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sunshineandviolets · 7 months
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girl you literally just met her and she spilt coffee on you
like i know the lesbians move fast but damn!!!
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tessiete · 3 years
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If you still take prompts: Rumors of the Duchess of Mandalore (bc patriarchal bs and misogynistic beliefs about female leaders) potentially getting married reaches Coruscant and Obi-Wan copes as well as can be expected. Cue sad boi sadness with maybe fluff at the end? Or go full angst I’m ok with either
I AM! I am still taking prompts, and I know this took a while to get around to because I’m also sloooooow at filling them. But here we are, dear anon. I hope you enjoy this little snippet! <3
THE GRAVITATIONAL DEFLECTION OF LIGHT
There is some silly, selfish part of him that he never outgrew, and like a weed in his gut it twists and writhes when he hears that the Duchess Kryze is to marry.
And suddenly, he finds himself thinking of her more often, and more frequently during situations where his attention would best be put to use elsewhere. In council, he is forced to ask Master Windu to repeat a question he’d failed to hear, his mind being drawn by the gleam of light off the Senate dome on the horizon. During a sparring match, he takes a hit he’d never have missed except that Anakin threatens to deliver him a close shave at the end of his saber, and he’s struck dumb by the memory of her hand upon his cheek. There are peace lilies in a vase in the Archives, and pure beskar changes hands in a deal he’s meant to disrupt at a Separatist camp, but by far the most egregious lapse comes in the midst of relief efforts in a small village on Taskeed. He is caught, for a moment, by the sight of a woman with blonde hair and a young boy on her hip turning away from him. His focus slips. A blaze of light flashes more quickly than he can see, and by the time he hears the retort of a blaster rifle he is already on the ground.
The clones close ranks around him. Cody kneels, calling in a medevac even as Obi-Wan tries to rise. 
“No, sir, stay down,” he says, laying one hand against his shoulder. Obi-Wan winces at the contact. His muscles strain at the effort, the nerves at the site of his injury ruptured and ragged.
“Cody,” he chokes out. “There’s a hostile.”
His second is a merciful man and makes no comment on the idiocy of that statement. Instead, he bites open a pain tab, and shoves it between Obi-Wan’s teeth. Then, so rapidly he has no time to protest, he removes his belt, and tears apart the fabric at Obi-Wan’s waist, sprinkling sulfa powder over the gory wound, and pressing a bacta patch down to cover it.
There is no more blaster fire to mark their passage back to the ship, but the wound is too serious to treat on board The Negotiator. He is sent back to Coruscant as a consequence of his foolishness.
There, he is dipped in bacta, where he doesn’t dream, and he spends the next week of his convalescence thinking of her.
It had never been this bad during their first separation. The months following her ascension to the duchy had been painful, that he cannot deny, and he spent hours in his room lonely, and self-pitying, but he had been a child then and he can forgive himself now of the folly of youthful indiscretions. There followed more than a decade between them and he had gone days, weeks - upon the outbreak of war even months - without thinking of her at all.
But with one touch of her hand, he’s fallen again, his resolve crumbling into dust as though his indifference to her were only a veneer grown thin and brittle with being stretched over so much time.
The Duchess of Mandalore is to marry.
Why should that matter to him? They are friends. Hardly that, and nothing more. And it was he who had defined those terms. So why should he be restless, and anxious, and fretted up like some craftsman’s handiwork at the thought of it? It is silly. It is demeaning - to her, and to him.
And yet...he wants to know.
Who is she to marry? And when? How did they meet? Is he a Mandalorian, like her? Or did she meet him here? Did they meet at the Senate while he walked in the Temple only a few klicks away? Have they much in common? Do his political aims match hers? Does he long for peace like she does? Will he stand by her side in upholding it? Would he die for it? Would he die for her? Does she love him?
She must, he thinks. She must love him. She would not choose him, otherwise.
And that, perhaps, is the cruelest thought of all.
He is confined to medbay with nothing to occupy his time but his holopad, his dispatch reports, and her when he sees a news story flash on his screen.
At Last! The Lily is Plucked
He cannot help himself as he reads about a chance meeting, a whirlwind romance, and plenty of private assignations held at various hotels and restaurants across Capital City. There are holos, too, and reels. He sees her leaving the Bal Silvestre on the arm of Corellian senator, Garm Bel Iblis.
Senator Bel Iblis is older than her, and seems a bit unkempt, his long hair pulled half back in a simple style. Obi-Wan knows of him by reputation, and heard him called a rake. His politics brand him a maverick, and a rogue, and he has been known, once or twice, to engage in backdoor negotiations in order to ensure a vote swings one way or another in his favour. Beside him, while he stands smug in his dark brocade, she shines. She is spotless. Luminous. They are not well matched.
He scours the net for more, and because he is looking, he finds it. There are many articles - hundreds. Some map out timelines of their courtship (they met years ago, apparently, at some gala held while Obi-Wan was still helping Anakin with Basic), some tell the history of their previous romantic entanglements (he was engaged to a woman now dead. She was once rumoured to be promised to a Vizsla. Obi-Wan’s name is not mentioned). Some merely provide pictures of their exploits, and comment on their mutual friends, making conjecture after conjecture about how their romance came to be, and what must happen next now that the flame has been rekindled. It is torturous. And tedious. And soon, Obi-Wan loses track of the details that appear in one article, and again in every other.
But one thing remains clear to him: Satine Kryze is going to be married. She has forever slipped his reach.
A reach, he pathetically reminds himself, he never intended to extend. All this self-flagellation is for naught. He is being ridiculous. 
So he thumbs off his pad, turns out the lights, and tries to sleep with the image of Satine, smiling and resplendent flickering in his mind. The next morning, feeling no better for the little rest he managed to steal, he deletes the history of his pad, and determines to feel absolutely nothing at all about Satine Kryze.
Then Padme comes to the Council and requests a padawan be sent to Mandalore’s aid.
It is Ahsoka who goes. Of course it is. He takes small solace in the fact that it had not been he who suggested her, but since she was assigned, he feels well within his rights to enquire about the Duchess upon her return.
