#ugh. at least I have a storytime tomorrow.

[szethsmom]

the fine line between celebrating/reminding myself that my mental state is better than it used to be, and once again gaslighting myself out of having feelings bc it could be worse

[writersrealmbts]

A Natural: Part 7/Finale

Description: Hybrid!Taehyung x Reader: You’re a single mom, and your son is your entire world. When you take him to get his first hybrid, his choice is pretty bewildering, until you realize that he was picking out a dad.

Posted: 04/09/2021

Tags: Taehyung, Hybrid Taehyung, Human Reader

Wordcount: 3,673

A/N: Yay! Another series finished! Thanks for loving this story!

Theo was talking animatedly with Taehyung as he was wheeled toward the house, but he got quieter as you approached the front door to unlock it, looking down at the ramp beneath the wheels of the wheelchair.

Tae pushed him through the front door, his conversation also lulling.

Theo looked around, a bit of a smile on his face. “I get to stay now, right?”

You nodded, kissing his forehead. “You get to stay now and forever. We do have to go back for checkups and therapy but you’re home and you’re safe and I’m making roast beef and mashed potatoes.”

“Yummy! Can we go play, Dad?” Theo asked, brightening instantly and sort of bouncing in his wheelchair.

“Sure!” Tae pushed the wheelchair through at a speed that made you nervous. But you knew he would never purposely endanger Theo: Theo was his pup. That was evident in all of his actions, in his conversation, and in the effort he had made to get certified so that he could be there when Theo was released.

You went into the kitchen to baste your roast and then start peeling the mashed potatoes, trying to calm your heart because your baby was finally home again. Finally, finally home again, after weeks and months of too little patience and not enough answers, and a whole sea of tears. Therapy, rehab, tests, more tests, and after all of that, you had your baby home—less mobile than before, but still your baby.

You watched Theo playing on the bed with Tae, fighting the tears and hopelessly losing because he was back where he belonged.

Peace, comfort, and everything right in the world. Nothing intruding, just your little family.

So, of course, your phone rang.

You groaned and answered it. “Yoongi? Really? We just got Theo home.”

“It happened. We’re out of a job,” Yoongi answered, sighing. “They closed the company down.”

“Ugh. You could have texted me that,” You huffed, heading back to the kitchen. The two of you had basically considered everything going on and known that the company was going to collapse. You’d almost been told as much when the two of you went in to talk to an IRS agent who wanted you to walk her through your jobs and some files and go over the discrepancies that had led to the audits.

“Yeah, well, I also had to tell you that the paperwork came in the mail today, and we close on the building next week.”

“Okay, that was worth calling me,” You said, hopping onto the counter. “What’s next on the list?”

“Fixing the building? Getting the classes organized. You finish the certification class tomorrow?”

“Yeah, it’s kind of pathetic,” You said, shrugging. “Too easy. Let’s make our classes thorough, yeah?”

“Agreed. Jin is already writing a teaching plan. He’s got it halfway done—at least, I hope that’s the halfway point. Jungkook’s been helping, which makes hyung happy. And he’s finished the dog-training next week. The teacher was really excited to hear about what we’re doing, by the way, and gave Jin a bunch of things. She asked Jin to sit in on her next couple of classes as her helper.”

“That’s really great. Jimin?”

“He’s hitting garage sales to celebrate getting the building, hoping to find some cheap stuff to get us started. How’s Theo?”

“He’s fine. He’s bright and happy and playing with Taehyung right now. He’s taking things well and I’m making his favorite, and he’s looking forward to everyone coming over tomorrow.” You checked your timer, then sighed. “We’re totally doing pizza, though. I’m already exhausted.”

“Okay. I can pick it up on my way over.”

“Thanks. I’ve got to go. Need to get the rest of dinner started.”

“Tell Theo we’re looking forward to playing games with him tomorrow.”

“You got it. Eat well.”

“You too.”

You slipped off of the counter, and started putzing around the kitchen making some side dishes to go with dinner.

Tae came out. “How long until dinner?”

“Twenty minutes?”

“Better keep it warm, he fell asleep.”

You nodded, letting him stop you and hold you still. “He okay?”

“Very okay. He’s so happy he’s home that he just sort of passed out.” He kissed your cheek, then sighed. “I’m so happy too. I finally get to see him and hold him. I just want to hold him and cry.”

“I’ve almost been in tears for the entire day,” You told him. “I figure once he’s in bed for the night, I’ll cry my little heart out.”

“Can I cry with you?”

“Of course you can. I would never ask you not to cry when you wanted to.” You turned to meet his gaze, gently touching one of his furry ears. “It’s been hard for both of us. It’s still going to be hard. I’m terrified of the next few days.”

“Me too. Even if they told us what to expect and how to care for him, there’re still a lot of mistakes we’re going to make and that scares the fur off me.”

You nodded. “I wouldn’t be able to make it through all this if I hadn’t had you, you know.”

Taehyung nodded. “I know.”

“Mommy! Look! I made it in my chair and through the house!” Theo called, managing the last push through to the kitchen and raising his arms in victory.

“My baby! Look at you!” You hurried over bending to kiss his face all over. “Excellent job!”

“It’s exhau…it’s tiring,” Theo finished, nodding firmly to cover for his lost word.

“Exhausting, fatiguing, tiresome, or draining,” You supplied, sharing a smile with him and moving around to the back of the chair, bringing him over to the table. “What do you want to drink?”

“Water. It smells really good, mommy.” Theo smiled up at you.

You dropped a couple kisses on his face before going to get him his drink.

Tae was bringing over the side dishes. “You want to stay in your wheelchair, or you want to sit on the chair?”

“Chair, it’s a little too high,” Theo said, touching the table edge, which was practically to his chin.

Tae nodded and pulled the wheelchair back. “Arms around my neck.”

Theo did as he was told and the two of them moved him to the dining chair.

“You okay, baby?” You asked, noticing the way Theo was sort of fidgeting in the chair as you brought the roast over.

Theo looked up at you. “It’s still weird.”

“Your legs?” You guessed, resting your hand on his cheek.

He nodded, leaning into your touch. “I don’t like it.”

“I know. Neither do we. But…there are some things in life that are out of our control.” You pressed a kiss to his forehead. “And we’re going to be with you every moment of the way.”

Theo nodded, sighing. “I missed you, mommy.”

“I was with you,” You teased gently, but you understood exactly what he meant. It had always been the two of you, three once Tae had joined, and while he was in the hospital everything felt wrong. You didn’t get to hold him like you wanted, and it seemed like every time you had him in your arms and both of you were comfortable a nurse would come in to do something or other.

“But we weren’t home,” He said, watching Tae put the bowl of mashed potatoes down. “I really, really missed you daddy.”

Tae came over and nuzzled Theo. “I missed you more.”

“I missed you most,” Theo responded easily.

You hummed softly. “Come on. Time to eat, boys, before it gets cold.”

Theo hummed happily as you filled his plate, immediately trying to cut his own food first before ultimately letting Tae do it. “Too tired. Too hard.”

“That’s fine, kiddo,” Tae answered easily. “We all need help sometimes. And cutting things can be hard. At least you try.”

Theo nodded. “Mommy said that as long as I try, I can make it through the world.”

“Your mom is really smart,” Tae said, smiling at you. “She’s got a good history of trying her best at everything, including taking care of you and me. You chose her well.”

Theo laughed. “I didn’t choose her!”

“What?! Of course you did!” Tae objected, grinning himself. “Every kid chooses their parents!”

Theo and Tae launched into a playful debate and storytime about how every kid chooses their parent while you ate, quietly listening and just enjoying the fact that you were home.

Theo was home.

“Uncle Hobi said that he’d help me catch up to the rest of the class over the summer. I don’t want to do school work in the summer, but I don’t want to be behind. Kevin and Jun were close to being my friends, and they sent more drawings and letters than the other kids.”

“They wanted to visit, too, but they didn’t want to tire you out,” You told him. “We told them that they could come play with you once you were home.”

He grinned. “When? Tomorrow? Tuesday?”

“I’ll talk to their moms and arrange it all, and let you know. But, let’s have a couple days just our family.”

Theo nodded, but then looked back up. “Wait, does that include my uncles?”

