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#when i used to do martial arts- during our free or break time- i would take of my Eri and practice with only my training bra-
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More art of Commoner Knight Tani (OC) for Nimona:
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Hello!!! Thank you for the questions! Have some in return friend!
1,4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 17, 18, 22, 26, 29, 33, 37, 39, 51, 50, 67, 68! I hope your day is happy and stress free!!!!!
Greetings! :-D
1: In general I like most doing sports, so my most favorite activity is inline-skating.
I literally skate for a whole day if possible, for over eight hours, resulting in over 80 kilometers (49,71 miles), including breaks for eating, refreshing and embracing the landscape.
4: I appreciate, like most, favor and whatever, love sliced potatoes with scrambled eggs, bacon and red onions.
It does not really need to be seasoned, but I do not mind either.
And when it comes to fast food (but got damn expensive since last year) my favorite meal is “Döner”, or Shawarma if you may, yet here these are two different things.
It is some thin, white bread, a sauce of your choice (garlic, chili or herb), chicken or cow meat and salad. (You may get cheese and other stuff for an extra charge.)
So mine would be herb sauce, recently rather chicken, cabbage, red cabbage, red onions, tomatoes and corn.
5: I feel like throwing up just by looking at “blood sausage” as a meat-thingy. Children kindly refer to that meal as „tote Oma“, which is “dead grandma” in English.
It stinks, looks like cow dung and perhaps tastes alike.
I have no clue how people came up with that “meal”… (and continued eating it)
6: Hell yeah I got idols! (Oppose to apparently everybody else…)
I always idealized Vin Diesel’s body ?aestique? (his trained looking), would have loved to look like him and found out not so long ago his character is even a very charming one as well.
I would love to meet Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson one day, but would probably knock out of conscious out of excitement if Jackie Chan should ever stand in front of me. :-D
Ever since I was a boy (and only then of course… *cough**cough* {°, °} {° ,°} {°, °} ) I loved every single movie by him and took them as teaching me in martial arts. :-D [Which surprisingly really worked! It has been a while since I last had a fight, but no matter who tried, no one could beat me. Not even groups of ten dudes. {^,^} ]
Oh, Batman and Spider-Man as well of course!
9: Yes, I learned accordion for four years and guitar lessons for two years, which sadly do not count because due to too few pupils we only did “Lady in black” two years straight. -_-
But nevertheless I was able to write my own note sheets, even wrote two symphonies and was able to convert the songs from “The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time”, which Link has to play to achive certain things, obto real notes and either play them on keys or try my luck with my own ocarina. (But I was nowhere allowed to practice the ocarina since it is both loud and counts as flute, so quite pitchy…)
10: Actually I only took the accordion lessons because all of my friends back then were there and I was literally the only one left in ?day care? (Something like kindergarten but for free lessons during primary school).
And I would love knowing how to play drums!
17: I think/believe there are various forms of aliens out there;
Maybe one species is made out of liquid elements and can only build a certain form/posture.
One species maybe looks a lot like from “Alien vs. Predator”.
One may look like the ones from “Jimmy Neutron” and “The Simpson’s”.
One may even look a lot like us but perhaps different skin tone, an eye more and telepathic skills.
Who knows?
But I find it very very hard to believe we are the only creatures in this literally endless and big, big, BIG universe with millions of millions of solar systems, stars and planets.
18: I picture time traveling as as long as you do not interact with ANYTHING, no outcome will change.
As long as you just watch and do nothing else, things will be as we know them.
But on the other hand, the paradoxon says the outcome can not be changed, for it knows you were there in the future to travel back in time, so maybe only our perception changes. [mind blown]
I find movies with that topic and the topic itself very interesting. :-D
22: My most favorite movie is “Forrest Gump”, but I have to say “The Mitchell’s vs. the Machines” are worthy of that title as well.
(Both may or may not be a movie, that may or may not make this man shed a tear or two (or more) (or not)… *cough* ) x-D
26: YES, I am indeed a (very) crafty person!
Of course I am not the absolute best in it, but I can do A LOT of work with wood.
I was raised on farm (more or less), therefore know how to repair and build things, was a roofer for a few years until my accident last year and build several things alone (or one person helping) like a foldable table, an alike-bookshelf for my shoes, bags and stuff and a cabin/small shack.
29: Most good memories I have are from being outside with my inline-skates and perhaps my once best buddy.
We did many many tours with and without destination, took a few trips including camping and saw so SO many beautiful landscapes!
One favorite landscape of mine was the black asphalt road underneath us, a tree line in front of us, a forest behind us, a green field behind that tree line and another brown and green forest behind that, with a blue sky and the sun to our right.
(And of course dozens of stupid things I did and perhaps convinced my pals or sister to do too. ;-D )
The most sweetest memory I have is my sister (nine years younger than me) falling asleep in my arms and shoulder in my tree house (BIG hammock-alike with roof, mosquito net and more).
33: Oh boy…
You really want to ask me where I see myself in the future???
Hopefully burned to ashes long ago.
Literally.
But since you probably want to hear a “nice” answer:
Having a wife, two kids (at least one daughter please), a house of our own, a little yard and a job that does pay well enough so I can stop worrying about money problems.
37: People know me as being the fun-guy, the entertainer. Also as the animal-guy.
I am really good with children, am a lot like Dr.Dolittle and can always come up with fun things to do.
I can organize (big) parties, I can cheer up folk, I sense really well what music is demanded right now and I can come up with games even with nothing but a stick.
39: Sports! :-D
Could be 5am, could be evening, could be JUST after eating, …: I always want to be active, do things, run around, climb, whatever.
Of course I can and enjoy cuddling or playing video games as well, but if you ask me whether going outside or laying around??? Pretty sure it is going outside.
50: I HATE alcohol!!!
If you want to ban weed, ban alcohol just as well! (I do not smoke.)
People lose their sense of everything, can not remember sh*t afterwards, feel sick the next day, lose control over themselves and some lose their self completely.
I do not mind people drinking, but I hate seeing what it does to them.
And the phrase “I need booze to loosen up.” is bullsh*t just as well.
Perhaps you are just with the wrong group of people then - ever thought about that?!?
51: I would choose to live in China (although my Mandarin got really bad by now…), in a village far far away from town.
I would work all-day and be enjoying the peace and the sun.
67: Team Marvel, but Batman is an absolute must!
(And I do not know any recent Marvel-Movies.
The most recent one for me is Iron Man 3.
So no, I have not seen any “Avengers” movie, sadly.)
68: I always find that question difficult to answer since I like the physical aspects of a werewolf pleasing, but like the æsthetique of a vampire more.
(I felt VERY connected to that ???Niklaus??? dude from “The Vampire Diaries”, if you watched that show. … Due to obvious reasons…)
Thanks for askings!
Thanks, to you too!
And sorry for writing almost a book. :-P
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What are YOUR training objectives for the upcoming year?
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Sure, this is the sort of click-bait title you expected to see along with a flurry of "new year new you" self-improvement e-mails the moment January 1st rolls around. Well, the joke is on you because you can begin a new year of training any time you want. 
In this post I'll break down my own approach to answering the titular question.
We all have different reasons for coming to the fencing hall and a variety of ambitions that result in our sticking around. As a teacher at Gotham Swords I want to do my part in helping everyone achieve their goals. 
Want to incorporate more cardio? 
Get more into free-play fencing?
Sharpen your skills for an upcoming competition?
Don’t hesitate to reach out to your teacher(s) or me directly via e-mail or Discord [peterjhaas#7618] and let us know what you’re aiming to do this year — we’ll work together to make a plan! 
Introspection
It would be unfitting of me to ask everyone to engage in this deeply personal exercise without participating in it myself...
My goals this year are:
Work towards being more concise in my teaching
Be more analytical and reflective of my personal time in the fencing hall.
Work on the "openings" I'm creating and consider more often "the etiquette of the heart".
Some of this likely comes off as a little vague, so here, without much filter is the motivation: 
My earnest study of martial arts began amid a difficult period of my life. The ability to focus on training helped me bare the misery I was experiencing at the time.  During this period I trained with a mindset geared towards competition. However, the ensuing years have substantially challenged that approach. I will speak to some of the details in a later post, but for an assortment of reasons I have reached a point in which tournaments have become difficult to attend.
Yet, I still train every day.
Why? Because I believe there is something deeper and more meaningful to the art of swordplay. I will address it in greater detail in a later post, but to paraphrase one-a-many coaching books: It's an internal game as much as it is external. There is a formal etiquette and approach to what we do in our fencing hall, but there is also “the etiquette of the heart,” which is to approach swordplay with an open and frank attitude with the aim of self-improvement.
I wanted to share this, admittedly extensive quote from Hiroshi Ozawa Sensei, which I believe sums up the sentiment pretty well:
"Swordplay involves putting on your uniform and practicing with a partner. The relationship between you and your partner may be thought of as one in which each person discovers their own particular weak points through an exchange of strikes and thrusts. When you receive a strike, it should make you aware that you have a weak spot in that particular place.
Being on the receiving end of a strike, however, will inevitably make you feel disappointed and consequently practice can turn quite rough. As a result, more openings to attacks will appear, causing you even more problems and leaving you open to even more strikes. You must always take care that this does not happen. Paradoxically, successful swordplay depends on your ability to keep up a fighting spirit while continually showing appropriate respect to your partner. Your swordplay will become very unbalanced if one of these complementary elements is missing. Observance of etiquette helps you make the most of practice, and find the beauty in fencing. When you receive a strike, it is because there is an opening. You opponent draws your attention to your weak spots, and you endeavor to ensure that you do not receive a strike in the same place again. Through endless repetition and practice, the openings will gradually disappear. No one can ever rest on their laurels, however, even when they have reached the top level: because in swordplay there is always unlimited room for improvement."
Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on the Langes Messer Blog in February.
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#phantom bodies
This piece is titled "breaking free".
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The sculture was an motivational and inspirational piece. I wanted to create something that would inspire, strengthen, and inform the audience. The piece titled "breaking free" was a culmination of the difficulties I faced during this semester and the challenges I had to overcome throughout this year and the year before. This was also a look into a portion of my life during the times I trained martial arts. Throughout this year and the the following years before I had hardships that allowed me to search within and find myself within a better state of mind and understand. This semester was tough though. Given the fact that I work two jobs and manage four classes as a full time student, made it hard for me to get each assignment accomplished. This sculpture class was probably the most challenging since the assignments required me to go outside my boundaries and do extra for each assignment. I wanted the viewers to relate to the idea of combat. This life in general is a fight. Much like my previous pieces, this sculpture will relate to anyone, even if you dont think your a "fighter" per say. The fact is that you are fighter! And every day its the fight of your life! Each and every time your given the chance to wake up and breath another breath for another day is a blessing from a higher power! like a coach telling you to wake up after a knock down or an encouraging push from an exciting execution on the opponent. to accumulate a meaning behind the image. The black gi is a representation of a person's self-awareness. the knowing of our jealousy, hatred, love, compassion, fears and the acknowledgement of the thing we cant see in ourselves. the white belt represents the new experiences someone faces when given opportunities, responsibilities, and challenges. the head gear is the knowledge of one's surroundings and the means we use to protect ourselves from our insecurities. The gym bag is the manifestation of the baggage we carry because of our traumas from our experiences with others and ourselves. The fists from the plaster assignment represents our abilities to overcome these obstacles and the mastery of oneself. thus, the color of bronze/ goldish color and the damage seen on the fists. It shows the trials, the tribulations, the patience needed to step into the cage we are held inside in our lives and fight the opposition!
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A Failed Betrothal (5)
This is going to be the last part I am going to post in a while. My school is finally starting up again and I am sure to be swamped with homework. Without further ado. Enjoy ❤
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Damian laid in bed, thinking about the recent turn of events. Lady, who told them that they can call her Marinette since they might as well get acquainted while the Waynes were in Paris. She had found out Jason’s identity after a few google searches and by extension, the rest of the Bats while they both were taking a shower. It had taken a few arguments and one sentimonster attack that cut one of the arguments short to trust the Dupain-Chengs with their secret identities. His bride was apparently a superhero too. Has been for a few years. In a different world, he might have actually dated her out of his own free will and fought crime with her together.
Damian shook his head at that thought.
That was the curse talking. Get a hold of yourself, Wayne. Resist. Don’t think about Marinette and her blue eyes.
Back to the akumas, Paris had been under the control of a magical terrorist for years. Lady Noire, formerly known as Ladybug, formed a team to battle against him. He also found out about the Guardian who chose Marinette and someone else, who wasn’t spoken about much except that his name was Chat Noir and she now wields his ring temporarily, to fight against Hawkmoth as partners. The same Guardian that promised her hand-in-marriage in exchange for protection from the League of Assassins. Sabine, the Blue Reaper, had to be restrained from killing the old amnesiatic man by her bear of a husband who was reluctant to do so and also wanted to help her.
Hawkmoth also had a partner who went by the name, Mayura, with a power similar to his and could create sentimonster out of negative emotions. Their top suspect was Gabriel Agreste, with much evidence pointing his way but they had difficulty trying to confirm it and had the time to gather evidence to do it. The local authorities were helpful but getting a search warrant for a famous, rich designer who was a known recluse with circumstantial evidence is not possible.
After informing their father of their kidnapping and the situation in Paris (and racking up the Dupain-Cheng's phone bill), they were told to stay there and help as much as they can. Tim, who was coming to Paris for a vacation (suspicious), got his plans hijacked and was now going to help uncover Hawkmoth’s identity.
When the Justice League had reached out a few years ago, they were rebuffed by the Mayor. Nightrunner got into contact with the one of the heroes, Ladybug who asked for a meeting outside of Paris with Wonder Woman and Batman came along, to assess her. They didn’t expect a young girl to be Paris’s heroine.
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3 years ago…
“Bonjour, Princess Diana of Themyscira, daughter of Hippolayta, it is an honour to meet you. And you too, Batman.” The spotted heroine greeted both of them with Nightrunner besides her. Their meeting point was in the gardens in the Palace of Versailles.
“The pleasure is all mine, Ladybug. But I am confused as to why you have refused the Justice League’s help.” Wonder Woman was worried that the Ladybug Miraculous was active again and for many good reasons.
“I would be glad for some help but Paris is run by an incompetent fool. He wants no one outside of Paris to think that the city is unsafe due to Hawkmoth and keep the tourism numbers high. The other reason is that my Miraculous Cure can restore any physical damages done during a fight and involving you might result in more damages than I could cure. But I also think it would be better if there were less powerful heroes in Paris, akumas amplifies one’s power and I don’t want to fight you after you had a bad day.” Ladybug explained. Nightrunner murmured in agreement.
“Do you know how Hawkmoth operates?” asked Batman. He had read reports of the situation but wondered the true extent of it.
“Have Wonder Woman explained to you about the Miraculous?”
He nodded.
“Hawkmoth has the butterfly miraculous, and it has the power of transmission. In the right hands, they would be used to grant ordinary people powers as the user’s champions. But in the hands of Hawkmoth, he targets people with high negative emotions, a girl after a bad break-up or a student with a failed grade. He grants them powers to use for revenge or some obscure version of justice. In return, he asks for mine and Chat Noir’s miraculous. With our two miraculous, he can make a wish but wishes always come with a price so it is best if we keep it out of his reach.”
“How have you not captured him yet?”
“Hawkmoth is a coward who rarely comes out to face us. I have never met him face-to-face. He uses people to get what he wants. Not very honourable. The Mayor has refused to help my attempts to stop him or prevent more akumas because his bratty daughter isn’t given a Miraculous to be a hero. I don’t have the time or resources because I am still in school and have other obligations outside the suit. I can’t tell my family and ask for help because the Guardian’s ,the one who gave me the Miraculous in the first place, secret identities rule and some magic thing that makes me unable to tell them.”
The adults were all horrified at what the girl was going through.
“We could help in other ways. Not fight the akumas but provide you the resources to track down and capture him. Do you have any training? From the footage we have seen, you know martial arts and how to use some weapons.”
“I was raised in a forgotten temple somewhere in Asia with brutal training everyday before I ran away. I met someone on my way out who took me in and adopted me.” She said it seriously enough that they have no room for doubt.
“Batman, she just said she was adopted. She may have the features but the answer is no.” Wonder Woman said with a knowing look in her eyes.
“I wasn’t thinking about it. She has a duty to Paris right now and I am not going to take away from her life here. I don’t adopt every black-haired and blue-eyed child I see.” Batman denied.
“I am confused.” Ladybug said, tilting her head.
“Batman here has a bad habit of adopting kids with a tragic past, especially kids with black hair and blue eyes.” Nightrunner explained to his fellow Parisian hero.
“Well, Mousier, you will have to fight my parents for custody. While I have training, Chat Noir doesn’t and he hinders the battles with his ‘help’. I would give him some but he sees them as dates even though I have told him it’s not.”
“His incompetence is a liability. Why is he your partner?”
“The Guardian chose him too like he chose me through some stupid trial I somehow passed the requirements for. I am just hoping that there is a really good reason for choosing Chat Noir. I have some questions on how you are-”
“Ladybug, what are you doing?” A sharp voice cut in. An old man who appeared to be dressed as a tortoise landed in front of them.
“Master Fu, this is Princess Diana of Themyscira and the world’s greatest detective, Batman. I am asking for their help in finding Hawkmoth.” Ladybug explained, confused why Master Fu looked upset.
“Ladybug, that was extremely foolish of you. This is a matter of the Order. You shouldn’t have involved other heroes in it. We can resolve this on our own. I apologize on behalf of her for wasting your time.”
“But, Master-” “We will talk about this later, Ladybug. You are young and don’t understand things yet.”
“Guardian, with all due respect, my mother was a Ladybug wielder herself and the Amazons will lend a hand to any miraculous holders in need.”
“It is appreciated but Ladybug, Chat Noir and I can do it on our own. Come along, Ladybug.”
“Let me at least apologize for my mistake, Guardian.”
“Very well. Meet me later.”
“I am sorry but it looks like I have to fight Hawkmoth without your help. That being said please don’t try to look further into Hawkmoth’s identity and leave any notes of your leads in the mouth of the gargoyle on the northside of Notre Dame where I usually rest after I finish patrol. Salut, Princess Diana, Batman, Nightrunner.” She left using her yo-yo to swing away after giving them a wink.
Batman smirked. He had to give it to Ladybug, she was clever and resourceful and Diana was right, he wanted to adopt her.
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Present time…
(Words in bold are French)
Now that the previous Guardian was out of the picture, the Miraculous team would gladly accept any help they can get.
Damian and Jason had picked up Tim from the airport and they had already set things up in one of the Wayne penthouses in Paris. Less chance of nosy maids than in a hotel.
Bilal had already handed over all the evidence he could find. He was also one of the Miraculous team’s trainers when Sabine couldn’t make it. Jason and Damian were going to help in training and be back-up heroes when needed. (Bilal wore a miraculous once to help out. And that one time was weird enough to last him a lifetime and he was never doing it again.)
Sadly, all the magic users who were allies or part of the JL were busy with other missions or MIA so they couldn’t break Damian’s curse yet. Bruce didn’t see the problem with the curse so unless it causes major problems or someone is free to break it. They couldn’t go back to Gotham until they got the necessary things in order so it looks like they were going to be in Paris for a while.
The next morning, Tim was nowhere to be found. Because they were paranoid Batboys, they tracked his phone to see him at the Dupain-Cheng’s bakery with Marinette and a group of other people, having breakfast.
“There you are, Replacement.” Jason shouted as he entered the bakery, “So, this is where you were? I see you have already figured out who Ladybug is and met her.”
Marinette looked at Damian and Jason, then at Tim and back at them again.
Oh.
Oh.
She face-palmed as she connected the dots and realized what the nagging feeling she had around Tim was about.
“Oh my Kwamis, you are Tim Drake, adopted by Bruce Wayne aka Batman. Jason and Damian are your brothers. And judging by your build, you are Red Robin. I feel so stupid.”
Thankfully, there were no customers around yet to hear some of the world’s most important secrets being out.
“I am- We are not- Bruce isn’t- How?! How the hell did you find out? And you are Ladybug?!” Tim was floundering at Marinette’s words and the caffeine from his first coffee of the day hadn’t kicked in yet. He looked at her friends, who were looking at the Wayne boys with shocked expressions….and looked similar to the rest of the Miraculous Team.
The caffeine finally kicked in.
“Oh my God. I was talking to the entire Miraculous Team and I didn’t know it. That means Chloe Bourgeois is a hero. That bratty blonde I met as a child is a hero.”
“Speak for yourself, Timothy, my childhood friend is a hero too. I can’t believe we are all heroes.” Chloe said in total disbelief.
Introductions and alter egos were exchanged.
Nearly everything went swimmingly if it weren’t for Chloe jokingly elbowed Marinette and said, “You get to date a hero too. No need to worry about flaking out on dates.”
“What do you mean dates? Dupain-Cheng and I aren’t dating.” Damian said, “My mother wanted us to marry each other, not date.”
“Mari, looks like you need some explaining to do.”
Marinette gave the short story on how she met Damian and Jason.
“So you guys are absolutely not dating? Cool. Tim, are you still open to being Mari-bug's fake boyfriend?” Chloe asked. Tim looked at her incredulously.
“You called me all the way here to fake-date your friend. Why? Not that I am complaining about her or anything.” “There is this boy in our class, Adrien Agreste and he has a little obsession with Marinette.” Chloe explained. “Romantic Soulmates.” Nathaniel chimed in, doing air-quotes.
“So I volunteered on your behalf to be my best friend’s long-distance boyfriend in America who has video-call dates with her once a week. You are going to have little romantic dates coincidently where our classmates are going to be, especially Adrien. It might put him off from pursuing Marinette for a while. After you leave, we are just to mention you every now and then to prevent him from getting any ideas.”
Damian felt a hot, burning sensation in his chest and clenched his jaw at the thought of Marin- Dupain-Cheng holding hands, cuddling and doing all those romantic actions with Drake of all people. (No, he wasn’t jealous. Not at all. Don’t be stupid. )
“Tch, Drake is going to be busy trying to find Hawkmoth. He can’t go around Paris, being Dupain-Cheng’s boyfriend. Besides, he can’t be a proper boyfriend even in his most lucid moments. I will be her boyfriend instead.”
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(PART 6)
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honeyatsu · 3 years
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Loner (Junpei x f!reader) 2
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Warnings: whole lotta fluff. y/n being dense lmao.
summary: Junpei was suspicious of you. He always felt the world was filled with people who were naturally evil in some way, until you came into his life and challenged his theory.
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a/n: updates gonna be slow from now on until the semester is over!
