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antoine-triplett · 2 years
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Nate/Jamie + Accountability
The theme of accountability is one of my favorites from the show and I love how it’s addressed in the second season especially.
Nate bullies the new kit boy mercilessly (even though he seems like a little sweetheart and gets along with absolutely everyone else) and also picks on Colin numerous times, who was admittedly one of his tormentors from early in season 1. What is so disappointing about the Colin situation is that Colin actually tries to tackle their dispute in a mature way, the way that he has been taught by his new coaches to respond to an issue. He approaches Nate when they are alone and asks directly if there is a problem. Nate’s response is weirdly mean and personal, as Coach Beard points out. He doesn’t pick on Jamie or Issac who also bullied him (Colin makes this valid point) because he’s still afraid of real confrontation. Will, Colin, and Ted are all much easier to belittle than Jamie or Issac and the chance of retaliation from any of them is more or less non-existent. 
Speaking of Jamie, one of my favourite scenes from the season was the one where his father showed up in the locker room. Jamie does end up hitting him, but first, like Colin, he tries to stand up for himself using words. He asks his father not to speak to him so disrespectfully (in his place of work, in front of all his co-workers and boss btw which is so incredibly shitty as someone who has had a parent do something similar). Jamie spent the second season being accountable for his behavior in the first season. He does the emotional work of gaining back the team’s trust and doesn’t expect it to just be handed to him. He stands up to his dad properly, not just with a punch in the face. He mends fences with Roy and earns his respect.
This is an interesting parallel between him and Nate who obviously feels like the world owes him something. Instead of confronting his own father, which is clearly where many of his issues with self-esteem stem from, Nate decides to make Ted, who again is an incredibly easy target, take the blame. Ted will take that blame and carry that guilt, even if he doesn’t necessarily deserve it.
Ted isn’t without blame in certain situations, but in the case of Nate, I don’t think he did anything wrong. He has been as consistently supportive of Nate as he has been of anyone else. He’s also being paid to be a support system for the players so it makes sense that he would be more focused on them. If at any point during the season Nate had gone to Ted and voiced his feelings, Ted would have listened. Instead he betrays Ted’s trust, blind-sides him during a game, and makes awful digs about his kid. All class. Sure to produce positive results.
I wish they would have made a bigger deal out of him kissing Keeley (I thought Coach Beard was kind of the only one who had a proper WTF reaction to that) when it was completely inappropriate. The fact that Nate assumed Keeley would tell Roy about Jamie’s confession but not their kiss is also a red flag for his over-inflated sense of self. It’s a real indicator of his emotional maturity level. He only tells Roy after he finds out about Jamie; he desperately wants to be seen on the same level as the footballer, in spite of them being completely, vastly different people.
I honestly hope they find a way to redeem his character next season. We’ve seen how good he can be when he isn’t trying so hard to impress everyone and it’s something this show is more than capable of pulling off.
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acecroft · 3 years
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I'm gonna scour this island inch by inch if I have to-- until I find that treasure. Now, if you're confused about what you're doing here... then you can go home, Nathan.
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hookingminor · 2 years
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baby, you make me crazy (pt 4) - tyson jost
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a/n: I hate proofreading fics bc it’s like damn I kinda hate this and also who let the dirty slut out of the slut house and allowed her to write this
word count: 3.8k
warnings (18+): mentions of alcohol, smut (unprotected), quite nsfw, not sorry
1 / 2 / 3
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4. The Intervention
Tyson should’ve known better than to admit anything to JT because within twenty-four hours, the entire team knew of Tyson’s predicament. He was liable to beat his best friend up.
The shit-eating grins were endless the first practice they found out. Three long, insufferable hours were filled with chirps and a chorus of “I told you so”s and pitiful laughter every time someone skated by him on the ice.
Celebratory shouts soon fell to silence when Tyson had to admit you weren’t actually a thing yet, he’d only come to the conclusion that he wanted more with you. He still had no idea what he was going to do about it though.
He almost clocked Cale in the head after finding out he’d supposedly won the internal bet the team had going on about when Tyson would finally realize he was into you. Stupid fucker placed his bet on before the end of this hockey season (half of them had already lost since it was well past their deadline and only Sam, Nate, and JT were still in the running). Tyson almost didn’t care that Cale was, probably, the nicest one on the team; it was still a betrayal. One he couldn’t even really be mad at since technically they were all right.
Still, Tyson’s list of “friends he wanted to punch” was growing infinitely longer.
In addition to Cale and JT, Mikko had soon climbed to the number one position on that list. This fucker had it coming for real.
Mikko knew exactly what he was doing the second he greeted you at the charity event, coming up from behind you and wrapping his arms around your middle to pull you flush against his chest and then placing a kiss on your cheek. Mikko had always been touchy with you, except now it was getting on Tyson’s nerves.
Tyson’s jaw clenched in anger when you didn’t immediately push yourself out of his grip. Instead, you only laughed at Mikko’s flirtation and ran your hand over his arm and returned the sentiment with a cheek kiss of your own. Well, it would’ve been a cheek kiss if he wasn’t so damn tall, so it landed on the corner of his jaw instead. And all the while, Mikko kept eye contact with Tyson. The little shit had the nerve to even send him a knowing smirk.
“You’re going to break your jaw clenching that hard, Josty. You all right over there?” Mikko chirped, giving your hip a too-friendly squeeze.
Tyson had never actually hit someone in a true fit of anger before, but he was about to break his pacifist rule very soon if Mikko didn’t take his hands off of you. Tyson especially tried his hardest not to think about the brief crush you harbored for his Finnish friend when you first met him. Maybe you even asked Tyson to set him up with Mikko, and that thought sat like lead in his stomach now.
His grip around the champagne glass tightened as a surge of possessiveness rolled through him. You were the unofficial Avalanche girlfriend for all the single guys on the team, though Tyson always had dibs on you first because you were his best friend. It was easy because you weren’t tied to anyone specific, but that thought grated on Tyson now.
You wingwoman-ed at bars, sometimes playing the role of a satisfied ex-lover when needed or stepping in when other women got too close and they weren’t into it. You stepped up and made those charity baskets for Andre every year without fail. You made Mikko a week’s worth of food dishes when he’d broken his collarbone. Hell, you and Cale had your own secret little book club that no one else knew about. It shouldn’t have bothered Tyson that they were all so close to you. It never bothered him before now.
Still, you were Tyson’s date. Which meant Tyson had claim over you for the evening, and he was done letting his teammate feel you up. That was his job, damn it.
“Get your own date, Mikko. She’s mine for the night,” Tyson laughed, though it was laced with a threat. He smiled, but it was forced and everyone knew it as they chuckled along. Tyson had it bad.
They all sent him knowing looks when Tyson pulled you by the wrist into his side. He kept his arm around your waist, high enough to be respectful but low enough to let them all know to not fucking touch you again or he’d be practicing slap shots on them next practice.
He figured it was only a matter of time before one of them said something stupid. “Do you want to get a drink?” Tyson whispered into your ear, hoping you’d say yes so you could get some reprieve.
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Tyson kept you pressed to his side for the remainder of the evening, hand gently cupping your waist while he introduced you to donors and sponsors.
Did he always stand so close to you? Was he always this touchy? It’s like you could feel every inch where your bodies connected even through layers of fabric. It didn’t help that you actually knew how he felt against you without all those layers.
You’d be a liar if you said the scent of his cologne wasn’t lighting tiny fires inside of you every time you got a whiff of it near his collar. Was it appropriate to call the way someone smelled erotic and heady? Because your entire body felt hot.
His scruff was the perfect length, his curls were freshly washed and dried, and he even put on a new suit you hadn’t seen before. You weren’t sure how he picked out such a stunning suit considering his usual array was dismal at best, but he looked good. Better than he normally did, and it was going to your head like the champagne in your glass.
All you wanted to do was pull him to your mouth by his tie and kiss him deeply. And then maybe use that tie to knot him to a headboard and have your way with him.
Perhaps all the drinks were getting to you if you were thinking about Tyson like this.
It went on like that for an hour, Tyson making small talk with old, balding white men while you smiled wistfully and tried not to let your dirty imaginations run wild which was incredibly hard to do when his thumb ran mindless circles over your hip. You couldn’t remember the conversations you had with people within seconds of leaving. Thank god you weren’t actually expected to schmooze like the other significant others.
You could see the eyebrows quirk in interest when Tyson introduced you as a friend, though the flexing of his hand on your hip said he wasn’t happy with the new looks thrown your way.
When Tyson had picked you up for the event, he knew you looked good. He’d risen to a semi by the time you walked back down to the car, but the fact that you looked like a delicious cupcake he wanted to unwrap and eat didn’t fully hit him until the first old man let his gaze linger on your chest too long for it to be considered respectful.
Fuck. Did you always get so much attention from guys?
It didn’t help that everyone was at least in their mid-thirties, rich, and some of them even married. Tyson was already competing with one rich guy for your attention, he didn’t need anyone else throwing their hat into the ring.
The looks were leering, glancing up and down your body to size you up, and Tyson was starting to think maybe your décolletage was too enticing in that dress. His hand clenched on your hip before he could help himself.
“If you’ll excuse us, we have a few other people to greet,” Tyson smiled politely, though he was feeling anything but.
“Of course. It was lovely making your acquaintance, Y/N. And good luck next week in Dallas, Jost.” Tyson couldn’t steer you away from the man fast enough.
“Asshole,” Tyson muttered under his breath when the donor was out of ear shot.
You laughed and poked his side. “Be nice. They’re the ones who pay your salary.”
“The least they could do is not ogle my date right in front of me,” he scoffed.
“How could they not?” You teased, stepping in front of him to give him a flirtatious twirl. “Have you seen the way I’m wearing this dress?”
His jaw tightened before your eyes while his dipped down to your chest briefly before meeting your stare. You’d recognize a lust-filled look anywhere. “Yes,” Tyson said through a pained groan. “I have.”
You raised an eyebrow. Maybe you weren’t the only one whose head was left a little scrambled after the mind-blowing sex you had.
You stepped back into his space and slid your hand across his abdomen underneath his suit jacket. He tensed beneath your touch. “I know you said it was only a one time thing,” you leaned in to whisper into his ear. “But we could always head out early and take this back to your place.”
“You serious?” He asked, glancing down at you, desire written across his face. A hand curled around your neck, and he tugged roughly to tilt your head back. A soft gasp escaped your lips. Biting your lip, you nodded your head.
It was a terrible idea, but Tyson was a glutton for punishment so he reached into his pocket to retrieve his valet card and slid it into your palm. “Go get the car. I’ll go tell the guys goodbye.”
Lust clouded your mind as you exited the hotel, and you barely registered giving Tyson’s name to the valet or the wait for him to pull the car around. The car ride back passed in a blur, the tension between you two sitting thick while you sat with clenched thighs and Tyson white-knuckled the steering wheel.
He parked the car and led you to the hidden freight elevator in the parking garage. Typing his passcode in record speed, it took a split second for the elevator to shift into motion before he was pulling you against his body.
“Still sure about this?” He asked again, letting his hands drift down to your ass and giving it a hearty squeeze.
“Mhm,” you hummed with a smile. “Not gonna get weird on me, are you, Tys?”
Oh boy, if you only knew.
Tyson didn’t say anything because he couldn’t lie to you or incriminate himself, so he chose to lower his head to yours instead. Your lips met in a hot kiss, hands immediately going to wrap around his shoulders to pull yourself closer. A deep groan sounded from his throat, and he pressed your hips closer to his until you could feel his hard cock against your stomach.
The elevator dinged when you arrived at his floor, and you broke the kiss long enough to unlock his apartment, which was the first door thankfully, and shove yourselves inside.
The door clicks shut behind you, and Tyson’s hands were back on your waist, his lips back on yours and guiding you to the nearest surface: his kitchen counter.
Hard granite bit into the small of your back as Tyson pressed you against it, and his mouth left yours to attach itself to your neck. Kisses spread along your jaw and down your throat, and he paused every few moments to bite your skin before soothing it over with his tongue.
His roaming hands sliding the fabric of your dress up and over your hips had your eyes rolling to the back of your head while his scruff rubbed your neck raw. God, you’d kill to feel that on the inside of your thighs.
You were thoroughly soaked through your panties by now, and if you were being honest, they were ruined halfway through the event. Tyson just looked that fucking good and you couldn’t not think about his hands caressing your body when you were that close to him all night.
“How bad do you want it, baby?” He growled in your ear, hooking his fingers underneath your thong and shoving it down your hips. You kicked the ruined fabric off to the side carelessly, too preoccupied with Tyson’s lips licking over the exposed skin of your chest.
“Bad,” you admitted on a sigh. “Please, Tys. I need you to fuck me.”
“Yeah? Have you been thinking about me since last time?” His teeth nipped at your ear.
You hesitated for a moment. Yeah, you were lust-drunk, but were you horny enough to admit that you had been thinking about him? Even after you said you wouldn’t? You couldn’t help that his face popped into your head every time you brought your trusty vibrator between your legs. The usual hot celebrity men no longer did it for you. Henry Cavill’s beautiful face morphed into Tyson’s the second you let yourself get caught up in your masturbatory fantasies. All you could envision was your best friend between your legs, working you to orgasm and edging you.
Tyson noticed your pause and decided to bite the bullet. “What if I told you I’ve been thinking about you? Constantly. What if I told you that every time I jerked myself off on the road, I imagined it was your hand gripping me and squeezing me? I fucked myself to the thought of your tight pussy every night.”
“Oh god,” you whined at his confession, pools of wetness dripping down your thighs. You needed him badly.
“Well? Did you think of me?” Two fingers slid through your folds, and he moaned at the way you soaked them instantly.
“Yes,” you said.
“Did you get yourself off to me like I did?” You nodded.
“What did you imagine?” He asked, slowly circling your clit.
“You,” you gasped. “Fucking me deep. From behind. Filling me up.”
His breath turned ragged, each intake sounding painful as he listened to you list your fantasies. Your fingernails dug into his bicep while Tyson slipped his fingers into your cunt, stretching you open in the way you’d been desperate for since the last time he fucked you.
You’d been so on edge all night that the drag of his fingers against your walls had you cresting that high quickly. You were seconds away from coming before he was removing his fingers and flipping you around.
The abrupt movement had your head spinning as Tyson bent you over and pressed your chest to the countertop. “We should make that dream a reality, huh?” He said lowly, against your back.
His hand pressed against your spine while his other hiked up the rest of your dress over your ass to expose yourself to him. “Tyson, please,” you moaned with your cheek pressed to the granite. Your toes barely touched the ground as Tyson parted your ass cheeks, running his thumb through the wetness coating you.
“Fuck, baby,” he cursed. “You've been wet like this for me all night? I would’ve taken care of this earlier had you said something.” He would’ve skipped the entire event if he knew.
His touch was torturous, teasing your folds lightly while you wiggled underneath him. “Stop teasing me and fuck me already,” you begged.
“You know I like to play with my food first,” he chuckled deeply, keeping his touch featherlight.
Your eyes fell shut in agony, wishing for this torment to end. You thought he was finally done messing with you when you heard him unbuckle his belt, but he only pulled his cock out to run it through your folds and not rail you like you wanted.
“Tyson,” you groaned in exasperation.
“I don’t think I’m done hearing you beg quite yet.” His head caught your clit with the next pass.
“Please fuck me,” you begged without hesitation. “Please, Tyson. I need you so bad, I haven’t stopped thinking about you since I rode you on that couch. I’m so empty without you.” God, you sounded like a slut but you couldn’t be bothered to care right now.
“Next time, I’m going to take my time with you until you’re coming on my tongue,” Tyson promised, and the next second he was pushing into you with a harsh thrust. Your mind was already fuzzy thinking about a next time with Tyson.
Simultaneous moans left your throats when he seated himself to the hilt, and he felt impossibly deeper than last time with this angle. Your toes were fully off the floor now with the force of Tyson rocking you forward on the counter. The pain of the granite cutting into your hips was distant though you were sure you’d have bruises tomorrow, but nothing else mattered other than the feeling of Tyson’s cock splitting you open.
