#rocco bruno

[thematrixrw]

Capire i Quadrati Magici.

 La prima cosa da capire è la “misura” attuale nostra di comprensione di questi argomenti, onde evitare inutili speculazione e alimentare la “creduloneria” su questo tema come per altri simili. La “misura” dipende dal grado di libertà interiore dal condizionamento, cioè da quella modalità di “pensare”, acquisita e oramai attuate da tutti, o psichismo, che ci impedisce di “intendere” ogni cosa che…

[alex6186]

My MCM aka Movie Crush Monday based on a story and Mafia film classic starring Al Pacino and Johnny Depp in Donnie Brasco

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Gangster Lefty Ruggiero takes a streetwise punk under his wing, unaware that his protégé is really an FBI agent out to bust the New York mob.

#MCM #MovieCrushMonday #AJBMCM #DonnieBrasco #AlPacino #JohnnyDepp #MichaelMadsen #BrunoKirby #JamesRusso #AnneHeche #ZeljkoIvanek #RobertMiano #BrianTarantina #GretchenMol #PaulGiamatti #GerryBecker #MafiaMovies #GreatFilm

[sketchbonked]

guys i need songs that feel like this. like domestic fluff, songs similar to ‘baby blue’ by rocco or ‘nothing’ by bruno major. if anyone has recs please rb and reply ❤️

[rebelrayne]

Each Islander's Answer to: "Would You Be Willing to Return for All-Stars?"

under the cut (endgames included for fun)

➥ YES YES A THOUSAND TIMES YES!

Emel Ivy Kat Kelly Lily Johnny (with a dramatic flair) R!Hannah Summer Uma

➥ Yes, I would be.

Bianca* (S8 CA) Blake Cassius* (S7 Bombshell) Erikah Felicity* (S8 CA) Hazel Meera Nicolas Rachel* (S8 OG) Stephen* (S7 Bombshell) Toby Valentina

➥ The show wouldn't be complete without me.

Allegra Arlo Brad* (S8 Bombshell) Bryson Christy* (S8 Bombshell) Eddie Elisa Finn Iona Jamal (I'm sorry he is pure chaos) Lexi Marshall Mason Rafi (sorry, he's there for the fame) Reese Ryan Sienna

➥ Doesn't wait for a call, just shows up.

Hamish Liam (he's told to go home)

➥ Depends...Do I get a hot tub date?

Roberto

➥ Pretends they're busy for flair, then says yes.

Rocco

➥ I don't know...Look what happened last time.

Grace Hazeem Hope Jo Lucy Kobi Priya Rohan

➥ Maybe? Let me think about it.

Cherry Daphne Estelle Flo Genevieve Geri Harry (Sorry Mo, he'd just feel bad to say no LOL) Jasper Jen Luna Nicky Sammi Vicky Willow

➥ If I don't have anything better to do, sure.

Jakub Miles Shannon

➥ Lol! This reminds me of a throw pillow!

Chelsea

➥ My Nan would kill me, mate.

Gary Lewie

➥ *Rambles until the producer just hangs up*.

Bill (because he can't shut up) Bruno (because he can't figure out how to say no) Juliet (because she has advice for them) Rahim (because he starts talking about Violet Man)

➥ Tries to say no, tricked into saying yes.

Ciaran Tom Rafael

➥ No thank you.

AJ Alex Andy Arjun Bea Bella Bobby Carl Chloe Claudia Elijah Elladine Evan Gabi Hari Henrik Jack Jake Jin Jo Kyle Levi Logan Lucas Lulu Max Oakley Oliver Ozzy Shawn Tai Talia Thabi Theo Yasmin

➥ Hah. I'm still waiting for the punchline.

Elliot

➥ I wrote enough fanfic about it.

Talia

➥ No thanks, Mamacita.

Camilo

➥ Full offense-no.

Angie Lottie

➥ Non.

Youcef

➥ "Oh, sorry! We forgot you exist."

Tiffany Tyler

➥ Ghosted and/or ignored the call.

Joyo Kassam Noah Seb

➥ Ghosted the call, but by accident.

Cora Najuma Will

➥ Production didn't even bother inviting them.

Alfie Bonnie Dana Felix Francis James Miki Travis

➥ Calls & complains they weren't invited.

Dylan Graham Pete Sophie Suresh

➥ Ghosted & Ignored...by Production.

Amelia

[ccawz]

moments III

a/n: love edition. written while listening to songs from my love playlist, I’ll list the songs with the respective fic.

ot8! x gn!reader (no pronouns mentioned) 983 word count

warnings: not proofread & written while half asleep. established relationships. I wrote w braces seungmin in mind.food mentions in Felix, Han, and Jeongin’s.

so tender – say sue me

Chan’s eyes flutter open at the faint feeling of something gliding along his face, smiling when he first sees you.

“What are you doing?” He mumbles, stretching the sleep from his body as he turns to face you. “How long have you been awake for?” He discards his last question, curious about how long it’s been.

You draw out a hum, then shake your head. “Not that long.”

“You didn’t sleep at all, did you?” You scoff, sputtering as you try to make excuses, stumbling over your sentences on how you ‘so totally got sleep.’ Chan doesn’t even listen to you as you try to defend yourself, looping his arm around your neck to pull you into him.

“We’re sleeping all day today.” He murmurs, grunting when you try to pry yourself out of his hold. “Baby, you need to rest. You hypocrite.” A loud gasp comes from you that makes him regret his words.

I don’t wanna be okay without you – Charlie burg

“What are you thinking about?” Minho asks abruptly, in the middle of a spoonful of soup, and you watch as it drips down his chin with a grimace.

“Thinking of you.” You say, smiling when he laughs. “I only ever think of you.”

He hums, looking directly into the camera when you hold it closer to your face. “Give me a kiss.”

“Through the phone?” You’d asked, surprised by his request. He hums, turning his head to the side so his cheek is on display for you. Minho watches you pucker your lips before pressing them close to the screen —he doubts you’d actually kiss your screen— and smiles at the thought of you doing that only for his sake.

l-o-v-e – rocco

“Do you want to dance?”

Your eyes trail up from the hand presented to you to the bashful smile on Changbin’s face as he looks at you with hopeful eyes. “With you? Always.”

He hides a grin as he pulls you up, lacing his fingers with yours while he leads you to the dance floor. The song is slow. Changbin thinks he could get away with swaying, but then you lift your hand above his head and ask him to twirl.

He complies because it’s you. And he’d do anything to see that smile on your face and that quiet laugh you only let out around him.

right side of my neck – Faye Webster

“Did you get home safe?”

Hyunjin giggles from the other side of the phone, turning around to see you still sitting under the tree, right where he’d just left. “We just said goodbye.”

A smile takes over your face at the sound of his amusement, looking in his direction, heart warming at the sight of his smile. Even from afar, when he was just a tiny figure amongst others, he stood out to you in a way you couldn’t explain.

