#naughty-spidey

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I was Naughty & Nice before that badass Critmas album dropped on the 4th this month. But I’m still holding my impulses back for the next 2 days, which includes the final hours of Christmas Eve.

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Twice

Pairing: Peter Parker x Fem!Stark!reader

Summary: you and Peter have been rivals for a lot of time, until one day everything changes. But it’s the same old story: you love him, he loves you, then you die and he doesn’t have the chance confess his endless love for you. Or is it?

Warnings: spoilers from Avengers: Endgame, reader is Tony’s daughter, Peter and reader are 18+ here, fluff, a lot of angst, enemies to friends to lovers, happy ending though

Word count: 2084

A/N: Hi! I just wanted to write something after a long time. Hope you like it. Let me know what you think in the comments, if you want 

Taglist: @imawhoreforyou, @blankspaceblankday, @sarahcameronswife, @belovedholland.

Main Materlist: here.

Twice.

I believe that things in life happen twice, like getting a job offer or falling in love. For instance, I fell in love twice. The first one was in high school, with my classmate, but he didn’t want me. The second one was with Peter, but he didn’t want me either. I guess that some things never change. Sometimes, if you’re very lucky, things can also happen thrice, but it’s rare that some trains pass in front of you. This kind of fortune never really occurred to me, that’s why I still think that things in life happen twice. When you don’t understand the occasion, it comes along again for you to see it and finally take it. Maybe that’s why I died twice.

But let’s go back to the beginning, shall we?

Did it never happen to you to die in a metaphorical way? Like when you feel a pain in your heart that doesn’t go away, a deaf heavy brick onto your chest. So you try to breathe, but every rib hurts when you try to do so. Well, this happened to me when Peter told me that he kissed MJ. I was his best friend, I should have been happy for him, but I couldn’t. The reason is obvious: I was in love with him. Common, right? You’re probably thinking that. Our friendship didn’t begin like that, though. We were rivals at first, even enemies sometimes, because my dad preferred to work with him and not with me. I mean, I had Morgan, my younger sister, but it wasn’t enough for me. I needed him to actually see me. Now I regret it. Anyway, before we grew closer, I couldn’t stand Peter and he couldn’t stand me. We used to bicker all the time, until one night. One single night. 

“Hi”, I said.

It changed my entire life.

“Hey”.

“What’s up?”

“I’m just hungry”, he replied, while looking into the fridge.

“Wanna know a secret?” I asked him. He turned in order to look at me. There was a spark of genuine curiosity in his gaze, but I was staring at his half smile on his face, a ghost of something that he didn’t use with me.

“Shoot”.

“The best food is not in the kitchen,” I replied. “It’s actually in my room”.

He grinned at me.

“Wow Y/N, I didn’t know you were this naughty. I thought you hated me. Turns out you just wanted something from me”.

I laughed out loud.

“You’re mistaken, Spidey. I just wanted to be kind, but turns out you’re a jerk. Goodnight, I’m gonna eat my marshmallows alone”.

“Wait, are you for real? True marshmallows? I’m coming,” he said and I smiled at him, truly happy. I didn’t have many friends at school, so I was glad to finally have somebody to hang out with, even if it was my rival.

Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t hate Peter, I just wanted my dad’s love, that’s all. Besides, it was impossible to hate Peter: he was the light when everybody came into the room. He made everybody comfortable and he reassured who needed a kind word. I admired him. Today I wouldn’t have treated him like that.

“I actually have one request,” I said, when he sat on my bed, while looking around.

“I knew it”.

“Spidey-sense?”

“No, I just know you, I guess,” he said and I felt a knot in my stomach. “Anyway, anything for you. I’m so hungry!”

“What if I’d ask you something terrible?” I asked him, while giving him some marshmallows on a plate. “What if you were wrong?” 

Maybe I wasn’t talking about him, but about myself. I was so concerned not to be Tony Stark’s perfect daughter, that somehow I acted like that just so people could be right about me. Maybe I was just worried to be an evil person.

But he shrugged. Peter ate a marshmallow, looked straight into my eyes and said: “You’re not what you think you are, Y/N. Trust me, I would know”.

“Because you know me?”

“No, because of my Spidey-sense, you silly little girl,” he said and I chuckled. Then, his face became so serious it almost scared me. “You know, Ned warned me about you once”.

“Oh, really? Why?” I asked, while sitting next to him.

“He said that you’re trouble”.

“Trouble?”

“Yeah, like staring directly at the Sun. It’s kinda dope, though. You’re more like the Moon, but still. The Moon is so pretty and strong”.

“Strong? Why?”

“Yeah, because it takes courage to stay in the sky without anybody in the dark”.

“Oh, well, but the Moon has the stars. They’re like soldiers: they protect her”.

Peter looked at me while eating another marshmallow, as if he was really thinking about what I said, then he nodded.

“I agree. I can be your star,” he said. “I’ll protect you. From now on, we’re friends,” he stated. 

I smiled at him.

“Thanks, friend”.

“You’re welcome,” he said. “Oh, what did you wanna ask me?”

I didn’t actually have anything to ask him. Maybe I just wanted some accompany that night, because I couldn’t sleep either. His words changed me, though. I wanted to return the favor in some way.

“One day, I’m gonna ask you to promise me something and you’ll have to keep your word”.

He brought a hand to his heart and swore to do so.

“Okay”.

And that was the night I fell in love with Peter Parker. 

Some years after that, when we were at university, he broke my heart when he told me he kissed MJ. 

“Why do I feel like you’re not happy about it?” He asked me. 

How do you explain to somebody that you’re drowning in your own thought? In your own blood, in your own bones. It’s like you’re disappearing, but you really don’t. You just wish you could.

“Because I don’t really like her”.

“You’re kinda the same person, actually,” he said and it really hurt me.

“What?”

“No, wait, I didn’t mean to…”

“If you think that you can replace me with her, you can do it. It’s fine,” I said, shutting the door behind me.

“Y/N! I didn’t mean to say that! I just wanted… I just… I don’t know,” he sighed, then I heard him sitting on the floor, his back on the door and his breath so distant from my skin. He stayed silent for a couple of minutes, that’s why I thought he went away. I could still hear his heartbeat through the door though, since I was with my back on it like him. “You’re irreplaceable, to me. I just wanted to say that you’re similar to MJ, that’s it. You’re two black cats. I’m sorry”.

I remained silent for some time, then I sighed: it was impossible to stay angry at him for more than two minutes straight.

“That makes you a golden retriever, then?” I asked and he chuckled.

“I guess so”.

I wanted to tell him. I wanted to tell him that I was in love with him then and that I had been for years, but the words wouldn’t come up to my mouth. Besides, he was in love with someone else. We were just friends and it had to be enough for me.

“Hey, Peter?”

“Yes, Y/N?”

“I learned that stars that shine the brightest do that because they’re dying. I shouldn’t do that”.

“Do what? Shine?”

“Die,” I said. “You’re not allowed to die. Okay?”

“Okay”.

I didn’t know it then, but I’d have been the one to die.

Thanos was… a lot of things. And Peter was a lot of things to me. So when I had to choose what to do, it was simple. My Dad didn’t want me to be there, but I was on the battlefield. I saw people fight, die give everything they could. It was terrific. But I was there to protect Peter, because I knew that he couldn’t do that alone, despite him being so strong all the time. Because he was like me. 

“Y/N?” He shouted, when he saw me. He was surprised and scared at the same time. “You shouldn’t be here!” 

“I should!” I said, while I was fighting with one of Thanos’ soldiers.

“If anything happens to you, I swear…”

“Nothing will happen!” I said, while he was winning against some soldier.

“Mr. Stark will be very disappointed!”

Yes, he was.

“He’ll understand!”

No, he didn’t.

“Why are you here?” Peter asked me, while he was close enough to put his hands on my shoulders. I had an armor, but it was useless when he looked into my eyes. I melted like a silly little girl.

“You know why,” I said and I prayed that he understood it. My heart clenched.

He gulped.

“I don’t”.

“You shine brighter than me. I can’t allow you to die,” I replied.

“This doesn’t make any sense, Y/N. I won’t leave you here. I’ll take you home”.

“You will,” I said. “You have to. You promised. Don’t follow me. You have to keep your word, remember? If Thanos kills me…”

“No, Y/N, no…”

“If Thanos kills me,” I continued, “you won’t look for revenge. Is it clear?”

“Y/N…”

“Is it clear?” I repeated, determined. He nodded. “Good”.

You’re asking yourself how I knew that, right? Well, I didn’t. But I knew Peter. I knew that he would have followed me anywhere, because I would have done that too. 

Then, everything happened all at once. My Dad saw me from the distance. He called out my name, but I didn’t hear him. I was disappearing. Peter looked at me in disbelief, too astonished to talk. That was me dying twice. 

“Remember me,” I said, while trying to hug him, but it was like my muscles were too tired to even embrace him. I was slowly falling asleep.

“Y/N? Y/N?” He called. “I love you! I love you!” He screamed, his voice a desperate heartbreak into the air. “I love you!”

When my dad reached out to him, it was already too late for me. 

***

When Peter came back from the cemetery, he didn’t expect to see Tony Stark at his university, after five years. He knew that Y/N came to the battle just to protect Peter, so he hated him because if his eldest daughter died was his fault. But now he knew what to do in order to bring her back and he needed his help to do it. 

“Mr. Stark,” Peter said, surprised. “I didn’t expect to see you here”.

“It’s her death anniversary, I know, but I had other things to do,” he said. “I know how to bring her back, Peter, but I need you to come with me”.

Peter shaked his head.

“I don’t understand: I thought that you hated me”.

“Y/N always said that nobody could really hate you and she was right”.

Peter smiled at him, his lips trembling.

“I broke up with MJ the day before the battle. I wanted to tell her, but I never got the chance. I thought that she didn’t want me”.

Tony put a hand on his shoulder, a warm smile on his face.

“There’s not a world in which she doesn’t want you, I fear”.

That being said, they were coming back to the past with the other Avengers in order to save Y/N and the people who had died because of Thanos. Tony was the first one to see Y/N coming back from the dead.

“Peter!” He called.

Peter turned and he saw Y/N. It was like coming back from a dream. She was finally back into his arms and he wouldn’t have let her go, this time. He dipped his nose into the crook of her neck and inhaled her scent. It was so real it made his heart ache. If he could have exchanged his place with her in all those years, he would have done so. He would have done anything to make her live a normal life. Being without her meant not living, but barely floating on the surface.

“I’m in love with you,” he said. “I’ve been for most of my life, actually. Since that night we ate the marshmallows together”.

He saw her bring her hands on her heart, tilting her head with tears in her eyes.

“And you’re my light, Peter. You always have been”.

Then he hugged her again and it felt like coming home.  

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⤷ spidey!ellie williams headcanons

⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪ sophia's letter ! i took a hiatus without meaning to😞 unfortunately this is all i had time for, but it was lowk fun. tbh i think i’ll stick to one shots bc this is basically a few blurbs in one, like this is all over the place idk i don’t like it but i needa post. also, LIAAAM NOOO all payne no liam :((

.ᐟ. . . content warnings. r's race is not specified, characters death, spiders, fighting, unrequited love, r is bi/pan, ellie mistaken for a guy, ellie mistakes r for a straight girl, mental instability, fall from a high building twice, alternative universe, assault attempt, unserious writing style, grammar mistakes probably

{ inspired by @hiiikiko ‘s spider-man!ellie. pls check out their work, it’s so good ! }

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✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie personally i think she's already a peter parker varient, trust me. these goofballs haunted down the killer of their father-figure for christ sake! of course peter had that whole not killing moto but like... oh well!

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie in my mind gets her powers basically the same as in tasm, except she was only in the Anderson Tower (hehe see what i did there) bc one of her professors assigned a thesis on one of their exhibitions. of course she goes the same day you do, the girl she lowkey has a crush on.

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie is a major LOSER omg. she admires you from afar bc she doesn't have the balls to start a conversation. she doesn't even think you're into girls to begin with so whats the point. leave it to ellie williams to fall for a straight girl smh

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie needs glasses to see or else everything is just a blur. she never takes them off, not even to sleep, yet somehow she doesn't see you until it's too late. now, ellie only ever sees you in class, so in her defense, poor girl wasn't expecting you to just appear in front of her and bump into you. otherwise, she would've turned the other way. 

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie has an apology problem, at least when she's nervous and boy do you make her nervous with your hair down and pretty face and glossy lips and cute outfits and gosh, she needs to get a grip. you tell her it's fine with a little laugh and ellie feels her face grow warm. 

