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#oh my god these tags got so long im sorry. this is a long winded way of saying i dont like nahyuta but i really want to :
trippygalaxy · 1 year
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Nicknames for you! Pt 1
(This is inspired by @railroad-migraine -sorry for the tag!- and their nickname headcanons for Critical Role! Highly recommend checking them out!)
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Includes: Time, FD, Warriors
Pt 2  -  Pt 3
Time
Hon
Actually is the most commonly used pet name between you two. Using it without a second thought, it feels likes second nature the longer you two are together. At the beginning Time called you Honey, but the word slowly got shortened throughout the years. You’re unsure if stemmed from laziness or just because he liked the sound of Hon better. He won’t tell you.
Darling
Whispered in those quiet loving moments with few words exchanged. He hugs you from behind, arms wrapped around your waist, swaying together in the moonlight that shines through the window.
Cupping your face with the softest of touches, while looking at you with eyes so full of admiration and love you feel as though you might burst. You truly feel so loved when he mutters the word, like he’s uttering a pray only you could hear.
Snookums
He heard an elderly couple use it once and it got stuck in his mind like glue. Whenever he’s in a more teasing or playful mood he greatly enjoys calling you all sorts of odd and endearing nicknames, finding your reactings oh so amusing. But snookums takes the cake for his (and your) favourite.
LOVES saying it when the boys are around. He acts so lovely dovey when he uses the name, clinging to you like you’re the only thing keeping him standing, knowing how flustered you get .Those closest to hear the forsaken name let out a choruses of groans from second hand embarrassment and attempt to flee the ooey gooey scene infront of them.
Fierce Deity
My Heart
For many many years, he thought that his “heart” was nothing more the a whole in his chest. It’s been broken oh so many times that there was nothing to “put back together”, that it was simply dust and ashes that scattered in the wind.
Though he soon realize that he was wrong. When you came into his life(?), you brought a heart so full that you shared it with him. You filled that hole he’d been missing for so long, you became his heart. His reason to keep going. His reason to be better.
Dearest 
You easily became the most valued and precious thing the great deity ever found. No amount of gems or offering could ever equant to a single hair on your head. 
His voice rumbles ever so slight as the word rolls off his tongue, looming over you with pupil-less eyes staring you down. Any other would be petrified by the haunting sight of the ancient being, but you? You couldn’t feel more at home.
Beloved
Ever the gentlemen, the god loved nothing more than his Beloved and wanted them to know just how dear they are to him. He quite enjoys seeing them flush under his gaze and tender words, he wants them to know that their very existence gives him so much joy.
Warriors
Gorgeous/Handsome
This man thinks you’re the most stunning being that ever graced the lands of Hyrule and he is more than happy to shout that FACT from the rooftops. (no im not kidding, he will if you don’t stop him). Mostly though, he calls you that whenever he notices you’re feeling down. Hoping to turn that frown upside down.
He understands how some can be insecure about their appearance and if you happen to have to be so, then get ready for the most outlandish and poetic speech of your life. Warriors would rather fight five lynels with a wooden sword and shield than let you feel or think lesser of yourself
Babe
Most common and causal name he’ll use. Yet he most you’ll hear him say it is when he’s jealous and wants to show that you’re together.
 He knows that you are more than capable to handle yourself, especially when it came to dealing with weirdos. Yet sometimes he can’t help the jealousy the bubbles in his stomach, so what does he do? Well he -of course- saunters over to where ever you may be, wraps his arm tightly around your shoulder, brings you closer to him and farer from the creep, kisses your cheek and greets you with a dashing smile and a sickly sweet voice as he states the nickname. All the while, glaring down the weirdo.
Sweetheart
A greeting in a way. Whenever you two are away from one another for however long, he always greets you the same way. A loving smile and open arms, calling out to you and becoming a beacon for you to follow. The name hangs in the air as you two collide, stumbling back as you wrap your arms around him. 
(Apologizes for any typos or miss spellings!)
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purplegirl20 · 2 months
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Valentine
Pairing: Damian Priest x Self-Insert (Me) with mention of Adam Copeland (FKA Edge)
Damian decided to drop in a visit on Valentine Day.
Warning: None
Tagging: :@ghoulsister1 @omg-im-such-a-masochist @sparkleva95 @alicejoaquin1990 @vintage-pvssy @ashkrystal @theworldofotps @nyc-kyra-93 @ziasaph @priestparty @queenzay @sultryfandoms @windhamsrotunda@rheaanddamianfan@theclawdeen1442@tmt-77@blueberryomega@ironshamelessyouth@lisashield @sparklykryptonitequeen91 @claymoresofinfamy23 @keekee-23 @anessa27
Note: This story is a drabble. I'm sorry for the long hiatus, I've finally applied my florida nursing license and I'm currently job hunting and applying for my BSN. I hope you enjoy my story.
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February 14th: Valentine Day.
It was a chilly Valentine day. I returned home after another day of delivering groceries and last minute Valentine items around town.
Shaynell:(sighs) Another day of delivery shit around town.
I get out of my car and grabs my keys from my purse, trying to get inside my house.
Shaynell:(sighs) I'm home. Since Damian probably forget me on Valentine, I might as well order some Chinese takeout and watch AEW dynamite. Maybe seeing Edge might make me feel better. Oh wait. He's Adam now. Feel weird saying his real name. So hard to get used to it.
I kicked my shoes off and grabs my phone from my purse to order some panda express. I plopped down on the couch.
(Door creaking)
Shaynell: Did I hear something? Must be the wind.
I then ignored the noise.
As I was about to order some food for dinner, something obscured my view of vision.
Shaynell: What the hell?
(chuckling) Guess who?
I slowly removed a pair of hands that obscured my sight and turn around.
Shaynell:(gasp) Oh my god!
I saw Damian priest, holding a bouquet of purple roses and a box of chocolate.
Damian: SORPRESA, PRINCESSA! Happy Valentine Day.
Shaynell: Wow! This is so unexpected.
Damian: Do you like it, Mija?
Shaynell:(smiles) I do. Thank you.
I smile and kissed him on the lips, making him chuckle.
Shaynell: I'm surprised that you got me something on valentine. I thought you would be busy before leaving for Australia.
Damian: Mija. You know that I never forget you. You know that.
Shaynell:(softly) I know.
Tears starts flowing down on my cheeks.
Damian: Aw. Princessa. Don't cry.
He slowly wipes the tears away.
Shaynell:(sniffling) I'm sorry. I thought you forget about valentine and hang out with judgement day instead.
Damian: Mija. You know that I always make time for you. No matter what.
He smiles and hold me tight. He then leans toward me and kiss me on the lips.
Damian: I love you, so matter what happens.
Shaynell: You love me more than Adam?
Damian:(chuckling) Of course. I'll never leave you and forget about you.
He then starts peppering my face with kisses, making me giggle.
Shaynell:(giggling) Damian! That's tickle.
Damian: Oh really? How about I tickle you right here.
He starts tickling my sides, causing to laugh and squirm.
Shaynell:(laughing) Stop! I'm going to drop my bouquet of roses and chocolate you gave me!
Damian: Aw come on, princessa. I want to hear you cute laugh.
Shaynell: Ok. Ok.
I quickly put his gifts on top of the table before Damian scooped me up and set me on the couch.
Damian:(chuckling) I want to hear more of your laugh.
He quickly my foot.
Shaynell:(gasp) NO! NOT MY FOOT!
Damian:(chuckling) TOO LATE!
He starts then let his fingers tease my foot, causing me to quickly squirm and laugh.
Shaynell:(laughing) HAHAHAHAHA!!
Damian:(chuckling) Look at you, laughing and squirming for me.
He quickly grabs my other foot and starts tickling it, causing me to laugh hysterically.
Shaynell:(laughing) HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Damian:(baby talk) Aw, look at princessa, enjoying herself, getting her precious feet tickled.
Shaynell:(laughing) Damian!
Damian:(chuckling) I miss your laugh so much.
He quickly get on top of me and lean in for a kiss.
Shaynell:(moans) Damian...
Damian:(chuckling) I miss you so much.
Shaynell: I miss you too. Damian?
Damian: Yes Mija.
Shaynell: Don't you ever leave me.
Damian: I won't.
He smiles and kiss me on lips, making me blush.
Shaynell: I miss your smile. Your hugs. Those beautiful lips.
Damian: You're so sweet, mija.
Shaynell:(chuckling) Aw.
I smile and starts squishing his face.
Shaynell: You have such a squishy face, bunuelos.
Damian: That squishy face is all yours.
He smile and snuggle with me, making me smile.
Damian: How about we eat some chocolate that I bought you?
Shaynell: I would like that. And I order some panda express for dinner. I'm starving.
Damian: I would like that.
I smile and start ordering some dinner as we about to take it easy on Valentine.
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Loki Episode 5 Incoherent Thoughts
Spoilers for Loki episode 5. And also my fic, Scattered to the Wind, because holy shit.
My stomach hurts, guys
I've been texting my best friend about this upcoming episode all day. I'd say I was getting progressively more unhinged, but I definitely started out unhinged and fluctuated from there.
Oh my GOD the title is making me feel better already
Oh god never mind I'm scared again after the recap and the haunting intro music
FUCK THAT ONE TEAR ON LOKI'S FACE
SHIT WAIT DID HE TIME SLIP I BET HE TIME SLIPPED
NO HE WENT TO THE PIE ROOM ;.;
FUCK YES HE DID TIME SLIP
OH MONKEY FUCK
THE TIME SLIPS ARE SHORTER
OH MY GOD I'VE FOR SURE HAD A NIGHTMARE LIKE THIS WHERE EVERYTHING TURNS TO SPAGHETTI THAT'S HORRIFYING
NO NOT THE CLOCK TICKING
EVERYTHING'S GONNA BE IN CAPS THIS EP ISN'T IT
I'LL TELL YOU, THE SAME THING HAPPENED IN EP 5 OF LAST SEASON. I TOOK NOTES ALL IN CAPS TOO
YES CASEY'S IN JAIL I WAS FUCKING RIGHT PLEASE BE ALCATRAZ sorry spoilers for Scattered to the Wind
OH MY GOD WHO WAS RIGHT ABOUT FUCKING ALL OF THIS
WAS THAT A BOAT
I WAS FUCKING RIGHT I WAS FUCKING RIGHT I WAS FUCKING RIGHT
FUCK NOW PEOPLE ARE GONNA READ IT AND BE ALL "UM ACTUALLY IT WAS 1962 NOT 1935" AND IM GONNA BE ALL "UM ACTUALLY I FUCKING CALLED THIS ENTIRE THING SO STOW IT"
GUT US LIKE FISH
LOKI
OKAY I GOT THE NAME WRONG BUT LITERALLY EVERYTHING ELSE
YES MOBIUS GIMME
NO LAME FUCK OFF MARVEL
SIX YEARS OFF FOR B-15 I SWEAR TO GOD IF HER NAME IS ANN I'LL LOSE IT
WRONG PLACE BUT I UNDERSTAND. ACCENT, AND I PUT HER IN LONDON BECAUSE EVERYONE ELSE WAS IN AMERICA
UGH SHE'S SO GOOD AND SHE'S A PEDIATRICIAN I WAS RIGHT ABOUT THAT TOO
BUT SHE'S IN NEW YORK IN 2012 WHAT MONTH IS IT BECAUSE SHE MIGHT KNOW LOKI
MOBIUS YES HOLY SHIT
DON FUCKING DON DO NOT GIVE ME YOUR LAST NAME PLEASE I MEAN I SHIP THORKI SO FANONICALLY I'LL BE FINE WITH IT BUT LIKE EVEN MARVEL WOULDN'T DO THAT RIGHT
NO NOT THE CHILDREN PLEASE LET THAT BE THE FICTIONAL PART
YES MIDWEST BUT WRONG STATE AND WAY WRONG YEAR [I! HAVE! THEORIES! THOUGH!]
MOBIUS HONEY SELL THE MAN A DIRT BIKE MORE JET SKIS FOR YOU
I'M CRYING ABOUT THE COMPARISON BETWEEN LOKI AND THE INFLATABLE GUY OH MY GOD THAT WAS PERFECT
That face was not good enough
Okay the slow walk and stare was perfect though
Wait I just remembered I screenshotted a bingo card for this episode specifically wait I'm gonna be a ball of anxiety and procrastinate and see if I got any squares yet I'll play it in a sec.
God Don is doing to Loki what Mobius did to OB in episode 1. Mo it's okay to tell someone you don't recognize them when they recognize you. It makes the interaction afterward way less awkward and a lot easier.
Fuck what's wrong with your son why doesn't he talk to his mom/dad/parent FUCK I HOPE HIS MOM DIDN'T JUST DIE THAT WOULD BE SO SHITTY
THAT LYING BITCH
THAT ASSHOLE IN THE LOKIUS TAG AFTER EPISODE ONE WHAT A LYING BITCH [No I have a thought though, and I'm sure someone else has had it by now.]
MOBIUS TALK TO YOUR KIDS HOLY FUCK OH MY GOD
WAIT
IF IT'S BILLY AND TOMMY I'LL FUCKING SCREAM
NO LOKI
OH MY GOD WAS I RIGHT ABOUT EVERYONE
RIGHT STATE WRONG TIME IF HE'S A PROFESSOR I'LL SHIT MYSELF
OH BABY MY DARLING
I LIKE THIS BETTER
AWW
SOMEHOW I LOVE HIM MORE
THE POSIT ITS. OB!!!!
IS THAT THE LOOM
THE LINES FROM THE TRAILER
WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK
IF SYLVIE'S IN BROXTON AND HAS FORGOTTEN SHE CAN DO MAGIC I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M GOING TO DO
I SWEAR TO GOD YOU GUYS I DIDN'T WATCH THIS EPISODE UNTIL NOW WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING
THIS IS SO WEIRD I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO
OH MY GOD IT'S NOT THE LOOM IT'S HIS WORKSHOP
HE'S STAYING SO LONG
OH MY GOD IS HIS REAL WHY GONNA BE BECAUSE HE LOVES MOBIUS? I'LL DIE
YES OB I WROTE THIS WE JUST TAKE BRAD OUT OF THE EQUATION AND I'M OKAY WITH THAT
SO I WAS GONNA SAY IRISH BOYS, KEVIN AND SEAN, BUT
BUT SEAN JUST ASKED FOR A DOG AND A SNAKE
THIS MAN IS AN ODIN VARIANT THE KIDS ARE LOKI AND THOR I DON'T LIKE THIS I DON'T LIKE IT HERE I WANT TO LEAVE
Baby Loki would have absolutely played with matches he stole
Baby Thor loves snakes
Take me back to before I was afraid of who Mobius was gonna be when I thought he was Theo and that was the end of it. Take me back even to when I thought he might be Loki but he was married so we might've actually gotten a Sigyn variant. Take me back to when I thought he might be Sigyn and his wife the Loki variant. Hell, take me back to an hour ago when I thought I was just gonna ship another version of thorki. This is a terrible theory.
Loki my god you are terrible at talking to your amnesiac love interest
MOBIUS I THOUGHT YOU SAID ON THE MARKET FOR A SECOND AND I FREAKED
MOBIUS OH MY GOD STOP TRYING TO SELL PEOPLE JET SKIS AND THOSE ARE YOURS
HE REMEMBERS WORD FOR WORD WHAT MOBIUS SAID
YOU GUYS I HAD TO LOOK THAT UP FOR THE FIC TO GET IT RIGHT AND HE RECITES IT WORD FOR FUCKING WORD OFF THE CUFF
AND THAT'S WHEN I STARTED CRYING
LOKI GIVE HIM HIS MEMORIES BEFORE HE CALLS THE COPS I HATE THIS
IT'S OKAY OB YOU'RE GONNA MEET CASEY SOON HOLY SHIT THOUGH I'D CALL 18 MONTHS FAST AND HOW DID YOU FIND HIM
THAT'S WHAT HE SAID TO SYLVIE
LOKI GIVE HIM HIS MEMORIES HE HAS CHILDREN WHO DON'T HAVE A MOM
You can MOVE the time doors??
