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#like yeah i saw the leaks days ago. of him mentioning 'not hitting the books' much as a child when we ask him why he sends voice messages
seventh-district · 16 days
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not even gonna tag this properly bc i don't wanna get Involved but i do have some Thoughts i need to get out into the void so here we go
(aaa quick edit: CW for mention/discussion of Boothill leaks)
#today's gone Badly and i'm upset but instead of venting abt it i'm gonna channel that energy into doing a bit of tag rambling abt Boothill#well. less abt Him and more abt uh. self-analyzing my anxiety surrounding contributing to fandoms. he's just today's catalyst#like. i know it's mostly a me thing. i'm hypersensitive to criticism and very conflict avoidant + socially anxious + perfectionistic etc.#so I'm the one that keeps myself from posting more stuff out of fear of being criticized or called-out for what i've made#bc inevitably Someone's gonna see it and think its OOC or a problematic take or they'll misread my intent. etc etc what have you#but like. that's inevitable. there's no way to communicate every single thing with all of the nuance required to avoid misunderstandings#and other times it's not a misunderstanding it's just a difference of opinions and that's Fine!! there's no accounting for personal taste#there's no accounting for several things actually. taste‚ bias‚ lore-knowledge‚ differing levels of chronic-online-ness‚ etc#so this isn't me complaining abt the state of fandom culture (although i do think. sometimes. ppl take shit a bit too seriously)#but anyways all of this is mostly just anxiety-fueled. it's not like i very often actually even receive negative feedback or anything#if anything ppl tend to tell me that i'm overthinking it and killing my own fun and worried that my stuff is more OOC than it is#which like. yeah. Yeah u right :) but that's just the way that i am! always losing the idgaf war i suppose#anyways what's Boothill got to do w this ur wondering. well. i've been thinking abt the quickly emerging concept that he's illiterate.#and it just. has me feeling a lot of ways. and watching ppl disagree over it has me feeling some Bad ways. bc it's def a loaded topic!#if you'll pardon the pun there. and i don't rlly have anything new to add other than that i'm conflicted abt it.#like yeah i saw the leaks days ago. of him mentioning 'not hitting the books' much as a child when we ask him why he sends voice messages#or voice Transcriptions ig. ykwim. and like. *braces for impact* ...i liked it? like. it doesn't feel right to call it endearing#i'm not trying to infantilize him. ok that's not the right word either but ugh. you know? what i mean?? who am i kidding even i don't know#it's not quite right to say that it feels like Representation either. but it's something close i guess#as a southern person myself who didn't receive a 'complete' education due to factors that weren't to do with my intelligence#the concept of seeing him as a capable force to be reckoned with and respected who also happens to have not received much formal education#i like that. i do. but there's so many issues w it at the same time. like. as i said‚ being southern myself has me Wary of the way Hoyo is-#writing him. as well as of the way that the fandom is taking the bits of his lore and running away w them. and i'm Very aware of how ppl-#will see a southern character and be All Too Eager to agree that they're lacking intelligence based on our Redneck™ stereotype#sigh. and before we even go too far with this. it's not even confirmed that hes completely illiterate. which is a valid criticism i've seen#there's Multiple reasons that could make him prefer voice to text. but regardless. i'm just worried that ppl will misconstrue my intentions#like. example: that edit i made the other day of him saying 'no thanks i can't read'. wasn't me playing into the stereotype of-#'haha dumb country boy can't read!' it was. in my eyes. something he'd say as a joke to make light of a potential insecurity#like. i think there's far more depth to Boothill's character if ppl could look past the surface. and i dont wanna contribute to the problem#but sometimes ppl Will have stereotypical traits and i wish the same could apply to characters as long as it's done Thoughtfully.
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eyeofthedrgn · 3 years
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A Heavy Battle Symphony Chapter 8
Catch up here >> AHBS Masterlist
TW: language, mental abuse, verbal abuse, physical abuse, violence, depression, anxiety, panic attacks, self harm, self-esteem issues, sexual abuse (only alluded to briefly in future chapters), drinking (comes up late in the story) just a lot of trauma, angst, smut - lots of lovely gay smut
Word count: 1739
Notes: This chapter is slightly graphic on the physical abuse. It's only like two lines, but I wanted to make it known.
Chapter 8 - Sorry for Now
After a while you may forget
But just in case the memories cross your mind
You couldn't know this when I left
Under the fire of your angry eyes
I never wanted to say goodbye
Four months, thirteen days, and ten hours, not that he was counting, since he left. Since the dark haired boy had walked away, leaving Rowan standing on the sidewalk. Since his mind spiraled out of control, and it felt like part of him died.
Rowan had been seeing a therapist for the last three months. It had helped, somewhat. At least he could function as a relatively normal human being again, when he was around people anyway. Most of the time. He almost didn't graduate. Thankfully, his mom, his friend group, and his therapist had helped him get through it.
But all in all, Rowan felt empty. Somehow his heart was broken. He hadn't realized someone could get so attached to someone so fast even though they never really talked or hung out. Maybe it was because they shared such vulnerabilities with each other that day in the park or there really was such a thing as a soulmate and his just left him. Either way, he was broken inside. Yet, he still went to parties with his friends, hung out, but he wasn't always present. Everyone noticed the vacant stares, but they usually left it alone. They all knew the general gist of what happened that day, but they could never understand the emotional gravity well that that day had caused. No one knew that Rowan had fallen for the other boy.
Except the ever observant Elide. She noticed everything. The way Rowan spoke about Lorcan, the way his eyes lit up when he saw the other boy walking down the hall, and the small looks they both shared on cast signing day.
But nobody had seen Lorcan after he had walked away. He never came back to school. No one knew what to think. Most assumed they moved again and they left it at that. Rowan assumed the worst after seeing Lorcan's bruises and him basically saying this was a usual occurrence.
Rowan was brought back to the present when a beach ball hit him in the head. He was sitting on the edge of Aelin's pool, sulking, feet dangling in the water. Aelin was throwing one of her parties, it was nearly the end of summer and soon most of them would head off to college. The noises from his friends finally filtering back into his head, it was suddenly too loud, too bright, and too hot. He ran a hand down his face.
Fenrys had been the beach ball throwing culprit, Rowan just glared at him.
"Come on, Ro. Try and have some fun?" Fen had swam over to Rowan and crossed his arms over the edge of the pool. The roguish blond just wanted him to be happy.
“I’m sorry.” He said that a lot now. Fenrys just raised an eyebrow at the boy… man.
He was eighteen now and he wasn't that scrawny, nerdy looking boy anymore. Rowan supposed that was one good thing that came out of Lorcan leaving, he got addicted to working out. There was a punching bag set up in the garage with some weights. He was fit now, muscles defined, but not bulky.
Elide walked up and mussed up his hair. "Come help me get some drinks." She didn't leave any room for argument.
In the kitchen, Elide just leaned forward on the island and looked at Rowan.
"I thought we were getting drinks."
"Yeah, we will. But-"
"But what?" He really didn't mean to say that with such an attitude, but he was hot and emotionally exhausted. Honestly, he just wanted to go home.
Elide was on her phone, waiting for him to chill. Taking a deep breath he said, "I'm sorry. What did you want to talk about?" Rowan was trying, he really was. She just slid her phone over the counter towards him. He furrowed his brows as he looked at the article on the screen.
Consultants for Erawan Enterprises arrested on counts of fraud, child abuse, human trafficking, and other illicit activities
"What's this?" He had no idea what this was about. Why would he care about Erawan Enterprises?
He picked up the phone and kept reading since Elide clearly wasn’t going to answer. It was short and there was a photo of a devastatingly beautiful woman with dark as night hair, that reminded him of Lorcan, and alabaster skin in handcuffs being pushed into a cop car and a very angry man shoved against the hood of the same car.
Maeve Valgerian and James Perrington were arrested Wednesday night. After some anonymous tips to the Morath Police.
"Who are these people?" Rowan didn't understand.
"Pretty sure she's Lorcan's aunt."
Oh.
Rowan had searched for Lorcan online after he disappeared, but there was literally nothing. Absolutely zero results. It was like he was a ghost.
They were consultants for Erawan Enterprises and moved all over the world for the very powerful man. Erawan Enterprises is under investigation for fraud, money laundering, and human trafficking.
After Valgerian and Perrington were arrested, MPD searched their residence and found incriminating evidence against them.
There was also a teenager held captive in the basement. They were taken to the nearest hospital with severely critical injuries. The name and gender of this individual will not be released for their safety.
The article was published nearly two months ago.
Human trafficking…
Held captive...
Severely critical injuries...
"Please, don't break my phone." He was squeezing the device and didn't realize it. Quickly handing it back to her, his hand went straight to his hair.
“Are you sure this is his aunt?”
“Well, not 100%, but they have physical similarities and their hair…” she trailed off. “And Lorcan had mentioned his aunt’s boyfriend living with them one day in class.”
"Fuck!" He felt like he wanted to rip his hair out.
"Ro." Elide's voice was quiet.
"FUCK!"
After a couple deep breaths, he ran his hands down his face, and then turned to face his friend. "Is he dead?" His voice cracked.
"I don't know. All of the other articles I could find are just about them and Erawan Enterprises. No mentions of Lorcan. Anywhere. It's like he doesn't exist."
Elide pulled him into a hug and he broke.
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Lorcan had been through shit show after shit show since he left the Whitethorn house. As soon as he returned to the apartment, it was packed up into a moving van and they were gone.
They were in Fenharrow for a couple months. Maeve didn't enroll him in school. He was locked in the basement of the small house they rented, it felt like he had gone crazy. He hadn't seen the sun until they moved again. His skin turned a sickly gray. By the time they moved again, he could feel every one of his ribs, and his hips stuck out, his fingers overlapping when wrapped around his wrist.
Next move was to Morath. Lorcan didn't know if he would survive. He didn’t have a good feeling about this place. The basement became his home yet again. It was filthy. There were thick iron hooks in opposite walls and chains hanging from them. This was where he was going to die. He closed his eyes as Perrington latched the shackles around his wrists.
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One day, Lorcan heard sirens intermittently. He kept passing out. He wasn't even sure he was hearing sirens or if it was just a ringing in his ears. They were always ringing nowadays. A punch to his face made his vision flicker. Blood and saliva leaked from his mouth as his head rolled down to his chest.
The ringing in his ears got louder. There definitely weren't sirens. No one was going to save him. He was going to die here. He knew it. It was what he deserved. The bastard born half-breed that no one cared about, left to die in his own filth in a disgusting basement. The world slowly faded to black.
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Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
He was in Hel. He had to be.
Beep.
The incessant beeping was there to drive him insane. And the smell of bleach was there to make him sick.
Beep.
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Lorcan startled awake. How could he be awake? He was supposed to be dead. Right?
The nightmare he was having felt so real. Probably because he had lived it before. He assumed that was just what Hel was supposed to be, reliving the worst parts of your life.
But instead, he was in a bed, a hospital bed. Why did they save him? Lorcan wasn't worth saving. Yet, here he was covered in wires, tubes, a needle stuck in his hand, a device on his finger. It was dark outside and the lights were dim in the room.
Deciding he wasn’t actually dead, he took stock of his body, he was certain he had some broken ribs, but nothing else seemed to be broken which was surprising. He was definitely sore and stiff. And exhausted. So exhausted.
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After… Lorcan didn't know how long he was discharged. He had put on some weight, though not a lot. The staff made sure he ate. They were all nice and cared for him. But now, he stood outside the main entrance of the hospital in some scrubs they gave him. Now, he had nothing. Nobody. He may as well have been lost at sea.
Why had they saved him? He still couldn’t figure that out.
Somehow, he managed to find the small house that he had been stuck in for who knows how long. There was police tape over the door. The door was open.
He pushed through the tape. The house was a mess. It seemed the cops had ransacked the place. But he finally found his things, they were strewn about the floor. Thank Hellas, his journal was still there. After changing, he packed up his books and journal, some clothes, and a few other other necessities.
He needed money or something he could sell. Maeve's jewelry would help. He could pawn it.
Lorcan asked the pawnshop owner for directions to the bus station, and then he set out to see if there was still one person who cared about him. Hopefully this wasn’t a bad idea.
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Edit- oops! I forgot to actually put in tags... My bad. Sorry!
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gwoongi · 4 years
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best years
jeon jeongguk / reader genre: best friend au, bff-to-lovers au, fluff, angst, guk is pining rating: general words: 2.6k warnings: its a short little fic, sort of like one chunk of a big chocolate bar and im gonna slowly feed u one chunk at a time until you’re sick and full a/n: a squint into the mind of bff jeongguk who will star in an eventual “idol best friend” series that i routinely dream about but have always felt it disrespectful to write about but at the end of the day everything i write is fiction and jeongguk would probably be less offended by a “canon divergence bff au” than he would reading my drug addicted rockstar au so :-) read it & weep folks
Jeongguk’s always been scared of the rejection he might receive from you. He might be a dream for fans across the world, but there’s a split second where Jeongguk feels like he might not be good enough for you. He’s the world to other people. But you deserve the whole galaxy, and he’s afraid that’s something that he might not ever be, even with the money, and the fame, and the doubts he tries to hide.
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Jeongguk was taking a pretty big risk, he knew that. It was risky taking any step out of his house at any moment, even on the days where it was pouring outside; he’d think he was safe until he made it to the end of the road, earphones snug in his ears, and the flash of a camera behind the shrubs in the corner of his eye blinds him back to his front door in a twisted shame. 
Granted, he’d expected it to be worse as he booked a plane ticket and made a rather hasty, in-the-moment journey to the airport and on a plane with no layover. Usually when Jeongguk takes a journey overseas, there’s at least one or two fans hiding in the corner of the suites waiting for him, or someone on the plane who’d recognise his face. For this, he’d suck it up and take a photo. It was better to have good PR, and be a little bit pissed off that he’d been discovered, than to have bad PR and to be known as the member of BTS who didn’t give a damn when the ‘real’ reasons for travel were taken away.
But Jeongguk thought the risk was worth it this time. The plane touched down in Manchester, and from there, it was an hour long train journey to a station he didn’t know anything about to meet a friend of yours he’d only seen in Instagram pictures. You were at University now, a face he saw on a screen rather than a face he quite literally woke up next to months before. It had been four months since Jeongguk had seen his true best friend, and fuck anybody who was going to make him wait a second longer before seeing you again.
You were his greatest risk, but it was worth it. You were worth it.
“Fuck, it’s insane to actually be meeting you right now.” Frank is a good guy, ginger with circle glasses rested on the end of his roundish nose. He led Jeongguk out of the train station, offering to pull his suitcase for him. “I mean, I’m a huge fan.” Followed by a sigh and a quiet, “Who isn’t…?”
Jeongguk smiled at him, squinting in the sun as it hit his eyes in the direction of Frank’s face. “Thanks. I hear a lot about you, too.”
Frank grinned, whipping his head towards Jeongguk. “All sexy and scandalous things, I hope. You know, none of us believed Y/N when she said she knew you. We thought the pictures were Photoshopped, you know how she is.” They both paused by the side of the road going one way only, “Shit, she’s gonna freak out when she sees you.”
That was three minutes ago, but Jeongguk’s still playing that sentence on a loop. He walks alongside Frank down one of the streets, past a redundant furniture store that quirks his brows. A man stands in the doorway, a cigarette out of his mouth and ash dropping to his toes bare in sandals. It smells like doughnuts, and weed, and he smiles brightly. He’s missed the UK, and how unbelievably shockingly awful it is when you’re not looking at picturesque photos of London online.
“I thought you’d know that Y/N’s my best friend,” Jeongguk says thoughtfully. He pauses as Frank does as a car zooms past when they’re about to cross. “I mean, people know. The photos got leaked, all of them.”
“Hey, give me a break,” Frank says dramatically. “I only became a fan three months ago. And yeah, I figured. Finally, I understood why all the white girls studying Korean here wanted photographs with her and to be her best friend…”
Jeongguk frowns. “Is it bad? She doesn’t tell me this stuff on the phone. I mean, they go crazy on Twitter when she posts pictures and we interact, but I didn’t…”
Frank shakes his head and grins at Jeongguk until the words die out. “Nah, don’t panic. It’s not that bad. If anything, she might get a kick out of the fame. Trust, there’s always gonna be the girls who hate her because she’s friends with you and that’s like, what, threatening to their fantasy? But she loves you a lot, and a friendship like yours...it’s kinda like family, you know?”
Jeongguk feels his stomach flip, kind of like butterflies. These butterflies are sour, his heart racing that extra bit quicker. He likes the sound of family. He doesn’t like the way Frank implies it, because if Jeongguk is ever going to consider you as family, it won’t be as his sister. You’ve never been his sister, even when you were part of his family growing up. There were times you came to all of his Korean family events, the times his family called you their own, but you were never his sister. It was different to that, you both knew it but never acknowledged it.
Frank makes small talk until they make it to the student accomodation you currently live at, and because Frank knows basically everybody, a student comes to the gate to let them both in. They’re nice, big and pretty-skinned, wearing an Aston Villa shirt that Jeongguk remembers looks a lot like your Dad’s back in the day. Might be the same, might be a vintage.
He smiles at him, because maybe this guy knows Jeongguk, but the guy just turns back into the common room and doesn’t come out again. Frank doesn’t live here, he lives in a flat of his own around the corner, but Frank might as well be a resident here. He lets himself in towards the lift and shoots a text to one of your flatmates.
“Apparently she’s in the shower,” Frank says casually. He locks his phone, taps his foot as the lift rises, “Let’s hope she doesn’t stride out completely stark naked as you’re in there.”
He almost blushes, “Ha, yeah.” He declines to mention the times you two have showered together, the time you went skinny dipping together when you were fifteen. Those were things that might end up getting misunderstood, and those are his memories he’d like to keep hidden and secret. He says nothing, nothing but a thank you when he enters your flat with Frank and takes a different turn to the left as Frank goes right, towards the kitchen.
Your room is at the very end, your name on the door in stickers from a set you got from the 99p store, and from inside, he hears the music in the bathroom. The door opens silently and closes with the same volume, and Jeongguk manages to wheel his suitcase to the end of the bed and plonks himself down. As expected from pixels on the screen, your room looks better in person- white walls and a bed set that’s white with a peony pattern. Above your desk, Jeongguk recognises all your photos together, new polaroids of you and the friends you’ve made at University who Jeongguk always felt kind of threatened by. He smiles to himself, and rests his neck at a strange angle against the wall your bed is literally attached to. From here, he can see the bathroom door in the mirror on the opposite wall, but he knows you’ll only see his feet when you come out.
Speaking of which; the Fleetwood Mac song ends suddenly and the shower water has stopped running. Jeongguk hears the toilet flush and his heart starts to race. Four months of falling asleep on Facetime and texting when there was no time left in the day, and now, here he is, on your bed, waiting for you to step out and...and, then what?
Maybe you didn’t even want him here. Maybe you were happier now that Jeongguk was in Korea and you were still at home, in a new city with new friends and a new life. Maybe the memory of Jeongguk was burdensome. Worse, maybe he was something you felt you had to remember but didn’t really want to.
Jeongguk’s always been scared of the rejection he might receive from you. He might be a dream for fans across the world, but there’s a split second where Jeongguk feels like he might not be good enough for you. He’s the world to other people. But you deserve the whole galaxy, and he’s afraid that’s something that he might not ever be, even with the money, and the fame, and the doubts he tries to hide.
The bathroom door opens and in two seconds, the light is shut off and he hears you sigh.
“Frank, you gotta stop letting yourself in here without telling me,” your voice says. “Good thing I’m semi-decent. Usually I’m not.”
“No fun,” Jeongguk teases, and silence follows. There’s a pause in the room, and Jeongguk cocks his head with his left cheek on his shoulder, waiting for you to click and appear in front of him. Suddenly, there’s small but quick thuds across the carpet and Jeongguk feels his chest tighten with a nostalgic feeling as you come into view with wide eyes, damp hair and nothing but a bra and those stupid black worn leggings you refuse to throw out.
The grin that reaches Jeongguk’s eyes now aches as he laughs at you, at the way you gape in his presence. It takes a moment, a moment of what feels like could be the rejection that Jeongguk absolutely fears, but then you smile so wide that Jeongguk feels it in his stomach.
“Holy shit!” you exclaim loudly, bringing a hand to your mouth as you hurry towards the bed. It dips beneath your knees and Jeongguk rises up to a sitting position. “What the fuck!”
He laughs out loud, and when you’re next to nothing away, Jeongguk wastes zero time in bringing you into his arms, tightly hugging you.
“Careful, my hair’s all wet,” you squeak.
“Don’t care.”
He really doesn’t. There’s probably going to be a damp spot on his clothes after, but that’s okay. You groan loudly with happiness as you hug him in return as tightly as he is hugging you, your weight on his lap and your arms around his neck. Jeongguk smiles so wide, sighing with content into your neck. Here, he smells the marshmallow wash on your skin, the fragrance of your hair that kind of reminds Jeongguk of cabbage patch babies.
“You smell good,” he mutters. You laugh quietly, squirming when his nose sniffs across your neck like one would kiss. “I don’t.”
“You do, you always smell good,” you reply. One sniff, he laughs, “See!”
“Mmm,” he plays along, “the sweet smell of planes and trains and jetlag.”
That makes you laugh, and at the mention of jetlag, Jeongguk realises he could probably fall asleep like this given the chance. He has missed this, missed you, so fucking much. The emotions are overwhelming. 
Jeongguk kisses behind your earlobe, and just underneath your jaw. That’s new. Jeongguk was a cheek-kiss kind of best friend, but never this. You’re not complaining. Your head drops to one side, almost giving him more access to the space free, and he occupies it. Those fucking butterflies; Jeongguk feels sick with nerves as he kisses you, under your chin and across your neck, on that spot on your collarbone you found out tickled after Seven Minutes in Heaven in Year 8. Maybe your fingernails in his hair are a way of you telling him to stop- it’s something he can think about tonight if he can’t fall asleep, something he doesn’t care to think about when he kisses on your actual jawline, to your cheek and the corner of your mouth, your cupid's bow.
He moves away with a blush that matches your own, but maybe you can’t see his in the colour of your fairy lights. He plays with the confusion as he moves the hair that's across your face around your ears, smiling and raising his eyebrows. Jeongguk convinces the role of casual to perfection and bites back a sour taste when he notices you’re the same. Casual, unmoved, maybe even like it didn’t mean a thing.
“Your hair is so fucking wet,” he sniggers boyishly.
“I told you,” you shrug. You shrink, relaxed, “Fuck, Guk, why are you here? I mean, I’m literally so happy, but...Are you gonna get in trouble for this?”
“I dunno,” he admits. “Maybe, probably. I mean...the guys know I’m here. Hoseok drove me to the airport with Jimin.”
“That’s not what I mean.”
Jeongguk sighs loudly. “Yeah, I know. Frank told me all about the girls.”
“Little fucker. Is he here? I’ll punch him for mentioning it to you. It’s honestly fine. Girls will be girls.”
“You’re my best friend for life, it’s important to me that you’re not uncomfortable by it-”
“I’m not,” you assure him, hands trapped in his hair. “Damn, this got long. Didn’t look long over the phone.”
“Was growing it out,” Jeongguk replies. “Heard you fancied Keanu Reeves, couldn’t handle the competition.”
“Ha!” you retort. “Simp.”
“For you,” frowns Jeongguk dramatically.
Conversation fizzles comfortably, to the point where you both forget that Jeongguk’s underneath you and your legs are wrapped like a koala around his middle. The fact that this is normality for you both is ignored. You’ve done worse things together. Jeongguk even knows that the bra you’re wearing now is one he bought for you. That could be why Jeongguk feels the way that he does, why this confusion wraps around his body and traps him. Jeongguk knows that the butterflies in his stomach don’t just appear because you’re his best friend he hasn’t seen in a while. He knows what they mean when they flutter when your name pops up when you’re calling him, when an interviewer tries to catch him out by bringing you up in another interview that you don’t need to be mentioned in.
Jeongguk knows that coming here was worth the confusion, and the nerves, and the fact that this will be a headline when it gets out. JEON JUNGKOOK GOES TO UK TO VISIT HIS BEST FRIEND...BUT ARE THEY MORE? Or worse, NETIZENS HAVE PROOF THAT BTS JUNGKOOK IS DATING HIS BEST FRIEND Y/N…
He doesn’t want to hurt you. That’s how he feels scared. For you to be scandalised by an article online that caught him out in his feelings, he knew it wasn’t fair. Jeongguk might be too afraid to say he’s in love, and too afraid to find out if you feel it too, but he’d risk those feelings and the headlines if it meant spending one more day with you.
Jeongguk’s got a week and a half with you. Something’s gotta give within this week. He doesn’t want to go back to Korea with more regrets than he came with, and for now, he’ll just have to swallow those butterflies back down when they pour out of his mouth. Right now, he can’t afford to be caught out. It has to be known on his own terms, when the timing is perfect. It has to be perfect, because it’s what you deserve. It has to be perfect, because if it isn’t, then Jeongguk doesn’t think it will be worth it.
Losing you to a headline and a butterfly is out of the question. One tries to escape when you hop off him and shrug on a jumper from out of your wardrobe. If you noticed his unease you didn’t mention it. He wants to cry, wants the confusion to go away for the night so he can enjoy it.
Fuck.
For now, he thinks as he follows you with an arm around your shoulders out of your bedroom and towards the kitchen to meet the others, he’ll just have to fake it til he makes it. Just like always. Put on a face, put on a show, until it all feels worth the spillage. He can’t let the butterflies escape yet.
It has to be perfect, and he’ll have to be patient.
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Imagine:
Erik cuddling with Reader while she is on her period/having sex with Reader while she is on her period.
Warnings: FLUFF, SMUT, mentions of blood, cuddling, College Boy Erik.
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Y/N woke up from an hour nap with her books at the foot of her bed. She was in the middle of studying for her Bio Chemistry class that she had to take as a prerequisite for Dental Hygiene. The pain is what woke her up after tossing and turning. Sharp, painful cramps sprang to life out of nowhere causing her to wince in pain while reaching down to rub her lower belly. Y/N pauses, picking up her phone to check her period app.
“Seriously? I thought this devil was coming tomorrow. Screw probation.”
Y/N called it probation because she couldn’t get any dick that she would surely crave since her menstrual days are her horniest days. Y/N groans, lifting out of her bed carefully in the loose fitted grey sweatpants that her boyfriend, Erik, left when he spent the night a few nights ago. That wasn’t the only thing he left. His durags, t-shirts, sneakers, and some hoodies were in her room as well. Y/N stood up with her shoulders slouched forward and her body feeling weak. Sure enough, as she pulled the waistband to Erik’s sweats, fresh crimson blood stained the crotch area of the pants heavily. Y/N then turned to the bed to see a stain in her white sheets. She was used to this. She wore underwear and certain clothes for things like this but this time around she wasn’t prepared. Frustration flowed through her veins as she walked with her knees buckled to the bathroom for another shower.
Y/N reaches under the sink to grab the peroxide so she could soak and scrub the blood from Erik’s sweats. Stripping naked, she felt the fresh blood trickle down her inner thighs since she always had a heavy flow during her menstrual cycle. Rushing so she wouldn’t stain the new white faux fur rug that she purchased for her bathroom, Y/N steps into the shower the blood only splattering on the edge of the tub. She made the water run hot while she lazily stood under it, staring at the wall and hugging her lower belly. All she wanted right now was a rub of Haagen Dasz coffee ice cream, some herbal tea, her favorite long u-shaped plush pillow that Erik purchased for her and watch crap TV. Another thing Y/N craved was her man’s big, strong arms wrapped around her while he rests his chin on her shoulder. Erik’s rubs to her belly always soothes the ache she felt. Then he gave Y/N soft kisses to her cheek and forehead. She was going to text him when she gets out of the shower.
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Pain on 1000, Y/N twists painfully from side to side in her freshly made bed. Erik didn’t reply to her cry for help. Where was her big strong boyfriend when she needed him? Then, it dawned on her. He had an evening course for school since he was going back to become an MRI Technologist. His evening hours where from 6PM to 9PM. It was currently 8:45PM. In the fetal position, Y/N whimpers, tears forcing out of the corners of her eyes like a pipe ready to burst because of how hard she squeezed her eyes. All the medicine in the world couldn’t stop her from being in pain.
