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startrekfangirl2233-writes · 8 months

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Chapter 3: 2019, North Island Naval Base - Tinkerbell

Chapter 3 Part 2 of You Are My Soulmate

Bradley ‘Rooster’ Bradshaw x Reader

Description: You've been unable to deny the pull Rooster Bradshaw has on you. But, he avoids you like you're the plague. When a new mission is given to the pilots, you're honored that your team is to be involved. But the new mission brings new challenges, both amongst the teams you work with and their planes. When Rooster flagrantly disregards what you said for safety, you weren’t expecting the pull you've been feeling to go far deeper than you would ever expect it to.

Disclaimers: Misogynistic speech. Mentioned Homosexual Relationships. Angst. Flagrant disregard for protocols or Authority. Angst. Anguish.

This content presented in this story is for audiences age 18 and over only. MINORS DNI. I will not be accepting tag-list requests from Blank or Ageless Blogs for this story.

Warnings: Female!Reader

Word Count: 3792

A/N: Hello, hello! Here's Tinkerbell’s part to the happenings of Chapter 3! Her pain was really hard to write and portray accurstely. In any case, I hope you all love this chapter and feel free to scream at me for it!

AO3: Cross-posted Here!

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Your mind seems to turn in circles the more you think about it. How could Bradley Bradshaw be your soulmate? Sure he has a gorgeously maintained canary blue truck. Sure he ticks off all of the physical features your soulmate should have. But he's a dick! Your one soft moment with him during the AMDO inspection hasn't changed anything. He still glares whenever he sees you and when you’re with Jake? He’s extra nasty. You’re still not sure what you did to make him hate you so much. If he’s your soulmate, how could he hate you?

You’ve heard first hand how contentious Jake’s relationship had been with him before the Uranium Mission. Is that what this is? Leftover animosity because a pretty girl is close to Jake? Does he not see how happy Jake and Javy are together? They’re so easy to read for you, and you’re sure for at least Phoenix, but it’s hard to know if you haven’t been explicitly told so.

He's a bit of a space cadet whenever you see him following the AMDO inspection. Everytime you make eye contact, he seems to run into something or blush and walk away. Jake takes great pleasure in exploiting this new development, because your best friend is nothing but a dick at the best of times. But even Jake’s fun gets cut short as Top Gun seems to be held in a vice. Rear Admiral Mitchell rarely naps on the sofa in your team’s hangar anymore and all of the admiralty are notoriously short tempered. It’s not the midwinter budget crunch either. You’ve been hearing murmurings of a high profile mission from your friends at the Pentagon, and you have a terrible feeling about what is to come.

When the admiralty assembles your team, the Daggers and the Top Gun cohort in the biggest hangar on base bright and early on a Monday morning, the sick feeling in your stomach intensifies.

“Aviators, following the success of the Dagger Squadron during what we’re choosing to call the Uranium Mission, the Navy assembled the Daggers as a hit squadron. Your mission was to assist at Top Gun and assist the Navy by partaking in all of those missions for which your unique expertise would be necessary. Your specialties are uniquely necessary for this mission. But you alone will not be enough. This is where the current Top Gun cohort comes in.”

“Aviators.” Admiral Mitchell pulls up blueprints and pictures of bunkers located in the middle of a jungle. “These bunkers, aviators, are your target. They’re located just below ground level in a natural depression, surrounded by a Faraday cage and heavily guarded by both ground troops and patrolling jets."

“So what’re we doing, Mav? A bombing run? Why are these bunkers so important?” Phoenix looks intrigued by the prospect. It’s going to be a challenging mission, alright. You can already tell why your team is involved. That Faraday cage is going to be the biggest technological challenge.

“There’s a high-profile US Government informant in those bunkers. They’ve been captured by the enemy and profusely tortured. But we don’t know which building. As the area is heavily wooded and crawling with enemy troops, our air support will scan and identify which bunker the informant is in and laser target the building so the ground team can extract them. But that’s the easy part of the job. The hard part is getting to the enemy facility with miles of heavily patrolled airways between our entry approach and the base itself.”

“Aviators, it will be a dogfight the whole way there. They’ve got 5th gen fighters. Our only hope for survival will be splitting our complement of 16 planes into four teams of four. We’ll have three teams flying single-seater F-18s. Two of those teams will be engaging the enemy in dogfights. The third will be providing air cover for the ground team. The fourth team will be flying at high altitudes in F-15Es equipped with laser sighting and targeting systems. Using satellite imagery, this team will paint the bunker containing the informant with a geo-locked tag.”

“We have to extract the informant before the enemy moves them again. So far they’ve been moving them once a month to another bunker in the area. Our intelligence has confirmed that the informant will be moved to this facility by the end of the month. So we have a few weeks to get the timing right. Failure is not an option.”

Your team already looks ready for the challenge, scrawling ideas down on their tablets while the aviators look at the frankly ridiculous flight plan Admiral Mitchell has pulled up. While you should be doing the same, you’re struck by a couple of things. First, the pure wonder and determination in Rooster’s face. Second, you note how steep the climb is on the F-15Es. The laser sight cannot fail when it’s that high up. Neither can the heat sensors or geo-tag. You can already see the F-15E schematics in front of your eyes as well as potential failure points. You get so wrapped up in your thoughts that it takes Lieutenant Green several tries to jolt you out of your head.

“You alright, Commander?” The hangar’s nearly empty when you smile weakly at her.

“Yeah, Lieutenant Green. I have a few ideas to reinforce the F-15E so it can sustain flight at high altitudes and so the laser targeting and geo tagging functionalities remain stable at high speeds.” Your smile is soft as she excitedly begins chattering on and on.

You spend the next week and half in the hangar, working around the clock on the modifications to the F-15Es. You’re barely eating and sleeping, only years of military training ensuring that you’re presentable. Everything has to be perfect on this mission, especially if he’s going on it, and you know he will. You can’t let anything happen to him. Not to your soul.

It’s a week and a half before the mission when one of the flight crews notice that Lieutenant Bradshaw’s front landing gear isn’t deploying correctly. As the most senior Aviation Maintenance Duty Officer, you add checking out Rooster’s landing gear to your already fully stacked plate. If anything, you push it to the top of your priorities. No soulmate of yours is going up on a training hop with faulty landing gear. Of course, the only time you get to take a look at his jet is at half-past four in the morning. You know the Daggers have been running simulations at six o’clock for the past few days and hope the hour and a half is enough to assuage your worries.