LOKI GIVE HIM HIS MEMORIES
ALSO WHERE THE FUCK IS SYLVIE
SPACE NAME
OH MY GOD THERE SHE IS, IN BROXTON JUST LIKE I SAID
OKAY THANK GOD
OH MY GOD THERE'S BRAD
YES HE SAID IT HE WANTS HIS FRIENDS BACK HE HAS FRIENDS HE'S NEVER HAD FRIENDS AND NOW HE DOES I'M NOT CRYING I WASN'T CRYING TWO HOURS AGO WHEN I WAS SHOUTING HE HAS FRIENDS NOW IN MY CAR I'M NOT CRYING YOU ARE
I'M FUCKING BAWLING WHO AM I KIDDING
SYLVIE IT'S OKAY FOR HIM TO WANT FRIENDS IT'S OKAY FOR HIM TO HAVE FRIENDS THAT'S NOT SELFISH THAT'S BEING A PERSON
CASEY SHUT UP AND JUST FLIRT WITH HIM
LOKI NO DARLING
DUDE YOU SAID THAT LIKE YOU'RE SELLING HER DRUGS
SYLVIE
YEAH WHAT DID YOU THINK WAS GONNA HAPPEN GIRL
CASEY
OB NO
MOBIUS, B-15
SYLVIE
I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY DID THE FUCKING BLIP AGAIN
TIME LOOP FUCK THIS
FUCK NO FUCK THIS
NO NO
OH HE MEANT HIM OH THANK GOD I THOUGHT HE WAS ABOUT TO GO ALL SYLKI ON ME
LOKIIIIIIIIIIIII YESSSSSSSSSS <3
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quirkle2 · 2 years
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tell me abt warriors I dare you <33
you've made the worst mistake of ur life /lh
(mind the tags btw . might get a lil dicey for some)
TL;DR: im mentally ill.
god where do i even start . fuck.shit .
i think what i like about him most is his Goofiness. he just ? does really silly things solely to get a laugh out of people, even if it makes him look stupid or ridiculous in the process. he Lives to make legend laugh especially, and he's basically always tryin to get a smile out of him someway or another
he's dramatic and cranks his reactions up to a 9 purely to spark some smiles. legend gently kicks him in the shins for making a dumb joke and it doesn't hurt him in any way, but he still yelps and holds his foot and hops around like it's been run over by a boulder. twi playfully shoves him back when they're joking around and wars makes a show of leaning away until his back is on the ground as if the push had really been that strong. wind is sitting in front of him, and wars' drink is on a table behind the kid, so he takes the opportunity to lean forward to Squish wind underneath him, going oh so sorry kid so sorry i'm in ur way it'll just be a second so sorry oughh this sucks doesn't it while he's literally already got his hand around his drink. he's just staying there to listen to wind giggle. he's just a silly guy
he's also just,,, so fucking gentle dude. he's so Gentle w everybody. when he was young he learned all that bullshit abt never showing weakness, never crying blah blah blah Gross . wars thinks that's gross. he was raised on that for most of his childhood, but first, he learned to be gentle and caring from his mom :) she taught him that and he's always stuck to it
he's always so ready to help ? to Fix? he is 100% constantly looking to make sure everybody is okay around him. he lives off of hugs, loves them to death, and is prolly the most cuddly of the chain in my eyes. is always offering them, gets sad when he doesn't get one within like a day VGIEAYVGA and he's always right there to comfort the others; always holding them, always lookin out for them. rly emotionally open i guess ? always happy to listen and happy to comfort. gentle big bro vibes
^ due to all that, sometimes the chain genuinely almost,, forgets he's a captain. he can look scary on the outside if he's fully geared up, but the chain has long-since been desensitized to how dangerous they all look and they see Family there instead of Hero Figure. wars is so gentle and kind and loving and doting that sometimes their memory of what that scarf around his neck rly means fades a bit
that's not to say they don't think he's a good captain—quite the opposite, they think he's an incredible one—but it's just,,, wild to see him hugging people and ruffling hair and being Silly one moment, and then he's a fucking cold, unstoppable force the next. eyes kind and fond at first, but when a battle starts they r Crazed and focused and he's slitting enemies with such perfect swipes that they are cut clean through. it makes them all realize just how gentle he rly is w them ? there is just Something abt that . smth that gets me
^ expanding on him looking out for them, he's really good at spotting when somebody needs a break ? he's . rly good at People. he knows how to read them, how to approach them, what to say, when to say it. and after a while of getting to know the chain, he knows how to look for signs Individually for the different boys. he knows his family very well; if something is wrong, he will likely be able to tell. true to his captain instincts, he keeps them all in his sight, looks after his family closely. a good leader,, good brother :)
he likes to gently remind them to take care of themselves. he's definitely one of those people that mother hen you a bit; he likes to check on everybody, ask if they've drank anything, if they've eaten yet, are they okay, what's on their mind, stuff like that. he needs to know everybody's okay,,, he worries otherwise :(
^ he loves to preach about self-care, and i think one of his biggest flaws w that is that he doesn't follow his own advice at all. he's a huge fucking hypocrite. he knows the consequences of lack of self-care, knows how important it is, and he's even said so most of his life—it's one of the biggest reasons he's such a revered leader in his era, bc he's just,, The Best in terms of tending to his troops and paying attention to mental limits as well as physical. he just,,,, seems to think he himself is exempt from that
he thinks he can just keep working. he thinks he's immune to every type of exhaustion and he will keep going until he collapses. he's got a nasty habit of throwing himself away to keep others standing, and the most concerning part of that is that if somebody points it out or asks if he's pacing himself, he seems to be absolutely clueless to the damage he's doing to his mind and body
. i'm gonna go on a mini-tangent inside this bigger tangent if you don't mind <3: a lot of people tend to characterize him as this over-confident asshole who thinks he's amazing—and that's a perfectly acceptable characterization btw, the freedom of interpretation is a wonderful thing—but i personally see him very differently. i think that characterization tends to stem from that mission in his game, where he gets overconfident after receiving the master sword ?
and to me, that was . a very small fraction of that game. like so small. it was One mission, and then they never touched on it again. and when i think abt that mission, i always remember a line from the start of the game; i don't quite remember when it was said, but at some point the narrator says, "Link did not believe himself to be worthy," in response to him being a Hero ? or smth of that manner. and i think abt that line all the goddamn time.
wars did not have a lot of confidence in himself. he's gotten much better over the years, especially when it comes to combat and leading, but he still doesn't have the confidence he maybe should. when he got the master sword, he felt Power in his hands that he previously had not owned. he'd felt useless before, just a Fucking Guy who suddenly got promoted to Captain and Hero Status, fumbling around and hoping for the best. and then he suddenly had power in his hands. i don't blame him for feeling unstoppable and taking advantage of that—he'd wanted to help, and he finally had a way to do so effectively. he just went too far in an attempt to make things better, and became a little blind to his limits
so he is Not confident. my wars isn't, at least. he has faith in his own combat and leadership skills, but that's pretty much where the confidence ends. he doesn't think of himself as this unstoppable, perfect Heroic symbol. he thinks of himself as Guy Who's Pretty Good At Swinging Swords and Yelling.
and that's ? part of why he thinks he's exempt from all that self-care stuff. he either forgets and gets too caught up in everybody else's problems to care for himself, or he,, genuinely thinks that throwing himself away to keep others up is Okay . like he Deserves that.
i won't get super into it here cuz it's part of his dumb backstory created by my dumb brain, but a lot of that has to do w how he was treated in the army, and his dumbass dad <3 worked him to the ground and pretty much, overtime, made him think that if he wasn't being useful, he didn't have worth. and he's experienced people leaving him bc he "stopped being useful."
so yeah he has abandonment issues . but the chain slowly and surely helps him through those insecurities :] tries to make sure he knows he doesn't have to work himself to death for them to love him,, doesn't completely fix things obviously, and he still struggles w it, but it helps A Lot
another thing w him preaching self-care and then not caring for himself,, he tends to think like that with trauma as well. continuously tells the others that it's okay to Not be okay and that whatever trauma they're dealing w is valid and it's okay to be vulnerable, but then he ,,, goes against all of that for himself.
tries not to "burden" the others w his shit, kinda keeps it locked up, and he tends to think badly abt himself when he's having a tough time. just,, rly beats himself up for Having Trauma, especially when it gets in the way of his productivity and he ends up being "less useful" bc of it. and sometimes he doesn't seem to realize that the chain seeing him like that hurts them a lot, and they're more than willing to console him and try to make it easier on him.
^ over time they Also help him w that,, they help each other a lot. for years, he's tried to repeat the same stuff he tells other people to Himself—stuff like self-care, vulnerability being natural and Okay—but he's never had the self-worth to rly put much stock into it. the chain showing him love even when he was "being useless?" that helped him get over that hurdle
and his constant Care and reminders to take care of themselves r eventually gently reflected back at him—"have you eaten today buddy?" "yeah. what about you?"—just to get wars in the habit of asking Himself the same questions. they do a lot of little things like that in hopes that eventually it adds up to him healing
they care each other they love each other im soso So. ososs ososo ioghugohughgo /pos
wow okay uh im literallyso sorry i just . think abt him lots. this was completely unnecessarily long okay bye
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blueskittlesart · 3 years
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the way that nahyuta from a purely aesthetic perspective should be exactly the kind of character i go for but hes so goddamn annoying that it put me off him immediately....
#feminine man. long hair. earrings. even his outfit is not horrible if you ignore the weird floating scarf#unfortunately hes annoying and he went too long with no backstory whatsoever#like i wont pretend that i didnt initially dislike klavier as well but i think the difference is that#1. the game actively shows us parts of his personality that arent fucking insufferable when we talk to him outside of court#2. his backstory was so heavily hinted at from the very beginning of the game so i was way more engaged with it than with nahyuta's#3. it didnt take the entire game to characterize him. like im sure nahyuta's backstory is gonna fix all the lack of characterization#but currently i am 4 cases into the 5-case game and all i know about him is that hes fucking mean and he is apollo's adopted brother.#and i only know he's apollos brother from the photograph. theyve had maybe one interaction directly and it was almost completely forgettable#i think simon had partially the same problem with a lack of characterization until the final case of the game but at least he had the whole#convicted murderer thing to keep the player engaged#like you could tell what the payoff was going to be with him yeah but it gave you something to wonder about thru the filler cases#THATS ANOTHER THING ACTUALLY. soj drops the bombshell that nahyuta and apollo r siblings in rite and then#storyteller is an athena case. which dont get me wrong i love athena and she deserved her own case but it kinda lessens the impact of the#reveal. if we were to cut back to apollo and nahyuta having at each other in court with the player having that new information it might be#more engaging because like. you'd view the relationship in a new light. you'd be trying to piece together what happened to them.#but instead we cut to him being rude to athena and blackquill having to save her ass because capcom hates women#oh my god these tags got so long im sorry. this is a long winded way of saying i dont like nahyuta but i really want to ://#aa liveblog#soj spoilers#<< in tags lol
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kybervisions · 3 years
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midnight at wayne manor [clark]
summary: during a new years party at wayne manor, a drunk reader makes a move on clark. feelings long buried resurface, which leads to a clark breaking up with lois.  
author’s note: i love chaos,, this was just a small and quick idea that popped into my head while working on another clark one-shot,,feel free to send requests!! clark does try to be a good boyfriend to lois buuut......still a soft!clark fic bc im pretty sure he gets manhandled in this??? 
tags: cheating, dry humping, intoxicated!reader, reader is kind of a maneater in this ngl, kinda angsty   
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They should have stayed home, that was Clark’s immediate thought upon laying eyes on you. The wind had been knocked out of him and he felt frozen in time as you approached them with a bright smile. Your dress fit your body perfectly, complimenting your shape in a sexy red faux leather mini dress, and then your eyes met. Dazzling and alluring. Clark almost forgot about Lois standing beside him, but she grabbed his arm and dragged him to greet you. 
“Happy New Year!” Lois exclaimed as she went in for a hug. “Your house looks amazing by the way,” 
“Thank you,” You chuckled and hugged Lois. “I didn’t think you’d be coming,” You kissed Lois’s cheek and withdrew from the hug. Clark knew you would go to him next. He knew it was just a friendly greeting, but he couldn’t keep himself composed if your body was wrapped tightly around his. 
So, he extended his arm and went for a handshake.
Clark saw a flash of hurt in your eyes, which you quickly covered with a happy face, and he felt like he had been punched in the gut. 
“Almost didn’t,” Lois laughed. “But our schedule cleared up,”
“Good,” You smiled. “Alfred and I spent too much time planning this for people not to enjoy it,”
“Where’s Bruce?” Clark looked around the room.
“My dear brother has locked himself in his room,” You said rather somberly. Again, the sadness in your eyes impacted him. Clark wanted you to be happy, and he needed to be the reason for putting a smile on your face. “Like a fucking child,”
Lois chuckled nervously, uncomfortable with the turn in the conversation. Clark takes a step closer to you, “Do you want me to talk to him? Try and convince him to come up?” He asked. 
“No...I kinda want you to beat his ass,” You said, and you shared a small smile. “He knows how much this party means to me and doesn’t care enough to show up,”
“I’m going to get some drinks,” Lois said, wanting to leave such a personal conversation. After all, she and you had never been close. You met Lois through Clark, but Lois had written about you long before Clark became Superman. You’ve kept a cordial relationship with her, in the name of team bonding. 
So, Lois quickly exited the scene. 
“I’ll rough him up for you,” Clark chuckled and pushed his glasses up with his index finger.
The sudden alertness in your eyes should have told him not to follow you to the Batcave. When you grabbed his arm and interlocked your fingers with his, he should have pulled away, but he let you lead him deeper into the manor, away from the party. 
Clark turned a corner, and you pushed him against a wall. The attack took him by surprise, but he didn’t fight you off. He felt your lips on his and melted. His mind went fuzzy. All he could focus on was you and the feeling of you against him.
He kissed you back. Desperately. Like you’d disappear and he’d never be able to kiss you again. Clark grabbed your hips and switched your positions — having your back against the wall as he thrust his crotch against your wet core. 
Being so close to you made Clark delirious. He should have stopped it, but instead, he deepened your kiss. He tasted the tequila and weed on your tongue, which reminded him you weren’t in the right state of mind, and that completely shattered this little paradise.
“You’re so warm,” You slurred in a whisper. 
“Y/N, you’re drunk,” He tried to hide his hurt. It wasn’t some confession of love from you. It was something fun for you to do while drunk, which broke his heart.
“Hmhmm,” You nodded. “And high,” You smiled. “Want some?” You tried to kiss him again. He turned his head to avoid your lips touching. 
“We can’t,” Clark struggled to pull himself away from you. 
“Because of Lois?” You asked.
“Oh, god, Lois,” Clark ran his fingers through his hair, panicking at the mention of his girlfriend. “I’m sorry,” He apologized. “I shouldn’t have let you do this,” He looked deeply into your confused eye. 
“You don’t have to apologize, Clark,” You smiled. “I wanted to kiss you,” You took a step toward Clark, closing the space between you. “I want to do a lot more than that,” You added, reaching for his crotch.
“O-oh,” Clark whispered as your hands teased his hardened cock through the dress pants. You kissed his neck, and Clark shut his eyes. “Please, don’t,”
You immediately pulled away.
Clark opened his eyes but didn’t see you standing in front of him. He turned around, looked down the hallway, but saw nothing. Only when he used his enhanced vision did he see you had made it to the Batcave. He looked at his watch, which read 11:38pm and sped down to the cave. 
When he reached the control computer, he could hear you crying. Bruce was holding you and looked at Clark with an angry expression. Your tears were his fault, somehow. Confused, but desperate to make you feel better, Clark approaches you.
