#with the truth serum fic

[fonulyn]

tomorrow is monday and i've got nothing to post 😞

[milktrician]

(what the. who threw a wife plot device in the middle of a peak lord meeting)

i thought about this bit at the end of the airplane extras the other day. bro why are you looking at your coworkers like that rn

[happypeachsludgeflower]

Okay okay okay.. but listen. What if Shen Yuan had a harsher System and was forced to convincingly play Shen Qingqiu, making Luo Binghe detest his existence, but when Luo Binghe returns from the abyss to enact his revenge and has Shen Qingqiu on trial at Huan Hua, unfortunately for everyone (and fortunately for us), they drug Shen Qingqiu with truth serum and accidentally spiral Shen Yuan into fanboy rampage of epic proportions about how great Luo Binghe is.

[tooomanybats]

Finally finished my truth serum fic!! Hope you guys enjoy it ☺️

[tossawary]

Summary:

Mobei-Jun and Shang Qinghua, before they possess those names, share a celebratory drink and discuss their future. It doesn't go as either of them planned.

Happy New Year! I wanted to write something a little shorter and a little messy (a lot messy, maybe) before diving into other projects, so I thought I'd indulge myself this month with some classic tropes and try to twist them around a little bit.

Enjoy! 😘💕❤️

[kybercrystals94]

Embroidered Skulls

Read here on Ao3!

Febuwhump 2024 | Day 20 | Prompt 20: Truth Serum

Rated: G | Words: 1092 | A slight mishap leads to some honest answers. [Character Focus: Tech, Hunter, Echo, Crosshair, Wrecker]

I am steeling my little heart for season 3…so light hearted whump is being served here today ^_^

“Ah, you’re back,” Tech says, glancing up when Hunter and Echo clamber up the ramp of the ship. “Wrecker and Crosshair should be returning in short order as well.”

Hunter and Echo exchange glances, wordless communication flashing between them in microexpressions Tech cannot read.

“Did the extraction go according to plan? Were there any issues?” Tech asks.

Echo stiffens at the question, and Hunter turns away to drop the small crate of serum on one of the crash seats.

“It…went. It was fine,” Hunter says, his back still to Tech. “We’re fine.”

“We’re fine,” Echo agrees with a sharp nod.

Tech narrows his gaze.

“I mean…” Echo continues, looking uncomfortable. “We’re not injured. But there was a mishap.”

“Echo,” Hunter groans.

“A mishap?” Tech presses. “What sort of mishap?”

Echo shifts from one artificial leg to the other. “Well…”

Hunter spins around, pushing Echo aside. “We lost one of the vials. That’s all. It was destroyed.”

“One of the truth serum vials?” Tech keeps himself carefully composed. “Were either of you exposed?”

Hunter huffs, crossing his arms. “Were you exposed?”

“That is not a logical response,” Tech says, deadpan.

“Yeah, well,” Hunter sputters, “Why aren’t you answering the question?”

Tech rolls his eyes. “No. I was not exposed because I wasn’t there. I’m going to assume that you both were exposed which explains why you are behaving erratically.”

“You can’t tell Wrecker or Crosshair,” Echo pleads.

“Echo! Stop talking,” Hunter cries.

“You stop talking,” Echo shoots back. “You’re the one asking Tech if he was exposed to the serum you dropped half a klick away!”

“That’s because someone didn’t make sure the second latch on the crate was secure!”

“Oh, so it’s my fault?”

“Yes!”

“At least we now know that the serum is effective,” Tech sighs, picking up the crate of drugs to stow away before Wrecker inadvertently causes more mayhem.

“Tech,” Hunter cries, trailing after him, “is there an antidote?”

“The effects should wear off on their own with no detriment to your health.”

“But Tech…”

Tech locks up the crate and turns to his brother. “Hunter, do you honestly think I have an antidote to a newly discovered truth serum just lying around in the med kit?”

Hunter hesitates. “Yes?”

“That was a rhetorical question, but I appreciate your honesty,” Tech says with a barely concealed grin as he brushes past Hunter back into the main hold.

“Tech, this isn’t funny!”

“That entirely depends on which side of the argument you’re on,” Tech says. “And I’m sure that Wrecker and Crosshair will be on my side.”

“You can’t tell them!”

“I won’t tell them anything. The two of you on the other hand…”

“Maker, Tech, you have to help us,” Echo says.

A distinct voice bellows outside the ship, “We’re back! Did you miss us?”

Hunter and Echo give Tech an beseeching look, and he almost pities them.

Almost.

Wrecker comes bounding into the ship followed by the much more sedate sniper. Crosshair hits the control to close the door before turning on the group still crowded in the hull. “Is something wrong?” he asks, taking off his helmet.

“Why would something be wrong? Nothing’s wrong,” Hunter says quickly.

Too quickly.

Crosshair smirks. “What did you do?”

