#thanks for reminding me he really ain’t shit 😊

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@illuminatedferret YOU’RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!!!!!

Probably the stupidest, most reckless but undeniably bravest thing Mu Qing did in the entire novel was coming forward to Xie Lian with the truth about the missing golden foil.

[danses-with-dogmeat]

It says requests are closed, but the post w/ ‘Sole that can’t handle softness’ said “ask if you want to see anyone else” and I was hoping it’s okay to ask if Gage could be added, if you have the time. He’s my favorite grumpy trash guy and I love how you’ve written him in the past. I get stupid excited when he shows up. If not, that’s completely understandable and this can just be a friendly reminder you’re awesome and I love your work! Your version of Deacon is probably one of my favorite flavors amongst the fandom. Thanks for all the wonderful fic <3

Oh yes! I probably need to make a post specifying this lol, but I'll take "add ons" to existing posts of mine when requests are closed, I just won't accept brand new requests. Sorry for the confusion, but thank you for being cognizant of my request status! ❤😊 And for allowing me to clarify 😅

But yes, I DEFINITELY can add Gage 😁 (and I'll add him to the FO4 Companions React to a Sole who Can't Handle Softness post as well, so you can find him on the masterlist!)

Gosh, the more I write for Gage, the more I just love him. I want to play the DLC SO bad so I can actually "meet" him, but alas, time and money I don't have lol. And omg, thank you for your feedback on Deacon 😭 "favorite flavor" had me laughing.

I hope you enjoy!! <3

Gage:

Can’t Sole see that this shit just frustrates him?

It might’ve been fun at first, this whole “playing hard to get” shit. The way they wouldn’t meet his gaze, how they make it seem like they crave his touch, and then suddenly pull away, how they look so damn nervous around him at times. It was a nice sort of challenge at first, a change in pace from the brutal, fearless Overboss he knew in public, but now he was gettin' sick of it.

If they were trying to get him even more riled up with the way they kept teasing him and acting all hesitant and meek, all this playing hard to get, it was fucking working, but then let him act on it, you know? Or else, what’s the point? What the hell do they get out of it, just teasing him and then leaving him all hot and frustrated? If it was a joke, or some sort of payback for some shit he’s done, that’s fine. He probably deserved it, or at least would think it’s kinda funny once or twice, but it’s been weeks of this shit, and Gage is fuckin’ tired of it. 

The hell’s the point of bein’ with ‘em if he can never actually be with them? One evening, he finally snaps and asks. They were kissing him, an' they'd been the ones to initiate it, even, and then, just as he wrapped a hand around their waist to pull them closer, to get to the good bit, Sole wrenched away from him with a nervous laugh. 

Who was this? His Overboss was a beast. The one who’d taken down Colter and demanded respect from all the other well-established bosses while hardly breaking a sweat, but they can’t handle a hand on their waist? Can’t look him in the eye? What the hell were they playing at? 

Maybe he was a little harsh when he asked them what their problem was, but he was just so frustrated. Did they not like him or some shit? Then why were they playing this whole game at all? 

So yeah, sure, he could’ve been nicer about asking them what’s goin’ on, but did it really warrant these tears in their eyes? Why the hell was Sole so damn sensitive around him? 

When they’d finally spoken up and gotten through their confession, Gage is the one who can’t make eye contact. He feels like such an asshole. He’s not even mad that Sole didn’t tell him, what right did he have to know about the dark secrets of their past? Especially when he was treating them the way he was? An' now that he thinks about it, he realizes he should’ve known. Should’ve seen the signs. He’s been around enough shits who treat their partner wrong to know what to look for. 

He apologizes to them quietly, seething beneath the surface as images of Sole's old partner mistreating them flashed through his head.

I may be a bit of an asshole, but I ain’t a fucking monster. I know when I’ve got something good, and I don’t intend to waste it cuz I got mad or some shit. He promptly and firmly tells ‘em that they ain’t never gonna be treated that way again, not by anyone, not when they’re with him. Gage is a lot of things, and sure, he knows he can be pretty vile, but when it comes to Sole? He’d rather throw himself off the Fizztop balcony than intentionally hurt them. Nah, he’s supposed to prevent that kinda shit, and that’s what he’d fuckin’ do. 

Gage is definitely more accustomed to violence than he is softness, but dammit, he’s gotta make up for his false assumption and his insensitivity. Sole is too good for him, and he’s not oblivious to that fact, so though it’s strange for him, he tries to tone down his aggressive nature when they’re alone together. He promptly quits his teasing of them, and his prying, now letting them decide where he touches and for how long. He keeps his gruff voice soft when they’re alone, finding he prefers it that way anyway. No one’s ever shuddered from his breathy whispers the way Sole does, and that shit lights a fire in him.

