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mrhowells · 9 months
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Smallville 5x01
Lana is truly in the trenches isn't she😬
DON'T MAKE ME CRY WITH JONATHAN X MARTHA MOMENTS
not the voice crack from Jonathan when he asks "can you help me get her out of here?"😭
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Chloe is lucky she didn't freeze to death before waking up the snow💀
LMAOOOO Jor El is such a clown, just let Clark get Chloe home real quick and then come back like what's the issue???
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"You must return to me before the yellow sun sets." "I'll be back. I promise."
yeahhhhh I don't think you will be back Clark, call it a hunch🤡
Lex took some gaslighting classes from Clark💀
"I figured if you wanted to tell me (pop culture reference I don't understand without subtitles) you would when you were ready. On your terms, not on mine." "You're a good friend Chloe."
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now not to be that person but...
we all know who we have to thank here, right? We all remember who told Chloe to wait?😌😌
"What about Lana? Does she know?"
GIRL-
Yeah, he really doesn't look comfortable being called a superhero at this point.
"If more humans were like you, the world would be a better place."
let him know!!!!!
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cute.
waiiiit I don't remember what happened to Lionel at the end of last season
Lionel in his oracle era apparently... good for him?
Okkk Lana is not playing
LOIIIISS
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screaming crying falling to my knees
"put the nice man down🥰😇" LOIS PLS
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AHJHSAJHS LOOK AT THIS💀
Uuuuh I see what Lana was doing there, smart
where's Jason btw, did he just get completely pulverized by that meteor?
Lex you need to give this a rest pleaseee😭
"Why do I get this nagging feeling you're being less than honest with me?"
The way that Lex manages to stay this composed even when he knows Clark is lying through his teeth tho
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"If you're my friend, just tell me the truth."
I could turn this around and say if you're his friend, just let him be when he's clearly not comfortable👀
I get both sides honestly. CAN THEY NOT FIGHT PLEASE IT'S NOT GOOD FOR MY BLOOD PRESSURE
Clois hugggggg
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(I'm really surviving on scraps here aren't I?💀)
OOOOh right he was supposed to be back before sunset😬
"You can get hurt now. You're vulnerable." "Isn't that what it means to be human?"
I just want to hug him this is so sad😭😭
"Clark, really you shouldn't have." "Actually, I didn't." "Too sweet for words."
LOOOOLL
"The doctor says I shouldn't talk too much." "... oh gee that's too bad😐"
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"You were there for my parents." FYI THEY'RE HER PARENTS TOO NOW CLARK
Lois babygirl light of life don't leaveeeee
rip💀
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Wait what??????
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This is about the Genevieve thing right?
Making out right next to Jason's death announcement LMAOOOO
it's what that crusty man deserves😌
"No more secrets. No more lies."
I can't with this man, he probably really believes that there's nothing to tell now that he's powerless😶
LANA IN HER ALIEN HUNTER ERA WHERE'S THAT GIF I USED FOR LEX A FEW SEASONS BACK HOLD ON
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Braniac hiiiiiii✨✨
Can I just say though, I can't believe Lionel is still such a big part of this show💀
like idc how good the actor is WHY TF ARE THEY GIVING HIM WEIRD ORACLE STORYLINES I DON'T NEED IT
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ceadgearst · 6 months
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Title: A mini book called “All apologies no substance: I hate the world2023, part MXVI, Souless corporate greed and self hatred strike back! Redux Remix Remake (2023)
Subtitled: “Aesthetics are pathetic! There, I said it!” A punk loses his soul over and over again!
[torrent link - magnet link - google drive]
Disc 1/4
Track listing
1.???
2.????
3.!!!
4.!?!?
Press play or press any button to begin
Track 1/level one
There’s a graveyard not far from
Where I are
I count cars like the tar tracks in the road
Teenage angst left me like a toad leaves warts
Of course now it’s more of the angst where I drive my own herse
Of course it’s worse I carry my own purse I lurch around at any sound
I’m dammed to the town and not in the way you think
The aperture of my eye closes as I blink (cry)
I just need a moment to think (die)
Clink me like glasses I’ve just about had it
If it was wit I would just quit shit fuck
Suck my luck
I am my own muck
my heart like a truck filling with exhaust
I tossed my future away everyday
fuck fuck fuck fuck
what the fuck did you say?
Go away!
Go away!
No stay please I’m begging on my knees
My mind my mind it just does that sometimes it just freezes
like the breeze has paused
the laws of physics don’t apply to my flaws
Fuck your applause and fuck your cause
I just want to be lost like a charm that you miss
Track 2/level 2
I blame myself and the world that surrounds me
The things that have to be and the things that don’t
The love and the dope, the cope with the hope and the rope that dangles in front of me:
Money, green as fertility
It’s news to me that you can carry so much greed
That you can hold more than you can ever need
You can bleed everyday for money I just be born lucky it’s so sucky and uncomfy
It’s rough to be here and near to the earth and the girth of the hearth that wealth commands
I stand upside down like a clown, like a jester
But my complexation and eyes are more uncle fester
I fester I fester of course of course
that’s the recourse of being a recluse,
the more you sustain the more you lose,
now what’s the news? I’m tired of my blues
and what I choose that I leave myself
for what else I should be doing
I am gluing myself to everything else
but what really helps
Fuck
Track 3/level 3
Love In a weird way
I am less that what you favor
But I can tell you love my flavor
Take me now, none for later
I am nothing but what you cater
Savior every fucking bite
your eyes roll back to reveal white,
I might bite you back in return
Let your passion burn, fucker, burn
We learn and we teach
We kiss and we reach
I’d bleach my skull for you
I would die for another lifetime with you
Track 4/level 4
Never impressed I know I know
You always expect so much more
Everything hurts at the core
so what so what does it matter what makes me fatter in my soul
that’s the whole goal of this life
you are your own knife
now you’ve got to fight
fuck this fuck you fuck everything
I just want to sing peacefully
for me and you and nobody and everybody else fuck this and fuck that and fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck you know what if this gets printed I will be sprinted
spirited away
to the ray of sunlight that creeps into my beautiful fucking night
I hate you no that’s not right
I just don’t like it right now
go on go get out
I can be so uncouth
forgive me like a stain in a blouse,
shit from a mouse
I hope I can be something like a cloud and rain down my tears
and make people get to dry places to admire the drops
I hope i die lopsided like how I derided and divided aspects of myself and this horrible treatment of my own mental health fuck you go fuck yourself I am an enemy to my own self and you know what else? I fucking hate that nothing ever seems to help
Oh well
Cast a spell over me gently I’m mentally not good
I know what I should but not what I would I cut myself down like wood I stood between my past and my future, I sat down and between us a blunt we did nurture
Is there worse things I could be
I don’t know, ask me
About the Author: ceadgearst
I have too much hair
And not enough things to wear
I promise you I care
It’s just sometimes I don’t want to be there
My hair is black but fading to brown
My eyes are small and squinting and brown (again)
My teeth are sharp but far from art, tobacco tar mars my my pearly whites
And my pale complexion betrays my love for the night
My hands are long and spindly
I look in the mirror that Is the real me
I have two snake bite rings in my face
A clinker in my septum and hoops in my ears
I look at myself as you do as you lear
That is me I guess
Tune in next week for the exciting conclusion!
Insert disk 2 to continue
Hidden track (?make me smile)
All apologies, no substance: I hate the world2023
Go die in a river for a sliver of gold
I’m going to die young that’s what I’ve been told
I was sold on a lie about a staircase to the sky
Try try to fly but instead you fall and die
Cry
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wenchofthescullery · 8 months
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What To Do During the Strike, Day 8
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Subtitle: A loose collection of recommendations to keep you busy, should we suffer from similar tastes and interests.
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So, poetry.
Before anything else, do you know about PoetryRx? You need to know about this! You, too, can get a list of poems curated for a very specific interest or emotion.
The archives are here:
In this loosely collated series of posts, I've been trying to focus on easily accessible recommendations for good writing that might have passed you by. Oddly, poetry is a bit more difficult. I think it's because this is Tumblr, and we do love our snippets here.
