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When you want your new found brother to read you a story.
#animator vs animation#hollow escape au#ava fandom#ava the chosen one#ava the second coming#ava fanart#achly arts#ava tco#ava tsc#avm tsc#avm the second coming#alan becker fanart#alan becker#technically he can read. just not very well#them being brothers TuT
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got so litty i locked myself in my room and tried filming a tutorial for my mockingjay tote back
#reason number one thousand i should never host parties: i leave the fucking party to be in my room#at least it wasnât rlly my party my brother was just freaking out bc he thought i ran away or something idk#another fun fact about me is i like filming youtube videos for fun#i never upload them i just think itâs fun to pretend im doing a makeup haul or a thrift haul or in this case a crochet tut#i kept adding uhs to every single word for some reason it was horrible#on the bright side i did get âloop and scoop!! loop and scoop!!!â out of it#i was being thourough even though yall could barely see the fucking yarn cos my floor was so crazy messy#also obligatory iâm sorry i got so messy on tumblr dot com last night#the were the millers post did have potential though imma have to watch it again and start brainstorming
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I picture Ming Fan as the perfect teacher's pet, not in an ass kisser way, but in a was-born-for-this kind of way. If the authority figure is a cruel sneering villain, he is a cruel little minion hunched over rubbing his hands on the corner. If the authority figure is an old man with mommydaddy vibes, he's the neighborhood's unattainable MILF's son who clearly wants the cool Martial Arts champion to be his new dad and not you, I'm going to tell mom you hit me you little shit.
Unfortunately in the last scenario his aspiring stepdad is his little shit of pseudo (martial) brother, who wrote a poem titled something that Ming Fan interpreted as "Shixiong's mom has got it going on" which thankfully flew right above Shizun's head. Ming Fan just KNOWS that if Luo Binghe asked Shizun if they could marry pretty please Shizun would sigh and accept but only because Binghe has been such a diligent and filial disciple and he deserves a reward. And Ming Fan is not unaware of how incestuous he makes it sound, but you don't live here you don't know what he's going through.
He tried to keep Luo Binghe's grubby paws away from his shimei, but he focused so much on guarding the cabbage patch he didn't see Luo Binghe sneak past and towards the farmer's house!
Thank Heavens the farmer is so far removed from mortal issues he doesn't notice the beast he collared wants to be his house wife.
So Ming Fan, instead of a little henchman, becomes an anxiety riddled teenager, seeing gold diggers hiding in every corner. Ning Ying Ying tuts and tells him he's being ridiculous, to which Luo Binghe shakes his head and says:
"No, no. I see them too."
#svsss#ming fan#bingqiu#mip#ah. love svsss!Ming Fan he's doing his best#he is also a good example of nature vs nurture#pidw!lbh meets this ming fan and doesn't recognize him at first sight and then ming fan sees him and doesn't recognize him either#because the GOLD DIGGER floating above lbg's head is so bright it blinded him for a moment#after he recovered his sight he immediately clocked lbg as an impostor#because lbh's always had the word's ASPIRING ATTIC WIFE hovering above his head. at least since he started seeing things#he doesn't know quite what aspiring attic wife means but he can take a very accurate guess
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roses are red, violets are blue, lynette is so done with the two of you
lyney x gn!reader
lynette thinks fontaineâs worst kept secret isnât how neuvillette wears blue underwear or how the hydro archon loves a good drama, no, fontaineâs worst kept secret is lyneyâs massive crush on you and how everyone and their grandmother know except you.
comedy, pining lyney, lynette being so done
Lyneyâs frowning.
Most people would find it an odd expression on him, used to having him direct dazzling smiles and playful laughter their way. But Lynette isnât just anyone, and the sight of Lyney frowning is hardly a rare phenomenon within the privacy of their household.
Freminetâs usually Lyneyâs choice of victim for whatever nonsense heâs managed to build himself up in that head of his, but Freminetâs busy doing errands and Lynette is unfortunately the only person within vicinity that Lyney trusts with his secretâwhich isnât even a secret by this point, people have been making bets on how long it would take you to realize that Lyneyâs been pining over you since forever.
Case in point: Lyney frowning over two identical flowers. She doesnât need to be a mind reader to know that her brother is having a midlife crisis over which flower to give you.
Lynette thinks he should just man up and confess. Preferably within the next week or so, otherwise sheâd lose her bet.
âLynette, which one is more eye-catching, the crimson one,â he holds up the flower in his right hand, then he raises the other one, âor the maroon one?â
Lynette gives him the deadest stare she can muster. âTheyâre the same color.â
âOh, sister, have you no taste?â Lyney tuts, pouting at her for a moment before returning to that constipated look as he squinted at the âcrimsonâ and âmaroonâ flowers. Talk about being delusional.
â(Y/N)âs not gonna care whether the rose is crimson or maroon or red,â she tells him. Youâd probably accept a dead flower if it came from Lyney, with that starry-eyed look you always got whenever he so much as glances your way. Lynetteâs not one to judge other peopleâs taste too harshly, but she does wonder what you see in her overdramatic and annoying brother.
Ah, well. They do say love makes people blind. Hopefully not literally though, Lynetteâs not looking forward to performing shows alone because Lyney got blinded by his love for youâthough if you asked Lynette, sheâd tell you it wasnât love so much as obsession. Only someone insane would spend hours picking out flowers and calling them âmaroonâ and âcrimsonâ. Itâs just red.
Lynette squints at him. âAnd since when were you interested in the meaning of flowers?â
âWell, I suppose you could say I like to dabble in other pursuits.â Lyney gives her a cheeky grin.
âRightâŚâ Heâs clearly losing his mind.
âRed roses symbolize true love, though rainbow roses in particular pertain to passion, andâŚâ He trails off, eyes blinking in astonishment. She can practically see the lightbulb appearing on top of his head.
With a flick of his wrists, the âcrimsonâ and âmaroonâ roses disappear. Lynette watches him warily, wondering what kind of outlandish idea has formed in that head of his.
But he doesnât elaborate more, only shoots a wink at her and says, âIâve got a great idea.â
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His great idea, as it turns out, is to corner you in an alleyway and make it rain rainbow roses around you as he asked you out on a date, all while Lynette is crouched on the roof, dumping sacks of rainbow roses and vindictively hoping one of them stabs Lyney in the eye. No such luck.
You, as the ever-crazy romantic that you are, are awestruck and amazed by what heâs done instead of weirded out like how a normal person would be. With an eager smile and a twinkle in your eye, you accept the rose in Lyneyâs hand and say yes when he asks you to meet him for dinner tomorrow. Lynette wants to barf, but settles for dumping another sack of flowers on top of the two of you.
And if she uses a little bit of anemo to direct a few petals to Lyneyâs face? Well, you removing a petal sticking to his cheek and having your fingers linger there for a few moments wasnât part of the plan (the plan being: embarrass her brother by having him choke on a petal while heâs speaking), but she canât entirely begrudge the result. Not when Lyney looks like heâs about to have a meltdown with just one touch from you. Good blackmail material right there.
Lynetteâs happy that the two of you have finally gotten your heads off your asses and are actually going on a date. Though mostly sheâs happy about the amount of mora heading her way soon.
Sheâll have to thank Freminet for telling her about the bet about you and Lyney. Maybe she can start a new bet on when the two of you are getting marriedâprobably soon, if the lovestruck look on Lyneyâs face is anything to go by. She hopes he wonât be crazy enough to propose on the second date, because youâd certainly be crazy enough to accept if he did.
Oh, well. Lynette will put a bet on one month just in case.
#look i havenât done the archon quest yet#so i donât have a good feel yet of their characters#but iâm sticking with this characterization!!#genshin x reader#genshin impact x reader#lyney x reader#gn reader#lynette
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âď¸â giving chris a strip tease ! authors note. ok so this was supposed to be a short drabble but it ended up being 1.1k words.. :/ the fuck (also no part two for this for the time being !!)
"what the hell are you doin'?" chris laughs lightly as you push at his shoulders, forcing him to sit down at the edge of your bed, instead of greeting him with a kiss when he walks through the door after spending a few hours with his brothers.
although he had fun, he wanted nothing more than to come to your place and spend the rest of his day with you in your arms, so he's surprised by your abrupt actions â rather than your usual welcoming kiss.
the smile still lingers on his lips as he curiously watches you walk to your desk, pick up your phone, and scroll for a few seconds before tapping the screen. suddenly, a familiar song starts playing from the portable speaker he had left at your place a few days prior.
chris finds himself humming along, and he drums his fingers against his thighs and nods his head to the beat. but all of his movements come to a slow halt when he sees you pull at the silk robe you're wearing, revealing his favourite set of lingerie beneath. he swallows thickly, his mouth going dry at the sight.
"holy shit..." chris exhales deeply, blinking at you in shock as he struggles to tear his eyes away from your body. "what are youâwhat are you doin'?"
"nothing," you quip with a teasing smile, allowing your body to move to the rhythm of the music. you watch as he opens and closes his mouth a few times, struggling to use his words.
chris goes to stand up from the bed, but you shake your head, telling him to remain seated. he huffs in response but does as he's told, his hands curling into tight fists on his thighs as he watches you intently.
he eyes you like a hawk, taking in your languid movements with deep breaths. his cock hardens in his jeans and he shifts uncomfortably on the bed, wanting nothing more than to free himself as his fingers graze over his belt buckle, but he stops once again when you give him a look of warning.
chris laughs in annoyance, "are you, like, fuckin' around with me right now?"
you don't answer. instead your fingers reach behind you to unclasp your bra, letting the straps slide down your shoulders before it pools to the floor, your breasts on display.
chris groans, his tongue prodding at his cheek as he tilts his head back with an exasperated sigh and rolls his eyes. he then looks back at you, biting down hard on his bottom lip while shaking his head.
you feel a sense of proudness and excitement seeing him so worked up over your mini performance.
you turn your back to him, swaying your hips side to side as your hook your fingers beneath the waistband of your panties, and you slide them down your legs, revealing yourself bare to your boyfriend.
your lips stretch into a smile when you hear him curse behind you, and you peer your head over your shoulder to see his eyes staring at your ass, his fists twitching to touch you.
you turn back around to face him, and you slowly walk over to him. he leans back, his lips curling into a grin and his eyes shining as you crawl onto his lap and sit yourself down on his thighs.
he looks up at you, his hands coming around to slide over your hips before caressing your ass, pulling you against him but you tut with a shake of your head.
"stop trying to touch me." you tell him, tone light and teasing despite meaning it.
"i want to fuckin' touch you," chris shoots back, craning his neck to ghost his lips over yours to kiss you, but he huffs in disappointment when you pull away from him again. "i have my girl sittin' naked on top of me and i'm supposed to not to touch her? that's fuckin' crazy."
"just be patient."
"i don't have patience."
you roll your eyes, but you take a hold of his hand, bringing it up to your mouth. you litter a few, gentle kisses across his knuckles before pressing his fingers to your lips.
his eyes widen slightly when you push his index and middle finger past your lips and into the warmth of your mouth, swirling your tongue around his fingers while keeping your gaze locked on his.
"hahâfuck," chris pants, laying his fingers flat against your tongue, shuddering when he feels you start to suck. "why are you doin' this to me, ma?"
pulling his spit covered fingers from your lips, you smile at him sweetly, "i'm putting on a show for you."
chris goes to tell you that this is definitely some sort of torture, that all he wants to do is flip you around and have you beneath him to fuck you instead. but his mouth drops open in shock when you slowly take his hand down your body and press his wet fingers to your cunt, hearing you moan so prettily as you ease them inside of you.
chris watches in silence as you fuck yourself on his fingers as if it were his cock, and he resists the urge to move â to rip himself out of your grip and hold you down as he fingers you until your legs give out.
but he's in a trance, watching you do everything yourself, hearing the moans and whines spilling from your lips that he wishes he could kiss.
"oh my god," chris murmurs when he feels your spongy walls clench around him as his fingers brush against the spot that has your body tensing above him. "a'ight. you gotta let me do somethin', ma."
you shake your head, breathless as you answer. "no."
"will you justâ" chris cuts himself off with an exhale. he closes his eyes. "please? just let me fuckin' do somethin'. let me kiss you orâ"
chris grunts when one harsh movement of your hips grinding on his fingers causes you to rub again his cock, making his eyes shoot open at the pleasure that trickles down his spine.
"you're gonna make me cum in myâshit, maâ"
"you sound so pretty when you beg," you hum softly, breath hitching at the back of your throat as you thrust his fingers deeper inside you, unable to control yourself as your head dips forward, resting your forehead to his.
"i'll beg all you want if you let me do somethin'," chris whispers quietly to you, panting due to the friction against his cock. "i'll beg for you all night, okay? just... just let me make you feel good too. let me touch you."
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How Far Are You Willing To Go? - 1
PAIRINGS: Ex-husband!Simon "Ghost" Riley x Reader
SUMMARY: Amid a quiet life post-divorce initiated by Ghost himself, his past resurfaces when his ex-wife and their young children are abducted. He's thrust into a desperate race against time to save them, facing his own demons and fighting to protect his family at any cost. Question is, how far is he willing to go?
WARNINGS: Angst, if you squint. Simon being a dummy for getting a divorce. Incorrect knowledge of allergies and asthma (please help a girlie out)
WORD COUNT: 1,096
*not proof-red*
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âRylan needs to take his-,â you immediately get interrupted by his low and rough voice. âMeds, by seven in the evening after having his dinner. Yeah, I know,â you canât help but feel that there is a trace of disdain in his voice.
Oh, how youâve heard so many variations of that voice. From the usual rough and dark, to how soft and loving it could go. The latter was a rarity for people to hear, who meet him outside of your homeâs doors. For you, however, it was common. Was being the key word. It may have not been the voice you heard 24/7, but it was a voice you heard daily.
You look at him and eye the black surgical mask he wears, âright,â you pause. âJust wanted to make sure,â you give him a purse smile, before bending down to be at eye level with your six-year-old.
âKyla, be good and take care after your brother. Be kind in school and do your homework. Call me if you ever need some help with it, ok?â You try to wear out the imaginary creases on her little brown cardigan.
She nods her head like a mini determined soldier and says a very affirmative âyes Mama.â Then you move over to kneel in front of your youngest, Rylan. The four-year-old with the many existing allergies. He rubs his nose, and you tut at him, âuse a tissue honey, here blow into this.â You hand him the handkerchief you always carry around for this exact reason. âDo you have your inhaler?â You ask your boy, and he nods proudly as he reaches into his pocket and shows you the small piece of plastic.
âCall me if you need Mama, ok Rylan?â You rest your hands on his shoulders, and pat down on the sweater, you look into the light brown eyes he inherited from his father and kiss his forehead. He nods at you one last time before turning around and running to your ex-husbandâs family truck. Kyla kisses your cheek one last time before screaming a âbuh-bye Mamaâ and running off to catch up with her little brother.
You stand back up and cross your arms, heart hurting a little knowing youâd be spending two weeks without your children. But what can you do? Not complain, of course.
It was part of the divorce agreement that Simon is allowed to have the children over at his place for three weeks maximum, whenever he returns from deployment. You reluctantly agreed, purely to the reason that you wouldnât survive if you were in Simonâs place and couldnât be able to see your kids.
You were kind in that way.
Simon loved you for it.
He loved everything about you.
He still does.
The ice around his heart thaws as he sees your eyes become bleary as you watch the kids climb into his backseat.
He hates seeing you sad.
He does everything in his power to mask the emotions he feels, and he does it well.
âWell,â you sniffle, âI-uhâŚ.Iâll leave you to it then.â You wipe your eyes nonchalantly before tucking a stray piece of hair behind your ear as a sort of distraction to what you feel currently.
It was always hard for you whenever Simon comes to pick up the kids.
The mother hen in you does not want to send them with him. But you know, a 100 percent sure, that theyâre safer with him than with you, considering Simonâs military experience.
One of the main reasonâs Simon broke things off with you.
Simon nodâs, his hands remain in the pockets of his hoodie. You lift the little paw patrol and the little Bluey child suitcases and hand it to him. âThere are three weeksâ worth of clothes in there, for each of them,â you stick your hands to the side immediately after he takes them into his rough and calloused ones.
âPlease call me if-,â you start, but he interrupts you again. âAnything happens. Yeah, I know,â he says with a rough tone that says, âyou seriously think theyâll get hurt with me?â.
âRightâŚ...right,â you nod as you whisper, the words more of a reassurance to you.
You try to peak at his eyes under his hoodie, but to no avail, you couldnât see them under his black tainted sports sunglasses.
His phone starts to ring, and he pulls out of his back pocket to see the caller ID revealing the caller âPriceâ.
âIâll see you in two weeks then,â you say, knowing he has to go. He nods in response before turning away and heading back to his truck, he places the suitcases in the passenger seat before double checking the buckles on the child-seatâs where Kyla and Rylan are sat in.
He does all the dad checkupâs before getting in the driverâs seat.
He seeâs you through the tainted windows of his truck.
He rolls the back window down so the kids can say their final goodbyeâs
âBye Mama!â Both kids scream and the wave with smiles on their faces. You chuckle wetly as tears silently roll down your cheeks.
You know theyâre safe with Simon, but you heart still hurts that they wonât be around for a while.
Simon sees the tears and his own heart breaks.
He pulls out of the driveway with a heavy heart, hating to see the love of his life in tears.
He sighs before pulling out his phone and clicking on Priceâs caller ID.
The old Captain picks up after two rings.
âGhost, we need you.â
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I know it's been a while, but uni has started and I am trying to re-slay. Here is the much-awaited Simon series I have always wanted to start.
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alright, here it is: part 3 of the still untitled Room Fic! and boy is it long... this might be as long as parts 1 and 2 put together.
Content warnings for this part: vomit, serious discussion of food issues, internalized ableism, everyone being a little bit dumb
I am not a doctor and my meal plan for Leo is extremely lightly researched (mainly because it's hard to find information that would be helpful in Leo's situation but that isn't highly technical). in the end I went with what I like from a narrative standpoint. if someone starves as long as Leo did please get them to an actual doctor lol.
also I got tired and didn't proofread the last few sections.
just a warning that I'm going on vacation next week and will be out of the country for awhile so don't expect any more for this for quite some time. in the meantime, hope you enjoy this!
and if you're confused, start here!
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Leo wakes up.
The room is moving. His head is cradled in someone's lap. There's a furry hand stroking his arm, and a voice hums the notes of a lullaby he hasn't heard since he was a child.
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Leo wakes up.
He's lying somewhere soft and blessedly warm. There's a weight across his chest. Someone is chattering in his ear, happy and upbeat, saying something to him about Jupiter Jim on the desert planet Delta-5.
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Leo wakes up.
He's still somewhere soft but now it's too hot. He whines and pushes at the things on his chest. Near his ear someone tuts, and then a hand lands on his, giving it a squeeze.
"Nardo, you need to warm up. Don't-"
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Leo wakes up, and his eyes open.
"Leo?" comes Raph's voice. Leo blinks to clear his vision, then lets his eyes trail up, to find his big brother bending over him. "You awake for real this time?"
He isn't sure. Raph being here sure feels like a dream.
He lowers his eyes and looks around. He's not home. He doesn't recognize this place at all, actually. But the walls are beige (still unstimulating, but at least not white), the furniture is dark brown, the bed (not a cot) has a blue bedspread, the empty takeout containers on the table have a splash of red. It's not home, but it's not the room, either.
If he were going to dream, surely he'd just picture himself back home.
He blinks back up at Raph, and smiles.
"Wide awake," he says, echoing Raph from before.
Raph bursts into tears, immediately leaning down and wrapping Leo up in one of his signature hugs. For the first time in so many days (longer, longer, Leo can't remember the last time he got a Raph hug like this), Leo feels completely secure, fully enveloped in love and affection, held safe by his big brother where no one can hurt him.
The difference between this moment and the last week and a half is so stark it leaves Leo feeling dizzy. Like he hadn't even realized how scared and lonely and helpless he truly felt until all that pain was taken away. He's safe now. He's okay now. Raph is hugging him.
Leo hates crying in front of people, but even he can't be stoic for this.
"Oh Leo," says Raph softly once he realizes. "It's okay. We got'cha."
Leo sniffs, burying his face in Raph's plastron. He wishes he could hug back, but his limbs feel so heavy, like Donnie swapped them out for metal versions when he wasn't looking. So he can't hug back, but he leans in close and hopes that's enough.
They get about a minute to hug before Mikey is worming his way in between them, wriggling to push his arms past Raph's and around Leo for himself. "No fair, you got to hold him earlier!" Mikey declares, his voice thick with tears.
"You got to hug him earlier," Raph argues.
"He was asleep, it doesn't count!" Mikey hits back, and Leo laughs and shifts so Mikey can better get in the middle. Raph sighs exaggeratedly, but he gives Leo a pat and leans back to let Mikey in.
Mikey hugs even tighter than Raph, nuzzling in against Leo's shoulder. "I missed you," he says, then gives a choked sob he tries to bury.
"Missed you too," Leo promises, craning his neck so he can land a big smooch on Mikey's head. That replaces the sobs with relieved giggles that leave Leo feeling so much lighter.