As if Erik could hear her cries, Y/N’s phone vibrated with an incoming call. She reached out for her phone from its wireless charger on her bed, hitting the green button to accept his call.
“Baby, baby, where are you?” She spoke before he could even say what’s up or what’s wrong.
“I’m driving, class got out early. Everything okay, love?” Erik asks with concern.
“I need you,” She spoke softly with a whimper, “Can you come be with me?”
“I was going to do that anyway,” Erik chuckles, “I haven’t seen you since a few nights ago I need my baby girl.”
“Good, because my period decided to creep up on me and I’m having cramps right now. I need you to cuddle me and rub my belly.”
“Aww, Damn, no loving for me then, huh?”
“Sorry, Erik,” Y/N’s body tenses up from another affliction that made her tear up more.
“It’s okay. Did you need me to bring anything before I come over?”
“Just some ice cream. The coffee kind.”
“Bet, my sweats still over there, right?”
Y/N knew that he would ask about that. She had them in her washer right now. The blood successfully came out but it took a lot of effort.
“Um...about that-“
“You stained them?”
Y/N felt embarrassed. She didn’t want Erik to think that was disgusting.
“I’m so sorry, I’ll buy you another pair-“
“Girl, chill out. I don’t care about all that I just wanted to know if I needed to make a stop at my place before I came to you. Don’t trip, I don’t give a fuck about that shit.”
Y/N giggles while rolling over into her back, “some guys do-“
“Well, I ain’t some guys, I’m Erik, and I don’t think it’s gross.”
Y/N blushes while biting her lip, “Thank you,” she spoke timidly.
“Always, baby, listen, I just pulled up to 7-eleven I’ll let you know when I’m close, okay?”
“Okay, love you,” Y/N smiles.
“Love you too.”
She adored him.
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Erik Stevens had a key to his girls apartment. He opened the door, stepping inside of her darkened living room. The chain lock secured, Erik takes off his sneakers by the door, heading into the kitchen to grab a spoon for her ice cream. Erik walked down the narrow hallway leading to her bedroom, finding Y/N on the bed laying on her right side staring at the TV. She was currently watching Family Fued. She had on a long plaid buttoned shirt that Erik remembers her purchasing from Good Will since she loved thrifting. Her big brown eyes went from sad to happy in a millisecond when she saw her man. She hopes up onto her knees, arms out like she was a toddler asking to be picked up. Erik smirked, walking over to his girl, bringing his arms around her waist and picking her up from the bed so she could straddle him. Her lips found his, kissing him gently at first before the taste of his tongue took over her senses, her kisses more forceful. Erik’s hands ran over her ass, palming it and squeezing it. She made sounds of pleasure in his mouth, her eyes closed.
“How is my baby feeling?” Erik looked up at her, “You look like you need all my love right now.”
“I do,” Y/N played with one of the strings of Erik’s hoodie, “I need my big, strong man.”
“Aww, my baby is so needy right now,” Erik kisses her forehead, “Come on, let’s get you on the bed.”
Erik lays Y/N down delicately before walking away towards her closet. He removes his khaki colored hoodie, revealing a loose fitted white tee underneath since he has so much muscle mass. He had on another pair of sweats too, the same design except they were black. His kinky fro was covered in a beanie but he snatches that off, using the tips of his fingers to pull out his curls. Y/N always found watching Erik undress to some degree satisfying. Erik comes back to the bed, bringing the 7-eleven bag with him and the spoon. He grabs the ice cream, removing the seal, and sank the fork directly in the middle for her to have at it. Y/N sits up, Erik wrapping an arm around her waist, pulling her over in one motion so she would lean against him while his arms rubbed her belly. She went limp against him, making sounds of pleasure and relief to finally have her ice cream and her man.
“Are you going to spend the night with me?” Y/N asks in a sweet voice, “I don’t think I would be able to sleep if you weren’t here.”
“Yeah, baby,” Erik looked from her tongue licking the ice cream from the spoon to her angelic brown eyes, “I’ll keep you nice and warm.”
Y/N giggles, scooping some more ice cream, “You treat me like a princess.”
“It’s because you are.”
Y/N wasn’t helping situations. She smelled like coconut oil, touching her belly made him want to rip the buttons on her plaid shirt so he could see her naked body, the way her curly hair tickles his chin and neck from the pineappled fro she had made his body shiver, and loved to bat those pretty brown eyes at him which got her whatever she wanted. He was horny for her. No sex since a few nights ago. That’s always how it was. Erik craved Y/N every second of every day. Now, his dick was hard and tenting the front of his black sweats. This night was about her and making her feel better but every little thing she did made him horny.
“What do you wanna watch,” Y/N looked over into his eyes, “We can watch Blade.”
“Sure,” Erik was always down to watch that it was a favorite of his, “I really just want to feel your ass on my dick while we cuddle.”
“Baby...stop it,” Y/N rolls her eyes. She was already horny just from him rubbing her belly, “You can’t talk like that when I’m on my period.”
“I can’t help that I’m hard right now and that I need some.”
“You are not helping,” Y/N places the ice cream on her side table in her room, “okay, let’s cuddle.”
Erik helps Y/N down on the bed, pulling the comforter over them both before pulling her close with his big arm. The second Y/N’s ass hit his dick, Erik’s nose went into her curls and his jaw tightened. His hand ran up and down her belly, eyes watching her lashes move up and down from her blinking while she puts on the movie. Erik pushes his dick further between her cheeks, eliciting a tiny moan from Y/N.
“Babyyy,” She complains, “Stop.”
Erik kisses his teeth, “Didn’t you tell me that masturbating and sex helps with cramps?”
“I did,” Y/N looks over her shoulder and back at Erik, “what are you suggesting?”
“I want to have sex so I can make you feel better.”
“Baby...that’s gross,” Y/N chuckles, “Plus, I’m not in the mood I just want to cuddle and be near you.”
“You are in the mood,” Erik reaches up to pinch one of her nipples, “That’s reason number one. Reason number two I can’t figure out since you don’t want me down there.”
“I’m wet regardless because I’m bleeding out,” Y/N cold feel it leaking as she spoke, “It’s messy and too much-“
“I don’t care. It’s a natural thing, Y/N. Period blood doesn’t bother me, girl.”
Y/N didn’t respond, she just turned her head back to watch TV. Even if she did say yes how would that feel? She thought about sex during her probation before but then that all ended because she assumed every guy wouldn’t be in to that. Here comes Erik Stevens, a guy who doesn’t give a fuck and who thinks pussy is pussy no matter what.
“Have you done this before, with another girl?” Y/N was curious.
“Nah. This would be my first time if you let me do it.”
Erik turns Y/N around to face him, using his fingers to stroke some hair from her eyes. Y/N knew that staring into those eyes would make her second guess the disgust she felt about having sex on her cycle. His fingers lightly stroked her lower belly directly over the area that hurt.
“The pain is right there,” Y/N spoke with a crease in her brows.
“Right here?” Erik rubs while looking her in her eyes.
“Uh-huh,” She bites her lip, “That feels good.”
“I can make you feel better though,” Erik pulls the waist band of her floral cotton panties, “Can I see?”
“Why?” Y/N felt her heart race.
“I just wanna see what makes you feel so icky. I wanna see why you’re shying away from me having sex with you.”
“Erik...it’s just not sexy,” She laughs nervously, “I’m bleeding-“
“I don’t care.” Erik reassures her.
“You are serious?” She couldn’t believe it for a second.
“YEAH,” He spoke with annoyance.
“I’m sorry it’s just-I just-I’m shocked I guess.”
Erik gave Y/N a soft smile, “I told you, I’m a different breed of man, Y/N. Consider yourself lucky.”
“Trust me, I do. Everyday.”
Erik leans forward to kiss her before trailing those soft kisses down her neck. He left a wet trail behind each time. Y/N’s body arched and she couldn’t tell the difference between wet pussy versus the blood. What she did feel between her legs however was a throb for attention. Her pussy felt neglected in all of this.
“So, what’s up then? Can you show me?”
Y/N looks away from Erik shyly, “Okay.”
Y/N watches as Erik pulls the comforter back from her legs, her panties revealed. His large hand cupped her pussy, rubbing it up and down. That felt amazing too. Y/N always felt a little sore down there during her cycle. Her legs opened further, her hands shaking from how nervous she was.
“Erik, maybe we shouldn’t-“
“STOP.” He ordered her.
“But, baby,” Y/N gasps when she felt Erik’s finger rub between her pussy lips over her panties.
“Shhh, cut it out,” Erik thumbed her clit, “Stop, tripping, okay?”
“Okay.”
Erik takes his fingers, pulling her panties down and over her knees. She has a tampon on right now. Her panties weren’t stained. Erik folds them and places them on the bed next to him.
“You okay?” He whispered to her.
“Yeah,” She could feel him using the tips of his fingers to spread her, “Baby, Wait, Wait...I have a tampon on,” She was overly bashful, “Why do you want to do this so much? I don’t feel confident.”
“You shouldn’t feel like that. I love you. All of you. I don’t care about blood, ma. It’s the same pussy I fuck when it’s not bleeding. Relax, baby. I got you, okay? Now, let me see.”
“Can I at least remove my tampon first?” Y/N sat up, thighs clenched so blood wouldn’t mess up the bed.
“Go ahead,” Erik helps her from the bed, “I’ll grab a few towels.”
He was dead fucking serious.
Y/N went to her bathroom, closing the door halfway and sitting on her toilet. She removes her tampon, wrapping it, and then throwing it in her trash can. Y/N nibbled on her bottom lip nervously. She wanted to try it and see if she liked it but on the other hand she didn’t want to make a mess and appear disgusting. Even though Erik said he did didn’t care there was still a small part of her that thought he did.
“Baby?” Erik’s voice could be heard calling out to her. He smooth, husky voice, “Do you need my help?”
“No, I’m coming,” Y/N wipes herself before flushing the toilet and washing her hands. Quickly, she made it back to the bedroom, Erik laying out black towels with the sheets pulled from the bed. He was in nothing but his black sweats, shirt off and tempting. She gets onto the bed, laying back on the towels with her thighs tightly shut.
“Are you gonna be difficult?” Erik questions with a raised brow, “Because I told you, I don’t give a fuck. Ain’t gonna stop me.”
“I’ll try not to be,” She spoke truthfully.
“Try really hard for me, okay?” Erik got onto his knees in the bed between her legs, “Now, spread your legs for me.”
With a shake of her thighs, Y/N opens them, her beautiful pussy spread open for Erik to see. She couldn’t look at him while he stared at her pussy. Y/N turned away, eyes closed. His silence is what made her close her thighs.
“Did I tell you to close your thighs?”
“No,” Y/N opened them again, “You just didn’t say anything-“
“It’s because I was admiring that pussy, ma. Stop reading into everything.”
“Ugh, okay,” She opens her thighs again, “Just...day something, anything.”
“It’s beautiful, even with the blood, it’s still beautiful.”
Y/N glances at Erik, “Really?”
“Of course, I wouldn’t lie to you, wouldn’t do you like that,” Erik takes his fingers to spread her more, “Fuck,”
“Huh?” She got up on her elbows, “Is something wrong?”
“No,” Erik didn’t remove his eyes from between her legs, “How could a nigga find this nasty? It ain’t nasty, it’s precious.”
“Erik,” Y/N couldn’t believe that’s how he felt.
“I’m so fucking horny right now,” Erik leans over Y/N while his fingers rubbed her clit, “Damn, baby, you’re so damn pretty down there.”
“Erik,” She couldn’t say much but his name. His free hand unbuttoned her shirt, her breasts with extra hard nipples ready to be sucked on.
“Keep saying my name like that. It’s only gon’ make my dick harder,” Lips sucked on her nipples, “You gon’ let Daddy fuck that pretty pussy to make you feel better?”
“Yes,” Her nipples were electrified from his licking and sucking.
“I just want my baby girl to feel better,” Erik picked up the speed of his fingers on Y/N’s clit.
“Mmm, fuck,” Y/N could feel her hips moving in tandem with his motions, “Erik-“
“What?”
“Fuck, Erik, that feels so good.”
“Your so messy on my fingers,” His teeth lightly grazed her left nipple, “Cum on my fingers, girl.”
“Please,” She begged him to keep going. Y/N was past the point of caring about her bleeding when Erik deliciously rubbed her hardened clit the way he did.
“Say my name again,” Erik ran his tongue up Y/N’s neck.
“Erik”
“Good girl. That pussy cumming ain’t it?”
“Uh-huh,”Y/N gasps and pants heavily, “Yes, I’m gonna cum, baby.” She bites down on her bottom lip as her release rocked through her. Her thighs closed around Erik’s hand. She could feel herself creaming on the towels.
“Damn,” Erik looks at his fingers covered in her wetness mixed with blood, “Fuck, baby, fuck.”
“Y/N reaches out to feel on Erik’s dick, “Umph, baby, it’s so fucking hard.”
“I know, that’s why I need you. You ain’t even gotta suck it,” Erik whips his fingers on the towel before getting off the bed to take of his sweats. He pulls out his wallet, grabbing one gold wrapped condom before crawling back onto the bed. Y/N watched Erik’s dick bounce up and down as it stood straight from how solid it is. He was fully erect, 100% rigid. All of that because of how much he needed to be inside of Y/N no matter how much she bled. Erik pulls Y/N’s thighs up and over his shoulders to decrease the amount of mess. With his dick in his grip, Erik slips inside, no resistance, just sliding right in because of how messy she is. It was so slippery from the blood and her natural lubricant. The sensation sent tingles from the tip of his dick all the way down to his heavy sack filled with cum. Erik looked down between her legs to see his condom covered dick crimson. He couldn’t stop himself from fucking her fast. That’s how good it felt.
Y/N could feel all of Erik inside her aching pussy. The slippery sex felt so damn good that Y/N couldn’t muster a word or a sound. She wanted to kick herself for not trying this before. She felt the exact same pleasure from when she wasn’t on her period but sloppier and wetter. The noises her pussy made turned her on so much. It was like music.
“Fuck, you feel so damn good, girl,” Erik mumbled in her ear, “oooooo I don’t wanna get out of this pussy.”
Y/N drags her nails down Erik’s back, “You don’t have to stop, Daddy, remember, you’re supposed to make me f-feel better,” Y/N’s eyes rolled shut.
“That pussy feeling better already,” He swiveled his hips deeper, “Mmm, girl, I wanna feel you cum on Daddy’s dick while I beat it up.”
“Yes, yes, Daddy, yes,” Y/N felt the pressure from his dick dragging over her G-spot and pulling on her clit, “Shit-shit, Daddy, that dick is on my G-spot, Umph, ima squirt-“
Y/N felt the rush of liquid fall to the towels and on Erik’s dick. Her hips moved up and down with his strokes because she needed to feel him inside of her.
“Keep still, let Daddy fuck you,” Erik held her hips in place, “Ain’t so disgusted now are you? The way you fucking me back let’s me know you don’t care about that silly shit. Who in this pussy?”
“Daddy-“
“Daddy a man, baby, Daddy ain’t no little boy. Daddy don’t give a fuck about some blood,” Erik felt her walls hug him, “mmmm, such a greedy little pussy.”
“YES!” Y/N gave herself to him. She couldn’t keep up with his strokes to her walls.
“Damn, you about to make Daddy bust a nut already?” Erik slows down, “This what you do to me, girl, you always get me like this. It don’t matter what you do, you always get Daddy’s dick hard.”
“Fuck, baby, you’re so big,” Y/N could feel her warm wet pussy leaking, “you feel so good inside of me.”
Y/N tightened her walls around Erik’s dick, pulling him further inside until his hips let hers. His groomed pubic hair was warm and wet from her blood mixed with her wetness. The more he tried to pull his dick out all the way to the tip, the more she pulled him back with her greedy pussy.
“You don’t want me to go huh? You like me in this pussy? You don’t care about making a bloody fucking mess on me? Answer me.”
“Fuck! No!” Y/N shook her head from side to side, “No, Daddy, I just want you to keep fucking me!”
Erik’s sweaty face rested on Y/N’s cheek while his fingers squeezed the fat of her thighs to keep her still and for leverage so he could pound her pussy. Slippery and messy, Y/N squeezed her eyes shut, an arm wrapping around Erik’s neck to hold on while he aggressively pounds her pussy.
“Daddy! Slow down! It’s gonna get everywhere!”
Erik completely ignored her.
“Fuck!!!!! Oh my God, oh, oh, shit, baby, fuck!!!” Y/N opened her mouth and her voice went mute. She beat the on Erik’s back weakly with her fist with her powerful release trying unsuccessfully to get him to slow down since she was overworked and sensitive.
“Baby, fuck, this precious little pussy on you got me cumming, “Y/N’s thighs almost choked him, “Stay fucking still.” He spoke through clenched teeth with a barely audible voice. Y/N stomached the deep penetration she felt and the way her walls tingled while Erik’s dick grew to a cum inspiring length. Filled and stretched, Erik grunts in Y/N’s ear as his cum shot into the condom, filling it up and damn sure almost breaking it with how much he exploded. It was like opening a cap on a shaken soda bottle.
“GODDAMN.” He was swimming in her tight pussy, “GODDAMN GIRL.”
Y/N looked towards the ceiling with disbelief.
“OH MY GOD,” Erik pulled his still hard dick out hesitantly. He still wanted to stay inside of her but his girl was whimpering. The condom was so tight around him from his cum stuffed inside. Erik could see Y/N’s cream coating her clit and labia and all of her menstrual blood mixed with her lubricant making her pretty pink pussy shine and glisten. Her outer lips were puffed and engorged from the beating Erik gave her. Watching her pussy convulse and jump, releasing more cream made Erik want to put on another condom, turn her over, and fuck that pussy some more.
“I actually feel better,” Y/N rubbed her sweaty belly, “I don’t feel the cramps anymore.”
“I told you, baby,” Erik leans forward to kiss her, “Now, you know how we can take care of that, right?”
“Yes,” She smiles weakly, “It was exactly what I needed.”
Erik leans over with a flex of his abs to see her fluids that stained his pubic area. The sight of it turned him on so much. Y/N sat up carefully, her thighs trembling. Even though her cramps were gone, her pussy still aches.
“I’ll run a bath,” Erik walked into the bathroom, flicking on the light and removing the condom. It was heavy with his cum. He grabbed some of Y/N’s natural soak with Aloe Vera, coconut oil, and lavender oil, placing it in her bath and spreading it around with his hand. He walks back to the room, spotting Y/N undressing.
“Come on, we’re taking a bath together.”
“How are you going to fit in my small ass tub. You know your much taller and bigger than me, Erik.”
Erik shrugs, “we’ll make it work. How do you feel though, you’re good?”
“I’m better. You just beat my pussy up, that’s all,” Y/N walks towards him with shaky knees, “Nothing I’m not used to from you, Daddy.”
Erik bites his lip at her, watching her walk past him before his hand reached out to lightly tap her but, “Mhm, that’s right. I’ll beat it up no matter what.”
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Goodbye brother
pairing: Sonny Carisi x reader (Sonnyverse) fandom: Law and Order Special Victims Unit warning: mention of death. Angsty af.
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To say she was embarrassed by the who ordeal that had been going down for he last couple of months, well, that would be an understatement. (Y/N) was mortified. First she had been accused by Sonny’s boss and colleagues about leaking the article she had been writing, early, and without getting the green light from them. Then they involved her boss who fired her. And when she thought she was safe in the comfort of her own home, well, she apparently wasn’t safe there either, as Sonny started yelling at her the second he came home. The icing on top of the whole shit cake that was currently her life, was the fact that she was completely innocent. Not that anyone seemed to care about that.
«I didn’t leak it Sonny! I’m telling the truth! Someone hacked my work laptop and sent it from there!» she had pleaded with her husband. But when he wouldn’t listen she shook her head, tears already running down her cheek. «When you decide to listen to me, I’ll be at my parents house, with the kids!» she spat, running to their shared room to pack her things. The kids already had a lot of clothes at her parent’s house, so she only needed to get things for her self.
«Doll!» he tried. «Save it Dominick! I don’t want to hear it», she said, glaring at him before storming out the house. (Y/N) thanked her lucky stars that the kids were already with her parents. The worst thing she and Sonny could do was to fight in front of the kids.
~~~
That was a couple of months ago. She still hadn’t been told she was right all along. And she was still ignoring Sonny. The truth was, she wanted to make up with him so bad, mostly for the kids who were crying most nights asking for him. But they were both hotheads, so unless Sonny came to his senses and started apologizing for how crappy he had treated her, she didn’t want to hear it.
(Y/N) was in the middle of writing a new chapter for her book when she got a call from her sister-in-law.
«Hello? Nina? Hey! Calm down, please, and tell me what happened.» Nina was talking about a mile a minute, and it was getting hard for (Y/N) to understand what she was saying. «Oh my God! When?! Just now? Hey, shh. Tell the others I’m on my way!» (Y/N)’s brother, Tony, was a fire fighter with firehouse 61 in Chicago. And according to his wife, Nina, he had been severely injured on the job.
She couldn’t really say she played favorites when it came to her brothers, she loved them all equally. Not to mention three of their brothers, Ed, Val and Leo, also worked in the emergency service industry in Chicago. Ed being in intelligence for the Chicago PD, Val worked as an EMT for  firehouse 61 and Leo worked at Chicago Med as a trauma surgeon. Being a worried sister came with it. Especially with Ed, Val and Tony who were on the front line every day.
~~~
(Y/N) bolted through the doors of the Emergency room at Med as soon as she got there. «Casey! Where is he?!» she called out, locking eyes with Tony’s lieutenant, Matt Casey. «(Y/N)! Oh my God! Thank God you’re here!» he said, hugging her. «They took him into surgery a couple of hours ago. He’s in recovery now, but still under», Casey added, helping her sit down. «Where’s Nina?» she asked, looking for her sister-in-law. «With your brothers, they’re at Tony’s place», he explained. Nodding her head at that, she leant back in her seat, taking a deep breath.
«What the heck happened out there?» she asked no one in particular. «He tried to get a mother and son out of the building and a beam fell down and trapped him under it. We almost didn’t get to him in time», Otis said, biting his lip as he sat opposite her. «But you did get to him. Thank you.» She felt tears slip down her cheeks as she stood up and hugged Otis.
~~~
Hours went by until Dr. Halstead came out, looking at everyone. «Where’s his family?» he asked, before spotting (Y/N), Nina, Ed, Val and Leo. «Come with me please», he said. «Casey can you please call my parents for us?» (Y/N) said, expecting the worst by the way Will was standing.
She was right to think the worst. Dr. Halstead explained that the damage was too severe, he had been in there too long, and the beam had hit just right, meaning it was no saving him. Biting her lip, (Y/N) stood back as her bothers and her sister-in-law hugged and cried. She didn’t know what do do, all she really could do was pray that this was all a joke, a sick dream, and that she would wake up and Tony would be there, awake and smiling at her as he told her one of his weird jokes. But she knew that wasn’t the case, he was gone, and he wasn’t coming back. Tony was just laying there, machines beeping around him. If only he had taken the day off like he had said he was going to do, according to Nina. But there was never anyone who could tell Tony not to work, he was stubborn as a mule and loyal to a fault.
«I need someone to sign off on the papers if we should turn of the machines or not», Dr. Manning chimed in, standing next to Dr. Halstead. «Can we wait until our parents get here?» Leo asked his colleague. «Yeah sure», the brunette girl said, nodding before she and Halstead left.
~~~
The five of them sat there, just watching Tony for what felt like hours, until (Y/N) couldn’t take the silence anymore and got up, going out to the waiting room.
«(Y/N), how’s Tony?» Casey asked, approaching her as the other fire fighters looked up or got out of their seats. «He—he’s not gonna make it. We’re just waiting for our parents and our other brother to get here before we sign the papers», she explained, wiping some tears away. «I’m so sorry to hear that (Y/N). If there’s anything we can do, you just let us know okay?» she nodded at that, giving Casey a hug.
(Y/N) decided to stay in the waiting room with the firefighters, just so she could be the first person her parents and Sergio saw when then got there.
She had stood so motionless that she almost didn’t feel the arms wrapping around her waist until she heard a soft murmur, «Shhh doll, it’s okay.» Sonny was the first and the last person she wanted to see right now. But feeling a moment of weakness, she leant into her husbands chest.
The moment ended quickly though as soon as she saw her parents rush in. «Ma! Dad! Ser!» she called out, running over to them, embracing them all in hugs. «How is he?» her mother asked, looking at her. «He’s not gonna make it ma. I’m sorry», (Y/N) said, looking at the ground as if she was the culprit behind the accident. «Oh god!» Mrs. (Y/L/N) exclaimed, falling into her daughter’s embrace. «I’m so sorry ma», (Y/N) whispered, hugging her mother.
They walked together into the room, leaving Sonny behind, wishing he could take his wife in his arms again and kiss her, to tell her it would be okay in the end. But seeing she wasn’t wearing her wedding ring, he figured she was moving on. Gina had told him about this divorce lawyer friend she had who had gotten (Y/N) the papers. He knew it was coming, he just hoped she would change her mind and come back to him.
~~~
Leo had come out a while after the arrival of their parents and brother. Every firefighter in the room stood up and looked at him. He looked so tired, having been here since the start of his shift the evening before. «Doc?» Chief Boden asked, looking at Leo. «He’s at peace now», was all Leo said, before leaving.
«Leo! Hold up!» Sonny called out, running over to his brother-in-law. «What is it Detective Carisi?» he asked, looking back at Sonny. «How’s (Y/N)?» Sonny asked. «Do you mean after what happened with Tony? Or after you decided to call her a liar and get her fired from her dream job and almost arrested?» Leo knew all about how Sonny broke her heart, all her brothers knew. «I—I should have never done it. I made a huge mistake, and I beat myself up for hurting her, every day. I don’t know what to do. She’s my dream girl and I ruined that», Sonny tried so hard to not break down and cry, it was the last thing (Y/N) and her family needed. «You should have thought of that before then!» Leo stated, turning to leave Sonny behind.
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Later that evening at Nina and Tony’s place, (Y/N) called her mother-in-law. She wanted to say goodnight to the kids. «(Y/N). How are you holding up dear?» Mrs. Carisi asked, looking at her daughter-in-law. «I could be better. Are the kids still awake?» she asked in return. «Yeah hold on. Dom can you get the kids in here please?» Mrs. Carisi asked her husband.
A minute later the kids were in the room in front of the phone. «Mommy! We miss you!» Giovanni and Matteo said in unison. «I miss you kiddos too! Are you being good to nonna and nonno?» at this the boys and Angelina nodded their heads.
«Is daddy there too?» Dominick asked, looking at his mother. «No. Sorry baby», (Y/N) said, giving the kids a sympathetic look. She knew the kids were missing their father, and she couldn’t lie, she missed Sonny too. Having seen him at the hospital earlier had really made her feel better.
After the kids said their goodnights and I love yous, Mrs. Carisi came back in frame. «I know you don’t want to hear it (Y/N), and I was so mad at him when I heard what happened. But have you thought about talking to him? He’s not himself anymore, keeps asking about you and the kids in case I had heard something. I heard something about his attitude towards his colleagues have gotten shorter and he snaps easily», she explained. It broke (Y/N)’s heart to hear how Sonny had changed after the separation. After talking to the divorce lawyer Gina had recommended, she often though about going to Sonny and taking him back, but she couldn’t give up. He had broken her trust, that couldn’t be forgiven that easily.
She missed him like crazy though, and she knew it wouldn’t go away. «Maybe I can talk to him tomorrow?» she murmured, looking from her mother-in-law to the table. «You love him still, don’t you sweetie?» (Y/N) nodded at this, tears slipping down her cheeks before she could stop them, «Yeah, like crazy. But he hurt me, how do I forgive him for that?» she asked, biting down on her lip. «You don’t. But it helps talking it out. That way you can both go from there and hopefully make your way back together. You and Sonny were made for each other sweetie, we saw it long before you both did. Don’t let something so good go to waste dear», Mrs. Carisi said, giving her daughter-in-law a warm smile.
(Y/N) finished her video chat quickly after that, saying she was exhausted, but really, she needed time to think about what her mother-in-law had said. On one hand she wanted to run to where Sonny was staying, hug him and tell him she loved him and she wanted it again. But then in the back of her head she would tell herself that he didn’t deserve to be taken back, and well, that voice was usually the loudest voice.