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie like canon ellie, is an overthinker, so of course she's thinking abt that awkward interaction. well, it was for her, you didn't even think twice abt it. you're a chill person and it wasn't like ellie shoved you hard. ellie didn't have that kind of strenght... not yet, anyway.

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie was just too distracted to notice a colorful spider jump on her back, only feeling a sting after stepping foot out of the mutlibillion dollar company tower. you can imagine her disturbed look when she got to her dorm, feeling around her neck until she plucked off a web string with a dead spider still attached on its end. yuck. to make matters worse, ellie started feeling sick. she passed out and didn't wake up until noon of the next day.

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie was an orphan after her mother passed away when she was nine. she was left under the care of her mother's best friend, marlene, since that was the closest thing to family she had left. to ellie, marlene was family, so she'd called her aunt marlene. i think you can guess where this is going...

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie had promised marlene she would help with a charity event called the fireflies, but with ellie's new... condition, ellie just had too much on her mind. trying to balance college, having a lesbian crush on a straight girl, and finding out you can climb walls is a lot for a nineteen year old. and okay, maybe the first two are universial experiences, but definitely not the third. who is she supposed to talk to abt that?

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie was stressing and she never had the best temper when stressed. she had been focusing in creating organic web fluid bc in my au shes not gonna have anything shooting out of her, okay? i mean i still have some questions for tobey's spidey.... moving on! the charity simply slipped out of her mind and when ellie checked her phone after an entire day of testing her new abilities, swinging and even doing a handstand in just her index and middle fingers, she saw abt fifteen missed calls from aunt marlene. ellie decided to stop by to apologies and that’s when all hell broke lose.

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie acts like her mother's death doesn't bother her after a decade, but when her name falls out of aunt marlene's lips during her lecture abt ellie's bad puntuality and lack of time managment, it was obvious it's still an open wound. 

'you are a lot like your mother, ellie,' marlene spoke. so far ellie was just nodding along to whatever marlene was saying but that sentence really annoyed the hell out of her. 'you truly are, and that's a good thing.' ellie's jaw tightened, but she didn't say anything. 'but she lived believing that if you can do good things for people, you have an obligation to do those things,' marlene pointed a finger at ellie's direction. 'that's what's at stake here. not choice; responsibility.' ellie scoffed. 'that's nice. yea, that’s all well and good. so where's she?' 'what?' marlene stops.  'where is my mom? don't you think it was her responsibility to tell me this herself?' the words coming out of her mouth taste like venom. there's tears threatening to spill, but ellie refuses to let them fall. marlene exhales, shaking her head. 'how dare you?' ellie raises her voice for the first time that night. "how dare i? how dare you!'

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie never got the chance to apologize for snapping at marlene. she knew deep down that marlene was just looking out for her, yet she was too in her head to see it then. ellie had stormed out right after and marlene went out looking for her. and it was the same thief that ellie did nothing to stop as she witness him rob a deli and even handed her a drink which she took without a second thought who killed marlene that night. 

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie will never forgive herself for that, for not stopping the thief and letting him kill the one person she had left. since then, ellie uses her powers to help others. 

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie also has a joel in this universe and he's finally being introduced, yippe! im mixing andrew's and tom's peters so i couldn't make him the uncle ben ik y'all thought he was gonna be. he's more like mcu's aunt may and tony. now bare with me pls

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie made herself a suit out of old clothes and a handmade mask. she'd been going around the neighborhood for a few weeks doing small things: returning stolen bikes, bringing cats down from trees, helping senior citizens cross the street, etc. there were no headlines on her yet, but she was growing popular on reddit. it wasn't until one day ellie felt this weird chill down her spine. everything happened so fast, ellie just remembers the after math, the adrenaline rush of catching a 3000 pounds car going at 40 miles with her bare hands to stop it from crashing into a school bus. that was the first time ellie saved a live, multiple at that, and she knew this is what she wanted- no, needed to do.

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie had kept a low profile as her alter ego until then. never would she imagine that the video of her stopping a moving vehicle would get in the hands of the joel miller, ceo of miller industries. he's known of the expirements jerry had been doing with all sorts of animals and he didn't like it. joel never thought jerry had it in him to actually modify the human dna, but here he stood with a wall-crawling college student. 

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie didn't fangirl like mcu peter did when he met tony for the first time (i miss them). in fact she had the opposite reaction. she wasn't a fan of joel just like you and i aren't a fan of elon musk, but she respected him bc he has a flying suit. in this universe, joel was iron man and like tony, he told the entire world. when one of his enemies' killed sarah, he stopped wearing the suit. there's also no avengers bc that's too much writing for me 😇

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie agrees to work with joel only bc he promised to make her a super cool suit with lots of new tech. he said her homemade suit looked like an onesie and the only insult ellie could come up with was that his face looked like an onesie... oh how did joel wished the one to get bit would've been a grown adult smh

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie learns to be more in tune with her new abilities as time goes by. that chill down her spine, yea remember that? obviously we know they're spidey senses, but ellie doesn't know that, not until now. she kinda put two and two together, how she would get the feeling every time something bad was gonna happen. what pissed her off was that she had a you sense too. her stupid enhanced senses told her when you were near, but it only happened with you. like, what the fuck seriously

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie is still a loser even after the bite so of course she has yet to talk to you. you now acknowledge her after the incident at the anderson tower, but it's just smiles if you two make eye contact. god, ellie feels so pathetic abt this clearly unrequited crush. until one day she overhears - not that she did it on surpose, it just happens a lot with her enhanced hearing - you talking about her! well... her alter ego, but it's still her.... yea, abt that actually....you and everyone else seem to think she’s a he?????

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie is part of the tiny tittie committie as we know, so when she puts on joel's new and upgraded suit, she looks flat chested. she wasn't insecure of her size or anything, but ever since publicly teaming up with joel and gaining more publicity, people have mistaken her for a man, giving her the title of spider-man. it made her bust out laughing tbh

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie started seeing her masked self almost everywhere, especially in classes. that's when she heard you and your friend talk abt her, or well him. 

'i need him,' ellie almost choked on air hearing you speak. you were watching a video compilation on tiktok of spider-man saving people with chloe, a friend you made during the beginning of the semester.  'ew, he could be like your dad's age.' chloe laughed.  ellie frowned, sitting a few rows back. she is definitely not old enough to be a college student's dad. as a matter of fact, she can't even be a dad so. you smiled at chloe and shrugged. 'that wouldn't matter, because what matters is what's on the inside.' it was clear that you were joking, but as ellie looked up to where you were sitting she wondered how you would react if you found out it was a girl you were talking about. would it matter? would you still like her then?  or would you be disappointed?

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie tries to get over this crush by focusing on spider-boy, or wtv his name is. ever since becoming the city's hero, it's like everything has been dial up to eleven. crime fighting is far more intense but ellie likes the challenges. she's gotten a little cocky too, always joking and teasing the criminals she fights. her suit has a voice changer and she has a blast using it. 

'my grandma punches better than you,' she'd fake a yawn while grabbing the fist of one of the robbers when he tried to throw a punch. then she'd turn to the other who is already webbed up, 'actually, i never met my grandma.' then she'd punch the first guy just hard enough to kick him out cold. ‘but i bet her punches are still better.’

another instance is when she stopped a pretty big drug deal. about five men were going over what the plan was for the day, none noticed when ellie sneaked in until what seemed to be the leader grunted, 'you guys know what to do, now stay out of my ass.' ellie sighed loudly, 'it's hard to miss it.' 

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie is just having the time of her life with this new identity that it becomes addicting, it's like her copying mechanism fr. joel starts noticing that ellie has become sloppy and tries to warn her, and although ellie promises she'll do better, she doesn't. she's saving lives, jesus christ. can’t a girl have fun?

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie learns the hard way that not everyone is a fan, especially not the police. and okay yea that humbled her alr. it also annoys her bc she's doing half their job so you'd think they'd be more appreciative but no they named her a criminal and put out a reward for whoever can discover the vigilante's identity. now she has to put in double the work bc everyone she fights tries to pin her down to take off her mask. ellie really dislikes your mother for that, the police captian of the boston police department - bc im messy hehehe. you're like in love with spider-man tho, and are quite vocal abt it too 

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie loves to hear you fangirl over her. like okay you're unaware of a lot of minor details - like the fact that it's actually spider-woman - but that’s okay, it's fineeee! baby steps right? well ellie takes a huge big girl step one night when she saves you from a gross man trying to assault you.

her spidey senses were going off, and she let them take her to a dark alley. she heard the voice of a girl struggling to push someone off as she crawled on the wall. ellie froze when she realized it was you, her heart beat picking up. this is the first time someone she knows is in trouble, and it made her feel uneasy.  'buddy, is this anyway to treat a lady?' ellie jumped down, voice changer on, making both you and the sick drunk to look over at her. 'i don't think so,' she grabbed him by the shoulder and pushed him to the ground, off of you.  'go.' she spoke, a little desperate to get you out of here. you stood in shock until you looked up at your savior and then booked it out of there. you run further into the alley until you made it to the other end, turning back behind you once you’re under a lamppost. you frowned when you couldn't see anyone.  where did they go? ellie held onto a web while she came down upside down. feeling movement, you turned and came face to face with masked eyes looking back at you. 'you saved me.' it was her job, of course she would save you, but no words came out. all ellie did was nod. there was a moment of silence as you two stared at each other, both out of breath. you from prior events, and ellie because she's never been this close to you.  you slowly brought your hands up to ellie's neck where the mask began. ellie quickly grabbed one of your wrists to stop you, but you reassured her. 'i won't take it off,' you whispered. ellie let go of your hand and felt you pull her mask up to her nose so only half of her face showed. you held onto the sides of her face as you lean in to kiss her lips.  ellie knew it was wrong, that in a way she was abusing her power. but when your lips connected with hers, all she could think about was how soft you felt. there was no way she would get over you now. 

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie swang you home that night and ever since she visits you almost everyday, im talking five days out of the week. girl has it BAD after that kiss #freemygirl frfr😞 the visits start innocent and it wasn't like ellie was expecting anything, but somehow you two end up making out and who is ellie to stop it ok? she is just a girl. i mean she does feel bad at the beginning bc you STILL believe she's a male - in your defense, ellie still keeps her mask half way on even in a make out session as well the voice changer. you understand that "he" just wants to keep "his" identity a secret, especially after your mom's manhunt, so you don't question it. and that makes ellie feel even worse.

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie was planning on telling you, i swear, but then joel found out ellie was seeing a girl and he warn her not to tell you anything. she was abt to cuss him out until he told her she was alr putting you in danger by being associated with a crime fighting hero, you knowing who is under the mask would just make you a bigger target. not to mention your own mother still hates her guts, and is putting you in multiple uncomfortable situations. 

'can i at least tell her i'm a girl?' ellie questioned, already fed up by this conversation. she rubbed the bridge of her nose before looking up at joel, who she had grown to look up to as a mentor. although they still bicker. joel sighed, 'we talked about this, kiddo. if people keep thinking there's a spider-man, the changes of finding out your identity are low.'  'she won't tell anyone.' ellie trusts you. in the time that you've been together, you haven't told any of your friends that you're up in your room with none other than boston's masked vigilante. you kept this part of your life like an oath, and ellie appreciates you for it.  however, joel doesn't know you like she does. 'have you forgotten who her mother is? this could be a set up, and you're falling for it.' ellie shakes her head. 'she's not like that.'  'look, if it had been any other girl, i would've said go for it. but she's the daughter of the woman who wants to turn you in, dead or alive.' ellie looks away from joel, but he continues. 'we gotta be smart about this.' ellie sighs, nodding. 'okay.'

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie wants to go up to you in person as herself whenever she sees you in class, but knows she can't. like what do you mean her tongue was exploring your mouth just the night before but now you two are back to strangers????? it's driving her crazyyy and she feels so stupid and so guilty. it doesn't matter how many people she saves, ellie feels like she's going to hell for doing this to you. yet she can’t stop, not now, she’s addicted to your taste and when she sees you as her masked self later that day, she smacks her lips against yours for all the times she felt the argue to kiss you as ellie but couldn't. 

