#hawthorn series

[kirencer]

[Hawthorn: Chapter One]

Cedar

Summary: Cedar has always meant strength. Resilience. The ability to stand on your own for forever. 

Word count: 2.1k

Relationship: Vampire! Spencer Reid x GN! Reader

Warnings: vampires, slight wet dream mention, abusive/neglectful parent, and “mild” vampire kink. NSFW SERIES 18+ ONLY

A/N: First chapter of a much-needed series. I, Kiram, the vampire Spencer king, present Hawthorn. 

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To say I was excited for the first day of the class would be an understatement. I was practically vibrating in my seat, eyes plastered to the board. Dracula: Intro to Slavic Folklore and Vampires was written in what one might call ‘Chicken Scratch’. It’s a course at UVA, and while it’s been taught by one professor since its start, this year, it’s to be taught by Doctor Spencer Reid.

I had vaguely heard of the name, upon further research I learned that he was an Ex FBI agent with the Behavior Analysis Unit, a genius, and he was hot. Though, from what was written about him, he didn't seem to be the kind of person qualified for teaching about Slavic folklore, an even deeper dive led me to believe that his eidetic memory and IQ alone qualified him for anything.

Plus, vampires just so happen to be my favorite thing ever. So, a pretty face talking about them wouldn't be too bad.

When he walked in, tawny curls floating around his head, shoulders pulled with confidence, and stubble coating his strong, set jaw, I realized that no matter how good of a Professor he was, I would always be unprepared.

See, I had thought that he was attractive at first, yes, but seeing him in person made me realize that the photo truly had no grasp on him. The photo from an article made him seem like … a pretty boy. What I had seen in front of me was a man, with the mirrored nose and eyes and lips of the picture, but set more purposefully. Like Doctor Reid was trying to show everyone how he could be seen; how he wanted to be seen.

What I was truly unprepared for, however, was how his eyes pierced me like a hunter bowing down a deer. My excitement grew as my knees shook instead of my body. For, at that moment, I could swear that the Professor's eyes showed red.

The rest of the hour and a half escaped me, I remember a blur of syllabuses being passed out, Professor Reid’s voice mentioning how the course would be divided into two units “The Lore” and “The Truth”, and also how this wasn’t just a Literature and Folklore class, but a Vampire class. 

Before I knew it, I was back in my dorm and looking up everything I could on modern vampires and how they could relate to my Professor. There was something captivating about him - it had to be the subject he was teaching.

After all, I do love vampires. To what my grandmother said was an unhealthy extent. My father raised me as his father had raised him, a Vampire hunter, and had even warned me of them my entire life. Going as far as to train me every day of my life to kill vampires. Instead of fearing the blood-lusting creatures, I went the opposite way. 

I fell into the Twilight and the Vampire Diaries frenzy, and my wet dreams very often consisted of teeth grazing my skin and red eyes. Though, this was hidden deep within me. Had my father ever learned of my turn from my training to hate everything no longer living as a human, he would destroy it. And me.

The next few days passed as quickly as the hour and a half and before I knew it, I was back in the classroom. A few minutes passed and I settled in as Professor Reid started his lecture. 

“Now, who here has ever consumed any kind of media that had vampires? Or, at the very least, creatures like vampires?” 

People around the room tentatively raised their hands, mine shot up as well. I wasn’t ashamed at all in my love - obsession  - with vampires. The professor nodded. “Some of you are lying about having not. That's okay! If you’re in this room, you have consumed some kind of media or the other that sparked your interest.”

Oh, no. Oh God, no. Not only was Doctor Reid an attractive professor, but he was also a good one who had captivated me beyond what I deemed capable. When he said the word sparked, his hands pushed away from each other in a little motion as if to simulate an explosion. That little motion enamored me to no end. My brain tickled, as though it was searching for something missing.

“The vampires we will learn about will be associated with slavic lore. Many of these will then tie into how we currently view vampires as a collective culture, specifically within media,” Professor Reid leaned back on his desk with a confident smirk.

