#xav goes wild

[xavilee]

one thing that i’ve always found extremely endearing about tickling is the panic the lee goes through when they start getting tickled.

the act of tickling itself triggers the fight or flight response, which in that alone makes you panic. simply wiggling nails across your bare skin, or slight squeezes - even the likes of brushes and scribbling all trigger the same response - and i think watching it happen is one of the best things about the action !

hearing the breaks in the lee’s voice. the quivering of their lip, and their voice - the “nonono please- pleheease-“, the begging for it to stop - the squirming, the wriggling, the attempt to make it stop is just something our brain inherently does, and it’s so fucking cute

it can range to major panic from someone having absurdly ticklish feet, or just minor panic and squirming from a couple of nails gently dancing over a lee’s tummy. it comes in all shapes and sizes, and pretty much everyone panics in a different way.

but all the same, it’s fucking a d o r a b l e.

[revasserium]

BEGGING u to write switch!xavier x fem!reader friends to lovers smut i am obsessed with this man 🙏

hunter and the hunted

xavier; 1,661 words; nsfw!!!, fem!reader, nickname usage ("bunny", "miss hunter"), piv sex, switch!xavier, pwp

summary: after the photoshoot, you decide to reward xavier for being a good bunny butler. or, in which xav calls you "bunny" during sex.

a/n: im sorry i didn't do the friends to lovers thing anon but i hope this still scratches the switch!xavier itch???? based on the bunny!butler card :)

There’s always been a startling, stirring purpose to the way he does things.

And this — you keen, head tipping back as Xavier leans down to mouth at your exposed collarbones — you think, is no different.

“Hm… that’s a pretty sound… I think I’d like to hear it again, bunny.”

You squeeze your eyes shut, your breath hiccuping in your chest as you feel Xavier pulling back inch by excruciating inch before snapping forward, his head cocking to one side to watch you moan. His eyes are dark, darker than you’ve ever seen them, his pupils blown wide as the heart of dying stars —

“X-Xa — vi — vier — please —”

You flush at the way his name breaks on your tongue, at the way the tip of his cock kisses your cervix every time he pulls back and thrusts back in, at the way he angles his hips to hit just the right spot. It’s almost cruel, the way he watches you — his light-scattered eyes searching your face for something you don’t have a name for.

“Mm…” he leans down again, trailing warm lips along the line of your shoulder blade, biting down gently when you clench down around him, making his hips stutter. It’s the only tell that he’s just as affected as you are. But the next second, he’s pulling back to tug at your legs, fingers hooking behind your knees to press them up and up and up — till they’re shoved against your sweat-slicked chest.

“Oh bunny… look at you…”

You try to turn your head, try to look anywhere but at the hunger that marrs his face as his eyes flicker down to where he’s fucking into you, straight and steady, to where you can feel your own wetness slicking down the backs of your legs till it collects on the freshly laundered sheets below. Faintly, you wonder if there’s another set of sheets you can use for the night because this set is surely already ruined.

You can feel the thickness of him as he fills you, the weight of him dragging against your inner walls, the incriminating schick of wet skin against skin.

“I — I can’t —”

There’s a recklessness to the way he ruts down into you, a building, wind-wild abandon to the pace his hips keep, snapping quicker and quicker against yours, his thrusts going shallow as he lets out a soft breath, pushing your knees together with a tight groan.

“T-tell me, Miss Hunter…” he says, a bead of sweat trickling from his forehead to the tip of his nose as he rucks down into you, making white-hot stars explode behind your eyelids, the heat in your abdomen twisting tight, and then tighter — “didn’t you promise — you were going to show me something — special?”

You feel his thumb draw down between your bodies, tracing along the lips of your bruised labia before circling your clit once, twice. You gasp as you feel your climax cresting through you with almost no warning, and it’s all you can do to clutch at his arm, nails digging into his skin as you come.

“X-Xavier — c-com-ing —!”

“Nngh — that’s right… that’s… a good bunny…”

His hips stall as he watches you come undone around him, the way your whole body goes rigid, your skin slick with a sheen of sweat, the sweet pink indents of his teeth blossoming along your shoulders as you fall back, gasping for breath. He leans down, breathless, brushing his lips by your cheek.

“Good bunny…” he repeats, shushing you as you whimper, “there you go…”

Your vision tunnels, the heat washing over you now in waves as your body twitches through the aftermath of your release, even as Xavier pulls back and fucks forward with a soft groan, as if to chase his own high. Finally, finally.

Your eyelids flutter shut and you recall the events of just half an hour before, when you’d been the one on top, with him begging beneath you —

“A-ah… a-are you — what are you —” his voice is sharp, but you’re relentless as you tug at the waistband of his black slacks, sliding them off his thin hips, ghosting your lips over the dips there just to hear his breath hitch.

“Don’t worry, this is a reward, bunny!” you glance up at him, grinning at the pair of soft white bunny ears clipped into his hair, now a little lopsided as he blinks down at you, his hands dutifully bound in his lap with his black silk tie.

“Re-reward? I — ah —” he hisses as you ghost your lips over the obvious bulge in his boxers, grinning to yourself as you inch your fingers up his thighs, teasing the sensitive skin there.

“Yep! For being such a good ‘bunny’ today at the photo booth!”

“That was — j-just for —” he swallows, head tipping back as you mouth at the waistband of his boxers, glancing up, feeling heat pulse between your legs at the sight of his flushed cheeks and wet, parted lips.

“Just for…?” you tease, even as you slowly peel off his boxers, your mouth watering at the sight of his cock, the tip straining pink, dripping with precum. You can’t help the way your throat tenses as you wrap your fingers around the base and give it an experimental pump.

The strangled sound Xavier makes ripples over your bare skin like warm water.

“Weren’t you the one that asked me… if I’d like to unwrap my present earlier today? Well…” a quick kiss to the head of his cock is the only warning he gets before you lean down and lick a thick strip up, tracing the pulsing vein along the bottom of his shaft with your tongue, from base to tip and back down again.

“Mm — ah —” you hear the sound of his head thumping back against the headboard just as his hips kick up. You hum, pressing them back down with a firm hand.

“Naughty bunnies won’t get to cum,” you reprimand, to which he lets out a noise somewhere between a whine and a grunt, peering open one helpless eye, his fluffy white bunny ears now knocked painfully askew. You flash him a cheeky smile, the sight of him lying there, splayed out beneath you, his clothes tugged haphazardly open, wrists bound and cock straining, sends a rush of adrenalin through you, heady enough to make the room spin.

“N-not even if I say ‘please’?”

And really, there shouldn’t be any reason for him to sound so ruined already, not when you’ve only just started, but you bite your lips and swallow down a moan at his words. Your knees press as you run an idle finger along his twitching cock.

“Maybe… if you ask **really, really nicely…”

You don’t give him a chance to start begging properly before you lower your lips again, running your tongue along the underside of his rim as he gasps.

“O-Oh!”

You moan, loud and deliberate, relishing in the way he shivers at the way your voice thrums through his skin, and when you lower your head and feel him hit the back of your throat, Xavier keens — helpless and high and you think you feel his fingers in your hair as he fights between the urge to press you down and pull you back up. He settles for simply resting his hand there as you hollow out your cheeks and suck him down in earnest. A trail of broken little moans and gasps trickle from him as you work your mouth around him, pressing the flat of your tongue against him just to feel him jerk beneath you.

“If you’re good… I’ll show you something extra special,” you say after a few minutes, pulling off him with a loud pop and making a show of licking your lips.

“You… you really are ruthless…” he sounds breathless, but there’s a teasing note to the underbelly of his voice that sends tingles thrumming through your body. You can’t help the excitement that gathers in your gut at the thought of just what that tease might bring.

You drop a sweet kiss onto his hipbone before pulling yourself up the length of his body, rolling your hips down, groaning at the friction, your breath catching at the way his cock teases against your already-drenched pussy.

“Please…” Xavier’s teeth digs into his bottom lip, and you reach back to guide his aching cock toward your center, sinking down slow, relishing in the sting and the stretch.

It doesn’t take long after that — not with you sitting astride him, riding him with your palms planted on his chest. Not with the way your tits bounce and the way your thighs smack down over his hips with your every move.

It doesn’t take long, but far from being embarrassed, Xavier only hisses, before blinking a few times, almost sleepy as you ride him through his release. Then, he wiggles his wrists free from their constraints and plants his palms on either side of your hips, flipping you over with a single, fluid movement.

“Mm… that really was something…” he hikes your legs up over his shoulders and rolls his hips almost thoughtfully down against yours. You’re helpless to do anything but gasp as he brushes against a spot inside you that has you seeing stars.

“I learned a lot,” he says, grinning as he plucks the bunny ears from his ruffled hair and presses them gently into yours, “so… what do you say, bunny?”

You whimper as he drops a hand to thumb lightly at your clit, “Xavier — wait, what —”

“C’mon Miss Hunter… let me show you… what a good student I can be.”

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[mouseinamushroomhouse]

Part 3: Yuri's Reign

Reference: by this point Ezar is nearly 40. Dorca's reign post-war lasted fifteen years, give or take. Piotr is 40. Yuri and Xav are in their late 50s (ish). Olivia and Dorca's younger children are all early thirties to mid-twenties.

Once the hubbub of the coronation dies down, Ezar takes a trip. He heads north to visit his kinsmen and his sister, and to clear his head. Anna, along with most of the huntsmen, don't really understand what the Imperium or Vorbarr Sultana are really like - it's so far outside their frame of reference. Ezar has also purposefully distanced himself from this heritage - Piotr is the only man from the south who remembers where Ezar started, as well as the only one who knows Ezar's patronymic.

Ezar and Anna go on a hunting trip together for several weeks and Ezar tries to explain the danger he's in, caught between Piotr and Yuri's politics. Anna isn't having a great time of it either, trying to dissuade the (very determined) head of the clan from marrying her. He replaced Ezar over a decade ago, after it became clear Ezar wasn't coming back. Anyway, they camp out on the ice sheets for a while and look at the stars, and Ezar tells Anna about spaceships and wormholes, and they toy with the idea of just … not returning, and staying out in the wild.

Eventually, they give up on that and return. Ezar invites Anna to visit the Vorkosigans, to get her away from the warlord for a while. She accepts and they travel south to Vorkosigan District. Piotr and Ezar get recalled to Vorarr Sultana by Yuri during this visit, and leave Anna with Olivia.

Olivia is able to explain to Anna exactly how tense the situation between Piotr and Yuri is, and how much danger Ezar is in trying to hold them together. Anna ends up refusing to return north, demanding to stay and watch her brother's back. Olivia gets Anna a position as her lady's maid at their Vorbarr Sultana house, so she can live in VS most of the year. Ezar is not thrilled, but neither of them advertise that they're related, and they hope that will be enough to keep her out of harm's way.

Piotr and Ezar were recalled to a trial of several Counts who were Yuri's political enemies. In the end, three are executed, and Piotr's party loses the majority in the government.

The government continues to take on a more authoritarian tone under Yuri, and the Ministry of Political Education is codified into law. Grishnov is a recommendation of Ezar's, a friend from the Cetagandan War. Ezar gets shifted somewhat out of power in the military by this, and most of his authority is now in the space & expeditionary divisions, but he's still held in high regard by the rank & file.

Piotr isn't happy about any of these developments. He's still coordinating galactic trade, and Olivia enjoys spending part of the year in VS with her sister and her philanthropy projects, but things are increasingly untenable. Somewhere in here, Olivia has her second son, Aral. While this goes on, Yuri and Grishnov begin establishing a plan to take over the lowlands of the Southern continent, the last region of Barrayar not sworn to the Imperium and the most culturally Cetagandan region of the planet. Somewhere in this section, Admiral Kanzian (originally from SC, now part of the military) establishes a spy ring in SC for Yuri. Piotr and Kanzian go back and forth on military strategy a lot, but Piotr eventually recuses himself on grounds of not trusting Yuri's intentions after the conquest. He warns Kanzian and Ezar that Yuri's former brutality in SC will reemerge, and that he's been consistently destroying checks & balances in the government for years.

Yuri uses the high spirits of a Winterfair celebration to announce first, new trade deals with some of the NC counts, placing further burdens on the continent's agriculture, and second, a policy of isolationism, banning trade through Komarr on account of their tariffs. To be fair, he isn't lying about the tariffs, but it does have the side effect of further alienating Piotr and cutting off Xav's access to manipulate Barrayaran politics through trade. Technically, Barrayarans can still travel off-planet, but it becomes much harder to do so without Imperial sponsorship.

Shortly after this, Olivia becomes pregnant again, and she and Piotr decide to leave VS. The succession is once again very unclear - Yuri refuses to name an heir or marry - and Sonia, Elyse, and Irina have no children. Piotr doesn't want his kids growing up with any Imperial expectations on them. So the Vorkosigans take off and Piotr now only comes to VS for important votes. Olivia names her third child Anna Helena Vorkosigan.

Two things happen before Piotr leaves. Thing 1: Elyse, Ezar's fiancee, offers Anna a job as her lady's maid so she can stay in VS. Ezar doesn't know how much Elyse knows, or if she's doing this at her brother's request, and he doesn't ask. Anna moves into the palace. Thing 2: Piotr goes to Ezar and accuses Yuri of Dorca's murder. Ezar tells him to leave and tells him never to repeat those suspicions.

But Ezar can't quite get it out of his head. So while the planning for SC conquest continues, Ezar hires a private investigator named Negri to look into Dorca's death. In pursuit of this, Negri spends some time disguised as an Imperial guard, some time living in the Vorbarra servants' quarters with Anna's help, and eventually works his way into Yuri's ImpSec on forged papers and works his way up the ranks. (This is over several years, Negri loves puzzles and gets somewhat hooked on the case). During this period, Negri uncovers an assassination plot against Yuri, and ends up Head of Domestic Affairs for his trouble. Cue fun angst of: hands between Yuri's hands, has been on Ezar's payroll for eight years and completely convinced by this point that Yuri killed his predecessor. Not to mention that Ezar has been out of the picture for some time, while Yuri is right there, directly commanding Negri's loyalty.

During this same period, Kanzian and Ezar have come up with a air-land-sea plan to take the SC. The plan involves Ezar being completely out of contact with the command for nearly a year, working his way from the far southern edge of the continent (coincidentally, very similar in climate to his homeland). Ezar protests this, wanting to be involved with command to prevent the conflict getting too bloody, and is argued down. Yuri essentially promises Ezar that if he succeeds, he'll be allowed to marry Elyse, and Yuri will name Ezar's children as his heirs, ending the succession crisis and, seemingly, removing Piotr's family from danger. Ezar accepts.

When the war starts, Negri has just joined ImpSec and doesn't have conclusive proof one way or another. Ezar leaves a sum of money for him, but leaves continuing the case up to Negri's discretion.

Kanzian leads a frontal assault through the captured northern mountains, and other Vor-led battalions move along the coasts (did I mention I can't write battles to save my life?), but Ezar's job is different. Work his way north, completely undercover, and take command of the former citadel of the 9th satrapy from within, while their military command is distracted by Kanzian.

Anyway, while he and his men are making their way across the southern ice sheets and ending up in short, vicious battles with local villages, Ezar ends up realizing that one of his men is, in fact, a woman in disguise and definitely isn't supposed to be there. Princess Irina Vorbarra decided to disguise herself as a man and join the expedition to win glory on the battlefield. Without much choice, Ezar agrees to keep her secret, since they can't break their cover to send a message north to extract her.

Irina and Ezar end up becoming friends over several months, due to Ezar's innate respect for competency. They end up in a bunch of shenanigans hiding Irina's identity, but also generally discuss the experience of being female on Barrayar and Irina's desire to train as a soldier. Ezar respects her, but doesn't have much faith in the Barrayaran ability to change, and makes that clear. They're both hot-headed idiots and end up in ridiculous arguments over this. They successfully take Lambda Kefa (city) and Irina defeats the governor in a duel. Then, against Ezar's wishes, she reveals her identity following the duel and the rest of their men celebrate her. By the time they rendezvous with Kanzian, Irina has popular support as the "Warrior Princess," and Ezar and Kanzian both realize how bad this will look to Yuri, already paranoid over his half-siblings' ambitions.

In the end, the remaining Vor of the SC are either executed or stripped of their titles, and Yuri throws a massive celebration for Barryaran unification. As part of this celebration, General Ezar is married to Princess Elyse. (Is Elyse thrilled about this? No. Is Elyse attracted to men? Also no. Elyse just knows how to play the game better than Irina and keeps her mouth shut).

This … is where the trouble starts. Ezar still doesn't use a patronymic. He still refuses a countship of any kind, prefering to make his way through the military without family connections. As a result, Elyse keeps the Vorbarra name when she marries, and Yuri allows her to give her children the name as well. Yuri plans to name Ezar's children his heirs, so this works out for him. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Ezar, riding a wave of popular support following the invasion, becomes commonly, though not legally, known as Ezar Vorbarra.

Yuri doesn't love that. He sends Elyse and Ezar off on a honeymoon tour (tailed by ImpSec, the increasingly shadowy and fanatic organization he's made it in Ezar & Piotr's absence), and deals with the problem of Irina's increasingly popular petition to train as a soldier by marrying her, against her will, into the Vorrutyer family. Irina essentially completely vanishes from public life, except for announcements from the family of the birth of her children, and there's an ongoing joke in the French District that the Warrior Princess has gone mad and is wandering the halls of Vorrutyer Castle, unfit to be seen. Fun times. I don't fully understand the Vorrutyer family tree so IDK which branch she married. Hopefully not the one her mother was from, but who knows with the Vorrutyers.

Ezar and Yuri fall out again over what happened to Irina. Elyse gives birth to a son, Serg, but Yuri still refuses to name an heir in retaliation. Piotr and Olivia, in VS for the birth, point out to Ezar & Elyse that Yuri is losing faith in Ezar, and sees his son as a political threat. Piotr recommends they get the child out of VS. Olivia pushes the last of her family's credit with Yuri and gets approval for Elyse and Serg to visit her parents on Beta. Elyse doesn't really believe Yuri would hurt her, but she is worried for her son, so she also petitions Yuri to be allowed to go off-world. Yuri agrees, and Elyse and Serg (with a Vorbarra Armsmen escort) go to stay with Xav. (Just to be clear, I understand the timing on this doesn't work, and most likely Serg was born after the massacre, but I simply don't care. This way is more fun.) While this is going on, Sonia also gives birth to a son, Padma Vorpatril.

