The King and His Tot (Hakuno, Caster Gilgamesh, Gudako)
They couldn’t… take the two from Chaldea.
That was what Gudako had told her simply as the alarms had gone off and everyone had started running. Gudako had found out the location and Hakuno had recognized the name immediately.
“I can be backup!”
“You have an infant.”
Hakuno shrugged, holding the little one in her arms. “I’ll strap him to my back.”
“You’ll- Oh my god, do you even hear yourself?” Gudako motioned Mash ahead, shaking her head more. “I’m going to pretend I didn’t hear that. The whole area will be a danger.”
“I’ve learned more Sumerian than you could ever hope to know.”
“Okay… Rayshift has a translation thing.” Gudako waved her hand, pushing her after a second towards the couch. “Go. Lay down. Do not go near my rayshift room. You’re an honorary Chaldean, but you don’t get to go rayshifting. I’m not explaining to baby goldeen why mommy decided to go galavanting into a singularity when he was a tiny tot.”
She rushed out a moment later.
Everyone was so busy running around that she couldn’t help but to head in the direction that so many were going. Gudako was chatting with Romani about the singularity, trying to argue about strategy and which servants to keep on deck for coming over. She glanced towards the room.
Six months ago, she’d been found and brought here. The only thing she knew for sure was that she had a necklace she kept on at all times and the memory of the name Gilgamesh. The doctor, Romani, had found that she was so close to having a child that she’d quickly had her son. Ur-Nungal, she’d decided to name him after a couple weeks.
She’d studied every bit of text she could get her hands on about Gilgamesh. His personality, his appearance, his class as a servant; she’d tried summoning him, but her mana was blocked. No one knew why. She’d scared all of Chaldea by collapsing before they’d found that her mana was being blocked off.
Still, Babylonia meant Uruk. The timeframe that had been said was right.
Gilgamesh would be in the singularity.
Ur was sleeping soundly, easily staying in the harness on her chest. She wrapped her jacket around him just to be safe. The shift was gentle enough, but the climate would be sunny.
As the others came in, Gudako shouted towards the window to crank up the machine. They had to go fast.
Mash was the first to notice her.
Gudako was cursing, trying to stop things when the flash came.
Perhaps it was because she had been outside of the normal area for standing in. Maybe it was because she had been almost against the wall. Maybe it was her mana, since she hadn’t really done much support at all outside of Chaldea. Whatever it was, the others vanished.
The white light and the winds blew passed her, waking up Ur and sending her jacket flying. She had to hold onto the boy as everything went wild.
The shift was supposed to be quick.
That was what she knew about it anyway. Gudako had always described it as a split second action and then a world entirely new around her.
Instead, she was falling with Ur.
A cold chill was running through her veins. She kept her hold firm, not worrying about anything else at the moment except making sure that Ur made it through this journey.
She’d apologize endlessly to Gudako later.
She’d explain herself endlessly to Romani and Da Vinci later.
She would never again step outside her room without an okay or a go ahead from them.
Further and further they went.
Ur was starting to cry, making her coo and soothe him as best she could. She could see those red eyes looking to her, trying to understand what was going on.
And then the world came back.
Or rather, Hakuno found herself tumbling onto a bed. The room was warm, comforting to feel as she sat up and cuddled her son close. The little man was already so bothered, looking around at the strange room and shaking with the threat of a wail. His hands were holding her tightly as well.
“You were so brave,” Hakuno murmured, kissing his head. “My brave, brave little prince. We are taking a small trip, but we’re going to find our friends and go back in a few hours.”
They were in Uruk.
She could see the Sumerian art around the room. It looked like something she’d seen in photos, although the works here were much more colorful and looked new.
First mission: Find Gilgamesh.
She wanted to see him. Was he her enemy? Her friend? Did he know her at all?
If she had this chance, she could stand in his audience chamber for a moment and look up at him. It would give him the chance to see her and exclaim how she knew his name or the chance to make her realize that the name might have been a coincidence. Her son’s eyes and hair could have been from another. Maybe a brother or a relative…
Ur was calming, having seen the sun shine into the room and make the gold around them gleam.
