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chibigo-ma · 2 months
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Preview of ❝The Little Human Experiment❞ [Legoshi]
Summary: Misaki was just your typical teenage girl living in Japan, but not in the eyes of her society. She's a human in a life where animals live and think like "humans" in our society. She is now brought in as an experiment for her new life outside her facility to see if humans can co-exist with different other species. A certain wolf gets quite attached to our human friend as he is tasked to protect her.
"Going already?" Mei asked as Misaki grabbed her bag. "Yeah, I have to go over there now to facilitate the choreography for the Light Ceremony," Misaki said as she patted Haru's head. "Get back soon!" Haru waved at her human friend before she left.
Misaki opened her phone to text Shiela that she would go to the clubroom as soon as she walked down the stairs. As she made her way to the clubroom though, she witnessed Juno carrying a sloth to the restroom. "Misaki-senpai!" Juno greeted with a smile as she placed the sloth down. "Ah, hello, Juno. Late for rehearsal?" Misaki asked as they walked to the clubroom together. 
"Yeah, I am. I apologize. Are you late too, Misaki-senpai?" Juno asked as Misaki texted Shiela once again that Juno was with her. "Not really. I come in and out of the clubroom as I have two clubs to deal with," she shared. "Woah, really? You must be very busy then. It's still remarkable as you're still the assistant head," Juno had great admiration for the human as she clung to her.
"Assistant director, but still the same," Misaki corrected as she opened the door. "Sorry, I'm late!" Juno announces her arrival while still holding onto Misaki. Misaki raised an eyebrow as she noticed how tense the room was until they came in the room. The majority of the members went up to the two.
"Come on, Juno! You're supposed to text Sheila-senpai when you're late," Els informed the first-year. "She was carrying a sloth to the restroom, so her hands were occupied. It was very kind of you, Juno," Misaki acknowledges Juno's willingness. "Why, thank you, Misaki-senpai!" Juno was happy with Misaki's compliment. 
"I've also made sure that Shiela got the memo and to not get you in trouble, so no need to worry," Misaki shared as everyone was wow-ed by Misaki's consideration. "But it doesn't excuse me for being late, so I want to clean the training hall after school. Sorry, Louis-senpai," Juno apologized as she bowed. 
"Oh, Legoshi-senpai!" Juno called out to the gray wolf. "I saw the dinosaur in the plaza. It was really pretty. The stage crew is doing their best, so we actors are going to do our best with our dancing practice. We're very inspired!" Juno smiled widely and only had her eyes on him. "...Mm, good, good," Legoshi doesn't seem affected by Juno's comment. 
"Yeah, you guys did great. Seeing as it's also my first time seeing it, I'm proud of each one of you. I'll be sure to take pictures of all of them when they're finished," Misaki smirked and showed that her lock screen was now the T-Rex Statue they painted, making sure she looked everyone in the eye. 
"Aww, Misaki!" Dom looked flattered. "I'm happy it exceeded your expectations!" Kibi smiled as everyone in the creatives team was appreciative of Misaki's honest remark. "Ah, speaking of, Misaki," Shiela walked up to the human and dragged her towards Louis. "We have some sudden news to share with you," she shared as Louis glared at the cheetah due to her comment before. 
"Yes, Sanu suggested that you'll be our main dancer," Louis mentioned and Misaki was shocked. "What!? What do you mean? I'll be at the front?" Misaki covered her mouth with her hand. "One of our dancers won't be available for the festival and you know the dances well. So, they made Juno be back up and you in the center since you know the dance very well," he shared.
"There's only two days left though," she looked worried. "You'll do fine, you the entire dance anyway," Louis was confident. "Did... did Tarok tell you that I'll be revealed too? Is that why you weren't opposed to it?" Misaki asked. 
"Yes, he did tell me. I asked his permission for the dance and he's fine with it. You won't be wearing that get-up anymore," Louis smirked and Misaki sighed. "Fine, fine. I'll do it. I'll text Haru that I have a big role here so they won't have to worry about my whereabouts," Misaki shared as she went to grab her phone to text her. 
"We'll do a quick fitting with you. I'm sure they'll just readjust one of the existing outfits," Louis told her as Misaki was ready to walk away. "I'll let Legoshi know," Louis smirked upon seeing Misaki frozen in place. He chuckled and patted her back and walked away from her to talk to Legoshi. She quickly ran to the changing room and walked out wearing her PE Uniform. 
"Woah, you do have fur in your legs," Juno wondered as she gave a close inspection of Misaki's legs. "They're called Hair for humans. Despite it being short and thin, they make sure they regulate our body temperature and keep dirt away such as my lashes here," Misaki pointed her eyes to let Juno get a closer look. 
"Woah, they're so tiny," Juno giggled. As everyone was talking to Misaki and was excited to see her fully perform on stage, Legoshi kept his eyes only on her. He looked up and down her figure as he felt aroused by her appearance. 
"Stop eye fucking, my sister." Legoshi snapped out of it and shrank away as Louis glared at him. Louis was most annoyed upon seeing Legoshi's wagging tail when Misaki came into the room. "Sister?" Legoshi questioned. "She's like a sister to me, so don't go hurting her," Louis crossed his arms as it would seem that he was finally open for Misaki to be together with Legoshi. 
"So whatever happened before they came in was a misunderstanding on your part," Louis pointed out. "You got the tape measure ready?" Louis asked. 
"Oh, yeah, I do," Legoshi went to pull it out, "Fix your problem first," Louis interrupted and he walked away. "Problem?" Legoshi questioned. He looked down to see a tent in his pants. He panics and quickly runs to the restroom. He could not believe he just had a hard-on. It embarrassed him more to notice his tail wagging faster than ever. He really wants to disappear.
"Where's Legoshi?" Misaki asked after she got away from the questioning members. "He went to the restroom real quick. Dom will be measuring you instead," Louis informed her as he tried hiding his laughter, which Misaki noticed but she didn't question it. She would truly have a heart attack if she knew that she had such an effect on Legoshi.
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bippot · 2 years
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Summary: Kevin's niece shakes up Jake's little peanut head, in the best way possible. For the first time in his life, he's nervous to even flirt with a girl cause, like, what if he fucks up? That would suck.
Despite how hard he tries, it takes Jake a while to get out of the dreaded friendzone because of overbearing Uncles, pigeons, drunken nights out and the famous Jake Martin reputation.
Tags: Idiots in Love, Eventual Smut, Eventual Romance, Fluff, Himbo, Slow Burn, Co-workers, Friends to Lovers
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Chapter 16: Compatible Armpits
Backing up into his hotel room once more, the pair continued their kisses, their hands roaming over each other's bodies, not letting go of one another for longer than a few seconds. She was so wrapped up in the sensation that she didn't notice when he closed the door behind them and pinned her against it.
When they broke apart, both panting slightly, there was a moment where neither of them could say anything at all. All they could do was look at each other, their breaths mingling between them. Her eyes flitted from his face down to his lips, which was still slightly swollen from the kiss, and then up again, unable to take her gaze away. It felt like a lifetime before she gathered enough courage to break the silence.
"I should explain." He nodded, giving a smile as if to encourage her to continue. "Do you know what pheromones are?"
Stupid question. Of course he wouldn't know. "Is it something to do with ferrets?"
"What?"
"Ferrets? They're sort of like dogs, except much smaller."
"I know what a ferret is."
He put his hands on his hips to sassily retort, "So why did you ask me what then?"
It took all her willpower not to laugh at him or roll her eyes at his attitude. Then she realised, "Phero mones, not ferret mones," and had to chuckle at his mishearing of the term.
Still, she had to explain herself and tried her best. "Pheromones are like hormones, but they affect the people around you instead of you. Okay so far?" At the nod, she went on. "If two people are compatible, their sweat will smell really good to each other."
"Like us?"
Yep. Exactly. He got it in one. When he said it, her heart gave a little jolt, and it took everything she had not to blush. "Yeah, just like us." She looked down bashfully as she spoke, and her cheeks turned pink when his hand slowly travelled up her neck until it cupped the side of her head, bringing her back up so she could meet his eyes.
His voice was soft and gentle when he asked, "We're compatible then?"
A slight smile made its way onto her lips and she leaned into his touch before she spoke. "Biologically speaking, yes." His thumb brushed across her cheekbone gently, sending goosebumps up her skin in response.
"What about in general? Without all the science shit?" Her head tilted slightly to the side in response, and his fingers moved from her face to brush a stray lock of hair behind her ear. "If you were completely noseblind?"
"Even if I was regular blind I'd still have a thing for you, princess," she admitted softly, watching as a pleased, almost shy smile crept onto his lips.
"Can I kiss you again then?" He murmured, nuzzling his nose against hers. Her eyes shut of their own accord as she nodded. Their mouths crashed together again, this time slower, sweeter, softer. One hand slid behind her neck while the other snaked around her waist to keep her close. She let out a low moan when he pressed himself even closer, and pulled him impossibly tighter against her body. She wanted him so badly that her knees threatened to give out underneath her. His mouth left hers and trailed hot trails down her jaw and across her throat to nibble at the pulse point there before pulling back up to whisper against her ear, "You have no idea how long I've been waiting to do that."
"Yes I do."
But her breathless reply was drowned in another kiss, deeper and longer than the last. She threaded her fingers through his hair and pulled him even closer, so that she might never have to let him go ever again. His lips moved from her skin to trail light kisses and bite marks everywhere, eliciting more moans and whimpers, until her head fell back, giving him better access.
Then, all of sudden, he yawned.
"Oh sorry, am I boring you?"
"No, it's just..." A huge yawn interrupted whatever he was going to say next and he buried his head against her shoulder, causing her to giggle. "Tired. I had a big day yesterday. You know, the race and dealing with a drunk woman can really take it out of you."
"Poor baby," she teased him softly, playfully pinching his cheek before pulling him back into a hug and patting herself in search of her phone. "We have...where the hell? If -"
As if he were presenting her with a winning lottery ticket, she pulled her phone out of the pocket of his shorts and explained, "You left it and I was going to use it as a bargaining chip: you explain why you sniffed me, you get your phone. But you gave that information up willingly, so here," and handed it to her.
"That would've been a sly move, Martin," she complimented as she checked her phone. 11% but it was enough to check the current time and find out when the arranged setting out time was. "We have three and a half hours until we have to leave."
Without waiting for him, she wiggled down her trousers and got under the covers, opening her arms for him to get into bed with her, which he quickly followed. He slotted his head into her neck and curled himself around her, his arm draped possessively over her hip and his right leg curled itself between her legs. One of her hands went to the back of his head and the other comfortingly brushed up and down his bare back. "Sleep," she whispered as she began kissing his forehead repeatedly, her lips lingering there just a moment too long to be considered friendly. They were past that at this point. They were so, so beyond that.
"Can I get a goodnight, or morning, kiss?" He mumbled as he tilted his head up to look at her, the sleepiness still clouding his eyes. Her lips quirked up in a smirk as she placed a single kiss on his lips. And he drifted off to sleep, his breathing deep and steady against her throat.
When she was certain he was asleep, she let out a sigh of contentment before finally admitting to herself, "Oh, fuck. I'm in love with this dumbass." As she drifted off to sleep, she couldn't help but smile. Because, well, who could blame her?
Forty five minutes before departing time, her alarm went off and she groaned at the sound, burying her head in the pillow, her arm reaching out blindly to turn it off. After a couple of tries she managed to do so and opened her eyes blearily to find Jake looking back at her, his eyes sparkling and a warm smile on his face. She smiled back at him and reached her free hand up to cup his cheek tenderly. "Morning."
"Mornin'," he replied with a sleepy voice before leaning forward and pressing his lips to hers, lazily exploring her mouth and moving his tongue along hers, asking for entrance which she gladly granted him. "How long have we got?" He eventually mumbled after breaking away.
"Forty-five minutes." He rolled his eyes playfully at her answer, but didn't comment further as he returned his lips on hers once more, kissing her harder than he had before, his tongue thrusting roughly into her mouth and demanding she reciprocate. With a soft hum of approval, she did exactly that. Her free hand snaked its way up to tangle itself in his hair while his hand gripped her hip to pull her closer.
In the passion of the smooch, Jake didn't realise but he'd shifted his thigh in between her legs, grinding himself against her as she gasped at the sensation. His actions caused her hand in his hair to tighten its grip, making it difficult for him to pull away. The movement only seemed to spur him on and he continued grinding himself against her, moaning lowly as he did so. The friction sent sparks shooting through her whole body and made her feel dizzy with need. He broke off the kiss with a huff of satisfaction and leant his forehead on hers, their noses brushing against each other. His eyes were dark as he stared down at her, his breathing laboured and eyes full of lust and want.
"So what now?" He asked huskily in a rough voice. At his question, she grinned widely at him and started rubbing her crotch against his thigh, causing him to release a loud groan. His eyes closed tightly as he bit his lip and tightened his hold on her hips, pushing himself against her harder.
"Well, my dear princess, what do you suggest?" she murmured seductively against his ear. "Because my offer from last night still stands."
And without missing a beat, she flipped them over so she was above him, straddling him as she ran her hands down his chest towards his stomach, teasing him with her fingertips. His eyes snapped open as soon as she moved slowly and deliberately, taking her sweet time in torturing him with her touch by languidly kissing down his chest until she reached the waistband of his shorts.
"I'm hard enough already. You don't need to."
He shuffled further up the headboard and sat back against it, beckoning her to move up to his lap. She obliged and straddled his lap before starting to grind down his cock in slow movements, causing him to arch his back and his head to fall back with a groan. "You like that, huh? You want me to ride you, baby?" She purred against his ear as she leaned forward to kiss him, biting at his bottom lip playfully.
"Fuck yeah," he breathed into her mouth as he bucked his hips upwards. "Come here." His hands found their way to her panties and pulled them down her thighs, exposing her to his greedy gaze. Without wasting any time, he pushed her thighs apart, spreading her legs wide to allow his hands more room to roam. He stroked her clit with the pad of his thumb, sending shivers of pleasure coursing through her body.
Then, very slowly, his finger dipped inside her, and she whimpered at the feeling, her hips rocking against his hand, begging for him to make it go faster. He did just that, pumping in and out of her faster, harder, until she arched her back and cried out in pleasure at the feel of his fingers moving in and out of her. Her nails dug into his shoulders as she clenched around him, her eyes shut tight in ecstasy as she felt herself growing wetter, her pussy clenching around his fingers, desperate for some sort of relief.
She wasn't sure how much longer she could stand to wait. She wanted him now; needed him now. So, without thinking about it, stopped moving and found the hem of his shorts, waiting for him to lift his butt so she could pull them down his legs and toss them across the floor, leaving him naked underneath her
"Do you want me to fuck myself onto your cock, Jake?" She purred suggestively, wrapping one of her arms around his neck and cupping his cheek with the other. Her words sent a jolt through him and he immediately nodded, his eyes hooded with desire as he looked up at her.
His hands grasped her hips firmly and he started to guide her up and down on him, their gazes locked as they moved together, both gasping at the feeling and letting out soft moans of pleasure. It was slow, torturous and yet, at the same time, mind blowing.
"You're so fucking beautiful," he murmured breathlessly into her ear, his fingers digging into her skin and forcing her to moan again a little louder than before. "Can you take your shirt off?"
With a smile, she slid her top off, exposing her bare breasts to his eyes, causing him to swallow audibly before he grabbed hold of her shoulders and gently guided her backwards, pulling her until her back hit the mattress. Then, he lifted her hips up a bit, allowing his cock to slide in easily. Her head fell back with a cry of pure pleasure as he filled her completely. "God, baby, I haven't felt this good for ages," he rasped breathlessly as he buried his nose into her neck, inhaling deeply.
"You are so good. Oh god, why didn't we do this sooner," she muttered as she kissed the side of his jawline softly, loving the way he responded to her kisses. She wrapped her legs tighter around his torso so they were flush together, grinding herself ever so lightly against him as she watched his face intently, trying to capture every emotion he felt, every thought that passed through his mind.
"Hey," he mumbled when he pulled away slightly so that he could look at her face properly. She raised an eyebrow at him, curious to know what he wanted to say. He took a shaky breath as he spoke again. "Can you call me good again? I really liked that."
Smiling, she said softly, "Of course." A grin spread across his features as she continued to praise him, praising how great he was, how she loved his body, his soul, his everything. She kept complimenting him, telling him that he was amazing, perfect, wonderful.
After a few moments though, he reached up and grabbed her by the wrists, stopping her mid compliment and bringing her hands to rest at either side of his head, keeping her pinned beneath him as he leaned down to give her a deep kiss. He then started trailing hot kisses down her neck and collarbone, his lips finding their way down to her boobs, sucking and licking every inch of them, enjoying every gasp and shudder of pleasure it elicited.
"Jake..." Her voice was breathless, needy as she clutched his hair, urging him to continue. "Do you like that? Does my baby feel good?"
"I feel so fucking good," he replied huskily, lifting his head and gazing at her with hungry, lust filled eyes.
"I'm close, can you go harder for me?" She instructed hoarsely, grasping his forearms tightly. He nodded wordlessly and began to pump harder into her, gritting his teeth in concentration as he tried not to lose control and cum prematurely.
"That's it, sweetheart," she moaned as she squeezed her legs together, arching her back in pure bliss as he pounded harder into her and drove her crazy. Her breaths came in short pants as she felt herself getting close. She could feel her walls tightening around him, squeezing tightly and making him moan in pleasure as he thrusted faster. He was almost there too, she could see it in his eyes, he was close.
She panted heavily, trying to catch her breath as he slammed into her with all his might, groaning in pure pleasure as he let out a long string of expletives. And with one final thrust, he released within her, the force making her scream and buck her hips uncontrollably as she came undone underneath him. He collapsed on top of her afterwards, panting heavily as well, his heart hammering loudly in his ears.
There was a small bout of quiet as they regained their breath. Jake rolled over so he was laying next to her, propped up on his elbow as he gazed down at her. His eyes flicked over her body briefly, drinking in the sight of her pink cheeks, swollen lips, heaving chest and flushed skin. He chuckled lowly as his hands went to cup her face, caressing her cheeks lovingly and brushing strands of her hair out of her face. "Jake Martin: Sex God. That's got a nice ring to it," she joked lightheartedly, giggling as she traced circles on his chest with her index finger.
He smirked and shook his head, leaning in closer to kiss her lazily. "Me? I was just doing what you wanted," he pointed out. "I was following orders."
"Okay then, Jake Martin: Submissive Sex God. Is that better?" She teased, pulling at the hair at the nape of his neck so he'd have to look up at her.
"Shut up."
"Make me. I dare you."
Before he knew what he was doing, he hovered over her once more, pinning her beneath him, his mouth hovering above hers. "I'm going to leave the biggest, brightest hickey you've ever seen in your life," he whispered hotly against her lips before attaching his mouth to her jaw, but she squirmed out of the way before he could even begin to mark her.
"No, Jake. Not where people can see them." He frowned at that but she only laughed at his expression, rolling her eyes dramatically. He narrowed his eyes at her and pouted but didn't protest.
Moving his mouth down, he reached the lowest point of her collarbone and sucked hard and hungrily, sucking a large, purple bruise into existence. He grinned victoriously at her once he had finished, exclaiming, "There we go!"
Oh shit, what was the time? She glanced up at the clock on the nightstand. "We have to be on the bus in 10," she informed him. "Are you all packed?"
"I'm packing," he boasted. When it didn't get a response (she had to bite the inside of her cheek to stop herself from chorling), he confirmed, "No, I haven't."
Quickly shimmying out of his grasp to ensure he couldn't convince her otherwise, she ordered, "Pack your shit."
"Is that an order?"
"Yes, it's an order."
"Yes, Ma'am." He saluted as she got dressed to leave and urged him to do the same. He quickly gathered his things, haphazardly stuffing it into his suitcase in record time, and then zipped it shut.
As soon as she was dressed, she gave him a quick peck and hurried to her own room to her still unpacked bag. And with five minutes to spare, she was in the waiting area at the front of the hotel with some of the others. Kevin was running late. And so was Beth. Strange.
Jake arrived seconds behind Jessie. Y/N thought it might be funny to point that out but it would probably not go down well with him so she chose not to. Smirking, he pushed back some hair behind her ear when the others weren't looking and begged, "Sit next to me?" He didn't even need to ask.
Chapter 18: Finale
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lighthousepyrate · 2 years
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@fxckin-blackbeard asked:  “ i  didn’t  have  enough  rocks  to  write  out  ‘ help ’  so  i  just  spelled  out  ‘ hell ’ . ”
"Well, at least it's accurate," Stede lamented, tracing patterns with a stick in the sand. "How could they just forget about us?" It was plainly obvious only two people returned in the dingy. And sailing off without doing a headcount? Stede taught them better than that. Heaving a sigh, he stood from the rock he used for a makeshift seat.
"I'm starting to think they left us here on purpose." Squinting against the midday sun, he could still make out The Revenge lingering on the horizon. Though it hadn’t seemed to move for a few hours now...
But why? They still had to get the oranges for Fang, despite Jim's insistence the sole tree on this otherwise desolate little isle bared the fruit. It did surprise him when both they and Oluwande joined them on the trip, especially given everything that transpired.
"I knew those teeth looked familiar," muttered Stede, scowling. "He never had scurvy at all!"
Ever since the majority of the crew returned to his- Ed- Blackbeard's ship things had been... tense, to say the least. After all the shouting, arguing, and tears, things fell into an uneasy civility. Only a few murder attempts thrown in here and there. 
Things between him and Edward Blackbeard hadn't improved much either, which was why Stede was surprised to find him aboard the dingy too. What Stede didn't notice was the concealed weapon pointed squarely at Ed the whole ride over.
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And That's When You Came - Naga X Reader
So this is my first Naga x reader fic, I'm a bit nervous about it y'all. I hope you guys enjoy!
TW: Violence, kidnapping, murder, drugs, strong language.
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This time around, druglords were swarming parts of the Jungles around the world. This sometimes made working with the CIA and Marines hard trying to tie up loose ends.
So, of course, you took a leadership role, and assembled a small, efficient team to head out to the Jungle, and clean up some of these businesses.
You had gotten word over enemy comms that there was a possibility of trafficking coming up, just a few days short of today. So you know today was the day to make the right move and head out.
You gathered the team up, and took off right there and then. You had to head Northeast until you reached the heart of the Jungle. The plan was to ambush whoever was doing this and make them lead your team right to the main compound.
After 4 hours of constant flying, your heli touched down a few clicks North of the potential location. You took out the evidence from the comm broadcast and looked around.
The druglords were smart around these areas. They communicated in code. Morse code, to be exact. Thankfully you could read and understand morse code like you could in your native language. Looks like some classes pay off!
You took a minute and looked over the past conversation between these unknown individuals. You read the morse code with ease, and quickly you understood what was said.
'TRIBAL VILLAGE, WEST OF THE RED STREAM. FOLLOW IT 5 CLICKS AND MAKE A SHARP LEFT BY THE SKULLS.'
You felt a sick, sinking feeling when it mentioned skulls. Now you knew that you were about to walk a thin line with danger, or possibly even death.
You looked back at your team who geard up. You turned your radio on and spoke to the one man you could trust.
"Lazar, I might not come back from this. If I don't, please send a search team. I'm about to broadcast you my current coordinates." You said calmly.
"Y/N, you will come back. I promise to come to save your ass myself." Lazar said.
"Appreciate that, I'll keep in touch. 2-3 out." And off your radio went.
You rounded your team up and stood upon a rock so they could hear you loud and clear.
"Okay Strike team, we are going in. You will follow me and my orders, we stay together at all times. This could potentially be a large threat, and I will not have any deaths today. Now, follow me. Keep an eye out for any potential harm. Form the formation we talked about. Always check those corners and look back!" You said, strapping your MP5 around you tightly.
You led your team off in the direction that the morse code told you about. You came to the red stream and decided to take a look around and see if you saw any possible movement or another break in the case.
You took your binoculars and scanned the area. In the distance, you saw a small, white building. It was covered by trees, well hidden if you didn't have good vision.
"Hey Houston, take a look over there, almost 3 and a half inches to the left. See the white building?" You said, handing the binoculars to your teammate.
Houston took them and looked, he turned back to you and nodded.
"I see it. Do you think we should go check it out?" He asked.
You thought for a moment. What if this was another building with possible evidence or even someone in there you could question? You looked back towards him and nodded.
"Yeah, I think we should. Let's get in there and at least check it out. It'll be worth it if we do I think." You reasoned.
He quickly gathered the team, and you made a slow but steady movement towards the building in question. There was no doubt you were nervous, you had a really bad feeling and you weren't sure why.
When you came up to the building, it was a garage. It had a large, retracting door and a small door for someone to walk into. But there was no house, just a garage.
"Okay Houston, we're gonna walk into this place very carefully, and slowly." You said.
After getting confirmation from everyone, you walked up to the small door. You carefully took the handle and twisted it. The door creaked open as if this was some sort of horror movie and the killer finds the person hiding.
You took a few steps in and checked all the corners. Your team followed behind and within minutes, the whole place had gotten a clean sweep. There was nobody to be found. So, you quickly gathered everyone in the middle.
"Okay, so this place is clear. What we are going to do next i-" You were cut off by a large bang.
BANG!
You drew your MP5 and took a protective stance. Suddenly, thats when a loud and frantic banging started to happen. What took you off guard was the cries for help that followed.
"PLEASE HELP, I'M DOWN HERE!" The male voice cried out.
You looked all over the room, and noticed a hatch to what looked like a cellar, the doors chained shut with heavy rocks on top.
"Commander, I don't like the feeling of this..." One of your team, Leon shuttered out.
"Cover me, we must save this man!" You said with no hesitation.
You ran over to the doors, and ripped the rock off with brute strength. You smashed the chains off with the butt of your gun, and yanked them off. You could now open the door.
"Houston, Leon, with me!" You commanded.
They stacked up behind you and took stance. You ripped the doors open, and out came a man fell out, wearing some sort of uniform. And behind him was a some of two dozen men, armed. You had been tricked.
"Commander!" Houston yelled, jumping in front of you as a bullet as shot. It ripped through his heart like a dagger. He fell to the ground, going limp.
"You fuckers!" You shouted.
