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dragonflylady77 · 2 months
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Mr Steve and the Monster Hunter
Here we go, the next chapter of my fic for @bigbangharringrove
Chapter 1
ch2 on Ao3
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Steve gets some answers from Robin
Chapter 2 - You weren't even friends
Steve is still feeling a bit out of sorts when he arrives at Robin and Heather’s house. That dream has left him shaken. Not just that, but finding out Billy was alive was quite a shock to the system and he’s still processing.
He saw Billy die on the grimy floor of Starcourt Mall. The night is etched in his memory in vivid details, to the extent he still has nightmares about it sometimes. Steve shakes his head to clear the dreaded images and takes a deep breath.
“Fucking government and their stupid NDAs and their stupid secrets,” he mutters as he rings the doorbell.
Robin answers the door with a smile. “Stevie.”
“Hi.” Steve doesn’t have it in him to smile, not when he needs answers to so many questions he didn’t know he had. His life was simple until pick-up time yesterday. And now Billy Hargrove is alive and Steve wants to lick him everywhere.
He walks past Robin and heads towards the kitchen where Heather is getting a pan out of the oven. Whatever it is smells delicious, as usual. While Robin can cook basic stuff, Heather is the real chef between the two of them.
“Holloway.” 
“Harrington.”
Their relationship has always been on the frosty side and Steve stopped wondering why years ago. He reckons the bombshell dropped on his head the day before might have something to do with that, though he’s not sure what it has to do with him. 
Heather is busy cutting what’s in the pan and Robin stops in front of him. Her smile seems a bit forced.
“Sit down. Would you like a drink?”
“I picked up that white wine you like on the way over.”
“Oh, thank you. I’ll get us some glasses.”
Steve hands her the bottle and sits down, a glance to the right catching the silent conversation Heather and Robin seem to be having by the fridge. He sighs and the crushing loneliness he normally keeps at bay rears its ugly head. Everyone has found their person, except him. 
“So…” He taps his fingers on the table, bringing the women’s attention back to him. They nod at each other and Heather goes back to dishing their lunch while Robin sorts out their drinks. Two wines and an apple juice. Interesting.
“Steve…” Robin says as she puts his drink down on the coaster in front of him and sits to his right.
“Robin.” He turns towards her and makes a show of looking around, like he doesn’t know. “Where is your daughter, the delightful Olivia, today?”
“You know where she is.”
“No, actually, I don’t. I know who she is with though. And it’s funny, I’ve been her teacher since the start of school in August last year and she never mentioned she had a father, not until he picked her up yesterday.”
“We don’t reall—”
“Don’t bullshit me. She was so fucking excited, she couldn’t stop talking about how she was going to be hanging out with her dad all weekend. Her dad that I saw fucking DIE fifteen years ago.” His fist hits the table as he shouts the last part of his sentence and he sees Heather flinch out of the corner of his eye.
“Steve!” Robin chastises as she gets up to hug Heather.
“I’m sorry. Fuck. I just…” Steve folds his arms on the table and rests his head on them with a sigh. “Why did no one tell me, Rob? That Billy wasn’t dead?”
“Oh please,” Heather’s voice is thready but it has steel through it. “Everyone knew you hated him, we had no reason to tell you.”
“Everyo—does everyone know? The kids? Dustin? All of them?”
“Well, Harrington, you know your kids, if one knows, all of them know. Billy says he gave you his card, and I’m sure you had a look on his company’s website so you know that four of them work with him.”
Steve nods.
“I don’t know about Dustin and Mike, from what Max said, they kinda lost touch after El broke up with Whiny Wheeler,” Heather adds, showing a familiarity with the kids that Steve was unaware of.
He snorts at the nickname and wonders briefly if Billy was the one to give it. “I never really hated him, you know.”
“You sure about that? Because that’s not how he tells it.”
“Heather!”
“What? Billy told us he apologized about the fight.” She glares at Steve, daring him to contradict her. “Didn’t he, Harrington?” 
“The-the fight?”
“Yes, the fight that night you lied to Billy’s face about where his sister was. You threw the first punch and got your ass kicked, before Billy got drugged and threatened, then beaten up by his piece of shit father for coming home off his face and without his sister. Surely you remember that?”
“I’m sorry, what?”
“You heard me.” Heather squeezes Robin’s hand. “Sorry, babe. I know that’s not why he’s here but I’ve been waiting a long time to get this off my chest.”
“It’s okay, sweetie, I understand.” Robin turns to Steve. “Basically, Billy told us that beyond his apology to you and Lucas for that night, he kept his word and stayed away like Max had demanded. That summer you and I met at Scoops, he got the job at the pool with Heather and he was… caught… one night on the way to a date. Then, after, um, after Starcourt, when he finally got out of hospital, Owens organized for him to move to California without anyone knowing.”
“I knew.” Heather sits very still, her hand holding Robin’s, her eyes slightly unfocused, like she’s trying to remember something.
“Yes, you did.”
“I’m sorry,” Steve says, feeling like he fucked up. It’s a feeling he hasn’t experienced in some time, his social interactions these days are usually limited to his students in class and their parents. “Do you want me to leave? It’s been so long, I’m a different person now than I was then, we all are. It doesn’t really matter.”
“It mattered enough for you to message me at midnight last night, dingus.”
“I was in shock, or something, okay? Give me a break. My favorite student got picked up by a guy I thought died fifteen years ago.”
“Again, not like you cared about the guy, you weren’t even friends.” Heather is glaring daggers at Steve and it takes all he has not to recoil in fear. He’s surprised when she gets out of her chair a second later. “I’m sorry. Babe, I’m gonna go lie down for a bit, okay?”
“Yep, sure thing.” Robin gives her a kiss then watches her go down the hallway before she turns towards Steve again. “The whole subject stresses her like crazy. She still has nightmares about it, you know. Being possessed and the stuff the Mind Flayer made her and Billy do. Therapy helped, of course, but some nights when it’s cold, she wakes up screaming.”
“He likes it cold. I remember. I guess that explains why you go to California for Christmas.”
“That and Billy lives there. Listen, he’s been nothing short of amazing as far as I’m concerned. He saved the world then got to leave Hawkins and his asshole dad. He built a good life for himself out there and then… then he gave us the most precious gift.”
“Can you tell me a bit more about that, please? The website was very vague. And the whole ‘he’s a dad’ thing.”
Watching Robin take a sip of her wine reminds Steve about his but he doesn’t feel like it anymore.
“Okay so long story short, the Upside Down is still a thing, there are portals in many places and Billy goes in and rescues people that get taken. El helps him find them, Will and Lucas go in with him to get them out, dead or alive.”
“Wow. That’s both scary and amazing.”
“Yeah. Max handles all the paperwork, NDAs and stuff.”
“There was someone else on the website, some guy with no last name.” Steve tries to remember.
“Argyle. Super cool dude. He was Billy’s friend before he moved to Hawkins and he took Billy in when he got back. Steve… I gotta ask, why are you suddenly so interested in knowing all this?”
“I, um, I missed him, I guess. After… you know. And I never really understood why. I mean, it’s like Heather said, we weren’t exactly friends, but he was always kinda in my face from the day he arrived in Hawkins, and then, I don’t know…” Steve trails off. “I’ve been not thinking about all of that for so long, and seeing him yesterday, hearing his voice, it, um…”
“Steve, what are you trying to say?”
“I don’t know. Tell me how you ladies ended up having his baby.”
He is grateful when Robin shakes her head and drops the subject.
“Oh, well, Heather does the baby growing. That whole pregnancy and birth thing, soooo not for me. Way too intense.”
“Yeah, that explains nothing.”
“Billy and Heather kept in touch and one day she let it slip that we were looking at sperm donors and he… he offered. We had a big long discussion about it, the two of us then the three of us and he came over and they did the thing and boom. Baby.”
“When you say they did the thing…”
“Oh, haha, no, not literally ‘did the thing’ because hello, gay, all of us, and you don’t need the details.”
“What do you mean, all of us?”
“If you tell me you still think Billy is straight, I might actually slap you. I know it’s bad form to out a person but it was obvious to me back in high school that boy was queer as hell. And I know for a fact you’re bi so don’t even try me, Stevie.”
“Fine. I guess I can see it now, even if I didn’t back then.”
“Really? Come on? If nothing else, the nicknames he gave you were a dead giveaway.”
“The nicknames? You know about that?”
“Steve, he’s my child’s other parent. We talk.”
“You kept very quiet about that, Rob.”
“Yeah, well, me and Heather raising a kid as our own isn’t exactly legal, dingus, so excuse me for not shouting it from the rooftops. You’re in the know because we’ve known you since high school and I trust you not to blab.”
“I’m touched.”
“Shut up. You keep derailing my story. He wasn’t gonna be involved at first, but we saw the look of wonder on his face the first time he saw Livi and held her, and we decided we wouldn’t keep them apart. Well, anymore than his job already does.”
“Aww. And now you’re going to do it all over again?”
“Huh?”
“Apple juice.”
“Ah well, yeah, we’re trying. And we’ve been talking about moving to San Diego as well so the kids can see Billy a bit more.”
“What? You’re leaving?”
“It’s too cold here, and too far from Billy and Elumax.”
“Elu-what now?”
Robin snorted. “Don’t worry about it. You’ll find out when you’re meant to. Don’t want your brain to bleed out of your ears from too much information.”
His stomach growling stops Steve from replying and the loudness of it makes them both laugh. Robin goes to get Heather while Steve sets the plates she prepared earlier. His mind is whirling with all the new information he is now privy to. He knows he needs time to process but he also knows he definitely wants to have a chat with Billy in the near future.
The end credits of the movie roll on the screen and Steve nudges Robin, who’s half asleep on his shoulder. Heather went for a nap halfway through the first movie and hasn’t emerged again.
“I should go home, let you get on with your evening.”
“Or…” Robin checks her phone. “You could wait another twenty minutes for Billy and Olivia to get home and you can take him out for coffee or dinner or whatever.”
“They’re coming here?” Oh crap. Oh no. Fuck.
“Um yeah, this is where Livi lives. And Billy lives in Cali so he stays in the guest room when he’s in town, duh.”
Steve starts to freak out. He’s not prepared to face Billy so soon, not after that stupid dream he had last night. Oh Jesus. 
“I, um, I need to go. I can’t… I can’t be here… I need to…” He knows he’s flustered and rambling and he knows Robin will pick up on it, but he can’t avoid it. 
“Steven Middlename Harrington.”
“That’s my name.” He gets off the couch but Robin pulls him back down.
“Steve…”
“Uh huh?” Steve keeps his eyes on the TV, totally ignoring Robin because he’s nothing but a mature thirty-something year old.
“Why are you suddenly so anxious to leave and why is your face all pink? What are you hiding?”
“No-nothing.”
“What did you… oh my God! Steve!”
“What? Stop it. I need to go. Now. Before—”
“Before Billy gets back and he sees the look on your face that will tell him you totally had a sex dream about him last night? That about right?”
“Yes. No. Fuck. Shut up.” Steve drops back onto the couch with a groan, hands over his face. He’s not sure what’s more embarrassing, the fact he had a sex dream at all or that Robin can still read him like an open book.
“It’s okay. I won’t tell anyone. I promise. But I know that Billy was keen to catch up with you and I think you should give him a chance.”
Steve lets his hands drop so he can look at her. “Rob…”She put both hands up. “You don’t have to. But you might regret it if you don’t.”
Chapter 3
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abandoned-anemoia · 6 months
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Fears Beyond Imagniation
☯ Pairing: platonic!Enhypen x gn!reader ☯ Genre: horror ☯ Word count: 2.4k ☯ Summary: You and your group of friends venture into an abandoned asylum in the middle of the woods, only to encounter a creature from your own nightmares. ☯ Warnings: small injuries, nightmares, a weird creature that isn't really described, powers?, brief mention of a ouija board? ☯ A/N: This is not that great, but I am kinda proud of it so... Happy Halloween! Please Let me know if I need to add any warnings! ☯Disclaimer: None of my work represents any of the idols included in any way. This is merely fictional and all based on my opinion as a joke! I have nothing against any of these idols and love them all dearly.
Please do not copy, translate, or post as your own!
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The moon hangs low in the inky sky as you and your friends, Riki, Jungwon, Jay, and Jake, venture deep into the heart of the old abandoned asylum. The once imposing building is now a decaying monument to a bygone era, a place where legends whisper of the horrors that occurred within its walls.
As you explore the dark corridors, your flashlights cast eerie, shifting shadows. Riki, the adventurous one of the group, leads the way, grinning with bravado. Jake, ever the skeptic, tries to rationalize the strange sounds that echo through the halls. Jay clutches a worn Ouija board, eager to make contact with any lingering spirits, and Jungwon holds a collection of ghost-hunting gadgets.
With each creaking floorboard and every flickering light, the tension in the group grows. You, however, feel an unsettling sensation deep in your chest. You have always been more sensitive to the supernatural, but tonight, the presence you feel is overwhelming. Your friends tease you about your unease, but as you continue deeper into the asylum, inexplicable events begin to unfold. Objects levitate and crash to the ground, while disembodied whispers grow more persistent. The once steady beams of your flashlights flicker erratically, casting unsettling patterns on the cracked walls.
Just as you are about to tell your friends that you believe it is time to leave, you notice that someone is missing. Glancing around the area, you attempt to spot your missing friend, “Where is Jungwon?”
The group looks around, calling out into the darkness only to be answered with the empty echos of their own voices. Riki chuckles nervously, his voice quivering as he tries to brush off the strange occurrence, "Jungwon's probably playing some elaborate prank on us."
Jay, however, shakes his head, "Nah, no way. You know Jungwon can't stand being alone in this place. He's too scared to wander off by himself."
Your growing unease only deepens as you think about Jungwon. He is a skeptic like Jay, always trying to rationalize the supernatural, but a chicken none the less. Now, in this eerie asylum, he is nowhere to be seen. Your mind races through all the worst possibilities – what if he has encountered something truly malevolent, or what if he has fallen victim to the asylum's sinister history? A more rational part of your brain is telling you that he could be hurt by the crumbling infrastructure of the building instead of a silly ghost or monster, but your mind is in overdrive worrying about your friend.
The group's laughter and banter had quickly dissolved into anxious silence. Each flicker of the flashlights only seems to accentuate the creeping dread that fills the corridor. You can't shake the feeling that something is terribly wrong, and that the horror that is gradually manifesting around you is far from a mere prank. You need to find Jungwon and get out of here.
As you move deeper into the asylum, the group's anxiety continues to escalate. Then, suddenly, a blood-curdling scream echos through the dark, desolate hallways. Jungwon. Without a moment's hesitation, you and Jay bolt in the direction of the terrifying cry, your hearts pounding with fear.
When you finally round a corner and find Jungwon, he is pale and trembling, his eyes wide with horror.
"It was… it was a monster," he stammers, his voice barely audible, "I saw it, a grotesque, nightmarish creature that was beyond anything I could ever imagine."
Your heart sinks in your chest as Jungwon continues to describe the monster. You remember the horrific creature that has haunted your nightmares for years, the very creature you fear more than anything else. It has materialized within the asylum, and now your worst fears are no longer confined to your imagination.
When you turn to gather your friends, you realize that Jake and Riki are not behind you, getting separated from you when you and Jay ran to Jungwon. Your sudden concern for Jake and Riki drives you to turn back and find your missing friends. As you retrace your steps, you hear gut-wrenching sounds emanating from the direction where you had left Jake and Riki. Your mind races with terrible thoughts, fearing the worst for your friends.
Just as you are about to run back to attempt to rescue Jake and Riki, Jungwon's trembling hand clamps onto your shoulder, and his face contorts with pure horror. "No," he chokes out, pulling you back and dragging Jay with him, "We can't go back there. We can't. It's too late."
You desperately want to run to the aid of your friends, but Jungwon's sheer terror stops you in your tracks. The horrible sounds that echo from the darkness only add to your agony, leaving you torn between the safety of your two remaining friends and the terrifying fate of the others.
As you, Jay, and Jungwon sprint out of the asylum, terror fueling your every step, the woods ahead seem like a distant haven of safety. You push yourselves harder, branches snapping and leaves crunching underfoot as you race toward where the car is parked. The adrenaline coursing through your veins is the only thing that keeps you moving forward.
Just as you reach the car, Jay's eyes widen in shock. He points, and you turn to see Jake stumbling out of the building, his arms wrapped around Riki. Without thinking, you take off running toward your friends, fear racing through you, your heart pounding like a drum. Jungwon's scream for you to come back echos in your ears, but you refuse to stop.
As you reach Jake and Riki, you wrap your arm around Riki's waist, helping Jake rush him to the car. You glance back at the asylum, and your blood runs cold. The horrific monster from your recurring nightmares is making its way down the hall, the open doorway providing a perfect, nightmarish view of the creature.
You urge Jake to go faster, fear gnawing at you as Jay and Jungwon yell for you to hurry. You manage to get Riki into the car just in time, Jake quickly sliding in next to him, but you are left outside with the nightmarish entity closing in.
Face to face with your worst fear, you can feel the monster's fetid breath on your face, its malevolence palpable. The rancid smell makes you want to retch, but you hear Jake's voice from inside the safety of the car, "It's not real." With every ounce of your being, you repeat that mantra, whispering to yourself that the monster isn't real, that it can't hurt you.
As you open your eyes, the monstrous apparition slowly fades into thin air, leaving you standing there in the fading moonlight, trembling but unharmed. The car's engine roars to life, and Jay and Jungwon shout for you to get in, the horrors of the asylum still fresh in their minds, your escape from the nightmarish ordeal far from over.
As the car speeds away from the nightmarish asylum, you check over Riki, your hands gently grazing his skin, concern etched across your face. Riki leans his head on Jake's shoulder, still trembling from the ordeal. Your voice is soft and soothing as you ask, "What happened to you, Riki?"
Jake is quick to try to explain with urgency in his voice, "When we were running from the monster, Riki stepped on an broken floorboard. It snapped under his weight, and he crashed to the ground. He twisted his ankle and hit his head pretty hard." He glances over at Riki, who carefully nods in agreement.
"When I went to help him up, panicking as I watched that thing getting closer," Jake continues, "Riki said he didn't see the creature anymore. At first, I thought he had hit his head a little too hard, but… he seemed perfectly stable, so I believed him. I ignored the monster to focus on helping Riki, and it just… disappeared."
The story is baffling and unsettling, and it adds to the mystery of the night's horrifying events. You can't help but wonder if the monster is somehow linked to your own fears and anxieties, manifesting when you are at your most terrified and fading when you focus on helping your friends. The group had escaped the asylum, but you were left with more questions than answers as you continue driving, away from the haunted place that had become a living nightmare.
As the car speeds down the road, the atmosphere inside is heavy with the weight of the night's horrors. Jay, driving in somber silence, finally breaks it, "We should talk to the rest of our friends about what we saw tonight,"
Jungwon shakes his head, his skepticism diminished by your shared experience, "No one will believe us, Jay. It's pointless to try."
Jake, who has been carefully tending to Riki in the back seat, chimes in, "Our main concern right now should be getting Riki to a doctor."
A palpable unease settles in the car. It is you who finally speaks up, hesitating as you do, "That creature… I think it could be my fault." The car falls silent once more, the implications of your words sinking in.
Riki, despite his injuries, reaches for your hand and gives it a reassuring squeeze, "We'll talk to the others about this. We'll figure it out together."
A few days later, your group gathers to meet with your friends Heeseung, Sunghoon, and Sunoo. Jungwon recounts the night's terrifying venture into the asylum, ending with your theory. Sunghoon brushes it off as mere paranoia, suggesting that you all had gotten too scared and imagined things. Heeseung, though more open to the idea, wants to understand the situation better. It is Sunoo who suggests going back to the asylum as a group to prove the veracity of your claims. Sunghoon, albeit reluctantly, agrees, noting that it will be a chance to determine whether your theory about your own fears becoming a reality have any merit.
The boys gather their things, and despite your and Jungwon’s fear of returning to the abandoned building, you join the others in the car. As the eight of you approach the asylum, with the sun slowly setting, fear once again grips your heart. The possibilities weigh heavily on your mind. If the monster is real, your friends could get hurt. If it isn't, they might be seen as delusional. And if it only becomes real through your imagination… well, that thought is almost too much to bear. You could be the reason your friends have suffered.
The group walks into the building, Jake leading the way to the spot where the floor had given way under Riki just a few days ago. You can't help but to tense as you move through the darkened hallways. Sunghoon, ever perceptive, notices your discomfort and places a reassuring hand on your back, silently urging you forward as you venture deeper into the asylum. The darkness seems to close in around you, and a foreboding feeling grows stronger with each step.
As the group gathers around the hole in the floorboard, panic churns in your stomach. A distant grinding noise resounds down the hall, causing all of you to turn and face the direction from which it emanated. Heeseung, in an attempt to dismiss everyone’s fears, nervously suggests, "It's probably just the wind moving a door or this old building settling."
But the noise repeats, and this time, it is followed by a menacing growl that sends shivers down your spines. In response, you instinctively step in front of your friends, determination in your eyes as you silently vow to protect them, despite your own fear.
Jungwon, gripping Sunoo's hand tightly, urges the group to leave. Sunoo tries to calm his anxious friend, reminding him that they need to stay and investigate your theory. Meanwhile, Heeseung reaches out to pull you away from the source of the noise, his concern for your well-being overriding his curiosity about what might be causing these eerie sounds.
The tension in the group is palpable, as you stand there in the dimly lit corridor, caught between the allure of discovering the truth and the overwhelming sense of dread that continues to surround you. The horrors of the asylum, whether real or imagined, hold you in its sinister grip.
As the horrifying creature from your nightmares slinks around the corner, Heeseung's grip on your arm tightens, and Sunghoon quickly steps beside you, turning you away from the approaching monstrosity. Jake's voice cuts through the tension, reminding you that he believes you can control the creature.
With a deep breath and determination, you try to convince yourself that this creature is a product of your imagination. As it creeps closer, the creature emits terrifying noises that sound as if they had come from the depths of hell. Sunghoon places his hands on your shoulders and urges you to focus on him alone, ignoring the monster entirely. You obey, and the nightmarish sounds begin to lower in intensity.
Sunghoon continues his reassuring pep talk, guiding you to face away from the monster and concentrate on your group of friends now standing in front o you. With one last deep breath, you declare that it is all in your imagination. The group of friends watch in amazement as the horrific creature begins to dissipate, cheering in unison when it finally disappears.
You all embrace in joy, relieved that the nightmare is over. However, the realization of your extraordinary ability sinks in. You can control reality, but it came with a heavy burden. The group knew that your unintentional manifestation of the monster had led to Riki's injuries and the trauma you all endured. You feel awful, tears welling up in your eyes as you apologize profusely to the group.
Riki quickly pulls you close and assures you that it isn't your fault, that you had no control over this newfound power. He then suggests that you all should leave before darkness falls completely.
As you exit the asylum, Sunoo lightens the mood by mentioning getting food and watching some funny movies to ease the tension of what you had just experienced. The group eagerly agrees, finding solace in the idea of returning to normalcy after the horrors of the night. You all made your way back home, united by the incredible and unsettling revelation that had brought you together.
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yoditopascal · 10 months
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Heat of the Moment (Part Three)
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summary: ‘Adopted daughter to police chief Jim Hopper, Shea has a hard enough time fitting in at Hawkins high, throw in monsters, meddling kids, and alternate dimensions into the mix and she’s not sure how she’ll survive.’
content warning: some angst, character deaths, period-typical racism, period-typical sexism, canon-typical violence, possible smut later on??? (honestly we’ll see), cussing, mutual pining, found family, drug use, this is a reader insert but I hate using y/n so your nickname is ‘Shea’
a/n: Whole lotta dialogue in this chapter, next one will have more action I promise!
Previous Chapter//Next Chapter
The Kids Are Not Alright
Slamming the door behind her Shea huffed as she tried her anger to subside 
Stupid Steve Harrington and his big ass mouth.
Shaking her head she steeled herself and went back to the task at hand. Calling her sister to make sure she was alright.
Dialing the number the phone rang four times with no answer. She could feel in the pit of her stomach that something wasn’t right and just as she was about to hang up, grab her keys, and drive her happy ass down there herself a sleepy voice answered the phone.
“ Hello?” They said
“Jonathan?” Shea asked, she knew his voice anywhere, besides Robin and Eddie he had been one of her only friends in high school.
“Yea hey, Shea what’s up?” He sounded a little high but that was normal for him nowadays.
“Is El there I-uh I wanted to talk to her, make sure she’s alright” Shea didn’t wanna sound like that it was urgent, even though it was, just in case like Steve said the situation wasn’t about the upside down. She really didn’t want to get El involved in any more shit than she had to be in. 
“Oh I’m sorry she went out with Mike and Will a while ago, they went to the roller rink or something like that,” he said with a yawn
“That’s fine c-can you tell her I called though,” she said rubbing the back of her neck anxiously as she stood on her heels..
“Sure man, is everything ok? You sound kinda upset” he asked sounding genuinely concerned.
“Yeah just- yeah I miss her is all. How’s she doing?” she sniffed
“I don’t really know. She says she’s fine but you know how El is.”
“Yeah I know, stubborn just like Dad.”
“That she most definitely is.”
“Between you and me I think she might be getting bullied,” Jonathan said as he lowered his voice as if just speaking about it would conjure up the young teen.
“What?” Shea almost shouted.
“She won’t really tell us anything about it but Will notices things and I don’t think she gets it”
“Who the hell is it Jonathan? Is it someone from her class? Do I need to come up there?” Shea said trying her best to keep her anger in check but failing miserably. 
“Whoa slow down there Rambo! I don’t think your dad would be too happy with you beating up a kid in another state even if it is for your sister” Jonathan reasoned trying to get her to calm down
“Yeah well, they should know better than to be messing with her.”
“I’m sure they will, El just has to stick up for herself”
“Does she even know how? She’s never had to before, not like this” Shea said still agitated 
“She’s capable Shea, you gotta give her a chance”
“I know she is but-“
“I get it big sister genes are kicking in”
“Yeah… she’s all I got Jonathan” Shea said as she wiped at the tears that threatened to spill from the corner of her eyes.
“I know and besides us here you’re all she’s got so stop stressing yourself out so much.”
“I’ll try” Shea chuckled 
“Argyle is here I gotta get going” Oh right Jonathan’s cute stoner friend she met last Christmas
Oooh, tell him I said heeey.”
“Don’t be gross, I’ll talk to you later” Jonathan laughed with a snort 
“Yeah, you too.”
Bursting through the door, Dustin and Max raced up to the front counter of the video store.
“Steve!” Dustin cried sounding almost desperate
“Henderson, you see this shit?” Steve asked pointing to the news on tv. 
“How many phones do you have?” Dustin asked completely ignoring the question.
“Someone was murdered,” Steve said incredulously, sometimes Dustin could be so insensitive 
“How many phones do you have?” Dustin repeated 
“Two, technically three of you count Keith’s in the back but Shea is using it why?” Robin
“Three works,” Max said looking back between Dustin and Robin's face as serious as ever. 
“Dude! What is going on?!” Steve shouted as Dustin knocked down tapes as they hopped the counter. 
I’m setting up a base of operations!” Dustin explains as he sets himself up at the rental store computer, tapping away at the keys as he goes.
“Base of operations? For what?!”
“Eddie’s friends’ phone numbers!”
“Oh yeah, your new best friend Eddie who you think is cooler because he plays your nerdy game. Seriously, what is it with everyone and that guy!” Steve said, sounding almost as if he was jealous. Ok, he was a little bit jealous but so what!
“Guys seriously were a little busy right now, Shea’s in the back probably still upset, can’t this wait” Robin asked already tired of Steve and his antics, if he wanted to argue with Dustin he needed to do it somewhere else because she was done with him today.
“Shea’s here?” Max asked sounding surprised
“Yeah she came in here crying about him earlier, she’s looking for that freak too” Steve rolled his eyes
“She wasn’t crying but she probably is now thanks to you” Robin fired back with her arms crossed
“I said I was sorry!” Steve shouted back.
“Yeah well you can shove you’re sorry ina sack and get f-“ Shea said as she reappeared from the back she was cut off by Dustin who put his hands up in the air clearly fed up with whatever was going on between her and Steve already.
“Look whatever’s going on with you two I need you to squash it like yesterday!”
“Max, can you fill them in while I do this?” Dustin asked ignoring how the two young adults looked down at the ground like they were being scolded by a parent and went back to typing away on the computer.
“Fill us in on what?” Shea asked, finally looking up to meet Max’s concerned gaze.
“This is gonna sound crazy but I think something happened at Eddie’s trailer last night” she started 
“Yeah no shit it’s all over the news” Steve interrupted again.
“I mean like upside down crazy shit. I saw him and Chrissy Cunningham go into his trailer last night then all the lights and shit in the whole park flickered and I saw him hightailing it outta there in his van!” She said as she remembered all the lights flickering around her and how it had all reminded her of the mall and Billy and… Max swallowed hard trying not to get lost in her own thoughts, they needed her here and focused. 
“Chrissy Cunningham?” Steve questioned incredulously as if anyone like Chrissy would be caught dead hanging around someone like Eddie.