“It’s interesting, really, that we typically associate vampires with bats. The reason for that is actually more convoluted than one might think. You see, in Slavic folklore, vampires allegedly possessed the ability to transform into butterflies. Which, if you ignore most anatomical and biological classifications, butterflies and bats are sort of similar, no? One is certainly more ominous than the other, but who is to say which creature would be more appealing to the undead.”

My eyes fluttered as I scrawled down the words that flowed so elegantly from my professors’ lips. Every single word felt chosen with purpose and stride. There was confidence in his knowledge as he went through the first bits of pieces of information most of the people in the room with me would ever learn about the lore of vampires. Biting to change, dual souls (“hearts”), and so much more of the best things. True, a lot of my knowledge was from the militarian-like vampire hunter training my father instilled in me, but the rest was from my own late-night research on secure browsers - hidden from where my dad could find it.

Soon, just like the first: it was over in a flash. The lecture hall was practically empty before I had realized, scrawling down the last of Professor Reid’s notes and then, without my better judgment, decided to walk up to the Professor. He was skillfully and fleetingly moving his things to a brown leather side-satchel type bag. I was planning on waiting patiently for him to notice me, however, he turned around to face me as soon as I made my last step towards him. 

There was this look on his face of curiosity, almost a hint of familiarity, and something that I truly could not place. Though the feeling must have been something I had seen before, as it almost made me bristle like a frightened tabby. It wasn't that I was frightened, but rather more so that I was startled. Every cell of my body scrambled for me to run but the small ache that spread from my legs begged me to stay.

“Do you have an urgent question …?” Professor Reid inquired softly, biting into the pillow of his lip before continuing, “Sorry. I do not believe I know your name.”

My mouth fell open and a squeak left it. I wasn’t the kind of person to be hyper aware of other people's teeth. I mean, good dental hygiene and tooth conditions were often highly restricted to higher classes in America, but I couldn’t help but stare at the pristine white that left imprints on his bottom lip for a split second before his tongue swiped over it. What I truly stared at though, were his incisors. They seemed … off .. as if they were a tag longer than what should be normal. It was not unheard of for a human, as I noticed they were not at all long enough to perhaps be the kind of lengths that vampires would have, but they were very noticeable.

“Um … Sorry.” I blurted out. My eyebrows furrowed as I promptly turned around to exit the room. My professor’s voice rang out from behind me.

“I didn’t catch your name!”

Yet I was already too far away, my head enamored with how my professor’s teeth would feel bared against my neck. 

(i was lucky that he wasn’t a vampire! my heart sped up and even a civilized one would have pounced at the rush of blood in my veins, as highlighted by my pulse)

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Or, I was the most unlucky person in the world. As I neared my dorm, the first thing my eyes caught onto was the flier taped to it with the word NOTICE plastered in big red font. Sticky dread flowed through my fingertips and into my toes as I skimmed the words.

I should have known. My dad was missing and the college funds he set up for me already drained. When the board fees hit, it didn’t pass through. 

I was lucky enough to have a scholarship for my classes but it did not cover room and board. I had three days to either find my funds or move out. Well, with virtually no ability to make even a fraction of the needed amount, I would instead need to find a place to stay and hopefully for cheap - the small part time cafe job I had would be enough for a couple hundred a month of rent and groceries for me to live off of. With tips, I wouldn’t be too bad but it’d be cutting it tighter than I wanted.

I knew how to take care of myself, though. With my fathers profession of monster hunting, he would often disappear for months at a time on a job. 

I wasn't able to focus too much on it, though, seeing as I had a shift in an hour and needed to make it to the small bakery and cafe not too far from campus. 

Work wasn’t hard, per se, and the regulars were sweet, but it was just exhausting.  I have always had a very good worth ethic. I just wasn’t in the proper mood today and the fear of losing my dorm. I don’t know what else I expected. My dad had never been the kind to care for others, especially caring about me. I had learned everything I ever needed. I never had a mom to teach me kindness or what my body was changing into – I had to pull myself up by my bootstraps. A mentality that only ever hurt me with every challenge I ever faced. I never asked for help in school and I never relied on anyone but myself. 