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie is still bitter towards joel for not letting her confess her secret to you but they've grown close and he is helping her find out why jerry anderson would create radioactive spiders. they don't find much until the top of the anderson tower bursts into flames. boston for sure thought they were going to be the next 9/11 but thanfully ellie got everyone out safetly. it was afterwork hours so not a lot of people were there, but when ellie went back to make sure she didn't miss anyone, a sinister laugh echoed. ellie's body went cold and her spidey senses were going crazy. if you couldn't tell jerry is the green goblin in this au but i still picture willem dafoe bc he's just TEW good as the green goblin so im recasting him as jerry 😁

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie definitely has a whole panic attack after being thrown against multiple walls by this not so kind dr anderson. she was just so overstimulated and physically hurt that it was all too much at once. this is ellie's first big villian and the old man can punch alr 

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie has friends - dina and jessy ofc, but they’re unaware of her double life. ik i said she's a loser and i haven't mention them, but in my au her and abby were childhood friends until abby was sent to boarding school. they're literally peter and harry, you get me? so like norman, jerry was also neglectful and wouldn't pay attention to abby's friends, especially ones from so long ago, but ellie remembers him - also bc who wouldn't know the jerry anderson - and she knows that whatever she fought that night wasn't jerry, not entirely. he had this crazy look in his eyes and creepy smile, flying around in a hoverboard, accusing her of stealing his powers. yikes, awkward... 

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie continues to fight him for some time, trying to figure out what the hell happened to him and how to help him. along with discoverying about anderson's sickness, ellie also finds out her mom used to work with jerry and she's the one who created the formula to cross-species genetics. yup, that really sent her spiraling - also im so uncreative and unoriginal im stealing from tasm bc ellie's mom also sabotaged the formula and added her dna into the equation, which is why ellie got her powers while jerry went nuts. okay he also gained some abilities but at what cost?

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie goes to your place after finding all of this shit out without telling you any of it, but just being near you helps her calm down. at this point, she knows so much abt you and you so little abt her, but you don't seem to mind. you tell her that you've been fighting a lot with your mom recently, and ellie listens. it's nice to talk abt other things to get her mind off of wtv is happening in her messed up life. you ask her if her parents know what she does, and for some reason, ellie opens up. she tells you the few memories she has of her mother, something she's never done with anyone apart from marlene but even then those moments were rare, more so now that's she gone too.

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie is letting her guard down around you more and more, that she doesn't realize she's being followed. in her mind, your apartment is a safe place so why would she need to be on alert? well ima tell you why: her spidey senses woke her up in the middle of the night, but she dismisses them since she's been anxious for the past few days. it isn’t until later when she goes to class, the one with you in it, that her senses go off again, stonger this time after not seeing you enter through the doors at all. you've been late before, but never absent since attendance is mandatory in this class. she rushes to your apartment after class thinking maybe you're sick - which she knows isn't the case bc she saw you last night and you were perfectly fine. when she gets there, there's a green note sitting eerly on your bed waiting for her. 'WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, SPIDER-GIRL'

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie feels like she's going to throw up. jerry knows and he has you. ellie spends all day trying to locate you with joel's help. they were able to track jerry's/green goblin's last location to be in an abandoned clock tower on the outskirts of boston. without wasting anymore time, ellie rushes there. 

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie gets to the clock tower as the last bits of sunlight set in the horizon. she climbs up and peaks through one of the broken windows. there, she sees you tied up to a pull with your arms above you kinda like mary jane in the spider-man 2. ellie couldn't see jerry anywhere but her focus was to get your out of here so very quietly she went in. you tried to warn her but by the time she removed the ropes on your wrists, a little pumpkin bomb landed next to her, exploding and making both you fall. i won't write the entire scene but i'll tease something - fyi when i say clock tower, think tasm2 gwen's death scene

jerry - or the green goblin - held you in his arms as his board hovered over ellie. he grabbed your jaw harshly, forcing you to keep your teary eyes on ellie. her gaze remained low after taken off her mask. she was following the goblin's instructions, too terrified of something happening to you. yet, she couldn't bring herself to meet the look of betrayal in your eyes. 'no, that can't be,' goblin mocked, and ellie never wanted to punch someone as much as she does right now. 'where is spider-man? i could've sworn there was a man under the mask. i thought so, did you, pretty face?' his neck turned to look at you, question ringing with faux surprise.  ellie clenched her fists, finally looking up at the goblin. 'you got what you wanted, now let her go!' goblin broke into a crazy smile. 'i want you dead, spidey! i need your blood!' 'you have me. just, let her go and we can talk about this.' ellie took a few careful steps forward. the goblin chuckled before nodding, 'okay.' then he pushed you off his board.  'no!' ellie tried to jump after you, but the goblin took a hold of her and threw her against a wall across the platform she was standing. 

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie starts seeing joel as a father figure that night after he shows up in the suit. nobody had seen joel as iron man in years, but he couldn't let the girl he had grown to care for as a daughter fight alone. he got you to the ground safely before going back to help ellie fight the goblin. unfortunately he managed to escape but they were able to get a sample of his blood to start working on a cure.

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie puts her mask back on before going up to you. she's holding onto her side, for sure with a few broken ribs that will heal in a week thanks to her fast self healing, and a limp on her walk. you're still shaken up from everything, from being kidnap and finding spidey's identity. you look at her with this unreadable expression and ellie starts trying to explain herself. joel flies down, interrupting the conversation to tell you it was his idea not to tell you anything, but before you can speak, sirens are heard outside the tower. 

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie watches as you run to your mom, hugging her as she asks you if you're hurt. ellie stands to the side doing that thing where her foot fidgets with the dirt and she starts playing with her hands, lowk feeling lonely. that’s when joel will come in with a hand on her shoulder, telling her she did good and that almost makes her break down. dw guys, i promise they won’t end up like mcu peter & tony or game ellie & joel🥹

✮⋆˙ᖭི༏ᖫྀ ˙⋆ ✮ spidey!ellie doesn't see you in class after that, not for a week. she also doesn't go to your place to respect the fact that you most definitely need space. you're kinda mad at ellie, but you're feelings are still there. if only she had been honest from the beginning. obviously you recognized her from class, so after a week you go up to her. annndddd this is where im ending this bc i have an exam to study for but yea yea you end up forgiving her and all that lovey-dovey stuff, hope y’all liked this chaotic headcanon

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Can you do a Sara Lance x Spider-Man (Insomniacverse) Reader where Sara in her white canary helps out Y/N who is his Advanced V2, then after they beats the criminal senseles they engage a makeout session before Sara told Y/N to take them home as she got a naughty reward for her Spidey.

Sara and Y/N knock out the rest of the goons…

Sara: mmm you are better and sexier than ever

Y/N: thanks. Your ideas for the suit really helped

Sara saunters to her Spidey…

Sara: well let’s just say I really want to see you without the suit, baby

Y/N wraps their arms around her waist and swings away…

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Omg! Panty stealer pt2 is sooooo gooood! Cocky and dom Peter absolutely blew my mind! Your writing is awesome!

Pleeeeease tell me that it will be third part to fulfill the panty trilogy! As humble suggestion maybe reader find out that Pete is SpiderMan and he will finally get head from her while he is in his spidey costume? Or maybe more than just blowjob?Hehehe Am I very bad and naughty that I'm typing this to you? 🥵🤤

Anyways love ya darling! You're smashing it!

in the suit

words: 3k

warnings: smut; (m- receiving [oral], dirty talk), language, and fluff of course. barely edited.

note: panty!peter blurb #1 coming up :D also, this is the way i believe y/n would have found out about spider-man, but i have another request for the same thing so i’ll probably do an alternative version!

—

you couldn’t stop thinking about it. how?

how does peter manage to get into your room every night? okay, not every night, but most nights.

most nights, peter magically and mysteriously sneaks his way up into your forbidden bedroom with ease. sometimes, you even wait and watch outside your window to try to get a peak at what he’s doing. but you never see him.

he’s just so slick. how does he do it?

you and peter have been together for over a month now, if you’re counting the day he broke in. the feeling isn’t necessarily new in your heart. you feel like you’ve known him your whole life. like he’s always just… been there.

through this month of stability yet craziness, you haven’t gone back to the frat house since the halloween party. you thought that after you guys got together you would stay there more often, but peter doesn’t want you to be ‘attacked’ by the guys. meaning, he doesn’t want them to ask a million questions when you guys are supposed to be private. you thought his excuse was dumb, but he was also just being a bit protective.

in reality, peter just didn’t know how to get you into the frat house without anyone seeing you. you both had agreed that your relationship was going to be kept private, very private. people could spread rumors and assume you two were together, but you weren’t going to show each other off. you guys liked it this way, it made your relationship more special because it was just for you two.

peter had a sixth sense, sticky fingers, and webs. it was pretty easy for him to crawl up into your room especially because you didn’t have security cameras (maybe you guys should get some at some point though…). you would constantly ask him how he does it since you live on the second floor and it was high up. but peter responds by not responding and instead laughs and kisses you. god, he was too good at distracting you.

but tonight, you were determined to find out.

peter had already texted you earlier and said he wouldn’t be able to stop by tonight because of overbearing homework. you completely understood, and sent him a good luck and goodnight to me then message. but truly, you were sneaking out and heading towards the frat.

you put on your sneakers and a hoodie, pulling the strings tightly around your head. the early december weather was no joke in massachusetts, and your thermal leggings were barely helping to keep you warm. as quietly as possible, you leave through the back door, making sure not to alert anyone or anything. not like you have a system to alert though.

you cut through some of the hedges until you’re in the front yard and the frat is staring at you from across the street. taking a deep, chilly breath, you cross the road with your frozen fingers tucked in your pocket.

all the lights in the top rooms were off, except one. you’re not totally sure which one is peter’s, but what other frat guy would stay up until 11 p.m. working on homework?

maybe ned, but he sleeps downstairs.

you walk until you’re under the window, the yellowish light taunting you. there was no latter, vine, rope, or magic hair to get you into the bedroom. the houses were built very similarly, and you know he doesn’t bring a latter with him.

so how does he do it?

you take a glance at your surroundings. the biggest difference of your houses was that the guys’ didn’t have large garden hedges. they just had a shit ton of messy bushes that they should probably trim once in a while.

having no ideas, you try to jump towards the window. great, that’s totally going to help you. maybe you’ll get some super jump that can spring you up and inside.

you feel stupid. yeah, peter may be the smartest person on campus and going to mit on a full academic scholarship, but how does he sneak into your room? with geometry? you didn’t think so.

wait.

what if… he’s hiding something from you?

that would explain why he’s so weird about it. letting the impulsive decisions take you over, you throw a rock at his window. hopefully, you’ll get his attention and he’ll come down, so you can see how he does it. or he’ll just go through the front door… whatever he does, you need to ask him this question right now. or else you’ll never be able to sleep again.

when throwing the rock gets tedious and noisy, you quit. just as you’re about to drop to the ground in annoyance, you hear a distant whipping sound. you hold your breath as if the person whipping will hear you.

fuck. it wasn’t a good idea for you to go out at night.

suddenly feeling anxious and scared, you slowly creep towards the sorority house. you don’t get too far before you see a body flinging through the air. the whipping noise gets closer and closer to you with every web on the streetlights. what the…

there’s only one person that could possibly be doing the impossible.

spider-man.

but what was he doing in your little neighborhood? this was one of the safest places in the area, so he didn’t need to check up here. there were so many more places in massachusetts that needed saving. feeling beyond curious, your feet scatter to hide you behind one of the untrimmed bushes.

you watch through crowded leaves as spider-man swings through the neighborhood, getting towards you. it’s like he can sense you and he’s coming for you. your heart thumps wildly in your chest, nervous about seeing him. you’ve never seen him before, and at least not in person. he was popular on the newspaper and television screens, but never on the street. unless you lived within the city.

with one long and final thwip, spider-man flings himself towards the frat house.

what. the…

you place your hand over your mouth, just in case your breathing is too loud. you intensely watch as the spider crawls up the white wall and towards the only lit window in the whole house.

no. fucking. way.

before you could fully register what you were seeing, you felt the gasp leave your mouth. you slap both of your hands on your face to shut yourself up. you nearly fall back on your heels as spider-man halts his movements. he scans his surroundings before jumping down the wall entirely.

your eyes are wide and your hands of shaking. you’ve never felt your heart beat so unbelievably fast, but you’ve also never been more afraid. what does he do to people that find out? what is going to happen to your relationship?

the body of blue and red stocks closer to the bushes with careful steps. you try to scoot away, but your back hits the fence. the wood creaks, your actions not quiet enough. his footsteps pick up speed as they rush to the bushes with determination.

spider-man jumps over the plant with grace, hoping to see a wild animal of some sort. but when he sees his girl with the most shocked and terrified expression in the world, he immediately falls to his knees.

“y/n,” he calmly says, slowly inching to you. he doesn’t hesitate to comfort you as peter. you don’t move, you just listen. “it’s okay. i promise.”

now that he sensed you, peter could hear your heartbeat overbearingly in his ears. he could hear your muffled breaths under your palm, and he just wanted to soothe your fear.

