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For the false memory moment you are thinking of, is this it?
“‘But what if … what if he‘s [Piper’s Dad] a different person [after she wipes his memories]?’ // Leo had had the same thought. If the Mist could affect their memories, could Jason‘s whole personality be an illusion, too? If their friend wasn‘t their friend, and they were heading into a cursed mansion—a dangerous place for demigods—what would happen if Jason‘s full memory came back in the middle of a battle? // ‘Nah,’ Leo decided. ‘After all we‘ve been through? I can‘t see it. We‘re a team. Jason can handle it’” (Chap. 47)
I did see this one while looking for the quote I'm thinking of but sadly it's not quite it 😔 this quote you've shared is pretty significant and probably the most major instance of leo evaluating what the "real" jason (as in jason with all of his memories back) might be like (although it's not actually even an evaluation so much as it is a concern that's readily dismissed), but it doesn't say anything about leo's fake memories. thank you for trying tho!! 💜
the one I'm thinking of was probably in early-mid tlh and it's suuuuch a tiny little blurb in leo's thoughts, but it was specifically leo's expressed opinion on the false memories - an opinion that made it seem like he doesn't think they're important to deal with/doesn't think they're a big deal, which I take issue with because they are a big deal!!! I'm smhing at myself so hard because I literally just reread tlh but I didn't highlight the line 😩 disgraceful because I highlight everything. atp I just have to go reread it a second time
#I'm interested in this for a lot of reasons but especially because like no one talks about this in the fandom#<- “this” being that leo has fake memories of jason. and it's rick's fault lol because we know next to nothing of what leo's false memories#looked like. but if you aren't going to evaluate and break down those fake memories (which leo definitely doesn't) then how am I supposed#to have confidence that this friendship (leo/jason) isn't /still/ built on a lie the way jason and piper's relationship was#like yeah of course they do become good friends. but the books didn't do enough to convince me that leo's fake memories aren't#still an influence on their friendship. which matters to me because I hold friendships and romances in equal gravity#I think people have their shipping goggles on when they evaluate this stuff tbh. like I have no problem with the ship myself#(although I have never liked any jason ships in a canon setting I can only enjoy them in aus)#but this is writing flaw that very much impacts how I view their overall dynamic#baye.txt#pjo#leoposting
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maybe i should talk/show more about my oc now that i’m thinking… idk! everyone is doing something for their ocs/self inserts idfkkkk…
like i just made her for funsies like haha what if i’m eltingville also everyone is eltingville/northwest why not do it…
#nobody will care anyways ANWAYS#she could be based in worse part of me to show and how toxic someone can be with their friends#or also based on how people have treated me back then when i was a teen and met some not so good friends…#yeah… maybe it could be like that but she would be very much a men hater god so toxic so she would never meet those nerd boys#is not like she wants to anyways BUT i think she meets Josh NOT in the comic store#but in some random store that sells everything yknow and they both saw a book/comic they both liked so much and then started to argue#but Vick is kinda the same as Bill and she doesn’t take a no (although she’s not physically violent like Bill but she has a big mouth)#but she’s a loser so she stfu to Josh and get the book. until they made some weird decision bc he never saw a girl like that#or fought with a girl about something he likes more than just getting insulted from his back so like they would exchange numbers/socialmedia#to read the book they want aaand that’s how they became friends because then josh started to chat more with her yknow#bc they both like akira and also robots so bc he is autistic and annoying he can’t stop yapping now that he has a friend#if he thinks that’s a friend bc Vick always blocks him bc he is so fucking annoying. yknow. meeting more toxic ppl in his life poor guy#but yeah that will be the arc of her i guess she’s also pretty lonely but the thing is she got used to it so she likes it#although doesn’t like to deal with idiots and that’s the first guy friend she ever had#her other best friend and only friend (also half toxic relationship but she treats her better) is with fake geek girl#they are from the same school and Vick always give her terrible advices and how men are terrible blah blah blah actual nonsense#also Vick is like the toxic equivalent of Bill in a girl but less violent and not that loser (she is tho)#so she will put fake geek girl into problems when she didn’t do anything and it was all Vick faults! so yeah that’s their friendship#it’s like Jerry and Bill but girls and they don’t punch each other or insult each other. but is still toxic#SO YEAH AHAHHA A LOT OF YAPPING IN HERE ABOUT MY OC MAYBE I SHOULD DRAW HER#i guess idk maybe yes maybe nah too busy
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ੈ✩ daddy playlist (smau) ੈ✩
pairing : f1 gird x leclerc! reader ( platonic )
summary: the leclerc sister causing havoc in the f1 driver’s life
tw : fluff; chaos, VERY SUGGESTIVE
fc : emma chamberlain
a/n : this was requested anonymously by an anon! I hope you like it and thank you so much for supporting me ! lysm 🫶🏻 the reader is gay, so don’t like it, don’t read it 🫶🏻 also, there are a lot of suggestive jokes, so please don’t read if you are uncomfortable
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babyn daddy's home chauffeuring these Lil girls
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lordperceval wtf are you driving a Mercedes !?
lordperceval haven't I bought like 10 ferrari's for you ?
lordperceval even Lewis is leaving Mercedes
babyn calm down, brother dearest, it's georgey's
georgey shame on all of you for catfishing in my car
albono I AS WELL also own a Mercedes 🙏
albono norris, you better be careful in track, the fuck are you sending my ugliest pictures on the net
norizz oh come on, if you are ugly, you are going to be ugly
max1 and not like you don't crash every now and then
colawithice it's the Williams' fault
chillijr that's why I am replacing you
colawithice and that's why I am replacing checko ✅
babyn YOU ARE GOING TO REDBULL!?
babyn OH MY GOD
babyn REDBULL WILL HAVE MILFS
babyn BOTH OF THE DRIVERS ARE DATING MILFS
norizz or they just have mummy issues
max1 and you have height issues
colawithice height does not matter, it's the girth
hamsandwich it's the looks 💪🏻
georgey why do you follow yn?
babyn WHY WONT HE!?
kikagnome the whole grid follows her
babyn except the drivers without talent and daddy issues
peirreneedsgas then why is Lando following you ?
norriz mate, last time I checked, I WAS THE ONE COMPETING FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP
babyn and it was all too much for little Lando Norris
pastry we still are winning then constructors💪🏻
chillijr Ferrari will cover up
babyn only if they pass the radio in spanish from now on
georgey 😶
albono 😶
pastry 😶
lilyhye 😶
babyn LILY WHY WERE YOU OFFLINE
carmenvroom 😶



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babyn the only man I would ever spread my legs for -
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lordperceval you are not getting out of my sight anymore
lordperceval dare you leave the Ferrari garage
babyn I will go the McLaren garage
pastry oh fuck no, BIANCA IS NOT THERE FOR EVERY RACE
babyn 😔
max1 I will join you
babyn turning people gay since 01 💪🏻
babyn but before, give me Kelly
max1 you can very much take toto, thank you
kikagnome yn, babe stick to one person yeah ?
babyn stop flaunting your relationship with pierre
pierreneedsgas SHE DIDNT EVEN SAY ANYTHING !
babyn your existence is enough
kikagnome why do I have you as my best friend again ?
babyn idk, sounds like a you problem



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babyn SHE FUCKING LOOKED AT ME !?
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norizz was it necessary to use me ?
babyn well yes, you are confused everytime
max1 thank God you will stay off Kelly now
babyn NEVER FROM MY FAV MILF
ollibear Bianca gave me her number
babyn TO YOU !?
olliebear what's so surprising ?
babyn YOU ARE WHITE AND YOUNG AND WELL A KID
olliebear YOU ARE WHITE TOO !?
babyn I AM MONEGASQUE
kingarthur sorry ollie, she failed her middle school
norizz she just looked
babyn itz the start of our marriage book, I have already made like 10 playlists
colawithice tell me you're gay without telling me you are gay
babyn you are LaTiNa
colawithice I WAS TALKING ABOUT YOU
lordperceval every week, you tell me some other girl is going to my sister in law
babyn I WANT TO BECOME A WAG
kikagnomes ITS FRIENDSHIP GOALS CHARLES
pierreneedsgas wait what
babyn calm down french fry, you both only met because of me
hamsandwich please don't, we don't need another person on the grid with an age gap
chillijr I think being in the f1 world has a mandatory check of having an age gap relationship
albono ME AND LILY are very happy 😊
georgey so are we Carlos
rebecamour Carlos, I AM ONLY ELDER TO YOU BY ONE YEAR
chillijr I didn't mean it about us !!
rebecamour Aren't you an f1 driver !?
babyn he is not, he is unemployed
chillijr I am!! But we love each other and Y/N, STOP
babyn no one tells me to stop, I LOVE BEING IN COMMAND
chillijr Charles, control your sister
lordperceval Arthur, please do
kingarthur only maman can
hamsandwich well you could show this account to her ?
babyn ALL GOOD
babyn NO NEED
babyn I AM GAY AND HAPPY
babyn NOT SHARING ANYMORE
lordperceval I love maman
kingarthur so do I 😊



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babyn Kika, the first girl who I fell in love with, the girl who taught me how to wear heels, the girl who taught me how to make my boobs look big ( you kind of catfished pierre..?) and girl who has been with me since we were thirteen. happy 21 my love 😗😗
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kikagnomes finally I get some appreciation 🫶🏻😊
pierreneedsgas the only post I ever liked on this account
babyn says the man who got catfished
kikagnomes I AM NOT THAT FLAT
babyn OH PLEASE
kikagnomes WELL I HAVE A BOYFRIEND
babyn who will gladly lick the plate
kikagnomes PLATE !?
norizz this is the first time I have seen boobs being compared to plates
pierreneedsgas shut up norris
kikagnomes shut up lando !!
babyn love let's just continue on the gc ?
kikagnomes yes, I need to debrief as well !
pierreneedsgas debrief what ?
babyn how you only last like 3 rounds !?
pierreneedsgas HOW THE FUCK DO YOU KNOW !? FRANSISCA !?
lordperceval 3 rounds is impressive !!
babyn not for an athlete
kingarthur sister, what more do you expect from a human ?
babyn like minimum 5 rounds ?
max1 Y/N, this is not a formula 1 race where you go for rounds with pitstops
babyn y'all are just old
hamsandwich it's not about being old !!!
babyn forgot there were 40 year olds who can't even do one round
colawithice you women don't know how hard is it to keep the hip movements going
georgey EXACLTY, WE HAVE MORE FLEXIBLE HIPS THAN SHAKIRA
carmenvroom ....
lordoerceval the silence says a lot more my mate
babyn Colapinto beans, I am more dominant in bed than you are begging to be rode
lordperceval EVERYONE TAKE THIS ON YOUR CHATS, Y/N, SISTER I HAVE NO INTEREST IN YOUR SEX LIFE
babyn also Charles, work on your stamina mate, can't even go 2 rounds without panting
lordoerceval !? ALEXANDRA !?
alexmieux ... yn, love meet me NOW


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babyn when mom asks what me and that girl are going to do on a sleepover
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norriz at this point, you should sign up this account for onlyfans
lordperceval Lando, stop giving my BABY SISTER such ideas
babyn what makes you think I am not already there
kingarthur excuse me !?
babyn don't worry, I just sell your feet pics 😺😊
lordperceval the best investment from my money would be getting you a psychiatrist
colawithice give me some tongue tips
babyn milf not getting satisfied ?
colawithice you wish
chillijr telling your mom for future sleepovers
babyn telling reb about your Italy escapade
rebecamour Italy what !?
babyn nothing 🤭
rebecamour Carlos !?!?
chillijr nothing my love, she is just joking
chilijr STOP TRYING TO MAKE ME FIGHT WITH HER !
babyn sorry, I just thought you liked mariella
rebecamour MARIELLA !?
norizz just informing that Carlos won't be online for some time because I saw him run after her in the paddock
pastry why are you so mean yn ?
lilyhye Mena in What?
lilyhye exposing an affair !?
alexmieux as she should !?
babyn loves, there was no affair
kikagnomes you nasty -
lilyhye those are some damn long fingers ...
babyn someone just expressed their desire @ albono
albono thank you very much and I can work on it without your interference
lordperceval why in the world have you put me there !?
babyn Alex is lucky you know ?
lordperceval what did mom even eat before giving birth to you !?
babyn dad
kingarthur Y/N !!!
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HEADCANON DROP HI HELLO (ignore how i accidentally switched pete and josh's position i drew this in school without my phone okay. forgive me)
BILL !!

hes the level of white that his face gets actually red when hes rlly angry
worst acne out of all of the club plus probably has a bald spot on his head from how stressed out he is all the time
surprisingly his hair is the cleanest out of all of them because his mom forces him to take baths frequently (hates her for it) -> weirdly that does not stop him from smelling like shit so
has VERY bad myopia (short sighted)
absolutely awful posture. pack it up hunchback of notre dame
has very bad lactose intolerance but does NOT stop him
i like to think maybe it was his dad who introduced him to comics and nerdy stuff and they really bonded over that so he resents his mother a lot for "taking his dad away from him" when they had the divorce
NOT a reader at all, only reads books that dont have pictures on them if its for school, otherwise he does NOT touch that shit
has a surprisingly good singing voice but the talents wasted because he doesnt like music at all
very very VERY closeted bisexual would rather die than admit he feels a little something when looking at pretty men
has a habit of biting himself when he's frustrated
has arachnophobia so bad to the point it's actually funny. if u tell him theres a spider on his shoulder he will scream so loudly and freak out and not speak to u for a week when he realizes u were lying
his bones are really easy to break for some reason? shove him the tiniest bit hard he will break something when he falls on the ground
i feel like he'd have a peanut allergy. no i will not elaborate
judges really hard whenever someone gets a very complicated coffee order but cannot handle a singular sip of black coffee. spits it out immediately
brags about being the oldest of all of them when its like. him and josh are less than a month apart
very very low pain tolerance will be so dramatic over every tiny papercut
umm umm something something npd and ocd because oomf said so
last one of the club to grow facial hair
hates HATES pda but is so clingy in private its insane
chews on every pen or pencil he owns. beaver ass
has really really dry lips to the point his doctor told him to regularly put on chapstick but he never does it because he "feels gay" doing it, lips get cracked and bloody every time the weather gets a little dryer than usual
always wears long sleeved shirts or jackets over t-shirts because he hates how his arms look (theyre very skinny. bro cannot throw a hard hitting punch or lift a mildly heavy object for his life)
cannot peel any fruit. ever.
never got his drivers license. even in epilogue he has to take cabs everywhere
also epilogue i feel like he'd have a little bit of a drinking problem maybe
JOSH !!

very very greasy curly hair that has so much frizz. CANNOT be brushed dry ever or itll puff up ljke a pomeranian
probably started growing a neckbeard before any real facial hair but he gets self conscious about it so shaves it -> gives up shaving it in epilogue and his real beard started to grow
his weight isnt that much his fault its more of a genetic thing tbh -> tried working out to see if he lost weight once but when his fat didnt immediately turn into muscle in like. a week. he gave up
his mom probably got him to do piano or violin classes and when the club went to a recital to make fun of him they were like. a little impressed cuz he was not bad at all tbh -> probably tried to audition to school band or somethibg? but immediately shouted FUCK the second he got a note wrong and got kicked out
has some form of jaw misalignment? but never told his mom because he would rather die than be seen with braces
gamer headphone dent 💔
immediately asks any girl wearing a band shirt "name five songs" even if he doesnt know the band at all
owns a concerning amount of body pillows
secretly has a thing for mean assertive women
bpd maybe?
has VERY bad hyperopia (long-sightedness)
used to own hamsters and got so sad when they died he missed club meetings for like a week -> club genuinely thought it was a grandma or something not yoda 1 and yoda 2 (he'd name them that because he forgot which one was which and just named them the same thing)
has so many cousins and extended family its insane. he swears that if he hears "youve grown so much, last time i saw you you were a little baby!" he will LOSE IT
has freakishly good aim for some reason? like, the club wouldve gone to paintball or laser tag or something and bill would throw a tantrum over always getting shot by josh immediately
hates overly sweet things
PETE !!

very very hairy everywhere except on his head 😭 bro has a receding hairline at 17 someone save him (literally the only reason he wears the baseball cap all ghe time)
probably the first one to grow facial hair out of the club, brags about it so hard
tried piercing his ears by himself once but it got infected so he had to give up
rlly dark eyes and has the most beautiful luscious dark lashes youve ever seen (guido mista coded)
nose is very curved and downturned
MOLES MOLES SO MANY MOLES
kinda crooked teeth but his parents cant afford braces for him so
owns a bunch of exotic pets and used to prank the club with them until bill accidentally stepped on his pet spider and killed it or something
yk when u smell sweaty and bad and try putting deodorant on top to fix it but just ends up smelling like a mix of sweat and deodorant and its lowkey worse? yeah thats what pete smells like. all the time. and axe body spray
tried smoking one (1) time to look cool and regretted it so much. never again
probably unironically got scurvy once due to not brushing his teeth or eating any fruit and thought his gums bleeding meant he was turning into a zombie -> tried biting josh once to be funny and "turn him into a zombie too" but he bit too hard and it got infected (he felt SO bad)
really strong immune system from eating dirt as a kid? almost never gets sick -> when he does its really bad and the club lowkey thinks hes gonna die when it happens
if not working at sick mofo in epilogue i like to think he could've ended up working as a horror sfx artist
also could probably have been good at sports if he tried but he never did (plus hates jocks so)
surprisingly really knowledgeable about food and spices and stuff (maybe his mom taught him) but he HATES cooking so never does anything abiut it
watches gore and shit but would throw up immediately if he saw a major injury like that in real life
has freakishly good reflexes from his older brothers picking on him all the time
JERRY !!

