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blenselche · 26 days
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AT anniversary finncarnations thing
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*sometime after Jack “scabs”, and Racetrack is losing his shit a little*
Davey: Uh, Racetrack, are you-
Race: I’ve been double-crossed by Cowboy!
Davey: He betrayed all of us-
Race: I DONT LIKE BEING ABANDONED!
Davey: …
Race: I’M SENSITIVE TO IT!
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walkman-cat · 8 months
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i decided months ago that i am going to make a piece of the costumes i have to realise
i do not know how to sew
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inadequatecowboy · 2 days
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I think I'm gonna make a cowboy wip
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yahoo201027 · 4 months
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Day in Fandom History: January 14…
Finn, tired of the folks around the Land of Ooo surrounding him and trying to thank him for being a hero, decides to go as an alter-ego he created in hopes of enjoying a normal life until the personality takes over. “Davey” premiered on this day, 11 Years Ago.
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dashes-and-letters · 2 years
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Davey: Finn takes on a new persona in order to escape his overzealous fans.
Jake vs. Me-Mow: A miniature assassin attempts to blackmail Jake into murdering Wildberry Princess.
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wronghordakisbae · 9 months
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This was diabolical
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gaykarstaagforever · 8 months
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jjspina · 11 months
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Books for MG/PT for fun summer reading!
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momentofch-aos · 3 months
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M's Marvel Thought of the Day
Daniel Sousa, now settled in the 21st century, looks up what happened to his friends from his own timeline.
Daisy had already gently broken the news about Peggy's death to him. They visited her grave site and talked about the adventures and missions the two had been on.
He read the case file on Howard and Maria Stark's death, the Winter Solider case and knowledge of who he was sending him for a loop. He'd met Sergeant Barnes once, that day when he thought he would die on the battle field. He had never been Howard's biggest fan but no one deserved that.
He read the obituaries of Ana and Edwin Jarvis, found they were buried in New York, side by side as they'd been in life. He left pink flowers - Ana's favourite colours of peonies - on their grave, and thanked them for their friendship and support.
There had been two people he'd been somewhat surprised to find out were still alive and unbelievably in the same old people's home in DC. He'd been unsure whether visiting would be a good idea but after some gentle investigating from Daisy and Mack, he found himself entering a rec room. There was various elderly people around, reading newspapers or napping in high backed armchairs. But no-one looked familiar. Daisy squeezed his hand before getting the attention of one of the nurses, who led them around the corner of the room.
As they make their approach when Daniel hears a far too familiar voice, making him stop in his tracks.
"Ha! Got you again Thompson, pay up!" Rose Roberts, with now grey hair but with the same thick glasses, smirked triumphantly across the top of the checkers board.
The older man across the table groaned. "We go through this every damn day Rose. Can we go back to Chess?" Daniel took in the older man he'd known a life time ago, hair still slicked back in the way it had always been. A cane leant against the wall behind him and he coughed after laughing at Rose's comeback.
"Chief Thompson? Agent Roberts?" The nurse asked drawing their attention. "You have some visitors."
Both former agents looked across to see Daniel standing with an indecipherable look on his face.
"Fucking hell..."
"What the hell..." Their voices overlapped suddenly.
"Hey Rose, hey Jack." Daniel said stepping forward. Rose struggled to her feet, using the table to leverage herself up.
"Chief? Is that really you?" Rose looked up at him, his arms coming up to help balance her.
"It's me. It's good to see you Rose." And he found himself engulfed in her arms, wrapping his back around her and holding her tight. "God it's good to see you Rose."
"How the hell are you here?" She said as she looked back up to him. "And who's the beautiful woman you brought with you?" She fixed him with that same mischievous look she used to shoot at him all the time after glancing to Daisy who stood off to the side. Always so invested in his love life, so he chuckled.
"I can explain everything I promise. Why don't we sit?" He helped her back to her chair, glancing across to Jack who had his hand's in fists on the other side of the table. "Hi Thompson."
"Who are you?" He demanded. "You're sure as hell not Daniel Sousa. He died in...55." He paused remembering the exact year. "We buried him. We... mourned him. You sure as hell aren't him."
