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granolabird · 2 years

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At my worst

Weekly Hournite fic for post 3x07. This one definitely isn’t canon compliant, but it’s an Hournite breakup fic so- Enjoy the pain. There’s a lot. Shout out to All My Heroes by Bleachers for the title idea-

Beth knows she has to talk to him. When she had agreed to go out on this mission with Rick she had thought of it as an easy way to get some more one on one time with him whilst also doing some superheroing. A win-win situation, really. What she wasn’t expecting was… well whatever this was. Rick is parading himself around the empty school like he’s king of the castle, vandalising the place like it’s nothing. Smashing walls, tables, desks, anything he can get his hands on, really. They already destroyed the place enough over the summer with all the fights, and that was when they had an enemy to actually hit. Rick is just doing all this for fun. No, Beth was not going to stand for it. She didn’t care that he had his hourglass fixed if it made him act like this. Okay, well maybe she did care. She liked seeing him happy that he’d actually accomplished something, but if this was the cost? It simply wasn’t worth it.

So she’s going to confront him. Once they’ve got the school clear of cameras she has to act, because if this goes on for too long it could get dangerous. For her, and for him. For the entire team really. This was a mission with just the two of them. If he were to act like this on a JSA mission? It may well spell disaster. She has a brief image of Rick standing over bodies, fists bloodied as he smiles at her as if he’s just done something good. As if he’s saved the day. She winces and shakes her head, trying to dispel the gruesome thought. That’s not Rick. It’s not him, he wouldn’t do that. At least, not normally. But when she glances over to her companion, he lurches ahead of her like some sort of predator searching for prey. Like the next camera he catches might finally satiate the ruthless hunger within him. Beth has a feeling it won’t. She studies him, trying her best to come up with a way to approach this without coming across as mean. She’d never want to hurt his feelings. Rick seems to feel her eyes on him, and looks back with a glint in his eyes and a smile.

“Like what ya see?”

“What?”

He laughs as if he didn’t just say the most un-Ricklike thing Beth has ever heard, shaking his head as he turns to walk into another classroom. Beth has to hold herself back from calling the other team members and telling them that Rick is completely out of his mind. She knows she can help him. He’s… he’s her best friend. She has to at least try. So she starts to build a plan in her mind. She’ll wait until they’re done with the cameras, and then she’ll stop him and tell him the truth. That he’s concerning her. That this isn’t the Rick she grew to know and love, but rather some feeble mockery that stands ahead of her as a constant reminder that however long that hourglass stays on him, the Rick she knew is gone. Buried beneath a facade of forced bravado. She won’t stand for it. She’s gonna get him to realise how he’s been acting, and then get him back to his old self. She has to.

She finally corners him in the parking lot. After all the lights come back on and Rick makes a big show of removing the last camera they head out, Beth knows it’s her time to act. It’s eerily quiet in the school parking lot, the only sound the constant buzzing of the fading street lights that illuminate the pavement, casting them in dim yellow light. Beth is steeling herself, readying to set Rick straight, when he walks over to one of the still-parked school buses in the lot. She knows where this is going the second he approaches it.

“Hey Beth-” He calls with a grin as he leans on the driver's side of the bus.

“Rick, what're you doing?” Beth tries to keep her voice calm as she slowly walks towards him.

“I’m gonna lift this bus and throw it on top of the school! Watch!” He announces eagerly, turning around and attempting to find purchase on the bus.

“No.” Beth takes a step closer.

Rick grabs the underbelly of the bus and the sound of screeching and groaning metal pierces the air as he begins to lift. Beth races over and grabs Rick’s cape, trying feebly to drag him back.

“Rick, I said No!”

She’s reminded of that night in the tunnels when Rick first found Grundy. He’d been so blinded by his rage, she had to practically drag him out of there. Now, though, there isn’t any resistance. Rick drops the bus with an enormous crash, whirling around, his masked face laced with frustration. He towers over Beth and she stumbles back, letting go of his cape. She tries her best to stand tall but in his shadow she feels so small.

“What, you too chicken to have some fun?” He sneers, and Beth has to physically keep herself from flinching away.

“Yes, Rick. I’m scared. Scared of what you’re doing. What you might do.”

“You’re scared of me?”

“I didn’t say that.”

“You didn’t have to.” His voice wavers, and it’s the first time tonight Beth has heard him sound anything other than confident or angry.

“Rick, that’s not what I meant. I know you. I know who you are, you’re a good person. But tonight? I can’t just excuse all of this. You’re wrecking the entire school, and I’m telling you that’s not okay.” She tries, but Rick’s frown only deepens.

“It’s just a little fun, Beth. Just showing you how strong I am. It’s impressive.” “No! It’s awful! If you want to impress me, be yourself. Be the kind, sweet Rick who always knows the right thing to say whenever I’m upset. Not… whatever this is. You’re not impressing me, you’re concerning me.”