“Of course. We’re working on projects together so they’re over quite a bit lately. And they’re coming over tomorrow, remember?” Tae nuzzled Theo, then added more potatoes to his plate. “Eat up.”

“More food?”

Tae nodded. “You need to eat well to recover.”

“Oh. Okay.” Theo started eating the extra food on his plate.

“Only eat until you’re full, though,” You instructed.

“Yes, mommy,” Theo answered, smiling at you.

Your baby was home.

——

“Woohoo!” Theo cheered as he rolled down the ramp at a speed carefully controlled by Jungkook.

You finished edging the window and set your brush aside.

The building for the training center was almost finished, and all of the licensing and training that you all needed, and the first classes were slated to start in three days.

“Over here is our obstacle course, which we think will help those training with us, as well as those in physical therapy, learn how to maneuver around things that they’ll come across on a regular day. As you can see, our happy tester is enjoying going down the ramp after he was working on trying to get up it on his own for a while.” Jimin high-fived Theo as he led the group past. “We’re also finishing painting, so try not to touch the walls unless you like paint on you.”

The people chuckled, fascinated by Jimin’s enthusiastic tour. He was showing some hybrid-shelter owners through the facility to sell them the idea of sending hybrids there for training to increase adoption rates. He’d given multiple tours so far, because he was by-far the best at it, aside from Taehyung, but Taehyung had the disadvantage of being a hybrid.

Hoseok was trailing the group, but split off to join you. “They’re practically eating out of his hand.”

“Good. We have bills coming eventually.”

“Yeah.” He sat down next to you. “But this place is amazing. You guys are going to do really well.”

“I hope so.”

Hoseok handed you the folder. “So, I looked things over.”

“Good news, then?” You asked sarcastically.

“Not bad news. He’s learning more slowly, but he’s still learning. As he grows stronger, I think he’ll be okay. He just gets tired so easily that I think it’s causing his trouble. So, once he gets stronger and isn’t as tired, I think he’ll catch up just fine. But for now, he’s going to stay just a little behind. I’m moving up with the class as part of the new program, so I can keep following his progress and helping him.” He patted your shoulder. “I already talked to the higher-ups about it. They agreed that it was important for him to be with his friends. Especially since we’re working on catching him up. And he’s still a bright kid, that catches on quickly. Tired equals distracted, distracted equals slower learning.”

“Thanks for the crayons, teach,” You answered dryly.

He grinned at you. “Hey, there’s a reason I teach kids.”

“Because you are one?”

He laughed and the two of you watched as Jungkook helped Theo work his way up the easiest ramp so he could go down the hardest again.

“He really likes this place. After we left yesterday, it was all he could talk about,” You told him, smiling as Theo cheered on his way down the ramp again.

“His friends are coming to play here, aren’t they?”

You nodded. “They’ll be here soon. Taehyung is waiting to show them in. Their mom’s were excited to hear that this was practically a playground, rainy days are hard.”

“You could market day-passes and make that one room into a playroom for kids, that’d help bring in more income. I know several sets of parents that would bring their younger kids in, especially on rainy days. And if hybrid rights ever get reestablished, you could make it hybrid friendly which would really help.”

Yoongi paused in the doorway and looked at you.

You looked back, then at Hoseok. “So, we told you you’re a shareholder, right?”

Hoseok nodded.

Yoongi pulled out a notebook and wrote the idea down. “I’ll start pricing things and we can discuss it.”

“Theo!”

You looked over as Kevin and Jun ran over.

“Hi!” Theo greeted them enthusiastically and they started talking.

Taehyung was leading in their mothers.

“I should go talk with them,” You excused yourself and headed over.

“Y/n, it’s so good to see you. Thanks for letting the kids play here, it looks great,” Jun’s mother (Debby?) said, sounding genuinely enthusiastic.

“And safe. Kevin has a habit of hitting his head on everything so I’m glad to see everything is padded. Lumps are easy, cuts are hard,” Kevin’s mother (Jamie?) added. “Plus the rain.”

You nodded. “They’re little balls of energy, but I’m really grateful for you two bringing them. Theo was so excited to hear he would get to see them.”

“Jun’s been asking about Theo almost every week. These past months must have been so hard. I don’t think I could have handled it.”

“I have a really good support system,” You answered easily, turning with them to watch the three boys playing, Jungkook keeping an eye on them to help if Theo got stuck.

The other two boys were being really thoughtful and kind and they saw the wheelchair and Theo being stuck in it as a challenge and a game, which would definitely help. They listened when Jungkook did have to help them and they already seemed to be having fun.

“Are you sure you don’t want us to hang around and keep track of them?” Kevin’s mom asked after giving you her husband’s number as well as Kevin’s backpack.

“We’d be happy to help,” Debby added.

You shook your head. “Go home, relax. Or clean, or whatever you need to get done. I’ve got several helpers on hand if I need them, including their favorite teachers. That is, as long as you’re okay with Jin and Taehyung helping out.”

“Of course, this whole law is ridiculous. It won’t last.” Debby waved a hand as if dismissing the law.

“Can’t last, more like. My favorite babysitter is a golden retriever hybrid, she’s been living in our basement ever since this happened. She was really excited to hear about this place, though, so I told her I would bring her once it was open.”

You smiled. “She’d be very welcome, and just let me know if she wants to take any of the classes.”

They nodded and left after telling their boys to behave and listen to you and the other adults.

You went into different rooms, double-checking the painting and making sure everything looked nice and correct.

Namjoon was sorting through the area rugs, placing them in order by thickness and type. This would make it easier to not only determine what carpets might be easier for people in wheelchairs, but help them and those helping them grow accustomed to the type of challenges that different carpets could present.

Yoongi was going through and making notes of different things that still needed to be finished, or other things that came to mind, as well as double checking some of the safety parameters.

Jimin was still talking with the people he was giving the tour to.

Hoseok was sorting through the spare office supplies that all of you had managed to scrounge up (a lot of yours came from your college years, like the dozen or so sticky note pads, the handful of highlighters, a plethora of paperclips and binder clips, push pins, pencils, pens, erasers, loose-leaf lined paper, binders, folders, and index cards—so many index cards), while keeping the kids in his sight should Tae or Jungkook get distracted.

And Seokjin was setting up the kitchen, which was going to be teaching cooking classes as part of companion training, but also used to show the difficulties a person in a wheelchair would face on one side of the kitchen while the other side was made for people in wheelchairs. He really liked the kitchen, and it was his pet project

Which meant you could go and look at the room that wasn’t being used yet.

Hoseok was right, it would make a really good room for kids playing. Something that would be easy to sanitize, but still allow for the kids to play. A slide would easily fit there, some rock wall-type of holds on the wall there….

You backed out of the room and stuck a sticky-note to the door, labeling it the Jungle room.

Yoongi joined you, giving you a questioning look.

“If we’re going to make a room for all kids to play in, we should have a theme for it. Kids like themes. Jungle is a good theme.”

He nodded. “That cafe I told you about, they said if we get busy enough, they’d love to partner with us and open in the cafeteria.”

“That’d be perfect. For now we’re just going to have to offer snacks by the front desk, though.”

“Jimin is on the phone with the local paper.”

You slowly turned toward him again. “What?”

He nodded. “They called, wanting to talk to someone about this place and Jimin saw me starting to stumble so I pretended I was just an assistant and told them I was handing the phone over to one of the founding members. He’s good at the talking thing. Between him, Jimin, and Tae, we should never need to talk on the phone.”

“I’ll believe that when I see it,” You answered, hurrying to find Jimin because you wanted to know how the interview went.

“Yes, thank you so much for your inquiries. You have a nice day as well.” Jimin hung up, and grinned at you. “Well, we’re definitely getting some attention!”

“What did they ask? What did you say?”

“Well, they asked why we started this, when we were opening, what we were offering—I added on hybrid companion training for the elderly, but I didn’t think you two would mind—and I gave them the answers, I didn’t divulge first names or anything. I used strictly last names, because even that lends us more anonymity and autonomy. I told them we wanted to help our community and those who were currently suffering—I even added that our training areas worked great for kids playing when it was raining outside because they could hear the boys laughing. They asked if we had considered opening it as a playground for the kids as well when it wasn’t being used for training and I answered yes—but I also added that we’d need another permit or two that we haven’t filed for yet. We have considered that, right?”