"I can explain that I am Jack."
"I am 102, not stupid." Rose scoffed, making both men turn to her.
"Jack do be serious. What about Rogers? He came back to Peg did he not?"
"How can we be sure? It may be some traitor. Davey was telling me just the other day about those shape shifting aliens Fury was palling around with..." Jack started saying.
"How about this Jack? I'll prove it to you." The older man looked puzzled but let him continue. "Before you went to Russia with Carter, met the Howling Commandoes when we were investigating Stark. You tricked me in the locker room, into seeing Carter changing. You asked me to get your compass from..."
"Locker 42." Jack finished his sentence and looked Daniel up and down, his gaze resting on the prosthetic leg.
"I've still only got one leg but the future makes a better prosthetic than Stark by a mile." Daniel joked, and Jack stood at that, pulling Daniel into a hug that he was not expecting. "It's good to see you too Jack."
They sat back down, chairs pulled up for Daniel and Daisy, as they told the story of faking his death, and pulling him out of time. Of their adventures into space and the weird and wacky things he'd discovered in the 21st Century.
They told him stories from their own lives after his death, cases he'd missed out on, Howard's ridiculousness. Peggy's rise to power. The three old friends spoke fondly of her, recalling stories from throughout the time they spent with her.
Rose grilled him and Daisy on their story and relationship, telling Daisy all the embarrassing things that Daniel had been happy to leave behind in the 50's. The unlikely pair giggled and formed a friendship.
Rose told her stories of her first and second marriage, her daughter, son-in-law and grandson who would visit every weekend.
Jack had been married when Daniel died, to Peggy's lovely personal secretary Ruth who knew how to put him in his place. They'd only had a daughter the year or two before Daniel supposedly died. Jack talked about how they'd gone on to have three more daughters, now had 8 grandchildren, including a grandson who had joined SHIELD recently (Daniel promised to keep an eye out for him). Then, his Ruth had passed a few years ago and Daniel expressed his condolences.
At that moment, a young boy, probably 5-years-old barrelled into the room and to Jack's side. "Pops, Pops!"
"Hey there, Danny. How's my favourite guy?" With surprising strength for a man of his years, Jack swung the young man up till he was sat on his knee.
"I'm good! Momma's coming now." He pointed to where a pretty blonde was making her way across the room, shaking her head as she stooped to kiss Jack on the cheek and ruffle her son's head.
"Sorry Grandpa, the traffic was horrendous." She greeted Rose much the same way, passing her a package. "Fudge from that place on 4th for your Rose, Danny over there insisted." She turned to the guests who sat between them. "Hello, I'm Ruthy." She shook their hands.
"Ruthy, this is Daniel and Daisy. Daniel, Daisy, my granddaughter Ruthy and her son, Danny." Jack smirked at Sousa as his great-grandson played with the watch on his wrist.
"Danny? Huh." Was the only thing Daniel came up with as he watched an old friend acting like a goofy grandparent.
"Yeah, Grandpa had a friend called Daniel who saved his life a bunch of times when he was younger. Used to tell us stories all about Sousa and Carter and their adventures. We never believed him until we found out where he worked." Ruthy filled in nonchalantly, sitting on the opposite side of the table, digging through her bag to produce a water bottle for her son unaware of the look on Daniel's face. Jack smirked massively. "Here, Grandpa. I managed to grab that album from storage that you wanted." She handed across a large leather bound photo album to the older man, who flipped through a few pages.
"Here you go Daisy, you'll like this one." Jack smirked, that old charming smile creeping onto his face as he passed the now open book across to her, Daniel peering over her shoulder and scoffing.
"Woah." Ruth finally looked up, glancing at the photo and then back up to Daniel and back again. "Well. I cannot believe it took me that long. I knew you looked familiar. I thought it was just Quake that had me thinking that."
Daisy smirked. "You don't seem surprised?"
"Oh I've worked at Stark Industries for a long time, I'm so used to superheroes and weird tech not much surprises me anymore. You see Tony Stark walking round in Iron-Man pants one too many times and you get over stuff pretty quickly." She levelled Daniel with a look. "Time travel huh?"
