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soulangel · 4 years

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Ateez Reaction to Crush/Best Friend Kissing Him While Drunk

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Honestly he didn’t expect that you went out this late in the night with your girl friends. He knew you were gonna hang out for a little while, but this late? And with other people? He thought you were best friends! Cue the pouty face to start until you started texting him….a lot.

“You know I love you right? ‘Cause you’re my best friend and I’ll tell you anything! Which remins md tp twkl ypi. Your the mpst cutest and adorwblst guy I know!”

It took him a few minutes to decipher what you were texting him since you seemed really drunk at this point in time. Which reminds me to tell you. You’re the most cutest and adorablest guy I know!”

Now, yes he should probably go and grab you from the bar before you make too much of a fool of yourself, but he also wanted to respect your space and allow you as much fun as you could possibly have with your friends outside of him. You two always hang out with or without them. You needed a girls night out.

“Are you doing okay? I can come get you if you need me to.” He replied quickly, pacing the room the moment he sent the message while waiting for your response.

“This is Y/F/N. Please come get her. She’s starting to slobber on her drinks and won’t shut up about your cuteness.” Your friend sent from your phone which caused him to immediately grab his keys and head out the door.

Seonghwa

Once he reached the club the friend had told him you were at, he walked into the crowded area and sighed softly, seeing you practically dancing on the tables with how happy and drunk you were. Y/F/N was pulling on your arm, begging you to get down while looking around the both of you in worry. Seonghwa was shaking his head as he appeared next to her and rested a hand on her shoulder. “How long has she been at this?” He asked with a small sigh.

Y/F/N groaned and rolled her eyes. “About the moment I text you to come grab her! It was like she knew you were coming!” She whined, throwing her arms around and pointing at you in exasperation.

Seonghwa was laughing softly before he gripped onto your wrist to get your attention. “Hey! Whatcha doing heeerrrrre?!” You squealed, sliding off the table to tackle him into a hug.

He sighed and smiled while holding your frame against his. “I’m here to take you home Cutie. Let’s go.” He said gently, yet loud enough you could hear him over the loud music and yelling of people.

You could only grin at him and latch onto his arm so he could lead you out. Luckily he had already talked to your friend to grab your belongings for you. “You’re so warm.” You mumbled, leaning yourself against his arm while you both stepped out into the night air.

Before you knew what was happening he had you in his car and you were both on your way to the apartment you shared. You couldn’t seem to take your eyes off him as he drove, a small smile on your face. ‘I wonder what it would be like to kiss him?’ You thought to yourself before seeing the smirk on his face.

You blanched at realizing you’d just said that thought out loud and smacked your forehead drunkenly with your palm. “Ignore that comment. I’m so drunk right now.” You slurred, giggling a little falling backward against the seat.

He’d managed to park the car during your embarrassing moment and turned to face you with his smirk still in place. Without saying anything, he slowly leaned forward until he was hardly a centimeter in front of your face. You could feel his finger brushing against your chin while staring into your eyes before you felt him press against your lips. With a soft and gentle kiss, he let his hand release your chin to place it against your neck, his thumb stroking your cheek. ‘If this is how to get him kissing me, I’ll just get drunk more often…’

“You will not get drunk just to kiss me. Nice try Y/N.” You heard him mutter against your lips the second he let you go.

You could only stare at him with a pout.

Hongjoong

He regretted this decision the moment he saw you dancing with your friends in the club. You had to have known what you were doing, even in your drunken state and it wasn’t fair! Sure you’d both tried seeing if something else could happen between you two, but it was a very, very slow process. As in you both hadn’t even kissed yet! Or even been out on an actual date! He felt terrible about it too because of how busy he was with schedules to keep and people to please and look after. Which was one of the reasons he thought you’d have fun with your girl friends tonight, until he saw what they were getting you up to. The traitors.

He managed to make it towards your silhouette and gently pressed his hands to your hips, making sure you could see his face so you wouldn’t try hurting him. “Oppaaaa!” You giggled, clinging to him immediately.

He wrapped his arms around you and smiled in content, feeling happy and worry free now that you were in his arms again. “Hey Babe. You ready to go home? Your friend texted me saying you were a little drunk.” He said softly, tilting his head a little when he saw how tipsy you really were.

You just looked at him for a moment before letting your eyes drift down to his lips. “I wanna kiss you��” You whispered while leaning closer to him, barely feeling your lips brush together before he pulled you away by your shoulders.

He looked into your eyes and gave a small smile. “How about we get home and get you some water, and see how you feel about that then okay? Let’s go.” He happily said, maybe a little too happily since you looked like you really did want to kiss him at the moment.

He was met with a grin before the two of you said goodbye to your friends and started walking out to the car. Well, you were leaning heavily against him and pretty much relying on him to drag you toward the car. “You’re the best, I love you.” You giggled, making a silly face at him while he opened the door to his car door for you.

Without even thinking about it, he leaned in to give you a gentle kiss to your lips, ignoring the warnings blaring in his brain that he shouldn’t be doing this when you were as intoxicated as you were. You just smiled into the kiss and slowly wrapped your arms around his shoulders, keeping him as close to you as possible just to make sure this was real. His hands gripped your waist and stared bunching your clothing little by little until you both had to part for breath. “I can’t stop these feelings anymore. I want to be with you.” He mumbled, kissing you again softly.

Yunho

If he was being honest, the moment you’d texted him all the misspellings and admitted to being drunk, he was already in his car by the time your friend had messaged him. He was just too worried that you were going to do something completely stupid. And he was right! Upon finding you in the bar, you were circling a pole with a sultry smile on your face, trying to flirt with the nearest guy who was definitely having the time of his life being in your sights. At least until your gaze landed on his. “Yunhooo!” You grinned, practically falling off the bar in hopes of getting to him faster.

He caught you as you were about to fall over and sighed to himself. “Okay, we’re getting you home, you’re drinking water and going to bed.” He told you, hoisting you up against him so he could gently drag your drunk ass over to your friends to say goodbye.

They happily handed your stuff over to Yunho who grabbed it all up into his arms and then grabbed onto you again. “We’ll see you later yeah?” Your friends all giggled, waving to you as you both walked away.

You were only able to latch onto him and try your hardest to keep yourself standing as you both walked out the bar to his car parked out front. Laughing like mad the whole way there. “Weeee this is fun!” You squealed with a smile, tossing your head back and forth all the while clinging to Yunho’s broad shoulders.

He shook his head at you and and laughed a little at your actions, about to comment how adorable you are drunk when you stopped your childish behavior and stared at him with a small smirk. “I wanna kiss you.” You mumbled before you tilted your head at him.

He managed to unlock the car and put your stuff on the backseat before you had made that comment. And the second he turned around, you hand managed to catch him in a drunken, slightly sloppy kiss full of giggles and nibbles to his lips. He fell back against the car in surprise, taking a few moments to understand what was going on. “W-Wait Y/N…you’re-” “Yes I am but I still wanna kiss you.”

He couldn’t really fight that logic as you went back to kissing him, your hands wrapped up in his jacket to keep him close to you. His hands finally trailed down your sides and gripped your hips, pulling you flush against him while his tongue grazed along your lip. Seemed like you two were going to be having a very long night.

Yeosang

He sighed and shook his head once your friend had gotten a hold of him. ‘Of course she’s drinking tonight. She always gets drunk with them. It’s such a habit.’ He groaned mentally as he drove quickly to get to the club you were in.

Your friends had managed to bring you outside and stayed with you until he got there, holding onto you as you were trying to twirl around in a drunken mess, mumbling song lyrics since they had already told you to stop singing so loud. When they saw the car pull up in front of them, and he stepped out to help grab you, they definitely felt a lot better in the sense you would be safe at home. “You really are such a lightweight. It’s only been a couple hours.” He chuckled as he opened the passenger side door for you to climb into.

