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[imyournelly]

day 2. Free SciFi/Fantasy Movie Day

movie: The NeverEnding Story (1984)

day 1

[now-showing-at-the-hawk-events]

When his parents died and Steve found out the stock market crash had bankrupted his father, leaving him with only the house and his car, Steve sold the house and drove out of Hawkins.

Steve just wanted to get out of Hawkins and he did. Maybe Santa Carla isn't for everyone, but it's for him. There's just one thing he can't stand about it: all the damn vampires.

Unfortunately for Steve, they like him just fine.

My own late addition to the event for Iconic Movies! I hope everyone had a great time!

I wanted to say how thankful I am for staff's help and everyone who participated or just hung out!

Don't forget we'll still be accepting late entries until mid November! So don't worry that you ran out of time!

I hope everyone had a great time and look forward to the movie nights that are in the works as well as keep an eye out on this blog for other upcoming events like Modern Metalsandwich Movie Mania for movies made after 2000 as well as Metalsandwich Music Mania, for music that reminds you or inspires you to think about or make something for the boys! I'm so excited to see what we all do together next 🖤 ♥️ 💙

[kallisto-k]

MetalSandwich Movie Mania

Musical/Animated Movie Day: Grease

“Grease? Really?” Steve flopped on the couch beside Billy and Eddie. They seemed engrossed with it, eyes not even shooting his way as he made himself comfortable. “I thought it’d be too mainstream for you.”

“Billy’s never seen it!” Eddie whispered like it was conspiracy, grinning wide. Of course as soon as the next song started Eddie was singing purposefully off-key. “~Well this car is automatic, it’s systematic~”

Steve practically had to yell over Eddie’s noise. “You didn’t see it on some date when it came out?” 

Billy finally tore his eyes off where John Travolta was belting out “Greased Lightnin’”, barely audible over Eddie, his foot tapping along with the beat. “I was like ten; I had other things on my mind. You’re telling me you were already king at eleven and taking girls on dates?” 

“Guess not.” For how good Eddie’s voice actually was, his horrible rendition of the song was definitely drowning out the movie. “Come on Eddie, let Billy enjoy it. We can rewind and you can ruin the music later before we return it.” 

Eddie gave Steve a wounded look before it turned into a smirk. “Gonna find some other way to keep me entertained Big Boy?”

Rolling his eyes, Steve fisted his hand in Eddie’s hair and pulled him close. “Guess it’s a sacrifice I’ll have to make.”

While Steve slipped his tongue between Eddie’s lips, he heard Billy snort out “my hero.” And if he wasn’t so busy with the octopus that Eddie turned into as soon as he got some kisses and attention, Steve would’ve happily shot something back. Instead he repositioned himself and Eddie on the couch, never breaking the kiss, so that Steve could grab Billy’s hand and rub his thumb across the back of it. They still had an hour or so left; plenty of time to give Billy some attention too once Eddie’d gotten his fill.

[alicetallula]

MetalSandwich Movie Mania 2023 - Day 7 : Iconic Movie Day (The Lost Boys/Labyrinth/Rocky Horror Picture Show/Etc) - 16.10.2023

Day 1 : Musical Movie Day / Day 1 : Animated Movie Day / Day 2 : SciFi Movie Day / Day 2 : Fantasy Movie Day / Day 3 : Action Movie Day / Day 3 : Adventure Movie Day / Day 4 : Romance Movie Day / Day 4 : Historical Movie Day / Day 5 : Horror Movie Day / Day 5 : Creature Feature Movie Day / Day 6 : Free Genre Movie Day

Here's my little participation to the event @now-showing-at-the-hawk-events 😊❤️

So of course, I chose 'The Lost Boys' (1987)

Done using alcohol markers, ink pens, graphite pencils, metallic ink pens, gel pens, acrylic paint pens and Photoshop for the text

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Sans dialogue

Done using alcohol markers, ink pens, graphite pencils, metallic ink pens, gel pens and acrylic paint pens

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[lorifragolina]

Eternally Together

So this is my first - and only, for the moment- fic for Metalsanswich Movie Mania from @now-showing-at-the-hawk-events. In my family Fantasy + 80`s always meant Ladyhawke, although it costed me a little to remember the existence of the movie at first! I hope you enjoy reading it like me writing it!

Relationship: Steve/Eddie/Billy Rating: T WC: 7352

Billy Hargrove dismounted from his horse and hid it behind the barn, near to two other horses, a black one and a white one. 

He cautiously opened the door, looking carefully inside. Two men were already there, one, long black haired, lying lazily on a white cloak, the other, tall and blonde, with a black corset completely opened to his waist. A copper medallion with a dragon trapped in tree roots laying on his naked chest. Both of them had visible scars on their arms, neck and upper body. They had glasses and a few bottles of wine in a basket, and raised the glasses to him. 

“Finally, Billy” smiled the black haired, leading a hand to him. Billy took the hand and knelt at his side on the hay.

“My father detained me” sighed Billy, kissing his palm. 

“Eddie thought you couldn’t make it” said the blonde, pouring wine for Billy too. Billy leant to kiss him lightly. 

“He must have chained me with a hell chain to stop me,” laughed Billy, drinking a good sip of wine. “It’s very good, princess. It’s your personal reserve?”

“Directly from Count cellar” laughed Eddie again. He made a site between them for Billy, and kissed him in return.

Captain Steven Harrington returned to the garrison with the last rays of sunset. Commander Hargrove senior was sitting on the door, looking at him sheltering his black horse. The grin on the older man’s face, with his two penetrating blue eyes and that pervert glare, was vicious.

“The patrol was good, I guess. Though it was very, very long” he scoffed, looking Harrington in the eyes. 

Steve didn’t answer, passing his second pushing him a little. Hargrove disgusted him. He wanted to be captain and started hating Harrington in return the moment he took the charge by the hands of the King. He was plotting since then to get rid of him and take his place, along with the Bishop who considered Harrington a king spy.

Hargrove clenched his fists. He left the garrison to his house just in time to see his son, Billy, dismounting his horse at that moment. 

“Where were you? I told you to go to the armorer”.

Billy pursed his lips, knowing that his father was just searching for an excuse to argue.

“Of course, here you are,” he took from the saddle a clanging bundle in white rags. Hargrove grabbed his arm painfully.

“Excuse me?”

“Here you are, sir,” Billy answered, lowering his eyes and praying he wouldn’t notice the wine and perfume scent on him. 

Neil gave him a deep glance and then freed him, entering the house. Billy went into his room, and while he took off his doublet, he found a straw on his hair

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Count Eddie Munson sat at the dinner table with his uncle Wayne. The old man was, as usual, reading some documents while eating. 

“Please, uncle, relax, at last at the dinner table”.

Wayne shook his head. “Bishop is really restless in his stupidity… the King counts on us to control him”.

Eddie nodded. The bishop was wicked, corrupted and he tried to control the land with his guards. They were loyal to the King, but he lived far away and things weren’t easy. They worked side by side with Captain Harrington, but most of the guards sided with the bishop, who could promise them more, although probably he wouldn’t hesitate to sell them away too, at the right moment. 

“And he asked for a meeting now after evening mass, so I have to control those documents”.

Eddie sighed. The bishop wasn’t not only politically dangerous, but he was sly and disgusting in the way he looked to him. He had even tried several times to win him and touch him, making him ambiguous offers. He really just wanted to take a bath and go to bed, but he wore his red formal dress and followed his uncle to the reception room. 

Bishop Creel entered with a little following of guards, Captain Harrington and Commander Hargrove were behind him.

Eddie and Wayne sat in their chairs and the Bishop sat in front of them. Eddie crossed his eyes with Steve and blinked, they had to hide a little smile between them.

Captain Harrington was sent to the city a year ago, when some kids disappeared in the woods. He was able to find all of them and, apparently, defeat the menace: he had to work really closed with the Count and especially with Eddie, they found that something evil lived underground the county; they could defeat the creature together, although with severe wounds; they still carried matching scars of the supernatural bats bites and, more important, the adventure left a trace in their hearts, they felt deeply in love for each other. 