“I miss you already.”

He laughs again. You wish you could hear it over and over again. “I miss you too.” He’d turned away by then, but your eyes remained focused on him even when he disappeared from your sight.

nothing – Bruno major

Jisung shuffles into your apartment with a blanket over his shoulders and melts into your embrace the second you open your arms for him.

“Missed you.” He mumbles, words muffled by the cloth of his hoodie against his mouth. He doesn’t even point out that you’re wearing his clothes. He just basks in the moment with you. “Let’s just stand here.”

You hum, sliding your fingers under his beanie to twist strands of his hair. “How about the warm bed waiting for us in my room instead?” He hums, smiling slowly when you pull him in.

what would I do? – strawberry guy

You realized shortly that whenever you were in Felix’s presence, everything seemed brighter and hopeful. He was the sun's one and only rival.

“Did I do something funny?” Felix asks, looking at you with curious eyes. There’s a sparkle in them. Of course there is. “You’re smiling a lot when I cracked an egg.”

You hum, nodding towards his hands. “Yeah, but you did it one-handed.” He laughs softly, shaking his head at your answer.

You wonder what you would do without him. But the feeling of never wanting to find out clouds all of it because Felix was one of the only things making your life better.

everyone adores you (at least I do) – matt maltese

“Don't hide your smile.” Your fingers wrap gently around Seungmin’s wrist when his hands cover his mouth as he laughs, a frown painted on your lips when he looks down.

“You know I don’t like it.” He looks away when you sigh, he knows you’re tired of hearing that explanation, and you know he’s tired of saying it.

“I know you do, but,” your hands reach to cup his face, Seungmin feels his cheeks warm at the contact. “Everyone adores your smile, especially me. I love seeing how your lips curve. I love the little bands that poke from the side–” he turns away as you speak, groaning when you move his head to face you. “I love your smile. Please don’t hide it from me.”

Seungmin nods, keeping his hands down when he feels a grin starting to form. His eyes crinkle near the edges when you mirror his expression, small giggles leaving him when you kiss the corner of his lips.

lucky love – michael seyer

“Do you hate me?”

You let out an exasperated sigh. Jeongin can’t help but feel a twinge of pain from your bluntness. “Jeongin, I don’t hate you. I could quite literally never hate you.”

“Even if I told you I don’t believe in true love.”

You nod your head, wrapping your arms around his shoulders, resting your hand against his head. “Even if you confessed to eating my pie.”

“That was Han.” You grumble; Jeongin laughs before tucking his head into your shoulder. “I’m lucky to have you.” He says.

“You are.” He boos at your lack of humbleness, pushing you off him, swatting at you when you try to attach yourself onto him.

[cavaliersecondary]

[ID: a photo of two german shepards laying on the floor of a carpeted bedroom. the one in the front is mid chew of a toy, and has a blue arrow pointing to it with pink text that says, "nasty beast" in all caps. the one in the back has a purple arrow pointing to it with green text that says, "slime brother" in all caps. End ID]

bruno (german shepherd in the hallway) is making HORRENDOUS chewing squeaking slurping noises while chewing his toy 😭

[discofairysworld]

I'm bored and I've been wanting to make a list of the Islanders my MC ended up with in each season (along with some tea ☕) for while sooo here it is! 💅✨

S1: Jake (I started with Miles, and ofc that went to shit, then ended up with Levi and was being MESSY, then ended the season with Jake. But TRUST, if Tim had a full endgame route I would've been with him, but you could only get with him during the reunion, and like...I wanted more so I just stuck with Jake 🥲 LOVE Jake tho! Love me my bi man that can cook mmyeahh 💅✨ But overall this season was messy in the best way possible and S1 MC stood on business 💃✨!!! Miss her 🥲)

S2: Bobby (my first ever playthrough I actually chose Rocco ((yikes)) and I was so committed to doing a loyal route that the whole Marisol and Rocco thing actually SHOOK me to my core and I was low-key kinda devastated. But Bobby was the one that comforted my MC and it was kinda like a friends to lovers moment and I was sold from then on LMFAOO. Like I love the loyal Bobby route when you pick him on day one, but I stand ten toes down that the BEST way to play his route was to start with Rocco, get that angst, and end up with Bobby. It was better than the slow burn Bobby route imo bc 1 I'm impatient, and 2 the vibes...the tension...it was the perfect balance girl I'll even say it was ✨ immaculate ✨ UGGHHHH I miss S2 so much 😭 S2 is and will forever remain the best season of litg imo. Ofc there's a few fixes it could use, but overall, it's leagues above every other season just for the cast of iconic islanders alone 💅✨)

S3: Camilo (now this one is funny cus at the time I wasn't really into S3 as much as the other 2 seasons, like it just wasn't giving the same level of dramatics or messiness. So on my first playthrough I just chose who I liked the look of ((Camilo)) and stuck it out to the end. And I love him fr like he's great! But my next playthrough was my favourite bc it was MESSYYYY. I started with Camilo, got freaky with Tai then coupled up with him, then I ended the season with Rafi. And I'm pretty sure during the reunion I was even more messy because it was forced on us to have a fight with your li. So I leaned into that and made my MC just flirty with everyone LMFAOOO. I can't really remember but I think I made her get back with either Tai or Camilo 💀 S3 reunion was definitely...a choice!)

S4: Bruno (what can I say..I love a silly goofy man LMDJSHDJSDBSH. No but fr he was a sweetheart. I actually started with Will, and I'm now just realizing it's kinda reminiscent of my first Bobby route when I started with Rocco LOL ((Will is leagues above Rocco tho. Idk why but I feel like Rocco would def not use deodorant bc it takes away his "natural musk" or some shit 💀)). I was really into Will and wanted to be with him, but he got all wishy washy and wanted to explore things with Thabi, and I was like....bruh 🧍‍♀️. So I just coupled up with Bruno not really expecting too much, but idk girlies the silly man charmed me and the rest is history 💀 this season I overall liked a bit more than S3 which shocked me. I'm still kinda bummed they never made a reunion for it 🥲)

S5: ✨Money✨ (this season...was a mess. Not messy...a MESS. Not a very enjoyable mess indeed. I kinda just hated everyone so I made my MC try to be as FUN messy and dramatic as possible bc best believe everyone else was just draining the life out of the villa for fun 💀 in my first playthrough I ended the season with Finn and chose love....then I replayed chose Suresh and chose money for the drama and I liked that ending much more teehee 👹🥰🤭)