“Oh shit”
“I told you!” Shea shouted matter-of-factly poking Steve right in his broad chest.
Steve shoved her hand off before flipping her the bird which she returned as the four of them spent the next hour calling around asking if any of Eddie’s friends had seen or heard from him while Steve continued to work and flirt with customers but to their chagrin no one had. One person Max spoke with suggested they call Reefer Rick, he was Eddie’s supplier and he often crashed there when he didn’t want to be at home but no one knew his address or his real name to look up.
“I think I might have a lead,” Max said as she hung up the phone turning towards the others as she spoke.
“Seriously?” Shea asked from her spot on the floor, phone between her crossed legs.
“Yeah so apparently Eddie gets drugs from some guy named Reefer Rick, and sometimes Eddie crashes there,” she said crossing her arms over her chest as she leaned on the counter behind her
“Great! So where’s he live?” Robin asked as she hopped up from her spot beside Shea stretching as she stood ready to head out.
“That’s the thing no one knows, he kinda like a legend” Max finished explaining with a long sigh.
“Well, what about a last name?” Dustin asked hopping off the counter he was sitting on and jumping back up to the computer
“Bet the cops know” Steve threw in his two cents
“Really Steve?” Shea asked ready to punch him by now, he hadn't helped them look for shit and now here he was bringing up Eddie and his friends being criminals again.
“I mean, if he’s a drug dealer then he had to have been busted at some point so he’s probably in the system”
“The cops? Seriously” Dustin was talking Shea’s side on this one.
“Just ignore him that’s what I’ve been doing,” Shea said as she turned her back to Steve turning her attention back to Dustin on the computer.
“Just say what you want to say, Steve, you think Eddie’s guilty don’t you?” Dustin rolled his eyes at his friend
“Whoa, I believe in innocent until proven guilty, all that constitutional shit I just, yknow, I don’t think we should rule anything out is all I’m saying,” Steve said as he leaned over the counter trying to act cool.
“That’s exactly what we’re trying to do here Steve” Max was now starting to get agitated too
“And maybe we’d have a little bit more luck if you spent less time trying to find a girlfriend-“ Dustin started loudly
“I wasn’t-“ Steve tried to interrupt but Dustin continued
“ and more time helping us try to find Eddie!” he finished with a huff as he turned back towards to computer as if the answer would just pop up on the screen with a frustrated groan he dropped his head down onto the counter with a thud. 
“I have an idea!” Robin says hopping up from the floor and over to the computer
“What are you doing?” Max asks
“Maybe we don’t need a last name,” Robin said as she started to look up every customer they've rented out to named Rick.
“See twelve Ricks already have accounts here,” She said pointing to the screen as the rest of the group crowded around her.
“That's a lot of Ricks,” Shea said with a sigh
“So let's narrow it down,” she said beginning to click through each of Rick’s rentals, trying to decide whose past rentals would match a would-be drug dealer. 
“Rick Alderman’s latest rentals are Annie and Dumbo, what are the chances our Rick has a family?” she asked
“Not likely” Dustin answers
“Ok, so how about Rick Conroy? Sixteen Candles, Teen Wolf, and Romancing the Stone?”
“No” everyone including Steve agreed at once
“Rick Joiner. Mask, Footloose, and Grease."
“Nah,” Shea said 
“Rick Lipton, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Cheech & Chong’s Next Movie, Cheech & Chong’s Nice Dream, Cheech & Chong’s Up in Smoke.”
“Bingo.” Max chuckled lightly
“Lipton?” Steve asked as if the name sounded familiar to him.
“Spelled like the tea. Looks like the address is 2121 Holland Rd.”
“That’s out by Shea’s place by Lover’s Lake,” Dustin said as Robin pulled up the address on the screen
“Yeah the middle of nowhere” Steve agreed
“The perfect place to hide.”
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“You know, I think I could get used to your hair bein’ down.” The Captain moved his hand to gently brush some hair from her eyes. “Your old style made you look kinda old, Doll.”
”Wh- Now you tell me, not when we were still in town??” Chisei puffed out her cheeks at this, pouting. She then twirled some of her hair through her fingers, inspecting the ends. “You know… Maybe a trim would be nice…”
”Let’s get you situated with everything else before getting you a haircut, sound fair?” Shinji smiled, moving to cup her cheek. “You know, you still look awfully cute when you pout…”
The two paused, Chisei still pouting, and the two had started to lean into a kiss before a very loud conversation killed their mood.
”QUIT NAGGING ME, WOMAN I’M FINE!”
”TWO ROLLS OF BANDAGES LATER, YOU’RE FINE! AND YOU WANTED ME TO HEAL YOU AT THE BARRACKS, I CAN’T DO THAT!”
From around the corner came the Captain of Squad 11, someone he looked even more menacing all bandaged up and injured. A massive wall of a man, one that Chisei had only seen maybe twice in her life… Still as intimidating as she remembered. Only now, hot on his heels, was a tiny spitfire of a woman. Shorter than Chisei, though not by much, red and orange hair cut into a long bob, and bright green eyes full of vim and vigor…
”Huh, you know. I forgot why I asked.” Kenpachi Zaraki stretched his neck to pop it, looking down in the direction of the woman. “Now I remember… You’re supposed to be on bedrest.”
”Oh please, I keep telling you that I was fine! I only got winded, there’s at most a bruise!” The woman walked beside him, eyes closed with her nose in the air. “Even after Orihime’s ability, they lost count of how many cuts you actually had- HEY WHAT ARE YOU-!?”
Having had enough of the woman’s bickering, the combat Captain didn’t waste any more time. He picked her up when she wasn’t looking, and carried her as if nothing happened. “Kenpachi!! I can walk just fine, put me down!!”
”Quit yelling, already!” The man groaned, “You know you’re supposed to be resting Kanna, I don’t wanna hear it. Can’t even fight it out with you when we get back…”
Finally the woman, Kanna, quieted, which only earned her a grin from the Captain. “Just because I stopped talking doesn’t make you right, you know…” She complained, fighting back a smile of her own.
”Then that look on your face tells me I won.” He chuckled and kissed her forehead, about to walk past the other couple. “C’mon. I know you’ll be pissed if I don’t let you make dinner.”
”Only cause you’d get delivery otherwise!” Kanna pointed up at him, she happened to catch a glance of the woman with the other captain. “Oh, hold on Ken- Hey! You’re that Quincy girl right?”
”M-Me?” Chisei pointed to herself, thrown off. “Yes! That’s me!”
”Listen, so I heard you were expecting…” The redhead gave her a sweet smile, “We just found out we are too. I’m sure we can arrange a day soon to hang out and talk baby things, you know, bore these guys to death-“ Kanna gestured to the monster of a man still carrying her with a thumb, “-and have someone else who relates. I’ll talk to the Shinigami Women’s Association about inviting you along too!”
”Am I gonna have a bunch of girls in my barracks spewing baby crap?” Kenpachi questioned, he didn’t even budge when the woman started poking his sharp cheek. “Hey, Quincy.”
By now the brunette froze, swallowing nervously. “Uh, yes Captain-?”
”Heard you went up against Aizen on your own. That takes guts.” He chuckled, “Soon as you’re able, let’s set up a fight. I wanna see what everyone’s talking about.”
”Oh! Y-Yes sir, of course!” She replied quickly, and Shinji smirked while patting the woman’s back.
”I’m taking her back to my squad’s barracks now, so if you ever get off bedrest feel free to come by.” He said, “Don’t think we’ve met, Miss…?’’
”Kanna Zaraki.” The woman piped up, “You’re one of the returning Captains I keep hearing about, right?”
”Sounds like you listen to the gossip well. Shinji Hirako. And since you might need a name for this scared little rabbit-“ He gestured, “This is Chisei Kudake.”
”It’s nice to meet you two, I’m sure we’ll see plenty of each other in the future.” Kanna half-joked, then thought. “Well… You may also see more of Yachiru now that you’re here full-time… Where’d she go anyway?”
”How should I know? Maybe she’s bugging the old man.” Kenpachi huffed, “We’re outta here. See you at the Festival, Captain.”
The redhead smiled as she waved to the two, but Kenpachi left quickly with a powerful jump on top of one of the nearby structures. Chisei and Shinji were left at a loss for words for a while, staring in the direction they disappeared into.
”Huh. So his sense of direction really is trash.” Shinji pointed, the complete opposite way he went off running. “Last I remember, his squad’s barracks are that way… Sure that woman is gonna give him hell for it.”
”I can’t believe that woman married him…” Chisei said, then looked to Shinji for a response. “They’re an odd couple…”
The blonde wrapped his arm around her, starting to lead her down the walkway. “Yeah, I didn’t believe it when he told me his wife used to work at a teashop… People can surprise you.” He hummed, turning to her and giving her one of his classic smiles. “Hey, let’s get you back. Momo’s waiting for us, we gotta get ready for the festival.”
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In which Isabelle and a friend scares some Magicam Monsters.
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    “This is cute!” Squealed the young woman as she looked around. The schools conservatory had been decked out into a “Arts and Witch Crafts” workshop for visitors. It was mostly little crafts for small children, the whole main area had been decorated with cauldrons, brooms, and decorative bottles to resemble a witches cottage. 
      Her companion didn’t share her enthusiasm. “Yeah, but this is all little kid stuff. When are we going ? I want to try and find those ghosts to get a picture of.” He whined.
     “In a bit…” She hummed, taking a picture of the broom display hanging on the wall. It had gotten dark out, the families that had frequented the spot had all left now that it was way past dark. As they looked around they heard hushed whispers in the other room where they saw a couple students who were manning the place talking.
     The man shushed her as they listened to the pair through the door.
     “How much longer? This place gives me the creeps after dark!”
     “Why are you so adamant about leaving? Don’t think you can get out of cleaning up.”
     “It’s not that!” one boy replied. Then after a moment of silence he continued. “...I just…don’t want to run into her.”
     “Her?” The other boy did not sound convinced.
    “Yeah! The sorceress that haunts the conservatory!”
    “Wow. That's dumb.” 
    “Oh my seven, you really don’t know?”
    “Don’t know what?”
   “The very first headmage had a daughter that lived on the grounds.” He explained. “As she grew older some said she went mad. She never aged a day, despite years going by. All the while a handful of students went missing every year. Until the townspeople realized she was using dark magic to suck the lives out of them to stay young and beautiful. So they hanged her for the crimes, and years later the conservatory was built on the spot where she was executed.” 
    “You’ve been watching too many scary movies.” the other boy replied. “A witch that steals the souls of the young? Come on.”
   “It’s true! They say sightings of her spirit increase closer to Halloween. If you’re lucky enough, she’ll just curse you, if not…”
    “She’ll kill you? Ooohhhh scaaary.” 
“It’s not funny!” the voices faded with the sound of their footsteps.
The man scoffed. “What a load of nonsense.”
    “Maybe we should leave.” The lady said, looking around nervously. This place does look kinda creepy after dark.”
     “Don’t tell me you’re scared now.” He looked around and saw the staircase leading up to the next floor of the conservatory. “Hey what’s up there?”
     “I don’t know. But look,” She pointed. “It says it’s off limits.”
     “It can’t hurt to take a peek. Those guys left, we’ll be in and out. Besides, can you imagine getting a pic in the tower window under the stars? Come on!”
Stevie peeked his head around the corner and smirked. This was going to be fun. “Ignoring the Off Limits sign. Definitely Magicam Monsters.” He turned to the lanky ghost behind him. “Tell Isabelle she’s on, I’ll be right up.”
The pair looked around the second floor of the conservatory. It was dark here. The flash lights on their phones did not do much. As they wandered, looking for a place to take pictures, they found a door with light peeking out from where it was cracked open. They heard girlish giggles from the other side.
 “A dead mans toe! A dead mans toeee!” The voice sang.
Peeking out the voice came from a woman, wavy grey hair tucked under a black mages cap. She threw something into a  cauldron and a green light flashed. She cackled. “And blood of owl with the herb that's red…” As she sifted through a box, the two saw a boy in a chair. He didn't move, his eyes closed.
“What the…?” The man whispered to himself. 
“You don’t think that’s the witch, do you?”
“No it can’t be…She must be an actor or something.” 
“What are you two doing here?” The pair jumped and turned to see a student. The red headed boy crossed his arms, not looking the least bit amused. “We have signs for a reason you know.”
“Um we…” The lady stuttered at being caught. “We didn’t mean anything.”
“Relax, kid. We didn’t break anything.” The man rolled his eyes. “But what’s with the witch lady? Some kind of scare act?”
The boy looked confused. “What are you talking about? Why would we have a scare act in a little kids workshop?” He walked past them and peeked into the room where the gray haired lady was forcing a spoonful of the green concoction into the knocked out boys mouth. “What the…?”
The Magicam monsters peeked in as well and saw as she inhaled deeply as if she was sampling him. They watched in horror as the boy slumped and became completely limp in the chair. All the while the old womans hair turned into a rich dark brown. Her gnarled hands smoothed out.
The student that was with looked even paler than he was before. “She’s back.” 
The old woman, or rather the now young girl, turned around and fluffed her hair, looking rather pleased with herself. 
The lady Magicamer tried not to scream as she covered her mouth and backed away. But in her haste bumped into the NRC student. The fell forward right through the doorway. The pair behind him jumped back into the shadows in the hopes the witch would not see them. Her eyes fell onto the red headed boy on the floor and smirked. 
“Ah, another boy!” She said excitedly as she strode over. Maybe it was the dim lighting of the candles reflecting off them, or maybe it was all magic,but her eyes seemed to glow almost yellow. “How nice of thee to drop by. Did thou come to play with me?” She reached out but the boy jumped up.
“What did you do with my friend you hag!?”
The witch recoiled, she furrowed her brow. “Hag?”
“You heard me! Now what have you done?”
“Do not worry about him,” She replied in a low voice. “Worry about thyself.” She reached out her hand and clenched her fist. The pair watched in horror as the boy clenched up.
“ACK! Why can’t I move!?”
“To make this easier.” She grinned and started to slowly wave her hands from side to side.
 “Twist the bones and bend the back.
Trim him of his baby fat,
Give him fur black as black.
Just…like… Thisss”
As she hissed out the final word, the boy contorted in pain and fell to the floor. In a puff of smoke he vanished. The Magicammers were frozen as a lump moved around in the boys jacket that had been crumpled on the floor. A cat popped out. It hissed at the witch and she cackled.
The boy, now a cat, turned to the hallway and yelled. “Run, now!” 
The witch finally looked up and noticed them in the dark of the hallway. She grinned. “Thou hast brought play mates I see.” She took a step towards them and they ran off screaming about how they didn’t want fur. 
One of the ghost called out. “They're gone.”
Isabelle laughed. “I think that went well.” She picked up Grim from the floor. “You ok, Grim?”
“Yeah, but Stevie, can you try not to crush me next time?”
“Sorry,” Stevie slid out of his hiding spot along with one of his fellow Pomfiore student who had casted the spell to teleport him out and leave Grim, who had been hiding in his jacket, behind. “I had to make it believable. I’ll be careful next time.”
“That potion Vil gave me really works,” Isabelle commented as she examined the bottle. “I guess I should have expected that.”
“Of course he knows it. They say the fairest queen used something similar.. I’m just glad we got the timing right.” Stevie said as he picked up the jacket. 
The boy who had been slumped in the chair stretched out. “Anyone else want a turn? My legs are asleep.” 
One of the ghost called out from where he was keeping watch at the windows. “I think someones coming.” 
Isabelle and Stevie grinned at one another. “Places everyone!”
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kaynai-sama · 6 months
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Now that we know what Jimmy's been through, why don't we see how he's going now?
-------------------Chapter 1---------------------
"Objective: Eliminate Canon Jimmy Z." The robot kept repeating, it approached to him with that big tube, spinning in it's hand to make it sharper than a sword.
The other ones were running everywhere, fighting the villains, but losing their souls in the process.
Everything was going on too fast for him, he felt like he could just faint, but he couldn't even think straight without a new light from the souls came out or blood splashing from the monsters and even from his friends. Flirwins, fairies, wizards and hunters all fighting all the clones of the villains, and yet, it was all in vain.
He remembered tripping over and looking up, last thing he saw; That stupid robot moving so fast it was a blur.
"NO!" He screamed, waking up. "Shit, it was just a nightmare..." He looked around inside their fast-made-up-tent, just in case something was around them. He hated having those nightmares, another prove that he hadn't changed that much.
"AH WHAT?!" Scarlet jumped from her sleep. "Augh... What happened?"
"I hate that fucking robot..." Jimmy muttered.
Once Scarlet finished opening her eyes, she saw Jimmy packing his stuff.
"JZ, is everything alright?"
"Oh, jeje... Nothing." Jimmy said. "We have to go."
"What? Why?"
"We just... Better not lose anymore time."
"For real? It's the fourth time this week."
"It's just that... Well..."
"You had one of those nightmares and now you can't sleep, right?"
"Uhh..."
"Is it about how you got in this mess?" Scarlet rolled inside her sleeping bag to face Jimmy.
"A little bit, yeah."
"Damn, was it that bad?"
"Yeah, it was horrible." He ckucled. "Meh, that was like a little bit more than two years."
"Two years and you still have nightmares about it? You watched your doppelganger die or something?"
"Or something."
Scarlet groaned a bit. "Seriously, why is the answer with you always or something?"
"You wouldn't believe me if I tell you."
"Come on, dude! You took me out on this road trip about three weeks ago! I watched my doppelganger die in front of me and the whole world is screwed up, I think I could believe what happened to you."
"You think?"
"Of course!" Scarlet incorporated to sit down. "No, tell me."
Jimmy chuckled and sighed. "Well... In a summary, after the collision started, my dopplegangers, and my friends' doppelgangers started showing up in front of us... I less than some weeks we had clones of us in every corner... We started hanging out and my doppelgangers even thought me some tips from their world, that's part of the key of how I survived this long."
"Ooohhh, so you had like a... JZ club." Scarlet said. "What were they like?"
"Well, one of them was a royal guard, another one was a wizard, there was also this wolfwalker... A monster hunter, a spy and... Those are the ones I gathered with the most."
"Wow, that sounds cool."
"Yeah, kinda." Jimmy scratched his neck, trying not to remember the worst parts. "My group and I had some... Enemies, we would fight them very often hehe... Well, it turned out that the villains and their dopplegangers had also teamed up and... For no reason or at least for no reason I know... They arrived and started attacking everybody but not to kill the but to... Steal their souls from their bodies."
"Uhh, wait, wait, wait." Scatled cut him off. "Souls?! How did you know those were their souls?"
"Bodies can function correctly without a soul, but this one's don't do anything while the souls are the conscience of a person, besides, someone of the villain team mencione dit while inspecting what was left in the Tortuga camp."
"Alright... Let me guess, you were the only one who those guys didn't get the should because you attacked them back."
"Actually, the reason why I survived is way more pathetic than that."
"Oh, really? Try me."
"One of the villains had robot clones of me and my friends. But my robot clone was faulty so it actually didn't work so well... I don't know why they didn't took my soul, they decided to kill me instead."
"Holy crap. Did you fight it?"
"Ja! Of course not... I ran away from it... The only reason I'm still alive is because the robot couldn't difference between being passed out and being dead. I woke up in the Tortuga sorrunded by bodies and I hid there for almost a whole year."
"... You ran away? That doesn't sound like you!"
"You'd be surprised on how scaredy I used to be."
Scarlet couldn't help but laugh a bit. "Alright, seriously, tho. That's some rough origin story."
"Yeah... I guess."
"Now, I wonder... Where did you get the zombie apocalypse movie outfit?"
"..."
"... Oh shit, where did you get it from?"
"I stole it from a corpse..."
"... And the corpse was your same size?! You lucky bastard!"
"Where did you get yours?"
"My dad used to work with wood so that's where I got the goggles. The scarf and rest of it I got them on my own... I stole it from a corpse too."
"Ja ja! Well, It's not like stores are still open this days... I mean, with zombies, the villains, demons, strange weather..."
"Yeah, this whole collision really messed things up. The point is, why? I mean, who or what could have enough powers to mix different universes into one?"
"That's what I'm trying to figure out, while I rescue the souls of my friends and the rest."
"You must have a lot of determination to travel day and night for that."
"Thanks."
"Don't worry, JZ, we'll find them soon."
"That's all I'm hoping."
"Feeling better?"
"Yeah, a little."
"Great." Scarlet laid down back on her sleeping bag. "Well, there are no creepy creatures around and we could use some sleep. Now go to bed before I bonk you with my gun."
"Alright, Arlight... We'll continue in the morning."
Meanwhile, very far away from that place, Zach, or at least one of them all, was mentally getting ready to enter the big room where his boss was, ever since he appeared the villain group was always afraid... He had already taken the soul of one of them and, God, one could tell it was painful.
"Alright... I can do this, just tell him we're all done and what's next." He slowly pushed the door, his legs were trembling. It was so dark he couldn't see his face. Damn, at least he wouldn't have to see his face.
"Uhh, sir?" He said weakly.
"Zach! Come in, come in."
He walked through the hall and saw them, the jars with the souls, all of them labeled... Shit... All of them were labeled!
"So... This where you're keeping all the souls." Zach said.
"Yes. Exactly." The boss said.
"Well... All I wanted to inform is that... We're not missing any soul, like... I know you've been receiving the souls one by one and-... Well, we're all done collecting."
"Hmm." Te boss's eyes were barely able to be seen, but he could tell he was angry. "Yeaaahh, about that, I want to ask you something."
"(Shit shit shit shit shit...) Sure, w-whatever you need to know."
The boss chuckled. "How stupid do you think I am?"
"Stupid? Y-you're not-!"
"Oh really?" He said with a voice so strong Zach swore it made the whole room tremble. "Look over there, Zach. You can see I have every soul labeled, right?"
"Yeah."
"That means I can tell when something is missing."
"Yeah... And your point is...?"
"My point is that I heard rumors that you tried to kill one of them, didn't you?"
"What? Of course we wouldn't! We..."
The boss arched an eyebrow. "Zach..."
"I- I swear! We collected them all! We did the jo-"
"... SILENCE!"
"..."
"Now... Tell me, why did you try to kill him?" The boss' voice became way more serious.
"Well, be- because he..." Zach took a deep breath. "This is Canon Jimmy we're talking about! The weakest of them all! I... I don't see how his soul could be anywhere useful!"
"Oh... Seems like someone doesn't understand the power of souls. Not to mention that he disobeyed my command of collecting all the souls!"
"Yeah, well... You... You want that soul? Because he's surely dead by now...."
"I sense him... He's alive."
"... What?! But I know him! He's a scared cat wimp! How could've he survive?!"
"I don't know but he did. Seems like you didn't killed him properly. Anyway, coming to think of it... I have a better idea."
"Uhh, yeah?"
"I don't want his soul anymore." Wait... What? "I want you to bring him to me; alive."
"Alive?! But... How are we-? We don't even know where he is!"
"Is that an excuse or something?"
"Ehh! No! I'll get the team to search him right away!"
"Oh, yeah. One thing. You were the one who told your robot to kill him, right? I guess you're not that good as a leader as I thought."
"(Oh no...) Wh- what do you mean by that...?"
"I mean that... You should give this mission to someone else. One of your doppelgangers seems more... Experienced in this kind of things, like kidnapping and tracking, I mean."
The boss stood up, facing Zach. "To compensate for that I don't have Canon Jimmy's soul... I'll need to grab another one in his place." He stretched dhe hand towards Zach.
"Oh no... Sir, I can handle this! It was just a mistake but I promise you I'll do better this time!"
"Sorry, you already have a replacement." He spoke and snatched Zach with his power to prevent him from escaping. He was the most powerful being in the world... And he had finally recovered stre ght enough to take a soul out of a body without even thinking of it. Zach felt the most intense pain in his life... But then... It all shut down as he fell to the ground... "Let that be a lesson. This is what happens if you ever try to disobey me..."
"Yes sir..." Another voice said. Another Zach, but this one was different. Probably one of the most skilled Zachs of the multiverse.
"My, what a talent you have. He never noticed you were there."
"Yeah... I suppose."
"Mmh , good. Now, back to your task."
"Capture Canon Jimmy and bring him to you, alive."
"Exactly. I don't know or care how you'll do it, but do it."
"Don't worry, sir..."
I have some plans...
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slowishgreen · 8 months
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Today I dreamed that I was living at this countryside house
At first it was kinda like a reality show, then it was full of young people and family and so on. At one point i was seeing my boyfriend get prepared to go fishing, then talking to my godmother about it.
Then I went inside and things changed.
I was going around with this girl who was my friend I guess, but she was a mean girl. So we were just hanging out, and then we went to the cafeteria to eat. We got in line and she told me I should stay behind her, but when it was her time to order she'd be like "hmmm let me think" forever and even with the attendant told her to let me order while she was thinking, she'd say no, and that I had to stay behind her.
So I got tired and went to the other like, and she started to freak out, so I did so to, I told her I was tired of her being so mean to me and to everyone, and then I left the cafeteria.
Now I was outside and I think I was feeling better. I was with this guy, he was like, an Aragorn type of guy but modern. He had this long long hair with tiny braids here and there. We were talking and laughing (and kinda flirting) together, and he asked me to go ride in the motorbikes together. He got a tall one for him and one with four wheels for me, because then I wouldn't loose my balance.
So he was setting the motorbikes for us when this woman arrived, and said we had to go, that we all were going somewhere, I got kinda lost there but I went with it. She told the braids guy to ride the four wheeled bike, and said I'd go with her in the other one. She also gave me this bulletproof vest that looked like it was made of mithril instead. So I put it on under this hideous yellow puffy vest I was wearing (that disappeared after).
So some other people arrived in their motorbikes, and we rode through this countryside road. It had nothing much there, but at one point we were ambushed by this enemy group. They kidnapped braids guy and this older man called Ernie tried to defend him, but he was killed. So they ran away and we went after them.
Then we were all at this arena, and there were people everywhere, and monsters. We were kinda cornered in this area, but the others weren't really attacking us. There was also a parade going on in front of us. So we were looking for the right time to leave. I had this gun that looked exactly like my electric screwdriver, it even had the little lantern on top of it.
Then the guys that kidnapped braids guy came around and they were trying to set and agreement with us, but I wasn't really paying attention, I was on guard, looking around with my flashlight gun. But then they started shooting and so did we. Then this big monster guy arrived, he was so scary, like you couldn't even make up his face because it was so messed up. I shot him in the stomach but he didn't feel it, and it was good because the woman with whom I rode there told me he was our ally. He managed to free braids guy, and we got away from there.
When we arrived back home it was very weird, it was like, almost sunrise time and there was a party going on in the woods (something in my head kept telling it was a new year's party), but we were all feeling pretty bad. Our group told braids guy that Ernie was killed and I hugged him and he cried a lot, he was very miserable. Then he was laying in a bed, and the mean girl from before was taking care of him.
The dream cut to another room close by, where this doctor guy was talking to my mom in the phone. She was telling him to change my meds, that the blueberry juice medicine he was giving me was making me more depressed. He tried to give her excuses, and she told him that since he was into me he should take care of these things better. Then these other guys that were in the arena with us entered the room and told him to give the phone to me already, because other people wanted to use it too. So he passed the phone to me, and I told my mom that everyone was ok, but the day had been pretty bad. I was feeling very very bad.
The dream went back to the other room, were braids guy was still in the bed. Now I was laying by his feet and I was very small, and the girl was still there, but the didn't care much about me. Someone came then and lifted me, and put me by braids guy side. The girl left, and he started to play with my hair. And then we went to sleep in his room instead, he told me we should be careful or the other people who lived there would talk about us, but some people saw us anyways.
Then we just slept.
And I woke up.
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mcyt-peach · 2 years
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late night shopping with the mcyts
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⋆。˚ summary: you want late night snacks and decide to drag your favorite streamer along with you
⋆。˚ including: cc!dream, cc!george, cc!sapnap, cc!karl, cc!quackity, cc!wilbur, cc!niki and cc!tommy (platonic)
⋆。˚ warnings: reader uses they/them pronoun
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Dream
he’s probably down with it, seeing how late he normally stays up
tries to smuggle patches into the car
mopes if you make him leave her at home
refuses to let you pay even if it’s like $3
annoys the worker at the register with his constant wheezing
like sir it’s midnight, please cut the college student some slack
“Look *wheeze* it’s called *wheeze* it’s called sugar balls *wheeeezee*”
George
gonna be completely honest, he refuses
like he’s just been woken up and you think he’s going to get in a car and shop for snacks
if you manage to drag him to the store through some miracle, he’s still not happy
he’ll totally whine the whole time, asking if your done yet and constantly telling you how tired he is
“Come onnnnn… I’m so tiredddd! How long does it take you to pick something out?”
Sapnap
he agrees but only after you promise to buy him a snack too
holds onto your sleeve because he’s still tired from being woken up and doesn’t want to get lost in the store
stands really close to you and kinda slumps onto you while you pick a snack
he’s just tired and clingy and he wants to get back home but he likes hanging out with you
“Fine, fine, I’ll come… but only if you promise to buy me something too.”