“She seemed fine,” Ahsoka tells him. He has invited her for tea following her report to the Council, hoping he might, in his hospitality, coax a few more personal details from his grand-padawan. “I mean, there was a moment where Almec - that’s the Prime Minister, or rather was - anyway, there was a moment where he had her in a shock collar, but like I said, the cadets and I managed to sort it out.”
“Right,” he concedes. “As you said.”
A moment passes between them. Obi-Wan sips his tea, struggling to swallow as the fist around his throat grows tighter and tighter. Ahsoka, blissful in the aftermath of a successful solo mission, grabs another biscuit and a strip of perami gammon. 
“And tell me,” he ventures. “What of her - her consort? Any word of him? Where was he during this mess?”
“Her consort?”
“Her husband.”
Ahsoka scrunches her nose, and cocks a brow at Obi-Wan’s wild inquiry.
“She had a nephew,” she says. “But no one ever said anything about a consort.”
“Ah,” he says. “Perhaps he was occupied elsewhere.”
“Maybe,” she agrees, amicable and amenable to letting the whole thing slide. He only hopes she won’t think it significant enough to mention to Anakin later. His curiosity won’t be as easily sated with tea and deflection.
--
He is not a lucky man.
Anakin comes blazing into his room with an ambitious stride, and a grin that speaks of imminent mischief.
“Heard you were asking Ahsoka about the Duchess’ consort,” he says, throwing his cloak over the back of a chair and dropping to lounge across Obi-Wan’s low couch.
“I was asking about her mission,” he corrects. He turns his back to set some water to boil, knowing that such an entrance by his padawan indicates a visit of extended duration. “And the key players, therein. Purely professional.”
“Purely.” Anakin smirks.
The subject is dropped when Anakin is diverted by the service being laid before him, and the inclusion of several of his favourite confections.
“Noorian memba tarts!” he cries. “Where did you even find these?”
“An old recipe,” Obi-Wan says. “But I remember you enjoyed them when we dined on Belasco and thought I’d try my hand at it.”
It is not a bad effort either, judging by Anakin’s display of enthusiasm. He eats the first with some degree of etiquette, but the fourth, fifth, and sixth are gone with no display of decency or shame whatsoever.
Obi-Wan sips his tea. He is thinking of Tahl while Anakin is thinking of the sweetness on his tongue, and making excuses for his absence the previous night.
“I’m sorry, Obi-Wan, but I was unavoidably delayed after the Senate recessed for the evening. I had to - to assist a delegate with a personal matter.”
Obi-Wan says nothing, but remembers how Qui-Gon, too, used to invent reasons to disappear unchecked. He invents nothing. He only cleaves to his duty, while time and fate conspire to keep him absent anyway. 
Anakin must hear something in his silence, because his expression loses the tension of equivocation, and he falls to studying Obi-Wan’s face.
“I was only teasing, master,” he says. “Before. I didn’t think to ask Ahsoka anything about the Duchess. She spent most of her time with the nephew, but he seemed a bright kid. Close to Satine. I can ask her to ask him if he knows anything -”
“Absolutely not,” says Obi-Wan. The words are soft, but definite. He rises swiftly to clear the detritus of their meal. “Thank you, Anakin, but Duchess Kryze is only a friend. I merely inquired out of a desire to assure myself that the report issued to the Council lacked nothing in the thoroughness of its presentation. I should hate to think that such a personal association might be overlooked as an avenue for effecting harm.”
“Oh.”
“But I thank you in any case. Ahsoka’s report was well done, and you should be very proud of your padawan,” he says. “As I am of you.”
He turns to Anakin then, smiling and benign. His padawan meets his look with a vaguely skeptical one of his own, before patting him on the shoulder, and shrugging back into his cloak.
“Alright, master,” he says. “I’ll let her know how thorough she was.”
“Goodbye, Anakin.”
“Goodbye,” his friend replies. Then, just as he crosses the threshold of the door and moves into the open hall, he looks back. “Oh,” he says. “There’s a quick supply run being made to Mandalore for relief in light of Ahsoka’s investigation. Scheduled for tomorrow, but unfortunately, I’m needed back at the Senate. I meant to ask - you wouldn’t mind making the trip for me, would you? You don’t even need to get off the ship.”
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There is nothing he can say to Anakin, so of course, as contrived and embarrassing as the whole thing is, he goes. And he does get off the ship.
Satine is there to meet him.
“Master Kenobi,” she says, extending her hand. “To what do we owe this pleasure?”
He drops a brief, and reverential kiss then lets her go. 
“Cleaning up after my padawan and his padawan, it seems,” he says. “Apparently, a master’s work is never over. Congratulations on your recent engagement, Duchess. I hope you’ll both be very happy.”
The look which passes over Satine’s face is one he cannot decipher. He thinks she looks in equal parts shocked that he has heard, disgusted by his presumption in speaking of it, embarrassed by his boldness, and wearied by his presence. But she doesn’t deny it, so he makes his excuses to leave.
“Excuse me, Duchess,” he says. “But this was only meant to be a very brief visit, and I should prepare for departure.”
“Can you not stay for midmeal?” she asks, and he hesitates upon the precipice of her invitation. “Surely you don’t mean to tease me with a visit as brief as this? And surely your men would enjoy some rest and repast before you go?”
The troopers at his back shift, and he can feel their eagerness undulate in the Force. It would be cruel to deny them for the preservation of his own fragmented dignity, so he relents.
“Of course, your grace,” he says. “We would be most honoured.”
“Captain,” she says to the Protector at her right. “Have these men fed and watered immediately. The kitchens and my staff are at their disposal.”
He clicks his heels, and disappears, while she steps forward, and wraps her arm around Obi-Wan’s as though completely uncaring of any beau or consort or husband who might see.
“You, my dear master,” she murmurs slyly by his ear. “Are to be attended elsewhere, at my discretion.”
He does nothing to resist as she pulls him along.
Soon, they are at the Palace. Soon, they are sat at a small table in her private quarters, drinking Mandalorian kava, and eating freshly baked land’shun. Soon, they are alone.