Dad said he wouldn’t leave again. He lied, obviously. Lied and took the money we had saved together. Out chasing monsters that sometimes, I didn’t even think existed. Well, ones I wouldn’t think existed, had I not seen one when I was fourteen. My fathers quote unquote arch nemesis. A vampire so cunning that he blended seamlessly into the human world. I had only seen him once. I only remember the way his arms cradled me, his smell, and the red eyes. His smell must have been addictive – he smelt too good for my barely teen mind to comprehend, like sweet incense hinted with woods. Now, I know enough about pretty scents and cologne to know it would be reminiscent of Lavender Cedarwood, my favorite candle. That scent and that grip took over my teenage wet dreams. I could trace back my taste in men and most certainly, my love for vampires to the one specific creature deplored by my father the most.

I don’t remember why he held me – only that the last thing on my mind was fear. It was the first time I had been held in so long that I couldn’t remember the last time I felt safe and protected in another’s arms.

My shift passed quickly with my mind focused on the vampire of my dreams (quite literally) and before I knew it, it was over. I had accumulated a whopping 35 dollars in tips and compared to the impending debt over my head, it was pennies to a hundred bucks. 

Then, just as I was passing the communal post board, I saw it. A flier with soft little butterflies.

“Roommate Wanted:

Cheap rent. Possibility for no rent, just provide your own groceries and help with water and gas. Looking for someone to make coming home less lonely. 

(p.s. I am a man and I understand that might make some uncomfortable. I am open to you bringing a friend to meet and see the apartment with you. I am also open to first meeting in a common and safe area as well as ample talking on the phone. Comfort is important to me. :] )”

And like that, I had decided to try my luck. I mean, cheap or free rent? Genuinely, it sounded like an old man or someone planning to kidnap me … but desperate times called for desperate measures. 

My fingers slid over the paper, snagging one of the perforated number slips at the bottom. For good measure, I snagged all of them. Better for competition!

I stared at the little slip of paper. It was a soft, baby pink. I brought the paper to my nose. I didn't know why. Just … I needed to. And well, there it was.

Sweet cedar.

[TAGLIST: @hotchandspencearedilfs​ @reidgraygubler​]

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[thatrandomblogsays]

Me: *reading a post that makes the joke “Peeta dropped the baby bomb, Gale drops bombs on babies”* haha good one

Also me: you’re missing the point! You’re missing the point! YOURE MISSING THE POINT! He grew up starving. His best friend almost died of hunger. Most of his people live in poverty. He watched children die in a bloodbath every year for the capital’s entertainment. The girl he loved went into the games. Was tortured by the capitol. His district was bombed out of existence. Nearly everyone he knew was killed. Their only crime was being fed up of being hungry and oppressed and sharing the same district as Katniss. All those innocent people. Murdered. He had to take refuge in a district that was bombed out of existence and forced to live underground. Of course he joined the war effort. Of course he designed unethical bombs and battle tactics. He wanted revenge. He wanted the capitol to have a taste of their own medicine. He wanted the rebellion to succeed. And tell me you could live through what he did, and that no part of you would be screaming for Justice and vengeance. Gale is you. You are Gale. He represents a part of feelings and actions that reside within us, even if you don’t act on it.

“But he killed prim!” Exactly! Gale loved prim. She was a second family to her. He looked after Katniss’ family. He saved them from the district 12 bombings. He loved her. He never would’ve put her in danger. He never would’ve put in order for a bombing if it would kill Prim. But coin would. And did. She took what was meant to be a tool of Gale’s righteous revenge for all the suffering he and his people suffered through, only for someone in power to take it and use it to kill someone he loved.

There’s some many lessons to take. We can’t control the things we create. War spares no one. Even justifiable rage and actions can end up rebounding and hurting those you love instead of your targets.