“Oh, Tyson,” you cried out when he hit that spot deep inside you, and your orgasm took you by surprise when he passed over it a second time.
You quivered below him, eyes screwed shut while you shattered and clenched around him.
“Already, babe?” He chuckled behind you, giving you no reprieve as he fucked you through it. The squeezing of your cunt felt like heaven and hell around him.
Your jaw had fallen slack while he continued to fuck you, your entire body feeling overstimulated even though he’d barely been touching you. He was fucking dangerous if he could make you this overwhelmed with barely even trying.
Your brain was complete mush, and your words were incoherent moans by the time Tyson was stilling inside you and pumping you full of his cum. The feeling was scarily satisfying, his cum filling you deep and even dripping down your thighs when he managed to pull out and collapse his head against your shoulder blades.
His breaths came out in pants against your skin, his world thoroughly rocked for the second time. If Tyson had any doubts that the first time was a fluke, they were all put to rest now. He was positive no one would ever do it for him like you. You were just too perfect.
You were on the verge of passing out when you felt his fingers trail between your thighs, collecting at the cum still slowly sliding down your thigh and bringing it back to your pussy.
“Too much,” you slurred when his fingers pressed against your entrance, making you twitch when they pushed back inside you.
“It’s always too much with you,” he comments quietly, burying himself knuckle-deep. “You can give me one more, baby. I know you can.”
The words roll through your body, the sweetest of praises as Tyson continues to mutter encouragements in your ear. He fucks you with his fingers slowly, and you’re reduced to a boneless pile with only Tyson’s name on your lips as he brings you to the edge again.
Your second orgasm has your toes curling and fingers clenching the counter as Tyson leaves open-mouth kisses along your back. “Good girl,” he whispers as he feels you squeeze around him.
Your body floats back down to earth after his fingers leave your cunt, and he plants your feet soundly back on the ground. You brought your hands underneath your forehead to steady yourself and catch your breath, your mind still on cloud-nine and not ready to leave this happy bubble of orgasms.
The soft feel of tissues cleaning between your thighs takes you by surprise, and you gasp as Tyson wipes away the cum coating your pussy before shimmying your dress back down.
“You good, babe?” Tyson asked as he pulled you upright. You were a little unsteady on your feet and most definitely lust-drunk now as you looked up at your best friend with those hazy bedroom eyes. “You look like a lost doe.”
“I feel like one too,” you laughed lightly, holding onto his arm for support.
His hand cups the back of your neck and brings you in for a sweet kiss, and you meet it eagerly and pliantly.
“We should get you to bed,” Tyson smiles at you, caressing your cheek with his thumb. You nod in agreement.
“Only if you promise we can do this again in the morning,” you said without reservation, too satisfied to think better of your words.
Tyson only laughs. “Okay, off to bed with you, you hussy. I’ll be there in a minute. Help yourself to whatever clothes you want. Or don’t.” He nips at your jaw.
You stare at him, lost and with wide doe-eyes like you’re waiting for his next instruction. Your glazed-over look is immensely pleasing to Tyson, and he turns you towards the bedroom and sends you off with a pat on the ass.
You hurry down the hall and disappear into his bedroom while Tyson finishes locking up, securing the front door and making sure all the lights are off. A ping sounds from a corner near the front door, and Tyson recognizes it as your phone that’s been long forgotten in your purse.
Curiosity gets the best of him, and maybe he wants to make sure it’s not an emergency someone’s trying to alert you of, so he checks your phone.
Will: I’m off call next weekend if you’d like to get together. I really want to see you again. There is a symphony orchestra on Saturday if you’re interested.
The message has Tyson’s back straightening in agitation as he reads over it again. Fucking hell. When were you finally going to cut this guy off? Tyson was starting to become more than annoyed at Will’s presence in your life. Annoyance would slowly be turning into anger if he stayed around much longer.
Maybe it was petty on Tyson’s part, but he was doing it for good reason when he unlocked your phone with the passcode you gave to Tyson and opened the text thread. Will wasn’t right for you anyway.
So Tyson edited the thread, clicked on Will’s last message, and deleted it. Then he locked your phone and tucked it back into your purse.
Good riddance.
Whatever brief and faint guilt he felt over deleting the text soon faded when he heard you call his name from the bedroom asking where he was at, and he set your purse back down on the ground before going to join you.
He shed his tie and button-up the second he crossed his bedroom door and found you nestled under his sheets and waiting for him. He sure as hell wasn’t going to feel bad about deleting that message with you in his bed looking freshly fucked and cute as hell.
This is where you belonged. In Tyson’s bed and cuddling into his side and waking up next to him. Will could go to hell because there was no way Tyson was letting you go now.
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aberfaeth · 3 years
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good evening and welcome to another episode of casey’s nonsense leverage crossovers: the ted lasso edition
(this was entirely born out of my desire to see ted and nate interact because holy shit can you imagine)
rupert mannion is a world class asshole richer than god who skirts responsibility at every turn. there’s no way he hasn’t done something to put himself on leverage’s radar.
they plan to run a scam around the club but then there is a messy messy divorce and the club isn’t his and they have to back up and regroup
now the plan is to figure out a way to sell him a part of the club that he will think is legal but in a way they can twist it to make it illegal
what i’m saying is sophie and parker are the milk sisters. from then on i’m not sure about plot but let’s be real this is about the DYNAMICS babey!
keeley is in love with sophie devereaux RIGHT AWAY. rebecca is weirdly jealous of this but then she realizes that sophie is incredible and now rebecca is also in love with sophie just a little bit
nate has no fucking clue what to make of the human hallmark card that is theodore ted lasso. he is trying to find the evil in this man and he just can’t do it. he wants for nothing. bribes don’t work, threats don’t work. one day he hears ted talk about his son in a way that feels achingly familiar and the next day there’s a little box of biscuits presented to him and ted has this look in his eye like he knows. nate hightails it the fuck out of there
roy kent eliot spencer. that’s all.
hardison is a big football geek. he genuinely can’t grift around the team because he’s too excited but like it works very well because he can feed nate information about any of the players without looking it up
parker is WILDLY good at football. she’s never really played before but she’s so agile and has such good coordination that she ends up “what like it’s hard?”ing at least three grown men at the sport they play for a living
the truth comes out, eventually. everyone takes it surprisingly well, save for a bit of smugness from jamie who thought something was off about the crew almost immediately and has to be banned from saying i told you so.
parker and beard hit it off. the entire team is in love with sophie now. keeley and hardison share tips on how to take care of your grumpy idiot and hardison teaches her some hacking stuff because she already has the coding base from her PR work. ernie lounds beware
ted sees nate and hardison interact one single time and then pulls nate aside to be like You Know You Really Ought To Tell That Young Man You Appreciate Him More and nate is just. who ARE you. but then that night nate thanks hardison for some benign task he does every other week and hardison gets this huge smile on his face, beyond amused, like. coach got to you, huh?
eliot and ted bonding over the heartland, and food. eliot teaching phoebe and nora how to really knock someone’s teeth out. eliot finding that he’s fine running, but he’s sort of stellar in goal, and bonding with zoreaux over that
and heaven help whoever makes trouble for afc richmond. because nate ford does not pull his fucking punches when it comes to people he cares about. and that includes these idiots now
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gingerthesimp · 4 years
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Heartless monster
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Warnings: kinda toxic relationship, slight cursing, mention of rape, drug use, violence and some smut at the end
Summary: Nate and y/n have been dating for a few months. She´s the complete opposite of every other girl her boyfriend has dated before. And when she wants to make it public he doesn’t approve, so she decides to make him jealous. Seems like her plan worked...  
Nate <3: im a mckays right now. i will pick u up a bit later.
“Fucking idiot!”, I muttered under my breath after taking a hit from my mango flavored puff bar. A million thoughts coursed through my head, “Is he really at McKay’s? What does later mean? IS HE TALKING TO OTHER GIRLS?” This is the real me. Insecure, nervous and possessive. I’m not the cocky bitch everyone sees in me.
 I tried to call Nate a few times but of course he had other things to do. After lying on my bed and waiting for him to call for another 20 minutes I decided to get up and go to Fez’ shop since he is one of my best friends. I was sure at least he would be happy to see me. 
 “Mom? I’m meeting a friend of mine. See you later.”, I shouted after putting on my shoes. My mother was currently in a little midlife crisis and didn’t want to communicate with anyone and I respect that. 
 The walk to Fezco’s shop didn’t take long and I honestly really enjoy walking in the dark, even if I was risking getting raped or even worse. 
 “y/n! What are you doing here?”, Fez exclaimed after I opened the door to the little gas station and before coming up to hug me. “Oh you know Fezzie, I was bored again.”
 Fezzie. He absolutely despises that name but still lets me call him like that. 
”Well, feel free to stay here if you want then.“, he invited me. We then shared a little blunt and talked about random shit like always. After what seemed like an hour or so we saw a white truck pulling up in the driveway.
 “Wait....that’s Nate‘s car!“, I remembered. He picks me up sometimes with it so of course I would remember. But I didn’t say anything.
Instead one of the maybe dumbest but also greatest ideas came into my mind. I started kissing Fez on the neck. "Please, just make out with me. I know it`s weird but I need your help right now.“, I pleaded. The ginger haired boy looked like he wanted to say something but then decided to just play along. Fezco put his arms around my waist and started shoving his tongue inside my mouth. 
Suddenly I heard the door open. “Y/N WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING!” , Nate Jacobs shouted while looking likes he’s about to explode. His jaw clenched and his fists balled. Me and Fezco stopped kissing and I turned to Nate, smiling innocently, “Why are you so furious? It’s not like I have a boyfriend or anything, right?” “Oh y/n, you are going to regret this very soon!”, he stated angry. And now Fez decided to speak up, “Calm down man, it’s not like she owes you anything.” “Don’t tell me what to do! Nobody asked for your opinion anyways.”, Nate exclaimed before punching my friend right in the face.
 I decided to step in before it could get worse, “NATE STOP! IT WAS MY FAULT! HE DIDNT DO ANYTHING!” Nate chuckled a bit before answering: “Well sweetheart, looks like you should`ve thought about that before practically fucking him in front of me.” Now I got really mad. FUCK HIM? We weren`t even close to doing that. Just as he wanted to hit Fezco another time I grabbed his arm. “Please stop hurting him. Do it for me, if you really love me.” Seems like my words made him realize he’s doing a mistake so he left Fez alone. Instead Nate grabbed my wrist harshly and I could only shout a quick, “I’m so sorry, I will explain later” to Fezco before getting dragged out of the shop.
 “Why did you make such a scene?”, I asked irritated. Nate just huffed clearly annoyed and didn’t speak to me until we reached his truck. “Get in.“, he ordered while opening the door for me.
 After a while he finally spoke up, “Why?“. “I don’t want to hide anymore, Nate. Why can’t you just tell the truth? Tell everyone that we´re in love?” I asked on the verge of tears and looking at my boyfriend for the first time today. “I do love you, y/n. I really love you. But I just can`t. We’re very different, you’re not like the other girls I’ve dated before.” “You can`t? Or are you just a fucking pussy? Scared of what daddy´s gonna think of you when it turns out you´re dating an outcast? Fuck you, Nate. I don`t need you anymore. You´re a stupid little spoiled boy who knows nothing about life.”, I screamed and when I tried to slap him he pinned my arms above my head with one hand and started choking me with his other one. “If I was you I would be careful with my words. I invented you. Nobody knew your name before me, so don´t be a ungrateful whore.”, my boyfriend whispered in my ear and just as I couldn´t breathe anymore he pulled his hands away.
 I pushed the passenger door open and exited the vehicle. “You´re a heartless monster, Jacobs!”, I cried with tears streaming down my face.
Then I ran home. 
-time skip 30 minutes-
I was scrolling through Twitter when I suddenly got a facetime call from Kat. I´m pretty close with her but she doesn´t know I´m dating Nate. 
When I accepted it I saw that she was filming my boyfriend, they were at McKay´s party and he was standing in the middle of the livingroom, talking about me. “I wanted to tell you all that me and y/n are dating.”, he shouted and clearly everyone in the room was as shocked as me when I heard what he said. “And we´re truly in love. y/n is an amazing girl and none of us actually deserve her. So if you can´t accept the fact that we are happy together you better shut up!, and with that Nate exited the room. 
Kat flipped the camera and looked more then surprised, “What the actual frick y/n? When did you plan on telling me that?”
I explained everything to her as fast as I could and then got up and ran to McKay´s house.
I felt the need to apologize to Nate for everything I did tonight. I was a real cunt.
-time skip 3 minutes-
When I got there I just saw him getting into his truck, “Nate wait!” He turned around and looked at me surprised, but I could see the little smirk that formed in the corner of his mouth. 
When I got to him I kissed my lover hard on the lips and he kissed me back. It was a long, passionate kiss. “I´ve been waiting to do that the whole day.”, he admitted and we got in his car. 
On the way to my house Nate put his hand on my thigh as always. But suddenly I felt it moving closer and closer to my clothed core and a moan escaped my lips. “You like that?”, he asked, giving me a playful wink. I could only nod when he put his large hand under my miniskirt and pulled down my red lace panties. 
When he stuck one of his calloused fingers in my tight hole and started rubbing my clit with the other ones I reached for Nate´s soft brown hair and gripped it as hard as I could. He quickly parked on the nearest free space and let`s just say it was a very long night.
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omg guys! that`s the first fanfic i`ve ever written. i know it´s not the best but i still hope you enjoyed reading it as much as i enjoyed writing it! anyways, feel free to send me requests on what i should write next. :)
-nicole
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play nice. (a little blurb)
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pairing: nate jacobs x oc
warnings: a little smutty
note: first time publishing anything that i’ve written so i’m nervous af. this little blurb came from a little fic that i’ve been fiddling with. hope you enjoy.
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They say that Chris McKay’s parties were always the biggest and baddest parties, especially the one signalling the end of summer. 
They also say that it was tradition for everyone to attend.
Well, she didn’t want to start off her first year at the new school by breaking tradition.
She had her reservations about having to start over in senior year but what could she do? She was still under her parents’s control but she swore to herself that once she was finished with school, she’d pack up her things and head back to the city, back to everything that she knew and loved. 
For now, she decided to have some fun and this party seemed to be the first step.
The rumors were true-- this party was massive and wild, just as wild as the parties she attended in her old hometown. As soon as she entered the place, she was ushered into the kitchen by a bunch of strangers-- just kids who wanted everyone to have a good time. She downed the shots that were handed to her. Some of the guys tried to coax her into hanging out with them but she brushed them off with a laugh. One in particular, named Daniel would not stop. His hands were all over her. 
“C’mon, don’t leave me hanging with blue balls.”
She smirked at him, grabbing the bottle from the table. She was ready to move on from him-- what a drip. 
“At least you got your right hand to keep you company.”
She slipped away from him, taking a swig of vodka. She observed her new surroundings, the new people that she would soon attend classes with. No one noticed her. They were too involved in their own little world of drugs, alcohol and sex. Already she could see a number of hands down pants, tongues in each other’s mouths only to take a break to consume some more alcohol. She saw a number of people hand in hand and going upstairs, downstairs, outside and into other rooms. 
It was like she never left home.
She turned a corner, bumping into people as she tried to squeeze through. Going down this route led her to another guy practically devouring another girl’s face. He was a massively tall guy-- was he part tree or something? Chiseled jawline, muscles in all the right places. His hands were all over the girl, sliding down to her ass as she finally pried her lips off his and started to kiss his neck. 
She caught his eyes on her, a smirk on his face. He winked.
She felt a little bit of heat forming in the pit of her stomach. He was definitely attractive and she could tell with the look on his face that he knew that about himself. She liked confidence in a guy. She wouldn’t mind having him in her bed for a night. 
She winked back with a smirk of her own. But she went outside, not really wanting to have a reputation of a pervert that likes watching other people get down and dirty.