THICK EYEBROWS !!!!!!!! KINDA HAS SIDEBURNS TOO !!!!!!!!!! im not normal
thin lips ..and eyebags …. plus kinda defined cheekbones make him look rlly tired all the time
hes really myopic but doesnt have glasses -> his eyes look closed all the time cuz hes always squinting trying to see 3 feet in front of him (plus his eyebrows furrow together when he does so thats why sometimes he looks like he has a unibrow) -> probably starts wearing contacts in epilogue
also literally only failed his driving test becayse of myopia SOMEONE GET THIS POOR BOY SOME GLASSES
had a tooth gap when he was younger (think that one flashback where theyre all kids) and had to wear braces for a while to fix it -> was relentlessly made fun of because of that by the club until bill got braces too and threatened to punch whoever made fun of braces again
weirdly good at finding out info about people …. stalker ass .!!!! has doxxed people he dislikes on forums occasionally -> stops doing that in epilogue but maybe finds himself accidentally stalking someones profile when on the internet and feels bad
waaayy taller than the rest of the club but has a shitty posture so he looks kinda on par with the others -> like 180cm but looks 175cm
best jawline out of all of them lowkey 😭
maybe a little unaware on physical boundaries and stuff … physical touchy guy
FRECKLES + hes probably the one wity tge least acne out of all of them cuz he would probably start picking at his pimples the minute they show up (does NOT wash his face though) -> acne scars in epilogue
greasy hair, probably washes it every 2 weeks (has rlly nice smelling shampoo when he does wash it though) -> washes his hair more frequently in epilogue (REALLY soft)
very blunt when he has strong opinions about something but otherwise has ZERO backbone. will immediately change his mind on something if he wants to impress someone
a sagittarius because he looks like he'd have a birthday in december plus weird al yankovic song your horoscope for today (listen to it right now.)
very clammy sweaty hands and HATES it, sensory nightmare, always fidgeting with the hem of his sweater to dry them out
autistic .!!! plus has rlly bad anxiety probably
and fomo. oh lord he has so much fomo -> probably one of the biggest reasons he still hangs out with the club tbh -> plus has really bad codependency and abandonment issues maybe? cannot do something by himself he has to have someone with him
gets his ears pierced in the epilogue and LOVES it, too scared to get more though because it was really painful
is a pretty good artist, could've become a professional easily but was more preoccupied with other stuff probably
owns a huge ginger main coone cat that bullies him around
low blood pressure
very skilled at calligraphy… most legible handwriting out of all of them
umm urrmm thats it i thinks .... i hope my vision is not too out of character .......,,,, Guh
#the eltingville club#welcome to eltingville#eltingville club#bill dickey#eltingville#josh levy#jerry stokes#eltingville fanart#pete dinunzio#headcanons#rub my bellaayyyy#hemi art
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——— ౨ৎ ⊹ ࣪ ˖
“you’re not listening.” your unamused expression is prominent.
percy shrugs and rubs his hands over the skin of your waist, stopping at the very bottom of your bra and toying with the fabric.
“no, I am not.”
you slap his head. “listen! or I’m putting my shirt back on.”
his hands freeze and fall back down to your waist, remaining there and allowing you to finish what you were saying— which he had not heard an absolute word of.
but it wasn’t his fault your tits were looking at him.
or it was. he was the one who had taken your shirt off before.
but that’s beside the point.
“so, as I was saying… I decided that if I got the eighty dollar bunny then that’s the equivalent of a book trilogy. but if I bought the thirty dollar peanut I would—”
“you bought a peanut? mine isn’t good enough for you anymore.”
you sigh and close your eyes to remain composed. when you reopen them you take percy’s head into your hands and place a kiss to his forehead.
you pull away to see his smile. you remove your hands and place them back on his shoulders. “so, the peanut was thirty dollars which means I could only buy one book. but I really— I wanted the peanut more than the bunny. so I bought the bunny, the peanut, and four books.”
“interesting. how much did you spend in all?”
“one hundred thirty five dollars.”
“I’m gonna be broke within a month!”
you tug his hair. “then stop forcing me to spend your money instead of my own!”
percy’s hold on your waist tightens and he pulls you closer into him. “but I like when you spend my money!”
“then I don’t want to hear you complain.” he makes a zipper motion over his mouth. you nod once in agreement. “thank you.” you kiss his forehead again.
when you pull back his hands find the edge of your bra again, tugging it lightly. “can I take this off now, sweet girl?”
“you have a problem, do you know that?”
“only when it comes to you, sweet girl.”
you sigh and throw your arms up in defeat. “go ahead, perseus.”
too eager, that boy.
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but I knew you | j.potter [part three]
note : Thank you all so much for the love and support on the two previous parts! I am still trying to get back into writing and getting my old style back but it is still a work in progress. Really happy you lots enjoyed them and are asking to even be tagged in the next parts!
warning : more angst but some cute moment as well, Remus is an mvp on this one I love him, mentions of blood and injury, violence, there's a nasty fist fight, a brief moment of a man being a man and some misogyny.
James gets into an accident during a Quidditch game and develop amnesia - he doesn't remember the past 2 and a half years, and he currently has the mentality of fourth-year James. This doesn't bode well for you that your boyfriend of 2 years now currently thinks he's still in love with Lily.

└——————— - [ 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 : 𝚃𝚊𝚢𝚕𝚘𝚛 𝚂𝚠𝚒𝚏𝚝 - 𝙲𝚊𝚛𝚍𝚒𝚐𝚊𝚗 ]. +
It's been weird. Actually, that's an understatement. It has been absolute hell ever since that Quidditch accident, no one knew how to act around either you and James.
By now, the whole school knew and with how the school is quick to absorb gossip like greedy sponges, it was quick to be the topic of every conversation.
Girls would throw pitiful looks your way, and it grated your nerves to receive them. You didn't need their pity, not even one bit.
"I don't know how much more of this I can take," you groan into your hands, pressed into your closed eyes. "This fucking sucks."
Remus gives you a tight-lipped smile that might as well be empty. "How about retracing your steps?"
You frown, taking your palms off your face and turning to Remus who began putting his book down.
"I'll talk to him, I'll convince him to practise with you."
"Practise what?"
"Remembering. You should know the core memories you two have made throughout your relationship, just recreate those moments with him," Remus shrugged. "Might work."
"It might not." You shake your head, giving up hope before it could even exist.
Remus makes a face at you. "This is so not you, you're not a quitter, ____."
A pregnant pause.
You heave a sigh. "Okay," you give in. "Bloody hell."
.
You watch as James casually approach you. Same mannerisms and all that but he feels unbelievably strange, you almost didn't recognize him with how he regarded you so casually. Curtly nodding and crossing his arms.
"Moony convinced me to humor this," he huffs. "Where are we off to?"
You bite the inside of your cheek, willing yourself to go through with this despite not wanting to do this. This was the only solution that made somewhat sense, and it was ultimately better than waiting it out while you try to act like the problem did not exist.
You click your tongue. "Where you first fell for me," you answered. "In your own words, of course. A bit cheesy for me, in all honesty."
He chuckles at that and you gesture him to follow you which he did. He walks beside you, not too far but also not close enough. You have to constantly remind yourself that it's not his fault. If he had met your James, he would've been pissed at himself right this very moment.
You didn't mind the distance much and continued your strides to the spot. You both pause, he looks around the empty hall with a frown.
"Sirius said he'd make sure the hall was clear for us." You tell him.
How he made it happen doesn't matter to you, but you had a few guesses. No time to dwell on that when he turned to look at you expectantly. You scan him, before speaking again.
"What do you feel when you look at me?"
"Honestly?" he licks his bottom lip with hesitation. "Nothing."
Wow, ouch. Okay.
You were about to speak again when he continued - "At first, because I really don't know you. . .but the more I look, the longer I stare at you - I have this urge to hold you."
That brought a small smile out of you. "Seems my James is still in there somewhere."
He didn't react to that, pretending he didn't feel a clutch in his heart at that. You shake your head, forcing the smile away and turned to the very spot you two stood on that day.
"Muggles science did say that love is in the head, not exactly the heart," you tell him with a bitter chuckle. "I guess you don't abide by that law. You still feel for me, despite not knowing me. I just badly need you back."
You can only imagine how much harder this is on him. While it absolutely hurt to be forgotten by your lover, you can empathize with his situation. How confused he must be to be a 14-year-old in the body of a 16-year-old James.
"How does it feel?" You ask him.
"Weird," he answered truthfully. "I feel weird. Like every inch of my body is on fire but it doesn't hurt. Uncomfortably warm."
You cannot even begin to image what that feels like. "I'm sorry, by the way. I have been too focused on the fact you forgot about me to even realize you lost a whole lot more than that."
He blinks. Your voice was comforting, and your words were kind. He still does not know how he pulled away from Lily, but he can see the appeal of why he fell for you. Your words, how you carried yourself and that confidence that oozed out of your every action without trying hard.
"I'm sorry too." was all he said.
You cleared your throat. "This is where I slapped you, by the way." You laugh humourlessly at your own words. "You had the absolute audacity to imply that you'd buy me, what a right git you were."
You look at him and see him blink in confusion, "What's your last memory before waking up in the infirmary?"
He gives you a huff, dropping his shoulder and walking to the wall with a wide open window. He sat there, leaning against the stone wall with his head hanging low. "I remember just returning to Hogwarts, I had asked Li- Evans out again during the welcome dinner, got rejected again - and I went to bed after arm wrestling with Pads."
You followed him, sitting across him while listening attentively. "Then I woke up, and here I am."
A moment of silence passed, you just watched him. You can see the gears turning in his head, a faraway look in his eyes as he gets lost in his thoughts. "It must be extremely hard for you too."
James nod. "It is, because I can see that I'm hurting you - and the lads, but I can't force it out of me. I feel a bit unwanted."
You scoot closer, hesitantly putting a hand on his shoulder. "That's not true, we're all just struggling as well. You don't know it yet, but Sirius - he could never unwant you, you two are basically soulmates and I am the thirdwheel."
"Does something happen? To him?"
You nod when he lifts his head to look at you. "Yes, but that's not until you both are 15."
"When do you come in?"
You smile bitterly. "Today. The second day during our fourth year, I enter the story."
James' jaw dropped. "I remember everything - until exactly the day I meet you?"
You laugh humourlessly, nodding to his words. "What a cruel joke."
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"How's it been?" Remus asked, settling beside you on the couch. You had a book propped on your lap and was getting lost in the words when he pulled you out and grounded you back to reality. "You've been at it for a week. What timeline are you in now?"
"Just about finishing up fifth year," you answer him casually. "He's compliant, and behaved. Would you believe that? He's behaved, around me."
Remus laughs. "That's good at least, he's willing to try."
"He said he felt unwanted by us," you tell him, watching his jaw drop. "We got too busy minding the fact he forgot."
"Merlin - " Remus runs a hand through his hair. "Bloody hell."
"He's 14, right now and he must feel so scared to be in this familiar - yet strange environment he has ended up in. I didn't wanna tell you, he confided in me but I can see how he's been struggling throughout the week. He needs his brothers too, not just me."
Remus slowly nod along your words. "You're right. We thought to give you some space. Pads is still in shock and Peter is just depressed at this point."
You heave a sigh. "We'll get him back, no worries."
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"____!" You turn to the voice that called you, you spy a familiar boy clad in black and yellow uniform run up to you. He had on a bright grin as he greeted you, a bookbag hanging off his shoulder. "Glad I finally caught up to you."
You frown at him. "You've been looking for me, McLaggen?"
"Yes," he nods and gestures to you. "But you've been with Potter this whole week."
You blink in confusion. "Of course I will, he's my boyfriend." You answer him bluntly, but he only shrugged at that with a tilt of his head.
"Whole castle knows by now that he's forgotten 'bout you, I thought you two had broken up."
You felt an eye twitch at that. "Nevermind that, why were you looking for me."
"Was hoping I could ask you to be my study partner, for the upcoming Ancient Runes quiz. You are pretty much a genius at it, wouldn't hurt to be tutored by you."
You cross your arm. He's never once had the courage to approach you before ever since James took an interest in you. He introduced himself so confidently when you transferred and even offered to show you around the castle - that was until James entered the picture and everyone steered clear.
No one wants to mess with the Marauders.
"Why would I do that for you?" You ask, having nothing to gain from his proposal whatsoever. He's demanding you help him study in a subject you excel in without even offering anything in return.
McLaggen flashes you a bright grin. "I'll treat you on a date on the next Hogsmeade trip."
You scoff at his words. "A date? You think I'd accept tutoring you for a bloody date? I'm taken, in case you forgot."
He laughs. "Your boyfriend doesn't even remember you, babe. I'm your next best bet, he's technically just a little boy right now, yeah? What age is he mentally? 12?"
"He lost two years, he's 14, you dumbass." You corrected him.
He shrugged. "Don't matter now, does it? He's just a little boy right now, you'll do well with a man."
You hold back a laugh at his words. "You think you're a man then?" You step back, providing more space between you and not once did his height intimidate you throughout the exchange as he address you while looking down. "You are a pig. Take your offer elsewhere, you disgust me."
"____-" he grabs your arm as you turn to leave but another voice also called out your name.
"____!" You turn to find James fast approaching, the rest of his gang trailing after him. "What's going on here?"
You tug at your arm and he finally released it. You fix your posture and glare at McLaggen, "We were just talking." you tell him and can see the anger bubbling in him with the expression on his face.
You turn to meet Sirius' eyes and gesture to James, he acted fast, grabbing him by the arm. "Calm down, mate. She said they were just talking."
"Didn't look like talking to me." James spat.
McLaggen stepped back, raising both hands in surrender. "My bad, mate. You don't even remember ____ anymore, the least you could do is let someone else have her."
You felt your jaw drop at his words, talking about you like you were an item to posses and freely give awya - like you had no say in the matter and you couldn't even process a reaction to his vile words when James swung for his face.
His fist colliding with McLaggen's face and he drops to the ground on the impact. He would have jumped on him as well if Sirius didn't pull him back with Remus who were desperately trying to calm him down.
"The fuck?" McLaggen hissed, clutchinng his now bruised cheek in disbelief. "Fuckin' hell!"
You turn to James, and it all happened so fast. The two boys lost grip on him and he slipped out - jumping on McLaggen to throw more punches but this time, the other boy got to react and returned the favor.
The two exchanged blows while the other three boys tried their best to pull them apart, you were only grateful that the halls are empty or this would be another spectacle for the whole castle.
You run to them, figuring that the three boys' attempts were not working - but it was too late. McLaggen pulled something out of the bookbag he carried - an ink bottle? And smacked James right across the head with it.
"Prongs?" Sirius called out to James who dropped after the hit, McLaggen appeared shocked at the result of his actions. He threw away the bottle and scrambled to get up.
"James!" You called out and dropped to his side, Merlin - he's out. He's breathing but he is out. The hit must have gotten him good. You angrily turn to see McLaggen running away from the scene. You can deal with him later, you turned your focus to the passed out James. "Bloody fuck, not again."
to be continued . . .
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𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐉𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐎𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐚 𝐡𝐜𝐬
❥ pairing: Jenna Ortega x fem!Reader
❥ wc: 2,2k
❥ warnings: long, rambly, and self-indulgent 🫶 no actual ending to wrap this up, will just come back to this when I get new ideas to add.
Jenna is spoiled rotten, and it is no one else's fault than yours. She wants your touch, warmth, kisses, and attention—and she knows she will always get it.
Jenna tries not to be so needy (not really), but now that you’re hers to claim, she can’t help but want to be in your bubble constantly. That girl would live in your skin if she could.
Jenna is highly affectionate. Not only is she hungry for your affection, but she also freely gives you hers. You name it: hugs, kisses, cuddles, bites, licks (she is particularly fond of licking your face and biting you wherever she can reach, for some reason). If it means she will touch you somehow, she will do it.
Velcro girlfriend, in other words.
If Jenna lies somewhere, she calls you over to lie on her. Your weight is like a heated blanket; she loves playing with your hair and caressing your face as you drift to sleep on her chest or soft tummy. It’s a good way to bond when she's reviewing a script or reading a book.
She has a habit of coming up behind you and nuzzling into your back, prompting you to turn and scoop her into your arms.
Height difference is a huge plus! Jenna loves to be smothered by you when you hold her, to drown in your fragrance and melt into the safety of your embrace.
She is very touchy. Not only affectionate-touchy but “will grope you as she passes by you with no particular purpose than to make you squirm” touchy.
She loves to play with your hands. No reason; she loves how your hand envelopes hers and your fingers fit together like puzzle pieces.
Not a napper, or rather, was not a napper until she discovered paradise in your arms. Now, being held by you triggers an instant rush of oxytocin and melatonin that, coupled with the thump of your heartbeat and your warmth, knocks her out within minutes.
Jenna is kind of a baby when sick, but it's your fault. She wasn't like that until you came in and started babying her. She used to be independent and treat her illnesses in a very mechanical and detached way because it was nothing more than a setback from work. Now, she can't imagine having a cold and spending her quarantine without your tender touches.
Same thing when she’s PMSing. The more time you spend caring for her, the better, quicker she feels.
Jenna has an insane staring problem—always has and always will. She can’t help but stare at you like you hung up all the stars in the sky; she’s so lucky she has you. Her adoration is ever present in her eyes. It’s one of the reasons it’s so tricky for her to have you around when she’s supposed to be focused. Her giddiness and the sparkle in her eyes is impossible to hide.
Don’t get her started on your smell—she’s one of those freaky women who inhales you any chance she gets. She loves the way you smell so much. It’s like her entire nervous system instantly relaxes whenever she catches a whiff of you.
Jenna is not huge on stereotypical nicknames. She prefers to have a few significant ones for each other that you probably come up with after an important experience or memory. Hell, she even takes inspiration from her favourite songs. However, she is partial to how “Angel” rolls off your tongue, and she will occasionally slip up with a “Babe” now and again.
Jenna lives in your clothes. The majority of your wardrobe is with her at all times. You might wonder where your favourite hoodie is just to get a photo of her lounging in it five minutes later.