Rick scoffs, crossing his arms. “Well that’s a you problem.”

“That’s a me problem?”

“Yeah. You worry too much. I used to like that about you, you always made sure I was alright but right now it’s getting a little annoying. You keep saying I’ve changed but maybe it’s you.”

If Beth could walk over and rip the hourglass off of Rick, smash it on the ground with no consequences, she would in a heartbeat. If it meant she’d get the old Rick back. Her Rick back. She’d do anything. But she knows she can’t, that if she did things would get even worse, and right now she can’t handle that. Rick is all she has. She has to try to get him to realise what he’s doing.

“Rick…”

“What.” His voice is deadpan, and his expression betrays no emotion.

“Do you not see what you’re doing? How you’re acting?” Beth asks, taking a step towards him in an attempt to reach out.

Rick doesn’t uncross his arms, he just looks at her with a grimace.

“I see that you don’t trust me. That you think I’m a monster like everyone else. That’s what I see.”

“I don’t- You’re not-” Beth takes a deep breath, willing tears out of her eyes. “Don’t change the subject, Rick. You know I don’t think that. I just want to know why you’re doing this. Please.”

“Isn’t it obvious? I want you to like me, Beth. I want you to look at me and see the strong guy who can protect you in any situation. With my hourglass fixed I can do that now. That can be me.” Rick is starting to get loud now, his voice echoing through the empty lot.

“I didn’t like you for your strength, Rick. I liked you for you. I cared about the you that spent every night by my side when the goggles were broken, providing nothing but reassurance. I liked the you that drove me to school every day, and taught me all the landmarks you memorised around town when you were a kid. I liked the you before you let all this power go to your head. Right now? I don’t like you much at all.”

Rick makes a face of disgust, as if what Beth has just said was the most appalling thing he’s ever heard.

“You didn’t say anything. You never acted like it. I thought…” Rick shakes his head, as if trying to dispel whatever is going on inside his mind. “You never liked me at all.”

Beth just stares at him. She knows this isn’t right. This is the hourglass heightening his emotions, making him feel everything tenfold and getting him to act on his every thought. She wants to believe that, but the more Rick speaks the more she feels like she’s being ripped in half. Torn limb for limb by invisible forces that show her that the person she cared for so deeply is gone. He’s drowned in a sea of golden glowing particles of sand.

“You need to stop and think Rick. Clearly. Without the hourglass. Because right now, you’re just saying everything you don’t mean, and that’s not… You’re not okay.”

He seems to pick up the solemn defeat in her voice. The recognition that for however long he has that hourglass on he won’t be himself. As long as it’s on him she can’t reach him. She can’t help him this time.

“Beth…” Rick’s voice has gone quiet. The anger in his voice is replaced with a faint tone of fear.

“Don’t. We can talk when the hourglass is off. Then we can discuss how you feel.”

“I’m sorry.” His hands hover over the hourglass, but he doesn’t turn it over.

“If you were actually sorry you’d turn that hourglass over and recognise what you’ve done.”

Beth looks at him pleadingly, waiting for him to turn it over. To prove that the Rick she knew was still there. That he recognises what the hourglass is doing to him, how it’s making him act. She watches his hands drift over the metal top of the hourglass, and for a moment she lets some feeble hope light in her chest. Then his hands fall to his sides and her stomach drops.

“Let's just get to my car. I’ll drive you home.” He huffs, turning around.

Beth doesn’t move to follow him.

“I think I’m going to walk home tonight.” She says, as nonchalantly as possible. She could call her parents to pick her up, but right now she doesn’t want to see them. She just wants to be alone.

“Beth, It’s late. It’s not safe.”

“I have my goggles. They’ll keep me safe.”

She sees Rick grit his teeth. His jaw visibly sets, and his hands curl into fists.

“I just want to protect you, Beth.”

“That may be, but you can’t do that by destroying an entire school. Breaking things to just act cool isn’t protecting anyone Rick, it’s just you letting your ego get the best of you.”

“I’m not. You’re just…” Rick turns around and punches the school bus with a yell of frustration.

The side caves in and the bus flips on its side, skidding a few feet down the lot, sending sparks up into the night air. The sound is deafening, and Beth covers her ears turning away from Rick. When she turns back to him she can see that there are tears glistening in his eyes, threatening to spill onto his domino mask.

“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to. I’m sorry.” He says quietly, voice panicked.

Beth is on the verge of tears herself, barely holding it together.

“Go home Rick. Just go home.”

And then she turns and walks away.