Yuri, who's getting increasingly unstable, deploys ImpSec to spy on all of his relatives, and political rivals, cracking down on what can and can't be said within VS. Irina's husband, Richars Vorrutyer, is a Political Officer and starts reforming parts of Ezar's military conduct standards. More and more, Yuri is seeing plots and conspiracies to unseat him around every corner.

Ezar meets Negri at a bar by the docks, but when Negri tries to give a report, Ezar cuts him off and refuses to hear the results. He sends Negri back to ImpSec and tells him enough people have been dragged into his, Yuri's, and Piotr's private war. Ezar's motivation for this is roughly - there is no avenue he can take to challenge Yuri for the murder even if Yuri did commit it. Yuri is the ultimate authority. Either Ezar is willing to commit to a coup, or he isn't. He isn't. At least one of them might have a chance to get out of this with clean hands.

In the end, it doesn't matter. Some months before Yuri's birthday, he reassigns Piotr and Ezar. Ezar he sends with his space forces to run a series of routine wormhole checks for Komarran or Cetagandan activity. Piotr heads south to Lambda Kefa and acts as Yuri's interim governor. Richars goes with him as his Political Officer. Meanwhile, the High Vor converge on VS for the Emperor's birthday.

That night, Yuri hosts a dinner for his relatives. Several Vorrutyer cousins attend (from Joanna and Irina). Irina attends as Olivia's guest, as Olivia's husband isn't available to escort her. Olivia's children Fyodor (13), Aral (10), and Anna Helena (5) all attend. However, Irina & Richars' children are not invited, at Richars' request. Halfway through the meal, Yuri's death squad comes in and massacres nearly everyone at the table. The only survivors in the room are Aral Vorkosigan and Yuri Vorbarra. Olivia takes a disruptor bolt meant for her son, and Aral takes the chance to run out the servants' entrance. He makes it to the nursery, where the babies were sent during dinner, just ahead of the death squad, grabs his cousin Padma, and hides in the courtyard to watch as Yuri's squards deploy to look for him.

At the same moment Yuri's men enter the dining room, the Vorbarra Armsmen guarding Elyse turn on Xav and Serg. Elyse was meant to survive the massacre, but she attacks a guard aiming at Xav with her Vorfemme knife and is shot. Her death gave Xav time to react, kill the attackers, and grab Serg and his wife Helen. A second round of ImpSec men reach the house to check in just as Xav and Helen make it off planet in one of Xav's unregistered smuggling ships. In orbit, Helen agrees to return to Barrayar, accepting that it might be a death sentence. They burn an offering for Elyse and head for the wormhole, intent on getting answers.

Also simultaneously, several of Ezar's ships turn on him, attempting to purposely set off a chain of old Cetagandan space mines while his ship is in range. Ezar evades the attack and ends up in the middle of a brawl between ships loyal to Yuri and ships loyal to Ezar. Ezar wins. Unlike Xav, he knows exactly who to blame.

Aral makes it out of the palace in the back of a trader's groundcar and heads for the Vorkosigan town house, only to find it being searched by ImpSec. Aral spends the night in the Vorbarra Gardens trying to keep Padma quiet, and in the morning sneaks into the back of the grounds and saddles his pony. He joins a crowd of people migrating out of the city, having heard rumors that something terrible had happened the night before in the Palace. Aral makes it out of VS and rides for the Dendarii Mountains.

Before the morning comes, Richars Vorrutyer has posted an Imperial Degree in Lambda Kefa marking Xav Vorbarra, Serg Vorbarra, and Aral Vorkosigan as crown traitors.

Final death toll from Yuri's massacre: Princess-and-Countess Olivia Vorbarra Vorkosigan Lord Fyodor Xav Vorkosigan Lady Anna Helena Vorkosigan Princess Sonia Vorbarra Vorpatril Captain Ivan Vorpatril Princess Elyse Vorbarra Princess-and-Countess Irina Vorbarra Vorrutyer

End Part 3.

@starfishlikestoread's Ezar quote board has actually infected my brain, and it reminded me I have this whole backstory timeline thing for Ezar that fits approximately 15% of actual canon about him (which is embarrassing considering how little there actually is, you'd think I could get it right) but I shall now inflict it on all of you regardless.

Part 1: First Cetagandan War Basically we pick up roughly a year into the war the Cetagandans. (Inaccuracy 1: in my brain the ninth satrapy's base of power was mostly in the southern continent (SC), and Dorca lived through/during the Cetagandan War. He also isn't fully emperor yet - he's building a powerbase and Yuri and Xav (and therefore the Betans) see him as the planet's independent leader, but the actual remaining Vor families of the Northern continent (NC) are … split, to say the least. He's got maybe 70% support among the Vor, and plenty of that is purely opportunist. Major holdouts include Fyodor Vorkosigan and most of the northern huntsmen, a rabble of anti-monarchist types led by eighteen year old Ezar [unknown].)

So a year into the war, most of the fighting is focused on the southern part of NC, with Xav off on Beta running weapons and Yuri leading guerilla attacks in SC. Shortly before Yuri left for SC, he formed a temporary alliance with Piotr Vorkosigan without Dorca or Fyodor's knowledge. Piotr is leading a warband of Dendarii hillmen and his thought process is basically 'well, I don't want this Vorbarra upstart's family pretending they control me, but this is the best chance we've had to throw off the Cetagandans in my lifetime, so fuck it.' Fyodor has thus far refused to commit any support to Dorca and most of the Vorkosigan loyalists have retreated into the mountain caves. Piotr splits his warband, sending half of them with Yuri to the satrapy and the others with one of Yuri's riders to rendezvous with Dorca, who is in hiding with his command squad and his younger children. (Xav and Yuri are essentially the weird older stepbrothers of other women, and no one's 100% sure whether Yuri or Dorca's new legitimate son will inherit, but that's not important right now ;). Dorca's family tree in my mind is a whole other can of worms.)

Piotr meanwhile takes a small group of hillmen and heads north to attempt to convince the huntsmen to join them in fighting the Cetagandans (very Nakia going to M'Baku for help, in my mind). He assumes he's going to negotiate with an old warlord, very like his own father, but instead finds Ezar the weird forest child.

Ezar things: he's not the blood son of the former leader. No one is in fact sure where he's from. The former chief, Xandor Borisovich, brought him back from a solo hunting trip on the ice sheets and no one was brave enough to ask. The huntsmen aren't big on social classes or standards, and Vor/prole social dynamics don't really apply. Ezar ended up as their unofficial leader after he hunted and killed the mountain lion(esque thing, ik it's an alien planet) that killed his foster father. Ezar uses Borisovich when he feels like it, but largely doesn't use a patronymic at all.

Ezar is a year younger than Piotr and has no interest in supporting Dorca or any sort of leader who outranks him. They go back and forth on this for a while, and Piotr probably ends up dueling Ezar's champion to prove himself. Eventually, Piotr convinces Ezar to join him, with the understanding that Yuri won't hold either of them to a true oath after the Cetagandans are thrown out. Also he promises Ezar a bunch of land that he definitely doesn't actually own, because like grandson, like grandfather.

The reason Yuri even wanted an alliance with Ezar is that Ezar's people had a better understanding of ships (the sailing kind) than anyone else on their continent. The Cetagandans have most of their power concentrated on SC, but they also hold most of the coasts of NC - the resistance is almost all inland. So Piotr and Ezar spend most of the next year working their way down the coast, liberating coastal cities - Ezar with his fleet, Piotr with his ever-growing calvary troop as farmers and merchants in the cities behind them join him. Piotr and his lieutenants train them to function as an actual calvary troop, and trains Ezar as his military apprentice, etc, and by the time they rendezvous with Yuri, they have nearly three times his numbers.

Yuri has been generally wreaking havoc in Cetagandan territory, and also has been stealing lightflyers, guns, and other technology he can get his hands on. Dorca is back in Vorbarr Sultana acting as supreme commander, and Xav sent a group of mercanaries to rendezvous with them and train Yuri's men how to operate spaceships.

Anyway, then some battle stuff happens, IDK that part because battle logistics are so not my strong suit.

Point being, when the dust settles, the Cetagandans have bombed Vorkosigan Vashnoi halfway to hell in retaliation for Piotr assassinating some higher-ups in their command and getting captured. This pisses Fyodor off so much he joins Dorca and swears loyalty to Dorca's 'empire.' Fyodor dies defending Dorca's family in battle, leaving Piotr the last man with the Vorkosigan name.

While this is going on, Ezar does something devilishly clever to get Piotr free and Yuri lets loose Betan bombs on SC in revenge for Vorkosigan Vashnoi, wiping out tens of thousands of native Barrayarans.

At some point after that (seriously I have no idea how battles or timelines work) Dorca, Yuri and Piotr bring the Cetagandans to a standstill, and Ezar uses Yuri's stolen Cetagandan ship and flies for the wormhole, threatening to the Cetagandans that he'll blow himself up and collapse it, cutting off any Ceta reinforcements. To be clear, Ezar has no idea this will work - he barely knows how to control a spaceship at this point. But the Cetagandans fall for his bluff, and accept Dorca's terms in return, leaving the planet altogether.

In the aftermath of all of that, Dorca rides a wave of support to become emperor in truth, although admittedly only of the NC. Piotr agrees to abide by his father's oath, and becomes Dorca's first official Count. Ezar, in the process of threatening to kill himself for Dorca's cause, finds to his own surprise that the idea of a unified Barrayar is actually something he believes in, and also swears loyalty to Dorca. Refuses any countship, but agrees to stay with Piotr and help define what kind of government the Imperium is going to be.

End Part 1.

[taehyungsgrowl]

omg pleaseee do an nsfw or sfw alphabet for xavier

hi babie :')

ofc! i feel like i hardly write anything for xav 🥺

A = Aftercare (what they’re like after sex)

i think aftercare w xavier looks a lot like him pulling you close... letting you rest your head on his chest and just having him hold you for as long as you like... sometimes talking... sometimes dozing in and out of sleepy kisses... sometimes getting a little high... soft and hazy...

B = Body part (their favorite body part of theirs and also their partner’s)

xavier's favorite body part on their partner would be their legs/thighs. he's the kinda bf that loves to lay on top of or in between his partners thighs. especially being a dance instructor, he's learned to uh really appreciate a good pair.

C = Cum (anything to do with cum, basically)

oh! i've for sure talked about this before, but mr. plympton is definitely into some cum play. i think specifically because i dont think breeding k!nk would be his thing... so like... pulling out and covering you in his cum would be so hot to him

D = Dirty secret (pretty self explanatory, a dirty secret of theirs)

hmm.. i think.. canonically... his secret would have to do with the porn videos he made but thats getting angsty so uh... i think he has a habit of hooking up with some of his aerobics students in the locker rooms - he likes the rush of the threat of being caught. word kinda gets around and more people sign up for the after class special than the actual classes...

F = Favorite position (this goes without saying)

you on top!!! absolutely loves it when you rise him. especially on a lazy morning just slow and steady... would have his hands propping his head up... just watching as you work yourself on his cock

G = Goofy (are they more serious in the moment? are they humorous? etc.)

this was is an obvious one - xav is honestly a big clown... honk!honk! almost to a fault... sometimes doesnt catch on to when he should be serious... but never fails to make you smile! even during sex. giggly... touchy... clumsy sex with him is a frequent occurence

H = Hair (how well groomed are they? does the carpet match the drapes? etc.)

i feel like he would keep things pretty tidy down there not too sure what was "in" in the 80s but i do think he'd keep it well maintained lmfao

I = Intimacy (how are they during the moment? the romantic aspect)

i think w his long term partner he'd be really intimate... soft kisses... holding their hand... almost a little gentle. i dont think that is always that case w his hookups though - intimacy is reserved for his special person

J = Jack off (masturbation headcanon)

xav loves some mutal masturbation - hear me out: he thinks he's clever and found a "loophole" in margrets "no sex" rule (although we know he has no intention on following it! but im imagining him sneaking into your cabin or pulling you into the showers... gets you all hot and bothered and guides you as you both masturbate... he'd be like, "we're technically not making purple... yet.."

K = Kink (one or more of their kinks)

he's into some roleplay in the bedroom and you cant convince he otherwise - and you've definitely taken it out of the bedroom too

L = Location (favorite places to do the do)

idk about his "favorite" but it might be the most common (which i guess by default is a favorite) but his van! if he doesnt take you out in the back of the van, he'd sliding his seat back and asking you to ride him right on the front seat.

M = Motivation (what turns them on, gets them going)

he likes knowing you want him. doesnt always have to be begging (although that does really get him going too) but just like... letting him know how much he's turned you on... telling him what you want him to do with you = he's in love

N = No (something they wouldn’t do, turn offs)

he's really not into daddy kink (or mommy kink) -bad taste in his mouth from blake :/ but even without that, just not really his vibe

O = Oral (preference in giving or receiving, skill, etc.)

receiving! not to say he wouldn't be into giving it as well, but... with just a promise of going down on him - he'd do anything.

P = Pace (are they fast and rough? slow and sensual? etc.)

it really depends with xavier because he can give you both - and he can do both really well. like i said earlier, he loves when you ride him all nice and slow - but can definitely show you something a little.. rougher. no one gives switch vibes like xavier

Q = Quickie (their opinions on quickies, how often, etc.)

omfg loves a little quickie in the van or in the dance studio! probably more often than not!!

R = Risk (are they game to experiment? do they take risks? etc.)

loves having the risk of being caught. as far as other "risks" he takes... it would be more dependent on what you ask of him. always down to try things you suggest but doesnt always suggest "risks" himself

S = Stamina (how many rounds can they go for? how long do they last?)

hehe idk but i love the thought of desperate and whining xav that... finishes too soon because he cant handle much more of your teasing

T = Toys (do they own toys? do they use them? on a partner or themselves?)

xavier said pegging rights! so he'd let his partner use toys on him. i also think he'd be open to using toys on his partner too...

U = Unfair (how much they like to tease)

he isn't the best at folling through w his teasing because he gets sooo needy and gives in + he's a little too impulsive to really drag it out.

V = Volume (how loud they are, what sounds they make, etc.)

lots of sounds! not a ton of dirty talk but thats because he gets soo blissed out all he can focus on is how good you make him feel - which results in lots of pretty moans and groaning

W = Wild card (a random headcanon for the character)

i know we give dunc a lot of credit for best ass (of the cody boys) but you cant tell me aerobics intructor xav doesnt have a nice booty

X = X-ray (let’s see what’s going on under those clothes)

im gonna say he's got a good 7 inches going on. not super thick but has good length

Y = Yearning (how high is their sex drive?)

xavier is horny on main. i think he has a pretty high sex drive (hence the result of a lot of quickies)

Z = Zzz (how quickly they fall asleep afterwards)

surprisngly, doesnt fall asleep right after! he's too high strung to fall asleep right after lmfao

[familiaanteomnia]

-xav’s been out as bi/relatively noticeably trans (not out about it depending/took longer to realize was trans- ie friend in the hospital generally goes oh shit you’re trans dude and he’s like? oh? yeah) even before he knew what it was, or meant/not really the biggest fuss (after all what human interaction did he even really have hardly an issue) did get kind of rocky when he got sent away though cause dude was naive, suspectable to all the fascinating variety of people. so some issues did arise like ‘oh great that one winked at him and so he stashed his morning meds to give them.’ (also xav does have issues with acceptance/an lot of ‘oh god I’m that promiscuous stereotype shit.. but that’s just me not the sexuality’) -nate however has always known/so does his mom and twin but has quite an large chunk of internalized homophobia and well slightly picked up on crap from bullies,etc which yikes has crushed on hayden but general issue discerning feelings,etc and feels like why bother isn’t out to his father/literally anybody aside xav, his mom- victoria (they have an slight psedo thing for appearances hence why everybody is so baffled by them/they’ll kiss and have fun with it)

-to speak of which xav’s got an yikes history, done an lot and has had “relationships” most of which aren’t healthy or kept track of,etc he knows he breaks hearts and hates it but also faintly likes it written off relationships because commitment issues, cause of his addictions/issues feels weird but craves intimacy -nathan, has only really kissed victoria but also their kisses/closeness usually is so fake and for show and don’t count to him. likewise he doesn’t remember it but same applies for rachel. even though with her was more private different sort of messing around. (depends on this or that obviously) nor does he, or will he remember in timelines where he’s kissed hayden, or shotgunned. (though- it depends, because in some it happens/victoria takes an picture, in quite an few she teases him about how cozy they get when high together etc but usually just nothing to it) but overall no experience, doesn’t think he will/hardly wants to ruin an life,etc -where xav will have “dates” for family things, nate hasn’t usually even brought victoria around (see also their mother probably asking if they’re dating differently too) plus well read the more likely twin to be in an weirdly healthier relationship despite it would have to be all secret,etc is nathan unlike xav -if go with powers, nathan can see the future whereas xav can see different timelines/outcomes and where nathan might be slightly hmm possibly not baggage mental health issues related. xav will Deny that could be an power like thing. to the point numbs it like everything else with vices/only really encounters it when super emotional,etc so trick of the head obviously. -nate had to grow up faster/got more shit from their father, bullying,etc whereas xav was tutored at home/mostly left alone,etc as such xav’s more middle finger hell raising always just in general where nate’s like i just would rather not deal with this (mixes up also can say which parent influenced who more) -which surprise xav got treated awful by their grandfather for being like their mother,and seemed to favor her- nate seemed to be more like their father, idolize him but really nate adores their mother and they both are mixes of their parents and xav really cares for their father (in fact xav will literally provoke sean trying to get him to care for his kids again/let nate have his life and has outright at times screamed cruel intentioned things to provoke rage if nothing else) -nate is scared to even remotely allude to liking guys, thinking he’ll really catch trouble for it (despite that their father seems to really care less about xav’s sexuality or being trans and more the family image/ ‘your grandfather cannot find out about any of it’) cause he’s older/the “first born” son etc plus not wanting to be an let down,etc -likewise xav’s wild child because reckless/to protect nathan over nathan’s trying to just behave, makeup for it all (they are both clueless idiots usually over these matters and lost their shared brain cells)

[xiomarasmuse]

DAHLIA can be considered the light in xiomara’s life . she’s the innocence , the mom friend of the two . the wild child definitely needs a shoulder to lean on , a calm after the storm . and the innocence needs a bit of danger in her life . the two fit perfectly . yin and yang , and everything similar . i honestly think xiomara would do ANYTHING for dahlia . so the moment that xiomara realizes that this is actually dangerous to her and the others , i’m more than sure the first person she clings to is dahlia . and by clinging , i mean nonstop contact ; no trips to the bathroom without each other , hand holding , comforting . i love their dynamic and even though xiomara is only older than dahlia by a few months , i think that many characteristics within dahlia remind xiomara of her younger sister , aniyah . not in the sense of dahlia being childlike , but the sense of protection and genuine care that she has for her best friend is deep , and she’s the closest thing she has to her in remembrance . 