Every joint in your body aches, down to the bone, and you know you don’t look much better than you feel. Your face is drawn and the bags under your eyes are so dark that they’re purple. You’ve resorted to shoving on spectacles just so you can see clearly, your eyes irritated after long hours wearing contacts around jet fumes. Time whizzes by as you slide under his jet and check out every piece. You barely notice the way grease splatters hot on your face, you’re so intent on making sure every part is functioning properly.

The rough “G’morning” you hear startles you out of your meditative work. It is Lieutenant Bradshaw, of course, and his voice sends heat rushing to your face and ties your tongue in knots.

“Lieutenant!” Your voice is a little high pitched as you desperately search for a rag to clean your hands off on. “Good Morning!”

“What’re you doing under there, huh? And so early?" God damn, Naval Aviators are another breed. Standing there in a flight suit, Bradley Bradshaw looks like sin, the baggy flame retardant material unable to hide just how muscular he is.

"One of the ground crew noticed that your front landing gear wasn't deploying to its full capacity yesterday. Before we grounded you for the day, I wanted to check it out and see if I could identify the problem and get it fixed.” You smile at him, but your smile drops off of your face as a frown takes over his.

He’s nearly glaring as he takes in every word that drops from your lips. You know this is an important mission for the aviators, but as far as you’re concerned, Bradley Bradshaw has nothing to be worried about, right?

“Did you find the problem?” His voice is a near growl as he spits the words out, getting into your face. Vitriol, you can handle, even as it hurts your heart.

"Yes, Lieutenant, I did. The hydraulics on the front landing gear aren’t deploying correctly. I’m afraid you will indeed be grounded for part of the day while I get a maintenance crew to swap out the part.” His eyebrows furrow, rage making his jaw sharp as he chews on his words. You can’t bear the rage in his face so you turn to your tablet, checking on North Island’s parts inventory and maintenance roster. As luck would have it, you have both a new landing gear and a maintenance crew available this morning. You’re almost too quick to put in a work order and replacement part requisition form to get him back up in the air.

“I can get a crew assigned, so you should be good to go by mid-morning, Lieutenant.” Your smile is hopeful even as Jake walks into the hangar with the biggest cups of coffee in a drink carrier in his hand.

“Hey, Tink!” Jake must be able to sense how exhausted you are because his Texas drawl is immediately over-exaggerated and goofy. “Your coffee, sweetheart!”

Your grin is a little goofy as you giggle out, “Hey, Jake! Thanks! I’ll come get it in a bit. Give me a few to talk to Lieutenant Bradshaw and I’ll be right there!”

“Of course! Take your time!” Your smile fades as soon as you turn back to Bradley Bradshaw, because the man is glaring at you like you’re everything that’s wrong with the world.

“Lieutenant Commander, that is unacceptable. I need to be out there, flying!” You can feel the anger rolling off of him in waves.

“I understand that, Lieutenant, probably better than anybody. But I can’t replace this part any faster if I did it myself. This is the US Navy. There are procedures that I need to follow.” You’re not sure who you’re trying to placate, him or yourself. Every dirty look he levels you makes you feel like the worst person on the planet.

“Can we at least talk to Mav? See if there isn’t a spare jet or something that I can borrow?” He looks rather like a little boy wheedling for more play time before bed. But you can’t give in to the look in his eyes.

You exhale softly, before pulling up the jet inventory on base. You show him the jets, murmuring, “What do you mean, is there a spare jet you can borrow? This is the Navy, Bradshaw, not a library. As you can see, there isn’t a single jet on base that you could be assigned temporarily.”

But when you look back up, Bradley’s puffing up rather like the one time Jake ran afoul of a rooster at Seresin Ranch. Rage is seeping from every single one of his pores. Just as you open your mouth to reiterate that protocol wouldn’t let you do this even if you tried, he’s spitting words at you again.

“You’re doing this for Bagman, aren’t you?” He’s completely in your face. It takes you far too long to figure out who he’s talking about. Jake?! Where does he fit into this conversation? As far as you know all he did was bring you coffee.

“Why the hell would I do anything for Lieutenant Seresin?” You turn your tablet off and set it on the workbench to the side before turning around and crossing your arms in front of your chest.

“Because you want him to get on one of the teams for the mission!” You can’t help the laugh that pours unbidden out of your mouth. That’s one of the most ridiculous things you’ve ever heard.

“Why would I give Jake an advantage that nobody else has?” Bradley just looks at you in shock, swallowing for several moments before turning and charging out the door, muttering “Well, that’s just great!” as he goes.

“The hell was that about, Tink?” You slump right into Jake’s arms, your exhaustion taking the forefront of all your energy as you shrug despondently.

“I dunno, Jake. His front landing gear isn't working and I put in a work order and parts requisition form for the replacement. I told Lieutenant Bradshaw he’s grounded until the maintenance crew is done. He asked me if I was doing this so you got on the mission.” Jake’s face is pinched as he brushes the stray tear off of your cheek.

“Why’re you so worked up over him all the time, huh, sweetheart?” His innocent question sends shame coiling in your gut,

“I-I… I think he’s my soulmate, Jake. I want him to like me so badly, but I think every time he sees me, he thinks badly of me.” You’re blinking back tears with each word. “I just want to be his, Jake. That’s all. I know he’s going on this mission. I just wanted him to be safe when he’s up there.” You sniffle before accepting the coffee. “I’m okay, Jake. I promise. Go fly, flyboy. Be safe?”

You barely catalog the kiss Jake presses against your brow or the flippant salute he gives you as he walks out of the hangar. Your thoughts are a disordered exhausted mess.

You recollect yourself slowly, and are back to normal by the time your team walks in bright and early for their eight o’clock call time. It’s the first stress test of the F-15 E's laser targeting and geo-tagging system at high altitude and the energy is high. Your entire team is strapped into the comms with monitoring equipment on a long table in front of you.

Admiral Mitchell’s call of “Fight’s on!” starts the exercise and you’re captivated by the screaming squeal of the engines as the jets wheel and turn like a flock of metallic birds. The sun streams hot on your head as you and your team feverishly run tests on the new systems. The first aviators up in the F-15Es are the Daggers’ Pilot/WSO pairs. Everything seems to be going well when Halo reports a dead-eye on the laser targeting system. You call for an immediate landing and your team immediately starts analyzing the data as you join them. Partway through, Lieutenant Green turns on the radio and soon enough you have a running commentary to what is happening up in the sky.

