thighs clench with eachother even more, wetness pooled inside your shorts as his actions showed you that he studied you, that he knew you, and he knew what you were into. He pulled away from you, licking his lips from your blood as he looked down, seeing your bottom lip with your red tint, blood coming out from the inside of it.Â
âYouâre mine. Iâm going to protect you Bunny, Iâm not letting anyone take you away from me, and if they dare come close⊠Iâll kill them, you say the word⊠And Iâll kill everyone you tell me to.â A soft smile spread on your face as you looked at him, crazed and wild eyes staring at each other as your grip on his shoulders tightened, and a firework was shot into the sky, but you two didnât move. Just stared into each other's eyes.Â
Youâre free.
Your hands gripped on your last bag with the remaining clothes you had. A smile on your face the whole time the elevator dinged closer and closer to Eddieâs penthouse, one of the many properties he possesses. You hadnât changed, still wearing the white stained dress over your body, but the people that organized this trial had already sent your prepared luggage to Eddieâs, meaning that the only thing left to deliver was you.
The ding didnât even startle you as the doors opened, and a big double door greeted you a few steps away from the metal confinement. You stepped towards it, and grabbed onto the handle, finding the door open. A smile appeared on your face as you opened it, walking in to take in the immense decorated space in modern yet vintage looking furniture. You put your bag down, closing the door behind you as you stepped inside the apartment, seeing that it had stairs going up to a second floor.Â
You were looking around, knowing that he should be here somewhere. After he had caught you, you were brought into the office to sign off the permanent contract to him, with a smile to your face all the while. The host was simply looking at you as if you were insane, because being owned by the Black Dragon association was not something many desired, much less, being owned by the boss of it.
Eddie was sent home so you could gather your bags, and those bags you saw at the very corner of the living room. You heard something in the kitchen, making you tilt your head slightly at the sound, like a rattle, so you followed it, walking into the dimmed light kitchen, modern, with the cupboards and utilities in black, against the white marble counters, but your eyes centered on the person that was pouring two glasses of wine, in the middle of the room.
âHello again darling.â He put the wine bottle on the counter and his eyes finally looked up to lock with yours. He was still shirtless, still with the same bloody clothes, the wound in his shoulder already stitched and bandaged, and your mouth salivated with the need of pressing your tongue onto his skin. His hair was down, eyes a deep brown that only made you move by instinct, slowly approaching him with your hands behind your back.
Like a small bunny.
âThis house is a little big for you.â You say as you stand next to him, grabbing onto the wine glass and taking a small sip from it, the burning of the alcohol soothing your throat and calming your nerves. Nerves that were there because you waited so long to be with him, alone, like this. Completely owned by him, his property, his partner.Â
âGlad that you are filling it with me now.â He says in a low tone, which sends shivers down your spine, because for some reason you knew that the night was going to be long, and that by the end of it, you wonât be able to walk. Hopefully.
âSo, youâve been studying me over the last three years, huh.â You say with a smile, not looking at him, still with the glass of wine on your lips, and the alcohol was slightly stinging the wound he provoked on you in the woods.Â
âAnd youâve been waiting for me for three years.â He retorted, his eyes slowly turning black from how his pupils began to dilate the more his eyes roamed your body. He took a large chug from his wine glass, putting the crystal on the counter again while you giggled at his words, making all of his blood go south immediately.Â
âTook you long enough.â You replied to him and his hand twitched on the counter as he stared down at you. Your giggle stopped but that wicked smile was still on your lips, setting your glass down as you finally turned your head to look at him. âIâve been studying you too.â
âAnd how so?â He asks, the need to grab you, the need to get hold of you, pin you down, making you shut up, beginning to gnaw in the deep of his gut. You shrug at him, not even sparing him another word and his eyes twitched, his fire igniting as his right hand rises up, tracing your cheek softly in which you melted at, pressing your face against it.Â
Your eyes suddenly widened when his hand enveloped your throat, in one swift movement, and pressure was applied, cutting your blood flow and oxygen at the same time. A choked moan escaped your lips as he looked down at you, a smile appearing in his lips, knowing very well that you were drenched by now, clenching onto nothing as he applied more pressure on you.
Asphyxiophilia: Sexual Arousal when being choked, often cutting the oxygen circulation.
âNow, letâs get one thing straight Bunny.â His left hand, which was still on the counter, found the knife he had already prepared for this moment, the knife that would start it all. âI own you. I make the rules and you just follow them. Thereâs nothing else you have to do.âÂ
You nodded, choking on your voice as your eyes started rolling to the back of your head, your hands gripping his wrist and he finally let go of some of the pressure to let oxygen flow in your body again. You choked a sigh of relief, your breathing already jagged by how much air entered all at once in your lungs again, yet his hand was still on your throat, his tattooed hand.Â
His left hand raised up, pressing the tip of his blade onto your cheek, the smile still on his face as he looked at you. You smiled through your dizziness at him, and oh you were so beautiful. He guided his knife down, slowly, gliding it over your body, until he reached the hem of your dress. Your eyes widened as you felt the sharp tip of the knife over your shorts, your clit twitching at the sharpness of it. That sent an adrenaline shock through your body that almost made you squirm, but you knew that if you moved he might hurt you there.
He appreciated you staying still, and you were just too perfect for him. He twisted the knife so the blade would be facing upwards, and he slowly punctured the tip of the knife inside your shorts, but not through your soaked underwear. He smirked at you one last time and thatâs when you heard the intense ripping sound, a gasp escaping your lips, the blade stretching the dress off your body as it ripped it in half, going all the way to your collarbone.Â
His eyes scanned your frame, a white bra on your body as well as the matching thong that he could see from the slit of your shorts. The both of you had dirt all over yourselves, but that only enticed him to take you even more. To finally own you completely. He motioned towards your hands with the knife, which were still wrapped around his wrist. You gave a sigh as you dropped your hands to your sides, making the dress finally fall off from your shoulders, as if it were a coat.Â
He slowly let go of your neck, letting the knife rest on top of the counter again, your breathing heavy and with the imprints of his fingers already on your neck, and tears were threatening to fall down from your eyes as you looked at him, but they werenât enough. They werenât enough for him, and he wanted more, he wanted to see you completely ruined by him.Â
âOn your knees.â You shivered at his command, wanting to be a brat, deny him, but this is what youâve always wanted, to belong to him. For him to use you as he pleases, for him to drag you around like a plaything, but yet, to protect you like a partner, like an equal. You slowly got down on your knees, looking up at him through your lashes and he pressed his fingers under your chin to keep you up. âWill you do everything as I say?â
âYes, yes, I will.â You were desperate now, not being able to handle anymore teasing from him.Â
âOpen your mouth, stick your tongue out.â He commanded this time, and you did as told, opening your pretty mouth from him, your pink tongue sticking out and he grinned at the view. He gathered his saliva inside his mouth, to then lean in and drop his spit into your mouth and tongue. He immediately closed your mouth with force. âSwallow.â
You didnât. You closed your eyes at the taste of him in your tongue, just for a second and his eyes widened, lust covering his features as he saw you moaning with his spit in your mouth. You then swallowed, and opened your eyes again, sticking your tongue out for him, as if asking for more. He straightened up, his belt coming undone, the leather slipping off from his pants. You bit your bottom lip in anticipation, knowing exactly what he was going to do with it later on.
