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xtrafluffyteddy · 2 years

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Could you do a Eddie one (where the events of season four never happened) where you are one of the cheerleaders and Mike and Nancy sister, in addition to sharing O'Donnell's class with Eddie and she asks you to tutor Eddie in her class, you accept with the excuse of spending more time with him without being judged by the other cheerleaders, (except for Chrissy, who is your friend and knows your crush on him) and also being judged by Jason and his basketball minions.

During your tutoring sessions with him, he finds out that you also play D&D with your brother, Lucas, Dustin and Will (before he moved to California) and he invites you to one of Hellfire's campaigns since he also has a crush on you, right after one of the campaigns, he asks to speak to you alone and thank you for helping him pass the O'Donnell class, plus he gives you a Hellfire shirt and assumes he has a crush on you and in response you kiss him

Of course I can my faithful chicken noodle

Mentions: pining, fluff, slight judgement from jackasses, Eddie shenanigans

“Miss wheeler” mrs. O’donnell called snapping you out of your daydream you’d been daydreaming to much lately and it was starting to become noticeable by the teachers and your fellow cheerleaders the subject of your daydream none other than Eddie “the freak” munson. The only one that knew about your little fantasies was your best friend and fellow cheerlead Chrissy Cunningham who always pushed you to talk to him you always chickening out at the very last second

“See me after class miss wheeler” the teacher said sternly before turning back to continue explaining the lesson you quietly groan laying your forehead on the desk shit shit shit.

When the bell rings you wait behind while everyone disappears out the doors heading towards their cars or various practices you get up with a sigh and make your way to the front desk “yes mrs.O’Donnell?” The old woman looks up at you from grading her papers “I want you to tutor someone” this wasn’t the first time she’d asked you to do that before this she had asked you to tutor Jason but you couldn’t stand how annoying and preachy he was deciding to just ask Chrissy to tutor him instead.

“Who am I tutoring this time maam” you inquire fiddling with a loose string on your cheer sweater “Eddie Munson” you quickly look up at the name heart beginning to race “yeah yeah sure I’ll tutor him” you hoped you didn’t sound to excited keeping a calm demeanor “your dismissed then” you quickly ran out of the classroom rushing towards his locker in hopes he was still in the building.

Low and behold there stood the metal head in all his glory in his usual denim vest leather jacket combo sporting a Metallica shirt “hey Eddie!” You called giving him a small wave making your way to him. He looked around like there was someone else named Eddie before turning back to you wondering what a cheerleader like you was doing talking to him thinking you were just gonna ask for drugs

“I’m out of the goods till reefer Rick get snack in town so you are out of-“ he began giving you the spiel he gave everyone ignoring the butterflies in his stomach from your close proximity “no no Eddie I’m here to inform you I’m your new tutor mrs.O’Donnell asked me to” not letting it slip the real reason you wanted to tutor him was to hang out with him more without the judgment and prying questions from the basket ball and cheer team.

“Oh cool” he shrugged giving you a goofy smile walking alongside you towards your car “so wanna study at my place or yours though I must warn you my little brother mike might be a bit of a nuisance?” You question looking up at him drinking in his features “we can do it at mine my uncles working a double tonight so there should be no distractions” you blush at the thought of being alone alone with him “sounds cool I’ll see you later then?” He gives you a quick nod and you climb into your car waving bye as you drive off down the street.

You sit in Eddie’s bed reading aloud some questions in the text book. “Hey” he asks looking over at you from his place on the other side of the bed “you ever play Dnd?” You look shocked at the question but nod none the less “yeah I do well used to with my little brother mike and his friends Dustin, Lucas, and will though we stopped after will moved to California”

“How would you like to join us for one of our campaigns?” He asks gauging your reaction you kill it over thinking on wether or not you have cheerleading practice that night “Gareth can’t make it since he’s leaving for spring break early so we’re missing a player” he continued “yeah sure I’d love to” you flash him a dazzling smile causing his heart to start racing again thoughts of kissing you and telling you he liked you filling his head “cool cool” he says nonchalantly as you both get back to what little studying you were doing.

You all sit around the table enthralled by Eddie’s story of a weary traveler who turns out to be under the control of the mindflayer you watch with awestruck eyes as Eddie commands the room making everything feel so real your little brother mike picking up on the weird vibes between the two of you.

After the campaign eddie had asked you to stay back so he could talk to you. You nod and tell mike that you’ll be out in a second and just go wait in the car mike leaving with a curious glance wandering what’s going on between Eddie and his sister.

“I uh- I had something made for you” eddie starts digging around in his torn up backpack “oh? You didn’t have to make me anything” you began giving him a small smile “well how else would you be an official member of hellfire without-“ he pulls out your own custom hellfire shirt “this” you look at him shocked taking the shirt into your hands quickly pulling it on over your original shirt before throwing yourself into his arms giggling and repeating “I love it I love it I love it thank you so much eddie” as you pulled away you took in the close proximity of your lips staring into his rich brown eyes.

He keeps his arms around you as he whispers “thanks for helping me pass o’donnells class” you tilt your head and smile “anything for you eddie though I think I was just looking for an excuse to spend time with you” you murmur as you both lean in meeting for a tender kiss fingers tangling themselves in his hair.

As you pull away just barely you whisper “I like you Eddie I like you so much” his heart skips a beat as he pulls you back in after whispering “I like you to” unbeknownst to the both of you two little spies were watching from the door

“Dude Eddie’s kissing your sister” Dustin says to mike who’s making a disgusted face “yeah I see that Dustin thanks for pointed that out” he turns away with an over exaggerated gag walking out of the building with Dustin not wanting to think about his sister and his friend dating.

#eddie munson x reader #eddie munson #stranger things #eddie munson imagine

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zenaidamacrouras1 · 9 months

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WIP Game!

Tagged by @burberrycanary

Rules: reveal the titles of the documents in your wip folder and tag as many people as there are documents. Let others ask questions about the ones that interest them and post snippets or explain the contents as you see fit!

Secret Title - it's for the shrinkiclinks double bang and the title has to be a secret till an artist claims it. But it's like 25k words so far and [redacted] words left to write. I think it might be really long. I am struggling to flesh Sam out as he is the supportive best friend to a level that feels weird and one dimensional to me and I need to figure that out among many other things.

Magic Hair Bucky - I started this in August last year and it is sloooowwww going as magic is hard. So much world building and I made the plot like bonkers complicated and then added 40 side characters who also have complicated magic powers. At some point I will with magically (get it) get the world building consistent or just hammer it out and give people a warning that you shouldn't read it if you like consistent systems of magic. But Bucky has long like elbow length Farrah Fawcett hair so there's that. And I need to commission an artist to make me a manip of the hair situation

Valkyrie/Steve Punch a Nazi 1 - This is half written. It's an AU prequel to my fic Monoclonius. Steve and Val are running Peggy Carter's Senate campaign and have an enemy to half-friends thing and then they punch nazis together and become bffs and have a bunch of sex. (Marvel Trumps Hate request)

Valkyrie/Steve Punch a Nazi 2 - This is a relatively canon one shot that is my second Marvel Trumps Hate fill. It's plotted out but not written. I have until November to write it. I have a lot of guilt and stress about it and may not ever do a Marvel Trumps Hate again even though it was super fun at the time.

5 times Dads fic - I have a 5 times fic half written where Steve and Bucky are single dads that don't like each other, but their kids love each other I kind of hate the draft. It's very flat and boring and lifeless. I have to decide if it's worth trying to inject a personality.

Apartment 3B fic - This one was inspired by a request from @somanywords It's about times that Steve helped Bucky with his sisters and I got excited and wrote a bunch of it and then fizzled out. But I might get some energy for it? It was getting really long and sadder than I wanted it to be.

I dunno there are other things but those are the ones that come to mind. I'll tag a few folks - @somanywords is already up top, I'll add:

@metalbvcky , @actualalligator, @fsbc-librarian, @sparkagrace, @stuckyflangst no pressure though.

#writer ask games #Writer asks #wip games #Stucky works in progress

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eddievanhammettmunson · 2 years

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Trips (part 2)

Eddie Munson x fem reader

Author’s note- Hiiiii everyone I’m back for a part 2. I don’t really know how long this story will be or how long I want it to be but I’m gonna aim for a part 3 at least!

Warnings- mentions of drugs and drugs use, fluff, mention of abuse, foul language I think? Like one bad word I’m pretty sure, bad writing possibly, tension if you squint hard enough.

Summary-After tagging along with hellfire on their adventure will y/n risk their reputation and go full in on being in the hellfire club?

After getting home from Eddie fixing your truck you sit in your truck parked in your driveway. What the hell were you thinking? Staying out all night getting high in your driveway with some guy you barely know and then giving him your number to do it again? But there was just something about him. About the way he talked and the way he just existed that was slowly pulling you in. Ugh stop that you can’t sit in your driveway forever.

As the day continues you run your usual weekend errands of getting the groceries and picking up the mail and just generally going about life until you get home to do homework in your room. But usually the homework you could have flown through any other time isn’t getting done. Why? Eddie. He’s in your brain on repeat. His wide smile as he told the story in the hellfire campaign, his hooded eyes as you smoked in the back of his van. It’s driving you crazy until finally the phone rings, snapping you back to reality. For a moment you hope it’s Eddie calling until you hear Nancy’s voice on the other line.

“Y/n?”

“Oh hey Nance”

“Where have you been y/n? You never answered the phone last night or even this morning?”

“Oh sorry Nance I was uh…..out”

“Out? I thought you were going to go home after Hellfire”

“Well Nancy I was going to but uh my truck kinda broke down in the parking lot and Eddie offered to give me a ride home….and we ended up getting high all night in the back of his van and then he helped me fix my truck this morning”

“Y/n oh my god”

“What?”

“So did anything else happen in the back of the van or?”

“No Nancy nothing else happened in the back of the van. Eddie was a gentleman”

“Well, did you want anything else to happen in the back of the van?”

The line stays quiet for a moment cause you don’t quite know how to answer that. I mean you just met the guy obviously you weren’t going to hook up with him right? Right? Oh god you’ve been quiet for so long Nancy definitely knows something’s up.

“Y/n? Hellooooo? You still there?”

“Yeah yeah sorry I’m here Nance. What did you say?”

“I asked if you wanted anything to happen with Eddie in his van but I have a feeling maybe you don’t wanna tell me”

“Nance it’s not like that I just…well I hardly know the guy Nancy I mean sure he’s been really nice and charming so far but I can’t make any sudden judgments till I know him better”

“Know him better? Soooo does that mean you’re officially joining hellfire?”

“You know what Nancy I think I am”

Nancy didn’t say anything for a second once you said this and it made you slightly nervous. You know that doing this is going to plummet any sort of social status you have.

“Nancy? You’re not gonna stop talking to me if I join hellfire will you?” You say with a slight nervous chuckle.

You hear Nancy laugh over the phone giving you slight relief.

“No god no y/n but I was just thinking…since you’re actually doing it…maybe make it a statement.”

“What do you mean?”

“I meannnn walk in there with that hellfire shirt on and make it the most sexy badass outfit to let everyone know where you stand”

“Do you really think that’s a good idea?”

“Y/n you’re always saying how tired you are of all the people who pretend to know you anyways. Might as well walk in there and show them that they don’t”

You and Nancy stayed up talking about what outfit you were gonna wear when you walked in tomorrow. Obviously the Hellfire shirt would be the center point and you were really hoping Eddie didn’t mind you were wearing it on a Monday instead of Friday for their meets but since you’re making a statement you hope he doesn’t mind. You don’t end up finishing your homework that night but hell your grades will be okay without it. You just can’t wait to give ‘em hell.

Monday rolls around and all Eddie can think about the entire day, is if you meant it when you said “see you Monday”. Did it mean he’d see you in the hall and just get a wave or would you actually speak to him. You guys actually have last period together for English (which he wasn’t entirely sure you knew you guys had a class together cause either he didn’t show up or he was in the back with his head down) but he didn’t want to wait until last period to see you.

It was the end of fourth period and the bell rang for lunch and Eddie was still disappointed he hadn’t seen you at all today. Hell he didn’t even know if you were at school today. But he made his way to the cafeteria and sat down at the usual hellfire table as the rest of the club made their way in and to the table. They were all discussing aspects of the game and just making general small talk while Eddie was lost in thought scanning the cafeteria. You weren’t at the table with the party people, you weren’t with the jocks or the band. Maybe you just really weren’t here today.

That was what he thought until the cafeteria doors opened and you casually walked in amongst a sea of people. Eddie’s eyes immediately landed on you and he’s sure many other people are now looking at you too. Walking confidently with your head held high as you stride in wearing the Hellfire shirt paired with these skin tight black jeans and platform combat boots. You had the hellfire shirt tucked in and there was a black corset belt wrapped around your waist but still careful not to obscure any of the hellfire logo. The outfit also had chains at your thighs paired with plenty of rings on your fingers to match. Eddie was in awe. You looked like a rock and roll goddess to him. A goddess that he just realized is walking to his table.

You walked in the room and could tell that many people were staring at you. All the people you would sit with or have hung out with looking at you like you’re some kind of freak. And it made you a little happy. You’re not sure why but seeing them stare at you like you’d kicked their puppy or something made you more confident. You ignored when you walked by the jock table and very clearly heard Jason and your ex say something snide about your appearance but noticed out of the corner of your eye when Chrissy elbowed Jason.

You finally reached the hellfire table and sat down next to Lucas and Will across from Dustin and Mike. Meanwhile the entire Hellfire club is just silent and staring at you shellshocked. Nobody says anything and it’s making you nervous. Maybe you should have asked them beforehand? Maybe they didn’t actually want you here. You’re about to say something or apologize when Lucas finally is the first one to speak.

“See guys y/n finally realized who the real cool kids are”

You gave him a slight smile thankful for him trying to break the tension. But still nobody else speaks and although you haven’t looked at him directly you can feel Eddie’s eyes practically burning holes into your skull.

“Sorry I didn’t ask beforehand…but is it okay if I sit with you guys?”

Once you said that Eddie sort of snaps back to reality but his eyes are still laser focused on you and he slowly says

“Yeah yes of course that’s totally fine. You can sit with us whenever you feel like..”

You finally look up at him and make eye contact giving him a slight smile. And he gives a nice smile back.

“So uh Gareth as I was walking up I heard you say something about the next campaign. Are you guys planning another one?”

This seems to be what snaps everyone back to reality and they’re all ready to discuss D&D but they all get a little excited that you’ve asked about it and all begin talking over each other and it’s a bit overwhelming you can hardly keep track. Your eyes flick back to Eddie and he meets your eyes holding eye contact as everyone else continues talking and you both seem to zone out for a second until you hear Will saying your name.

“Y/n? Helloooooo earth to Y/n”

“Sorry what did you say. You were all kinda talking together and I think I got a bit lost”

“Well basically we said we’re starting another campaign this Friday and we wanted to know if you were coming”

The team expected some sort of hesitation or an “I’ll think about it”.So when you just immediately responded with “Sure I’ll be there” they all kind of sighed with relief. Finally Jeff had the courage to ask what nobody else was asking.

“Sooooo Y/n are you like officially in Hellfire now or are you just jumping in for a game or two?”

You looked around the hellfire table for a second and you said

“Well Id love to officially be a member” and then you looked back to Eddie and said

“If you all will have me”

The boys all erupted in cheer and laughter which I’m sure got the attention of the lunch room again.

“Of course we’ll have you in hellfire y/n this is awesome” Dustin said with a wide smile.

You spent the rest of lunch talking and laughing with the hellfire gang and had a really good time. You were actually excited to be a part of the next campaign from the beginning so now you’ll get to be fully invested. The bell for lunch rang and everyone was slowly making their way out of the cafeteria when Eddie called you back to the table.

“Hey Y/n wait up!”

“Hey Eddie what’s up”

“I just uh wanted to give you a personal welcome again from the hellfire club leader….and I wanted to say I really liked your outfit today. Think you really shook up the student body with that one”

Hearing him say that definitely made you blush and you were about to say thank you when he said

“For future reference though we do tend to wear the hellfire shirt on fridays” he said looking at you with a wide smile.

“I know…but I figured I’d just wear it twice this week and make a statement” you said sitting back down at the table. You were definitely going to be late for sixth period.

“Ah so you were trying to get everyone’s attention…..” as he said this he looked down and looked a bit sad even as his voice got quiet.

“Was I not supposed to?” you say with a bit of an awkward laugh.

Eddie looks back up at you and he looks a bit worried as he begins to speak.

“Y/n I’m really happy about you joining hellfire and all I really am…..but making a statement like that and hanging out with us…..it could affect you in bad ways….I don’t mean to sound overly dramatic here but…it could ruin your life” as Eddie said this he looked down at his hands and fidgeted with his rings.

“I know Eddie.” Is all you said and he looked up at you. You smiled at him and he smiled back and you sat there for a moment in silence.

“Well Eddie I’m very sure we’re both late for class now but I’ll see you in seventh period alright?”