Another swig of her bottle and her vision was starting to blur. But she managed to make out the big swimming pool, the pool lights lighting up the water and in the pool were a blonde guy and a girl that they were calling Maddy. And by the looks and sounds of it, they were having the greatest time in the pool.
“Ohhhh man, Nate’s not going to be happy about this.”
“Didn’t they JUST break up?”
“It’s like the millionth time.”
Smells toxic to me, she thought to herself.
“Jesus, she’s so fucking hot, Tyler is so fucking lucky to be fucking her like this.”
“Lucky?? Nate’s gonna murder him.”
“At least he’d die a happy man.”
She snorted, watching Maddy fuck the guy in the pool before averting her eyes. She didn’t know Maddy, this Nate guy and their relationship but it was clear that they were not good for each other. It was also clear that they broke up and made up quite often. But she had to hand it to Maddy- she knew exactly how to mess with a guy and fuck with his head. 
Fucking another guy in the pool at the same party that her ex-boyfriend was attending would do exactly that.
There was a low rumble from the crowd and she looked towards the direction with a bit of an amused grin on her face. The guy that she had thought to have some tree DNA had come outside to bear witness to his ex-girlfriend’s antics. She could see the rage slowly building up from within, his brows furrowed deeply and the jealousy in his eyes. His hand held his cup tight while the other turned into a fist.
She guessed that this was Nate Jacobs. 
“Yeah, that’s real classy, you fucking whore,” he spat out maliciously.
Maddy and the guy stopped their pool sex session and Maddy had a shitfaced grin on her face. Her eyes cried out, “WINNER!” as she looked up at her angry ex-boyfriend. 
“Suck my DICK.”
With a snarl, Nate threw down his cup and turned back around. She tried to get out of his way but he ended up shoulder-checking her as he made his way back inside. He didn’t even bother to look at who he had knocked into. He kept walking, his temper rising with every step he took.
Any sort of attraction she had towards him disappeared. “Prick,” she muttered.
Her stomach decided to grumble. She knew the alcohol was doing its work when she had the munchies. She decided to head back inside and maybe find something to snack on. The kitchen wasn’t too crowded this time and that guy Daniel was nowhere to be seen. She poked and peeked into each cabinet and drawer, in hopes to find something to eat, even something small. What kind of party didn’t have anything to munch on?
There was a loud crash and the sounds of glass shattering right behind her and she almost shit herself. Turning around, she found Nate in a fit of fury, slamming down the bottle and pushing off all the shot glasses and beer cans from the kitchen counter. He turned around to punch the cabinet door, screaming at everyone to get out.
“Get out! GET THE FUCK OUT!” he snarled.
She remained where she was. He hadn’t seen her and maybe she would go unnoticed. In the bright light of the kitchen, she realized exactly how tall he was and how red his face had gotten due to his fit of rage. His chest was heaving hard. She could practically see the steam coming out of his ears. He leaned back against the counter, closing his eyes to get himself back under control.
She turned back around, quietly rummaging through the cabinet. She spotted a bag of chips in the far back and grabbed it. She opened it up and started munching. God, the potato chips tasted so good in her mouth.
“What the fuck are you doing?”
She nearly jumped at the low growl in her ear and she turned around to find herself face to face with Nate Jacobs.
So much for going unnoticed.
“I’m eating,” she answered nonchalantly. She held the bag up to him. “Want some?”
She knew she shouldn’t poke at the bear like this but she couldn’t help it. She wasn’t afraid of confrontation. Even if it was against someone as tall and muscular as Nate Jacobs.
She watched his eyes darken. She knew what was going on in his head. Even without knowing him, she knew who he was. Judging by the whispers and comments that the others had made about him, Nate Jacobs was The Guy of this town. He was the popular, big time, and she assumed by his build, jock king of East Highland. Therefore, everyone else were his peasants. He was used to this social hierarchy. Everyone should be bowing down to him, including her.
But she wasn’t going to do that for him, even if she found him to be insanely attractive.
“Didn’t you hear me? I said get the fuck out,” he repeated.
“Yeah well, I’m hungry and it’s pretty loud out there. So I think I’ll hang out in the kitchen for a little bit longer, thanks.”
Nate’s face contorted just a little, in a bit of surprise. “You’re not scared of me?”
She laughed in his face. “Why should I be? I’ve seen and met a lot worse.”
She took a step back, her lower back hitting the counter top edge when Nate stepped forward, closing the space between them. He bent over just a little, his eyes roaming over her body and then her face. They seemed to be searching for something, probably searching for the reason why she was not scared of him, like the rest of them.
“You’re the new girl that people have been talking about at this party,” he simply stated, with no anger or annoyance in his voice this time.
“That’d be me,” She said, continuing to munch on chips.
She watched his tongue slip out from his mouth, licking his bottom lip. “How about you and I get to know each other? It’s tough starting over in a new place. You’re going to need a new friend. I can be that for you, you know,” he murmured, his face inching closer to hers.
“Is that right?” she asked, amused by his sudden change in mood.
The way guys changed tactics and moods when their dicks were hard. Amazing, really.
She tossed the bag of chips aside, making a big show of licking her fingers clean in front of him. She licked her fingers slowly, never breaking eye contact with him. His face was so close to hers that she could see his eyes grow wide with pleasure. She couldn’t help but smirk when she slid her finger in deeper, when she could hear him panting at the sight of it. She knew he was just picturing her pretty red lips wrapped around his cock.
She loved fucking with men like this. It was their one true weakness.
She was going to take full advantage of that.
“Yeah.. yeah, that’s right, baby,” he said softly, his lips curling upwards.
“Oh… I don’t know, Nate,” she said with a loud sigh. “All boys say that, you know? But they’re all bark and no bite.”
“You just haven’t met me yet, I’m not just any guy.” He dipped his face into the crook of her neck and she let him. She tilted her head back just a little bit, why not have a little pleasure for herself? Besides, he was very good at this. Her body was naturally heating up at his touch, especially right between her legs. His lips trailed up to her earlobe, nibbling her earlobe before speaking again. “Oh I’ll bite.”
“I bite too,” she said, pushing his face away with a laugh. “I don’t think you’d be able to handle it.”
“I think it might be the other way around,” he fired back, taking her hand and placing it right at his crotch. 
If this was the reason why Maddy kept going back to him, well she wasn’t going to judge her too quick. He was a big boy in more ways than one.
She hadn’t expected that. Nor did she expect her underwear to become soaked.
When she looked back up at Nate, she saw the triumphant smile on his face. He knew the effect that he had on him. 
Well, two can play that game.
“I think it’s you that won’t be able to handle me, baby,” he whispered, bringing his face close to hers once more, trying to kiss her but she pulled her head back.
She bit her bottom lip, looking up at him with very round and innocent eyes. “Oh, is that right?” Her lips turned into a sexy smirk when his eyelids fluttered and his jaw dropped open as she cupped him tight through his jeans.
“Oh fuck-,” he gasped.
She watched his eyes close tight, enjoying the feel of her warm hand rubbing and squeezing him. He had both hands on either side of her, gripping the counter top. She knew every drop of blood was flooding to his dick right now. His cock was rock hard for her. He wasn’t going to be able to form a complete sentence.
“You still sure I won’t be able to handle you? Or are you gonna change your mind?” she asked as she moved her hand faster.
Nate groaned louder at the sudden change in speed. He leaned forward and she pressed her forehead against his, watching all the pleasure wash over his face. “Fuck, I-I… I change my mind, fuck baby…” He managed to open his eyes, panting hard. “There’s a room upstairs, come with me.”
“Come with you? Upstairs? So I can get down on my knees and suck your fat cock?” she teased, squeezing him a little harder. His big body shuddered and she decided to keep putting these images into his mind. “Bet you’d like that, hm? You’d like watching your cock disappear in my mouth, hm?” A chill went down her spine at the thought of looking up at this guy while she was on her knees. It probably wouldn’t be a bad sight to see.
“FUCK YES, oh baby, please,” he begged with a growl, his entire body trembling. His hands gripped her hips tight, pulling her closer but she wouldn’t let him kiss her. Not yet. “God, I need to fuck you so bad.”
She had him by the balls now. Literally.
“Let’s go then,” she whispered into his ear, letting out a breathy moan to tantalize him even more, giving him a preview of what was to come.
In an instant, he took her by the hand and all but dragged her out of the kitchen. The sea of people parted for him and everyone whispered and pointed their fingers. She smiled at everyone and when they made it to the stairs, she pulled her hand away and headed towards the front door.
“HEY!” Nate grabbed her hand again. “Where are you going?”
“Home. Where are you going?” she feigned confusion.
“But you said-,”
She laughed, pulling her hand out of his grip once more. “Did you really think I’d fuck you?”
“Y-you-,”
“Enjoy the rest of the party, baby!”
Slamming the door on his shocked face, she laughed and started running. The adrenaline from teasing the shit out of Nate had her sprinting down the street. She could probably do a full marathon tonight if she wanted to.
She loved teasing guys like him. Teasing and riling them, playing around with them. Getting their hopes and dicks up, making them think that they were going to get it in with her. Acting like she wanted them to pound her straight into the bed, only to pull back and deny them. Leaving them with only their right hand to keep them company. Making them realize that they weren’t shit, that they were losers, that they were nothing. Doing this got her more horny than an actual guy ever could.
It’s a shame that he was such a prick. She wouldn’t have mind having him pound the shit out of her with that big dick of his. She bet that he was all kinds of fun in the bedroom. But now he was going to be left alone with blue balls and his right hand, just like that other kid Daniel.
And that’s what you get for being an asshole, she thought with a proud grin.
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nachohypno · 3 years
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Nate and Dave - Ch. 15
Dave’s POV
I’m sure you already know how much a single person can change a whole lot of your way to see the world, or have your life take a 180° turn (Had to look this up, angles are weird.) just by standing in a corridor.
Now I was just happy to stare at my phone’s unlocked background. A pic I took of us while cuddling. I was kissing his cheek and staring at the camera, while he just laid below me, his face had a little smile and his eyes were closed.
He loved that pic. I loved it too, it was both cute and wholesome. Never been one to do those things, nor even Leslie managed to get me to change my Dallas’ Cowboys background, and we had a lot more pics together than Nate and I do.
It was a nice distraction. I would sometimes just unlock my phone to see that pic and feel a bit warm inside as I imagined spending more time with my soulmate. I loved him a lot, and I wouldn’t mind sticking around with him for a day, or two, or the rest of my life, just to make sure he has all he needs to be happy like I am when I’m near him.
We sat together at school, yeah. Nobody batted an eye. We hung out during our breaks, still no big catastrophe happened. After school, we usually have a date or spend some time together before heading to our respective houses (As much as I’d like, having daily sleepovers wouldn’t be wise).
According to… everyone in the world who knows that I’m hanging out with Nate (Which may be just 2 or 3 people that I’m aware of), the guy had a really positive impact on my behavior. He’s always encouraging me to help whenever I can and to be… nicer, in general.
I’ve already apologized to one of my favorite targets a few weeks ago, but decided to fully leave them alone. In my house, however, I’ve been trying to honor my soulmate’s wishes doing some house chores to help mom and pops around. I still don't think I'm ready to 'change my public image' that much. Kicking nerd's asses is fun... but mean and unnecessary.
Mowing the lawn, going grocery shopping, cleaning around whenever my parents seemed quite tired to do it, that kind of thing. My room wasn’t a messy place before, but now I could spend less time looking for my stuff!
And now… Nate was at his house. I left him there per his request, he told me we could hang out later today! But first, he had some homework to do.
I looked around and noticed the door was closed. I dropped my shirt and pants, felt the locket’s cold metal against my chest, and dropped on my bed.
I wasn’t intending to take a nap, just close my eyes and think of my soulmate was a nice enough plan for my evening.
As I closed my eyes, images of my first day with him invaded my happy place. Me getting his scent, slowly walking over to his locker, and noticing the guy I never paid attention to, the one that sat a few rows in front of me, and was usually in the middle of the way when I threw paper balls around.
Now that I thought of it, maybe I never noticed him because he always hid? He was hiding right now; it was obvious that he was using his locker as a cover. I stood there, though. Taking in the smell. Feeling myself realizing more and more of that nice thought I had never thought about after my pops told me about that weird phenomenon.
…I had found my soulmate. The love of my life… It wasn’t my girlfriend, but a guy from my class… I frowned both in the real world and in my fantasy.
In the fantasy world, I lifted and kissed him. He didn’t fight back, just returned the love I was giving him by returning my kiss. I didn’t care if anyone watched us. I loved this guy, and I still do now.
I love Nate Hall.
I rubbed my crotch in the real world, as I kept kissing him in my fantasy. That was more than enough. A single kiss, a single thought about my soulmate being happy and in love with me could make me so hard and horny…
“Dave?” A voice said. My soulmate’s? It sounded so different though… I kept kissing him. This was perfect. He was perfect. He was the love of my life, of course he was perfect! “Daaaaave?”
Was there someone invading my fantasy? Oh, wait…
I opened my eyes and saw a familiar face standing there, wide eyed. I had my hand on my hard crotch, rubbing it. This was definitely an uncomfortable position to be found at. I could normally hear when people are walking towards my room, but maybe I was so out of it this time that I didn’t hear him.
“Fuck, sorry— Didn’t wanna—” My cousin said. What the fuck was he doing here, anyway?! In my room! When the fuck did he arrive?!
“Shut the fuck up! And close the door!” I commanded, feeling anger building up on my chest, totally replacing the warm feeling from a few seconds ago.
Brad Walker. My cousin was my height, which was a bit funny given that he was a few years older than me. He was muscled too, but his shoulders seemed wider as his torso formed a sort of upside down triangle. He was a rugby player, maybe it had to do with that.
By looking at his face alone, he could pass as a brother because of the resemblance. He had the Walker’s smile, looking both chilled while also managing to look a bit menacing to keep everyone in their toes.
Doesn’t give him much use, given that he’s a Beta.
Brad closed the door behind him, and laid back on it. “Off to a rocky start, I guess. Let’s try that again… Hey, cuz!”
I took a deep breath, trying to calm myself down. I could feel the anger diminishing. I thought of my soulmate, how would he react if he saw me like this. He would want me to be nice and polite to my cousin. I wanted that too, I wanted to be nice to him. I’m so hot-headed sometimes…
I smiled at Brad, and took a few steps forward to give him a bro hug. After that, I walked over to my bed and sat on the edge. “Hey man, wat’cha doin’ around here?”
“Uncle hasn’t told you? Pops and him thought about doing a little reunion, so we drove over and… here we are.” Brad left his hands in his pockets as he looked around. I noticed I was still almost naked, but didn’t give it much thought. I did put some shorts on, though. “Just the big guys, though. Mom was tired and decided to stay at home with the young ones, so it’s just pops, Logan and me today. The guys asked me to get you downstairs, so… shall we go?”
I pointed to my almost naked body. “Give me a few minutes, alright?”
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Dressed up in some shorts and a grey tank top, I walked downstairs with Brad following me closely.
Pops was there, with his brother and my other cousin. I walked over to Logan and gave him a brohug. I liked my cousins, they were like brothers.
“Hey man,” Logan greeted me after the hug. It was nice seeing him. Well, like, nice and not nice, because he was pretty annoying sometimes. So I hoped he didn’t get very annoying tonight. “Damn, you look buffed. Taking steroids already?”
I rolled my eyes. “Why do you ask? Need some to stop being so thin, cuz?”
“I swear I still don’t know how he's not broken after kicking that ball. Y’look like a stick, bruh” Brad backed me up. I liked that about Brad, he was pretty loyal.
Logan laughed. He’s not one of those chums who get mad at every tiny insult. He’s pretty easy going in that regard. Would need to learn from him, because I am one of those chums who get mad at every tiny insult. “Don’t pull my dick, assholes” He punched my shoulder, softly.
Even though Logan was a year older than me, he was an ass. And that’s coming from me.
Logan… He was alright, I guess. Not really very muscly like me or Brad, nor our parents for that matter. That’s because he liked soccer, ugh. Not even weightlifting, nah. Just soccer and cardio.