âWhat do you want me to do now?â You ask him and he simply smirks down at you, wicked eyes crossing his features as he unbuttoned his pants, dragging the zipper down.
âYou just stay there, look pretty, while I fuck that bratty mouth of yours.â A gasp was heard from you but it was an excited one, your eyes immediately darting towards the bulge that was inside his pants as he finally pulled them down, along with his boxers. His cock springing up to hit against his pelvis, right in between the V shape that you want to trace your tongue on. âSpit.â
He didnât have to tell you twice, you lunged forward as he grabbed onto his shaft, pulling it down for you to spit on it, and his hand started going up and down on himself, slowly, and your lips turned into a pout as you stared. It wasnât fair, you wanted to do that. You raised your hand up only to be stopped by a sting, a sharp sting and a smack. His other hand was still holding the folded belt, and he used it to hit your hand away, making your eyes sting with tears as you put your hand back down, rubbing it softly with your other one, looking up at him with a frown in your face.
âWhââ
âDonât fucking touch me. I said, STAY THERE.â He almost growls at you, sending another shiver down your spine, but you straightened up, looking up at him, waiting for his instructions as he still stroked himself with your spit, making you gulp with need, seeing how large he was, your body moving forward, wanting to give it at least a small kiss to the head, only for another sharp sting hitting you, this time, it was a slap by his big hand, not that hard, but not gentle either, making you turn your head away with a whimper.
He waited for you to turn back at him, to see your reaction, to see what you are thinking because even if he studied you, he still has some self control and empathy in himself, and much more when it comes to you. He doesnât want to hurt you in ways that you do not enjoy, but as you slowly turn to look back at him, your cheek stinging, with a smile to your face and hazy looking eyes as if in a trance, he couldnât help but smile down at you.
âCan I beg?â You ask, and it was an honest question, a question of boundaries, a question to get to know him even more, to know what you can and canât do, and he was appreciative of that.
âYes. Beg for my cock, I want to hear how much you want it Bunny, how much youâve been wanting it for these past three years.â And your breathing hitched at that, an excited smile appearing in your lips as you looked up at him, your brain completely drained from conscious thought as your desire poured out of your lips.
âPlease Eddie, I want your big cock in my mouth, please⊠I want to taste you, have your cum dripping in my throat, been wanting it for so long, pleaseâ Donât keep me waiting baby, pleaseâŠâ Your sultry voice filled his ears, a shiver running down his spine as his dick twitched in his pants, asking for attention, but there was a reason for you wanting to beg, because you studied him too⊠You know what he likes.
Narratophilia:Â Sexual arousal to obscene words.
âThen open your fucking mouth, and youâll take what I give you.â You didnât waste a second, your nails digging in your knees as you opened your mouth again, sticking your tongue out for him. With one hand he guided his cock, and with the other he pressed it at the back of your head, pulling you forward towards it.Â
He first taunts you, pulling your head back for you to kitten lick the tip, to then pull you forward again to take it into your mouth only to repeat the motion again. A soft whimper vibrated in your throat, which made Eddieâs hold grow tighter on your scalp, and he finally thrust himself inside of your mouth, halfway in and started going in a slow pace first so your mouth would get coated in your saliva. He knew he would hurt you if he made you deepthroat at once, and he didnât want to destroy your vocal chords, at least not yet.
You closed your eyes as you hollow your cheeks to finally start sucking on him, letting him bob your head back and forth at his own pace, but you relished in the taste of him, a moan escaping your throat in delight as your spit helped your movements be smoother each thrust he did into you. He was holding back his groans at your sight, finally having you at his mercy, on your knees. His self control slowly slipping away as he tilts his head back, closing his eyes at the feeling of your tongue swirling around his cock, loving the way he could feel you moaning against him.
Your pussy clenched at nothing, and you wanted to touch yourself, relieve some of the tension building inside of you, but you knew better than that, so you kept your hands at your knees, fingernails scratching your skin. His hand finally let go of his cock, guiding it towards the back of your head, finally joining his other one, gripping onto your hair. He stopped you from bobbing your head, only for him to start thrusting himself inside of your mouth, inside and out, still in a slow pace.
Your eyes opened to look up at him and his eyes beamed at how you were looking at him. Pleading for more. So that, he did. He thrusted deeper this time, a gulp being heard from you, a gargle, but not a gag, not quite yet. His pace quickened, a groan finally coming to his throat as your eyes started tearing up the deeper he went in. This is what you wanted, to be used by him, and your wetness sipping through your underwear and shorts even was an indication of that.
âWhat a fucking slut, not even gagging.â He chuckled only to stop when even if you had a mouth full of him, he could still see the cocky turn up of the corner of your lips while staring up at him. His nose flared and he suddenly slammed himself inside your mouth, the tip of his cock hitting the back of your throat. A tear slid down your cheek and you finally gagged at him, but because it was a surprise to you more than anything. He pulled back only to slam himself back in, your gags and gurgles filling the room as your mascara started running down your face.
He pulled back just for a second for you to take a deep breath through your nose, and he trembled slightly with a moan caught in his throat as he saw your face. His hands gripping your hair even tighter, not being able to contain himself as he started thrusting himself into your mouth, quick, but not deep like before, yet your spit mixed with his precum started slipping from the sides of your mouth.Â
He couldnât help but wanting you to keep crying, to keep tearing up, so he slammed himself again against your mouth, hitting your throat again, and you breathed through your nose in order not to gag, but your eyes widened when you realized that he was staying there. You whimpered against him, as more tears slipped through your eyes as you tried to keep your breathing under control, but he was groaning in pleasure at the sight.Â
You started gagging, your body lurching forward a couple of times and that was Eddieâs queue to finally pull away from you, taking his cock out of your mouth.
âUngââ You were panting, trying to move your throat a bit to numb the sudden beating it received, but Eddie simply pulled you up from your hair, making you gasp as you stood on your two feet again, your knees screaming in pain from being against the hard floor for too long. His face was inches from yours and your eyes saw what he was looking at. You couldnât help the smirk that came to your face as you felt his dick twitch against your hip as he inspected your cheeks, your tears.
Dacryphilia: Sexual arousal to seeing the partner crying or shedding tears.