And as you got up to leave the cafeteria he thought about what you said. You made a statement that you knew would make you a target along with all of them. Why? Why do that to yourself? Maybe you just didn’t understand the extent of how bad it could get. Would you regret this? Regret joining the hellfire club? Regret hanging out with them? Hanging out with him? Despite all of this Eddie knew one thing now. He was definitely not skipping seventh period today.

Seventh period rolled around and Eddie made his way to English and he wasn’t quite sure what he expected but he definitely did not expect to walk in and see you sitting at the desk next to his in the back of the class opposed to where you normally sat near the front. Eddie walked to his desk and sat down and tapped you on the shoulder to get your attention.

“Hey y/n” he half whispered because the class was pretty quiet.

“Hey Eddie” you whispered back.

“So uh you decided to abandon your front of class friends for me?”

“Pretty much…but the only reason I sat up there is actually because I can’t see the board from back here” you whispered through a laugh.

“Oh well then shouldn’t you go sit closer?”

Sure Eddie was stoked to have you sitting next to him but he didn’t want to be the reason you possibly start failing English because you can’t see.

“It’s fine I planned today pretty well so I’ve decided I’ll just have to start wearing my glasses when I actually need to see” and that’s when you pulled out a pair of red glasses and put them on. Eddie didn’t know how to describe it but how could you make wearing reading glasses so sexy? He wasn’t sure but you were pulling it off. His mind was immediately thinking of sexy librarians and the song hot for teacher when looking at you. He forced himself to stop thinking about that and made himself look towards the front of the class for any sort of distraction. That was probably the first day Eddie Munson paid attention in that English class because the entire time he was trying to pull his thoughts away from you.

Finally the bell rings and Eddie stands up to leave class and you realize you have to ask him now before he manages to run out of the building entirely. “Hey Eddie wait up”

“Oh uh yeah what’s up”

“Well I was just wondering if you wanted to come to my house and uh” realizing you’re in a classroom where the teacher could hear you, you improvise.

“If you wanted to come to my house and take a *trip* tonight” Eddie seemingly caught off guard said nothing for a moment. Just processing.

“Uh sure I’d love to but are you sure? I mean you want me to come over and take a *trip* on a Monday night?”

“Yup” that’s all you said with a wide smile and it made him laugh.

“Sure I’ll be there”.

You both walk out of class talking to each other about how boring that English class was as you walk down the hallway. Nearing the doors to the parking lot you both stop in your tracks at the sight you see. It’s Jason, Chance, and Patrick trashing Eddie’s locker. As you stand there stunned the guys finally turn away from Eddie’s locker and look at the two of you. Upon seeing you and Eddie, Chance looks at you and all he says is “oops”. The three boys go to walk away but you can’t help yourself from what you say next.

“You guys are such assholes” upon saying it you realize now might have been a good time to keep your mouth shut.

Chance walks up to you very close and in your face say’s “I’m sorry baby what was that. I didn’t quite hear you”. You never could help yourself when it came to you and Chance fighting. These guys are all the same trying to intimidate you and force you to back down.

“Fuck you Chance” you spit in his face and the second you do that he’s holding your jaw in a vice grip.

“Say that again bitch”. Upon saying this Chance is immediately shoved back hard by Eddie. Jason and Patrick catch him and Jason starts talking some sense into Chance.

“Not here man, not here. If anyone sees anything you could get benched or kicked off the team let’s go” Jason grabs Chance and Patrick and they walk away towards the opposite end of the hall.

As soon as they’re out of sight you turn around to see Eddie collecting the bits they destroyed from his locker. You go to help him clean it up realizing they purposely destroyed a bunch of his hellfire plans and sheets.

“Eddie, I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry I had considered them treating me differently for joining hellfire but I didn’t consider they’d take it out on you. I’m so so so sorry Eddie” you felt so guilty holding all his destroyed hellfire plans in your hand. You’d been in the club for not even a full day and managed to get Eddie’s campaign plans destroyed.

“Hey don’t worry about it. Those guys are the ones that did this, not you. Hell even if you hadn’t joined those guys would have found some excuse to do this to me anyways” he said looking at you and now he noticed the tears in your eyes. He realized just how guilty you felt about it. He leaned over and wiped a tear from your cheek.

“How’s your jaw? Looked like he had a pretty tight grip there” Eddie said as he lightly and carefully traced his fingers around your face. Tilting your face slightly to check and see if you were hurt.

Forcing back tears and trying your best to not have a shaky voice you said

“Yeah I’m fine. Believe it or not I’m pretty used to it” you said with a quiet and somewhat sarcastic laugh. You hadn’t quite thought about what you said before you said it. Now looking back up at Eddie you realize what you’d just admitted to him and he looked devastated.

“I’m fine really trust me… anyways Um if you still wanna come over later, which it’s totally fine if you don’t but if you do we can work on rebuilding some of this campaign stuff and redoing the sheets…I mean I’m no D&D expert but I’ve got some of the books and Will made me quite the binder for it so I could be of some help” as you said this Eddie realized you were changing the conversation because obviously you didn’t want to address what you’d just said before.

He really wanted you to and hearing you say that devastated him. Everyone in the school knew you and Chance used to date. Everyone also knew you two were not a good happy couple but he never would have guessed that was a part of it. Maybe that’s why you two broke up last year. Thinking about it made his blood boil and he hated those assholes even more. But Eddie wasn’t going to pry and make you talk about something like that unless you wanted to or needed to.

“Yeah I think we can do that. Getting high and writing D&D. It’ll be pretty fun. And it doesn’t have to be the exact same you know y/n we can mix and match ideas if you want” he gave you a reassuring smile and he finally saw you relax and you let out a relieved chuckle.

You two finish cleaning up the mess they left from his locker and even went with Eddie to the office after school to get him a new locker and combination. One that hopefully wouldn’t get broken into this time. You headed your separate ways for the afternoon, each going to get ready for the evening you’d had planned.

You got home and did some homework and made sure to tidy up the house a bit. You debated on what food you should cook but since you’re a terrible cook you decided to order pizza cause it would be a shame to give Eddie food poisoning after getting his locker destroyed by your ex and his asshole friends. The pizza arrives just a few minutes before Eddie does. You hear a knock at the door and immediately go answer it, finding Eddie there with his own pizza box in one hand and D&D binder in the other. You haven’t let him in or greeted him yet but you’re already almost in tears from laughing.

“Y/n? What’s wrong” Eddie says in a very confused tone.

Through laughter you ask“Eddie why did you bring pizza”

“Oh well I thought since you’ve got the weed and the house that I might as well grab the food and be a nice guest” upon saying this you grab his wrist and drag him inside and bring him in front of the coffee table that has 2 unopened boxes of pizza on it. Eddie begins laughing as well.

“Well there’s no way either of us is going hungry tonight” Eddie says as he sets the third box down.

Eddie sits on the couch and opens up the two boxes of pizza you got. One was half of a sausage and meat fest while the other half was just plain pepperoni. He opened the second box to see that it was half Buffalo chicken and the other half was plain cheese.

“Are you a mind reader or something?” Eddie says, still looking at both pizzas.

“What are you talking about?”

Instead of responding Eddie just spins around the box of pizza he brought to reveal a half sausage meat fest and a half pepperoni. A little stunned you go to speak in laughter again.

“The sausage meat fest and Buffalo chicken are my favorites I got you the pepperoni and cheese just to be safe cause I didn’t know what pizza you liked”

“I did the exact same thing” he says and you both just start howling with laughter again as you sit on the couch next to him.

Eddie quickly realized how much you’d actually done to prepare. The couch was covered in pillows and blankets so it was comfortable. There were plenty of VHS tapes sitting out in case you wanted to watch a movie. And just the pizza situation alone told him that you both had been thinking about this a little too much and that made him smile.

“Oh shoot, how could I forget the most important part” you quickly got up and ran downstairs to a basement before Eddie got the chance to ask what was wrong. You came running back up with a few bags in hand and Eddie immediately realized what you’d forgotten. It was the weed.

“Y/n should we really be smoking that here in your living room. I mean I know that’s why I came over but really I don’t wanna get you in trouble or anything. We can just hangout if you want” as much as you think that’s sweet of him you think it’s funny that he’s worried about you getting in trouble as if you don’t already have a past reputation as town party girl and druggie.

“Trust me Eddie I’m not getting in trouble for this” you say as you sit back on the couch and start rolling a joint.

“What about your parents? What if they come home and see you getting high on the couch with the town freak?”

“I mean nothing bad happened when we sat in that very driveway the other night and got high in your van?”

“Yeah but that was different I’m actually in your house now”

“Trust me Eddie nobodies coming home anyways. My mom’s not around anymore and my dad’s so busy all the time and never here. I promise no parents are coming to kick your ass tonight Eddie you can relax”

And so he did. He sat there and watched you roll the joint and eventually you two started smoking away passing the joint back and fourth and just making stupid little small talk until you two started to feel the effects of your high.

“Okay Munson I think now is as good a time as any to start replanning that campaign”

“Oh yeah a great time to plan a campaign when my thoughts are up in space”

You two get to working on the campaign and planning it out and you guys get so into it you haven’t even realized that it’s past midnight and you’ve already gone through 2 1/2 out of 3 of the pizza boxes.

“So once they get this artifact what happens then?”you say trying to write as fast as you guys are talking.

“Well then they have to return it to the nobleman and the lord before the queens forces get the artifact”

“Ooooooo I really like that. What if on their way back they encounter a maze they have to fight through some puzzles before they can reach the nobleman or the lord” as you say this you look at Eddie and look around the room and finally see the time realizing just how late it is. And Eddie sees you do this and does the same.

“Oh shit sorry y/l/n I didn’t even think about the time I should probably get out of your hair” he doesn’t even get the chance to stand up because you’re already talking.

“Well why don’t you stay the night? I mean we’ve already made it this far and we’re both high as shit and I wouldn’t want you to have to drive home this late when you’re high. We can stop working on the campaign if you want and just watch a movie” you watch Eddie lean back into the couch and figure he’s taken you up on your offer.

You handed him the stack of movie options just deciding to let him pick one. You had all the scary movies cause horror movies were your favorite. You probably sounded crazy but they always made you laugh. You watched as he looked through the movies you had. Nightmare On Elm Street, The Thing, The Shining, Alien and Aliens, Day Of The Dead, Night Of The Living Dead, Gremlins and Friday the 13th. Finally he landed on Night of the Living Dead.

You both sat there and watched it and ended up laughing together. It’s like it wasn’t even a question. Usually when you watched horror movies and they made you laugh the people you were with looked at you like you were crazy. But with him he seemed to just laugh with you. You’d both been so high and tired after working on the campaign that you managed to fall asleep together on the couch.

You woke up sometime Tuesday to find your feet propped up next to Eddie’s on the coffee table while you were nestled against him in his arms on the couch. You could feel him breathing heavily beneath you and realized he was still asleep. And you tried as calmly as you could to stand up without disturbing him in any way but the second he started to feel you move away from him he began to open his eyes and he realized what had happened. And then his eyes shot open really wide

“Shit shit shit y/n what time is it?”

“I have no idea here, let me check. You leaned over and looked at the clock across the room that read 11:15 am” upon seeing it you realize that it’s Tuesday and you’ve both slept in and missed school.

“Well Eddie I think it’s safe to say we definitely missed first through third period…probably a bit of fourth”

“Oh shit I’m so sorry y/n I should have just went home I didn’t mean to make you miss class” upon hearing him say this you realize that’s why he was panicked and you start laughing.

“It’s fine Eddie missing a few classes isn’t going to kill me” you say as you sit back down on the couch almost leaning back on Eddie the way you had when you were asleep but now you’re realizing that might be weird. So instead you opt to just lean straight back on the couch.

“Well if we leave In the next few minutes I’m sure we could make it before lunch at least?” Eddie says as he starts to pack up the D&D stuff into the binder.

“I mean if you want to Eddie that’s cool but I think I’m just gonna skip today since I’ve already missed this much”

“Are you sure cause I could totally get you there before lunch if I speed a little bit?” he says laughing. And looking at how quickly you’ve melted into the couch.

“Well then y/n is it cool with you if I stay and get high a bit more. I kinda wanted to watch nightmare on elm street too last night but we uh fell asleep before I got the chance” What Eddie really means is that half way through night of the living dead when the movie hit a slow point you passed out on him and you looked so cute that he didn’t have the heart to wake you or move you when the movie ended so he just stayed like that until he fell asleep too.

But Eddie doesn’t tell you that. He just sits back down on the couch as you start the movie and you two get high as can be while you watch movies together and laugh for the rest of the afternoon. Part of Eddie hoped that you would fall asleep on him again but you didn’t. He did however sneakily yawn and put his arm around you once he’d plucked up the courage after the third movie you guys had watched.

Throughout each movie Eddie found himself becoming more transfixed by you. Everytime something horrible would happen on screen that made you laugh he just wanted to repeat that scene forever and find a way to keep your laugh in a bottle to hear all the time. And when the evening rolled around and you came down from your highs and it was time for Eddie to go home you walked him to the door. Eddie had expected you to stop there at the door but you didn’t. You walked him all the way to his van. And you’re not sure why you did it. But as you said your goodbyes and he went to step into his van you gave him a light soft kiss on the cheek. Eddie smiled at you and got in his van and waved as he drove away.

It’s all Eddie thought about the entire way home and his cheek tingled as if he could still feel the kiss you left on his cheek, and he was pretty sure it’s all he was going to think about until he saw you again.

You walked back inside and immediately called Nancy to tell her every detail of what had taken place that day. At first Nancy was a bit concerned about you missing school but quickly got over it upon hearing the rest.

“So do you like him then?”

“I don’t know Nance, what if it’s just some silly little crush?”

“Even if it is some silly little crush Y/n why not give it a try”

“I don’t know Nance. I mean I really enjoy the time I’m spending with him but what if I’m not ready for something like that? And even if I am, what if he doesn’t feel the same?”

“Y/n after what you just told me I’m sure Eddie would be willing to give you a chance. Hell I’m sure most guys in Hawkins would be willing to give you a chance”

Hearing Nancy say that made you laugh. You guys talked about it for a bit longer before Nancy said she had to go work on some stuff for an article. This left you alone with your thoughts. All swirling with Eddie. Just dying to know how he felt about the time you guys had spent together. You laid in bed thinking about it for so long and you were sure you were going to be exhausted at school tomorrow.

That’s when the phone rang and you figured it was Nancy calling back after finishing up her article.

“Hey Nance” when you say that you hear a cough mixed with laughter on the other end.

“I’ve been called a lot of things in this town y/l/n but I don’t think I’ve ever been mistaken for Nancy before”

“Eddie?!? What are you doing up this late?”

“I could ask you the same question”

The line is silent for a moment but it doesn’t feel awkward at all.

“So why’d you call me Eddie?”

“Oh well I was looking over some of the stuff you wrote for the campaign and I was just thinking about this one aspect of the maze puzzle you wrote down about the 3 way stop”

Eddie was totally lying at this point. I mean he had looked at the campaign when he got home and he was genuinely asking you this question but he’s asking you about it now because he’s been looking for any excuse to call you since the moment he left your house. The moment he got home and all he could think about was that kiss on the cheek you gave him. He knew he had to talk to you at least. Hear your voice at the bare minimum.Cause let’s face it any question he had about the campaign, he could just ask you tomorrow at school with the papers in front of you guys.

You both start talking about the campaign over the phone and you both find it calming. Just listening to each other’s voices further and further into the night. It’s like the phone is pretty much sewn to your hand. Eventually you two stop talking about the campaign and it’s obvious how tired you two are because you’re just babbling about things that you both know you won’t care about or remember in the morning. But neither of you consider or even think of hanging up. Instead you both just fall asleep peacefully on the phone. Hearing the sound of each other’s breathing and listening to it like a lullaby.

Both Eddie and yourself are woken up abruptly by the sound of your alarm clock. Although you’re so groggy you haven’t quite realized you fell asleep on the phone until you hear Eddie’s morning voice talking to you.

“So I guess this means I’ll pick you up in 20?” Hearing his voice startles you but also makes you happy.And you can’t help but find the early morning rasp in his voice attractive. Upon actually registering his words you’re suddenly very confused.

“Wait what?” Is all you manage to croak out.

“Last night, we agreed I’d pick you up for school that way we can just head back to my place after school and we can get high and finish the hellfire campaign together?”

You’d been so tired on the phone you had completely forgotten he’d asked you over to his house for that but the prospect of it makes you happy.

“Oh yeah totally” as you say this Eddie is completely unconvinced and just chuckles deeply.

“You forgot I asked you didn’t you?”

“Okay I might have forgotten BUT that totally doesn’t mean I don’t want to I promise”

“You pinky promise?” Him saying that forces an amazingly beautiful laughter out of your morning voice that makes his heart tight in his chest.

“Yes Eddie I pinky promise”

The line is quiet for a second before Eddie comes back to reality.

“I guess I actually have to hang up now and get ready if I’m gonna come get you”

You guys hung up the phone and you quickly got ready. You don’t think you’ve ever been so excited to get ready for school in your entire life.