S6: Lewie (I liked this season! It wasn't AMAZING but it wasn't bad either. Amelia was....Amelia... Lewie was cute and loyal, but the scenarios that FB forced MC and her li in were...less enjoyable at times. WHY did they have your li confuse your MC and Amelia in bed....girl be fr.... Like I could clearly tell Lewie was being genuine if a bit awkward, but very much into MC, but they made him look so shady sometimes for no reason like plsssss 😭💀 I'm still debating if I should replay for Roberto or Andy, but they all just kinda become the same person sooo 💀 But I definitely think this season's MC was one of the prettiest! she slayed the boots house down mawma MWAHHHHH 💋💕)

S7: Alex (idk what to really say about this season...it was forgettable I fear... I chose Alex just bc he was the one who stood out to me looks wise initially. His personality was cute...but again I feel like all the li's just morph into the same person at certain points in the game. I'm debating on replaying for Rafael bc he's also cute, but I've seen that the drama isn't really drama-ing, and the messiness you would expect is...rather clean actually...sooo. S7 you were not that girl I fear 💀)

S8: Jin (I really liked this season, it was dramatic and messy! But I think I liked it so much because of the fandom. On its own it's good! Like we're definitely getting somewhere, but again it's not AMAZING. And it has some of the same issues of previous seasons, the li's just morph into the same being at certain points in the game. Not to mention the designated villain/rival being interchangeable, and... Sienna. Just...Sienna. Jin was the best part of that season for me personally. But again FB was trying to be slick and trying to make him seem shady when he wasn't and girl plssssss like it's getting old 💀😭 Also I will say, this season probably had the best/most successful casa amor, so I will give it that. I was so tempted to switch to Max, but I wanted to complete a loyal playthrough with Jin first, and did 🤪✌️. The reunion....the....reunion....hmmm. Well! It certainly put itself above S3s reunion... for the most disastrous down right diabolical almost unplayable reunion 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰.)

~ANYWAYS~

This is my list as well as the tea aka my personal thoughts and opinions 💃 if you took the time to read this...hi 🥴💕 ur cute 🤪🤭, no but fr thanks for taking the time to read my chaotic posts! Also if anything, I'm excited to interact more with the fandom for the next season and I hope we can all have fun with it! Manifesting chaotic messy dramatic vibes for season 9 aka All Stars WOOOOOOO!!! 💃✨💃✨💃✨💃✨

[desviesennoiretblanc]

Quelques phrases lues en 2023

Antoine caresse ton bras et pleure à ta place.

Nous sommes plus proches qu'on ne croit de ceux qui sont loin.

Pour avoir de tes nouvelles, je lis ton horoscope.

J'aurais été Victor Hugo, j'aurais écrit un poème sombre et magnifique, mais je n'étais qu'un enfant, j'ai préféré simplement avoir peur.

Je réfléchis à toutes ces belles choses qui ont fui le monde.

Elle avait l'apparence d'une photo de profil.

[...] il avait appris que la joie était une vengeance contre ceux qui voulaient vous nier.

Des points de suspension de leur père, les filles ont peur.

Elle voulait à la fois mourir et partir au Canada.

Tu m'as révélé l'incroyable pouvoir de la littérature, qui à la fois prolonge la vie des disparus et empêche les vivants de disparaître.

C'est bien de prendre du recul à Beauvais.

Elle rêvait curieusement qu'il rêvait des rêves qui ne rêvaient pas d'elle.

Passer sa vie au tamis pour en conserver les pépites.

Merci à Lucie Rico, Isabelle Sorrente, Pascale Clark, Bruno Gibert, Clémentine Beauvais, Laura Vazquez, Leila Slimani, Blandine Rinkel, Florence Aubenas, Jérôme Garcin, Michel Houellebecq, Pascal Quignard, Rocco Giudice et aux quelques 130 livres lus cette année.

[mrsbsmooth]

2023 Fic Year in Review

Thanks for the tag @longbobmckenzie! 2022 was my second year posting for the fandom :)

In 2023, I...

Finished/wrote the following chaptered WIPs:

Finished Jaded! (That was this year?!)

Off Limits (Football AU)

Famous Last Words (1 or 2 chapters left!)

Auld Lang Syne (A choose-your-own-ending!)

Unhealthy (..... is also a fic I started!)

Untitled different Lewie football fic I'm 12k into

Wrote/completed the following oneshots:

Bruno and Miri Make a Porno (Bruno/MC)

Lady Grifferly's Lover (Noah/MC)

Where everything stands still (Ciaran/MC)

But not quite (Jake/MC)

Delicate (Angie/MC)

He Had to Know (Lucas/MC)

Four Seconds (Bobby/MC)

The colour that you are (Rocco/MC)

Everything else is enthusiasm (Tom/MC)

If you want one of us (Lewie/MC)

Six to go (Bobby, Lucas, Rocco, Henrik, Jake & Gary / MC)

Let me be your woman (Ozzy/MC)

Every minute (Lewie/MC)

Filthy (Hamish/Andy/Marshall/MC)

Dark Eyes Too Hot to Handle - (Wesley/MC)

Daydream Too Hot to Handle - (Antoine/MC)

Ready Too Hot to Handle - (Wesley/MC)

Butterly Too Hot to Handle - (Wesley/MC)

Baby, all I wanna do is coast Too Hot to Handle - (Santi/MC)

Whistle for the Choir (Seb/MC)

I could see this view a hundred times (Tim/MC)

Oh, Paw-lease (Andy/MC)

Measure Twice, Cut Once (Alex/MC)

Employee of the Month (Gary/MC)

To Forgive is Divine Heaven's Secret - (Lucifer/MC)

I just wanna love you, baby (Alex/MC)

Carry On (Roberto/MC)

All I want for Christmas is you (Tom/MC)

Reached the following milestones:

Hit one million words posted.

Hit 70,000 hits across all my fics on Ao3

Completed NaNoWriMo

Didn't die :)

Published 428,169 words in 2023 Wrote for 27 different LIs Wrote for three different fandoms Tagging: @ anyone who wants to join in!

Don't feel obligated! Let's just celebrate the things we've done this year!

Here's to hoping 2024 is another fantastic year!

[aeraras]

who are your favorite non-kpop artists? drop them here!

heres some of them!1 grentperez, rocco, laufey, keshi, phendste, bruno mars, hybs, takayoshi, regina song, 摩登兄弟劉宇寧（liu yuning）, silence wang, 赵露思（zhao lusi）

[longbobmckenzie]

Here are a few (haha) of my favourite oneshots in the fandom! This is by no means exhaustive, as there are tons I either haven't read or just honestly don't remember enough about. I definitely encourage everyone to dig through AO3 to find those hidden gems!

For chaptered fics, see my post here!