“Excuse me, I believe that is mine… ? I’ve been looking for that.”
“Correct. I am also yours. :)”
Jenna is a certified yapper with you. She naturally is, but most people don’t get this version of her because she doesn’t feel uncomfortable being herself around them. You are more than happy to hear her speak her mind about any topic she can think of, finding peace in how her eyes light up and excitement laces her voice when she realises she has your undivided attention.
This woman will babble about the randomest topics, even as she drifts to sleep. It’s incredibly endearing, and she never fails to make you laugh with the strange things that endlessly pop into her pretty little head. She doesn’t even need to try to be funny most of the time; she just is.
Jenna is very supportive of you and your goals. Ideally, she wants you to travel the world with her, which is doable if you study through an online program or work a remote job.
If, due to your goals, you don’t have the availability to go with Jenna for long periods and you’re mainly doing long-distance, things get a bit more complicated. Still, Jenna is 100% invested as long as you are.
She is a terrible texter, BUT she does try for you! You can't say she doesn't. The problem is that she doesn’t typically send text messages. Instead, you receive a constant stream of photos updating you on what she’s doing, where she is, who she’s with, what she’s eating, what she’s wearing, what she’s not wearing, etc, with no follow-up. Most of the time, she sends them in faster succession than you can keep up with.
The second common way of communication between you is FaceTime. It’s simply more convenient than texting, given her lifestyle. AND she needs to see you constantly for mental health reasons.
When she does text, Jenna makes your heart swoon. She might not be the best at sending you a “Good Morning” text every day at the crack of dawn (those timezone differences have her fucked up).
Still, she never misses an opportunity to show you how much she loves and thinks of you. Sometimes, her messages are a little poem she came up with while thinking of you or a song and some lyrics she heard that remind her of you with no explanation other than “this is you <3”.
She often sends you voice notes and videos to make you smile. Hearing her lovely voice and seeing her angelic face is always a delightful surprise.
This woman is incredibly cheeky. She loves to flirt with and tease you. Sometimes, she does it to get a laugh out of you, and other times, she does it to get a rise out of you. (She gets a big head about eliciting your reaction every single time without fail.)
Jenna is not a great cook, even though she grew up eating delicious homemade meals. The main reason is that she simply doesn't have the time to hone her skills in the kitchen. Lord knows she tries, though!
When she makes something, she stares expectantly at you with those sweet doe eyes and hesitant smile, and you never have the heart to shoot down her efforts.
Despite Jenna’s chatty nature, one of the things she deeply appreciates about you and your relationship is that she takes repose in your silence. She can talk until she tires but knows that she can also exist near you quietly when she needs to without you expecting her to fill in the silence out of discomfort. Her tranquillity with you is unlike anything she’s ever felt. She cherishes those moments as much as any other because your silence is just as precious.
You are the subject of lots of photos! Jenna photographs what she loves, so roughly 30% of her storage is photos of you, while another 30% accounts for photos you’re in, like couple selfies and other lovey-dovey stuff. (The rest has been quickly overtaken by Fig.)
Jenna loves driving, but she also loves being your passenger princess because it’s peaceful sitting beside you, your thumb rubbing small circles over her thigh or her hand clasped in yours with the hum of the car lulling her into a nap.
She loves taking baths together. To melt into your body and forget the pressures of the day.
Date nights are random and spontaneous. Jenna’s schedule is too erratic most of the time for you to nail something down permanently. Regardless, they are enjoyable, a great time to bond and let the world disappear.
You both love to explore new cities and get lost together. It’s an excellent way to discover new hang-out spots and restaurants, but you also have homebody moments.
Sometimes, all you really need is to be in your bubble, sharing a warm meal, wine, and ice cream. Either way, you always laugh and make out wherever you are.
Movie nights CONSTANTLY. If they’re not your thing, then they’re simply something you do to indulge Jenna, which becomes a bonding ritual you relish.
Jenna worries about you when you’re apart from each other. She likes to be updated when you have important things going on to avoid overthinking and getting anxious for you.
You’re her madness and peace all wrapped into one, and Jenna is not shy about showing you her true colours; you get all of her, and she expects to get all of you.
Jenna is not a morning person. If she has a day free, she expects to enjoy being able to sleep in; otherwise, she wakes up cranky and glaring at everything and everyone. Nothing a long cuddle and some well-placed kisses can’t fix. Even when she wakes up for work, she stays quiet. It takes her a while to fully wake up, but by the time she gets to work, she’s usually her bubbly self again.
She’s not a big spender on herself. She is not interested in things but loves spending money on you.
Jenna low-key tries to impress you, not with her acting, because she dislikes you seeing her act, but with her outfits. You’ve never gone to her fittings because she loves to get your first reaction the day of.
She loves to make you laugh, and it's very easy for her because she's odd. She is absolutely delightful, though, and her unique sense of humour has always been one of the things you most adore about her.
She loves celebrating you in any way she can, but she prefers to do it privately and intimately. Birthdays, holidays, Valentine’s Day, National Girlfriend Day, she never forgets those dates, and she takes pride in showing you her appreciation for you. She also loves to be on the receiving end of your celebratory plans for her. You go all out and have never let her down. (Things might be becoming a bit competitive, though.)
Jenna makes you endless playlists for all sorts of events and moods, but she gets emotional when you do the same for her. It makes her feel vulnerable in the best way that you know her as well as you do.
When she’s upset, she’s not a huge talker. The main thing she needs is your physical comfort, to know that you’ll hold her and let her soften into you, and she can lose herself in your embrace because you’ll shield her from the world. She does open up eventually when she feels more regulated, but normally, she stays in your lap while you discuss her issues.
People know you’re dating. It’s easy to hide if you’re doing the long-distance thing because no one but her sees you, but when you start travelling with her, Jenna can’t hide how happy it makes her to have you around. You blend in easily with her crew, but a few detectives start putting 2+2 together and scrutinize you until she slips up. Which she does. It might be much later than expected, but it still surprises people.
Jenna is not huge on PDA because she doesn’t like sharing your thing with everyone, but that doesn’t mean that she’s good at avoiding it. She prefers to keep you and your relationship out of the spotlight because you’re precious to her, and she values your wish to keep your relationship private, but sometimes, she can’t help herself. The few photos circulating the internet where you’re holding hands or kissing are all due to the fact that she couldn’t keep her hands to herself for long enough to avoid it.
When Jenna gets anxious, she needs you. It doesn't happen often, but it does. A hug, a handhold, just you. It’s not that she expects you to automatically “fix” her; she would never burden you with that responsibility. It’s just that your presence truly is that comforting. Being around you gives her the strength to regulate herself, especially when you’re being closed in by paps or invasive fans. That foreboding feeling that triggers her to be in survival mode feels less menacing and overwhelming when you squeeze her hand or shield her from prying eyes.
Jenna is not a jealous person, but she does get jealous. She trusts you wholly and knows you would never intentionally make her jealous or disrespect her. Still, other people don’t value your relationship the same way. More often than she’d like, Jenna has had to deal with people who are so drawn to you that they’ll openly flirt with you in front of her. She begrudgingly has to admit to herself that she can’t blame people too much, though—you are remarkable and magnetic and so breathtakingly gorgeous. She understands why people want your attention so much, but damn if it doesn’t make her blood boil.
She is very playful and such a tease, but she cannot take what she dishes out for the life of her. As soon as you give her a taste of her medicine, she simply... shuts down and stares.
𝐓𝐚𝐠 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭: @freakshow2501
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Ellabs where Abby has comphet & Ellie clocks her & makes it her mission to make Abby realizes she likes girls (& Abby is extremely attracted to her & struggling to maintain her “heterosexuality” 🙂↕️🙂↕️)
I may have gone a little bit off-track from your original request, anon! This is less “Ellie makes it her mission” and more “Ellie is a dumbass who happens to be in the direct path of Abby’s downward spiral," but hopefully it’s still close to your idea. Thank you so much for the request, I loved writing it!!
Wanna Be Yours
Contents: college au, loser!Ellie, rugby captain!Abby, comphet, slow(ish) burn, platonic dellie, drugs and alcohol, Abby is having a crisis, gay panic, first times, explicit sex (a lot), light choking, dom/sub overtones (d!Ellie, s!Abby), spitting, praise wc: 5.1k (I got carried away)
It’s the hottest day of the year, and Ellie and Dina are lying out on the quad on a floral bedsheet (Dina’s), sweating, pretending to study. Well, Dina might actually be studying.
Ellie, instead, is watching the rugby captain across the quad under a cherry blossom. She’s lying on her stomach, frowning at the tiny book in her hands. (The book isn’t actually that tiny, just one of those mass market paperbacks, but the size of her hands makes it comically small). It would be sort of a breathtaking view, if not for the boyfriend beside her.
Lounging lazily in a tank top and basketball shorts.
Owen.
He slides up next to her, brushing her long characteristic braid over her shoulder. Abby shrugs him off, eyes never leaving the page.
“Let me guess.” Dina pokes her foot into Ellie’s ribs. “You’re picturing her on the floor of our dorm room in nothing but her jersey.”
“Gross. Shut up.” Ellie rolls onto her side, evading the attack.
“You’re not very good at hiding it, Els.”
Ellie just lets out a low groan, head sliding into the corner of her elbow, unable to think about anything but the heat—in more than one way.
“She has a boyfriend.” A boyfriend she clearly hates, Ellie thinks.
“And that’s such a big issue for you, right? Last semester—”
“Let’s not revisit that, please.”
“I’m just saying,” Dina says, shrugging, “you’ve been a little bit of a nightmare lately. And—” she holds up a hand to stop Ellie’s argument—”I just think you might need to work some of that shit out. And obviously, we both have eyes. She’s hot.” Her eyebrows quirk upwards, and Ellie groans.
Dina’s not wrong. She’s absolutely not wrong. It’s been months since Ellie last brought someone home. She’s been in a drought of massive proportions, bed-rotting and smoking in the dorm instead of going out, and Abby could definitely, definitely fuck her out of it.
If it weren’t for Owen.
Abby’s gaze drifts from her book for just a moment. She glances around the quad, and her eyes dart just briefly toward Ellie and Dina. But definitely toward Ellie. And then she looks decisively away, burying her face in whatever she’s reading. Not exactly the look of someone who doesn’t care if they’re caught looking.
Ellie feels a stupid, hopeful heat race through her stomach.
“There’s one other problem,” Ellie says.
“Mhm?” Dina’s not really listening at this point, highlighting something in her textbook.
“She actually hates my guts.”
“Yeah, well,” she doesn’t look up, “you’re very hateable.”
——
Abby hates Ellie for a good reason. She’ll admit that. Last semester they’d been paired up for a philosophy presentation, which Ellie forgot about pretty much immediately after getting the assignment. It wasn’t her fault; she’d lost her planner down a sewer grate by complete accident.
She kept getting texts from this unknown phone number.
“Where R U???”
“Answer my text.”
“ELLIE WILLIAMS!!!”
Probably spam. Probably nothing important.
Later, she blew smoke out of her dorm room window while swiping through Tinder. Mostly for entertainment, since she rarely actually met up with anyone from there. Mostly just to get a lay of the land.
And there she was. Mirror selfie in a sports bra, braid brushed over one shoulder, definitely flexing. Half-smiling. The second photo featured her with a dog. The third was a group photo. She looked just a little bit awkward in a skin-tight silver gown and heels, a full foot taller than everyone else.
What the hell was Abby Anderson doing on lesbian Tinder?
Why did she look so fucking hot?
Ellie swiped right. They wouldn’t match, obviously.
Before she could drop her phone, the notification pinged. One new match! She stared at it in disbelief, a thick dread coiling in her stomach. That wasn’t supposed to happen. That really wasn’t supposed to happen.
Her fingers moved faster than her brain—a tactic she’d pretty much mastered over the years—typing out a message. Because this was impossible, and a little bit terrifying, and she was not going to miss out on this opportunity.
“Wyd tonight?” Slick, forward, nonchalant.
Abby replied almost immediately.
“Our philosophy assignment.”
Her heart sank. Then the second message came through.
“Come over. Right now.”
She couldn’t exactly ignore it at this point. Still high and half-dazed, Ellie put on a clean pair of jeans and grabbed her backpack, and headed for Abby Anderson’s dorm.
If she’d expected anything besides a near-silent, brutally awkward study session, her hopes were quickly squashed. Abby did not mention the Tinder match. The next day, she was blocked anyway. The next week, Abby was dating Owen. The rest was history.
—-
But Abby had been on lesbian Tinder. She had matched with Ellie. Whether that was a near-sociopathic ploy to get her to follow through on her end of the assignment, or some kind of genuine interest, Ellie isn’t sure. She does have her suspicions.
She’s definitely not stalking Abby, she explains to Dina. She just happens to run into her kind of all over the place. Ellie’s rarely at the gym, but sometimes she’s skating outside while Abby is lifting. She’s sometimes holed up in the library—a place she would usually never find herself—while Abby studies. Sometimes she happens to be smoking at the bus stop when Owen picks Abby up from her dorm.
Owen.
Abby’s not into him. She can tell. Some people aren’t into PDA, but Abby really doesn’t like it when he goes for her hand on the way to class, or kisses her outside of the dorms. Most of the time she seems genuinely annoyed with him. Then again, Abby seems to be annoyed with pretty much everyone.
Except Dina. Because Dina is friendly with everyone, and now that she’s caught on about how Ellie is definitely not stalking her, definitely not pining in an uncharacteristically-Ellie way, she’s determined to grease the wheels. And now she has an invite to an off-campus rugby party that Abby will definitely be at, and she’ll be damned if she doesn’t drag Ellie with her.
“I’m not going,” Ellie complains. “That’s not my crowd.”
“Who exactly is your crowd, then?” Dina asks, applying a tasteful amount of lip gloss. She doesn’t really need it. “The stoners?”
“Well, you, for one,” Ellie says, crossing her arms. She’s wearing a flannel over her tank top, and jeans that Dina says are torn in all the right places. “And the stoners.”
“I’m sure there’ll be plenty of weed there, dumbass,” Dina says. She grabs Ellie’s hand tightly and drags her out the door.
——
The frat house is filled with smoke and sweaty bodies, and Ellie is four shots (and a couple of bong rips) deep. She lost Dina to the dance floor almost immediately. Despite Dina’s best efforts to yank her out of the safe periphery, Ellie hangs back against the precarious china cabinet in the dining room. She hasn’t even seen Abby once, and is pretty certain this whole thing is a bust.
“Ellie, get out here!” She can make Dina out, just barely, poking her head in from the garage at the end of the hall. “Beer pong!”
“I’m good!” Ellie calls back, aware of the kitchen-dwellers turning to look at her. She gives an awkward nod.
“What? I can’t hear you. Just come out here!”
She groans. At least she'll be doing something with her hands. And she is, shockingly, very good at beer pong.
She pushes down the hall—”sorry”—colliding with sweaty jock bodies, feeling more than a little off balance in the dim light. Someone turns around unexpectedly and she wheels, catching herself against a door.
The door opens.
The person on the other side of the door catches her. Throws her backward. Kind of hard. She hits the wall.
She can’t speak, partly because of the air that’s just been punched out of her lungs, and partly because she’s staring at Abby Anderson in a diabolically-tight t-shirt that’s riding up her hips. And her hair is down.
“Jesus,” Abby winces, recoiling.
Her hair is down. Panic button! Ellie has never seen her with her hair down, and she thinks she probably never will again, because she’ll probably die right here on the spot.
“Why are you fucking everywhere?” Abby says through clenched teeth.
Guilt wells up, a rotten feeling in her gut. “Dina invited me,” she says, stupidly.
Abby squeezes her eyes shut, combing a hand through her hair. “Shit. That’s… not what I meant.” Her face is flushed, and she looks incredibly, incredibly hot right now.
Then Owen squeezes through the door. Fucking Owen.
He maneuvers around Abby with a hand at her hip, which she draws away from. He looks between her and Ellie. He shrugs. “Okay, well, I’ll be around.”
Suddenly the disheveled hair and the pushed-up shirt make a lot more sense. They’re also a lot less hot. Ellie feels that sticky, wrenching sensation she felt when her first real crush confessed to her that she’d kissed a boy, expecting Ellie to be happy for her. That delusional belief that she would be chosen, shattered.
She hates the way it clings to her. She has to shrug it off. So when Owen’s gone, she decides to twist the knife—just a little. “Sheesh. Bad time?”
Abby squints at her. She looks like she’s trying to melt Ellie with her mind.
Her silence forces a nervous laugh from Ellie. “I mean, that’s freshly-fucked hair if I’ve ever seen it.”
Abby pinches her temples. “God. I need another drink.”
She pushes past Ellie, and Ellie expects it to end there. But when Abby reaches the end of the hall, she looks back. She jerks her head toward the kitchen, and Ellie can’t really make out the emotion on her face. The meaning, though, is clear. Come on.
So Ellie follows her. Lets Abby fill her red solo cup, and then her own. And then she’s following her outside into the dark backyard.
She sits on damp grass. It’s much quieter, the sounds of the party muffled behind them. Abby drains her cup like she’s afraid it’ll run away from her.
“You good?” Ellie asks. What an awful lead-in. Clearly, she’s not. But Ellie doesn’t know where she stands. Doesn’t know if she’s even supposed to be asking.
Abby just stares ahead, apparently fascinated by the broken trampoline that’s tipped against the garage. “I wasn’t fucking him.”
Ellie chokes on her drink.
Before she can come up with a smooth rebuttal—and really, what can you say to that?—Abby turns to look at her, eyes wild and dark in the moonlight. “Are you aware that you’re ruining my life?”
Ellie just stares, the words not registering. The idea that she is on Abby’s mind in any capacity—aside from the hate your guts variety—slaps her across the face. It tilts her off balance.
“Abby, what?” It’s the first time she’s said Abby’s name to her face. It just slips. And then she’s laughing, laughing way too hard, because Abby’s expression is so genuine and hurt and confused. “What are you talking about? Because of the… philosophy thing?”