“Lotta nerve making a girl cry on her birthday,” Bruce said callously. 
It stung.
“You’re not not guilty either, asshole,” You punched Bruce’s shoulder. 
“Ow, fine, I’ll leave,” He kissed your temple, “Love you, spider-monkey,” You rolled your eyes at the nickname. Bruce shot a death glare at Clark before exiting the Batcave to join the festivities.
Your eye makeup had smeared, with black tears running down your cheeks. You looked a mess, which Clark still found endearing.
“What’s wrong?” He asked in a soft tone. 
“I didn’t think you were coming,” You hiccupped. “Soo I drank a lot really fast,” You continued, almost embarrassed to explain your emotions. “Because I really wanted you here and I felt sad but then you showed up and I got really happy and you look so good right now and I’m really drunk and—” To save you your breath, Clark kissed you.
He moved your hair, cupped your face, and passionately kissed you. He wanted this, you, for so long, Clark didn’t care it would inevitably hurt Lois. 
You shoved him away and tears filled your eyes, “We can’t, remember?” Lois. “I’m such a horrible person,” You began to cry. “I shouldn’t have kissed you, I shouldn’t have done that to Lois,” Your eyes were red and puffy from crying. 
Clark hugged you. He wrapped his arms around your body, tiny in comparison to his stature, and he just held you.
“I look good tonight?” Clark asked after a few seconds of comfortable silence. 
You burst into laughter, and Clark was happy to see you smile again. “Yeah, like a sexy librarian,” Your eyes met.
“How long have —
“I don’t even know when it started,” You answered his unfinished question. “All I know is that I looked at you one day and I wasn’t afraid of it anymore,” 
Right. The unspeakable ‘it’. You’d been so scared of falling in love with your best friend that you patiently watched him date another woman for nearly a year.
“But by then, it was too late,” 
“It’s never too late,” Clark asserted. Despite his relationship with Lois, he didn’t feel at home. He’d never experienced a passion like you. Lois tried her best to keep him happy, but her efforts were pointless. “I love you, Y/N,” He confessed.
“I wanna fuck you so bad,” You blurted out. 
“Dear God, woman,” Clark laughed at your explicit commentary. “I’ll break things off with Lois first, alright? So we can both try and keep some semblance of a conscience,” 
“...tonight?” 
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massivetyrantduck · 3 years
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We're back! Incorrect quotes part 3 let's go
Warriors, texting in the group chat: I wonder what Apple shots would look like?
Steam(im experimenting with names for him): *Sends a picture of of a syringe with an apple slice shoddily edited inside*
Legend: *Sends a picture of a shot glass with an Apple poorly drawn inside*
Hyrule: *Sends picture of person dunking a Basketball into the hoop but replaced the basketball with a poorly resized apple*
Warriors: I hate all of you.
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Steam: It’s nice to be wanted, you know?
Legend: Not by the law!
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First: I’ve invited you here because I crave the deadliest game...
Wind , nodding: Knife Monopoly.
First: I was actually going to play Russian roulette, but now I'm really interested in whatever knife Monopoly is.
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Twilight: It’s impossible to make a sentence without using the letter a.
Legend: Despite your thinking, it is quite possible, yet difficult, to form one without the specific letter. Here’s one more to further disprove your theory.
Sky: Fuck you.
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First, seeing a banana on the car seat: What the FUCK??
First, buckling the banana up: Fucking buckle UP, it’s the LAW!
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Time: Wake me up-
Steam: Before you go go
Wild: When September ends
Warriors: WAKE ME UP INSIDE
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Time: Bet you can’t eat 15 crayons!
Wild: Bet you I can!
Steam: *sips coffee, checks to make sure 911 is still on speed dial, and goes back to reading the paper*
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Time: Guys where did Wild go?
Twilight: They got arrested.
Time: How the hell-
Wild: *bursts in through the window* The cops are after me, I thought it would be fun to steal crackers and throw them at people.
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Wind : I like to think of myself as a semi responsible adult here.
Hyrule: Sky is 70% of your impulse control and you know this Wind .
Sky: I feel like Wind is the more responsible one of us two though.
Wind : We are both 70% of each others' impulse control.
Sky: Just two lil beasts in pinwheel hats spinning on the merry-go-round at dangerous velocities, holding each other’s hands so the other doesn’t fall off.
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Wind : Oh, my God. Do you know what this is?
Time: It’s a book. There’s a lot of those in here, this is a library.
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Legend: Maybe the real monster was the friends we both literally and figuratively murdered along the way.
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Twilight: So... what’s goin’ on?
Steam: You want the long version or the short version?
Twilight, hesitantly: The short one, I guess?
Steam: Shit’s fucked.
Twilight: Oh. Well, yeah, that’s definitely not an optimal situation.
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Hyrule: I am very small and I have no money, so you can imagine the kind of stress that I'm under.
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Time: Hey, Joe said he's coming over this afternoon.
Hyrule: Cool.
Time: Do you know who Joe is?
Hyrule: JOE MAMA!
Wind , not even looking up from their phone: Damn, that backfired.
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Time: I have an idea.
First: A good idea?
Time: Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
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Legend: We’re about to do the tazer challenge. You want in?
Twilight: What's the tazer challenge?
Steam: We taze eachother, then drink. (no Steam my hc is that ur 17 and my hc is drinking age in hyrule is 18 dont underage drink)
Twilight: How do you win?
Legend: What are you, a lawyer? You want in or not?
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Warriors: Do you have a bobby pin?
First: Yeah. *searches in their hair*
First: Oh, no, wait. I’m not a nine-year-old girl.
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First: Some of us are still ‘it’ from a childhood game of tag.
Steam: way to just fuck me up on a Tuesday.
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Time: I left instructions for everyone while I'm gone.
Hyrule: Mine just says "Hyrule no."
Time: I want you to apply it to every possible situation.
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Twilight, peeling a banana: May I take your jacket, sir? Hahahaha.
Legend: Do you think other people can’t hear you?
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Hyrule: My assistance will be an act of beneviolence.
Legend: ...Don’t you mean benevolence?
Hyrule: No.
Legend: *proud mentor noises*
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Legend: I'll offer you some friendly advice-
Wind : I don't want your advice.
Legend: Well, then consider it unfriendly advice.
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Hyrule: You know, studies show that keeping a ladder in the house is more dangerous than a loaded gun.
Hyrule: That's why I own TEN guns.
Hyrule: Just in case some maniac tries to sneak in with a ladder.
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Time: Stressed.
Four: Depressed.
Twilight: Possessed.
First: Obsessed.
Wind : Impressed.
Warriors: Chicken breast.
Everyone: ...What?
Warriors: I just wanted to join in.
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Hyrule: Good morning.
Wind : Good morning.
Wild: Good morning.
Warriors: You all sound like robots, try spicing it up a bit.
Four: MORNING MOTHERFUCKERS!
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Warriors: Be right back, gonna hit the toilet for a quick power sob.
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Four(Blue and Vio): BWWAAAAAAAAAA! Oh, you hear that? That's the wrong opinion alarm.
Time: That is not something you actually have installed.
Four: Sorry, say again? I couldn't hear you over my alarm that YOU SET OFF with your WRONG-ASS OPINION.
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Time: If I run and leap at First, they will most certainly catch me in their arms.
Time, running towards First: Coming in!
First: No! I’m holding coffee!
First: *Drops coffee and catches Time*
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Time: You know you can die from that, right?
Sky: *smoking a cigarette* That’s the point.
Wind : *drinking alcohol* We’re trying to speed this up.
Legend: *Eating raw cookie dough and nodding*
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junova · 3 years
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never been in love — single dad!steve (headcannon)
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pairing: single dad!steve x teacher!reader
abstract: the one where steve likes you a lot and his daughter does too. 
warnings: it gets a lil smutty towards the end (18+) not really tho, this is so much longer than i intended jfc, bucky being kind of a dick, hint of daddy kink, cheating? 
[a/n]: this was totally inspired by @marvelouspeterparker​ post. i read it and it pulled me out of my writers block so thank u ! also this is so unnecessarily long but i have no excuse other than im a hoe for steve rogers?? 
*** gif isnt mine — i forgot creds srry :/
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oh god this one is going to hUrt me
but can you just imagine when steve really gets to see you, not just in passing as he picks up his daughter
he nearly shits himself because how in the hell had he not noticed you before?
one any given day, he’s right on time to pick up shai
he’s always punctual
— until today
not only was he late, but he was an hour late and in his mess of mind he was fully convinced they’d never let him bring her to the school again
to make matters even worse his phone had died and his cable was nowhere to be found in his dying, old pick up truck
not to mention his sweet little angel, more than likely frightened out of her mind
— but he was so wrong
practically in a full sprint, he quickly made his way to shai’s classroom when he found her perfectly peaceful while she talked with her teacher
even though, she was facing him and could see him she paid him no mind. it didn’t faze her that her father was so late because you had stayed to keep her company
“well, it looks like he finally decided to show up.” shai spoke to you, loud enough so her father in the doorway could her. the edge in her tone pushing sassy all the way through
of course as soon as shai found her way in steve’s arms he profusely apologized and graciously thanked you for staying with her saying he would repay you for it
— and it definitely had nothing to do with how attracted steve was to you. nope. not at all
you dismissed his gesture, it was a delight to be with shai and you told him such but you had a feeling he wouldn’t let it go
— and he didn’t
the very next day, when he dropped shai off and handed you a dozen pastries he had made fresh this morning
the way you gushed over it, cheekbones high and happy over his kindness made steve’s heart swell
they were still warm and you just couldn’t believe he made these with his bare hands
it was easily the kindest gift anyone ever gave you and you told him that too before you could stop yourself
then he just started bringing you a pastry or two every other day, even if you’d refused them the next day he would bring double the amount he brought the day before
you stopped refusing him bc you already felt guilt since he wouldn’t let you pay for a single one
after two weeks, steve asked you out. you weren’t shocked he had, he had been buttering you up but no matter how charming you thought he was you couldn’t.
he was a parent of one of your students and you just couldn’t allow yourself to go there
it wasn’t necessarily against the rules, but it was frowned upon
accepting your rejection with grace and humility he grabbed shai before bidding you goodbye that day
you thought that was the end of it, until you saw him the following friday night at the bar you frequented at
— alone
you wanted to talk to him, the tequila in your system giving you an irresistible urge to but you were on a date with on of your friends’ coworkers
james buchanan barnes
he definitely was a smooth taker, those dazzling blue eyes sparkling like they knew something you didn’t
you really wanted to be interested, he was a loose shape of a man you’d dream about. maybe you could even pretend he was the one you really wanted
not when steve was sitting at the bar, alone.
but you left that thought behind and you convinced yourself you really were smitten with bucky
two weeks later, bucky and you had been on a few dates and he seemed to like you but you knew you had to end things.
whatever little fling you had going on
your heart got more of kick when steve used to bring you pastries in the morning before class than when bucky kissed you after your first date.
then he asked if you would come to his house, he was having a small get together and would love if you’d be there
— reluctantly, you went
bucky’s friends were nice, each one of them making you feel welcomed into their tight circle.
it turned into a better night than you thought and bucky seemed to be super touchy, guiding you onto his lap as you sat around the fire in his patio
natasha, bucky’s long friend since high school, had you all in fits on the stories from the past
everyone was too busy reeling to recognize his presence but you had the to be blind not to
there steve stood gaping at you’d like you were a ghost, certainly surprised to see you perched on bucky’s lap
yep you wanted to just crawl under a whole a stay there forever
“Glad to see you showed up, punk.” Bucky gesturing for him to make his way over to you, even when you pulled at the sleeve of his henley to stop him.
— of course your efforts to tame bucky in did nothing
he grabbed a cold one before making his way to the two of you
and dear god was it as awkward as ever
“Honey, this is my best friend, Steve.” Honey? He had never called you anything besides your name. By the way he pulled you even closer to him made you think there was something else entirely going on.
you certainly didn’t miss the way steve’s jaw clenched or as he held his right hand picking at the piece of bark rather aggressively
“Um, we actually know each other. Shai is in my class, actually.” Feeling rather suffocated by the weight of Bucky’s arms now that the man you felt too much for was here. “Really? I had no idea.”
steve’s eyes nearly bugged out of his head, infuriated. it wasn’t just that bucky knew you were shai’s teacher but he knew just how much steve liked you.
he didn’t shut up about you since he you with his daughter — something inside him changing in an instance
it wasn’t just that he thought you were the most wonderful woman he’d me — shai also raved over you
shai’s mother leaving a gaping whole in her heart she didn’t quite understand at the age of five was filled by you
you were kind to her, your patience never wearing thin as you gave her the attention she deserved
it may be your job but you enjoyed every moment with her and steve noticed
“Oh? She’s the one you would wake up an hour early for to make the pastries?” Bucky blurted out.
he woke up an early just to make those for you?
the way steve looked at the ground, grinding his fingertip against the label of his beer made you want to cry. his neck flaring pink at the embarrassment only made you wish you were in his arm instead
— even more than you already did
“You really should have seen the smile on his face when he came back from the school gushing over how much you liked what he had made.”
Bucky tightened his arm around your waist before saying. “Or when you reject him, I still can’t decide which is better.”
“That’s enough, James.” You tone harsh, before you ripped yourself away.
you couldn’t even look at steve, you don’t think your heart could handle it so you practically sprinted to your car
you needed to get the fuck out of here
until you reached for you keys, but they weren’t in your pocket
“Looking for these?” His hands looping through your keys giving it a twirl. “Star Wars fan?” Steve gesturing to you baby yoda key chain. “Maybe just a tad.”
“Thank you, Steve.” He tried to ignore the jump you ignited in his heart whenever you said his name.
handing your keys, he turned away from you, heading back into the house until you yanked him forward
the force so strong he though he was going to body slam into you before he pushing his weight against the car.....and you
“I’m sorry about, Bucky. I never would have gone out with him if I knew you two were friends.” You admitted while Steve just stood there looking embarrassed.
god did you always have to ruin everything
“I-I just, um, have these feelings for you. These very complicated feelings that make me want to throw every morally sound thought I have to the wind.”
“Which thought did you want to get rid of right now?” Stepping outside of his comfort zone, Steve grabbed your hands and just on instinct alone you cradled his face like it was the most natural act in the world. Like you had done it a thousand times.
“I mean, for one I’m telling myself I shouldn’t be this close to you.” Steve taking you by surprise as he tilted his head to the side, kissing the palm of your hand.
did he really just-
“What else, sweet girl?”
oh, you really were a goner
“I don’t know.” You spoke softly. Admitting to not only him but yourself — you couldn’t think when he was this close to you.
“Oh, but I think you do.” Steve diving right in as he latched his plump lips to your neck. Making whispers of his name drip off your tongue.
before you register what was happening steve had you pressed up against the car, rough hands gripping your thighs as your legs clinged to his slim waist
not to mention the ratio from his broad shoulders to his hips had your pussy drowning more
making you forget why you’d ever rejected him in the first place and he had hardly even touched you yet
then his lips met yours and you knew he had ruined you for anyone else. no one would ever compare to him and not anyone from your past did.
“Holy shit.” You whispered, completely in awe of what Steve was capable of doing to you in a matter of seconds. The proud smirk he wore in great contrast to what he felt back by the fire when he saw your body entangled with Bucky.
“If I ever see you sitting on my best friend’s lap again, I will go fucking crazy. Do you understand?” Steve eyes burning with envy.
“Yes, Daddy.”
brb gonna cry that i don’t have my very own steve rogers rip 
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 tags: @tonystankschild​ @parkastoria​ @kayteewritessteve​ 
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buzzybeesinlove · 3 years
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Can we get a jealous!Yang too though? 👀💛
yes, you absolutely can my friend! thank you for sending in a prompt <3
now, ive realised that this was kind of just an overall fluff piece with some jealous elements in it, and im not sure if that’s exactly what you may have wanted and im sorry for that if it’s disappointing. but there is jealous yang in here i promise!
this is at a random point in volume 7 before ironwood goes against them all, i hope you enjoy it <3 got actually kinda long sorry about that i couldn’t help myself lol.
