#slic of life

[ghostofthemost141]

Pretty

Pt. 1 Pt.2 Pt.3

Pairing: Ghost x F!Reader, First POV, no use of (Y/N)

Word Count: 2,488

Themes: Angst, Self Loathing

About: After the end of the zombie apocalypse, the world may be back to normal, but your life is at a standstill as Task Force 141 works to try and find a reverse cure for your boyfriend Ghost.

Notes: This was inspired by a little drabble someone wrote here on Tumblr and when I went to try and find it, I couldn't find it so if someone finds it please let me know so I can give credit to them since this short is based off of that post. I also decided not to use (Y/N) for this one and instead everyone calls you Dolly, which means a gift of God that Simon gave you. Hope you enjoy!

How long does this have to go on for? I feel as if this is torture to keep him in here. I just want to reach in there and hold his hand, but it wouldn’t do me any good. It would hurt more, much, more. 

“‘Ou in here, Dolly?” A thick, accented voice came through, calling me by my nickname. 

“Hm.” I respond back, not taking my eyes off of him. 

It was Johnny, coming to check on me for the millionth time. It’s going to be the same old, same old so I don’t know why he even bothers at this point. Johnny stopped next to me, him standing and me sitting on the ground, as he stared into the incubator containment thing that was across the room. Every once in a while, he will make a groaning or growling noise at me, but that was it. 

“Dinner is ready. Price sent me to fetch ya.” Johnny told me. 

“Just do it without me.” I mumbled, not moving my eye contact. 

Johnny sighed in slight annoyance, but I ignored it. 

“You gotta come eat with us, Dolly. He wouldn’t want you to do that to yourself.” 

I tightly shut my eyes together, hearing what he used to sound like in my head, as if he was scolding me. But that voice would never come, for his husky, deep voice was replaced by deep gutter growls that don’t mean nothing but the fact that I am his next meal. 

You need to eat, love. S’not good for you to not eat.

I could almost hear him saying it, but it was just my mind playing tricks on me. 

“I just want to be alone, McTavish.” I strongly said. 

Johnny sighed, but remained where he was at. I wanted to yell at him, but I didn’t have the strength nor energy to do it. 

“We are still lookin’ and tryin’, you know that righ’?” 

I nodded in response, knowing what he was going to say. He says it every time he catches me in here. 

“I’ll save ya a plate.” 

Johnny finally turned and exited the room. It’s not that I didn’t mind the company, it’s just that I am tired of hearing the same old shit. 

“We are still lookin’ and tryin’, you know that righ’?” 

“It’s hard to find a cure, kid.” 

“We are doing our best.” 

“He will be cured soon.” 

Soon. Soon. I feel like they are just lying to me at this point. I know they are just trying to keep my spirits afloat, but how can you when the person you love the most is kept in solitude in order to prevent him from turning you? His eyes were a cloudy white instead of his normal bright, blue azure eyes. They’ve managed to keep his organs and body alive so when we do, or if we find a cure his body will be normal, as if he was never turned in the first place. It wasn’t the fact that he turned that scared me the most, it was the fact that as soon as Simon realized he was bitten, he tried to break his own jaw to prevent him from hurting us. In retrospect, he was doing it to protect us, but he only stopped when I was basically wrestling him to not do it, in case we found a cure. That was the last time his beautiful, piercing eyes looked into mine with so much emotion. Simon is stubborn and always wants to do things his way, but for once in his life, he listened to me. It wasn’t long after that he turned. I watched him turn and before he did, Simon made me promise that if he tried to hurt me, that I would stop him, by any means necessary. Ironically enough, and kind of funny, but Simon as a zombie is nothing compared to how slick and quick he is in real life. The rest of the task force was able to apprehend him before he could even come close to me and stick him in the incubator, where he has been staying in for the past month. I miss him so much. I never thought I would miss our miserable times out in the field or us sitting outside in the miserable freezing cold because it was the only time we could get some alone time together or even us sparring together. I just want Simon back. A deep grumble in my stomach brought me back to reality. Johnny is right. For once he is right. I stretched my arms and legs out, stood up on my feet, and began to walk out of the room. 

“Rrrrrrr..” 

A deep growl came from the incubator. I turned to find Simon leaning onto the glass, those clouded eyes piercing through my soul. 

“I’ll be back, Simon, I promise.” 

A deep hiss came from his throat, his arm reaching out as if he was trying to reach for me. I can’t watch this, it hurts me so much. I immediately walked out of the room, and shut the door behind me, hearing his growls grow louder. I don’t know if that is his way of trying to communicate with us or he is truly… I shook my thoughts away and made my way to the dining hall. 

~ 

I almost envy the guys. They can just pretend that everything is normal and there’s nothing going on, meanwhile my partner, the love of my life, is stuck in his own hell prison. They always try to uplift my spirits and sometimes it works, but on days like today, I’d rather be left alone than try and pretend that everything is okay. As soon as I was done eating, I just went into my room to go to sleep. I didn’t have the heart to go back into the incubator room. Whether or not he was still conscious in his mind, it still hurt me to see him like that. I like to think he is, but that honestly makes me feel worse knowing he is trapped in his own mind and body, while we aren’t even close to finding a cure. 

“Oh Si..” I grumbled, trying to contain my tears, “I’m so sorry.” 

The tears escaped my eyes, running rapidly down my face, as the memories of him and I came flooding back, from when he was human, before this apocalypse happened. I came to the task force two years ago and it is kind of embarrassing to say but I was head over heels for Simon as soon as I saw him. The more missions we did together, the harder I fell for him. Maybe it was his attitude, or the mask, or his accent, but I was falling hard. It wasn’t until one night were the entire task force had been drinking more than they should and Simon ended up following me back to my room that night. It was as if we had been together for years prior to that, we just clicked so much. We started dating in secret and it wasn’t until right before the apocalypse happened, that we were busted by Price. Of course he wasn’t happy about it, but by the time everything went down, he didn’t care at that point. Simon was protecting me when he got bit and it was my own damn fault. I wasn’t paying attention and Simon took the bite for me. He shouldn’t have. I should be dead right now and he should be alive. Not me, no, not me. I deserve it after all because Simon is the reason why he is trapped in his own body. We are never going to find a cure. And it is all because of-

*KnockKnock*

“Hey Doll?” 

Price. 

“Come in..” I mumbled. 

The door swung open, emitting the hallway light into my pitch black room. 

“Oh, blimey. You’re gonna ruin your eyesight in ‘ere.” Price commented. 

I just shrugged my shoulders in response. 

“Just came to check in on ya. I managed to get a hold of a base that's a bit of a drive, but it could be our chance.” 

“Are you for real this time?” I ask urgently. 

“As real as shiet, Dolly.” Price confirmed, earning a chuckle out of me. 

I sighed, with some relief in mind. 

“We will get ‘im back. I promised yous that a long time ago and I damn well intend to keep that promise. You hear?” 

“I hear ya, Captain.” I said. 

“Alright, goodnight, Dolly.” 

“Goodnight.” I softly said as Price shut my door, and walked off. 

There is some good in this life. I will soon have my Simon back and we will be back in each other's arms, cuddling, fucking, drinking tea, watching shitty rom-com movies, and much more. He will be back. He will be..

~

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…

…

..rrrrr

What? What the fuck was that? 

.rrrrrrrr.

I wanted to move but for some reason that noise paralyzed me into being still. It sounded familiar and that is what scared me the most. 

Rrrrrrrrrrr. 

It was louder and closer this time. Please don’t tell me-

Rahhhhhhhhh

I jolted out of bed, grabbing the hidden knife I have in my mattress and cornered it into my room. 

Rah..rah..

What the hell was this? Or who the hell was it? Keeping my eye on what it was, I slowly tip-toed backwards to my room light and flicked it on, my heart dropping. 

“What?” 

“How?” 

I mumbled out loud, seeing Simon standing there, staring at me with those hideous clouded eyes. 

“How did you get out?” I tearfully pleaded, knowing he can’t respond. 

Simon just stared, slowly stepping towards me, groaning in the process. I kept my knife in front of me, just in case. 

“Listen to me love. If I try to bite you, you end me no matter what? Do ‘ou understand?” 

Simon’s words echoed in my head, remembering what he told me. I didn’t want to do this, no, please don’t make me do this. 

“S-Stay away, please.” I croaked. 

Simon kept sauntering towards me, slowly and surely, his growls and moans getting louder the closer he got to me. Everytime he stepped forward, I stepped back. I needed to obey his words, but I couldn't. I can’t do it. 

“Simon. Please.” 

“Dahhhhh….” 

I could feel my whole body start to shake as I realized Simon pinned me into a corner. The closer he got, the more my heart raced. This is it. This was it. I am going to die. But I’d rather die than kill the love of my life. 

“Si..” 

I sunk down, dropped the knife, and held my face as he got up as close as he humanely could. 

“D-Don’t..p-please.” 

I sobbed, holding myself. 

“Doll..” 

What? Did he just.. No he didn’t, it’s all in my head. I am dead now, I just haven’t felt the pain yet of his teeth sinking into my-

“Dolllllyyyyy…” 

That time I heard it. That was real. Getting some kind of courage, I stopped hiding my face and looked up at him. Simon was leaning down, looking at me, but his face was different. The same clouded eyes were there, but it was as if he was marveling at me. 

“Simon?” 

“Dooolllllyyyyyy…” 

Dolly. He was calling me Dolly. My nickname he had given me when we first started seeing each other. I never knew Simon Riley would be expected to give someone a nickname but he did. His voice was deep and guttural, but I could hear his accent peeking out. 

“Simon, are you there?” I asked, standing up on my feet. 

“Rrrrrr….preeetttyyyy Dolllllyyyyy.” 

“Oh Si..” I leaned in, holding his cheeks. 

He still had most of his gear on, except he had his balenciaga mask on instead of his skull mask. I wanted to take it off so bad to really see his beautiful face, but it scared me to do so. Even though he was consciously still there, there was no telling what he would do out of his control. Tears ran rapid down my face, knowing that this confirmed my worst fear, that he was trapped within his own mind. 

“Dolllyyyyyyy..cryyyinnngggggg…” Simon growled out. 

I quickly wiped away my tears to not worry him. 

“No, no I am fine, Simon, I promise.” I reassured him. 

*BANG* 

“GET HIM!!” 

“RAAHHHHHHHHH” 

“NO DON’T-” 

In two seconds flat, Price and them busted in, angered Simon, and subdued him. The growls that came from Simon were so animalistic, as if he was no longer Simon. 

“He could’ve bit you!!” Soap shouted at me. 

“No, he recognized me! He called me Dolly!” I swore as Price, Gaz, and Soap were struggling to keep Simon contained. 

“This’ll do.” Price mumbled as he took out a serum that would knock his ass out. 

Simon saw it and cried out in animalistic rage, but the three of them managed to keep him on the ground. 

“Wait, wait, please!!” I screamed. 

The three men turned to me, waiting for what I was going to do next, but kept their arms and body weight on top of Simon. I got on my knees and approached Simon, who was thrashing around and growling at the three of them. 

“Si.” I call him, his cloudy eyes immediately locking with me. 

“We need to travel to get a cure, but we are almost there. I promise you.” I croaked, feeling the same tears and sadness returning. 

“Rr..rrr. Dolllyyyyy.” 

“Yes, I am Dolly. Your Dolly, Simon.” I comforted him, holding his cheek and running my thumb over the free skin that was on his face. 

The tears fell down my face, as Simon relaxed into my touch. 

“Pretttyyyyy..Dolllllyyyyyy.” 

Before I could even react, Price injected the serum into Simon, who didn’t even react and only kept his focus on me. 

“Dolll…yyyyy.” 

Simon’s cloudy eyes then shut and remained still. I could feel the three men look at me. 

“Fuck..” Gaz mumbled as he, Soap, and Price got off of the almost lifeless Simon. 

I had cried out all of the tears that were left in me. 

“Sweetie..” Price approached me. 

I raised my head up and looked at him, in which he had a very genuine smile on his face. 

“We gotta pack up now so we can head up ��Orth and save your hubby.” Price told me. 

I chuckled hearing him call Simon my hubby, despite us not being married. 

“Yes, Captain.” I said, getting my composure together. 