UNO ↬ headcanon one . when they first met , xiomara was the first one to speak . she was no stranger to being backstage , but most of the people she encountered while being back their were either snotty or unapproachable . and even though xiomara sometimes wedged herself in between things , she didn’t necessarily like being places she’s not wanted . but dahlia looked welcoming enough .  DOS ↬ headcanon two / conspiracy theory . well this one kind of depends on how long xavier has been signed with mr. hudson’s label i think a year is a pretty good time , so imagine xavier was the one performing ?? and xiomara was just shaking her head along to the music along with her hips , and she leans over by dahlia and is like “ okay , he’s pretty damn good ?? who is that ? ” and dahlia just goes “ that’s xav ! my dad just signed him . ” and she’s like you’re HUDSON’S DAUGHTER ? ” and it kind of went on from there . at one point of the night , someone could swear they heard xiomara admit to xavier being cute . but who knows !

TRES ↬ headcanon three . there have been multiple times dahlia has had to play the mom friend . especially when they go out to parties . there has been many times dahlia has had to drag xiomara’s tipsy ass home . it’s almost a routine .

CUATRO ↬ headcanon four . xiomara bought the two matching bracelets to signify their friendship ( i am extra and took this from my own life experience ) about three months ago . instead of writing some sappy poem or hour long speech , she literally said “ you are my platonic soulmate ”  and slipped her bracelet on her arm as if it were a wedding ring . instead of going with the traditional matching bracelets , she got herself a red bracelet , and dahlia a white one ! representing the fiery personality she has , and dahlia as her guardian angel . she has yet to take it off !

CINCO ↬ headcanon five . they have made the ultimate girls’ pact , that if emerson hasn’t manned up and proposed to dahlia ( after they get back together of course ) and she hasn’t married herself an upcoming band member , that they might as well get married and adopt about four babies . though xiomara strongly believes that emerson will pull through .

[evroillak-blog]

new year screams (so far)

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: jonas lowered his circle sunglasses onto the bridge of his nose as they walked up to chris' door. "okay wait, before we go in, we need some sort of mating call. you know, in case one of us ends up needing to get scooped up or something. what should it be? like a caw caw, or?" he asked, scrunching his eyebrows. "something that i can remember even when i get shitfaced, that's the only thing that matters." he chuckles, looking at his three friends. "ringing in the new year, it's about to get wild."

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: william was slowly sipping on a beer bottle as he tried to pay attention to what his female classmate? (at least that’s what he guessed) was saying. “oh really? that’s very interesting, i’ve never expected them to be such cold blooded animals,” he smiled lightly at the brunette and she gave a rather obnoxious laugh despite it being not that funny. his eyes swept to the entrance as he spotted jonas leading his friend group through the door — noora entering last. his eyes stayed on her as he drank and looked back to the brunette to ask her to repeat her question.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: sana was cooped in a washroom, reapplying roxy's lipstick that she lent her the first time they met, raising her eyebrows as she looked at herself in the mirror. sporting a silver glitzy dress, sana turned around as the door knob spun, "i'm in here, hello -- roxy! there you are." she sighed, throwing her arm over her as she moved them towards the full length mirror. "we look /so/ fucking good tonight, i love us." she laughs, smirking as she grabbed roxy's hand and made her do a slow spin. sana claps with a chuckle. "are you drinking tonight?" she asks, tilting her head.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: isak practically bumped into noora as jonas halted the lot of them. “i figured we’d go in blind and abandon ship out the window if things get a little much, but now i think you’re probably right. we need a signal.” raising his head up, he narrowed his eyes at his friend. “caw caw?” isak asked in a bewildered tone, “jonas, has 2016 taught you nothing?” he shook his head, obviously teasing. “i’m thinking we go with a modern classic —“ he paused for effect before shouting in a pitbull voice, “fireball!”

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: noora raised her eyebrows as she turned to isak, "there's no abandoning ship." she laughs, shaking her head, "i think if we did caw caw, we wouldn't ever be invited to another party again." noora scrunched her eyebrows at isak's suggestion, chuckling at his dramatics. shaking her head, noora hooked arms with eva, "let's hope this'll be a good new years eve, yeah?" she smiled at her group of friends, nodding as jonas opens the front door. walking into the apartment, noora looked around at the number of people that managed to squeeze into the complex. pulling her dress that eva lent her down slightly, noora looked at the new years decorations and chuckled, "which one do you think picked out the decorations?"

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: trying the door handle, roxy was surprised to find it open and even more surprised to see sana inside. “shit— oh thank god it’s you. i’ve walked in on too many poor souls,” shaking her head, her eyes went to the full length mirror. the reflection showed roxy in a black slip dress and her signature glitter make-up around her eyes. she smiled at sana’s beauty in the reflection and laughed as she spun. “oh, you bet. i’m so ready to send off this year that i don’t want to remember the last hours of it. which reminds me,” roxy pulled out a dark bottle of brandy from her bag and smirked at sana, “look what i stole!”

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: sana laughs, "don't worry, i'm not naked right now." she smirks, tilting her head at her gorgeous friend. "beautiful! the same goes to me, so it looks like we're on the same page." sh esmirks, her eyes falling onto the bottle of brandy. "you didn't!" she gasps, letting out a laugh, "listen, just for future purposes so someone doesn't end up calling the cops on you, just call me and i'll buy you some, i'll 'hook' it up." she winks, chuckling at the thought. "okay, i think we're ready to head back out and spill some new years memories." she smirks, grabbing the bottle from roxy and unscrewing the cap before handing it back to her, "first drink from the stolen drink." she cheers, jumping up and down.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: eva rolled her eyes at the boys, “if /anything’s/ going down, i’ll be yelling timber, thank you very much.” she hooked arms with noora and nodded, “i think we deserve it. especially noora who, need i remind you, is the reason we got this invite in the first place. so c’mon, there’s no time to lose— we’re getting her wasted!” eva laughed, and proceeded inside. “this is clearly the work of chris,” she squinted at some of the decorations before shrugging, “he’s been more excited about tonight than jonas and isak combined.” she chuckled before starting again. “so. i say we start with shots,” she raised an eyebrow to jonas, “any objections?”

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: jonas chuckled, shaking his head, "okay, lumber jack." he smirked, rolling his eyes playfully. he gasped in a feign offence, "i actually got a pre invite before noora got the invite. you're very welcome." he dramatically bowed, letting out a laugh. jonas looked around at the sight of william and smirked, waving his hand for him to come over. "there's the man himself." he raved, turning back around and shrugging, "the decorations are mediocre then." shaking his head at the name of chris. jonas raised an eyebrow at eva and narrowed his eyes, "no objections. i'm one step ahead of you actually." he said, handing his friends each a shot glass.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: roxy raises her eyebrows, “hey, i didn’t get caught this time. besides, it’s more of an investment towards our good time!” she laughs before shaking her head, “but i’ll remember that for next time.” roxy gave a nod of agreement to sana’s words and took back the opened bottle. “let’s have a toast,” she raised the bottle, “to this year being absolute hell!” roxy let out a sharp laugh before tilting her head back to drink. wincing at the familiar burn of her throat, she handed it back to sana, “okay now we’re ready. just promise me one thing? don’t let me ring in the new year until i’m properly tipsy.”

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: isak squinted at eva, “way to steal my pitbull reference.” his eyebrows went up in surprise at jonas, “you got a /pre/ invite? what does that even mean?” shaking his head, he looked over his shoulder to see who jonas was waving over. spinning back around, he threw an arm over noora, “right, shots it is.” he passed a glass along to noora and took one himself. william had been nodding at the brunette’s words for well over a minute. if not for the alcohol in his system he would’ve dozed off by now. his attention had been on the group and finally, his eyes met jonas who had the decency to wave him over. “i’m sorry, i’m afraid i must go. have you met chris yet?” he placed a hand on the girl’s back to guide her to his friend. “chris— this is, um,” the brunette extended a hand to chris, introducing herself as tori. “right, well, i’ll leave you to it then.” sending a short goodbye wave, william made his way over to the first years. “evening,” he looked over at each of them with a smile, his eyes lingering on noora and her short dress. “glad to see you all could make it.”

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: sana laughs, "yet. careful, darling, is chris being that much of a bad influence on you?" she teased, a small smirk resting on her lips. "a toast to the new year. a better year." she said, cheering as roxy drank from the bottle. grabbing the bottle, sana took her turn to take a shot from the bottle before handing it back to roxy with her nose scrunched. "oh darling, that won't even be a possibility to have you ring without being fucking drunk. c'mon, the world needs to see how hot you look right now." she laughs, opening the door.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: noora scrunched eyebrows, "yeah, what /do/ you mean?" she asks, tilting her head with a chuckle. raising her eyebrows as isak threw his arm around her, noora eyed the shot glass and shook her head, "you can have mine if you're so keen on the shots." she laughs, watching isak down the drink. glancing at eva, noora rolled her eyes, "fine." she sighed, taking a small sip and scrunching her nose before taking the rest of the shot. shutting one eye, noora allowed the drink to go down her system as she stacked her cup onto isak's. instantly turning her head at the sound of william's voice, noora smiled at him as she nodded, "evening." she greeted, still under isak's arm. "it's hard to say no when you're practically hauled over here." she chuckled.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: roxy lifted her brows slightly at the mention of chris and let out a small laugh, “he has no influence on me.” not a bad one, anyways. the need to get drunk came from something else — someone else. roxy’s lips pulled into a smirk as she watched sana down the drink. “if that’s the case, then after you, considering we need to make a bangin’ re-entrance,” she gestured to the door. taking another swig from the bottle, she followed her back out into the party. “are we committing to a location or constantly wandering?” roxy asked, scanning the crowd for any familiar faces.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: eva clapped her hands as jonas produced the drinks, and took a hold of her shot glass carefully. “okay, one, two, three, bottom’s up!” she cheered as she craned her head back to down the shot. “disgusting,” she shook her hands to get rid of the taste before placing her glass back down, “let’s do more.” a smile stretched across her features as she looked to jonas. “c’mon, noora, down the hatch!” eva cheered again as the blonde chugged it down. “as much as i love one-drink noora, i would love it even more if two-drink noora came to play.” she said and greeted william. eva narrowed her eyes at isak as he kept his arm around noora’s shoulders. “what she means to say is, thank you for the invite,” she corrected with a smile. william raised his eyebrows at noora before turning to eva with a laugh. “i’m sure it’s a mission to get noora to do anything,” he gestured to the shot glass she was holding, “how’d you manage that, i’d love to know.” he mused, turning to jonas. “are you doing another round? i’d love to join if you don’t mind."

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: chris scrunched his eyebrows as william interrupted his conversation with another girl. raising his drink to his lips, he nodded as tori made her introduction, "chris." he smirked, his eyes then moving towards the bathroom door opening. his lips slightly part at the sight of roxy as he cleared his throat, looking back at the two girls in front of him. "if you'll excuse me, ladies, enjoy the rest of your night." he winked, downing whatever was left of his drink and tossing it in the can before walking over to sana and roxy. "there's no need to commit on a night like this. the new year's supposed to represent /all/ the possibilities, no?" he smirked, "i hope you guys didn't get too scared and flee to the washroom or something." he chuckled, raising his eyebrows as his eyes wandered on roxy's black dress. "you know, i know what would look good with your outfit." he hummed, raising his chin sightly.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: jonas shrugged, "i'll keep my secrets on these elite invites." he laughs, obviously joking. as eva counted down, jonas downed the shot and screamed in a cheer, "woo! yeah, baby!" he shook his head and his load of hair with a laugh. "more it is." he agreed, pouring everyone another drink. noora scrunched her eyebrows, "this is disgusting," she laughs as she grabs the glass from jonas. "well," jonas begins, "how you get noora to drink is--" noora shot him a look, "no. you're not telling william this." she rolls her eyes with a half smirk, ducking herself from isak's arm and looking at him with a grin, "cheers?" she raises her glass to isak before turning to william as jonas hands him a shot. jonas cheers, "maybe we should toast to william? for actually being a cool guy." he laughs, boasting about his new friend. noora raises her eyebrows and chuckles, shaking her head.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: roxy’s attention was stolen away from the crowd as chris made their way towards them. her eyes quickly scanned him over before greeting him with a small smirk, “chris. always an opportunist.” she shook her head, “bathrooms are interesting places but i assure you the last thing we would do is flee.” roxy looks to sana with a half smirk before handing the bottle back to her. she turns back to chris with a curious expression. “oh? and what’s that?”

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: isak frowns slightly as william joins them, collecting the empty glass from noora and placing it back. “this is new years eve,” he chimes in. eva laughs at the exchange between jonas and noora and cups a hand next to her mouth to speak away from nora and towards william, “we’ll tell you later.” william raises his eyebrows at all of them talking over each and simply shakes his head in a laugh. “nevermind the method, i’m just glad it’s happening,” he nodded taking a hold of his shot glass. he was about to argue before isak beat him to it, “nah, c’mon. let’s toast to.. /friends/. they’re what’s most important, no?” isak lifted his chin slightly as he raised his glass and glanced from noora to william. “wow, i actually don’t disagree with isak. this new year may surprise us all,” eva shook her head. william looked over at isak and smiled softly, “to friends then. cheers.” a chorus of glasses clinking sounded as they took their shots.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: sana raises her eyebrows as chris heads over, folding her arms, "stop stealing my girls, chris." she smirks, rolling her eyes. chris chuckles, "i'm not stealing. it's roxy's decision who she hangs around." he laughs with a smirk. "how can i forget? the bathroom is where the magic happens." he says with a chuckle. sana drinks a little bit of the brandy before handing it back to roxy to finish. chris raises his chin, "you'll have to come with me to find out." he smirks, "it's hidden away somewhere, but it'll help with your evident drinking problem." he winked as he teased roxy. "i'll /assure/ you that i won't pull anything unless you pull something first." chris smirks, letting out a laugh.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: noora scrunches her eyebrows as eva places her hand over her mouth, shaking her head at her friends betrayal. pushing her hand away, noora chuckles and rolls her eyes, "you're all bullies." she says, letting out a laugh. jonas chuckles and shakes his head, "okay, to friends. to old friends, to new friends, and to just being together for new years." jonas professes, his eyes landing on eva's as he smiled softly at her. noora tilts her head at isak and chuckles, "okay, to friends." she grins, taking the shot with her friends and instantly scrunching her nose before jonas screams again. "honestly, i'm down for a round there." he rubs his hands together, feeling the adrenaline race through him.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: roxy smiles in amusement at their exchange. “something like that,” she shakes her head before taking the bottle back. roxy raises an eyebrow at his explanation, “that sounds awfully specific. are you trying to lure me into attending an aa meeting?” she narrowed her eyes, but a small smirk pulled at her lips. looking him over once more, she exhaled and turned to sana. “unfortunately, curiosity’s my greatest flaw. i’ll find you again in a bit?” her hand went to squeeze sana’s, “i’ll come back bearing gifts. in the meantime, knock ‘em dead.” roxy smirked at her and before turning back towards chris. “this better be worth it,” she raised her eyebrows as she gestured for him to lead the way.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: chris raised his eyebrows as he chuckled, "perhaps, but doesn't that just sound like a jolly good time though? me, you, an aa meeting? nothing gets me off more than the sound of that." he laughs, a smirk slowly growing on his lips as roxy turns to sana. sana sighs, shaking her head, "you owe me, kid." she raises a finger as he narrows her eyes at the boy. laughing as she kisses roxy's cheeks, sana skips off to somewhere else. chris raises an eyebrow, "or what? is that a threat i hear, roxy?" he smirks, throwing his arm over her shoulder as he leads her to the kitchen. "if anything's going to make you even better looking, it's this." he introduces, spinning on his heel to reveal a beer hat in his hands. "huh? huh?" he smirks, laughing. "it's convenient, fits perfectly on the head, won't clash too much with the glitter on your eyes, and, it's a real head turner." chris laughs, smiling a roxy. "i'm glad you came."

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: isak raises his eyebrows and leans down to noora’s ear, “hey, my lips are sealed.” sending her a small smile, he took a hold of their new drinks. “amen!” eva cheered before downing her shot. william scrunched his eyebrows slightly at the taste before setting the glass down with a smirk. he looked over at noora to send her a small grin. “you’re really on a roll here, aren’t you?” he laughed at jonas. “who’s down for another round?” eva asks as she raises both her hands, “i fucking love new years.” she shook her head with a smile. isak tapped a finger against his shot glass, feeling a wave of uneasiness course through him. he had william on his right and noora to his left and felt like he shouldn’t move. eva, on the other hand, keeps sending noora a look that urged her to step around isak and towards william.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: noora turns to look at isak and smiles, "you're the only real one here." she jokes slightly, grinning at her friend. raising her eyebrows at jonas' suggestion, noora laughs, "jonas, i think i would like to actually remember this night." she chuckles, looking at william with a small smile. noora glances at eva and shakes her head, rolling her eyes at her friend with a grin. at the sight of the small circle in the distance, sana runs over and hugs isak from behind, "you came!" she laughs, raising her eyebrow at william, "look at you, finding the crowd here." sana teased, placing her hands on isak's shoulders before giving him a tight hug. joining the circle, sana nods at everyone, "hello, hello, my little angels. are we doing shots? because i can definitely do a shot right now." sana grins, grabbing one of the shot glasses. jonas raises his eyebrow at isak with a big smirk left on his lips. "okay, last round before noora passes out." he teases, sending a wink to the blonde. noora chuckled, slowly feeling the alcohol kick in, being the light weight that she is. as everyone took their shot, noora finishes and puts her drink down and laughs, "okay, i'm done." shaking her head as she felt her heart beat a lot quicker than usual.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: roxy rolls her eyes at chris, “i might need a whole ‘nother bottle to sit through that.” she chuckles before saying goodbye to sana. roxy smirks lightly, “mhm. and i’m sure i don’t have to tell you just what kind of threat sana is.” she lets him guide her to the kitchen and tilts her head as she waits for the reveal. “jesus,” her lips part at the sight of the ugly beer hat in his hands. “did you pay actual money for this, chris?” she marvels at the thing before letting out a laugh. “as much as i value your fashion advice,” roxy raises her brows, “i think it better suits you. go ahead, try it on.” roxy smirks as she leans back against the counter and raises her brandy bottle to take a sip. “of course. why wouldn’t i?” she tilts her head to look at him, “i’m all up for a good time.”