You went to shoot, but a rock came flying and hit you right in the eye. You heard everyone else struggle and a few gunshots. When you came back from the hit, you were grabbed and restrained.
The man you first saw, immediately tied all your team up, but a couple of the guys had you in a hold, rather than tied up. You were so scared, for everyone. The first guy who came out grabbed his walkie and talked into it.
"Naga, this is Blade. I have their Commander. Waiting your order."
"Good, bring their Commander to me. Take the rest to the pit. We have work that needs done." The mysterious voice spoke over the radio.
"Got it."
When your team started to get taken away like cattle, you got pissed. You saw the bodies of a few crew mates and it made you almost get sick. Houston and Leon were dead, all because of you.
When you started to be dragged away, you began to kick and scream.
"Get off me you rat fucking bastards! I'll kill you all!" You shouted.
The men only chucked, and kept walking.
You were able to get an arm free and sucker punch one. The other, you kicked straight in the teeth, which made him double over. You took the opportunity and snapped his neck with ease.
The other man though quickly recovered and tackled you. You both fought for a minute until you somehow got on top, flipping him to his back. You restrained his arms with your leg and grabbed his face.
"I fucking told you, asshole. Now, join your friend." You said with anger. You quickly pulled his head back, killing him. You got off and took a rifle he wore.
You looked around and started to gather your surroundings. Now you were kind of confused. First thing first, you had to find your team. You ran back to the garage and went to the corpses of Houston and Leon.
"I'm so sorry you guys." You said, picking up their dog tags. This was the only way to identify them now.
You left and followed a blood trail to a nearby meadow. There, in the distance, you saw thick trees. You came up to a set of some, and in front of you was a 4-way split.
"Fuck! I'll be fucked if I go the wrong way...." But before you could even think, you felt a presence.
Like, somebody was watching you. You looked up into the trees, and that's when you saw a man wearing a strange cap, sunglasses, and a bandanna. He held a tube in his mouth.
Before you could run, he put air into it and shot out a dart at you of some sort. Luck was not with you today though.
It sucks right into your neck. And it felt like a rock had just dropped on you from a great height. You fell to your knees and collapsed. You tried to crawl, but the world went black around you.
The man jumped down from the trees and came over. He removed the dart and rolled you over to see your face. When he saw it was you, he picked you up and carried you towards his large camp.
"Finally got you."
Meanwhile, back at the safe house
Lazar came up to Adler and Sims.
"Doc, Y/N was supposed to come back 5 hours ago. I was even told if I don't hear anything, to come to find them." Lazar spoke with worry.
Adler almost brushed it off, until he heard your name.
"Wait, as in Y/N Y/L/N? Commander of Strike team?" He questioned.
"Yes, remember they went into the Jungle for the possible compound raid. I think something is wrong." He said.
Adler put out his cigarette and got up. He walked over to a plan made out by you. His eyes went large, and he immediately started to pack up and get ready.
"Lazar, you are right. There is a good chance they are in danger. We leave right now! Get everyone rounded up and locked and loaded." He commanded.
Lazar did as he was told, and got everything in line. The crew left within 5 minutes.
One day later, Y/N POV
You finally woke back up, but you were changed to a wall. Your clothes have scratches, and your head felt like a bobblehead. The room had a bright, uncomfortable light above the head. You looked around and saw so much drug paraphernalia.
You were about to pass out again until the door opened, and the same man from before stepped into the room. You both made eye contact, and you saw a slight smile behind his bandanna.
He came over to you and ran his hand over your face.
"Well, look who is finally awake. I thought you weren't going to ever wake back up, my precious little dandelion." He said in a creepy tone.
You revolted to his touch and tried to kick. But, you were held in place by the tough shackles.
"No no no, little one. You won't be leaving now. Do you know how long I waited for you? And here you fall right into my lap...." He trailed off.
You still kicked and screamed, until he finally walked away over to a projector.
"Oh Y/N, I've been watching you for months now. I knew you had been tracing people like me to raid their compounds. Well, I didn't want you fucking up my business." He said, pulling up the images on the projector.
You looked at them in horror when you realized they were of you, in many different states. You at your own home, on a date with Lazar, out with the safe house team for bowling and drinks, even you in the shower. The fucking shower!
You began to cry. You were very afraid.
The man only laughed upon seeing your tears and started playing audio logs of you calling your family on holidays.
"Don't cry, little one. I've always wanted you in my life." He spoke, slowly walking towards you. You began to panic, and started kicking and muffled screaming again.
When he reached you, he ran his hand up your side, and to your face.
"Don't worry. My name is Naga and I'm here to keep you forever. You are mine now, you know." He said.
He stepped back and turned on an older song. He kept the pictures up as he walked towards you with a knife. Your heart sank.
"Do you see this, honey? This is what you'll get when you misbehave. Understand?" He spat at you.
"I'm going to undo your gag. Don't do anything stupid." Naga said.
As soon as he did, he smiled.
"There. Now, why don't you tell me something with that gorgeous mouth?"
You looked right at him, and spit right into his eye. He jumped back in disgust. That pissed him off, and his gaze turned cold.
"You fucking bitch! You'll pay for that!"
But before he could even lunge, a man came from behind and wrestled him to the ground. That man was none other than Lawrence Sims.
You started to wiggle as you saw Lazar and everyone else behind him. He quickly ran over to you and got you free. Adler jumped in with Sims and restrained Naga. He put up one hell of a fight though.
You were carried away to the EVAC chopper, where Mason sat.
"Y/N!" Mason shouted, helping you get onboard.
You sat up and coughed. Your body hurt so much, you felt drained.
"Please Mason, clean up this cut on my leg. It's getting infected." You pleaded.
Immediately, he started to tend to every wound you had. It stung like hell but you were relieved it was over. Lazar sat with you and held your hand. You felt like you were in shellshock.
After about 10 minutes, everyone came back to the heli. Lazar didn't look happy.
"What the hell? Where is he??" He questioned.
Adler pulled out a cigarette and lit it. Sims just signed.
"He got away. The bastard is like a snake. Plus not to mention, he turned my balls into innies." Adler said with defeat.
You sat up and hugged the blanket tighter around you. You looked around at everyone as the heli flew off.
"Wait, what about my team? They still might be down there...."
Adler nodded at you.
"We sent in spec ops to recover survivors. But we are glad to see you back here safe."
You nodded with relief and lay back against the heli. You looked out over the dark skies and the now ominous trees below. You knew, deep down inside down there, this wasn't over.
Naga still roamed these trees. You looked down over the treetops and clenched your fist tight.
"I promise, this isn't over. I'll be back, even stronger."
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SNOW WAR- PART II.
-Back in Acacia Street-
The group ran as fast as they've ever run, faster than any mile runs at Phys. Ed at school, faster than any creepy troll they've encountered. When they reached their street, they went right to Jim's house. Jim closed the door shut, locked it well, and closed the blinds on the windows.
"TH-THAT.. was.. INTENSE!" He panted, pointing outside, trying to catch his breath. He sat down on the stool by the kitchen counter.
"That was EXHAUSTING!" Libby complained, rubbing her sore calves from all the running.
"THEY HATE US, THEY KNOCKED US DOWN!"
"What were you thinking Libby?? 'Penelope Mumbleson?' Who the heck even HAS that LAST NAME?!" Toby exclaimed.
"I thought it would be credible enough, but.. Well, it backfired.."
"Yeah, no kidding," Toby remarked sarcastically, slumping down on the couch.
"Guys-Guys! All of that doesn't matter. What matters is that we got out of there alive, and we didn't get annihilated out there," Saraline steps up.
"Yeah, exactly, we're all here together, no one got hurt," Jim agreed.
Toby starts "Yeah, and so what if we caused another war between our streets- OH NO! WE CAUSED ANOTHER WAR BETWEEN OUR STREETS!"
"SHHHHHH! QUIET!" The group shushes Toby.
"But.. he's right though.. W-What if.."
"No, that's impossible, we all agreed a long time ago that it wouldn't happen. We all signed on the snow," Jim said, trying to calm everyone down.
"Yeah.. He's right.. Totally right," Libby nods. They exchange looks and go over to the living room window, moving the curtain aside, just enough for them to get a glimpse of their street. And it was like they feared.
Many people from Acacia Street started congregating outside, murmuring starting to form. They quickly went back out and it was true. Apparently, as they stepped out, Toby overheard Shelly Brewer, one of the girls from their street, say that she heard from a source that a fight had broken between some group from Acacia and Cirrus. The news had soon spread like wildfire there, that the Cirrus Street Rebels had struck. When they saw Libby and the four, they didn't look too amused to see them.
"SERIOUSLY?!" Shelly shouts over her oversized pink earmuffs.
"Nice job..!" Another one remarked, followed by sarcastic clapping.
"Way to start our winter.. I bet LAKE here is the one who started all of this.." Another neighbor starts pointing the blame at Jim.
"YEAH! Trying to SABOTAGE our PEACE!" Gwen Dolan hollered angrily, holding up her snow shovel in protest, followed by mixed voices shouting and hollering at the group enraged.
"I KNEW they were all nothing but TROUBLE!" More concerned clamoring from everyone on the street followed.
"GUYS! GUYS! GUYS! HEY! JIM'S NOT AT FAULT FOR THIS, OKAY!?" Libby spoke up to the People.
"YEAH! HE WASN'T THE ONLY ONE WHO STARTED THAT!" Toby shouts, thinking he'd sound cool and intimidating, but.. he did NOT know what HE just SAID.
"Tobes!" Jim turns to him, unamused, pulling his arm.
"Bra-VO!" A heckler booed.
"HEY! WE DIDN'T SAY YOU COULD HECKLE, DID WE?" Saraline gives them a taste of their own medicine.
"HEY! YOU ALL MIGHT AS WELL BE INSIDE- SAVE YOURSELVES THE EMBARRASSMENT!" Derek Miller jeered hastily. The Acacia crew start howling with laughter at it, poking fun at them.
That did it.
Jim went up shouted the loudest, probably the loudest that anyone's ever heard him shout, but he did it. He went, "WHY DON'T YOU TAKE A SEAT, DEREK." Straight up snapped him in half, sending a shiver of silence from everyone, leaving defenseless Derek all quiet, slowly taking a seat on a mound of snow.
Claire joins in on the discussion "ANYways! We know you're all mad at us, but it's not our FAULT! This snow has burdened us with trials and tribulations, okay? I thought snow was supposed to bring joy, fun, family together- At least that's what it USED TO BE.. But nowadays here.. snow means envy and bitterness.. We both used to be close.. Acacia and Cirrus.. What happened? Where did all that fun go?"
That made everyone really think. Everything paused as they all look at each other, some light agreeing murmuring, and nodding. Claire's friends nod in agreement.
"I miss those old scavenger hunts at the Wilsons' House.." Shelly said solemnly, a tear forming in her eye.
"Yeah.. And I miss havin' my best friend around.. Miss the good ol' days Brandy.." A tween boy holds on to a little dark green soldier figurine as he spoke, looking at the toy with grief.
Mixed responses were shared out of people recalling the good past memories that they made with the Cirrus Street people.
"People really did connect, huh?" Libby said to her group.
"Yeah, but I didn't think there'd be so much actually," Jim says. As that sweet moment grew, it all came to an end when someone came to the street in a hurry. It took a while to recognize them, until the boy with the soldier toy shouted out, "BRANDY?"
"'Brandy?'"They all asked, looking at each other.
"LUCAS! OH MY- GUYS.. GUYS! I.. I CAME TO WARN YOU ALL..!" He pants as he ran, where Brandy finally got to the center where everyone could see him.
"Wait, isn't he from the other street?" Derek blurts out, followed by murmuring from the others.
"Yeah. I am.. But I'm not on their side.. I came to warn you guys.."
"YEAH. We heard THAT STORY before.." Gwen Dolan yawns.
"I'm serious!" Everyone starts to leave, everyone but Jim and the four.
Finally, Brandy snapped. "DO YOU GUYS WANNA BE AMBUSHED BY YELLOW SNOW?" He asks.
Dead silence from the crowd, and they come back to where they were in a flash.
"I thought so," He crossed his arms.
"Okay- Go on."
"Alright, here goes.." Brandy tells everyone that the Cirrus Rebels were planning something diabolical. He said that they were making a TON of snowballs back there and they were using the Lopez' backyard because that's where the most snow accumulates there. And the Lopez family have a Rottweiler named Tonka, so they're sure to be using yellow snow and who-knows-what-else.
The Cirrus people were to form a huge army, march right to the neighborhood and plot an ambush attack, where they'd attack from all sides, all angles, to claim their 'property' back.
"Oh my God.." Someone murmured, then someone else murmured, and a wave of worried chatter erupted, but Libby put an end to it instantly. That got everyone scared to the bone, just dead silence again, but with a more eery vibe to it. Everyone was pretty mad about what they were planning, but they were glad Brandy gave us the heads-up. They told him that from now on, he could sled on their side ANY time.
"ALL RIGHT GUYS. We gotta PREPARE HERE!" Those invaders are going to come and strike us, what's the plan?"
*Libby's POV*
The time is ticking, not much time to go, so everyone was very short on ideas because we'd never engaged in a battle this huge before.
"..Well for one- we'll need to form a clan," I started.
"Yeah! And make a team flag that represents each of us!" Saraline chimed in.
"Mhm.. A flag that'll intimidate and bring shivers to our enemies!" Jim finished.
"Well- I LIKE IT!" Derek exclaims, all of us whoop and celebrate.
We quickly voted on what we should go for our design and the most votes were a bloody warrior's sword with a sharp icicle behind it, so we went with that.
My friends and I ran back to Jim's house and found an old pillowcase in the laundry room, and got some markers out of the junk drawer in the kitchen. We started by trying to come up with a NAME for our clan.
"What's our name gonna be, Clan?" Jim asks.
"OOH! How about GRYFFINDOR?!" Toby suggests.
"Uhhh.. Cool, but if we're doin' this, we gotta be original," Saraline said.
"Ugh, fiiineee." He pouted.
"Ooh! How about.. Hmm.."
"How.. about.. Winterspear?" I suggest.
"Oh, yeah!!"
"Love it!"
"PERFECT!"
"AWESOMESAUCE!"
"Mhm! Winterspear, the Clan of Glory.. Uh..B-Bringing home glory with our spears of uhh.. might glory!!" I stammer.
"..You just ruined it, Libby.." Toby shakes his head.
"But I still LOVE IT!" He exhilarated with joy, jumping up and down.
We all went back outside with our new flag.
"What's the game plan?" Someone asks.
"Hmm.. The only way to keep the Cirrus Street people from coming back down the hill is to build a wall to block their path." Claire said.
"MHM! And we're not gonna need some puny wall they could just push over, either. We need something that is SOLID and STURDY."
"I agree, Tobes- But we need to make it FAST because those guys are already marching down the hills with their sleds."
"LET'S GET TO WORK PEOPLE!" Valeria announced. So we got recycling bins from some nearby houses and started BUILDING.
We ended up with a DOUBLE wall, so if anyone broke through the first layer, they'd still have to deal with the SECOND one. And we stockpiled a TON of snowballs.
I sent Lorraine up to our house to fill some thermoses with hot chocolate since it would be freezing combat. We all suited up, got out the big winter coats and the snow boots, our most bundled scarves, and gloves/earmuffs. I got a huge white puffy winter coat, white fur winter cap, winter pants, white snow boots, WHITE EVERYTHING- I figure it would make it easier for me to blend in with the snow since we're dealing with war here!
The homeschooled kids went out and each collected sharp pointy icicles to stick into our wall, and some of the duplex people threw together some snowmen to make it look like there were more of us than there actually WERE.
And when the Cirrus Street kids came, we were READY for them.
Lorraine comes out of my house, running back to us, wearing a puffy snow jacket and all the snow gear.
"Okay, now we got Lorraine," I say, patting her back, giving us the thermoses of hot chocolate. Valeria and Chantelle trail behind her.
"Here ya go, Libby!"
"Thanks!"
"Chantelle has excellent sight and Valeria has a snowball launcher," I explained to the team, where they nod.
"All right- NOW, WHO'S GOT THEIR BATTLE SPIRIT?!" I shout at the masses.
"OOH! ME MEE! I GOT MY BATTLE SPIRIT!" Lorraine shouts, waving her arms around like a fan, Everyone largely screamed out in glory.
"Aw, that's nice! SEE? Even Lorraine HAS-" But before Jim could finish, Lorraine took a snowball and hurled right at him which impacted him so much he was knocked straight onto the snow.
Everyone quickly rushes over to him, checking on him, helping him up. He stumbles his balance shifting, trying to stay still. It was difficult getting him up since he was wearing one of those blue puffy penguin snow jackets.
"Th-The kid.. has an arm..!" He trembles out as Toby holds him straight by the arm, so he wouldn't topple down. They all look at Lorraine with wonder, which the little girl smiles confidently.
"I'm on the softball team! Hee!" Lorraine said eagerly, arms folded behind her back, standing out tall.
"Yeahhh.. we're gonna win for sure," Derek whispers to Jim, which he nods in agreement.
"NOW- CAN I GET A 'HOORAH'?!" I shout, standing up tall on Jim's porch step, raising my fist up high.
"HOORAH!" The street roared with pride, raising their fists up with me.
"I SAID, 'CAN I GET A HOORAH?!'?"
"H O O R A H !   H O O R A H !   H O O R A H !   H O O R A H !"
After out cheering, we got to battle mode, when the Cirrus street people saw our WALL, I don't think they knew what to DO. And when they got CLOSER, we hit them with everything we had. Those guys didn't stand a CHANCE. We sent them running back up the hill, and we celebrated our victory.
"VICTORY!" Jim yells and points to the scampering Cirrus Street kids, as we each high-fived each other.
"THEY'RE DOWN!" Claire exclaims, applauding in delight.
"YEAH! WOO!" Saraline jumps up.
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But we celebrated too SOON. Because ten minutes later, the Cirrus Street Rebels were BACK, and this time they were armed to the BONE.
Most of them were wearing sports gear, many with hockey masks and sports helmets to protect themselves from our snowballs.
"AAAAaaaHHH!" We screamed, instinctively recoiling and ducking down on our wall, when one of them threw a HOCKEY STICK at us, impaling one of our snowmen decoy's eyes.
"What THE-" Claire gasped, looking at the raging fury of the Cirrus fellows. But still, we were the ones with the wall, and we had the higher ground. So we unleashed another round of snowballs, which we held off for a while, but those guys had some surprises up their sleeves. They hit us with a round of sloppy choppy snowballs which we were totally unprepared for.
But we'd have to deal with those LATER because now we had a new problem. It turned out the wet slimy snowballs were just a distraction to draw our attention away from the nextwave of attack, which was coming at us swiftly.
"STAIRS- 12 O'CLOCK!" Toby points out, watching with the binoculars from a safe distance.
"DON'T LET THEM CLIMB UP!" Jim hollers, grabbing a bunch of snowballs.
"GOTCHA!" Valeria says, grabbing the snowball launcher going crazy at 'em. We hit the ones carrying ladders with snowballs, but before we knew it, they'd planted their ladders at the base of the wall and had started climbing their way UP it. But Shelly, Chantelle, and a group of our team brought out a bucket of slush from the snowballs that the Cirrus street people snuck.
We didn't have a second to celebrate, though, because the Cirrus Street Rebels were already launching their next attack.
"Uhh, Guys?" Saraline points to a marching group of people heading our way.
"Oh, DEAR GOD NO-" Jim gasped, eyes widening.
"Uh-oh, this is gonna get rough," Toby gulped.
"Yep," I said quietly.
Half the school football team lives at the top of the hill, and they attempted to take down the wall with brute FORCE. But because of the roughness of the wall, they wore themselves out in a breeze.
But eventually, it was getting tiring, so some of the Cirrus street people started packing up, like nothing. Then they started eating snacks and sandwiches, it looked like a tuna sandwich, I am getting hungry too. I didn't realize how late it got, but I had to stick with my team.
After a while, we realized what they were trying to do here. I've been on enough Trollhunting missions with Jim and the team, and I saw this exact scenario happen multiple times now. Their strategy was to wait us out until we CRACKED, and then take our wall without a fight.
In fact, someone on our side was the first one on our side to break. Melvin Burke hadn't even had anything to eat yet, so the sight of all those sandwiches being eaten, all the crusts lying on the ground made him CRAZY. He climbed over the wall and ran down the hill, and that was the last any of us saw of him. But the rest of us nonhill kids kept it together. Three HOURS went by, but the Cirrus people weren't budging.
A lot of the younger kids were tired and hungry and wanted to go home. And I couldn't blame them, because by now, it was DINNERTIME and all of us were starving.
We agreed we couldn't just sit there and wait for the attack, so we started working on a PLAN. Half of us would sneak up the hill and launch a surprise attack on the kids making snowballs in the Lopez' yard. The OTHER half would stay back to protect the fort. We sketched the plan into the snow with a stick to make sure we were all on the same page.
Jim, Claire, Saraline, Toby, and I were part of the sneak attack team since we wanted in on the action. Our group loaded up a few sleds with all the snowballs we had left, and we slipped over the back wall and between some houses.
When we got to the Lopez' backyard, we stopped to just scope out the scene, see what's happening, which would be easy since by now it was very dark and they couldn't see us. Sure enough, there was a big group of kids making snowballs out front behind a rock wall. When Lorraine gave the signal, we all charged at them, launching our attack.
"FOR WINTERSPEAR!" I roar.
"FOR THE CLAN OF GLORY!" My friends shouted, charging.
"GLORY!" Our allies cried back, all of them trailing with us.
"AYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEEE!" Chantelle yells as she's hurling snowballs, she wants victory and glory too.
"SURRENDER, CIRRUS STREET PUNKS!" Jim demands.
But the other guys didn't even FLINCH when we hit them. And as we got closer, we realized it was all just a TRICK. The hill kids had copied us and created DECOYS to split us up, which meant we'd been double-crossed by them. We rushed back to the wall, but by then it was already too LATE.
The wall was in RUINS, and we were out of ammunition. It looked really bad for us Acacia kids, but then we saw that they had a large flag that was proudly waving in the wind where OUR WALL used to stand. Oh yeah, they copied us on the clan thing, their flag had a sigil of a skull and a spear going through it.
In the middle of all this, ANOTHER group came down from the TOP of the hill. It was the TULLY STREET people, who must've gotten out and come to sled and hang around on our street. And once THEY got into the mix, it was just a total FREE-FOR-ALL.
But however, everyone stopped when they heard the rumbling sound of the snowplow. Which were three-quarters of the way up the street, mowing through everything in its path. And once the plow left our street, it was QUIET, like actually quiet, the quietest quiet ever. The crazy thing is, now that the street was plowed, there wasn't really anything left to fight over, and everyone picked themselves up and started TALKING with one another. Both streets, both sides of the street conversing, like nothing had happened.
Before, long we were taking everything up and heading home, but someone stopped us.
"Wait, guys." It was the leader of Cirrus Street.
"Look-We've been real jerks.. This has gone on for so long.. Let's all just start over." he said with a warm grin.
We hesitated, looked at each other, and went for it.
"Okay, we accept." We all acknowledged. We crossed our flags, symbolizing the end of the feud and a long-fought war.
After the party left, we went back to Jim's house for some more hot chocolate and a roaring fire at the fireplace.
"Did we just end a lifelong feud between this street and that?" Jim asks, blowing on his cup of chocolate before sipping.
"I think we did, Jimbo." Toby replied.
"Ah, but I'm not gonna complain about why we were fighting in the FIRST place.. I'm just glad we made it through this heinous war without getting ourselves KILLED." Saraline said, putting on some marshmallows on her hot chocolate.
"Agreed." Claire said.
"'Huzzah' for not getting ourselves killed in the cold!" I started the cheer.
"..And for ending a lifelong feud!" Toby adds in.
"HUZZAH!" We all clinked our mugs together in celebration and each took a sip.
"OOH! HOT!"
"Too HOT!"
"Ouch! Ouch!" We wince and put our mugs down from the burning beverage, then we just laugh it off, just glad and happy that this whole mess is FINALLY over. And this story too, because it went on forever and ever and ever, whew!
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Spotlight: A Life Of A Troubled Celebrity Heartthrob Ch 8
Word Count: 3,940
"Y/N, I need you in your dressing room now," Michelle grabbed mt arm as soon as we stepped out of the limo, "we don't have much time." She hurried them along, security surrounding them at every turn.
"I'll see you in a bit sweets," Colson called out and blew her a kiss as they separated.
Y/N blew one back and he caught it, causing her to blush furiously.
"I see your husband has beefed up your shadows," Michelle said wryly.
"Yeah, yeah he has. I don't have a say in the matter unfortunately," Y/N shrugged.
"Can't blame him though. You and Colson have been the entertainment headline news ever since he announced your wedding on social media," Michelle opened the door of the dressing room and Y/N followed behind.
"Please remove your clothes and wear this gown," Michelle handed her a short black silk gown
"Really? We've been on the news?" Y/N furrowed her brows, wanting to continue the previous conversation.
"Sweetheart, which planet have you been living on? Anything to do with Colson Baker is news. Sit," Michelle commanded as she pulled out a chair.
"I kinda went of the grid after..you know?"
"I know," Michelle gave her a knowing look and laughed, "I can tell by the marks he left on your body sweetie."
"Oh," Y/N covered her face, embarrassed.
"No need to be ashamed," Michelle laughed, "if I wasn't already married to Byron I would gladly stand in line to jump Colson's bones," she joked, "so does he live up to his rep or nah?" she pried.
"What?" Y/N blushed again.
"Sorry. I don't mean to pry," she pursed her lips.
"No, no. It's okay. I'd like to think we're friends?" Y/N asked.
"Of course! I should be hurt that you'd even-" she held the make-up brush mid-air.
"Okay, I'm sorry," Y/N squeezed Michelle's hand, "but he was more than I ever thought or imagined!" she gushed.
"I knew it!" They giggled like a pair of giddy school girls. They were interrupted when someone knocked at the door.
"Michelle," Colson cleared his throat as he stood at the door, "can you excuse us for a minute?"
"Make it quick and don't even think of spoiling her hair and make-up," Michelle glared at him before leaving the room.