Karl
let’s be honest, he’s the one who asks
he somehow ran low on his never ending monster supply and you’re the solution
picks out a flavor for you to try with him
definitely turns the snack run into a night drive
lets you pick the music and sings along with you
“What the honk? They don’t have my flavor! Looks like we have to go to the next store.”
Quackity
there's 2 types of situations
if you wake him up, he's fairly quite the whole time just picking out his snacks and crashing the second he gets back into bed
if he was already up, you're in for a long night
runs around the whole store and picks up every single thing he sees
peers at you through the aisles and scares you when you round the corner
"What do you mean I can't get wintergreen, spearmint and cool mint? How am I supposed to tell them apart?"
Wilbur
whether or not he's driving, he is 100% in charge of the music
sings softly in the car, promises he won't fall asleep at the wheel
points out the stars when you step out of the car
keeps his hand on the small of your back while you shop
definitely rests his head on you if you stand still for more that 0.1 second
just sits in the car with you, sharing snacks, talking
he could talk with you all night
tries to remember every little moment, wants to write a song about it
"Can you see that? I think that's our star, it's almost as pretty as you y'know."
Niki
she's very sleepy if you wake her up, so she won't quite know what's going on but still goes with you
if she's already awake when you ask her, it's pretty much the same vibe
very chill, minimal talking, calm music on the ride there
she'll share her headphones with you so you're still connected even when you're in different aisles
she just likes making memories with you y'know
you and her fight over who brings the bags to the car
she wins
pulls you over to the security camera and takes a couple pictures of the two of you
"Oh, you look so cute in this one! Do you think I should post it?"
Tommy (platonic)
don’t ask him
for the love of god don’t ask him
it’s a disaster, of course it’s a disaster
Tommy somehow managed to get his hands on the biggest bottle of Diet Coke you’ve ever seen
you didn't watch him closely enough so it's not surprising that he's basically bouncing off the walls after taking a couple sips
you just wanted a snack
it’s a miracle if you don’t get kicked out
“Tommy stop drinking it, we haven't even paid yet!!!”
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movedtomcyt-peach · 2 years
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late night shopping with the mcyts
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⋆。˚ summary: you want late night snacks and decide to drag your favorite streamer along with you ⋆。˚ pairings: cc!dream x reader, cc!george x reader, cc!sapnap x reader, cc!karl jacobs x reader, cc!quackity x reader, cc!wilbur x reader, cc!niki x reader, cc!tubbo x reader (platonic), cc!ranboo x reader (platonic), cc!tommy x reader (platonic) ⋆。˚ warnings: none
I moved blogs, all new content will be posted here!
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Dream
he’s probably down with it, seeing how late he normally stays up
tries to smuggle patches into the car
mopes if you make him leave her at home
refuses to let you pay even if it’s like $3
annoys the worker at the register with his constant wheezing
like sir it’s midnight, please cut the college student some slack
“Look *wheeze* it’s called *wheeze* it’s called sugar balls *wheeeezee*”
George
gonna be completely honest, he refuses
like he’s just been woken up and you think he’s going to get in a car and shop for snacks
if you manage to drag him to the store through some miracle, he’s still not happy
he’ll totally whine the whole time, asking if your done yet and constantly telling you how tired he is
“Come onnnnn… I’m so tiredddd! How long does it take you to pick something out?”
Sapnap
he agrees but only after you promise to buy him a snack too
holds onto your sleeve because he’s still tired from being woken up and doesn’t want to get lost in the store
stands really close to you and kinda slumps onto you while you pick a snack
he’s just tired and clingy and he wants to get back home but he likes hanging out with you
“Fine, fine, I’ll come… but only if you promise to buy me something too.”
Karl
let’s be honest, he’s the one who asks
he somehow ran low on his never ending monster supply and you’re the solution
picks out a flavor for you to try with him
definitely turns the snack run into a night drive
lets you pick the music and sings along with you
“What the honk? They don’t have my flavor! Looks like we have to go to the next store.”
Quackity
there's 2 types of situations
if you wake him up, he's fairly quite the whole time just picking out his snacks and crashing the second he gets back into bed
if he was already up, you're in for a long night
runs around the whole store and picks up every single thing he sees
peers at you through the aisles and scares you when you round the corner
"What do you mean I can't get wintergreen, spearmint and cool mint? How am I supposed to tell them apart?"
Wilbur
whether or not he's driving, he is 100% in charge of the music
sings softly in the car, promises he won't fall asleep at the wheel
points out the stars when you step out of the car
keeps his hand on the small of your back while you shop
definitely rests his head on you if you stand still for more that 0.1 second
just sits in the car with you, sharing snacks, talking
he could talk with you all night
tries to remember every little moment, wants to write a song about it
"Can you see that? I think that's our star, it's almost as pretty as you y'know."
Niki
she's very sleepy if you wake her up, so she won't quite know what's going on but still goes with you
if she's already awake when you ask her, it's pretty much the same vibe
very chill, minimal talking, calm music on the ride there
she'll share her headphones with you so you're still connected even when you're in different aisles
she just likes making memories with you y'know
you and her fight over who brings the bags to the car
she wins
pulls you over to the security camera and takes a couple pictures of the two of you
"Oh, you look so cute in this one! Do you think I should post it?"
Tommy, Tubbo and Ranboo (platonic)
don’t ask them
for the love of god don’t ask them
it’s a disaster, of course it’s a disaster
Tommy somehow managed to get his hands on the biggest bottle of Diet Coke you’ve ever seen
Ranboo is struggling to hold Tubbo back from the lighters as the short boy mutters something about arson
you just wanted a snack
it’s a miracle if you don’t get kicked out
“Tommy I’m going to kill you.” “No, Tubbo put the scissors down”
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whaleofatjme1920 · 3 years
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In the Tent, Under His Arms (Eyeless Jack X F!Reader)
[Eyeless Jack X F!Reader]
[Warnings: literally just smut, knotted dick, breeding kink kinda?, possessive, I feel like EJ is his own warning, dubcon, rough, degrading(?), slight praise, if you are a minor DNI]
[AN: this thing is 8K words so have fun. Ngl, I had a lot of inspiration from the Wolf Man from Darkwood, so like,,,,,, that's gonna show up here as influence srry. ily <3]
To say you are nervous as you traverse the woods was an understatement. You could hardly breathe as you quietly stepped through the darkness that curtained the forest around you. Small little mushrooms and pieces of paper dotted your way as you continued to shine your flashlight at the deer path before you. Branches seemed to spring out from tree trunks in the blink of an eye scratched at your clothes as you pushed yourself forward. Every little sound that didn’t emit from you set you on edge.
How the hell did you even get here? You woke up on the floor of a rundown house. Cold tile had been your mattress as you slowly found your bearings. A quick glance around the darkened room showed a barren room, its walls littered with papers worried about a tall man in the woods. The only warnings were to watch out for him, fear him and not get caught by him lest you be taken. But you were still confused, scared and unsure.
Instead, you found yourself doing the only thing you could really think of. Securing your safety. This went on for a week without a hitch (save for the odd faces that peered into the windows every now and then) until one fateful morning where you were greeted by the only sentient living being that wished to talk to you since… Well… Since before you ended up here.
You had taken up refuge in a closet for the night and after stretching, headed to the kitchen to make something when you were rudely greeted to a… man?
Leaning against your counter drinking some coffee he’s already brewed.
You were about to rush back to your closet and pick up your blade when the man lowly chuckled.
A deep silence fell between the two of you as your eyebrows furrowed in confusion. From the silence came low, rumbling, almost animalistic breathing.
It was then that you finally got a clear view of who was leaning in your kitchen. You grounded yourself in the doorway, not budging as the man slowly sipped from the coffee mug. You took notice of what he was wearing as he did so - a big, dark blue hoodie, and on top of that, a big, brown jacket. He had worn blue jeans. Steel toe boots.
The most unsettling parts of it all?
He had ashy, grey skin. From his profile, you could see shark-like teeth, grinning at you like a wolf.
“It’s really rude to stare, sweetheart,” the grey skinned man interrupted before taking another languid sip. “Have some coffee. I went outta my way to get it for you,” he finished before you could even begin to register what he was saying.
You awkwardly looked off to the side as words failed to build in your mouth. However, your mind continued to race with thoughts.
The grey skinned man verbally rolled his eyes with a huff before placing his mug down. Then, he quickly turned himself around and opened up one of the cabinets, fished for a mug, settled on a slightly chipped white one, inspected it, then placed it on the counter beside his. His clawed hand reached for the pot of coffee and grasped it before pouring the pleasantly warm and aromatic liquid into the slight chipped mug.
“Here,” he hummed as he held out the mug to the still frozen in place you. “Before it gets cold.”
You felt immediate disgust but hit it from your face as you cautiously stepped forward.
Sighing deeply, he closed the space between the two of you by taking confident steps forward.
On instinct, you held your hands out and took the mug.
He smiled in approval before leaning back on the counter to drink from his mug. “Sorry about the lack of sugar and creamer,” he said in passing as he watched you take a slow, shy sip. “You’ve seen the state of things out there, haven’t you? Can’t find shit even if I tried.”
Upon deeming the drink not poisonous and not harmful to your wellbeing, you felt more at ease and took more confident sips. “Who are you?” You asked, effectively breaking the semi-comfortable silence.
“A medic in some circles, a trader in others,” he began, flashing his rows of pearly white sharp teeth. “Call me Jack.” His gaze then lowered, eyes still obscured by his hood. “And what about you, sweetheart? How did you find yourself in this wicked place?”
You shifted uncomfortably before leaning in the doorway and taking another sip from the mug. “I don’t know,” you muttered. “I woke up here,” you gestured to the cold, checkered tile the two of you were currently standing on, “and got to work,” you finished. Your eyes remained trained on the floor. You remembered the first few days you were here - how awkward and strange they were. The feelings of confusion and anger. Stumbling around in the dark.
Jack nodded thoughtfully at your words before he finished his mug in one big gulp. He then smirked at you, the corners of his lip tilting upwards before he began stalking towards you.
Instinctively, you backed up, ready to defend yourself.
Jack chuckled under his breath. He smelled of wet soil and pine. “I’m not going to hurt you,” he said as he stopped just an arm’s distance in front of you. He looked down at you, his eyes still observed by the darkness as you struggled to see what he looked like. His clawed hand suddenly reached out, and you flinched. He grinned, and took his lifted hand to hold your chin before slowly tilting your gaze upwards to meet his in full. “Let me get a good look at those pretty eyes,” he murmured.
And that when you saw his, or rather, the lack of. Just empty caverns. Dark, soulless, but they looked at you with such hunger.
Jack watched your pretty eyes flutter, mostly in nervousness before he leaned down. His sockets bore into you. His other hand left his coat pocket to your face, clawed came closer and closer to your eyes making you scrunch your nose. “Find me in the burnt clearing. I’ll be waiting for you.” His index finger came up to the bridge of your nose and slid down it. He chuckled at your confused expression before he tapped your nose.
When you reopened your eyes, he was gone.
You spent a few days wondering if you should go or if it was a trap. There was really no one to ask and the faces that peered into your window didn’t seem to give an answer one way or another. Your gut, however, kept telling you it was a bad idea.
That was what you were sticking with: it’s a bad idea, you shouldn’t go.
So, why were you stumbling through the woods near sundown looking for him? It was stupid, you thought, that you could be walking into your death. You quickly slashed through the brambles until you made your way to a small clearing. A light shined in the short distance when it wasn’t obscured by rapidly growing branches. A quick glance down at your map showed that this was the eyeless man’s camp.
Your fingers tightened around your blade as you left the heavy foliage to inspect the camp. There was a sizable tent followed by various crates strewn about. In the center was a fire pit and across from it was a worn down green couch. How did that even get in here?
You carefully came closer to the roaring fire with timid steps while trying to calm down your breathing. A quick glance around and there was nothing but silence to accompany you as the sun sunk further and further down the horizon. You let your guard drop for just a moment before prickling back to attention. A presence behind you made you swivel, lurch and raise your blade faster than what you were capable of.
“Took you long enough. You do know that it’s rude to keep people waiting, don’t you?” Jack states with a small frown before bursting into a fit of laughter at the sound of your still drumming heart. “What has you so nervous?” He questions, eyeing you like you are nothing but a piece of meat.
“This is your camp?” You say, more out of observation than waiting for affirmation.
“It is,” Jack hums. “Good to see you made it. I’ve seen some proxies barely make it here by the skin of their teeth,” he continues as he sits down by the fire.
“What?” You ask as you quirk up an eyebrow.
Jack picks up his back to rest between his knees and rummage through it before beckoning you over to sit next to him.
You cautiously sit next to him on another crate. You avert your attention from him back to the fire.
“Proxies are servants of this tall guy,” Jack explains after ensuring you took your seat. “They run these woods essentially, but they never come to my neck in fear of the things that exist past what is safe,” he grins slightly, still rummaging in the bag. “Out here, it’s just me and the things who lurk.”
“The things that lurk?” You whisper in a questioning tone.
Jack nods again and pulls out a little journal. He begins to thumb through it as he continues to explain to you. “Things known as the Rake, the notdeer, the proxies that succumb to their sickness early, y’know, the things that kill.” He finally finds what he’s looking for.
You turn your attention to the journal and see he’s amassed a collection of polaroid photographs of the things that lurk.
“See? These are some proxies,” he hands the book to you and points at the pictures. “And here is one of the things that lurk.” His clawed finger shows you what used to be a proxy, their body torn to shreds, organs hanging everywhere, and in the center, what you can describe as a monster hungrily devouring their flesh. “I have a lot of good shit out here, and most of them never make it past this guy.”
You shiver slightly and Jack furrows his brows for just a moment.
“Sorry,” he apologizes for a moment before briefly taking the book from you. “Anyways, very few people make it out of the woods unless you’re a proxy or me. We used to make it out a lot easier but there was this one guy, ugly fucker,” he hisses. “That left the woods after burning down the trees to the main road - one of our crossing points. The trees grew back so fast after the tall guy’s wrath and now we’re all stuck here as a result. That ugly fucker? He disa-fucking-peared.” Jack growls deeply as he says it, clearly not happy with the memory.
“I’m… Sorry,” you apologize awkwardly.
Jack shakes his head. “It’s nothing. Don’t worry your pretty little head about it, yeah?” He hums. “Anyways, flip a few pages and you’ll see the ugly fucker’s hovel before he left.” He pointed to the picture of a house similar to the one you were staying in.
Small world?
You studied the man who stood in the picture. He wasn’t that ugly in your opinion.
Jack then shows you other photos, places, effigies, proxies and one of a brilliant mansion. Apparently, you need to stay away from that place at all costs. There’s also pictures of him and other people, some of them you recognize from your time on earth? Is that right? Are you still on earth?
Jack explains a bit more to you. Mostly about this place. It’s like a pocket. Somehow, you were taken and brought here for a reason. Jack suspects it’s because the tall man, also known as the Slender Man, wants to make you a proxy.
“You’ll lose your humanity that way,” he tsks. “And that’s why I called you here. Not for pictures and conversation,” the warmth that was in his tone over reminiscing over things and learning about others is gone.
You notice it almost instantly. You watch as his posture changes and so too do his facial features. You know he means business now.
“I know you’re looking for a way out,” he begins. “I can help you with that.” Jack notices your eyes light up for the first time in well… It’s the first time he’d seen you look so hopeful.
“What’s the catch?” You ask as you slowly lean away from him.
Before Jack could say anything, a shriek was heard off in the distance. Jack’s face twinkled with excitement for a second before he nodded his head over to his tent.
It caught you off guard and sent your heart racing before yet another shriek emitted from the dark forest around the two of you.
“It’s dark,” Jack says as his gaze goes back over to his tent again. “Stay here for the night. Those things out there don’t really fuck with me,” he muses. When you don't answer, he stands up. “Unless you wanna try your luck out there, sweetheart. By all means…” He trails off as he slowly begins walking over to his tent.
You swallow your pride and stand up much too fast and catch pace with him.
Jack lets out an amused chuckle as he opens the flaps to the tend and allows you entrance.
You were immediately shrouded in the scent of petrichor and wild flowers. Surprisingly, it didn’t smell near as rough as you had originally expected. You felt a tad awkward standing in his tent as he zipped it up.
“You can sit down,” he says as he ensures the flaps were shut properly.
You nod more to yourself than anyone else and take a few more steps inside. It was tall enough that you could stand without brushing your head on the roof. On the floor interspersed with grass were carpets. It looked like a nest was in the near middle? Tons of blankets and two twin sized mattresses laid side by side were on the ground.
You glance around and see a small little desk, some writing supplies, just normal home stuff. Why was Jack living out here? There were tons of vacant houses.
Instead, you brush the thought off and settle on sitting timidly at the end of one of the blanket covered mattresses.
“Good choice,” Jack says as he procures from his pocket a box of matches. Then, he reaches over on the little desk for a kerosene lamp. After lighting it, the dimness of the tent became something actually visible. He checks his watch as he slowly makes his way to the other mattress.
“What time is it?” You ask as you struggle to get comfortable on the mattress.
“Surprisingly? Nearing midnight,” he answers. Jack stretches slightly before plopping down entirely. “Get some sleep, yeah? Tomorrow morning, we’ll set out to do what I ask,” Jack subtly demands. He props his elbows up on his knees and watches from the corner of his gaze as you shift awkwardly.
You felt strange laying down on the mattress, but did so anyway. It doesn’t seem Jack cared very much that your shoes were still on. You move your body slightly to find comfort on the mattress while Jack continues to eye you from the corner of his vision.
He takes note of your form, how delicious you look. How he can take you right now.
But he saw your eyelids grow heavy. Within moments, you were on the verge of passing out.
Jack relents softly. He knows she wants your full attention while he ruts into you making you cry out to gods that don’t want to hear you. He sees you begin to fade in and out of consciousness. Luckily for him, he does have some business to attend to, and those creatures didn’t ever get too close to his camp.
They wouldn’t touch you, not with his scent bathed all over you.
One of the last things you heard before Jack left to attend to other matters was a compliment. You barely heard it, and it would have shocked you right awake if your body wasn’t on the verge of shutting down.
“You look so pretty right now, Sweetheart. Beautiful, even.”
It wasn’t until 3am that Jack finally returned. You were fast asleep when he finally resented the tent, but he could smell you all the way from where his important matters laid. His nose guided him back to you. And funnily enough, it brought him back to you about a week ago as well.
Jack hadn’t smelled a fertile woman in a very long time. Well, since this whole mess came upon the Slender Man’s woods, really. He spied on you the first few days you were here. You weren’t as ready for him then, must’ve just been leading up to it. When he popped into your kitchen, it was because you were getting so close to your peak. The smell was overwhelming, sweet, and tender. Intoxicating. Like fresh peaches and the tangiest of strawberry pie. Lucky for him? You came to him at your peak.
Jack ressecure the flaps of the tend before his vision that saw all too well in the darkness his beauty that rests on the mattress he knew you’d choose. Your face and other gestures were gently lit up by the almost extinguished kerosene lamp’s flame. It drove him wild to see you breathe so peacefully.
Your chest rose every so slightly and he could have sworn he caught the outline of your nipples if it wasn’t for that stupiud bra you had on instead.
Jack licked his lips as he quietly drew himself closer to you. He couldn’t stop himself from crawling on top, quietly and slowly, so as to not wake you. One of his knees gently pried apart your legs, and then he took in your scent. You smelled of something not from the woods. You smelled of fresh vanilla and dark roast coffee. Of strawberry pound cake. Of good things.
Jack leans down and takes in your scent near the base of your neck, inhales deeply, then buries his nose in your hair. You smell divine, possibly even better than… Well, it’s best not to say. His hand picks itself up off the mattress to gently and gingerly brush near your hairline. Sily. Pretty. He then places it on your stomach and lightly presses, trailing his claws along your abdomen to your side. You are so soft. So delicate.
The moment his clawed fingertips touch your side and begin trailing down, you wake up.
Your eyes fly open and you almost let out a scream at seeing how this strange man is looming over you. Your mouth opens, but his hand quickly leaves your side to smother you. You breathe heavily against his palm, your eyes wide and with fear. You struggle against him.
“Shhh, he hushes as his hand presses a little firmer on your mouth. “Calm down.” His voice was low as his knee dug further into the mattress, just below the place he wanted most.
You continue to struggle against him, fighting against his planted hand while his other hand presses down on your hips.
“You promise not to scream?” Jack deadpans in a low tone with an edge that cuts you to your core. He sees tears welling in your eyes, and he knows you’re telling the truth. Slowly, he peels his hand back, watching as you keep true to your word.
You take in deep breaths to help self regulate. “What the fuck?” You seethe. Your arms, which have been pawing wildly at his chest, relax only slightly when his clawed hands catch your wrist in a vice grip.
“Easy,” he murmurs, only loosening his grip when he’s sure you won’t fight him any further. His head dips so his empty caverns can peer right through yours in the dim light.
One look and you know what he wants. Horor and something else - something wanton - pass across your face, making Jack laugh.
“I said I wasn’t gonna hurt you,” he hums, his clawed index finger trailing your cheek.
Before you can say anything else, Jack’s hand leaves your hips and grabs your face. With a wicked grin, he licks his teeth, then leans down and licks your face.
You contort to digits as he does so. He smells of iron.
“Why are you doing this?” You growl as his tongue leaves your cheek to your chin, slowly making his way to your neck. “I can leave if that’s-”
“No,” Jack growls. “You won’t leave,” he states before gently nipping at the soft flesh on your neck. “You smell so good,” he murmurs before taking another languid lick at your neck.”I’m going to make you mine,” With that, he entirely retracted his form from yours to look down at you.
Of course, you fight him. Your thighs grip around his upper leg that still rests between your knees and you almost maange to flip the two of you over. But he was much bigger and much stronger than you could manage. With a deep laugh, he grips your wrists tighter above your head and squeezes to let you know who is in charge. With his free hand, he reaches into his back pocket and gets the zip ties.
How the fuck did he get zip ties?
“Jesus fucking Christ,” you hiss as he dangles them in front of your eyes.
“I just can’t trust you right now,” Jack tsks in the tone of a pouting child. The black zip ties feel awful against your wrists (they also feel good) - and he’d secured them so tightly. He playfully watches you attempt to break free from them, and when it proves futile, he laughs. Jack then allows his hands to take free roam of your body while you begin to protest him less and less. “I know you don’t have any spare clothes,” he hums thoughtfully before his fingers waltz down to the hem of your shirt. “Luckily, I have some left over. You won’t be needing any of this,” he cackles as his sharp claws make waste of the fabric.
You feel yourself growing weaker and weaker under his grasp but still curse at him more than what you deem possible. Jack seemed to eat up your insults. “You’re fucking sick,” you spit as he eyes your bra hungrily. “A sick fucking pervert.”
“You stayed the night, Sweetheart,” Jack grins wickedly. “I’m only taking claim of what’s now mine,” he says before delicately tracing the cups of your bra. He likes the design. Dark blue with light colored polka dots. An interesting choice. Without wasting any more time, his claws cut through the fabric too - no use in unclasping while your hands are bound. “How beautiful,” he giggles. “How lovely. I could hardly tell when you were using those bags you call clothes,” he teases, making your knees clamp around his knee once more, making Jack break again and laugh.
You bite your tongue and try to avert your gaze from him, not wanting him to see that you’re flushed due to the intimacy and that your body and you yourself are growing keen to the situation you have found yourself in. “This is…”
“C’mon,” Jack breathes out as his fingers trail up your smooth flesh to your breasts. “You must’ve known something was up. A man doesn’t just ask a woman to stay the night. He’s got one thing on his mind if she isn’t family or a friend: he wants to fuck her.”
The harshness and pure lust that dripped from his tongue made your face heat up in response. Your gaze darts and bounces around before you finally settle on his hands that are now fondling your chest.
Jack’s hands travel to your pants. He takes in your scent again. You are intoxicating, so intoxicating.
“You’re gonna have to work for it,” you manage to hiss out, legs still clamped around his knee.
Jack’s expression falls. “You’re not in charge, I am.” And with that, he rips through your pants, leaving you naked before him.
You shiver slightly in response to the cool air, and of course, Jack has to see that and make note of it as well.
“Awh,” he coos as his nose gets closer and closer to your heat. “Are you cold? Do you want me to warm you up?” He murmurs in a sickening lust filled tone.
“You bastard-” you’re barely able to breathe out before you’re cut off by Jack dragging the flat of his long, black tongue from the bottom to the top, taking great joy in the arousal that was already present.
“What a naughty, naughty girl,” he teases before dragging his tongue again. “Already soaking,” he compliments. His thumb, careful of the sharpened claw, travels to your clit and begins to slowly massage it. He feels your legs shift. Jack hums as he does to, hsi tongue only playing with your lips. He was going to make you suffer before he stuffs you completely.
His teeth nip you every now and then, just to remind you who was really in charge as his tongue and lips press kisses to your lower lips. He doesn’t dare dip into your heat despite wanting to taste you in full.
You write in his grasp, trying to hold back any and all sounds of pleasure. You don’t want to give him the satisfaction of knowing what he’s doing to you.
It’s a shame really, he could make you see stars if only you’d let him.
He must have gone near half an hour with his head between your legs, still fully dressed. He was a man of great patience, and he’d been edging you for much longer and harder than he should have. He could see frustration dotting your face when he finally came back up to look at you.
You look a little more flushed than he remembers. It’s probably all the heat rushing to your face. He notices your hands are quite restless too, that and being tied up couldn’t be the most comfortable thing in the world.
“You look upset, why?” He asks before sucking on your clit. When you struggle to say anything, his teeth graze you ever so slightly. “Use your words, please,” he hums much like an authority figure would.
“Tongue fuck me,” you mumble in embarrassment, eyes darting anywhere but at Jack who is still nestled securely between your legs. You watch as Jack’s ears perk up.
“Say that again,” he prompts, his fingers taking over his tongue on your clit.
“Please,” you say softly “Tongue fuck me and please untie me.”
A sly grin crosses onto Jack’s face alongside yet another chuckle. He momentarily leaves your legs and crawls back up to be face to face with you. His index finger reaches up and his claw slashes through the zip ties.
You freely move your wrists, getting used to your newfound freedom.
“It’s only because you asked nicely,” Jack coos as his sockets bore into your eyes. He presses a gentle kiss to your lips, pleasantly surprised that you don’t fight him like before. He then crawls back down your body to rest in between your legs, his clawed fingers parting your lower lips slightly before he dives his tongue in. He takes great joy in how you write beneath him as your thighs press harder against the side of his head.
He buries his tongue inside of you and curls it in places no human could ever reach. He has you seeing stars.
You buck your hips quite a few times and Jack’s hand reluctantly leaves your thighs to push your hips back down. As he tongue fucks you closer and closer to release, you become a little harder to control. He enjoys it though.
Jack hums absentmindedly as he does so, relishing in your taste. You are soaking wet and so, so close. All he has to do is push you off the edge.
He slithers his tongue out of you before rubbing your clit with his thumb, allowing you to take your mind off your pussy and to the assault your clit before your mind goes white hot in pleasure. Jack’s tongue darts so fast into your pussy that you almost yelp in response as he thrusts it back in and out, still humming like it was no big deal.
Your back arches and that’s all Jack needs to know to see you’re just about to cum. A few more rough flicks of his tongue and you’re creaming onto his face. Your hands grip the nest’s bedsheets and various blankets as he continues to carefully tongue fuck you through your orgasm. He grins as he laps up your sweetness, teasing you under his breath about the effect he has on you.
But he’s not done with you, not by a long shot.
You look up hazily while panting deeply as Jack’s tongue slowly leaves your pussy. The flat of his tongue slowly swipes up from bottom to top which makes you giggle, and he smiles against your skin. From there, he begins working on undoing his belt.
“Here,” you murmur softly, his ears once again perking up to catch your words.
“Hm? He hums in response as he cocks his head to the side, watching as you slowly sit up and stretch before your hands gently press onto his chest. You push off his dark brown coat and then trail down to his belt.
Your hands are soft and gentle as you work on freeing him, and within moments, you are tossing his belt to the side and unzipping him. You can see the tent in Jack’s pants, and you can already feel how delicious he’s going to feel inside of you.
Jack nods for you to lay back down when you shake your head ‘no.’ Interesting. Instead, your hands unzip him and you reach for his cock. Your eyes pop as you touch it - he was hot, much hotter than any man you’d previously been with.
“Come on, don’t keep me waiting,” Jack teases.
You roll your eyes playfully before finally fishing him from his pants, guiding him out with anticipation. You look up at him the entire time you do so, lust clouding your vision and burning through your soul as you do so, almost unaware of the monster you hold in your hands. When you finally look down, you feel heat rise to your face once more.
Jack smirks in response and tangles his fingers near your scalp, brushing you ever so slightly. He guides your lips down to meet the giant. He was big. No denying it. Had to be near nine inches, thich, veiny, with a girthy know he couldn’t wait to stuff inside of you.
You didn’t fight against him. Instead, you eagerly awaited him for your mouth.
Your lips are soft as they press the lightest of kisses to his tip. And just like that, you’re dragging the length of your tongue up and down his cock and listening to him growl in anticipation. When you know you’ve got him where you want him, you take him in your mouth.