She finally set for a somewhat healthy medium when she picked up the phone and dialed his number. (Y/N) just about threw her phone at the wall when he picked up. «Doll?» he asked, his voice sounding raw, almost as if he had been crying. She wanted nothing more in that moment than to hug him, she always hated it when he cried, she just didn’t want him to be hurt. «Hey Sonny», she said, and it was the first time in a long time she had said his name, and been happy when she said it. «Are you okay?» he asked, not quite believing that she would call him. «Can we talk? Tomorrow? Over breakfast, my treat», she asked in return. «I’d love that. But please, let me pay.» he offered. «Okay. See you tomorrow», she said. There was a short moment of silence before she added «I love you Sonny.» It was so silent after that, that (Y/N) thought he had passed out, until he replied just as softly as she had with «I love you too doll. Always.»
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Author’s Note: Originally posted to ao3 (This is an edited and improved version) Part Four of the Red Queen Chronicles!
Summary: When Loki pulls Cassandra Campbell out of cryo and uses her trigger words against her, the memories that have been hiding from her since she was ten years old finally crash down on her completely.
Word Count: 3686
Pairing(s): Clint Barton x OFC, past Loki x OFC, past Bucky Barnes x OFC, past Steve Rogers x OFC
Chapter Warnings: mentions of brainwashing, mentions of murder, violence and anger, mentions of cheating
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“She is beautiful, isn’t she?” Loki asked, setting his hand against the glass of the tank. The terrified Wakandan scientist nodded nervously. “Gives off an air of regality, even asleep.” He scoffed. “Especially asleep. There’s no fear on her here. No contempt. No attempt to run from her king,” he mused before turning to the scientist. “You can speak German, yes?”
“Y-yes.”
Loki produced a red notebook from his breast pocket and handed it backward to the man without looking away from the frozen woman. “Halfway through. Labeled ‘Kind’. Open this and recite those words.”
The man hit several buttons on the console attached to the tank and it filled with a chemical. Cassie blinked her eyes open, green orbs filling with confusion. The blur of confusion cleared out of her eyes and it was replaced with fear. “Loki?” she squeaked, struggling against the binds as the tank opened.
“Junior. Vierhundert.”
“No! Don’t read that!” Cassie struggled harder, but she didn’t move. “Please!”
“Keep going,” Loki ordered, smiling at her as she fought against the binds.
“I’m sorry,” the man said. “Rot. Tochter. Vermächtnis. Fünfzig. Messer. Schädel."
“No! God, please, no! Please! Please, stop!” she begged over the trigger words.
“Johann. Zwei,” the scientist said, shaking as the woman blinked slowly...as if everything were suddenly clear.
“Undo her restraints,” Loki demanded, and the man rushed to release her. Cassie stepped down from the tank and looked around like she had new eyes. “How do you feel, Joanna? What’s different?”
“Shut up, Loki,” she bit out quietly before turning to the Wakandan man. “Run. Now. Go.”
The Asgardian watched in amusement as the man ran from the lab. “Now. How do you feel, my queen?”
“Not as different as you would want,” she snapped, leaning against the tank and looking up at Loki with disdain. “You really thought I’d come out on the other side of this ready to be your bride or something?”
“I wasn’t sure how you’d come out of it, Joanna. I was actually hoping you’d be ready to take directions as the other one does.”
Cassie scoffed and shook her head, scornfully. “Someone’s feeling a little flaccid without his scepter.”
Loki’s eyes went wide. “How dare you talk to-” he started, indignantly.
“Don’t start, Loki. Let’s just go. We don’t wanna be here when the king and the Doras get here,” she said, grabbing his coat and pulling him out the door.
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T’Challa sent word to Steve as he was mounting his offensive on the Raft that Cassie was kidnapped out of the cryo lab by Loki, so when they were safely away from the prison and sitting in the cargo hold of a ship on its way to America, Steve sat next to Clint. “You know, Cassie was the one who gave me the information I needed to get you out.”
Clint nodded. “Yeah? When did she talk-”
“She didn’t go home after she got out. She found me and Bucky and she helped us get to Wakanda. She was instrumental.”
“Wait, but she was--what about the…” Steve looked down and Clint’s whole body slumped. “No. What happened?”
Steve shook his head. “She said she lost it, but...she also said she had some interaction with Loki after she left the Raft so...he may have...I’m not sure.”
“She must be devastated,” Clint whispered.
“Um...there’s...more.” Steve pulled the letter out of his inside pocket, but he didn’t hand it to the archer.
“Wh-”
“And before you read this, you need to know...Loki found her in Wakanda.”
Clint’s eyes went wide. “What?! What do you mean? Why did she stay in Wakanda?”
“She had them freeze her. She said that the letter would explain.” Steve set the envelope on Clint’s lap and stood.
Clint’s stomach was in knots as he slid his finger across the envelope and pulled out the letter. A weight in the envelope had him shaking out a white gold ring that he recognized. He cleared his throat to deal with the sudden dryness.
My Dearest Clint,
I’m so sorry that I cannot do this in person, but you’re in prison and I’ll be frozen by the time Steve gets you out. Loki is looking for the red book, the one that Zemo used to activate Bucky as the Winter Soldier. I’m 90% certain that my words are on those pages too. What I’m not sure of is who I will become when those words are said. Since it means I’ll be who Hydra wanted, I can’t imagine anyone would enjoy finding out. That’s why I’m going into cryo, because I can’t hurt anyone if I’m frozen. I decided it was the best course of action...and I know you’re thinking that I would never hurt anyone, but you have never been more wrong. I’ve been remembering things and I know that I have killed. I killed two SHIELD agents when I was a child and I killed a man just a few days ago. Who knows what else is hiding in my head?
I’m sorry to send the ring back like this, but it’s what you deserve. I never should have said ‘yes’. It was selfish of me. I wanted my happy ending so much that I lied...to myself and to you. But I’ve been pretending for so long and I can’t anymore. I can’t keep putting up this facade for you. I kissed Sgt. Barnes. He saw the real me, those parts that I’ve been hiding from you and something about that drove me to break your trust. You deserve better. You deserve the woman you thought I was.
Despite it all, I love you. Be well.
Cassandra Campbell (R.Q)
Clint crushed the letter in his hand, anger almost palpable in the small space. “Let me get this straight,” he snapped as he stood, stomping up to Steve as the others stared on in confusion. “While I was in prison for helping you, your buddy made out with my fiancée and then one of you convinced her to freeze herself, leaving her completely defenseless when Loki showed up to get her in the supposedly impenetrable fortress that is Wakanda?”
Steve looked up at the ceiling. “It was Bucky’s idea to go into cryo...and he isn’t the only one that she kissed,” he finished quietly.
Clint’s fist smashed into Steve’s left cheekbone, groaning as he pulled away cradling his hand. “Worth it!”
“You kissed her back?” Sam asked, as Scott tried to not look impressed and Wanda made no effort to hide her judgment of Cap.
“I…” Steve rubbed the back of his neck and cleared his throat. “She...I didn’t know she kissed Bucky first and...she did say she was breaking up with you, Clint, and...I didn’t know if I was ever going to see her again. I’m sorry, Clint.”
“I know what you are thinking and she is not,” Wanda practically growled at Scott. “I could feel your judgment. You don’t know her like I do, like we do. She isn’t promiscuous.”
“Oh, really? ‘Cause, I mean...evidence to the contrary, Wanda. How many other guys does a woman have to kiss before she gets labeled a slut?”
“Shut the fuck up, Lang,” Clint growled.
Scott rolled his eyes. “Yeah, okay. Get angry with me.”
“So what are we gonna do about Loki taking her?” Sam asked.
“We’re going to go to the U.S. and we’ll go from there. Coulson gave me the location of an old SHIELD black site where we can hang our hats. We’ll search for them from there,” Steve responded.
“Screw that,” Clint snapped. “I’m going home. You can find me on the farm.”
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Clint stood in the barn, launching arrows into a target made of hay. He was furious. He was dismayed. He was taking it out on the wall behind his target.
“What’d that wall ever do to you?”
Clint turned to the voice, immediately dropping the bow and bounding for the small blonde woman. “How’d you get away from Loki?!” he asked, wrapping his arms around her and holding her tight.
“I fought back,” she answered. “Did you expect anything less of me?”
He pulled back, eyeing her warily as a feeling of unease settled in his chest. “You...you wrote me a letter. You said Loki was looking for your trigger words. It’s the whole reason you let yourself be frozen. You didn’t want him to let out the sleeper-”
“You think Loki’s controlling me?” she asked, incredulously. She scoffed. “He’s just an alien without his fancy scepter. I’m a super soldier.”
Clint drove his fist into her jaw and stepped back into a fighting stance. “You might be, but Cassie hates being called that. You’re Joanna again,” he accused.
She smirked as she straightened, her tongue darting out to lick at her busted lip. “Actually, Clint, I prefer ‘Cassie’. Joanna Schmidt is an obvious Nick Fury construct. It evokes uncomfortable feelings and images of the noseless abomination my father became.” She wiped at the blood leaking from her lip. “Cassie, though, that gives off a feeling of hope and love. It evokes images of a young woman crying over a holiday dinner because she finally has a family to share Christmas dinner with.”
She sighed and shook her head. “I was afraid you were going to be a problem. That you were going to see the change, recognize.” She hummed sadly. “Sad. I was praying to fool you.”
“You could never fool me,” Clint spat out.
“Because you love me,” she finished for him. “You, the man who watched through a scope as I tried to piece together some semblance of a normal life. But I couldn’t, could I?” She chuckled ruefully. “Not with Phil’s help. Not even with your help. It’s like I was trying to put together a puzzle with half the pieces gone. Joanna...she was a completely different puzzle, but she was missing the same number of pieces.”
“And you, what, you’re the missing jigsaw pieces?” Clint asked as his hand went to the tactical blade clipped to his belt.
Cassie lurched forward, grabbing the knife from his hand and punching him in the mouth with the handle. “The words are the pieces, you idiot. I’m the big picture, Clint. Pay attention,” she snapped. “I’m the image we’ve been trying to get to but haven’t been able to because we didn’t have the words to trigger the memories. The memories that Hydra and SHIELD decided I’d be better off without!” She kicked Clint in the chest, sending him backward into the barn door. She let out a satisfied sigh as the sound of cracked bones hit her ears.
“Because what good could come from me knowing that I killed my first enemy agents at nine years old?” she asked, with a bitter laugh. “Fury said he was afraid I’d look in the mirror and hate myself but he was terrified that I’d like it...and you know what, Hawk? I don’t.” Her smile faltered for a moment as a nauseated look took her face. “I don’t like it...but it feels right to be me. The ‘me’ I was bred to be.”
Clint coughed painfully and moved to sit up against the barn door. “This isn’t you. This is Loki.”
“Loki has nothing to do with this! I sent him packing a week ago! He wanted nothing to do with Hydra and since I am the future of Hydra, I sent his ass back to Asgard.” She squatted down in front of him, a sincere sadness gracing her pale features. “I knew this was going to be difficult for you to understand, Clint. Even before Loki made me...complete, I knew you’d hate this. I knew you’d hate me if I became this.”
Clint glared at her. “We won’t let you-”
“I know,” she interrupted softly. She nodded as she stood. “All of you would fight tooth and nail to get me back to being the person you think I should be. You’d send me off to SHIELD to be erased again. So, I guess I’ll just have to kill you all.”
Clint’s lip twitched into a sneer. “Harder villains have tried.”
“You’re right, they have...and we’ve overcome them all, but...see, Zemo had the right idea and he did half of the work for me.” She ran her hand through her hair and licked her lips. “The Avengers are strong because we work well to balance each other’s faults. The powered and the nonpowered, tacticians and geniuses and just plain strong heroes...but right now, we’re fractured. Those of that signed can come and go as we please and the rest of you, fugitives, you’re scattered. I heard Scott is even on house arrest. Are the rest of you even in contact with each other?” She shook her head. “I’ll have marched through the hidden Avengers before you all realize the rest of your team is gone...and then I’ll take the Compound.”
“You’ll never make it through all of us,” he groaned. “Even separately.”
“See, you forget, Clint, that I’ve known you all for quite a while now, so...I know your pressure points. I know your buttons, Clint. Like I know that just mentioning Bucky makes Steve stop in his tracks.” She smiled cruelly as Clint swallowed heavily. “I wish I could have been there to see his face when the Winter Soldier showed up at Fury’s old black site.”
“You didn’t,” Clint whispered.
She chuckled. “Of course I did. Why would I leave such a powerful Hydra asset on ice?”
“Why would you send him after Steve?”
“Why wouldn’t I? He’s Steve’s weak spot. I would be a fool to not use him. Especially since I know Soldat’s trigger phases. It’s the only Russian I know. Strucker taught me a long time ago. Did you know that Winter Soldier was supposed to be my right hand man when I came of age? When they put me at the head of Hydra, Bucky was going to be standing next to me.” Cassie examined the knife in her hand and smiled sadly. “I remember that now. I’m finally the person I was created to be, Hawk. I know you can’t be happy for me about that and...if it’s any consolation, killing you is really gonna hurt my feelings.”
A shock went through her as something hit her back but it didn’t put Cassie down. She turned to the redheaded intruder with rage in her eyes, then forced a tight smile. “Natasha! How unexpected. I didn’t think you’d be here. Did you know she was coming, babe?” she asked, stomping her booted heel down onto Clint’s hand.
“Steve sent me,” Natasha said, hand resting on the stingers on her wrist.
“Really?” Cassie growled.
“Bucky showed up at Steve’s new base and tried to kill him. Luckily, Sam was there. They were able to subdue him. When he came back to himself, he told them you sent him. He was adamant it wasn’t your fault though, so Steve called in to get you some help.”
“And you’re just here to stall until the help gets here, right?” Cassie rolled her tongue along the inside of her cheek and scoffed. “Let me guess...my help comes in the form of Phil’s Zephyr 1, which will take me to Fury to be erased again.” She shook her head as she twisted her heel until she heard the crunch of Clint’s bones. Her lips twitched, attempting a smile as Clint screamed. “Someone’s not drawing a bowstring anytime soon. Something to remember me by, Hawk, since I won’t be able to.”
“It’s better this way,” Natasha said, matter-of-factly.
Cassie took her foot off of the archer’s hand and squared herself off with the Russian. “Says you. You’re not the one who has to walk around with a giant hole in your personality. You aren’t the one who gets to feel wrong every day and not know why.”
Clint cradled his broken left hand in his right and stood with a wince. “You don’t even like yourself like this!” he argued.
“I hit a wall, Clint,” she growled through clenched teeth. “I couldn’t deal with fighting myself anymore. Since Sokovia I’ve been trying to convince myself that this isn’t who I am, that remembering wouldn’t change me, but it did. I changed...and when I woke up, when Loki said those words, everything clicked. Who I really am flooded into me...so I let myself finally drown.”
“What, you’re tired so you just stop fighting? What happened to the strong woman I wanted to marry?” Clint snapped.
“She died in Africa,” Cassie snapped, looking from Natasha to Clint to the barn door to the hayloft. “About the time she killed a warlord and threatened to drown a little boy in the blood of his friends.” She bent her knees and vaulted herself over Natasha, landing on the ladder before jumping to the loft. “I can’t let you take me back, sorry.” She started toward the hayloft door but stopped in her tracks when an arrow hit her right thigh.
“Barney! What the fuck? You shot my-” Clint yelled as Cassie pulled the arrow from the soft flesh of her leg.
She turned and flung the arrow at the tall ginger man, who grabbed the arrow from the air. “What? You can’t shoot her so I did.”
“Barney Barton! Nice to finally meet you!” she said with sarcastic enthusiasm. “Unfortunately, I can’t stick around. You understand, I’m sure,” she said before jumping out the loft door.
Barney handed the arrow shaft to Clint’s good hand. “Great taste in women, bro.”
“That wasn’t Cassie,” Clint defended as Barney walked out the door. He threw the tracer-arrow shaft to the ground and followed.
“Yes, it was,” Natasha said, pulling up a map on her tablet and watching the retreating dot.
“How can you say that, Nat? You know Cass. You know she’s not-”
“Clint, I know what you wanna hear, but I can’t say it.” Natasha shrugged. “She was one person with those memories gone, but she is someone different when she has them.”
“Yeah, okay, but...you remember your-”
“And I fought to become someone better than what they made me in the Red Room,” she interrupted, following the Bartons across the field to the farmhouse. “Cassie doesn’t wanna fight so unless we can get her to Coulson to get those memories erased, your fiancee is gone.”
“Do you even want her back, Clint? Bitch just broke your hand.” Barney threw the bow on the porch swing as he walked through the door. “I mean, even if you got her back to being...what’s her name? ‘Red Queen’. Even if you get rid of the homicidal tendencies the Nazis gave her, she tried to kill you. It’s gonna change how you see her, how all of you treat her.”
“And we won’t be able to tell her why,” Natasha added.
“What does that matter? How many times have you tried to kill me, Barn? Nat was trying to kill me when we met!” Clint exploded.
“Different,” Barney said, pulling a beer out of the fridge with one hand and grabbing an ice pack from the freezer with the other. “This is the chick you said hadn’t ever killed anyone, right? That actively avoided doing more than incapacitating the bad guys, ‘cause her dad was a huge dick?”
Natasha rolled her eyes. “Now we all know that’s not true, don’t we?”
“You don’t seem too surprised by that, Natasha,” Clint said suspiciously as he put the ice pack over the back of his hand.
“I read the file. The Projekt Kind file. I knew she killed the agents in ‘99 before she did,” Natasha said, sighing as the signal on the tracer dulled. “She’s blocking the transmitter.”
“She’s a scientist,” Clint growled. “I coulda told you a tracker wasn’t going to work.”
“Shut up, man. I had to try something.” Barney popped open his beer and took a drink. “At least you know which direction was heading and she’ll have to pull whatever’s dampening it eventually to cut out the chip.”
“If we even want to find her,” Natasha reiterated.
“Of course we do! What kind of-”
“Exactly what memories do we take, Clint?” Nat asked, calmly. “Just her childhood or do we take her memories of the things that made her start remembering? Do we take away Loki’s second attack? Do we take Austria? What about Wanda? Where do we stop?”
“Wherever we need to to get her back!” Clint’s hand reflexively started to clench, causing him to hiss in pain.
“But if we take everything, she’ll barely know you. She’ll still be terrified of Steve. She will be drowning in a bottle of whiskey and pining for Phil, who kinda still loves her and is currently very unattached.”
“Coulson wouldn’t.”
Natasha shrugged. “Man’s lonely. His last girlfriend was shot and bled out in his arms. He might.”
“And she’d have no memory of playing Avenger with you,” Barney said from behind his beer can.
“Why don’t you just turn the new Cassie?” Laura suggested as she entered the kitchen and all eyes fell on her. “I’m sorry. I know I’m not supposed to listen in, but Cassie’s a friend.”
“It’s not that simple, Lore. She’s gone over to Hydra. It’s not like we can just convince her to come be an Avenger again.”
“Also, Avengers are less a thing now,” Natasha finished.
“She loves you, Clint. You know she does.”
“She woulda been really sad about killing you, right?” Barney set the can on the counter and turned to his wife. “She may not be fixable.”
“But...you just bring her in, help her,” Laura argued. “She doesn’t have to be bad just because she was made to do some things when she was Hydra...right?”
Clint looked between Barney and Natasha. He sighed loudly as he heard the sound of a Quinjet landing in the yard.
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Title: Chuck’s Wrath
Part: part 1 | part 2 |
a/n | warnings: mentions of death, throwback to before the apocalypse, blood addicted Sam aka Dick Sam, emotionally abusive relationship, descriptions of torture | I haven’t written any Supernatural fics in sooooo long lmao but my 13yo sister and 10yo brother just got into the show (they just watched John sacrifice himself for Dean) and I saw fetus Sammy and got inspired!!! Some things you should know are the reader is Bobby’s only daughter and she’s known the boys her whole life. When John gets captured by Azazel and the boys exorcise Meg at Bobby’s house, she goes with them and continues to hunt with them after all the Azazel stuff.
Fandom: Supernatural
Pairings: Sam Winchester x Reader, Dean Winchester x Reader
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Sam and Dean were frozen in the theatre, courtesy of Chuck who sat to their left, popping a piece of popcorn in his mouth with a shit-eating grin.
“I never wanted a movie adaption of the Supernatural books. I felt like they would suck the raw emotion out of it.” Chuck explained. “I mean you saw Supernatural the musical.” He made a face of distaste. “But they were just kids so I had to pretend like it was good.”
“What the hell is this?” Dean grunted out.
“Just watch.” Chuck focused his attention to the screen as the reel started to play. “You remember this, right Dean?”
You stood outside the motel room door, a lump in your throat and tears in your eyes as you heard her moans. When you heard Sam’s deep groan, you instantly turned away. He was screwing the black-eyed whore in your motel room...
“Y/n?” Dean’s gruff voice spoke and you quickly blinked away the tears.
“Hey Dean” You forced your usual happy smile but this time it was filled with pain. “I just forgot my motel key and I don’t think Sam is in there-” You were cut off by a loud porn star like moan.
“Ruby’s in there, isn’t she?” Dean’s voice was a mix of anger and sympathy.
“Yeah.” Your voice broke. Sam and you had been together for around a year. Your first kiss had been while Dean was in his coma... Your first time was the night his father sold his soul to save Dean... You had finally made it official when he returned from the dead after Dean made the demon deal.
“Come on...” Dean grabbed your hand a led you away from the motel.
“Where are we going?” You sniffled.
“Somewhere... quiet” Dean gave you a soft smile. Something you hadn’t seen from him before. Something you never would have expected since the way he’s been acting since he got back from Hell.
Sam gave Dean a confused but broken look. Sam thought about you everyday since you disappeared from his life but he could never find you because the end of the world always seemed to loom in the distance.
“Turn it off.” Dean begged Chuck. The desperate tone that he only used when his family was in danger leaked into his voice. He didn’t want Sam to see what was about to happen...
There was a park on the other side of the woods that laced the edge of the motel you guys were staying at. That’s where Dean had lead you to.
“I’ve been in love with him since we were kids. I thought... I thought for the first time in my life I had gotten what I wanted.” You whispered as Dean and you walked down the dirt path.
“I know...” Dean whispered.
“I should have expected this though. My life has never been this easy.” You let your tears fall.
Both of you were quiet for a while before you decided to ask a question that had burning at the back of your mind.
“What happened?” Dean looked up at you when you asked. “Down there, I mean...”
Dean stared at you for a while, lost in thought. A pained look on his face as he remembered the things that he had done. But the way you shivered when the wind blew snapped him out of it and he shrugged his jacket off for you.
“A lot of things I’m not proud of.” Dean draped the jacket over your shoulders.
“We all do things we’re not proud of.” You tried to comfort him while sinking into his jacket to escape the cold, the smell of pine and old leather embracing you. A smell that reminded you of him.
“You’re not proud of accidentally killing a person while exorcising a demon.” Dean glared at the ground. “I-I tortured people, Y/n. I hurt them. I wasn’t strong enough so I sank to there level.”
“Dean.” You grabbed his bicep, ignoring the shock in your veins. “We all do things to survive. The only thing important is that you survived. You made it back to us.”
“I liked it.” Dean’s teary eyes met yours. “I liked hurting people down there. What does that make me? A survivor? Or a monster?”
Dean looked away, scared of seeing the look of disgust on your face from his confession but when your soft hand cupped his cheek to make him look at you, all he saw was a soft, caring look in your eyes.
He didn’t know why he said it. Maybe it was the fact that you were alone and Sam was screwing a demon in the bed you both had shared. Or maybe it was the way you were looking at him as if he hadn’t just admitted to being a sadist in hell.
“I wish you had fell for me instead.”
“What?” You furrowed your brows curiously.
“I mean... I just don’t like seeing you upset. If it was us... I wouldn’t be hooking up with a demon. I’d be here, with you.” Dean gave you another gentle smile, something confusing you even more.
“You are here with me, Dean.” You shyly turned away. Confused by the pounding of your heart. Maybe it was because Dean was here for you while Sam was sleeping with Ruby. Or maybe it was because you were actually feeling something for him.
“Exactly.” Dean spoke, making you turn towards him, just in time for Dean to connect his lips to yours.
Dean stared at himself on the screen. He was feeling all the same emotions he had felt when he kissed you all those years ago. That wasn’t just Dean stealing another one of Sam’s dates. This was different. That was something Dean had rarely felt in his life.
Sam stared at Dean with anger and betrayal. Sam knew about Dean’s habit of stealing girls from him but never with someone he actually cared about and loved. Dean would always gloat about it to his face but he had never mentioned this to him. He never even suspected it. What else had you two done behind his back?
“How could you?” Sam hissed.
“Sammy...” The gut wrenched look on Dean’s face told Sam that what he had just saw was different... It wasn’t the same as all the other girls.
The screen flashed to a new scene.
“Oh! This is my favorite part!” Chuck got the attention of the demoralized brothers.
“You can’t go!” You grabbed Sam’s arm. “You can’t go by yourself with Ruby to kill Lilith.”
“Let go of me.” Sam roughly shrugged his arm from you, making you stumble back.
“Sam, please.” You sobbed, the tears leaking down your face. “Do you really think this is the right thing to do? Drinking demon blood! Sleeping with a goddamn demon?!”
Sam glared at you, making you shrink away.
“You sound like, Dean.” Sam shook his head, continuing to pack his bags. Your heart dropped at the sound of Dean’s name like it always did, ever since your kiss at the park all those months ago.
All of the secret kisses, the late night talks when Sam would disappear with Ruby, the days where he would hold you as you cried about the way Sam was acting... The feelings that were sprouting because of all of that. The way they made you wonder why you were still trying to salvage your relationship with Sam. You had seen how Dean had stopped the random hookups since your kiss while Sam, your boyfriend, cheated on you repeatedly with a demon nevertheless.
“I’m scared for you, Sam. I don’t want you to get hurt. I love you.” The words sounded familiar but the feeling it gave off was foreign. Did you not love him anymore? “I’m your girlfriend...”
“I don’t love you and you’re not my girlfriend anymore.” Sam sounded cold. “I haven’t loved you for months and you’re just annoying me now. I’m with Ruby. I’ve been making it as obvious as I can and you just won’t take the hint.”
With that he slammed the motel room door. You felt scared for him. You felt like you needed to stop him. Like he was making a big mistake. But you didn’t feel heartbroken and that told you that you didn’t love Sam anymore like you had thought.
“He finally broke the news, huh?” You glared at the demon to your left.
“Go away, Ruby.” You hissed. “Isn’t he going to meet you-” Maybe it was the fact that you had been working with her for awhile that made you turn away without fear of what happened next.
You were still in the motel room when you woke up. Tied to the motel room bed. It was hazy but you could make out Ruby standing in front of you.
“You’re finally awake.” Ruby gave you a malice smirk.
“I knew it.” You groaned at the throbbing headache that formed as the result of getting hit in the head by whatever Ruby had used.
“Too bad, Sammy didn’t.” Ruby rolled her eyes. “You know I was supposed to kill you the night you cheated on him but well after that heated performance I didn’t think you were a problem anymore.”
“Screw you.” You pulled at your restraints. “If I’m not a problem then why am I tied up?”
Ruby gave a grin that made you shiver in fear. “I have some time to spare before Sam makes it to where I’m supposed to be. Dean’s busy so he won’t be coming back for a couple of hours. And I really don’t like you.”
3 hours and 42 minutes of extreme torture. She had started by cutting deep wounds in your stomach and continued lower... She filleted your feet and skinned random parts of your body. One of your ears were torn off at some point. Your wrists and ankles were raw from where you had been pulling on your restraints. Your fingernails were on the floor somewhere and by now all you could see was your own red blood soaking the bed sheets.
You don’t know how you hadn’t bled out by now but you had wished you did. There was no coming back from this. If you had somehow survived... there wouldn’t be a life worth living after. Even though you had believed that, when you heard the rumbling of the Impala, hope sparked in you. Dean was back. He could save you. He could stop her and save the world. Ruby had explained to you her entire plan while torturing you. How Sam killing Lilith was the final seal to release Lucifer.
“Dean.” The gargled, quiet plea was silenced by Ruby as she used her knife to quickly slice your tongue off. The pain the seared through your body as she shoved the pillowcase into your mouth when there was a knock on the door.