A fire that he keeps well under his control until the exact moment Sole consents, usually in the form of some rasped type of begging, an' then Gage shows 'em what it's like to be ravished by someone who cares, who knows how to make 'em feel good, how to drain all their troubles away with a couple o' heated touches, both reverent and aggressive in equal measure. When Gage finds that delicate balance of comfortability and trust with his partner, he's relieved as hell to know that, even with his past, the way he looks, the way he acts, Sole still chose to be with him. He doesn't intend to take that shit for granted.

[darke15]

Hello Rhymieeeee! @rhymingtree

The (not so long) awaited season three is FINALLY HEEEERE!

Right? Two seasons in one year? I’m so excited!

Ooh we're picking up right when Ghostie gets whisked away by Shield (ehem hydra ehem ehem)

😈😈😈

Raf's getting the bad vibes from Nick Fury and then quickly reminding himself that the others gave him a vague description of Novak is so funny to me.

Like, "he's supposed to be white... this man is no gringo... he passes the vibe check"

Yesssssssssssssssssss that’s exactly what went through his head. He ain’t no gringo…he’s a brother…he can be trusted…for now.

I love getting to see Raf's perspective from this moment, I remember reading this and thinking, "I like this guy. Hope Ghost sees more of him." And then right before Sokovia, "WOAH SASSY MECHANIC GUY?! You're here too!😊😊"

🖤🖤🖤

Ooh he's doing some sneaky spy shit

He’s a sneaky sneak boi

I love this, watching Aftermath build itself up higher and higher in a mundane way. Poor Jack's stuck here supervising a construction site.

Same 😌 it’s been so much fun exploring the Aftermath side of things with Dune vs the Avengers side of things with Ghost

Powerhouse and Zodiac being sent to two different places is like keeping two fighting children in different time out corners.

Precisely  

Oh I love the title card for this.

Thank you 😌

He’d give it to the man, he wasn’t afraid of getting between a pair of guys bigger than him and he wasn’t afraid to push them around.  It was kinda hot—

Not even halfway through and someone's already horny, damn. 😏

They both are constantly they just don’t want to admit it.

Oh but it's the sad, wistful slow burn horns and knees okay... aw

yes

I love how Jack seems so hopeless when they'll be married and happily in love in a couple more years. 

Right? He just has no patience and Duke has no concept of punctuality 

DUKE WITH LONG HAIR??? 😮😮😮

yesssssssssssssss

I love how their attraction for each other never wore down even after years of fucking I mean loving each other deeply.

👀🌶👀🌶👀

Why did Duke call him smalls when he is not small at all... I'm assuming... 😏

You are correct 

Fuck being professional. Fuck if things were different. Ask him out. 

Hear that, Jack? that isn't just your inner voice, that's everyone reading this right now wishing you'd get a grip and JUST FUCKIN' ASK HIM OUT

Their inner voices are what have been yelled at me before and what they will continue to ignore…just like me

SENATOR JOHNSON!!! The only politician I trust. Sadly, he is fictional. Dagnabit.

Ughhhhhhh same 

Doctor Imara J. Johnson. I love it. I love her. I love this whole family.

Saaaaammmeeeeeee 

Don't be shy, Darke, let Nia say assholes. Let her say it. Just one big bad word, followed by an entire vocabulary of 'em... c'mon…

She’s learned plenty from Duke and Boone

I love Turner not knowing what he's doing in the Senate. To be completely honest, no one in the Senate really does (especially over here), so he's fine.

No one knows what they’re doing, they just pretend to

I can't wait to see their reactions to her jumping ship with the people who got her faking her death in Paris on a whim after Mr. Suspicious-Eyepatch-Trenchoat-Man chatted with her.

Boone is gonna be so mad. Natasha and Clint cost her a $10,000 computer 

HAHAHAHA Raffa calls Turner bro. I love him.

He just gives no shits and we love him for it.

Wait, no one knows where Boone is?

nerp

Not even Turner?

She’s off grid doing gods knows what

Now it's Duke's turn to feel awkward and painfully in love 🙃 see, this is the kind of shit I came for. I love this.

🖤🖤🖤

Who'd have known reading a random slow burn long fic about Bucky was gonna send me into a pit of more slow burns that hurt even more?

Oof i just got a thing for slow burns i guess 

Though, he wouldn’t be able to do that in New Eden anyway. He’d piss (F/N) off in an instant and end up headfirst out a window. 

I'm gonna need you to clarify, do you mean the ground floor window or like, second-storey, or... window of a penthous apartment in New York City kind of window?

yes

WHAT EVEN DUKE DOESN'T KNOW WHERE BOONE IS

nerp

WHERE IS BOONE

Who knows

WHERE IS MY WIFE

Somewhere finally losing her mind 

WHY IS SHE NOT ACCOSTING DUKE ABOUT JACK 24/7

Did we forget about the argument that she and duke had? She took that shit personal…

Jack's perfectly formed ass. Thank you for the description, now I know how to imagine it.