After another minute, Mikey moves back and looks over at Donnie, who's been standing at the side of the bed wringing his hands. "Your turn, Donald."
Donnie makes a grumpy noise at having been perceived, but when Leo gets a look at his face he sees Donnie has tears shimmering in his eyes, too. They break free once Donnie's arms are around him, trickling onto the skin of Leo's shoulder.
"Crying over me, Don-ton?" he teases, even as his own voice is thick with emotion.
"Shut up, Nardo," Donnie snaps back, but his voice cracks at the end and he holds on even tighter.
"Alright, my turn," says April once Donnie starts to loosen his grip, and Donnie obligingly crawls off the bed, swiping at his eyes. Like he's looking for something to busy himself with, he starts throwing away the takeout containers on the table. They must be empty.
Leo tears his eyes away just as April swoops in to wrap him up in his fourth hug of the hour, giving him a kiss on his forehead as she does. "Hey, Leo. How're you feelin'?"
"Happy to see you," he says again, and she squeezes him tighter. "Kinda hot."
"That's the hypothermia talking," says Donnie. April shushes him.
"Hypothermia?" Leo asks. April pulls back so she can see his face.
"It wasn't that bad," she says quickly. "You'd started brumating, we think... Tromping around in the snow didn't help, though."
"Not to mention you used up the last of your energy portaling us out of there," Mikey chimes in. "It was really cool though!"
Leo laughs. "Thanks, little brother." Even with the containers thrown away, the smell of the takeout is thick in the room. Leo guesses they had Japanese. It can't have been that long ago. "Where are we?"
"Motel room about two hours down the road." April slides to sit next to him, keeping one arm wrapped around his shoulders. Her body heat is warm in a more pleasant way than the blankets, and he leans into it. "We wanted to go further, but we needed to get you warmed up."
"A motel...? Huh." Leo looks around again. This is his first time being in a hotel that isn't owned by Big Mama. He wonders how far it is from the Japanese place. Just, like, average delivery time. "What happened? It's... kind of a blur for me." He laughs.
They launch into the story without any more prompting. It all sounds like what Leo expected. Raph led the team. Donnie did science stuff. Mikey razzed his tazz. April used her investigative skills.
They tracked him all the way down to Colorado (that explains the snow) and broke him out. They floored it away from the EPF, got far enough they felt safe, then booked into a motel under April's name. That's where they've been since. Splinter and Draxum are out now, patrolling to make sure they weren't followed or discovered.
It's quite the story. And Leo knows he should be paying more attention than he is.
It's just, the takeout boxes. The smell coming from them is so strong, or maybe Leo is just abnormally sensitive to it. He thinks someone had steak, and someone else had fish. The fried rice had egg in it. His mouth is watering so badly he has to swallow every few seconds.
"Leo?" calls Mikey, and Leo startles, ripping his eyes from the trash can to look at Mikey's face. He's gripping the bedspread so hard his knuckles are cramping. He realizes this is not the first time Mikey said his name. Great, now they know he wasn't paying attention.
"Ah, sorry," he says quickly. "I didn't mean to zone out." He flashes them all the biggest smile he can, so they don't worry. "I was just, uh..."
He trails off, not sure of a way to say that he was completely distracted by the smell of their already eaten Japanese food without making it awkward.
"Sorry, Leo, we know you're tired," says Raph, reaching over and rubbing his head. "You can go back to sleep. We're not leaving for awhile."
Go back to sleep? Leo doubts he can, what with the hunger an empty yawning hole inside him. It had been muted while the cold and the exhaustion took over, but now that he's warmer and more rested his body is very painfully reminding him he still has another problem.
He's trying to come up with a casual way to approach the subject when his stomach does it for him, gurgling and growling loud enough that everyone hears it. Leo is very glad his blushes don't show up as easily as humans' do.
"Uh... heh heh." He scratches at his own cheek, then stops when he feels how disturbingly hollowed out it is. "Before that... are there any leftovers?"
Everyone's staring at him. Leo's too tired to puzzle out why they're all staring at him. Maybe there really aren't any leftovers? He did just watch Donnie throw everything away. Maybe there were some, but now they'd have to fish it out of the trash. Leo wants to say he'd happily eat it out of the trash, but that would be really weird and they'd stare at him even more.
(But he would eat it out of the trash. He may be too proud to say it out loud, but he can admit it to himself.)
"O-or," he says quickly, to fill the silence after his last question, "if... if it's not too much trouble, can you ask Dad and Barry to bring something with them when they come back? Even if it's just something from a gas station, or..." They're still staring, and Leo feels himself starting to ramble desperately, "Or if it's too late, I can just... I can just go back to sleep, hah, but... but can someone at least wake me up so I don't miss breakfast?"
His family stutters back to life at that. Raph gives a furious shake of his head and says, "Forget breakfast," which makes Leo's heart and stomach lurch painfully. Waiting until lunch? That feels like forever away.
But then Raph continues with, "Leo, why didn't you tell us you're hungry right now?"
Leo falters. "Uh... just... didn't want to interrupt the flow of the conversation," he says, which is true, but the way everyone is looking at him now, he's pretty sure it's the wrong answer.
"Please," says April, tone very close to exasperated, "interrupt the conversation."
"Will do," says Leo. But he's still not sure what to do, because no one has told him when food is coming.
(You want this? You beg for it.)
Before he can spin out on that thought, Mikey jumps off the bed and heads for the mini-fridge that Leo hadn't noticed until now. He yanks open the door and pulls out two takeout containers, a box and a cylindrical container.
"We weren't sure what you felt up to, so we got you steak hibachi and miso soup," Mikey says, waving each container in turn.
The thought of having to actually chew and swallow sounds exhausting, so Leo says, "Soup's fine." And then, just in case, he adds hastily, "Please."
"Okay," says Mikey, and even though he's clearly trying to sound upbeat, Leo can hear the strain in his voice. "Just give me a minute to heat it up for you!"
Leo would eat it cold. Leo would eat it frozen. But he bites that back and waits.
Mikey puts it in the microwave on top of the fridge. Every little tick down on the timer feels like it takes three eternities. The rest of his family seems to feel the tension as much as he does.
"April!" says Donnie abruptly, too loud to be natural. "You wanted to see what's on the sci-fi channel!"
"Thaaat's right!" she says, also a little too loudly. "I did. Hand me the remote."
Donnie gives her the remote. She turns on the TV just as the microwave dings.
Mikey yanks the door open as soon as it does, pulling the bowl out with no regard for how hot it is. He gives it a perfunctory blow to cool it down, then hurries over to the bed, pausing only to grab a plastic spoon off a little pile of utensils on the table.
He hands both the bowl and spoon to Leo, but Leo already knows his arms won't be able to maneuver the spoon, so he lets it fall into his lap, in favor of lifting the entire container to his lips. He hopes he doesn't look too pathetically eager as he tilts it back and takes his first sip.
It's good.
It's so good he starts crying.
It's not even the best miso soup he's ever had. In fact, it's a little too oily and nowhere near as good as the kind his dad makes, or what Mikey is capable of. But it doesn't matter. It wouldn't matter if this was the worst soup in the world, because right now it's the best thing Leo has ever tasted.
He may be crying more over this than he did over hugs from his family. Maybe he'll have it in him to feel bad for that later.
The TV is showing some old monster movie. His siblings pretend they're watching that and not watching him. He appreciates that, because it makes him feel less self-conscious as he desperately slurps down the soup, practically guzzling it, only pausing when he has to chew the greens here and there.
He eats until his stomach is full and warm. And then he keeps going. There's still soup left, and stopping feels impossible.
(Besides, no one actually promised him breakfast.)
"Hey, maybe you should slow down," says Donnie. Leo pauses, looking up at him, licking the remains of soup off his lips. The container is still about a third full.
Maybe Donnie is right. His stomach is actually starting to cramp. But... but...
He doesn't know what his face looks like right now. But something about it makes Donnie look sad.
He turns away, rubbing right between his fake eyebrows. "Okay, okay. Just... don't overdo it."
Leo sighs, grateful the soup isn't being taken away. He goes back to drinking it, feeling like the chasm inside him is finally beginning to fill.
-----
The next time Leo wakes up, it's because he has to puke. Unfortunately, he doesn't have time to communicate that before it's all over himself and the bedsheets.
"Whoa, Leo-" someone says, and then there's a flurry of activity around him. He can't keep up with who goes where and who says what. It's a lot to keep track of when he just woke up and is spewing half-digested miso soup and stomach bile.
"There we go... You're alright, Blue, you're alright," he hears once he comes back to his senses, and he blinks and looks over. His dad is standing on the bed next to him, and he leans in with a damp washcloth and wipes at Leo's face and mouth.
"Perhaps the soup was too much for your stomach," Splinter says as he finishes, tossing the washcloth into the floor. "How do you feel?"
"Mm... weird," Leo admits, leaning sleepily into his dad's shoulder. He shouldn't because he's gross, but Splinter lets him do it, stroking his cheek. "My stomach hurts..."
The loss of the food hurts; without anything in his stomach, he'll feel hungry again soon. Leo is terrified of that, of the deep empty chasm of his hunger returning, sucking him down into its depths. At the same time, the idea of eating makes him feel queasy.
He feels weird, and miserable, and scared, and he doesn't know when his dad came back, but he's so glad he's here.
"How much did you let him eat?" he hears Draxum ask. Leo finds the energy to feel offended that he's being talked about like he isn't in the room, but not enough energy to actually say anything about it.
"As much as he wanted," Mikey answers. Which, as Leo recalls, was almost all of the soup.
"And how much was that?"
"Here, look."
There's the sound of the mini-fridge being opened again. The pop of the takeout lid. Draxum hums in a way that does not sound pleased.
"Leonardo," he says, coming to stand by the bed now. "I have a very important question and I need you to answer: when was the last time you ate?"
Leo stares at him blearily. Then he raises a tired hand and indicates the mess all down his front.
"Don't get cute," says Draxum, ignoring the following grunt of warning Splinter directs his way. "You know what I'm asking you."
Of course Leo knows. But he doesn't want to answer. Not while his dad is holding him, and all his siblings are watching him expectantly. They aren't going to like what he has to tell them. He doesn't want to upset them.
But Draxum is unmoved and steely eyed. There's no way Leo is getting out of this without answering.
He sighs, shutting his eyes and leaning into Splinter so he doesn't have to be looking at the rest of them when he says it.
"Last time I ate was at Run of the Mill."
He hears a gasp, hears Mikey yell, "What!?" Feels Splinter's sharp intake of breath under his cheek, and then his dad shifts so he can hold him even closer.
"They... they didn't feed you in there at all?" asks April, like she doesn't quite believe it.
Leo nods.
"I should have leveled the whole building!" Donnie snaps, and Leo hears something get knocked to the ground.
Mikey comes closer, and puts a hand on his shoulder, drawing Leo's gaze back his way. He looks so upset, and Leo regrets looking. "Leo, why didn't you tell us? You didn't even say you were hungry!"
"Felt weird to bring it up in the middle of the happy reunion," he says. It's a weak justification, he knows. The look on Mikey's face just gets more miserable.
"Wait," Raph cuts in. "Wait, so... when Bishop said he gave you chances to cooperate for better living conditions, he meant..."
Leo swallows hard, not wanting to look at the distress on Raph's face. "Feeding me, yeah."
"What did he want out of you? What was he making you do?"
This part, at least, Leo can answer easily. "He wanted information. About the yokai and the Hidden City."
Raph sounds surprised. "He just... wanted you to answer questions?"
"Yeah." Leo nods again. "Like, how to get in, how many portals there are, what kind of defense capabilities there are, stuff about Draxum... That's what I remember."
"Why didn't you just tell them?"
Now Leo does look at Raph's face. He's staring at Leo with open horror and distress. But Leo doesn't understand the question, or the look. He did what he was supposed to, didn't he? He held out and didn't give Bishop any information. He did the right thing. So Raph has no reason to look so upset.
He smiles in a way he hopes is reassuring. "Hey, that's not what a hero would do, right?"
It's apparently not reassuring. If anything, Raph only looks more horrified.
He turns away from Leo abruptly and marches straight out of the room, slamming the door on the way out.
Leo doesn't understand that reaction. He did what he was supposed to, but Raph is mad at him, anyway. The rest of his family seems shocked, too, so at least Leo isn't alone.
"I'll talk to him," says April, the first to move. She leaves with much less noise, disappearing into the dark parking lot beyond the door.
Awkward silence envelops the room after that. Leo doesn't know what to do or say to break it. He made Raph mad, because he never does anything right, according to Raph. It's the same as always, but for some reason Leo feels even worse this time.
"...Well," says Draxum, cutting through the awkwardness when it becomes clear no one else wants to, "knowing this, we will have to be much more careful about what and how much you eat. I'll make a meal plan."
"Why you?" Leo grouses. "Let Donnie do it."
Donnie opens his mouth like he wants to agree, but Draxum cuts him off before he can.
"Me, because I have actual experience designing nutritious meal plans for children." Leo thinks of what he's heard about Draxum's lunchroom and makes a face, which Draxum ignores. "Besides, I can't trust any of the rest of you to actually tell Leo he can't have more to eat."
"I can handle myself," Leo argues.
"Clearly," says Draxum icily, indicating the mess still in Leo's lap, "you cannot."
Leo doesn't have a good response for that, and no one steps up to his defense. Back not even twenty four hours, and he already has multiple people mad at him. That has to be a new record.
"...Whatever," he says, because he doesn't know what else to say. Draxum nods like he actually gave approval.
There's another round of awkward silence. Splinter breaks it this time.
"Why doesn't someone call housekeeping to ask for some fresh sheets," he says, "while I help Blue take a bath."
"Ugh, yes, I'm calling them now," says Donnie. Leo notes for the first time that his most persnickety brother is as far from his bed as possible, having put the second bed and the table between them. "The whole room is starting to smell."
Leo cringes. "Sorry..."
"There is nothing for you to apologize for," his dad reassures him, patting his head. Leo isn't sure he'd say that, but he doesn't waste breath arguing. "Now, come with me."
It takes some maneuvering, but they get him out of bed without making a bigger mess. Mikey starts stripping the sheets, and he can hear Donnie on the phone with the staff across the room.
Leo's still not wearing any of his gear. It shouldn't matter because he's just in a room with his family, but he still walks to the bathroom as quickly as he can.
Splinter shuts the door once they're inside, then fills a little plastic cup with water. This he hands off to Leo, saying, "Drink this, and I will run you a nice warm bath."
Leo does as he says, and tries not to think too much about how Raph is mad at him.
-----
There's an old concrete barrier that stands between the motel parking lot and an open field. Raph hefts a piece of the crumbling concrete and chucks it as hard as he can, watching as it disappears into the tall grass beyond.
They starved him. They starved his little brother for over a week, because he wouldn't answer some questions. And he wouldn't answer those questions because...
That's not what a hero would do.
Raph's ninpo flares to life. Punching out another piece of the barrier is easy; he lifts the broken pieces and throws them after the first, watching them sail through the air.
"You better hope there aren't any security cameras out here," says a voice behind him, and he looks over his shoulder.
April is there, standing a few feet back, hands tucked in the pockets of her jacket. Raph's ninpo stutters out at the sight of her; he wonders if he looked scary.
"...What are they gonna do even if there are?" he asks. But he does stop his wanton destruction.
"I don't know, but just remember it's my credit card on file for damages." Her voice is teasing, though, and he knows she isn't actually mad. She comes over, turning so she can lean against part of the barrier that's still intact. "Come on, Big Red. Talk to me."
Raph doesn't turn around. He can't stand to look back at the motel, at the room where his brother is, tiny and weak and with a stomach that's been empty for days on end. He can't handle it right now. So he keeps his eyes on the field.
"Leo let those guys hurt him," he says.
"No he didn't," says April. "He can't help what they did to him."
"If he'd just answered their questions, they would have fed him."
"We can't know that." April shakes her head. "You heard what Draxum said about those guys. You saw what they were like. Maybe if Leo had answered their questions, they would have just killed him. Leo was probably thinking that, too."
"But that's not what he said," Raph points out.
"...Look." April takes a deep breath. "Leo... just went through a lot. We don't know what he was thinking while he was in there, or what he's thinking now. And you know that boy likes to say flashy things. Don't take anything he says right now too seriously."
"But what if this is the most truthful he's gonna be? What if he just hasn't thought of a good lie yet?"
"Raph-"
"No, you don't get it, April." Raph holds his head in his hands, like he can physically hold the dark thoughts at bay, but he can't, and they keep coming: horrific images of what could have happened, if they'd been too late, if the EPF had been less patient. "I told him to stop thinking of himself! Right before he disappeared, I told him he needed to be a hero! But Raph didn't mean like this!"
"Hey now, you don't know-" April tries, but Raph cuts her off.
"I just wanted him to stop doing everything himself! All the showboating, all the running in without talkin' to us... Raph just wanted him to remember that we're a team!" He lets go of his head and grips the concrete instead, so hard it cracks and crumbles under his fingers. "What if he took that to mean he should risk his life for everyone else? That he had to sacrifice himself?"
"Oookay, slow down there, big guy," says April, turning around and putting a hand on his arm. "You're taking one thing he said and blowing it way out of proportion."
"But what if I'm right?" Raph shakes his head. "How do I live with that, if I am? Knowing I almost killed him?"
"Okay, you look at me right now," she demands, in a way Raph can't refuse. He turns, and she reaches up and grabs his face by the cheeks, yanking him down until he bends to her eye level.
"You did not almost kill him. That was those EPF guys." Her voice is stern, and her grip on his face prevents him from objecting. "And even if you are right, and it's what you said to Leo that kept him from answering... well, then that's something the two of you will have to work out together."
She lets him go, putting her hands on her hips. "But what's done is done. Right now, Leo is exhausted and starved, and he's not really in a state for big emotional talks. So let's just get some space and get your head on straight. Once we get him home and everything's calmed down, the two of you can hash this out."
Raph lets out a strangled laugh, slumping down against the crumbling barrier. "Yeah, because that's so easy."
"I'm not saying it's easy." She sits down next to him, putting her hand on his arm. "But you guys love each other, so you'll do the hard things you have to do. I know you got this." She gives him a wink. "You're Raph."
Raph isn't sure he has that much faith in himself. But April isn't wrong very often, so he thinks he should probably listen to her.
-----
The water feels nice on Leo's skin, pleasantly warm and soothing. He sinks down until all but his eyes are in the water, letting it swirl around him.
He still feels a little exposed, but it's only Splinter in here, and that helps. It's like he's a little kid again, getting a bath from his dad, but he has to scrunch to cram his legs in the tub and that ruins the illusion.
"My Baby Blue always did enjoy a nice bath," says Splinter fondly, rustling up hotel soap for them to use.
He wets a washcloth and lathers it up, then cleans off the top of Leo's head and back of his neck, then down to his shoulders and the ridge of his shell. Leo would normally protest this kind of treatment, but right now he's not sure he can lift his arms above his head, so he doesn't.
Besides, it feels nice.
"Float on your front," Splinter says, adding, "Deep breath." It's what he always said when they were kids and he wanted to wash their shells. Everyone but Mikey can hold their breath for a long time, but he always says it anyway.
Leo takes a deep breath and flips onto his front, closing his eyes as his dad washes the back of his shell. It's so soothing he could almost take a nap here. The world is nicely muted under the water.
Splinter gives his shell three pats with his hand, the signal to sit back up. Leo does, rolling onto his back to rinse off. Splinter hands him the washcloth and soap, and he cleans his lower half, taking care around the bottom ridges of his shell.
"Thanks for the bath, Daddio," he says as he finishes. "I know I was starting to get pretty ripe." He pulls up the drain plug with a pop, watching the dirty water spin away.
He tries to imagine he's watching the last of that place drain away with it.
Splinter retrieves a fluffy white towel, drying off the top of Leo's head before handing it off. "I wasn't thinking of that," he says. "But I know a good bath always made you feel better when you were sick."
It was never really about the bath, but the undivided dad attention. How Splinter would wash his shell and pat his head and dry him off, just like he's doing now.
It occurs to Leo that he almost lost this forever, and its like his breath is taken away. He buries his face in the towel and tries to ride through it - he doesn't want to cry again.
Splinter must pick up on it, because suddenly he's sitting on the side of the tub, rubbing the top of Leo's shell. "It's okay, Blue. You're safe."
He's safe.
He really is safe, isn't he?
He lowers the towel and turns into his dad instead, wriggling his head into his lap. Splinter welcomes him, patting his head with one hand and the top of his shell with another. Leo's breath hitches and the tears break free.
"I know," says Splinter, and his voice is thick with emotion. Leo knows he can't look or he'll start sobbing. "I... was very scared for you, my son. I am so glad you're here, Leonardo. I love you very much."
"L-love you too," he warbles. His tears are falling fast, now, and Splinter takes the towel and dries them away every now and then.
By the time Leo sits up and rubs at his eyes, the towel is totally soaked through from being in the tub. Splinter moves away to grab him a fresh one, which Leo wraps himself up in.