“baby,” he wanted to cuddle your body until you stopped shaking. you weren’t crying, you were just in shock. peter takes a quick glance at his surroundings before yanking off his mask and kneeling, so you could see his face reflecting off the moonlight. “it’s just me.”

“i…” you whispered as your hands fell from your face. peter doesn’t hesitate to grab them gently with his gloved ones. “…knew it.”

“you knew i was spider-man?”

“well… for like five seconds,” you flusteredly laugh while trying to recover. you still haven’t gotten used to this. well it’s only been a minute. “i knew you were hiding something.”

“what are you doing out this late anyway?” he stares straight up at the moon as it shines vehemently over you both.

“uh… well,” you start, “i was kind of curious as to how you always snuck into my bedroom without a latter or something, so i went to see? i don’t really know what i was looking for.”

peter chuckles. “but you found your answer, yeah?”

“yeah, i did,” you smile with sweetness as peter helps you up from the grass floor.

—

“it’s different breaking into your room rather than mine,” you say as you sit on the edge of peter’s bed. you watch as he tosses his mask inside of a box labeled books. “so that’s what was in the box. not dirty magazines.”

“surprise?” peter laughs and you giggle at his shyness. his cheeks and nose were red from the cold, but also from the slight blush that crossed them. you made him feel all warm and tingly inside, and even a little gooey.

his hand reaches for the button on his chest. it deflates, instantly becoming huge around him.

“wait,” you stop him before he undresses himself. he looks towards you. “can i just… look at you for a moment? in the suit?”

a small smirk creeps up his face. peter clicks the button again and his suit encloses on his body, outlining his muscles perfectly. every ridge and curve of him was being shown off by the spandex. you felt a spark of lust fire inside of you at the sight.

“like me in my suit, baby?” he teased as he trudged over to you. you stood up from the bed to meet his buff chest. you nodded with a bite of your lip.

he nearly growls before attaching your lips. it’s barely been a day since he’s last kissed you, but that’s too long for him. his gloved hand grips your jaw to deepen the kiss while your hands explore his messy hair.

the heat between you was undeniable. you were getting worked up over peter in his suit, and that’s something you never thought was possible. because you didn’t think peter being spider-man was possible.

is there a spider-man kink?

you take your shirt off after breaking the kiss, but resume it in no time. as he pushes you onto the bed, you stop him, having a new idea in mind.

“peter,” you sigh, spandex body hovering over yours.

“you okay?”

“yeah, yes. i just…” you swallowed, “can i…”

you didn’t really get your question out. you just slithered your body off the bed until your knees were digging into his carpet. peter’s eyebrows shoot up as he stares down at your figure, submissive below him.

“fuck. you want to touch my cock?” peter was already growing hard at the idea of fucking you in his suit. he found it hot that you found his suit hot. everything seemed to be a turn on right now. but now you were on your fucking knees like an angel and damn near begging to touch him?

how could he say no?

“go ahead then, sweet girl,” peter allows, but you stay still.

“how do i take it off—?”

“right—”

he unzips a zipper that you swear wasn’t there before. you barely take him fully out before you’re drooling at the sight. he was big and thick, and you don’t think you’d ever get used to looking at and feeling him.

your thumb drags over his weepy tip and he winces at your freezing touch.

“sorry!” you exclaimed with a funky smile. he forcefully laughs while you spit warmth into your hand.

“it’s okay, baby.”

your delicate hand wraps around him as you shift up and down. he sighs into the air, eyes fluttering back. your other hand scratches his thighs lightly. then, you fondle his balls until he’s groaning above you.

“fuck, darling,” he moans as his rough hand rests on your head. with his grip on you, you feel inclined to put your mouth on him. you’re barely an inch away, so what are you waiting for?

your lips pucker as you kiss his veiny shaft. you see from the top of your eyes how his face floods with pleasure, and your ego rises.

“if you look at me like that again, i’m going to explode, baby,” peter husks with his fingers laced in your hair for support.

with a hummed chuckle, you finally place your mouth on him. you suck on his leaky tip as a deep groan elicits from him. his noises always give you a bunch of reassurance, so you hum against him in satisfaction.

“takin’ me so well,” peter forces himself to stay still and let you do all the work. although, his hips just want to break free and ram into the back of your throat until you lose your voice. for another time… “love when you’re on your knees for me.”

you vibrated a moan against his cock as you took him deeper, a little more than half way. you were never the best at giving head because you couldn’t go that far down without gagging atrociously, but after peter showed you a better technique, for breathing and comfort, he thought you were a professional.

“you like being on your knees for me? or for spider-man?”

a groggy moan rippled around his cock from your filled throat, confirming his suspicions. you were definitely turned of the idea of peter as spider-man, and because of that, he was too. every time you were horny, peter was too.

you released your hands from him and braced them on his thighs. you focused and remembered the small notes he’s given you before. you take a long breath before sinking his cock deep in the back of your mouth. your thumb stabs your palm to eliminate your gag reflex, and it works. your nose nudges the base of his cock and you can see up close how his abs contract tightly.

“fuck! doing so good for me. going to make me come, sweet girl.”

hearing this, you bob and twist your head with a goal. your tongue swirls exploring around each ridge like it’s never tasted the plain before. peter was delicious; he was sweet with a pinch of saltiness that made you a fan of giving head. you would get on your knees any day for him.

his cock twitches in your mouth, warning you that he’s coming. you feel his hips buck into you as he strongly yanks your hair. you groan as he lets himself go.

“where do you want it? on your face? chest? or are you going to swallow it like a good girl?”

even when his dick twitches again, you don’t make an effort to move. you lick the underside of him, which sends peter over the edge.

a string of hushed groans fall from his pink lips as his muscles clench. ropes of his orgasm spurts down your throat, and you swallow every drop like a champ. well, almost all. parts of his come drip from the corner of your lip as he slowly pulls out of you.

the second he exits you, your jaw is instantly sore and achy, but it was worth it. to see the flustered and breathless peter above you was worthless everytime. peter was nearly disoriented by how fucking incredible your mouth was. how you were.

he tucks himself back into his suit as you remain on the floor. he leans down and helps you up, your knees popping in the process.

“how was it this time?” you croaked, voice cracking horrendously. peter tries not to laugh as he wipes away the nearly dried sperm on your face. you open your mouth without a thought, and he sticks his thumb in your mouth for you to lick it clean.

“it was good. fucking amazing. impeccable. exceeded expectations. outstanding performance—”

“okay, okay i get it. you’re a nerd!” you brokenedly laugh as you shove his chest. you got a sudden wave of chills because you were starting to get a bit cold. your body was still running hot because you were still, well, turned on.

“nerds are awesome, okay? they know everything.”

“like what? impress me,” you challenge as you throw your leg on top of his lap and get yourself seated. he smirks, feeling his cock chuff up a bit already. you were beyond soaked in your panties, and you just couldn’t wait for peter to destroy you.

peter knows you didn’t actually want him to say anything nerdy, so he made it a bit sexual. as always.

“they know how to… kiss.”

“you’re probably the one nerd that knows how to kiss.”

“okay, fine. i know how to kiss,” his hand cups your face as it leans closer towards his. he places a soft, longing kiss on your swollen lips before pulling away way too fast for your liking. “i know how to touch you, i know how to rile you up. right? i’m doing it right now. and you’re probably soaking.”

a warmth wave floods through your body at his words.

“i know how to talk to you too. bet these dirty words are going straight to your little clit, huh?”

“peter,” you whimper. he was right. he was beyond right.

his hand trails down your bare stomach and hovers over your clothed cunt. he can feel the heavy heat radiating from you through your leggings, begging for more.

“i can feel you. i can smell you, too. a perk of being spider-man,” he smiles, “guess this nerd is pretty great.”

“peter!” you shook his shoulders in desperation, but he didn’t move. you had a love hate relationship with his teasing. he indeed got you riled up, to the max, until you were begging him to touch you. he just dragged it on and on and on. he loved hearing you beg for it.

“okay, okay, sweet girl,” peter chuckled as his fingers fumbled down the waistline of your leggings. they were thick, so you helped him get them down. “just want to hear you say how awesome nerds are first. how do you think i made these webs?”

“you’re the hottest, super-nerd i’ve ever met in my life. now can you please fuck me?” you begged as your cunt ached.

“aw thanks, baby,” all he did was laugh at your misery with a smirk. “all you had to do was say please.”

—

note: not my best work, but i hope you enjoyeddd. literally posting this at 1 am :D

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[dreameasel]

𝖃𝖆𝖛𝖎𝖊𝖗 𝖑𝖊𝖛𝖊𝖑𝖘 𝖍𝖎𝖒 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖍 𝖆 𝕷𝖔𝖔𝖐. He cannot 𝒃𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒏 to express how unimpressed he is with Tyler or really anything about the Weathervane or being 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐜𝐤 here. But mainly it's Tyler. He doesn't like or trust anything about him. Especially not this new "𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒈𝒖𝒚" shtick. They've both been seeing Kinbott for about the same amount of time and he's sure as shit not better than he was a year ago. Like fuck is 𝑻𝒚𝒍𝒆𝒓 𝑮𝒂𝒍𝒑𝒊𝒏 a good person after some weekly sessions crying about how much his dad doesn't love him.

❝ And I'll be out of it as soon as I can. ❞ His voice is completely monotone.

It's cruel. He knows it is. It's cruel and petty and probably kind of beneath him to think about Tyler like this. But frankly he didn't 𝑪𝑨𝑹𝑬. If he had the right to be a flat out 𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐄 to someone it was Tyler. And it felt 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 to be a dick to him. Part of Xavier wanted Tyler to try something like last year. To 𝑽𝑰𝑵𝑫𝑰𝑪𝑨𝑻𝑬 him on Tyler being the same miserable sack of shit he always was.

❝ I'm sure I can figure it out. ❞ He just wasn't gonna do those orders. 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐝. ❝ Either way I'm only here for a few hours. Doesn't really 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓. ❞

he should probably say he's sorry. anything.

showing of remorse, that's- that would be good, right ? that would be the right thing to do. dr kinbott would be happy if he did something like that. and that would be something his mom probably wanted. probably. not that she could ever confirm it for him, on the account that she's dead and she will never come back.

something hot and painful and dangerous curls itself inside his chest. fuck, he hates this. he hates him. and he hates- he hates that- that he's feeling like this at all, that hate is all he could truly chalk all these awful, awful emotion to. why did they have to exist ? and why do they have to exist here ?

maybe if they hadn't, mom would've—

but that's ridiculous, because if mom hadn't been here, maybe dad would've never met her then he would've never existed. but maybe that would all be for the better. not existing. that would be- that would be nice. quiet. to not be so angry, and confused, and full of these hate, and- and- to not be touched—

❛ hey, this is my place of work. ❜ tyler says now, hands up in mock surrender, and backing away quickly. although... chin to the machine, ❛ —you gotta- it can get kinda stuck sometimes. you have to punch the thing a certain way for the milk to steam right. ❜

[cartierdreamx]

SPIDEY!

reader: hey! have you seen jenna anywhere? it seems i’ve lost her.

your producer starts giggling

producer: i think she’s practicing stunts right now, might wanna check there.

reader: hold up, whyd you start giggling?

suspicious, you squint your eyes at them

producer: *in a sing-song tone* nooooo reasonnnnnnn.

reader: okay fine. i’ll kill you if something happens.

producer: mhmhm, sure you will.

you head towards the stunt set where practice and training happens, it’s always where the most wires and harnesses are.

reader: jen?

the lights have been dimmed, only making you more suspicious.

reader: jennnnaaaaa?

as you start walking backwards you hear a zzzz sound, knowing it’s the sound of wires pulling someone down, you try to locate the noise and turn around.

reader: FUCK ME DEAD!

jenna appears outta nowhere, scaring the life out of you, but all that fear washed away when you see she’s in a spider-man suit, specifically tobey’s suit, your fav spider. and she’s hanging upside down, recreating your favourite spider-man scene.

you giggle.

reader: what am i going to with you, ms. ortega?

jenna: kiss me?

reader: i think i will.

you take a step towards her and slip down her mask just enough to show her mouth, and just like the famous kiss scene, you caress her jaw and kiss her so passionately.

jenna: my girl.

reader: my spidey.

jenna: how about i take you up on your offer about fucking you hmm?

you unhook her harness which releases her but making sure you catch her so she doesn’t injure herself.

reader: going INTO the jenna-verse, indeed.

jenna: you’re a naughty girl y/n, you know that?

reader: yeah, but YOUR naughty girl.

she giggles.

jenna: let me just take this suit off and we’ll head to your trailer.

reader: who says i want it off?

jenna giggles and kisses you once more before taking your hand as she leads the way.