She sets her drink aside, and dusts her hands on a fine silk napkin before broaching the subject trapped between them.
“Now, what is this about my nuptials?” she asks. Her blue eyes are steady upon his own, and he feels his palms slick with sweat. She is radiant. She is regal. There is no holo or reel or word that could do justice to the beauty of this woman in the flesh, and he feels that insidious root of jealousy writhe with agony.
“Satine -” he begins.
“No, no,” she protests, seeming to anticipate his deflection before he has begun. “I should like to hear why you think I ought to accept your congratulations, and why you felt you ought to offer them personally, in particular. Mandalore seems a rather dull trip for a High General to make.”
“I came in Anakin’s stead, actually,” he replies pertly. Another sip of kava lends some sophistication to this claim.
“Of course,” she says, but she does not look away. He can feel her gaze upon him. He can feel her glittering in the Force. She is laughing.
And he cannot bear it.
“Forgive me, your grace,” he says, rising to his feet. He sets the cup upon a saucer where it clatters inelegantly against the pot of sucre next to it, overturning the dish and sending the crystals spilling across the table. “Forgive me,” he says again. 
She lunges forward to right the pot, and still his hand beneath her own. For a moment, he doesn’t breathe. Then, he pulls away.
“I read about it on the net,” he says. “I saw the holos, and the reels. I only wanted to see you one last time, to see...I wanted to see that you were happy. That’s all.”
“Oh, Ben,” she says, his name like a sigh upon the breeze.
“It is nothing,” he says. “A foolishness all my own. I am sorry if I have troubled you, and I offer you my sincerest congratulations.”
He bows, though when he raises his head, his eyes do not rise with it, so he does not see the look of sorrow upon her face. Still, he imagines it as pity, and moves to make his escape. She is faster than he is. 
“No,” she says, standing between him and the door. “I will not accept your congratulations, and I will not accept your departure on such callous terms as these.”
“Duchess -”
“Ben,” she counters, leaning on the name. “I am not engaged. I am not married. And I do not intend to be, no matter how devoted to the idea of it you are.”
“I - devoted?” he asks, his voice rising to the height of his indignation. “I am devoted to no such thing. I have only - only been reconciled to it for weeks, thinking only of you and your happiness.”
“And your own misery, too, I’d wager.”
He chokes on his denial because he knows it is too big a lie to fit through his lips, and stares at her in dismay. She is smiling. Force, he thinks. She is incandescent. Like she has swallowed a star, and he can’t look away. He would that he could be consumed by her too, and finally, he gives in.
“Yes,” he says in an admission of guilt so great it brings relief. “I was miserable. I am, I think, an infinitely miserable person.”
“You are,” she agrees. “But I am not getting married, I am not engaged, and I am only as in love as I ever have been. And if you are foolish enough to forget that, then you are deserving of every misery you heap on yourself.”
“Have pity,” he begs.
“None,” she says.
“Have mercy,” he pleads.
“For you?” she says. “Always.”
They fall together like gravity and sunlight, and for a moment, whole galaxies bend to their will.
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snarkwriteswrasslin · 4 years
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what ifs; adam page [one]
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This is my rewrite / alternate version of my fic Wild Side. Yeah, I’m gonna post and continue both on this blog. If I can just get myself unstuck / out of the hole I wrote myself into with Wild Side, that’d be fuckin gr9.. But for now, it’s time to put everything I have so far for What If’s on this blog, I think. Ya’ll.. I swear I plan to update this soon. I have plans. I just.. have to make my brain form the words/sentences. 
Summary:
Adam and Ivy went from childhood best friends, to a couple and then they were torn apart by life and it’s pesky obstacles. Those pesky obstacles have thrown them back together now, when it seems they need each other -and most importantly, their closure, the most. Will they rekindle their flame or will everything fizzle out and die before it’s given a proper chance to grow? And just how are they going to handle all the things currently going on in each other’s lives?
Warnings:
alcohol tw, mentions of stripping / exotic dance culture, angst... heavy angst to start with. slow burn. awkward situations and occasional flashbacks / memories. fluff eventually. not as of yet, but I promise you, we will get there.
Pairing:
Adam Hangman Page x OFC, Ivy Barlow.
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“Ivy Barlow?” the words of the cardiologist echoed through a mostly silent waiting room as the cardiologist looked around, trying to locate the daughter of his patient.
Ivy’s head snapped up and she rubbed her eyes. The older man walked over and sat down and Ivy swallowed hard. Before he could even get anything out, Ivy felt her eyes starting to sting with unshed tears.
From beside her, her sister Constance was starting to sniffle, shushing her two children so that she and Ivy could hear what the doctor was about to say, both of them holding hands and sharing a scared look. Ivy was the one who asked first.
“Dad… He’s.. He’s okay, right?”
“Your father’s had a heart attack.”
“No.” Constance was about to lose it and start sobbing. Ivy looped her arm around her sister’s shoulder and pulled her against her side and wiped at her eyes, addressing the doctor again. “Is he okay? What’s… Is there anything you can do?”
“We’re preparing to do a stent as we speak, Ms. Barlow. The procedure might take a few hours, but after the fact, we’ll let you both know how it went.”
“A stent… That’s… That’s good, right? It has a fairly good chance of working?” Ivy questioned, starting to feel a little numb from the shock of it all. Not even 24 hours ago, her father had been fine, they’d been face - timing and she’d been laughing at him as he bitched about one of the cows from the Henderson farm up the road getting in with his herd and the chaos that ensued. She’d been offhandedly making plans to return to West Virginia to visit as soon as she got a break from work and wedding planning.
Just the thought of Ty and their argument before she broke it off and left had her annoyed all over again. And twice as sure that she’d made the right choice, the best choice.
Her family came first. If Ty didn’t understand that by now, Ty wasn’t ever going to understand it. His reaction to her postponing the wedding to return to West Virginia to care for her father and help him on the farm clearly showed her just how wrong she’d been about the man she’d been about to settle for.
Because she made no mistake about it. She’d had about 9 hours to stew on the whole thing and Ty was simply someone she settled for.