You watched as she quickly changed her clothes and cleaned the blood off of her arms. She strutted across the room to the door. He won’t see you from that angle...
“Where’s Y/n?” You heard Dean demand when Ruby peaked her head out.
“With Sam, obviously.” Ruby rolled her eyes.
“This is their room.” You could hear the undertone of hurt in his voice.
“She wasn’t too keen on well... using the same bed as Sam and I.” Ruby shrugged. “They’re four rooms down.”
“I’ll go make sure myself.” Dean glared at Ruby and stalked down towards the door, fully prepared to bang on the door... Until he heard the familiar sound of a headboard banging on the wall. In a moment he felt his heart tear before pushing it down and backing away.
“I warned you.” Ruby grinned as Dean stalked past her with an angry look on his face.
A gargled noise left your mouth as tears left a clean stream of skin down your face.
“That’s actually some prostitute and a senator but Dean doesn’t know that.” Ruby spoke quieter, now that she knew Dean was in his room adjacent to yours.  “He really loves you, did you know that?”
A strangled noise left your mouth.
“I’m going to mix your blood in with the demon blood Sam’s going to drink.” Ruby grinned. “I’ll tell him once he free’s Lucifer.”
And then in a quick slash, your throat was opened and you quickly bled out of existence.
Sam and Dean stared in horror as the screen faded away. They didn’t know... They didn’t know that Ruby had slaughtered you like that.
“So much emotion. I really outdid myself there.” Chuck stood, clapping as the lights turned on.
“I could have saved her.” Dean whispered. He felt dizzy and exhausted.
“Both of us could have.” Sam felt nauseous and disgusted with himself.
“No-No.” Dean spat angrily. “You were jacked up on demon blood. You weren’t yourself. I was. I should have known. I should have-”
“Don’t- just don’t” Chuck cut him off with that familiar dissatisfied look. “Just enjoy my gift while it lasts.”
And then he was gone and the brothers were free to move.
“You-You loved her?” Sam spoke after a few moments of silence.
Dean nodded as he sat on one of the chairs with his head in his hands. He couldn’t get the image of you, tortured and broken on that bed out of his head. A new nightmare to plague his sleep. One worse than all.
“It was just a crush when we were kids.” Dean spoke, trying to hide the fact the emotions he was feeling. “And then you guys got together and I was annoyed and then I got back from hell and... she was so sad.”
“Because of me...” Sam felt his heart break again at the thought of you.
“I never... I never slept with her.” Dean looked up at Sam. “There were a few kisses and some nights where she would sleep in my bed with me. But I never took in any further because I knew that you loved her too. I knew that it wasn’t you hurting her. But I couldn’t let her think that nobody was going to treat her right-”
“I get it.” Sam nodded. “I just thought she was alive somewhere. Hunting, living her life.”
“I thought she would have been married by now. With kids... A normal life.” Dean closed his eyes when he felt his tears well up. “I hoped that she got out.”
It felt like they sat there in silence forever, lost in there own emotions before Dean’s phone rang.
“I’m not dealing with this shit right now-” Dean was fully ready to reject the call until he saw who was calling.
“What game is Chuck playing?” Sam growled when he saw who was calling.
A picture of you, smiling and alive was splayed onto Dean’s phone.
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Stark Spangled Banner Ch34: Paper
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Summary: Following the events in Siberia, Katie, Steve Wanda and Sam all struggle to adapt to a life on the run. The Roger’s first wedding anniversary isn’t spent the way Steve would have hoped, but as Fall arrives, he finallly gets the call he’d been waiting for from Wakanda.
Warnings: Bad Language words. Smut (NSFW) NO UNDER 18s PLEASE!!!!
Pairing: Steve Rogers x OFC Katie Stark
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August 2016
Following advice from Coulson, the group of Outlaws decided to lay low for a few months until interest died down, although Katie and Sam were pretty amused to find out that there had been protests across the US after they had been declared Enemies of the State, especially when someone (no names were mentioned, but Katie was laying odds on it being Murdock to help Clint and Scott’s very publicised hearings) had leaked to the press details of what had taken place in Siberia, and how they had been treated by the Government. To her further delight, Ross was facing a public enquiry as well with regards to their unlawful arrests. 
All in all, that part of it had worked out pretty well. And whilst she knew he would get away with it, the thought of him being pissed off filled her with a very smug sense of satisfaction.
The place they were living was called the Isle of Lewis, approximately 12 miles away from Stornoway in the northern part of the inter-connected Islands in the Hebrides and the only connection to main land Scotland was either a 2 hour ferry or a flight, so with that respect it was absolutely perfect. 
The old farm house was secluded, the land surrounding it sprawling for miles, shielded by a large thicket of trees on three sides and a cliff edge which dropped down to a small beach on the other. There was no reason for anyone to visit or pass their house, bar the odd dog walker they saw treading the cliff footpath. They were always careful when seeing people to greet them politely so they didn’t attract attention by being aloof. 
The first rule of going on the run? Don’t run.
At first they strayed into town for supply runs only and Katie was surprised just how well she adapted to living with two additional people. At first she had been worried, Steve and her having had their own space for such a long time. Even in the tower and compound their living quarters had been fairly big and they could hide away from everyone if they wanted to. But in their safe house they didn’t have that luxury. Never the less it was big enough so that they could all have their own rooms. There was one bathroom upstairs and a smaller cloakroom downstairs, and so far there had been no squabbles about who used it when. 
Their large sitting area had been kitted out with a state of the art entertainment system, they had a decent sized farmhouse style Kitchen-Diner, and a smaller sitting room off the back of the kitchen with a smaller TV, a 2 seat couch and a piano much to Katie’s delight. Practical things like bills etc were coming out of an account belonging to Mr and Mrs O’Rourke, one of Katie and Steve’s covers- the name being Steve’s Mother’s maiden name. Coulson had advised them it was the least suspicious thing to do and would attract less attention than trying to pay cash at a bank. They’d also acquired a ten year old free-lander, bought for cash of course, and it was subtle enough to blend in as a lot of the locals seemed to drive them too.
But whilst everything seemed to go according to plan and was, when all was said and done, fairly easy, Steve was struggling. He was antsy from the lack of action, and from a purely carnal point of view was missing the fact he could slam his wife up against any surface he wanted to and not worry about them being caught. He hated the fact their room was right next to Sam’s, concerned with the amount of noise they might make after Bucky’s jibe about the hotel rooms and it wasn’t long before Katie noticed a dramatic shift in his attitude towards her. He became less tactile, less handsy and their love life dwindled somewhat, leaving her slightly cranky to say the least but she manged to keep a lid on it for the most part.
Unlike Steve. 
The morning of their first wedding anniversary, Katie woke alone, her husband was no-where to be found. After laying, looking at his empty side of the bed for a moment she blinked back tears of frustration and headed for a before she wandered downstairs into the kitchen to be greeted by Sam and Wanda both sat at the table.
"Steve gone for a run?" she asked, after greeting them both good morning.
"Yeah, I offered to go but he wanted to go on his own," Sam said, shrugging “Didn’t want to keep pace."
Katie poured herself a coffee and sat down, taking a deep breath. “Is everything ok?” Wanda asked, looking at Katie “You’ve both been a little tetchy recently. Granted you haven’t been as bad as him, but...” “Yeah, you guys not err…getting enough?” Sam quipped, earning himself a slap round the back of the head from Wanda, the younger woman giving him a glare.
“Fuck off Wilson.” Katie rolled her eyes.
“I’m just saying…”
“Well don’t” she sighed, taking a sip of her coffee then swiping a piece of toast off his plate.
“Look, we know it’s your anniversary today.” Wanda looked at her. “You got anything planned?” “Not really possible.” Katie shrugged “Thought I might try and convince him to take a walk later, just the two of us but…”
“Well,” Sam said, looking at Wanda then over to Katie, “we thought we might head into town for the evening, hit a few bars. Give you two a bit of space.” Wanda nodded, eagerly. “You have to do something, even if it’s just cooking a meal and having a bit of you time.” Katie pondered this for a moment and found herself smiling “Actually, that’s not a bad idea. I can go to the store later.” her spirits raised a a little as she started planning a menu out in her head.
She was cut off when the security system clicked and Steve walked through the door of the kitchen that led to the grounds, the door shutting behind him, the keypad beeping as he typed in the code to lock everything down.
“Hey.” she looked up at him. His face was tired but nevertheless he smiled and dropped a soft kiss to her head.
“Happy Anniversary.” he whispered, and she smiled up at him, understanding his gesture to also be an apology of sorts.
“Back at ya Soldier.” she swallowed back her tears, “You want breakfast?” “I’ll shower first.” he nodded to Sam and Wanda before pausing, and stealing the last piece of toast off Sam’s plate.
“Not cool man!” Sam groaned, “That was the last of the bread.” Steve simply shrugged at Sam’s protest, before he headed down the hallway to go and freshen up. Katie watched him go before she turned to Wanda.
“Fancy coming with me?”
She nodded “Sure.”
***** When Steve came back to the kitchen half an hour or so later he was surprised to find the girls gone.
“Store.” Sam supplied as he was flicking through the television in the lounge, settling on a British Chat Show called ‘This Morning’, easy, daytime TV that didn’t require thinking about. Steve made himself a coffee before he sat down next to his friend with a sigh.
“So, first anniversary.” Sam spoke, not looking at him. “Be this isn’t what you thought you’d be doing?” “You can say that again.” Steve mumbled. Just twelve months ago at that exact time he’d been bustling about his apartment on the compound in a fluster getting ready. It had, without a doubt, been the happiest day of his life.  But this was not how he wanted their first wedding anniversary to go down. He’d always planned a nice getaway, somewhere warm, but that wasn’t an option. Certainly not yet. Even though he doubted they would be recognised, his stubble was now well on it’s way to being a fairly decent beard, he didn’t want to risk it by drawing attention to them being in a busy, touristy place. 
“Me and Wanda are clearing out later.” Sam’s eyes remained on the TV, “Give you two a bit of alone time.” “You don’t have to-“ Steve started but Sam cut him off with a snort.
“You need to make some lovin’ on your girl.” he turned to the soldier who felt a flush rise up his neck. “Because we know you ain’t been getting enough, you’ve been a bad tempered bastard for weeks.”
“I have not.” Steve shot back indignantly, causing Sam to raise his eyebrows. Steve let out a sigh, knowing he was well and truly busted.
“Look, if you two ever need some space, all ya gotta do is ask.” Sam said sincerely, looking at Steve. “Couples need that time, hell my folks used to ship us off to uncles and aunties once a week just to get some time to themselves. This is bound to be stressful for you both.”
“I doubt it’s easy on you two either.” Steve looked at him and Sam shrugged, before he smirked.
“Difference is if I wanna get laid I’ll just head into town. There’ll be some sap out there that likes George Fletcher the Geologist from Georgia…”
“You’re terrible you know that?” Steve smirked at him over his coffee mug.
Sam simply smiled back. “You get her anything?”
“Yeah.” Steve nodded “We agreed months ago on something paper themed, you know, on account of the anniversary being paper. I had planned to get the lyrics to our wedding song printed and do a sketch of one of our photos to hang up in our apartment but that kinda went out of the window.” “So what did you get?” “A book.” Steve let out a breath “I spotted it in the second hand shop in town last time we did a flyer. It’s a leather-bound complete works of Shakespeare but it was published the year she was born and has all these handwritten notes in it from someone. Just the kind of thing she’ll like. And a couple of albums of sheet music, I know she’s missing hers back home and she hasn’t been playing the piano as much as I thought she would…”
“Cool man, she’ll love it.” Sam smiled encouragingly “I hope so Sam.” he sighed, leaning back against the couch cushions, scratching at his chin “I hope so.” *****
True to their word Sam and Wanda headed out just after 5pm, leaving Katie and Steve alone. As Katie bustled around in the kitchen, Steve couldn’t help but watch his wife as she cooked, a small smile playing on his face. And then, realising they were truly alone for the first time in months he placed his beer down on the side and crossed the small room, wrapping his arms around her from behind and dropping his chin to her shoulder, nuzzling at her neck. She smiled at his display of affection, something she’d been aching for and as the scruff of his almost-beard scratched at her skin she gave a soft sigh.
“You ok?” she asked.
“Yeah.” he said, before he shook his head “No. Not really. Doll, I’m sorry.” “What for?” she frowned, turning in his arms so she could look at him.
“For being so distant. You don’t deserve this.” he sighed. “After the accords, when the dust settled we were supposed to have a normal life, a simple life. I can’t even give you that."
"It's a good thing you're cute because at times you’re incredibly stupid," she said making him breathe a laugh. “Steve we’re here, together after everything. I made that vow, until death do us part and I mean it. I love you" she finished simply, shrugging. “So stop wasting time worrying about it. You're stuck with me, Captain Badass."
Steve looked back at her, before he gave her a small smile.
"Now I know this probably isn’t what either of us had in mind, but we’re on our own, I’ve got a pretty large batch of Mac and Cheese, and an apple pie in the oven, a steak ready to grill so let’s just try and enjoy it?”
“You made mac and cheese?” his face creased into a boyish smile “And apple pie? What happened to not baking pies unless it’s Autumn?” “Well it’s September tomorrow.” she shrugged “and I thought it might cheer you up.”
"Sorry." He half grimaced, half smiled apologetically back at her. "I know I haven't been the easiest to be around lately ─"
"Stop apologizing." she interrupted him again.
He studied her for a second before he leaned down to give her a soft kiss. “I love you.” “I know.” she said, her hands sliding down to his chest and she gave him a quick pat before playfully shoving him away “Now scoot, unless you want me to burn dinner. Go set the table.” Knowing better than to refuse he did as he was told and it wasn’t long before they were settled down and eating. They talked about everything and anything, drank wine, and to the pair of them they could almost have been sat in their dining room at the compound. They laughed, they joked, they poked fun at one another. It felt normal. Once they had finished eating they cleared their dishes, Steve grabbed another bottle of wine and they headed to the couch to find something to watch on TV.
“I got you something.” Katie said when Steve dropped the wine onto the coffee table and she gestured to the small giftbag by the bottle.
“Oh, me too. Hang on.” he said, bounding up the stairs to retrieve his gift. As he returned, she eyed the 2 wrapped items with playful suspicion as he handed them to her. One was really heavy. She passed the gift bag containing his to him and he peeked inside, and they shared a childish grin with one another before they set about opening their presents.
“Oh Steve.” she breathed out as she gently ran her hands over the leather of the anthology he had bought her. Flicking through she spotted all the notes that someone had written in the margins. They consisted of opinions on the plays, themes, characterisation plots, all the type of thing she had studied at University and she found it fascinating to read other people’s interpretations.
“I thought you might like it.” he smiled as she beamed at him, before she let out another sigh of happiness when she opened the two sheet music books as they would give her something else to play other than the stuff she knew from memory.
And her gift to Steve was equally as thoughtful. He positively beamed when he opened the new blank sketch books, pencils, wax crayons and charcoals. All of his art supplies had been left behind and he’d been dying to get some more.
“Well, the sketchbook is paper.” she explained softly “And I know it relaxes you to draw.” “Doll, it’s perfect” he said, dropping a kiss to her lips. “Thank you.”
“So, what film do you wanna watch?” She asked, moving for the remote but he had no intention of watching a film. Not now. He had other ideas. He gently grabbed her wrist and she looked at him.
“Right now Mrs Rogers,” he said, turning to her and her eyes widened when she saw his pupils dilating with unmistakable desire, “I’d really like to carry you upstairs and take you to bed.”
Katie grinned “Well that can be arranged, but there’s something I wanna do first.”
He looked at her, puzzled for a moment but when she tapped on her phone and the opening sounds of ‘Only One in Colour’ sounded over the speakers he laughed and stood up, offering her his hand.
“May I have this dance?” he quipped, arching an eyebrow at her.
“Always.” she smiled, allowing him to pull her up.
They moved to the back of the couch where there was more room and he took her in a hold and they simply stayed close, swaying to the music, both of them thinking back to their first dance as a married couple twelve months ago. Katie pressed her cheek to Steve’s chest and he in turn rest his chin on the top of her head, revelling in her closeness. He heard her let out a soft sigh, but this one was contentment and he gently moved to look down at her. For a moment Katie felt her breath catch, he was looking at her with nothing but unadulterated desire and love, the same way he had on their wedding day and before the song had even finished he’d captured her lips in a soft kiss, his hands moving to cradle her face. Hers fisted in his white T-shirt and it wasn’t long before the kiss had deepened causing a moan to catch in Steve’s throat. Without a word he pulled back and scooped her up in his arms, bridal style, causing her to giggle, a sound he would never tire of, and quick as a flash he carried her up the stairs and into the bedroom. He set her on her feet but before he had time to do anything she’d shoved him backwards, catching him off guard slightly causing him to sit down harshly on the bed and he let out a smirk as she straddled him before she kissed him again and he was happy to reciprocate exactly how he knew she liked, firm and gentle, passionate and caring all at once. Katie gently bit his lower lip drawing another groan from his throat as he rest his head against hers, his hands gently gipping her hip.
“You know,” she said drawing back slightly to cup his face in her fingertips “I really do like kissing you with this.” she traced her hand across the short beard on his face. She also liked looking at him with it too because, coupled with the fact his hair was also getting slightly longer too it gave him a rugged, harder, rougher look taking him farther and farther away from the Blue-Eyed all American boy day by day.
"I’m getting used to it.” he murmured pressing a soft kiss to her mouth before his head dropped, small kisses trailing up the length of her neck, that precious stubble creating an amazing contrast to the softness of his mouth.
“Yeah, me too.” she said, her eyes closed as she rolled her head back, giving him access to more of her neck, a soft sigh escaping her lips. He smiled slightly, happy to oblige and just take his god damned time loving his wife. Eventually his lips made their way up her jaw and then she sat up slightly, grasping at the hem of his T-shirt. He moved to allow her to take it off and then his fingers made short work of the sleeveless button down she had been wearing, shrugging it down over her shoulders before he peppered more kisses across her collar bone and down her sternum as he reached round to undo her bra. Gently, he lay her flat down on the bed, taking a nipple in his mouth, this time drawling a loud groan from her as her hips bucked involuntarily upwards at the sensations spiking through her body.
God it really had been far too long since he’d lavished attention on her like this and Steve made a mental not to tell Sam and Wanda to ‘take a walk’ a lot more often. It was almost two months now since they had last been intimate and, his body was aching for her, desperate to feel her and from the noises she was making she felt the same. His lips made their way down, nose and beard skimming along the waistband of her jeans before he undid them, sliding them down with her underwear as he shed his own too before he crawled back over her.
Katie pushed on his shoulders slightly so she could roll him over and placed herself on top of him, brushing her lips across the hairs on his face tracing a path across from one side of his jawline to the other drawing a gentle moan from his lips, hands flexing on her hips as she shifted slightly to start taking him in. Her mouth dropped into a small ‘o’ as they both groaned as she slid down him, her hands falling to his chest and once he was fully seated in her, she began to work him gently. His hands slid up into her hair, as she leaned forward to kiss him and he raised his hips slightly and she whimpered, pushing down harder against him as his hands gently kneaded at her breasts. Her pace was slow, torturously so, but it wasn’t long before she began to move faster, working him harder as she chased her relief. The roughness of his pubic hair was grinding against her spot, the friction feeling amazing as she pushed down. With every push she made, his eyes grew darker, and darker, his hands digging into her hips as he pulled her down, grinding further and deeper.
He sat up suddenly, so they were face to face, the change of angle making her cry out, as he slid his hands round her back, pulling her closer to him as he bent to kiss her neck, biting at that spot whilst he held her still for a moment, gently thrusting upwards, deeply, slowly, savouring the moment. Katie rolled her head back, a louder cry this time tumbling from her lips and he felt her tighten around him, and he let out a groan of his own.
“Good?” he whispered, smiling as she managed a broken noise of affirmation, as he pulled her to him harder, hands back on her hips as his rutting picked up speed.
“Stevie…” she mumbled, her eyes locking onto his as her hands slid up his back and fisted into his hair. A few more pushes later and they were both done for, her name escaping from his lips as her walls collapsed completely, and she let out a soft cry as she fell forward burying her face in his neck. He was close behind, letting out a gentle moan, his beard rustling against her ear as he jerked underneath her, clinging onto her as if he never wanted to let her go. And at that moment he didn’t.
After a minute or so he leaned back, his breathing deep as he brushed her hair back off her face before sliding his nose against hers. “Happy Anniversary kitten.” *******
Steve thought the fall in New York was gorgeous but that was nothing to what it was like where they were. He was feeling a lot more positive about things as well, as post their anniversary, he and Katie had made a pact that they would do  something alone together at least once a week, be it a walk along the cliff the beach, or straying into town to one of the local restaurants. His hair and beard now rendered him pretty much unrecognisable now and they never got a second glance at all. 
Being on the run shouldn’t have been this easy, and they were constantly on edge, waiting for the time they had to split and run, but whilst they could, they made the most of it. 
Steve’s favourite ‘date’, if you could them that, was the walk they took in the pitch black to see the Northern Lights late one evening. Katie had been utterly captivated by the beauty of the Aurora Borealis and Steve had to admit, it was spectacular. Committing it to memory was easy, and a few days later Katie wasn’t surprised to find a perfect replica of them his sketch book.
Thanksgiving came, then Christmas, the four friends making it as festive as possible. They got a tree, shared gifts, enjoyed a Christmas Meal, and after several drinks each Steve wheeled the piano into the living room where Sam and Katie gave a rousing rendition of ‘Fairy Tale of New York’ along with a few other Christmas songs. It was different, but that didn’t make it any less enjoyable.
And then, in March 2017, they had a call from T’Challa. They were ready to bring Bucky out of cryo. Katie and Steve instantly set about making the arrangements to go to Wakanda, but it turns out they weren’t the only ones planning on taking a little trip…
“There’s something I wanted to discuss with you all.” Wanda said, the morning they were due to depart. “Please don't freak out, but I talked to Vision last night."
"What?" Katie’s voice was quiet as she merely looked back at the younger woman, her face passive.
Meanwhile, both Steve and Sam's eyebrows shot up in their foreheads.
"Hold on, what do you mean you talked to Vision?” Steve asked. “How? Where?"
"This is going to sound really weird, but I saw him in my dreams," Wanda carried on with her explanation.
"How do you know that wasn't just a dream?" Sam asked.
"Because it wasn't," Wanda shrugged "I don't know how to explain it, but I know it was him and I know it was real. I think we are connected somehow, because of the Mind Stone and because I was thinking about him before I went to sleep, it made some kind of telepathy possible.”
Steve pondered it for a second, thinking to himself how ridiculous that sounded until he realised they were talking about an enhanced human who had gained certain telepathic and telekinetic powers due to experimentation with the Mind Stone and an android that now carried within his synthetic, vibranium-mesh body said gem. 
When you put it like that it seemed fairly logical.
"Okay. What did you talk about?" Katie asked after a moment.
"Just stuff, how I was, how much we, you know, miss one another" Wanda bit her lip. "We talked about actually meeting in person in a few days."
"Okay, hold on," Sam said, furrowing his forehead and holding one of his hands up. "How do we know this is not a trap? Like, I don't know, Tony getting Vision to talk to you to get us back into the Raft?"
As soon as Sam said it Katie shook her head. Tony could sometimes be a jackass and he may have been hurt and mad at her and Steve, but she knew despite his stinging barb in Siberia, he wouldn’t want them all thrown in jail.
"He wouldn't do that," she said.
“How do you know?” Sam pressed.
“Because Tony has way better tech than us, and there's no accounting for what Vision can do with that Mind Stone.” Steve looked at him. This was something he had been pondering on for a while now too “If anyone can find us, it's them, yet we’re almost 10 months down the line now since Leipzig and so far, there's no sign of any one, so Tony’s either no longer working with Ross, or if he is, he's dragging his feet deliberately.”
"Exactly," Wanda nodded emphatically. "And Vision would never do anything to hurt me, not intentionally. I trust him with my life, but it's more than that."
Taking a deep breath, his mind made up, Steve turned to Wanda “You’re not a prisoner here Wanda. If you want to go then we can’t and we won’t stop you.”
“Do you want to go?” Katie looked at the younger woman who was wringing her hands together.
“I do but, well, I kinda feel like I’m fraternizing with the enemy.”
“He’s not the enemy. None of them are. Not Vision or Rhodey, Not Tony, none of them.” Steve ran his hand through his hair, sweeping the long strands back off his face. “We all wanted the same thing, to do good in this world but we disagreed on how best to make it happen. Doesn’t make us enemies.”
“But we’re on the run because…”
“This was always going to happen.” Katie cut her off, shaking her head “Ever since SHIELD collapsed and Fury stepped away there was a power vacuum. It was only a matter of time before the Government tried to step in to oversee us.”
“And let’s face it, I was always going to be considered a rogue threat the moment I refused to comply” Steve said, a wry smile on his face. “We all were.”
“Just be careful.” Katie looked at Wanda. “And whilst we’re away just make sure you check in once in a while? And the first sign of trouble, well, let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.”
“Well if Wanda’s being granted shore leave so to speak, I might take a bit of time too.” Sam chipped in as the idea came to him. “There’s an old RAF pal of mine, based in Bracknell near London I aint seen in a while. He’s cool,” he anticipated the next question, “I saved his life on a mission so he won’t sell me out.” Steve took a deep breath and then shrugged “You know the risks, Sam. If any of us get caught then…” “Back to the Pokey.” Sam shrugged “Yeah, I got it. And don’t worry, I wouldn’t rat your location out.”
“Me neither.” Wanda added. 
“I suppose, to be fair,” Katie bit her lip, “we’ve been here for a long time now. It won’t harm us to disappear for a while, regroup in a few weeks. And we’ll draw even less attention apart as they won’t be expecting it.” And so, for the first time in 10 months, the four went their separate ways. ****** True to his word Steve was there when they woke Bucky up. Once he had come round the two greeted one another with the same love and affection they always did. Suri’s scans showed that the programming was no longer present in Bucky’s brain, but there was one last thing they had to do to make sure.
Say the trigger words.
Which was why Katie, Steve, a one armed Bucky and T’Challa were now heading to the underground fort of the palace. Steve in his combat suit, Katie in her cat suit clutching a rifle and T’Challa in his black panther garb, two members of his Kings Guard guard following behind.
As they were about to enter the underground cell, Bucky grabbed Katie’s arm and pulled her to one side.
“What the hell Bucky?” she almost yelped, and he let go of her arm and held his finger to his lips.
“Listen, Doll, I got a favour to ask. If this hasn’t worked…” he took a deep breath “I want you to end it.”
“End what?”  she arched an eyebrow at him. “Me.” he said simply “Steve’s said you’re a good shot. I want you to put a bullet in my head.” Katie looked at him, and then burst out laughing “Whatever.” “I’m being deadly serious.” he looked at her. “I can’t and I don’t want to live like that anymore.” he shook his head sadly “I’d rather die that know that what they’ve done is still in there.” “Bucky,” she frowned, “you’d be safe here, you know that, no one would trigger you.” “No, we don’t know that.” he said earnestly, “Please Katie, I’m begging you. You owe me, remember?” “So you save my life and you want me to take yours?” “Yeah.” he nodded, “Pretty much.”
“You’re an asshole James Buchanan Barnes” she hissed, glaring at him before shooting a glance over his shoulder at where Steve was stood, talking to T’Challa. She shook her head sadly. “I can’t.”
“Listen, I’m asking you because I trust you to do it.” he said, looking over his shoulder to where she had been watching Steve. He was now stood observing the pair of them and they both smiled at him. Katie took a deep breath, looking into Bucky’s steel blue eyes and gave a sigh. She knew how hard this was on him and she could fully understand where he was coming from but still, asking her to do it, especially when she knew Steve would be besides himself made her feel sick.
“I’ve written Steve a letter.” Bucky said quickly, as the Super Soldier was now making his way over. “It explains what I’ve asked you to do. So please, give me your word.”
She looked at him, swallowing, and gave him a small nod before her eyes flicked to Steve as he approached, a frown on his face.
“You two alright?” he asked.
“Yeah, Katie was just asking me how I was really feeling.” Bucky looked at his friend.
Katie shrugged and smiled at Steve in what she hoped as a convincing way “Wanted to make sure he was alright, that’s all.”