Price grabbed my hand and helped me to my feet. I stared at the still Simon, who was breathing normally as if he was not what he was right now. But the thought of it being so close to him being back to normal, makes me so happy. We are nearly there, Simon, we are nearly there. 

“Alright, let’s load up gang.” 

END

[fartfacedfuck]

Oh my fucking God I have so many AU ideas in my head and I don't know which one to actually make! Like there's the one I have th most set up, and then there's like atleest threee others I want to do! So I'm just going to make a list

1: sunnier days AU, bill Gose through about two and a half million years (literal) of theraprisim before suddenly being taken of all medication and put in a human body, this of course is not taken well and he ends up clawing out his right eye as well as a few lles serious wounds. Despite this the theraprisim still sends him off to the pines family for redemption. This AU would mostly focused on mental health and building relationships, although of course it will have a bit of a billford side plot.

2: idiots with guns AU, during the reunion fight ford shoots stan, stan becomes a ghost and is posed at first but that winds down later. In Despare and desperation ford calls Fidleford and *begs* him to comeback, Fidleford dosent want to but agrees becouse divorce and him allso having problems. So now ford fidleford and stan are in the same house experience stan is dead and the other two are working on reviving him, chaos and homosexuality insues. (Fidlestan)

3:second times the charm AU, Mabel and dipper head back to gravity falls three years later (there fifteen about to turn sixteen I think) stan is mostly healed from the memory gun, fidleford is doing better but still has some short-term memory issues as well as memory's from before weirdmagedon being really fuzzy. Stanford is researching an much happier but still dealing with trauma. This one will have fidlestan, dipifica and Mabel being a lesbian who eventually gets with some girl haven't worked out the details yet ¯\_(　´∀｀)_/¯

4:Starlight AU,the axolotl interviens after the eaclidian massacre and brings bill to earth when the stan twins are twelve (bill is twelve when he destroys Euclida) so bill grows up with the stan twins, learning his powers as well as the human way of life. This will have lots of billford and allso fidlestan becouse I say so (let's assume that fidleford moved to new jersey)

5:I can't think of a name for this one but it's about fidleford and stan trying to get ford back. bills fucking with them a bit becouse I can't resist adding him in. there's lot of angst between stan being a general mess and fidleford using the memory gun. It would have them looking at anomalies becouse anomalies are fucking cool. And it's mostly going to be slic of life becouse I want to.

I have more but these are the main ones,If you have anyothers suggestions are absolutely welcome, If not I'd deeply appreciate you giving your opinion on which of these to work on becouse I have no idea 😅

[tylerlolong]

Slic of life.

[evelhak]

18, 26, 65, and 73 for the fic writer asks :)

18. Do you title your fics before, during, or after the writing process? How do you come up with titles?

It depends a lot. I just let titles come to me, and sometimes they are the first thing I know about the story, sometimes they come to me during writing, especially if I'm aware that the title I started with is indeed likely to be a working title and not the final one. Though usually I know what I want to call the work pretty effortlessly, so I'd say most of the time I know as soon as I come up with an idea, they are so tied together. However, when a good title doesn't seem to hit me soon, I start going through the story and thinking about it more consciously. To me a good title is something that sparks the reader's interest by making them ask questions by both containing and hiding the core ideas of the work, revealing just enough to get someone engaged to find out more, and ultimately the title should make full sense only after reading the story. So that's what I look for. But sometimes I do just go for the easiest title too. Like, if the whole story is about an exceptional character, I might just go with their name, especially if it's a pretty and unusual one. But I think my favourite kind of title is something that sounds vague but you get a hunch that its meaning is going to turn specific if you read the story.

All my long KnB fic titles came to me before I started writing, I think. With some oneshots that had a prompt, I think I only came up with one after it was finished. I think usually the best titles are the ones that come naturally though.

26. Which of your fics would you call your wildest ride?

Hmm, it's hard to choose between The Hidden Things and Anything Can Happen. My brain really expanded with both of them in a unique way.

The Hidden Things is a sequel to my first long KnB fic (The Other Things) and it's about second to third year KagaKuro's adventures. And it's SO angsty. Basically, it's a tragedy, though not in the most literal way (no major character death). But oh god it was deep angst. That is, I felt it really intensely and wanted to get everything I possibly could out of it. Really made me go to places with these characters. To me it's a natural progression of the storyline to this point from canon, because I felt like a lot of the characters' past was anything but resolved. Things will be good again in the next part of my fic series, but this one is not happy. And I absolutely loved going there. I was kind of shy about going exactly where I wanted to go with my fics before, I had such high restrictions in my brain somehow, for what I was allowed to do with characters that weren't mine, but here I finally started owning what I was writing. It felt absolutely insanely good.

Anything Can Happen is actually between The Other Things and The Hidden Things, and it's a lucid dream that Kagami is having because in The Other Things, first Aomine accused Kuroko that he's only so optimistic because he "hasn't seen the second half of Into The Woods" (the musical, where the second act shows fairytales after the happy ever after), basically he's saying that Kuroko lacks life experience. Which isn't totally fair (not in my version at least) so later Kuroko tells Aomine that he has seen the second half, and it sounds to him more like Aomine left the audience before the end, then quoting him the song "No One is Alone". And that led to Kuroko musing more about Cinderella's part in the musical because it was relevant to a dilemma he was starting to become increasingly aware of, and then shared some of it with Kagami, who isn't very good at abstract thinking, and when some unforeseen things culminated at the end of The Other Things, that led me to write a dream fic where Kagami could explore the fairytale ideas in a more concrete form. So I rewrote Into The Woods with KnB characters. And that was the first time I gave up on my stubborn notion that I was writing realistic slice of life with my fics. And it should be no surprise that it unleashed my creativity, I'm a fantasy author after all, and KnB is a fantasy story with a high school disguise. (I have no clue why I wanted to make it more realistic in the first place but in retrospect the slow change reads kinda nicely...) The whole story of my fic from there on expanded in my mind, while I was writing that dream fic. Also it was just SO MUCH FUN to play with language, the musical's lyrics, everything. When I wrote it, I couldn't remember when I'd had that much fun last time. But anyway, it was a wild turning point, without which the rest of the series would not exist.

65. Tell us about what you’re most looking forward to writing – in your current project, or a future project

In my current project, The Luminous Things, Kuroko and Kagami are each going to have a BIG revelation that's going to change the rest of their lives basically, and I've been waiting and waiting and waiting to get to that point but somehow I keep picking up shiny objects along the way (like writing 50 000 words about Takao's birthday party in just one chapter because I was like, hey, everyone should have a POV here) and so the goal posts just keep moving. 😂😂

73. What do you think makes your writing stand out from other works?

Well, I'm not sure if it literally makes it stand out, because for it to stand out, you have to notice those things first, but I think my work is more filled with hidden meanings and metaphors and references, intra- and intertextual puzzles than average, because I'm absolutely nuts about that kind of thing. There's probably more overt intertextuality than average too, but I'm still hoping that someone will see the extent of the web and talk to me about it, haha. Otherwise it's just in my perception, which is, well generally the most fun I have in life, but I do wish I could share it deeply with someone. Well, I guess most authors' dearest wish is that someone will just GET them.

[bee-dot-exe]

I watched Cellbo's Purgatory stream and knew I had to write about his interaction with Pac immediately but am finally getting around to it. I hope you are all as excited and enjoy it as much to read as I was to write. And thank you so much for helping translate @disfrutalakia you're an angel.

That's Just Wasteland, Baby

Angst. Blood. Fear. Murder. I'm so so so proud of this.

1,067 words

The ground where I stood was slick, as is expected, the land in my immediate vicinity was almost entirely made of ice, but it wasn't dangerously so, I could see the small bumps and ridges from natural formation or from being worn down for one reason or another, and felt it beneath my footing.

The sky looked almost like a pool of acid, not quite chartreuse, like the warning label of radiation nearby.

I straightened out the slightly crooked gas mask on my face in the brief moment where Baghera and I could breathe without being in the presence of another victim.

There had already been several, both of our weapons had crimson tears dripping down and onto their pointed teeth, still starved and begging to be buried into flesh and bone.

The smell of iron and decay hung heavy in the air as we both breathed, before something caught my eye, a speedboat with a small group inside, and the race continues.

"Oh Pac! Come here, sweetheart!"

I screamed into the stale air and across the water. They all got out and stepped onto shore seconds after I shouted that.

Baghera and I chased the footprints left behind by our former teammates and finally reached Gumi, who screamed as the chainsaw of my companion barred its ever bleeding teeth and ripped into her body.

"Cellbit! No no no. Please!"

I knew that voice, I knew that exclaim, I knew the owner of that pleading.

"Baghera, save that one for me, please."

Of course she did, but she still took him to the side, my ears catching snippets of their conversation as I had my own with another member of the group. Her voice was thick and soft like honey, but also tilted in a way that her lies and general presence were a bit easier to swallow.

"Pac! No no no. Don't run away. It's okay. I missed you. How are you?"

His physical form and voice shook as he begged for life, for mercy, for forgiveness in his native tongue.

"You don't want to talk? Oh but why? If we don't talk I'll just have to kill you instead."

"I don't want to talk. Don't kill me. Please."

"No, don't run, it's okay. Maybe you can bring me another leader and I won't kill your team, hm? What do you think? Which team leader would you like to see die tonight?"

I could practically hear the metaphorical wheel in Pac's mind spinning and searching for an answer.

"Etoiles."

"Oh Etoiles has to die? You are asking me to kill one of my blood? One of my family?"

He stuttered and pleaded some more before I looked in his direction and away from my conversation.

"Is that you Pac?"

The person I had been conversing with, JVNQ, tried to interfere.

"No, no."

"Hey Pac!"

"It is Pac, it is."

"Hey Pac!"

"It is him, it is. You can kill him, let's kill him."

"Queridinho, we're here, in purgatory."

"I have killed him once."

"I'm scared."

"I killed him once already in front of you."

"No."

"Are you up to die for him?"

"Do you want to for Bolas?"

JVNQ stepped in front of a still shaking Pac and made himself a barrier of sorts as I approached my former companion.

"Jotinha, please no. Guys, I'm the leader, I'm the leader. You can kill me."

I grabbed JV's wrist and pushed him away towards my companion with the chainsaw for a little chat and stood directly in front of Pac.

"Hey Pac. There is no time in purgatory. Hey Pac, jotinha, remember how you left me stuck on the island?"

"I didn't leave anyone stuck on the island. For God's sake, it was a Guaxinim thing. He's here too."

"Guaxinim is here?"

"He is. Please. I didn't do anything."

"Hm, I will try to find him later and talk to him then, I miss him."

Pac was trembling nearly out of his skin.

It seems he started off his little trip to this slice of hell wearing a suit. His shirt, which appeared to have started this journey crisp and cotton white but was now more of a beige as it had become a menagerie of grime and blood and overall existence, had the sleeves folded and rolled up to his elbows.

The deep blue jacket was tied around his waist by its arms.

The bits of his hair that were not plastered down by sweat or in sections crusted with blood stood in several directions.

"I'll give you one choice Pac. If you don’t want to die, kill JV in front of me."

"No!"

"Now. The only way for you to survive is if you kill JV."

"I don’t want to, please, I don’t want to."

I brought up the knife I had been using to help diminish the island of my former teammates, companions, family to Pac's face.

I teased and ran the tip of the blade across his cheekbone.

There was a scar about the size of your fingertip underneath his left eye, oh but it would look so much prettier reopened, what if I just the weapon slip?

I'll give it to him, Pac was doing a great job at trying to hide his reaction, but his eyes still glossed over with tears ever so slightly as beads of carmine bubbled to the surface.

"You prefer to die in his place?"

"No no no, I don’t want to, I don’t want to."

"I think the choice was already made for me then."

"No!"

Pac started to reach for me with that final exclamation, his still shaking hand with dirt and blood practically embedded in the lines of his knuckles and under his nails just making contact with my shoulder, when I cut off any conversation or train of thought he may have still debated putting out there with a jab and twist of the blade to his torso.

A small river of vermilion still ran from his cheekbone and collided with a new steadily growing trail at the corner of his pale lips.

His cloudy eyes still shined faintly with tears and dimmed considerably.

His already barely there hand that had been making contact slipped easily along with the rest of him and into a heap on the ground.

What a pity.

The game should continue until there is a winner though, no?