“He drops bombs on babies” is too simplistic of a takeaway and does a disservice to the story and Gale.

#end rant #the first few times I laughed #now I’m getting tired of seeing the same joke again and again and again #i get it #Peeta is the best boy and you’ve been shipping everlark since the books came out #but please stop ignoring the themes and messages I beg you #Gale didn’t even order the bombing 😭 #the hunger games #thg #thg series #thg analysis #thg gale #gale #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #gale hawthorne #mine #primrose everdeen #everlark #abosas #the capitol #district 12 #district 13 #president coin #president snow #hunger games

[starrrbakerrr]

The Hunger Games trilogy, text to screen (in/spo)

#the hunger games #catching fire #mockingjay #the hunger games movies #the hunger games trilogy #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #gale hawthorne #everlark #everthorne #primrose everdeen #thg series #the hunger games series #thgedit #jennifer lawrence #josh hutcherson #liam hemsworth #mine #1000+ #thg text to screen #filmgifs #dailyflicks #'but there are much worse games to play' im still shook #suzanne's pen was on fire when she wrote that #i kinda want to do more of these

[sameschmidtdiffname]

I feel like if Peeta hadn't gotten hijacked by the Capitol before being rescued, he would've ended up physically fighting Gale after hearing about all the bullshit he was on while Katniss was worried over Peeta and was making friends with other people while in 13. Not out of male testosterone "the fuck you say to my woman" type deal, solely because in what world is that okay behavior towards your best friend??

I don't feel like he'd be graceful about it either. Peeta can easily be unhinged when he wants to be. Dude would wait until Gale's 6'4 ass is stalking down the halls one day on the way to class or smth and just konk him the fuck out with a frying pan. He'd confess too. Better yet, self report. Drag Gale's ass to Mrs. Everdeen in medical and be like "I did it." No regrets.

#he'd tell the entirety of d13 too #just blunt. straight up. #he gets along with johanna you can not tell me they dont spend hours sitting around talking about people who need to get pimp smacked #their only difference is peeta issues several warnings first #the hunger games peeta #the hunger games katniss #the hunger games trilogy #the hunger games #hunger games #mockingjay #peeta #peeta mellark #katniss everdeen #gale hawthorne #katniss and peeta #thg series #thg #thg peeta

[purriteen]

it lowkey pisses me off when people say Snow hates Katniss just because she reminds him of Lucy Gray

cause like.. no. he hates her because everything she does is a painful reminder that he had a choice.

when she pulled out those berries, he hated that she would rather die with Peeta than leave him behind for a life of glory and wealth.

whilst he was prepared to kill Lucy Gray for the same result.

when she volunteered in her sisters place at the reaping, he hated that she would rather die than leave her sister behind.

because he’d never do the same for Tigris, even though he arguably “owed” Tigris more than Katniss did Primrose.

when she stepped in to stop commander Thread during Gale’s whipping, he hated that she would rather put herself in the crossfire than let him die.

because he had every opportunity to, but he would never do the same for Sejanus. instead he sent him to his grave.

throughout the entire book Snow keeps choosing money and power over love, and throughout the entire book he tries to gaslight himself into thinking he didn’t have a choice.

Katniss’s actions to some extent forced him to confront his own choices. they forced him to realise that if he hadn’t acted the way he did, he could’ve still had the people he loved by his side.

then there’s the obvious thing with her you know, making the gamemakers and the regime look stupid and well, becoming the unwilling symbol of a rebellion but shh

thank you for coming to my TED talk pookies

#3 am ramblings #the hunger games: the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #tbosbas #the hunger games #thg #thg series #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird #katniss everdeen #primrose everdeen #peeta mellark #tigris snow #gale hawthorne #prim reaper #sejanus plinth #lucy gray my beloved

[everlarksquell]

in a world of boys

he’s a gentleman

#peeta mellark #everlark #katniss everdeen #in a world of boys he’s a gentleman #katniss and peeta #gale hawthorne #thg #the hunger games #the hunger games series #1989 taylor's version #taylor swift

[ashisdeadanddying]

Katniss: *goes feral without peeta*

Katniss: I don't want to exist anymore

Katniss: I give up. Stop speaking, responding, refuse food and water.