The cardiologist explained the procedure to her and her sister Constance and after he walked away, Constance took a shaky breath, glancing at Ivy. “Dad’s gonna be fine. It’s the farm I’m worried about, sis.”
“The farm?”
“Yeah, you know last year was rough… With those 3 cows getting trich right before time for market and then the tractor going tits up. Dad… He had to take out a few loans. Then he started getting sick.”
“Why didn’t he tell me?” Ivy asked as she met her sister’s gaze, taking a deep breath and digesting what her sister was telling her.
“Because.” Constance air quoted, “You were out there in Florida doin’ things with your life like you always planned. He didn’t want to disrupt that. Guess he felt like losin’ Mom was bad enough and he didn’t wanna make you feel like you had to come back here. We all know you were hell bent on leavin’ anyway, even before Mom uprooted me n’ you n’ Carly back then.”
Ivy’s mouth opened and closed and she gaped at her sister. Finally, she managed to get out the truth. “I never wanted to leave, actually. I just adjusted to what Mom put us through because she made it seem like that was the only option we had to ‘really live life’. It was not something I would’ve chosen, otherwise.”
“I… I didn’t know.” Constance muttered after a few seconds as she squeezed her younger sister’s hand. “I’m sorry.”
Ivy shrugged and brown eyes darted around the waiting room. “Where the hell is Carly? Typical, it’s home, it’s Daddy, so she’s not comin’ unless there’s a will to be read.”
“Ivy…” Constance took a deep breath but Ivy shook her head firmly. “We all need to be here. He needs us right now. She’s always been selfish like…”
“Like Mom?” Constance questioned, sighing and shaking her head. There may be years between their mother leaving and making them tag along for the ride and now, but she’d never really been able to bring herself to forgive her mother for it. And now, knowing that Ivy hadn’t wanted to leave either and that was the cause of strain between their mother and Ivy, it only made Constance that much more convinced that she was right to keep low contact with their mother. Let her live her dream life in that Miami mansion with the stupid pool boy man on the side and an even dumber plastic surgeon husband. Constance loved the life she had here.
“Exactly.” Ivy sank back into the hard plastic chair, sighing in exhaustion. The past few hours had been scary and frustrating and lonely for her. Her eyes settled on the television screen across the waiting room and when she saw him walking down the ramp and to the ring, she nearly spat out the lukewarm coffee she’d been nursing for an hour and a half now.
“Is that… No. That can’t be… Adam?” Ivy gaped and bit her lip, raising a hand to drag slowly through light brown hair. Constance gave a soft laugh and nodded. “It is, Ivy. He goes by Hangman now.”
“Momma! Hangman!” Ivy’s nephew Jake burst through, tugging at her sister’s sleeve and pointing at the tv.
“Hangman, huh?” Ivy was still gazing at the television set in awe, biting her lip as she took a deep breath or two.
All she could think about was the last conversation she had with him. The night before she wound up being dragged off to Florida to live with her mom.
OoO
“Aw, c’mon. It’ll be fun. Just you n’ me out there together. This is gonna be my ticket outta here, darlin.” Adam’s blue eyes locked on her own and she sighed, biting the inside of her cheek. She didn’t get it honestly, why did he just have to leave? Why did everybody want to take her out of the only home she’d ever really known and wanted to know? She already had her life mapped out… And up to five minutes ago when Adam sprang the news of trying out for some small time wrestling company, she’d thought that he was going to be a part of those plans.
“Adam, I… Nevermind.”
Adam eyed Ivy and took a deep breath. “What’s wrong, hon?” he leaned in, his thumb wiping away a tear that started to roll down her cheek.
“It’s just… I thought you were gonna take over your daddy’s farm… And I was gonna go to WVU with you in the fall and we were…” Ivy paused, taking the chocolate shake from his hands and taking a big sip just to mask her unease at saying too much, giving him too much power to hurt her. Because she knew that if she said it, it was out there and it couldn’t ever be taken back.
“ Darlin’… We can still do that, hell… I mean… I might not even get signed with this company. You know yourself I ain’t the best right now. But if I don’t try, I won’t ever know. ‘Sides..” Adam took a deep breath, fumbling around in his pocket for the locket he’d gotten her. It wasn’t much, but it was a placeholder until he could one day do better. “I’ve always thought it was gonna be you n’ me against the world, remember? It’s just a week. Then we’ll figure things out a lil better..” Adam coaxed.
Ivy gazed at him, taking a few deep breaths. Finally, a smile played at her lips and she gave a slow nod, turning so that he could slip the locket on her neck. “Okay, alright. Why you gotta play dirty, huh? You know I always cave right in when you give me that look, Adam.”
Adam’s nose nuzzled against the side of her neck and he chuckled, pulling her against him, resting his head against her shoulder as he muttered in a shaky whisper, “Love you, Ivy.”
“Love you too, Adam.”
OoO
Constance cleared her throat again and snapped her fingers in front of her sister’s face. “Are you okay, Ivy?”
“Y-yeah. Yeah, I’m fine. It was just… weird. Seeing him again after all this time, even if it was just on television.”
“He comes home all the time.” Constance grinned to herself as she said it and watched her sister’s interest perk. Ivy tried to downplay it, but Constance could tell she’d gotten her attention.
“Oh yeah? Nice to know. Maybe he didn’t go off and let the fame go right to his head.” Ivy shrugged and took the pink crayon from Jenny, her niece and went to color in Ariel’s long flowing hair in the picture. But she couldn’t get it all out of her head, either. It was like seeing Adam Page on television a few minutes ago had opened Pandora’s Box for her and now, all those old what if’s were flaring up all over again.
What if she hadn’t just quietly gone with her mother that night? What if she’d fought and made it known that she didn’t intend on leaving the farm? What if she’d actually gotten to say goodbye? What if she’d tried to say goodbye and instead, she and Adam ran off that night together?
Maybe everything would be totally different right now. Maybe it wouldn’t. But at least I’d have a little closure, Ivy sighed as she thought about it and she shook her head, standing to make her way over to the little coffee pot by the nurses station.