"Yes. But I haven't seen these in literal years." He said his hand tapped a few photos. One from the first day of opening the first SHIELD base, Thompson and Howard Stark stood either side of Peggy and Daniel. Another of Peggy, Daniel and Rose throwing confetti at Jack's wedding. One of Daniel and Thompson with Peggy on her Wedding Day. An outtake of that one where Howard was attempting to jumping into frame and Jarvis dragging him out, while the three of them laughed lay below it.
He could still picture that party, he could hear the band playing, memories of Peggy dancing with Rogers, happy and content. He remembered how happy he was for her.
Daisy squeezed his knee beneath the table and brought him back to the present. He pressed a kiss to her temple and continued the conversation. They had coffee and cake and Rose shared her fudge. Daisy made lunch trolley roll across the room, making Jack's great-grandson shriek in delighted laughs and push it back into a position where she could do it again and again.
They left hours later and Daniel felt more settled than he had done in a long time. Daisy squeezed his hand as they drove away.
They'd return to visit every time they were in town, which was more often these days now SHIELD HQ was there, sometimes together, sometimes alone. They met all of both of their families, attended Ruth's 100th birthday. Brought presents for Daniel's namesake's birthday.
When Daisy and Daniel tied the knot, two reserved seats on the front row of the groom's side were filled my two of his oldest friends some of their families just a couple rows back. They 'snuck' them into new SHIELD HQ to see all the new tech and planes, the memorial wall that included people they'd known a lifetime ago.
Daniel loved the future, loved living his life alongside Daisy and her family. But knowing his friends were there, getting to spend time with them was an unexpected but valuable thing for him. It gave him a link to the past, someone to shoot the breeze with, with some similar experiences from the past. A taste of a previous life he was grateful for as he lived his new one.
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clevercorvidae · 7 months
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the fact that finns hair is chopped short for 90% of adventure time is a fucking crime let us delight in scrappy boy rapunzel. why deprive the world of that? for the davey episode? i think not.
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stargazer-sims · 3 months
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The More Things Change...
... the more they stay the same.
Victor and Yuri have grown a lot since their early days together, but no matter how much time passes, some things remain as consistent as ever.
Yuri matured significantly and managed to conquer his paralyzing self-doubt. He runs his own successful communications firm now and is well respected in the business community. But, he still dissolves into a sad little puddle and demands all the attention when he's not feeling well.
As for Victor, he's still working at the hospital and he continues feeling fulfilled by his profession. He likes caring for all his patients and makes their comfort his priority, but the patient who'll always be first on his list of priorities is the clingy and still impossibly cute one he has at home.
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Yuri: I’m sorry I’m ruining your day off. I know you wanted to go biking with Davey and Lindsey, but now you’re stuck with me instead.
Victor: I’d rather be stuck with you than with anybody else.
Yuri: Not when I’m ill.
Victor: Any time, no matter what. You know that.
Yuri: I feel bad that you’re missing your adventure because of me.
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Victor: It’s okay. The mountain bike trails aren’t about to disappear, and the weather will probably be warm enough for a few more weeks. I’ll have other chances to go.
Yuri: I wish I wasn’t so anxious about being alone. Otherwise, you could’ve gone anyway.
Victor: Honestly, I’m anxious about you being alone when you’re sick, too. Even if you didn’t mind, I don’t think I could’ve just left you.
Yuri: I need you.
Victor: I know.
Yuri: You make it better. I know that probably sounds like a silly thing to say since you can't actually make it hurt less, but you just... make it better. I don't know how to explain it.
Victor: It’s all right. You don’t have to explain anything.
Yuri: Stay close to me. Please.
Victor: I'm here.
Yuri: I was doing so well for so long, but I suppose this was inevitable. They don't call it a chronic illness for no reason, do they?
Victor: I'll take care of you. Don't worry.
Yuri: I know you will, but that doesn't stop me from wishing this wasn't happening.
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Victor: Do you think you’d be more comfortable in bed? I can go upstairs with you and we can cuddle for a while if you want. Maybe I could give you a belly rub.