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Judging A Book by Its Cover (Eddie Munson X Fem! Reader)~ Chapter 7

Warnings: Swearing

Summary (1.8K Words): It's your senior year of high school in your new town of Hawkins. You have visited on multiple occasions finding the town quiet and peaceful so you're hoping the same for your final year of high school. What could go wrong till you find yourself entangled in a problematic relationship with the high school's freak Eddie Munson on the first day of school nonetheless.

A/N: AHH this is the second to last chapter and I'm so stoked to show the last one to y'all!

Chapter 7~

It was the next day. You avoided Eddie at all costs during the day, the two of you hardly talking at chemistry class. It was awkward between the two of you, you had no idea if what he said was actually what he was trying to say. You sat with Nancy and Robin in the cafeteria, the two of them talking about various things. You looked over at the table with your usual seat empty, Eddie was looking at you and quickly looked away. You did the same.

“What happened between you two, you never sit with us?” Nancy inquires.

“I don’t know,” you mumble, “I went over to his place after we went shopping and he said some things and I just don't know what they meant and ya.”

The two girls looked at you puzzled.

“Well, what exactly did he say?” Robin asked.

“I think… I think he was telling me he likes me. I don’t know!”

Eddie was looking over at you from the loud table of boys. Their conversations stuck to the next campaign the group had been doing. Eddie was unusually quiet, usually boasting about his dungeon master skills and his ability to make the best campaigns. Dustin looked over at Eddie, eying him up and down and sensing something was wrong.

“Eddie, what’s on your mind?” Dustin asks.

Eddie sighs, “I fucking blew it.”

“Blew what? Also, why isn’t Y/n sitting here?” Mike adds

“I told her that I liked her in a stupid roundabout way. I don’t even know if she gets that I said that. I didn’t even mean to say that. I’m so fucking stupid,” Eddie says, hanging his head in his hands.

The group cheers at Eddie. They all had known he liked you but never thought he would ever express that to you. The cheers cause Eddie to laugh a bit, easing some worry he had.

“Why are you guy’s cheering?” Eddie asks.

“She likes you too Eddie, at least I think so. So it’ll be alright,” Dustin comforts him.

You were looking over at the group who had just cheered, watching a smile form on Eddie’s face which caused your heart to flutter. You sigh, bringing your attention back to the group of girls you were sitting with.

“Just go talk to him Y/n, what’s the worst that can happen,” Robin enthusiastically says.

“I lose a friend, plus he seems to be having fun without me.”

The bell rang, you sprint up from your table heading back to your locker without saying your goodbyes. Eddie’s words rang back and forth in your mind, they couldn’t be true plus who cares if they were, well you actually did. It had crossed your mind a few times about dating Eddie, he was so kind, incredibly attractive and the two of you were like peas in a pod. Your heart fluttered as you thought about more than a friendship with Eddie, maybe it was something you wanted.

You exited Steves's car once you arrived at the school. He opens the car door for you with a generous smile on his face. He was wearing a deep blue suit, hair slicked back the best he could. Helping you out of the car, he continues to hold your hand as the two of you walk towards the school to meet Nancy and Robin.

“So are you excited?” Steves asks.

“Yeah, I am. This is the first dance I’ve been to all year. Also thank you for being my date.”

Steve chuckles, “not a problem, Dustin was trying to get me over Nancy with this date.”

“Well maybe she will realize what she’s missing out on with me being your date,” you tease.

Steve laughs, the two of you finding the two other girls. Nancy looked beautiful, a light wash of makeup on her face just to accentuate her already beautiful facial features. The dress complemented her very well. Robin had no makeup on with a black pants-suit which was truly just her. The two looked beautiful in your eyes.

“Wow Nancy, you look great,” Steve says.

Robin rolls her eyes as a faint blush appears on Nancy’s cheeks. You laugh a little bit as the four of you enter the dance. The music was booming from the speakers, playing all the hits of the year and some music from your childhood. The four of you were dancing, drinking punch and laughing. It had been a long time since you had been to a dance so you enjoyed every moment. The lights, disco ball, music and the laughs of slightly intoxicated teenagers.

Steve kept close to Nancy, almost forgetting you were his date. You didn’t care though, you knew this was just a ploy to either get Steve and Nancy back together or get Steve over her. You enjoyed watching Steve horribly flirt with Nancy, and so did Robin since she pointed it out every time causing Nancy to laugh. The music began to slow, it was the first slow dance. The singles moved out of the dance floor leaving it to the couples to take the lead.

“Would you like to dance?” Steve asked you.

“No, I’m okay Steve.”

The group sat on the sidelines, you were looking outside the gym through the doors which lead down the semi-dark hallway. Catching your attention was a man walking down the hallway, he had a bouquet of roses which caught your attention first as they contrasted against his white button-up shirt. He looked familiar but you couldn’t place it. His hair was seemingly short but as he stepped closer it was up in a bun, the shirt's long sleeves rolled up exposing tattoos and black pants swayed over some black shoes. You studied the guy but couldn’t place who it was.

“Isn’t that Eddie?” Robin pipes up.

“No way, that can’t be, he hates shit like this,” Steve says.

You look again, “holy shit, that’s Eddie.”

Eddie walks towards the group. He was terrified about being there for many reasons, he hated these things and he had something important to ask you. He looks around the colourful gym, trying to find you. He notices you walking over, stunned. Your dress fits you naturally, causing your breasts to look even better than they ever did in any shirt he lent you, the length just showing enough but leaving enough hidden to cause you to want more. Your makeup is natural but done beautifully, making your face come to life even more than usual. Eddie was star-struck by you, if it wasn’t for all the eyes being on him he would kiss you right there and then.

“What are you doing here Eddie, you hate these things,” you ask.

“Um, for you,” he looks at you with a sweet smile offering you the flowers.

“These are for me, you bought me flowers?”

Eddie nods, you couldn’t stop yourself from a large grin appearing on your face. You take the roses, smelling their sweet scent with glee. They were beautiful and Eddie was the first guy to have ever bought you flowers which made it all the more special.

“Um, Y/n,” Eddie says softly, “will you dance with me?”

You nod eagerly, setting the flowers on a nearby bench. Eddie takes your hand softly as he leads you onto the dance floor. He wrapped his arms around your waist, hanging above your butt as you placed yours on his shoulders. The two of you were trapped in this moment, the stares from the crowd didn’t even phase either of you, you couldn’t even feel their gaze on the two of you. The dance floor was bare in both of your minds, it was as if the two of you were the only ones dancing. Your eyes locked into one another, trapped in the beauty of not only the moment but of one another. A toothy smile plastered on Eddie’s face making you entranced with how handsome he truly is, the hair out of his face only helped.

You had the full view of Eddie Munson, not just his looks but his personality and you loved it all. You could not have been more entranced with this man than you are now. The bright lights shining over his face, his eyes filled with love for you, the toothy grin on his face, all of it made your heart race. Eddie had persevered through your walls, not willing to back down so he could see what was within, never in your life, you have met a man like that, one to never back down from a fight. You did the same to Eddie, he had never attended a social function at Hawkins High, but you dragged him out and to be honest, he was extremely jealous over this date you had.

Eddie breaks the silence between you two, “Y/n, I’m sorry for yesterday. I didn’t mean to explode on you for this stupid dance.”

You smiled at him, “It must have not been that stupid if you’re dancing with me right now.”

Eddie rolls his eyes, pinching at your waist causing you to come closer together. He looks down at you, biting his lip, he would kiss you right there and then if he didn’t have something to say first, “Y/n,” he says in a low tone, “I don’t want you to be having this date.”

The tone of his voice shushing any rebellious comment to his, “What?” you stammer out.

Eddie pulls you closer, stopping the moment between the two of you. His hands glide to the top of your ass. His eyes filled with a sense of jealousy but were still kind in nature.

“I like you, you’re mine. Not fucking Harringtons. You’ve been mine since you stood up to me and called me out on my shit. Right then I’ve liked you, liked your spunk, attitude, how you tease me just enough in your own ways. Fuck Y/n, I'm infatuated with you.”

Your eyes light up. A blush racing across your face, and you feel like you’re on cloud nine.

“Eddie, I like you too.”

That’s the only words he needed to hear at that moment before his lips were placed on yours. The kiss became hot and sloppy within seconds. You let Eddie explore every inch of your mouth with his tongue which caused you to melt even more into the kiss. Eddie grabbed onto your ass as he bit your lip lightly, pulling away from the intense kiss. You were a mess and you felt it deep within you.

Eddie leans into your ear, biting it ever so slightly, causing a chill to be sent up your spine and a small moan to escape your lips.

Eddie whispers seductively “wanna get out of here princess?”

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Okay fine I’ll say it because I don’t want you confused - Max is Adrien

Amaryllis

From that day onwards, I’m at the atelier and the set almost every day. We’re doing fittings first, so I’m still mostly at the studio for the first week.

As are most spring collections, the entire campaign features flowers. Florals for spring? Groundbreaking, I know. But the theme, flora and fauna, or la faune et la flore as I’ve heard Marcel refer to it, is a well executed idea without making the florals look tacky.

On barely the second day, quick slaps of expensive leather on the floor alert me of Maximilien’s presence before I can see him. I’m being fitted in a sheer gown, a snake of blossoms covering whatever has to be.

He glances at the time on his expensive watch, nose twitching as he looks up at me and the scene around him. “My father can’t make it till later today. He told me to oversee the fittings until then.” His gaze lingers on me—not me, the dress, probably—and a crease forms between his brows. On my first day of meeting him, he made it quite clear that he had a different idea for this collection as compared to the one his father did. I don’t know if he said it to be difficult or if he just wanted his vision to be heard and executed.

“That piece is ill-fitting,” he remarks, walking over to where I am. The tailors’ hands are off me before he stops in front of me, grabbing me by the shoulders and turning me around. A surprised little

noise escapes my throat as his fingers deftly undo the pins and readjusts them better.

These aren’t the final pieces from the collection, so they’re using it on me to see what has to be custom-made for me and what already fits.

His fingers are too close to my neck as he pins something behind my shoulders, tightening the material around my chest. I hope he can’t see the scatter of goosebumps that rise on my skin. Then his fingers splay out on my lower back as he gets a look, and I’m trying not to think about how his hand is warm on my back through the thin mesh material.

“That’s better,” he murmurs, stepping back. “I want all of the garments we’re using for the shoot remade to fit her like that if you haven't gotten started on that already. All except the structural ones and the finale.”

Then the dress is taken off me, and I feel too bare. I don’t remember the last time I felt shy in nothing but nipple covers and a nude thong, I’ve done it so many times before.

Oh, quit worrying, you know you’re hot.

Instead of turning away to give me a modicum of respect, I can feel Maximilien’s shameless gaze on my back until I’m in the next look. It’s a bouncy layered and pleated dress with flared sleeves, appliqué roses all around the drop shoulder neckline.

After they make the readjustments, a single command comes from Maximilien. “Walk.”

“Now?” I ask. “I’ve got no shoes.”

“Surely you can walk without shoes, Miss Anderson. Now walk, and do a half spin at the end. I want to see the movement of the dress.”

No, he wants to see my walk. With a little eye roll, I raise up on my tippy toes like I’ve seen Bella Hadid do during rehearsals, and walk down the center of the atelier. As instructed, I do a half spin at the end, and the way the skirt flares out has the little girl in me letting out a squeal. When I walk past Maximilien to get to my original spot, I give him a cloying, challenging little smile. His nose wrinkles and his blink is a beat too long.

“Good,” he comments, checking the time on his watch again like he has somewhere else to be.

About halfway through the fittings, Maximilien announces that Marcel won’t be able to make it today, so we can wrap up earlier.

I feel like a Barbie doll playing dress up in all these shiny, exclusive clothes. I try on every single piece from the confirmed collection, and then some side pieces they’re unsure if they should use.

Sometime during the afternoon, Maximilien dismisses the designers and tailors for the day. I stand there, confused and almost bare, before sliding back into the tank top and jeans I arrived in this morning.

“Not you,” Maximilien orders, hazel eyes narrowing in on me.

“But-”

“Just an hour or two more. I can pay you for your time, if that's what you want.”

He waits for everyone to clear out before addressing me, sitting on a stool and using my phone. I put my phone away and raise my eyes to his. Even though the room is emptied now, it feels smaller with just the two of us.

“Yes?” I ask, my eyes flicking over him in annoyance.

He wrinkles his nose. “There’s more pieces I need you to try on.”

“And…why couldn’t we have done that while everyone else was here?” I challenge.

“They’re not meant to be in this collection. And they’re kept in a separate studio.”

“Why?”

“I have the entire car ride to explain that.” He walks towards the lift and I snatch my purse off a working table and follow him without question.

I seriously hope I’m not annoying you with these 😭

OMG OMG AHHHHHHH I'M LOVING ITTT!!!

You are def not annoying me with these

also thanks for clearing up the max and adrien thing :)

#ems asks #💋

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How central banking happens in the US

The US is the most powerful nation in the world today. I am saying this from an economic perspective. It may seem to be a productive and interesting exercise to conduct a study and develop an understanding of how central banking occurs in the US. All nations of the world have adopted the system of central banking without any major hassle. Interestingly, the US had to go through a lot of resistance before central banking was established. The founding fathers of the US never liked the idea of a central bank. Thomas Jefferson called central banks more dangerous than “standing armies.” Central banking was considered unconstitutional. The general population had to be persuaded to adopt this concept. In this blog, I will look at the history of the 3 central banks that were set up in the US. The first bank of the US - 1791 to 1811 This was proposed in the very first meeting of the first congress. Alexander Hamilton, one of the forefathers, was the first supporter of a central bank. He believed that a central bank would be indispensable to facilitating the rapid transfer of money across states and providing credit to the governments in states. However, the idea faced resistance from Jefferson and Co. Despite Jefferson’s opposition, the First Bank of United States was born in 1791 just 15 years after American independence. Jefferson’s opposition was the first of many obstacles faced by this bank. The conditions were not conducive for banking at that time. Around 50 types of French, Spanish, Portuguese, and American currencies were in circulation at that time. The charter of the banks was for 20 years only. It was supposed to be renewed after that. This bank kept expanding its operations during its time of existence. One year before the charter’s expiry, more branches were opened on the east coast in the US. President Madison did not renew the charter of this bank in 1811. Thus, central banking in the US came to a sudden end for a little while. People thought that this created monetary instability which lasted for a long time, post-1811. The second bank of the US - 1816 to 1832 For the first 5 years after the closure of the first bank of the US, monetary variability ran widespread across the US. The impact was big enough to contemplate the creation of another Central Bank called the Second Bank of the US. This was an extension of the first bank. It had virtually the same rights and privileges. This bank could create paper money and regulate it too. The second bank faced much bigger opposition compared to its ancestor bank. Andrew Jackson opposed the central bank calling it the work of “monied interests” for ensuring their domination over the masses. Jackson depicted the second bank as an enormously corrupt institution that required to be displaced from American soil for the sake of economic independence. He campaigned against the bank. This resulted in the collapse of the second bank in 1832. It could not even complete its first 20-year charter. The Federal Reserve - 1913 to present No central bank existed in the US between 1832 and 1913. In spite of this, US trade and commerce were functioning properly till the 1900s. The early 1900s saw a series of financial panics and crises in the US. Most notable of these was the 2007 crisis. Banks became bankrupt. People lost their life savings. There was a cry about bringing in some regulations in the banking practice. The Federal Reserve Act was passed in 1913. With this, the US had a central bank once again. This time, the bank had come to stay. Its charter does not have a limited validity. It does not require multiple approvals from Congress every few years. The creation of the Federal Reserve was a challenge for American senators. A system to regulate banking practices had to be devised. They had to make sure that the system was impartial. For this, the Federal Reserve created a quasi-government body. This meant that bankers would be part of the federal reserve in order to provide industry expertise, but the decisive control lay within the government’s hands. This convinced everyone that there were no ulterior and sinister motivations behind the formation of the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve Act limited the control of the government too. A balance was created. The monetary policy stayed out of the president’s control. The Federal Reserve does not need Congressional approvals in its everyday business. Through the Federal Reserve Act, the American people have discovered the perfect mix of controlled central banking, as well as escaping monetary meltdowns, and central banking, which had earlier been hated in America, was now here to stay. Read the full article

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Episode Three: "I’m gonna get served up a big ol’ plate of blindside butter beans" - Tyler

Trinica

ALL RIGHT JINX I'm so sorry for my doomsday confession earlier. It worked!! I still think we wasted an idol but whatever, chaos rules again and AJ is still here and that's all I care about

Hairie

Seeing the first one voted out from Hidra gave me a shock. And especially the idol play to save the target by majority. It’s literally 7.30am here for me and waking up with an Energizer

Tyler Frazier

So AJ is still here which is SO awkward. Anyways on another note Esteban just casually mentioned a theory of an “all non mens alliance” which isn’t something he floated around to me ab all before so like I’m interested to see his reasoning. I think that there could potentially be some backing to it though because apparently the people who were originally throwing my name around were AJ, Trinica, and Tori. Obviously Jinx is working with AJ and Trin bc they played an idol on AJ so that’s 4. But Im still not entirely sold based on the vote count.