You both waved goodbye to your friends and then drove off toward the dorm room, since that was the only place he could think to take you so he wouldn’t worry about you all by himself, because he really didn’t know how to take care of you in this situation. “You’re going to get an earful from Seonghwa when he sees you.” He teased, smiling a little at the thought of a drunk you being scolded like a child because you partied too hard.

You pouted at the thought of staying at the dorm for the night. “I don’t wanna go to the dorm! They’re all gonna yell and tease me! And my head is gonna hurt, and all I wanna do is go home with you so I can kiss you and-” You gasped and slapped a hand over your mouth the moment you heard the words out loud.

He seemed to freeze a little at the comment and glanced over at you in surprise, not wanting to face you entirely since you he was driving at the moment. “U-UH, why-why couldn’t w-we do that at the-uh-the dorm?” He stuttered out, mentally smacking his forehead as he thought about how sad he sounded.

You giggled out loud after a couple seconds and leaned yourself over the console, moving your face closer to his while he tried focusing on the road ahead. It took you another second to debate what you were going to do in your mind since there was the sober part of your brain saying to go with the dorm idea so you wouldn't be alone with him while drunk. But you really didn't want to share his time with others. Before you knew it, your lips were attached to his cheek in a soft kiss and he was stopped on the side of the road trying to breathe normally since….you were kissing his cheek!!!! Ahhhh!

After a few seconds you pulled away and grinned at the mark you left on him. "Okay fine. We can go to the dorm….but you're stuck with me the whole time." You whispered, sitting back in your seat properly and curling up to rest your head on the window, lost in thought.

San

This poor guy was so lost when he had picked you up from the bar only half an hour ago. You were passed out on the couch as he moved around your apartment to find your pain relievers and get you a glass of water for the killer headache you would be getting the next morning. What he wasn’t expecting as he danced and hummed his way throughout your kitchen was your small arms to snake around his waist and press yourself against his back, latching onto his neck with your teeth as you hummed with him. “AI!”

He turned around in your grip and stared at you wide eyed as you smirked and licked your lips, staring at him under hooded eyes. “Look at you sexy man, dancing around my apartment. I could just kiss you right now.” You purred, giggling a little at the end due to the alcohol still in your system.

He tried to step away from you and guide you back to the couch, or better yet your bed, but you seemed to be having none of his quiet mumblings as you twirled around the kitchen and smiled wide at him. “No ‘til I get my kiss!” You finally huffed out, pouting your lips at him until all he could do was roll his eyes at your childish behavior.

San stomped up to you and tried his best to grab at your arms, but every time he got close you managed to maneuver away from his reach, backing yourself up to the wall that he managed to trap you against with his arms. “Gotcha.” He whispered across your lips, glancing down at them when you swiped your tongue across them slowly.

Feeling the heat in the room rising just the smallest bit, he decided to go against what the rational side of his brain was saying and instead leaned in to kiss you softly, lazily letting your tongues meld together as his arms bent at the elbows so his forearms were resting on the wall on either side of your head. Your arms wrapped around his neck and carded through his hair, giving it a puffy new style while you stepped into his chest, feeling his arms start to wrap around your body. You stayed in this position for a few minutes, slowly kissing each other as if you had all the time in the world, since you kind of did in that moment.

He only released you when it was starting to get harder to breathe, and he rested his forehead against yours with the dopiest smile on his face, his eyes closed as he relished in the feeling of you against him. “I could get used to this.” He mumbled, still smiling before you leaned in to kiss him again.

You tried your best to ignore the smirk on his face and instead started pushing him backwards until you were out of the kitchen and halfway through the living room. “Then let’s get you used to this lover boy. You have a lot of catching up to do.” You replied with your own smile as you closed the door to the bedroom behind yourself.

Mingi

Being perfectly honest, he had no idea what to do. He ended up looking over at Hongjoong and begging him for help to go grab you. So off the two went to that your drunk ass could get picked up from the bar without too much hassle from the younger of the two guys. When the two got to you, you were sat at a table with a couple of your friends on either side of you, rubbing your back and sighing softly as they waited. “Mingi! There you are!” One said in relief, standing up to wrap the guy in a hug while the other tried waking you up from your little nap.

She dragged you over to the tower of a guy and handed you over, the other friend handing Hongjoong your purse with everything you had in it since Mingi seemed to be a little distracted with keeping you upright. “I don’t wanna gooooo! I wanna stay and drink more! You should stay too! Then we can get drunk together and-and-and make out! And then we can go home and…” You were rambling quietly as Mingi followed Hongjoong out of the bar and to the car waiting in front for you three.

Hongjoong stepped into the driver’s seat after tossing your stuff into the back and sighed quietly when he noticed the difficulty Mingi was having with getting you into the car. “I just wanna kiss yooouuuu.” You whined as you tried planting your feet on the ground to get him to stop moving.

You put a hand to your head subconsciously to get the spinning to stop and stared up at the redhead in front of you. “D-Don’t you wanna kiss me? ‘Cause I wanna kiss you!” You asked softly, pouting childishly as he had to think about how he was going to talk to you about this topic.

Hongjoong rolled his eyes and sighed. “Just kiss her already! Let’s go!” He called out, scaring the younger guy into looking over at him wide eyed.

You just giggled and turned his head back around to face you for a minute before planting your lips on his for a brief kiss that lasted maybe 5 seconds tops. Then without missing a beat you drunkenly skipped toward the car and got into the back, unceremoniously slipping on the seat as you tried getting yourself comfortable. Mingi numbly sat down in the front of the car in the passenger seat while Hongjoong shook his head in the driver’s seat. “It took you that long to kiss a girl…..and she’s drunk….and the one to start it.” He mumbled, glancing over at the shocked redhead who was just unable to do anything but stare out the window.

When you got inside and into Mingi’s room was when he was finally able to take action, gently laying you down on the bed before laying beside you and kissing your lips softly as a way of saying goodnight. He let his hand rest on your cheek a few moments, stroking his thumb along your temple before he leaned in to kiss your forehead. Then he rolled himself onto his side so he was facing away from you and somehow managed to fall asleep. Though the fact he slept so well might have had something to do with the hands that gripped the back of his shirt in your sleep, and the way your breathing sounded like a lullaby to him.

Wooyoung

Wooyoung tried his best not to worry or freak out as he and Yeosang took public transportation to get to you. If you were as drunk as he was led to believe, it was going to be a very long trip home for the three of you without a personal vehicle. That thought was brought to light the moment he saw you stumbling over your shoes as you tried your best to walk up to him. He started laughing despite his best efforts not to and walked over to you, grabbing hold of your arm to wrap around his shoulder. Yeosang offered to grab your other arm so the three of you were in a line, Wooyoung carrying your backpack purse. You said your goodbyes quickly to the girls and then stumbled your way back to the train with laughs and giggles thrown around since you all looked real silly. “This is fun!” You giggled, resting your head on Wooyoung’s shoulders.

The two were pretty much carrying you throughout the city as your legs seemed to have stopped working properly. It took you an extra 5 minutes or so compared to what it would be if you were sober and you seemed to be having the best time ever. Yeosang just continued to tease you while Wooyoung tried keeping quiet through the walk. He was doing well too, until you looked at him and pouted. “Why are you so quiet? He’s making fun of meeee.” You whined to him, pouting even more when he refused to look you in the eye.