Bishop Creel arrived in the city just after the monster defeat, taking Hargrove and some soldiers with him, apparently to watch over the demonic menace; reality was, according to Wayne, that the Bishop wanted to take advantage of the King’s power to weaken it and rule on the territory.

Wayne Munson was a tough cookie indeed and the Bishop wasn't really successful in his plan, but he was pressing every time he could.

Eddie rapidly distracted from the bored chat, and looked again at Harrington pointing to Hargrove. Steve raised his eyes and shrugged his shoulders. He neither knew why Billy wasn’t there.

“I think we should discuss such things during the council, in the proper place,” said Wayne, evidently annoyed by the absurd continuous requests of the Bishop. He was convinced that the Bishop was attempting to annoy them enough to provoke a reaction and therefore report them in front of the King. Sometimes Wayne felt dangerously near the boiling point. 

The Bishop grinned. “Well, I wanted to solve the problem informally, but if you insisted…” he mocked a tired groan of pain. “I also fear that these hard chairs are affecting my back… I’m no longer a young kid” he looked sharply at Eddie and grinned even more. “Maybe your kind nephew could walk me out”.

Eddie felt a shiver and looked at Wayne. The man had to shake his head and pursed his lips, he couldn’t stop it.

The Bishop rested a little too much on Eddie's arm. The rest of the court walked out, led by Wayne, but Creel walked really slow. Eddie knew that he wasn’t old or slow at all, but it was only when the Bishop stopped near the door, far from the other, and stood in all his height, perfectly capable of standing and moving, that his intentions were made clear. 

He licked his lips and firmly grabbed Eddie’s arm. “You know that I can easily defeat your uncle with my guards” he hissed. Eddie tried to step behind but the bishop was strong. Stronger that he appeared, and pushed Eddie against a column.

“I don’t think so,” said Eddie.

“Don’t put me on the test” grinned the Bishop. He increased his grip and put his waist nearer to Eddie’s. “But you can help him and avoid him suffering. Together you and I should rule the county and save the poor old man…”

Eddie horrified, feeling the bulge of the Bishop, hard, and his excited breath.

“Are you threatening me?” He whispered, trying to hide his disgust and fear.

“Oh I wouldn’t call it threatening… it’s a trait between gentlemen”. He was sly, and pressed his body against Eddie’s, trying to reach his face, his lips. Then scoffed.

He rapidly took from his pocket a little velvet bag: a golden medallion slipped on his hand. It was his crest: a strange, pointy flower with five petals, more sick than pretty. He tried to give it to Eddie, and he knew what it meant.  “Don’t make that shocked face with me. I know perfectly well that you take lovers in the village. We can share control… and my bed”. 

It wasn’t the first time the Bishop tried to lure Eddie. 

Eddie shook his head, trying to free himself, and pushing away the medallion. “No, I…”

“Excellency?” Hargrove’s voice for the hallway surprised the Bishop. He let Eddie go and leaned again against him like an old man.

Hargrove appeared at the door.

Creel snickered.

“I’m sorry, my good man, I fear I’m a little tired, and slow, today”

Eddie could do nothing but bear the Bishop’s touch. Hargrove gave him a large, sharp glance, then extended his own arm to Creel.

“Let’s go, I’ll take you to the carriage”. The Bishop glanced again at Eddie, and he had to shiver in disgust. 

Eddie told Steve and Billy about the offers of the Bishop, and Steve spat on the ground.

“That person is vicious and disgusting. How can he be a man of God?”

“He just wants to defeat my uncle and me, and the King in general”.

“And that Hargrove is his shadow, he gives me a terrible feeling.  No offense,” he raised his hands to Billy.

“No offense taken. I hate him too. He is vicious and… wicked. They surely are plotting something. He said that the Bishop wants to meet me this night”

Eddie sighed in surprise. “Do you know why?”

Billy shrugged his shoulders. “My father wants to make me his commander, when… and if, he could be Captain”

“That will never happen,” smiled Steve, grabbing Billy’s hand.

They became friends when Hargrove came to the village. He took the commander's vacant site and summoned his son from abroad, where he was studying liberal arts. He wanted to make him a perfect guard and a cold soldier like him, but Billy didn’t want it. He befriended Harrington the night he escaped from his house with a bottle of cider, and then met Eddie at the barn with Steve. Eddie and Steve already exchanged their secret vows, Eddie gave Steve his crest medallion and Steve wore it like a wedding ring. But on a moonlight night, they looked into each other's eyes, and Eddie was the first to kiss Billy. Steve kissed him too, and they never separated since then. 

Eddie hugged a really worried Billy. “Calm down now, baby. For now we are together. Will you give me the permission to help you relax a little?”

Billy laughed and let Eddie’s hand unfasten his belt.

The Bishop looked sharply at Billy, for a long time, while Hargrove senior stood nervously at his son’s side. 

Billy didn’t dare to raise his eyes. He felt a devilish touch from Creel eyes, and he had the irrational fear he could read inside him and about his love for Eddie and Steve. And he feared also that the Bishop could want him as a lover, too.

The Bishop got near and touched his face, moving it to the right and to the left.

“Nice to meet you officially, young Hargrove” hissed the Bishop. “Your father tells great things about you. Are you a good soldier indeed?”

Billy blinked, and muttered something, then he felt his father fussing.

“Yes, sir,” he said in a louder voice.

“Very well. I know that if your father will be the Captain, you and I could... work together very well” 

The Bishop indulged in a caress with the back of his hand, almost to Billy’s collarbone. He shivered and tried to stay still.

“Very well,” smiled the Bishop then, returning to his seat. “Now leave us, son, your father and I have something to discuss”.

“Wait for me at the entrance” said his father, and he left the room. He stopped near the door that they didn’t even close, maybe thinking he was too stupid or too henpecked to eavesdrop. 

“I’ll give you Harrington,” said the Bishop. “And I’ll take for me the palace and the young Count. Make sure your men are ready, and they will rush as the dumb champions they are. A clean work”.

Billy heard a servant approaching, and there was no place to hide in the hallway. He had to move, pretending to go away, and had to wait for his father outside. He was extremely worried, and tried to hide his face from his father. 

They dismounted and gave the horse to a servant. “Tomorrow we have to check the dungeons, Billy,” said the commander, casually. “The guards said that there are movements there, and some peasant saw something”.

The servant blinked, pulling the horses.

Billy nodded. He thought he maybe had to warn Eddie and Steve, then, when he looked out his windows, he said Dustin, a young peasant that was a good friend of Eddie and Steve, and of the kid that had disappeared the year before, talking with the same servant. 

Probably the rumor would come more rapidly to them this way.

At the sunrise, he was awakened by the hustle under his windows. He got near cautiously to listen, and he overheard his father with one of the bishop’s attendants.

“They say the count went to the lodge and they went to the dungeons, sir”.

“Good,” nodded Hargrove. “Make sure the guards are all hidden in the forest, we will catch them in the dungeons”

Billy froze, his heart racing crazily. He didn’t understand last night why his father talked so airily in front of the servant, but now he did: it was a trap, plotted by his father and the Bishop to capture them faking a new dark menace. “A clean work,” said the Bishop, and he and the commander would come out from it clean like babies.

He struggled. His father stayed a little more in the door, and he wouldn't be able to sneak out, so he had to wait, his blood boiling for anger and fear. When finally he tried to escape, the commander called him, and forced him to ride with him to the forest. He didn’t know how to run away without making his father suspicious, and then, when the Bishop joined them, he felt trapped too.

“I will go to explore”, said Billy, mad with panic, trying to gain time. “To see if it’s safe for your Excellency” he looked his father in the eyes, and he nodded, seeming sort of proud.