~~

*FEM! READER* 🫶🏽

EKEKEK a lil goofy drabble in honour of me and my friends getting to see our baby miles morales on sunday (saturday if ur in america) 😩🫶🏽.

[multi-fandom-imagine]

Day 12:-“Do you need help hanging up the Christmas lights?”

Fandom: Marvel Spider-Man

Character: Peter Parker

Naughty or Nice

A/n: This should have came out yesterday 😩 also ab Au where no one died

It seemed like another normal day in New York, normal enough for you and Peter at least. It was the day after Thanksgiving which meant that you had to bring out the Christmas decorations it just sucked that you couldn't reach certain areas of the apartment that you shared.

Sticking out your tongue, you tried to toss the lights on the hook only for them to fall flat to the ground as a whine escaped your lips.

“Do you need help hanging up the Christmas lights?”

Biting back a scream, you turned around to see Peter standing there with a sheepish smile. "Peter! I do not have a spider sense."

"Spidey."

"Huh?"

Grabbing the lights, Peter placed a kiss to your cheek as he started to crawl on the wall. "It's a spidey sense, and I know. I find it cute when you get startled."

Rolling your eyes, you reached into the box grabbing a few more decorations. "Whatever, just make sure they look good Peter. I want this place to look decent for your Aunt."

Gently hooking the lights, Peter gave you a grin as hr moved to the next spot grabbing the lights. "She already loves you so you're fine."

"Peter!"

Once done, he landed next to you as he placed a kiss to your cheek tugging you to his side. "But I will do anything to make you happy."

Shaking your head, you rested your head on his shoulder. "It does look nice."

"See what did I tell you!" Peter beamed until the light's started to flicker until they all went out in the apartment.

"Peter!"

"Mr.Stark is going to kill me."

[shironezuninja]

eBay seller still on vacation. Won’t go shopping until the 2 comics I paid for get shipped to me. I don’t go by Holiday Shopping events. Just want to live a simple, less complicated life.

[themistressdomme]

okay. listen. i sat here reading your tumblr in the bath for nearly an hour and couldn’t help myself but touch and now im hooked.. i want in on these emojis, and the famous discord too, mistress. i tried to find them in the list, but is 🐈‍⬛ or 🍬 taken? i can’t promise to always behave, spicy & bratty at heart, but im definitely sweet <3

Oh, you adorable little thing.

In the bath? For nearly an hour?

My, my, I'm flattered. Did your hands get a little naughty, hm? Wandering? Tsk. Silly thing.

You can absolutely be my little kitty. Pop me a DM if you're interested in the server, pretty thing ;)

Spicy and bratty at heart? With a sweet side?

Sounds like my darling Spidey 🕷. Mm.

🐈‍⬛

[disneytva]

DECEMBER 2024 PROGRAMMING HIGHLIGHTS

Sunday, Dec. 1 Original Special Premiere on Disney Junior “Mickey and the Very Many Christmases” (7:00-7:30 p.m. EST) Mickey makes a magical wish that every day could be Christmas but winds up having second thoughts when his wish actually comes true. TV-Y

Monday, Dec. 2 Original Series – Episode Premiere on Disney Junior and Disney Channel Disney Jr.’s Ariel “Flounder’s Christmas Letter/Holiday Toy Box Trouble” (1-16) (8:30-9:00 a.m. EST on Disney Junior/9:30-10:00 a.m. EST on Disney Channel) “Flounder’s Christmas Letter” – When Flounder forgets to send his Christmas letter to Santa Mer-Claus, Ariel and her friends go on a holiday adventure to deliver the letter to him.

“Holiday Toy Box Trouble” – Sebastian accidentally donates the box of toys that Ariel wants to keep. TV-Y

Tuesday, Dec. 3 Original Series – Episode Premiere on Disney Junior and Disney Channel Marvel’s Spidey and his Amazing Friends “A Snow Day For Aunt May/ Hanukkah Heist” (3-25) (8:30-9:00 a.m. EST on Disney Junior/9:30-10:00 a.m. EST on Disney Channel) “A Snow Day For Aunt May” – Team Spidey wants to give Aunt May a snow day for Christmas, but first must help Santa Claus.

“Hanukkah Heist” – The Thing and Spidey help Aunt Petunia rescue her stolen latkes on Hanukkah. *Emmy® Award-nominated actress Jackie Hoffman (“Feud”) guest stars as Aunt Petunia. TV-Y

Wednesday, Dec. 4 Original Series – Episode Premiere on Disney Junior and Disney Channel SuperKitties “Runaway Sleigh/Hanukkah Rescue” (2-06) (8:30-9:00 a.m. EST on Disney Junior/9:30-10:00 a.m. EST on Disney Channel) “Runaway Sleigh” – When Mr. Puppypaws steals Santa’s sleigh, the SuperKitties have to save Christmas.

“Hanukkah Rescue” – The SuperKitties learn to celebrate Hanukkah by lighting a menorah with loved ones. TV-Y

Thursday, Dec. 5 Original Series – Episode Premiere on Disney Junior and Disney Channel Kindergarten: The Musical “A Winter’s Walrus/One Holiday More” (1-21) (8:00-8:30 a.m. EST on Disney Junior/9:00-9:30 a.m. EST on Disney Channel) “A Winter’s Walrus” – Berti and Radish try to get the Winter Walrus to make it snow.

“One Holiday More” – The kids celebrate all the winter holidays with Albert Applesauce, the class guinea pig. TV-Y

Original Series – Episode Premiere on Disney Junior and Disney Channel Pupstruction “A Very Merry Christmas Tree/Mountain Dogs” (2-08) (8:30-9:00 a.m. EST on Disney Junior/9:30-10:00 a.m. EST on Disney Channel) “A Very Merry Christmas Tree” – When Pupstruction is asked to build a giant Christmas tree, a usually naughty Bobby sees his chance to get on Santa’s nice list.

“Mountain Dogs” – Pupstruction rescues skiers stuck on Pupcake Mountain. TV-Y

Friday, Dec. 6 Original Series – Episode Premiere on Disney Junior and Disney Channel Mickey Mouse Funhouse “Nochebuena at the Funhouse/ Hanukkah at Hilda’s” (3-16) (8:30-9:00 a.m. EST on Disney Junior/9:30-10:00 a.m. EST on Disney Channel) “Nochebuena at the Funhouse” – On Christmas Eve, Panchito and Jose teach Goofy and the gang about Nochebuena.

“Hanukkah at Hilda’s” – The gang gets caught in a snowstorm and learns how Hilda celebrates Hanukkah. TV-Y

Saturday, Dec. 7 Original Series – Episode Premiere on Disney Channel and Disney XD Big City Greens “Dream Tree/Blue Greens” (4-12) (8:00-8:30 p.m. EST) “Dream Tree” – Bill and Cricket follow clues from Cricket’s dream to search the woods for the perfect Christmas tree.

“Blue Greens” – Tilly catches ennui, so Cricket tries to cheer her up. TV-Y7

Original Series – Episode Premiere on Disney Channel and Disney XD ZOMBIES: The Re-Animated Series “Santler Claws is Comin’ to Town” (1-17) (8:30-9:00 p.m. EST) Zed sets out to throw his best zombie holiday party yet; Wynter wants to prove that the holiday monster, Santler Claws, is real; Wyatt searches for the perfect gift for Eliza. TV-G

[sassenashsworld]

Hey everybody!

This is a call for love!

Emil Pagliarulo was a victim of haters, powerful trolls behind their keyboard who send him insult and dead treat and all

Just becauss he wanna be part of the bethesda community and he is NOT Bethesda Support

You should remember him at least for being part of the Death Shroud

Or for his kind words

Or for anything he have done to being close to his fans

You should remember him for his hard work to give us amazing games

And doing his very best to fix it

You should remember him for being a man of heart who want a better world

And I want this community of tolérance, love and fans, to remind him that over the hate he have receive, he is so much LOVE

Please, help me spread this message, add anything you thing, do your fan job

Show this man your love in any way you know!

A human, just before christmas, have receive à load of shit as gift to have give himself all to ourself

Please, help me show him HE IS LOVE

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[ninjaturtlecosmo]

So me and @spideyladman have this IF role play going on on Discord, and it features my OC Star, and her relationship with Art Teacher, and one time we both talked about a scenario where Ted (the name we gave the ice cube IF, and he's a huge asshole in the RP, lol) has this hidden stash of naughty magazines hidden somewhere in his room, and he gets scolded by Blossom (who I headcanon to not have a very high opinion on these type of magazines since she was created in either the 50s or 60s) for having these magazines, in a manner similar to that one Diary Of A Wimpy Kid scene where Rodrick got scolded by his mom for having a magazine like that xD

Blossom: And what do you have to say to all the women of the world for having a magazine like this?

Ted:..... I'm sorry, women.

But anyway, when talking about this, we also brought up how Blossom likely discovered this because Art Teacher found one of these magazines, and he was just plain confused on what the fuck he was looking at xD Why? Well, in our RP Art Teacher originally belonged to a young trans girl named Ashley (who is Spidey's OC), and she's 13 during the current setting of our RP, whereas she was 8 when she created Art Teacher.... meaning that in the RP Art Teacher is one of the youngest IFs living among everyone at Memory Lane, and we both joked about how because of that he's probably super innocent about some topics xD However, we're avoiding adding anything too suggestive in our RP, so I'm going to present to you all this skit of how I imagine Star handling this knowledge xDDDDDDDDD

CW: Suggestive scene Incoming

Star:........ Wait..... Art..... You don't get what this magazine is for? *holds up the magazine belonging to Ted that Art Teacher found*

Art Teacher:........ Not really..... Is it to advertise bathing suits? But...... why are they all posing like that?..... And why is one of the models sitting on a motorcycle in one of the pictures?......... Why does one of them have bunny ears on?

Star:........................*takes in a deep breath to mentally process what's happening right now*

Later at the bar

Star:*having some drinks with Gummy and Blossom*........

Blossom: Star, why does this bother you so much? So he's never looked at nude magazines, I honestly think that's a good thing.

Star: You're old enough to be a grandma, Blossom, of course you'd think that. You boomers freak out at anything if titties or "tallywackers" as you brits call it are shown.

Blossom:................. I had one midlife crisis last year before you got here, do not make me have another one.

Gummy: Seriously, why does it bother you so much?

Star:...... Because it's another reminder of how much older I am than him, for one. I was created in 1990, and Art....... Ashley was 8 when she made him, so he was made in 2018, and....... Ugh...... I don't know...... lately some of the others have been calling out the so called "age gap" between us and it's driving me nuts...... Even Robot called me a cougar the other day...... But..... well, at the end of the day, all of us IFs are still technically adults..... and what adult looks at a fucking playboy magazine and thinks it's for advertising swimsuits?????

Gummy:..... Everyone's different, Star..... He probably wasn't exposed to that kind of stuff before he got here. I mean.... when you were both together in Dekalb, did you..... well, you know, try to take things to a certain level with him?

Star:..... Well.... one time, yeah, but...... Well, he wasn't comfortable at the time since we had only been dating for a few months, and he immediately said no. I guess I never tried initiating that sort of thing again cause I wanted to wait and let him decide he was ready...... and now it's 3 years later since Rachel and I left his and Ashley's neighborhood, and I find out he's never been exposed to a playboy magazine before.

Blossom:....... This may sound shocking coming from a so called "boomer" like me, but believe it or not, some people just don't care for sex. Did you ever think of that?

Gummy: Well, we don't know that....... I mean..... it has been 3 years, and you're still both working on rekindling your relationship. Why not talk to him, or..... well...... hey, sometimes a grand gesture of seduction can do something..... why not try that, see what happens?

Blossom:....... Gummy no--

Star:*immediately widens her eyes as an idea comes to mind, a grin forming on her face*

Later that night

Art Teacher:*sees rose petals leading from his art class to his and Star's bedroom*....... Why are these petals here?..... (thinks: Oh god.... Star, what have you done now? )...... *slowly follows the petals before reaching his door, taking the know and pushing it open*

*He turns on the lights in the room, and is immediately presented with Star laying on her stomach in a suggestive pose while giving him a seductive look on her face, wearing a short silk dress. Petals cover the whole floor while candles are alit around them to fill the air with a sweet aroma, and the record player is on as it plays "Love" by Kendrick Lamar*

Star, talking in a soft sultry tone as if she was trying to mimic Jennifer Tilly: Well hey there, Art.... I wondered when you'd get here. I almost thought you wouldn't show up~

Art Teacher:*eyes are widened in confusion as he looks around the room, a bright blush covering his face*....... Star.... what is all this?

