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pepprs · 2 years
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i don’t know how to explain that since march 2020 with each new horrible thing happening in the world i shrink further and further into myself and away from connection and hope
#i told that friend i would call them today but then i woke up 6 minutes after roe v wade got overturned. and i can’t call that friend. i#can’t even tell them why. i can’t even talk to my family or even look at them. i can’t even stand on my feet for too long or get anything#done. i can’t reply to any texts or act on any urgent emails. i can’t draw or play piano or do anything to destract myself. all i can do is#scroll and read and be very very still and very very quiet. i don’t even have the energy to cry#in December and February and may i had spells lasting days at a time of being unable to function because such horrible things were happening#all at once and i just couldn’t process it anymore. and it’s gonna happen over and over again more and more frequently and there truly is#nothing i can do to stop it without getting the energy back but every time i think im almost there something happens and i crash back down#all over again. really and truly preparing to leave for brighton was the beginning of the end for me and i don’t know if i will ever get#back to how hopeful and connected and whatever i felt. and living in lockdown all over again doesn’t help but i don’t have the strength to c#change that either. im just tired and everyone is walking all around me right now as i type this and im bristling and want to scream#purrs#delete later#not that i was at all like entirely hopeful or whatever and certainly not that things were good pre covid. but something happened when covid#happened and ever since it’s been like. relentless misery. strings of sad days. no end in sight#i think the best and most helpful things i could do wrt this specific issue are a) open my home to people#seeking abortions who can’t get them in their state / provide travel / resources for them to come here (i can contribute to travel funds#financially but need to learn to drive and find a place to live before i can offer space and transportation resources) and b) keep talking a#about reproductive rights / trying to educate ppl who are skeptical etc etc as someone who would not exist without them. and also c) keep#trying to build collective power and learn to become a better community organizer and open people up to the possibilities that arise when we#recognize ourselves as co-creators of our future and understand that the future is not fixed (which i think aoc said or something and i watc#watched smth on that last night that i think she was part of and it was encouraging to me). so i will try to focus on those things. but this#just has my head spinning so badly. i feel so unmoored. and it’s my job to be a beacon of hope but i feel utterly hopeless
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elcvatedhorror · 8 months
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“ Got the girl „
part 2 of “ La Seine and I „
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|Summary: Wednesday confesses her feelings for you. Turns out you did get the girl after all.
|Warnings: Wednesday taking a shot at actually expressing her feelings, sum fluff. a little angst only a bit.
|AN: Thanks for all the support on the last one!! It really means a lot.
|Heres Part 1!
Weeks had gone by. You still felt heartless. Heartbroken maybe. You tried to push past your feelings but it was no use. Everything reminded you of her.
She had tried to get your attention numerous times. Even if they were horrible poor attempts.
As much as you wanted to talk to her, you couldn’t even bring yourself to do anything.
So here you were now, in bed, staring at the ceiling. Thinking. Thinking about whether you were good enough for anybody, not just her, but whether anyone even saw you in a loving way.
Wednesday wasn’t your first crush, but she was sure the first one that batted an eye at you.
And you were stupid for even thinking you had a chance.
But it didn’t matter anymore. Not to her anyway. She’s gonna get on with her life, and you’d just be stuck with your stupid thoughts.
Shit.
You took a deep breath, and rolled your eyes.
You needed to get up.
Just suck it up and move on. That’s all.
Maybe you’d find someone better.
Hopefully.
Thankfully it was a Saturday so you didn’t have classes. Which meant you could go for a walk. Just you and your thoughts.
You groggily slipped on some sweats and a pull-over, and headed out of the door, slipping in your earphones in the process, putting some music on, and went about your way.
But you didn’t notice a certain raven-haired girl slowly trailing behind you.
“Thing. Stop. I know what I did was wrong, but it wasn’t my intention.” Wednesday said, looking at you walk away just a tad bit further so she could follow you some more.
She hadn’t meant for Tyler to kiss her. She didn’t even want to kiss him.
At all.
She loved liked you. Not him. He followed her there, and kissed her. She didn’t want that to happen.
Right after the kiss happened, she scolded him and he never talked to her again.
But she lost you. And she needed you back. So now, she was going to try.
Eventually she caught up to you.
For the first time ever she was hesitant to do something, but this was needed.
“Y/N!” She called out, hoping for you to stop.
You looked up, eyes widening. You turned around to see Wednesday standing there.
“Wednesday.” You said, in shock. “Were… were you following me?”
“I wanted to apologize.” She interrupted. “For what happened at the Weathervane. It wasn’t my intention to kiss Tyler, I swear. He kissed me, and-“
She paused.
She realized she was rambling. God, she never rambles she usually knows what to say and when.
“It’s okay.” You smiled. “It’s okay. I just - “
“Thank you for bow, and flowers by the way. They were lovely.” She interrupted you again.
“Y/N?” She questioned.
“Yeah?” You sighed. You were expecting something bad to come out of her mouth afterwards, but…
“I like you.” Wednesday said. “And not just, in a platonic way.. in a.. romantic way. I was definitely looking forward the date before Tyler ruined it, please believe me. I-“
You smiled, stepped forward, cupped her cheeks, and kissed her.
When you pulled away you could’ve sworn you saw some color come back into her life.
“If you do that again i’ll make sure there’s stitches on your lips.” She stammered. “But. I suppose you could.. maybe do that again.” She said afterwards.
You smiled and leaned in once more.
You finally got the girl.
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waterhousse · 11 months
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That Funny Feeling
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Pairing: bestfriend!ellie williams x reader
Summary: you slowly start to realize you’ve fallen in love with your best friend.
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“are you done?” you groaned, tired. the girl in front of you gazed up at you, eyes wide and eyewbrows up.
“does it look like i’m done?” ellie gestured at herself. you almost laugh at how sassy she looked.
“i’ve been posing for an eternity.”
“it’s been like ten minutes!”
“well, i can’t feel my ass anymore.”
“i’m sure it’s still there,” she said without even looking at you.
after a few moments of silence, you spoke up again, “you’re gonna have to pay me for this.”
ellie looked up from her sketchbook, completely offended. “is my art not enough payment?”
“i can’t buy shit with your art,” you deadpanned.
you had been so quick with your reply that an inevitable chuckle escaped your friend’s lips. “fuck you,” she laughed and you found yourself wanting to come up with an infinite amount of jokes just to hear that sound again. “hold still or i’m gonna have to start over.”
your eyes stayed on her as she went back to her job, unable to look anywhere else. you had always enjoyed watching her draw, founding it soothing. it also allowed you to study her and notice quirks only you could know about; the way she slightly frowned during the whole process due to the concentration and the countless huffs she let out, especially when she had to restart after a mistake. your favorite one, though, was when she sung. ellie’s voice was sweet, you had told her that many times, so you loved being able to hear it. she didn’t even notice she did it, the melodies just came out without warning.
“aaand, done.”
you jumped out of the big rock you had been sitting on for the past fifteen minutes and ran to her side, trying to catch a glimpse of her drawing, but she closed the sketchbook on your nose.
“hey, let me see.”
“it’s not ready yet,” she started gathering her supplies. you rolled your eyes at her. “stop that,” she muttered.
“what— i haven’t even said anything!”
“i know you rolled your eyes at me,” ellie said as she looked for something inside her backpack. you scoffed, but it actually warmed your heart how well she knew you. “c’mon, let’s go to my place. it’s getting late.”
you were currently behind the town’s barn, ellie had chosen that spot because, apparently, the moonlight hit your face just right. it was cold as hell that night, but being the supportive friend that you were, you decided to respect ellie’s struck of inspiration.
“i’ll show you the drawing when it’s finished, by the way,” she spoke up once you caught up with her.
“kay, well, finish it quick or else i won’t pose for you anymore.”
“fine, i’ll ask stella.”
you dramatically gasped at the mention of her. stella was relatively new in Jackson and the only person in the world you truly despised.
“don’t even joke about that.”
the fact that you hated someone that much was hilarious to her. it didn’t match your personality at all. you were the calmest, sweetest person she had ever met. besides, no one really knew why you hated her so much. even you, which was ridiculous. for some reason, everything that girl did or said annoyed you. you couldn’t stand her, feeling there was something off about her, but couldn’t exactly pinpoint what it was.
“i’m sorry, i’m sorry,” she placed an arm around your shoulder, bringing you closer to her. you tried to ignore how fast your heartbeat had gotten. that seemed to be happening a lot lately around her. “but hey, you gotta admit she’s not that bad.”
your heart dropped, “you’ve talked to her?”
“what? no. i just think she’s hot.”
you crossed your arms as you hummed in response, suddenly feeling very sick. there was a sharp pang in the pit of your stomach, so you spent the entire walk quiet, only answering to ellie’s babbling with monosyllables. your friend had noticed, so once you arrived at her place she grabbed you by the arm, making you turn around.
“hey, you, uh, you okay? i was kidding about stella. she’s not— i’m not interested in her, y’know?” ellie was nervous, but you were too busy staring at the hand that was stopping you from walking away and how your skin tingled beneath it.
“it’s fine,” you gave her a small smile, eyes back on her. “but i think i’m about to come up with a fever or something, i feel a little weird.”
ellie stepped closer, letting go of your arm and placing her hand on your forehead. “yeah, i think you’re hot.”
you let out a chuckle, “thanks, i’m glad you’re finally admitting it.”
your friend rolled her eyes before opening the door for you. she stood by the doorframe, waiting for you to go inside, but you hesitated.
“i think it’s best for me to go home—”
“what? no, shut up. i’m gonna head over to joel’s to see if he has some painkillers or something, you stay here,” she said as she softly pushed you inside her house. you opened your mouth as you turned around, ready to protest, but the sound of the door closing stopped you. letting out a sigh, you looked around to finally set your eyes on the couch, where you decided to wait for ellie as you tried to ignore whatever you were feeling.
you swept your gaze over the place, warmth spreading over your heart as you spotted little details that screamed ellie; a bunch of savage starlight comics, her guitar perfectly set next to the window, art supplies, books about astronomy and many, many drawings that were either on the walls or just laying on top of the furniture.
you spotted one of her many sketchbooks laying on the floor by her bed, so you went to pick it up and put it on her nightstand, next to the lamp.
after a while, you heard the sound of jiggling keys followed by ellie’s characteristic cursing. you got up from the couch and went to open the door for her since she was clearly struggling. ellie’s frown disappeared once she laid her eyes on you.
“you okay?” you asked, amused.
“this fucking door, i swear to god—” she mumbled as she stepped inside. “look! joel made you soup. i swear he likes you more than he likes me.”
you chuckled at the last part, “i mean, can you blame him?” you joked. there was no way he liked anyone more than ellie, but that didn’t change the fact that you felt incredibly loved and protected by him, too.
ellie gazed at you, a small smile hiding on her lips, “yeah, i supposed i can’t,” she almost whispered. “c’mon, get into bed,” she ordered.
“jeez, ellie. buy me a drink first, at least,” you said, missing ellie’s flustered state. it only lasted a second, though, because her usual smug smirk was already forming on her lips.
“oh, you wish,” she teased back.
maybe it was what she said, maybe it was the way she said it, but your stomach flipped at her words. it was such an unexpected reaction that it made you froze in your spot, completely startled.
“you’re gonna get in bed or…?” ellie’s voice snapped you out of your thoughts, she was holding up the covers for you.
“i can go to my house, you know. i don’t wanna be any trouble—” you said as you sat down on the bed. your friend pointed at your shoes and gestured for you to take them off.
“shut up and just let me take care of you, would you?” ellie carefully placed the soup on the nightstand. she went around the bed and sat on the other side just as you wiggled under the covers. she looked down at you, slightly leaning down, “you’re so stubborn,” she murmured as she passed you the soup.
you frowned, offended, “look who’s talking,” you bickered as you glanced up, but you weren’t prepared to see her so close. your eyes met hers, forcing you to avert your gaze elsewhere. you felt her stare still on you, making you malfunction. maybe that was the reason you took a sip of the soup without even considering how hot it would be. ellie laughed shamelessly at you when you burned your tongue. “shit!” you shrieked.
“i’m not saying you deserved it, but…” ellie teased. you would’ve pushed her off the bed if you hadn’t had a flaming hot bowl of soup in your hands, instead, you silently watched her take off her converse. she looked back at you, “move over, i’m cold.”
your breath hitched on your throat at the request, but did as she said. you kept your attention on the bowl of soup that warmed your cold hands, not feeling brave enough to make eye contact with the girl next to you.
“how’s the soup?”
“oh, it’s great. joel’s the best. remind me to thank him tomorrow.” you smiled. “want some?”
“nah, thanks. i don’t like soup.”
“what do you mean you don’t like soup?”
“i just don’t.”
“what’s not to like? it’s yummy.”
“i’m gonna ignore the fact that you just said yummy. and i don’t know! i just don’t like it.”
“weirdo. you’re missing out.”
“okay, soup’s best defender, whatever you say,” she muttered as she closed her eyes. you bit the inside of your cheek as you allowed yourself to scan her face, stopping on the freckles you had complimented so many times.
you looked away, leaving the bowl of soup on the nightstand of your side. the sound made ellie open her eyes.
“you’re gonna sleep?” she asked, her eyes were even more hypnotizing up close.
you nodded, suddenly losing the hability to speak.
“me too,” ellie said before yawning.
“hold on. you’re gonna sleep in jeans, you freak?”
ellie let out an exaggerated groan, “i don’t have the energy to get up and change. it’s too much work.”
“don’t be lazy, c’mon. i’m gonna change, too.” you began to softly push her off the bed, which eventually worked. she walked to her closet and threw you a big white t-shirt, it was the same one you always wore when you slept over.
you averted your gaze from ellie once she started to take her pants off, but it strangely took a lot of strength for you to do so. you shook your head and climbed up to bed, shortly followed by your friend.
“there, happy?”
“very.”