It took you about an hour to make it back to the dorm room. Wooyoung had taken you into his bedroom while Yeosang disappeared to do his own thing, happy to be free of carrying you, as he put it. You were busying yourself with humming softly and dancing around the living room while Wooyoung grabbed you water and pain relievers. “Y/N! Get off the table!” He shouted while putting down the water in the kitchen.

He groaned quietly while helping you off the table and you stepped away from his hands, sticking your tongue out at him. “Only if I get a kiss.” You grumbled to him, almost falling off in your haste to keep away from him.

His face turned at least 10 shades of red as he caught you in his arms, helping you to the couch to sit you down and rush to grab the water off the counter before you tried doing a table dance again. “Hang on hang on. Do not get up from that couch! I’ll tell Seonghwa-Hyung!” He called out to you, earning a small groan from the door he knew his hyung was behind, “I’m not part of this! She’s your friend!”

The whine emitted from him was so high pitched, you would’ve thought it was a puppy, or maybe a child that had made the sound. In the end though all you were able to do was laugh at the face he made and kiss him on the nose gently and sweetly. “I’m tired…” You mumbled, laying down on the couch on your side while grabbing for the remote on the table in front of you.

Wooyoung sat down on the ground in front of you, still a little lost as to how you managed to kiss his nose, and seemed to lose himself in thought for the rest of the night. Since he was going to find a way to ask you out tomorrow when you’re sober if it was the last thing he could think to do.

Jongho

Unfortunately for you, Jongho ended up having to bring a very annoyed Seonghwa with him to go grab you while he himself waited outside the club for you. And by the time Seonghwa had grabbed you and your belongings, he was tired, sore, and annoyed with your talkative attitude while being deliriously drunk at almost 1 in the morning. “Hehe Oppa’s such a nice friiiiend.” You giggled happily, grinning wide when he just rolled his eyes at you.

Jongho managed to catch you as you tried stepped away from Seonghwa to stare him in the eye. And without hesitation the strong guy hoisted you up into his arms princess style, leaving your purse with Seonghwa. You rested your head on his shoulder and started tracing random patterns along his chest and shoulder, humming a small tune to yourself while the guys started their walk to the dorm which luckily wasn’t too far away. “You’re so warm. I could kiss you right now.” You mumbled tiredly, feeling your eyes start closing without your permission.

You could feel him as well as hear him chuckle at your adorable words and rearranged you in his grip for a moment, pulling you that much closer to him as you three made your way up the stairs. “Hyung is she asleep?” Jongho whispered softly, trying to keep you from waking up.

You were still able to hear him and nuzzled your face into his neck to gather more warmth and comfort while Jongho’s grip on you subconsciously tightened at your movement. Before you knew what was going on, you were falling asleep in his arms just as Seonghwa opened the door for you. “Yeah, looks like she’s sleeping now.” He mumbled softly with a small smile, closing the door behind Jongho while the younger of the two kept walking until he was able to set you down on the couch.

He tried standing up straight to go grab some things, but before he could, your arms snaked around his neck and pulled him down on top of you, his lips accidentally making contact with yours in a clumsy kiss. Seonghwa walked in at the perfect time to set down your bag and ask a question, but when he saw what had happened he dropped the bag and slapped a hand over his mouth to cover the snorting laugh he made as Jongho’s hands tried prying your arms off him. When Jongho saw his hyung standing by the couch, he pulled your hands apart quickly and then jumped off you. “Hyung! It was her fault!” He yelped, pointing at your sleeping figure.

Seonghwa started laughing and shook his head, walking away from the flustered maknae who was trying his hardest not to die of embarrassment at being caught kissing you while you were sleeping. Your giggling brought him back to reality as he turned to face you in surprise, wondering if you were laughing in your sleep. “I’m sorry but that was soooo funny!” You laughed out loud before pressing a hand to your mouth to quiet the sounds coming from you.

Jongho decided then and there to ignore you for the rest of the night until you begged for his forgiveness.

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nnegan13 · 5 years

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the mood is hella depressing rn, save us with some fics before the beach date :( (half joking haha, you'll post when they're complete, no pressure, and they've all been wonderful so far!)

ok sorry that I didn’t respond before the beach date but here’s something for you bc this is fucking distracting me

(also thank you for being so kind ily

@edonori @cachekakusu for you bc it’s incantava depression hours lads

ft. eleonora “no brain cells only swearing” sava and edoardo “doesn’t actually know how to flirt” incanti

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30

21:02

DOWNTOWN MILAN

20:59, message from Eva

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Don’t be impressed or anything

But edo taught me how to make tiramisu tonight

And it’s fucking delicious

Bring Stephan over and have some 👅👅👅

Eleonora shoves her phone into her pocket as Stephan exits the little pastry shop, paper bag in hand, and wonders for the fifth time that night why she bailed on dinner. Sure, it’s nice to be with Stephan again, he was her closest friend from the program—more than a friend, if she’s being truly honest—but they made fucking tiramisu—her favorite and Eva knows it’s her favorite even though it’s only been two months since they started living together, this is clearly bait and it’s working—and Stephan is insisting on taking her to tourist trap after tourist trap. She’s lived in Milan for three years now, a cathedral is a cathedral no matter how fancy they look, and she doesn’t want to talk about how the decoration on this particular set of buttresses compares to the decoration on the buttresses from the church they were at previously.

Not to mention it’s fucking nine o’clock at night and all the cathedrals are closed and he’s offering this commentary from beyond their fancy fences in English because his Italian is shit and she only wants to die a little bit.

“Here,” Stephan says, offering the bag to her with a smile, and Eleonora peeks inside at the two cannoli he got, thinks of Eva’s message, and reaches inside to grab one. Edoardo’s place is way too close for her not to be tempted.

“So,” she starts, biting into the cannolo and getting filling all over her chin. Stephan laughs a little, as does she, but before he can do something like wipe it off for her, she swipes the filling up her chin and into her already full mouth, turning away so he can’t see more of the mess.

God, this night is going well.

She chews and swallows hastily, looking back to him with her hand over her mouth. “Sorry.”

“No, you’re fine,” he says. “Perhaps I should’ve got napkins.”

“Maybe.” She offers him a little smile, but judging by the look on his face it probably turned into a grimace. She starts walking again just so that she can stop making stupid expressions. “Listen, you said you wanted to try authentic Italian food, right?”

“Yeah.”

“Okay, good.” She gestures with her cannolo and thinks of how best to phrase her proposition without it sounding like she’s trying to escape their outing. “Now, these are pretty good, but my friend just told me he made tiramisu tonight and he’s the best at cooking, baking, you name it.” Hopefully Eva lives up to the hype, or that Edoardo had a hand in most of the preparation. “Do you want to go try it?”

Stephan sounds hesitant. “Would we be interrupting anything?”

“No, no, he always invites people over when he makes stuff,” she says. “He even said I should bring you.”

Stephan latches onto the wrong part of the sentence. “You’ve told your friends about me?”

Shit, her eyes laser on the sidewalk. “Um, yeah, when we were making plans for this week.”

“Okay.” His tone is smug and she takes another bite of her cannolo to avoid saying anything more. “Sounds fun.”

It’s more of a relief than it should be to know that she’ll make it to Edoardo’s tonight. “Great! His place is right around here.”

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30

21:37

VILLA BOYS’ APARTMENT

Everyone keeps trying their English out on Stephan. At first it’s amusing, watching him try to navigate Chicco and Rocco shouting every statistic they know about the football teams in the UK at him, and then Luca practicing his various accents (Russian is Eleonora’s favorite) for Stephan’s approval, and then Silvia and Federica having the bright idea that they’ll talk at him in English and he’ll answer back in his terrible Italian and they’ll give each other tips.

Then it becomes her downright favorite thing that’s happened tonight because everyone is so invested in talking to him that Eleonora doesn’t have to anymore. Whether or not that makes her a bad person is a moral quandary she’ll explore later. For now?