Tatsu ramen wasn’t too far from the school grounds, taking your time walking would consist of a light fifteen minutes. The sun would be setting by the time you and Junpei would make your way to the restaurant, the streets being busy with those walking home after a long day. Tatsu ramen would never be too busy with the time you two went considering it was often school days that you two would go and eat after school hours and (sometimes) do homework. The two of you have become all too familiar with the place, the dim-lit yellow walls and red booths become a place of comfort, a place to rest and ease down after a long day of classes and spending time at your clubs.
Within a month, it was a routine for you two. After finishing your club activities, you would always wait for Junpei outside of the school gates, usually playing with the hems of your uniformed skirt and smiling widely as you would see him walk towards you. The first time he saw you waiting he didn’t know it was for him, until you grabbed his wrist and dragged him to the same place you took him to the day before without warning.
It was more you who would go out of your way to look for him, noticing him at school a lot more since meeting him in class. He would often walk with head down, so you would run to him while shouting his name, hugging him from behind to grab his attention. Within the first two weeks of you latching yourself onto him with your presence, he just wanted to ask why. Why did you run from your friends to be with him? Why did you wait after school every day with him just to go and eat after? Why were you so persistent in being his friend?
He would often wonder why with you, but he never asked.
“This assignment is sooo hard, don’t wanna do it.” You sighed while laying your head on the table. You reached your hands out across, grabbing Junpei’s fingers and playing with them lightly. You didn’t miss the way his face heated up at your sudden display of contact. You smiled softly to yourself before saying, “You still get flustered when I touch you. Does it bother you? I can stop.”
You tried not to display a look of disappointment of your face, fearing his answer would be to ask you to stop. You figured after a month of friendship with him he’d be used to it, but you wanted to respect his boundaries and his body language continued to display discomfort whenever you would practically breath near him.
“It’s, uhm, it’s just….always so sudden.” He said averting his gaze to his bowl to avoid the smug look on your face. “Do you just casually touch all your friends like this?”
You didn’t want to admit this to yourself, but you’d be lying if you said his small display of jealous didn’t stroke your ego. That and the simple fact that for the first time in a month, he finally acknowledged you as his friend. That extremely small, and most likely unintentional vocal announcement of friendship was a firm pat in the back for you. With the surge of confidence overflowing, you made the bold (yet not out of character) move of removing your fingers from his, now holding a tight grip on his hand.
“Why? Does me touching my other friends like this bother you?” you teased at him as you rose your head from the table, giving him a subtle smirk.
He quickly removed his hand from yours, turning his head to the side trying to hide his flustered face from you, “I didn’t say that!” he exclaimed shakily.
Your hand that was once holding his shifted towards the chopsticks to the side, picking them up and bringing noodles closer to your face, “If you want, that can be our thing. You’re my favorite friend.” You said as you began to stuff ramen noodles in your mouth.
Junpei continued to avert his eyes, trying to look anywhere but at you.
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The monotoned lecture echoed throughout the classroom, the words going in one ear and out the other for the room of students struggling to pay attention. Heavy eyes could be mistaken as contagious for those who were fighting to not have their heads hit the desk, each and every student feeling the same internal battle of focusing on their sensei’s words.
You couldn’t keep your glittered purple pen from lightly hitting on the desk, every tap being used as a source of focus to help your heavy eyes stay open. Your foot followed the rhythem of the pen, you felt as if you had to keep moving, had to have something going on other than the mundane voice of the lecturer in the front of the room.
“…and now class, time for a break.”
You sighed in relief as you plopped your head onto Junpei’s shoulder, his body stiffened for a few seconds before relaxing, he was still getting used to your constant physical displays of affection.
Junpei waited to hear your voice seep through his ears, usually when breaks occur during class you take the ten minutes of free time to talk Junpei’s ear off. After all this time, it took you to start a conversation and carry it as well.
The silence was now unfamiliar, sitting with you he became accustomed to regular conversations. He used to crave silence, most words directed towards him stung, but with you he was looking forward to it. Before he was able to ask if you were okay, he noticed you begin to nod off to sleep, until in a split second your eyes perked up when you noticed a movie poster sticking out of his notebook. Your hands slowly dragged it out of the book as you stared at it, it was a “Scream” movie poster.
His shoulder was free from the weight of your head, staring at you curiously as you grabbed his notebook and placed it on the opposite side of where he was sitting, writing in it with your head laying down facing the other side of the desk. He couldn’t see what you were doing, shuffling awkwardly in his sit waiting to figure out what to anticipate from you next.
Within seven minutes, you turned to him with a wide grin plastered onto your face.
“Ta-da!”
He looked down at the paper you slid to his side of the desk and saw a very detailed drawing of ghostface. It was the signature pose, his dark cloak covering his body, holding onto the bloody knife raised before he was prepared to slaughter his next victim. His drawn mask didn’t miss any shadows, even the small texture was visible in your quick sketch.
“I didn’t know you could draw!” Junpei said excitedly, mouth agape as he grabbed the picture with both hands, his eyes widened in awe, “Are you in art club?”
“No, I wish. I take advanced art as a class though. I’m in the athletic club department. I’ve done martial arts and gymnastics my entire childhood.” You brought up your arm and flexed your muscles. “Feel them, I’m pretty strong.” You said with a grin.
Pretty strong would be an understatement, Junpei thought to himself. He brought his hand and gripped onto your bicep, gasping once you flexed to show him you indeed were strong, your muscles putting his slightly-skinny ones to shame.
“I’m pretty strong compared to you, Junpei.” He winced at your comment, about to make his first slick remark towards you until –
“That just means I get to be your knight and shining armor then.”
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Avoiding the pleas of your friends to stay with them, you finally managed to escape the group in search for Junpei. Bumping into other classmates, hovering over lunch tables, even going to more isolated areas of the lunch room, he was still out of sight for you. You gripped your lunch box tightly in frustration, just how hard was it to find the one person in your school that had such a distinct look? You cursed yourself, after a month of friendship and spending the amount of time you did outside of school, you still never managed to get his number.
On a whim you decided to step outside, the cool October breeze catching you by surprise. The autumn trees displaying colors of yellow, orange, red, and purple were the perfect scenario for those school couples wanting to be away from the rest of the school, you knew this. Yet, it was such an embarrassing surprise when every step you would take you would come in a – very awkward -encounter with a couple, whether cuddling or making out, you’d just turn on your heel and act as if you didn’t see a thing at all.
You scolded yourself for even considering looking outside, knowing Junpei he’d be a flustered mess even being near these couples. You didn’t know who his friends outside of you were, so there was no way of you going to ask where he could be for lunch, and you were on the verge of giving up and going back to your group. While taking a detour walking the long way back to the cafeteria entrance, you noticed a boy sitting on a bench under a tree close to one of the classroom windows, a familiar overlapping bang covering the ride side of his face. You grinned to yourself before making your way – of course he’d be in the most isolated place in the whole school.
You ran to him, frantically waving and shouting his name before he finally looked up, giving you a small smile and wave back. Once you got there, you plopped next to him as you let out a deep breath and laid your head on his shoulder.
This time he didn’t flinch.
“What do your friends think?”
“hm?”
“You’re always ditching them for me….” Junpei replied sheepishly as he turned his head to the other side.
“Hey.” You said ignoring his statement, you pulled out your airpods and put one in your ear and one in his. “Give me your number.” You said handing your phone to him.
After he added himself as a contact to your phone, he noticed you quickly send him a link before you quickly snatched his phone from his hand, saving your contact as ‘y/n <3’.
“I made you something.” You said before sending him a link. He checked his phone and the message read, ‘For Junpei.’ With a red heart next to it. “It was a bunch of songs I liked, and I thought you’d like them too. And songs that made me think of you. Let’s listen to some together.”
You were about to hit play before you heard him sniffling next to you. You didn’t miss the tear drop that fell on top of his screen that he was staring at intensely. He had a small smile and blush on his face. Instinctively, you took out a handkerchief that was in your school uniform pocket and bringing it up to him, wiping his slight tear-stained face as he was gliding his fingers through the screen softly. “Are you okay?”
“No one’s ever really...gotten me anything.…let alone made me something.”
A slight frown developed on your face as he continued to stare at the screen in awe, finally beginning to scroll through the songs you’ve chosen to compile together for him. Once his cheeks were no longer tear stained you went back to your original position, sneaking your hand on top of his, squeezing it to grab his attention. He slowly looked to the side to face you, eyes shifting from you and the screen.
“I guess this makes me your best friend.”
He smiles and nods at you, “Yeah, you’re my best friend y/n.”
Your eyes widened at the statement; your breath became rigid as you quickly averted your eyes to the ground. You brought your knees closer to you, wrapping your arms around them and laying your head on top of your knees. Junpei chuckled to himself, he never thought he’d be the one to finally make you flustered.
“Start with Frank Oceans songs.” You said in almost a whisper “I think you’ll like them.”
He started to play the music, sitting back against the tree, bringing his arm around your shoulder and pulling you closer to him.
Ba-dum, ba-dum, ba-dum.
It felt as if a drum was going through steady rhythm in your chest. The blood flow rushed to the tip of your fingers, your pulse feeling like a wave flowing throughout your body. His hug triggered a rush of adrenaline that shot through you like a drug. Taking three deep breathes you tried your best to compose yourself, finally lifting your heard from your knees to see him. His head was laid against the tree, eyes closed listening to the song that was playing.
The roles finally reversed, Junpei finding peace with his hold on you yet you couldn’t help but feel a nervous wreck at the situation at hand. You wanted to feel comfortable, you wanted to engulf yourself in the music just as he’s doing but for some reason unknown to you, you were just so damn nervous.
Finally bringing your knees down, you looked up at Junpei seeing a relaxed smile on his face, eyes still closed before he opened one after feeling you move around. He gave a slight smirk before closing his eyes again, not letting his grip on you go. Breathless, you couldn’t find it in yourself to relax in that moment, he’s never made that kind of face to you before nor has he ever looked that confident.
Twiddling your thumbs and avoiding looking at his face, you felt a slight guilt creep up on you. Junpei, your now declared best friend, finally looks confident and finally feels comfortable with you, so why did you feel so weird? You remember when you met him, he was easily embarrassed and insecure, even you could tell that, and you’ve just met him. He finally shows a bit of confidence and you felt a foreign feeling – your heart racing, palms sweating, feeling heat flow through your body, what reason did you have to feel so nervous about someone you were so used to be around, unless –
Oh.
Before you let yourself finish that thought, your eyes caught another movie poster sticking out from him bag. Seeing this as your chance to ruin this movement, you quickly reached over him, causing him to jump, as you took out the poster sticking out of his bag.
'Killer Klowns From Outter Space’.
“You’re a big fan of movies, aren’t you?” You said as you hesitantly looked him in the eye. Just because you were a nervous wreck internally doesn’t mean you had to act on it, you thought to yourself.
He gave you a closed eye smile before responding, “Yeah, are you? Do you like horror movies?”
“mmm, no. not really. My mom hates this movie actually. You should invite me over, then we could watch movies together.” You grinned noticing the blush form onto his face before he stuttered out an “okay.”
Finally, the roles going back to how they should be.
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Your ankle continued throbbing as you dragged yourself through the empty halls of your school. The halls that during the day are filled with laughter and voices became eerily quiet at this time of the day. Everyone occupied in their club activities there was no room for useless roaming within the halls.
Wincing in pain, you begin to regret saying you didn’t need help going to and from the nurse’s office. During cheer practice you fell from the top of the pyramid, hurting your ankles as you fell roughly onto the mat. ‘You’re lucky you didn’t twist your ankle, just rest and it should be fine in a few days.’ The nurse told you. The feeling of your pulsating ankle and how every step felt like needles seeping through your skin, you had a tough time believing that statement.
You began to regret taking the long way back to the club room, wanting to take a detour of the halls before having to be forced to sit and watch your club members until the end of practice, until you heard a voice that was all too familiar with you now.
Sneaking to the door labeled ‘movie club’ where the noise was coming from, you opened it slightly while peeking your head through it. In it, you saw a very excited Junpei speaking to two other boys. He was going on about the complexities of a plot to one of his favorite horror films, The Conjuring, you were guessing based on the plot, but you couldn’t be too sure, you hated horror films.
Then you saw it. His eyes bright with pleasure and contentment, the most genuine wide smile you’ve seen him wear since the moment you’ve met him. You couldn’t pass this up, you quickly brought your phone up and snapped a picture of Junpei smiling. You wanted to snap the picture and make your way back to your club, giving Junpei some free time from you and enjoy the first moment you’ve seen of him and his friends outside of you.
But this was you, and with your luck the flash from your phone was on and caught the attention of the three boys in the room. As all eyes made their way to the door you sheepishly opened it, giving a guilty smile followed by a small giggle.
“Junpei!” you said cheerily to mask the embarrassment you were facing at the moment. “Movie club, huh? It makes sense, you do love your movies.”
“(y/n), what…what are you doing..here..and did you just..did you just – ”
“Sorryyyy” you whined as you made your way to the table they were all seated at, pulling out a chair for yourself, “You just looked so happy! I don’t even think I’ve seen you that excited to talk to me. I wanted to remember that face, you should show it more.” You gushed out.
That caused a gasp from the two club members sitting at each side of you and a frantically embarrassed Junpei.
“Junpei, how do you know (y/n)?” the one with glasses asked shamelessly. His face was familiar, you couldn’t help but intensively stare at him, ignoring the blush on his face due to your gaze.
“You’ve been to my tournaments?” You asked, recalling seeing him in the stands holding a sign with your school name on it. All he could do was gulp and nod as you backed up from him, “thanks for your support!” you chirped.
“You told me you did martial arts….” Junpei tried not to stare at you, your uniform hugging your body tightly. The way your skirt was risen up due to the sitting position and how your top squeezed your chest, it left little to the imagination and Junpei didn’t want to feel like he was disrespecting you. He knew it was just a uniform, but the way it complimented your body, the way your hair was styled for the uniform, along with the sweat from your forehead that was dripping...the sight in front of him was dangerous, you were dangerous.
“Yeah and I got bored. This year I wanted art club, but my mom said my future would be more promising if I stayed in the athletic department.” You explained, “So I decided the sport with the cutest uniform. Don’t you think I look cute, Jun-pei?” you said batting your eyelashes at him, hoping he would look at you the way his club members were. His club members gasped at you of all people flirting with their club president, and all Junpei could do was nod his head as he glanced at you for a second, quickly switching his view from you to the movie he was holding on his hand.
“I should go. I bet they’re waiting for me. I wish I was in a club like this, you all seem so relaxed.” You brought your body up, stretching before you pushed the chair back into the original position. “I hope you don’t mind me crashing your club when I don’t feel like being in mine, Jun-pei.” You sang out before dragging yourself out of the room.
“How the fuck did you manage to get so close to y/n?”
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For the first time, it was Junpei who was waiting for you outside of the club gates. Normally if you weren’t already there, he would walk home alone and just see you in class the next day or you would chase him in the halls, whining about how he didn’t eat with you the day before.
He didn’t miss how the fresh colors of the sky brushed upon your skin as he saw your figure making its way towards him. It hits him – seeing you walk towards him with what’s left of the sun kissing your skin, this is what he’s been missing out on while leaving you to walk alone? You grin as you make your way towards him, your usual skip replaced with you wobbling to him. He noticed you coming towards him carrying a box of chocolates and a letter, you just got another confession. It would have been your tenth one this week, not as if he was counting or anything.
Every time he experienced you carrying gifts along with love letters, every time eyes would linger the two of you in the hall, and the dirty looks you seemed to miss when leaving your group of friends to be with him, his self-doubt would whisper harsh words in his brain: what did you even see in him?
“I think this is the first time you’ve waited for me! About time.” You said linking your arm around his.
“You got another one.”
“Yeah, this time from Shota.” You missed the way Junpei winced at the name you just said. His arm unlinked with yours, staying in place as you still walked forward before stopping. You turned to him with a questioning look.
“What..um..what do you think of him?”
“He’s kind of scary.” You admitted, “I feel like his personality is fake. His smile has a bit of a sinister undertone, don’t you think? I mean, we’re in the same circle so I tolerate him. I wouldn’t call him my friend though.”
“You deserve better friends. Yours are jerks.” He spat out, not even realizing the word vomit coming from his mouth. “You reject all these guys…you could have whoever you wanted. Why?”
You brought your hand to your chin, squinting your eyes deep in thought. You never truly thought about why you rejected the confessions you would get; you just knew that you didn’t want them.
“Most of the guys who confess to me are a bit much, I guess you could say. Too aggressive, too competitive, not really on the sweet side. Makes sense, I’m an athlete so naturally I’m surrounded by them and those are common traits in the most successful athletes, I guess.”
Finally, as if a light went off in your head you gave off a wide smile to Junpei at your new discovery.
The reflection of dawn hit you, Junpei saw you as an angel in the very moment. The orange-gold glow bouncing off your body, your eyelashes reflecting the light being given to you by the sky, you were glowing and your sweet voice sounding like honey as you said,
“I like very kind, considerate men…and of course, cute. Now that I think about it, my type sounds a lot like you, doesn’t it?”
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I wrote this a while ago and I had no idea how long it was until now! After starting the final season I came back to it and spiffed it up a little and well... here it is!
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Fic below the cut
I was walking to school as I normally do; listening to music. Left turn, right turn, wait at the light. Every morning felt the same. However ever since the beginning of this year I have started coming out of my shell. As unapproachable the girls have made Yuki Sohma we have somehow become rather good friends. It was awkward at first but I’ve gotten used to the staring from the “Prince Yuki Fan Club” garbage. It wasn’t as if I liked him, we were just close friends. I have gotten to know him and his friends over the last few months. Yuki and his cousin Kyo have a very interesting dynamic to say the least. It seems as if they are cat and mouse, but the mouse always outsmarts the cat.
It was finally time to go home; I could be considered lucky in that regard. I am an exchange student. I have my own student apartment that the school pays for me to live in. It can get fairly lonely on the weekends or during breaks. I’m fairly introverted and only really talk to Yuki and Co. during the school day. My japanese can be pretty rough at times, but I understand enough to get by. With winter break coming up I was preparing to celebrate New Years by myself like I have the past few years. It’s just not worth it to go home for the holidays; the break is too short to make the price tag worth it. I almost have grown to love being by myself; after a long day at school the silence is calming.
My normal path home is fairly straightforward, but the idea of the upcoming holiday clouded my mind. I had somehow ended up walking past my usual turn without realizing and continued on into the forest on the outskirts of the town. A cold gust of air brought me out of my trance; I looked around wildly unfamiliar with my surroundings. As I turned on my heels to go back the way I came; to my utter disbelief a white snake blocked my path.
Now I didn’t hate snakes, but I admired them from afar or held well handled pets. Very unlike any snake, or wild animal, I’ve ever seen it slithered up to me. I didn’t want to startle it, on the off chance it’s hungry so I stood as still as possible gripping my school bag against my chest. A cool scaly feeling enveloped my calf, as the snake slithered up it. I gripped my eyes shut, praying it just went away after realizing I was not edible. Then it dawned on me, it was below freezing, and snakes are cold blooded… and I’m warm blooded… NOW I'M A SPACE HEATER FOR A SNAKE!
I couldn’t help the yelp that escaped my lips as I felt the snake take refuge under my shirt. Whether it be divine intervention or my (un)lucky day a man came walking toward me on the frozen path. He was dressed in a simple yukata with shaggy black hair. He looked at me calmly and then to my… chest? HE’S LOOKING AT MY BOOBS! I looked down as I saw a little snake head pop up. He’s looking at the snake… Why is the snake looking back at him?
“I see you got yourself into a situation” the man laughed. He didn’t seem to be speaking to me, but almost to the snake?
“Yes, uh… please help” I whispered. I didn’t want to bother the snake for fear of it biting me. In my awkward fear I happened to answer in english instead of japanese. The man tilted his head, and I just assumed he didn’t understand me. I opened my mouth to repeat myself, but he cut me off.
“You’re y/n, right?” He said back in perfect english. “Yuki’s friend from school”. He talks about me?
“Yes, sir.” I said. “Is there any way you can help me? I switched the conversation back to japanese. It always felt rude to make someone accommodate me, even if I wasn't the best speaker.
“Come down the road to the house with me. I can help you better there” He chuckled. “And don’t worry about how you speak. Do what is most comfortable.”
We trotted along the path rather slowly, I did not want the snake to fall or worse. It was only a couple minutes. We exchanged pleasantries. The man was Shigure-san Yuki and Kyo’s uncle who they lived with. From my time being friends with them I’ve only really heard Tohru mention him a few times. I never really hear the boys talk about their family, it seems to be a touchy subject.
We finally arrived at the house. It was pretty nice considering it was in the middle of the woods. As we got inside the snake slithered down my leg and decided that the house was his now. I relaxed my tense muscles. I guess I didn’t have to stay very long. I looked around, still standing in the entryway. I noticed Kyo sitting at the low table and I smiled politely at him. He looked up when he heard the commotion.
“What are you doing here?” He asked, shocked. It seems visitors are not abundant here. “What did you do to her?!” he yelled at Shigure-san.
“Nothing! Why would I do anything to one of Yuki’s beloved friends?” Shigure shrugged off.
“Oh, um there was a snake…” I started. Yuki had just entered the room. He looked up when he heard the word snake.
“A snake here is it now, y/n-san?” he looked around… angrily? “What did it look like?” He blurted. I wasn’t very used to Yuki not being calm and collected. This was definitely a change of pace for him. I guess he really doesn’t like snakes. As I was about to open my mouth to answer, another boisterous man with long silver hair burst into the room
“Yuki-kun! Have you missed me? I wanted to come visit you but it was so cold! Without this fine lady I would have never made it” he swoons. The man walked over to me and grabbed my hand, pulling me into the house, my shoes left in the entryway.
“Aw sweet, y/n-chan” He started, bringing my hand up to his mouth to kiss it. “Thank you so much for your kind nature! Without you I would surely have been left for dead”
Dead? I thought. I don’t recognize him, he kind of looks like Yuki. I don’t think I’ve ever met him. How does he know my name? The only thing I carried here was…
“The snake.” I whispered. I looked up to see familiar yellow orbs. “You… you were the s..snake” I stammered. “How is that even possible, humans can’t be snakes, snakes are snakes” I gripped my hair in my hands as I thought how this could ever be possible.
“My sweet love, don’t grip your beautiful hair” he said as he went to grab my hands. Both Yuki and Kyo shoved themselves between me and the strange man.
“Don’t touch her” Yuki said sternly. He shoved me behind him. I lost my balance and fell into his back. I heard a pop and a cloud of smoke appeared as I fell into nothing. In front of me was a little silver… rat?
