#putting the puzzle pieces back together

[lightning-chicken]

Putting the Puzzle Pieces Back Together - Part 2

PART 2: Black Sheep

and finally, after two months… here it is!! this is part 2 of my amnesiac jay fic (which is now officially an au), featuring jay’s experiences in the secret agency the administration!

thanks to the amazing @inspectorghoul for beta reading, and especially for all the latin :D

now for the people who asked to be tagged (if you also want to be tagged next chapter, tell me!): @giftofjay @ninjagokata

excerpt below cut:

As he studied his reflection, Jay noticed again the pinkish-white scars on his hands, branching out like miniature trees. The sight of them tugged something in his brain—these weren’t new scars; they were old scars. From before. Carefully, he reached out to trace them, pushing up his jacket sleeve. His skin tingled at the contact. The scars ran up his arms in streaking patterns and faded at his shoulders.

And there were other scars, too: nicks and scrapes and scratches and burns scattered all over. Not to mention the notch in his eyebrow.

It was scars like these, and reports of falling mechs, that made Jay question what exactly his past self had been doing with his life. And what his past self would think of him now: joining an agency he knew next to nothing about, all because of the chance to do something good and the possibility of remembering who he once was.

“I’m sorry,” Jay confessed quietly to his past self, voice barely above a low whisper. “I won’t forget you anymore than I already have. I’ll find out who you—who we were. I promise.”

[lightning-chicken]

YES YES YES YES

no little punk girl don't walk into the lightning storm! your outfit is so conductive! little punk girl nooooooo

[lycheeloving]

tiny little fic elaborating on one of my Batman headcanons from my yandere Justice League AU, but you don't necessarily have to read those first, it makes sense all by itself imo. This is him taking care of you after having branded you basically. Warnings for the aftermath of a branding obviously + general yandere stuff.

"Go away."

Bruce, of course, doesn't listen, and shuts the door behind him with a click. "I know you're mad at me, but I brought you more painkillers, and I need to reapply the salve."

That does sound good, but unfortunately you're stubborn. And you hate him. "I don't care. Don't touch me. Go away," you mumble into your pillow from your place on the bed, then think for a second: "...but leave the painkillers."

"Me applying the salve is not up for debate. I don't want it to get infected, and you can't reach the wound by yourself, so I have to do it." He doesn't waste any time and straddles your lower back. Seriously? Couldn't he just have sat next to you? It's bad enough that you can't wear a shirt around him right now, and he has to sit on top of you? He must know what you're thinking, as you can't say anything about it before he states: "The angle is better from here." Yeah sure, it has nothing to do with the added body contact, or that he likes having you beneath him. You roll your eyes and don't say anything, waiting for him to get on with it.

You hear him open the jar of salve, its medicinal smell making its way to your nose, before he gently takes off your old bandages and starts rubbing it in. You flinch, his touch intensifying the burn. Why didn't he give you the painkillers before he started?

"You're healing nicely so far, it's going to be a beautiful scar." He says while spreading the salve evenly across your wound. Fucker. It's going to be beautiful? "Beautiful? You asshole, I'm going to have your fucking bat symbol on my back for the rest of my life! Of course you'd think it's beautiful, you wouldn't have done it otherwise." You scoff. Usually you wouldn't dare talk to him like this, but you feel like you've earned it after what he's done.

At your words his hands stop moving and he starts applying a bit more pressure on your wound. A warning. "Don't talk to me like that."

"I'll talk to you however I want until that thing on my back heals. You said it wasn't a punishment, meaning you broke one of your own rules when you hurt me. I'm allowed to say and do whatever the fuck I want until this is over." You should be allowed to do that all the time, but it's best not to push it.

Bruce grunts in response. "I'll let it slide for now. But don't get used to it." He finishes applying the salve and puts on clean bandages, but doesn't move to get off of you until you turn around to look at him and pointedly clear your throat. Unfortunately he doesn't give you any space, instead lying down next to you and putting his arm around you, carefully avoiding the burn.

"I'll give you the painkillers now, but then you should get some rest. Your body could use the extra sleep." You glare at him. "Oh yeah? I wonder whose fault that is." He doesn't react, instead holding the painkillers up to your mouth so you can finally take them. "I was thinking we could get your favorite food when you wake up again, and maybe watch a movie. What do you think?"