“Oh, sorry, didn’t see you there.” Edoardo bumps into her, tone overly casual, startling her enough that she drops her fork, and leans against the counter next to her. He says, surprised, “Oh, shit, sorry,” and bends to pick it up off the floor.

She stares at the mop of curls on his head and regrets, again, not coming to dinner earlier. He holds it out to her, a little smile on his face. What the fuck is he up to? “Here.”

“Ah, yes, exactly what I wanted,” she says, raising her eyebrows at him. “Floor fork to go with my fantastic tiramisu.”

“Glad to know you think it’s fantastic.” He places the fork in the sink behind them and pulls another out of a drawer. A beat passes and he doesn’t hand it to her.

“Glad to know you don’t understand sarcasm.” It really is good tiramisu, the best she’s had in a while, but he’s holding her fork hostage and that is uncalled for. She holds her hand out, palm up. “Can I have that?”

“It’ll cost you.”

She narrows her eyes at him, gaze lingering on the little smile that’s come on his face again, and thinks. Seriously, what the fuck is he up to? “What?”

He nods at the plate in her other hand. “Half your piece.”

That fucker, she just barely started eating it when he made her drop her fork! He narrows his eyes as well, smile growing into something more like a teasing grin, and she relents. “Fine.”

Shifting forward, Eleonora moves to lean her forearms on the island countertop in front of them, setting her plate down so that when Edoardo mimics her, it rests between them. She has to force her eyes from his forearms when he presses them into the countertop. He brandishes the fork, raising his eyebrows at her, when they’re interrupted.

“I think we’re gonna get going, guys,” Martino calls from the kitchen doorway and she looks over to find him and Niccolo standing very, very close to one another, jackets pulled haphazardly on, and cheeks slightly red. She wonders if they also took advantage of the hubbub around Stephan to do more…exciting things than practice their English.

A chorus of goodbyes sends them off, Elia taking a dramatic moment to give them each a bear hug, and as the door closes behind them, Edoardo says to her, “One time I caught them in my room. During a party.”

“In your room.”

“In my room.” He shrugs, stabbing the fork into the tiramisu. “Not as bad as the time I walked in on Eva and some random guy, though.”

She grimaces. “Also in your room?”

“Also in my room.”

Shaking her head, she pushes the plate closer to him as he puts the fork in his mouth. “Just for that, you can have as much as you want.”

He laughs a little but hands the fork over as he chews and her eyes catch on his smile as he looks at her. Something wiggles in her chest and she takes her own bite to distract herself.

Taking the fork back when she hands it to him, he asks, “How’s it been with Stephan?”

“Um—” she swallows, tiramisu suddenly ash in her mouth, and that thing in her chest wiggles again. Why is he asking her this? “What do you mean?”

“I mean, you said you dated him back in high school, right?” He asks, glancing away from her. “Isn’t that what this whole week is?” He stabs at the plate again and she looks at the countertop. “A whole bunch of dates?”

Maybe to Stephan. Fuck, is he thinking that? Does Edoardo seriously think she’s trying to date Stephan? “No, no. He’s just been coming to Italy every year for so long that it’s kind of like a habit at this point.”

She bites her lip again and looks up just as he looks over, turning the fork upside down and putting it into his mouth, and, shit, she’s always known deep down somewhere inside her that Edoardo is attractive, but watching him pull a fork out of his mouth should not be that hot. More wiggling in her chest. “I don’t—I don’t know if we’ll do it again.”

“Why not?”

She shrugs and turns her gaze to the countertop, playing with her fingers and trying to say something coherent. Because the entire time I was on a decently romantic outing with him, I was thinking of being back here in your apartment. “We’ve both changed over the years, I don’t know if there’s much connection anymore.”

A beat passes where neither of them say anything and, against all common sense, she glances over at him again. He must’ve had a rather large bite of tiramisu, because there’s filling dotted at the corner of his mouth and a little on his bottom lip. “You have—”

Her brain must’ve stopped computing. That’s exactly what happened. Because a normal person with a working brain would’ve just pointed at it, let Edoardo wipe it away himself, and left it at that. But, no—

Eleonora finds herself reaching over, swiping the filling off his very soft lip with her thumb, making eye contact, and fucking sticking her thumb in her mouth. What are napkins? What is sanity? What is a normal goddamn human interaction? She’s never heard of any of those.

His lips part just a hair as she pulls her thumb, clean now, from her mouth, and for the second time that night, she wants to die a little. What the fuck is she doing?

Before she can make an even greater fool of herself, Stephan returns to the kitchen. “Nora?”

“Hm?” She jumps at the chance to look away from Edoardo, watching her with something she might pin as adoration in his eyes (if she allowed herself time to think about it), and pushes off from the counter.

“I’ve got to get going, we’re starting pretty early in the morning.”

“Right.” He’s speaking in English and it takes her a moment to translate. What is he talking about? Why is he telling her this? Glancing down, she sees that Edoardo holds so much tension in his shoulders and swallows, nodding at Stephan. “Right. Um, let me just get my stuff.”

Stephan nods as well, eyes darting between her and Edoardo, and heads back into the living room when she doesn’t move.

Edoardo must feel her stare drilling into his back because he stands, coming to his full height, and turns to her. For a moment, her heart pounds so loudly she thinks he might hear it. But then he quirks an eyebrow at her, and repeats with a terrible English accent, “Nora?”

“It’s what I went by over there,” she says as a teasing grin spreads on his face. He’s laughing at her, and she shoves his shoulder lightly. “Don’t be an ass about it.”

He shakes his head, still grinning. “Go get your stuff.”

She almost forgot she has to leave now, and it makes her brain short circuit, again, to hear him say it. Surges forward, she wraps her arms around his shoulders, and it takes a moment for his arms to come around her, large hands palming her back. This is the first time she’s really hugged him like this, entire body thrown into it, and there’s more damn wiggles in her chest.

This is shaping up to be the most confusing night ever.

There’s a cough from the doorway and when she looks over, Stephan is standing there, her jacket and bag in hand. Hastily, she draws back from Edoardo, somehow already missing the gentle pressure of his hands as they drop to his side. His head is bowed as he leans his hip into the counter, but he’s looking up at her through his lashes with a little smile, and she brushes a strand of hair from her face. “Um, thanks for inviting us.”

He bites his lip. “Anytime.”

In the living room, Eleonora finds herself giving everyone massive hugs, Stephan watching from the front door, so he doesn’t peg her goodbye to Edoardo as out of sorts. She doesn’t want him asking questions she doesn’t have the answers to.

Edoardo watches as well, leaning against the kitchen doorway with an expression akin to smugness as her confused friends take her giant hugs instead of the typical cheek kiss in stride. Chicco and Federico especially make a big deal out of it, squishing her in a group hug between them, and Edoardo winks at her as she catches his eye.

What a fucking mess.

Stephan says as they make it into the stairwell, “Your friends are fun.”

They’re a nightmare, is what they are. “Thanks.”

#asks #my stuff #this is super hasty and terribly written and I will be coming back to make it better but here it is #from my new AU bc it's taken over my brain #skam italia #incantava #incantava fic #eleonora sava #edoardo incanti

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Zi-O 45: “THIS WENT FROM COOL TO HOLY SHIT REAL FAST.”

Last time: Swartz became Another Decade, and summoned a whole bunch of Dark Movie Riders, who proceeded to start kicking Sougo and Geiz’s butts.

Then G4 pulled out a missile launcher.

This time? Who knows, it’s Zi-O.

(Please enjoy my 10-page liveblog, with heavy Drive and Double fangirling, and my love of continuity nods.)