"Well.. you heard the lady Bambi.." Colson locked the door and discarded his t-shirt at the door. He flexed his muscles like he had just entered a boxing ring.
"Colson..noo," Y/N held out her hands in a futile attempt to stop him from getting to her.
"I prefer it when you scream out yes.." he lifted her off the chair and switched places with her. She straddled him as he trailed hot kisses on her neck, causing her to lose herself in him.
"Michelle.."
"Can wait.." he claimed her mouth possessively and all resistance crumbled..
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Good Evening Brussels!! How's everyone doing toniiight???!" Colson bounced onto the stage like he owned the world and everything in it.
The crowd went ballistic and he reveled in their screams and shouts. "Colson! Colson! Colson!"
He smiled and made a turn round the stage, psyching himself up for his performance. He ran from one end of the stage to the other touching and high-fiving as many fans as possible. Some fangirls passed out as soon as he made contact with them and guys ran around in circles. The crowd was in a frenzy and Colson hadn't even started performing yet!
"COLSON BAKER WE LOVE YOU!" the fans chanted over and over again.
"I LOVE YOU ALL! I LOVE YOU BRUSSELS!" Colson shouted over the screams and shouts as he sprinted from one end to the other one last time. More screams, crying and fainting ensued. The paramedics would be busy tonight.
"Tonight we have a very special guest on the ones and twos-please give it up for my one and only doe-eyed beauty-my wife Y/N Baker!!" Colson swept his hand towards Y/N as she stood behind the sound engineers desk. She waved shyly and slipped on her headphones. She was going to be taking Slim's place as sound engineer and DJ for the night. Michelle had dressed her up in a short Saint Laurent sequin embellished cocktail dress, epitomizing the band's statement sex appeal. She looked daring and fearless and it was a head-turning number, She completed the look with studded leather boots and her hair was a 80s messy look .
"You're looking hooot baby!" He winked at her and walked back to the edge of the stage. "I just want to give a shout out to my wife for taking care of me when I was sick. I don't know many people that would wipe puke off my face -for free-but you did it babe. I'm so grateful for you. This first song is for you sweets," he winked at her and positioned himself on a high-stool, "The song is called "Hangover Cure ," Colson strummed his guitar and his angelic voice resounded all over the stadium.
The audience was undoubtedly entranced and mesmerized by Colson. He had a commanding stage presence that sucked everyone in and all they could do was be fixated on him and him alone. Girls in the crowd were openly crying like he was singing the song to them and when he hit his signature high notes they were in a state of delirium. Banners and placards went up everywhere with words expressing how much his fans loved him. And he was truly loved by all of them.
Colson continued the next several songs on a mellow vibe and the crowd was falling more and more in love with this side of him. At one point he removed his baseball jacket and gave it to an adoring fan; who ran around the stage like a headless chicken. Of course the paramedics had to be called in to remove her from the stage after she had passed out.
"So tonight we're going to switch things up a bit," Colson carefully laid his guitar down and stood up again, "I'm going to get a few fans from the crowd to come up here and we're going to sing some of your favorite songs together. Can we do that?" The fans roared in agreement.
"I hope you all still have your ticket stubs cos' I'm just going to randomly call out a ticket number and if it belongs to you then you get to do a duet with me. That okay?" Colson grinned and the fans went wild.
"For the purpose of time and logistics, I'll call them out all at once and I hope you can make it to the front..if not then we will have to pick out someone else okay? Ready? Here goes..Drum roll please!" Colson said dramatically.
"Ticket number 2005, 5721; uhh-3688; 1012, 4562 and last one-6000? Please make your way to the front and produce your ticket to protocol otherwise..you all know the drill," Colson drank some water and a crew member rushed forward to wipe down his body. He wasn't feeling well but he pushed himself, he had to. "Music please," he called out to his band before hurrying over to Y/N.
"Sweets, I don't feel one hundred. Can we please go backstage for a few minutes?" he whispered in her ear and she nodded.
"Bathroom-" he ran to the restroom, clutching his stomach and Y/N asked security to wait outside while she checked on him.
"Are you okay babe?" she tapped on the door lightly.
"Yeah..noo-" he grunted before she heard him spilling his guts into the lavatory again.
"I'm coming in," Y/N announced, his meds and a bottle of water in her hand. She found him seated on the floor, with his back against the wall. His face was pale and his forehead had beads of sweat. Y/N handed the pills and water to him; then started to wipe him down with his face towel.
"Sorry," Colson held her against him.
"It's okay," Y/N gave him a weak smile, "I need to rinse out your towel, I'll be right back okay?"
"Hey! Are you guys okay?" Jax called out from outside, "Can I come in?"
"Come inside Jax," Y/N swung the door open and walked back to Colson, Jax close on her heels.
"Hey, are you okay kid?" Jax crouched next to Colson's slouched frame.
"Yeah, please get Byron to get a supporting act to cover for me for a while. I'll go and lie down in my dressing room for a bit. Help me up?" Jax pulled him off the floor effortlessly.
"I've already told Byron to take care of it. You sure you want to continue?" Jax asked skeptically.
"I will have to manage somehow..can't let the fans down. Beside I just have fan-dues and then I'll be done," Colson said as he put his arm around Y/N for support.
"If you're sure.." Y/N looked at him with concern.
"I'll be okay sweets; stop stressing," Colson leaned forward and kissed her temple.
"Fine," Y/N muttered.
"Okay, I'll leave you two to rest then. Will half-an-hour be enough?" Jax asked as they stopped in front of the dressing room?
"Yeah," Colson nodded.
"Okay, I'll be here to escort you back on stage," Jax replied.
Y/N opened the door for him and helped him lie down on the soft couch.
"Stay with me?" He pleaded. Y/N lay down next to him and he wrapped his arms around her.
"Your body is so hot," Y/N said in alarm.
"Ooh, tell me more baby.." he drawled and buried his nose in her neck.
"Colson, I'm serious..you're burning up," she turned to face him.
"Shh..stop worrying," he kissed her forehead, "I've taken my medication so I'll be fine in a minute. Go to sleep baby."
"You go to sleep Baker," she replied, "I'll be right here," she said softly.
"Thank you baby," he said before he drifted off to sleep.
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"Are we really going to the after party?" Y/N frowned at her husband.
"Yes WE are!" Colson laced his hands with hers. They were standing in the foyer at the hotel where the after party was already in full swing.
"But you're not well?" she raised a perfectly shaped eyebrow, courtesy of Michelle.
"We won't stay for long. Promise," he kissed her chastely, "I have to make an appearance you know that right? Plus I really need to get you home so I can finish off what we started in the dressing room.." he nuzzled her neck
"Hmm..and no drinking tonight? Agreed," she looked at him with her pretty E/C eyes.
"Sweets, come on!" he whined, "can we just go and have fun please? I could really use it," he massaged his temple with one hand.
"Why are you avoiding my question?? I'm watching you Baker," she eyed him suspiciously.
"I don't mind baby," he hugged her and gave her a long kiss.
"That's blackmail," she said, breathless.
"Is it working?" His breath danced on her lips.
"Let's go," she pushed him away playfully, "I really need to get this over and done with so I can go home and rest. I'm overdue on sleep."
"Sorry, that's my fault, I know," he said sheepishly.
"Just remember that when partying the night away and I have to drag you home," she muttered under her breath.
"I heard that Mrs Baker," he laughed softly as he hugged her waist.
"Good," she replied.
"What's he doing here?" Colson froze and Y/N followed his gaze. It landed on Slim. Jax and Byron were arguing with him in a corner.
"Let Jax handle it okay?" Y/N put her hands against his chest and pushed him back gently, "Let it go. Please?"
"Fine," he said through gritted teeth and walked away.
"Hey Colson! Hi Colson! Great show Colson!" was all Y/N heard as Colson held her hand all night.
"I need the bathroom," Y/N whispered in Colson's ear.
"Let me come with you," he stood up with her.
"No. Stay with your friends," she said with a wave of her hand, "I just spotted Ash so I'll go with her," Y/N pointed over to where Ashleigh was standing.
"You're sure? Slim is lurking about so I'm a bit uneasy," he confessed.
"I'll be fine okay"" she kissed the side of his mouth and he smiled.
"If you're going to kiss me then you should make it count Bambi," he crushed his lips against hers and kissed her breathless.
"Hurry back before I start missing you," he said as a parting shot.
"Hey there stranger!" Ashleigh practically jumped on her.
"Hey! Careful," Y/N giggled.
"How have you been? How are you handling having your face and relationship splashed all over the tabloids?" Ashleigh asked.
"Colson prefers it if I don't see that," Y/N replied, "probably doesn't want me to get worked up I guess,"
"So you've already become the little submissive wife have you? You consummated the marriage yet?" she smiled and nudged Y/N with her elbow.
"Something like that.." She laughed.
"I want all the deets but let's go and get something to drink first," Ashleigh pulled her over to the bar.
"I really didn't want to drink today Ash.." Y/N said hesitantly.
"Just have one with me?? We haven't hung out for a while..please?" Ashleigh coaxed.
"Okay fine," Y/N sighed in defeat, "just one," she held up her index finger for emphasis. They went to the bar and Ashleigh ordered two cosmos.
"Can we go to the bathroom?" Y/N shifted around in agitation, "otherwise I will pee on myself," Ashleigh laughed as she handed Y/N her drink.
"Let's just go up and use the one in my room?" Ashleigh suggested and Y/N nodded, "I-uh-need to get my phone. Need to take pics you know. It's our last week on tour," she said as the stepped into the elevator.
"Sommer!" they cried out in shock. Sommer was curled up in a ball, whimpering in the corner of the elevator. Her face was badly bruised, her nose was bleeding and she was a mess. Usually she was well dressed, without a hair out of place but tonight she looked like a junkie.
"Who did this to you?" Y/N demanded as she crouched next to Sommer.
"Just leave me alone okay!?!" Sommer snapped, "you and your perfect little life! Just leave me alone! Go away!" she yelled.
"I want to help you!" Y/N said, forlorn, "please allow me to help you?"
"Let's take her to her room, Maybe she needs to clean up a bit and sleep it off," Ashleigh looked around, nervous.
"If you're sure..?" Y/N said hesitantly.
"Look, why don't you go use the bathroom in my room and I will take care of Sommer? I'm sure Slim must already be looking for her of something," Ashleigh babbled.
"No! No Slim!" Sommer backed away in fear, "don't call him. Please?" she grabbed my arm.
"Okay, I won't," Y/N assured her. Something strange was going on here but she couldn't put her finger on it.
"Come on Sommer let's get you cleaned up. You'll need a change of clothes as well," Y/N steered her in towards her hotel room.
"Let me do it!" Ashleigh said too quickly, "well..since you needed the bathroom so badly-I can help Sommer. You go ahead-I got this," she said with a tight smile.
"Okay.." Ashleigh was acting very strange today, maybe she was high on something, Y/N thought. Y/N looked walked into Ashleigh's hotel room and got a sense of foreboding but she just shrugged it off. She went into the bathroom and relieved herself and as he was washing her hands she heard hotel room door open.
She thought it was Ashleigh so she hurried out of the bathroom to find Slim standing at the doorway with a smug expression on his face.
"Hello Bambi..so glad you could make it," he slammed the door shut and locked it.
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Y/N stared at Slim as he stood at the door, lazily leaning against it. He looked at her the was a lion on Animal Planet would eye it's prey before it moved in for the kill.. This was like déjà vu to Y/N but this time she wasn't going down without a fight. She had to think quickly before he had his way with her and by the way he was undressing her with his eyes, he was going to pounce on her any minute from now. Her short cocktail dress would make it so much easy for him.
"I've waited for this day for a very long time and I'm going to savor every inch of that delectable body.." he licked his lips and continued to trail his eyes down her body.
She was saved by a loud pounding on the door that startled both her and Slim.
"Slim!" Sommer called out from behind the door, "I know what you and Ashleigh planned-don't do it! Please! I'm begging you!" she said her voice breaking.
Y/N took this opportunity and dashed back into the bathroom and locked the door. If Sommer kept up the racket long enough then help would arrive soon. Slim snarled and he pounded on the door; Y/N searched around frantically for an opening but found none.
"You can try and run from me but you're only prolonging the inevitable," he taunted as he tried to beat the door down, "I'm going to have you and you're going to enjoy it my precious."
Y/N was wringing her hands, trying to figure a way out when her eyes fell on her Apple Watch that Colson had got her just last week. She quickly scrolled to the phone app and dialed Colson's number and he answered on the second ring.
"Hey I've been looking all over-"
"Help me please! I'm stuck in the bathroom in Ashleigh's room and Slim is outside-he tried to-he wants to-" Y/N's voice broke-.
" I'll be on my way. Hang tight okay?" Colson rang off.
The room was silent and she couldn't hear Slim moving around so she began to panic. What was he up to? Suddenly the bathroom door swung open and Slim stood with a self-satisfied smirk.
"I know how to pick locks my precious," he held a paper clip between his fingers. He threw the pin on the floor and locked the bathroom door again from the inside. Y/N tried to back away but the room was constricted. She started to hyperventilate and pressed redial on her phone, wishing and hoping that Colson would get here quicker.
"Told you..you can run but.." he trailed his finger along her cheekbone and she spat in his face.
"You're going to regret that," Slim  gave her a dagger and pushed her against the tiled wall, "I'm sorry this is going to be quick and rough..I would have liked to take it slow but time is not on our side," he grabbed her roughly, lifted her up and placed her on top of the sink. Y/N began to scratch at his face and to kick and scream, but he grabbed her hands and tied them with his bandana.
"You're making this so hard for yourself precious..if you would just give in then we would enjoy the ride together but-I guess you like it rough," he tried to yank her dress further up her thighs but it was too tight and it was proving to be difficult. He pulled her off the sink and pushed her against the wall, "turn around," he said roughly. She faced the wall and started to cry.
"Save your tears for Colson. They're not going to work on me," he unbuckled his belt and she heard his pants fall to the floor.
"I'm not going to run like Scott. I'll just plead insanity due to drug addiction and they will let me go. I'm going to stick around so I can keep coming back for seconds," he pushed her face against the wall and whispered into her ear, "that's if you're good enough..hope I won't be disappointed Precious," he stuck his tongue in her ear and she cried out.
"Please don't!" she whimpered, her tears cascaded down her cheeks.
Suddenly, someone came crashing through the door and hurtled towards them. Slim had no time to register what was happening but a pair of hands grabbed his neck, threw him on the floor and started to strangle him. Y/N sank onto the floor and broke down. Sommer ran over to her and hugged her.
"I'm so sorry Y/N-I didn't know-" Sommer cried along with Y/N, "he and Ashleigh had planned it. I had nothing to do with it-I swear! Please believe me!"
"Colson!" Jax shouted, "You're going to kill him-let go!"
"Death is too good for this scum!" Colson screamed as Jax and the other body guards dragged him off Slim. His eyes fell on Y/N and he dashed over to her. She had passed out probably due to shock or relief or maybe both.
Slim took advantage of the distraction and made his escape, spluttering and fighting for breath. Jax eyed him warily and decided to let him go. He knew he would be back.
"It's okay sweets. I'm here now. You're safe. I got you baby." he lifted her limp form in his arms and carried her out of the room.
"Do you want me to go after him?" Jax walked beside them.
"No. I'll get him. One way or another, I'll get him," Colson narrowed his eyes, "I want you to get that spawn of Judas-Ashleigh. I want her to look me in the eye and explain why she did what she did to my wife," the elevator doors slid open and Jax held them back to allow Colson to step inside.
"She's already in a car and is on her way to the house," Jax reported, "I have a few things to say to her as well. I hope we're pressing charges? We can't let them walk-Y/N deserves justice," he said vehemently as he opened the car door.
"Oh we're going to make them pay..then we're going to hand them over to the police," Colson laid Y/N inside and jumped in beside her.
Colson clenched and unclenched his fist as he looked out the window. Ashleigh had messed with the wrong person. He was going to deal with her personally. Her career was officially over before it even began.
"Jax, can we make a quick stop at a hospital? I need to make sure she's okay," Colson caressed Y/N's face as she lay on his lap, "plus we need to gather evidence."
"Sure thing Boss," Jax nodded.
Colson hoped and prayed that he had got there on time but Slim's pants were down and Y/N's dress was-he shook his head and blinked his eyes rapidly. He couldn't-didn't want to even think about it. His heart bled a thousand times when he thought about what he saw when they crashed through the door. He shouldn't have allowed her to go with that snake-he should have listened to his gut; trusted his instinct.
Now Y/N was a wreck and it would take a while to piece her back together again.
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Hi! Okay, so here’s chapter two of my growing back together story, inspired by the prompt “I won’t hurt you” @rosegardeninwinter sent me. I also posted this fic on AO3 under the title Gravity (like the Sara Bareilles song), if that’s where you prefer to read. And here’s a link to chapter one of this fic if you wanna read and haven’t yet.
Also I know I said in my first author’s note that there will be three chapters, but there might be a bit more.... we love an over-writer, right? 🤷🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️
I don’t know if you’re “supposed” to post every part of a multi chapter fic on here? Or just post the link to it on AO3? But for now I posted it in its entirety on here 😊.
Anyways, hope you like it! And thanks to anyone who reads! 💖💖💖
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A couple months later.
We slide back after that. I don't know if that night-the night he had a nightmare that I died and we slept locked in each other's embrace-moved too quickly for Peeta or if he thought he was protecting me from him, but when morning light came, he was gone from the bed.
I didn't see him again until the following evening, helping Haymitch feed his rambunctious geese in the yard. He didn't speak to me for four more days after that, and when he did, it was to ask what kind of bread I wanted him to bring for lunch the next day.
I pretended to his face that it didn't hurt. That waking up in a cold, empty bed, in a house he all but abandoned until I had evacuated, that sleeping in his arms and awaking so abruptly alone, didn't hurt. I did what I had taught myself to do as a child and I turned my features into an indifferent mask, shutting off all access to my emotions. Destroying any possibility of anyone witnessing my vulnerabilities.
But I knew deep down, it did hurt. It hurt badly.
I didn't speak to him directly the first week he showed up for lunch and to work on the memory book again. I got by fine without addressing him directly, as Haymitch somehow sensed the bubbling tension between us and stayed sober just enough to remain alert for all our shared meals. He helped with the memory book, helped by adding in a snarky comment here or there to reel our focuses onto him instead of each other.
I wanted to say thank you but I never knew how. I doubt Haymitch needs me to verbalize it anyway. One night, as he follows behind Peeta to leave, his hand grazes my shoulder and gives it a squeeze and I know he's much more aware of the dynamic between his old tributes than he leads on.
But weeks after the night in question, the night that set Peeta and my friendship back months, we receive a telegraph from Effie. A telegraph that shakes the small amount of stability we've managed to build in the time since the war.
Apparently President Paylor has decided to move forward with arena destruction, an idea mentioned a few times by Plutarch on Caesar's talk show. An idea I didn't take seriously until now.
Paylor has decided to build a memorial for each of the arenas, for each year the games ever took place, to immortalize our history, so Panem can never forget how cruel and inhumane things once were. But first, she wants to eliminate the actual Hunger Games arenas, once and for all, before putting the memorials in their place.
My initial thought, months ago when Delly showed me Plutarch and Caesar discussing the idea, was that this would takes years to happen.
I was, once again, so clearly wrong. The plans have been expedited and the order in which each arena will be decimated has been swiftly decided.
All that alone doesn't sound terrible. I'd like to see those death pits crushed, burned, torn down, eradicated, or all of the above, by any means necessary. Only downside, initially, is that this will extend me—and Peeta and potentially all the other victors—remaining in the forefront of the public's mind.
Since the war, all I've ever wanted was for everyone in the country to forget who I am. I don't want to be known anymore. I just want to be left alone, to a quiet and peaceful and relatively simple life, without anyone ever recognizing me again. Without anyone thinking of me as the girl on fire, as the Mockingjay, as the sixteen-year-old who volunteered for a sister who was doomed to death anyway.
But, of course, there's a catch. There's always a catch.
Plutarch thinks it would be great to have the living victors be there—televised—in the Capitol and see the arenas before they're bulldozed.
Even with this dreadful proposition, I thought I had time to think of a way out of it. When Effie first sent the telegraph, I thought that I would have years before having to worry about going back to the places where my nightmares started.
Well, some of my nightmares, that is.
After all, it takes time to destroy something as large and as vast as an arena-excluding the way I destroyed the one in the Quell, that is. I figured-I rationalized, really-that by the time they got to number Seventy-Four, I would have a solid excuse to get out of attending.
I guess though they wished to start with the big years and the first decade of the Hunger Games wasn't very eventful, apparently—lucky them—so the first arena they wish to bid farewell to is the one from the second Quarter Quell. The Fiftieth Hunger Games. The one that was so strikingly beautiful and almost entirely poisonous.
The year Haymitch Abernathy, from the lowly District Twelve, won.
And being also from Twelve, my presence, along with Peeta's, suddenly became of the utmost importance as well.
At first, I still try to opt out of the event. Even after Effie chastises me over the phone, like not a day has passed since she was my escort, and even after my mother claims in her letter that it could be cathartic for me, I do not relent.
Delly and Thom and a few of the others in the community, like Kanon who runs the candy shop two stores away from the bakery, and Greta, who helps with the dusting and mopping all over town, try to say that it could be good for me. Greasy Sae claims it can't be worse than actually living through the games, and I silently appreciate her much more blatant statement than the comforting platitudes others try to provide me.
But it all falls on deaf ears in the end.
Because the only person I truly listen to is Peeta. Even bitter and wounded, the only person I really hear is him.
Unfortunately, as irritating as it is sometimes, his voice will always reach me when others can't.
But we don't ever have an actual conversation about it. Five days after Effie calls to announce the news, to tell me unequivocally that my presence is requested, Peeta sways me to go with just a look.
He comes over later than usual and brings extra bread and pastries to go with the deer meat I hunted. We feast silently, the air between us still incredibly awkward, when, without warning, our old mentor comes crashing through the door unceremoniously.
I don't know how much alcohol he consumed, but it's enough to knock even someone with Haymitch's tolerance off his feet.
By the end of the hour, the older man is practically beating his head into the wall of my dining room, screaming the names of dead children and about force fields and axes. And from across the kitchen table, Peeta touches my arm—the first time he's voluntarily touched me in weeks—and my eyes meet his, blue pouring into gray, and silently he begs me to go for the goodbye ceremony to Haymitch's arena.
And I give in. Not just for him. But also, in large part, to repay the caustic, miserable drunk that kept us alive. To support the unpredictable, temperamental man that I do consider my family somehow.
The ceremony is set to take place weeks later and the time does little to alleviate my anxiety. Peeta and me still don't speak much, but come time for lunch or dinner, there he is, in my house like clockwork.
When I point out, a few days before we're due at the train station, that there's a very realistic possibility that the Capitol won't let me go to the ceremony, Peeta casually says, "I already cleared that with Effie and Plutarch."
I shoot him a look of surprise. "You did?"
Shrugging nonchalantly before turning back to the rabbit on his plate, he murmurs quietly, "Thought it'd give you one less thing to worry about."
The ceremony is nothing like I expect. Somehow I figured there would be an obnoxiously large television crew, loud speakers, prepared speeches on written cards, awkward directions and crowds upon crowds of people surrounding us, asking pointed questions, shooting invasive stares and pressing for reactions to their nosy accusations. I expected those accusations to be directed at me and Peeta especially.
Instead, there's none of those things. There's no crowd at all, it's just us victors. Just Enobaria, Johanna, Annie, the three of us from Twelve and Beetee—who I still can't make myself so much as look at, reminded of my sister's absence and his role in it every time we so much as stand in five feet vicinity of each other.
The camera crew consists of Mitchell, Pollux and Cressida, along with two unfamiliar, but seemingly non-threatening faces. There's no directions, no prompting, not close ups or reshoots.
All that happens is Paylor makes a statement that the crew films, stating that the arenas will be destroyed one by one, and in the place of each there will be an individual memorial made, as we victors stand in an unorganized, crooked line that will surely make Effie cringe when she sees the footage on television later.
It's almost peaceful, I think to myself in surprise, as I look around at the location. The sky is a stunning cobalt, even more brilliant in person than in the video Peeta and I watched on the train so long ago. The meadow looks like the grass is fresh, like it was just watered yesterday. The mountain is so breathtaking I have to physically tear my eyes away from it and even the woods look rather cozy. Or maybe that part is just me.
There's also arraignments of flowers, just like in the footage we watched, that spill every which way, filling our noses with soothing, floral scents. It feels unnatural to say about a place set up for murder, but with the deadly poisons lurking at every turn eviscerated, I almost can find this arena truly beautiful.
Of course though, it's not my arena.
It's Haymitch's and he looks like he's about to be sick. He's white-knuckled it for a few days without any sort of drink—to my, Peeta's and, even Effie's, visible shock—and I can see plainly now that he's absolutely regretting it. His eyes are hallow and wild at the same time and I can see his shaking palms beneath the sleeves of his jacket as he stares out at the source of his every nightmare for the last quarter century.
It shocks me that he didn't find a way out of this. Actually, it shocks me still that these ceremonies are even possible.
I never knew they kept arenas after the games were over each year. I never realized they kept all seventy-four death pits, haunted by child sacrifice, the way you keep old vases on a shelf.
At this point though, it's just another thing to add onto the growing list of horrific and unthinkable issues that the Capitol doesn't even grasp. Keeping the haunted graveyards of children as souvenirs shouldn't sit right with anyone, I don't care how you're raised.
I tell myself to not be so quick to judge, as I can't know who I'd be if I had been born in the Capitol instead of the districts. Still, the idea of condoning the things they have without remorse or shame seems unthinkable.
I'm torn out of my thoughts when Cressida speaks. "Is there anything you'd like to say, Haymitch, before we finish filming?"