Steve studied her for a moment, and she smiled again before he turned to Bucky. “It’s gonna be ok.” Steve assured his friend, clapping him on his shoulder, shooting another glance at his wife who was nervously chewing her lip. He frowned again, but pushed the suspicion to the back of his mind and then nodded. “Come on.” “Yeah, let’s get this over with.” Bucky mumbled.
Steve and T’Challa stepped into the room which was sealed whilst Katie took up her position on the other side of the one way glass with Suri who pressed the microphone to talk into the room.
““I don’t know why you are all worrying, brother, it is like you do not trust me…” the young woman scoffed. “Take no chances Sister.” T’Challa shot back. “You know this”.
Suri made a noise in her throat and then spoke again “Ok, I’m ready when you are.” She held the red book in her hand that they had recovered from Zumo. T’Challa engaged his helmet whilst Steve stood stoic as ever, throwing a glance over his shoulder to the glass he knew his wife was stood at the other side of.
“Ready Buck?” he asked turning back. His friend nodded, taking a deep breath.
T’Challa signalled to Suri who, after a little hesitation, began to read, each word punctuated by a pause.
"Longing, Rusted, Seventeen, Daybreak, Furnace…”
Katie watched intently and saw Bucky was clenching his teeth and suddenly she started to get a little bit nervous. She wasn’t the only one that had spotted it either. Steve moved slightly, adopting a little more of a battle stance than he had been as he clocked his friends reaction.
“ Nine, Benign, Homecoming, One, Freight Car"
The last words hit Steve like a truck. It was depraved that Hydra would use those words. Bucky had plunged from a train car to his supposed death. There was no randomness to that at all, unlike the seemingly obscure nature of the rest of the words, nor was it any accident it was the last trigger they would use. There were the final words because they signified the death of Bucky and the birth of the killer Winter Soldier.
Sick bastards.
Bucky’s chest was heaving, his fist was clenching, and for a split second Steve feared the worse. But when his friend looked up, he saw the blue eyes of Bucky Barnes looking back at him, and not the icy glare of the Winter Soldier.
“Buck?” he asked gently, his voice cracking slightly. Bucky looked at him, a single tear falling down his cheek.
“Nothing.” he said, and Katie let out a soft sigh of relief, her hands sliding down her face to cover her mouth. “Nothing.”
T’Challa threw a party of sorts that night which consisted of a bar crawl through the city. Katie and Bucky dubbed it a “Fuck Hydra” party much to Steve’s chagrin. But he couldn’t bring himself to care that much, as at the end of the day, if anyone had as much right to stick their middle fingers up to Hydra it was them. There was still something troubling him though, so when T’Challa left the bar they were sat at for a few moments, he turned to Bucky and asked him outright what had been going on with him and Katie outside the cell before. Bucky hesitated before he hung his head slightly and peered up at Steve from where he was sat next to him, a tumbler of some kind of Wakandan alcohol in his hand.
“I asked her to kill me.” Bucky admitted, swilling the liquid round in the glass “If it hadn’t worked I asked her to put a bullet in my head. She didn’t want to but I told her she owed me.” Steve felt himself blanche “You did what?” “You don’t know what it’s like.” Bucky shook his head “Living with the fact that at any time someone could mutter a string of words and…” he shot back the alcohol and slid his empty glass back to the Bar Tender to top up. “I didn’t want to live like.”
”You put that on her?” Steve’s eyes flashed with anger, “Damnit Buck, you should have asked me!”
“Would you have done it?” Bucky countered, Steve took a big sigh, knowing he was caught “Exactly.” Bucky scoffed “And besides, you’re the one that said she was a dead shot.”
Bucky eyed his friend for a while before he slid his empty glass to the man behind the bar, gesturing for another top up. “Anyway, it’s irrelevant now because here I am.” he smirked
Steve nodded and reached over his glass, smiling “Yeah, here you are.” T’Challa chose that point to come back and he settled at the bar next to Steve.
“So, Sergeant Barnes, we’ll have to see about getting you some permanent lodgings.” he smiled “Maybe a private hut. There is a quiet tribe, not far from the river, unless you would prefer a post in my Kings Guard.” “I’m done fighting” Bucky shook his head as he took another drink from his glass. “Certainly for the time being anyway. A hut sounds mighty fine. Maybe I can get some goats.” “Goats?” Steve looked at him.
“I like Goats.” Bucky shrugged “Do you remember the one in the petting zoo near School?” “Yeah, it set my asthma off” Steve snorted before the pair of them descended into laughter.
Across the bar Katie was stood with Suri and one of T’Challa’s personal guards, Okoye. She instantly warmed to Okoye, the woman reminding her a lot of Natasha. They stood chatting for a while before a loud roll of laughter caught their attention and they turned to see T’Challa, Bucky and Steve howling at something, as T’Challa gestured for the bar tender to top up their glasses whilst Okoye excused herself to head over to speak to her husband. 
“Oh they’ve broken out the Wakandan Spice” Suri muttered, eyeing up the men.
“What’s that?” Katie asked.
“The only thing that gets my brother drunk!” she snorted “That stuff could knock out a rhino.”
“So it should have an effect on Super Soldiers?” Katie grinned. Drunk Steve was one of her favourite Steves.
“Let’s go find out!” Suri nodded, a cheeky grin on her face. They made their way over and Katie could see instantly the woman was right. Steve had a glazed look in his eyes and Bucky was leaning back in his chair, a pink tinge to his cheeks.
“Hey beautiful” Steve smiled up at Katie, pulling her into his lap, his hand trailed up and down her spine, lazily. "Where you been all evening?”
“About 10 meters away over there.” she smirked, pointing. Suri was reaching over to steal a bit of the liquor from Bucky’s glass and T’Challa slapped her hand. “You are not even old enough to drink.” he glared at her.
“Tssk hush brother. Just because you are now well into your 30s. You always seem to be so bitter about me being much younger than you.” At that Bucky barked out a laugh.
“Don’t know what you’re snorting at old man.” Katie glanced at him and he quirked an eyebrow at her.
"Not exactly a comment I'd expect from someone who’s married to a 100-year-old man."
"98” Steve corrected.
Katie leaned back in her husband's lap to peer at him, her right hand running through his hair. "Doesn't look a day over twenty nine," she grinned.
“Hey brother, why doesn’t your power stop your ageing?”  Suri quipped.
“Shut up.” T’Challa said. “Before I carry you back to the palace”
As the two siblings began to quibble, Katie glanced at Steve. “Been talking about the good old days?” “In a fashion.” Steve smirked.
“Anymore good tales of your misspent youth to tell me?” Bucky shook his head. “Sure Steve’s told you enough already.”
"I never told her about the time you set up a double date for us and then forgot to show up." Steve looked at him, his arms tightening around his wife.
"That never happened." Bucky shook his head.
"It absolutely happened. Caroline O’Hara and Deborah Smith"  
Bucky’s eyes widened. “Oh shit, yeah. Brunette and a red head. A curly red head.” he grinned.
“Yup. Double date to the theatre, only you never showed up.” Steve looked at him, accusingly “And little old me was left to explain to Debbie why you had stood her up."
Bucky smirked into his glass.
"I thought she was gonna kill me," Steve mused, turning to look at Katie. “She kept hitting me with her purse. And then Caroline started, asking where the hell he was and why he thought it fit to stand up her best friend and fix her up with some kind of joke.”
Katie frowned, narrowing her eyes. "You weren’t a joke."
"Thanks baby." he grinned before he turned to fix Bucky with a glare “And do you remember why you didn’t show up?” Bucky was now shaking with mirth, as he looked at Steve, his eyes bright with tears of laughter “Go on, tell her Buck.”
"I was with Maggie Dougherty.” he smirked
“Yeah, you were.” Steve pointed at him, “That was the night you got caught sneaking out of her room and down her fire escape by her dad who beat the crap out of you.”
“Worth it though.” Bucky snorted “She was hot. Brunette waves, pretty face, nice ass.” “Yeah.” Steve nodded and Katie slapped the back of his head.
“Oww!” he looked at her as she glared at him. Grinning he reached up to give her a soft kiss “Not a patch on you though, pretty girl..”
After another hour or so Katie left them to it, heading back to the palace with Suri. She’d had enough, the alcohol she had drunk had lulled her into that happy place here she felt warm and fuzzy inside, and ready for bed.
Unfortunately, Steve woke her up when he came crashing into the room a few hours later.
“Shit.” he mumbled, as he banged into the chair by the dresser. “Shhhh” he said, to no one but himself. He staggered over to the bed before face planting straight down.
Katie grinned as he peeked up at her.
“I’m drunk.” he told her, because he had to explain or she wouldn’t know, right?
“No shit Sherlock.” she giggled and scrambled out of the duvet “Ok Captain Badass, let’s get you in bed.” “Promises, promises.” he said wriggling his eyebrow, eyeing her up and down as she leaned over, flashing him a glimpse down the top she was wearing to bed.
“Yeah, not a chance pal. I doubt very much you’d be of any use in this state.”
“Hey.” he pouted rolling over so he was on his back, watching her as she climbed over the bed “Why are you not wearing one of my T’shirts?”
“I dunno.” she said, dropping to the floor to take off his suede boots. “Just put this on.”
“I like you in my shirts.I like you better out of them.” he grinned, grabbing hold of her as she stood up.
“How much have you had?” she laughed as he pulled her onto his lap, nuzzling  into her neck.
“Enuff.” he spoke back, voice muffled. “You know you’re the prettiest gal in the whole world?” He peeked up at her and she had to laugh as she ruffled his hair. 
“Arms up.”
“I like it when you undress me” he grinned, and she rolled her eyes.
Eventually she managed to tug off his shirt and his jeans whilst he made some other reference to sex, before he pulled her back down onto the bed next to him, giggling like a school kid.
“Bucky told me.” He slurred.
“Told you what?”
“That he asked you to shoot him.” Steve hiccupped “But I’m glad you didn’t have to.”
Katie chuckled to herself “Me too baby.” “And now he’s all better.” Steve sighed, “Good isn’t it?” “It’s awesome.” she smiled, reaching up to bush his hair off his face. “You’re gonna be so hungover tomorrow.” He responded with shrug. “I do love you. So much.”
“I know and I love you too.” she said, “Now you gonna get into bed?”
He pushed himself up before beginning a monumental fight with the duvet to get underneath it, the whole thing a great source of amusement to Katie. She’d seen him tipsy from the Asgardian stuff Thor gave him before, but not flat out shit faced like this.
“Are you gonna puke?” she asked, stroking his head as he sighed, nuzzling into his pillow. 
“No.” he said, shaking his head. Then a pause before he hiccupped slightly “But I think I need water.” “Alright, wait there.” Katie climbed out of bed. She grabbed him a bottle from the mini fridge near the door but by the time she had turned back, Steve had his face buried into his pillow and made nothing more than a noise when she offered it to him, not looking up. Deciding she couldn’t be bothered to argue with him, she gently placed the bottle on the night stand next to him, and ran her hand through his hair one more time before she crossed to her side of the bed and settled down with him.
“Night soldier.” she said softly, kissing his cheek.
“Night princess.” he slurred into his pillow.
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Hey! I recently found your blog and saw you believed in N+A=D, which is a theory I read a few years ago and really enjoyed,, I plan on reading your more in dept analysis on your site when I have time, thanks for putting it together! I really like this theory since it mirrors J and D even more and it also removes the rape and Aerys' madness in general from D. Now a question: do you believe this theory will be discussed in the show (only 2 eps left) or is it gonna stick to the books if it is true?
A woman after my own heart!  This theory is the dearest to my heart! @ktwrites and I have expanded the theory much more than wherever you last heard it, I assure you. (For anyone wondering, this is our site)
First, thank you SO much for recognizing that this theory mirrors Jon and Dany even further!
That’s the part that hooked me in, too. If Jon is rumored to be born of rape but actually born of love, shouldn’t Dany be, too? I think the pair of them having parents with star-crossed, tragic love stories is actually perfect for a pair that comes together to break the wheel that drove their parents apart in the first place.
All of the anti arguments about Daenerys vanish, since let’s face it, they usually come from (homogeneous) Stark stans. Dany gets the blame for what Aerys did before she was born, gets accused of sharing his madness, and also, the incest. If this theory is true, Jon and Dany are downgraded to cousins rather than aunt/nephew. Fucking everyone in Westeros are cousins. Rickard & Lyarra, Tywin & Joanna…
Also, then these lines about “I am the last Targaryen,” and “A Targaryen alone in the world is a terrible thing,” and “The last dragon.” Then actually mean something literal.
I do have a page on the site about show clues, but fuck it - I’ll add some here.
The Dragon and the Wolf?
But… Jon’s a dragon. I don’t make the rules. He is Aegon Targaryen - Dragon, fire. Sure, he has Stark blood. But if Jon is a Stark, then Sansa, Arya, and Bran are Tullys (I don’t make the rules). So… who is ice and who is fire? Right now it’s more like The Dragon and the Dragon and A Song of Fire and Fire.
Curiously, the new Mother’s Day card (I know, I know it has Targ symbols) features an icy border:
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And okay. Dany’s aversion to fire, which many relate to her being a Targaryen… maybe it has more to do with the ice in her veins? After all, we see Jon burned by fire:
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And later wearing a bandage on his hand:
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Meanwhile, we have Jon able to survive a deep dive in freezing cold water that probably would’ve killed a normal person - maybe the fire in his blood? This is all wild speculation now, so I’ll stop lmfao. One other thing though, in Fire & Blood, Alysanne’s dragon Silverwing refused to go past the Wall, it sounds almost like there was some sort of magical barrier there. Meanwhile, Dany has no problem getting past it. Which could just be plot convenience, admittedly.
Like in the books, the fallen direwolf (symbolizing Ned) at the beginning of the series has six pups. Ned has five children (so far as we know).
Dany and the color blue:
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Now, I know what Michelle Clapton says about Dany always wearing blue - “Dothraki power color” Which is strange to me, since blue is one of the rarest pigments during this time period. I know, it’s just a show. Dany looks good in blue. Maybe that’s all it means.
But Stark women have a tendency to wear blue, likely as a nod to the blue ‘winter rose’, in which the Stark lady in the Bael the Bard tale is literally referred to as a winter rose.
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Likewise, Dany wears greys and purples (if she is Ashara Dayne’s daughter, then purple would be her mother’s house color):
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The Starks have a tendency to ride white horses. White is a Stark color. Jon has always ridden a black horse, which is a Targaryen color.
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(Yeah, Dany rides a black horse beside Jon in S8, but she also tends to wear red colors while in his presence… bride of fire, eh?)
While Ashara Dayne is never mentioned on the show (I don’t think Rhaella is, either… despite Dany always wearing that ring, which is never explained in the show proper, rather in BTS stuff or interviews). Ashara Dayne is mentioned in the history and lore for the Season 6 DVD Extras.
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Daenerys’ costume also shares similarities with Ned’s, in the way she wears her cape as well as the diagonal chain across her chest:
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Ned has interesting reactions toward Dany’s assassination attempt. He doesn’t seem to give two shits about Viserys, telling Robert that if he makes it to Westeros, they’ll throw him back in the Narrow Sea, meanwhile Ned is chin-wobbling upset after hearing it’s too late to reverse the hit on Dany’s life. Arguably more upset than he was after seeing the dead body of a freshly murdered child, Mycah (though that’s debatable, I’m sure). There are some interesting transition scenes between Dany and Ned, particularly my favorite:
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And then there are early promo photos where Dany and Ned are put together:
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In season 7, Daenerys says Dragonstone does not feel like a homecoming, and she goes and touches Dorne on the Painted Table immediately thereafter:
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There’s a curious line from Cersei during the Dragonpit meeting, saying basically she couldn’t trust Dany’s word, but could trust Jon’s word because he’s Ned Stark’s son. The shot hangs on Dany as she speaks the line about Ned Stark’s son (watch the clip here):
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We’ve got other lines too, about how when Jon is elected King in the North, Lyanna Mormont says, this:
“I don’t care if he’s a bastard, Ned Stark’s blood runs through his veins.”
(But it doesn’t…) Even Dany is talking about Ned:
“I was born at Dragonstone. Not that I can remember it. We fled before Robert’s Assassins could find us. Robert was your father’s best friend, no? I wonder if your father knew his best friends sent assassins to murder a baby girl in her crib. Not that it matters now, of course.”
Varys knows damned well Ned tried everything in his power to prevent her murder (I wish he’d fucking tell her, whether or not she’s Ned’s secret bastard).
There are rumors we’re getting Robert’s Rebellion/Tourney at Harrenhal flashback next episode (I don’t know whether I believe it), but Wilf Scolding did have a mysterious deleted Instagram post indicating he was filming - so maybe we’ll see Ned and Ashara, too? Fingers crossed.
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If everyone is talking about how Jon and Dany parallel Duncan and Jenny, which is a pairing comprised of a common girl and a dark-haired Targaryen prince… then just maybe Jon gives up his claim for say, a bastard girl? Dany being a Stark bastard and associated with flowers/roses, possible CotF relation via Stark blood… might make her have more in common with Jenny than if she were a Targaryen? 🤔
There may be more, I haven’t done a full, proper rewatch in a while, I admit. Probably too late now, lol. I’d say that there is a big “WTF” twist coming so there’s a chance - many attribute this to a leak involving Tyrion but… I feel like that was something that was foreshadowed, unlike Hodor/hold the door.
All that said though, I’d say the likelihood of this ending up on screen probably is slim. But again, we have a wealth of evidence on our site that must mean something. GRRM basically admits that the lemon tree mystery means something (and no, I don’t buy that it means the betrothal to Quentyn because he was more or less a non-issue anyway).
And there may be a chance GRRM is saving twists for his book, especially considering this:
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My best guess would be Barristan Selmy, since in the books, over in Essos, nowhere near Jon, he’s bringing up that Dany looks like Ashara’s daughter, and by this point we don’t really need a red herring for Jon Snow’s mother, since most readers had figured it out.
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prince!wonwoo pt2
i finally did it!! prince wonwoo pt2 has arrived
warnings: abuse mention so uhm,,,,don’t read if uncomfortable (it’s one mention but,,,,,please be cautious i don’t want anyone feeling uneasy about it)
i also changed the moodboard like,,,,last second so idk how i feel about it (。◔‸◔。)
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prince!wonwoo pt2
so after sending the prince off you go back to your “home” kinda,,,,,in shock because like did he really?????mean it when he said he’ll be back that’s so dangerous
and your family is also back cause the sun already went down
your little sister’s like did you bring another book???
she becomes 1000x more excited when you tell her that she can keep the book because the nice old couple decided to give you a book for free (and you weren’t about to just tell everyone about how the prince paid for it)
your older siblings are kinda like >_> but they let it go
especially when they see how happy the young ones are
the next week you go back to the woods and wonwoo’s already there waiting
and thank gOsh wonwoo decided to wear something more appropriate instead of those heavy leather boots laced with gold
no he’s actually wearing sneakers and jeans and a hoodie,,,,,,,,like any normal person would,,,,,,,,
you can’t really take wonwoo around the town because everyone knows what he looks like so you just take a walk in the woods on the outskirts
you almost get caught a few times by people chasing after their dogs running after cats and squirrels, but you manage to shove wonwoo into a bush without them noticing
until,,,,your sister grabs your shoulder from behind
and she has an eyebrow raised obviously asking you what the hEck you’re doing with the crown prince
and on instinct you shove wonwoo again and he goes tumbling into another bush
once he’s gotten up he’s giving you that side eye look because what’s the point of hiding him after you’ve been caught/?????
your sister’s like sweetie,,,,are you okay,,,,,you just shoved the prince into a bush,,,,,,,,,
you understand why she’s so shocked because technically TECHNICALLY what you did is punishable by death but,,,,,,,,,wonwoo’s too nice to do that so as long as he doesn’t tell you’re fine
you introduce wonwoo to your sister and let’s call her emma for now and emma’s totally chill about meeting the prince mainly cause she’s one of the few siblings you have who aren’t against wonwoo
unlike your older brother who absolutely hates everything about royalty and anyone who’s in the upper ends
emma warns you to be careful because your older brother, lets call him ian, would kill if he found out that you were hanging out with wonwoo,,,,,,and sad to say,,,,,,neither of you knew who he’d kill,,,,,,you or wonwoo,,,,,
and there’s actually no reason behind why he hates wonwoo so much
whenever you guys asked him before he’d say “because i do” and you all knew better than to continue asking
you guys jokingly call his temper the temper of a bull behind his back, but are honestly all too scared to say it to his face
emma leaves a few minutes later, reminding you to not be too late or ian would start being suspicious of what you could possibly be doing
honestly your brother frustrated you so much
especially recently
last week when you got back to your,,,,home after sending wonwoo off he started complaining almost the second you entered the door
something about how someone had seen the prince in the lower ends and how he (the prince) “acts so f**king entitled as if he already owns everything and gives no s**ts about anyone else except himself, selfish bas***d”
you would have agreed with him just weeks ago, but you’ve actually gotten to know wonwoo, and you know he isn’t uncaring, he just doesn’t know
a few days ago you had suggested that maybe it’s not all wonwoo’s fault and your brother rounded on you so fast you actually feared for your life
he’s a little bit controlling, so no one really dares go against what he says,,,,especially with his unpredictable temper
either way,,,,you know that you have to get back before the sun goes down,,,,and so does wonwoo
but you’ve got a few hours before that so you and wonwoo continue on your aimless walk and talk about stuff
he asks you a lot about the conditions of the lower ends and he’s obviously unhappy about it
he goes from :/ to ): pretty quickly when you tell him that the older couple,,,,,,has closed their store because the grandma got sick and it was too much for the grandpa to take care of both her and the shop
this time when wonwoo leaves neither of you say anything,,,,because you both know you’ll see each other in a week again
the thing though is your brother isn’t getting any less suspicious,,,,he’s basically 143% sure that you’re doing //something// behind his back
he really crosses the line the next week after you’ve left
he tells emma to go follow you because he doesn’t trust you to be alone and he needs to make sure you’re not going to “hurt the family”
and emma refuses, saying that he should be respecting your privacy and that what he was doing was bordering controlling behaviour
and he,,,,,actually,,,,hits her,,,,,and everyone sort of freezes because,,,,,did he really just????
and time sort of stops,,,,,even the little ones can sense the tension in the air
one of your other siblings takes the little ones and leave because they’re too young to see something so horrible
emma’s holding her cheek and glaring at ian because how //dare// he hit her he has no right
she leaves the apartment too,,,,,dead set on finding you because there was absolutely NO way she was letting you come back “home”
she finds you trying to teach wonwoo how to skip stones on the lake and you instantly notice her cheek is red so you’re like ??!?!???!!? what happened??????
she doesn’t tell you anything,,,,,,just tells you to not return home that night,,,and maybe not the next either,,,just until she goes to tell you everything was okay
and you’re kind of like????where do i stay then???? and wonwoo’s like i can try,,,,to sneak you into the palace
your sister’s like yeah that’s good anything’s better than coming home PLEASE don’t come back
sneaking you into the palace,,,,,was easier than expected
other than gardener!junhui almost having a heart attack when he saw wonwoo trying to pull you through the bush everything went pretty smoothly
you stayed in head butler seungcheol’s room,,,,cause he gets his own room separate from the other servants
but honestly it’s more like seungcheol + junhui + soonyoung + joshua’s room since the other three have basically squeezed themselves in
you actually enjoy their company a lot like the four of them managed to make you laugh more in the few hours before they went to bed than you have in your entire life
when they asked you if you knew why you were staying at the palace with them (not that they minded!!!!) you told them you didn’t know,,,,,but whatever the reason it wasn’t good
it’s a few days later when seungcheol asks if you would like to officially work at the palace,,,because you’d been cooped up in the room the entire time and it must have been super boring
you jump at the idea and end up joining junhui in the gardens,,,,,and wonwoo’s parents don’t even notice because they’re just THAT indifferent about the people who work in the palace
you worry about your family a lot,,,,,it’s been days and you haven’t seen or heard from them and you’re so scared that something really bad has happened until one day wonwoo comes up to you beaming and you’re like ??????
and he tells you that your brother’s been arrested and you’re like !?!?!!?!??!
apparently he’s been planning a revolution of,,,,,sorts,,,,and he wasn’t just causing trouble with the upper ends but the lower ends as well
and he tells you your family is doing fine, and that he’s trying to support them as much as he can discreetly and you really appreciate that
you and wonwoo still meet up but now it’s so much easier for him to find you and during one of your meetings he’s sitting against the tree in the shade as you’re rushing around watering the roses and pulling weeds out when he talks
and his voice is so quiet you almost don’t hear him
but you do
and you hear him go “would you marry me after i’m crowned king?”
you almost drop your watering can from the shock and turn to stare at him in shock
“wh-what????”
“it’s not going to be that long before i’m crowned king, and honestly i’ve been bugged about finding a partner but,,,,i can’t think of anyone i would rather have beside me except you”
and obviously you’re,,,,not sure it would work
but wonwoo continues,,,,telling you that once he’s king his parents won’t be able to tell him what to do
and what really convinces you that you really do want to spend the rest of your life with him is when he says that the first thing he wants to do after he’s crowned king is to fix the lower ends
he wants to fix the roof of the old couple’s bookstore that’s been leaking since months ago,,,,he wants to give your family better living conditions,,,,he wants to give the farmers the fertile land beside the upper ends because those aristocrats don’t use them anyways,,,,he wants to extend the trading to the lower ends as well so that they could have more chances to create a better life for them and their families
and yeah he still has a lot to learn about the lives of the people,,,,but you’re willing to help him through that
and whatever fears you had about the noblemen and other kingdoms not approving of you disappear when you see the look in his eyes
because he’s serious about it. he’s serious about wanting to give everyone in his kingdom a better life, he’s serious about exercising all the power he has to do what his parents refused to do
but also you really like the grin on his face when you agree,,,,,and say yes you want to stay by his side too,,,,,,,
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Big Hero 7 S2
Nega-Globby
*The San Fransokyo day is passing by normally as Globby swings through the city. He was once a petty purse thief named Dibs when by chance he inadvertently stole Honey Lemon's Chem purse and crushed it. With all of the ooze combined to Globby he had transformed to the gelatinous creature he is today. But after some encounters with Big Hero 7 and learning of Obake's true intentions, he quickly paired up with Hiro Hamada to save his girlfriend and ultimately, save San Fransokyo as a whole. Time passed and he had to admit, it was a rather strange time. First with all the darkbots appearing in San Fransokyo, Obake/Kage receiving his surgery, and now he's deemed safe for the public. And the first thing Globby is gonna do is get a job. He finally lands in front of the workplace he hopes to join, Noodle Burger(A part of him missed the little burger bot).*
Globby: OK... you can do this...
*But when Globby tried to cross the street he got hit by a bus. After he recovered and traveled back to Noodle Burger he got up to the front desk to meet the assistant manager.*
Globby: So sorry I'm late!
A.M: Oh um... did you bring your resume? Mr...uh..Globby?
*the globs and somewhat chicken scratch handwriting made it a little difficult to read properly.*
Globby: Please, Mr. Globby is my father... or it would be if my dad went through a freaky mutation...
A.M: So.. just globby.
Globby: Yup.
A.M: Your resume?
Globby: Here ya go. But I'm not sure about the formatting...
*globby brings out his resume and hands it to the assistant manager.. though due to his globbiness it made it rather difficult to actually give the paper.*
A.M: Sorry but... its a little... stuck. Maybe you could just tell me about your work experience?
Globby: Well I can do this!
*And so Globby morphs himself into a dinosaur, crashing through the roof before reverting back to his normal size.*
A.M: That is something...
Globby: Something awesome?
A.M: Something not that useful for making Noodle fries... Thanks for coming Globby, we'll let you know... OK?
Globby: Oh come on... please give me a chance! I need a job, I just want to be a regular guy-
*But while he was talking to the Assistant manager he slips on the wet floor and causes some property damage to the restaurant. While it was not as destructive as Noodle Burger Boy's was... it was still enough for the Assistant manager to not consider him a future worker.*
Globby: Darn it!
*Hiro and Cora had just finished up updating the chem bazooka he made for Honey Lemon back when Orso Knox escaped from Sycorax.*
Honey Lemon: Thanks for updating my new purse! And it looks so cute!
Hiro: This is still a prototytpe.
Cora: And cause of that rather creative bunny armor I thought... why not?
Hiro: Come on, test it. Push that button.