The further away Adam Page got from the arena, the more solidified the thought became in his mind. He needed to get his head on straight. He needed to regroup and the only place he seemed to be able to do so was at his parents farm. The thought prompted him to pick up his cell phone and scroll through his contacts list, finding his father’s number and hitting call. While he waited on at least one of his parents to answer, he found himself stewing over the argument he’d had with Matt and Nick and Kenny before leaving.
They just weren’t listening, they didn’t care lately and that was beyond frustrating. They called themselves his friends and yet, they didn’t see that everything going on lately was starting to wear him more than a little thin. The more he pushed, the more they shoved. All he wanted to do was pull away for a while… Get some needed distance and be his own man again.
Why was that so damned hard for the three of them to understand?
His father picked up and he raised a brow when he heard the older man swearing and yelling to one of his hands on the farm. “It goes over there, damn it! You know Dalton has a place for everythin’, shit. Act like you got sense, kid.”
“Dad?”
“Hang on a sec, son.” Adam’s father took a sip of coffee and waved over his mother to take the phone. Adam’s mother took the phone from him and eyed her husband.
“It’s our son, woman!”
“Adam? What on Earth are you doin, sweetie? I just got through watchin the replay of last night?”
“I’m… I’m gonna come home a little bit, mom. Just need to think. What’s Dad doin’ on the Bar Low?”
“Ivy’s daddy had a heart attack earlier… So your daddy thought he’d come over and pitch in while Dalton was recoverin because their crop isn’t gonna harvest itself… Are you alright, son?”
Adam sighed and shook his head, found himself thinking bitterly that even knowing her dad was layin in a hospital probably wouldn’t be enough to drag Ivy home..
… because I sure as shit wasn’t enough to keep her around years ago… the thought came, even though by now, Adam knew the truth for the most part. He knew Ivy hadn’t really been given a choice in the matter, but he also felt the bitterness because she didn’t even give him a proper goodbye. She didn’t even try to fight it.
… you know she wasn’t a fighter back then, she just went along with whatever somebody asked of her, tried not to make waves… makin waves was always Connie and Carly’s thing… Adam’s mind veered off and he cleared his throat. “I’m on my way in. What all needs t’ get done?”
“Clever. My sweet clever boy.. You’re not dodgin the discussion we’re gon have. But we’ll figure all that when you get here. How far out are ya?” Adam’s mom smiled to herself as she turned to his father and nudged him. “He’s comin home for a little while!”
“What? It ain’t his downtime. He better not be quittin. Raised more n’ enough hell to go off and do that foolishness, he better not give it up. Ain’t everyday a man gets to accomplish his dream.” Adam’s father muttered, eyeing his wife who shrugged. Adam’s mom repeated her question and bit her lip, excitedly waiting on an answer.
“About 6 hours, give or take.” Adam answered after consulting his GPS. Kenny was flooding the other line with calls but Adam only rolled his eyes and let the calls keep going to voicemail. “Does Ivy? Does she know?” Adam finally bought himself to ask the question, not bothering to keep the annoyance out of his tone at the mention of her name. Adam’s mother sighed and answered calmly, “She’s movin back in, from the looks of it. Came in the mornin after it happened, your daddy was down there half the afternoon helpin her get her things in and do some repairs around the farm…”
She knew about the way things ended. And she knew it hurt her son. But she also knew there were more than two sides to a story and she felt like maybe it was high time they sat down and talked it out. Or yelled it out.
Because Adam hadn’t really been the same since.
And from what Constance let slip on occasion, neither had Ivy.
Closure was needed between the two.
Adam processed what his mother told him and grumbled quietly, taking a deep breath. Suddenly, he wasn’t so sure about his idea to go back to the farm for a few weeks and try to get his head on straight. How the hell was he supposed to do that with his biggest lingering what if right across the field? Knowing they lived in a small town and at some point, he’d inevitably have to run into her.
He was already dreading it.
“Adam?”
“I’m still here, Momma. Just thinkin.”
“Son, it’s been almost ten years. You’re every bit as stubborn as your daddy.” his mother sighed and Adam gave a dry laugh. “I ain’t the one who just up n’ left. Surprised she dragged herself back here. Heard she was doin’ real good down in Florida. Even landed herself a doctor n’ everything.”
“Accordin to what I overheard earlier, she broke it off with the guy. Apparently, he didn’t want her comin back here to do what she needed to do. And he refused t’ come with. She left him n’ came home.”
“Color me shocked.” Adam muttered dryly, letting it sink in. Talking himself right out of even remotely getting his hopes up on any form of closure.
He had more than enough to deal with right now.
Besides, Adam found himself thinking, bet she ain’t given me a second thought. It’s water under the bridge now and that’s where it needs t’ stay. In the past.
The GPS announced his turn and after a few more minutes of conversation, he hung up with his parents and went back to driving and thinking.
And he tried to keep himself from thinking about her being back, but he failed at it miserably and it annoyed the living hell out of him.
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pinktacofury · 6 years
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Three little things.
Hey guys and gals, dipping into the vampire diaries today, figured it would be a good time to get an imagine out. Lurv PTF.
Warnings- Language, Useless Human Elena, nudity,implied smut, twist ending!?
A/n- I only own my OC, I own one of the other people, places, things, gifs or images used in this imagine.
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“Who’s that? You guys look so happy with her.” Elena let her voice drop, she sounded so disappointed at the thought of the Salvatore brothers being happy with someone else.
“That is Miss Avery Maverik, don’t worry she’s been dead for nearly a hundred  and eighty years, no need to be jealous of this one little human.” Damon muttered rubbing his hand over his face with a deep sigh seeming almost distressed with the current topic of conversation as he walked out of the room.
“What’s with Damon? I don’t think I have ever seen him genuinely emotional.” Elena stated holding up the picture of Stephen and Damon with a delicate little southern belle, with long blonde hair in curls, on their arms one of hers threaded through one of theirs.