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: chris chuckles and grabs a fresh bottle and raises it, "there's plenty of more from where this came from." he smirks lightly, tilting his head. "a sana threat is something that no one should mess with." he laughs, shaking his head. "so i see you two have become quite close. i should be worried, huh?" he smirks, shaking his head as he chuckles. "what?" he questions innocently with a grin on his lips. "it was calling for me, i had to get it." he laughs, "william didn't accept it as his christmas gift though." he chuckles, rolling his eyes. "please, i would look fucking sexy in anything." he says, putting the hat on and raising an eyebrow with a smirk. "a babe, no?" he laughs, taking the hat off and leaning on the counter opposite from her. "a good time is all i want." he smirks, raising the bottle to his lips as he drank.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: isak returns noora’s smile but it doesn’t reach his eyes. though he wasn’t selling her out like their other friends, he was keeping something much bigger from her. he glances at william again and bites the inside of his cheek to get rid of the feeling of guilt. william raises his chin slightly at noora’s statement and nods, “that’s true. i would also, like to remember tonight.” eva’s eyes widen as she looks from william to noora and she tries to hide her smirk. isa’s startled at the sudden impact of another body but he instantly smiles as he realizes it’s sana. “of course i came,” he tilts his head slightly to try and meet her eyes before bringing her hands up to give her arms a small squeeze. william raises his eyebrows at the sight of sana and isak but nods her a hello. “and now obviously you’re here to leech off my success at finding the best crowd,” william smirks slightly. eva’s lips part in shock as she looks to noora with an expression that reads ‘are you seeing this too?!’ shaking her head, she turns back to jonas and grins. “what are we on? third? fourth-drink noora? i feel spoiled,” she laughs and helps hands around shots. the group downs their drinks and eva grips jonas’ shoulder as she winces, “okay, fuck, that one got me.” isak turns to sana after he finishes, “are you enjoying the party?” william chuckles lightly at noora’s expression and tilts his head. “are you good?” he asks her with a light smile before gesturing with his head to follow him away from the crowd.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: noora looks away, purposely avoiding eye contact with eva and turning her head to prevent herself from blushing at william. jonas raises an eyebrow at noora and chuckles, "noora you're turning red." noora scrunches her eyebrows and pushes jonas, "you're literally an ass." jonas laughs in response, raising his hands in defence. sana waves william off, "would you like a congratulations?" she chuckles, rolling her eyes. as jonas downs the drink, his hand automatically snakes around eva's waist in familiarity, shaking his head as he winces at the after taste. "fuck. okay, i think we're four down." he shakes his head, feeling the burn in his throat really kicking in. sana turns to isak and tilts her head, "i am, i am. are /you/ enjoying the party?" she asks with a smirk, wiggling her eyebrows at him. sana tugs lightly at his collared shirt, "either way, you look handsome." she chuckles. noora's eyes finds william as she chuckles, shaking her head, "i need water." she admits, looking at eva and jonas, "jonas, don't let eva get hurt." she laughs before following turning to william, "water?" she raises her chin to look at him, scrunching her nose as she swayed lightly. sana raises an eyebrow at the two as she chuckles, shaking her head.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: roxy’s eyes spark at the sight of a new bottle and her lips pull up in a smirk, “maybe i’ll stick around then.” she chuckles and nods in agreement when he describes a sana threat. “we have,” she hums for a moment, “you should be.” roxy glances at him and laughs. “couldn’t leave the store without it, huh?” she shakes her head, “i can’t imagine why.” roxy chuckles before raising her eyebrows as her eyes follow the hat up on his head. “oh my,” she places a hand on her chest dramatically, “you’re truly a hot mess.” roxy shakes her head before laughing. “cheers to that,” she raises her bottle and chugs the remainder of the alcohol. her throat burns but she doesn’t care. she just let her eyes rest on chris as her mind slowly started to swim.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: "oh? not for me but for the drinks, hm? i see how it is." he smirks, shaking his head. "she's a good one, so keep her around. plus, that means you'd get to spend more time with me." he laughs, a small smirk left on his lips. "it was almost love at first sight when i saw it." chris chuckles, looking at the hat and shaking his head. "i'm a hot mess, sure, but at least i'm still hot." he smirks, taking another chug at his beer. his eyebrows raise as she chugs the alcohol, watching her as she barely reacts. his lips quip up to a smirk as he walks over to her. stopping barely an inch from roxy, chris leans over to grab a new bottle that was resting behind her. leaning back, chris scans her face before he raises his chin and offers her the new drink. "for you." he said, not daring to move.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: eva widens her eyes at jonas’ and notices william’s growing smirk before chiming in, “well of course she’s turning red. she’s setting a new noora record on drinks.” she shrugs lightly as she attempts to save the situation and looks to noora. william tilts his head to sana and shakes his head, “no. but i’m afraid i might ditch drinking with you all together. these guys know how to party,” he grinned as he nodded at jonas. isak narrows his eyes slightly, remembering the bet existed not only for william but for sana as well. despite the alcohol, eva felt very aware of jonas’ hand around her waist but she did nothing to remove it. “four? bets i’ll start dancing by the next one,” she laughed as she took his sunglasses and placed them on her instead. isak frowns at eva’s behaviour and looks at jonas briefly before returning his gaze to sana. “good. yeah, yeah, /now/ i think i am,” he leans closer to her to speak, “and you look incredible.” he says with a small smirk. isak’s too distracted to notice that noora and william are heading away from the group until they’ve already left.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: william finds noora’s eyes and nods, “water.” he puts his hands in his pockets as he waits for noora to join him before starting to walk. “can i just say, i’m oddly impressed that you took down four shots?” he tilts his head at her with a grin. “you’re really showing your true colours tonight, hm?” he raises his chin slightly before letting out a laugh. william picks up a new water bottle and opens it before handing it to noora. “you look beautiful, noora.”

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: jonas chuckles, "sorry, sorry, noora drinking is just such a new sight, i'm practically baffled." he laughed, shaking his head. sana raises an eyebrow, "who says they would rather drink with you than me? trust me guys, i'm a better time than this one." she laughs, bumping hips with william. sana laughs and turns back to isak, "why thank you, kind sir." she grabs his hand and twirls as she chuckles. jonas raises his eyebrows at the sight, his lips parting at his best friend and the girl he likes. his attention if grabbed by eva as she takes his sunglasses off, laughing as she puts it on herself. "you look cute in my sunglasses." he grins, shaking his head at the sight of her. "i don't think we would need to bet on anything as you're clearly tipsy enough to do so already." he leans in, taking the sunglasses off her eyes and places them on her head to see her eyes.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: noora catches up beside william as she laughs and shakes her head, "i hope they stay down." she scrunches her nose at the thought of the after math in the morning. "this isn't happening again for another fourty years." noora laughs, stopping in front of him as she takes the water from him. "who's showing their true colours is jonas. i don't know what you did but you clearly have him hooked," she chuckles, tilting her head at him. taking a sip, noora looks at him and laughs, "i look like eva, that's what i look like." she laughs, shaking her head at her dress. noora felt her intoxication slowly creepy up on her as she raising her head to look at william, "you.. don't look so bad yourself though." she scrunches her eyebrows, shaking her head, "that came out sounding really stupid, i'm sorry." she laughs, leaning on the counter to catch her balance.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: “mhm, that’s exactly it,” roxy tries to contain her teasing smile as she nods at his statement. “i will,” she tilts her head and then raises her eyebrows, “oh? are you a package deal? no returns and all that?” she smirks and shakes her head. “i hope you have a happy future together then.” roxy rolls her eyes lightly and smiles in amusement, “fine, i’ll give you that. still hot.” there’s no denying her physical attraction to him. her eyes wander over his features as he walks over. she raises her chin slightly as he stops right in front of her and doesn’t move as he leans over to grab the bottle of beer. roxy’s eyes flicker down to the bottle and then to his lips, “thanks.” she takes the bottle and brings it up to take a sip, her eyes lifting up to his.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: chris chuckles, "i am, sana is the add on, william is the optional promo code." he laughs, shaking his head. "oh thank you, i'll invite you to the wedding. maybe we can play out one of those you show up last minute and convince me to leave them for you." he teases, tilting his head with a smirk. chris chuckles, his smirk growing as she agreed with him. he pauses for a moment to really scan her face, glancing between her green eyes and rosy lips, before taking a small step back, "pleasure." he nods, lifting the bottle to his lips as his eyes stayed on hers.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: “she’s full of surprises that one,” eva smiled as she lost noora and william to the crowd. she turned to sana and laughed, “i believe you. you seem like you know how to properly party. not one to wander off too soon to get ‘water’.” isak laughs and nods in agreement, “it’s true. sana’s great drinking company.” he smiled as she spun around his hand, gently resting a hand on her waist when she stops. “what i’m trying to figure out is whether or not you’re the type to make new years resolutions,” he tilted his head with a small smirk. eva raised an eyebrow at isak and sana and whispered to jonas, “i low-key thought isak had a crush on noora.” she shrugs lightly before smiling at jonas’ compliment. “yeah, you think so?” eva brought up a hand to strike a pose before laughing. humming she felt the buzz of the alcohol begin to take effect, “you’re right. i might bust out into a number at any given moment,” she gasped for effect before leaning back with the help of his arm around her waist.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: william tilts his head to the side to look at her, “i hope so too,” he scrunches his eyebrows at the thought of his first real drinking experience, “you let me know if you start feeling uneasy, yeah?” william laughed at her forty year statement, “well, i am glad i am alive to see this in person.” he grinned at her. “he’s quite fun, isn’t he?” he shook his head. “me?” will lifted his eyebrows in shock, “i have done absolutely nothing.” he tried to hide his smirk. william looks at noora and shakes his head slightly. “no, you look like you,” he pins a stray hair behind her ear. “maybe a little differently dressed but still you.” william smiles as his eyes scan hers. he had pre-gamed with chris so he was already floating on the alcohol wave but his tolerance was still pretty high. “well, thank you. i do try,” he chuckled at her hesitation and then caught her elbow in his palm to stop her from swaying but at the same time keep her close.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: sana grins at eva, nodding her head, "the same goes to you, love. i don't think i've ever met someone almost as enthusiastic as me." she chuckles, raising her head. jonas laughs in response, "eva's a little free spirit." he raises his eyebrows, grinning at the brunette. sana smirks, "if anyone wants to come over for champagne at three in the morning, my doors are open." she laughs, tilting her head at isak. "of course i make new years resolutions. i've gotta impress myself every year with high standards to set for me." she smirks, raising her chin, "guess what they are." she chuckles, tapping her hands on his chest. jonas raises an eyebrow again at their intimate intereaction, turning to eva as she spoke, "i knew this was happening, but i just can't feel like i might cry at the sight of it." he chuckled, shaking his head before turning his attention back solely on eva. "of course." he grinned, slowly dipping her as she leaned back. "it'd be quite the sight to witness such a thing."

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: roxy scrunched her eyebrows, “sana is not an add on.” she shook her head and chuckled, “she’s more of an exclusive, premium edition.” roxy lifted her chin at his wedding fantasy, “mm, perhaps. it would make for one interesting wedding, wouldn’t it? check affair off the bucket list and all.” she mused with a small smirk. roxy takes a moment’s pause after she drinks. the past couple of days and the effect of the alcohol giving way to a much bigger flirt than usual. “you really do look charming tonight,” her eyes swept his before a faint smile appeared on her lips, “very.. how do you put it? /vakker/.”

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: noora shakes her head, "when am i not feeling uneasy?" she chuckles softly, scrunching her nose. "you'd be alive for the next one, don't you think? it's just fourty years." she rambles, "plus, i don't think it's fair that i took four, might i add quite strong, shots and i'm already feeling flustered while you're still fine. we're not on common grounds." she says, scrunching her eyebrows at him as she felt herself slur slightly at the end. "oh you've done everything, don't deny it." noora shakes her head and chuckles. noora scans his face as he pins the strand of her hair back, a small smile resting on her lips as she relaxed with his touch. noora stood closer to him to sway back and forth less. although heaps of people were surrounding them, noora's attention was only focused on william as she leaned in slightly. scrunching her eyebrows, noora looked over as a girl tapped william's shoulder. it wasn't someone noora knew well, but she recognized tori from one of her classes. noora takes a small step back as she lets out a soft chuckle.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: chris chuckles, "you're right. but don't tell sana i said that or i will have a shaved eyebrow in the morning." he laughs, shaking his head. "i'm all for the thrill, so if there's anything interesting, i'm in." he smirks, chuckling as she approves of his joking idea. chris tilts his head, a small grin resting on his liips as their eyes met, "another compliment? am i dreaming?" he chuckles, his eyebrows shooting up at her attempt at norwegian. chris laughs, forgetting about the time he told her about the false meaning behind the word. "cool?" he tilts his head, wondering if she figured out the real meaning. "takk. thank you." he smirks, nodding his head. "i don't think you need me to tell you that you're beautiful."

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: eva grins at sana and jonas in turn, waving her hand, “oh you guys are too sweet, honestly you’re making me blush.” she gushed with a laugh before raising an eyebrow at isak. “isak, have you nothing to add to this compliment train?” isak narrowed his eyes, “uh.. pass.” he shrugged lightly, still not entirely approving of how close jonas and eva were at the moment. eva stuck out her tongue at him before excitedly cheering at sana’s offer, “oh yes! i’m taking you up on that offer so don’t be alarmed when i show up at your doorstep.” isak shook his head, “be careful who invite over to your house.” he scanned her face and hummed in thought for a moment, “catch evidence of an alien?” he joked with a small smile, “give me a hint.” eva looked over at isak and sana and shook her head. “really? well, maybe this is exactly what he needs so i hope it works out.” she shrugs and laughs as he dips her back. “maybe i’ll save a dance,” she said once she straightened back up, “just for you.”

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: william scrunches his eyebrows at her words, “what do you mean by that?” he glanced her over, “do you feel uneasy around me?” he asked, softly. “so that means we’ll still know each other in forty years,” william hummed, a smile growing on his lips. “in my defence i joined your shot-taking party a little late.” he laughed and shook his head. william was of course feeling the blurred state of intoxication but he was more used to it than she was. “besides, i’m not done drinking just yet. midnight’s still to come,” anticipation flashed in his eyes. william knew he wanted to kiss noora when the countdown came and he wondered if she felt the same. “i’ve done nothing, i swear,” he laughed and held his hands up in defence. william held onto her, trying to keep her standing straight as he smiled softly at her. he wanted her to feel safe around him, not uneasy. william scrunches his eyebrows as he feels a tap on his shoulder and looks behind him at tori. “what is it?” he tried to keep his voice from sounding irritated as the brunette attempted to make conversation once again. “tori— tori. i’m a little busy right now. we’ll chat some more afterwards okay? i’ll find you later,” he nodded trying to sound sincere.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: sana grins, shaking her head as she chuckled, at isak, "oh don't be silly, eva looks like she wouldn't hurt a fly." she says, smiling at the girl. "plus i haven't really gotten the chance to get to know the girl power in this group. roxy's an absolute darling, so why don't you three come over one day? champagne, pajamas, all the things." she says as she winks at eva. sana tilts her head at isak as she hums "close." she laughs, placing her hands on his shoulders as she begins to dance a little, "i don't actually have any. i was hoping you'd secretly tell me things i'd need to work on." she laughs ,shaking her head, "i don't believe in new years resolutions. if you're going to change something, change it now and then." she shrugs, raising her chin.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: noora shakes her head, placing her hands on william's chest to steady herself. "i think you make everyone uneasy because of how good looking you are." she admits, rolling her eyes slightly. "but it's not a bad uneasy. you just make me feel like my heart beats faster than it should, so /stop/ it." she slurs slightly, looking at him with scrunched eyebrows before letting out a chuckle. noora steps slightly closer as the sound of the music was got louder, "you.. should stay with me for new years. if jonas doesn't kiss eva, i think he'd want to kiss you." she jokes, raising her chin as she smirked at him. turning her attention to tori, noora chuckled at the irritation in william's voice. her eyes then met the other girl's, who was giving noora a glare in return for laughing. noora straightens her back as she smiles apologetically, "hi tori." she nods as tori greets her in return, attempting to drive the conversation back to william. noora bites down on her lower lip as tori eventually leaves, looking at william whilst trying to hide her grin. "are you busy? with who?" noora looks around dramatically, letting out a laugh, shaking her head.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: jonas chuckles as he lifts eva back up, "maybe? i'm hoping you'll save one just for me or sure." he laughs, pulling her closer towards him. jonas tilts his head, pinning strands of eva's hair back as he scanned her face. "god, you're so beautiful." he confesses, the corners of his lips raising to a small smile before giving her a little spin. even though he knew that he shouldn't think this way, jonas wanted eva to be his new years kiss. he wanted a lot of things, but if he got to have his kiss with her, jonas would be happy.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: “i’m not sure i’m entirely convinced to keep your secret. i mean a one-eyebrow’d chris? that’d be something for the ages,” roxy tilts her head with a small grin. “we can hitch a ride all the way to italy,” she smirked, “to rome with love and all that.” roxy lifted the bottle back to her lips to silence her laughter. the alcohol was finally starting to kick in. “yeah. cool,” she repeated, putting emphasis on the word cool. she lifted her head up at the ceiling and closed her eyes briefly. everyone kept telling her she was beautiful but she felt all rust and bones. “tell me something interesting instead,” she looked back to him with a glint in her eyes.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: isak shakes his head muttering, “she’s the devil,” under his breath. eva’s lifts her eyebrows in surprise at the other’s offer but nods enthusiastically, “that sounds like plan. a little detox from the boys could do us some good.” she says with a small smirk before laughing. isak’s other hand finds sana’s waist as she begins to sway slowly. “definitely alien related though, right?” he squints before letting out a chuckle. isak raises his eyebrows, “you want me to tell you what you need to work on? i don’t think i know you well enough to do that.” isak tilts his head, “so you believe new years and time is a social construct then? interesting.” a small smile plays at his lips, “okay. i’ll give you one new resolution: tell me something about you. that i don’t already know.”