How often have you seen this?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life?
It's from Mary Oliver's The Summer Day. People love this, and it gets quoted frequently. Another favorite is Wild Geese:
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting - over and over announcing your place in the family of things.
She has been described as naive, brilliant, popular, and a thousand other adjectives we will not name. Today I want to give you an aged woman with a simple life: someone who survived sexual abuse as a child, back before we discussed it much; who lived her love with another women for 40 years, back when that was even more dangerous than now; and a woman who walked the farm with her dog, looked at the world, and wrote things.
And Mary Oliver was gentle, and she was strong. She died a few years ago, just before the pandemic. That was a grief for me. I lost a friend.
Here is the first poem I read of hers, and the one that stays with me:
The Journey One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice— though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. "Mend my life!" each voice cried. But you didn't stop. You knew what you had to do, though the wind pried with its stiff fingers at the very foundations, though their melancholy was terrible. It was already late enough, and a wild night, and the road full of fallen branches and stones. But little by little, as you left their voices behind, the stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do— determined to save the only life you could save.
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Edited to add: That lingers. That hurts. It is advice, but it is also holding the hand of someone who had to make hard choices, and for whom you feel a kinship.
We have been here before, you and I. Let us sit here for a moment. Although you left, you are not alone.
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Next up is religion.
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whaleiumsharkspeare · 4 years
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This piece is called “Whaley ran out of the right shade of purple and then couldn’t find more of it when she went shopping”
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turtle-babe83 · 2 years
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Obviously, when u can, when u have time, could I request…
How would the guys react to their first time? Would it be hot? Gentle? Rough? Would it be planned or would they be caught off guard? Nervous? Excited? I loved how u did the bj ask do something along those lines would be brilliant! And then! If you’re up for it and u have time available anytime how about how they would act the day After? Kinda like a sex hangover! Would they be on cloud 9? Excited to tell their brothers? Floaty light? Hopefully there’s food for thought there. Hope u like the ideas xxxx love ya!
Request from my dear @nittleboo 😘😘😘 You always have the best asks for me babe! Love you!!I’m treating these as the boys being in established relationships and I’m doing fem!reader this time.
Warning: Language and NSFW 18+ only
First Time Headcanons
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Leonardo
Leo is a planner. He’s the leader. He makes all the calls.
So it shocks the hell out of him when you make the first move.
Date night, your place, dinner and cheesy old ninja movies complete with subtitles and terrible English dub.
His arm is around your shoulders and you’re snuggled up against his side.
And then your hand slides from his knee, up his thigh. A few inches at a time, until he’s not chuckling at the movie. He’s too focused and holding his breath, waiting for your next move.
To borrow his baby bro’s words, he can feel his shell tightening and it’s about to become embarrassing.
His eyes shift to yours, and he finds you staring intently back. You both still for a beat and then you’re on each other.
Mouths are crashing together sloppily as you tug one another out of clothes. Leo’s mind is reeling from the sight of all your naked glory and the softness of your curves. He palms, he squeezes, he laves his tongue against all your intriguing places.
He melts at your embarrassed gasp when he tastes your pussy for the first time. Your burning cheeks urge him on as he explores your most private area.
As amazing as it feels, you need him to fill you and you need it now. You start to beg and plead in a breathy voice, “Leo, I need you. Please fuck me now, please, please!”
He’s never felt more confident or accepted as this moment, hearing you beg him to fuck you. This gorgeous human female WANTS HIM.
He lays you back on the couch, and settles between your thighs. Looking you in the eyes, he grasps his cock and pushes it through your entrance.
He’s huge, and you wince. He stops immediately, terrified that he’s hurt you. You have to reassure him that you’re okay, you just need him to go slow and let you adjust to his size.
He grits his teeth and takes his time, when all he really wants is to plough into you until he explodes. Slow and steady, like Aesop’s tortoise.
When he hilts, you take a breather and then at your nod, he pulls back and thrusts forward.
HOLY FUCKING HELL ON WHEELS!!!
Your walls hug him so tightly, and it’s so warm and slick. He never knew it felt this amazing. His hand will never be able to satisfy him again.
Each rock of his pelvis is heavenly, and look at how beautiful you are, laying beneath him, meeting his thrusts with a rise of your hips.
Your eyes are glazed over in pleasure, and the sounds you make, those little moans and whimpers, the way you gasp his name. He’s quickly coming undone.
When he murmurs that he’s getting close, you clamp your legs around his hips to keep him from pulling out. Sliding a hand down between your bodies, you rub circles on your clit until you begin to twitch.
He’s roaring his release as you buck, cumming at the same time. He strains as he empties himself completely. He holds himself up to keep from squashing you as you both catch your breath.
The next day, his brothers notice a change in his attitude. He hums to himself while he makes his tea. His step is lighter, and they catch him staring off into space smiling a lot.
It isn’t hard to put two and two together.
Raph finally can’t stand it and has to ask, “Leo, man, throw us a bone here. Ya got laid last night, didn’t ya? How was it?”
Leonardo looks his brother dead in the eye and smirks knowingly as he answers, “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
And walks away.
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Raphael
He’s running his mouth, talking dirty, being a flirt like usual.
You two are hanging out in his room, just goofing off and enjoying each other’s company.
You’re telling him about your first time on a motorcycle and he just can’t help himself, the innuendo is perfect.
“I’ll take ya for a ride.” Insert brow wiggle here. Add smirk.
So when you retort, “Yeah? Why don’t you?” Insert hand on hip. Add narrowed eyes.
Wait, what? Raph’s brain is trying to catch up. Are you being serious?
Feeling both brave and sexually frustrated, you pull your top off and toss it to the floor.
“Are you all talk, Raphael? Or are you gonna give it to me as good as you say you can?”
You challenge him? YOU CHALLENGE RAPHAEL?? Oh, he’s back now. He’s gonna show you. Have you begging for mercy.
You see the lust darken his eyes and think, thank god, finally. Goading the big lug always does the trick.
He reaches for you and bye-bye bra! See ya sweatpants! Au revoir panties!
Now that you are naked before him, he feels his nerves coming back. You are so stunning and he’s just a green beast. Doubt creeps in but you see it and intervene just in time.
Sashaying up to him, you start pulling at his straps and his clothes. Scattering kisses on each fingertip, across his plastron, and once you have him undressed, you kiss the thick head of his cock.
Raph watches, enthralled as you lick his shaft, and try to fit it in your small human mouth. It’s doesn’t get very far, but he’s blown away by you taking the effort.
You suck on the tip and he’s so sensitive, he growls out, “Fuuuuuck” and pulls you away.
Before you can protest, you are in his arms and pressed back against the wall. He’s already trying to press his cock through your tight entrance and regrettably, you have to ask him to slow down before he hurts you.
Instantly contrite, his face falls, and you reassure him that this is normal for a first time together. You show him how to rub your clit to help get you wetter, and pull him in for toe-curling kisses.
As your walls slicken, he pushes in a little deeper, until he gets just over halfway. You both agree that it’s just going to have to be enough for now because you feel incredibly full and need him to move.
He starts thrusting, shallow at first, still afraid of hurting you. He groans at how well you squeeze his cock. You gasp at the fullness, but by god, he’s rubbing every sensitive spot inside you and you could weep at how good that feels.
As your moans grow louder, you begin to plead for “Faster, Raphie!” and “Right there! Harder!”
He’s happy to oblige. At some point, you are so wet, he has managed to slide all the way in, your walls accepting him and gripping him tight.
Pleasure has overridden both your brains, as you huff and puff, and fuck your way to orgasm.
You cum first, clamping down on his cock and making him cry out. It’s too much for his lust driven body and he pounds you into the wall until he’s shooting you full of his cum.
You know without a doubt that there will be bruises and soreness tomorrow, but it 👏🏼 was 👏🏼 so 👏🏼 worth 👏🏼 it.