“great. oh, and try not to kick me so fucking much this time or i’m gonna have to fight back,” she muttered with amusement.
you let out a chuckle, “i’ll do my best,” you whispered before everything fell quiet.
you didn’t know exactly how much time had passed since ellie turned off the light, but you were sure it was a while. still as a statue, you layed next to her while staring at the ceiling, trying to make sense of how you were feeling. eyes wide, stomach in a knot and heart fluttering as if it were a butterfly.
you realized you had fallen asleep once you opened your eyes and daylight touched almost every corner of the room. you blinked a few times before you fully adjusted to the light, that’s when you noticed ellie’s closeness. she was almost on top of you, breathing into the crook of your neck. it wasn’t the first time you had woken up like that with her, but it was the first time you felt different.
“ellie,” you whispered. she whined in response, mumbling something inaudible. you felt your heartbeat race when she nuzzled further into your neck, feeling her lips touch your skin. you squeezed your eyes shut, noticing the unknown feelings from the day before were still present. “hey, ellie. c’mon. it’s almost eight,” you pronounced softly, but ellie ignored you. “i’ve got somewhere to be, y’know.”
“where?” she asked almost immediately.
“i told dina i’d have breakfast with her. i would’ve invited you, but i know you’re not a morning person, so…”
she complained once again, but eventually came out of her hiding. you almost laughed at her expression.
“were you born with that frown?” you placed your fingers in between her eyebrows, making her smoothen the lines.
“shut up,” she laughed softly. “and i could be a morning person, you know.”
“so you’re coming with me?”
“no, i wanna sleep.”
you laughed and got up, ellie’s eyes following you on your way to the bathroom until you closed the door. you stared at yourself in the mirror, suddenly feeling embarrassed because of the way your hair looked. ellie had seen you like that a million times before, but that time you actually cared about looking at least presentable for her.
with a sigh, you grabbed the toothbrush you had left once and started brushing your teeth. everything felt strange, but you tried to act as normal as possible.
after washing your face and brushing your hair, you changed into your clothes. you took a deep breath before getting out of the bathroom, trying to calm down the sudden nerves that attacked you, but the sight that welcomed you once you opened the door didn’t help at all; ellie’s bare legs were crossed on top of the bed, she had tied her hair into her usual half-bun and a few strands fell over her face as she drew on her sketchbook.
“i thought you wanted to sleep,” you commented, picking up your jacket from the floor.
“just wanted to add some finishing touches to yesterday’s drawing,” her voice sounded even raspier when she was sleepy. “oh, and i forgot to give you that jacket you asked me for the other day,” she said as she got out of bed and quickly walked to her closet, leaving the sketchbook on top of her nightstand.
“trade?” you held up your jacket, making her grin. she grabbed it from you and gave you hers, which you immediately put on.
“you look great,” ellie complimented you, a faint blush spreading over her cheeks.
“thank you,” you smiled, your voice sounding incredibly weak. “and thank you for taking care of me. i—” love you, you almost said, but for some reason, those last two words died in your throat. it was weird. even though you always said it to her, that time that phrase seemed to carry a heavier, still unknown, meaning. “i gotta go.”
you turned around to leave, but ellie called your name. you looked back at her and watched her grab her sketchbook from the nightstand. “here,” she handed it to you. just as you were about to open it, she stopped you. “wait! look at it later. i don’t wanna see your disappointment if you don’t like it.”
“don’t be silly, you could never disappoint me,” you sincerely replied. “but okay, i’ll see it when i’m home.”
“have fun with dina. not too much fun, though. you’re not allowed to enjoy life to the fullest if i’m not there.”
“i promise i won’t. see you later,” your eyes met hers one last time before closing the door.
when you arrived at your house, you saw dina already waiting for you. once she spotted you, she started frenetically waving at you. a laugh escaped your lips as you copied her action. yeah, two people with that much energy at 8 am would be a lot for ellie to handle.
“finally! i’ve knocking on your door for the past 10 minutes. i thought you were dead,” was the first thing she said to you as she gave you hug.
“sorry, i slept over at ellie’s.”
dina let out a chuckle, “of course you did.”
“what’s that supposed to mean?” you furrowed your eyebrows.
“you two are always together, i should’ve known. that’s all,” dina shrugged her shoulders. she decided not to comment on the fact that you were wearing ellie’s favorite jacket.
you opened the door and stepped aside, inviting her in. you followed her to the kitchen, where you put water to boil.
“oh, i saw your friend on my way here,” dina commented as she took out two mugs from your hand-painted cupboard. ellie had participated in the process too, drawing different kind of flowers.
“my friend? who?”
“stella,” she amusedly pronounced. you inevitably rolled your eyes, making her laugh. “you still hate her?”
“yes! ellie brought her up yesterday and i almost threw up, i’m not kidding. i don’t even know why i hate her so much, i’ve never even talked to her,” you sat down at the kitchen island while dina stood on the other side of it.
“uh, yes you have,” your friend frowned, confused. “you seriously don’t remember? jesse’s party a few weeks ago, it was the night after she arrived to town.”
you tried your best to remember, but nothing came to your mind. you remembered the party, but not stella. your lost expression must’ve been enough for dina to know that you actually had no idea what she was talking about.
“woah, so you were more fucked up than i thought you were,” she muttered more to herself than to you. “okay, so, jesse invited her because she was new and all that. you had a lot to drink, apparently, so you were already drunk when you approached her. you introduced ourselves and asked her if she had met anyone else besides jesse and us and she said she hadn’t, but that she had seen a girl she was interested in and she was planning on finding her. when she started describing her, we realized she was talking about—”
“ellie. she was talking about ellie,” you replied, eyes wide. the memories came flooding back, making you freeze for a second. “oh my god.”
“you totally snapped at her and told her not to go anywhere near her or you’d scratch her eyes off,” she laughed, but you were completely horrified. “yeah, you get pretty violent when you drink. in my opinion, it’s hilarious.”
“i remember the way she ran away after i said that,” you cover your mouth in disbelief.
the more you processed the forgotten information, the more you worried. that uncontrollable hatred you felt towards stella was because of jealousy over your best friend?
“i mean, i support you. you gotta defend what’s yours,” dina cheered, but her smile disappeared once she noticed your expression. “hey, you okay?”
“i shouldn’t have done that. i had no right—”
“hey, it’s okay. i’m sure ellie wouldn’t have been interested in her anyway.”
“she told me she thinks stella’s hot yesterday,” you muttered, eyes set on your own fidgeting hands.
dina stayed quiet for a bit, but you could still feel her staring at you.
“what’s that?” she pointed to the sketchbook next to you.
“oh, it’s ellie’s. she drew me yesterday and gave it to me so i could see it,” you couldn’t help but smile. you watched dina take it and look at the pages with a blank expression.
“have you seen this?”
“not yet, why? is it good?”
“well, yeah, they’re good. there’s a lot of them.”
confused, you reached over to grab the book from her hands. your eyes widened at the content. you felt your heartbeat increase by the second and a deep blush color your cheeks as you rummaged through the pages. you were on each and every one of them; smiling, laughing, dancing, sleeping and more. you recognized some of them, since you remembered posing that way, but the majority of them were ellie’s invention. you were left speechless at how well she had managed to capture you, down to the smallest detail.
“she may think stella’s hot, but i can assure you she thinks you’re the most beautiful girl to ever walk the earth. i mean, look at those. you’re her muse,” dina smiled sweetly at you.
“i have to talk to her,” you whispered before standing up. “i don’t wanna leave you alone, but—”
“it’s okay, dummy. i’ll be here, drinking my tea and waiting for you to come back and to tell me everything. take your time, though.”
with dina wishing you good luck, you left with the sketchbook in hand and ran to her place without even thinking twice about it. you ignored how dizzy you felt and the way your heart was beating at an abnormal speed. nothing else mattered, because everything suddenly seemed crystal clear.
your heart skipped a beat once you arrived at ellie’s place and saw her sitting on joel’s stairs, staring down at something in her hands. she looked up when she heard you approach.
“ellie—”
“i gave you the wrong sketchbook,” she whispered, staring at the object in your hands. you frowned, stepping closer to her. “you weren’t supposed to see that. i’m— shit, i’m sorry.”
“what? ellie, no. i loved it.”
“listen, you don’t have to lie. i know it’s really fucking weird and pathetic—”
“you wanna hear something really weird and pathetic? i scared the shit out of a girl just because she told me she was interested in you. you wanna hear the funniest part? that girl was stella. i drunkenly told her to stay away from you or else i would scratch her eyes out.”
ellie’s eyes widened, mouth slightly agape. worry had started spreading through your body. “what?”
“i forgot about that whole interaction but the anger i felt in that moment stuck with me to the point i hated a girl without even knowing why,” you let out an awkward chuckle. “i… i hated her because she thought about you the way only i can think about you.”
everything became a little too real since the moment those words left your lips, and even though a weight had been lifted from your shoulders once you made that confession, it was soon replaced with the weight of the question ‘what will happen next?’
ellie’s gaze softened, going from confusion to something indecipherable. was it pity or was it what you hoped for?
suddenly, she stood up. you watched her as she walked painfully slow at you, torturing you. once she was only inches away from you, she smiled. with a hand placed on your waist and the other on the side of your face, she finally leaned in and captured your lips in an agonizing, yet perfect, slow kiss. you melted into her touch, feeling as if you were about to explode of happiness.
it was what you had hoped for.
“i can’t believe this is actually happening,” ellie murmured, lips touching yours. she leaned back a little, allowing herself to look at you. her eyes expressed so much love you couldn’t understand how you went so long without realizing that.
“you’re blushing,” you commented, eyes sparkling.
“oh my g— why would you point that out?” ellie complained, but she wasn’t mad. “you’re blushing too, by the way.”
“shut up.”
you silently stared at each other with shy smiles. ellie caressed your face with her thumb and softly pressed her lips on yours, giving you one small kiss. everything felt so intimate that you had forgotten about the rest of the world, completely unaware of the fact that you were on the street.
“i was so fucking scared when i realized i gave you the wrong sketchbook. i thought i’d messed everything up,” ellie whispered, her eyebrows furrowing a little. “i’ve dealt with loss in the past, and even though it hurt like hell, i got over it. or at least i’ve been able to live with it, but losing you? There’s no way i’d make it.”
your heart fully stopped at her sweet words, “you’ll never lose me.”
“good,” she smiled. “y’know, i told myself to draw you whenever you were on my mind, just so i could do something with what i was feeling. turns out that i’m never not thinking about you.”
not knowing how to reply to that, you launched yourself forward, crashing your lips with hers. you could feel her laughing, making you giggle too.
“i was so nervous on my way here. i wasn’t sure if you felt the same way,” you let out a small laugh, lips a little swollen.
“what? the sketchbook didn’t make that clear?”
“well, i didn’t want to jump to conclusions. i could be another stella, you know, just some girl you find hot,” you bitterly said.
ellie grimaced, “yeah, about that…” she awkwardly chuckled. “i don’t she’s hot. i only said that because i was hoping to get a reaction out of you.”
you gasped, “ellie, what the hell? first of all, you’re a bitch. that was a low blow. second of all, well played. it worked. it made me sick, literally.”
“i thought that was a coincidence,” she let out a laugh. “am i a mastermind or what?”
you rolled your eyes at her gloating, “yeah, yeah. don’t let it get to your head. it’s already big enough.”
“hey!”
“kidding,” you pronounced in a sing-song voice. as happiness spread all over your body, you placed your arms on her shoulders and locked your hands behind her neck. grinning, you brought her closer and kissed her again, and again, and again, and again.
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eddiemuonson · 8 months
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Break Free - Bucky Barnes x f!Reader
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Summary: You were an infiltrated nurse working for HYDRA and takes care of Bucky Barnes, who's still triggered and being used as The Winter Soldier.
Warnings: blood and some kind of violence
Word count: 1.7k
You watched as they brought the Winter Soldier into the briefing room after a long battle of something you were yet to find out about. As a HYDRA’S nurse, you learned to not give fully attention to what actually happened inside the department, but it's not like you actually would. You just wouldn’t be able to talk about that with anyone else as much as you wanted to. He sat on a chair, all sweaty and still panting. He was shirtless, and you could see his chest going up and down with the rhythm of his heart beating.  
He was bruised, his left brow was split open, and he had many cuts from what appeared to be from a knife all over his arms and his chest. Alexander Pierce asked for the mission report, but Barnes could barely stand, he had trouble breathing after all. Standing in a corner, you could see his blue eyes were darker and carried something else rather than rage, maybe it was remorse or pain, but you couldn’t tell.  
Pierce snapped his face with a sharp slap, and the Winter Soldier kept his head low. “Mission report, Barnes”, he said, his voice was louder, but the man stood still and didn’t say a word.  
“The target ran away”, James responded under his breath. He wasn’t panting anymore after a few long minutes, but he had blood running down his face and his neck, along with the fresh cuts from the knife. Alexander let out a scoff and gripped his face aggressively, making him look at his eyes. His hand has a tight grip on his chin, which made Barnes groan over the angriness.  
“If you don't do your part, I can't do mine, and HYDRA can't give the world the freedom it deserves. Your work has been a gift to mankind. You shaped the century, and I need you to do it one more time”, the man said.  
As soon as he dropped James’ head, the Winter Soldier kept his gaze at an empty space. You knew what he used to do every time he went back from a mission, but in the back of your mind you had some sort of compassion for him. You knew the man in front of you was being controlled by the organization you most feared, but being there to gather as much information as you could might end up helping Barnes somehow.
You just had no idea how you could swallow everything you’ve seen inside that building without regretting that, but maybe it’s the fact that taking down HYDRA would be the most important step for you at the moment.  
Pierce demanded them to prep him, but he was out of cryo-freeze for too long. “Then wipe him and start over”. God, that was hard to watch, you’ve seen that before. He just loses his memories from the day once again. As the scientists place a teeth shield in his mouth, they begin the process of wiping his brain as he screams in pain. The sound is terrifying, and try to keep yourself stable for the next part.  