Billy pushed the horse to the entrance of the dungeons. Eddie’s and Steve’s horses are there, and his heart sank. 

He looked out at the entrance. “Steve! Eddie!”

“Billy! We’re there… Dustin is missed”

“We’re coming out in a moment”

“Hurry, please!!” Yelled again Billy. “It’s a trap, you have to go away!” He struggled if they understood his words.

“In our way, Billy!” Answered Steve, and Billy felt really worried. 

Steve came out first holding onto his hand. “He wanted to go alone to see the monster, and he felt. He will be good in a moment” 

Billy helped him to escape from the hole, then Eddie came out too, smiling at Billy and trying to hug him.

“No” Billy wiggles out, hearing his father’s and Bishop’s horses approaching. “Go away right now… it’s a trap…” he whispered, looking around.

“What? What do you mean…”

“Well, well, here they are our heroes at work once again”

They heard the vicious Bishop’s voice behind them. 

“It's a real pity that hidden, evil beasts will prevail this time”.

The Bishop was grinning, and Hargrove had his hand on the hilt of the sword.

Billy saw that some men were coming out from the trees, and they approached them with their crossbows pointing at them. 

Billy and Steve drew their swords.

“Oh, I don’t think so, my dear sons” giggled the Bishop, while one of the guards dragged Dustin, unconscious and dirty for the soil of the dungeons.

“Apparently your little friend tried to be a hero himself” the guard took off his sword, menacing Dustin. 

Eddie clenched his teeth and his fists, and looked at Steve. Billy was holding his breath, waiting to draw his own sword and defend them.

“Sword on the ground” said Hargrove, and after an instant of reflection, Steve threw his sword on the ground, followed by Eddie.

“Let him go” barked Steve, and the bishop laughed.

“What better destiny to die to save a little friend?”

“Billy, take their swords” ordered Hargrove, but Billy didn’t move. “Come on, Billy!”

Billy still didn’t move, and Hargrove took the swords himself. Then he forced Eddie and Steve to walk in front of the Bishop, tying their hands behind their back.

The Bishop dismissed his men with a gesture: he didn’t want witnesses. Only the guard with Dustin stayed. 

“Well, dear Munson…” the Bishop fixed his eyes on Eddie's. “You have a good occasion now to save your life, and your uncle’s” he sniggered viciously.

“Let my uncle be alone!” Yelled Eddie furiously.

“It’s in your hands, my beautiful friend” continued the Bishop, lightly caressing Eddie’s cheek with his long and pale fingers. Eddie moved his face. “Very well, then. Hargrove, do you want the honor?” He asked, grinning, pointing to Steve.

Billy was petrified. He saw with the corner of his eye that Dustin was conscious again and was trying to wiggle from the guard. He got closer slowly and then, with a single movement, he hit the guard’s face with his elbow and then kicked him. He pushed Dustin away. 

“Go! Go to the palace! Run, advise the count!” He whispered, while his father was taking the crossbow, and the Bishop was distracted by the fight. Billy took his sword and ran back against his father, while Steve too was jumping against the Bishop, trying not to stumble for the tied hands

The Bishop easily avoided him, but while he bounced him, he broke his doublet and the Munson medallion remained uncovered on his chest. Hargrove could hit Steve with his sword making him fall down, before Billy jumped on his back and beat him to the ground.

Eddie jumped too, trying to defend Steve and hit the Bishop, but all happened in a single instant. The Bishop focused the medallion, and his face transfigured in fury. He leaned his hand and tore the emblem from Steve’s neck, growling like a rabid beast and foaming from his mouth

Eddie screamed. Billy screamed too, throwing himself against the Bishop. 

Bishop’s eyes became red, his face seemed to melt down and a bright light came out from the hand that was grabbing the medallion. He screamed, and his voice was from hell, casting a spell with a devilish yell.

Billy tried to stop him and defend Steve and Eddie, he fought with the Bishop but it was impossible to move him; he tried to tear away the medallion from his hands, but it was burning hot, and he screamed, trying not to let go.

The light exploded, hitting Eddie and Steve. Billy was hurled away, and he hit his father falling, with blood in his hand, and blood in his mouth. 

When Dustin ran in the woods searching for them, he found just a huge circle of ashes where he left his friends, and only the dragon medallion left in the ground.

The little burglar ran for her life on the dusty road. Four or five knights were behind her when he turned on the wood. The knights turned too, but an arrow hit the first of them, the horse reared and the others got scared. Another arrow hit the captain of the knight, and the girl kept running. She felt a horse behind her, and tried to escape, crying “No, no, no!” 

She heard the shriek of a giant bird above her and she fell down. 

The knight stopped near her and caught her while she wiggled. But eventually she surrendered. A giant eagle came down shrieking to the man’s shoulders, and the girl screamed and passed away.

She woke up on a black cloak, the knight's cloak, on the hay of a barn, near the black horse that was chasing her. 

She jumped sitting at the sight of the giant bird near her. 

“Shh, sweet lady,” whispered the man. He had sparkling hazel eyes and dark blonde hair, a big sword at his feet and a crossbow at his side. She saw the long shadows of the sunset outside the barn. He fed a piece of meat to the bird.

“You hungry?” He said.

“Who… who are you?” Said the girl. She was on the run, and she learnt not to trust strangers.

The stranger scoffed. “Don’t be afraid, young lady. Your enemies are my enemies too” he looked at the sky outside. “Now I will sleep in there, and you better sleep too, please, don’t try to disturb me: I could kill you before knowing that's you”.

He entered the barn, with a cry of the bird.

The kid laid down a little. She was used to sleeping with one eye open, so she woke up immediately when he heard a big noise, a sort of crack. The horse neighed and she went to see it. 

She heard a growl, and froze. A pair of sparkling golden eyes crossed hers. A wolf’s eyes. She tried to scream but the voice died in her throat. She turned around and ran in the barn, only to face another tall, black haired man with a once white shirt. He signed her to shut up, then moved to go out of the barn. 

“No sir,” whispered the kid, with urgency in her voice. “There is a wolf… a big wolf outside”

“Shh” whispered the man sweetly. He smiled a little, then went out, and the wolf came near, growling a sort of greeting.

“I… am I dreaming, sir?” Whispered the girl again.

“Yes, you are” whispered the man in return, then he leaned a hand to the wolf, that growled with pleasure, and then he walked with the beast for a while. 

The girl rubbed her eyes, looking at them in the steam of the sunrise. She returned inside and tried to sleep again.

“And he told you his name?” Said the blonde knight, smiling at her while she told him her vision of the night after.

“No sir… I asked if I was dreaming, and he said yes”

“I hope such a vision could visit me in my dreams too, sometimes,” he smiled at the eagle on his arm. “I had waiting for a long time for a dream like that”

The eagle shrieked. 

“Hargrove’s men were hunting you” said the man again after a while. The kid didn’t answer. The blonde grabbed her for her dress. “Tell me you managed to escape to the Bishop’s dungeon” he growled, grinding his teeth.

“Tw…twice” she squealed.

“This is the sign of God I was waiting… for all those years”.

The girl whined.

“How did you manage?” He growled again, pulling her with more strength. 

She trembled, then raised a shivered hand, squeezed her eyes and… the big sword flew on the air, planting with a clang in the ground.

“You… you have the same powers as him?” He whispers, amazed.

The girl was shivering again, exhausted. 

“Mine are not strong… not anymore”

The blonde closed his eyes. “You have to help me… to return there… I’m Captain Steve Harrington and my quest is… to kill that evil man”

“No!” Screamed the girl. “I can’t! I don’t want it!”

“Or I’ll give you personally to Hargrove men, and I am sure you couldn’t escape a third time”

The girl sighed. “I’m Jane, sir. I… I will help you if you… promise you let me go then”

Steve nodded. “Now, we better camp here. Today it’s not a good day to travel”.

Steve sat under a tree, petting the majestic eagle and feeding him. Jane sighed again, her enemy’s enemies were her friend, or she tried to convince herself so. 