Katniss: if I do not see peeta physically in front if me in the next 24 hours i will cease to exist out of spite

Gale: so if I bring him back you'll choose me?

#ash be like #thg peeta #thg haymitch #thg finnick #thg katniss #thg gale #thg incorrect quotes #thg series #thg trilogy #thg fandom #thg #gale hawthorne #peeta rizzlark #peeta mellark #katniss and peeta #hijacked peeta #katniss everdeen #the hunger games #hunger games #hunger games finnick #finnick odair

[taiturner]

Committing to a choice like this, after living how we did — free — I get it. It's hard. It's giving up everything, right up until your own life. But either your heart's beating, or it isn't. Your loved ones' hearts are beating, or they aren't. We take what they give us so that we can live.

the walking dead,  favorite episode(s) of every season season 7 ▶️ episode 8: hearts still beating

#the walking dead #twd #twdedit #thewalkingdeadedit #twdgifs #dailytwd #twddaily #twdfaveps #horrortvsource #usercoty #usertj #tvarchive #twdep #* #twd708 #rosita espinosa #rick grimes #aaron raleigh #daryl dixon #spencer monroe #gabriel stokes #sasha williams #eric raleigh #michonne hawthorne #blood tw #this ep including so many pivotal moments of the series & also so many of my fave char moments.. good for me

[casstars]

(cw: flashing, eyestrain & noose imagery)

Ain't that against the law?

(lyrics are from Maggot by Dazey and the Scouts)

#my art #ace attorney #phoenix wright ace attorney #dahlia ace attorney #iris ace attorney #dahlia hawthorne #aa trilogy #hawthorne twins #valerie hawthorne #godot ace attorney #diego armando #sister bikini #aa #aa3 #Mia is also there technically but not enough to warrant tagging her methinks #Anyway uhh I'm a Dahlia Hawthorne apologist forever and always. best antagonist in the series #gif warning #cw flashing #eyestrain

[tetheredfeathers]

Can we talk about how beyond messed up it was for Gale to suggest leaving Peeta and Haymitch behind.

“I have to, Gale. I can’t leave him and Peeta because they’d —” His scowl cuts me off. “What?” “I’m sorry. I didn’t realize how large our party was, ” he snaps at me. “They’d torture them to death, trying to find out where I was,” I say.

The audacity he has to snap at her, we're talking about life and death here. The way he openly disregards Peeta and Haymitch's lives is so disturbing, and he out of all people is very much aware of the Capitol's capabilities. Imagine how hurt Peeta would've been if he knew about this, I get that they're not all buddy buddy but that doesn't mean wishing pretty much death upon him just because your jealous.

I get it. He was in love, god knows love makes you blind but this is above and beyond. Especially since Gale is a fairly compassionate person, at least for his own people. I'm saying this because of how many people he rescued in MJ and still felt guilty.

Whereas you have Peeta willing to die for Katniss even if meant for her to go back to Gale, her happiness is all that mattered to him. These are things that really infuriate me when it comes to Gale, while his bomb and kisses with Katniss' are grey areas this selfishness when it comes to love is clearly a fatal flaw.

And then after all this he goes on further switching the scenario in this immature competition of who do you love/care more.

“And me, would you leave me?” Gale’s expression is rock hard now. “Just if, for instance, I can’t convince my mother to drag three young kids into the wilderness in winter.”

And the thing is he's scenario isn't even valid or realistic because Hazelle wouldn't have refused to go with them. Peeta's family is understandable being merchants and all. But Hazelle has suffered and more than knows what the Capitol can do.