Once again, catching me off-guard entirely—he's full of all sorts of surprises evidently—Haymitch clears his throat and looks down at his leather boots before speaking. "Ardor. Garnett. Dolan. Silver. Ryker. Artemis. Slayte. Pistol. Lex. Mac. Lumen. Gig. Brook. Aqua. Mary. Ripley. Lyme. Watt. Rocky. Gio. Belle. Raven. Kia. Mecko. Barker. Jack. Holly. Briar. Essie. Stitch. Coco. Paul. Mira. Miller. Coop. Harvey. Butch. Cutter. Bea. Skinna. Basil. Sunny. Rip. Spring. Oaker. Terra. Maysilee." He lists off the names in a way that is so matter-of-fact that it would almost be robotic if it weren't for the hoarseness in his tone that grows stronger with every name he utters. He hesitates for only a moment before adding, "Corentine. Alannah. Alastar."
There's a long stretch of silence, where no one speaks, no one blinks, no one even breathes. We all know instinctively who these people are—I know solely from Maysilee Donner's name being called—but we still wait until Haymitch speaks again, to confirm our assumption.
"Those are the names of all the people this arena killed." His eyes grow glassy and his brow furrows in anger as he fights desperately to repress his emotions, and suddenly I have the strangest urge to hug my mentor, to make him feel better like he tried to do for me once when Peeta was stuck in the Capitol and I was distraught. But I know it wouldn't be appreciated or wanted, and quite honestly I'm glad for that, because I don't even know what to say.
The last three names Haymitch said stick in my head for some reason I can't explain other than an odd gut feeling. But then he speaks again, an in a voice growing gruffer by the second, he says right into the camera, "that's every single person who was killed because of the second Quarter Quell."
And, like I should have known all along, it hits me the last three names are the names of his family who were murdered to punish him for the stunt with the forcefield.
The last three names are the murders of the last people he loved. Until me and Peeta came along.
As if his thoughts matched mine, Haymitch suddenly shakes his head and his eyes widen again as he stares past all the rest of us, as he continues to take in the exact place in which life as he knew it, twenty-six years ago, was altered forever.
His reaction is more understandable and genuine than I imagined he would ever allow it to be, especially on camera, and I want to say something but me and him both aren't good at saying anything, and I find myself looking to Peeta, hoping he'd know what to do.
Peeta doesn't meet my gaze though. He's solely focused on our mentor and just when he opens his mouth to speak, the older man to suddenly shake his head in our general direction and clears his throat.
"I'm done. Tell Plutarch I'm done with this crap. Just hurry up and bulldoze this place so I can go back to Twelve," is all he says to Cressida as he storms off, but his voice is rough and caustic once again, and I can only hope he recovers from this event soon enough.
Somehow, witnessing Haymitch relive his games, even through the shield he so obviously puts up to the outside world, triggers me though. For some reason, I feel my eyes begin to water as I look around at the meadow, at the mountain, at the golden cornucopia, and wonder how anyone could build a place where kids would eventually go to die? How could anyone have ever been so inhumane? How could a country just accept it? How did we live for so long with the Hunger Games overtaking our lives and still remained complicit? I don't understand. The more time passes, the more days I'm separated from the war and from the old world and the old way of life, I just can't comprehend anymore how we ever lived in a place so horrific.
I feel my eyes spill over and I'm grateful that Cressida has stopped filming already, because if Plutarch saw any tears on film, he would make certain it ended up on television.
I wipe my tears with the heel of my hand, trying to go about it as subtly as I can, hoping no one else notices. For the most part, I'm golden. Enobaria is already exiting, with Beetee following not far behind. Jo's back is to me while she speaks to Annie, though as per usual, she seems to be irritated.
Of course, it's too much to ask for everyone to remain oblivious to my waterworks. Even as I rid myself of them before they become widely noticeable, I feel Peeta's eyes train on me and know, despite the distance between us for the last few weeks, he isn't going to ignore my upset.
To my surprise though, he doesn't speak. He doesn't utter a single syllable.
Instead, I feel his large, warm palm slip into mine and squeeze tightly, lacing our fingers together, in a way we have done thousands of times before. Like two puzzle pieces coming together to complete a picture, like two indivisible teammates that will fight against anything that is thrown their way, like two halves of a whole finally finding each other, his hand grasps mine with a vengeance and I know I won't be the one who let's go.
He's still holding my hand when we board the train, hours later.
//
A couple weeks later.
"Yes, Mrs. Greenstead, I will get the chocolate nut loaf and a platter of the cranberry cookies wrapped up for you... Yes, it will be ready by the time you arrive... No, I promise they won't be cold," Peeta assures through the bakery telephone—a new addition that Thom and his wife thought was necessary to run a proper bakery. So necessary they bought it for Peeta as an opening gift.
It's not that the gesture wasn't nice or that Peeta didn't deeply appreciate it. I personally saw that he did, wholeheartedly.
But seeing it on the wall every day was just another reminder to me of my own personal vendetta against the integration between the Capitol's way of life and the districts'.
The only place telephones used to exist, outside of the Capitol limits, was the houses in Victor's Villiage, and if I'm being honest, I wish it would have stayed that way.
Maybe I'm being selfish, as I happen to still reside inside a house that once belonged to the said village, therefore I already had experienced this luxury prior to the new world. But I just can't make myself break the association between the items that had recently become readily available for all and the horror that was the Capitol.
Still though, the change was inescapable Telephones, cameras, heating pads, curling irons, quick bake ovens, cars and so many other items, were all growing in popularly across each district. Not that I was able to see a lot of these changes personally. But letters from Annie and my mom, and the occasional—unprompted and yet still begrudged—call from Jo, all kept me informed. Sometimes more informed than I wished to be.
Maybe I would feel entirely different if these inventions were brand new to me. But they aren't. I'd seen and used every one of them before. Their novelty had always been lost on me, perhaps because my only experience them was while inside the Capitol, surrounded by tacky colors and strong rose scents and itchy materials, headed for a death match, my life and the lives of those I cared always at great risk.
Of course, the new item in the bakery did make some things easier. Days like today are a perfect example.
Harvest Day is only one day away and everyone is coming in for their breads and their desserts. Peeta says it was always one of the most popular days, for as long as he can remember. Only difference is, before the war only Peacekeepers and town folks could afford to purchase anything. And generally, most citizens who even did come in, could only purchase a limited amount of items.
Not now. I don't know where everyone in Twelve was coming up with the money or if Peeta's prices are just a drastic drop from that of his mother's, but today, I swear I've seen every citizen in town inside the bakery.
Makes me glad that the portrait of me is hanging in the back, where no one else can see it. As pretty as it may be, as talented as Peeta is, I don't want a giant version of me displayed for all to see.
"Here you are," I politely say, handing two loaves of warm bread to a man who must be new to Twelve, as I've never seen him before. I'm debating on asking if he moved here recently when he passes a bill to me over the top of the pastry display.
"Thank you, hon." He smiles at me, looking at me a little too closely for my liking, as he swiftly walks out the door. His exit is met with the arrival of Val, a boy Peeta and I went to school with, who definitely was more Peeta's crowd than mine.
Val is a regular customer at the bakery, having always genuinely liked the Mellark family. His parents owned a small carpentry shop four spaces down from the bakery, and even with both them dead, he and his two sisters rebuilt the store, taking over their parents' legacy.
Peeta though is more focused on me now than Val's order. "Give me a second," he calls to his old friend, a little less polite than he had been all morning. "Katniss, what's wrong?" He asks urgently, seeing the look in my eyes.
I shake my head and push away the anxiety threatening to close in on me. "Nothing, just..." I hesitate, not even wanting to say it. Peeta's gaze refuses to lessen though and I sigh before finally mumbling, "That guy. He creeped me out. The way he was looking at me so closely..."
Peeta's hand touches my arm for a brief moment before pulling it away, making it obvious that he regrets the small act of even so much as touching me. But his words are still calming and they relax me a little. "He's gone now, Katniss. And if he scares you, I won't let him come back, okay? There's nothing anyone can do to you or me anymore. We're safe."
I nod, knowing the words like the back of my hand at this point, as it's the same mantra we always repeat to each other, every time one of us begins to panic or flail. But still, I open my mouth to refuse his offer. I don't want Peeta to turn away any sort of business. Not with the unpredictability and uncertainty this new world still rests on. We never know if the bakery will sell anything tomorrow or if all sort of income will soon dry up.
And we're the lucky ones, financially speaking, who were rich before the war and allowed—in a generous declaration by President Paylor—to keep the entirety of our money after. I don't have to imagine the anxiety others in the country must be in, knowing the curse of poverty all too well. I wouldn't wish that feeling on anyone.
"I don't want you to turn away people," I say quietly. "Not on my account. You need business to keep this place afloat."
"I have plenty of money, Katniss," he reminds me, a little darker than I expect. "And I'd rather you feel safe than own a popular shop."
His words unexpectedly touch me, unexpectedly cut right down to the depth of my bones, exposing my soft underbelly. I'm about to do something stupid, like touch his hand, when Val makes his presence known again. "Your shop is already the most popular in the district," he points out, not even a little ashamed for having listened to our conversation. "And besides, why don't you just look at the guy's name? Maybe you can look him up, see if he's alright or not."
Peeta gets a glint in his eye. "That's a good idea, Val, thank you." As he moves towards the register to, I can only suppose, look for the man's receipt with his name and signature, he gestures to his school friend. "Katniss can get your order."
I shoot him a glare, only half kidding. I did come to help out, here and there, today but I did not intend to be an actual expected employee. For free, no less.
Instead of saying anything though, I just grab Val his three cinnamon rolls, his two snack cakes, four bagels, white chocolate donut and a loaf with raisins and cranberries.
Val, like Delly Cartwright, was always one of the few people in Twelve who had a few pounds to spare.
Peeta has a type of friend.
"Found it," Peeta now calls, bringing over a slip of paper to where I'm handing Val his three bags of treats. "His name was Rod Catamaran."
Me and Val, for the first time perhaps, exchange a look between us. "That's an odd name for Twelve."
"I've never even heard that name before."
"He may not even be from Twelve, guys," Peeta says.
I roll my eyes. "Because a bombed out district is really a tourist attraction."
"Hey, none of that," Thom calls as he walks through the front door of the bakery, with Kanon Bagley on his heels. "We've rebuilt this place beautifully and negativity is not appreciated here."
"Yeah, Katniss," Peeta chimes in, teasing me. I'm about to kick him in his only real leg, as we're the only two behind the counter and no one else will see, when Kanon speaks up.
"Can I buy a couple of pastries?"
"Of course," Peeta says kindly, walking around me to personally grab the two items Kanon requests.
Kanon is new to Twelve. One of the few new additions this place gained after all that went down. He's a large man in his early twenties, with dark skin and dark hair and eyes to match. But the only times I've ever interacted with him, he's quiet as a mouse, his eyes a little forlorn at all times and he offers more discounts then he should at the candy shop he recently opened next to the bakery.
He's from District Eleven originally and it takes no real critical thinking to realize he had a hard life, even before the war.
I'm far too familiar with the look of scars etched across the eyes. So is Peeta.
That's why, when Kanon looks down at the money in his hand and realizes he doesn't have enough to afford both pastries, Peeta immediately brushes it off. "That's okay, they're on the house," he instantly promises, handing the small bag over to Kanon with a gentle smile.
"No, I don't want to take it without-"
"I made way too much," Peeta insists, lying outright to make it appear Kanon would be doing him a favor. I know he didn't make too much, because we've been flying through everything today and keeping the ovens hot in case more is needed.
Still though, I back up the fib. "He did. We've been wondering all day how we were gonna sell enough stuff so we don't have to feed the leftovers to Haymitch's geese."
Kanon glances between us shyly, before taking the bag from Peeta's hand and slipping the few dollars he does have into his pocket again. "Thank you," he says softly and turns to leave.
Thom pats Kanon on the back as he passes him, before turning to follow. When the other man isn't looking, he turns back to us subtly and mouths, "thank you."
I wanted to tell him not to thank me. I only watched Peeta make this food, I didn't assist by any stretch of the imagination. I didn't own the bakery or do anything with the money or finances. It was not my choice to give things away for free.
But I'm far too focused on the boy in front of me to say any of that. The boy with the bread, the boy who isn't really a boy anymore. The boy who just gave away food for no reward at all, even on the most demanding and strenuous day all year for his business. The boy who just showed Kanon Bagley the same kindness I begged someone-anyone-to show me at eleven-years-old and not one single person did.
Except for him. He did for me all those years ago what he did for Kanon just now, and I suddenly have the most inexplicable, irrepressible urge to kiss Peeta right then and there, in the middle of the bakery.
I don't, however, and it's for once not because I lost my courage. It's because the door swings open again, just as Val exits right behind Kanon and Thom.
It's the same man from earlier. "Hi," Peeta greets, this time not at all sweet. Clearly recognizing the man as the one who made me nervous before. "Can I help you?"
"Yes," the man affirms, his tone brighter than you'd expect given our chilly reception. And our blatant wariness for anyone new. "I forgot to get a pecan butter cake before?"
There is a beat where me and Peeta exchange a look, before I awkwardly move towards the display case and begin to pack up his item. Peeta waits for me to decide to help the man before starting to ring him up.
"That was a nice thing you both just did," the man says as he patiently watches me fold the white waxy paper over his pastry. "For that guy."
"You were watching?" Is the only thing that comes out of my mouth.
"Only for a moment," he explains, his tone still friendly. Either he doesn't know how to read people at all or he's the most even keeled person in Panem.
Because I know I'm being rude, to a man who maybe doesn't even deserve it, I force myself to say one thing conversational. "This is my mom's favorite dessert," I offer, gesturing to his cake.
The man raises his eyebrows in an act that looks almost feigned. "Really?"
I instantly regret trying to be even slightly pleasant. Even his mannerisms seem fake. I'm contemplating if I should say anything else or go hide in the back room with the warm ovens and my portrait, when Peeta presses a button and the register dings.
He's about to say the total when the strange man shakes his head and hands to me directly an unfamiliar bill over the display case. "Have a nice day, you two," he calls, grabbing his cake and swiftly walking out.
It's not until he's gone, not until I have a moment to process the second weird encounter with the odd person, that I even glance down at the crisp bill he handed me.
It's a bill with a larger number on the back than I've ever personally seen before. I knew these kinds of dollars existed—I'm sure I could have gotten plenty after my first games—but I'd never seen one in the flesh.
Peeta sees my reaction. "What is it?" His voice sounds alarmed and he's stepping closer to me, but all I can do is gasp out his name.
"Peeta, look." I hold up the bill and point to the number on the back.
His eyes widen too, taking in the amount with a dizzy smile. Of both relief that nothing's wrong and excitement at the digit.
"Do you think it was a mistake?" I ask suddenly, looking over my shoulder towards the window, wondering if we should track the man down and give him his money back, before he evaporates into thin air.
"No?" Peeta shakes his head, the wheels in his mind turning quicker than mine. His face turns to that of elation, as the large bill takes some pressure off the bakery's sales. "No, he said he saw us give Kanon a break. He was giving us something in return."
I'm about to say something else, I don't even know what, but it all flies out of my head when Peeta suddenly wraps his arms around my waist and swiftly pulls me into his embrace.
My entire body goes into lockdown and hypervigilance at the same time. I can't move an inch but it feels like every nerve in my body is abruptly tingling and on fire.
My sweater lifts up slightly and his bare arms graze my lower back, eliciting a shiver to run involuntarily down my spine as his face buries into my hair.
I wrap my arms around his neck after a beat when I can make myself move again, and I feel him smile against my skin. I'm so glad at that moment he's holding me up, because if he wasn't supporting my weight I'd probably crash to the floor, unable to even feel my legs beneath me.
And, as a rush of heat shoots out from the place where Peeta's lips brush my collarbone, I suddenly feel only gratitude, not irritation, at the strange Rod Catamaran.
//
Four days later.
The world surrounding me is green. Green and brown and fire-bitten and scorched. Every which way I spin, there's embers soaring from that direction too, waiting to lick me with their burning flames, ready to decimate me once and for all.
But through the smoke and haze, I still can see between the trees two blonde braids. I still can see a small figure standing on the other side of the fire. I still can see her shirt that's come untucked in the back, creating a duck tail that I desperately want to fix.
Just as I notice her, she whirls around to face me, her blue eyes big and bright and terrified. "Katniss!" She screams, the same way she did the last day she was alive. "Katniss, help! They're coming!"
I don't know who's coming or what's happening or where we even are, but all I feel is relief somehow. Relief that she's here, that I'm in her presence again, that she's almost within my reach. Instinctively I call out, "Prim!" Just so I can finally get a response to the name I've been shouting into oblivion for almost a year now.
"Katniss, help me!" She cries again and then looks over her shoulder. She's not talking about the fire between us, as it doesn't seem too intent on heading towards her.
I don't know what's coming or who she's afraid of, but my instincts now go into overdrive. My body suddenly snaps into alert and I whip my head around, to see if I can find an opening in the fire closing in on me, if I can find a way to get to the sister I lost what feels like only yesterday, if I can find a way to save her this time.
There's no gap in the fire though. It's crowded around me, front, back and side to side. The more seconds that pass by, the closer the fire folds into my proximity, and I have to brace myself before making a split-second decision.
But it's not really a decision at all. Prim needs me and I cannot fail her. I have to save her this time.
I take a bold step directly into the fire, with every intention of running through it somehow. Of running past the wild embers, scorching myself no doubt, but still making it over to my distressed, frightened little sister. But it doesn't work like I expect.
But really, does anything?
These flames are nothing like the fires I've encountered before. And I've been around more fire in my life than anyone ever should.
No, these flames don't burn me. They don't hurt me or put me through agony or singe me to pieces. They don't melt off my makeshift coat of skin and they don't further decimate it either.
Instead the fire feels like almost nothing. Like something almost itchy, something almost irritating, something almost painful. Something that make me want to squirm and scream and escape all at the same time.
Which is real ironic considering what else it seems these flames do.
They seem to hold me into place. The second I'm in their hold, instead of the horrific pain I thought I'd be in, I'm trapped in a series of almost nothing.
I'm not in excruciating pain physically, but seeing my sister standing ten feet from me, and not being able to move any closer, not being able to protect her from whatever she's terrified of, is worse than any amount of injury this fire could have inflicted.
"Katniss!" Prim screams now, her voice only growing in its frantic nature. "Help! Why won't you come help me?"
I try to scream, try to tell her I want to but I can't move. But it turns out that these flames also paralyze vocal muscles.
"Peeta's dying!" Prim yelps out, looking behind her again, her hands beginning to shake in a way she almost never let them in life. She always tried to keep it together, to remain calm and rational in a crisis.
Her words elicit something entirely new inside of me though. "Peeta?" I yell in confusion, my voice suddenly no longer paralyzed.
"They're killing him! Katniss, please, why won't you come here? We need you!" Prim is close to hysterical now and frankly, so am I.
"I'm trying! I just," I move my hands down my body, trying to push the flames away as they rises up to my chest, trying to just break free from these fiery chains once and for all. "The fire, Prim! I can't get out of the fire."
Prim's voice drops then, loses all source of fear, every ounce of panic. Loses any semblance of emotion. "Katniss, there is no fire," she states blankly, her eyes looking directly at the embers covering my stomach and legs. "There's nothing there."
I just look at her for a moment, completely speechless. Her words are inconceivable, her eyes are haunted now, her facial expression is unrecognizable. Even her voice doesn't sound like hers anymore.
Before I can comprehend what's happening, in the distance a gunshot goes off.
Prim delicately glances over her shoulder now, her blue eyes cold as ice. "He's dead," she informs clinically, before sighing deeply, her tone almost disappointed. "And so am I."
I don't know what happens next or how it occurs, but I fly upwards in my bed with such a start, I give myself whiplash.
I hear a loud screeching noise hanging in the air, a hoarse trepidation that almost makes me feel better. I don't know why but someone else screaming in the middle of the night gives me hope, as sick as that may be.
Only it's not someone else, I realize, as my throat burns raw. I realize with startling clarity that I'm the only making all the noise. I'm the one shaking so tremendously. I'm the one who is sobbing.
"Shhh," a voice whispers against the darkness, and I flail involuntarily at the shock. "Sorry, sorry," Peeta instantly apologizes, his hands gripping my arms with a little too much intensity, trying to still my shaking. "It's okay, Katniss, you were just having a nightmare."
His words do precious little to calm me down though. "She was there," I cry, the image, the feeling, of Prim standing only ten feet from me and not being able to reach her too painful for me to unsee.
"Who was there?" He asks tenderly, his hand coming up to cup my cheek. "Katniss, breathe."
I don't even bother listening to his advise. I haven't exhaled since I was eleven. "Prim was there. She was begging me to save her and then I couldn't, I was trapped but-but," I cut myself off, unable to form coherent words and thoughts any longer.
Peeta gets the gist though. "Come here," he whispers and pulls me into his arms, like he used to on the train, when my nightmares woke us both three times a night. "I'm so sorry, Katniss," he says softly now, and rubs my back in a way that elicits goosebumps. His way of trying to soothe my shaking. "I'm sorry you had to see that."
"You died too," I blurt out then. I don't even know why I feel inclined to tell him.
"What?"
"I was stuck and I couldn't speak and then Prim said you were going to die and I got scared enough that I could talk again and I thought-I thought," I stumble breathlessly, my tears pouring out against his shoulder now.
I feel his lips touch my cheek and I'm too upset to revel in the feeling of blood rushing there. "It was just a nightmare," he promises.
But my sentiment is unfinished. "I thought I could break free, that I could-"
"Katniss," he halts, still holding me in his embrace, rocking me slightly. "It wasn't real. I promise you, it wasn't real."
Those words, the words so often said to him by me, ring a bell that I didn't want to ring. It snaps me back into reality abruptly and without warning, I feel like my chest is going to collapse.
Because this means Prim wasn't really there, that she still is as dead as she was yesterday, that I still watched her explode into pieces all over the bombsite in the Capitol.
I still failed to protect her.
Peeta pulls back slightly then and rests his forehead against mine. "It's okay, Katniss," he says again, trying to calm my trembles by rubbing my arms up and down.
"How are you in my house?" I realize, with an intense sudden clarity. "How are you here? Are you real or am I still-"
He quickly puts me out of my misery. "You gave me a key, remember? A long time ago? We gave each other keys to our houses."
Oh. Right. I forgot all about that when he had his nightmare, didn't I?
Good thing he's an idiot who keeps his door unlocked at night.
He's explaining further before I can think to ask. "I heard you having a nightmare from my house. That's why I rushed over here."
I'm caught between embarrassment and gratitude. "Sorry, I really don't know what brought it on."
"Hey," he quietly reprimands, lifting my chin now to meet eye contact. "Don't apologize. No one understands nightmares like me."
I nod, accepting his words, though still a little uncomfortable with screaming for all the district to hear at two in the morning.
Then again, our entire neighborhood is Haymitch and the two of us, and our mentor was drinking like a fish last night so really, the only person who could have heard me is already sitting directly in my eye line.
To punctuate his words, when I don't respond verbally, he lifts my hand up and brings it to his lips tenderly.
And I don't know what comes over me or why. I don't know if it's because we've been growing closer again lately or if I just haven't felt his arms around me since days ago in the bakery and I miss the feel of it desperately, but I find myself abruptly throwing my body around his before I can talk myself out of it.
He catches me easily, like he anticipated my reaction and sways me for a long moment, until my breathing begins to even itself out.
"Will you stay?" I rasp into his neck, as I feel his hand tangles in my matted locks.
"Always."
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↠ Pairing: Bokuto Koutarou x Reader
↠ Warning: cursing, blood, angst, slight fluff, Mafia AU! Monster Bokuto!
⇢ Songfic! Twenty One Pilots: Heathens
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(Welcome to the room of people
Who have rooms of people that they loved one day
Docked away
Just because we check the guns at the door
Doesn't mean our brains will change from hand grenades)
He remembers like it just happened yesterday. The only people who had shown him love— his parents. Huge men tearing his arms away from his mother's warm embrace, he remembers her screaming, his father demanding to release them, that the child meant no harm. That he was innocent.
"You would say that because you were the source of this Demon Child."
He can recall the way his heart cracked. After having to be called that, watching with empty eyes as a puddle of crimson like liquid flow on his feet. He no longer hears the screams of his parents.
"Mom? Dad?"
He hears a gun click, the men in their green uniforms yelling orders, staying a good distance away from him. When he hears no reply from his parents, something inside him snapped. They were the last people to hold his entire sanity together. Without an anchor to stop a ship from fall, it'll be like a speed of light before you'll see the action happening.
Those events caused chaos throughout Japan. And he was only 10 years old at that time.
"Demon Child, escapes, killing almost 30 of our fine men who came to put him in custody."
Always on the run, never finding a place to stay. A place to call home. No one was siding with him because of the way he looked. No one listened as he defended himself, telling his side of the story.
"I heard, he killed his parents too."
"He's said to be like a one man army. "
Laughing at society. How stupid must people be to always believe in the media's. How stupid of them to pray to God that he won't come, and do the same to their families. He never believed in anything. There was nothing to believe in a world filled with savages. There was no God controlling their lives, it was them, acting all religious and innocent. He was disgusted. He wanted to make them see reality.
Some think he was just a legend. Some knows he's lurking in the shadows in Tokyo. People using his title to scare little kids. Only his title was known, but never his name. His looks poorly described, instead they made up something that was close to make people believe.
"He had owl like hair and eyes, he was big— his body is some kind of ware human! He had sharp teeth, blood over his clothing. The Demon Child is on the lose, still growing everyday, please, if you have found anyone looking suspicious or matches the following details, immediately contact the nearest station."
He was all over the news. Soon he was about to go worldwide for exposing himself a lot. A man's gotta do what he has to do to survive right?
Everyone feared for their lives. Thinking they're all so saint, innocent, worthy enough to live. It made him puke in disgust.
Still you find yourself getting drunk of love because of this dangerous person.
(You're loving on the psychopath sitting next to you
You're loving on the murderer sitting next to you
You'll think, "How'd I get here, sitting next to you?"
But after all I've said, please don't forget)
How did you find yourself in a tight situation in the first place? Just a week ago you were just taking a train ride on the way home after school, it was already dark outside. If you haven't had a review study you would've been home already.
You would've never have to encounter him.