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So, yeah, G4 firing missiles at the boys! Fortunately, Woz has decided to skip the time freeze part of his recap, and says… basically what I just said, before grabbing Sougo and Geiz with his scarf and teleporting the three of them out of there.

Then we go into the Recap Vault, where he reminds us about Miharu showing up, and his intention to bring Geiz and Tsukuyomi back.

Woz comments that ‘it’s almost time for them to say goodbye.’

We go DIRECTLY into the credits from there, not even a minute into the episode.

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Oof. The episode proper starts with the four lads – Sougo, Geiz, Woz, and Heure (who I’d forgotten was Also There) walking along the river/drainage basin. Sougo comments that he can’t believe that Swartz’s – no, Another Decade’s – power is to bring in other Riders.

Geiz snaps, practically slamming Heure into the railing, saying that he’d tricked them – Hora was Another Drive, so Heure must have been lying the entire time.

Heure’s panicking as soon as Geiz turns on him – he didn’t know, he really didn’t – but Geiz, being Geiz, doesn’t listen. He tells Heure to get out of there before he really snaps and beats him up – so Heure all but runs off, plainly scared and confused.

Sougo calls Geiz out. Heure didn’t know, he’s changed since Swartz turned on him, after all, and they were starting to work together.

Geiz, being Geiz, says that people don’t change so easily, pointing out that Heure’s usual MO is manipulating people. He does have a point, but he slips up when he says that an enemy is always an enemy.

Sougo doesn’t look hurt by this. Just disappointed. What did Geiz come back here for, anyway?

To defeat Oma Zi-O before he could become Oma Zi-O.

Here’s where Sougo gets angry. Really, truly angry. If people never change, there’s no way they can make a better future.

Geiz points out, growing increasingly furious, that it’s Sougo who destroyed the future, that it’s his fault in the first place.

I don’t like the look on Sougo’s face right now. He says that’s the future him, that since it’s the future, they can still change it in the now. I’m… not sure I want to know what Sougo’s thinking of for ‘changing the future,’ because he looks frustratedly depressed.

Geiz questions what the hell Sougo could know, he has no idea what it’s like for people in that future.

Sougo gets quiet, saying that Geiz is right, he doesn’t know, and walks off.

Woz has watched both of these exchanges from the side, and sighs as he watches Sougo walk off.

Geiz just looks down.

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We come to Heure, hiding by an abandoned building, when Hora approaches. Startled, Heure yells for her to stay away. She’s an Another Rider, isn’t she?

Hora doesn’t seem to have any idea what he’s talking about.

Starting to freak out, Heure thinks. Maybe – maybe the Another Rider was just using her as a disguise, to throw him off balance. She tries to come over to him, presumably to calm him down, but he fully flips, saying that she still might be that Another Rider, and runs off, uncharacteristically clumsily.

Hora just looks confused, and maybe a little sad. It’s hard to say with her – she’s always kept her emotions pretty hidden, and does have a history of manipulating people, even more so than Heure. INCLUDING Heure, actually, given her actions during the second part of the Kikai arc.

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Sougo’s walking down those stairs we see so often, when a former classmate shows up, saying it’s been a long time. I think we’re supposed to know him, his name’s Owada, and he’s actually excited to see Sougo. He’s a pro gamer, and is participating in a tournament that will let him represent Japan…

Oh, hang on, is this the classmate from the Ex-Aid arc?

Yes, yes he is! Nice continuity nod, there!

Anyway, after briefly asking why Sougo’s so beat up – which Sougo brushes off, saying he’s fine – he asks Sougo to come watch him play, completely disregarding Sougo’s protests of it not being a good time for that.

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Heure’s running, finding himself at one of those abandoned factories, when Hora appears from inside one. She’s got some bad news. This is where he’s going to die. Pulling out the Another Drive watch, she transforms.

I appreciate the touch with the transformation including the wheel images from above and below coming to form the armor, and including Shinnosuke’s little post-transformation side-lean.

Running, Heure tries to use his time stop, but Another Drive’s faster, and beats him to the punch by activating Slowdown. She starts wailing on him, punches to the gut, backhanding him in the face, and then throwing him bodily towards a stack of barrels and crates, cancelling the slowdown just in time for him to impact at full speed.

Hora calls Heure’s name, running up to them. She sounds worried for him! Yay! But also there’s still an Another Drive, saying that ‘we finally meet… me.’

Hora tries to use her time powers – tries, clenching her fist and grimacing as she throws her hand out. Nothing happens.

She’s clearly been trying to do this for a while, too. There are numerous indents on her palm, where her nails have dug in over and over. Too many to just have been from this one time.

Another Drive zooms over, and hoists Hora by the neck, lifting her from the ground.

Hora asks – struggling – what they are.

The answer… they’re the Paradox Roidmude.

To which I, a Drive fan, have a general reaction of NOPE NO NUH-UH I AM NOT OKAY WITH THIS!!

For those who didn’t watch Drive, or didn’t watch it’s movies, Paradox, or Roidmude 108, was the villain of “Kamen Rider Drive: Surprise Future”, Drive’s summer movie, who basically wanted to stop the world. Forever. A permanent Global Freeze, and he tried to do it by… what was it again? OH RIGHT. By coming back in time from 2035! SO, YAY! MORE TIME TRAVEL SHENANIGANS!

Listen, Surprise Future is a great movie, and I highly recommend it. Also, its ending theme, “re-ray”, is amazing.

Anyway, Drive!Paradox transforms back into Hora’s appearance, notably using the original Roidmude transformation effects, instead of the Another Rider ones. They have wonderful news. Hora’s going to disappear, and they’ll become the real one. Hora’s lost her powers, so it’s not like she needs to exist.

I really appreciate both of these nods, actually. The fact that a Roidmude is using a combination of their own native abilities and the Another Rider ones, and the acknowledgment that they copy people – right down to their character tics and habits. Medic kept her human’s ballet, Brain held onto that handkerchief for the majority of the season, just out of habit, and Paradox… this time around, they’ve picked up Hora’s old ‘catchphrase.’ Remember, when Hora made Another Riders, she did offer a choice, saying that she had bad news, but also good news.

So yeah, nice continuity nods they’ve got going there.

Oh, right, the show.

Anyway, Hora’s being lifted by her neck, struggling to breath. Paradox changes back to Another Drive – this time with the Another Rider effects – and starts laughing. Heure is terrified, and probably feels really bad about suspecting Hora now. Not that I can blame him on either front, but still.

A green-and-purple fist punches Another Drive away from Hora.

Kamen Rider Woz, in Ginga form.

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Over at 9-to-5, I realize that the logo isn’t just a pendulum clock, but the hands also looks a bit like a pair of glasses.

Geiz walks in to a darkened shop, Tsukuyomi sitting there, stoic. He comments that she’s back.

So, she has been gone since the end of the last arc, then? For the last month? Because we do get confirmation that it’s been a month – that giant gear-clock on the back wall also has a calendar function, which says it’s July 23. Thus, we know two things. First, there has been a time skip since the Another Den-O and Zi-O II arcs. Second, that the previous episode probably took place over the course of a few days, since July 23 is a Tuesday. Most episodes take place around Sunday or so, depending on if the show involves school or not, which does throw a bit of a wrench in that.

Anyway, I got distracted. Tsukuyomi tells Geiz that she met Miharu, and that if they stay here in 2019, they’ll never make the future that they wanted.

Geiz agrees. They shouldn’t have come here in the first place, all they did was run away from their own issues.

This scene has no background music at all, just the pair of them talking, and the ticking of clocks in the background, growing louder as the scene goes on, and ending with one decisive ‘tick’ as Geiz turns to the camera, lit from behind by the window, saying they should go back to their own era.