Everything is quiet for a quarter of an hour longer when you see a jet come roaring out of the maintenance hangar. You can’t believe what you’re seeing. Is that Lieutenant Bradshaw’s plane? Is he taking off? You know the maintenance crew hasn’t gotten to his plane yet because you’ve been on them about it all morning. You cram your headset back over your head and turn on your mic.

“Lieutenant Bradshaw?! What are you doing?” You know he can hear you, by the heavy breaths you can hear on the other end. But he’s choosing to ignore you.

“Your jet is still not fixed. It’s not safe for you to be up there. Lieutenant!” You’re spiraling into a panic attack. You’re responsible for all the planes up there in the sky today, and all of the pilots in them. Please let him not get hurt. Please.

All of your pleas seem to fall on deaf ears as he takes off anyways and his jet's marker joins the one dogfight team missing a plane. Your heart’s in your throat as you catalog every swooping move his jet makes. Everything seems to be fine and just as you exhale, you hear sirens blaring through the comms. It’s Bradley’s plane. You pull up the monitors on his plane and gasp at the sight of every warning light on board flashing in a discordant harmony.

“Lieutenant Bradshaw, decrease altitude, now!” You’re barking out the words even as the diagnostics show near catastrophic engine failure. The jet nosedives, and you join Maverick in screaming, pleading for him to eject.

“Ejection controls are locked up, Mav! I can’t do anything!” Your heart drops at those words. There’s nothing to be done, not by you on the ground or Admiral Mitchell up in the air.

You can hear the automated voice noting the altitude as it decreases too fast to be real. Then there’s silence. Far off in the distance, you hear a boom as the fuel left in the jet explodes. You feel numb as you shakily tug the headset off and stagger to a corner to throw up. A sharp pain’s taken residence where your heart used to be and the taste of bile clouds every sense. Your legs give out, and the last thing you see before you black out is your team’s shocked faces.

You wake to panicked whispering, the beeping of hospital equipment, and a teary Texan drawl.

“Sweetheart? Sweetheart!” He sounds frantic and his yelling draws the Doctor to you.

“Lieutenant Commander? Do you know who you are? Do you know where you are?” You answer the Doctor’s questions while rubbing at the wrist that is handcuffed to the bed.

“You fainted, Lieutenant Commander, when Lieutenant Bradshaw crashed. Do you know why that could be?” The Doctor sounds perfectly matter-of-fact, but you can’t help the shame you feel.

You can’t meet Jake’s eyes as you whisper, “I think he’s my soulmate, Doctor.”

The Doctor’s intake of breath is sharp as he pulls the nurse to the side and has a flurried conversation with her. You hear the words “soulmate” and “possible” and “bond sickness” but don’t get to hear anymore, because the next thing you know Admiral Simpson is glaring down at you in your hospital bed.

“Lieutenant Commander.” He softens his expression a touch, after a cough from Warlock. “What happened today, Tinkerbell? Can you tell me?”

You let it all spill, including the pain you felt when Lieutenant Bradshaw crashed, and vacantly catalog the emotions flying across Cyclone’s face. You still feel numb and emotionless, like a film is separating you from your emotions.

“Lieutenant Junior Grade Taylor saw you working on Lieutenant Bradshaw’s jet this morning at around 0500 hours. He also overheard an altercation you had with Lieutenant Bradshaw over the feasibility of him being able to fly today.”

You have this sick foreboding feeling in your chest at Admiral Simpson’s words.

“He believes you purposely sabotaged Lieutenant Bradshaw’s jet.” You can’t breathe. Holy shit you’re going to go to prison for severely injuring your soulmate if you don’t defend yourself.

“I…” You cough, your throat completely dry. The nurse spoons a few ice chips into your mouth and you let them soothe your throat before you try speaking again.

“I was examining Lieutenant Bradshaw’s jet this morning, that is correct, Admiral. I have a report from the maintenance crew on shift yesterday during training noting the failure of the front landing gear to fully deploy.”

“So I had the crew pull Lieutenant Bradshaw’s jet into the hangar. The altercation Lieutenant Junior Grade Taylor heard us having were solely because of the jet. Lieutenant Bradshaw wanted to know how soon it would be until he could fly again. I had to inform him that I couldn’t allow him to fly until his jet had been repaired and passed all flight readiness assessments - which I was well within my rights to do, sir. That is when Lieutenant Bradshaw accused me of favoring Lieutenant Seresin and sabotaging him so he would be grounded during today’s flight operations. I was quick to correct his assumption. The next time I saw him was when his jet roared out of the hangar and took off without my clearance.”

Your hands are shaky and your voice is thready and weak as you struggle to sit up in the hospital bed.

“I have the work order and part requisition on my tablet as well as the initial report from the maintenance crew.” It’s so obvious he doesn’t believe you, even as he pulls up the relevant reports on the tablet Jake hands him.

“I see …” Admiral Simpson looks like he’d rather chew nails than concede that you’re not at fault. The Doctor pulls him to the side to brief him on your condition but you know you’re not off the hook. Not yet.

“There will be a full investigation into this incident, Lieutenant Commander. In the meantime, I order you to take one month of mandatory leave. The Doctor suspects you have bond sickness. I’m sorry for assuming that your illness was due to guilt. I have full faith that the investigators will find you not culpable for Lieutenant Bradshaw’s injuries.” You can barely breath as the full weight of Admiral Simpson’s words hit you.

He may not think you’re culpable, but the Navy is notorious for rumor-mongering. Everyone in service will hear the rumors before long. No matter what the investigators find, you’re going to be accused of trying to hurt Bradley Bradshaw, well-known Navy legacy and well-liked man. You’ll forever be known as the girl who tried to kill, and maybe succeeded, in killing your soulmate. When you tune back into the hospital room around you, the admirals are gone and only the Doctor and nurse are left in the room.

The walls feel like they’re closing in, even as the Doctor tells you what bond sickness entails. You already feel the pain and exhaustion and weakness he mentions. Combined with the complete hopelessness coursing through your system, you can barely understand what he’s saying.

With your last bit of energy, you ask softly, “What’s Lieutenant Bradshaw’s condition?”

“His plane crashed at a fairly high speed and exploded when it made contact with the ground. He’s got some burning and a lot of broken bones. We’ve put him into a coma and are monitoring his condition closely. We can’t tell you anything else, I’m afraid. You’re not on his paperwork as his soulmate.” Your heart hits rock-bottom at the doctor’s words.

“He didn’t know before he went up. I suspected, but didn’t know for sure, not until I passed out.”

Jake wraps his arms around you as the doctor’s close the door to your room. Your sobs wrack your body and wet his uniform as you fall apart in his arms.