Like fate, you were being mugged, harassed. Long story short, you found yourself with ripped clothes, cowering in fear, then he swoons in. You can still hear the gun shots fresh in your head. The sound of bones cracking with shrill shrieks from the men in pain. Hearing a body came contact on the ground. You were afraid to meet your saviors eyes, having to experience this in first hand. Bokuto thought you were just some kind of harlot in the streets, but taking in a closer look. You were just a university student. An innocent one if he had to describe. He could hear your whimpers, see your body shaking.
He had one vow in his life after that faithful day, "Protect the weak, the innocent. Eliminate the threats." he never knew there would be people like you in this part of the world.
You remember his soft, big hands taking your smaller ones, he was gentle. He was far from what people had describe of him. But you never really believed in the Demon Child. You didn't even know you were holding hands with him. And that he saved you instead of killing you also. You were so shaken up by that day, he escorted you back to your apartment. Ever since Tokyo was in chaos, many people fled the city. Not much people in your apartment, but a lot of thugs down your blocks. He was about to leave you, disappear once again in the shadows, but you grabbed his hand, he was shocked. It was so gentle than what he has experienced before. You offered him to stay as a token of your gratitude. But you didn't know you were the ones who was staying with him forever.
You wanted to ask him where he came from. Where he was staying. You wanted to know his name, you wanted atleast some kind of background from him. But all he said were these simple words.
"Take it slow, darling. You don't know the half of the abuse."
and that's where your life started.
(We don't deal with outsiders very well
They say newcomers have a certain smell
You have trust issues, not to mention
They say they can smell your intentions)
After filing a report on murder of the men who had previously caused a scene. You were no longer safe in your apartment. Bokuto was no longer safe. You can hear loud footsteps coming from downstairs, the few people evacuating the building. All doors being kicked down, and inspected the rooms. You were the last room from the top of the building. Bokuto was calm, but inside him he doesn't want to leave without you. If he did, what would happen to you? Would those savages kill you for protecting him? No they weren't. He opens your window wide, looking at the next building just a few centimeters to jump on. Your heart was pounding, the footsteps were nearing. You felt nauseous, Bokuto grabs your jacket, and puts it on you, covering you with a hood and mask.
"Jump, I'll follow behind you."
You looked at him as if he was crazy. But you saw his dark eyes, his body in protective stance. He looked like a wolf shielding his mate. Your lips quivered, grabbing some of your belongings in a backpack, you gulped at the distance between your window and the building. Flinching as you hear the neighboring room doors burst open, you closed your eyes for a short moment, holding your breath and took a big leap on the building. Being resourceful, you used your bag as a soft cushion for impact. Grumbling to get up, your eyes scanning the opened window, waiting for Bokuto to join you.
Back in the room Bokuto was impressed at your action. When the locked door was being knocked on hard, he pushed all the furniture against it before jumping out, expertly landing on his feet in front of you. He grabs your arms, carrying you in a princess style, and started running.
"Just close your eyes if you don't want to see what's going to happen."
But you didn't, each sound of the gun shots, sirens the smell of gun powder, blood, smoke, everything you took in on that day as if you were reborn.
"You bought home another one, Bokuto san?"
You stood frozen in your spot. Bokuto had ran a long way, but being fazed by the sirens and gun shots, you didn't realize you were in some kind of dark building with a bunch of guys that look way more dangerous than thugs.
"She's different."
He pulls your hoodie off carefully, letting you hair fall down to your face. But you kept your mask on, remembering his words when he was running,
"Be careful with my crew. They're all quite wary with new comers, darling. We have....trust issues."
You gulped when Bokuto left your side, you hugged yourself as the boys began to huddle over you, eyes looking like they could kill you on the spot. The one who spoke earlier kept a good distance, but his eyes were cold as ice as they bore into you.
"Leave her. She's clean."
They all followed. Was he some kind of leader? Just what we're you getting yourself into?
(You're loving on the freakshow sitting next to you
You'll have some weird people sitting next to you
You'll think "How did I get here, sitting next to you?"
But after all I've said, please don't forget)
Everyone sat on the floor, having a short meeting with Bokuto. You on the other hand, just stayed seated on the corner, shying away from the men who seem to deem you as a threat.
"Hey, (Y/n), come here."
You hear his fingers snap, with shaking legs you slowly made your approach, he pats a spot next to him, gingerly taking a seat beside him. He spoke in a low tone voice.
"Do you know who we are?"
You shake your head, "N-no."
"Do you want to know who we are?"
You didn't move an inch when his hand came forward, brushing against your cheek for a short while, before pulling down your mask.
"You look much better like that, darling."
One second you were scared. Now you were flustered. Snapping out of the feelings, you let a weak, "yes". Wanting to know their identities, their background. Why they were all running away from the police. It took almost several hours of listening to everyone's stories, and names. Almost crying at everyone's stories, especially Bokuto's. You were understanding the deeper meaning on how life was so cruel. You learned that the man earlier was named, Akaashi Keiji. Bokuto's first encounter with— people fear how intelligent he was. He was abused so much by his family for admiring the Demon Child. Taking defense on saying maybe he used to be innocent, and people mistaken him for his actions. He was Bokuto's most dearest and first friend.
"S-so, your name is Bokuto Koutarou?"
"Feels nice to hear it from you, darling."
"Hey, (Y/n). Be sure not betray us, or else."
The guy, Konoha, you presumed threatens. You almost hid yourself behind Bokuto by grabbing his arm in instinct, "Now, now, Konoha. You're scaring the little lady." Another guy, Washio if you have that correct came to defend you. The rest bickered on about you being a threat, and how someone as weak, and defenseless like you against them could get away. You feel Bokuto's hand grip your shoulder firmly, his hot breath against your ear as he murmurs out a familiar set of words.
"Take it slow, darling. You don't know the half of the abuse."
(All my friends are heathens, take it slow
Wait for them to ask you who you know
Please don't make any sudden moves
You don't know the half of the abuse)
It had almost been 2 months since you've gotten used to the gangs presence, and them with yours. You became like the mother of the group, and yet still the child of the group. You've gotten use to see them make deals with other men in Tokyo to earn money, weapons, seen them kill in front of your eyes whenever things get heated. Akaashi would be first to pull you away from the sight of Bokuto snapping someone's neck, or slowly torturing them to death.
You weren't completely used to see Bokuto kill people. Knowing it was for your safety, you wish you could a day without having to hear muffled screams, and pleadings from both men and women.
"Hey (Y/n), why don't you come here and sit with us." Washio calls out, flicking his cigarette on the floor, crushing it on his feet. "Eat, (Y/n), you're the only one who eats less here. It's unfair of us to be selfish." Akaashi offers you a plate filled with food. After having 2 months to stay with them, and staying silently at your place, you had gotten thin from the lack of nutrients. You ate slowly, not wanting to look improper in front of a group of men.
"Um...thank you!" You bowed all of a sudden.
They had their eyes widened, they thought you were going to scream for help like most people, but instead they heard a thank you.
"For what?"
"F-for taking me in! And, for the meal with you guys for the first time!"
Everyone looked at eachother before chuckling. Bokuto stood up from his chair, removing the black gloves on his hands before patting your head.
"Now do you trust her?"
You looked behind, listening to his words.
"Fine, fine. She's innocent, Bokuto."
"See! I told you she was innocent from the moment I saw her." hitching your breath, you admired his wide smile. It seemed so genuine despite everything that was going on.
"Don't worry no too much, (Y/n)! You're part of the gang."
He kneels down next to you, fingers down your chin and gently pulling them to meet his eyes.
"And I will protect you."
He doesn't know when, why. But he knows deep inside, he was allowing himself to fall inlove.
And it was dangerous.
(Why'd you come? You knew you should have stayed)
The building was surrounded.
They should've known they were going to spotted if they stayed long. The team was packing up all weapons and sources they could carry. You stayed hidden on the behind some of the boxes as they opened the doors to be met by almost an army of men with guns.
"Freeze!"
You hear the commander yell, all of the team hidden and scattered on many places, as Bokuto was kneeled onto the ground.
As bait.
The police force were closing in, as they were, everyone inside the building started firing guns, Bokuto running off as he throws in a flash bomb. Blinding many, easily shooting all down in ease.
(I tried to warn you just to stay away)
Things had gotten out of hand when one soldier threw in a bomb. Setting the building on fire. Akaashi held your hand, running alongside with the team to somewhere safe.
"W-wait, where's Bokuto?"
Everyone stayed silent. Akaashi just grips onto you tighter, but he underestimated you. You kicked him on the groin, his hand releasing your arm as you ran away from them before they had the chance to catch up.
You were nearing at the sounds of gun shots, you spot Bokuto hidden on a left over concrete, face smeared with blood, and smoke.
"Bokuto!"
You ran next to him, kneeling behind the concrete wall.
"(Y/n) what the fuck, I said get out of here!"
"Like hell will I leave you!"
(And now they're outside ready to bust)
He was taken back at your outburst and strong willed personality, startled by a bullet almost hitting his head, shooting the man down instantly. You looked behind the wall, instructing Bokuto where to shoot. Since your were small, you weren't easily spotted.
Shooting the last man down. Bokuto sighs. He was out of bullets. You gasped out a breath you were holding in, only to have your eyes shrink back.
There was someone behind him.
As if in slow motion, you pushed Bokuto back. Taking in his position, pulling out a gun that was secretly tucked in your pants and hoodie.
Firing quicker before the man could have a chance.
Bokuto was in awestruck. Who knew you had it in you all the time. Panting at the rush of adrenaline, Bokuto gets up from his spot and pulls you in his arms, crashing his lips almost roughly. Getting addicted to the way on how perfectly and delicious they felt on his, he bites on your lower lip harshly, dominating you with his height.
From the innocent, and scared girl you were, now looking like a hot badass in his eyes.
He had learned that you were more than capable as much as he was.
And he now knew that falling inlove with you was never dangerous, but exciting as it adds thrill in his life.
And finally, someone who actually listened to the others side, and learned to love them.
(It looks like you might be one of us)
The two of you walked hand in hand. Stopping abruptly in front of the man you had just shot. His eyes skim your body, and then your face weekly. You looked so innocent. Tainted by evil.
"W-what have you done to her?"
He weakly utters out, only to be stepped on the head by Bokuto. Who was annoyed. How dare he blame him for making you like this. You places a hand on his chest, telling him to take his feet of the fallen man.
Kneeling down in front of you, just lowered your lips next to his ear, murmuring something. You hear him let out a scream, before it was cut off by head shot deep in his skull. Bokuto licks his lips at the sight of you getting up slowly, gun on your hand as you blew off the smoke.
"Take it slow, dear. You don't know the half of the abuse."
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Author's Note: Happy Birthday, Hyeri! With all that's happening in the world and in our world as sister Carats, I sooo hope that you enjoy your day today! Leave the worries and the cares behind today, and make each moment amazing! I wrote this short fic (which is no surprise to you anymore since I always spoil my own surprises) as a birthday gift for you and I hope that you come to love it!!! Cheers to more memories and more laughter and tears together! Love ya, @wooziologist / @milkteafairy-hyeri! 🤣🙆‍♀️❤
Genre: Fluff
Word Count: 2,700
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SETTING: The backdrop is a white brick wall. Two wooden chairs face each other, and a table with two stacks of cards on top is in between the chairs. The filming crew waits patiently for the guests to appear.
[There are small whispers of warm greetings as the guests of the day enter the set. The man wears a striking, black button-up shirt that had short sleeves and is tucked into fitting pants. His jet-black hair closely matches the obsidian color of his clothes, and even though he looks really quiet and serious, his eyes, small and thoughtful, are dancing. He looks really happy. Beside him, is you: smoothing the back of your lace dress that had a skirt which flowed just below your knees, you look up at him and you smile. His one hand, with its long, white fingers, is planted on your back and he guides you to your seat. A warm feeling descends over the set as he makes sure that you are comfortable where you are. He takes his place in front of you, and he smiles.]
YOU: [Picks up the top card from the pile; looks up at Jihoon, and speaks with a soft voice.] When did you first know that you loved me?
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JIHOON: [Thinks for a long time.] Do you remember that November night when you found me at your doorstep in the middle of the night and I just walked up to you and hugged you?
YOU: Hmm. [Lips curl into a smile at the memory.] Kind of...? Yes. I think I do. Awards Night?
JIHOON: [Nods and smiles back.]--Yes. That was it. [Face turns thoughtful.] I think people mostly realize that they love someone when they went through a dark phase and...and that person they loved was there to help them up. But for me, that realization came when I was surrounded by so many people, when I was at the peak of my career, and all I could think about was you. More specifically...[struggles to get the words out]...of getting through my commitments that night and coming home to you. It was then that I knew. That I loved you. Because no matter how happy I was with my life during that time, I realized that I can't be completely happy until I tell you about everything that happened, everything that I have achieved. I realized then and there that I wanted every happy memory of mine to be shared with you.
YOU: [Hand unconsciously reaches out to Jihoon, and Jihoon takes it tenderly.]
JIHOON: I knew I loved you when the happy moments suddenly seemed duller when not celebrated with you. [Holds your hand tighter.] Let's make happy memories together.
YOU: [Nods and doesn't look away from his gaze.] As many as we can make. [Releases Jihoon's hand.]
JIHOON: [Studies the cards.] That was a good question. [Lips form a sweet smile directed at you. Takes one card from his pile.] Ooh. This one is good, too. [Flips the card so you could see.] How much have I grown as a person in our relationship?
YOU: I mean it when I say, "A lot." [Purses lips.] We have to admit that, at the beginning of our relationship, we were both still young and immature and a lot of that youth and immaturity sort of showed in our actions and decisions. But as time passed by, we really turned into better individuals, and I am so happy, really, really happy, about that growth. [Gazes into Jihoon's eyes.] You were once so afraid of telling me your thoughts. You were once so afraid of messing things up and you end up keeping your thoughts to yourself. But now--
JIHOON: --we're best friends.
YOU: Yes. We have become best friends. And that's growth to me. Because couples could sometimes date and love but choose not to try growing together, which puts a strain on what they have. But with us...[Beams at Jihoon.] You see that, and you know things will be headed in the right direction. So thank you, for growing with me.
JIHOON: [Locks eyes with you for a long time and his face looks like the sun as he returns your radiant smile.] You're right. I was once so much like a stuck-up person, never being able to fully communicate my thoughts with you. But I knew that in order to be with you, I would have to grow a lot, to open up this...shell I have enclosed myself upon. I have to 'man up' to you because I know that without growth there was no way, no way at all, that I would be able to deserve you.
[Camera cuts to Jihoon picking up another card.]
JIHOON: What do you want to tell me that you haven't told me before?
YOU: [Eyes widen.] Wow. Ha. [Leans back on chair and thinks.] Something I haven't told you before. Hmm. [Plays with diamond ring on your left ring finger. Gazes at Jihoon and then smiles brightly.] I think I've told you everything already. But there is one thought, though, that I have always kept to myself. [Wobbly smile.] Because I know that it's only in my head.
JIHOON: I'm listening. [Leans over, attentive.]
YOU: [Laughs and covers face.] I have this funny feeling saying this thought aloud.
JIHOON: Please tell me? [Makes his favorite straight-faced pleading expression that he always gives you when he wants to know something.]
YOU: [Chuckles and purses lips.] I don't think I've ever told you that my greatest fear is to wake up one day and find that all this...[gestures at the both of you]...this beautiful relationship that we have, was...was just a dream. [Laughs as a tear escapes your eye. You dab it away quickly.] I feel so silly saying it aloud, but that is one thing that I have never told you. Because it really, really sounds silly when I voice it aloud. Like right now.
JIHOON: [Has a serious expression on his face.]
YOU: But this thought doesn't last, because I would constantly remind myself of all the times...[searches for the right words]...that we've had lots of talks about our relationship before. That what we have--
JIHOON: [Nods.]--isn't something like a dream.
YOU: [Nods along with him as another tear escapes your eye.] Yes. Not a dream.
JIHOON: Because what we have now, we worked hard for.
YOU: [Laughs and nods as you dab away at the tears.] Yes. Not 'based on sheer luck', like you would always point out.
JIHOON: [In a gentle voice.] Could you please look at me right now?
[An intense eye contact ensues.]
JIHOON: I know that sometimes good things that happen to us take a lot of time to accept, but...what we have here, right now, is real. I am real. We are real. I am here. With you. [Reaches out for your hand and holds it tightly before releasing it.] Real. I'm with you. And I won't get tired of reminding you this because you always remind me in your own ways as well of how much you love me and I am so thankful that I have you in my life. We are real. We happened. And we are still happening. Right this very moment.
YOU: 'Like an unfinished song that still holds a lot of promise in the blank spaces.' [Blinks back turbulent emotions as you are spellbound by the tenderness of Lee Jihoon's eyes, looking at you.]
JIHOON: Exactly. [Releases your hand. Mouths:] I love you.
YOU: [Whispers back:] I love you, too.
[You pick up another card and you read.]
YOU: Tell me one thing that you are most proud of about me. [Leans back and waits for his answer.] This will be interesting.
JIHOON: [Stares at you.] There was this one time that I was in your room and I was looking at--
YOU: --I remember that. [Scratches head shyly.] You were so fascinated about--
JIHOON: --your huge corkboard map where you pin down which places you've gone to. [Thinks.] 46 countries, I think...? And those drafts of--what do you call them? Demar-
YOU: Demarchès.
JIHOON: Yes. And...and the stacks of books, the notes, the letters. [Pauses for a while.] Seeing the fruit of all your hard work around your room, in your office--I just feel...so proud of all that you have accomplished and, and of who you have become. I still feel dumbstruck sometimes because you don't know how amazing you are. [Looks at you with memories in his eyes.] I remember our first year together and how we both thought we were going to break up because we haven't been seeing each other for months. We were both so busy. I was caught up in this frenzy of promotions with SEVENTEEN, and you were--
YOU: --taking up my officership exam. Yes. [Bites lip.] We mutually thought that breakup was going to happen because it felt like everything wasn't going in our favor. [Closes eyes briefly.] But we didn't. We tried even harder to make our schedules and our lives meet. And we succeeded.
JIHOON: And I never regretted making the decision to still choose to make our relationship work, because I got to witness how you made your dreams come true. You made your dreams come true and that is what I am most proud of about you.
YOU: [In a light, joking tone that still didn't work because your voice is breaking] Proud that I always catch red-eye flights and talk with difficult people and write tons of letters?
JIHOON: [Laughs with you and nods, amused.] Those, too! But what I meant is...[grows serious.]...I am so proud of you for never giving up on what you wanted for your future. And how you always fight for what you want to protect. Like our relationship. And there was this one time when I thought you would stop working that line of job because it was taking its toll on you during one particular season, but instead you said--
YOU: --what did I say?
JIHOON: "It took me years to get this job, and I'm doing it and experiencing it all the way. No regrets." [Pauses.] The strength in you really resonated within me, and it made me even prouder of you. I am so proud of you.
YOU: [Whispers as you peer at Jihoon with emotion-filled eyes.] And I am proud of you, too. [In a louder voice.] For all that you have done. And for all that you have yet to accomplish.
JIHOON: Do you ever regret choosing to love me, even at the hard times?
YOU: [Without hesitation.] Never.
JIHOON: Even when I am at my most unlovable?
YOU: Even at your most unlovable.
JIHOON: Why?
YOU: Because...being with you has taught me, in so many ways, that there will always be a reason to stay and I will hold onto that reason. And if you were in my shoes, and I was asked that, I'd want you to hold onto me, too. To us.
JIHOON: And I will. We both will.
YOU: Always. [Picks up another card.] Lighter topic, this one! Name a time with my family that you were the most nervous about. [Laughs at Jihoon's expression.]
[You say the answer together.]
YOU & JIHOON: December family dinner.
[You both hold your stomachs as you double over with laughter at the memory.]
YOU: You couldn't answer properly!!! [Covers mouth as you let out another giggle.]
JIHOON: I was so nervous meeting your dad for the first time! [Looks at shaking hands.] I still get chills. I forgot how to speak for a while as I sat there. It was...an unforgettable experience.
YOU: You were quieter than your quietest behavior and I couldn't stand the awkward silences.
JIHOON: But Mom was the savior during that time. [Turns to the camera and bows gratefully.] Thank you for saving me, Mom. I'll do better the next time around.
[You both finish laughing and Jihoon takes another card.]
JIHOON: What do you look forward to the most in our relationship?
YOU: [Face softens into a reflective glow.] Hmmm...
JIHOON: "Hmmm"? [Laughs as he mimicks you.]
YOU: [Grins at him.] Yes. Hmmm. Aside from looking forward to loving you and spending every moment I could with you for the rest of my life, I look forward the most to...the long nights. The nights when we would just talk, about anything and everything. I look forward to listening to you create your beautiful songs. [Takes a deep breath and smiles at Jihoon.] I look forward to sleeping in your arms as you sing me the [giggles] funny lullabies you make. [Takes a deep breath and smiles at Jihoon.] I look forward to more buckets of chicken and music at midnights and lazy days together...and, of course, raising a family with you. [Barely hides the smile.] Raising children with you as an awesome dad...
JIHOON: [Smiles back.] I look forward to all of those things, too. And...and waiting for you at the airport so I could drive you home and let you catch some sleep. Letting you mess with my hair and makeup backstage during concerts. More family dinners. [More giggles.] Driving our children to school...Oh. [Lips break out into a mischievous smile.]...and dissing the horrible memes you make.
YOU: Ha! Admit it. I'm better at making memes and jokes than you.
JIHOON: [Laughs with you. Watches you fondly as you pick up another card.] You don't have to remind me how horrible my jokes are, love.
YOU: [Mouths: I always will.] What am I always carrying that I should let go of?
JIHOON: [Answers slowly.] The doubts about what kind of future is in the making for your life. The validation of other people. Pressure from 'friends'. Second-guessing the plot of that novel you are writing. All of these negative thoughts that cloud out how much you could shine. And...the fear that I would just...disappear...from your eyes like a dream. Just like you said earlier.
[Your eyes lock for what felt like an eternity.]
JIHOON: Because that would never happen.
YOU: [Smiles and looks up to stop the flood of emotions.] You know, I think it's really good that we get to talk about these things here--
JIHOON: --we've definitely had practice from Leanne's incessant interviews. [Straight-faced for a second before laughing along with you at the memory of midnight conversations over conversation starters with me Leanne.]
YOU: Yeah. [Nods as you dab at your eyes again.] But I think it's really cool that we get to talk about this. Because it's true. I live with that fear. The fear that this could end in just [snaps fingers] that quick of a second. I always knew what I was getting into when we started dating, but that doesn't make it any less terrifying at times. [Pauses.] I was always afraid of people's thoughts about what we had at first, but now, that fear is starting to melt because you would always reassure me of security. And you don't know how grateful I am because of that.
[Silence reigns as emotions finally overtake you. Jihoon just watches, waiting for you to finish. He hands you a tissue.]
YOU: So, really...thank you. For always reassuring me.
JIHOON: Do you know how much I love you?
YOU: Yes...? Um. Is this still part of the questions? [Grins.]
JIHOON: [Grins back.] Reminding you, each and everyday, just how good of a person you are, how amazing and talented you are, encouraging you in all your endeavors and being with you through the ups and downs you will face...I want to be always there for you and to make you feel warm, secure and always confident. I want to be that kind of person, and as you can see, that is how much I love you. I'd do anything to make all those thoughts of yours go away, but the most...effective way I could think of to quell your fears? [Smiles.] Is to simply be here. For you. All the way.
YOU: All the way to forever.
JIHOON: [Nods, never letting go of your eyes, thinking of the wedding day not too far ahead.] All the way to forever.
- Leanne.
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2. Mona Lisa
I stay in a two room double on campus which means that I share a bathroom, but the room is my own to do with as I please, within reason.
Typically, I'm milking this privacy for the money to fund my education while simultaneously releasing my sexual tension in the most taboo of ways.
Sighing, brush my teeth and reapply my lip gloss in the mirror. I can feel tremors in my poor peach, she's reminiscing on the good times when she was exhaulted like the queen she is. Men would spend literal hours worshiping her every crevice and pay me handsomely for it.
Four days down, ten to go, I tell myself.
Sex is my ideal outlet for stress relief. It's my interest, my hobby, my reprieve. As you can imagine, I have to change my sheets on a daily basis, but I don't mind that.
Yes, I have brought a number of guys over to participate in certain acts that I'm sure my bathroom mate has heard through the wall. She doesn't look me in the eye anymore though I always speak to her.. and she hasn't done so for the past month or so. I think she's traumatized.
Tickled, I re-apply my sunscreen and change into my grey PINK leggings with matching sports bra, pulling my 360 install into a curly high bun and stretching to prepare for my mid-day jog.
Everyday, I jog through the Main Quad and work up a sparkle, since princesses don't sweat.
I carry a pink hydro flask and I jog as far as I can push myself to go, often ending up at the Oval, a place where students play volleyball and walk dogs. I like to sit out from time to time and watch.
Then I head back to my room and assemble my hygiene kit to take into the bathroom. I shower, cleanse, exfoliate if necessary, moisturize, and redress for the evening.
Today's evening wear is a black graphic half shirt with a gold crown printed on and black high waisted shorts with black platform sneakers from Dolls Kill. I add my gold anklet for mood before turning on my music.
Pretty little bird, pretty little bird
You've hit the window a few times (the window a few times)
You're pretty little bird, pretty little bird
You still ain't scared of no heights
When the spiral down feels as good as the flight
When hating you feels good for the night
When the morning comes, I hope you're still mine
My cellphone rings and it's Natalie, one of the black girls in this dorm. The first day we met, we made a silent pack to stick together, us and a couple others, and months down the road we've stuck to it.
"Back from your jog, Gem?"
"Yes, and I'm looking at my notes so no you cannot borrow them."
"Jokes on you, I took them yesterday when you were jogging and made copies, I'm set."
"You bitch," I tease. "What's the move tonight?"
"Whaaat? You're not busy with one of your John's?"
"Bitch, my legs are closed, my books are bussed wide open," I smile highlighting a sentence in the textbook. I have four exams to take.
Checking a text from one of my subs, Keon, I send a short reply with a 💋. He was just checking on me, asking about my studies.
"Well we're thinking of hitting a party with a few of the black exchange students."
Party?
My book slams shut. I have been extremely well-behaved this week, I deserve a little magic in my life. It won't hurt.
"Who's we?"