Jack’s claws keep steady in your hair as you bob your head. Your lips couldn’t reach his know, and to be completely fair, he wasn’t expecting you to be able to take all of him orally, but he loves what you can do. Your tongue swirls around his tip and shaft every time you come back up, and when Jack was acting up? You graze your teeth against him.
Before he knows it, you are looking up at him with the sweetest gaze, giving him your permission for him to use you. Jack passes you a look of affection before his other hand reaches up to caress your cheek, moaning out deeply as your tongue swirls on his tip, trying to coax his cum out.
Without any particular warning, he pushes your head down and brings you back up before working into face fucking you.
Your face goes dark as he uses you, making breathing damn near impossible. He begins muttering in some language you don’t know - they sound like praises - but he’s coming closer and closer to his edge.
In a mix of English and whatever language he was mumbling in, you can feel his praises get filthier and filthier. Though, Jack doesn’t want to finish in your mouth. Not this time.
“Back down, I’m going to fuck you,” he murmurs deeply while looking at you with lust and… something you can’t quite name. It wasn’t animalistic, that’s for sure.
Jack expects for you to lay back and spread your legs for him but instead, he watches as you maneuver on all fours. Your face is burying into the blankets and your ass is just shy of his waist level despite you pushing up towards him.
You glance back at him and roll your eyes playfully before swaying your hips, attempting to entice him further.
Jack sees the slickness of your cunt and without any hesitation, takes your waist into his clawed hands and begins rubbing his cock with your slick. “Gods, you’re so fucking wet,” he murmurs as he continues to rub his cock with your juices. “I’m going to destroy you.” And then he slips into that language you just can’t understand. “I’m going to knot you and you won’t be able to look at another man without begging for me to fill you up,” he says as his fingers lightly part your lips that were so tightly pressed together as he lines up with you.
Before he does so, he begins to shrug off his hoodie.
“Stop teasing me,” you say in a teasing tone, making Jack pause from taking off the rest of his clothes.
Jack verbally rolls his eyes before taking his hand out from under his hoodie before gripping your waist again. Without any warning, Jack shoves himself into your roughly, hilting himself to his knot before resting there and taking off the hoodie.
Your eyes roll up slightly as he thrust inside of you. The thickness he had wasn’t anything you were used to, and he stretched you open with absolutely no lead up and it made you see stars again.
“I can feel your wet cunt,” he says in passing as he throws his hoodie up and over his head. “Squeeze around me while you wait for me to fuck you,” he chuckles with a devilish grin. He feels your body’s eagerness for him to fuck you, and like such a good girl, you squeeze his cock making him breathe out with a smile. He feels you pulsing, he feels you growing hundred with the need the longer he stays dormant inside of you.
He sighs in ecstasy as he begins to slowly move himself out of you. When it was just the tip, he roughly slid back in, still refusing to knot. His ears twitch at the sound of you gasping for air as he really begins to fuck you. “And here you were calling me a pervert,” he muses as he begins to thrust into you with deep, long strokes, adoring the sounds that pour from your mouth. “But you like fucking me huh? You like it, you goddamn slut. You like being fucked by something that is no longer human,” he continues in that same dead language, nails digging into your soft flesh. “You’re gonna milk my cock and then you’re gonna do it again in the morning.”
Your eyebrows furrow, mouth slightly open, hair bouncing slightly with every thrust. Your face is so heated in response. This is something you know you shouldn’t be doing, but fuck was it good at keeping you around and interested.
As one of his clawed hands undug itself from your flesh to slide down your hip and caress your abdomen, his claws trace your skin and press into your clit once more. He thumbs you and leans over you as he does so, his other hand propping next to your head as he engulfs you with his size. He’s pounding into you now, still refusing to know. His tongue lazily swipes at your shoulder as his hips thrust into you at a damn near inhuman speed and strength, making you mumble incoherencies.
Your moans are music to his ears.
“I’m gonna fuck you until you feel like you can’t anymore, and I’m gonna fuck you until I’m the only man you’ll ever fucking think about,” he roughly sneers into your ears as he continues to pound his hips against you. “I’m going to fuck you until you tell me to stop, and even then? I might not stop.” He breathes deeply into your ear, his tongue tracing the shell as you pathetically move in tandem with him, his fingers digging into your clit and swirling.
He’s trying to get you to cum again.
You are trembling beneath him as his hips shatter you. You can feel his knot greet your lips, but still refuse to enter as Jack growls deeply into your ear. Your legs clamp together as his hand roughly fingers your pearl.
He’s so intoxicating, and you feel like you can’t breathe.
“Cum on my cock,” he hisses harshly, still fucking you to orgasm.
And just like that, he got his wish.
You squeeze shut your beautiful eyes before tightening your thighs together. An immediate waterfall gushes from between your legs, filling the air with something sweet and slightly bitter.
Jack laughs as he pulls out from your pussy, watching as the liquids continue to gush out. “What a cutie,” he teases as he lovingly licks your cheek. “Turn over. I wanna see your face when I knot you,” he grins, nodding for you to lay back on the side of the twin mattresses that was not turned into an ocean.
On hellied legs, you slowly wobble and hum as his finger traces your slit before falling back to the side of the mattresses that isn’t soaked. Your eyes meet his gaze and you slowly spread your legs as he looms over you. You catalog everything about him. In your eyes, he looks so animalistic, and so human all at the same time.
Without his jacket or his hoodie, you’re able to see the scars that decorate his body. He’s so dark, and the cuts and jagged lines that dash across his form are so light in contrast. He’s still lacking eyes - so how is it that he looks at you with such love?
That stupid smirk is looking at you again and you’re tearing your gaze off it to see the head of his cock weeping with precum.
Jack whistles down at you, his hand resting on your knee. “You knew this was coming, Sweetheart,” he hums as he leans forward, hands placing themselves on both sides of you. His grin grew as he saw your face heat up once more.
Jack feels your legs shift followed by a slight weight on his lower waist, He makes a noise of approval as your ankles lock before he glances down to where your bodies are soon going to be connected again. “Let me know if I hurt you at any point,” he whispers softly in your ear as his slightly pointed tip prods at your entrance.
You find yourself almost taken aback by his sudden kindness - he was so domineering but so soft? Your trail of thought is almost entirely derailed as he pushes his cock in and past your puffy, swollen lips as you listen to him hiss at the new angle.
It’s intimate - neither of you can deny that.
Jack watches your expressions from the corner of his gaze as he slowly begins to pump in and out of you, working you to that breakneck pace once more. He watches as your eyebrows furrow as he picks up the pace, fucking you in your entirety. He feels your legs tighten around his waist and watches as your eyebrows furrow once more and knit together in pleasure.
You begin to pant as he does so, walls pulsing deliciously around him as his hips meet yours in thick, meaty thrusts. You feel his cock slide deeper and deeper with every thrust, pushing you to new limits.
Your moans are, once again, music to his ears as he fucks you senseless. Your hands wantonly claw at his back and brush against his sensitive flesh. Swears and curses escape your lips every now and then and that makes him blush.
“You are taking me so, so well,” he harshly compliments through pants as he lowers himself onto his forearms, his hips continuously snapping forward. “It’s almost as if your cunt was made for me. I wonder if you can take my knot as well?” He mumbles as his knot kisses your bruised lips once again. “I don’t care what you say, I’m gonna make you take it.”
“Fuck!” Jack swore under his breath as your walls vice gripped him. “You’re gonna take my knot and you’re gonna like it,” he mumbles into your neck as he kisses and nips at it. He hisses again when you rake your nails across and down his back. His ears fall back in pleasure and close to his scalp as you moan louder. The sound of your pussy gobbling him up has him weak at the knees.
“You’re getting close again, aren’t you?” He questions as he nips at your neck, threatening to bite in the longer you hesitate in answering.
You’re admittedly pretty tongue tied at the moment. “I-!” You’re cut off but his hips slapping forward making you choke and gasp for air. “I am-,” you breathe out through your moans.
“Perfect,” Jack chuckles as he slowly inches his way out. He watches your face carefully as he pulls out, his gaze trained on yours as his forearms push up so he can see you better.
Confusion etches itself on your face. “What?”
“I just wanna see your face,” he answers as his tip rubs against your entrance. He licks your cheek playfully once more before slowly, and deliciously dragging his cock back in, his knot just barely meeting your lips. “This might hurt,” he murmurs gently as he picks his hips back up once more before thrusting back in, much more forcefully, his thick, large knot finally breaching your pussy.
Your eyes widen as his girthy knot pushes inside of you, your legs instinctively tightening around his hips. Your hand leaves his back to grip onto his bicep. Luckily for you, Jack doesn’t mind. You wince as he wiggles in the rest of his knot into your pussy as it swallows him whole, the entirety of his knot being buried inside of you, making it hard for you to breathe. You feel so full and stuffed!
Jack is a little surprised by how strong your grip is! He’s almost completely smitten with it when he finally looks down to see tears welling in your eyes. He can tell it’s a mixture of both paini, from being stressed immensely, and pleasure in a way only pain could bring. It’s ecstasy. Jack leans down gently and begins to kiss your tears away, careful to not pull where the two of you are connected all the while restraining himself to what he doesn’t believe is bearable.
“You feel so divine,” he murmurs livingly before licking away another tear. “Just relax, let me do the work,” he continues. He feels your lips on his and he smiles, taking that as the green light to rock into you. Unfortunately, he would not be able to completely destroy you like he did prior to knotting you simply because of the knot.
Now, Jack takes the time to be intimate. He lovingly relishes in the feeling of kissing you as he slowly and tantalizingly grinds his hips against you and lightly thrusts after every roll. It was a little difficult due to the connection, but it felt sweet. His hand went back between your legs to work your pearl as he continued to sweetly roll and thrust into you, thoroughly enjoying how your hips are shyly coming up to meet him.
“Come on,” he whispers softly through his kiss as he begins to thrust a little rougher. “Just a little more, cum on my cock again,” he urges as he breaks the kiss, licking your cheek. He’s swiping and thumbing your clit in ways that have you writhing beneath him.
Your legs tighten around his waist, urging him to press deeper inside of you.
Not one to deny a lady from what she wants, Jack backs up as far as his hips will let him and pounds back into you. He repeats the motion, making sure to roll every time he does so.
Your hands grasp at his back once more as he fucks you with reckless abandon, his name being the only thing to spill from your lips as he does so. You can’t believe he’s overloading you again, and your heart picks up in response. You kiss him once more, feeling his chapped, rough lips against your soft ones before he leaves and nips down the side of your face and back to your neck. He lightly bites down, not hard enough to draw blood, but enough for you to know he’s got a claim on you.
You look up at him as he mumbles in that same dead language against your skin. He’s so lost in you that it’s almost adorable. Your hand gently asks for his attention, and he gives it to you. You give him a look of nothing but lust and possibly love, and Jack’s lips are on yours again, thickly, warmly, with something deeper and much more passionate than anything you would have expected he was capable of. When he breaks away, panting, against your face, he makes you cry out in pleasure.
“I’m going to fill you,” Jack sneers through his panting, hips still thickly pounding into you. “I’m going to fill you for as long as I’m inside of you,” he mutters as his thrusts frow sloppy. Jack covers you entirely with his body as he roughly pants into your ear, so, so close to spilling.
Your walls begin to flutter around him, urging him to spill as he growls into you. You feel like you’re creaming rings around his dick, urging, no, begging him to bottom out inside of you. Your nails are leaving dark, jagged marks into the flesh of his back as he does so.
With a few more powerful thrusts, Jack finds himself going over the edge, his hips back as far as his knot will allow him before he buries himself deep, the tip pressing against your cervix as he releases himself inside of you. Hot, thick, sticky ropes of cum begin to flood into your needy cunt as lightly rocks himself inside of you, gritting his teeth as you tremble beneath him. “Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck!” He continually growls out like a prayer as your fluttering walls coax more cum from him.
Your eyes roll upwards as the heat floods your cunt, making you squeeze your eyes shut and burying your face into his chest. You’re squeezing tightly around him, vice gripping him as he continues to relish in the feeling of your body holding him so tightly. You can barely think straight as his cock weeps more cum, threatening, and succeeding in filling you to your brim.
“Gods, you’re milking me,” he murmurs as he finally stops pumping you full of cum. “This… This is gonna take a while,” he says darkly in your ear.
“What?”
Jack nods down to where the two of you are still connected. “Gonna be a while.” He sighs, secures your legs to his waist, and then flips you over so you are resting on top of his chest. “Get comfortable.”
“How long..?”
“A while,” Jack awkwardly coughs. “It’s just uh, a knot thing, I guess?” He attempts to explain as you shift your hips deliciously, making him huff and his cock spurt more ropes of cum. He looks away in slight embarrassment. “You can sleep, if you want? Like I said, this is gonna be a while,” he finishes as his hand fishes around for a blanket as his other hand travels down your lower waist to finally cup your ass. He squeezes gently once he finally throws the blanket over the two of you.
“Or,” you say as you plant your hands firmly on his chest, gradually bringing yourself back up. “We can go again.”
Jack laughs. “And you called me a pervert.”
You lightly slap him and grind your hips slowly against him. “Shut up.”
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Hello~ Can I request a Mark x fem reader who’s a lot like starfire and is very Powerful close to omni man and is also an alien princess but she lives on earth and they go to the same school and she’s also a solo hero who one day sees invincible fighting off a tough villain with the teenteam but is losing so she steps in to help and he recognizes her and starts getting all nervous since he has a crush on her and then after that they introduce themselves get to know each other and eventually work they’re way up to mark confessing and she says yes :3
(If possible can it be a slow burn im a sucker for slow burn tropes and stuff 😤)
A/N: I gotchu, this bout to be a lil long 😮‍💨 making the fem!reader a little more human, figured since she’s in an actual school for humans she’d need to adapt to the humor/culture so she doesn’t get suspicious
Pairing: Mark Grayson x Fem!Reader
Rating: M, some swearing and gross monster guts
Warnings: N/A
Summary: Mark is finally joined in battle by an alien princess who has caught his attention. Turns out she goes to the same high school, and if he can throw around 150-pound monsters across the street, surely he can confess his true feelings to a girl... right?
"Are you fucking kidding me right now?!" Rex Splode yelled as he wobbled up off the ground. "We've been on this thing for hours and it only has one damn cut!"
"Calm down Rex," Atom Eve said from behind, "You're gonna get even more tired from yelling."
The two watched as Dupli-Kate attempted to distract the scaly kaiju, replicating herself second after second to give space for Invincible to hit the monster by surprise. The kaiju's screech echoed throughout the city and shook the foundations of the surrounding buildings, forcing Rex, Atom Eve and Robot to move aside and save however many civilians they could.
"Invincible," Dupli-Kate shouted, "I can't keep up much longer!"
A sonic boom overcame the surrounding noise and Invincible appeared from the clouds. Dropping in at maximum speed, the young superhero balled his hand into a fist and took a deep breath. A loud battle cry escaped his mouth but it was cut short as the kaiju's heavy arm slapped him away just in time, throwing him through destroyed buildings until he landed on the pavement.
Out of breath, dizzy, and in a serious amount of pain, Invincible laid on the broken road for a second to regain his strength. The wind softly blew down on him as he focused his sight on a contrail leading towards him, and he watched as a girl in purple land right next to him.
She bent down and held him upright, "Invincible, are you okay?"
"Mmhmm," Invincible croaked with a defeated smile, "Totally fine."
His sight reverted back to normal and the first face he saw shocked him alive. It was her. They never talked in school and he was almost sure she didn't know his real name, but here she was, basically cradling him in her arms and calling him Invincible.
So she knows who I am. At least with the suit.
"Come on, that kaiju is about to be destroy the entire city," she said, helping him get back on his feet and flying away to the seemingly unbeatable figure.
He huffed, "Stay cool, Mark. She's here to help," and he followed suit.
This marked the first time he really interacted with the new superhero; he'd only ever see her on TV or read about how she saved people on the newspaper. He'd be lying if he said he didn't find her attractive — as do most guys his age — but watching her blast the kaiju with the green bursts of energy from her hands made her only even more appealing.
Invincible regrouped with the rest of the Teen Team. "I don't know what else we can do to this thing," Atom Eve admitted.
"I do," the girl spoke up. "Distract it as best as you can but stay far away from the stomach. When I tell you to take cover, make a run for it."
Robot replied, "That seems highly dangerous."
"Let's do it," Invincible quickly replied in a high-pitched voice.
Everyone looked over at him, surprised at the sudden change in his voice and just how fast he reacted in agreement. 
"Uh, it's a good plan," he nodded, causing the girl to shoot a warm smile his way. "I definitely think we should do it... if all of you... uh, think, we should."
Exhausted and out of options, the rest of the group followed her orders and took different corners of the monster. Dupli-Kate handled one leg, Rex Splode handled the other, Robot and Atom Eve took the arms, and Invincible went back to the head. The kaiju struggled to keep its focus on just one of the heroes, and while it remained preoccupied, the girl absorbed all the energy she could muster and flew straight for the stomach.
"Take cover, now!"
Invincible and the Teen Team moved away and they watched as the flying hero's eyes opened in a bright shade of neon green, both her arms extended out as a large ball of green formed around her hands. The rays exploded right through the kaiju and it shrieked in pain as she briefly disappeared into the stomach. The kaiju lost balance and slowly fell forward as the girl, her eyes still green, appeared on the other side and harshly fell down on the ground.
The kaiju landed on the street with a loud boom and the group ran towards the girl who was now covered in parts of the kaiju's digestive system.
"Okay, that's kinda gross," Rex Splode commented, to which Dupli-Kate quickly responded, "Shut up."
Invincible dropped down on his knees and wiped the blood and guts off her face. Subtly admiring her facial features up close, he couldn't believe (and almost felt stupid) that he never recognized her despite the fact that he almost saw her everyday.
The girl groaned in agony softly shook her head, her eyes fluttering open to the sight of Invincible's dark hair, goggles and yellow mask.
"Hey, hey," he whispered, "Are you alright?"
She sat up and hissed at her injuries, holding her head with her bloody hand. "Mmhmm," she gently nodded with a half smile, her eye one still shut. "Totally fine."
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Mark had a hard time focusing on school. His body ached from yesterday's injuries and he suffered a few bruises from literally tearing through buildings. He made his way to his locker and rested his head on the metal door, dreading the fact that he still has an entire afternoon of classes to go. Closing his eyes in hopes to quickly recharge, his moment of peace was disrupted when a shoulder rammed into his chest and several books landed right on his toe.
"Oh god, I'm so sorry," a voice exclaimed.
Mark's head snapped up at the sound of the voice. It's her. He momentarily froze and watched the girl bend down to pick up her things, and when he finally regained movement a split second later, he also bent down to help her out. He kept quiet as he tried to think of the coolest possible response to make her think that he was actually the coolest guy in school, but all he could think of was how heavenly and badass she looked yesterday.
"Thanks," she said as he handed her the book. "I hope your foot doesn't bruise."
They both stood up and he shot her a nervous smile. "T-totally fine," he replied, clearing his throat afterwards.
She crossed her brows at his response and nodded, and a look of suspicion replaced her worried demeanor.
"I'm Mark, by the way," he cleared his throat again and reached out his hand, "Grayson."
"Mark... Grayson, huh?" she responded, scanning his face as her suspicion grew. Her eyes finally landed on the hand that was waiting, and she took one last look into his eyes before deciding to shake it. "I'm Y/N," she introduced herself with a skeptical smile, feeling his sweaty palm wrapped around hers. "I'll see you around, Mark Grayson."
She walked away and Mark's eyes followed her trail as far as he could see. He quickly pulled out his phone to send a text to Eve, who was actually watching their interaction a few classrooms down.
"Mark," Eve called out as she moved towards him. “So I’m assuming...”
"You knew?” he asked her in disbelief. “Why didn't you tell me Y/N was a superhero? I just introduced myself to her as Mark Grayson and I'm almost positive she knows I'm Invincible."
"First off, it's not my secret tell," she answered with a shrug. "Second, you guys didn’t trade secrets or whatever?”
Mark shook his head in a panic, "No, but I'm guessing she also knows that I know her secret the same way I know she knows my secret." He rested his forehead on the locker door once again and groaned, "Ugh, I'm so into her, it isn't even funny. And this whole superhero thing just made it even more awkward."
Eve laughed, "Look, I'm not going to force her to tell you if she isn't up for it, but if you want, I can ask her to hang out with us later. Maybe — emphasis on maybe — my presence will make her comfortable enough to admit who she is."
"Okay, okay," he sighed, turning around to rest the back of his head. "My insides are dying."
"After the kaiju yesterday, be thankful you don't mean that in a literal sense."
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Where in the hell is Eve?
Mark pulled out his phone for the third time in 10 minutes. Still no call or response from Eve to his text. He was getting evidently nervous; his palms were sweaty again and it felt like someone turned up the heat in Burger Mart. His left leg jerked up and down in anxiety as he stared at his phone, looking at the seconds on the clock icon tick by. If he were left alone with Y/N, he'd have no idea what to say. What does she like? Should I bring up the kaiju yesterday and praise Invincible? No, she'll just think I'm full of myself.
"Hey Mark."
He jolted and saw Y/N standing by the corner of the booth. "Hi!" he replied in that irritatingly high-pitched voice. Mark's heart began to race and the thoughts in his head ran wild. "Um... Have a seat. Sorry Eve isn't here yet, she actually hasn't answered my calls or my messages. Teenage girls, huh? What can you do?"
She crossed her brows again and chuckled, "That's fine, we can wait for Eve. But I think I'm more concerned about you."
"What do you mean?"
Y/N chuckled again, "You seem... nervous.”
He faked an obnoxiously loud laugh, “Me? Nervous?”
She watched him from across the table in silence, waiting for him to regain his composure.
When Mark couldn’t hear Y/N laughing with him, he finally shut up and shook his head. “Yeah, I am nervous, sorry,” he admitted, shutting his eyes tight. 
She giggled, “Totally fine.”
Hearing her say those two words calmed his racing heartbeat. A smile crept on his face and she reciprocated, their eyes locking for a few seconds before both their phones buzzed.
“Oh, I just got a text from Eve,” Mark said. 
“Me too.” She opened the message and began to read it out loud, “Sorry, can’t make it tonight. Something came up.”
“Have fun, you two,” he followed, his voice faltering. He placed his phone, screen down this time, back on the table and sighed, “Sorry, guess you’re stuck with me. That is, if you do want to stay and... hang out, and stuff.”
"Why wouldn’t I?” she replied, her warm smile easing Mark back into a relaxed state. “It’s nice to have a friend who...” she trailed off, “understands.”
“Understands what?” he asked.
“This thing people like us call life,” she answered. “You know, it took me a long time to acclimate here. I didn’t think I ever would, then I met friends who made this place feel like home. And home is a feeling I hadn’t felt in a really long time.”
Mark rested his elbows on the table and leaned in closer, “Well, I’m always here. You know, a-as a friend... or an acquaintance, even. I don’t, I don’t want to push it.”
Y/N giggled again, “You’re a funny man, Mark Grayson. This planet is lucky to have someone like you.” She reached out and held his hand, “And I’m even luckier to have you as a friend, or an acquaintance.” 
He felt the heat rush to his face and he could swear his heart nearly jumped out of his chest. The afternoon flew by in a hurry as they engaged in lengthy conversations, fatty fast food, and childhood stories. While Mark was open to sharing every tiny detail — down to the color of the bleachers at the park where he played little league — Y/N kept hers pretty vague, leaving out descriptions of family members and even the places where these stories happened. 
Mark’s phone buzzed again, but the vibrating pattern indicated it was a phone call. He turned the screen over and saw the unknown number; it was time to suit up.
“Shit, I’m sorry Y/N, but I need to go,” he said in a rush. “I have a... uh, an emergency.”
You couldn’t have thought of anything more specific?
“It’s cool. Um, don’t worry about it,” she said, shaking her head with her eyes glued to the vibrating phone. 
Mark’s one leg was already out the booth before he decided to finally just go for it. Sitting back down with his now quiet phone in his hands, he took a deep breath.
“Y/N, I think you’re really cool. Can I maybe, like, call you sometime, or something?”
Her lips formed into smile that extended to her eyes, and it was enough for Mark to melt a little. “Of course. Yeah, sure,” she replied in excitement and typed down her number on his phone. She handed it back, “Now you know how to reach me if you’re getting your ass whooped again.”
His mouth fell open as his shaky hands grabbed his phone. “Wait—”
She smoothly slid out of the booth, “See you later, Invincible,” she winked, “Don’t get killed today.”
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Luckily for Mark, no one got killed today. Maybe a few wounds here and there, but nothing painful enough that will land him in the GDA hospital. After spending an hour in the shower, he finally managed to lie down on his bed and rest his body. He sank into the mattress and closed his eyes, taking in the seconds of undisturbed peace that have become rare moments since he got his powers. 
As he replayed the events of today’s fights in his head, his mind drifted off to the hours he spent with Y/N. He pulled out his phone and mustered the courage to press the dial button, and the repeating sound of the ringing was making his pulse race. 
“Hello?”
“Oh good, you didn’t die today.”
Mark chuckled and sandwiched his hand between his head and the pillow. “It wasn’t that bad today, just took a few hits,” he explained. “So listen, Y/N, I was wondering, uh—”
She cut him off, “What are you doing right now?”
“What?”
“What are you doing right now?” she repeated.
“Um, nothing, just getting some rest” he sat up and looked around. “Why?”
“If you’re not too tired, do you maybe...”
Mark smiled, “Maybe...?”
“I don’t know, sneak out? My roof is pretty comfortable.”
Silently fist pumping, he fully stood up and nodded, “Text me the address.”
Just as quietly as he exited his room via the window, he softly landed on Y/N’s roof. Swiftly flying up and greeting him, she took the place next to him and crossed her legs. 
“You’re right, your roof is pretty comfortable,” Mark said.
She chuckled at his remark then noticed a gash by his right temple. Her brows furrowed in worry, “You have a wound,” she said, making sure not to touch it.
“Don’t worry about it,” he replied, softly holding her hand and placing it back down with his. “Totally fine.”
Those words brought her some sense of comfort as her eyes softened, causing her to unconsciously squeeze his hand. Mark’s eyes widened and he looked down at their tangled fingers, frozen for a moment.
“Is this... okay with you?” he asked.
She nodded. “Wanna lie down? Since my roof is so comfortable?” she asked with a smirk.
“Sure,” Mark chuckled, removing his hand from her’s and stretching his arm out as they lied down. Y/N rested her head on his shoulder, keeping her eyes up at the stars.
“Hey Mark?”
“Yeah?”
A moment of silence.
“Thank you for coming.”
He looked down at her as she met his eyes, “You’re welcome.” 
The two shared a smile, and Mark took a deep breath as he prepared himself for the words that were about to come out of his mouth.
It’s now or never, Mark. Now or never.
“Watching you kick ass yesterday was... really a sight to see,” he began. “You’re powerful and strong, but more importantly, brave. And you’re so fucking beautiful and kind and smart and...” Mark trailed off, sighing, “I never thought I would be in this position — with you next to me in a very comfortable rooftop under the stars.”
“Mark...”
“And I really like you. Like, really, really like you.”
“Mark.”
“It’s okay if you don’t feel the same way, but I just wanted to let you know. It’s important that you know—”
“Mark,” she cut him off. “I like you too. A lot.”
He breathed a sigh of relief and covered his eyes with his free hand. “Oh thank god. Thank god!” he exclaimed.
Y/N shushed him, “You’re gonna wake up the neighborhood, Invincible.”
“Sorry,” he giggled quietly, “I got excited.”
She laughed and faced her body towards him. They locked eyes again, and Mark didn’t know if it was gravity or just the adrenaline that pushed him, but he finally leaned down and met her lips. Static ran through his body as he deepened the kiss, and he felt an excitement that was even more exhilarating than the first time he flew.
She pulled away and Mark ran his hand through her hair, resting his hand on her cheek. “How was that?” he asked.
She smiled gently and placed her hand over his, “Totally fine.”
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loousir · 3 years
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[Gorgon] Some Secrets Should be Said
Gorgon Male x Unaware/Oblivious Male Reader
Eros
Warnings: Tiniest ammout of homophobia/racisim, smoochin in a supply closet, YOU MAY BE IN HIGHSCHOOL BUT YOU ARE 18
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It was an early Monday morning. The usual early birds were arriving at school, you being one of them. Rumor was going around of a new student getting enrolled. There were only three high schools in this small town; One for monsters, one for humans, and one for both. You were enrolled in the one that shared with monsters. The overall relations in the school were good, other than the typical high school antics.
You had just been dropped off by your sibling and we're walking into the building. A few people smiled your way and you smiled back, heading to your first hour. The teacher was a Satyr and she was a bubbly as ever, happy to see you in the morning. "Good morning (Y/n), we have a new student coming today." Your ears perked up and you looked over to her.
"Ah, we do? So the rumor was true after all?" She laughed and said, "Yes! He's gonna make a bit of history here." You became confused at her statement as you walked over to your seat. "What do you mean by that?" You asked setting your bag on the table. "I might get in a bit of trouble for telling but..." She walked over, her hooves clacking on the floor as she did. She leaned in on the table, "He will be the first Gorgon to be enrolled into the school!"