Once you are snuggled down in his bed, he goes out into the rest of the lair. He’s grinning from ear to ear, but his brothers heard everything, so he doesn’t even have to brag. Leo shakes his head at him, but smirks a little. Mikey comes in for a fist bump and a “Congrats bruh!”. And Donnie salutes him from his computer chair. He’s already working on ideas for soundproofing their bedrooms.
And Raph is already planning your morning ‘wake up call.’
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Donatello
It might appear to be a spontaneous decision on both your parts.
It is not.
Donnie has been meticulously planning for this since you started dating.
He’s read all the articles, studied the human anatomy, and watched more porn than anyone would guess. For science, of course.
He feels supremely confident that he can blow your mind right out of the gate.
He starts by increasing his ‘casual’ brushes against your skin.
Kissing you a little deeper, a bit longer. When you lean in for more as he withdraws, he knows it’s working.
He lets you catch him looking you over, licking his lips. Then faking embarrassment at getting caught.
He always sits sprawled out now, to draw your attention to his crotch.
It’s all been leading up to this moment. You were coming over to help him clean up the lab, and he already made sure that intrusions wouldn’t be a problem. His cot in the corner is set up with fresh blankets and bottles of water are in the mini fridge.
Now all he needs is to seduce the girl.
When you arrive, he wastes no time with his deliberate touches. He’s worked himself up with all his sneaky planning and he’s struggling to be patient.
He presses against your back as he reaches above your head to set something on the shelf. You stiffen as you feel the evidence of his desire bumping your lower back.
You gasp, “Donnie!” and whirl around as soon as he backs up.
There it is, straining against the zipper of his cargo pants. And good lord, is that a big bulge.
You stare hard, and damn if it isn’t getting bigger. Donnie’s fully erect cock is a beast and you can’t wait to take it for a ride.
Donnie watches your reaction, and just as he reaches for you, you jump him. Literally. He’s so tall, he has to catch you as you launch yourself into his arms and smash your lips to his.
He groans as he feels you grind against him, and when you pull his suspenders off his shoulders, he’s relieved that things are going in the direction he wants them too.
As clothes are peeled off, Donnie does a double take when he sees that you are wearing a matching bra and panty set in his shade of purple. You grin. “Did you really think I’m that clueless? You might be a genius, Donnie baby, but I can read you like a book.”
So much for stealth. He snort laughs and helps you remove them. He sits you up on an empty table and kisses you again, slipping a finger through your folds to check your readiness. You are sopping wet.
Donnie lines up to your entrance and pushes. You watch in fascination as his dark cock disappears into your warmth. He’s thick, no doubt, but the length concerns you. It takes some time and a lot of give and take before he gets all the way in.
It’s a bit painful when he first starts to thrust, but he goes easy on you while you are still adjusting.
Soon, you are both moaning. Donnie is blown away. He knew it would be pleasurable, but he had no idea that it could feel like this. Now he gets why cock warming is such a thing. Your body is so warmth and welcoming, like a comforting hug around his dick. He could stay here forever.
Later, he will be embarrassed that he didn’t even attempt any foreplay. Right now however, he’s in ecstasy.
Before long, you are panting his name as you cum around his cock. His eyes nearly bug out when your inner muscles squeeze him. He picks up his pace and when his orgasm starts building, he lets loose. His hips are pumping fast, he’s pounding your cervix and the pleasure-pain of it is driving you higher again.
When he cums, it’s explosive and messy. There’s just so much and it’s leaking from your battered hole. Donnie grins in triumph.
He cleans you up, and then takes you to his room. He spends the next couple of hours enjoying all your body has to offer, and you fall asleep more than satisfied.
The next morning, he lets you sleep in, and heads to the kitchen for some coffee. He feels better than he ever has and he knows it’s because of you.
He enters the kitchen and grabs his favorite cup. His brothers are all grinning at him. Your scent is all over him.
“Well, how was it?” Raph asks.
Donnie frowns, “How was what?”
“The sex, bro! How did it go?” Mikey pipes up.
Donnie’s jaw drops.
“Come on, man. You don’t think we’re that dumb, do you? It was obvious why you were getting us out of the lair last night,” Leo laughs.
Donnie clears his throat, and turns to pour himself a cup of coffee. His brothers wait expectantly.
He goes to leave the kitchen, and calls over his shoulder, “A gentleman doesn’t kiss and tell.”
Thirty seconds later, he comes back in and pulls out a chair to sit.
“Good thing, I’m not a gentleman.”
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Michelangelo
Mr. All Heart tends to go with the flow.
So when things start getting hot and heavy, he embraces it and rides the wave.
He wants you, there’s no doubt about that. He has for a long time. But he likes to let things move organically at their own pace.
When you are ready, he will be ready.
And while he understands the mechanics of it, he expects to need your guidance and is totally chill with that.
It’s a Netflix and chill kinda night. You two are cuddled up in his bed, eating snacks and stealing kisses.
The movie you picked has an unexpected steamy scene and your cheeks heat up. Mikey notices that the hand he’s holding is starting to feel damp.
He glances over and realizes that you are getting hot and bothered. Just to test it, he leans close and places a soft kiss on your neck.
Your swift intake of breath and the clench of your thighs tells him all he needs to know.
“Hey, you wanna try it?” he asks softly.
Your eyes are wide but you nod eagerly. You want this. You want him.
With a smile, he pulls you underneath him, and starts off with some slow kissing.
Hands wander and clothes come off, but it’s easy and gentle. You both want to take your time and savor this.
Mikey is fascinated with your smooth skin. He touches, he tastes.
When you reciprocate, he lays back and watches you explore his body.
When you kiss the heart mark on his lower plastron, he whimpers. When you take him into your mouth, he moans.
As much as he loves it, he really wants to be snuggled tight in that pussy. He urges you to sit up, and helps you straddle him. You angle your hips and take him in slowly.
Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit! Mikey squeezes his eyes shut tightly. He had no idea it was gonna feel this good. How is he supposed to last??
He asks you to wait a minute once he’s fully seated inside you. He takes some deep breaths and tries to remember meditation training. It isn’t working.
He makes a mental note to work on that later.
For now, he wants to make sure you enjoy yourself too. You lean forward with your hands on his chest and roll your hips. Your clit rubs against the rough edge of his plastron and damn, does that feel good!
You start riding him harder and he gasps and groans. “Babycakes, slow down! I’m gonna cum too soon if you keep that up!”
You are chasing your own orgasm though and you know you are getting close. “Close,” you manage to gasp.
Thankfully, he understands and begins bucking his hips. “Yes!” you hiss, bearing down.
Mikey’s brain is mush right now. Nothing else matters but the way you are taking your pleasure from him and looking like a fucking goddess while you do it.
When you cry out, legs trembling, he grasps your hips and slams up again and again until he is left panting and empty.
After a snack fill-up, the two of you end up in round two.
The next morning, you both come out of his room and head straight to the kitchen. The others, who were enjoying breakfast, stare in disbelief at you in nothing but Mikey’s hoodie, a few hickeys marking your neck and thighs.
You grab a breakfast bar and some juice, scarf it down and then announce that you are headed to the shower.
As soon as you are out of sight, Mikey grins, dances around, and loudly announces, “I got laid, suckas!”
Then you peek back around the corner and look pointedly at your boyfriend.
“You coming?”
“Not yet,” he quips. “But I will be soon!”
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shemarmooresfedora · 3 years
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Rebuilding Family
Summary: Y/N and Spencer were college sweethearts at Cal-Tech but once Spencer got accepted to the FBI Academy, he ended things deciding it was not fair to make Y/N wait for him. When they meet again years later, he discovers something unexpected.
Pairing: Spencer Reid x Fem!Reader
Content/Warnings: pure fluff and a happy ending as promised :)
A/N: the final chapter 😭❤️ see my full note at the end
Masterlist
Chapter 37
“What’s your location? Over,” the walkie talkie on the kitchen counter crackled.
“Dino chicken nuggets are coming out of the oven as we speak. Over,” you replied back.
“Roger that. Over and out,” Jo stated and the walkie talkie went back to static.