*Honey Lemon pushes the bunny button the side where the cuter purse transformed into a bazooka.*
Cora: Increased range and accuracy. Plus double emphasis on echo-location.
Honey Lemon: Sweet!
*But when Honey Lemon tested it out it started firing all over the place, releasing a mixture of ice and crystals to the floor outside. Just now Globby is passing by.*
Globby: My sixth interview this week-AH!
*And so he slips on the ice and lands on the crystals, leading to a loud and painful crash.*
Globby: Darn it!
Honey Lemon: Globby!
*Honey Lemon hands back the new chem bazooka to Hiro.*
Cora: Note to self, add fail safe should Bazooka go on a chem ball firing spree.
Hiro: Not to mention the slight problem with the accuracy.
Honey Lemon: Sorry Globby.
Globby: Nobody wants to hire a monster! You'd think Monster Pizza would be open minded but no!
Honey Lemon: You're not a monster-monster Globby, you're a good person.
Globby: That's just it, being a monster was easy! But being a regular guy and a monster is imposible. At least back when I worked with Obake I knew what to do-
*That's when he sees Cora, who's blinking at him and looking a little uncomfortable.*
Globby: Oh no I said the O-Word! Listen Kiddo I didn't mean to say Obake- Darn it I did it again! Oh...
*Baymax waddles over to comfort the poor sap.*
Baymax: Would you like a hug?
Globby: Uh huh!
*Globby immediately hugs Baymax while Cora nods to him, showing she accepts his apology.*
Baymax: There there.
Honey Lemon: I'm so sorry Globby, this is all my fault. It was my chem purse that did this to you.
Hiro:*Scooting his chair over to Honey Lemon* Which he did steal from you.
Honey Lemon: But if I had been more careful-
Globby: No, Hiro's right. I did this to myself; I'm a mess.
Hiro: Come on Globby, how about I talk to Aunt Cass? I'm sure she could totally use help around the café-
*Globby immediately hugs Hiro.*
Globby: Oh you're the best!
*But when Globby lets go of Hiro he sees his globs stick to his person.*
Globby: You know that comes out real easy with clean soda.
*That's when Globby turns to Cora and walks over.*
Globby: I really do mean it Cora, I shouldn't had said that word considering... what happened.. and what he actually-
Cora: Its fine Globby! As far as everyone knows, Obake's gone. Now, he's just Kage… my uncle..
Globby: Kage… I'm still not used to the fact that's his real name to be honest. Then again its either that or Bob... Kage rolls off the tongue better.
*This is when Honey Lemon remembers something a long time ago. She pulls over Cora to the side where she whispers to the blue haired girl's ear.*
Honey Lemon: Cora... could I talk to your grandmother about something?
*A little later where Kaguya, Honey Lemon, and Cora are at Gogo's apartment.*
Kaguya: You want...to see if my healing medicine could cure Globby?
Honey Lemon: I know its a big risk, but Globby has been through a lot and he just wants to be normal again.
Cora: Besides, from what I heard Globby was someone you knew with Felony Carl.
Kaguya: I whacked him with my cane when he attempted to grab my wallet. Then I took him out for tea.
Honey Lemon: Ms. Kaguya, I swear that I only want to give Globby the medicine. I'll say that its something I made!
*Kaguya ponders on the idea, thinking over Honey Lemon's words and Globby's situation. Finally she sighs.*
Kaguya; Alright... but there are certain conditions Honey Lemon.
Honey Lemon: Yes! I'll accept them.
Kaguya: You are to tell them, if Globby has been cured, that you subtracted the cells in his body of its nutrients to slow down the regeneration process. That would be Biology 101 that they would certainly eat up.
Honey Lemon: Of course.
Kaguya: I will head back home and brew the tea. Cora will come pick you up when its ready, then bring Globby over.
Honey Lemon: Yes! Thank you so much Ms. Kaguya!
*Honey Lemon skips merrily at the news as Kaguya sighs at her enthusiasm. Cora looks at her grandmother with concerned eyes.*
Cora: Whats wrong Grandmama?
Kaguya:... Cora, you know that it can heal all wounds and illnesses?
Cora: Yeah... you even said that the medicine even saved Papa from the brink of death.
Kaguya: I neglected to tell there were certain...side effects.
Cora: What kind? Would it hurt Globby ?
Kaguya: So far the only side effects we're increased fertility and heightening the immune system... but since Globby has been this way for so long... *Sighs* No matter. I have a healing medicine to make and you are to pick Honey Lemon up.
Cora: Grandmama?... why didn't you give Kage the medicine after he came here?
Kaguya: I still hold doubt over his reformation and its sincerity. He was also the one who had ordered your father to steal my potion and kill your mother and I. Until he makes a selfless act of pure love for you and your father, this medicine will never be something he'll taste... Cora... you know I saw you copy notes from the herbal medicine book.
Cora: Oh! you did?
Kaguya: I think its best...
*Cora looks down, mentally preparing for her ban on the book.*
Kaguya: That whatever discovery or interesting combination you find is best recorded in the book.
Cora: *looks up with surprise.* You mean-
Kaguya: the book is now yours Cora. You've shown how responsible you are over the years that passed, especially with your time as Aqua Girl. I know that the book is best kept in your hands.
Cora: Thank you Grandmama. For trusting me.
*They arrive at Home where soon Kaguya sets to work, behind Closed doors. Cora could only imagine what sorts of ingerients could have been inside that could perform such miracles. Even though Cora isn't ready to learn its recipe... at least she's ready to keep and guard the herbal medicine book that belonged to Kaguya, then her mother...and now hers. She flips over the pages until she found a blank page to start.*
Cora: OK now... this is the start of something new.*Looks at the small shrine and smiles* I promise, I'm gonna make you proud.
*Just then Kaguya comes out and brings a thermostat.*
Kaguya: finished….also... isn't it almost time for class?
Cora: Oh my god! I lost track of time!
*Cora quickly gets up, quickly reviewing her back to see all her assignments and necessities are there before heading to the kitchen. She pours a thermostat of similar build to the one Kaguya is holding as she places it next to it on the table. She grabs a piece of toast and heads over to Kaguya.*
Cora: OK Grandmama! I'm gonna head over to school now! Once classes are over I'll go to Honey Lemon and tell her the medicine is ready! Love you Grandmama!
*Cora grabs the nearest thermostat and runs out the door, picking up pace until she sees the building with only five minutes left to spare. She sighs before she spots that the thermostat wasn't screwed tightly as it was leaking a little.*
Cora: Whoops! Gotta fix that! *screws the top tightly* I hope nobody slips from the green tea.
*As she walks over to her classroom, she had failed to see that a drop landed on a wilting flower, to which receiving its nutrients blooms back to its youthful, colorful self. The speck of rose gold liquid is definitely not the green tea she had taken.*
*Later on at SFIT, Grandville is at her office when Honey Lemon comes through the door, carefully closing it behind her before she excitedly tells Grandville the news.*
Honey Lemon: We're gonna turn Globby back to being Dibs!
Grandville:*Blinking before she regains her composure* Honey Lemon...while that is good news... you hadn't explained how you will help him.
*Just then Liv Amara is passing through the halls to visit Grandville when she heard muffles. She leaned her head to hear what is exactly going on.*
Grandville:...The medicine for Globby can be proven fascinating...
Honey Lemon:... Cora's Grandmother agreed to help...
Grandville:... Just be sure to never share the medicine..
Honey Lemon: ...Cora will pick me up and deliver it to Globby...
*When she hears footsteps she quickly backs out as Honey Lemon walks happily to the robotics lab.*
Liv: Globby...medicine...Cora and her grandmother?... what ever this is. its going to be very interesting...
*She knocks on the door then opens it.*
Liv: Hi Grace! How are you?
*Grandville looks up to see Liv Amara, smiling at her. Before she would have smiled back and greeted her with open arms... but with the recent discoveries about Liv Amara made apparent her admiration soured... but when she learned what happened with Orso Knox, and what her students had learned: All respect for her had been spoiled. *
Liv: Is... something wrong Grace?
Grandville: Oh, nothing is wrong *Forced smile* I had a discussion with one of my students is all.
Liv: May I ask what is it about?
Grandville: I'm afraid I cannot tell you. Whatever goes on with my students and myself is private unless they choose to reveal such information.
Liv: Is that so?
Grandville: Exactly. Now, what are you doing here? I heard you still have repearations to finish considering Knox's rampage on Sycorax.
Liv: I know and its been tiresome and heartbreaking. All of that hard work destroyed in a single day... my intern Karmi was devastated when her project was lost.
Grandville: I know... her work would have flourished had it not been for Orso Knox's rampage... Its sad to see that despite all of your 'efforts' to cure him, he could not be saved...
Liv: I've also come to check on Cora's well being considering the attack. She must've felt so scared. I'm... glad Big Hero 7 saved her life... and its unfortunate that they had to... you know.
Grandville: Of course, there was nothing that could help him. But while it is touching that you still hold concern for Cora, she is not your intern anymore, so I don't see any reason why would you still see her.
Liv: Can't a girl be concerned for the well being of others? How about I ask Karmi to talk to her?
Grandville: That would be wise.
*At the Café, Hiro had just given Aunt Cass an introduction to Globby, who is sheepishly waiting outside.*
Cass: How do you know him again?
Hiro: From uh...SFIT?
Cass: What happened to his... everything?
Baymax: He stole-
Hiro: Stole the spotlight when he did this next level experiment but there was a accident... A horrible accident...
Cass: The poor guy...
Hiro: Exactly! That's why I thought you'd give him a job.
Cass:Hmmm Hiro, I don't know.. Has he ever worked in a café before?
Baymax: Globby was a pur-
Hiro: Personal guy and a fast learner!
*To show his potential he squirted out whip cream from his fingers to a couple's coffee cup.*
Globby: Foam?
Cass: Oh, that's sweet... also kind of disturbing but... OK. I'll give him a chance.
Globby: *Hugging Aunt Cass tightly* Oh thank you!
Cass: Oh um, your welcome.
*As Globby sets for work he leaves a trail of glob on Cass. Which she didn't find... appealing.*
Hiro: You won't regret this Aunt Cass!... I hope...
Cass: He has to wear a cloth, OK?
* At the robotics lab, Honey Lemon is checking over a piece of Glob from Globby. But it was merely for curiosity sake. Just then Cora joins up.*
Cora: Hiya Honey Lemon!
Honey Lemon: Cora! How are you? Did your grandmother finish the medicine?
Cora: Yup, but considering you're a little busy I could just wait for you.
Honey Lemon: OK, just give me a few more minutes. *Notices the thermos and the book* Is that the herbal medicine book?
Cora: Yup. Grandmama said that its officially mine.
Honey Lemon: Congrats!
Cora: I'm gonna go get some lunch, also help yourself to the thermos, its green tea.
Honey Lemon: Thank you.
*Tired of carrying around her backpack and Thermos she places it carefully next to Honey Lemon's work before heading off to the dining hall. Just then Honey Lemon sees Karmi… and she looked like she had seen better days. From the attack she had received a heavily bruised arm, a strained wrist and a limping leg. The blow from Orso Knox from his escape while taking Cora definitely left its mark.*
Honey Lemon: Hi Karmi? How you feeling?
Karmi: Oh I don't know... aside from being slammed to a wall by a mutated Orso Knox, receiving these injuries, having all of your work and lab destroyed, loosing my research and Sycorax getting a blowback for incompetence, I. Feel. Just. Peachy!
*Honey Lemon winced at Karmi's venomous tongue. Of course she would be bitter about the incident. She understood Orso Knox's hatred for Sycorax… but he didn't have to destroy all of their work... a few of them were innocent.. she hoped.*
Honey Lemon: *Changing the subject* So uh... whatcha here for?
Karmi: I'm looking for Cora.
Honey Lemon: You came to see how she's doing? Glad to know you really care about her!
Karmi: I don't care about her! I'm only checking on her cause Liv Amara asked me to. Honestly its her fault for this mess.
Honey Lemon: Her fault?
Karmi: If she hadn't gone to the lowest level and got that monster out, none of my work would have been destroyed nor my lab!
Honey Lemon: But... weren't you the one who was giving Cora the tour? They did say you hadn't even seen her anywhere before last minute.
Karmi: Ugh...
*That is when she sees three things... a piece of glob, a thermos, and a large leather bound book. She chooses to focus on the glob*
Karmi: Whats that you got there?
Honey Lemon: Its a piece if Globby. I'm studying it over to see whatever use I could find.
Karmi: You know, if you starve the cell of its nutrients it would slow down the regeneration process. That way the monster would be vulnerable.
Honey Lemon: Globby is not a monster. He helped Big Hero 7 save the city.
Karmi: Hmmp.*Looks at the two items.* What's that book over there? and the thermos?
Honey Lemon: Its Cora's book and thermos. Its has green tea if you like, it should help calm the nerves.
*Karmi opens the thermos and drinks it doing the birdie, closing her eyes. That's when Honey Lemon sees the liquid does not have the green color associated with green tea... which means its-*
Honey Lemon: Stop!
*Karmi immediately stops drinking it and closes the tap.*
Karmi: what?!
Honey Lemon: Uhhh…..Stop! Hammer time!
*Karmi blinks before she puts away the thermos.*
Karmi: You're super weird.
*Honey Lemon quickly puts away the thermos and smiles awkwardly. That's when Karmi heads over the book and opens it, settling to the medicine and herbs. She looks closer as she read what is possibly a very interesting concoction.*
Karmi: This is interesting...
Cora: What are you doing?!
*Karmi looks up to see Cora, holding a half eaten sandwich before placing it down and walking over.*
Cora: Why are you looking at my book?!
Karmi: Your book? I don't see your name on it!
Cora: *Flips to the very first page where her mother's name is now joined with her's.*
Cora: This book is very to special to me! It was grandmother and Mother's book! And I don't recall giving you permission to look at it!
Karmi: Yeesh! Possessive much?
Cora: An angel French fish has to be if a predator comes over.
Honey Lemon: *Goes between them to prevent a war* OK! Cora, Karmi actually came over to see if you are doing alright! Considering the... incident.
Karmi: Liv Amara wanted to see you in person, but she sent ME to wish you well. Her favorite intern.
Cora: Her only intern, cause I gave it up. Now, if you'll excuse, Honey Lemon and I are going to the lucky cat café. Also, tell Liv Amara that I appreciate her message... but screw her gently with a chainsaw.
*Karmi stares at her with shock as Cora walks over and packs her things with Honey Lemon, leaving her behind.*
Karmi: What right do you have to say about Liv Amara like that fish breath?!
Cora: Since I left Sycorax after being kidnapped by a monster you guys supposedly found a cure for two months ago you bipedal parasite!
*Karmi growled as she stomps her way out. Cora sighs angrily before she looks at Honey Lemon.*
Cora: Please excuse me... I need to scream into something... there it is.
*Soon Cora is screaming into a large bowl of water before resurfacing back, her blue hair damp as she takes deep breaths.*
Cora: OK! I feel better now. Wanna pick up Globby and see how he's doing at the lucky Cat?
Honey Lemon: OK! Glad to know you got your emotions out.
*But there were two things happening now after they left SFIT: One was in Chris, Liv Amara's assistant, snuck over to Honey Lemon's desk and swiftly and efficiently took a sample of the glob. Once that was done he swiftly leaves. The second was when Liv Amara is waiting for Chris when she sees Karmi.*
Liv: Hello Karmi! did Cora get my message? Is she doing OK?
Karmi: Ungrateful. She said Screw you gently with a chainsaw, can you believe that?
*Liv Amara blinks at Karmi's response about Cora's own. It seems earning her trust was gonna be harder then she thought. That is when she noticed something about Karmi that made her pause... The last she saw Karmi she had a limp, a bruised arm, and a strained wrist... but now she was walking around like she never received such injuries... and she didn't even notice.*
Karmi: What?
Liv: Its nothing. And I suppose I can't blame her. I'd probably be pissed too if I were kidnapped by a monster on my first day of work.
*at the Lucky Cat Café, for Globby it was going fine... for others not so much... He was efficient at his job and a fast learner... but the problem was... his globs got in everyone's business.*
Customer: Ma'am*To Cass* I ordered a green tea! This is purple and sticky?...and gelatinous?
Cass: *Sighs* I'm so sorry.. I'll make you a new cup right away!
Globby: Coming right up a yummy muffin and don't forget your frostecinno! Thank you! Come again!
*the one who ordered it did not appreciate her food being covered in globs.*
Globby: Let me get that door for you!
*Globby swings his arm to open the door which so happens to be opened by Honey Lemon and Cora.*
Honey Lemon: Globby we have good news!-
*And so Globby's hand ended up pulling Honey Lemon and Cora close to Globby. which leads to someone throwing a plate of eggs and bacon to Cass' face.*
Cora: Sorry Aunt Cass!
Honey Lemon: Oh no are you OK?
Globby: Sorry!
Cass:...*Wipes the eggs and bacon off her face* So he's going with you now right?
Cora: Yup!
*Soon afterwards the three head back to Cora's house where Globby sees Kaguya again.*
Globby: Hey Kaguya! You doing good?
*But Kaguya runs to Cora and checks her over before grabbing the thermos.*
Kaguya: Cora! Oh thank goodness you're here! You had inadvertently grabbed the wrong thermos. *Hands the other thermos* This is your green tea.
*This causes Cora to widen her eyes before looking at Honey Lemon.*
Cora: Nobody else drank from the thermos while I was gone... right?
Honey Lemon: Ummm...ya see-
Globby: Whats the thing that Cora switched?
Kaguya: Globby, it is potentially your cure to being human again.
Globby: A cure? Really?
*Kaguya hands over the medicine to Globby, who looks inside to see the beautiful glow of Rose gold liquid. He looks over to the three ladies, waiting for him to drink it.*
Globby: OK...through the lips and over the gums...look out bottomless pit I call a stomach.. this will come!
*And so he chugs the remainder of the liquid down before its empty of its contents.*
Globby: Hmm...
Honey Lemon: Well?
Globby: It was hard swallowing down cause it packs a punch, but the aftertaste is fantastic-!*Gasp!*
*Globby starts breathing heavily before there was this glow of gold wrapping around his globby body, slowly melting away one by one. Honey Lemon looks at the radar to see that his body mass and temperature is rapidly changing. Finally, when the glow died down, they see in place of Globby the tall, lanky man from so long ago. He looks down to see his hands for the first time in forever, feeling his heart beat again and the metallic headband now removeable.*
Dibs:...I can't believe it! It worked!
*But instead of smiling faces he sees the blushing face of Honey Lemon who is covering her eyes, Kaguya having an 'excuse me'? look on her face while she covers Cora's eyes. He looks down to see that while he has successfully regained his human form...*
Dibs: *Blushing immensely while covering himself* Does anyone have pants?
*After getting suitable clothing for Dibs Cora and Honey Lemon invited everyone over to meet Dibs*
Wasabi: Welcome back to being human Dibs.
Fred: Yeah!
*Dibs goes to a mirror and sees his face again.*
Dibs: Wow! I almost forgot how good I looked!
*But while he was checking himself out, Kage walks down the stairs with his Baymax behind him, yawning as he had just woken from a nap.*
Kage: Kaguya, do you know where is the green tea?-
*That is when he sees everyone from Big Hero 7 is there. Now, he was fine meeting with just Hiro and Cora... but meeting the rest all at once?...*
Baymax 1: Kage, your heart beat is quickening at an alarming pace-
Dibs: No way!
*Dibs pulls himself from admiring his reflection as he stares into Kage's eyes, like he is seeing a ghost.*
Dibs: Boss?... is that you?
Kage: Do I know you?...
Dibs: Its me! Globby! I was your favorite henchmen! But wow! Looks like we both changed! Hey, how about we grab something from Joe's diner and-
Kage: No thank you! In fact I don't want any of you here!
*Kage immediately walks back upstairs, his face displaying discomfort and guilt.*
Kage: If I see you again Globby I will not hesitate to yank your headband off your brain and shove it to your skull!
*The door slam is a very good indicator that he did not want any company for now.*
Dibs: Hehe... Too sudden?
*As of while, Liv Amara and Chris are at her private lab at the lowest floor, seeing out the glob Chris stole from Honey Lemon's desk.*
Chris: Cell regeneration?
Liv: Yes. If I can figure it out, this could lead a breakthrough.
Chris: You mean for-
Liv: What else? Now lets see if I can amplify the tissue with the regernable abilities.
*When she added the altered goop to the sample, it had turned purple and consumed all in the desk, leaving nothing but a bare desk.*
Liv: Interesting...
*She places the dark blobs in a much larger jar to study. After adding in more of the serum it grows larger and breaks through the glass. *
Liv: Pretty neat right? Put it into a containment cell...now get it something to eat.
Chris: You know… I don't get why you still want Cora mizichio as your marine bio intern. There's plenty of other marine bio students that would love to be in her place.
Liv: Its because she has something I want. Who knows what secrets her book holds?
*Later on in Joe's dinner, Dibs is with Felony Carl and Kaguya having coffee and pancakes.*
Felony Carl: Hey, you got knees. Enjoying it?
Dibs: Oh loving it. All my joints are wonderful, I mean elbows. Come on its pretty great!
Felony Carl: Uh huh, and hey, how about teeth?
Dibs: Oh yeah teeth. A lot of fun!
Felony Carl: I don't mean to overstep my boundaries but your enthusiasm seems forced. Its so fake even Kaguya sees through it.
*Kaguya sips her tea while she nods.*
Dibs:...You two have X-Ray eyes felony carl. You two see through my knees, elbows and teeth all the way to my soul.
Felony Carl: Humans have regular eyes.
Kaguya: So what is truly troubling you Dibs?
Dibs: Being fully human again is kind of... boring. No offense.
Felony Carl: Hey, you're in a safe space.
Dibs: I mean my life as a mutated freak was often gross, painful, embarrassing... but exciting!
*Dibs walks over to Felony Carl's side to show his phone which shown a couple picture Kaguya never thought she would see. Pictures of Globby taking a selfie with Kage, back when he was Obake, Trina, Noodle Burger Boy, and Momakase.*
Dibs: I was a valued member of a team of super villains! But then I turned good and joined the heroes! And I helped them save San Fransokyo and everyone in it!... I was special.
Felony Carl: No no no. You are special.
Dibs: Aw, thanks carl.
Felony Carl: You're welcome. Now be a champ and pick up the check. I gotta go pay a guy about a thing. The guy is my dad and the thing is his birthday.
Kaguya: I wish your father a happy birthday Felony Carl.
Felony Carl: thanks Kaguya. He'll appreciate it.
*After Felony Carl leaves Dibs turned to Kaguya who is still looking at the photos, especially of the time he was a super villain.*
Dibs: You can ask me anything you want to know back in the day ya know? Certain items I stole, how I figured out how to make ice cream-
Kaguya: What was it truly like working with them?
*Kaguya points to the photo of Obake, Momakase, Trina, N.B.B, and himself. dibs sighs before he sits back down.*
Dibs: Ya see... It was fine at first! Obake was this cool and suave villain that I looked up to, even his voice was sexy... But over time.. he was really... harsh. He and Momakase hated each other, and he would slap her silly If she tried to do anything against him. Trina and Noodle Burger Boy look up to him as Dad...though he was super neglectful and only rarely gives hugs. But on his worst days...
Kaguya: What worst days?
Dibs:... He seems to be like a violent beast underneath his calm self. For someone lanky like me you would've thought he'd be weak in the brawns department but... to be honest I was growing scared. And when I overheard what he was gonna do to San Fransokyo and your granddaughter I just... *Sighs* It really was awkward seeing him again... now he just looks so lost and broken... if trina and Noodle Burger boy find out he's alive and that he gave up his evil side, who knows how they will react.
Kaguya: Hmmm... I'm happy you shared this with me dibs. Tell me this; when you joined Big Hero 7 to save San Fransokyo as Globby, how did you feel?
Globby: Just like I said earlier, important... wanted.. and loved. Do you know the answer?
Kaguya: I could tell you, but its the solving the puzzle that's the journey. Now, how about we split the check?
Dibs: Thanks Kaguya, you're the best.
*At Sycorax's lab, Christ is delivering a meal to the mutated monster Liv Amara has made.*
Chris: Who's excited for an artisanal Cheese Brulee?
*Once the cell opens the glob eats Chris and scurries off. Then it goes the pair of eye balls and eats them too... gaining eyes in the process. Liv Amara notices the breach as Chris somehow manages to escape the Glob's form.*
Chris: We have a problem... it escaped.
Liv: So I see...
*She shuts off the security system.*
Chris: But don't we need it for-
Liv: Dead end, its too unstable. And as far as everyone knows, it came out of nowhere. Its the city's problem now.
*At SFIT in the evening, the Gang are enjoying their food when Grandville walks over to them.*
Grandville: Hello Honey Lemon, and students. How did that 'special project' go?
Honey Lemon: It was a complete success! Globby, or should I say, Dibs is cured!
Grandville: It still seems miraculous that such a concoction would cure him. It truly is a miracle potion.
Cora: Yeah, now he can enjoy his life as a normal man!
Grandville: There has been something I noticed however... Karmi had received a strained wrist, a limping leg and a heavily bruised arm during Knox's attack on Sycorax. From what the doctors said she would fully recover within a month or so.
Wasabi: OK... and?
Grandville: Just yesterday it seems like she was completely cured. all of her injuries was gone.
Hiro: That is super weird. How could she heal that fast?
Cora: Yeah, its not like she drank the medicine right?
Honey Lemon:*Looking very uncomfortable* Ummm...
Gogo: Honey... what happened?
Honey Lemon: Well... the funny thing is...I offered her the thermos and she kind of sort of maybe drank a little bit?
Cora: YOU WHAT?!
*The shout echoed across the dining hall, making everyone stare at the blue haired girl. She sinks down in her seat as Hiro looks at Honey Lemon.*
Hiro: *whisper shouts* Karmi drank the medicine?!
Honey Lemon: I didn't notice it till it was too late! But luckily so far Karmi hadn't told anyone about her healing right?
*Just then Gogo's phone beeps with news.*
Gogo: We have a situation right now!
*Looking into the phone they see a dark colored figure of Globby with a menacing eye stomping through the city. The team fly through the city where they confront the new monster. There was no doubt that despite being different colors, it held a resemblance to one other former glob monster.*
Honey Lemon: This is impossible!
Cora: Hit the deck!
*The other monster throws a mailbox to the team before they all dodge.*
Wasabi: Is it just me or is Globby a lot meaner?
Hiro: And bigger?
Cora: And a different color?
Fred: Whatever was in that potion definitely funked him up. He's full phase two.
Cora: Grandmama did tell me there were going to be side effects, but I never thought it would be this serious!
Hiro: It wasn't your fault, neither of your fault. It could be that the cells were too unstable.
Gogo: Whatever, he's going down!
Honey Lemon: Wait! He's our friend! Just let me talk to him please!
*Honey Lemon goes over to the other monster while Cora quickly contacts her grandmother and tells her about the sitation.*
Kaguya: What are you talking about? Dibs is with me walking home right now!
*Cora stopped functioning for a moment, trying to process what see meant as Honey Lemon gets close to the other monster.*
Honey Lemon: Dibs listen to me! I know I failed you the first time, but whatever happened I know I can fix it! You don't have to do this! Listen to me Dibs, this isn't who you are.
*Just then Dibs and Kaguya come by.*
Dibs: Hey guys, who's the monster?
Kaguya: And why has Cora stopped functioning?
*Hiro gives Cora a slight slap to the face to shake her off her shock.*
Cora: HONEY LEMON THAT'S NOT GLOBBY THATS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT MONSTER!
Honey Lemon: What?
Fred: Then its a whole new globby? Oh my gosh I get to name it! He's officially Nega-Globby!
Cora: Get somewhere to safety with Grandmama Dibs! We're gonna handle this copy cat!
*Honey Lemon pushes Dibs and Kaguya to a nearby store before joining back the team, to which they had sprung into action.*
Fred: OK Nega-Globby! Prepare to meet your maker! Fire-
*With a swing, Nega-Globby sends Fredzilla blasting off again. Gogo tries to strike it down her discs and zoom away, but the acid Nega-Globby realeased ultimately melted away her wheels, just barely escaping the acid. Wasabi hops into action as he brings his blades.*
Wasabi: OK! That's enough!