Star: What do you mean? *slowly gets up from the bed and approaches him, trying to pump out her chest as her gown is exposing her cleavage* I just put this all together cause.... well, all the hard work you've been doing with your art lately, I just wanted to do something special for us tonight~ What do you think? You like it?

Art Teacher: S- Star, this is......! *backs away a little, overwhelmed by all of this* Its...... if you wanted a date night, I think this is all a bit much.....!

Star:*reaches behind him to close the door, so it's just them* Is it? Or maybe it's just because we've never done anything like this before~ Hey..... You know how I've always tried opening you up to new experiences, right? How sometimes we've just gotta get out of our comfort zones and just live a little?

Art Teacher:*eyes widen more, at this point backing away more* I- I get that, I do......! It's just..... I don't really think right now is--

*As they're both so distracted by the other, they don't notice as one of them ends up knocking over one of the candles on accident with their foot, setting the carpet floor ablaze*

Star: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Art Teacher: !!!!!!!!!!!! *screams in terror as the room starts to be engulfed in flames*

*Cue to later when they get help from a couple of firefighter themed IFs, the both of them finishing putting out the fire in the room before it could get any worse, while Art Teacher and Star stand outside to watch along with other IFs who heard the commotion, Star looking embarrassed while still in her silk gown, while Art Teacher stands there, clearly aggravated by the whole ordeal*

Firefighter 1: Well, the fire is out now. But it'll need a few days for everything that was burned to get fixed or replaced, so, you two will need to sleep somewhere else for a while.

Star:.......*smiles nervously at Art Teacher* You want to sleep in the music room?

Art Teacher:....... Sleep, and only sleep. I'm not having sex with you. Not because I don't love you, but because I don't want sex tonight. Got it?

Star: Yeah.... Yeah, I got it. Sorry..... Won't happen again......

[griefpersevering]

ch15 of runaways running the night, my spideypool deadpool & wolverine rewrite, is now up!! keep reading for a snippet of wade and peter facing cassandra again <33

Wade cackles as Paradox looks to him pleadingly. "Welcome to the skull fuck club. You know she don't wash that hand."

He rests his hand on the knife at his thigh as they watch her finger his eye sockets, muttering to herself as she extracts all the information from his mushy mind. Half an hour ago, Cassandra had been happy to let them go home so she could keep the Void for herself. Paradox and Simmons must've done something truly idiotic to mess up their plan.

"What's this?" she says, tapping her fingertips against Paradox's lips. "A time ripper? Naughty boy."

"Oh, we're on it!" Wade says.

"We can head down and dismantle it now," Spidey adds.

"We gotcha, boo. Just keep playing those keys."

"I don't want to destroy it." Where they were dull in the Void, Cassandra's eyes seem to flash in the bright daylight. "I want to use it. Now — shoo, mommy and daddy are having a conversation."

She flicks her wrist and launches Wade and Spidey through the air with the force of a speeding car, slamming them through the window of the shoe shop at the end of the street.

Glass pierces Wade's skin, tearing through the stitches on his newly repaired suit. One fight was enough to have him hankering for a long bath and some of Al's disco dust.

Gritting his teeth against the pain, he pushes himself onto his knees and peers through the smashed window. Cassandra drags Paradox into the subway station by his face, his limp body smacking each of the steps as they descend towards his universe-ending machine.

Biting his lip, he turns around to help Spidey sit up. "Fuck. Are you okay?"

"Fine. Super. A-okay."

He's bleeding from at least four different places. Spidey wrenches a particularly large shard of glass out of his side, and for the only time since they've met, Wade is glad he can't see the pain that must be on his face.

keep reading on ao3!!

[highoctanegem]

Bloodbound alliance pt. 1 || Jade & Vic

TIMING: Current. LOCATION: A warehouse. PARTIES: @natusvincere & @highoctanegem SUMMARY: Jade and Vic find themselves in the same place for very different reasons. CONTENT WARNING: Medical blood & head trauma. The thread contains descriptions of people being used as blood bags and mentions of dismemberment (doesn't happen in the thread).

Vic gazed at the address she’d typed into her notes app, looking up at the building she’d found to confirm this was in fact the location she’d been looking for.  Through some pretty efficient eavesdropping (some vampire traits did have their quirks), she’d heard about this place years ago- before Rosie and her change of heart and all.  She had originally written it down because it seemed like the exact type of job she’d be into- a regular hangout for vampires that she could infiltrate, convince to trust her, and then turn into slayers for a pretty penny. This place… a rundown warehouse- it certainly picked her former assumptions of where vampires might choose to spend their time.  Slayers didn’t tend to ask how she got her information, and so jobs like this in the past had been easy, stress-free money.  Of course, with everything that was changed, the plan here wasn’t to infiltrate at all.  

She was learning rather quickly that rehabilitation was difficult without, well…friends.  Vic had decided recently that the best way she was going to prove to herself that vampires weren’t all monsters was to be around them more… let them prove it to her.  The therapist quacks would have called it ‘exposure therapy’.  So she was planning on infiltrating this group not to betray them, but to befriend them… or something like that.  Hopefully they would have tact, and be worthy of friendship.  She’d cross that bridge when she came to it.  Just as she raised her hand to knock on the door (a secret knock she was sure she remembered hearing about), she felt a presence behind her.  Dropping her hand, she turned around, both shocked and dismayed (and just a little frightened) at the sight she saw behind her.  Still, despite her fear, she wouldn’t let this person know how she felt.

“You’ve got to be fucking kidding me.”

—

It didn’t get any more evil than a warehouse, right? Like, surely nobody would oppose her taking down the knuckleheads using this place as headquarters for their shady business. Jade could do this. Nope, she would do this. Clan-associated vampires were still on everybody’s naughty list, regardless of what some felt about the way she fulfilled her duty. And yup, there was that annoying voice in her head pointing out the fact that she was letting others dictate how to do her job. Which she hated, obviously, it was something she had been trying to nip in the bud for the past couple of weeks. Er…months. She would manage. There was nothing wrong with doing the basics, taking out the cartoon villains, (which, she always did anyway), while she sorted herself out. 

Jade strutted toward the rusted door that worked as an entrance, her weapons concealed inside her coat. It was a little warm for that kinda outfit but she was trying to infiltrate first, swing later. (As in, fighting) (She didn’t think this place doubled as a dance club). She wasn’t shocked there was already someone waiting to go inside, it actually made a lot of sense given the whispers she’d heard about the place. Maybe she could strike up a convo with the lady, lay on the charm, and sneak in as her BYOB (bring your own blood bag). She was already brainstorming her backstory (nothing too extravagant this time around), when it dawned on her that the woman standing outside the warehouse was super familiar. 

Penny. The same Penny she had spotted at the park, and messed with her Spidey sense. The one who was somehow a mother. The one Amber knew especially well. Ew. Which, as a sidenote, it turned out… Amber didn’t know any Pennys, so Jade wasn’t even sure who was lying. (The vampire was the obvious option, but her sister did like to keep some secrets) (Unlike her, an open book). But anyway, Penny didn’t seem as thrilled to see her, which was so freaking rude actually. So she only liked her features in one woman and one woman only? And forget about that nonsense, was Penny associated with this clan, then? Was the human baby in actual danger? Her face turned hard as she regarded the other woman. 

“Not even a hello, huh? I hope you teach your baby better manners,” normally, she would’ve wrapped the jab around a daring smile. She would’ve taunted the other woman, except she couldn’t bring herself to joke. Jade felt on edge now, wondering why a mother would try to associate with the type of vampire inside the warehouse. If there was such a thing as good monsters, why wouldn’t Penny choose those? Without taking her eyes off the woman, Jade lifted her hand and rapped the secret knock. (Shave and a haircut, so actually not so secret) (Which was kinda genius). A gray-faced vampire came around a few beats later, revealing himself a short king when the door creaked open. “Who—” Before he could speak and ask for a password or something else that would put her on the spot, Jade chimed in. “Good evening, sir. I’m sure you’re busy, doing your thing,” she turned to Penny, raising an eyebrow at her. Play along, was supposed to mean. “Here’s my aunt, Gertrude. You can probably sense she’s one of yours, right?” the man opened his mouth, but Jade filled the silence quickly. “We’re new in town. And… Oh. I’m her midnight snack,” he also must’ve sensed her very human heartbeat. “She’s old you know… my aunt. Whew, she tells me all about doing shots with Dracula,” she chuckled, hooking her arm with Penny’s. “We can’t let her out without a human by her side in case she gets, ya know… hangry” her free hand motioned two fangs sinking into skin. “She’s supposed to be on the list of guests for tonight’s shindig. Why don’t you check?”  

—

Vic huffed, shaking her head at Jade’s incompetence.  “I don’t know any babies.  My toddler has just fine manners, but knows not to say hello to people who openly threaten our lives.”  Once, she read in a book that treating a child as if they were at a younger stage of development than they actually were could severely stunt their intellect and confidence.  God, she was going to have to come back another time to find some vampire friends.  There was no way that she and Baby Bloodworth were here for the same reason, and no logical way that either of them could stay now.  She was about to turn away when she heard the tell tale knock rapping from Jade’s knuckles.  She turned back toward the door, barely able to have a reaction to her counterpart’s boldness before someone opened the door in front of them.  She cleared her throat, ready to speak on her own behalf, when the loudmouth next to her immediately started yapping.  

It was all she could do to keep her composure.  If she weren’t trying to make friends, she might turn around right now and give Jade a good shake, just to shut her up, but she knew how important first impressions were.  She had to decide rather quickly if an old aunt named Gertrude was more or less impressive than a woman named Vic who shook curly-haired ravens.  She had to blink away the jolt she felt about this man in front of her suddenly knowing she was a vampire- except that was the whole point, right?  She smiled awkwardly at him as Jade continued, hip-checking her at the comment about her apparent hunger.  What a joke.  She was the most well-fed vampire in all of Wicked’s Rest.  

As the vampire looked down at his list (after looking between the two of them suspiciously, of course), Vic pulled her arm dramatically away from Jade’s, wiping off whatever stench she might have left behind there. Jade clearly wanted into the warehouse for more nefarious reasons than she did, but there was little she’d be able to do once a clan of vampires surrounded her.  Perhaps she would have to work with her before she turned away while they drained the life from her.  It was almost like killing two birds with one stone, when she thought about it- finding some like-minded friends and getting rid of the threat that was Jade.  “Actually…”, she said, putting on her most charming voice, the one she used to use with vampires in quite the opposite context.  “My niece here, Bertha, she gets confused quite easily.”  The vampire looked up at them again, and Vic patted Jade on the top of her head in mock sympathy.  “I told her that taking a shower once a day helps to jog those thinking muscles, but you know how stubborn stupid people can be.”  For a split second, Vic got a good view at the top half of the list, and her eyes focused on one of the names toward the top that hadn’t been crossed off yet.  “The name I was invited under is actually Greg”, she said, only realizing how ridiculous it sounded when it was too late.  She coughed, elbowing Jade in the side. “It’s a family name.  Gertrude and Bertha Greg- did I forget to mention my plus one in my RSVP?”

—

Sneaking inside was really riding on the coattails of Penny’s ability to spin a good lie. Which like, most vampires were expert manipulators anyway, so it shouldn’t be hard, right? With a sneer, the man peered down at his list, where he would definitely not find a Gertrude and would end up putting both of them on blast, so Jade was gonna have to think fast (or rather, act fast) if she wanted a chance to see whatever nefarious business these folks got up to inside. Her fingers skirted along her belt looking to draw one of her blades, but before anything could happen, Penny spoke up.

Jade chewed the inside of her cheek so as not to ruin Penny’s attempt at selling this lie to the man, but it sure was hard to stay quiet! She faked a big grin, as she figured that was what stupid people would do upon being called stupid. Bertha wasn’t even a good undercover name, ugh. Whatever, if it got them inside, maybe Jade would consider sparing Penny a second time. But don’t get her wrong, she was definitely taking care of her eventually, cause this kinda company? Nope, it was horrible for the baby. (Which, in this sentence referred to little Sammy) (But spiritually, it also referred to her. She was the baby too). 