You’re welcome

Why do these two keep slamming into each other, it's such an inconvenient greeting

Universe is trying to push them together but it’s being too aggressive. 

NOW RIP EACH OTHER'S CLOTHES OFF

Slow down rhymie 

JESSE WITH THE SUNSHINE FOR ARI'S GRUMP

Yesssssssssssss 

You did Jesse dirty killing off those three other pilots, Darke 😒

I really did. I regret it 

I'm still not over it... even if I keep forgetting Dorian's name

BUT LOOK I REMEMBER IT NOW 😤

Congratulations 

See, he just needs a bit of her sun. That way he won't be so lonely anymore.

Yesssssssssss 😭

Me and you AAAAAAAAH THIS IS FUCKING KILLING ME

Sorry not sorry

I don't know who I love more, Jack and Duke or Ari and Jesse.

They’re both adorable and i love them all 

Oh and now I'm jealous. I want my own sunshine too goddamnit.

same

Raffa's too fucking charming for his own good. How did Emmerly not fluster up when Raf called her princesa? He... I... He's too fricking charming it's annoying.

I would have spontaneously combusted 

YES RAF IS COMING TO JACK WHICH MEANS HE'S GONNA BULLY JACK INTO ASKING DUKE OUT

NOW WE ONLY NEED BOONE TO DO THE SAME WITH DUKE

Yessssssss 😈

So many cockblocks,, Darke. Why is the universe trying to set them on fire every damn time?

The universe [readers] push them together and bad luck [me] says y’all need to slow down and enjoy the burn 

Maybe he needed to focus on something else and, if it was going to ever happen, let Duke come to him. 

Well, how do you mean by come? 😏😏😏😏

You heard him 

No seriously where the fuck is Boone? And my favorite Russian, where are those two? I'm getting worried.

Belov’s on the Alliance…Boone is…

I LOVE THIS. I LOVE THIS OPENING EPISODE SO MUCH. I love how you're establishing everything and showing more of how Aftermath is being slowly but surely built.

Thank you! I’m so excited to bring these a-holes back together 

I can't wait to see how Turner, Boone, and Duke handle Ghost working for SHIELD, and soon fighting Loki and the chitauri and saving Captain America and all that fun stuff... it's so cool seeing everything come full circle.

It’s gonna be great 

I LOVEE how you're writing Jack and Duke's blossoming (slightly stagnant) relationship. I love seeing how they've always been wildly attracted to each other from the beginning, and that attraction matures so well from when they first come to terms with it to the events of BS:A when it becomes a deep and solid commitment.

🖤🖤🖤

I'm so happy Jesse and Ari are gonna be having shenanigans together on their own mission. It's gonna be so awesome watching their own relationship. I love seeing Jesse's effect on Ari, how she just lights up his day. He's literally in warm sunny Morocco right now, but he only really felt it when Jesse's sun started shining on him. It's gonna be so beautiful.

They’re the accident that I’ve grown to love so much and I can’t wait to bring them together 

Can't wait for Boone's own shenanigans. I miss her so much WHERE IS SHE WHERE IS MY WIFE WHY IS SHE NOT HERE? This was such a cool ep, but I miss her 😭.

Boone will arrive…eventually…

The highlight is Duke imagining Jack's perfectly formed ass and his swirling  steel-blue eyes.

🖤🖤🖤

I'm so excited for more of season 3, this was such a beautiful start to it 💜

Thank you so much Rhymie!!! 

SEASON THREE, EPISODE ONE // THE PIT

To all my live reactors,

Please, please, please, hide your reactions under a Read More cut. I don’t want any spoilers floating around. 

&

To all my Anonymous Avengers, 

If you want to react in my asks, feel free. However, I won’t be answering any of them until at least Wednesday if they contain spoilers. 

Thank you,

Darke

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From the outside, the base looked like a gigantic warehouse. It sat alone in the desert, set securely against a red rock mesa. Most of the building was hidden, built back into the rock and leaving only its face as evidence of its whereabouts. 

The first floor kept up its disguise.

Freight trucks constantly moved in and out of the five bays that spanned across the front face. Crates and pallets were constantly offloaded and moved further into the building. 

But it was what was under the warehouse that made things interesting. 

Tunnels were built upon tunnels, dipping further and further into the ground like a mineshaft. Offices and barracks were carved from the rock, all brightly lit and teeming with soldiers. And one of the biggest training facilities Jack had ever seen lurked even further down the shaft. 

It was like living in a whole underground city. 

And it was boring as hell. 

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SEASON THREE, EPISODE ONE // THE PIT

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