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Turns out Owada’s game tournament is Tekken. Again. Seriously, can they not get Namco to let them use at least one of the other properties, or is this the only one they want to get the rights for? Ah well, it’s more appropriate for this guy than it was for Tsutomu back in Hibiki arc, since Owada was from Ex-Aid’s arc, and Tekken played a role in the backstory there.

Unfortunately, he lost. Really badly.

Sougo tries to talk to him as they head out, but Owada’s not having it, telling Sougo to shut up and shoving him away before running.

Before running headlong into Swartz, that is. Who says something about making Owada’s own world.

He then proceeds to summon what look like tendrils of that ripple texture, which come out of the ground, latching onto Owada before surrounding him in an orb, which then shrinks down into a small ball. We can see an image of him gaming in it, before Sougo runs up, asking what Swartz did.

Swartz, being Swartz, doesn’t answer, simply saying that he has an interesting game for Sougo. The ball spins into a dimensional wall, which passes backward…

And leaves someone else in it’s wake.

Someone who seems upset at being brought here, saying that he’d thought he’d met a proper death, while implying that it’s not the first time this has happened.

Katsumi Daido. Kamen Rider Eternal.

He’s going to give Sougo a taste of hell.

To which I, a Double fan, have a general reaction of NOPE NO NUH-UH I AM NOT OKAY WITH THIS!!

For those who didn’t watch Double, or didn’t watch it’s movies, Daidou was the villain of “Kamen Rider W Forever: A to Z/The Gaia Memories of Fate”, Double’s summer movie, who was basically The Worst and tried to turn everyone in the city of Fuuto into ‘Necro-overs.’ Basically, he died, and his mother brought him back to life as… technically not a zombie, but he’s basically undead, and can’t be re-killed by normal means. He came back a little crazy. (Also, no, I don’t mean undead in the Blade sense, I mean the resurrected dead person sense.)

Also, his actor, Mitsuru Matsuoka, did the ending song for that movie, “W”… which is not nearly as good as the five songs he did for Drive, its movies, and specials, including the earlier mentioned “re-ray.”

Fun times!

Eternal is a great suit, with the exception of that stupid trash-bag cape, which I hope he gets rid of at some point in this episode.

…Sougo why are you in BASE FORM?! This guy was summoned here by Swartz, and your track record against other Kamen Riders as base Zi-O is not good, to put it lightly.

Like, literally the only Rider he’s come out on top against as original flavor Zi-O is Geiz.

Ohh, but I do love that they used the old Gaia Memory sound effects, driver and all. And there’s the movie-and-special variant of the transformations! I mean, transformations in W are always a treat, but in bigger-budget productions, they have this effect where during the standby, the icon for the Gaia Memory in use stays visible, and circles of energy in the Memories respective color radiate outward from the driver. It’s always a treat to see. Also, kudos for how whenever Eternal lands a direct hit, there’s those blue flames coming from where he connects.

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At 9-to-5, still in the dark, Geiz takes Tsukuyomi’s arm, saying that they’re going home together. He’s rushing, as if he’s well aware that waiting will kill off his resolve. Again.

But Miharu shows up, telling them that together isn’t an option. They’re from different timelines, after all. They’re going to different places.

Geiz sounds dejected as he remembers that. They didn’t know that until a month ago, after all, so it stands to reason that he’d forget. He takes off.

When he’s gone, Tsukuyomi says that… yes, Miharu’s right, but could she have just a little more time? They’d only gotten hope once they met Sougo, so-

Miharu stops her. That hope is for Sougo and the others. Miharu’s not wrong – Tsukuyomi is from a different branch, while Geiz is from Sougo’s. But here’s the thing. All of Tsukuyomi’s memories? They’re all from that same timeline as Geiz. She doesn’t remember her original home at all; the person she is now is entirely from the timeline where Oma Zi-O took over. She only found any of this out a month ago. There’s no way she could be used to it.

Miharu, awkwardly, says that they should probably go get her powers back from Swartz, and that he’ll help her with that.

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Back to the Woz Versus Another Drive fight!

Wherein Another Drive activates Slowdown – again – but Woz cancels it out on his own. How? Ginga Finaly is based on space, and things are weightless there – the gravity intensifying effect of slowdown can’t do jack to him. Also, he cancels it out for the rest of the area.

Another Drive is only slightly impressed, and proceeds to knock him off his feet by doing a sliding kick right into his legs. You know. Because car.

As they get up, that slowed down version of the Tridoron horn plays, and I get sad all over again.

Oh, uh, at this point, I should probably say why I’m using ‘they’ to refer to Another Drive/Paradox. See, Roidmudes technically don’t have genders. They normally use the pronouns of whoever they’ve copied. Right now, for Paradox, that’s Hora. However, the last time we saw Paradox, they were copying Tomari Eiji, aka Shinnosuke’s future son. So… it’s a tricky subject for me, so I’m erring on the side of caution and going gender-neutral with regards to Paradox. (Last episode, I had caught spoilers that Another Drive was ‘Hora’, so I tried to stay neutral through the liveblog because A; the Another Rider never spoke, so any mention of gender would be a spoiler in and of itself, and B; I wasn’t supposed to know that ‘Hora’ was the one behind the Watch, so I didn’t want to spoil that.)

Okay, fight time. As Another Drive is getting up, we hear an announcement. TYPHOON

Enter Geiz, in a nice mini fight sequence where both he and Paradox are moving fast enough that they leave afterimages. I mean, it’s pretty poorly green-screened in, but it’s a nice idea. With riders like Kabuto and Faiz around, it’s not hard to forget that one of Drive’s gimmicks is his speed. He doesn’t get to show it off that much on his own, so the fact they’re utilizing it here, even as an Another Rider copy, is cool. So was having the three of them team up in HeiGen Forever.

Heure’s surprised that Geiz is helping them – he’d just threatened Heure’s life, at most a few hours ago.

Geiz’s reply? He’s not fond of being rescued, or maybe just not fond of owing.

You know. The same thing Heure said last episode when he came in for the save when Geiz and Sougo were fighting Another Drive.

Geiz switches into Fury, and starts fighting again.

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Switching back over to Sougo Versus Eternal!

OH LOOK ETERNAL STILL HAS HIS KNIFE.

Sougo’s more worried about that wall behind them, which still shows Owada gaming, as Swartz watches on, smirking. However, someone else is watching. Namely, one Kadoya Tsukasa.

“Oh, so that’s what you’re doing with my power?”

Swartz doesn’t lose his signature smugness. He’s already got Tsukasa’s power, so there’s no way that he can interfere.

Unfortunately for Swartz, Decade-the-season never actually established what powers are Decade’s and what powers are Tsukasa’s. See… Tsukasa’s power? Is the fact he exists.

After all, those walls? He’s not the only one who’s been able to use them. In fact, he didn’t use them back in his season! He traveled through them on accident a few times, and never without pain when he was an adult. His younger sister could open them, and so could Narutaki, but Tsukasa? Nope. Not until his post-season appearances, same as Daiki.

So these? They aren’t tied to his being Decade at all.

(Same as Takeru’s psychic force-powers – those are inherited. That runs in his family, which handily explains how he was able to use them in Zi-O, whether he was in the camp that forgot being a rider or remembered. It was super unclear, after all. Those were not the ‘I know, right’ comments of someone who had no idea what it was like being a ghost.)

Anyway, Tsukasa takes the wall that Swartz was controlling, and moves it over himself and the Zi-O Versus Eternal grappling match, taking Sougo away with him.

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Tsukasa and Sougo are in the tournament room, where Owada just won the game, against an opponent with his face nearly blanked out.