“What?” I gasped. At this point I just assumed I was dreaming. “Are you supposed to be Yuki-kun now? I guess you are kind of cute.” I whispered as I scooped up the little thing. Kyo turned to Shigure- san.
“Look what you caused?” He yelled. “And you” he turned to the other man. “What the hell were you thinking?!” Shigure sighed. Looking at the man with his hand scratching his head.
“Well Ayame, I guess we got into an even worse situation” He laughs.
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“A curse?” I whisper. The Sohma’s had explained everything to me. I finally now realize more than I did before. Why Yuki was so shy, how Tohru acted when I talked about their home life. Why Kyo always seemed on edge. All of this bewildered me.
“So now what?” I asked shyly. “I promise I won’t say anything to anyone of course! I… I just don’t really know what to say” I looked down into my lap.
“Time to call Hatori I guess,” Shigure-san said as he stood up. Everyone had a solemn look on their face.
“Who is that?” I asked slightly afraid. “Am… am I going to die?” I looked up nervously into Shigure-sans eyes as mine began to water. “I… I promise, please” Tears begin to fall down my cheeks. Tohru, who had come home in the middle of this, offered me a tissue.
“Of course not y/n-chan” He said looking down seriously. “We just can’t have people knowing is all.” Ayame-san caressed my face and wiped away my tears.
“Do not worry, not a pretty little hair on your head will be harmed” He whispered to me. Yuki snatched me away from him.
“This is your fault to begin with.” Yuki said sternly. “Without your whole scheme we would have never been in this mess” This continues on for a while, Yuki being mad at what I now learned is his older brother, and Ayame begging Yuki to forgive him while still being a strange sort of arrogant. I just sat with Tohru, watching the whole thing unfold. Kyo had gone out shortly after this began, Tohru mentioned a Sensei so I assume it was martial art practice of some sort. Ayame-san turned to me and Tohru.
“I have an excellent idea” He sang out, almost twirling over to the two of us. “If we pretend to be together, there is a chance it will be okay!”
“T...Together? What do you mean by that?” I looked up at him, my eyes still a little puffy from before. “Like dating?” Shigure-san just walked back into the room as those words left my mouth.
“Who are you dating now? Ayame? So scandalous!” He wiggled. Yuki facepalmed, fed up with everything.
“You can’t think that’s possibly a good idea.” Yuki sighed. “First of all, I don’t want you anywhere near her, and second you’re almost twice her age. That would never work”
“An apprentice with benefits then!” Ayame hoisted me up and twirled me around. His arm wrapped around my shoulder but not enough to where our bodies were touching. His hand picked my chin up to look at him.
“Look at those sad e/c eyes.” he sighed. “You need some excitement in your life” He whispered in my ear. Yuki pulled me away from his clutches and looked into my eyes.
“Don’t listen to him.” He warned. His eyes were filled with pain. I wondered if this had happened to him before. Tohru seemed to know and be fine, so why couldn't I?
“I don’t want to lose my friends” My eyes fill with tears. “I don’t know what to do, I don't want to hurt you or your family, and I don’t want to lose you” I sob. I couldn't think straight enough to worry about japanese or anything for that matter. “I’ll do anything to just not be alone again”
The room was silent apart from my sniffling. The mood shifted to a depressing tone. Reality had sunk in. The Shomas realized either they try this or let this girl forget. I looked up over everyone.
“I’ll try anything”
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Over the last month going to work with Ayame-san was almost tiring. Although he seemed like an airhead, there is definitely something going on in his head that I just can’t guess. I assume it comes with his whole family dynamic. Although I was supposed to be his assistant, I feel like he was holding out for the whole “pretending to be dating” thing. Thank god he couldn’t touch me without becoming a snake; although that did happen a few times. Ayame-san as often as he could would be sure to “teach me” and “guide me” to what I needed to do. Mine-san seemed to keep him in check when we were in the studio, but when we had to run errands it was definitely towing the line.
Yuki always asked if I was okay first thing every morning before homeroom, and walked me home after I was done with Ayame-san every night. I assured him everything was fine. I didn’t want to lose my friends. It wasn’t that bad, it could be annoying at times but I feel like I learned a lot about myself and how to sew; so that's a plus.
One particular night after my apprenticeship, Mine-san pulled me aside. “y/n-chan, you’re doing really well. Most girls would have run for the hills by now!” she laughed. “You’ve gone from this shy little thing, to a young woman who can hold her own!”
“y/n-Chan!” rang out a familiar sing-song voice. Ayame-san waltzed out of the studio. “Do you think you can do me a favor?!” He sang out.
“I guess it depends on what it is exactly, Ayame-san.” I huff looking down the road seeing Yuki walking towards us.
“Well, I’ve been called to the estate. I was wondering if you would like to join me. Shigure said I should bring you!” He grabbed onto my arm and gave me puppy dog eyes. “You can meet Hatori!” Ayame chirped.
“Well I guess I can. If you really want me too” I said as Yuki neared closer. “I'll see you tomorrow then Ayame-san.” I called out as I ran towards Yuki.
“What was that about?” Yuki questioned as we walked towards my apartment. I hopped onto a small wall lining the sidewalk. With my arms out for balance I continued in front of him, spinning on the balls of my feet and walking backwards while facing him.
“He invited me to the estate with him and Shigure-san.” I replied, stopping in my tracks. “I said I would go.” I looked down at him nervously.
“Are you sure that’s a good idea y/n-san?” He looked up at me. He looked rather worried. I was starting to think that saying yes may not have been my brightest idea.
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The Saturday morning sun crept into my apartment window. I knew today was going to be… interesting. Shigure-san was nice enough to let me come over in the morning to figure everything out. Ayame-san told me he would have something for me to wear for dinner. Seeing his tastes in clothing it probably was not going to be fun.
When I arrived at the house, it was as rambunctious as always. Yuki and Kyo were lost in one of their usual arguments. They didn’t notice that I entered the house. Shigure-san looked up from his paper and smiled in my direction.
“Good morning, y/n-chan.” he chimed. The two boys looked over in the midst of fighting. I’ve seen them argue but I’ve never seen them fight. Both boys were breathing heavily; sweat rolling down their foreheads. This was rather surprising, Yuki is normally so calm, and collected. Over the past month I’ve learned more about him and my friends. Spending more time with him has made our friendship stronger. Although, it seems to be different now. Yuki has expressed his distrust of his brother. He has even started walking me to the shop, and even to school since my apartment is on the way. I’ve enjoyed spending more time with him… almost more than before. I shook my head at this thought.
“Is everything okay?” He asks endearingly, giving me a smirk. “Ready for your date with Ayame-san?” I blushed bright red at that comment.
“Uh… well… I didn’t think of it that way” I stammered. I brought my hand up to the back of my head, rubbing it sheepishly. Yuki snapped his head over to Shigure-san.
“No way, is that what he thinks is going to work” He seethed. “She never would have agreed to that if those were the terms. Isn't that right y/n-san?” Yuki looked at you sincerely.
“Well I… I wasn’t aware of that. I just assumed it was to meet Hatori-san” I looked down at my feet.
“Don’t worry kids” Shigure-san said as he resumed his paper “It’s just a ploy to allow y/n-chan to the Sohma estate.”
“So I have to pretend I’m dating Ayame-san in order to go?” I looked at Shigure. “Why did no one tell me” I huffed. He looked up at me and smiled.
“Because you wouldn’t have agreed otherwise”
…..
After a “fun” day at the Sohma house it was finally time. Ayame-san arrived with a bag with my name on it to wear. I looked inside; it looked like the pieces of a kimono. I looked up at him.
“I’ve never worn one before… I’m not sure how” I said shyly. Ayame-san snaked an arm around my shoulders.
“That’s okay my love, I can help you put it on for you.” he said coyly. Shigure-san also stood up. “What about me?” he added. Yuki came to my side and took my hand. He dragged you away from the men and up the stairs.
“Or I guess he could.” Shigure-san said defeatedly.
I have never been upstairs in the house before. It wasn't anything special, just everyone's rooms. Yuki still hasn’t said anything as he basically dragged me to his...room. I’m in his room. Those “Prince Yuki” bitches would pay thousands to be in my shoes right now.
“You can change here if you want.” He said shyly. Yuki looked away and blushed. “Tohru isn’t here, otherwise you’d be in her room.”
“I… I don’t know how to put it on” I stammered. “I need help” I looked down at my feet. Yuki took his hand under my chin and pointed it up. His gray eyes looking into my e/c ones.
“I’ll try my best.” He smiled. “There’s no reason for you to be embarrassed, Ayame should have known better. It was definitely one of his tricks.”
Yuki left the room to allow me to get the under clothes on. Once I was done I let him back in. The kimono almost felt like a large sweater. The material was soft and airy. Yuki with his cheeks dusted red, reached around me to gather the material in the way it needed to be. He tied a sort of belt near my waist to gather the fabric. It was not as difficult as I thought it would have been, but I would not have been able to do it correctly myself.
“Thank you, Yuki-san” I said as I pinned my hair up. I looked over at him and smiled brightly.
“Anytime y/n-san” he smiled back blush still sprinkling his cheeks.
…..
The Shoma Estate was huge. I felt like a small child as we approached. Shigure and Ayame walked in front of me, laughing about something or other. My nerves were boiling up, Kyo mentioned how intimidating it can be, especially if you looked out of place. Shigure-san looked back at me and noticed I was staring at the ground. He nudged Ayame-san's arm and pointed back at me. He twirled around towards me and latched onto my arm.
“You’re my date! You should at least look happy” He sang out. I looked around to see some women walking, giving me a disapproving glare.
“I guess I’m just nervous” I squeak. “This place is kind of intimidating” Shigure-san fell into step with us.
“Don’t worry y/n-chan” Shigure-san said “Everything will be alright in the end” He smiled. We arrived at the place we were supposed to meet. It was such a large house. I don’t think I’ve seen one this large since moving from the states. Once we entered, a man greeted us in the entryway.
“Ah Hatori!” Ayame-san said. “How are you! I’ve missed you!” he cried out as he went to hug him. Hatori side stepped and Ayame fell to the floor.
“I assume you’re y/n-chan” Hatori-san said to me.
“Yes, sir” I replied with a bow. Hatori shuffled us into the house and into a traditional dining room. Ayame-san and I sat down together. Hatori stopped Shigure in the doorway.
“Shigure, do you really think this is okay?” Hatori whispered.
“I sure hope so.” He replied.
…..
Dinner went well. It was just the four of us. I was so worried that there was going to be a huge amount of people. I’m so glad there wasn’t. The three men had been drinking, however Hatori-san seemed to be the only one with any sense left. Shigure and Ayame were being as loud as ever, saying risque things towards me.
As we were getting ready to leave, I heard a crash through the house. The sliding door was slammed open and a thin figure was hanging on to the door frame. Hatori immediately jumped to his feet and walked over to the person. The light in the hallway was off so it was hard to see. Shigure-san almost seemed to sober up as this was happening and got up and walked into the other room.
“Let me see her.” the person said as they clawed at the door frame. It looked like they could barely stand. Their robe falling off their shoulder allowed me to see just how thin they were. I shuffled back on the floor only stopping when I hit the wall.
“Let me see her.” they said again menacingly. Hatori-san looked over to me, there was pain in his eyes. I understood he couldn’t do much to stop them.
My heart raced as they came over. They grabbed my face leaving nail marks on my cheeks. My eyes started to water. I had no idea what was going on let alone what to do.
“What’s your name?” they seethed
“y/n” I squealed out meekly.
“You know they don’t like you. They never will. You should just stop trying” they dropped my face and I fell to my knees. I couldn’t stop the tears. Yuki burst through the door and looked on in horror.
“You’re right.” I whispered. Their words resonated with me. I wasn’t part of their world. They had so much more on their plate with Tohru already. They don’t need to worry about me. The person said something to Hatori that I didn’t understand and left the room. Yuki looked at me with tears in his eyes as he crouched in front of me. My tears fell like waterfalls as I cried into my hands.
“I’m so sorry, y/n-san. You should have never been a part of this,” he whispered as he grabbed my hands. “I really did like you. I’m sorry I couldn’t tell you. I’ll never forget you” he kissed my forehead.
Hatori helped me get to my feet and brought me into another room. I closed my eyes as I wiped the tears away.
…..
I was walking to school as I normally do; listening to music. Left turn, right turn, wait at the light. Every morning felt the same.
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prvtbugsbuggins · 3 years
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Caboose and his ungodly amount of sisters.
A post for both my reference and for you all to enjoy.
The idea of Military Alphabet being used as names was inspired by Red Battalion, Blue Regiment by @tinfoil-jones. It's a great fic u guys plz.
More stuff under the cut.
Caboose and his sisters were all taken from a pool of war orphans during the great war. All of them had their homes glassed and barely escaped with their lives. The oldest at the time was little more than a small kid, so many of them don't remember having parents or a life before they were taken into the SPARTAN III program. For all they know, this was all normal to them.
Indiana was the oldest and was the one to remember what parental love was all about, so she was the one who kept an eye on everyone else and did her best to be sure that they had love while growing up. Their training was extremely harsh and she made sure it was as fair as it could be.
Here are the siblings, from oldest to youngest. Once they were old enough to leave the program, all of them chose their own names. Caboose was chosen as the last name, and all of them keep it as a sign of solidarity.
Name: Indiana ‘Indy’ Carnation Caboose
Rank: Lieutenant General
Armor Color: Dark brown and tan
Designation: INDIA
Description: Freckled pale skin with green eyes and red hair that she keeps short. Absolutely stacked. 9Ft tall even. Is missing a leg but has a cool cyborg one to replace it. Defacto ‘leader’ of the Spartan Siblings and tends to call the shots. Is high enough rank to make sure her siblings are treated well no matter where they end up.
Currently: Alive and still in active duty. Works mostly with Holly.
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Name: Holiday ‘Holly’ Yuletide Caboose
Rank: Major General
Armor Color: Green and Red
Designation: HOTEL
Description: Tan skin with brown eyes and black hair that she keeps long. 8’11’’ tall. Is built more slender but can still break your neck. Is the one who usually keeps track of all the siblings and makes sure they are okay. Organizes the yearly get together.
Currently: Alive and still in active duty. Works mostly with Indiana.
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Name: Winter Solstice Caboose
Rank: Chief Warrant Officer 5
Armor Color: White and Winter-mint Green
Designation: WHISKEY
Description: Pale skin with blue eyes and white-blonde hair that she keeps short. 7’9’’ tall. Is built more slender and is stupidly flexible, giving her a rep as an escape artist.
Currently: Alive and still in active duty. Works as a battlefield tactician and invents war-games for training purposes.
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Name: Tango Rio Caboose
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Armor Color: Black and White
Designation: TANGO
Description: Tan skin with brown eyes and blonde hair that was kept short. Was more short and squat but absolutely stacked. 8 ft tall even. Used to bench press actual benches with people on it.
Currently: MIA. Was last seen on Reach.
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Name: Vicky Ableton Caboose
Rank: First Lieutenant
Armor Color: Teal and Pink
Designation: VICTOR
Description: Pale skin with blue eyes and hair that’s always in a different color done in a ‘fluff hawk’ hairstyle. 8Ft tall even and built more slender. Is faster than the other siblings in terms of speed.
Currently: Alive and retired. Currently works as a DJ and plays for raves while making her own music.
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Name: Sierra Nevada Caboose
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Armor Color: Tan and Gold
Designation: SIERRA
Description: Rust colored skin with black eyes and black hair kept long. 8’5’’ tall and was more focused on martial arts, so she was rather slender. Could one inch punch people across a room.
Currently: MIA. Was last seen on Reach.
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Name: Charlie Beatrix Caboose
Rank: Sergeant Major
Armor Color: Green and Brown
Designation: CHARLIE
Description: Warm dark skin with brown eyes and black hair kept short. Built more chubby and squat at 8’6’’ tall. Can hug you to death though, so be careful. Used to be able to pick up cars so the wheels could get changed faster.
Currently: Alive and retired. Writes and illustrates children's books based off stories she told Caboose when he was little.
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Name: Luna Moonbeam Caboose
Rank: Sergeant Major
Armor Color: Black and Blue
Designation: LIMA
Description: Pale skin with pale blue eyes and pale blonde hair kept long. Just pale, lol. 7’11’’ tall and built slender and trim. Is really good at psychology and has a knack for motivating people without them realizing it. Takes active interest in troop morale and writes papers on how to improve it.
Currently: Alive and in active duty. Works as a drill sergeant and her teams perform better because she gives them all lollipops when they do a good job.
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Name: Juliet Romeo Caboose
Rank: First Lieutenant
Armor Color: Yellow and Green
Designation: JULIET
Description: Freckled pale skin with brown eyes and blonde hair kept long. Built like a muscular country farm-girl at 8’7’’ tall. Can pick up fully grown cattle and move them where they need to go.
Currently: Alive and retired. Works on a farm where she raises various livestock with her wife. Caboose gets to name all the baby animals born on said farm.
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Name: Fox (Foxy) Trot Caboose
Rank: First Lieutenant
Armor Color: Orange and Black
Designation: FOXTROT
Description: Tan skin with blue eyes and red hair kept short. More wiry and slender than most other sisters and stuck more to stealth tactics than outright assault. 7’10’’ tall.
Currently: MIA. Last seen on Reach.
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Name: Echo Echo Caboose
Rank: First Lieutenant
Armor Color: Dark Blue and light Blue
Designation: ECHO
Description: Dark skin with brown eyes and black hair kept short. Quite muscular and built at 8’6’’ tall. Usually specialized in hand to hand combat and liked to use knives and other bladed weapons.
Currently: MIA. Last seen scouting uncharted territory.
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Name: Ollie Oxenfree Caboose
Rank: Major
Armor Color: Pink and White
Designation: OSCAR
Description: Pale skin with brown eyes and black hair, kept short. Is more slender and built more for stealth and misdirection type of combat. 8’4’’ tall and can pluck your heart out of your rib-cage if need be.
Currently: Alive and retired. Works as a therapist and specializes in PTSD traumas.
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Name: November Showers Caboose
Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
Armor Color: Dark Red and Orange
Designation: NOVEMBER
Description: Tan skin with brown eyes and orange hair kept short. Is built like a bruiser at a good 8’10’’ tall and a body to put bodybuilders to shame. Likes to count how many teeth she can knock out of someone’s head with one punch.
Currently: MIA. Was last seen on Reach.
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Name: Kiki Piña Colada Caboose
Rank: Major
Armor Color: Light Pink and Light Yellow
Designation: KILO
Description: The smallest sister at 7’8’’ tall and slender. Pale skin with blue eyes and pink/blonde hair kept long. Enjoys looking pretty but is scarily good at assassinations. Likes to use her unassuming looks against people. Has beaten up selfish lovers.
Currently: Alive and in active duty. Trains special forces troops.
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Name: Bravo Blue Caboose
Rank: Lieutenant General
Armor Color: Blue and Black
Designation: BRAVO
Description: Pale skin with blue eyes and brown hair kept short in a buzz cut. Likes piercings and body mods. Has an unbelievable pain tolerance and likes to freak out her recruits using it. 8’10’’ tall and built like a linebacker. Sometimes will stand there and let people attack her and laugh at their attempts to hurt her. Will kill you if you make her siblings cry.
Currently: Alive and in active duty. Works on top secret things that are secret. It’s mostly boring stuff, like paperwork. She hates it.
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Name: Quinn Sable Caboose
Rank: Captain
Armor Color: Grey and Purple
Designation: QUEBEC
Description: Tan skin with green eyes and brown hair kept short. Tends to dye tips of hair purple. Is covered in tattoos. Is very muscular and big at 8’7’’ tall and can pop someone’s head off their body like a grape. Makes a newsletter for all her siblings so they know what’s going on with each other.
Currently: Alive and in active duty. Trains forces in how to work together as a team and not die.
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Name: Zelda Triforce Caboose
Rank: Captain
Armor Color: Dark green and Light Blue.
Designation: ZULU
Description: Dark skin with brown eyes and long dreads dyed in a wide range of colors. Built to be trim and slender. Could choke you out with her legs. Is 8ft tall even. Probably has ADHD and is very excitable.
Currently: Alive and retired. Currently makes VR video games and programs for a living.
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Name: Michael Jaybird Caboose
Rank: Major
Armor Color: Blue (the best blue)
Designation: MIKE
Description: It’s Caboose, our boy. 7Ft tall even with brown hair, blue eyes, and is built like a brick house. Gives the softest hugs, though.
Currently: Alive and in a mix of active duty and ‘retired’. Pets dinosaurs and plays ‘games’ with his squad.
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If possible they all try to meet up together at least once a year and they actively send letters to each other. They will call if close enough, but since everyone is doing something different, it's unlikely that two siblings would be on a planet together at the same time. All of them are extremely protective over each other, especially to Caboose since he is the baby. Despite some being retired, they still have and wear their armor because it's so ingrained in themselves. Eventually many more will decide to retire and pursue other interests once they figure out what they like.
Also all of them have a barcode tattooed on them somewhere. Not for evil purposes, but because it's easier to scan a code that can't be removed and make sure you aren't going to kill your Spartan by accidently giving them a medication they are allergic to.
Feel free to use if you like as well. I will be using this as a reference for my own works, lol.
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softtamaki · 3 years
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it’s gonna be okay
summary: your best friend would always make you feel loved and comforted and tonight was nothing different.
pairing: izuku midoriya x reader
genre: angst / fluff
word count: 2k
warnings: mean mom ;; it’s not too specific about why
a/n: requested by @lavenderbutton05 and i hope you like it :)
© 2021 by softtamaki
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so !!
currently there’s a lot of things that have been happening recently
some good :D
some bad >:(
but either way you’ve always had your best friend to cheer you up
that’s right izuku midoriya is your best friend!! but even that has a sour taste in your mouth since recently, you two have been very touchy
and technically katsuki bakugou is also your bff but like don’t tell anyone that because he gets REALLY angry
for legit no reason too
it’s not like you have friday 4pm solely dedicated towards going to your favorite shop and eating food
(you totally do but if ANYONE — even izuku — knew, goodbye free sweets hello angry bakugou)
back to the point
midoriya confessed to you a week ago but ran off before you could say it back, eventually you did tell him
the two of you are taking it really slowly and don’t have any labels (yet)
but midoriya has always managed to keep you on your toes
no like ,, literally
“come on, y/n. you got this!”