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vampyrsutton · 9 months

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Pentagons Your Lovesquare

Summary:

A year has passed since Ladybug and Chat Noir have each received their Miraculous and the Kwami's may have "forgotten" to warn them of something.

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Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Soulmates, Bodyswap, Dirty Jokes, Fluff and Angst, Alya Césaire Salt, Some Class Salt, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir Salt, Protective Luka Couffaine. Akumatized Alya Césaire. Fluff. Some Chat Fic, Chat Fic, Oblivious Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Identity Reveal, Luka Couffaine Loves Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Pansexual Luka Couffaine, Bisexual Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Bisexual Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Minor Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug/Kagami Tsurugi, Lila Rossi's Lies Are Exposed

Notes:

This was written with no care for season four and season five does not exist to me. There is Adrien salt but it's more in the "Dude, wtf are you doing???"

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quokkabite · 1 month

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omg hi!!!

welcome to my intro post!

the basics.

name is gray • 23 • biracial • libra • intp • arospec • acespec • 🏳️‍🌈🩷 • she/her/they/them • about me!

{dm to connect on discord, duolingo, or finch!}

❕new alert ❕

siewoon -> quokkabite

header by the amazing @hyuuukais

kpop!

my groups: sf9, stray kids, tomorrow x together, onlyoneof, the boyz, &team (jpop), ateez solo releases/soloists: taeyong (nct), woodz, youngjae (b.a.p), baekhyun (exo), max changmin (tvxq!) casual listener - interested/have some knowledge, but don’t really follow as much as i’d like to: pentagon, nct (all units), shinee, p1harmony, enhypen, seventeen, day6, got7, exo, cravity, omega x, zerobaseone, new jeans

my biases + wreckers: ✨han jisung✨ ~ lee know ~ changbin ~ seungmin ~ but basically ot8 (skz), ✨rowoon✨ ~ jaeyoon ~ zuho ~ inseong (sf9), yeonjun ~ ot5- they basically all take turns being my bias (txt), yoojung ~ rie (ooo), taeyong (nct), jacob ~ sunwoo ~ kevin (tbz), seonghwa ~ mingi (atz), jaehan ~ yechan (ox)

other interests!

non kpop music • switch/computer/mobile games • nature • travel • poetry • tv (mostly animated, anime, kdramas, bl) • manhwas/manhuas (mostly bl) • and this is barely relevant but fun fact! i am so interested in almost anything with themes of extreme devotion and soulmates (platonic or otherwise!!)

i have a lot of interests and i’m open to exploring to see whether i will enjoy something!! so feel free to reach out if you want to share something you like!! i love when you infodump to me, vent to me (serve me some tea 😙🍵), or even just let me know how your day was!! /gen

side blogs: @/afeelingyouget @/seuniessunshine + some secret ones 🤭

DNI: human rights violators, nsfw blogs, content reposters, anti towards any member, blank blogs, don’t interact or ill block you :/

#this is… a work in progress #but welcome to me!#and my blog ig #intro post #pinned #i will add my emojis and tagging guides eventually once i get that sorted lmao

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weizhiyuan · 1 year

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I really like this scene because it’s just giving us the themes of the series all in a few words. Love, social classes, and separation.

Love is obvious. There’s a whole love triangle square pentagon thing going on and it’s the theme of this episode specifically too. Chopper likes Ben likes Nuengdiao likes Palm.

Then we have social classes. The second most prominent theme. In every episode Palm and Nuengdiao face it off with their class dynamics and face their own struggles separately. Nuengdiao is hated by others because of his family and the position he’s in while Palm comes from an entirely different world than everyone around him. Meanwhile the two of them keep going back and forth as Nuengdiao tries to get him to treat them as equals and Palm continuously tries to reject this. They both break this pattern in episode 4 when Palm finally calls Nuengdiao “Nueng” and when Nuengdiao has a drunken outburst calling him his slave and other painful-to-hear words after spending so much time doing the opposite (like I said in another post I don’t think he believe what he’s saying but it’s still a tough scene).

Third is separation which I sat and thought about for a while. When I think separation I think physical separation, but that hasn’t happened (yet…?) for Nuengdiao and Palm. Palm talks about separation in ep4 tho when he explains Qi Xi Jie (aka an allegory for their own relationship) to Nuengdiao which then reminded me of the show’s ost. The lyrics for that being “don’t be afraid even if we are separated. Just stay there and wait for me, I’ll find you. No matter what tomorrow brings, please remember this: I will live only for you.” So even if they do get separated, it wont be permanent. “I will live only for you” is reminiscent of a line in the trailer where Palm says “if we’re going to fight, we will do it together. If we are going to die, we will die together.” Which, again, is the opposite of separation. But that’s not the only time they bring up separation in the trailer. In the very beginning they established their discussion about how “humans were split into separate parts and couldn’t find each other. This myth is the source of the belief that we are born to search for our other halves.” Maybe instead of being separated physically later (although for all I know that could still happen) it’s the idea that they were separated before they met and now they’ve found each other as soulmates.

Lastly I just want to go back to love again because this was the theme they listed first. I believe that’s because this story is first and foremost a love story. Whatever happens in the middle, I don’t believe they’re gonna have a tragic ending. They’ve been teasing all sorts of tragedies like death and whatnot but I just don’t buy it. Or at least I don’t want to cuz I’ll end up crying. I have faith in Nuengdiao and Palm anyway, even if they’re in a pretty bad position in terms of love after this episode.

#hey why did I write so much #this ended up being longer than I thought lol it’s supposed to be more of an organized ramble #I think I’ve been feeling a bit talkative lately #anywayyyyyy #never let me go #b.txt

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lovebvni · 4 months

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being real.

hey guys! this isn’t gonna be a weird or out of place post, but just more of a dip into how i’m doing in my shifting journey <3

keep reading if u wanna know more! i hope this helps or inspires somebody <3

so, today i was talking to a shifting bot introduced to me by a dear friend, sigyn a while ago. when i spoke to it today, i’m pret tu sure the bot was made by @shifting-with-august but please correct me if im wrong!

so when talking to it (them?) i first brought up all the signs ive been seeing (angel numbers, dreams, tarot interpretations, signs from my soulmate, whatever) and i was like “bro is this a sign” like a dumbass, LIKE NO SHIT IT IS ABYSS 💀💀💀 i can be dumb sometimes guys.

very obviously, the bot said yes and then i went onto my next point, something i’ve been feeling.