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: william’s hands easily rest against noora’s waist, keeping her in place as she tries to steady herself. “is that so?” he muses with a growing smirk on his lips. one of his hands went up to cup the side of her face, “i’ll tell you a secret.” william leaned closer to her and scanned her eyes, “you make my heart race a little more than it should too. so if anyone should stop it, it’d have to be you.” smiling, he leaned back slightly to scan her face. “really? i mean jonas is a lovely guy, i’m kind of thinking about it,” he joked with an easy laugh before pining a stray hair behind her ear, “i won’t leave you.” william cleared his throat as he caught the sight of tori glaring at noora, “is that all?” tori looks slightly hurt at this rejection but with the drunken state william was in, it was hard to be polite towards unwanted attention. turning around, he smirks at noora. “just this girl. a little taller than five feet, blonde hair, beautiful eyes,” he bites his bottom lip as his eyes scan noora, “reeks of trouble.” william smirked as he took both her hands to pull her back close to him.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: “mm, i’m currently undecided,” eva teased with a small smirk. “just.. stick around and maybe it’ll happen,” she muses softly as she lets him comb through her hair. her lips part slightly at his compliment and she can’t help but smile as he spins her. “my mother told me to be wary of you,” she hums as she faces him again. after their christmas dinner, she had spent all night talking to her mom about jonas and her feelings. her mom loved jonas and had always wanted eva with him. “she says you’re absolutely impossible to let go of.”

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: "are you telling me that if i were to have one eyebrow, you would no longer be attracted to me, roxy?" he tilts his head while he asks her, a small smirk creeping onto his lips. "hey, i'd be down." he shrugs, knowing the fact that they could easily drop everything and leave tomorrow morning. "italy, rome, are you secretly a romantic?" he teases, letting out a chuckle, "we can go wherever you want." he says, scanning her face. "cool." he repeats with a small nod as his eyes flicker from hers. chris hummed as he raised his chin, his face scanning hers as his fuzzy mind was piling with things he could say to her. he could have continued to compliment her but he wanted to have a real conversation with her, even amongst their drunken state. of course he wanted to kiss her at this very moment and at several moments prior to this, but roxy struck a different cord to chris. if she'd make the move, he'd gladly follow. "i dance," he shrugs, "if you find dancing attractive." he smirks, giving her a little wink.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: "definitely." sana smirks,, raising her head as she looks at isak. "time is a weird philosophical concept in general. would the numerical representation of time exist if it weren't for humans? probably not. we're always racing against this constant thing, something we're always losing and never gaining. yet, we depend on it in and say things like we'll procrastinate our goals when we can just work on them now. so yeah, there's a little insight of what i think about resolutions." she shrugs, her hands resting on isak as she spoke. "hm," sana tapped her plumped lips as she thought, "i have three tattoos." she raises her head, letting go of isak as she pushed her hair to the side. "one behind my ear." she turns her head to reveal a small rose behind her ear. she turned back towards isak as she lifted her hand, "one in between these two fingers," she raised her ring finger to show a crescent, "and one on my hip." she raises her chin, a small smirk resting on her hips as she looks at him, "maybe you'll get to see that one day." she teases, her eyes resting on his.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: noora stilled as william cupped her face, a small smile faintly resting on her lips as he leaned closer to her. "i guess we'll just have to deal with it then." she says, nuzzling her face slightly into his soft hands. "i'm sure it'd be a dream. for him." she chuckles, humming as she looks at him. when 'i won't leave you' left william's lips, noora scanned his face in an attempt to figure out if his words were genuine or not. her attention then turned back to tori's, her eyes flickering between the two and their interaction. noora felt bad, an inevitable instinct that she always felt when she thought things were her fault, but her intoxicated state glanced over the thought. noora laughs, shaking her head as he described her, "oh, i'm trouble?" she chuckles, as she leaned into him again. her face inches closer to his before noora let out a soft laugh, "i think you're trouble."

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: "i'll stick around." jonas nods with a small smirk. he chuckled as he caught the contagious smile on her face, a smile growing on his lips in return. jonas tilts his head and raises his eyebrows, "did she?" he laughs, resting his hands on her waist. jonas raises his chin as she spoke, shaking his head as he smiled sadly, "i don't know if that's true. or if it will be true forever. because you're the epitome of the perfect girl." he sighs, scrunching his eyebrows, "so it's more like /you're/ impossible to let go of, eva." he says, scanning her face.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: “no, quite the opposite. i think it even has the potential to make you even more attractive. fuck that double eyebrow standard, right?” roxy joked with a quick tilt of her head. she let out a bitter laugh at the word romantic and took another swig from the beer. “wherever i want?” her eyebrows raised in slight suspicion, “chris, i never get what i want.” roxy’s smile was empty as she looked to him. “i want to go nowhere and everywhere,” she hummed, leaning a hand back on the counter, “you see? it’s just not possible.” she shakes her head slowly and raises the bottle for another sip. roxy was well aware she was spewing out nonsense but it didn’t matter. in an odd way, it was the truth and it had been grazing the surface for so long it had no choice but to spill out eventually — notably, when she was drunk. “you dance?” her eyes flickered to him, moving across his body. “that’s cool,” roxy smirked meeting his eyes again. “do i get to see some of your moves or is that a secret you’ll never share?”

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: isak leaned his head back to get a better look at her while she spoke. she always talked very fast, all in a rush, as if she was thinking too fast but it was still a marvellous conversation. surprisingly, he managed to catch every word and hold onto it longer than the last, even in this drunken state. “interesting perspective,” he chuckled, his eyes still gazing at hers. “i think resolutions bring a false set of hope,” isak started even though she didn’t ask for his opinion, “hope that things will change for the better. i think it’s sort of like a coping mechanism, new year fresh start. i can’t decide where i stand with them.” he mimicked her shrug and looked to her as she let go of him. his eyes followed her fingers as they gestured to eat tattoo. “wicked,” he chuckled his mind slightly blurring at all of her movements. isak’s eyebrows raised at her last comment. “are you giving me false hope, sana?” his lips curved up in a small smile as he scanned her face.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: "more attractive? is that even possible?" chris smirked, tilting his head. he raised his eyebrows at her comment, a flash of a frown coming and going before he shook his head, "well that was before me." he chuckled, raising his chin in confidence, taking a step closer to her, "we can go nowhere. we can go everywhere." he said, hovering over her as he scanned her face. "it is possible. you're just restricting yourself on your past, roxy." he said, even though he knew it was a bold move. he didn't know her past and he acknowledged that, but whatever it was that was holding her back, he wanted her to let go. chris chuckled as he looked at her with a smirk on his face, "i do." he nodded, tilting his head as she checked him out. "i wouldn't say never. i mean, you did bail on my offer for skiing, so i'm afraid i'm a little self conscious that you'll bail on any other offers i have from now on." he muses, raising his chin, "some say i'm good with my body. i think you'll see eventually." he smirked, cocking his head to the side.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: william’s lips quipped up in a smile at her answer, “i guess so.” his thumb strokes her cheek and runs down towards her lips. scanning her face, he pauses for a moment before letting his hand drop back down to her waist. “oh, for me too i’m sure. he visited my dreams just the other night,” he joked with a small smirk. of course it wasn’t jonas who visited his dreams but rather noora herself. william breathed out in relief when tori finally vanished back into the crowd, shaking his head at the whole interaction. “i never mentioned i was talking about you,” his eyebrows lifted teasingly as he let out a hum. william’s arms wrapped around her, securing her safely against his chest as he scanned her face. “you’re probably wrong about that,” he shook his head with a smirk, “i’m anything but trouble. perfectly civil, i assure you.”

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: “good,” eva smiled back at him, wrapping her hands around his neck, “there’s been a lot of change around here, huh?” she gestured towards sana and isak and then tried to search the crowd for noora and william. “need something to hold onto,” she shakes her head slightly as she turns back to him. “jonas. we both know that i’m far from perfect,” eva let out a laugh and brought a hand up to gently stroke his cheek. “you’ve always been so good to me,” she sighs softly as she scans his face, “and i think there’s a part of me that feels like i don’t deserve that.” eva had made her fair share of mistakes, slept with the wrong people and yet jonas always found the good in her.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: sana laughed, "did you get a single thing i just said?" she tilted her head, her hand reaching his cheek. her eyes narrowed on his face as he spoke about his perspective, "well, you don't have to stand anywhere with them. they're optional. people should find their own way of hope and not something that's false." she nodded, raising her chin. chuckling, sana smirked, "i'm not settling on anything, love. i'm just stating a mere possible fact." she chuckles, slowly stepping backwards while grabbing onto his hand, "but what i do think we should do is dance."

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: noora scanned william's face as he brushed her lips with his thumb, her lips parting slightly in response. "really? what was this dream about?" she tilted her head, raising her eyebrows as she chuckled. noora's eyes followed tori as she left, scrunching her eyebrows slightly as she pouted at her friends. as they all turned their heads to look at noora, noora made a small step to the side so william could cover them in their view. noora feigned offence, using her light weight to push him playfully, "mean." she rolled her eyes, a small smirk resting on her lips. raising her chin to look up at william, noora raised an eyebrow in question, "so you're squeezing me to believe you or just in case if i end up running when i find out you're lying?" she asks him with a smirk.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: jonas hummed as eva's hands wrapped around his neck. glancing around, jonas chuckled softly with a small nod, "first year university. i feel like a lot of things are always going to change. we're all kind of just figuring it all out." he said as he scanned her face with a small smile. jonas tilted his head, "no, you think you're not perfect. i think you're perfect." he said with a small shrug, scrunching his eyebrows slightly. he listened to her speak, sadness flashing as his expression as she repeated the same words from their breakup. he pressed his lips together as he looked at her in silence before, "it's not had to be good to you when i'm in love." he admitted, his hands reaching up to cup the side of her face, "whether you think you deserve it or not, it's simply something that you can't decide because," he sighs, "even if you go back to chris tomorrow morning, i'd still want to be with you." he confesses, scanning her face.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: “sure it is,” roxy tilts her head, “aim for the stars— break the hot-meter scale entirely.” she lets out a laugh before her eyes flicker up to meet his. her eyebrows draw together slightly at his words, the rest of the party slowly fading into white noise. ‘that was before me’ echoed in her head as he closed the distance between them. she wanted to believe him, and in someway she did. roxy lifted her free hand and gently placed it on his cheek. scanning his eyes she let her hand travel down to rest on chest. “don’t make promises you can’t keep,” she said softly. truth was he scared her. roxy was scared because he made her feel and that meant he had the power to hurt her. “i don’t want to get hurt, chris. i can’t handle that,” she shook her head, dropping her eyes and sipping on her drink to burn away her confession. roxy smiled faintly at the mention of skiing and she lifted her head back to meet his eyes, “i did come to your misery party on christmas, though. that counts for something, right?”

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: isak raised his eyebrows defensively, “yeah, of course. i follow you, i can keep up.” he laughed and quieted once she placed a hand on his cheek. even if she had let him down gently, it didn’t mean his feelings towards her vanished. “yeah, i agree with that,” he nodded, his eyes flicking up to hers, “i’ll just keep trying to find that way of hope then.” isak’s lips curved up at her statement, nodding in understanding. “facts are better than fiction,” he added before scrunching his eyebrows together as she grabbed his hand. “i have to warn you. i’m a /terrible/ dancer,” he grinned slightly before looking at her and pulling her towards the dance crowd.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: willam stared into her eyes as he hummed, “jonas and i are having a picnic, on the beach. it’s not a sunny day but we don’t mind. i shoo away the birds that try to eat our food and we are at peace with the sound of the waves.” he lifted his chin slightly. replace jonas with noora’s name and it was the dream he had. it was something he had said when they first met. his arms wrapped around hers as she pushed him, will laughing in amusement. “mm, i’ll take that to the grave. you may just never know,” he smirked as he craned his neck down to lean his forehead on hers. “besides, i don’t think you mind. maybe you just ‘like’ me,” he mused with a groin as he was repeating what she had said to his father.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: chris' hand automatically raised to place on top of hers, tilting his head to scan her face. he let out a soft chuckle, "we can go anywhere, roxy." he repeated again, narrowing his eyes on her. he reached for her face, pinning a strand of her hair back and interlocking her fingers with the other. he raised his eyebrows at her next words, "who knows, maybe you'll end up being the one to hurt me." he says softly, brushing her hand iwth his thumb. chris grinned, "that counts for a lot of things." he chuckles, "you're a rare one that's actually stepped inside my house." he tilted his head with a small smile. he wrapped his arms around her then, chris looked at roxy, "vakker doesn't mean cool."

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: "okay, then keep up with us," she began, tilting her head as she looked at him, "i have a soccer game next week and you should come. and actually come." she laughs, shaking her head, "you can be my little good luck charm." she says, smirking. "what do you say, drunk isak?" she raises an eyebrow as the corners of her lips curve up. "no one's a terrible dancer. just feel yourself move and let the music come to you!" she laughs, as she begins to dance with him.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: noora gives william a look, shaking her head as she bites down on her lower lip to prevent herself from grinning. she rests her hands on his chest again as she looks up at him, "and then in an alternate universe, there's me. instead of jonas." she smirks, her hand slowly finding its way to the back of his neck. noora hums quietly as their foreheads touch, "i should mind. and i try to mind."she says, scanning his face. lettign out a laugh, noora scrunches her nose, "did i say that? i'm pretty sure i was just trying to convince your father." she raises her eyebrows, her finger slowly running through his hair, "you may never know." noora says, glancing at his lips.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: eva looked down and shook her head, “i suppose it’s for the best. change, i mean. it lets us grow as people, right? still a scary concept, though.” she looked back up at him with scrunched eyebrows. eva faintly smiled at his perfect comment. she knew she wasn’t but when it came from him she believed she could be — at least a good person. eva stilled at his confession, lips parting in slight shock. she scanned his face, a familiar feeling returning. “jonas..” she started but let her voice trail off. eva always went back to chris whenever her mind wouldn’t shut up about jonas. she felt selfish for still thinking about him, even when she was the one to end things. staring at his lips she tried again, “jonas, i.. i still love you,” she frowned slightly at her words knowing she didn’t have the right to say them, “i’m still /in/ love with you.”

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: jonas sadly smiles as his fingers softly guides her face back to him, "there's a lot of scary things that happen and that will happen. and growth is important, yeah, but maybe it's also growth when you realize that you need to hold onto some things in order to grow." he looks at her, scrunching his eyebrows, "or maybe that's not true, but although change is good, not having a change is needed too sometimes." he says, interlocking their hands. his eyes instantly soften as his name leaves her lips, "eva," jonas says softly as he scans her face. people cheer as the countdown begins, but his attention still stays completely fixated on eva. jonas cups her face, shaking his head as she confessed, feeling every emotion mixed into one. "eva, i'm in love with you." he says before he crashes his lips passionately with hers.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: “even to get fries and a milkshake from mcdonald’s at 3 am?” roxy asked, lifting her eyes to him, searching his face for the green light. something that would say: ‘go ahead, it’s okay.’ he had said she could leave her past behind and maybe, she could. “i doubt that i could hurt you,” her body shivered slightly as he brushed her hand, still wary of his touch, “if i do, you have full permission to hate me.” roxy chuckled lightly. “i guess i should consider myself lucky,” she scrunched her eyebrows. she closed her eyes as he wrapped his arms around her, feeling her body slowly relax in his hold. roxy leaned closer to him to brush her lips softly along his jaw as she said, “i know.” she leaned back slightly to find his eyes again.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: isak tilts his head at her offer as a slow smile forms at his lips, “yeah. yeah, i won’t miss it.” he scrunched his eyebrows slightly. even in this intoxicated state he wouldn’t forget her invitation. his smile grew wider at the mention of a lucky charm, and he couldn’t hold in his laugh. “let’s hope you don’t need a lot of luck as i’m sure i’m not the best one for the job,” he shook his head but locked eyes with her. “what’s your number? so i don’t miss you.” isak rolled his eyes slightly at her enthusiasm, swiping a drink from a nearby table only to down it and throw it back. “alright, if you want dancing then i’ll give you dancing,” he smirked as he began to move to the beat.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: chris chuckled, cupping her face in his hands, "depends, are you a strawberry or chocolate milkshape type of girl? dare i even mention vanilla?" he smirks, his thumb brushing her cheek. chris scanned her face, "i want to know you, roxy. like i said the first day we met, but i just can't help but want to get to know you. even if it is the you from here on out and not your past." he reassured, tilting his head as he ran his hands along her arms as she was wrapped in them. chris raised his eyebrows as her lips brushed against his jaw, a small smirk forming on his lips as their eyes meet when she leans back. chris leans in but stops just an inch from her lips as he said, "take a leap with me, rox."

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: william stares at her for a moment in silence, forgetting they were even at a party. “maybe not just an alternative universe,” he says softly, “maybe in real life instead.” his arms pull her even closer as he feels her hand reaching behind his neck. “mind what exactly?” he hums out in question. “you did try hard to convince my father,” he scrunches his eyebrows but slips an easy smirk on his lips, “i guess i’ll have to live, cursed to wonder about it forever.” will chuckled and scanned her face before raising his hands to cup her face, “you should know, though. it’s no wonder that i like you, noora sætre.”