"Leonardo," says Splinter hesitantly once he is out of the tub, "I know you may not want to talk about it right now. But I need to ask you this."
Leo wonders where this is going. He sits down on the toilet lid, looking at his dad. "Uh, okay."
Splinter looks him up and down before asking, "Did those men... hit you? Or touch you in any way?"
Oh. Leo shakes his head. "No. They didn't... I mean, they just put me in that room. They weren't, like... torturing me or anything."
He thought that would reassure his dad, but if anything Splinter only looks more sad.
"Not feeding you is torturing you," he says.
"Oh, well, yeah, I guess." Leo rubs the back of his head. "But I mean, they weren't... you know. Shocking me or whipping me or... putting me in that medieval stretchy thing from the movies."
"I see." His dad sighs, but nods. "Very well. I'm glad, at least, that you do not have any injuries."
Leo nods back. "Yeah, no, I'm all good." He tries to smile, but his smiles aren't really having the effect they usually do.
"Are you ready to go back?" asks Splinter, moving to the door. Leo nods again, standing up. "Are you still cold?"
Leo blinks in surprise, then realizes Splinter is referring to the towel he still has wrapped around himself. He's not really that cold anymore, but he grabs onto the convenient excuse, anyway.
"Uh, yeah." He grins sheepishly. "Actually, did you guys bring any of my clothes? I'm a little worried about the ride home."
"Ah." Splinter taps his chin. "I don't think we brought any of your things. Your brothers brought their hoodies, I believe, in case they needed to go in a store..." He reaches up and pats Leo's hand. "There is a gift shop in the motel lobby. I will send Purple and Orange in the morning - I'm sure they'd enjoy doing some shopping!"
"Thanks. I just need a sweatshirt or something. Maybe some pajama pants." He shrugs. "Gotta stay toasty, right?"
"That's right. No more turtle-cicles." Splinter reaches up and turns the doorknob, gesturing for Leo to lead the way.
Leo shuffles for the bed, keeping the towel tight around himself as he goes. He doesn't drop it until he's under the sheets again, safely tucked away.
Raph isn't back yet. The realization turns Leo's stomach. But Mikey barrels into bed next to him, cuddling up against one side, while Donnie scoots in on the other, tapping away at his phone, and Leo tries to forget about it.
He's sure that, as soon as he's better, Raph will be back to yell at him.
-----
Leo doesn't realize Draxum left until he comes back. He did doze off for a bit there, though, so it's not surprising.
Mikey was snoozing against Leo's arm, too, but when the door clicks shut he raises his head, blinking sleep out of his eyes. Donnie looks up from his phone. Splinter's asleep in the other bed, only grumbling incoherently at the noise before rolling over.
(Raph and April still haven't come back. It makes Leo's heart thud a little harder.)
"Hey Barry," says Mikey, voice still a little sleepy. He pushes himself up to sit against the pillows. "Find what you were looking for?"
"Yes." Draxum walks over to the bed, pulling a bottle out of a pharmacy bag. He twists the cap loose, then holds it out and says, "Leonardo, drink this."
Leo can't help the way his face screws up as he takes it, eyeing the label on the bottle. "Eugh. What is this?"
"Vegetable juice," Draxum informs him dryly.
"Gross." Leo does not bring the bottle any closer to his lips. "Can I have soda instead?"
"Absolutely not." Draxum's voice is stern. "No sugar or caffeine until I say otherwise."
The next several days are looking worse and worse. Leo grimaces. "Can I just drink water, then?"
"You can and should drink water. But you also need to steadily reintroduce your body to nutrients. The vegetable juice will help, until your stomach can handle more solid food at a time."
Leo groans, eyeing the bottle warily. Anything labeled "juice" should not be this color of red-orange.
"Draxum's just trying to help, Leo!" Mikey chimes in. "Besides, vegetable juice isn't that bad."
It's not the most reassuring endorsement, given that Mikey loves vegetables in a way Leo has never understood. But with his little brother cheering him on, he can't back down.
"Fine. Down the hatch," he mutters, then takes a swig. It tastes just as off-putting as he was imagining, and he shudders and smacks his lips. "Yuck."
"Sorry, Leo." Mikey pats his arm comfortingly. "As soon as Barry says it's okay, we'll get pizza!"
"Please don't remind me of pizza right now..."
"Here." Leo looks up to find Draxum is holding out a handful of crackers. "Eat these, too. Be sure you chew them thoroughly before you swallow. And keep drinking the juice."
Leo takes the crackers in his free hand, putting them in his lap on top of the sheets. There's only six, and they look boring even for crackers. but his stomach perks up with interest, reminding Leo that everything he put in it before got thrown up.
Leo thought he was going to be waiting until breakfast to eat again. The crackers ease that tension, relief he hadn't consciously realized he needed.
Still, can't let Draxum think Leo actually appreciates all his bullying, so Leo still makes a face as he holds up one of the crackers and examines it.
"And these are...?"
"Are you going to react like this to everything?" asks Draxum with a scoff. "They're whole wheat crackers. They'll settle your stomach, and you need food in you so can take these vitamins."
He pulls a bottle out of his bag and shakes it, filling the room with the sound of pills rattling around. Leo scrunches up his snout.
"You didn't get me the chewable kind? Or those fruit gummy ones?"
"Are you such a child you need your medicine in the form of candy?" Draxum rolls his eyes. "You will be just fine with the pills."
"Okay, okay!" Leo groans theatrically, leaning his head back. "I can't believe you guys are letting him take care of him. He'll be feeding me bugs and leaves next."
"Stop whining. No one wants to hear it this late."
"I actually like these crackers," says Donnie. "They're delightfully bland."
This statement is followed by a crunch.
The sound sends a shiver up Leo's shell, and he turns his head in time to see Donnie, one of Leo's crackers in his hand, a big bite taken out of it. He chews and swallows with a slight smile on his face, clearly unconcerned that he just took one of Leo's crackers.
Leo only had six crackers to start. Now there's five. He doesn't know when he gets any more. No one promised him breakfast. And now he only has five crackers, and not six. And he can feel the hunger coming back.
Donnie turns his head and they lock eyes. Leo has no idea what his own expression looks like, but Donnie's turns startled and then almost frightened. He's so shocked he drops the rest of the cracker into his own lap.
Leo just barely stops himself from snatching it back.
Because that would be weird. What he's doing right now is weird. Everyone is staring at him, the room has gone silent, he's acting like Donnie just committed an unforgivable sin when all he did was take a cracker, like the two of them haven't been casually taking each other's food their entire lives.
He's being weird. He needs to stop. He needs to go back to normal right now.
Five crackers can be enough. It's enough it's enough it's-
Leo forces his brain to restart, his face and posture to relax, his fingers to unclench. He schools his mouth into an unserious grin, glancing back at Draxum. "H-hey, so... how many crackers do I need to eat? Since Thief-atello just stole one."
"I'm sorry," Donnie blurts out, an extremely rare apology. "I wasn't thinking."
Leo waves a hand. "It's cool, man," he says.
"No," Donnie insists. "I shouldn't have done that, I don't know why I did that-"
Great, first he pisses off Raph and now Donnie's freaked out. Leo's family came all the way to Colorado to save him and all he's done since then is upset them.
"Dee," says Leo, and he knocks one shoulder against Donnie's. "Seriously. It's fine."
Because it is. They take food from each other all the time. Leo's the one who made it weird, not Donnie, even if he did take one of Leo's crackers.
Donnie looks at him, uncertain. He still hasn't touched the remaining cracker in his lap. Leo wishes he would finish eating it now, so it isn't tempting him.
"...Still. I won't do it again," says Donnie finally, looking down at his lap and wringing his hands. He looks miserable, and Leo hates that he caused this.
Before he can do or say anything more, Draxum gets Leo's attention by holding out a new cracker. "Here," he says, waiting until Leo takes it, before handing a few to the still shell-shocked Donnie. "Both of you can have crackers. Now don't squabble, you'll disturb the neighbors."
Donnie puts the crackers in his lap and doesn't touch them again. The air in the room is stifling. And Leo wants to eat his own crackers, but now it feels awkward.
"I think you should steal one of his to get him back," says Mikey in an exaggerated whisper, a gallant attempt to dispel the tension. It doesn't quite work, but it breaks the silence enough for Leo to force out a chuckle and pick up a cracker.
"Everyone eat what you've been given and settle down," says Draxum, going to sit on the other bed. Splinter mumbles in his sleep again and rolls over. Everyone relaxes a little more.
Leo bites into the cracker. It tastes like all of nothing, but it has a pleasant crunch between his teeth, and he finds that he likes it.
Next to him, Donnie hesitantly finishes off his own half-finished cracker. Then he half-heartedly eats the others. Leo drinks his vegetable juice, then swallows the pill Draxum gives him.
Mikey does his best to fill the room with happy chatter, and the mood lightens, little by little.
Everything's okay. He just can't do that again.
-----
Everyone but Draxum is asleep when Raph and April come back into the room, just a little before dawn. Splinter is splayed out across the bed closest to the door, while all three of his little brothers are curled around each other in the bed by the bathroom.
Raph and April spent a long time sitting by the barrier, talking intermittently between long spells of silence. Then they moved to the tank, taking a nap together on the bench seats.
April has her travel pillow and blanket now, and she takes both and spreads out at the foot of his brothersâ bed, wisely putting her head by Donnie, who sleeps still as the dead, and not Mikey, who has already moved several times since they walked in. She yawns and then conks out almost immediately, glasses held loosely in her hand against her chest.
Raph wishes he didnât feel quite so wide awake.
Draxum is sitting in one of the chairs by the table, phone in hand. He has a notebook open and scribbles into it with a pen. Raph comes over and takes a peek: itâs all notes about nutrition, the vitamins that are most critically needed after a long term starvation event.
Draxumâs helping Leo. That makes Raph feel better, and he sinks into the other chair, leaning his head back.
âYou should try to get some sleep,â says Draxum, voice low. âWeâll be leaving in a few hours.â
âRaphâs good,â he says, staying where he is.
He feels Draxumâs eyes on him, for a moment. âIâm taking watch. Go to sleep, Raphael.â
Raph hesitates, then gets up from the chair and goes to lay down next to his dad. Splinter grumbles in his sleep, but rolls over like he knows to make room for a son crawling into his bed.
From here Raph can see Leoâs face. Itâs gaunt and washed out, and even with all the sleeping heâs done there are still dark circles under his eyes. He looks so fragile, and the anger burns in his chest again, that anyone could hurt him like this.
Heâs safe now, though. Mikey has an arm curled around his plastron, and Donnie flanks his other side like a guard. Heâs able to rest, and eat, and get better.
Raph remembers what April said. Give Leo time to heal, then talk about what happened in there. He can do that. He can be patient.
He hadnât thought he would be able to sleep, but lying still, with his sleeping family all around him, safe and sound, puts him under in minutes.
-----
"Morning, Leo!"
Leo blinks awake, taking in his surroundings. The walls are beige, the bed is blue, there's a TV playing the morning news on low volume, there's sunlight shining through the window.
He can smell food.
"It's breakfast time!" says Mikey. He's standing next to the bed, holding a tray. Leo wriggles until he's sitting up against the pillows, grinning as he pats his lap.
"Thanks, Mikey."
"You're welcome!" Mikey gives Leo a thousand watt smile as he sets the tray down.
Leo wishes he could feel as enthusiastic as his little brother as he gets a look at his breakfast. There's a large cup of white yogurt, and a little plate of scrambled eggs that don't even look like they have pepper on them. He's glad he has food, he just wishes it was something more exciting.
He lifts his eyes and takes a look around the room. Donnie is in one of the chairs by the table, tapping away on his phone. April is in the other chair, and she smiles and gives him a little wave when he meets her eyes. His dad is in the other bed, munching on what looks like a muffin and watching the news. He doesn't see Raph, but he hears the shower running.
Draxum is standing by the doorway, watching Leo. When their gazes meet, he sighs, rubbing the furrow on his forehead.
"Are you going to ask me what you're eating again?"
"Yes!" Leo points at the cup of yogurt. "What is this!? It's not even fruit flavored!"
"It's Greek yogurt. You can have fruit when your stomach is more settled."
"Ugh..." Leo sighs, grabbing the plastic spoon off his tray and scooping up a tiny bite of yogurt. It's not terrible, but without any fruit it's not very exciting.
"Hey, look at the bright side," says Mikey, holding out a plastic cup. "You get apple juice this morning! Since it had no sugar added, Draxum said it's okay!"
Leo musters up a smile. "Well, it's better than vegetable juice..."
"Don't get too excited," says Draxum dryly. "You'll be drinking more on the drive home."
"You're such a buzzkill, Drax," Leo huffs, taking a bite of his eggs now. They're unseasoned, but they're something. And there's the part of him that is just happy to have any food, simmering under the surface and demanding he eat faster. To keep himself from cramming the whole of the plate in his mouth at once, he turns to Mikey. "Hey, sneak me a muffin. Blueberry or chocolate chip."
Mikey grimaces. "I don't think Barry wants me to do that..."
Leo pouts, chewing his eggs slowly. "Who are you going to listen to, him or me?"
"He'll listen to me," says Draxum sternly. "If you're still hungry after that, you can have some more crackers."
Leo sighs, but part of him feels better knowing the crackers are still on the table. He crams more eggs in his mouth and chews as sulkily as possible.
There's an Old Navy ad playing on TV. Splinter sits up straighter in bed when he sees it, getting muffin crumbs everywhere. "Ah, that reminds me! Blue wanted some warm clothes to wear on the ride home." Splinter reaches out and pats Mikey on the arm. "Orange, Purple - why don't the two of you go to the gift shop and do some shopping? You can get a souvenir for yourselves as well."
"Oooh, yes!" Mikey bounces excitedly in place. "Dibs on picking out Leo's clothes!"
"Gasp!" Donnie stands up, pointing at him dramatically. "You know I'm the fashionable one in this family! Leo, tell him you want me to pick out your clothes for our return trip!"
"Mmm, I dunno..." Leo grins up at his little brother, giving him a wink. "I think Angelo's got this."
Donnie makes a noise of utter betrayal while Mikey cheers and stoops to give Leo a hug. "I won't let you down, Leon!" he promises, giving Leo a big smooch on the top of his head.
"I know you won't."
"Fine then! I'll just have to make you all jealous with my own selections." Donnie looks down. "April, do you want to join us?"
"Yeah, sure." April stands up, stretching her arms above her head. "Maybe I'll get a keychain or something."
The three of them file out of the room, Donnie and Mikey still arguing animatedly. Draxum takes one of the abandoned chairs, and Splinter goes back to watching the news.
Leo continues eating his bland breakfast, and tries not to spend too much time wondering when his next meal will be. At least he's been promised crackers.
-----
Raph comes out of the bathroom about ten minutes later, just as Leo's finishing up his breakfast with a few crackers. He nearly jumps when their eyes meet.
"Oh, hey, Leo," he says, voice a forced cheerful. "You're awake! That's great!"
"Yeah," says Leo back, trying not to sound too awkward and failing. He holds up his empty cup. "Just finished breakfast."
"O-oh, yeah. Was it... good?"
Leo grimaces. "Not really."
"Oh." Raph hovers in the doorway, practically vibrating with nervous energy. Leo wonders if he should apologize, but he still doesn't know what he's apologizing for, so he doesn't.
He'd know if Raph would just go ahead and yell at him, but Raph doesn't seem eager to start. Maybe he doesn't think Leo is healed up enough yet, or maybe he doesn't want to do it in front of Splinter. Either way, no yelling seems forthcoming.
Instead, Raph says, "Uh, where's everyone else?"
"Shopping for clothes for Blue and for souvenirs for themselves," Splinter answers.
"Oh, cool. Maybe... maybe I'll go join 'em!"
Raph pats Leo on the head as he goes by, then leaves the room like it's on fire. Leo is silent; he has no idea what to say or do.
He's out of food now, too. He's already asked Draxum for crackers once, and he's not sure if asking again will actually gain him anything. And with Mikey gone, he feels too anxious to try.
He settles back on his pillows and turns his eyes to the TV, lifting the plastic spoon in his hands. He slots the handle between his teeth and chews, relaxing at the feel of it. It's sturdier than the water bottles, so he can't flatten it down as easily, but the way he can munch on it endlessly has its own appeal.
The news drones on. His dad laughs at something the anchors say. Draxum scribbles away at a notebook. And Leo leans back on his pillows and chews on the spoon.
On the ticker at the bottom of the screen, he notices the tail end of a news item about a training accident at a military facility in Colorado Springs - one injured.
-----
The outfit Mikey has picked out is a sky blue hoodie with "PIKE'S PEAK" in big block letters and darker blue plaid sweatpants. They meet Leo's standards for softness and comfiness, if not quite his standards for style. It's fine, because he's after the former right now.
"Did I do good?" Mikey asks, bouncing on his toes.
"You did great," Leo responds, motioning him closer so he can rub his head affectionately. It lacks his usual punch, but Mikey laughs and wiggles away anyway.
"We also got," Mikey rummages around in the gift store bag, then pulls out, "matching fuzzy socks!"
The socks are in their signature colors and have snowboarders on them, and each set has a terrible pun like, "SNOW RULES!" and "COOLER THAN COOL!" Leo loves them immediately.
"I think this is the best gift you've ever gotten me," says Leo sincerely. Mikey beams and comes in for a hug that Leo gladly returns.
"Here, put 'em on!" says Mikey after he backs away, nodding at the hoodie and pants on the bed. "You don't want to be cold, right?"
"Right," says Leo, lifting the hoodie in his arms. A quick glance around the room shows that they're all looking at him now - Mikey, Donnie, and April by the bed, Splinter from the other bed, Draxum at the table, Raph hovering in the doorway. Waiting for him to put the clothes on.
He wishes they wouldn't.
It's weird. He's never felt self-conscious like this. He and his brothers have never really practiced modesty the way humans do, especially around each other. And yet the idea of standing in front of them now with no clothes, not even his mask, makes him feel strangely queasy.
He tries to tell himself it's because of how he looks now. Stick thin arms and legs, weird, unhealthy skin tone, dark circles under his eyes that a few hours of unconsciousness and one night of intermittent sleep have definitely not erased. That it's just his normal vanity.
But he can still feel it: that guard's eyes on him, any time he left the safety of his hiding spot under his cot.
He pulls the hoodie on over his head while he's still in bed. Then he crawls out of bed and pulls the pants on as fast as he can.
He looks around to see if anyone noticed, but their expressions haven't changed. Mikey gives him a thumbs up.
He relaxes. With the clothes on, the feeling of being exposed finally ebbs away. And it is warmer like this, which is a plus.
It's okay. In a day or two, he'll be over this weird self-consciousness and back to normal, and no one has to know about it.
"Well, how do I look?" he asks, grinning and turning in a circle. Mikey and April clap indulgently for him.
"Lookin' good, Leo," says April, and he gives her a wink.
"Well, even though you chose to forego my aesthetic sensibilities, I got you something, too," says Donnie, pushing his way forward. He holds out a pair of flipflops, which say "We're in" and "CO" on the toes and have cartoon giraffes on the heels. Leo can't help but grin when he sees them. "Trust me, you'll want these if we have to go into any gas station restrooms. Shudder."
Leo laughs, then reaches out an arm to pull Donnie into a hug before he can escape. To his surprise, Donnie doesn't even put up a token fight against it, hugging him back more fiercely than usual.
"Thanks, I love them," he says into Donnie's ear.
"Of course you do," says Donnie smugly, but his eyes are suspiciously shiny when he breaks the hug. Nothing feels awkward between them now, even given the cracker incident earlier, and Leo is glad.
âOkay!â says April, clapping her hands. âCheckoutâs in thirty minutes - if you have anything else to do, do it now.â
âWait,â says Leo, looking around. âWhereâs my mask?â Itâd be nice for hiding the dark circles.
âOh, I think Raph grabbed it,â says April, but when she turns, Raph is gone. April presses her fingers to her forehead and sighs. âOkay, you can get it later.â
Leoâs mouth suddenly feels dry. He reaches around and grabs a bottle of vegetable juice Draxum gave him, draining the last of it.
âCheckout in twenty eight minutes,â says Donnie to cut the awkwardness. âLetâs go, people!â
Leo sits on the bed and watches his family prepare to leave, gnawing on the top of his juice bottle.
-----
âWake up, sleepyhead,â calls a voice, and Leo blinks awake to see April standing over his cot. No, not the cot - this is the bench seat in the tank. If heâs going to be sleeping so much, he needs to stop waking up confused.
And he has been sleeping a lot. The only time they woke him up was to eat another snack of crackers with a little bit of mushed up banana, like heâs some kind of baby.
The banana did help break up the monotony, though.
Leo canât help but hope heâs being woken up for food again.
Like she read his mind, April grins and holds out a hand to help him up. âLunch time!â she announces.
âOh boy,â says Leo, taking the hand and slowly getting to his feet. Heâs stiff from lying in the tank for so long, and he stretches and pops his arms. âMore flavorless mush.â
âMaybe we can convince Drax to give you a little salt this time,â says April with a snicker. She waits for him to slip the flipflops on, then leads him out of the tank.