“We have, actually, we were talking about turning one of the rooms into a kids playroom specifically. Then if we have hybrids who have kids, the kids can play while their parents are in classes,” Yoongi said, definitely adding that to his notebook, as well as the elderly thing. “This is going to be a life-long project, isn’t it?”

“If we’re lucky,” Jimin answered cheerfully.

You left Yoongi grumbling to go check on the boys, noticing that Theo wasn’t playing as much, but he was still laughing with them and apparently they were rescuing him from pirates or something.

Taehyung wrapped an arm around your waist. “You know…I’m really proud of you.”

You relaxed into his hold, resting your head on his shoulder. “I’m really happy Theo chose you as his father.”

“I’m really happy you let him,” He whispered, then tilted your chin up to gaze into your eyes for a moment.

Then he leaned in and kissed you, softly and gently, a silent promise for forever.

“I knew it!” Theo yelled happily, definitely staring at you two when you looked over. “YES!”

“Whoops,” You whispered, trying not to laugh. It seemed an age ago that you told Theo not to expect the two of you fall in love. Told him he could call Taehyung his father if he really wanted to.

An age since Taehyung first kissed you.

A lifetime since you told Theo he could adopt a hybrid.

Taehyung laughed and kissed you again. “Thank you for my family.”

“Does that mean you don’t want more pups?” You asked cheekily.

He shrugged. “I’m satisfied with whatever I get in life. If that’s more kids, then I’m not going to complain. But Theo’s enough for me.”

You kissed his cheek and rested in his arms, knowing everything in your future was going to be worth the trials. But he was a natural at helping you through it.

You couldn’t ask for anything better than this.

–

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I’ll Be Home Chapter 3

Summary:  All Roman and Logan want to do is get home for Christmas. They’d been away from their boyfriends for months on separate jobs, and are looking forward to getting home. Neither one of them will let some blizzard get in their way, even though Patton and Virgil insist they stay put. The lengths they’ll go to get home is great, even if it means facing mother nature at her worst.

A/N: Quick storytime! So last weekend a couple of my friends (who are dating) came over and, surprise, it snowed! the only thing was one friend was supposed to come over a day before the other. One of them was so paranoid because of the snow, though the rest of us weren’t because “Oh it’s the south, we never get heavy snow!” well...we were wrong. Because of her slight anxiety of not getting to see her girlfriend, we were able to avoid the exact situation this story takes place in by my other friend coming over a day early and we all got snowed in together. 

I believe her exact words when freaking out to me was “I don’t want this to end up like your fanfic!” So yeah, that’s how this story almost became a real life situation for my two best friends. 

Warnings: Kissing, swearing, mentions of showering togehter (sexual implications? I guess?) 

Pairing: LAMP

Chapter 1 Chapter 2 

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“Patton would you stop pacing? It’s not going to make anything better,” Virgil says.

“I can’t help but be worried,” Patton says, gnawing at his fingernails. Virgil sighs and gets up, stepping in Patton’s path and taking his hands away from his mouth.

“Look, it’s late, why don’t we go to bed? Both Roman and Logan have said that they won’t be here until tomorrow. The faster we go to sleep, the sooner we’ll wake up and the closer the two of them will be to being back.”

“But Roman hasn’t called yet,” Patton says with a pout.

Virgil sighs, but he knew that Patton wouldn’t budge without some kind of communication from Roman at the very least. Logan, they now knew, was hard to come by communication at the moment (why, Virgil still didn’t know). Roman on the other hand…

Patton’s phone beeped and Patton lunged for it, quickly putting in his password to unlock it. His shoulder slump slightly. “It’s Roman. He says he’s not in a good calling place right now but that we should get some sleep and that he loves us.”

“See?” Virgil says, biting back his own worry and anxiety. “Roman’s completely fine. He probably has bad reception and can’t call, or Timothy’s sleeping and he doesn’t want to wake him up. C’mon, Pat, let’s go to bed.”

Patton sighs, but he lets Virgil lead him to bed.

Patton, though worried for Roman and Logan, could see how much Virgil was keeping himself together for his sake. They were both beyond worried, and Patton figured his own agitation wasn’t helping anything. So as they were settling into bed, Patton snuggled close to Virgil and pressed kisses to his cheek and neck.

“I’m sorry, I probably haven’t been making this any better for either of us,” Patton mutters.

Virgil pulls him closer, pressing a light kiss to his forehead. “We’re both a bit stressed, Pat, I don’t blame you.”

Patton sighs, relaxing against Virgil. “On the bright side, Christmas is soon.”

Virgil chuckles. “Yeah, I finally get to give you your gift,” he says teasingly.

Patton looks up at him with wide eyes. “Ohhh what’d you get me?”

“You don’t get to know until Christmas!” Virgil exclaims.

“Aw c’mon please?” Patton begs. “Can’t I get a little hint?”

“No.”

“A peak?”

“Nuh-uh.”

“A letter?”

“Nope.”

Patton sighed and rolled over so he was out of Virgil’s arms. “Well then I’m just going to sleep over here tonight! Since you want to be mean.”

“Oh you’re going to pout now, are you?” Virgil asks in a teasing tone.

“I’m not pouting,” Patton mumbles, scooting just a bit further away from Virgil.

“Then…you wouldn’t mind if I did this!” Virgil exclaims, and suddenly Patton was being tickled all over.

“Ahhh Virgil stooppppp!” Patton squeals, rolling over onto his back to try and fight off his boyfriend.

“Never!” Virgil says, tickling him relentlessly. To make things worse, he started peppering Patton’s face with kisses, which only made Patton giggle even more.

Kiss, “That’s,” kiss, “not,” kiss, “fair!” kiss.

Virgil just chuckled smugly and started rapid fire kissing until Patton got a hold of his hands and pushed him off. “Ha!” Patton exclaims, jumping off the bed.

“Hey!” Virgil exclaims. “Get back here!”

Patton giggles as he dashes out of the bed room, Virgil on his heels. They chase each other around the living room and kitchen before Patton finally catches Virgil around the waist and wraps his arms around him tightly.

“Payback!” Patton says, staring to pepper kisses down Virgil’s neck and cheeks.

“Ugh you’re sooo meeaannn!” Virgil whines, squirming in Patton’s grip.

“You’re one talk,” Patton mutters, pressing one last sweet kiss to his cheek before letting him go.

Virgil turns, smiling at Patton, before bringing him in for a long, sweet kiss that was a lot less playful that the ones they’d shared just a moment before.

Suddenly, there was a loud honk right outside of the house, startling both boys so much that they jumped apart. For a moment, they both just stared at each other, neither of them daring to hope.

“Do you think…”

“Roman?”

At the same time, Patton and Virgil ran to the front windows and pulled back the blinds. There was, in fact, a car being pushed to the house, two figures behind it. Patton and Virgil watched as the two people stopped right in front of the house and slumped against the car, clearly exhausted.

Patton turns to Virgil with a wide grin before rushing to the door and flinging it open. One of them perked up when the door opened, and before Patton knew what he was doing, he was running outside into the snow barefoot and in his pajamas, Virgil close behind him.

“Roman!” Patton exclaims, launching himself at his boyfriend. Roman caught him, letting Patton wrap his legs around him.

“My love, I am thrilled to see you, but it’s freezing out here. Did it not occur to you to wait until I came to the door?” Roman asks, though he buried his head in the crook of Patton’s neck, his strong arms holding Patton steady.

“I don’t really care,” Patton says.

Roman’s body shakes with laughter and presses a kiss to Patton’s neck, making Patton cling tighter to him.

A moment later, another weight was added but to Roman’s back. “You scared the shit out of us!” Virgil exclaims, wrapping his arms around both Roman and Patton.

“My apologies,” Roman says, sounding very amused.

“Okay, not that this isn’t sweet and all, but it actually is freezing out here,” Timothy says, rubbing his hands together for warmth.

“Ah, yes, we should go inside,” Roman says. He hefts Patton up to make sure he doesn’t fall then walks the rest of the way inside. Virgil stayed close by, gripping Roman’s jacket like a lifeline. Once through the door, Roman lets Patton down only to be replaced by Virgil, who flings himself into Roman’s arms.

“Both of you must have a death wish,” Roman says, rubbing Virgil’s arms to get him to stop shivering.

“Well can you blame us Princey?” Virgil mutters, tightening his hold. “We missed you.”