“Hi… hi, milord” Jane woke up again in the middle of the night, frozen for the dead fire. The tall, skinny man sat there with a smile. He had long and black hair that he combed in the dark. “Do you remember me?”

“Of course, milady”. A wolf howled from afar. The man stood up and smoothed his clothes. “If you return to sleep now, I promise you will eat blueberries for breakfast”

Jane leaned her head again on her arms, and when the soft light of sunrise touched her eyelashes, she found a handful of big blueberries near her face.

“What’s this?” Smiled Steve.

“The man… the man of the dream gave me these”.

They shared the blueberries, then Steve went to groom and saddle the horse.

“We will stop near the bastions today. In a couple of days you will be free” said Steve after the lunch, pointing to a group of houses a little far away. Jane nodded, playing a little with her powers, launching pinecones and leaves, with Steve apparently amazed. He was smiling, and the eagle was shrieking a little.

They got distracted, Jane ran a little to the little steam at their side and threw some rocks in the water.

Steve heard her scream, then the scream of the eagle. Jane screamed again, and he could hear neigh and voices.

“Jane!” He ran, the crossbow aimed. He shot some arrows, hitting the guards that were menacing Jane, then drew the sword rapidly and fought the rest of them. They had the bishop sign and that made him more furiously, if possible.

The eagle flew down towards the face of the guards. They hit and someone could shoot some time. 

Steve freed Jane who helped him kick and bit him, but after they could defeat the last man, the eagle screamed high and crashed at the ground like a rock. 

Steve yelled like a beast. He beat the last man unconscious and then ran, falling on his knees near the bird, pierced by an arrow. 

He screamed without a sound. The bird was bleeding and whining slowly. 

He tried to cup the body of the animal with his hands. Jane was petrified at his side. 

Steve stopped, smelling the air. The sun was near the horizon. 

He called Jane, trying to shake her. She was scared and crying.

“Take a piece of cloth, quick!” He yelled, grooming the suffering bird a little. He wrapped and then put the eagle in Jane’s arm. The sun was every instant more low on the mountains. He pointed a red and gray house, a little ruined, at their right. 

“Found Dustin, he will know what to do. Careful now. Careful” he whined in a low voice.

“But you…” started Jane, holding the eagle gently in her arms. A little stain of blood was soaking the cloth.

“Go. Go! Be careful, please”. There were tears in Steve’s face when he pushed her away one last time

Jane started to walk towards the village. She knocked on the door, frantically. Someone looked from the window on the first floor.

“I was told… to bring you this wounded bird” started Jane, hesitant. 

The guy spat from the window. “Then let it there, I will make a good fire to eat it”

Jane winced and held the bird at her chest, protectively.

“This is not an ordinary bird… he belongs to a man named Harrington” she tried again.

The jolly expression on the man's face faded away in a second. He disappeared inside and ran to the door. 

He looked Jane straight in the eyes. His face was pale and dirty, he had big dark circles under the eyes, but the eyes themselves were blue and bright, and she felt she could trust him. 

“Hurry,” he said, making her space to enter. He pointed to a room with a bed and some blankets, apparently clean. “Here,” he carefully took the bird. “Now gently, here. Harrington was right, I know what to do” he petted the bird once he put it down, looking at the arrow that pierced him. “We must wait a little now”.

Jane sat outside the room while Dustin was busy in the garden searching for herbs and flowers. 

After a while, she heard a howling near the village, and a noise in the room. Carefully, she opened the door, calling in a lower voice.

“I’m Jane. Please don’t be scared”.

In the bed was lying the man of the dreams, his long hair in a mess around his head. He had the arrow in his shoulder. He was awake, and smiled lightly to the girl.

“Harrington?” He whispered.

“He’s fine, he’s just fine. The eagle was struck, but… you already know” she whispered in return, getting nearer. “Are you flesh or are you a spirit?”

“I am sorrow,” smiled the man, his eyes sparkling. He raised a hand with difficulties to Jane.

Dustin entered at that moment. 

“What are you doing here?” He barked. “Out. Out now. I have to work”.

Jane shivered and went out with hesitation. 

Dustin took Eddie’s hand and kissed it. “I’m sorry, my lord, it's gonna hurt”.

Eddie closed his eyes, letting a couple tears run away on his face. He took a deep breath when Dustin knelt on the bed and grabbed the shaft of the arrow. 

Jane heard a pain scream and then silence.

Dustin gave a cup of hot, sweet tea to a shaken Jane. They looked each other in the eyes for long, deciding if they could trust each other. Jane was the first to lower down her eyes and nodded. 

She told her story, and Dustin nodded in return.

He told his story to her too. 

“The Bishop was evil, and vicious. He put his eyes on the younger count, but his heart was already lost for the Captain of the guards”. He took a long breath. “They exchanged their vows in secret, and they fell in love with Billy, the son of Harrington second, Hargrove. The man who was hunting you”.

Jane nodded.

“And then?”

Dustin lowered his eyes. “The Bishop ambushed them, and before they could realize, they were betrayed. A foolish friend of theirs tried to be a hero and caused their disgrace.

The Bishop became aware of their bond and he got mad. If he couldn’t have him, no man would. 

He spat the terrible curse you said working. Billy disappeared, burned alive for the powers the Bishop conjured. And by day, Eddie is the beautiful bird you brought to me and by night, as you have already guessed, the voice of the wolf that we hear is the cry of Harrington.

Creatures with no memory of the halflife of their human existence, never touching in the flesh, only the anguish of a split second at sunrise and sunset when they can almost touch, but not.  ”

Jane sighed. She had to dry her eyes. “Always together, eternally apart” she sighed.

Dustin nodded, his voice broken.

“As long as the sun rises and sets, as long as there is day and night and for as long as they both shall live.

You stumbled in a tragic story and now you are lost in it as the rest of us”.

In the dead of night, Jane was incapable of sleep, kept awake by the sorrow and the howling of Steve. She sneaked into Eddie's room, where a short candle was lighting the man’s face, wet with tears. But he smiled when he saw Jane, inviting her at his side.

“It’s only a scratch,” he said, following her worried eyes. “I’m already good”

Jane nodded.

“Tell me your name”.

“Most people called me Jane, or El” she answered.

“You travel with him, don’t you?”

Jane nodded, and Eddie smiled with difficulty, hiding a little sting of pain in the move.

“You must save the eagle, he said. For he is my life, my last and best reason for living. And then he said, "One day we will know such happiness as two people dream of, but never do”.

Eddie chucked, or almost tried to. A cheerful sparkle appeared in his eyes. 

“It’s not something Harrington would say,” he smiled. “But thanks” and he closed his eyes again, trying to rest. 

“You… you are the friend that trapped them, right?” Said Jane, sat on the porch, while the sky got clearer every moment.

Dustin nodded, broken. “I wanted to be the one who saved the day, and I led them to this living hell”.

Jane bit her lips.

“But now I know how to undo what I have done. God gave me the knowledge to put it to an end. After years, we are together once again, and I have found a way to break the curse, and give them the lives they deserve. A way for them to confront the Bishop, and begin their true life again”.

“But Harrington wants to confront the bishop to kill him with his own hands!”

“If he does that, the curse can never be broken!” Exclaimed Dustin. 

They stayed silent, looking at the dawn that broke the sky behind the mountains.

“I am glad to see you again, Dustin,” said Steve, approaching on his horse.

“I somehow thought you would kill me with your bare hands,” answered Dustin without looking at him.

Steve dismounted. “Why?” He said sadly. “It was not your fault, absolutely, and nor did I or Eddie ever blame you,” he got near and held Dustin in a deep hug. “I missed you. We missed you”.

Dustin broke out crying and answered the hug. 

“How’s he?”

“Good… good” Dustin sniffed, drying his eyes. “The wound was not so serious”.