She seemed overly excited about the new student but you smiled at her enthusiasm. "You seem awfully happy about that. Is he in our class?" You asked, sitting down in your chair. Her smiled seemed to get wider as she nodded. You paused for a moment and leaned back. "Does that mean he's gonna sit by me?" She nods again. "Yep! You are the only one without a table partner. I'm sure you'll be fine. He's a nice kid." She ruffeled your hair and you swatted her hands away. "Auntie, you know I'm taken right?" She isn't your biological aunt but she's very close with your mom so you call her it for fun.
She laughed and walked away saying, "He's a cute one." You sighed and rolled your eyes as you pulled out your phone. You opened Snapchat and sent a message to your boyfriend.
You took a cute selfie, looking down at the phone while your forehead rested on the table.
Aunties super excited about our new student.
Ngl, I kinda am too. She said he was a Gorgon and I think she's onto my facination with cute snakes xx
You sent the snap and put your phone face down on the table before resting your face on your bag. A minute or so passed before you got a message back.
It was a black screen but he usually sent one. Admittedly, you have never seen him but you respected that since you fell in love with his personality, which was charming as ever.
Don't go cheating on me now ;)
I might just have to show you I'm cuter xx
You smiled and took another selfie.
So that means I get to see you then??? Game on babe xx
You smiled as you sent it. Yeah, it was cheesy flirting but it made you happy none the less. A few seconds later he messaged back with another black screen.
Hmm, I just might lol
You sent that you love him too and put your phone in your pocket. Smiling slightly as you looked up to see that some other students were starting to show up. Soon enough, the first bell for class to start rings and students filter in, taking their seats. Five minutes later, you still haven't seen a certain Gorgon as the final bell rings, saying anyone who wasn't there was late.
Gotta get to class, message you when I can
Love you xx
Mrs. Hucksburry stood at the front of the class, writing some last minute things on the board. "Alright class," Most of the students quiet down at her words. "As you may have heard, we have a new student today! I want you to treat him with respect as he is one of us," She said referring to her fellow monsters. "He is the first of his kind to be enrolled into our schools system." Right as she finished speaking, the door opened to show a rather handsome face and a the obvious 'hair' that came in the shape of several small, darkly colored snakes that seemed to form some sort of style.
He wore rather nice and stylish clothes, very 90's -esk. Mrs. Hucksburry smiled more and looked over to him. "Good morning Mr. Lamollot, glad to see you made your way here." He smiles a cute and almost shy smile, making a pair of girls in class giggle. You watched and tuned out what they were saying before seeing he was looking at you.
You waved to him as he walked over to your table. "I'm guessing you're (Y/n)?" You smiled and nodded, "That'd be me." You put your bag on the floor next to the table and he quietly sat down next to you. "I'm Eros by the way." He was quiet when he spoke as class had officially started. You pulled out a notebook with a pen/pencil and made a message page.
You have the same name as my boyfriend!
You tore the paper out and slid it over to him while he was getting his own notebook and pen. Notes were handwritten on the board since the projector broke and hadn't been replaced yet but no one seemed to mind. The paper was slid back over to you.
Really? What are the chances of that?
His hand writing was nice for a boy and you looked out of the corner of your eye to see him smiling. You smiled too and wrote back.
Who knows but I think it's cool
You slid the paper back and he took a minute to slide it back but you patiently waited since you would have done the same. He didn't write anything on it.
You seem pretty chill Eros, wanna hang out at lunch? Also can I see your schedule? • 3 •
The paper was passed back for the fifth time during class and all it said was his schedule along with a "Sure!" underneath. You told him that the two of you share the same schedule. WhAt A cOiNcIdEnCe.
You looked over to him to see him looking at the paper. He looked up to you and you smiled. Eros smiled back and took the paper to ask.
Do you have early release too?
You read it as he wrote and he looked up to you. You nodded and he wrote again.
Wanna go chill at the park?
You shrugged and nodded again when he looked up to you. He smiled and nodded as the two of you went back to working on class work. You hadn't noticed it before but, his snakes seemed to be interested in you, which you thought was cute.
--- Skip to Break ---
An hour and a half had passed and the two of you had talked a bit throughout the time. The bell for break just rang and you got up with Eros. The two of you walked out to the hallway. "Let me make a stop by my locker real quick then we can go to next hour and chill there for break." He nodded and leaned against the locker next to you when two girls walked up to him. They were the same pair from first hour.
"Hey Eros, wanna hang with us at lunch?" The "leader" asked, standing in front of him. "Yeah that'd be like, totally cool if you did." Her buddy said, standing next to him. "Oh, sorry, me and (Y/n) al-" She cut him off with a scoff. "Oh you mean halfie? That kids got an imaginary boyfriend. How about you just ditch him and come eat with us." Eros looked over to you to see you had tensed and slowed your movements.
The girls focus turned on you, making you bite your lip. "Do you think you could not ruin this guy? He's like, super hot and doesn't need to be tainted by you." You looked away and felt a vibration come from your phone. You took the chance and opened it to see a message from your boyfriend. She smirked, "Did your 'boyfriend' text you? What'd he say?" She asked in a taunting tone.
You ignored her and opened the message. It was a new picture of the "super hot" guy standing next to you looking down to his phone.
Wanna dip babe?
These bitches are annoying the fuck outta me lol
The three of you looked up to him surprised as you closed your locker. He awkwardly smiled and said, "Guess I had to ruin that surprise cause some bimbos wanna fuck a gay guy." He laughed and walked over to you, grabbing your hand. You were speechless.
How did I not connect the dots earlier? Am I really that dense?
"It's a shame too. I was considering being friends, until you insulted my boyfriend, that is." He locked your fingers and looked back at the two. "Go suck a dildo, whore." Eros flipped them off and walked off with you around the corner, looking for a private spot. "Anywhere there won't be eavesdroppers?" He asked quietly. You nodded and lead him to a back room.
You opened the door with the key you had and let you go in first. The room was pretty nice considering it was useless. You turned on the light at set your bag down, Eros doing the same. "Are you really my boyfriend?" You asked stepping closer to him. He blushed and nodded, "I... I think so... I kind of ruined the supr-mm!" His eyes widened as you connected your lips to his. You pulled away and were about to speak when he connected them again, pressing his body into yours slightly.
He pulled away and you smiled, a blush was covering your face. "I've wanted to do that for so long." You said looking up to him slightly. "Me too." He said, hugging you close. "Why did you lie to me about being human?" You asked, resting your face on his chest. "I was... Scared of how you'd react if I told you the truth." You pulled away and looked up to him. "Are you kidding? Look what I was missing out on!" You said, making gestures to him.
Eros smiled and laughed. "I have a question for you though," You tilted your head slightly. "Why did they call you halfie?" You looked away and brushed back the hair around your ears. The tips of them were pointed much like an elf's but not as long. "My dads an elf. They like to use it as an insult since they're full and I'm not..."
Eros smiled again and nuzzled his nose to the crook of your neck. His snakes were gently booping their noses against your cheek as if giving you small kisses. You giggled at the sensation and he hummed to ask what was so funny. "Your snakes are cute." You said gently intertwining your fingers with them. He gently kissed your neck and rubbed your sides. "Well, they love you just as much as I love you." He said closing his eyes and hugging you.
You smiled and removed your hand to cup his cheek and make him look at you. His golden eyes were half lidded as he did. "Well," You said almost mocking him in away. "I love you and your snakes too." His eyes closed as he leaned in and yours did the same, both of your lips connecting again.
Eros pressed himself into you as both of you kissed. You pulled away first for air and he kissed your cheek and jaw lightly. You checked your phone when he pulled away he asked. "I'm curious how you got a key to a janitors closet." You leaned up to him and kissed his cheek. "My biological uncles the principal and he gave me the room to chill if I need to. It's usually where I would hang out for lunch but I dont really need to anymore since early release and all."
He "ooh'd" and nodded. "Makes sense. Wish I had a place like this at my old school." He looked back at you and his eyes went to your hair while you were checking something on your phone. Eros almost hesitantly brushed his fingers through your (h/c) hair. You jumped slightly at the sudden touch but enjoyed it none the less. "We have 4 minutes by the way." You said closing your eyes and leaning into his hand.
"Your hair is really nice. It's so soft." He smiled when you did and he gently kissed your nose while removing his hand from your hair. You tried your best to make it look like how it did before. "Sorry." He said gently with a small laugh. "Don't be, let's head to next hour so we can get this day done with and hang out." He nodded at your words and you grabbed his hand as the two of you grabbed your bags and quietly made it to the class you're meant to be in.
--- Skip to End of Day ---
The last two hours of school they had went by pretty quickly. The bell for lunch and early release seniors rang, making most people rush to leave or go to lunch. You and Eros lagged behind, waiting for the halls to clear a bit. He gently grabbed your hand as you finished putting your bag on. "Do you wanna go to the park or my house? I have a car so it doesn't matter too much on which you pick." He said with a small laugh.
You blushed and shrugged, "I would probably like your house since it's kinda cold out right now..." The two of you walked out of the class, hand in hand. The pair of girls from earlier watched with hatred/jealousy as the two of them walked out together. They were all going the same way so they got to see Eros walk you to his 1969 Blue Camaro.
Eros unlocked the car and opened the passenger door for you to get in to which you gladly accepted. You set your bag down by your feet and buckled as he set his bag in the back and got in. "I hope my dad isn't home." He said closing his door and starting the car. "Why do you say that?" You asked as he buckled his seat belt.
He sighed and leaned back on his seat. "He doesn't actually know we're... Y'know, dating. Or if he does he has no clue you're a guy..." You nodded and looked to him while he backed out from the parking lot. "We can still go to the park. I'll survive I'm sure." You said softly. "Plus I kinda wanna wear your jacket..." You mumbled the last part while looking away but he heard and smiled, acting as if he didn't hear.
"There's one close to my house we can go to. It's pretty cool if you wanna go there." Eros said while stopping at a light. "That sounds good." He smiled again and looked over to you before looking back at the light. Seeing it change to green, he stepped on the gas again and headed to the destination.
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The ride was comfortably quiet other than the occasional comment about something in the passing scenery. "Ok, we're here." Eros said, parking his car in the relatively empty parking lot. "I've never seen this place before. It's really pretty." You said as the two of you stepped out.
"Yeah. It's pretty quiet here. I usually hang out here after school. I have never been home "on time" since I got a car 3-ish years ago." You smiled and held his hand as he locked the car and put the keys away. "I'll take you to my favorite spot. There's all kinds of secret areas thanks to the trees." He said with a slight child like glee. You giggled like the school boy that you are as he dragged you along through a beautiful walkway that was shaded by the trees. "Gods it's so pretty here." You said under your breath.
You walked for what felt like forever before he shifted to stand behind you, wrapping an arm around your waist. He removed his hand to show one of the few non blank pictures he sent. "Oh wow." The winter sun was shining over the neighboring town, giving a good idea of just how small it was. "We have a cliff?" You asked suddenly, making Eros laugh and hug you close to his body.
Eros smiled as he took a turn off the path and up a small hill. He stopped and gently let go of your hand, covering your eyes. You reached up to remove his hand but he stopped you. "W-what are you doing Eros?" He giggled and started walking, making you grab onto him afraid of running into something. "Eros?!"
"Don't worry babe. I promise it's nothing bad. I know you'll like it."
"Kinda crazy right?" He said before resting his chin on your shoulder. You nodded as his snakes gently booped you're temple and cheek again, making you smile. You reached up and gently placed a hand on Eros' cheek, rubbing your thumb against his jawline. "Wanna sit down? I have two and a half hours before I have to be home." You nodded again and he pulled away, leading you over to a fairly large tree.
He took off his jacket and tossed it up onto a branch before jumping into the tree himself. You were surprised before he reached down to help you up. "C'mon, it'll give us some privacy just incase anyone comes over here." You somewhat hesitantly took his hand and he helped pull you up onto the thick tree branch. He leaned back against the trees core, letting his legs hang down and inviting you to do the same against him.
The two of you sat in comfortable silence again while he hugged you close, resting his head against your shoulder. "I love you. A lot." He mumbled softly into your ear. You smiled and held onto the top of his hand that was holding onto your stomach. "I love you a lot too." You mumbled back. "Oh and, do you wanna wear my jacket now? I noticed you were shivering ever since we started walking."
You blushed and looked down to the tree branch and ground below it. "I didn't think you heard me say that..." He giggled and leaned forward a bit, grabbing the jacket off the branch it was hooked on to. You moved forward and he helped you put the slightly bigger jacket on. You snuggled into the lingering warmth, taking in his soft cologne.
"Your jacket smells good babe." Eros chuckles and pulls you against his chest again. "Well, it's got my favorite cologne on it so if course it smells good." You smile and let your head fall back against his shoulder and he kissed your temple.
"So. Do you wanna explain yourself a bit?"
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satendou · 4 years
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⟼  monster
⍣ all time low series | next | 1/4
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⇢  pairing: tendo/reader
⇢ au: atl!au, college!au
⇢ summary: you like horror movies, tendou likes horror movies, what could go wrong?
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⇢ warnings: unprotected sex, creampie, fingering, mentions of bullying, insecurities, piercings, cursing
⇢ word count: 13.2k
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⇢ a/n: i think this is the biggest fic i’ve ever written and it’s one of my favorites, if not my absolute favorite i’ve written so far. it was kinda hard to write it in a way that stayed true to my vision for it but also didn’t make it childish, so i hope i succeeded in that regard. as always, thank you to @keijiskitten​ for editing this!
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“Oh, come on, ‘Kaashi,” you said, setting your hand on your hip. You were standing around in the middle of the classroom with him and a few others, waiting for your professor to show up who was no doubt getting a coffee from the overflowing Starbucks down the street. Class would be half over before he finally arrived. “It’s just a few scary movies.”
“Sorry, _____. I have to study and I just know that trying to watch movies with you and study is gonna be a nightmare,” he said, giving you a sympathetic look. “And give me nightmares.”
You rolled your eyes and looked around to Bokuto, who was scrolling through his phone while he chatted with Yaku about the next practice. That was a hard no. Poor Bo would agree without complaint and wind up with nightmares for a week, clinging to you throughout the night. Catching Akaashi’s eye, you exchanged knowing looks and chuckles.
“Hey, _____,” Semi said from your other side. He was busy filling out a music sheet with notes for his next possible song, and the way he said your name indicated he was more focused on that than your quandary.
Still, you turned to look at him over your shoulder, quirking your eyebrow at him. When he didn’t immediately continue, you prompted him. “What’s up?”
“Oh, right,” he said, looking up from the paper. He gave you a small smile and tapped the tip of his pencil on the desk in a smooth rhythm, leaving small marks all over the surface. “You should see if Tendo wants to join you. He’s really into horror movies too.”
“Um, who?”
Semi’s eyes widened in surprise and he pointed over his shoulder. You could hear Akaashi snicker from your other side. The chair on Semi’s other side tipped back on its back legs, and a man with close-cut red hair peeked around his back, waving cheekily at you.
“Hi, name’s Tendo Satori. I’ve only been hanging around you for about two weeks now,” he said and, though he sounded lighthearted and jovial about it, you could see the way his eyes remained narrowed, scrutinizing you. And he didn’t look impressed.
You flushed bright red, realizing you did know him but had never committed his name to memory. Mostly because he hadn’t ever really said anything to you or seemed interested in you at all. 
“I-- well, I’m sorry,” you offered awkwardly. But you meant it, at least. You felt a bit bad now that he was in your face. Trying to lighten the mood, you joked, “I’m _____ _____ and my brain space is committed to horror movies and studying. No space for names I’m afraid.”
Semi rolled his eyes and Akaashi heaved a long-suffering sigh, covering his eyes with his hand, but Tendo laughed at your stupid joke. His eyes eased up, his smile relaxing, and he now looked genuinely interested. 
“A horror movie marathon, huh? I’m interested. Why don’t you tell me more?”
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Tendo didn’t actually expect it to go his way. As with most other people, he was sure you were just faking your enthusiasm and would flake out once you were free of him. 
And yet when lunch rolled around and your group of friends were standing in the breezeway, shivering as you tried to pick out some place to go and eat off campus, you fell into step beside him.
“I really am sorry for not knowing who you were,” you offered, adjusting your bag on your shoulder and slipping a pair of gloves on. “Could we, maybe--”
He cut you off, grinning. “Forgiven and forgotten, _____.”
Hesitantly, you smiled back. He was strange, to be sure. Even though you hadn’t really had a true conversation with him yet, you got the feeling he was different, eccentric and unpredictable maybe. The way he harassed the shit out of Semi and some of the others was hysterical, though. You couldn’t pinpoint what it was that made you feel that way, but it wasn’t bad. You were even a little curious.
“Okay cool. So if, by chance, we were to do this movie marathon, how would you feel about cannibals?” you asked, tapping your chin thoughtfully. It was a theme you had been thinking about for a while, but none of your friends were into horror movies much, let alone a dozen or so movies centered around such a gory theme.
Tendo clicked his tongue and you heard a strange clink. “Hypothetically, right?”
“Right,” you said, your eyes zeroed in on his mouth, waiting for him to speak again.
He hummed, his lips curling in thought and his eyes narrowing as he stared off in the distance. Second in height only to Bokuto, he towered over everyone even though the two of you walked together at the back of the group. Speaking of Bokuto, you could hear him over the chatter of the other students around you, talking about the diner just a block away from the school and guessed that that was where you were going. 
Then he shrugged. “That sounds rad. What’re you thinking? Hypothetically.”
“Well, obviously gotta go with The Hills Have Eyes. I mean, it’s a classic. And then of course Wrong Turn because there’s so many of those. And, uh…that’s all I have, but that’s literally like 8 movies and if we get past those I don’t know what we’ll do,” you said, weaving through the throngs of people on the sidewalk. You had forgotten you had been trying to see what was in his mouth just a few minutes ago as you avoided toes. You could see the diner sign up ahead, reading “Newly Opened” and a list of menu items, but it was otherwise obscured from your view.
A gasp from Tendo startled you and you whipped around to look at him, only to find him staring at you in disbelief.
He had to fight the laugh in his chest from coming up at the wide-eyed, freaked out look on your face as he said, “I cannot believe you’ve forgotten the most classic of classic cannibal movies, _____. How could you forget The Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies?”
Relief mingled with amusement on your face when you realized what he was getting at, and you covered your mouth as you laughed. Putting on your best ashamed expression, you closed your eyes. “I can’t believe I forgot those. I’m such a fake fan.”
“Kicked out of the club for sure,” he said, holding the door open for you. The bustle of the diner drowned out anything more Tendo said as you followed the others towards a large table in the back corner. After that, you were seated between Semi and Akaashi and the conversation was halted.
For the time being.
--
You didn’t bring up the marathon again, though you snagged Tendo’s number the day after you went to the diner. The conversation started out about movies and morphed into other topics like majors, highschools, how he knew Eita and how you had met Bokuto and Akaashi, amongst others. It left Tendo in a bit of confusion. The two of you kept up a steady stream of communication throughout the day, even sneaking in texts during classes that could net you extra work or pop quizzes. And yet never once was the marathon mentioned.
Part of him was bummed because he had kind of been looking forward to the movies, but the larger part of him was unsurprised. Something like that was way too intimate, and for someone like you to want to do something like that with a-- someone like him was too much to hope for. He was just happy that you weren’t avoiding him like most others did; he wasn’t going to ask for more.
Except he kind of did want more, and he didn’t want to feel that. The disappointment was already tangible on his tongue and he swallowed it down every time he saw you in the hall, chatting or laughing with someone else. It would ease slightly when you would turn to look in his direction, flashing a smile and waving as you passed by. In class, you started sitting beside him, Bokuto and Akaashi often following behind, and he found his small group of friends growing because of you. Bokuto was loud and brash and treated him like they were best friends, and Akaashi’s quiet demeanor reminded him a lot of Ushijima. Except he was maybe a little more expressive. 
You even started walking home with him, parting ways when you had to go in different directions with a soft smile and a shine in your eyes that he tried not to read too much into. He enjoyed those days, when no one else was around and he just talked. You even knew some of the manga he read, and he lost himself rambling about Jump. When he brought it up once, about how he talked too much, you shook your head frantically. 
“No, no, I don’t mind! It reminds me of Bokuto, to be honest. He can talk about anything and keep a conversation going so easily. I’m kinda jealous,” you said, giving him that satisfied smile again.
He tried to clamp down on the feelings, to keep a tight rein on the emotions that kept trying to pull his eyes in your direction anytime he heard your voice or drew his thoughts to you late at night.
Sighing, he rubbed his eyes, frustrated at the fact that he was thinking of you a-fuckin’-gain. Didn’t he have enough to worry about without wondering what you thought of him? He already knew. You weren’t interested. It was fine.
His phone dinged, the screen lighting up to reveal your name and a text.
You: ‘watcha up to?’ Tendo: ‘nm. studying and suffering. you?’ Y: ‘“studying” sksks what’re you doing tomorrow night by chance?’
Tendo’s heart stuttered in his chest and he groaned, barely resisting the urge to fling his phone out the frost covered window in front of him. For the love of god, could the universe stop fucking with him? Clicking his tongue, he considered telling you he was busy. It would be easiest, and save him the disappointment that was sure to accompany whatever you had planned.
But his fingers were traitorous and typed out exactly what he didn’t want to say. Or so he told himself.
T: ‘nothin. what’re you thinkin?’ Y: ‘well...i’m thinkin about cannibals’
Tendou snorted at that and watched the three little dots appear again.
Y: ‘and u’
He choked and slammed his phone down on the desk, wincing and immediately picking it back up to check the damage. No, no way, he wouldn’t look at it like that. It wasn’t like that. You were just inviting him for the movie marathon in a totally platonic way.
Another message came in.
Y: ‘and me’
You were actually trying to kill him.
--
He could think of nothing the next day but how much he was looking forward to that night. Once he had finally gotten his shit together enough to text you back, the kinks had been worked out. It was almost a no brainer that he would be spending the night. A movie marathon with twelve movies meant an all-nighter, if the two of you could pull it off. He would go home after classes, while away the few hours until around six o’clock, and then head to the address you had given him. 
Unfortunately, he didn’t see much of you that day. You shared no classes, and you had a class when he took lunch, so he ate with Semi and Bokuto that day. Instead you snuck texts to him when you could, mostly talking about how excited you were for that night. It didn’t help, somehow both fanning and soothing his inner turmoil.
“Why do you look like you’re gonna throw up?” Semi asked at last. Tendo was staring at his half-eaten chicken sandwich like it had mortally offended him, and he was curious. 
Tendo jumped, having forgotten the other two were even with him, and shook his head. “Uh, nothin’.”
But Bokuto snickered and leaned in to whisper to Semi, who was already suspicious of his short, clipped answer. Whether he actually wanted to whisper or not, Tendo wasn’t sure, but Bo sure as shit didn’t manage it. “Him and _____ are gonna watch movies tonight.”
Of course you had told Bokuto. And probably Akaashi too. He wondered if they had changed their minds and decided to join you when they found out. It put a rather annoying feeling in his chest, like someone was squeezing his heart.
The other two were still talking in a loud whisper, watching Tendo’s expression shift and flicker through a myriad of emotions. Bokuto was lost, but Semi could recognize them after so many years of knowing the moody red-head, and wanted to laugh. He was so good at hiding his negative emotions, but when it came to sadness or happiness, he was like an open book. And he was being pretty obvious right then.
“Wow, that’s pretty big, Tendo,” he said, watching his friend closely. Tendo flinched, shrinking into his hoodie, and Semi nodded to himself. “Don’t let yourself get so worked up. She wouldn’t ask if she didn’t want to.”
He knew where Tendo’s insecurities were coming from. A childhood fraught with bullies and fake friends and people pretending they wanted him around only to treat him like a freak. Even through highschool it was that way, with a particularly nasty incident involving a girl pretending to want to date him that ended with Tendo refusing to come to school for almost a week. After that, he kept to himself and the volleyball club, refusing to even acknowledge that anyone else might actually want to get to know him seriously.
It had gotten a bit easier when he left Shiratorizawa and those memories and most of those people behind. Growing up with them was what had made it hardest, so surrounding himself with fresh people who didn’t have any preconceived notions and rumors about him had allowed him to open up a little. Even Ushijima, across the ocean in California, noticed a marked difference in Tendo’s demeanor.
Semi just hoped you didn’t do anything to send him spiralling back into his insecurities.
“Yeah, I guess.” 
It was easy for Semi to say that, but he had no idea what it was like, constantly worrying if people were being serious or if they were just waiting to pull the rug out from under him. Even now, he was fighting with himself to just get through the day, waiting constantly for you to change your mind and cancel the plans. Every time his phone lit up with your name, he expected it.
And yet, even after his classes ended and he arrived home, you didn’t. Just commenting that you would be MIA for a while while you cleaned the apartment and went to the store. And when you came back a few hours later, while he was binging Buzzfeed Unsolved videos, his heart leapt into his throat, but you were only telling him what you had gotten for him and to pick up anything else he might want on the way over.
The time couldn’t pass by fast enough while he busied himself packing as slowly as he could. He was already wearing sweatpants but brought a pair of basketball shorts just in case. A clean t-shirt and the other essential items he would need for the night went into a backpack, and when that was done he decided it was a good time to leave.
Unable to help himself, he sent you a text before he left, interrupting whatever you were already typing, the three little bubbles disappearing for a moment while you read his text.
T: ‘you sure you’re alright with this? i don’t have to come over’ Y: ‘?’ Y: ‘do u not want to!’ Y: ‘?*’ Y: ‘we can do this another time if you want’
He was typing before he could really think about the possibility that that might be the best option, his heart thumping harder than he liked in his chest, and he willed himself to take a deep breath. It was just two friends hanging out, watching horror movies together. Nothing more.
T: ‘no i do. was just making sure you were still ok w it.’ T: ‘leaving now to get snacks. your choices s u c k’ Y: ofc hurry up and get over here Y: ‘tf rude’
Locking the door behind him, he slung his bag onto his shoulder and sighed, hoping the night didn’t end as badly as his nerves were telling him it would.
--
Your doorbell rang an hour later, while you were in the middle of setting up your room for the binge. You were hoping he wouldn’t mind, but you didn’t want to make him uncomfortable either. It was hard to miss the nervousness and the way he seemed to shy away from you sometimes, especially when you did certain things like reach out to pull something off his hoodie or read something over his shoulder. But you wanted this to be as normal as possible, to prove to him you were genuine.
You liked Tendo. A lot. 
He was funny and sweet and just as eccentric as you had expected. His jokes were off-color but not offensive, just sarcastic and witty and you giggled every time. The way his face lit up when he heard you sent your heart into a frenzy, and the way it fell and he seemed to shrink into himself a moment later hurt. It didn't feel like a rejection of you but instead a rejection of himself and you wondered if there was any way to help him understand that you didn’t want anything from him but for him to be himself.
Upon opening the door, you found it was only the pizza delivery man, and you smiled with disappointment, until you spotted a shaved red-head coming up behind him.
Tendo gulped when he spotted you in your open doorway, wearing woolen leggings and a t-shirt, exchanging a box of pizza for cash and smiling brightly at him over the man’s shoulder. Waving, he waited until the stranger was out of the way before he approached you.
“Hey,” he greeted, peering down at you before scanning the empty living room of your apartment over your head.
You were unsurprised to see the wariness in his eyes, bleeding into the smile he was forcing on his face. It was your first time seeing a look so fake on him and for the first time you wondered if this was really a good idea. But it was only movies. And you liked Tendo. It would be fine.
So you smiled and ushered him in with one hand, the box perched precariously on your other, and watched him shrink into himself like he always did when he came within touching distance of you until he had passed into the living room. Then he just stood there, peering around with that same suspicious look, eyes narrowed and mouth turned down at the corners.
“So, what do you think?” you asked, pretending you hadn’t seen it as you moved into the kitchen. 
“It’s nice,” he answered, letting his bag hit the floor with a thump. The rest of the apartment was silent save for the heater going, and little by little he felt himself relaxing. “You didn’t have to go through all this trouble for little ol’ me, y’know.”
You giggled at the way he pointed at himself, wearing a cheesy grin as he walked into the kitchen. “Maybe not, but it’s been ages since I’ve been able to do anything like this. It’s as much for me as it is for you.” You punctuated your statement by poking him lightly in the chest, and he feigned pain.
“You wound me. And here I thought you were treating me special,” he moaned, leaning back against the counter and placing his hand over his forehead. He grinned a little hearing you giggle again, and then the pizza box hit his arm.
“I am treating you special, you goof,” you said, opening it up and letting the smell of cheese fill the kitchen. “With pizza. But I think we’d better take it into the bedroom, since that’s where we’ll be watching the movies. Just in case we fall asleep, you know,” you tacked on at the end, suddenly realizing how that might sound. Not that it meant anything, but again, you feared making him uncomfortable.
Absorbed in your thoughts, you missed the faint dusting of pink on his cheeks, clashing marvelously with his vibrant hair. You carried the box down to your bedroom with Tendo on your heels, eager to see your room. It was about what he expected from you-- a messy bed, a cluttered desk, clothes half in your laundry basket and half on the floor surrounding it. The TV sitting on your dresser was already set up with The Hills Have Eyes menu playing, volume muted. You set the box on the bed before smoothing the covers and crawling on.