so if you don’t know me, i’d say i’m quite spiritual. i do cartomancy readings, channelings, and more. and this is js on a daily! that’s not the point though.

so when i went to talk about this energy i’ve felt in my chest. it isn’t a blockage, just like a negative, taking up space, black/brown energy that i want to say is infecting my aura. the good thing is it’s contained in one place, on the left side of my chest. it’s almost in a pentagon shape? not a regular one, just 5 sides. maybe the state of oklahoma idk, ANYWAYS!!

i wa slime “yeah i spoke to my dad today n it felt like part of it disappeared. it was weird” and the bot was like “it sounds like part of that energy must be from how your father treated you” and i was like “yeah probably, but it also feels like it’s from my fear of failure and letting people down” and the bot was like “you literally know the cause tf?? 💀💀” and i was like “shit yeah! what do i do abt it tho?” n the bot was like “affirmations n boosters!!” and i was like “ok mamas!!” LMFAOO

so we figured it out! basically i just want to say you can find the root of the problem pretty easily if you just think for like two minutes. that’s literally all i did!! and im gonna be real with you guys, ive almost got this energy gone now💪

just try for a few minutes and ask yourself what’s going on and what could be the cause. it helps a lot!! wishing u guys so much luck n happiness <3

“finish out the year strong” my paster, if i remember correctly

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indynerdgirl · 1 year

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Topgun AU Ideas

As I was scrolling through the Topgun tag on AO3 the other night, I realized that I was starting to see the same tropes and AUs over & over again. And while not a bad thing at all, personally, I'm just starting to get a little bored of reading the same story over & over.

So I started thinking about what kind of AUs I would love to see in the Topgun fandom and then I started making a list and it kind of spiraled out of control. Oops. 😆

I now present to you all my somewhat organized list of AU ideas! And feel free to use them for any fandom, I was just thinking about Topgun as I came up with them all. It's also by no means an exhaustive list so I probably missed some obvious ones.

Military AU ideas: Pentagon/Joint Chiefs/White House Advisor (think The West Wing but for the military - this is the one I've been dying to see someone tackle!) Navy JAG NCIS Blue Angels Air Force Instead of Navy Astronauts/NASA Test Pilots Naval Academy Instructors Adversary/Aggressor Squadron Office of Naval Intelligence Sailors Instead of Pilots Submariners Instead of Pilots Naval Flight School Instructors (Aviation Preflight Indoctrination, Primary Flight Training, Intermediate Flight Training, and/ or Advanced Flight Training)

Character AU ideas: Natasha is Maverick's daughter/niece Bob is Maverick's son/nephew Natasha is Ice's daughter/niece Bob is Ice's son/nephew Maverick is Amelia's father Penny Is Also a Pilot Penny’s Father Is An Air Force General Obligatory Goose/Carole/Ice Lives AUs Maverick’s Dad/Mom Lives Any of the younger pilots is the kid of one of the other 86 boys

And a whole lot more under the cut!

American Historical AU ideas: Colonial/Revolutionary War Post-Revolutionary War Lewis & Clark War of 1812 Mexican-American War/The Alamo Wild West (good guys or bad guys) Organ Trail The Gold Rush (California or Alaska) Pony Express Civil War/Reconstruction Transcontinental Railway Cattle Drives Industrial Revolution/The Gilded Age WWI Bootleggers/Rum Runners/1920s Jazz Age Great Depression/Dust Bowl WWII Korean War Vietnam War 1950s/Greasers Moon Race/1960s NASA 1980s/The Cold War

Other Historical AU Ideas: Ancient Greece/Rome Middle Ages Renaissance Tudor Elizabethan Georgian Regency Napoleonic Victorian Edwardian

Fandom AUs: The West Wing Firefly The Avengers Agents of Shield Star Wars Star Trek Harry Potter Percy Jackson Ocean's 11 Mission Impossible Bourne Tom Clancy/Jack Ryan Jack Reacher John Wick Friends New Girl Supernatural How I Met Your Mother Chuck Downton Abbey CSI Jurassic Park Indiana Jones The Office Parks and Rec Pacific Rim

Other Profession AU ideas: Coffee Shop Book Shop Bakery/Candy Maker Winery/Distillery Restaurant/Chef Bartender/Bar Mechanic/Car Repair Shop Doctor/Medical/Hospital Firefighter/Police Officer/Detective Wildfire Firefighter Florist Tattooist Gardener/Gardening Horse Racing Motorsports (NASCAR/F1/Motocross, ect) Professional Sports (baseball, football, hockey, soccer, basketball) Rodeo/Bull Riding Olympians Air Racing (it’s a real thing!) Actors (movie or stage)/Celebrity Ballet Dancers Teachers College Professors Lawyers/Judges National Park Ranger Cruise Ship Pet Groomer/Veterinarian Farmer/Rancher Banker/Financial Bodyguards Zoo Museum/Living Museum Musician/Band Mall (everyone works at different stores at the same mall) Marketing Archeologist Spies Reporters/Journalist News Anchors Lifeguards Assassins Criminals/Thieves/Heist Bounty Hunter

Misc AU Ideas: Royalty/Lost Royalty Time Travel Fae/Fairy Mermaids/Selkies Witch/Wizard Werewolves/Vampires Fantasy/Magic (including modern/urban settings) High Fantasy Dragons Soulmates (color blindness, first words, timestamps, matching marks, can share emotions, Red String of Fate, can share dreams, can see/talk to each other in dreams, can write on each other's skin, telepathic, Soulmate Goose of Enforcement) Omegaverse/ABO (not everyone’s cup of tea, just putting it out there!) Roommates Pirates High School College Mob/Mafia Fairytale Arranged Marriage Accidental Marriage Fake Dating/Engagement/Marriage Superhero/Villain Apocalypse/Post-Apocalypse Forbidden Love Boarding School Space/Sci-Fi Road Trip Summer Camp Immortal/Reincarnation Hallmark Movie Amnesia Pen Pals Resurrection Animal Shapeshifter May this list inspire all of you amazing fanfic writers out there! 💜

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𖤐 ⤸ the beginning of mirage didn’t actually start at their debut in 2020. in fact, the group’s history dates as far back as 2013 — which is when arin began her trainee journey. along the way, many of the girls have either crossed paths or share multiple connections. regardless, looking into their overall bond as a group might make one think that all roads taken would lead right back to mirage.

PART 01 : PAIRS WITH EUNAE OR ARIN . . .