There are some things that Gale does that are just unforgivable, and I get that all character's have made huge mistakes but most if not all have some excuse for it ( For example Katniss not talking to Peeta for 6 months, it was wrong but understandable due to the circumstances) while this was just plain selfishness.

#he can be so annoying sometimes #everlark #the hunger games #peeta mellark #katniss and peeta #tethered feathers #gale rant #gale hawthorne #katniss x peeta #the hunger games katniss #the hunger games peeta #haymitch abernathy #thg series #thg #hunger games #katniss everdeen

[lovebeatriceplz]

Katniss Everdeen is such a well - written character, like it's actually perfection. And she is literally the epitome of the teenage girl experience, why?. Because she's so clueless about her own abilities, and I'm not talking about like bow and arrow or singing.

Both Gale and Peeta throughout the series mentioned to her that she has no clue "the effect she has on people" which is 100% correct. She doesn't. In catching fire when Finnick and the other tributes were risking their lives for Peeta and herself, she immediately assumed that it was Peeta, that Peeta was the person their willing to give up their lives for, believing that he's what the rebellion needs. Don't get me wrong, that was somewhat true and he is extremely, almost unbelievably likeable. But it's the fact that after all that's happened, people seeing her actions as defiance against the capitol, being the "girl on fire", it never crossed her mind once that she's probably the one they want to keep on their side.

A matter a fact. I personally believe that it's not until, Mockingjay, when she realizes Coin might want her dead once all the districts are united. When Boggs admits that Coin feels threatened by her, because she has influence. Only then do i believe that Katniss Everdeen started to recognize her power, her position, and the effect that she does indeed have on people.

#she's my baby girl #katniss everdeen #katniss and peeta #everlark #coin #boggs #the hunger games trilogy #catching fire #mockingjay #peeta mellark #gale hawthorne #finnick odair #suzanne collins #thg series #thg #the hunger games

[triassictriserratops]

very important question.

cursing and THG characters. Who curses. Who doesn't curse? What are their favorite curses? Who is the FILTHIEST and why ISNT it Johanna?

#the hunger games #thg series #thg #peeta mellark #katniss everdeen #haymitch abernathy #finnick odair #annie cresta #johanna mason #beetee latier #gale hawthorne #primrose everdeen #delly cartwright #effie trinket #literally anyone you want

[untiedbikini]

i wasnt old enough to be online during the hunger game’s prime but ‘#teamgale’ ever being a thing is confusing. like if u rly payed attention to the story team gale would never had been an option. there’s nothing even remotely likeable abt that man.

#the hunger games #thg #katniss everdeen #catching fire #peeta mellark #thg series #everlark #jennifer lawrence #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the mockingjay #liam hemsworth #josh hutcherson #gale hawthorne

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

James St. Clair- Dark Rise Series by C.S. Pacat

Shuos Jedao- Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee

Jack Alston/Lord Hawthorn- The Last Binding Trilogy by Freya Marske

Alastair Carstairs- The Last Hours by Cassandra Clare

#James St. Clair #Dark Rise Series #Dark Rise #Dark Heir #C.S. Pacat #Shuos Jedao #Ninefox Gambit #machineries of empire #Yoon Ha Lee #Jack Alston #Lord Hawthorn #The Last Binding Trilogy #A Marvelous Light #A Restless Truth #A Power Unbound #Freya Marske #Alastair Carstairs #The Last Hours #shadowhunters #Chain of Gold #Cassandra Clare #polls #lgbt books #queer book character tournament 2.0

[aetheros]

I've rewatched the show several dozen times, and still find new stuff I never noticed before. The study group's shirts make a rainbow in order from Britta all the way around the table to Annie!

#community #community show #britta perry #abed nadir #troy barnes #pierce hawthorne #shirley bennett #annie edison #jeff winger #tv shows #tv series #netflix

[whizzerd]

how i imagined some characters from the first hunger games book

#the hunger games #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #primrose everdeen #gale hawthorne #thehungergames #thg series #thg art #hunger games fanart #myart #this is actually from like the beginning of the year