*But the blades did nothing as it swings Wasabi to Gogo. Just then Baymax with Hiro and Cora on his back punch Nega-Globby to bits before it reforms again to fight.*
Hiro: Baymax, rocket fis-Oh watch out!
*Nega Globby slithers away to trap the three to a wall.*
Baymax: I cannot move.
Hiro: Me neither.
Cora: Well this is just great *Sarcasm*
Baymax: That was sarcasm.
Honey Lemon: Don't worry guys I've got this-
*That's when Honey Lemon realized that something is missing.*
Honey Lemon: Oh no! My purse!
*As it turns out Dibs had grabbed the purse and Kaguya soon followed after him. While running Dibs shows to Kaguya that he still has the neurotransmitter and puts it on his head. Once they reach a safe spot Kaguya looks at Dibs.*
Kaguya: Are you sure about this?
Dibs: Someone has to help.
*Kaguya steps back to let Dibs break the purse. But it seems like Hiro and Cora's updated purse made it stronger to resist breaking.*
Dibs: Why won't you break?!
*When Dibs kicks it off the purse flies through the air before catapulting to the side of the road where a bus comes by and runs it over, squirting all of its goo onto him.*
Dibs: Its working Kaguya! Oh man I forgot how nuts this part was!
*Kaguya could not help but smile widely as Dibs transforms back into Globby once more. Nega Globby walks forward to Honey Lemon, the last hero standing.*
Honey Lemon; Lets just take it easy Nega-Globby! *To comm link* Guys! My purse is gone!
Wasabi: *Groggily* Coming... ow.
Gogo: I'm all out. *To Fred via comm link* Fred where are you?
Fred: *Coming out of the trash* Umm...I have no idea.
*Honey Lemon dodges out of Nega-Globby's swings before contacting Hiro.*
Honey Lemon: Hiro I need that prototype!
Hiro: I'll call Skymax! If I could just... get to my.. phone!
Cora: till then, survive Honey Lemon!
*Just as it appears to be the end for Honey Lemon, she was pulled out of the way of Nega-Globby's hammer via the original Globby.*
Globby: Gotcha Honey Lemon!
*Honey Lemon looks up to see Dibs back to being Globby.*
Globby: You're safe now!
Honey Lemon: Globby! You've changed back!
Globby: You guys needed help, and I realized being a freak is my happy place. Stay here, I'll deal with the big guy!
*And so Globby transforms himself to a bull and charges to Nega-Globby, knocking it out.*
Globby: Hey! The position of Globby has been filled! By me; and I'm about to show you my special skills!
*And the battle was on between Globby and Nega-Globby, the original vs the impostor. Using whatever skills they have they battled it out. While that happened Hiro nears his hand to his phone while Cora tries to see what is going on with Globby and Nega-Globby. Finally Hiro grabs his phone and calls Skymax. Now Globby and Nega-Globby are morphing to a ball fighting for dominance.*
Globby: Yeah not good!
Honey Lemon; Oh no!
*that is when Skymax appears and drops by the Prototype.*
Honey Lemon; Thanks Skymax!
*And soon she activates the prototype to the bazooka form and takes aim.*
Honey Lemon: Hold still Globby!
Globby: I'm trying! But I am gelatinous!
Honey Lemon: Don't worry this won't hurt! *To self* I think!
*Activating the bazooka she takes aim and fires into Nega-Globby. She shot enough ammo to shrink Nega-Globby down to a size where Dinosaur Globby eats him up, destroying it for good.*
Globby: And that's how you monster.
*And soon everyone that was seeing the action clapped for Globby.*
A.M: Way to go Globby!
Globby: Thanks Sarah!
*Globby shoots out a goo to destuck Baymax, Hiro, and Cora and let them land safely before he reverts to his original size.*
Honey Lemon: thank you so much Globby!
Fred: Globby vs Nega-Globby! And the winner being the OG!
Gogo: Great job. *To Honey Lemon.* Both of you.
Honey Lemon:Thanks guys.
*Just then Baymax arrives the scene with Hiro and Cora.*
Cora: You really are Hero Globby.
Globby: Aww shucks.
Hiro: You know, I can't believe I hadn't thought about this till now... * Pulls out his phone and calls.* Hey, Commander Carter? Might I interest you in a new hero in training?
*Cora winks at Globby before Globby wraps himself around the team in a giant hug. As of while Kaguya snaps a photo of the group and sends it to Mizuchi, Grandville... Kage received the message too... and for a bried moment he smiled.*
Kage: For a petty, uncoordinated purse thief... you've made a really intelligent choice in friends, Globby.
*The next day they are eating breakfast at Joe's diner where Hiro and Cora are having Omurice.*
Hiro: Even now I still don't know where Nega-Globby came from.
Cora: Yeah. And even how did they even make Nega Globby?
Wasabi: You know, ever since the 'revelation' about Orso Knox, a lot of weird things have been happening lately.
*Just then Globby comes in.*
Globby: Globby in the house!
*The patrons stare at him.*
Globby: Who wants a picture?
*And soon everyone lines up for a selfie with Globby.*
Gogo: You mean like that?
Honey Lemon: I'm glad Globby's happy.
Cora: And the fact people are accepting him.
Hiro: With Commander Carter and the super hero program, he'll become more awesome and in control.
*But what neither of them are aware are two things... one was that an eye of Nega-Globby survived… but a small speck of Rose gold liquid floats inside him, keeping an eye out for nega-Globby. Protecting its host from the invading virus he is unaware of.*
A.N: Sorry its late! Had to deal with school and such! Hope you love the chapter! Love you!
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mass-effect-tales · 4 years
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Shot in The Dark ch. 2
Nihlus cursed as he pushed Liara ahead of him as the roof began collapsing. He could see Nero and Garrus keeping up with Shepard as they reached the exit. Nero fell back, pushing Liara ahead of him until he was running side by side with Nihlus. 
"Go go go!" Shepard shouted as they burst through the exit just as the structure collapsed behind them. Everyone slowly boarded the Normandy as the adrenaline from running started to die down. A grunt from Nero made Nihlus turn to see the drell clutching his side and leaning against the mako. Nihlus could see blood leaking from between his fingers and ordered Garrus to inform Chakwas that Nero was hurt.
"What happened?" Nihlus asked, helping Nero to the elevator and to the med bay where Chakwas and Skye were ready with a bed and medigel.
"That krogan got a hit on me when my shields were down. Pretty sure it passed all the way through." Nero grunted as Nihlus helped him into the medical bed. Skye moved in to help remove his armor and under shirt. Chakwas shooed Nihlus out of the med bay while Skye started cleaning the blood from the wound.
"Luckily the bullet passed completely. I'd recommend you taking it easy until the wound completely heals." Skye suggested as she applied medigel to a medical patch and covered both sides of the wound. Nero let out a hiss from the sting of his skin slowly knitting back together thanks to the medigel. To distract from the sting he observed Skye cleaning up and washing his blood from her hands.
"You seem more knowledgeable than most nurses," Nero mused. Skye chuckled as she gathered his armor and shirt and placed it in a neat pile.
"Well my dad was a doctor and my mother was a surgeon who started studying xenobiology after the first contact war. I was in med school to get my doctorate but I dropped out and got a job as a nurse instead." 
Nero hummed, lips quirking into a smile.
"And the name? Nihlus has mentioned your name is humorous."
Skye could feel her cheeks redden as she thought of multiple ways to injure the turian.
"My name is similar to the last name of a character from my dad's favorite movie series. He always liked space and wanted to see space himself. Unfortunately before I was born he got into an accident that left him bedridden. He hoped that I'd take an interest in space and would travel space since he couldn't."
"You speak of him as if he's no longer with you," Nero observed. He could see Skye's shoulders fall as she looked away, one hand going to the locket around her neck.
"He died two years ago from an unknown disease. Some kind of infection made his lungs unable to absorb oxygen. Humid days always seemed to make it worse so he always needed to have a dehumidifier near him to ease the discomfort."
Nero reached out to place a gentle hand on her arm.
"I apologise for bringing up a memory that clearly upset you." 
Skye smiled slightly, shaking her head as she pulled up a vid on her omni-tool. Nero could see the vid was taken years ago when Skye was a child. Skye was sitting in an older man's lap who was sitting up in bed, Nero assumed that was her father. Her father was reading her a story while Skye kept trying to grab the book to hold herself.
"Yeah it hurts that he's not here anymore but I have these videos of him to remember him by." Skye smiled fondly at the vid. She was always close to her father and while it killed her inside that she could never hug him again, she was happy she could fulfil his wish to travel through space by scattering his ashes on Eden Prime.
Seeing Skye smile in the vid reminded Nero of his childhood and before he could stop it he felt himself pulled into a memory.
"Tiny hands grasp her skirt, smile brighter than the sun as I'm lifted up. Laughter fills the air as she laughs with me. "You're getting so big Nero, soon I won't be able to carry you!"
 Nero shuddered as he pulled himself out of the memory. Skye was silent as she looked at him with surprise and interest.
"Did you remember something? I heard drells have eidetic memory and triggers could bring up a memory but I never saw it myself."
Nero nodded, accepting the replacement shirt Chakwas left to grab for him. "Yes, I was remembering my mother. I haven't seen her in a while and your vid of your father must have triggered it."
Before Skye could reply she was interrupted by Chakwas.
"I hate to interrupt but we'll be docking on the Citadel soon. Mister Verge I'd recommend stopping at Huerta memorial for a check up to be sure the less than ideal conditions for a drell on this ship hasn't increased your risk for kepral's syndrome."
Nero nodded while Skye offered to message a doctor to be prepared for an appointment with him.
"I need to stop by the hospital anyway to update Nihlus' doctor on his wellbeing."
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After the Normandy docked on the Citadel Garrus and Tali offered to join Shepard as she went to update the council. While Shepard was heading to the presidium and Nero and Skye left for Huerta Nihlus decided to head to the spectre office to collect some gear for himself, Nero and Shepard. As he waited for his order of a new set of weapons and armor he noticed a familiar face that made him grin.
"Bau, it's been a while since I've seen you. Still looking for that Goto woman?"
Jondum Bau looked up from his omni-tool and nodded at Nihlus. 
"Kryik, good to see you. Unfortunately Miss Goto is still at large." Bau sighed, feeling a headache forming at the mention of the elusive thief. "Did take down a rogue salarian group creating bioweapons to sell on the black market though."
Nihlus collected his weapons and armor order just as his omni-tool went off with a call from Shepard. Nihlus raised a brow plate in confusion, he knew she was planning to make the briefing quick but 2 hours seems a little short to him.
"Shepard what is it?"
"Make your way to the Normandy now. Udina is dry docking us so we're taking the Normandy to Ilos."
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Skye's omni-tool notified her of a call from Nihlus. She let the call go to voicemail so she could finish the paperwork in front of her. His next call was a vid call that went straight to her visor which made her jump when Nihlus' face appeared in front of her. Guess he wasn't lying when he said he could hack into her visor.
"Skye is Nero with you? He's not answering my call."
"He's getting a scan and had to turn his omni-tool off," she explained, checking the time and noting he should be done in a few minutes. "If you need to talk to him, he should be done in a few minutes."
"That's not the problem. Your genius of an ambassador tried to dry dock the Normandy so Shepard took the Normandy. I tried to warn Nero but it was so quick we ended up leaving you two behind."
Nihlus thought his screen froze for a moment since she was so silent. He ended up jumping slightly at her sudden shout. 
"Shepard did what?! Are you guys insane! This has to be a court martial for her and what if you're labeled a rogue too?!"
Nihlus grew concerned when she began to cough and wheeze.
"Skye are you alright?"
His concern became panic as he watched her struggle to breathe and hear the sound of a crash as she collapsed trying to stand.
"Skye!"
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littledarlinwrites · 7 years
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Everything’s Not Alright
Part of the That’s the Spirit writing challenge coordinated and created by the wonderful @hardertobreatheat-night ​
Song: Drown by Bring Me The Horizon
Word Count: 4,056
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“So why are we going to Maine?” I pipe up from the back seat.
“Well sleeping beauty, Bobby called, apparently a contact of his in Maine asked him if he knew of any hunters who could swing by the area and check things out. Bobby knew we were already in Virginia and therefore the closest and best hunters for the job.” Dean replied to me.
“Bobby said his buddy told him too many people have gone missing in the same area for it to be anything but supernatural and that he owed this guy one from back in the day and the guy has good instinct.” Sam added, his nose in a book.
“So how much longer ‘til we hit Maine then?” I ask.
“About five hours, you were passed out cold there for a bit.” Dean spoke up again.
“Well one of us has to get some beauty sleep in order to mingle with people to get information.” I sassed at him. Dean cracked a smile at my response that I saw through the review mirror. “So, do we get to meet with this buddy of Bobby’s?” I ask.
“We’re meeting up with him at a diner once we get there.”
“Okie dokie then.” I say as I pull out my headphones and plug them into my phone so I could listen to music and try to get my head in the game. I could tell that I was distracted, distractions lead to mistakes, and mistakes can mean life or death. If it were only my ass on the line I wouldn’t feel as much pressure about it, but I wouldn’t be able to live with myself if Sam or Dean got hurt, or worse killed, because of me. There was enough blood on my hands… What doesn’t destroy you, leaves you broken instead.
Walking into diner, I could immediately spot Bobby’s friend. On my game or not, I know a hunter, or ex hunter when I see one. He was the same height and build as Bobby, but his hair had more salt and pepper to it, and he had a long scar on his cheek.
“You must be the hunters Bobby sent up, you’re exactly how he described.”
“Thanks, I think.” I say with a half-smile, and the older man chuckles.
“Yes, it’s a good thing, sit, have a seat. M’names Marvin, helped Bobby out back in the day. I’d look into this myself but I’ve been out of the game for a while, mainly just help out other hunters with information on how to get the job done.”
“Well, what makes you think this is supernatural, besides disappearances I mean.” I asked Marvin, happy that he could get out and live to tell the tale.
“These parts of Maine, it’s not normal to get as many disappearances as this, and they are always at night, never during the day. And just yesterday there was a group of 3 kids that had gone camping, only two of them came back, word is they say their buddies were taken away in the night by a monster. That’s what made me call Bobby, I had been keeping an eye on it, hoping it was just bad luck, lost campers, but once I heard that I had to have it checked out.” Marvin spoke softly.
“How long has this been going on for?” Sam questioned.
“Since they opened up a new campground about two weeks ago. The land used to be owned by the state but there was no trespassing, on rare occasion a trespasser would either get lost, but most assumed they were just that, lost, maybe attacked by a wild animal after they hadn’t turned up, but every night someone goes up there, someone doesn’t come back.”
“Well sounds like we need to make a visit to those kids, and find out more about this campground.” Dean spoke up. Back in the Impala Dean’s driving to a motel to check in and freshen up, Sam’s looking in their dad’s journal with what little information we have in order to get some ideas in mind, and I’m in the back trying to ignore the hole in my soul growing deeper. I didn’t even notice we were pulled in front of the motel until Dean gently shook my shoulder while calling my name to get my attention.
“Huh, what, sorry.” I mumble out getting out and taking my duffle that Dean had in his hand. If I wouldn’t have kept my head down maybe I would have noticed the concerned look that crossed Dean’s face. I walk up to the room with the door cracked open and head towards the couch to set my duffle down and shake myself out of my thoughts. I sit down on the couch and hug my knees to my chest.
“So, what’s the game plan?” I ask the boys as Dean shuts the door behind him.
“I figured we change into suits and two of us go to interview the kids and the other goes and finds out more information about this new campground.”
“I’ll investigate the campground.” Sam answered.
“That leaves us with interviewing.” Dean said to me.
“Dibs on bathroom!” I exclaimed jumping up to get to the bathroom first. Back in the Impala, we’re on our way to interview the two kids Marvin mentioned earlier.
“So, the two kids are 21 and 19, high school sweethearts, presumably shared the same tent then because of that, and their names are Ethan and Melanie. Then there’s James King, also 21, and he was in a separate tent just a few feet away.” I tell Dean after getting off the phone with the park rangers to get the information.
“And this is where Ethan lives according to the park rangers.” Dean replies pulling up to the house.
“Alright, let’s do this.” I say getting out of the car. I walk across the street and up to the door, giving it a loud and quick knock. A tall guy, about 6’, athletic build, and dark brown hair answers the door.
“Ethan Manns?” I ask questioningly, although sure he’s the guy I’m looking for.
“Yes ma’am, and you are?”
“I’m Agent Matthews and this is Agent Fogerty. We’re investigating the disappearance of your friend James. We were hoping to ask you a few questions.” I told him.
“Mind if we come in?”
“Uhm, yeah, sure, this way.” Ethan directs us towards the living room. After he offers us a drink we all sit down to begin talking. “Has James been camping before?” I begin.
“Yeah, he was actually really excited about the new campground, it was our first night there, but he’s been camping plant of times elsewhere.”
“Did James have any enemies?” Dean jumped in.
“No way, he was the nicest guy around.”
“Did you notice anything strange before his disappearance, him, your surroundings, anything?” I ask.
“James was his normal self, just stoked about the new camping grounds, and the only thing that seemed out of the ordinary I noticed was this ball of light. I woke up and noticed this light and figured it was just his flashlight and he woke up to go to take a leak or something and I fell back asleep. Then I woke up not long after and heard this gnawing sound, figured it was just an animal a little way away, I didn’t think it had anything to do with James ‘til the morning when I woke up and saw his tent collapsed and a bit of blood.” Ethan continued on to say,
“Melanie was totally freaked, we’d been hearing rumors that the woods were haunted, some said it was a ghost, others a witch, I think I even heard someone say there was a werewolf.”
“That should be all Ethan, thanks so much for your time.” I wrap up the conversation. He nods zoned out, but gets up to lead us out. I turn around and stop the door from closing,
“It isn’t your fault Ethan, you couldn’t have known.”
Ethan has a look in his eyes of guilt, but wanting to believe my words. Instead of agreeing or denying he just says, “Find him, please.” I nod and start walking to the Impala.
“Melanie next?” I ask Dean.
“Yeah, I’m getting the feeling those rumors aren’t just rumors, but I need more to go on, hopefully Melanie has that for us.”
“Hopefully,” I whisper. An hour later we’re back at the motel and walking straight into the bathroom to change into something more comfortable. Dean changes right after me and we all sit down to eat and discuss our findings. Dean and I tell Sam what we discovered from interviewing Ethan and Melanie.
“Well according to the park rangers working there, like Marvin said, there’s been a disappearance every night this week, and the park opened two weeks ago. There’s never been an attack or disappearance during the day, which leads them to believe it’s some kind of animal that likes to move around at night. But one interesting fact is that there used to be Native Americans who lived there, it wasn’t for long before they moved to Canada. They were part of the Wabanaki tribe. Now I’ve looked into the lore and get this, the Wabanaki tribe believed in a legend about the Skadegamutc (skuh-da-goo-much). An undead vampiric creature also known as a ghost-witch. It is believed that the Skadegamutc are wicked people or witch’s that become this ghost-witch creature when they ‘die’. They don’t stay dead but must feed on human flesh and drink their blood. They can also shape shift into a ball of light in order to scour out the area and find their prey more quickly. They can only attack at night and are vulnerable to sunlight, once dawn breaks they are nothing but corpses.”
“That’s gotta be it considering the ‘ball of light’ Ethan saw.” I said confirming Sam’s conclusion of our monster of the week.
“Dad’s journal say how to kill the sonuvabitch?”
“Yeah, gotta find the corpse during daylight hours and torch it. They’re supposedly immune to normal weapons, have superhuman strength, and can hex or curse people” Sam replied in a tone of finality.
“Well, it’s only midday, we could go out and start searching, maybe we’ll get lucky and find the SOB, or at least James.” I say hopefully.
“Couldn’t hurt, but we gotta get out of there by dark, no good to James or any others if we become this things Scooby Snack.” Dean stated. After we all changed into more appropriate attire to hike in the woods in we drove to the new campgrounds.
“So, I figured we could get a map once we get to the campgrounds and plan a path to search from there.” Sam declared.
“Sounds like a plan.” I say as we pull into the campgrounds. We all get out of the car, get a map, and start hiking.
“So according to Ethan, they were all camping here.” I say pointing to a spot on the map that we were heading towards.
“And according to the park rangers, it looked as if James was dragged north until the tracks disappear out of nowhere.” Sam points out on the map after me.
“Well, let’s head that way and see what we find.” I declare as we trudge on ahead. After walking around a few hours, checking other disappearance areas and finding nothing, we decide to turn around and come back when dawn breaks tomorrow. The sun is setting as we climb up a hill, I’m not horribly far behind the boys but not as close behind as I should be as it gets darker. While climbing up the hill trying to pick up the pace I trip on a root that I didn’t see. I try to catch my balance but instead I fall forward and hit my head on a rock. I remember the sensation of sliding down the hill before everything goes black. 
Dean’s POV
We reach the top of the hill and I look behind me to check on Sammy and Y/N. I swear I feel my heart stop and drop into my stomach when I don’t see Y/N behind Sammy where she was minutes ago when I last looked behind me halfway up the hill. Sammy reaches the top and looks up at me and notices that something must be wrong and looks behind him.
“Y/N!” Sammy yells out into the woods. I don’t even think before my feet are running back down the hill we just climbed. I feel sick to my stomach when I reach the bottom and notice a fresh bloodstain on the trunk of a tree.
“Y/N!” I shout with every ounce of air in my lungs. I hear Sam coming up behind me, he has a rock in his hands that also has fresh blood on it.
“She must have tripped and fell back down the hill.” Sam explains with his discovery.
“We’ve gotta find her Sam…” I say with resolve, but guilt and desperation was laced through my soul..
“We will Dean, we will.”
“Where’s the map?”
“Here.” Sam says as he pulls it out of his back pocket and opens it up.
“You got a pen?”
“Uh, yeah, here.”
“Alright, we are here,” I say as I mark down the spot on the map.
“James got abducted here,” I mark down the next spot, “and then the other abductions were thought to happen, here, here, and here.” I said under my breath while marking down the spots. The pattern or trail I was hoping to find didn’t exist.
“Damn it!” I shouted in frustration.
“Dean, they said they never recovered any bodies or remains, which means the Skadegamutc had to take them somewhere.”
“Somewhere like a cave or something, something they would think an animal would hide in.”
“Here.” Sam said pointing to the map, “there’s a cave here, let’s check it out and if they aren’t there we’ll check others. We’ll find her Dean.”
“Let’s get moving”
Reader’s POV
When I finally came to a bit later, I was somewhere, dark, cold, and damp. Where ever I was there was a hole at the top letting the full moon’s light in. The movement of my head brought crashing down the memory of my little trip earlier. Through the little amount of light entering the space I’m stuck in I see a shadow moving, I try to get up but I can’t move. I instantly start to panic. Why. Cant. I. MOVE!? Then, what I assume to be the Skadegamutc, appears in front of me. It had long black straggly hair, grey wrinkly and cracked skin, and its eyes were completely black. The last thing I noticed about the monster were its sharp and pointy teeth before it lunged at me, digging its teeth into the crook of my neck. I let out a blood curdling scream hoping Sam or Dean would hear me. Slowly, I lose consciousness, whether it’s from blood loss, shock, or pain I’ll never know. What doesn’t kill you, makes you wish you were dead. I come to again and try to move again but to no avail. I lean my head backwards against the cold stone I’m propped against. Stuck with nothing but my thoughts for company, suddenly unconsciousness looks like a blessing. Once again, I screwed up, hopefully it’s only my ass that gets hurt because of it. It comes in waves, I close my eyes, hold my breath, and let it bury me. I’m not OK and it’s not alright. My mind goes back to that fateful night, the night I couldn’t save her. She was my responsibility. It was just a stupid, little old witch. Because I couldn’t fight hard enough, I couldn’t save my little sister from her. I couldn’t take it anymore. The guilt, the weight of the of the world’s getting harder to hold up, all those times I wished I could have taken her place and had her live the life she deserved and I can’t trade places with her.
One more moment of this silence The loneliness is haunting me And the weight of the worlds getting harder to hold up
“Ugh” I hear a soft groaning coming a few feet away from me.
“James?” I croak out.
“Yeah, who wants to know?”
“Oh, thank God. You’re friends, Ethan and Melanie, their torn up about you. My friends and I were trying to find you and potentially save you, but I screwed up. Got hurt. Now I’m here.”
“What is that thing?”
“Trust me when I say you do not want to know. Can you move?”
“No, haven’t been able to since I woke up down here.”
“Great…” I say under my breath. I heard a rustling sound coming a few feet away and saw the shadow flicker in the light.
“I think it’s coming to finish me off.” James said, panic rising in his voice.
“Not if I can help it.” I try to reassure him. I see the shadow moving towards James, and prepare myself.
“Hey fugly!” I shout at it, getting it to at least stop in its tracks.
“Yeah you, you piece of shit. Bet you can’t drink me ‘til I pass out without killing me!” I try taunting it. It didn’t really move towards me but it must have used a hex on me because I felt like every nerve in my body was on fire, causing my to let out such a loud scream that my voice broke. When I opened my eyes that I didn’t realize I screwed shut from the pain, the monster was in front of me, staring at me curiously. I took my opportunity to piss it off and spat in its face. Needless to say, it worked. The monster was feeding on me instead of James, and I let unconsciousness take me in its sweet embrace.
Dean’s POV
I heard a scream for the second time and this time it was closer, the first to caves turn out to be a bust, but we were heading in the right direction. I started running as fast as I could will my legs to carry me, until her voice cut off mid-scream. Sam came to a sudden stop behind me and pulled out the map.
“I don’t get it Dean, it sounds like we’re right on top of her but there’s nothing he-“
“What, what do you see?” I question him quickly.
“The map has this spot marked but it doesn’t say why.” Sam said looking around.
“Dean look, to your left, the tree.” I looked where Sam was directing me and immediately saw what he was pointing out, a tree and right in front of it, a hole in the ground.
“Get ready, that thing is down there and it’s strong.” I say to Sam quietly. I quickly and quietly walk over to the hole, listening for any signs of the Skadegamutc. On the edge, I jumped down the hole prepared to torch anything in front of me with Sammy behind me.
“She needs help.” I male voice croaked out. Looking towards where the sound came from I saw him nod his head forward.
“Sammy.” I whisper nodding my head to who must be James. While I looked towards where he directed, quickly dropping to my knees in front of Y/N.
“Hey.” I say under my breath, caressing her battered face gently in my rough, calloused hands. “Hey there pretty girl.” I scoop Y/N up in my arms and turn around to pass her to Sam.
“We need to get them out of here, can you two manage?”
“No, Dean, the Skadegamutc must have hexed them with a paralyzing curse or something.” I set Y/N down beside James and boost Sam up through the hole.
“Alright, up you go, James.” I whisper to myself. I bend over to pick up Y/N when I heard a rustling sound, quick to the draw I point and start using the mini flamethrower on the monster before it knocks it out of my hands. It chomps down on my shoulder faster than I could blink.
“Sonuvabitch!”
“DEAN!” Sammy shouts, jumping down into the hole and spraying the monster with the flamethrower. The Skadegamutc the released its jaw from my shoulder, and bellowed a ear-piercing screech.
“Dean?” Sam called to me once the monster was gone.
“I’m fine, Y/N?” I called out, hoping that with the monster destroyed, Y/N would wake.
“Y/N!?” I scramble to Y/N, and check her over and checking her pulse.
“Sammy, she’s lost a lot of blood, her pulse is there, but it’s weak.”
“C’mon,” Sam says to me, getting ready to boost me up,
“James?” Sam shouted.
“Yeah?” I need you to help my brother pull Y/N up!”
“Got ya, I’m ready.” James replies, Sam boosts me up and James helps me up with my busted shoulder. Then Sammy starts boosting Y/N through the hole, and James helped me grab onto her and pull her up through the hole. I get Y/N to the side and I instruct James to put pressure on her wound. I then give Sam my good arm to pull him through the hole. Quickly regaining my composure, I move to Y/N and pick her up and start carrying her to help.
Reader’s POV
When I wake up I hear a steady beeping sound to my right, and can already see the bright, white light through my closed eyelids. The smell of cleaning supplies permeates my nose and makes my face scrunch up.
“Hey sleeping beauty.” Those words, are music to my ears, but also a disappointment. Disappointment in the way that I have to continue on with this guilt with no redemption in sight. I felt like I was drowning, with no hope of ever breaking the surface. I open my eyes to see bright green one with a dust of freckles between them.