Yuri: I’d really like a belly rub, but I’m not certain I can move. Not until the painkillers start to work.
Victor: That bad?
Yuri: Yes. It's that awful cramping pain, like someone's twisting my insides.
Victor: Do you feel nauseous too?
Yuri: Mm-hmm. I've been feeling uncomfortable for the past few days, but it's gotten quite a lot worse since this morning.
Victor: You didn’t say anything.
Yuri: The pain was manageable, and I've been busy. But I'm worried this might be the start of a new flare-up, and I don't have time for my body to betray me like that right now. I've got too much work to do.
Victor: I don't think your body understands your work schedule, love.
Yuri: *grumbling* Stupid body.
Victor: *laughing* Would it be inappropriate for me to say how ridiculously adorable you are?
Yuri: Probably, but I won't complain.
Victor: Let me know when you feel like you can move. I'll help you upstairs, and I'll take your temperature.
Yuri: Do I feel warm?
Victor: A little.
Yuri: Oh... brilliant. This had better not be another infection, or I'll—
Victor: What?
Yuri: I'll cry. I'll quite literally cry.
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Victor: It might not be as bad as you think.
Yuri: What if it is?
Victor: If you have a fever or if you're still in a lot of pain tomorrow, I'll take you to the urgent care clinic. In the meantime, try to rest, okay?
Yuri: Maybe we should go now. I mean, not this minute, but when Caroline gets back from shopping with your mother.
Victor: Do you want me to text Mom and let her know what's up? I'm sure Caroline can have dinner with her and Julian, and hang out there for the evening.
Yuri: No, it's fine. I can wait until she gets back at least, and I think she's old enough to stay by herself while we're gone.
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Victor: I don't like the idea of her staying alone, and I'm not sure I can handle being worried about both of you.
Yuri: If anything happens, your parents are across the street.
Victor: You're not concerned at all?
Yuri: Of course, but she's seventeen years old. She needs to be independent at some point.
Victor: I know, but maybe not at this specific point. Maybe we can let her stay on her own for a few hours when you're feeling better, when we can both be available if she needs anything.
Yuri: You know you're being overprotective, don't you?
Victor: You say that like it's bad.
Yuri: It's not necessarily bad. You can overprotect me all you want, but Caroline has a much different temperament than me, and she might not always appreciate being protected as much as I do. I think you need to let go, just a little.
Victor: I don't know. I don't like it.
Yuri: What do you want to do, then?
Victor: I still think she should stay with Mom and Julian.
Yuri: Okay.
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Caroline: I'm back from shopping! I can't wait to show you the cute... Oh! Papa, what's wrong?
Yuri: It's all right, Caroline.
Caroline: How is it all right? Are you sick? You were fine when I left. Was it something you ate, or...?
Victor: Papa hasn't been feeling good for the past few days. It seems it finally caught up with him.
Caroline: You're going to take him to the doctor, right?
Victor: We were just talking about that, as a matter of fact. We decided we're going to urgent care.
Caroline: Urgent care? But that's like, for when it's really serious. Papa, you haven't needed to go there in ages. Not since just after we got back from Sulani last time. That's like, almost two years. This isn't going to be like the times you've had to be in the hospital for weeks, is it? 'Cause those are terrifying.
Yuri: That's what I'm hoping to avoid.
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Caroline: Well, if you're going to the urgent care clinic, I'm coming with you. I'll hold your hand while we're waiting, and I'll do whatever you need me to.
Yuri: Well, I guess that's your dilemma sorted, Victor.
Caroline: What dilemma?
Yuri: He didn't want you to stay here by yourself.
Caroline: What are you even talking about? There's no way I'd stay here by myself in this situation. LIke, I'm already freaking out, so can you imagine how much worse it'd be if I was here worrying about you all alone?
Yuri: I thought you might like to have the house to yourself.
Caroline: Maybe if it was just a normal day and I had a few hours to myself to do something fun, but not right now. Maybe you can let me have the house to myself some other time. You know, like when you're feeling better and I'm not losing my mind over all the worst-case scenarios and stuff.