Spencer got them as a gift for her and she would constantly have one with her, giving the other to someone before leaving the room so they could talk through it.
You headed out to the back porch and down the steps into the yard with a big plate of nuggets and dipping sauces as well as some juice boxes and applesauce for the twins.
“Coast is clear. Do you copy? Over,” you spoke into the walkie talkie.
“Affirmative. Bring ‘em up,” Jo exited the main part of the treehouse and you saw her on its little porch.
Spencer had built her a little pulley system with a basket and rope so she could lower or raise items up into the treehouse instead of carrying them up the ladder.
You placed the food and drinks inside and then made your way up the wooden ladder.
“Thank you, Mommy,” Jo smiled as she bit into a nugget.
“No problem, Cadet Jo,” you ruffled her hair up a little as she giggled.
You ducked to get through the door of the treehouse and sat down on a cushion on the floor next to Spencer who had both the twins in his lap.
“What are we watching?” you asked as you clipped the twins’ bibs on.
“Cars!” Jo cheered.
“I wanted to watch a subtitled Russian film but I was ‘boo’ed when I made that suggestion,” Spencer grinned as he grabbed the spoon to start feeding the babies.
“Hm I wonder why,” you teased.
Once Jo got the movie playing on the laptop, she took a seat in your lap with the plate of nuggets and took turns eating one, then handing one to you, then Spencer.
Once all the kids were fast asleep in your laps and the credits were rolling, you turned to Spencer.
“You and Derek really did a good job building this treehouse, love,” you complimented him.
“Anything for my family,” he smiled, then leaned over to kiss you.
-
It was the morning of Jo’s 8th birthday party. You wanted to make it extra special in light of what happened at her 7th birthday party.
Spencer kept reminding you that it wasn’t your fault a psychopath shot you and sent you to the hospital but you just wanted to give Jo the party she deserves.
You rented a bouncy house and an inflatable water slide. Spencer was doing a magic show and Penelope was doing face paintings. You baked a huge stegosaurus-shaped cake from scratch. No kid would be bored and Jo would have an amazing time.
You settled for having it in your backyard instead of the park now that you had plenty of room. The whole team came over earlier to help set up.
Penelope got all her paints organized on the porch table as Spencer set up his mini stage for the performance. Hotch and Derek filled the slide with water while you and Emily carefully brought the massive cake to the table outside.
Jo came running outside already in her swimsuit, eager to get the first splash in the water slide.
“You have to come with me, Uncle Derek,” she insisted.
“Jo, I don’t have my swimsuit on,” he replied.
“You’re in athletic shorts. They’ll dry quick,” Savannah, his girlfriend, yelled from where she was setting up the food table.
Derek looked to Hotch to help him out. Hotch pointed back to Jo who was giving him puppy dog eyes.
“Fine,” he groaned, taking off his shirt which elicited a holler from Penelope.
Jo made her way up the steps with Derek right behind her.
Jo sat down in Derek’s lap and then turned around to face him.
“Okay, ready?” she asked him.
Derek nodded and then pushed off, sending them both down the slippery slide.
“Weee!” Jo exclaimed as they slid down.
“Again,” she demanded, “Where’s Daddy?”
“He went to put his swimsuit on, Baby J, so he can go with you,” you told her as you set Ollie down next to Ophelia in the playpen outside.
“Coming, Princess!” Spencer ran outside and scooped the little girl up in his arms as he trekked up the steps.
“How about we go down like a penguin this time?” he suggested.
Jo nodded enthusiastically as Spencer got onto his belly and Jo laid on top of him and wrapped her hands around his neck.
“1…2…3!” Spencer pushed off and they raced down the slide again, Jo giggling the whole time.
“Again!” Jo said.
“I think we are going to have to buy one of these, love,” Spencer called over to you, laughing and running up the stairs right behind Jo again.
-
“Please welcome my lovely assistant to the stage,” Spencer spoke in his magician tuxedo.
You waved as the audience clapped. You were wearing a sparkly red sequin dress to compliment Spencer’s bow tie.
“I am going to make my assistant…disappear,” he stated.
The kids in the audience gasped.
Spencer took your hand and guided you to the big black box in the center of the stage.
“Just like we practiced,” he whispered to you as you stepped inside.
You winked and he kissed your hand as he let go and closed the door.
Spencer knocked on the door a few times and wiggled his hands for some showmanship.
“Okay, on the count of 3. We’re all going to yell ‘Abracadabra’,” Spencer explained, “1…2…3!”
“Abracadabra!” all the kids yelled.
Spencer set off a small smoke bomb and quickly opened the door, revealing an empty box.
The kids all screamed in wonder.
“Bring Mommy back!” Jo yelled.
You had to stifle your laughter from behind the fake wall in the box you were hiding behind.
“Your wish is my command, Princess,” Spencer closed the door again.
“To reverse the spell, we need to say the exact same word,” Spencer stated.
“Abracadabra!” the kids yelled once again.
This time, you opened the door and the kids clapped enthusiastically.
“For this next trick, I need a volunteer from the audience,” Spencer smiled.
All the kids’ hands shot up in the air.
“I’m going to have to go with the wonderful birthday girl right in the front row,” you took Jo’s hand and escorted her up onto the stage.
“Jo, I need you to pick a card, any card. Show the audience but not me,” Spencer fanned the cards out in his hands and closed his eyes.
Jo picked the ace of hearts and showed the audience.
“Now, put it back in the pile,” he said.
“Alright,” Spencer opened his eyes and began to shuffle the cards, “Is this your card?” he asked, holding the eight of spades.
“No, Daddy. Try again,” Jo said.
“Is this it?” he questioned, holding the queen of diamonds.
“No, Daddy.”
“Oh,” Spencer smacked his forehead, “I know where I put it,” he pulled off his top hat.
Spencer then proceeded to pull a bouquet of flowers, an endless handkerchief, a rubber chicken, and many other silly things out of his hat that had the kids in tears from laughing.
Finally, he pulled out the ace of hearts, “Is this your card, Princess?”
“Yes, Daddy!” she beamed, hugging him.
-
Jo’s birthday was a complete success. She was completely worn out by the end of it and slept in late the next morning.
But when she did finally wake, she was eager to try out her gift that you and Spencer had gotten her: a big kid bike with no training wheels. It was purple which was her favorite color with a white basket on the front and a little bell on the handlebars.
You and Spencer were going to teach her how to ride it today. She padded up with some knee pads and elbow pads and her helmet.
You had the twins in their double stroller with mini bucket hats on to protect them from the sun.
“Okay, Jo. Me and Daddy will run with you for a little but then we’re going to let go but you’re going to keep pedaling,” you explained to her.
“I’m scared,” she replied, looking at the street in front of her.
You were practicing in the street in front of your house because it wasn’t very busy and it was flat. Plus, you could leave the twins in the stroller in the driveway.
“It’s okay, Baby J. You’ve got all your padding on so even if you fall, it won’t hurt at all, I promise,” you assured her.
“I believe in you, Princess,” Spencer kissed her helmet-covered head.
“I’m ready,” she nodded, moving her feet to the pedals.
“That’s my girl,” you smiled.
You and Spencer began to jog alongside her as she pedaled.
Spencer looked at you, “Okay, Princess. We’re letting go.”
You and Spencer both removed your hands from her bike and she continued to speed forward.
“Yes, Jo! You’re doing it! ” you encouraged her.
“Princess, can you turn around and come back to me and Mommy?” Spencer asked.
Jo carefully steered her bike and headed back to you both with a massive smile on her face. You and Spencer were loudly cheering her on.
“Okay, try to brake,” you said.
Jo slowly came to a stop right in between you both.
“You’re a pro!” you grinned as you both knelt down to hug her.
-
Jo had been biking for the past hour and she was still having a blast.
You and Spencer were laying in the front yard with the twins in your laps.
“Mommy, Daddy! Look!” Jo exclaimed as she did donuts on the bike.
“We’re looking, Baby J,” you laughed, “Great job!”
You leaned your head on Spencer’s shoulder.
