#up real late

[witchcrafting-kitten]

Hi, sorry for the delay. I have been thinking about this for a while 🙈

If there are any grammar mistakes, I'm sorry english is not my native language 🙈

I'm just thinking about best friends to lovers, secret admirer Ben Jones 🙈

-> Okay so, the shy female reader and Ben have been friends for years. And she always supported him and was so happy when he has just been promoted to a sergeant.

So he is visiting her often because she invites him for dinner or just randomly to talk about everything.

But one day someone rings at the readers door, but nobody was there, only a huge beautiful bouquet of her favorite flowers has been carefully placed on the floor infront of the door. No one has seen anything. And when she told Ben about that (little does she know) he said that he hasn’t seen anything either, trying to play his nervousity off.

So it happens several times like that again. And after a while one of the reader's friend saw him buying flowers and is telling her that in excitement later.

Few days later the reader goes to the flower shop and asked the florist out. The reader said that she recevied a lovely flower bouquet and recognized their initials/informations of the shop on the paper of the flowers. And the woman in the flower shop sang like a little bird and said that a young, tall, good looking policeman "a sergeant" in a suit visited her to buy flowers.

Few days after the conversation, he goes to the flower shop but then the lady said that he has been exposed by a curious young woman. So it was clear to him that he has to play with open cards now.

So she invites him late in the evening after his shift. After a moment he knocks at the door. She opens the door surprised, because she didn't expected that he reveals himself by holding a bouquet of her favorite flowers in his hand, but when she wants to talk, he closes the door, places the flowers on the table and in the next few seconds he approaches her and captures her lips in a slow but gentle kiss.

After a moment she slowly breaks the kiss to confess to him and he confessed his feelings for her aswell and he kissed her again.

I'm so sorry, this is a lot so uhm if it’s too detailed, please let me know and I'll send a shorter request 🙈

It's ok. Gives me a strong start.

The Mystery Case of Flowers

Ben Jones x shy!fem!reader

Trigger Warnings: fluff; swearing (?); mentions of alcohol and being drunk as well as hungover; use of she/her pronouns as well as use of y/n

A/N: Hopefully, this is close to what you were describing in the ask. Apologies for it taking so long to write this. I don't normally ever check word count on any fics I write, so this may wind up feeling like a short read or something. Maybe a little rushed.

I hope it's ok that I swapped the doorbell ringing bit. I tried to stay as close to the prompt you wrote up as I could.

Happy New Year! Hopefully, it turns out just a bit better than 2024.

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One would've thought that the pair were out on a date, but they'd both be lying through their teeth, saying that they were merely good friends. Ben and Y/N had been spending the evening down at the pub to celebrate him becoming a sergeant. She was doing most of the drinking since he still had work tomorrow, and it was her day off.

"Have I ever told you what my favorite flower was?" Y/N looked over at Ben sweetly. He knew the answer but decided to play along anyway. "It is carnations! Either you're psychic or really good at guessing. Maybe Barnaby is rubbing off on you."

All Ben wanted to do was just outright kiss her, but, being the gentleman that he was, the only thing he could do was get her home safely. Not that he wanted the night to end, mind you.

The following morning, a hungover Y/N was just about to make herself something to help settle her stomach for the moment when the phone went off. She immediately cringed, complaining about how it feels too early for this sort of shit even though it was only 9:07 in the morning. Her mood brightened as soon as the person phoning spoke.

"Hopefully, I didn’t bother your beauty sleep. How are you feeling?"

"Only just a tad better with you calling. I feel as though someone is beating the crap out of my skull," she wondered over towards the door to check for mail. The sudden notice of bright colors beneath her feet out of the corner of her eye failed to go unnoticed by Ben.

"What is it?"

"Someone left me flowers outside my door. They're certainly beautiful, but how and who, I don't know. You didn't see anyone pass by on your way out, did you?"

"Other than maybe one of your neighbors a few doors down, no," he was glad she couldn't see the smile on his face at his sneaky plan.

× some months later ×

Y/N has gotten several periodic bouquets from her mystery sender. She hadn't connected the dots who were sending these yet. Every time she meets up with Ben for drinks, she completely misses how his eyes start to twinkle at her mention of her random assortment of flowers. He always made sure to get the same flowers from the same shop every time. Barnaby wasn't even in on his little plan. That is, until Ben came to work one day.

He had gone to the flower shop that morning to pick up the flowers, drop them off at Y/N's, and still make it to work. Only he forgot to drop the flowers off and walked into the office holding them.

"What have we got here? Those aren't for me, are they?" Barnaby smiled as Ben looked down in embarrassment at his desk. That wasn't his lunch!

"I, well, uh - you see..... I bought it for Y/N, and I can't BELIEVE that I forgot it!" He leaned his face against his left hand in disbelief. "Do you think Joyce'll want them?"

Tom chuckled, agreeing to take the evidence off his sergeants hands.

× four days later ×

Bernice was out running errands when she spotted him. From the few times they met, it wasn't too hard for her to recognize Ben. The thing was that it was a very weird coincidence seeing him enter a flower shop that sold the exact bouquets showing up at Y/N's. He must be finding out who it was, and if so, it would be too interesting for Bernice not to inform Y/N.