Hunter’s jaw tightens, but he keeps his mouth shut.

Crosshair’s gaze slides to Echo. “What did he do?”

“Hunter broke a vial of the truth serum,” Echo says.

Crosshair’s face goes slack with surprise for a moment before a wicked grin curls across his face. “Did he now? That’s unfortunate.”

“What does that mean?” Wrecker asks, looking concerned as he glances between the color drained faces of Echo and Hunter.

“It means that loose lips crash starships, Wrecker,” Crosshair says.

Wrecker looks puzzled for a moment before it clicks, and he smiles broadly. “Ah, I get it.”

“There’s nothing to get,” Hunter snaps. “Tech, get us out of here. We have a mission to complete.”

Tech nods and heads for the cockpit, Echo following closely behind him.

“If you think I’m going to help you not inadvertently answer incessant questions, you are mistaken,” Tech says, settling into the pilot’s chair and flicking switches for the startup sequence.

“How long will it take for this to get out of our systems?” Echo asks.

Tech sighs. “I may know many things, Echo, but even I have my limits. I would need access to the research and chemical makeup of the drug to accurately answer your question.”

“Give me your best guess.”

“You will not like it.”

“Tech!”

“I would estimate that you and Hunter will experience the effects of the drug for approximately one standard week.”

“No! You’re lying!”

Tech smiles. “At least one of us can.”

Echo drops into the copilot’s chair with a growl. “You’re the worst.”

Tech gets them situated in a hyperspace lane before a tangle of cajoling voices approach the cockpit, and Hunter enters followed by Wrecker and Crosshair. Hunter sits down, and turns his chair away from his siblings.

“C’mon, Hunter,” Wrecker says, “Don’t you want to tell us?”

“No!”

Crosshair chuckles. “He’s telling the truth.”

“Shut up, Cross.”

“But really, Hunter, we need to know…where’d you learn how to embroider skulls onto your bandanas? Or do you have them done somewhere? And if that’s the case, then where?”

Hunter decidedly keeps his jaw locked shut.

“It would be more effective if you asked the questions individually,” Tech offers. The look of utter betrayal Hunter shoots him is heartbreaking, but the engineer simply shrugs. “This is a research opportunity I am unwilling to pass up.”

Echo chuckles, drawing Crosshair’s attention. “You know something about this, don’t you?” he asks, pointing at the cyborg accusingly.

Hunter’s eyes widen, and Echo swallows.

“I’m not sure what you’re asking,” Echo says, evading the question carefully.

“Where does Hunter keep his art projects?”

Echo scoffs. “Hunter doesn’t do art projects,” he says, looking relieved. A fatal mistake.

“Where does Hunter keep his embroidery kit?” Tech specifies.

“In a box under the nav computer. There’s a hollow behind the main hard drive,” Echo says.

“Echo!” Hunter gasps.

Crosshair and Wrecker exchange thrilled glances before racing out of the cockpit. Hunter goes after them, ordering them to leave his stuff alone.

“How did you find out about Hunter’s sewing project?” Tech asks wryly.

“Eh, I found it one day when I was doing repairs.”

The two are quite a moment while they listen to the indistinct squabbling and laughter behind them.

“But really, Tech, how long until this stuff wears off?”

END

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[totallynotmeems]

spommy truth serum snippet!

He knew that Kickstart looked strange, but he needed to finish his project today and he was tired so he didn’t think too hard about it. Now he’s unable to lie. And stuck at work. “What do you think about this font?” Peter asks him.  “I think that’s the ugliest font I’ve ever seen.” That made Peter cry. He made Peter cry. That deserves a punishment worse than death. ——— “Why aren’t you eating your lunch?” Marcus asks. It’s quesadilla day. Spencer is lactose-intolerant. “I can’t have fucking lactose, Marcus.” All the lactose-free ones were gone, so Spencer ate a granola bar for lunch. A granola bar. And Marcus looked really guilty afterwards, and Spencer’s not mad at him, but it makes everyone be walking on eggshells around Spencer the rest of the day.

[allovesthings]

I've read some fics with Dick being rescued from Tarantula (usually by Jason) and he usually kills her... And it always bothers me that we never get Dick's reaction to that ? Or that he is okay with it at all ?

Yes, Dick was sexually assaulted by her in the comics but it's not the only thing that happens to him in this arc.. Specifically the reason he is there on the roof, having a panic attack/being in shock is because he finally broke and made the choice (in an extremely compromising emotional state, pushed to that point by blockbuster) to let someone else kill Blockbuster, How do we think he would feel if someone did the exact same thing for him not even five minutes later ?

I'm not saying, you the reader, can't want her gone or whatever,I'm saying Dick, as in the character specifically would not want her dead and he would not be okay with someone else killing her for him either and he is already robbed of his agency by her, shouldn't he get that agency back when it comes to dealing with her ?