His lips immediately connected to yours, a rough, deep kiss, full of lust and desperation. Your mouth opened for him, once again, and his tongue invaded it in a second. You clenched again when you felt his tongue piercing all around your cavity, on your tongue, clinking against your teeth. He moaned into your mouth when he felt the mix of his taste, your spit, as well as the saltiness of your tears.Â
He pulled away from you, pulling his boxers and pants up but not buttoning himself up as you stared at him, completely dazed for his next move. He couldnât help himself and he leaned down to press a kiss to your cheek, in which you sighed dreamily at, knowing you were being a good girl. His good girl.
âLet's go upstairs. I have to ruin you.â You trembled at his words, excited for that to happen, excited to be ruined by him, excited to be yourself with him. He turned you around, and he grabbed his belt from the counter with one hand, the other being pressed against the small of your back, guiding you towards the stairs. You went up, your pussy clenching at each step taken as the adrenaline pumped in your veins. He was right behind you, now finally walking you towards his room.
He opened the door for you, and you walked in to take it all in. Realization hit you. This wasnât just any of Eddieâs properties, this was his house, the one he considered home, the one that was all him and not something designed by someone else. His guitars were on display on one wall, a few paintings and limited vinyl editions of what you believed were his favorite bands, the big king sized bed in the middle of the room with dark comforters, and the big window on its side, a few feet away with long black draped curtains.Â
You were now part of his home.
A sudden feeling filled you as you turned around with excitement to wrap your arms around his shoulders, the action completely startling him as he looked down at you. Your lips immediately found his, as you took in the feeling that he owned you, but in the most caring way possible, and like you stated before, you knew he wasnât going to cage you up, not that you minded if it was done by him.
His lips moved with yours as he slowly guided you towards the bed, his hands going to your back to finally unclasp your bra. The back of your knees hit the edge of his bed, and you pulled away from him, taking your bra off completely. He looked down at your bare breasts, wanting to dive into them, take them into his mouth, but he made a promise to you first. He raised a hand, slapping one of your tits with it, making you gasp with a moan.
âGet on the fucking bed, and raise your hands over your head.â You smiled at him as you sat down on the bed, pushing yourself backwards into the middle of it as he kept his eyes on you, slowly walking towards the side of the bed as you laid down, throwing your arms up, almost touching his black headboard. From the corner of it, he opened a small wooden door, at the very top, and he started pulling a black rope from it, your eyes widening at it, while a small smirk spread on your cheeks.
âThe headboard seems new.â You managed to say in a hoarse voice, and he chuckled at that, grabbing onto your right wrist, pulling you towards the bracelet of the rope, wrapping it tightly around your skin.Â
âCustom made. Received it a couple of days ago.â For some reason, he didnât want to lie to you about that, nor tease you, because he wanted you to know that he prepared himself for you and just you. This bed was made for you, and that made you moan with need, your thighs rubbing together at his confession. He circled the bed, going to the other top corner of his headboard to pull the same rope out, grabbing your left wrist and pulling you towards him again, and you felt the tug onto your right hand, not letting it move further.Â
âHow thoughtful of you Eds.â You smiled at him when you noticed he wasnât tightening the bracelets too hard on your skin. You have noticed that he was thoughtful of you, careful to some degree with you, yet, rough. His hand went down again, slapping at your left breast now, your back slightly arching at the feeling, with a moan trapped in your throat.
âAre you going to stop talking?â You giggled and licked your lips, wanting once again to go against him, but you knew better. You liked being dominated, you really did, and you knew that your other side was something you couldnât do with Eddie. He sighed at your giggling, heading towards his dresser where he left his belt at the top of it. You bit your lip as your eyes glistened with anticipation.
âYouâre gonna punish me? Donât you want to fuck me? Take me? Breed me? Why are you taking so long Eddie?â You lifted your legs up, bending at your knees, spreading them open for him and he almost dropped the belt to the ground at your words, groaning as you used his kink against him. He put his knee on the edge of the bed and you smiled at him, a wicked smile.
âI told you to shut the fuck up.âÂ
SMACK.
You gasped loudly as your body jolted upwards from the mixed sensations that just went through your whole body, like an electric shock. He swung his belt towards your clothed cunt, smacking it, sending a sharp yet burning pain through your whole body, and your clit throbbed with the need of more friction, even if painful, it still felt so good after being neglected for a long while.
Eddie was smirking as he looked at you, squirming under him, his cock wanting to explode out of the confines of his boxers again, the zipper that was already down from his pants digging into the bulge as it twitched on him. He raised his belt again, smacking you on your left inner thigh, making you jolt again and your legs spread even more. You were perfect for him, simply perfect, moaning thanks to what he was doing, tears starting to form in your eyes again⊠You were his.
Sexual sadism: Sexual arousal on causing pain, non life-threatening.
âEddieâ Eddie pleaseââ You were begging again, but that earned you another bruising smack to your other inner thigh, your back arching at the pain, yet pleasure that shot through your body as the ropes on the headboard clinked at the movement of your arms.
âAre you that desperate for my cock?â He says as he looks down at you, and you nodded desperately, a tear sliding down from the corner of your eye, and honestly, Eddie was too. He waited too long for this, and even though he wanted to do so many more things to you, he knew he had time, that you both had time.
âYes, please, fill me upâ I need your cock inside of me, waited too long for you baby, donât tease me anymore, donât tease us any longerâŠâ You begged but this time it was a genuine one, a very truthful one that Eddie couldnât deny. He put the belt to the side, almost throwing it, and he grabbed the hem of your ripped shorts and underwear, ripping it off from you in one move, helping him with the movement of your legs.Â
He looked down at your wet pussy, and you already made a complete mess of yourself. The shorts were drenched as well as your tongue, and he couldnât help but think again that he was blessed with you by some god. You were his equal, completely unhinged, crazy, and you two were desperate for one another.Â
His cock would have to wait, because he couldnât help himself as he saw you like this, at his mercy, legs spread and inner thighs red from his ministrations. He held you at the back of your knees, your eyes widening when he bent them forward, towards your chest, and your hips raised up, your cunt facing the ceiling. He smirked at it, leaning down to take a long swipe against your wet folds, making your eyes roll to the back of your head.
You wanted to arch your back, but you couldnât as his grip was tight on the back of your thighs, making your back arch downwards. A moan escaped your lips as he kept swiping his tongue on you, licking on your wetness, tasting you, and groaning at how sweet you were, relishing in the fact that he could have you like this any time he wants from now on. Your hands made the ropes clink again, as you tried to guide them to his head, to hold onto him, and you whined at the restraints.