“izuku i swear to all might, are you trying to kill me?”
midoriya sighed and his hands went back to the side of his body
he was trying to get you outside
while trying not to get super flustered at using his first name (even though you’ve used it a million times)
he wants to know what’s bothering of late, you’re being secretive and generally dismissive and it’s making him worried
“just, trust me? i’ll catch you!”
currently, you were on the railing of the girls UA dorm building and midoriya was on the floor underneath
your regeneration quirk wouldn’t be that useful in this situation so you’re grateful that you’ve been training in different martial arts
aikido would be very helpful in this situation since it would be best at helping you get down gracefully
you jump down the railing and land on the flat ground with a loud slap due to the sandals you had on
it was too hot for shoes! slippers are much better for the fast approaching summer time
“so.. where are we going?”
“somewhere nice, a breath of fresh air. i-is that okay?”
you smiled and nodded your head, gesturing midoriya to continue forward
he led you for a few minutes in silence, it was a comfortable silence
you weren’t going far, or you know aizawa would get mad, but far enough to get away from the dorms and breathe
you talked about your internships and the way the league of villains had been acting up recently
the topic eventually led to your friends and when you were ranting about denki not paying attention during class, midoriya suddenly stopped
“yeah and he always asks me later about what we learned despite being there! it’s like he forgets everything.. oh are we here?”
“yeah, just a little over to the side. don’t get to annoyed at him though, i’m sure he means the best”
“yeah, yeah, i know”
you two stop at a bench and sit down
looking up you see the blurry sky, hazy from the light pollution of the city lights you see down below
it was pretty and it made you think about how small you really are
midoriya was a little upset that it wasn’t as starry of a night as he had predicted but that would be a later concern, right now you were the priority (you always were to him)
“y/n, is..is something wrong?”
“hm? what do you mean?”
“you’ve been awfully quiet during class. plus, at lunch when kacchan told denki to shut up, you didn’t even say anything..”
“should..i have said something?”
“i m-mean kacchan never means what he says but you usually do. plus you’re usually more up for this sort of thing and yet you were so hesitant..”
“can you blame me? did you hear about how many villains are—”
“okay! i get it.”
midoriya abruptly starts, upset that you’re still denying the fact that something is wrong
you had every right to not tell him but he feels this might be a ‘i-don’t-want-to-burden-others’ type of thing more than ‘it’s-none-of-your-business’ thing
but you’re not responding so maybe he was wrong? he looks up to your face and his heart cracks
you’re frowning and eyes are watering, like you just got bullied
“oh shoot, i didn’t mean-“
“i’ve just been so.. lost lately”
midoriya stops and looks softly at you
your hands are quivering at this point and so midoriya brushes his fingers against them
you can feel the gentleness of his touch and don’t retract your hand
instead, you crave it and slowly make a move to grab his fingers
he blushes and looks away, trying not to tear up at the sweet gesture
“other than villains and the internship, school has been hectic. i can’t seem to catch a break!”
“mhm, i feel you. it’s like everyone’s trying to make it our last year here.”
you laugh and nod
“plus! aizawa is letting us go on our first missions next month, like i know it’s just a practice mission but wow time has flown so fast..”
your smile slowly fades and you steel your jaw to not let your facade fall
“..and things at home aren’t that great either”
there it is
midoriya stops looking at the city lights and sees you rubbing your arm in hesitation
“take your time, don’t worry it’s okay.”
“my mom’s been really rude lately”
“you don’t have to say anything y/n”
“oh i know it’s just, i want to? if that’s okay.”
“of course, continue. i’m here for you”
“well you know me and i recently told m-my mother who i was and she didn’t have a great reaction..”
“oh y/n, i’m- i’m so sorry.”
“it hurts you know? like my mom is supposed to be the one person who supports me no matter what but now.. now she’s being so mean and i don’t know what to think anymore..”
midoriya looks down at your hand that’s now tightly clasped around his, and instead of getting nervous, he holds yours back with the same strength
when he looks back up, you’re crying and his heart shatters completely
he doesn’t like seeing you sad and knowing that someone hurt you like this makes him so angry
taking a deep breath, midoriya brings his other hand to your waist and pushes you into his chest
after a small yelp, you’re now hugging and sitting in midoriya’s lap
his sweater is probably going to be damp with the tear stain but with his hands quietly patting and rubbing your back, you don’t seem to care
“she thinks she’s known me but she really doesn’t. she thinks i’m lying about it.”
“lying? you would never lie about something like this.”
“right? is like you’re the only over who actually pays attention to me.”
you remove yourself from the crook of his neck and look up to your best friend/more than a friend/boyfriend
the person that’s been there since day 1 and has always been supporting everything you are and do
you’ve never felt scared or lonely knowing that he’s right there next to you
midoriya looks at you like you’re the only person in the world
like the stars in the sky are in your eyes and can tell him how wonderfully excited you get when fighting or practicing
but now your soft cheeks are damp and he doesn’t want his favorite person in the world to be crying
he slowly brushes your tears away, fighting back his own tears by seeing you in pain
the two of you just sit and bask in each other’s presence
“you’re safe with me.”
you try to push down the words that are lumped in your throat from his comfort, but you can’t
“izuku, i love you.”
“i love you too, y/n. everything going to be alright.”
he smiles wide and you can’t stop the grin from rising to your lips
he takes your cheeks into his hands and slowly pecks your forehead
he’s also blushing like crazy and you can vaguely feel his body shaking
you grin, and with a leap of faith you kiss his cheek and he almost combusts
“y/n! i-i’m supposed to be making you happy- not the other way around.”
“you do make me happy! this makes me happy izuku!”
you’ve completely lost him
he’s half contemplating if he should bury his head into your shoulder but the short sleeved shirt you’re wearing makes him surprised
his mood instantly changes and he’s setting you down next to him on the bench before you can even register it
you’re pouting and he’s got half the heart to kiss you again but (your) health comes first
so he takes off his blue hoodie and gently says “up”
now you’re flustered because “oh-my-god-he’s-giving-me-his-hoodie”
he pushes it down on you and you’re already liking the super soft material
he’s looking at your smile and he can’t help but tear up a little and goes to hug you tightly
at this point you’re never going to get tired or used to midoriya having his strong arms around you, it’s heaven
but you can feel him shaking and you’re worried now
“izuku? is something wrong?”
“no! no, it’s fine i-it’s just..your mom sucks..and you don’t deserve this, you know? you deserve everything in the world and i wish i could give it to you and not let anyone make you cry.”
“oh..you think i deserve the world?”
“no,”
you’re confused and he takes his head of your shoulder and looks down at you
“you deserve more than the world. and you definitely deserve people who build you up and love you, not hurt you like this.”
midoriya wonders if your smile from his words is the brightest thing he’ll ever see, and even when the sun comes up and he’s still holding you and talking, he’s proven right
“you’re really cheesy..”
he smiles with his eyes closed and his freckles are shining in the moonlight
“you make me really cheesy y/n.”
the two of you hug for longer, in the cold night but the comfort radiating off of him makes you warm
he lifts his head up,
“um, can i kiss you?”
the look you give him makes his heart do somersaults and he’s trying not to die just looking at you
you nod your head and with a vocalized yes and he dips in to capture your lips
it distracts you from the lulling pain in your heart and you’re happy for it
as much as you think you can talk about what’s bothering you for longer, you really just needed something else
you two separate and you fall into his chest and when you snuggle up beside him, he’s about to fall apart
the rest of the night, midoriya talks about anything and everything, trying to distract you and tell you that he loves you and everything will be okay
he never makes it seem that he’s upset or minds doing this and always makes you feel loved and comfy
patting your head and rubbing your back, you slowly fall asleep to his loving words and he keeps on holding you until the sun rises
instead of waking you up, he decides to carry you (he doesn’t even need his quirk because to him, you’re soft and as light as a feather)
he doesn’t know how he didn’t get in trouble when he opened the door to your dorm and set you in your bed
or when he was tucking you in and kissing your forehead goodnight
or when he kept sitting next to you, thinking about how much he wanted to cuddle you and take all your fears away
he ultimately said “screw it” and decided cuddles were more important
any teasing from your friends and an annoyed kacchan saying “finally deku!” tomorrow would all worth it when you shifted in your sleep and cuddled into izuku’s chest
the i love you’s you exchanged made everything okay and you were so happy to know that your best friend would always be at your side
it’s gonna be okay
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AIGHT Y’ALL I wasn’t tagged but I’m doing this anyways because f u c k  i t
It's the year 2021 and you're obsessed with The Karate Kid. How are you feeling?
Deadasss weird as fuck, my dude. Like...out of all the things I could’ve predicted happening in our lord’s year 2021, it definitely was NOT getting hyperfixated on a hammy gay ship with a punk and a nerd from a goddamn karate soap opera. And yet...here we are??? I will never understand hyperfixations, my guy. But I’ve met a lot of really cool people in this fandom, so I can’t really complain.
Did you grow up with TKK or are you new to the series?
I have never seen a single Karate Kid movie in my entire life. When I was a kid, it looked kinda dumb so I never got into it XD But then I saw my roommate watching Cobra Kai on Youtube Red one day (he has every streaming service known to man) and I was hooked. And...here I am!
We gotta do the basics. Favorite character:  
Literally EVERYONE except for Kreese, Yasmine, Kyler, and Tory, sorry stans
Okay but if we gotta pick, Johnny Lawrence is my Problematic Fave. Also I love my boy Daniel, he’s trying his best!!! And Amanda LaRusso, we stan a queen!!!
Among the kids, definitely Miguel, with Demetri as a close second. I also love Sam, Aisha, Moon, and Hawk (pre- and post-Bastardization Arc, anyways XD)!
Favorite ship:  
Take a look at my username and take a WILD FUCKING GUESS lmao Yes it’s Eli/Demetri because DUH, every interaction they have is so fucking gay and Eli fucking saved him!!! And came back to him!!! And betrayed the world’s most terrifying dojo with a WAR CRIMINAL SENSEI all for Demetri!!! And how Demetri was willing to forgive him for everything at the drop of a hat because he always had faith there was still good in his best friend??? That’s TRUE LOVE motherfuckers. Please let them kiss in Season 4. I will sell you all of my limbs. Sam/Miguel is a close second because they’re cute as shit and it’s just so lovely to see two people so unapologetically smitten with each other. They are in LOVE, and I will RIOT if they break up again!!! Keep Sam and Miguel together 2k21!!!
Underrated character:
SAMANTHA LARUSSO!!! The amount of hate my girl gets for acting like a normal teenager and fucking up occasionally JUST like the rest of the cast makes me want to start punching things. She cares SO MUCH about her friends!!! And she loves the shit out of Miguel!!! She hasn’t always been the best friend but you know what??? Neither has Hawk, and we still forgave his ass!!! Also LET HER BE FEMININE but also kick utter ass, my god!!! Femininity should not be synonymous with being weak, y’all! ALSO DEMETRI, like yes, he likes to complain and occasionally run his mouth, but guess what else he likes to do??? Never give up on the love of his life his best friend Eli Moskowitz and refuse to lose faith in him no matter how much of a little shit he’s become, and I for one think that’s very badass of him. Also the way he takes care of Eli pre-Cobra Kai in his own snarky bastard way makes me absolutely Weak and needs more appreciation. Like the dude has charisma and COULD have probably made other friends and left Eli behind if he wanted, but did he??? No, he wants the weepy loser with the lip scar in the polo shirts and dorky sweaters and will protect him as much as his wimpy ass is able!!!
Underrated ship (don’t say therapy, lol):  
Among the adults, Daniel/Amanda!!! Like maybe I just don’t watch that much tv, but it seems kinda rare to me to see a happily married hetero couple, and it’s just nice to see a married couple who genuinely love each other and where there’s not like...lingering resentment or some shit. I feel like this ship gets overshadowed by Lawrusso a lot (which like--okay, fair!!! Daniel and Johnny do have a ridiculous amount of chemistry, and the gay undertones are undeniable, so I get it), and it makes me kinda sad. I do love Lawrusso, but I don’t like when Amanda has to get her heart broke for it to happen, you feel? Among the kids, honestly YasMoon. Like I really love the idea of Yasmine trying to better herself because of Moon’s influence on her and because Moon like...inspires her to be a better person, I guess? With their pretty strong friendship, it just makes more sense to me for Yasmine to get a redemption arc through Moon than through Demetri. ALSO girls DO often pull the whole “mean girl” shtick to cover up being closeted lesbians, and Moon IS canonically bi, so it could work!!! I just think this one could be a really interesting Friends to Lovers take, and could make a really nice coming-out arc for Yas. And MoonPiper too, honestly!!! Like they only got 5 seconds of screentime so I understand WHY it’s underrated, but I still love what we DID get and loved that there was a canon gay ship (even if only for 1 scene lmao). I’m really excited to potentially see more of them in Season 4!!! Please, I’m begging!!!
Wax On, Wax Off or Sweep the Leg?
Sweep the Leg because it will always be deeply hilarious to me how Demetri took note of the first move Eli ever used on him and spent presumably weeks perfecting it OUT OF SPITE just to get him back with it at the soccer game MONTHS later. Just goes to show how OBSESSED Demetri is with Eli and their little karate rivalry which is just NOT straight, I’m sorry
Which of Daniel’s dumb little outfits is your favorite?
There’s something so funny about this pretentious little fuck walking around in fancy suits once he becomes a #SuccessfulBusinessman, and still occasionally trying to do karate in a full-ass suit (take THAT, Tom Cole’s boba!!!) I’m also a big fan of how he looks in his gi with his little headband. Still killing that look as a 40-50-something!!!
Character from the films you most want to return, who’s not Terry Silver:
Tbh I have still never seen a single Karate Kid movie (they took them off of Netflix, RIP), so...I don’t really care if they bring anyone else back??? I’m invested in the characters we already have in the show, I don’t need some rando from the movies to make a cameo to have a good time XD The only character I really wanted them to bring back was Ali, and they already did, so like...I’m good??? That’s all I really needed, I can die in peace now XD
Scene that lives in your head rent-free:
Basically any fluffy Elimetri scene, but 5 in particular: ~Miguel first meeting Eli and Demetri at the lunch table, and Eli looking at Demetri like he hung every goddamn star in the sky ~Demetri going off at a terrifying, “unhinged” karate sensei on the first day of Cobra Kai because he made fun of Eli’s lip and Demetri is not about that shit ~ELI STEALING DEMETRI’S NACHO AND SMIRKING AT HIM, LIKE EXCUSE ME SIR PLEASE BE A LITTLE LESS HOMOSEXUAL IN FRONT OF YOUR GIRLFRIEND ~Eli yanking Demetri onstage during Valley Fest to hold a board, and Demetri being visibly like...extremely turned on when Eli breaks said board ~ELI SAVING DEMETRI DURING THE CHRISTMAS FIGHT, ELI APOLOGIZING, DEMETRI AND ELI KICKING COBRA ASS TOGETHER AKSBDCUWYVCBU
Will Anthony LaRusso ever be relevant?
I hope not! He’s kind of a funny meme character to pop up now and again but I don’t think he deserves a serious plotline when there are so many more interesting characters to follow.
You live in The Valley and are forced into the karate gang war. Which dojo do you join?
Miyagi-Do because Cobra Kai would eat me alive. Also I’d probably straight up get stuck and die in that cement mixer, if I even made it that far XD Besides, being salty that your friend who you have a crush on likes martial arts better than you and starting martial arts to impress them but also being too lazy to join anything TOO intense is a Big Mood and I am certainly not speaking from personal experience here, no sirree
What’s your training montage song?
"Shut Up and Drive” by Rihanna for a weight-training and bicep-flexing montage, “Whatever It Takes” by Imagine Dragons for a more intense punching-and-kicking-shit montage. I don’t know why this is, I just feel it in my heart.
It’s the crossover event of the century! Which TV show are you combining with Cobra Kai for an hour-long Saturday night special?
*Briefly panics because I don’t actually watch that much TV and most of the stuff I do watch is fantasy/sci fi shit that absolutely would not work for a CK crossover*
Hmmmm okay but ACTUALLY
You know what would be fucking funny as hell would be an It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia crossover. Allow me to elaborate: ~The Gang goes to LA on vacation during the height of the Karate Dojo Wars. They literally can get barely anything done without all these goddamn karate-fighting teenagers getting in the way. ~They are all very annoyed by this. Even the most obscure of tourist attractions is eventually intercepted by karate fights. ~Mac tries to join Cobra Kai because he sees all this karate fighting on, and wants to unquestionably prove both his badassery and masculinity. Both Johnny and Kreese are like “Wtf are you doing here? Aren’t you like 30?” ~Mac gets a planet-sized crush on Johnny after all of 5 minutes and endlessly gushes to the gang about him. The gang mercilessly roast him about this and about how much of a pathetic loser with his life together in no way whatsoever Johnny sounds like. They proceed to have exactly 0 self awareness about this. ~The Waitress is in town visiting family or something, and Charlie is stalking her, as per usual. However, every time he’s about to go up and talk to her, a pack of battling Miyagi-Dos and Cobra Kais throwing punches and kicks everywhere blocks his path. One times, Mac is among one of these packs and Charlie is like “???? He didn’t get kicked out of that teen karate dojo yet???” ~Seeing how much the Kids These Days seem to like fighting, Charlie drops by a local high school to try and sell Fight Milk to the kids doing karate. Only Kyler and Brucks buy into it, and subsequently get the entire West Valley High wrestling team sick. Charlie is inevitably arrested, as Counselor Blatt thinks he’s selling the kids drugs. ~Dennis makes a plan to have sex with every hot chick he can in Los Angeles. He meets Ali on a dating app post-divorce, and inevitably tries to bang her. It doesn’t work. ~Frank crashes the rental car, and inevitably the gang ends up at one of Daniel’s dealerships. Dee quickly takes a liking to Daniel and is like “Watch, assholes--Imma homewreck this guy’s marriage.” She starts frequenting the dealerships to attempt to flirt with Daniel, until one day she walks in on him having sex with Johnny in a back room and she’s like “Is that the guy from Mac’s goddamn dojo?!?!” ~Dennis, of course, tries to sleep with Amanda. Amanda is not having it, and rebukes him in the most snarky, Amanda-esque way possible. Dennis is just like “Oh not AGAIN--the women in this goddamn diva city have too high of standards!” ~Later on, the gang is at the beach and Dennis spots the blonde lady he went out on an ill-fate date with, and decides to give it another shot--that is, until he sees her go up and kiss another woman and he’s like “IS THAT THE LADY FROM THE CAR DEALERSHIP??? STUPID-KARATE-KICK-COMMERCIAL’S WIFE?!? YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME.” ~Dee complains to Dennis about her lack of luck getting laid, and Dennis is just like “Oh come ON, is everyone in Los Angeles gay???” Smash cut to Hawk and Demetri having sex, Moon and Piper making out, Bert and Nate holding hands, Chris and Mitch doing oral, and Amanda, Ali, and Carmen having a threesome. ~Frank tries to scam Kreese into buying cheaply-made karate equipment for his dojo. The gang ends up having to leave LA because Kreese is quite literally plotting all of their murders.
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Leo: “We each found our interests and talents opened up a several viable options that had lead us each to a “unique” position.” Leo led as he gathered his thoughts. “Keep in mind after we managed to stop Krang and those who worked closely with him, the world was vulnerable. As far as my brothers and I were concerned, we had fought too hard and for too long for someone to simply slip into the power vacuum we had created and to continue to harsh reality Krang had created for Earth’s inhabitants. Due to this we each chose to do what we knew how to do and could most easily adapt as challenges presented themselves.”
He paused for a moment as he thought about the hardships, they had each faced and managed to overcome as they slowly helped right the world and returned her to standing on her own. A shimmering blue jewel among the galaxy and other worlds that had become familiar with the planet and its amenities.
“During our years in the resistance we managed to acquire wealth and assets. We were able to accumulate quite the little nest egg using those. Along with our acquired influence it opened many a door which in the old world would have remained not only closed but permanently locked to us.”
“I became a strategic investor. Buying the remnants of properties, businesses and services and either helping them to return to what they once were or repurposing to better suit the needs of this new era and turn a profit. It proved to be very profitable and allowed for me to continue to churn out profits which allowed for me to seek other properties and businesses to invest in or connect the right individuals with each other in away that led to my ability to offer the initial capital for a small percentage of the quarterly earnings. It helped people to create jobs and led to a lot of normalcy for those who desperately needed.
One hand washes the other, and this in its essence has lead to my own sector of the Tartaruga brothers incorporated. I have a multi-billion dollar operation on Earth and several branches operating throughout the universe currently.”
Donnie: “As Leo has said,” Donnie commented calmy, “our time resisting and fighting lead us each to our own talents. I spent a lot of time wearing many hats, which included, chemists, doctor, surgeon, agronomist, engineer, electrician, etc. to put it simply I spent a lot of time learning how to save lives, human and otherwise, and the best way to stretch our available resources in a way which led to people surviving. I also had to learn how to create medications which were so commonplace that many died without having them available. Most antibiotics don’t have a very long shelf life and when those ran out initially, we were in constant jeopardy of losing lives to the simplest of bacterial infections. My knowledge, and subsequent research lead to significant improvements and branching into many other factors, and shall we say break throughs.
Needless to say, the value of others wants, lead to my ability to fund the needs of the many. In my sector, I have several leadings areas including pharmacy, medical research, agrarian development, as well as generalized research and development in multiple fields from domestic to military. For obvious reasons, more detailed information is strictly classified.”
Raph: Raph chuckled as Donnie glossed over his closely guarded research. He was willing to kill to protect his research and continue to control the aspects that allowed him to fund the bulk of his interests and common welfare of those he blanketed with his programs. “They ain’t lying. After the world came back from going to shit, it took awhile to get it back up and going. Additionally, there were a lot of people, generally those not from this world that were way too determined to make sure we failed. This led to a lot of infighting and groups struggling for control. That tends to lead to a lot of shady business if you know what I mean, and it wasn’t like we had any type of social services such as police, fire fighting, or anything else. I initially took charge in areas like these.
I took a lot of care to train groups so that they worked together and were prepared to handle whatever problems came. It took a lot of time to cultivate proper training programs and help prepare people on how to help a traumatized world get back to functioning in a healthy way. I still help do this on planets and areas that are in recovery.”
“That being said however, my primary interest and “job” if you want to call it that, is training mixed martial artist prize fighters for the world federation galaxy league. Simply put we aren’t the only species that likes to watch trained athletes test their skills against one another within their respective brackets, or on specially contracted prized fights. I used to fight for the league and earned a lot of titles and prestige. I won most fights and was often the favorite to win after a while. I’m semi-retired and only occasionally enter the ring now days. However, I take and train promising talents for the league and other groups. I have also trained personal bodyguards for a variety of individuals.  Different specialties come with different specifics and contracts as well as costs. It takes a specific might set for each, and a lot of time to drill into a thick skull.”
