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TOKE 'N STROKE
"Ads are getting so damn invasive." Lucas thought to himself, clicking skip on yet another pointless car commercial interrupting the video essay he was watching. "You think the algorithm would know its audience by now, I'm too gay to drive!"
He laughed a little bit at the joke, running a hand through his soft, bleached blonde hair. He was the epitome of a high-maintenance twink, with his smooth, hairless body and perfect sense of style. He was smart too and liked to boast about it, with a scholarship for his English Lit degree and being made President of his university's LGBT Chapter, which he was hoping to use as a stepping stone to become Student Body President next year.
Leaning back again in his chair he reached for his cellphone, seeing a text from his boyfriend Alex.
Alex: "Hey cutie, still busy with finals this weekend, but have time for a dinner date Sunday night?"
He smiled to himself, giving an eager text back to set it up, and to wish him well on his upcoming exams. "Ugh, I need to start studying too, Monday's going to be one hell of a final... I'll focus on it and head to the library after this video and-"
Just like that, his train of thought was interrupted again by a stupid ad, this time some obnoxious psychedelic visuals and a bad electric guitar riff blared out of his monitor. It startled him so badly that he seized up for a second, accidentally clicking the ad and being brought to their store page. "Broski's Bud's, one stop ship and shop for weed strains to fix your brain..." He rolled his eyes at the cringe marketing, getting ready to close the tab when a pop-up opened trying to tell him all about a deal he 'wouldn't want to miss out on'. "No thanks, stupid site, you can keep your Bro Buds or whatever to yourself." but every time he hit X on the popup another would open, being more and more insistent each time about new deals, until finally a desperate '90% OFF AND SPECIAL STARTER KIT AS A BONUS WITH YOUR FIRST PURCHASE' filled his screen. "FINE," he scoffed at his computer, "I'll take a look at the stupid site. My therapist suggested I try out weed to help lessen my anxiety anyways, so might as well get a good deal on it..."
Clicking the pop-up added the 'starter kit' to his cart, it was a pack of pre-rolled blunts and some sort of mystery box, but the description didn't help him understand it much either. "Get ready to step into the zone and open ur mind with this one bros, Broski's Buds bestselling strain, Toke 'n Stroke, is sure to change your life by stimulating a high never felt before! This isn't your sissy uncle's strain, this shit puts hair on your chest like a real man!"
"God this is so cringe, I bet they get all kinds of business marketing to the dumb jocks in town, no wonder their brains are mush. Still, it's just weed and for $20 I might as well give it a try, I probably won't find it cheaper anywhere else..." sitting in thought about it for a few seconds, Lucas finally filled in his payment info and placed his order, getting a free upgrade to same-day delivery since they seem to have a storefront a few miles from his apartment.
"Well, there goes my library plans I guess, I'll have to wait around for delivery since my package will probably get swiped otherwise..." Lucas sighed, turning off his computer and plopping down onto the couch, picking up his Switch to play Animal Crossing and kill time.
A few hours passed and the sky got dark before finally a long buzz came from his intercom. "Took them long enough, it's nearly 9pm!" he complained, putting his jacket on to head downstairs. When he got down there the delivery guy had already gotten into his car again, driving away and leaving Lucas to carry the package back upstairs all on his own. It was bigger than he expected, taking both hands to lift it and keep it stable. "Jesus, this thing must weight like 40 pounds! What did they put in here?"
After a bit of struggling and the occasional break to catch his breath, Lucas pushed his package into the living room, collapsing on the floor next to it for a while. "After that workout I'm surprised I don't look like the douchebags around campus." he laughed to himself, bouncing up to get a box cutter and pry his package open. After taking the carton of pre-rolled blunts out, he started into the box with a bit of confusion and disgust, pulling things out one after the other.
"A sleeveless tank top that says 'Toke 'n Stroke Bro'... A pair of douchey sunglasses... Some red gym shorts, socks and slides... Ew, a snapback saying 'Who ate all the pussy?', why the fuck would anyone wear this!... And 2 dumbbells, no wonder this thing was so heavy! All of this is useless shit that's gonna end up in a donation bin now, I'll have to drop this trashy stuff off tomorrow on my way to the library... But hey, at least the weed seems fine, smells... potent." He said, tossing everything back into the box and taking a whiff of one of the blunts.
Kicking back on the couch again, he played with the blunt in his hand for a while before finally having the courage to light it up, taking a hit. Immediately he started coughing, not used to the sensation, but it did make his brain start to feel... fuzzy. "Damn, okay I need to push past it and get used to it." he said, lighting up for another hit of the blunt, this time barely a cough escaping his throat, feeling suspiciously more used to it. Then another, and another, until finally the whole blunt was gone. Sitting in his daze for a while, he enjoyed the sensation of his mind drifting around experiencing the high, his anxiety melting away as if he didn't have a care in the world. Eventually he decided to try and get up, but his body slumped over off the couch and hitting the floor, the room fading to black...
...
When Lucas finally came to again, the first thing that hit him was the strong smell of weed floating around in the air. "Damn bro, did I smoke the whole set or what..." he laughed groggily, getting ready to stretch out and get back to laying on the couch before he was startled by the sound of moaning blasting from his TV, eyes shooting open in confusion. On the screen, two busty lesbians were making out, them taking turns groping each others boobs and fingering each other. "What the fuck bro, how long has this been on?" he cursed, nervous that the neighbors nextdoor might have heard it playing as he started desperately looking for the remote.
When he couldn't find it in the cushions, he got up from the couch only to be met with his feet kicking a bunch of empty beer cans. "Dude, there's gotta be 2 dozen thrown all over the floor, did I have a party or something? I don't even know anyone who drinks beer..." he mumbled, going to scratch his head in confusion, but was even more confused when instead of his hair he felt a hat on top of his head. "Huh?" he thought, as he looked down at the floor again, noticing that instead of his skinny jeans and converse he was now wearing the socks and slides from the box, along with the sleeveless tank top and the shorts too. He stumbled his way to the bathroom door still baked out of his mind, mouth dropping open at his reflection in the full-length mirror in front of him.
"Broooo, am I dreaming or what the fuckkkk is going on" he said in disbelief. No more was the cute, pale twink he used to be staring back at him. Instead, a douchey bro he didn't recognize was standing face to face with him. Tanned skin, pillowy muscles, his once blonde hair turned into a brown buzz cut and with that stupid "Who ate all the pussy?" hat slapped over it. He touched his face, feeling along his chin where his once smooth skin now had a rougher texture, and a trashy chinstrap sprouted from his jawline. He slapped his face a few times in his daze, trying to wake up from the dream and growing more confused each time nothing changed.
Turning around and staggering back to his living room to try and make sense of what's going on, it hit him that he barely recognizes the room anymore. His apartment used to be perfectly maintained and well-decorated, now there was beer cans all over the floor, along with dirty socks and cummed-in underwear, greasy pizza boxes and chip bags all over the table and counter, the decorations on his walls had been torn down and replaced with posters of chicks in bikinis and sports teams, his Switch replaced with an X-Box and a stack of COD games next to it, DVD cases of trashy bro-comedies were thrown around near the TV too... Then the smell hit him, it STUNK in here, like a sickening mixture of weed, cheap body spray, and sour BO wafting in a heat around the room. "Bro, it fucking reeks in here... Or wait..." he mumbled as he gave himself a whiff, "I fucking reek!"
After a bit of stunned silence he finally started to process things in his brain again. How the fuck did he get like this, was any of this even real, and how does he get back to normal? He plopped back onto the couch, picking up his phone to see he had a handful of missed texts and calls from his boyfriend before noticing the time... 2:00pm. On Sunday. He had somehow been blacked out for 2 whole nights, with no memory of anything that had happened. While getting ready to call his boyfriend back, Lucas felt his insides rumbling and at first he thought it was from the munchies because of all the weed, but then he realized "Oh bro, all that double-cheese pizza is really gonna fucking..."
*PHRRRBBBTTT!*
His body instinctively lifted its leg as it pushed out the loudest and most obnoxious fart he'd ever ripped in his life, as his body seemed to react on its own, letting out an immature laugh and wafting the air before muttering "Fuck yeah bro, smells like victory!" He leaned back into the couch, remembering he needed to call Alex, but the loud moaning on the TV caught him off guard again. This time he locked eyes with the screen, the cock in his shorts immediately bulging and straining at the sight of the lesbian porn before him. "I really need to turn this shit off and get whatever's going on sorted out..." he thought, but he realized he couldn't move his hand to reach for his phone, instead it reacted on its own, reaching down his waistband to pull out his cock and start stroking for the busty babes on TV.
"All I do is Toke 'n Stroke, bro..." a voice in his head seemed to say, except it didn't come from within, he spoke it directly out of his own mouth.
"Wait, I didn't say that bro, it's-" he tried to talk, realizing that his thoughts echoed around stuck in his own head, not even leaving the lips of his own body. He was just stuck there, watching in a dazed horror as he went on autopilot.
"Toke 'n Stroke bro, I'm such a loyal customer Broski's Buds will HAVE to take me as a hype boy this time haha!" his voice spoke again, continuing to stroke for the porn on TV, Lucas's eyes stuck fixed on the screen. Suddenly though, he was interrupted by his phone vibrating, a text from his boyfriend coming through.
Alex: "Hey cutie, I hope everything is alright? You haven't answered my calls or texts in a couple days, I know it's busy with all your studying but we do still have dinner planned for tonight. Still on for me to pick you up at 5?"
"Oh thank God," Lucas thought, reading the message, "I can tell him what's going on and have him come over to help me fix this shit!" Unlocking his phone, Lucas let out a sigh of relief as he got ready to reply, only for his body to still be taken over by whatever douchey daze it was stuck in.
Lucas: "dont u ever come around me u faggy creep, if me or my bros ever catch u within 100 feet of us we'll give u the beating of a lifetime! fuck around n find out if u dare to show ur face here."
Lucas screamed internally as the message was typed out and sent in front of his very eyes, before his hand moved to block his boyfriend's number and turn his phone off. "Something is seriously fucking wrong with me bro, I need to-"
*PHHRRRRBBBTTTTTT*
Another obnoxious and sickening fart blasted out of his ass, filling the room and breaking Lucas's thoughts down into a daze again, as he felt around under the couch for something before pulling a sweaty, well-used fuck toy of a girls ass and pussy up from the mess.
As Lucas once again locked eyes with the TV, he took another hit from his dwindling blunt stash, finishing up the last one. After throwing what was left onto the floor, he prepared the fuck toy and slid it right down onto his cock, starting to bounce the toy up and down as he edged himself closer to finishing.
"If I can't figure out a way to snap out of this, I'm so fucked..." he thought, as his voice spoke again. "Toke 'n Stroke bro, this chick is soooo getting fucked!" He moaned, as he shot his thick load into the toy, feeling some of his braincells permanently shoot out with it, sloppily wiping the mess on the cushion next to him as he laid back, feeling his insides start to bubble again.
Lucas had a lot of Bro Time to catch up on, but luckily his new favorite weed strain was making sure that he was a captive audience until he was fully converted and assimilated into just another Bro.
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Obsessed!Coriolanus Snow x Innocent!Reader, Obsessed!Crassus Snow x Innocent!Reader, DILF!Crassus Snow
WARNING ⚠️ Coriolanus Snow is a warning in and of itself. Cussing, obsession, smut, oral (f rec) , p in v, older man/younger woman, father & son both want the same girl, reader is just too sweet for this world and has no idea that the men in the Snow family are toxic...
This is the Crassus x Reader ending AKA ending 2.
It's kinda long.
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Ending #2-Crassus
Coriolanus disappeared without a trace. Or at least that's what it felt like. Truth was, a couple of weeks after graduation he boarded a train to 8 as a peacekeeper grunt. Coriolanus received a conscription letter and was shoved off by his father General Crassus Snow.
Against his will.
Without Coriolanus by your side you fell into a depression. Yes, you received letters from him and the occasional phone call, but it wasn't the same. He wasn't physically around, like he's always been, and it hurt.
It hurt so much.
So goddamn much.
You felt so alone…
You thought that you were doing good job of hiding your hurt, your depression and loneliness. But you weren't.
No.
Crassus noticed it right away.
And he tried to swoop in and put a smile on your face by asking about your day or by suggesting you read a certain book in the library, but it never worked. Nothing worked to put a smile on your face.
The only time a faint smile appeared on your face was whenever Crassus handed you a letter from his son while shifting thru the mail after coming home from work. You'd always snatch it from him with a smile on your face. One that never quite reached your eyes.
You cherished Coryo's letters. He always complained about District 8 in them, but he’d also write a few lines about his feelings towards you. Always told you to wait for him; that he'd figure out a way to return to you.
Crassus, as cold and unfeeling of a man as he was, never kept his son's letters from you despite the fact that the middle-aged man wanted you as his next wife. His future First Lady. And why didn't he keep them from you?
Because he wanted to woo you away from his son’s affections. Crassus wanted the knowledge that he pursued you, courted you, and gave you somebody to confide in all the while Coriolanus was sending you letters that were borderline love letters.
Crassus wants you to pick him over his son, not because he made you, but because you want to.
Because you want him.
And having Coriolanus thousands of miles away serving in 8 would definitely help out with you picking the older Snow…
Out of sight, out of mind as they say.
“Petal, a letter for you from my son.” Crassus announces, holding the letter up for you to see as he stands in front of the fireplace shifting thru mail while you sit on the sofa watching CapitolTV.
Grandma'am was out visiting the neighbor, Pluribus, so it was just you and Crassus inside of the penthouse.
“Oh, thank you.” You thinly smile, rising from the sofa to go get your letter from the tall, stoic man that you've come to appreciate since you began living in the Snow's ancestral home.
Crassus knew that now was his chance to snatch you away from his bratty son. That now's the time to woo you. And how does he know?
By the thin, forced line of a smile on your face and the tight tone of your voice when you thank him for his son's letter.
“Y/N, I see how much you're suffering. Perhaps you'd like to talk about it with someone who's been deployed throughout Panem?” Crassus remarked, his voice low and thoughtful as he hands you over the letter.
“I'm fine, Crassus.” You lie, fingers brushing while taking the letter from him. “I don't need to talk about Coryo's deployment in 8, but thank you for the offer.” You assure the man towering over you while looking at the letter you're holding.
“You're not fine, petal.” Crassus tells you in a low, deep, all knowing tone.
It's unsettling since Coriolanus had told you the exact same thing one night before he was shipped off. He told you that you weren't fine; in a similar tone and manner that his father had just used on you right now.
You never noticed it before, but were Coriolanus and Crassus truly mirror images of each other?
“You haven't filled out your University admissions packet, so I surmise that you won't be attending. I also noticed how you sulk around, wasting your life waiting for a ghost.”
The packet was still untouched on his mahogany desk in his study. It was due weeks ago. Now that it's early September and the fall semester's starting soon, well, Crassus knows that it's too late for you to select a major of interest to study. That you won't be attending the University.
That doesn't bother him. In fact, Crassus prefers for you to be home with Grandma'am all day. You're a very beautiful Capitolite girl and in his mind you're better suited as a socialite. He's sure in time you'll get used to staying home and doing lady things all day such as luncheons, shopping, tea parties, etc.
“I-” You began, but your protest died on the tip of your tongue when Crassus cut you off with a blunt, “You can deny it all you want, but you fill your days moping over my son's absence.”
Of course, he saw right thru your facade. Crassus was a very perceptive man, a cunning one as well. He picked up on things that most people would overlook.
“You need to find a hobby to occupy your time; keep your thoughts off of things.” Crassus tells you knowingly. As if he has first hand experience in the matter.
Well, maybe he did.
“A hobby?”
“Yes.” He nods. “My mother has her rose garden; my late wife had her silly little songs and the piano.” The tall platinum blonde explains. He shifts his weight slightly on his feet while suggesting, “So perhaps you can find something as well.”
“Perhaps.” You parrot.
Maybe Crassus is right? Maybe a hobby will help you during Coryo's absence.
Crassus pecks you on the cheek before patting it and telling you, “Go on and read your letter. I'll be in my study reading my own mail.”
Without another word he walked away from you and into the direction of his office, a pile of mail in his hands.
You decided to take Crassus' advice and find a hobby to take your mind off of Coryo's deployment. After thinking about it, you realize that Crassus is right. You need to focus your energy on something else and since you're not in the best mindset to go to University (going to University was Coriolanus' dream; he wanted you to attend with him) a hobby is necessary.
At first you try your hand at gardening. You spent some time with Grandma’am in her rooftop rose garden, but you weren't a natural green thumb like she was. In fact, gardening seems to frustrate you.
Coriolanus was the botanist that thrived under Grandma'am Snow’s gardening lessons. Well, he did when he was still living in the Corso penthouse before he was conscripted into the Peacekeepers.
Anyways….
And since you weren't classically trained on the piano like Crassus' late wife, Demeter, you had only two other options for a hobby. Sewing or baking.
You weren't too handy with needlework and didn't want to bother Tigris with sewing lessons, because you knew that she'd start talking about Coryo. You couldn't handle that. The kind hearted young lady always meant well when she brought up Coryo, but it was a sore topic for you.
So, that left baking as your only hobby option.
But you had an old recipe book of your mother's from her native 12, so at least you had something to work with. You didn't have to bake blind without recipes.
Most of the recipes were for cookies. A couple for cakes, but mostly various cookies. Oh and bread. Lots and lots of bread.
Apparently, District 12 really loves their bread.
And on top of reading your cookbook you've been watching a baking show:
The Great Panem Bake Off
It's a baking competition where the best amateur bakers in all of Panem compete for a title and prize money. You began watching it for baking ideas and ended up writing down the recipes of the goodies that the judges liked.
After a few weeks of reading your mother's old recipe book and watching the baking show on CapitolTV, you decided to bake a batch of classic and simple sugar cookies.
So, one late afternoon while Grandma'am was tending to her magnificent rooftop rose garden you're in the kitchen hard at work baking a large batch of lemon zest and vanilla bean sugar cookies. Thankfully, living in Capitol City, Panem, you're able to procure the ingredients easily for your cookies.
You're so engrossed in making your cookie dough and baking off the tasty treats that your mind doesn't even focus on the missing member of the Snow family. Not once does Coriolanus cross your mind. No, the only thing crossing your mind is measuring out the ingredients and adding them to the bowl; mixing until firm and smooth. You're too busy letting the cookie dough chill and timing it to think about sulking over your best friend.
And when it's time to roll out the sugar cookie dough and cut the cookies out with a cutter, well, you can't even imagine thinking about anything but getting the cookies stamped out and onto the cookie sheet pan. A sheet pan lined with parchment to keep the cookies from burning and sticking (a tip you saw on the baking show).
You're so scared that if you leave the kitchen your batch of cookies will burn, despite having a timer set. So, you sit at the kitchen table reading a book that Crassus had recommended a few weeks back; waiting for the cookies to bake. Between the mouth watering aroma of fresh cookies filling the air and the intriguing plot line of the book you're reading, you're mind's too preoccupied to drift off to a melancholy about Coriolanus being gone.
Infact, it seems that Crassus was right about a hobby keeping your mind busy and off of things you can't change.
His son serving as Private Snow over in 8.
When the timer goes off you put on your floral printed oven mitts, which match your frilly apron, and pull the cookie sheet out of the oven. After setting the pan on the counter, you transfer the sweet treats to a cooling rack before rolling and cutting out another batch of cookies to place onto the sheet pan and back into the oven.
You’re sitting at the kitchen table, reading your book while waiting for the cookies to bake whenever you heard the front door open accompanied by the sound of Crassus' shoes echoing against the marble floor.
Crassus was home and all you could think of was getting his opinion on your cookies. Being a first time baker, you're afraid that they wouldn't be good. Even tho you followed the recipe religiously and everything seemed to turn out, you're still scared that your first foray into baking won't be successful.
So, you set your book down on the table, quickly rise to your feet, and grab a cookie from the cooling rack that's on the counter.
When you rush out of the kitchen, freshly baked cookie in hand, you see Crassus is starting to cross the foyer. He stops when he sees you, nose sniffing at the air, as his icy blue eyes take in the excited smile on your face.
From the smell wafting from the kitchen paired with the frilly floral apron you're wearing, the general concludes that you've taken up baking. He thinks it's good that you found something to occupy your days with.
Crassus is a tall man, even taller than his son, so he towers over you as you stand before him. Before he could make a comment on your new hobby, you grab him by the shirt and yank him down to your eye level- only to shove a freshly baked sugar cookie into his mouth.
“How is it? Do I need to tweek anything?” You ask, watching Crassus try not to choke on a large mouthful of cookie.
The middle-aged man’s large hand comes up to his mouth to pull the cookie out while he chews on the piece that's nearly choking him. You look at him with such innocence and patience while awaiting his verdict on your first attempt at baking cookies. Oh, and how your doe eyes has Crassus' knees buckling.
The cold, hard former soldier can't help, but to feel like a schoolboy again as you watch him chew his large mouthful. Oh, how embarrassing to feel like that over a young pretty girl shoving a sugar cookie into his mouth and looking at him like an angel sent from the heavens while awaiting his judgment on the sweet treat.
For some reason, swallowing down the cookie takes more effort than it should. Perhaps Crassus' throat feels tighter, as if it's closing up on him, because of the near intimate position you're in. Your face is mere inches away from his as he's hunched down into your space with your hand still tightly fisted into his shirt; keeping him in place.
Oh gods, how the man's mind is drifting off to dirty places…
“It's good.” Crassus finally answers after what feels like an eternity, but in reality was only a minute.
“You really think so?” You ask, genuinely surprised, as the icy eyed man in front of you just stares at you as if you hung the moon and stars.
A look he hasn't given anyone in a very, very long time.
“Yes,” He nods. “It's very good, petal.”
You're so happy that Crassus likes your cookie; that your first attempt at baking as your new hobby was successful. Honestly, you were scared that they wouldn't turn out. But it seems that you had nothing to worry about.
Without saying a word, you let go of Crassus' shirt and rush back into the kitchen to check on your latest batch of cookies. Crassus just shakes his head, clutching his briefcase his one hand and his half eaten cookie in the other, as a ghost of a smile slowly appears on his lips.
It seems like your innocence and warmth might be melting the cold Snow.
After the day you shoved a cookie into Crassus' mouth; nearly choking him, he's become your official taste tester for anything that you bake. He doesn't mind, in fact Crassus enjoys your baking. He has quite the sweet tooth even if he denies it.
Grandma'am enjoys when you bake chocolate treats and even Tigris enjoys your baking. She prefers your puddings. The warm hearted girl stops by from time to time to visit Grandma’am and you always give her some baked goods to take home.
All in all, your depression has dissipated and your mind's occupied with baking. You don't feel a heavy dark rain cloud over your head anymore, but instead you feel as if the sun’s shining down on you. You feel so much lighter, as if a weight has been taken off your shoulders.
And over the last few months you've grown closer to Crassus due to your baking. You looked forward to greeting him every evening when he came home with something you baked, asking him to taste it and tell you what he thought. And Crassus would always tell you that your sweet treats were good, great even.
That man loves everything you give him. From cookies to brownies to puddings to cakes to breads, he enjoys them all. Hell, he even has you pack some up for his coworkers at the Ministry of War.
Yes, cold and stern General Crassus Snow brought in baked goods to work to share with his coworkers. Honestly, he did it to brag about your baking skills. To show you off. To claim you as his in a way because women just don't bake for any man, they bake for their man.
And Crassus Snow views himself as your man.
He's been obsessed with making you his for a while; now he's succeeding in doing so.
But you don't mind his obsessive tendencies towards you. In fact, you welcome them because at least you're not lonely with him around.
And talk about being lonely, you found out from Crassus that his son, Coryo, was anything but lonely while off serving in District 8. His contacts told him that Coriolanus had taken up with a local district girl; had been with her for a while too.
Hearing that made you feel incredibly stupid for promising Coriolanus that you'd wait for him. Here you are being true blue to him while Private Snow's out fucking some district whore from 8. You wonder what she has that you don't have. Is she prettier than you? Maybe she's smarter or something? You dunno, but it hurts that he's cheating while you're waiting faithfully for him.
Aside from being hurt, you're pissed as hell. How dare he do this to you! Who the hell does he think he is? You're a proper Capitolite girl, you deserve better than what he's giving you.
Safe to say, you're a bit salty about Coryo's extra curricular activities in District 8 while serving as Private Snow in the Peacekeepers. Fucking bastard…
But at least you have your baking to help you thru it. Baking and Crassus' friendship that is.
But one day while you're baking cookies for the Yule holiday, the phone rings and you answer it only to be met with the one man you really don't want to talk to right now.
Coryo.
He tells you about some Elite Officer's Exam he took and you confronted him about his district whore. He denied it; even told you he loved you and wanted you to join him in 2 as soon as he got settled there- after passing his exams and officially being transferred that is.
And if that wasn't enough to turn your world upside down, a breaking news alert appeared on CapitolTV that would shatter Panem's heart.
It's late at night and Grandma'am’s asleep in her room while you're in the living room watching an old detective noir movie with Crassus. You're on the sofa, body softly nestled into Crassus’ side while his arm’s loosely slung around you, whenever the movie was interrupted by a news break announcing the death of President Ravenstill due to his ill health.
You're shocked to say the least. The very least. A president dying in office without a successor had never happened before in Panem's history. Normally, a president would step down if deathly ill or eldery; an election would be held to name a successor and the incumbent would pass over the baton.
President Ravenstill’s death turned the system upside down and on its head. So much so, that you ask the middle-aged man your sitting on the couch with what's going to happen to Panem now that the president’s dead. The platinum blonde man explained that the Senate would rule Panem with the help of the ministries and the late President Ravenstill’s cabinet.
Crassus also surprised you by announcing that he’s going to enter his name has a presidential candidate under the Old Guard political party. He also made a remark about how when he wins you'll be baking in the grand kitchen of the Presidential Palace. That you'll even be giving the palace bakers some of your recipes.
Everything feels so surreal; your entire day feels like a dream. A winter’s dream that can't be real, but in fact it's real. It's very real.
And to top off your day; mark the night as unbelievable, Crassus placed a hand on your chin only to tip your head to the side and capture your lips with a kiss.
A firm, but passionate kiss that caught you completely off guard.
You weren't expecting him to kiss you, but it only took a few seconds before your brain and body got on the same page and you're responding to his kiss. Your hands wrap around his neck as your lips press together. One of his hands goes to your hip while the other tangles in your hair.
You let out a breathy moan at the feel of his tongue sweeping along your bottom lip; asking silent permission to deepen the kiss. Permission that you granted by slightly parting your mouth just enough for Crassus to slide his tongue inside.