“Not because of that. Idiot.” It’s cutting, but there’s a shred of warmth there under the surface. Something else that Ellie can’t quite recognize, but that grabs her in the stomach and starts to twist.
Ellie realizes how close they’re sitting together. She puts a hand out against Abby’s thigh, mostly to steady herself, mostly to get some distance, but it definitely does not have that effect.
Because she feels Abby’s muscles tighten. She looks down at the hand and back up. Ellie’s pretty sure she couldn’t drag herself away if she tried.
“Um—” Ellie’s voice catches in her throat.
Abby kisses her.
Or maybe she kisses Abby. She’s not sure, and it doesn’t matter. It’s soft and awkward and tentative, like neither of them can fully believe that it’s happening.
Fuck it.
Ellie slips a hand around the back of Abby’s neck, fingers rushing through long hair, pulling her closer. Kisses her harder. Kisses her like she wants to keep her there. Abby’s lips part and she lets out a soft sound, somewhere between a gasp and a moan.
They break apart. Magnets facing the wrong way. Ellie waits for her to recoil, waits for all the explaining—she’s heard it all before. I don’t really like girls, actually. I’m sorry, this was a mistake. I don’t know what I was thinking.
Instead, Abby stands up. She’s not looking at Ellie. “I think I need to leave.”
Ellie slowly pries herself off the ground, her skin racing with static. “Yeah, okay.”
“Gonna get an Uber,” Abby mutters, taking out her phone. It’s dead. “Fuck. Give me yours.”
Ellie doesn’t really think about it. She doesn’t try to make sense of it. Because Abby is booking a ride from her phone, and she is apparently coming with her.
They sit on the curb in silence. Ellie tries to think of the least inflammatory thing to say. “So, Owen—”
“Please don’t talk to me about Owen right now.”
“Mm. Got it.” Ellie’s trying really hard not to smile. She shouldn’t feel happy that Abby is having a full on crisis right now. The same Abby that just kissed her and doesn’t want to talk about her boyfriend. The same Abby she’s riding back to campus with. She’s trying and failing. “I just wanna make sure I’m not being, like, a homewrecker or something.”
Abby looks at her hard, almost glaring. “Do you think I’m going to sleep with you?”
“I mean—”
“That’s presumptuous.”
“I didn’t say that.”
“You’re thinking it.”
She can’t really deny that.
“I know you’re the… ‘hit it and quit it’ type,” Abby says.
Ellie laughs, a little hurt. “I’m sorry, who told you that?”
Abby shrugs. “It’s known.”
“Fuck you.” Ellie leans into her, just briefly, a playful nudge. She feels Abby shiver against her. “For the record, I wasn’t really expecting anything.” Half lie and half truth. “I am down, though.”
Abby barks a little laugh. “You’re down?”
Ellie rolls her eyes. “Okay, just, check where the Uber is.”
——-
The ride back is just long enough for Ellie to start to panic. Abby is absolutely silent beside her, thigh flush with Ellie’s thigh, until they reach campus and she starts to give the driver directions to her dorm.
Her dorm.
Oh, fuck.
Abby doesn’t want to sleep with her. She’s made that pretty clear.
So why the fuck is she here?
They get out, and Ellie’s feeling way too sober. It’s quiet on campus after 2 a.m. Abby thanks the driver and swings the door shut.
Abby’s dorm looks pretty much the way she expected. Books stacked in organized heaps, a weight set next to her bed, family photos. Clothes strewn around, though nowhere near as bad as Ellie’s side of her room with Dina. A cork board with vacation photos, pictures of friends, surfing, pictures of dogs. Ellie looks for too long.
Abby settles heavily onto her bed, just sits there quietly.
Ellie paces, trying to release some nervous energy. In reality, she’d like to be jogging. She’d like to be full sprint away from this place, and she’d also rather be throwing herself at Abby on the bed, but she does neither. She picks up a rugby trophy that’s sitting on Abby’s desk. It’s heavier than she expects.
“Huh. Cool.”
“Sit down.”
Ellie sits beside her on the bed, legs swinging. She doesn’t dare look at the athlete beside her when she asks: “Abby, why am I here?”
The question hangs between them. Abby sucks in a breath, then resituates herself—legs crossed, facing Ellie on the bed. Ellie, reluctantly, turns to face her.
She’s not sure what she’s afraid of. Abby is the one who kissed her. Who confessed some deeply-repressed interest that Ellie genuinely had no clue about. But now this all feels very real, and the warmth twisting in Ellie’s gut isn’t just arousal. It’s something much more dangerous.
Abby looks at her, eyes are wide and a little bit wet—but clear. “Kiss me again.”
She says it half asking, half demanding. And Ellie doesn’t need to be told twice.
This time there's heat. Urgency. Ellie grabbing at anything she can reach, yanking Abby closer. She’s aware of the desperate sounds that slip out of her, and the more grunting, wounded sounds Abby returns.
Abby isn’t hesitant anymore. This time, she means it.
They both tip backwards, and Abby’s head connects with the headboard with a heavy thunk.
“Shit,” she winces, and Ellie thinks she looks insanely cute with her eyes scrunched up and her lip between her teeth.
They’re both giggling, some of the tension diffused. Both still panting and close, but actually looking at each other now. Actually seeing.
Abby, with her defenses down. That’s the most terrifying thing Ellie has seen tonight.
Abby’s hands slip under the hem of Ellie’s t-shirt, just barely, and rest on her hips. She looks at her searchingly, and Ellie waits, gives her the chance for the thought to work its way to the surface.
“Take this off. Please,” she says, flushing at her own request.
Look at her, asking for what she wants. Ellie can’t help but grin. She also can’t help but notice the hungry way Abby eyes her as she pulls her shirt over her head. She’s wearing a black sports bra underneath—nothing fancy—but Abby looks like she could eat her.
Because she’s feeling a little bit cocky, Ellie scoots back on the bed and slips off her jeans too. Tosses them somewhere on the floor. She sits there, all long legs and taut muscles that can’t compare to Abby’s.
Abby’s eyes make meticulous work of every inch of skin, like she’s afraid it’s the last time she’ll see it. They settle between her thighs, on Ellie’s black panties.
“Those too.”
“Seriously?” Ellie scoffs, but she’s already up off the bed. “Are you asking me to strip for you, Anderson? I think that’s a little bit unfair.”
Abby rolls her eyes. “Fine.” She reaches over her shoulder and yanks at the collar of her t-shirt, peeling it off in one easy movement. All Ellie can do is stare. And salivate. And try not to look like a rabid animal.
She’s wearing a tan bra, a little bit worn and not at all sexy, which wouldn’t work on anyone but Abigail Anderson. It barely registers, because Ellie is too busy taking in the freckled curves of her muscles—the rise and fall of her collarbones with each shallow breath, the cruel definition of her abs, and worst of all—the thin trail of blonde hair that starts at Abby’s belly button and disappears below her waistband.
Now that is truly unfair.
Ellie strips off her bra and panties without much fanfare. She lets Abby look at her, but not long enough that she feels like some kind of specimen. Long enough, though, that as Ellie crawls back onto the bed, she knows Abby makes out the sheen of wetness between her thighs.
Ellie nudges Abby to sit against the headboard—then settles into her lap. Abby makes a low, involuntary sound as Ellie’s wet cunt makes contact with the seam of her pants. She looks startled, wild, all of her taking on a pinkish tone.
“I’ve never done this. I don’t know—”
“M-don’t care.” Ellie pulls her into a deeper kiss. This one is selfish. This time taking from Abby exactly what she needs. More tongue. More need. She pulls a low moan from Abby’s throat.
Abby’s hands find her waist, and her fingers sink in, hard enough to bruise. As she grinds down, Abby pulls her closer. Rocks her hips against Ellie’s.
It makes her lose her breath. Like missing the last step. Like falling headfirst without seeing the bottom.
They move like this, near silent aside from quiet gasps, the warmth of Abby’s tongue on her throat, until Ellie needs more from her. She works one of Abby’s hands free—with some difficulty—and guides it up to her breast.
Abby squeezes, palm wide and hot. Her breath comes quicker against Ellie’s neck. She runs her thumb over Ellie’s nipple, and Ellie jolts with arousal.
“Need you to…” she shifts her hips, offering better access, and guides Abby’s hand downward.
Abby looks at her, almost pleading, and Ellie nods. Yes, there.
Eyes wide and fluttering, her fingers dip with a tentative clumsiness. When they slip through Ellie’s heat, her face hardens with concentration—watching herself like she’s studying some kind of mathematical diagram.
“Abby, look at me.”
“Mhm.”
“Don’t think so hard.” She smiles, and the smile is quickly wiped away when Abby’s fingers find her clit, smoothing it between them.
Ellie collapses, open mouth on Abby’s shoulder. “Fuck. Yeah, like that.”
Slowly, Abby finds her pace—sliding down to her entrance, almost pressing inside, then withdrawing. Two fingers press even circles into her clit. She’s listening for Ellie’s breaths, finding the rhythm that makes her stiffen and whimper.
“That's fucking— that's really good, Abs.”
The praise sends a shudder through her, pressing up against Ellie's body, her fingers slipping carelessly.
Oh.
Ellie rolls her hips into Abby, hard. Her hand finds Abby’s neck, her jaw, pinning her back against the headboard. She can feel the heavy thud of Abby’s pulse against her fingertips, and she squeezes, just there, just enough.
“You’re so fucking good for me, Abby.”
Abby is flushed, sweat-slicked, lips slack. The moan that escapes her brings Ellie right to the edge.
“Gonna make me—” She’s doing the work now, and she doesn’t care, her pace frantic, her wetness slicking Abby’s palm and wrist.
Abby moans like she’s the one getting fucked. She moans just watching Ellie come apart, feeling her twitch and clench, feeling her start to shake and slow.
They breathe into each other, quiet, for several minutes. Ellie’s thighs start to ache from straddling Abby’s wide hips, and she rolls herself off, collapsing to one side. She just looks up at her, head tipped back, lips swollen, fingers stroking her neck where Ellie’s had been.
“Did I hurt you?”
“Hurt—? No.” And then she’s laughing, even though she’s still catching her breath. “Did you think you were hurting me?”
Ellie’s just a little bit offended. “Not, like, very much.”
Abby just shakes her head. “You’ll have to do better than that.”
Maybe she will. She’s tired but not satisfied, because Abby’s still half-dressed, and she would torture herself for all eternity if she wasted this one opportunity to see Abby naked. That, and she guesses that Abby is far less composed than she looks under those tight canvas pants.
Once she works them off of her and settles between Abby’s thighs, Ellie’s breath comes short.
“Holy fuck, Abby. This is what you've been hiding from me?” It's not like she’s never seen a pussy before. Nothing could surprise her anymore. Except, maybe, this. Tight blonde curls that Ellie could bury herself in frame thick lips, already shining and parted. The pink tip of her swollen clit peeking out. It twitches under her breath, and Ellie just about cums on the spot.
She can tell Abby’s nervous being observed like this—watching Ellie carefully, lip pinched between her teeth. Trying hard not to move. “Are you just gonna look, or are you going to do something?”
“Impatient,” Ellie teases. She runs her hands over Abby’s inner thighs, making her flex and sigh. “You need to relax.”
She can’t take her eyes off that pulsing bead. She does something she’s never done before, more out of impulse than any real need, because Abby is soaked already—she lets a carefully-placed droplet of spit fall from her lips onto Abby’s clit.
Abby’s hips lift from the mattress, and she actually growls. “Ellie.”
“I know.” Her voice is thick with awe. Admiration. She could do this for fucking hours. Just look. Just watch her whine and plead.
But instead of extending her torture, Ellie runs her thumb through Abby’s wetness, settling just below her clit. Withholding for a second too long. Abby is already falling apart, and it fills Ellie with a dangerous kind of warmth.
Then, so gently, her thumb circles over Abby’s clit.
Abby’s head shoots up from the bed, eyes wide, fingers taut in the bedsheets. “Fuck, Ellie—!”
“Yeah,” Ellie chuckles lightly, lowering herself until she feels Abby’s warmth against her skin, “I know.”
She loses any commitment she had to teasing the moment her tongue is on Abby’s cunt, because she’s fucking drunk with it. The way she tastes, the way new waves of arousal keep spilling into Ellie’s mouth. The way her clit twitches against Ellie’s nose as she buries herself deeper. The way Abby’s hips fuck into her, spreading slick all over her lips and chin.
Abby’s fingers tangle in her hair, pulling hard. She’s making loud, desperate noises that will absolutely wake up anyone sleeping next door. Ellie consumes her with sloppy, messy need.
The moment Ellie sinks two fingers into her, she feels Abby start to clamp down. Those rhythmic pulses squeezing her fingers can only mean one thing.
Her grip tightens on Ellie’s hair until her scalp aches. Her thighs tense at Ellie’s ears, and for a moment, she’s actually convinced Abby might choke her to death. Not the worst way to go out, all things considered.
“Oh, fuck!” Her head slams back hard against the mattress, muscled torso arching into the air.
Ellie doesn’t want to slow down. She can’t. She fucks her until Abby is trembling and squirming and begging her to stop.
It takes several minutes before Abby can speak. Then, it all seems to hit her at once. She gives Ellie a horrified look and covers her face in her hands. “That’s never happened to me before.”
Ellie wipes her chin along Abby’s hip, then rests there. “You’ve never had an orgasm before?”
Abby peeks between fingers. “That’s not— you know what? Shut the fuck up.”
“Oh, I know what you mean.” Ellie runs a hand up her abdomen—more for her own pleasure than Abby’s—feeling those muscles ripple and twitch at her touch. “You mean nobody’s made you cum in five seconds flat.”
“I hate you.” She says it flatly, without meaning it. There’s not enough fight left in her to mean it.
“It seems like you like me a lot, actually.”
Slowly, with Ellie settling at her side, Abby starts to go slack. Too tired to keep herself taut. Ellie runs gentle fingers over her bicep and down her forearm, meeting Abby’s big hands—exploring their creases, their lines.
Her own voice sounds hoarse when she finds it. “Was that okay?”
Abby turns to look at her. The redness of activity has started to fade, and she still looks fucking beautiful. Ellie resists the urge to kiss her again.
“Ellie, I don’t know what to say.”
She could tease her a little longer. Abby Anderson, finally speechless? Must’ve rocked her world. Must’ve launched her into outer space. Ellie wouldn’t mind a little ego-stroking.
But she doesn’t, and neither of them speaks. They lie there quietly, Abby’s warmth wrapped around her, Ellie always in motion, always touching, until she drifts to sleep.
——
Ellie’s phone is buzzing when she wakes up. She squints and tries to locate it, arm dangling blindly over the edge of the bed.
Abby’s bed.
She’ll unpack that later.
Her phone lights up with seven missed calls and a barrage of texts from Dina.
“ELLIE”
“DID YOU DIE?”
“TEXT ME IF UR ALIVE xo”
“did you fuck abby anderson”
“CALL ME!!!”
She smiles, allows herself one moment of self-satisfaction, and sends a quick reply: “alive. will tell u about it later”
And then Abby is stirring, mumbling as she comes out of sleep, and Ellie feels it all come rushing again. The dizzying, off-balance lurch of everything that happened last night.
She wants to make sure Abby is still alive. Gently, she runs a hand over Abby’s cheek, half expecting her to flinch away. She doesn’t.
“You good?” Again, stupid.
“Yeah,” she says quietly.
“Do you want to talk about it?”
Abby contemplates the ceiling, massaging slow circles into her temple. “Well, you're still ruining my life.”
Ellie can’t keep herself still, not when she’s curled up so close to Abby. Not when she can make out every ridge of muscle on her chest, her stomach. Her hand dips lower, meeting soft curls. “Can I keep ruining it?”
Abby answers by parting her legs, lifting her hips a little. Inviting her with a sigh.
Ellie’s content to return to this fucking bliss, when Abby goes completely stiff. She stops.
“What time is it?”
She tries to remember what her phone screen looked like. “Like, after eight.”
“Eight?! Fuck Ellie, I have practice.”
“It's a weekend.”
“Yeah, and I still have practice.” But Abby hasn't made a move to shove her off and get out of bed, which she could definitely do.
“Maybe you should quit.”
Abby’s laugh turns into a whimper as Ellie sucks Abby’s nipple into her mouth, her back arching into the touch. “Jesus Christ.”
“You want me to stop?”
“Just…” She grabs a handful of Ellie’s hair. “Hurry up.”
Abby Anderson has just had lesbian sex for the first time in her life and is already bossing her around. Ellie's sort of proud.
“Yes, Captain.”
——
While Abby gets dressed, she lets Ellie watch her from the bed. Ellie doesn't ever, ever want to get up.
Abby tightens her braid in the mirror. Suddenly she's back to rugby captain Anderson, hard and invulnerable. But then she gives Ellie a softer look. “You're going to have to get out of my room before Nora gets back.”
Right. Abby’s mysteriously absent roommate.
“I like it here.”
The other thing is, once she leaves, this will be over. Whatever this is. And Ellie knows how this story goes. Abby goes back to Owen. Ellie gets stoned and finds some other girl to fuck. Neither of them talk about it.
“I usually grab lunch after practice. You can come, if you don’t have class or something.”
She does have class. She’s already planning to skip.
“Are you asking me on a date?”
Abby inhales sharply. “No.”
“Okay, then. Lunch, but not a date.” She rolls onto her back, soaking up the feeling of Abby’s mattress a little longer—the warm spot she’s left behind. “I can do that.”
“Please don’t be weird about this, okay?”
“I don’t know if you’ve met me, Abby, but I’ve never been weird a day in my life.”
“Okay, idiot.” Abby finishes lacing up her sneakers, then tosses Ellie’s wrinkled clothes onto the bed. “I have to go. Just… don’t touch anything while I’m gone.”
She gives Ellie a final once-over. A final what-the-fuck-have-I-just-done? And Ellie lets her, knowing it won’t be the last time.