Victor: There's not going to be a worst-case scenario.
Caroline: I'm coming with you so I can hear the doctor say that.
Victor: Because I'm totally not a fully-qualified registered nurse.
Caroline: Victor, that's not what I mean! You totally are, but you know there's a hierarchy or whatever. Husband first, then nurse. And you can't say there isn't, because I've seen you acting even more panicked than me when Yuri's sick, and I know for sure you'd never be like that with your patients.
Victor: I do not panic. I'm one hundred percent calm. Trust me, I'm a professional.
Yuri: I don't think you're convincing her, love.
Caroline: You're not. Now, stop pretending to be a tough guy, 'cause we all know the truth. And don't tell me I'm not allowed to come with you because this is one time I'm not gonna do as I'm told.
Yuri: Oh? Just this one time?
Caroline: Ugh! You guys are so infuriating! How can I even love you so much when you're so annoying?
Victor: We're not going to tell you not to come. I'd like it if you did.
Yuri: I would too. I certainly wouldn't turn down the offer of you holding my hand while we're waiting.
Caroline: I know that's not much. It's not going to fix anything, but I also know you really don't like going to the doctor, so hopefully it'll make the whole thing a bit easier.
Yuri: Don't say it's not much. You might be surprised how much it truly can fix when you know you're with somebody who loves you.
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we-are-inevitable · 5 months
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For the fic title game: shallow graves for shallow hearts
(me? Digging through the lyrics of the song I'm currently listening to for a title? It's more likely than you think!)
ohhhoohoooo shit. canon era, jack leaves.
jack leaves, and that's supposed to be it. right? he got what he wanted- he got the train out west, he got a big life in a small town, and when he gets there everything is golden and sunshine and beautiful- but he doesn't feel complete, not the way he expected to.
i'm thinking that if i were to write this, i'd write it as like,, a letter fic? start with jack sending letters with shaky handwriting and dodgy spelling to the lodging house, because he knows there are some kids there who know how to read and they can relay his stories and his messages. the envelopes are always stuffed to the brim with his initial letter, and he usually includes four to six drawings in it- Santa Fe is gorgeous, just like he knew it'd be, and he wants the boys to see that he was right. maybe even sending them some money, too; he doesn't make much as a ranch hand but it's more than he thought he'd ever see, and he truthfully doesn't need that much. he doesn't know what he'd ever spend it on, so he'd rather send it to the boys who need it.
so he keeps this going, detailing all of the adventures he's been having (even with a gaping whole in his chest) and telling them about a girl he's been going steady with (one that reminds him of a certain blue eyed boy without the same spark), and this continues until one day, one of the men he's living with in the bunkhouse on the ranch brings him a letter.
a letter from David Jacobs, all the way in New York City.
more under the cut!
david's letter is much better than anything jack could ever send. his handwriting is lovely- and a little hard for jack to read- but jack is able to figure it out eventually, and it's nice. david updates jack on the news from the lodging house, and tells jack all of the little things that the boys want him to know about. no one seems very upset at him for leaving- not from david's words, at least- but even so, reading the letter makes jack's chest tight.
and this continues on for a while. jack will send letters to the lodging house and david will respond for the boys, until jack gets a little brave and starts sending david letters directly, too. he sends the boys money and drawings and sends david his deepest, darkest secrets- how he misses new york and his "penthouse," how he loves his current job but misses his boys- how he misses katherine, and crutchie, and davey.
jack never meant to have a shallow heart. he needed to get away, he needed to escape- and he never realized that doing so would just tear his heart in half even more. he wakes every morning feeling physically better than ever- fresh air will do that to you, he assumes- but he feels like he's on his deathbed half the time because of the weight on his chest and the hole in his heart.
but he stays, because he made a commitment, and he can't back out on his dream now.
the letter-writing goes on for years. eventually, jack starts getting individual letters from racetrack and crutchie as well- they made it out of the lodging house- and jack continues to write to them alongside his writings to david. those letters to david, his davey, started so innocently- how is he doing, how is his family, the likes- but now when jack writes them he feels a tug on his heart and when he reads david's letters he finds himself flustered and he doubts he would ever be able to say these feelings out loud, but there's something there- and he knows he isn't imagining it because david feels the same, and has written the same in his letters.