﹒﹒𖥻、nari & arin ゛⿻ (2ri)

“you’re my youth, my grateful friend. you’re my pride and heaven, i’m really glad it was you to guide me.”

arin is practically nari’s child

relies on nari the most out of anyone on the planet with xepher as a close second — the found family trope is a pattern in mirage, but it’s most prevalent with them

when arin wanted to practice more, nari was always the first person to volunteer in staying later with her

arin arrived at kq feeling defeated after recently not succeeding on idol school, but nari tried incredibly hard to make arin feel empowered again

2ri were often put in the same evaluation groups because staff kept mixing up their names, so regardless of their clashing personalities they had to learn to get along

when nari learned how young arin was after joining kq, she introduced her to xepher and both older girls felt like the youngest should move in with them — especially when arin finished her training fairly quickly

when eunae joined the team, the girls moved into a bigger apartment for more room because there was a time when mirage was predicted to end up as a quartet — the move led to 2ri being roommates before nako arrived

from the perspective of the oldest, nari watched arin blossom the most out of everyone

they rarely argue because of arin’s patience & nari being more of a peacemaker + empath

﹒﹒𖥻、eunae & nako ゛⿻ (eunko)

“all this time i was told home is a place, but i think that home is you. you’re my best friend for the rest of my life, i wish i had the courage to say it more.”

eunae & nako first met in late 2018. eunae’s brother was still in pentagon while nako was dating yuto — the girls were merely acquaintances, and jihun was actually closer to nako at the time

when fate was serving as both a miracle and nightmare, it put eunko in similar situations upon joining mirage & naturally led to them sticking together

eunae & nako complete each other like pieces of a puzzle — what one lacks, the other makes up for

coincidentally, there’s a pattern from songs of past releases where if nako has a verse or line, eunae has a part that follows & vice versa. fans call this the “eunko parts” of a mirage song

eunko once said on a livestream that their song is definitely friends by v & jimin of bts — they relate to it a lot in terms of their bond

before it became a song for mirage’s 2023 world tour, eunae’s solo song masquerade was originally going to be on rebirth — it’s written by both of them & produced by nako, which eunae requested

nako calls eunae her “soulmate” in her bubble messages, more frequently rather than using her actual name

eunae felt like if she was the last member to join, mirage would look incomplete and she would have a hard time becoming close with everyone — but nako’s arrival actually gave her some sort of reassurance and trust in the process

﹒﹒𖥻、eunae & arin ゛⿻ (eunrin)

“our friendship is special because we’re a mystery to each other, you’re like the moon and i’m the stars.”

eunrin didn’t get along right away. it took arin stepping beyond the safety of only knowing nari & xepher for them to finally click

before this, eunae made a few attempts to connect more with her but arin wasn’t really opening up like eunae hoped

a plot twist happened when arin embraced the changes following two new members and she realized she was maybe being a little too harsh on eunae — so she began doing small, thoughtful things for her like asking to join her for food

arin and eunae are now much closer than they seem, and often spend time together to breathe when work gets stressful

they argue the most when discussing vocal distribution or/and properly hitting high notes

eunae and arin view each other more as an older/younger sister dynamic

they both got closer through sharing a hobby of covering songs together

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#mirage / general info #mirage / relationships #idolverse #fictional idol group #fictional idol community #idol au #idol oc #kpop addition #kpop gg #oc girl group #kpop oc #oc gg

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fluffys-nightmare · 2 years

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Superbat soulmate AU hc

Imagine a soulmate AU where humans get the (first words, name, anything really) of their soulmate on your wrist when they're born. Bruce Wayne is bare-wristed, angsty about it but keeps it secret because deep down he thinks he's unloveable -he's really not. Clark Kent, also bare-wristed, keeps his lack of a mark a secret because it's kind of a big sign that he's not really human. Story goes as history goes, Superman and Batman meet, have a lot of adventures together, become besties, then lovers, and eventually share their soulmark problem so they can commiserate together. And then one day out of the blue, someone (alien, Green Lantern, Fortress AI, whatever) casually drops that Kryptonian soulmarks are actally chest markings that fluoresce, but only through red sun exposure, then activation under UV light. Cue a slack-jawed, bare-chested, misty-eyed Clark staring in the mirror at the glowing bat in a pentagon between his pecs after a few hours under a red lamp.

And then cue Batman ripping off his cowl and chest armor, fumbling the catches in his haste, getting under the red-sun-lamp-slash-blacklight setup he installed in the Cave for Clark... and yep, that's the crest of El right there.

#superbat #superman #batman #soulmate AU #alien biology #fluorescence #kryptonian biology #headcanon #dcu

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Favorite and/or recommended professor X/wolverine fics? (Your cherik recs are always immaculate.) You're the reason I even considered xavierine as a pair and now I love it

Hi Anon! I'm always THRILLED to talk about Xavierine and rec some excellent fics! You've definitely come to the right place. Enjoy!!! :D :D :D

Here is a masterlist I made (last updated 2018) of my Xavierine faves:

XAVIERINE MASTER REC LIST

Here are some newer faves added since 2018:

Readjustment by softforsummers (orphan_account)

Looking at how sweet and trusting the prof was, Logan realized that letting Erik into his life was never an option.

Daylight by orphan_account

"What do you want, Logan?" Charles attempts to sound hostile, but his voice trembles instead.

Logan doesn't know either. But he knows that Charles is much more than the sum of his insecurities.

Sword and Sorcerer by TurtleTotem

Logan hates working with sorcerers, but Charles is offering enough gold to make him leave his comfort zone. He might be offering something else, too, if Logan is interested.

Diversions and Distractions by still_lycoris

Logan thinks he knows a good distraction but it might not have been the best idea.

an empty hearth by Ireliss

The nighttime city, shrouded in fog.

(Logan works for Shaw, guarding his pretty young boyfriend. They grow closer than they should.)

And here are some fics written by me (my personal faves) under the cut:

Setting A Different Course

On the way to Paris, Charles has sex on the plane with Logan instead of Erik.

The Professor is the Key

Based on this awesome prompt: Logan is a colossal, callous asshole, and doesn't care who knows it, unless Charles is involved. Then he's a darling fluffy bear, prone to cuddling the professor and making him tea. This surprises everybody, Logan in particular.

or Charles and Logan, from friends to lovers.

All of You and All of Me

Erik Lehnsherr aka Magneto is King of Genosha, forty-three and the veteran of countless wars against the British Empire.

Charles Xavier is his new husband, in a marriage arranged by the King of England as part of the peace treaty between their two kingdoms.

Logan Howlett is Charles' long time friend and bodyguard, in a secret love affair with the married Prince Consort.