âEddieâ Edsââ You moaned his name and his hand raised up to smack your lifted ass as it left your thigh to do so. You gasped at the feeling, keeping your knees to your chest in order not to go against him. He flicked his tongue on your clit, and your moans finally started coming out of your mouth, one after the other. He was almost eating you up, like a starved man.Â
And he couldnât get enough. He could do this all day, he could stay buried in your pussy if he could because you just tasted so good, so much better than what he anticipated, than what he had imagined. All these years of waiting paid off, because it tasted as if you were waiting for him, it tasted like you were made for him, to his taste, that someone made his favorite flavor, and it had always been you.
His tongue finally dipped inside you, and he moaned against your cunt as he felt your walls clenching around him, the ropes clinking as you thrashed your arms from the sensation, his nose bumping on your clit as he moved his head up and down, his tongue flicking inside of you, and he really was devouring you.Â
Thanks to all the edging, the teasing, and how you had been wet from the very moment you saw him in the ballroom, the coil in your belly started to form rapidly. Your moans escalated in sound, and your eyes closed at how good his tongue was flicking at your walls, trying to reach that place that would make you see stars. He took his mouth off you with a gasp, getting air back in his lungs and you almost cried at the loss, only to feel one strong and large finger enter you, and curling in a come hither motion.Â
âOh, FUCK!â Your head went back into the pillows as a moan escaped from your lips, loud, the spongy part of yourself being rubbed onto over and over again. He smirked at the sight, his panting from desire being heard along your moans.
âAre you enjoying yourself little Bunny?â He asks and you nod your head desperately, tears prickling in your eyes as you feel the burning at your hip from the position and your wrists tugged onto the ropes again.
âYes, yes, yes! Pleaseâ Please keep going!â And he was going to. He wasnât going to edge you, not this time, because youâve been such a good girl, even if a little bratty, you were a good girl for him. He pushed another finger inside of you, your eyes widening as both of them started rubbing you, repeatedly, your belly screaming for release. Your chest was heaving up and down as your panting increased and his movements became fast, the squelching of your cunt being heard across the room.
âCome on, cum for me. Fucking look at me while you cum.â And that you did, staring up at him with your mouth open, moans coming out as your belly finally exploded, your vision going white as you tried to keep your eyes open for him, but you knew the tears were blocking your vision. Your pussy clamped down on his fingers and you heard him curse at the feeling as he tried to keep the fast pace on you. Your legs trembled around him as his name spilled out of your lips.
âEddie! Oh my god, SHIT!â You kept riding your orgasm against his fingers, your walls clenching and unclenching until it finally stopped, your body jolting once, then twice as Eddie slowed down his fingers on you, and once he saw you relaxing onto the bed again he pulled them out of you.
He was breathing heavily, looking down at you as he made your lower body hit the bed again, a sigh of relief mixing with your panting as you finally felt some of the burning on your hip go away. He looked at his fingers, licking your juices off of them, and through your half lidded eyes you could see him, making your pussy clench again. You wanted to laugh at how needy you were, how desperately you wanted him.Â
He wasnât going to last long, not with you having sucked his dick, and he almost busted through his boxers while eating you out. He got off the bed, not even bothering to wipe his mouth from your slick and his spit, wanting to keep your taste on his mouth for a little longer. He walked over to one side to let your left wrist go, and he rubbed the red mark that appeared on your skin. You smiled up at him and nodded, as if telling him it was okay. He then walked to the other side to let go of your other hand, followed by him ripping himself off his pants and underwear.Â
You wanted to have him in your mouth again, seeing his pink tip leaking precum was enough to make you want to open your mouth and stick out your tongue, buit he had other plans for you. He got on the bed again, but before getting in between your legs, he got his hands underneath your ass and waist, turning you over and onto your stomach, a gasp coming out of your lips.Â
He positioned himself behind you, lifting your hips with his fingertips digging on the flesh of your skin, marking you up. When you left your upper body on the mattress, he groaned and grabbed onto his belt again that was on the edge of the bed, almost falling over, and made a snapping sound with it before landing it against your right cheek, making you jolt up and almost squirm away from the sting.Â
âIn all fours, or Iâll strap you to this fucking bed without touching you again.â That made your trembling hands press against the mattress to prop yourself up instantly. You stuck your ass at him, wiggling your hips slightly, earning yourself another smack from his belt on your other cheek, a squeal escaping your lips now. Another smack on the same place, and now a moan was heard in the room as the burning increased in that area.Â
âEddieâŠâ You whimpered and he put the belt down, grabbing your ass with one hand, and his cock with the other to finally guide it to your waiting entrance. You moaned with need when he pressed the tip against your clit and you knew what you had to do now. âPlease, I need your cock, donât tease me anymoreââ
He plunged himself inside of you, a choked gasp trapping itself in your throat at the sudden massive stretch with no mercy, your eyes widening at the feeling as they immediately prickled with tears from the sting. He was halfway in, and started invading your hole, a little slow, but not quite. He groaned with a smile to his face as he felt your tight walls engulfing him.
âYeah, this pussy was made for me⊠So perfect.â You whined at that, almost a whimper as he finally bottomed out and you felt him almost at your throat. He was too deep inside of you, the stretch almost painful, but it couldnât compare to how much pleasure it gave you. You needed him to move despite the burning sensation, because your belly was screaming for him, your mind and sould needed him.
âEds, move, please moveââ You didnât have to beg anymore. He pulled back and slammed himself back in, making the fat of your ass jiggle at his movement, and a loud moan was out of your mouth in a second. He repeated the motion until he started going at a brutal pace, and the slamming of the headboard filled the room in between your breaths and the moans. Your arms were trembling as your body went back and forth against him, his hands now at your hips, his fingers digging into your skin.
You could hear the squelching of your pussy as he moved, wet from your climax and getting even wetter at finally having him, at finally feeling him inside of you, and the realization that you get to have him from this day on whenever you want. He was moaning, without shame at all because you were too warm, too beautiful, too pretty right now. His hands went towards your asscheeks, spreading them open to see your small hole, and a grin formed in his face between his jagged breaths.
âNext timeâ Iâll prep you, and Iâll fuck this little hole of yours. Would you like that, my sweet Bunny?â My. My. My. You were cock drunk now, not being able to think about anything else but him, and the way he was claiming you over and over again at every slam of skin against each other.Â
âYes! Yes! Iâll take anything from youâFuck!â He wanted to laugh at that, as he smacked your ass with his hand, against the already bruising mark that was there. You groaned at that and he pressed his hips against you, harshly and deep and you choked on your own sounds at that. You were certain that if you pressed your hand against your belly, you would be able to feel the tip of his cock inside of you.
He reached out to grab hold of the back of your head, running his fingers through your hair to finally clench at your scalp, making you yelp. He pulled you upwards, your back hitting his chest as you ached it for him to keep thrusting in and out of you but he stood still. His mouth was on your ear as he breathed against it, whispering softly.
âYou are so fucking perfect for me.â You smiled at that, your bodies sticking against each other's sweat. You licked your lips as you turned your head to look at him.