You’re in an ER as you wait for James to show up and finally patch him and give him stitches. The man looks miserable, paler than you’ve ever noticed, his hands are still shaking, and his chest is compressed for trying to hold back the pain from the brain machine.
He sits on a stretcher as you prepare to clean his cuts, and you finally look at him in the eyes. They look a mixture of foggy, confusion, pain and anger. Bringing your hand close to his face, Barnes holds tight on your wrist with his metal arm.  
“I don’t really need that”, he said. He always speaks with a lower tone, and you can barely hear what he says. You almost let out a scoff, but you’re too intimidated by him, he always has a killer look, and you didn’t want to be his next victim.  
“You’re a super soldier, but you’re gonna bleed out if I don’t give you those stitches”, you respond. You carefully place a wet cotton on his brow, and he doesn’t flinch or make any noise, but you kind of understand how he manages to not feel the pain since he’s too used to that. Being too closed to him makes you wonder how that happened to him, because you never really learned about his life or his past, what he used to do and how he ended up there. You only knew about Steve Rogers, but mostly because he was already famous.
With his eyes closed, you can see his expression changes a little with your warm touch, but it could also be because that brings him some kind of comfort. You patch him and start taking care of the superficial cuts on his arms, learning that every inch of his body carries some scars, either they’re deep or small, they’re still there. As soon as you finish everything, you take your gloves off and throw everything in the trash. Behind you, Barnes stands up feeling some sort of dizziness, and you hold him still, making him sit back again on the stretcher.  
“You may wanna lie down here and get some rest, your head is still sensitive from the wiping”, you watch him groan and get rid of your touch, but doesn’t complain. James closes his eyes and tries to rest his head on the pillow, but finds it too hard to actually keep his cool as his brain is confused.  
“I don’t want to rest”, he whispers. As a nurse, you have the right to give him some medicine for the pain, but you opt to actually make him sleep only for the night. He should be fine, you thought. Pierce and the STRIKE guys wouldn’t show up until the next day.  
It was still the middle of the night when Barnes woke up, still feeling his head a bit heavy and his body aching. His temples were pounding, and he found it hard to get his body up from the stretcher, even though he was given painkillers. Funny, a super soldier getting pills for the pain, huh? He went to the bathroom and decided to wash his face, taking a look at himself in the mirror.
The Winter Soldier realized he wasn’t looking his very best in a long time, but that was the third time he had his memory wiped in less than two weeks, and sometimes just couldn’t handle how much it actually hurt.  He had no idea what had happened before he lost his memory, he had trouble trying to gather everything inside his head, but he could remember the delicate touch while being taken care of before blacking out.
He realized it was one of the few times he was actually being treated nicely, but then it hit him that it had been a long time since he wasn’t his James self. He knew he wasn’t like that. He knew he was triggered but had no idea how they did that, he only knew it was difficult for him to understand what made him that way, and when he was self-conscious, Barnes also knew he didn’t like that about him.  
As soon as he came to his senses after waking up, James gathered his gun and knives and left the building. He went out looking for the target Pierce made sure he wanted out of the picture as soon as possible, and he couldn’t wait to take them down and end the mission before having his mind wiped out once again.  
He was sitting at a café next to the apartment lot he learned it was of his victim, where they should be awake soon. Leaned against the chair on a table, the man was hiding his metal arm on a hoodie trying to disguise himself, but the look on his face didn’t give much appreciation to the waiter that came near him to offer him the menu, which he denied.
Not long after he got there, the woman left her place wearing common jeans and a shirt, carrying a purse where she would look for her badge from work. The Winter Soldier left the café and walked towards her, not looking both sides when he crossed the street as fast as he could.
Passing by an alley, he took the chance to drag her to a corner, covering her mouth with his flesh hand, while with the metal hand he made sure she wouldn’t let go of him. Even if she tried, he had a tight grip.  You’ve had many self-defense classes over the last year, but nothing prepared you to actually be assaulted at daylight next to your house, which left you feeling hopeless as you didn’t have any moves in mind at the moment.
The man held a knife next to your face but didn’t say a word, until you decided to try and knock your head back on his. You heard a loud thud and figured out he hit his head on the wall, falling on the floor, unconscious, behind you. Not only weren’t you prepared for being harassed, but you also weren’t prepared when you turned around and saw James still blacked out.  
“Barnes?”, you asked under your breath as your hands started shaking. You felt like you were spinning around and still had trouble figuring a way out of that. “Ok, ok. Shit, okay”, you tried to keep calm, but you felt like you were numb, your skin was pinching and your stomach was sinking inside your body.  
You kneeled next to him and cupped his face, trying to wake up him. Did you kill the Winter Soldier, banging his head on a wall? Was that all that needed? If you actually killed him, what the fuck would HYDRA do to you? What if that was actually planned, and he knew what he was doing? After several minutes, you decided to use your taser on him, only enough to make him wake up. James suddenly opened his eyes and let out a loud gasp as he tried to catch his breath. He looked beyond confused, his eyes were searching for some sense, and he acted terrified.  
“Hey, James. Hey, it’s me. It’s (Y/N)”, you tried to calm him, but he was still panting and couldn’t actually understand what was happening.  
“Where the hell am I?”, he asked. When he finally looked at you for an actual answer, you realized it wasn’t the Winter Soldier talking to you. You just weren’t sure what just happened and how you would deal with him.  
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haunted - ethan landry
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ethan landry x reader
❤️🔪 spoilers for scream 6 🔪❤️
warnings: angst, death, mentions of blood, reader visits ethan’s grave, lots of dialogue (one sided obviously), it’s kinda short
a chill had begun to creep up you spine, raising the little hairs on your arms as the sun moved behind a cloud, moving lower and lower in the sky. you weren’t sure how long had you been sitting there in front of ethan’s grave; an hour- maybe two. you sighed as you pulled your jacket from underneath you and slid it over your arms, holding it closed around you. the cool grass that you sat cross legged on felt damp on the seat of your pants, and you absentmindedly plucked at the blades of grass by your feet. you pulled your gaze from the ground, and looked at the cold stone in front of you. you ran your fingers against the engraving, feeling the rough texture under you hand.
it was the first time you had worked up the courage to go see him, and it was like every emotion you had been trying to deal with since he died was washing over you at once. as a matter of fact, you were the first and only person to visit his grave, and you looked to your left to see his father, mother, and sister, quinn, buried next to him.
“i don’t know if it’s weird to talk to you.” you mumbled, after having sat in silence until now. “maybe it’s weird that i’m even here… after everything.” you thought back to everything ethan had done, how many people him and his family had hurt; how he had hurt you. that night in the apartment, how terrified you and your friends had been, and how you still had nightmares about anikas death…how when you closed your eyes you could still see all the blood.
“i…i hate you,” you stuttered, the words catching in your throat as your eyes began to fill with tears. “i hate you for what you did.” you wiped tears from your face, taking a deep breath.
“and i hate that you left me all alone,” you cried. “i hate that its been three months and i still wake up and reach for you next to me; or i wait for your name to pop up on my phone. i hate that i look for you everywhere - no one sits at your table in econ.” you continued.
“i couldn’t sleep one night and snuck into your dorm room; your pillow still smells like your cologne. chad doesn’t live there anymore, he moved in with sam, tara, and mindy. they would kill me if they knew i was here,” you said, and then laughed sadly. “maybe a poor choice of words.” you admitted.
“sam keeps trying to talk to me; she says she understands what i’m going through. i guess in a way she does. i can’t though, not after you tried to kill her. and especially not after i realized a part of me still loved you - even after that.”
“all of your things are exactly where you left them- the school keeps telling me i have to clean your dorm out but i can’t do it. the semester is over soon though, so i guess i’ll have to or they’re gonna throw everything out.” you looked down at your lap. reaching into your bag, you pulled out a plaid shirt you had stolen from ethan’s dresser.
“i- i took a few of your things from your closet,” you admitted. “i don’t know, having a piece of you with me makes it… easier; like you’re not really gone.” you sighed. “why did you have to do this, ethan? what happened to the sweet boy i met a year ago when i moved to new york? what about the plans we made?” you were angry now, and pounded your fist against the granite of the headstone, scratching up your hand in the process but you didn’t care. “how could you do this… to your friends.. to me?” you asked, trying to stop the tears as you stared up at the darkening sky.
“i shouldn’t miss you, you don’t deserve it,” you sniffled. “but i can’t help it. because no matter what you did… somewhere deep down, you were still the boy i loved. i think that’s the worst part you know, because i really did love you. i guess i’ll never know if you really loved me, or if that was just a part of your plan too.” you shook your head.
“i think you must have though- i don’t think you’re that good of an actor,” you laughed, your hands fiddling with the “E” necklace ethan had given you for your 6 month anniversary. you couldn’t bring yourself to take it off, careful to keep it tucked under your shirt around your friends.
“how am i supposed to move on from this? from you?” you pleaded. “you promised me; you told me you would never hurt me.” you looked at the time on your phone, a picture of you and ethan still your phone background that you hadn’t gotten around to changing.
“i’m gonna be late for econ. you’re missing the exam, by the way. we were supposed to study together.” you said, dusting yourself off and putting your bag over your shoulder as you stood up. adjust the flowers you had brought, you watched the petals move slightly in the wind as the blooms lay against the dark stone.
“maybe i’ll be back,” you whispered. “or maybe i’ll move on and forget all about you.” you sighed.
“but i doubt it.”
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1986harrington · 2 years
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hi! can i request steve with, “It’s pouring rain why are you here?” + “I love you.” “Tell me that when you’re sober.” from the prompt list? (maybe reader randomly shows up to steves drunk?) <3.
Hey anon! I'm so sorry I'm such an awful human being and this took so long, but here it is! It's over 3k so hopefully worth the wait ahssnndks
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“What d’you mean you don’t know where she is?” Steve demanded, incredulous. 
It had been no more than twenty minutes since you’d called him, words slurred down the phone and practically incoherent over the sound of music blaring from a stereo in the background. He managed to determine that you were at yet another of Chelsea Carlton’s parties, which shouldn’t have been hard to guess since all you seemed to do these days was hang around with people you never used to be able to stand, and get drunk in the process. 
He wasn’t sure if you’d been asking him to come get you, the call cutting off before he could really make sense of why you were calling. But if there was even the smallest chance that you needed him there, he couldn’t risk not showing up.
It had been almost a month since you’d broken up, and it definitely hadn’t been a mutual thing. Steve had walked around in a perpetual daze for at least 48 hours, trying to make sense of everything you’d said.
“I love you so much, more than anything. But it’s not enough if you don’t feel the same.”
“You know everything there is to know about me. There’s nothing I wouldn’t tell you, but you’re holding something back from me, and I need to know what it is.”
“I can’t do this anymore if you’re not gonna be honest with me.”
“If you really loved me, you would tell me. If there’s someone else, please just put me out of my misery. Please.”
“I'm done. We're over, okay? I can’t do it anymore.”
Those words lived inside his head on a constant, tortuous loop. Three, four, five times a day since, he’s considered telling you the truth. 
About the Upside Down; about what really happened to Will Byers; how Barb and Chrissy really died; how he got those scars he could never explain to you; why he slept with the hallway light on and woke up in the night, sweating and panting and scrambling for his baseball bat he kept under the bed. 
But he couldn’t be that selfish. 
He couldn’t turn your whole world upside down, drag you into the danger that came with knowing about all that stuff, the fear that would plague you once you knew the truth.
He’d have done anything to keep you.
Anything, except the one thing you needed him too.
He wouldn’t ruin your life. 
So he didn’t deny it when you said he was keeping something from you. He didn’t object when you implied he didn’t love you enough, and fuck, he didn’t correct you when you asked him straight to his face if there was someone else. 
He just stood and watched you fall apart, let you sob and hit at this chest with frustration when he couldn’t even do you the courtesy of answering out loud. He hoped the look in his eyes would be enough; a silent, unspoken apology for everything he was putting you through. But you still left his house that night in tears, car tearing off down his driveway only to pull in a couple hundred yards down the street, head falling back against the headrest - eyes closed and streaming with tears as your hands beat at the steering wheel.
Steve smashed up his house that night - his fist through the bathroom mirror, the desk by his window flipped over and contents scattered across the floor, beside lamp smashed with a swing of his bat, until he was sitting amongst broken glass and splintered wood wondering how the hell he had fucked this all up so badly.
***
He’d been a little surprised that first weekend when he heard you were at a party. Sure, you’d always been up for a good time with your friends - but Chelsea Carlton and her minions? Those people weren’t your friends. 
Curiosity had gotten the better of him that night and he’d shown up at Chelsea’s house, loitering in the doorway trying to catch a glimpse of you. 
And he did. And you looked beautiful. And he felt his chest crack open at the sight of you. 
Then he watched on as half the basketball team circled you like sharks, all bright smiles and dark eyes that raked over you and Steve felt his keys dig into the palm of his hand as his grip around them tightened. 
You may have been drinking, but you still had your wits about you and he’d be lying if he said his heart didn’t swell a little with pride as he watched you shut them all down, a sweet but stern smile on your face as each of them cut their losses and moved along. 
By the next week, word had reached him that you were going on a date, and he was almost sick then and there over the counter at Family Video. Robin being Robin made an excuse for him to dip, and he made his way to the bathroom, hands on his knees and back against the door as he caught his breath.
The following Sunday, he was at work again when he overheard that the date hadn’t gone well at all. Two girls, who didn’t even know you, were giggling over the fact they saw you storming out of Drew Kellerman’s truck at the drive-in, door slammed behind you and tears in your eyes. 
His first instinct had been to reach for the phone, to call you and make sure you were okay. To ask if that asshole had hurt you or touched you or so much as looked at you in a way you didn’t like. But Robin had caught his wrist, told him she’d already checked and you were fine - just embarrassed by your own public outburst but totally okay. His shoulders sagged in relief, but he still set the receiver back down with a bang, cursing under his breath as he headed outside for some air.
What Robin didn't tell him was that you also told her the only thing wrong with her date with Drew Kellerman was that he wasn't Steve.