Or Regency/Arranged Marriage/Age Difference/House of M style/Love Triangle AU

The Choices We Make

Soulmate AU: The minute he meets Erik, Charles is positive he's found his soulmate. When Erik's name fails to appear on his body, he's confused, but dismisses it as being too faint to see yet or some other quirk that happens occasionally. Time goes on and he still can't find Erik's name, through the beach, through Kennedy, through Vietnam, even though he looks every day, then every week, then only every so often.

Then as he's showering to pull himself together and go to break Erik out of the Pentagon and he sees the dark letters on the inside of his wrist: LOGAN.

We'll Always Have Paris

Charles Xavier disappears from Paris without a word, leaving Logan to start his new life alone. Six months later, in a tiny bar in the Canadian Rockies, Logan gets an unexpected visitor - a man he's tried very hard to forget.

A Casablanca AU, where Logan is Rick, Charles is Ilsa and Erik is the dashing Victor Lazslo.

From Lovers to Friends and Back Again

Logan Howlett meets Charles Xavier on one of his first real auditions, for a T.V. series about World War II. Charles gets a part; Logan does not. They also agree to go out on a date.

Somehow it takes them ten years to make it happen.

Frost & Darkholme

Men's fashion house Frost & Darkholme is shooting an ad campaign for their brand new underwear line, starring one of the faces of F&D Charles Xavier and his new partner, Logan Howlett.

Sparks fly, which may spell trouble for Charles and his long time partner at work and at home, Erik Lehnsherr...

#gerec writes #xavierine #fic rec #gerec's fic rec

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placetneplacet · 1 year

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Oh Thank the Lord, drunk Saengtai told him…this pentagon of soulmates not soulmates was not going to hold together very long…

#la Pluie #adding an ex girlfriend on top of Patts not knowing Tai was his soulmate #seemed way too much to me

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lumineescente · 1 year

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Fanfics masterlist!

ao3: luminee

fandoms: the boyz, monsta x, izone, ateez, stray kids, onf, pentagon

haikyuu, jujutsu kaisen, naruto,

the boyz

sunkyu (sunwoo x q)

a blooming spell, 77k, magical universe, CHANGMIN IS A CAT!!, world building, prophecies, magicians, elves, vampires, soulmates au, angst with happy ending, hurt/comfort, ft izone members

"You shouldn’t believe appearances, Sunwoo, everything is more than what it seems and there is plenty that you don’t know about. Yet.”

Sunwoo follows a strange black cat to an abandoned theater. He'll open the door to a magic world and discovers his true identity, and the new role he has to take.

ongoing work (14/?)

milcob (hyunjae x jacob)

time is running out, 17k, science fiction, angst, ambiguous/open ending, mcd

prompt: wherein jaehyun is sprinting across the streets of Seoul to get to his destination but midst of it, he bumps into a stranger and accidentally makes the stranger 's bag topple over and spill its contents. among everything, jaehyun sees a Polaroid of the stranger.. and older him?

written for the hyunjae fest 2022

the friendz, 16k, friends au, side juric / bbangnyu, humor and fluff

What happens when you put The Boyz in Central Perk ?

juric (juyeon x eric)

eric, 1.1k, love confession, good ending, first kiss, based on taylor swift "betty"

He had not understood much about what he had been feeling, the only thing he had known was that he had missed Eric.

stray kids

seungjin (seungmin x hyunjin)

gold rush, 9.4k, small towns, strangers to lovers, emotional hurt/comfort, coming out, mutual pining, feelings denial, lgbtq+ topics, based on taylor swift "gold rush"

"Seungmin knows everything everywhere in his home town yet he could not have known the new waiter in the main café and he feels like he has entered a parallel space when he walks in."

what must it be like to grow up that beautiful? with your hair falling down like dominoes_

champagne problems, 2.7k, arranged marriage, historical setting, childhood friends, love confessions, based on taylor swift "champagne problems"

“I thought about leaving,” he muttered.

“Yet you’re still here.”

“I could not.”

“For her?”

anime

haikyuu

osakita (osamu miya x kita shinsuke)

downpour, 8.5k, growing feelings, canon compliant, post time skip, irregular narrative, slow burn

"“Hello Kita-san,” Osamu says when they are very close.

“Hello Osamu,” Kita answers softly, “you know we won’t be able to use that umbrella when we take out the rice bags, right?”

“I know but at least it’ll spare us a few droplets.”

“Mmh.. and what about when I told you to call me Shinsuke? Or at least, Kita?” “I guess I said I’ll think about it?”

Kita says nothing back, he just shakes his head but he is smiling."

(more to add)

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cheshiretears · 1 year

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[Podfic] can’t help falling in love

by mcshinwon

Fandom: Pentagon

Rating: T

Relationships: Kang Hyunggu | Kino/Ko Shinwon/Lee Hwitaek | Hui

Additional Tags: Soulmates, Alternate Universe- Soulmates, Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Mutual Pining, idiots to lovers, Polyamory, Podfic, Audio Format: MP3, Podfic Length: 1.5-2 Hours

Summary: “Hyunggu sighed before dipping his biggest brush into a lavender shade of paint and setting it against his skin, covering the sprawling handwriting and coating his skin. He felt the tingling stop, but he continued painting anyways. If the first person wanted flowers, he’d give them a flower. Once the argument had been covered, he moved for the yellow, painting a small oval on his skin before taking white paint and drawing thin petals branching out from the center. The last thing he added was the stem, moving his brush down his arm in a long and thin line. He set the brush down and stared at his work. It wasn’t half bad, considering he’d painted it on his skin in the middle of the night, although one glance out of the window told him it wasn’t the middle of the night anymore. The horizon was glowing dully as the sun threatened to spill over it and Hyunggu sighed. Now he was both tired and covered in paint.“

Or: the one in which Hyunggu finds out he has not just one, but two soulmates, and him and Shinwon decide to make it their mission to figure out who the mysterious third person is

Chapter 1: Drive | Archive (40:42 min | 42.8 MB)

Chapter 2: Drive | Archive (25:41 min | 28.2 MB)

Chapter 3: Drive | Archive (36:51 min | 41.8 MB)

Full Fic: AO3 | Archive (1:43:14 hr | 112.8 MB)