âI studied you too, you knowâŠâ You confessed to him, and he raised an eyebrow at you. You grabbed onto his hand that was in your waist, pulling it up towards your mouth. You put his index and ring fingers inside, sucking on them and you felt his hips start to move inside of you, at the same rhythm of your lips. You pulled them out to graze your tongue towards the belly of his palm where you suddenly bit at the flesh, harshly, marking him. His dick twitched inside of you as he moaned against your ear a smile appearing on your lips as they still latched on his skin, blood filling your mouth.
Odaxelagnia: Sexual arousal to biting or being bitten.
âYou fucking slut.â He ripped his hand away from you, and despite the pain, he gripped onto your hips again, setting a brutal pace against you, your back arching against him, ass sticking out as your head rested against his shoulder. His mouth immediately found your shoulder, biting onto your skin until his teeth went through, your eyes widening at the burning and pain, but it sent an electric shock towards your belly which began its tightening again.Â
âOnly for youâ God, just for youâ!â He licked the blood that oozed out of the inflicted wound, and his other hand went towards your clit as his hips slammed against your ass, his dick hitting that perfect spongy part of yourself that made you moan almost in screams as he hit it repeatedly and without missing. His fingers started circling against your nub and your pussy clenched around him, earning a moan from his part.
âYou have to come with me, Iâm going to fill you up so fucking good.â He says into your ear and it comes unexpectedly, your eyes widening as his words triggered your orgasm way harsher than before, his fingers flicking on your clit rapidly as your juices gushed around him, making a mess out of your legs and his, and the comforter below you two. He cursed under his breath as his movements started faltering, stuttering.
âEddieâ Fuck, please, PLEASEââ You were still riding your orgasm out when you felt that warmth finally fill your belly, coating all of your walls as he spent his seed inside of you. He moaned loudly against your shoulder, as he kept pumping himself inside of you, your pussy clenching him to milk every single drop until you finally came down from your high and his hips stopped moving completely.
You were both breathing heavily as you tried to get some oxygen in your lungs. The room smelled like sex, your sweat, your juices, his cologne, and it was such an amazing smell to you. He groaned when he finally pulled out of you and his hand raised up to grab onto your chin, turning your head to look at him. His lips found yours again, this time, a tender kiss, a kiss of belonging, a kiss that sealed this bond between you both.
Your new home.
âYou really are on the pill then.â Eddie says as he lays in his bed, a new comforter over his legs as his back is pressed against his headboard. You were naked with a towel on your hand as you dried your hair with it, walking towards him after a nice shower you both took together.
âOf course.â He groaned at that with his arms crossed over his chest, looking away. He knew it was too soon to have a kid with you, but he really wanted to claim you in every way possible, and having a family with you, was another way of doing so. You smiled at him, throwing the towel to the floor, as you got inside the bed with him. His arm wrapped around your shoulders, pulling you close to him and you rested your head on his shoulder.
âWhy did you decide to enter the trial?â He asks you and you hum at that question.
âMy father has been trying to marry me off for the past three years⊠Sadly, all of my bachelors went missing, or were killed in action.â You say with a smirk to your face, and Eddieâs grin widened at that. He can still remember the screams of the men that tried to marry you, claiming you like he did.Â
âI wonder what happened.â He says as if he were playing dumb. You giggled at that and nodded.
âHmm⊠You didnât know about my last bachelor, did you?â He blinked at that, and looked at you as you stared forward, a glint in your eyes that were filled with mischief, but also lust. âRight before entering the trial, my father told me I was to be set up with a new bachelor, and to be honest, he is a pretty, a very pretty boy.â You licked your lips at those words, Eddieâs attention already drawn to you as you spoke.
âWho was it sweetheart?â You turned to look at him, a wicked smile on your face.
âHarrington Jr.â Eddieâs eyes sparkled at that. The son of the Harrington Emporium. You licked your lips at him as he hummed at you, his eyes suddenly turning lustful as he looked down at you.
âMmm⊠He is a pretty boy.â You turned your body to be closer to his ear as you talked in a sultry tone.
âCan I have him Eddie? Please?â He chuckled at that, but a new obsession was growing in his head, storming his mind. âIâll share him, I promiseâŠâ
âWe can plan on him being the next White Rabbit.â He says and your chest was filled with excitement as your hand reached for his cheek to make him turn to you, licking your lips as you talked.
âIâm the hunter next year.â
âHeâs all yours.â
Bunny, Bunny, Bunny, you're so funny with your twitching nose.
Second part maybe? Do you guys want Stevie?
REBLOGS MAKE ME REALLY HAPPY YOU KNOW.
A/N: Yeah, kinda came out of my shell with this one, I hope you all like it, and if you don't well, you do you booboo. TO ALL MY FRIENDS THAT WAITED FOR THIS, HERE YOU GO, I LOVE YOU, MWAH.
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OH MY GOD. THE WAY I JUST SCREAMED IN MY PILLOW BECAUSE OF YOUR NEW SUNNY FIC AGDGJAEGAJAVSG ITS SOSOSOS CUTE I CANT BREATHEHEHEHEHE. it got me thinkingâŠsunny and miggy are perfect for the one bed trope đđđđđ just imagine miggy acting like it doesnât effect him, sleeping in the same bad as sunny. iâm already giggling thinking about it. PLEASE WRITE A FIC ABOUT IT WHEN YOU HAVE THE TIME đđ
As Warm As You.
Miguel OâHara x Female! Reader
A/N: OMG! Thank you so much for the love and the request! đđ€ I personally never read anything from this trope, but I think I made something that can satisfy your fluffy cravingđ
. But I added some Sunny lore, so maybe this will make up for my ignorance. Iâm also sorry itâs kinda short.
A/N: I havenât seen the movie yet, but this shouldnât be harmed by it maybe. Also I would like to say that I am using Google Translate for the Spanish phrases I use, so if you are fluent in Mexican Spanish (I think thatâs what you call phrases and sayings more common in Mexico.), please comment some criticism my way. Thank you!đ€
Warnings: Trauma, Nightmares, comfort, fluffy bits, One Bed, Miguel is a secret softie, No Use of YN ((Sunny is her nickname, not her name name)), Female pronouns, Google Translate Spanish, Established relationship?
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âBen?âŠBen!â
The little spiderâs scream cuts through the screeching sirens. The smog hung around the air as the dying flames stained the sky. Too many flamesâŠToo many places to be at once.
The red staining the dark costume caused bile to build up as the search becomes more desperate.
I have to find him.
The dull pain from nails bending and breaking as the rumble falls around her shaking frame. The choked panting caused the Doctor to find his friend quite easily. His friend desperately searching for something. Someone.
Why canât I find him?
The question is answered with a patch of dark hair appears under a pile of rumble, the tips stained in red. There was so muchâŠwhy is there so muchâŠ
A howl of pain rings out of the young womanâs throat as she clings to the body, her mentor just steps behind her, helpless as to how he can help her.