The next weekend, by some miracle, both Steve and Robin had the Saturday off and Nancy and Jonathon were both back visiting from college. 
They were heading out for a day on the lake when Steve realized they needed to stop for gas. He was so preoccupied trying to fish his wallet out of the glove box that he didn’t realize the car in front was yours. 
You had just set the pump back into place and turned around to head inside to pay when you spotted him, only a few feet away. Your chest felt tight, like suddenly there was no air and all you could smell was gas and all you could see was Steve and you were sure you were on the verge of passing out. He cleared his throat then, shifting awkwardly on his feet and you darted around him, legs moving on their own accord and taking you inside.
The cashier was serving painfully slowly, so you were still in line to pay by the time Steve joined the queue behind you. He kept a safe distance, but it was still too close. He could smell the faint strawberry scent of your shampoo that used to cling to his pillows and the coconut body lotion he used to help you smooth over your shoulders. Your breath hitched, and you swore you could feel the heat radiating from his chest onto your back. Your knees felt shaky, like any second now they’d just give out. You thought about what would happen then - how you had no doubt Steve would catch you, strong arms wrapped around your waist, mouth against your ear asking if you were okay, and suddenly you wanted to run out of the gas station and risk the repercussions of skipping out without paying.
That was the last time he’d seen or heard about you, until the phone call.
***
“What d’you mean you don’t know where she is?” Steve demanded, incredulous. 
His eyes scanned the crowd of bodies surrounding them in the kitchen of Chelsea’s mansion, the air cloudy with cigarette smoke making it hard to see and the music thumping from the stereo system one room over making it even harder to hear and he couldn't think straight.
“Like I said, one second she was here, the next? Poof!” Robin explained, a typically exaggerated hand gesture accompanying the ‘poof’.
“And you didn��t think to call me?!” Steve worried, one hand running anxiously through his hair, the front pieces falling into his eyes.
“I didn’t exactly know you two were on speaking terms now!” Robin yelled back, defensive and kind of offended at being so out of the loop.
“We’re-” Steve started, exasperated at not being able to finish the sentence because quite frankly, he didn’t know what you were to each other now. 
“We’re not.” He finally settled on. “But she called me. And if she called me, of all people, then something must be wrong.”
Robin sighed, a sympathetic but frustrated expression on her face. “Look, Steve, I get it. You’re in love with the girl, and you’re miserable without her, and she’s miserable without you - but you're both my friends, so until you get your heads out of your asses, do me a favor and leave me out of it?”
Steve knew it was unfair to put Robin in the middle like this, so he didn’t argue when she turned her attention back to an unusually tense game of flip cup that had drawn in quite the crowd, mumbling something about how you probably just caught a ride home with someone and she’d call you in the morning.
***
By the time Steve had searched every room, closet and outbuilding on the Carlton property and confirmed you were nowhere to be found, the weather had taken a turn. The already dark sky was thunderous, raining falling harsh against the sidewalk as he made his way back to his car. He hadn’t been driving more than five minutes when the first flash of lightning forked across the sky, cursing under his breath at the thought of you wandering around on your own drunk on a night like this.
He went to your house first and parked two houses up, like always, to avoid waking your dad. The single-story layout made it easy for him to look in through your window, your bed still made and room in darkness.
“Shit,” He muttered, wiping rain from his face and heading back to the car.
He spent the next hour driving around the streets of Hawkins, stopping off at any place he thought you might be until he decided to go home and try to call you again.
As his car rolled up the driveway, the headlights illuminated his front porch, and all the air left his lungs when he saw you sitting on the bottom step.
The rain was still falling, hard and fast, but you were already soaked and so was Steve. He yanked the keys from the ignition and climbed out the car, leaning his forearms on the top of the door and dropping his head down on to them.
He stood like that for a second, letting the relief settle in that you were okay - that all the worst-case scenarios of you being hurt or in trouble that had been running through his head for the last hour and a half hadn’t amounted to anything.
You stood up before he moved, taking a few tentative steps towards him, the car door he was still leaning on separating you both.
When he finally lifted his head to look at you, he could tell you'd been drinking, and he was instantly angry that you’d walked all the way across town so out of it and in this weather. Your dress was clinging to you, the once floaty skirt of it stuck to your mid-thighs, tendrils of hair plastered to your face and droplets of rain dripped from your lashes. He could tell you’d been crying, eyes rimmed red and make-up smeared around them from where you had rubbed at it.
You pulled at the collar of the jacket you were wearing, it having slipped off your shoulder with the weight of the rain, and when you pulled it tight across your front, Steve realized it was one of his that he thought he’d lost a few months back.
It swallowed your frame, but the look of comfort that swept over your face as you clung to it made his chest hurt and all he could think about was how you were still the most beautiful girl he’d ever seen. 
“‘You alright?” He asked, pushing off of the door and stepping around it to close it.
You nodded, eyes fixed on his and fingers tugging anxiously at the sleeves of the jacket. 
“It’s pouring rain." He stated, as if it wasn't obvious. "What're you doing here?”
You swallow hard, taking another step forward.
“I found it in Chelsea’s guest room closet.” You finally speak up, gesturing to the jacket as if he didn’t know what you were talking about. “You must have left it behind the last time we were there-”
Your voice caught in your throat when you realized the other reason it could be there.
“I mean, unless…” You trail off, head swimming with the idea of Steve with Chelsea, or Steve with any girl that wasn’t you, and suddenly you feel that familiar sensation of being about to pass out wash over you again.
You begin to pull it off, and Steve knows you well enough to know exactly where your head is at, so he reaches forward and takes a gentle but firm hold of your wrists, stopping your hands in their tracks. 
“Look at me,” He says, and it's halfway between a command and a plea.
Your eyes lift slowly from where they’d fixed themselves on his hands around yours until you're staring up at him.
“I know I’ve made it hard for you to trust me,” His voice is barely above a whisper, and if you weren’t so focused on clinging to his every word after not hearing his voice for so long, you’d probably struggle to make it out over the sound of the rain. 
“But I need you to believe me when I tell you there’s no one else. Never has been.” He says with a shake of his head as if the very idea was ridiculous, because to him it was. “And I never should have let you think for even one second that it was ever a possibility.”
You release a painful, jagged breath you didn’t even know you’d been holding, and suddenly his grip on you is the only thing keeping you upright.
His eyes feel like they're burning into yours and you want desperately to look away because it's too intense with his fingers still pressing into your skin, but you know instantly he’s telling you the truth. 
You swallow and nod, and you're almost relieved when he finally drops your hands back down by your sides and you can think half-clearly again.
“You never answered the question,” Steve presses, filling the silence that’s swallowed you both whole.
“What question?” You ask, head still cloudy from the alcohol and just being near him again, although you’re mostly sober now from the long walk you took in the rain.
“What’re you doing here? At my house. Why’d you call me at all?”
He seems genuinely confused, as if there’s no possible reason why you’d still give him the time of day, and you know it’s because he doesn’t feel like he deserves it.
And then you take him by surprise, and you laugh.
It’s short at first, one huff of air from your chest that shakes your shoulders, and then another until your hands are running through your hair before falling down at your sides with a shrug.
“I love you.”
You say it as if it’s so obvious, so simple. And it is.
“Don’t say that.”
“I love you.” You repeat, walking towards him. “I was at Chelsea’s, and I was sad. Even sadder than usual, and so I drank more than usual. But that didn’t help. It just made me miss you more. And all these people were talking to me and crowding me and I couldn’t breathe because none of them were you, and that’s all I wanted. You're all I ever want. When I’m sad, or happy, or lonely, or scared… and I just had to get away from them all, y’know? So I went upstairs to the guest room, and I found your jacket and it smelled just like you and when I put it on it was like I forgot every bad thing that’s ever happened. All the reasons we don’t work just didn’t matter anymore and I needed to hear your voice. So I broke. And I did the one thing I swore I wouldn’t do and I called you. But it was so loud and I couldn’t hear you, and I needed to hear you, Steve. So bad. And I didn’t know if you were coming, so I came here-”
“Can you do me a favour?” He asked, cutting you off mid-ramble and you just nod, taken aback.
“Can you tell me all this when you’re sober tomorrow?”
“Steve, I walked 30 minutes in the rain. I’m sober.”
“Good.”
And just like that he’s on you, all around you, and you feel the horrible, suffocating weight that’s been holding you down for the last month just disappear.
His hands are cupping your face, thumbs grazing your jaw, fingers tangled in the wet knots of your hair and his mouth is warm and familiar against yours. You’re clinging to his wet t-shirt, pulling at it in an attempt to get him closer to you, but his chest is already flat against yours. He drops one hand from your face to tug at your waist and you gasp into his mouth, his tongue slipping in and pulling a moan from you that he can hear even over the rain that’s still falling around you both. 
His hand slams down on the roof of the car as your back collides with driver’s side door, arms tangling around his neck and fingers pulling at his hair. 
When you’re forced to tilt your face to side, away from his lips to catch your breath, he plants a trail of open-mouthed kisses the length of your throat until he’s met with the wet material of his jacket still hanging off of your shoulders.
“I can drive you home,” He mutters against the warm skin of your neck, face buried in the crook. 
“Or?” You ask, breathless as you use both hands to pull his face up to meet yours.
“Or you can stay here.” He offers, and your face lights up, bottom lip pulled between your teeth to try and contain the smile at the thought of spending the night in his bed again.
“With me. If you want. We don’t have to do anything.” He clarifies, hand pushing wet strands of hair out of your face before you lean up and kiss him again.
“I wanna stay. With you.” Your arms loosen from around his neck, hands sliding down his chest until you reach his wrists and pull him towards his front porch.
He lets you lead the way, only dropping your hand to fish his keys out of his back pocket and he laughs so contentedly when your arms wrap around him from behind, your cheek pressed between his shoulder blades as he fumbles with the wet keys in the lock.
You both stumble into the door as it opens, immediately pulling your wet clothing off and letting it drop to the floor. You're back on him instantly, pulling and kissing him towards the stairs to his room and it takes all his strength to take hold of your shoulders and push back lightly.
“Baby, baby, wait,” He breathes, chest heaving as he stares down at you. “There’s a reason this - we didn’t work. There’s so many things I want to tell you, but I can’t. And I don’t wanna go backwards and do anything that’s gonna hurt you or confuse you or-”
“Steve, please,” You cut him off with a shake of your head. “I know all of that but- Can we talk about it tomorrow? I just, I need to be with you. Please?”
“You’re sure?”
You nod, hands bringing his lips back down to yours again, and you feel him give in against your mouth before he pulls away from you, taking your hand guiding you in front of him and up the stairs.
PART II
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heartofwritiing · 2 years
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English is not my first language so sorry
YOU'RE WRITING FOR JACK RUSSELL😭😭. Can i ask for something where the full moon is coming and Jack is afraid to scare the reader?, please😭
Full Moon
parning: Jack Russell (werewolf by night) x fem!reader
a/n: YES I CAN SWEET ANON, this sounds like such a cute idea I hope you like what i’ve done! this doesn’t take place during the special!!
Warnings: I mean if you haven’t watched werewolf by night don’t read this go watch it!! fluff, unedited!
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Jack paced around his bedroom biting at his thumb in thought. You had noticed for the past two days Jack had been acting strange around you. You had only known him for a few months prior to getting together after he timidly asked you on a date, but this was the first time you had been staying over at his place.
Jack hadn’t told you, how could he, he wasn’t sure how’d you react to what he was and he didn’t want to scare you away. He had never gotten this far into a relationship with someone, and he knew you were special and he couldn’t risk losing you.
After you went to bed early Jack left before you realized and were sound asleep. The following day you woke in his empty bed, you noticed his side wasn't even messy so you got up and searched the house. You looked in every possible place but he was nowhere to be found. It wasn't until you heard the door open and saw him walk through that relief washed over you.
It concerned you that he just disappeared without saying anything, but he apologized profusely to you. You forgave him of course, knowing he likely had a good excuse for it.
You sat with your legs crossed on the bed watching Jack's movements, he had told you there was something important he wanted to tell you. You knew it was something serious by the way he looked at you earlier with his eyes showing some underlying emotion, you knew now it was vulnerability. So you sat down and were waiting for him to open up to you.
He knew he could tell you anything, he trusted you completely now but he was just too nervous about this.
"Jack," you started. "Whatever it is, you don't have to tell me anything, it can wait until you're ready."
Jack finally meets your eyes and stops his pacing. He smiles warmly at you and walks over to you, taking your hands in his he kneels down in front of you.
"I know mi corazon, I know," he brings your knuckles up to his lips and places a kiss there.
"This is important, you have to know these things about me," he says solely. "I just don't want to scare you mi amour."
You take your right hand out of his grasp and bring it up to his cheek to trace his jawline, you can feel his slight stubble scratching your thumb.
"It's okay," you coo.
He lays his head on your lap sighing in almost defeat. The look you just gave him, ugh, full of so much endearment he swore he could die happy staring into your eyes. He groans and buries his head in your lap.
"You don't make this anymore easy amour," his voice muffled.
You giggle as you pet his hair. "I'm sorry."
"Don't be." he sits up again. "I'm just gonna tell you."
He takes a deep breath.
"Every month, once a month I change." he inhales again. "And on that night I become something I am not which you see before you, I become a beast. I'm not myself anymore when this happens I become an animal, a hunter."
The whole time he speaks you keep your face neutral so he can't really tell how you're taking this news.
"I turn into.... a werewolf."
You blink back at him a little stunned at all this but it doesn't shock you too much. in a world in which superheroes run around defending the earth from aliens, you wouldn't be surprised if every mith was real.
Jack tries to search your face for your reaction but your eyes scan elsewhere, He tilts his head at you.
"Mi amour?" he asks.
You look back at him and squeeze his hands. "Sorry,"
"I know it's a lot to process, and I've tried so many times to tell you I've just never found the right moment or words," he admits.