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MY BABY, MY BABY
simon riley x reader
said it was your problem. turns out he cares a lot.
🧸ྀི request: Helloo!! I think i’ve seen your requests are open, if not just ignore me sorry! But i was wondering if you could write maybe something like, Popular/bully??!Simon x Weirdo/whimsical!reader? Like in high school or college, i think it’d be so cute!! 🐞
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cw: highschool love, fluff, bad english lol
“Simon, stop touching my elbow.”
“Not my problem.”
You wonder if you really are a masochist. Maybe Anna from chem class was right to say that. After all, who would speed through a week’s worth of assignment in two days and trick the Simon Riley into doing gardening. Some big problems you have here.
It has been an excruciating one hour since math class started and you’re not sure if you can walk out of class without having to amputate your right leg. Fucking Simon Riley. Sometimes you are amazed at the fact that you two belong to the same species with how unapologetically big he is. And he likes to remind you about that very much. His thighs are not even spread out at full length and you only have the tiniest of space left to sneak your legs in under the school table. Shoulders so wide that they brush up right against you and he’s not shy about it either. Too comfortable. One arm lazily drapes on the back of your chair while his unfocused gaze is either on you or the window, never up front where all the materials are written. But that is one thing you won’t judge. You don’t find any silver of joy in this too.
The bell rings just in time for you to realize he has used up your only eraser pen. Shaking it violently in one hand, a scowl quickly appears on your face as you speak:
“This is the THIRD one this week, Riley!”
“Your fault for just putting it there. And you didn’t say anything.”
“You should have asked! And just so you know, I’d say no. Now go and buy me another one!”
“Never shut up, do ya?”
With a heavy sigh, Simon pushes himself to stand up like a martyr and promptly heads out of class to the school canteen. You begin to prepare for the next lesson too. Piling books and notes into their rightful place back into the bag. Yours and his. He never asks or forces you to do any of it. It just feels right.
Your rhythmic routine got interrupted by the sounds of many footsteps headed towards your table.
“Tell me what did you do to him, fucking slut.”
“Get the fuck off my table, Anna.”
“Don’t act dumb. I know you let him fuck you routinely because there is no way he would hang around a bitch with a body that my grandma had ten days before she died.”
Letting out a sigh just like Simon earlier, you put the book on the table with unnecessary force.
“Maybe he would if you stop harassing him online and acting like him breaking off with you over you sucking a random guy that you accidentally invited to your grandma’s funeral is unreasonable.”
Anna was about to say something when she noticed Simon came back and quietly mouthed to you: “Tell him to text me.”. You only roll your eyes.
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Someone could cut off four of your limbs right now and you would thank them. Everything feels numb and sore when you dig, plant and water for 3 hours non-stop, not to mention all the cleaning that follows. This hard work is proof of your unhonorable title - Leader of Garden Club. If you could call two people a club that is.
Simon doesn’t seem to be too affected. He is more annoyed than tired. As usual.
“ ‘M goin’ for a smoke. Don’t follow me or you’ll end up coughing like last time.”
The only response he gets is a glare coming from you sitting on the ground, dirt all over and legs sprawl out to accommodate the aching numbness. You swear you hear him let out a small laugh under his breath before finally wanders off downstairs. You banned him from smoking in the garden last time.
This fucking garden.
It wasn’t supposed to be your problem. It was just a promised close-to-nature place printed in the ridiculously green leaflet the previous Garden Club leader waved excitedly in your face. Too bad she’s off to do whatever better things to witness what the garden of Eden has been reduced to. The club was already failing and the realization hit too little too late when she placed a firm hand on your shoulder, the graduation hat threatened to slip off her messy hair and promoted you to club leader with a warm smile. Now it is your job to find the next victim.
The nearby church bell chiming reminds you of how late it has gotten. After locking the door firmly, you descend down from the school rooftop to find Simon leaning against the dilapidated wall, a cigarette held in place by two lazy fingers.
“You hungry?”
“What?”
“Fuckin’ hell, woman.”
“Shhh, just get my order right.”
He has been repeating your order for almost five minutes. I didn’t say anything about getting pickles. No Simon, absolutely no tomatoes. Bend down more I can’t reach your ear-
You hand your cash to Simon and go off to secure a spot. In the corner, full AC, road view? Perfect.
He arrived with a tray not long afterwards. After that, strictly chewing and silence.
Dropping you off in front of your porch in a dimly lit street, Simon hands over your school bag that was previously nested in the front of his motorcycle that he is definitely not old enough to drive. Still, he wears it with pride.
“Don’t forget to do my homework.”
Right. You never forget your end of the deal. You also never forget the sight of the cash that you thought you handed him earlier, are now lying unceremoniously and crumbled on top of your books in your school bag, like someone hastily shoved them back in.
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It was almost midnight when you received a text from him.
“You up?”
This is odd to say the least. Texts from him are as rare as the full moon. Thumb pressed against the message notification, you fight over in your head as to whether or not you should reply. Must be something important, maybe a last minute assignment.
“Why?”
“Wanna go out for a drink?”
“SIMON NO. WE’RE UNDERAGE.”
“Your problem.”
His headlight illuminates the stairs leading down from the front porch. You clutch your coat tighter when you step out of the comfort of your home and out into the chilling air of a freshly rained Saturday night. It’s odd not seeing him in his usual school outfit. That part of him was meant to be at school and at school only. Now it has extended its roots to different aspects of your life. Like sneaking out when your dad is on a business trip and your mom passed out drunk on the couch to go drinking illegally with your classmate.
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You feel nauseous. Maybe in a good way. Whatever that feeling is, it quickly drops to the pit of your stomach only to make the tingling warmth spread across your cheeks, straight to your beating heart. His large arm slides back onto your shoulder for the tenth time tonight (yes you counted), hand finds your arm and squeezes the flesh there. You wonder if he was prepping you up for this by draping his arm on the back of your chair back at school. You are silent throughout the whole ordeal. Eyes fixed on the juice glass on your thighs, your fingers clench tightly around the rim.
The juice glass is the consequence of your second light cocktail making your fingers so shaky that Simon had to snatch it away from you and ordered fucking juice in a bar. A puff of smoke hits (you’re not sure from who) your nostrils resulting in a coughing fit that earns a few chuckles from his friends. A pat on your cheek reassuringly.
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Later on, you find out today is his birthday. A crumbled recruitment paper with his date of birth written in that brash handwriting you can easily recognize. Sneaky little thing lays on the floor, next to his bed and lands right in your sight. The room is too dark for you to read the rest. A heavy thud, then a yank on your back - his shirt, making your back collide with Simon’s warm chest. He has just finished washing your dress in the bathroom where you threw up previously. He plans to put the dainty thing in the washing machine and give it back to you all folded nicely. But for now, he needs a good sleep. Simon reaches down to squeeze the supple flesh of your thigh. Content.
⌯⌲ buy me a coffee?
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Scumplane friendship (or maybe more?) concept where Shen Jiu is so ridiculously close to figuring out SQH’s deal with MBJ.
And SQH knows it! He knows that SQQ knows, but does SQQ know that SQH know that SQQ knows???? How far down does this go? How complicated is this situation and how much of it is specifically SQH’s fault?
And SQH can’t see a way out of it. He’s about to just jump ship, even if he has years before the main plot starts, but ultimately decides to try… something. He has a talisman/enchanted jewel or something to teleport him straight to MBJ if need be, so he decides to do something incredibly stupid for once.
He acts like it was a story.
Oh, he’s been doing that for years, technically. He knows where he is, and the plot, and his role. But he has been acting in accordance to PIDW. But now, with his back to the wall and the only option he can really see for himself is running from the sect, he takes this scenario and treats it like it’s the main plot of a book.
SQH would never be the main character! So this story is following SQQ. So you have a Shixiong who suspects his Shidi to be making deals with demons? The story can only go two ways- the Shidi is indeed suspicious or the Shidi has some other shit going on. And SQH may be indeed suspicious, but by god does he need SQQ to think he just has other shit going on.
Which is why he shows up to the Bamboo house one day, is served tea by a glaring SQQ, and then blurts out, “This Shidi would like some advice!”
SQQ: …advice. For what?
SQH, having not thought this far but always doing better in the heat of the moment:….. romantic struggles.
SQQ:………… you came to me for this?
And then something something, SQQ is a little touched that he was the one SQH came to for help, even if he now has to deal with an obviously abusive demon boyfriend. Jeez Shang-Shidi, what do you get yourself into?
(It doesn’t hurt that SQH seems to know everything that happens on the peaks and isn’t afraid to gossip with SQQ. It makes very enjoyable hangout times. And if the scum villain wants to verbally tear down someone based on that information, it is so not SQH problem)
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In Sickness or in Health
I honestly need to work on this fic more. It's so fucking funny to me. The idea that König is so down bad but Reader won't budge on her morals is hilarious to me. Will he win her over? Eventually. Is today the day? Absolutely not. Frankenstein!Konig lets me be an absolute fool on main.
Tws: sexual themes, male nudity, mentions of necrophilia
Wordcount: 1.4K
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In Sickness or in Health
“I’m telling you it’s fine.”
“I don’t want to fuck a corpse.”
“For the last time, I’m not a corpse! I’m literally alive!” he put your hand on his chest, “feel that? That’s a human being's beating heart pumping blood through my body.”
“It’s actually a pig heart.”
“A-A pig!?”
“Your old heart got damaged,” you shrugged.
König looked down at where the stitch mark lay under his shirt. He poked it and you swatted his hand.
“Stop that! You might undo the stitching!”
“Will I always need them?” he asked, “or will my body heal?”
You glared at the marks, “I don’t know. I have no idea what your body will do. It’s all… It’s new. I’ve never seen anything like you before. In fact, I think you’re the only experiment to ever actually work.”
König thought for a second.
“You’re saying you stole my corpse and you didn’t even know this would work?”
“Keep your voice down!” you scolded him, then quietly added, “but yes.”
König rolled his eyes so hard you thought they might pop out of his skull.
“I can’t believe you,” he groaned, “you didn’t think any of this through.”
“I mean, I thought through enough,” you countered, “I stole your body before it got cremated.”
“Cremated!?” König spat, “I was going to be cremated!?”
You blinked.
“Is that a problem?” you asked slowly.
“Yes it’s absolutely a problem,” he snapped, “I wanted to be donated to science, not cremated!”
“Well you should’ve put that in your will!” you retorted.
“I didn’t have a will!” he bellowed.
“I KNOW.”
König turned his nose up as he crossed his arms, “It’s not my fault I died.”
“You were wearing all black and crossing the road at night,” you growled, “you’re a fucking… Why did I bring you back?”
König raised an eyebrow and looked down at you.
“Because you love me?” he offered.
You sighed and slumped over in your chair.
“Because I love you,” you agreed, “and now look at where we are. You can’t leave the house, I don’t have a job, I’m losing my damn mind over what I’m supposed to do next, and I don’t even know how I’m going to bring this up to my parents.”
“Your parents? Think about what my parents are going to say!” König leaned on the counter and sipped his coffee before scowling, “can I even have this stuff? Does my digestive system work or will I need to… Manually… Empty…”
“Just hope and pray it does,” you sighed and put your head in your hands.
This wasn’t how you expected König coming back to be. You thought things would just go back to normal. König would be back, and everything would be okay again. As it was, your life had devolved into another sort of nightmare.
König was known for being fidgety. He liked to keep busy in life. He was nothing if not an active person who liked to work on projects all day. When he’d died, he’d been in the process of fixing the garden beds, car maintenance, cleaning the house and reading a book on russian literature. He’d done all of those things in one day after coming home from work. Now, unable to so much as leave the house, König was going stir-crazy and he was making it your problem too.
Like now.
“Look at the cabinets!” he scolded you for the fifteenth time that day, “they don’t close properly! If you installed a magnet they’d be perfect. It takes what, five minutes?”
“I didn’t really think about it,” you told him again.
“And when was the last time you cleaned?” he shook his head, “you were so on top of these things when I was alive. Or, well, I’m still alive and not a corpse, thank you very much, but before I died,” he threw up his hands, “you know what I’m trying to say, right?”
“You’re trying to say you’re not a corpse so I’ll fuck you,” you sighed, “I know. I’m still not into necrophilia."
“You know I can still cum, right?”
That threw you for a loop.
“You’ve been back for two days and you’ve already figured that out?” you narrowed your eyes.
“First day actually,” König admitted, “I jacked off when I was showering.”
You paled at the thought.
“I told you to be careful with the stitches!” you hurriedly got off the chair to stand in front of him, “pull your pants down! I need to check them!”
“Excuse me?” König grabbed his belt, “I’m not taking these off unless you’re sucking me off!”
“I’m sorry but medical care is more important than getting your dick wet,” you tugged at his pants, “now off! Get them off!”
“No they’re staying on! Get off of me you whore!”
“Excuse me? I’m literally doing a medical exam!”
"Let go of my belt!"
"I'm a doctor. This is literally my job. If you'd just hold still-"
“Don’t touch me!”
“I need to check the stitches!”
You screeched manically as you and König tumbled through the kitchen and into the living room. With a shove, you managed to his pants and pull them down to his knees.
He looked down at himself miserably.
“I’ve been violated,” he whined.
“I literally need to do this or you could die again,” you said as you pulled the waistband of his boxers down, “if the stitches come loose…”
You stalled as you were faced with König’s cock. He looked down at you bitterly.
“Don’t just stare at it,” he grumbled.
“I’m sorry, I just kinda…” you shrugged, “it’s been a while.”
"You know, while you're down there, you could always-"
"I'm not fucking a corpse."
He rolled his eyes and titled his head back, “Just check the fucking stitches.”
“If you weren’t so horny-”
“If you were more willing to experiment-”
“Don’t even go there,” you growled and pressed on his skin. As soon as you did, his cock twitched. You glared up at him, “Can you not?”
König’s eyes nearly popped out of his skull, “It’s literally out of my control! I’m sorry that I’m getting hard when my girlfriend is on her knees with my dick in her hand!”
“You could burst a stitch-”
“Oh shut the fuck up!” König groaned as he tilted his head back, “I swear to God I wish I never came back.”
“Well too bad. You’re here now,” you grumbled as you examined him.
Despite the complaints, it looked like the stitches held in place just fine, despite the unusual wear and tear. In fact, as you examined him, you realized something fascinating.
“König,” you whispered in awe, “König you have to see this.”
He glared down at you, “I’m looking, but apparently I’m not supposed to react to what I’m seeing.”
“König, you’re healing.”
That shut him up quickly.
His voice dropped to just above a whisper, “I’m healing?”
“You’re actually healing!” you stood up and pulled his pants back up. Once his belt was buckled, you started unbuttoning his shirt to reveal his pale chest and looked closely, “König you’re not just healing! Your hair’s growing back too!”
König blinked and looked down. He gingerly touched the largest line across his chest.
“Oh my God,” you ran your hands over his torso in amazement, “you’re not just healing, you’re healing better than you did when you were alive! Better than anyone, actually. I’ve never seen wounds like these heal so fast!”
König pressed your hand over his heart.
“So I’m getting better?” he asked hopefully.
“By the looks of it... you mused and looked up into his eyes, “König you’re going to be better than before.”
“But how?” he asked.
“Maybe it’s something to do with the lightning strike?” you offered, “I have no idea. This isn’t like anything I’ve ever seen in my textbooks. You’re a complete medical anomaly at this point.”
König stared down at his body in awe.
You took out your phone and snapped a picture of the marks.
“What are you doing?”
“I’m getting records,” you explained, “if there’s a way I could document this and get it out to the world, we could change everything we know about modern medicine.”
“Like what?” he asked.
“König,” you whispered, “you realise what I did when I brought you back, right?”
He shook his head.
“I cured death, König,” you trembled with excitement, “I did the impossible!”
It started with a giggle. Your giggle turned into a laugh and König joined in.
“You’re a genius,” König shook his head as he marvelled your work, “you know that, right?”
“I cured death!” you squealed, “I did it! Oh my God I did it!”
König leaned down and kissed you deeply. When he pulled back he cupped your cheeks in his hands and said, “You’re the most incredible woman I’ve ever met.”
You reached up on your tiptoes to kiss his nose, “Wouldn’t be possible without a good test subject.”
“I notice you didn’t say willing.”
“Well, would you have said yes?” you asked.
“I mean of course,” he scoffed, “but, well, you know. I think that was a given.”
“Exactly,” you grinned, “now come on. I need to get some better pictures.”
“With or without the clothes?”
You gave him a look.
“I’ll start stripping.”
“Thank you.”
Konig Dump
Konig Alternate Universes
Frankenstein Konig
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⋆˚𝜗𝜚˚⋆ best friend's brother⁵,
summary. sam's crushing hard on dean's best friend aka you
pairing. sam winchester x reader ft. dean winchester
wordcount. 875
⋆.˚ ★— read part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4
Sam Winchester is absolutely screwed.
Not in the way he was last night—no, that part had been absolutely perfect. Earth-shattering, mind-melting, can’t-believe-it-took-this-long kind of perfect. But now? Now, in the cold light of day, sitting in some dingy diner across from his older brother and next to you, the problem is very, very different.
Because Dean is onto him.
Dean is so onto him.
It starts subtle. Too subtle, considering who they’re dealing with. But still, Sam clocks it immediately—the way Dean keeps looking at him, eyes narrowed, the way he seems hyper-aware of every single movement Sam makes.
Then there are the other things. Like how Dean’s barely touched his pancakes, which, for him, is the equivalent of a full-blown existential crisis. Or the fact that he hasn’t been teasing Sam about his ‘nerd books’ for a full twenty minutes. And worst of all? The way his gaze keeps flicking between Sam and you like he’s trying to piece together a puzzle with half the edges missing.
And yeah, Sam isn’t exactly subtle, either. He’s trying, really, but every time he catches your eye, something warm blooms in his chest, and he knows he’s smiling like an idiot, and damn it, he’s supposed to be better at this.