"Me, Kayla, Letitia, Kevin, and Chris."
Damn, Chris' fine ass can get it. I want him.
Okay, it's decided. I can finish up here, meet Mr. Stevens at 7 in his office, meet up with Natalie and the crew around 8 and then we'll head out. I can handle a few drinks.
Jumping up, I feel alive again for the first time in four days. I snatch up my makeup trunk and set it on my desk pulling out my handheld mirror.
Light beat. Lashes. Dark liner, heavy gloss.
I release my loosened strawberry curls from the bun letting them wave and fall on my shoulders.
xoxo
Approaching the office suite, I walk through to find that the other offices are already empty. I can tell because of the quiet and closed doors. Mr. Stevens' door is open and yellow artificial light streams into the small hallway.
When I come upon the door, Mr. Stevens is at his desk staring intently at a spread of papers, his gold-rimmed glasses fallen at the end of his nose.
My peach is telling me this scenario could be a problem. Dr. Stevens is a steak and lobster meal and my peach? She's salivating. Crossing my legs on the spot where I stand I knock on the door drawing his eye.
"Ms. Miller. Come in, have a seat."
Quickly, I plop down into one of the two chairs in front of his desk and sling my bag down to the floor beside my chair.
He awakens his computer, typing before reading through whatever's displayed. Then he turns the screen to face me and I'm looking at a layout of of my grades for the class. It's looking pretty good.
"Could be better," I stare waiting for what I came for.
"You're right, it could be. You see, as it stands everything for you is riding on this exam. You could walk away from this class with a high C or a high A. It's really up to you."
I lean forward with my elbows on the desk to look him in his narrow-set eyes.
"Look at my face, Mr. Stevens," I glare for emphasis. "Does it look like I'm down to settle for a high C? What did we discuss in the classroom?"
Again, it's a chess match of stares.
After about ten seconds this time, he pulls his glasses off, folding them gently and sitting them off the the side near the computer. He turns the computer screen back to it's original position and pulls a paper packet from his desk, raising it vertical with the print side facing towards himself and away from me.
It's the exam, I know it. I maintain eye contact.
"This," he pauses holding it up near his head. "If anyone... and I mean anyone.. discovers that you have this... you're on your own. I'll turn ya ass in so fast your head will spin. You will be expelled."
I've never heard him curse before.
"No one will find out, I'll guard it with my life."
"There's one more thing." He lowers the packet setting it away from me on the desk near his glasses. "Correct me if I'm mistaken, but I seem to recall you saying something along the lines of you not playing bout your grades or money.."
"Yeah?"
Licking his lips, he leans forward and I sit bolt straight.
"How far you willing to go for both?"
"Excuse me?"
"You heard me."
I blink in shock. Not good ol' Mr. Stevens! This has gotta be a joke. Mr. Hottie would never sleep with a student, he's far too strict. 
"Gemini," he whispers, the name lingering on his tongue in a way that gives me full body chills. How did he know my stage name?
"Mr. Stevens, I think you're mistaken. My name is Phoebe, remember?" I tilt my head to jog his memory. "Phoebe Miller?"
He scoffs, loosening his tie and I'm aware of myself breathing harder.. loudly.
He tosses his tie on the desk between us.
Unbuttoning the top few buttons on his shirt, I can see his sharp clavicle and a tease of the muscle beneath. My mouth is watering and he leans forward again.
"Let's skip the part where you play dumb and get straight to negotiations. You're a smart girl...Sexy," he whispers.
My eyes widen hearing that word come from his lips. My thighs press together. This isn't a body that can hold back once started up. He's treading dangerous ground.
I lean forward slightly and the corner of his lips lifts in a dark smirk.
I've never seen this man like this.
"I've been to Mickey's. You know, there's this move you do... on that pole... I've seen you do a few times now and I've been wondering every time I see your lil conceited ass in my class... how it would work if you tried it on a dick."
Shit.
He said the magic word! I'm wet. I'm wet! I cross my leg over my thigh and he sits back, standing tall as I look up at him, ready to do anything.
He walks over to the door, closing it gently and locking it. Panting, I watch him do it and then he walks back to his seat, reclining with his hands clasped loosely in front of him.
"I have the power to give you an A," he announces. "Right here, right now."
"Oh really."
Oh my fucking god, I'm so wet right now. I can feel it.
"Mhm... I can also ensure that you pass your other classes, no problem," he brushes his shoulder. "BUT."
"But," I breathe.
"I need something from you."
Blinking at his boldness, I can't help the lust that comes to my eyes. This is a fantasy. Shit like this does not happen.
"Yes?" I'm licking my lips, biting them in anticipation. Say it, I beg with my eyes. Say it!
"I want you.."
Yesss?
"..to be.."
I lean in closer.
"So eager," he laughs. "You know, the way you look at me, you remind me of the Mona Lisa. There's a secret behind your eyes and every time I see you... that's what the fuck I see. It's like you wanna fuck me..."
Sitting up again to lean forward, his face is now inches from mine.
"You're going to be my slave, Ms. Miller. My personal.. little slut. Just until the exams are over," he nods.
I have to think about that, but not for long.
"And you can ensure all A's," I confirm.
Smiling, he nods. It's the perfect scenario, I want to cry.
"Deal."
"You can't tell a soul," he whispers coming in closer. His breath smells like spearmint. His lips are centimeters away now and I can't hold myself back any longer, I close the distance meeting his soft lips with mine.
Getting as far as a peck, he pulls back looking away like a man who's just made a deal on something as trivial as a lawn gnome or a piece of patio furniture. There's an unrushed boredom that only serves to intrigue me as he goes through the buttons on his shirt, letting the white fabric fall open to reveal the built muscles I kind of knew were there... but never to this extent.
His skin looks like smooth rum and I want a taste, but he has a deliberate pattern of raised bumps all over his chest and abs. It's not a turn off. In fact, I can think of a few things to do with that.
He smirks as if reading my mind.
Leaning further forward, I'm out of my seat and leaning over the desk.
With my right hand I reach up to touch his right pectoral but snatch my hand back when he smacks it away. I feel the sting. He's heavy handed.
"Did I say you could touch me?" His eyes hold venom.
He sounds like me when I'm disciplining a sub.
"No sir."
"Don't smile."
"But my smile is so cute," I grin watching his wheels spin.
"That's true," he admits with a nod. "But you know what's even cuter?"
"There's cuter?" I tilt my head innocently and he smiles.
"Hm," he chuckles. "...Don't move."
Holding my position over his desk, I remain still as he stands up again, slowly circling out of my view. Behind me, he stands and I can feel his presence. I feel a spanking coming on. I can feel him-
"MM," I squeak feeling the first hit. It's firm, but not too rough.
"Shut up, you've taken worse," he comments and I wonder how he knows because it's true. This is nothing.
Hit number two comes and it's a little bit harder than the first.
"Be gentle," I whisper looking back.
The third hit is double the strength of the last, I feel it and breath out.
The fourth is much harder and I make a sound to let him know I feel it. He hears me because the next swat feels like he really reeled back and it stings. It has me anxious for the next hit.
"I once saw you take a flogger," he breathes and I hear it in his voice, he's getting excited. I wonder if his dick is hard. How big is it? "Who you think requested it," he huffs and the swat he takes makes me hit the desk.. for real this time.
"You're a sub-SSSS," I hiss throwing my head back. "Damnit, okay now," I warn."
"Move your hands."
I don't know.
"Get back down... and move your hands," he repeats firmly.
Hesitantly, I drop them and brace myself on the desk.
"Uh!" I close my mouth and gather myself. It really stings. He keeps hitting the same damn spot, but in the way that tying a rubber band around your finger feels good, it also feels good.
"Take those shorts off..," he mutters. I can hear him breathing and when I look back, he's taking the button up completely off and unbuckling his black leather belt. "Hurry up.. take it off."
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BUSINESS AND PLEASURE
Johnny “Coco” Cruz x Chibs Telford’ daughter!Reader
“What if you should move to Santo Padre for two months...”
Chapter one.
Word count: 3.4k
Author comments: I hope you all enjoy. English isn’t my first language, so I’m sorry if I have some mistakes with grammar. Gif credits: @angels-reyes.
Thanks to my lovely beta reader and partner in crime with this one, @chibsytelford 💘
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Since you've been forced to move from Glasgow to Charming, your life has been a roller coaster with noisy falls into hell. Some days you were fine, the rest you were only available to create chaos around you. Your mother died because of a terminal disease, after fighting for two years, and the last time you saw your father before that it was when you were a child. Came to live with him after twelve years without no contact, except for a few calls every month, it was hard. Harder than he could imagine. 
The first days you were locked in the room he enabled to you in his house, where you only had a bed, a nightstand and a wardrobe. No picture, no colors around, nothing. It was kinda depressing. At least, he tried. He tried to re-build the good relationship you two have had in the past, before your mother kicked his ass out of Scotland, when Clay said he needed him at California, with the Sons'. 
Filip used to cook your favourite dishes, having had to learn to cook before. At first you only ate two or three bites, until one morning when you woke up hearing him screaming in scottish. You've never heard him so angry, and that scared you. Barefoot and silently, you went out of your room, sticking your head by the door frame of the kitchen. Unbelievable. He was arguing with his phone. Specifically with YouTube. You could see how he was watching a recipe of baked fish. It sounded easy, right? The problem was the sauce. Apparently he forgot to add some ingredients, and he had to repeat it from the start.
“Shit!” He shouted hitting the marble countertop, supporting his fist on it with his head down and a sigh in his mouth. “Fuckin' pepper and fuckin' lemon”.
“I don't like”. You said in a whisper, getting out of your hiding place. 
He turned at you frowned and upset, leaning against the furniture. Cross-armed, he shook his head with his gaze on the floor. You knew how frustrated he was, trying to kick you out of that sadness that it was consuming you. You lost your mother, you had to move out of your country, from the cold to the heat. And you truly hated sunny days. 
“I just... wanna make you feel like you're at home”. He said kinda desperately, scratching his head hard, completely disheveled. “I know this is not Scotland, nor your house. It's ok if you miss it, but this situation is killing me too. So, please, give me a break...”
You heard every word he told you, feeling the same knot he felt on his chest, and his voice about to drown in tears. You walked slowly towards him, looking inside your head for the correct things to say.
“I like the way you cook, but you scared the shit out of me, 'cause I didn't know you were shouting at YouTube”. You thought maybe some kind of joke could help, while he was holding your hands. “I don't like pepper, nor lemon, so it's fine. Maybe... we could have lunch together, if you're not busy with the club”.
“Fuc' da' club, caileag”. For the first time, you saw him smiling and it was amazing. “Do you think everything will be fine?” He sounded sad, simply sad. But you nodded without any doubt.
“We will be fine, athair”.
That was all he needed to hear. Chibs leaned towards you, placing a hand behind your head to leave a kiss on your forehead. Your hands held on his waist in a warm hug that you were wanting to give him since you arrived to Cali.
━━━━━━ (One year later) ━━━━━━
But what happened next was totally unexpected. You hear Happy talking with his prospect, around the corner of the workshop, about a dangerous mission they have to take care of, keeping them for two months out of Charming. And by Chibs decision, you're not coming. But he didn't tell you anything about it, before. Walking in the front yard, you find six motorbikes and a van you don't recognize from your charter, but belong to an MC. You're angry, so angry. Your steps are heavy and big, going faster to the clubhouse, taking off the rings of your fingers to keep them inside the pocket. You open the door suddenly, without warning the men who seems mexican sitting closer to your father. You only can see that fucking scottish who made a promise he's not gonna keep. And he sees the fury burning in your orbs. 
“Oh, shit”. It's everything he can say before one of your fists go straight to his face.
“Woah, woah, take it easy, chamaca!” One of the unknown man talks, trying to walk next to you, until you point it at him with the gun you had tucked under your shirt. All the men raise their hands with their eyes so much opened, letting you know that they're not gonna interfere again.
Time have passed. Some wounds has been closed and you have got used to the heat of the coast. Now, you're not who you used to be. SAMCRO changed you, having its good things and its bad things. You lost all the innocence you had, learning to defend yourself by fighting body-to-body and shooting weapons of different calibers. Happy and Tig usually try to catch you by surprise hitting you, but your faster than their old asses, blocking every hit that comes from nowhere. And sometimes you ‘play’ paintball with Juice on his free day. You're one of the Redwood family, being included in every mission one way or another, working hand by hand with the prospect; with the minimal difference that your father is your sponsor. This gives you two some problems because of the strong character you have inherited from him. And there are some times when you end up being beaten. The crew is used to it.
You turn to your father, who is rubbing his right cheek between some groans, supporting a hand on the pool table. You're breathing distressed with your eyes full of tears. You know how it works. When he leaves Charming, you don't have any notices for almost one week. You live every day with the pain of not knowing if he's still alive or not. Two months is too long. You can't even live without him at this point of your life, how are you supposed to do it?
“You promised me!” You yell at him pointing your chest with your own forefinger. “You said ‘us against the world’! You said it!”
Your voice is breaking, drowned by the tears that run down your face and your neck.
“You're a fucking liar! You're doin' the same you did thirteen years ago!” Yes, you can see how your words are affecting him, but you don't care. 
“Baby, listen...” He tries to give some steps towards you, receiving a push on his chest.
“I don' wanna hear more bullshit”. Putting the gun again behind your back, you turn to the front door, with a slight pause next to the other charter. “By the way”. You stare to the man you pointed seconds ago. “Next time I'm talking to my father, you shut the fuck up...” Reading his patch, you raise your eyes at him. “Presidente”.
You slam the door shut after you leave, seeing Happy next to your motorbike. He knows you know what is gonna happen by the tears running your cheeks. But even if you don't wanna talk with him, being your confidant since you came to Charming, he wraps strongly your body with his arms before you can run away from him. Crying inconsolably, you hide your face on his chest without moving your arms, only supporting your weight against him. Happy rest his chin on your head with a sigh, 'cause he knows well how much you suffer when your father attends a mission out of town.
“Are you leaving too?” You finally ask, even when you don't wanna hear the answer. He nods slowly, cleaning your tears with his long fingers.
“I'm sorry. I promise I'll try to write you”. He says hoarsely. “I'm sure you didn't let Chibs explain himself, but listen… Not even my prospect is coming. It's really dangerous for you two, we're gonna be ok, (Y/N)”.
“Who are they? What are they doing here?”
“They're Mayans, from Santo Padre. Oscar and Canche ‘family’. We can't leave you here, alone, without any protection. So, Chibs asked them to take care of you while we're out”.
Now you understand what's happening. It's suppose you should move from Charming to the south Cali, surrounded by men you don't know. Leave your house, again. Your cry appears again, shaking your head with some sobs stuck on your throat.
“Baby, listen, listen”. Happy try to have your attention cupping your face between his hands. “They're good men, they're gonna take care of you. And Canche will go to Santo Padre every week to see you”.
“I don' wanna go, Happy. I wanna go with you, please”. You beg in tears, with your lips trembling.
“(Y/N), you can't”. He sentences, trying not to sound too rude. He snort closing his eyes for a second. “Listen, they also have a car scrapping. You can work there. You like cars and you studied to be mechanic. 'Am sure these two months gonna' pass so fast that you're not gonna notice it”.
The front door of the club house gets opened. You turn for a while, just to see how the men gets out of it. You sigh, looking at Happy again. And you nod, even when you don't want to do it. Pulling yourself away from him, you're heading towards your motorcycle. In silence, after fastening the helmet, you start the engine. If you have to leave Charming you wanna do it as soon as possible. So, it's time to pack your stuff.
And that is what you're doing, when you hear your father's keys opening the door. His footsteps coming close to you, watching sideways how he leans against the door frame arm-crossed. Your basic clothes are already inside the suitcase on the bed, closing the zip after checking again that you have taken everything you could need. In the bag next to it, you keep your laptop, your headphones and all the chargers, in addition to other things.
“Please, talk to me”. Chibs says, but there's no answer from you. “I didn't know how to tell you, and I'm sorry, honey. But I promise...”
“Don't”. You turn at him raising your forefinger. “Don't make any promise you're not gonna keep, Filip”.
He knows you're truly sad when you call him by his real name. Chibs walks towards you, holding your hands slowly hoping that you're not gonna push him away again.
“Bishop and his guys 'gonna take care of you. And Happy said he told you about ‘Romero and Brothers’. I'm pretty sure you're gonna have fun there”. He's trying to make you understand.
“I don' care. I'm gonna be away from you”. You finally say, letting go all the pain you have inside your chest, oppressing your heart. “And you're not allowed to text me, nor call me. Could you imagine how distressing it feels?”
“'You think it isn't for me? I'm not stone cold, even if sometimes it's what it looks like, (Y/N). I think about you all the time. About what you're doing at any moment. If you're eating well, if you're sleeping... All the fucking time”. He replies trying to hide his anger. “But I need to protect you. And there aren't better hands than Bishop's”.
You nod. You don't want to continue arguing with him. Filip hugs you tightly, hiding your face on his neck, trying to not break in cry again. Your hands clinging on the back of his shirt. You're not sure how many time you have been like this, when your father decides that he should call the Mayans to pick you up.
The roars of motorcycles, coming just in time, have your attention. You take your stuff, rolling the suitcase over the floor till you find them outside. Your father takes it to keep it inside the van, before saying goodbye.
“They're gonna take care of you, ok?” He says again, holding your cheeks between his hands. You nod in silence about to cry. Leaving a kiss in your forehead, he hugs you. “If I can, I will text you. I promise. And I'll keep that one”.
“Two months?” You ask raising your gaze at him.
“I'll be back before your birthday”. Assures you. “I love ya' more than anything. You know, rai'?”
You nod again swallowing, before leaving one last caresses in your left cheek, cleaning the tear that falls down through it.
“You're going with my man, Coco”. Bishop talks, with the helmet covering his head while he wears both leather gloves. 
“And my bike?” You turn to your father with more dramatism than necessary.
“It's in the van too, don' worry”. Chibs answers, hitting twice one of the doors. “Canche could need you”.
“Or us”. The Mayans president add with a soft smile on his lips.
Things starts to change, when you're conscious that you will continue working with the charters even if yours isn't present. So, at least, it's not gonna be that bad as you thought. 
“I'm sorry 'I pointed you with my gun”.
“What I can expect from Chibs' daughter? It would have scared me more if you hadn't, after everything we've heard from you”. Your father chuckles because of the words of the Mayan. “Ready?”
You hug him again, taking some seconds to memorize his smell to not forget it at all.
“I love you”. You whisper, pulling him away softly, before walk to the front passenger seat of the van.
But, before the man could start the car, your father makes a last appearance, pointing with the forefinger to all the men presents there.
“If anyone of you touch my daughter, I'll cut off your cock and make you eat it”. The Mayans know that it's not a joke, so they nod agreeing.
“I've a daughter. Her name is Letti”. The mexican accent, camouflaged in the foreign language, pushes you out of your thoughts. “She's sixteen, but I think you could be fren'”. 
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The sun is falling when you leave the ‘Welcome to Charming’ sign behind the van. You sigh heavily settling in your seat. The fresh air that enters by the open window makes fly some strands of your hair, supporting both arms against the door, with your chin on it, to watch out of the car the sunset on the horizon. It's gonna be hard, you know it, but at least you will have Canche visiting you every week. Maybe Oscar comes from Stockton too.
“Yea', maybe...” You say, turning for a second.
Coco turns the radio, hoping that music makes you feel better, looking for a channel without interferences. Then, you hear your favourite song, turning to the hand that is moving the calibrator. The man stares at you with curiosity, before turning up the volume. The melody continues, while you go back to your position leaving your cheek this time and closing your eyes to focus in the song.
“Hey, oh, listen what I say, oh! I got your hey, oh! Now listen what I say, oh!”
You're about to give him the silent treatment, but that only has bad points in your favor. You'll have to live and work together for the next months, so sooner or later, you're gonna have to talk him.
The first time you listened that song, you were living with your parents in Glasgow. You can remember your father singing it to you all the time, before go to Charming. So, listen to it again causes you bittersweet feelings.
“I like the Red Hot' too”. Coco says trying to be kind, while his fingers drum the steering wheel to the beat of the music. You have to say that he has a funny voice and hearing him singing sounds like a dying cat. That makes you chuckle. “Hey! What's up, mami? Don' laugh on me!”
“Sweet Jesus Christ, you're gonna make it rain”. Your laughter is loud now, capturing president attention who slows down to reach your window.
“It's everything ok, uh?” He shouts over the sound his motorbikes does.
“I hope he has a good aim, 'cause he couldn't work as singer!” You say in laughs.
“He's a veteran Marine, kid! What do you think?” Bishop accelerates to return to his place, while you turn to the driver, truly surprised. He has a triumphal smile on his face and his gaze in front.
“These motherfuckers discharged me because I used a rifle to shoot a cigar out of an officer's mouth”. He tells you. “I was three hundred meters from him”.
This is amazing and you feel the curiosity growing inside you. Curling your legs on the seat, putting around them your arms, you stare at the Mayan.
“Can you tell me about it?”
“'Bout wha'?” He asks looking at you for a second a little confused.
“About the Marine”.
He frowns, looking at you again.
“You wanna hear 'bout it?”
“I'm not asking you about the Area Fifty One”. You say with a sharp voice shrugging.
“I'm pretty sure that would be a good talk too”.
“C'mon! It's a long travel!” It almost seems like you're starting to beg, but the topic of the Navy and Marine has always interested you.
“It's weird!”
“Why?”
“Cuz' nobody has asked me 'bout it before”. He says with the same confusion you saw on him before.
“So bad is it...?”
“No, it's... cool. Pretty cool”. He replies with a slight smile on his face.
“I wanted to enlist in the British Army, but my mother said it was too dangerous for me. So, I didn't”. Your voice trembles for a second, and he realizes it.
“Sorre' 'bout your mom, Chibs told us”. He says after a moment in silent. “I killed mine”.
Your face shows a similar gesture of horror, he shrugs exaggeratedly.
“That bitch hit my daughter, and hurt her so bad. She also forced her to have a ‘bad life’, 'you know what I mean. She deserved it”. The calm with which he explains overwhelms you.
You're starting to think he hasn't had a good life. But who in their right mind would work for an MC? Not you, neither does he.
“And your mother hate you so bad that she called you ‘Coconut’?” You try to finish the tension installed inside the van with somewhat bad joke.
“The fuck told you that's my name?” He breaks in laughter, shaking his head, accidentally giving a flywheel. 
“Oh, shit”. Both say in unison. The charter looks back.
“My bad!” He shouts sticking his head out the window for a moment.
“Then? What's your name?”
“Johnny Cruz. And everyone calls me Coco”.
“Why?”
“We're not in that level yet, mami”. He imitates the sharp voice you used before.
“Ok, but, are you gonna tell me about the Marine?”
He sighs rolling his eyes, before showing you again his smile. So, there you are, lying on your seat stretching legs crossed on the dashboard of the van. He starts to talk, of course with the funny story of how he enlisted and all the chaos he created, compensating for it with his good aim. His voice is so calm, that if you close your eyes, you could think is one of those podcast people use to sleep; without the part of shooting, murdering, and all the bloody stuff. 
Actually, you did. You closed your eyes, opening it when the night has fallen. You yawn, putting your legs on the floor of the van.
“Sorry, I didn't sleep last night”. You apologize with flushed cheeks, rubbing your eyes.
“It's ok, mami. Te ves bonita mientras duermes”. (You look pretty while you're sleeping). He says.
“What did you say?” You ask, pretending that you don't speak spanish, but the truth is that you studied it for three years while you were living in Scotland.
“That you were drooling everything”. He lies so bad that he's a little nervous. “We're almost reaching to Santo Padre”.
“Great... Home, sweet home, isn'it?”
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Yeonbin
"Snack got your tongue?"
SMUT
Collaboration with @hyeyoonwrites
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"Alright, take twenty everyone!" The director says, pushing himself out of his leaning position on the wall.
Beomgyu sighs, dusting his hands off as he congratulates everyone on their team.
Thumbs up to the crew and hugs for his members.
"Great job today, guys!" He smiles, clapping and walking away.
"Yeah and uh Hyung!" Taehyun calls, fanning over at Soobin who's getting his makeup adjusted.
"Yeah?" The tall boy spoke, looking at Kai with a small smile on.
"Your acting is just, wow!" He compliments his older, bringing him into a brief hug.
"Yeah, You did amazing out there, Bin!" Yeonjun hopes in excitement, pressing an open-mouth kiss onto Soobin's cheek.
Soobin blushes, accepting his older's affection.
"Thank you, Hyung." He says, flattening his expression, allowing his stylist to work.
As she steps back, she admires all of her hard work on the dumbfounded boy's face.
"Alrighty! Head backstage and slip on your next outfit, I'll be waiting to help with Yeonjun's lip ring and your earrings."
He nods, walking backstage with Yeonjun as they enter the dressing room.
"That whole little growling thing you did with Gyu, it was MAGICAL."
Yeonjun laughs, grabbing the key to his snack locker.
"Oh, really?" His ears glow a hint of red at Yeonjun's nod of approval.
"Mhm! You're really good at it, like did you practice it in the mirror or something?"
Yeonjun chuckles, plopping down on the couch beside his best friend.
"Oh my LORD, Cheese balls are just so good."
Yeonjun giggles, crunching down on his favorite snack.
"Really? We don't really buy junk food at my house we're kinda health junkies..." Soobin sighs
"WHAT? Woah I've never met someone who hasn't tried them you're really missing out! Here take one"
Yeonjun excitedly reaches in the bag and feeds Soobin a cheese ball.
Soobin taken aback by suddenly being force-fed, Yeonjun chuckles.
"Good, right?"
"It really is good!"
Soobin exclaims at the cheesy flavor.
"I love them so much I might even make them my new favorite snack." He laughs, tossing one into the air.
Soobin leans in and catches it in his mouth, crunching it victoriously.
Yeonjun laughs, tossing one up, determined to catch it this time.
Yeonjun catches it just between his teeth as Soobin claps for him in celebration.
"I did it!" He laughs more, nearly choking on the round snack.
Soobin nods, watching Yeonjun reach in again, placing a single cheese ball on his tongue.
"I really like the Veggie Sticks that Staff-noona keeps for us in the back."