Yang wasn’t sure what to make of Atlas quite yet.
The surrounding snowy hills and mountains in the tundra were a big plus for her - they were beautiful, and she remembered when they were flying over those hills and valleys of snow on their way into the city that the moon shone down and bathed those flakes of white in an almost ethereal light, something that took her breath away the first time she saw it.
However, the bitter winds and cold of Atlas kind of counteracted how beautiful it could be.
She shivered as she and Blake walked down the streets of Atlas, a multitude of shops, odds and ends littering both sides of the street. Some were still open - a few clothing stores had their lights on, but when Yang glanced into one of the display windows and saw the price tag for a simple looking black coat, she swiftly looked away with a shake of her head.
That much Lien for a coat? How did Weiss live here for so long?
“So… Um…” Blake suddenly spoke, her breath clouding in front of her from the frosty air.
Oh right, she thought to herself, better actually talk to the girl you asked out, Yang.
“Um…” Yang began - a really great start, clearly. She flushed, definitely not from the cold anymore, and glanced around them, eyes narrowing in on a small cafe not far from them on the other side and a bit down the street. Her eyes lit up and she stopped Blake with a touch to her arm, startling her partner slightly, but helped her understand by pointing towards said cafe, grin on her face.
“We could get some tea there? I know, um, you like it a lot, so…” Yang’s voice turned soft and unsure towards the end, butterflies filling her stomach at the look that Blake gave her then - so soft and open and happy, her ears flicking on her head before she nodded at her, smiling back at her.
“Sure.” Blake replied, helping to relieve some of the tension coiling in Yang’s stomach at possibly messing any of this up.
She wasn’t exactly sure what this was yet, if she were being honest. Yang has been aware of her feelings for a long time - practically since Beacon, even before Blake left her to go to Menagerie. Perhaps they weren’t as strong back then as they were now, but she had always admired Blake - always thought of her as the beautiful, passionate, strong person that she was.
And funny - genuinely funny and sarcastic, a bit of a tease - and Yang would always be thankful that they met in that forest all that time ago, sealing their fates together with one simple look and starting Yang’s path of falling head over heels for her.
Blake was still staring at her, a bit of concern in her eyes and her eyebrows pinched together and Yang realised she hadn’t actually said anything back, and had simply been staring at her partner for who knows how long with a dumbstruck look on her face - probably.
“Oh!” Yang said, clearing her throat and shaking herself out of her thoughts, cheeks warming at the giggle she received from Blake, her hand coming up to block her mouth as she did and Yang couldn’t help the flutter in her heart.
Gods, could she not be cute for two seconds?
“Right, um, let’s go!” Yang said, smiling nervously for a few seconds before scratching the back of her head. She slowly held her arm out, glancing into Blake’s eyes, the amber glowing underneath the streetlight they had stopped by. 
Blake looked down at her arm, and Yang basked in the soft smile on Blake’s face and the light blush on her cheeks - hopefully from her - as she reached out to her, looping their arms together and then curling her right hand around Yang’s bicep.
Wow, okay - remember to breathe, Yang.
With a quick, calming breath, Yang led them further down the sidewalk, reminding herself to take actual breaths and not hold them in whenever Blake shifted her hand on her arm. It got even worse when she decided to lay her head on her shoulder as they walked, snuggling herself into her side. Yang’s heart pounded and she tried her best to remain calm, and she proved successful as they continued down the sidewalk.
Eventually, they crossed the street and walked right up to the little cafe, the open sign still bright and blinding in their eyes as they approached. Yang quickly disentangled herself from Blake to rush forward and open the door for her, the tiny bell ringing above her heads.
Blake blinked and looked at her, ears flicking on her head as she laughed - such a sweet, melodic sound that Yang felt was a privilege to hear. Her hand brushed Yang’s as she passed her, a soft smile still on her face when she met her gaze.
“Why, thank you, Good Sir.” Blake said, donning a posh, proper accent and Yang snorted a laugh at it, causing Blake to giggle as well as they shuffled into the cafe together, the warmth inside immediately overtaking their cold bodies and cheeks.
“Anything for you, m’lady.” Yang said cheekily, delighting in the wide smile on Blake’s face.
They found a spot in the corner of the place, settling down after telling the barista what each of them wanted - Sage tea for Blake, and a simple hot chocolate for Yang.
“I don’t understand why you hate tea.” Blake said, an amused glint in her eye when Yang pulled a face at the word, shaking her head.
“I don’t understand how you like it.” Yang shot back.
“There’s a lot of good uses for tea, you know.” Blake said, laying her chin in her hand as she stared across at her, that same twinkle in her eyes not going away anytime soon. “For example, Sage is well known to help improve your cognitive functions, whereas something like Lemon Balm tea can lift your mood.” Blake continued, and Yang wasn’t entirely sure what either of those types of tea were or what they were like, but she truly didn’t care. 
When Blake got passionate about something, her eyes took on this whole new different light - almost like someone struck a match into her eyes and lit up the fire in them, and Yang would happily burn in those flames for as long as she lived and listen to her partner talk about tea forever if she could just simply watch her like this. Where her guard was down, and where she trusted Yang with everything that she may not trust to others.
Blake had stopped talking at one point, and Yang blinked a few times, realising that she was simply sitting and staring at her and hadn’t really heard past Lemon Balm tea, and Blake’s cheeks were suddenly a bright red and her ears lowered on her head, her hand raising to play with the ends of her hair.
“Sorry, I didn’t mean to… You know, make this super boring or anything.” Blake said, and Yang’s eyes widened, her head shaking violently.
“No! No, trust me, listening to you talk would never be boring to me.” Yang blurted out, flushing when she realised what she just said, but the dejected look in Blake’s eyes was at least now replaced with something much softer - almost disbelief as well.
“Really?” Blake replied in a soft tone, as if she couldn’t believe Yang had said something like that to her and Yang suddenly had the urge to go and punch every single person that may have made Blake feel like that - that her words didn’t matter, that what she loved or what she enjoyed talking about was a waste of time, that she didn’t matter.
Then again, she realised, she couldn’t exactly go and punch the person most responsible anymore.
“Of course.” Yang said with a gentle smile, deciding to be daring and reach out to grasp Blake’s hand in her own, her lilac eyes soft and adoring towards her partner, who still seemed a bit unsure. “Listen, you could be talking about what you threw in the garbage this morning and it would still be interesting.”
Blake snorted, quickly covering her mouth with her hand as she laughed, and Yang giggled along with her, squeezing her hand in her own.
They were rudely interrupted at that moment - a different barista than the one that took their orders sauntered up to them, a boy with floppy brown hair and an easy-going smile, one that prickled Yang’s skin when she realised it was aimed solely at Blake.
“This your tea?” The boy said, voice too sweet and too sugary for Yang’s liking, and Blake nodded at him as he placed it down in front of her. Yang narrowed her eyes when he barely looked at her as he placed her hot chocolate down in front of her, rather roughly. Blake glanced at her, and a look of concern flashed across her face, but she was soon being addressed by the boy again.
“That’s my favourite kind of tea, you know.” The boy said, and Blake blinked up at him, hesitantly smiling a little back at him. Yang’s brow crinkled but she remained silent as the exchange continued.
“Oh? It’s one of mine too.” Blake replied in a polite tone, and the boy beamed at her.
“Rooibos tea is also so good, isn’t it? I definitely recommend it.” He said, leaning a bit closer to Blake as he spoke, and Yang continued to watch with a keen eye. She felt the twitch in her jaw, but she tried to force it down. Blake was there with her - she chose to spend time with Yang, chose to snuggle up to her on their walk over, and has been very transparent that she was having a good time. Even Yang could see that - but, the familiar swirl of envy sprinkled itself into her stomach and her mind and it was hard for her not to say something when the boy leaned a hand on the table to look more closely at her partner, completely ignoring Yang on the other side of the table.
“I don’t think I’ve… Tried that one.” Blake seemed even more hesitant now, but remained polite with the boy, and she even looked interested in whatever tea he had just recommended to her.
It made Yang pause - that interest in Blake’s eyes as the boy spoke about another kind of tea, and although she could tell that Blake was also getting increasingly annoyed at him, it was that spark of interest that was briefly there that settled a cold sensation all over her body.
She had no idea about any of that stuff. She had no clue about what the best books were, the best kinds of tea, never had any clue about the wars that Blake may fight in the future with the White Fang. That was bigger picture stuff that Yang hadn’t given much attention to, along with the smaller things that her partner enjoyed that although she would sit for hours listening to Blake talk about them, she wasn’t entirely knowledgeable on them to begin with.
She would happily learn all of that from Blake over time - what she liked, what she didn’t like, what was on her mind. 
But, did Blake want that as well? Or did she want someone that already valued those things?
This kid was still talking and his voice began to grate on Yang’s last nerve, and although she may regret it later, she suddenly let out a noise of frustration and stood up. The boy stopped talking to flash an annoyed look at her, and Blake glanced at her, but Yang just stared at the boy and flashed a sickly sweet smile, clapping a hand onto his shoulder and almost knocking him down.
“Look…” Yang glanced to his name tag, clearly reading the name ‘Cole’ in big, bold letters. She smirked and looked back into the boy’s eyes, slight fear in them now that he realised that Yang towered over him. “Calvin, I’m sure your knowledge of tea is astounding - truly. But do you mind, I don’t know, leaving the lady alone and letting our date continue?”
The boy stammered at the fire in Yang’s gaze, her grip tightening a little on his shoulder and he suddenly nodded violently, ripping himself away from their table and backing up a little.
“R-Right, um, I’ll just-” He stuttered, and then cleared his throat and rushed his way back towards the other barista, who was trying hard to fight the smile on her lips.
Yang let out a deep sigh, the slight rage and envy dissipating as she settled in her seat again. She wrapped her hands around her, thankfully, still warm hot chocolate and blew on it a little, pointedly ignoring the gaze trained on her from across the table.
“That was… Quite the interaction.” Blake said, and Yang paused just before her hot chocolate could meet her lips, glancing over the rim of the mug to look into Blake’s eyes. There was downright amusement in them - her smirk adding onto that and Yang flushed under her gaze, licking her suddenly dry lips before taking a quick sip of her beverage.
Once she had taken a bit into her mouth and swallowed, she put down her mug again, shifting in her seat.
“He wouldn’t leave us alone.” Yang replied, and Blake hummed at her, smirk not going away even as she tilted her cup to swallow some more of her tea. Yang licked her lips again and reached for her drink, bringing it up to her lips to take another sip.
“Right… Cause this is a date, hm?” Blake said.
Yang sputtered around the rim of her mug, choking a bit on some hot chocolate. She coughed and put her mug down on the table, Blake making a surprised sound and swiftly coming to her side of the table, laying a hand on her back and patting a few times.
“Are you okay?” Blake asked, concern lacing her voice.
Yang coughed a bit more, taking a couple of breaths to steady herself. She cleared her throat and threw a thumbs up to her partner, who breathed out a sigh of relief and smiled down at her, before settling herself back down into her own seat.
Once Yang was able to form coherent sentences, she spoke again.
“I- um, I mean…” Yang winced at how nervous she sounded, cringing at the shy nature she suddenly was taking on in front of the girl of her dreams across the table from her. She took another breath and looked right into Blake’s eyes, steeling her resolve as best she could.
“I… Want it to be.” Yang finally said, so soft that she was sure Blake would have missed it without her Faunus ears. Blake’s cheeks tinged pink all of a sudden, but before she could say anything, Yang barrelled forward, flushing with embarrassment. “Only if- you know, like, you want it to be. I… Love being with you, Blake. And…” Yang paused, clearing her throat to hopefully help build some more of that courage.
“And… Gods, Blake, I’ve been pretty crazy about you since the moment we met so…” Yang trailed off at the end uncertainty blanketing over her at the stunned look in Blake’s eyes at that, her ears lowering on her head and the pink on her cheeks deepening. Blake’s mouth dropped open, but she quickly recovered - how does she do that? - and smirked at Yang.
“So that’s why you almost murdered that boy.” Blake teased, and Yang groaned, laying her head in her hands while also shaking it in disbelief.
“I’m sorry-” Yang started, but Blake cut her off by reaching out to her and grasping one of her hands, stretching her other one to lay itself over top of said hand, cradling it in both of hers at once. Blake met her eyes and smiled so bright that Yang swore she was going to be blinded.
“I can handle my own battles.” Blake said, but before Yang could apologise again in any way, she continued and said, “But I know having you by my side in those battles, defending me and making sure I’m okay, is something I’ve wanted ever since we reunited.”
She paused and squeezed both her hands around Yang’s, not once breaking their eye contact.
“No need to be jealous.” She sing-songed with a cute giggle at Yang’s protest of ‘I wasn’t.’ “I’m… Pretty crazy about you too, Yang Xiao Long. And… I’m hoping this is a date, because I’ve wanted to go on one with you since the Emerald Forest. And I’m hoping... We can go on more, if we find the time.” Blake finished, blush still on her face and a nervous energy in her voice.
Warmth spread from Yang’s chest to the rest of her body, a bright smile overtaking her features at Blake’s confession in that small cafe, their hands intertwined and their hearts beating with so much love for each other.
Yang nodded back at her, knowing her smile was most likely cheesy and dopey, but she didn’t care.
“Me too.” Yang replied, revelling at the beautiful smile Blake threw her way.
Blake was there with her, and they were working towards what they’ve both wanted for a very long time. And no matter who or what got in their way, Yang knew that they would survive in the end.
First, Yang may need to go apologise to that barista for making him wet his pants.
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Ohhhh, requests? Requests!!!! ❤️
We all know and love SE and the Choi family (Mc, Saeyoung and Saeran living together in the bunker).... But what about. Other way arround?
Saeran after ending, with saeran and saeyoung making amends, and you finally befriending and getting to know the true person behind 707.
Im happy with whatever ideas you have for this, but if you need more guidance... A scene between saeyoung and Mc, talking? Saeyoung thanking mcfor making saeran happy and feeling like he failed as a brother for not protecting him, and mc being all sweet as she is reassuring him that it's OK and that they are happy now and just fluffy??????
Gosh, I wrote a lot, sorry.
Oh wow. I ADORE this request. Thank you for bringing me this sweet idea. ♡
I love envisioning their lives together post-AE, and it was so much for fun me to imagine this tiny little slice of that. 
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Saeyoung & Reader (platonic); Saeran X Reader (background), G, words: 2355
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Today there’s one of those early-winter snows where the flurries get stuck in your hair but the ground’s not white and beautiful, just cold and damp. The parking lot is nearly empty—apparently no one else wanted to go out today. Personally, you can’t understand why. You love the way the sky’s a bright white and how the biting wind makes the tips of your ears pink.
Saeyoung, who’s been walking a few paces ahead of you, turns around in time to see you stop and catch a snowflake on your tongue. He raises his eyebrows; he’s got his hood up and there’s a light dusting of snow on top of his head, like powdered sugar.
“I was gonna ask if you regretted coming along now that it’s snowing, but I guess I have my answer.” He’s got a complicated look on his face, like he’s not sure if he’s allowed to laugh at you or not.
“I have no regrets!” you sing, and then he does laugh, shaking his head indulgently.
“Come on,” he says. “Your shoes are getting wet.”
“Your shoes are getting wet. Also your head. Who goes to the store in just a hoodie in the winter?” But you run to catch up with him, splashing in the little puddles that have collected in the uneven pavement.
“It was the hoodie or the floor-length pink fur coat, so I went for the hoodie,” he says, and you can’t tell if he’s joking or not. 