But then you nudge his knee under the table. Just a small touch, nothing anyone else would notice. But Dean isn’t anyone else.
Dean’s fork drops to his plate with a clang.
Both of you freeze.
Dean leans back in the booth, arms crossed, brows raised. "Alright, I’ll bite. What the hell is going on?"
Your eyes flick to Sam, lips parting slightly like you’re debating how to play this. Sam, meanwhile, is contemplating just getting up and running. He’s fast. He could make it.
Dean’s eyes narrow further. "And don’t even think about lying to me, Sammy. I will find out."
You, being the absolute menace that you are, grin and say, "Wow, paranoid much?"
Dean doesn’t budge. "I know that look. I invented that look."
"What look?" you ask, all innocence, sipping your coffee like you don’t have a single sin to your name. Which is rich, considering the events of last night.
"The you-just-got-laid look," Dean deadpans.
Sam chokes on his coffee. You slap a hand over your mouth, eyes wide, shoulders shaking like you’re barely holding in laughter.
Dean, meanwhile, looks deeply unimpressed.
"Dean," Sam mutters, face heating. "Can you not say things like that in public?"
"So, you did get laid?" Dean demands, smacking his palm against the table.
"I didn’t—we didn’t—that’s not—" Sam groans, dragging a hand down his face, because Jesus Christ, he’s being interrogated in a diner over eggs and toast.
Dean turns his attention to you now, eyes narrowing further. "And you, missy. You got way too much energy this morning. You never have energy before noon."
You shrug. "Guess I just slept really well."
Sam shoots you a look. You are going to get him killed.
Dean’s eyes narrow to slits.
"No. No way. Nope. Absolutely not," he declares, shaking his head like a man in denial. "Tell me you two didn’t—"
Silence.
Sam shifts awkwardly. You raise your brows. Neither of you say a word.
"SON OF A BITCH," Dean groans, dropping his head onto the table with a loud thunk.
"Technically, it’s your fault," you say cheerfully, reaching for the syrup.
Dean lifts his head just enough to glare at you. "How in God’s name is this my fault?"
You grin. "You kept making it a thing. And the more you told us not to, the more appealing it became. Classic reverse psychology."
Dean looks like he’s aged a decade in the last thirty seconds. "You cannot tell me this is happening. Tell me this isn’t happening."
"I mean—" you start.
"Nope," Dean interrupts, holding up a hand. "You know what? I don’t wanna know. I refuse to know. I am removing myself from this entire situation."
"I think that’s for the best," Sam says, sipping his coffee, because if he has to endure this, he’s at least going to enjoy it a little.
Dean groans again, pinching the bridge of his nose. "This is my nightmare. My actual nightmare. My best friend and my baby brother—God, I think I’m gonna be sick."
You pat his arm sympathetically. "It’s okay, Dean. We’ll be discreet."
Dean glares at you. "You just screwed my brother in a motel room with me in it. Discreet my ass."
Sam groans. "Can we not—"
Dean slams his hands on the table. "New rule! No touching in front of me! No looks, no secret knee nudges, no gross heart-eyes bullshit! And if I hear one sound out of your room at night, I swear to God—"
"Alright, alright, we got it," you say, laughing now. "No PDA in front of Dean."
"Damn right," Dean mutters, stabbing his pancakes with newfound aggression. "You kids are gonna be the death of me."
You exchange a glance with Sam—one that, unfortunately for Dean, is absolutely heart-eyes bullshit. But for now, you let him have his moment, hiding your smile behind your coffee cup.
Because, yeah. Maybe Dean is going to have a stroke over this.
But you and Sam?
Totally, completely worth it.
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𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒎𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕
✿𝑷𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈: Jungkook x Reader
✿ 𝑺𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒚: The one where everytime you get dumped you pretend that you never met the guy before to mess with their heads. To the point that if you run into them somewhere you reintroduce yourself and act like you’ve never seen each other before.
Enters fuckboy Jungkook who disappears after your night together, not knowing how much he was about to regret that choice.
✿ 𝑻𝒂𝒈𝒔: Romance, Humor, Fluff, Angst, College AU
✿ 𝑨/𝑵: I’m truly sorry for this sad excuse of an update.
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°•. ✿ .•°
𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐰𝐨 - 𝐎𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐲, 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬
(<<< part one)
“I can’t believe you’re doing this again” Jane’s voice rang through the phone as you walked down the streets towards your desired coffee spot.
You also couldn’t believe you were doing that again. You tried your best to live your life with no regrets, but men made it very hard.
“Have you seen him since he fled the crime scene?”
“Stop calling it a crime scene” you snapped.
“Well, have you?”
Your silence was enough of an answer. No, you had not seen or heard from Jungkook since he ran away from your bedroom in the dead of night, leaving behind only the smell of cologne and, funnily enough, a single sock. When you woke up that day to an empty bed, sheets crumbled and a mattress indented on the side where he had slept, all you could muster was a tired sigh of disappointment.
And to be completely honest, you were disappointed with yourself, not Jungkook. You expected nothing less than a quick escape of him. But you should’ve known better than to hope for anything. Despite everything, you were still an idealist at heart and you thought that maybe just this once…
You shook your head obstinately. You had learned early on that no good would come from moping around for men who would never once feel any regret for their thoughtless actions and if your pain were to be always one sided, then it was better not to feel any at all. Not to dwell on it, move on, learn from it and be better. Or be worse, sometimes, as self-improvement was not always your goal.
Sometimes, you chose to listen to the tiny revengeful angel on your shoulder - who kind of sounded like Taylor Swift - that screamed for violence and vindication.
As your failed relationships started to pile up, you did reach a point where you had to wonder if you were the problem, as it was the canonical event of all 20 something women. But observation, therapy, critical thinking and hereditary pettiness brought you to the decision that it was not, in fact, your fault. At least not all of it.
With that in mind, you left only the smallest of time slots in your booked and busy schedule to ponder and grieve over the fickle nature of boys’ interests. You had better, more important things to do, such as mindlessly scroll through Minecraft/AITA videos and save pilates routines that you were never gonna do.
Still, in an experience intrinsically feminine, you allowed yourself a little treat to cope with the slight burn of despondency in the back of your mind.
And so you directed yourself to the bougie coffee house near campus, hoping to drown your sorrows with an aggressively sweet and overly caffeinated drink.
“You should slash his tires”
“Jane, please, we have talked about this.”
“You should totally slash his fucking tires!"
"Saying it louder is not gonna make me agree with you! Jane…"
Suddenly your eyes found Jungkook's across the room filled to the brim with depressed, financially irresponsible students, making you pause and hold back the urge to curl your lips in distaste. It bothered you that even with scared eyes as big as saucers and hunched shoulders to appear smaller, Jungkook still managed to look good.
But you knew better than to let him know how much his presence and pretty face annoyed you. Boys like Jungkook only cared about having an impact on people’s life, very rarely caring if it was good or bad. He wanted a reaction out of you and you learned better than to give those away so carelessly.
So you frowned and looked away, the words practiced on your lips as you said “Some guy is staring at me.”
Jane laughed loudly on the phone “You’re a psycho, you know that?”
“I don’t know who it is, Jane, some dude” you stole a quick glance at him, finding vengeful glee at his shocked expression.
“Send me a pic of his reaction, I’m posting it on TikTok.”
You continued playing your part, ignoring your sister’s interruptions as you usually did “Of course I’m carrying a taser, Jane, I’m not an animal…”
“I’ll give you 5 bucks to tase him.”
“You know what, this coffee is not even worth the visual harassment, God I hate men…”
You walked out of the coffee house, hand empty but with a fulfilled sick sense of accomplishment as you stepped out into the street with a shit-eating grin.
“I hope you know what you’re doing” Jane said and you could hear the smile in her voice. Out of your two sisters, Jane was never the one to tell you to not do something, preferring to let you make your own mistakes.
And boy, did you.
You left your big, beautiful, tattooed mistake behind you, ready to move on to something less prone to disappointment, such as fictional men and your Stardew Valley husband “Dont worry” you told your sister “I don’t.”.
—
“What are you doing?” Jungkook asked, left eye twitching slightly at your unbothered expression.
After your confusing exit from the coffee shop and a good amount of jabs from his friends, Jungkook had to hunt you down across campus, finding you sitting under a tree with a book in your hands, looking way too peaceful for someone who just had humiliated him.
You looked down at your book with an arched eyebrow “Kegels, clearly. Why?”
“No, I mean…” Jungkook’s frustration was rising by the second, the vein on his neck jumping out “Why are you acting like you don’t know me?”
You frowned.
“Do I know you?” you asked, face doubtful.
“We have classes together?”
You blinked, impassive.
“We went on a date?”
A head shake.
“We slept together!”
“Nope, can’t say it rings any bells.”
That’s it. Jungkook was actually convinced you were clinically insane.
“How can you not remember?”
“How can I remember something that never happened?”
“But it did! You’re crazy! I chased you for weeks!”
You smiled, a trap.
“So, you're, like, in love with me?” you ask, tone condescending.
Jungkook scoffed and you weren’t sure if it was at the idea of love or loving you. “No, of course not.”
“So in this dream scenario of yours, we had sex but we weren’t together?”
“Trust me, this” he gestured between the two of you “is no dream scenario.”
“Well, aren’t you a charmer” you crossed your arms in front you, defensive “Let me get this straight. You, allegedly, chased me for weeks, but don’t really like me. Then, we had casual, out-of-relationship sex and then what? You banged my head against the headboard so hard I completely forgot about it? Your story is full of holes, my dude.”
You had to fight back the urge to smirk, energy spiking from feeding off of Jungkook’s stupefied confusion.
Nail in the coffin, you shrugged, turning your eyes back to your book “Maybe you weren’t that memorable and my mind deleted you like a childhood trauma.”
A slight left eye spasm was all the reaction you got at first, evolving to the pursing of pouty lips and the clenching of fists.
“You are insane” he said at last after seconds of turning clogs in his barely filled mind.
“Finally you said something true.”
Jungkook was equally bewildered and furious. He didn’t know what your deal was or what you were getting out of this, but your refusal to admit you had sex pissed him off deeply considering how much time and effort he put into getting you together.
“Also, I have to ask” you continued, clearly not done with your pursuit of driving him up the wall “what was your goal with this conversation? Chasing me for weeks to then sleep with me and then come here and tell me you’re not actually interested in me, but being upset when I don’t remember something that didn’t happen… What’s the point?”
Jungkook paused. Truly, he didn’t have much of an end goal in mind, actions fueled only by a bruised ego and a childish, borderline pathological need to prove himself.
When he didn’t answer, you stood up and gathered your things, keeping your head down to hide your poorly concealed satisfaction “I’ll let you ponder on that” you said “Don’t worry about reaching out with an answer, though.”
Finally, you looked up at him, face masked with faux awkwardness. “Anyway. Nice to meet you, I guess? No, actually, not really, this was weird as shit. You seem to have some things to figure out. Get help and take care, my dude.”
And so you left, leaving behind only a cloud of your bergamot perfume and a perplexed Jungkook blinking owlishly.
There was a sudden influx of thoughts rushing through his usually much less busy mind, the general tone of confusion ringing amongst humiliation and frustration.
When Jungkook first set his greedy eyes on you, he had an inkling that you’d be a handful and in the beginning, you truly were. You took pleasure in making everything much more difficult for him, running from his presence like the plague and approaching the whole subject of him like one would the subject of warts - reluctantly and with caution.
And if he were honest, he wasn’t too sure on why he insisted, but one would be surprised at how far Jungkook would escalate things out of spite and resentment.
It was that same sick combination of flavors that drove him insane for weeks, moving him to pester you until you gave him a chance. And he took it, lord, did he take it.
That night, he made every possible effort to please you, cloaked in his best, non-ranch stained clothes and best non-arrogant behavior.
And when morning came and he opened up his eyes before you did, tired out from the epitome of his bestest behavior, there was a moment of quiet as he watched you eyelids flutter delicately, soft arm draped lightly over his waist.
The night before had been… Fun, he thought, even before you had reached your bedroom. You were weird and used a bunch of words he didn’t know, but you also made him laugh and listened to him babbling about his interest without once looking bored, even going as far as asking questions about his farfetched MCU theories.
And despite your many (too many to count, insurmountable really) differences, you had… Chemistry, one could call it. Thick chemistry, palpable tension, pushing you towards each other despite your previous attempts to go the other way.
But no amount of chemistry could break Jungkook’s routine as inertia pushed him out of your bed, practiced steps light as feathers as he escaped your apartment with one last look to your sleeping form and somehow one less sock on his feet.
And as he left, there was an undiagnosed pounding in his heart he tried to chalk off as the result of his Dorito and monster drink based diet, but his eyes kept flashing back to where you rested even when he was miles away.
He tried to make sense of your persistent presence in the back of his mind. You were cool, he’d give you that. Hot too. But it didn’t matter how your body fit his like they were manufactured together or how your passive aggressive way of flirting (or insulting, he had a hard time telling them apart with you) never failed to steal a snort from his lips. And yeah, it was kind of nice when you called him cute everytime he didn’t understand something you said. It brought a blush to his cheeks and wild butterflies to his stomach, because… Well, no one had ever called him cute after middle school. Hot? Yes. Sexy? Once a week. Biggest dick ever? Yes, both meanings.
But not cute. And deep down, under layers of aggressively oversized shirts and muscles… Jungkook kind of liked being cute.
Jungkook shook that thought away. Despite all that, you were a point he had to make.
And he did! Point proven and undisputed, up until you looked at him like he was a silly little kid throwing a tantrum (which he kind of was) and questioned him and his sanity,
But Jungkook was obstinate and, even more, the sorest of losers. He had proven himself once and would again! He was a man on a mission, he decided, watching you walk away from him while mouthing the words “I’ll pray for you!”. And the mission was to either send you into a psychiatric hospital or get you back into his bed.
And if the butterflies in his stomach fluttered excitedly at that second prospect, he didn’t allow himself to ponder on it for a single second.
(Part three >>>)
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KNOW YOU LIKE I DO | tom riddle
summary; love letters are tom's way of communicating. unfortunately, he's not as good with his actions.
word count; 7036
notes; another one that I said was gonna be short and it wasn’t. I think I’m physically incapable of writing short fics, actually.
Dear Tom,
Tommy.
My Tom.
Do you still have that first letter I wrote to you, back in summer? No, I suppose you don’t, that’s not very like you.
I’m drunk. Just a little bit (a lot), and I can’t take it anymore. Mattheo told me to tell you how I feel, and that is exactly what I’m going to do. He’s asleep on my bed right now, drooling into my favourite pillow waiting for me to write this.
So here it is.
I’m angry. I’m hurt. I’m confused. I’m in love. And it’s all your fault.
Staring across the crowded room, your eyes fixed back onto that of Tom Riddle. It wasn’t hard to spot him, not as he was the only man who came to a Christmas party dressed in all black and sat alone, brooding. His lips were pressed into a line, the lights bouncing off of those shiny curls, green and red splashed across his pale skin as he sipped at his drink, listening to the conversation Draco and Blaise were having, but never participating.
Your heart lurched a little in your chest, just the mere sight of him had a thousand different feelings rearing their heads, and you sighed to yourself. Shaking your head, your attention was redirected to the drinks table, pouring yourself an extra strong helping of Giggle Gin and topping it off. The urge to look back over was strong, and you steadfastly ignored it, suppressing the urge and instead, turning your back to his direction, walking towards the group of girls giggling in the opposite corner.
Taking your seat back in the comfy corner of the sofa, Pansy offered you a smile, her arm looped over Luna’s shoulders as the blonde cuddled into her side. Astoria was currently recounting the intimate details of her latest night with Draco, and you hid a smile in your cup as you tuned back into the conversation.
You lost the battle with your will, however, gaze moving directly back across the room to Tom. He had a slight smirk on his face now as he watched Draco speak, and you did not doubt that he was receiving a tale of the exact same encounter Astoria was currently telling, only from a different point of view.
Blonde cut across your vision, the perfect smile of Daphne blocking your view as she sat in front of you, severing any sights of Tom you might have had. “You know,” She started, grinning as she took a sip of your drink cheekily, before handing it back. “If you stare at him any harder, you’re gonna’ drill holes in the side of his head.”
You could only scoff, but no argument formed. Lately, all you’d been able to do was stare longingly at him across any room. You weren’t subtle, and you’d never been much good at hiding your feelings. Which seemed fitting, since you’d fallen for someone who was like a blank slate, permanently.
Tom Riddle was a harder book to read than a tablet written in a never-before-discovered language.
“He looks so… miserable, Daph.”
She glances over her shoulder at him, snorting a laugh, and turning her attention back to you. “Because Tom Riddle doesn’t go to parties, and he’s probably counting the minutes until he can leave.” She smirked a little, shuffling closer, perched on the edge of her seat as she leaned in, “At least, he didn’t go to parties. Until you, that is.”
Your cheeks flushed, a subtle hint at the running joke your friendship group had taken on. They’d all become convinced that Tom attended parties for you, ever since he’d been a willing guest for the first time at Draco’s end-of-summer bonfire bash, and spent the majority of the night talking with you. They refused to let it go.
“You should go over there and cheer him up. I bet he’d be smiling in no time if you gave him a little attention.”
That was exactly the problem. You’d been giving him a little too much attention, and now, everyone was painfully aware of your feelings for him. Except for him, maybe. Either that, or he was just very good at pretending he didn’t notice, in a chance to let you down gently. You didn’t know which option was worse. “Don’t be ridiculous, Daph.”
“No, you don’t be ridiculous! You and him are… something else.” She took your free hand in hers, squeezing tightly. All amusement melted from her face, and she gave you a serious look. The expression she wore when advising her sister on Draco, or comforting Pansy after a panic attack. “Are you ever going to tell me what happened over the summer, or are you just going to keep acting like it wasn’t some cataclysmic shift?”