Mikey: Mikey laughed at the turtle in red, “Oh yeah, and you were the king of thick skulled back when we were young, and dumb.” He barely dodged the throw pillow that was chucked at his head.  “Let’s see for me personally,” Mikey flashed a big grin, “I happen to be a master of many trades. During our days in the resistance, I learned a lot of different tricks to help make the food rations we had on hand not only palatable but nutritionally sound while feeding a literal army of people! So when it was possible I spent a large amount of time learning how to take fancy old world recipes and revamped them with food sources that were still available or recreated them with off world goodies. I also still paint, and love to collaborate with others to create amazing new concepts!”
His face darkened for a moment as he thought back to the early days of the resistance. “There were so many people who in the blink of an eye had lost everything, and unfortunately it was insanely common to find kids who had either been separated from their families or were the only survivor. In a lot of instances they were traumatized and it took a lot of creative thinking to coax them out of their shells and help to reteach them on how to live. This happened fairly frequently with adults as well. Because of this and what seemed like a never ending shortage of textiles, I had to learn and create new ways to make things and often times help find things that brought the sparkle back to peoples eyes. Because of this however, I have a multimedia conglomerate that allows me to work in a wide area of creative outlets. The fashion world is a flippant mistress, but there are a lot of ways in which one can compete and stand out. It’s led to a lot of lucrative contracts with those who are “starving” for the next amazing piece of creatively, or at least that’s what they tell me. The great thing about taking high end contracts and commissions is that a lot like my brothers, the revenue lets me continue to reach out to others. I fund a program that includes shelters called “Uncle Mikey’s” for those who are missing, exploited, or just need help. I also teach cooking, and practical skills for those who need them, and they are streamed to community centers such as local libraries, after school programs, and the like, to try and continue to help those who never received a chance to learn to do things due to the world kind of going through an apocalypse level event.
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History 3 Trapped Filming Diary (full English translation) - Days 61-66 (final part)
Masterpost here.
I don’t own the book so I can’t post my scans of the pictures that came with it. So I posted some other pictures of the scenes that were being filmed. These pics belong to LINE TV or Choco Media, or I’ve taken screenshots.
Read days 61-66 (final day) under the cut. 
Day 61
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In the final days before the end of shooting, we were finally scheduled to film in Zhaozi’s house. 
Zhaozi’s house basically only exists to let him and Jack be able to court each other. Every scene is just sweet and unbearably cute. In the drama, Zhaozi’s house is one that his late grandmother had left him. Mounted on the wall was a small framed picture of an older lady, and the protagonist of this picture was really Tingxuan’s [Kenny’s] living (maternal) grandma. His grandmother is already over 90 years old but she keeps in very strong health and can walk around in the park without having to use crutches. Kenny has a good relationship with his grandmother. When he took this photo out and introduced her to us, his eyes were full of happiness that we didn’t see at other times.⁕ 
An apron-wearing Jack is like the embodiment of a handsome chef coming to your house. Even if what he prepares are only super simple instant noodles, he could flirt with Zhaozi (and the hearts of many girls). 
I don’t know if Zhaozi’s grandma, looking on from the picture frame, would be satisfied with this young idol wearing her apron though. 
⁕ Kenny, why so cute? 😭
Day 62
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That’s right. Today was also a whole day of kissing, hugging and rolling on the bed (I’m flustered) in Zhaozi’s house. The Sanzhi Little White House B&B has featured as the location for many famous commercials and idol dramas. The inside of the house feels warm and sweet, which is why it was selected as this drama’s setting for Zhaozi’s house. 
Zhaozi’s room is located on the second floor. Young people have good physical strength, because they had to kiss from the first floor all the way up to the second floor (if I’m not careful almost all of today’s pictures will be kissing pictures, hahahahaha), then in the room on the second floor they were rolling around in the bed and then back to the first floor to roll on the table. 
When you look at the pictures of the table scene, maybe it was cut to a short moment in the show, but the positions and the movements for this scene were rather complicated.  The two needed to first practice the chemistry between their positions and the camera, and many different camera angles as well as bloopers happened during filming. The two of them lingered at the table half the night, their rolling around started from dinner and went on until they had a midnight snack. We really can’t but admire the two’s good core strength. 
Day 63
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Actually, the fighting scenes in the car and after they get out of the car after Tang Yi and Shaofei are being seized were filmed on different days. Therefore, what was filmed today was after Shaofei pulled the handbrake (right, I use this as the dividing point [between the scenes]) and the two of them rushed up the mountain. The weather that day was really cold, so it was also a test for the crew to go shooting in the mountains. 
That same day we also shot the plotline of how Shaofei fantasizes about how to get off the mountain. The crew used branches to make a scarecrow for Tang Yi and Shaofei to hang their clothes on. But during the filming process the art team made a total of three scarecrows. When asked about it, it was not because they wanted to have a back-up prop, but because one of them was snatched away by a dog from the mountains to use as a toy.
The art crew went: “Doggie, you bastard, come back here” (in Shaofei’s elevator voice)⁕ 
⁕  When Shaofei was cuffed to the handrail and Tang Yi stepped out of the elevator, Shaofei said almost the same thing to Tang Yi. (”Tang Yi, you bastard, get back here.”)
Day 64
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It’s two days before the end of shooting, and I already can’t think anymore about how many times these two have kissed. And today was another whole day of kissing. I’m not exaggerating. Early in the morning we filmed that Shaofei grabbed Tang Yi’s hands when they got to the courthouse. When Director Qingrong arranged the scene, she figured that the plot allowed for them to kiss again, so a kissing scene was added on the spot. 
In the afternoon we switched sets and went to the balcony at the hospital. On the balcony Shaofei confessed his feelings and also stealthily kissed [Tang Yi]. How could someone confess like that and kiss straight after? Our boss Tang hadn’t even responded [to the confession] yet! Counting on my fingers, one camera angle takes 8 takes on average, and for one scene we would approximately change angles four or five times. So for all the scenes from morning until in the afternoon, they at least kissed 70 times, and that’s only today. ⁕ 
⁕ Listen, I need to see aaaaaaaallllll the taaaaaaaaakes.   
Day 65
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Tang Yi and Shaofei have finished filming! 
They spent 68 days of wind, sun and rain together, they went through being chased by men in black and hit by bullets, together they spent [a night] in an abandoned cabin on fire, the two went from being strangers at the acting and martial arts classes to gradually developing a deep connection with each other and hand in hand, they overcame all kinds of difficulties. 
Different from the other “HIStory” series we have made before, <Trapped> was the first story to break free of having a school campus as its setting. The plot was much more complicated and the actors were faced with more and bigger challenges. Regardless of whether it were psychological challenges concerning their acting, or psychical challenges of being involved in numerous fights and constantly sustaining injuries, it was all very tough on them. The last day of filming, with good weather, was also spent in a fight. They fought 8 hours straight, from 9am in the morning until the sun set in the mountains, which was a major test of physical strength. The sun shone brightly, there were high temperatures and the rays of the sun dazzled the eyes. Tang Yi fought bravely in a suit and leather shoes, and Shaofei’s left eye was hit during the fighting process. He immediately returned to a state of readiness for war after a quick break to apply some ice to it. Thank you, all actors, for your dedication and the beauty of each frame that you presented, and thank you to the crew members behind the scenes for their hard work. You can leave the rest up to us now. 
Boss Tang was finished with shooting a little earlier than Shaofei, because in the evening, Unit 3 continued their scenes in the restaurant. Unexpectedly a group of people arrived earlier at the restaurant and waited for our arrival. It turned out to be our senior colleagues from <Crossing The Line>, Yanze (Zach Lu) and Menglin (Nick Yang) who were visiting the set. When they saw their younger ‘brothers’ working hard to film this show, and them being riddled with scars from filming, the original mood of being there to supervise softened. Senior Zach patted junior Jake on the shoulder, saying, “Seeing you taking this so seriously, I can pass the baton to you guys with an assured mind.”
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Day 66
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On the last day of shooting, the crew was divided into two groups to carry out the work. One group was responsible for returning to the international conference office and for going up the mountains to shoot some more final material to fill up some gaps; the other group in turn stayed behind at Zhaozi’s house to shoot scenes for the final episode, namely the fight and bed scenes after Jack took Zhaozi home on his motorbike (or should I say ‘transported’ home?). The evening’s bed scene called for Jack to do a lot of push-ups. Each time after “Action” was yelled, Jack huffed out sounds like “Ah” and “Huh” while doing his push-ups, which rendered the crew at the scene unable to stop laughing. After shooting the ‘official’ scenes, to increase the sound effects from under the covers, the two actors were asked specifically to use the blanket to create some more needed sounds for the show. After confirming that the sounds were okay, Director Qingrong yelled “We can pack up! <Trapped> has finally finished shooting.” Because there were other houses in the neighbourhood of Jack’s house and it was night time, everyone cheered a little bit but immediately said “shhhhhh”, reminding each other to be quiet. 
To be frank, practicing how to say goodbye is definitely not a simple thing. When you continue doing the same thing for 21 days, it would slowly become a habit. But with <Trapped>, from when shooting started until we finished filming, we went through 66 work days together. We were used to getting along with everyone, we were used to getting up early and eating breakfast together, or eating a snack in the middle of the night. Meeting with this whole team every day had become a kind of habit. In these 66 days, we experienced Yilan in 10 degrees and 30 degrees, we climbed mountains together and jumped into swimming pools together, we may have accidentally slipped on the mountain and gotten injured, we were shot at by airsoft guns (BB guns), and the thick smoke in the abandoned cabin made our nostrils turn black. All of that will become memories now. Finishing shooting [a show] is like the feeling of attending a graduation ceremony when you are a kid: you look forward to it, but the closer to the day it gets, the more you feel like you don’t want it to end. We hope that everyone who reads this diary will feel the warmth brough by the crew of <Trapped> and we also hope that these memories that left a deep impression, will forever remain in everyone’s hearts.
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Chess. Chapter 3
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Y/N never hurt anyone who didn’t deserve it. She only took what she needed, or what she felt others needed. She’d stayed out of sight for a long time, avoiding anything that could get her in to too much trouble. But for some reason Rick Flag shows up in her life, and in an instant, everything changes.
 TW: sexual harassment/assault, torture, sexual themes
I don’t know how many days passed. In the dark, days and nights flowed together; making it difficult to keep up a daily rhythm that made sense.
I lived from meal to meal. Not that I ate much of what they sent in, which was usually more of those little pellets in water; and every third meal, being something cold and mushy, that smelt conspicuously like canned cat food. It took me about 6 “meals”, to finally accept that this is what it actually was. With the canned food I’d get a thin slice of stale toast. This – along with a plastic cup of water – was all I consumed for a long time.
Every once in a while, I’d hear Griggs voice through the speaker, reminding me he was still there. He’d tell me to get ready; meaning I had to face the wall opposite the door, hands and legs spread. They’d come in then, the guards, usually fronted by the man himself, and flip over the mattress, pretending to search my cell for contraband.
That’s when he’d stand behind me, pressing himself against my back. His hands would wander, patting me down everywhere, even the parts of my body not covered by clothing. After a final squeeze of my asscheek; he’d turn around and proclaim; “She’s clean”. They’d back out the door, shut it, and it would be dark again.
During one of these visits, I’d had enough, and as Griggs hand wandered towards my groin area, I quickly grabbed his hand, twisting his fingers until I heard a crack.
“Bitch!”, Griggs screeched, elbowed me in the side; and as I feel to the floor, I suddenly had three guards on me, kicking me on my sore hip, and on my ribs. One of the kicks pushed the air out of me, and as I desperately tried to regain control of my breathing, they backed out the door, leaving me there alone.
Maybe 10 minutes later, the speaker howled in the darkness.
“That was not very nice, puss”, Griggs said. “You know, I’ve tried to play nice with you; even breaking the budget on those canned foods you’ve been getting. No more. It’s time you settle in for the long haul”.
Music played, at first at a low volume; but then increasing, until it felt like my head was going to explode from the sound. It would stay like that for about 30 seconds, before being lowered again. It continued like this; music turning up and down, with the highest volume being so intense, no amount of covering my ears seemed to help. My heart beat fiercely, and I could even feel the veins of my fingers pounding. I curled up in a seated position.
After what seemed like forever, the music stopped. I exhaled, and removed my hands from my ears; my biceps stinging from how long and forcefully I had been covering them. I laid down, ears ringing; and I could hear the blood pumping through my body. My ribs and my hip were pulsating in pain.
I closed my eyes, and my body began to give in to sleep.
The music started again. Same pattern as before. I screamed, but at the height of the music, I couldn’t even hear my own voice. That’s when I passed out.
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“Chess”, a familiar voice called. “Y/N!”. I came too, slowly.
“No more”; I whispered into the darkness; lips and tongue dry.
“Cover your eyes. I’m turning on the lights”. I recognized the voice then. Flag. With great effort, I covered my face with my arm, curling up into a fetal position. I heard the sound of the fluorescent lights flickering on. Then footsteps and keys rattling outside the door.
“Three goddamn days? She’s been out for three days?!”, Flags voice boomed on the other side of the door. “Why didn’t you call me sooner?”.
The door opened, and through the crack of my bended arm, I saw boots walking towards me.
“We thought she was faking it, sir”, Griggs answered Flag.
I felt a hand on my waist, and winced in pain.
“What the hell did you do to her?”, Flag growled.
“She attacked me, sir. My men might have gone a bit overboard”, Griggs retorted.
I blinked, the light still too sharp for my eyes. Flag took a hold of my arm, pulling it away from my face. My eyes hurt, but I looked up at him. His expression was pained.
Putting an arm around my waist, he pulled me up into a seated position. I looked down at my body. I was filthy, covered in dust; and my arms and legs looked skinnier than the last time I’d seen them.
“Can you stand?”, Flag quietly asked me. His eyes were worried.
I tried to get onto my knees, but was too dizzy; and fell back onto my butt. Flag got behind me, and carefully slipped his arms through mine; lifting me onto my feet.
I was weak, and tried to take a wobbly step forward, falling back into his arms. He lifted my arm, and put it around his neck, dragging me with him.
“Help me out, Edwards”, Flag said, and a man with a stubbled face, standing a few inches shorter than Flag, took my other arm around his own neck. Half walking, half carrying me out of the cell, we passed Griggs, who was standing outside. I saw that his hand was in a cast of some kind; and smiled at the fact that I’d made my mark.
They walked me down a dimly lit corridor. Was I in a basement? The doors we passed were all closed, and I wondered if there were other prisoners behind them.
At the end of the hall were stairs, and the two soldiers dragged me up them, until we came to a new corridor, cleaner and brighter than the one we had come from. They took me to a room, sparsely furnitured with a metal table, and two chairs on either side of it. A clock over the door told me it was 3 o’clock.  Am or pm, I didn’t know. Interrogation, I told myself, and the men seated me in a chair, handcuffing me to the table.
On one wall was large mirror, which I knew would be a two way.
I looked at myself in the mirror. The person staring back at me was someone I didn’t know. Her face was gaunt, eyes dark; and she was black and blue on one side of her torso. Well hello, gorgeous, I laughed at myself.
“Something funny?”, Flag asked me, on his way out the door.
“Just that stick up your ass”, I answered, and smiled as brightly as I could.
He closed the door behind him.
One hand free, I ran my fingers through my hair; matted from my ordeal.
I waited for about 30 minutes. Something smelled rancid, and I realized it was me. I hadn’t bathed for who knew how long; but it would obviously have to wait.
The door opened again, and in stepped the woman from the van, followed by Flag, who was looking everywhere but at me. The woman sat down, and pulled out a paper file folder.
“My name is Amanda Waller”, she said.
“I know who you are”, I said, and leant back in the chair, trying for casual. “I also know you’re here to make me an offer I can’t refuse. Literally. You’ll kill me if I do”.
Waller smirked. “I won’t, but the guards at this place might. Apparently, you broke the captains favorite jerking hand”.
“So you’ve been listening in”.
“We have. And though I am not happy with the way things have turned out, it seems all of this was necessary to keep you in line”, Waller retorted. “Let me get down to the point. Me and the colonel here, lead a group of people with special skills. For some reason you know this already; so you probably also know that each of these individuals are people, who most of the good people of The United States would rather see behind bars, or even executed”. She narrowed her eyes at me. “Before I continue, please humor me; how did you know of us?”.
“I knew about you. I didn’t know about Mr. Tall, Lean and Grumpy here”, I said, and nodded my head in Flags direction. His expression remained calm, but his lips twitched once; revealing that my answer had made an effect.
“Hear that, Flag? Your cover remains unblown. Good for you”. Her cold eyes remained on me. “Now answer the question, Y/N”.
“There are whispers. About a cold bitch who is tracking people like me; to use our… special skills”, I repeated her own words.
“But there really is no one like you, is there, Chess?”. She stood up, and opened the folder. “Y/N Y/L/N. A.k.a. Chess. Short for Cheshire?”.
“Nah, that name was taken”, I smirked.
“Right. You don’t strike me as someone with martial arts skills and venomous nails”, she said, looking down at my chipped black polish.
“I can scrap with the best of them, if necessary”.
“I’m counting on it”. She continued. “B minus high school student, until you had a run in with Jervis Tetch, a.k.a. The Mad Hatter. Experimenting with a device he hoped would render himself invisible, he tested it out on one of his kidnapping victims. You”.
I winced. The memory of that event was something I’d rather have been left alone.
“It backfired. Without going in to the scientific details, it made you able to become invisible at will, without using the aforementioned device. He decided to use you for his own criminal activity, and for a few years, you worked for him as a cat burglar and spy. During one of his stints in Arkham Asylum, you decided to become an independent contractor”.
I sat up straight, daring her to continue. She sat back down.
“Burglary. Car theft. Stealing official documents from the FBI – impressive!”, she smiled. “Kidnapping of a senators daughter. Possession of an illegal drug substance?”.
“Actually those last ones were a two for one”, I laughed. “And it wasn’t so much a kidnapping as great weekend in Vegas. She was fully in to it. We almost got married”. The clerk at the chapel had refused to go through with the ceremony, because he was worried, we were under the influence of drugs. It might have been the smell of the half smoked blunt in my pocket that gave us away. “Stephanie? Tiffany? I can’t remember her name”.
“Melissa”, Flag said from behind Waller.
“Right. Melissa!”, I smirked. “You could bounce a nickel of her ass. Was she an ex of yours?”, I smiled at him. He scoffed.
Waller continued. “You’ve avoided arrest on most of your charges; I suppose, due to your condition”.
“My ability to smile”, I said.
“Yes, that’s right. Before you become invisible, you purr and smile. Is there a reason for this?”, she goaded me on. I knew it didn’t make any sense to be secretive, so I decided to be up front with her.
“I don’t know. That’s just how it is. When I need to disappear, my body vibrates, which sounds like a purr. The smile is what sends signals to my brain, to bend light around my body, or an object I’m touching; which then becomes invisible. Serotonin, dopamine… whatever. It works”. I sighed. “Where are we going with this?”.
“Task Force X, under the day to day leadership of Colonel Flag, has an opening. I want you to fill that spot”.
“Why?”, I asked, genuinely wondering.
“Because making things and people disappear is handy, in some of the missions the Force may have coming up”.
“But what is in it for me?”
“10 years of your sentence, per mission”, Waller replied, and closed the file.
“What sentence? I haven’t done anything in a long time”, I said, voice shaking lightly.
“16 months ago, judge Jeremiah Kelper disappeared for a week, before an anonymous tip led the police to him, bound, bloody and gagged, in a warehouse on Gotham Harbor”. Waller folded her hands in front of her, and met my eyes again. “When he woke up at the hospital, he was ranting about a “ghost” that had drugged him, dragged him to the warehouse; and held him for days, tied to a chair. The “ghost” had beat him several times with a pipe, and… well, let’s not get further in to that”.
I couldn’t help but smile. “Sounds like someone had it in for him”.
“Sounds like”, Waller half whispered. “I also know that Kelpers records are much cleaner than he is. But then there’s the money”.
“What money”, I asked, looking first at Waller, then up at Flag, who smirked at me.
“1 million dollars, cash, disappeared from a safe at Wayne Tower, two months ago. What did you spend it on?”, he asked.
Shit, they got me, I thought. “I donated it”.
“Some of it”; Waller said, and reopened the file. “987.000 dollars were donated anonymously to a local shelter for battered women, two days later”.
I leant forward; and Flag quickly took a step towards the table, putting his arm in front of Waller.
“Calm down, soldier”, I said. “From what I hear, The Wayne Foundation matched my donation to the same shelter, not long after”.
“You’re right”, Waller said. “It seems to me, you want to be one of the good guys”. I smirked again. “But you’re not. You’re a villain, Y/N – one of the bad guys. But you can make that badness have a purpose”.
I leant back again, and Flag relaxed, stepping back. He folded his arms – those arms – and leant against the wall, toying with the id-card attached to his t-shirt sleeve.
“Show me what you can do”, Waller demanded.
“I can’t”, I said, looking back at Wallers now surprised face. “I need energy to smile, and for the last – what – month or so, I’ve been living on stale toast and kibble”, I admitted.
“Flag”, Waller said, and the soldier took a candy bar from his pants pocket, and placed it in front of me. With my free hand shaking, I opened the wrapper, and put it to my lips. Taking a bite of the heavenly chocolate, feeling the wonderful sensation of sugar rushing through my system; I moaned.
“Mhmm”. Flag stepped back to wall again, looking uncomfortable at my sounds. I couldn’t help myself. “Got anything else in those pants for me?”, I purred; and as he quickly looked away from my face, I smiled.
Touching the table with my free hand, it went away in a mist, making the file folder look as if it was floating in midair.  Wallers eyes went wide. I kicked of one slipper, touching the floor with my bare foot, and suddenly, the floor was gone, leaving the three of us as if standing on clear glass.
Looking down, I saw a cell, no bigger than my own had been, though better furnished; with a cot, a toilet, a couple of nudie posters, and a tiny table. In the middle of the room stood a rugged looking man, clutching a toy unicorn in his arms. He looked up, eyes large; before looking towards Waller. He smiled widely, gold tooth gleaming, and though I couldn’t hear what he was saying, it was clear it was along the lines of “I see London, I see France, I see Wallers underpants”. Waller crossed her legs quickly, and looked at me, with a mix of horror and excitement plastered on her face.
“Enough!”, she shouted.
That’s when I made myself disappear before their eyes.
Flag and Waller looked around the room trying to find me, before Flag ran across the invisible floor, towards the chair, grabbing for what I guess he thought would be my shoulder, but ended up being my right breast. Confused at the softness, his brow furrowed.