[thisisanewaccount]

looking for a 21+ roleplay partner. I'm looking for fandom less ocxoc mxm. I want to play a young single father. I don't have any ideas for a plot, but I'd like to do something a little more than slic-of-life. like maybe supernatural, with vampires and demons. Something that puts them in danger and they have to protect each other.

[hardynwa]

Nigerians have no business with poverty – Catholic Bishop

The Catholic Bishop of Ekiti Diocese, Most Rev. Felix Ajakaye, on Thursday declared that there was no justification for Nigerians to be poor, saying the country is blessed with enormous resources enough to make the citizens lives more abundantly. Ajakaye called on political leaders in Nigeria to eradicate poverty in the country, live by example and make citizens welfare central to their hearts and programs. Bishop Ajakaye, noted that governments both at states and Federal level, should put in place measures to ensure that Nigerians live a life of dignity in human persons. Ajakaye made the remarks at the graduation ceremony of vocational skills trainees and distribution of Start-Up Kits for 400 persons trained by Caritas Nigeria, in Ekiti State. The Non-profit organization established by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria, with the theme: “Building Sustainable Livelihoods in Vibrant Community (B-SLiC) Project, was held at the Pope John Paul II,  Pastoral Centre,  in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State capital. Also, speaking Rev. Fr. Babangida Audu, the Deputy Executive Secretary, Caritas Nigeria, and Bishop Ajakaye, both urged Nigerians, the government and the citizens, to work together to ensure that poverty is eradicated, due to the abundant natural resources deposited in the country. “Nigeria has no reason to be poor, but sadly enough, we are still far away from good governance, bad roads, unemployment, and poverty in the land” The religious leaders noted that there is failure in the society, pointing to the fact that both government and citizens should be blamed in this regard. “If we want to eradicate poverty in Nigeria, we can do it, but our government and citizens must mean it, not about the government alone, let everybody be involved in the process. “Government should be able to provide an enabling environment, where people can be able to help themselves and create an environment where people can learn skills. “Citizens on their own should be willing to take up their responsibilities. Government cannot cater for all, but if you show your skills and develop interest, it will be better for society. The clerics commended the donors’ agency for the empowerment of the less privileged in the society in Ekiti State for the (B-SLiC) project. The Director of Humanitarian Service, Caritas Nigeria, Nkese Udongwo, said the idea is to train the vulnerable on life skills for people to generate income for themselves and the community. According to her, they were trained in tailoring, beads/bag making, shoe making, carpentry, phone repairs, aluminum, electrical, mechanic and catering works”.  They all went home with their certificates and start-up kits. The Chairman, Ado-Ekiti local government, Chief Bosun Osaloni, called on the beneficiaries to make good use of the “Start-Up Kits” presented to them, cautioning them not to sell them, but to use them to get out of poverty. Read the full article

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Shriram Life Insurance posts Rs 156 cr net profit in FY22-23 - News Today

Shriram Life Insurance Company Ltd has reported Rs 156 crore net profit for the year ending March 31, 2023 on the back of growth in individual non-single premiums, the company said on Sunday. Shriram Life Insurance Company Ltd (SLIC) is promoted by the Shriram Group and South Africa-based financial services firm Sanlam Ltd. The company sold nearly 3 lakh policies in FY23, including to group…

[jeffdraws]

What’s something that you wish for?

(Also dandelions are one of my favorite things)

[is-the-battlemech-cool-or-not]

Melissa chuckles. "I will be sure to mention to Katrina your opinion of her family. That should be interesting to see at the wedding reception..."

Theodora laughed at Melissa's statement for a few seconds. Her laugh tapered off as she shifted her gaze to look at Dieter. She didn't need to say anything, the look on her face said everything she wanted. Behave, Dieter.

Melissa, now satisfied she has defended Katrina's family, goes quiet.

Alaric sits, listening politely, as though the conversation were about the weather or some other inane topic.

When Dieter finishes, Alaric simply nods, and says, "I will send you the contact details of Colonel Asena Liška, the head of SLIC - military intelligence. Coordinate with her." He pauses, and takes a deep breath, before speaking again.

"And, most importantly, Director. If this ends up needing to occur, it must be done with as little disruption and violence against the citizens of the realm in question - following the proposed New Ares Conventions - as possible. Not only does such restraint achieve the practical goals of engendering good will to the Star League, and making the new conventions attractive to potential Star League members... it is also quite simply the right thing to do. The death or displacement of civilians is antithetical to the Clan way of life - a genuine and wasteful tragedy, and something I have been raised by the Clans to abhor - and so it shall be for the new Star League. We are to protect the Inner Sphere, not lead them to ruin. I now trust you and Asena with that task."

In the moments of silence that followed, Dieter looked at the ilKhan's face, for signs that Alaric was simply playing a part - the dictator feigning concern for his people to appeal to the masses. Something that would tell him that Alaric was just the same ruthless Clan warrior so many - that Dieter - believed him to be.

Dieter, in that moment, could find nothing but sincerity.

The halls of The Court of the Star League were a strange place, Dieter reflected.

They were, on the one hand, much like the halls of an austere courthouse, off-white marble and soaring ceilings, vast windows placed high on the walls to flood the space with natural light and dramatic shadows.

On the other hand, however, were the details that made it feel more personal, warm and welcoming. The wood panels, all harvested from the local area. The warm, plush seats lining the hallway. The paintings on the walls, which were rumored to have been chosen by the First Lord personally.

As his boots click against the mosaic floor depicting scenes from the SLDF Exodus, he pats the sword at his belt, grateful for its presence. After all, he'd need it's reassurance for the meeting to come.

If he'd thought getting into the outer wings of the Court was a laborious process, he'd been wrong. To merely *enter* into the same wing of the building as the IlKhan, he'd had to undergo three security checkpoints, an interview, two X-ray scans, and a careful examination of all his credentials. All in all, it had taken more than an hour, but in due time, he was ushered back into the private wing of the First Lord, and told that Alaric Ward was expecting him.

In time, he came before the door to the sitting room he was told that Ward would meet him in, an elegant thing of dark wood, so dark as to almost black, engraved with patterns and carvings so fine as to be almost invisible against the dark finish.

For a moment, Dieter paused, his hand inches away from knocking on the door. For precious seconds he hesitated there, the churn of apprehension in his gut like a physical sickness in its intensity.

What would he say? What could he say? Face-to-face with his Father's murderer, with the man he now served, with the man who was perhaps the Inner Sphere's best hope for peace and prosperity-

Before he could let himself go into the maddening spiral that was sure to follow, he let his hand fall against the door, with the crisp report of knuckles on hard wood.

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[bballinspiration]

Enjoy some MJ fadeaways on this Monday morning.

[separatist-apologist]

A Fragile Little Flame

I know places we won't be found

Summary: Cassian has survived two wars and knows a thing or two about going up against a powerful adversary.

Nothing can prepare him for Nesta Archeron

Read more: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | AO3

Nesta never told Cassian what sent her dissolving into tears. He was reasonably certain it hadn’t been his cock or his touch, and so he’d merely scooped her up, dried her off, and put her into his bed. His mate was soft—no one understood that. All they saw was her icy exterior and assumed she was made of nothing else. 

She settled sometime in the night, soothed to sleep by his fingers caressing her long hair. Cassian couldn’t, though. All he could think of was her impending engagement and how badly he wanted to rescue her from that cruel, cold male. She’d asked him not to kill Tomas and Cassian was a male of his word.

To a point.

He was not giving Nesta to another male. Not in this life, not even if she hated him for it. He didn’t care about her sister’s marriage or if it enraged the town below. Not when the others kidnapped their mates so casually and certainly not so his own mate could live a short, brutal life filled with suffering.

She’d suffered enough. 

Cassian just needed a plan. It kept him up all night, hardly ready for Azriel and Nesta’s friends that would be descending later that day. He liked to help the females train, if only to watch Nesta drop into a multitude of squats. Back when she’d first started, it had been the only way Nesta would let him look at her body—encased in pants, no less—and occasionally let him touch her to correct her form. 

Now he could wake her with a kiss, if he liked. And Cassian liked that very much. Nesta blinked open those silvery blue eyes and Cassian stole another kiss, just because he could.

“Are you hungry?” he asked her.

Nesta nodded, swallowing hard. “I ah…Cassian?”

“Yes?” He rose from bed, still as naked as the night before, to dig out some pants and feed her. 

“I’m sorry—”

“Don’t be,” he interrupted quickly. He didn’t want to hear her apologize to him. Not then, not ever. “Az is bringing Gwyn and Emerie up today.”

“And Feyre? Have…have you heard anything about her?”

He shook his head. “I’ll speak to Rhysand. I’m sure he’s watching her.”

“Why doesn’t he just…” Nesta gestured around her. “Kidnap her?”

“Is that what you want? Our king to steal your sister and make her his bride?” He hadn’t meant to sound judgemental and yet it was clear that was how Nesta had taken his words. Her whole body sharpened, lips parting with anger.

“That’s what you did,” she snapped. “And Azriel. And Lucien and that terrible dragon prince, too. Why should she expect anything different?”

“Nes—”

“I want to know why you can drag me up here but Feyre—”

“Stop it!” Cassian whispered, his whole body on edge. He didn’t want to fight her. Not when he still had the taste of her burned in his mouth. “If you wish to go back, I’ll take you back.”

It was a lie. He was merely calling her bluff, certain Nesta was just frustrated that she would be forced into a terrible marriage because Rhysand was unwilling to risk the wrath of another of his human lords.

Nesta didn’t back down. “Yeah, Cassian? You’ll let another male bed me—”

“I’ll kill him,” Cassian whispered, crossing the room until there was only an inch of space between them. “I’ll kill him, and I’ll take a long time doing it. Is that what you want to hear, Nesta? That I have no intention of giving you up?”

She reached for his neck, surging forward on her tiptoes for a near violent kiss. Cassian snarled against her lips without meaning to. Instinct was riding him hard, was begging him to claim his mate. He needed to be inside her, to fuck her until she didn’t care if Tomas lived or died.

He pushed her back to the bed too roughly, hands skimming over her flesh as he tore at her nightgown. Nesta didn’t care, legs hooked around his waist so she could feel his erection pressed against her. He didn’t have the will not to notch himself against her slick entrance and certainly not to push himself an inch—just an inch—so he could feel if she was as tight as he remembered.

Nesta gasped, her back arching into his chest. Her nails, sharp enough to be talons, sliced down his arms until he scented the salty, coppery tang of blood in the air. He pushed again, daring another inch.

It was all Cassian got.

“Nesta?” Gwyn’s voice called distantly in the house and too late, Cassian knew Azriel must have realized what was happening. Had ordered his mate to call out to them, to announce their presence.

Nesta scrambled from beneath him, pulling herself away before he could sink into her wet, warm cunt. He didn’t move, falling face first into his pillow. She said nothing at all, either, though he heard her pause at the door to look at him. He didn’t dare look back—Cassian knew he’d push her against the wall and fuck her stupid if he did. His cock throbbed from the tease of her body, pulsating with unmet need.

Only when Nesta was gone did Cassian force himself upwards and into the bathroom. Azriel would understand what kept him and could start without him. Cassian needed to ask Azriel how he’d withstood Gwyn’s hesitations while sleeping in the same bed beside her each night because Cassian was going insane. 

He wrapped his hand around his cock and gave himself a near unwilling stroke. It was wrong to touch himself when he could still feel the silken head of her gripping the head of him. Every inch of him rebelled. It wasn’t in their nature to deny mates this way or wait so long. Females were claimed and quickly lest another male thought to take her for themselves. Cassian had been waiting for months, well aware instinct did not drive Nesta at all. Humans had bred those urges out centuries ago. 

He dragged his hand over his cock again, pleasure pooling in his gut. He could get through the day, he rationalized. Just one day and then he’d have her at night. That thought drove his pumping hand, pulling him upwards towards release. Cassian came with a grunt, still stroking until he’d alleviated enough of his ache to force himself into pants. He suspected it would not be the first—or the last—time he jerked himself that day. 

He met Azriel on the training grounds. They hadn’t been there in ages, so long that Cassian suspected Azriel’s hesitance was to the memories of being a younger male working with those who’d long since died. Nesta, Gwyn, and Emerie were going through their stretches, each of them in the tight leathers Azriel had gifted. 