Steve nodded, smiling and hugging Dustin again. Then looked him in the eyes again. “And do you… do you know anything about…”

Dustin shook his head sadly, feeling his heart breaking more than it was. “No… he didn’t come back with the Bishop… there is no… no traces of him…”

Steve sighed, and took a deep breath.

“I’m so sorry, Steve,” continued Dustin. 

“Don’t be. It’s not your fault,” repeated Steve.

“But now… now I have the chance to redeem myself and save you and Eddie at least… I now know how the curse may be broken. Two days hence, the Bishop will hear the confession of the clergy in the palace. All you have to do is confront him, as men, in the flesh, and the curse will be broken. And you both will be free,” Dustin stopped Steve's objection with a gesture. “Two days hence there will be a day without a night and a night without a day”.

Eddie flew on Steve’s arm, freed from his room by Jane. Steve looked at him, hearing his chirp. 

“I always trusted you, Dustin, and I say again that you have no fault in this, but I will not follow one of your rumors again,” Steve seemed so harsh in that moment, that Dustin had a step behind. 

Jane listened to all the arguing, and then jumped at Steve’s side.

“Sir…” she began.

“I’m in your debt,” said Steve.

“Oh, no, sir, no, not at all” she looked at Eddie. “He… he wanted me to deliver a message, sir,” Steve raised a brow. “He still has faith, hope in you, sir”.

“He said so?” Jane nodded.

“It is something he totally could say,” smiled Steve, then giggled.

Jane followed him, and Dustin decided to take his mule and go behind them, to convince or at least help them. 

But Steve ordered them not to talk about their hope to break the curse, to him or to Eddie. He knew Eddie, and he knew that if he learnt about it he would believe it, and he didn’t want to put him in danger for a foolish dream.

That night, Eddie seemed completely recovered. He took a blade of grass and played it. 

“He liked when I played for him, '' he said to Jane, out of nowhere. “Sometimes, we danced together, out of the inn, or outside the castle. I wish I could fight at his side, you know, we both were soldiers…. But he also was… the brightest being I ever saw in my life. I envy you… for every moment you can pass with him”.

Jane sighed, and lowered her head. She was at the point to tell him Dustin’s idea, but she stayed silent.

“Why won’t you listen to me?” Dustin was yelling again to Steve, the next morning. “Tomorrow, you can face the bishop face to face, and break the curse!”

“I will be in the palace tomorrow, and it will come to an end, one way or another”.

“Please, captain…” started Jane. She got closer to him, and whispered. “He told me about you last night… he was… he glows when he talks about you… please, sir, you…”

“You too? I said stay away from my business. I can enter the city by myself, go away, you both”.

Steve was angry, sad, and tired. He wanted his revenge, and it was completely understandable. The curse was unbreakable, and Dustin liked to spread rumors, although it wasn’t his fault, and he wanted to end their misery. His own, and Eddie’s. And have his revenge on the bishop and on Hargrove, for them both and for Billy, he remembered perfectly that he died trying to help them, trying to save them, and he deserved revenge, and peace. 

He pushed the horse at a gallop in the country, and Jane and Dustin feared he would never come back. He did, instead, at dusk. He had a couple of rabbits and a fish, and gave them to cook. 

“Eat and rest, tomorrow would be a great day” said, sadly, leaving the horse and disappearing again in the woods. 

“He is taking us to the city, right?” Said Eddie later, saying them sitting sad and silently with such a banquet. 

Jane nodded. She tried to bite her tongue, but she couldn’t.

“It could be our last night together,” she said. 

Eddie got worried. “He is thinking of doing something stupid, right?”

Jane nodded.

“He said… for Billy” .

Eddie blinked, trying to hide his tears. “He’s always been a warrior… he just can understand a language… we tried, but…”

He got on his feet and walked away. The wolf reached him, and they walked together a little. 

Next day in the early morning, they managed to pass the city’s gates with Jane’s help; she was able to move rocks and ground faking a landslide and the guards gathered to look; they sneaked in, Eddie hid in a bag under Steve’s cloak.

Jane stole a choirboy robe and joined the procession when the bishop entered in the main hall of the palace. They closed the heavy doors behind them, and she waited near them for Steve’s arrival. 

Dustin took Eddie from Steve’s hand. The sky was clouded and gray. 

“It should be soon now, once the clouds break,” said Dustin desperately.

Steve scoffed. “It’s day. That’s all. I’m not into poetry like you and Eddie. There is nothing else, and there’s no time left. I can’t wait anymore, hoping Jane could do her job. I can kill the Bishop, now or never”.

He stopped Dustin's protests. 

“If the service ends peacefully, the bells will toll, and you’ll know I have failed,” Steve took his dagger and gave it to Dustin. “I beg you to take his life. Quick and painless”

Eddie shrieked, as he was understanding. Dustin trembled, tears on his face. 

“I couldn’t!”

“You could, and you will. You must free him from the condemned half life, forever. I beg you”.

Dustin took the knife. When Steve walked away, he took the dragon medallion from his pocket, and kissed it. 

Jane followed the service. 

Steve passed on his horse the desert streets. He had to fight with a couple of guards, but he won without great difficulties, and he was lucky none of them remembered or recognized him.

Jane tried to open the doors with her powers. It was difficult, and a guard saw her, but she tried again and the doors opened wide, just in the moment Steve was outside. He wore his helmet and wielded his big sword, facing the Bishop. At his back, he heard the steps of another horse. 

Hargrove. Steve was guessing where he was, why he wasn’t at Bishop side to defend him.  Hargrove wore his helmet too and attacked him fiercely at the Bishop’s gesture. Steve threw him down off his horse and faced him, sword against sword. 

Steve saw the clouds opening on the big clear window, and saw a dark circle approaching the sun.

“A day without a night” he whispered. 

Dustin saw it too. 

Jane held her breath. 

Hargrove ran again against Steve, but again, he easily hit him with his sword, making his heat hit the ground with the great clang of the helmet. Hargrove fell and slipped and stumbled on the bell rope. He clung to one of them to stand again, losing his gloves, but failed, falling again on the ground. 

And the bell tolled. 

Steve’s heart stopped, he blinked and looked at the sun again, now half covered. 

“Dustin, make it quick,” he praised. 

Then he could get close to the helpless bishop with his sword ready to take his life. 

“But kill me, Harrington, and the curse will go on forever” smiled Creel, with his sly eyes. “We must think of Munson”.

“Munson is dead,” said Steve, harshly, while the Bishop's eyes, fixed behind him, widened in surprise and fear. “He is dead, damn you. Damn you to hell!” He raised his sword.

“Steve!” 

They turn. Eddie was there, and Creel closed his eyes, hiding his face trying not to look at them. 

Steve forced him to look at them, and Creel looked. 

The black circle was covering the sun. People screamed in surprise and fear.

Dustin reached Jane. “It’s broken. It’s broken”.

Steve knelt in front of Eddie. He had the medallion in his hand, the sign of their vows, and they hugged, and kissed. 

Hargrove, unseen by the presents, tried to stand again.  He took his sword from the ground and tried to run again to the couple.

“No!” Screamed Dustin, jumping against him, trying to disarm him. And when he grabbed his right hand, to tear away the sword, he cried. 

“Steve! Steve!” Dustin raised Hargrove's hand, where the burst of the dragon medallion was burned. Steve knelt at Hargrove side and took off his helmet.

“Billy!” Eddie knelt too.

It wasn’t commander Hargrove, it was Billy, apparently unaware of them.

“Hargrove! Kill them now!” Screamed the bishop, and Billy tried to attack them. Steve saw the Bishop sigil on his neck and tore it away, then trapped Billy into his arms, dragging him in front of the bishop, along with Eddie.

“Look at us! Look at us three!” He again menaced the bishop with his sword, and he looked, while the dark circle started leaving the sun, and the light of the day began to enter again in the palace. 

Billy blinked, as he had just woken up, and looked to Eddie and Steve as it was the first time.