The automatic doors slide open for you; he grabs a shopping cart from the assortment parked just inside the door. You walk beside him, feeling a little awkward. Grocery store etiquette, you think, is such a personal thing. Saeran, for instance, likes to go slowly through the store, lingering in each area—looking for inspiration, sometimes checking recipes on his phone. You like to move through the store at random, picking out items that strike your fancy. These methods work surprisingly well together—perhaps because Saeran finds it charming when you come running up to him with a strange new fruit in your arms.
Saeyoung, it seems, has neither a list nor a plan. He pushes the shopping cart lazily with one hand, heading vaguely toward the nearest aisle. You’re tempted to guide him in one direction or another, but you also don’t want to be a nuisance. This is his shopping trip—he was the one who announced he was going to the store; you were the one who’d insisted on tagging along.
“Are you sure?” he’d asked then, hesitating, one hand already on the doorknob. “You don’t need to! I can get whatever you—”
“I want to,” you’d said firmly, jumping off the couch where you’d been lying with your feet in Saeran’s lap, reading a book. It wasn’t that you needed anything in particular from the grocery store or that you didn’t trust Saeyoung to find whatever was needed for the house (though, in retrospect, it wasn’t that you did trust him, either). It was just…
In the few precious days that you’d been living in the bunker with the brothers—in a world that was suddenly so peaceful you couldn’t quite believe it—you’d begun to realize something: in spite of the hours of phone conversations and chats you’d shared with the enigmatic and charming 707, you actually hardly knew Saeyoung at all.
“So, uhhh,” he begins, a bit uncomfortably. You glance at him askance; his cheeks are pink. “What do we need, anyway?”
You laugh—you can’t help it. “What were you going to buy if I didn’t come with you?”
Saeyoung shrugs, looking down. He’s definitely blushing. “I was gonna…wing it.”
Maybe it’s his inexplicable shyness with you and maybe it’s your genuine love of grocery shopping, but your confidence is bolstered. You take the cart from him and he relinquishes it gratefully, falling into step behind you.
“First we’re going to get produce,” you tell him, and he nods eagerly, bouncing on his heels. He honestly looks excited that you’ve taken the lead; you make a mental note about this. At home, Saeyoung is often in charge—of little things, like what movie you’ll all watch together—because he is boisterously enthusiastic about everything and you and Saeran are more subdued. But here, without his twin, outside of his domain, he is suddenly much less confident.
You select a few types of squash; he watches somewhat reverently. “How do you know what to get?” he asks in a quiet voice.
“Practice, I guess,” you say. “I have in mind a couple of recipes we can make this week, and there are some staples it’s always good to have…” You pause, realizing something, your hands full of squash. “Saeyoung, can I ask you something?”
“What? Yeah!” He responds a little too readily and you know he’s trying to mask his awkwardness. It’s endearing.
“You lived alone for a pretty long time,” you say thoughtfully. You survey the selection of cabbage. “Didn’t you…buy food? To eat?”
He laughs, runs a hand through his already-messy red curls. “God Seven doesn’t need food to live!” he sings, and it’s in the tone of the 707 you’d developed a strange friendship with during those days you were at Mint Eye. You know now that Saeyoung was there, even then, under all that false positivity and diversionary teasing.
“You do, though,” you tell him. You hand him a head of cabbage.
Your firm tone seems to quell him. He looks down at the cabbage. 
“I ate snacks, mostly,” he says, a little more quietly. “Sometimes Vanderwood got frustrated and brought me other things to eat.”
You turn away to hide the look in your eyes from him. These poor, poor boys.
“You two!” you explain in mock-frustration, pushing the cart to the next refrigerated shelf. “So you were living on junk food while he was keeping himself alive with caffeine pills. What am I going to do with you?”
Saeyoung bounces behind you, still holding the cabbage.
“Feed us!” he says. You roll your eyes and tear a plastic bag off the role beside the shelves. 
“Put the cabbage in the bag,” you tell him. He does.
You gather a few more fruits and vegetables and Saeyoung asks about all of them; you’re amused when he doesn’t know what a persimmon is.
“So besides chips and stuff, then, what do you like to eat?�� you ask him, pushing the cart into the large, open area where meat and fish sit on ice, row after chilly row.
Saeyoung hums thoughtfully, peering at a particularly large fish, complete with eyeballs and everything. “This is creepy,” he says. “Can we get it?”
“We…can,” you say. “But that doesn’t really answer my question.”
He walks a little ahead of you, and he looks at each different type of meat with such curiosity. They’re both like this, you think—so full of wonder over basic, mundane things. Saeran was in awe the first night the three of you settled in on Saeyoung’s huge couch to watch TV together. And now here is Saeyoung—who’s had considerably more freedom than his brother—staring at an assortment of different cuts of meat like he’s in a museum.
“I’m not sure,” he says finally, tilting his head to the side. “I love chips, and, you know, fish-shaped buns…”
“But is there a meal you like? Maybe from, I don’t know, the past…?” You regret the words as soon as they’re out of your mouth.
Saeyoung laughs bitterly. “Not from childhood, if that’s what you mean.”
“Right,” you say. “Yeah. I knew that. I’m sorry.”
He comes back to your side, leans on the cart. “It’s okay,” he tells you. “I don’t mind.”
“Still,” you say. “Sorry.” You steer the cart toward a display of different chicken parts and he pads along beside you—like an obedient dog, you think.
“What’s the difference between…” he bends over, peering at the packages. “Breasts and thighs?”
You giggle. “You tell me.”
You watch as his face turns red, clashing wonderfully with his hair.
“Um, l-let’s get the…thighs, I guess,” he chokes, and you stifle your laughter with your hand.
“Thighs it is.”
He throws the chicken into the cart with his face turned away and you grin. 707 was a tease, but it is easy to fluster Saeyoung. 
You move through the aisle of bottled sauces in companionable silence. You hold up a bottle of bottle of soy sauce and he nods enthusiastically; he does the same for the fish sauce and corn syrup. To test him, you hold up a banana ketchup—which you’ve personally never actually tried—and he gives you the same affirmative head bob.
“Saeyoung, do you know what this is?”
He tilts his head to the side, reads the label.
“Banana ketchup? Yum!”
You sigh. “Fine.” You toss it in the cart; maneuver to the next aisle.
“You didn’t even have soy sauce or salt or anything in your house when we moved in,” you say. “There was literally nothing in the cabinets.”
He strolls along beside you, running a finger along the rows of different kinds of pasta. “It never occurred to me.”
“We were kind of surprised,” you add, tossing a big bag of rice into the cart. “We bought a bunch of stuff, before we…left.” You stumble over the words; gears spin frantically in your brain. The words hang heavily in the air between you. Before we left to find you. Before we found you and then lost you again.
He’s silent for a moment and you know he feels the change in atmosphere, the way time seems to have slowed down.
“Hey,” he says finally. He’s got one arm draped over the side of the cart and his posture is a little stiff. “Did I ever thank you? I mean, properly.”
You bite your lip, keep walking. Your face feels hot. Suddenly, you’re not really looking at what’s on the shelves.
“You did,” you say softly. “But I feel I should be the one thanking you. You’re the reason we’re both alive, you know.”
Saeyoung stops, and you almost crash into him. He spins around, and he’s got a hard, determined look in his face. You’ve seen that look before. 
“No,” he says. “Nuh-uh. You saved us. You protected him. You did what I didn’t…couldn’t—”
Ah. Your heart’s pounding against your ribcage. Of course it’s here, you think—in this narrow aisle, next to hundreds of loaves of bread, that he’s saying this to you.
“Saeyoung, he knows that you would die for him. You tried to.”
He stuffs his hands in his pockets, walks away from you, lingers at the end of the aisle. The change in him is remarkable. There’s no hint of the awestruck boy, bouncing up and down over the wide selection of steaks, in this morose, bitter man.
“I didn’t succeed, did I?” he says. A mother with a small child seated in the front of her shopping cart comes down the aisle and you back up into the shelves to let them pass. You wonder if they can feel how thick the air is.
“No, you didn’t,” you say. “And thank god, because where would we be if you had?” He finally looks at you then, and you’re taken aback by the wild look in his eyes. It scares you; you take a step toward him. “You fought for him,” you tell him. “And he fought for you.”
His fingers drum a frantic pattern on the metal shelf beside him. He’s got the look of a cornered animal, ready to bolt. You’ve seen this expression before—though on a different Choi brother.
“I was supposed to protect him,” he says, so quietly you can hardly hear him. You take one more step. Another. Finally you’re at his side, and he flinches, but he doesn’t run away.
“You did,” you say. “And he’s safe. All of us are safe.”
He doesn’t say anything.
“We’re going to buy this stuff,” you tell him. “We’re gonna pay for it, and get in the car, and go back home, and he’ll be there. Waiting for you.”
Saeyoung shuts his eyes and takes a long, slow breath. You do it with him. He runs a shaky hand through his hair again and you give him a little nudge with your elbow. Eyes still closed, one side of his mouth twitches upward—a half-smile.
“Sorry,” he mutters. “I didn’t mean to…”
“I know.”
“I just feel like I owe you…”
“Me too.”
His eyes open; they’re clearer, bright and gold behind his glasses. 
“You don’t owe me anything,” he says, and it sounds like a question.
“I love him,” you say. “So, I think I do.”
Saeyoung shakes his head; the color’s back in his cheeks now, and he grabs the cart, pushing it out of the aisle. You jog to catch up, grab onto the side just as he’d done earlier. Hold on tight.
“You love him a lot, don’t you?” he says. You can see him in your peripheral vision—his eyes are twinkling.
“More than anything in the world,” you reply.
“Me too,” he says, echoing you, and you grin. You picture the look on Saeran’s face if he could hear this conversation—the way his green eyes would soften, the way he’d get that adorable little dusting of pink over his cheeks. 
Saeyoung turns the cart abruptly, maneuvering into the next aisle with an expertise you didn’t expect—you shriek, barely holding on. He cackles.
“We need this!” he says, and you turn to see him pointing at an alarmingly large box of some sort of purple cookie you’ve never seen before.
We don’t, you almost say, but you hesitate, because what’s the harm? 
“Sure,” you say, and you toss them in the cart.
Saeyoung smiles. “I’m glad you’re here,” he says. You know he’s not talking about the stupid cookies.
You beam right back at him. “I am too.”
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Winter’s Lessons: Trip~ Ch. 2
Pairing: Bucky x Reader, Clint x OFC (platonic), Clint x Bucky (platonic), Steve x Bucky (platonic), Reader x Steve (platonic), OFC/Laura x Reader (platonic) Sam x Bucky (platonic), Natasha x Bucky (platonic)
Series Warnings: language, mentions of sex, anguish, fluff, children with disabilities, mentions of autism, a little sass, cocky Bucky, playful teasing, dirty talk, eventually smut, slow burn
Rating: R/Mature
Story Summary: You’re a school teacher for students with special needs who is passionate about her job but has neglected taking time out for herself. He is handsome, cocky and an Avenger. What happens when a newfound relationship just might turn out to be exactly what you both need?
Word Count: 1241
Square Filled: slow burn for Marvel Fluff Bingo, blue for BBB Flash Bingo Card #1
A/N: Thank you to my beta @mindingmyownbusiness Dividers created by @firefly-graphics​
Dedicated to: @one-crazy-writer @averyrogers83
Chapter 1
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The Autumn wind rustles the golden hued leaves upon the trees near the school yard as you pull your jacket closer around you and try to juggle your bag while unlocking the car door. You fall into the seat exhausted from the day giving a little sigh of relief. Laura piles into the passenger side. “You know, if I didn’t know better I would think today was Halloween as excited as the class was.” You hum in agreement pulling out of the drive. 
“All I know is that I need a break and to see my boyfriend,” you giggle. It had been four weeks since you had seen Buck and even though you talked almost daily or even facetimed it wasn’t the same. 
 Laura gives you a teasing smile. “You know, I don’t think I have ever seen you like this.”
“Like what?”
“Like a giggling school girl.” You give her a sideways glance as your phone rings playing a familiar tone. “Oh, and speaking of Greek god, look who’s calling.”
“Don’t you dare…” you tell her as you answer.
“Hello.”
“Hi Darlin’, how are you?” 
“Hey, Barnes! I’m great, how are you?” Laura yells into the speaker. Your face goes red. Bucky snickers at her and you let out a frustrated growl.    
“I’m good. How’s my girl today? Are you keeping her out of trouble?” He teases.
“You know I am, besides we are….”
“You do realize he called to talk to me.” Bucky lets out a loud chuckle. 
“Fine. Fine. Have your man. Hey Barnes, do you have any single friends you can hook me up with?” Laura continues ignoring you. 
“That can be arranged, Laura.” You can tell Bucky is smiling and enjoying teasing you. “In fact, I was calling to talk to you two about . . .”
A female voice breaks into the conversation behind him “Bucky, come on I need you to help me with this….” This new strange voice catches you off guard, sending your mind into a tailspin. It drips with seduction and intrigue. You grip the steering wheel of your car tighter, your knuckles almost turning white. 
“Sure, Doll,” he answers, sending nervous energy down your spine. Your whole body tenses and Laura can tell. She gives you a concerned glance. Who in the hell is this? Why is he calling her Doll? What is she to him? No, he is not like your ex, he is not a cheat. Your thoughts continue to run wild as you pull over onto the curb in front of the coffee shop to let Laura out. In fact, you forget that he is still on the line and has been talking to you, until you hear him call your name.   
“Y/N, so what do you think, can you come?”  
“I’m ugh sorry, what? I ugh guess I spaced out for a moment.” 
“I asked if you would be my date for this Halloween party on Friday.”  You hear the female voice again and Bucky’s muffled response that he was coming.  
 “I don’t know if I can…” you say bluntly.  
“What? Why?” Bucky’s voice is laced with mild concern now as Laura motions to you to call her later as she gets out of the car. She knows your past and how badly you got burnt. 
“I just….”
“Come on James..” you hear the unknown voice say again and now you blood runs cold. 
“In a moment, Doll.”
“Who is that?” You snap. 
“Y/n? What’s wrong? Talk to me.” He commands in a crisp tone. 
“Just let’s talk about it later, James.” His given name stings him like venom as it rolls off your tongue. “Besides, doesn't your ‘Doll’ need you?” Bucky lets out a frustrated sigh as he runs his flesh fingers through his hair.  He looks over at Natasha who is waiting on him so they can start the debrief about an upcoming mission. She raises an impatient eyebrow at him. “Go, I’m sure whoever needs your attention is more important than I am right now.”
“Fine.” He answers in a crisp tone ending the call. You look down at your shaking hands as the phone call ends. You pull away headed toward your apartment with tears in your eyes and old memories from your past haunting your mind. 
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“What’s wrong?” Nat questions as Bucky shoves the phone into his pocket. 
“I don’t fucking know. But I would really like to know what the hell is wrong with my girlfriend,” he answers angrily as he pushes the double glass doors to the conference room open with a muffled bang. 
Two hours later another punching bag was demolished, it’s contents scattered on the dark polished wood floors. Bucky walks over and picks up another bag to hang it onto the hook. However, when he turns back around Sam is standing in his way his hands shoved into his jean pockets.  Clint is leaning  against the door, his arms crossed over his broad chest.
“What did that bag ever do to you Tin-Man?” Sam jokes trying to lighten the mood. 
“Fuck off.”
“Hey now, I came to help you. So drop the bag and sit your ass down.”  Bucky squints his eyes at him and than glances towards Clint who is not moving. 
“Do what he says, Buck. We know you are not ok so stop trying to bullshit a bullshitter.”