Your kiss with Crassus felt different then all the kisses you shared with Coryo- his son. Coryo's kisses always felt so needy and rushed, but with Crassus they're passionate albeit languid. It's as if the middle-aged man has all the time in the world to explore your mouth with his deeply impassioned kisses; to savor your reaction to his tongue tangling with yours, flicking against your bottom lip teasingly.
The way Crassus' lips firmly sweep over yours over and over again sparks a flaming heat inside of you. A need appears unlike anything you've ever felt before and, unable to stop yourself, you're slightly rolling your hips against him in an attempt to ease the growing ache in your core. And when Crassus breaks the kiss so the two of you can get some much need air into your lungs, you're looking at him wit lust in your doe-eyes.
Crassus can't help, but to flip you onto your back and smirk while slotting himself between your legs that have spread open on their own accord. He runs his knuckles along your cheek, only to hold your hip in his other hand. Crassus’ grip on your hip his strong, but sensual, as his other hand trails down your neck. Your chest heaves up and down as you look up at him, pupils blown wide.
“You feel what you do to me, petal?” Crassus asks, his voice low and thick, as he grinds his large cock, that's straining painfully in his pants, against your aching core.
The action has you soaking your panties. Just the feel of his bulge makes you ache, makes your pussy wetter then it already is. His cock, although trapped in the confines of his slacks, feel so large and heavy against your heated core.
“Crassus, please…” You moan needily.
"Shhh,” Crassus brings a finger up to your lips to shush you. “don’t make a noise, baby.” He dips his head down so his breath is fanning your face and his hand that's on your hip slides under your skirt, his fingertips teasingly sliding up and down your thigh. “We dont want mother to wake up now, would you?" Crassus rhetorically asks, nipping at a sweet spot right below your ear.
“We're really doing this here?” You ask, voice no more than a whisper, against his finger that was still resting against your lips.
Crassus trails his finger down your lower lip, that's bruised from his kisses, over your chin, and down the collum of your neck while telling huskily answering you with a low, “Yes.”
His lips captures yours in another searing kiss, one that shows off his years of experience, as his finger turns into his palm grasping at your breast. You moan into the kiss, your hands burying into his hair and your hips canting up slightly as Crassus toys with the wet patch right in the middle of your panties.
He pulls back from the kiss, only to slyly smirk. “I’m gonna prep you real good for my cock, baby.” Crassus scooted down the length of the couch until his head’s between your spread legs.
Legs that are shaking.
Crassus swiftly bunches your skirt up past your hips before curling his forefingers into the elestatic of your panties. “Lift your hips up for me, petal.” He orders in a low tone that's fire and ice to your ears.
Nodding, you do as you're told- resulting in Crassus pulling your panties off and licking a stripe up your wet cunt. He eases a long finger into your tight pussy while giving your clit a few kitten licks, causing you to wither from his touch.
Crassus' icy eyes hold your gaze as he slowly pumps his finger in and out of your pussy, his tongue flicking your clit expertly. You feel your cheeks grow hot, but you can't make yourself pull your gaze away from his. It's as if his light cerulean eyes have you under a spell. A spell you just can't find it in yourself to break.
Crassus pulls his lips away from your clit with a wet pop. With his eyes still on you, he says, “You're so tight, baby. I'm gonna add another finger, just let me know if it hurts.”, before slipping his middle finger inside of you alongside his pointer finger.
“I'm okay, Crassus. Please, keep going.” You told him, placing a hand in his platinum hair to encourage him to continue eating you out.
“As you wish, petal.” He tells you before going back to teasing your cunt with his skilled tongue while pumping his fingers in and out of your wet, tight hole.
Your breath hitches and you bite back a moan whenever you feel his fingertips curl up against the spongy spot hidden deep inside of you. He grins against your cunt at your reaction to his ministrations.
“Think you can handle a third finger?” Crassus asked, even tho he was planning on squeezing his ring finger into your dripping cunt no matter what your answer is.
He's a very blessed man when it comes to the size of his cock. He's large, both in length and girth, so he wants to stretch you out with his fingers as much as possible. Plus, the feeling of your tight cunt clenching around his fingers is sending all of his blood straight to his hard rock; making it even harder than he thought possible.
“I can handle it, Crassus.” You answer, chest heaving and voice wispy, as you feel a knot tightening in your lower belly.
Crassus wraps his lips around your clit, sucking hard, while stuffing you full with three of his long fingers. His ego was soaring as he heard your tiny, strangled moans mixed with the gushing sound your wet cunt made as he fingered you fast and hard while sucking and nipping at your clit. He groaned into your cunt as he felt your hands tightly holding his hair while shoving his face deeper into your cunt.
“Crassus, I'm close.” You tell him, bucking your hips in an attempt to find relief to the feelings quaking inside of you from the feelings of the middle-aged man's skilled fingers stretching you and his tongue swirling around your puffy clit.
Your thighs are shaking around Crassus' head, but he doesn't care. No, not when you're so close to cumming. Hell, he could die with his head crushed by your thighs and he'd die a happy man with your sweet tangy taste on his tongue.
His fingers curl against your g-spot just right at the same time his teeth graze against your clit, sending you over the edge. You cum with a silent scream, bucking your hips wildly.
It was unlike anything you ever felt in your life. You swear, you're seeing stars as you cum.
Crassus groans and laps up everything that you give him. You're messily dripping and all he can do is eagerly lick you clean. Oh, how your taste drives him wild.
He backs away from your cunt, only to look you in the eye while sucking your taste off of his fingers. “Sweetest thing I've ever tasted, baby.” Crassus smirks, his low tone oozing lust. And it has your cheeks flushing and your pussy growing wet- again.
Crassus quickly unbuckles his belt and pulls his pants down to his thighs. Your eyes widen as you see the large bulge pressing against his boxers, thanks to the glowing light the TV was casting in the room. You quickly realize, before he even pulls down his boxers, that Crassus’ dick is bigger than Coriolanus’. And that fact makes you both nervous and excited.
Crassus knows that once he enters your cunt he's a goner, that he'll most likely lose control. He's so pent up since his career at the Ministry of War along with his side job as an arms dealer; overlooking his assets in 13 doesn't leave him much time in his schedule to go out and fuck somebody. The gods know that he's always busy doing something.
But between his obsession with you and having your pussy in his grasp, well, he's sure that he's not sleeping a wink tonight. And neither are you.
“Sling your leg over the back of the couch, petal.” Crassus orders while pulling down his boxers; setting his very long and thick cock free to slap up against his stomach. A stomach that's still covered by his shirt. “I need your legs spread wide, as wide as possible, for me.”
“Okay.” You nod, adjusting your legs to spread wide in the way that he wanted them.
“Relax, baby, I'll take good care of you.” Uttered Crassus before pushing his cock into your wet cunt.
You bite your lip and claw at his muscular back as you feel his cock splitting you in two. Yes, you're not a virgin and had a big cock fucking you for a week back in late July/early August, but being stretched by Crassus' cock had you feeling like you're losing your virginity all over again. Clearly, your hole had tightened up after months of not being fucked- resulting in the uncomfortable feeling you're experiencing as the handsome man hovering above you pushes his fat dick into you at a steady pace.
Crassus knows your not a virgin since he didn't meet the resistance of your barrier, so he quickly realizes that you're so painfully tight because you haven't been properly fuck in a long time. Hell, he doubts you've been properly fucked at all considering the last man you most likely fucked wasn't a real man at all, but a green schoolboy.
“You can take it, baby. You took my fingers so well, I know you can take all of my cock?” Crassus praises and encourages you while sinking deeper and deeper into your tight cunt.
And when he's finally balls deep inside of your tight cunt, which is literally stretched to the max, his icy eyes roll to the back of his head and he lets out a tiny grunt.
Crassus gives you a couple of minutes to accommodate his size before he's pumping his cock in and out of your pussy at a steady, but deep pace. One of his hands is on your hip while the other’s resting on the thigh of your leg that's strewn over the back of the sofa. Your arms are wrapped around him, hands on his back, as you feel the veins of his cock gliding against your inner walls as he fucks into you- making you mewl.
“Remember, we can't be too loud.” Crassus reminds you, his deep voice a whisper that sending butterflies fluttering deep inside your belly.
“I’m n-not being t-too loud.” You protest, falling over your words and trying not to moan as you feel Crassus' cock hit your g-spot.
Your nails dig into his back and he triumphantly smirks. Oh, yes, you're enjoying this as much, if not more, then he is.
“Keep it that way and I'll reward you by letting you scream on top of your lungs when I fuck you in my room within the next half hour.” Crassus tells you, his husky voice dripping with dominance, as he fucks into you even harder.
You can't believe your ears. Crassus wants to fuck you again- tonight! And in his bed!
Something about that revelation does something to you; has you cumming around his cock while choking back a moan that wants to bubble out.
The feel of your tight cunt clenching around his cock along with the feeling of you creaming it triggers off Crassus' orgasm. He cums, painting your walls white with his seed, while kissing your lips feverishly to keep himself from moaning and grunting too loudly.
Fucking Crassus Snow wasn't just a one time thing. In fact, it was something that occured regularly between the two of you. So much so that you took to sleeping in his bed instead of in your own room.
You doubt that Grandma'am knew what was going on between you and her son. She never brought it up; never gave you odd looks either. In fact, she seems to smile every time she sees Crassus peck you on the cheek before taking off to do something, greeting you, or sending you on your way.
Plus, as time went on, Grandma'am seemed too occupied with Crassus' campaign for the presidency to pick up on anything happening in the penthouse. Whether that be lingering interactions between you and her son or your own building anxiety.
And of course Crassus was too busy with both his campaign and his work at the Ministry of War to notice you growing more anxious. Or at least that's what you thought.
But Crassus is a very observant man and he truly does notice your anxiety. He just thinks it's due to his campaign; that you're nervous about how he'll do in the primary election that's being held in a handful of months to determine the two presidential candidates that’ll go head to head in the main election for the presidency come November.
He has no idea why you're truly anxious.
Coriolanus isn't Private Snow anymore, but he's now Elite Officer Snow since he passed his exams, or at least Crassus told you that's what he heard from his contact. Crassus also told you that his son's most likely going to bring his district whore with him whenever he transfers to 2.
So, of course you're anxious about what to do when it comes to Coryo. Especially since all calls and letters from the younger Snow have ceased. You can't help, but wonder if he truly does want you to join him or if he really did bring a district whore with him.
A district whore he denied having in the first place.
And then there's the subject of Crassus, your lover and Coriolanus' father. You can't help, but wonder if fucking you’s just something he does to relieve stress since you're around. He's so busy with his career and politics that he rarely spends time with you, unless it's in his bedroom.
Yes, yes, he still taste tests your baking, but know he's having you bake for his campaign workers and volunteers that it feels like he's just testing what you bake to make sure that it's edible for his entourage. It doesn't feel like he's genuinely eating your baked goods anymore.
Unlike Coryo, Crassus has never once told you that he loves you. Hasn't even told you that he cares. At least Coryo claims to love you. If Crassus truly felt something for you, wouldn't he vocalize it?
You go on worrying yourself with so many thoughts of Coryo and Crassus until one day you finally receive a letter in the mail from the younger Snow. Crassus gives it to you, like he always does, before pecking you on the cheek and going to his office to do some paperwork for his campaign.
You read Coryo’s letter, only to discover that he's living at the Nut in 2 and wants you to join him. Enclosed in the letter’s a train ticket to District 2- dated for the following morning.
That letter has you reeling as you shove it along with the ticket back into the envelope. You place the letter on the desk in your room, a room you never use anymore.
You're weighing the words you read in the letter as you lay in bed, waiting for Crassus to join you. But when he finally does come to bed, he makes you forget all about the letter. At least he does for a little while as his body's on top of yours, fucking into your tight cunt with fervent vigor.
But as you're basking in the afterglow of your fucking with Crassus, you can't help, but to wonder what the two of you are. And the nagging question has you asking, “What are we? Do you even love me? Or am I just a stress reliever for you?", as you lay pressed into Crassus' side with your hand on his chest.
Your question starles Crassus. He blinks his pale blue eyes and the hand that's resting on your shoulder starts to rub soothing circles into it. He thought that you already knew what the two of you are, but now he knows he thought wrong. Looking down at you, he gives you the honest answer of, “You're not a stress reliever for me, petal. You're so much more than that. You're my second chance of a woman's love; you're my obsession, baby.”
Right there and then his answer soothes the worry in your soul and you decide to stay with him.
Crassus, not one for being overly affectionate since he is, after all a stern man by nature, decides to move past his love confession by changing the subject with, “Well, petal, I did promise to let you be in control of round 2 if I made a noise first.” With a smirk, he takes a hold of your hips and starts to guide you to straddle his waist while remarking, "We better get you on top, huh?”
And as you ride Crassus all thoughts of that letter and the train ticket disappear forever. It's just a piece of junkmail that you'll throw in the trash come morning.
Crassus, not one for giving up control, gives you the illusion that you're in control as he lets you ride in, but in fact stays in complete control of you by guiding your hips at the speed he wants you to go. He even pulls off his dog tags (he's never once taken them off because once a soldier, always a soldier) and puts them over your head; letting you wear them as you ride him. It's a way of marking you as his, having you wear his dog tags while fucking.
And when he grabs them, only to pull you down for a kiss, he nearly loses his mind whenever you tell him, “You're a good boy, Crassus.”, with your lips ghosting against his as you bounce up and down on his cock with ease.
Your words make him realize that you have a dom side; that you're a switch since you always let him be the dom in bed. It does something to him, makes his cock get impossibly harder, knowing that you can be dominant when you want. That you can say words of praise that sound filthy flowing from your lips in a tone that's a bit more sultry and masterful.
All of those sudden revelations had Crassus losing control. And suddenly, he's telling you, “Oh, I'll show you how good of a boy I can be.”, while bucking up into you at an unyielding and brutal pace causing you both to moan and grunt until you cum together.
You threw the letter containing the ticket to District 2 in the trash. You never told Crassus about it either. You didn't feel the need to since you picked him.
Coriolanus waited for you at the train station all day, only for you to stand him up. That made him angry. He was insulted that you didn't listen to him; that you most likely told his father about the plans for you to move to 2- that his father must've stopped you. Hell, Coriolanus felt like an idiot waiting for you only for you to stand him up.
As he walked home alone, Elite Officer Snow realized that his father had won. That General Crassus Snow had taken you from him.
He also thinks that you're a dumb bitch for not listening to him whenever he warned you about his father having a thing for you.
And a few months later, in October before the presidential elections are held, First Lieutenant Coriolanus Snow is invited to his father General Crassus Snow's wedding.
To your wedding.
Coriolanus didn't want to go, but went only because it'd look bad for his Air Force career if he snubbed his father's wedding. All of his superiors thought that General Crassus Snow, the war hero of the rebellion, was one of the best military minds on the planet. So, he was stuck going.
Coriolanus brought his wife, a pretty little thing from the districts, with him. He has her on his arm, all dolled up in a cerulean blue dress. Her hair's up in some simple updo so you notice the faint scars on her back, from where they pop out from her dress, right away.
And that's when you knew you made the right choice in picking Crassus. You remember that Coriolanus once told you a story about how he turned a girl in for thievery and helped her leave the town square once her punishment, a whipping, was done. You remember he told you that story when you confronted him about seeing somebody in District 8. But now you know that First Lieutenant Snow was using his charm to lie to you; that he really did cheat on you.
You suppose that he pulled some strings and sent for his district girl once you failed to show up at the train station in 2. You're glad that he's not alone, that he has his district whore- as Crassus refers to the girl as.
You got stuck sharing one dance with Coriolanus, being his new stepmother and all, and he let you know how he felt about you being Mrs. Crassus Snow during your waltz.
“It should've been me marrying you, not my father, Y/N.” Coriolanus told you, his face a mask of indifference as his baby blue eyes blazed with anger. “I can't believe you let him seduce you; steal you away from me.”
Narrowing your eyes at the man that used to be your best friend, you explain your situation with, “Crassus never seduced me or stole me from you, Coriolanus. We became friends while I was dealing with your absence and one thing led to another.”
“He'll never love you the way that I do, my darling rose.”
“Don't talk to me about loving me, Coriolanus. Not when you're married to some district girl.”
“My wife might be district but at least she's loyal to me, is grateful for everything that I've done for her- unlike you who jumped into bed with my own goddamn father.” Coriolanus darkly hissed before storming off, ending your dance and leaving you on the dance floor.
Crassus just raised a brow and asked you what happened once you left the dance floor and returned to his side at the table on the dias- high up on display in the ballroom since you're the newlyweds.
You just told him that you had Coriolanus didn't approve of each other's spouses and that he stormed off after trying to make his wife seem like a better woman than you. Crassus laughed and told you not to pay too much attention to his bratty son. That he's always been full of piss and vinegar when he couldn't get his way.
Crassus won the presidential election by a landslide. One of the first things he did was intergrade District 13 back into Panem. And since the former sovereign nation was a great source of income for Crassus due to his nuke factories there, District 13 was put on a pedestal. They had rights similar to those in the Capitol while the other 12 districts still had to participate in the games.
Yes, your husband kept the Hunger Games. You think it's because they're so popular, but the truth his your husband finds the way his drunken class project blossomed into a spectacle that the Capitolites adore fascinating. Plus, Crassus was a cold, stern man that was a military genius. The president saw the merits of keeping the districts under control by using the games as a lifelong punishment.
At least your husband did improve some of the living and working conditions in the Districts. He told you that that people needed a little bit of hope to keep from rebelings, but also a firm hand to guide them and keep them in line. Crassus said it was all checks and balances.
And when Dr. Gaul approached President Crassus Snow with an amendment that would have all children born in the districts, including ones born on PK Bases, be legal district citizens and registered for the games, well, your husband approved it.
You wondered how your brother felt about that. If he ever married his girl in 12, where he was serving as an officer in the peacekeepers, or if he had a family. You'd never know those answers since he disowned you after receiving your wedding invite. He was pissed about the situation, said some nasty things, and literally disowned you.
You never thought about Coriolanus and his wife, whether or not they had children. Why would you? Coriolanus never wrote, never had anything to do with you or Crassus being his ego was bruised by your wedding.
Talk about children, Crassus had given you three beautiful children. Two sons and a daughter. Javani, Xanthos, and Mara.
Javani was the oldest and he, to your surprise, favored your late father in looks and temperment. Or at least Crassus told you he did. In fact, your husband always chuckles that the only thing Javani got from him is his platinum hair while everything else is from your family's genes.
Xanthos and Mara are Snows inside and out, from dawn to dusk, tho.
And when Javani is 18 he's selected to be a mentor for the Hunger Games since he's a very intelligent young man and is in the top 24 of his class. But what made his mentorship memorial and unusual was that, by a twist of fate, his assigned tribute was his nephew.
Yes, Javani Snow’s tribute was Cassian Snow, from District 2. Cassian's the first born child of Major Coriolanus Snow and his wife, a district woman you never bothered to learn the name of.
And, it's sad to say, after seeing Coriolanus' son get reaped and assigned to Javani as his tribute to mentor, you know in your heart of hearts that you made the right decision in staying with Crassus; marrying him and becoming First Lady Snow. Because your children are safe from the games.
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Hi!!
I am totally obsessed with your fics!!! Your writing 🤌💕
I just wanted to request a fic where the reader is new to the task force but she's experienced and tough. Vibez similar to Ghost to elaborate she's more scary than Ghost cuz of her past maybe she was experimented on or trained brutally....
Reader is working hard to prove herself even if everyone knows she's the most lethal person. So one time she gets injured badly while protecting someone from the 141( probably Ghost 👉👈) and she wakes up has an emotional moment Ghost comes know about her Trauma . More like hurt/comfort....
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CW: Mentions/references of kidnapping, torture, canon typical violenece Part 2, Part 3 Hiii Anon!! First off, thank you! Secondly, I am so, so, so sorry for how long this took😭 I did make this a two parter, the first part is kinda like backstoryish and the second part will be the actual story. I was gonna wait until I finished both to post but you have been waiting for way to long so I'll give you the first part now instead of waiting, again I am so sorry! I hope you like it :)) Summary: F!Reader was a part of a special program(LMK if you can guess what it is) and once she was released she joined the military.
WC: 1467 As always, I didn't proof read so lmk if there are any mistakes :3
Life had not been kind to you. Ripped from your family at a very young age, you had never known the type of love and safety a nurturing home could provide. Instead, you grew up in the confines of a Russian base, with cruel instructors and a dwindling group of girls as your only companions.
From the moment you could walk, you had been told you were a weapon. A lethal force to be honed and trained, nothing more than a tool for others to use to further their games. Brainwashed, tortured, and trained into submission, a perfect puppet. Both your brain and body were sculpted into absolute perfection, a rigorous process most people did not survive. By day, they trained to be a lethal force, an unstoppable, unnoticeable, killing machine. At night, you were handcuffed to your bed, listening to the screams of students who did not make the cut.(to this day you sleep handcuffed)
You watched, at first in horror, then with a sense of detachment, as your friendsrivals bit the dust, unable to keep up with what the program demanded of them. It got better as you got older, less girls died from their tasks. But in some ways it got worse. It was a competition now, a fight to see who would remain victorious, to see who would come out on top. It was not a place for friendship and comradery, and you learned that quickly.
You stopped trying to make friends with the other students when you were forced to shoot your best friend in the head after giving her some of your dinner when she was being punished. You were 8. And you stopped trying to even just be friendly with the other girls at 10 years old, when the instructor broke every bone in your hands after your bunkmate framed you for something you didn't do. To this day your hands are not the same, always hurting and forever scarred.
Your world was kill or be killed, and you'd be dammed if you didn't come out on top.
And come out on top you did. You graduated top of your class, a position you had fought and killed for, won through bloodshed and pain. If you had a conscience, it would have been screaming at you for the things you had done to get to the top(You laid awake every night consumed by guilt and grief)
The program was disbanded(re: destroyed) when you hit 18, just two weeks after your 'graduation'. You were given two options: Join the American military, or face a life sentence in prison.
You had a lifetime of sins to atone for, and knew there was only one way to even begin to ease your guilt. Two days later your background was sealed up and you were shipped off to boot camp.
And you excelled. This was nothing to you. What was a six mile run when you used to run until you passed out, then wake up and keep going? What was surviving on four hours of sleep when sleep deprivation had been the norm your whole life? What was any of this compared to what you had been forced to do everyday since you were five?
You scared your instructors. And the other recruits. And everyone else you came into contact with. And you were fine with that. You didn't like when people got close to you anyhow.
Love got you nowhere in the world. It was a lesson you learned hard and fast. You did not care for others, they did not care for you. And you liked it that way. Until you met the 141.
A woman named General Laswell came to you one day with a job offer. Well, not a job offer exactly, but more of a…transfer of positions. A small, (mostly)four-man team that she oversaw.
You had gotten disciplined for beating the ever-loving shit out of a recruit the week before, and Laswell had watched it all unfold. She went back to her office, read your full file, and decided you would make a good fit for John's team.
You took a look at your bunk, at the trunk that held zero worldly possessions, realized there is nothing for you here, and said yes.
Price had not wanted a new recruit, and told Laswell as much. She simply said he had a penchant for picking up strays and left your file on his desk. It took him a week to actually get curious enough to read it. A paper copy, the only one in existence that had your full, undisclosed background. He pretended he didn’t see her smug grin when he hit accept on your transfer application.
You had been trained since youth to fight and to kill, yes, but your true purpose was espionage. You were trained to study those around you, to lie, to mold yourself to the expectations of those around you. You excelled at fitting into your surroundings, at assimilating perfectly with your peers. It was all you were good for, in your opinion. So you asked Laswell for files on your new teammates. And she gave them to you. They were full of gaping holes and redacted information, but there was enough there for you to profile them.
Soap would be the most receptive to you. He most likely would also be the one to not give up in trying to get you to be open with them. Gaz would be receptive as well, but you know that your sealed background would put him on edge, Ghost, well…Ghost was a lot like you from what you could piece together. Yet another person who learned that the world was cruel and unforgiving, who had learned the lesson that love does nothing but hurt. And because he was like you, you knew he would trust you the least.
You felt a small pang in your chest when looking at this masked photo that you hadn’t felt in years. Not quite sadness, but…pity? No. It was different, it was sympathy. It weirded you out.
It was hard at first, joining the 141. You had court-mandated therapy you had had to attend, and you had slowly come to realize that some trust was good, necessary even, for life. You knew you wouldn’t be able to open yourself up to them, that you would never be able to feel the sense of brotherhood you had seen amongst other soldiers, but you wanted to try.
It was harder than you thought it would be. Hard joining men who already had comradery, who had a bond that had been forged with blood, sweat, and tears. men who weren't sure how to fit another person, much less a female, into their group.
As you suspected, Soap was the most receptive. He was fun, you thought. His Scottish accent and affinity for filling the silence made him a very pleasant conversationalist. You didn’t have to do any of the talking.
Gaz was wary of you, but did a good job of not showing it. As you suspected, he stopped inviting you out after you said ‘no thanks’ for the third time.
Ghost didn’t like you. You could see it in the slight tensing of his muscles when you walked in the room, the way his eyes pinched when you spoke.
It was a rough, rocky start, full of distrust and misunderstandings. Everything about you set his senses on high alert. They way you could sneak up on him completely silent, the way you could hold your own when you sparred with him, even the way you moved had his hair standing on end. It wasn’t until a mission that would have ended with Soap's death if you hadn’t risked your life to shove him out of the way that Ghost began to trust you.
And then he began to notice something else about you. And the more he noticed, the more concerned he grew. He noticed the way you threw yourself into battle, what little regard you held for your own life. He noticed how you never instigated conversation, never gave away the slightest bit of information that could be used against you. Noticed that you always wore gloves. In fact, he's never once seen your hands.
His constant observations of you had an unintended side effect. The longer he watched you, the more he realized you were a lot like him, the more he was drawn to you. And vice-versa.
You found yourself willfully seeking Ghost out, willingly sharing information with him. Nothing about your past, no, you would never tell anyone the things you had done. But little things, how you liked the food served this week, how your mission went, that your new pants were really itchy. And he told you things too. Told you really bad jokes, told you Soaps stupid Scottish saying of the week. And slowly you branched out, agreeing to go to the bar the next time Soap asked you, telling Gaz that you liked his new sunglasses.
It was nice, having people who looked at you like you meant something to them. Having people who didn’t know what you’d done, people who didn’t look at you with disgust and distrust. It was nice to have…friends.
So of course everything had to go downhill from there.
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The Inevitable Things: chapter four
aizawa x reader fic
cw: cisfem reader, no quirks, office au, miscommunications, slow burn. full tags available on AO3 (linked in masterlist)
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Five messages.
Four texts, one video.