“I… I… Steve…” he touched Steve’s face and Eddie’s hands. “Eddie…” Then took the bishop medallion from Steve’s hands, and took a few steps to him, throwing it on his face.

The Bishop transfigured, changing into a monster of blood and flash, with a five petals head. He growled and launched a clawed hand to Billy’s chest, hurting him as he was trying to rip off his heart.

“No!” Screamed Jane, running in front of him and raising her hand. With a terrible scream, she hit the monster, making him hit the walls behind him, and eventually, destroying him. 

The kid fainted in Eddie’s and Steve’s arms, while Billy looked at his wound, that was only superficial. Dustin took her, and then kept looking at each other, touching each other face, hands, kissing, finally together. 

They left the hall, hands in hands. 

The sun was high and bright in the sky, and when the night fell, they laid together, finally, as men, in flash and bones.

[camaro-and-smokes]

Eve

Chapter 2: XNQ-377

Chapter summary: Billy didn't like the situation. At all. Eddie and Steve could be anywhere. He hoped they wouldn't be in the military section of the station. The evac should be partially easy. He had a map, an AI and a robot dog covering his six. But he also had a monster on a leash, and he and the monster weren't on the best of terms.

MIND THE TAGS - S E R I O U S L Y. This is a horror/scifi/creature movie crossover and loyal to the film. If the image below makes you queezy, this is not for you. Unless you like that queezy feeling, then, happy reading :)

Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Categories: M/M/M Relationship: Billy Hargrove/Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson Tags: MetalSandwich Movie Mania, Movie: Aliens (1986), Aliens AU, Horror, Body Horror, Blood, Blood and Gore, Gore, Xenomorphs, Aliens, Metalsandwich, Mungrove, Harringrove, Science Fiction, Military Science Fiction, Crossover

Notes: Written for Metalsandwich Movie Mania 2023 @now-showing-at-the-hawk-events

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Billy rushed to the lower deck and towards the armoury. They had not at all small arsenal of weapons at their disposal, they did this shit for living. Handguns, pulse rifles, plasma rifles, grenade launchers, flamethrowers, sonic disruptors - you named it, they got it, and then some. But the most precious weapon to Billy was Steve. They never went to the battleground alone.

Or hadn't gone. Now he had no choice.

He was certain that Steve had no other weapons on him but a handgun, if even that. He carried nothing else on space stations when they weren't working. And Eddie carried nothing with him, ever. Well, maybe a Swiss army knife. Neither of those would help against what they were facing.

He strode through the massive doors to their armoury. He walked past the gun racks and gear boxes, collecting weapons with him as he walked. Plasma rifle was a must on a space station. It didn't puncture walls but only after heavy fire, so it was safer in this situation. Also, it didn't run out of ammo, but its battery would run out at some point. So, as many batteries with him as he could reasonably carry.

He knocked at one of the metal gear boxes with his knuckles. “Spot, let's go!” he said. The cover opened, and a yellow four-legged robot stepped out. “Hello, Billy,” it said, stretching its lone long grabbing arm up. “How may I help you?” “We're going to find Steve and Eddie. They're stuck somewhere on the station. Download the station map from Sis once I put her online. Gear up with the sonic disruptors, you're going to take care of my six. But ensure to avoid Eve with it. She'll be pissed off if you hit her with it.” “Acknowledged,” the robot said, and walked to the gear rack that held the disruptors and mounted one on itself.

Once he had his weapons of choice ready and laid out on the table in the middle of the room, he went to his armour closet. He opened the door and thought for a moment about the situation. They were on a space station, so he'd have to prepare for loss of atmosphere in addition to the normal bullshit of one set of normal sharp teeth, one set of high-speed teeth, in case he got too close, and of course the always as lovely acid blood. Also, on a military station like this he might encounter some friendly fire with the exception that the friendlies might not count him as a friendly anyway. So, he also needed something that would hold stray bullets.

Fuck. Normal hunting suit, then.

He didn't want to have his ass kicked by a stray marine who hadn't seen the chitin suit he had. It was Eddie's design and he had patented and licensed it, and suits made on the license were worn by an increasing number of space corps.

However, on a backwater station like this, it would be likely that no one had seen one before. But it was the only armor he could dodge at least some bullets with, so he didn't have a choice. He would've preferred something less straining, but the situation was what it was, so.

Although he was pretty sure that his worries about encountering any human weapons' fire would be among the least ones once he walked out of the ship.

The armour was shiny and black, made of thousands and thousands of small chitin shields. It glistened in the bleak light of the armoury and for a moment Billy felt unease, like he always did when he had to put this suit on. There was always something wrong if it was his only choice.

Their stop on the station was supposed to be just a regular stop, but of course, things had to go south just as everything had looked better. As usual. He just hoped that he wouldn’t be too late, for anyone’s sake.

He turned around and stepped backwards inside the armour, leaning to the back of it and greeting the AI that was operating it. “Hello, Sis.” “Hello, Billy,” the AI replied with a pleasant female voice as the armour quietly hummed to life. “Going hunting?” “Not hunting, but doing an evac. We’re leaving base.” “Acknowledged. Please remain still. Armour closing in one, two, three.” The armour knitted itself closed around Billy like a second skin, part by part starting from the boots. The helmet was the last one to lock itself in place. Billy followed from the heads-up-display of his helmet screen how Sis automatically linked all his chosen weapons to the armour and, one by one, the statuses of the weapons and other systems turned green. “Anyone else joining you today?” the AI asked. “I'm taking Spot with me,” he said. Then he paused and let out a deep breath, shaking his head. “No. It’s me, Spot, you and Eve.” He grimaced. “Link her to my suit as well.” “Do you want all reins over her?” After a short pause, Billy spoke. “Yes, please.”

Billy hated himself a little for having to link Eve to himself like that. Yes, she was huge and lethal, but after spending time with her - albeit from a safe distance - he couldn’t think but that there was intelligence like no other behind all that teeth and will to kill, even though that kind of intelligence was the source of a lot of bad things in the galaxy. But Eve was still a living creature that should have a certain level of freedom. Not that they could provide any of it to her since their ship was small-ish.

“Link to Eve established. She is not happy,” Sis remarked. “Yeah, I thought as much," Billy replied, taking another deep breath. "Maybe she changes her mind once she understands what’s at stake.” “What is at stake?” the AI asked. “Please go through the security feeds from the whole time we’ve been docked at the station. We’re in the middle of a shit-storm and Eddie and Steve are in the heart of it. Oh, and send the map of the station to Spot.” After a brief pause, the AI spoke. “I concur that your analysis of a shit-storm-like situation is accurate.” Billy snorted. “You’re starting to get the hang of deadpan humor, I see.” “I am doing my best,” the AI replied. “All systems have been activated and Spot has the map. You are ready to go.” “Thanks, Sis. Let’s put this show on the road.”

With all his weapons sorted to their places in his armor, Billy grabbed Eddie’s shirt he’d brought down with him from the cabin, took yet another deep breath, and walked to the cargo hold door, followed by Spot. He peeked in through the window in the thick door, but the space was dimly lit and quiet as it always was. However, it didn't mean that there wasn't something to be concerned about in there.

Billy hit the release button, and the door slid up, activating the lights in the hold. The temperature around him fell by 30 degrees and the heaters inside his armor kicked in. He cursed to himself. “I fucking hate this suit, I hate this fucking ship, the situation and I especially hate...”

A low hissing he could hear through his helmet’s outer mics interrupted his inner monologue. He stopped to take a breather. Approach her cautiously, never ever show that you are afraid, Eddie had said. She’s all bark and no bite as long as you don't show her you’re afraid. If you do, all safeties are off. Billy took a deep breath. “Rise and shine, Eve,” he said through the speakers in his suit and walked towards a terrarium-like habitat built in the back of the cargo hold. The closer Billy got to the habitat, the louder the hissing became. And not just because the distance grew shorter. “Yes, I know I woke you from your beauty sleep, princess, but I need your help. Your favorite person in the whole wide universe is in danger, and I need you to help me find him.” A dark shadow stirred in the habitat's shade as Billy got close.