That got him looking well in a soccer uniform with long socks and knee pads, but… I really should reconsider his standing in my pack. Meh, might as well let him in just because he’s family, but I’ll most likely order him to start working out more to be a real wolf bro. (I’ll get into this later.)
“Uh… don’t wanna be rude or anythin’ but… how long are you guys staying? Thought about having a friend coming over and-”
“Ooooh, is it your girlfrieeend?” The soccer cuz said, moving his fingers towards my face. I slapped his hand off me, and he laughed. “Big meanie Daveee has a girlfrieeeend” He was like a little kid when it came to annoying others, and the worst part was that he nailed it.
“Oh, shut it, bro. You’re just jealous- Wait, that’s not what I was going to ask”
“Dad and uncle Adam thought about doing some beefs for tonight, soooo… family dinner, I guess? We don’t really hang out often, so I thought it would be nice. Besides, we all love beef” Brad answered, holding his arms behind his head and stretching for a bit.
“We’re about to leave, actually,” Uncle Thomas said, grabbing his car keys. “Gonna buy some meat and drinks for tonight. Y’guys wanna come? Hey cub, haven’t seen you in months...” 
I greeted my uncle with a firm handshake, before he gave me a little punch on the abs. “Strong as a rock. Not bad, kiddo.” He ruffled my hair, before turning his attention back to my pops.
I was a bit too worried to think about hitting the store. Nate was supposed to come after he finished his homework, so we could spend the night together. I was supposed to pick him up. Fuck, what am I gonna do?
I shook my head and remained silent. Brad followed suit with a “Yeeaaah… No, been in that car for an hour and I’d really like to move my legs.”
“Pussies,” Logan said in a snarky tone. I raised my eyebrow, but decided to take care of him later. “I’ll go, may find some hot chicks in this friggin’ town…” 
My uncle looked similar to my dad, just a few little differences. Dark blond hair, a bit longer. Their sizes were similar, but my dad was bigger. It was weird to think that my uncle was the one who activated the werewolf curse in a bar fight and not my dad.
If you kill someone, whether it was intentional or accidental, you can’t transform into neither your werewolf or full wolf forms without experiencing a lot of pain. Could be avoided by never turning into those forms but…
Transformation is mandatory during the full moon. This whole thing seemed really thought out to punish those who don’t follow the rules, right?
Brad grabbed my arm “Hey, since we’re staying behind apparently, wanna catch up?” He pointed back to the stairs, probably wanting to go to my room.
I nodded, nothing better to do. And it would give me some time to think about what excuse I could give Nate.
Again in my room, Brad closed the door behind me. “So… a friend? I mean, the locket already gave me an idea but I didn’t you were bringin’ her to your place already…”
“It’s nothing, really…” It was something, a lot. I loved wearing this locket, it reminded me of Nate. Thus meaning, it was pure bliss in a single necklace.
“So, what’s the locket for? Always thought you’d end up with that Leslie chick you talked so much about” Oh, I forgot. My cousins never met my ex.
I shook my head, but was kind of hesitant to talk about it. In the end, I eased myself to the idea as I thought more about Nate. “Got a soulmate now, cuz.” Was my answer. I was proud of myself! Not even a half of the average werewolf population gets to meet their soulmate once in their lives!
I was lucky, it was like, one in a whatever-number-of-people-there-are-in-Earth!
“Waitwaitwait, not gettin’ it. So, you and Leslie… or is it another girl?”
“It’s a guy, his name is Nate” I mumbled out quickly. I wasn’t embarrassed, but at the same time, I felt like a chunk of ice just fell through my stomach. 
Silence.
“So… you’re gay now?” Brad said, giving me a thumbs up. “It’s alright, I don’t mind gay people”
I honestly couldn’t get how he got that assumption. “What? What makes you think that?”
“You’re with a guy, like dating and loving him and you even have a locket… I mean, that’s pretty gay. But it’s cool, it’s not that weird. Lots o’ people take some time to discover their sexuality and stuff— Uh… Cuz?”
I stared at him. Not staring, actually. I was glaring at him.
Brad gulped. “I fucked up, didn’t I?” While he did sound afraid, his face displayed a mix of nervousness and worry. I always laughed at him when he asked if he fucked up, like it was a regular thing for him to do but still needed other’s approval about it.
I just glared at him, making sure he knew I wasn’t happy. I walked forward and held my gaze into his, trying out my favorite part of being an alpha.
As I focused on him, his expression slowly started to relax, then vanish, as his pupils dilated.
“On your knees” I commanded, making sure he got it as an order, not a ‘humble request’.
His blank face didn’t move an inch, as he dropped to his knees and looked forward. His eyes, besides the pupils being dilated, looked glazed over as his irises changed from hazel to pure yellow. The beta color!
“Who’s your alpha?” I mocked him, as he blankly stared ahead.
“You are, sir. David Walker is my alpha” Brad droned. I ruffled his hair. He was a good beta. 
“And who do you have to be respectful towards?”
“My alpha, sir. Being respectful towards their alphas is the sign of a good beta, sir” Brad answered, in a matter of fact voice.
…I should probably explain what the heck is going on.
I’m an alpha. I’ve mentioned quite a few times already, but I never mentioned anything about other ranks.
You have omegas, who are wolves without a pack. They’re usually weaker than alphas and betas. Then there are the betas, werewolves already in a pack.
Omegas can survive quite well on their own, it’s not a requirement to have a pack. But if you want to get stronger… Getting an alpha is the best you can do.
That’s one of the reasons Pops is so proud of me. He and mom conceived an alpha in their first try! Nate usually nerds out about me sounding like a “Jerry Stud” whatever the fuck that is.
So, since I’m an alpha, both my older cousins are ‘my pack’ to call it some way. And you just got to see one of my favorite alpha skills.
Much like a soulmate bond, being a beta for an alpha makes them completely loyal to the alpha, which means… I have some degree of control over them. Not as much control as my love has over me, but still… It’s fun!
“So, won’t you apologize for calling me a fag— Uh… gay?” I’m still getting used to not using that word. Everything for my Nate. Can’t be a bully anymore, right?
I didn’t have to ask twice. Brad seemed to struggle a bit against it, but after a few seconds he said “I apologize, sir. I didn’t intend disrespecting you like that…” It was a cold, empty apology. But it did the trick. I’m not a picky guy, he’s my cuz after all.
But that did make me wary. Should I tell Nate to not come after all, at least until these guys leave? Fuck, they were going to ruin my evening with my soulmate.
“Uh… what do you think about my soulmate being a guy?” I walked in front of him, back and forth. I was trying to think what would be the wisest decision here. A second opinion would be useful.
“I personally don’t care, sir. You can love whoever you want, especially if you met your second half.” My cousin answered.
“I mean, yeah. But what would Uncle Thomas and Logan say if they found out about it?” I should uh… ‘wake him up’ or whatever already. But I liked him this way. You can say I’m a dominant guy. Not saying I lust over my cuz, that would be incest, but ordering him around is fun.
“I don’t really know. He’s your soulmate, they shouldn’t say anything. Logan is a fellow beta though, it wouldn’t be wise to fear anything from him. He’s as loyal to you as I am, my alpha.” Not going to lie, I loved hearing that.
Being in control of the situation, having everyone in my surroundings looking forward to being with me, or do as I say out of fear/respect/whatever… That’s why I loved the not-studying-part of school!
As a little reward for his opinion, I did what Nate would have done to me if I did particularly good: Scratch the back of his ear. Brad’s head got some emotion again, as he got closer to my hand and started panting with his tongue out.
“There, there. Good beta cuz” I mumbled, as I machinated a plan in my head. I had an idea, but it would be a bit… not ideal. I stopped scratching the good spot, and his expression blanked out again. I crouched in front of him, and looked straight into his eyes. “I want you to listen very clearly to me, understood? Listen and do as your alpha says…”
If Brad wasn’t in ‘beta mode’ before, then he definitely was now. His irises were still a bright yellow, but his pupils were even smaller now. “I’d do anything for my alpha, sir” placing a hand on his chest. I knew what that symbolized, I used that expression with Nate before. It freaked him out a little.
“Y’know, my soulmate is kinda a big deal for me so… I want you to treat him like a king, alright? No mean or cocky comments, just be nice to him and I’ll be nice to you, got it?” I had to search for the words to say this, it wasn’t really a piece of cake as I expected. “Think of him as an extension of your alpha. Make him feel good and do what he says, and you’ll be good to go.”
He frowned a bit, but his face quickly eased up. “As you command, my alpha. Your soulmate’s wellbeing will be my top priority, sir.”
Yeah, that’s more like it. “Get up now.” I said and just… walked away from him. I wasn’t interested in bossing him around anymore, not for now at least. But actually…
“Lift your shirt.” One last command wouldn’t hurt, and he obeyed without a question, like a good beta. I walked towards him and gave him a little punch on his abs. Didn’t even flinch, he was keeping up with me! Of course, I wanted the best for my pack! “And… Beta out.”
My cousin snapped out of whatever that was, his yellow irises returning to a nice hazel, as his pupils got back to normal. He grabbed his phone from his pocket and smiled. “Huh, 5 minutes. Wonder what you did there” The guy said, smiling at me.
He couldn’t get mad at me. I was his alpha! I mean, he could… but there wasn’t much he could do about it!
“Meh, you don’t really care, do you?” I said, trying to sound uninterested.
Brad shook his head. “Nah, I really don’t. I really trust ya, cuz. Best alpha around!” Couldn’t tell if he was following the ‘you don’t really care’ thing, or if he was being honest, but I didn’t really care.
“That’s a good beta” I mumbled, going closer to him again to scratch the back of his ear. God bless Nate and discovering that hidden pleasure for me. I loved when he did that to me, as I mentioned, and I loved doing it to other wolves, too!
“What are you two ladies doin’ up here- What the hell are you two doing?” Logan entered the room. My other older cousin, although younger than Brad. Rather than being as muscular as we were, he was more chilled. Yeah, he was in good shape, but he didn’t look like a big gym bro like us.
This was probably due to him preferring Soccer rather than football or rugby. Each to their own, but soccer isn’t that fun to begin with? I tried to not give it much thought and respect his hobbies.
“Brad, close the door and put on some music.” I ordered him, walking over to Logan and wrapping an arm around his small soccer player’s shoulders. “You just made my whole evening way easier, lil’ cuz”
I wondered if Nate would like this. I’d have to send him a message telling him that I wouldn’t be able to pick him up… That felt bad, but at least these guys wouldn’t bother him tonight!
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Nate’s POV
Dave invited me to his house, but asked me to walk over. He told me we could have a family dinner, which was alright. I liked his family. Mr. Walker was funny and Ms. Walker was really nice to us. We just had one family dinner and Dave spent most of his time zoned out.
And also, there was a full moon, which I didn’t get to see.
Was I glad they considered me ‘family’? It pushed me out of my freaking mind when Dave sent me that text.
I was walking slowly. Not like a snail and doing baby steps, but I felt like I should slow down as much as I could and… be fashionably late? It was a good walk, from my house to his. But I didn’t mind.
The town was quiet, not much stuff happening as I walked out of my house, and on the way to Dave’s neighborhood.
I thought about buying some ice cream or some nice dessert to make a good impression this time, but hey, I don’t really think they’ll care about it that much. They highly prefer meat, as far as I know.
Stopping in the middle of the way, I grabbed my phone and checked my maps app. “Should have arrived 10 minutes ago… fuck, that shortcut would have been really useful…” I mumbled to myself, changing my route and getting back on the way.
I was nervous at fuck, that maybe explained my silliness. And I also never walked to this part of town. It wasn’t… bad, but it was a bit more private than the usual neighborhoods, which fits Dave’s family pretty well due to them being werewolves, and stuff like that.
I still had some time to cancel and be like “Oh, hey. My… hamster pet is sick and I want to look after him?” I kind of sucked at making up excuses, that's why I never wanted to be late on homework due to laziness.
It was late now, just another block and...
I reached Dave’s house. It was weird arriving here on my own. Guess I really got used to my soulmate acting as my personal driver.  
The rooms inside were on, Dave’s car and his dad’s were outside the garage. The closer I got to the front door, the louder I would hear laughter coming from inside. Were they having  visits? It didn’t sound like Dave’s laugh. His laugh was… deep and dumb-sounding.
I stopped now. What if they had visits? What if Dave didn’t tell them I was coming? I was shaking a bit, before taking a deep breath. 
Taking my final steps to be in front of the main door, I knocked and waited for someone. Loud footsteps later, Adam Walker (Dave’s dad) opened the door.
“Hey bud. Didn’t know you were coming, but uh…” He motioned inside with his head. “Come in, the big guy is in his room with his cousins. We’re having a family dinner”
“Thanks, mr. Walker-” But he stopped me as I set a foot on the door. The older man leaned in and started whispering.
“Don’t be afraid. If you don’t want to be picked on tonight, try your best to not sweat as you did the last time. Dave will probably have you covered, though.” He patted my back, and moved aside to let me in. After that, he closed the door behind me. “Dinner will be ready in a bit so… feel free to go mingle with the guys upstairs.”
Uh… that wouldn’t be needed, apparently. Dave and a pair of guys were coming downstairs, and as soon as my puppy boy saw me, he rushed towards me to give me a big tight hug. “Missed you a lot, bruh! Didn’t know there was going to be more family tonight so… I’m really sorry for that. But I’m sure we’ll have a good time!”
The other two guys just stared at me, arms folded. One of them was big, and buffed. He had an absent smile, a bit creepy but also inviting. The other was smaller than him (And Dave, for that matter).
“Uh… since your uncle is here, these are…”
“Cousins, yuh” Dave finished the sentence. I made the connection on my own, but it was good to get some confirmation. “Big one’s Brad, small one’s Logan.”
“Hey, I’m not small!” Logan complained, trying to punch Dave’s arm. He didn't seem to do much damage though.
“Yeah, and I’m a bottom, heh” My werewolf jock replied, obviously mocking his cousin. I noticed Brad chuckling, and I couldn’t help but find that funny though. I always wondered if Dave would like to bottom at least once. I feel like he’d be alright if I asked him for it, due to me having full control and all that...
After the introduction was over, and both guys shook my hand, my focus shifted again to who I wanted to be with: Puppy boy was looking at me too.
“I can’t find the words to tell you how glad I am to see you here, though” Dave said, before pulling me in for a good make out session. In the middle of the living room. He was feeling happy or romantic, I assumed? I was surprised his cousins didn’t react at all, and just looked like they were watching some kind of movie.
“Wait, what the heck?” Oh geez.
A man blasted in the living room, and tried to separate me from Dave. The puppy boy reacted quickly though, and pushed him away. “What the fuck, old man?! This is my soulmate!”
Before the guy could go back at us, Dave’s dad popped in to save the day! “You guys just had to hold on for a bit until dinner was ready!” I felt like the ‘complaint’ was more directed towards who-I-thought-was Dave’s uncle, and Dave himself.
The puppy boy seemed a bit angry, he got in front of me and made sure I was out of view. It was a cute touch. I noticed the other two guys taking a step towards us too, like siding with Dave in this.
“Just, calm down, all of you, and start setting the table. Try to not take your eyes out while you do, alright?!” Mr. Walker surely knew how to take care of these situations. Was this a normal thing?
After a long stare, both guys nodded, and we all scrambled.
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I was sitting next to Dave and that other guy, Brad. Across me, Mr. Walker looked around with a calm expression, as he chewed on his meat piece. Thomas, Dave’s uncle, wasn’t exactly subtle when it came to me. His eyes were like daggers, fixated on me as I nervously stared at my plate.
It was amazing, and terrifying. The resemblance and also differences between both werewolves were quite noticeable. Mr. Walker was probably calm because he already knew about my thing with Dave. The cousins seemed to be quite attentive towards my every movement and sound. I felt like their eyes would automatically fixate on me at any little sound I would make, which was killing me inside. (Were they glowing yellow? Maybe it was my head playing tricks…)
Was I doing something wrong or offensive? I should excuse myself from the table.