The message preview stares back at you, the LED screen aglimmer in the morning sun, screen bouncing with the tremor of your hand. You're breathing, you're sure of that, but you also think you may have died; no matter how hard you breathe, your chest feels like a popped balloon, deflated and too ripped to hold air. The rush of something whizzing past your ear must be blood, it's too resonant and all encompassing to be anything else--
Five fucking messages.
You can’t bring yourself to open any of them.
You stand there for longer than you’d like to admit, trying to process exactly what you’re looking at. Maybe it’s a glitch, or a typo, but when you turn your phone off and back on again, the unread messages pop up the same. Five unread messages from Aizawa Shouta. It makes sense logically; Aizawa is right above AVOID AT ALL COST in your contacts, you must have just clicked the incorrect thing in your drunken stupor--
But what doesn’t make sense is the fact that he replied-- and he replied positively. Aizawa Shouta does not respond positively to anything. Not the first cup of coffee in the morning, not his interns, probably not even kittens and rainbows, and yet he messaged you back. I’ve always wanted you. You refuse to reread anything from last night, but that sticks in your head.
I’ve always wanted you.
You think about it the entire train ride, nibbling on the edges of your nails to kill the anxious buzz that builds in your jaw. Maybe you should quit. You could change your name and move to some mid-sized city; that’d be easier than the inevitable mess you're headed towards. Suddenly, you miss yesterday, the yelling, the aggression--
It goes back to Touya. You know the question on everyone’s mind when they see you together, when they hear about the fights and the tension and the isolation: why? Why him, why stay, why wait, why, why, why? The answer is as simple as it is stupid: you stay because it's what you know. The turbulence feels like home.
It's like sea legs. When sailors are on boats for a long time, they stop feeling the rock and roll of each wave. It becomes easy to walk straight, to live life like normal, until they return to shore. There, on level streets, long after the tide has pulled away, is where the waves hit.
You've learned to live in rocky waters- you’ve practically perfected it. Touya is your ship and you know his yaws and keels better than you know stability.
This whole situation is the equivalent of stepping ashore and being immediately hit by a semi truck.
The train pulls into your station and you debate staying on for a moment too long. I’ve always wanted you. That sentence makes your stomach turn. What does that mean? Is it solely physical? Is it more?
No, it can’t be. This man hates your guts; there’s no feelings between you other than mild, stupid lust.
Which makes you debate your own feelings. He's certainly… well, he’s not ugly. You’d even say, maybe, perhaps, in the right angles, he’s attractive, especially with this thick thighs and thicker cock-
The train doors almost close before you can scuttle out. Focus, girl, focus. Fighting through your surprisingly aching body and returning headache, you briskly walk the rest of the way to work, trying to think about anything other than the shitshow you’re about to walk into.
Prome is a half mile walk from the station, with only one tiny dash across a busy road. It’s not ideal, but it’s the only option you have right now. The interns have started a carpool, but you’re too old to be riding with them. Besides, Bakugo Katsuki’s car is nice. It’s embarrassing the have worse things than a college student-
A familiar dented, red car squeaks to a halt inches from your ass, so close that you can feel the wind displaced. The squeal of tires steals your breath away and your body clenches in fear, so hard that your muscles scream. You jump and start blabbering in surprise, shouting out unearned apologies as you skitter back. It takes a second to gather yourself, but, when you do, you see a boy jut his head out of the window, all toothy smiles and bleach blonde hair.
“Hey!” he shouts. “If it isn’t my hero!”
“Denki?”
Kaminari Denki waves to you, sunshine personified behind the wheel of a truck without a bumper.
“Hold on, lemme park!”
The red monstrosity barely fits in a space. In its prime, it was probably a pretty car, but being owned by Denki clearly took a toll. The inside is littered with empty energy drink cans, clinking and sloshing as he throws the car into park and launches himself out. There's a reason he's not a part of the group's carpool.
“I could fucking kiss you right now!” He envelopes you in open arms, manhandling you side to side over and over in an overly friendly display.
“Oh, please don't-- Denki!”
He smashes his face into your cheek with a chaste, yet somehow wet smooch. When you try to squirm away, he doubles down; his lips actually make contact with yours, just for a moment, awful and impossibly damp.
“Ew, gross! Get off!” You pry him off and wipe the slime off of your lips with the back of your hand. “Don’t do that!”
“Sorry, my bad, I’m just--” he laughs, “Izuku told me you saved my ass!”
You don’t mention the fact you’re the reason he was in trouble in the first place because you're too busy processing this information.
“Aizawa rehired you?”
“He called me yesterday and apologized, which was, holy shit, it was insane,” Denki says, with a wave of his hands, like it isn’t a shocking turn of events. “What did you do?”
“Nothing, I just, uh--” You grimace at the thought. “I talked to Toshinori. And cried a little.”
In retrospect, it does seem like overkill, but it worked.
“Do that more often!” He goes in for another hug and you reluctantly let him. He smells like axe body spray and cheap deodorant. God, he’s so young-- even the accidental kiss feels dirty. You have to remind yourself that he’s early twenties, really only a couple years younger than you-- wait, no. You’re thirty. “I owe you my life! And my diploma!”
You still can't believe it. Aizawa, hard ass Aizawa, changed his mind? That couldn't be because of you. He's made people cry before, why would you be different-?
Oh. I've always wanted you.
That thought hits you like a punch to the gut.
Maybe it isn't just physical.
You have to shake your head to clear away that thought. You brush your clothes off and adjust yourself. “I’m just glad you’re okay.”
“I’ll buy you a coffee.” He coos as you walk in. The security guard gives you both a curious look, eyebrows wiggling conspiratorially. You just ignore that and focus on getting to your desk. It's almost nine; you're both late. “And anything you want-- alcohol, weed-”
“-We drug test here?”
“We do?” Denki gapes. “Fuck, good to know.”
Maybe saving him wasn’t a good career move. You make it to your desk and drop your stuff on the group. Denki has been following you like a puppy, nipping at your heels the whole way.
“Just… please don’t get fired again." You jerk a head towards his department. "Go do your work."
“Absolutely!” He prances down the hall, wrinkled tie flapping in his wake. “Thank you, thank you, thank you!”
You can’t believe he’s here. Truly. All of that worry and stress yesterday feels worth it as you settle into your desk. You clack a couple of keys to wake up your screen-- but there’s no response. After a moment, you try again, then again. A wiggle of the mouse does the trick, but the keyboard still doesn’t wake up when you try to type in your password.
Crap. You split that coffee yesterday. The circuit or whatever must be fried. Great. Today is going to be pretty unproductive if you don’t solve this issue.
Engineering probably has a couple of extras, but you aren’t sure you’re ready to walk straight into the lion’s den, especially now that you aren’t sure how you feel about it all. The fact he rehired Denki does make you feel a bit better; maybe Hizashi and Nemuri were right and he’s actually a good guy. And, you can’t deny that you’re a tiny bit attracted to him now that you’ve seen… everything.
Ugh, you need to make up your fucking mind and decide how you feel about all of this--
At that moment, Aizawa Shouta stomps down the hall, expression as flat and hard as ever. He looks the same as he always does, stupid yellow sweatshirt, messy black hair, under eye circles deep enough to worry about, but your chest hiccups at the sight. You don’t have a plan for this, no prepared speech or anything. For a moment, you wonder if he’s coming to kiss you or ravage you, like in one of those romance novels that are popular online-
And then he passes you and heads straight for the coffee machine. Relief washes over you, then confusion. Not even a hint of attention thrown your way. That’s fairly strange-- you usually get at least a nod or a lukewarm greeting. You push off of your chair and join him the the station.
“Hey, um-” Your idle hands dig into the sugar packets, jostling them side to side. The pitch of the coffee hitting the inside of his mug changes as he pours, pitch creeping higher and higher. His jawline is dusted with a five o’clock shadow, flickers of salt and pepper across his skin and down to the curve of his adam’s apple. You said something about shaving last night, you think. You wonder if he listened or if this is how it’s always been-
“Do you need something?” He interrupts your thoughts, not even looking away from the station.
“I-” What do you need? Confirmation? Reassurance? An explanation? “Uh-”
You suck in a breath and steel yourself, legs shoulder width again from that extra boost of stability. Your voice comes out as a whisper, much shakier than it should be. I've always wanted you. You don't feel the same, but maybe, just maybe, you could learn to.
“Yesterday-- or, uh, last night- I just want to--”
“Let’s save each other the embarrassment and forget everything that happened yesterday.” The coffee pot clinks back into place, only the legs of droplets left to cling to the glass. “We’re out, by the way.”
And with that, he’s gone.
And a second truck has sideswiped you.
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Little Game Pt. 2
Dracule Mihawk x F!Reader
Summary: Mihawk has found you once more after a month of hunting after you--a month of playing your little games. Found you in yet another poor excuse for a bar, except it seems you have forgotten all about your game. Forgotten and were dulling your usually sharp sense away with drink after drink. But Mihawk hasn't forgotten. Your game is still on and he plans on winning.
Tags: angst, fluff
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A/N: I'm soooo sorry it's been such a long time! I'm in my last year of college and it's absolute hell on earth and the work is insane. I hope you all enjoy! 🩷
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Mihawk had traveled thousands of miles from his Marine-ravaged home. Had smuggled himself onto cargo ships and luxury vessels to get to island after island. Had begged to join the first pirate crew he could find so he might learn to sail and build his strength. Had begged on his knees, forehead bowed so low it had touched the ground with anger-fueled tears in his eyes to the first swordsman he could find to teach him the delicate art of the blade.
Had begged on hand and knee to every swords master he came across to teach him. To help him draw closer and closer to that end goal he would do anything to achieve.
He would become strong. Become the greatest swordsman the world had ever known and then he would lay waste to the Marines. He would spare them no mercy, just as they had spared his home no mercy. Just as they had spared his mother no mercy.
It was a goal--no, a vow bound by blood and death herself that led him here to this small island. An island covered in ancient, towering trees. An island home to a secluded and unknown people. Home to the greatest swordsman of a long-ago era. A swordsmen who had lived 180 years and had never lost a fight.
His yellow eyes scanned the dark wood he had been warned was full of monsters--devils waiting to tear any traveler brave enough to enter its thick, fog-filled brush. His last master had warned him many men had gone in looking for the great swordsman to learn from him, just as Mihawk, but they never reached his log cabin at its center. They had hardly stepped foot into the wood before its guardian attacked.
Mihawk calmly stated he would be the first to make it. Would face this Guardian of the Wood and all its devilish monsters and win. He would find the great swordsman and prove to him he was worth his teachings.
The forest hardly looked dangerous. Especially when he spotted the yellow-gold petals of marigolds that he could see littered the leaf-covered floor.
No monster in sight. No devil. No Guardian.
Mihawk placed his hand over the hilt of his sword at his side and started into the dark forest. Had just passed a rather large bunch of marigolds when someone landed on the ground before him, having hopped down from their spot amongst the treetops.
Mihawk scolded himself for not having spotted the figure, knowing he would have seen them had he not been so preoccupied thinking about devils. The tip of a naginata pressed into his chest.
“Are you a pirate?” The voice that came from the figure was silky and calm, yet held dark danger within its melody. It was a voice unlike any other Mihawk had heard and its wielder was just as rare. You looked like some wood nymph. Like the mystical yet deadly creatures Mihawk had heard sung on the lips of pirates and sailors alike come to life.
“I am here for Rivers Achilles.” You frowned deeply, that sharp blade never leaving Mihawk's chest. He looked you over carefully. Looked over your well-trained stance, one only gained from practice and patience Mihawk knew all too well. Took in the fact you must be around Mihawk’s own age of fourteen. No. He could tell you were older. A year--maybe two.
“Do all you pirates have a monthly meeting to discuss such originality?” Mihawk narrowed his eyes the slightest bit. Watched your eyes spark like you enjoyed his small reaction.
“I do not have time to waste on some dirt-smug girl.” Mihawk saw you were hardly dirt smugged. You were pertinently clean as if you had washed before climbing up into that tree. He said it to snuff out that spark of enjoyment you had gotten from baiting his temper. An anger he was slowly training himself to wrangle away. “Now. Move before I move you.”
You laughed. A small thing that grew into an all-out bellow. It was a laugh that matched your darkness. Your rareness. It had Mihawk blinking, as if stunned at its sound.
“You step another inch in my wood, pirate, and I will break your nose.” You threatened, that dangerous tone laying in the background of your voice pooling thick like venom to its forefront. It was--intoxicating to hear. A sound Mihawk wanted to drag from you again and again.
“Are you the Guardian of the Wood?” Your shoulders rose and pride swelled in your eyes.
“If you have heard of me then you have heard of what I have done to many a pirate such as yourself. I make them disappear--vanish them from the face of the earth.” Mihawk watched you slowly. A slowness that sparked anger in your eyes.
It was an anger that Mihawk knew too well. An anger that matched his own in intensity and fury like some twin flame. Someone had hurt you--had taken someone from you, just as those Marines had taken his mother. Had left you feeling so weak and empty it left that anger to fester and grow out of control in you, just as it had in him. It was an anger he wanted to lash out at. One he wanted to direct his own anger at.
“I thought you would be--” He paused, letting his eyes roam over your body again in a bored manner. “--more.” That fiery anger flared brightly. Had your knuckles going white wrapped as tightly as they were around the staff of your naginata. “How disappointing to find you are just some feral, dirt-covered girl.” Oh yes--yes there it was. Such anger. Anger to match his own. Anger that would rival him like none other ever could.
Mihawk had hardly seen you move before you were bringing the staff of our naginata to ram into his nose. A sickening crunch sounded in Mihawk's ears as pain flared in his face, nearly blinding him.
A pain that blinded him from seeing you move to kick him hard in the chest, sending him flying out of the woods and back onto the black sand of the beach he had just landed on near minutes ago.
His anger flared then, but he could only blame himself. He had been distracted by your own anger. By your dangerous voice and your rare beauty. Stupid, idiotic distractions on his part.
“A runt such as yourself should know his place.” You hissed as Mihawk shoved himself to his knees, wiping the blood from under his broken nose as he laid his yellow eyes on you once more. Found you had left the darkness of your wood and stopped before him looking like some vengeful goddess fallen straight from the heavens. “My father does not wish to waste his time training the likes of pirates. Weak pirates such as yourself, runt.”
Your father was Rivers Achilles--yes, it made sense now. Your rarity made sense. Your strength and skill. Your father was no ordinary man, therefor his offspring would be just as inordinary--spectacular.
“I am no runt and I am not weak. I will pass you. I will bow before Achilles and he will train me.” Mihawk declared, cold sea water spraying at his dark leather boot-covered feet. “Your little game will do nothing to stop me from becoming the greatest swordsman this world has ever seen.”
That excited spark flashed in your icy eyes again. A spark that flickered and twirled with your anger. A wicked, cat-like grin crossed your face--a grin that was so stunning it nearly stole Mihawk's breath away--did steal it.
“Game on.”
Mihawk had been tracking you for a month now. A month longer than he liked, but you never gave up the chase. Never slowed or stopped long enough for Mihawk to grab hold of you. All he ever saw of you was the trail of perfect chaos you left behind.
He had followed you through the North, South, East, and West Blues. Had followed you into the Grand Line, full of all its dangers, and back, only to follow you right back into its mysterious waters. And just when he thought he had caught up to you, would have you within his grasp, you had disappeared like smoke between his fingers.
Despite how long his pursuit of you had taken, he found it excited him. Had him looking forward to the coming dawn, something he had long ago started to dread.
He assumed it was because you excited him--had always kept him on his toes. You were a rare woman. One that had always challenged him in skill and wit--that matched him as perfectly as one could match another.
Part of him wished you would just give in. Come with him back to Kuraigana Island and let him indulge you in every luxury he had ever wanted to give you. It was a foolish wish, but one he held regardless. One he knew would never come true unless he won this little game of yours.
A game you seemed to have forgotten for the night, because here you were, in another run-down, dirty, overcrowded bar on some backwater island in the Grand Line, drunk out of your mind. It was unlike you, to be this careless. Not when it came to your games--when Mihawk was playing them just as you had wanted.
But there you were, downing the last of your beer, hardly grimacing at the taste as he knew you usually would, too drunk to even taste it. There you were, looking so--exhausted. It was an exhaustion Mihawk knew too well--that weight heavy on his shoulders as it seemed to do you. An exhaustion that had Mihawk pausing. Almost had him leaving this too-small bar and all its too-drunk inhabitants.
Almost.
A drunk man bumped into Mihawk with a slurred apology, but he hardly heard it. Hardly even felt the pathetic man running into him. Not when he was so close to you. Not when he was so close to winning the game you had started.
“Why is it you continue to frequent such nightmarish establishments?” Mihawk's voice should have had you sobering up. Should have had you scrambling to escape back out to sea and leave him and this island far behind. But his voice--so smooth and calm and utterly bored had you tingling in excitement.
You had missed his all-too-calm dementor. Had missed him, his face, and his stupid hat.
On a small hiccup, you turned to look up into those piercing yellow-gold eyes you had missed the most. Eyes you wished you could look into forever.
With your thoughts fogged nicely thanks to the copious amounts of alcohol you had consumed, you had no embarrassment or strength for good decision-making when you placed your palm over top of his hard-earned abs. The warmth of his skin seeped into your freezing fingers as you ran them over his skin.
“Mi-hic-hawk.” You purred up at the unamused man, all but fighting against your hiccups. You flashed him a sly grin. “How’d you find me?” You slurred horribly.
“You are being sloppy.” You hummed as you brought your other hand to run along his skin, taking in his warmth and power that all but radiated off of him in dangerous waves.
“You always know just how to--hic-- sweet talk a girl.” You said, running your hands around his waist, where they disappeared under his dark jacket. Where they felt the equally as strong muscles lining his lower back. “Say something mean to me again, Mihawk. Pretty--hic--please.”
Mihawk blinked down at you for a single moment before swiftly removing your hands from his body. You pouted, going to grab for him again, but he brushed you off once more. “Stop.” You whined pathetically, “You’re being mean.”
“You asked me to mean,” Mihawk said the fact simply in that overly bored manner he hid behind. With a huff, you stopped your attempts at touching him and crossed your arms over your chest.
“I didn’t say sh-hic-oo me away.”
“You are drunk, Y/N.” You rolled your eyes dramatically, turning back around on the bar stool you sat on to find the bartender again.
“And you’re not. It’s --hic-- boring.” You hissed as the bartender came over. “I will have your finest beer and my --hic-- best friend will have your oldest wine.” The woman’s eyes darted to Mihawk making you fix her with an icy glare. Her eyes looked a little too long in Mihawk's direction. Had looked over his face and body for too long. “Don’t look at him. I can only look at him.” She was quick to snap her eyes away, her face going pale in utter fear.
“Y-yes ma’am. We-we only have a red blend from a year ago.” You sighed.
“He will deal with it.”
“Y/N, we are leaving,” Mihawk said as the woman rushed off. You gave another dramatic sigh, turning back to face him. Those yellow-gold eyes had never once left you and you couldn’t help but enjoy being in their sights.
“Mihawk, we are--hic--not. I just ordered.” He continued to look unamused. Continued to fix you with his own sharp stare. One that never quite seemed to overpower your own. “Is it because I ordered you bad wine?”
“Bad wine or not we are leaving.” You narrowed your eyes up at him. Narrowed them so sharp you willed them to cut him open.
“It’s my--hic--day off. If you are going to be a party pooper then you should --hic-- leave.” It was the exact opposite of what you wanted him to do, but you had landed on this island to get drunk. So drunk you would hopefully wake up with dark spots in your memory.
“I will. With you.” He insisted. You rubbed your eyes roughly, that exhaustion you had come here to escape returning with a vengeance.
“You are such an --hic--asshole.”
“Poetic.” Mihawk monotoned. You hissed, yanking your hands away from your face and flinging them up in the air.
“I’m drunk, Mr. Smarty-Pants. Leave me be.” Your beer was placed before you and you were quick to scoop it up. The bad glass of wine went untouched by Mihawk. “Do you want to know --hic-- something?” You asked the bartender who hesitated. Hesitated and stayed after you fix her with your icy glare once more. “This--hic-- guy acts all tough but really --hic-- he wants to leave because all these people are making him--hic--itchy. He’d rather just sit on his pert little ass in the dark.” You said, a giggle leaving your lips.
The bartender’s eyes darted back to Mihawk and you slammed your fist on the countertop, making the glasses rattle and the bartender nearly jump out of her skin. “I said don’t look at him.” You watched her chest heave up and down in fear as you took a long sip from your beer. “Talking about pert little asses. Mihawk once ran naked--”
“Enough, Y/N.” Mihawk all but commanded you, making you tense. It was a command you bristled at--made your anger begin to heat in your chest rather quickly. Too quick for you to grab hold of and control, especially when you were this drunk. “We’re leaving.”
“Fuck you! Fuck you and fuck the Marines and --hic--fuck you again.” You hissed, standing from your stool only to nearly fall off it in the process. Mihawk stayed planted in his place, even when you ran into him during your oh-so-graceful fall. “You can’t tell me what to--hic--do.”
“You are stumbling around like a no-good drunkard. Collect yourself.” You stomped your foot and pushed Mihawk with another hiss like some child. The swordsman hardly seemed to even feel your attack. A fact that had you seething and going to do it again, but he grabbed your wrists in a tight hold. “Enough.” He commanded again. You yanked against his grip but it stayed strong.
“Let me go.” You hissed at him, yanking again.
“We are leaving. Whether you do so on your own two feet or I carry you out makes no difference to me.” Your anger surged in your chest. Surged in defiance at his orders. You were not one to be ordered around. Especially by him.
“You will unhand me this instant or I will--hic--break your nose.” Something flashed in Mihawk's golden eyes. Something--sad. A sad that called to your own sadness which had been welling and pooling within your chest for years now. Pooling to the point of near flooding. A flood you resorted to drinking to dam it up.
Mihawk’s grip around your wrists fell, but he made no sign of leaving. Made no sign of moving a single muscle from his spot before you. Made no sign of giving up on his declaration of leaving this bar with you in tow.
In your drunken state, you thought this was a perfect opportunity to draw your black blade, which you had left uncovered at your hip. You swung, your muscles moving on near memory, at the frustrating swordsman before you, causing the bartender and a few people around you to scream out in fear.
Mihawk sidestepped your attack and before you could blink, your sword was skillfully pulled from your grasp and you stumbled forward with a roar. “Give it--” Your words were cut off by a yelp as Mihawk grabbed you up in his strong arms, throwing you over his shoulder.
Your right shoulder hit Yoru’s hilt painfully and you had to quickly throw your hands out to stop your face from colliding with the black blade strapped to his back. Mihawk wrapped an iron-like arm around your thighs to keep you in place before starting for the exit.
Your vision blurred from the sudden movement, but it didn’t stop you from pounding on Mihawk’s powerful back and kicking your feet as best you could in your weak attempt to escape. His hold on you never lessened, only seeming to tighten in your struggle.
“Let me go, Mihawk!” You shouted, pulling yourself up enough to try to catch of glimpse of his face, only for his stupid hat to hit you in the face. You gave a frustrated little growl. “This is not fair! I’m drunk!”
“Drunk or not, you started the game. I plan on finishing it.” You huffed in frustration, punching his back once more to no avail.
The bar fell away and soon you were being carried through the night-filled streets of the backwater village you had found. You continued to fight against his hold until your stomach stirred nauseously and your vision blurred to the point you could hardly see.
With a pathetic moan, you let your body go limp against his back, your body bouncing with every graceful step he took. It only made your nausea grow, but you were too dizzy to do anything about it.
“Tire yourself out?” Mihawk asked something like amusement finally filling his smooth voice.
“I’m going to vomit all over your fancy little sword.” You murmured, making the man sigh deeply through his nose.
“Are you serious?” You moaned, feeling bile rise in your throat. Your world spun and blurred around you as Mihawk dragged you off his shoulder, a movement that only had that bile rising sharply and your mouth filling with hot spit. You were placed on your feet, but your knees gave out with little warning. Tiny rocks dug into the flesh of your palms and into your kneecaps.
You cursed, taking deep breaths of the chill night air, hoping to settle your upset stomach. Maybe you had overdone it on the drinks--but unfortunately for you, this is what you had set out to accomplish, and sober you knew she wouldn’t have to deal with all of this nastiness.
You had just opened your mouth to relieve your aching stomach when strong hands collected your hair away from your face. Hands that held your hair in a manner so soft you hardly felt it. You vomited before you could think much more on whose hands were holding your hair up.
“Why were you in that bar, Y/N?” Mihawk asked, voice low and so--gentle. As gentle as the man could make it seem. You huffed in and out deeply, catching your breath.
“Why do most people go to --hic -- bars? To get drunk.” You hissed as best you could between breaths. Bile rose in your throat and your stomach rolled once more. Gods--
“Yes,” He sighed, annoyed at your comment. “But you don’t go to bars to get drunk. Not when you are set on a task. Not ever.” You huffed a moan before throwing up once more.
“I’ve changed.” You huff out, catching your breath once more. Mihawk was quiet behind you. A quiet that ate at you more than you wished to admit. Your vision blurred again. But it was a blur that had nothing to do with the alcohol and everything to do with the tears welling in your eyes.
You had drunk too much. Way too much if it was bring you to tears. Tears you could do nothing about to control, not in the state you were currently in. Not when the man making you cry was behind you, holding your hair like there was nothing wrong between the two of you. Like you were back on your home island, stealing alcohol from your father and sneaking off to the only bar on the whole island.
Your home. Your father. Your forest. All gone. Just like that in the blink of an eye. How had it happened? How had you let it happen? You had been your home's Guardian, just as your mother before you, and her mother before her. It had been your job, your responsibility to protect it from such dangers.
It had been your life's purpose and you had failed. Failed and lived. Lived when you should have died protecting it.
“Y/N--” Mihawk started, but you swatted his hands away as you turned your body away from your puke. You buried your face in your hands to keep the swordsman from seeing your tears. From seeing your weakened and broken state.
“Leave me be. Please.” You all but begged. Gods you were pathetic. So far from the proud and strong person you had once been in your youth. So old and angry and tired.
“I’ve seen you at your lowest. Some sick and a few drunken tears are hardly going to deter me.” He said on a sigh like you should have already known that.
You pulled your face from your hands to glare at him where he knelt behind you. To tell him to leave on a venomous hiss--to throw insults his way, but his hand disappearing into his jacket pocket caught your eye. It reappears with a golden hair clip, diamonds sparkling in the lamp lights as he showed it to you.
“That’s my--” You started in disbelief.
“You forgot it on my ship when you left.” He said, handing it to you. You took in gently in your hands and before you could even begin to process everything, his hands were in your hair once more. He gently pulled and twisted it, mimicking how you had done your hair a million and one times before without so much as a thought of his ever-watchful gaze. His free hand plucked the golden clip from your hand and nestled it securely in your hair.