“Y/N…” Spencer began.
“Yes, Spence?”
“Thank you,” he replied.
“For what?” you looked up at him.
“All this,” he motioned to Jo, the twins, the house, the yard, the chalk drawings on the driveway, the rocking chairs on the front porch, the doormat that said ‘The Reids’, everything he ever dreamed of, “I love you so much.”
“I love you too,” you kissed him, “I’d give you the world if I could.”
“You already have,” he smiled.
A/N: thank you everyone so so so much for reading, commenting, reblogging, etc.! i love you all so much. i’m probably going to miss this too much and do one-shots of this series in the future. also, this series hit 14,000 on ao3! that’s crazy that that many people read my work. thank you, just thank you! -dory <3
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matsbarzal · 3 years
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happy august! i wanted to do a prompt list for the month, just to push myself to get back into writing more before the season starts. you can find all the prompts below (listed under specific subtitles for what they cater to) and as they get requested, ill be crossing them off. please be sure to double check my who i write for, and if the person you'd like to request isn't on there, just toss me a message! please send the number(s) with which subtitle they fall under and the player you specifically want it for when you request. please give me a lil bit of time to knock em' all out! cheers! <3
fluff
"what a nice pillow!" - brock boeser
"i personally think i deserve more attention than this." - mat barzal
"your love is literally a drug." - roope hintz
"i'd lay here and watch the stars with you every night if i could." - andrei svechnikov
"remember our first kiss?" - Erik Černák
"you've been my best friend for 10 years, why not change it to husband and wife?" - jack hughes
"i'd buy you the world if you'd let me."
"let me take care of you." - mat barzal
"i know i just spilt my drink all over your brand new shirt..." - elias pettersson
"i've never felt as safe as when i'm with you." - anthony beauvillier
"i'm always home when i'm with you."
"couldn't imagine my life without you." - mat barzal
"i know we said no matching tattoos... but matching tattoos?"
"gonna let me teach you how to skate?" - nico hischier
"i can't wait to see you." - jamie oleksiak
"i know we're in a cabin in the middle of the woods and our power just went out... so should we cuddle or bang?" - matthew tkachuk
angst
"you don't love me anymore?"
"you said you'd always be there."
"if you walk out that door, we're done. for good." - roope hintz
"i cant do this without you."
"please don't shut me out." - nathan mackinnon
"just breathe, it's okay. it'll be okay." - mat barzal
"i miss you everyday."
"so go, get out!"
"i know it hurts, just let me help." - kirby dach
"it was always him, wasn't it?"
"i regret everything about you."
"do you even love me anymore?" "i dont know." - andre burakovsky
"please don't leave me alone right now."
"are you going to talk to me or?" - elias pettersson
"you told me you loved me, yet you ruined everything about me."
"did i mean nothing to you?"
nsfw 18+
"your lap looks extra comfy." - tyson jost
"make me." - bowen byram
"can't wait to watch you fall apart tonight." - tyson jost
"i'll bend you right over that sink if you don't shut your pretty little mouth." - matthew tkachuk
"get on your knees."
"i want you to cum in me."
"let me take care of you." - k'andre miller
"you're mine. don't forget that." - josh anderson
"go get the cuffs from the drawer. now." - matthew tkachuk
"such a dirty slut for me, hm?" - mat barzal
"god, the things i'm going to do to you when we get home." - roope hintz
"be quiet, baby." - mat barzal
"look at the way [blank] looks at you, think he knows i'm fucking you behind his back?" - mat barzal
"seeing you with their baby... god the things it did to me." - jacob markstrom
"who needs dessert when i have you?"
"no panties tonight, hm?"
random/au
you and your soulmate have the same tattoo on your inner wrist
you can hear your soulmate in your head... and god is he annoying - josh anderson
your soulmate wont stop getting hurt and it's starting to piss you off
the moment you look into their eyes... you just know. - mat barzal
when you touch your soulmate, you see glimpses of your future with them
"you can't have two soulmates." "well explain how we all have the same tattoo then, asshole."
[blank] is the most annoying gryffindor there is, and you can't wait until you graduate so you never have to see him again
hades!player and persephone!reader
"do you actually sleep in a coffin at night?" "this isn't dracula."
"im 600 years older than you. calm down." - connor mcdavid
prince/princess au! - andrei svechnikov
"i'd die for you." "okay die then."
"can we make a tiktok?" "no." "okay so here's what we're doing." - mat barzal
reader!actress & player!player
song prompts
"but baby, you're the reason i quit drinking." -i quit drinking (kelsea ballerini & lany) - matthew tkachuk
"if ' cant be close to you, i'll settle for the ghost of you" - ghost (justin bieber)
"i'd do whatever she likes, give her christmas in july" - anything she says (mitchell tenpenny) - brock boeser
"from the start, i never thought i'd say this before but i don't wanna love you anymore" - i dont wanna love you anymore (lany)
"could i be yours in the morning? im tired of counting down streetlights" - yours in the morning (patrick droney) - jacob markstrom
"you left me with nothing now im lying in the arms of a stranger" - arms of a stranger (niall horan) - tyson jost
"id spend ten thousand hours and ten thousand more if that's what it takes to learn that sweet heart of yours" - 10,000 hours (dan+shay) - mat barzal
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writingbeary · 3 years
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Kingdom -  Sports Day
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Minyoung’s Outfit
Note:
Texts placed inside brackets are Kingdom’s show subtitles
Italicized texts are in English
Texts that are block quoted are interview cuts
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Today, the groups participating in Kingdom were told that they will be competing in the groups that they will be collaborating with for the No Limit stage. ATEEZ were confident in their athletic abilities but they also know that the other groups also have members who are athletic, especially BTOB who have Minhyuk who won medals in ISAC.
Minyoung brought out her self-made cheer banners for every group, taking it upon herself to be their cheerleader since she cannot participate in most group games. She wrote individual groups names and the Collab Team names on the banners.
"Our princess has betrayed us." Hongjoong feigned a hurt look over his face noticing the cameras zooming on him when Minyoung could be seen cheering for The-i-9 team when they entered the field.
"I'll cheer for everyone! There's no discrimination here!" Minyoung joked sticking her tongue out to her leader before waving the banner containing SF9's name. "Sepgu hwaiting!"
"You're cheering for everyone today? Not just Chani?" Dawon called out grinning
"Of course, I'll prioritize our Chanhee." clearing her throat before raising her banner up high "Kang Chanhee fighting!" with Chani laughing waving her off.
“Okay then 8 makes 1 team.” Hongjoong jokingly said making Minyoung pout and say “If you do that then I’ll ask the other groups to take me in!”
Stray Kids who were lined up beside them looked over the group laughing. Jisung waving her over “Young-ah, come here and perform <God’s Menu> with us.” as he jokingly did the du-du-du-du with Felix and I.N dancing a bit.
“That won’t happen. I’m keeping her.” Yunho placed an arm around Minyoung’s figure grinning “I happen to like having her around.”
The MCs noticing something happening with both groups called out to them. Wooyoung calling them out grinning “ATEEZ, what are you doing? We’re filming something here. Please focus.”
“We would but our Minyoung-ie is about to be taken away!” San shouted back, the other participants amused at what is happening
Wooyung stood up surprised “What? I leave you guys for a bit and this happens. What happened?”
“They’re kicking me out and Stray Kids is adopting me, thankfully.” Minyoung moved over to Stray Kids fitting right in with her clothes having a hint of pink.
“Oh! Welcome. We gained a new member. We’ll gladly take her Dovey.” Changbin laughed teasing Wooyoung as the latter pointed at their female member “Yah! Park Minyoung!”
Eunkwang joining on the teasing raised his hands and said “We’ll also be glad to take her in. That will bring our average age down a bit.” evoking laughter from everyone.
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(VAULT)
Minyoung cheered on everyone waving her banners around as the The-i-9 attempted the vaults. Yunho laughed when he saw the girl near BTOB’s table, tapping on Seonghwa’s shoulder to point it out. “Where is she going?”