Soobin nods as Yeonjun keeps eating more and more snacks.
"What if I throw and you catch?" Soobin said as he lifts up the round snack between his fingers.
"Yeah sure, go for it!" Yeonjun excitedly said, opening his mouth for the catch. Soobin giggled and tossing the snack into the older's mouth.
But it didn't went into his mouth and it landed on his crotch, making the older snickered as he picks it up and popped it into his mouth.
Soobin blushed and started to imagine something weird inside his mind while eating the snacks quietly, Yeonjun noticed that as he glanced over the taller before his lips tugging into a small smirk.
"S-so...do you ONLY like the cheese flavor?"
Soobin asked, tearing his eyes away from his best friend's lap as he tossed a cheese ball from one hand to another as a distraction.
"Maybe? Because it's very flavorful compared to the other snacks that I ate." Yeonjun said while munching the cheesy snacks deliciously.
"Hehe, you're right." Soobin sheepishly giggled and started to lick the chessy seasonings off from his fingers, sucking it constantly before digging into the bag for another one.
"That sounds nice too, let me feed you some first." Yeonjun scooted closer to the younger and placed a cheese ball in front of his lips.
Soobin smiled at him and opened his mouth to eat the snack from Yeonjun's fingers, purposely grazing his lips against the older's skin. Yeonjun just chuckled and licked his finger before opening his mouth at him for the snacks from him.
Soobin gladly feeds him while they both staring at each other, both males were blushing and giggled while feeding each other.
"Say my name." Soobin smirked, pressing the ball right against Yeonjun's plush lips.
"Soobin~" He whined, liking the idea of being commanded.
"Soobin~" He whined, liking the idea of being commanded.
Soobin immediately pushed the snack into Yeonjun's mouth as he started to get riled up because of the older's obedience.
"More~" Yeonjun whined again while opening his mouth wide for him, Soobin scoots even closer and stares at him before feeding him some snacks, almost finishing the bag.
"It tastes much better when you feed me." Yeonjun said with a giggle.
"Really? Then I would say the same thing as well."
Soobin replied, Yeonjun immediately feeding him some more cheesy balls and his hand placed against Soobin's thigh unknowingly while feeding him.
"Let me just ..." Yeonjun says, licking his lips.
"Now it will stick to my lips."
He placed a ball snack between his lips and leaned in closer to Soobin, causing Soobin's heart to flutter wildly.
"Say 'Ahh' for me..." Yeonjun mumbled with nipping the snack between his lips.
Soobin hesitates at first before leaning in closer, catching the snack with his lips from the older's, causing their lips brushing against each other.
"We almost kissed." Yeonjun teased, Soobin just blushed while crunching down the snack, it was slightly moist at the first bite because it was placed between Yeonjun's wet lips.
"What's the matter? Snack got your tongue?" Yeonjun chuckles after Soobin being quiet all of the sudden.
Soobin just giggled and grabs another ball, pushing a bit of force onto it.
"Wanna do it again?" Yeonjun asked again, Soobin looked at him with a blush on his cheeks, slowly nodding his head.
Yeonjun smirked and placed a snack on top of his tongue, having Soobin widening his eyes in shock.
"Y-You want me to catch that?" Soobin asked timidly, Yeonjun just nodded his head while still holding the snack with his tongue.
Soobin slowly leaned in, Yeonjun went to grab Soobin by his nape and pulling him closer.
The taller catches the snacks with his teeth, trying not to make any contact with Yeonjun's tongue.
Yeonjun pushes himself closer to Soobin, making Soobin squeaked as the older pushing his tongue into Soobin's mouth.
"What's wrong, Binnie?" Yeonjun asked sweetly while munching on his cheesy snacks.
"What was that for?" Soobin asked, still covering his mouth in shock.
"You don't like it?" Yeonjun teased before letting out a loud chuckle, Soobin's face is getting warmer and he secretly likes it.
"I-It's not that ... it's just it was so.. sudden." Soobin muttered, Yeonjun chuckled again as he scooted closer to him, having one of his legs draped over Soobin's lap.
"I really like you, Soobin. You must know that." Yeonjun cheekily said.
A soft giggle spilling out from Soobin's lips and nodded his head.
"I know ... should I do something for you?"
Soobin managed out while staring at him shyly.
"Okay." Soobin replied, he digs into the bag and takes the last piece of cheese balls, his fingers coated heavily with cheese seasonings, Yeonjun's eyes lit up and licking his lips at the sight.
Soobin went to feed him the last ball, Yeonjun slowly wrapping his lips around Soobin's fingers and sucking them hungrily.
A soft whine trailed out from Soobin's lips as he watches the older sucking the seasonings off of his fingers before pulling out with an audible pop.
Locking eyes with each other, soobin blinks, rolling his finger on the boys lips to tease him.
Yeonjun moaned softly and wrapping his lips around Soobin's fingers, going down deeper to his throat that making him choked slightly.
"H-Hyung ..." Soobin breathe out, watching Yeonjun sucking his fingers like a hungry baby while locking eyes with him, he's being shameless and bold towards Soobin.
"Hm?" Yeonjun pretends not to know exactly what he's doing to Soobin.
"Can you...do it again?" He asks, coating his finger in the crumbs left in the thin foil bag.
Yeonjun grinned and immediately wrapping his lips around Soobin's fingers again, sucking it slowly and his tongue pressed against under his fingertips.
Soobin was getting hard by the sight, his pants was about to burst out while Yeonjun sucking on his fingers shamelessly.
He would rather Yeonjun to suck on his dick instead.
"O-Oh God..." Soobin bit his lip, trying to contain his love for his new found kink.
"Heheh, you like it, don't you?" Yeonjun teased, grabbing Soobin's wet hand.
Soobin gulped and nodded his head, words couldn't describe that how bad he wants Yeonjun to suck him off as he's suffering inside his pants.
Yeonjun couldn't help and he glanced down to Soobin's bulge on his crotch, smirking at himself and he looked around the room, making sure that the coast is clear.
"You want me to do it here?" Yeonjun asked with a hint of seduction in his voice.
"D-Do what ...?" Soobin stuttered.
"I know that you're suffering right now, Binnie. Do you want me to help you with it?" Yeonjun asked again while tilting his head cutely at him.
"I-I don't know what are you talking about, hyung."
Yeonjun chuckled deeply and placed his hand on top of Soobin's crotch, causing Soobin hissed softly by the contact and slightly grinds against Yeonjun's palm.
"Hm, you're getting hard." Yeonjun teased and his hand rubbed against Soobin's crotch, having Soobin's breath hitched and bit his lips in enjoyment.
"Tell me how bad do you want me to suck this cock of yours."
Yeonjun whispered while rubbing his hardness before squeezing it gently.
"H-Hyung please ..." Soobin moans out quietly.
Yeonjun shakes his head. "Ah ah ah, use your words, you're not a baby Soobinnie."
He laughs, patting the desperate boy's head.
"I-I...I want...I can't say it Junie..." Soobin whines, hair falling to cover his embarrassing expression.
"Please tell me more specific and I'll give you what you want, Binnie." Yeonjun smirked.
"I-I want Junie to suck my cock please..." Soobin whined in embarrassment by his own words, Yeonjun chuckled at his cuteness and neediness inside his voice.
"As you wish, Binnie." Yeonjun said and immediately went to take off Soobin's pants along with his boxer down, just enough to let Soobin's dick free.
Soobin's dick was standing tall for Yeonjun, wanting him to take care of it. His throbbing tip begs for attention and almost making Yeonjun drooled at the sight.
"Ah hyung stop staring ..." Soobin whined out and covered his face in embarrassment. Yeonjun chuckled and immediately went to grab his both hands, placed them on top of Yeonjun's head.
"Watch me."
Yeonjun went down and wrapped his plump lips around Soobin's tip, sucking it gently before going down deeper.
Soobin moaned softly and his fingers tangled into Yeonjun's blonde locks as he's bobbing his head up and down.
"A-ah...hyung...not so h-hard...I don't wanna cum too soon..."
Soobin's words dripped with sweetness as his tongue glided across the inside of his bottom lip.
Soobin bit back on a moan as Yeonjun chuckled, sending vibrations to Soobin's tip.
"I can't stop you taste so much better." He says before slipping back down on Soobin's rod.
Soobin whined loudly as he tries to push Yeonjun away who's kept sucking him off, his body jolts when the boy goes down deeper, his tip hitting against back of his throat again, hollowing his cheeks while holding down onto Soobin's thighs to make him stay still.
Yeonjun kept ignoring the boy's loud whines and cries, he just wanted to make sure that his mouth felt satisfied as he sucks him off and trying to make him cum for the second time.
Soobin couldn't help as the second wave of orgasm started to build up inside him, begging Yeonjun to go faster and get it done immediately.
Yeonjun hummed in response and wrapping his lips around Soobin's tip with his hand pumping his shaft at the same time. Soobin went insane and couldn't stop whining loudly. Showing he close he is while thrusting his hips against Yeonjun's mouth, he moans out Yeonjun's name lewdly.
Yeonjun moaned against his dick, his saliva started to drool out from his stuffed mouth as Soobin fucking his mouth faster while gripping onto the boy's blonde locks.
"Ah shit ... I-I'm going to cum hyung ..." Soobin choked out and bursting out his loads down to Yeonjun's throat, quickly swallowing everything down from him.
Yeonjun moaned deliciously, his shaft clean before pulling out, grinning widely after his mouth got satisfied.
"Really? Do I looked even prettier when these full lips of mine are around your cock?"
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We are not just friends — Part 10
Chris Evans x bi!latina!character (Sofia is a people of color, she's brown.)
Chris and Sofia meet when their best friends started dating, it all started at friends with loads of bumps on the road.  
Warnings: drinking, smoking, drug use (weed), assault, Chris being Steve Rogers, commitment issues, my girl Sofia kinda messy, lots of fucking (eventually) 
This is slow burn at its best, at least emotionally. 
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Sofía was in a meeting with Chris's publicist, his assistant, and lawyer as they all went through the contract along with the brewery lawyers.
"My client had already told me to give whatever your asking," The lawyer spoke and Chris's publicist kept eyeing her. "so, this is more a formality."
"We already discussed it, just a photoshoot. We're going with the social media route of promoting." Sofia explained and the lawyer nod a few times, she was on the last page of the contract.
Sofía looked at his publicist and the woman kept looking at her phone and then back at her, multiple times like she was trying to figure something out.
What the fuck? Sofia kept thinking and she heard Chris's voice carrying from the other side of the co conference room. He had arrived a while back but Ron and his kid were giving him a tour of the brewery that was barely getting it together. Nothing was set up but the skeleton was there and Chris was delighted.
They still haven't really seen each other, until this very moment, the first thing he did was stare at her, puppy eyes and everything and Sofia was acting like she was already over it, guess Chris wasn't the only actor in the room.
Of course, Ron started his usual little speech as they signed the contracts, even cracked the champagne at nine o'clock. The photoshoot was going to be after lunch as the crew gets the things together—Ron had really splurged on the production, he really took it to himself on how much money he was saving.
Sofía could see from the corner of her eyes as Chris was discussing something with his publicist, she kept discreetly pointing in her direction as Chris looked something on her phone. He kept shaking his head no, getting quickly irritated.
When they both turned around to look at her, she quickly looked at the other way—attention back whatever she was doing.
"Sof," Chris called her, voice soft. She looked up and he was right there with his publicist. "I need to show you something."
"What is it?" She asked and the woman asked if they could speak somewhere else. "Yeah, the office." Sofia leads the way.
"Thanks for the privacy," The woman said, and Sofia nod. "I don't care what you two are doing but I do care about this," She said showing her the paparazzi pictures of Chris and her when she arrived at the stupid party yesterday. Sofia could practically remember everything they talked on that brief moment, her full face was on display.
"Oh," Sofia explained and blinked a few times. "Well, shit,"
"And you didn't have anything to do with it?"
"Megan." Chris cut her off and the girl just rolled her eyes.
"He's insisting that you didn't but I gotta ask, I'm just trying to protect Chris's privacy."
"Megan, come on," Chris interrupted her.
"Wait. Are you asking me if I staged this?"
"Did you?"
"Sofi, I know you didn't, you don't have to answer, look Megan—
" It's okay and no, I didn't. Chris you know I would never," Sofia said looking at him, whatever what had gone down last night she would never break his trust like that, she loved and value their friendship to do something like this.
"Yes, I know," He touched her arm, looking at her apologetic. "I'm sorry I'm dragging you into this, I was sure there was no one."
" I'm glad you weren't, I just have to ask. The pictures are already out and you guys were on the street there's not much we can do." Megan explained. "For now you're the 'mystery woman' but I'm sure with time they'll find out who are you." She locks her phone and put it in her purse and looked at Chris.
"Okay, I'll deal with it when it has to deal with it, I'm cool with it." Sofia shrugged and Chris stared at her.
"This doesn't bother you?" Chris asked.
"It bothers me for you because I know you're a very private person but no worries for me, I'm pretty much obscure on social media, all I do is tweet about how much I hate Donald Trump and re-tweet dogs pics."
"She does," Chris nods and she shrugged again.
"Okay," Megan said looking down at he phone again. "Do you wanna release a statement or…?"
"I prefer not brought more attention to it, I'll leave it like this," Chris said and sigh, looking a little bit defeated.
Megan, the publicist, finished up the talk and quickly excuse herself, leaving them alone in the office.
"We should probably," Sofia said looking at her watch and tried to walk past him but of course Chris wasn't going to just let her.
"Can we talk?" He asked and she sighs.
"Chris, it's really okay,"
"No, it's not. I'm sorry I disrespect you,"
"You obviously still had things to figure out and I just don't wanna be in the middle of that. We are friends, if you need to vent with me I'm here, always." Sofia explained, leaning against the desk with her arms folded against her chest.
"Sof, I already figured it out," Chris said walking up to her. "I don't, I don't want anything with her. It's done -
" Yeah, her tongue down your throat last night didn't necessarily say 'I'm done with her',"
" Shit. I know, can we call it a lapse in judgment? " Chris made a face, he truly didn't know how to salvage this. Sofia was difficult and stubborn and he had fucked up.
"Call it whatever you want," She shrugged and sigh deeply.
"Hey," Chris said grabbing her hands as she kept looking anywhere else but him. "Hey, look at me," She did and closed her eyes.
Don't Sofia, don't don't. She kept thinking because he was so fucking attractive, she just wanted to kiss him all the time.
"I'm sorry, I'm truly sorry. I was a complete asshole and I shouldn't even try to explain, I fucked up it was my fault."
"Yeah," She pouted.
"But, I did figure it out—" Sofia was about to interrupt him again but he was quicker. "I know it didn't seem like it, but I did."
"And?"
"I wanna be with you, Sof. I don't wanna be just friends—
"Are you fucking with me?" She squints her eyes at him and scoffed." I'm going just to pretend you didn't say anything because I like my job." Sofia muttered and walked out of the office.
"Jesus Christ," Chris muttered, running his hands over his beard and sigh.
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Christofer Robert Evans was relentless, couldn't take no for an answer and Sofia was about to snap at everyone at any giving moment. Between Chris trying to make a truce, Ron losing his shit constantly, his fucking son and friends that were fucking around the brewery, and on top of everything Amanda kept blowing her phone.
"Sofia," Ron called her and she walked up to him and his son that was chatting with Chris.
"What's up?" She said walking up to her and he took her to aside.
"I'm going to send you back to Boston for a while," He said and Sofia was about to cry.
"Oh God, thank you I fucking hate this place so much." She said making a face and Ron laughed at her expression.
"I know, I can see the amount of pressure that I've been putting you into this last couple of days and you did more than deliver. You deserve a little break,"
"Oh, man. Thank you," She sighed with relief. "Everything here it's pretty much set up, the machines are getting installed this week, everything with the bank it's already resolved, permits too. Thanks to Chris's lawyers, contractors are coming at the end of the month… I mean everything it's on track, at least for a week." She explained pulling out her cellphone and Ron was amazed.
"You pulled this off in a couple of days, I'm never letting you go, that's for sure," Ron said and made a gesture. "So, he likes you." He pointed at Chris with his mouth and Sofia roll her eyes. "And I thought you were only into Chicks."
"That's why your wife loves me so much and I have a weakness for pretty white dudes, it's pretty unhealthy if you asked me." She said with a smile looking at Chris for a moment. "it's complicated right now."
"Shit I bet, guess he's really into you by doing all this pro-bono. So, I'm going to be absolutely a greedy selfish man and said to trap this one." He said pointing at his finger and Sofia let out a laugh.
"No way, man." She shook her head. "Let's focus on beer and stop talking about my non-existent love life, after crazy bitch Tiffany. I'm done,"
"Yeah, and I thought my ex-wife was crazy, you definitely got it worse," He put a hand on her shoulder and murmur. "Good rebound, uh?" He pointed at Chris.
"Ay por Dios, Ron." She rolled her eyes and he laughed, walking away toward his son and started saying their goodbyes to a Chris.
"Ah, men. Listen, just be patient with her," Ron said to Chris while they shake hands. "She seems tough but she's all fragile inside, treat her right." The men said as he put another hand on his, squeezing a little bit.
Chris got the point right away.
"Yes, sir."
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Captain Magnum x gender neutral!reader
@rattyships ty for the request!
A/N: YES the title is a quote, YES it's from That One Song™, YES I based this fic off of that idea, leave me alone. Uh... Christmas. Yeah. Captain Magnum seems way too calm in this fic for my own liking, but y'know. Reader can paint even though I am physically unable to, so. There's that. Fluffy. Rated PG because there's one two "hell"s and one "damn" and that's it. It's cheesy and that's why it's great.
Word Count: 2.0k
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You paced around your cabin, very anxious. Christmas was in three days! What were you supposed to get everyone? You didn't know what anyone liked! Or that they even celebrated…
Well, who says no to a gift, right?
You went over to your secret chest (nobody on that damn ship knew how to share) and opened it up to see how much treasure you had. Not much, but it was there. You could buy a lot in normal markets with these. Maybe you could convince the Captain to take you back home for the holidays?
Well, you never know until you try, right?
But what would you buy? They have quite enough gold and jewels, none of them seem to have any interest in anything, you doubted they'd like something homemade…
This was gonna be difficult.
You sighed and closed your chest, walking over to your door. You opened it to find said Captain standing there, the rest of the crew behind him.
"Hi, Captain," you blinked in surprise. You probably should have been more confused than you were, but this boat was already super weird. He was smiling at you.
"Mornin', first mate!" He greeted. "We found a treasure map on a ship we were lootin'. We're about t' start searchin' fer treasure!"
"Oh. Alright. Gimme a minute," you smiled and closed the door. You sighed and rested your back on the door. Maybe you could find something on the island to give them…?
"Yeah, they'll love a nice flower crown…" You snorted at your own idea. You sighed and grabbed up your stuff, opening your door and walking over to the crew. They were all talking about how they couldn't wait to find more treasure. You rolled your eyes. Don't they have enough of it? You took a head count of how many of them there were. Five… five crewmates, five presents. Captain Magnum noticed you and smiled.
"Thar ye be! I thought ye would lock yourself in yer cabin th' whole day!" He, along with the rest of the crew, laughed. You smiled saltily. "Wha' were ye doin' in thar?" You looked around, trying to come up with something.
"Um… I was… I was…" you looked out onto the horizon for a moment, your eyes softening. The crew looked at you.
"Y/N?" One of them called to you. "Are ye-"
"Painting," you interrupted.
"What?" Magnum asked.
"I was… painting…" you looked back to them. They all stared at you for a minute.
"You… you paint?" One woman asked. You smiled and nodded at her. All of the crewmates looked at each other for a minute.
"Uh… wha' d' ye paint?" The other woman asked. You shrugged.
"Whatever, really. Animals, landscapes, whatever's in my room…" you looked over at Captain Magnum to make sure this was okay. He sighed and plopped himself down on a stair. You smiled and turned back to the group.
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You explained painting to the crew for 15 minutes. You had no idea they'd be so interested in your hobby. They asked so many questions, some of which you'd somehow never heard. How long had these people been at sea?
Eventually, you looked over to see Captain Magnum looking impatiently at the island the ship landed at 10 minutes ago. You chuckled at him and stood up.
"Captain's getting a bit annoyed, guys. Let's go," the crew complained, but got off of the ship as you walked over to the Captain. He raised an eyebrow at you and you mimicked the action.
"They find ye mighty interestin'," he commented. You smiled.
"Yeah. Not more than you though. I doubt anything could be more interesting than those logs you have for legs." You both looked at each other for a moment before laughing. He stood and you both followed the crew off of the ship.
He lead the way to where the treasure was, the rest of you trailing close behind. One of the crewmates, a boy who looked no older than twenty-one, took your arm. You raised both eyebrows and looked at him.
"So… wha' were ye sayin' about watercolors?" He asked softly. You smiled as the other crew members gathered around you again. You looked up at Captain Magnum, who was smiling at you all. He chuckled and turned back around, continuing to lead the way. You sighed.
"Alright… so watercolor is probably one of the most well-known types of paint…"
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You had found treasure on the island, and most of the crewmates became interested in that, but the boy who has asked you about watercolors stayed as you explained how people originally made paints from flowers. You saw the curious look in his eyes, and decided what you were gonna get everyone for Christmas.
You were gonna paint for them.
What, you weren't sure. But you sure as hell were gonna paint. Maybe… their favorite animals? Or maybe an object they really liked…
You decided to ask them what they liked.
The woman with the bandana really liked sea creatures. Specifically, narwhals. They were very pretty and could also impale people. She liked that about them. You didn't think she noticed you scribbling everything she said into a small notebook.
The woman with the eyepatch really liked swords. She knew a lot about them; names, origins, uses… it was slightly unnerving, but you couldn't judge.
The boy liked plants. He liked the fact that they were living beings, just like people and animals. Only, they were smaller and couldn't talk. They could, however, feel. And he liked that. You couldn't get over how soft he was…
The man who was first mate before you liked… hats. He liked that they all basically had the same function, but looked so different. You could respect that. Hats were very cool.
The next day, you decided to paint them pictures of their favorite things in their respective color schemes, and added a different color for each background. A blue and white narwhal with a green background, a red and black sword with a navy blue background, a black and orange flower with a dark green background, and a brown and maroon hat with a pastel red background (no, not pink. There's a difference). You spent an entire day painting the pictures. They turned out very well, in your opinion. You just hoped the crew felt the same.
After you were finished with those, you asked Captain Magnum what his favorite thing was. He thought for a moment, stroking his beard.
"Well… I suppose it'd be treasure!" He answered. You knitted your eyebrows together.
"Really? Treasure?" You asked, hoping for something more.
"O' course, treasure! I be a pirate aft all! Wha' would I like if it nah be treasure?" You sighed in slight disappointment. You thought that you would find something new about him but, nope. He loves treasure the most. You nodded and turned around.
"Well, that or ye." You stopped dead in your tracks. Did you hear that right? You slowly turned back towards him. He looked away from you, towards the horizon. The setting sun illuminated his face, tinting it orange, pink, and yellow. He looked like he was ripped right from a movie...
"What was that?" You asked, slightly distracted by how beautiful he looked.
"Treasure be a pirate's fav'rit thin' o' course. But, since ye showed up... I reckon me fav'rit "thin'" be me first mate. Ye." He said nonchalantly. A small smile creeped onto your face. Magnum looked at you, since you hadn't said anything in a while.
"So, you're saying… you love me?" You asked, fishing for compliments. Magnum flushed a bit. It was mostly hidden due to the sun, but you could still see.
"Well… er…" He scratched the back on his head, thinking of how to respond.
"Cause that's what I'm hearing here…"
"Um…"
"Exactly how much do you love me, Captain?" You smirked, leaning on the side of the ship, your cheek in your palm. Magnum finally took a deep breath and looked in your eyes.
"More than all th' treasure in all th' seven seas…" he stated. Your eyes widened as your smirk fell. You felt your face heat up and you turned away from him.
"Well, uh…" you coughed, "I should… get to bed… wanna be up early tomorrow, so…" you shuffled away.
"First Mate Y/N!" He called. You turned back towards him.
"Merry Christmas." He said. You smiled.
"Merry Christmas, Captain."
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You walked into the deck, the crew already gathered. You figured Magnum must've gotten them. You took a deep breath and walked over, the paintings in your arms. The crew all waved and greeted you. You smiled and stood in front of them.
"So, uh… it's Christmas as you may or may not know…" you explained nervously. "So, um… I decided that, as gifts, I was going to paint for you all… and these were the results." You move forward and pass out all the works you painted. All of the crew seemed happy with their pictures. They showed them to each other and gawked over the detail and bragged about how good they looked. You finally walked up to Magnum, who was steering. You held out a painting to him.
"Wha', fer me?" He raised his eyebrows and took the picture. It was of a red, blue, yellow, and black ship with a sunset in the background and sparkling green and blue waves. The words "a pirate's life for me" were written on the back. He laughed heartily and pulled you into a hug.
"Oh, ye really outdid yourself, mate! 'tis wonderful!" He complimented. You managed to pull yourself out of the hug after a minute or two and handed him an envelope. He looked over at the rest of the crew and, upon seeing that no one else had one, tilted his head a bit.
"It's from her," You explained, pointing. Magnum nodded and looked over at the woman who was showing off her narwhal. She glanced at the Captain and winked as the boy with the flower painting giggled. Magnum plopped down onto a step, but you stayed standing. He opened the envelope to reveal a card. On the inside, it said "This thing you two have is special, more special than anything I could try to get. I can, however, make you realize exactly what you have". You frowned.
"What's that supposed to mean?" You asked. Magnum shrugged and gave you the envelope. You looked inside, seeing something green. You took it out and your eyes widened.
Mistletoe.
Mistletoe?
Where the hell did they find mistletoe?!
You looked at Captain Magnum, who was staring at you. He raised both eyebrows at the plant in your hand. You were holding it between you two accidentally (on purpose).
"We don't 'ave t' if ye don't wants t'..." He told you. You took a deep breath, telling yourself to stop being so weird about it because you knew he loved you back. Besides, the crew had all left to put their gifts in their rooms. You leaned down, since he was sitting, and softly connected your lips. He sat there for a moment, eyes wide, before closing them. You both stayed like that for a few seconds before you pulled away all too soon. His eyes looked hazy as you smiled.