“So…” Uncle Thomas started, before biting a big chunk of beef and gulping it down quickly. “Uh… soulmates, that’s neat. How did you two meet each other?”
‘First family dinner all over again…’ I thought to myself, as I tried to find the words for my answer.
“School, I was just walkin’ around and smelled him. Knew he was the one so… tried my best, huhuh.” Dave saved my ass, although his story was different this time. We lied during the first dinner. I couldn’t remember the excuse anymore, and that’s what bothers me about lies.
They’re usually hard to remember. That’s also the reason I’m a bad liar, my memory is awful.
“Yeah, that’s how it usually happens. You just walk around and get the smell, all the soulmate stories start exactly like that, ain’t that right?” Dave’s uncle looked at his brother next to him, who gave him a really angry looking frown.
“Go fuck yourself, got’cha?” I understood that reaction, The man lost his soulmate, I guess the memories were still painful? I’m no psychologist to tell.
“Yeah, sorry, shouldn’t have mentioned that… So uh… back to you, kiddo.” Oh, fuck. Dinner was nice, the meat was delicious! But Dave’s uncle didn’t seem to be… really fond of me. I was glad to see (Not really, now I sound like a dick) that he was bothering Mr. Walker too, so it’s nice to see that the consensus was… Dave’s uncle was a loud mouth ass. “You don't seem to have big muscles, but that's pretty much a given when you're a human."
“I’m sorry…” I mumbled, looking up at him. I tried to sound nice and not afraid, like Mr. Walker suggested before but… it was hard. “Not really good at sports and stuff like that, I guess-”
“Can see that. At least you’re a valedictorian, right?” I shook my head. High grades weren't my top priority. I did well at school, but didn’t focus enough for high grades to be a given. “No? That’s too bad.”
“Tom…” His brother tried to calm him. I noticed Dave needed some calm too. The big guy was clenching his fist with a lot of strength, as he held his knife with the other hand. He didn’t seem eager to cut the meat though, so I decided to step in for him.
I grabbed his fist beneath the table, feeling as it relaxed the longer I touched him. At the end, he grabbed my hand too, and I noticed his expression relaxed as well.
“Dad, don’t be such a dick. The guy’s fine, cut it out.” One of Dave’s cousins, big guy, uh… Brad! He seemed to be standing up for me, for some reason. He angrily stared at Dave’s uncle, without an apparent reason.
Uh… I felt like I was missing a big chunk of information here.
The uncle just stared back at his son, a bit surprised by his reaction. But before he could answer, or even react at all, Dave’s dad spoke up. “Well, it’s been fun, a neat reminder of why we never have family reunions, heh.”
“Ow, c’mon. It’s just a big friendly talk between men and…” He looked at me, seemingly ready to strike another insult. I grabbed Dave’s hand tighter.
But Dave’s dad didn’t give him the chance. “Dinner’s over. You guys will be going upstairs.”
“Roger that” I mumbled, leaving my plate with still a good chunk of meat. I didn’t let go of Dave’s hand, but he followed right after me.
“But I wanted a bit more beef...” The other cousin said. Logan, if I remember correctly. He was small, rather than muscled and big. I related to him because of that, glad to see not all male werewolves are big muscular people.
“Take the plate” Brad whispered to him, before following us upstairs.
“Okay, what’s going on-” I started to say, but my boyfriend shushed me.
“I’ll tell you all about it upstairs, just follow me and don’t make loud noises. Remember that they can hear everything in here” Dave interrupted me, as we went to his room. ‘Great, now my werewolf seems to be part of a mafia’.
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Locking the door behind us and his cousins, Dave ordered his cousins to stand aside, and they obeyed right away. “I’ll put some music here and…” His phone started playing some loud rock, but not loud enough to make the place feel annoying. “There, we can talk now.”
“Whaaat’s going on? And just tell me already, it feels quite bad to be insulted for no reason.”
“You weren’t really being insulted, bruh. I was.” Dave explained, motioning for me to go closer before leading me to his bed. “Uncle has… a bit of a problem, like pops has. But while pops knows when to shut his mouth, my uncle doesn’t, huh.”
“I don’t really see the insulting part there but continue…” I pointed out, but Dave just chuckled. Which seemed to cause a chain reaction and the werewolves guarding the door in front of us chuckled too.
“Sorry, yeah. Uh, well… My uncle is just bitter because my dad got an alpha son on his first try, me of course” I could figure that out on my own. The ‘I’m an alpha’ part I mean, he says it all the time. “Brad and Logan here are my betas. They were born as omegas, yeah, but I got them in my pack by willing choice because betas are usually stronger than omegas.”
The cousins were on the other side of the room. The small one, Logan, was tasting his meal with delight, while Brad leaned in to… hear our chat? They looked directly at Dave as soon as he mentioned them, before each one of them saying a “Hey” “‘Sup?”
“Why are they so… attentive?” Nosy mode on. I wanted to get answers, mostly because my curiosity was triggered now. ‘Obedient’ would have fitted better than ‘attentive’ though.
“Asked them to take care of you for the night, because I wasn’t sure if It would look good for me to do it. Pops is usually really fond of my uncle, but I think he didn’t like seeing him insulting my soulmate to get to me, bruh” Dave then put his arm around my shoulders and pulled me closer. “I can put them back to normal if you want me to, but… they don’t really mind, so why bother?”
Uhm… I risk myself sounding like a dick right now, but I found the idea of the two cousins under Dave’s control quite arousing… I’m not going to say it to him, of course! I didn’t want him to feel bad or anything if he saw his soulmate interested in other guys…
“Where are they going to sleep, by the way? Or are they leaving after a bit?” It was after dinner already so… it wasn’t a bad thing to ask. Like, we had school tomorrow...
“Living room, sofa. One of them, at least. I’ve got a sleeping bag, because they both can’t fit on the sofa, so while the guest room is occupied by my uncle and… yeah, I’ll go get that old thing. Gimme a sec.”
Dave got up from the bed and left the room, leaving me sitting there alone as the two cousins stared at me.
“Hope the meat is still good…” I told Logan, trying to sound nice. I felt a bit bad, Dave made them look after me, and that made them ‘defend’ me against their father. Yeah, I definitely feel bad now. “Sorry for crashing into the dinner.”
“You kiddin’? You seem like a cool guy, dad was just being an ass. It’s okay though, I think he likes you” Brad answered, and I feel like he’s the one “kiddin’” here. “He’s just… We don’t like family dinners, we do them out of courtesy. Nothing personal, dad can be naturally obnoxious sometimes”
I wanted to say sorry again or something like that, but that’s when Dave bursted in with the sleeping bag. “Y’guys play rock paper scissors to decide who’ll sleep with the alpha… Like, beside me, don’t get weird ideas.”
I chuckled, as Dave threw the sleeping bag next to the cousins, and started taking off his shirt as he walked towards me. “You’re sleeping over, right? It’s still early, but I can make up for the bad time by cuddling, if you’d like.”
To be honest, it felt like a good idea to distract me from that… failed family dinner night. Never again I’ll ‘crash’ into a Walker dinner (Even though Dave knew I was coming over). Too many surprises for a lifetime, thank you.
I laid down, rolled over to leave him room. We wouldn’t be sleeping yet, I hoped. The big guy laid down beside me and quickly pulled me in.
“Fuck…” 
“Yeah!” We turned towards the other guys and noticed Brad had won the rock paper scissors game. Logan just seemed defeated, he grabbed his empty plate and looked over at us.
“Well, g’night bros. Gonna be in the living room, I guess.”
“Buh-bye” Dave said, before turning around again and holding me in his arms. “Sorry again for all that before, bruh. Let's get some sleep, a’ight?”
Honestly, I think I didn't feel as offended as I should have. Best to just let things slide off, I guess. I decided to just nod, and doze off while hearing Brad setting up his sleeping bag. 
I didn’t pay him much mind, though. My puppy boy's hug felt nice enough to help me relax quite quickly...
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Author’s note:
Took me long enough. But chapter 16 went up already, so gotta keep up with the content.
Chapter 16 is available in my Patreon, but it will go up as soon as I publish Chapter 17 there. Shouldn’t be long, I feel very inspired lately! (Hopefully it won’t take as long as this one did 😅).
Thank you so much for reading, and I hope you enjoyed it <3.
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The lioness PT 2
Logan x reader (wolverine)
Warnings: Gore, sweating, placed in Logan, character deaths, intimacy, angst, age gap, anxiety, anxiety attacks, mentions of needles
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You sighed rolling out the bed and heading to the shower. You forgot you were with people and jumped when goo saw a rather naked Logan in front of you.
“I'm so sorry!” you yelped and closed the door. You went to the table and sat down wishing the world would swallow you up. Charles was laughing on the bed and you glared before hiding your face in your towel.
You were on the road again pretty quickly, you didn't say anything nor did you dare look Logan in the eye.
“We need to find new clothes or something,” you said eyeing your bloodied pants and shirt. Despite a hand scrub they still looked horrible.
“Fine” Logan grumbled and you huffed at his attitude.
You went with Luara to the kid's area she was rather forceful. You had to keep her from tearing the clothes apart. You eventually got her a few clothing items before heading to the adult clothes area. You grabbed some shirts, a jumper and a new pair of jeans before going to the checkout.
“Hey you want ice cream?” you asked Laura as she held your hand. She looked at you and you realised she may have not had ice cream.
“I'll get you some ice cream,” you said heading to the shop. You talked her through the flavours, she ended up with chocolate while you had your favourite. You saw Logan waiting outside with Charles a stern look on his face as always.
“Come on” you held Laura's hand and headed to them.
“Ice cream?” Logan questioned with a raised eyebrow.
“She's a kid!” you snapped glaring at him. He flinched a little and Charles smirked at you.
You headed back to the highway again. Stupid auto trucks beeping and causing too much stress. They caused Logan to lose control along with another car. You gripped the door and the dash your claws digging in. After the car stopped you took a breath and looked to the other car.
“Crap” you got out quickly and avoided any trucks as you helped them with their horses. They all went back on their own though and you frowned glancing to Charles. Logan drove over and helped you.
“Thank you both so much” the woman said.
“That’s ok” you smiled.
“Damned trucks” Logan sighed and she chuckled.
“Yeah” she agreed.
“Would you let us repay you by offering you a warm meal?” She asked.
“Ah no-“ Logan began but Charles cut him off.
“We’d be delighted” he said and you saw Logan’s pissed face.
“Awesome” the woman said.
You sat a little uncomfortably at the house, it was strange to be in this setting again. You stared at your food before trying to control your urge to devour it all.
“Is this your daughter?” Kathryn asked you.
“What? Oh- no Laura’s his” you said.
“Oh- are you together?” She asked and you froze and Logan cleared his throat.
“Yes they are” Charles said and you blinked.
“We are?” You said more of a question.
“Sorry you’re very young is all” Kathryn said.
“I’m yeah” you flushed a bit heart pounding as your leg also jogged.
“He’s unwell, he um, isn’t as old as he looks” you said trying to keep in the act. A hand fell on your bounding leg though, forcing you to stop. You stared at Logan who was keeping a silent rage in.
“Please stop” he said very hushed.
“Im sorry to make you uncomfortable” she chuckled nervously and you shook your head.
“I’ll help with the dishes” you said and stood his hand falling off. You started to fill the sink till the whole house grumbled about it.
“Damn it!” Bill said. He began muttering to his wife who tried to calm him.
“Damn bastards” he sighed grabbing his torch.
“You mind helping Logan?” He asked and Logan just followed silently.
“After new owners came in on the near property they’ve been messing with our water” Kathryn sighed.
“I’m sorry” you said and she sighed.
“The last owners were real nice now Mr Hones and his sons are messing with our supply” she huffed.
“Y/n dear would you mind taking me to bed?” Charles asked and you nodded. You lifted the man up, he was frail in your arms, though with your strength most did. You laid him down like glass and watched Laura go into Nates room.
You went back downstairs to Kathryn and the water turned on.
“Nice job hun” she whispered and you couldn’t help but smile softly. You did the dishes but something kept you on guard. A bad feeling in your gut, you hoped it was wrong, but the sound of vehicles approaching made it to real.
“You need to get your son and hide” you said and she frowned.
“What’s going on?” She said rushed as you urged her upstairs.
“Stay in here, lock yourself in don’t come out until you hear me ok?” You said entering the room and closing the curtains.
“Y/n-!” She called but you pulled the door closed and broke the handle.
“Laura” you nudged her and she turned to you.
“Stay here with Charles, scream of anything goes wrong” she went on edge and stood up immediately.
“No- no stay” you said as she went to follow you. You closed the door and listened in. Only one set of footsteps. You frowned going downstairs and seeing a large figure. You froze at the face of Wolverine, but it wasn’t him.
You switched to your night vision, listened in deeper trying to figure out far the cars were. The fake Wolverine wasn’t stopping, you went outside and readied your claws. His claws came out too and you frowned as he charged. You were quick to dodge but broke a case in the process. You kept dodging his attacks before striking your own. More men came in and shots were fired into you. You winced before healing and focused on the big guy. You heard screams inside and froze your worried gaze going to the house. You sprinted to the house, jumped up to the second floor and broke through the window. You killed the men but it was took late. Kathryn had bullets in her and Nate was dead. You went to Kathryn who sobbed.
“I’m so sorry” you whispered as she her eyes closed. You heard Laura cry and you kicked the door down. The fake Wolverine had gotten in quickly, she was fighting him.
“Hey!” You snarled jumping on him and pulling him down with you. You grunted are the pain of being squashed as he thrashed. You were knocked pretty easily as he stood. You got up to glancing to the bed and freezing. Charles was gasping for breath, blood on his white singlet. You cried tears in your eyes as you swiped and fought. The house was trashed as you were thrown about and finally thrown outside. You groaned feeling weak and limp.
“Y/n!” You heard Logan this time, the real one and groaned in response. He helped you up before he was punched away and you were punched back down. A car came in and ran the fake one down and into spikes of the house.
“Bill-“ you muttered as he shot the thing in the face multiple times before falling down himself. You groaned again hearing an explosion going off before you heard Laura struggle. You looked over, saw her lying on the head cuffed.
“Laura” you mumbled getting up on weak legs.
“Come on” Logan helped you along the way as he picked up Laura and went into the car. Charles was already in the back in the tray as you sped off. You slowly healed and helped Laura out of her cage.
“He’ll be fine” you said to her as she looked at Charles worried. He wasn’t fine at all, struggling for breath.
“Logan-“ you said.
“Yeah-yeah let me think!” He snarled and you gulped.
Charles didn’t make it. He died with the last thoughts of a boat on the ocean. You buried him by some water, like that would fix anything. You didn’t know the man very long but he understood you, went in your head a few times too many but you were thankful he did. It was hard on Logan he was trembling slightly as he looked over Charles grave. Laura tried to hold his hand but he stormed off.
“Come here” you said and beckoned her over. She wrapped her arms around your stomach and you sighed patting her back.
“He’s a man and doesn’t deal very well with his emotions ok?” You said and she nodded slightly. You heard crashing and yelling as Logan broke things on the truck with the shovel.
“Just- wait here” you said going to him. You stopped his swing, grabbing it mid air as he stared you down. You stared back his strength much stronger than yours apparently as your arms struggled. He gave up though and you laid the shovel back in the tray as he leant against the car.
“I’m sorry for what happened-“ you began and he glared.
“Ok” you whispered stopping. He hadn’t healed properly, hadn’t slept properly, just lost his friend and now has to deal with the kid and you. He stumbled and you frowned as he fell to the ground.
“Woah hey!” You yelled but he was passed out.
“Damn it” you muttered.
“Laura!” You called but saw no figure.
“Goddamnit!” You yelled as a car slowly approached.
“Oh” you said seeing her in the drivers seat.
“You can’t just take peoples cars-“ you sighed lifting Logan up and dragging him to the old Ford. You drove to the hospital though he wouldn’t like it that much.
“Will he wake up?” You asked the doctor quietly.
“Yes, are you also a mutant?” He said hushed.
“I guess” you sighed.
“Your blood could heal him” you frowned at the doctors words.