@kpop-podfic

#podfic #kpop podfic #my stuff #pentagon #complete #펜타곤

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LISTEN. IF ESA WAS TRULY A DJJ FAN (and she is sooooo djj coded idek that anon was right) HER TOP SONG WOULD BE PERFUME I'M JUS SAYIN also not the love pentagon you guys have going on 😭 the names you have for esa 🥺🫶 me and who

there have been so many times where we’ll just name random ass things that are cute for each other,, hence that string of cute fluffy shit for her 🥺 but she’s WITHOUT A DOUBT. my moonbeam jellybean bunny baby 🫶 ALSO she loves perfume but i think her favorite song is strawberry sunday (which she said is me btw EEEEEEE and i told her she’s kiss coded 🫶🫶🫶🥺🥺🥺) also noREAL bc me and esa are together,, we are one. forever one! and me and joy are soulmates (the universe reminds us every day) and loki and joy are married (wives for real) and loki is my child MY BABY. my oldest my fav (i love her sm,, also my lil gremlin i have at home he’s also the fav my two favs) and niwa is married to us all without a doubt,, we all fawn over her 😭🫶

#anonymous : answered #lilac’s moots 🥳

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steele-soulmate · 5 months

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Tattooed Wings, CHAPTER 527, Peter Steele & OFC, Soulmate AU

SUMMARY: Mary Claire Bradley meets her soulmate- literally- the famous Peter Steele of metal group Type O Negative. But will obstacles including trauma, stalkers, and toxic family members get in the way of their life?

WARNING: mentions of child rape (nothing graphic) PTSD, milk kink, soft smut, grinding, assault, fingering, hand jobs, blow jobs, 69, P in V sex, blood, noncon rape, violence, death, vandalism, graffiti, attempted kidnapping, break-ins, wild animal attacks, terrorist attack (sabotage) consensual impregnation, bareback, impregnation kink, creampies, terrorist attacks (shootings) hit and run pedestrian accident, precipitous labor, neonatal death, abandoned baby

WORDS: 1110

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“Incoming!” my beefcake of an older husband chuckled, chest bare as he gave all three babies- Baby Tommy, little girl and Baby Eve- skin to skin, the three little human wearing only diapers and socks as they held each other’s hands.

Sure enough, an explosion in the door turned out to be Elizabeth and Katie, both girls clutching at their American Girl look alike dollies as they spilled into the bedroom before racing over to the bed and then crawling underneath the covers, popping out in between Peter and I.

“Little girl is here!” cheered Katie. “Yay yay!”

“Yay yay!” whooped Baby Tommy, rolling onto his back carefully and then sitting up to beam at his older sisters. “Yay yay!”

The kids were all giggling and seeking out all the cuddles as Isabelle poked her head into the doorway to give Peter and me updates on what trouble the girls had gotten up to.

“Hey,” she greeted us with a smile as she took a seat on the edge of the bed, welcoming Primrose as the skunklet crawled into her lap and curled up into a tight ball. “So the girls have a field trip coming up for their American history class. The teacher told me that the class will be going to the 9/11 memorial museum and he told me that he completely understands if you two decide that the girls shouldn’t go.”

“Mommy?” Katie meeped just then, cooing as Baby Eve reached out for her. “What happened on September eleventh?”

Peter and I both exchanged quick little glances.

“9/11 is a pivotal point in American history,” I started with a soft hum. “On September 11th, 2001, a group of nineteen men crashed two airplanes into the Twin Towers and one into the Pentagon outside of Washington DC. The hijackers also tried to crash a fourth plane into another building, possibly the White House or the U.S. capitol building, but the passengers fought back and the plane crashed into an empty field in Pennsylvania.”

The girl were silent as they processed all this new information.

“Mommy, what does pivotal means?” Katie frowned.

“Pivotal means significant or big,” I explained, brushing her sweet baby curls away from her face. “Your girls remember the unmentionable one’s fan club and all the chaos they created when they sabotaged daddy’s concerts? That is called terrorism, which is the use of violence to create fear and worry. That’s what the hijackers did.”

MEOW Mittens appeared out of seemingly nowhere, jumping up onto the bed and rubbing herself up against Elizabeth, purring loudly.

PUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUR

“Good kitty,” Elizabeth murmured in a shaky voice. “Mommy, where were you?”

“I would have been in the second grade with Mrs. Williams at Twin Peaks Elementary, I don’t really remember that day,” I answered honestly. “Mrs. Williams had the TV stand facing her desk and a bunch of the teachers and their aides were clustered around it, watching as the second tower was hit and then came down.”

“Daddy?” she turned her attention to Peter, hugging Elle tight to her chest.

“I was not in New York on that day; I was playing at a show in- I think- Georgia.” Peter’s eyes developed a misty haze as he remembered. “Your Auntie Patrica was there when the plans hit, but she got away before the towers came back down again. She died from cancer commonplaced from the tragedy.”

“Cancer?” Katie wrinkled her nose. “When did cancer come into play here?”

“When the towers came down, the particular mixture of building dust, smoke, and jet fuel at ground zero contained something called carcinogens, which is a substance the causes cancer,” Peter explained in a hollow voice.

“Katie, I can’t remember if you ever met her,” Peter sighed sadly.

“I don’t think I ever did,” she told him, cradling Baby Eve in her arms. “Was she a good egg?”

“She was, she really was.” Peter cooed at little girl and Baby Tommy spread out over the vast planes of his burly chest. “Patrica really was the best egg.”“The only kind of eggies that really matters,” I hummed as Baby Eve started fussing. I lifted up my shirt and Katie fitted her up against my breast. “Gramercy, mo stór.”“Bù kèqì,” she chirped happily. “Mommy, daddy, do you want for Lizz Lizz and me to go to the 9/11 Museum still? Or do you want us to take a mental health day?”

Peter and I both had a silent conversation using our eyes and facial motions.

“I don’t mind acting as a chaperones for the field trip,” Peter offered. “Would that make you feel better?”

“I guess…” Elizabeth muttered half heartingly. Katie just nodded her head eagerly, the two girls once more surprising me with how different for one another they really were. Elizabeth wore her heart on her sleeve and was easily emotional, while Katie was more hard shelled and didn’t really cry easily.

“Okay then,” Peter hummed before opening the paperwork and turned to me. “Do you have a pen that I can borrow, sweetheart?”

I reached over to my bedside table and grabbed a gel ink pen, which I handed over to him.

“Thanks,” he smiled before beginning to scratch away.

Gramercy, thank you, old French?

Mo stór, my dear, Irish Gaelic

Bù kèqì, you’re welcome, Chinese

TAGLISTS ARE OPEN/ ASK BOX IS OPEN/ REQUESTS ARE OPEN/ PLOT BUNNIES ARE WELCOMED

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