It occurs to him that this is the first time heâs really been out in the sun in over a week, excluding times heâs been unconscious and the short walk from the motel room to the tank. He takes a minute to just lean his face back and feel the warmth of it on his skin. It hasnât even been that long, and heâs used to life underground, but somehow it feels different this time, foreign and new and sweet.
When he looks back at April, sheâs tearing up again. She quickly wipes at the bottoms of her eyes and pulls on a smile, linking her arm around his.
âCome on. We can grab a picnic table and sit outside.â
It's then that Leo actually takes in where they are: a big travel center, or that's what the sign on the building declare. The tank is parked at the gas pumps, and Donnie, with his hood up, is excitedly talking about it to some interested truckers who have come over. He spots Mikey over at the grassy space for dog walking, laughing while a puppy licks his face, a seemingly annoyed Draxum standing off to the side with his arms folded. He doesn't see Raph or Splinter, but April fills him in as they cross the parking lot.
"Raph and Splints are inside ordering food. They have a whole diner in there!"
"Let me guess: I'm eating soup."
"I think it's potato."
"Well, at least it's not more tomato." Leo makes a face. "If I have to drink any more vegetable juice I'm going to turn red and swell up into a ball."
"You know what pizza sauce is made out of, right?" she asks, playfully bumping into him.
"Actually, I don't," he says smoothly, bumping into her back. They fake tussle outside the door for a moment, until both of them are laughing.
Someone trying to get past clears their throat loudly, and April and Leo shoot them an apologetic look before going on inside. Leo visits the restroom and tries not to look too long at the arrays of snacks on offer. April goes to help Raph and his dad with the food.
They all end up back outside at a large picnic table. His family has a mix of foods: burgers, hot dogs, salads, chicken strips. He knows there was pizza inside, and it touches him that no one picked it.
Next to everyone else's large, full plates, his own bowl of soup feels ridiculously small and sad. But he doubts any amount of pouting will convince Draxum to let him have a burger, so he digs in. At least this has some flavor.
Lunch is nice, even if Raph is still acting weird and distant. Itâs just good being in the sun and the fresh air. Leo is reluctant to leave as they finish up.
âCome with me!â says Mikey as the others go to throw their trash away and buy anything they need for the return trip. He holds out his hand, and Leo takes it and follows Mikey back toward the grassy area at the edge of the parking lot. They make sure there are no dog droppings, then lay down in the grass, looking up at the blue sky and the clouds going overhead.
âI thought itâd be nice to get a little more sun before we have to get back in the tank,â says Mikey, limbs splayed out in every direction. Heâs taken off his hoodie - no one at the travel center has paid much attention to the peeks of green skin theyâve been showing off, and no one is nearby right now, anyway.
It is a little hot. But the idea of being shirtless where a stranger can see him keeps Leo fully swaddled.
He pushes that thought aside, closing his eyes and just trying to enjoy the feeling of the sun on his skin, the breeze blowing by, the grass under his fingers. He doesnât get to touch a lot of grass in the city, but it reminds him of times they would sneak out to Central Park.
âThis is really nice, Angelo,â he says. âThanks.â
âMmhmmm.â
Theyâre quiet for a few minutes, just laying there, with only the ambient sounds of the travel center keeping them company. Leo starts to feel like he might doze off again.
ââŚHey Leo?â
Leo blinks his eyes open, craning his neck to see Mikey. âYeah?â
âAre you⌠okay?â
Ah. Maybe he should have expected this.
âOf course Iâm okay,â he says, voice nonchalant. âWhy wouldnât I be?â
âUh, wellâŚâ Mikey hesitantly trails off, clearly trying to decide what he wants to say.
Leo takes care of it for him. âItâs over, Mikey. You guys saved me. Iâm okay.â He turns his head and grins. âAnd once Draxum stops being the food police, everything will be back to normal.â
âMmmâŚâ Mikey doesnât sound as convinced as he should. Man, Leoâs smiles are really failing him lately. âBut⌠if somethingâs bothering you⌠Youâll tell us, right?â
Leo pats his head. âOf course I will.â
If itâs worth bringing up to them, anyway.
Mikeyâs eyes rove his face for a moment, but in the end he must be satisfied, because he smiles and rolls to toss his arm over Leoâs chest. âOkay. But Iâll hold you to that.â
âOr what, Iâll get a visit from the doctor?â
âYou know it!â
Leo laughs, which gets Mikey laughing. They stay there until Raph calls their names across the parking lot, and they go back to the tank.
-----
He manages to stay awake after they stop for lunch, curled up on the bench seat. He doesnât have the energy to talk as much as normal, but he leans against Donnie and contributes where he can. Heâs just happy to be back with them, hearing and seeing them all around him.
But thereâs something always at the back of his mind keeping him from fully relaxing: he doesnât know when he gets to eat next. And he knows it will be okay - heâs with his family, and theyâd never let him go hungry. He knows that, but about two and a half hours after lunch, he keeps finding himself returning to the same thought.
Heâs drinking on a sugar-free Gatorade they got him at the travel center; one of the only non-vegetable or fruit drinks Draxum approved. Mikey has just finished up a story from one of the many art vlogs he watches, and, in the lag of conversation, he tries to broach the subject casually.
âSooo⌠whatâs our plan for the rest of the drive? Are we stopping, orâŚ?â
âWeâre going to try to make it all the way back to New York,â says April. âWe already have our shifts picked out, and the autopilot is helping.â
âWe can stop in a few more hours for another bathroom break,â says Donnie, pulling up a holoscreen showing their route and the drive time remaining. âUnless someone needs us to stop sooner.â He glances at Leo, and the way heâs bouncing the rim of the bottle off his teeth.
âOh, uh, Iâm good,â he says quickly, lowering the bottle. "I'm just wondering, uh... what about stopping for dinner?"
His family does about as good a job being subtle about looking at each other as he's being subtle about his worry. "We were thinking we'd probably try to find something around seven," says Donnie.
Seven. It's a little after three now. Okay. He can wait that long. What's four hours? And at least he knows what to expect now.
His family hesitantly return to their conversation. And Leo does his best to pay attention. April is telling them about all the stuff she's been doing to prepare for college in the fall, how she's already chatting with people running the student paper. She's excited about it, and Leo is excited for her.
"Ew, Leo," says Donnie suddenly, tearing him out of his thoughts. "Why are you doing that?"
Leo looks over at him in confusion. He starts to ask, Doing what?, but when he opens his mouth to speak, something falls out of his teeth and into his lap.
It's the Gatorade bottle cap, chewed down flat. Leo can see the marks from where his molars snapped through the lip, and the dents where he's been gnawing at it with his incisors.
He didn't even know he was doing that.
Everyone saw him doing that.
Embarrassment flushes through him, and he scrambles to grab the lid and toss it into their communal trash sack. Maybe no one noticed how thoroughly he had chewed on it.
"Gross," says Donnie, his nose scrunched up. So at the very least he saw. "You don't know where that's been."
"Oh please, it's not that gross," says Leo, doing his best to keep his voice light and airy. "It's just a bottle cap."
"That other people have touched and that you put into your mouth."
"Don't knock it till you try it, bro."
"I'm good not trying it."
"Your loss," says Leo with a shrug. He leans back, cool and calm and collected and not a total weirdo who gnaws on plastic like it's candy. "Stop looking at me like that, I threw it away already."
Donnie stops looking at him, literally. Things feel tense again. Leo doesnât know how he keeps managing that.
Mikey jumps up, walking to the front of the tank, where Draxum is asleep in one of the chairs. Mikey shakes him awake, smiling in the face of his annoyed grumbling.
âHey, Barry, is it okay if Leo has a snack?â
âWhy do you have to ask him?â calls Leo, folding his arms. âBesides, Iâm fine!â
His protests go ignored. âWhat time is it?â asks Draxum, sitting up and smoothing down his robes.
âIâm fine!â insists Leo, louder.
âItâs three fifteen,â Mikey says.
âMm⌠Yes, he can have a snack.â Draxum gets up, going over to their snack cooler. âLeonardo, do you want crackers or more banana?â
âIâm fine!â Leo tries one more time, but his stomach flips when it occurs to him that he may actually not get a snack if he insists, and he wants the snack.
He sighs, sinking back in his seat, and says, âCrackers.â He wants the crunch of eating them.
Draxum brings him his crackers. Thereâs only four. Heâs not sure why heâs getting less this time. Maybe because he was caught chewing on the lid.
He doesnât ask. He eats what heâs been given, and then decides the best thing for everyone would be if he took another nap.
-----
Raph would have driven them all the way to New York if heâd been allowed. But they insist on having him swap with Donnie, and he ends up sitting in the back on the benches with because the other front chairs are hard for him to fit in.
Leo is asleep. Heâs been sleeping a lot, but thatâs to be expected. His body barely has any energy, and going by the dark circles, Raph knows he didnât get much sleep while he wasâŚ
When Leo is awake, his family are their lively selves, chatting and laughing and enjoying each otherâs company. Once he goes to sleep, everyone quiets down, Donnie dims the lights in the cab, and a weird melancholy sets in.
Leo looks terrible. They havenât talked about it, but they all know it. Raph is shocked Leo has even been able to walk on his own, but Draxum attributes that to their reinforced mutant biology. Heâs swimming in a hoodie that is his size, his hands and feet are skeletal where they poke out of his clothes. Raph wonders how long it will take for him to start filling out again, to have muscle like he did before. Heâs afraid to ask.
Splinter sits with Leoâs head in his lap, rubbing his shell any time he shifts in his sleep. Mikey curls up against Raph and sniffles, and Raph pulls him closer.
He has to keep reminding himself that Leo is here, and safe. He just ate a snack, and soon theyâll get another meal in him. Just give it a week or two, and theyâll have their brother back.
And then, heâll make sure Leo knows he never has to sacrifice himself again.
-----
Home looks just like Leo remembered it, and feels totally foreign at the same time.
His family clap for him as he walks in, and he does a little bow, which is a poor decision because it leaves him feeling lightheaded after. Luckily Raph is there to catch him and carry him from the garage to the chair in the living room. Things are still weird between them, but at least Raph isn't totally avoiding him.
(Raph still hasn't yelled at him. He wishes they could just get it over with.)
They eat lunch, with Leo getting bland soup and crackers again. Draxum notes that he could have peanut butter if they could have it in the lair, which makes Raph look pointlessly guilty, so Leo changes the subject. After lunch, April gives him a big hug and tells him she'll see him soon, but she has to go back home before her mom gets too worried. Leo feels bad when he learns she's missed several days of class now, but she just laughs and pats his head.
"I'm a senior and it's May, Leo; that I show up at all is enough for them."
Everyone's tired from being on the road for over twenty four hours, so after April leaves they unanimously agree on a movie marathon/turtle pile in the living room. His brothers drag out their comfiest pillows and blankets and set up in the floor, while Splinter cuddles up with Leo in his recliner. Draxum actually stays, to everyone's surprise, and Mikey jumps at the opportunity to introduce him to the magic of Lou Jitsu and Jupiter Jim.
Leo drifts in and out the whole evening. He'll be awake for the whole first act of a movie, then blink and suddenly they're partway through a different film. Each time he wakes his dad is there, patting his hand and saying, "Hello, Blue," and his brothers are around him, quoting their favorite lines or jumping up to act along with their favorite parts. It's normal and it's familiar and it's warm and soft.
He eats more soup for dinner, and crackers and banana and a little pudding cup, as a treat. His family gets more sleepy as evening turns to night; his dad's snoring fills the room, and Draxum finally leaves to go to his apartment. His brothers settle in and fall asleep around the middle of Jupiter Jim's Last Trip to the Moon 17, curled up in a heap at the foot of the chair.
He's home.
He's really home.
It's over.
Leo buries his face in his dad's fur and lets that thought carry him to sleep.
-----
Leo's home and it's amazing.
Raph wishes that meant everything was back to normal.
He doesn't know how to be around Leo right now. Every time he looks at him, he sees the stick thin arms and the gaunt face and he hears Leo's voice saying, That's not what a hero would do, and he doesn't know what to say anymore. What if he accidentally says something that makes Leo feel like what happened to him was right? What if he accidentally makes Leo think he should do it again?
It's only been a day, he tries to tell himself. Leo's still spending most of his time sleeping, between his regular snacks and meals. Even when he's awake, he doesn't have much energy for conversation, seeming content to just sit and listen to everyone else. It's just not the right time. It'll get better once Leo is better.
He can wait until then.
It's the afternoon now, the day after they brought Leo home. Raph just finished his workout and is making his rounds to check on everyone, just to make sure that everyone is... well, just to make sure. Splinter is in the kitchen making tea, a kind with no caffeine or sugar, as per Draxum's instructions. Mikey and Leo are in the living room, a half-asleep Leo watching Mikey play video games on the projecter.
Donnie isn't there.
His heart lurches, no matter how much he tells himself it's okay. Donnie is fine, Donnie is home, Donnie hasn't gone missing, not right after they got Leo back.
(He'd tried to tell himself Leo was fine in the beginning, too.)
He checks their rooms first, but Donnie's is empty. Then it's up to the lab, where he finds the door closed.
He knocks, and a robotic voice asks for identification. He sighs, not wanting to play this game right now.
"Donnie, it's me. You better be in there..."
The door beeps and then slides up, revealing a dimly lit lab. At first, Raph thinks he must not be here, and he's about to turn to leave, but then he hears a noise from Donnie's big computer desk.
A sniffle.
His big brother senses shifting into hyperdrive, he speed-walks over. The door slides shut behind him with a mechanical whir.
Sure enough, Donnie is there, legs pulled up into his desk chair, face buried in his knees. His goggles are off and laying on the desk, and his computer monitor shows a video, frozen on...
A white room, almost empty, save the cot that is for some reason propped up in front of the toilet, and...
Donnie sniffles again, and Raph tears his eyes away from one little brother to the other.
"Donnie...? What is this?"
Donnie sniffs and sits up a little more, rubbing under his eyes where tear tracks are already drying. "It's the surveillance video from the EPF base."
Raph gathered that much. "Why... are you watching it?"
"Isn't it obvious?" Donnie looks up at him. "I wanted to see what they did to him."
"You couldn't just ask him?"
Donnie's drawn on eyebrows go down. "I don't know, do you want to ask him?"
Raph imagines trying to ask Leo questions like that and can't help but cringe. "Okay, no. Raph doesn't want to do that."
"Exactly." Donnie gestures at the screen. "I got this footage from the base. And I erased it permanently from their systems, for the record, and destroyed the hard drives to be sure. But I kept a copy for us. I thought, if Leo wasn't in a state to... well, just in case. We might need it for medical reasons."
"But we know what's wrong with him," Raph points out.
"Do we?"
"Uh, yeah." Raph nods. "Starvation... right?"
"Well, yes." Donnie drums his fingers on the table. "But... he's different, now. He's pretending he's not, and he's doing his normal Leo thing of joking and smiling, but... he is." Donnie scowls. "And I already asked Michael to confirm my suspicions, and he said so, too, so I know this isn't me overreacting!"
"Okay, okay!" Raph holds up his hands placatingly. "So you wanted to watch the footage to see what happened. What'd you find out?"
Donnie wilts, resting his chin on his knees. "I couldn't get further than the first twenty four hours."
Raph feels a foreboding chill run over his spine. "You couldn't... or you didn't want to?"
Donnie reaches over and presses a button. The footage shifts to a different angle, so now he can see the wall Leo was curled up against. Donnie runs the footage back at a fast speed, and Raph watches as Leo gets up a few times, disappearing into the blind spot of the camera, or going to grab water from a little slot by the door, until Donnie freezes on a new scene: the wall opening up to reveal a large window.
He leans forward, putting his hands on the desk. "Raph saw that - they were watching his cell through that."
"Yes. And he would sit in that spot," Donnie runs the footage forward a bit, to where Leo is sitting against the now white wall, "because it's in a blind spot to the window."
Raph grimaces. "He didn't want them watching him."
"But it didn't matter," says Donnie, and he reaches over and taps the button to go to a new angle... and again... and again. "They have every inch of the room covered."
Raph's heart sinks. "Does he know?"
"Leo's not dumb," says Donnie, a magnanimous statement coming from him. "He knew they had to be watching him with cameras."
"But he still tried to hide..."
"He was doing whatever he had to to feel better," concludes Donnie.
Raph sighs. "I wonder if it worked."
Donnie clicks another button, and the video player closes. He swivels his chair to face Raph, his eyes shiny again.
"I don't want to watch anymore," he admits.
Raph nods. "I wouldn't want to, either."
"No, I mean... because he was trying to hide." Donnie rubs at his eyes again. "Maybe it is a little ironic for me to be saying this, but... it feels like it would be a privacy violation."
Raph turns that over. Maybe knowing what happened to Leo could help them. But what Donnie is saying feels more important.
He puts his hand on Donnie's shoulder, the part that's bare past his battleshell, and gives it a rub. "You love him and you don't want to hurt him," he concludes.
Donnie sniffles again, and then uncurls himself, putting his legs down on the ground. He doesn't have to do more than that for Raph to catch on, and Raph scoops Donnie up into a hug that is quickly returned.
"...I keep hurting him," Donnie admits, resting his head on Raph's shoulder. "I don't know how, but it keeps happening."
"...Yeah, well, join the club," says Raph sadly. He pats at Donnie's back. "Raph can't seem to say the right thing, either."
Donnie laughs miserably. "I thought getting him back would be the hard part. And then everything would go back to normal."
"Yeah..." Raph gives him a tight squeeze. "But you know what April said?"
"What?"
"That we'll do the hard part, 'cause we love him."
"Well, April is the only other smart one in this family," says Donnie, and Raph gives him a noogie with no actual pressure.
"Everything will be okay," he says. "Raph promises."
That seems to calm Donnie down. Raph just hopes he can actually keep it.
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It's his first night back in his room, and for the first time since escaping, Leo can't sleep.
He doesn't know why he can't. The sheets are the same as always. The dim lights from outside his subway car filter in through the windows the same as they used to. He's wearing his favorite pajamas, which have pants and long sleeves. The temperature is warm but not too hot. Conditions are perfect.
But he can't sleep.
At first he thought maybe it's because he's alone for the first time, but he doesn't think it's that. In fact, the idea of going to one of his brothers or his dad makes him feel even more exhausted. He loves them and he loves being around them, but he's had to work hard all day to not seem too weird. He caught himself chewing his spoon at lunch and had to stop. He paced the kitchen until Draxum gave the okay for him to have a snack. Mikey poked his head in while he was changing shirts earlier and he froze up, deer in the headlights. In the end, he went to the bathroom to change, because at least there aren't windows in there.
He's being weird, and trying to not be weird is taking all his energy.
So no. He's okay being alone right now. But something is still bothering him.
It's not the bed; he slept in the motel just fine. It's not the temperature, because they're making sure the lair stays nice and warm for him. And it's not the clothes, because the clothes are covering him up. And it's not the windows because it's not even like anyone is looking through them.
Right?
It's only then that Leo realizes he keeps staring out of them.
He tears his eyes away to look at the ceiling, taking deep breaths. What is he worried about? So what if the train car is full of windows? Who would even be looking at him? It's just his family outside, and if they need to talk to him they'll come in.
Besides, the windows are see-through. If someone were looking at him, he'd be able to see them.
Just to reassure himself of that, Leo looks around at all the windows again.
Yep. Still see-through. So it's fine. It's really not a big deal! No one is going to look through the windows at him here. No one is watching him. He's safe, and if he weren't, he would know, because he can see.
...Maybe he could hide under his bed.
Leo gives his head a hard shake. No. He is not going to hide under his bed, because that would be weird, and Leonardo Hamato is not weird.
Maybe he can just... put up some curtains in his room. Just, purely for aesthetic reasons. Yeah, that would look really cool. He could get some blue ones with some kind of sick design. Add some real originality to this place.
And then he could cover the windows and no one could look in unless he wanted them to.
Not that anyone is looking in, because he's home and he's safe and he's okay and he really wants to hide under his bed-
He takes deep breaths. His eyes land on the posters on the wall of the train car.
Maybe... maybe they would look better over the windows. Just... aesthetically.
He moves the posters to the windows of the train car, pressing hard to get the old tape to stick. It covers the immediate windows around his bed, but there are still others, and they're more in the dark, so Leo can't see who might be out there.
Not that anyone would be.
But if someone were, he wouldn't be able to know.
So he grabs towels next, and t-shirts, and anything he has lying around his room, and puts them on the bed. Then he sneaks to the kitchen to find a roll of masking tape.
It's not easy, but after about an hour he's managed to cover every window in the train car with something.
Just... a preview. For how sweet the curtains are going to look. And not for any weird reasons, like being scared.
Because he's not scared. He's home, and he's safe, and no one is watching him from outside the windows.
He lays down in bed and surveys his handwork. The room is even darker now, with every window covered, completely different from the stark ever-present light in that place.
It makes him feel safe and hidden.
No one can look in, and he's shielded by the dark.
(He has no idea how he's going to explain this tomorrow.)
But when he finally shuts his eyes, he sleeps like a baby.