Maybe…
There was a lot of gold in here. Ur never wanted to leave things that interested him. As she cracked open the door to the room, she found a hallway that needed investigating.
She could tiptoe down both ends, come back here, grab her son, and then go whichever way was more promising. She could cover him with a fabric from this room to keep his hair from being seen, take her look, and then leave.
Easy.
Simple.
She did just that with moderate success.
There was another hallway.
She moved quietly, glancing around corners only to pause.
Everyone in this place was dressed differently. Even with the fabrics she’d taken to cover her son and her own clothes, it didn’t provide an inconspicuous enough look to get passed these people. Someone would frown. She might be insulting as well.
Ur wiggled, beginning to wrinkle his nose.
“I’ll set you down for a moment,” Hakuno whispered.
Just a moment. She needed to think.
If she had been given more time, she could have finagled an outfit in Chaldea. These people were big on robes and dresses. She could have managed that. The rooms that she’d seen were a gamble. If she found something that was ceremonial or one in a million, she could be charged with theft.
That was dangerous.
What to do…
“Ur…”
Hakuno looked down only to feel her face drain.
Ur was gone.
No- No, he was waddling. Balanced on his two feet and walking in an almost dangerous manner, he was already around the corner and heading to where the people were. He must have thought this was Chaldea. He was used to the pharaohs and the knights, people who would coo and praise him just at being present.
The Uruk people turned and paused. A few women gasped, the guards that were there were staring at the boy as his golden hair gleamed.
He must have seen something interesting, Hakuno thought in horror, finding her son hustling his pace to get into that audience chamber.
“Ur!”
Hakuno rushed after him, stumbling around people and into the room.
She caught her boy a third into the room, wrapping her arms around him and holding him close. Her lips pressed against his face, earning a soft whine before the boy simply cuddled against her.
“You didn’t tell me that you were starting to walk,” Hakuno complained gently. “You’re going to give me a heart attack.”
“Ummumm…”
“Shhh, we need to leave.”
This was foolish. She could find Gudako first, explain, and maybe she would help. Her son being here was a bad plan. Mash and the others could watch him for a moment, couldn’t they?
Somehow, that didn’t feel possible.
“Ummum!”
“What is it?” Hakuno looked down at the boy. “What’s wrong?”
“Umm,” the boy waved his hand in another direction as someone cleared their throat.
Her gaze followed that hand, all the way to the man sitting on the throne.
Adorned in few and far between attire, a man of blond hair sat in the center of the seat. His legs were both pressed to the floor, his body leaning forward. The turban on his head held two horns that gleamed slightly in the light. The gold necklace bore chains that held onto his vest, no doubt there due to needing to keep him dressed. His pants held holes and his chest was exposed, leaving little to the imagination.
It was the gaze that held the most of her attention though.
That piercing red gaze was like a snake’s, looking between her and Ur. It froze her to the bone, leaving her unable to speak as her son looked back over to him.
“…What is this?”
I know that voice.
Her whole body hurt. Something was making her head feel like it was suffering through a deep migraine or trying to split in two. She wanted to run. She needed to run.
Ur beamed up at the man, waving his arms both in the man’s direction.
“Ah-bum!”
The room couldn’t have gotten any quieter at Ur’s statement.
Before her, the man at the top of all those stairs in that throne simply watched, not daring to even blink.
“HAKUNO!”
The sound of running came her way. Mash’s face blocking her view of the king. She could feel Ur slip from her grip as she found Gudako trying to speak. She tried to grab the boy, but he was crawling towards the stairs, stairs were a pair of slippered feet were walking down.
“Chaldeans!”
The man’s voice was all over the place. Her mind felt like it was in a spin cycle.
“This… is different from what I had foreseen…”
“I don’t understand what’s going on either, my king.” Another’s voice spoke up, closer to her.
“My friend ended up coming with us by mistake. We’ll send her and the boy back quickly.”
“Oh?”