Tendo hovered in the middle of your room, casting his eyes around nervously, looking for a chair or something to sit on. He definitely did not want to assume, but you patted the bed beside you, giving him a quizzical look.
“I’m not gonna bite, Tendo. Promise,” you said, and though you made it sound like a joke he could hear a line of seriousness at the core. Running his tongue over the back of his teeth, he walked slowly towards you, giving you every opportunity to change your mind, but you just looked impatient until he climbed on beside you. “Alright, now let’s get this started!”
--
Two movies in and the two of you had gotten pretty comfortable. Both of you had stretched out on the bed, but you had decided to lean up against the headboard with your pillows to support you while Tendo had opted to lay on his stomach with his head resting on his arms by your feet.
“Would you stop?” he laughed, pushing your foot away where it had been tapping incessantly at his shoulder. You were just doing it to annoy him, and you giggled at the irritated amusement in his voice.
The pizza box sat empty on the floor by the bed, but you found yourself craving something else to eat. When you hummed, Tendo looked away from the screen, rolling onto his side and propping his chin in his hand to watch you nibble at your lip. It was cute, he couldn’t lie, and the anxiety he had repressed by getting distracted by the movie came back slowly.
“What’s up?”
“I’m thinkin’ about...those chips,” you answered, and made to get up. You had to crawl over his long legs and almost fell off the bed as you gracelessly made your move, knee slipping off the small space between his leg and the edge of the mattress. Sticking your tongue out as he laughed at you, you pranced towards the door. 
“Bring my bags too, would you?” he called, pausing the movie since you had forgotten. It had just started, and you were lucky that he was nice enough to do it, especially when he heard your voice carry back down the hallway.
“Kiss my ass, Tendo.”
He laughed at that, loud enough that you could hear it from the kitchen and over the crinkling of the bags as you rifled through them. In the end, you shrugged and carried them all back down to your room, along with a few drinks. Maybe you wouldn’t have to get up again for a little while.
You shivered when you stepped back into the room. It wasn’t much warmer than the rest of the house, and now your arms and toes were cold. The heater was already set as high as it would go and hardly touched the chill, and you cursed the cheap piece of crap. 
“What, you cold?” he asked, pulling out a bag of the chips he had brought with him. The tab on a can of soda popped and he cursed as it fizzed over onto your blanket. “Shit, sorry.”
“No worries. Yeah, kinda. But the heater is already on full blast. Ugh,” you said, sitting beside him on the bed again. He was still wearing his hoodie, and up close he was warm, making you realize just how cold you were. You were just gonna have to crawl under your blankets because you would never survive the cold like that. “Wait…”
There was a tent on the screen where the movie had paused, and Tendo looked back and forth from it to you with curiosity. There was a calculating look on your face and he wasn’t sure he liked it. “Uh, what?”
There was no way he would agree to it. Way too intimate, right? But it really seemed like it’d be right up his alley, and it would be fun to build, and it would get you warm. It was the perfect idea really.
“Tendo, how do you feel about making...a pillow fort?”
The heater continued to buzz in the corner, overlaid by the slight static from the TV, while Tendo processed your question. His mouth had fallen open, brows furrowed while he stared at you in what could only be surprise, and you laughed nervously.
“Wha-- Seriously?”
“Um, you know what, nevermind. I guess it was a stupid idea. It just seemed like it might be fun and--”
He cut your babbling off with an excited wave of his arms, leaning forward into your space and in the light from the TV you could see a childlike happiness glowing in his eyes. “I’ve never made one but it sounds like fun. You know how to do it?”
Stunned by the turn of events, you nodded. “Well, sort of. Mine have always fallen down after a while though,” you admitted, standing up from the bed again. “We need chairs and books and all the blankets and pillows we can find. And the couch cushions. Probably.”
In no time flat you had everything gathered, with Tendou hovering around waiting for you to direct him. It was a pain to get everything set up, and you ended up using the bed since you didn’t have enough chairs. Moving the chairs all over the place until there was enough room inside and you could put the books down to seal the ‘walls’ was tedious, but it was worth it when Tendo crawled in to set up the cushions to seal the space beneath the bed. After padding the floor with several blankets to lay on, you stuffed the pillows from your bed in after Tendo. When you didn’t immediately crawl in after him, he poked his head out to see what you were doing.
“Well, we didn’t think this through at all, so now we gotta watch the movies on my laptop,” you said as you ejected the DVD from your player. The jingle of your computer booting up played and backlit your face in the glow, and you prayed it wasn’t going to go right into an update. It took a few minutes to start up, so you passed it to him while you plugged the power cord in and ran it into the fort. 
You could hear the clicking of the mousepad and by the time you flipped off the light and crawled in beside Tendo, the movie menu was playing. You also realized just how cramped it really was with Tendo’s lanky form inside. There was just enough space for both of you, but you were going to have to either sit up with it in your lap or you were going to have to set it to the side of you and lay on your sides.
He was tense, staring determinedly at the movie playing and trying to avoid moving too much. Or so you guessed, anyway. Anytime you so much as shifted he would jerk away before relaxing, and you were a split second away from nixing the idea. A part of you was starting to wonder if it wasn’t you that was the problem, but if it was, why had he bothered to agree?
“You’re really warm, Tendo,” you said, trying to break the ice. It was an awkward and clumsy attempt, but maybe you could help him settle down if you showed him you weren’t uncomfortable first?
But that just made him pull further away, leaning against the couch cushions. “Oh, sorry.”
It was already warm and comfortable in your little fort, a light blanket thrown over your knees and warming your toes. And with him beside you, you were actually a little more than comfortable. “No,” you said, waving your hands frantically, “no, like, it’s nice. I’m finally warm.”
It was hard to tell in the washed out light of the laptop, but Tendo’s face turned a very bright shade of pink. He tugged the neck of his hoodie up over his nose and fixed his eyes firmly on the flickering violence, annoyed that he was overwhelmed by something so simple. Why did you have to be so damn cute?
But it did the trick, even if he didn’t know that was your intention. He finally relaxed and stopped flinching every time you shifted, trying to find a comfortable position. Sitting cross legged only worked for so long and Tendo noticed you moving around after a while, when your knee knocked his for the third or fourth time.
“You alright? You’re about to bring the whole fort down,” he commented around a mouthful of chips.
“Ah, well, my back is starting to hurt sitting up, I guess. I wanna lay down,” you said, sounding whinier than you meant to, following it up with a short stretch. It alleviated the pain for a moment, until you hunched over again.
He swallowed his chips and returned his eyes to the TV screen, thinking. On one hand, he wasn’t exactly comfortable. On the other, he had no idea what you were thinking. Did you want to abandon the fort?
But you didn’t say anything, fiddling with the blanket for a few moments as you tried to work up your courage. You damn sure didn’t want to tear down your fort-- it had taken you way too long to put the stupid thing up-- and if you said the idea of cuddling up with Tendo wasn’t appealing, you would surely go to hell for lying. The underlying problem was him. What would he say if you brought up the obvious solution?
You were taking too long to answer, so Tendo prompted you, pausing the movie. “Do you want to just get back on the bed again?”
“No,” you said, and then flinched. You had answered way too quickly and that somehow made him nervous and reassured at the same time. “This is really nice I just…I-know-that-you’re-kind-of-uncomfortable-and-I-don’t-want-to-make-you-more-uncomfortable.”
Tendou stared at you, unblinking as he tried to decipher your breathlessly rushed words. After a moment he laughed, still confused, but he could see the anxiety on your face. “I-- what? All I heard was uncomfortable, I think. But you don’t make me uncomfortable.”
Your heart thumped painfully in your chest as that weight left your shoulders. He was so intuitive it was almost scary. Even still, you had to make sure. “Oh, really? You always seem like...weird around me, I guess. I was starting to think I was pushing too hard, I guess?”
“Sorry,” he said, scratching the back of his head. His elbow brushed the sheet above you and he quickly dropped it. “I’m used to people being uncomfortable around me. Guess it just turned into a habit to avoid people I don’t know. So that I don’t freak them out.”
Not entirely true, given that he enjoyed messing with people, but it was true in your* case. It took you a moment to answer, and he started to worry that he had said too much. 
“You don’t...make me uncomfortable, Tendo. You never did. You’re a weirdo but not...in a bad way,” you said, and glanced at him to gauge his reaction, worried he would take it in a negative light.
But he was smiling, eyes fixed on the paused movie and you bit your lip. He was way too attractive and you couldn’t fathom anyone who thought otherwise. Clearly they were just cowards.
“Well that’s a relief. It would make things pre-tty awkward right now if I did,” he said and bumped your shoulder. It felt like a whole planet was lifted off his shoulders with this revelation and he heaved a huge sigh. “So, if we don’t want to abandon the fort but our backs are about to crumble, what do we do?”
“Uh.” You blanched, having forgotten about that little hiccup. Your idea was embarrassing to think about let alone explain and if you hadn’t made him uncomfortable yet this was sure to.
“Uh,” he mocked, and twisted around like a snake so his face was in front of you, blocking the light from the screen. “Spit it out before we collapse.”
“Just-- um--” you stuttered, and he quickly realized whatever your idea was, it had you flustered. He was just about to start teasing when you picked up the laptop and set it to the side of you. Rolling over onto your side, you tucked your hand underneath your pillow and relaxed, feeling the pain immediately alleviate. “Now you lay down. If you want.”
Your heart was racing in your chest, waiting for him to do something. It was a long, long minute before he finally said anything, and it wasn’t what you expected. Not that you had any idea of what to expect.
“Uh, are you sure? I mean, we could just--” What was he thinking? This was exactly what he wanted and wasn’t it Semi who had said she wouldn’t ask if she didn’t want it? Did he really have to overthink everything? You were in a literal pillow fort watching scary movies with him, offering to let him cuddle up with you, and he still thought you weren’t sure.
“Well, unless you aren’t,” you said, and was that disappointment in your voice? No way.
“No no, no. I’m gonna take my hoodie off first, though. It’s way too warm in here now,” he said, backtracking quickly. Then again, maybe it was just him that was too hot. It was an actual dream come true, and he pinched himself quickly just to make sure he wasn’t asleep. 
You rolled over onto your back to watch him struggle, his arms brushing the ceiling and walls of your warm little haven as he fought the hoodie. Your eyes widened as it finally came free, seeing the colorful swirls of ink covering his arms. “Holy shit.”
“Wha--?” he said, and turned to find you staring open mouthed at his tattoos. “Oh, right, I guess you haven’t seen these before, huh?”
“Nope,” you said, sitting up and squinting to see the undefined shapes in the faint light. It was almost cute the way he held his arm out to you hesitantly, like a child offering you a drawing to examine and praise. Taking it, you traced the lines covering his smooth, warm skin, trying to figure out what they were. But the shapes were undefinable in the faint light. You could make out splashes of blue and purple, red and pink, separated by black lines or faded together to make something. Part of you wanted to ask, but there was something mysterious about not knowing. “I can’t even tell what they are but god, Tendou, I know they’re gorgeous.”
He shivered at your featherlight touches, the feel of your fingers skimming delicately over his skin, and your words caused fire to erupt in his stomach and chest. His tattoos were something he was extremely proud of, one of the few things he had that made him feel confident, and hearing you compliment them made him feel so fucking good. Chucking his jacket out into the room, he returned to your side and the two of you got comfortable.
Pressing play on the movie for the 3rd time, the two of you fell silent. With your head below his chin, it was the perfect position for him to see the screen over you. You could feel the warmth rolling off of him, only an inch of space between his chest and your back, and both of you were well aware of it.
It was nearly impossible to focus on the movie, trying to reign in the urge to just slide back a little bit and mold yourself to him. Nibbling at your lip, you rolled just a little under the pretense of stretching and bumped into him. Just your arm into his, and he didn’t move away.
“You good? Need more space? I can crawl under the bed if you want,” he said, smirking at you. He thought he knew what you were playing at, but your next words confirmed it. It was the oldest trick in the book and, even though no one had ever used it on him, he had seen it at work with Semi and Shirabu too many times.
“Just stretching. I’m still a bit cold though,” you said, facing the TV again.
Suppressing a snicker, knowing damn well that wasn’t what you were after, he offered, “I can get you another blanket, if you need it.”
The silhouette of your shoulders fell, and you couldn’t hide the sigh that accompanied it. “It’s alright, Tendo. It’s not that bad.”
You really should have seen that coming, you guessed. The swell of hope and the crash of disappointment was painful in your chest, and you tried to focus on the movie again, ignoring the tempting warmth at your back. If he wasn’t interested, he wasn’t interested. It was cool.
Which was why you jumped when a weight settled over your side, a snicker filtering behind you as he molded himself to your back. It was slow, hesitant, and you would guess he was trying to make sure you were alright with it. Warmth seeped through your t-shirt and you sighed happily, shimmying back into him out of instinct, and this time you could feel his quiet laughter in his chest.
His arms were so long that he had to fold it in front of you, hand coming to rest just underneath your chin, and when you relaxed so did he. With his chin resting atop your head now, he asked, “Better? This is what you wanted, right?”
“Shut up,” you whined, hiding your face in your hand. It was embarrassing enough without him having to tease you about it. But you supposed it wouldn’t be Tendo if he didn’t make fun of you for everything. It was so easy after that to focus on the movie, now that you had gotten what you wanted. The snacks lay forgotten near your feet, not wanting to move and mess up the delicate balance that was now between the two of you.
It was tenuous and any small movement from either of you could send it toppling in either direction, and you weren’t even sure what it depended on. You knew for sure which way you would like to see it go, but it was just as comfortable the way it was.
Silence fell again until the movie ended, which was the only reason you moved. You could probably have fallen asleep like that, but you weren’t ready yet, wanting to bask in whatever you had with Tendo for a while longer.
When you sat up to change the next movie, Tendo rolled over onto his back, watching you fiddle around with it. Sweat beaded on the back of his neck and he shifted uncomfortably. Seemed you felt the same because you turned to look at him, an apology written on your face.
“Sorry, do you mind if I go change into shorts. It’s actually too warm for these now,” you said, setting the DVD case back on the pile. You felt like you were suffocating in your thick winter leggings now, but if he wasn’t okay with that then you would suffer a little longer. At least until you melted.
“Oh thank god you said something. I was about to die in these sweatpants, I swear,” he answered, fanning his face with his hand. You were pretty sure he was just exaggerating that though. “I don’t mind if you don’t.”
“Nope,” you said, popping the ‘p’, and crawled towards the escape flap, wincing at the sound of crunching and crinkling under your knees all of a sudden. “Oops.”
“Oh those had better not have been mine,” he whined, flashing the light of his phone towards the bag. He groaned, seeing his bag of doritos crushed. He could hear you snicker outside the sheet as you walked away and growled, “Watch it. Yours are still in here, _____.”
You opened a drawer as he finally came out as well and began rifling through his bag, pulling out the pair of shorts he’d packed. When you turned around with a pair of soft shorts in your hands, you found him standing awkwardly in the middle of your room again and laughed. “I’ll go change in the bathroom. I gotta use it anyway. I’ll be right back.”
Your footsteps receded down the hall and he raced to get changed before you came back. His sweats landed on his backpack and he shrugged at himself. What did it matter, so long as they weren’t on your floor?
The sound of the sink reached his ears just as he was climbing back into the fort, frowning at his crushed chips even as he shoved a handful into his mouth. He was so gonna make you pay for a new bag, especially because you had laughed. The door creaked open and the flap shifted, and he almost choked on his chips as he realized just how short your shorts were. Were your legs always that long? And smooth? And pretty? Shit.
“How are your chip fragments?” you joked as you made yourself comfortable beside him again. Your hair fanned out behind you and you gathered it up off the base of your neck, twisting it around so that it spread out above you instead. How the fuck was the back of your neck sexy*? 
He was so screwed.
“Uh,” he replied. Smooth, Satori. Shaking his head, he tried to gather his thoughts and focus them literally anywhere else. It worked. Sort of. “Pointy. You owe me a new bag.”
You scoffed, smiling at the car full of vacationing teenagers on the laptop. “There’s like four other bags in here. Quit whining.”
But he wasn’t giving it up, throwing his bag into the corner and hopefully out of the way of your carelessness. Settling behind you like he had before, he once again left space between you, afraid now of how his body might react if he didn’t. “No, all of them suck.”
You definitely noticed the gap and wondered if he was just waiting for you to take the initiative, so you did. Before he could blink, you were once again molded to his chest, head tucked under his chin and knees folded around his. He tensed, fingers curling into a fist while he willed himself to chill.
His arm came down around you again, but you could feel how stiff he was. When you made to move forward again, to give him space, his arm locked, even pulling you back again and you grinned. With his arm now lit up properly by the light of the laptop, you realized you could see the tattoos more clearly, and began to trace the stars and fish on his arm.
“Aren’t these the spirit fish from Avatar?” you asked, skimming over the white and black koi. It was a watercolor piece, lacking the heavy lines like the ones on his other arm, and you felt him nod against the top of your head. “They’re gorgeous. Who’s your artist?”
“A friend of mine in Miyagi did those,” he answered, watching you continue to trail up his arms. Goosebumps were raising the fine hairs all over his body, your touches so gentle and intimate, your focus rapt. Higher up near his elbow was what appeared to be two jolly rogers, but they weren’t the normal ones. “Those are from a pirate manga I read in Jump,” he said before you could ask, and you smoothed your hand over them before sliding it back up near his hand.
His heart skipped a beat when your fingers curled into his palm, hesitating before you slipped them between his. He was sure you could feel his heart pounding away in his chest, unaware that you couldn’t because yours was racing fast enough that you were lightheaded. Folding his fingers down over your hand locked them together, but you didn’t try to pull away. If anything, you tried to cuddle up closer to him, dragging your hands so that they were pressed to your chest. It was the most intimate thing he had experienced in recent memory and if his heart didn’t slow down it was going to explode.
The movie wasn’t holding his interest and a new question cropped up in his mind, one he had wondered more than once before tonight and he couldn’t figure out why he thought of it now, but he latched onto it because otherwise he really thought he was going to combust. Besides, it would ease some of his insecurity if he got an answer.
“What took you so long to set this up, anyway? I kind of thought you had changed your mind for a while,” he said, staring at the screen. He was sort of taking it in, an anchor point so he didn’t get lost in his thoughts.
Your chest rumbled against his hand when you hummed, and your answer was so mundane and rational that he almost laughed. “Well a part of it was wanting to get to know you a bit before we did this. Didn’t want to invite a total stranger to spend the night, after all. And then it was just a matter of waiting for my roommates to freakin’ leave.”
“Oh, are your roommates actually gone*?” he asked in surprise. He had thought they were just out for the night and would be home-- probably not soon, given the time, but still. “Like, for the weekend?”
You hummed again in agreement, twirling the ends of your hair absently around your fingers. You were locked onto the movie, absorbed as Leatherface chased one of the characters he didn’t care about through the yard. He fell quiet, thinking you wanted to watch uninterrupted, but then you asked, “That’s alright, right? They would have just wanted to join in otherwise and they can’t stand horror movies either, so they would’ve just talked through it.”
Exactly like he was doing, he realized, and his face grew hot. Hopefully he hadn’t already annoyed you. He nodded, responding in a much quieter voice. “It’s fine. Was just surprised, I guess.”
For a while, neither of you said anything and Tendo managed to focus on the movie, feeling you jump and twitch every once in a while at scares you weren’t expecting. Unfortunately, those movements were brushing against areas that he really didn’t need them too and your shorts did nothing to diminish the curve of your ass against him or the slowly growing hard on he was getting. It didn’t help that every time he shifted even a little you would just follow him, as if he wasn’t pinned by your hand holding his.
But shit, if he didn’t move soon he was going to be screwed. The bathroom-- that would get him out of there before he embarrassed the fuck out of himself.
It was too late, though. You flinched and ground your ass back into him and he groaned before he could help it. You froze, he froze, he just really wanted to die.
“I-- Sorry. I’m really sorry,” he said, tugging at his hand to try and escape. He wasn’t sure what he was going to do, but the best option was probably to leave and transfer to a school in a whole different country. He could already hear your words now, an echo of so many times before, the sting of disappointment a familiar feeling around his heart.
“I’m sorry, Tendo. I just don’t see you that way.”
It was because he was a freak with a weird name and creepy eyes and-- fuck. It was high school all over again, being rejected by someone he genuinely thought liked him only to find out they were using him to get to Ushijima or pretending to as a fucking joke, only this time Ushijima wasn’t around and he had really gotten himself into it by agreeing to any of this.
But you were refusing to let his hand go, holding so tight he thought his fingers might break, saying his name until he came back down from his panicked high.
“Tendo, Tendo, calm down, please,” you were begging. You had rolled onto your back, unable to sit up because you were using both your hands to keep him from jumping up and taking the whole fort down. You could see it on his face when he finally heard you, wide vermillion eyes locking with yours while his heart continued to race.
He remained propped up on his elbow, ready to run at the first opportunity, and you almost felt bad for antagonizing him as much as you had. If you had known your teasing was going to get him this riled up, you would have tried a different tactic-- or not tried it at all. Maybe you had pushed too far too soon, and the skittish look in his pretty eyes worried you that you had ruined it.
“It’s alright, Tendo,” you said, trying to keep your voice quiet and soothing. It felt an awful lot like you were dealing with a wary animal-- like a coyote or a fox. When the insistent tension in his arm faded is when you relaxed your death grip on his fingers. 
The sound of the movie was too loud in the unnatural silence between you, and you rolled over to turn it down. When it was only a background buzz, you turned back to him. He was still staring at you without blinking, his eyes devoid of the panic from earlier but now they were eerily blank.
“I’m so sorry,” he said, deadpan. He flinched when you took his hand again, forehead scrunching in confusion. “I don’t understand. There’s no way you-- What are you doing?”
It was your turn to be confused, pursing your lips at him. He sounded so lost-- and wary again-- like a child. For the first time, you wondered what his childhood had actually been like. He talked an awful lot about Ushiwaka and Semi, and the volleyball club in general, but you heard nothing outside of that. It made you suspicious now.
“What am I doing?” you parroted, finally sitting up. Your joined hands fell into your lap and you stared down at them, petting the back of his hand with your free one. “Do you not want me to?”
His words were stuck in his throat, trapped by the lump there, and he swallowed thickly. His mouth felt like cotton, and he shook his head, croaking out, “It isn’t that. I just don’t understand why.”
“Why what?” you asked, gentle amusement in your voice. There was no teasing, no malicious undertones that he could hear, like you were waiting to spring the final part of the joke on him. And he was listening for it. After years of dealing with it, he had learned to recognize it in people’s words and on their faces. The way their lips would curl and their eyes would narrow just before cruelty would spew from their mouths, he knew the tells and you--
Had none.
There was nothing but open curiosity and nervousness-- and hope. A lot of hope swirled in your eyes and he swallowed again. He was just going to disappoint you. If not tonight then tomorrow, if not tomorrow then next week. It was going to happen--
“Why do you like me? How do you like me? I’m-- weird. And you’re--” He gestured frantically up and down at all of you. You weren’t anything he was-- a freak. With freaky eyes and a freaky name and a freaky personality.
“I-- um,” you said, and you couldn’t help but smile. There was clearly a lot of baggage with him, and his questions made that obvious. It was likely too much to unpack tonight, especially when you were still only just getting to know each other. Reassurance was what he needed, and that was something you could offer on the spot. “You’re funny...and sweet and...very good looking. Your eyes are so pretty. Um, there’s also the fact that you’re the only person who would watch these movies with me, which earns you a lot of points, in my opinion,” you said, tapping your lips as you stared up at the ceiling.
Your face was on fire as you listed things off the top of your head, your throat tight with anxiety as you wondered what he would say in response. They were all surface level things for now, but you knew underneath the armor that there was a lot more to Tendo, and you hoped you had a chance to discover it.
He groaned low in his throat, not from disgust but from a deep seated need to believe you meant those things. His forehead met your shoulder, his fingers squeezing yours. He didn’t fight it when you eased back down, following after you without a word, leaving his face hidden in your neck. He was still trying to gather his thoughts and calm his overworked heart. It would be so easy to reject you and be on his way, to return home and beat himself up for letting himself get too close and too comfortable with you when he knew nothing would come of it.
Except something had come of it and he wasn’t sure what to do now. Semi and Ushijima always told him he was too closed off and that someone was going to come around who actually liked him and his ‘weird ass’ and that he was going to lose that chance because of some stupid high school assholes. Was he though? He wanted to believe you, wanted to trust you, and slowly he relaxed, his stress leaving him in a long, tired exhale.
“You mean it?” he whispered against your neck, and you could feel his lashes tickle your skin when he blinked. His arm was heavy where his hand rested on your stomach, fingers intertwined with yours, and you squeezed his hand as tight as you could.
“I do. I like you and really want a chance to get to know you better,” you whispered back, and it suddenly felt like no one existed but the two of you, protected from everything in the world outside by a few sheets and each other's warmth. There would be things to discuss and hiccups to overcome, but you could worry about those tomorrow. In that moment, all you wanted was to prove to Tendo you wanted him.
Maybe it was your words, whispered softly into the dark, or your hand gripping his for dear life, or the way you let him cling to you like a lifeline, or maybe it was a combination, but when he pulled back from his hiding place and found you staring at him, he slotted his lips against yours without thinking. Your lips parted almost immediately, free hand sliding out from between your bodies to tangle in the close cropped hair at the nape of his neck and you used it to pull yourself closer. 
When your tongue poked out to glide across the seam of his lips, he let you in on a breath, tilting his head to deepen the kiss. His eyes were squeezed shut tight as your tongue met his, praying that what was happening wasn’t a dream, and he wasn’t expecting it when you gasped and pulled away all of a sudden.
His eyes popped open and he stared down at you with panic. “What? Did I do something wrong?”
“I-- forgot you have a tongue ring,” you said, and the laughed. “Fuck, that’s hot.”
He blinked like an owl, eyes wide as he processed your words. It wasn’t something that he had ever expected to hear in his life, let alone from the girl he was half-making out with in a freakin’ pillow fort. He suddenly wondered if his life had turned into a Shounen Jump manga.
“Well, so are you,” he said, and leaned in for another kiss.
It was kind of hot to see him confident and you felt heat pool in your stomach, starting to bleed further down as his tongue slipped into your mouth again. He tasted like the root beer he had been drinking all night, and you couldn’t resist toying with the piercing, swirling your tongue around it and listening to him moan against your mouth. 
Your shirt had ridden up your stomach as you moved around, trying to get closer to him, and neither of you realized it until Tendo’s hand smoothed over your skin. He froze mid-kiss, waiting for your reaction, and was unsurprised when your hand grabbed his.
What he didn’t expect was for you to guide it upwards, letting go when you hit your ribs to cup his cheek. Pulling back just enough that he could speak against your lips, he asked, “Are you sure?”
“Frankly, Tendo,” you said, and kissed him again before you continued, “I haven’t wanted anyone this bad in forever. Even if we wake up tomorrow and change our minds, I am fucking sure right now.”
He groaned, letting his hand hike your shirt up a little higher until his hand cupped under your breast. He wasn’t sure when you had taken your bra off, or maybe you hadn’t been wearing one the whole time, but there was nothing impeding his skin from caressing yours. Your breast was so soft in his hand, topped by a pretty pink nipple that he couldn’t resist pinching. You mewled underneath him, pulling your shirt up to uncover your other breast and he moved to that one, doing the same and feeling your nipple harden at his touch.
“Fuck, you’re so pretty,” he rasped, gazing down the length of your body. Your thighs were clenched, and his hand migrated lower, fingertips skimming over your skin.
The heat that was pooling earlier erupted when they met the waistband of your shorts, but he paused, looking unsure again.
“Tendo, I’ll show you how much I want this,” you whispered and grabbed his hand. He was still hesitant, looking at your face as you slid his hand into your panties, and his eyes widened.
“You’re so wet,” he groaned, his fingers gliding over your soaked lips, spreading your slick all over them. His fingers quickly found your clit, circling it and you squeezed his hand between your thighs, hips jerking. “All because of me? I’m flattered.”
Teasing at your soaked opening, he waited for you to balk but you only twitched, panting against his lips before he sunk one finger in, your walls parting easily. You moaned and he swallowed it in a kiss, his tongue filling your mouth again. It wasn’t long before he was fitting a second finger, crooking them up and grazing your sweet spot, his thumb taking over massaging your clit as he pumped them inside you. Your arousal was already high enough that you could feel your orgasm coming on, and you pulled away to announce it.
“T-Tendo, gonna--” You gasped when he forced them in deeper, a mischievous smirk on his face as he prodded your cervix. “How-- fuck, your fingers are so long,” you whined, toes curling.
“Think you can take one more?” he asked, already fitting the tip of a third finger in. But it was only when you nodded, tears pricking the corners of your eyes that he slipped it in. Your teeth dug into your lip before they parted in a soundless cry.
The coil snapped on the first thrust and he groaned, drinking in your face as he tipped you over the edge. No one had ever cum so prettily for him before and he wanted to see it again. 
But only if you wanted it. His cock throbbed painfully in his shorts when he pulled his fingers from your twitching hole, feeling you shudder against him. Examining his glistening fingers in the screen light, he slid one experimentally into his mouth and moaned. “You taste so good, princess.”