"Is this why you left yesterday? because of the full moon?"
he nods. You still couldn't believe your boyfriend was a werewolf, But it didn't freak you out at all was the strangest thing. A comfortable silence fills the air as you gather your remaining thoughts.
"Why didn't you just tell me Jack?" you asked.
"I was scared to tell you, I didn't want to freak you out or anything," he admits.
Your heart aches thinking that he couldn't trust you enough with his secret, but you understood his fear behind the uncertainty of how you would react to this news. You were trying to be as calm as possible for his benefit, you never wanted to make him feel unsafe.
"Next time please come to me about these things," you say sincerely. "you can trust me."
You bring your arms around his back into a tight embrace, and he holds you like he's never going to let you go. He knew now more than ever before that he could trust you.
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bep1erfics · 1 year
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shen ricky - over me (part 2)
months after you two broke up, mr. young & rich comes back into your life, ready to ruin it all over again.
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“if you keep staring at me up and down, i’m gonna assume you haven’t gotten over me. am i correct?”
ricky grabbed your chin with his cold-blooded hands, so cold that you could freeze. all the warmth he had once radiated left his body, turning him into a new person.
he scanned your face as goosebumps started spiralling up your arms. with one hand, ricky starts to caress your face.
“don’t touch me, i’ve already told you before”
you knock his fingers off of your face, raging in anger. all your weeks of despair finally left after realising what a douche-bag ricky had became over the course of 2 months.
while ricky still had that sinister smirk plastered all over his face, you gain the courage to ask the devil himself what he was doing here.
“why are you here? get straight to the point.”
ricky straightens himself up and traces his fingers over his ‘role model’ tattoo.
“i need your help in making samantha jealous. i wanna get back with her.”
ricky looked at you with those menacing eyes, like he would murder you if you declined.
you gulped, feeling so nervous and self conscious after learning that he started dating his ex again after ending things with you. was it jealousy? you couldn’t even look at this man in his eyes anymore.
“why should i help you? just find another girl to toy around with, jerk.”
you crossed your arms in distress, playing with your fingers.
“i’ll compensate you with money. is it a deal? oh well, if you decline my offer i’ll just have to dial the police and get you locked-“
“i’ll do it.”
there was absolutely no way you could potentially go to jail for ‘borrowing’ the douche’s money.
“that’s my girl”
ricky gave you a wink and put his hands in his pockets, walking towards the door, making his way outside of your apartment.
“make sure to dress up. i’ll pick you up at 6pm, doll. you better not keep me waiting.”
as soon as he came back to your life again, he leaves in a flash, shoving his ‘role model’ tattoo in front of your face. once the door closed, you sat on the doormat to process what just happened.
his new appearance drove you insane. you still could not get over the fact that he came back during the lowest times of life, everything was so complicated. you didn’t even want to stomach the fried chicken anymore. your appetite was ruined, all thanks to ricky’s nauseating smell of smoke.
another night was wasted, thinking about your ex boyfriend. how should you get back at him?
“hmm. i’ll make him fall in love with me. you’ll see, karma’s gonna bite you in the back.” 📌
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wosoobsessed · 1 year
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THE EX-Leah Williamson
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A/n- this is my first ever story so let me know if you like it 🫶🏻
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The night started off great. Leah and you had been out at the local club with the lionesses for some drinks after the latest win on the tournament. Spirits we’re high as karaoke was going on. By karaoke it was meado and Rachel screaming “rag doll” into the microphone. Even after an amazing 6-0 win you still weren’t feeling as good as you should have. Sitting in the corner of club sulking as you watched the blonde defender getting a little too touchy with her ex (aka Jordan wobbs)
“Hey you ok” a voice came from behind her. The girl turned around to see Millie bright, her best friend behind her.
“Yeah,I’m great” she practically shouted through the club. Earning a through dirty looks from the strangers on the table next to her.
“Well Y/N you don’t look it. What’s got you in the dumps” the defender looked with a sad look in her eyes, sad too see her best friend not acting like herself. YN just looked towards her girlfriend who was laughing at a joke that Jordan has just said.she could feel her anger bubbling as she’s Shot a dirty look to the girl and leah. Millie automatically got the message and all she could do was sigh.
“Ooohhh right.” The blonde exclaimed. Y/N barely processed what her best friend had said as she locked eyes with her gorgeous girlfriend from across the club.
Leah looked towards the smaller girl who was sat with a saddened look upon her face.
“Excuse me a second” Leah excused her self from her and her ex’s convo and started walking over to the brunette girl who’s exspression had gone from sad to angry in a matter of seconds.
Maybe it was the amount of alcohol she has had. But Y/N has now found herself more angry than sad. As the blonde approached her she plopped her self on the red seat next to her girlfriend. As soon as Leah’s lean body had touched the chair, Y/N had found her self walking away from her girlfriend with a huff coming from her mouth.
Leah had a hurt look in her eyes as she looked between Millie and her girlfriend who was walking towards the exit of the building.
“ Mils what’s happened” Leah said sadness evident in her voice as she looks up to the women sat beside her.
“Idk Leah you tell me she’s been down in the dumps since you’ve been gone”the other blonde exsplained.looking towards Jordan who has started a conversation with Mary instead.
Y/N found herself walking outside the club. She needed to calm herself down she knew that it wasn’t what it looked like. But she couldn’t help but feel insecure about the whole situation. Jordan and Leah were the number one shipped couple (other than wonze obviously). She couldn’t help but feel a sense of insecurity or was it fear. Did Leah still love Jordan? Was Leah gonna leave her for Jordan? What if Leah doesn’t actually love her anymore? All these thoughts were cut off but the sound of footsteps coming towards her. The brunette girl turned to see Keira Walsh walking towards her a look of sympathy on her face.
Keira sighed and placed her hand on her close friends shoulder. Y/N had known Keira since primary school they were both from Manchester. They grew up together. Nobody knew Y/N more than Keira. She was like a sister to her.
“ hey babes what’s got you all missrable. Where’s that spark?” The ginger girl asked.
“I’m on kei just needed some air”
“y/N I’ve known you since i was 10 you’ve never once left somewhere because you “needed air” you can’t lie to me remember I know you” Keira basically yelled to her best friend. Maybe it was the loud music but Y/N had no idea why Keira was basically shouting in street.
“Kie can I ask you something” the girl asked, an anxious look on her face.
“Y/N/N of course anything ,I got you” Keira explained.
“Have you ever been scared Lucy will go back to her ex?”. As soon as the words left her mouth Y/N regretted it. What kind of question was that? The brunette thought to herself.
Keira sighed giving her best friend a look of sadness.
“Is this about Leah and Jordan? Because I know how much Leah loves you like she honestly don’t shut up about it.” Keira laughed at herself making Y/N let out a laugh of relief.
“ I love her so much kei but I’m so scared she will go back to Jordan or find someone better.” The brunette said tears threatening to spill from her blue eyes. Just before she could say anything a familiar figure emerged from the club door. It was Leah. The love her her life. The blonde walked over to her girlfriend and best friend. Sending a look to Keira, Keira then excused herself from the conversation and sent Y\N a look to say “good luck”before going back into the club.
“Hey….” The blonde defender dragged out. Seeing the pain in her girlfriends eyes and instantly feeling guilty. Leah knew that’s her girlfriend had doubts about there relationship and it wasn’t a bad thing. Y/Ns anxiety and Overthinking often got to her making her go quiet. Leah knew exactly why her girlfriend would be upset and she felt awful.
The brunette sent a half smile to blonde. Feeling embarrassed for her actions previously in the club. The tears welling up in her eyes again but this time she wasn’t able to hold them in.
“Hey.hey.hey.” Leah said guilt dripping from her voice as she watched the women she loved more than anything break down infront of her. The blonde look her girlfriend into her arms and held her as tight as possible. Sniffling into Leah’s shoulder Y/N finally stopped her tears and pulled away from her girlfriend. Worry and sadness was painted all over Leah’s face.
“I’m sorry” said Y/N feeling guilty for getting so upset for no reason.
“Hey baby it’s ok you don’t need to be sorry for having emotions ok. But I’m telling you now I love you ok and only you. Your the one I want to wake up to everyday and your the one I want to Marry and start a family With one day not Jordan. I love you so much yeah ?”Leah explained truth evident in her voice.
“Me too Leah. I love you more and than anything.” The brunette said bringing her girlfriend into a hug again.
Pulling away from the hug the two women walked back into the club hand it hand. For the first time that evening Y/N didn’t have a worry in the world.
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A/N- guys I know this isn’t great but I’ve never wrote a story before so please let me know what you think and if you want to send requests message me. Thank u if you’ve read this 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻
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1. For Old Time’s Sake || Red Tape, Red Line
Series Masterlist
Fandom: Narcos
Pairing: Javier Peña x Reader
Rating: G (check ratings for each chapter)
Word count: 3.4k words
Summary: Javier runs into an old friend in DC.
A/N: Javier for Day 3! Thanks for the love for the last two fics. Here’s more and here’s my favorite- Javi. I do have a series of him in my Married!Javi fics. Buuuut, it doesn’t follow a chronological order. Unlike that, I’m trying to have a coherent storyline here. Writing a linear story happens to be my downfall so I’m gonna wait and see how this pans out. Hope you like the first instalment of this story!
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Wallet, keys, ID, gun, badge.
He froze with his hand on the hotel side table holding only a generic lamp after he’d taken his possessions- wallet, keys, ID. There was no gun to slip into the back of his pants and no badge to strap on to his belt. After eight years of the routine, he’d grown used to the metal digging into his lower back, used to the danger it possessed and the illusion of safety it gave him.
When he’d woken up that night from an imagined bullet to his chest, he reached for it on the same table, his heart seizing up when he found it empty. The quiet streets of DC and the streetlights pouring in through the window helped ground him, told him where he was. He’d taken to repeating the mantra that had been helping him come to after his nightmares. You’re home. It’s over. You’re home. It’s over.
As he slipped into his suit jacket, he wondered if the mantra was even true anymore. When he told himself that it was over and he was home, did he mean the states? Because DC wasn’t home. But was the US home anymore? Laredo? Bogotá? Shit, if it wasn’t the first three, it definitely wasn’t that last one.
He bent down and pulled his suitcase out from under the bed, hand slipping inside to retrieve the red pack of Marlboros he stored inside. Everything was perfectly packed- shirts and pants ironed perfectly, socks rolled up and underwear folded neatly. With everything else in chaos in his life, this bit of orderliness brought him comfort. He once took some pride in how well he could pack his life up within minutes. Not since that hijo de puta rubbed in his face that despite his shit lifestyle, he had a wife and children to go home to. A family man, he’d called himself.
While he couldn’t even look his dad in the eye or bring himself to visit mom’s grave, men like Berna took themselves home to wives and children every night. It must need some level of delusion to be able to do so.
It wasn’t over. Nothing was over. He’d been fired- well, he resigned. Columbia was supposed to be behind him, but there was still work to be done, paperwork to write up, politicians to schmooze. As the day passed, he was passed around from desk to desk, bureaucrat to bureaucrat, all praising him or letting him know just how hard he’d made their lives. State, Defense, DOJ, CIA, the fucking White House— Javi of the past with the hot blood, wide eyes and the need to prove himself would be ecstatic to know where he’d land up in the future. He wouldn’t be too pleased with the journey, though.
He’d won.
At least that was what the ambassador had said. But it didn’t feel like it. While he’d grown up and let the cynicism of life get to him, there was still that younger Javi taking up too much space in his head, telling him that he had failed in what he’d set off to do and sold his soul in the process. That the last eight years had all been for naught. I went after Medellin and Cali and all I have to show for it is the fucking nightmares. Now that would make for a wonderful print on a t-shirt.
“Good afternoon, how may I help?”
“I have an appointment with The Assistant to the Chief of Staff. I’m Javier Peña,” he said, sliding his ID across the rich mahogany desk to the woman. She took his ID, checked her computer, his face, the ID, repeated the process and then slid the ID back to him.
“Mr. Peña, Mr. Reed is in another meeting right now, but he’ll be happy to see you once it’s over. I can direct you to our waiting room.”
Great.
He smiled, nodded and followed the woman through the state department his eyes roving over the workers as he wondered how many of them had to stay late nights to fuck up the progress he and his fellow agents made on the field. How many of them typed up letters from the Secretary of State with directives to back the fuck off right when he was about to nab a valuable target. How many of them were assigned to Colombia, how many to other countries where they played around in their own interests.
He’d always held these people with contempt and not much had changed. They got to sit in their cushy office with the nicest computers and air conditioning while he and his colleagues chased goons in the streets of a foreign country. These couch potatoes who wrote condemnations and pulled visas and told them how to do their fucking job as though they knew what it was like to have a kid threatening to kill you with a hand that was too small to be wrapped around a gun if you didn’t drop your own.
Did any of these people think about men like him? Think about what it was like when you lost yet another partner and had to live with the image of him bleeding out on the road as you woke up from yet another nightmare with yet another realization of what you should’ve done to save his life in that moment.
They did not, he decided when the clock ticked and ticked but there was no word for him. The receptionist came by once or twice to apologize on her boss’s behalf and offer him coffee. Coffee to add to his sleep deprivation? No thank you.
He politely declined both times, willing himself to not take his anger out on the poor woman. She was just doing her job.
When the clock hit six, he got off his chair and stepped out of the waiting room. He’d known frustration. More often than not, he was left clutching his head in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other as his lungs burned from the cigarette between his lips as another step in his mission failed spectacularly. He knew frustration, but nothing like this brand of idle frustration where you had nothing to do but sit on an uncomfortable chair in the office of some prick who got paid more money a year than he would make in his entire life for doing fucking nothing.
So much for being a hero.
“Javier?”
He stopped outside the elevator door, turning around to see the face that called out his name.
Goddamn.