Wait, won? Sougo’s so confused – he lost the match, why is he saying he won? He tries to talk sense into his friend, but then-

Time reverses, like a frames of film being played backward just a little too fast, the screen glitching slightly, as though it can’t keep up.

Sougo finds himself back next to Tsukasa, where Owada just won the game.

Tsukasa’s figured out what’s going on. Swartz has made little pocket ‘Another Worlds’ to put people in, reliving moments of ‘lost possibilities’ over and over again. Why? To be able to summon Dark Riders, like the one Sougo was just fighting.

In the reuglar world, he was defeated by Double. But in this world, he must have won.

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As Tsukasa is saying that this version of Eternal defeated Double, we cut back to the main universe, where Eternal looks… a bit confused as to where Sougo went. If not confused, exactly, then at least frustrated. Curious, maybe. Miharu steps into frame, clutching a brightly colored pair of boxers.

(Eiji, I know you were well meaning, but I think he took your advice a little too much to heart.)

There’s a medal-flip sound effect as Miharu reminds himself that he promised to protect everyone’s tomorrows. He transforms into Aqua, and goes on the offense.

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In Owada’s World, Tsukasa says it’s time to go, because their goal isn’t here. Sougo wants to save Owada, but apparently he can’t. So long as this world, on an infinite one-minute loop, exists, there’s no way to get him out.

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Back at the warehouse, Paradox makes me almost choke on my damned Twizzler when they stick out an arm and a FREAKING ANOTHER TRIDORON SHOWS UP.

Oh MAN, this thing is all pipes and clawed front and OH MAN YOU JUST BROUGHT A CAR TO A PERSON FIGHT.

Also, we see why they’re in one of the wide-open warehouses, because that gives enough space for the Another Tridon (again, WTF) to do drifts and turns and knock Woz and Geiz every which way.

We cut from the fight to Heure and Hora, her picking herself back up… with a lot more ease than should be possible from someone who was almost choked to death. Especially since Heure didn’t have that happen, and can barely support himself enough to sit up. She asks if he’s okay, to which he replies that the whole thing was a little too close for comfort.

“Oh. I’ll make this easy, then.” She takes him by the shoulder-

A dimensional wall opens, dropping Sougo off. His eyes widen in shock.

At the top of the stairs from earlier, Swartz grins.

Hora is kneeling next to Heure…

With a blade of red energy, longer than her torso, coming from her hand.

It’s jabbed through Heure’s chest.

THIS WENT FROM COOL TO HOLY SHIT REAL FAST.

As Hora pulls back, Heure can’t understand why she did this.

With that usual detached manner, she puts it simply. It’s nothing personal. It’s that they can’t live and escape from Swartz. Pulling his little hair decoration off – with a chunk of hair, presumably, because I’m pretty sure it was just beads and feathers on a string of hair – she says that the one to survive will be her. She walks off, letting Heure fall to the ground, struggling to breath and clutching his chest.

His very blood-stained chest.

Sougo shouts his name, running over, and holds Heure in his arms.

A brief moment later, Heure stops moving.

As Sougo screams for Heure, Paradox starts laughing madly, shoving Geiz and Woz away, saying that this is what they expect from them, from a better them.

Sougo is enraged. What the hell is so funny, why the hell are they laughing?!

(Okay, he doesn’t actually swear, but I’m pretty sure he would if he could get away with it.)

He enters Grand as he runs, and starts beating Another Drive.

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Eternal and Aqua are at the docks now. Good location choice for a water-based rider – although, apparently Eternal’s god-awful cape is actually useful for something, because he uses it to block the majority of the force behind the water attacks.

The self-proclaimed Grim Reaper says it’s party time – because Daido came back super crazy, okay? He’s not all there in his usual canon, much less here. Actually, he’s worse normally.

Thing is? Miharu’s not actually here to fight him, and proceeds to shoot an attack at Swartz, gripping him in… a fist and series of belts made of water.

OUR GOOD FUTURE BOY IS A WATER BENDER! I’M SO PROUD!

Here comes Tsukuyomi, to take her powers back. Swartz actually seems to have been caught off guard! That’s not like him.

That’s not like him at all.

Oh, RIGHT, Miharu, you’re still technically stuck fighting Katsumi, so, here ya go, one undead murder-man coming at you. Eternal actually says that the ‘party is getting watered down’, that’s not even a translation thing, he says ‘party’ in English, and I distinctly hear ‘mizu’, so he’s actually saying this, I can’t believe they went with that joke.

I also can’t believe that he’s dumb enough to throw himself and aqua into the water. You know. Aqua. A WATER-POWERED KAMEN RIDER.

And Miharu has a good line for him, too, after zipping around and punching him as Eternal tries to dodge. “I’m from the future, you’re just a ghost of the past!”

The rebuttal? “In the end, even the future becomes the past.”

WOW, these are some good lines here!

He proceeds to create a water vortex, because the Eternal skillset is undefined and overpowered, and throws the both of them back on land.

Swartz throws off his water-shackles and Tsukuyomi’s draining by transforming into Another Decade, knocking her down.

She struggles to get up as he approaches, chuckling menacingly, and Miharu calls her name. (Well, her former name. Her name is Tsukuyomi, please use it!)

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In the warehouse, Geiz and Woz are standing at a distance from the Grand Zi-O Versus Another Drive brawl. They. Uh. Well, they probably just don’t want to get in the way, right? They were just getting their butts handed to them on a platter, and Sougo’s really pissed off right now. So, it’s probably better to stay out of the way, right? Right.

Sougo summons Drive out of 2014, by slamming his fist onto the figure on his thigh. They proceed to wail on Another Drive some more, and…

Geiz leaves, with what seems to be a sigh before he turns and walks out.

Finish Time! Grand Zi-O!

SO WOW.

The finisher this time?

Summons the Tridoron, which circles around everyone, smashing the Another Tridoron to bits, before the finisher properly activates. The belt may be saying “All Twenty! Time Break!” but this? This is the Full Throttle: Speed finisher!

THIS is both Drive and Zi-O ricocheting off of the circling Tridoron, faster than can be followed, slamming into Another Drive over and over, before they merge together (!) for Zi-O to perform a one-man Rider Kick.

Another Drive starts to give off blue arcs of electricity, and the blocky lights of a Roidmude exploding, before reverting to Hora’s appearance, and then to Paradox’s evolved form, before their body goes up in an explosion. Two Roidmude cores emerge from that explosion, before going up themselves. 108… and 108.

Paradox only gained an evolved form after the version from 2035 literally merged with the version from 2015.

So, of course there were technically two Paradoxes for Swartz to bring in.

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Still in the warehouse, it’s later. Much later – the sun is going down, as judged by the fading light through the dirty windows. It was bright before.

Sougo drops to his knees next to Heure’s body, barely saying his name, his voice trembling.

A distance away, Woz – still transformed – watches.

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At the docks – also approaching sunset. Wow, that sure came on fast, didn’t it? Seeing as they’re right where they left off with the four-person fight.

Swartz – as Another Decade – basically hurls Tsukuyomi to the ground, with her rolling into a… partition? Mini-wall? What do you call the barrier between a green-space and a sidewalk? IDK, the curb section. Aqua can’t get to her, because Eternal’s keeping him busy. You know. With his KNIFE.

Swartz advances on Tsukuyomi, hand raised, but he’s knocked aside by Geiz, now in Revive Typhoon again.

“So, you came after all. I thought you would. Let’s make a world just for you.”

Swartz. Swartz, no. Don’t flick your hand like that. Don’t summon those dimension tendrils. You let Geiz out of that bubble right now, old man.

Don’t you spin that thing into forming a wall. Cut that out.