Esteban

damn why not aj and why not me?

Thats a very good game though. I already knew by gut feeling that jinx had an idol. I just have no time to turn the votes away and actually idk. Nut i know the votes are fake! Trinica and jinx and aj voted clefford. But the bethany and toni vote is jus tto cover there assess to pretend that there is no Non-men alliance. Like seriously? Im not that dumb or maybe a bit.

Sorry Clefford that you are the first casualty. My bad.

So after that i told trinica and AJ (on a freakin groupcall) that i am sorry if i hurt there feeling but not sorry for voting AJ out (coz why should i?) then i told them i was played by cleffords lie. (Sorry again clefford) lmao. It was a good conversation. Everyone is faking and everyone is trying to cover their assess (counte me in). As much as i wanted to be the villainish again though i know i am not coz my actions are just a counter attack coz i discovered their lieees!

Toni assuring me that we are tight i’ll take it til no more ( i love her genuinely but i know she is a smart queen)

Bethany atleast she didn’t sealed it with a kiss YET. But i am pretty sure her loyalty is with the power puff girls.

(Ohh my i miss the rowdy rough boys) lol

I thought i will seal this last VL with a 💋 and sorry to pedro but we are still baby!!! Lol. At least for another round.

Now azri, tyler and I are in the bottom

Now i feel like a disposable bag ready to be 🗑 disposed.

Lol. Fun cheetos fun! Till the next crazy tribal

Trinica

NOT A TRIBE SWAP!!!! I'm screwed if I end up with any of the guys at this point, even Esteban. AJ asked me if I thought we should campaign for one of us for captain and I told her no because it would make it seem like we're playing too hard, but she immediately said in our pink venom (Jinx, me, Toni, AJ, and Bethany) chat that she wants to be captain... I went to Jinx and Toni in our vecepia/WOC alliance to see what they think. Jinx would probably pick Toni and I first and second, and I *think* Toni would do the same. I know AJ is my #1, but she's very vocal in every chat we're in and I think she shows her cards a little too soon sometimes. Also, I don't want her to have the most coins out of any of us lol.

Oh shit just realized I can vote for myself byyyyyeeeee maybe that's the move???

Zach🤠

This whole voting for captains thing is not a slay. Especially if our votes are revealed. I didn’t vote unanimously with my tribe for the other captain so if that’s revealed then my tribe will know that Jinx and I were able to talk and then the jig about our game is up. Um was also not expecting Jinx to play the idol that quickly. This game is already turning up.

Hairie

Jinx finding an idol that fast is impressive! She’s someone to keep a lookout for

I knew a swap was potentially coming but this soon? Jay stop :’)

I have a huge plan for this tribe swap and I want to be captain. It’s for my long game.

Arvin Bentonon

I was so sad to see my fellow Filipino going home.

Jayjay

So this game is starting to get really interesting! I’m more invested in it then I thought I’d be.😅 I’m so ready for the results in this next challenge, id like to think that my answers were pretty unique to where they don’t cross with anyone else’s. Fingers crossed! As far as alliances go, I have made one with Hairie and Champ considering we’re newbies to the game and have to stick together. My first thoughts and go to were Raffy since he knows what’s he’s doing and could coach me a bit, however when I asked him if he had anything going on he completely ignored me so that was a red flag for me! I feel really confident in the two I chose to align myself with though. Champ and I went on an idol hunt and received 10 coins each. We also found out Hairie has 10 coins as well. We decided to go with him as our team captain so that will also give him another 25 coins in our favor! We banking over here! Lol we’ll see what’s to come with this challenge and our tribe swap. We’re planning on just picking off Hydra one by one after splitting the team on both sides. Hope it all works out in our favor!

Hairie

Okay potentially being a captain is harder that I actually thought it would be. Especially when there’s so many thinking and so much time space to let my thoughts sink and in. I’ll be like okay this is what I wanna do and the next hour okay maybe not and I should do this Gahhhh!!

Raffy

Jinx is an icon and I can't wait to try and work with them. I am just vibing here with my two alliances. I would prefer an AJ and Hairie tribe leaders since AJ seems at the bottom of their tribe and Hairie I trust. If we do a one world, I am hoping to get out someone from Hidra. Maybe Esteban based on my own bias. Other than that, I really am just rolling with the punches here. I feel like I'm in a good position and don't need to do much in this game atm.

I am concerned that people are already seeing me as a threat, but there is nothing I can do. I don't like throwing challenges, so I won't change who I am to cater to anyone's preconceived notions of me. So far, I am letting Hairie take the reins in terms of strategy talk as I want someone else to take the lead.

Trinica

I was lowkey campaigning for AJ NOT to get tribe captain, but I feel....middling to okay about my odds of surviving this tribe swap now that she is. I'm just seeding doubts in my vecepia alliance with Jinx and Toni, suggesting that AJ is closer to Tyler than we know, that she's playing hard, that she makes emotional decisions, etc. (Am I the drama??) I want them to still think I don't talk to AJ much and also when I inevitably have to vote AJ off (because I just can't sit next to her at tribal) hopefully I'd have Toni and Jinx's votes.

I survived another day, and a very tense tribal council. Honestly I worry we're heading back with this 30% disadvantage but yeah. I've done all I can and enjoyed a nice day off, found a fun 5% advantage for my next challenge so that's nice. Also I got elected tribe captain for the tribe swap which is great! Stay tuned, fingers crossed we somehow manage to win this one

Toni

Theme: "Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."

Hello world,

A LOT has happened. With the last tribal came the realisation of party lines. So let me catch you up. *DEEP BREATH*

Last time I was here I was firmly with my girls Trinica and Jinx! I still am and we're doing well. I was unsure about Esteban but I hesitate no longer. I was initially very open to Esteban and pretty sure I had a good read of him but Jinx alerted me to the idea that he may be working with Clefford. He came to me with a suspicious question asking whether I did an Idol hunt with AJ to which I responded honestly as I trusted him at that point. He then proceeded to make a really big deal of the fact that AJ lied and said she didn't Idol hunt with anyone else. He then asserted that Trinica and AJ were close and that we needed to break them up. We need to break up an alliance of TWO people out of NINE?! something wasn't adding up. It seemed so extreme so when I floated the Idea of working with Clefford saying he's probably misunderstood (we'd previously been talking about how Clefford was playing HARD already) and he agreed to work with Clefford my suspicion grew. Jinx suggested an alliance with AJ and Bethany to me and after feeling them out I decided it was a good idea to align with all the girls so I suggested to Trinica that we make a girls alliance group chat so I could stay under the radar. Clefford and Esteban all this time I believe thought they were playing us. Clefford suggested a POC alliance to me but excluded the two other black women. :') In the end I made up my own mind that Clefford and Esteban were both playing pretty hard and that it was better to cast my lot with the girls who i'd been able to build some genuine trust with. Yes! That's right ALL THE GIRLS WERE IN ON THE CLEFFORD BLINDSIDE! I'm not convinced that the boys bought the idea that we all voted with them but at least we have plausible deniability. I heard every version of everyones plan but Esteban and Clefford never earned my voice (vote). I think that's it for the recap. Bye Clefford hope to play with you again lovely!

Moving on to today the twist is really going to shake things up I may potentially need to create new alliances and build new connections so I need to read the other tribe's intros. On the current alliance front Jinx, Trinica and I are solid though I have noticed that Jinx can bulldoze a decision in her favour so I'm trying to set clear boundaries. Jinx playing so hard may cost her so I've started creating contingencies to strengthen our alliance in the event of that. Bethany and AJ are great and really trustworthy so far. AJ practically fell on the sword and put her life in our hands last tribal so we could vote Clefford out. I'm really vibing with AJ which is funny given I didn't think we would get on at all. In the event Jinx is eliminated AJ is the backup plan. Additionally, if I am moved to play with a whole host of other people i'll be checking to see who else I can pull into our alliance.

I can't currently think straight because I haven't slept properly since Friday so i'll sign off now with a migraine. buhbye!

Arvin Bentonon

I am very happy that we won again, it gives us more number in the tribe swap, but I'm still nervous about it.

Trinica

We lost the challenge, as was to be expected, and now Esteban is scrambling, as was also to be expected. I stayed up way too late the last several days working alliances and doing challenges, so I'm trying to just take a moment to myself tonight before things get nuts tomorrow. Hopefully an easy vote for Esteban, though he said something about "doing whatever I can to stay" which made me a bit nervous. Still, we don't have the numbers to split a vote so all we can do is stay 5-strong in the pink venom alliance with Jay, Toni, Bethany, AJ, and myself and try to get Esteban gone.

I did raise voting Tyler out with AJ-- mostly because I've now tried to chat with Tyler twice and he's put up a pretty clear wall both times-- but AJ doesn't want to get rid of him because "he seems to trust" her. And I think an ally of my kinda-ally is my enemy, so I may need to work a Tyler vote out with Jinx and Toni separately. But we'll see what happens with tomorrow's tribe swap!

Brandi

Legit have decided I have an undying alliance with someone due to both of us loving Taylor swift. I stand by this decision and even if they voted me out later…… I’m not gonna regret it

Esteban

i know this is kinda sound villain idea but… I told azri to rally the cote to aj again and ask bethany, toni and tyler (which i know it wont work bcoz of the black widowws or whatsoever non-men Alliance name is)

Then i will tell bethany , toni if someone mentioned a name. And play it their to plant a vote to azri. (I am so sorry!) just to save my ass.

I will tell tyler about this plan about azri

I will tell trinica and aj about azri rallying a vote against AJ.

I hope that works. 1 in a million shot. But maybe this will be a bob part 2 scenario.

Hairie

Winner winner chicken dinner! Now Tromoya is 9 strong against 7 Hidra

Tyler Frazier

Okay. So I’m in 0 alliances and starting to believe the non men alliance theory (I’ve become the type of man I hate to see on the show 🥰) so im really not slaying this game. Anyways the plan is to throw Azri to the wolves to keep Esteban and I safe so hopefully that’s what happens 😄

So regarding the plan to throw Azri to the wolves he’s actually doing a lot of the work himself by targeting AJ, if the theory is true and he’s openly targeting a non man that incentivizes the alliance to target him and not me or Esteban. However, Esteban is getting really paranoid so he could mess it up for himself. And if I get voted out that’d be goofy

jinx

i must confess my loneliness and relentless internal dialogue is killing me

wait …i literally got a britney spears lyric wrong im such a bad zilennial 😭😭😭

my loneliness is killing me (and i) i must confess i still believe (every conspiracy!) when i’m not on skype i lose my mindddd give me a signnnnnnnnn (that’s not the relentless angel numbers omg) hit me (telepathically) one more time!

missing my shitpost one line confessionals that i used to make sure i even submitted on this thing. i HATE THIS THING I NEVER REMEMBER!!! would rather have the whole VL in my confessional than have to submit to this 😭 even though it’s really useful like WE GOTTA DO SOMETHINGGGGGGGGGGGGG DIFFERENT

anyways thank u for doing an amazing job hosting i appreciate it ty to the cast for being very lovely ppl and thank u for coming to my horrible spoken word confessional poetry jesus DIED FOR OUR CYNTHIAS!!!!

Azri

https://youtu.be/Jb83IApa4Dc

Chelsea

yessss! Perfect! We got picked into our new tribes. 3rd pick from original Tromoya, right in the middle of the pick list. And three of the alliance on our team. Although I have a feeling Raffy and Hairie were kinda the leaders and they’re both there now, so we’ll just have to go on without them….alas…

Hairie

Honestly I felt that the tribal swap went perfect!

Me making the tribe guess a movie where with a weird made up phrase and getting 2 tribe mates to respond is giving me anxiety.

Julia

This swap is so going to fuck me I just feel it in my bones. We are easily the weaker tribe when it comes to overall challenge performance and it isn't even close. I can definitely see us losing every single swap challenge, especially when there is for sure going to be a video challenge or something along those lines. I feel good though that I'm guaranteed to have at least one of jinx or aj which is chefs kiss so hoping we can get them to flip

Champagne

Nervous for the tribe swap! I feel like I’m in a decent position! Just tying to keep reaching out to everyone on my tribe

Raffy

What a morning! Brandi told me that Hairie was trying to find an idol by saying a secret phrase in the tribe chat. He needed people to reply to his message. Brandi, also, had the same task so she put her message in the tribe chat. They both got the replies that they needed around the same time. However, neither will admit that they received the idol. So, now I know one of them doesn't trust me. I am inclined to believe that Hairie has the idol. He seems like he wants to play this game very strategically. However, he should get better at his lying if he has the idol. At the very least, I know where my tribe idol is. Now, I just have to play around it. It helps that both of them are working with me, so I don't have to worry about the idol being used against me for now.

My swapped tribe is... not ideal. Bethany, Tyler, and Esteban know how I tend to play Survivor. For all I know, they could be plotting to turn my allies against me at the swap. I want to change my gameplay genuinely, but will they even give me that chance? This is what worries me. I've managed a good position thus far, but it could all come tumbling down. At least I have Champ and Hairie. Though, with JayJay, I remain unsure if she trusts me. I'll put my trust in her though. I really want to connect with her, but I've been having trouble keeping conversations going. Hopefully by tonight we can bond.

Tyler Frazier

So the plan to target Azri seems to be in motion and unless I’m gonna get served up a big ol’ plate of blindside butter beans then he will be leaving tonight. It almost felt too easy but I’m not gonna get overly paranoid bc not everything needs to be complicated and things do get complicated when people start to get paranoid.

Chelsea

The more I think about it, the more I’m like….Raffy’s gotta go. I don’t want him getting too far. We will be on separate tribes now for the time being, so I’m biding my time but this needs to happen. I will be very sad if I go before he does…

jinx

jinxcast for round 3: on being of heart and fearing nothing (local queer cries NOT CLICKBAIT)

https://voca.ro/18yq35wmiyP7

Bethany

kay so sorry this confessional is so late, i was extremely busy yesterday/today!! but basically, the last vote went perfectly. jinx had their messy moment with the idol play and our non-men alliance was kept under wraps as far as i know!!

unfortunately, i contributed to our tribe having a 30% challenge disadvantage this round, so there were basically 0 chance of us winning. thankfully, that didn't seem to make anyone feel any sort of way about me. and today i got a 10% advantage for the next challenge so that's a slay!! so we are back at tribal because we had lit rally no chance of winning that unless the other tribe decided to throw on purpose.

going into this tribal, a lot of the people from pink venom wanted esteban gone, for painting targets on aj and trinica's backs from the first day. this was not ideal for me, as i do think esteban trusts me and i can continue to work with him moving forward. but i also wasn't going to put my neck out for him as i'm sure there is already the perception of us being a duo just from playing the same season together before. however, thankfully the target changed!!! honestly idek why it changed but it changed to azri which is perfect because i have pretty much 0 relationship with him and he's more inactive with me than other people.

the swap is a little scary but i'm also excited for it!! i know champ from another org, so i am excited to talk to her and then just excited to meet all the other new people. i need to be more social on this swapped tribe because i've kind of dropped the ball so far on hidra because i've been so busy and i'm just thankful there are a bunch of girlbosses who welcomed me in because otherwise, my game hasn't been great.

as long as i can make the merge, i think i will be in an amazing position being the only one from pink venom to come to this tribe. AJ told me that she told hairie to protect me (slay) and i am going to have an advantage over them by forming new connections. if everything goes according to plan, azri will go home tonight, tyler will receive votes, i will play dumb, and my game will improve moving forward!! i plan to be a lot more active in both the game and confessionals and i promise to deliver on that <3 ttylxox