“Hey.” I croak out, my voice breaking. Dean reaches with his right hand for the styrofoam cup of what I assume to be water, and brings it to my lips. I slowly sip the water through the straw, quenching my dry, sore throat.
“Thank you.” I rasp out, scrunching up my face once more, this time in confusion.
“You damaged your vocal chords, lost a lot of blood, got yourself a concussion, but the doctor says you should make a full recovery. James also told us what you did for him.” Dean explained. I nodded my head and sat with him in the silence. I take in his figure, noting his left shoulder in a sling. Before I can ask about it though Dean speaks up again.
“You know I can read you like an open book Y/N. And I’ve noticed you’ve been off your game lately, rushing it, making rookie mistakes, and for a minute I couldn’t figure it out. Then I remembered a conversation from a long time ago. This is around the time your little sister passed about two years ago.” Dean took a pause before he started speaking again, staring at me like he could see into my soul, and he very well could have. I stared down at the hospital floor, suddenly fascinated with the specs against the off-white background.
“It’s not your fault. And I know that you feel like it is, trust me, I get it, I really do. But I can tell you for a fact that she wouldn’t want you living this way, she would want you to live for her and she’d only feel resentment if you didn’t. I will help you fix yourself, dive in when you’re down, save you from yourself, and I won’t let you drown in those thoughts that tell you to give up and drown in your misery, and I will spur your fight to be here, I’ll drag you out alive, if you let me.” Dean spoke softly. I felt the water behind my eyes threaten to spill over.
“Do you really believe all that’s possible Dean?”
“Just because everything’s not alright now, doesn’t mean it will be forever.” Dean whispered to me before kissing my forehead, and for once I drowned myself in something good.
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Fire Alarm
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Chapter 2
On a certain night twelve years ago, when Uzumaki Naruto was just a sophomore in highschool, he had caught a firefly and made exactly two wished. 
One: That he would pass chemistry.
And two: That he would find his dreamgirl.
That very next day he was taking a leak in the urinal during one of the breaks. There were only a few minutes before the lessons started. Naturally  there were little to no people at the restrooms around this times. Well except for the raven guy on the other side. Naruto sighed exhaustively, his next lessons was chemistry and boy did he not look forward to seeing his most hated teacher in his most hates class this year.
He looked from the corner of his eyes,seeing the raven flush and head to the sink to wash his hands. An inner debate was about to start in the blond’s head. Who the hell washes their hands after peeing? It is not like you touch the pee...Is he just doing it because Naruto is there?
A loud alarm was heard and both boys looked up at the red light in the corner.
“What the fuck-” Naruto heard his voice suddenly reach a tone that he was sure little seven years old girls  reached when they were holding a screaming contest.
“Fire alarm. Maybe it is just a drill” The other said. He looked unfamiliar,Naruto had not seen him before and he remembered faces quit well.
“You think-”  Once again the blond couldn’t finish his sentence.  
“All students must evacuate immediately. This is not a drill, I repeat, this is not a drill!” The voice of the principle was heard  from the intercoms.
“There is a real fire. We have to go” The raven turned to Naruto.
“But I am still peeing!” Naruto panicked.
“Pee faster!” The other male looked annoyed.
“Yeah yeah, dattebayo!” Naruto said, turning his head back to the urinal. A few seconds passed and yet it felt like hours.
“What the fuck did you drink?!” The raven was really pissed off  now.
“I had a big bottle of coke! Stop watching! You are making me nervous!”
“You gotta be kidding me!” The raven shouted.
“Done, done!” Naruto shouted and zipped his pants. His hand reached to flush, but the raven rolled his eyes, grabbing the wrist of the blond and pulling out.
“For fuck’s sake I won’t be surprised if everything turned into ash already!”
“The fuck dude ,let a man pee!”
“The boy pee!” The raven shouted, pulling the blond outside with him.
“You could have just gone ahead! I never asked you to wait, dattebayo!” Naruto shouted back as they reached the field they were supposed to meet.
“Fucking kidding me? What if something happened.What was  I supposed to tell the teacher. Eh sir, there is a stupid blondie still peeing?”
“Naruto is still peeing?!”   The blond’s eyes widened as he saw his favourite teacher, Iruka.  Though what did not please him is that the description needed to identify Naruto was ‘stupid’ and ‘blondie’ .
“SENSEI!” Naruto shouted, turning his head to the mentor.
“Aah you both are fine! God thanks”  Iruka seemed relieved.
“What happened?” Sasuke asked.
“I heard some seniors were playing with fire. Burning old tests, but well … There was something with a bin that caught fire” Iruka sighed, supporting his head with his hand, “I feel bad your first day of school ended like this”
“First day. Are you a freshman?” For a moment Naruto couldn’t help but to feel slightly superior. He could call the raven things words like ‘brat’ and ‘kiddo’ he was his ‘sempai’ after all.
“Sophomore, I  transfered”
“Why is that?”  Naruto asked.
“Distance”  The answer came very fast. Like he was on autopilot. Maybe he had to explain himself to more people than just Naruto….Or maybe...He was hiding something. Naruto’s instincts told him something was off.
“What school?” Naruto asked, but was deliberately ignored.   “Tch, bastard..”
Oxoxoxoxox
Naruto hated to admit it, but it seemed Uchiha Sasuke was a boy of many talents. So he had proven himself to be at least, scoring 100% in every test they had so far.
There was this one time he scored 98% on a chemistry test, but he still had the guts to argue with the teacher about the ‘one’ mistake he made. The debate was on till the very moment they ended up calling a university professor that agreed with Sasuke and so he yet scored a 100%  on a test afterall.
The blond wished he could call Sasuke a “nerd” with his only strong point being ‘studying’. But he seemed to be an athlete as well. From beating the track record of the school, to climbing in roped faster than anyone. Not to mention the girls went nuts when Sasuke had to hang upside down from the horizontal pole. His shirt moved to his chest and everybody could see his abs. It was just unfair. It seemed the kid had everything and Naruto...Well besides a few ribs people who didn’t wear their glasses might confuse for muscles..There was not much.
“Another insufficient mark” The teacher groaned annoyed.Naruto stared at the 33% on his test.
“If I add dots in the circular parts..They look like boobs” Naruto joked, grabbing his pen.
“You won’t pass this way”  The teacher stated.
“I will go to summer school..Again, I guess” Naruto already gave up hope of not going. Besides, was it really bad spending three months in summer school? It was better than staying home alone all day.
“Try at the very least” the teacher shook his head before explaining some experiment that was supposed to keep the students busy for a while. The blue eyes looked up once the teacher mentioned “working in pairs”  But who wanted to work with him? He was the stupid blond kid. He looked at Sasuke, everybody had their eyes on him like he was a prize.
“I will make the pairs.”
Aaaaannnd~ the disappointment was back.The teacher grabbed a list and wrote it down on the black board. Naruto saw his name written in chalk followed by an arrow. The man wrote down the next name
“SA-”  
Sakura-chan?!  Naruto looked excited. Sakura was the cute pink haired girl in his class. He wouldn’t mind working with her! Though when the next letter appeared
“-SU-”
he figured the teacher had misspelled ther name.
“SASUKE!?” Naruto read out loud as he got up, causing everyone to give him a weird look, even the mentioned raven himself. “I mean….Sasuke…” Naruto muttered before sitting down. He was not expecting mr. Perfect to work with him. They put their lab coats on. This might be the second time they talked after well...Their first encounter.
-------------------------------- “Grab the erlenmeyer” The raven ordered.
“We don’t even need an erlenmeyer according to the assignment paper” Naruto looked at the assignment.
“Just do as I say “ The raven commanded, grabbing stuff from the cupboard Naruto didn’t know the name of, but didn’t see it on the list either. He swallowed as he reached for the cupboard with the erlenmeyers. He stood on his toes trying to reach the closest one, but his fingers only managed to gently touch the glass.  The blond pouted.
“Can’t reach it?” Naruto took a step back, bumping against Sasuke. He gasped,moving the other way, but tripped and almost fell if it wasn’t for the hand grabbing him from his lab coat.
One hand, was all it took for Sasuke to keep Naruto from hitting the floor. The blond looked at the floor before looking at Sasuke’s arm. It is as if Naruto weight equaled that of a feather.
“Do you prefer blondy? Or Shorty?” Sasuke pulled Naruto up on his feet before grabbing the needed equipment.
“Are those the only  two ‘y’ sounding ending syllable you can come up with?” Naruto folded his arms.
“How about ‘Skinny’ “ Sasuke raised an eyebrow, showing an arrogant look. Naruto wished he was able to punch it..But his punches would feel like a small tap, probably. He remained quiet and walked back to their spot right behind a rack of coats, so the teacher couldn’t see them. It was a weird spot the Uchiha chose.
“What are you doing. Are we even supposed to be doing that?” Naruto looked worried.
“I am doing the same. Only much more efficient” Sasuke’s eyes were lighting up,sparkling like a kid opening his gifts for Christmas. He actually looked adorable.
“Why?” Naruto asked.
“Because it will be faster” Sasuke stated.
“Again...Why?” Naruto asked.
“Because we will win!” Sasuke looked at Naruto and it was hard not to smile from that excited little kid’s expression, but seeing the raven push two liquids together was...concerning.
“Is that save?” Naruto asked, seeing him grab the burner.
“Of course!” He started giving a big explanation, though how boring it was..Naruto had to cut him off.
“Why do you want to win! This isn’t a game. You won’t win a prize!” Naruto shouted.
“It is the idea that counts!”
“Idea of being the best. Of course, I knew you were such a narrow minded thinker” Naruto shook his head.
“Narrow thinker!? Are you insulting me, shorty?!” The argueing started and the jar, containing the liquid was forgotten completely.  Suddenly the sound of broken glass was heard, causing both Naruto and Sasuke  to stop arguing and look at the glass.
“What the..”
“DUCK!” Sasuke pushed Naruto down the moment the glass shatter and spatted in every direction. Naruto moved his hand, hitting the tube connecting the burner with the gas. The burner was knocked over and was aimed at a book of a fellow student that caught fire. She screamed and soon the entire class panicked and started running. The smoke detector was beeping and the sprinklers were turned on.
“See what you did!” Naruto leaned on his elbows as soon as Sasuke sat up. He looked down at the blond and they glared at one another for a second. However, seeing the duck butt hair style still stand up,, despite the water..Was funny enough to make Naruto crack a smile.
“Your hair!” He laughed.
“Eeeh?” the raven leaned in,poking Naruto’s cheek, “Your entire face!”
“It just..Keeps..Standing up!” Naruto leaned back, laughing loudly. Sasuke sighed, trying to blow the hair off his face, but the water made it too heavy...But..The blond’s laugh was like a fire; It spread easily. Sasuke chuckled.
“What in the lord’s name!” The teacher shouted, seeing the two on the ground. He shook his head and he shouted many curse words neither Naruto nor Sasuke could keep up with.
oxoxoxx
“Seems we are always the unlucky ones” Naruto said, mopping the floors. They got punished..And they got punished badly.
“Seems we have fire alarms” Sasuke said.
“Ah right. Y’know what this will be our signature. When people think Sasuke and Naruto.They think Fire Alarm” Naruto laughed.
“You say it like it is a good thing” Sasuke leaned against table and sighed “Hey..I am sorry.”
“For going off book and being a total bitch, getting us both in trouble?” Naruto asked.
“No,for letting you distract me.If I had my eyes on our experiment I could have seen it boiling before it became too hot. It is chemistry; Temperatures matter”
“You are not even admitting it is totally your fault!” Naruto pointed an accusing finger at Sasuke. The blond frowned:  “Whatever, people like you would never get it”
“People like me?!” Sasuke took those words greatly offensive.
“Yea, being good at everything.You don’t know what hard work is. Everything comes natural and somehow..How arrogant as you even may get..People still like you for your assholeness.”
“That is not true. You think my grades come naturally! I work hard for them! I work hard for everything: school, piano lesson, gymnastics, track, all of it! I work hard for all of it! I don’t even have the energy to pretend that I care about people because I am tired. I am tired every single time of the day!”  The raven shouted, but this was different. He was saying things..Things that were bugging him, things that came from a fresh wound.Naruto swallowed. He sure as hell wanted to hear his story now.
“Why does it even matter...My brother is always going to remain the proud son,and I...I will just live in his shadows, being a nobody.”  
“You have a brother?” Naruto asked. He didn’t want the raven the stop. Somehow hearing this made him feel a bit better about himself.
“Why do you care? Want to tell everyone in this school? Get me kicked out?” Sasuke sat down on the desk. He was really done, it seemed he had no energy left at all. Like a drained battery.
“What do you mean?” Sasuke didn’t answer Naruto, “Is this why you transferred?”  Seeing Sasuke look down ashamed was like an eager nod.
“I didn’t do nothing” He whispered.
“What happened?” Naruto asked, sitting next to him.
“Annoying pieces of shit spread the rumour I fucked around with teacher to get good grades”
“That is...Fucked up” Naruto didn’t know any word that could sum up his thoughts.
“I thought it would blow away. If I just held onto the truth, but it didn’t. At a certain point my locker was filled with random dick pictures from the internet, so called ‘love letter’s  and-” his facial expression turned disgusted  “used condoms. I had talked to the principle, but he didn’t do shit.”
“So you transferred?”
“No..I didn’t care about that. I transferred when a teacher gave me an insufficient mark on a project  and when I asked why. He told me it was just not to his expectations”
“That is a fucked up reason to transfer. The first was actually logical”
“Still not it - let me talk damn it-  He told me he could give me a sufficient grade. If-” He took a deep breath, “If I agreed to-” another big breath was taken,  “suck his dick.”
“No waaaayyy~”  Naruto eyeballs could fall on the ground by his shocked expression.
“I marched out. I told the principal, but he got mad at me for ‘making stuff up’. I was so angry and I couldn’t do shit. I screamed at him. I told my parents when I got home. They were very furious. They drove to my school and I went with them.The principal said he was very pleased my parents came because apparently he wanted to talk about my behaviour in this school.He made all this shit up, all this bad shit. I got so angry..So mad... I didn’t know what to do”
“You started crying?” Naruto put his hand on Sasuke’s shoulder.
“No, I threw the desk at him and told him to fuck himself. That is how I got kicked out”
“In a way...I am very proud to know you”  Naruto smiled, “Did you show them not to mess with you?”
“I shouldn’t have. I should have destroyed that place. Man, I can totally do that. Like in the movies” Naruto looked surprised seeing Sasuke smile.
“We should do that”  Naruto suddenly suggested.
It was the first night Naruto had broken the rules. Sneaking inside a school building,destroying the school, burning stuff. The fire alarm went off and they had to make sure  to get out before the firefighters came. They sat in the park, a clear view of the scene in front of them. Never had an fire alarm sounded this pleasing,not to Sasuke and certainly not to Naruto.
From sophomore year, till senior year. The two had remained lab partners. Naruto grades were not near Sasuke’s, but they were sufficient. That was good enough for the blond. Though he was forced to study hard to stop Sasuke from causing and fire or an explosion. He did not want the fire alarm to go off again. But even though most of his job contained of not allowing Sasuke to do stupid dangerous  experiments, he also was the only one out of the entire school..Maybe the entire world, that could see Sasuke’s childish side. And the many hours wasted, cleaning the failed self taught experiment, was worth it.
“Why are we in the lab?” Naruto asked, looking at the blue flame of the burner.
“Because I am doing an experiment” Sasuke said, tapping the cylinder.  Naruto eyes remained on the flame. It was beautiful, silent and dangerous. His eyes looked passed the flame and focus on Sasuke. Yes..it was much like him.
“Hey Sasuke~”
Naruto looked up seeing no other but the head cheerleader appear in the classroom. A little shy, Naruto moved further away.
“Who are you?” Sasuke wasn’t paying attention to the person. It made Naruto almost angry.
“Ah so funny!” She faked  a laugh,  “I was wondering. Since the year is over soon if..You would like to go out with me?”
“Not interested”  
Naruto’s eyes widened by the words. How dared he be this rude to a lady!  Soon she walked away, not saying much more.
“Savage!” Naruto shouted.
“What,I am not” Sasuke said.
“She is the head cheerleader! She is like..Super pretty!”
“So?”
“Why not give it a shot? Guys are dying over here trying to get with her”
“I don’t” Sasuke’s response was short. He put some liquids together,tapping the glass.  Naruto rolled his eyes before looking at the flame again.
“What is up with your fascination for fire?” Sasuke asked, moving the burner away.
“I am thinking-” A suddenly laughter was heard,”Yes I can think! Dattebayo!” Naruto looked annoyed, but calmed down fast. “My parents were firefighter, dattebayo.”
“Were,are they fired?” Sasuke has a smug smile on his face and looked directly at Naruto for a second “You will get that joke...Just let it sink in” He commented focussing back on his experiment.
“They died” Naruto sighed.
“This conversation took a dark turn” Sasuke commented,causing Naruto to laugh.
“I was very young.I don’t remember a lot. My Godfather told me all about them. The cool stories. I want to be like them”  
“Aren’t you supposed to be tall and strong to be a firefighter?” Sasuke turned the burner off.
“I am!” Naruto said, showing his guns, but Sasuke laughed.
“Yeah right, you are supposed to be able to lift people and save them from burning buildings. You can’t lift anyone”
“Watch me, dattebayo!” Naruto rushed towards Sasuke and wrapped his arms around him, trying to title him, but failed miserably.
“Yeah right. Admit you can’t” Sasuke said in a mocking tone.
“I can! You weight just as much as a twelve years old!” Naruto argued.
“Admit you can’t lift a twelve years old” Sasuke rolled his eyes.
“Maybe if you lost weight!”  Naruto got kicked to the ground.
“You annoying little shit!” Sasuke hissed. Naruto rubbed his head, yeah..He deserved that.
“I will become strong! And I am still growing.Watch me, Sasuke. I will save tons of people from buildings, lift heavy shit out of my way.One day, I will be able to lift you like you weigh nothing!”
“Because I turned to ash?” Sasuke smirked raising an arrogant eyebrow.
“Because I will be strong” Naruto seemed confident.
“Whatever, I will bet all my money on that” Sasuke seemed so pessimistic.
“I don’t want your money” Naruto immediately said.
“What do you want?”
“You”  Naruto wiggled his eyebrows.
“You can have me” Sasuke said nonchalant.
“Really?! In any way I like?” Naruto was surprised.
“On my knees,on my back, even on top of you. I don’t care because that will never happen” Sasuke turned his head to Naruto and smiled,  “shorty”
“Deal! Speaking of my future. What about yours?” Naruto got up and approached the table.
“I will be a scientist and win tons of nobel prizes”   Now Naruto was the one laughing loudly “You who burn shit up! Would I have to come and save you from a burning lab?”
“Idiot! I am testing shit.Try and error, bitch!” Sasuke put down everything he was holding.
“Yeah right, you might be all smart but every time you went off book you caused a fire or an explosion!”
“Owh like your skinny little arms are able to drag me to safety, Mr.firefighter!”
“Eeeh! I will, dattebayo! When your lab is going to burn down I will be there. I will come to rescue you! I will find you and carry you out of the building! I promise,dattebayo.”
“Pff..You couldn’t even find Waldo. How will you find me with all the smoke?” Sasuke rolled his eyes.  Naruto looked around him and pointed at a metal table. “You will hide under a metal table. Every lab has one. I will find you there”
“Metal table..Yeah right”Sasuke rolled his eyes.
“Remember that,Sasuke. Metal table”
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Born Singer
By Ash
I always loved going to my best friends’ concerts. They always let me go in for free, usually getting me a decent seat.
Sometimes I’d catch them seeking me out in the crowd, grinning and winking when they spotted me, making all of the ARMYs around me go crazy.
Today was special. They were doing the first of their “2015 BTS Live Trilogy: Episode I, BTS Begins” concerts.
So far, they’d performed perfectly. They opened with their song “Jump,” and now the concert was coming to an end.
I was as excited as everyone around me. I mean, who wouldn’t be? Watching as your best friends achieve their dreams was an amazing feeling.
I watched in anticipation. They’d refused to let me know what song they would be concluding with - they even kept it a secret from the public.
They’d performed “Miss Right” as one of the two encore songs. The second one was, so far, still a mystery.
There was a hush as the seven boys arranged themselves onstage, standing in a circle, facing inwards.
My brow creased as I tried to remember what song’s choreography started like this. None came to mind.
The lights went down, and the glow of thousands of ARMY Bombs filled the arena. I caught them all looking around, marveling at the beautiful sight.
For a moment, there was nothing. Then the large screen behind them went dark, and suddenly displayed words.
“Born Singer.”
My eyes widened. I remembered them mentioning singing and releasing this song when they were younger, around the time when I met Jimin and eventually the rest of BTS.
“I’m a born singer, a little belated confession, I swear.”
Jungkook’s voice was angelic, taking my breath away as I stared down at him and the other boys in shock.
“The mirage that always seemed so far away is now before my eyes, it’s here.”
I sang along under my breath, knowing the singing verses of the song by heart. I was the first one that they showed this song to, all the way back in 2013. They were so proud, having successfully parodied the original song and created something that meant everything to them.
“I’m a born singer. Perhaps an early confession.”
Taehyung took over as Jungkook lowered his microphone from his lips, his deep voice filling the stadium. My eyes closed on their own, taking in the sound of his voice. But I opened them again, watching the boys in silence.
“But I’m so happy, I’m good.”
A small smile crossed my face, and my eyes grew misty as I saw their eyes shining with unshed tears. This meant the world to them, and to perform this song live to thousands of people who love them must have been a very powerful moment.
“Suga!”
Namjoon’s prerecorded voice boomed through the stadium, and Yoongi raised his microphone to his lips upon hearing the cue.
“The very first stage we stood under the name Bangtan, I revisit how we felt about our first stage 3 years ago.”
I smiled, remembering the very stage Yoongi spoke of. Their debut stage, years ago, before they’d grown large enough to attract this kind of attention.
“Still I’m nothing different from a rural Daegu rapper but, I wrote the word ‘pro’ on top of 'amateur’.”
I watched as Yoongi took a breath, his eyes flickering over the crowd and over his bandmates. They all wore smiles, and he pressed on.
“While rapping and dancing on the stage I wanted so badly. I feel yet alive, the tiresome trip to work and back home.”
I heard many ARMYs singing along softly, but others remained still and silent, allowing the Yoongi’s voice to be the only sound in the arena.
“I can withstand such troubles because my people are watching me. Because even if my body hurts, the cheers come rolling in.”
There were scattered cheers at his declaration, and for a split second I saw his face stretch into a smile. The others smiled as well, looking fondly around at their ARMY.
“Before and after debut difference lies on the boundary between idol and rapper. Living on, my notebook’s still filled with rhymes. In the waiting room and between performances I hold a pen and write the lyrics.”
I laugh lightly, remembering how many times I saw him writing furiously in a notebook, his face twisted in concentration. Sometimes he would get so wrapped up in his own little world that literally anything could happen around him and he wouldn’t bat an eye. We once had a game where we would see how much distraction we could cause before Yoongi noticed what was going on and started yelling at us.
“This is how I am, did something about me change before your eyes? Damn! Shit, I’m still the same. I changed, you say? What? Go and tell them.”
Yoongi took a quick breath, before finishing his rap.
“Without change, I keep my essence, I’m still rapperman. Unchanging since 3 years ago. I rap, and sing, I’m out.”
He lowered the microphone from his lips, and one of his hands moved on its own, rubbing underneath his eyes.
Jungkook sang again, his voice giving me chills just like it had before.
“I’m a born singer. A little belated confession, I swear. The mirage that always seemed so far away is now before my eyes, it’s here.”
Jin raised his microphone, his eyes darting around at the crowd, looking a little nervous, but it melted away as he heard the ARMYs begin to cheer for him.
“I’m a born singer. Perhaps an early confession. But I’m so happy, I’m good.”
The last note of his verse hung in the air as Namjoon began to rap into his microphone.
“Truthfully, I was afraid, I said I’d show them all but I was afraid of proving myself. The fact that a kid who grew up on pens and books is now surprising the world, I dunno.”
I couldn’t help the smile that overtook my face again as I remembered how smart Namjoon was. He certainly had grown up on books and pens, and it showed in how he talked and acted. But all the same, he was Rap Monster, and he definitely had surprised the world.
“I was afraid I’d stand asymmetrical to the world’s expectations, in case I betray all those who had faith in me. I straighten my heavy shoulders and go up on my first stage.”
Namjoon took a quick breath, using the momentary pause to look out at the audience, the glow of the hundreds of ARMY Bombs reflecting in his eyes.
“During the brief static of the moment, I steady my breath. People I’ve been watching are now all watching me. Those I looked up to on TV, right now they’re beneath me.”
A surge of pride raced through me as he rapped. There was no doubt that he most definitely passed many he had looked up to before he became a part of BTS. He and the band were huge stars, known all around the world.
“Uh, like a kaleidoscope, the one chance act without a moment to brush past had begun. 3 year’s battle with the mic doused in blood and sweat evaporates in 3 minutes. I was merely 0 seconds but I pour them out clearly, I’m fucking real!”
His voice raised to a shout as he used the English curse word, and then fell back into his previous rhythm as he continued on.
“'Hey, kid. What’s your dream?’ Mine is to become a rap star, can’t you feel? And the moment it drops, those cheers, yeah, I could read your mind. I could read your mind, just smiles instead of question mark.”
I grinned as he rapped the words used in their debut song, answering the question that they asked of people all around the world when they released their debut song.
'What’s your dream?’
The feeling of pride returned when it finally sank in that they’d made it. They were well known. They were famous. They’d accomplished what they set out to do and more.
“The members patted my shoulder wordlessly. It feels just like the day before yesterday, but 20 nights have passed already. And let the haters on me. It’s a day job they’ve always been at.”
I hear his confidence as he rapped, almost challenging those who hated on him and the rest of BTS. His face displayed a smirk that fell away as he continued on.
“While you were teasing the keyboard, I fulfilled my dreams. Sunglasses, hairstyle, I know why you ridicule me. In any case, it’s me who’s gone further than you at age 20.”
He allowed himself to smile again as his arm dropped to his side, the microphone falling away from his lips.
“I’m a born singer. A little belated confession, I swear. The mirage that always seemed so far away is now before my eyes, it’s here.”
Taehyung’s voice filled the air again, and he did his best to smile out at the crowd. His eyes shone with tears, and upon seeing it, I could barely prevent my own tears from falling. They’d come so far.
“I’m a born singer. Perhaps an early confession. But I’m so happy, I’m good.”
Jimin sang this time, his eyes closing as he hit all the notes, not a single bad note passing through his lips. When he finished, he glanced at Hoseok, who raised his microphone to be level with his mouth.
“The days we’ve run through, the days we’ve experienced together. How we became one mind in 3 year’s time? I’m drenched with the blood and sweat I’ve spilled.”
His eyes flickered over the crowd as he rapped, but they soon turned to the six boys onstage with him. I smiled as the boys’ faces stretched into grins, encouraging Hoseok.
“After the performance tears leak through. Every moment I make sure not to lose my integrity. To always be myself, so I don’t embarrass the me from the beginning.”
His words only reminded me of how strange it was to see my close friends become different people once the cameras were pointed at them. They kept their core personality traits, but they often exaggerated parts of themselves or omitted pieces of themselves completely. It always felt like watching them act in a play, portraying someone who wasn’t exactly who they were.
“So, we go, we go, we go. Higher, higher, higher.”
The seven of them pivoted, facing outwards, taking in the glow of the ARMY Bombs and the smiling faces of their fans. Each of them had eyes wet with tears that they did their best to restrain.
Instead of singing the lyrics, they all lifted their microphones and pointed them outwards, signaling for the fans to sing.
Thousands of voices sang as one, repeating the lyrics the boys had sung earlier.
“I’m a born singer. A little belated confession, I swear. The mirage that always seemed so far away is now before my eyes, it’s here. I’m a born singer. Perhaps an early confession. But I’m so happy, I’m good.”
The boys could no longer hold back their tears, and neither could I. The boys and their fans cried as one, reflecting on how far they’d come. They had made it, and now they were known all around the world.
The little, hated band that came from Big Hit Entertainment was now topping charts all over the world and proving those who laughed at them wrong.
Staring down at the men who were my closest friends from among the crowd of their adoring fans, I couldn’t have been more proud of them.
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