Don’t pull a familiar laughing figure through.

With a beret and some god-awful neon sunglasses.

Put that Hat Woz back where he came from or so help me-

SO HELP ME!

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The closing screen is… Huh. The Drive watch is front and center, with Revive Typhoon in the right corner… and the Eternal Gaia Memory in the lower left.

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Preveiw time says…

We’re getting a Woz Versus Woz fight, and it ought to be a bit less one-sided, now that they’ve both got drivers.

Eternal’s losing the cape for his party time – except it’s for the worse, because that’s a whole lot of Gaia Memories up in there. If I had to guess, I’d say… 26? One for each letter of the alphabet. Enough to set off his full power Maximum Drive – the “Never Ending Hell” Maximum Drive.

Yeah. Dude’s got issues.

There’s a sound clip of Geiz… shouting that he wants to make a new future with someone. Doesn’t say who, of course, because that would be even more spoilery than a preview usually is. Could be Tsukuyomi, could be Sougo, could be both.

The last sound clip is Sougo, saying that ‘it’s the king who makes the world a better place, it’s that kind of power!’

It’s played over shots of him down on the ground, in the rain, with Swartz standing over him. Sougo looks badly beaten up… and furious.

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Med Rewatch Series (#11)

S3 E11: Folie À Deux.

Episode description: Dr. Rhodes and Dr. Bekker try to save a misdiagnosed patient while Dr. Choi is on a mission to figure out what happened during a stabbing at his apartment complex.

I remember this episode being a really good one for the psych team (subsequently Sarah, we don’t care about charles). And based off the description, i’m pretty sure this is the one with ethan and april running around in minimal clothes having a nerf gun fight. fun idea. oh, also, ava mention in the description, so it should be good.

Let’s get into it.

- i remember this one, the two neighbors are having a shared delusion or something

-FUCK

NONNONONONONON

-i’m gonna need a minute

- i did not realize this was the episode they introduce sarah’s dad

- COME ON MAN

- i screamed out loud.

- I’ve actually completely forgotten the storyline

- the fact that ava and connor seemingly work on sarah’s father (and sarah and ava interact once? CRIMINAL)

- let’s keep going

- the fact that the guy is charming and already joshing around with the boys. good writing

- ava needs to protect sarah

- this guy. already trying to gain sympathy from charles. please sir no.

- what was the point of having sarah go through two really big story arcs in one season

- sarah’s shirt in this episode is the one with hexagon patterns all over it. i loved that shirt

- charles feeling guilty later in the season for subtly pushing sarah towards getting closer with her father. good broad strokes writing

- noah sending up his patient to the cath lab - cut to: ava and connor in the OR, ava saying: “meet mr. murphy. some genius in the E.D. sent him to the cath lab with a STEMI” (his heart is blue so big yikes)

- and I am so here for ava calling noah out on his shit. a main part of my rewritten cannon

- what is hands down my favorite thing about med? the one thing they do 100% correct? The way they transition from story to story. at least that aspect of their storyline is clean

- is this the one with the floppy baby

- VERY INTERESTING - how in the episode with ava calling noah out, is also when noah is back at it again, chatting with reese

- also, sarah already knowing what noah is gonna say about the patient - SHE’S SO SMART

-sarah literally not giving noah anythingggg. cutting him off and not letting him finish his little story. leaving the room when she just feels like it. we love

- *noah walks into the viewing gallery*

ava: “Your patient, Doctor?”

noah: “uh, yeah.”

ava: “Brilliant.”

- why does this line up so well tho, with that one thing i wrote for S3 E2, ava saving sarah from noah’s chatter and shutting him up

- the surgery faces a complication and ava makes a tough call that will sacrifice some of the other organs, making connor get mad at her, accusing her of inviting him just so they’ll both fail (ava being mad at noah bc this was his fault? or, alternatively noah being fucking terrified of ava after this, but then ava is just... chill. --- this is a good Idea, I’ll sit on it more,)

- when connor tells noah that the patient is doing fine and says “no thanks to you.” (yeah, she’s cutting, but the patient nearly dies)

- noah walking around ava to get to connor (and ava rolling her eyes at him)

- ava eyeing connor reassuring noah it’s bc he’s flirting with sarah because connor is coddling him

- ava smiling when connor says that he’s still learning to get past his assumptions

- yes okay, yes, i see it. she’s smiling bc she thinks he’s talking about her. what does this mean? not anything explicitly romantic. look at me and tell me that ava isn’t someone who is finally happy that someone is willing to see past her cold blunt exterior. how much more satisfying is that, vs. ‘oh wow! the popular boy likes me!’. it is surely much more endearing (that being said the fact that she does smile [in the canon of the show] like the shy little school girl annoys me so fucking much)

- and ava rolling her eyes at noah walking around her? just another person who sees her as just cold and heartless. it’s annoying that it happens so often.

- jay remarking that charles ‘sure knows how to bring the best out of people’ when he gets a women to threaten him, and charles says ‘it’s a gift’ - thinking about how he sure brings out the ‘best’ of reese and her father...

- charles using this episode to diagnose a psychopath. in the same episode reese’s father shows up. the med writers really used all their brain cells on this one

- med really is like ‘don’t worry guys. natalie manning on our show gave a speech on how anti vaxxers suck. we’ve done our job. society is cured’

- we don’t talk enough about how soft monique is

- the way ava sits on the bed in the doctors lounge is GAY. THAT IS A HOMOSEXUAL. MA’AM. WHO ARE YOU FOOLING. the fact that connor is just there, sitting at the table, sipping tea, using a moleskin notebook as a coaster is fucking hilarious. the energy in the room (distinctly homosexual).

- they really would have been unstoppable if the show had just kept them bros

- and then the moment connor opens his mouth he turns the convo distinctly straight again. how fucking disappointing

- literally the energy in the room before vs. after they start talking is polarizing. and they have to go and make it the straightest scene. jesus just fuck off

- let’s continue

- look he’s finally able to play into her jokes

- also ew jimmy fallon - reason #100 connor rhodes sucks

- this is also the first mention of the conjoined twins case (makes sense since this seems to be about the half season mark and we’re seeing a bunch of B season plots introduced, what with sarah’s dad and all)

- start of heightened competition which the show uses for exhausting sexual tension god help me

- CONNOR YOU ARE STANDING TOO CLOSE, GET AWAY FROM THIS WOMAN

- there’s like a three second span where they’re standing inches apart and just staring at each other and mentally im going ‘nononononnonnono’

- GOD DAMMIT

- so yeah they kiss. (right after connor says he needs to pace himself but whatever)

- why is it so aggressive

So. What am I supposed to do here? I’m rewriting this right? What am i supposed to do with the rest of the season. I suppose that’s what I’m supposed to find with this rewatch. my job just got a whole lot harder.

If I were to make Ava a psychopath, I would do it here, so that she was just playing with him. I’m not going to do that though, because she deserves a tad better.

What I’m thinking now, Ava is having some sort of existential crisis, due to being in this new place and having only one (1) semi-strong connection after living here for six months. so she latches onto connor, thinks that she needs him, panics that she isn’t anybody without him (can you see the themes I’m going with?)

or, this is just some meaningless fling, which is also a novel idea, but from the evidence we’ve gathered, ava is much too caring a person to do that (at least I believe).

regardless, we did a lot of good work today, pointing out ava harassing noah (like i thought would happen lmao). definitely not my fav episode, or the best episode. but in terms of the rewrite, there’s a lot we can work with here

as always, thanks for sticking through

read the rest here:

Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 / Part 7 / Part 8 / Part 9 / Part 10 / Part 12 / Extra

#chicago med #med series rewatch #folie a deux #mine

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