My energy gave out. The floor, the table, and lastly my body, reappeared. Realizing where his hand was, Flag jumped back, looking at his hand, face reddening. “Thanks for that”, I smiled at him flirtatiously. He turned his back to me and clenched his guilty hand into a fist.
“I think I’ve seen everything I need to”, Waller said, standing back up again, picking up the folder. “Training starts tomorrow. Once the colonel has calmed down a bit, he’ll make sure you get a proper meal”. She went for the door.
“Waller!”, I stopped her dead in her tracks. “Tell me, did Kelpers balls ever pop back down?”.
She smiled crookedly at me. “I hear he’s going to need some reconstructive surgery”.
She walked out the door, leaving me with Flag.
Flag unlocked the cuffs, and pulled me up. “Think you’ll be able to walk yourself this time?”.
I leant towards him, putting my hands on his chest. Fuck, you’re firm, I thought.
“I might need a little help. Feel free to grab a hold of me anywhere”, I beamed at him.
Flag roughly put my arms behind my back, and cuffed them together. “Let’s go, kitten”, he scoffed, and pushed me in front of him, out of the door. My friends The Tweedles were waiting outside. “Get her back to her cell. Make sure the lights are on until 2200 hours. And get her a proper meal”.
As Tweedle Dee and Dum supported my still weak body walking down the hall, I looked back at Flag.
“You like me”, I flirted, and his face reddened again, before he turned around, and walked in the opposite direction.
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Pairing:  Jung Hoseok/Park Jimin/Kim Taehyung x Reader
Genre: fluff
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You were stretching in bed when the pleasant sound of the trees woke you up. You groped your phone under your pillow and groaned. Friday, 5:13 a.m. Your room was still in the twilight of the night, and why did you manage to wake up so early?! There was still a lot of time before the excursion, and what you must to do? You smiled, even on vacation your habit of waking up early has not disappeared anywhere. Sometimes you wondered why you were so drawn to work that the time for sleep seemed to be wasted. Although, someone would not be happy to work with BTS. These guys were incredible not only outwardly, their dedication, sincerity, kindness and manners, won your heart from the very first minute of communication. And now, lying in your room at the beautiful resort that you have long dreamed of, you still missed your work. Although it may not be about work ...
You smiled and took out your laptop, began to check your mail and what you have to do when you return home. Ten days passed almost imperceptibly, and now there were several days of your escape to this paradise. It is worth enjoying them to the fullest. You were so carried away by your work that you didn't even notice when exactly your room was filled with bright sunlight. You got out of bed and opened the doors to the terrace. The hot wind enveloped your body under the sound of the ocean. Yes, it's definitely good morning! You smiled broadly enjoying the beach landscape. After breakfast, you started getting ready for the excursion. The main plus of interrupting on vacation is that all you need is glasses, a swimsuit and a sundress. Neither makeup, nor hairstyle, nor the eternal dilemma of what to wear - do not bother you when you spend 90% of your time on the beach. You will be definitely miss this. 
IT WILL BE FUN
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You went out into the hall where everyone who went on a tour gathered. You looked while the guide checked everything in place.
"_____!" a cheerful voice called out to you before strong arms wrapped around your body from your back, making you dumb with surprise. You broke free from the tight embrace and turned towards the owner of a clear voice. Your jaw dropped when you saw Hoseok in front of you. Can you have sunstroke? You stared at him in disbelief, checking your temperature. “Oh, seriously? I'm not a hallucination.” He laughed as he watched your reaction.
"Hoseok, what are you doing here?" you were completely discouraged by his appearance.
“We flew here at night to photoshoot. Since this is the first day, we have a day off. I thought it would be nice to go on an excursion, and here I am” he put his arm around your shoulders and pushed you towards the bus, where everyone was already sitting. “I was a little upset to be alone, but now I have you. It will be fun!"
“That's for sure,” you mumbled, still trying to piece all the pieces of the puzzle together in your head. How did it happen? You and Hoseok are going on an excursion together. While you were driving, he talked about everything that happened in your absence, which made you practically laughed to tears. "And why did so many funny things happen as soon as I left?" you pretended to pout
"That's it! Don't go anywhere for so long anymore! " replied Hoseok, crossing his arms over his chest
"I was away for 10 days"
"Just?" Hoseok interrupted you, looking at you wide-eyed “FOR 10 whole days you were gone !!! In fact, I missed you while you were drinking cocktails here on the beaches and flirting with tanned guys" from turned towards the window, pretending to be offended by you
"Yes Yes Yes. Poor Hoseok." you stroked his head "By the way, for reference, I haven't flirted with any tanned guys"
“Yeah, so you don’t deny the cocktail part?” he turned sharply and pointed his finger at you, as if he had solved the crime of the century.
“You don’t think I’ll only drink fresh juices on vacation in such a chic place?” you answered and you two laughed
“Okay, on this point I forgive you. But about the guys - it doesn't seem to be true. I will not believe that during this time no one flirted with you. " he shook his head in disbelief
“I didn’t say that they didn’t flirt with me. I said that I was not flirting with anyone.” You took your bag and headed for the exit when the bus arrived. Hoseok looked at you with an open mouth, you stuck out your tongue and ran out of the bus.
"Gotcha" You squealed laughing as he grabbed you, lifting the air. “I knew how you usually know how to find the right words to make yourself innocent,” he said, putting you on the ground. “I don't even want to image how many guys you managed to break their heart. Cruel woman " he covered his face with his hand
"It's not my fault that they are not in my style"
"Is it because I'm in your style?" he smiled widely, posing smugly
"Mmmmm ..." you examined him from head to toe, carefully evaluating him
"Are you hesitant to answer?" he stared at you
"You .." you started to say, but he covered his ears with his hands, humming a song
“I don’t even want to hear it!” He went ahead complaining under his breath “I miss her there, but she hesitates with the answer, in her style I am or not. What a cruel woman. My life will not be the same. My heart is completely broken.” You followed him, laughing at his little performance of the“ jealous guy ”. What a weirdo, you thought to yourself. “Okay, so be it. My generous heart forgives you. ”He smiled broadly, turning in your direction as you walked down the steps.
“Oh, I don't even know how to thank you Hoseok. Thank you very much!!!" you bowed deeply with your hand on your heart. He laughed loudly and pulled your hand to speed up your step. You just followed him while the guide was telling you something about the place where you were, but you couldn't concentrate because Hoseok was constantly joking and distracting you. You knew that because of him you would miss the whole excursion. You went down to a beautiful beach and your breath caught in how beautiful it was. Hoseok pulled you towards the beach as everyone else headed towards the rocks “What are you doing? We are in the other direction,” you said pulling him back, which made him too close to you. You staggered and he hugged you around the waist, pressing you against his body so that you do not fall.
"Can we arrange our own excursion?" he winked at you "Let's go" he pulled you along almost running to the end of the beach. You just followed him, unable to stop. “Wow, look at this place,” Hoseok said as he walked through a crack in the rock. You followed him and your breath caught, it was a small beach hidden in a rock with crystal water.
"What are you doing?" you asked looking at Hoseok, who was taking off his shirt
“Do you see this water and you still have no desire to be in it? You're strange!" he laughed as he unbuttoned his pants. You turned away when he started taking off his shorts. "Are you embarrassing me?"
“No, on the contrary, I didn't want to embarrass you,” you said, turning to him.
"Let's assume that I believed you" he smiled broadly and ran into the water "Why froze, take off your clothes and join" he waved his hand to you as he sailed from the shore. You neatly folded your things and taking off your sundress went towards the water. A loud whistle echoed through the cave. "Wow, no wonder everyone was flirting with you, look at your perfect body," he said, exploring your body.
Under his gaze, you immediately blushed and quickly went into the water to somehow cover up your too naked body. He just smiled while continuing to fool around in the water. Hoseok was right, the water was surprisingly refreshing after a day in the sun. You turned on your back, enjoying how your body rocked on the light waves. You closed your eyes for a moment, completely dissolving in sensations. You felt cool skin under your fingers. You opened your eyes and turned your head slightly, your eyes widened when you realized that your hand was in the middle of Hoseok's chest. Before you could take your hand away, he covered your hand with his. He ran your hand up his chest before wrapping your arm around his neck. "Hold on to me, I don't want you to be carried away in waves to the depths." he smiled slightly
You tried not to pay attention to the wave of heat passing through your body as your fingers stroked his skin. And what do you think now, you scolded yourself mentally. “I am actually a great swimmer. This is just for reference.” You closed your eyes again trying not to think that he is so close to you, and your hand is on his body, and you two are practically naked ...
“Are you so confident? Then let's go this way, we swim to that stone and back. The loser pays for the dinner.” You got to your feet, turning in the direction he was pointing.
"Excellent! Hope you're ready to lose! " you grinned
On the count of three, you started to swim towards the rock, but when you pulled ahead, Hoseok grabbed your leg, bouncing you back "Hey ..." you tried to pull your leg out of his grip
“I didn't say you have to play fair,” he laughed as he swam forward. You kept fighting along the way trying to knock each other back. At some point, your swim turned into martial arts in water. He pinned you to the rock, but before you could swim away, you wrapped your legs around his waist. “Why are you so strong,” he growled as you squeezed your thighs around his waist. His fingers dug into your skin trying to get out of the trap of your hands and feet. You froze when your faces were inches apart. Only now did you understand exactly what position you were in. You blushed pushing away from him and heading for the shore while he still remained in place.
“Hurray, I won,” you tried to hide your embarrassment behind a cheerful smile when he swam second.
"Well done. I'll buy you a delicious dinner. " he smiled swimming up to you
"I think it's time for us to get back to the hotel." you were the first to get out of the water quickly putting on a sundress, which you immediately regretted, because it stuck to your wet body.
“As you say,” he came out after you, also dressing.
You drove back to the hotel almost in silence. You arrived at the hotel after getting off the bus you headed towards your bungalow. Hoseok stopped you by grabbing your wrist "Where are you running?" he asked with a smile, “What's your room number, I'll pick you up for dinner. I have lost "
"Oh this .." you ran a hand through your hair, trying to figure out if it was a good idea to go to dinner with him.
“Ooh, don't even think about saying now that you have other plans! Don't leave me alone," he whined, acting like a child.
“Stop” you slapped him on the shoulder to make him stop “Okay, okay. I'll have dinner with you. I live in bungalow 3a "
“Great, be ready for 8” he smiled broadly and ran towards the hall. A second later he returned “No, at 9! Better at 9 "
"Okay, at 9!" you laughed at his behaviour.
Returning to your room, you immediately went to the shower, getting rid of your wet clothes. Coming out of the shower, you fell onto the bed. Your heart was too worried about Hoseok. No, you shook your head. It's all a relaxing atmosphere. Nice place, nice guy, you are naked ... you would react the same way to any other guy. Yes, it's not because you liked Hoseok. You never even thought about him in this regard. You got out of bed and went to the closet. It's good that you had the brains to take at least one evening dress and shoes with you. You brought out a short open back chiffon black dress. You put it on. Seems too much, you muttered, turning your bare back to the mirror. Is it too short, you circled around you. As if you had a choice, you frowned. You took off your dress throwing it back on a chair. I wonder why he said that he would be left alone, where are the other members? You thought, again falling on the bed.
Damn, you jumped out of bed when you saw the time. You got too carried away watching videos on the internet. You quickly applied light makeup and dried your hair, tied it in a high ponytail. You put on dress and shoes while examining yourself in the mirror. It may be worth letting your hair down to cover your back. You heard the knock at the door, it seems you don't have time to change your hairstyle. You took the phone and put it in your clutch and went to the door. You opened the door and for a moment Hoseok looked at you with his mouth open. He grabbed the heart, resting his hand against the wall "Oh my god .. I died and ended up in paradise?" he said, examining you from head to toe.
"Stop this show" you rolled your eyes watching his reaction
“This is the first time I will have dinner with such a beautiful and sexy girl.” He looked you in the eyes, for a second his voice became too serious. "Although your shoes don't fit well," he smiled.
You looked at him, he was wearing a shirt with several buttons unbuttoned to reveal his chest, ripped jeans and barefoot. It seems you've obviously overdid it in choosing an outfit, you thought looking at him.
“I can change quickly,” you said, starting to turn toward the door.
"No way! Come on,” he took your hand and wrapped his arm around your waist, pulled it towards him. A slight shiver went through your body as his fingers touched your skin, you hoped he hadn't paid attention to it.
"Where are we going?" you asked when you headed towards the beach, not the restaurants.
"Surprise. I said that I would buy you dinner, I didn’t say it would be in the restaurant ”he winked at you. He sat down sharply in front of you and ran his hand over your shin
"What are you doing?" your breath stopped
“There is sand further, it will not be convenient to walk on such high heels,” he took off your shoes and got up and took your hand, leading you along the beach.
"I can walk on my own, you don't have to lead me like a little child." You tried to pull your hand away, but he only squeezed it tighter.
"You can't walk without my hand," he muttered, turning to face you. He took a wide ribbon from his pocket and walked close to you. "Close eyes"
"WHAT?" you stared at him
“Just trust me. Close eyes. Please” from his smile everything inside you tightened. “Come on…” you closed your eye. He leaned forward to cover your eyes, his body too close, you could feel the warmth of his skin through his shirt as he tied the ribbon at the back. Your body jerked away when you felt his hot breath on your neck. "Don't be afraid, I don't bite," he whispered in your ear, and your skin got goose bumps as his lips practically touched yours. He laughed softly as he took a step back. He took your hand, intertwining his fingers with yours. And he pulled with him. You kept walking in the dark, stepping on the warm sand.
"Auch" you moaned when you bumped into his back.
"Oh sorry ______" he laughed as he ran his fingers over your cheek. "We're almost there." He stood behind your back and hugged your waist, put his hand on your stomach. You tried to pull away, but he didn't let go of you. He took you by the shoulder with his other hand and pushed you forward. "Step by step" he told you
"What a joke," you muttered, stepping forward carefully.
"Stop," he said, hugging him sharply. He untied your eyes by removing the ribbon "Surprise"
Your mouth opened. Everything around was in small lights and candles stood on the sand, surrounding everything around with a warm muffled light. In front of a round rotunda couch, there was a table with candles. "How do you did this?" you turned and looked at Hoseok
"I wanted to see exactly that glance on your face" he smiled broadly
"Which one?" you asked, but he didn’t answer and went forward with a smile. "And what's that?" you asked, pointing to the couch as you sat down at the table.
“There are very beautiful stars here, I wanted to admire them after dinner, but it’s not very comfortable to lie on the sand,” he shrugged.
You were laughing while enjoying your dinner telling funny stories about yourself. He got up from the table and lay down on the couch next to table. "Come here! Where else can you see such a starry sky? " he said looking into the sky.
You got up and walked over to the couch and neatly lay next to him. You continued to straighten your short dress, it seemed to you that you were naked next to Hoseok. He knelt down next to you, and looking at you began to unbutton his shirt. You looked at him with wide eyes. "What are you doing, Hoseok?" your voice trembled with confusion.
His eyes were fixed on you, expressing no emotion as he took off his shirt. You were nervous watching him, which made your cheeks burn. "You're cute," he laughed. Covering your thighs with my shirt “I thought you were nervous about the length of your dress. I thought that this way you can finally relax and enjoy the sky.” He lay down again, looking up. "Look, it's so amazing"
You looked at him. He was lying next to you, half naked and why was his smile so sexy? "Yes, amazing" Mad what are you talking about, you are probably just drunk. You should control your words and thoughts. You sharply turned your head up until he saw that you were looking at him. After a while, the stars disappeared before your eyes, the fatigue of a long day overcame you. A pleasant smell and warmth enveloped your body, you pulled it closer not wanting to part with it. Something deep in your thoughts told you that it was wrong, only you could not understand what exactly. Your eyes opened and you were lying on a naked man's chest, hugging his torso, pressing your body against him. Was this your dream? You raised your hand and ran your fingers over his chest, it was so interesting, the sensations were real. You felt something hard pressed against your thigh, which was thrown over the man's thighs, and smiled. You looked ahead and saw the beach .. Beach ?! Hoseok! You stood up abruptly, and without expecting it, stared at his hard cock, which was protruding from his jeans.
“This is a natural reaction, I cannot control it. It's hard not to get aroused when you cuddle up to my body like that and stroke it with your hands, ” said Hoseok and you looked at him, completely blushing with embarrassment.
"Sorry," you muttered, backing away from him, "I just woke up early, didn't think that I would fall asleep as soon as my head touched the pillow."
"Do not apologize. Even for a moment, but I liked being your pillow. ”He laughed.
“It's time for us to return. It's been a long day, I'm tired. I would hate to wake up on the beach.” You got up from the couch and went to the table and took your shoes. Strong arms hugged you and you shuddered "Hoseok ..." you breathed
“It belongs to me,” he whispered in your ear. It wasn't until you put your head down that you saw that his shirt was tied around your waist. “Great,” he said, sniffing his shirt, “Now it smells of you, which means I will smell of you too,” he smiled broadly putting on the shirt
You rolled your eyes, unable to accept his amusement, you were too embarrassed for that. "Come on," you groaned heading towards the hotel while he laughed at your reaction. On the way to your bungalow, you were practically silent, answering Hoseok's questions only yes or no. You reached your door, turning towards Hoseok, you first met his eyes after the beach. “Despite the amount of embarrassment I experienced, the day was fun. Thank you. I like it"
"I liked to embarrass you" he smiled "You are so cute when you don't control everything around, as usual" his smile widened
"Hoseok" you stared at the floor "Stop joking"
He lifted your chin with his fingers, carefully studying your face, as if he saw for the first time "Who said I was joking?" his voice was stern without even a hint of amusement. "When I try to be serious, you run away from me every time, so what else is there for me to be around you?" a coldness passed through your body from his serious tone. "Do you like someone else?"
“Hoseok, I don’t…” you took a step back “I don’t have time to think about who I like and who I don’t. In my life, work comes first, there is no place for romance. "
"So no one is there," the corners of his lips lifted, forming a barely visible smile
"Good night, Hoseok" you said trying to escape this embarrassing conversation
"Good night" he chuckled
You turned to open the door, but before you went inside Hoseok grabbed your hand and turned towards him. He took your face and touched his lips to yours. Everything inside you froze. His soft lips gently leave kisses on yours. He pushed you against the door, deepening the kiss. Your breath became heavy under the caresses of his lips and tongue. You moaned when one of his hands passed over your back, squeezing your waist, and the other, lifting the hem of your dress, squeezed your thigh. You pushed away when his hand started to lift up your thigh, making you want more "Hoseok" you whispered before covering your mouth. You looked at the floor unable to raise your head, you were too ashamed that you even allowed this kiss, but you were even more ashamed that you so desperately wanted more.
"Sorry. I just wanted to leave an innocent kiss on your lips like a good night. But I couldn't stop as soon as I touched your tender lips. ”There was amusement in his voice.
“Stop” you looked at him pleadingly, “Please stop. We ... I work as one of your managers. Let's pretend it was a stupid drunken mistake, and we will never think about it. ”Before he could say anything, you ran into your room, closing the door behind you. You screwed up! You took an open bottle of wine from the table, filled your glass and drank it in one gulp. You took off your dress and fell into bed. I wonder if this day would happen again, would you make fewer mistakes? You closed your eyes falling into a deep sleep.
 Who's the king of the party here?
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You were stretching in bed when the pleasant sound of the trees woke you up. You groped your phone under your pillow and groaned. Friday, 5:13 a.m. What is it? Did you dream everything? You looked at your phone again - Friday. Was it really just a dream? Everything was so real. You kept spinning in bed trying to find at least some explanation. If it was a dream, then why did you dream about Hoseok? Some nonsense, you're probably going crazy. You lay and looked out the window, watching as your room was gradually filled with sunlight. Your phone vibrated to remind you of the excursion. You weren't in the mood to go on a tour. Your thoughts were too busy to listen to someone else. After breakfast, you returned to bed, not wanting to leave your room. You lay in bed watching various shows that you usually did not have enough time for. You looked at the time and fell back on your pillow. And what you do, _____? you muttered. Two days left, and you decided to spend them in your room looking at all this bullshit? you kept berating yourself. You got up and put on a swimsuit and went to the beach. On the way, you took a cocktail and drank it in almost one sip, which greatly surprised the bartender. You went to the farthest sunbed, which was at the end of the beach. Usually, there was no one in this area, and you could calmly enjoy the sun's rays alone. Taking off your sundress, you lay down on a lounger, stretching under the rays of the sun. The pleasant breeze and warm sun relaxed you.
“I thought it seemed to me,” a familiar voice pulled you out of your half-asleep condition. You opened your eyes and looked at the guy who was standing in front of you, holding out a glass of cocktail. Because of the bright sun, you could only see his silhouette.
"Who are you?" you asked slightly standing up, leaning on your hand.
"You are cruel" he laughed sitting down on the next lounger
"Jimin?" you sat up abruptly, turning in his direction “What? How? Why are you here? "
“We arrived for the shooting, but we will start only tomorrow. So today is the day off. And where, if not on the beach, to spend your day off? " he smiled broadly, making himself more comfortable on the lounger.
What is going on? Did you really dream about what happened with Hoseok? You shook your head, no, it's just a dream. Some have dreams that show events that are about to happen. Yes, you just had a dream that they should come here, albeit in such a country form. Sleep and nothing else ..
"Are you okay?" you looked at Jimin who was looking at you with concern
"Yes, I'm fine"
"I spoke to you, but you did not react to my words in any way"
“Sorry, I thought. What were you talking about?"
“I asked how is your vacation going? Did you manage to break many men's hearts? " he smiled while taking a sip
"Great, I don't want to go back to work." you lay back on the lounger taking a sip of the cocktail Jimin brought. "Delicious" you pointed to the cocktail with a broad smile. You decided to skip the answer to his second question.
"What? Do you not want to go back to work? You broke my heart, " he clutched his chest, feigning pain." We are all waiting for her, and she does not want to return to work. How can you be so cruel ... "
You laughed at his performance “Okay, since you were waiting for me. There is nothing to be with this, I have to return "
He jumped up and started dancing madly with joyful shouts. You laughed out loud as you watched his behaviour. "I definitely missed of this!" you said still laughing
“I'll take this as an admission that you missed me,” Jimin said as he walked up to you.
"It's not like I said" you raised an eyebrow
"Would you like another cocktail?" he asked taking your empty glass
"Yes please" you smiled at him before he headed towards the bar
“By the way,” he turned in your direction, you turned your gaze to him, and his gaze was riveted to your body. “Nothing,” he shook his head and walked on.