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: eva lifts her eyes back to his as he guides her face, scrunching her eyebrows at his words. “no, i think that is true. i think we or more notably /i/ get so wrapped up in the idea of change that i try to change everything at once,” she scanned his face, sighing lightly, “you’ve always been my anchor, jonas.” she smiled softly at him. ever since she met him, he has always kept her grounded. eva hears the slow rise of voices as they join in the countdown and with each number she grows closer to jonas. locking her lips with him they kiss as the clock strikes midnight, the party roaring with cheers. it’s the new year and something in the way they kiss whispers ‘welcome home’.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: noora tilted her head as he stared at her, raising her eyebrows as she chuckled softly, "it's still a little too cold to have a picnic on the beach right now, william." she says, her hand playing with his hair. noora shrugs lightly, "that you're you and i'm me." she raises her chin lightly, closing one eye as she felt herself feel wavy, "i hope you realize that you're mister popular over here," she says, pointing in the direction to tori, "and i'm over here plain ol' noora who isn't too keen on parties." sh escrunches her nose with a small grin. "the convincing was for your sake for lying." she tilts her head and teases. raising her head as william cups her face, noora scans william's face. her lips part as the crowd begins the countdown, but her eyes stay fixed on his, "okay." she simple says, in response but also as if she was giving him permission.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: sana chuckles, "i think you being there will be a good one anyway." she smirks, tilting her head. "okay, give me your phone, i'll put it in." she chuckles, inserting her number into his phone before she lifts the phone with her hand. sana cups isak's face with one hand as she turns his face to kiss the side of his cheek before snapping a photo. letting go, sana grins as she makes it her icon photo on his phone. handing it back she raises her chin, "here you go." she smirks, "don't give it to anyone though. it's a tad exclusive," she jokes with a wink.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: roxy didn’t hesitate before answering, “chocolate, of course. as if there’s anything that compares.” she rolled her eyes lightly and let out a laugh. her eyes searched his as he repeated his words from before. roxy was sure he wouldn’t like her past self, not that she was willing to share, but perhaps her new, present self was all she needed to be. her eyes flicker down to his lips, her heart pounding in her ears. the countdown starts and she only waits until it hits 8 before pressing her lips to his. roxy’s hands grab at his hair as she pulls him down toward her and closes any distance between them only to pull back just as the clock strikes midnight. she smiles, a /real/ smile as she says, “first thing you should know about me is that i’m bad at following rules.”

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: roxy didn’t hesitate before answering, “chocolate, of course. as if there’s anything that compares.” she rolled her eyes lightly and let out a laugh. her eyes searched his as he repeated his words from before. roxy was sure he wouldn’t like her past self, not that she was willing to share, but perhaps her new, present self was all she needed to be. her eyes flicker down to his lips, her heart pounding in her ears. the countdown starts and she only waits until it hits 8 before pressing her lips to his. roxy’s hands grab at his hair as she pulls him down toward her and closes any distance between them only to pull back just as the clock strikes midnight. she smiles, a /real/ smile as she says, “first thing you should know about me is that i’m bad at following rules.”

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: chris smirks, "i was worried you'd end up saying banana or something." he laughs, rolling his eyes playfully. chris raised his eyebrows in surprise as he is pulled down by roxy as their lips crash together. chris flutters his eyebrows shut as they kiss, his hands instantly cupping her face again to seal their lips until she pulls away. chris looks at roxy with a big smirk on her face, interrupting her mid sentence while everyone cheers as he pulls her in for another kiss. his hands rests on her waist until he feels a tap on his shoulder. groaning, chris pulls away, staring a roxy to scan her face as his hand reaches up to cup her face again before turning around, "what?" he spat, to reveal one of his boys. chris' hand interlocked with roxy's as the other male spoke. shaking his head, "xavier and nicholas?" he asks, scrunching his eyebrows together.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: william’s lips curved up in a small smile when she mentioned the weather, “then it’s something we’ll have to look forward to, no?” he hummed, tapping her nose with his finger gently. “does my popularity bother you?” he chuckled as he raised his eyebrows up in question. william scanned her face and shook his head, “you’re wrong about that. you’re the opposite of plain, noora.” his eyes searched hers with a soft expression. a bright smile appeared on his lips as he heard the countdown start. he shifted his position and tilted her chin up with both his hands. “happy new year, noora,” he said as the countdown neared the end and he tilted his head down to mesh his lips with hers. william kissed her slowly, allowing himself to fully take her in before pulling her closer to him as he kept their lips locked together. pulling back slightly, he rested his forehead on hers for a moment, “you have no idea how long i’ve wanted to do that.”

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: isak fumbles for his phone and hands it to her. his eyebrows raise in surprise as she snaps a quick photo and he laughs as she sets it as her icon. “thanks,” he takes it back with a small smirk. “you sure know how to make a boy feel special.” isak smiles lightly while scanning her face. he spins around to grab a bottle of champagne someone had left unattended as the countdown begins, “you ready?” he grins as he counts down and pops open the bottle. “happy fucking new year!” isak cheers as he lifts the bottle above sana’s mouth and pours some champagne.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: noora nods, scrunching her nose as he taps it with his finger, "i'll make chocolate covered strawberries." she raises her chin and grins. noora shakes her head and chuckles softly, "no, it doesn't. i'm just stating what i know." noora's eyes flickers from his, feeling the pace of her heart beat quicker than usual as everyone around them starting getting closer to the end. noora scanned william's face before she smiled softly as he kissed her. she wrapped her arms around his neck as she slightly lowered him to her height. whilst their foreheads touched, noora shook her head before her hands rested on both sides of his face and tippy toed to kiss him again. pulling away, noora presses her lips together as she feels her cheeks flesh, "happy new year, william."

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: meanwhile, xavier alongside nic and the rest of the gang take the stairs two at a time up towards the apartment. they come crashing in but as the roar and excitement of the new year is loud their entrance is only heard by some people. xavier’s jaw is set and his glare cold as he begins to walk further into the flat, eyes scanning the party for any of william’s and chris’ men. a blur of brown curls and fizzing champagne catches his attention and he freezes as he sees sana with some boy he doesn’t know. at that moment some pour soul bumps into him and he pushes the guy back hard, “get the fuck off.”

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: sana chuckles, "because you are special, isak." she smirks as she looks at him. sana nods, clapping her hands as she jumps up and down, joining in on the countdown. "i'm fucking ready!" she screams as she cheers, "happy new year!" she shouts, giggling as isak pours champagne into her mouth. raising her hands to wrap around the bottle, she chows down the champagne until she pushes it away. throwing her arm over isak, she hands him the bottle, "cheers, isak." she grins, looking around and chuckling at everyone having a good time around them. turning her head, sana instantly scrunched her eyebrows at the sight of xavier. at first, she wasn't sure if it was really him or if she was just so drunk that she was imagining him. her eyes then move around to identify the group that was with him, making sana instantly straighten her back. as the stranger falls back, sana lets go of isak and begins to stomp towards the gang, cursing under her breath, "no." she helps up the smaller passerby but he runs off instead. sana turns around and her eyes meet xavier's, making her freeze in her step. sana shakes her head, "you're not supposed to be here. what are you doing here?" it was a mixture of their last unclosed conversation and the immense amount of alcohol that she had consumed that made her presses her hands on xavier to push him back, "go. i know what you're doing here, and go. not here, not /today/, xav!" she looked at him before looking around at the number of people who are oblivious to what she knew may happen if they stayed any longer.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: “banana? what kind of girl do you take me for?” roxy raises her eyebrows, tilting her head to the side. she scans his face when they’re apart and wraps her arms behind his neck as they kiss again. the crowd of people is ear-shattering loud but she tunes them out as they kiss, focusing solely on chris and forgetting about the rest of the world. roxy opens her eyes to find someone standing behind chris and she scrunches her eyebrows as she slides her hands down and presses her lips together as they speak. she wears a faint smile until she hears the name nicholas leave chris’ lips. roxy’s heart immediately jumps and her mind comes to a standstill. no, she tried to convince herself, it couldn’t be the same nic. it just couldn’t. placing her free hand on his shoulder, she leaned over to face him, “what’s wrong?”

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: william’s lips curve up in a smile at her offer, “perfect.” he tilts his head as he combs his hand through her blonde locks. the rest of the party fell away with every second of their kiss and william let out a soft chuckle once they pulled back. “you are so beautiful, noora,” he hummed as he looked down at her before she sealed another kiss on his lips. william smiled at her statement, feeling elated from having finally kissed her. a small crowd gasp made him lift up his head. he scrunched his eyebrows as he tried to identify the source and on the other side of the room he could see a cluster of people. william squinted as he tried to focus on any of the figures and caught the outline of xavier. william froze, his hands dropping from noora as he glared, counting out xavier’s men. “fuck’s sake,” he muttered under his breath.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: "well i don't know, perhaps you're full of surprises." chris chuckles, shaking his head. as they kissed again, chris' lips curved up to a grin as this was something he's wanted to do with how kissable her lips seemed. once chris turned around, he frowned at the news he had received about the other gang. he clenched his jaw as he looked around the room for a sighting of william. his attention instantly went back to roxy when her hand went on his shoulder, tilgin his head to look at her before turning his body towards her. he scrunched his eyebrows as he still looked around, "these punks got in somehow." he shook his head, looking back at roxy. chris scanned her face before he started pulling her towards the other room, "it might get messy in here really quickly."

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: noora's fingers pushed away his long bangs, chuckling as they fell back forward for looking down on her due to her height. her fingers danced along his jawline and then brushed against his lips as if she were exploring the crevice of his face. she tilted her head as he turned away, scrunching her eyebrows slightly as the sound of the crowd slowly caught her attention. her eyes wandered around the room as she looked around at people scattering. "william?"

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: “so are you, you know,” isak tilts his head before joining in on the countdown. he laughs as she pushes the bottle away, bringing it up to his lips to take a large swig. his arm rests gently around her waist as he cheers along with the rest of the crowd, celebrating the new year. isak startles as she leaves and quickly departs in the other direction. he scrunches his eyebrows as his eyes follow her to a tall male. isak catches a passing whisper about an ex-boyfriend and stands still as he tries to piece things together, his mind spinning along with the rest of the room. xavier straightens his back as sana helps the other person up, meeting her eyes once she turns around. “came for the new years party, isn’t it obvious?” his tone deadpanned and he took a small step back as she pushed him, his hands going up to stop hers from pushing him again. his face tightened as she yelled at him to leave. “i’m not here for you,” xavier muttered, dropping her hands, “i don’t care if you don’t want me here, i need to have a chat with one of your boys.” he raised his chin slightly as his eyes scanned the crowds in search for either of the males.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: sana raises her eyebrows at xavier's comment, shaking her head as she pulls her hands away from him, "no." nicholas raises an eyebrow as he lets out a pathetic chuckle, "no? who are you, a little follow dog?" sana turns her attention to nicholas with a scowl, "what the fuck did you just say?" she says, making her way towards nicholas. nic lets out a laugh as he rolls his eyes, "just get us your boys or we'll simply go find them ourselves." sana glares at him, "get the fuck out." nic cocks his head to the side as he glances at xavier and then at his boys, "someone get this one out of here." he directs one of his gang members as they make their way towards sana.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: roxy tried to still her spinning mind as she looked at chris, scanning his face to try and get a read on the situation. “who are you talking about?” she asked slowly, scrunching her eyebrows. nicholas had said he had managed to pick trouble around here, but she refused to believe it was him. roxy startled as he pulled her in the other direction but let him guide her. her eyes wandered the crowd to survey the scene. “why? chris — what’s going on?”

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: william relaxed under noora’s touch, keeping his eyes on hers as they explored his face. his mind was automatically on at the sight of the other gang and he quickly tenses back up. “noora, stay here.” his hands go up to cup her face as he scans her eyes before letting them drop by his side. william started forward, taking a look over his shoulder, “just please stay here.” directing his path towards the other gang, he noticed a dark brunette he immediately recognized as he got closer. “don’t touch her,” he raised his voice, glare deadpan as he came up to sana’s side. xavier had let nic and sana exchange words without interfering, he simply stood back with a tight jaw. upon william’s arrival he narrowed his eyes, glancing between him and the hand he place on sana’s back. “give me one good reason i shouldn’t kick you the fuck out right now,” william glanced between nicholas and xavier as he stepped forward slightly, letting his shoulder come in front of sana. “i think you know how we feel about /snitches/,” xavier spoke with bitter animosity, “and we have reason to believe there may be one amongst you. if not more.”

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: chris scrunched his eyebrows as he guided her through the crowd, "it's these group of guys, roxy." he turns around to look at her, his eyes scanning her face. "you don't want to get hurt, right? then i won't let you get hurt and you'll have to stay here, okay?" he tilted his head, his eyebrows furrowed. "there's these group of guys that fuck with wiliam and i and our group, and they're just not good people. they're not people to be trusted." his hands pinned a strand of her hair back again before he looked over her shoulder and spotted jonas. walking towards them, chris pulls jonas by the shirt, "stick together." he demands jonas, narrowing his eyes on him before letting go of roxy's hand, glancing at her before he made his way to the scene.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: noora scrunched her eyebrows as he cupped her face, shaking her head, "what's happening? why?" she asks, her eyes darting around his face until he lets go. noora parts her mouth to say something but he was already well on his way towards the huddled group. her eyes jumped around the room in search for someone she knew until her eyes landed on eva. her hands reached out to eva as she furrowed her eyebrows together, "eva." she called for her.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: roxy listens to his explanation and scrunches her eyebrows in confusion, her mind trying to work out what this meant. she looks him in the eyes as he continues before nodding slowly, “okay. okay, i’ll stay here.” roxy assured him despite her frantic heart. “chris,” she tugged on his hand before he could let go, “be careful.” letting his hand drop, she wrapped her arms slightly around herself and watched him go. she turns to look at jonas and manages a weak, “hey” and hollow smile before running a hand through her hair to try and calm herself. it couldn’t be nic, it couldn’t be nic, her mind repeated as she picked at her nails.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: eva’s sipping on champagne, going around the party to wish those she knew a happy new year when she hears a familiar voice call her. “noora! there you are, god i’ve been looking everywhere for you,” she wraps one hand around noora and pulls her in for a tight hug. “happy new year babe! this year’s gonna be great, i can already feel it,” she laughs, a bright smile on her face as she pulls back and takes a look at noora with a slightly concerned expression, “what happened? where’s william?”

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: sana scrunched her eyebrows as she felt william's hand placed on her back, not even have heard his voice until then. she raised her chin as william stepped in front of her, her eyes staying on xavier as he spoke. "reason?" nicholas rolled his eyes at william's presence, shaking his head as sana spoke, "yes, reason, sweetheart. reason." he let out a bitter chuckle as chris appeared then. "the fuck are you guys here for? do you not have anything better to do with your sad lives?" nicholas raised his chin, glaring at william, "you or one of your fucking dolls got one of our men spending new years behind bars."

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: jonas raises an eyebrow at chris, fixing his shirt as he shook his head at the boy walking away. he tilted his head as he stood in front of roxy, "happy new year, roxy." he smiled, opening his arms for a hug. jonas pulls her in for a warm hug, squeezing her as he let out a chuckle, "what's wrong?" he asked with a small grin.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: noora sighs as eva pulls her in for a hug, feeling safe in her best friend's arms. she wanted to ask her about her new years countdown and inform her about herself and william, but she couldn't help but continue looking over towards the direction that william headed off to. "i don't know, he went that way. i think someone or some people barged in to the party."

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: william kept his stance right by sana and briefly glanced at chris when he appeared on his other side. will glared right back at nicholas as he explained. “i still don’t see how that’s any of our problem,” he said deadly calm. xavier rolled his eyes and stepped forward to the boys, “are you really this dense?” he shook his head as he pointed from chris to will, “one of your men babbled to the police and our guy vic is in jail. on new years. it’s only fair that we’re here to figure who the fuck snitched. so i suggest you talk before everyone gets involved.” william raised his chin slowly, his shoulder had moved further to cover sana as xavier came closer. “get. lost.”

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: roxy nodded, “you too.” she hesitates for moment as he wraps her in a hug before closing her eyes and lifting her arms to squeeze back. “nothing..” she starts, shaking her head and pulling back. lifting her eyes to meet jonas’ welcoming ones she scrunched her eyebrows. “i think something bad is gonna happen.”

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: eva gives noora a tight squeeze before pulling back and fixing the blonde’s hair. she turned her head to try and see what noora was looking at and scrunched her eyebrows as she explained. “barged into the party?” eva raised her eyebrows as she turned back to face her. “well let’s go find out,” she shakes her head, “he can’t just leave you standing here with no explanation.”

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: chris narrowed his eyes on nicholas as he patronized them, clenching his jaw and his fist at once. sana scrunched her eyebrows as xavier spoke, her eyes then glancing at william and chris as this was evident that she didn't know a lot of things. nicholas raised an eyebrow, "what, are we playing a game of a stare off right now? listen, quit being fucking babies and just give us a name. simple enough." chris took a step forward, "get out of my fucking house before i make you." nicholas took a step forward too, which made sana automatically take a step around william and towards them, "everyone gets involved?" she repeats, her eyes glancing between nicholas and xavier, "wow, look at you guys, coming in and being all buff. so /i/ suggest you guys to turn around before you regret every decision that you guys had for making threats."

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: jonas scrunches his eyebrows, "what do you mean? do you want to leave? why do you think something bad is going to happen?" he asks, his eyes now filled with worry. he scanned her face before shaking her head, "what did chris do?"

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: noora shook her head, "i don't know, eva. he just.. there was a shift in tone." noora says, her words fumbling together in surprise. she nods as she follows eva, grabbing onto her arm as they dove through the sea of people towards the noise. noora pulled onto eva's arms, "there's a circle over there. i don't think it's a good idea to get too close though."

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: william let out a bitter chuckle at nicholas, “you stroll in here, uninvited, with no evidence that one of our boys spilled the beans on something /your/ guy clearly did if he’s being held accountable, and expect us to co-operate oh-so-nicely?” he narrowed his eyes and let chris and nic spew until sana surprised him by walking around him. “sana, stay out of this,” william hissed, stepping forward to pull her back by her shoulders. xavier locked eyes with sana and raised his eyebrows, “or what? you’ll get one of your bodyguards to escort us out, right?” his eyes followed as william pried sana back. a bitter laugh came from xavier as he shook his head, “you still don’t know what the hell these two get up to, do you? i’ll happily fill you on the ‘fun’ times but why take my word, right? so /i/ suggest you don’t meddle into something you no nothing about.” at that moment, william finally snapped and swung hard at xavier’s jaw.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: “i don’t know, i just have this really bad feeling..” roxy shook her head and scrunched her eyebrows at the mention of chris. “no, it’s not chris. he’s done nothing wrong—“ her voice was drowned out by a rise in commotion from somewhere in the room and she instinctively gripped onto jonas’ arm, dreading to know the source of the sound.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: nicholas squinted his eyes at william, "he didn't do shit, and he wouldn't have been there if it weren't for one of you assholes." he clenches his jaw, narrowing his eyes on the three. "we came here to get an answer. so fucking fess up." he narrowed his eyes with a threatening demeanor. sana pulle her arm away from william's grasp, narrowing her eyes at xavier as she stepped towards the other gang again, "wouldn't need to if you didn't /barge/ your way in." sana stumbled back as william came forward, her eyes still fixated on xavier as she furrowed her eyebrows together, "it's my place to get involved if you're here. enough with the belittling for fuck's sakes!" she shouts, but then her eyes widen as william swings at xavier. "william!" nicholas glares at william and swings his fist into william's face, ducking as chris barges towards him.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: eva scrunches her eyebrows as she scans her face, “okay. we’ll figure out why, don’t worry. i’m sure there’s a reasonable explanation.” she nodded and guided them through the crowd. eva turned her head to disagree, “i still can’t see william.” she frowned stepping a bit closer until the boy had come into her line of sight right as he punched another male in the jaw. “fucking christ,” she jumped back in surprise, her arms wrapping around noora. “oh my god,” eva stood in shock before realizing she needed to get noora away from the scene. "noora, we should leave."