i imagine when it hits the three year mark, when jack has been here for three winters, when jack is no longer the new guy and is instead helping the new ranch hands in the bunkhouse, it all feels too familiar and he aches with it.
he gets drunk on whiskey and writes a candle-lit letter about how much he misses home, because this isn't home, this will never be home. he gets drunk on whiskey and writes about the boy with the blue eyes and a fire that's still present even in his words on paper. he gets drunk on whiskey and sends the letter despite his better judgement.
the next letter he receives from david is simple. all it says is, Come home. We will be ready, and I will be waiting.
so jack goes back home, and jack finds his family again.
and jack finds david, too, and maybe his grand plan for his life never involved living in a "bachelor pad" next to a conveniently single David Jacobs, but he can't say he's complaining, either.
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yahoo201027 · 1 year
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Day in Fandom History: January 14…
Finn, tired of the folks around the Land of Ooo surrounding him and trying to thank him for being a hero, decides to go as an alter-ego he created in hopes to enjoy a normal life until the personality takes over. “Davey” premiered on this day, 10 Years Ago.
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dominimoonbeam · 10 months
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The Other Way - Part 2
I loved the first part so much that I couldn’t leave it alone. David/Angel are precious and I’m so happy @ejunkiet gave me this meet cute idea!!
Part One.
tags for part two: a very gentle kidnapping, fear of memory wipe, injured snappy davey, feelings
The Other Way - Part 2
When Angel woke up, they were in the backseat of a big truck, their cheek pressed into a thick arm and their body slumped to the side.
Music from the stereo filtered through their senses along with the voices arguing in low tones.
“If they were missing, then someone’s got to be looking for them.”
“Should we let someone know we found them?”
“And then what? Hand them over to explain how some wolves turned into guys and saved them? No, Ash.”
Everything came back to them. The woods, the wolf, the man that was a wolf, the actual wolves, more fucking wolves, and then… fainting. “Oh fuck,” they pushed off the wall they’d been snuggled up against, realizing too late that it was David.
They blinked up at him. He had the prettiest frowny face… They almost told him but then realized they’d drooled on his shirt and blushed instead. He rolled his eyes and looked away. “You’re the worst,” he mumbled, still obviously in pain.
They rubbed the patch of drool they’d left on his shirt. “At least it wasn’t your busted arm…”
Asher laughed in the front passenger seat.
David groaned and closed his eyes. “Surrounded by jokers.”
Angel leaned forward and tried to get a look around. Trees whipped by outside. They were on that awful winding, narrow road back to Dahlia. They reached automatically for their phone only to feel a jolt of panic when they found their pockets empty and realized they didn’t have their backpack either. There hadn’t really been much left in it but still! Leaving it behind was littering, not to mention their favorite backpack.
“Calm down,” David said without opening his eyes.
Asher held up their bag in the front seat. “Don’t worry. We got everything.”
Angel exhaled relief and reached for it.
Asher shook his head and put it back down on the floor at his feet, well out of reach.
“You’ll get it back eventually,” Milo said from behind the wheel.
Angel blinked, looking between the two in the front. “Am… Am I being kidnapped?”
Milo snorted. “Technically, you would already be kidnapped at this point if that’s what was happening.”
“But yeah, kind of,” Asher said.
David and Milo both groaned. “Ash!”
Asher lifted his hands in surrender. “I mean, no reason to lie to them too.”
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 David’s head was splitting. His arm was broken and his whole body ached. He hoped it was the only thing broken, but he wouldn’t put money on it. He wanted to get healed and go to bed. The last thing he wanted was a funny roadtrip adventure with Asher and this stranger from the woods.
“We’ll head for the department. They’ll have a healer and we can get a head start on the paperwork for this mess.” He pushed a thumb back at the unempowered human sitting behind him. “They can wipe their memory and drop them at the human hospital.”