No one can help her. Like how no one helped her Ben.
ââ
A faint flash of orange alerts the sleeping man out of his endless dream. He looks around and doesnât notice anyone at first. Miguel sighs, his paranoia running wild as he almost thought an enemy broke into his apartment, not that it would be a first. As he lays back down to sleep, a slight drag against the floor brings the hairs on the back of his neck to life.
He may not have a spider-sense, but he certain knew when someone was watching him. His talons burrow at as the sound patters closer to his bed. With out hesitation, he lunges towards the noise, his hands catching the form of an invisible figure as he rams them into the wall. A yelp with a whiff of vanilla and lavender stops him from ripping the invisible personâs throat out.
âCariño?âŠâ Miguel whispers as he retracts his claws. A faint whimpering emerges from the solid unseen being in front of him as her body materializes in the moonlight. The lines of her spider suit glowing an ethereal green as her mask disintegrates, revealing her tear stained face.
âWhat are you doing?â His eyebrows furrow as he looks at her suspiciously, despite knowing that she was the only one he knows wouldnât hurt him. His mind blurs his confusion and frustration as he steps back to allow her to recover from being slammed into the wall. Certainly there wasnât a big enough emergency that the beloved residential ray of sunshine would leave her room at The Lobby to break into his dimension, and bedroom to come get him.
âYou know better than to use the gizmo toâŠâ His scolding comes to a halt when the young woman hugs his figure, burning her head into his firm chest.
His shirt becomes wet with her tears as she sobs. The realization hits him as she whimpers into his touch.
She had the dream again.
No. She had the memory again.
His arms wrapped around her short frame as he buried his nose into her hair. Her scent filled the hole of sorrow her cries burned into him. As he rubs her back, her cries eventually stopped as she pulls away from him, an apology already waiting on her lips.
âIâm sorry, MiggyâŠit was really bad this timeâŠâ She mutters as she tries wiping her tears away as she forces a shy smile.
She felt ashamed for bothering him. Miguel was a busy man and she could have just stayed in her room at The Lobby, but the screams were too much.
His screams were too much.
Miguel doesnât respond as he heads over to his dresser, pulling open a drawer. His face remaining emotionless as he retrieves a sweatshirt that sparked her familiarity.
The old gray crew neck sweatshirt with a fraying collar and mysterious stains along the sleeves. The old golden initials of NYU were cracked and picked apart due to many trips in the wash and anxious tendencies. A faint blush appears as she remembers the first time she ever saw that sweatshirt, the memory being one of her favoriteâŠit was the first time she felt so warm since that dayâŠ
Miguel attracts her attention again when he rolls up the fabric in his hands and forces the neck over her head. Her hair sticking awkwardly as she peers up at Miguel in awe at how caring he was despite his annoyed expression.
âBrazos arriba, Sunshine.â He whispers as he helps her arms through the sleeves. She blindly follows him like a student being instructed. The taller spider stands back as he raises an eyebrow expectantly.
âI appreciate that you enjoy the suit I made you, mi luz.â Miguel states with a slight teasing smile. âBut you probably wanna be more comfortable for bed.â
âOh yeaâŠâ The small spider blushes in embarrassment as she disintegrates her suit back into her gizmo device. A shiver travels up her spine as the cold air on her legs, leaving her almost exposed except for the old sweatshirt.
âNow then,â Miguel sighs as he walks back over to his bed and crawls back under the covers. âI have several meetings in the morning, so I need to sleep.â
The little spider shuffles in her spot for a few moments as Miguel closes his eyes, getting ready to sleep again. With a nail between her teeth, the girl heads for the door to go find the couch when Miguel clears his throat. She turns back to look at him when she sees the covers beside him pulled back. Miguelâs open eye glaring at her as he groans. âIt would be a lot easier for me to leave in the morning if you are in here and not in my way.â
A warm smile forms on her face as she excitedly comes into his bed. Miguelâs front facing her as his burgundy gaze burns with false annoyance and exhaustion. Miguel sighs as he feels the smaller beingâs weight snuggles into his broad chest as expected.
âThank you, Miggy.â She whispers. Her eyes peering up at him with gratitude and an emotion that only shines for him, his own secret that he will die to keep to himself.
Miguel rolls his eyes as his eyes meet hers, his warm cheeks hidden by the darkness. âGo to sleep, Cariño. Youâre gonna need it for training.â
She giggles as she wraps her arms around his waist like a teddy bear. âSweet Dreams, mi bonita araña..â She mumbles as she closes her eyes. His warmth fills the coldness of her nightmares as sleep draws her to peaceful breaths. Miguel remains frozen for a few moments as he makes sure she is deep in REM sleep before his gaze softens.
His rapidly beating heart acts as her lullaby as he places a kiss on her crown.
âSweet dreams, mi vidaâŠâ He whispers into her scalp as his arms loom around her, acting as her shield before he slips into a sweet slumber in his lightâs embrace.
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Mommy!May: Essence
A siren rescues you from the plunder of a shipwreck, you're grateful for his mercy in letting you live.
But at what cost?
Content Includes: Siren!Mommy Seonghwa x sub!fem reader, DUB-CON & DARK THEMES, it's why I included the ominous blurb in the beginning, scent play, spit kink, aphrodisiacs, scratching, biting, rough sex, kissing, oral (fem receiving), nipple play, body worship, mating kink.
Word Count: 2.8 K
Disclaimer: 18 + only. I don't endorse these themes, this is pure fantasy.
Please heed the warnings, this is the darkest fic I have written thus far.