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: jonas scanned roxy's face again, scrunching his eyebrows at her vagueness. "okay, then we'll trust your intuition." he nodded before his head whipping towards the direction of the crowd. his eyes searched through the circle as he spotted chris in the middle of the fight. "fuck." jonas looked back at roxy as she grabbed his arm, scrunching his eyebrows.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: william rolled his eyes, “again. empty claims. what do you have to prove he didn’t do it? what do you have to prove that one of us sold him out?” he stood his ground, glaring right back at nicholas. “i have no answer for you because your question is simply irrational.” william’s jaw tightened as he tried to remain calm. “that’s the only way to deal with these animals,” xavier retorted gesturing to chris and will. his eyes left them for a moment to focus on sana as he scrunched his eyebrows at her words. that’s why he didn’t see william’s fist coming straight for him. “you fucking shit,” he muttered as he held a hand up to touch his jaw before slamming his shoulder into a moving chris to push him back. william curses out in pain and shoves nicholas off before pushing him again.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: noora scrunches her eyebrows as she looks through the crowd, "i can't either." she says quietly, her eyes scanning through the clutter of bodies. she raises her eyebrows as eva jumps back, wrapping her arms around her too. noora's heart dropped as she looked at eva's reaction, feeling the pace of her heartbeats quickening. noora needed to see what happened or what is happening for herself. taking a step forward, noora's eyes finds william amongst the circle. her jaw instnatly fell open as she saw the fight disrupt, slowly stumbling back at the sight.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: nicholas's eyebrow perked up, "because one of your guys were at the scene. one of you /fellas/ dropped something of yours." he cocked his head to the side, narrowing his eyes at william. chris let out a bitter laugh, "animals? says the one that needs some fucking taming for constantly having nothing better to do than to always crash our parties. very considerate for everyone around here who's just tryin gto have a good fucking new years, dude." chris jolts back as xavier pushes him back, using his knee to kick him off. "stop! you're all being fucking irrational and you're going to end up hurting one of the --" she says before she felt one of xavier's guys accidentally push her to the ground with his back as he was stepping backwards.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: roxy stood still, clutching onto jonas as the room began to blur with commotion before it parted to reveal a group of guys starting to fight. amongst them she saw chris and watched in horror as he got involved. behind him, she saw a sliver of what she had already suspected to be true. nicholas. roxy turned her head fast away from the violent scene. “i need some air,” she uttered but knew the exit was blocked by the group of males. “i need some air,” she repeated as she made a beeline for the washroom.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: jonas watched as william and chris got into the fight, his eyebrows scrunching at the brawl happening in front of them. his attention went back to roxy, "okay." he nodded, placing his hand lightly on her back as he followed her to the washroom whilst grabbing an unopen water bottle that was sat on a counter. he shook his head at the thought of the fight happening in the middle of the room, "roxy, are you alright?" he asked, bending down to her level.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: eva looked to noora, scanning her face to try and read her mind. “noora, we need to go,” she urged, trying to pull on her arm once more. the fight was erupting and bodies were being flung left and right. some getting closer to them. “we shouldn’t have..” eva muttered to herself, shaking her head as she cursed herself for convincing noora to come closer. “c’mon — let’s go,” eva took a hold of noora’s shoulders as she guided them back further away from the scene and fight. “god, who ever are those guys?” she asked aloud before glancing to noora. “are you okay?” she asked softly. meanwhile, as this fight ensued isak had fallen back into a bedroom and took a couple hits of god knows what. he had somehow gotten pushed away from sana but the words ‘ex-boyfriend’ was riding in his head. stepping out after his mind slowly melted away, he was surprised to see eva and noora. “well, well, look who it is,” he slurred, throwing an arm over each of them. “isak, not now.” eva snapped at him. “why? did someone yell fireball?” he chuckled a bit deliriousely before turning to noora. “why the frown?” he asked with a raise of his eyebrows. “it’s william,” eva quickly blurted out. at this, isak scrunched his eyebrows together and tilted his head at noora. “oh fuck. did he do the bet thing tonight? on new years? what a fucking prick!”

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: noora stood still, feeling like her heart was being ripped out at the sight of william amongst the violence. trouble repeated in her mind from their conversation earlier. she felt as if her legs had stopped moving, her entire body had forgotten how to work as she flinched at the sight of a fist swinging at a face. as eva grabbed onto noora's shoulders and away from the scene, noora parting her lips and looked at the ground. noora didn't say anything, not hearing eva's question. as they entered the bedroom, noora sat on the bed with a frown on her face, wincing as isak threw an arm over her shoulder. her eyes instantly shot up at isak's question. "what?" she turns to isak and scrunches her eyebrows together, "what are you talking about?" noora asked, hoping to get more information on how a bet between the two gangs could have been linked to the fight. her eyes searched isak's face, "what, isak?"

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: william slightly scrunched his eyebrows, glancing to chris briefly to see if this was news to him just as it was to william. “bullshit,” he called, returning his glare back to nicholas. xavier glowered at chris, “you should’ve thought of that before snitching on one of our men. he’s not having such a great new years in a jail cell, i can assure you that much.” xavier winces in pain before taking a swing at his face. he tries to catch his breath and he stares, frozen, as sana falls down. william notices the same and immediately shoves off nicholas before crouching to sana and lifting her to a sitting position. he cups her face as he scans her for any injuries. “I’m gonna fucking kill them.” william hisses and makes sure she’s sitting upright before turning to nicholas and xavier. he shoves nic before slamming xavier to the wall. “you did this. you always end up hurting her, don’t you see? you’re a fucking waste.” his voice rose as he slammed him again this time bringing his fists to xavier’s stomach and chest multiple times.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: roxy glued her eyes to the door that lead to the bathroom, not dare peeking back at the fight no matter the crowd’s uproars. she quickly propped open the window and took a sharp breath. nicholas was her past and the past chris had convinced her she could leave behind. it was practically two worlds colliding. she slides down to sit on the tile floor, turning to face jonas. “i’m,” she doesn’t finish because she’s tired of lying. roxy shakes her head, “no. not really.”

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: chris scrunched his eyebrows at nicholas' theory, clenching his jaw as each word came out of his mouth. he turned to xavier, "cry me a fucking river that he got caught, that's not our problem because none of our guys give a shit about what you guys do if it doesn't involve us." sana scrunches her eyebrows as her eyes are sealed shut, feeling a throbbing pain on the back of her head. she groans, whilst chris throws another punch at nicholas then running over to crouch down next to sana. sitting up slightly with the support of chris' arm, sana rests her head on his shoulder as her hand reaches for her pounding head. she lets out a sigh as she hears the sound of william beating xavier, "will, that's enough." she says, her eyebrows furrowing together as her eyes slowly flutter open, "william. /stop/." she demands, her eyes narrowing on the two.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: chris scrunched his eyebrows at nicholas' theory, clenching his jaw as each word came out of his mouth. he turned to xavier, "cry me a fucking river that he got caught, that's not our problem because none of our guys give a shit about what you guys do if it doesn't involve us." sana scrunches her eyebrows as her eyes are sealed shut, feeling a throbbing pain on the back of her head. she groans, whilst chris throws another punch at nicholas then running over to crouch down next to sana. sitting up slightly with the support of chris' arm, sana rests her head on his shoulder as her hand reaches for her pounding head. she lets out a sigh as she hears the sound of william beating xavier, "will, that's enough." she says, her eyebrows furrowing together as her eyes slowly flutter open, "william. /stop/." she demands, her eyes narrowing on the two.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: jonas locks the door behind him just in case if anyone barged in unwanted. he hands her the water bottle as he sits down beside her. he nods at her response, placing his hand on her leg in comfort, "hey," he turns to look at her, "whatever's going on out there doesn't /have/ to affect you, you know. it'll only affect you if you choose to let it affect you." he tries to reassure her, a small smile resting on his lips. "and you don't have to be okay, that's completely fine. we can stay here for as long as you want." he nodded, looking at roxy.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: eva searched noora’s face, wondering what was going through her mind right now. “what?” she repeats noora’s question as she scrunches her eyebrows at isak. isak lifts his eyebrows in surprise, “what?” eva pinched isak’s arm, “spill what you know and spill it now.” isak wincing at the pain shook his head. “it’s a bet formed by sana and william. chris says they play the game a lot. basically find someone, cozy up to them and show them off to the other. some weird and twisted show and tell just to try and one up each other. supposedly try to get the other’s approval but chris says they just use them to make the other jealous. told you they were too close to be just friends,” he shrugs his mind still totally fucked, speaking without a sliver of a filter. eva stares wide eyed at isak before glancing to noora, “what. the. fuck?” isak scrunches his eyebrows together, “was that not what you were talking about?”

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: noora scrunched her eyebrows as she waited for isak to tell her what he knew. her eyebrows raised as he mentions sana and chris, "what's the game?" she asks, slowly questioning whether or not this was in reference to the gang. noora's lips parted as she felt her entire body go numb. as isak explained the bet between the friends, noora felt sick to her stomach. she felt her eyes turn glossy as she was trying her hardest to fight back tears. everything felt overwhelming as all this new information was overlapping one another, feeling as if she was drowning in this supposed world. she wanted to scream at isak but she couldn't. perhaps it was because she knew he was high, but it was also because she was worried she'd choke from bursting into tears. feeling her tears begin to build up, noora instantly got up and left the room when he finished talking. she knew she shouldn't have gone back out there, but she needed to get out. she couldn't be in a room filled with so many people she didn't know, she couldn't handle any of this right now. noora darted towards the crowd once again, making her way through as she wiped the tears out of her eyes. once she neared the circle, noora didn't dare to look at anyone there as she dodged past xavier and nicholas, opened the front door and stormed out.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: william scrunched his eyebrows at chris but said nothing. xavier shot chris a glare, “oh i’d beg to differ. and this time it seems like it did involve you guys so i suppose you better start giving a shit.” xavier stands still as william and chris check on sana in turn. before he can do anything, he’s slammed against the wall as william continues to beat him up. xavier wants to fight back — hit will for leaving sana unattended but his words slice through him just like his fists. deep down he knows it’s his fault and in his mind he’s cursing himself for it a million times over. william slams him one more time before stepping back, breathing quickly. “get the fuck out. right now. and don’t you ever show up here again.” xavier pinches his nose in pain and straightens up to call nicholas. “c’mon,” he winces as he gestures for the other guys in their gang to exit.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: roxy mumbles a quick, “thanks” as she takes a sip from the water bottle. she was already pretty sober but the water helped cool her mind. her eyes flicked from his hand to his eyes. “but it does,” she scrunches her eyebrows, “it does affect me. i don’t know how to not let it affect me.” roxy presses her lips together. “do you ever feel like no matter how hard you try to drown something, a feeling or someone, it just keeps coming back? and you don’t know how to feel because on one hand it’s what you wished for but on the other it turns out to be nothing that you wanted?” she meets his eyes again, “it’s just suffocating. to be weighed down by the past. i thought i could let it go but..” her voice trails off as she shakes her head.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: nicholas pushed off one of chris and will's guys as xavier calls him. his eyebrows scrunch as he pulls his collar back, glancing at sana and chris as he purses his lips. sana's eyes droop as she looks at xavier, hr eyebrows scrunching slightly. chris turns her head as he inspects her condition, "sana, focus on yourself for once. he's not worth it." sana flutters her eyes shut, waving her hand at chris, "i'll be fine, chris." nic begins to leave with the guys, raising his eyebrows as noora storms out first.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: eva’s eyes stayed on noora as she tried to read her expression. this was heartbreaking and she knew it. “noora..” she started an apology out of respect but noora had quickly ran out of the room. “noora, wait!” eva called out, scrambling after her but she lost her to the crowd as soon as she exited the bedroom. “fuck’s sake!” she turned around to see isak standing behind her, “you idiot! why didn’t you say something sooner? why did you have to bring this up now?” isak scrunched his eyebrows, “i thought that was why she was upset.” eva shook her head, “if you weren’t so high you would’ve noticed the entire place has turned into a boxing ring and william and a bunch of guys were fighting.” isak frowns, “there’s been a fight?” he asks stepping out further into the room and looking across the sea of bodies. he staggers across the floor, everything blurring in and out of focus until he sees sana. “sana!” he comes running, almost stumbles as he bends down. “what happened?” he places his hands softly against her back as he questions chris but doesn’t let his eyes leave hers. “did your ex do this to you?”

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: jonas scrunches his eyebrows as she speaks, "no, i feel that all the time. but it depends, does this feeling you're having, it's pain right? because the difference is that mine isn't so much pain. but if it's suffering, you have to get rid of them from your life. it's too toxic to hold onto." he knew she was being vague so he couldn't get a good grasp on what it was and what to say. "but you're not alone with this. you don't have to be alone with this. because trust me, i've done it, and it gets lonely." he says, looking at her with a sad smile.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: sana scrunches her eyebrows as she feels another figure next to her. slowly opening her eyes as she turned slightly to look at isak. chris scrunched his eyebrows, "it's f--" he tried to tell isak to leave them but sana interrupts him, "hey, you." she suddenly felt a little better with isak being there, her eyes scanning his face as she noted his red eyes. sana sighs and turns to chris, "can you get me water please?" he gives her a look, glancing at isak until he agrees and leaves the two alone. sana tries to sit up but grunts quietly, "where in god's name did you hear about this ex?" she lets herself chuckle softly as she looks at isak, scrunching her eyebrows

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: xavier grunts as he tries to relieve the pain in his muscles. everything felt on fire and will had done a big number on him. he places a hand on his men as they start to file out, glancing back at sana to make sure she’s okay. before he’s able to leave however, a blonde runs past and william has enough time to see it’s noora. “noora—“ he calls out and squeezes his eyes shut, his fists clenched. she had seen him, he was sure. he opened his eyes just to glare as xavier and nic finally left and looked down at his bloody fists. he had let aggression take over again. will glanced back at the party - or what was left - and cursed under his breath. he saw isak attending to sana but felt sick that she had gotten caught in the middle of it all. closing his eyes again, he banged one fist against the wall and let his head droop as it throbbed with pain and guilt.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: xavier had taken his time on the stairs, barely managing without nic there to help. once they were out in the fresh night air, he shook his head, “i’m fine.” making it down a couple of more steps, he spotted the blonde he saw rush out earlier sitting on one of the bottom steps. “i’ll be a minute,” he said to nicholas as he nodded for him to go ahead and sat down next to noora. glancing at her, he could tell she had been crying. he fished out his cigarette tin in silence and placed one between his lips. he took another one and offered it to noora.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: nicholas scunched his eyebrows at every grunt xavier made as he went down the stairs. he held onto xavier, helping him with each step. as they made it to the bottom, nicholas raised his eyebrow, glancing at noora before nodding once, "alright." he agreed, heading off first without him. noora was hunched over on the steps, her eyes puffy from the amount of crying she had managed to spill out in the short amount of time. she hated it, hated feeling so weak and for actually believing everything that had happened with william. she hated that she fell for him too. noora stared at the ground as she had been sitting there alone, her mind boggling with too many things at once. her high from the alcohol had disappeared and plummeted to an ultimate low. noora didn't move as xavier sat next to her, pressing her lips together to prevent herself from crying anymore. she looks over at xavier, her eyes landing on the cigarette. she thought about it for a second, wanting to unfeel everything, but she decided against it whilst shaking her head. "why were you guys fighting?" she asked, turning her head to look at xavier, waiting for a response. she knew she shouldn't be talking to him, not if he was fighting with william and chris. but she was tired and she didn't want to care.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: roxy looked at jonas as he spoke, wondering if he was referring to his feelings towards eva. she may not say much but she is very observant, especially when it comes to her roommates. her eyebrows drew together as she tried to pinpoint her feelings, “i don’t really know how to describe it. it’s sort of a mix of emotions,” roxy’s eyes focused on picking at the end of her dress, not really sure why she was saying this aloud. “sometimes it still feels like… love.” her voice came out hushed. “and love, well, that’s the worst kind of pain, isn’t it?” she let out a weak chuckle. roxy realized she was admitting to something she had promised to leave behind. but something about jonas comforted her, and made her want to be honest. she makes eye contact with him and faintly smiles before shifting her body closer so she can lean her head on his shoulder, “great start to the new year, huh?”

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: isak breathes out a small “hey” in return as he adjusts his support on her back. his eyes lift up momentarily to watch chris leave before returning to rest on hers. “don’t get up,” he shakes his head as he wraps an arm around her shoulders, “standing’s overrated.” isak says with a small smile as he sits down to lean against the wall beside her. the ground beneath him was still spinning so he didn’t mind. “just some bird,” he shook his head before drawing his eyebrows together at her, scanning for any bruises. “is it bad to hope you just tripped on a party popper?” he frowned slightly, worried about the real reason behind her current state. isak only got one good look at her supposed ex and he already knew he was bad news.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: jonas nods, "i guess it all depends on you. is this love worth it? because if it is, perhaps all this pain will just bring you guys together even more, but if it's not, then sometimes you just have to embrace the love and let it go. but i get that, love can be painful. and hell, we do so much for it." he sighs, raising his eyebrows, "no one can tell you how to feel, roxy. you just do, but i think you'll figure it out soon." he nods, resting his head lightly ontop of hers before letting out a soft chuckle, "at least your pretty stars are holding on." he glances at her and smiles.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: xavier had made this walk of shame many times before — body screaming at him as he tried to make it work normally. later he would heal wounds with liquor until he finally passed out and slept for fourteen hours straight. nodding goodbye to nic, he made himself as comfortable as he could on the concrete steps. raising an eyebrow at her question, he took that as a no to his cigarette and put it back in the box. he stayed silent as he lit his cigarette and took a long inhale. “we’re always fighting,” he squints his eyes. at one point he considered william and chris to be some of his closest friends. now it seems like the whole concept was dreamt. “william or chris or one of their friends screwed one of my friends over. they love doing that- fucking things over. and i don’t stay quiet when someone screw over one of my friends.” xavier blows out smoke before turning his head at her, studying her expression. “i’m gonna go out on the limb here and assume you know them?” he raises his eyebrow in question before brining his free hand to rub the bottom of his jaw.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: sana raises her eyebrows at isak and lets out a soft chuckle, leaning back onto the wall. her eyebrows scrunched as william punched his wall, glancing over at the similar hole on a separate wall. "what good is that going to do?" she raises an eyebrow, feeling her sass even though she was injured. sana turns to isak and lets out a chuckle, "just some bird?" she repeated, lifting one of her hands to cup isak's cheeks, "i'm fine, isak." she scans his face before letting go, scrunching her eyebrows as she hides the pain, "yeah, it was a party popper." she letes out a laugh

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: roxy nodded lightly at his words, jonas made a lot of good points. and she wanted to try something new, she wanted to let go. it was the new year, a fresh start like she wanted and maybe she deserved to give something else a chance. embrace love and let it go like jonas had suggested. “yeah. yeah i hope so too.” she nodded in reply and is surprised that he brings up the glitter around her eyes. “they always do,” roxy smiles lightly, reminded of the nights spent with her dad gazing at the starry night sky, “i think they help me hold on more than i help them.”