You only hum in response, your eyes falling shut as the painkillers kick in, making you sleepy. You subconsciously lean into the warmth that's radiating from Bruce before you drift off.

[linoyes]

im exploding him with my mind if u were wondering

[givemewallywestorgivemedeath]

At one point Wally kept getting 'nightmares' of crazy potential futures. They were seriously freaking him out because most of them were bleak and apocalyptic.

He was especially freaked out by how detailed and real they felt. But he wrote them off as stress dreams because they were just too crazy to be true.

I mean, come on. Barry Allen actually being alive in the speedforce and returning to be the Flash? Clearly, that wasn't happening.

... Yeah.

At one point Wally dreamt of an alien creature before he had actually encountered it in real life and he used the knowledge he had gained in his 'dream' to understand the alien in the present.

And you know what this storyline should have ended with? Wally realizing that he was seeing various potential futures. You know what didn't happen? That.

The storyline ended with Wally chalking it up to stress and deciding to take more time off with his family.

Because he's a dumbass. A lovable dumbass but a dumbass nonetheless.

[lightning-chicken]

from ptppbt ch3! progress is slow (rewrites ugh) but it’s being made o7

"Have you ever considered that Nya could be a person?"

Cara's question was casual, curious; a passing thought, voiced aloud. Something born in the spur of a moment.

For Jay, moments tended to linger much longer than they were supposed to.

He thought of grease smudged on his face and laughter spilling out. He thought of stiff white fabric and a person growing colder in his arms. He thought of hands interlocked in the rain, and of water slipping through his fingers.

"I have to go now. I will remember you."

Echoes of a storm howled in his ears when Jay laughed. "Not at all. If Ny—if she existed, I think l'd remember a lot more than just a name."

tagging @knowledgequeenabc @the-painted-siren @cboffshore @fabro-de-omres @finn-m-corvex @basicallyjaywalker @taddymason

thank you for the tag @invalidstories !

Heads Up, Seven Up!

rules: post the last seven lines you wrote, then tag seven people.

here’s a little something from chapter 12 of Your Average Fangirl :)

A quick glance at the nightstand tells me it's 10:03AM. I stretch my arms above my head before moving to a sitting position, the standard hotel white duvet rustling with every miniscule movement.

I grab my phone off the charging stand and quickly swipe through all of the notifications. After getting back to the hotel last night, we all went to our separate rooms. When Jace didn't follow me as he normally did, I couldn't help but feel a little disappointed at not talking with him well into the early morning hours.

softly tagging @kyuponstories @kbwritesstuff @romances-not-tragedies @fortunatetragedy @taranorma

@that-0n3-shr00mi3-guy @honeybewrites

[waywardsalt]

Returned to Starbound for a bit recently, and decided to make more homes in the rest of the major planet types!

Used a lot of generated structures again, but had to hand make some stuff for the arctic and lava planets (neither of those biomes have generated structures) and couldn't find anything particularly good on the savannah planet.

Original post with the other planet types here

[autumnrory]

woooo my niece took 5 of my 13 lego sets, one of which was one of the three larger ones, so that's one huge box out of the way and i'm just glad she wanted them because like they ARE twenty years old and they look fine ofc but sometimes kids aren't gonna want stuff that isn't new and shiny ya know, but she did seem to want everything which would've been fine with me but i knew there was no way they would take all that with them, and at least i still have stuff of my own to sell, plus should get at least a cut of my brother's stuff for doing the inventory and putting together that stuff that wasn't already done

[lightning-chicken]

my english teachers could only dream of getting me to read 17k words in a day yet here we are (i caught up on PtPPBT and have transcended) -zaptrap

(the zaptrap, in my lockbox? mindblowing)

agagsgsgsg i’m so happy you love ptppbt!! i told myself it wasn’t going to be that long but chapter 2 took it up to 32k and here we are, with no sign of stopping. chapter 3 is going to be… (glances at outline) something, that’s for sure!

[quietwingsinthesky]

Have you ever played/watched a playthrough of the game 12 Minutes? I think you'd like one of the reveals in it.