Her name slipped out through his lips, his tongue rolling around with as much practiced ease as it had done all those years ago. She looked exactly the same, yet completely different. Slightly taller as she walked up to him with the same smile, lips painted a deep red. Her hair was down instead of up in a bun. Her eyes gleamed with the same light he’d found in them over a decade ago. Although there was a new addition— crinkles at the corners of her eyes when she smiled. She’d exchanged the more practical field uniform for a nice blouse and skirt. A matching jacket hung off her arm and her hand was wrapped around the handles of a handbag.
“What are you doing here?” They asked at the same time. They exchanged smiles and he followed as she lead him into the elevator.
“I was supposed to meet someone. A Mr. Reed.”
“Ah. He wasn’t here for most of the day. Some fire to put out.”
“Fuck.”
“Yeah. Did they have you waiting the whole day?” She asked, removing the lanyard with her ID. She hissed when it caught in her hair and he stepped in, untangling the thing from her hair and taking it off for her. He took the card between her fingers and read her name out loud.
“Policy Analyst. Damn, Glasses,” he trailed, using her nickname from their time in Quantico. “You really did get yourself the nerdiest job. Can’t say I’m surprised.”
He handed her ID back to her and she shoved it into her bag, smiling at her nickname rather than shoving him like she used to. Or threatening to tell on him to their training officer. “Alright, Pissy Pants Peña. You got me.”
He let out a laugh at her rebuttal. The name surprised him just as it had the first time she used it against him in a moment of weakness even though she’d claimed that nicknames were “so unprofessional and rude. I will not call my fellow trainees rude names just to look cool around other trainees.” The first time was when he’d aggravated her more than usual and she spat out the name he’d earned when he had so much to drink that he pissed his pants.
“Are you free to grab a drink? It’ll be nice to catch up,” he asked, hopeful that a drink with an old friend would make his terrible day a little less terrible.
“As long as you don’t piss your pants,” she joked, lips curving up in an easy smile before she gave him a clear yes.
She took him to a nearby bar, a favorite of the State Department staff, she said. Many recognized her there, including the bartender who asked her if she’d like her usual.
“You don’t do tequila shots anymore, I’m guessing.”
“Ah, no,” he chuckled, thinking back to his training days when they went out and got drunk on the rare days off from their intensive routine. “These days, I—”
“Whiskey?”
“Yeah. How did you guess?”
“You look like a whiskey man. I can just picture you sitting in a dark corner of a bar, all alone and serious, avoiding paperwork or thinking about how to bend the rules.”
“Oh? That so?”
“Mhmm,” she said, sipping on her glass of red wine. She was always a wine drinker. A wine snob, one might say. She did that little swirl that wine drinkers did, took a whiff of the drink and then a small sip.
“Is that part of your job as policy analyst? Analyzing lonely men in bars and guessing what’s in their heads…”
“No, but I’ve had to creep on lonely men drinking their whiskeys in my last job.”
“Oh? What was that?”
“CIA Operative.”
He raised an eyebrow at that. She didn’t seem the CIA type. But then again, it could be his generally positive regard for her and negative regard for the CIA that made it hard for him to imagine her being part of those bastards.
“And you left because?”
“I found out that I had to do things I didn’t want to do in order to survive in the CIA. Didn’t have the stomach for it. I thought that if I just followed all the rules and did my job, I could succeed, but…” she sighed before taking a sip of her drink. “I learned that doing the right thing and doing my job contradicted each other a bit too much.”
Under the dim light that hung above her head, she didn’t look as naïve as she used to. Following every little rule will get you nowhere, Glasses. He’d made fun of her for it several times, told her she didn’t know what the real world was like, that she was in for a big shock. Little did he know that he would be in for just as much shock if not more. While she was intent on doing everything by the book, she at least knew that certain things could never change. Her ambitions weren’t too big. While he and their other classmates talked big about changing the fucking world, she said she just wanted to do her part, just help things along. She saw the nuts and bolts of the machine, know how the gears turned and pointed to every mechanism that would stop him from realizing his lofty dream of “winning the war on drugs, baby!”
“There is no war. It’s just money and politics and even more money. And a fuckload of racism.”
Javi of the past chided her for her cynicism, but if she told him that now, he would buy her a drink.
“Oh and there was the time I got shot, so I can’t really be on the field anymore. My insides are too messed up,” she said, moving the fabric of her shirt aside to reveal a healed bullet wound peeking out from under her bra strap. “Guadalajara. And this is just one of seven. The guy was a terrible shot, though. And my surgeon was fucking amazing, so I live to tell the tale.”
“A lot has happened, huh?” He remarked, considering her wound carefully as he wondered where the other six bullets had hit her body. The knowledge that she’d look completely different underneath her clothes compared to what he remembered covering in kisses infuriated him. He needed to relearn the body he should’ve taken more time to learn. To strip the proper clothing off her and acquaint himself with what was new and reacquaint himself with the familiar. Would he even remember what was new? Was the one time enough for him to register her in his mind?
“Hmm yeah. A lot. Like your work with the cartels. You and your guys always found a way to get on our nerves in State.”
“Oh?” He feigned innocence. “I didn’t know I was pissing you off, Glasses. I’m sorry.”
“Aww, he’s sorry. Don’t even try me, Peña. It was almost like you and what’s the other guy’s name…? Murphy? Like you two were fucking shit up just to get on my nerves. And then Duffy and Lopez. Duffy always pissed me off, but then he and Lopez had to go have their faces plastered on the papers. I thought it was just some other Javier Peña but then that happened and I was sure it was you.”
“I didn’t ask Duffy and Lopez to do that, I swear. They did that all on their own.”
“Really? I knew you and Duffy were close back in the day. And it looked like something you would do, breaking the rules like that.”
“Now give me some credit, hermosa. Maybe I’ve learned to follow the rules a little in the past few years.”
“As one of the people who had to put out the fires you started, I’ll have to disagree respectfully.”
“I’m surprised I have your respect now. I didn’t have a modicum of that back then.”
“Oh, it wasn’t that bad. I had some respect for you.”
“That so?”
“Yeah. You always…you wanted to do the right thing. We have differences of opinion on what the right thing was, but you always wanted to choose the option that would do the most good. I always admired that.”
“I’m not that person anymore.” He was the man who lied to his agents that the Ambassador did not prioritize the safety of their Cali insider. He was the man who got into bed with Los Pepes and did it again to rescue Christina Jurado. Whatever good she’d seen in him fizzled away the moment things got hard for him. He wondered how she would’ve done it. Had he been the type to follow rules like her, would he have kept his soul intact?
“I’m not surprised. I’m not the same person either. No glasses for one,” she joked, getting a light chuckle out of him. Her light demeanor dulled just a little and he could see through her eyes some kind of darkness that wasn’t there before.
“Things are rarely as we expect when we’re at the heart of the problem. Making the right choice is more…complex because— we have to choose between option that will all hurt people terribly in one way or the other.”
He nodded and took a sip of his drink, his mind reeling with all the times he needed to make decisions like that. They tended to be a lot more complex that he imagined when he was young and idealistic.
“Job like that, if it doesn’t change you, are you even human?”
“Right,” he said, not fully agreeing with the sentiment. The standards were completely different for the two of them. Sure, she would’ve faced those choices in the CIA. But she left. Long ago, he assumed, from her senior position at the State Department.
Whatever she had to do as CIA operative, it made her leave. Unlike him, she had the moral clarity to do it as early as she did. She looked more at ease now.
Maybe it was the fact that she had a cushy office job now, but the perpetual tension in her shoulders was missing. He’d prefer her version of change to his. Perhaps he should take up an office job, be relaxed, sit back at a desk and attend meetings about when to have meetings. His body sure couldn’t handle the field anymore. His knees and ankles still felt his jump from a balcony when he chased Jurado in Curaçao.
As much as he liked condemning himself to hell for his sins, as much as he liked withering away in shame when people heaped him with praises, it felt good to be on the receiving end of her empathy. The job did change everyone. If Glasses, the goody two shoes, stickler for the rules, ultimate teacher’s pet could understand that… Maybe he should too. If the field had changed someone like her, of course it changed him.
“So, umm… it’s getting late,” she said, looking up from her watch. “I have a rule about not having more than two drinks and,” she held up her second glass, half a sip of red wine resting in the bottom. “I had an early day today and will have an earlier day tomorrow. I got a meeting.”
Shoulders slumped, he nodded at her slowly. He didn’t want her to leave, didn’t want to lose the piece of a much calmer past. “It was great seeing you again, Glasses.”
“Likewise, Triple P.”
He tilted his head to one side, smiling at the new nickname. “Pissy Pants Peña is quite the mouthful, so… And it would be weird if my bosses heard it. We aren’t in our early twenties anymore and stupid shit like this could ruin a career.”
“Well, I no longer have a career to be ruined, so… But thanks anyway,” he said, reaching into his back pocket for his wallet.
“Nah ah ah,” she said in a sing-song voice, reaching into her bag. “You’re in my city, I’m not letting you pay. It’s bad manners.”
“Is it now?” he said, sliding a wad of cash across the bar to the bartender. “Is that one of your rules?”
“It is. You’re a guest in D.C. and it’s poor hospitality to not buy you a drink,” she said before turning to the bartender. “Josh, don’t take his money,” she said, handing the man some dollar bills from her purse. Josh ignored Javier’s money and took hers instead, alluding to whatever loyalty he had for her. She did say that the place was a State Department favorite. It made sense that she was on a first name basis with the guy.
He thumbed his mustache, the bristles scratching his finger gently. “What if I have a rule about that? That it’s poor manners to make a beautiful woman pay for her drinks and mine…”
“Then I’d expect you to say thank you for aiding you in your rule-breaking. I know how you love to do that.”
He grinned and licked his lips slowly, taking her in as she walked ahead of him. She never wore clothes like that before, pencil skirts that hugged her ass and high heeled shoes that made her hips sway in the most mesmerizing rhythm. As though feeling his stare, she turned around suddenly, making his head whip up so fast he could’ve broken his neck. Or it was just his old age.
“So, umm…Lunch sometime? We could continue this conversation,” she said, tucking her hair behind her ear. “Or not!” She added quickly. Painted fingernails scratched at each other, chipping away at the already lightly chipped red paint. “I know you’re really busy.”
“Never too busy for you, Glasses. Drinks again tomorrow night?”
“Yup. I’ll see you here at 6:30? If my schedule doesn’t change too much, that is.”
“6:30 is good.”
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lewisthot · 2 years
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summary: you knew lewis had a demanding career but it starts to get to you till one day you explode but he shows you that no matter what you’re his no. 1 rating: 18+ words: 2.1k characters: lewis hamilton x fem!reader a/n: this was an anonymous request, hope you like it! gif cred @l8tof1​
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lewis was an elite athlete, you understood that when you started dating him. in fact you rejected him at first, you knew how busy he was but you couldn’t deny what you felt for him so you gave him a chance.
It’d been weeks since you last saw lewis, he was flying all over the world so even talking to him was difficult with the time difference and you were busy with your own life. you guys just couldn’t seem to get on the same page, you felt so distant from him.
he had a two break between a race which you were excited about, you’d finally have some quality time with him or so you thought. instead, he had wanted to go to the factory, you admired his work ethic but didn’t he miss you at all?
finally free to see you he took you out for dinner but you weren’t in a good mood, you almost cancelled you were so tired of your own stresses at work but you missed lewis too much.
‘y/n you’ve hardly eaten anything, what’s up?’
‘nothing, i just don’t have much of an appetite tonight’
he wasn’t buying it, he sensed something was up that you were holding back. the rest of the evening you were quiet and not your usual self, he was annoyed now. once home you both got ready for bed, the tension was palpable. you both lay in bed, him scrolling through his phone and you reading a book. he didn’t like how you were shutting him out instead of opening up, he couldn’t stand it. when you were back at his place he decided to confront you. he looked at you.
‘babe, what’s going on? you’ve been off the whole night’
‘i already told you i’m fine’
you knew you should’ve just told him the truth but what was there to say, you work too much he wouldn’t stop. he sighed rubbing his face unsure of what else to say.
‘i’m just tired, i’ve had a stressful week! i’m only here cos i never get to see you, i shouldn’t have come over tonight’
‘wow it’s nice to know my girlfriend doesn’t care to see me’
‘you know i didn’t mean it like that! but everything we do revolves around your schedule, you dictate when we can see each other next like i don’t have anything going on but i just let it happen. if you weren’t so busy i wouldn’t have felt guilty about not seeing you tonight but i knew i would cos when is the next time gonna be 3 weeks?’
‘you knew what you were getting into’
you rolled your eyes, angry now at the audacity of that statement. sure you knew what you were getting into but that didn’t mean you knew how hard it would be, how you’d feel once in it. he regretted it as soon as he said it, it was harsh and unfair. you were hesitant when he first pursued you because of his career but he convinced you to give him a chance except now he’d proven your point.
‘you’re right i just didn’t realise how shitty it would make me feel. sometimes i wonder if i’m even a priority in your life, do you even try and bother to fit me in at all? i mean seriously why did you even pursue me if you’re so car car car? did you expect me to be at your every beck and call or did you expect me to never expect you to be here for me?’
you let it out like word vomit everything you’d been feeling, you couldn’t hold back anymore. you knew it was risky, what if he broke up with you but it was a risk you were willing to take instead of constantly feeling like you didn’t matter.
he stood there speechless processing everything you’d said, heartbroken he had made you feel this way. it wasn’t the first time he’d been accused of being too career-focused, he thought he had done a better job of it this time but he was wrong. he didn’t want to hurt you like this you meant everything to him, what was worse was you weren’t entirely wrong. he had been prioritising his time over yours, all plans were made when he was free he never even asked if you were free too just assumed. he leaned over holding your face.
‘i’m so sorry baby, i never meant to make you feel this way. you are a priority, i’ve gotten so caught up with everything this season i haven’t been giving you the attention you deserve and respecting your time but don’t ever think you don’t matter to me, i love you so much’
‘i love you too, i should’ve said something earlier. i know you’ve got a lot going on, i didn’t wanna add any unnecessary stress right now.