Roman chuckles softly, pulling back only enough to free one side so he could wrap Patton in their embrace as well. “And I you.”

“Uh, Ro, are you okay, you’re kinda shivering,” Virgil says, noticing Roman’s trembling for the first time.

“The battery died in my car,” Timothy says, flopping down on the couch. “We pushed it all the way here.”

Patton smacks Roman’s chest. “Why didn’t you call us?!”

“Well we couldn’t very well leave his car,” Roman says, tightening his grip on Patton’s waist. Patton just rolls his eyes and crosses his arms. “Besides I told you two to go to sleep.”

“We couldn’t,” Virgil says, resting his head on Roman’s shoulder. “You should’ve called us Ro.”

“Perhaps,” Roman says, kissing the tops of their heads, “but I’m here now.”

Virgil and Patton couldn’t help but smile at that. True. At least he was here now.

“I’m really sorry to break this up, but…” Timothy’s voice trails off.

“Right!” Roman exclaims. “Timothy will need to stay the night until we can jumpstart his car.”

“Of course,” Patton says, reluctantly pulling away from Roman and Virgil in order to smile at Timothy. “I’ll make up the couch for you!”

Despite Virgil and Patton wanting to cling to Roman for the next month, he insisted that he needed a shower, as he hadn’t had a proper one in days.

“I wouldn’t mind if you joined me,” he mutters to them with a wink, “but I think it’s unfair to leave Timothy out here all on his own.”

So the two had relented and stayed out in the living room with Timothy. Patton made him a cup of hot chocolate to help him warm up until he could have a turn in the shower.

“Sorry guys,” Timothy says as he accepts a mug from Patton. “I know you probably want to be alone tonight.”

“Timothy, you got him to us,” Patton says. “Letting you stay is the absolute least we could do.”

“Besides, putting up with his ego is tiring enough,” Virgil says.

Timothy laughs at that, leaning back against the couch with a sigh. “I’m just excited to get back to my sisters…” he says, staring up at the ceiling. “One of them is in drama at her high school and she can’t stop talking about this monologue she’s been writing. She’s so excited to show it to me.”

“That’s precious,” Patton says with a soft smile. “We’ll make sure you have everything you need to get home as soon as possible tomorrow.”

“Yeah, you’ve gotta get back to your family,” Virgil agrees, nodding.

Timothy gives them a small smile. “Thanks guys.

Once Roman was out of the shower and Timothy was settled, they retreated to their room. Roman dropped his suit case and flopped onto the bed face first. “Home sweet home!” he shouts, his voice muffled as his head was buried in the sheets.

Patton and Virgil exchanged grins before both of them jumped on top of Roman, making the other gasp and try to turn over. As soon as he was on his back, Patton and Virgil started peppering his face with kisses, making Roman laugh. He wraps his arms around his boyfriends, sitting up and pulling them into his lap, upsetting their kissing advantage. Nevertheless, they laughed as Roman squeezed them tightly, swinging them gently back and forth like a child who just got a new stuffed toy.

Roman started peppering them with kisses, causing the giggling to increase. After a moment, he slowed down, giving both of them a long, slow kiss on the lips before falling back onto the bed with Patton and Virgil in his arms. The two snuggled closer to him, enjoying the feeling of Roman in their arms again.

“I love you two,” Roman mutters. The exhaustion of being in a car for so long, plus pushing it down the street, was clearly taking its toll.

“We love you,” Virgil says, nuzzling his head into the crook of Roman’s neck.

“What he said,” Patton says, making both of them laugh. Patton, being closest to the one lamp that was on, rolled over to turn it off, only to snuggle even closer to Roman.

They grow quiet after that, all of them starting to doze off a little, but mostly they were thinking about the elephant in the room. Yes, it was good for Roman to be home, but the bed still felt a little too empty.

“I hope he’s okay,” Virgil mutters into the darkness.  

Roman hugs Virgil tighter. “Logan knows what he’s doing.”

Patton sighs, reaching across Roman’s chest to intertwine his fingers with Virgil’s. They rest flat on Roman’s chest, and both of them could feel his heartbeat. “I hope so.”

“He’ll be in touch soon loves,” Roman says with a yawn. “I’m sure of it.”

Virgil and Patton smile at Roman’s sleepy voice. They both press a soft kiss to his cheeks as he nods off. Patton squeezes Virgil’s hand in comfort. “Try to rest?” he whispers.

Virgil runs his thumb over Patton’s own. “Only if you promise.”

Patton let’s out a small laugh. “Okay.”

“Both of you sleep,” Roman mutters.

That got a chuckle out of both of them, and they press closer to him. “Yes Princey,” Virgil says mockingly. Roman’s only response was to kiss his forehead.

Eventually they all nodded off, and even though Logan was still at the front of their minds, it was the best sleep any of them had gotten in weeks.

A/N: Sorry this chapter is a bit shorter! I wanted to get Roman home first so the next chapter or two will focus completely on Logan! Don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten about him :) 

Chapter 4

[ayma-nidiot]

“Don’t Speak Their Names” - Shrimpshipping fanfic Chapter 14

This chapter on AO3 can be found here.

Chapter 14 - Interesting History

“Hey.”

Rex waved off the kid who tried to poke him and continued his nap. “Ugh, leave me alone…” He continued to snore so loudly that nearby students stared at him in disgust, hoping that he would wake up, if only to shut up. “Mom, cook me some more… takoyaki, will ya?”

The kid knew just what to say to wake Rex up. He leaned in close and whispered with a smirk, “I beat you, Rex Raptor. Give me your rarest card.”

“Waaaaah!” The dino duelist was now awake. “No, you can’t have my Serpent Night Dragon! ...Oh, Espa Roba. Fancy meeting you here.”

“Well, of course! I’m just one of many students who has this ancient history class.”

Rex looked around. Unlike his freshman comp class, this classroom was a great hall, with every seat taken. And with that many students there, it got loud enough to really awaken him. In comparison to the seating area, the stage was broad and empty, save for a few impatient T.A.s that played on their phones after they finished setting up the lesson. “There has to be at least 100 students here!”

“Try 300. Then again, class does start in five minutes.”

“Aww, man…” Rex stretched until he felt fully awake. “At least I got some rest for myself and the little one.”

“What do you mean?”

At this point, Rex was used to telling everyone, but that didn’t make him any less proud with each announcement. “I’m intersex. Oh, and I’m 22 weeks pregnant, by the way.” He showed off his baby bump.

“That’s a bit hard to believe. And you let Weevil top you?” Espa closed his eyes halfway and raised his eyebrows. “Interesting, because he doesn’t strike me as a top at all. He’s way cuter than you’ll ever be. Nope, I’m not buying it.”

“It’s not as hard to believe as your phony psychic powers.” Rex felt another kick. “See, even my kid thinks so. And you don’t have to lecture me on how cute he is.” Rex waggled his eyebrows. “Believe me, I know. ”

“Pssh, whatever.”

“By the way, how are things?”

Somehow, Espa knew what Rex was talking about - or so the faux psychic thought. “I-If it’s about Mako, then… uh… we…” he stuttered, unlike his sly manner of speech from before.

“That was actually more of a general ‘how are things.’ But I’m glad things are working out for you. You know, Weeves and I saw you two at the café, and let me tell you, you guys look cute together. So are you an item yet, or what?” 

Espa’s legs fidgeted. “...We did it once.”

“Whaaaat? You did? When?” Rex curled up into a ball, much like a kindergartener excited for storytime might. "And where?"

“It was last night, in the back of his car - a white 2004 Toyota Camry, if I might add. In a deserted church parking lot, mind you. And even though it was the first time for both of us, he was rather good at it. It hardly even hurt.” Espa’s face turned as red as a cherry. “...I can’t believe I’m telling the worst duelist in all of Domino City this. Though I haven’t confessed to Mako yet.”

Rex turned serious for once, and gave Espa a consolation pat on the back. “Well, my man, you’ve already taken a great first step. You’re adorable as heck, and you're a smart, talented duelist. How could he not fall for you?”

“Th-Thanks, I suppose.”

“Speaking of, I saw Mako today at the club fair. He was looking for you, wanting to apologize for… something.”

“H-He was?” Espa sounded even more flustered. “Oh, great… I bet he didn’t enjoy it at all… Gods, I’m so bad.”