“I’d need a sample but it may work” he said and you stared at the old man.
“He’s killing himself slowly” you said and the doctor nodded sadly.
“Charles told me not to let him, probably also told Laura-“ you stopped at his confused face.
“I’m terrified of needles I’m sorry if I- attack?” You said and he gulped.
“Ok” he agreed.
He strapped your arms down just in case and you looked away. You took deep breaths, heart pounding and head spinning as he took some blood.
“All done” he said and you sighed in relief as you healed quickly.
“Ah geez” you felt like puking and passing out.
“Lie on the floor” he said and you did just that. You closed your eyes and sighed shakily. Laura came in and you looked to her.
“I’m scared of needles” you chuckled as she sat by your head and handed you an ear piece.
“Thanks” you whispered putting it in and listening to the music.
“It’s working” you frowned as the doctor rushed in. You slowly stood trying to ignore the feeling in your stomach. You watched his wounds heal quickly and watched his face change.
“Very well apparently” the doctor said. He looked less withered down, more like a matured man with grey hair.
“What the hell” you whispered.
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Euphoria season 2 ep review
One word : wow
It was so much better than I expected, it sets the season up to be crazy!
I’m so so happy that we got to see fez’s back story, the relationship with him and his grandmother was nice to see. Gave us a good insight on how it all started for him. I was always so unsure if ash and fez were blood brothers, clearly they’re not and that makes so much sense.
Fez’s grandma was a BOSS BITCH! I loved her so much
The little trio of ash, fez and rue was nice to see. You can tell how much rue means to fez, especially when they’re we’re doing the drug deal and the weird ass dancing man was dragging her to the bathroom,You felt his panic.
It’ll be interesting to see where the rest of this drug storyline goes? I know the blondie girlfriend who took heroin is in it again at some point so I wonder how she comes back into it.
I loved the party scenes, the sequences, colours and frames. Everything was shot perfectly.
A lot happened in the episode which I wasn’t expecting. It’s only the first episode and we’ve got Nate and Cassie hooking up already, Nate and Lexi already flirting, fez beating the fuck out of Nate, rue and jules getting back together. I’m so happy so much happened though as it’ll set us up good for the rest of the season.
I don’t care what anyone says fez and Lexi were the cutest, I’ve never seen fez actually have a conversation like that before with anything, he seemed so interested in what she was saying. It seemed like she was a breath of fresh air for him, especially when he said to her that speaking to her was the best part of his year🥺🥺I’m very excited to see where they go with their relationship. I also saw somewhere that they’ve changed fez’s age now, purely for his storylines this season. If this is the case then I can defiantly see fez and Lexi being the real thing.
Lexi looked absolutely gorgeous! shes already giving me queen vibes this season, it makes me laugh how much she swears.
Cassie is an idiot, but she’s loves to be loved so it doesn’t surprise me that her and Nate happened so quick. She genuinely looked so scared when maddie was knocking on the door, such brilliant acting though!
Rue scared me this episode ngl, she’s defiantly stepped it up a notch with the drugs. I’m still not sure if she took the heroin?? It seemed like she did.
I wasn’t expecting rue and jules to make up as soon as they did, I’m so happy they did though. I just don’t want it to all go wrong for them again😭
My little ashtray, I’m so happy we saw more of him. Think we saw more of him this ep than we did the whole of the last season. I can’t believe he just ran up on mouse like that. I’m hoping they show us what they did with his body?? That would be interesting for fez and ash to sort out.
Im a little disappointed that we didn’t see BB, I feel like she would have been there. We know she’s at maddys party later on so why wasn’t she there now?
Nate got what he fucking deserved, the punch up scene was so good! Fez looked fineeee😍 I am a bit worried for fez though, Nate’s gonna want revenge and we know how horrible and toxic he can be.
Nate’s still a dick, Cassie RUN!
I’m glad we saw McKay, that scene between him and Nate, Nate asking where he cums on Cassie was super weird. It felt like he was already obsessed with Cassie and he was getting angry at the fact that mackay has been there. I dunno that scene was hard to watch, Nate is a psycho. I hope we see more of mckay.
Overall the episode did not disappoint, I love what they’ve done this season. It is a completely different vibe from season 1, right from the get go.
Also why so much nudity! i get that it’s for mature audience but Jesus there were vaginas, boobs and penis’s everywhere🥴especially at the beginning.
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The one where Kevin Day falls in love with an ice hockey player.
Part 14 Free
Anything included in this head canon takes place the semester after the Foxes won the championship against the Ravens.
Disclaimer: I know next to nothing about varsity teams in the United States so excuse any false information. Head over to the directory to find the previous parts and the fanfic version here.
The semester started off on a good note. Kevin and Eric returned to campus together as planned with classes starting the day after that. At that point, everyone had heard about their ‘break up’ before the winter holidays so they were equally surprised to see the two of them come back to campus together.
No one had much to say except their respective teams; the Exy players looked almost smug, as if the couple’s make up was their doing. On the other hand, the Ice Hockey players were a bit more hesitant to accept this new reality.
Kevin knew that there were no happy endings. Even if the two had gotten together, the world around them was still the same. Kevin himself still had many battles to fight on his own.
“Are you for real, dude?” One of Eric’s teammates asked the captain. They didn’t even bother to be discreet; they’d been waiting for Eric in the parking lot, all five players of their starting lineup.
“Caleb, this isn’t the time,” Eric said sternly. Kevin’s own expression was almost dismissive, but he still strained an ear as he finally got out of the car.
Kevin cared little for Eric’s teammates but that part of him that knew Eric cared for them still sought for their approval. Then again, when was Kevin not chasing for someone’s approval?
“Yes, this is the time. You aren’t going to waste your last years in college fake dating this asshole,” Caleb Richards, center player said, glaring at Kevin with eyes narrowed.
Kevin couldn’t really blame them, but he did believe the way they went about this was incredibly idiotic and not worth his time. Which was why he decided to hook an arm around Eric’s waist and pull him closer, all while staring at the ice hockey players with an unimpressed and unfazed expression.
“Not that it’s really any of your business-,” Kevin started, with a tone that was almost polite, as if he were talking to a host of a talk show, “- but Eric and I are dating. Now, if you excuse us, it was a long drive from Atlanta, and I believe we both need rest.”
They were all left staring as Kevin helped Eric pull his suitcase out of the trunk of the car. They both thought they were done talking about this for now but Nate Wilson, right defenseman spoke up,
“Finally.”
This had both Kevin and Eric staring at him. The blond that was staring back at them only grinned slightly and then walked over and punched Eric in the shoulder, hard enough that it made the taller goalie wince.
“We were really tired of seeing you moping around all the fucking time.”
Eric looked as if he was about to protest but one raised eyebrow from Bryce had him shutting up. Kevin was amused, the tension leaving his body. This was perhaps the most civilized conversation he’d ever had with the players of the Ice Hockey team. Not that they’d ever have reason to try and speak to each other. Kevin supposed that his relationship with Eric was perhaps the first and only bridge between the two teams.
“We really went all mother hen on you, huh?” Nick Matheson, left winger, asked with a toothy grin.
“Yes, a little bit,” Eric said, still rubbing his arm on the spot where Nate had punched him. However, there was a rather fond smile on his face and Kevin could almost tell he was fighting hard to keep a balance between his figure as a Captain and his role as a friend and part of this group.
“Well, pizza is on the way. Might as well stick around,” Bryce suggested and glanced at Kevin, giving him a small nod that said the invitation was open to him as well.
Kevin thought about it for a moment as he turned and glanced at Eric. The goalie gave him an encouraging smile which Kevin did not return, but the slight light to his eyes was enough.
“One condition,” he said as he turned his gaze to the Fox Tower behind them for a moment.
Kevin knew there was a high probability that he would regret this later. For one, it was hard to fit both teams in one dorm room, even if not every ice hockey player in the line up joined them. Somehow, they made it work.
Andrew looked as if he’d rather be anywhere else but here, but the fact he’d agree to come at all was a wonder only Neil could have achieved. The two of them settled down on the couch in Eric’s dorm room, keeping to themselves.
However, the rest appeared to have an easier time adjusting. Dan and Matt were already dedicated in a conversation with Nate and Nicky had no problems talking Caleb’s ears off, who seemed to be less than amused by the whole situation.
Eric walked over to Kevin with that stupid puppy smile. Kevin would never dare admit that he was, in fact, very attracted to that smile.
“Seems to me like all this time spent fighting each other was for nothing,” he said with a hum as he slipped an arm around Kevin’s waist. Kevin stood still and watched the interactions between the two teams.
“Perhaps. It doesn’t matter.” It didn’t. The rivalry between Exy and Ice Hockey players was something that went beyond the Palmetto teams. It was common, expected and sometimes encouraged for the spectacle of it. But the Foxes were known for being… unconventional. If anyone were to break these ‘universal rules’, it was them.
“I’m proud of you,” Eric suddenly said. Kevin froze for a moment and then glanced at the goalie, wanting to tell him that he didn’t need patronizing. The expression on the other’s face, however, was genuine.
Kevin’s expression must have been a questioning one because Eric was quick to start explaining after that.
“I think you don’t really recognize how much you’ve achieved. I’m not talking about Exy, I’m talking about-,” he made a general gesture with his hand, as if having a hard time finding the right words. “- this. I may not know the whole story, but I know it was hard for you to come back from your lowest point. The fact that you are clearly working on it is more than enough.”
Kevin remained silent for a moment, not sure if he’d ever heard such words before in his life. The only one who’d gotten close to them was Wymack, but the coach was not exactly known for being good at handling emotional situation, even if he had his own way with words.
He hadn’t known how much he’d needed to hear them until they finally came from someone. Kevin wasn’t okay. He was far from it. But that was fine because Kevin was trying. Once, he’d accepted that he would always be property.
Now, Kevin was free and had to deal with the aftermath. Which was fine. He could do it. He’d achieved and faced worse things in his life. He just needed time and space. Having people like Eric around him could only help him.
“Thank you,” Kevin finally said. He’d always known to put up a front but at that moment, it felt almost ridiculous to try and hide from Eric. Or from anyone, for that matter. If anything, his vulnerability only made him stronger.
Eric smiled at that and leaned in, kissing him softly on the lips.
Happy endings may not exist but at least Kevin had this new reality that he knew how he was going to officially introduce.
“Get up,” he told everyone as he closed the pizza boxes and grabbed the slice Nicky was nibbling on from his mouth.
Nicky groaned and tried to reach it again. “What the hell for?” He demanded. Kevin grinned slightly as he dumped the slice into one of the boxes.
“I think it’s time we return the favor to the Ice Hockey team and bring them over to our court.”
The Exy players did not need any more encouragement, except perhaps the twins. Eric managed to get his teammates to also go along with this and then turned to Kevin.
“Who are you and what have you done to Kevin?” He teased. Kevin only shrugged as he followed the others, watching them piling inside their cars.
“I guess I’m full of surprises.” Kevin said and smiled at Eric for only a passing moment before following the Monsters to the Maserati.
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i would love to hear about why all of the ted lasso characters would fail survivor but especially rebecca
hhh ALL of them... okay the vast majority of the players can be explained away with just "physical prowess enough to make them a threat in individual challenges but dumb as bricks and would not be able to strategize themselves out of a bad spot"
this is abt to get long lmao so I'm putting individual ppl under the cut
nate is the most obvious first boot I honestly feel bad about it. bumbling, socially awkward, has NO idea how to assert himself without being an asshole about it (in the rare instances when he does assert himself at all), and even if he's smart enough to be a great strategist (which he absolutely IS), he can't convey it well enough to convince his tribe to overlook his (probable) lack of challenge ability. most of the time, people don't want to draw harsh lines in the sand on the very first vote so they can pretend everyone's getting along and still friends, so nate would be a sort of freebie vote that it'd be easy to agree on.
beard is too much of a follower. what ted says to dr sharon abt him is, "that man has had many lives, many masters." he's very comfortable being led by people with stronger personalities, and even when he disagrees with their calls he will still execute them like a perfect little lackey. the thing about beard is that I think he'd go VERY far in a season of survivor! I think he could EASILY make it all the way to the end! but I just don't think he can WIN. he's genius-level intelligent and SO strategically savvy, but more than that he is fiercely loyal. he'll attach himself to the right person (or the wrong person, as it were), and even if he is whispering in that person's ear all the way through, he would be TOO content to let them take all the credit, he wouldn't push back against them if they disagree with his plans and make a lesser move instead (the whole beginning of 'beard after hours' is him berating himself for not standing up and making the hard calls even when he knew they'd be better), he wouldn't turn around and slit that person's throat at the end to further his own game, and he would make himself socially impenetrable to everyone else. nobody could get close to him, nobody could like or understand him, he'd probably be seen as good collateral if the opposition couldn't strike directly at whomever beard works with, and if he DOES make it to final tribal, I think he'd have a very difficult time convincing the jury that he deserves the credit and the limelight. he wants to win, I just don't think he believes he deserves to.
ted and roy actually would have the exact same problem, which is "physically and strategically competent, but so FUCKING ANNOYING to live with that they get booted for the sake of tribal quality of life." roy would isolate himself socially with his aggression, and ted...
ted is the antithesis of what a "good survivor player" ought to be, which I actually think could work to his advantage in a number of ways? like I think more typical players would find him incredibly unpredictable because he's sharp enough to see what the best moves are, but generous and self-sacrificing enough not to make them. like, there's a reason he's a coach and not a player. there's a reason he says that he doesn't measure success in wins and losses. if he could survive the first few votes, his social game would be AMAZING-- the entire first season of the show is about him wearing rebecca down through the sheer magnitude of his friendship! lesser survivor players would be so endeared to him that they couldn't fathom voting him off, but they're the ones who are getting picked off in his stead. moderately savvy survivor players would not trust a single word out of ted lasso's mouth; there's no fucking way a man can be this kind and this sincere, not on survivor, it's just not possible, he must be plotting something MASSIVE, we have to strike first before he gets his chance. and the truly brilliant survivor players would realize that he IS genuine, he IS sincere, he IS loyal and giving to his core, and that's DANGEROUS. you can't let someone like that make it to the end or they'll take your million dollars. best to shut it down at the jump.
and above all that, I just think that ted... ted would thrive in the pre-merge, in the tribal portion of the game, he's SO team-oriented, but post-merge, in the individual game... perhaps if he had a solid alliance he could also feel that way about, then it might suit his temperament, but ultimately I think he just. wouldn't want it badly enough. I just think the significant majority of people would be vastly more self-interested than ted would be, so they'd take the shot first.
higgins is an interesting midpoint between all three of nate, beard, and ted, in that he's a henchman through and through even when he disagrees with his boss, he's a pushover who'd be seen as a liability in physical challenges in the early game, and he's off-puttingly friendly and polite to the point that nobody would trust that he's being sincere even though he absolutely is. early boot, maybe second or third.
maybe it's just because I've got cook islands on the brain, but jamie (esp season 1 jamie but like. season 2 as well lmao) would play A LOT like early ozzy. an arrogant wonder-boy who's good at everything (did you know there's literally a survivor casting archetype called the "amazing ace"?), with a heart-wrenching underdog story (playing for richmond, that is), an absolute beast in challenges, a huge threat but always immune, he'd win his way to the end but ultimately be beaten out in final tribal by someone smart enough to have dragged him along as their meat shield the whole game.
and as for rebecca... g-d. this one I think hurts me the most because she has everything going for her, she doesn't have a single one of the problems I've listed for anyone else, but I do genuinely believe that rebecca still loses. she's strong and she's smart and she's assertive and she's ruthless and she's sociable and she's a great liar and she's ambitious and she's ADAPTIBLE (she immediately bounces back after not getting the sun to run the photo of ted and keeley and comes up with an alternate plan that will still serve her own endgame, and by g-d being able to roll with the punches and change course is the single most important thing a survivor player can do), but rebecca still loses.
even if we set aside the fact that survivor on the whole is not particularly kind to women over 40... season 1 rebecca, especially early season 1 rebecca, is spite-motivated to the point of self-destruction. she will set her sights on one target and she will be relentless in her effort to get that person out and it'll make her so myopic that she won't see her own end coming immediately afterwards. nobody on that tribe wants to be her next victim-- better get rid of her once she's proven what she's capable of.
she's also dreadfully insecure in the wake of her divorce and when her polished veneer cracks enough to let it show (how many days of being rained on do we think it'll take for her to slip? my guess is five), some people will see it as the vulnerability that finally allows them to connect with her on a human level, while others will see it as a threatening endgame storyline and an exploitable weakness.
there are some juries, particularly old-school juries, that wouldn't vote for her in the end purely based on the fact that a million dollars is just a drop in the bucket to a woman like rebecca mannion welton. that would be a real shame, and a disservice to the game she would have had to play just to make it that far.
what's more likely than that, though, in my opinion, is that rebecca... loses the drive to win. I think that somewhere along the way survivor stops being a game that she is playing, stops being a competition, and instead becomes a journey of personal growth through adversity. I think she, like ted, stops measuring her success in wins and losses. I think she proves herself more capable and resilient than she ever thought she could be, and that is worth more to her than the money or the title of sole survivor, and she stops fighting for it. and maybe the jury admires that, and gives it to her anyway, rewards her transformation. or maybe they don't. maybe they view it as a concession, a forfeit. but I'm not certain that that moment of revelation happens at the final tribal council. I think it happens just before. I think it happens after the final immunity challenge, and she tearfully and valiantly allows herself to be voted out just inches from the finish line. I think rebecca is the fallen angel of the season, and she goes off to the jury with her head held high, which is nice, and so very noble of her, and the fans would be DYING to have her play again but she wouldn't, because she'll have gotten everything she could have wanted out of her survivor experience, and she doesn't need the crown on top of it.