He had kept it. Had not only kept it, but had kept it on his person. Kept it close and ready to use if you ever needed it once more.
When he was done, you turned to stare bug-eyed up at him, tears still refusing to halt their endless fall. Calm. He was always so calm. A calm that frustrated you and grated on your nerves to no end, but was such a familiar, comforting presence. A presence you had yearned to be around more than you yearned to hunt down every last Marine you came across.
Hesitantly, he reached for you. So hesitantly he gave you enough to slap him away, but you made no move to do so. Made no move to stop him as he brushed your tears away with his thumb.
His touch sent your eyes watering all over again. His touch and his actions were so gentle and kind and so utterly unfair. So unfair because you couldn’t give in. Not now. Not for a long, long time.
Gods how you wanted to give in.
“I can’t--I can’t go with you.” You said in a low, grave tone. Mihawk brushed his thumb over your cheek once more before pulling away, making you feel that cold aloneness you had been trying to chase away with drink. He gave the slightest of nods.
“I know.” He said just as lowly, his face seeming to harden further. You watched him grab your black blade, which he had placed on the ground beside him. He resheathed it at your side skillfully and reached for you again, grabbing you under your arms and lifting you to your feet. You swayed like a great gust of wind had blown into you, your drunkenness having yet to wear off.
Mihawk hardly made a single sound before he was lifting you off the ground once more. Made no sound as he prompted you to wrap your arms around his neck and your legs around his waist. You did so without much thought, the action having been memorized by your body.
It was something the two of you had done many times over the years, whether it be you clinging to his back or front. Whether it be because you were too drunk or injured to walk, you would cling to him and he would hold you tight. It was something he had grumbled endlessly about the first few times you’d insisted upon it, but had slowly grown used to it to the point he would pick you up as such without your prompting.
Your eyes catch his own briefly. Eyes so bright they were like the sun. A sun your soul begged to orbit one more, but your pride beat it down. Had you looking away and placing your cheek on his shoulder, taking his rose and expensive cologne scent deep into your nose so that you might hold on to it for that much longer.
Mihawk felt like a teenager again, holding you like this. It was--refreshing, though if anyone of importance saw him in such a way, there was sure to be trouble. But for now, in this small village in the middle of the Grand Line, he could get away with it. Could hold you close and keep your seemingly ever-cold body warm.
He had marked where your ship was docked before he had ever docked his own, so finding it again was hardly a chore.
Your ship was just a tab bit larger than his own, still designed for a single crew member to sail, but large enough for a much more spacious sleeping quarters and kitchen. That had been something you had complained about endlessly when having sailed with him on his own ship.
He readjusted his hold on you so he might open the door that led to the inner workings of your ship. It was neat and tidy, just as his own was, though the walls covered in numbers and markings were unlike anything on his own ship.
They were Marine branch numbers, ones you had come across during your journeys. Underneath each number were tally marks which he assumed represented how many ships you had destroyed flying those same numbered flags. The branches you had completely whipped off the face of the earth he found were crossed out.
It was impressive how many Marines you had wielded your perfect chaos against. Impressive and worrisome because he knew as the number grew, the more you would be noticed. And the more you are noticed, the more likely it was they would send another one of the Warlords to slaughter you.
Garp had warned him of this the last time they spoke. Had commanded Mihawk to get you under control or you would be spared no mercy. It was Mihawk's first and final warning to stop you before you got yourself killed.
And as much as Mihawk wanted to take you away to his new home, to keep you out of the prying eye of every last Marine and pirate that sailed the seas, he knew he needed to wait. To play your game and win it, or there would be no victory. No having you back by his side.
You had fallen asleep sometime during the walk, so you made no fuss as Mihawk placed you in bed. You merely grumbled something in your sleeping state as he pulled your boots off and took your sword from your side, propping it against the wall.
He watched you for a long moment. Watched your softened features as you slept.
So rare. You were too rare to let go. To give up on and allow to die. You were Mihawk’s twin flame. A flame he would fight and die for if given the chance. You were the only person alive he would truly bend to.
And bend he did by letting you go. By playing your little game. A game he vowed to win the right way.
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Playing Pretend
Omega likes playing pretend, but one day her games aren't so pretend anymore.
Another silly entry for @star-farer's Ik'aad AU! I took the idea of using games as "training" and ran a mile with it. Hope this is a good welcome back from break surprise!
Omega crept into the cockpit, making her best effort to remain silent, her eyes fixed on her quarry: Tech’s spanner. The man himself sat in the pilot’s chair, his back to her as he read something on his datapad, and the spanner lay on the console a few feet away from him. His spanner was one of the tools she was allowed to touch, and she was eager to take it. Boredom had set in, and she was ready to play one of her favorite games.
She stole up to the console, using every ounce of stealth she had been taught. Tech remained unaware up until the moment she wrapped her fingers around the spanner, when she dropped all attempts at being sneaky. She turned and ran from the cockpit, stopping a safe distance beyond the door.
“This is mine!” she proclaimed, holding the spanner aloft triumphantly.
Tech swiveled in his chair, giving her an amused smile. “Is the tool thief making a reappearance?”
Omega could not help a mischievous grin; he was going to play with her, and she loved this game. “Yes!”
“I suppose I have time for one round…” Tech put aside his datapad and leaned forward, his voice dropping. “You have ten seconds.”
Omega’s eyes went wide. That was far less time than she was usually allowed. She turned and scampered away into the Marauder, filled with the frantic anticipation of the game as she sought out her best hiding spot. The place she considered the most hidden was a small compartment beneath the gunner’s mount. Empty of cargo save for a small pile of canvas, it was perfect for a girl her size to conceal herself, and she scrambled into it quickly, hiding behind the canvas.
She huddled in the dark, waiting. There was silence for a few moments, then footsteps thudded on the floor, sending vibrations through her as they got closer. She resisted the urge to wriggle out of sheer excitement; she had stolen Tech’s spanner and got away with it.
“Gonky, did you see the little thief who stole my spanner run by?”
Gonky replied with a series of honks.
“I don’t remember programming you to be so unhelpful.”
Omega grinned to herself, fighting to remain silent as the exchange unfolded nearby. She had learned that staying quiet was an important part of hiding; it took longer to be found if she could keep from laughing, but sometimes it was very hard.
The footsteps moved around some more. “It’s a shame she ran off with it. I think Hunter might actually cry if he has to go without his vibroblade any longer.”
Omega could not help a laugh as she envisioned Tech’s words. She pressed a hand to her mouth, but the giggles slipped out regardless.
“Hm, it seems my ship has suddenly obtained a sense of humor…”
Omega braced herself as the footsteps drifted closer to her hiding place, giving up on trying to stop laughing. After several long moments, Tech’s boots appeared in her line of sight outside of the compartment, and she could restrain herself no longer. With a wild yell, she scrambled out of the compartment as fast as she could, darting between Tech’s legs with the spanner in hand. She made a clean getaway, until she remembered the Marauder’s hatch was closed, preventing her from beginning an outside chase. She paused briefly to think about where to go, and that was long enough. Her feet left the floor and she shrieked, only to dissolve into helpless laughter as she was swung up then sideways, landing safely in Tech’s arms.
“An excellent attempt,” Tech said, smiling down at her, “but I’ve caught you. Give it back.”
Omega held the spanner close, refusing to return it not out of stubbornness, but with the knowledge that this was part of the game as well. “It’s still mine!”
“Are you sure you want to risk refusing?” Tech asked teasingly. “The consequences are dire.”
“Mine!” Omega insisted. She started trying to escape his hold, though her attempts were largely thwarted by her own laughter in the anticipation of what was coming. A new stream of squealing giggles burst from her when a set of fingers tickled her sides mercilessly. “Noho!”
Tech kept a tight hold on her, jointly trapping her and ensuring she didn’t fall no matter how hard she flailed and laughed. “I did warn you, didn’t I?”
In the midst of Omega’s squirming, the spanner finally dropped from her hands to the floor, and she giggled out, “Lemme go you…you villy-an!”
Tech stopped his attack due to his own laughter. “I believe you mean villain, sweet one.”
Omega twisted in his arms, stabbing an accusing finger at him despite being all smiles as she corrected herself. “You villain!”
“That’s right.” Tech bent, picking up the fallen spanner. “Though I argue that you are just as much a villain as me, since you stole my spanner in the first place.”
“Again!” Omega cried, reaching for the tool. “Lemme hide wif it again!”
“I’m sorry, but I don’t have time,” Tech said, holding the object beyond the reach of small, grasping fingers. “I need to fix Hunter’s vibroblade sheath before he tries to do it himself.”
Omega pouted at him. “But it was fun.”
Tech sighed, stowing the spanner in his tool belt. “I know, but the others will be back soon. Simply be patient like you are when you hide. Can you do that for me?”
Omega gave up on the pout, knowing that she was not going to win this one. “Yeah…”
“Thank you, sweet one.” Tech pressed a kiss to her hair before gently depositing her on the floor.
Omega was not pleased, but she did what he asked and returned to her self-contained play. However, as was promised, she did not have to wait long.
“Omega, they’ll be back any minute!” Tech finally called from the cockpit.
Omega shot to her feet, cackling to herself as she scampered off to another one of her hiding spots. This one was less difficult to find, since she merely huddled behind a pile of clothing and blankets underneath one of the bunks, but it was the closest one to her.
Minutes later, the remaining three men returned with their usual clangor. At first, there was a little confusion regarding why they were not being greeted by an exuberant little girl, until they noticed the small set of toes protruding from beneath Wrecker’s bunk, visible through a child’s oversight of every appendage’s visibility.
“We’re back!” Wrecker called, a knowing smile appearing on his face.
Tech stepped from the cockpit, his eyes briefly darting down to the accidental evidence of Omega’s location. “So I gathered.”
“And where’s the kid?” Hunter asked, feigning ignorance.
The corner of Tech’s mouth curled up. “I don’t know. She was in here just a moment ago.”
“Don’t tell me you’ve lost her again.” Wrecker inserted just enough mock outrage into his tone to pull an eye roll from Crosshair and a poorly smothered giggle from beneath the bunk.
Tech shrugged. “She can’t have gone far.”
“Well, I don’t see any sign of her.” Hunter extended his foot, touching the toes ever so lightly with his boot and causing them to vanish with a surprised squeak. “Nothing at all.”
“Oh, what a shame,” Crosshair drawled, setting aside the food they had brought from the local market. “I guess we’ll just have to leave without the little monster.”
“Wait, here I yam!” Omega burst from her hiding place like a small juggernaut, latching onto the nearest set of legs—Hunter’s—with a horrified expression. “Don’t leave!”
Hunter bent, drawing a reassuring hand over Omega’s hair. “We wouldn’t leave you, kid.”
“And you are already on the ship,” Tech reminded her gently.
“Oh…” Omega relaxed as she unraveled the logic, blinking back the frightened tears that had threatened to fall.
“Crosshair didn’t mean it,” Wrecker said, aiming a frown at the sniper. “It was a joke, a really bad one.”
Crosshair snorted. “Excuse me for trying to have a sense of humor.”
Omega gave him a withering look that could rival his own, then crossed her arms and turned her back on him with a harrumph.
Wrecker barked a laugh. “Ha! See? You made her mad.”
“Oh, don’t be like that.” Crosshair reached out, snagging the girl around her middle and drawing her towards him. “I’m the only one allowed to give the silent treatment on this ship.”
Omega maintained a fierce scowl even as she was settled on Crosshair’s lap.
“Would it help if I said sorry?” Crosshair asked, resting his chin on her hair.
Omega’s expression loosened slightly, but she held her silence.
“Well, I suppose I’ll have to find someone else to eat this candy…”
Like a switch had been flipped, Omega’s anger vanished as she turned on Crosshair with wide, eager eyes. “I want candy!”
The battle was already won, but Crosshair decided to tease her a little more. “I thought you were mad at me.”
“No m’not!”
Crosshair raised an eyebrow. “Are you sure?”
“Yes!” Omega gave him the most earnest look she could muster. “M’sure!”
“Alright, fine.” With a begrudging grumble that was only for show, Crosshair fished the promised treat from one of his pockets, dropping it into waiting hands.
Omega tore into the brightly-colored wrapping, only remembering after a moment to shout, “Fank you!” before stuffing a glob of gummy sweetness in her mouth.
Hunter eyed Crosshair disapprovingly. “You spoil her too much.”
Crosshair smirked back. “You’re just mad because I’m her favorite.”
“That’s the biggest lie you’ve ever told—”
“Hey!” Wrecker called, interrupting the argument before it truly began, “these supplies aren’t gonna unpack themselves!”
Hunter threw Crosshair a glare before going to help Wrecker, but the sniper ignored it in favor of the little girl in his lap. “So you were hiding from us when we got back, were you?”
Omega nodded, swallowing her candy before offering him a blue-stained smile. “Did you see me?”
“No, except for these.” Crosshair pinched lightly at her toes, making her giggle and squirm. “Just because you couldn’t see them doesn’t mean they were hidden.”
Omega furrowed her brow, considering his words with as much thought as she could muster.
“You’ll get it next time,” Crosshair assured her.
Omega turned wide, hopeful eyes on him. “Will you play wif me?”
Crosshair huffed. “Maybe later. I think Hunter and Wrecker need help.”
That diverted Omega’s attention. In a matter of seconds, she had clambered down from Crosshair’s lap ungracefully, running off to assist with unloading the supplies. Now freed, Crosshair stood and wandered over to Tech’s side. “I assume you were observing her.”
“Yes, and she is showing great improvement,” Tech replied. “Her self-awareness is still a little lacking, but she is getting faster at hiding herself. She came close to meeting my ten second ultimatum.”
“Ten seconds?” Crosshair hissed. “You sound like the trainers on Kamino.”
Tech frowned. “It was merely to test her speed. I did not begin searching until she was hidden, regardless of the time limit.”
“Of course.” Crosshair sighed, though a knowing smile tugged at his lips. He had played the same game just as many times as the rest of them. “Where’s the fun in that?”
Tech studied him thoughtfully. “I have been considering introducing some basic aspects of navigation in the dark, perhaps through your knowledge…”
“Tech.” Crosshair’s exasperation returned full force. “You’re overcomplicating this. It’s just a game.”
“Hopefully that is all it ever will be.” Tech shrugged. “It is not meant to be some sort of training regimen. I only want to increase the chances of her safety, if she were to end up in danger.”
“I know.” Crosshair glanced at Omega, who was now seated on Wrecker’s shoulders, asking questions about every item they had brought back. The thought of her facing any sort of danger sent an unpleasant shiver down his spine. “I’ll see if I can come up with something, so long as you take responsibility for any injuries, real or imagined.”
Tech smiled crookedly. “Agreed.”
“Havoc One, checking in.”
Omega reached for the Marauder’s comm. “I read you loud and clear, Havoc One.”
“Good.” There was an audible smile in Hunter’s reply. “We shouldn’t be gone more than a couple of hours.”
“And we’re bringin’ food back, so don’t eat anything!” Wrecker chimed in.
“He’s just saying that because he wants more to himself,” Crosshair grumbled.
Omega snickered to herself before answering, “I won’t, I promise.”
Hunter’s sigh crackled through as Wrecker shouted something in the background. “We’ll keep you posted.”
“Okay…I mean, copy that.” With Omega’s reply, a quiet fell over the Marauder. She had been left alone on the ship several times after overcoming a degree of separation anxiety, and the resulting stillness was odd in a space normally crowded by six people. However, she did not mind staying behind this time; she was exhausted after several difficult treks over the preceding days, and no one else seemed particularly excited about being at Batuu’s primary spaceport.
Hunter had made it clear they were getting in and out as fast as possible, and Crosshair had likened the spaceport to a skughole. Just looking out the viewport was enough to give Omega an idea of what kind of place Batuu was. It was worse than Ord Mantell with a dingy spaceport and an even dingier city beyond it. She was content to stay on the ship and start on her somewhat self-appointed task.
“Gonky!” she called. “Are you ready for your bath?”
Gonky’s response was laced with indignation.
“It’s the droid version of a bath,” Omega huffed, grabbing the wire brush from Tech’s pile of tools. “Do you want to be clean or not?”
Gonky grumbled.
“Don’t worry.” Omega patted the droid’s tarnished side. “Hunter and Tech told me how to do it, and I’ll be careful. I know I painted on you a lot when I was small, so I guess I owe you this.”
At that, Gonky tittered, and Omega blushed.
“I wasn’t that bad,” she said, shaking the brush at him threateningly. “And if you’re going to be like that, I can just let Wrecker do this later.”
Gonky wobbled like the idea frightened him.
“I’m just kidding, I’ll do it.” Omega grabbed an old blanket from underneath one of the bunks. “Now come stand on this, so the dirt doesn’t get on the floor…”
She got to work, scrubbing at Gonky’s siding with the brush, talking with him as she did. Taking care to avoid damaging the metal as the grime began to fall away, she became completely engrossed.
The sudden crackling of blaster fire made Omega jump so hard that the brush nearly went flying out of her hands. The noise continued after a brief pause, and she got up, running to the viewport in the cockpit. She expected to see the Batch running for the ship under fire, since that was becoming an increasingly common occurrence, but instead she saw figures she did not recognize trading blaster bolts among the ships, running and shouting.
Omega grabbed for the ship’s comm, pressing herself against the console. “Hunter!”
A reply came after a worrisome pause, underscored by chatter that sounded like a marketplace. “Yeah, kid?”
“Something’s happening outside the ship. There’s blaster fire!”
“How much blaster fire?” Hunter’s tone did not change, but she could practically feel the heightened tension resonating through the comm.
“A lot.” Omega chanced another look outside. “They’re fighting in the spaceport.”
“Port gangs.”
“What’s that?” Omega squeaked, a knot of anxiety tightening in her chest.
“Groups who fight for control of the spaceport,” Hunter growled, his frustration evident. “We’ve already gotten what we came for. It’s going to take a few minutes, but we’re coming back. In the meantime, just find a place where you stay out of sight, away from the viewports.”
“Okay—!” Omega’s reply ended in a yelp as more blaster shots rang out, too close for comfort.
“Hide, kid,” Hunter urged, “but don’t worry. We’ll be there soon.”
Omega scurried off to obey, the command unearthing old memories of stowing herself away into the far corners of the ship. To her surprise, those corners were now far smaller than she remembered them being, no longer fit for her size. She started looking for a new place, her heart hammering in her chest as the blaster fire continued outside, and she nearly just curled up on the floor next to the nav console before spotting the cargo hold in the ceiling.
“Gonky!” she hissed. “Come here!”
Gonky waddled over, warbling hesitantly as he caught on to her idea.
“I don’t care! Hunter said hide, so I will!” Omega hopped onto the nearest bunk, precariously stepping up onto Gonky’s top. “Just stand still…”
Standing on her tiptoes allowed her to reach the ceiling panel and push it out of place, her fingers catching the edge of the hole. With a tremendous heave that left her arms burning from exertion, she hauled herself up, hanging in the air for a moment before getting her right elbow through the shaft, the rest of her body quickly following. She could barely sit up straight in the low space, but to her relief, there was plenty of room for her to stretch out amid the random crates and cases, which dulled the commotion outside the ship.
Gonky called from below, prompting her to whisper-yell, “I’m fine, just hide!”
There was no response from the droid, leaving Omega to hope he obeyed as she pulled the hatch cover back into place, leaving only a tiny crack for some light. Only then in the stillness did she realize she was shaking, her breathing heavy and loud in the enclosed area. She closed her eyes tight, trying to relax herself and slow her heart, memories trickling back of her playing the same game over and over again when there had been nothing to fear.
She would run off, giggling and filled with glee to a hiding spot and wait, knowing that she would be found sooner or later. Sometimes she stole something and hid away with it, other times she was pursued by an imaginary monster and had to hide, every scenario equally entertaining to her young mind. Her brothers would search for her, ranging from one to all four of them, and she had to stay still and quiet to avoid being caught, at least until she accidentally gave herself up.
The worst of Omega’s fear ebbed, replaced by the comforting memories. She had not thought about those games of pretend in so long that she might as well have forgotten them altogether, but she clung to them tightly now, preoccupied from the chaos beyond the ship so much that she almost didn’t notice when the blaster fire ceased.
She strained to listen in the abrupt silence, picking up muffled voices that sounded loud, though she couldn’t recognize any words. Her knees banged against a crate as a single blaster shot went off, followed by a deep quiet, and she hardly dared to breathe, staring at the thin beam of light leaking into the hold.
The sudden opening of the Marauder’s door made Omega flinch violently, then freeze as her mind flooded with terrible scenarios. She stayed still and quiet, holding her breath, envisioning criminals walking aboard the ship and taking her away—
“Omega?” Hunter called. “Omega, where are you?”
Omega released herself with a huge exhale, calling out weakly, “I’m here.”
A pause, followed by Echo’s confused questions. “What? Where?”
“Here.” Omega pushed the panel aside, poking her head through. Relief flooded her as all five of them regarded her with expressions ranging from surprise to dismay.
“Are you alright?” Hunter asked.
“I’m fine,” she said, though she still felt rattled by the ordeal.
“How’d you get up there?”
“I used Gonky,” Omega confessed, and the droid honked his agreement somewhere beyond her sight. “I thought this would be the best place to hide.”
“You’re correct,” Tech said, looking close to smiling.
Omega studied the distance from her to the floor. “Uh, I’m not sure how to get down.”
Wrecker stretched his arms up toward her, nearly touching the ceiling. “I got you.”
Omega squirmed out of the hold, dropping into Wrecker’s waiting arms, and she was glad when he made no move to put her down on the floor. She did not want to leave the comfort of his embrace anytime soon.
“How did you get them to go away?” she asked, eyeing the quiet darkness beyond the Marauder’s hatch.
“We asked nicely,” Crosshair said, balancing his rifle on his shoulder with one hand and flipping a bolt cartridge with the other.
“Close the hatch,” Hunter told Crosshair. “We can’t hang around.”
Omega watched intently from the safety of Wrecker’s hold. “Why?”
“That gang is probably gonna come back,” Wrecker said. “Crosshair shot one of ‘em in the leg.”
Crosshair shrugged languidly, showing no shame. “Because I was asking nicely.”
To Omega’s disappointment, she had to leave Wrecker’s arms to be safely seated for planetary departure and the jump to hyperspace, which was a surprisingly smooth process. Once the ship was enfolded safely in the whorls of hyperspace, Hunter approached her.
“You okay?”
“Yeah, I’m not hurt,” she murmured.
“That’s not quite what I meant.” Hunter put his hand on hers, his strong grip stilling the tremors that remained there.
“I…I was scared,” she admitted. “They were getting closer to the ship, and I thought they might try to get inside.”
Hunter opened his arms, and he didn’t get a chance to say anything before Omega was in his embrace, curling up in his lap. “They were fighting each other, the ship was just another ship,” he told her. “And even if they had wanted to get inside, they wouldn’t get far without trouble.”
Omega rested her head against his shoulder. “So there was nothing to worry about?”
“There was a gunfight outside the ship, so I’d say there was plenty to worry about,” Echo said.
Hunter sighed, smoothing Omega’s hair, which had been set askew by her stint in the cargo hold. “Which is why we’re going to be more careful about which spaceports we land at, and if it’s anything like Batuu, we’ll just take you with us.”
“Okay,” Omega said, his touch soothing her. “I definitely liked hiding better when it was just a game.”
“You remember that?” Wrecker asked.
“Some of it.”
Tech turned in his seat, looking at Crosshair with something verging on smugness. “I told you—”
“I don’t want to hear it,” Crosshair hissed, giving him a withering look in return.
Omega looked from one to the other, mystified. “What?”
“The games you remember were more than that, to a degree,” Tech explained. “I utilized them as an opportunity to teach you how to hide, so if you were ever in a threatening situation, you would know how to conceal yourself effectively. However, I never knew if I was successful until today.”
Omega fidgeted as she processed the new information. “…Did I do a good job?”
“An excellent job,” he assured her. “Though unexpected, the cargo hold was a good choice.”
“But not the safest to access,” Hunter put in.
Omega frowned. “Well, all the hiding spots I remember are a lot smaller than they used to be.”
“You got bigger.” Crosshair smirked at her. “But not by much.”
Wrecker interrupted her indignant reply. “We can come up with some new ones, probably.”
“You might benefit from learning some actual stealth techniques, now that you’re older.” Tech drummed his fingers on the arm of his chair. “And there were plans to teach you to navigate in the dark that have not been realized.”
A thoughtful hum rumbled in Hunter’s chest. “That might be a little too ambitious…”
“But I think that sounds…” Omega almost said “fun” but stopped herself, replacing it with a better-sounding word. “…useful.”
Hunter lifted his gaze to Crosshair. “What do you think?”
“Maybe,” Crosshair said, playing with a toothpick. “She’s slightly less accident-prone now.”
“I got into the cargo hold by myself with no problems!” Omega retorted.
“I’ll think about it.”
Omega grinned, knowing that was practically an outright agreement. However, her smile faded when her stomach gave an ominous rumble. “I guess you didn’t get any food…”
“No,” Wrecker said, looking unenthused. “We’ll just have to make do with ration bars and leftovers.”
Omega tried not to let her disappointment show, but she promptly forgot about it when Crosshair pulled a piece of candy from one of his many pockets, tossing it across the aisle to her. She could not help a gasp, beaming at him. “Thank you!”
“Your favoritism is showing,” Echo said, smirking at Crosshair.
“Yeah, you never get me any!” Wrecker cried, only half-serious.
“Because she doesn’t bother me,” Crosshair muttered, standing to leave the cockpit.
Wrecker made to follow him out the door, and Tech was not far behind. “You’re one to talk…”
Omega shared an amused look with Hunter and Echo. She snickered as an argument unfolded, beginning to unwrap her candy and feeling as safe as ever.
#sw#the bad batch#omega#baby omega#young omega#tbb#tcw#the clone wars#crosshair#tech#hunter#echo#wrecker#ik'aad#my fic#fanfiction#fanfic
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𝒍𝒖𝒄𝒌𝒚 𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒔, 𝒇𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒕𝒉 𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓— f!reader x captain rex. 13.5. ao3
you get the date you were hoping for, not the date you were expecting. previous. masterlist.
It’s been thirty minutes. The waitress has passed your table apologetically three times, topping off your wine instead of waiting for the glass to empty. You shake your hair back, out of your face, though you think it might serve better to cover it up– there are tears of shame churning in the back of your throat.
Another sip of wine. Maybe you should just order fries.
Another sip of wine. If they aren’t coming, you should just order fries.
Another sip of wine. Celeste’s house isn’t far. You could wear this outfit out to a bar. You should wear this outfit out, you look nice and approachable. At least you think so. Just girlish enough for a first date. Just womanly enough to show that you’re a true marriage prospect.