“So dramatic.” You hummed to your roommate.
“Still pretending, I see.” She teases lightly, but her brows are still furrowed. She waited a few more seconds, to see if you’ll crack. All you do is hold her steady gaze, and take a sip of your drink. With a sigh, she released your hand, and leans back in her chair. “Well, whatever. We can all see it, see how you two pine for one another, and how perfect you’d be together. Just go and talk to him! He’s probably sat over there waiting for you anyway. He had that exact same kicked-puppy expression on at the summer party, until you walked in.”
“He did not…” You murmur, the very thought making you blush.
“I think that’s the first time I ever saw Tom Riddle smile. A real smile, not the smile he gets when threatening someone, or when Mattheo falls over. A good smile.”
“Now you’re just making him out like some kind of sulky villain.” You retort, and she only raises a brow at you.
“Here, take him this box, and go talk to him. The poor boy looks lost over there without you.” Reaching under her chair, Daphne produces a familiar box, wrapped neatly in black paper with dark green ribbon, and your jaw drops.
“Daphne!—” Reaching out to snatch it from her, your brows furrow. “Did you go through my things?”
“I didn’t exactly go through your things,” She grins, watching you turn over the label with his name written on neatly. “I just watched you hide it under your bed and got curious… it smells good. Is it cookies? Can I have one?”
When she reaches for the box, you slap the back of her hand, and she sticks her tongue out at you in return. “No! You cannot, you little snoop!”
“Fine! If you won’t let me have a cookie, then you have to go over there. You either give me a cookie, or you give me the satisfaction of seeing you and him smile.” Her arms crossed, her tone annoyed but her words caring, and love shone in her gaze as she stared at you. “Go on. Go over to him. Please.”
It wasn’t like you didn’t already want to, and with her encouragement, you were a weak woman to say no. Downing the rest of your drink for a little liquid courage, you hop to your feet, present clutched in your hands.
Weaving through the room, the bass notes of Mattheo’s custom-made playlist pumped through the room from the speakers, a playlist you might have slightly altered a few days ago to add a couple of songs, just to mix up his usual tastes. Your stomach was twisting nervously, but the alcohol in your veins made for a pleasant buzz as the distance between you both closed.
After almost taking a ping-pong ball to the eye, courtesy of Theo on the beer-pong table, you cleared the games and settled into the pleasant atmosphere surrounding where the boys had set themselves up for the evening by the fire. When you approached, Tom looked up, frown melting away as the crease between his brows disappeared, and he sat up a little straighter as you approached.
“Hi, doll,” He murmured, shifting his arm from the armrest of the chair, so that you could take a seat on it instead. That same arm soon wrapped around your waist, his head falling to rest on your shoulder, and your heart skipped a beat within your chest. “Where’ve you been?”
“Over there, with Daph and the girls.” You whisper in reply, balancing the box on your thighs, and pointing through the crowds to the barely visible patch of chairs and sofas you’d all been occupying. He only hummed, squeezing you a little closer.
“Stay here with me for a while?”
“Sure,” Your voice hardly worked as you spoke, emotions clogging up, and you reached for the gift in your lap. “I have this for you, anyway. I made you those cookies you like so much.”
“You did?” His head lifted, and one of those pretty smiles that made your heart stop clean in your chest was adorning his lips. “The ones with the orange peel and the dark chocolate?”
“Those very ones.” You handed it to him, and he tugged at the ribbon covering the box, fingers flipping under the seals of the paper until it fell openly neatly. Flicking open the catch on the cardboard box, the smell of freshly baked treats filled the air, and he made a rumbling noise of happiness as he plucked on up, and took a bite. As you laughed at him, he took another, pushing it between your lips with a smirk while he chewed.
He resealed the box, savouring them, as he did all things, and putting them on the table in front of himself. You held the cookie now, eating it slowly, as Draco and Blaise finally seemed to become aware of your presence.
“I have a question.” Draco started, and your gaze moved to him, brow raising as you took the final bite. “Is Astoria over there talking about me?”
The blond smirked, and you twisted, lifting your legs to sit over Tom, ankles crossing on the opposite arm. “No, no. She’s been recounting a scene from a book.”
“What?”
“Yeah. You know, the fun books. It was really, really hot.” You teased, fanning yourself, and Tom chuckled, reaching over you for his drink, and taking a sip. Instead of putting it back down, he rested the cool glass on your thigh, his free hand coming to sit on your calf, rubbing lightly as you shivered at the touch. “Why? You think you’re better than a good spicy romance?”
“I know I am!” Draco huffed, and Blaise rolled his eyes, watching you wind his best friend up with barely a few words at all. “What book is this?”
“Oh, you don’t want to know…”
“I do want to know! Tell me!” His cheeks were turning pink, all the way up to the tips of his ears. In the spirit of Christmas, you took pity on him, rolling your eyes.
“I think it was called… Astoria’s Diary.”
It took a few seconds for it to register in Draco’s mind, and the furious pink turned to an embarrassed red, and he shook his head, eyes narrowed at you. “I despise you.”
“You love me.” You fired back, and he scoffed, but the edges of his lips pulled at a smile, and he looked away to cover it. Settling back a little more, you leaned into the cushion, feeling Tom roll his head across the cushion to lean in your direction.
“I feel like I’ve barely seen you all week.” He says, voice low for only you to hear, and your head twists towards him You were close, close enough to pick out the different coloured flecks of colour in his eyes as he looked at you, and the hardly visible steaks of lighter brown that trailed naturally through his dark curls.
“Well, I’ve had detention all week, thanks to a certain someone.” You poked his chest, and he only smirked a little bit, shuffling his head a fraction closer.
“I needed you, what can I say?”
“You needed someone to keep a lookout while you snuck into the restricted section again. Why did it have to be me?” You scoffed, working to keep the smile on your face as the answer to your own question flickered through your mind. He chose you because he knew you’d drop everything and come, the voice taunted; you buried it under the song playing and the laughter in the room so you didn’t have to think about it...
“Don’t act like you didn’t have fun when we ran.” He chuckled, hand sliding up your leg again, fingers lacing with your own. The same way they had when you’d been caught, and he’d grabbed your hand, the two of you ducking and weaving between stacks, fleeing through the corridors. Laughing and out of breath, he’d clutched your hand, thumb rubbing over your knuckles just like he was doing now, staring at you with those pretty eyes.
You hadn't been caught, but you had gotten detention for skipping class to go with him, and so you’d spent all five nights of your final week in detention, writing lines. You lifted your free hand, sighing with a nod, and running it through his curls. His eyes fluttered, head tipping back to follow your hand, and a content smile took over his lips.
You loved to see him like this, to see him so carefree and happy, to see him relax at just your touch. You’d never seen him like this before. The thought that only you could do it to him sent a thrill down your spine, made your thoughts feel hazy and slow, like treacle in your mind, and your nerves tingled. So, why had he never made a move to make it anything more? You’d given him a dozen chances, a dozen more opportunities…
“I don’t know what I’m going to do without you this holiday.” He broke your train of thought, eyes opening again to peer up at you, and his lips became a frown as he thought about it. “My father is going to pile on the pressure not that I’m in my graduating year. I can already feel the headache forming right between my eyes.”
“Oh..” You coo, hand slipping down from his hair to rub your thumb over his forehead, the space you know him to get stress headaches the worst, when he works too hard or gets wound up. He just chuckled, eyes sliding shut once again.
The song changed, and his body tensed underneath you for just a second, before his eyes snapped open, gaze locked on you. “This is my favourite song.”
“Is it?” You mumble, finger still tracing lightly over his skin, and he nods.
“I didn’t think Mattheo put it on the playlist. I asked him, and he very emphatically said no.”
“Maybe he changed his mind.” Your shrug doesn’t convince him, not as you both hear Mattheo question the song with a stream of curses somewhere in the distance. His lips twitched at the edges, a small smile, but he said nothing else. Instead, he leaned in, your arm going around his shoulders, rubbing softly as his head nestled onto your shoulder, a sigh on his lips.
It was perfect, just like this. If he could just open his eyes and see, he’d know how wonderful it could be. Nobody knew him like you did, he’d made sure to keep his secrets locked up tight. But over the months of exchanging letters, and candle-lit nights in the library, he’d bore so much of his soul to you.
Deep, wounded parts, that you’d tried to put back together.
Soft, tender parts that he protected so valiantly, but trusted you with.
Sweet, loving parts, that never saw the light of day, unless you were together.
It was impossible, surely, that he didn’t know. He might keep his feelings locked up tight, but you didn’t hide yours very well at all. As you sat here now, fingers weaving through his hair, lips tracing his temple as you whispered nonsense to him about your day, his head on your shoulder, that he didn’t know. Even a man like Tom Riddle couldn't miss it, right?
You just wanted to make him happy, but he didn’t feel the same.
With a heart-aching sigh, you ran your fingers through his curls one more time. Unrequited love wasn’t going to ruin your night. Unrequited love wasn’t going to ruin your Christmas. You would not be one of those girls who gave in to their feelings, and crumbled at the feet of a man who didn’t return her affections.
Sitting up some more, he grumbled at the disruption, blinking his eyes back open as he lifted his head again. “I’m… I’m going to go dance, and play some games, okay?”
“Alright,” He smiled, patting your thigh and lifting his drink away. “Have fun. I’ll probably leave soon. If I don’t see you again, just know I’ll be thinking of you over these holidays. We’ll write again.”
His words send a rush of heat to your cheeks, a tumble of nerves through your stomach, and you could only nod. One more chance, one more chance to make a move…
“Merry Christmas, Tommy,” you whisper, leaning in to kiss his cheek. A kiss that was purposefully close to the edge of his mouth, a kiss that purposefully lingered just a second too long as you pulled away slowly, giving him a chance to turn his head, to close the gap, to kiss you—
But he didn’t, he only smiled. “Merry Christmas, doll.”
So, you stand. You brush it off. You brush off the moment, and the feelings, and all the disappointment and heartbreak that came with it.
But I can’t do it anymore.
We’ve been housemates for seven years, we’ve been friends for half of those, and I’ve been in love with you for months.
But you don’t love me. Mattheo says you do, says you’re just stupid when it comes to feelings. But, even you couldn't miss how I feel about you.
So, I’m letting you go.
New Year, New Me, New Heart.
“No, your dorm is that way.” You giggle, Mattheo’s arm over your shoulder, pushing him in the direction of the boy’s dorms and pointing. “My dorm is this way!”
“No, you’re wrong!” He mutters, shaking his head dramatically. “Boys to the left,” He says, pointing right, “Girls to the right, because girls are always right!”
“Well, I won’t argue with you there.” You grin, spinning him around. “Wait, now I’m confused. Who’s dorm were we going to again?”
A few too many shots, a few more drinks than your limit at the beer-pong table, and as the last of the party was dying down, you and Mattheo were attempting to stumble back to your dorms. “Theo’s.”
“Right. But why are we going to Theo’s dorm?”
“Because he’s my friend,” Mattheo said. “And also, his bed is next to mine.” Another fit of laughter, drunken giggles melting away, and the two of you collapsed down against the wall, heads tipped back to the stone as amusement took over. When you finally caught your breaths once again, he was smiling, eyes sparkling in that unique Matty-way. Kicking his legs out before himself, he sighed. “Maybe I will just sleep here.”
“You can’t sleep here.”
“Why?” He pouted, and you searched through your foggy mind for a reason.
“Because you have to sleep in a bed.” Is what you settled on, shrugging your shoulders, even if you were getting a little bit too comfy against the stone too.
“Can I sleep in your bed?” He wiggled his brows, smirking, before burping, and you giggled again.
“No, you may not.”
“Why?” He whined, kicking one leg like a toddler in a tantrum. “You have fluffy pillows.”
“And you have sheets that haven’t been washed in months.” Your nose screwed up, and he let out a dramatic, wounded sound, like a soldier who had just been shot in a war movie.
“That was cold.” He muttered, shaking his head. “Not as cold as the frozen Earth Tom would bury my wee little body in if I spent the night at your dorm.”
You didn’t respond, the mention of his name was like a bucket of ice over your head. Not exactly sobering, but shocking.
“I’m saying he would murder me.”
“Yes, I understood.”
“You didn’t laugh.” He pouted, and you chuckled for his benefit. “No, it’s not real. Now I feel like I begged for it.”
“You did.”
“You suck.”
“You swallow.” You sighed, and he groaned once again, another argument lost. His head rolled to your shoulder, his body slumping into relaxation.
“So… what is the deal with you and my brother?” His lips twisted as he thought about it, but he looked up at you curiously, frown only deepening at the sad look on your face.
“There is no deal.” You shrug, “He doesn’t want me like that. We’re just friends.”
“Yeah,” He snorts, “And the sky isn’t blue.”
“I’m serious, Matty. I’ve given him a hundred chances. He could’ve made a move anytime. I haven’t exactly kept my feelings to myself, all you fools can see my heart dripping and bleeding on my sleeve. He knows, he just didn’t want to acknowledge it.” Your lungs burned for air at the end of your speech, and you took a deep breath, staring ahead at the chipping bricks in an attempt to avoid tears. “Why doesn’t he want me, Matty?”
“He does,” Mattheo mumbled, taking your hand in his and squeezing. “He’s just a fucking moron. But, he’s also scared. You know, you’re pretty much all he talks about? And, I never saw him smile so much as he did during the summer, when he’d receive your letters. He’d get all anxious and fidgety every day, waiting for the mail owl to arrive. He’s never going to make the first move. He’d rather suffer for all his life but have you like this, than risk losing you entirely.”
The words felt like a warming blanket and an ice-cold lake. Comforting and terrifying, sweet and burning, all at the same time.
Mattheo huffed a laugh, “Maybe you should write him a love letter.”
“Maybe I should…” You whisper, drunken thoughts taking over, and his head snapped up.
“I was joking.”
“I’m not. That’s a good idea. I should write him a letter, and tell him that I’m moving on.” You brushed your legs off as you stood, taking his hands and pulling him to his feet, determined.
“Okay, that’s not what a love letter is. That’s so far from what I said—”
“Let’s go!” You grabbed his wrist, tugging him along behind you as you made your way through the halls.
“Now? Why are we doing it now? We should be sleeping now!” His protests fell on deaf ears as you dragged him along. Throwing open the door to your room, Daphne was already asleep, still in her party dress, face down on her pillow, out cold from the night’s festivities and snoring.
Mattheo collapsed onto your bed, rolling onto his side and clutching a fluffy cushion to his chest as he curled into a ball.
“I’ll just wait here, then.” He yawned through his words, but you were too busy to care, scrambling for a pot of ink and some new parchment. Taking a seat at your desk, you stared at the paper, quill hovering, ready to write.
So, I will spend the end of this year away from you. You say we’ll write, but I don’t want to.
Only write to me, Tom, if you feel the same. If not, don’t. Let me heal, and when we come back in the New Year, I promise, nothing will change except for my heart.
We will still be friends, best friends, and we’ll never talk about it again.
I will wait for you.
Finishing the letter, you sighed at it, the ink drying and immortalising your words onto the page. Sitting before you was the sum total of what sat in your heart, and your mind. Laid out and ready to go, your hands trembled a little as you read it over, and over, to be sure.
But you had to do this, you had to give this letter to him, to alleviate the strain on your heart, to finally have some closure. Whether he felt the same or not, you’d have relief. Folding it carefully, you searched a strip of wax seal lighting the end and waiting for it to get hot, drips of Slytherin green filling into a pool that overlapped the edge of your paper. When there was enough, you stamped it carefully, sealing it shut as the wax cooled.
Taking a look behind you, you caught sight of a sleeping Mattheo, his jaw hanging open, drooling onto your favourite throw pillow, half tucked under your blankets from where he’s only bothered to cover his legs. Peeling away the wax seal, you walked over to him, shaking his shoulder, until he awoke with a huff and a groan, whining as he sat up.
“I was dreaming.”
“I wrote the letter.” You show him the proof, and he rubs his eyes with the heels of his hands, glancing from it, to you, and back. “You have to give it to him.”
“Now?”
“No! Not now. Tomorrow. After we get off the train.” He blinked a little more, waking up from his power nap and taking the paper from you. Flipping it over in his hands, he inspected Tom’s name across the front, no address, and raised his brows.
“Why don’t you mail it?”
“That’ll take days, and I don’t want to leave it up to chance. I need you to give it to him, tomorrow. I know you’ll be swamped with everything your father expects of you both this time of year, events and frivolities and all, but you have to. I don’t want it getting lost amongst other letters and Christmas cards, and such.” Your hands clasped together before you, blinking at him pleadingly, and hoping your puppy-dog eyes were half as good as his.
He sighed, rolling his eyes and muttering to himself as he stood.
“Please, Matty.”
“Fine. I’ll give it to him.” He caved, and you threw your arms around him, hugging him tightly.
“Tomorrow? After you get off the train?”
“Yes. I will give Tom the letter… tomorrow.”
Yours,
If you want me,
(y/n) x
Tom double-checked his bags, sighing as he zipped up the piece of luggage he’d actually have access to on the train, everything he needed to survive a six-hour train journey. A knock sounded from the door, a signature one that only Mattheo ever used, excessively long and irritating, and the door swung open a second later to reveal his brother.
Placing his carry-on down on the bed beside his own, Mattheo slumped out on his freshly-stripped bed. “You took your bags to the carriage already?”
“I got up early.”
“Surprising, I thought I’d have to drag you out of your bed this morning considering how much you drank last night.” He gave his brother a look, a single brow raised, and Mattheo just huffed.
“It’s called having fun, you should try it sometime.”
Tom only rolled his eyes, gaze scanning across the bag Mattheo had abandoned, snagging on the letter sticking out of one pocket. T— was all that was visible. It might have been a card, that someone had addressed it to ‘Theo’ instead of Mattheo, but everyone called him ‘Matt’ if they wanted a nickname, to avoid confusion with Nott.
Curiosity ate at him, and nudging the bag subtly revealed just enough more to show an ‘O’.