Henrik/MC

Christmas Timing by @mrsbsmooth - cute Christmas post-villa romance Just one more bad decision by @kittidot - post-villa second chance with a major role played by one of my own OCs Not Like I'm In Love With You by @queen-of-boops - cute friends-to-lovers Reaching The Peak by @thesepromises - Henrik and MC go climbing, then do some other activities Robin Hood Stole My Heart by @chroniccomicobsession - he stole mine too The Man From the Jungle by @mrsbsmooth - Disney-inspired

Bobby

Bittersweet by @blueberrycupcak3s - great if you love an unhappy/bittersweet ending (or Jake. or both) Dummies in Love series by losingface - series of villa and post-villa fics first and second chances by @lucolestead - S5 MC goes on Seb and Nicky's podcast and mentions someone she's got a crush on On Repeat by nutshikas - rent-free fic for me with Bobby in a villa time loop

(I feel like there should be more here tbh - there are so many great Bobby oneshots out there that I had to either keep this list short or make it way too long)

Henrik/Lucas

keep me warm by Orphan Account - post-villa Lucas struggling with his feelings for Henrik Lights, Cameras, Action… by @queen-of-boops - porn AU Sooner Than You'd Think by OverdressedandUnderwhelmed - snapshots of Henrik/Lucas in what very well could be canon The Alps by @mrsbsmooth - Lucas road-tripping through the Alps and meeting up with Henrik (inspired by story from the wedding episodes)

Bobby/Lucas

everything that glitters is moissanite by @mountainmanxoxo - Bobby fake dates someone to make Lucas jealous Rude Awakenings by @mountainmanxoxo - the OG Bobcas fic, I think? Wishful Drinking by @lucas-koh - enemies-to-lovers

Rarepairs, Threesomes & Moresomes

Filthy by @mrsbsmooth (Hamish/Andy/Marshall/MC) - foursome Men of Particular Interests by @mrsbsmooth (Noah/Lucas/Bobby) - threesome The (Ia)ins & Outs of Falling 4 You by @thoracic-orchid (Bruno/Narrator) - coworkers The Boys go on a trip by @mrsbsmooth (Lucas, Noah, Henrik, Tai, Bobby, Rocco, Gary iirc) - so much going on in this one, haha the gang bullies Henrik into a threesome by @mountainmanxoxo (Lucas/Henrik/MC) - as the title says This Momentary Blue by @sparxaf (Kassam/Felix) - the rarest of rarepairs, enemies-to-lovers, absolute must read We come in peace by @thoracic-orchid (Gary/Bobby) - aliens, bang-or-die, post-villa

Everyone Else

A Lifetime of Promises by @fuseboxmusebox (Seb) - cute friends-to-lovers Bitch by @thoracic-orchid (Jo) - what really happened on Jo/Rahim's date Golden Thread by @starsarestars (Arjun) - modern day Romeo and Juliet without the tragic ending Lucas Koh: An Erotic Life by @becangle, Jglbly934TXS (Lucas) - egotistical Lucas spoof Mean Boys by @thesepromises (Noah) - Mean Girls crossover Mer de Désir by @lucas-koh (Levi) - Levi as a French aristocrat So Good Staying Here by @sparxaf (Seb) - SEEEBBB Swimming Pool Deep by @thesepromises (Levi) - pre-villa Levi, please read The second life of Allegra Rossi by @bypine (Allegra) - vampires! Undead of Night by @queen-of-boops (Noah) - Noah as a necromancer

[whatisreggieshortfor]

Love Islanders as Avengers

As consulted with @rebelrayne

Captain America- Jake

Iron Man- Lucas

Spider-Man- Elliot

Black Widow- Lily

Hawkeye- Kassam

Hulk- Harry

She-Hulk- Marisol

Thor- Henrik

Fat Thor- Gary (approved by Real Life Gary)

Loki- Seb

Winter Soldier- Levi

Doctor Strange- Hamish (tentatively)

T’Challa- Nicky

Shuri- Thabi

Ant Man- Tim

Wasp- Ivy

Vision- Hazeem

Scarlett Witch- Lottie

Quicksilver- Lewie

War Machine- Noah

Nick Fury- Reese

Falcon- Elijah

Starlord- Bruno

Gamora- Valentina

Nebula- Lexi

Drax- Jakub

Groot- Youcef

Rocket- Rocco

Mantis- Chelsea

Yondu- Rohan

Captain Marvel- Angie

Thanos- Suresh

[nicknumber]

Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Baron Bonelli, Robert Taber as David Rossi, Nancy Price as Princess Bellini, and Lionel Brough as Bruno Rocco in The Eternal City

[queen-of-boops]

Epilougue

Read on ao3.

Phew, finally done, even if it trickled into Hovemeber... and Dickcember lol. Thanks to anyone who's read, kudosed, or commented on this fic. Kinktober's a challenge, but I'm happy to say I've completed it!

In case you missed any (or just want to see), a full list of kinks and pairings can be found under the cut.

Day 1: Dirty Talk, Roberto x fMC Day 2: Anal, Bobby x mMC Day 3: Missionary, Noah x fMC Day 4: Drunk Sex, Gabi x fMC Day 5: Leather/Latex, Priya x mMC Day 6: Morning Sex, Noah x fMC Day 7: Sex Toys, Talia x fMC Day 8: Voice Kink, Tai x mMC Day 9: Double Penetration, Henrik x Lucas x fMC Day 10: Floor Sex, AJ x fMC Day 11: Erotic Pictures, Will x fMC Day 12: Mirror Sex, Rohan x mMC Day 13: Face Sitting, Bella x fMC Day 14: Love Bites/Marks, Noah x fMC Day 15: Overstimulation, Rocco x fMC Day 16: Shower Sex, Flo x mMC Day 17: First Time, Hannah x fMC Day 18: Sexting, Noah x fMC Day 19: Praise Kink, Bruno x fMC Day 20: Bondage, Blake x mMC Day 21: Object Insertion, Noah x fMC Day 22: Food Play, Jake x fMC Day 23: Outdoor Sex, Noah x fMC Day 24: Public Sex, Jasper x fMC Day 25: Mutual Masturbation, Marisol x fMC Day 26: Sensory Deprivation, Noah x fMC Day 27: Formal Wear, Valentina x mMC Day 28: Hate Sex, Hamish x fMC Day 29: Temperature Play, Shannon x fMC Day 30: Dirty Dancing, Ozzy x mMC Day 31: Lingerie, Noah x fMC

[ironychan]

Scary Monsters

@dysphoria-sweatshirt @30spiders @sweatersexual @angrylittlesliceofpizza

Part 1/? - Rocco’s Closet

Part 2/? - School for Monsters

Part 3/? - The Waternoose Family

Part 4/? - The Terrifying Humans

Part 5/? - Hiding Places

As terrible as all that sounded, the word pond made Luca pay attention.  The water in the ditch was quite shallow. An actual pond would presumably be deeper and take a while to drain, which would give them more time to figure out what to do next.  They had to find it, quickly.  He gestured for Alberto to follow, and slithered out of the culvert back into the ditch.

“What did these kids do?” asked the voice of Curtis.  He was panting, as if he'd run all the way across the car park.