I think rebecca COULD win. she just WON'T.
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Summary: Out in the middle of a danger-ridden jungle, you and Sam argue over how you’re going to escape. But he just can’t seem to quit smiling at the adorable way you look when you’re angry... and it’s driving you mad.
Pairing: Sam Drake x Reader
Word Count: 1,234
Warnings: Fluff, vague hints at nsfw, and just... Sam’s sweaty chest? 
A/N: first thing posted in a while! I so hope you all enjoy! Just a little Sam drabble. :3 thanks so much for reading!
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Sam knew how to touch you. He knew how to hold you... how to bring his name from your lips, how to coax you into fits of laughter and how to soothe you when stress had wrapped its way around you. Sam knew your ups, and he knew your downs, and he knew you yourself were still figuring them out; he knew every single last one, though... and he loved them.
He loved you.
And with that love, came the constant discovery of something new about you. He woke up each day excited to unravel another thread from your tangled web, to help you see just how beautiful you really are, inside and out.
He was intoxicated by you, and had no intention of ever letting that fade.
Sam just loved every little thing about you; and even now, as you fought in the middle of this endless jungle, your shouts of frustration echoing through the trees and brush in every direction, he was fighting back a small smile because he’d just discovered something new.
Something he’d never seen before.
He’d always loved the way your brow would furrow when you were serious, or focused; but for a moment now, it was becoming clear - the more frustrated you got, the more the adorable crease in your brow deepened. It was so very distracting. 
“What—“ you stopped, your hands going to your hips. “Sam, goddamnit, what the fuck are you smiling at?”
Damn. He’d really need to get better at hiding it.
“M’sorry, it’s nothin’, just—“
“No, just spit it out. You’re being an ass.” You wanted to absolutely tackle him. He just had that charming smile on his lips and it was making it hard to stay angry.
“...I uhm...” he began, slowly stepping closer to you, the crooked smile tugging deeper into the corner of his lips. “S’just...” His hand went up, and you went to back away. “Just...hang on a second...”
With a small roll of your eyes, your frustration still bubbling through you, he reached out, and his thumb began to gently caress your skin, right there in the middle of your forehead. You were taken aback by his soft touch, your mouth opening to ask what on earth he was doing.
“...s’just you get...this little crease up here when you’re mad. It’s.... I gotta be honest, darlin’, it’s real cute.”
In that moment, all you wanted to do was smack him.
But... maybe you also wanted to kiss him. Grab at him. Drag your palms down his sweaty chest and yank him close to you by the waistband of his jeans.
One of the two.
“...would you shut up?” you asked, huffing out a small breath as his hand dropped from your forehead. “I’m trying to get us out of this godforsaken jungle and you’re sitting here thinking about— ugh. I just...” you took a slow breath. “I need you to listen.”
He was standing close, his fingers hovering over your hips and finally hooking in the belt loops at the sides of your cargo pants. You were trying not to be distracted.
“You’re right, I’m sorry,” he murmured, still running his eyes over your face and admiring just how adorable you looked. You were beautiful, and so smart, and quite honestly, he loved how you took the lead just as often as he did on these trips. Right now, he needed your smarts to help you both get the hell out of this jungle and find Nate and Sully before the locals shot you both to bits. And he found it so innately attractive - your focus and intelligence, that is. “I’m listening.”
“You better be,” you replied, smirking just a little up at him as you began to lay out your plan.
And he did listen - to every word, enamored by you as you broke it down and parceled it out, the way you were ready to go and prepared for the worst while planning optimistically for the best. By the time you were done, his teeth had sunk deep into his bottom lip.
“Would you stop that?” you demanded quietly, your hands going to his forearms and resting there on his damp skin.
“Stop what?” he muttered, closing the distance between you once again.
“Biting your lip. You know how that gets me.”
He raised a brow down at you, and goddamnit, there was that look he always got in his eye when he knew he had you wrapped around his finger. Shit. “I’m sorry, am I distracting you..?”
He deserved to get sucker punched at this point, and you were gritting your teeth, and struggling to hold it all back, but shit, he looked so good... insane exotic jungle looked really goddamn good on the eldest Drake.
“Shut up,” you grumbled, just as your hand went up to the back of his neck and tugged him down to you, crashing your lips into his.
His brows shot up and he breathed in sharply from the kiss, but his hands were quick to return to your hips, pulling your body against his and holding you as close. Your arm was around his neck and the other hand was pressed to his chest, and you hadn’t kissed like this in a long time; heated, and desperate, and full of tension and frustration. His hands explored you, his lips pushing and pulling softly but passionately with yours, his skin on fire beneath your touch.
You tilted your head and deepened the kiss, and he was never more happy to follow your lead. Sam’s hand came to cup the side of your neck, and a sound left his throat that had you ready to be pressed against the nearest tree. Your fingers went to his hair and threaded through it, grabbing on as you sunk fully into the kiss and silently demanded that he devour you—
“What the hell are you two doin’?” a familiar voice broke the trance between you, one crotchety, old voice; accompanied by the sounds of a rumbling jeep and an incredulous brother.
You broke apart, fully out of breath and trying to catch it, turning your heads to see Sully and Nate staring at you with utter disbelief from their jeep. “Y’know, some of us have a treasure to find and heads to keep from gettin’ blown off,” Sully added, slipping his cigar right back between his lips.
“We’ve been lookin’ all over hell for you—“ Sam started.
“-Oh, yeah, we can tell,” Nate retorted, an irritating smirk on his face as he spoke. You both stared at him, your faces unamused and shoulders drooping in defeat. “C’mon, let’s go!”
You both shared a glance and let out heavy sighs, wiping at your mouths and grabbing onto one another’s hands.
“Jesus, you’d think you two were teenagers, out here grabbin’ at each other like that,” Sully teased as you climbed into the jeep. “Save it for after we’re knee deep in gold and jewels, will ya?”
“You got it, old man,” Sam promised him, smacking his shoulder and plopping in behind him.
But the wink he sent you as you sat beside him told you he had no plans to follow through on his words - because he knew exactly what you were thinking, as he always had.
And neither of you had any intention of saving a damn thing.
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I mean these ars the same producers who spent weeks basically setting up a Robert return story for no reason whatsoever, oh I'm sorry so Aaron could "choose" Ben (😂) which amounted to nothing so I think we are right not to just run with him having to be gone after this. With these producers it could literally be anything.
That's why I keep giving my caveats saying that they could absolutely do the disappointing thing and all of this foreshadowing could be pointless. Haha. But they did surprise me by actually killing off Andrea, which to me made the most sense. So...maybe?! Haha. I don't want to get my hopes up too high but also, I just don't understand what it is they think they would even do with Ben if they keep him. Especially if Danny is taking more time off. There's no story or purpose to Ben without Aaron and they haven't even bothered to try when they do have Aaron.
But also they suck and can't tell a coherent story and always do the most painfully boring option so...who knows.
I mean everyone is such a one note character these days, it's a joke. Aaron shows up just to punch people and recount some "I'll change" platitudes that he's already dealt with before. Charity schemes with a guy she probably doesn't care about just because she's bored. Cain shows up just to kidnap people. Paddy continues to just be the bumbling idiot. Marlon is mostly just around to be neurotic and goofy without any real heart to it. They don't know how to do Tracy's break so they're just having Nate maybe be cheating and Cain brining up Moira because that's still a story that makes no sense. Every character for the most part is just going through the motions.
The only things I think are slightly working on the show right now are the Priya stuff. Because it's delving into her character history in interesting ways and giving her more meaty stuff to play. Plus we're actually getting to see a bit more of the Sharmas as a family again and Rishi gets to be an actual adult for a bit for a change. She gets to have friend scenes with Leyla, which always make things better and her relationship stuff with Ellis is at least not among the worst of the relationship stories in terms of actual content. And then I think the Meena stuff is still working well enough because she's a fun villain and having a true psychopath is interesting for people to deal with. Plus the Vic and David romance alongside of it has been one of the better relationship stories they've done in a while (not that that's hard) and even though David always falls in love at the drop of a hat, Vic hasn't had a higher profile romance really at all before. I wouldn't really could Adam because that always felt more like a secondary story. So that's a newer thing for her and it's nice when characters have new things to do. And lastly, I would say the Gabby/Bernice/Thomas stuff is somewhat interesting, again because it's new territory for them and it's nice to see Bernice confront her past behavior in a new context of not wanting Gabby to repeat her mistakes. So again, good relevant character history being used in ways that make sense.
Sorry...I just needed to get that tangent rant out. Haha. But suffice to say, the rest of the show is incredibly stale and Ben falls into that category so I can see it being disappointing. I just hope it's not.
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leverage-ot3 · 4 years
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notable moments from The Rundown Job
leverage 5.09
the HEART EYES in parker and eliot’s eyes as they watch hardison crack the code of the vault is my religion
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Hardison: Kiss for luck?
Parker: Who needs luck?
confident baby
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(Parker begins doing elaborate moves and turns to get through the lasers, quickly reaching the far wall)
Hardison: I never get tired of that
THE HANDSHAKE BETWEEN HARDISON AND ELIOT BC THEY LOVE THEIR BADASS GIRLFRIEND
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Parker (opens a case to reveal it is full of diamonds): Oh! Bup-bup.
(Eliot snaps at Parker to get her attention)
Hardison: Eight new schools. Okay, take care, sister Agnes. (hangs up)
(Parker closes the case and gives it to Eliot for mailing as Hardison dials the phone)
Hardison: Hey, Nate, we’re done in D.C. We’re flying back tomorrow. See you.
Parker: They’re so shiny. Couldn’t I have just kept one?
Hardison: Road to redemption, Parker. Just think how good it’s gonna feel when you get that Christmas card from those orphans. Hell, we may even get Eliot to smile.
parker deserves all the shiny things
“the road to redemption” THEY CHANGE TOGETHER
- - - - -
Riley: Why’d you quit, anyway? (pushes button again)
Eliot: Started running with some different people...
(Riley pushes button again but it doesn’t seem to be working)
Eliot: Like a hacker...
(Hardison enters room and nods. Riley pulls a gun from his drawer and shoots toward Eliot, but the gun is empty)
Eliot: And a thief.
(Parker taps on Riley’s head. He turns. She is holding the clip and a bullet from his gun)
Parker: Click. (tosses clip and bullet on table)
eliot “I started running with some different people” spencer loves his partners and I adore that with my whole (whole) heart
- - - - -
Eliot: Good night.
(Parker stuns Riley, who slumps on the desk)
I’m glad they’re enabling her tasering obsession
- - - - -
Eliot (checks his watch): I’m gonna keep her alive. You guys find a way to get her out of here.
Hardison: With what? I…
Eliot (walks away): You stole a Michelangelo with tinfoil and chewing gum. Figure it out!
eliot is like bitch please you’re smarter than this
- - - - -
the way the three of them back up to each other, covering their backs ,,,
- - - - -
Hardison: This is a violation of my constitutional rights.
Vance: You’re Alec Hardison. You cracked the Pentagon servers when you were 12. N.S.A. has a file on you a mile long.
Hardison: Do they? What do they say about me? I hope they gave me a cool nickname.
Vance: Parker here... No file on you, which is...
(Parker appears to be sleeping)
Vance: Is she asleep?
Eliot: She bores easy. What do you got on us?
hardison probably does have a cool nickname
also I LOVE how they still have no clue about parker
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eliot being like “she bored easy” 🤷🏼‍♀️ the MARRIEDNESS
- - - - -
Hardison: Y-you’re talking about stopping a terrorist attack in an afternoon. We’d need all your intel.
Vance: That truck back at the crime scene... It’s an N.S.A. Mobile response intelligence unit–
Hardison: With the Schneier cryptography system and the j-dam satellite uplink? That... I know nothing about, ‘cause that would be treason and wrong. (to Vance) Are you for real
hardison: I wouldn’t know anything about that because that wouLd Be TrEaSoN
- - - - -
Vance: So, you grab the truck... (moves to sit by Eliot) Hell... Your girlfriend’s already out of her cuffs.
(Parker sits up holding the handcuffs and tosses them to Vance)
...they didn’t deny that parker was eliot’s girlfriend. they didn’t bother to correct him because it is, in fact, true that she is both their girlfriends. in this essay I will-
- - - - -
Agent: No, I can’t let you in the truck.
Hardison: A gigabyte gone... your job, gone.
Agent: Security clearances.
Hardison: You’re not gonna let who...
Eliot: What are we, terrorists? Okay, that was my plan was to come here, show you a real badge that I somehow got, and then bring somebody crazy to break into a secure vehicle? We’re gonna move this down the block. He’s gonna spend about an hour doing spot-checks on databases. I showed you my badge. Man, here, take my badge. (tosses it to Agent) Call it in. I got to deal with this guy
it’s funny because it’s true
- - - - -
Hardison: It’s got every database... N.S.A., CIA, FBI. It’s got hard backdoors into most commercial systems, live feeds into every security camera on the grid. Man, if this wasn’t such a gross violation of our civil liberties, I would be in love right now.
they never stop calling out the government and I’m Here For It™
- - - - -
Parker: Where do we start?
Eliot: We start with getting you two on a plane out of here. You didn’t sign up for this. Trust me.
Hardison: And you? You’re going to handle this by yourself? Come on, she’s a lady, man. She needs the right touch. What you gonna do with your big punching hands... Punch the screens? No.
Parker: We agreed we all change. Better or worse, we change together.
Eliot (after a moment): What do they got on the gunman?
ELIOT JUST WANTS HIS PARTNERS SAFE
also,,, for better or worse, we change together??? BITCH THOSE ARE WEDDING VOWS
- - - - -
Parker: Do you know why you bring a cooler full of ice to a robbery? No? I do. Everything we need to know is in that basement. I’ll drive.
Hardison: Hold on.
Eliot: Exactly.
Hardison: No, hold on. (holds on to table)
Eliot: Oh, you... oh, hell, man (sits down in chair across from Hardison. the van horn honks twice and eliot looks around, fumbling) No seat belts up in this thing- (looks at Hardison) d-do you got a seat belt?
Hardison: No, uh-uh, hold the wall (holds the wall)
eliot and hardison being exhausted boyfriends at parker’s reckless driving, I love this song
- - - - -
Parker: How do you lose track of a whole laboratory?
Eliot: There’s over 200 tons of uranium missing from the United States nuclear storage.