‘you’re not unnecessary stress, you’re happiness is my happiness. i’ve never felt this way about anyone before.’
he kissed you deeply, on top of you now the kiss turning passionate as his hands started to roam your body.
‘tonight i’ll show you how important you are to me, worship every inch of your body.’his words sent a shiver down your spine, excited for what was to come. he kissed along your neck, his hands running under your night dress grabbing a handful of your breasts he so loved to play with. your eyes were closed moaning his name as he explored your body, your pussy was throbbing and wet from anticipation. you could feel him hard between your legs so you rocked your hips against him, yearning for him inside you.
‘so needy baby’
he pulled off your nightgown and panties, holding your legs open wide now, he admired the sight of you bare and open - pussy glistening. you chewed on your bottom lip, the hungry look in lewis's eyes made you squirm, you were anxious for his next move.
‘fuck me lewis’
he chuckled, ‘so impatient, you really need my cock stuffing you?’ he ran his fingers through your soaked folds before dipping his fingers inside of your waiting hole. you moaned as he started to finger you but he was being purposely slow, you thrust your hips up to meet his fingers. you knew he did it on purpose, he enjoyed you desperate for him.
‘lewis…stop teasing me’
he smirked before pulling his fingers out and bringing them to your mouth where you opened up for him and sucked yourself clean.
‘such a greedy slut, your pussy is mine to use however i please’
you sighed nodding your head, you loved lewis’s possessiveness you knew when he was like this you were in for a long night, showing you why your pussy was his and why you wouldn’t want anyone else. he leaned down now playfully biting and kissing your inner thighs before he licked a stripe up your pussy sucking on your throbbing clit. he lapped up your juices, devouring your aching pussy you cried out in pleasure as you rocks your hips against him trying to wrap your legs around him but he wouldn’t let you, he held you open. the closer you got to your peak the more your body writhed, your back arched head thrown back playing with your breasts, you could feel the coil within tightening ready to snap.
‘baby i’m gonna cum’
‘look at me when you cum y/n’
it was hard for you to keep your eyes open but it was more of a demand than a suggestion. he laced his fingers with yours, watching him eat you out, the eye contact did things to you and finally, the coil snapped your orgasm hitting you hard. he let you close your legs around his face, your body shaking as the waves of your orgasm hit you, he continued to lap you up which only made your body convulse more. you had a love-hate feeling when lewis would still be between your legs after cumming, it was too much in the best possible way. he finally stopped, your body limp he kissed his way up your body before he kissed you deeply. his hand found their way between your legs and played with your clit,
‘i said i was gonna worship your body and i think making you cum multiple times before your on my cock is how’
before you could register what he was saying he was sinking his fingers into your pussy as he circled your clit. you moaned into his mouth, your arms wrapped around him digging your nails into his back.
‘be a good girl and cum for me again’
‘ahh, fuck…’
your breathing erratic he pushed you over the edge once more. your pussy clenching around his fingers still fucking you, you squirmed trying to escape his fingers but he held you down forcing you to ride your orgasm once more with him playing with your sensitive cunt. he finally pulled out sucking your juices clean of his fingers, you moaned at the sight somehow getting wetter. you were sleepy now the two orgasms had taken a lot from you but you still needed his cock.
‘baby, you’re sleepy maybe we should finish this tomorrow?’
‘no fuck me lewis please, i need your cock’
the way you begged for him whilst sprawled out chest heaving made his cock twitch. he pulled off his boxers, grabbing your legs together he pushed them up to your shoulders before thrusting into your waiting pussy. no word of warning lewis just started to thrust into your hard, you yelped in surprise gripping the bed sheets.
‘fuck y/n, you take me cock so well.’
he groaned as your pussy fluttered around him, pushing your legs back even more practically folding you in half as he slammed into you. you were sure you were gonna rip the sheets off the bed. you were practically delirious, your third orgasm coming you felt like you were in this dream state. he circled your clit as his thrusts got sloppy, all you could do was just lie there and take it. with one hard thrust he let out a guttural moan reaching his peak his cum filled you up.
he slowly pulled out, releasing your legs and leaning in he kissed you softly. he was about to get up to clean you and him but looking down at your pussy fluttering, his cum oozing out was something that never got old. you were so fucked out but he couldn’t resist, he dragged his cum up and down your folds as he did your body convulsed like merely touching your cunt sent an electric shock through you - so sensitive.
‘lewis, i can’t…’
you could sense what was about to happen, he more often than not fucked his cum back into you something about it turned you both on.
‘i think you have one more in you baby’
he smirked, slowly fucking you with his fingers.
‘god your cunt looks so good covered in my cum.’
you moaned, circling your hips to meet his fingers.
‘lewis please’
‘please what? baby, i thought you were done?’
he chuckled teasingly, grabbing you by the throat as he rammed his fingers in you.
‘is this what you want baby?’
‘fu—’
you could barely speak anymore, you were an incoherent mess chanting lewis as he pressed on your clit. without warning you were pushed over the edge as your final orgasm hit your hard, his grip on your throat tightened continuing to plunge his fingers in you till your body stopped shaking.
‘open’
you obliged, tongue out as brought his fingers to your mouth sucking off your mixed juices which tasted divine. he grabbed a washcloth cleaning you up, pulling you under the sheets. you were so half asleep at this point, he pulled you into his arms stroking your cheek
‘you were such a good girl. my good girl, my most important girl’
you curled up into his arm smiling at his words, pressing kisses all over your face you giggled catching his lips with yours. soon you both fell asleep absolutely exhausted and totally blissed out. 
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ladylooch · 6 months
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The reason Timo is on Liv about her and Luca. Is he’s scared he doesn’t want his babygirl to grow up and not need her dad anymore. And he opens up to Liv about and she’s like your my dad I’m always gonna need no matter how old I am.
Liv’s event night was perfect. But there was still more to mend with her dad.
Timo picked Liv up at her apartment and they walked to a local French Bistro for brunch after the group returns to New York. Emma and Timo rearranged their flights to stay for a few more weeks, now that things seem to be trending upwards.
“Did you have a good night on Saturday?” Timo asks after they both order cappuccino’s to drink.
“I did.” She nods, smoothing her hand over the paper menu. Timo folds his hands together and places them on the table. 
“Did mama give you my letter?” He asks.
“She did.” Emma had brought the letter to parents weekend. Liv had cried for hours, reading and re-reading her dad’s sincere, lengthy apology. Her tears made inky circles in several places from dripping off her chin. “It… helped.” Liv nods encouragingly.
“I’m glad. Well, I want to say again that I was out of line in August. I said things to you that I did not mean and I know they hurt you. I am very sorry. I…” He sighs, licking his lips. “My priority as your dad has always been to protect you and I let you down that night… and many nights before that.” 
“Can you tell me why you acted that way?”
“Livy, I don’t know what came over me. You were so defiant to me that night and that’s okay. You don’t have to listen to me anymore. And I was wrong. But there was this scrunch on your face that reminded me of mama and I felt so unimportant. At the same time, it felt like such a disrespect to see what you two were doing so openly.”
“I didn’t know you were home.”
“I know, baby. I know.” Timo reaches out, squeezing her hand. “But also, when you’re a parent… if you want to be a parent… you’ll know how bad it hurts to see your babies grow up and not need you anymore. To me, that is what happened in August.” 
“I’m always going to need you.” Liv murmurs after the waitress sets their drinks down.
“Yeah, but it’s not the same. When you were little, you used to cling to me. All my dress shirts had wrinkles where your fists would clutch the fabric because you didn’t want me to put you down. Lio was kind of like that, but when you came along it was next level. That made me feel like the most important man in the world. Well, and mama, but I miss that. And I guess I’ve always had a hard time with you growing up. Not the boys, you.” 
“Okay, but that’s not fair to me.”
“I know.”
“I deserve to have life experiences without wondering what the guard dog thinks or how he will react.” 
“And you want those with Luca Fiala?”
“Yes. He’s perfect for me. He gets me… like no one else has ever even tried to. I hope you can find a way to want that for me.” 
“I do, Livy. I want you to have that once in a lifetime love. The kind that still gives you butterflies two decades later.” 
“You and mama have always inspired me.” Liv smiles gently. “I talked to mama about when she knew you were the one and… when she tried to put words to it, she couldn’t. It was just a feeling. I know what she means.” Timo smiles, remembering that feeling with Em vividly.
“I’m happy for you. Honestly.” Timo squeezes her hand again. “And I’m really sorry. I hate what my actions did to our relationship. I understand if it takes time for us to be okay again. I want to earn your trust back.” Liv gets up, tears poking her eyes. She throws herself onto Timo, bumping her butt on the table in the process. She’s pretty sure she spilled his water, but once her arms are around his shoulders, she can’t let go. She missed him. Her first and fiercest protector. After several minutes, she settles back into her chair, both of them wiping at fresh tears.
Liv scans the menu for her meal choice, having no incling about her dad’s private, dinner plans with the love of her life.
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could you do an angsty amber x reader??
Sure. I had no ideas for this so this comes from the brain of my younger cousin 😍‼️
(Because I have no friends)
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Plot: reader finds out amber is ghost face and watches her well ya know(dies)
Warnings: blood, guns, r*chie, death, knifes, idrk
This shits really short also unedited so if I made mistakes sorry.
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It wasn’t your plan to fall in love with a serial killer. Plus I’m your defense it’s not like you knew.
The way you had found out was just right after Mindy had gotten attacked and every one had some how made there way into the living room. You had been with amber when she walked into the living room to see Sam and Mindy on the ground. Then liv ran in.
“One of you is the fucking killer!” Amber spoke with you behind her.
“Fuck you, fuck you.” Liv said
“Why the hell is there blood on your hands?” Sam said backing away
“Oh- I I found chad, I found chad he’s-“
“Your fucking lying.” Amber said
“Your the killer.” Richie said
Liv was hyperventilating.
“Liv stop, liv, LIV JUST STOP.”
“Fuck you amber, I’m not the fucking killer!”
“I know” amber then broke out a gun from her back pocket, how the hell didn’t nobody see that and shot Liv dead. Everyone quickly sped out the room, you staying behind trying to comprehend what the hell just happened.
Amber turned to you she didn’t look like she was going to hurt you but you ran out of the room running as fast as you could.
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You had been hiding for a while you still heard screams but knew you couldn’t hide forever. You where hurt, amber fucking freeman screwed you over. I mean what the fuck? She didn’t seem like the type to you know kill people but with all the craziness that goes on in the world we’re re you really surprised?
You slowly made you way out the closet, shaking with the knife in your hand. You opened the door slowly, it making a small creaking sound. You had seen down stairs Richie stabbing Sam which wasn’t good but at least you found out who the other killer l was. You made your way down the stairs and creeped up on Richie and stabbed him in the back quick.
But it was all so fast you couldn’t process the fact that amber had grabbed you and pushed you in the kitchen.
“Damn, you know what I really did love you, I wasn’t gonna plan on killing you but you just had to ruin my plan didn’t you?” Amber said kinda hurt and out of breath
“Amber please.. I’m sorry I’m - im just scared.” You spoke
“Well damn it I was gonna keep you safe, but that whole moved really fucked up my plan!” She yelled
You sobbed quietly as she took the back of your hands and pushed you out onto the living room floor, and stabbed you one. Single. time.
It didn’t kill you but damn did that shit hurt.
“Oh sweetheart, stop crying I’m not gonna kill you, I just wanted you to see how to feels to be stabbed in the back, hurts doesn’t it?” Amber hummed taking her knife and tracing your face with it, pushing down just enough to draw a spec of blood.
She got up and began to walk away and then to her surprise Tara hit her with one of her crunches. She didn’t take it easy on her either, she hit her face, her back, her legs, she really, really got her good. Just not exactly good enough.
Amber reached up grabbed the crunch and pushed it onto Tara, she was so into it didn’t realize her gun wasn’t in her hand anymore. You were still on the floor but you crawled to get the knife. Slowly leaning on a chair to bring yourself up.
Then just like that you stabbed her, in her back, then her neck, then her sides. You didn’t regret, she plopped to the ground, and you stabbed her once more into her stomach. Reaching down into her ear and saying “hurts doesn’t it?” Then getting back in watching the life of her fade away, and you just to be sure stabbed her more times and dropped the knife.
You picked up Tara and carried her to the main entrance where you saw Sam next to Richies dead body.
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krikeymate · 11 months
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In the werewolf au
What if Christina was actually a werewolf and tara just didnt get the gene? Or because of her size she is unable to wolf out/shift?
One night on the full moon christina comes to their house and she grabs tara and obviously tara cant fend off a huge werewolf so she starts getting carried by the scruff and shes trying to take tara home after abandoning her because she couldn’t wolf out. Sam comes and tries to stop christina and they fight and tara is so small compared to them that she ends getting hurt in the process. Sam is able to scare Christina away and when she looks down she sees her little sisters body in her barely conscious state….
(This doesn’t go with my ask but imagine if tara is eventually able to shift into her wolf form but because of her size shes looks just like a small wolf pup 🥺)
Listen, listen... late-bloomer Tara. I already have a plan for fangs for the support - yeah you fuckers never offered anything better so the name has stuck now, way to let me down guys 😞 - but this is SO GOOD that actually now I'm making a split timeline ALREADY. It probably differed enough that I could give it a whole other name but I'm just gonna split it A and B.
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Tara has always been a poor excuse for a wolf.
Most wolves transform by the time they're 5. Sam was 3. At 8 years old, Tara hasn't shown a single sign of transforming. No claws, nor fangs, not a single extra hair on her body. Her nails are blunt and her teeth are dull, her eyesight is ordinary and her hearing is poor. I mean, she has asthma for Selene's sake. What sort of wolf has asthma? None. Except Tara.
Tara's not a wolf at all, she knows, no matter how much Sam tries to convince her otherwise. With every full moon that passes, her mother gets angrier, her father gets more distant. The other kids won't play with her anymore, because only pack can play with pack, and if you're not a wolf, you're not pack.