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Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 (here) | Part 4 Part A
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A Snowy Starfall
Daddy!Azriel x Reader
Summary:Â Anon Req: Batbabies waging their OWN snowball fight imitating their dad & uncles. Some take it too seriously, others don't take it seriously at all, it's pure chaos that ends in cocoa.
Warnings:Â N/A
Word Count: 2,003
Notes: Happy Holidays my loves đ
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âCome on, you three,â you tut towards your mate and his friends. Theyâre standing before the large glass windows overlooking your backyard. The sun casts deep oranges and reds across the snow-ridden land, your children shrieking as they play in the snow. A valiant snowball fight is running its course, and Azriel, Cassian, and Rhysand stand, faces pressed to the windows as they watch, quietly cheering their children on. âTheyâre going to notice you staring.â
âMaybe they already have,â Feyre adds from her spot at your kitchen counter. Sheâs concentrating intently on decorating a cookie, adding swirls of black icing to the gingerbread womanâs hand, creeping up her extended arm. The cookieâs dress is provocative, bare dough legs showing between slats of laced icing. She hardly glances up as she continues, âTheyâre probably imitating them as we speak.â
Curious, you peek out the window, too. Indeed, Wren and Baz have built a fortress in the snow to protect themselves from the onslaught of snowballs being thrown their way. Gideon and Nyx have joined forces against the two brothers, the latter packing the fluffy snow into tight, white balls, while Gideon launches their ammo towards your sons.
Your eldest daughter, Zuzu, and Nyxâs younger sister, Asteria, had joined the competition early on. Theyâd been a formidable team too, but grew bored of their brothers and cousin who were taking the snowball fight a little too seriously. Now, they are in the snow with little Castor, who had cried until sheâd been let outside by her protective father, bundled up in so many clothes her wings nearly disappeared into the fabric. The girls are making snow angels, though Castorâs looks very much like a circle on the lawn.
Dark streaks dart behind the wall your sons have built and you frown, watching as Bazâs shadows help roll clumps of snow closer, creating perfectly circular snowballs. From what youâd heard from your husbandâs friends, using shadows was against any and all snowball fight rules.
You cut Azriel a glance but heâs conveniently occupied, watching the game outside.
âWell, at least theyâre both on the same team,â you comment to your mate, who refuses to let his gaze stray from the little boys. Good, he can watch them while he does the dishes then, since thereâs a window above the sink. You pat him on the ass, nodding towards the mess of dishes in the sink. He nods in response, loping quickly over to peer out the window again. âSo theyâll either both lose or both win.â
âTheyâll both win,â Az responds immediately, a quick but pointed look your way. âThey do take after me.â
Cassian scoffs behind you and you turn to see a scowling Nesta shooting him a look as he tries to steal a cookie. Jax giggles in her lap at his uncle's antics, but when Cassian hands him part of the cookie and its head falls off, Jaxâs smile wobbles. Heâs not outside due to the nature of his powers. As an empath, sensing the competitive nature of his siblings and the sting of a snowball to the face, it had been in his best interest to be inside around the luscious scents of cookies and warmth, instead of out in the bitter snow.
Nesta coos, bouncing him, and Cassian is thankful for the distraction, slipping further down the counter to where the High Lord sits, tryingâand failingâto gain his mate's attention. The commander slips an arm around Rhysâ shoulders and glares at the back of Azrielâs head, continuing his complaining. âThe only reason youâve won so many is because of those damn shadows, Az.â
Azriel throws over his shoulder, wincing as Baz takes a snowball to the face, his face going red with fury. âHow was I supposed to know they were unaffected by the magic restrictions?â he claims, sending said shadows out into the yard once he sees Bazâs slipping through the snow, headed for the icicles hanging off the railings of the porch. His intercept his sons in a display of authority, spearing them into blackened mist. Baz glances up to the window, locking eyes with his father, who wears a look of warning on his face, brow raised. Azriel watches his son visibly huff and take his anger out on the snow, building a ball and launching it across the playing field in frustration.
His gaze cuts across the yard, narrowing his eyes. Gideon and Nyx are crouched low behind their own pile of snow, looking like theyâre scheming. He wants to trail his shadows in their direction, listen in on their conversation, but heâs alerted to Malosâ whines from the other room. If one of his youngest is awake, they either both are, or will be soon.
âMalos is up,â Az tells you softly, shutting off the water to the sink. He wipes his hands on a towel and kisses you gently on the cheek. Youâre mixing color into icing for the cookies, getting ready for when itâs too dark out for the children to play. Theyâll get all cleaned up and have some hot chocolate to warm their bellies, and you, Feyre, and Nesta have baked cookies for all of the children to decorate. âIâll get them.â
âIâll join,â Cassian answers, stealing another cookie off of a platter. He dunks it into your icing to the neck, the cookie dripping with sugary goodness as he lifts it to his mouth, shoving it inside. He ducks under your glare. âGotta go get my baby.â
Cassian and Nestaâs youngest daughter, Sif, had been put down for a nap with both Knox and Malos. Sheâs still a little too young to be outside without supervision, and the eldest children of the Inner Circle demanded time outside without their parents, probably because they knew their fathers would try and take over their snowball fight had they been outside. They didnât want any tips or tricks, not even your children, even with Azrielâs hundred of wins beneath his belt.
Jax climbs from Nestaâs lap over Rhys who lets out a harsh exhale when his knee lands a little too close to his private area, and then over to Feyre, who finally sets her cookie down to scoop your middle son in her arms.
âPretty,â Jax comments, pointing at her decorative cookie. It looks just like her, and thereâs one next to it that looks a little like Rhysand. Purple dots for eyes stare up at him. âUncle Rhysie?â
âGood job, Jax,â Feyre coos, pressing kisses to his cheeks. They pink with a blush and he settles into her arms, looking utterly at bliss. He revels in the warmth of her emotions, the pride surging through her. It feels like warm bubbles in his chest, and he noses at her collar.
âLook whoâs ready to party,â Azriel announces, entering the room, arms full with your two youngest children, Malos and Knox. Knox still looks a little sleepy, head resting against Azrielâs shoulder, cuddling into his warmth. His tiny wings are droopy with sleep, and his twin sister, Malos, is already reaching for the cookies.Â
Nesta is quick to scoop her away from Azriel. She claims not to have a favorite niece, but Malos and her have an understanding. You see more of Nesta in Malosâ personality than any of the children of the Inner Circle, and youâre extremely happy that they have such a close connection.Â
âHi baby,â you greet Knox, who is signing mommy to you. You ease him out of Azrielâs arms, who promptly returns to his position in front of the window, pressing exaggerated kisses to his chubby cheeks. It makes him smile wide, flaring those wings that he hasnât quite figured out how to control. âAre you ready for some yummy cookies?â
His dark eyes light with excitement. Of course your children are ready for sweets, they always are. They picked that up from Azriel, who has the biggest sweet tooth youâve ever seen.
Cassian reenters the room with his daughter in his arms and Rhys pouts. Almost everyone in the room is preoccupied with a child in their arms, except for him. Maybe he can convince Feyre to have one more. The youngest children in the family are two now and he misses having a tiny babe around.
By the heated look in her eyes, his mate seems to be considering the same, sneaking past those shadowy walls in his mind to catch a glimpse of his thoughts. The High Lord smirks. He sends her over some imagery to go with his thoughts, and her cheeks go red. That hot look turns into one of warning, and sheâs speaking out loud now, âWhy donât you call the children inside so they can get warmed up and decorate some cookies?â
âOf course, darling,â Rhys sweeps from his seat in a wisp of darkness.Â
Breaking a cookie in half, you give part of it to Knox, who signs thank you, munching on the sweet. The other half is passed to Malos as you head towards where your mate is finishing up the dishes, leaning against him for a moment, reveling in all of your family happily together.
âI love you,â Azriel murmurs into your hair, leaning over to sneak a bite of Knoxâs cookie. Your son stares up at his father with wide eyes, and like this, he looks just like Az. It makes your heart warm, and Jax squeals in happiness in response, your happiness radiating to him. It makes your grin wider, peeking over your shoulder to see him so content in his aunt's arms.Â
âI love you too, Az,â you whisper back to him, resting your forehead against his.Â
Itâs a nice moment, until the children from outside are wrangled through the door by Rhys. The boys are arguing about who has won their snowball fight, while the girls are peeling away their winter gear, excited to decorate cookies with icing and sprinkles and the edible petals Elain had given you before her trip to the Summer Court with Lucien.Â
âNow, now, boys,â Rhys starts, but the diplomatic tone heâs using does nothing to deter the cousins from arguing. âIâm sure we can come to a consensus without yelling and acquiescing.â
âBut Baz used his shadows,â Nyx complains, wringing his gloves between his hands in frustration. âWe all saw it.â
âNyxie, donât be mean to Baz,â Wren counters, brows furrowed. He doesnât like it when his family argues, especially over trivial things. His heart is so kind. âYou can win the snowball fight if you want, but Baz and I are gonna win the cookie decorating contest, right Bazzy?â
âNo,â Baz says flatly, dropping his gear onto the floor. You give him a look but he almost seems un-bothered by it, done with the debate his cousins are currently having. âWe won the snowball fight and weâre going to win the cookie decorating contest.âÂ
You share a look with your mate, watching the scene unfold. Baz is quite the Stubborn Suriel, no matter what it comes to.
âDad,â Nyx groans, âCanât you do something?â
Cassian is the one who comes to the rescue, Castor reaching up at him for her sister. He helps the little one down and the older one with her undressing, peeling her thermals off layer by layer. âItâs not about who won, right boys? Itâs about spending time and having fun with the ones you love.â
Feyre, Nesta, and yourself awe at his words, but Azriel and Rhysand are rolling their eyes and muttering under their breath at Cassianâs cheesy words.Â
âWhat a kiss ass.â
âSmug fucker.â
âAzriel,â you hiss, turning your body away from him, like that will hide Knox from his vulgar words. âLanguage.âÂ
He winces, âSorry love.âÂ
Itâs your turn to roll your eyes now, bouncing Knox in your arms a little as you turn fully from your mate. You poke Knoxâs belly playfully before addressing the rest of the room. âHow about those cookies, then? They wonât decorate themselves!â
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Alone in the Dark [Gojo x Reader]
Title: Alone in the Dark [Gojo x Reader]
Synopsis: Youâre training alone and Gojo has some⌠ideas for how to improve on your training.Â
Word Count: 6000ish
notes: noncon blowjob, noncon cunnilingus (done on reader), degradation/humiliation, some misogyny, mentions of reader childbearing, Gojo being a nasty creep
There was no place in the world of sorcerers for someone like you. You were too kind, too sweet--too soft.
Thatâs what everyone (or almost everyone) told you, almost for as long as you can remember. Yes, you can remember being a child and hearing adults tut-tut at the way you served others before yourself; at the way you made everyone stop so that a group of ducklings could cross the road; at the way you fretted over your brother when he came home black and blue and scratched-red from fighting curses.Â
It was bad, they said, for you to focus so much on caring for others and not enough on developing the strong skills to do what is necessary. Even when what is necessary might not be what is just or kind or thoughtful.
If you were to lament about these frustrations to the average non-sorcerer, you imagine they might widen their eyes, put their hand to their heart, or maybe even rest a hand on your shoulder. You poor thing! They might say. How cruel.
Was it cruel? You werenât sure. You didnât have anything else to compare it with--this was how most generations-long sorcerer families raised their children. You had to excel, you had to be strong, there was no room for weakness.
Kindness, it seems, was a weakness.
But⌠maybe your sweet personality wasnât a complete weakness. Because your family didnât throw you out, as some families did with the weaker leaks in their formidable chains. Instead, they pivoted.Â
If you werenât going to be a stony-hearted sorcerer who could take down curses with their eyes closed (no pun intended, they would say, if they had a sense of humor) you would serve the family in another way.
You must still be strong, yes, but you could keep your tendency to dote and devote yourself to others if you were to take on another role: a wife. More than that--a mother. Marry a strong sorcerer, have lots of children, continue the line until your body could no longer stand having children.Â
And so you grew up learning duties of a different kind. How to manage a household--from the servants you would be expected to order around to keeping track of linens and pantries; how to sew, because while servants would no doubt do any heavy lifting, you could at least be expected to fix your husbandâs garments or embroider a family crest on them; how to dote in the right way, acquiescing to your husband while doing your best to maintain the honor and reputation of your old and new families. How to raise children--the right way, so they hopefully donât end up like you, needing to be delicately placed into a niche.Â
All this, while strengthening your jujutsu, while practicing harnessing your cursed energy, while knowing that you were not what your family wanted but you werenât entirely useless, and you had to make the best of that.Â
Now that youâre an adult of marriageable age, itâs only a matter of time before they find a suitable husband for you. He must be from one of the great families, of course. You were too important to marry off to some low-level sorcerer without a stellar reputation. Not only that, but marrying someone from a prominent family (a strong family) would increase the chances that your children would be strong.
Strong children--strong sorcerers. More sorcerers--more soldiers in the ongoing battle against curses.
And if you wanted to do your duty, then you needed to be strong enough to perform it. No sorcerer wanted a weak little thing for a wife, did they? Of course not.
Thatâs what brought you here, alone, isolated and tired but so damn determined to improve yourself. It was your idea to come here, which seemed to please your parents. Your cursed energy has been running a little too wild lately, seeping out of you, escaping in little trickles.
Itâs your own fault. Admitting this also seemed to please your parents, though it made a low pit form in your stomach, and you didnât dare divulge into why it was your fault that cursed energy was streaking out of you like a stubborn dripping faucet.Â
You have too much self-doubt. Youâre too worried about letting people down. Youâre not confident enough, strong enough, and if you arenât strong enough then you arenât good enough regardless of how well you might perform on the wifely front in front of the increasingly judgemental matchmaker your parents brought in to monitor your progress.
But, no, you couldnât say any of this to your parents. Itâs not that they wouldnât understand. Itâs that they wouldnât care. Self-doubt? No room for that here. Get rid of it. No confidence? How could you lack confidence, given your heritage? Change. No no, to be more precise, they would say: shut up, deal with it, then change.Â
The only person you did explain any of this to was Satoru Gojo, a friend (or colleague? Or friend-colleague? Or colleague-friend? You were never entirely sure where you stood with him) who would at least listen without completely dismissing you. Not that he did much more than cluck at you condescendingly and offer to marry you--in jest--to get your folks off your back.
Youâd laughed and swatted him in the shoulder (which he didnât mind you doing, leading you to think friend-first-then-colleague is the more appropriate moniker) and asked him for advice.
Which is what has led you here to train, alone and hard. But training was meant to be hard, so you couldnât complain. And training alone would give you the focus you needed to actually improve.
And you would improve. You had to--not just for your family but for yourself, and your future. The wife of a sorcerer (you tried not to think too far beyond that, to what your parents had been grooming you for: to become a matriarch in the continuing line of your familyâs clan) still had to be strong enough not to let cursed energy seep from her so easily.
With the right training, you were going to get better.Â
Right?Â
Right.
--
This is what you needed: time alone.Â
Because although you plan to be here for much longer, you can already tell that youâre sewing up those weaknesses within you, preventing cursed energy from sneaking out like it had been doing so readily for the past few months.Â
Confidence was key, after all. Your family had never been wrong on that front. You just needed to get away from the stresses of life to regain that confidence.Â
You sigh through your nose. The air down here is stale, but itâs not surprising. Itâs not like there was anyone down here but you and the darkness and--
âHey!âÂ
You and the darkness and⌠Gojo Satoru.
âHow are your leaks?!â His voice rings out cheerfully in the empty space, almost echoing.Â
For a moment, you fracture, and you can feel something trickle out of you. But you hold your breath and regain your senses, forcing yourself to regrip the focus youâd been maintaining for hours now.
Breathe in.
Itâs just Gojo.Â
Breathe out.
Coming to check on you. Which means he cares, in his own way, which is more than you can say for a lot of people. But you wish heâd told you that he intended on coming. Itâs a bit jarring, and a whisper of embarrassment begins to build in your chest. He was, as he didnât mind saying (it could not rightfully be called bragging)-- âthe best.âÂ
You hear his footsteps before you see him in the dim lighting. His slow, aimless walk might have even seemed a bit creepy, if you werenât already used to it. Or if he hadnât called out beforehand.Â
He grins when he comes into view, hands in the pockets of his trousers. Heâs wearing his sunglasses today, his hair down and loose. He gives a short wave, and you bite back a sigh. You donât want to stand up--youâre still training--so you merely straighten your back a little and wave back.
âAh, Gojo. Have I really been down here that long?â You wonder if anyone in your family has bothered to wonder where you were or took the time to track you down.Â
âAh, Satoru,â he says, idly. âOh, itâs only been a few hours.â
Just like that, thereâs a sting in your chest. A few hours? Why would he check on you so early? Did he think you were that weak? Were you that weak? No--you shake the thought away, willing yourself to maintain focus, maintain the layer that keeps your cursed energy from releasing.Â
No, he was just⌠concerned about you. This would be the first time youâve done something like this, after all. And he was always telling you that heâd be happy to give you advice, and he didnât have the same sarcastic twang in his voice reserved for people he didnât care for.Â
âSoâŚâ Gojo crouches down, getting close to your eye level. âYou think youâre doing well?â
You let a smile show. A shy little smile, the kind you gave when you were feeling genuinely proud. Those smiles were few and far between when it came to your family, but you didnât mind them in front of people like Gojo.
âMm-hmm. I think coming here is helping me regain a sense ofâŚâ Your eyebrows furrow as he stands up and begins walking around you in slow, lazy circles. âPurpose?â Your head follows him, but he doesnât stop or acknowledge what heâs doing. âOr um, confidence.â
He stops only when heâs right in front of you, but instead of crouching he merely leans down and gets right up in your face, a smile with a hint of teeth showing. The proximity brings heat to your face, and you lean back. He follows your motion, blue eyes behind his glasses peering at you in an almost uncharacteristically serious manner.
After a few moments, he speaks--
âIâd like to conduct a test.â
You fidget in your seated position.
âA test?â
Your heart beats a little faster--one, two, three. But youâre not worried. Itâs more like you can feel the first creepy-crawlies of self doubt making their way back up your spine. Why does Gojo want to test you? Heâs smarter and stronger and thereâs a reason heâs consulted so much on teaching others, so⌠soâŚ
You swallow that âsoâ while you wait for him to answer.
He taps his chin in a dramatic way, and it makes you feel better. At least, until he starts talking and seemingly confirms those creepy-crawlies. Not intentionally, though--he wouldnât do that.
âYes, a test! A truly great jujutsu sorcerer must be able to maintain control in all situations, no?â He waves his hands around at the surrounding space, the emptiness except for you and him. âNot in isolation. You wonât be fighting curses in isolation, will you? You wonât be fighting curse users in isolation, will you?â He asks these last two questions slowly, kindly. It makes you feel younger and more stupid, and you make a note to talk to him later about that, since he wouldnât knowingly hurt your feelings.
âIâŚâ You lick your lips. You brought a case of water, but you havenât yet opened it, and your mouth is dry. Too dry. But thatâs not important. Whatâs important is that Gojo has presented you with a very realistic, all-too-true conundrum.Â
You shake your head too slowly for your own liking. âNo, I⌠I guess I wonât be.âÂ
âYou guess?â He asks, voice taking on an almost sing-song tone at the end that plucks at one of your fraying nerves.Â
Your heart pounds just a little harder, you feel a trickle of sweat on your forehead that you donât wipe away. You force your breathing to even, your muscles to relax.Â
âI wonât be,â you reaffirm, removing all traces of doubt in your face. âI know I wonât be.â
He already started the test, you think, he just didnât tell you. You might be mad but youâre not, not really. Itâs just like Gojo to pluck out your weaknesses so he can help you better them, isnât it? Thatâs what heâs here for, what heâs always been here for. To help you improve. To help you.Â
And you? You can do this. You were born and raised, literally, to do this. To be the best sorcerer you could be, and if you need someone like Gojo to help you, who were you to reject him? Nobody.
And so, when Gojo hums happily and plops himself down in front of you, crossing his legs to mimic your own position, you take a breath and remind yourself how lucky you are to have someone like him ready to help instead of quietly watching you fail, waiting for your downfall and wondering if it would help boost their own familyâs status to knock you down a peg.
Gojo wouldnât do that, not to you.
You take another breath, and Gojo stares at you, blinks--once, twice.
âReady?â
You smile a little, sigh a little, and nod.
âLetâs do this.â
It takes your brain a few moments to process what happens, because itâs like there is a disconnect between your brain and your body and your soul and you donât know how to tether them altogether again.
Gojo kisses you.
Not a chaste peck, either, but warm and wet, his tongue sliding over your lips; a slimy feeling youâve never experienced before.Â
You jerk back before you know you do it, your eyes wide, knuckles pressed to your mouth.
âWhat--G-Gojo--â
Gojo doesnât move from his spot on the floor. He doesnât even seem bothered by your reaction or anything at all.