Tyler Frazier

I didn’t know Toni was british that’s so fun

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lubdubsworld · 3 years

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Better Man.

~~~~~~~~~~~~`Just to see you smile, I’d do anything. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Taehyung x Oc

Rated 18 +

Post Divorce, Getting Back Together, Second chances, Angst.

Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Do you ever truly know what someone is feeling?

You could spend decades , breathing the same air, hands held , your fingers brushing ....connected physically and even mentally but a person’s emotions, they’re hidden away.

You only ever know what they’re willing to show .

And yet,

all of us build relationships, convinced that we know exactly what the other person will feel when we act a certain way. Buying her flowers will make happy....visiting him at work will take away that little bit of stress.

But sometimes, what we think someone feels, may not be what they truly feel.

And that’s when your actions, well intended actions..... end up with disastrous consequences.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

“So....last night...” Jungkook’s teasing voice did nothing to ease the pounding in my head.

“I do believe you promised not to tease me about it if I drank two glasses of water, which I did by the way.” I told him firmly, trying to bring the words on my planner into focus as i squinted. Three meeting. Each two hours long.

kill me now.

“I wanted to ask HR to give you the day off but you have quite a schedule today. “ He said casually, leaning over me to peer into the planner . I glanced at his wrist resting on the table, the expensive rolex showing that it was a little past 9.

“ We’re planning out the Christmas campaign first and I have a meeting with Taehyung’s team in the afternoon so we can go over the contract see if they have any requirements and then the social media team in the evening at four to discuss promos and revamping the website.” I glanced up at him.

He gave me a smile before casually leaning down, lightly gripping my chin and tilting my face up. I felt the brush of his lips against mine, fleeting and gentle.

‘You’re beautiful.” He smiled.

I blinked.

And then took a deep breath.

“Your wife...” I said softly. “ I saw her today.”

Jungkook went completely still at that.

“She was waiting in the lobby on my way up. I didn’t know who you were married to and I was a little shocked and also little upset because....” I glanced at him. “ She was my best friend in college. “

Jungkook swore.

“Fuck.. I told her to stay the fuck away from my company. Did she say something to you?”

i shook my head.

“I didn’t greet her because I wasn’t sure if she remembered me. And I wasn’t sure if i was remembering her right. i didn’t know she was your wife till i heard someone mention it in the elevator on my way up. Did you know that she and i knew each other?”

Jungkook looked just a little guilty.

“When you first joined the company, she saw your resume on my cvomputer. told me a lot about you. She remembers you. Fondly. She wanted to come meet you but...things happened. “ He shrugged.

Things like infidelity and divorces .

“Ahh...” I smiled. “ Tell me i wasn’t another way to get back at your ex wife, Jeon Jungkook ssi...”

He made a noise of protest.

“no... No of course not Christ...it’s just...I’ll admit she made me curious about you. She spoke of you being spontaneous and fun and wild and I’d seen you as this demure, elegant woman in the office. i was curious. I wanted to know which one was the real you. “

“Were you curious before she cheated....or after?”

“ Jang Mi...this isn’t what it looks like .. I’m done with her. She fucked my best buddy and ruined my fucking life...” He sounded pained.

I frowned.

“It’s hard to believe she would do something like that. The Aera i remember had a very strong moral compass.”

“Yeah well, apparently, you can live whole entire lives with someone and never really know the person. Listen, do we really have to talk about my ex wife?” He asked, eyes shining with discomfort.

I shrugged.

“I’m not fond of drama. I won’t tangle myself in a relationship that risks hurting a lot of people Jungkook. That’s just not the kind of person I am. I’m sorry.”

He made a noise of impatience, shaking his head.

“We won’t be hurting anyone... We have fun together. We like each other. We’re attracted to each other...that’s all that matters....” He said sharply.

“ If we were in our twenties , without kids ....maybe. But that's not how it is now. I have a son, you have a daughter and I think I’m not completely over my marriage yet.” I said softly.

He froze.

“And i don’t think you’re completely over your wife either.” I smiled.

He glared at me.

“Ex-wife.” He snarled.

“She makes you feel things, Jungkook. You need to sort that out before you start something new with someone else. I’m only saying this because we’re old enough not to

He growled and punched the desk.

“God, how can she keep ruining my life even when she’s out of it.” He muttered, stepping away from me and moving to the door.

I watched him storm out of my office and bit my lip.

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By the time evening rolled around, I was exhausted. But the day had been productive and I was happy because the contract had been finalized, the theme had been decided and we’d also spent an amazing three hours redesigning the website. Although it wasn’t in my job description I had studied web design in college and the creative department always welcomed my inputs.

“You’re in a good mood...” Taehyung’s voice was a complete surprise and I turned to him, shocked. He was dressed in a black t shirt and blue jeans and sneakers and looked a whole decade younger.

I felt affection rise up my throat so fast I nearly choked.

“What are you doing here?”

“My agent told me you guys were incredibly cooperative today. She also told me you were quite possibly the loveliest woman she’s ever met and that I’m an idiot to have let you go.” He smiled.

I laughed, shaking my head and my gaze shifted to the small bunch of tiger lilies in his hand.

I felt warmth bloom in my chest.

“You remembered.” I said softly, pleased.

“Thirteen years since our first date. The lily to my tiger. ” He held the flowers to me and I grinned, pressing the flowers to my chest.

“Man I feel old.” I muttered.

“You are old.” Tae grinned and i grimaced, before tossing him a glare. .

“You’re supposed to say I still look as beautiful as i did thirteen years ago.” I said.

“But you don.t” He grinned impishly. “ You look a billion times more beautiful.”

I felt the atmosphere shift, the air charged with something dangerous and i looked away. Usually, this was when I would laugh and throw my arms around him. Pull him close and press my lips against his , slip my fingers into his t shirt and trace the skin of his back. Feel his hands on my waist as he lifted me up to twirl me around and kiss me just like that.

How often had we kissed that way? Thirteen years is a long time to count the number of kisses we’d shared.

We both stayed quiet, looking anywhere but at each other.

“I...there’s a reason I came.” He said finally.

I glanced at him.

“Oh?”

“The lawyer. Ms. Lee she ... recommended a relationship counselor”

I blinked, my breath catching in my throat.

“Taehyung we’re-”

“Just hear me out. Its not mandatory and it won’t affect the divorce in anyway. its just something the court offers all couples going through a divorce and we’re free to refuse it. “

“Did you?” I asked.

“Did I what?”

“Refuse it. Did you tell her no?”

He stared at me.

“No.” He said finally.

I exhaled sharply.

“Wow.” I whispered, feeling jittery and unbalanced. He sighed and came closer, reaching out to lightly grip my wrists. I let him tug me closer into a hug and held him tight, my heart pounding with anxiety.

“Mia.... I just... I’m not saying we should try to fix this.... relationship.” He said softly, eyes gentle and pleading, “ I just think this whole thing has taken a toll on both of us and maybe we can heal better if we get the help of a professional. Come out of this with closure. Instead of battling guilt and regrets everyday. Just ....it could help us move on. Don’t you think?”

You could never really tell what the other person is feeling.

I couldn’t tell what Taehyung was feeling right now?

Hope ?

Hope that we would fix our marriage....

or maybe hope that he would finally move on from me.. Maybe this whole thing was his final attempt to end things with me for good. So he could walk out of my life forever without any lingering guilt or regret.

I would never know.

I clung to him harder and somehow the pain of the entire two years we’d been apart, rammed into me at once.

I choked on a sob. Breathing became difficult and I felt myself gasping for air.

“Mia?” Taehyung’s panicked voice was the last sane thought that registered.

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“Are you sure you’re going to be okay? I can stay the night if you want. I’ll sleep in the spare bedroom . ” Taehyung whispered, seated on the warm fluffy blanket that he’d managed to dig out of the closet in the spare bedroom. i was already tucked into the bed, fingers clutching the satin lined edges .

i shook my head.

“I know how much you need your gazillion pillows. Go on... I’ll be fine.”

“i feel terrible. i pushed you into a panic attack.”

I waved off the guilty words.

“You didn’t . i was already a little frayed and i guess i haven’t really been processing all the stuff between us the way i should have. i just got a little overwhelmed.”

A panic attack. At the age of 32. The last time i had one I was twenty four. I wanted to crawl into the bed and never resurface.

Taehyung’s gentle fingers , stroking my cheek brought me out of my own head.

“I was so scared.” He said softly and my heart ached.

“I’m sorry i scared you.” I said apologetically, gripping his wrists lightly and stroking the skin there with my thumb.

“I really want to stay. i don’t think I’ll be able to sleep if I go home right now.” He whispered.

I bit my lips.

“Okay... but... You need to hug something. To sleep. “

He grinned at that.

“I’m old enough to survive one night without a pillow, Mia .” he chuckled.

I flushed, sinking deeper into the covers.

“Okay.”

“You don’t have to worry about the counselor thing. I’ll tell Lee we don’t want to do any-”

“No!!” I said quickly, a lot louder than I’d intended.

Taehyung blinked.

“I just... I realized that I haven’t been dealing with any of this...the right way. I’m so confused and disoriented all the time and I .. I don’t mind getting some help. To sort things out. Just for myself you know...without the pressure of trying to fix...well us.” I finished .

Taehyung gave me a wide smile before bending down and kissing my forehead.

“ Okay, Mia mine. Sleep well, and I’ll see you in the morning.”

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`

#taehyung fic #taehyung smut #taehyung fanfic #bts smut #bts fic

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nightswithkookmin · 3 years

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Jimin is a pretty bOY

This is a continuation of our discussion on my last post. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with me, I think I agree with all of it.

Not sure how I feel about the calling eachother out bit or near scolding of others in the comments. Please let's be welcoming and respectful of others's thoughts regardless of whether or not we agree with it. It's ok to hold diverse views. We do after all come from different backgrounds and have accumulated different experiences and I think it plays out in how we see things. Everyone's opinion is valid. Plus, I purple yall.

Now, do I think he is trying to pack on muscles........? Yes. He said so himself in Festa when he said he would rush to the mirror when he thought he had gained some muscle only to find out his biceps looks like a muscled kindergartner.

He also said lately he's into exercising and staying in shape which is true because for quite sometime now since early this year he has been talking about how "weak" he is in their Vlives and have even given instances of him not being able to do certain things- certian simple and easy tasks- which is typical of him I'd say. He's always talking about how "weak" he is especially around JK and juxtaposing that with "but JK is so strong" which I'm sorry but I have to smirk at right now cos it's such a typical gay pick me simp thing to do. We've all been there.

Do I think he's trying to be a muscle bunny or revert back to his body shape around debut? Absolutely not. But I do think he is straddling the line of toxic masculinity which is what the conversation is about.

I don't think there's anything wrong with wanting to stay in shape or even enjoying work outs. Last night I ran downstairs because I had left my stew on the stove and now this morning I called renew my gym membership because I discovered running can be actually fun to do... No. No it's not. The gym instructor would have to come for me kicking and screaming.

RM have said even though JM looks skinny and fragile he is one of the strongest within the group. Besides, this is not the first time he's expressed interest in working out and building his body- hello, on Era?

I remember people complaining he looked too buffed up in that period on SNS and PJMs quickly jumping in to clear the searches for it. The choreo for On required agility and endurance and required the members- not just JM build up some definition in their muscles.

We've seen them go through all that. So it's not simply a matter of black and white staying in shape or doing it because he feels pressured to do so. Especially, when you consider that he's undertaken some pretty unhealthy measures in the past in attempts to lose weight or soften out his body post these muscle building, weight gaining periods and we've always chalked it up to his dance and how as a contemporary dancer he has to look a certain way or this or that to try to justify and make sense of it. Next you, know there are six chapters of break the silence of him talking about all the dark places he's been, the pressures to look his best for his fans or for his job and all these other painful stories he's shared with us over the years. And it's like, but why? Why do this to yourself?

I'll never forget the look he gave JK when JK was talking about wanting to build muscles in one of the interviews for the promotion of Be- I think I made a post on it. When JK noticed JMs disapproving glare he backtracked saying he would want to stay skinny after gaining all that muscles.

I mean if I'm to be honest, he was bound to crack at one point. The signs were there being surrounded by all these men who adhere to the traditional aesthetics of a masculine body- from Namjoon to Taehyung.

I wish y'all will steer the conversation in this direction and make it more about gender norms and expressions and breaking stereotypes and diversity in the body aesthetics of men.

Jimin is a man too. He just isn't what people traditionally will label masculine. Androgynous is more an apt word in my opinion. How many times have I said, I think Jungkook hetero passes because his body aesthetics is quintessentially what most associates with a masculine man?

Breaking gender barriers is not just about embracing feminine apparels- that teeters on cross dressing quite frankly and can be a bit performative and baity. Then you have to consider their culture in itself has an inherent pro gender diversity feel to it.

Now, let me explain my problem with the Klout ad campaign a little bit.

Do you see how Tae stands out? And I'm not saying this to fuel the "Tae was their fav" debacle. It's the 007 feel... I'll explain in a bit.

Most often, alcohol advertisers as well as most advertisements intended to sell to men often try to appeal to men's internalized ideals of masculinity or try to shape and define what a man or masculinity should look like. These ideals are so often toxic and detrimental to men and mostly women too.

Take a look at these ads for example. All I had to do was google search ads for men.

Real men drink milk and look at the image they present as real men. This blatantly implies if you don't look like this, if you are not a strong cliff climbing man with abs you are not a real man.

The second image is subtle. I call it the 007 slash Kingsmen-esque ideals of masculinity. It portrays men as sexy cool badass- works out but isn't too buff, filthy rich or middle class, wears Rolex, designer clothes, is kind but has a mean exterior and is every 13 year old wattpad girls's dream of a man. In fiction, you see this kind of masculinity in characters such as Edward cullens to Christian Grey. And a lot of ads for men alternate between these two ideals of masculinity.

Do you see how they modeled Taehyung in these ads after this kind of masctheme? Tae looks the same in almost all the ads. 007 sexy cool badass.

Now, I may not be a makeup beauty guru or MUA or whatever, but one thing I've picked up on especially when it comes to makeup for men- BTS and Kpop idols mostly is that, they soften out the harsh features on their faces and make them appear more androgynous or effeminate to suit the Kpop look and they ditch it entirely in different settings.

So for instance, Tae and Kookie's natural hawkish eyebrows tend to get softened around the arch and edges- don't know how the fuck they do that- but it appears less in your face intense most times when they wear make up in kpop related contents.

However, in certain other contents that lean towards a certain gender theme those features are emphasized. Not to say hawkish features are masculine features. Just saying in men, Kpop idols, my observation is they soften those features out with makeup or surgery.

Now, take a look at JM in these ads and look at everything from his posture, make up, hairstyle and brows. It's as if someone took an eraser to his androgynousity and erased his feminine side. Take a look at his photo above and compare it to the ads.

I am not a man. But I feel the gender look they went for, intended to appeal to men, tapped into a rather outdated stereotype of what man and masculinity should look like.

What is a man?

What should a man look like?

What aesthetics of masculinity is Jimin gravitating towards now? And I'm not talking clothes, I'm talking the expression of his gender. Time and again, he's talked about how looking a certain way made him uncomfortable in the past because he was constantly fighting his feminine side. He is androgynous. Sometimes he leans more into his feminine side. Other times he leans more into his masculine side but this is the only time he's leaning into his masculinity that makes me uncomfortable to watch because like I said it bothers on toxic masculinity.

He's said whoever he was, the version fighting to look masculine, that wasn't him. So forgive me if I worry whenever i see him suppressing his feminine side and acting like 'one of the boys.' Him staying in shape is not synonymous with him erasing a valid part of himself or suppressing it. He can stay in shape, celebrate his masculinity and still be FILTER.

What I'm saying is, this not a conversation about him exercising. This is a conversation about an ad erasing his feminine side and boxing him into a narrow expression of his gender and how that might be affecting his view of himself especially in the way he's been gravitating towards a certain masculine aesthetics and how that could be toxic.

Tae has said the same thing and BTS have agreed the JM as of 2019 was the real JM according to them.They said he was that way- suppressing his feminine side, because there weren't much songs and choreos that suited him and so he had had to bend himself to fit with the others.

And so when I see him leaning a certain way I tend to wonder if his exterior environment is playing a role in that. I hope you can understand that.

He is a contemporary dancer and strength and flexibility are prerequisites for his craft. The company go out of their way to incorporate contemporary dance in their choreos for JM's sake which helps solve that problem of him trying too hard to look a certain way.

May be I'm projecting. May be my little brother is effeminate and I've always recommended Jimin as a role for him to tell him not to try to look different just because other boys look different. May be I've seen him try one too many times to kill himself in the gym trying to build on muscles and getting frustrated with himself because he ends up looking like someone else. You can't gym the queerness away. Society will never let you be who you want to be so you might as well flip it the middle finger.

These boys are being shaped by their environment. I hate to say this but the environment they are in isn't exactly progressive and the longer they stay in there cut off from the outside world...

Flying out helps. Meeting different people and being exposed to different cultures and conversations on gender expression helps.