“Only thing that’s missing is Rhys,” Azriel murmured, eyes cutting towards Cassian. “Any chance he’ll join?”

“Unlikely,” Cassian replied. “Not yet, anyway.”

Azriel nodded. “Maybe if the younger sister comes up.”

Cassian’s head snapped towards his friend. “How do you know about that?”

Azriel inclined his own towards the females. “They talk loudly. Nesta wanted to know if Feyre could stay with Emerie.”

“And?”

“Of course she can. Have you considered bringing Elain up. Just long enough to entice her into Windhaven?”

Cassian and Azriel exchanged a look. Neither of them wanted the feral Lucien back in their city. “Maybe.”

“There’s another way,” Azriel murmured, so quiet Cassian might have thought it was the wind itself whispering to him. “How much does she know about accepting the bond between you?”

Cassian’s eyes snapped to Azriel’s face. “She’d kill me.”

A soft smirk graced his brother’s face. “Are you sure? Because she smells like—”

“Okay, alright,” Cassian grumbled, crossing his arms over his chest. “Keep that to yourself.”

“Give her your scales,” Azriel murmured softly. “And kidnap the sister.”

“Are you insane?” Cassian whispered, yanking Azriel by the arm to pull him further from the ring. “Rhysand—”

“Would thank us,” Azriel interrupted, eyes flashing. “If it meant getting her out of that wretched, filthy city. 

“Nesta would not.”

Azriel only shrugged. “She’d forgive you eventually.”

Cassian wasn’t given a chance to respond. The girls began cajoling them to come back, demanding to know what they were whispering about. Guilt slid through Cassian’s stomach as he faced down Nesta. Lovely, nervous Nesta.

She might forgive him—but Cassian didn’t think he ever would.

NESTA:

“So,” Gwyn began, hands jammed in her pockets. “Cassian is looking feral.”

“Is he?” Nesta replied, her boots crunching through snow. She was still trapped up in the mountainside palace, though it felt less lonely with Gwyn and Emerie. The three, finished with their lessons, meandered the snowy courtyard rather than retreat back to the males. Azriel and Cassian offered the illusion of privacy indoors, and actually privacy outdoors.

Nesta needed it. After their near miss that morning, the cold kept her from crawling into his lap and finishing what they’d started. And then what? Then Cassian would know exactly how she felt and what she wanted and he’d hold all the power. No, Nesta needed the upper hand somehow. If she was going to do it, Cassian had to understand it was meaningless to her. That it changed nothing. 

No matter how much of a lie that was. 

Emerie pulled Nesta from her thoughts, knocking shoulders. “Oh, come on. The general lost to Azriel.”

“So what?” Nesta retorted, crossing her arms over her chest. But she knew the problem with that. Why her friends found it strange. Cassian was the general. Of them all, there was no one better with a sword, at casual combat. Cassian ought to have bested Azriel with one hand tied behind his back, a blindfold against his eyes.

Nesta knew exactly what was on Cassian’s mind. She could still feel the phantom touch of his cock pushing into her body. Nesta had to resist the urge to clench her legs, to wiggle even as she walked in an effort to alleviate the ache. 

“Right,” Gwyn laughed. “You’re such a bad liar, Nes.”“What have I lied about?”Gwyn rounded on Nesta so quickly that Nesta nearly went tumbling ass-first in the snow. “If I had to guess? Everything.” She pitched her voice an octave higher. “No, Cassian is SOooOOOOOoo awful and I don’t like him at all. Someone, please take me back to the human men—”

“Okay, alright,” Nesta grumbled, annoyed with Emerie’s loud, bright laughter. “I’m glad this is funny to you.”

“It’s not funny,” Gwyn rushed to assure her. “It’s pathetic.”

“What Gwyn means is,” Emerie interrupted, catching Nesta’s anger and heading it off before there was a potential fight, “is we can tell you like Cassian. He likes you. Is that so awful?”

Nesta only shrugged. That was as truthful as she was willing to be for the time being. Was liking Cassian so awful? No…until she had to leave him. Gwyn and Emerie didn’t understand, would never understand the rules Nesta was bound to. Cassian wss merely a distraction until real life caught up to her. 

There was no way out of Tomas without wrecking Feyre’s marriage. A terrible, miserable marriage Nesta was certain Feyre would regret one day. Likely saddled with too many children and a husband who only noticed her when it was time to breed another into her. And Nesta would lose herself, too. Her resentment would swallow her, would finally hollow her out. 

Cassian was waiting in a high-backed, leather chair in the den. He hadn’t wished anyone goodbye, which hadn’t bothered Azriel in the slightest. Nesta went looking until she found him, drinking in his pensive stair. Face tilted towards a frosted window, Cassian’s concern was etched over his handsome face.

She padded towards him nervously, secretly delighted when his hand shot out, snagging her into his lap. Cassian buried her face in her hair, inhaling deeply. “There you are,” he whispered, his hold on her tightening. 

Nesta had to remind herself it was okay to relax. Every inch of her went rigid, so unused to the care he so casually offered. Cassian was tactile, was loose with his affection. No one had ever provided Nesta with even a fraction of his attention and she didn’t know how to accept it. 

She kept waiting for a shoe to drop, to prove he was only acting that way to get something from her. 

Cassian, as if he heard her thoughts, nuzzled his nose behind her ear. “You smell like snow,” he told her before pressing a kiss against her skin. Nesta’s spine locked, keeping her rigid even as his mouth slid lower and lower.

“Cassian, wait,” she whispered, pulling back without pushing off his lap. “What are we doing?”

“Falling in love,” he replied, pulling her chin towards him with two of his fingers. 

Nesta balked, opening her mouth to protest. To hurt him. Cassian was quicker, his lips sliding against her own. She was silenced by the kiss. 

Drowning in the truth of his words. 

Calloused fingers rubbed against the softness of her cheek, creating sweet friction where there normally was none. Nesta relaxed without thinking, twisting to tangle her own hands in the wavy strands of his dark hair. It was enough to convince Cassian to part his lips and deepen the kiss between them.

Familiar urgency overtook Nesta. 

Do this now before you can’t. 

The whispering magic between them snapped, as if Cassian had heard the new color to her thoughts. He pulled back, his hazel eyes narrowed. Nesta didn’t care, too busy mapping the flecks of green against the brown, like stars in the sky. He was so beautiful.

He was hers. 

Connected by some cord only he could feel, woven by fate itself. 

“Where did you go?” he asked, thumbs stroking her cheek. “I lost you for a moment.”

“I’m not yours, Cassian,” Nesta said, forcing the words from her mouth. Even to her trained ears, the words were a lie. Cassian frowned, some brightness flashing over his features.

“You are mine,” he repeated, teeth to her throat. “I’ll prove it.”

Cassian hauled her upwards, strong arms wrapped around her body. She could have forced him to put her down. They both knew he was a slave to her will and always had been. Nesta didn’t want him to let her go. A better person would have begged him to keep her. 

Cassian would have. 

Might still, like he guessed what she wanted, what she couldn’t say. 

He kicked open the door to his bedroom, slamming it shut before placing her against his bed. Cassian didn’t join her like she’d expected, though. Panting roughly, he dragged one of his rough hands through his hair until it was just as wild as he was.

“For five hundred years, I did everything he asked me to,” Cassian began, turning his back to her. He was facing the window again, staring into nothing. “Without complaint, without resentment. I wrecked my very soul keeping it all going. I never asked him for anything.”

He turned then, his eyes suspiciously bright. 

“If I asked him to let me have you, he’d tell me no.”

“That’s not his decision,” Nesta snapped without an ounce of ire. Cassian took a measured step towards her. 

“It is,” he disagreed, “because I don’t give a fuck about your sister's marriage.”

Nesta froze. They were on dangerous ground. It ought to have disturbed her.

His words thrilled her. “What did you say?”

“You heard me,” Cassian dared, taking another too dangerous step towards her. “I don’t give a fuck about your sister's happiness. About her life with that human or my brother or at all.”Nestas hands shook in her lap. “Cassian,” she warned.

“No one puts us first, Nes. We’re soldiers, we do as we’re told. We sacrifice for some unknown future we don’t get ourselves. And I’m tired of it. I want you.”“Cassian,” she tried again, her voice more of a plea. Don’t do this.

She had no defenses for his unchecked vulnerability. For his utter, unguarded honesty. 

He was almost over her, then. Thighs touching the edge of the mattress, his eyes burning with heat. “Aren’t you tired of putting your own feelings last?” he whispered.  

“Cassian, I can’t…” She tried. She tried so hard to finish her sentence. That she had to. That this was what she owed her sister after the failure with their childhood. She could want Cassian until the stars winked out, but that didn’t mean he was for her. No part of him belonged to her and no part of him ever would.

“Say yes, Nes,” Cassian breathed, his breath sweet against her face. 

It was a fantasy.

“Yes,” she replied. She’d break the news to him in the morning. In four mornings. The day of the wedding—she didn’t care. 

“Yes.”

CASSIAN:

She wasn’t agreeing to forever and he knew it. Was a bastard because he fully intended to use those words against her in the morning. Right then, though, Cassian reached for her and she reached for him. The collision was messy—desperate. Her teeth cut his bottom lip, tongue sweeping over the hurt and swallowing the copper salt. Her ferocity made him growl, made him more animal than anything.

He tore at her clothes, slicing through the laces until she was stripped to nothing. Only miles and miles of soft, fair skin and the supple flesh he couldn’t stop dreaming about. She wanted him just as badly, was pushing at his own clothes until Cassian had to stop kissing her to fumble with the straps. 

He managed though he’d never know how. He barely knew himself until Nesta’s hand curled around the base of his cock and dragged him back to her, like she was pulling on a leash. Nesta wasted no time wrapping her legs around him, arms twined over his neck so he was lined against her perfectly. Just like that morning, he could feel the heat pouring from between her parted thighs, could feel the silken wet of her cunt teasing the head of his cock.

He had no control. Kissing like his life was dependent on it, Cassian groped for anything that might steady him. Her breasts weren’t helping, though he couldn’t pretend they didn’t distract him just enough to keep him from plunging straight into her. She made him mindless—desperate. 

“Nes,” he moaned, tugging at the rosy peaks. She bit into his shoulder, the pain arching his back in spite of himself. Nesta ran her fingers over his scales, up and down, up and down. 

“What are you waiting for?” she asked, her hips grinding against his own. It was as if she were trying to slip him in without him realizing it. Like it wasn’t taking every ounce of willpower he possessed from doing just that.

“What happened to practice?” he moaned, his mouth colliding with her own again. 

Bastard. You’re a bastard. 

She would have stopped if she’d known how sharp his fangs were in his mouth. That in the morning, Nesta would be irrevocably branded by his scales, just like her sister. Both sisters, he reminded himself, if only to absolve the prick of guilt he felt. Rhys might let Nesta sacrifice herself in the short term, but Cassian knew he had some long-term strategy for Feyre. 

Knew Lucien would have wrecked the world for Elain.

And Cassian was done pretending he ought to step aside. That she was the throwaway, the sacrifice for everyone else. Damn that fucking human and damn her sisters, too. Cassian’s army obeyed him.

Not Rhys. 

Not anymore. 

Nesta, unaware of his dangerous, seditious line of thinking, had snaked between their writing bodies to grip his cock. She pumped, her hold punishingly tight. Just the way he liked. Cassian was tempted to roll onto his back so she could scratch his belly, too. 

“Fuck,” he whispered, bucking into the touch. “Taste, I need–”

“You need to fill me,” she interrupted, yanking brutally. “Now.”

He was losing his mind. “Nes,” he pleaded, as if he wasn’t rubbing the weeping head of his cock through her cunt. She lifted her hips upwards as an offering. He knew she was using him—getting her first time over with, letting it be with someone who wouldn’t hurt her. A better male would have stopped.

Cassian was still a bastard. Notching himself against her, he lowered his head to lick at the side of her throat. He didn’t know the whole mechanics, had lost the book on such things to Elain. She’d told him once how Lucien had managed it, cheeks burning the entire time. Azriel had refused to say if it had been the same for him. Cock and fangs at the same time, then. Whether that was true, or just instinct that had prompted Lucien to want to do both, his method was now Cassians.

He pushed himself an inch into Nesta, listening to nothing but the frantic thrum of her heart and ragged breathing.

“Tell me if I hurt you,” he ordered, the thought intolerable. 