She hears his first few steps in an attempt to follow her, but then there’s nothing. She doesn’t look back, no matter how bad she wants to. She has to hold strong. Beth doesn’t even let herself cry, not until she’s around the block from the school. She doesn’t care how stupid she looks, in the middle of the street at ten at night, dressed in a superhero costume, sobbing. It doesn’t matter right now. She has to force herself to keep walking, wiping at her eyes desperately as if she can get rid of the constant stream of tears that is presently plaguing her. Deep gasping breaths peirce the night air as she cries, walking the well-worn sidewalk all the way home. The lights are all off. Her parents are working late again. They’ve been doing that a lot more since she told them to stop interfering with her superhero business. Something in her is glad that they aren’t here, so they don’t have to see her like this.

She unlocks the door and walks into her room. She knows she should call Pat, or Sylvester. Someone with the adult experience and the brute force ability to deal with this, because Beth can’t. She tried, and it proved too much. She was supposed to be there for Rick, she was supposed to support him no matter what he was her best friend he was… Another sob wracks her body as she lays on her bed. The plan was supposed to go flawlessly today. Things were supposed to go well. She was supposed to have a nice night with the guy she has a crush on, doing superhero things like they always did. Now, she stares out her bedroom window from where she’s curled atop her sheets and wonders what went wrong. She’ll call the others in the morning. She’ll get a meeting together, sans Rick, to figure out next steps. She’s not giving up on him, no matter how much of a stubborn, violent, idiot he is sometimes. She won’t let him do this to himself. She can’t.

#This is literally just. All Angst #oops! all angst #Literally #If we get this in the show my career is over actually #I will not recover #hournite #fic #Stargirl #stargirl spoilers #3x07 #stargirl fic #Hournite fic #rick tyler #beth chapel #beth chapel x rick tyler #hourman #Dr Mid-Nite

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lunarbrambles · 2 years

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"What would you be willing to destroy for someone you love?" is something Carian Knight Adrian, before you can even really end the question, answers emphatically with "Myself."

#;outofcabernet #oops! all angst

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 6 months

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We could have had it all...

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #jin guangyao #nie mingjue #oh man....the NieYao dynamic....All these complex emotions and ties to each other and they *aren't* canon?#Sorry fellas but the way you proposed writing your bro a letter of recommendation & agreeing to it was very fruity.#And *then* Lan Xichen shows up. And both JGY and NMJ are head over heels for him and have been for ages apparently.#Its like they found out that LXC had been two timing them this whole time and their response was: “UM. HOT?”#I'm tempted to redraw these three as that one bisexual-core image with Anne Hathaway. You know the one. It fits.#It's strange seeing all of this fondness in retrospect compared to the betrayal you feel in The Untamed after a longer build up.#Initially it felt like 'oops we made him a little too 2 dimensional as a villain - quick make him more sympathetic'.#JGY even had a scene with him kissing babies. As any politician would do to improve their image.#but it does come around to really showing a more authentic JGY and the tension between him and NMJ.#As an angst lover I am personally all for 'what could have been' relationships and they DO have it all.

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slouph · 6 months

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Haikaveh 🌱🏛 To build a home ⚠️angst, memory loss

#haikaveh #alhaitham #kaveh #genshin impact #alhaitham x kaveh #spoilers #for Aranara world quest #oops all angst!#what is a home??#this is a part 1

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horribluh · 2 months

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hilarious mpreg zosan thought, sanji has a kid that has green hair but its not zoros kid. he has in fact never disclosed who the other father was (choose ur own adventure dead beat dad edition) and his siblings already have amazing technicolour hair so its not outside the realm of possibility for his biological children to also have weird hair colours. but when the kid pops out with green hair everyone immediately connects the dots that hey, doesnt the strawhats first mate that sanji famously doesn't get along with also have green hair? is this why sanji never said who the other father was? hes a fucking dead beat! get his ass!

this misconception integrates into everyones mind bc it makes too much sense to not be true and everyone is suddenly deadset on "protecting sanjis honour" and making zoro "take responsibility"

sanji is screaming crying throwing up disgusted bc no!!! the shitty mosshead is not the father!!! stop saying that!!!! but since he still wont say who the actual father is, everyone is just like its ok sanji, you dont have to defend a deadbeat even if he is your crewmate and sanji has no choice but to kill himself and also zoro for daring to have green hair

when the strawhats show up for sanjis baby shower they also unanimously come to the misunderstanding that sanji and zoro totally boned. franky goes as far as to call the kid mini marimo. brook makes a hundred innuendos, chopper is upset at the implication of them having unsafe sex, and robin alludes to "knowing all along" in a very ambiguous way. usopp is the only one who refuses to connect the dots and he is sanjis favourite strawhat fr. jinbei pats sanji on the back and says he hopes they work through their differences for the sake of their kid. sanji is dying, youre killing him, you're killing your cook

even more shenanigans ensue when zoro shows up 3 whole days late to the baby shower and is gaslit into thinking hes the father by everyone in attendance despite being Pretty Sure that he and sanji never fucked. zeff gives a pretty good shovel talk and nami gives an even better one (debt increment is involved) while zeff nods approvingly behind her and then luffy slingshots in all parents should be married right? and doesnt wait for an answer

anyway, like 2 hours later zosan find themselves standing at a makeshift altar on the thousand sunny, saying their vows. sanji insists to the very end that zoro is not the father so they dont need to get married but alas luffy isnt giving him a choice in this (he wants to eat wedding cake)

to sanjis eternal despair, the kid grows up to really like swords

additional zosan thought, sanji does not help things by shouting "this is all your fault!" the moment he sees zoro. zoro is futher gaslit