“Minyoung-ah, stop invading other people’s tables.” San called out to her as she fired back “They’re not other people! They’re our teammates and we’re one team!” making the rest of Mayfly look at her laughing.
“Alice, come and join us here!” Felix waved her over to which she happily skipped over and hang out with them.
“This kid. Wait where’s Jongho?” Hongjoong looked around and saw Jongho already at Stray Kids’ table too
Yeosang chuckled “Our youngest members are all grown-up. They’re already making friends on their own.” As the rest of the members watch as the two youngest play around with the others.
When it was time for Chani to attempt the vault, Minyoung screamed waving her banner excitedly. “Kang Chanhee, fighting!”
"Minyoung-ssi won't you also cheer for the other participants? You shouldn't play favorites." MC Changmin asked, teasing the younger girl
“Oh. But I’m not close with anyone else.” Minyoung mumbled making the older male laugh.
Minyoung returned back to ATEEZ’ table after a long while sitting down beside Seonghwa who gave her a water bottle. “You should take care of your throat. You’ve been cheering since we started.”
“Ah yes. Thanks mom.” Minyoung giggled while Seonghwa shook his head already used to it
“Waah. THE BOYZ is full of good looking people.” Yunho commented as he watched them all attempt the vault
“ATEEZ is also full of good looking people oppa!” Minyoung countered nodding seriously making the members laugh
“What? We also have good looking members! Don’t think otherwise.” Minyoung continued as she returned her focus on the activity
“What is this? You’re praising us now?” Hongjoong laughed, shaking his head a bit
“I’m just saying the truth.” Minyoung shrugged smiling a bit
“But you told us we looked weird. Remember that?” San fired back grinning
“Ahh. That’s different. I’m the only one that can criticize our members. Other people don’t have that privilege.” Minyoung laughed and puffed her chest out as if proud of it “I can say those things because I do it out of love.” at this the members pretended to gag before laughing
When it was ATEEZ's turn to challenge the vault, Minyoung did light stretches before standing next to the vault. "Omo. Hongjoong-oppa what do we do?" Minyoung shouted making everyone laugh.
"She says that but watch her clear it with ease." Yunho chuckled
"Oh it seems like Athlete Minyoung would attempt next." MC Changmin announced as he saw the girl walk over to the starting line
"I'm assuming she's going to do well as she's a main dancer of ATEEZ." Eunkwang commented
"Alice is scared of heights though." Felix noted making Jisung scoff a bit hearing his remark "But she's competitive. I bet she won't even care until after the fact. She's been doing stunts with ATEEZ but I wonder why she still gets so scared."
"Maybe because when she does stunts for their choreography, she knows how she'll land?"
“Minyoung Challenge!” Minyoung shouted as she ran and made it over the vault easily, surprised at herself. “Omo! How come?” she asked aloud making ATEEZ laugh
“How come you made it over?” San laughed patting her back as 6 of 8 members pass.
As they were watching THE BOYZ challenge San commented on Juyeon’s challenge “Having the hood on was so cool. We should have worn hoods too.”
“Oppa, it would only be cool if you made it over.” Minyoung jabbed at the older male sticking her tongue out playfully, the latter reaching over pretending to flick her forehead.
For their second challenge at 1.8m, Wooyoung, Jongho, and Yunho already succeeded. The ones left were Minyoung and Hongjoong. Minyoung mumbled “I’m scared but I also don’t want our team to place last.”
Yeosang who was beside her laughed gaining the attention of the other members. “If you succeed in this attempt then you already did better than me, Young-ah. Besides, we can trust the three to do it well.”
“I know but I also don’t want to lose to our members.” Minyoung pouted as she walked towards the starting point to attempt. She ran as fast as she could and jumped making it over the vault, letting out a squeal as she flew over.
“Young-ah!” Jongho cheered immediately going over to her.
“See? I told you she would do well.” Jisung laughed raising a thumbs up towards the direction of ATEEZ.
When Hongjoong failed to make it over and hit the vault instead, all of ATEEZ ran towards him with Minyoung going over patting his back before teasing him “Our leader did well. It’s just our heights aren’t made for this kind of games.”
“You made it over though.” Yunho noted laughing
“Seriously this kid.” Hongjoong laughed poking her side as they all went back to their tent.
“Are you okay?” LeeKnow asked Hongjoong seeing as how he hit the vault
“The 10cm is a huge difference.” Hongjoong informed them as they’ll go next. Felix letting out a worried sigh.
“Felix you can do it! I even made it.” Minyoung cheered on her friend, San laughing making the girl look at him “If you say it like that then what happens to the people who failed to make it over.”
Minyoung gasped, defending herself quickly in a panic “Ah. I didn’t mean that. I just thought since Felix is more athletic that I am, he has a higher chance to make it over.”
The remaining members of ATEEZ all succeeded the 1.9m and moved on to the next level. Everyone was shocked when Minyoung cleared the 2m height, even she couldn’t believe she made it past it that when she landed she was wide-eyed, looking back towards the vault. ATEEZ let out a cheer in surprise as Wooyoung helped Minyoung out of the mat patting her back.
“You made it! Wah. Our Minyoung found her talent.” Yunho laughed sending a thumbs up towards her direction.
“Oppa what happened? Omo.” Minyoung jumped around excited that she made it over then gasped realizing that she has to try an even higher level.
When she attempted for the 2.2m, she wasn’t able to go over and instead was hanging on almost on top of the vault with half of her body on it. Realizing how high up she is, she continued to cling on the vault tightly “I’m scared! This is so high! Oppa help me.” she exclaimed making everyone laugh at how cute she’s being, while Wooyoung and Yunho made their way to help the girl down. The rest of the surviving Mayfly members also went over to steady the vault for the girl to come down.
“Just let go and jump down.” Wooyoung instructed her but she shook her head “Let go. I’ll catch you if needed.” Hearing this, Minyoung let go and true to his word, Wooyoung helped her up quickly patting her back. “You did great.”
As the three of them went back to their tent, Minyoung was holding unto Yunho as she limped slightly.
“Why? Why? What happened? Did you injure yourself?” Seonghwa immediately went over and helped the girl to sit down, worriedly checking her any injuries.
“I think I hit my knee on the vault during that last attempt.” Minyoung sighed as she shook her head “It doesn’t hurt that much but I think I won’t be able to join the other events.”
“Are you sure? You also hurt it last filming.” Jongho asked handing the girl a towel to wipe herself with
“Mhm! I don’t think I really hurt it. It’s just like stubbing your toe, just temporary.” Minyoung smiled laughing a bit. “I’m serious! If you don’t believe me then I’ll get it checked tomorrow.”
“I think that’s for the best. It’s better to be safe since you did injure it before and it might get serious if not treated properly.” Yeosang noted patting the girl’s head
"Wooyoung-oppa fighting!" Minyoung cheered as Wooyoung became the last representative for ATEEZ however, he also failed to make it over the vault for 2.30m.
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(Visual Ranking Voting)
"Omo. I knew it. I told you that there’s a catch when they took our photos this morning. Jongho-yah, I'm ruined." Minyoung said to the male beside her, covering her face in regret. "If I knew this was going to happen then I'd have put in more effort in how I look today."
"Yah. If you're going to say that then what about us?" Hongjoong laughed
"Have you seen everyone else? There's no way we're winning this. That's a miracle if it happens." Wooyoung motioned to the other photos posted on the board.
"Who should I vote for?" Minyoung looked through all the photos before turning to the staff "Can I please have these photos? I'll keep them as a souvenir. Maybe I'll have everyone sign them too." evoking laughter from the staff and a cheer from the girl when they said they’ll ask if she can have it after.
"I'm voting for Minhyuk-sunbaenim. As much as I want to vote for our team...lying is bad and voting should always be objective. Sorry our ATEEZ members. I love you all." Minyoung smiled before slipping in her ballot inside the box.
As the rest of the participants voted, some even voting for themselves citing that one should learn to love yourself first, some of them voting for Minyoung.
Stray Kids Jisung: I’m not saying this because I’m her friend but just judging by the photos, she looks good today.