I did watch a full playthrough a while back. Unfortunately for this recommendation, I thought it was <3 stupid <3 No offense to anyone who likes it, I just thought the design of the loop in the first place was a bit clunky, the characters were sort of eh, and then the reveals themselves were, as I remember and as they played out on whatever stream I was watching, just kind of bad? A poorly put together story surrounded by poorly put together gameplay, but. like. willem dafoe was there 👍

[dragons-and-yellow-roses]

I'm part of an Unknown Armies campaign run by my girlfriend, and it's driven me to strange madness. Today I made a conspiracy board for it. I've made memes. I'm painting a map of the setting. I started writing a novella loosely based off of my character, which feels like fanfiction. There's an NPC I'm in love with and her existence makes me want to create fan content. I've never created fan content before, for anything. I'm considering writing fanfic for Blorbo from my girlfriend's head, that's where we're at right now. What is going on

[triglycercule]

dust has definitely killed killer before fighting over papyrus's scarf. killer and dust both have opposing views on papyrus's scarf. killer doesnt like seeing others wear it and (SHUT UP I KNOW ITS NOT CANON!!!!) dust wears it in papyrus's honor and probably for self comfort. killer even ripping a thread on the scarf warrants dust to break his hand (because killer has his silly little backstory where he did the genos and everything hes wayyy more violent towards him than horror bc horror didn't kill everyone (HYPOCRITE!!! HYPOCRITE!!!!)) anyways when killer touches dust's scarf is one of probably the few times he can't win a fight against him

perchance i think dust should get to tear apart killer's soul right infront of his eyes while he screams in pain and dust gives him the coldest look ever to exist (and horror was watching with popcorn :3)

[flash-from-the-past]

Are You Ready for the Hardest Jigsaw Puzzle in the World?

[softfuzzyships]

I know cc would never tell Lelouch she's 90% sure I was whatshername 500 years ago or whatever. But he's observant and he knows she's being weird abt me lol. Like she doesn't rly like being near me but is also kind of fond (and weirdly defensive) of me. He has no idea why tho

[matoitech]

my senior dog has been acting up so much since our family dog died since she was raised w her since she was a puppy and now i think shes really lonely, whenever i look up solutions ppl r like 'get another dog!' but im hoping to move out soon and i cant with 2 dogs lol (and its just a bad time for me to get a puppy, even if i want one <3). trying to give her more attention isnt really helping especially bcuz my dog is very standoffish and independent and doesnt WANT the attention a lot lol. she loves extra training time but i can only give her so much food. idk what to do

[lightning-chicken]

SURPRISE PTPPBT LIVEBLOG!! i wasn’t expecting this at all (in the best possible way) and i’m so excited to start breaking down all of it!

he’s very loud and he definitely knows it! but he’s working on that

declension practice… agh

ARTIST RENDITION AJDJSHS (“crushed by knowledge” <- correct in more than one way)

NYA = PURPOSE. looking at some of the later chapters and… watch out for mentions of that

akdjjssh look i had to include that joke in there somewhere

buckets of attachment issues for jay!

you’ve connected the dots… :O

FROHICKY!! you’re the first person to point that out aksjshsh congrats!!!!

… and speaking of rats! i’m now realising that i forgot to include that scene in my rat analysis so i gotta hop on that asap

dropping in references to jay’s past (and more importantly, how he feels about it) are some of my favourite bits to write - especially the nyad scene, because of how jay’s feelings on it could either be interpreted as old grief over nya but also as everyone else’s grief over jay himself

LIGHTNING POWERS!!!

hell yeah fight scenes!! get destroyed, idiot

i’m glad you liked it!!! :D i see your theories and my response is: no comment :)

Hi guys decided that i'm gonna try live-reading fic on Thursday nights to try to get me back into reading fic! tonight it's finally time to catch up on @lightning-chicken's Putting the Puzzle Pieces Back Together :D It's a DR post-merge fic that deals with Jay and the situation he finds himself in, with really cool characterization and sick elmental power exploration.

Read along with me here!

My overall tag for fic liveblogging is going to be #fabro liveblogs fic. This fic's specific tag is going to be #fabro reads ptppbt.

Let's get reading!