It was the smart plan. The right plan. But David saw the way Angel’s eyes went wide and heard their pulse jump in panic. Their whole body tensed up, one hand grabbing at their seatbelt and twisting nervously. “Wipe my memory?”
They were scared. Really scared. And he realized it was the first time he’d seen them scared since the other wolves. They hadn’t really been scared when they were lost, and even less so when they found a giant injured wolf. They hadn’t been scared at nightfall or in the morning when they still weren’t found. They had been…hopeful and stubbornly optimist. Worse, this fear was aimed at him. He was scaring them.
“Aw, don’t worry,” Asher said, twisting around in his seat to look at the human. “It won’t hurt and you’ll be back to your normal life like none of this happened.”
“What if I don’t want to?” Angel asked, a desperate strain sneaking into their voice, like something was tightening inside their chest.
David didn’t like this.
And he didn’t like the way it made his instincts feel ragged.
Milo snorted in the front seat. “Just sit back and relax,” he said and then frowned at Asher next to him. “And you, sit your ass down and buckle up!”
Asher ignored him, chin on the headrest. “It’s going to be okay,” he tried again.
Angel twisted the seatbelt against their chest. “I won’t tell anyone. I swear. Just drop me off and I’ll get home on my own.”
Asher frowned.
Something in David’s chest hurt and it wasn’t his ribs. He didn’t like the pleading smallness of their voice. He didn’t like the way fear was staining their scent.
“Please,” Angel tried again, unshed tears shining in their eyes. “I promise.” They looked to David with naked fear. “I won’t tell. Just forget you saw me.”
David couldn’t think before the words came out. “Okay. Shut up.”
Angel snapped their mouth shut. It would have been comical if it weren’t for the one tear that bounced off their lashes.
David groaned and leaned his head back. Asher was staring at him.
“Milo, drive us to my place and call your mom.”
Milo watched him in the rearview mirror.
Asher broke the stretch of silence by stage whispering to Milo, “I think he has a head injury…”
Milo nodded imperceptibly.
David groaned and closed his eyes. “Then Marie can heal it and we’ll go from there.”
Angel leaned forward in increments, like they thought he wouldn’t notice, reaching out and gesturing for Asher to pass them their backpack.
“Don’t,” David said without opening his eyes. “No phone for the human for now.”
Angel didn’t argue or make anymore remarks about being kidnapped. He was pretty sure they were still working under the assumption that their stay of mind wiping was contingent on shutting up. He let himself fall asleep, wondering how long they’d actually stay quiet.
The answer was actually a little over an hour, until they’d gotten back to Dahlia and both of them woke up again.
“Am I still being kidnapped?” Angel asked, voice quiet like if they whispered it wouldn’t count.
David bit the inside of his lip to keep from smiling, forcing a stern frown instead. “Yes.”
Angel nodded, like they had suspected it and it wasn’t so bad. “If I’m going to be kidnapped all night, can I just call to let people know they don’t need to look for me?” they whispered quickly.
Asher was grinning. Milo rolled his eyes and parked in front of David’s building.
David growled lowly.
Angel put up their hands and sat back. “Yep. Sorry.” They did the zipper motion in front of their mouth.
“Your instincts are the worst,” he griped. “First you tried to feed and pet a wild animal.”
“I didn’t try…”
“And now you think you’re kidnapped but going along with it.”
“David…” Milo said in a gently warning tone.
“Should I kick and scream?” Angel asked.
Asher laughed, getting out of the truck and then opening David’s door. He didn’t move right away though, glaring at Angel instead. “If you were actually being kidnapped? Fuck yes! You’re in a car with three men twice your size—”
“Three times at least for you…” Angel muttered.
“And we’re going to take you upstairs to my apartment and you’re just going to toddle along with us?”
“David…” Milo again.
Angel blinked across the backseat at him. They were dirty and tired, circles under their eyes and hair a mess, but somehow they still looked so open. “Are you saying you’re going to assault me?”
David physically recoiled at the idea, a growl deep in his chest. “No. Of course we aren’t!” His ribs ached but fuck his ribs.