And alright, she wasn’t familiar with Penny’s game, but Jade noticed her sneaking glances at the list and she nodded her approval. Huh. Maybe they did have a chance after all. Oof, the elbow to the ribs was so unnecessary, she almost stepped on Penny’s foot in retaliation but restrained herself in favor of the lie they were trying to sell to get inside. (Why would Penny not have an invite already?) (What was she here for, exactly?). “Bertha Greg,” Jade nodded, with a blank expression. And well, actually she could lend her expertise to fill in the blanks. “From the Gregs back in California? I’m sure you’ve heard of Ezekiel Greg, if not… they should open the vampire schools again, and teach you all a bit of history” Jade scoffed, quirking her right eyebrow and tilting her chin up. She’d learned a few Karen tricks from Regan, she had this in the bag. 

The man’s eyes were fixed on Jade’s, his expression unreadable… but she wouldn’t be deterred, she tilted her chin even higher, waiting. And then he slowly glanced down to check his list, where (thanks to Penny, alright?) Greg would be invited. Actually, everything about the way he moved looked in slow motion, vampires were supposed to be agile, come on! He dragged his eyes back to Penny, regarding her with a little more respect than he did Jade (rude!). “Very well, Miss Greg. Everything appears to be in order, yes. Please, why don’t you and… your meal follow me inside?” the door creaked some more as he welcomed them inside with a wave of his hand. Jade felt the onrush of relief once the hard part was over, but it didn’t last a second, when ahead of her, the bouncer spoke. “I will lead you to the lobby, where you may leave your coats and weapons.”   

—

Vic gave Jade a scolding side-eye, worried her rambling might insult their only entry to this clearly very exclusive club.  Perhaps she should have done more research before she arrived.  A guest list?  A lobby?? This place was higher class than she anticipated.  She almost felt bad that Jade was about to make such a fool of herself.  Almost.  “Yes, yes, we are so pleased to make your acquaintance.  Us Gregs have been meaning to check out your very refined get-togethers, and today just seemed like the perfect day to join!  Didn’t it, Bumbling Bertha?” She touched the vampire on the shoulder as he walked ahead of them, though his reaction was rather stiff and cold.  Rude.  “Oh, that’s a nick-name she just loves.  She’ll practically insist you call her Bumbling Bertha, so please remember to take heed”.

The vampire, for his part, gave a stiff huff in response to whatever the vampiress behind him was saying.  He didn’t care much for small talk, and tended to ignore whatever the new club-members were saying.  

As they entered the lobby (a little run-down, if you asked Vic… it was more of a supply closet than anything), Vic finally registered just what the registration vampire had said, her eyes widening in response.  “I’m sure that won’t be necessary, kind sir, as we are all friends here, no?”

“I’m afraid policy, in this case, trumps friendship”, he replied, looking between the two of them.  “Now please, empty your pockets before we continue into the meeting room.  You can place your things here on this table, I’m sure you understand.”

Vic shot a look to Jade, who probably had about 17 stakes shoved in any crevice she could muster, like the murder machine she was.  She widened her eyes at her, signaling her to please not be stupid enough to take anything out that might blow their cover.  Now that their lies had grouped them together, this lot finding out that Jade was a slayer was a bad idea, at least until the jig was up and Vic could tell them the truth.  Unsurely, she emptied her pockets of a few knives and a rogue pair of handcuffs, hesitantly putting her most favorite dagger on the small table as well.  “We didn’t bring much with us today, did we, Bumbling Bertha?”  She let her eyes widen again, signaling Jade to lie.  

—

Okay, Penny was doing a little too much now, cause what was that about Bumbling Bertha and trying to touch the receptionist? Jade rolled her eyes, giving the other woman a dirty look. “Only if you remember to call her Gaseous Gertrude! You’ll realize why later. It comes with age” she put on a saccharine tone, and hid all the passive aggressiveness in a smile. The vampire ahead of them only grunted in response. Not too chatty, huh? Actually, he was chatty enough to let them know they were supposed to leave their weapons behind. Ugh. That was like, standard procedure for shady clans like this, Jade was kinda prepared for it. Even if like, she believed no one should be doubting two innocent ladies walking through the front door! (Patriarchy was supposed to be working for them, come on). 

But whatever, it was prevention and stuff. Cause every weapon had the potential to harm one of them… no matter how good or safe they looked, it was better to eliminate the threat. (Huh…) (Why did that sound kinda familiar?). Jade had shoved a few of her more important weapons into places that should be hard to find. (Mind out of the gutter, she meant the double fold in the band of her bra, where she stashed her narrowest stake). Unless they were like, about to pat them down. Shoot. They weren’t gonna do that, right? Jade sauntered into the small room with an easy going smile on her face. There were a few other vampires in the room, doing office things by the looks of it. But only one of them was paying attention to them, the one by the table, waiting on them. The glances Penny shot at her didn’t go unnoticed. How dare! Did she think she was gonna give them away? (Like she was an amateur?) (Don’t roll the tapes!) 

Jade gave the woman a second eye-roll (about to reach all-time records, if she did it a third time), noticing the kind of stuff Penny was leaving on the table. “Auntie… I didn’t know it was that kinda shindig” she winked at her, eyes sparkling playfully. Penny was pretty fun to mess with, really. She pulled out a knife she had strapped on the side of her leg, and a thin dagger from the sheath on her belt. “Nope, we’re traveling light today, fellas! And… ma’am” she turned around to address the only other woman in the room. She had an interesting look in her eyes actually, and not for her, for Penny. Which like, fair. She wasn’t gonna pretend the other woman wasn’t easy on the eyes. Except she wasn’t ogling, she was… weird. Jade focused back on the table, pretending to do a thorough pat to find other things on her. Oooh! Some pepper spray. She left that too. “We’re all set!” she intoned, smiling up at the guard. He grumbled something, and then walked over to their side of the table, motioning for them to lift their arms. Oh. Nope, she didn’t like this. 

She glanced back at Penny, eyes widening to let her know she totally had a few more weapons left, but they needed to get going now. And like, she only needed her help on this one thing. She figured once they got past the hallway they should be able to split and do whatever they wanted. So what if she batted her eyelashes in a pleading way? “It’s policy, lady” he shrugged. At least he was polite? Anyway, thankfully Penny didn’t need to do any more of her over-the-top acting, cause someone barged into the room right in that moment. Whew. She felt a little sweaty. Was she sweating? That was close. The new vampire beelined to the one attempting to pat them down, and started talking in a hushed tone. Jade didn’t snoop (shocking), cause she was busy looking around the room, just in case things went sideways and they had to improvise. They had some chairs (metal, sadly), a few notebooks and pens, and like a computer. It was pretty barebones for a fancy vampire operation. Maybe they spent their big bucks on the insides. Leaning by the doorframe were two new goons. Some type of bodyguards, she figured. One of them, with impressive dark eyes, kept staring at her. Nope, he was like, studying her. Um, first of all, she was happily taken, second of all, even if she weren’t she’d never do that with a clan member. Ew. And why was this the second vampire who took a weird interest in them? Were the ladies in their clan lacking?

“Go inside, we’re done here,” the first vampire barked at them. Woah. Sudden. He sounded a little stressed out. Like, some real stuff was going down. Did someone try to sneak in and infiltrate their circle? That would be so bad for them. Both big vampires left in a rush, followed by the goons by the door. Jade didn’t need to be told twice, she let the weapons at the table to be confiscated by the vampires working at the lobby and dashed out the door, turning just for a moment to check on Penny. “What do you think that was?”

—

Vic was glad she couldn’t see her reflection, because she didn’t want to witness the bright red color her face must have turned when Jade insinuated she had a flatulence problem.  How humiliating.  Vic shot her a look of warning, her lips tight together and ready to spill out insults.  If Jade was going to be such a trouble maker…, then so what if these vampires had to have their way with her? “Like I said, Berth here gets confused.  It’s best just to ignore her all together, we try not to play into her fantasies.”  Vic was having all sorts of fantasies at that moment, and most of them involved Jade and some sort of large spike.  Yea, that would be nice.  

But, despite, well… everything that was wrong with Baby Bloodworth, the emptying of their weapons seemed to have gone relatively smoothly.  Well, it was about to, at least, until they were asked to raise their arms for a pat down. Jade, thank god, had clearly kept some of her more vampire-free weapons tucked away, but a pat down was about to make them both liable for her crimes.  Perhaps she should turn on Bloodworth now, abandon Jade before they found her out so Vic herself wouldn’t seem responsible.  She cleared her throat, deciding against it.  Abandoning ship now would look too suspicious.  “That’ll hardly be necessary.  I patted her down before I brought her in here.  It’s actually better you avoid it, since the stench that came from being that close to her was just… it was no fun.”

But then the threat of a pat down and any more interrogation was over in a flash, and Vic was… confused.  Groups like this were nothing if not thorough, so something really big must have come up to interrupt them.  “Unsure…perhaps luck is on our side today”.  There was a cliche somewhere in the air about luck coming with a friend by your side.  She wanted to scoff, Jade was the opposite of a friend.  “You don’t think they’ll try that again, do you?”

As they walked through the threshold into the next room, Vic found herself…underwhelmed.  She thought for sure the decorations would be opulent, but there were no decorations, not except for a seedy whiteboard with KILL COUNT written in big letters at the top.  The tally marks underneath were too much to count.  In addition, there were a few couches with holes in them, a broken step ladder, and some dingy curtains that looked older than she was.  “Doing some renovations?”, she asked aloud to the other vampires in the room.  No one had really acknowledged their entrance, at least not on purpose.  Some seemed to be secretly watching them while pretending to remain busy, while others were grouped up, whispering to each other.  Probably about some important plans.

“Seems this club has some sub-clubs”, she whispered to Jade.  “Exclusivity atop exclusivity.  That’s how you know we’re in an important place.”  But this place didn’t feel important at all.  It actually felt like the opposite place she wanted to be in.  For the first time, she wondered if she was going to need to look for vampire friends elsewhere.  

—

“They could try…” Jade glanced back at Penny who finally caught up. And actually, it was fair game if they wanted to split now, right? (Right?) Why was she following her? Did Jade grow on her so fast? (It happened, she couldn’t blame her). She figured it would be smart to play up the auntie and niece charade for a little longer, after all. “It’d be kinda amateur of them to have just one check. I bet they have people at every door. Especially if they have game rooms,” cause… they had game rooms right? Where was the poker and the… maybe she heard wrong and this was not a casino style warehouse? UGH. Right when she thought vampires might be a little fun after all, it had to be cause of a misunderstanding. “What did you hear about this place?” she wondered in a more contained, professional tone. While she had Penny with her, might as well squeeze some info out of her, right?

No one took notice of them as they entered their next room. (A little rude, come on, they were pretty cute!). And what even was this room supposed to be? Were they even walking in the right path? Actually, if she wanted to suss out this whole warehouse might as well play the role of the clueless bimbo just waltzing into places apologizing for her terrible spacial awareness. She took notice of the whiteboard, and the tally marks and the totally awful interior design. She wasn’t sure which part was worse. (Oh, right. Maybe the kill count tally. Yup) (But like, those couches could totally put Emilio’s to shame). And… curious looks came eventually. Jade didn’t wanna stay in one place for longer than necessary. A light, dainty laugh left her lips (who was she?), and she pressed a hand to her chest before blurting out. “Whoopsie, my auntie and I are looking for… the main event,” whatever that was. A vampiress took pity on their poor navigational skills, jutting her thumb to the left. “Through that door, down two flights of stairs, then through the hallway to your right. You can’t miss it.” Oh, she had no idea what Bertha and Gertrude were capable of. They were most definitely going to miss it. Jade swooned, jerking Penny’s arm to follow her. “Thank you, babe. If I wasn’t already a promised meal for my auntie, I’d be all yours.” She didn’t stay long enough to see the befuddled look on the vampiress’s face.

They had places to go. They… they? Right. Until they reached the big gathering. That’s where she’d leave Penny and go check around the warehouse on her own. “I say we don’t go into rooms unless I say so, how about that?” she lifted a perfect eyebrow at her… current partner in crime (ugh, it was so weird), her steps gaining speed as she walked around a warehouse that was starting to feel more like a maze. And… whoever was in charge of decorating this place had like, a crypt core Pinterest board somewhere, for sure. Like why not just get a crypt if they loved the aesthetic so much? The staircase was poorly lit by candles that didn’t even have to be there in the first place. And she was pretty sure the cobwebs were from a costume shop. 

But like, the further they descended into more obscure corridors the more Jade could just… smell the scent of decay and blood and… she didn’t feel like bantering with Penny so much anymore. The little game she’d created in her head began to slip away. The desensitizing could only work so much.There were human lives on the line, and Jade was never not aware of it. (Some would accuse her of only caring about said human lives). This was what she fought for.