Don’t want to scare anyone off. You’re good at scaring people off.
You don’t even want to get married.
You pick unseen lint off your dress.
Behind you, the door jingles. Again. You turn around to see if maybe it’s your date. You can hear Jolie’s voice in your head: “He’s attractive! Red hair, tall. You can’t miss him.” He’d been talked up quite a bit, and with each passing second, the built up image was lowering. The once reputable businessman was now a college boy with one pillow on his bed.
It’s two men who enter.
Both faces are familiar.
You make eye contact with the most familiar of the two. Amber eyes widen in surprise, just as yours do.
Rex looks handsome, just as handsome as he was the last time you saw him. There’s a cut over his eyebrow currently, which has a few pieces of medical tape on it. His hair is cut so short it’s barely there, as if it’s freshly done.
Quickly, you return back around.
This is embarrassing. Your heart thrums away in your chest.
Another sip of wine.
“Table for two?” A server asks, coming over to Rex and Fives.
Fives waits for Rex to respond for them, like he normally would. However, when he looks over, he finds his brother focused on other things. Other things: a pretty woman with her back to them, wine glass to glossy lips.
Weird.
“We’ve got an order for pickup,” Fives says. “Under Skywalker.”
“Oh!” The server nods. “I’ll be right back. The kitchen just finished up.”
She turns and leaves, just as you catch one or glance over your shoulder. Fives nudges Rex with his shoulder.
“You feeling okay, captain?” Fives asks.
Rex clears his throat, looking over at the other man. “What?”
Fives leans in, keeping his eyes trained on glossy hair and exposed shoulders. “Think she likes you,” Fives whispers, though it’s Fives, so it’s not much of a whisper.
“Drop it,” Rex mutters. His mind moves a million miles per second. What is the likelihood that he’s running into you again. His heart skips a beat when he remembers both of your prior encounters. Shame fills the tips of his ears when he remembers how often his daydreaming had fluttered out of control.
The hum on Fives’s lips is brotherly at best. Teasing at worst. “Maybe she was looking at me.”
“I said drop it, Fives,” Rex repeats. He reaches into his pocket for the credits they’d been sent with.
“Maybe I’ll go say something to her,” Fives presses. He won’t, but it still rubs Rex the wrong way.
“She’s…” Rex’s voice trails off. His original statement: She’s clearly here with someone doesn’t seem too true. There are three glasses on the table: two waters and a wine glass that rests in your hand. And one of the waters was full, with a thick puddle of condensation around it.
The server returns with four large brown bags of food.
“Here you go!” She says cheerly, handing them over to Fives.
Rex pays her. Both he and Fives get back onto the street, before Rex hesitates.
“What is it?” Fives asks.
“I’ve got– I’ll meet you back at the ship,” Rex says.
Fives squints at Rex. “If you gotta piss, I’ll wait for you.”
“No, I– It’s a long story,” Rex says. “I’ll meet you back at the ship.”
The door jingles again. Once more, you look back over your shoulder. It’s deja vu– Your eyes widen again, surprised upon seeing Rex again.
The server comes over to him. “Did we forget something?”
“Oh, no, it’s, I just…” Rex gestures vaguely over to you.
“Oh!” The server's eyes light up. “Oh, she’s going to be so excited you’re here.”
Rex thinks she’s got him confused with someone else. (She does. He’d never have you waiting for him.)
She leads Rex over to your table, a beaming smile on her face. “Guess who’s here!”
You look up at Rex, lips round in surprise.
“Rex,” you say.
He returns your name. There’s a moment of hesitation, where the server’s eyes bounce between the two of you, expectant.
After a beat, Rex takes the seat across from you.
“What are you doing here?” You both ask at the same time. Then: “You first.”
You laugh softly at it. The ridiculousness of the situation.
Another sip of wine.
“I’m supposed to be on a date,” you admit. “With a tall, redheaded man.”
Rex’s eyes widen. He places his hands on the table as if to stand. “Oh, I’ll go.”
“He hasn’t shown up in…” you look at the analog watch on your wrist. “Thirty-three minutes. I don’t think he’s coming.”
Rex doesn’t know who in their right mind would stand you up. “He must be insane.”
You can’t help the fluttering eye roll that follows. “I think I’m the insane one for waiting this long. What are you doing here?”
“This is one of my general’s favorite restaurants,” Rex replies. “He got us all dinner tonight.”
“He’s got good taste,” you say.
The server comes back, this time addressing Rex. “Can I get you something to drink?”
“Oh, I’m not–” “We need just a moment longer.”
“Of course.”
The server leaves you two alone again.
You and Rex stare at each other.
“Do you have to get back to…” you trail off, not knowing exactly where Rex needs to get back to. All you know is that he has to get back somewhere.
“I’ll catch up later,” Rex says, brushing it off. “I felt– It felt like it would have been a crime to not come and say anything to you.”
“Don’t exactly need you to call me when you’re going to be in town if I’m going to run into you everytime, do I?” You ask, leaning forwards on the table. “Would have been nice to know, though. Then I wouldn’t have scheduled this tonight.”
Had you not scheduled this tonight, you wouldn’t have seen Rex. Instead, you’d have been at a friends house, or at a bar, or in your own apartment. You don’t let yourself linger with that for too long.
“Wouldn’t have seen you otherwise,” Rex says. “Um. Force works in mysterious ways and all that.”
You can’t help but giggle at that. “It does, doesn’t it?”
“Yeah,” Rex agrees, his smile caused by your own.
“They have good beers here,” you say. “If you’re going to get something.”
Rex feels torn. He would love to stay with you, have a meal, have a drink or two, end the evening however it ends. Maybe in the way it always seems to. However. He can’t just go AWOL on his brothers like this.
Rex searches your eyes. You blink slowly at him. He swears you might be the prettiest thing he’s ever seen in his life.
“Give me a second,” Rex says. He leans back in the chair, reaching into the pocket of his pants. He produces a small comm chip, and glances over at you. Already, he’s explaining himself. “It’s military.”
“It’s fine.”
Rex doesn’t think it is. He should call you. Your number is in his quarters.
He presses the button on it, illuminating it green. “Hey, this is Rex. I’m going to be late coming back.”
“Morning,” you mouth at him.
“I’ll be back in the morning,” Rex relays.
“Rex?” Rex takes a deep breath, recognizing the familiar tone of General Skywalker’s voice. “Are you okay?”
“Yeah, I’m good. I’ll be back in the morning by O-800.”
“Ten?” You mouth, trying your luck.
Rex smiles, his eyes crinkling as he shakes his head. There’s a beat of silence.
When Anakin speaks next, there’s a smile on his voice. “Got it. See you in the morning.”
Rex slips the communication device back in his pocket. In his mind’s eye, the scene back at the ship is clear. There’s whatever story Fives has concocted, mixing with the general’s knowledge of the recent slips in Rex’s concentration. He diverts his full attention to you. There’s no need to focus on that.
“The beers here are good,” you repeat, sliding the drink menu over to him by the pads of your fingers.
Rex accepts it, glancing over the menu.
“Do you come here often?” Rex asks.
Nostalgia pulls at your heart. The first time Rex has asked you that it had seemed so accidental. “I’ve been known to spend an evening or two here.”
“So you know what’s good?”
You nod. “How hungry are you?”
Truthfully, Rex was prepared to demolish everything that had been bought for him. Pasta, salad, bread, soup. In that order, too. He thinks there was dessert ordered as well.
“Hungry,” Rex decides on.
“We can get a couple of things to share.”
There’s a crisp beer in front of Rex, along with a fresh glass of water. In front of you, your wine glass has been refilled, and you’re certainly beginning to feel it, especially as you order. Your accent slips out as you point along the menu, eventually getting to one of the dishes and glancing over at Rex.
“You don’t have any dietary anything, do you?”
Rex shakes his head.
You continue ordering.
Rex’s gaze remains fixed on your profile, the way you glance from the menu to the server and nod along with her as you order. Your earrings bobble with you, and your hair moves too. The bracelet on your wrist delicately hangs while you point, and Rex can’t help but be painfully reminded of how well his hand had fit around your wrist, how it had slid up to hold your hand, how–
The menus are cleared.
Your legs slide out to rest your ankle against the side of Rex’s leg.
“Can you tell me why you’re on Naboo again?” You inquire.
Rex takes a sip of his beer. It is good. Crisp. Refreshing. “Let me think about it.”
Another sip of beer.
Another sip of wine.
“There’s a meeting happening,” Rex says. “That’s about all I can say, though.”
“We’re kind of having our own meeting,” you note.
“Are we?”
You nod. “Just two people, sharing dinner and drinks…”
“Is that all?” Rex asks. He leans forward to join your posture.
You nod. Then, you shake your head, hand coming up to play with your necklace and the little charm on it. “Maybe not. Not later.”
Rex’s gaze dips to follow your fingers and dutifully returns to your face.
“You blowing off your friends for me?”
“I’m not blowing them off…” Rex trails off. Your lashes are longer than they were last time he saw you. “I see them everyday.”
“Am I better company?”
“You are,” Rex agrees. Breath of fresh air. “What have you been up to?”
Humming, you swirl the wine around in your glass. “Getting stood up on dates.”
Rex shakes his head. He repeats his prior point: “That’s absolutely insane to me. Who would do that?”
You gesture to the restaurant with your hand. “Our example isn’t here to defend himself. But I agree.”
The first dish appears. It’s hummus with vegetables and bread. The hummus has a swirl of olive oil and roasted red peppers in the center.
“You have to actually eat this time. None of that ‘it’s too good’ bullshit,” you say. “The olive oil here is really good, I think you’ll like it.”
You’re right, of course. It’s creamy and delicious, melting away on his tongue. A hint of lemon, a citrus unlay to the warmth of the chickpea.
“Can I try your beer?” You ask, dancing your fingers along the table towards the beverage. “You can try my wine.”
“Sure,” Rex says, pushing the drink over to you.
A sip of beer. A sip of wine.
“You reading anything right now?” you ask.
“I am, actually. It’s about this girl who tames dragons.”
You pause. That is not what you expected. “Really?”
Rex nods. He drags his finger over the table as he talks, as if to keep him on track with the plot. “The main character is named Lessa, and she’s this princess who’s entire family’s been killed, but she’s survived by disguising herself as a servant. The only thing is that the dragons in Pern, where the story takes place, speak telepathically with the members of the royal family which is how they were tamed. When I left off, a dragon had gone crazy and Lessa had exposed herself as being part of the royal family by riding it.”
You blink at him. “What happened to your books on military strategy?”
“Needed an escape,” Rex replies.
You hum softly. “What’s it called? The book.”
“Dragonflight,” Rex says, dipping a cut of pita into the hummus. “It’s good.”
“It sounds like it,” you say. “How’d you find it?”
“Uh,” Rex hesitates. “The princess of Pantora recommended it.”
You raise your eyebrows. “That’s a pretty high caliber recommendation.”
Rex chuckles at that, “Yeah… It was in passing, but I wanted to check it out.”
“I suppose you can’t tell me what you were doing in the presence of a princess?”
Rex takes a drink of beer. “Honestly, I was thinking about you.”
“About me?” You ask.
Rex nods. A faint blush flushes on his ears. You bite your bottom lip, halting the smile from forming.
“You’re sweet,” you say.
Rex disagrees. You’re the sweet one, in his eyes. Rex is simply lucky to have caught your attention so many times.
You take a bite of an olive.
“Unfortunately, I don’t have the ability to telepathically communicate with dragons.”
Rex chuckles. “I would have been more impressed if you did.”
“Already impressed?”
“Yeah.”
It’s flattering to hear. After all, you’re no more than a simple girl who looks at art all day.
“Well.” You swirl your wine around for a moment before taking a sip of it. “I’m thinking about picking up a new hobby.”
How lovely. Rex has no hobbies— unless one was to count sitting around and making battle strategies hobbies. Or if one was to consider that his excellent deflecting skills were a hobby.
“What are you thinking about?” Rex asks.
“Bird watching,” you say. “The new intern we just got is really into it, and he’s got these really amazing sketches of the birds he sees. Apparently his parents just took him on this week long hiking trip to let him see some of the birds in the jungle, which seems so… Cool. I don’t know, I’m jealous of some twenty year old for having such an in depth hobby.”
“I don’t see many birds,” Rex says. Birds don’t like war. They run from the large sounds. Scamper at the first smell of violence.
“I’ll have to show you all the sketches I do, then.”
“No pictures?”
You pause. You hadn’t even thought of that— though it was probably the best option. Fastest, too.
“I could do that,” you say.
“But drawing is different,” Rex finishes for you.
“But drawing is different,” you agree with him.
Rex takes a bite of some of the food before the two of you. “Bird watching seems cool.”
“Does it? I’ve honestly always considered it an old person hobby.”
“I wouldn’t know,” Rex reminds you. “As far as I’m concerned, bird watching is a hobby young, beautiful women pick up.”
Your laugh is mostly a giggle. There’s a flirtatious roll of your wrist as you toss your hair back over your shoulder.
“You’re good,” you say, still smiling. “Maybe tonight when you come over I’ll show you some of the books I bought. And you can see my binoculars.”
A little smile crosses Rex’s features. “It sounds like you’ve been doing more than just thinking about it.”
“Well, maybe so.” Your face is warm. “I don’t know, I’ve just been really into them lately. Maybe one day I’ll get to go to Endor and see all the birds there. I’ve been watching this docu-series about Endor’s moon and all the life there…”
There was a mission planned to go to Endor’s moon and scout it out. Despite its sanctuary status, there have been encrypted radio transmissions coming from the little blip of life.
Rex doesn’t mention that. After all, you don’t like space travel.
Then, the reason why the mission hasn’t happened yet comes to mind:
“Isn’t there a black hole by Endor?” He asks.
You hum, lifting your eyebrows. “Is there?”
“Uh, I think so.” Rex lifts his hand to rub the back of his neck for a moment. “Yeah, I think so.”
Sighing, you pluck a bite off one of the plates. “Maybe by the time I’ve conquered my fear of hyperdrive, they’ll have sorted out the black hole.” An involuntary shudder shakes down your spine. “Ugh! Those freak me out too. I don’t know how you do it… I know space travel is safe and all but it just doesn’t seem right.”
Rex admires you, as you go on your little tirade about the freak nature of space travel. You look really pretty tonight. Printed dress, hair all nice and cascading down your back. Lips still glossy. He wonders if it tastes like anything.
Your lips aren’t moving anymore. Rex blinks, drawing his attention back to your eyes. They sparkle, in the pupil and on the lid.
“Huh?” How graceful of him.
“What are you thinking about?” You ask him. “I lost you.”
The tips of Rex’s ears turn pink. He exhales. “Just, um, wondering. About your lips.”
You raise your eyebrows. “Should we leave?”
Rex glances down at the plates in front of you. You both have made good work on them, and only a few bites remain. He’s full enough.
“I think we should go,” you answer for him. You look around for your waitress, and as soon as you make eye contact she’s walking over.
Looking over at Rex, you ask: “What kind of pasta were you going to have?”
“What? Oh, um, I’m full,” Rex says.
“Are you? It’s for later,” you hum.
“I don’t need any,” Rex insists.
You don’t buy it. You order two pastas for takeaway, then ask for the bill. Turning back to Rex, you smile softly. “I’ll be hungry in a few hours. I don’t want to eat by myself.”
Rex nods.
“And you should eat too,” you tack on. “After all, I don’t want to deprive you of pasta from here.”
“You’re not depriving me of anything,” Rex assures you.
Brown bags are placed on the table and you hand over credits to the waitress without looking at the check. Rex recognizes these brown bags, they’re stamped with the same logo as the one you were holding when he saw you last.
The guilt of the secret eats him up inside, but he doesn’t say anything. That’s an ugly truth he doesn’t want to admit to you yet. One of many, one of many that he’s begun second guessing. He doesn’t need to worry you with it. He doesn’t.
You stand, then immediately take hold of your chair for balance. A little giggle slips through your lips, loosened by the alcohol and lightly covered by a hand.
Rex takes the bags and comes to your side. You exchange the chair for his arm, wrapping around his bicep.
“I didn’t think I had a lot to drink when I was sitting down… but now that I’m standing up… Oh my goodness…” You flutter your lashes up at Rex. “Help me walk home?”
“Want to do nothing more,” Rex says. You squeeze his bicep and hum, the two of you walking out of the restaurant. Immediately, a wash of humidity engulfs the two of you.
“It’s kind of a long walk home,” you say, apologizing without vocalizing it.
“That’s alright,” Rex says.
“It got gross out… It wasn’t like this when I left.” You stop in your tracks to pull a clip out of your purse, swooping it off your neck. Rex watches with rapt attention.
“It’s going to be the rainy season soon, isn’t it?” Rex asks.
You nod, reattaching yourself to Rex. “How’d you know?”
Rex shrugs. “Sometimes I know things.”
The comment causes both of you to laugh. You squeeze his bicep, rest your head on his shoulder momentarily.
On the walk home, you point out various parts of this neighborhood you occasionally drop by. Point out where Misha lives, a bakery you like, a park where you threw up after going to… that bar. Rex is an eager and willing audience for your tales.
The inside of your apartment isn’t any different from how Rex last saw it. There’s still the warmth, from all the lamps and warm colors sloshed about. It's humid, though. Sticky air. Thick air.
To you, it’s a nightmare. It's just as stale inside as it is outside. The humidity seems to have soaked into the walls. It’s bad this year. It’s been bad ever since the Trade Federation attacked, and all of the electric balls were released and the machines walked the plains.
“I have some fans,” you say, taking off your shoes. “Let me get them set up…”
You pop fans in your windows and turn them on, Rex following behind you the entire time. You turn on your dehumidifier in your bedroom, so by the time the two of you retired for the evening, the air would be somewhat dry. With the food in the fridge and cool glasses of water, you end up in your bedroom, where you look over at him in his long sleeves.
“Do you want to take that off?” You ask, already taking out your heavy earrings. You haven’t known Rex long at all, only having met him twice, but you feel like you’d known him a lifetime. To the point where you’re debating just taking off your makeup now.
Rex looks down at it, running a hand over his chest. “Uh, it’s fine. Made out of some fancy material that keeps you cool.”
Nodding, your jewelry collects in a bowl on your vanity. “I’m changing, my dress is stuck to me. So if you want to change, you can.”
You begin to reach behind you to slide down the zipper, but pause and look over at him.
“Come help,” you instruct.
Rex’s fingers are large against your delicate zipper. Slowly, he brings the metal down, revealing the strap of your bra and the expanse of your back. There’s a sheen of sweat there too, that was making the dress cling, that he has to fight to not lick off.
Rex is invited to watch as you change into cooler clothes. He sits on the ottoman at the foot of your bed, with his ankle crossed over his knee, attention raptured by you. You peel your sticky breasts off your nipples, shielding the, quite horrifying, removal from Rex by turning your back to him. He watches through the reflection in the mirror. He watches as you pull on a white tank top, and shorts, watches your nipples through the thin fabric.
It’s hot as can be. You keep your hair clipped up off your neck, and then finally turn your attention back to Rex. He straightens up as soon as he’s caught your attention again.
You smile at him, coming to stand in front of him. He spreads his legs for you to stand between them. “Watching?” You cup his jaw in your hand.
“If you don’t mind,” Rex says, tilting his head back to meet your eyes.
“I don’t mind,” you say, “It’s encouraged.”
Rex wets his bottom lip. Slowly, you lower yourself to sit on his lap. One hand snakes down to the hem of his shirt, gently lifting it up. Your hand slides under his shirt to slide across his stomach.
“What can I do to convince you to take off your shirt?” You hum.
His hand slides from your thigh to your waist, then to your lower back. “Maybe a kiss,” he admits, selfishly.
You smile, soft and glossy. Slowly, you lean in to press your lips against him. Rex is immediately engulfed by the comfort of your perfume, whole and warm, and the softness of your lips, coconut and wet. His tongue slides out, chasing after the taste of you, savoring it on his tongue.
The pull away is just as slow as the connection was. You press one last peck to his lips, leaving them glossy. Rex’s gaze holds yours. With a little smile, you reach and swipe the gloss away from Rex’s lip.
“Sorry,” you whisper.
“‘S a gift,” Rex whispers.
His flattery brings a smile to your face. Rex’s hands reach to the back of his shirt, and pulls it over his head. With his chest exposed, you run your hand across it, pleased with the new expanse.
What a lucky lady you are.
“We should have some dessert,” you say, standing up. Rex’s hands slip off your body, slow like honey.
Immediately, Rex is thinking of all the desserts he could have. It embarrasses him, turning his ears pink. Your fingers dance over, thumbing over the warm shell.
“I was thinking about gelato,” you say through a smile. “But we can have all sorts of desserts after.”
“I wasn’t–”
He’s cut off by your smile, by the way you take his hand in yours and give him a little tug, encouraging him to stand up.
“Just a little gelato first,” you murmur, standing on your toes and kiss his chin, just to satisfy your need to play house.
On the couch, you and Rex share gelato straight from the container. It’s almost empty anyways, there’s just enough for the two of you to finish off and satisfy your sweet tooth.
Suddenly excited, you remember what you had promised Rex over dinner. “Oh! Let me show you the books I got!”
Taking one more bite of gelato, you leave the spoon in the container and stand, heading back towards the kitchen for the books. They’re in a perfect little stack, by the flowers that you need to replace. You plop back down beside Rex, making sure to keep your knee touching his thigh, and pick up the first book.
“So, this one is just on birdwatching. It’s by this professor of ornithology in Coruscant. What to wear, how to position yourself downwind so you don’t frighten them. I think it’s very interesting that no matter where you really go in the galaxy, birdwatching has these stagnant parts of it that are universal, y’know?”
Rex thinks for a moment. You seem to be waiting for his response.
“It’s comforting,” Rex says. “Things are the same in some places, no matter how… No matter how strange and different it is.”
“Are there birds on your home planet?” You ask.
“Nah. Whole planet is an ocean. There are some flying fish, but… No birds. No feathers.” Rex sets the gelato on the table as you’re talking. He stretches his arm along the backside of your couch, watching as you hold each book up for him to look at. They’re real books too, printed on paper and not just on a data pad.
“Are you amphibious?”
Rex chuckles. “No.” He wants to change the topic as quickly as possible, so looking over your lap he points at the next book. “What is this one about?”
You drop the topic, placing the first book on the coffee table and picking up the second one. “This one kind of goes with the next one…” So you pick up the other and hold both of them in your hands. Tapping the first one with the second, you carry on, “This one is just about Naboo’s wildlife in general. Flora, fauna, the works. I read the part on birds, and I figure I’ll get to the rest of it later, but I’m really only interested with the birds…” You set the book down on the table.
“Actually, I’ve met the author of these books, ‘cause they’re written by the same professor. Thandor Kryn. We were at this– You know what, it’s not important,” you brush that off. “Anyways, he wrote a book just on birds and I picked it up. It’s really interesting, because he has all these parts of the book that basically come to life. Technology scares me but this is just cool…”
Opening up the book, it illuminates into a hologram. You flip through, and are able to select certain parts that have bird calls in them, along with directions on how to recreate them yourself.
“It makes me a little sad that I couldn’t get a paper copy of the book, but I get why.” You shut the book and set it on the table. Selecting the last one, you adjust yourself on the couch. “This one is my favorite. So before I read this book, I had never heard of Endor, right? But then I read this book… And oh my goodness, hearing about all the birds and everything was mind blowing. Like there are so many kinds, and look, look at these pages.”
You open the book and show off the glossy pages and the full color images.
“This is my favorite bird out of the book,” you say, pointing at one. Already, the book is creased to fall open at this page. Your focus is on the little image. “This is called the humming peeper. They’re found in little families and come out during the afternoon, and are often found to put people to sleep. They’re more like trickster spirits, right? Coming out and putting people to sleep and leaving them vulnerable. But they’re also known to take away nightmares and give good nights of sleep to those that feed them and take care of them. Anyways, this author has other books that are about Endor as a whole, and I went ahead and bought the digital copies. Which aren’t as great, because I don’t want to be taking my reader into the bathtub or anything, but it’s fine. It’ll get the job done.”
“This is pretty cool,” Rex says, looking from the pages to you. “You said you got binoculars?”
“Oh! I did,” you stand, and a pang of regret shoots through Rex that you’re no longer sitting beside him. You pluck a container from your bookshelf and bring it over, showing it to him. “Binoculars.”
Opening up the container, Rex is met with a pair of binoculars he’s relatively experienced with. There’s a similar model in his helmet. The generals have some like this.
“These are nice,” Rex says, a little surprised.
“I might have gone overboard buying them,” you say, twirling a strand of hair around your finger.
“You know how to use them?” He asks.
“I read the manual,” you say. “Why, are you offering to teach me?”
Rex smiles softly. “Maybe. Would you take me up on it?”
“Of course. I’d be a fool not to.”
Rex sets the binoculars on the table and extends his arm along the back of the couch again. You pull your knees up to your chest and rest your head against his forearm.
“Maybe when the war is done, you can come birdwatching with me.”
Rex swallows. He doesn’t think the war will be done in his lifetime. Struck down by battle or not.
He doesn’t mention this. Instead, he smiles softly at you. “Maybe.”
“I think it would be fun,” you say, all gentle through your lashes. “You deserve a little fun.”
“I’m having fun right now,” Rex says. He adjusts so one of his legs is bent on the couch and he’s fully facing you.
“Yeah?”
Rex nods. He holds your gaze in such a way it makes you warm under the lack of scrutiny. He’s truly gazing, brown eyes like melted amber, like dark maple syrup in the sunlight.
“Do you get scared?” You ask suddenly. Quietly.
Rex blinks at the abruptness of the question. “What?”
“Like… you must see so much violence. Do you get scared?”
Rex is quiet for a moment. He drops his gaze down to his lap for a moment before back to you. “Yeah. But not in the moment… It’s after. When I’m processing everything. Like that first moment of quiet.”
You nod. “I don’t know why I asked that, that’s so personal. I’m sorry.”
“You don’t have to apologize,” Rex says.
You bring your hand up to rest your hand on his forearm, right in front of your face by Rex’s elbow. “I just have so many questions.”
“Really?” Normally no one has questions for him. For any clone.
“Yeah,” you say. You rub your hand up to his bicep before back down. You look from your hand back to him. “What do you do for fun?”
“Like during downtime?”
You nod.
Rex has to think for a moment. “I like watching documentaries by myself.”
“What kinds?”
“Nature… It feels nice while in space. ‘Cause it’s so quiet.”
“I think it’s human to want to be around nature,” you comment. “You think we’ve watched the same ones?”
“Maybe.” There are many people on many planets who would argue that he’s not human. That he’s nothing more than a droid– no, nothing more than an eopie to slaughter.