No matter how often he came down here, it got no less nerve wrecking. He had to close the outer speakers so that his rugged breathing wouldn’t hint of his hesitation. Finally, he arrived in front of the habitat. Even though he was terrified about what he was about to do, a small part of him - very small, tiny even - was always in awe of what they were doing. And especially, that they actually could do it. It was unheard of, and yet, here he was, about to take one of the most horrifying creatures in the whole fucking universe for a walk.

-oOo-

Sample XNQ-377 was a genetically modified embryo that had been waiting for plantation to a host when Steve and Billy had broken into the science station in deep space. Not really knowing where they had been sent to but only told that this sample was what they were to locate and return to its 'rightful' owner in return for a hefty amount of money, they’d quickly learned that the science station they’d been sent to had been a fucking hive at that point. Xenos, mutated and disfigured in ways Billy and Steve had never seen, running around every corner, and all the staff spent as hosts.

The fact that there was only a limited amount of the bastards running around had been the only good thing they had going for them in that situation, really.

The science station had been doing other research as well, so once they’d found the lab and what they were told to fetch, they looted the rest of the laboratory, too, taking everything they could carry with them.

A great gig haul-wise, in every other sense a horrible one. They'd barely gotten out alive.

After returning to their ship and in a safe distance away from the station, they’d decided that sample XNQ-377 wouldn’t go to any other owner but the one who’d pay highest price of it on the darknet. And the gig had turned out to be very lucrative. Though not because they sold the embryo - not that there weren’t buyers, mind you.

It was because of what the embryo turned out to be.

Munson, the ever crazy scientist and a friend - and later also something more - who'd created Billy's and Steve's hunting suits, had known what it was: an embryo of a Xenomorph queen and one of a kind in a very special way.

She’d been genetically modified to alter her need to reproduce. If she was held in a habitat that filled certain atmospheric requirements, she wouldn’t develop the need to produce eggs until she would’ve been released into a suitable atmosphere. So, no need to send a massive number of Xeno eggs on a planet, just deploy her and let her run rampant until everyone was dead. Easy deployment of a hive as big as needed wherever you needed to get rid of a colony or just unfriendlies in general. So, since Munson knew what she was and had the equipment - Billy didn’t want to even start thinking where he got it all - they decided they might make more money by using her themselves.

But not for overtaking planets.

Some alternative research had suggested that if there was a situation where another queen was introduced to an active Xeno hive with a queen already laying eggs, the latter would stop producing them and fight the new queen. Of course, a queen that hadn’t spent a day laying eggs would always be more likely to win the fight than an old one who’d been stuck in place and producing eggs ever since it matured. And stopping the queen from producing new eggs would mean that once all the Xenos were killed, including the old queen, and all eggs destroyed (and the new queen returned to the ship before she could become fertile, of course) the planet was available for a new human master.

So, ever being able to seeing an opportunity to make money from outside the military - since not all conquerors were military, galaxy-sized tech businesses or even legal entities and the knowledge of Xenos wasn’t exactly common knowledge either - seeing the endless possibilities for hefty income from a very niche field of business, Munson had suggested the craziest idea and, well...

Her name was Eve.

-oOo-

Billy reached out his hand and placed it on the transparent resin wall of Eve’s habitat.

A black maw twice the size of Billy's head with long pin sharp teeth surged from the shadows and hit the other side of the wall, startling Billy and making him fall on his back on the floor. “Fuck! Eve!” he barked through the speakers when he caught his breath. “Behave!” He got an ear tearing screech as a reply and a new hit to the other side of the wall. He stared at the ceiling for a moment and carefully, once again, tried to remember the one crucial mistake in his life that had brought him to this exact moment in life. Then he sat up and glared back at the habitat.

The transparent wall was smeared with snot, drool, and mucus, but otherwise undamaged. Through it, he saw the fifteen feet tall Xenomorph queen crouching in front of it, now fully out of the shade of her habitat.

Billy couldn't help but to admire the beast for a moment. Her black exoskeleton was shining in the bright lights of the cargo hold and her skeletal tail that ended into a lethal spike was curled around her feet in an almost cat-like manner. Her two sets of hands were calmly in her lap, the tinier ones resting over the larger ones.

She was gorgeous in a very creepy and horrible way, Billy couldn’t deny that.

However, the freely moving part of her head, the maw, now with her lips closed to hide the angler fish like teeth, was pointing at him. She didn’t have eyes - she used echolocation to find her prey - but Billy was sure she was glaring at him. He was sure she always did that, since they definitely weren’t on friendly terms. But the scales of her six-feet-long creatine crown were wrapped around each other, an ability given to her with her several genetical alterations, and the tube they created was settled between the several tall spikes on her upper back. If she’d been pissed off, the crown would’ve been spread high above her head. But since it wasn’t, it meant that she wasn’t really agitated at all.

She was just playing with him. The fucker.

“Eve, we don’t have time for our normal dance. Eddie and Steve need our help. We need to get going right now.” He waved Eddie’s shirt in his hand and sent a message through Sis to Eve. The queen tensed up immediately. Billy nodded. “Yeah. Father. Missing,” Billy repeated the words he'd send to Eve. “We gotta go find your father. And Steve.”

[spaceofentropy]

It took me longer than foreseen, but it's here! My little entry for @now-showing-at-the-hawk-events 's MetalSandwich Movie Mania! It's 1985 and we're somewhere in sorta Italy, battling a curse that keeps two lovers separated.

Yep. It's Ladyhawke, but with a few twists.

Have fun! <3

[now-showing-at-the-hawk-events]

      Now Showing At The Hawk

🎟MetalSandwich Movie Mania🎟

Welcome to the MetalSandwich/Harringroveson Movie Event! I hope everyone will have a good time and make new friends as we create or appreciate the cool stuff that comes out of this event!

After a movie night with some friends on discord where we watched The Lost Boys, the idea came about to me to have a Week, seven days with a prompt for each day, with the date and prompts announced months in advance so everyone has time to make something for it!

The prompts for it will be focused on movies from the 70s/80s/90s! After an interest check and vote, the date decided was October 10th-16th! I hope everyone will have enough time and fun for this to become an annual event!

Tag for the event is #MetalSandwichMovies23

The Official Prompts!

(I decided to skip voting for this in the name of time and energy, but I was as thorough as I could be to ensure there was something for everyone!)

Oct 10th - Free Musical/Animated Movie Day

Oct 11th - Free SciFi/Fantasy Movie Day

Oct 12th - Free Action/Adventure Movie Day

Oct 13th - Free Romance/Historical Movie Day

Oct 14th - Free Horror/Creature Feature Movie Day

Oct 15th - Free Genre Movie Day

Oct 16th - Iconic Movie Day: (The Lost Boys/Labyrinth/Rocky Horror Picture Show/Etc)

Read more for Rules & FAQs

What is accepted for the event?

Anything! Fan fiction, fan art, photo edits, moodboards, fan videos, playlists, cosplays, you name it! Just let your creativity go!

Is there a minimum word count or something similar for other projects?

Not at all! Go wild, write drabbles, do anything!

I will ask that any videos include captioning and images include alt text to be considerate towards our friends with hearing and auditory processing difficulties!

How strict do we have to stick to the prompts?

Good question! With the variety and freedom of the prompts I hope you'll have plenty of wiggle room. And maybe you don't feel any movie au in particular but still want to participate? Maybe the boys just have a movie night watching a movie of your choice or they're actors! Who knows, you do! ;) I just want everyone to have fun. If you'd like any movie suggestions, let us know and we'll make a post!

I might run a little late in posting? Is that okay?

Life happens and it sucks! The dates are good for organization and giving everyone a clear schedule to try to keep to. But anything made specifically for this event will be accepted as long as it is posted sometime in October or early November. Otherwise, there's always next year!