"Merry Christmas." You whispered and walked to your room, leaving Magnum to process what happened.
You entered your room and leaned your back on the door, smiling widely.
"Well, that was the best Christmas present ever…" you mumbled to yourself. You started to giggle as you continued to think about it. You put your hands on your face in embarrassment. It was only a couple seconds, why were you being so weird? You jumped a bit when you heard a gentle knock at your door. You turned around and tilted your head. Who could that be? It was getting late and the crew had already shown their appreciation…
Unless…
You opened the door to reveal, you guessed it, Captain Magnum. He was holding the mistletoe you had left on the deck. You looked at him and raised an eyebrow. He smiled.
"Do ye... Uh... Wanna do that again?" He asked sheepishly. You laughed a bit before smiling up at him.
"Absolutely."
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Chapter three, The troublemakers
Ateez x reader
Ateez pirate au
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The door slammed open revealing a young man with purple hair, his red dirty shirt open and only two of the last buttons closed showing off his bare chest, a large scar across his stomach.
"Oh! A female.. GUY'S THEIRS A FEMALE ON BOARD. And she is pretty" he said eyeing me, I blushed at him looking down at his boldness.
"Wooyoung shut your trap" Yeosang told him rolling his eyes at him, the guy, Wooyoung smiled at him then laughed loudly.
"Show respect to the lady" Seonghwa said walking in to the cabin smacking Wooyoung on the head. Wooyoung groaned rubbing where he was hit.
"Ok sorry" Wooyoung whined as he slumped his posture and started to pout some others walked in one was amost as tall as Yunho while the other two were taller then Wooyoung but shorter then Yunho.
"Yn, this is Wooyoung, that's San next to him is Jongho and the tall guy is Mingi. Guys this is Yn our new crew member" Yeosang introduced us all.
"Nice to meet you Yn" San said he had black hair that was slicked back with a white strip, he smiled kindly at me as he gently kissed my hand, making me blush a little.
The next up as Mingi as he gave me a crooked Smile and a small wave, he had red hair that pushed to the side, his clothing was like all the others a dirty white shirt and brown trousers and boots.
"Pleasure to meet you gorgeous" Wooyoung said walking up to me and placing his lips to my hand for another gentle kiss like San just did. He looked up with a smirk and winked at me after that but then Yeosang pushed him away.
The last was Jongho but just like Mingi he just smiled and waved at me, maybe the two are shy?. Well either way I'll get to know them soon enough.
"I can't believe you four, you actually did it" Hongjoong said as he was the last to walk through the door, closing behind him as he chuckled shaking his head.
"What you didn't believe in us? I'm hurt captain! You gave us a job and we completed it. Where's the gratitude?" Wooyoung asked faking being hurt as he pouted again.
"Shut it you idiot" Hongjoong said as he sat down on to the desk taking out what looks like a ruby, opening the draw on his desk and getting out the sapphire as he placed them together.
"Now we need to get one more right? Where is it?" Mingi asked his voice was very deep I wasn't really expecting that. Looking over at Hongjoong he placed the two gemstones on the desk and looked up.
"Tortuga, is our last stop until we get to Utopia. It will take about a week to get there" he said as he looked around at all of us they nodded as I just stood there with my arms crossed.
"All hands on deck" Hongjoong said as the crew all ran out, I stayed behind wanting to ask Hongjoong something and not infront of the crew.
"You alright love?" He asked walking up to me as I thought about how to say it, I looked up at him as he smiled down settling my ease.
"How did you know about my father?" I asked, thinking about what Yeosang said earlier, Hongjoong sighed then bit his lip.
"I might of done a bit of research with Yeosang help, but don't worry about it to much love" he said as he walked out of the doors leaving me in the room on my own.
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The sea, perfectly calm, was like a peaceful lake, and its soft murmurs were scarcely audible, the waves seemed to sleep, as I saw a line of dark blue marked the curve of the horizon. The flat sea stretched in all directions, the afternoon sun scattering diamonds across it's surface as Seagulls wheeled overhead, carried by the cool ocean breeze.
We have been at sea for about a day now, I sat atop of one of the mast as the calm wind blew through my hair. I heard someone climbing up towards me, looking down I saw San as he sat beside me giving me a smile.
"You okay?" He asked his smile still bright as the sun, I hummed at him as I closed my eyes letting the warm sun gracefully moved around my skin.
"I'm just wondering what would of happened if I didn't follow Hongjoong, And how my father is" I whispered softly to him, San kept quiet for a little while before talking.
"You know my father would describe sailing as flying over water, dancing over the white crested waves, cleaving a path through the wind whipped water.
He would say it was freedom to him, to set sail into the wide blue and leave the duties of the land behind him. He said that the water called to him like a lover and whispered sweet nothings in his ears. He longed to feel the breaking of the waves on his prow as the boat headed out into the drink for a long voyage.
I never understood him, why he would waste away at sea when he had a family that needed him on shore, that is until he died there was nothing on land to keep me there after my mother passed away. So I sailed on any ship that wanted me. And I finally understood what he meant back then"
"What I'm trying to say is, Your father is probably worried about you, but if he leaves you for his own adventure, why can't you?" He said after that he started climbing down but stopped quickly looking up at me.
"It will be night soon, come down in a bit to have dinner with us ok?" He said that bright smile on his face as he climbed back down, leaving me to the peace of the afternoon ocean.
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I saw Mingi as he was sat bellow deck a box next to him with a lot if different things placed in the box.
"Mingi, what are you doing?" I asked walking up to him, the young man flinched at the sound of my voice and quickly looked behind him to smile at me.
"Yn! I'm just cleaning the weapons don't want them breaking on us if we get in trouble now can we" he said laughing, I giggled along with him as he patted the chair next to him.
"Come take a seat I'll show you a few things" he said as I sat down next to him and watched what he was doing.
"We fill pots of metal or glass with gunpowder and attached a fuse" he said showing a metal ball it looked like what Hongjoong used in the cell.
"Chain shot they do little damage but slow down enemy ships." He said hold up some chains that are placed in the canons.
"You see, seeing a pirate flag cause lots of fear. This is one of the best examples of the effect that we have on our victims. Our reputation as villains makes our jobs easier as most would rather surrender than fight." I nodded with interest.
We walked back up on deck together as he finished off his talk, Hongjoong then called out to the crew, we all looked over at him.
"We're looking out for Merchants, Boys. Them that's fat with cargo!" Hongjoong yelled to the crew as we got ready to fight, well the crew San grabbed my hand keeping me with him.
"Find us a Schooner with that Spyglass, Wooyoung." Seonghwa yelled up to him as Wooyoung nodded and searched for a ship.
After a few minutes, Wooyoung yelled pointing in the direction of a ship in the distance, Hongjoong sailed the ship over the the merchant boat.
"Fire what Cannons you will, and land a few Strikes if you must. BUT FOR GOD'S SAKE DON'T SINK HER." Hongjoong yelled the last part, I stood watching the crew run in different directions.
"It's no fun fishing Cargo out of the sea. Although it can be done." Hongjoong whispered under his breath but loud enough that San and I could hear.
The merchant ship blew up, I jumped at the sound, San rubbed my back telling me that the crew would all be fine.
The ship got closer to the now stopped merchant ship, San dragged me away so I wouldn't see, but I still heard the whole thing.
"Good day to you sir! I am Captain Kim and this is my Crew. We're sailors like yourselves, but quite unalike in our Purpose. For we intend to take all that you own. Yet no Harm shall befall any Man, so long as they remains at Ease. Is that clear?" I heard Hongjoong say to the other crew.
"Don't kill me, Sir! I have a Family. Please!" A man's voice was heard I looked over at San and he smiled sheepishly at me.
"Tell your friends we're stealing your goods. And we won't hurt nobody if everyone stays as still as a sandbar. You got that?" Hongjoong said, I sighing knowing that they won't hurt anyone.
"Lock 'em in the hold, and take everything that isn't nailed down." Seonghwa said, the sound of footsteps rushing around was heard as the boys came back with stuff in their hands.
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As night fell the blue haze of day lifted to reveal the stars. The stars shone as sugar spilt over black marble, glistening in the sun. The night sky was such a welcome sight, appearing like magic at each sunset, promising to return as it faded in dawn's first light. 
I sat on the fore mast in the calm, this has become one of my favourite things to do, to just watch the calming sea.
"What are you doing up here on you're own?" Wooyoung asked sitting next to me, I have become use to one of the crew sitting with me in silence, maybe to get to know me or to enjoy the silence.
"It's peacefully beautiful" I said looking up at the night sky, the stars hung above us, as if strung in the air by invisible strings. Wooyoung hummed, I felt his eyes on me as I looked over smiling shyly at him.
"So Wooyoung tell me about yourself" I said watching him, Wooyoung's eyes widened then he giggled at me a light blush appearing on his cheeks.
"There's nothing really to say about me. I grew up as an orphan, when I was old enough I ran away and got on a ship" he said shrugging as he looked out to the horizon.
"How did you get in this ship?" I asked still watching him, he was more interesting then the night sky.
"The ship I was on sunk it's how I got this scare, Then the Aurora sailed passed saw me and dragged me on board, been here ever since" he said, his hand rubbing his stomach, I nodded, my focus going back to the sky.
"Come on it's getting late" Wooyoung said as he stood up holding out his hand, I looked at his hand then to his face, he smiled brightly at me as I grabbed his hand as he helped me get up, walking down to the cabins.
Opening the doors Yeosang, Yunho, San, Mingi and Jongho sat in their hammocks, looking up they smiled at us as Wooyoung and I went to our own hammocks.
"One more day at sea then will be in Tortuga, are you excited about it, Yn?" Yeosang asked as he looked over at me.
"How is Tortuga different from the rest of the islands?" I asked laying back watching the guys laugh.
"Tortuga is the city of piracy home to all pirates, a safe haven one might say" San told me, I nodded in understanding.
"Who are we supposed to meet?" I asked, the guys looked at one another with a confused look on their faces, finally looking back at me.
"We don't know" Yunho said as the rest layed down and started drifting off to sleep, I layed there thinking about the person we are supposed to meet.
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I was in the kitchen helping Yunho when he asked me to go and grab some apples for lunch, I nodded making my way to the cargo hold at the bottom of the ship.
As I made my way down the stairs I heard singing, peeking around I saw Jongho stand his back towards me as he sang, there was somthing in his hands that I couldn't see.
I watch him for a while liking how soothing his voice is, he is a very good singer that's for sure. The younger boy turned around and froze seeing me standing there.
"Please don't tell my hyungs that I was breaking apples again" he asked me a sheepish smile on his face as he scratched his head, I smiled walking closer to him.
"I won't tell a soul" I said the boy smiled at me happy to hear that, I grabbed a basket that was to the side and placed some apples in there.
"Our we having apple's for lunch again?" He asked, I nodded my head as he smiled brightly at me.
"Here let me help" he said grabbing the basket from me as we walked to the kitchen, on the way I got to curious and asked about his life.
"Hmm, not much to say. My mother looked after me taught me how to pick pocket, showed me how to live on the streets. She passed away shortly afterwards, one day I pick pocket Hongjoong hyung. Instead of cutting my hands off he asked if I wanted to come aboard his ship as a crew member" he said I nodded as we got to the kitchen.
Opening the door for him Jongho walked in first seeing Yunho busying himself with cooking as Jongho placed the basket down on the table.
"I could teach you, you know. How to pick pocket, if you want" he said smiling, I thought about it for a few moments, it could be useful.
"Sure why not, sounds fun!" I said laughing we both laughed together as Yunho shook his head at us, Hongjoong then came in to the room a smirk on his face.
"What happened to 'I don't steal'?" He asked me, I blushed looking down as Hongjoong laughed patting me on my shoulder.
"We've corrupted you already have we?" Seonghwa asked chuckling to himself as he walked in with Yeosang, who smiled at me.
"Well she is a part of the crew now, she needs to learn somethings about being a pirate" Yeosang said shrugging, the others nodded agreeing.
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I was standing on deck with Jongho as he taught me how to pick pocket, I had successfully pick pocket a ring from Wooyoung who still hasn't noticed.
"Yn, here" Hongjoong said walking up to us as he passed me a sword, I grabbed it looking at it then at Hongjoong wondering why he gave it to me.
"You need to learn how to protect yourself if we get in to a fight" he said Jongho who stood next to me walked off to the side as he watched us.
"Uh can't I carry on hiding with San?" I asked noticing San behind Hongjoong who smiled when I asked that, Mingi shortly join us as well.
"You will but you need to learn, Mingi will teach you, San will watch to make sure you don't die in the process" Hongjoong said as he nodded to Mingi then San as he walked off.
"Die?" I asked looking over at Mingi then to San, I was terrified, they both started to laugh as Yeosang walked up to me.
"Don't worry Mingi won't hurt you" Yeosang said as he rubbed my shoulder, I nodded taking breath as Mingi showed me how to hold a sword probably.
After a few hours I was able to get the basic down, the boy's all cheered me on, wanting to see Mingi fail, after a few more rounds I was finally able to pin Mingi with the sword.
"See I knew you could do it" Yeosang said as the guy's clapped Mingi pouted once he lost but then laughed as he patted me on the back telling me well done.
"Land head!" Wooyoung yelled as we all turned around seeing the huge island that was getting bigger the closer we got, tuns of ship docked, as the island was crowded.
"Yn, Welcome to Tortuga" San said walking up behind me, Mingi next to me as he smiled with excitement, Jongho watched rubbing his hands together, probably thinking about stealing. The whole island looked colourful as I watched in amazement.
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Idol!Taehyung x Reader
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⤷ Genre: angst,fluff,humour
⤷Idol!Taehyung x Reader
⤷Summary: (Y/n) thought she could make it without having the world’s most favourite boy by her side even though she can call him officially hers. This wavy relationship always had its ups and downs.
Part 1, Part 2
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Being in a relationship with an idol was never easy and the whole world knows that obviously.(y/n) is anxious and terrified every time he takes her out for a date but with the paparazzis have their eyes on everywhere is harder than taking an entrance examination.In result she never got the relationship she always wanted- hold hands in public, taking on vacations together just the simple domestic lives,really. But all they can do now is just contacting through text messages, sees each other through video calls.
It was selfish of her of course to ever think of ending the relationship but she loves him too much to do it however her heart is aching so bad. This issue is always the major problem of their heated arguments,their endless fights until one day it happen again in unfortunate way.
"Be my girlfriend."
Ha?
(Y/n) almost choked on the milk tea she is having for a short break.She looks up to see Yuta staring right into her eyes with a smile but serious gaze along with it. She gulps the liquid whilst wiping her lips,
"What?" Was all she managed to choked,
"Be my girlfriend,you know i like you since months ago." The Japanese bluntly pointed out.
"Very funny,Yuta." She tries to brush it off,averting his gaze trying to play it cool.
"I'm serious,(y/n)" He leans in, propping his folded arms onto the table
"I mean-you're beautiful,funny and talented hells,you're a girl every guys wanted,this is my chance,isn't it?"
Her cheeks heated up,clearing her throat, "Thanks Yuta but you know—i uhm..."
I already have a boyfriend
With his eyes staring intently at her waiting impatiently for the answer, she grew even more nervous,she have to look for an excuse!
"I'm not really..in the time to look for a relationship right now you see.."
"Hmm.." The male nod in understanding with a hum, "If you feel like one,give me a call,yeah?" He teased but meant it at the same time causing her to burst out into laughter
"In your dreams,Nakamoto."
"It's fine to dream then if there is you in it," He shrugs, "The guys next door are going out tonight and asked me whether you wanted to join us."
"You mean Lucas and Johnny?" She blinks at the sudden change of topic but thanking God too.
He nodded once more, "Yep, Taeyong and the others will be there too."
"Uhh," Her mind began to think,will he permit her to do so? I mean it is just a harmless outing with the gangs and her close friends.
"I'll think about it."
"Alright,give me a call whenever you changed your mind okay?"
"I will,thanks Yuta!"
That night again it was only a phone call she receives from her boyfriend,the only thing that hinders her from going out with her friends was just to wait calls from him.
"How are you today?" Was the same questions all over again ever since they were apart.
"Same old same old, are you still busy?"
"Well,our comeback's just a month ago so yeah,pretty much.”
Why doesn't he sounded sorry at all? a pain ache inside her heart
"The crews and Bang PD-nim wants to get a small dine out together tomorrow night to celebrate the awards yesterday."
"A dine out?" Her ears perks up.
"Yeah,probably just another drinking night."
"Uhm," She bit her lower lip hesitantly, "Is it possible for you to take the day off then?"
"What?"
"You know—we can celebrate it just the two of us..?"
She heard him hums in thinking, "I don't know.."
Her heart sinks, "Is it a must to go though?"
"Of course it does,(y/n)" He chuckles, "It's the boys' and the crews' hard work so it's duly for us to celebrate all together."
"What about me? I supported you guys from behind too,no?" She found herself frowning,her forehead wrinkled in slow anger.
"Yes,absolutely,but i can't-"
"It's been  three months,Taehyung. Three." She sighs heavily.
The other line was quiet for a moment, "I know,baby..just hang on a bit more,m'kay?"
"Until how long Taehyung-ah?" She runs her fingers through her hair locks
"Soon,i promise."
If he doesn't have time for her now,then was it fine for her to go out too with her friends? Supposedly it will be the same too as him isn't it? Not that she is thinking this is a revenge but the fact that her boyfriend is a global superstar  stops her from doing her free activities with her friends just to wait for him for at times he is asking for an impromptu dates. But now that she knows his plans for the next few days ahead, there must be no mistake in going out for a drink at night
"I was thinking to go out tonight with my friends."
"Oh? Who?"
"Erm.."
Okay,she have to think fast!
"Jisoo and the girls from next door,probably some guys too."
"And where to?"
"I don't know,she said probably the Viking bar or Fox's she said."
The other line went quiet again and she anticipated what's to come from him next,
"Taehyung?"
"Do you have to go though?"
Instinctively she almost scoffed,
"I'm not asking for permission,Taehyung. I am contemplating with myself."
"You're a girl—you shouldn't got home so late at night."
"News flash Mister,there's this thing called taxi." She huffs.
"And what about the guys? Are you sure it's safe to drink with them?"
"Of course,they're the one who will probably takes care of us,girls instead."
"Somehow i don't trust them."
"Oh my God,are you even listening to yourself? You just said you will be out drinking too tomorrow night!"
"With the boys!"
"And so am i! I'll do whatever i want!" She admits she sounded like a little child but the fact he forbids her from going out with her friends is just ridiculous. She hangs up the phone even before he could utter another words.
She is fuming and she uses that chance to determine getting full make up on and even the bestest outfit to be out and about on weekend night.The music blaring throughout the whole dim room, flashes of rainbow lights swept across the air, the dance floor are crowded so there is no way in hell she would squeeze herself in when she can just grab drinks by the bars.
Yuta,true to his words did bring the whole crew of his friends probably not knowing she have a boyfriend either tries to be a wingman or he flirted with her himself.The girls hit the dance floor leaving (y/n) alone with alcohol drinks in her hand, chatting with the guys especially Taeyong and another one of his pal named Jaehyun. It is so obvious they tries to get under her sleeves, their rag couldn't be more clearer than a day.
"How can a girl like you still single?"
"How can a girl like you still a virgin?"
Taeyong shot a glare towards Lucas, "Be more rude why don't you?"
She laughs, "Why not? I'm saving myself for the best."
"That's fucking tempting." Hummed Yuta beside her, wrapping an arm over her waist but only for (y/n) to slap his hands away,
"Hands off,Nakamoto."
"Oooh rejected bro!" cooed Mark from the other side,.
"It was hard to believe though,she must be lying. Who's the man?" Jaehyun interjected, and she faked a gasp,
"You don't believe me?"
"Well-you're the senior we all look up to. Hells how many guys were drooling over you in our class. All they talk about how Senior (y/f/n) passes by the hallways and all went nuts."
Well, the confidence that she have the looks does have it in her but she never expresses it outwardly. That is one of the reason why Kim Taehyung caught his eyes on her on the first sight;sure he said pretty face doesn't matter but she is having them just in case.
"That's sweet, but don't get your hopes up. As you said,i might already have a boyfriend." She smirks and some of the guys lets out a dejected howl, at this point she is on the brink of her drunkenness, the vodka comes repeatedly with the whiskey and cocktails as she lost track of time with the guys.
Her head feels too heavy eventually, the drowsiness slowly overcome her body and sight, everything starts to spin in her eyes as she let her body swayed to the side to rest her head on someone's shoulder,
"You okay?" Ask the person,and she nodded with eyes closed,
"Yeah, i'm fine Taeyong.Just tipsy." That's a lie. Most part of her chooses to drown herself in alcohols was too ignore the aching feeling she have encroaches inside her heart; how sad she is when she could be spending time with her boyfriend now but he is too buys entertaining the world.
Is she making the right decision? Will this relationship last? Will he love her forever when he got all the loves from the fans countless more?
"(Y/n)," Called Taeyong, draping an arm over her back to let her fall on his chest comfortably,
"You can't be this adorable when you rejected everyone of us." She heard him sigh.
"Ouw-hey! What the hell man!?"
But his sudden outburst causes (y/n) to frown, pulling herself up to a straight sitting position and forcing both her heavy eyelids up to see what is all the commotion about. Through her half-lidded eyes, she saw a man stand right before her, trailing her sight up to see the very familiar young man ,glaring at the latter beside her. The others already stood on their horses, ready to defend their friend.
"Get your hands off my girlfriend." He growls, releasing the threatening grip on Taeyong's wrist before shoving him away.
"Who the fuck are you?" Yuta and Mark stood up defensively, their fists forms on each of their sides.
He ignores them,dropping to his knee to level the same face as her,
"I'm taking you home." He said and (y/n) frowns with a pout, trying to study the familiarity of his face,
"Excuse me sir, you look very alike with someone i know but...i couldn't quite put my finger on it." She slurred between her hiccups.
He heave out a heavy sigh, "This is why i never let you have a friends drinking night out." He grab her elbow, trying to pull her up from the couch, "Get up, we're going home."
"No!" She childishly retort, "I am waiting for my scotch!"
"You are having none,get up i said." 
She threw tantrums then, "Well,fine! I am waiting for Kim Taehyung! So bugger off,mister!" She crosses her arms across her chest with a 'hmph!'.
The male curses underneath his breath, and when that name was heard out loud and clear enough for the others,they starting to recognises him even through the dim light of this clubbing.
"Holy shit," Johnny was the first one to gasp, "He is Kim Taehyung."
"What?"
"Impossible! As in from BTS group!?"
"Dude,look at him! In front of our own naked eyes!" 
"Why..is he here though?"
"I'm here to get my girlfriend,mind to help moving her arse?"
"But, (y/n) told us she doesn't have a boyfriend." Yuta pipes in,still reeling from the shock.
"Yeah," He sighs this time, his gaze softens at her face, "I told her to."
Everyone then went silent, only took them a couple of seconds to understand the complicated situations between them.
"(Y/n)," Taehyung call her name again, she looks up sleepily, a grin then broke through her expression,
"Oh my! If it isn't Kim Taehyung! Ooooooh i must be dreaming~" She sang, poking her fingers on his shoulder.
"Alright, night's over." He hoist the drunk female up and threw her over his shoulder,
"I'm flying wheeeeeee~!" 
"She is so wasted alright." Jaehyun mutters.
"I trust you guys could keep your words here unless you want your senior's life to be doomed." He darts his eyes around, each sending them a piercing glance as an indirect threats.
"Good." With that he left.
He lie her down on the back of the passengers' seats before then drove back to the apartment they are sharing.
"The elephant's moving so fast.." He heard her mumbling at the back,
"It's flying." Which he respond nonchalantly with a flat tone.
"Like me?"
"Yeah,like you."
She burst into a fit of giggles, "I can fly! Does that mean i can fly to see my boyfriend,mister?"
Taehyung's heart drop as her giggling subsided gradually, once in a while his eyes taking glimpses of her form at the back through the rear mirror,
"I can finally see my Tae then~! Do you think he will be happy to see me?"
He didn't answer,
"But he doesn't look happy whenever i visited him," She pouted before adding more complaints, "My boyfriend is toooooo handsome so it is no surprise the whole world loves him." She giggles again through her hiccups,
"He is always away so i rarely see him,the last time we had sex was 6 months ago!" That almost made Taehyung choked on his own spit.
"I miss him so muuuuch.." She sang nonchalantly, "Hey,mister. Can you drive me to Japan? Ah,wait never miiiind.... he will hate me if i show up unannounced again.."
Why is she making these assumption herself?
"I just—" He then heard her sniffling, a drastic change, "I just wanna see him...is that bad,mister?"
"(Y/n).." he softly calls her.
"Hey..." She toss around at the back, acting strange, "I don't feel so good..."
"What—OH MY GOD, (Y/F/N)!"
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He couldn't help but to mutter curses underneath his breath as he cleans the car's jock, wearing his black mask to avoid the smell wafted into his nostrils which made him almost vomiting too. He can't believe she would be throwing her last lunch out from her stomach right at the wrong timing and place!
After he was done, he made his way up to the apartment and into the room to find the female tossing on the bed with groans escaping from her lips,
"It's too hot.." She complaints, few buttons of her pyjamas where Taehyung had wiped and changed her into came off,probably pulling on them.
He sigh, "Don't take it off,you'll catch a cold."
"Hoooot~" She whines as he catches both her hands to pull her down and lay on the soft mattress beside him.
"Is it just me or the sun is looking at me?"
"Get some sleep,baby." He pull her close, securing an arm over her hips and back, his thumb caresses its length on her skin.
"Hmm.." She hums, when she bury herself onto his chest seeking for his warmth and comfort he finally relaxes. The next thing he knew was the soft snore from the girl.
He stare down at her profile, her eyelash casts shadows over her pale cheeks and he couldn't help but to run his thumb over the soft skin of hers.
"I'm sorry," He apologizes though he is sure she is sound asleep, "I thought by hiding our relationship is the best way to have it between us but..i didn't knew this'd hurt you."
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