You gasped at the pet name, a warmth unrelated to the one between your legs blooming in your chest. He said it was such reverence that you flushed, hoping he’d say it again at some point. Never had anyone called you that before, at least in that context.
When he laid back down beside you, his erection brushed against your leg and he stifled a groan. He was wearing boxers but the friction against his cock was still a pleasurable sensation. Not as much as your hand might be--
Speaking of hands, he nearly jumped out of his skin when you cupped him, squeezing and kneading up the length of him confined in his clothes. A shaky breath ripped out of him, the result of him barely containing a moan, and his long fingers wrapped around your wrist to stop you.
“That’s alright, _____. You don’t have to--” But you weren’t listening and the pressure felt too good. His head fell back, eyes fluttering closed, content to let you literally massage his dick until you started tugging at his shorts. He stopped you more insistently then, pulling your hand away. “Wait a second. Let me get ‘em off since you’re so eager, princess.”
He pulled his shirt over his head first, because it was getting way too hot in there anyway, and then kicked his shorts and boxers off into the dark corner. His cock bobbed against his stomach as he rolled onto his side again, leaking precum already. 
Your hand was soft against his stomach, roaming over the hard planes of his abs and down further, until it wrapped lightly around his head.
And froze.
“What the-- Tendo, what are those?” you asked in a high pitched, startled tone. Before he could answer, you let go and rolled onto your back, exposing him to the light and you thought for sure you had died and gone to heaven. 
It wasn’t just his arms that were covered in ink. His shoulders, chest, and sides were all covered in it as well, swirls and splashes of color interrupted by splotches of black or white or skin. You could hardly make out what the images were in the flickering, inconsistent light, but you recognized flowers and circles, and on his pec you were pretty sure there was a scene of a lake bathed in moonlight. And as your eyes followed the path of colors down, you landed on the thing that had startled you in the first place.
“Those are--” you breathed, taking his cock into your hand again. There was a ball at the tip, covered in precum, and you knew if you traced down, you would find another just below the crown. Further down on his shaft were five horizontal barbells in a row, and you recognized it as a Jacob’s Ladder. “Fuck me.”
“Gladly,” Tendo quipped and pounced. He settled between your legs and tugged your shorts down over your hips, and you had to hold your legs up to let him pull them the rest of the way off. He was too tall to sit straight up without brushing his head against the ceiling, but he braced back on his arms when you grabbed his shaft again. He groaned when you fondled the ball below his crown, shuddering at the intense pleasure. It was one of the major reasons he’d gotten it- to enhance the sensations. But the feel of your fingers gliding over his tip, gathering the precum and nudging the ball was something else entirely. “Holy shit, that feels amazing.”
His voice sent shivers through you, deep and raspy and way too needy. But you were unsure of what would hurt him, so you kept your touches light, feeling his thighs tense under yours, his fingers squeezing your calves as he let you explore. Before long though, he was pulling your hand away, pinning it down at your side. “Can’t keep that up, princess. I need more, if you’re alright with it,” he said, letting his cock settle against your cunt. 
The piercings were warm and pronounced against your folds, and you shuddered when the ball under his head grazed your clit. The thought of them inside you, rubbing all along your walls as he fucked you was too much and you could feel yourself growing wetter, your pussy drooling for it.
“Yes, Tendo, please. I want it, I want to feel them inside me,” you begged, rocking your hips. The stimulation was mind blowing and your walls clenched, empty and needy for him to fill you up. And he would, his cock was huge-- he still had room for more piercings below the ones he had. You had no doubt you would be stretching to take him and you keened in the back of your throat.
“I want you to call me Satori, princess. And I need you to let me know if it’s uncomfortable,” he said, pressing the tip of his cock into your sopping hole. “Sometimes they make it hurt, but you’re so fucking wet I don’t think it will. You really like these, huh?”
You were really just answering his question as you said yes, but a stream of them fell out of your mouth as he pushed the rest of his cock inside you, encouraging him to continue. The stretch was so good, your walls splitting easily for him, and you could feel every ball just like you had imagined grazing against your walls. The ball at his slit rested snugly against your cervix, and you didn’t even realize you were screaming as you came, hips jerking in his hands as he let you ride it out.
He was staring at you with what could only be awe, his mouth slack and eyes wide with surprise. “Holy fuck, princess, did you just cum?”
Your breaths were coming in pants as your mind spun, trying to come down from the unexpected high. It came on so suddenly you had no time to prepare, and tears slid down your cheeks. “F-Feels so good,” you whispered, fingers digging into the blanket beneath you. “Satori, oh my god.”
“Are you alright? We can stop--” he said, but you shook your head frantically, locking your ankles around his back, and he laughed under his breath. You sure were something else. He knew for a fact no one had ever come just from him sliding into them and a swell of pride filled his chest. “No? Alright, whatever you want, princess. Can I move?”
This time you nodded and he was slow as he pulled back, making sure you were okay. You were so tight around him from your orgasm, your walls fluttering with overstimulation, but your back arched when he stuffed himself back in, a breathy moan slipping out of you. Hiking your legs higher up on his hips, he bent over you, gathering your hands and pinning them above your head, lacing his fingers with yours. His lips met yours as he thrust into you slowly, grinding deep and stifling a moan. Once again you were playing with his tongue ring, flicking it as you suckled on his tongue. The fort-- and probably the room-- was filled with the wet slap of his hips on yours every time he drove his cock into you, drowning out the low buzz of the forgotten movie still playing. He was being careful, waiting for you to stop being so sensitive, and he knew you were ready when you arched into his chest and pulled away.
“So good, Satori,” you murmured against his lips, hips rising to meet his. Your eyes were glazed and fucked out, tears still flowing and you could already feel the start of another orgasm, but he was moving too slow. The drag and pull of his piercings had almost all of your attention, the ball at his tip constantly tapping your cervix, making your toes curl with every thrust. “You’re so big, and those-- fuck-- piercings feel so good inside me. I can feel them all everywhere.”
He snickered darkly at that and kissed your cheek. “You wanna feel even better, kitten?” he whispered into your ear, nipping the shell. He could feel you nod against his cheek, nails digging into his hands where he kept them pinned above your head, and then he was letting them go and pulling out of you. You whined, staring up at him in dismay, but he already had your thighs in his hands, prodding you to roll over. “Trust me, pretty girl. On your stomach, just like that.”
It was a bit difficult to get comfortable, but he grabbed a pillow and jammed it beneath your hips before settling with his legs outside of yours. And when you shook your ass, begging him to hurry up, he couldn’t deny you, not when he wanted to be back inside your tight heat so badly.
“Holyshitholyshitholyshit,” you whined, high-pitched and breathless as he finally filled you again. His thighs trembled as he forced himself not to just stuff himself into you, you were so tight. And the way you were crying and shuddering beneath him wasn’t helping, especially when you gasped his given name like a prayer. “*Satori, oh my god.”
If you thought those piercings felt good before, you were in heaven now. Everyone of them dragged slowly over the front wall of your cunt, grinding into your sweet spot and you had to bite the pillow to keep from outright screaming. And he was so, so, so big inside you, but with your legs trapped between his there was nothing you could do but take him. Against your will, your legs kicked, hitting him in the back as you wailed into the pillow, tears streaming down your cheeks in an endless flood. 
He snarled into your ear as he planted his elbows beside your head, plastering himself to your back. “You are so fucking tight, princess. How do those piercings feel now?”
“So good so good so good,” you babbled, circling your hips back on his dick to get any friction you could. The orgasm that had been building came back ten fold just from him hilting inside of you and you knew that if he fucked you like this you would be cumming in seconds. “‘Tori, please move, please please please.”
Your needy begging made his cock twitch and you whimpered as he slowly pulled out of you and pushed back in, intentionally slow to let you feel everything. The pleasure was ebbing and flowing, building and falling because he wasn’t moving fast enough, but you couldn’t bring yourself to ask him to go faster, not when you could feel him so clearly. Every time he bottomed out, he made sure to grind down into you, nudging your cervix with the tip of his cock so he could feel you clench suddenly around him. It never failed to make him moan, your slick walls gripping him so tightly as he dragged himself back out. He wanted to make your pussy his new home and barring that he was going to fuck the shape of his cock into you.
“Tell me what you need to make you cum, princess,” he whispered into your ear. He knew what he needed, but he was still learning what would make you feel good. 
Releasing the pillow from your teeth, the first thing you did was moan out his name again as he buried himself inside you again. You were so close to cumming, your clit throbbing with need and if he even brushed it you were going to be gushing all over him. You gasped as he thrust a little harder than before.
“If you don’t answer me I’ll just keep going like this, kitten. I can go for hours, if you want,” he whispered, warm against your ear. That made you twitch underneath him, and he chuckled. “You like the sound of that? We’ll try it another time. Right now, I need you to tell me where you want me to cum and how I can make you cum, okay?”
His words were dark and sweet and coaxing, and you were sure you had never whined so much in your whole life. “Touch me, please, Satori. I wanna cum all over your cock and pretty piercings while you cum in me, oh fuck.”
Bracing himself on his elbow, he forced his hand beneath your stomach, aided by you lifting your hips, and you whimpered when he finally, finally brushed your clit. It was all it took and you had to bite the pillow again as you creamed all over his cock, whiting out and screaming into it as you shuddered and jerked. He eased you through it, leaving his cock buried inside you while he fondled your clit, listening to you whimper and moan. It was a good thing you had hidden your face because you would surely have woken the whole complex up otherwise. 
He groaned into your ear as you massaged his cock, so tight that you launched him into his own orgasm, cumming inside you as you had asked. He remained still inside of you even after you had relaxed, leaving small kisses all over your hair before he leaned down to rest his head on the pillow. He had fucked you so slowly that he hadn’t broken a sweat, and yet he was still out of breath and panting. His head swam for several more minutes, until you shifted beneath him. But you didn’t move like you wanted him to get off.
Instead, you turned to look at him, a lazy, blissed out grin on your face and said, “Holy shit, that was so amazing. I’ve never cum so many times.”
“So were you. I’ve never made someone cum so many times,” he admitted, and replayed the way you came just because he had filled you. That was something he was unlikely to ever forget. He brushed some hair out of your face before leaning in to kiss you. It was slow and gentle, belying how tired the two of you now were, and he could see you were ready to fall asleep. “Gonna pull out of you now, princess. Need you to stay nice and relaxed, okay?”
You nodded, your eyes closing and winced as he slid from your ruined hole. A stream of cum followed after and he took a moment to appreciate it, allowing a smirk to steal across his face. There was no doubt you were his now, at least for a little while, and he committed it all to memory before gently gripping your shoulders. “We should really get cleaned up, then we can go to sleep.”
You grumbled cutely but let him help you up, the both of you stumbling blindly to the bathroom. Sleepiness was a thick fog, and you got cleaned up as quickly as possible before returning to the room. The two of you stood in the doorway, looking at the mess of nonsense covering the bed, and then you looked at Tendou.
“Let’s just sleep in there,” you suggested, taking him by the hand. He let you lead him over, watching the way your ass swayed as you crawled into the fort for hopefully the final time that night. In the few minutes it had taken him to get in after you, you had already pulled a blanket over your legs and were setting up the next movie to play. Not that you would be watching it, but he understood it was the principle of the thing. This was a movie marathon and it just wouldn’t do to fall asleep without being in the middle of one.
Once he’d gotten comfortable behind you, you rolled over and splayed out across his chest, startling him. He had expected to curl himself around your back while you went to sleep, but now you were tracing what lines you could see on his chest in the thin light. His hand rested on your waist, the other tucked behind his head, and he closed his eyes, comfortable with your warmth and weight in his arms.
“Satori,” you murmured, your hand falling flat right over the picture of the lake. “I really do like you.”
He laughed at that, and you could feel it rumble in your ear, deep in his chest. He was clearly as tired as you were, but you needed to say it. There was something in your half asleep brain that would not stop telling you to say it, and you were in no position to fight it.
“I figured as much, princess. Three orgasms are hard to fake, especially around a dick as big as mine,” he answered, and you blanched for a moment before erupting into laughter. He watched you through narrow eyes, fondness bubbling in his chest, until you settled back down against him. “You’re absolutely gorgeous, you know that?”
“So’re you,” you murmured. The nagging had stopped now that you had said what you needed too, and you were falling asleep quickly. “Don’t be gone when I wake up tomorrow, okay?”
“It already is tomorrow, and I’ll be here. There’s nowhere else I wanna be anyway,” he answered, letting his eyes close as well. With your comfortable weight on his chest and your even breathing mixing with the buzzing of the movie in the background in his ears, he drifted to sleep in no time, for once not worrying about what tomorrow would bring.
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𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐒𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐞
"Bye, for now, puddles."
pairing: percy jackson x child of hecate!reader
words: 6,220
warnings: a little angst, missing a meal, death of a parent, i believe that is all.
timeline: post sea of monsters
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a/n: hi hi! I'm so excited to finally get this chapter to you guys. I'm sorry this literally took a month. i was taking two writing-intensive courses this summer and i was just burnt out. i hope you enjoy it!
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six Part Seven Part Eight Part Nine Part Ten
A grunt escapes you; your contorted body weighs down the top of your suitcase as your damp fingers slip off the metal zipper. The unforgivingly humid weather provokes the heat of your efforts, adding to your discomfort. There’s urgency in your fingers, your frustration growing at each failed attempt to close your suitcase.
“Y/n! Hurry up!” Atticus shouts from outside of the Hermes cabin. As the zipper slips out of your grasp once again, you throw your head back in annoyance, hand coming up to push away wisps of hair that fall on your face. A familiar chuckle comes from the corner of the room, grabbing your attention from the wooden ceiling. Connor sits on the side of his bed; his comic book forgotten beside him as you fussing over your suitcase seems to be more interesting to him.
“It’s not funny,” you grumble, sitting onto your heels.
Connor rises from his bed, shrugging his shoulders with a smirk. He kneels by your suitcase, “It’s kinda funny.”
The corners of your mouth almost curve up, but you stop yourself, opting for a roll of your eyes instead.
“What the hades do you have in here?” The tips of his fingers turn white as he pulls on the little piece of metal. You shift your weight to the corner he works on, but it helps him as much as it helped you earlier.
“My brother’s left a bunch of books behind, so Lou Ellen and I split them up. She’s taking half, and I take the rest. We’ll study them and then exchange notes.” A hum of acknowledgment comes from Connor’s lips as he inches the suitcase closed.
“You guys are a bunch of nerds.” You squint at the other with a playful offense, and he laughs at your hardened features. “I bet you guys study more than the Athena Kids,” he teases.
“There’s a lot to learn,” you say simply, watching as he brings the zipper to the end. He leans back on his heels, and you move to take in the half-empty cabin.
The sight of the Hermes cabin being this tidy was foreign. There aren’t any sleeping bags on the floor; the belongings of your many cabin mates didn’t clutter the walls or the corners of the room as they usually do. It’s funny. There are always complaints of the cabin being too small, but it appears bigger without the mess.
“Will you and Atticus visit throughout the year?” Connor’s expression is hopeful. As the last day of camp approached, Connor’s wishes of a full cabin all year round became more apparent. The shift from a max-capacity cabin to a half-empty one must be a tough transition for social people like Stoll Brothers. If it were you, you’d be counting down the days of everyone’s departure.
You ruffle his brown locks, “we’ll probably stop by for, maybe, spring break?” Connor’s hopefulness begins to sag, and you frown. Spring break is pretty far from now, huh? “Depending on how mortal life treats us. You know, we might be back soon,” you add on quickly, hoping to lift his smile.
Though you wish to go home, you’re dreading all the supernatural activity you’ll have to deal with once you leave. Your father works tirelessly to protect the house, but entities always manage to get in. And if they can’t, they don’t mind hanging outside.
The hopefulness that faded from Connor’s face restores, and he gives you that famous mischievous smirk. “Well, I hope the ghosts bother you guys enough to come to visit early.” His tone is playful, but you can tell he meant some of his words. You laugh hesitantly and nod, rising from your suitcase.
“I’m glad you’re that eager to see us again.”
You thank him as he leans down, lifting the heavy suitcase from the ground for you.
“Y/n!”
“I’m coming!” You tug on the handle, glancing at Connor. “The year will go by fast, and soon this cabin will be bursting at the nails with new unclaimed people. Atticus, Lou, and I included. Anyways, you have your brother. You guys will find something to entertain yourselves.” You nudge him as you make your way outside.
“Yeah, you’re right. You will write to me, yeah?” Connor asks.
“Of course. I’ll send you snacks that you can’t buy at the gas station.” Connor’s arm pumps back to his side, hand in a fist as he hisses a “yes.”
The corners up your mouth hesitantly pull up as you push open the cabin door, finding Atticus and Travis talking on the porch. For the past week, the anticipation of your departure was killing you, but now that it was time to leave, you feel gloomy.
You knew the cause of your heavy heart was the uneasy tone of your going. Living day by day with the intention of moving on was hard. Because every time you look at their newly occupied beds, the sinking feeling in your chest returns. Every time you find yourself wandering in the forest, the memories of your often chaotic magic lessons flood your mind. You remember when Alice misaimed her wind spell, shooting Alabaster far into the trees. While you all rushed to check on him, Alice burst into tears because she was convinced she killed him only to approach a laughing Alabaster who shouted, “Right on!”
Every time you were in the Arts and Crafts center, you remember how you, Sage, and Lou would do Tarot Readings for the campers and how you would argue with the Apollo kids when they insisted your tarot cards are as honest as fortune cookies.
At the armory, you remember how Ambrose ran into James so hard, he stumbled and knocked down half of the shelves of weapons.
In the courtyard, you remember how Ernest, horrified by heights, produced the highest pitch scream he possibly could as he rode a pegasus for the first time under the persuasion of Alabaster.
All these memories, whether hilarious like your spell mishaps or bittersweet like when you and your sibling’s group hugged around Sage when she cried about her abusive stepmother, held a special place in your heart. Because the times where you laughed and cried together reminded you of the genuine bond, the family that was ripped away from you overnight.
“We'll see you guys soon. We should go. Argus will leave without us," Atticus says, relieved that Argus is still waiting for you on top of Half-Blood Hill.
“Have a safe trip, guys,” Travis says, patting Atticus’s shoulder before reaching out his arm and giving you a short side hug. You grab your things, hastily saying a final goodbye, and soon, you and Atticus are trudging up the hill.
Your free hand pats the pocket of your shorts, calming your worry of forgetting the necklace at the cabin. What rests in your pocket is a raw tourmaline crystal, now smooth with the help of Beckendorf, encased in a silver spiral cage.
You and Atticus carry protection crystals all the time, and they help with staying out of the radar of monsters and entities. After hearing Percy’s many stories of monsters bothering him, you figured he couldn’t be too cautious. Then after finding a spell in Alabaster’s many books that can dim down a demigod scent for a while, you decided to make him an enchanted necklace to wear.
You pack into the truck with Atticus right on time. Atticus sits in front of you, chatting away with Cecil as you make yourself comfortable in the back row with Ambrose. You frown; among the three other campers in the van with you, Percy isn’t one of them. Argus peeks into the back, doing a rough headcount. Great, now you’ll have to wait until next summer to give it to him.
Right, when you were going to chastise yourself for not giving him the necklace yesterday when you were done with it, a distant voice shouts, "wait!"
Argus halts in the middle of closing the sliding down and turns around. He shakes his head with disapproval while opening the door all the way, revealing out of breath Percy.
A smile widens across your face as he gets into the back seat with you, and you nudge Atticus’s seat.
"See, I told you we wouldn't be the last ones here.” You side-eye Percy, seeing the corners of his mouth pull up in amusement.
“Some people just don’t know how to get to places on time, huh?” Atticus says, and his eyes flicker to Percy before giving you a wide grin.
“Didn’t sleep in today, firefly?” There is a playfulness in Percy’s voice, and you smile proudly,
“Nope, not today.”
“It’s a miracle,” Percy mutters, loud enough for you to hear, and you scoff. Atticus snickers and nods in agreement.
“We were supposed to gang up on him, not you two on me.” You stick your tongue out at Atticus, and he returns the action.
“It’s more fun making fun of you,” Atticus teases.
“Rude,” you mumble with a slight smile on your face. The two boys chuckle, Atticus turning more into his seat to tell Percy something about a new Marvel movie. Excited voices fill the van as the other boys join in the conversation, and soon they are debating if Batman is really a superhero or just a rich guy in a suit.
You had to admit, as the conversation became more passionate, you were pretty entertained, but as you catch sight of Camp Half-Blood growing farther in the distance, you’re reminded of the ache in your chest. It’s only a temporary leave, but when you return, things will never be the same, and the false hope of your siblings returning has been proven to be foolish.
☆’.・.・:★:・.・.’☆
Following a ghost dog while weaving through the hustle and bustle of Grand Central is almost impossible. Atticus’s hand is latched to the straps of your bookbag as you move through people, trying not to roll your eyes at the way Ambrose turns to bark as if he was reprimanding you for being too slow. Easy for him to say when he can walk through walls and people.
“Track 28,” Atticus reminds you as your eyes find the number written on the tan bricks of the high walls. You make a sharp left towards the entrance of another hallway, ignoring the groans of a grouchy bystander that you may have cut off. The next hallway you enter is a lot less crowded than the main floor, and you slow down your pace.
“Where do you guys live again?” Percy asks as he jogs up beside you. He had insisted on walking you guys since his train departs in the same station.
“Sleepy Hollow.” Percy scrunches his face as if he recalls something, and you smile, waiting for the question everyone asks when you say you live there.
“Have you seen the headless horsemen?” Percy asks, half-joking. A snort leaves your throat, and you look at Atticus, who’s equally amused.
“Oh yeah, plenty of times.”
“Really?” Percy asks, his eyes wide with surprise, and you laugh.
“No.” Your response makes his face drop comedically fast, and Atticus bursts into laughter. “It’s just a story, but there’s a lot of history there, so the place is crawling with ghosts. We’ve met the guy who wrote the story, though,” you mention.
“No way,” Percy squints his eyes in disbelief.
“I’m serious! Atticus and I take walks in the cemetery sometimes. We leave drachmas on the graves of newly passed people, so their venture into the underworld is smooth, but some people like to wander.” You shrug. “Washington Irving is one of those people.”
“Cool,” Percy says with such enthusiasm that it makes you smile. Ambrose turns around and barks again, standing at the golden entrance that leads to the grey tunnel lit with fluorescent white lights where your train waits beside the concrete platform.
“He always rushes us,” Atticus complains, and Harvey lets out a coo that sounded close to a groan as if he agreed with him.
The marble floors turn to concrete as you enter the tunnel. The blue and silver train on your left hums as it sits dormant in its station. Ambrose trots ahead, peaking into the doors and windows to find an empty cart to occupy.
As you follow a few feet behind him, your fingers fiddle with the necklace resting in your pocket. You’re regretting not giving it to Percy earlier because, for some reason, the idea of giving it to him now was more intimidating than if you had done it earlier on the bus.
Ambrose decides on a cart, and Harvey jumps off Atticus’s shoulder, squealing happily as he follows the hound while completely ignoring a worried Atticus trailing close behind.
"I, uh, made this for you," you sputter, the words coming out fast like vomit. Your fingers pull out the crystal necklace abruptly, and you put it in the palm of his hand. "It's black tourmaline. It has protective qualities; good at keeping negative energy, negative auras, things like that. I put a spell on it to dim down your demigod scent for a while, so you catch a little bit of a break. It'll last for a few weeks, maybe a month or two if the spell caught on well."
You bite your lip as Percy studies the necklace resting in his hand. "Wow, really? Thank you, Y/n. This is great.”
Nervous, you shift on your feet under his bright, smiling orbs. "It's no problem. After everything that happened at camp, I think it’ll be good for you to have one.”
Percy nods, his features softening all of a sudden, and he shifts. “Thanks for protecting me,” he says, and you feel heat rush to your cheeks. “Getting rid of that thing became more than you expected. I felt bad that I couldn’t help. Swords aren’t really useful when it comes to demons, huh?”
A small laugh of agreement leaves your lips. “It was nothing. I wasn’t going to let you be tormented by that thing if I could help it.”
An announcement echoes in the hall, reporting the departure of your train in a few minutes. You glance over, catching Atticus, Ambrose, and Harvey with their noses practically pressed against the window as they witness your interaction with Percy. The amused smirk on Atticus’s face makes you roll your eyes; he’s definitely going to tease you when you get on the train.
"I should go.” You face Percy again, catching him securing the necklace around his neck. The stone rests a few inches under his camp half-blood necklace. "Thanks for walking us here. Be careful getting home."
"You too…” he trails off, noticing your brother looking out the window. For a second, he seems as embarrassed as you do and a nervous chuckle leaves his lips. “Your brother is waiting."
“He’s so annoying,” you complain, and Percy’s next chuckle doesn’t sound as hesitant this time. "Well, uh, bye, for now, puddles,” you tease, butterflies dancing in your stomach.
"Bye, for now, firefly."
You both awkwardly wave at each other before you turn around, getting on the train with Atticus. With your gaze fixed on the floor, you plop into the seat next to him. You don’t even need to look to know he is smiling teasingly at you.
"How cute,” he teases, nudging your shoulder repeatedly with his own.
"Ew, shut up.” You shove at his shoulder, your nose scrunching as he flails his arms against yours as if you were fighting. Atticus chuckles and a string of sounds come from your familiars as they join in to tease you, and you couldn’t help but laugh too.
☆’.・.・:★:・.・.’☆
The suburban streets of your neighborhood are filled with the chirps of birds and bugs and the sounds of cars that pass every once in a while. There isn’t much conversation between you and Atticus as you trudge up the hill leading to your dead-end street.
“Gods, I hope we can get inside without being seen,” you manage to say through your heavy breaths, lazily holding on to the handle of your suitcase as it rolls behind you. Ambrose’s nose nudges the back of your knees as if to encourage you, but it’s more cute than helpful.
“There’s no way that we are. Janie and Celia are always sitting on the neighbor’s porch.” You grunt in acknowledgment, knowing that Atticus is right. The neighborhood ghosts are friendly enough, but their company can be annoying.
As if on cue, you hear a delighted squeal from ahead the moment you reach the top of the hill. Two ladies wave their handkerchiefs in the air a handful of houses away.
Celia, the tallest of the two, wears a steel blue dress with a high neckline and a big bow tied on the base of her neck. She has a jacket button closed over her corset with a frill at the end of her sleeves. Her skirt is floor-length and complete, with ruffles cascading down its entirety. And, of course, no one can miss the high-crowned hat decorated with fake flowers, bows, and crimped fabric as it all sits on top of her blonde hair in an intricate updo. Janie, her sister, wears the same style of dress and headpiece only in a burgundy red. The resemblance between the two makes it clear that they’re siblings close in age. They have the same high pinched noses that jut in the air; both of their faces are regal like those in renaissance paintings.
You’ve seen them around for as long as you can remember. They were two sisters who died of scarlet fever a year before their first courting season, which was a big deal according to their constant moaning and groaning about it.
You look ahead, your expression blank as if their high-pitched voices didn’t fill the streets and they weren't racing toward you with their skirts in their hands.
“My word! It’s the end of summer already?”
“Atticus, you’ve grown taller!”
“What a handsome boy! Y/n, your shorts are too short, don’t you think?”
“It’s quite bizarre how such clothing is acceptable these days.”
“How beautiful you’d look in a gown like ours!”
“Where’s Alabaster?” Janie asks, attempting to circle her arm around Atticus’s, but he raises his arm to push back his damp hair to avoid the contact. She scoffs at his rejection and sighs.
“Alabaster was sweeter to us than you guys!” Celia pouts. Your heart sinks a little at the mention of him. Of course, they’d ask about him, and of course, your father will ask too.
Gods! Your father will ask about him.
You had forgotten you’d have to break the news today. These past few weeks, you debated whether or not you should do it by letter, but it felt wrong. It was only right that he’d find out in person.
“We know you can hear us,” Janie huffs.
“I hope dad doesn’t work late tonight. Do you think Grandma will be waiting for us?” You ask. As annoying as it was having spirits follow you, it was a little fun ignoring them when convenient for you. Atticus nods,
“Probably-”
“No one’s home,” Celia cuts in, and Atticus pretends to shoo a bug away to conceal that he paused from her interruption.
“But I don’t think dad is going to take long. He said his last lecture ended at three,” Atticus continues, and you nod.
‘I hope grandma came by to visit. I missed her.”
“I just said no one’s home.” Celia snaps, and you press your lips together to hide your smile.
Atticus sighs. “I know, I’m dying for those moon cookies she makes us.” At the mention of those cookies, your stomach grumbles. You hope Celia was wrong because you’re suddenly craving your grandmother’s cooking and her company. Her funny stories and voice that’s always a little too loud for the indoors never fails to cheer you up. As short and frail as she is, her voice and personality could fill a room.
“Me too,” you say shortly.
“Hello?!” Celia waves her handkerchief in your face, and you persisted in ignoring her. Suddenly, a sound of disgust comes from Janie as she brushes off her skirt.
“Y/n, retrieve this monster of yours!” She squeals as Ambrose bites the fabric of her dress, tugging on it with a growl.