After a while, you heard Jimin cursing as he approached you. You looked up and laughed when you saw Jimin with a tray full of cocktails. He walked in small steps watching the shaking glasses. You got up and walked over to Jimin and took the tray out of his hands. You quickly walked over and set drinks on the table between your sun loungers.
"How did you manage to walk so fast and not spill a drop?" Jimin looked at you in surprise.
"I'm just talented at everything, face it" you pushed your hair back in a winning pose. "Have you decided to get drunk today?" you pointed to cocktails
“Get drunk? With this? This is a warm-up in our fight! ” he crossed his arms over his chest
"Are we participating in a duel?" you raised an eyebrow
“Yes, we must finally find out who gets drunk first! Last time on the company, you drank with me and Jungkook, and in the morning you looked like you drank water and not soju all night" he chuckled "It's time to find out who is the king of alcohol!" he laughed devilishly
"Aren't you afraid that tomorrow you will be studying hangover?" you smiled at him
"Hmm, you overestimate your strength too much if you think you will win!" he showed you his tongue and you laughed at his childish behaviour
“Okay! I accept your challenge! ”
“By the way, they told me at the bar that there is a party on the beach tonight. It will be fun." He raised two glasses and you drank to the start of a crazy evening.
As darkened, barrels of fire appeared on the sand, filling the dark beach with dim light. Loud music and the noise of people near the bar diluted the loud sounds of the waves. You have lost count of how much has been drunk already. But you didn't care, you were in a great mood. You got up from your seat and walked forward closer to the fire. You danced to the music you played. There were no thoughts in your head, just complete relaxation. Jimin came over to join you in your private fire party that was far from everyone else.
"I certainly don't mind, but you don't want to wear anything on yourself?" Jimin asked, looking at the guys in the bar who weren't taking their eyes off you. You looked at your body and laughed, exactly, you are in a swimsuit. You went back to your seat and took a short lace beach tunic out of your bag and put it on. You returned to your dance floor, continuing to dance, "What is this? Why do you look more sexy than in a swimsuit?" he asked staring at you
“We're on the beach. I should have put on jeans and shirt with long sleeves? ” you laughed at his reaction. "Relax, let's dance"
“I seem to be sober. I urgently need a drink," he said, walking to your table with a new batch of cocktails.
You continued to fool around and dance, you haven't had so much fun for a long time. You laughed looking at each other when TroubleMaker started playing. "We must dance!" you said coming closer to him.
"I didn't know that you knew the dance for this song"
"Oh, you don't know a lot about me" you winked at him, placing your hand on your shoulder. Despite the alcohol in your blood, your bodies moved clearly to the rhythm of the music, perfectly repeating every movement. Although, perhaps due to alcohol, your choreography was more revelatory and sexy than the original. You fell into the sand laughing when the song ended.
“You know, in my opinion a couple of movements were improvisation,” he said, turning his head in your direction
“You know, in my opinion, all the improvisation was your handiwork, and in the literal sense,“ you met his gaze, and after a moment they laughed again. He got up from the sand and pulled you by the hands, put you on your feet.
“We forgot about our raving,” he said, walking toward the table.
“Exactly! Thanks to dancing I am sober again! I think cocktails will not help us find out who is the best. I'll be back now" you went to the side of the bar. Taking ice cold water you took a few big sips, removing your thirst after such intense dancing. You tried to completely ignore the guys who tried to talk to you. When the bartender came up, you ordered a bottle of tequila and some chopped limes ...
Having taken your order, you returned to your table. “Oh my god,” Jimin moaned as you put a bottle of tequila on the table. “We're dead! We'll die tomorrow.” He ran his hand over his face
"We haven't even moved to the next level, are you already giving up?" you smiled broadly
“No way!” he took the bottle and poured two shots.
You continued to drink, did not even notice how the party ended and the beach was empty. After finishing the bottle, you tried to find out who was the drunker of you, although you two could barely stay on your feet. “Look at you, you're staggering,” Jimin said pointing his finger at you.
“It’s you who are staggering, so it seems to you that everyone around is staggering,” you slapped his hand.
“We're out of alcohol,” Jimin said towards the closed bar.
"I have wine in my room!" you clapped your hands smiling broadly.
"Excellent! Let's go! " he said, and taking a step fell to his knees in the sand.
“I won - you fell,” but before you could say it, you landed on your knees next to him. He smiled broadly, looking at you “Not a word!” You said trying to get up.
You laughed out loud as you walked towards your bungalow. You fell constantly when you tried to help each other up. The two of you fell to the grass laughing again. Even though you lived in 5 minutes from the beach, you thought you had been walking for ages. You raised your head up and clapped happily when you saw that you were lying in front of your door. Going inside, you fell on the bed, I rejoice at its softness.
“Damn, I forgot to pay at the bar,” you moaned, it's good that the bartender knew you well. “And will have to ask to remove all the videos from the surveillance cameras that thay have with us.”
"Already done. When I went to the toilet, I paid for us and asked to delete everything "
“Wow, Park Jimin! Well done! You my hero!" you said smiling at him, showing your finger heart.
"Ohh yeah, praise me!" he said pretending to be superman, throwing a towel over his shoulders. You just laughed. He lay down next to you and rolled onto side, hugging you around the waist, pulling you closer to him, because of which his face was inches from yours.
"Park Jimin!" you looked at him "You've officially lost!" you said poking him in the shoulder
"How about - a draw?" he asked winking
You waved your hand “Don't even think! I won! I'm not drunk enough to kiss you! ”
"Then I don't mind losing," he said, covering your lips with a kiss. His tongue bound with yours as his hands eagerly caressed your body. He moaned before pulling away from you, leaving you gasping for breath from his onslaught. "We're too drunk." He said, rolling onto his back and pulling you into his arms, "Let's sleep. We are continue when you want me, without alcohol."
You were your mind too clouded by alcohol to take what he was saying, but you said nothing. Jimin's body heat enveloped you, making you fall asleep in a seconds.
 Sunrise
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You stretched in bed as the sound of trees penetrated your creation. “Jimin,” you sat up abruptly in bed looking around. You were alone and in a nightie. There was no hangover, you definitely fell asleep in a swimsuit and a beach dress. You looked the room was all cleaned, although yesterday you obviously made a mess when the drunks came. Did Jimin take everything away? You quickly found your phone between the pillows and stared at the screen. Friday 5:13am. WTF ??? What the fuck is going on here? Dream again? Although no, is that a dream within a dream? Is this some kind of joke? If yes, then it is absolutely not funny. So that's it, today I will not leave the room! You looked out the window, it was still dark. Nothing will happen if you go to the beach to see the sunrise, right? So early, even the staff is not on here. You took a short silk robe and threw it over your nightie and went out into the street. You walked along the wet grass towards a small beach at the end of the hotel grounds. The closer you got, the louder the sound of the waves. You went to the beach and smiled at the sight that opened before you. It was the perfect place to enjoy the last sunrise, tomorrow night you will be flying home.
You pulled your robe down to your elbows, enjoying the breeze that caressed your bare skin. The sound of the ocean and the beautiful view slowly cleared your mind of the mess that was going on there. You closed your eyes wanting to dissolve in this moment. The sound of the camera broke the silence, forcing you to open your eyes. You turned towards the source of the sound and your mouth opened as you locked eyes with Taehyung.
Taehyung smiled broadly at you and you backed away. The sand made your legs tangled and you fell, landing on your butt. You sat on the sand and looked at him with wide eyes.
"Are you okay?" Taehyung looked at you with concern. He came closer and sat down, resting his knee on the sand next to your thigh. "Didn't you hurt yourself?" You raised your hand and reached forward, poked him in the shoulder with your finger, from which he laughed taking your hand. “Do you think I'm a ghost? Get up ” he pulled you by the hand, lifting you to your feet. He removed the rest of the sand from your clothes and legs as you continued to stare at him. He met your gaze and laughed again, “Seriously! I'm not a ghost. Stop looking at me like that" he took you by the shoulders, turning to face the horizon" You will miss everything," he said pointing to the light that began to appear above the line of the ocean. It was one of those moments when the beauty took your breath away. For a moment, you forgot about everything, just enjoying the dawn. Even at that moment, though, you couldn't stop thinking about the sensation of Taehyung's hot fingers on your skin, holding your shoulders.
Did you suddenly wonder if this was a dream too? Interestingly, did BTS have any overseas projects at all? As far as you can remember, their entire schedule was packed with local events and shooting. So this is definitely another dream. Since this is still a dream ... You smiled and took a step back, pressing your back against Taehyung's chest. You leaned the back of your head on his shoulder, watching the sun rise slowly over the ocean.
"Are you tired of standing?" he asked in surprise
"Yes, hold me"
He just grinned at your words, hugging you by the shoulders. “If I knew that you would watch the dawn in your pyjamas in my arms, I would have come here much earlier,” he whispered in your ear.
"Fun, isn't it?" you said smiling “All the same, everything will disappear” you added in a whisper
“By the way,” he said quietly laughing
"What?"
"Good morning"
Exactly, you were so shocked to see him that you didn't even say hello. "Good morning Taehyung"
“Wow, the first time you just called me by my name, __________. Every second I like this place more and more "
“I'm still older than you,” you slapped his hand
"Do you want me to call you - nuna?" he whispered in your ear, and goose bumps ran through your body. Why does this word sound so sinful from his lips?
“You better call my name” you said quickly
“Why, nuna? Don't you like it when I call you nuna? Or, on the contrary, do you like it too much, nuna? " you could almost feel his every movement of his lips on your skin. “You don't have to answer, nuna” he chuckled, emphasizing ‘nuna’
“Yes, I like it too much” you closed your eyes, allowing yourself to enjoy the moment
“You surprised me. Thought now you would start scolding me or something like that "
"Today I will do what I want"
"Even so?" he laughed softly "And what do you want?" his voice became seductive
“I want to eat,” you answered, making him laugh out loud.
"Eat? OK, it's up to you." You turned to face him and smiled “Only first you need to change your clothes. I do not want others to see what I see " he winked at you, tying your robe tightly.
"You too, or are you going to go to breakfast in your pyjama?" You walked forward past him
“Oh yes, exactly. What room do you live in, I'll pick you up as I change. "
"Bungalow 3a"
“You’re practically neighbours, I have 6a” he winked at you and ran towards his bungalow.
You went into the room and took off your robe and threw it on the bed “Oh, that's what he was talking about,” you muttered when you saw your nipples protruding through the thin silk fabric of your nighties. You quickly took a shower and dried your hair, decided to leave it wet and put on a colourful boho beach dress. You heard a knock and walked over to open the door.
"Are you going to go like that?" asked Taehyung, examining you from head to toe
"Yes, why?" you went to the bed and took your phone.
"Isn't the dress too short?" he raised an eyebrow
You looked in the mirror, turning around. “I think it’s just right,” you laughed and went outside, pushing Taehyung out of the room. “Come on!”
You walked towards the restaurant while Taehyung continued to grumble at you for the length of your dress. “There, you see,” he growled as the two guys blew you kisses. "I knew that because of this dress everyone would flirt with you!" he grabbed your hand and quickened your step
"Hmm ... So the only reason that someone can flirt with me cause this short dress ?" you looked at him fiercely
"What?" he stares at you. You pulled your hand away and walked forward. "Wait, that's not what I mean." He stopped you in front of the restaurant. "And how could you misunderstand the meaning of my words so much?" he looked at you in surprise. “Everyone flirts with you every second! And because of such a short dress, they all go crazy. And in general, how can you look so sexy with wet hair. It's just illegal!” He took off his cap, putting it on you.
"What's that?" his words  embarrassed you "Acting like a jealous boyfriend"
"Yes! So stop being so seductive and driving other guys crazy! ” he took your hand and pulled you inside the restaurant “It's good that none of the members have met yet,” he muttered under his breath
“Did you say something?” You asked, not sure if he really said it
"Nothing. Where do you want to sit? " he asked changing the subject
You sat by a large window overlooking the ocean. After placing your order, you started asking Taehyung about the job.
“Just stop! You're on vacation, and I have a day off! No talk of work, "he said, pointing his finger at you.
"Yey, yey. As you say Mr. Kim Taehyung” you laughed
He take sip of his drink, which left cream on his upper lip. You reached out, wiping off the rest of the cream, then licked your finger. "Sweet" you smiled. It was only when you met his gaze that you realized exactly what you just did. "Oh, just. I just ... forget!" you are wearing a cap hiding your eyes. And what are you doing? you scolded yourself mentally.
"Me?" he asked
"What?" you looked at him
"Am I sweet?" he asked and winked at you
"Drink. Whipped cream" you muttered quickly, looking away again
“I'm sweet too. Do you want to try?"
"Hey ..." You froze as he leaned forward abruptly, a couple of inches from your face. Now you were as happy with the cap as never before. Taehyung rested his forehead on the visor, which prevented him from moving closer to your face. "What are you doing?" you hissed, completely blushing with embarrassment.
“Returning the debt” he sat back smiling broadly “Since the morning you make my heart flutter. It's nice to pay you the same” he grinned
"I'll be right back," you said, practically running away to the restroom. You opened cold water and washed yourself, hoping to somehow cool your flaming face. "And what should I do with it?" You asked your reflection, slapping your palm on the smooth surface. You took off your cap, fixing up your hair.
You left the toilet heading for the table. But before you got there, some guy stood in front of you. You apologized and trying to get around him, but the guy took a step to the side, blocking your path. You looked at him and he smiled at you broadly. “I'm so wondering, if such a beautiful girl wants to join me for breakfast?” asked the guy pointing to his desk
Before you could say anything, Taehyung appeared next to you, standing between you and this guy. “And I’m so wondering too, why some idiot invites my girlfriend to join him for breakfast?” Taehyung asked in a low voice, giving the guy a killer look.
“Come on,” you said as you took Taehyung's hand before their conversation turned into an argument. You pulled him back to your table. “You shouldn't have reacted so violently.” You said sitting down in your seat
“Violently? It was not violently yet, I restrained myself as much as possible," he growled through clenched teeth, still looking in the direction of that guy
You laughed softly, shaking your head at his words. You called the waiter, asking him to send your order to your room. “Let's get out of here, otherwise I’m afraid a fight will not be avoided if we stay here!” You smiled wide and stood. Taehyung turned you towards him, hugging you by the waist. Drawing you closer, he put the hat you left on your desk back on your head.
"Don't even think about taking it off this time!" he said.
"Yes, yes ... whatever you say, my boyfriend!" you muttered, turning to leave. He still held your waist until you left the restaurant. “You can let me go,” you said when you were far enough away from the restaurant.
“I don’t want to,” he replied, hugging you tighter.
"Child!" you rolled your eyes, but he just laughed.
"Yes, yes ... whatever you say, my girlfriend!"
You came just at the moment when the food was brought. "Why did you order so much?" you looked at Taehyung with skepticism. The entire coffee table was filled with various foods.
"I'm hungry" he smiled broadly
"You will not get up from the table until you have eaten everything!" you said while taking a sip of coffee
"Won't you help me?" he sat down next to you
“No, I just want what I ordered. Why did you sit next to me and not opposite? " you turned your head towards him
“Oh, how rude. It's more comfortable on this side, ”he replied, leaning his back on the bed
"Enjoy your meal" you said, putting a piece of pancake into your mouth
"Thank you" he smiled broadly "You too"
Having finished with pancakes, you got up and took a beach tunic and went to the toilet. After changing your clothes, you went into the room, Taehyung was still eating slowly while checking the news on his phone. "Aren't you going to the beach?" you asked watching him
He shook his head "No, I want to spend the whole day in bed."
“Great, I went to the beach. When you finish eating, just slam the door when you go to your room. "
"Are you leaving me alone?" Taehyung looked at you pitifully
“Why alone? See how much food is left with you, which you have to eat.” You winked at him, closing the door behind you.
You spent all day at the beach sunbathing and swimming. Therefore, as soon as you returned to the room, I immediately went to the shower. Your whole body was covered with sand and salt. It took you a long time to wash all the sand from your hair. Coming out of the shower, you felt like a new person. After you applied the lotion to your body, you put on panties and a cotton shirt, buttoning it only a few buttons on your chest. You went into the room wiping the rest of the water from your hair. Throwing a towel on a chair, you turned to the bed and froze in surprise. Taehyung slept in your bed and his clothes were on the floor.
“This is something new,” you muttered as you walked closer to the bed. “Taehyung” you pushed him softly on the shoulder trying to wake him up.
"Mmmm ..." he moaned without opening his eyes
"Why are you sleeping in my bed?"
“It’s too noisy in my room, there are probably Jungkook playing his games. And you have so quiet and comfortable to sleep" he broke into a lazy smile, opening one eye" Nuna... " he moaned.
Grabbing your hand, he pulled you into bed, under his sheet. He put his arms and legs around you, completely depriving you of the opportunity to move under him. "Taehyung, what are you doing?"
“I’m asleep,” he moaned, resting his nose on the curve of your neck. He inhaled deeply the scent of your skin, which smelled of peaches from the body lotion. "You smell like summer and sun"
“I'm about to melt, you're hot” you tried to pull away from his hot skin
"Am I making you melt?" he raised his head to meet your gaze, sending you a sleepy smile. He lay down again, hugging you tighter. “Your skin is so cool after a shower, and it smells so great. Don't even think that I'll let you go "
After a while, fatigue took over, and you fell asleep in the arms of Taehyung. After a while, you woke up with a feeling of hunger, remembering that for the whole day you ate only a portion of pancakes. You opened your eyes, you were lying on Taehyung, your thigh thrown almost over his waist. You heard a rumbling in your stomach, but it wasn't you. You looked up to meet Taehyung's still sleepy gaze. "Are you hungry too?" you muttered, rolling onto your back and stretched out in bed.
"Yeah, woke up about half an hour ago from hunger."
“Half an hour ago? Why didn't you go to eat then? " you stared at him
"You were sleeping on me, if I got up, I would wake you up"
"How caring" you murmured, turning on your side
"Already falling in love with me?" his smile became seductive
“Dream about it” you shoved him in the shoulder. He got out of bed and you had to cover yourself with a sheet, because he was only in boxers. You looked at yourself skeptically, shirt open and tiny panties, as if you looked better. "Do you want to get dressed?" you muttered, gently crawling out from under the sheet.
“No, and I don’t want you to dress, then we will be equally naked.” He stuck out his tongue at you. Having called the service, he ordered food in the room
"Are you going to stay here?" you sat in the rovati staring at him.
"You won't kick a hungry man out into the street, will you?" he fell to the floor pretending to faint
"Oh, do what you want" you fell back in bed. "You will wake up me when the food arrives." You turned on belly, seting more comfortable in bed. In a moment, you felt the weight of Taehyung's body, which lay practically on top of you. “Is there not enough room for you on this huge bed?” you whispered barely audibly
“You are more comfortable to sleep on” he hugged you “Your body fits perfectly to mine. Maybe it's because you should belong to me? "
"You can't say like that, Taehyung"
"Why?" he asked, biting lightly on your shoulder, through your shirt
Before you could say anything, there was a knock on the door. He got up and went to open the door. "Stop!" you shouted as he reached for the doorknob “Crazy? Did you decide to open the door like that? " you threw a towel at him that was next to the bed. He wrapped a towel around his waist and opened the door. You didn't even want to think what they would think about the fact that a half-naked guy opens the door to your room. It's so good that everything will disappear without a trace. The smell of food made your stomach rumbling, and Taehyung laughed.
“It turns out that I'm not the only one hungry.” You quickly jumped to the floor and smiled broadly, taking your chopsticks from the table. “What a cutie,” he smiled as he set the food on the table.
You were so hungry that you silently swallowed food, only moaning at how delicious it was. You laughed as Taehyung groaned again as he slid a piece of steak into his mouth. "If someone walks by, he obviously thinks the wrong thing."
“Don't care. It's divinely delicious! ”
“Agree” you smiled broadly. After finishing your meal, you lay on the floor unable to move. "Why does food taste so much tastier than usual when you're hungry?" you muttered
“I guess it's just because you're hungry.” Taehyung laughed as he lay down next to you.
"Logically" you laughed too
"Why don't you say anything?" he asked after a while
"About what?"
“Today I hugged you, called you my girlfriend, openly flirted with you, stayed in your room, slept in your bed, dragged you into bed, even now we’re lying on the floor in underwear and I can calmly see your body through this thin shirt ... But you don't drive me out, you don't break out of my arms. "
“Are you complaining? If you want I can kick you out. " You smiled, turning in his direction
“No, I don’t want it,” he waved his hands, “I’m just wondering why you are allowing me today that which had been creeping at the initial stage, regardless of who showed interest in you?” he turned on his side meeting your gaze
“Mmmm ... I said that today I will do whatever I want. Besides ... ” it's all unreal, you finished the phrase in your head. "It does not matter. Just consider that today I'm in the mood to do crazy things that defy logic.” You looked up at the ceiling
"I want it too"
"Who's stopping you?" you asked laughing.
“You're right - nobody” he leaned forward and touch your lips, which made your eyes widen in surprise
He slowly teased your lips, leaving light kisses. Each time tenderness turned into passion, exciting you. You moaned as his tongue penetrated your mouth, and cold fingers ran along your waist, lifting your shirt. Your tongues ​​are intertwined, exploring each other. His kisses going lower until he took your nipple in his mouth, squeezing his teeth and squeezing the thin fabric of your shirt, forming a wet spot in this place. Doing the same with the second nipple, he kissed you again. This time the kiss was deep and passionate, making you want more. His fingers dug into your thighs, forcing your crotch to rub against his hard cock, which protruded from his boxers. From the desire to feel it inside, everything inside you squeezed into a tight knot. You ran your hand over his back, dropping into the belt of his boxers, wanting to get rid of them, as his fingers made their way under your shirt, squeezing your breast.
What if this time everything is real and it's not a dream, this thought made you stop, removing your hands from his body. Suddenly tomorrow comes, how will you deal with the consequences of tonight? You turned your head away when he tried to kiss you again. “I think that's enough crazy actions for today,” you whispered without meeting his eyes
“Sorry,” he quickly muttered, looking at you with a confused look.
“Don't apologize. I cannot say that I did not want this to some extent. I just don't think it's worth going any further.” You got up off the floor, straightening your clothes. “I think it's time for you to go to your room before Jungkook started worrying where you disappeared for the whole day”
“You're right, I think I'd better leave if I stay I can't control myself.” He got up from the floor and pressed you back against his chest, leaving a kiss on your neck. His actions made you fight inside with yourself. You’ve never been so desperate to turn around and kiss someone, but you knew perfectly well that if you did, there would be no turning back. One last time he pressed himself tighter against your body before stepping back. He quickly dressed and, leaving a light kiss on your cheek, went to the door "See you tomorrow" he smiled and went out the door
“I hope not,” you whispered as he closed the door. Raising a glass of wine untouched by you at dinner, you drank it in one gulp. You turned off the light and went to bed, hoping that the wine would help you fall asleep as quickly as possible.