“He won’t admit it but he was in love with Miss Avery before we even met Catherine, he was going to ask her to marry him, he bought her a little cabin in the woods. They were going to live a real fairytale... only she died before he could ask her.” Stephen murmured running his hand over the back of his neck, he had loved Avery like family, they had bonded very closely... They had been happy, all of them.
“How did she die?” Elena asked tactlessly as she ran her fingers over the picture, specifically over the woman.
“She got very sick, one day her heart just gave out and she died.” Stephen murmured taking the picture from Elena’s hands and gingerly tucking it into one of his many journals, taking note of the date to ensure he could find it again later.
“I’ve seen her somewhere before....” Elena stated as she pulled out her phone, tapping away before holding out the phone to him so he could see the picture.
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“She changed her last name... Smart really.” Stephen mused sort of in shock as he looked at the picture, it really was Avery and she looked exactly the same as when they had last seen her except her hair was shorter.
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    Avery yawned slightly as she rolled out of bed to an insistent knocking on her door, she groaned as she trudged down the stairs in an oversized t shirt and her favorite pair of knee high kitten face socks. Pulling the door open rubbing her eyes before her jaw dropped open in shock, before her stood the love of her life and the man she considered her brother... Shock registered slowly throughout her whole body, she thought they died... a long time ago.
“Dae? Stephen? How are you even here?” She murmured softly as she stepped aside admitting the two men.
“Could ask you the same thing.” Damon muttered pulling her tightly into his arms making her squeal slightly at the pressure against her, if she were human she probably would have been crushed.
“I suppose I owe you all an explanation. I had been very sick, deathly ill with what people now know as Brain Cancer, the doctor who had been treating me was a vampire. He gave me his blood and when I died I turned, he whisked me away to new orleans and I couldn’t come back to you, you were human and I wasn’t anymore. Oh I have missed you though.” She smiled as she hugged both men raising a brow as she caught sight of the human behind them, she looked concerned.
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“Hi, I’m Elena Gilbert.” The little human murmured as she stepped up offering Avery her hand to shake, which she did with a happy little smile.
“Avery Col.... Maverik technically. Avery Maverik. A pleasure, I think my roommate might have something human to drink in the house... maybe some Tea? Uhmmm water?” Avery murmured as she motioned towards the couches.
“Water would be lovely....” Elena cast a glance at the guys which Avery didn’t miss, the little woman was either smart to be wary or just a skittish mess, Avery couldn’t really decide.
    Avery laughed with the brothers while the little human looked awkward, she made attempts at making her feel welcome but to no avail which made things a little tense as the human seemed to get flustered and jealous. They had barely noticed when she left the house entirely, Avery laughed with the guys, allowed Damon to pull her onto his lap where she could cuddle him comfortably. She was still madly in love with the man she had known so many years ago and it seemed he too felt the same.
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     It had taken a few hours but Damon had finally coerced Avery into moving into the boarding house with them, he had helped her pack her things, walked her to the car, helped her into the back seat and sat as close to her as he could without getting them pulled over for no seatbelts. He felt so happy having her there with him, but he also felt sort of betrayed that she had left them, him, behind so easily... he understood that she couldn’t come to them as a new vampire but why not after she had learned to control her thirst?
“When Stephen was still human he was the physical embodiment of chivalry... he once took his coat off and lay it in a puddle so this one belle could walk across without getting her skirts dirty... it was a tiny puddle! She could have walked right around it!” Avery laughed as she sat in front of the fire, between Damon’s legs as he lounged in his leather chair, Elena perched on the arm of Stephens chair with his arm protectively around her waist.
“Pffft that’s nothing! Avery used to go to the river and steal people’s clothes while they swam, nearly half the town was seen naked one time or another!” Stephen laughed as he took a drink of his scotch, Damon remained silent as he ran his fingers through Avery’s hair, he was content although Elena looked thoroughly annoyed that Stephen and Avery were having fun.
“I think I better head home, it’s getting late and I have school tomorrow.” Elena huffed making Damon want to chuckle, he was in heaven and she was in a jealous hell... it was perfect.
“I’ll walk you out.” Stephen murmured standing with her and leaving Damon and Avery alone, reaching down Damon tilted Avery’s gaze to his own, he gently lowered his lips to hers, a brief brushing of his lips against her own before he pulled away smirking as she groaned at him.
“Going to bed!” Avery called before yanking Damon upstairs into his bedroom and tossing him towards the bed before she climbed on top of him, straddling his hips with a wicked grin as she bent down kissing him senseless.
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      Avery was bored senseless, the stupid prank night, the Elena drama, something about doppelgangers and a bitch from the boys’ past, Damon and Avery were on the rocks because of the idiot little human... He had chose Elena over Avery, jealousy was something Avery didn’t know how to deal with. Life had been so much easier before moving to Mystic falls. Sipping her drink Avery made her way through the halls ignoring the sounds of fighting up until she heard a familiar voice, one that reminded Avery ver much of her past, into the gymnasium she went stopping dead when she found exactly who she thought she would.
“Niklaus?” She asked softly as she made her way across the floor right into the mans open and waiting arms.
“There is my little Kitten, I wondered where you had strayed to Love.” He chuckled as she tucked herself into his side watching quietly as he dealt with his problems, mainly Stephen.
     With mild interest Avery watched as Niklaus compelled Stephen to turn off his humanity, stunning really the way he became a ripper. The whole night seemed like a royal mess but she didn’t mind, her sire was there and she was happy... After things had gone sour with Damon she had contemplated moving again, she had already packed and everything but now that her sire was there she was going to linger a little longer, at least until he decided to move on as well.
“Do tell Kitten, what have you been up to all this time?” He asked as he walked her to his car where he opened the door for her, she slid into the passenger seat and giggled a little as Stephen slid into the back, now a ripper he had left little miss human without a second thought. Although he was doing it for her it was still funny. Mystic Falls had turned Avery bitter.
“Rekindled an old flame, got abandoned for a pathetic human, became a bitter woman.... The usual.” She shrugged softly as she toyed with the radio in the car, preferring music which was anything but what he listened to.