Hardison: The air force lost a hydrogen bomb off the coast of Georgia.
Eliot: Countries are big things, Parker. A lot of secrets slip through the cracks.
wow I love knowing these things and having to live with it
- - - - -
Hardison: The Spanish flu killed 50 million people during World War I, and now somebody’s got it. (opens door)
Parker: Look, we can do this. Just treat it like any another job.
Hardison: This isn’t just any other job.
Eliot: All right, all right. Stay focused.
Hardison: I focused! That bug in there killed 50 million people! 50! And that was when the population was lower.
Parker: Now?
Hardison: Now? 150 million people. 150 million dead. Hey, we’re thieves, man, and we’re good at what we do, but this is way, way out of our league. And you expect us to go catch some psycho with a city killer? A country killer?
Eliot: You scared?
Hardison: You’re damn right.
(Hardison turns to enter the truck but Eliot grabs his wrist, holding him back)
Eliot: I’m not. I got the best thief And the smartest guy I know chasing this guy.
(Hardison looks at Parker, but Eliot grabs his head and pulls him back)
Eliot: Hey, listen to me. You’re smartest man I’ve ever known, Hardison. I need that brain to get me to him. ‘Cause you know if I lay my hands on him, it’s done. Get me to him. (lets Hardison go)
tHe WaY hE gRaBs HaRdiSoN’S fACE
eliot knows hardison is spiraling but he also knows how to get him out of it because he knows hardison like the back of his hand and knows how to get through to him
THEY LOVE EACH OTHER
- - - - -
there are so many good ot3 shots in this episode it brings me so much joy
- - - - -
parker climbs hardison like a T R E E to turn off that detonator as eliot provides counterbalance
- - - - -
Eliot: Did it work?
Hardison: I... I don’t know. I’m trying to get the phone speaker.
Vance (on phone): Move, move, move! Get to cover! Pull everyone back to the perimeter!
Eliot: Ohh! My boy! (hugs Hardison) That is what I’m talking about!
tHe HuG, yOuR hOnOR
- - - - -
they really be playing grand theft auto in this one
- - - - -
(Udall fires toward the trio and they dive for cover. Eliot and Parker look at each other and nod. Parker looks at Hardison)
Parker: For luck.
(Parker kisses Hardison, then she and Eliot nod at each other. Parker grabs the briefcase and runs off the train while Eliot runs toward Udall. Hardison goes after Parker, and Udall shoots Eliot in the leg. Eliot reaches Udall and punches him, knocking him out. Hardison continues after Parker, who stops and opens the briefcase)
F O R L U C K
also high key the look parker and eliot share? it had the same vibes as “we do the things that they can’t, won’t”
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parker high key kissing hardison “for luck” but also kissing him because eliot can’t
- - - - -
Hardison: Yeah. Yeah, that’ll do... that’ll do it. (he pulls her into his arms) Don’t do that to me. I can’t lose you. Do you understand? I can’t lose you. Don’t scare me like that.
Parker: Yeah.
Hardison: I can’t
he loves her so, so much
- - - - -
Vance: Promise you’ll at least consider working with us again.
Eliot: I work with them now.
Vance: Honor among thieves?
Eliot: Something like that. (walks away)
something like that,,, HE LOVES THEM, YOUR HONOR
- - - - -
Vance: World can always use some more good guys.
Parker: Yeah, well, too bad we’re the bad guys
smh, “sometimes the bad guys are the best good guys”
- - - - -
Parker: You’re shot. You should go to the hospital.
Eliot: I don’t do hospitals. (drops crutch)
Hardison: I told you. He takes getting shot very lightly
he drops his crutch to lean on parker and hardison THIS IS NOT A DRILL
- - - - -
after watching this episode, I agree with y’all wholeheartedly that this was an ot3 GOLDMINE
edit: also, notice how much is written in pink (the colorcode for ot3 notes and meta). like, more than half of it. because LITERALLY ALL OF THIS IS OT3 MATERIAL
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amlovelies · 3 years
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Or
Written for @wayhavenmonthly​‘s Fall For Unit Bravo
Day 14: Unit
No warnings
words:1343
This would be the first chapter if I even did a long-fic version of my Wayhaven AU (which I don’t have a title for because titles are the worst lol) featuring Mason and Serena Willis. I’ll include links for the other pieces I’ve written from it. 
liability
what desire will make foolish people do
finders-keepers
read on ao3
               I’ve lost track of how long I’ve been at the facility. I think it’s been a few weeks, but without seeing the sun or any real structure to my day it’s hard to tell. It’s not like things stop moving down here; half the agents are nocturnal after all. There always seems to be people moving through the hallways, gathering in the training room, and meeting in the dining hall.
               They say I’m not a prisoner, but I don’t trust that enough to try and leave. Besides, it’s not like I have anywhere to go. I might as well just be their little lab rat. At least, the testing has slowed down. Maybe they think they’ve figured me out, or found a way to make use of me.
               I’m sure that’s why Agent Greene wants to meet with me. To be honest, I’m not sure what I want them to do with me. I’m stuck here. Portals are one way, and until I showed up, they only came from the Echo World.
               The Echo World, because one parallel world wasn’t enough for me to handle. The Agency scientists think there might be an infinite number of them, just one more reason it’s impossible for me to go home. Portals are one way, we would have no way of knowing if it led to the right place, or if I’d just be hopping through space trying to get back.
               When I reach the door where Agent Greene is waiting, I hesitate to knock. There’s something about her that makes me nervous. More nervous than the Unit of vampires she supervises. She’s a consummate professional, that’s clear from her the top of her perfectly coiffed head to her expensive heels. She hasn’t been cruel or anything, but she also hasn’t gone out of her way to be kind either.
               I knock and she calls me inside.
               The room is sterile, like so many parts of the facility. A table with a couple of chairs sits in the middle of the white walls and concrete floor. It reminds me of the interrogations rooms I used to see on cop shows. Yeah, that helps with the nerves.
               “Ms. Willis, please do have a seat.”
               She gives me a moment to get settled.
               “I understand you’ve been very cooperative with the test the Agency has requested. Thank you.” She says.
               I roll my eyes, “I figured you’d do the tests whether I said yes or not. I might as well cooperate.”
               She frowns, “you do have a choice in these things. While it is important for us to understand how you got here and the future implications of additional portals, we would never force you.”
               “So you say.”
                “Choice is why I wanted to speak with you today.” She says switching topics. “I’m sure you’re bored staying here at the facility, have you considered what you would like to do next.”
               “Besides go home?” I know I sound like a bratty teen, but really, what does she expect me to say?                
               “Part of what the Agency does is take care of and provide for supernaturals stuck in this world.” She says her tone soft. “You may not belong to any supernatural species we know of, but with the differences in physiology, and the fact that you are trapped here against your will places you in our purview.”
               “Meaning what exactly?”
               “We can get you a job, an apartment, maybe set you up to go to school. The agency can help you start a new life here.”
               “Why do I feel like there is a but coming?” I ask. There has to be a catch. There’s always a catch.
               She gives me a look which I can only call appraising, and she flashes a small smile, “There isn’t. There’s an or.”
               I jerk back a little surprised, and honestly, intrigues. If someone had offered me a fresh start like that back home, I would have leapt at the opportunity. A chance to start again without all the baggage of my earlier life? Financial assistance? It would be like a dream come true, but it feels hollow here. It just feels lonely.
               “Or?”
               “Or you could join Unit Bravo on a trial basis. Think of it like an internship.”
               “Why?”
               “The unit will be stationed permanently in Wayhaven. Based on our experience with portals we have reason to believe the one you fell through will only become more active.”
               I nod in understanding, “and you want me there to greet any other poor sod who gets sucked through.”
               “Yes. I also understand you have been spending a good amount of time in the training room and working with the junior agents. Commanding Agent Du Mortain believes you could maybe turn into a decent agent someday. With training, of course.”
               I have enjoyed the sparring. I was mostly just a punching bag for some of the junior agents I’d gotten to know, but it was fascinating to see how different my body was in this world. If the agency scientist had figured out exactly what cause the changes, they haven’t shared it with me. Whatever the reason, I was now faster and stronger. My body even had some accelerated healing ability. Nothing to compare with the vampires of Unit Bravo, but still an interesting development. I read enough comic books back home which makes me think there might be some sort of radiation or something in the void between worlds, but who the fuck actually knows.
               “What’s in it for me?” I ask her curious to see her answer.
               She nods unsurprised by the question. I wonder if she prepared for this meeting. Was I acting as she predicated?
               “You’d be working with people you’ve already met. I understand you visited Detective Greene during her recovery and she is quite fond of you. You’ve also spent some time with Agent Sewell and Hauville here at the facility. I imagine having some somewhat familiar faces around would ease the transition to your new life here.”
               “You would also have access to the Agency’s resources,” she continues. “Room and board would be provided as well as a competitive salary. If it doesn’t work out, then the original offer still stands.”
               I don’t take long to answer, “I’ll do it.” It’s the thought of the loneliness that seals the deal. I may barely know Unit Bravo, but at least I know them. Nate was the first person I met in this new world, and Farah could understand what I’m going through. I may not be proud of it, but I’m prepared to cling to them for as long as possible rather than face the specter of a strange new world.
               “Excellent. They are waiting in a room nearby in the event that you said yes. Let’s join them now so we can begin to go over the specifics of your assignment to Wayhaven.” She rises from the table and I hurry to follow.
               It’s a short walk to where the rest of the Unit waits. It all feels a little surreal. This has to be the strangest job interview I’ve even been in. A giggle escapes me and Agent Greene glances over at me, probably regretting this arrangement all ready.
               This room is a lot nicer and welcoming that the harsh cell we were just in. I guess not that I’m on the payroll the treatment changes. I have to wonder exactly what sort of apartment I would have ended up with if I’d taken them up on the original offer. Not that it could be worse than places I lived in back home. God there was that one place with the iron mark burned into the carpet, or the one where I had to light the pilot light whenever I wanted a hot shower.
               As soon as we’re through the door I hear Farah’s voice, “See Natey, I told you she would say yes!”
               “I’m happy to see you were right.” Nate responds before turning to greet me. “Welcome to Unit Bravo, Serena.”
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some-little-infamy · 4 years
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Dance With Us
(3x02 The Reunion Job - Coda Fic)  (Read on AO3) 
Eliot doesn’t care that no one bothers to respond to him once the mission’s over. He’s out of the office, he got to take his frustrations out with a few deserving human punching bags, and he’s fine. Let them have their fun… he had his. This is what he does. He doesn’t need all that.
He definitely doesn’t need to keep dwelling on how he heard Hardison ask Parker to dance before he pulled the com out of his ear and went back to Nate’s. He had plenty of those moments of his own back in actual high school, let the nerds have theirs now if they want. Whatever.
The problem is: the more he thinks about it, the more he realizes that they were never moments he cared about. Even now, names and faces and, well, other assets, blended together in his memory, not worthy of any real distinction. Much like every other aspect of his life, it was always about the challenge, about the conquest, and then moving on. It never meant anything.
He definitely doesn’t need to dwell on the implications of that line of thinking, that if he were there with Parker or Hardison it would’ve meant something.
Half of a six-pack later, Hardison and Parker get back first.
“Where are Their Royal Highnesses?” Eliot asks, eyebrow raised when Hardison closes the door behind him.
“Couldn’t pull them away from their adoring fans,” Hardison quips. “So we left them for a few extra dances. Something tells me they didn’t even notice.”
Eliot lets out a ‘humpf’ sort of noise, because Nate and Sophie aren’t the only ones wrapped up in themselves tonight. Parker and Hardison haven’t stopped sharing these quick, knowing glances since they walked in, and even though it’s barely been a full minute Eliot’s had more than enough of it.
Grabbing the handle of the six-pack to take his last 3 beers with him, he’s surprised to feel Parker’s hand reach out with a firm grip around his wrist. “Thought you were going to show us how it’s done, Mr. ‘I’m The One Who Went to School Dances’?” she says.
“What?” Eliot asks, tensing instinctively when the lights dim, only for an almost disco-ball effect to project from the television screens on the wall accompanied by the opening chords of a slow rock ballad.
“You aren’t getting out of dancing with us that easily,” Hardison elaborates. Parker’s already leading Eliot by the wrist, which she still hasn’t let go of, over to where Hardison stands waiting expectantly.
“Us?” Eliot repeats, eyebrow raised.
“Well, on the way back we argued over which one of us would get to dance with you, and I won, but I also accidentally made Hardison cry so I felt bad and we agreed we’d just all dance together.”
“I did not-” Hardison starts, but one narrow-eyed glare from Parker has his lips snapping shut instead.
Hardison slides his right arm behind Parker’s back and holds his left hand out for Eliot to take. Parker holds her right hand out to do the same, and Eliot just stands there looking between them as if this must be some sort of joke.
“I don’t need your pity dance,” Eliot says, unable to find it in himself to feel anything other than defensive. That had to be it. He knows he made a few comments over the comms about no one checking in on him but he meant for them to sound sarcastic… maybe more of his actual disappointment bled through than he thought.
He knows he doesn’t quite fit in here. Nate and Sophie have their cat and mouse game history. Hardison and Parker have their secret spy stuff, with covert hacking and undetectable break-ins. All he has is violence and a short fuse. He’s the muscle, and if they didn’t need him he would’ve been gone a long time ago. He’s fine with it. Really. He doesn’t need this. He doesn’t even want it.
Except that doesn’t explain the way his heartbeat rises more staring down Hardison and Parker than it had fighting off guys twice his size earlier.
“I don’t pity anyone,” Parker says, motioning more exaggeratedly with her hand now, shoving it forcefully in his direction to take. “It’s the three of us. Always. Out there, in here. Doesn’t matter.”
The way Parker says it is the way Parker says anything - blunt and honest, which is the only reason why Eliot doesn’t doubt her words. It’s the reason instead of going back to his beer Eliot shrugs off the gray hoodie he still has on so that he’s left with just a tan flannel and his red-orange undershirt for better mobility before holding his hands out to take Hardison and Parker’s.
There’s a slight frown on his face at the immediate realization that his hands, rough and calloused, are such a stark contrast to the smooth, soft skin of the ones holding them… but even Eliot can’t frown for long when he looks up to see Hardison grinning like a damn fool and Parker giving that excited little half-smile he normally only sees her with before she’s about to jump off a building.
Without another word, they’re moving, perfectly in sync from the first step, in a three-person waltz that shouldn’t work as well as it does.
It’s perfect. Which is why he has to say something and ruin it, before something else does, not trusting the moment to last.
“This is a little ridiculous,” he points out. “No one waltzes at school dances.”
“Oh? Would you prefer something else?” Hardison asks, dropping Eliot’s hand. For a second Eliot is convinced that he did exactly what he set out to do - kept the people he cares about at arm’s length - and is surprised at the immediate disappointment he feels at succeeding. A moment later Hardison brings his hand back up to grab Parker’s, stepping closer so that Eliot is now sandwiched between them, Parker pressed against his chest, Hardison against his back.
They’re a comforting weight on all sides of him as they slow in pace down to a gentle sway back and forth. The knot in Eliot’s stomach over the assumption that he fucked everything up dissolves as quickly as it formed.
“Better?” Parker asks, her eyes searching his face to read his reaction, to make sure that it’s honest. He knows that if it isn’t, if he really wants to push them away and end this - whatever this is - he could do it and she’d let him. One hint that he doesn’t want this and she’s gone. They both are.
It’s tempting. Old habits die hard and this job would be a hell of a lot easier to do if he didn’t let himself get too attached in ways he shouldn’t be… then Hardison leans his head down just enough to rest his cheek against the back of Eliot’s head while they sway and the little stutter Eliot’s heart does tells him it’s a bit late for keeping himself in check as far as attachments go. 
“Better,” Eliot agrees.
In fact, when Parker tilts her head to rest her cheek on Eliot’s shoulder, the three of them moving just a little bit closer in the process, Eliot might grudgingly admit to himself it’s the best he’s felt in a long time.
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