Anywho, these are just concerns I have. Will have them till I see that's not where he is headed towards. But let's not act like these ad campaigns do not and can not psychologically impact these boys especially as these advertisers are not looking to tap into their own definition of gender and masculinity but shape it and redefine it to appeal to the demographic they intend to market to.

I think this is just a grey area for me. Rather than try to change JM to look a certain way in order to sell alcohol. I think the ground breaking thing would be to have a man who looks like JM show us how someone like him would sell a can of drink. I think that would be revolutionary.

Signed,

GOLDY

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Summary of Liam’s episode on Happy Hour podcast - Part 1

Note: Since the podcast is long, we’re dividng these summaries into parts. Hope you guys understand.

- He hasn’t gotten a meal deal recently, but says he is always surprised when he gets to the till and sometimes is offered an extra product. But he says that a nice deal is a ham, cheese, chicken and mayo sandwich. Jaack and Stevie insist with Liam that he had to choose one and he says that there is a turkey stuffing one, but that sometimes the stuffing is made with things he doesn’t like. - They joke that they could have eaten horse meat and Liam says that sometimes you might eat a sandwich and think “Wow, that was bloody brilliant and we just munched [horse meat]”. Pack of “nicknakes” spicy and a Capri Sun is Liam’s meal deal. - Murder crimes tv shows and he watches it before bed because he finds the narrator’s voice is kind of calming. Explains a crime in two towns where there was thyroid disease and police was checking “all the mice” and they got to a factory that put some weird things in the meat. Conclusion: “We don’t know what we’re eating these days”. - Cranberry in a sandwich isn’t for Liam. He doesn’t like something fruity in his sandwich. Liam mentioned that he has been on a healthy thing lately and that only now he is getting used to put fruit in his breakfast. - Starts mentioning his preparation to bulk for his HUGO underwear campaign and he mentioned that it was super hard for him, especially in the last month eating “white fish”. But said that he had great skin. Liam also said that he stopped “vapping” and it sets him off, he gets angrier. - His worst meal that he wouldn’t eat if somebody paid him was “marmite”. - Restaurant that he always has to go to if he is in a certain place is Nobu in Malibu, he likes the vibe of the place. - He considers himself a hermit because it was hard when they got really famous to go outside and “there was someone always waiting” where he went. Says that in the last few years he has been trying to insert himself outside again, but that it’s stressful for him and he is always moving. Mentions that if he sometimes is on a queue to pay for something, he’ll put it down and leave because he can’t stand still there. - Mentions how his house was set on fire once and that nobody knew where he lived in the press, after that everybody knew where he lived and people came to his house when he wanted to just relax. Mentions that there were “fans” outside of his house screaming and asking for pictures at every day, and when he didn’t take the pics they would get upset and bang on his windows. - Liam says that he always tries to make time for people and take pictures/talk with them, but there are times where he can’t do it. He knows it’s a once in a lifetime opportunity for fans that meet him, but for him sometimes it’s the hundred person he has met that day. He says that he is either “the best person ever or the worst person ever” and that he has 30 seconds to ‘check a box’. - Liam says that in the beginning of 1D they considered that their tour manager was like their boss because they didn’t know they were the ones in charge. They were too young when they got out of The X-Factor. So this lead to them staying inside hotels and going into each other’s room. There was a time where there was plates being thrown out of the window because they were bored of staying inside. - They were living in a hotel that was a lot of old people were in and one day Liam gets a call from the manager. He mentions that they were told off a lot and the day that they signed their contract with their label they got one of the biggest telling offs ever, but he can’t tell the reasons why it happened. - Liam says that their management team put it on Liam because he was “the most sensible” and “a bit like a dad” with these rowdy lads. “I remember the first day, like I didn’t tell the boys and I didn’t let them in on the secret that I’m like a narc, a weird One Direction narc, and the plates were going out the window and I’m like ‘Oh how do you stop plates going out the window? You can’t just shut the window cause that’s going to be even worse’. Then we left the room and for some reason was riding down the stairs with mattresses at 3am and I’m thinking ‘Oh this is my job, I’m the narc.’”. - Liam was always a bit more sensible. He went on X-Factor at 14 years old and his dad wanted to know what Simon Cowell thought of his voice. So he passed all these phases until he got to Simon’s Barbados house and then he got let go. He hated Simon for letting him go and asking him to comeback two years later and he had to have dinner with his Mom, Simon and his future manager in 1D. - Then he came back to school and he was in Spanish class (that he thinks is hard to learn and jokes that he has a song in Spanish and still doesn’t know what it says), but he would be out performing in gigs for thousands of people and then it was back to Spanish class thinking “What the hell am I doing here?”. He says it was weird because he knew what he had to do, so he became more sensible: he didn’t drink or did anything else because he knew he would be back at X-Factor in two years. - He says that now he can’t watch X-Factor and hear that someone is going to be the next [insert name] because he knows what that will do to someone’s life. - Liam considers himself lucky because he came back and was put in the band, but it really sits with you especially at a young age. “I was a cocky little shit at school sometimes because I was like ‘I don’t need school’”. He says that he was falling every subject at school, but he also didn’t know if music was going to work out, it was a dream. - He knew that since he was 14 years old he was known on the streets. Even in America, people knew who he was because of X-Factor. He said that everybody knew him in Wolverhampton and that after a while people saw that he was still in the same place and was considered “the town wanker”, being made fun off in the street. People called him “X-Factor reject” and that made him feel really bad. - Liam’s dad likes to tell him that he was one of the contestants that got told “no” more times, but still made it. He says that his dad loves the X-Factor and knows everything about it, even random facts about other people. - His choice song if he had to audition for X-Factor this year would be “Edge of Desire” by John Mayer because it’s one of his favorites, along “Something’s Missing”. He also thinks that “Who Says” is a great song.

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Hello, I've scrolled through your blog to make sure, this question wasn't asked before, but it would seem that it wasn't (though I could've missed it). Can I please ask you of prince Poniatowski's attitude towards Napoleon?

No, this question has not been asked yet, and thank you very much for sending it! It will be my please to write a answer to this.

Relationship between prince Józef Poniatowski and the emperor Napoleon Bonapart

I am sorry, this turned out to be a very long read, and on the topic a little bit wider than asked, so I had to specify the title and give the short answer for those who aren’t interested in details.

So in brief - Poniatowski respected Napoleon, but wasn’t a blind worshipper of the emperor. And in situations when in the balance there might have been Napoleon and Poland, and only one thing was to be chosen for prince Józef this one definitely would be his motherland.

Bronisław Gembarzewski, prince Józef and Napoleon

Emperor Napoleon, as all fans of the epoch knows, first arrived to Warsaw in December of 1806. But to start the long-read about relationship between the emperor and the prince properly we need make a step backwards, to understand what these two thought about each other on the moment of their first meeting.

Prince Józef, in comparison with many of his country men, participated in none of general Bonapart’s campaigns. What’s more - when the count of Provence, future king Louis XVIII resided in Warsaw in 1801-1804 he was an often visitor of Poniatowski’s palace. (So it may be said that before 1806 prince Józef was kind of a “royalist”.)

However, with Napoleon’s victory over Prussia and the emperor’s arrival to the former Polish lands chances of Poland rising from the dead skyrocketed! And prince Józef realized that he couldn’t have stayed away any longer, that if he wanted to participate in his motherland reappearing on the map of Europe he had to join the French.

As for Napoleon - in 1806 the emperor of Frenchmen didn’t have any warm feeling towards the nephew of the last king of Poland. One of the reason was that Claude Carloman de Rulhière, with whose book Histoire de l’anarchie de Pologne Napoleon had studied history of lands he was going conquer, wasn’t sympnathising the Poniatowski family. As other reasons there may be named a fact, that that time in French Army there were other Poles, whom the emperor knew better, like generals Jan Henryk Dąbrowski and Józef Zajączek.

Nevertheless, because when leaving Warsaw the Prussians kinda left the city “in charge” of Poniatowski, Napoleon had to meet prince Józef on entering the city. And from the data I was able to find it looks like the first meeting of the emperor and the prince happened on the 19th of December.

Prince Józef with Napoleon during the war campaign - drawing by Wacław Lipiński

With this image I am obliged to make a small digression. Napoleon, as recent investigation show, was not that short as he was thought to be because of English cartoons. Józef Poniatowski, on the other hand, was described by the contemporaries as a man of the middle height. So, in my opinion standing side-by-side these two must have looked like as people of the same height.

With the emperor so prejudiced against prince Józef, you may ask, how did it happen that less than a month later, on the 14th of January 1807, the latter was appointed as a Director of War? (In October of 1807, after the Duchy of Warsaw was created, Poniatowski’s post acquired the name of “Minister of War”.)

The answer is that behind the event there was a long and complicated intrigue, in which were involved such people as Joachim Murat (with whom, as you may remember, prince Józef quickly became friends) and Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, that time Foreign Minister of France. (As for the latter - his protection was asked by Pepi’s sister, Teresa Tyszkiewicz.)

And I can’t help but mention that Poniatowski’s nomination nevertheless had some advantages, because in comparison with his “rivals” he was a representative of the aristocracy, what might have provided support to Napoleon from the Polish high-society.

And speaking of high-society I can’t help touching a rather delicate topic, related with Napoleon’s love life, with which Poniatowski - in comparison with what is thought about him - had nothing to do. Yes, I mean the story of prince Józef (and other Polish dignitaries) supposedly forcing Maria Walewska to give in to the emperor in exchange for “Poland’s resurrection”.

SCREENSHOT FROM THE MOVIE “MARYSIA I NAPOLEON”. From left to right - Zdzisław Makłakiewicz as prince Józef, Gustaw Holoubek as Napoleon, Beata Tyszkiewicz as Maria Walewska, Ignacy Machowski as Duroc, Kazimierz Rudzki as Talleyrand, Juliusz Łuszczewski as Anastazy Walewski

Many people believe in it because it is written in so-called Walewska’s memoirs, but the investigations of Polish historians (like, fir example, Marian Brandys) prove that not everything might have happened like it was described in the memoirs. And prince Poniatowski’s involvement in the story is one of the facts. (The closest connection he might have had with this is that Mme Henriette de Vauban, his mistress, might have tried to influence Mme Walewska. But this is definitely a topic to continue in - if at all - a separate post.

So, let’s return to relationship between Poniatowski and Napoleon.

In 1809 the Duchy of Warsaw was attacked by the Austrians, and the Army of the Duchy showed its combat strength, winning the war and taking back from the enemy a huge a part of former Polish territories. The emperor was impressed by prince Józef’s inferiors’ performance, till such a degree that he awarded the latter with the highest imperial order of merit, the cross of the Legion of Honour.

But this was done “by proxy”, and the next, after year 1807, meeting of these two happened only in 1811 in Paris, where Poniatowski was invited to attend the christening of Napoleon’s son, the king of Rome.

Prince Józef arrived to Paris on the 23rd of April, and in the evening of that very day received an invitation from the emperor to appear next day in Saint Clou. What’s more, Poniatowski’s visit was to be happen at once, without an obliged advance as the ceremony of representation by the Saxon ambassador.

Prince Józef with Napoleon during the ceremonial audience at the Tuileries Palace - drawing by Maria Artwińska

And this is the image I like, because both - the prince and emperor - seem to have there the “correct” height!

Why was Napoleon so eager to see prince Józef? Well, at least because the latter brought with him news, which was dangerous to trust to paper. Namely - about planning Russian invasion of the Duchy and the tsar attempts to persuade the Polish Minister of War to switch sides and join the anti-napoleonic coalition. (Can’t help but mention there that Poniatowski revealed Napoleon mere facts, but not the names of the people communicating with him, in order not to put them in danger.)

And what about christening? Of course, prince Józef participated in the ceremony, and was even allowed to have an audience with the child-king. And, no doubts, there followed other court events, huntings, balls, etc. Old friend, Murat, and Poniatowski’s sister’s love interest, Talleyrand, introduced Pepi to the highest Parisian society. Also Pepi paid a visit to the ex-empress Josephine.

Prince Józef in conversation with Napoleon and the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Talleyrand - drawing by Andrzej Zarzycki

And though initially prince Józef’s stay in the French capital was planned to be a couple of months, in fact it prolonged to four, till the emperor’s birthday. And leaving finally on the 27th of August Poniatowski received as a farewell gift a beautiful snuffbox planted with diamonds and a loan to… pay the debts of his sister Teresa.

And then there came the year 1812. Prince Józef was made the commander of the 5th Corps of the Grande Armée, and with the rest of the Army went to Russia.

However, above “The Polish corps” there was a commander not very competent and lucky, emperor’s younger brother Jérôme. And when it happened that the Russian Army under general Bagration managed to escape from the “second center” corps led by Jérôme, Napoleon blamed on this... prince Józef.

In the battle of Smolensk, however, the Vth Corps managed to distinguish to such a degree, that together with its commander it was mentioned in a bulletin of the Grande Armée.

Jean-Charles Langlois, The Battle of Smolensk, 17th August 1812, detail

But after that battle there happened a very dramatic scene between the prince and the emperor. Because, as you might know, the city of Smolensk was the most eastern town ever belonged to Poland. So, if Napoleon’s goal was, as it had been proclaimed in the beginning of the war, to restore Poland, the Grande Armée should have stopped there, at Smolensk. Not to go further east.

And Poniatowski, as a witness of the scene, count Ostrowski, recalled, “begged Napoleon on his knees if not to direct the whole French Army to the south, to the former Polish lands, then at least to separated the Polish corps and send it along the Dnieper river, in the direction of Kiev...”

But emperor was implacable.

What happened next we all know. The battle of Moscow, fire, retreat…

In December Napoleon left his army and speeded to Paris. Prince Józef returned to Warsaw, to rebuild “the Polish corps”, to reenforce the people left with new conscripts and to be ready to join with these people the emperor. When the latter comes with fresh forces, to fight the coalition back.

But the emperor of French didn’t hurry to return to the East of Europe. Failing to wait him Poniatowski had to leave Warsaw, going with his soldiers to Kraków. And was waiting here, for almost three month.

To no avail.

At the beginning of May all the territory of the Duchy of Warsaw, except Kraków, was occupied by Russians. A lot of Polish officers, acquaintances and even friends of prince Józef, resigned from the army. A lot of them were persuading the Polish commander-in-chief to follow, to join the anti-napoleonic coalition.

And… well, here I can’t write that Poniatowski rejected these propositions, all and at once. No, he was listening, thinking over… Asking for terms and thoroughly pondering on what would have been better for his motherland - to stay with France or not.

And on the night from the 6th to the 7th of May, on the eve of his 50th birthday the decision was made.

Prince Józef sees “the White Lady of the Poniatowski Family” on the night on 6/7 May 1813 in Krakow (drawing by Ludomir Ilinicz)

Having obtained no written guaranties from the other side, feeling that unconditional surrender - the only thing they were ready to accept from him - was not compatible with the soldier honor, the Polish Bayard decided to stay with Napoleon.

Although to make such a decision was for prince Józef extremely hard (especially if to take into account that he still had not got clear instructions from the emperor what to do). As Poniatowski confided next day to one of his colleagues that night thinking was so difficult to him that he even thought about shooting himself. Twice.

What is not proved - so this fact still stays a kind of legend - that that night prince Józef saw a ghost, the famous “White lady of Poniatowski family”. The fantom that was said to announce with its appearance very bad things to come…

And in 5 month there came… the battle of Leipzig.

Jean-Charles Langlois, The Battle of Leipzig (?)

This image is often signed as „the battle of Leipzig” though judging by the emperor’s, the prince’s and their horses’ poses I suppose it might be another version of “the battle of Smolensk”.

Of course, before Leipzig there was truce, then the battle of Dresden, then retreat and preparations. And in the beginning of the battle there was a moment when French victory still looked possible. But soon it turned out that it was an illusion.

And then the emperor… named general Poniatowski a marshal of France. Thus making him the only foreigner among that cream of French military elite.

Prince Józef Poniatowski receives the marshal baton, French engraving from the XIXth century

How did Poniatowski react to such a promotion? Did he become happy? Or, at least, glad?

No, not at all. (It looks like he felt that this appointment has more with his future attachment to France, than with military achievements.)

So prince Józef continued to call himself a general, sign documents according his old position. Furthermore, in the written explanation that Poniatowski sent to Warsaw it was stated that “if there was not war for Poland, no one would ever see him in uniform”. Which literally meant resignation. (In the very same letter, though, prince Józef announced that before leaving the army he had to escort Napoleon back to Paris.)

So, dear friends, who was interested in what might have happened with prince Józef had he not been killed at Leipzig - this is the answer. He would definitely retreat with Napoleon to Paris, than resigned and… here the certainty is a little bit less, but something tells me that he would have preferred exile to going back home. But I am not one hundred percent sure.

January Suchodolski, Napoleon and Józef Antoni Poniatowski at the Battle of Leipzig

And what about Napoleon? In his memories dictated on St. Helene he wrote that he should have made prince Józef the king of Poland (ha-ha, what would he have done if the latter rejected the crown?), regretted not doing this.

But what is, in my opinion, more interesting, is to learn what the ex-emperor thought on other Poniatowski-related topics? Did he regret blaming prince Józef for Jerome’s mistakes? Had he doubts on not listening the Polish commander’s pleas to take back former Polish land instead of going to Moscow?

Alas, I am afraid, this is a thing we’ll never know…

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Summary: You just moved to outer banks and you are not so thrilled about your new kook life as your parents and are curious about how your summer will be. As the summer goes on surprises come along with ups and downs, tears and laughter, new friends and family.

Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4 (p1), Chapter 4 (p2)

Chapter 5 - Midsummer

It’s been five days since the kegger, five days since you broke up with Liam. You haven’t talked to anyone but your mom and your best friend. You haven’t go out either, been distracted enough by your mom, moving furniture all around the house and the books you start reading but don’t finish. You told your mom about Liam, just the breakup, she never really liked him, and she was right, she always is. Liam hasn’t come to your house either, but for that you were thankful. You were at the dock laying on one of the benches listening to music when a boat stopped in front of you.

“y/n” you hear Sarah, as you put on pause the music.

You sat on the bench and looked at her, the rest of the group in the boat. “Hey” you smiled.

"We are going to the marsh, do you want to come with us?” she asked

“Oh don’t worry there’s no need…” you started but John B cuts you off.

“We want you to come” he said.

“Well just give me five minutes” you smiled.

You went back home to put on a swimsuit and threw a towel in your backpack. Downstairs you opened the fridge and saw a six-pack of beer, you grabbed it, the same thing with a couple of bags of chips you saw, tossing all in a pool bag from your mom, finally you took your keys and went out, towards the boat that was waiting for you.

“Wow what you got there?” JJ questioned while grabbing the bag for you as you hop in.

“Well I couldn’t come with empty hands” you shrug “I'll feel guilty about it”

John B made his way to the marsh, but not without giving you a little tour and talk about all kind of stuff that had happened in Outer Banks. As soon as the boat stopped JJ and Pope jumped in the water, the day was hot and you wanted to toss your shirt out but deep inside you felt a little insecure, so you didn’t do it, Kie was already shirtless, soaking up the sun, and Sarah was whispering stuff in John B’s ear, you just leaned back closing your eyes, face up to the sun while your hair fell out the boat, you could hear the splashing coming from JJ and Pope and the giggles between John B and Sarah. Nearly falling asleep a patting on your leg catches your attention, you slightly opened your eyes it was Kiara.

“Are you coming?” she asked. You sat and saw around you, everyone was in the water.

“C’mon Y/n” John B called you.

You stood up and took your shirt off, JJ watching every move you made, you took your shorts off, and standing next to Kie, about to jump, you felt JJ’s glare on you, Kie jumped first and you followed her, the water was amazing, removing every sign of heat in your body, you popped your head out of the water and swam close to the group.

“Good isn’t it” asked Sarah.

“Oh yes” you nodded.

“Wait till we go to the beach” JJ said.

“Yeah, you have to come with us” Kie agreed. You felt your heart get warmer.

“So are you liking outer banks?” John B questioned.

“Yes… I am” you nodded.

JJ started a water fight right after that, so the next thing you know is that everyone was fighting back in between giggles, insults, screams, and splashes. After a while in the water you all decided to come out and eat something, you were the last one to get into the boat, taking JJ hand as help, you gave him a shy smile and went to the other side, he looked at you, his eyes lingering your body almost all exposed, Pope noticed it and slapped JJ in the back of the head.

“What was that for?” JJ asked

“Just taking you out of your trance” he chuckled pointing at you with his chin making JJ rolls his eyes.

You put on your shirt and sat next to Kie to help her with the food while Sarah was grabbing the beer. Kie handed Pope a sandwich, they looked at each other and smiled, you glanced in between the two, something was happening with them. She gave you another one and chinned up at JJ, you turned at him, offering the sandwich with a smile.

“Thank you princess” he said grabbing it, his fingers touching yours. You rolled your eyes with the faint of a smile on your lips.

Sarah handed you a beer, you all were quiet for a second, enjoying the food. “So Y/n” started John B, mouth still full “Why did you move here?”

You took a sip of the beer “My dad was offered a job here” you explained.

“Sorry if I ask but how’s that your Liam moved here too?” Pope questioned.

“Our dads work together” you grab a bite from your sandwich, he nodded.

The chat went on, they all asked you a lot of stuff, and later John B and the guys started to tell you their funny stories and adventures, how they all met, the hundreds of fights JJ has been on, how they met Kiara, and that at the beginning Kiara and Sarah hated each other but that they were like best friends now. Kiara talked to you about how she wanted to make a campaign to save the turtles, and that we have to save the earth. They were all so friendly, you liked them a lot; they were their own little family and loved each other so much, you were happy that they invited you to spend the day with them. The beers were over and so all the food, the sun was starting to set behind, you were all laying across the boat, just talking. JJ was seating next to Kiara, she was next to you. You saw JJ lighting up the joint, he blows out the smoke and saw you looking at him, with a smirk on his face he extended his arm in front of Kie and offered you the cigarette without saying a word, just like the other night, you grabbed it and placed it in between your lips, took a drag, and returned it, unaware that everyone was looking at the exchange, they all glanced in between each other, with confused smiles, JJ took another drag and then offered it to Kie.

“Didn’t know you smoke” said Pope.

“I don’t” you replied.

“Didn’t know you were a liar” JJ scoffed.

All the looks on him now “I only took a drag the other night” you narrowed your eyes. The other four looked at each other again, a scowl on their faces.

“The other night?” Kie asked, the shadow of teasing in her voice.

“At the Kegger” said JJ simply. With more confusing looks, as well as widen eyes and smiles, they were getting brand new information.

“When?” was the only thing that came out of Pope's mouth.

"After I broke up with Liam, he went to ask me if I was ok and then offered me a drag” you shrug, thinking it was no big deal.

“Oh he did” John B does his best not to laugh “such a gentleman” he teased.

JJ rolled his eyes “I thought you were with a touron” Kie tilted her head in question. That's when you understood where the fun came from, he didn't tell his friends he was with you that night. You felt a little embarrassed and awkward.

“I was, this was before, and then I went back with the touron” JJ shrugs. They looked at each other, knowing they will continue to tease him when you weren’t around.

“Last jump?” Sarah offered, noticing in your eyes that you were uncomfortable, standing up at the edge, giving a glance around the boat.

“Last jump” Kie and John B agreed with her, being followed by Pope.

You were left in the boat with JJ, he stood up and looked down at you “coming?” he asked.

You nodded and stood up at the edge, looking at the others swimming, the sun already making shadows in the water. JJ stood up next to you, very close, you turned to look at him, his blue eyes looking straight into yours; you could see the smile on his lips when his hand touched your side, pushing you into the water, but even with the surprise you were fast enough and grabbed his hand, pulling him with you. You pop out your head first laughing at his failure. He came out to the surface and shook his head, getting his blonde hair off his face.

“I’ll kill you” he said laughing.

You were all in the boat, going back home. You felt tired and your skin was hot, pretty sure you had a sunburn. You saw your house in the distance and started to get your things together.

“What are you doing this weekend?” John B asked.

"I’ll probably go looking for a dress” you replied.

“For what?” JJ questioned.

“Midsummer” you said like it was no big deal.

“Are you going?” asked Sarah with a big smile on her face, you nodded “Oh my god yes!” she hugged you “we are going to have so much fun” she turned to see Kie.

“Not that I’m not excited for you coming is that I didn’t want to go in the first place” Kie explained herself.

“Don’t worry I didn’t know I was going until five days ago” you said.

"Who are you going with?" Sarah asked.

"Lane" you replied, the look on her face changed, like a sad look, you took a mental note to ask Lane about it.

The boat stopped in front of the dock and you hopped out. You turned back at them and said goodbye, they said it back and started their way home. You entered your room and threw your backpack on the floor, went straight into the shower, and put your pj’s on, downstairs you find your mom and she reproached you for the fact that you didn’t put on sunscreen. You grabbed something to eat and went back to your room, deciding it was time to text Lane.

-Hey!-

-Hey!!!- She replied immediately.

-Do you still want me to go dress hunting with you?-

-Of course I want to!-

The days went fast in the solitude of your house, you spent your day reading and scrolling through your phone. You didn’t want to go out by yourself in case you ran into Liam. You had seen him once since the breakup, he was at the front door of his house with the other guys, you were coming back home for a walk and it was for the way they saw you that you don’t want to go alone. You hated this, hated that he was your neighbor; at least until the summer ended.

Saturday arrived before you could notice it. You walked out of the third boutique and you were exhausted, you had tried on at least 20 dresses and didn’t like any of them, Lane had tried more and she felt the same.

“I could use a break right now” you sigh.

“Oh I was about to say the same thing” she nodded.

You two walked in the direction she thought this Caffe shop would be and thank god it was there. You two sat at a little table and waited for someone to come to grab your order, both of you ordered an ice tea, the heat was just too much. The guy arrived with your drinks and you both thanked him. It was deliciously refreshing.

“Can I ask you something?” you asked after a while and she nodded “What happened between you and Sarah?”

Her eyes widened in surprise not expecting that question “we were like best friends, but when she started dating John B she totally bailed on me and the girls” you nodded at her response "I don’t hate her if that’s what you are thinking”

"I wasn't thinking that" you said.

You sat tiredly in the chair, waiting for Lane to come out with dress number eight "Ok, I think I found it” you looked up, she was wearing a navy blue long dress, with little stripes on her shoulders, her back was naked, but the front was more reserved, she looked amazing.

“Wow” you said “that’s definitely going to attract some glances, good glances” you corrected.

She smiled at you and then at her reflection “your turn”

You tried the third dress you grabbed and it was beautiful, it was a baby pink silk dress, long until your ankles, it had a cut on one of the sides, but not too high, your back was covered and the V cut was revealing but not too much, it was flattering. You stepped outside of the dressing room waiting for Lane’s opinion, she looked at you and for the smile on her face, you knew she liked it.

“Oh my god it's perfect” she clapped and you smiled shyly.

The week flew and before you could notice it was already Friday, midsummer was today. You were nervous, everything Lane could talk about was the party, she was telling you all the gossip from past midsummer but her voice was a blur in the background.

"Earth to y/n" she said as she moved her hand in front of your face "What are you thinking?"

"Nothing I'm just nervous" you shrugged your shoulders.

She smiled "c'mon we will have fun" she squeezed your hand and glanced over the magazine in her lap again.

You were at a salon, she begged you to come with her to get your makeup and hair done, it was full of other girls all of them getting ready for tonight.

You look at your reflection in the full-length mirror from Lane's room and your jaw almost touched the floor, the silk of the dress waved down in your body showing the golden heels you bought for the dress, the makeup even better than what you could imagine, pink smokey eyes and nude lipstick, simple but beautiful.

"Girl you look amazing" Lane said from behind. You turned at her, she looked amazing too, her makeup a little more exaggerated than yours.

"Me? Look at you" you said, she smiled and turned around, showing her self.

She handed you a little flower crown that matched the color of your dress, you took it, confusion in your eyes "it's a tradition" she said grabbing hers and puts it on her head.

The Island Club was beautiful, the entrance was decorated with flowers and little lights. There were already a lot of people, all dressed up, you saw your parents in the distance as you walked through the entrance. Lane and you walked toward a huge glass door, outside there was a big terrace and a lot more people, most of them younger, you saw Liam, with Rafe and the rest, Rebecca hanging on Liam's arm. Lane squeezed your hand and smiled at you.

"Let's go for drinks" She spoke. You nodded and followed her.

She lied to the bartender saying the drinks were for your parents. Both of you laughed as you two hid behind a bush. Lane's eyes dilated and a silly smile appeared on her lips. You looked at where she was looking and saw Peter and his friends. Peter saw her immediately and came towards you two. He said hi, his eyes lost in Lane's as she smiled. He grabbed her hand and kissed it. All of his friends chuckled at him.

"Hey get off my sister" said one of the guys that came with him getting in between them. Lane rolled her eyes and hugged him.

"I missed you" she said as he hugs her back "this is y/n" he pulled him back and introduced you.

"Nice to meet you" you said.

"Cooper" he shakes your hand as he glances at you up and down.

You did the same thing, he was brunette as Lane, with bright green eyes and a charming smile. He is wearing a light grey tux and his hair to the side.

You were listening to one of Peter's friends talk for about an hour when Cooper that was next to Lane walked away, standing now next to you.

"Hey" he smiled at you "When did you arrive" He asked.

"Almost a month ago"

"Oh nice, are you liking Outer Banks?"

"Yes"

"I'm glad to hear that" he smiled again "have you gone to the bar at lighthouse yet?" You shook your head "well that's a problem" he said joking.

"Why?" You asked.

"Well because is a very beautiful place with a nice view and I can't believe no one has taken you there"

"Well that's Lane's fault" you replied joking.

He shook his head and tickled with his tongue "that sister of mine" you both laughed "Me, on the other hand, can make a difference and take you one of these days, if you want" he glanced at you, a flirty smile in his face.

"I'll think about it" you smiled.

The two of you continued chatting for a long time, he took every chance he could to compliment you or telling you that you looked beautiful tonight, you felt flattered not in a million times you would have imagined that someone would try to flirt with you tonight, much less Lane's brother. You saw Sarah and Kie in the distance and excused yourself out to go find them.

"Hey" you said when you were close enough. Both turned around and gave you a big smile.

"Hey" Sarah hugged you, followed by Kie "you look beautiful"

"You two look amazing too" you replied.

"You are not drinking?" Kie notices your empty hands and shook her head, disappearing just for a moment to come back with another glass of champagne for you "if we have to go through this night better do it drunk"

"C'mon, let's dance" Sarah took your now empty glasses and dragged you to two to the dancefloor.

In between laughs, turns and hidden glasses of champagne the three of you were having so much fun. Even Lane and Peter's friend joined you, the girls putting on pause their fight. You were dancing with Lane, back to back to some music, until you felt a hand grabbing you by the waist and hand, turning you to face him, making you slow dance as the song changed.

"Hello" said Liam, you tried to pull him away but he was stronger and his grip on you only got harder "I just want to talk"

"Well I don't" you hissed.

"C'mon y/n, don't be a brat," he said, "I just want to know how are you doing?"

"I was doing just fine until you arrived" he rolls his eyes and grabs you even tighter, your chests squeezed into each other "don't you have a date to go to?"

He smiled "but we are having fun" his hand went down your spine. Your eyes widen while you try to push him off.

"Get off me" you mad whispered a devilish smirk on his lips.

"Don't you miss being this close to me?" He whispered back. The smell of alcohol hits you. You looked into his reds eyes and a shiver ran down your spine, remembering the night he hit you. You pushed him once more and a laugh escaped from his lips "Don't you miss the feel of my lips" he kissed you in the neck.

"Stop it" your voice almost broke, making him chuckle.

"Everything ok?" The sudden voice makes you both turn.

"Yes, everything is ok" Liam answered.

Cooper looked you in the eyes and realized you were uncomfortable, not to say scared "May I have a dance with the lady?" He asked and without expecting an answer he grabs Liam's arm and took your hand "thank you" he gently pulled you from his grip and placed your hand in his shoulder, forcing Liam to let go of your other hand, you looked at the harsh expression on Liam's face, knowing this little conversation wasn't over, he walks away and you let go a relaxed sigh.

"thanks"

"Are you ok?" He asked and you nod "not that I want to intrude but you looked a little scared back there so can I ask what was that about?" He said as you two swung around with the slow music.

"He is my ex" you explained "we broke up a week ago"

"Oh I see" he nodded "so you were scared because he was drunk" you glanced at him with surprise "you could smell the guy from like 5 feets away" he said "not to mention his eyes gave him away" you didn't say anything and kept swinging around until the song ended "do you want to go grab something to drink?"

"Yeah I would like to" you both smiled as he offered you his arm, you took it laughing.

The Van parked in front of the Island Club and the guys hopped out of it, walking to a side of the big house when they could see the party going.

"Did you texted Sarah?" JJ asked.

"Yes she told me to give her 5 minutes" said John B. as the three arrived at the beach entrance of the terrace.

JJ glanced all over the people looking for the familiar faces of the girls when he saw you, close to where he was standing, his eyes wandered all your body, looking carefully at everything your dress covered and everything that doesn't. He already thought you were pretty, even if he didn't want to admit it, but tonight you were even more beautiful if that was possible, your hair fell over your shoulders to the middle of your back, your eyes looked brighter because of the makeup and your lips looked more provocative than ever. He swallowed thickly at the thoughts that went through his mind at the moment.

John B and Pope looked at his friend in his hypnosis and couldn't resist the quiet laugh that escaped from their mouths.

"Dude, are you ok?" Pope asked.

"What?" JJ turned around in confusion, making the guys laugh harder.

"You are so into y/n" John B said.

"No, I'm not" JJ lied.

"I've never seen that face on you before" Pope stated.

"What face?" JJ questioned.

"I should have taken a picture" said Pope and JJ roll his eyes.

"Why don't you admit it dude?" John B wrapped his arm around JJ's shoulders.

"There's nothing to admit" JJ growled.

"C'mon man" Pope started.

"Shut up" JJ huffed and got out of John B's arm "Call your girl, let's get out of here"

John B texted Sarah, telling her to invite you too.

JJ took s few steps away from the boys, so he could look at you without being teased, that is when he noticed that you weren't alone. You were talking and laughing to a Kook he knew too well. Jealousy filled his veins as he saw him guide you to another place, his hand in your back. He lost you in the crowd and walked back to the boys.

"Why are they taking so long?" JJ asked.

"They are just saying goodbye" John B lied.

You followed Cooper at one of the tables, while he talked about the trip his dad made him go to. He was nice but deep down gave you the same vibe as Rafe, he liked to brag about everything he had and the things he has done, thinking that made him more interesting. But the big difference was that you enjoyed his company and the fact that being with him kept Liam away.

"Hey y/n" Sarah interrupted him "we are going to the beach and the guys told me to invite you"

You felt your chest get warmer as a smile appeared on your face, not that you weren't having fun here but the fact that they wanted you to come with them made you happy.

"Sure I'll go" you nodded "just let me say goodbye" you turned your head to Cooper, he took a step ahead and kissed you on the cheek.