They drill it into them over and over in their lessons. Only wolves are pack, no humans allowed. Humans are threats. Tara asks her father once what happens if a cub never transforms, and he laughs and tells her that all wolves transform by the light of the moon eventually, there are none that don't. He tells her not to worry, and that her own mother had been a late bloomer herself. She had been 7! That was a year ago. He looks at her suspiciously now, like she's done something wrong, like she wouldn't give anything to be normal.
There's another full moon tonight, Tara doesn't even bother joining her family downstairs. She doesn't want to see Sam's sad pitying eyes, or her parent's angry glares as they're reminded their daughter is a freak of nature.
She's drawing a picture for Sam - Sam always brings her something back from the moon-runs, and she wants to have something to give to Sam for a change - when she hears the growling from behind her.
It's her father.
Tara's never been scared of her father before, but something about the way he's looking at her makes her slip off her desk chair and back away.
"Dad," she calls out. "Why aren't you outside?"
The wolf takes another step forward, Tara takes another step back. In a flash the wolf leaps at her, and Tara drops to the floor, rolling onto her side. Her father's jaw snaps at her twice before attaching itself to her shoulder.
It hurts like nothing she's ever experienced before. Her chest begins to tighten as she begs him to let go, tears beginning to fall.
He takes no notice, dragging her from the room. He's so tall her feet hardly brush against the floor. It's all she can do to walk in tandem to reduce the pain.
He drags her through the house, out into the garden and through the gate at the back of the fence, left open for the full moon. He takes her deep into the woods behind their home and throws her to the ground in a moonlit clearing. He lunges and she scrambles further away, into the centre.
At the other side she can see her mother and sister. Sam tries to move forward but her mother nudges her back with a growl. Sam lets out a confused whine.
While she's distracted, her father leaps forward and clamps his jaw around her leg. Tara thinks she hears a crunch, but she can't hear much over the sound of her own scream. The next thing she knows, a paw is swooping down at her face, and she barely manages to raise her arms to protect it. She feels hot breath against her neck, and then it's gone.
Tara struggles to breathe through the pain. Her hands become slippery with blood as she curls up. It drips into her eyes as she tries to peer through her blurry vision to figure out what's going on. She wonders if they left her here to die.
As she breathes deep, her hearing comes back to her, and she learns she's not alone after all. She can hear growling and barking, a yelp. There's the sound of fighting in the distance.
Tara wants to move, to get up, but the pain is too great. All she can do is lie there crying, curled up and shivering in the cold.
Eventually, the noises stop with a howl, and a nose brushes against her neck. She can't help the whimper that escapes her. The wolf responds with a whine of their own, tongue darting out to lick at her shoulder wound.
They nudge at her arms, rolling her onto her back, and when Tara peeks through her hands it's her sister's familiar amber eyes above her.
Her tears begin to fall faster, a sob escaping her lips as she reaches up to grab at Sam's neck. The wolf laps at her tears, nuzzling against her. The warmth of Sam's body on hers keeps the chill night air at bay, and she finally begins to feel safe. It leaves her exhausted.
Sam pulls her up by her teeshirt, fangs tearing through the material, and pulls her to the side. Tara finds she can't stand on her injured leg, the pain of trying unbearable. The wolf crouches down with a bark, tail wagging so Tara understands what she's telling her to do. Tara climbs onto Sam's back and wraps her arms around her neck. They used to do this all the time, until last year when her parents said Sam had to spend the moons with the pack now, that she couldn't spend all her time babysitting Tara.
Sam stands up and takes her home.
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anime-dreams · 6 months
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Gojo's and Geto's thoughts during the KFC breakup HAHAHHAHAHA
Theme: SatoSugu mwah
Warnings: none, angst??? (i mean it's SatoSugu so what do yall expect besides angst i hope my writing can bring out the angst thou) not proofread!!
Authors note: hi beautiful people, this is my first time trying this out so my sincerest apologies if i did smt wrong that caused any kind of inconvenience for yall. SatoSugu broke my heart and i havent felt the same way since i read that darn In Another Life fanfic (i loved it thou anyone who watches Haikyuu and ships BokuAka should go check it out). Anyways my ultimate goal here is to make yall cry over SatoSugu again cuz i cant seem to get over them :/ hahahaha
Gojo's POV:
I heard what Yaga said. My brain could not process it in time. “Huh?” 
The only thoughts running through my mind was “No. it must be a mistake. No, Suguru would never.” Denial, denial, denial. I was confused. I was mad. Not mad at you, but at those damned old gits that tried to blame this on you. It had to be a misunderstanding… right? My mind told me you’ve changed. But my heart and soul still holds onto that last shred of hope. I tried everything to reach you, and eventually got ahold of your whereabouts through Shoko.
I recognised your figure amidst the busy streets of Shinjuku immediately. “Explain yourself, Suguru.” you paused. Your reply was stark.  “You heard it from Shoko, right? That’s all there is.” You didn’t even bother to turn, didn’t even bother to look into my eyes to say those words. I grind my teeth. “So you’re just gonna kill everyone who’s not a jujutsu sorcerer? Even your parents?” That shred of hope was slowly sliding out of my grasp. “I can’t allow my parents to be a special exception.” You sounded crazy. Your words were insane. I feel like i don’t understand you anymore.
When you told me that there was a point to kill, and that you were aiming to eliminate all non-sorcerers from this world, that hope disappeared completely. Who are you now? I was looking at a familiar face, yet it was clouded in a shroud of unfamiliarity. It was impossible to do so. I yelled at you, to try and get you back to your senses.
I tried, so you won’t leave, although a part of me already knew how this would end. Every cell in my body rejected that inescapable truth. Every nerve in my body rejected that inevitable outcome. You finally turned, and my eyes locked with yours. My heart skipped a beat, and my breathing hitched. Those dark eyes were like nocturnal oceans, with secrets shimmering in the depths. Those dark eyes that once had the light of life, those dark eyes that turned steely when they met mine.  “Are you the strongest because you’re Satoru Gojo, or does being the strongest make you Satoru Gojo?” What sort of a dumb question is that? You’re not making any sense. “What are you trying to say?” “If I had your powers, don’t you think that chances would be higher that my foolish ideal would become a reality?” just for a split second, sorrow flashed in your eyes, and it was gone so fast I couldn’t be sure it was even there in the first place.
Your eyes hardened into solid obsidian. “Satoru, I have decided how to live my life, and what's left is doing the best I can to achieve it. Goodbye, Satoru” I was stumped again. No. No. No, no, no, no. We didn’t come this far just to come this far. The words that cursed you crawled up my throat, but I couldn't find my voice. You turned your back firmly on me, and reality came crashing down. You were leaving. There will never be ‘us’ again. I will never be the same again. Was I nothing to you? Was I someone you just used, and throw away? How are you able to turn your back so easily on me?
I don't even know which pain is worse. The shock of what had happened, or the ache of what never will. I stood there, wanting to run after you, shout at you, beg you to stay, but I know, even if I do catch up to you, you will still fade into the crowd. Even if, by some miracle, you do stay, we will never be the same again. I swallowed, my hands trembling as I raised them up. I had to do it. I'm not born strongest for nothing. I'm strong enough to do this. You are a criminal after all. I should do it, I must do it. Your silhouette blurred each step you took, walking away from me, just like my future, how i cannot visualize without you in it, foggy and unclear. My hands paused, then fell back limply to my sides. I am…  not strong enough after all. Because it's you. Suguru, truth is, I think I already felt you leaving even before you left, but don’t you think I at least deserved a better ‘goodbye’ than this? Now I have to remember you for longer than I've kept you. No more riding on your shikigamis to school. No more going on missions together. No more joking around and annoying everyone else. No more…you, just the memories. Yeah, I think I can live with that. I should be able to. I'm the strongest, after all.
Geto's POV:
"Explain yourself, Suguru.” I recognised your voice immediately, and stopped in my tracks. I couldn’t turn, I couldn't face you without betraying my emotions. I knew you would confront me sooner or later. And I wasn't ready for that yet. “You heard it from Shoko, right? That's all there is.”
I could see your facial expressions in my mind’s eye. Your eyebrows knitted in frustration and anger, your teeth grinding together. The urge to turn and see you with my own eyes grew. “So you’re just gonna kill everyone who’s not a Jujutsu sorcerer? Even your parents?” “I cant allow my parents to be a special exception.” I know I must sound insane to you now, Satoru. But I promise you will understand. Once I achieved that ideal future for us. 
When you yelled at me that it was impossible for me to wipe out every single one of those non-sorcerers from this world, I heard it in your voice. The pain, the betrayal, the hurt, the anger, all directed at me. I braced myself, and turned, and I saw your face, twisted with rage and anguish. My gaze locked with yours. Your eyes that once held the most beautiful blue of the deep sea, had now became icy crystals, sharp and cold, but still breathtaking and pristine.
My front almost melted right there and then and I almost ran right back to you. But I held my ground. Because I knew that I had to be the one to do it. Because you won’t. I knew that the odds were against me, I knew that the chances of me succeeding were far and few between, but I had to try. For a better future for you, for us. And i blurted out my thoughts. “Are you the strongest because you’re Satoru Gojo, or does being the strongest make you Satoru Gojo?” Those beautiful blue eyes darkened with confusion. “What are you trying to say?” “If I had your powers, don’t you think that chances would be higher that my foolish ideal would become a reality?”
Exorcise, absorb, over and over. Who am I doing this for? Who are we doing this for? After seeing Nanami’s breakdown over Haibara’s death, I just cant let it go on anymore, Satoru. If the only thing waiting for us sorcerers at the end of the climb is a mountain of our friends’ corpses, then…  “Satoru, I have decided how to live my life, and what's left is doing the best i can to achieve it. Goodbye, Satoru” I didn't know what else to say, except that it tore the heart out of my body saying goodbye to you.
Before i could allow myself to see the pain already beginning to seep into your face, and let my cowardice take over me, I memorized your features and turned my back on you. It was the hardest thing I've ever forced myself to do. It was excruciating, like carrying a heavy boulder up a steep, endless mountain, each step I took that increased the distance between us was an agonizing struggle. Satoru, you have no idea how many times I wanted to let go of that boulder, and make my way back to you. That would’ve been too easy, a much too comfortable feeling. But for the sake of our futures, I could not.
I'm sorry, Satoru. Part of me hoped that I would hear your familiar footsteps running after me, part of me hoped that you will tell me to stay. But I'm glad you didn't, because I'm sure, if you had done that, I will not have the strength to resist anymore. Because it’s you. 
I could feel it in my bones, your arms reaching, and I braced myself for the incoming reversal red. It never happened.
Actually, Satoru, I think I knew. I knew from the moment I met you that I'll spend an entire lifetime missing you. I know you deserved a better goodbye, I'm so sorry. But I promise our paths will cross again, maybe a few years later, and I promise then, I'll bring a better world to you. Satoru, between the moon and stars, I'm glad that I stepped onto the same land and dreamt, played and lived under the same sky as you.
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“I am a Monster” “No, not to me”
Summary: Hero finally snaps to the suprise of Villain Hero just ran into his arms without thinking, clutching onto Villain as if it is the last thing he will be able to do. Villain couldn’t understand what just happened. He wanted to hold one of his talks, how he got Hero now that he knows his home and identity. He didn’t expect a Hero close to collapse opening the door, looking like he didn’t sleep for 21 nights. On instinct he closed his arms around hero, petting his back like it’s what he always does at the end of day. “Who was it, who do I need to end?” “It´s fine” Hero couldn’t stop trembling, to exhausted to do anything else “Fine? I was here to trap you, break you after finding your only safe space. I tried to kill you before and still I am the one you trust with this state of yours? Don’t make me look like a fool. Did those fancy little towns people finally show their true face. No more applause for their savior huh?” Hero’s grip got tighter, and he couldn’t control the trembling anymore. Villain thought he got him now, but he noticed a facade crumbling he didn’t think was there. “They say I’m a monster! Because I stopped that building from collapsing. That there are people injured forever because I stopped them and others from dying. But I am the monster. What would they do if I just accept it? Would they be happy. I don’t care anymore for these people. They can all go to hell for what I care.” “Never thought I heard those words from the great Hero of this City!” Hero couldn’t stand it anymore, to many emotions at once in his head, he couldn’t coordinate one thought. All that was left was the anger taking him over. He regained his strength and with the already tight grip on Villain, he easily pushed both of them on the ground. Pinning Villain beneath him rendering him defenseless and gripping his throat with one of his hands. Being stripped of his humanity by the people he wanted to help, hearing it day in and out that he is a danger to the city, Hero snapped and decided to give in, drop his act of accepting the hate and giving in to his emotions. Villain could have never foreseen this, he wanted to trap him and get him on his side. Now he wasn’t so sure anymore who would be the one turning the city into a sea of flames. “I don’t need your words. Trying to get whatever it is you want! I’m done with this. I’m done helping people that don’t even see me as something worth of living. This City wants a real Monster, they can get that! I’m gonna create a sea of flames eating up everything in its wake. They gonna beg for forgiveness. That they shouldn’t have said these things. It’s too late now… I’m gonna … I’m gonna !!!” And with that it all got too much Hero couldn’t hold it in anymore, all these emotions got the upper hand, he could only get up and run, away from it all was all he could think about. So, he vanished into the night. Leaving behind a confused Villain that thought of himself as dead, that it was over. Now he slowly got up, trying to process what just happened. Hero never gripped his throat tight enough to seriously injure him. He couldn’t get a word out, completely overwhelmed by Hero´s burst of emotions and words. He wanted to run after him, help him through it all. But why, no he wanted him dead right that’s why he was here in the first place, right? He wanted to try to convince him, to join him in his schemes … He wanted him by his … side? He touched his throat the feeling of a hand gripping around him still fresh. Now Villain was the one confused by these emotions he was sure shouldn’t exist inside him. After all this he snapped, a massively confused and hurt Hero is running around on the streets in a City that wants to see him locked behind bars if not worse. He got up as quickly as possible and sprinted after Hero.
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