SF9 Jaeyoon: I’m voting for Minyoung-ssi. Her photo stands out with her posing cutely.
THE BOYZ Kevin: She’s adorable and she cheers on every team sincerely. She even showed off her charms today.
THE BOYZ Hyunjae: Throughout their performances, it’s like having an on-off switch. She’s like a kid off-stage but as soon as they start their performances her charisma explodes that why I vote for her.
ATEEZ Yunho: Do I really need a reason? Our member’s pretty. *laughs*
When the results were announced, Minyoung couldn’t believe her ears when she heard her name called out together with Felix for the 2nd place both of them getting 5 votes each. She looked around pointing to herself confused.
“Me? Why?” Minyoung looked to her group members who were cheering for her.
“Minyoung-ah! You did it! ATEEZ present!” Wooyoung shouted making the others groups laugh
Yunho grinned going over to the girl patting her back and ushering her to go to the center.
“Did our members vote for me? Is this a love your own situation?” Minyoung asked outloud making the MCs laugh.
Yunhyeong looked at the cue sheet to see who voted for her before speaking into the microphone “There’s one ATEEZ member who voted for you.”
Yunho proudly raised his hand “I did! Minyoung-ah, be confident!”
“Yunho-oppa! This is why I like you.” Minyoung laughed before shooting hearts at him exageratting every movement.
Compliments calling her cute were heard in every group while Seonghwa covered his face embarassed for both his members.
“Mom! I’m on TV!” Minyoung posed cutely for the camera before laughing and facing the participants “I don’t know who voted for me but thank you. I’ll do my best to show more of my charms in the future as well.”
“Felix~ We’re twins from now on!” Minyoung declared to her friend making him laugh as they pose for the photo sharing the wreath.
“Aussie!” Chan cheered for the two clapping for them
As soon as she got back to her group, Minyoung looked at Seonghwa and asked jokingly “Does this mean you’re also 2nd place? I mean Atiny says we look alike.”
“Oh. That’s right.” Hongjoong who heard her agreed laughing as Seonghwa just blushed shaking his head.
Minyoung cheered loudly when Minhyuk got the 1st place for the visual ranking, surprising the other groups. “I voted for Minhyuk-sunbaenim.” ATEEZ just laughed shaking their heads used to Minyoung’s fan girl mode.
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As the Mayfly team strategized who was going to play in the second event, Minyoung let out a giggle gaining the attention of their team.
“Why? Is something funny?” Eunkwang asked chuckling when the girl hid behind Yunho’s back suddenly conscious of everyone
“Ah. Nothing..it’s just we’re planning this seriously that it felt like this actually the competition and not the rounds.” Minyoung said her voice going softer as she talks
“What’s happening? You’re not like this Mintokki.” San laughed poking her side as the girl slapped his arm lightly, still hiding behind Yunho as she clutched on to his shirt
“Is Minyoung-ssi normally this shy?” Minhyuk asked looking at the girl
“No. Not at all. She’s far from shy.” Yunho answered quickly making everyone laugh.
“This is such a twist. I never knew Minyoung could also feel shy.” Jisung teased making the girl hide herself more pouting.
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(Relay Race)
“ATEEZ fighting! I believe in you!” Minyoung shouted on top of her lungs as the runners take their place. The race went by quickly and turned to the last lap where Wooyoung ran as fast as he could overtaking everyone.
Both San and Minyoung were jumping in their tent holding ATEEZ’ flag up as they cheered for Wooyoung. “Wooyoung run!” “Oppa you can do it! I won’t call your hair, pudding anymore if you win!”
"I never knew Wooyoung was that athletic!" Changbin exclaimed as Wooyoung overtook Sangyeon and won first place in the relay.
"Jongho's still the most athletic out of everyone but Wooyoung-oppa is also up there in terms of athleticism." Minyoung said as if giving insider information.
"Don't let her fool you! If she weren't injured right now, she'll probably be the one running. Minyoungie is pretty competitive." San commented making the MCs laugh.
Minyoung pouted "I wanted to try too. Ahh why did I have to get injured. If I could've joined, I'm determined to at least be better than Hongjoong-oppa." at the mention of his name, Hongjoong's mouth dropped looking betrayed. "Yah!" the girl just laughing throwing a heart sign on her head towards her leader
[Minyoung / 22 / Youngest on Top(?)]
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(Outtake)
“Good work today everyone” everyone clapped and bowed towards one another after the day’s activities.
Minyoung suddenly gasped remembering something. “Ah! I was given these by the staff.” She took out the polaroids from the voting before while the rest of the groups were surprised.
“Ah so that’s why the staff asked if it was okay for us if the polaroid were given..” Sangyeon laughed finally piecing together the information
“No! Minyoung-ah, let’s just take another photo. I’m not proud of how I look there.” Inseong shouted jokingly evoking laughter from everyone.
“Really? Then I’ll take you up on that!” Minyoung giggled holding her pinky up as if sealing a promise.
“Just be honest and say you want photos with Jaeyoon-sunbaenim and Minhyuk-sunbaenim.” Wooyoung started while Minyoung quickly slapped his arm, eyes-wide “Oppa!”
“Don’t forget Zuho-sunbaenim and Donghyuk-sunbaenim.” San grinned as the girl crouched down embarrassed. The males who were mentioned all looked surprised with some covering their faces feeling shy. Inseong elbowing Jaeyoon laughing knowing the male voted for her for the visual ranking.
“Ahh. Is that your type Minyoung-ssi?” MC Changming asked jokingly, the girl waving her arms around denying the allegations
“I think I see a pattern. I see a pattern.” Eunkwang laughed joining on the teasing. Minyoung just wanted to dig herself a hole and hide there as Jongho patted her back laughing.
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ATEEZ Minyoung Masterlist
Disclaimer: This is just a work of fiction. Any portrayal of real people is a combination based on what we could see on cameras and imagination of the author. This is purely fan fiction written for entertainment. Thank you for understanding.
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Writing Beary Corner
Truth be told, Kingdom’s episode for the Sports Day bored me a bit lol It dragged on for a long time during the vault but hey at least the groups interacted a bit more this time. So as long as they had their fun then that’s great!
I also have a question and request for the people reading this. Send me questions anon or off-anon for Minyoung! something like interview questions or fan questions haha I’m planning to use them for a future post. spoiler but meh lol
-Mimi
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anastasiaskarsgard · 3 years
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“You’ve been bitten and now you’ve made me your addiction. Just tell me when you’ve had enough.” For Roman Godfrey. That song fits him so perfectly (Your Addiction by Nightclub)
Triggers- cursing, mind control, controlling, suggests dubious consent
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“What the fuck Roman?” Kiki shrieked as an all too familiar figure stepped in front of her television.
“Such language! And here I thought you’d be happy to see me.” The young billionaire sneered at the most irritating girlfriend in the history of girlfriends. But it never seemed to be enough to make him leave her alone. For whatever reason, she was an addiction he couldn’t quite stay away from.
“How did you even get in here? Move your big ass head out of the way! This show has subtitles!” She snapped.
Roman huffed, before turning to unplug the television unapologetically.
Kiki screamed in fury as she fought from beneath her big cozy blankets to stand at her full 5’5” height and show this psycho he couldn’t just march up in here and run shit. She couldn’t even recall exactly why he was here again, but it seemed to be he was always around. Her memory had been blanking out as of late, and she was too scared to go to a doctor over it. What if it was something horrible?
“I love this look by the way. Have you even brushed your hair?” Roman asked, tearing her out of her thoughts.
“As a matter of fact, no! I have no intention to either. I can care less what you think of me!” She seethed, stomping her foot and giving her most venomous glare.
“Is that your reason for the stupid hair?” He asked as he reached out and yanked at a strand of her new violet locks.
“Get out of my house!” She shouted. She could not stand this guy! The longer she was around him, the easier it was to recall he was an ass.
“Temper temper! Aren’t you the least bit curious why I’m here?” He inquired jovially.
“No!” She said marching to the front door and swinging it open dramatically.