Bucky sits down on the bench in front of the wall looking between the two men again. He knows his friends won’t let this go until they have their say or he gets the argument with y/n off his chest. “So, first fight huh?” Sam asks with a small chuckle. Bucky responds with an angry glare. “I take that as a yes. So let me guess, she heard Natasha over the phone and didn’t know who she was?” Bucky shifts looking at the balls of his feet then back up. “I’m right!” Sam claps his hands in response. “Easy fix man, tell her that she is your co-worker. I’m sure she has heard of Tasha before and…”
“Then why did she get so mad about it?” He snaps unwrapping the blue boxing tape off his hands. 
“I don’t know. Maybe it's a past relationship thing. Maybe she had a bad day. But I think you need to ask her instead of taking it out on a defenseless bag.” Bucky rubs his aching head. “Another thing to consider is what you called Nat,” Sam trails off. 
“What do you mean, what I called Nat?”
“You call her Doll right? It’s a pet name for a girlfriend or lover right? Well, some women may think….”
“So what? I called Tasha “Doll”. It's not like we are screwing. WE haven’t been together in years.” Buck responds angrily cutting Sam off. Clint walks over towards the two men. 
“No one is saying that. What we are saying is that y/n likes you and you like her. More than any woman you’ve dated in a long time, she makes you happy. Work it out. Tell her about Tasha.”
“I don’t want to fuck this up…” Buck grumbles.
“Then talk to y/n,” Sam states bluntly. Bucky gets up and grabs his satchel. 
"Doll is for your current lover not past you dumbass and who calls them doll anyway. Where are you going?” Clint questions as Buck pushes the gym doors open.
“To talk things out with my real Doll.”
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lemonietrinket · 3 years
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small displays of affection in domestic life with dream
genre: fluff, bits of bad humour you know me wordcount: 4073 warnings: mentions of very minor sprain in jaemin’s, bickering an: trying to keep the writing flame alight, so im currently not doing anything too heavy, just in case if that puts it out entirely due to stress (it pains me more than it does you, i promise, as all my ideas are always big ones)
gender neutral reader as usual :)
~ all members below the cut ~
mark 
you were washing up in the kitchen, the wind chimes humming quietly outside on the porch. you squinted against the beams of the sun that lazily snuck through the window, as you watched the squirrels squabble on the grass of the front garden. you had to stifle a laugh as the acorn rolled away from the two of them as soon as they tussled too hard. however, your joy was cut short as you moved a plate to the draining board. your sleeve unfortunately had decided to slip, and soon enough it was down to your soap-dappled elbow. glancing around, searching for a towel to maybe dry your hands so you could roll it back up again, you suddenly heard footsteps creaking across the floorboards heading into the dining room and you suddenly had an idea.
“mark?” you called, staring into space as you tilted your head over your shoulder, “mark, baby?”
there was a sudden rush of those same footsteps, and suddenly, the sweet face of your boyfriend poked round the door frame.
“yes, love?” 
those big, wide, searching eyes. you could never get enough of how they caught the light, always made him look so curious of the world. “can you roll my sleeve up for me?” 
he smiles brightly and strides over to you, ever happy to help. folding the material neater than you ever could have done, he pushes it up to your shoulder, before sighing contently. “anything else?”
“no, that’s ok,” you murmured, giving him a coy glance, “you’ve done your duty mr lee.”
he snickered, quickly pressing the chastest kiss imaginable to your cheek. he then seemed to shift his weight to make a getaway, yet remained where he stood. having turned your attention back to the next plate to be washed, it took you a few moments for you to notice. as soon as you did however, you met his gaze, and he appeared in a daze. mesmerised.
“you ok there, mark?”
he paused, barely taking in your teasing grin. “you know i love you, right?”
“of course!”
he merely beams at you, shyness just tinging his cheeks. “you’re so beautiful.”
you scoffed, hands heading straight into the sink. “ew, that’s enough sap for one day.” you scooped up some bubbles and swiftly bopped him on the nose. 
however you must have misjudged the positioning slightly and only ended up making him sneeze.  what could you say, it was a cute sneeze.
“love you too mr lee,” you said through your laughter. 
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renjun
it had bee a long day, the sun finally setting as if it had been waiting for him to make it back home to you, his comfort. when he finally stepped through the door, he met a surprisingly quiet flat, the lights off. confused, he dropped his bag onto the floor carefully by the door and made his way into the living room, just to make sure what he guessed was true. 
and he was right. there you were, dozing on the sofa, legs tucked up and hand thrown over the side. your book was somehow still clutched in your fingers, by some miracle the page not lost. melting into a smile he tiptoed over to you, before kneeling down at your side. 
“there you are, my angel,” he whispers, reaching out to carefully stroke your hair, “i couldn’t wait to see you.”
he clears your face of any stray hears in one graceful movement, pads of his fingers just barely causing you to stir in your sleep. he chuckled at your small pout. “sorry, sorry...”
slipping the book from your hand he placed a bookmark inside and put it on the coffee table behind him, before turning back to you. it wasn’t long before that hand encroached back onto the sofa, joining the other at your chest. renjun, if he could see himself, would never be able to handle how soft you made him. it was fortunate then that he couldn’t, and was free to lean across to the end of the sofa and pull the blanket there up and over your sleeping form.  tucking the hem beneath your chin you curl in on yourself more, your cheek squishing on the cushion. 
unable to stop himself he brought his fingers to your free cheek, tracing your skin with his thumb. “sleep well angel. i’ll get us your favourite takeaway.”
he leant in and planted a kiss into your crown, before getting to his feet and heading back down the hall for his bag and phone.
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jeno
he watched as you practically whirled around the kitchen, measuring sugar at one counter, grating zest at another, procuring another bowl he didn’t remember seeing you take out of the cupboard, let alone use and place it at his side. at first he had been worried since you seemed so all over the place, but by now he was accustomed to it. you were in your element, and even though it appeared hectic, it always produced the best baked confectionery he’d ever tasted. and he soon learnt to just follow your lead. 
to make himself feel more useful he offered to wash up as you went along, and even though it hadn’t quite crossed your mind to mention it yet, you were more than thankful. it made your life so much easier, with more space freed up--even if you had to ask for a spoon back every now and again. he soon learnt to wash those last.
with your music over the stereo, from a playlist you made for him, he couldn’t have been happier on days such as this, even if the rain drummed against the window in a desperate attempt to be allowed to join you. that was when the music dampened and a short ping emanated from the speaker your phone was connected to. 
“bub, do you mind checking that for me?”
you didn’t even look up from your mixing bowl, beating something with a fork. meanwhile he froze, measuring jug and cloth in his hands, brain fumbling over what you meant. his feet meanwhile walked him right over to your phone, lit up with a message.
“it’s from doyoung,” his mouth spoke for him, and it wasn’t until you continued, head still turned away from him, that the realisation came to him.
“oh! what does it say?”
even though it was something seemingly so small, he couldn’t help but revel in the swell of his heart. you trusted him. there was no way he had anything to worry about at all--not that he even had been. it felt like a leap of a milestone, and the glee entered his voice in a stutter. “h-he’s asking about what jaemin likes. he doesn’t know what to get for his birthday.”
“surprised he didn’t ask you for that,” you chuckled, suddenly dumping the beaten mixture into the larger mixing bowl, “tell him he should tag along with hyuck’s present, since it was actually pretty clever.”
picking up your phone carefully he smiled as he noticed your lock screen. it had been a picture of the two of him, he had been aware of that, but now it was a photo of just him, dozing off in the cafe you’d visited last week.
“got it,” he replied through a grin, making a mental note to change his lockscreen later. 
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donghyuck 
“ynnnnn...”
“what.”
“i hate youuuu.”
“you started it?!”
donghyuck whined again and swatted a hand lazily at your arm. you gave him a shove, though underestimated your strength and he reached the edge of the sofa.
“nooo, i’m falling, save meee!”
you took one look at him from where you were sprawled on the couch, and lethargically reached out your arm. though as soon as it was clear that you couldn’t help unless you sat up, you let it thump to the cushions again. “sorry, no can do.”
“but yn...!” you watched him slowly slip over the side with a sly smile.
“that’s what you get for being a pain in the ass.”
“but i love you!”
“and our aircon isn’t working! you’re too hot so i don’t want to even be near you right now, let alone exert all of the little precious energy i have left to drag--”
hyuck’s gradual journey to the carpet came to an end as his shoulder and head propped him up on the floor, his legs still swung over the sofa. “you think i’m hot?” he suddenly poised.
you groaned. “oh, god, hyuck, not--”
he immediately clambered back onto the sofa, only to throw himself at your side.
it was your turn to whine, the summer heat clumping at your skin and now your annoying boyfriend was there too, kicking out more heat like a bonfire, with his head nestled into your neck.
“donghyuck, go awayyy!”
you wrestled him off you again despite his protests, and normally there was no way you would’ve won since he had a habit of playing dirty, but he too was too exhausted to put up a fight, and so let you roll him further down the sofa. 
“you’re the worst partner ever, yn.”
“second worst,” you countered, “you’re 100% number one.”
he scoffed, before the two of you fell into silence, laid uncomfortably across the sofa, waiting for the air conditioning to come back on.
eventually, you got bored. glancing over at your boyfriend, you found him sulking, his arms loosely crossed to let out the heat, and his dazed eyes narrowed into a frown. 
“hyuckie...” you began in singsong.
he huffed.
“hyuckie duckie...” 
another scoff. 
“my cutest duckie hyuckie who i love so very very much--”
“what!”
you grinned as sweetly as you could manage in the face of the overwhelming heat. “can you pass me the tv remote, please.”
he stared you down, lips pursed in dissatisfaction. “no.”
“oh but please...!” you whined, pulling your signature puppy dog eyes. ‘yeah, lets see him dodge that,’ you thought.
and you were right, he couldn’t fight them. with a groan of despair, he sat up. “why are you so cute, yn,” he grumbled, stretching across to the table and grabbing the remote hanging off the edge, “it’s not fair.” slumping back he took a moment to catch his breath, before shimmying across the sofa, back to you. “such a needy princess, huh? always needing help from their handsome prince.”
it was your turn to scoff as you held out your hand to receive the remote. 
however, at the last second, donghyuck suddenly withdrew it. “on one condition!”
you sighed. “what?”
“you cuddle me.”
you opened your arm and let him collapse onto your chest with a contented groan. he held up the remote weakly as if it was taking all of his strength just to hold it for you, and you rolled your eyes, dragging it from his fingers and finally pressing ‘on’.
“i hate you so much,” you said, planting a kiss on his forehead as the room lit up blue from the tv.
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jaemin 
“ow...” 
jaemin turned to you from the other side of your bedroom, sorting out his hoodie and watching your expression closely. “babe?”
“i’m ok!” you answered swiftly, “just... that sprain from yesterday... didn’t ease up overnight.” you cautiously furled and unfurled your arm, wincing when you hit the angle that twinged. 
“are you ok?”
you shrugged, smiling despite your boyfriend’s worry. “i’m ok! i’ve had worse.” you got to your feet, waddling over to your dresser. “we don’t have anywhere to be today right?” you enquired, changing the topic to hopefully alleviate jaemin’s worry. it didn’t work, as even though his face softened he still watched you closely, sleep still hanging in his eyes. he hadn’t had his morning coffee yet.
“nowhere to be,” he replied simply, coming up behind you. he wrapped his arms around you lazily, head resting against yours as he mt your gaze in the mirror. you smiled at him, holding onto his hands loosely. 
“good.” you leant against him for a few moments, letting his warmth seep into your back. however, you suddenly noticed the time. “come on, we should have breakfast before it gets too close to lunch.”
he was reluctant to move though, and only clutched onto you tighter. 
“come on, minnie, gotta brush my hair,” you urged, nudging his head with your own.
he sighed, quickly pressing his lips to your temple, before slipping away to find where he had discarded his slippers the night before. 
you smiled to yourself thinking about his tired little face, the ways his lips were set in a small pout and his cheeks puffy. it made your heart ache, how much you wanted to hold that face in your palms. alas, you needed to get ready.
that was when you encountered your first problem.
as soon as you lifted the hairbrush and reached up, you suddenly felt that twinge of pain and yelped, nearly dropping the brush. 
instantly jaemin was looking at you. “babe, are you sure you’re alright?” 
“y-yeah, i just... forgot...” his hissed as you brought your offending arm back to your side and grimaced as you looked back at your hair. “minnie what do i do. abou..” 
the words had barely left your lips when jaemin had returned to you and eased the brush from your fingers. and soon enough, his were running through your hair gently, followed by the bristles of the hairbrush. he was wordless, focused on his ministrations, making sure he didn’t accidentally tug on a knot.
you watched him through the mirror, feeling your heart melt. “thank you.”
“it’s no problem,” he said, an airy chuckle on his lips, “you’ll be here all dyay otherwise.”
ah, the sleep was starting to leave him. 
before long, your hair was officially not-free, and jaemin had his arms around your waist again, grinning at you in the mirror. “you happy with it?”
you nodded, giggling as he kissed the shell of your ear. 
“good.” and with that he began to shuffle the two of you towards the door, still entangled.
“why do i feel like this is going to result in another sprained arm?” you sighed.
“pssh, don’t be silly, i’ve got you.”
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chenle 
“yn.”
“yeah?”
chenle looked left, then right. 
“get in.”
“what.”
“get in the trolley, quick!”
you hesitated for a single second before bounding over the metal rigging, narrowly avoiding kicking the kitchen roll at the bottom. you sat up, puffing as your hoodie had become dishevelled with the hood over your face, and your boyfriend merely snickered. “i got you!”
he pulled the cotton away from your face, to reveal his own gazing back at you with his bright eyes, gleaming smile, and light stubble. you couldn’t explain why his natural face seemed to break your heart and sew it back together again in a matter of seconds but it always did, every time you laid your eyes upon it. he was just so gorgeous.
“well what are you waiting for?” you teased. “onward!”
leaping round to the back of the trolley he began to push you down the aisle--way faster than you expected.
“oh my god--lele!”
you careened round the corner and into the bread aisle and chenle merely cackled. “do we need bread?”
“i--? yes?!”
“grab it as we go!”
“are you serious?!”
“that one there! see it?”
he drove you closer so the trolley was hugging the shelving and despite all rational thoughts you hung your hand over the side, and snatched up the bread, depositing it by your feet. 
chenle whooped, before speeding you round the next corner.
“oh my god--chenle!”
he took it wide and you almost bumped into the frozen cabinets but before you knew it you were surrounded by cereals. 
“we need cocoa pops surely...!”
you whipped your head back to look at your boyfriend, too afraid to watch you hurtle through the shop. there you met the glinting eyes of someone who was having way too much fun. you knew it was your first time going grocery shopping together, but still--!
“i’ll get it, don’t worry,” he reassured, though within seconds you found what that involved was in no way reassuring. 
he let go of the trolley, skipping over to the shelving to your right as you screeched his name. the trolley was old, with uneven wheels, like all trolleys, and it meant you were left to roll into a long spin. “jesus--christ--chenle get your ass back here right now!”
and then his hands were back on the handle, you were facing the right way, you had a cereal box in your hands--
and there was a member of staff.
chenle yanked you to a halt with all his might, the speed and the inefficiency of the trolley meaning you very nearly crashed into him, but fortune had it that you came to a halt just inches before.
the two of you sat in silence as you stared up in pure fear of the stern glare of the man before you. 
“excuse me, please exit the trolley,” he ordered, “i’m going to have to ask the two of you to leave.”
panic swept into your system. the next nearest affordable shop was forty five minutes walk away--an hour from home. 
“i’m so sorry, sir, it won’t happen again, sir, please don’t kick us out,” you pleaded, stumbling from the trolley.
“please, we’re really sorry, we didn’t mean to go so fast--”
“you are a danger to the health and safety of everyone in this shop, now please, leave.” despite the fact that he was the first other person you had seen in the shop you didn’t dare mention it: there was no breaking through this man. he was a wall of stone. 
just as you thought all hope was lost however, another person entered the fray: the manager. 
fear switching into utter panic, you clutched onto chenle’s arm, and he to yours. the woman had an even sharper glare, and was twice the size of both of you. 