âWhatâs the matter?â He asks, eyeing you through his glasses. He looks above you, around you. âYouâre leaking again.â
Your chest seizes. Heâs right--when he kissed you, what control youâve been confidently rebuilding was completely lost.Â
âI⌠I donât understand how this is a test,â you get out. The words are slow and you feel stupid for saying them.Â
âOh!â Gojo grins, then. âSorry. Guess I should have explained, huh? I bet you never had training like this. AhâŚâ He leans forward, leaning his elbow on his knee and resting his chin lazily on his hand. âYou have to be able to control your cursed energy in any situation, right?â
He waits for you to nod, so you do.
âAnd curses or curse users donât always play fair. They may do something you donât expect.â
âThey wonât kiss me,â you say, but as soon as you say it, Gojoâs expression makes you question yourself. âWill⌠they?âÂ
Gojo sighs, and moves to stand up.
âI guess I was wrong about you.â
Your chest hurts.Â
âYou arenât ready for this type of training.â Heâs almost talking to himself now, getting ready to stand. âMaybe in a few years. Or, ah, maybe your family would rather you get married and your husband can decide if he wants you to reach your full potential. Maybe they wonât care, if you have enough kidsâŚâ
You try to clamp down on a stream of energy steadily making its way out of you. Itâs like soured milk, bitterness, self-doubt, all clawing their way up your spine and out of you.Â
âWait--â You reach for him and grip his sleeve. âI-I am ready, itâs just, I wasnât expecting⌠that. Iâm sorry. Please train me.â If Gojo wonât train you, wonât help you, then no one will.Â
Gojo tilts his head at you, considering. Then he slowly sits back down.
âOoo-ookay. But you have to let me do my job, okay? I know what Iâm doing.â He pokes you above your chest, on a clavicle showing above your shirt. The touch makes you jump. Almost makes you forget the lingering warmth on your lips⌠almost.Â
âControl your energy,â Gojo says casually. âNo matter what, okay?â
You nod. And you wonder if heâll kiss you again, but no, heâll do something else. Try to attack you without warning or bring up something strange or maybe even try to dig under your skin with some sort of verbal spitfire.Â
He doesnât do any of that.Â
Instead, he grips the bottom of your shirt and begins peeling it upwards with such quickness and strength that your arms go flying up with the fabric.
A noise escapes you, something like an undignified squawk, but youâre too unprepared and Gojo pulls the shirt up and over your head before you can protest or even try to stop him.
You do, however, regain your reaction time when your shirt is tossed to the side and quickly cross your arms over your bare chest. You didnât even wear a bra, wanting to keep yourself to as few layers as possible, although it was more uncomfortable to go without because of your larger breasts.Â
Your cheeks burn terribly hot and you donât know what you want to say. You just knowÂ
âS-Stop, this is, that is--this isnâtâŚâÂ
This isnât training, is it? A kiss, okay, okay, thatâs something Gojo might do to tease you. Even if he went too far. But your clothes? No, no, no--
Gojo doesnât stop smiling. You want him to stop smiling, to apologize, and to leave. But you donât get what you want.Â
âThis isnât what?â He asks. Thereâs a stickiness to his voice that is like a filmy layer growing in your gut.Â
He doesnât wait for you to respond. Instead, he reaches out and grabs your wrists, pulling them down so you canât keep them crossed over your chest. You gasp but he keeps them held down while he leers down at your bared breasts.
Heâs faster than you, and his hands are underneath your breasts, pushing them up and jiggling them before you can blink.Â
âThese are pretty bouncy, huh?â He murmurs, to himself or maybe you, youâre not sure which would make you feel worse. Your face burns hot and your feeble attempts at batting his hands away get you nowhere. âBut youâre always hiding themâŚâ He continues to bounce your ample breasts up and down.Â
You canât take it. Your skin feels like itâs on fire and youâre being touched in a way youâve never been touched, and itâs Gojo, he shouldnât be, he couldnât be, doing this.
âSt-stop,â you spit out, finally getting the presence of mind to jerk your body away. Amidst the embarrassment and shock is a thready bit of indignity. You arenât some⌠some floozy, youâre part of a highly respected sorcerer family. He canât just--
âThis--this isnât training! Youâre just being perv--â
He presses a finger to your lips, and you hush stupidly with it. He takes it away and regards you with an expression youâve seen him use with particularly stubborn would-be sorcerers.Â
âArenât I stronger than you?â
âYes,â you say, helplessly. âBut--â
Your hands go to cover your breast, and he bats them away.Â
âDonât I know more than you?â
âYes, but--â
âThen let me help you,â he says, taking and squeezing your hands with such earnestness that it throws your mind off balance.
âI donât understand why youâre doing this,â you admit, voice mumbling and stumbling. Your eyes widen and you feel hot tears working their way to the corners of your eyes. He shouldnât touch you⌠he shouldnât!Â
Gojo merely uses his grip on your hands to clap them together.
âBut itâs working, isnât it? The more distracted you are, the more likely you are to leak energy. And thatâs bad, right?â
While he speaks, his fingers release yours, only to slither down to the waistband of your skirt. Your breath hitches.
âY-Yes,â you mutter.
âWhat is it?â he asks, fingers latching onto your waistband and tugging it down. You squirm, but he persists.Â
His question only dimly registers until he yanks down your skirt, pulling it down your seated legs.
âB-Bad?â You should tell him to stop. You should leave. But heâs⌠Gojo⌠and youâre just--
âAnd if you can control yourself, thatâsâŚâ He drawls out these words,, placing a finger on your clothed pussy and dragging it down the middle.Â
âGood,â you squeak, voice tight and tinny.Â
âRight.â He grins, all praises.
Your legs do kick then, and you try to scoot backwards, away, away, away. But he presses one hand down on your bare thigh, and youâre stuck.
âThis isnât training,â you plead, mouth opening and closing like a fish, shocked and stupid.Â
He peers down at you from behind his glasses.
âYou trust me, donât you?â
Your heart lurches. It aches.Â
âI d-d-do,â you spit out, jaw trembling as much as your body. âButâŚâ
He gives your thigh a good squeeze.
âTh-th-then just let me do this for you, okay?â
The growing knot in your stomach twists and pulls terribly.Â
âHow is this for me?âÂ
He doesnât answer at first. Instead he grips your inner thighs and pulls your legs apart. Youâre aware, suddenly, of how physically strong he is--stronger than you, certainly, enough that what feeble attempts at struggling youâre still giving do nothing at all.
âIâm helping you,â he says, pulling out the word so that itâs almost a whine. âYou help people all the time. I just want to return the favor. Now try to focus, okay?â As he speaks, he finally pulls at the waistband of your underwear, pulling it down your legs that have begun to feel like jelly.
âWow.â He pulls his glasses down his nose and stares directly at your naked sex. âYou have a really pretty pussy. I bet it tastes just as nice, huh?â
If your cheeks got any hotter, they might be on fire. Sweat beads at the back of your neck, your arms, your forehead.Â
âD-Donât,â you say, wishing you had the guts to shut your legs and leave. But you canât, or you wonât, youâre not sure which.Â
âShhh,â he says, kneeling until heâs sprawled on the floor in between your legs. You couldnât close them now if you had the strength. âTry to focus. Thatâs why Iâm helping you train, right?âÂ
The teasing glint in his tone only makes you feel worse, but itâs nothing compared to the first puff of his breath you feel against your sex.
You make a sound almost like a squeak and Gojo lets out another puff of air, on purpose this time, murmuring something happily when you keep making those noises.Â
âSt--â You donât get to finish the word before his mouth is on you, not bothering with any tentative licks but sloppily eating you out.
Itâs an entirely foreign sensation, wet and warm, uncomfortable and strange. The fact that he keeps making positively lascivious noises only makes you feel more incapable of ignoring the reality. You shake your head and dig your nails into your palm, trying to process whatâs happening as an uncomfortable heat builds between your legs.Â
Before long, he pulls away, and thereâs a sick sensation in your stomach when you see that his lips are glossy with... with⌠you.Â
âYouâre leaking down here,â he says, with the utmost of seriousness. âBut I guess you canât clamp down on that kind of leak, huh?âÂ
You press your lips together and refuse to acknowledge him with a response.Â
He shrugs and goes back down between your legs, lapping at your clit with short licks of his tongue. The direct stimulation is different--tighter and more intense, and the sounds you canât help but make are wholly undignified, short gasps and high-pitched grunts.
âHas anyone ever done this before?â He asks, pulling himself away by a fraction of an inch.
âOf course not!â Your cheeks burn at the audacity of the question. âI-I donât, Iâm not supposed to do⌠that before marriage.â Why you canât seem to explicitly talk about sex to the man who is currently devouring your pussy, you donât know.Â
âOhhhh,â he says. The words are practically spoken into your twitching clit. âThat makes sense⌠well.â He looks up at you, and flashes a smile. âMaybe weâll get married. Canât say I havenât heard that rumor before.â
Before you can utter any sort of response, he leans forward and pushes you onto your back. With his body in between your legs, your legs fold over at the knee awkwardly, almost making it look like youâre displaying yourself for him.
âS-Satoru,â you say, voice hoarse, âI want to leave now.â
He shakes his head and holds up a finger.
âNo way! Weâre not done with training yet. Look at all that energy just seeping out of you. Tsk-tsk.â He puts the finger on his chin. âBut donât worry. I have another technique that should help⌠remember to focus!â
You donât know exactly what he means until you watch warily as he lowers his finger and presses it against your wet entrance.
âNo--â
But he doesnât wait. He pushes his finger inside of you and your breath is taken away at the sudden intrusion. Thereâs pain and ache and the unusual foreign sensation of something inside you. You canât help it, you clench around his finger and he coos appreciatively.
âI appreciate it,â he tells you, all honey, âbut save that for my cock.â
âS-Satoru!â You whimper the words out, squirming, wiggling your legs in the air like it might actually stop him. You can feel cursed energy seeping out through you, like thereâs a hole you canât quite patch up. You fight between acknowledging what Satoru is doing--pushing his finger in and out now, sliding inside you, it hurts and feels weird but thereâs a warmth, too--and keeping your cursed energy inside.Â
âDonât worry,â he teases. âNot today. Donât got the timeâŚâÂ
You squeeze your eyes shut, hating the hot tears that leak out, and stare up at the ceiling. Focus⌠focus⌠focus. You do focus, then, on keeping your energy from leaking out. Not because this is training--itâs not, youâre naive, not stupid--but because maybe itâs easier to bear all of this if you keep part of your mind elsewhere.Â
âThatâs it,â he praises. âKeep concentrating⌠gee, youâre doing great.â The snicker in his voice makes your stomach lurch. You wish he would stop pretending this was training. It only makes it worse.Â
And then suddenly thereâs another sensation of intrusion, and you look down to realize that heâs pushed another finger inside you.
âHmm,â he muses. âYou know, I wonderâŚâÂ
Your jaw trembles as he pushes his fingers in further and wiggles them around, almost like heâs feeling for something. And then--
You shriek, your body jolts upward, and you sit fully up and instinctively grab his wrists.
âThatâs the spot!â He grins, laughing, and pulls his fingers out only to bat your hands away. Then he gently pushes you back down onto the ground. Your thighs are trembling and you can feel wetness trickling out of you, slow and uncomfortable.
âI bet youâve never been able to reach this far with your little fingers. Donât worry, Iâll help youâŚâ
You push yourself up on your elbows and shake your head.Â
âNo⌠you, you donât have to. You donât need to, Iâm--â
He interrupts your pitiful pleads by pushing his fingers back inside, and your breath hitches at the sensation.
ââCourse I do! Gotta teach you everything. What kind of sorcerer would I be if I left you in the dust?â He watches you intently over his glasses, the blue in them agonizingly beautiful, and he finds that spot again.Â
But this time, he doesn't graze it in curiosity. Instead, he presses down and strokes it and itâs like an immediate shock to the system. A burst of almost painful pleasure, causing your legs to aimlessly kick and shudder without you controlling them and you let out a primal groan, not words exactly, just mumbled pleas. You feel something squirt out of you and hear Gojoâs surprised sound, a little pleased exclamation.Â
He doesnât stop, though, but keeps going. The white-hot pleasure is like being touched in all the right places in all the wrong ways, and you canât stop your thighs from quaking.Â
âToo much too much too much!â You get the words out, just barely, drool dribbling down your lips.Â
Mercifully, he pulls his finger out. You can see him look down at them through his tears, and he tsks lightly.Â
âYou know, for such an innocent girl, you're soaking. Or is that why youâre so wet? Because Iâm the first one to touch you?â He leans in and presses an almost chaste kiss to your lips. You can taste something on them, salty and almost earthy. Yourself.Â
 âI hope Iâm the last, too.â
When he pulls away, you eventually sit back up and, arms shaking, reach over for your underwear.
At this, Gojo tilts his head.
âWhat are you doing?â
Itâs your turn to tilt your head, though you canât tell if youâre mirroring him intentionally or not.
âMy⌠clothes,â you say, slowly. âIâm putting them on.â Because this is over, right? Heâs had his fun and you can leave and never talk to him again.Â
âWeâre not done yet, silly.â He grabs your underwear and shoves them into his pocket, then stands up and stretches his arms casually.Â
You stare up at him, naked, warm wetness between your legs. Feeling dazed and spent and tired.Â
Youâre about to ask what he means when he simply unbuttons his pants and pulls them down, boxers and all, without a word or a warning.
He grins, like heâs just shown you a present. What heâs shown you is his erect cock, glistening at the end with a wetness of its own. Youâve never actually seen a man naked before, a few photos in a pilfered naughty magazine that you snuck out of a friendâs house notwithstanding. Itâs fleshy and slick, thick.Â
âNow,â Gojo says, looking down at you in more ways than one. âHereâs the real test!â
His name comes out of your mouth pitifully, but he just pushes a finger to your lips and smiles.
âCâmon. Youâre sweet, arenât you? Always helping everyone else. I helped you just now, so now you return the favor. Easy.âÂ
Your face screws up in a grimace. You can feel hot tears still pricking at your eyes, threatening to fall again. Then you look up at his face and down at his cock and then back at his face.
Youâre not entirely ignorant of what he wants you to do--you just know that seeing a picture or reading about it in a spicy novel is far different than experiencing it for real. Especially like this. Especially with him.
âI donât⌠Iâve neverâŚâÂ
He pats the top of your head gently, but strangely, keeps his palm on the back of your head afterward.Â
âI know, I know. But Iâll teach you. Besides,â and thereâs that awful grin in this tone again, âitâs not enough to control your energy while things are being done to you. You have to control it while you do things to others, right?â
He shifts forward and his cock is right in front of your face. You canât really look away. You can smell him, even, a musky smell. Not wholly unpleasant but like the taste on your lips from his own, thereâs an earthiness to it. A primal sense.
You want to run. You should. Others would in this situation, wouldnât they? But heâll just bring you back, if you do. Or worse, let you go and⌠who knows what he might say to others? At least if you do what he wants, he canât do anything worse than this.Â
You hope.
âWhat do I do?â You whisper.Â
He releases his grip on your head only to clap his hands twice.Â
âThereâs my girl! Youâve got the right spirit.â He beams down at you and you hate how the blue of his eye peeks through the top of his glasses and the way his smile should make you feel good, but only makes you squirm.Â
He shifts forward again until his cock brushes up against your cheek. You gasp and lean backward, only to find that his hand is back against your head, keeping you in please.
âOpen your mouth,â he says, almost sweetly.Â
And you donât want that thing on your face anymore so you do, opening just a little.Â
âWider. Like youâre at the dentist. Watch your teeth.â He sounds more serious. Like heâs instructing you--and he is, isnât he? you think, sickly.
You open wide, feeling stupid, feeling sick, as he guides his cock into your mouth. He lets out a sigh of appreciation as he pushes inside, and you instinctively make a muffled noise of protest--this isnât right, this isnât right. In front of you are his naked hips, the base of his cock, a smattering of pubic hair.Â
The taste of him is vaguely salty and warm, but itâs the sensation of having something--having him--filling your mouth that makes you back your head up, wanting him out. But the hand on the back of your head keeps you in place, pushing. His cock hits the back of your throat and you gag. Tears stream down your cheeks from reflex and the realization of whatâs happening.Â
He snickers, but pulls back a little.Â
âSorry, sorry, Iâll be more gentle.âÂ
He begins to move, then. Slowly at first. You donât do anything but keep your mouth open, keep your tongue pressed flat to avoid touching his cock, though you soon find this to be an impossible task. You canât help but gag a little when he pushes, but at least he seems to be trying to avoid doing it on purpose.Â
Itâs a small mercy, you think, though what counts for âmercyâ right now is highly debatable.Â
Your cheeks are hot like fire as you begin to taste more of him, feel more of him. Heâs inside you, all flesh and warmth, an extension of himself that heâs using to--to what? Tease you? Use you? Something else?Â
He begins to move faster, and you gag, trying to mumble his name in plea around his cock. He groans and the hand on your head grips harder.
âOh, fuck, donât do that. I wonât be able to control myself.âÂ
You want to sob but youâre afraid of moving your mouth so much. The tears fall down your face, regardless.Â
âGood girl, youâre being so good⌠you were born for this, werenât you?âÂ
When you look up, Satoru is looking down at you the way you think someone might look at a nice collectible figurine. A precious item to be touched and dusted at whim.
âBorn to be a good sorcererâs wife,â he continues, and itâs almost as if heâs talking more to himself than to you. âThatâs what weâre doing now, arenât we? Practicing that? Thereâs all sorts of training for sorcerers, you knowâŚâ His thrusts begin to get less controlled, quicker. âPracticing controlling energy⌠controlling techniques⌠all those little nuances of life as a sorcerer. Like this.â The thrusts are so quick that you start making helpless noises around them, little grunts. âYouâd be a good wife, m-maybe--â His breath hitches, the first time youâve heard him lose control. âEven a good mother, after a while.â
You make a sound of protest--itâs the last thing you want to be thinking of right now--but he shushes you and starts thrusting sloppily, clearly lost in his thoughts. âYouâve even got nice big tits, donât you? Perfect for breastfeeding or, fuck, holding onto while we fuckâŚâ He sighs, languid. âIâll try that next time, okay? Gotta be patient.â
His words seep into you like cursed energy, confusing (it is true, you were raised to be a wife, raised to have children,--but this?) and hurtful and twisting in your stomach.
Suddenly he pulls himself out of your mouth. Your lips make a wet plop and you open them to start to ask what heâs doing, but you donât have the time to ask, because thereâs suddenly something warm and thick all over your face. Something lands on your lashes and you blink, feeling a salty sting on your eye.
Your pussy clenches and you donât know why.
As you sit there, shocked, dazed, you hear a click.
Oh.
He took a picture.
You wipe at your eye, cringing at the feeling of something wet and globby on your hands, and look at him with wide, teary eyes.
âJust for safekeeping,â he says, tucking the phone into his pocket. âWouldnât want this to get out, would you? Would definitely put a damper on your marriage prospectsâŚâ
Thereâs no reason you shouldnât sob, now, without Gojo in your mouth. So you do. Your face crumples and everything that just happened hits you all at once, until youâre weeping pitifully in front of him.
Youâre dimly aware of him leaning down before he pulls out a handkerchief and wipes his cum off your face like heâs wiping at a bit of stubborn dirt. He wipes at your tears with his fingers, at least.Â
âDonât be so glum! You did great!âÂ
He presses a kiss to your cheek and straightens up.Â
âIâll be sure to tell your father about your improvements in cursed energy control. Heâll be happy, donât you think?â
You donât answer, because you donât have words anymore.Â
He leaves, his footsteps receding loud. You donât watch him go. Instead you sit there in the same position, naked, wet, feeling sticky and used.Â
And like that, youâre alone again.Â
You donât try to dampen down the energy that leaks from you this time.Â
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đ´ with Webber!reader x Jenson x Sebastian.
Living with your brother had it's perks, him living in a penthouse and all.
But it had it's downsides too. Like when you had to sneak your hookups out without him knowing. It didn't help that they were his friends and colleagues.
To be honest it was only a matter of time before he caught you.
Warnings: disgusting smut, crying, dacryphilia, sub reader, sub sebastian, dom jenson (hear me out), overstimulation, forced sex?, use of the colour system, PinV sex, Oral, cum, facials you know the drill, Jenson being mean af
requested from my prompt list
He finally caught you the day after his win in Monaco 2012.
He'd gone out partying all night so you had the place to yourself and you decided to invite a couple of friends over.
Those friends happened to be Sebastian Vettel and Jenson Button. No biggie.
They both knew about your situationship with the other, and you didn't get to see them that often, so you had planned that while they were both in Monaco you'd have a bit of fun with them both.
And it's not like they didn't mess around on their own either.
Sebastian arrived first, having rushed through his duties in his impatience to join you.
Before you'd even shut the door he had you up against the wall, whispering about all the things he wanted to do to you, feeling frustrated after your brother âstole his winâ (his words not mine).
Fucking his biggest rival's little sister was certainly a great way to let out his frustration, and you were happy to take everything he had to give.
He undressed you slowly, making sure to tease you as much as possible while he peeled your clothes off your body.
He was halfway through getting you to your second orgasm using his fingers, when Jenson barged in.
The bastard didn't even knock, he just opened the door, gasped in fake surprise at the sight of you getting ravaged on the couch and closed the door behind him.