“I bet you have access to so many through the military,” you say, a little wistful. “Do you have any on Endor?”
“I’m sure there’s some,” Rex says. “If they exist, I’ve never watched them. I’ll look the next time I have downtime, though.”
“You could call me too,” you tack on, a little girlish and wanting, hand resting on his thigh. Your thumb smooths over the fabric of his pants. “But there’s not much point in you calling me if you’re always running into me, is there?”
You meet Rex’s gaze through your lashes. Immediately, you break into a smile.
“I still have your frequency,” Rex says. He thinks about it, thinks about calling you when he’s supposed to be asleep, when the cycle of the ship is set to night. When he’s about to start watching a documentary and wants to see if you’re available to watch it at the same time with him. To have someone to come home to, just like in the movies.
“Do you?”
Rex nods. “Yeah.”
You smile. Your hand rests on his bicep again, long over the muscle. “Will you flex for me?”
There's a chuckle that Rex can’t help. “You have to lift your head up.”
The breath you take rises your back with its weight, as you wrestle with this. Eventually, you pick your head up. Rex curls his arm back, and the muscle in question rises, eliciting a giggle from you.
“I want to go into my bedroom,” you admit, hand tracing further up Rex’s body. You lean into his space as your hand travels, eventually resting on the back of his neck. You look from his lips to his eyes. “If that’s okay with you.”
It’s okay with him.
Your ceiling fan is on high. The windows are wide open, and one of your fans from the living room had been brought in, by Rex this time, and set up in a window. Naboo moves outside, nocturnal birds fly about, the ocean sloshes.
Sitting across Rex’s stomach, both of you are now shirtless. Your breasts press against his skin, the connection warm and needed. There’s a faint bulge you can feel through his boxers, pressing up against your ass, as you straddle his stomach. One hand rests on his pec, the other trails up to his face, dusting over where his eyebrow is stitched together.
“What happened to you?” You ask.
“Do you really want to know?” Rex asks.
You nod.
“Took the butt of a blaster to the face.”
You pout. Then, you lean in to press a featherlight kiss against it. Rex’s hand slides up the flat of your back, holding you close. His lips attach to the top of your breast, letting his lips lave over the flatness there.
“I’m sorry you got hurt,” you murmur, voice right above his ear.
“It’s okay,” Rex murmurs into your softness. “I’ve had worse.”
You brace your hands around his head. “Really? Will you show me?”
Rex swallows. His voice is a murmur. “Are you sure you wanna see?”
You nod. You’re not quite sure you do, as the horrors that exist beyond your little atmosphere terrify you to know end. But Rex’s chest shudders with his inhale, and you succumb to the vulnerability untying before you.
“I don’t have a lot… blaster shots cauterize on impact. And the bacta tanks heal you right up.”
Truly, Rex doesn’t want you to stop pressing your breasts against him. They’re soft. But you sit back upright and wait for him.
“I got shot here by a commando droid,” Rex says, fingers tracing a barely there scar on the center of his chest.
Your breath is shaky. “Do I want to know what that is?”
“No,” Rex says.
You press a kiss to the once-injured space. “But you’re okay now.”
“Was taken good care of,” Rex murmurs. For a brief moment, he’s in his imagination and you’re sitting at a handmade wooden table, he’s worked the fields all day, and there are two little children in the distance. He can’t see them, but he can hear them.
Shaking the wish from his mind, Rex continues to show you the faint map of his scars. There’s a now-knick on his side from when he was a cadet, that was once upon a time far more severe. A divot on his forearm from a barbed wire pulled taunt around him. He spares you the details.
You become distracted, however, by a collection of moles on his ribcage. Sliding your thumb over them, you lower yourself down to place a kiss on them. When you rise, you’re smiling wide.
“Y’know, they say moles are angel kisses,” you say.
“Y’must’ve left them last time,” Rex says.
You giggle, bringing a hand to cover your mouth. “Stop it. You’re being too sweet on me.”
“You’re gonna tell me to stop tellin’ the truth?” Rex asks, sitting up fully. His movements bring you to sink onto his lap. The warmth of his bulge presses against your core through your shorts.
“No…” you drag out, wrapping your arms around his neck.
Rex takes a deep breath as his hands press up your back, pulling you closer. He wants to remember how soft you smell, how you smell round and whole. For when he’s deep in the pits of hell.
Your lips are soft against his. Rex hesitates, unable to process for a second that you’re kissing him. But his brain catches up, his lips slide alongside your own.
When you pull away, your lips are parted and your eyes are watery.
“I’m sorry,” you say, smiling out of embarrassment. “It’s a waxing moon, I’m about to get my period.”
Rex furrows his brows. He has no idea what any of that means. “Are you okay?” He asks, bringing his hands to your face.
“Yeah, yeah, I’m okay,” you say, hand going to wrap around his wrist. You lean into his touch. “I was just thinking about how soft you are and… You’re so gentle but you have to be surrounded by so much violence.”
What a lie he must be weaving, for you to think he’s gentle.
At his silence, you sniffle just like you had that day by the water. You wipe under your eyes.
“We can keep kissing,” you say.
“Are you sure?” Rex asks.
You nod. Your swallow is thick. Rex reattaches his lips to yours, slow and gentle. Just as you have painted him into your memories.
Rex lays you down. You’re guided onto your pillows, nested atop your duvet. You’d made your bed so well, expecting it to get messed up. You’d expected to have your hair pulled, to have your ass up, to be rammed into and love every minute of it.
But instead, Rex is over you. He’s still kissing you, letting your tongues slide against each other. Letting your lips open and close gently against each other. Your hand slides down his chest before back over it, then trails over his shoulder that’s working to keep him above you. It’s hard and defined under your touch.
You hook a leg around his waist, trying to pull him closer. To feel him press against you.
Rex grinds against you in a fluid, rolling motion. His boxers are tight against him, and made of a thin, breathable material that allows you to feel the warmth pool from him. He’s on his forearm, and as he rolls against you his chest brushes against your nipples.
It’s electric. Your fingernails scratch against Rex’s head, feeling the fuzz of his buzzcut beneath your palms. Arching your back, you press yourself further into him.
While he seems more than content to just keep kissing you, as his hands stay off of your body, you are not. You run your hands over his chest, over his nipples, down his front. Glide over his abs, he has abs, your fingers dip under the elastic of his boxers.
Rex’s breath hitches and he bucks against you.
He pulls away to apologize, but you’re already smiling at him, glowing at the reaction. He loses his voice.
Your hands fall away from his boxers to instead touch yourself. There’s a patch of wetness at the base of your underwear, and you tap against it to feel it.
Rex should feel this.
You look from his lips to his eyes. Unilluminated, they’re this warm brown that you could get lost in.
“You should feel me,” you whisper to him.
Rex swallows. You nod at him.
“You might want to taste, too.”
Oh. Rex slides down your body. He leaves a kiss to your sternum, then glances over at your breast before up at you. A please in his eyes.
“You don’t need to ask,” you murmur.
Rex’s eyes flutter shut as he bows his head, lips pressing a line of adoration to your breast. To your nipple. His tongue flattens over the peak, wetting it and warming it, before his mouth closes around the bud.
He could stay here for hours, swirling his tongue and flicking it and sucking. The movements feel good, bordering on a preview for your aching clit. You bite your lip and shift slightly below him.
His other hand reaches up to grope your other breast. As his calluses smooth over the soft skin, you let out a pleased sigh. He thinks your breasts feel softer, heavier, plump. Why would he ever want to stop touching?
He switches sides, and those calluses feel electric over the spit sheened nipple. Your hand comes up to rest on his wrist, tan and large.
Rex pauses his ministrations and looks up at you. You look down at him. Your hand creeps up and flattens over Rex’s, using his fingers to grope your breast.
The two of you hold each other’s gaze.
“Why’d you stop?” You ask softly.
“Thought you wanted me to,” Rex replies. “I didn’t want to keep doing something you weren’t comfortable with.”
Your eyes soften, then you lean your head back against the pillows.
“You can’t say things like that,” you say, looking up at the ceiling.
“What’s wrong with it?” He slowly rises up your body.
“You’re being too considerate.” You don’t meet Rex’s gaze. Instead, your eyes remain trained on the ceiling, as if the white plaster is going to be cool enough to quell certain, stoking fires within you.
Rex’s brows furrow. Considerate is a good thing, isn’t it? He reaches for your face, cupping your jaw and, without speaking, asking you to meet his eyes.
You meet his confused gaze. Jolie always talks about this wild, crazed sex she has with clones. Battle adrenaline. It courses through them and leaves her in full nelsons that she talks about too loud at meals.
With a sigh, you wrap your hand around his wrist, pressing your cheek into his palm. You should take considerate sex when it’s offered to you. Who knows, you might even classify tonight as making love.
“Don’t listen to me. I’m just being silly,” and self conscious.
“You’re…” Rex searches for the right word. “More… you’re in your head tonight.”
The stakes are less here, in your linen covered bed, than they are on the battlefield, where in your head could cost you everything. Has cost good men everything.
You’re quiet again. You look down at Rex’s chest, letting your hand rub up and down his arm. It’s so nice, toned and firm beneath your touch.
“I’m… I’m really glad you’re here, okay?” How silly, to be this attached. How silly…
“I’m really glad to be here.”
You flutter your gaze at Rex for a moment before dropping it.
“I feel…” you take a heavy breath, a heavy swallow, “My ego is really bruised from being stood up tonight.” Shame courses through your body. You’re not only admitting this, you’re admitting it to a man who looks ready to feast on you.
Rex doesn’t exactly know how to respond. But he can imagine this must not happen to you often. And you seem genuinely uncomfortable by the experience.
“Let me help you forget about it,” Rex murmurs. Let me make you comfortable. “You deserve to have a good night.”
When you meet his gaze, it’s gentle. You swallow.
“Yeah?” Rex asks softly. Barely a whisper, barely audible over the fans.
You nod.
“Let me hear you.”
You bite your bottom lip for a moment. Then: “Yeah.”
Rex nods. He presses a swift kiss to your lips— He doesn’t want to get lost there, as he’s learned he’s prone to do.
Instead, he settles between your knees and slides your underwear down with careful precision. You’re not shaven, as a neat trim of hair engulfs your mound.
Dipping down, Rex’s hand settles on your thigh. He presses a kiss to the inner part, soft and delicate. Traces a line of his kisses to your core, where he slowly parts your folds and takes a moment to admire.
He presses a kiss to your labia that has your breath hitching before he’s pulling back.
“Pass me a pillow, sweetheart.”
Your stomach flips. It’s a good thing he’s not still looking at the most inner parts of you, because you feel yourself tingle and drool at the pet name.
Reaching to the other side of the bed, you pull out a fluffy pillow from the back, and hand it over to Rex. Already, you’re lifting your hips for him to slide the support beneath.
Rex spreads your legs again as he sinks back down between them. His tongue is flat as it slips through your folds, reacquainting himself with your taste. As if he ever forgot it.
Heady sighs leaves your lips, mixing with the hum of the fan and Rex’s lips against yours, slick with yourself. His fingers join his tongue, wetting themselves in the fusion of his saliva and your essence.
To make room for his fingers, Rex dedicates his mouth to your clit. He sucks and swirls and sighs into you, as his middle finger makes its way through your silk and inside.
A breathy moan leaves your lips as Rex’s exploration turns to rhythm. As one finger becomes two, as the digits not buried inside you press against your skin.
“Uhn,” escapes from the back of your throat. Rex has gone a little more crooked, insinuating how important it was that you come here with his fingers. “Right there, feels so good… Rex…”
Each word is a breath, warbling with pleasure. Music to Rex’s ears. The way you say his name is like electricity, shooting through his veins and straight to his cock, which strains against the compression boxers he wears.
The leg over his shoulder starts to shake. Rex reaches up for your breast, thumb sliding over your pebbled nipple. Your hand reaches for his head, scratching through the closely shorn stubble.
Your hand leaves him, instead fisting in the pillow beside you. Head turning, your hips move on their own as a warmth coils within you. Rex doesn’t stop. A moan from his lips reverberates through you and you moan in turn.
A plea for Rex to not stop leaves your lips. There’s vibration on your clit, as if he was responding to you. It’s enough to topple you over, come slipping out of you, warm like lava.
Rex slides his fingers out of you, only to replace them with his tongue. He laps up everything, leaving no part of your spread pussy unloved.
Your chest is heaving. Rex sits back on his calves, glistening fingers in his mouth. Catching sight of this, you feel your hole twitch.
His boxers are tight. Reaching between his thighs, Rex adjusts himself. The stimulation only makes things worse. He takes a shaky breath.
“Take them off,” you say, watching his hand over the outline of his cock with lidded eyes. You rub your hand down your body, over the inside of your thigh.
Rex’s eyes follow your hand before he meets your gaze.
“Please,” you tack on.
Rex slides off the bed, standing to the side as he takes off his boxers. His cock immediately bounces, free from the confines.
You sit up, legs curled to the side, and Rex comes to stand before you. He’s right below your chin. Your movement to kiss the pretty mushroom tip is stopped when you’re kilometers away. Just your breath on his erection causes a little dribble of precome to escape.
“You’re gonna make me come,” Rex mumbles.
You smile up at him. “Isn’t that the point?”
His ears go pink. Adorable. “No… feeling good is.”
“Does coming not feel good?”
Rex’s Adam's apple bobs as his cock twitches. It does feel good. But he thinks about the load that spilled down the shower drain. About how if he was to come right now it would be on you, not in you. Wasted.
You’re waiting for a response. Rex quickly nods.
“It does, but, I want, uh, I want—”
“Inside?” You ask, tilting your head.
Rex nods. Humming, you reach around him to open up your nightstand. Rex watches, eyes widening slightly at the contents. Not only are there condoms (he tries to ignore that you have varying sizes), there are silicone toys, some shaped like roses, others like butterflies, and one like a cock. Warmth churns in his stomach, along with something a little colder, a little more greedy. Jealousy.
You shut the drawer and Rex’s attention snaps back to you. Opening up the condom, you line it up at his tip and begin slowly sliding it down.
“I swallow, you know,” you say, off handedly, as if talking about the weather. “So it would still be inside.”
Precome leaks from his tip into the latex free sheath.
You look up at Rex. “But I know what you mean. You sit on the bed, I’m going to grab a towel.”
“I can grab it,” Rex says quickly. “They’re in the closet?”
The comment pangs you in a weird way you can’t place. As if instead of butterflies in your stomach, there are dragonflies.
“Yeah, they’re in the closet.”
You take a deep breath. Grab lube out of your nightstand.
Rex returns with a towel and hands it off to you, where you lay it over the pillow and bedding. You drop the little bottle next to the pillow.
Taking Rex’s hand in yours, you pull him close and down for a kiss. Gently, Rex urges you to lay back and let him crawl over you. His cock slides against your stomach and you wish he wasn’t wrapped, wish you could feel the leakiness across your stomach.
The two of you settle back, you haloed by your hair and the softened of your pillows, Rex between your thighs, rubbing on the smooth skin.
“Use the lube,” you say, shuffling around so your shoulders aren’t all scrunched up by your ears.
“Huh?”
“The lube.”
Rex looks at the little bottle beside your hip. He picks it up, examining it. Opening the cap, he squeezes some onto his fingers, then carefully applies it to his cock. Carefully, because he’s terrified of coming quickly.
“Wipe your hand on the towel,” you instruct, watching him with rapt attention. Rex does as you say.
His cock slides from your clit to hole, then back again, repeating the motion a few times to leave you wet and wanting. On the fourth pass, right before you want to tell him to put it in, the head catches on your hole. Rex places his hands by your waist, and slowly slides in.
You’re relaxed, walls opening up for him and gripping onto him all at the same time. A quiet moan escapes Rex’s lips as he inches his way in, brows pinched in concentration. Concentration on the velvet of your insides, of the way your legs wrap around his waist, of how slick everything feels. Of not instantly cumming and ruining the moment.
“Feels good?” You ask, a bit breathless. The stretch is so good you think you creamed just a bit.
Rex nods, just as breathless. Eyes focused on where you’re conjoined. Your fingers trail over the shell of his ear.
Slowly, he begins thrusting his hips in and out. He lifts his head, watching as your face contorts in pleasure. As your brows furrow then pinch. As you bite your bottom lip, eyes fluttering shut.
When you open them, he gets lost in the warmth of your eyes.
You hold eye contact, gasping and bodies moving together, until Rex dips his head and presses his lips against yours. Mouths open, tongues sliding against each other. His hips stutter and stumble, collapsing themselves to a grind.
You don't mind. You’re not going to come like this, but as Rex said, it’s just about feeling good. And this feels good. You feel sedated like this, reduced to nothing but a glowing ball of pleasure.
Rex pulls away with reluctance. He swallows, bends down to press one more kiss to your lips, then pulls back, sitting up on his knees. His thrusts stop for a moment, as he readjusts and throws your legs over his shoulder instead. He leans back over and resumes the steady thrusts.
A moan leaves your lips, as you feel him working his way inside you, all slippery. Wrapped in a silken sheen. Your hands fist in your pillow.
One of Rex’s hands reaches for one of yours, unfurling it from your grasp on the pillows. Instead, his hand slides into yours, and you grip onto the interlock.
The pace Rex is moving at is languid and deep, savoring every second of it. When he pulls back is until the head of his cock is about to leave your hole before it slides back in. It’s relaxing, it’s meditative— only instead of focusing on your breath you’re focused on the twitching hardness inside of you.
And Rex is twitching. As if it’s taking every modicum of self restraint to not come. Yes, his thrusts are languid and deep but his cock is twitching at a concerning rate.
“Are you going to come?” You ask Rex.
He shakes his head resolutely. You smile.
“You can, you know. You can come right now.”
Rex shakes his head again. “Want to come with you.”
Romantic. “You’ll have to speed up a little bit.”
Rex swallows, as if steeling himself. He slowly sits back up on his knees, and increases the pace, watching your face for approval.
“Little bit more,” you say, breathless.
Rex goes a bit faster, and it has your breasts bouncing. Rex wets his lips.
“Does that feel good?” He asks, voice strained.
You nod. “Feels so good. C’mere.”
Rex descends, as your hand slips between the two of you to circle your clit. You imagine there being a vibrator there, imagine Rex’s sensitive reaction to the vibration. Maybe next time, maybe when he wasn’t so sensitive, so obviously pent up.
Hopefully there will be a next time.
Rex’s hand is in yours again, his head ducked by your ear. You can hear every breathy grunt that escapes him. A moan leaves your lips, as Rex’s cock finally finds the right and perfect place inside you.
His ears pick up, just as your moans do. There’s a delicious stretch in your thighs, as Rex has you bent in half.
You know you’re done for when your fingers become stuck on your clit, unable to move in the little rhythm you had set. Your thighs shake, toes curling as you tilt your head back. Instead of your clit, you reach to toy with your nipple.
“‘M close,” you murmur, lost on a moan.
Rex mumbles something in your ear that you can’t make out. It doesn’t sound like Common.
You’re so close. Irritatingly so. You reach back for your clit, desperately searching for the peak—
You come with a moan that rises in pitch, sounding almost pathetic. As your walls flex around Rex’s cock he practically drills into you with staccato movements. Once. Twice. Thrice. And then he’s spilling inside you, all caught into the condom. His cock twitches. His hips weakly shudder in an uneven rock.
You rub his sweat-sheen back. Press a kiss to where his shoulder and pec join together. He smells delightful, all musky and sweaty.
There’s a little whimper that you almost miss, as your walls pulse around him. He can’t help it.
Rex swallows and pulls back. It’s uncomfortable inside the condom, but he wants to stay inside you. He wants to fall asleep nestled in your warmth. Wake up still there and able to continue where the night left off.
But he pulls out, leaving you shiny. He stares at the come and lube on the condom, then what's left on your pussy.
You run a hand through your hair, watching as Rex peels off the condom carefully and ties it off. It’s more attractive than any guy you’ve seen do it before.
“Wanna shower?” You ask.
Rex looks over from where he’s holding the used condom. He doesn’t know if he’s going to be able to act cool, calm and collected in the shower. Not after everything he’s done.
“We can shower,” Rex says.
You nod, but make no move to get up. Rex throws the condom away and comes back to your side, the bed dipping under his weight.
“Move over a little,” he murmurs, sliding against you.
You don’t. Instead, you curl up against him, head on his chest. Leg wrapped around his own.
“I can still feel you inside me,” you murmur against his chest. Rex wraps an arm around your shoulders to keep you close.
“What’s it feel like?” Rex asks, genuinely curious.
You hum, eyes shut. “Like a good stretch in the morning.” You open your eyes slowly, tilting your head back to look up at Rex. He’s all glowy in the lamplight. Your hand smooths over his chest.
There’s a little warmth stirring inside of you. You could easily go another round. Maybe in the shower…
“I want more,” you admit, quietly, not looking up at Rex. Normally you demand and demand and demand, but this time… you don’t want to scare him off. Don’t want him to see you as some deranged, insatiable sex freak.
Even if everytime you see him the two of you have sex.
“Sex?” Rex asks.
“Yeah…” your hand slides down his stomach, resting at his pelvis. His cock is flaccid, but stirs slightly at the suggestion.
Rex chuckles. It reverberates through his chest to your ear. Delightfully to your ear.
He presses a kiss to the top of your head that is far too sweet for a hookup. He rolls you over onto your back, and you go easily, smiling as you hold onto him by the sides of his jaw.
Rex’s lips are on yours. Only this time, you have the delightful sensation of his cock pressed directly against your cunt. You feel as he hardens, feel as he stirs back to life. Feel as Rex has to shift himself, when his cock becomes too hard that he has to shift it so it’s upwards, laying hot against your clit.
It almost makes you want to turn your back on your condom rule. Your safe sex rule.
But no. Instead you grind against his cock, all wet. Can feel as he grinds forwards, as his cock slides through your folds and his balls rub against you. The two of you moan and gasp into each other’s mouths.
Rex is terrified. This feels addicting. Precome smears across your tummy.
You open your eyes. You shimmy under Rex, not wanting him to pull back quite yet, as you grab a condom from your nightstand and hand it to him. It’s routine at this point. Rex wraps himself. He pulls your hips back to meet at the pillow. Sinks in slow, biding his time. Watching your face.
You almost want to suggest something, suggest that he takes you from behind while you’re ass up. But there’s something about the way that he’s watching your face, watching as it relaxes into pleasure, that refrains you from doing it.
Everything is unhurried here. Rex’s hand is in yours, you’re folded to the point where your hips are far off the pillow, knees close to your face. But it feels good. Rex might as well be in your throat.
You wonder, briefly, if Rex would eat his come out of you. An involuntary moan leaves your lips as your body shudders in delight at the thought.
Rex breathes out a moan that is not in Common, just as you had heard before. His hips speed up slightly. Your hand sinks down to your clit once more, gingerly touching the sensitive bud.
At the touch, your walls shudder around Rex. He gasps.
“Kiss me,” you breathe to him. Rex lifts his head up, breath ghosting over your face. A punched out moan leaves your lips as his hips move back and forth, creating a delicious pulse within you.
Rex doesn’t second guess the order. His lips are on yours, swallowing up every moan. You bite his bottom lip, just a little nibble. Then your tongue is back against his, just for a moment. Not for long, because you’re both moaning into each other's mouths.
It’s not even lewd. It’s as if you’re conjoined, body and mind. Coming is like riding a wave. Your hips roll into Rex’s in time with his own movements. The motions continue even after both of you have come, as you’re coming off the high.
Sedated and blissful to the world, you don’t let Rex pull out yet. Instead, you keep your legs around him, clamping down on his cock.
It feels good. He’s heavy above you. Heavy inside you. You’re thinking about him creaming inside you.
That’s when you know it’s time to let him up. You blow him a little, lazy kiss as he pulls out.
The condom is in the trashcan and Rex is back in your bed in moments. He’s learning.
Your head is immediately on his chest. Rex rubs his hand down your back. His heartbeat is quick in your ear. You stay quiet to listen.
It almost lulls you to sleep.
But Rex hasn’t stopped thinking about the shower. He lets you have your moments of rest and comfort before he’s kissing the top of your head and coaxing you to open your pretty eyes.
“Hm?” You slowly open your eyes, met with the curve of Rex’s jawline. Still floating, you reach up to press a kiss there. Then another. Then another. Each one is slipping down his neck.
It causes Rex to pause before he asks. The little kisses feel good. He wouldn’t be surprised if he had a trail of little moles along his neck.
“Want to take that shower?” Rex asks softly. His voice reverberates through your lips.
You nod. Slowly, you sit up and back on your knees, eyes swirling down Rex’s body. Then, you become cognizant of the lube on your inner thighs and it ruins any thought going through your brain.
Slipping off the bed, you head into the bathroom. Rex follows behind.
“How do you like your showers?” You ask him, getting towels out.
“Hot,” Rex says.
You nod, fiddling with the water temperature.
“Can you wait outside while I clean my pussy?” You ask. “It’s not very attractive.”
Rex doesn’t care. But he nods, throwing in a little ‘no problem’ as he leaves.
Alone in the bathroom, you take a deep breath. Being around Rex is making you think crazy, making you not think straight.
What were your friends going to say? You imagine their reaction to your confessions about your innermost thoughts while you piss. Contemplate what you were even going to tell them while removing your makeup. You clean away the lube in the warm shower.
Your hair is getting wet. You curse your lack of attention, but the damage has been done.
“Rex!” You call, summoning him into the bathroom.
He enters, closing the door behind him. Coming to the shower, he momentarily forgets what he’s there for, as his eyes trail all over you, following the rivulets of water down your body.
“C’mere,” you say. “Let me know if it’s hot enough.”
Rex steps in. The water’s warm, but it’s not scalding hot.
“It’s good,” Rex says, eyes struggling to stay on your face.
You hum, squirting soap out onto a washcloth. You lather it up, before beginning to clean your arm.
“Let me,” Rex says, selfish.
Looking up at him, you hesitate. Only because this feels like you’re playing house. Only because you’ll miss him when he’s gone.
You’ll miss him when he’s gone.
“Sure,” you say, handing off the washcloth to Rex.
It smells so good, like coconut and vanilla. It’s potent here, more so than it is when he’s receiving it secondhand through your skin. Diligently, Rex gets the lather all over your body. Through the fabric, he can feel your heart pounding away. He watches with rapt attention as it all washes away.
“Let me do you,” you say, repeating the same steps. Lathering up a washcloth, dragging it over the planes of his body.
He’s broad. You lather him up in your soap before maneuvering him under the spray. Your hands follow the cascades of water, ensuring all the soap is off his body.
“I’m gonna blast myself with cold water,” you warn him, “If you want to get out.”
“Why would you do that?” Rex asks. If you’re still turned on, Rex will gladly do whatever you want him to do.