“They're corporate spies,” Waternoose growled.  “Doubtless here to steal our superior collecting technology.  Don't let them get away!”

“Let me get my boots,” somebody else said.  “I'm not going in there in my bare hooves.”

Moving carefully so as not to cause even a ripple, Luca and Alberto felt their way along the bottom, looking for the pond.  It was impossible to see anything in the filthy water so they had to navigate by touch and sound, keeping their hands and feet on the bottom and listening out for the splashes of monsters entering the water to look for them.  What alerted them to the right direction was the sound of a pump starting up.  Luca took Alberto's arm and headed in that direction, and soon they were in deeper water.

Where to go from there?  Luca risked poking just the top of his head out of the water to look, and saw the wall of the factory building in front of them.  A big pipe was sticking out of it, which was dripping a bit... that was big enough to crawl into, but somebody might see them.  When he turned around, he saw two monsters standing on either side of a pump with a much narrower pipe leading into the water, and quickly dipped back under again.

It was Alberto who figured out what to do next.  He found an old baseball cap lying on the bottom, put a rock and a handful of slimy algae inside it, and stuffed it into the pump's pipe.  The machine whined and coughed to a halt, and the two monsters leaned over to examine it while Luca and Alberto quickly climbed into the bigger pipe and via that route into the factory.

This was difficult, slippery work, and Luca's heart beat faster and his throat felt tight as he wondered if they might get stuck and never get out again.  He muttered silenzio Bruno under his breath and pressed on, and soon the pipe ended and the boys found themselves inside a big dark space full of waist-deep cold water.  Their breathing could be heard echoing off metal walls.  Overhead, something went clank, and they could hear the sound and feel the spray of more water showering down from above.

Luca climbed up on Alberto's shoulders and found that the top of the space had more pipes leading into it, but these were much too narrow to climb through, only a few centimetres across.  Down the far end, however, he also found a square hole with a cover closed over it, and by pushing as hard as he could, he was able to force it open.  This allowed them to climb out into a room with concrete floors and cinder block walls, dimly-lit by one unshaded lightbulb dangling from the ceiling.  Rows of pipes in the ceiling turned down and entered a huge metal tank, and there were several signs saying things like DANGER and CONTAMINATED.

Luca looked more closely at one of these.  “Door wash water,” he read. “Do not open without protective clothing.” A cartoon image showed a monster in a plastic suit similar to the ones the exterminators had worn the previous afternoon.

“They're just dumping it out in the pond, though,” said Alberto, and then realized why.  “Because it's not actually dangerous. Humans aren't poisonous and Mr. Waternoose knows that.”

“But everybody else thinks they're really dangerous,” Luca agreed.  That wasn't right – Waternoose was trying to keep all the screams for himself so he could sell them, when they could have been freely available.  Of course, giving Rocco nightmares wasn't a very nice way to collect power in the first place.  Didn't the monsters have anything better?

They could think about that later, Luca decided.  Right now, they had to figure out the situation they were in.  “We can stay in here a while because everybody will think this room is dangerous,” he said, “but how do we get out without being seen?”  Their sea monster forms were no longer a disguise.  Waternoose would have everybody looking for them.

“No problem,” Alberto replied.  “We just wait until everybody goes home tonight.”

That was right – the monsters slept at night, just like humans and sea monsters did!  All they had to do was weit.

It was going to be a long wait, though.  It was only just about noon, and the boys still hadn't eaten breakfast.  Their stomachs gurgled as they sat on the floor of the maintenance room, listening to the sounds of people moving around upstairs.  Luca began to feel a bit ill, like he had the day he'd desperately been trying to finish some homework and hadn't had time to eat his lunch before going back to class.

To distract himself, he asked a question that had been on his mind since yesterday afternoon.  “Alberto?  Are my letters boring?”

“What?” asked Alberto, who was chewing on a hang nail.

“My letters,” Luca repeated.  “From school.”

“No way,” Alberto told him.  “Why would you ask that?”

“Well, you thought school was boring yesterday.”

“Yeah, monster school where I don't know what they're talking about.”  Alberto waved a dismissive hand.

“You don't know what human school is talking about, either,” Luca reminded him.  “When I tried to tell you about the layers in the Earth, the core and mantle and all that, you didn't understand at all.”  Alberto had asked if the core was where the seeds were.

“Yeah, but you don't write about that stuff,” said Alberto.  “You just tell me you're having fun.”  He examined his hang nail critically, then gave Luca a brief, worried glance.  “What about my letters?”

“What about them?” asked Luca.

“You know.  Are they boring?”

“No way!” Luca assured him.  Alberto's letters were usually very short because reading and writing were difficult for him, but he was getting better at it, and Luca was proud of him although Alberto would have been embarrassed if he'd said so.

“You sure?  Because you think all that school stuff is interesting, and I don't do any of that.”

Luca wondered if this idea were new to Alberto, too, or if he'd been thinking about it for a while.  “If you don't think my stuff is boring, then I don't think your stuff is boring,” Luca promised, feeling much better about it now.

“Oh.  Good,” said Alberto.  He sighed and rearranged himself, sitting with his back to a bundle of pipes.  There was nothing in the room that might remotely be called furniture, and the bare floor was very cold to sit on.  “Do you remember what Rocco's closet door looked like?”

Luca had to think about it, and as he did, he felt his stomach sink.  He hadn't realized until that moment that they were now going to have to find it without Harry's help.  He could remember what had been inside the closet, because he'd noticed that there wasn't really any room for a monster in it.  The door itself, though?  Luca couldn't even recall if it had been painted.

“I don't think so,” he admitted.  “Do you?”

There was a long silence, ended at last by Alberto saying, “nope. I think it was brown.”

That didn't help.

“Too bad our room doesn't have a closet,” Alberto said, referring to the one he and Giulia shared during the summer.  “I'd definitely remember what that looks like.”

“Our room has a closet,” said Luca, meaning the one he shared with his grandmother, “but it doesn't have a door.”  That was no good, either, but it did give Luca one good idea.  “When we get back, we have to tell Signora Marsigliese to take the door off Rocco's closet. The monsters can't come in if there's no door.”

Alberto nodded eagerly.  “If she won't, I'll do it myself!” he promised.  “Massimo's been teaching me to use stuff like hammers and screwdrivers, so I'm basically an expert now.”

“Perfect!”  Luca smiled and relaxed a little.  They still didn't really know how they were getting home, but at least they had a plan for what do do once they got there.

Luca and Alberto had left the maintenance hatch open so they could quickly climb back into the tank if anybody came in, but the minutes ticked by, and nobody did.  That was a bit surprising when Luca thought about it – wouldn't it occur to anybody that they might have gone up the pipes?  Maybe not.  If everybody thought humans were deadly poisonous, they would expect the boys to know that, too, and avoid the contaminated water.  And Mr. Waternoose couldn't have anybody search this part of the factory, because anyone who did would discover that the water was just being dumped without cleaning it. Why didn't he just clean it anyway for appearances' sake?  Maybe he thought that would cost too much money.