The echoing of their shoes against the concrete was replaced by her own heart drumming in her ears. And then the sound of something leaking, dripping, followed by what Jade discerned was tired whimpers of pain. A barely open door beckoned her at the start of the hallway meant to lead them to the ‘main event’ vampires congregated for. It was so tempting, to peer inside. Like, it wasn’t locked, so these vampires had no shame about whatever was behind that door. (She had a guess. One which made a shiver run down her spine).

Nope. They were going to the casino, or well the gathering. Jade couldn’t stop to… wait, wasn’t this exactly why she came around? To see what shady things they got up to? Right! She couldn’t not take a little peek. She motioned Penny to slow down for a moment, and she inched to the small opening, willing to glance without touching the door. She wasn’t counting on the extra footsteps coming down the stairs, disrupting the tense silence that had created between her and Penny. She had like, a two second window to look inside, then twirl around and pretend she tripped or something and resume their path. She could do it. She could!

It was only a glimpse, but it was enough for Jade to paint a picture. Her heart jumped to her throat, but her brain was sharp due to years enduring similar horrors. It processed everything in a beat. The weak sounds of pain that had drifted to the corridor belonged to people, of course. Two young men hung upside down in the middle of the room, tubes and wires plugged to... Oh. They were real, human blood bags. The candlelight was a paid actor in all this, reflecting on pale, clammy skin, wounded skin, making the sight that much more tetric. A few other bodies lay on the ground, face down. By the way they were completely motionless Jade couldn’t tell if they’d already been drained, or if they were to be hung after. So this was pretty much their bar storage, wasn’t it? Except instead of barrels of booze it was... And if this wasn’t something they cared to conceal with a lock, what other horrible things hid behind closed doors? She glanced at Penny, genuine fear in her eyes cause she was positive the other woman also had a chance to look inside. And, she couldn’t blame her if she wanted to go have fun with her vampire friends instead. Cause Jade was staying behind. She had to make this right. So this was where they parted, after all. “I should… I have to help—”  

“There,” a deep, cold voice cut through the air. And at the top of the stairs? The owner of that bone chilling voice, along with two statuesque vampires flanking him. She knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that this was not the welcome committee.  

—

Vic looked toward Jade with a huff, rolling her eyes.  What did it matter where she’d heard about it?  It wasn’t like they were actually working together here.  Still, she offered an answer- true, but filled with omission.  “I have intel everywhere, and last I heard, this place was filled with reputable potential companions”.  Friendship, that was what she was here for.  But it felt embarrassing to say out loud.  They continued to walk deeper and deeper into the warehouse, and Vic was beginning to feel swellings of anxiety that usually accompanied a loss of control.  She wasn’t sure she could navigate her way out of this place if she tried (not that she’d need to, right?), and then there was that new, annoying feeling of guilt that was worming its way in, the one that told her how wrong it would be to let these vampires have their way with Jade.

After everything that happened with the Good Neighbors, what even was wrong or right, anyway?

She didn’t have time to think on it, anyway, because just as she was about to tell Jade that Vic was the one who would decide what rooms they would go in, because Vic was older, and wiser, and smarter in every way, something in the rooms they were passing nearly stopped her in her tracks.

It was the smell first, of blood, fresh and tantalizing and ever so tempting, that got her attention.  And it made sense, right?  That she’d smell blood in a place where vampires chose to congregate.  It didn’t make them at fault, morally- there was a huge chance that they ethically sourced their blood, like she did.  But if the kill count board from earlier didn’t tell her that that fantasy was far-fetched, the sights just beyond the viewpoint of typical human eyes would have done just fine.  For in nearly every room they walked by, Vic noted a sickening, stomach turning sight:  body parts, left strewn about as if they were child’s toys and not formerly part of actual people.  And the volume of them didn’t seem to end, either.  A foot here, fingers there, a leg, propped up against a wall somewhere else.

Perhaps Jade didn’t notice because she was so focused on her goal, whatever it was, or maybe Vic had underestimated how advanced her sight actually was, being a vampire so long, but regardless, she stopped in her tracks, holding Jade’s arm tightly interlocked with hers, hoping the slayer would get the hint.  But Jade, ever surprising, seemed to have other ideas herself, and had found particular interest in one of the rooms at their side.  Vic chanced a look in herself, and her stomach turned even more at what she found there.  She shook her head at Jade, her eyebrows furrowed, because staying here and trying to help without a plan was asinine.  They were vastly outnumbered, they knew nothing about this group, and they needed to leave, fast.  She whispered, trying to talk some sense into Baby Bloodworth.  “This is stupid.  We can come back with backup, we need to-”

But a booming voice interrupted her, and she dropped Jade’s arm, suddenly feeling guilty for some reason.  Whoever was walking toward them was clearly some sort of leader- the others respected him, and as he approached her and Jade, the other vampires seemed to turn toward them with attention.  Shit.

“Apprehend these two at once.  They’re not who they say they are”, the voice boomed, even more commanding now that he was closer.  Before Vic could think of an excuse, there were two vampires at each of their sides, holding their arms in place until they were told where to take them.  With an unrelenting guilty conscience, she felt the need to explain.  “We’re obviously not aunt and niece, that’s simply how we describe each other to strangers.  It’s much easier than saying we’re unlikely companions ever since Bertha became obsessed with me back in 2015.”

What the fuck was she doing?  She was supposed to be throwing Jade under the bus, right?  Out her as a slayer so she can have new vampire friends and forget about the Bloodworth threat altogether.  Weakness was winning over again, and it was in favor of an idiot.  She thrashed under the grip of her captors, and noted the vampires that had been in surrounding rooms were getting closer, their faces a mix of sneers and frowns.  They all looked at them with recognition, as if they were seeing right through them.  “We were just leaving, anyway.  Let us go this instant!”

—

Jade would have to judge Penny for her choice of reputable potential companions another time. Provided there was another time. Cause right now, as three giant figures descended that last flight of stairs, all Jade could hear was the battle soundtrack about to go off in her head. She hoped it sounded a little more Dark Knight and a little less Everybody was Kung Fu fighting. But beggars couldn’t be choosers, so whatever got Jade out of this pickle, she’d take it. She also couldn’t show her shock at the fact that Penny had tried to pull her out of danger. Or that she’d offered to come back with backup and help those being drained in that room. (What did she mean? Wasn’t she in cahoots with these people?) Too many things were happening at the same time. 

The person in charge of hitting play on the music had to wait for a moment, cause Penny wanted to try diplomacy. Ugh. One of the vampires had already gripped her bicep and Jade knew, immediately, by the way fingers dug into flesh that she would have a bruise later. “Listen to my auntie! Does she look like she’d ever do anything wrong ever? She’s never had so much as a speeding ticket!” She chimed in, giving this peace thing a try. Cause neither of them might like it, but they were kind of a team at the moment, and Jade knew all about being a team player. (If her solo career was anything to go by, some would say, being a team player was the only thing she was good at). Oops, apparently, they were not auntie and niece anymore, Penny was getting rid of their backstory, choosing something way less credible, but whatever. Time to lie. “Right! She’s kinda like my auntie. My aunt figure. It’s just easier…” Even as the vampire held her hands behind her back to restrain her, even as he manhandled her, Jade had a moment to throw Penny a dirty look over her shoulder. Obsessed with you? Puh-lease, she said without words. 

It wasn’t completely stupid, what Penny was trying to do, despite. Cause why would two innocent people try to fight three strong vampires, right? Except if cornered, wasn’t like, the most natural reaction to defend yourself? Especially if it was totally unfair? The team leader remained untouched, like the perfect baddie, giving instructions instead of getting his hands dirty. “Enough with this. Bring them into custody, they want to ask them questions about the leak,” he gruffed, and Jade blinked at that, cause… huh? Like sure, keeping them alive served the plot, but… what was the other thing about a leak? And actually, she didn’t like the whole getting captured as much. Getting killed would’ve been quicker, but if she got caught that meant she wouldn’t get to go home to Regan, and that was just… irresponsible. (It made sense in her head, go with it).  

Tussling time it was. Quirky battle music went off. Jade thrashed against her captor, pushing backwards until he crashed against the wall. She smashed again, upwards and with intention, hearing the back of his head connect with the surface. Good. But it wasn’t enough to knock him out. He let go of her hands and reached in front to put her on a chokehold. She wriggled and jerked, trying to shove his hands away while her air supply got increasingly low. If she could just… She needed too… She choked, the sight of Penny battling her own vampire in front of Jade blurring as tears reached her eyes. She needed her knife. The one hidden in her belt buckle, but if she let go of his arms he’d end her. She threw her head back, hitting him in the nose, and with the beat of respite she was given, Jade plucked her small knife. She jabbed repeatedly into the vampire's thigh, and he growled, letting go of her. 

She almost fell face forward onto the floor, but her reflexes came through in time. She gasped, getting as much oxygen as she could into her lungs and turned to face the vampire. Except, right! She’d forgotten about the third one with conveniently free hands and a bossy tone. Who now wanted to join the fun. She sensed him draw close and Jade spun again, plunging the knife into his neck, then tackling him to the ground. (She was a one trick pony, but if the trick was failproof, why change?) Pinning him with her legs, she knew she wouldn’t be able to reach for the stake inside her bra, so like… if their plan was to make a run for it, the best chance they had was to knock out all three of them. 

Big boss didn’t wanna go out fast, obviously, that would’ve been so embarrassing for him. But as he tried to overtake her (a mess of swiping limbs and grunts), Jade stood her ground, getting a hold of his face and smashing it against the cold floor. The thrashing beneath her stopped. And Jade got a beat, two beats where relief washed over her, and adrenaline made everything seem possible. There were two left, they had this. 

And then something hard hit the back of her head and everything went to black. 

—

This is not how Vic envisioned new friendships would start.  But then, these vampires weren’t friends, were they?  They were bad.  The kind of bad that the Vic from a few years ago assumed all vampires were, the reason her own kind was monstrous and needed to be eradicated.  Back then, she wouldn’t have needed to see the sights she had seen today- the blood or the gore, or the goddamn body bags hanging around like decoration, because she already knew what they were capable of.  How dare these assholes perfectly fit the stereotype that so many had in their minds about vampires? They had a duty, maybe even more than humans and other undead, to be pillars of society (to make up for their bad names, of course), and still these jerks were flouncing around like some cheesy villains in a horror novel. And Victoria Larsson did not make nice with villains, vampires or not.

“Fuck this”.  Vic’s docile, apologetic nature seemed to flip in an instant, and thankfully, the other vampires were caught completely off guard.  She slammed her right foot down onto the foot of her captor, then raised her left arm back as he was caught off guard.  Vic used that distraction to her advantage, using her elbow to jab into the vampire’s side, then punching him square in the jaw, officially jetting forward from his grip afterwards.  Looking over to her side, it appeared baby Bloodworth had had the same idea, and Vic took a moment to nod in solidarity, before turning back to her dumbfounded captors.

Because she hadn’t expected a fight, Vic had obediently left all her weapons back at registration, and so she needed to think fast.  The vampire tried to take advantage of her assumed distraction, reaching to grab at her again, but this time, Vic was ready.  Just as the other vampire reached for her, she grabbed the dagger holstered at his side with one hand, grabbed his arm with another, and pinned it behind his back, holding him against her with the knife against his neck. “Don’t make another fucking move, you stereotype sellout, or your unkept, hairy neck will end up with more holes than that cheese from Switzerland”. Rosie had a current fascination with Swiss cheese, so the analogy just seemed incredibly apt.   She didn’t want to kill him, really, she didn’t, because she was still feeling too many feelings about all the carnage she’d caused at the keep, and she had been calculating for weeks now how many good deeds and citizen’s arrests she needed to do to make up for it.  But before she could weigh if just one more death was worth it, the vampire took advantage of her hesitation, using his free hand to try to reach around and grab the knife positioned at his neck.  Vic would have been impressed at his lack of fear of the pain that grabbing a literal blade might cause, but there was no time to think on things like that.  Instead, she pulled the knife downwards, her ears perking as it sliced through his palm, then reared up and stabbed it into his side as many times as she could muster. An anger took over her, one she hadn’t been expecting, at this place and these vampires who were hurting people for no good reason, and so scruff neck was getting the brunt of it.  And hey, it was only one death, right?  So she continued to stab and stab and stab. Even as he fell to the ground with pain, she continued to stab, ignoring the dark blood that spattered her face and the odd, misplaced sound of a door closing behind her, followed by two thumps, one after the other. She continued to stab, too, as soft footsteps approached behind her.  The stabbing only stopped momentarily when she realized something was amiss, that there were no more sounds of fighting from Jade, and that the person behind her had gotten incredibly close.  But she didn’t have time to think about it before the world around her disappeared.