“No, no. It was more like… He was the shy one. He sounded like he was concerned for you. But it’s good to know you’re feeling okay. When Weeves and I did it for the first time, he told me his ass hurt like hell the next day. So consider yourself lucky.”

“Tee hee…” Espa snapped out of his sour mood. “If that’s the case, then I’m glad I’m not your boyfriend. You sound awful in bed. You didn't even use lube, did ya?”

"Th-That's none of your-" Rex didn't want to divulge that he and Weevil lost their virginity to each other in Pharaoh Atem's palace hospital - the most unromantic of settings, if he had to be honest. "Well, no. We didn't have any at the time. But I can assure you that things are better in that arena now." With his pregnancy going on, Rex hadn't thought about having sex with Weevil lately, let alone talked about it. He had never thought about doing it while pregnant, but he had to admit that he wanted to give it a try.

"Who knew we would talk like this?" Espa chuckled.

“Not me, that's for sure. Anyway, you should visit us at club sometime. We meet tomorrow.”

“I’m sorry, but I can’t. Not tomorrow, anyway. Babysitting duty for my brothers and all that. Maybe another time.” Espa turned to the door, and the entry of a scruffy-looking, short man silenced everyone. “Lookit, the professor just arrived. He’s one of the most popular professors at this university, so I think you’ll like this class.”

“Is he now? Oh!” Rex immediately recognized Dr. Saurus. “I know him! I’ve dueled him before!”

“Did you win?”

“O-Of course I did!”

“Hahaha, yeah right.”

“Shaddap! The professor’s about to start talking.”

“Hello, hello!” Dr. Saurus struck a pose.

“He’s just as goofy as my freshman comp professor,” Rex laughed.

“Yeah, about that,” Espa began. “You know that part when our high school counselors said that ‘your college professors are serious and won’t accept silly behaviour?’ Boloney. Especially at Domino City University.”

“Then I really think I’ll like it here.” Rex kicked back and took out his laptop to take notes. Not that he really expected to take any on the first day of school.

“Hello, class, and welcome to ancient history. I’m your professor, Dr. Spinos Saurus. My father is from Greece, but when he was young, he moved to Japan, where he met my mother. But just recently, they moved back to Greece.”

“I was wondering where he got that funny name,” Rex thought aloud. In a not-so-diverse city like Domino, he was pleasantly surprised to see more hafus other than himself, Ptera, and Weevil. Then again, with how many people this popular university had, it stood to reason.

“I am not only a professor at this esteemed university, I am also a leading paleontologist. Our first unit will cover the formation of the universe, and how dinosaurs came to be.”

“That is siiiiiick! Dinos for the win!” Rex got up without thinking and dabbed.

“My, my.” Spinos chuckled. “I’m glad someone’s passionate about my class. I just hope that he can study better than he duels.”

“Daaaang, you just got roasted by a professor on the first day.” Espa couldn’t stop laughing.

“Twice.” Rex huffed. His face quickly changed from a pout to a smile, however. After skimming the class syllabus, Spinos spoke about the Big Bang. Rex didn’t have much interest in history before, as his teachers in high school bored him to tears. But this new teacher made history so interesting, Rex wished he could take better notes. I need to learn how to type without looking at the keys.

The dinosaur duelist never thought he would, but he was genuinely upset when class ended. He was even more upset when he tried to catch up with Spinos as he left, but couldn’t. About fifty other students wanted to have a word with him, even when the professor insisted he had to travel to an archaeological site that day. But that didn’t stop him from noticing Rex in the crowd and saying, “You’re that kid I dueled. How’s it goin’?”

“Awesome! I really liked today’s lecture, by the way. You should teach the teachers at my old high school how to actually be fun.”

“Young man, if I could clone myself to be in multiple places at once, I would. Right after I revive a Brachiosaurus, of course.”

“Hey, my name isn’t ‘young man!’” Rex put his hands on his hips. “I’m Rex Raptor, the son of Ptera Raptor, and don’t you forget it!”

“Did you say ‘Ptera Raptor?’” Spinos’ eyes suddenly opened wide. “So that was her in the hospital…”

“What, do you know my mom?”

“You… could say that.” Spinos squirmed at the mention of Ptera’s name, but still showed kindness towards Rex. “Anyway, if you want to duel me or come to an archaeological site with me, you’re more than welcome to.”

“For real?!” Rex jumped excitedly, until a hard kick from his baby brought him down to Earth. “Ouch… I’d love to join you today, but Mom would have a fit if I did. I’ll try to convince her to let me go with you one day.”

“Y-Yeah… Have a good day, then.” So spoke Spinos as he left the scene.

“That was a little weird… Dr. Saurus seems really nice to me, but doesn’t want to talk about Mom.” Since Ptera wouldn’t come until Weevil’s last class ended, Rex decided to spend the next couple of hours absentmindedly perusing the library shelves. That absentminded perusing, however, soon turned into a checkout consisting of five large books about dinosaurs and a limited edition of Jurassic Park.

The bug duelist would find him sleeping in front of a school computer, with a YouTube video called “How to Stomp Your Foes with Dinosaur Cards” on the screen. “Hey, Sleeping Beauty, wake up. Or I’m going to carry you like a princess all the way to Ptera’s car.”

“No, you won’t. Just because I’m pregnant doesn’t mean I can’t walk. Or did you forget I was the top athlete at Domino High School?” Rex stumbled as he got up. “Oww!”

“Uh-huh.”

Rex didn’t want to admit it, but his ankles had been hurting ever since Spinos’ class ended, and his back hurt even more. “Shut up, bug boy! I wanna go home, and I’m sure you do too!”

After a walk that involved two trips to the loo, Rex and Weevil finally arrived at the car loop to an energetic Ptera. “So, how did the first day go, boys?”

“Pretty well,” answered Weevil. “Although my calculus teacher cut right to the chase. No introduction, no syllabus go-over, not even an icebreaker. Just straight into the integrals.”

“Uuuuugh! That word!” Rex curled up into a ball. 

“So I take it your first day didn’t go as planned?”

“Oh, it went fine. Mostly because Weevil and I had freshman comp together." Rex turned to Weevil and whispered. "Turns out Espa Roba is in my ancient history class. And he did it with Mako. Don't ask me how, but our conversation went on such a tangent that he got me to think about... um, pregnant sex."

"Well, well." Weevil liked the sound of it. "Sure, as long as you don't stress yourself or the baby."

"Hehehe..." Rex let Weevil curl into him further. "You know I won't."

“Oh, yeah." Weevil turned his head to Adelaide. “Adelaide, I saw Mother in my freshman comp class. She’s one of my classmates. Apparently, she’s working to be a doctor!”

“C-Camellia… She’s here in Domino City? I’m glad…”

“Mrs. Raptor, I would love to invite her over sometime, if that’s okay with you.”

“Of course! I’d love to meet your mother.”

“Ooh, Mom!” Rex spoke up. “I have this super-awesome professor for ancient history! Not only that, but he loves dinosaurs too!”

“He… He does?” Ptera’s good mood faded in an instant.

“Yeah! His name is Dr. Spinos Saurus! He’s also a leading paleontologist and even invited me to go with him to archaeological sites! Please, Mom, can I go?”

As she pulled into the driveway of the mobile home, Ptera slammed on the brakes.

“Ow!” Rex rubbed his belly. “Did you forget that I’m with child?”

“Absolutely not!” Ptera scowled at her son when all four of them were out of the car. “You are to stay away from that pendejo, understood?”

“But Mom, he’s my professor. It’s kind of hard to stay away from him.”

Ptera gritted her teeth. “At the very least, you are not to hang out with him.”

“What’s gotten into you?” Rex looked perplexed.

“Rex… Did you notice what that man looked like?”

“He had a goatee and a really shaggy moustache. He also had wild brown hair and indigo eyes. ...Now that you mention it, he looks like me. Mom… Don’t tell me… Dr. Saurus is-”

“That vile, disgusting man is your father, who abandoned us almost 20 years ago.”