The boys had originally planned to hide in this room all day, but as the time went by it became increasingly clear that their stomachs were not going to stand for it.  Luca's was so angry it felt like it was moving around inside him – the last time he'd been this hungry had been on the first day in Portorosso, when he and Alberto had missed both breakfast and lunch.  That evening they'd finally been able to gobble down platefuls of Massimo's trenette al pesto, but now there was nothing.

Luca didn't like to complain about things, so he wasn't going to mention it, but then he heard Alberto's insides gurgle loudly, and couldn't stop himself from giggling a little.  Alberto smiled sheepishly back, and then both began to laugh as Luca's stomach rumbled as if in reply.

“I wonder what kind of food they've got in that cafeteria,” said Alberto.

“Dunno.”  The three-eyed fish, which Luca had eaten a couple of mouthfuls of, had just tasted like fish.  He hadn't had any interest in finding out what the eyeball candy was like.

“Too bad we don't know where it is,” Alberto said.  “Maybe we could sneak in.”

They waited a few more long, hungry minutes, as their stomachs continued to complain, until both of them gave up.  Luca got somewhat stiffly off the cold floor and peered through the hatch into the giant tank.  They'd been able to hear water flowing through it intermittently – it was currently full enough for Luca to reach the surface with his fingers without climbing in.  He started splashing himself.  Without any questions or protests, Alberto joined in.  It was time to see if they could find something to eat.

Once properly monstrous, they cracked open a door and checked out the hallway beyond.  It was long and dim, with similar utilitarian construction to the tank room – bare floors, cinder blocks, and pipes in the ceiling.  Many of the pipes, along with bundles of electrical cables, passed through the wall above the door, and there was a sign on the outside that said RESTRICTED ACCESS – DOOR CLEANING WASTE WATER. It ought to be an easy place to find again as long as they kept track of their path.

More importantly, there was nobody in the hallway.  A clock on the opposite wall showed that it was quarter after noon.  Maybe everybody had gone for lunch.

They crept down the hall, checking doors as they passed them.  Some were locked.  Others could be opened, but there was nothing inside but storage and records rooms with no promises of food.  Then they found one that opened onto a much larger room full of bins and conveyor belts, dedicated to processing garbage.  Luca would have moved on, but Alberto headed in to explore further.

“That's trash,” Luca protested.

“Humans throw out all kinds of good stuff,” Alberto informed him.

“You can't eat it!  It's garbage!”

“That's what Massimo says, but one time I found half a box of Alassio cookies.  What was I supposed to do, just leave them there?” Alberto opened a bin and began rooting around.

To Alberto's disappointment – and to Luca's, although he wouldn't admit it – the trash proved to be largely inorganic, all cans and cups and napkins and other resolutely inedible things.  Alberto wandered into an adjoining room to try there, while Luca happened across something odd – a stack of newspapers that were still all packed up in strings as if they hadn't even been delivered yet. These were called The Monstropolis Argus and showed a photograph of the factory blazoned with a bold red headline: INCURSION RUMORS AT MONSTERS INC.

Maybe the newspapers had been meant for people at the factory but Mr. Waternoose had ordered them thrown away because he was angry.

“Luca!” Alberto's voice called from the other room.  “Come quick!  There's a cake in here!”

“A cake?” Luca asked.  That didn't sound right.  He opened the door, and found a little kitchen with chairs and a table, a sink, a fridge, and a small oven sitting on the counter.  The room smelled like the coffee that was cooling in a glass pitcher on the table, and next to that was about half of a big sheet cake decorated with buttercream roses. The top had writing on it, some of which was still readable as the words HAPPY 30th and below it something smeared that was probably the top of BIRTHDAY.

Not that Luca and Alberto cared what the cake said. There were paper plates and plastic forks in packages on the counter, so they cut themselves slices and dug in.  The fridge contained an assortment of sodas with names like Fright and Creepy-Cola, so they opened those, too.  The cake was very plain, as cakes went, but Luca wouldn't have cared if it tasted like cardboard as long as it filled his empty stomach.

They were working on their second helpings when they heard the voices outside the door.  Luca and Alberto exchanged a glance, then grabbed their cake and sodas and crawled into the cabinet under the sink.  Moments later, the door opened and a group of monsters entered, laughing and talking.

“You guys are too much,” a woman's voice said.

“Nothing's too much for a birthday, Maureen!” somebody else replied, “especially when it means we get to take an extra-long lunch!”  The sounds of cleaning up began.  Disposable kitchenware was dumped into bags and crumpled, and empty soda cans were tossed into bins.  Luca waited, heart pounding, for the moment somebody noticed that more cake had vanished, but nobody said anything.

“I don't know how I feel about Louise having contributed to the lunch fund when she got fired this morning,” Maureen said.  “She should at least get a slice of cake.”

Now it was going to happen.  Somebody would notice that part of the leftovers were missing.

“We could give one to her assistant for her,” another person suggested.  “I'm sure he'd be happy to pass it on.”

“And it isn't like we don't have leftovers,” somebody else agreed.  “If I see him, I'll mention it.”

“That means no picking at the rest!” said the second speaker.

“Ow!”

“You heard me.  You don't need any more.”  The boys heard plasticky sounds as a lid was put on the cake, and a sliding as it was put away on top of the cabinets.

“Great!  That means you can all get back to work!” another man announced.  This was greeted by groans, but the speaker impatiently clapped what sounded like more than two hands.  “Come on, come on, party break's over.  We've got trash to process.”

Maureen heaved a sigh.  “At least we're not the poor suckers in water processing down the hall,” she remarked.  “I heard they have to keep their fur shaved and bathe in bleach at the end of every day.”

“Yeah, I wouldn't want to work anywhere near anything that's come in contact with humans!” another person agreed.

A few moments later the group was gone again, and the door closed behind them.

Luca and Alberto waited a few minutes, then cautiously opened the cupboard door.  There was nobody in the room.  They quickly wet themselves down in the sink again and then cracked the door open to see what was happening in the main garbage processing room.

There was no hope of slipping through.  The room was now full of monsters, sorting trash into bins or pouring it onto conveyor belts to be crushed into cubes.  Machines were rumbling.  Two women were talking cheerfully while flattening soda cans, and a man was singing in Spanish.

The boys let the door close again.

“Okay,” said Luca.  “We're still okay.  It's just instead of hiding in the other room until everybody goes home, we'll hide in here instead.”

Alberto nodded.  “And we can eat the rest of the cake.”

“No, we can't!” Luca stood between Alberto and the cupboards. “We have to leave enough for Curtis and Louise.  Plus a little extra.  If we don't, they'll figure it out.”