“Keep going,” she whispered, her eyes fluttering shut. Cassian scraped his fangs over the side of her neck, desperate to taste and feel all of her. His blood pumped through his veins, singing a siren song. 

Mate. Mate. Mate. 

How had he resisted for so long? Cassian pushed again, driving himself in, and in, and in. 

Nesta’s nails dug into his skin, slicing viciously until Cassian all but whimpered. He was nearly there, holding off the last little bit while she adjusted around him. Nesta was bruisingly tight, a silken fist gripping the bare skin of his cock until Cassian was feral with his want. He’d been prepared to give her to another male. Maybe he would have if she’d never expressed any interest. He could have pretended she wasn’t his mate and she meant nothing to him. Up until that moment, Cassian was still half trying to talk himself out of taking her for himself. 

It was a line in the sand. Nesta, he knew, would forgive him. Nesta would be furious in the morning, but calm when she realized she was free. Tha she could do whatever she liked, unburdened by whatever clock ticked loudly in her head. An immortality of time stretched before her. 

Rhys wouldn’t. With the theft of that western princess, and now human lords losing wives, there would be repercussions. Cassian closed his eyes to the thought. Rhys had been given five centuries of peace—might have been given five more had Lucien not fallen in love with human Elain. This was the price of doing nothing. Of letting the humans retain any power at all.

Rhys would pay it.

Not Nesta. 

Cassian thrust that last little bit into her cunt and buried his fangs in her neck. Nesta tightened around him, gasping and arching all at once. If it was pleasure or pain that made her writhe, he didn’t know. Blood filled his mouth while venom poured into her body, connecting them irrevocably. 

“Cassian,” she whimpered, pressing a hand to his chest. He pumped his hips, withdrawing his fangs so he could look down at her. If the little notches from his fangs bruised in her skin phased her, Nesta didn’t say. She held his biceps, whining when he dragged himself back out of her. 

“That’s it,” he praised, licking the hurt until those little red dots were nothing but a faded memory. 

Moving slow was for them both. Cassian was already too close and just as untested as Nesta. If he sped up, he’d come and she wouldn’t. And Cassian desperately needed to feel her fall apart around his cock. He needed to know what it felt like to have her entirely. Her body, her soul, every inch of Nesta, just like she had every inch of him.

And had ever since she’d slammed that iron poker into his face. Cassian was in love with her, maybe from that moment on the floor. Dizzy and half sick, irritated with Elain and her unwillingness to make his life easier, and then all at once, Cassian was gazing into the unsmiling face of an angel. 

“Nesta,” he breathed, the word really a prayer. “Nesta, sweetheart.”

She dragged her nails down the backs of his arms. Each new pump into that wet cunt was ecstasy, was heaven. Cassian pressed the softest kiss against her mouth while wedging his hand between their combined bodies. Searching for that little nub of flesh just as soaked as the rest of her. 

Rubbing tight circles against her flesh provoked an immediate reaction. She gasped, clenching around him. Cassian hadn’t thought it was possible to have any more of her, but Nesta planted her feet on the bed, drawing her knees upward until he was thrusting deeper, was buried to the hilt, and then some. 

“You’re mine, Nesta,” he told her. He needed her to know. Needed her to hear him say it–and know that he meant it. As her hips met his own, matching thrust for thrust, Nesta finally opened those silvery blue eyes. “Say it. Say you’re mine.”

“Mine,” Nesta repeated, restarting his heart with her breathless claim. “You’re mine, Cassian.”

Release gathered along his spine, stuttering his once careful control. Cassian was wild, was desperate, was nothing at all except hers. 

“More, Cassian,” she moaned, arching her back when his thrusts back rough and uncontrolled. He’d been so afraid of hurting her, had been taking things slow in order to show her that he cared. Nesta’s hands slid down his back to grip his ass, nails digging into tender flesh to spur him onward. Cassian lost the last final tether on his sanity, driving mindlessly into her until he felt her break apart. Nesta screamed, shaking the mountains around them with the force of her pleasure. Cassian rolled his neck, eyes sliding into his head. He couldn’t stop himself from coming, his orgasm a blasting, a breaking. He felt reborn, reforged into something wholly hers. 

And when Nesta, still tight around him, the aftershocks of her release still pulsating, said, “Again,” Cassian felt honor bound to obey her.

To do whatever she said.

To replace every ounce of loyalty he’d ever felt to his king and lay it all at her feet.

NESTA:

Nesta woke in the night wrapped up in Cassian’s arms. His face pressed into her hair, his breathing steady. Dawn had to be near, though the room was still bathed in black. They’d been at each other for hours, until there was nothing left in her body at all. She’d taken everything she could get from him with talons and teeth, offering him everything in return. Nesta intended to think of that night until she died. She could pretend Tomas was Cassian. She could, if nothing else, go somewhere safe that was Cassian, even if Tomas occupied her body. 

Nesta swallowed, extracting herself from his grasp. She needed to use the bathroom and then, maybe needed to demand he take her to the village so she could throw herself at Feyre’s feet and beg. Her pride balked at the thought. She couldn’t beg. Not even for herself. 

Especially not for herself. Feyre wanted to ruin her life, well…Nesta was happy to allow it back when they were all human and it seemed like the lord genuinely loved her. Better Feyre than herself, she’d rationalized. 

Nesta swanned into the bathroom, not bothering with a light. A glint from the mirror drew her back, halting her in her tracks. She blinked, trying to make sense of the sight laid before her. Her skin, just as it always had been, save for the ribboning red now draped around her neck. 

Scales.

The same as the gold her sister wore.

The same wrapped around Gwyn.

Nesta, gripped the edge of the sink, fumbling for a light. Nesta’s stomach splattered wetly at her feet. She’d forgotten, in the bliss of being with him, that Cassian had bitten her. She’d been momentarily paralyzed, so confused by the conflicting sensations she hadn’t truly registered it. Nesta touched, expecting cool, dry scales.

Her skin, only marked.

Branded.

“Cassian,” she gasped, unsure if she hated him or she loved him. There was no hiding what he’d done. No covering it up, no way she could complete her engagement now. Everyone would know what she was and who she belonged to on sight.

Palpable relief cascaded through her, mixing with her dread. Feyre would be ruined. 

“Cassian!”

He came thundering in a moment later, eyes wild with fear. “What is it? What’s…” he trailed off, eyes finding the red around her neck. Nesta was going to pummel him. Far from looking shamed for apologetic, Cassian’s golden brown skin warmed with pink. His lips parted with a visible wow, his eyes so disturbingly awed that she couldn’t resist smacking him in his bare stomach. She didn’t think he even registered it.

“You look—”

“I look all wrong, Cassian!” she interrupted impatiently. “Everyone is going to know!”

Still no apology. Only a defensive crossing of his arms. “So?”

Nesta was going to murder him. “So?” she whispered, noting how he took a careful step backward. “I told you—”

“That I was yours,” he interrupted, his temper getting the better of him. “Mine. I am yours, and you are mine.”

“I didn’t mean it!” Nesta shrieked, the lie oily and foul on her tongue. She’d never meant anything more. 

Cassian’s devastation was plain. For a moment there was nothing but an ocean of silence between them. Her anger and his despair made building a bridge impossible. Nesta didn’t know what to say, didn’t know how to express that she was knee-wobbingly grateful he’d done something to try and protect her, and was furious with herself that she’d even needed it in the first place. 

Cassian blinked away what Nesta suspected might be gathering tears. Setting his mouth in a hard line and ignoring that the pair of them were both facing off in the dark utterly naked, she braced herself for his anger.

His hurt. 

“I’m not sorry.”

The words lingered between them, ringing in the air.

“As long as you get what you want, right?” she whispered, well aware it was an unfair accusation to level against him. 

“What I want?” he whispered, running a hand through his wild hair.

“Yeah, Cassian. What you want. I told you–”

“Undo it, then,” he said as if he couldn’t stand to hear her say it. Every inch of him looked defeated. Deflated. Like a man who had tried over and over, battering himself against a rock that would not break. 

She was doing that to him and for what? So Tomas could break her? So she could spend the rest of her life missing him? Wishing she was with him? 

“I’ll go to Rhys, I’ll—” a muscle worked furiously in his jaw. He couldn’t make himself say it. This was supposed to be a good thing between them and she had the sense she was ruining it. Nesta wrapped her arms around her trembling body to keep herself from falling to the floor. She opened her mouth, intending very much to say good, that’s what I want. 

“Don’t leave me,” she whispered instead. 

Cassian crossed the unbridgeable ocean like it was nothing. As if he had no pride left to wound, no shame at all. He held her against his warm, strong body, face buried in hair.

“What about you, Nes? Can’t I take care of you like you took care of them?”

“I don’t need to be taken care of,” Nesta said, lips against his skin. She was a liar and they both knew it. She didn’t want to need that. No one had ever offered, and Nesta had spent her whole life lying to herself that she didn’t need to be, anyway. Elain was fragile, Feyre was impulsive. They needed someone to keep watch, to manage the estate, to look after their best interests, even when they disagreed.

And neither of them had ever looked back and wondered if she needed the same. 

Cassian’s hand stroked up and done her spine. “Feyre–”

“If he loves her, who gives a fuck?” Cassian whispered, kissing the top of her head. “I’d take you in any scenario, under any conditions.”

She was going to start sobbing. Nesta pressed closer, arms tucked against his chest. “And Rhys?”

Cassian’s whole body went stiff. “Fuck him, too.”

“So what, Cassian? You…you damn everyone? For me?” Her tone very much implied the rational conclusion—she was not worth so much effort. Cassian would agree just as any sane person would. Would come to his senses, would realize the futility of having her. Red ribbon of scales or not.

Before he could say so, Nesta offered him an out. “We could still see each other. In secret, when we could It doesn’t…it wouldn’t have to be—”

“I don’t care about Rhysand or his policies. His peace, his realm, his rule. And I don’t care about your sisters or their mates. I don’t care if Elain is happy and I certainly don’t care if Feyre is allowed to marry the worst human male your kind has to offer just to spite Rhys.”

Her heart thudded painfully.

“What do you care about, Cassian?”

He lifted a finger beneath her chin, tilting her face so she had to face him. Hazel eyes burned not with lust or need, but with the sort of unwavering conviction she’d wanted to see her entire life.

Love.

“You,” he said with no hesitation. No fear, no uncertainty. “My mate. This city, this army is mine. And I am yours.”

Nesta shivered.

“Say yes, Nes. Be selfish. Take something for yourself without all this guilt. Let me worry about everything else.”

“And if it's war?” she demanded. Where was his limit? Where was wanting her too much?

Cassian’s grin was savage in its delight. “I’m owed five centuries of vengeance, Nesta.” 

Nesta didn’t dare let herself wonder if she was taking this too far. If she ought to step back, if only to prevent people from being harmed. 

“And me?”

“I want you,” Cassian clarified softly. “Do you think if Rhys or Lucien or Azriel were offered the same choice, they wouldn’t make it in a heartbeat?”

“I…” her voice trailed off.

“If you don’t want me, that's one thing. But if you do…I’m yours, Nesta. I always have been, and I always will be. Leaving me won’t change that.”

“Do you swear it?”

“On my life.”

CASSIAN:

Cassian left Nesta with Gwyn and Azriel, ignoring the questioning look his brother gave him. He knew what Azriel was wondering—Nesta would fill them in. She’d tell them what a bastard he was, how he’d forced his scales on her. Wrecked all her plans. Azriel could huff and chastise, but he didn’t know what Cassian did, which was how good Nesta’s cunt tasted.

Cassian would have done it again.

Not that day, thought. With Nesta safe in Windhaven, Cassian made his way to Velaris. He wanted to be equivocally clear that the support of his men came with strings. That his continued support came with strings. Rhys wanted Cassian to help track that missing princess, who was likely draped in scales of her own, with pregnancy well on the way. Cassian didn’t pity her at all, having met the terrible male she’d been engaged to. 

Cassian would do as he was asked so long as Nesta was not made to come back to Velaris. Feyre was on her own. Cassian would not line up his soldiers to die if he wasn’t given the assurance that Nesta was safe. 

And that the male who wanted her would have to back down or face Cassian’s unimaginable wrath. He was already too tempted to seek him out, to drag him up to Windhaven and let Nesta dispatch him herself. Every step towards the sprawling palace was an aching protest, forcing instinct to yield and obey.