[onelovewonderwoman]

okay so lemme tell yalls as my first storytime with mel about these two bitches that get on my god damned nerves ouuuuu hoes you gon be hearing more and more about them. so, i’m friends with these two girls, let’s call one clutch and the other windmill cause it has to do with some sort of characteristic (and my actual close friend @traxgedy came up with the name clutch cause that girl’s on crutches, but like no disrespect to people who give crutches it’s just a nickname and it’s kinda apart of it)

SO today, as i’m still in high school, had a huge chance of being a snowday (where buses are cancelled and there’s technically no school cause no one shows up) and it didn’t end up being a snow day. so me and my other friend (let’s call her brit) brit has taken to twitter as a joke and started tweeting at our school board’s transportation twitter and told me to “unite” so we can protest [literally as a joke, you can see that]. i said “we have exams coming up, we need this snow day @ username of school board transportation” and literally left it at that

so i go to school, feeling good as always cause i got a bunch of friends and aquintences at school, ngl and i go to see clutch and windmill. the moment i go to them and say “hi” clutch didn’t even let me speak before saying “why would you post that on your twitter?? you know universities see that type of stuff” and windmill literally goes after, “you’re gonna be homeless and never get anything in your life because of this” so sure of her words

my eyes popped out of my socket and i’m just thinking in my head ‘are you both fucking stupid??’

and like i’m just like wtv in my mind and turn to look at my other friend, who is @ traxgedy (i’m not gonna yah her twice cause it’s just annoying on both ends, oh and let’s just call her recal) so i just turn to recal and start to mind my own god damn business and another friend, let’s call her desert, comes in with this big ass shakespeare book, saying she’s read ahead, and i go “i haven’t even started the act we’re reading” and this bitch windmill just kinda turns in her chair and mutters under her breath, idk if she wanted me to hear, and goes “cause you have too many distractions”

oooooo and this bitch is taking about my my close ass friend recal cause she’s called recal that before. LIKE BITCH DID I ASK YOU FOR YOUR OPINION

and lemme just prefasis that these two literally never want me to be friends with anybody else, and like they make me feel bad if i go hang with recal and her much more fun and freeing and nice friends.

usually i stay, but i was so fed up this time i just told recal and i was like “i wanna go hang with the other guys and stuff”

and recal knows how these girls are cause i’ve told her and stuff about how they treat me and stuff, and she HATES the hell out of them so the dumbass (and i say this in the most caring way possible cause she’s freakin awesome i can’t even says f*** when i talk about her cause that’s just disrespect) just fucking smiles and turns and is like “k, cmon let’s go”

so we go

when class starts, i’m in class with clutch (who is the worst of all btw) and literally is trying to act so chill with me when she’s just so ugh (and lemme just tell you, ik the thing that happened in the morning is so small and stupid, but there’s just so many other things that i’ll get to in another thing because this is a story and i’ll tell you guys another time how the feelings are on every part and stuff) but yeah so i just barely talked. and i barely even talked to anybody! like it was like one of those days where i was down and i didn’t feel like going around and being like myself and everyone has that, right???? seriously, correct me if i’m wrong, please.

so fast forward to lunch, recal is tellin me that i have to spend it with her instead of windmill, clutch, and brit (which i felt kinda bad about, but not because of guilt with windmill and clutchbecause i’m so done with them by this point, but i really love brit cause she’s awesome) she’s saying like “you can’t let them control you” and it’s true ya know?

like it’s like they think they have this control over me and who i hang out with. if i don’t hang with them, everyone else is a distraction. if i don’t do my homework, everyone else is a distraction. if i don’t listen or watch something they send me, ITS BECAUSE EVERYONE ELSE IS A DISTRACTION. (and this bitch clutch is obsessed with Maroon 5, and no hate to the band, but she’s always trying to get me to listen to their stuff and sends me stuff to listen too. i’m like okay i’ll listen to them but i don’t have all the time in the world to do so! and this bitch thinks i do!)

but like whatever. lunch is good. i spend it away from them and it’s kinda awesome cause i get to spend my time with actual good friends who don’t try to put me down (clutch always seems to think that if her mark is lower than mine, then there’s something wrong. in english tho cause that’s the only class we have together and lord help me if next semester i have more than one class with her and windmill imma cry)

but after third period, i’m going down to fourth cause my school has three god damned floors, i see clutch. this bitch just gives me that one face with squinted eyes and it’s like that wtf face and i’m just thinking ‘what the hell is she so mad about’ so i’m just walking past her while i say to her, cause we don’t have much time to get to classes, “what’s wrong??” she doesn’t answer and brushes me off and goes on her way

brit just taps me while we’re walking and goes, “she’s just mad that you didn’t talk to her this morning and stuff, don’t sweat it. just don’t tell her i told you, she’ll get mad.” (brit’s a sweatheart just so you know she never wants anything bad to happen)

but i go off on her (not on brit but like i start venting-ish about clutch)

i go “i don’t have to talk to her every waking day, i have other friends too i’m allowed to talk to them and stuff like she doesn’t control me”

it kinda ends there but i went on to tell recal the same things i’m bouta tell you. this both clutch is always ALWAYS in a bad mood. the normal thing for people not talking to you or something is because they’re in a bad mood and sometimes pissed off at you, but not even all the time. she may not think she pissed me off (which she did, but it’s not just with something that tiny from this morning, but she’s just always so rude towards me and trying to put me down and it’s just for something tomorrow, i’ll tell you guys tomorrow morning about the feelings part and stuff) but just like people are allowed to be in a bad mood. this bitch acts as though she hadn’t said on multiple occasions “don’t talk to me, i’m in a bad mood” and stuff like that! she’s always complaining about school and mostly her knee and doctors to me. like she’s always pissed off and it’s suddenly not okay for me to be. like it’s not okay for me to be happy with other people and it’s not okay for me to be pissed off at her or windmill.

but the thing is also that i talked to the bitch in class too, i wasn’t even rude or any of that shit! i was just normal but not as hyper and shit like i usually am (like making dirty ass jokes and shit like that) but it’s just ugh.

like im trying so hard to shake her and not have a relationship with her, at least not a close one, but it’s so hard especially with how i have really nice and good friends who are friends with them. and like i know from personal experience how much shit they talk. like they’ve talked about people who they think thought they were “too good for them” and left their group to go hang out with other people. and okay the time i would be “yeah that’s really douchey man i’m sorry” BUT IM NOT SORRY ANYMORE BITCH THIS IS WHY THEY LEFT

my friends now, not the bitches, are so sweet and fucking care about me as a person and don’t try to deliberately tear me down as an individual and turn me into someone that i’m not

WOOH i’m done jeez that was long as fuck

more to come hoes more to come

[survivormontenegro]

Episode 11: “Recalibrate How I’m Playing This Game” - Caeleb

okay I'm writing a long confessional then going to bed.

Jules was robbed. I was really gonna idol them when Jones/Caeleb told me Jules was getting votes, but Jules was only getting 5, and I naively thought both that Jason wasn't going to flip and Tom wouldn't self vote AGAIN ASKDLJFAF.

I'm frustrated because I love Jules. Jules was robbed and deserved better than having to deal with Alex who like will tell Jules they made a mistake and ugh. I'm frustrated that I didn't idol Jules, even though it wouldn't have been smart and would've put me in a tough game spot, its just all super tricky sigh.

in other news, Jones/Mo/Mitch need to go. I'm super proud of Mo for doing something (like genuinely) and not playing passively, I defo underestimated him, but him and Jones have way too much sway on this tribe, tied to Mitch who is clearly able to work people.

I think a good end-group for me would be Me/Benj/Tom/Julia. I really really like Caeleb but he actually is playing super smart, so I really don't think I can have him sticking around much longer.

I think a good new bootlist is: Jones > Mitch > Mo > Jason > Caeleb

I'm just frustrated because Jules was robbed and really did not deserve that, Mo/Jones are too powerful, and now so is Mitch. I'm gonna idol one of them out, and I'm going to love doing it.

Holy fuck what the fuck that worked. Ok so here’s what just went down, Jules said to Jason that she’d be fine voting out either me or Mitch. People were leaning towards Mitch. We had like 20 minutes left and we started discussing and I threw out to Jones, what if we get Jules out, but she kinda ignored it and carried on with the Mitch plan. Because Jules has a lot of connections I can understand why Jones would be hesitant. So then I throw the pitch rob Caeleb and Mitch throws the pitch to Jason and they’re both on board. But that would of only been five people. Meaning it most likely would of tied so we were like ok I guess we’ll just vote Mitch. BUT THEN BENJ GETS ONLINE and he’s like “Yeah I’ll vote Jules.” SO I SCRAMBLE BACK TO CAELEB LIKE WAIT VOTE JULES WE HAVE THE NUMBERS. SAME WITH JONES AND JASON. WE GET JULES OUT. Which of course is sad because she’s literally a sweetheart and she’s super funny, but she had so many people in her corner and her and Ali combined was a scary combo. BUT I MEAN I HAVE A COOL GAME MOVE IN MY POCKET NOW THAT I DID (with Mitch) BUT WOW ME.