Alberta scowled.  “Fine, but we gotta have at least one more piece.”

By the time they'd each finished their third helping of cake, the boys were beginning to feel sick.  The remaining slices were therefore safe as the afternoon wore on, seeming to take forever to pass.  At first Luca and Alberto poked around in the kitchen hoping to find something to occupy their time, but then they had to quickly duck back into the cupboard when somebody came in for a cup of coffee.  After that, they tacitly agreed they'd better stay in their hiding place, no matter how cramped and smelly it might be, just in case.

It was starting to seem like the day would never end.

Unlike the maintenance room with the tank, the kitchen at least had a clock in it.  Luca was therefore able to watch the time passing, and let Alberto know how long they had until everybody would presumably leave for dinner.  Three hours left, then two, then one. Starting around five, the monsters who worked in the garbage room seemed to be just waiting around rather than really doing anything much.  They wandered in and out of the kitchen more frequently, and hung around talking to each other.

One of the things they talked about was that somebody really ought to mop the kitchen floor, and Luca started getting nervous.  What if somebody decided to do it right now?  What if they opened the cupboard looking for a bucket or sponge, and found two apparently human boys in there?

Before anyone could make that decision, though, the door opened and another group of people came in, and the boys heard a familiar voice.

“... and Louise went to high school together,” Curtis was saying.  “Real shame she couldn't be here today.  She even asked the shift supervisor if she could keep her key long enough to drop in, but he wouldn't let her.”

“That's too bad,” said a deeper voice.  “It's been a hell of a couple of days for her, wasn't it?”

“Yeah.  Wish I knew what was going on with all this,” Curtis said.  “Hey, folks!  This is Billy Sullivan, new guy on the scare floor!  He's green, but he's got potential.”

“It's a pleasure to meet y'all,” said Sullivan, with a slight twang in his accent.  “Lieberman's been telling me how hard I'll be working to live up to expectations around here.  I wish I could have met this Louise.  She sounds like a superstar.”

“Oh, she was,” said Maureen.  “She was the first girl at our school to win the Fangmeier Scare Scholarship, and she beat all the boys by miles.  Have some cake, Mr. Sullivan.”

Cake was served, and the chit-chat took a less worrying turn, mostly concerning how Louise and Maureen had run into each other again when they found they were both working at Monsters Incorporated, albeit in very different capacities.  The only moment of panic was when, as Luca watched through the gap between the cabinet doors, Curtis wandered over to the sink and turned on the tap for a glass of water.

Alberto decided this was an opportunity.  “Psst,” he whispered. “Hey!”

Curtis paused with his glass halfway to his mouth, and looked around.

“Sir,” Luca said softly.  “Down here.”

“Huh?”  Curtis knelt down, and Luca saw the door begin to open.

“No, no, don't open it!” Luca said urgently.  He and Alberto were bone-dry.  If Curtis saw them he would scream.

“Who's in there?” Curtis whispered.  “Is this those kids?”

“Yes, Sir,” said Luca.  “We're not spies, we promise.  We need your help!”

“Curtis?” Maureen asked.  “What are you doing over there?”

“I dropped something.”  Curtis stood up again, and walked away to rejoin the conversation.  “Louise will be happy you thought of her.  I was planning to drop by and check on her anyway – let me just box up a slice of that cake.”

Alberto began to blow a raspberry out of disappointment, but Luca stopped him.  There was nothing they could do now but wait.

Which they did – the continued to wait for another hour and a half, while one by one the monsters grabbed their coats from the closet and their lunchboxes from the fridge and cabinets, and said goodnight to their coworkers.  Half-six came and went, and then six o'clock, and finally at a quarter after Maureen took what was left of her birthday cake and carried it out of the little kitchen, turning the light off behind her.

Luca counted to ten, and then burst out of the cupboard to run for the bathroom.  Alberto was close behind him.

Once they'd taken care of that, the two boys went to open the kitchen door.

It was locked.

Alberto first wrenched on the knob, then rattled it, and then said several words that made Luca cover his ears, knowing his mother wouldn't have approved of him hearing them.  “Alberto stop!” he pleaded.  “Somebody might still be out there and they'll hear you!”

Alberto stopped, but he took a step back and kicked the door in frustration.

As if in response, a light came on underneath it.

The boys scrambled back into the cupboard under the sink as the door creaked open and the light snapped back on.

“Hello?” Curtis called out.

Luca peeked out through the crack between the two doors.  Curtis appeared to have come alone.  He was no longer wearing his hard hat, and his two stalked eyes were swivelling in different directions as he took in the room.  Then he began walking towards the sink again.

“Wait!” said Luca.  He and Alberto hadn't bothered to get wet. “Not yet!”

“What?” asked Curtis.

“Don't open the door yet,” said Luca.  “Just go back outside, and we'll come out.”

“Why?”

“We'll explain later.  Just trust us,” Luca pleaded.  Not that Curtis had any reason to.  He'd suffered almost as much of an upset as Louise, having to go to work for a totally different person, and it was all their fault.

Curtis retreated.  The boys climbed out of the cabinet, soaked themselves, and then took deep breaths and headed out into the garbage processing room.  Luca held Alberto's hand to help himself be brave, hoping desperately that this was going to work.  What if it didn't?  What if Curtis had brought Mr. Waternoose?

But it was just Curtis, standing there leaning on one of the now motionless conveyor belts, waiting for them.  They emerged dripping wet and wearing cautious grimaces that were the nearest they could manage to smiles.  Curtis did not smile back.

“Hello, Sir,” said Luca.

“You two are filthy,” said Curtis.

“Sea monsters,” said Alberto.  “We gotta stay wet.”

“The ditch was the only water there was,” Luca agreed.

Curtis shook what was probably his head, although it might have been his body.  “What have you gotten yourselves into?  What were you doing in that kid's room yesterday, for one thing?”

“We'll tell you all about it,” Luca said, although he wasn't sure if that were a promise he inteded to keep.  “But we need to find Rocco's door.”

“The one Louise got us out of,” Alberto clarified.  “Like, right now.”

“Please,” Luca finished, “we just want to go home.”

Curtis sighed.  “I can't take you to the scare floor now, everything's locked up for the night.  And even if I could, we couldn't get that door.  It's on review.  I submitted the report last night and they came and got it this morning.”  He scratched the thick fur on the side of his head and thought for a moment, then picked one black plastic garbage bin on wheels from the tidy line of them by the wall.  “Get in,” he told the boys.

Luca and Alberto climbed into the bin, and Curtis cut open the packet of untouched newspapers Luca had been looking eat earlier and crumpled them up into a layers to cover the two passengers.  Then he closed the top, and began whistling as he wheeled them out of the room and through the building.