Rhys was waiting stone faced in the doorway. 

“I suppose congratulations are in order,” he said without a hint of pleasure.

“You should stay out of her head,” Cassian snapped. He knew damn well Rhys wasn’t in his. He’d need to warn Nesta, teach her how to detect that sort of trickery. Elain had fallen prey to it, too. “Have you tried Feyre’s mind?”

Rhys barred his teeth. “You’re a bastard.”

Cassian only shrugged, unable to resist offering a smug, “A bastard with a wife.”

Rhys merely waved him off, gesturing for Cassian to follow him toward the study. Cassian’s muddied boots left little imprints on the marble moonstone, scuffing up Rhys’s nice life just a little.

He couldn’t pretend it didn’t give him some small measure of satisfaction.

Rhys collapsed into his chair with a heavy sigh. “Just another fucking lord who will side himself with Tamlin.”

“I can’t hand her over,” Cassian said, not bothering to sit. He was Rhys’s general and, maybe, the only person who had been unwavering in his loyalty, who believed he was alive. That he’d return. 

Cassian had laid his army back at Rhys’s feet. He was owed.

Rhys worked his jaw, but nodded his head all the same. “It wouldn’t have mattered. He likely would have sided with them if push came to shove. The lords of the city have whipped everyone into a frenzy. They think females are being stolen against their will and forced to breed.”

“Didn’t they hand one of their own over for that exact purpose a few months ago?” 

Rhys rubbed his eyes. “Yes. It’s fine when they brutalize their own females, but not fine if their females grow tired of their cruelty and come looking for something else. If it wasn’t this, it would be something else.”

“How many human females have chosen one of us over…” Cassian had seen precious few in Windhaven, though that didn’t mean they weren’t there.

Rhys scoffed. “Almost none. Elain is in the valley and Arina is fuck knows where. You have Nesta and Azriel that priestess…the missing lords daughter Morrigan is, I assume, in Windhaven as well. All these visible females, with powerful fathers, give the impression there is an epidemic. And now with Nesta, well…”

Cassian was too defensive. Waiting for Rhys to turn his eyes fully to Cassian and demand he give Nesta back. Rhys eyed him with a shrewdness that made Cassian’s spine cold.

“I can trust you, right?”

Cassian offered him a terse nod. 

“I need you to find out what happened with that princess. Don’t bring her back…just…I need to know if she’s safe. Alive,” he added.

“Az can do it,” Cassian murmured. He’d always been better at hiding, at spying. Cassian had no patience for it. 

Rhys nodded.

“I want to put guards in the city. A show of strength. They’re thinking of usurping me.”

“Fine.” Cassian was a soldier. Soldiers obeyed orders…so long as their wives slept safe, far from danger. 

Rhys offered Cassian one more long, careful look. “We’ve known each other a long time,” Rhys began, clearly hedging. Cassian gripped the back of the leather chair he usually occupied in Rhys’s office. The smell of wood and ink-covered parchment burned in his nose. 

“You’re staying in the palace in the mountains, are you not?”

“The House of Wind,” Cassian confirmed solemnly. 

“Still take wings or ten thousand steps to get in or out?” Rhys asked conversationally, drumming his fingers on his desk. 

Cassian hesitated.

“Yes.”

“No way down?”

“Not unless someone cares to brave ten thousand ice coated steps,” Cassian agreed. 

“Good. I want it back.”

“For what purpose?” Cassian demanded, “do you intend to rule us again?”

“Eventually,” Rhys hedged carefully. Cassian was going to bash his face in if he continued to be so evasive. Cassian raised his brows, silently ordering Rhys to explain himself.

“Feyre and I have a…bargain between us. I intend to call it in, just not the way she imagined.”

“By locking her in the House of Wind?” Cassian gaped, as if he hadn’t done the exact same thing. As if it wasn’t working spectacularly for him. 

“Yes,” Rhys agreed without an ounce of remorse. “I want Nesta to stay out of it. This is between Feyre and I.”

“Nesta will have your balls if she finds out,” Cassian declared, though he silently vowed he wouldn’t say a word about it. Not unless Nesta asked, at least. And he wouldn’t interfere…so long as

Nesta, again, didn’t ask him to. He had the feeling Nesta would climb those stairs herself when she found out Feyre was contained atop them.

For Cassian, he merely felt relief. Every hesitation Nesta had around their mating bond revolved around her sisters. He’d take Nesta to see Elain. Let her know Feyre was safe and far away from the male who meant to harm her.

“I want the human lord my mate was engaged to,” Cassian said quickly before Rhys dismissed him wholly. “His assets, too.”

Rhys leaned forward, fingers steepled beneath his jaw. “Oh? For what purpose?”

“I like the taste of blood in my mouth,” Cassian replied casually. “He scares her.”

“And his assets?”

“She likes fine things. Why shouldn’t she have his gold?”

Rhys held his gaze before nodding. “Fine. One human lord is your price for all these years?”

“My price is peace,” Cassian disagreed. “A quiet life with my mate. I’m tired of war, Rhys.”

“I imagine we’ll have to kill more than one human lord to achieve that.”

“Kill them all. Give their titles to Azriel.”

That made Rhys laughed. “Yes, I’m sure he would enjoy that.”

“Peace will bloody. It would be nice to have a friend with me…I feel your resentment, Cassian.”

Cassian couldn’t deny it. Wouldn’t deny it. “Five hundred years is a long time to say nothing.”

Rhys nodded. “I hope to explain one day. For now, though…Nesta remains and you will continue to offer support?”

“I won’t abandon you.”

Like you did me, was the unspoken words hanging between them. It would take more than the promise of one messy, bloody death to fix what was broken between them.

Still. Cassian had Nesta. He’d have a family. What did Rhys have, other than a crumbling kingdom and his regrets? 

Cassian inclined his head, a smile dancing over his lips. “Tell me when,” he murmured, turning his back to his king.

And walked straight back to his mate.

[dracomalfoysslave]

Sweet and Sour Chapter 5.

Summary: Draco's payment arrives; you spend a steamy sex-filled night with the Slytherin Prince.

Draco Malfoy x Slytherin FemReader (TW 18+ sex, name calling, bad language)

Songs: In The Dark- DEV

Elley Duhé - MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT.

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Pushing the door open with a click, Draco steps aside, holding it for you.

A shivering breath escapes you as you enter, eyeing the black the king sized bed in the middle of his elegant gothic room; a thick wave of cologne hits you, making you seriously consider if it contains pheromones from the heavenly effect it has on you.

Stopping right next to the doorway, you wait for Draco as he hastily shuts the door, jamming the lock in. He whips out his wand, muttering "Silencio!" then tosses it on the floor.

Turning, eyes ablaze with hunger, Draco's piercing gray's gaze down into yours through sweaty golden bangs, his handsome face marred with lust utterly sinking you into submission, as no one has ever looked at you like that before; as if you were their breath of life.

Stocking foward and grabbing your shoulders, he smashes you back painfully against the door, shoving your legs apart with his knees. Bending down a bit to position his clothed cock right over your skirt, he pushes it up with his erection, rutting straight into your sopping panties. At the feel of your damp warmth he lets out a steamy groan on your face.

"Draco!" you cry, as pleasure shoots through your throbbing clit at long last. Your hands tangle into the back of his soft hair, pulling his head down to you.

"Draco...I've always wanted to feel you there..." his prick digs your panties between your lips, scraping closer to the skin.

Grasping his arms around your torso, holding you steadily, Draco begins to hump you against the door, grinding his cock into your clit; your shoulders thunk rhythmically against the solid wood.

"You're soaked," he moans ardently, "I can feel it; your clit's huge..." before his lips capture yours in desperate open-mouthed kisses, savoring your thick saliva and the bland taste of your tongue.

A rich scent of apples and pine bathe your nostrils, engulfing your senses; nudging your tongue deep inside his mouth, you flick across his gums and sharp teeth, allowing the craving for everything that's him to run wild; relish bursts in the pit of your stomach, spinning rapidly through your groin. You've captured him; he's yours. Draco is yours...

Your fingers trace down his neck, yanking his hair indulgently like you always craved.

Draco's animalistic thrusts against your panties turn slow and languishing as he grinds his cock in deep circular motions. Lifting up, you sway your hips, moving your clit back and forth against the tip of his prick; your wetness seeps into his trousers, slickly rubbing you down.

"I've wanted you so badly," groans Draco, nipping at your lips.

Your stomach coils at his heated degree, heart swelling. "Ahh Draco...you too..." you moan out the words, everything you've suppressed for him tumbling through your lips, falling onto his.

Tongues lashing at each other, saliva drenching your chin and cheeks, you move your hands down his neck, scantily tracing across his chest, down his stomach, stopping on his erection. Draco stops rutting against you, pulling his hips back a bit for you to reach him; your small hand grasps his clothed shaft, sliding around it, grinding your palm into him.

Throwing his head back, golden bangs flitting across his flushed face, Draco moans lavishly; his icy eyes roll back, legs trembling from the long awaited pleasure.

"Oh god yes; I've wanted you to do this to me for years," he groans, looking hazily down into your eyes.

Lifting your skirt to your ribs with one hand, Draco swiftly hooks his finger around your panties with the other and pulls them aside.

Inhaling sharply, his eyes widen at the sight; wetness strings across your panties, stretching between your thighs, a strand snapping and hanging down between your legs. Swollen and slick, your labia are spread with arousal, hard clit raising beneath your hood.

"So fucking sexy..." Draco pants ravenously, swiping his thumb across your clit.

Gasping, your hips involuntarily jerk at the raw pleasure; Draco, Draco was touching you.

"Like that, honey? Is this what you were waiting for me to do?" he asks with gleeming eyes, eyebrows pinched in fierce longing as he continues the rubbing of his thumb in deep circles.

"Yes!" you moan firmly, rotating your hips around his large hand, shifting your clit around his finger tip. He touched you better than you ever could; how many nights you had thought of this, wondered desperately what his fingers felt like.

"So soft," Draco mutters, "your lips," he gasps, "are so slick for me...so beautiful...I've always wanted to touch them..."

Through waves of pleasure, clammy and undexterous, your fingers dart to his belt, fumbling with it and clinking it open, dropping it around his hips; hastily reaching for his zipper and ripping it down, you slide your shaking hand into his black boxers, brushing his coarse blonde pubes.

"My cock's aching so bad," groans Draco, shifting his hips in anticipation of your touch.

Shuddering at having touched him this intimately, you reach in farther, until your fingers secure around his thick warm cock. His fingers slow on your clit, momentarily losing their pace as your fingers graze his bare skin.

Sparks wrench through your heat at the touch of him, while he moans softly, desperately, cock twitching in your hand.

"Ahh...yes...touch me..." he encourages, wincing in pleasure.

Your fingers catch a trace of wetness from his precum as you guide his erection up out of his boxers.

Letting out a little gasp, you gaze longingly at his pink cock which stands rigidly against his stomach while resting in your hand; he is longer than average and much thicker. Somehow this is exactly what you were expecting, from his undertered confidence - and from a guy as hot as him; his balls are tight, voluptuous, speckled with curly blonde pubes.

"Like it?" he asks huskily, smirking a bit at the look of awe across your face.

"Fucking hell Draco; you've been keeping that monster on you the whole time?" you muse in giddly lust, tracing your thumb over the prominent wet tip of his prick.

A ravenous grin lights his face before he pushes his cock through the small cup of your hand, your thumb swiveling on his head; you savor the feel of his veins gliding through your fingers.

"Ahh...yess..." he hisses in pleasure, timing his strokes on your clit to the pumping of his hips.

Holding his deep gaze while you touch each other in the most intimate areas, you drink in one another's longing through expressions of ecstasy.

Features softening, raising his eyebrows, Draco asks for your permission, his index finger prodding gently at your entrance, caressing the hole around it's edges.

Hastily nodding yes, Draco slides his long finger through your lips in one smooth move, until his knuckles hit your labia.

Starving, your walls clamp down around him in tingling ecstasy of finally being plugged.

"Oohhh! Oh yes, keep doing that, Dray!" you moan at the thickness of his knobby finger.

Beginning to pump his finger in and out of you, you devour the repetitive opening and closing of your hole, craving the next thrust more than the previous; tightening your hand around his cock in need, you begin jerking it in time with your thrusts into his palm.