Whew chile!!! I must admit that vote was VERY scary and VERY hectic. I thought for a moment my game was ending. Thankfully my social relationships with people allowed me to stay and send the person who was targeting me home (Jules). Now this is GREAT for me because i trusted Jules the least on the merge tribe. The communication thing never worked out between the two of us but i still find her to be a very nice person :). In regards to the vote, Mo/Caeleb, Benj, Jason, and Jones all voted to save me. To me, I feel like this means im in a really good position because everyone likes me enough to SAVE me. Up until 5 minutes before the deadline, I thought i was done for. I gotta be careful with who I work with in the future because my threat level is rising. People in touchy subjects saw me as the one who thinks they are running the game but are not, but man is this far from the truth. I'd like to say that although I didn't know what was going on COMPLETELY, I still pretty much helped/forced the target onto the person who went home. Ian- Told Alex about how I suspected Jason and Ian of being a duo (correct assumption according to ali) and everyone ended up splitting between the two (I did not care who went). Alex- I pushed very hard for alex to go because he was so dang controlling and i found that very threatening. Jules- targeted me first but I never trusted her because of how little we spoke. When she decided to target me it was the icing on the cake. Hopefully these next few rounds are smooth sailing because we NEED easy votes for at least a little bit.

okay so i am trying SO hard for immunity, like its not even funny. i think i have 100+ points right now, with more videos uploading and with more planned photos tomorrow. immunity would be SO sweet, because that'd guarantee me a spot in the F8, and with my idol F7.

in other news. if i haven't said it enough, it must be said again. BENJ IS SUCH A KING. like today he told me he wants to go to F4 with Julia and Tom. I truly, truly could have shed and wept real tears. That is exactly the F4 I want, like EXACTLY ,and Benj agrees, and we are going to make it HAPPEN.

He also wants to separate Mo/Jones this round... and like honestly, I'm so down. Like I think he wants to vote off Mo versus Jones which I think is a bad idea, since Jones is a better talker and more of a threat, but his argument about Jones being a shield makes some sense.

my ideal bootlist moving forwards for the season, although it requires like julia/tom to stick with me and benj pretty tightly, is:

Mo/Jones > Mitch > Jason > Mo/Jones > Caeleb > F4: Me/Tom/Benj/Julia

and also since i love doing this for no reason, this would be my ranking of those left if i was to go to jury this round:

Mitch > Jason > Jones > Benj > Caeleb > Julia > Mo > Tom

Mitch is SO savvy, and so likable, and I could see as a definite winner, having survived so much. I can't decide if Jones is a threat because she is just so likable, or if she is actually palying super well, but I have both her and Jason very high in my opinion. Benj is so smart, I feel like he probably isn't considered as such by the other threats, but I hear him talk game - he is super woke. Caeleb is actually playing a very smart game too, flipping back and forth. I definitely underestimated him in early merge, his MIND. Julia I think is super game-savvy, just her style gets in her own way sometimes. Mo I feel like definitely did stuff last vote, but I see him as Jones' shadow/goat right now so would need to see much more. Tom I'm stuck because him self-voting twice I think almost definitely excludes him from winning so its hard to tell how I'd feel about him in an FTC. the main thing is that... we shall see.

BUT I AM WINNING IMMUNITYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Sending this now bc I forgot. Jason beat me in reward OOPS but I can still possibly win immunity,,,,,? Maybe?

Eek me at jules being voted out, honestly i didnt really know what was going to happen at that tribal for the sole fact that everything started moving whilst i was asleep but im kinda shocked that it ended up being jules.... Like i personally wouldnt have made that move right now maybe in like 2 more rounds. Its quite scary the fact that mitch got so many people to turn on jules when i thought she was quite the loved player. So I've gotta keep an eye out for him he's probably playing the best game atm but i think ill try to take him out sooner rather than later

I think I might have to recalibrate how I’m playing this game. I honestly didn't think I was all that close to Jules so her cursing me kinda surprised me. SO, that means I think a lot of people are gonna be cursing me in the upcoming rounds. Not that I am planning a lot of blindsides, I just feel a lot closer to the people actually left. Julia might be the only one that wouldn't curse me at this point, but also she might because she doesn't like me all that much. And being cursed a bunch might put a really large target on my back too.

y'all i just found another idol im SCREECHING. and its a boujee one too, a sapphire idol. I'm so AHHHHHHHHHHHHH, i know where 2/3 idols are for sure, I'm truly screaming.

This was me an Mitch on call when we realized we had the numbers to vote out Jules

heres the thing, i prefer the selfie scavenger hunt when im on a team because that way im motivated to get stuff done out of fear of letting everyone down. where as by myself, i let myself down all the time. ali is scary good at comps and im lazy.

ALI FOUND THE MERGE IDOL AND ITS A SAPPHIRE IDOL AHHH!!!

IM SO HAPPY FOR HIM/US BUT ALSO LOWKEY PISSED BECAUSE I GET ALL THE BRIDGE STEPS AND THEN HE GETS LUCKY AT THE VERY END LMAO. AGAIN.

BUT OH WELL ATLEAST ITS NOT SOMEONE ELSE!!

And if I had any doubts (I never had) about him betraying me before I have 0 now.. u like have to really trust someone to tell them u have 2 idols LOL I could literally expose so much right now

BUT IM NOT GONNA WOO!!! BEST DUO IVE EVER HAD! Like I know it will be hard to beat him at the end but idc I want that duo story for us

Literally an idol magnet king I knew I chose the best ally on day 1

sapphire idols sound kinda annoying tho cuz u cant choose who its played on . like what if ur plan actually works and u idol the person u wanted gone LOL

lowkey would rather a normal idol ?? anyways ali went off in immunity and its final 9 idk who will go but I kinda want like mo gone (king) but we have no strategic bond so.. plus he will slip by to the end otherwise

I doubt that plan is gonna work tho cuz idk how to lead votes!! im flop sheep!

Update on idol hunt - I'm killing johnny

Update apparently I’m running a vote KSKSKKFMFMFFK take back EVERYTHING I SAID ABOUT NOT NEEDING POWER LMAOOOO

ok so Storytime

I’m talking to Tom at like 5:00-6:00 ish, and he says he hasn’t heard anything but he’d be down to vote Julia if other people were voting Julia (at this point this is the only name and it was said by Tom and that’s it)

At this point I tell Mo what Tom said (Bc tom and I were talking about Mo) and he said he wasn’t surprised Julia’s name was brought up

Talk to Mitch at like 7:00 ish and he’s apparenrly being targeted by Ali and for whatever reason I have this hero complex and I wanna save him all of a sudden?? I also feel like he’ll be a big shield down the road that everyone else would want out over me so it makes much more sense to keep him? SO I tell him about Julia.

I Run to Mo, tell him about Julia plan he’s on board. MOs talking to Caeleb, and Jason wouldn’t go behind Mitch’s back. So that’s already 5 people I think voting Julia, 6 if we include Tom and 7 if Benj also knows. Which I’ll probs tell him.

So ya??? Turned an idea into a plan!! I’m doing that y’all. Idk?? I’m proud. I don’t need need this much power after this round or else my ego will be the size of my dick but!!! Idk guys I’m proud of myself.

(Literally only 35 minutes later)

Literally having a stroke tonight laid ease

Uhm apparently Tom/Jason/Ali had an alliance and were trying to get me out and tried throwing me under the bus to Julia and tried saying shit I didn’t say,, so ya,,, :)

Tom tried twisting it like I was the one who threw Julia’s name out bc apparently she’s inactive? Which is cute,, I said jack shit about that. So ya.

Um I’m voting Tom tonight now. I’m an indecisive bitch tho so it might change but. Fuck Tom. We gotta break up this alliance apparently. Julia’s the only person that’s said shit to me this whole day about what’s happening so I’m more likely to believe her than anyone else sooo ya. Fuck Tom. Fuck these men.