You opened your eyes the room was dark. You practically jumped on your knees in the bed. You quickly threw pillows on the floor, wanting to find your phone as quickly as possible. Here it is, you grabbed the phone and unlocked it. Friday 5:13 a.m. You fell back into bed “Thank God,” you moaned. Now you were more than ever glad that it was just a dream.
You sat back down and dialed one of the managers you worked with. You knew for sure that he was not sleeping at that time, so I was glad when he immediately answered the call “Are you so bored with rest that you decided to call me?” He laughed into the receiver
"Nearly. Listen, have you by chance heard that there are no foreign projects planned for BTS, for example, in Saipan? "
"Oooh, how did you know?"
"Seriously? When? Today?"
He laughed loudly at the receiver “Today? You rest too much. We just approved this project yesterday. Besides, this project was left to you, so the schedule for it will be ready as soon as you organize everything ”
"I understand. Okay, I'll see you at work.” You hung up and breathed a sigh of relief. So they are not here. It was all a long, strange dream. Although these three days or dreams seemed very real to you, you did not even know how best to call them.
You mentally scolded yourself as you momentarily regretted stopping yourself with Taehyung. You hit yourself lightly on the cheek, and what are you only thinking, libertine! You muttered as you got out of bed. The day passed almost imperceptibly, the beach, the sun, delicious food, a perfect end to the vacation.
I wonder what day it will be when I wake up, you thought to yourself, went to a bed at night.
...   ...   ...
A week later
You arrived at the office and went to the elevator to go up to your floor from the underground parking.
“You are back” you were greeted by a joyful voice. You were so absorbed in checking the schedule that you didn't even notice Taehyung standing in front of the elevator. "How did you relax?" he smiled broadly at you. You overcame the embarrassment caused by the memory of the dream with his participation.
“Hi, everything went great.Confess, are you a lot of naughty then, while I wasn't here?” you asked and he laughed.
“No, we behaved exemplary”
“Yeah, I know your exemplary behavior” you looked at him with a smirk as you entered the elevator.
"By the way, manager ___, I saw dream about you not so long ago." He dropped his eyes to the floor
“And what did you dream about,” you asked automatically as you continued to read
"It was a very ... interesting dream, we did crazy things."
"Crazy things, for example?" you looked at him, did he really have the same dream that you did that night.
His smile confirmed that it was true. He shook his head "Eating a delicious steak" he looked away when his cheeks turned red
You quickly pulled yourself together, you could not show that you knew exactly what he was talking about “Eating a steak? Yes, sounds really crazy things.” You laughed, turning the conversation into discussions of their schedule.
Going into your office. You practically fell into the chair. If Taehyung had this dream, then Hoseok and Jimin also had dreams in which you were together. You tried to calm down, someone really decided to make fun of you, sending you into time loop for three days. You laughed and went back to work. You have nothing to worry about, because these are just dreams and nothing else. Everything good... you hoped.
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I SEE ONLY YOU - Jung Hoseok
It can become a reality - Park Jimin
Help me - Kim Taehyung
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If There’s a Place I Could Be - Chapter Sixty Three
If There’s a Place I Could Be Tag
October 17th, 2000
Remy shook his head as he trudged around campus. He hated this. He hated this whole thing. The only thing that made college bearable was the idea that he might get a paying job from it, but he didn’t even have that job security for certain, so really, why was he here?
A familiar voice called his name from across the quad and Remy turned, rolling his eyes as Emile ran up to him excitedly. Yeah, college was annoying, and Emile could be a bit of a nuisance, but he was at least a familiar nuisance. And if Emile wanted to hang out with Remy, well, Remy wasn’t going to stop him, even if he didn’t see what Emile saw in him.
  May 20th, 2002
Remy kept the frustrated tears at bay for as long as it took for him to clock out at Starbucks and walk down the side, to the back parking lot. Once there, he punched the dumpster that was backed up against the building and a few tears slipped out from pain and from anger. He was beyond pissed, and he didn’t know why. He had seen this coming. He knew they weren’t going to pick him to become the new manager. And yet, when he heard the news, it still felt like his hopes shattered into a million pieces.
“It went that badly, huh?” Emile asked from behind him.
Remy turned swiping at the tears on his cheeks to find Emile standing there, hands in his pockets. “Yeah,” he settled on saying.
“I’m sorry, my love,” Emile said, closing the distance between them and hugging Remy close. “You don’t deserve to be overlooked just because you don’t want a degree.”
“They didn’t even pick from the store,” Remy said. “They brought in someone else who doesn’t know the system, just because they have that stupid Bachelor’s.”
Emile winced and Remy sighed. “I mean, I saw it coming that I wouldn’t get the job, but seriously? Outside? Not even from another store, just someone who’s never worked there before. We’re gonna have to teach him everything in the span of maybe two weeks!” He shook his head. “Emile, I’m really sick of this.”
“I know you are,” Emile said.
“One day, I can quit this crappy job and be my own person,” Remy said. “One day.”
Emile nodded as he lead Remy to the car. “And that day will be amazing,” Emile agreed. “Until then, we should probably ice your hand and make sure nothing’s broken.”
Remy sighed. Punching the dumpster was a dumb move, but at the very least, it beat punching brick wall. “Yeah,” he said flatly.
Emile drove them home and Remy leaned back into the chair, trying to stop crying. All he was getting for his troubles was a headache and more tears. “My head hurts,” Remy griped.
“Not surprised,” Emile said. “Do you need to take some ibuprofen when we get back?”
“I don’t think so,” Remy said, pinching the bridge of his nose. “I just need to get over myself.”
“Hey, hey,” Emile said, pulling into the parking lot. “You have every right to be upset, Rem, that’s an upsetting thing. You don’t have to ‘get over yourself.’”
Remy grumbled, “Then why am I getting so worked up over something I knew would happen?”
Emile shrugged. “I’m not inside your head, Rem, I can’t speak for you. If I had to hazard a guess, it’s because hiring someone from outside the company just adds insult to injury.”
Remy laughed hollowly. “Understatement,” he groused, getting out of the car and inspecting his hand. It was swelling a little, but didn’t immediately come across as “broken,” which was a promising sign. “You ever break a bone, Emile?” he asked.
“Uh...not that I remember. There were a couple close calls, but nothing ever broke. I did once dislocate my knee,” Emile said.
Remy winced. “Ouch. How?”
“One of my friends took martial arts classes, and taught me and some of our friends some of the moves, but we didn’t do much stretching before we tried it...and I wound up with a lot of pain the next day in gym class, to where I could barely walk.”
“Ooh!” Remy exclaimed, hissing. “That’s pretty bad.”
“Yep, six weeks of physical therapy, a knee brace, the whole deal,” Emile said. “You break a bone?”
“I fractured my wrist at like...age six.” Remy laughed. “I was running down the sidewalk, and I assume I tripped, because the next thing I know, my wrist feels like it’s on fire and I’m sprawled on the ground. Went to school the next day, couldn’t use scissors without pain, went to the nurse, and she pretty much knew it was broken within five minutes of seeing it. Called my mom, they took me to the doctor’s, got X-rays, and I got a sick-looking cast.”
“Your mom sent you to school with a broken wrist?” Emile asked incredulously.
Remy shrugged. “She didn’t know how to identify a broken bone, she just assumed I cried for half an hour because, y’know, I’ve always been a crybaby. You got sent to school with a dislocated knee!”
“Because it didn’t really start hurting until gym class,” Emile said. “If a six year old cries for half an hour over tripping on a sidewalk, something’s up.”
Remy waved off Emile’s concern. “Eh, she apologized about it later. It wasn’t the end of the world, and because it happened during the school year, I still had two months where I could swim in the pool after the cast came off.”
Emile squinted at Remy and Remy rolled his eyes. “What?”
“You’re excusing your mother’s actions again.”
“She didn’t know, Emile,” Remy said. As they got inside the apartment and Emile gave Remy an ice pack, Remy continued, “You don’t have to know everything about injuries to become a parent.”
“No, but I still think crying for half an hour over a trip should be investigated. And if a school nurse can identify the injury that quickly, shouldn’t the parent be a tad bit suspicious before the kid leaves for school? Because obviously there would be swelling.”
Remy shrugged. “Listen, this wasn’t too bad. She was just forgetful in this case,” he defended. “She’s done worse, you’ve seen her do worse.”
Emile pinched the bridge of his nose. “Did she dismiss other health concerns?”
“I didn’t tell her about other health concerns, like in high school when everyone was turning against me except Toby. She couldn’t dismiss what she wasn’t told about.”
“But you didn’t tell her because she would dismiss it?” Emile questioned. “That seems to be what you’re implying.”
“Okay, she brushed off some things in middle school, things that I don’t even remember because I blocked them out. They couldn’t be too severe if I’m still standing here, though,” Remy brushed off.
Emile sighed and Remy inwardly grimaced. He knew that sigh. It was the sigh Emile got whenever he thought Remy was dismissing key parts of his mental health. “Remy...”
“Can we just agree to drop this subject and let me return to bitching about not getting the manager position?” Remy requested. “I know my mom wasn’t on top of it. I know she was bad. And we just disagree about how severe this infraction was. I agree that she should have done something, at least asked me why I was crying so much, but she didn’t. It’s over. Done with. Has been for years. I just want to gripe.”
Emile sighed. “Okay, fine. Let’s just talk about what’s going on in the here and now.”
Remy nodded his thanks. “I don’t think my hand is broken,” he said idly. “It would be swelling more if that was the case. Even with ice, it would look different.”
“Agreed,” Emile said. “You still shouldn’t have punched the dumpster.”
“It was that or the brick wall,” Remy said drily.
Emile shook his head. “Rem, you worry me, to this day.”
“Yeah, well. I’m getting better at controlling my anger, it just...needs an outlet, and I couldn’t hold it back further without risking lashing out, so I took it out on the closest inanimate object to me,” Remy said.
Emile rolled his eyes and took the ice pack off Remy’s hand to kiss the knuckles. “You may be an impulsive man, but you’re my impulsive man. And I’m proud that you’re working to control the more angry impulses.”
Remy offered Emile a smirk. “I thought you liked it when things got heated.”
“Not in this context,” Emile laughed.
Remy grinned, before looking at his hand and sighing. “Man, I wish I could be running my own shop right about now.”
“Hey, one day,” Emile said, squeezing Remy’s shoulder.
“Yeah, but that’s going to take so long,” Remy sighed. “Too long. I’ll still have to deal with this new manager, and what happens if I can’t hide my resentment well enough?”
“Remy, I know this probably doesn’t help, but I’m fairly sure you can hide your disdain behind your customer service smile. You’re consistently way better at that than I am. He might know it’s fake, he might not. Regardless, he can’t hold you accountable so long as you don’t say how you really feel about him and you keep smiling.”
“I don’t want to keep smiling,” Remy sighed. “I want to be able to be mad, and to cry, and I want people to know that I’m human.”
“Unfortunately, the downside of working in food service or retail hell is that a lot of people won’t see you as human,” Emile said knowingly. “But you’re always free to be human around me, and our friends, and anyone else we run into when you’re not working.”
“I know,” Remy grumbled. Didn’t change the fact that he didn’t want to put up with this.
“Rem, time will pass without you realizing it, and one day, you’re going to wake up, and realize you have the money and power to start your own coffee shop, and you’re going to absolutely crush it,” Emile said with conviction. “Trust me. It might be hard to see right now, but you’re destined for greatness.”
That, at least, got Remy to laugh. He both loved and hated when Emile got all storybook cliché on him. “I would disagree about the destiny thing,” Remy said. “I carve my own destiny.”
“Exactly why it’s true,” Emile replied smoothly. “You don’t wait around looking for your purpose, you go out and make a purpose that fits you.”
“I would argue that I wouldn’t make the purpose. Plenty of people have dropped out of college before. Many people have become entrepreneurs. It’s not exactly a unique path,” Remy brushed off.
“Yeah, but it still goes against the norms of what people expect of you. Instead of just going with the flow, you’re standing tall. And nothing can push you around if you don’t let it. Honestly it’s...pretty inspiring,” Emile said.
Remy laughed. “Please, Emile. I don’t have this heart-stopping origin story that you’re making this out to be.”
“I don’t know,” Emile said with a shrug. “I just think that you’re pretty impressive. If I were in your position, I wouldn’t have ever gotten this far.”
“I mean, I think you could have gotten out of my family situation before I ever did, and made a name for yourself however you wanted,” Remy said with a shrug in return.
Emile offered a slightly bitter smile, which surprised Remy. “Rem, believe me when I say that the only reason you believe that is because my parents taught me how to stand up for myself. You learned how to stand up on your own. No one taught you. If I had been in your position, I probably wouldn’t have lasted through high school. You’re impossibly strong.”
Remy shrugged. “I mean, I guess I’m strong. I’m taking you at your word on that, but I didn’t learn how to stand up on my own. You’re the one who taught me that.”
Emile shook his head. “No, Rem, I may have shown you where to stand tall and demand respect, but even before I met you, you were trying to make your own way in the world. Studying business over accounting, remember? That was all you. You’ve got what it takes to make your own place in the world. And if I were a betting man, I’d put all my money on you.”
Remy stood there, shocked into silence for a good minute. He didn’t know what Emile saw in him to cause that sort of conviction, but he knew that Emile was serious in this. And he wasn’t about to disappoint Emile. He smiled. He would get through this. He’d get through it and go his own way, sooner or later. “I love you too, Emile.”
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Fate and Phantasms #23: Medusa
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Welcome back to Fate and Phantasms, today we’re making your sweet baby sister (and also kind of the oldest sister? It’s complicated), Medusa. Exile of the Shapeless Isle, Wielder of the Nameless Dagger, and just generally not well-explained at all, Medusa has a lot of skills, which we’ll break down into three goals.
The Obvious: Your mystic eyes can break down anyone you look at, up to and including turning them to stone.
The Not-So Obvious: You can summon a Pegasus by nicking your neck, and if we’re going through the effort to give you a Pegasus, by god you’re going to be good at riding it.
Chains and Whips Excite Me: Your Nameless Dagger is half dagger, half whip, and you’re good at using both ends.
As usual, a spreadsheet for this build can be found here, and there’s an explanation below the cut!
Race and Background:
Like your sister, you’rea Yuan-ti Pureblood, giving you +1 Int and +2 Charisma, Magic Resistance, 60′ of Darkvision, Poison Immunity, and free use of the Poison Spray cantrip and Animal Friendship (On snakes only), using Charisma for casting. Being an ex-god does have perks sometimes.
You’re not really and Archeologist, but you are old enough to tell ruins apart, so you’ll get proficiency with History and Survival. 
Stats: 
Put your highest score in Dexterity; you can move around the battlefield so fast you might get mistaken for an Assassin. Next is Charisma; you’re pretty intimidating, and we need to power up your mystic eyes. Wisdom is next, more for multiclassing than anything, though resisting the urge to punt your sisters into next week does fall under a wisdom save, I think. After that is Strength, which should be higher, but we need the other stats more, and we’ll be using Dexterity for attacking anyway. Pick Constitution next because we really don’t want to dump that, and that leaves us with Intelligence. You’re not dumb, we just really needed the other stats more.
Class Levels:
1. Monk 1: When you start as a monk, you gain proficiency with Strength and Dexterity saves, and two skills from the monk list. Grab Acrobatics and Stealth for more mobility. You also have Unarmored Defense, making your AC 10 + your Wisdom mod + you Dexterity mod. That’s not amazing at the moment, but we’re working on it. You also have Martial Arts, letting you replace unarmed strikes and monk weapon attacks with a d4, as well as use your dexterity instead of strength when attacking. You can also make an unarmed strike as a bonus action after attacking normally.
2. Monk 2: At this level, you gain Unarmored Movement, giving another 10′ of movement as long as you aren’t wearing any armor or shields. You also gain Ki, which at this level can be spent to gain more attacks, dodge as a bonus action, or increase your mobility for a turn.
3. Monk 3: At third level your Innate Spellcasting kicks in again, letting you cast Suggestion once per long rest. You also learn to Deflect Missiles, catching arrows (or swords, I guess, depends who you’re fighting) out of the air and throw them back. You also pick a Monastic Tradition at this level, so get ready to be a Kensei. At this level, you get two Kensei Weapons. Pick Dagger, for the obvious reasons, and Sling, because we’re obliged to grab a ranged weapon. You also have an Agile Parry, letting you add 2 to your AC if you make an unarmed attack during your action, and a Kensei’s Shot, adding 1d4 to your ranged kensei weapon attacks.
4. Monk 4: Throw your ASI into Dexterity for more damage and AC, and also get Slow Fall, reducing your fall damage by 5x your monk level. You’ll need it for all those anime jumps you do.
5. Monk 5: You can use an Extra Attack each turn, and also get a Stunning Strike. Spend a ki point to force a Con save or your target is stunned until your next turn. Are you hitting them so hard bits of them turn to stone? Yeah, probably let’s go with that. Your Martial Arts die increases to a d6, making your everything just a little more deadly!
6. Monk 6: You now have Ki-Empowered Strikes and are One with the Blade, making your unarmed and Kensei attack magical. You can also use Deft Strikes, spending a ki to add an extra Martial Arts die to your attack. Your unarmored movement also increases, giving you another 5′ to work with. 
You also gain another Kensei Weapon, so pick up that Whip so you can fully use your Nameless Dagger. Now it’s time for your mask to come off and start learning some spells. 
7. Bard 1: When you switch over to Bard, you get one skill proficiency of your choice. Grab Intimidation, you’re a pretty scary person, even when you don’t want to be. Bards gain Spellcasting using their charisma, and Inspiration Dice that can help your friends with skill checks and saves. Right now those are d6. For spells, you get two cantrips and four 1st level spells. Grab Message to keep your master abreast of the situation, True Strike to improve ambushes, Earth Tremor to remind those humans why they should fear you, and Longstrider for even more mobility.  Start loosening up that mask a bit and let your mystic eyes start to boot up with Bane to weaken enemy saving throws and Dissonant Whispers to force them back.
8. Bard 2: You become a Jack of All Trades, adding half your proficiency to any check you aren’t already proficient in, and gain a Song of Rest, adding an extra d6 of healing when people use their Hit Dice. This level, grab Healing Word for a bit of, you guessed it, healing, without having to sacrifice that cool whip/dagger fighting style you’ve got going on.
9. Bard 3: As a 3rd level Bard, you graduate from the College of Valor, giving you proficiency with martial weapons. You also get medium armor and shields, but we’re probably not using those. You also have Combat Inspiration, letting your friends add inspiration to their damage roll, or to their AC when they’re attacked. You also gain Expertise in two skills, doubling your proficiency in them. Pick Intimidation for maximum scariness, and Acrobatics for maximum mobility.
For your spell this turn, grab Hold Person to paralyze enemies. It’s not quite turning to stone, but we’re working our way up to that.
10. Bard 4: Use your ASI to round out your Dexterity and Wisdom for more damage, more armor, and harder Ki saves. For spells this turn, grab the Mending cantrip to keep your mask together (that’s important), and See Invisibility to make your eyes even more powerful.
11. Bard 5: Your Inspiration die increases to a d8, and you become a Font of Inspiration, regaining inspiration dice on short rests. Your mystic eyes continue to grow in power with Bestow Curse, adding one of a variety negative effects to a creature for up to a minute. There’s a whole list of them in the spell’s description, but you can even make up new ones if the DM goes along with it. Petrify their blood and lower their speed! Or remove their reactions for a minute! The sky’s the limit. Technically this is a touch spell, but shut up.
12. Bard 6: You gain the ability to perform a Countercharm, and also another extra attack. Both of these are useless for us, though.  For your spell this turn, grab Fear, because sometimes a +11 to Intimidate won’t be enough.
13. Bard 7: Seventh level bards don’t get much, aside from 4th level spells. Grab Freedom of Movement to help you or another creature ignore difficult terrain, which is great if you get a bit  Earth Tremor happy.
14. Bard 8: Grab the Mounted Combatant feat with this level’s ASI. This will make more sense in two levels, I swear. For now, you have advantage on melee attacks made against unmounted creatures smaller than your mount, if your mount is attacked you can redirect the hit to you instead, and your mount makes dexterity saves with Evasion, like you would have if you could’ve taken one more level of Monk. Ah well, hindsight.
For this level’s spell, grab Greater Invisibility so you can enter your spirit form.
15. Bard 9: Your song of rest becomes a d8, and you get another spell. Grab Hold Monster for more paralysis power. Stay calm, we’ll get real petrification soon enough.
16. Bard 10: Your inspiration dice become d10s, you get another round of Expertise, (pick Stealth and History) and you gain another cantrip! (Blade Ward) More importantly, you get Magical Secrets, two spells from any class. This boost in power needs fuel, so grab Enervation to drain some blood. Finally, grab the main event of this level, Find Greater Steed to summon Bellerophon into battle. You can also summon other creatures with this spell, but why would you?
17. Bard 11: Take a breather this level, you’re only getting a spell. Grab Eyebite for even more eye-based powers, letting you knock an enemy unconscious each round, frighten them, or sicken them, giving disadvantage on attacks and checks. Your pegasus can also get a copy of this spell if you’re mounted when casting it for double the fun.
18. Bard 12: Use your last ASI to improve your Charisma for more special eyes.
19. Bard 13: Your song of rest becomes a d10, and you learn Mirage Arcane, letting you make your Bloodfort Andromeda for the low, low, price of 10 minutes.
20. Bard 14: Cap off the build with Battle Magic, letting you make a weapon attack as a bonus action after using your regular action to cast a spell, and another round of Magical Secrets. Finally grab Flesh to Stone to do what you came here for, and make sure people remember you’re an earth goddess with Investiture of Stone, giving you barbarian style damage resistances, the ability to make small earthquakes around you, and the ability to walk straight through stone without issue, as long as you end your turn in an empty space.
Pros: Even ignoring your steed, you have high mobility, with 45′ of movement, extra dashes when you need them, and the ability to run straight through walls without stopping. Add to that the ability to fly (again, through walls) and that you’re using a reach weapon means that you’ll rarely have to worry about melee classes.
Cons: Rules as written mounted combat is a little bit awkward, as you can’t fly down to an enemy, hit them, and then fly back up. Also, you’ll be needing all that mobility, because you don’t have a whole lot of heath.
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