If you still feel 'called' haha to read this, enjoy :)
The waves crashed and battered against you as you called out for help, your hands and feet kicking and clawing at the ocean that was ravenous and against your favour.Â
âHelp! Someone help me!âÂ
The words baffled and frothed against your mouth, you felt your lungs were drowning and your body weakening.Â
The imminent drag to the bottom of the ocean is close to being the untimely death of your demise.Â
The night sky was bright, the moonlight an ominous globe that silhouetted the hidden creatures in the water and the shrieking screams of fear heard from any direction of sight.Â
The ship was creaking, the fire illuminating the darkness and the smell of smoke and salt filled your nostrils.Â
A piece of wood peeked out of the corner of your eye, it wasnât there beforeâŠwhy would it be there now?Â
You were too focused on surviving to care, lunging towards the wood and gripping it with what little strength you have left, hands shaking and trembling white as you gripped onto the edge and heaved your torso up onto the plank.Â
Coughs and gargles were filling the air as you churned up all the excessive water over the wood, your head resting against the rough material as you closed your eyes for a few moments of peace.Â
Just a few seconds, just give a few seconds, a few seconds of freedom, a few seconds to feel grateful for the extended life the Universe has so kindly placed upon you.Â
A swishing noise was heard around you, soft and mild, barely enough to wake you from your slumber, your lashes fluttered as you attempted to close your eyes and let the ocean take you away.Â
Until the flicker of scales shone under the water, peeking out in your periphery.Â
âWow, thatâs so prettyâ You murmured in a groggy daze, unaware of the presence hovering over you, watching you, contemplating where his song would lure you.Â
To the ocean to feed?Â
His mouth filled with saliva, his body ready to pounce and the tail swished around him in a defensive stance.Â
Until moonlight hit the side of your cheek, glittering and gleaming against the wetness and soft droplets forming on the tips of your lashes.Â
Like the stars.Â
So precious and fragile, little human, so beautiful and weak.Â
A precious, little star.Â
His precious, little star.Â
A low hum filled your senses and a shiver ran down your frozen body, the melody encapsulating and the tension easing from your chest.Â
You followed the noise to the man floating in the water, his skin wet and droplets riveting across his bare chest and shoulders.Â
The illusion was too easy to believe in your breathless state, his tail deliberately hidden underneath him, gills flat behind his ears, his mouth closed and hiding his sharp and deadly fangs.Â
âPleaseâŠâ You whimpered out in a croaky, gargled voice.Â
âHelp meâ.Â
He swam over to you, though not using his arms, it was like he was gliding across the water, the soft hum becoming louder and making your mind foggy and head feel heavy.Â
A gentle stroke to your hair, a webbed finger softly prying your mouth open and a warm, sweet type of wetness was felt upon your tongue, a soft thumb wiping the excess away from the corner of your lip.Â
âShhhh, donât be scaredâŠIâll look after youâ He cooed, something he mimicked from watching mothers speak to their children upon the shore.Â
âSsssssleepâ He purred, his words almost snake-like and his webbed hand stroking your back, watching your eyes flutter close and your body almost go limp against the wood.Â
âThank youâ You mumbled out before darkness took over you, the silence and the heaviness more comforting than the need to survive, to kick against the current and thrive.Â
The man you thought was your saviour, heart filled with gratitude and appreciation for the one thing that might make you live another day.Â
Was not even a man.Â
Was not going to save you.Â
He was going to be your next nightmare.Â
âŠ
âPreciousâŠâ
The droplets of water on your forehead and a cold hand running along your calf brings you to the present.Â
âWakeâŠ.upâÂ
The sound of rain pitter-pattering caused your lashes to flutter and your nose to scrunch up as your eyes adjusted to the darkness of the cave you were in.Â
A soft whimper left your throat at the realisation that you were here, yet again in the rain and the dimly lit cave with nothing but your bare clothes and your sanity hanging on by an oceanâs thread.Â
âCome onâŠthere thereâŠopen those pretty eyesâ.Â
A soft voice cooed in your ear as you felt a hand move up from your calves to your naval, stroking over the thin fabric of your shirt, motioning in smooth circles.Â
The touch was so gentle against the roughness and fear of the dark sky and rain, it felt familiar, nurturing almost as the unlocked fear and anxiety pushed past the confines of your lungs and chest.Â
âMommy??âÂ
You whined, your vision becoming more clear as you reached out with grabby hands to latch onto whatever the soft touch and gentle voice came from.Â
âLook at me preciousâŠcanât you see? Mommyâs hereâ.Â
The slightest tilt to your head and a shudder of breath made your body cold and skin prickle in goosebumps at where the voice was coming from.Â
Seonghwaâs cheekbones and jawline were covered in silver, chrome coloured scales that ran down his neck and collarbones, his skin so luminescent it looked metallic against the moonlight beaming upon him.Â
His wavy, jet black hair fell just under his ears, hiding the gills that reverberated the hymn he was using to help make you lucid, pliable and compliant.Â
Webbed and inky-streaked fingers with sharp, pointed nails were followed by shades of silver speckled across his bare chest and torso, seamlessly transitioning from man to creature as his tail floated behind him.Â
His lower half was submerged in the pool of water as he perched over you on the flat rock and sticky seaweed he carefully placed underneath you, wanting to form a makeshift bed for your comfort.Â
The silver iris of his eyes were uncanny, bright and reflective, you could see a clean image of yourself in them.Â
âItâsâŠfeeding timeâŠMommy feeds youâ
His speech was stunted and broken, he was obviously speaking in a tongue not of his native language but he had heard the laughs and drunken banters of humans before they turned into screeches of pain and cowardly fear.Â
So, he knew a little bit.Â
Enough to speak to you.Â
âYou eatâŠâ He spoke again, his eyes glancing from your neck up to your chin, the ends of his nails digging into the flesh of your skin as he firmly pulled down your chin, opening your mouth for him.Â
âEat preciousâŠthenâŠMommyâŠplayâÂ
Darkness glinted in his eyes as his other hand exposed the chunks of raw fish that he had been saving for this moment, the flesh and sinew of it nudging your bottom lip before being pushed gently into your mouth.Â
You might have gagged at the metallic-taste if you werenât starved enough to care, lapping your tongue around Seonghwaâs fingers, too focused on feeling sated to notice the glow of his skin.Â
âThirstyâ You croaked in a parched voice as you limply reached out to avert the attention to the pool of water.Â
âThirsty?â Seonghwa mimicked, his gills flaring up as he looked over to the small rock pool, thoughts pondered in his head as he looked back at you.Â
âWater badâŠMommy make it cleanâ.Â
His head slowly lowered into the water and his tail swished as it doused you in water, causing your clothes to be soaked even more.Â
His mind wandered as he swam quickly and with a need to hit his goal with hastiness.Â
Seonghwa needed you alive and well.Â
He much preferred to play with living prey after all.Â
You were his to play with the moment he swam up to the flat bank of rock outside the cave and leveraged you on it with his tail, picking up seaweed so you could be comfortable during your âlong-termâ stay.Â
And as he stared down at your sleeping form, his tail wrapping possessively around you that he heard a slight cry leave your mouth.Â
âMommyâ You whimpered before you fell back into a state of exhaustion.Â
MommyâŠ
An endearment of trust.Â
Only to humans though,Â
To a siren, however.Â