Definitely Tom, then. Mattheo was carrying a letter for him, and had not delivered it. Before he could pluck it from the pocket, his brother was sitting up, reaching for his bag and getting to his feet, swinging the letter out of his reach inadvertently.
“Ready to go?”
“Is that letter for me?” Tom burst instead, making another move for the bag. His suspicions were only confirmed when Mattheo shifted his body, pulling the arm carrying the bag away from him, behind his body and out of Tom’s reach. “Why do you have it? When did it arrive?”
Mattheo turned casually, looking down at it, patting it and pushing it back into the bag, deeper. Tom recognised that handwriting now, though, and the urgency swelled. “Uh… last night, I think. But I was a little drunk, so…”
“Why didn’t you give it to me?” Tom pressed, biting his tongue from yelling at his brother, and Mattheo just shrugged.
“Figured I’d give it to you on the train, or something. Or when we got home. It’s just a letter.”
“Yeah…” Tom could only hum in response, his mind spinning a little. Everyone had exchanged gifts and goodbyes last night, before the party. For exactly this reason, to avoid the morning rush to the train, to avoid the hassle in the morning. “But— I saw her last night. Why wouldn't she just give it to me then? Or mail it to me?”
The questions were ceaseless, almost making Tom dizzy as he tried to think them through, and Mattheo could only shrug, biting the inside of his cheek to keep his smile to himself.
“I don’t know, Tom. She just came to me, and asked me to give you that letter because she didn’t want it to get lost amongst other letters, or take too long, or something like that.” It was a small lie, really, fabricated from aspects of the truth.
“So, it’s important, then! It’s obviously important if she couldn't risk it getting lost, if it had to be hand-delivered! I should read it.” Just like that, Tom stepped right into Mattheo’s trap. Now all he had to do was pull the pin, and let the steel jaws snap shut. Yes, it could potentially backfire hugely, but Mattheo was looking on the positive side for this.
“We have to go, Tom. Everyone else has probably already left for the train.” Mattheo swung his bag again, making his point, and kicked Tom’s suitcase from where it sat beside the door towards him to pick up. “Let’s go.”
Tom sighed, grabbing his bags and taking a few steps after him, and didn’t even make it over the threshold of the door before he gave in. His bags dropped from his hands, and planted on his hips instead. “I’m going to read it.”
“Tom—”
“Give me the letter.” He held out his pal, and Mattheo tipped his head to the side, but pressed his lips together to hide a grin. “I’ll catch up, you go. I’ll read it and I’ll catch up, it’s only a letter, can’t take that long.”
He lunged for Mattheo's bag, snatching the crisply pressed paper from the pocket before his brother could stop him. As he turned away, he missed Mattheo’s victorious smile. “Alright, I’ll take your trunk down. Don’t be long, or you’ll miss the train.” And you’ll miss her, were Mattheo’s unspoken words, as he grabbed Tom’s suitcase and disappeared, leaving him alone.
Sitting on the edge of his bed, Tom’s hand shook a little. The paper felt like it weighed a thousand tons. There was so much unspoken mystery behind it that Tom was sure whatever this letter said, it was not their usual correspondence. Not the chatty, friendly, borderline flirty letters they’d send each other when apart, this was more.
Sliding his thumb neatly under the wax seal he was so familiar with, Tom popped open the letter, unfolding it carefully and flipping it around to read.
His gaze scanned over the paper, lips flicking up at the use of the nickname he only allowed you to use, the swirl of your handwriting that he loved so much. The smile didn’t last long, however, and neither did the breath in his lungs as his chest seized. He read it.
Over and over again, he read the letter.
The minutes melted past as he absorbed what it said, until he could read the letter word for word without looking at it, tattooed into his mind now like a brand. With trembling fingers, he folded the letter back up carefully, lifting the paper to his lips as his eyes slid shut.
His heart was pounding, more so than he’d ever felt. Tom was not one for rash decisions and sudden jumps, everything was calculated and thought through and planned. But this, this was you. This is just what you did, forced him to let go of routine and be spontaneous, forced him to be carefree, to loosen the grip he had on the reigns, to show him he wouldn't fall apart at the slightest breeze.
He smiled against the letter, thoughts of you flicking through his mind.
And then a clock chimed, and he jumped violently within as he was rushed back to reality in a split second. The clock in the common room chimed loudly, echoing through the empty dorms and halls.
Rushing to his feet, Tom opened his bag, tucking the letter safely inside one of his books to preserve it, to tuck it inside the box of letters from you that was tucked under his bed at home. You doubted him, his feelings, unsure he’d kept that first letter, when in reality, he’d kept every single one.
Every letter, every note, even the silly little joke you scribbled on torn-off pieces of paper and threw at him in class, he kept them all.
Zipping his bag back up and grabbing it, he had no time to spare, racing to the chimes of the clock through the castle, to the front gates where the final carriage was leaving.
It felt too long. Too long as the horses plodded through the snow, too long as the wheel scrolled slowly, and his foot tapped agitatedly on the floor in a way he never allowed himself to do. His thumbnail was between his teeth, flicking between the frost-covered ground and his bag, wondering if it would actually be faster to run there himself.
Ahead, the train sounded its horn. The final warning for all students to begin boarding and settling in, because they’d be departing soon.
You watched as the trunks were beginning loaded onto the train, all to be collected when you arrived in London, only letting out a breath of relief as Mattheo rounded the corner, finally joining your group.
“Matty! About time, we were worried you’d miss the train.” Your arms wrapped around his shoulders as he sighed, a little out of breath, and hugged you back once he dropped the two bags in his hands. Nobody followed him, and your brows furrowed, pulling back, “Where’s Tom?”
“He’s probably already on the train, sulking somewhere. He’s never late.” Theo snickered, and you rolled your eyes, smacking him across the shoulder for his joke.
“Blaise is inside holding a cabin for us, is Tom not sitting with us?” Enzo questioned, and you turned to Mattheo, waiting for answers.
“He’ll be here, trust me.”
“He’s late?” Draco asked, quickly followed by Enzo and Theo, all discussing it. Regulus stayed quiet, smoking and trying to hide it from being seen, but his expression was just as concerned as everyone else’s.
The chatter continued on, by your worry didn’t cease, checking up and down the platform as people bustled and crowded it. Saying their final goodbyes and giving out hugs, climbing on and off the train as they all wished one another Merry Christmas, and being unable to see either end was causing your anxiety to rocket higher.
The train horn blared again, and students began to board. “Mattheo, seriously, where is he—” Just like that, you saw him, the busy platform parting to let him through, the look on his face as terrifying as ever, and people moved out of his way as he made his way towards your group.
“Told you he’d be here,” Mattheo smirked, and you raised a brow.
“The hell did you say to him this morning, Matt?” Regulus questions.
“He looks mad,” Draco murmured.
“He looks like he’s plotting.” Enzo corrected.
Every step closer rose the tension as Tom finally looked up, his sights setting on you, and his jaw clenched. Brows drawn in, he did look like he was plotting, like a thousand thoughts were racing through his mind that he couldn't sort through.
“Hey, man. We thought you were gonna’ miss the—” Draco’s words cut off at your squeak, as Tom stepped closer, never stopping the movements of his body until he was cupping your cheeks, his mouth descending upon your own.
You were almost knocked backwards from the force of it, your hands gripping at his shoulders as he bent you over backwards, a kiss so intense your knees almost went weak.
It was desperate, you could barely keep up, kissing back as best you could through your shock, until it wore off enough to reciprocate. Wrapping one arm around his neck, your other slipped to his face, his own hands making their way down, to band around your waist and pull you in closer, until your bodies were flush.
His tongue licked into your mouth, a sigh escaping you as he did, and your heart pounded against your heart, the same way he was doing, felt through his jumper and layers. The boys were whistling, cheering and hooting, and if you weren’t so happy you’d have been embarrassed by the show they were making, and the attention they were no doubt drawing.
When he finally pulled back, you panted softly, his forehead resting on your own, blinking his eyes open to meet your gaze.
“Can I write to you regardless?” He mumbled, voice rough and tense with emotion, and your brows furrowed.
“Wh— What?”
He leaned in, not helping you clear your dazed mind at all as he kissed you again, and again, until you were smiling, fingers clenched so tight in his coat that your knuckles were white, just to stay upright.
You pecked his lips once more, chasing him as he pulled back, and the train horn sounded, a final warning, but you didn’t care. “You know how I feel now. You don’t have to wait for my reply. You can be assured that I will miss you dearly over these two weeks, and I am already counting the minutes until I see you again. But can I write to you, still?”
As the realisation set in, your face flamed, jaw dropping a little bit, and he wasted no opportunity, kissing you softly. “You read my letter.”
He only nodded, a gentle chuckle onto your mouth as your lips brushed. “You’d leave it to Mattheo to deliver? He’d probably lose it at a McDonalds, trying to get a Big Mac before my father saw him, on the way home.
Your laughter was sweet, a puffed-out sound as his hands smoothed up and down your back. “I’d love to get more letters from you, Tommy. I’m sorry I didn’t give it to you in person, but I was scared. I thought I’d made my feelings for you obvious, and you didn’t reciprocate, so I had to write that letter. To get it out, to finalise it all.”
“I like to consider myself a smart man, you know. When it comes to you, clearly, I’m a fool. You leave me speechless, and without proper thoughts, every time. All I can think about is how pretty you are, and how much I like you, despite my best efforts not to.”
The declaration was so utterly Tom, to hate being in love even if he loved it.
“For Salazar’s sake, what have you done, Matt?” Theo cussed, and you twisted your head to look at him. “Shakespeare over here is going to be writing sonnets for the rest of the year. None of us will stand a chance with any other girls when he’s showing us up, standing under windows, yelling his love to the moon.”
You rolled your eyes, ignoring their nonsense. Tom did the same, nuzzling his nose against your cheek, and leaving a kiss there.
“I’ll look forward to your letters, just as I did in the summer.” You whisper, pulling away from him as the platform clears, most students already aboard now.
“And after?” Tom questions, “May I still write you letters if I, too, find myself struggling to confess my feelings in person?”
“Oh, God,” Enzo muttered. “He’s going to be writing love letters all year. He’s making the rest of us sound like cavemen. Me, you, bed, now.” He grunted, smacking a fist in his chest. You giggled as Tom rolled his eyes.
“We should get on the train.” You whisper, taking pity on the others and untangling yourself from his arms.
Tom took his bag again, and your own. With a final kiss on your cheek, he walked away to the door of the carriage, letting the rest of you follow behind. Mattheo fell into step beside you, smirking as he bumped your hips with his own.
“So, should I tell my mother and father that they have a new daughter-in-law this holiday, or wait ‘til the next.”
His teasing made you blush again, cheeks already red in the cold, warming you under all those layers. “You’re a filthy traitor. You gave him my letter early.”
“I said I’d give it to him ‘tomorrow’. Never agreed to the after the train part.” He tutted, proud of himself. “Always pay attention to the words of a contract. My dear brother taught me that. You never have to break a promise, if you’re smart with your words.”
That sounded exactly like something your man would say, your eyes rolling to the Heavens.
Mattheo leaned in, voice dropping to a whisper as the pair of you climbed the steps. “You never have to break your heart either, if you’re smart about who you give it to.”
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You and Hamzah had been friends for a long long time. Since 2019, to be exact.
And for just as long, you’d had a problem—a very big, annoying, and undeniably attractive problem.
You had a massive, ridiculous, life-ruining crush on him.
It wasn’t your fault. Not really. Hamzah was stupidly perfect in the worst way possible. Perfect smile, perfect laugh, perfect arms that flexed just enough when he stretched. Perfect personality—when he wasn’t being a complete pain in your ass.
You could never tell him, though. That would be suicidal.
Because Hamzah was a walking contradiction—one second calling you the most gorgeous girl he’s ever met, the next laughing at you for tripping over absolutely nothing. You never knew where you stood with him, and you weren’t about to risk ruining your friendship over feelings you couldn’t control.
So instead, you wrote about him.
Your diary—the one thing that knew the truth.
You had stacks of them, dating all the way back to when you were eight. They weren’t hidden well, but they were hidden enough. And inside those pages, you let yourself be honest—about how much you loved the way he made you laugh, about how obnoxiously pretty he was, about how you could stare at him for hours and never get bored.
Your diary knew everything.
And Hamzah was never supposed to find out.
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It was his idea to have a sleepover.
“It’s been a while, man. Let’s just chill, order some food, maybe watch some trash TV.”
“Fine,” you had said, “but you’re paying for the food.”
Which led you to now—fresh out of the shower, warm towel wrapped around you, music blasting from the bathroom speaker. You didn’t hear a thing outside the bathroom.
Not even the sound of Hamzah in your room.
Not even the pages turning.
You walked out, still toweling your hair, already expecting to find him sprawled on your bed, eating your snacks, making himself at home like he always did.
But he wasn’t there.
Frowning, you stepped further inside—until you saw him.
Hamzah was sitting on the edge of your bed.
Holding your diary.
Your heart stopped.
He had it open, fingers still resting on the pages, dark eyes scanning over your handwriting. He looked so focused—so deep in it that he didn’t even notice you standing there.
Panic slammed into you. Holy. Fucking. Shit.
And then—he read out loud.
“I fucking love you, hm?”
His voice was slow, deliberate, dangerous.
Your stomach dropped.
Hamzah looked up, finally noticing you frozen in the doorway. He blinked once, processing, then his lips curled into something between a smirk and pure shock.
“You love me?”
Oh my god.
Your body locked up. You couldn’t breathe, couldn’t move—like your brain just shut the fuck down.
“You—” You swallowed hard, forcing words out. “You weren’t supposed to see that.”
“No shit.” He turned back to the page, flipping through more of them. “Damn, how long have you been writing about me?”
“Hamzah, put it down.”
”‘God, he’s so perfect. His face, his body, his fucking personality—’”
“HAMZAH.”
He snapped the book shut, but the damage was already done.
The silence was unbearable.
You stood there, towel slipping from your hands, heart in your throat. Hamzah just stared at you—his jaw tight, something dangerous flashing behind his eyes.
You’d never seen him look at you like that before.
“You should’ve told me,” he muttered.
Your stomach twisted. “Told you what? That I have feelings for you? That I—”
“That I feel the same way.”
Your breath hitched.
You blinked, sure you misheard him. “What?”
Hamzah exhaled sharply, running a hand through his hair. Frustrated. Tense. Like he was struggling to hold himself back.
“You think you’re the only one who’s been fighting this?” His voice was low, almost rough. “You think I don’t notice the way I act around you?”
“Hamzah—”
“You’re the only one who makes me feel like this, (Y/N).”
The words hit you like a truck.
You couldn’t move. Couldn’t breathe. Did he just—?
Hamzah suddenly stood, closing the space between you in two steps.
His fingers brushed against yours—hesitant, testing. His gaze flickered down to your lips, then back up.
“Tell me to stop.”
You didn’t.
And then—he kissed you.
Soft at first, like he was giving you the chance to pull away. But when you didn’t, when you grabbed his hoodie and kissed him back, something inside him snapped.
His arms wrapped around you tight, pulling you flush against him. His hands found your waist, your back, everywhere, like he’d been waiting for this forever.
“Fuck,” he breathed against your lips, voice hoarse. “Why didn’t we do this sooner?”
You laughed, breathless, dizzy, wrecked. “Because you’re a dumbass.”
“And you’re an idiot for thinking I wouldn’t want you.”
You smirked. “You did read my diary, after all. I kinda said it first.”
He groaned, pressing his forehead against yours. “You’re never gonna let that go, are you?”
“Not a chance.”
And when he kissed you again—slow, deep, all-consuming—you knew you wouldn’t have to.
Because now, for the first time, he was yours.
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One thing that really gets me about Urianger comforting Minfilia in Amh Araeng is that when she says Thancred hates her, Urianger never actually says, no, he doesn't. He says instead, none of this is your fault, and the original Minfilia wouldn't hold anything against you, and in typical Urianger form he says some things about fate and faith, and his words are kind and beautiful--but he also completely sidesteps the question of how Thancred feels about her.
And I think this moment is very reflective of Urianger's relationship to Thancred and child!Minfilia as a whole. It reflects what we see when we first see all of them together in Il Mheg.
Urianger knows that the way Thancred behaves toward the girl is hurting her. He's spent enough time around the two of them to see that plainly. Theoretically, he could say something to Thancred about it; they're obviously close friends, and if Thancred was going to value anyone's opinion, it would be his. But he doesn't say anything, because he still feels guilty and responsible for all of it: about their Minfilia going to the First and what happened to her there, and thus for what both Thancred and child!Minfilia are going through now. Even though Thancred has never outright blamed him for it (however he may feel privately, which I think is hard to say), it seems like Urianger still feels like he has no right to say anything.
So he tries to compensate instead. He's kind to Minfilia, connects with her in his own way and gives her books, and by the time we see them together he's obviously become something of a familial figure to her. I would say that he and Thancred aren't so much raising her together as they're doing it... around one another. Thancred is gruff and cold and holds Minfilia at arm's length emotionally so that his protectiveness comes off harshly even when it's well-meant, and Urianger dotes on her and tries to make up for it all while avoiding the actual problem.
So that conversation in Amh Araeng is both touching and maddening to me, and it really drives home what's maddening about it when, upon overhearing it, the Warrior of Light turns to Thancred to ask him if he has anything to say to Minfilia--who has just said, out loud, that she thinks Thancred wishes she was dead--and Thancred just says, "Not today."
And so they both go on avoiding the actual problem, for just a little longer.
#afk by the aetheryte#the scions in the first are such a mess#i love them and they make me climb the walls#ffxiv stuff#shadowbringers spoilers#i've loved that conversation since i first played it#and at the same time upon revisiting it i really feel#that glaring absence of anything addressing the actual problem#minfilia's actual pain#because urianger is still avoiding it#urianger augurelt#thancred waters#ryne waters
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