“I want to close up all my pores that the hot water opened up,” you explain.
“What?”
“It’s good for your skin,” you summarize. “There’s a towel for you on the counter.”
Rex excuses himself from the shower to rub himself dry. The cold water is a rush out of the shower head and seems to gust over Rex.
But the water is off in a few moments and you’re stepping out, grabbing your towel off the hook and drying your hair.
“Are you hungry?” You ask him.
“I could eat,” Rex says.
Nodding, you pat yourself dry and throw on some moisturizer to your body. You don panties, then look over your shoulder at Rex.
“I have some sweatpants one of my guy friends left here, if you want to wear those,” you offer, already pulling open the drawer where they are. Truthfully, you nabbed these for being so comfortable.
“That would be nice,” Rex says. Better than putting on his blacks.
You pass over the sweatpants, then pull on an oversized sleep shirt. This one’s a silky, dark red button up from a lingerie store you spent too much money on.
Rex is sitting back at your breakfast table. He looks at the time on your oven, 11:58, before back to you. You’re placing the pasta you had ordered earlier on plates, then putting them one at a time in the microwave.
Rex gets his plate placed in front of him with a fork and spoon, before you put yours in the microwave. He doesn’t eat yet.
“You can start,” you say through a yawn.
“I’m waiting for you,” Rex says.
You rest your cheek in the palm of your hand, looking at the rotating food with an air of forlornness. “You have to stop being so considerate and nice,” you say, “You’re going to make me think you really care about me.”
You leave your post by the microwave to fill up two glasses of water, setting them on the table.
Rex watches you with a bit of disbelief. “Why would I not really care about you?”
You shrug. The microwave dings. You sit across from Rex with a plate of steaming food.
“I don’t know. I don’t see you too often.”
Rex watches as you start to eat. “I think about you all the time.”
You swallow your food, and swallow a wave of emotion along with it.
“Do you?”
“Yeah.”
Your throat feels constricted by emotion. Not wanting to unpack that, after already getting choked up and teary eyed early, you tell Rex: “Eat your food.”
Rex does as he’s told. It’s quiet at the table. The weight of something lingers in the air. Emotional weight. It stretches between the two of you. It only hurts because it’s unspoken, hurts like a too-tight hug in a port.
It’s when the two of you are laid in your bed, under the sheet since it’s too hot for the duvet, that you pick up your pasta conversation.
Both you and Rex are on your backs, staring up at the ceiling. He doesn’t want to overstep his boundaries, despite desperately wanting to pull you close. You don’t want to curl up next to him, terrified of how your heart will react.
“I think about you all the time, too,” you whisper into the darkness.
Rex turns his head to look in your direction. All the genetic modification, and the Kamanoans didn’t give him night vision. There’s little light from outside to illuminate you. Faintly, he can make out your silhouette in the shadows.
“Yeah?”
“Yeah.”
“C’mere,” Rex says, patting his chest.
You follow the sound, rolling until you’re laying tucked up against him. One of his hands secures around your back, the other slides from your bicep, following your arm up to where your hand is on his chest. His thumb slides under your palm, lifting it off his chest enough for him to take hold, bringing your knuckles up to his lips.
“I’ll make you a nice cup of coffee in the morning,” you murmur.
“I look forward to it,” Rex says softly.
You fall asleep with his hand rubbing up and down your back. It’s dangerous. You don’t know if you’ll fall asleep the same way again.
Morning rears his head far too early. The birds are chirping outside your window, dancing in the air above the streets. You’re facing your window, which you squint at. The tendrils of your dream slip away. Whatever had visited you during the night had been calm and warm.
There’s an arm around your waist. Rex. Your hand runs over his arm, which tightens around you. Rex presses his nose further into your skin.
There’s a familiar, sexed ache to your body. Rolling over, you come face to face with Rex, your eyes barely open and his fully awake.
“Good morning,” you mumble.
“Good morning,” Rex returns. There’s only a hint of gravel in his voice.
“How did you sleep?”
“Good.” He always sleeps his best here. “What about you?”
“Good.” You sleep your best when Rex is in bed with you, you think. Your hand comes to rest on his jaw, eyes slipping open and shut slowly. Sleepily. He has a little scratch of stubble. “How long have you been up?”
“Since the birds started outside,” Rex murmurs.
That’s early. “You should have woken me up.”
“You were sleeping,” Rex says, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. As if it was the only thing that made sense. But he says it so earnestly, so softly, that it tugs at your heart.
“Stay for longer,” you whisper, eyes fluttering open to meet his. “I can get you a nice job working as a dossier.”
“I can’t,” Rex says, though the idea is tempting. He doesn’t mention the Republic. “I don’t even know what a dossier is.”
You smile. “They help people at art museums.”
“I don’t know anything about art.”
“I could teach you.”
Waking up in your bed is tempting. But Rex shakes his head with a small, melancholic smile. He looks at your lips when he speaks. “You know I can’t do that.”
“I know,” you sigh. Maybe in another life. Maybe after the war— you cut yourself off. He’s a fling. A fun little hookup. An intergalactic piece. “Let me make you coffee.”
Ignoring the fact that you don’t make any of your other ‘pieces’ coffee in the morning, you busy yourself with summoning the energy to get out of bed. It’s harder than it appears, as your body seems to move on her own accord and tangle your legs with Rex’s.
He’s more than content to lay here, sunlight streaming over both of your bodies, while you wrestle with the conscious world.
Back at your breakfast table, as you brew the coffee, you notice that Rex sits with his legs sprawled out, taking up a good chunk of space. One arm is slung over the back of the breakfast chair, watching you intently. Softly.
“I’m going to work today early,” you say, just to make conversation. “It’s been all hands on deck, ever since this collection of paintings were stolen in the middle of the night. I don’t know what they expect me to do about it, but it’s causing me to work much longer than I need to.”
You set a mug of hot, black coffee in front of Rex, and receive a soft thank you as your fingers brush against each other with the passing of the mug.
When you sit, you pull your knee up to your chest, taking a sip of your milky drink.
“A painting was stolen?” Rex asks. He takes a sip of his coffee. It’s fresh and bitter.
“Whole collection. Gone in the blink of an eye. Well, overnight. But you know… I’m not a private investigator. So I’ve just been sitting at my desk for longer periods of time. As if the painting is going to magically appear.” You let out a long sigh. “But I shouldn’t complain.”
“And you’re just waiting for them to be returned? Or found?”
“Pretty much. But it’s giving me a good chance to catch up on some books. About art and art history and techniques. Have to keep my mind sharp somehow.” You sigh again. “Where are you off to?”
“No idea,” Rex admits. “Wherever I’m told to go.”
“And I can’t sway you to go back to my bedroom?”
Rex chuckles. “No, unfortunately.”
You sigh, this time a bit foolish. You know Rex can’t stay. “What do I have to do to get you to call me? To text me?”
“Uh… I need to get special clearance to make personal calls,” Rex says.
“Do I need to write a letter begging them to let you call me?”
“I, uh,” Rex’s chuckle is nervous. Partly because such a big favor seems out of the water for him, partly because it makes his heart race when you’re so adamant about wanting to hear from him. “I don’t know how that would work.”
“Well, I’m willing to,” you say. Taking one more sip of your coffee, you stand, opening up the bread box on your counter. You pull out a brown paper bag, pulling out an almond croissant and a muffin you didn’t eat yesterday. You cut each in half, then place them on plates.
Rex stands up while you fix breakfast together, moving your chair from across to beside him. When you come to bring the plates over, you blink at the arrangement, but say nothing of it. Instead, you sit down and place a plate before both of you. Rex’s legs remain sprawled out, one right beside you. You angle your body to face him, drawing a knee up again.
“Almond croissant, and coffee cake muffin,” you say, pointing out the food.
“Thank you,” Rex says, picking up the muffin.
“Do you want some fruit?” You ask, beginning to eat.
Rex shakes his head. “No, no, this is great, thank you.”
“Are you sure?”
Rex nods. You make a little face, pouting a bit. Abruptly, you stand, heading towards your fridge and pulling out a bowl of berries. Rex moves his leg for you to sit back down, before stretching it out again.
It feels so… normal. Looking out the window, you take in the scenery, the way you can see the cobblestone roads, the way you can catch a glimpse of the water. You turn your head back to Rex, watching him eat. You don’t have any protein to give him, because you have no interest in turning on the stove, and you feel a bit bad about it.
“Are you going to get in trouble for skipping out on dinner last night?” You ask.
Rex covers his mouth as he chuckles. He doesn’t think his general will give him a hard time about skipping out, given that Fives probably provided enough information to confirm that Rex was skipping out for dinner with a girl.
“No, no, I don’t think so,” Rex says. “They might ask questions, but that’s only ‘cause most of ‘em never even talk to girls.”
“No?”
“Nah.”
You nod at that, checking the time. “What time do you need to leave?”
Rex glances over at the time along with you. “Probably in like five minutes.”
A little whine peeks from the back of your throat. “Five minutes?”
“Yeah,” Rex says. His eyes drift all over your face. He swallows his bite of croissant. It’s sweet and flaky. Perhaps a hair stale; it wouldn’t have lasted more than a few more hours from now.
You lean forwards, further in Rex’s space. You glance down at his lips before back to him.
“I should probably get dressed,” Rex says, gently.
“Yeah,” you reluctantly agree.
Rex nods. You lean forwards more, one hand going to his thigh.
“Maybe a little kiss?” You ask, selfishly.
Rex’s heart skips a beat. “I don’t know if I’ll be able to stop.”
You smile. “That’s okay.”
The two of you meet in the middle, tasting of coffee and sweet brown sugar. You have to fight the urge to climb into his lap, instead settling for your deep lean. When you swipe your tongue along Rex’s bottom lip, he lightly sucks on yours in turn, then pulls away slowly.
“Okay,” you whisper. “Go get dressed.”
Rex presses one more kiss to your lips before standing up. You watch as he gets himself together, watch his spine, watch his shoulders. Sighing, you sit back and pop a berry into your mouth. When you go to say goodbye to him at the door, it aches in your chest.
“One more kiss,” you breathe.
The door is open. The sunlight illuminates the courtyard.
Rex can do one more kiss. He leans down, pressing his lips to yours once more. It’s tart and sweet, like the berries you had just eaten. Like the pressure on his heart.
You don't ask him to call you. Instead, you watch from your doorway as he walks down the stairs, as he walks out through the courtyard. Until he turns to the left and is obscured by the walls. Only then do you close the door. Only then do you begin your day, alone again.
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𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 ⊳ 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐧𝐞
synopsis . colonel miles quaritch—respected, feared, a machine . now, only bluer and younger the recom was near perfect. that is, until he catches the scent of a younger, field trained scientist. a distraction..but maybe that’s just what this programed machine needs.
warnings . pretty simple chapter , reader hasn’t met quaritch , pinky is reader nickname ,
words . 1.3k
notes . tag lists now open , js shoot me a pm or an ask and i’ll get you added.
you were the last recom to wake. it was.. different. you felt as if you haven’t moved, like you were in a coma. you tried to make your movements as fluid as possible, the tail behind you making things wayy more difficult than it needed to be. curling itself when it shouldn’t have, obnoxiously wrapping itself around your arm, after a bit of time, you grew fond of it, like a little you that couldn’t hold a secret.
they dropped you off at a computer to have you watch a video of you. wait what? you didn’t get much time to process before the video was playing in front of you. you pulled your brows together, confused. it really was you—well, human you.
“ hi! so i’m not sure if you’ve caught on yet, but.. you’re me! surprise ! ” you giggle to the camera, you look around for something to talk about, biting down on your bottom lip.
“ let’s see.. i’m a field trained researcher, and i worked with grace, eywa rest her soul, so..i know quite a bit about the na’vi and their ecological systemm. i know i said i’m field trained, but i only got that because zdog double dared me.. we do not back down from double dares and we don’t break pinkie promises. ” you smile, shaking your head and covering your mouth with the back of your hand to stifle your laugh. commotion in the background made your head turned, only for you to be engulfed in a headlock by your close friend, zdinarsik, but everyone calls her zdog. “ zee! get offf! ” you huffed, trying your hardest to get out of her grip. “ this is all-hmph! recorded y’know. ” zee paused her antics to wave to the camera before messing up your hair sone more before the colonel called her.
“ that’s my closest friend, she knows everything about me.. the things i wouldn’t dare say out loud, she already knows. ” you begin to ramble, you could go on and on about the people in your life, your new life here on pandora. it was absolutely breathtaking—aside from the animals who wanted you to never see the light of day once they get their teeth in you.
“ pinky! pinky, c’mon there’s a time limit on these things! ” you rolled your eyes at parker, calling you by the nickname grace so lovingly bestowed upon you. all because of one pinky promise bet you made to jake! it was simple really..you bet jake that he wouldn’t be able to get his own banshee, and he came back saying if he did, you’d have to go by pinkie around base till the end of time, or pandora is safe for humans. whichever came last that is.
“ wish i could tell you more! take good care of yourself, okay? zee too.. she acts like she doesn’t care, but she does. ” you stood up, holding your little finger to the camera, curling it as if the person on the other side looped it with yours. you blinked a few times before smiling and waving bye to the camera.
you looked around you, watching as more human-na’vi hybrids are pulled from what you assume were incubation tanks. you watched for a little, before you were directed out and onto a ship, headed for pandora. your ears perked up, blindly taking the breathing machine as you looked at the people floating in front of you. they didn’t look much smaller, at least not from your perspective. you strapped the mask over your face as you got on the ship. pulling at the straps securely, you made sure the mask was on tight enough one last time before you dazed off, wondering how much it has changed since you were last there, thankfully, it was a long way down to pandora.
the shift of the ship landing woke you. looking around slightly confused. you’re on pandora. you removed the straps, standing up and stepping out. feeling the heat of the sun against my skin, you stretched your limbs, your tail joining in on the fun.
“ this way, ” you follow behind the humans, leading you to wherever they needed you to go. you didn’t pay attention, you were too busy looking around, eyes landing and scanning everything around you.
“ the general, ” they state, snapping you out of your dazed state, you looked down, seeing a lady already engaged in conversation.
“ general ardmore? ” you spoke softly, not trying to stop their conversation, but just let her know you were here. she turned, bidding farewell to her colleague before fully turning to you.
“ y’n l’n, good to see you. ” you sat down on your knees before saluting. looking down so far hurt your neck..
“ we’ve brought you back to continue the avatar program. we want better avatars. with your research and you being the one to work under the late grace, you’ll be overseeing and ensuring our avatars are in the best shape. ” i nod once,
“ great. where can i set up? ” you say, pulling yourself to stand, gripping the straps of your backpack.
“ easy there, you’ve gotta learn your own avatar body first. ” your face turned a little darker, embarrassed that you missed that after working with the previous avatars.
“ right, thank you, general. ” you nod once, excusing yourself to find your room. getting in, you took a moment to look around. it wasn’t much, a bed, table and a bathroom. talking a breath, you settled, dropping your bag at the foot of the bed and plopping on the bed which was surprisingly soft. you groan, your lower back thanking you for giving it a rest. a soft chime rang through your room, confused you sit up. another chime. inwardly whining, you got up, opening the door only to be tackled in a bone crushing grip.
“ oh it’s really you! dude, took ya long enough! ” the much taller avatar pulled away from you, grin on their face, chewing gum. your brows pulled together, your mind putting together the puzzle pieces. your face lit up, jaw dropping and voice raising a pitch,
“ zee? ” she nods, bringing her hand to mess up your unruly hair. grinning, you threw your arms around her middle, tail swishing excitedly behind you. she laughed,
“ heard you had to go do some motor tests, so i opted to help ya, took the colonel forever to a king request though. ” she shrugged. you pulled back, telling her you needed to change, you turned, opting for some shorts and a cropped shirt they had for you in a bag.
“ ready? ” you turned to her, pulling your hair and kuru out of your shirt. she nods, gesturing for you to follow her. walking next to her, you jogged every now and again to keep up with her long strides. passing other avatars you concluded you were definitely irregular height. at 8 feet tall, you definitely we’re definitely an anomaly..
“ pinky! ” you jumped, head snapping up to zee, who just shook her head, pressing a flat hand to your forehead, you closed an eye, ears falling flat against your head, “ get outta ya head, you’re short, no biggie. just means you’ll be able to move faster. ” she smirked at you, looping an arm around your shoulder as the two of you reached a large room with various numbers of equipment and obstacles.
“ hope you’re ready cos ‘m not going to go easy on you, ” you huffed, pulling your hair into a makeshift bun before following her to the first piece of equipment.
published . september 28 , 2023
#avatar quaritch#recom quaritch#miles quaritch#colonel quaritch#miles quaritch x y/n#quaritch x reader#atwow quaritch#colonel miles quaritch#atwow x reader#atwow quaritch x reader#series : 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧#. character // miles quaritch
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Sodor Light Show
Arlesburgh
1989
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Zephyr flew up the line, her turbine whirring as she raced Northward. The Christmas Wind was one of her favorite trains, a clear run down the West Coast. Oh she didn't mind trucks and goods trains, but she was at heart an express engine.
The wind blowing in from the sea was biting cold, but her crew were safely warm in her cab, and her passengers secure in her coaches. The sea rose and fell with great swells with the wind, the distant lights of ships blinking in and out of view as they rose and fell. She slowed for Haultraugh and stopped at Arlesburgh to allow the light to be passed to the little railway, before tackling the Western Mainline.
While all technically the same line, the engines all agreed the tracks from Tidmouth to Arlesburgh was the Little Western, and the tracks further North were the Western Mainline. For fifteen miles the line ran, nothing but the sea, hills, and cliffs until they reached Harwick. Many of the island's engines disliked the run, as it was one of the longest inhabited stretches of line on the island, miles of uninterrupted wilderness, with nothing but your crew, the sea, and your train to keep you company, only the occasional passing loop to change up the scenery.
The express engines loved it.
Fifteen miles with only gentle curves, no stations, no junctions, and no one watching. Sodor’s one hundred mile per hour club had been born here, on this long stretch of empty line.
Zephyr surged forward once fully on the line, the coaches singing happily as she pushed for triple digits. She doubted she'd reach it tonight, she was only just capable of breaking one hundred thanks to Crovan's Gate’s upgrades, and the train was long and heavy, but the attempt was worth it in and of itself. There was a feeling to pushing yourself and your train as fast as it would go, stretching for every ounce of speed, a rush like no other. The crew's called it runner's high, and it was why only experienced crews were allowed on express runs. Engines could become distracted while running at such speeds, and needed steady crews to guide them safely.
Zephyr enjoyed the run, but soon enough she had to slow as she entered Harwick, which enforced speed restrictions within the city. She rolled into Harwick’s main station slowly, seeing Sapphire and Jennings waiting on the narrow gauge side of the platform with their own train.
She sighed contentedly as she stopped to allow the lights to be transferred, ready for the run to Mantauo.
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tales from the kennel
hello! a new mini-series is a brewing, starting with this horrific two-parter focusing on justin and tony, whom we met here. part of the kennel universe (master list here), but set before will and tommy are kidnapped.
content warnings for: extreme dehumanization, referenced noncon, future noncon, future dubcon, forced nudity, references to human trafficking, all the gaslighting, branding, restraints, pet whump, captivity whump, filmed whump, creepy whumper, adult language
orpheus, part one
Tony has tried so hard not to think. Thinking, he knows, is no longer required of him. Not here. Probably not ever again.
He’s been sold. Fuck, the word makes his naked skin crawl. It still doesn’t make sense, no matter how long he’s been here. People are not bought and sold. Of course, Doc doesn’t call it that. Doc calls a kidnapping a “rescue;” trafficking is just “finding someone a good home.”
But when Tony lets himself think, he knows it isn’t true. He wasn’t rescued, and he doesn’t need to find a good home. He has a good home–or at least, he used to.
It hurts to think of the little yellow house he and Justin bought together. They barely got to live in it before–well, before all of this. But when Tony curls on the floor of the doghouse at night, when he closes his eyes, he can see the wallpaper they chose for the front hallway–birds of paradise on an orange field. He can see the rack of copper pots hanging over the kitchen island; they were too expensive, but Justin insisted that anyone who cooked like Tony deserved the very best.
It hurts the most when he remembers their bedroom. The overstuffed duvet, the matching bedside tables, the soft light of their twin lamps. Their bodies moving together in the dark. Safety. Comfort.
Tony has neither here. And no matter what Doc tells him about the “wonderful home” he’ll soon be packed off to, Tony knows there won’t be safety or comfort there either. He won’t have a home. There is no home without Justin. There is no Tony without Justin.
Tony knows he will disappear entirely once Doc sends him away. He’s already started to. It isn’t Tony who endures Doc’s training for the camera; it’s Fido. It’s Fido whose red collar is cinched a notch too tight. It’s Fido who sucks, who begs, who bends to be breached like a trained whore. It’s Fido who will be restrained in the waiting crate and shipped thousands of miles away.
It’s Fido who wears the still-healing brand of his new owner between his shoulder blades.
But it is Tony who feels the pain. Even if he knows better than to think, he can’t help but feel.
Tony feels the rough heel of Doc’s hand against the puckered skin of his new scar, and he groans before he can stop himself. It’s only been a few days since Doc came into the doghouse with the branding iron, and Tony’s skin still feels like it’s on fire. Tony doesn’t even know what the damn brand looks like, but he bets he could guess the shape by the pattern of the blood throbbing beneath his skin.
Doc only chuckles. “Oh, now, boy. I know it’s a little uncomfortable now, but think of what your new gift means! Someone loves you enough to claim you for his own. You’re so close to going home!”
“No!” Tony cries hoarsely, but his words dissolve into animal keening when Doc hooks his nails into the brand.
“Yes, you are,” Doc insists. His voice is still gentle, even as he digs further into Tony’s wound. “Don’t undo it by being a bad boy now.”
“Please!” Tony begs. The burning is almost as keen as when the iron first landed on his skin. Doc slaps Tony between the shoulders, and Tony’s knees come out from under him; his belly lands hard against the cold floor.
“You don’t want to ruin your gift, is that right?” Doc chides, letting his hand slip up the back of Tony’s neck and into his dark hair. He scratches idly at Tony’s scalp.
The humiliation is a brand all its own.
“You know, it’s an honor to be adopted by someone so important. You’re going to have so much fun, and I know you’re going to be so good for him. He’s tuning in all this week so that he can get excited for your arrival next weekend. Imagine someone so important giving up so much of his time for a little rescue like you. Aren’t you a special boy, Fido?”
Tony shakes his head. He doesn’t want to think about what’s coming. Doc’s already showed him the crate he’ll travel in, the special hood he’ll wear to dampen his senses, the fur-lined cuffs built into the box to keep him still. He’s been promised drugs that will keep him calm for the trip. Tony doesn’t know exactly where he’s being sent, but he knows it’s far. Far from here. Far from the little yellow house.
Far from Justin.
“I want to go home,” Tony says before he can stop himself. “Please, I–”
Doc’s hand freezes in Tony’s hair. “But you are going home!”
Tony shakes his head. “No. You don’t–I–please, Doc, Please. I’ll be good. I promise. Just–”
“Don’t make the people think you’re ungrateful, Fido. Not all of my rescues get the opportunities you have.”
Tony wants to scream. Yes, he’s had so many ‘opportunities’ since he’s been here. The opportunity to be restrained and groped and filmed and drugged and starved and beaten. To be coupled like a brood mare with any one of a dozen faceless people in red collars. To know exactly how weak he is, to know for certain that it took almost no time to break him entirely.
But he doesn’t scream. Because he knows better.
“I’m grateful,” Tony forces himself to say. “I-I–” he swallows around the lump in his throat, “I just don’t want to leave you.”
He pitches his eyes to the floor, but it doesn’t matter: Doc knows he’s lying. The man bursts into laughter.
“Oh, my sweet little pup. What a performance!”
“I’m not–”
Doc’s hand presses against the brand, and Tony is silenced by the searing pain.
“I know you have mixed feelings about leaving, and I know it isn’t because of me.”
Tony stares up at Doc through the blur of his tears. The pain in his back is white hot; the knot in his chest is worse. He never mentions Justin to Doc. He learned early on that there was no point; Doc won’t give him any answers. But now that he’s being sent away–
“The little mutt will be just fine without you,” Doc says. “You haven’t seen him in months anyway, have you? You should be used to it by now.”
But Tony will never be used to it. They didn’t get enough time. They’d only been married for a week when Doc found them. When Doc took Tony’s wedding ring, it hadn’t even had the chance to wear a groove in his skin. It was like he’d never worn a ring at all.
“Please.” Tony shifts his weight back onto his stomach. He lays his arms prostrate on the floor. “I have to see him.”
Doc shakes his head. “I don’t know, boy. Don’t you think it will be harder? He isn’t coming home with you. He might be jealous. I don’t want you to feel badly about your good luck–and I don’t want it to be more difficult for him. I haven’t found a place for him. Not yet.”
Tony closes his eyes. He hopes Doc never finds a place for Justin, that there’s still a chance that Justin will make it back to the little yellow house, even if it’s without him.
“I want to–to-to say goodbye. Even if it’s hard.”
He doesn’t say that he wants to say goodbye because he’s almost certain it will be the last time he sees his husband. At the very least, it will probably be the last time Justin sees him alive. Tony is under no illusion that he will escape the situation waiting for him overseas. He knows he will be used until he is a dry husk, and then he will be crumpled up and thrown away. He can only hope that someday, Justin might have closure. That Justin will sit at the kitchen island with another man who will make him enchiladas and kiss that spot on the back of his neck and banish the nightmares that will surely haunt Justin for the rest of his life.
Tony doesn’t have a choice. His nightmare is going to swallow him whole. But with the time he has left–he needs Justin to know that it will be alright, even if Tony won’t be there to see him through.
Doc chuckles softly and tucks his fingers under Tony’s chin, forcing Tony to meet his eye. “You are an affectionate little thing, aren’t you?”
“Please. Before–” Tony chokes on the lump on his throat, but he holds Doc’s gaze, “--before I go home.”
Doc’s eyebrows raise. His mouth curves into a grotesque smile. “Well, look who’s decided to be a good boy.”
“I won’t fight,” Tony whispers. “I promise.”
“Do you?”
“I do.”
As though to prove it, he manages not to flinch when Doc shifts his grip and presses into the soft meat of his cheeks. Doc dips his thumb into Tony’s mouth and presses his tongue flat. Tony stays still. He wants Doc to believe him. It’s the only way that he will get to Justin.
Doc sighs, slipping the calloused pad of his thumb back and forth over Tony’s tongue. “You understand that you’ll have to follow my rules? That you have to be obedient if you expect a treat?”
Tony does his best to nod, even as Doc’s touch teases the opening of his throat.