âGod, look at the state of you two, couldn't even wait for meâ he tutted as he prowled towards you like a predator.
Seb hadn't stopped his ministrations and you were currently hurtling towards your peak. Jenson chuckled at you barely being able to keep your eyes open with the pleasure.
âAw babygirl are you going to come on Seb's fingers?â
You nodded as the pleasure overcame you and you clamped down on Seb's fingers as you rode your high.
Once you had finished, Jenson dragged him away from your weeping cunt and sat him on the couch next to you.
âLet's give her a break and take care of this mess, hmm?â
Seb gasped as Jenson lowered his head and licked up the underside of his leaking cock.
He wasted no time sinking down completely, making Seb choke on his spit.
You had no idea Jenson was so proficient at blowjobs, but the sight of him swallowing around Seb's cock really did something to you.
âFuck Jenson-â Seb moaned âdon't stopâ
Jenson pulled off for a second to answer âDon't worry baby, I'm not going to stop until you're cryingâ
Seb whimpered and Jenson sank back down to the base, deepthroating him expertly.
It took Seb an embarrasingly short amount of time to come after that, and he pulled Jenson off him by the hair.
Jenson himself was flushed but he sat up and looked at the two of you mischievously.
âNow then, given that you two brats decided to be greedy and start without me, you're going to fuck, and I'm going to watch. And if you stop before I say so, I will tie you both up and tease you all night and leave you here for Mark to find, understood?â
You and Seb looked at each other with a twinkle in your eyes.
âYes Daddyâ
You were just goading him at this point, you knew it would drive Jenson mad, and it did. He groaned and rubbed his face.
âRight, come on then.â He sighed, slapping your thigh âAny position you want, get to it.â
You decided to ride Seb, and it was wonderful. He was so thick, grazing all the right places inside you, that this didn't feel like much of a punishment at all.
You came for the third time just as you thighs were starting to burn from the effort, so as you came down, Seb pulled out and you changed position, now laying on the couch with Seb above you as Jenson watched on.
Seb fucked you hard immediately, slightly overstimulating you, and his hands wandered over your flesh, squeezing and pinching as they went.
The real punishment started when Seb came inside you and stopped his thrusts to pull out gently.
âAh ah! What do you think you're doing?â Jenson said, looking up from his phone âkeep fucking her Sebâ
You both froze.
âBut-â Seb started but Jenson interrupted him
âThis is your punishment for being impatient little fuckers, so get back inside her while you're still hard and take it like a manâ
Seb blushed and reluctantly pushed back into you.
You were both so sensitive it sent shocks through your systems.
âFuckâ Seb muttered as he put some of his weight on you in favour of grinding his hips into yours.
âFeel so fucking good around me schatzâ
You whined âIt's too much Jense, m'gonna comeâ
Jenson just laughed.
âIs it too much or are you going to come baby? It can't be bothâ
Jenson talking down at you shouldn't have been as hot as it was, but you were clenching around Seb as you got closer to another orgasm.
âGonna comeâ you gasped out.
âThen come baby, I'm not stopping youâ
And you did, your fourth orgasm washed over you but Seb kept going as per Jenson's instructions and he himself came again not long after that.
Jenson sensed he was going to pull out so he grabbed Seb's hips and pushed him flush with you.
âDon't you dare pull out, Sebby. Keep going. It's what you get for being greedy little slutsâ
He guided Sebs hips back and forth, using Seb to fuck you, not giving his dick time to get soft again as you both felt tears of overstimulation cloud your vision.
âCan't Jensonâ Seb gasped, he was shaking like a leaf âIt's too much, I can't keep goingâ
You shared the sentiment, you weren't sure you'd be able to come again, the pleasure bordering on pain.
Jenson pushed on Seb's hips particularly hard and he let out a sob into the crook of your neck.
âYes you canâ Jenson said tenderly âI know you can, Sebbyâ
Seb let out a wanton moan and Jenson asked âColour?â
Seb's shaky voice replied, muffled by your skin âgreenâ.
Jenson looked at your tear stained cheeks and you also gasped out âgreenâ.
âThere you go, you can both give me one more thenâ
Seb's hips slapped into yours with renewed vigour, he was determined to see this to the end, his impressive stamina coming in handy in this situation.
Jenson decided to help you along and give you a hand, literally.
One of his hands went to Seb's hair, yanking his head back and licking into his mouth as he panted like an animal, and the other slithered down you body and started rubbing circles onto your clit.
The touch sent a jolt of electricity through you and you found yourself right on the edge again, and the pleasure was too much for you as you sobbed your way through your orgasm.
Sebâs hyper sensitive cock didn't survive you clamping down on him and he also came with a wretched sound, muffled by Jenson's mouth on his.
Jenson helped Seb to pull out carefully, and he slumped down to a kneeling position on the floor.
He instructed you to do the same and got his painfully hard cock out of his pants to finally get the relief he'd been denying himself.
The sight of you and Seb on your knees for him, his two favourite brats, tears staining your cheeks, eyes wet and lips puffy, was enough to get him off in record time as he groaned out a curse and spurted streaks of white over both of your faces.
âMy perfect whores, fuck- so good for me, you did so wellâ
He stroked your heads as he waited for his head to stop spinning.
You all got washed up and went to bed very late, after a nice (takeaway) meal and a couple of drinks to wind down.
The next morning you woke up with Seb, Jenson being a heavy (and late!!) sleeper, and decided to get up and get some breakfast.
What you didn't expect was for Mark to be in the living room, holding your discarded clothes and a Redbull shirt.
You froze in the doorway and you stared at each other, your eyes full of fear and his full of anger.
âSo you're sleeping with a Redbull driver, huh?â he cocked his head âLast I heard, there's only two of those. And it's definitely not me. So tell me, who is in your room right now?â
âWell I should hope you're not sleeping with your own sisterâ Seb's voice resounded from behind you, and you cursed the man internally.
âAh! Nice of you to join us, Seb! What the fuck are you doing in my apartment?â Mark's eyes flashed with anger.
Seb just chuckled and wrapped an arm around you âI was invited by your lovely sister, do you want a play by play of everything we did on your couch?â
Mark's eyes widened and he looked at the couch with disgust.
âAlso that is my shirt you're holding, so I will let you make your own conclusionsâ
He walked towards a livid looking Mark and ripped his own shirt from his grasp, before going to sit down in the kitchen.
âYou coming schatz? I thought you wanted to make breakfast?â he called from the other room.
You gave an apologetic look to your brother before following Seb's path.
Mark took a second to regain his composure before doing the same.
âHow long has this been going on?â
You sighed, of course now he was going to be nosy.
âA few months⌠maybe a yearâ
Mark would have been outraged except⌠he just frowned, he definitely heard you with someone a few weeks ago, and it definitely wasn't Seb.
In fact he was pretty sure he recognised the accent heâd heard through the wall.
âBut what aboutâŚâ he looked at Seb quickly before deciding he actually didn't care about possibly hurting his feelings and blurted out âJenson!â
You stared at him blankly. âWhat about Jenson?â
He narrowed his eyes at you âWell I know you fucked him⌠recentlyâ
âAnd why would you think I'm fucking Jenson?â
And because your luck always ran out at the very worst of times, Jenson himself strutted through the door, shirtless, and sporting a smug grin.
âSomeone mention my name?â
He walked towards you, pecked you on the cheek and sat down on the other side of Sebastian.
Marks eyes looked like they were going to pop out of his skull, and you could see the cogs turning in his mind.
âYou⌠you're fucking BOTH OF THEM?!â
You could barely contain your smirk as you answered.
âYeah? This is what the young people are doing these days, Mark. You should give it a go, it might help you unwind!â
He didn't even dignify that with a response, turning on his heel and stomping out of the room.
You, Seb and Jenson looked at each other and burst out laughing.
You were definitely inviting them over more often.
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Could you write Solomon and Diavolo dating headcannons, both nsfw and sfw?
Also, have a good day!
-anon đŞź
I got u anon <3
Diavolo
Dia is a very clichĂŠ lover, I'm talking pulling out all the stops from the worst romance movies
The first time you stayed the night at the palace with him as his lover, the room was filled with as many rose petals as he could find, candles too! He had several things prepared for your stay as well! There was a gift basket in the bathroom with shower/bathroom items with your name on them, as well as your favorite products. There was even a brand-new toothbrush on the vanity next to his! Needless to say, he's over the moon about you.
PAMPERS you!!!
he uses his status to get you anything you ask for! You could ask him for the heart of King Tut, and he'd figure out how to get it for you
you're certainly one of the only people in the entire Devildom that will even consider asking the Demon Prince for a piggyback ride, and he will do it no questions asked! He loves using his demonic strength to carry you, even if you really only ask when you're tired
he's very proud to be your partner, he would shout it from the balcony every morning if he could
doesn't let anyone speak ill of you, he has eyes and ears everywhere, and if someone dares use your name negatively, they will often disappear. You usually don't even know you're being talked about.
Unfortunately, his status also gets in the way of many things, he's often very busy with royal demon matters, but once your relationship has become public knowledge, he doesn't mind having you at his side during meetings! He'll also gladly have you seated nicely on his lap while he does his daily paperwork, reveling in your company
Dia's a very lonely demon, so he's quite clingy, asking to spend any and all free time he may have with you! Although, he also asks you to keep him company when he doesn't have free time, which he'll understand if you're not up to it that day
NSFW
Diavolo, surprisingly, has very little experience. Often times, no one dares to flirt with him, and when they do he has to consider their motives. That being said, he is also absolutely shameless about asking for advice from the brothers (probably Asmodeus)
Your first time with him was straight out of a romance novel, he pulled out all the stops from mood lighting to incense; he even made a playlist after searching "best songs to have sex to"
He's a large demon, so he takes his time with you, starting with kisses. Lots of kisses; and the moment you find yourself unable to stifle a giggle, he sinks his teeth into your skin.
Possessive, and will mark you up like no tomorrow, be prepared to walk around with very visible hickeys
Likes lingerie, and has bought a couple of lovely sets, mostly consisting of a deep red color. However he finds himself unable to resist those teeny sleep shorts and tank top you have in your pajama roster; especially if you have nothing on underneath
Has you cum on his fingers several times before even attempting to fuck you. Enough that you're often exhausted by the time he deems you prepared enough
The first time he sank into you, his demon form came out, it felt so good. He also just likes fucking in his demon form, and can certainly tell you do as well.
Sex with Dia lasts hours, usually just short of you passing out, so aftercare is a huge part of the evening! He carries you to the bath, and everything smells like lavender. He's very gentle as he cleans you off with a warm washcloth, and you're often lulled to sleep by the warmth and comfort
Solomon
He likes to annoy you, but in the cute boyfriend way. Like randomly dabbing you up
Casual dates galore! He needs to go grocery shopping? Why don't you come with him! Wanna go to the bookstore? Oh? You're craving Akudonald's? He'll go! He's not one for anything super fancy, although he will take you somewhere nice every once in a while
Very attentive and giving, but like you think he's not paying attention, and he actually is. That book series from the human world you'd been keeping up with? He hands you the newest volume one day! That bracelet you considered at a sop the other day? It's on your wrist the next week. You're struggling with a class? Oh look, a detailed study guide for the whole year.
Not one to really initiate PDA past handholding, but isn't opposed to it! If you wanna make out at this cafĂŠ right now, feel fucking free baby
Bad texter. He often gets so engrossed in his work/experiments that his phone goes ignored for hours
Consistently tries to cook for you (you never let him in the kitchen)
He's not very clingy, and can go at least a day without seeing you, but he likes your company, and wants to make sure you know you're loved! When he's off doing something far away, he'll call you every morning when he wakes up, and every night before he sleeps. If somehow you're unable to answer due to time zones, he'll leave heartfelt voicemails for you to wake up to
Definitely uses your proximity to Lucifer to try and make a pact with him. It's worth a try, but ultimately gets him nowhere.
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Being a human in a land of demons can make a man feel...insecure to say the least, but what he lacks in demonic traits, he makes up for with magic. It's hard to go a night with him without a little sorcery; perhaps he whispers an incantation that will heighten your sensitivity before he assaults your senses with him. His voice, his hands, his scent; they all envelop you until the only thing running through your head is his name
His stamina isn't like a demon's but it's better than the average human's so he's often tired when you are, and is more than happy to just fall asleep and clean up later, unless you insist upon washing up right away (he may protest a little, but he always relents)
A little more blunt about what he wants than some others. Outright asking to fuck during makeouts is a frequent occurrence.
Enjoys cockwarming, it's relaxing. Plus, he gets to tease you to no end, which he also very much enjoys
Speaking of teasing, it's endless. He particularly likes edging you, feigning pity when you start begging to cum before giving you what you want; over and over again.
Needs a breather after he cums, his heart is pumping in his ears, just give him a second and he'll be fine :)
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Wants to fuck your throat
Into choking, both getting choked and choking you
Doesn't mind letting you take the lead
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Baby Vamp
Request: The Cullens hc with a newborn reader (vampire not baby)? by đĽ anon.
Pairing: Platonic Cullenâs x vampire!reader.
Warnings: Not beta nor proofread. No Bella mentioned. Platonic!!!
Word Count: 324.
Note: Iâm so sorry, this is definitely not my best work :(
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⢠Emmett finds it funny when you feed. Trying not to be a messy eater as a vampire is hard, you canât help it, he should leave you alone.
⢠Esme mothers you much more than the others, except maybe Jasper. Jasper actually feels closer to you because of that.
⢠Alice loves to take you shopping. Youâre a new you, you should dress like it too; at least thatâs what she tells you as she drags you to the car.
⢠Rosalie is sceptical of you at first and then you say you like her car. She decides if no one else will take an interest, she can make you. You love it.
⢠Carlisle adores you. You make his family happy and you like to sit with him in his office while he does his paperwork, he likes that you take an interest.
⢠Jasper chooses the car with you in it nine times out of ten. He likes your music taste, it makes him feel human.
⢠Edwardâs great when it comes to teaching you how to hunt and authentically control your thirst.
⢠Heâs also great at making sure you donât have emotional blockage via your thoughts; Jasperâs a big help.
⢠Esme cleans your mouth like youâre a toddler when you come home with your food around your mouth; she tuts and coos as she does.
⢠Carlisle has you a room ready for you to decorate the second Alice has a vision. (Esme helps decorate.)
⢠Emmettâs in full on annoying brother mode, headlocks and noogies all the time. (Heâs in for a big surprise when you break a window shoving him off of you.)
⢠Alice has a whole photo album of just you in over the top outfits; most while you hunt which isnât ideal but they call them your baby pictures.
⢠Rosalie babies you (she thinks sheâs being discreet but you all know).
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#đĽ anon#twilight x reader#twilight#the cullens#cullens x reader#platonic#emmett cullen#rosalie hale#carlisle cullen#esme cullen#edward cullen#alice cullen#jasper hale#vampire reader
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dream a little dream of me - aegon & aemond targaryen
summary: There were many things you regretted doing; drinking milk on a hot day, letting your dickwad of a boyfriend lie to your face... and creating a dr after reading a dark romance and subconsciously modelling traits after morally grey men; because unlike Wanda Maximoff, they followed you to the real world.
warnings: morally grey characters. dark themes. typical targc*st. jace was supposed to be the love interest but aha! smut. cursing. oral.
pairings: aemond targaryen x reader, aegon targaryen x reader.
notes: this is probably an prologue or a synopsis or a test chapter one! just had to write it so the plot isn't lost!!
"DĹna mandia.." Aegon whispers, brushing a ghost of a kiss on your own; his breathing was slow, as if savoring your closeness, "let me drink wine from your lips alone." he uttered in a low voice, making a noise from the back of his throat as your lips part, wispy lashes brushing against his cheeks as you trembled beneath his fingers.
"Such a jumpy little thing, aren't you?" Aemond tuts, a hint of a smile on his lips. "We barely touched you and still..." your breath was caught in your throat at the feeling of his kisses on your neck; his arms wounding atightly around your waist, fingers splayed around your stomach.
You could hardly breathe from their seeking, probing touches, let alone move when they pinned you inbetween them. Your throat closed up and you struggled to breathe when Aemond's fingers breached your nightwear, his forefinger brushing against your folds, "Is this for us, dĹna mandia? Our sweet sister, dripping... aching to be fucked by her own blood." He mocked, repeating your own words with disdain.
Aegon smirked, cupping your face with a firm grip, "What? That strong bastard not doing it for you? Do you regret choosing him already?" you whimpered as Aemond thrust a finger into you; slipping in with ease from your own wetness. You hated how your body reacts to their proximity, and their damn, filthy words! You were both humiliated and aroused. Ashamed and.. unbelievably turned on. Fuck. Wasn't this ironic? For all your unspoken convictions, when it came down to it, weren't you as weak and pliant in their arms? Your only consolation was weak; this was merely a fantasy. A fantasy. A fanta....
"Fuck!" Your cry was genuine, as you felt Aegon's lips suckling on your pearl; lapping up at your cunt with invigorated will, while Aemond worked in tandem, thrusting in and out of your sloppy cunt.
"Cry out, mandia. Louder. Let the servants hear you!" Aemond coos, nipping at a sensitive spot in your neck. Your breath came out ragged, leaning most of your weight behind Aemond, as his brother lifted your leg to his shoulder, opening you more to his mouth. Your eyes were half lidded from pleasure... a distant ringing echoing in the back of your head... an anxious purr... a clamor and a yelp escaped your parted lips as he flattens his tongue on your coreâ
You jolted awake, scrambling to turn off your screaming alarm, and cursing altogether. You didn't know wether to thank the alarm rang when it did, or be frustrated from being sexually frustrated. It was merely a dream, of sorts, yet you felt the uncomfortable heat inbetween your legs as if it was real.
Forget about it, you muttered to yourself. You hadn't planned for the plot to go south, when you'd imagined it; it was supposed to be wholesome, and sweet, a sort of fix it for your own relaxation. Something to comfort yourself as the series completely tore down any sort a happy ending for your favorite characters on television.
But as it stands, just like in the series, you had little control over what your characters did; it was as if they have their own free will, and desires independent from what you had thought them as. They could hold conversations properly, engage in witty banter, flirtâ you were incredibly baffled when the first hint of attraction had come to light with your so called brothers.
Nevertheless, you chalked it off to circumstances. They were unloved; neglected and lost with the expectations of many before their shoulders. It was natural they would hold on to affection and tenderness without any sort of ill motive; it was human nature to seek love, afterall.
But your designs were clearly intended for Rhaenyra's oldest son... how come, there was a side plot, in the realization of your love story with Jacaerys? Was there some manual, you should have read when constructing a desired reality? You thought it was more on feelings!
Shrugging off the night's exciting festivity, you rose from your bed, and took to the shower as swift as you could. You still had classes to attend, assignments, papers to write... dreaming was a stress relief, so you shouldn't think about it as deeply as you should. You couldn't dwell on it with normal, society accepted, morals. It wasn't real.
And the Targaryen brothers? Fucking easy on the eyes. Who can blame you from deviating from the plot? You would climb them like a tree, surely.
You had to laud the whole casting team for casting such delicious villains. Ewan Mitchell and Tom Glynn-Carney are so gorgeous, you could cry.
You dressed for the day, skipping breakfast, as you were already too late, and leaving your dorms to attend to the real world..
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The art of having kids
Fred Weasley x reader x George Weasley
Requested by: @jelloangela
Request gist: âOverstimulation and breeding with the Weasley twinsâ
A/N: Thanks for the request! When it comes to the twins, magic must be real cause I'm under some sort of horny spell lol. I don't know why this one took me so long, writer's block has me in a choke hold.
T/W: Breeding, Overstimulation, Praise, sweet nicknames (I went for one's different than usual), a teeny bit of nipple play (thought Iâd add a warning anyway), no aftercare
The day had been such a drag at the joke shop. Normal customers looking at the same old stock. The twins had been at the till all day just people watching. At around 4pm, a couple came in with a small boy. The boy looked so excited by all the colours and noises that the shop provided. He was giggling and touching everything in his reach. His parents trailed behind him, putting everything back in its designated place.
Normally, customers touching things and putting them down would be one of the worst things a retail worker could come across, but this kid was so adorable. After the small family had left, the twins turned to each other. The shared look only meant one thing, you were in for a rough night.
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You had been upstairs in the flat above the shop preparing dinner for when the twins locked up. At first when you hear them running up the stairs, you thought something bad was happening, like a fire or a howler from Mrs Weasley.
The twins practically burst through the door and pulled you out of the kitchen, directing you towards the bedroom before you could even ask questions. Fred was in front of you pulling you by yours hands while George was behind you pushing you with eager hands on your waist. They often got like this, where theyâd just ambush you and start tugging at whatever you were wearing.
Fred sat on the edge of the bed, pulling you to stand between his legs while George trapped you there with his slim body. Fred tugged your jeans down along with your underwear, George pulled your blouse up. Both twins worked towards the same thing, getting you as bare as possible, as quick as possible.