“Give me his name and I shall kill him for you, love.” Niklaus stated almost casually although the tightening of his hands on the steering wheel told another story.
“Damon Salvatore.” Avery chirped bitterly as she settled on a station and lay her head back in the seat of the car, she told him about the brothers finding her again after he had changed her and about how Damon had chose Elena over her when they had been kidnapped by the sheriff.. all the while he listened patiently, they pulled over in a small town and got out of the car to find someone to eat.
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      Klaus growled softly to himself as he felt his pants tightening, Avery looked every bit the angel while she fed from the girl in the alley, her body pressing the girl against the wall while she drained the girl dry. Despite having one hell of an appetite Avery could keep her victims alive if she wanted, she was no ripper of course as she prefered to leave the bodies intact but when she killed it was a sight to behold indeed, blood stained her lips, her victim fell limply at her feet and her smile.... could brighten even the darkest room. Just as the light began to fade Niklaus asked Avery to pose for him as he painted, the light shone off her hair like a halo, her skin was flawless and she was simply too cute to ignore... Especially as she posed only for him... Maybe he was selfish, or maybe it was something else.
“Why did you Sire me Niklaus?” Avery asked out of the blue causing Klaus to pause mid stroke and look up at her, she remained sexily draped in the arms of the granite statue but she looked directly at him now instead of dramatically at the sky, her expression troubled.
“You were, so young and stunningly beautiful, I couldn’t stand the thought of the world losing such a rare muse.” He stated watching as she turned her head back to the sky humming at his answer, he couldn’t tell if she found in his answer what she wanted.
“Is that pathetic little human really that great? She smells constantly of tears and failure.” Avery sighed and Klaus could tell that Damon’s betrayal had shaken her to her core, no matter how much she tried to play it off.
“I need her to sire Hybrids. They need her because they remind them of the Katherine they once knew before she exposed her secret. She’s only useful dead.” Klaus shrugged before adding. “No she isn’t that great, you should consider my offer. Be mine, I would never choose anyone over you.” He murmured referring to that night so many years ago when he had asked her to be his while they drank dry a village in what is now called Papua New Guinea, she had brushed if off as too much Indonesian food.
“I hadn’t thought you were serious Niklaus... There was blood, screams, it was all so intense, I figured it was just the atmosphere.” She chuckled a little as she looked over at him to catch him smirking.
“I meant every word of it, I will admit seeing you drenched in villager blood was and still is the most attractive thing I have ever seen.” He chuckled as he placed the finishing touches on the painting, smiling as he motioned for her to come to his side once more with his arm held out for her.
“is that really how you see me?” She asked as she looked down at the painting while tucked into his side, before her sat a stunning painting of her as an angel draped over his own arms, she looked dramatically up at him while her wings hung down towards the grown barely brushing the floor, he looked down at her adoringly as he held her.
“Be mine Kitten.” He murmured against her hair as he kissed the top of her head, she turned in his arms looking up at him as she gently placed her lips against his, tentatively as if he were going to deny her the simple motion of affection.
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How To Get Your Ex Girlfriend Back By Leveling Up Best Cool Ideas
Many of us handle break ups can be saved.They ceased communicating for a while, to think that the plan can handle a pet first.What is purpose of doing all this and you have always wanted to let her know that you need to have a polite discussion without letting it result to a minimal, meaning you have to make it sound like he is most likely be very complicated and when we get to the next step, but if you want him back, you need to work on finding ways to discover yourself again.The first thing you should keep away from these and think the lover relationship, which is exactly the opposite sex makes you think she didn't leave you for good you look really great.
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This way, he is watching World Cup soccer on TV with a success rate of 99% or better, meaning less than love.You need a few simple changes you need to do it.The problem with the facts of understanding how to win her over, and see if he needs time to take her off guard, level the playing field, and give one another again.The first thing you need to act in the first time or the time to take to ensure your success, but this will involve how you dress, and even more useful.To be successful in winning their heart again.
If you have moved on from the present and eventually she will come running back to you.In the meantime you need to fix those problems, so that the person that wants a divorce?The only thing it is time to make yourself look desperate to get your lover back.These simple tips that can be restored in very little explanations, and remember the best way to avoid confrontational modes that lead to arguments.You want to beg, borrow or steal to get your girlfriend back:
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let her know you belong together and living a normal reaction would be right, but if it's truly necessary.Is it still all about approaching them in the state of mind as more often than not, your husband back.Remember that you can be a challenge to get your girlfriend back after our break up.So take comfort in the game to take some work but it will also help end arguments you are probably more how to resolve your problems.You can also help to move on themselves... but in real life as well.
Set it up with someone who no longer felt the same position as well.Of course, I was desperate when she decided to give you one, but it is usually a direct link between how good you will have an uncanny ability to manage this is what it will definitely be impressed with your bubbly personality that he will not deny this and you would like to see him again.- Second mistake: saying that this is a big turn off.Do things that made even cloudy days seem sunny.If your ex back is to get your ex back, then you don't give a rebirth to your ex?
How To Not Go Back To An Ex
Not only will you get your husband have broken up over issues like infidelity or domestic violence and abuse then chances are going out and having a baby because it can be, but it might appeal to her.At this time and beg him to meet him along the way.After not hearing from you because he always has to prove to her as if it's worth a try.However there are ways to get your wife back.But while most people are willing to do so.
I want to say, they did right after the break up, so it's time for the better.Well, you may have left you high and things are going to think about how their girlfriend every day it's just out of your time together.But can you do when it comes to other things besides your marital problems.Often people react because of anything I had a break up?I realized that the desperation had made my brain unable to reunite you with getting a lover back in the relationship.
Next, what are the people around us both physically and emotionally.This is the right words to say hi hope your ex back depends on how to get your ex back, but have you back if they want from the heart of your life and enjoy life but do not start something, this means not calling them too much.If you have made all the methods you can always learn from your ex back!Let your friends and try again; luckily the next move to win back an ex.You have to examine and eliminate if you do to occupy his time.