[artingstarvist]

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[happypeachsludgeflower]

Amazing crack idea? Shang Qinghua gets hit with the truth serum, word vomit plot mechanism and drags Shen Qingqiu into a gen z/millennial modern slang ramble argument conversation thing that no one else can make any coherent sense of.

[abiiors]

♡︎ moodboards for my fav fics — truth serum by @imagine-that-100 ♡︎

[antimonyandthyme]

do you have "for you" motif about carcar because 'the dress' fic and 'recalcitrance oscar' both have those. much intriguing.

anon i hadn't noticed what a lovely thing to point out!!!

“Well?” he said, when an arm curled gingerly around his back. Carlos allowed himself a moment of weakness, leaned in where Oscar’s scent could stroke his nose. The arm around his back tightened, almost possessively. It felt, wondrously, like an anchor in a ballroom of quicksand. “Good enough?” “For you,” Oscar said.

and

Carlos looks at him, before looking down at his feet. “That’s cheating, no?” “For you?” “No,” Carlos says. “For you. You’re cheating, like this.”

something i adore writing in carcar fics is the fact that they think the other person treats everyone ELSE with favour, and treats said person with a particular brand of disdain. oscar thinks carlos likes everyone but him. carlos thinks oscar goes above and beyond to hate on him. i guess "for you" seems to work wonderfully, because they constantly make the other person an exception to the standard with which they approach anything else.

[fonulyn]

Leon knew, logically, that there was no way he could keep the serum from reaching every single part of his body, but at the same time the desperate part of his brain had to try. He thrashed, struggled, giving up on the cool façade that he’d held onto all this time from the moment he’d woken up from being sedated to the moment he’d been injected with what the assholes around him described as truth serum.

Truth fucking serum. Leon wanted to laugh. His life was a joke. When he’d broken up with Piers after their brief but intense fling he’d thought he’d reached the rock bottom, but apparently there had still been ways to go. At least until now he’d been able to lie and keep secrets to protect himself…

- Or, Leon can’t lie. Turns out it’s both the worst and the best thing that has happened to him recently.

[tossawary]

In my fic "if it can be destroyed", Shang Qinghua and Mobei-Jun are supposed to be around 21-23-ish. Which is a fine age for fucking things up to unprecedented degrees in general! But there are also several reasons why this truth serum mess is happening NOW specifically instead of any earlier or much later in their relationship, if anyone would like to try to privately guess for themselves the different reasons behind Mobei-Jun's actions, before the next chapter.

I will probably be updating late, LATE tomorrow again. I'll let people know.

[earlgreyinpajamas]

I've been trying to find an old fic I read on A03 a while ago. it has Merlin be forced to take a truth serum made by guias and uther is the one who ordered it, but the catch is he doesn't confess his magic, he confesses his love for Arthur. any other truth serum fics are welcome tho!!

so i couldnt find the exact fic you were looking for, but i did manage to find a couple other truth serum fics. hopefully someone out there knows which fic you were looking for.

Tell Me A Lie by TheCourtSorcerer (@thecourtsorcerer)

"Did you steal anything from my plate?”

No, had been what he meant to say, of course not. Instead, though, when he opened his lips to let the lie slip out, he paled at what came out in its place.

“Yes, I always do, a sausage this time.”

His heart sunk.

He couldn’t lie.

Or

Merlin is slipped a truth potion, and really, he should have expected Arthur to find out.

~~~

and the cure is the stuff of fairytales!! ahhh

2. Mine by Lola_Rose_Robins (@lorienrobins)

Merlin was hit with a truth spell, which is how Uther ends up finding out about his...well, everything.

~~~

i know it's a curse instead of a serum, but this is the closest thing i could find with uther confronting him while under a truth inducing thingy

3. our lips are sealed by eat_crow

After being dosed with a truth potion? No, they're not.

“Who the fuck calls you Emrys?” Arthur asks, so clearly annoyed. “People of magic. Druids, mostly, but I’ve heard it from fae and leaders of the old religion. Jesus fucking Christ--” he dissolves into hysterical laughter, rocking as far forward as his bonds will allow. “What is in this shit?”

~~~

excellent crack fic 4275349207825/10

[stilesdemonbaby]

Choke on the Truth by Arvak

Summary:

Hunters kidnap Stiles and Peter. They give Stiles a sort of 'truth serum' to try to get him to tell them all about the pack, expecting to find out who the Alpha is, where the pack is, ways to infiltrate them, that sort of thing. Instead, all Stiles can do is talk about Peter and how amazing and misunderstood he is, and how he might kinda love him. Peter watches, gagged and beat up on the other side of the room, as one eyebrow slowly raises.

Tags: Truth Serum, truth telling, Hunters, little bit of gore, Happy Ending, Peter Hale is a Little Shit

Published: 2024-07-13

Words: 5,591

Chapters: 1/1

Rating: Teen And Up