The boys crouched in the bin, hardly breathing.  They could only hope that he was taking them somewhere safe, or at the very least somewhere he thought was safe.  But what if it wasn't safe? Even if he wasn't just going to turn them over to Waternoose, what if there were other dangers nobody had anticipated?  Luca desperately wished he could open his eyes and find he was home in his own bed, with Nonna right across the way to tell him it was only a bad dream.

There was the creak of a door opening, and a jingle.  “Thanks for the keys, Maureen,” said Curtis.

“No problem,” she replied.  “Tell Louise how sorry I am.”

A moment later they began to hear the patter of rain on the lid of the bin, which was a reassuring sound – it meant that they didn't have to worry about transforming in front of Curtis when they climbed out.  Stones on the pavement grumbled under the wheels of the bin as they crossed the car park, and then Curtis stopped and opened the lid.

“Okay,” he said, looking around to make sure nobody was watching them.  “Get in the car.”

Luca and Alberto stood in the rain for a moment to make sure they were damp, and then climbed into the back of Curtis' little car. This one was much more like the small, cramped, stuffy vehicles they were familiar with from Portorosso.  Curtis gave them a blanket to pull over themselves, and they curled up on the seat and tried their best to look like a pile of laundry.

“See you tomorrow, Curtis!” somebody called to them.

“Night!” Curtis replied, and started the car.

They were well out of the car park and on their way back into the city before the boys dared to peek out from under the blanket. Curtis looked at them in the rearview mirror, then rotated one stalked eye to look over his shoulder at them before turning it back to the road again.  Nobody spoke.

Eventually, Curtis pulled into the car park of a set of buildings in different sizes – all were three storeys tall with four windows across the front, but only one was the size of a proper building. The left one looked like it was built for creatures no more than a metre tall, and the right one for giants three or four metres in height.  Curtis stopped in front of the middle building, and turned the car off.

“Okay,” he said.  “What's going on?  I get the idea that something's up behind the scenes at the factory, and Louise lost her job because she got involved in that by accident.  Is that right?”

“No, Sir,” said Luca.  “It was just a mistake.”

“What kind of mistake?” Curtis asked.  “How did you get into that room without anyone seeing?”

Luca swallowed.  They'd told Harry bits and pieces of the truth and it had nearly led to disaster.  What proof did they have that Curtis would be any better?

“You gotta promise you won't turn us in,” said Alberto.

“To who?” Curtis wanted to know.  “The police?  Mr. Waternoose?”

“Anybody.”

“We didn't do anything wrong,” Luca said yet again.  “We just want to go home.”

Curtis was silent for a moment.  “I want to help Louise,” he said.  “We've been working together for six years.  She's always been there for me and I want to return the favour, and I know in my gut that whatever happened yesterday wasn't fair to her.”

“Louise didn't do anything wrong, either,” Luca said, and came to a decision – if they were going to tell the truth, they had to tell all of the truth.  He hadn't liked lying to Harry, and it hadn't gotten them anywhere anyway.  “We're not... well, we are monsters, but we're not the same kind of monster you are.  We need to stay wet because when we dry out we transform and look like humans.”

It shouldn't have been possible for Curtis' stalk eyes to widen, but they did.  “That's why Steve Watkins said he saw humans with her!”

“Yes!” said Luca.

“We live in the human world,” Alberto said, “and a friend of ours there asked us if we could get rid of the monster in his closet.”

“We didn't believe there actually was one,” Luca put in, “but we said we would because his Mom thought it would help him stop having nightmares.”

“But when Louise found us she thought we were with Harry's school group, so she took us back to them...”

“... and on the way we ran into Steve and he saw us Change and freaked out.”

“Yeah, so we hid in the bathroom and got wet again, which is how we got past the exterminators...”

They went on like this, interrupting each other but keeping the whole messy tale more or less in chronological order, until they got to the part where they'd left the water tank room hoping for something to eat.  Curtis listened, but with fur all over his face it was difficult to tell what he thought of any of it.  He only stopped them to ask a question once.

“So you're immune to human toxins?” he asked.  “You must be if you live with them.  That's how you knew you could get into the water purification system?”

“No,” said Luca, “humans aren't toxic at all, and Mr. Waternoose knows that but he wants to keep it a secret so he can sell people the screams.”

Curtis blinked.  “You've been reading those conspiracy newspapers, huh?”

“No, it's true,” Alberto said.  “See?”  He shook the last of the water off one hand so it would transform, and reached to touch Curtis' fur.  Curtis flinched away in horror, but then steeled himself and reached out his own hand.  Alberto grabbed his wrist, and Curtis hissed through his teeth as if in pain – but nothing happened.  “There!” said Alberto.  “See?”

Curtis jerked his hand back and rubbed at the wrist as if it were burned.

“We're very sorry Louise lost her job,” said Luca, now also transformed.  “Is there anything we can do to help her?”

“Does she know this story?” Curtis asked.

The boys shook their heads.

“All right.”  Curtis opened the car door.  “Let's go tell it to her.”

[willkimurashat]

Because I am an avid ATLA and TLOK fan and because it’s been trending on tumblr today, here’s a LITG crossover absolutely no one asked for but I did anyway lol (soz I’ve no idea if it’s been done before 👀)

Water Tribe

Element of change. Adaptability, sense of community and love.

Benders

S1: Erikah, Jake, Jen, Levi

S2: Hannah, Noah

S3: Genevieve, Nicky

S4: Hazeem, Oliver, Thabi

S5: Dana, Lulu

Non-benders

S1: Cherry (she’s tear-bending)

S2: Elijah, Graham, Ibrahim

S3: Miki, Ciaran

S4: James, Tom

S5: Eddie, Johnny

Fire Nation

Element of power. Desire, will, energy, drive to achieve what they want.

Benders

S1: Allegra

S2: Hope, Lottie, Lucas

S3: Camilo, Harry

S4: Cora, Valentina, Youcef

S5: Arlo, Suresh

Non-benders

S1: Lucy, Mason

S2: Marisol, Blake, Kassam, Elisa

S3: Lily, Rafi

S4: Dylan, Juliet, Lexi

S5: Gabi, Meera

Earth Kingdom

Element of substance. Diversity, strength, persistence, endurance.

Benders

S1: Talia, Reese

S2: Gary, Henrik, Shannon

S3: AJ, Tai

S4: Angie, Bruno, Najuma

S5: Alfie, Finn

Non-benders

S1: Miles, Jasper

S2: Jakub, Arjun, Carl, Jo

S3: Bill, Elladine, Seb

S4: Kobi

S5: Kat, Nicolas, Pete

Air Nomads

Element of freedom. Detached from worldly concerns, peaceful, free.

Benders

S1: Rohan, Tim

S2: Bobby, Priya, Rocco, Chelsea, Felix

S3: Yasmin, Iona

S4: Kelly, Will, Tiffany