“we’re not going to get arrested are we?” you whispered.
his eyes widened even further at you. “we can get arrested for that?!”
just as the two of you nearly dissolved into pure fear, the manager spoke up. “oh let them alone samuel, there was no harm done.
the man turned to her in shock. “but--ma’am, the shop policy--”
“i am well aware of the shop policy--enough to know that what you do in the storeroom with miss lee is also against shop policy.”
it was if the man’s voice evaporated into the air. she turned to the two of you then. her hardened glare softened when she laid eyes on you, arms folding laxly. “you kids don’t have to leave,” she explained, “just don’t do i again.”
the relief washed over the two of you like a waterfall.
“thank you so much ma’am!”
“it won’t happen again!”
she stepped aside to let the two of you through, an opportunity you took gladly. she chuckled once you were out of sight. “ahh... it’s not every day you see young love as vivid as that, samuel.”
the man in question seemed offended. “but... you know about me and--”
“hanging around in a dingy storeroom is the furthest from romantic, samuel, ask her out to the 50s diner in the city already.” 
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jisung
you couldn’t contain your excitement. it had been so long since your last date night, nto that it was anybody’s fault, but at long last you could show off your new outfit that you’d bought especially when jisung had told you he’d managed to book at the semi-prestigious restaurant in town. you never really got dressed up, and always went on calm and relaxed dates--walks in the park, drinks and chocolate at the cafe, midnight snack runs to the corner store--but you’d always said you wanted to try being fancy, at least once. 
and so there you were, your hair styled, earrings adorned, and the finishing touch, the necklace you had received from your partner on your birthday. it’s silver and simple, a small shimmering knot at the end of chain, but it meant th world to you. you couldn’t help but associate your relationship with those entwined threads. maybe those threads represented your destiny, or your choices, or merely the strength that you had together--you weren’t sure and nor did you mind really what it was. but you kept it safe at all times.
the problem was, all your excitement was jumbling up your nerves, leaving you fiddling with the clasp longer than you saw fit to admit to. with your arms aching and a huff falling from your lips, you relented and held it at arm’s length. it wasn’t going to ruin your outfit to not wear it, but you really did want to.
to your luck however, in that moment you were no longer alone.
“hey, yn, you alright?” jisung asked from outside the door. he’d obviously heard your small sounds of mild distress.
“yeah, i’m fine!”
he poked his surprisingly broad shoulders through the gap in the door then, mouth opened to speak, only for no sound to come out. you attempted to wrestle with the clasp once again for a good minute before giving up for the second time. “i can’t get it on,” you announced sadly, glancing over to your boyfriend.
he was still staring at you, wordless, and it wasn’t until you looked over to him properly that you understood why, falling into the same state. 
he looked gorgeous in his blazer jacket and tie, things you didn’t even know he had. it made him look so different, so confident, and yet his smile was still tinged with shyness like the jisung you knew and adored.
“you look beautiful,” he finally managed, barely blinking and still mesmerised by your eyes alone. 
“thank you,” you said quietly, a smile of your own forming on your lips. “so do you.”
he blushed. “d-do you want some help?”
it took you a few seconds to work out what he meant. “oh, yes please! thank you.”
he sidled over to you and accepted the necklace so cautiously, as if he thought it might break. coming to stand behind you, he let the metal rest gently at your neck, before working the clasp and chain together.
he too struggled with it, but you barely noticed the time pass, to busy focusing on how the pads of his fingertips felt when they brushed the sensitive skin of your neck once or twice. you couldn’t meet your own stare in the mirror, well aware of your own reddened cheeks.
soon the necklace came together and jisung straightened, hands coming to rest neatly on your shoulders as he looked over at you in the mirror. the two of you smiled at one another in your reflections, before you turned to take him in in the flesh. 
“why haven’t we done this sooner?” you murmured, stroking a loose strand of his gelled hair back to his fringe, only for it to fall forward again. you smiled anyway, letting your fingers trace across his cheek instead. 
“i don’t know,” he said, “but i’m glad you suggested it.” he took your hand slowly into his and moved it from his cheek to his lips where he placed a kiss to your fingers chastely. “come on, we wouldn’t want to be late.”
just when you thought you couldn’t be more wordless than how he left you when you just looked at him. 
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an: i feel like maybe jaemin’s is inaccurate, as i couldnt tell if he would be hyper or not in the mornings, but i figured if hes anything like the people i know, its that hes not going to be super bouncy in the morning without his shot of caffeine. i thought this type of sleepy jaemin was cute ok.
i tried my best, my writing mojo is constantly running away so i hope this is worth it !
please leave comments, they mean the world to me and remind me that i have things to do and places to be!
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shhh-no-ones-home · 4 years
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green looks good on you  vinny mauro x reader
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Request from @gardenjungle : "If you are taking requests, I would LOVE if you could do an imagine where the reader has a ton in common with Chris (likes hockey and Harry Potter, is a vegan, etc...) so they’re super close, and Vinny is super upset about it because he likes her sooo much and “Chris gets all the girls” ??? Vinny gets no love and you’re one of the only people who writes about him often. I’d also love if you could get a little sexy action in there"
Ngl this is like 1600+ words and i wrote it in like twenty minutes and loved every minute of it. i really hope you like it! i didnt end up adding anything ‘sexy’ but its pretty gratifying to say the least lol.
Song: gold by sleeping with sirens
tag list: @musicsexandpizza69 @svintsandghosts @alilpunkrock @cynic-spirit @theoneandonlykymberlee @ryansitkowskiswifey @joeybarber @thisplace-ishaunted
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i rocked back into the couch, laughing at what chris had said. he was sat next to me, very comfortably, as we chatted amongst ourselves. we had been very close friends for a very long time and i was over the moon that he'd invited me to travel with them for this tour as the videographer. not only did i get to expand my portfolio but i also got to connect with my best friend and his band.
"okay but do you remember that one fall at the orchard when you tripped on that apple and ended up face first in the dirt?"
he laughed out and i sent him a shocked expression.
"i thought we agreed to never bring that up!"
i protested, the other guys around us sort of laughing along, them only half paying attention as they played a new video game. their focus was above our heads.
"but it was hilarious. i looked up for a split second and BAM! there you went."
he said loudly, being a little more expressive at the 'bam.' i shook my head at him.
"okay then, if we are ratting each other out about stupid shit weve done,what about that one time you got your hand stuck in the Christmas tree ties on your dads car?"
i said matter-of-factly. his eyes got wide.
"hey! that was an accident and you know it. we couldve taken my whole arm off!"
he said in his defense.
"i thought it was hilarious."
i said sternly back, smiling widely at him. he stuck his tongue out at me, a notion i gladly mirrored. then he grabbed me around the shoulders, pulling me to him. i screamed at the sudden motion, looking to vinny and rick who were sitting across from us for some guidance but they were to into the game.
"you two are too much."
ricky laughed out, looking at ryan for a second as he walked by. chris pulled me closer before licking a stripe up my face.
"ew!"
i said pulling away from him and wiping his saliva off of my face.
"asshole!"
i said, grabbing his face and blowing raspberries into his cheek. he laughed incredulously, pushing me away from him.
"youre nasty."
he said mimicking my notion and wiping his face. i punched his arm lightly before swinging my legs into his lap, him holding them there and looking down at me endearingly.
"so are you."
i said back, shaking my head at him, nose scrunched.
"you know you love me."
he said, bringing his face closer to mine.
"well yeah."
i said back, squinting at him.
"i think im done for tonight."
vinny said suddenly, pausing the game. ricky sent him a look like 'wtf?' and watched him stand.
"im gonna go get some air."
he said and we all watched him walk off the bus.
"that was weird right?"
i asked and they all nodded. i had a good few chances to talk to vinny since tour had started and he seemed like a really cool guy. someone id be lucky to call a close friend by the time tour was over if not something more. part of me felt bad, like chris and i really where too much for him to handle in that moment. but this was how we always were. we practically survived our teens years together, losing touch for a bit but inevitably going back to the way things where when we found each other back.
"you guys mind if i go out there too?"
i asked and they all sort of shrugged at me, chris letting my legs go so i could stand. as i did i leaned down and kissed the top of his head.
"dont miss me while im gone."
i joked and he rolled his eyes at me.
"of course not."
i laughed a little bit as i descended down the stairs, pushing the door open and seeing vinny leaning against the bus.
"you okay?"
i asked softly, walking to him and rubbing my hands together. i had sort of forgotten how cold it had got. it was late fall after all but the bus was so warm and inviting i didnt even think about grabbing a jacket before leaving. i half shivered as i walked closer, his face being illuminated by the street lights outside the venue.
"uh yeah, everything's great."
he said a little condescendingly, kicking his foot into the gravel under him.
"im sorry if we were too much, i guess when we get together we have a tendency to overshare and its not for everyone. but i suppose thats what you get when youre comfortable with someone the way we are."
i tried to defend to him and he let out a short sigh-laugh.
"its no big deal, you guys really like each other. its cool."
i smiled.
"yeah, hes my best friend."
vinny nodded once.
"how long have you guys been together? i dont recall him ever talking about you before."
i drew my brows.
"together?"
i asked and he seemed just as confused as i was.
"look i get it, chris gets all the girls, being the front man and all."
he seemed a little jealous.
"but i dont think he ever mentioned you before tour started and then one day he told us about some girl coming on to film us. but clearly you guys are close so do you have like a, i dont know, like a open relationship type thing?"
i laughed a little bit.
"you think chris and i are dating?"
he half shrugged.
"well yeah, its kinda obvious."
i shook my head and took his hand in mine.
"vinny i can assure you that chris and i are just friends. if anything hes like the brother i never asked for nor wanted but got anyways. but life just does that sometimes."
he looked down at our connected hands and let go of me promptly.
"i guess it just doesnt seem like that."
he said a little hurt. i sighed and leaned against the bus next to him.
"it would be kind of weird to bring it up to him but i like someone else in this band, if you wanted to know."
i said, looking at him a little hopeful he was picking up what i was putting down.
"oh."
he said sadly. i sighed, i guess not.
"yeah, hes super cool, and nice, and ive really enjoyed connecting with him."
i shivered as the wind blew and he finally looked over at me.
"are you cold?"
he asked, ignoring what i had just said. i nodded a little bit, crossing my arms over my chest.
"just a little bit but i ll be fine."
he shook his head at me.
"no way, here."
he said taking his jacket off. at least he had long sleeves on. he placed his jacket over my shoulders, pulling it together in the front.
"thanks vin."
i said as we both returned to our positions against the bus.
"would your new dream guy do that?"
he half joked, i could still hear the venom in his voice. he was absolutely jealous. i thought it was funny because now he was jealous of himself.
"actually yeah."
he scoffed, hiking his foot up on the side of the bus.
"great."
he said looking away from me. i stepped closer and nudged him.
"he would because he just did."
he looked at me and drew his brows together.
"wait you mean?"
he asked, his face turning to that of shock. i nodded.
"god, yes. vin ive had a crush on you since i got here."
i laughed out.
"i didnt think you would like me back and then i realized just now that that was utter bullshit."
he half smiled.
"and whys that?"
he asked a little cocky.
"you were jealous of chris and that has only happened to me a handful of times in my life. once in highschool when my boyfriend said he would break up with me if i didnt stop hanging out with him. once when i graduated college and my then boyfriend accused me of sleeping with him. and right now."
he looked down a little ashamed.
"yeah i guess that wasnt fair of me to do. i just figured since you guys hit it off so fast that you were into him."
i laughed a little bit.
"dont get me wrong i love him with my whole being, but seeing someone go through puberty just does something to your vision of them ya know?"
i asked and he laughed back, nodding.
"okay, well if you really are into me, would it be stepping to far to ask you out?"
he said hopefully and i grinned widely at him.
"i would love that vin."
he sent me a tired smile in the dim street lights.
"may i also be so bold as to ask if i could kiss you?"
i let out a nervous laugh. i was really gonna let that happen huh? i nodded.
"id like that a lot vin."
he stepped closer to me slowly, placing his hand gently against my cheek, running his thumb over it. his hands were rough and calloused from playing the drums so long but i didnt mind. it kind of felt nice. he looked deep into my eyes before leaning down and capturing my lips in his. all of a sudden it felt like home, like this was it, the thing id wanted for so long and never found. his other hand made its way to my waist as he deepend the kiss. i sighed into him, practically melting against his mouth like chocolate left outside in the sun on a hot day. when he pulled away he rested his forehead against mine and smiled like an idiot, one i gladly returned.
"fucking finally."
i heard from behind me, the bus door clicking closed. both of us turned to look, seeing ricky and chris standing there grinning from ear to ear. i had a mad blush splayed across my face now and was thankful that the light was behind me so it would be harder to see.
"how long have you been standing there?"
i demanded, walking to chris and punching his arm. he laughed in pain as he rubbed his arm.
"long enough to see the sparks fly."
he teased, pushing me back. i rolled my eyes at him.
"get your ass back in the bus."
i said opening the door and escorting him back inside. he made kissy noises at me as rick followed him up the stairs. i shook my head and turned around, jumping a little bit at vinnys presence behind me.
"rick had kind of been waiting for that for a while."
he said, looking up at the now closed door. i raised a a brow.
"oh?"
i asked and he sent me a bashful smile, scratching the back of his neck lightly.
"ive been crushing over you for a while too. and being jealous of chris just as long, rick's been pushing me to say something. i guess it just took one last little push."
he shamefully laughed out.
"at least now we're on the same page."
i said before standing on my tip toes and bringing him down to kiss me again, both of his hands going to my waist.
"now come on, im still cold and the bus is much warmer."
i joked and he nodded along.
"agreed."
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Saving Grace - Part 9
Steve leaves you and your son to go back to Peggy unaware your pregnant.
Your heartbroken and struggling without Steve until Bucky Barnes steps up to help you out. With you and Bucky growing closer everyday will he be your saving Grace?
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I was sat on the sofa nursing Grace when the front door swung open and a laughing Harrison came running in.
"You better run pal I'm gonna win!" I heard Bucky chuckle.
"No way!! I faster!!"
I turned just in time to see Harrison throw himself in the armchair declaring himself the winner while Bucky was carrying various bags of groceries in.
"Hey doll" Bucky smiled over at me with a wink before heading into the kitchen.
"Uncle Buck i win!" Harrison yelled happily.
"Yeah you did Buddy, good job" Bucky called back sounding amused.
"Wow your so good bud" i smiled at my biggest baby, he just laughed and run into the kitchen.
"Okayyyy" i mumbled as i straightened up my shirt and moved Grace so i could wind her. Harrison came running back seconds later with a pink t-rex stuffed teddy in his arms.
"This is for Gracie" he said holding it out.
"It is? Oh my god! She loves it baby"
"I picked it out"
"He really did, i couldn't say no" Bucky chuckled walking over and giving me a kiss.
"Its very sweet babe, but where's my gift?"
"Im your gift" Bucky wiggled his eyebrows at me making me laugh.
"Your such a dork"
"I know but you love this dork" he shrugged with the cockiest grin spread on his face.
"Oh i regret it...." i shook my head teasing him "here take your daughter i need to pee so bad" i said getting up and passing Grace to him before quickly darting to the bathroom.
Coming back into the living room a few minutes later i smiled seeing Bucky cuddled up with both kids who were fast asleep.
"Wow that didnt take long" i chuckled sitting in the armchair "your like the baby whisperer"
"I took Harrison to the playground on the way home, think he wore himself out and lil miss is in a milk coma!" He laughed looking down at Grace who was sleeping with a smile on her face.
"Hey, so i was thinking of asking Wanda to come watch the kids the weekend" i said suddenly feeling really nervous as i played with a loose thread on one of the scatter cushions.
"You mean...."
"Yeah if you want...."
"Of course i want!" Bucky nodded quickly making me chuckle.