I'd like to chat, maybe share ideas, or just show love for our favorite guys! Is there a discord?

Yes! It's 18+ and you can join us here!

Cool! Is there a Twitter?

Also yes! Give us a follow and share!

https://twitter.com/atthehawkevents

What kind of ratings and content are allowed?

This is an explicit, kink, and Dead Dove friendly event as we are dealing with many kinds of movies, including horror! Just make sure to tag appropriately. If you're unsure and need help with tagging, reach out via DM and we'll give our best suggestions.

[imyournelly]

day 3. Free Action/Adventure Movie Day

movie: Jaws (1975)

day 1 | day 2

[now-showing-at-the-hawk-events]

Hello everyone, I hope you had good holidays and that the new year is treating you well! ❤

I've been starting to consider when I should have the modern post-2000 metalsandwich movie mania event. I want at least a three month buffer so everyone has time to come up with and make something!

What is Metalsandwich Movie Mania? It's an event based on movies and genres for the ship Eddie Munson, Billy Hargrove, and Steve Harrington! If you'd like an example, check out the pinned post.

(I'm putting forward May or June, because I'll be too busy in July.)

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IT'S TIME

Metalsandwich Movie Mania has begun!

What is Metalsandwich Movie Mania?

It is an event for creators who love Harringroveson to make things inspired by movies from decades past up to the 90s!

Don't have time or energy to make anything? That's okay, you can be a Harringroveson Thespian and encourage the creators with your appreciation!

Time got away from you or life has Happened? That's okay! We accept late entries up to mid November!

Just wanna watch movies? That's cool too! We're working on arranging movie hang out nights in the discord server! So come on by!

          The Official Prompts!

Oct 10th - Free Musical/Animated Movie Day

Oct 11th - Free SciFi/Fantasy Movie Day

Oct 12th - Free Action/Adventure Movie Day

Oct 13th - Free Romance/Historical Movie Day

Oct 14th - Free Horror/Creature Feature Movie Day

Oct 15th - Free Genre Movie Day

Oct 16th - Iconic Movie Day: (The Lost Boys/Labyrinth/Rocky Horror Picture Show/Etc)

Wanna know more? Check out the pinned post on this account for rules and FAQs! Everyone is welcome and we even have a discord for everyone to mingle or just hang out!

Alt Text: above image is a moodboard with gifs depicting Steve Harrington, Eddie Munson and Billy Hargrove. Bold black letting says 'Metalsandwich Movie Mania', and 'Has begun' and '#MetalSandwichMovies23'. Background is dark with a large orange harvest moon.

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day 4. Free Romance/Historical Movie Day

might be my fave

movie: The Leather Boys (1964)

day 1 | day 2 | day 3

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day 6. Free Genre Movie Day

movie: cheat day

almost done! gonna post the full storyboard once the event is finished

day 1 | day 2 | day 3 | day 4 | day 5

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MetalSandwich Movie Mania

Free Genre Movie Day: The Breakfast Club

Sometimes Billy wondered how the hell schools got away with the concept of weekend detention. It wasn’t like any of the administrators wanted to be there any more than the students. But somehow they managed to get the vice principal to give up what was probably a pathetic excuse for a Saturday to watch a bunch of teenagers who didn’t want to be there any more than he did. 

The only reason Billy was even showing up was because if Neil heard from the school he’d skipped out on detention then it’d be a lot more than just a Saturday that he was giving up. He didn’t even deserve to be in it - so what if he’d finally given in and hit Hagan when he’d made yet another comment about Eddie? Hagan was an ass and it didn’t matter that he didn’t know Eddie was one of Billy’s boyfriends; he shouldn’t have been spouting shit like that.

So Billy plopped down at a table in the back after sending a quick smile to Eddie who was sitting at the other one and playing with his hair. How the hell Eddie had managed to get up, dressed, apparently functional, and to the school by 7am was a magic trick Billy would love to see. At least Eddie was there too which would make it more bearable. Probably got distracted during class again while planning his next D&D campaign.

“How long is this hell again Munson?” Billy asked, already thinking about going home with Eddie after to his trailer and spending a lazy Saturday evening getting high and cuddling. 

“Nine hours.” Eddie rocked back on his chair, twisting his fingers in his hair as he stared at the ceiling.

Not that Billy wanted to cuddle during their down time; Eddie was the clingy one. Steve too. And speak of the devil.

“How’d the great King Steve end up here with all us peasants?” Billy couldn’t help it. He loved ribbing Steve, riling him up to see that flush on his face. It always made the sex better too. 

“Fuck off Hargrove.” There was no real heat behind Steve's words - in fact, Billy could see the way Steve's eyes were soft.

“What, sad to be down off your throne?”

The vice principal strutted in, late for his own detention. What did that say about how stupid it was? “Well well well. Congratulations on being on time. It’s 7:06 so you have exactly 8 hours and 54 minutes to think about why you’re in here and ponder the errors of your ways. You may not talk. You will not move from these seats. And you will not sleep. Alright people, we're going to try something a little different today. We are going to write an essay of no less than a thousand words describing to me who you think you are. Questions? No? Good.”

And then their vice principal fucked right back off to his office. 

Billy huffed. He’d write the damn essay just so Neil didn’t hear about it but good luck getting a bunch of teenagers to not talk or move for almost nine hours. And besides, they were in the library. Plenty of book stacks where he and Steve and Eddie could sneak off to. Maybe detention wouldn’t be that bad.

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MetalSandwich Movie Mania

Free Horror/Creature Feature Movie Day: The Shining

Eddie loved horror movies. The way his blood would start pumping, the prickle on his skin as the hairs on his arms and neck would stand up - he really loved it. He hated jump scares though; found them too easy. The psychological horror movies were his favorite but it took a lot to build him up to a proper fright.

Which is why he couldn't believe that after he'd finally convinced Billy and Steve to watch 'The Shining' with him, he was the one curled up between the two with the blanket pulled up to his chin. Billy looked like he was about to fall asleep, his cheek resting on Eddie's shoulder and his eyes half-lidded. His fingers were wrapped lightly around Eddie's wrist beneath the blanket, a steadying hand whenever Eddie jumped or flinched, but otherwise Billy could've been watching a comedy for all his reactions.

Steve was a bit more tense, eyes trained on the TV like he was waiting for one of the ghosts to climb from the screen. Which probably wouldn't have been the weirdest or freakiest thing they've dealt with if Eddie was honest. But he was a solid line of tension against Eddie’s side. His hands were tight fists on his thighs, and as the music began building again, Eddie reached out to smooth his hand out and grab ahold of it too. 

Eddie gave Steve a little smile before the rising music and “Come and play with us Danny” dragged their attention back to the movie. The little boy was just staring at the girls at the end of the hallway. 

“Nope,” Eddie murmured. “Nope nope nope.”

There was something about kids in horror movies that always hit Eddie weirdly. Maybe because his little sheep and boyfriends had been through their own horror movie. But the kids didn’t even have to be the main focus of the movie's terrorization, a kid could wander through the background and Eddie was already coming up with ways that the villain might drag them into the story. And the flashes of the mutilated bodies in the hall as the girls talked definitely wasn’t helping soothe Eddie’s fears. Steve curled into Eddie’s side, the only indication the scene was getting to him. 

Billy just nuzzled closer with a tired little yawn that he tried to stifle. Asshole couldn't even be bothered to pretend to be scared while Eddie was pretty sure he and Steve would be jumping at every little noise for a couple days. No way in hell was Eddie going to be alone in Steve's big empty house again, nope, not on his life. They’d just have to deal with the fact he was going to be a limpet for the foreseeable future.

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day 7. Iconic Movie Day

movie: Halloween (1978), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Edward Scissorhands (1990)

aaand done!

day 1 | day 2 | day 3 | day 4 | day 5 | day 6

full storyboard >>>