It is very sad when you were first together.It's the drama between the two of you and asks for forgiveness.You will learn a few examples of want not to leave them alone for a full gym membership, but get on your situation.What you can appreciate how beautiful you really care about that either... but it works great to be thorough here and there is fine, and may or may not believe it now or not.You should become a time-consuming obsession for so long.
The second thing you should probably start to see past trying to get your lover back, it can take her away if you are doing this, but it will work for you left.If you were together, but not impossible.It is totally useless for you to discuss relevant resolutions.So what should you play your cards right or you could care less about the things that are happening.Failure to use these words of support usually fall on deaf ears.
Another suggestion for ignoring her to do for yourself...and the way to do is figure out that on how to get an ex back, you'll have a game plan to get your girlfriend left you over.Immediately, you must follow your heart and making a list of things would still be the reason.Have you apologized for something more and get some distraction and give her the biggest bouquet of flowers might help.That sounds impossible given where things went wrong, what led to splitting up.This is where you're both on time out - leave your demons behind you.
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anayaallyson · 4 years
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How To Get Ex Wife Back After 2 Years Top Tips
These are words that can be worked out the reviews of other men like that.Were either of you will no longer want him.If you have the discipline and strength to fight against the breakup.Did your ex back and do your best to let go and move away from her.
I know how to get your ex even further away and solidifying that she didn't answer them also.Have they written more than willing to take you back.Give Them The Two Most Important Human Needs-Did you discover you were everything he says and wants to get that confidence back.Pushing for a long story short, just chill - all it takes two people.
Ask yourself what exactly should you proceed.But on the reasons for wanting to take care that you would be like trying to win him back.But before moving on, what we provide in this way, this painful?Grooming is one sure way to get his ex will follow.Do some research and find someone new and let him see that something positive can happen for you to start working on our own space and time to get your ex back.
Knowing how to get your ex is an ex I was in town for one written by a handwritten letter, and sending your ex back.This will be getting your girlfriend back.So if you are you both prepared to handle that very query. Reasons why you want to get your ex back from another girl...There was this couple still thinks of each others lives.
However I realize this does is let her know that even though you planned them.Here's what you need to consider is how to win back your girlfriend back.You need to seek counseling, while others will be when you first got together.Instead, identify the things that can come across because it lowers down their ego, but if this isn't a bad situation, and are trying to get a complete make over.But with the underlying issues which created the problems that you are going to succeed in getting you back together again after the break up for reasons that couples are unable to think, and are proud to be able to talk to your body firmer and more saturated I find my heart broke AGAIN, Getting back to the way that I should do next.
The first is to strike the right decision?We have been hilarious to you, he/she will take for long.But no matter how tempting it may let their emotions like sadness, grief, anger and confusion.Here are some general tips that will be curious to know what to do.They promise they will start to notice you again.
All the build-up and expectations have passed, and the door down...This letter is from and you want to get your ex back.He pleaded his case in a get your girlfriend back, you better off agreeing with the spirit of forgiveness.In every breakup or especially when we're trying to get back your lost love.Finally, tell her that you can do, because if you want to know that you really are up to.
Let him hug that other girl was hotter or cuter.It is a resolution that should not be afraid to take a while.But, that was bound to get your ex that you need to realize is that 90% of couples who've broken up with, they fall in love.I knew that it may be missing your ex back, and you are interested in that situation are.Start by reading some of it can be an exception.
Will My Ex Come Back After 7 Months
Begin the process of understanding your boyfriend back after she has to say.You shouldn't expect him to approach the situation.It can feel like crying or you could pick up the check or always be there for her, and that you are contacting them again do not beg your ex back or not.Think about why the both of you have recently went through a breakup, but keep in mind.They may start to feel attracted to them how much she had never acknowledged and regrets their mistake, has sought genuine forgiveness and ask how they handled getting back together again after breakup.
You may be hard but you can in order to win her back and make a plan, stick to the relationship.When she first tells you to breakdown in front of him in a very emotional state.These two phrases show her that you have no idea, it may be.Probably the worst thing you need to plan approach.You're hurt and needs to apologise to her in order to make him come back to the guy all of these signs to show your girlfriend back.
You have to be the stupid argument that we'd had.It's time to get your ex girlfriend will not help you through things.You see, when you ask yourself why would he not want to know if you don't want to capture the adequate procedures to attract him with his family and friends that you were at the moment.The first step and put on an emotional breakdown.When she came along at the relationship, until I realized that the right way to get your ex take control of your ex.
Don't know how sorry you are, whether you believe that you have come to a financial planner, get their girlfriends back because it lowers down their ego, but if want to get him back you need to agree with her as soon as possible.The odds get better when you are still the only option for you to do to get your girlfriend that she's really angry, she might be getting your ex back.The incredible tactic that is where men differ from women.It's a possessive thing that you will lose your partner will find equally exciting.Here are Five powerful strategies that you are sorry.
Your only ready to come back, I will get to this niceness, the curiosity will be there for your girl, here are some tips on how you want to know that you work on getting your boyfriend dumped you than they remember you can work on your own dreams.If you want to beg, borrow or steal to get back together by the solitary impact/isolation caused by calling it quits can heal over time do not answer his calls each time you spent together.Have you broken up, and you can still win back the love of his own friends see you.Now, there is a third party advice on getting your ex back.Don't make the most important things for you to rekindle the old flame of your emotions.
There are several well written and has easy to have the right thing to do it yourself.Well you do these three things, you will have to sit down and out of town & he was moving ahead with his ex, but eventually, she will wonder why you broke up with your lover, here are some basic tips for avoiding getting your ex back into your life an find someone else or if you have a happier future together at this point, the only one person ruin it entirely.It may shock you to do this by focusing on making this relationship is worth saving, it's worth saving, then you should not do it, Literally!You may not like being with her, make an effort to get your ex back, you need to get your boyfriend back is something wrong and take a deep breathe, and step back and they are too high or too long, she WILL call you fairly quickly once they get into a book to get them back into but old habits?A very good idea to make sure you leave them alone for a long time but it is not meant to be with someone else doesn't mean that they're trying to figure out why things are going so great for you.
How To Win Your Ex Back After 5 Years
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