"Good! Thats good, i thought maybe we could go up to my dads cabin and get Wanda to stay here with the kids. I dont really want them at the compound incase Steve shows up"
"Sounds good to me doll, but just so you know Sam said Steve hasn't been around for weeks. He seems to have realised how bad he messed up"
"Even so, it will make me feel better about being away from them if i know their here"
"Okay I'm sure Wanda wont mind being here, she practically lives here lately anyway" he rolled his eyes.
"Shes just trying to help" i said sticking up for my friend "and its a godsend to have her around while your working"
"I know I'm just teasing" he grinned "its fine doll".
After 20 minutes or so of sitting watching TV with Bucky i felt restless and got up to head to the kitchen to make some tea.
"You okay?" Bucky asked instantly.
"Yeah just making some tea"
"Okay, its just you've been a bit quiet"
"Didn't want to wake the kids" i shrugged and carried on to the kitchen. While waiting for the kettle to boil i suddenly found myself standing there silently crying. Since having Grace id occasionally burst into tears for no reason, now would apparently be one of those times!! damn hormones!!
After grabbing a tissue and wiping away any evidence that id been crying, i splashed some cold water on my face and continued making the tea (a coffee for Bucky) and headed back to the living room.
He was sitting alone on the sofa when i walked in and looked at me with a smile.
"Where are the kids?"
"I put them to bed, baby monitor is on the table" he pointed to the split screen monitor in front of him "i need some time with my girl now, come here mama" he smiled holding out a hand towards me. I couldn't help but smile as i put the mugs down on the table and took his hand. Bucky tugged me towards him and pulled me down onto the sofa to lay with him, his front pressed to my back.
"Feel better?" He mumbled against my ear as his hand caressed my hip slightly.
"Im fine Buck..."
"I heard you crying doll"
"Its just hormones, i didn't even realise i was crying at first"
"If something was wrong you'd tell me right?"
"Of course i would" i told him truthfully reaching back to kiss him "i may fall asleep in a minute I'm exhausted"
"No problem, you should get some sleep while the kids are sleeping...."
"Okay, just stay with me"
"Always".
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The next day i headed to the compound to talk to Wanda about having the kids while Bucky and i went up to the cabin. I had checked Steve wasn't around before going over, i wasn't in the mood to deal with that today. I had Grace with me but Bucky had taken Harrison to the zoo for the afternoon, since Grace arrived we had made an effort to spend time with Harrison on his own so he didn't feel neglected and end up hating his baby sister!
"So what brings you by here? Its been a while since you stopped by" Wanda asked rocking Grace in her arms.
"I came by to ask if you were free to watch the kids this weekend...."
"Oooh you finally got the all clear for physical activities huh?" She teased wiggling her eyebrows at me.
"I did! And stop that!" I laughed "i think we've been very patient!"
"Oh you have i know!! Of course i'll look after them" Wanda agreed straight away smiling like an idiot "its what aunties are for anyway"
"Thanks Wan, could you come to us though? I dont want them here incase he shows up"
"Yeah thats fine, makes sense anyway. Everything i'll need is at your place"
"Thats great, i'll get the guest room set up for you".
I had been at the compound for a couple hours now and thought it best to head home and start on dinner. Bucky and Harrison would be back from their day trip soon. I was just about to get up and get Grace settled in her pushchair when i heard Wanda speak up.
"What are you doing here?!"
I snapped my head round and there stood Steve Rogers in jeans and grey henley, his beard had grown back in and his hair looked a little longer..... just how he had looked when we first started dating!
"I...i was looking for Sam, we're meant to be going for a run" he replied holding up his duffle bag.
"Well can you go wait somewhere else?"
"Its fine Wanda I'm leaving now anyway" i gave her a tight lipped smile and finished getting Grace in her pushchair.
"Y/N..... could we talk for a minute? Please?" I heard him ask.
"I've got to get home Steve, Harrison and Bucky will be back soon?"
"please? just a few minutes?"
"Steve, she said no!" Wanda snapped at him, they had always been close and it was horrible to see the distance between them now.
"Okay...." he said sadly turning to leave.
"5 minutes" i suddenly said shaking my head at how stupid i was agreeing to this.
"5 minutes is good, thank you".
"I'll stay close by, yell if you need me" Wanda said quietly to me as she left, we both knew Steve heard every word though!
Steve walked over and sat in the chair next to me, he leaned closer to the pushchair to look in at Grace and smiled.
"She's beautiful Y/N"
"Thanks. So what did you want to talk about? Like i said i need to get home"
"Right" he nodded "Bucky and Harrison been anywhere nice?"
"Bucky took him to the Zoo for the afternoon"
"Man i miss trips to the zoo, Harry always loved seeing the lions" he smiled at the memory.
"His favourites are the wolves now"
"The wolves huh?"
"Yep ever since Shuri and T'Challa visited and called Buck 'white wolf' his been obsessed with them" i shrugged.
"Thats cute" Steve nodded sadly before looking up at me "im sorry. Im sorry for everything..... i should never had left"
"No you shouldn't have, but you did. You can't change that Steve"
"I know. I dont know what i was i thinking sweetheart"
"Lets not not do this again. It wont change anything.... you chose another woman over your fiancé and your son! All those years i gave you and you chose a woman you spent 5 minutes with a 100 years ago!!" I took a deep breath trying my best to stay calm and not shout at him, i didn't want to wake Grace "i loved you so much and you threw it in my face. You didn't even have the balls to say goodbye"
"I know" he admitted avoiding eye contact and we sat silently.
"If you could go back to that day, the day you left us..... would you still do it?" I asked breaking the silence.
"I dont know.... i had a beautiful life with Peggy, but i missed you and Harrison so much. There was no way to get back to you, the machine hadn't been invented yet so i had no choice but to embrace my life with Peggy"
"You know what? Im glad you went" i suddenly told him shrugging my shoulders "if you had of stayed here Bucky and I wouldn't be together" i saw Steve grit his teeth hearing me mention his best friend "and i can't imagine my life without him, i love him more than any man I've loved before. I thought what you and i had was the real deal, my big love..... but i was so wrong. Bucky is it for me Steve, so i guess i should be thanking you for leaving"
"Theres no second chance for us is there?"
"No. Maybe down the line somewhere we can try to be friends but it'll never be what it was" I got up getting ready to leave when he cleared his throat and wiped away a few tears that had escaped.
"What about Harrison?.... can i spend some time with him? I know i dont deserve it but I've missed him so much"
"Thats up to Harrison. I cant make him spend time with you Steve, but if he wants to.... its something we can discuss. Look i really need to get home, bye Steve".
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Angst 1 for Jason? I'm feeling like some sad lightning boi I dont know why but ye
Hello darling Anon! Thanks for the prompt and I hope I did you well🥺 dis is hella angsty
Jercy Masterlist
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Jason Grace doesn't have enough fingers to list how many things he's done wrong in the last month.
1. Losing his best friend
2.Losing his girlfriend
3.Being unable to help all the demigod's he's promised
4.Letting Reyna down by not coming back to SPQR
5.Dammit he can't even put on his fucking shirt the right way.
Holding in a scream he tugs it off and flips it so the tag is on the inside. He's proud of himself for not ditching clothing altogether, ditching life altogether. There is so much temptation in taking to the skies and floating for the rest of his days. It's not like anyone would miss him, would even notice he was gone. And maybe it's for the best. It certainly wouldn't be unexpected. For years he's wanted to be anonymous, just another one of the Campers. For years he's secretly rejected his titles as Son of Jupiter, Praetor of New Rome, Slayer of the Black Throne. He shouldn't complain now that he's ignored, unwanted.
There's a knock at his cabin that he pulls him out of his self-deprecating pity hour. Checking to make sure he has his pants and shirt on and his head firmly on his neck he grabs his sword and opens the door.
"Jason!" Will Solace gasps, "Please come it's Nico!"
His heart turns to stone, lungs become useless masses, "Let's go." He manages to breathe, "Brief me on the way."
They sprint through the camp, uncaring of the shouts and greetings coming from every side. They don't have time. It seems ever since they had defeated Kronos the clocks spin uncontrollably; hours are seconds and minutes only exist in the afternoon and nobody knows if one week is seven days or three blinks of an eye, if years are twelve months or a century.
"A breach at the west border. Monsters we've never seen before. They just snuck up on us. Nico's been raising the dead to fight but I'm afraid he's not strong enough yet. Not after the war. He'll burn out soon and they'll overwhelm him." Will gasps.
"How many?"
"Twenty maybe twenty five?"
"You call anyone else?"
The Son of Apollo shakes his head as they sprint around the corner, "Percy is in school he only arrives tomorrow. Clarisse is gone to visit her mom and there's so many Campers in the infirmary. The rest are the little ones."
"How fa—" Jason beholds the scene in front of him and every nerve in his body shut down.
There in the middle of skeletal warriors and black shadows is Nico Di Angelo. All around them are scaly four-legged vipers hissing and spitting. One opens its grossly enormous jaw and snaps it around a skeleton with a sickening crunch. Another skeleton pops up in the exact same place and with a rattling, he supposes is a scream, attacks the monster.
"NICO!" Will screams, trying to catch his boyfriend's attention.
The Son of Hades although dangerously powerful is grey and heaving as if the sheer force of his summonings are turning his own body to it's bony structure.
"Go!" Will shouts at him.
With a nod, Jason pulls his sword out and steps into the ring of the dead.
Gods these things are a hundred times more terrifying up close. Sharp teeth and poisoned spikes on their tales and oh gods jagged claws to top it all off. But he's fought armies before and survived. This will not deter him. So with the force of Zeus and the strategies of Jupiter flowing through his muscles he brings his sword down on the first creature.
It shrieks and his ears ring like a bell clanging in his skull. But the head thumps to the ground and the monster crumbles to dust.
Decapitation then.
He sidesteps the swish of a tail, chopping it off as it goes past. First mistake. Three tails grow back and he knows one drop of poison will be enough to end him. He vaults into the air using the wind to push him as high as possible and then he's slamming in the body of the creature and sawing at its head.
His foot slams into the ground as the monster powders underneath him. Second mistake. His ankle is broken and there's three more of these things advancing towards him.
He bites down a scream as he attempts to walk. It's no use. Stand here and fight it is. Summoning as much lightning as he can, blue eyes sparking maliciously, he looks directly into the first of them and slams five thousand volts of electricity into its brain. Before he knows it's dead he's onto the next. This time he bides his time, let's it come closer and when he can hear its ugly breathing and feel its lack of heat he stabs his sword into its neck and watches it bleed black.
The third monster is clever, it's learnt. But Jason doesn't know. So he gathers all his strength and waits for it to pounce. By now Nico is a few meters away, holding his own but pale beyond healthy. The monster shakes its body, scales rippling in the afternoon sun. It takes one step closer. Jason grips his sword, holds the power thrumming in his fingers. The monster moves again and he swears its smiling.
He turns to Nico, "You good?"
Third mistake. The monster let's out a vile screech and slams into them.
"NICO!" Someone screams. It sounds like Percy Jackson. But that can't be right. Percy is in school.
The creature's tail swipes at the Son of Hades.
Jason can't move as it's claws wrap around his throat.
I can't do anything right, he thinks. Those talons pierce his skin. The world goes black.
***
"He's a fucking idiot."
"Lay off. How was he supposed to know?"
"Maybe if he wasn't so caught up in trying to make friends he would have been able to do something."
"Leave him alone."
"Alright you lot, get out of here. I'll call you when he's awake."
Jason tries to open his eyes, tries to say something, anything. But he feels a prick in his neck and reality fades away.
***
"Is he awake?"
"How long does this take?"
"He had a broken ankle and a slit throat. Maybe a little patience is in order?"
"I still think we should send him back."
"That's enough! It wasn't his fault and we will stop acting like it.".
The Son of Jupiter groans, blinking into the world. Everything hurts. Everything. And the light above his head is blinding.
"What the hell happened?" He rasps.
"You almost got Nico killed is what!" Someone snaps.
He blinks trying to find the source of such bitterness. "I what?"
"What the fuck were you trying to do saying hi in the middle of battle?"
The room finally shifts into focus and he sees three faces staring at him intently, varying degrees of anger and relief in their expressions.
"Well?" Hazel looks at him, "What were you trying to accomplish? Were you actively trying to get him killed? I know you didn't trust him but trying to kill him Jason? I thought you got passed that after Cupid. Nico told me he trusted you."
"Hazel!" Percy Jackson glares at her.
"I'm—" He chokes, "I'm sorry. I just wanted to make sure he was okay. I— I didn't know the monster would try to get both of us." He's crying now, red hot tears spilling onto the white sheets of the infirmary bed.
"That's the problem Grace, you don't think." There is so much pain in her voice.
"Im sorry," He sobs, "Is he okay? Is he— is he—"
"He is fine Jason," Will says softly, "He managed to jump back before the tail swiped him. He's actually really worried about you. We all are."
He doesn't know what to say to that. He doesn't even know if he deserves that. Hazel is right. If he hadn't distracted Nico they wouldn't be in this situation. It was dumb luck that Nico managed to get out of the way. If he hadn't. Oh gods, Jason would have been responsible for killing his friend.
With that though he turns over in his bed and heaves straight into the trashcan.
"Everyone leave us." Percy's voice is soft, but there is an unmistakable command in it.
The buzzing of the infirmary hushes as people file out and Will gently clicks the door behind him.
"I didn't meant to distract him," Jason cries.
The Son of Poseidon clasps their hands together and looks into him, "I know Jase. I know."
He breaks down, sobs wracking his aching body. He can't even keep his head up. And the tears are ever flowing. He can't breathe, he can't breathe, he can't do this.
Percy hops onto the bed and takes him into his arms. They sit there for many moments, the sound of his crying disrupting every inch of the silence.
"I can't do this anymore Percy."
He feels the demigod stiffen and he's afraid he said too much, has pushed another person away. But then his head is being tilted up by a soft hand and he's looking into oceans.
"Tell me what's wrong."
"There is no-one left and I cannot do this alone."
Something sparks in those emerald green eyes.
"You have never been alone Jason Grace. When the world is dust and the gods can once again become mortal, you will find that only one thing still exists."
"What— what is that?" He hiccups.
"Love. You cannot be alone if you have love."
His eyes pool with tears, fall to the floor, "Lies. There is no love."
"You have forgotten my friend what it feels like. And that is no one's fault but ours. We should have been there. Should have helped you, seen the signs. I should have known."
"Why you?"
"Because I know what it's like to have everything you've never wanted and bear the burden anyway. And when I left I added to yours. I'm sorry for that. I got selfish, wanted to know what it was like to live. But that meant you suffered."
"It's not your fault. I just thought I was stronger than I am."
"You are strong. You are so strong because you are still here. You took the nature of the gods and made it your own. Took the burden of everyone in these camps and carried it on your shoulders."
"Thank you," He mumbles, getting lost in the seas, "For saying that. When did you get so philosophical and wise?"
Percy cracks a grin at that, "After Tartarus I started going to therapy. I think you should too."
He mulls it over, flips the idea around in his mind, "Okay."
"And maybe..." The black haired boy pauses, "Maybe you should come with me to Montauk for the winter holidays. I think you could use a break from all the hero stuff."
"Really?" His eyes widen, staring at his friend.
"Really. Annabeth is in Cali to spend time with her dad and my mom and Paul are just going to spend some time at home with Estelle. I could use company."
"Won't you dad like blast me for being in his territory?"
"I'll talk to him," He smirked.
"Okay. That would be great!"
Percy gives him another squeeze and then jumps to the floor.
"Rest easy Grace."
"Jackson," He stops the demigod in his tracks, "Thank you for this. I needed it."
"We are alive Grace, and we are enough." Those green eyes are intense, filled with emotion. "Remember that."
Jason nods and when he finally succumbs to sleep once more, his soul takes a deep breathe and exhales a new beginning.
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