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: noora scrunched her eyebrows, watching the smoke as xavier spoke. hearing about the rivalry between xavier and william's individual groups made noora frown, looking away as she shook her head. noora pressed her lips together as xavier expressed his loyalty to his friends. turning her head to look at the dark haired boy, noora's eyes instantly furrowed together. at this point, she didn't know what to believe or who to trust. her eyes scanned all of the bruises along wherever the imprints were visual, knowing that majority of these wounds were done by william. noora shook he head,"no," she looks away then, feeling her eyes swell again, "i don't think i do if i'm being honest." she admitted, realizing how little she knew about william and not even knowing if anything that he had done or said was the truth. "i feel like i know him and then i feel like i don't."

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: william rests his forehead against the cool wall, trying to rid himself of the heat coursing through him. turning to look over his shoulder, he made eye contact with sana and pushed himself off the wall to walk over to her. “i didn’t mean for you to get involved,” he shook his head, looking down at her and then to isak. “you should rest. you can crash on my bed,” he offered with a gesture of his head to his apartment across the hall. isak looked at william with narrowed eyes. “so it was because of the fight,” he turns to sana with a frown. he brushes through her hair softly, wishing she hadn’t been caught in the middle of some dumb fight. isak shakes his head at the bird comment, “i would’ve wanted to hear it from you but it’s not my place to ask, i guess.”

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: roxy scrunches her eyebrows as she looks at william, "that's not your place to say. the thing is, william, i'm not a kid, you don't need to hide things from me." she lifts her hand for him to grab to sit down with her. "you do realize that it's you and chris and no matter what, i am involved either way." sana looks at isak and tries to smile softly, "to answer your question, it wasn't because of xavier." she says with her eyebrows slightly scrunched. sana sighs, "there's not much to really tell, isak." she says, looking at him.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: jonas smiles as he looks at roxy, wanting to make her feel better from her night, "the stars are aligned to have your back." he chuckles, "ice cream does that for me too. i mean, sometimes alcohol, but ice cream as well. we should probably get some for our place. just twelve tubs of ice cream for days like this." he laughs light heartedly.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: xavier keeps the cigarette pressed between his lips as he turns to her with a raised brow. “no?” he asks, taking the smoke back into his hands, wincing at the slight pain of the cigarette against his split lip. xavier knew there were bruises already forming and he would have to make up another excuse for his bandmates. he hummed at her words, nodding slowly. “i’m guessing you’re talking about william. i thought i knew him once too,” he glanced at her and lifted his shoulders in a shrug, “look where that got me.” he cut off his bitter chuckle with another drag from his cigarette. though it had been xavier’s fault they were on bad turmoil, he couldn’t resist talking down on william after all the physical abuse xavier’s been through. “i see the appeal. i mean, he seems like a good guy at first, right? but then he’s always been manipulative so i’ve come to realize that’s probably an act. he’s possessive too, over things that are not his.”

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: noora raised her eyebrows at the sound of xavier wincing, looking at him as she scrunches her eyebrows together, "he did all this to you?" she asked softly, pressing her lips together at how beaten up he looked. noora frowned, feeling every bit of sadness building up inside of her. she hated that she was feeling this way, having her emotions so dependent on a guy. "manipulative?" she asked quietly, not sure if she wanted to hear more about the ins and outs of what made william him. she knew that she didn't have to trust xavier either, but at this point, she was too exhausted to care. "what has he done that makes him manipulative? like, he comes out to be a really nice guy who's.. good with his words. but i don't know what was true and what isn't."

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: william shook his head, “yes it is. look, sana, this whole gang business is between me and them, it’s not that i purposefully hide things from you. it’s just better not knowing,” he slumps down next to her, eyes glancing at isak. “i know. but you can be involved from the sidelines, because this..” his fingers gently touched her cheek, “i couldn’t live with myself if you got hurt again.” isak places his hands into his lap, not sure if he was suppose to be intruding on this conversation. “xavier,” he repeated looking up at sana and wondering who he was and what he had done. “forget xavier,” william chimed in, shaking his head.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: sana rolled her eyes then, "no, it's not. you can't just take everything on yourself, william! don't you see that keeping this shit away from me does more harm than good?" she scrunches her eyebrows as he touches her cheek, shaking her head, "what hurts me is seeing your fists bloody and your face a shade of purple."' sana purses her lips, her conversation with xavier at the store was replaying in her mind. "if it's not me, it's someone else getting hurt because this whole fucking gang thing will involve other people as well, believe it or not. both of you guys are being so ignorant for the fact that these things are going to hurt others to so why can't you guys just fucking grow up?" she was angry, but her heart was in the right place. she hated seeing william like this, in the state that he was currently in. she scanned his face and she couldn't help but feel sad. frowning, she said, "so being involved from the sidelines won't do any better." she says before turning towards isak, catching a glimpse of his reaction and feeling bad that he had to witness all of this as he tried to string together his words. sana raised her eyebrows as william interrupted him, feeling her jaw clench slightly. "it's a long story," she said, her face turned to isak with a sad smile. her head was still throbbing, but she didn't want either of them to be concerned. sana knew she stepped too far this time, but she couldn't imagine what would have happened if the fight were to have advanced.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: xavier lifted an eyebrow at the sound of noora’s concern. “he’d argue i did this to myself,” a bitter chuckle rang as he took another drag of his cigarette. it was true that he had shown up to the party invited and had edged william further but xavier didn’t know he would explode the way he did. he breathed out as if the mere thought of will was exhausting. turning to noora and judging her expression, xav guessed she was involved with him one way or another. “that’s the problem, you know? good with words, good at manipulating,” he narrowed his eyes as he thought back to the night soren, william’s girl at the time, sought him out for comfort. “he’s selfish..” xavier started, recalling what soren had cried about, “only has his best interests at heart and no one else’s. spoiled rotten, too. his father always handed him things on a silver platter. and he’s extremely possessive to the point where it becomes a toxic relationship.” he shook his head as he met eyes with noora, “add those things together and you get a pretty shitty person.”

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: noora scrunched her eyebrows, hating seeing people get hurt and injured. hell, her heart always broke whenever she saw animals limping or attacked. "no one should get hurt." she frowned, turning to xavier as he spoke so poorly about william. she didn't want to believe him even despite finding out the new news, but her heart felt like it was being crushed in a million pieces when thinking about how so many things aligned. as their eyes met, noora was worried that xavier could see through how devastated she was by hearing all of this. "what about you?" she asked, raising her eyebrows, "i mean, you can easily lie and say that you're the complete opposite from all those things, but are you really? what makes you any better?" she asks, genuinely curious about his response. noora pressed her lips together, feeling heavy all at once as she looked down at the ground, "i think i was just a bet. something that he had with sana." she shook her head, fluttering her eyes shut to disallow any tears from falling, "i should have known though. there wasn't any way that it could have been true otherwise." she admitted, feeling her self deprecation take over her.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: “this shit doesn’t concern you,” william hissed back, more angry with his ties to the gang activity than anything else. he pressed his head back against the cool wall, closing his eyes for a brief moment before immediately opening them as she began to spit her words in anger. “we don’t want anyone else involved — more often times than not we handle things discreetly. no one gets hurts except us, that we can agree on.” will shook his head, “we fucked up this time, i know. but don’t you see? that’s why i don’t want you anywhere near this because there could be consequences,” he met her eyes with a sad and exhausted expression. fighting with xavier and nic was one thing but fighting with sana was another. it drained him completely. isak sat there quietly as all of this was going on, wondering if he should take a cue to leave but he didn’t trust william enough to leave sana alone with him. william looked from isak to sana and exhaled, “sana, there’s no other way for me to deal with xavier and i’m sorry you don’t like it but that’s just the way it is.” he clenched and unclenched his knuckles wondering at what point in his life had he inherited his father’s temper. “i should find noora,” he scrunched his eyebrows, his mind going to the girl who had made him feel calm and the image of her running out of the flat in a storm. he needed to apologize and he needed to make sure she was alright. “uh, don’t think that’s such a good idea,” isak chimed in with a squint of his eyes. “i don’t think she wants to see you right now like.. this, especially. you should probably give her a little space,” he pressed his lips together. william stared down at his scratched hands, busted knuckles and felt a cold travel down his bones.

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: sana scoffs, "right, just like how nearly burning a house down for one of xavier's bandmates isn't harming someone out of your gang?" she looks at him, scrunching her eyebrows. instantly after the words left her lips, she knew the possibilities of his response. sana shook her head as their eyes meet, her hand reaching up to cup william's face, "william, look at yourself. aren't you tired of all of this? how long do you really think this cycle will continue for?" her eyes scanned his face before she sighed, "you really think noora would benefit from any of this?" sana lets go then, "so i have no say in this." she rolls her eyes, "stop being a fucking hypocrite, william. it's not just the way it is and you know it. you're just simply choosing the route that you want to take even though you /know/ that this isn't the only way of dealing with it. no one fucking likes it, you don't like it, so stop kidding yourself by justifying this whole shit storm." she shakes her head, clenching her jaw as she raised her hands to her temples as her head was now pounding. "so what now?" she asks, looking at william and glancing at isak.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: xavier’s eyebrows quipped up at her statement, looking over to her and her previously tear-stained cheeks. “try telling yourself that,” he replied, “no one should get hurt but we do. physically, emotionally, we get hurt constantly. c’est la vie.” he shrugged lightly. the words of carrie fisher echoed in his mind, ‘turn your broken heart and turn it into art’. he had done so many times, often expressing his feelings through his music. xavier let out a short chuckle before blowing out a stream of smoke. “sugar, i didn’t sit down here so you could get to know me,” his lips pulled into a faint smirk as he tilted his head, “believe whatever you want. unlike william, i think people are entitled to form their own opinions.” he hummed and rested his elbows on each leg. eyes narrow at the mention of a bet, his jaw tightening at the mention of sana. “that’s another thing. his relationship with sana is a goddamn mess,” he shook his head before turning over to scan the petite blonde’s face. “no one can predict anything,” he stated before softening his voice, “and for what it’s worth, he’s an asshole for upsetting a pretty girl like you.”

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: noora scrunched her eyebrows at xavier's comment, pausing as she recalled the number of times she's been through pain, "should. i said should." she repeats quietly, her hand automatically reaching to play with her necklace. noora's eyes followed the smoke that disappeared into thin air. for a second the cloud of grey was there, and the next second it was gone. she tilted her head up to look at him as he smirked, raising her eyebrows at his response. "then why'd you sit down? it certainly wasn't because you simply wanted a smoke break." she asked, raising her chin slightly. 'unlike william' rang as an echo once those two words left xavier's mouth. "we're merely social constructs, constantly being influenced by other people. it's in our nature to mould our opinions all the time." she shrugs, her eyes falling back onto the ground. "yeah, i figured they were complicated." noora sighed, scrunching her eyebrows at what she's gotten herself into. she turned her head then as soon as the tone in xavier's voice softened, looking at him as he spoke. she let out a soft bitter chuckle, shaking her head, "it shouldn't matter if i'm pretty or not. i don't think i am but that defeats everything because people shouldn't be validated from other people's asshole radar or not. anyone's an asshole for being an asshole. not for upsetting a pretty girl." she argues, scrunching her eyebrows. "so.. don't be an asshole in general. it's worth while to be good." she said as she looked at him with a sad smile.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: william narrows his eyes as he quickly spins to face her, “where’d you hear that from?” he asks in a low voice, trying to remain calm. it had been a stupid prank pulled by one of their members, but william had come along with them. at that moment none of the consequences had occurred to him. looking back, he knew they could’ve seriously injured someone. he tried to shift his face away from her hand but averted his eyes instead. “i’m fine,” will reassured and his jaw tightened at the mention of noora. she was right, he was tired of fighting, especially with her. william let her speak without interrupting, meeting her eyes just to take in the animosity of her words. “is that all?” his voice was devoid of emotion. all the things she said were true and he knew it so he wasn’t going to argue with her about it. that said, he wasn’t necessarily going to do anything she said. william stares across the room but doesn’t seem to be looking anything, “happy new year, i guess.” isak watches this whole argument and gives sana’s hand a squeeze to show his support.

eva / will / rox / isak / xav: xavier heard her whisper ‘should’ to herself but didn’t correct her. he tapped his hand holding the cigarette against the step before bringing it up once more. “why? i don’t know,” he inhaled the smoke in thought, “i just did. i guess i thought i had a reason to.” xavier didn’t exactly know what reason compelled him to take a seat next to noora. maybe it was the fact he hated seeing people sad. he had an urge to comfort, even if he didn’t know how. comforting someone turned out to be his demise when he was in a relationship with sana. “sure, it’s healthy to be influenced. hell, it’s bad if others don’t influence your opinion. but they should only /influence/ not /shape/ them. you know what i mean?” he turned to look at her, “value other people’s opinions, but value yours most of all. it’s your opinion, after all.” xavier lifted his eyebrow at her reaction to sana and william’s relationship, wondering if she felt the same pain he did when he pictured them together. xavier can’t help but let out a small chuckle at her argument. “don’t be an asshole in general. i’m taking that advice to the grave,” his lips curved up in a smirk. “if i have any advice for you is don’t sell yourself short.” xavier turned to meet her eyes, “make your own judgements. trust your opinion. realize that you /are/ beautiful and don’t cry over some dickhead.”

noora/sana/chris/jonas/nic: sana scrunches her eyebrows slightly, "word gets around, william." she says, clenching her jaw. she shakes her head at his unconvincing reassurance, tired of seeing the outcome of the boys every time. it was always the same, as nothing ever gets resolved. sana raises an eyebrow and rolls her eyes, "i guess so." she says, defeated. sana purses her lips but doesn't move away with the touch of isak's hand.

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xav, is an faceless streamer/rather privacy conscious (despite you know his ass on stream constantly like ‘lol anybody else ever just like feel like they are flunking therapy lets discuss’) goes to school out of arcadia in seattle. flies back via the private plane sometimes,etc. still an mess, still very oof but like fun hobby. (doesnt need the cash obviously so usually does charity stuff/or pays the money forwards- in general xav is very much an let me fund your top surgery, donate large portions to x y z cause without batting an eye) often likes to share love to smaller streams, lots of sock puppet accounts to just drop large donos and be like ‘hey buy an better setup if you want or whatever keep up the good work <3′ will raid usually all ‘okay guys lets go send some love wholesome antics’ so an chat of like 10 viewers becomes much more with an bunch of ‘have you drank water recently?’ etc without context (though if he knows the other streamer, etc can be more feral antics like ‘lets troll by listing scientific names for poison’) this being said he does have an respectful community, that you know don’t pry much,etc but also just an bunch of chaos you’re more likely to join stream mid ‘lets not talk about the pickle conspiracy theory from the 3 am stream plzzz chat stop linking the clips’ than wholesome moments or witness the ‘drink water cult lol’ spam because dude hates drinking water so it’s many memes related to him but even better? is where he drags nathan into the chaos- like xav begging him to play minecraf and then just you’ve got this “random” person playing with him/their text chat,etc is wild ‘can you stop swimming in lava plz’ ‘it tastes so good’ has burnt to an crisp ‘...’ ‘chat wants me to duel you over lava’ ‘okay as is’ nate in full diamond just slaughters xav in chat like ‘lol okay im less annoyed now’ ~but also~ proximity chat horror games? you get xav as the monster just like singing pop music not being stealthy, messing with people,etc (depends on his strats) vs nate who is rather quiet for the most part except when locates xav/kinda targeting cause twin antics him just like laughing as xav screams like ‘THIS IS CRUEL I HATE U and WHALES SUCK’ the two just having fun little moments to chill despite not near each other and sibling banter. (usually kinda when xav is feeling rough/homesick but cant just catch the plane there,etc) sometimes nate pops into the stream/chat with it muted in case dumbass shit is going down like ‘ay yo’ nate 100% in his own way being supportive like ‘lets play a.mong us with some of your mods’ and xav just like ANTICS HELL YEAH

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Thoughts on the character: Honestly so well written, plus like the au is just *chefs kiss* then again like every single variation just is amazing or as xav just put it ‘chloe fucking price is god tier and above everybody else especially me’ 

Have you interacted before: Hell fucking yeah

Favorite part of portrayal: Everything is such an opt out but like How Can I Choose?! But like I really like the depth, obvious care shown/love for Chloe. As such really shows in character development and everything else in general. 

One piece of advice: Um- uh fuck- i don’t know? That your writing is amazing, no pressing x to doubt allowed. 

A verse (mine or theirs) I want a thread in: Listen all of them, though like would be interesting an verse where Xav falls for her first/knows it but cause he be stupid probably goes about it in the most feral fucking ways

Thoughts on the mun: asdfjhsdafsdalkf Honestly a sweetheart, truthfully I adore rping/chatting with them so much. Be it some one off wild idea or an string of an au concept or whatever. Chloe & Xav are honestly such an power couple, just the best of soulmates. Which like also me getting to write Xav so much and having somebody not all ‘ugh an oc’ or whatever warms my heart so much because I adore him/was so scared I’d never get to write him.