Oh, the taunting was too tempting to deny.Â
âThereâŠthereâŠMommyâs here'.Â
The sound of Seonghwaâs movements in the water gave you a sigh of relief as a large abalone shell scraped across the rock with a taloned finger.Â
The droplets of water glitter across his scaled figure had you frozen in beauty.Â
He was gorgeous and terrifying at the same time, too human for a creature and too much of a creature to be human.Â
âMommyâŠclean water..to drinkâ.Â
Seonghwa heaved his body over the ledge so half his figure was on land, his legs and tail still submerged in water.Â
Your eyes widened as he brought the abalone shell towards his mouth, it seemed like he was going to swallow the contents of it.Â
âNo..what are you doing? I need thatâÂ
You weakly pushed yourself up on your elbows and swatted at Seonghwa to fight for the abalone shell.Â
âStop!â He hissed out, bottom lip lined with a sticky substance, his skin now SHINY and glowing with sweat.Â
âMommy clean waterâ.Â
You watched weakly as he drank the water, a few drops of it sparkling against his skin as he crawled forward to hover over you, his tail and fins dampening the bottom of your thighs and calves.Â
His face was inches from you, a series of quiet chirps and clicks emanating from his throat and his call relaxed you slightly.Â
Seonghwa spat the water from his mouth into yours, his tongueâŠLONG tongue swiping the inside of your palette and you felt a pinch on your bottom lip.Â
He finished the messy kiss by pulling away slightly, his kindness turned to roughness when his hands gripped your jaw and made your mouth as wide as possible.Â
Seonghwa pursed his mouth and a long, thick and viscous string of his saliva landed on the centre of your tongue.Â
âIt tastes sweetâÂ
The final thought before your head became foggy and satiated.Â
Heat ran through your body as a mindless sense of arousal and euphoria rushed over you, letting out little huffs and whimpers as your legs started to grind together.Â
Seonghwaâs silver eyes brightened with lust as his eyes fixed upon the buds of your nipples aroused and swollen, peeking through the translucent, wet shirt.Â
Low clicks and chirps of desire were heard throughout the cave, his saliva and the siren hymn making you feel euphoric, dazed and needy.Â
Seonghwaâs tongue swiped around the bud of your nipple, causing your back to arch and whine as he sucked around the fabric, scraping the bud slightly with his fang before repeating the process on the other one.Â
âMommyâ You panted out breathlessly.Â
âMommy playâŠplay with youâ He spoke firmly, webbed fingers pushing the shirt up and over your breasts, watching you stare back at him with glazed eyes.Â
The saliva was working, the aphrodisiac qualities making you feel needy, pliable, horny and submissive.Â
Seonghwaâs hand wandered down to your covered mound, feeling the heat of it under your fingertips and the smell of your arousal filling the air.Â
Itâs Mommyâs playtime now.Â
âSo littleâÂ
With one strong and lithe hand, your pants were torn in the middle and the fabric gathered around your calves and knees.Â
He watched your body twitch and he was hard, saliva and venom pooling in his mouth at how beautiful your cunt looked and how wetâŠWET you were from his saliva, staring at your wetness dripping down near the crevice of your thighs.Â
Seonghwa spread your thighs open roughly, a warning growl leaving his mouth and fangs bare when he heard your discomfort.Â
A curious lick of your slick on his tongue and he moaned, the scent of your arousal seeping into his skin before laving his tongue over you again and again.Â
Loud chirps, clicks and guttural moans were heard from your core as Seonghwa messily slid his tongue up your folds, sucked your clit, placed wet open-mouthed kisses against your core and licked you clean.Â
âMoreâŠmoreâÂ
You whined out, your body feeling limp and eyelids heavy, satiated in a daze of pleasure and being relieved of touch starvation to understand the depravity of how trapped you were by the one thing that was keeping you on that rock.Â
Seonghwa sucked more and more, the talons of his fingers scratching your thighs and eyes slitted, the veins on his arms shining silver and his skin glowing.Â
Thoughts of a different language repeated over in his mind as he sucked and licked the wetness out of your cunt,Â
What would taste better?Â
The life force he was consuming from you?
Or the softness of your skin between his teeth?Â
A flash of red sparked through his eyes and he pulled his tongue out to bite into the plushness of your inner thigh, not enough to bleed but enough to feel the puncture of his fangs.Â
Seonghwa grabbed your hips and pulled himself back up towards your face, leaving bite marks and wet trails of his saliva all over your bare skin, the aphrodisiac seeping into your skin and the pain subsiding into numbness, into lucidity.Â
âMateâÂ
He spoke out to you with certainty, demanding and with authority.Â
âMate. My mateâÂ
Your mouth was red, swollen and wet with a line of drool coming out from the corner of your mouth from how good the pleasure was and how far gone your mind was.Â
Seonghwa puckered your lips with his fingers and his tongue swiped over your bottom lip, your cum mixing with his saliva and your mouth opened freely, the taste of his spit and your essence filling your nostrils and making you squirm with desire for more.Â
He grinded his scaled hips over your core as he felt himself unsheath his appendage, much like a human male but thick, with a rougher texture.Â
âStayâŠmate you.âÂ
With one hand on your waist and the other supporting himself up, he pressed himself against your entrance, watching your hips jolt and brow furrow.Â
âMommyâ You whined out as you gripped the seaweed below, jaw clenched from the overbearing pressure you felt between your legs.Â
âShhhâ He cooed softly, running his hands in comfort up your side as he attempted to push in further but the resistance was rough and he could feel your muscles tensing under the broadness of his hands.Â
He stayed still as he gently held your chin between his thumb and forefinger, his eyes shifting to a normal human lens as he gently tilted your head up.Â
A glob of his spit landed on your tongue and you could feel it trail down your throat, it was sweet, like honey and immediately your body became sensitive.Â
A rock of your hips languidly and your lips trailing his was enough for Seonghwa to move again, lust and desire overwhelming both of you as he bottomed out inside of you, feeling every ridge of him in the inside of your core.Â
âPreciousâÂ
His tongue licked over your cheek, savouring the salt and sheen of your skin as his scales grazed over your thighs, your body sensitive and fragile like an exposed wire underneath him.Â
âStarâÂ
Seonghwaâs voice was husky, raw as he panted above you, his free hand running down the front of your body in appreciation and worship.Â
âKeepâŠMateâŠCareâŠLoveâÂ
He lovingly spoke to you with each thrust, his hands tangled in your hair and his spit, essence and saliva was felt on your tongue, on your lips, down your throat and in your skin.Â
He may be your nightmare but you were his dream.Â
Your body, your voice, your vulnerability, your isolation.Â
Did he lure you or did you lure him?Â
Your life was spared, your freedom? Maybe not.Â
âMateâ.Â
He whimpered out for the final time as his hips quickened, his scales glistening and shining brighter, the low-light of silver dimmed underneath the sheen of his skin, soft eyes and wet mouth.Â
âYouâre Mommyâs mateâ.
Author's Commentary:
If you did choose to read this fic, thank you for giving it a chance.
This did not write how I was expecting it too.
This took me weeks to write because I wanted to incorporate spit play into one of my fics after reading the kink used in a vampire!idol fic.
I am personally not into spit play myself but I've always wanted to write a siren!idol piece and it just fits perfectly.
Thank you to @byuntrash101 for beta-reading this for me and giving me the motivation to turn try something different and write a dark fic.
Hey *shrugs*, at least I tried.
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