“And you’ll be a good boy on your trip home?”
Another half nod. Doc pulls his thumb backward, but he keeps Tony’s tongue pinned down.
“Then I’ll let you see him,” Doc says thoughtfully. “But you won’t say goodbye.”
Tony’s brow wrinkles, and Doc laughs.
“You won’t say anything, actually. You won’t speak at all.”
Tony’s mouth twitches in an attempt to protest, and Doc seizes his tongue and yanks. The thin skin that connects his tongue to the base of his mouth flares with pain. Tony whines involuntarily, but Doc doesn’t let go.
“He doesn’t know what it is you’ve been up to all this time. He doesn’t know that you’re being adopted. I didn’t think it was good for him to know, since the two of you were never going to find a home together. Makes it easier to wean him, doesn’t it?”
Tony squeezes his eyes shut again. He and Justin found a home together. They just never expected it to be ripped away from them like this.
“Look at me when I’m talking to you, boy,” Doc snaps.
Tony complies. What else can he do? He promised he wouldn’t fight, didn’t he?
“You’re not going to make any of this worse by spilling the beans. You may agree to stop fighting, but if he finds out you’re headed home, he won’t. He’s already a naughty little thing, and I don’t particularly want to deal with any more guff from him.”
For the sparest of seconds, Tony’s heart soars. Justin hasn’t given up. He’s still fighting. He can make it. He will.
But Doc’s voice brings him back to earth.
“See, he isn’t as valuable to me as you are, Fido. It’s going to be hard to find him a place. And I can’t have you making it any harder than it needs to be. I’ve got limited resources, you know? So, here’s the deal: I’ll let you see him if you promise not to say a word.”
Tony nods again, even as his tears finally break free. He doesn’t want Justin to see him bitted or muzzled. He wants to kiss his husband, to tell him that he loves him one last time. He wants to say goodbye. But if this is all Tony’s got, he will take it. He’s learned to take what he can get.
Doc finally lets Tony’s tongue go, wiping his thumb on Tony’s cheek. “But it’s a little performance test for you, boy. I’m not going to make this easy for you. I want you to show me that you mean what you say.”
“I–” Tony rasps. He pushes himself up on his hands and clears his throat. “I don’t understand.”
“You are not leaving the doghouse until it’s time to pack you up. That means I’ll be bringing the mutt to see you. And I expect you to do what you’ve been trained to do.”
Tony’s gut freezes. His eyes drift up to the camera closest to them.
He can’t. He wants Justin more than anything, but he can’t subject Justin to this. Not when he won’t even be able to explain. There will be too many things he can’t explain. The cameras. The brand on his back. How sorry he is. And how much he loves Justin.
It’s too much to ask.
“But–”
“I will bring him here, and you will show him what you’ve learned. If you want to see him before you go home, those are the expectations. Take it or leave it.”
“He doesn’t know–” Tony tries, but Doc’s palm comes down hard between his shoulder blades.
“And he won’t know.” Doc leans close, pressing harder against Tony’s ruined skin. “If you say a word, I’ll kill him.”
“No!” Tony cries. Justin has to get out. He cannot die here.
“I told you, he isn’t that valuable to me. The only reason I haven’t put him down yet is because my Annie’s taken a bit of a shine to him. She’s never had a pet of her own, and I like to see her happy.”
Tony feels bile rising in his throat. Justin is no one’s pet. Maybe that’s all that Tony will ever be now, maybe that’s a foregone conclusion, but he has to believe that Justin still has a chance.
“You can’t–”
“I won’t, so long as you show us all what a good boy you are. I’m not even going to muzzle you; you’ll get a chance to really show off your training. I’m sure your new owner will be watching, and you’ll want to make sure he’ll be excited to see you.”
Tony collapses over his knees. He’s going to be sick. He can’t do this. He can’t make Justin do this. He doesn’t know what Doc’s done with Justin, but Tony knows he isn’t a red collar. Tony would know if he were. Tony’s body knows every red collar, even the ones he hasn’t seen; he’s tasted them and felt them move inside. None of them were Justin. Tony would never mistake Justin’s touch.
He can’t make Justin a part of this–but he knows that he has to. Doc has him trapped, sure as if he were already packed in the crate. He should never have tried to bargain. He doesn’t have the head for it anymore. After all, he isn’t meant to think.
“You can’t go back on it now, boy,” Doc murmurs. His hand slips below the brand, scratching a gentle line up and down the knots of Tony’s spine. “And you get to say goodbye. Just like you wanted. Only not in so many words.”
Tony doesn’t move. He falls into the gentle touch, just the way he’s been trained, and he stays still. There’s nothing he can do anyway. He knows if he fights now, Justin is as good as dead.
“It’s romantic, in a way,” Doc says wistfully. Tony can hear the smile in his voice. “Do you know the story of Orpheus, Fido? My Annie has a big book of Greek myths that I used to read to her before bed, and that one was always her favorite. Made her cry, but I think she liked the tragedy of it all.”
Tony knows the story, but he can’t remember. Not right now. The only thing he can recall is Justin’s face. He shouldn’t have asked to see him. He should have let himself be packed away and lived with the memories they’ve already made. He curls in on himself. Doc keeps stroking his back.
“Orpheus had a chance to rescue his love from the underworld. All he had to do was to lead her out without turning around to look at her. He just had to trust that she was there, and they’d both be free. But he turned around just as they were crossing the threshold, and she was pulled back into the underworld forever. Because of his weakness.” Doc leans close to Tony’s ear. “This is your Orpheus moment, boy. Don’t be weak.”
Tony can’t stand it. “You’re not giving me the chance to save him from anything,” he says, his voice toneless and hollow.
Doc’s fingers crook against Tony’s cheek. “No, because I’ve already rescued you both.”
Tony should laugh, but he only squeezes his eyes shut again. He’s dreamed about rescue, but he knows now that it will never come. Not for him. There is no escaping the snare he’s just set for himself.
“But,” Doc says thoughtfully, “I am giving you the chance to protect him.”
“From you.”
Doc’s hand withdraws. “From himself. He’s got to learn, and you’re going to teach him. You’re going to show him what a good boy looks like.”
Tony looks up at Doc, the older man’s image distorted by the pane of his tears. “Why do you hate us so much?”
“Oh, Fido. I don’t hate you. I could never hate any of my rescues. You’re all such vulnerable creatures. But just like you’re going to protect your mutt, I have to protect you. I know it’s hard, giving up what you thought your life would be. But I saved you from something so much worse.”
It’s bullshit, but Tony is sure that Doc believes it. The man abducts innocent people and strips away their humanity like bits of old wallpaper, but he believes that he’s serving the greater good. Tony only wishes he could believe too. It would make all of this so much easier if he could believe that this torture was saving him from something worse.
But he knows better. He knows that someone else would have driven by the service station eventually; he knows that if they had been smarter, if they hadn’t gotten in Doc’s truck, they would be at home in the yellow house right now. They wouldn’t have died. Someone would have come. Doc didn’t save them from anything. Doc stole them.
“It’s hard for you and the mutt, I know. But I can’t always place everyone together, so the separation was necessary. So you could get used to the idea. But I’m not a monster, Fido. And so I’m going to give you this chance to ease your parting. But if I let you off your leash, I know you’d run amok. And that’s not modeling good behavior, is it? So, there are rules. It’s as simple as that.”
“You’re insane,” Tony says. “You said you’d kill him–”
Doc swats at Tony’s nose. “Bad dog. That’s enough. The mutt won’t be put down if you do as you’re told. But if you don’t, it’s no skin off my nose. This isn’t a charity, even if it is a rescue operation. Cost-benefit analysis. You’ve earned your keep these last few months; the mutt is a drain on our resources. But this little guest spot might just be his meal ticket until I figure out what to do with him.”
Tony opens his mouth, to protest or beg, he isn’t sure which, but Doc’s hand stops his voice.
“I’ve heard enough out of you. I think your new rules apply starting now. You make a peep, I won’t even go to the trouble of bringing him in. No bark. Do you understand?”
Tony’s chest heaves with a silent sob, but he nods. He knows Doc is as good as his word.
“Hup hup,” Doc commands, and Tony pushes himself onto all fours, even as his limbs tremble beneath him. Doc pulls a leash from his belt loop and clips it to the ring on Tony’s collar. “Fido, place.”
Tony’s cheeks color with shame, but he crawls to the center of the glass box, his leash dragging behind. He knows that this is the spot with the most advantageous camera angles, that he’s expected to hit his mark so that his viewing audience gets exactly what they are paying for.
“Sit.”
Tony complies and lets his bare ass fall back over his heels. He sets his hands flat on the floor in front of him. Doc crouches down and tethers his leash to the anchor in the floor.
“Stay.”
As if there were any other option.
Doc rises and goes to the locked door. He looks back over his shoulder. “You remember your rule, Fido. I’ll be right back with the mutt.”
...to be continued
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What do you think Spider's reaction would be if everyone withheld from him that he was Quaritch's son? All his life he would have thought his father was unknown, and he would only find out the truth when Quaritch first spoke to him (when Recoms tried to kidnap the children as hostages)
The unnatural man's eyes scanned over the rest of the group. "What's your name, kid?" he said, catching sight of Spider.
Spider struggled again against the man holding him from behind. His scalp burned from where the Na'vi was pulling on his hair. Golden yellow eyes met his soft brown ones, and Spider stilled for a moment, unsure why the man was asking.
"Spider," he spat. "Socorro."
He breathed deeply, waiting for the stranger's verdict, but what he wasn't expecting was the look of confusion that fluttered across the man's face, followed closely by... what was that? Disbelief?
The man narrowed his eyes in thought, crouching down to be at Spider's level. He signalled the Na'vi behind him to let go of Spider's hair, leaving Spider tense, unsure of what was happening.
"Miles?"
A cold shiver ran down Spider's spine. "How do you know that?"
The man in front of him blanched, as if taken aback by Spider's words. Spider watched as something akin to understanding bloomed behind those yellow eyes, spreading slowly across the man's features, blurring into a picture of thoughtfulness. He didn't answer.
"What are we doing, boss?" one of the other avatars spoke, impatience thinly veiled behind his words.
The one in front of Spider stood slowly, keeping his eyes trained on him for a few more moments, before turning around and pressing a hand to the communicator at his neck. "Iron Sky, this is Blue One actual, we are ready for extract."
Spider threw a look of panic at Lo'ak - this was not good. Lo'ak's eyes reflected the fear growing in Spider, and his ears were pinned back in protest at the avatar holding him. Kiri was also struggling, but Spider couldn't catch her eye before they were all being pushed in the same direction towards the clearing - the clearing where a demon ship could come down at any moment and swoop them up.
There were avatars on all of his siblings, and Spider watched as they were all forced down to the ground. The person holding him however, kept him upright. It was almost like they were afraid to let him go.
Frantically, Spider scanned the edges of the clearing for signs of Jake or Neytiri, but nothing seemed to be happening. His attention caught on the avatar that had asked his name. The man was staring at him with the strangest look in his eye, and Spider wondered how long he'd been watching him.
When the man caught Spider looking, he began to walk over. Spider's heart began pounding in his chest. Shit, why hadn't he just kept his head down?
How did this man know his name?
He avoided looking at the avatar until he was right in front of him. The darkening sky was making it difficult to see as far in the twilight, but Spider thought he could make out the name tag on his vest.
M. Quaritch.
His breathing got faster, afraid to even look any longer at the man now crouched in the grass in front of him.
When had the avatar behind him let go of him again?
"How did you know my name?" Spider hissed.
The avatar paused for a moment, staring directly into Spider's eyes. "Because I was the one that gave it you, kid."
... No.
No. Spider didn't know what to do with this information - that couldn't be right... that would mean....
"Those insurgent bastards never tell you who your daddy was?"
It felt like Spider's whole heart had stopped. There was something deadly wrong with him - he was malfunctioning, was he having a heart attack? Surely he was going die.
Keeping his feet underneath him suddenly felt difficult, and it was all he could do to remain standing, staring at the man - Quaritch - in front of him.
And then it clicked.
Quaritch - he'd heard the name before, it had been whispered during his childhood, never outright discussed, but spoken about enough for Spider to gather that it was he who was ultimately responsible for the fall of the first Hometree. It was he who had destroyed the lives of hundreds of Na'vi. It was he who had the blood of hundreds of Omatikaya families on his hands.
Spider couldn't breathe... It wasn't making sense. That man... that man had been human... he had died, Jake had murdered him.
How was this happening?
"You're not..." was all he managed to choke out.
Quaritch watched him carefully, a grim look on his face, but Spider wasn't aware of any of that. He was trying to concentrate on pulling enough air through his exopack to satiate his suddenly empty lungs. Why wasn't it working? Was his mask broken?
He stumbled a little, and a large hand on his shoulder forced him down to the ground. "Don't sweat it," Quaritch said. "I ain't exactly overjoyed myself."
Fuck. So it really was... This man, Quaritch, had been his father? Nausea swelled in Spider's throat, and suddenly he was ripping his mask off, throwing up in the grass next to him.
It was difficult with his hands bound, but as he wiped his face and pulled his mask back on, he began to crawl away from Quaritch, putting as much space between them as the Na'vi would allow.
He cast around for Kiri - or Lo'ak or Tuk - wanting someone he knew to be close, wanting to be held by familiar hands, and spotted Kiri only a few feet away. He made his way towards her, and Quaritch seemed to let him.
He could tell by the look in Kiri's eyes that she'd heard the whole thing. Her face was anxious, shocked... confused.
"Kiri!" Spider hissed, as he scooted up to her.
"I know," she replied.
"It can't be true. It can't be true," Spider repeated, as if saying it enough times would manifest it.
"It's okay..." Kiri spoke softly, trying to comfort. She wrapped her arms around him as best as she could with her hands tied, and Spider gratefully sank into her touch.
He was too far gone to realise Neytiri's disguised call, coming from the eastern edge of the clearing, but Kiri wasn't. Her ears pricked up and she looked over at Tuk and Lo'ak to make sure they'd heard it too. Tuk was wide-eyed, casting around for their mother, and Lo'ak looked stoic, clearly trying to think the next few critical moments through.
There was the call again. Loud as a drum, subtle as a bird.
The arrow that shot straight into the avatar's heart that was looking over Spider and Kiri pulled Spider immediately from his spiral. He wasn't sure what happened first - Kiri gasping, Tuk shrieking, Quaritch yelling, "Contact made!" or the sounds of gunfire from the surrounding avatars' ARs. The noise was like thunder in his ears, and the heat of their fire blazed across his face.
Kiri was yelling now, pulling on his arm, but then just as suddenly, a larger, stronger hand had grasped his shoulder, forcing him back, before the owner fell limp, impaled by a poisoned arrow through the heart. He stared at the dead avatar for a moment longer before Kiri was pulling him away, towards the trees, and they ducked and dived for cover as bullets soared all around them.
He only hoped that Lo'ak had managed to grab Tuk.
There was no time to pause - no time to stop and check - they were running, sprinting as fast as they could away from the fire. Then suddenly, an explosion rocked them both from behind. The force of it was like nothing Spider had ever experienced, and it sent him flat to the ground, knocking the air out of him and sending a trilling noise through his ears. He lay still, trying to gasp air back into his lungs while simultaneously shaking the ringing from his eardrums. He could hear Kiri shouting, trying to pull him up, but she sounded far away. Hands were on him - but they weren't hers. They weren't even Neytiri's. They felt like Jake's.... could Spider dare believe...?
He opened his eyes. Cold terror swept through his body at the sight of Miles Quaritch bending over him, then lifting him up and swinging him over his shoulder. It was all Spider could do to strain his eyes and watch as if he was a passenger in his own body. He couldn't make a single noise of protest. He was too shocked, too stunned, too confused.
Where had Kiri gone?
"Don't worry, kid. You're coming home now."
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Cat dad anon here: ironically by the the time you posted my response I got sick again lol funny how that works (I’m not mad btw i thought it was just funny because i forgot i sent that originally)
I would like to add to this with genshin WOMEN as cat moms.
Arlecchino is technically a cat dad literally because she has Lynette and Lyney. But also those two have snuck in many a stray into the hearth to keep as their own. Ironically enough many end up becoming hers in the classic: dad who didn’t want cat ends up being cat’s favorite. Well she sees no reason to fight it now, it makes the kids happy to have the cat even if it seems to prefer her. Rest assured that kitty will be well cared for not just because it has a bunch of orphans caring for it but because Arlecchino makes sure it only eats the most delectable of fish.
Jean is probably the one who gets a emotional support cat. A gift from Lisa perhaps? A affectionate little fluff ball that lingers around her helping her feel more at ease. Its been trained to bump her with its head whenever she gets too tense or stressed in order to indicate its time to relax and give the kitty some pets. It helps immensely as if she stays up too late the cat will simply lay ontop of her work forcing her to turn in for the night.
Another is Undoubtedly Chlorine. Awaiting her each day is a cat waiting by the door to greet her by immediately begging for food. A very loud kitty maybe a siamese as its miles more chatty than she herself is.
Ningguang possesses a common breed of cat surprisingly. Not s luxurious breed at all but rather a simple black cat. (Fun fact black cats were originally thought of as good luck) but this cat isn’t not at all poised or graceful. Infact its quite troublesome. It seems to be mischievous on purpose. If it is hungry then you will know from the sudden sounds of pottery falling. Since then most pots are reinforced to not be knockable. But the cat is a plump bastard because the staff struggled to calm it. Still even with its mischievous nature is Ningguang quite content with the creature. She sleeps with them cuddled by her as she used to cuddle cats while she lived on the streets for warmth. In fact the very cat she owns was picked out because it resembled her stray cat friend who passed long ago. Which is also why she will not even entertain the idea of replacing it and glares at anyone who suggests it. Her kitty is her respite from her stress as she can now spoil her little friend.
Beidous cats would be different. As she is a captain it actually would make sense to have cats onboard. Infact its a common. Ship cats are good for mice management but that also means they may not be as affectionate as they’re more wild like. More busy below decks stalking the mice. But beidou’s cats are a bit different. They proudly display to her their bounties so she’ll reward them with much love and affection. Plus there’s her pal kazuha who is canonically a cat magnet. Those cat lives better lives than some people!
And of course Lisa. Lisa definitely seems like she’d end up attracting other cats than actually having one of her own. Like if Kaeya has a kitty then it may find Lisa swaying it to her side with promise of quality naps and treats. Or if Jean is out on business she is the cat babysitter who will be lounging with the kitty enjoying a nice nap. Eventually she’d end up attracting a permanent cat who snuck into the library during a storm. She let the guy stay in of course but even after weeks have passed does it refuse to leave. Its more of the library’s cat but she is the librarian. She playfully gave it the title of her assistant as it likes to sit at her desk with her paperwork displayed like its actually doing buisness. It even has its own Favonious collar labeling it as a official employee of the Knights. The cat seems to Mimic Lisa alot. It follows her to greet and check on jean and play with Jean’s own kitty cat. But it doesn’t like going outside where its more noisy. It would rather nap on the sunlight coming through the window.
CAT MOMS . . . be still my heart. and oh no anon i'm sorry to hear that; i am sending you soup and hoping if you have a kitty of your own it is providing the healing snuggles and purrs that you deserve!
lisa's library cat is making me feel so soft; i adore her and the thought of walking into the library to see her snoozing behind the desk with the cats of the rest of the knights of favonius deciding she's a lovely pillow and a perfect napping spot . . . sigh.
navia definitely has a plump spoilt kitty who is dressed in the finest of clothes; she can't resist giving it a sweet treat now and then, and everyone in poisson knows that the cat with the lovely ornate collar belongs to their demoiselle and as such gives the cat a freshly caught fish or a bit of chicken or too many pets and loves!
miko is very fond of cats because they're just as tricky as she is; they tend to follow her around - but her favourite is a sleek black cat who sits, mostly, off to one side. it follows her but it doesn't want fusses or too many pets; it follows her to the shrine, to the publishing house . . . she's named it 'ei'.
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𓂃 ࣪˖ ִֶָ𐀔 You are leaning up against a wall at the train station, waiting for your train to arrive, you are looking down to your phone and ignoring your surroundings. When the speakers announce your train has arrived, you head over to the doors.
You enter the train, feeling it's too quiet, you look up from your phone and see that you are in an abandoned train. It looks like it hasn't been used in decades and nature is starting to take it over.
Do you exit the train?
𓂃 ࣪˖ ִֶָ𐀔 As you step out of the train, you are met with a beautiful and majestic forest that seems to go on for miles, it looks unreal and like those forests you would find in fairy tales. Confused with where you are, you start walking into the forest.
It doesn't take long for you to find somewhere with life and it looks to be like a regular city, but more enchanted and mystical. That's when a fairy with blue wings approaches you.
-Fairy : Hello!! Welcome to the Withering Realm! No, it's not a dark and scary place like the name suggests. No, you aren't dreaming, this is real life. -Fairy : Now that we got that out of the way, you can call me Loopy! I'm one of the fairies that reside here! -Loopy : Let me give you a tour around the realm, wouldn't want a new guest getting lost!
- Achievement Unlocked; Gained a companion named Loopy!
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⋆˚`Withering Realm;
ᘛ ⊱Darkness Tree⊰
ᘛ ⊱Eevee City⊰
ᘛ ⊱Residents⊰
ᘛ ⊱ɆⱤⱤØⱤ⊰
⋆˚`Ethereal Countries;
ᘛ ⊱Oceana⊰
ᘛ ⊱Calor⊰
ᘛ ⊱Tellurian⊰
ᘛ ⊱Aerosol⊰
ᘛ ⊱Lumen⊰
ᘛ ⊱Stygian⊰
⋆˚`Rules;
⚠︎ No Nsfw! Flirty and suggestive messages are allowed for only the adult residents. Do not do it with the minor residents.
⚠︎ Shipping is allowed with the residents, but only minor x minor and adult x adult.
⚠︎ Suicidal/self harm messages and jokes are allowed, just don't vent cause it will be deleted.
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ii. a pearl's journey
blood & pearls masterlist
word count: 1k
summary: stories of how you washed ashore.
warnings: blood (sukuna drinks it)
Ryomen Sukuna is a name that has even made its way down into the depths of the sea. His name is spoken with fear and reverence through the vibrations of the water, and you never understood why.
You are forbidden from entering his domain, or any other, by your father and your mother. Your father tries to protect you from the uncontrollable perils above ground, on earth. Your mother tries to protect you from the caged loneliness that is the sea by teaching you how to be a princess.
Much to your mother’s chagrin, you are no princess and there is no creature in the sea who should tame you.
You have met many, many men before, and Ryomen Sukuna is nothing but a man, after all.
The fairies are aghast at your nonchalance. How dare you have the audacity to not bow at Ryomen Sukuna’s feet? Don’t you know that he is a god? A demon disguised as a deity, with the markings etched into his body to prove it?
You scoff- demons and gods don’t live amongst mortals.
They reply- but you do.
You were meant to see the sky, to breathe air. Your parents disagree, but you know in your watery soul that this is where you are meant to be. The tendrils of the sea cannot keep you tethered to the bottom any longer.
A memory of you as a child, traveling to a lost group of fishermen and escorting them to the shore. You were only a mere child when fresh sunshine warmed your cheeks for the first time. They were kind to you, telling you stories of the treasures that their town contained. Of their wives and children, of books, of grass and air.
Your father forbade you from leaving the sea after that.
You recall a shipwreck hundreds of knots away from home that you had run away to in a fit of fury. When you were just shy of touching the precipice of womanhood and your father had called you a wild girl, with no place to tame her.
You saw your first human skeletons on that ship and shed a salty tear for the loss of life. It wouldn’t be your last.
No matter how much of the sea you explore, it is endless. Endless and bottomless in a way that strikes uneasy fear in your heart. Your mother recognized your delicate heart immediately. It’s why she convinced your father to send you to the land with some of the other girls, rather than keep you under the sea.
Your bare feet have walked half as many miles as you’ve swam, but you don’t care. The air is crisp here, and eventually you separated off from the rest of the girls who became women with you. It has been many years, even decades, that you’ve lived in the sea. But time seems to move more slowly here.
Especially in this enchanted lake. Peering into the great unknown of the sea from here doesn’t feel so daunting. Perhaps it is because things feel soft here, as if time is honey sliding through your fingers like silk.
You didn’t expect to stay here this long. For a demon, his domain was far more tranquil than you expected. Would you expect to find fresh peaches and oranges in a demon’s lair? He is nothing but the stuff of nightmares and dreams anyway, but his dark cherry eyes are curiously trained on you.
“The mermaid is still here, isn’t she?”
“She is not a mermaid, my king,” Uraume sighs, for what must be the third time already.
“She is of the water, I can smell it on her. Even from here, where she sits in my lake. As if she rules the place,” Sukuna scoffs, gazing out of his window and glaring at where he can only assume you are, “I should have ripped her heart out ten times over by now.”
“Yes, you have mentioned that several times now-”
“How would her equally foolish father feel receiving her head on a stake,” he ponders, “No matter.”
“We will be late for the ritual. The girl of the water can wait,” Uraume says, hurrying him along the corridor as the other temple guides scurry about. Sukuna needs only to look once for those in his field of vision to move swiftly. If he needs to look twice, they’re dead.
They’ve seen it before their very eyes. Tongues ripped mercilessly, throats gutted and blood spilt. The legend says that he was once a human but it is unbelievable. Ryomen Sukuna is shrouded in darkness. Any light within him has been snuffed out by bloodlust and power.
He does not desire much, but he prefers it that way. Sukuna would much rather see his followers, his devotees, on their knees. Praying to him, a god they have self-appointed. They should be so lucky to have him to confess to. To decide whether their wishes become reality. Mediocrity bores him. Sukuna wishes for something more extraordinary than the simplicity of humanity.
It’s almost too easy. The taste of fear infuses with the metallic smell of blood and sits on his tongue. Waiting to be devoured, waiting for his teeth to rip into flesh. Waiting to be controlled.
Suddenly, he smells the salty sea. Sukuna can sense you watching from afar, perhaps hidden behind the tall trees and the bushes that surround the temple grounds. Your heart quickens as his gaze lingers over you. Are you fascinated? Or are you afraid of how the world opens itself up for his taking? Are you afraid of how easily devoured the earth is- how the earth is made of only blood, bones and flesh?
He meets your eyes as the fire burns brightly and as blood surges into his mouth. Trails of crimson paint his lips before slipping into the crevices of his chest and disappearing under her robe. The forest is painted ruby red and Sukuna’s lightning eyes glow under the light of the moon as he looks directly at you through the trees, speaking to you with a simple glare.
Your fate seems to be sealed as his lips curl in your direction. Your blood must taste like the midnight sky and the sea.
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@kentobean @misslovingpearl @aeanya @mystikalini @helenas-revenge
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