She was fading out. Her eyes looked up as the man from before lingered over her, holding Ur against his chest.
“…Your woman is not going anywhere,” the man told them all simply. “I do believe Merlin and your groups have brought me something of merit. It’s a shame the timing is so poor.”
Her eyes closed.
The last thing she heard was that man’s voice calling for an apsu, the magician doctors.
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Dating Peter Parker would include:
So how you met was actually through Aunt May. Your parents and Aunt May had been neighbours for years
And a lot of the time they go on business trips or they work late. So they trust May to check up on you and make sure you’re not dead
One night when your parents were out of town. Aunt May invited you over for dinner and to watch some movies.
Peter and Ned had ‘gone out’ together building Lego millennium falcon so it was just you and May.
Let’s be real spiderboi probably has had a crush on you since he first saw you and vice versa.
So you were very surprised when Peter came back home early. And you’re literally stuffing your face with pizza and sitting on the couch with sweats on and hair in a messy bun
He’d probably try and act cool but end up tripping over his own feet and landing flat on his face.
”you look um wow, you l-look p-pretty (Y/N)”
*chokes on pizza*
Aunt May automatically saw the romantic tension and started planning a way to get you both together.
After that night. She’d purposely start inviting you round more and then conveniently go and do some errands.
”oh shoot, I need to go to the store quickly.”
”Wait May you’ve been 4 times in the last 3 days?”
”I nEeD MiLk”
eventually you’d start walking to school together and waiting for eachother
You’d definitely fall into a routine where you take turns to make each other a morning cup of coffee or a cup of tea.
At school you’d probably keep to yourself and sort of keep to the shadows.
but God save the person who makes fun of Peter *cough*Flash*cough*”
PeNiSs PaRkEr”
”Flash shut the fuck up, acting like a dick isn’t going to magically make your tiny one any bigger”
Peter had to restrain you on more than one occasion.
Tutor!peter
You found out that Peter was spider man when you nearly got mugged in a back ally after walking back from a shitty date with someone in your Spanish class.
”you’re safe now (Y/N), I’m going to protect you. I’m right here.”
”how the fuck do know my name?”
umMumM LucKy GuEsS
PeTeR wHaT tHe HeLL?!
PEtEr WhO iS tHis PeTer YoU sPeAk Of?!
So after the “incident” you find yourself covering for him more and more whether its at school or to aunt may.
He ends up swinging through your window at like 2:30am when he got injured in some knife fight.
“What the hell happened?”
It’s nothing I just got lightly stabbed...”
WHAT DO YOU MEAN LIGHTLY STABBED?!?!?
being the amazing girlfriend you are you stitch him up and look after him until he feels a bit better
Peter has 100% accidentally seen you get undressed or getting changed
Blushy Boi ensues
But he enjoyed it lets be real
Your first kiss OOOOOOOOOF
you were jealous of Liz and you kept hearing her say that she fancied spiderman.
probs made it worse because lets face it Liz Allen is smart, pretty and nice to everyone.
And you had to listen to Ned go on and on about how cute she and Peter would be. Yikes
And you just snapped
you stormed out of the cafeteria and just went home, angry tears streaming down your face. Because shit you’re never going to be “good enough” are you?
You run into May when you were running up the stairs ad despite May’s confused and well meaning questions it just fueled your need to cry in bed.
You didn’t go back to school for a while after that.
your parents pulled some strings and you were allowed to do your schoolwork at home instead
Your visits to Peter’s and Aunt May became less frequent and you started to dwindle when it came to self care
Sometimes you locked the latch on your window so Peter couldnt get in, other times you’d just close the curtains.
This went on for about a month before Peter snapped and came through the window.
Even though you were sad and pissed you still went into nurse Y/N mode.
“What’s wrong, where does it hurt?!”
he just stuck out his bottom lip and pulled a puppy dog face, while pointing to his chest.
“My heart hurts Y/N/N, but there’s only one way to make it better...”
*CUE COMPLETELY FLUFFY AND CLICHE KISS HERE*
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