"Wait, you saw him at the flower shop? You didn't confront him, did you? I'm sure that might've ended up awkward," Y/N looked at Bernice, baffled.

She looked at her friend with an eyebrow raised. "No, course not. That's your job. If he is, in fact, the one sending those flowers to you, I want to hear every. last. detail. You are both fabulous!"

"I can't believe you sometimes," Y/N laughed. She made a note of it in her head for tomorrow.

× after lunch ×

Y/N made her way into the flower shop as casual as possible. She had rehearsed this a few times in a mirror. It was either going to go decent or very awkward.

"Those flowers over there? I'm curious about them. I received a bunch recently, and, as I was walking towards your flowers, I immediately started to recognize why they looked so familiar. The initials were the same as the ones I got."

The cashier smirked. "I've had this Sergeant come in a lot recently. Neatly pressed suit and tie."

Looks like the hunch worked out decent.

× afterward ×

The next time Ben went to get his usual, he was surprised to learn of being suspected red-handed. He knew he'd be caught eventually. All that was left in the cards was facing her.

Whether he felt thankful for this luck of fate or not, Y/N called his cell as he pulled back into the station from visiting a crime scene. She invited him over after his shift for dinner. Ben agrees but never gets an answer out of her what the food is. It'd be good to come clean about the flowers by presenting them over whatever Y/N has planned would likely be much less nerve-wracking of a way to do it. Keyword being likely.

Barnaby clocked his partners mood in the way Ben shuffled his hands. Kind enough not to bring anything up, he didn't bat an eye when Ben left work on the dot to make his date. It would be good for him. Ben was always talking about Y/N every time something about a case happened to remind him of her.

He pressed the doorbell once he arrived. The flowers were behind his back until he heard her unlock the door. Ben, presenting them to her, gave her a surprised blush to her cheeks as soon as she opened the door. She hadn't thought he'd actually bring a fresh batch with him.

"Hi, come in," she stepped off to the side, taking the flowers as he took his shoes off. She only faintly heard him close the door. Next thing either of them knew, they were kissing in the living room. The kiss was soft and full of definite passion. She held on to his forearms from surprise. He gently kept her steady in return, almost like an apology for the brief scare. Y/N was the one to break first.

"Well, damn. If I had known you were such a good kisser, I might've thought about doing it sooner. Honestly, I wasn't sure I was even your type," Y/N blushed brightly.

"For starters, I certainly am pleased to hear I'm a good kisser. Might just be my best quality. But since we're being honest here, you're the person I've been most keen on asking out. I wasn't sure if you would," Ben smiled.

"Ben Jones, you've been nervous to ask out little ol' me? I get all out of sorts when one of my friends sees someone they know as they're walking with me around the market. I never imagined a day —" Y/N was cut off by Ben kissing her again. She smiled into the kiss, knowing full well with her eyes closed that he was likely blushing profusely out of being flustered by her words.

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The end

Hopefully, it was a pleasant read, and 2025 doesn't turn out to be all too terrible.

[chiptrillino-art]

(ID in ALT Text) Happy very, very late Mother's Day!

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[witchcrafting-kitten]

Yes....... 100% this 👆

I love making fictional creatures, because you get to witness the beauty of Nature, and the world around you, to take pleasure in even the smallest things, to be inspired by each and every thing you see, until finally, you can create something that feels worthy of being called an imitation of the Natural world that you love so much, like a collage of that which you adore.

also you can figure out how they fuck, which is always fun.

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[witchcrafting-kitten]

Alright, sooooo....... [If you're a Whovian who absolutely hates with a fiery passion the whole Timeless Child route that they're going with, I respect your opinion, and you may completely ignore this post because I happen to bring it up]

To any and all Whovians that have seen 15's first season over on Disney+. Just out of curiosities sake, who do you think might be Ruby's mom? I know we'll get more and more clues to how it happens to be if it does happen to be someone we know, but my top 3 theory is:

Susan. If she's alive, that is. He did make a point that they're gone (since the Master Cybermaned them), but I don't remember all of them being Cybermaned.

A pre-Hartnell regeneration of the Doctor possibly prior to Fugitive Doctor. Considering what happened between 13 and Fugitive, that would be a real nasty mess. More so adding a child to mix.

A member of the Sisterhood of Karn. I know we haven't seen them since 12, but I also don't remember hearing whether or not they're gone. This one may or may not be my favorite one I've thought of since I really like the Sisterhood, but that's besides the point.

[As I was writing this, I just realized I had a fourth idea: she could very likely be the child of The One Who Waits!! That's what The One Who Waits has been waiting for!! Wait..... No!!!!!!!!!!!!! The One Who Waits is actually the Doctor's bio parent and Ruby was a random child from the Doctor's original world that The One Who Waits used as a ploy just to meet the child they were separated from!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

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Happy Halloween👻. Many spooky things are afoot… I wouldn’t go into the orlop if I were you,John.

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Got u some snacks @cryptidmickle

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I feel your breath upon my neck / a soft caress as cold as death