[philanddanxreader]

Who wears short shorts?

Hello, Love bugs!

Dan X Reader

warnings- Smut, Swears.

May you please do one where the reader likes wearing short shorts around the house and dan and Phil think they’re teasing them? Smut at the end maybe? Thnx x x - Anon

It was finally spring and you were going to take full advantage. You had pulled out the shorts that you had to hide away for two seasons. You and the boys were going to hang out to enjoy the spring by going to get a coffee and then sit indoors with the windows open while doing some work. 

Walking to the boy’s door you couldn't help the smirk on your face. It was a beautiful day and you were about to spend it with two cuties. You and Phil had been friends forever. After he introduced you to Dan it was like he was like you had found your long lost friend. You swore the two of you were best friends in a past life.You called Phil to tell him to bring his ass downstairs.

“Moshi Moshi!” You shook your head even if he couldn’t see it he had a feeling you were giving him the look through the phone.

“Hello, Phillip! Please tell me the two of you are ready.” You could hear Dan yell in the background that Phil was still in his pyjamas.

“Is that true? Phil was silent for a little while as you started to dig through your bag to find the spare key that they had given you. “I will let myself in.” Phil gave a quick thank you before ending the call. Once inside you could hear Phil running around the second floor trying to get ready. Just as you were about to take off your strappy sandals when you saw Dan peak his head around the corner.

“ Don’t bother with the million straps and shit on those shoes. I told Phil to just join us outside when he is dressed.” You nodded as Dan finished pulling on his shoes before putting his hand in the small of your back to lead you back outside.

“Can you believe how beautiful it is outside?” Dan agreed as he took a quick look at your outfit.

“It’s nice out but not shorts up to your crotch nice.” You hit him with the paper that had been rolled up in your hand.

“You don’t concern yourself with my crotch or my shorts.” Dan gave you the glare your mother would give you when you went outside in an inappropriate outfit. You gave him the one you always returned to her. The only difference being that you were much more fearful of your mother’s wrath than Dan’s.Just as Dan was about to make a comment on how your legs were already showing goosebumps but Phil interrupted by coming out of the flat.

“Let’s go get something warm to drink. Looks like Y/N’s legs could use a warm up.” You were about to fight Phil on the topic of your apparently revealing legs but the boys were leaving you in the dust towards the coffee shop. You trailed behind them trying to keep the same pace but it was nearly impossible when one of their strides were at least two and a half of yours. 

Once inside the three of you got some drinks and chatted about what was new in your worlds. The two hours flew by in an instant. Between the tears of laughter and the copious amounts of caffeine, the three of you headed back to the flat to do some work together. It was an excellent excuse to hang with each other while actually getting things done. The boys editing and you doing all the crap things you don’t like to do at work so you save if for home when you can swear as much as you want.

You found your way to the couch to sit beside Dan in his spot while Phil sat at the table. He claimed that the two of you will regret sitting on the saggy furniture when we will be needing someone to wheel you around London.

It only took ten minutes before Dan became distracted and didn’t want to work anymore. This always means that you are going to get diddly squat done.

“What are you doing? I’m tired of looking at his face in real life and then on video for the gaming channel.” Phil flipped the bird to Dan as the two of you snickered like little kids. You showed Dan all of the stuff on your computer before he closed the lid on it.

“The fuck? I need to work you spoon.” You opened it again before Dan could try and distract you further. 

“I think I would focus better if I had a glass of water.” Dan was directing the comment to you as he  leant further into his spot while surfing on his phone.”

“I’m the guest. I think I am supposed to drop a hint about being thirsty while you offer me the drink.” Dan hid his smirk behind his phone as he shook his head no.

“Actually at this point, you are more of a pest than guest.” You rolled your eyes with extra dramatics before standing from your spot.”Thank you love.” Ugh, he knew what calling you love did. Fucking twat. Adorable curly haired twat.

You made your way to the kitchen sure there was at least one set of eyes on you. You suddenly felt a twinge of confidence. You had a complicated past with Dan. The two of you were no stranger to cuddles when sleepy. It was common to also spend some intimate time together when under the influence. Or not. You never talked about it. The two of you would fuck cuddle and then just pretend that it didn’t happen the next morning. Not because it was awkward but more because it was a bit of an unofficial fuck buddies relationship. You made your way back to the room with the two glasses in hand. When you walked back to the couch you tried to keep your eyes away from Dan to see if he was indeed checking you out. It had been a while since the two of you had fooled around.

Sitting down you were trying to figure out a way to get Phil away from the two of you so you could even just make out with him. You found your phone from your pocket to find Dan’s little picture in your messages.

“If you think any harder you may explode.” Dan smiled as he saw your text across his screen

“Think of how good that video would be. Storytime my head fucking exploded because I’m a mega genius.” Your phone buzzed from Dan. You spied at him from the side of your eye. He looked like he was just fooling around on his phone and not texting a person that was beside him.

“Mega eh? Someones cocky in their size… Brain size that is.” Dan released a small laugh as he shook his head. You were terrible and he loved it.

“You know even though they are ridiculously short I like those shorts on you.” Looking at Dan you searched his eyes for an answer that the two of you couldn’t vocalise at the moment as Phil was in the room. Dan looked down as he typed on his phone a response to your look.

“We either toss a marshmallow out the fire escape and lock him outside. Or we could go to my room and make it as not obvious as possible.” Your eyes went wide looking at his response. Had he lost his fucking mind? You knew that it was very possible that Phil knew what goes on between the two of you but you weren’t about to announce it like this. Not like well Phil this whole working thing was grand but I would like to borrow your roommate so he can give me an earth shattering orgasm. Ugh, that’s a pass.

“Not happening. And besides, it’s not like we are going to fuck. You owe me from last time.” The last time the two of you were together you sucked him off in the bathroom of your friend’s house at her party. It was in no way classy but you both needed it.

“I didn’t forget. In fact, I think I can get you to cum in record time.” Stupid Dan with his stupid power over you with words. You could feel the burn of desire in your core.

“Play along you dork. Let’s see this magical record.” Dan put his phone away after reading the text. You took a breath before starting the stupidest idea you have had in a while.

“Well fuck, My stupid cord is doing that thing again.” Phi looked up from his computer while pulling out a headphone.

“Do you want me to find more of that tape?” you shook your head before looking at Dan.

“Could I just borrow your’s Dan until I can get a new one tomorrow. Also if I could get you to actually tape my old one up also that would be great.” Dan nodded as he got up from the couch while stretching his limbs.

“Sure. Only thing is that you help me with the stupid tape.” You nodded as you followed Dan towards his room. As you left the lounge you looked back to see if Phil was catching on. He had already put his headphones back in so you safely assumed it would be okay.

Once inside Dan’s room he immediately pulled at your arm before closing the door as close to really closed as possible. The door was way too loud to actually close the bastard. You were about to make some stupid comment about how you feel like a teen who is hiding from Dad Phil but you didn’t get a chance to even let out a word before his lips were crashing into yours. It was nice. It was what you wanted no matter how complicated it was.

“Fuck.”  You didn’t get anything else out as you felt Dan snake his hand down into your panties running his finger along your slit to already collect the wetness that had already pooled there.

“Kiss me. I can’t trust you to be quiet.” You couldn’t argue as he pressed your lips into his to muffle the sounds. It didn’t take Dan long to insert a finger into you as his thumb rubbed your clit. He may actually gain a record. Fucker. You moaned into his mouth as he took it as a plea for more. He inserted another finger into you as his pace quickened. He was relentless and you were going to come undone on his fingers.

“Going to cum on my fingers pet?” You nodded as he pressed kissed into your hair as you laid your head on his shoulder. It happened so quickly you could have sworn it was a dream. The rush of that came over you was a mix of goosebumps, shivers and pure ecstasy. Dan helped you come down from your high as he rubbed your back with his free hand as he removed his other from your underwear.

“Fuck you. Fuck you and thank you.” Dan laughed as he walked away for a second to go in his drawer to pull a cord out.

“ I think it would be suspicious if we didn’t remember this. Not that you kept your moans all that silent.” You smiled as you placed one more kiss to his lips.

“I’m glad were even because the next time I want you.”