"So wet, darling...my little slut gets so wet for me," Draco muses, pressing an open mouth kiss to your lips.

"Put another one inside me," you pant, capturing his mouth lightly with yours; you needed something more, something bigger; your insides were so famished it felt like there would never be enough.

Immediately you feel Draco's middle finger sliding into you, deliciously stretching wide your walls; you wiggle at the velocity of being filled, your insides clamping around his knuckles.

Mouth capturing his again, you can hardly feel which is coming from where; the delectable strokes of his fingers inside you, combined with the swipes of his thumb on your clit, and his tongue lashing across your own. Lit up inside, he's slowly building and coaxing the fire beneath your navel.

"Dray," you moan hastily, guiding his cock down, whilst stepping in closer; he pulls out his sopping fingers, spreading your labia with an upside-down v, having to regrip them a couple times because of the slickness.

His breaths come unblanced on your face as you drag his cock from your perineum up through your labia, burshing it over your clit; clenching up immediately at the intense pleasure, a muscle spasms, causing a tingling release accompanied by a leak of fluid to jet out from you over Draco's cock. Crying out at the sweet feeling, you rub Draco's cock through your pulsating lips again.

"Squirter..." Draco pants ravenously as you guide his cock through you.

"I...I didn't know I could do that..." your voice trembles heavily, weighted down by thick pleasure.

Draco bends down a bit, rubbing the red tip of his cock right over your swelled hole, nudging it open slightly, teasing you, begging you to say it's okay for him to put himself inside you.

"T-the bed Draco...I want you on the...b-bed," you get out between groans and the distraction of your quivering pussy anticipating being smashed into.

"Give me one minute, baby," Draco's eyes are wide, almost black with need.

Pulling back from you, with a look of determination and sticky fingers, he tears your skirt and panties down your legs, allowing you to hold onto his shoulders as you step out of them.

Discarding your bottoms on the floor, Draco stands, and you bend on your knees yanking his pants and boxers down his legs; moving lower to the floor, guiding his trousers over his knees, upon catching the musky scent of his crotch, enticed, you draw a slow lick across his balls, over the wiry hairs, all the way up to the tip of his prick; a bitter drop of precum surprises you, yet you lick your lips, looking up to meet his eyes.

Squeaking softly, Draco gazes down in awe at you, shuddering at the teasing flick of your warm tongue.

As you pull up, he begins shrugging off his suit jacket, then tugging away his tie.

Shuffling off his trousers, Draco's fingers fly to your shirt buttons, undoing them as you struggle to do the same to his, looping your arms through each other; standing naked before you he is thin, toned delicately, resembling an elfen prince.

Shirts falling to the floor, his fingers dip around your back, deftly slipping the hooks of your bra apart and letting it drop; his warm hands cup around your breasts, gently giving them a squeeze before flicking his thumbs across your perky nipples; shivers spill across your chest, twinging in your clit.

Kicking off your shoes and socks into a pile, lacing one of his long arms under your knees, Draco lifts you, swinging you up into his arms and carrying you naked, princess style over to his bed; his cock pokes into your butt, his nose burrowing into your hair.

"Ah, fuck me...fuck me now, Draco!" you beg, clutching around his neck and tugging him against your chest in need as you draw near the bed, already missing his fingers.

"Almost there, angel...I'm gonna fuck you right now," he murmers huskily. "You'll never have to wait this long again," he mutters hotly into your neck through suckles on your skin.

Reaching the bed, Draco gently places you on the richly dressed mattress and instantly climbs on top of you with fiery eyes.

Looking up to him in submission as he towers above you, face alight with desire, you spread you legs wide on either side of you, pulling your labia apart with your fingers. You have never ached so hard, needed release so desperately; visibly, you can feel your hole twitching open, hungering for Draco.

"My angel..." Draco groans, his knees between your legs, positioning his cock with his hand to your entrance, before leaning in ever so slightly to push his tip in.

Letting out a sharp trembling sigh, you arch your back in euphoria as you are stretched, forcing his cock to slide deeper inside you.

Locking watery eyes with Draco who looks utterly taken, he lets out a hoarse moan, shoulders shivering at your tightness. Reaching for your hands and splaying them beside you, Draco laces his long fingers in yours, before pressing all the way into you.

Heavenly fire coils through you as his cock stretches you around him, painfully bumping your cervix, yet the sting just adds to being filled to the brim with him, and you want nothing more.

Dragging himself out of your wet heat, Draco pushes back in steadily, smashing his balls against your butt; your earrings tinkle with every thrust.

"My angel...my love...my princess...is this a good pace?" he groans, gazing frevently into your face, attachment overflowing his expression as if he is gazing at the most precious thing in the world.

"That's exactly what I want!" you cry, "I want you so so bad, Draco!"

Grinning malevolently, Draco's powerful thighs flex under you as pounds you hard and firm, giving full length thrusts; his cock feels like it's cutting you in half, stretching you to the brim, before ramming back in; he does not hold back, moaning deeply as he strokes your insides, feeling every dip and curve in your snug heat which he has coveted. The schlick of your rhythm rings out, echoing against the stark walls.

"Harder! Draco, yess!" you squeal, wrapping your legs around his back, pulling him down and making him lurch over you, nailing your g-spot; savoring the tense fire of being ground into, his thick cock rearranging you, you let out a wanton, wild moan.

Containing everything you've held back for years, all the shame, all the anger, all the pent up desire of never being loved properly; you let it all out in escalating moans and gasps, expressing the sweet devastation that lust has reduced you to.

Sweat sticks to your hands as you rub up and down Draco's broad back, hugging him constantly, squeezing him intermittently against your breasts.

"This is everything I've ever wanted," moans Draco, kissing your lips as he weaves his cock in and out of you.

"Me too..." And you mean it with all your heart, smiling against his gentle mouth, feeling his lips curl back.

Letting go of one of your clammy hands, Draco reaches between your legs, circling your clit in rhythm with his steady thrusts.

Breathing out deeply, Draco's hot breath peppers across your neck, "You feel incredible my little slut," slowly thrusting into you so that you can feel every inch of him spreading you wide.

"I don't know how much longer I can last, but I promise I'll keep going after I come," he chuckles softly into your neck, "there's no way I'll get soft anytime soon."

Letting go of his hand, you rub your fingers over his warm ears, kissing his lips desperately, too close to release yourself to think stright. "It's...it's okay, Draco, come. Come inside of me!" you squeal fervently, squeezing his hips with your thighs, clenching up on his cock to induce your own orgasm.

Panting, Draco rutts into you harder, frenzily; the friction building between you is incredible, sparks upon sparks driving within your gut, shooting through you in a constant wave, increasing with every thust. Every flick of Draco's skilled fingers draw more wetness drenching down, soaking his cock, matting his pubes.

"D-Draco...I'm c-close," you squeak.

Draco gives a soft moan of satisfaction, smiling against your lips.

The pressure inside you peaks fast, faster, until it's falling, spilling out in thick waves of pleasure. Clit throbbing, ecstasy spikes through you as your walls shake, clamping down on Draco.

"I..ahh Draco, I'm coming!" you wail, wriggling your pulsing clit against his pressing fingers.

"Yes, Angel...aw yes!" hisses Draco as you clench him, "come for me, my love...come on me," he coaxes in a gentle husk. "I'm close, so close..."

"Ahhhh....ohh Dray!" you pant, gasping, "Dray...Dray..." crying his name with each spasm, milking your orgasm for all it's worth; you must have at least had over ten hard contractions, a massive orgasm for you.

With a loud gasp, Draco's thighs tense, his trusts becoming light; his hips shake as something warm fills you, deliciously heating your insides.

"Y/n..." A high pitched moan tumbles forth from him, followed by desperate girlish groans as he pulls his head back, winching in pleasure before staring down at you with a gentle look on his face, his eyes soft and doting as more warm spurts pour into you, dousing your walls in his love.

Ah, Draco's O face... your eyes scan every curve of his secret, precious expression as your pussy throbs softly, coming down from you high.

"I need you, I need you again," you request shakily, nuzzling your nose in his neck. "It's been too long...much too long a wait,"

"Me too, my little slut," he muses with a note of jest, gently thumping his cock into your g-spot, smiling at your gasp. "I'm still so hard for you.."

His moist bangs brush across your forehead as he lays down between your legs, chest inches from yours still heaving with heavy breaths. Face sweaty and red, he dips his head low, flicking his tounge out and licking your mouth - slowly, like he's savoring the most delicious candy; you open your mouth wide, stroking his tongue in hot swipes, scooping his saliva into the back of your throat.

He begins stirring himself in your insides, which pulse with heightened sensitivity after having just came; his come making it even easier to move slickly through you.

He mutters sweet nothings softly through kisses, "My love...Y/n...you're so beautiful...so beautiful...all mine...my angel..."

"Mmmh, Draco...Draco..." you murmer, through languishingly humps against him; it feels ecstatic, especially satisfactory to be filled after coming, even more filling now that you are becoming accoustomed to his cock.

Sifting your fingers through his hair, rustling his locks like you had always wanted to, his musk and overbearing cologne whisk you into a dreamy haze.

"You feel wonderful, Draco..." you pull back, telling him into his doey eyes.

"You've had me hooked since the day I met you..." his whisper rich with tenderness.

Smiling, you sink back into each other's lips letting the pleasure and crackling of your slick movements carry you into a trance, where all that was left were each other. This could go on forever, and would be a perfect eternity...

Tightness builds again within you, and you know you're close.

Draco feels your subtle desperate shifts beneath him and pulls back a bit to watch you with a ravishing look across his face.

"I want to see everything this time; I want to watch you come from me," he growls, a sexy grin pulling at a corner of his mouth.

"Watch me..." you coo breathless, letting ecstasy take you. Contracting in even harder waves of pleasure, you burst around his cock. "Draco! Dray! Draco..." the litney of his name carries your orgasm higher, into soaring realms of pleasure.

He watches you entranced, cold gray eyes moving over every twitch in your face, then body, shifting down between your legs where he pushes against your clit with every contraction on his cock.

"So beautiful..." he says wistfully, nudging his cock against your g-spot, "come around me, let it all go on me."

His cock twitches inside of you. "Can you wait for me to come again? Won't take long," he asks intently, thumbing over one of your flushed cheeks.

"Of course I want you to fill me again. I love how sore you make me," you tease, as peace washes over you from the residual tingles of your climax.

Letting go of Draco, you lay back against the mattress for him to use your body. "Use me..." you say softly, enticing him to pump himself in you as much as he can take.

Draco's face scrunches in need as he speeds up drilling you, rocking you back and forth, subsequently creaking the bed.

"Take all of me, good girl...you like my cock, don't you?"

"I- love- your- cock," your reply comes jagged as he shakes you.

Thrilled by the fire in your loins from overstimulation, egged on by it, you savor how sexy it feels to be Draco's human masturbation sleeve.

Grinding his hips into your thighs, his thrusts become sparse. "I'm coming, angel...take all of me."

A hoarse groan shivers out his lips.

"Y/n, ngh...Y/n...you feel so good...so good...." he gazes down at you while his spurts pour into you. "Take all my come, Y/n."

"That's a good boy; fill me, Draco," you hold onto his quivering hips.

Pulling out, you feel his come splurge from you, hotly running down your thigh.

Draco collapses onto the bed beside you, bangs sprawling in a halo around his head. Rolling onto your side, draping an arm across his shoulders, for moments you lay gazing at each other in blissful satisfaction, his come oozing out of your onto the sheets, your heat dully aching.

"What would you say...if I told you I wanted to go down on you right now?" Draco grins sloppily from the bed, brushing a strand of hair behind your ear.

"Yes. One hundred percent yes," a smile breaks across your face; he just couldn't get enough of you, could he?

Chuckling softy, Draco climbs over between your legs, laying between them, his head inches from your messy heat. "This will also help with the pain; I'm sure you must be sore," his cheeks flush deeper with a devilish smirk.

"A little, but I do have to say I love it; I'll be feeling you days."

Chuckling again, Draco scoots his head in; a warm, wet sensation spreads up through your lips and over your raw clit.

Gasping at the intense pleasure, your walls quiver.

Another pleasurable lick swipes across you, diddling between your labia, right over your hole.