When they achieved their goal of getting you naked, they both watched you the same way a hungry owl would watch a lost baby bunny, just waiting to strike with sharp talons. Fred stood up, pushing you onto the bed in his place. The boys stripped off their suits until they both stood before you in their underwear.
âIsnât our girl so pretty and perfect, Georgie? Sheâs gonna make an amazing motherâ
Fredâs words caught you off guard a little, but didn't put you off. George sat next to you and tutted at his brother.
âFreddie, youâre gonna scare our pretty girl away. How does it sound, angel? Being a pretty mummy for our babies? Weâll keep you so full of our cum until it takes, until you become so round and swollen. Just think of how perfect youâd look with a swollen tummy all because of usâ.
George always had a way of talking you into kinky situations. Fred has always been the one to jump at the chance to try a new kink, whereas George would sit you down and discuss it first. Heâd give you those puppy dog eyes that only he could and youâd be nodding, eager to try it. And nothing changed this time around.
You nodded, giving the boys the green light to do whatever they pleased. George's lips connected with your neck while Fred snaked his hands to your thighs, pulling your legs around his hips. Fred moved his tip up and down your slit, bumping it against your clit in an effort to get you wetter. George left marks along the skin of your neck while his hand made its way to rub over your nipples, which were slowly hardening beneath his rough fingers.
When Fred felt you were wet enough, he pushed in. Even when he was balls deep, he didn't stop to let you adjust. Fred had always claimed that you never needed to adjust, because they fucked you on a daily basis.
His thrusts were slow but deep, wanting to keep as much on his cock buried inside of you as he could. His hands gripped your hips, keeping you exactly where he wanted you. George's lips moved along your neck and up to your ear.
âDoes he feel good, baby? You like having him deep in that little pussy? I bet you do. Weâre gonna take care of you. Canât have the mother of our children lifting a finger, now can we?â
The thought of the twins getting you pregnant caused a moan to slip past your lips. Both boys knew that they had won you over. They'd keep you bed bound until there was a positive pregnancy test if they had to. Fredâs thrusts slowly got quicker, while his hand moved to rub at your clit. He always did that when he got the chance to fuck you, loving the way your walls squeezed around him.
Fredâs eyes locked onto yours, his breath coming out in groans.
âYou wanna cum, pretty baby? Get my cock all nice and wet and Iâll fuck a baby into youâ
His fingers got quicker circling your clit, and then it hit you. Your walls squeezed Freds cock as you came. George kept his hand busy with your tits while whispering sweet words in your ear. But Fred didnât slow down. His thrusts stayed the same rhythm, which eventually led to your moans turning to whines and your legs trying to close around his waist to stop the onslaught of pleasure. Fred held your thighs apart, while George directed your attention onto him with his voice.
âSweet girl, if you want Freddie to fill you up, you need to stay still. Don't want him to pull out, do you?â
Although the pain was intertwined with the pleasure, you still shook your head at the very thought of him pulling out. Fred kept going, slowly bringing you to the brink again. All it took was another orgasm from you to make his thrusts turn sloppy and his cock pulse. With a low groan, he buried himself deep within your pussy, making sure every last drop of his cum would stay inside of you where it belonged. After catching his breath, he turned to George.
âGet up here, itâs gonna all leak out when I pull outâ
George got up from his place next to you to stand beside his brother. As soon as Fred pulled out, George pushed in. Fred sat next to you, trying to gently shush the whimper that threatened to escape your lips. George slowly built up to a quick pace, his eyebrows furrowing at Fred who was rubbing your clit.
âFred, she can't handle more. I bet in this state, she couldn't even tell us apartâ.
George was always the caregiver. While Fred insisted that you could take more, always drawing another orgasm from you, George was the one who would be reluctant to push you. It wasn't that he didn't like seeing you in such a blissed out state or didn't think you could handle an orgasm or two, he didnât like those little pouts and whimpers when the pleasure morphed with pain.
âOh come on Georgie, our girl can handle it. Sheâs not made of glass, she can take it. Canât you, sweets?â
Even after a couple of orgasms, you werenât completely in subspace. You nodded at George, hoping to ease his worries.
âPlease Georgie, I can take it. I want you to fill me up. Please Georgie?â
How could George ever say no to you?
His thrusts got rougher, desperate to give you what you asked. That building pleasure was quick to release, giving you your third orgasm of the night. George kept thrusting, although somewhat reluctantly. When he felt his own orgasm approaching, his thrusts got more manic. Soon, his cum spurted inside of you, mixing with both your own juices and Fred cum. George slowly pulled out, while Fred picked your underwear up and slipped in back up your legs. He was determined to keep it all inside you.
Even if it didn't take the first time, you could always try again the next night.
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Baby Face - A John Shelby/Reader One Short Story.
Words - 2,742
Warnings - Smut below the cut, minors DNI!
You and your girlfriends, you have names for each of them. Names the donât know about. Tommy is razor cheeks, because of course. Those cheekbones. Arthur is angry fella, again, self-explanatory, and John is...Â
âLook, girls,â you chime, sipping upon your gin while discreetly nodding in the direction of the Garrisonâs entrance. âBaby face just walked in.â Â
âHeâs so adorable,â your friend Marjie sighs, turning to you with a look of pure adoration upon her face. âI donât know what Iâd like to do more, mother him or get on him!âÂ
âOh,â you snort, shaking your head, âitâs the latter for me. I would ride that man all the way to town and back!â Â
Your girls all cackle, huddling close, Joan the next to speak. âWould you, though? I mean, heâs a bit too sweet looking for me! Dunno if heâd have it in him, to be as much man as Iâd need!âÂ
You turn to view him again, catching his eye. He gives you an appreciative sweep with his eyes, winking. Turning back to your friends, you beam widely. âHeâs got it in him. I know we call him baby face, but thereâs a demon lurking beneath. I know there is.âÂ
âA shilling says youâre wrong.â Reaching into her purse, Winnie pulls out the very coin itself, slapping it down on the table. Joan and Marjie follow suit. âAre you prepared to put your money where your mouth is?âÂ
Rifling in your bag, you remove your dainty little purse, taking out the coin and placing it with theirs. âIâll put my money there. My mouth has other plans.âÂ
âOooh, you dirty cat!â Winnie shrieks, her brother, the man you needed to accompany you to the pub in order to be served in the first place turning, tutting and shaking his head. Â
âAll alley cats, the lot of ya!âÂ
âOh, pipe down, our Wilf,â she orders lightly, giving him a nudge where heâs turned in his seat at the next table over with his lad friends. âWeâre only having a bit of fun!âÂ
A bit of fun. You can guess with almost certainty youâd receive exactly that from John Shelby. Turning again, you see heâs still at the bar, drinking with a couple of the lesser famed Blinders, once again catching your eye. He lifts his chin, holding your gaze fast while sipping his whiskey, placing his glass down and making a motion with his fingers for you to go over. Smiling, you remain in your seat.Â
He can work a little harder than that. Â
The excited squeaks of your friends â who of course witnessed it â tinkle through the air, Joan holding out a cigarette, lighting it for you, her eyes suddenly widening. Â
âBaby face on his way over! This is not a bloody drill!âÂ
Your heart somersaults, but you remain calm, feeling him arrive at your side. âEvening, ladies. Having a good time, are ya?âÂ
Looking up at him, youâre near intoxicated out of your mind by his scent, his eyes so much more beautiful close up. God, heâs simply divine. âI could be having a better one.âÂ
âOh, ar?â he chimes, raising an eyebrow as he idly chews upon his toothpick. âAnything I can help with?â Â
Your girlfriends snort with giggles, John giving them a fleeting look of curiosity before his eyes fall back upon you. He doesnât wait for you to reply. âHow about I get another gin in that glass for ya, and we go from there?âÂ
You stand, licking your lips, watching his eyes flit down, his pupils inking a little. You have to stop yourself from diving on him right there and then. âLead the way.â He offers his arm, and you take it to a little âooooh!â chorus from your friends, turning to give them a scolding look. After being escorted from the bar and furnished with another drink, one drink leads to two, two to three, the evening flying by as you get to know the third Shelby brother a little better. Â
You find him to be sweet and charming beneath the veil of hardened gangster, and, well, cheeky as hell. Â
âI gotta hand it to ya, bab. Those are some cracking legs youâve got,â he compliments with a wink, looking down and back up again, his cocky smile broadening. Â
You lean in close to him, gliding a fingernail over his defined jaw. âWhy thank you.âÂ
His intense gaze doesnât leave you for a second, turning to press a little kiss to your fingertip. âYeah, your legs look amazing, but theyâd look even better wrapped around me.â Â
The signals youâve been giving to one another have all led to this point, your smile broadening in an instant. âI have lodgings above the shoe shop on Bennett Street. Want to come and see for yourself how good theyâll look around you?âÂ
Youâve never seen a man see off a fresh whiskey quite so fast before. âLead the way, love.â You know the Shelby abode is closer than your little room above Mr. Smedleyâs Shoes and Leather goods, but youâd prefer to be in your own space with a man you truly donât know well at all. Outside, you fall into step at his side, taking his arm again, thinking how gentlemanly he is, right up until he suddenly pushes you into an alleyway. Â
You feel a little anxious at first, but the way he looks at you. Oh, look. Thereâs the demon you knew was lurking beneath the surface, spitting out his toothpick before his mouth lands upon yours. His kisses are whiskey tinged and lust dripping, all sweet heat and need as he pushes himself against you. Itâs imposing, but not intimidating, his want for you melding with yours as the sparks begin to crackle further into illumination. Â
âCome on, mister. Youâre not shagging me in an alleyway.â Grabbing his hand, you lead him back out to the street again, John releasing it to wrap an arm around your shoulders instead, your own extending around his waist. The balmy summer evening still warms the pale, inky violet of night, the air pleasant, the birds still twittering as they sit on the viaducts above, turning three corners before you end up on Bennett Street. Â
John Shelby has never been so pleased to see a shoe shop in all of his life, and the spring in his step confirms it. If not, the way he begins to lay hot kisses upon your neck as you jiggle the key in the side door lock tells you plenty. The entrance to the two lodging rooms above the is separate from the shop itself, a narrow staircase taking you up a flight, turning right into an equally narrow passageway. Â
âBathroom is at the end there.â you point, unlocking the door to the left and opening it to reveal your modest dwelling. Â
âItâs your bed I wanna know the way to more right now,â he breathes, shrugging his jacket off, his hands impatiently moving to you, smoothing over your body, mouth still furiously heated at your neck. God, the raw passion in him. Itâs almost enough to make your knees buckle, feeling your dress come loose in his hands as you step out of your shoes, turning to kiss him. Â
He backs you against the door, hands pawing at you urgently, kisses full-bodied and blistering with heat. Your hands begin the desperate devouring of clothes, having his shirt unfastened in haste to feel his skin against yours, your body smoothed and squeezed in a touch that leaves you breathless. Your fingers rain trails of exploration over his chest, and the noise he makes as his tongue swirls with yours is pure sin, his touch slipping to your undergarments. Â
He fights against the lace, a hand slipping within, pulling a gasp from you when his fingers brush against the petals of your sex. You whine at the tease, and he smiles against your lips, pulling from the kiss to look at you through a heavy-lidded gaze, watching the need dance in your eyes. He relents his tease, his fingertips gently stroking the slick of your anticipation, your head thudding back against the door. Â
The wood feels cool and steadying against your body, skin heating up rapidly, a summer tempest beginning to swell as the stroking of your bundle has you purring softly, Johnâs lips returning to yours. His body melds into your curves, his cock hard at your hip, his touch rousing the little bolts that spark up your spine. He draws all manner of sweet noises from you, and he swallows back every one of them in each kiss, his free arm locking around your waist. Â
Lifting you, he carries your barely dressed form to the bed, throwing you down, removing the rest of his clothes as you impatiently pull yourself out of your undies, your stockings shimmied down, receiving his pale skinned, freckle flecked, gorgeous body between your legs. His kisses trail your eager flesh, shifting, hands wandering along the path his lips map, settling at your apex and delving within your folds with a keen, firm drag. Â
The wet of each lick has little pin pricks skittering over your nerves, the warmth of it catching quickly, your edges caught in the heat of his flame. The roll of his tongue over your clit is slow and full of heat, hands kneading in soft clench upon your thighs, the outline of him through the dimness of your room gilded in the last of the summer light still reasonably visible. Â
He is a feast for your eyes, his wide back and well-bounded bum so peachy, it invites you to sink your teeth into it, if you werenât so lost in the delirium of his mouth pressed so keenly against your sex. The heat he evokes burns you to your marrow, the scald of your arousal growing as every flicker of his tongue sends flames skittering through you. The addition of his fingers pushing into your cunt has a sweltering flush of pleasure twining through you, your hands reaching to rest either side of his head.Â
Neatly shorn stubble prickles at your fingertips, your back arching as he works you with hunger, your dew sparkling upon his fingers. He twists them in a way that has your mouth dropping open, a sound you scarcely believe came from you filling the air, Johnâs lips wrapping your clit in a suck that is a gentle crush of pillowy heat to begin with, the pull intensifying, little glimmers rushing through you until...Â
âOh!â It tears through you, sudden and overbearing, leaving you trembling, your release still rolling through you as his tongue slows, your fluttering walls pulsing around his fingers, withdrawing them as he sits up, inspecting his sodden hand.Â
âFuckinâ âell!â he rumbles, shaking the trails of slick from them, chuckling to himself. âProper enjoyed that, didnât ya?â He brings those fingers to his mouth, sucking them clean before grasping your thighs and yanking you closer to where he kneels, a predatory look glinting the blue of his eyes. âThink youâre ready to get fucked now, ainât ya?âÂ
âYou bloody better,â you mewl, hands trawling his arms as he lowers to you, placing kisses at your sternum. You can feel the head of his cock pressing for entrance, the tip breeching you, but all he gives is a mere inch before pulling back. His mouth closes over your nipple in a warm suck, pushing again, opening you around him, slipping back once more. Oh... you certainly were right. Heâs a demon. Â
âJohn, please,â you complain, and he has the gall to give you his most innocent, unassuming look. Damn that baby face. Â
âPlease what, bab?âÂ
You chuckle, but itâs pained, hissing a breath when his teeth close upon your nipple. âPlease fuck me.â Â
âI will, love,â he murmurs, mouth moving to your neck, tongue pressing against where your pulse flickers madly. âEventually.â His teeth lock in another bite, cock breeching you again, a couple of inches parting your needy, soaking walls this time, twitching before abandoning you again. âGonna make you desperate for it before I do, though.âÂ
âAnd to think, my friend thought you were so adorable,â you quip, body juddering beneath him, John laughing as his tongue swipes over the crescent of each breast, hands smoothing down your back. Â
âYour friend donât fucking know shit.â Indeed, she doesnât. Your bet? Won already... and heâs barely been inside you. Â
His merciless tease continues, and every second of it is agonising to your overstimulated body, your cunt streaming needily, yearning for him to simply fill you. When he finally does, you have to hope that Mr. Taggart, the other lodger there above the shoe shop is out for the night from the cadence of your wail, spread wide around the girth of the gangster who offers kisses steeped in sugared embers, fingers trawling through your hair. Â
No matter how dangerous he is, you desire nothing more than to slap him when he retreats once more, chuckling at your pain. âAlright, fine,â he begins, turning you onto your side, moving to lie behind you. âI suppose Iâd better play fair, save spitting me teeth.â Â
He hauls your leg up so it rests in the cradle of his elbow, hand reaching to grasp his cock. He purposefully rubs himself along your slit, the gloss of your cunt smearing over his thick, veiny shaft, your whimpers reaching crescendo. You need him so badly, you are not above begging, but finally, he plunges into you fully, sating you beautifully. And oh, he feels sublime. Â
His other hand reaches beneath your neck, turning your head to meet your lips in kisses that scald you, like a summer heatwave cutting through an arctic chill, moaning against your tongue as he arrows you so deeply, you see stars. The rhythm of his fuck is contained to begin with, each daggering into your soft, dripping warmth allowing you to feel every ridge of his cock, falling then into a tempo that has you gasping against his lips.Â
The snap of his hips has your tits heaving, kissing back every little cry, telling you how good you feel around him, how beautiful you look while youâre getting fucked, moaning into your mouth as his hand slides down to begin stroking your clit in time with every deep thrust. Youâre adrift from yourself, cast out onto the vast sea that begins to whirl, the storm that is John leaving you feeling unmoored entirely as he splits you deep and fucks you hard. Â
âCome on, darlinâ. Donât be shy,â he encourages you, mouth moving to suck a purple welt upon your neck with a deep groan full of smoke and salt. âLet me hear you scream for me.â Â
You feel the shiver in your muscles spread as he rails you relentlessly, his sweat slicked chest rubbing against your back as your voice breaks on the scream he fucks out of you, your waves flooding his shore as you come hard for him, every fibre of your being alight, twitching and beaming. He slows, giving you time to recover, sliding from you and turning you over, pulling your hips up before re-entering your molten core from behind. Â
Your pleasure is still warming your bones as he begins to fuck you in all out, brutal carnal fury, groaning deep as he splits you around him, hands clasped at your hips, eyes fixed upon the sight of his cock rapidly assailing your soaking little hole. He pants hard, each twitch of his cock tightened upon by the clutch of your walls as he rapidly has you ascending again, coming with him as he paints your insides white, growling cusses as his release blinds him completely. Â
You donât even care about the three shillings you just won; all the prize you need is being turned and pulled into a set of strong arms, sharing kisses with your baby-faced demon as every drop of pleasure he so expertly bestowed upon you ebbs away. Â
âFancy letting me do that to you again sometime?â he asks, and you smirk immediately, turning him onto his back and seating yourself astride him.Â
âYou arenât leaving here until you do it to me at least another three times,â you demand, leaning to kiss the centre of his chest, the vibrations from his chuckle tickling your lips. Â
âOh ar, bab. You can count on that.â Â
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SNEAK AWAY (part two)
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đŠđđ˘đŤđ˘đ§đ : nate x sls!reader
đŹđŽđŚđŚđđŤđ˛: you and nate are still going strong, but a lot of fans notice a few things in the new videoâŚ
đ°đđŤđ§đ˘đ§đ đŹ: FLUFF, swearing
đ°đ¨đŤđ đđ¨đŽđ§đ: 539
đđŽđđĄđ¨đŤ'đŹ đ§đ¨đđ: short and sweet!
chris fic tomorrowđ (or tonight it depends when i start writing it)
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y/nsturniolo hawaii dump with my favorite people everđđşâď¸đď¸đŠˇ
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âł user HOLY SHIT HI QUEEN
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âł matthew.sturniolo what the hell
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âł christophersturniolo no lol
âboys, please leave your sister alone.â you hear your mother scold from outside of the bedroom door.
you guys got back from hawaii two days ago, but the triplets are staying in boston for an extra week before going back to LA.
âdo not barge in thereââ she scolds again, but itâs too late when the door swings open.
the three of them stand there panting, while marylou looks at them with her hands on her hips. it doesnât end there; trevor comes running in and jumps on your bed.
his tail wags as he climbs onto your lap, leaving kisses on your face.
nick turns to her. âsheâll survive, mom.â
she sighs, walking out of your vision. your brothers stare at you like youâre in trouble. âwe need to talk.â chris says, crossing his arms.
oh boy.
âabout?â
they side eye each other. âyou and nate.â matt says.
oh boy.
you clear your throat, trying not to barf everywhere. âw-what do you mean?â
âhave you not seen the clips or comments?â chris asks, them now walking over to your bed and sitting. at this point, trevor has fallen asleep on your legs.
âno,â you answer, playing with the dogâs ears.
âgirl.â nick tuts, pulling out his phone and tapping buttons before turning it to you. âlook at this.â
you take his phone, scrolling through the comments on a tiktok.
thank GOD iâm not the only one who thought this
they HAVE to be hiding something they seem a little too close in this videođ
damn yâall detectives or somethingđ
imagine this is how nick, matt, and chris find out LMAOOOO
i always shipped them they seem so cute together :(
you stop scrolling the comments and watch the video. itâs a compilation of you and nate in the background.
one of the clips is when you guys were in the restaurant, and your chin rests on nateâs shoulder as the both of you look over something on his phone.
another clip is when you guys are walking, you and nate in the back of the group with his hand brushing against yours.
a few others show the way you two look at each other, eyes full of love and lust.
maybe you guys werenât being as slick as you thought.
you hand nickâs phone back, nuzzling more into your blanket. âwhy didnât you tell us?!â chris exclaims.
you shrug. ââcause youâll kill him.â
they roll their eyes. âwe wonât kill him. weâll threaten him.â nick clarifies.
as if thatâs any better.
walking hand in hand, you and nate make way through the local park that's bare at this hour of the night. âso youâre telling me i should look out for threats?â
âyeah.â you smile, looking up at him before he gives you a sneak-attack kiss.
he sighs. âiâm kind of glad we donât need to sneak away anymore. it got so depressing.â
you laugh, followed by an exhale. words cannot explain how much you love this kid. even though it was a hard launch to the public, youâre happy that you can show him off now. to make sure people know heâs yours and youâre his.
hopefully, no threats or killings take place by your overprotective siblings.
đđđ đĽđ˘đŹđ!
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