#mine #zosan #one piece #love putting them in the funniest scenarios possible #the kid also cant be convinced that zoro isnt their actual father #i think zoro does his whole wandering swordsman thing and sanji has to endure lovelorn husband jokes #angst alternative: zoro is in fact the father but does not remember their one night stand bc he was black out drunk #and sanji refuses to be the only one that remembers their ~night of passion~ and decides to keep the father a secret #luffy forces them to get married anyway #op #this got kinda long oops #dont ask me why the baby shower lasts over 3 days i just think the strawhats party hard and party rock and theyd definitely go all out here #zoro in this is very much embodying this might as well happen

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the-littlest-laney · 3 months

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“what i wouldn’t give to be in church this sunday

listening to the choir so heartfelt, all singing,

‘god loves you but not enough to save you’

so baby girl, good luck taking care of yourself.”

im goin thru it rn, i promise this is my last kristen and cassandra piece for a while. i can’t handle the angst anymore.

#fanart #characterillustration #dimension twenty #dimension20 #fantasy high #dimension20 kristen applebees #saint kristen applebees #kristen applebees #im having a kristen rennaisance in my head #cassandra dimension20 #cassandra fantasy high #oops all angst #i just cant stop thinking about it #i like making art that hurts ig

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mossycat · 11 months

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Your beauty is beyond compare With flaming locks of auburn hair With ivory skin and eyes of emerald green

He talks about you in his sleep There's nothing I can do to keep From crying when he calls your name

Jolene

(Mala is coming to realize some things about her husband)

#oops all angst #sry mala #mossyart #httyd #rtte #how to train your dragon #dagcup #dagur the deranged #dagur #hiccup #Hiccup Haddock #hiccup horrendous haddock iii #queen mala #rtte mala #Race to the Edge

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oh-surprise-its-me · 9 months

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tw domestic abuse

13 year old Jamie flinching when his dad puts his hand on his shoulder because the force of it makes him bend.

17 year old Jamie having a black eye for two weeks after his dads been around again and insisting he got it during a match and the ref just didn’t see.

19 year old Jamie in a serious relationship for the first time and she drags her nails down his arm hard enough to break skin in a small argument. She smacks his face three days later.

20 year old Jamie who’s just had a wine glass tossed at his head from a girl who thought he was cheating, he wasn’t but that doesn’t seem to matter.

21 year old Jamie who had a secret boyfriend for three months until he gets shoved into a wall for not wanting to be the first out player because ‘Jamie think of both our careers, we would be icons’.

23 year old Jamie who’s had maybe the healthiest relationship of his life with Keeley being at a bar for the first time after they break up, he gets his face slapped by a girl who thinks he was flirting with her boyfriend.

27 year old Jamie in a relationship with Roy and the first time they really argue he throws his hands in front of himself and closes his eyes when Roy gestures.

Roy fully freezes and steps four feet back and asks Jamie to open his eyes. Jamie who honestly didn’t realize his eyes were closed looks shocked. He asks Roy why he’s so far away now.

Roy looks like he’s about to cry, Jamie lunges to him holding his face asking what happened. Roy has to stutter out a ‘you flinched’ and now it’s Jamie’s turn to freeze. No one has ever brought up the flinching before, taken advantage of it? Yeah. Ignored it? Definitely. Asked in a voice that’s about to cry? No, no that’s new.

He insists he’s fine, he knows Roy would never hit him. Roy looks at him like he’s lost his mind and refuses to brush this off. They talk for hours, Jamie tells Roy everything. All the ex’s, everything his father has ever done, ex teammates who slapped backs too hard to be friendly.

Everything.

By the end they are both crying and Jamie has agreed to talk to a therapist. When they go to bed that night Roy is terrified to grab onto Jamie and pull him on top like he normally does. Jamie has no such issues and rolls right on top of Roy, head tucked into Roy’s neck like every night.

#jamie tartt #ted lasso #roy kent #roy x jaime #I had a lot of thoughts tonight #roy kent x jamie tartt #jamie x roy #they really love each other it all works out #oops angst #if you are struggling with something like this know that no partner should EVER treat you the way Jamie has been treated #absolutely no domestic ab between Roy x Jamie #I used Jamie as a bit of a punching bag oops sorry !!#mac writes ted lasso

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