"That's fantastic, i-it's - ah, keep going!" you manage, wanting to slip deeper into the engrossing pleasure of his kitty licks.

He hums against you in satisfaction, vibrating your lips; you wished he would hum more, it increased the sensation - and to your joy, he did, moaning often between the licks and swirls of tongue.

"Making me...so...fucking...hard," Draco's groan is muffled in your heat, spiking pleasure through you. "You taste...delicious...mhhm..." he grinds his hips into the mattress beneath him, and you watch his toned rump and thighs tensing.

Your body is numb, every sense focused between your legs on Draco's heavenly licks. Suckling your labia, Draco nudges his nose between them, rubbing it in your slickness, feasting on your juice and his own come from the cup of your body.

It overwhelmed you to see him eating you up, devouring you, his head bobbing between your thighs; your stomach begins to tense, electricity throbbing in your pussy.

"You're making me- ngh, come again!" you clench your pelvis and thigh muscles, grabbing the back of Draco's soft head, pushing his face deep into your heat.

Unravelling on his face, you feel stabs of pleasure burn through you, your clit pulsating against Draco's nose, his tongue buried inside of you, stroking your contractions.

"Oh Draco," you groan in pain as he continues kitty licks up your clit, "I'm so raw, mhhm, you can stop...", tugging his hair gently to pry him off of you.

Pulling up panting, Draco hovers over you looking blissful, his nose and face glistening with a mixture of your come, cheeks a lush shade of red. "I've gotta come again, since you turned me on so much, little slut," he smirks, drawing his hand around himself, slowly beginning to pump his erection over you.

"So hot...is that how you touch yourself?" you beam up at him in the peaceful clouds of coming down from good sex.

"Yes," he growls, flicking his wrist harder, "this is what I do to thoughts of you."

He locks cold eyes with you, a vein throbbing in his neck as he yanks his cock hard.

"You...ngh...do this to me....every night," he groans, breathing in sharply as he aims his cock over you and shoots onto your breasts.

"Still so much, you horndog!" you tease as another hot rope splashes across you.

Milking himself, the last drops of come trickle down his length; shuddering, letting go of himself, Draco crawls over beside you and flops down in exhaustion.

He wraps a sweaty arm over you, drawing you into him; your breasts press into his chest, sticking his come on him, but neither of you care; it feels so good to be messy, downright filthy, covered in each other's lust.

Stringing one of your legs over him, you pull him closer, letting the last of his come dribble out of you onto his thigh.

"Mhm, I always knew you were a kinky bitch," remarks Draco, grinning.

"No secret that you're a sex god," you giggle hoarsely.

Draco laughs, tracing shapes with his finger lazily onto your back. "You're staying the night, you know that, right?"

Your heart stirs a bit. "Well it's too late to go back now anyway," you mock roll your eyes.

Pressing a soft kiss to your lips, Draco lifts your face to his.

"Just a few more..." he mutters, pressing gentle kisses to your mouth.

"It doesn't have to be..." you whisper soothingly, licking your tongue across his.

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Chapter 6 will be out within a few weeks~

[darkdoverpseeker]

I forgot to include my age last time, so excuse me for the double post!

Heya, everyone, I'm looking for new RP partners for Omegaverse plots. I'm leaving a brief description of my play style below, so if it picks your interest, just hit me up on Discord and we can set something up!

I'm He/Him, 21+, so you gotta be legal age as well, since all my plots include NSFW. Dark themes may be present 🕊️

I only play MxM and with OCs. The only exception to the OC rule is Tartaglia x Zhongli pairing, which I love, and I'd gladly play Omega!Tartaglia

I can play any dynamic (Alpha, Beta or Omega). I also do polyamorous settings, such as 2 Alphas x Omega or Alpha x 2 Omegas

I can play secondary chracters and pairings. Just ask!

I play a variety of themes, they can be either fantasy or modern life. Just not much a fan of futuristic scenarios. My plots can vary from post apocalypitc exploration adventures (which I have a nice plot for) to a simple modern slic of life. (I can also dive into darker and taboo plots, including things such as abuse or non-con. Just ask first).

I like RPs that have a nice balance between story and smut. And I usually don't like sticking to only vanilla kinks. Just like I need an exciting story to keep me going, the kinks shall do their part as well. I'm almost limitless when it comes to that, and can play lots of them, including musk, scenting, breeding, clawing, snowballing, spanking, hair pulling, degradation, etc

I like medium length of replies. Not one liner, not novella.

I play on Discord. If you want to reach me out, just send a DM to Rhyme#5126

Rhyme#5126

[bibblelevi]

Kitty Levi and Kitty Zeke having their heats at the same time, when usually its at different times </3

Warnings for submissive Levi and Zeke, M/M/F threesome, hybrids, heat cycles, breeding, so much come, cream pie, restraints, gags, humping, anal penetration, mating press, oral (m receiving), crying, overstimulation, dumbification

The thought of Kitty Levi or Zeke going through their heats alone though when you aren’t home to help literally sucks the life out of me.

It hits Levi out of nowhere, first.

They’re both in their respective rooms (which they usually keep to themselves when you’re not home because—and this isn’t news—they don’t like each other). Until Levi’s whimpers sound through the wall.

So Zeke pokes his head around the door to Levi’s bedroom, peering into the shaded room until he sees him on his bed, curled in a fetal position. He won’t jump up into bed just yet, but he watches curiously from the floor, brow wrinkled with an uncharacteristic worry. Is he in pain? Did he hurt himself?

It’s only when he notices the absolutely fucking mess between Levi’s thighs that the understanding finally clicks. He’s in his heat. His cock is stiff and dripping, and his legs are squished together, hips rutting into the sheets and hands fisting the pillow he’s drooling onto.

Zeke’s about to leave him until he sees the tears sliding down his pink cheeks.

They’re both supposed to hate each other. They’re enemies—competing for your affections, constantly provoking the other. But something internally tugs at him seeing Levi like this—in pain from something he has no control over.

He hops into bed and drags his mouth down his spine, where his tail is taut, and he puts his mouth over his rim, the gland inside swollen and throbbing and desperate to be pounded. Levi keens. And Zeke’s tongue eventually laps around his cock, coaxing an obnoxiously loud whine from his throat.

But it’s not fucking enough. Levi needs more. He doesn’t even care it’s the person he hates most in this world. He still rolls over and clings to him and works his cock between his thick thighs and tries to come just like that. Even leaves pink marks behind on Zeke’s shoulders where his nails dig in.

You know something is up when you arrive home from work. You can already hear the racket from the bottom of the stairs, and your initial thought is that they’re fighting (again), but the moment you walk in and are faced with the sight of Zeke burying his cock inside Levi, you realize: Levi’s pheromones were actually strong enough to trigger Zeke’s heat early.

“Oh, my poor babies,” you frown. You’re quick to toss your bag and jacket onto the floor and hurry over. The two of them are burning up, beads of sweating coating their skin, hair damp. Levi hasn’t stopped whining, and Zeke’s already halfway on top of you, ready to take what’s his. “I’ll take care of you both. But you gotta help.”

Your words mostly fall on deaf ears, but it appears Levi and Zeke have reached a mutual understanding of sorts—or they’re both just too dumb to fucking care about whatever vendetta exists between them.

“I don’t want either of you to hurt me or yourselves,” you explain. You gather the leather cuffs from the drawer and restrain their wrists to their respective collars. Otherwise there’s a risk of scratching. (You have the scars to prove it). Silicone bit gags are placed in their mouths to avoid any biting or an accidental knick from a sharp canine.

You let Zeke take you first, while you work Levi into your mouth, holding his quivering thighs wide open. Zeke’s relentless as he pounds into you, milking his cock dry with your tight cunt. He comes twice with loud groans slinking through your ears, and Levi shudders through his first climax, tasting salty, not nearly satisfied enough.

So, you flip onto your back, holding your legs to your chest, and you let Levi whine and fuck you and make a mess, while Zeke keeps his cock warmed in Levi’s ass. It’s all too much. The feeling of your slick walls fluttering around him, and his ass stuffed to the brink. He comes so hard, for so long, his prostate being consistently milked into your already messy cunt.

You try to maintain some sense of reality, but you’ve reached your second climax and are already on your way to a third; fucked absolutely stupid by Levi who has no idea the power he has in every one of his thrusts.

“S’, s’ good, baby. Good boys. Good boys,” you slur, jaw slackening and toes curling. Your third orgasm wracks your entire body, and the tip of Levi’s cock nails your g-spot repeatedly, over and over. Until your eyes are in the back of your head and you’re out of your fucking mind, you feel so good.

Eventually, the three of you collapse. Levi and Zeke are properly satiated, ran through and milked dry. Levi’s face is in the crook of your neck, and he lifts his head and blinks up with wet eyes when sees his pretty owner blissed out, half asleep. His cock keeps his and Zeke’s come plugged up inside you.

Zeke comes around a plops down beside you, his chin on your tummy. And the three of you fall fast asleep, just like that.

[evilwickedme]

I really enjoy your ao3 works! Do you mind telling me what your plans are for the future? Any WIPs or aus 👀

oh my gosh thank you!! yeah I'm working on a bunch of things right now and none of them are really getting done lmao, you know how it is

for marvel rn I have one active WIP called all you need to know about gwen stacy. It's very much in its infancy but it's a spiderverse based spider-gwen story and it's going to be hopefully my longest gwen story yet, not that that's really impressive everything I've written with her as the main character has been pretty short. I also have Break It Fic on the backburner; that has two chapters up and has for months now and I don't see myself going back to it anytime soon, but I do want to finish it for real! also I hope to write a fic for valenpool over the next week or so and publish it on valentine's day (get it?), should be a short fluff fic, maybe two thousand words at most. it's going to be called Dead Valentine I got the name from a convo with @waterme-stories regarding valenpool's ship name thanks again

for the witcher I have a number of incomplete fics but the only two that are still actively on my mind are the yennskier post s2 get together which only has one chapter left and an outsider POV oneshot that honestly might not get published if I don't finish it by the time s3 comes out. I have a few pages of it and it's based basically on the fact that Geralt's reputation really does live and die on Jaskier's song - so what does that look like for some random villagers in an unimportant town? I wanted it to be a spiritual successor to one of my most successful fics, in which an entire university faculty becomes far too involved in Pankratz and Vengerberg's love life, which is another outsider POV for the witcher fandom although it's a modern au and this one isn't

dc is obviously my main fandom rn and I have a bunch of projects for that! I'm still working on my before and after fic series and that has a few fics in progress. the mental health fic already has two chapters up and the final chapter has about a paragraph written, and I've also got a sequel fic nicknamed the therapy fic with no outline and about two pages written. I actually don't know if the therapy fic will actually end up seeing the light of day since the mental health fic has received lukewarm attention at best and I'd rather focus my attention on things that will actually be liked. there's also probably going to be a silly little oneshot that introduces cass to jason in the before and after universe, it's a bit of a retcon but I don't really think it matters since it's meant to be lighthearted. and if I still have any steam at all after all of that, there's also another short multichaptered fic planned for the series that focuses on damian, but that's a real question mark we have to see how I feel when I get there

I've also offhandedly mentioned my jealousy timkon au which is loosely inspired by this fic and has established timber with kon coming back into tim's life and sort of messing everything up. I like making my favs suffer idk what to tell you. it's a no capes college au with childhood friends to strangers to friends to lovers and I'm actually going to break form and there will be no cheating! I've written a lot about cheating in the past but this is going to remain in the realm of longing. there's about a page and a half written of this and I have some vague ideas of where I want it to go but I haven't even decided if I'm going for a oneshot or not. probably not but if so it'll end up my main fic for a while so I want to at least get the mental health fic and the valenpool valentine's day piece done by then

and finally I have two pieces of smallville fic I'm planning on writing, probably after I've done my lecture in april (assuming it'll get accepted but I haven't been told no in three years, so). I've actually detailed both of them already but if you missed it the first one I came up with is a post s10 slice of life fic, ignoring the arrowverse Crisis plot cause it's bullshit and clark wouldn't give up his powers, and ignoring s11 comics cause I haven't read them. the second one has a detailed outline in an ask from earlier this month and it's my fix it for lana's send off in season eight cause fuck that plotline

so yeah that's everything on my mind! obviously this isn't exactly a small amount but I'm hoping to start finishing things and stop starting them any day now (he said, lyingly)