Milo had killed the engine and gotten out, opening the door on Angel’s side. He reached in and grabbed their arm, like they might make a run for it. David snapped off a quick snarl without thinking, leaning deeper into the cab, toward Angel and Milo. He almost reached out, almost grabbed this unempowered human to pull them away from Milo.
Milo’s eyes went big. He let go of Angel almost as quickly as he’d laid a hand on them, palm open and up like proof.
Angel blinked at David and then smiled slowly. “…You like me.”
David blinked back, realizing what he’d done, and groaned. “Fuck you.” He turned to get out of the car, finding it a lot harder than he’d expected.
On the sidewalk, Asher waved Angel out of the cab too and led them inside the apartment building. “You know, you’re my first kidnappee,” he said, wearing their backpack. It looks absurdly small and bright on him.
Angel looked up at him, cheeks still streaked in tears and dirt, but beaming. “Really?” They sounded excited.
Insane. They were both insane.
Milo stood close by.
David winced. “I’m sorry. I don’t know why… I shouldn’t have snapped at you.” He knew Milo wasn’t going to hurt Angel. He knew Milo wouldn’t hurt anyone who didn’t definitely have it coming.
Milo shook his head and stepped closer.
“Really, Milo. I’m sorry. And you’re right about what we should have done but I just…” He looked at the building where Asher and Angel had gone. “I can’t.”
Milo nodded and waited.
David sighed and tried to take a step away from the car, having to stop and will his legs not to give out. He needed help. His whole body hurt in a way that was seriously threatening to drop him on the pavement. He lifted his good arm and Milo stepped into his side, like that was exactly what he’d been waiting for—like he’d known there was no way David would make it to the door on his own but being Milo, he wasn’t going to point it out.
Milo easily took his weight and walking him inside. “So… do you really have a head injury or are you into this human?”
David groaned. “I don’t know. Hopefully a head injury…”
Milo huffed a laugh, hitting the button for the elevator. “You had us scared, you know…”
David looked at Milo, wondering if he was still talking about the human and his bad choices surrounding them. No, that wasn’t it. He meant the fall and disappearing for a night in the woods. David sighed and begrudgingly admitted, “They might have saved me.”
Milo glanced up at him on the elevator like he expected it to be a joke, sobering when he realized it wasn’t.
They’d given him water and food.
They’d howled.
That was how Milo and Asher had found him.
Milo nodded and half-carried David down the hall to his apartment, Asher standing in the open doorway and talking to Angel about David’s video game selection.
“For fuck’s sake, don’t let them touch my shit!” David groused.
Asher pouted. “Oh come on, big guy, we can’t kidnap them and not give them anything to do.”
“Stop saying we kidnapped them,” he growled in a whisper. Someone was going to overhear them and call the police. Although, with Angel’s survival skill deficiency, they’d probably lie to the cops if they knocked on the door.
David would have definitely chosen to stretch out on his bed if it weren’t for Angel on his couch. He settled in the corner and put his legs up on that arm of the sectional.
Angel was on the floor going through his games. “Jesus, these are all awful.”
Asher snorted.
“Fuck you,” David ground out, letting his heavy lids drag shut.
Milo was on the phone with his mom in the other room.
“Ash, water,” David mumbled.
Asher jumped to, in the kitchen and back in a flash. He held out a bottle of water to David.
David blinked at it and then frowned and shook his head, pushing Asher’s arm in the direction of the human.
Asher grinned and David pointedly closed his eyes again.
“Oh, thanks!” Angel chimed when Asher offered them the water.
David listened to them gulp it down and felt something deep in his core ease a little
Angel’s stomach rumbled.
David sighed. “Ash…Order food.”
“On it!”
David almost fell asleep listening to Asher order an incredible quantity of food. And then he realized Angel had scooted over to sit on the floor beside him, wedged against the corner of the couch, their shoulder to his hip. “Thanks,” they said softly. “I promise, I really won’t tell anyone.”
David sighed, resisting the strong urge to touch them.
Marie got there sooner than the food, and to David’s dismay, he did not have a head injury.
He did have two broken ribs, a broken arm, and an unempowered human with a direct line to pull at his heart.
Marie could only heal the bones.
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