"See you around" he said.

You smiled and walked towards Lane to say goodbye, she hugged you.

You followed the girls towards the beach and got out the terrace, in the distance you saw the three guys standing. When you were close enough you and JJ locked stares. You gave him a little smile and he did the same.

"Well hello girls" John b talked, the three of you said hi. "Let's get going"

The group walked to the Van and hopped in, the drive to the beach was fun, music blasting through the speaker as they all sang along the lyrics. John B parked in front of an empty boneyard. You all got out of the van and Pope pulled out a keg beer and a pack of red solo cups. When you arrived at the sand, you and the other two took off your heels and walked towards the boys, where they were already making the bonfire. You all sat around it and started talking.

"Did you liked your first midsummer y/n?" Pope asked you.

"It was fun" you nodded "for a Kook party" everyone laughed.

"C'mon I saw you having fun with Cooper" Kie teased and winked at you. JJ rolls his eyes as the same warm he felt earlier filled his chest again.

"Cooper? Copper Miller?" John B. asked as you nod taking a sip from your beer. "I didn't know he was back"

The talk went on for a few minutes until Sarah came up with the idea of playing a drinking game.

"Let's play never have I ever!" She almost screamed. The group huffed at Sarah's idea.

"Ok I'll start" said Kie as she settled in the sand "I've never swum naked on the marsh" his eyes straight to JJ, he rolls his eyes and drinks the beer "I knew it!" She laughed.

"I've never sent someone a nude" he said knowing Kiara would drink, but for the surprise of everyone, you drank too.

"Look at that" Jonh B. teased.

JJ's glare fell on you, you looked at him, his eyes a little darker than before "you go" he said to you.

"I'm very bad at this" you chuckle "but since I'm pretty sure you all had… I've never gone surfing"

They all laughed and drank from their beers. The rest of the game went on, you and the rest of the group were laughing your lungs out, half of the barrel already gone. You felt your body warmer but couldn't know if it was for the alcohol or the fire in front of you, so when you touched your cheeks and barely felt anything you knew it was the alcohol. You were now seated in between Sarah and Kie. Once every couple of minutes you glanced up to find the blue eyes already looking at you, the orange light barely illuminating his face. You don't know if it was all because of the alcohol in your system but JJ was more handsome than ever, his messy blond hair back, his arms that showed off from his tank top, the blue eyes that got brighter every time he laughed and the constant smirk on his face made you feel something deep down in your stomach.

Every time JJ catched you looking at him made his chest feel tighter, he could notice that you were examining all of him, he saw your eyes wandering his body, a smirk covered his face, glad that he caught your attention. And he couldn't help but to do the same, every time you looked away he took the chance to look at you better, your dress raised up a little for how you were seating, showing more of your smooth skin, his eyes traveled all the way from your legs to your arms, giving a glance to your collarbones and cleavage, he stopped in your face, the cut on your lips was gone, your eyes were bright and narrowed a little every time you laughed or smiled.

Let's go to the water" said Sarah all of the sudden taking you both out of your trance. Everyone agreed screaming and got up in a jump, leaving you alone in the sand.

"You are not coming?" JJ asked making everyone to look at you

You shook your head "I… I don't like it"

"You don't like the water?" asked Pope with confusion.

"No, it just that…" you shrug "It scares me" you admitted murmuring.

"What scares you exactly?" JJ asked frowning his browns.

"It's dark, I can't see my feets" all of them resisted the laugh.

"C'mon at least soak your feets a little" Sarah insisted.

You nodded and stood up, not without stumbling, realizing that you were more than a little drunk. They chuckled at you, you did the same. The guys took off their shirts and threw them in the sand. You walked behind them, and couldn't stop yourself from biting your lower lip as you looked at JJ's back.

"I'll wait for you here" you said as you stopped walking when the water hit your ankles, grabbing your dress by the edge.

They all nodded. You saw how they jumped into the water, swimming away, heads popping out in the distance, water until their necks. It gave you chills only to look at them and the thought of being next to them. From where you stand you could see John B and Sarah hugging and Pope and Kie dangerously close, JJ was nowhere to be found, which worried you, but he popped out close to them. You closed your eyes, feeling the sand in between your toes and the sound of the waves, a bad idea because since you were drunk you felt like everything around was moving. You opened your eyes again and played with the sand in your feets. You hear a little splash and saw JJ closer to you, he swam until he could be on his feet and walked until the water arrived at his waist. You took a couple of steps, water now arriving at your knees.

"I see you are getting brave" he teased.

"No, I'm not" you chuckled "maybe is the beer" JJ laughed.

"Take another step" he said and you shook your head "C'mon y/n" he insisted "here take my hand" you shook your head again "C'mon trust me"

"I don't want to ruin the dress" you offered as an excuse.

"You can always take it to the laundry" he said quickly "Just until your waist"

You gave him a doubting glare but accepted his hand, he smiled at you, making his eyes almost shut. You started to walk towards him, without realizing that with every step you made he made one too, going deeper. The water arrived at your waist quickly and you stopped.

"C'mon" he looked at you right in the eyes. You don't know why but you took another step, making him smile. JJ felt something jumped in his stomach at the fact that you trusted him to take another step. In the distance, the other four were watching you two, glances in between them.

The water was now at your chest, the fabric of the dress stuck to your body, you breathed heavily and didn't know if it was for the cold water or the terror of not seeing half of your body.

"Don't look down, look at me" JJ said and you nodded. His blue eyes looking straight at yours and the wet hair all over his head, half of his naked chest was still outside. You squeezed his hand, he took another step, and suddenly JJ had the water on his neck. "Ok, just one more y/n"

As you took that last steep you felt the sand disappeared down at your feets. "Oh my God," you whispered.

He grabbed you by your forearms, you did the same thing. He smiled at you and you did it back "See it's not that bad" he said making you laugh.

"Said that to yourself" you replied.

You looked at him now that he was so close, scanning his face, the little scar on his cheek, probably from a recent fight, his blue eyes, his lips, he was definitely the most handsome guy you have seen since you arrived in Outer Banks. You thought that since the day he leaned over the table at the ice cream shop, but you had only admitted to yourself now.

"Don't look at me like that" he said, but he didn't mean it. He liked the way your eyes wandered in his face.

Your checks tinted in red as you let go a little laugh "sorry"

The next thing he did, he did it on purpose, JJ carefully moved one of his feet closer to your leg, barely touching you. You jumped in the water pulling him closer to you into a hug. You wrapped your arms around his neck as he wrapped his around your waist, pulling you even closer, your chests squeezed into other others. JJ felt something in his chest, happy that his plan worked out, not sorry at all.

"Something touched my leg" you said, your mouth in his ear.

"Maybe a little fish" he said grabbing you tightly.

You two stayed like that for a while, you were too scared to talk so JJ just enjoyed having you that close.

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HASO, “Traitor.”

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He did his best to stay calm even as he was led into another room and introduced to their drake boss. He tried to keep his expression somewhere between an easy smile and a thoughtful nod, let them think he was really considering their offer, really considering their offer to go out and murder himself.

It was all just so unbelievable.

He couldn’t wrap his head around the idea that the chairwoman would want him killed. He thought the two of them were long time allies. He thought she had been the one, along with Admiral Kelly, to support his rise to the rank of captain when all of this began. What had happened between now and then to necessitate her desire to kill him.

He had to admit that he was both hurt and concerned for himself.

His brother Thomas was out there posing as him while the universe's most powerful politician plotted to end his life. She had the strength of the entire GA Armada behind her. He doubted all the ships would attack the omen if she asked, but at least some of them would, and without him there to maneuver the ship…. He worried that they wouldn’t last through a fight.

His stomach churned as the two pirate women spoke among each other trying to make him believe a lie. His stomach tied itself into another knot. He was surrounded by an entire galaxy of people who wanted to kill him, and for what?

Because the human race was growing too powerful politically? And somehow he had something to do with it.

Despite suddenly being thrown into politics at a young age, he knew that he didn’t understand them. He was a pilot and a soldier first and foremost, and he found that being a politician required lying to people and in ways that he just wasn’t capable of. He knew he was in a vulnerable position.

The two women finished their little speeches, satisfied that they had followed him, and he nodded to them as he was led back out into the hall. Cannon walked behind him the entire time spear held at the ready, ready to cut down anyone who tried anything. He had no doubt that they would be able to handle Beatrice and Geea. The Drev was no great shakes as a warrior and Beatrice behaved more like a crack addict with a knife than she did a fighter. Between him and Cannon they could take the two of them out.

In fact, Adam could probably take both of them at once if he had to, though he didn’t relish the idea.

He had a feeling that the two of them were being used just as anyone else might be. They weren’t working for themselves but being manipulated by a system that didn’t want to get in trouble itself.

The two of them were just patsies.

They led him out of the room and back into the main thoroughfare of the pirate waystation. Where once he had been excited to view all of the cool and illegal technology, he now felt sick to his stomach. Neon lights flashed above him under colorful ad campaigns for new jetpacks and all he could think of was the betrayal.

He needed to talk to someone. Immediately.

“I must return to my ship to make preparations.”

“We will come with you.”

He shook his head, “No, I need you to make sure that the rest of my men are getting along in the equipment they find. If they don’t get what we need then the mission is a bust, so you better make sure things go smoothly.

He didn’t wait for them to respond, but turned on his heel and made his way back towards the ship, his boots clattering on the metal flooring.

Beatrice said something rude behind him, but he ignored her for the most part.

He didn’t care about her at this point, she was simply a pawn in a larger game.

And while they were pawns….. Well that would have to make him a King, which honestly wasn’t much better than a pawn.

He was a target for an assassination, and the entire board felt like it was moving around them, and the opposing queen had him in her sights.

He was going to have to change that.

He stepped into the tube leading him into his “fake” pirate ship.

It had been a lot of fun pretending to be a pirate over the past few months or so, allowing words of his deeds to spread in just the right circles, and crafting elaborate stories of daring encounters with UNSC cargo ships who were willing to help him with his plan. For the most part it had all gone off without a hitch, and he had been able to live out every child’s fantasy of becoming a pirate.

But now, now the jig was up and the fun was over. He was going to have to figure out something in the next few hours.

He stepped onto the ship and headed towards his rooms, shutting the door behind himself before setting up a secure transmission to the Omen. The line that he sent the transmission out on was disguised as some sort of manifest request to an orbiting ship above. No one would find anything interesting about it, though the signal would be intercepted by the Omen and opened on another secure channel, which generally tended to be used to monitor cosmic feedback.

He waited there for a moment as the device rang a few times, and then the screen sputtered to life.

The picture wasn’t the greatest quality, but they had made sure to do that over the past few days to hide any of the small quirks about Thomas that would have made him easy to identify as an imposter.

“Cargo?”

The word was a pre made code word asking if it was safe to speak out of character.

Thomas would respond with either, “Goods, or weapons.” The first meaning go and the second meaning stop.

“Goods.”

The image before him cleared up, and his brother's face peered back at him from the camera. He had to admit, they had done a good job in making him look Like Adam. He had tousled blond hair and eyepatch and likely makeup to adjust the structure of his face. All in all, it was pretty impressive, but being Adam and Thomas being his brother he could definitely tell. Thomas was shorter and a bit thinner than he was, though he had filled out since joining the marines, and his hair was a shade or two off from Adam’s.

“You good?” Thomas asked, flipping up the eye patch to show his real eye.

Adam sighed, and rested his elbows on the table before him, “There has been a….. A massive compilation, and I’m not sure what to do.”

Lord Avex still sat on his shoulder, and had been surprisingly quiet since the revelation about the chairwoman.

“Are Sunny Krill and the others there, I need to talk to them.”

Thomas nodded and shuffled on the other side of the camera for a minute before returning.

“How about physically. Haven't had the shit kicked out of you, have you?”

Adam shook his head, “No, no I’m alright, Just mentally reeling at this point.”

He rubbed his temples trying to stave off the headache he could feel coming on.

There was a soft thud and hiss, and the door behind Thomas opened.

Sunny stepped into the room and hurried over to the monitor resting her hand on the back of the chair Thomas sat in, “Adam, are you alright!” The worry in her voice was palpable. She had wanted to come along on the mission with him, but he had reasoned that she was too recognizable. Even if they had changed her colors it would have been far too easy to identify her. She hadn’t like that, but had still agreed to stay behind.

“I’m alright, physically anyway, and so are the others.”

“You’ve figured out who their leader is.”

Adam went quiet, and by the looks he was receiving, he knew that they could sense the tension in his face, “Wait till the others get here.”

Just when he said it, the door hissed open again and Simon, Dr. Katie and Krill walked into hte room.

Dr Krill inflated his helium sack and floated into the air, looking him over with a critical eye for a long moment, “You don’t seem injured, so that is a good sign.”

Adam sighed and shook his head, “I wish that were the case.”

“I don’t understand.”

“I mean I would rather be beaten up than dealing with the real problem at this point.” He rested his head against his hands and squeezed his eyes shut.

“Look, this is going to sound absolutely insane, so I will just go ahead and send you the recording.”

He reached into his pocket and pulled out the recording device he had taken with him dropping it into the little well on the communications array. There was a soft whirr and it slowly levitated upward and began to spin. The video was played back for the others to see, and they watched in silence ad growing horror as the Chairwoman of the GA plotted his death.

When the recording cut off, the group of them stared at him with wide eyes.

Sunny shook her head, “This makes no sense.”

“Why would she…..”

Adam shook his head, “I don’t know…. I thought we were on good terms, but it seems as if that is no longer the case. THe GA is against us, or at least the head of the GA is. I don’t know who is loyal to us, and I certainly don’t know who to trust.”

It was then that lord Avex piped up hopping down from Adam’s shoulder, “The Celzex will always be on your side, Admiral. That is why I came on this mission, that is why your ship is the only one equipped with our weaponry.” he stamped one of his feet, “We will wipe her and her puny planet off the map.”

Adam raised a hand, “Woah…. woah , I don’t know about that. We have to do this carefully. I doubt she is acting with the entire interest of her species in mind, but more likely a small group of people. If we are going to deal with her we will want to confront her quietly where no one else is going to get hurt.

Lord Avex didn’t seem particularly pleased about that turn of events, but he kept quiet and allowed Adam to continue.

“We need to expose her publicly is what we need.”

Sunny shook her head, “And how do you plan to do that. There is already the problem of you having to assassinate yourself, which really isn’t going to do us well at this moment in time.”

He shook his head, “IT will be easy to take care of the pirates, they aren't all that smart and taking them out won’t be difficult. Just let them board the ship and then we can deal with them from there. After that is what I am worried about. We need her to show her hand, and we need to gather plenty of evidence. What I have right now is good, but if we can find something better, then that will ease my mind.”

He stood and paced back and forth slightly across the room, “We need…. We need to open me up to them. We need to make it look like I am vulnerable, we need to give them a chance to carry everything out, make it look like I am an easy target. Let thor guard down, and then when they come for me, we close around them like a bear trap and they will be none the weiser.” He tapped his fingers against the table, “You can’t help but leave some kind of digital trail in a time like this, it is completely impossible, if we have one end of her plot in a public setting, than we can unravel it right before her eyes and there will be nothing she can do about it.”

Krill, who had been mostly quiet for this time shook his head, “It seems strange that she would involve herself so closely. Using a proxy to do all the work for her would at least give her plausible deniability, why would she do it herself ?”

It was Thomas’s turn to pipe in, “Seems easy enough. She’s the only one she can trust. If what you say is true than I doubt she is going along with the interests of her own people. If she involves someone else than it is going to get messy for her especially if she doesn’t know where their loyalties really lie. She would have to make the decision to deal with it herself and ricks being caught, or risk being outed by the people that she trusted, and seeing that most of the Rundi are politicians at heart, it wouldn’t surprise me that she wouldn’t trust anyone ther than herself.” he waved a hand in the air, “They are grabbing for power just like she is, and they might see this as an opportunity to undermine her and set themselves up to become the new chancellor.”

He nodded slowly, that did make some measure of sense.

But how to pull hair out of hiding.

One thing at a time he supposed.

Outside he heard the sound of footsteps coming up the hall, and he turned to look at them making a quick hand signal, and the feed was cut off. He leaned back in his chair just as there was a knock at the door.

“Come in!” He ordered, and the door opened up to reveal cannon trailed by Beatrice and Geea.

He growled internally

They continued to get in his way and were becoming a real annoyance for his plan.

He was gong to have to deal with them soon.

“Ah, ladies, you’re back. Were we able to find all of our supplies.

Geea stepped forward, “I believe we have, now you better get to work quickly, my employer grows impatient with your stalling”

I bet she does, he thought standing and smiling to conceal the rage that was festering inside him. He walked over and patted the Drev on the arm, “Don’t worry, by this time tomorrow you will be all sorted out, and all of us can go happily on our merry way.”

He slipped past her and walked into the hall chin down eyes narrowed, hands balled into fists slightly at his sides.

By this time tomorrow they could begin dealing with the traitors, whoever they may be.

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