“Damn this dog,” Celia shouts, attempting to shoo him away, but yelps in surprise as Ambrose snaps his jaw shut near her hand. “Get this thing under control! Y/n!”
Your hand comes up to cover your smile even though the two are shuffling behind you and a stifled chuckle comes from Atticus. The sound of Janie’s heels on the concrete becomes louder as she rushes beside Atticus again, and your smiles drop. The sight of your house comes into view, and you tilt your head confused; your father’s car is parked in the driveway.
“You said no one was home?” You say out loud, and Celia gasps beside you,
“Now you speak to me?” She snaps, halting as you approach the fence. She stands tall, hands folded in front of her elegantly as Janie’s expression is gleaming like a child on Christmas. “Your father requested to keep it a secret, so I obliged his wishes. He canceled his last lecture today to make you both a meal. What a lovely man.”
Your hand finds the latch for the white picket fence as you smile at the familiar narrow victorian-style house ahead of you. A path of cobblestone leads you to the brick steps of the small porch.
Your home sticks out from the more modern American houses that surround the area. It’s an antique, a snippet of history, as your father likes to say. The house is a russet brown only because the bricks are so old they’ve darkened in color. The house accents such as the window trims, porch overhang, and columns are copper, and the hipped roof has brown tiles that look like fish scales. Beside the porch, the bay windows from both stories stack on top of each other, and above the porch roof is the dormer that’s a part of your bedroom.
Gods, you’re yearning to be in your room. You just want to pull out your Murphy bed from the wall and bury yourself in your sheets. The idea of being in bed puts a pep in your step, and you are careful to avoid the salt ring that surrounds your house.
A butterfly passes by your face, flying to the bunchberry bushes your father has planted in the front garden. Among the grass, there are various flowers and herbs that your father grows in the summer. You’ve inherited many things from your father, but his green thumb isn’t one of them. He takes his gardening seriously while you can barely keep the cacti in your room alive.
“Enjoy your meal! Come talk to us one of these days. We missed you two!” Janie shouts after you as you make your way up the stairs. You turn around, Atticus smiling at them.
“We missed you, girls, too,” he says as if he didn’t want to admit it. Janie squeals something about how handsome his smile is, and you scoff, amused as you grab the doorknob.
Once you push the door open, you're hit with a rush of deja vu. The history channel plays faintly in the next room as you take in the home you’ve missed dearly.
There are two bookshelves against the wall on your right, a wide ledge with pillows under the bay windows. A messy coffee table filled with letters and stacked with books sits in front of the comfy reading nook, letting you know that your father was recently hanging out there.
There is a brown mahogany staircase that ascends upstairs to your left, and right beside it is the altar for your mother. A statue of her rests in the middle of the rectangle table covered in a black table cloth. On top of it lies the many offerings for your mom. Herb-dressed candles burn beside bowls of fruit, bouquets, a crystal enamel wine glass filled with alcohol, feathers, and other things. You ignore the altar as you put down your stuff beside the door, following Atticus as he takes off his shoes.
“Kids?” You hear your father call enthusiastically from beyond the foyer, and you persist forward into the entryway ahead of you.
“We’re home!” Atticus announces as he enters beside you. Ambrose barks making a beeline to the right and behind the kitchen counter. He jumps on your father with so much force he stumbles back.
“Gods! Why does he look even bigger?” Your father exclaims through a laugh, fixing the round glasses that threaten to slip off his nose as his other hand grips Ambrose’s paw. He yelps in surprise as Harvey's claws rest on top of his head, clinging to his hair to steady himself.
The warmth and smell of home fill your senses as you catch your dad’s gaze. “Well, come here! Are you going to hug your pops or what?”
You rush over with Atticus. Both of you hug your dad tightly on either side of him, and you smile as he presses a kiss on your temples. “I missed you guys so much!”
“We missed you too!” The smile on your face falters as he looks up, scanning the archway as if he was waiting for someone else. You shift, not ready to be faced with the question, and you peer around his body to look at the food on the stove behind him.
Your father notices your interest, and he chuckles. “Come on, let’s eat. You guys came right on time.”
You shuffle through the kitchen with Atticus, making your way to the rounded table at the end of the kitchen.
“Dad, what have you been up to?” Atticus asks teasingly, and your father perks up.
“I've done a lot of things to keep me busy. I volunteered to teach summer classes while you were gone. I’m reading this book with a fascinating perspective of the shift from Paganism to Christianity in Rome. It’s an amazing read; I highly recommend it. Though, I don’t quite agree with it.” Your father hums thoughtfully. “Oh! And I bought gnomes for our garden! And the thrift store had this little house and this old lady figurine! I put it on the porch. I don’t know if you’ve seen it, but she’s the official guard of the door," he declares proudly. "And…” He twists and turns before heading to the bookshelves in the living room area. He grabs something from the shelf then he showcases a cartoon Dobby bobblehead with wide arms. A high-pitched cackle leaves his lips. “It completes our collection!”
“Woah! Where did you get it? We went to three different places for it, and we couldn’t find it.” Atticus matches your father’s excitement, and you snort at the two.
“I went to a mythology convention in Boston a few weeks ago. There was a game stop across the street from the center, and I thought, ‘why not?’ I went in, and I saw this little guy by the register.” Your father is giddy as he nudges the head and watches it jiggle in his hands.
You think of what your grandmother’s reaction would be if she saw all the things he bought on his trip to the thrift store. She’d definitely complain. She always said that even growing up, your father had a liking for knickknacks. On your shelves and counters, there are always little trinkets lying around. It even extends to the walls, a variety of paintings and diagrams are neatly hung beside each other. From the state of your house, it’s clear your father is a maximalist in its purest definition.
“Wow! That’s awesome!” Atticus reaches out his hand for it as your father brings over his entire collection of Harry Potter bobbleheads, the toys huddled in his chest before he places them on the dining table. “The whole gang can hang out with us for dinner.”
“I hope they like pasta,” Atticus comments, lining them up as your dad retrieves the pan of food.
Your stomach grumbles at the sight, and you’re quick to serve yourself as Atticus and your Dad talk about anything and everything. You guys discuss what your grandmother has been up to, how your father’s classes were going, which led your father to ramble so much he formed a tangent on top of another. The conversation was going so well that you were sure he wouldn’t ask about your summer, but you had assumed too soon.
“So enough about me! How was Camp?” Your father chirps, and you shift in your seat.
You smile with confidence to hide the wariness you felt. “It was great!” You figured if you keep your answer short, you could move past it quickly.
“Yeah, the usual. Fun as always,” Atticus adds.
Your father’s eyes flicker between the two of you, and the first thing he notices is the way your smiles don’t reach the rest of your face.
The clanging of metal utensils on glass plates fills the room as the both of you fixate on your food but neither take a bite. The camp was never a touchy subject. The sudden unwillingness to speak about it makes his eyebrow cock up in suspicion. His eye averts to the empty dining chair beside you and the dinner place settings that remained untouched. Alabaster was supposed to join your return home. At least, that’s what he had assumed.
“Did Alabaster decide to stay at his foster home?” There’s caution in his tone, and he’s taken aback at how both you and Atticus tense up. The clings of metal halt abruptly, and slowly, you move to glance at your father.
“Dad, something happened at camp this summer.” Now, it was your turn to have a tone laced with caution. Alabaster lived with you for months and quickly became a part of the family. Your father saw him as his second son, and you were afraid to break the news that he may never see him again.
“What happened? Did he get into trouble?” You frown at the sudden edge in his voice. Atticus shifts beside you,
“He took the others to go fight for the Titan Lord.”
“What?”
“Mother came to speak to him and told him that it was best to fight for the other side since their chances are better,” you say slowly. “They left at the end of July. Only Atticus, Lou Ellen, and I stayed at camp.”
Your father’s expression darkens, grief written all over his face. “And you haven’t seen them since?”
You shake your head, not wanting to delve into the details. “I don’t think we’ll be seeing them again in a while and not in the best circumstances.” Your father nods, understanding the implication in your words. “Mother promised that she’d take care of them if they fight for the other side. I didn’t want to go; it wasn’t right.”
“That must be why everything is rotting,” your father mutters more to himself. You furrow your eyebrows.
“Rotting? What’s rotting?”
“Our offerings to your mother,” he clarifies. “All the fruit I leave on her altar goes bad in a few days. The flowers wither quickly too. The garden, in general, hasn’t been doing well either. I didn’t understand why.”
Your focus returns to your plate. Suddenly, you weren’t that hungry anymore.
She must be angry, you think to yourself. A part of you wanted a sign from her to let you know if she was bothered you didn’t join. When the sign didn’t come, you assumed she didn’t care; that, in a way, you were dead to her. It didn’t dawn on you to ask how the altar or the garden your father dedicated to her was doing.
“Can I be excused?” You strain, your face a little hot, and you’re not sure if it was from your anger or from the tears you’re blinking away.
“Of course.” The warm smile on your father’s face fails to budge the dread you’re feeling. “You can be excused as well, Atticus.”
You miss the way your father and Atticus exchange looks as you stood up. There wasn’t a verbal agreement, but Atticus stands up tall, determined to make you feel better. He trails behind you, and suddenly, he slings his arm across your shoulders. “You know what’s one of the things I missed at camp?”
“What?” You ask, trying to ignore the heavy feeling in your chest.
“Beating you at Tekken,” Atticus teases. Your lips curve slightly; his playful nature manages to brighten up your mood a little bit. “Let’s play. I’ll go easy on you, but I’m sure you’ll still lose regardless.”
“You’re on,” you nudge him, and Atticus chuckles, walking ahead of you and up the stairs. Your hand grips the railing, and you walk up a few steps before halting, and your eyes find the front door.
“You don’t get it!”
“I don’t.” You shrugged, amused at the way Atticus’s eyebrows knitted in disbelief. He ignored you, grabbed the remote, and played the Star Wars movie again. You groaned, seeing the slanted letters move up the TV screen. “Atticus! I can’t watch this!”
“Why not?!”
“Well, first off, my dyslexia won’t let me read that quickly, and if a physically written prologue is needed before a movie… it’s not a good movie!”
“How dare you!” You threw your head back as a laugh bubbled in your throat. The exasperated look on his face was too funny. You had no desire to watch these movies, and you figured if you bothered him enough, he’d give up trying to show them to you. The shrug of your shoulders made him scoff. “Just watch it!”
A huff left your lips, and unwillingly, you returned your gaze to the screen. Suddenly, a hollow knock came from the front door.
“It’s late,” you said, but Atticus was too caught up in the beginning battle of the movie to pay any mind to you. Rarely did you get visitors, definitely not past midnight on a Friday. Cautiously, you rose from the couch and moved toward the door.
Rain erratically hit against your curtain-covered windows; the wind and cold made the walls around you creak as they adjusted. Whatever waited for you at the door, you just wished it was a person, not a weird ghost or monster. Your finger latched on the side of the curtain, allowing you to peek through the glass of your front door.
A gasp left your lips. Alabaster, soaked from the ruthless rain outside, was the last person you expected to see. But even though you didn’t expect him, you had an inkling as to why he was here.
Hastily, you unlocked the door and flung it open. “Al?” You sputtered; his green orbs were surrounded by tired eyes and puffy skin.
“He died this morning,” he strained. Your expression softened, and before you could say anything, Alabaster stepped forward and hugged your shoulders tightly. The raggedness of his breath, the shutter of his body, sent your chest a weight of sorrow. You couldn’t imagine being in his shoes and losing your father to a long battle with cancer at 14. Tears threatened to spill from your eyes; the person you looked up to the most was breaking down. You never thought he would need your help for anything, but it seems that you were wrong. “I’m sorry. You guys live the closest to me, and I didn’t know where to go-”
“It’s okay,” you interrupted. “Oh, Al, I’m so sorry,” your voice cracked, hands rubbed his back as a sob left his lips. A creak of a floorboard caught your attention, and you turned to see a confused Atticus emerging from the living room. With a sad look, he understood what happened, and soon his expression was mimicking yours.
“I’ll wake dad and get clothes,” he said, then rushed upstairs.
Your father didn’t even hesitate to help Alabaster, opening the doors of your house to him. In his greatest time of need, the three of you stood beside him, and overnight, he had a place in your home and in your heart. The three of you spent so much time playing video games, getting into trouble around town, learning magic. All the good times you and Atticus shared with him, were they really worth throwing away to fight with Kronos? You realize now that his departure was never only a betrayal to the camp but to you, Atticus, and your father, and you couldn’t help but think perhaps, you guys didn’t mean as much to him as he meant to you.
A shaky sigh leaves your mouth at the thoughts persistent to ruin your mood. The desire to leave camp was to avoid all the things that reminded you of your siblings, but now that you returned home, you realize that running away isn’t as easy as you thought.
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peachyyykid · 3 years
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Deceivers Ch. 1 - Deceiver
Hello everyone! I’m kinda new to tumblr (not counting the time I spent on here when I was 14/15...), and I wanted to post my fanfiction on another platform besides wattpad and ao3. 
So, this is it. This is not my first fanfiction, but the first I actually want to finish! It’s going well on ao3 and that’s really motivating, so I decided to see how it would do on tumblr. I feel like writers are appreciated here haha. 
Anyways, enjoy the first chapter and please let me know what you think of it! Do comments exist on here? idk lol. I might do requests in the future too, let’s see about that once I get the hang of this website.
Word Count: 2706
Chapter 2 - Havoc
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You slowly opened your eyes when the curtains were pulled away from the large windows in your room, shuffling in the sheets and mentally cursing your maid for waking you up. But the poor girl was just following your father's orders, so could you really blame her?
"Good morning (y/n)-sama!", she said cheerfully and gently placed a metal tray on the bed next to you. "You will meet Daku-sama today, so I was instructed to bring you a strengthening breakfast."
As usual, the breakfast looked mouth-watering. Fresh fruit, local eggs and freshly baked bread piled up on a very shiny porcelain plate.
"Thank you, Hina", you said, cutting the bread with knife and fork, although you just wanted to use your hands like normal people. But Hina, the good soul, would probably snitch on you to your parents, expressing concern about your manners and such. Especially with your upcoming and inevitable wedding in mind... which you didn't want to think about right now. There would be enough opportunities throughout the day.
While eating your breakfast as ladylike as possible, you thought about your brother. You wished he could join you when you meet your future husband, but he was far away, working his ass off. Him and you had always shared a special bond. He was almost your only playmate in your childhood, despite being five years older, and now he was your connection to the big and exciting world outside of your small island.
Defining you was easy: Not a princess, but at least the daughter of a grossly wealthy businessman of noble descent, home schooled, never out of sight and promised to another grossly wealthy son of noble descent. Basically, your whole life was planned out for you before you could even speak your first words. It all took place on the small island you were born, and it would end on another small island. The only thing outstanding about you was your knowledge about medicine, mostly self-taught because your parents were very reluctant about you concentrating on something other than whatever concerned you as a noble lady. You begged them for six months, promising that it wouldn't get in the way of your important studies and that you just needed a hobby, and when you proved them right, they agreed. Which totally did not mean that they liked it, but they didn't want to deprive you of your passion.
There was another passion though, but it was your little secret. When your brother left your little island for the first time when he was fourteen to join the marines, you wondered what else the world had to offer. Was there something your teachers and parents didn't tell you? You couldn't really fathom why your brother would leave this beautiful, tranquil place to sail the rough seas, where big monsters with scary teeth waited for travellers, or pirates lurked behind every corner. The only thing you knew about the marines is that they kept the seas safe and that they were really admirable people, who only had good intentions. So you deemed your big brother a perfect fit for them.
When he came back home for the first time, he brought you a gift: A small book about a brave marine, who saved people and fought bad guys, a hero to everyone. You browsed through the pages every night, and at some point, you took a pen and crossed out the hero's name and put your brothers' above. Tenmon, your big brother, was your hero from the start anyways.
Every time he came back, he brought new gifts and helped you hide them from your parents. He didn't just give you fictional books, but also encyclopaedias and information about geography, marines and the government, newspapers from different islands and pictures of his comrades, big cities, impressive ships and weird animals. It was like heaven. Suddenly you could know for sure that all these things existed, and you longed for new experiences more and more.
You also asked Tenmon to teach you how to fight. He was really unsure at first.
"(Y/n)... What would mother and father say? You are a lady after all..."
You protested heavily and promised that they would never notice. You also convinced him that it could only help you... probably, in case of a pirate attack. Of course he had told you about the enemy. It was scary. Just the whole concept of "pirates" was scary. Blood lusting murderers who would do anything for a treasure or to protect their honour. Leaving their friends and comrades behind to save their own skin. Raping and torturing however they pleased. Killing civilians, killing in general. Even the slightest possibility of encountering a pirate scared you to the core and it seemed like a good idea to be prepared. You never wanted to be touched by these gross lowlifes.
So your brother did indeed teach you. You tried basic rules of combat but you couldn't really practice since a bruise would have been noticed immediately. Instead, the two of you focused on daggers, knives and even swords. Over the years you really improved your swordsmanship, but knives would always be your weapon of choice. Have you ever had the chance to actually use one other than spreading butter on your bread? No. Which was a good thing, probably.
When he was gone, your parents ensured that you grew up into a fine lady. Stuck up people taught you dining etiquette, how to walk properly, how to speak to people, and all that. At least you got the chance to study medicine in your free time. But you knew that you would need to be a good wife eventually, and that was your main focus. You never questioned your parents, or the plans they had for you. The most important thing to you was to know that they loved you and you loved them. You didn't know anything else and it was just how it always was. Your parents themselves had an arranged marriage and they truly loved each other. Your aunt had an arranged marriage and her husband was wonderful. Surely you would have good luck with your husband. After all, Tenmon's stories were just that. Stories. Nothing you would ever experience. So instead, you accepted your fate and focused on what was expected from you.
"(Y/n)-sama?" Hina's voice startled you and you came back from your daydreaming.
"Please excuse me, I will go and prepare your dress in the dressing room. Would you mind being there in fifteen minutes?" You nodded and she left, closing the door behind her. You wanted to tell Hina to loosen up, to talk to you in a more relaxed way, but why bother?
With a long exaggerated sigh you fell back into the mattress. Today was the day you would meet your fiancé Deku-sama for the first time. On the pictures your parents gave you he looked like a nice man, but very average and insignificant. His face wasn't recognisable at all. Swept back, blond hair, empty grey eyes and a thin, expressionless mouth. At least he was roughly your age, not some old geezer. Your mother was so thrilled about him, she thought he was a very handsome and well-mannered young man, strong and charming and she said she couldn't wait to meet her grandchildren. Nobody had ever asked you if you even wanted children, but why would they, when it was your purpose to continue your husband's lineage.
Kinda fucked up if you think about it, you thought while your feet carried you to your bathroom to get ready. He would arrive in three hours, with his parents and probably his whole entourage. Until then, Hina had enough time to dress you up like a pretty little doll.
The banquet that your family's staff had prepared was very elaborate, with a whole roasted pig in the middle of the table. Deku-sama was the exact opposite of the food: bland. His whole aura was boring, there was no spark or spice between you two. He seemed dull and way too proper. He didn't make you laugh once, he cracked some lame jokes and you giggled behind your hand out of pure politeness. Sometimes you thought that he looked slightly annoyed, but it was gone so quickly that you classed it as imagination.
He kept boasting about how he helped his father with the business and how good he was at horse-riding. You didn't really care, it also didn't help that he showered you in compliments about your appearance. Sure, it was nice to hear, but every time you tried to talk about your determination, your successful studies or how interesting you thought medicine was, he interrupted you. You just got the feeling that he simply didn't care, and it was so hard to hold back. You tried to zone out (Tenmon told you about a marine method once that helped withstand torture by putting your mind in a special mental place) and it worked. If Tenmon was there, you would have sneaked out together instead to laugh about his shallowness.
However, your parents loved him. They didn't even notice how quiet you were the whole time and probably mistook it as being shy around such an amazing man. "So, (y/n) my dear, would you mind showing Deku-sama our garden?", your mother smiled, and you nodded. Maybe he just wanted to impress your parents and wasn't actually that bad. The chance to talk to him alone seemed worth taking, considering you'd have to spend the rest of your life with him.
Stupid (y/n). He did not stop talking about himself and you were too worn out to interfere, at this point you didn't care anymore. Just put me in shackles already but please shut up. In your head you told him to tie his tongue into a knot.
Finally, once you were out of reach for both your parents to possibly hear you, he turned to you and stopped talking. His eyes had changed to the annoyed gaze that you thought you had imagined earlier.
"So, (y/n)-chan, I presume you are untouched?"
You stared at him, slowly blinking. Where the fuck did that come from? Just a second ago he was talking about his beloved horse Peter. When you didn't reply, he furrowed his brows.
"Quit staring, it's rude and doesn't suit you. Just answer my question", he spat at you.
You started stammering, not really knowing what to say. Of course you were, you hadn't even spoken to a boy before and that weird purity concept was hammered in your head as soon as you could walk. But did he need to ask that so bluntly?
"What on e-... I mean, yes, I am untouched."
This was just so uncomfortable, you couldn't even think of a witty comeback. He showed a pleased smile and you looked back into the distance., cheeks flushed with embarrassment because you had never talked about such private things with a man.
"Let me make a few things clear, (y/n)-chan", he said rather coldly, and a gust of wind swirled the hem of your dress around your ankles. He sat down on a bench and patted the spot next to him. It was silent for a few seconds, you could only hear the wind and your rapid heartbeat. You just wanted to leave without listening to the most likely stupid stuff that he would say, but your feet betrayed you.
"There are certain rules that you must obey. One, if I speak to you, you drop everything immediately to give me your undivided attention. Two, you answer when I tell you to, and you will never raise your voice against me. Three, no stupid talk about medicine or politics. Girls can't be doctors and they are too emotional for politics. I decide about my family and my money. Four, we will have four children and one of them must be a boy. Five, we will have intercourse at least once every evening. You must please me whenever I desire. Your duty as a wife comes before anything else."
There it was. The deceiving little bastard went all the way to impress your parents to ensure that they deemed their daughter in good hands, and once it was clear that you would be his, he showed his true colours in private. You were glad that you were alone with him now, at least you knew now what your life held for you. Even if you tried, your parents wouldn't back down, and they wouldn't believe you. During the banquet it became evident that Deku-sama had wrapped them around his little finger.
So the man you were supposed to marry, who you would have to spend the rest of your life with, said shit like this. The urge to choke the living hell out of him was hard to hold back. You couldn't do anything. There was nowhere to run on this island, you couldn't sail a ship and you didn't know anyone who could help you. You could send a letter to your brother but what was he going to do? Ask his admiral to make a detour to pick you up? That surely wouldn't work and your parents would still retrieve you. They couldn't lose their face in front of your father's business partner. Your only option was to at least try to speak up. Just show him a little piece of your mind.
You stood up and relaxed your fists that you had clenched accidentally during his speech. "Deku-sama... With all due respect, have you lost your mind?"
He gasped dramatically and stared at you with angry eyes. "(Y/n)-chan! You- You cannot speak to me like this!"
You interrupted him with a sigh.
"For the sake of my parents I will be a pawn in your little plan, but I will cut my own throat if you forbid me to speak of my own accord. And please you? Don't expect if you can't give back. So either you call off the wedding tonight or you accept the fact that you can't control me entirely. This is an arranged marriage, not a slave contract. Decide if you want a wife or a puppet. Goodnight."
He looked at you dumbfounded, and you turned on your heels, leaving him on the bench as raindrops began to fall from the sky. When you came back in you faked a bad stomach ache and excused yourself into your room, politely saying goodbye to Deku-sama's parents.
While you stared at your ceiling calming yourself down by listening to the rain, you prayed to the gods that he didn't want a foul-mouthed wife with a little bit of independence left, but your parents later informed you full of joy that Deku-sama couldn't await the ceremony. An arranged marriage never really sat right with you, but this was the fucking cherry on top. You decided to make a calendar to see how long he managed you without resorting to different measures.
A few days later you received a letter from your brother in which he congratulated you on your official engagement. You knew that he wanted to say so much more, but your parents wouldn't have appreciated that. And so, another week passed, and the day of your wedding was right around the corner. Your brother couldn't make it before then and would meet you on Deku-sama's estate, which made you sad. You wished you could have had some alone time with him to tell him about your worries. He was the only one who would understand. Not even Hina believed you, "such a fine man wouldn't say such horrible things", she had said before comforting you, telling you that it was normal to be nervous.
Your things were already packed two days before you would board the ship to your new life. Everything would end on this day. Joking around with Tenmon, him teaching you tricks with the dagger, your medicine studies, and relaxed dinners with your parents. You wondered if Deku-sama would allow you to visit your parents and your old home.
Just in case, you decided to take one last walk on the island to the nearby forest and the coast. From the path to the forest, you couldn't see the ship with a blood stained, black jolly roger that steered towards the beach at full speed.
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abstract-crossverse · 3 years
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How bout a Marshall x nature-loving reader? They, the reader, loves the outside. Flowers, vines, moss, the stars/moon, etc. But, they have social anxiety, so their current only lover/friend(up to you) is Marshall
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"We Met In The Garden" [Marshall(GW oc) x Nature-loving Reader, headcanons]
When he first saw you at the entrance of the maze, the air was knocked out of his chest
You were wearing [clothing of your choice] with some nature-related accessories (vine gloves, leaf hair clips, whatever you want)
And the way you were looking around at the bushes and overall garden, with big fascination and awe for who took care of the garden so well
And even complimented the gardener out loud??? O-ho-ho, call me Santa, cuz you already have him around your fingers
Unfortunately for him, he's also a hopeless romantic—which is one of the reasons he stays in the gardens so much—and fantasizes a lot about having a lover a LOT
Girl, guy, outside or in-between, as long as you're a good partner, he doesn't care
I'm not self projecting I'm not self projecting I'm not--
He was tripping in his little world for a while cuz when he tuned back in, you were about to open the gates to the nightmare
Not wanting to lose yet another great person to this world, he called out for you
"u-uhm- excuse me, Mx.! Mind if you stick around for a while longer?"
You looked back to see the stone statue stepping down from his pedestal, anxiety growing on your chest, you accepted his request seeing as he meant no threat to you
For the next few hours you got to know Marshall better, gentle and patient with you, not to overwhelm you with, well, his very being and the social activity you two had going on
You spent your time walking among the garden, he told you about every plant you took fascination in, along with memories of his related to those, and if you were comfortable, you could tell him of your memories related to the plant
You stargazed too, he has a very vast knowledge of stars and constellations and stuff, he used to be an astrologist back in life so be ready to hear him ramble about constellations and the moon
Eventually, you got comfortable and dropped questions and small facts you knew now and then, and he was more than happy that you engaged
You guys were having so much fun that you didn't even notice some of the other statues spying on you, Henry and William telling everyone to keep away from you and Marshall while Apollo and Colin kept Bennet from jumping at you
But he knew you had to complete the nightmare to leave, but he didn't want you to get hurt by his comrades or leave him
So he kindly but kind of threatening told the other statues to back off and kind of... Uuuuh- how do I say this- fucking YEETED APOLLO AND MAXWELL INTO A FUCKING WALL AS A WARNING
Ofc he would never do such a thing to the ones just as Henry, William, Ezekiel, or any of the good ones but he's not afraid to suplex a mother fucker into space for you
They did as they were told, but couldn't also disobey Malak so they just eased up on the chasing, staying still for longer after you took your eyes off them and stuff, yeah
Eventually, you got the ring and all that boss fight that happens in the enhanced version happens and you're still alive
Marshall helps you dodge everything once you're out of the main maze, and escorts you to the portal as the giant statue behind the manor throws axes at you both
He gives you one final hug and a kiss on the hand, a farewell, and sends you off
You hand over the ring piece to Bierce and goes to a corner of the room in sadness
Bierce actually feels guilty for once and tells you the nightmare didn't actually collapse, she just said that so you'd get out faster
You're able to visit Marshall in better terms now that Malak's focusing on having other monsters after you
He couldn't be happier about that
Bonus:
General Marshall dating hcs
This man has not received a single compliment nor praise in his life, so give him some and you have a Marshall puddle on the ground
He's kinda awkward on pda aside from arm hooking, so if you hug him or just, gently hold his hand he WILL melt and this is a threat /j.... /Hj
Once he gets the hang of pda, he'll always do it as long as you let him and are comfortable with it
Tends to ramble a lot, either to anyone willing to listen or to himself, so prepared to be bombarded with info about his passions if he gets into a rambling session
Please just listen to him, no one ever bothered to listen so seeing you actually interested or just listening to him makes his non-existent heart feel fuzzy
Even if you have no idea of what he's talking about but just like the sound of his voice
Since he has a bit of moss growing on him, he avoids touching you too much without his gloves so you don't have to touch moss
Please help him take some of the moss he can't reach off, its kind of uncomfortable and he wants to hug you
Can't take off the moss on his hands though, it's inside the cracks and it grows fast once you try to take it off
Maybe you can take that off with can REALLY get in those cracks
He likes kissing you, rock doesn't really feel nice against lips so unless you're willing to kiss him on the lips, then he'll give you forehead kisses and related
He loves you a fucking lot, is willing to fight the world for you, and will NOT hesitate to suplex anyone if they even try to touch you
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