Roman looked at her with a hurt scorned expression on his face, and flopped on her couch, placing his head in his hands.
“Roman. No. Not going to work. We are not buying what you’re selling. All stocked up on crazy. Roman? I’m serious.” She hustled to his side and tried to push his head up to look at his face, but he wouldn’t budge. Pulling on his arms and trying to lift him was impossible. He may as well be made of stone. “Roman! Don’t think I won’t come down there.” She warned. Finally sick of being ignored, she laid down on the floor, scooting herself so she was under his face looking up into his hauntingly beautiful green eyes. “Boo motherfucker.”
Roman smirked and then faster than she could even follow, he was suddenly hovering over her, on his hands and knees caging her in.
She looked deep into his eyes and could feel ice crawling up her spine, followed by an all consuming warmth. It was like nothing else existed or mattered and all that there was, was him.
Eagerly waiting for any type of order or suggestion, she paid close attention to his full lips, and endless green eyes.
“Kiki you have been very bad. You’re going to make it up to me now.” Roman said in a calm soothing voice.
Kiki was desperate to please him. Whoever he was.. She nodded slowly, waiting to be told what she needed to do. There was nothing she wouldn’t do for this man, and she had no idea why.
Roman smirked as he stared down at his stubborn little girlfriend, and wondered if brainwashing her so many times was going to leave permanent damage. They’d been dating 6 months, and he thought it’d get easier, but Kiki was a fighter. It was the worst thing about her. But she was so beautiful, and he was fine with forcing her will as long as he wanted her.
“Tonight my love, I think you are going to have to show me just how much you want to please me.... with blood.”
Kiki smiled brightly, and turned her head, offering her throat.
Roman chuckled, and turned her face back towards him, an unsettling flash in his eyes, as he lovingly stroked her cheek.
“No no. That’s too easy my love. There’s so much more fun ways to make you bleed.”
All she could do was nod. She had no will, no desire beyond pleasing the beautiful man on top of her.
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neo-culture-taste · 4 years
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Subscribe! - I Can’t Stop Kissing You
Pairing: Jaehyun x Reader (fem)
Genre: AU, romance, comedy, fluff
Word count: 2981
Summary: A YouTube inspired drabble series where you and your boyfriend upload videos catering to the couple tag.
Author’s Note: Inspiration finally struck! Please enjoy, lemme me know what you think, and please pass some motivation along so we can get these other fics out, lol. Yours truly, C.
For other members, see masterlist.
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"Hi everyone!" you whispered excitedly at the camera. "And welcome back to my channel! I have to whisper because Jaehyun is downstairs and I don’t want him to hear my intro," you explained before turning the camera around and pointing it down your staircase towards your living room. Your boyfriend was facing away from you on the couch and you zoomed in on the back of his luscious head of hair before you tiptoed back into your bedroom. "Anyway," you continued to whisper, "today is a special day! Why is it special you may ask? Well it’s because I'm going to be doing yet another--," you paused for dramatic effect and took a moment to bring your face close to the lens so your lips took up most of the frame, "--PRANK.” You pulled away from the camera and shook your head in offense at how much that last word hurt while whispering. “Hold on. Let me move again.”
You moved to sit on the floor inside your closet. But it wasn't that big, so you ended up trapped in a corner with some of the clothes you had hanging up dangling in your face. “So many of you have requested that I do the 'I can’t stop kissing you prank' and I figured now would be the perfect opportunity since Jaehyun has come to visit me for the weekend.” A sound bite of applause and cheers played as clapping hands emojis appeared on the screen with a burst of confetti. “I’ve already set up the camera downstairs and it’s currently recording Jaehyun playing Mario Kart. His favorite game these days. Well, his only favorite game because that’s all he ever plays.” You rolled your eyes dramatically with the matching emoji appearing next to your head. “And we have a special treat! You remember our close friend Yuta from my vlogs, right?” Just then the thirst-trappiest picture of Yuta you could find on his Instagram popped up in the corner of the screen. “Well, he’ll be calling during the middle of the prank to ask Jaehyun something complicated whilst I slobber him down.” You rapidly flicked your tongue between your lips as if you were a lizard and accentuated the sound it made. “It’s going to be great!” In your excitement you raised up your arm and accidentally hit the stack of shoe boxes next to you, causing one of them to come tumbling down with a loud thump on your head and then one on the floor. “Shit, ow!” you cursed under your breath.
“Babe?” Your boyfriend called to you from downstairs. The audio of his voice was low, therefore subtitles were placed onto the screen whenever he spoke. “Is that you?”
“Yeah!” you answered him while making a nervous face at the camera. “I’m just changing clothes!”
“Oh, okay--MOVE PEACH!”
You rolled your eyes again and exaggerated the deep breath you took before addressing the audience one last time. “Let’s start this prank before he comes up here to check on me.”
With an old school static transition, the video cut to a front view of Jaehyun sitting on the couch with you descending the staircase in the distance behind him before coming into full view of the camera. You sat down on the couch next to Jaehyun and wrapped your arms around his neck, startling both him and your puppy who was laying between you, and who seemed to forget your existence whenever Jaehyun visited. 
“Oh, hey babe. How was your nap?” he said, pausing the game to fully greet you.
“It was alright. I woke up because you weren’t lying next to me anymore.” Ew! How were you able to say that with a straight face?! It had always amazed you how sappy you got when the two of you were together. You forced a pout onto your lips before hugging his upper body and moving your face to the crook of his neck to plant a soft kiss onto his exposed collarbone. He smelled like peppermint mixed with his unique man musk. 
“I almost woke you up,” he said as he let you kiss your way up from the base of his neck to just below his ear. 
“Oh, really. Why?” you said against his skin before nipping at the bottom of his earlobe.
“Because I missed having you next to me, too.”
You jerked your head back to look at him in mock disgust. “Jaehyun, you’re so freaking cheesy,” you said then went back to his neck and placed a loud wet kiss against his Adam's apple. “I appreciate the sentiment, but it just sounds so icky coming from you.” It was one thing when you did it, but when he did it it made your insides all gooey and gross. You hated that you loved it.
“But it's true.” He grabbed your chin with his thumb and forefinger and tilted your head backwards, allowing himself easy access to your lips. He gently pecked your lips and you revelled in the soft plumpness of his moisturized skin cells. He moved his hand to grab the side of your face to steady you as he deepened the kiss and his tongue swept across your lips, asking for permission to enter. But as soon as your tongues connected, your dog whined and climbed onto Jaehyun's lap, feeling left out from the attention, and thus breaking yours. 
Now that you had planted the initial kissing seed, it was time to move into phase two of your prank. “Do you want a snack, babe?” you asked him and stood up from the couch.
“Sure. Surprise me.”
Having previously set up the camera, the video cut to you walking into the kitchen, then to you opening the freezer, and then to you popping a plate of pizza rolls into the microwave. While they were heating, you walked over to the camera and pulled out your phone to send a quick text to Yuta telling him to commence the next part of your plan. When finished, you held up your phone to the camera and showed the exchange between you and your friend.
You: It’s your time to shine. 15 minutes.
Sir Yuta: I forgot I had to do this. Umm lemme search the internet and find something to call him about lmaooo
You: 🤦‍♀️
The video cut again to you placing the plate of pizza rolls and two bottled waters on the coffee table in front of Jaehyun right when he let out a shout of victory as his Metal Mario crossed the finish line in first place. 
“What cup was that?” you asked him, pretending to be interested.
“Flower cup, 200cc,” he said as he reached for a pizza roll without looking and ended up burning his finger on the hot snack. “Ow! It’s hot!”
“You knew that before you picked it up!”
Affronted by the pizza rolls, he grabbed one of the bottles of water and took a sip before returning his eyes to the screen. “Do you want to play?”
“Nope. I’ll just watch you play.”
“Are you sure?”
“Yep!”
You watched him customize his kart with some of the new items he had just unlocked before he selected a different cup to play. When the opening sequence of the first race began to play, you repositioned yourself on your knees on the couch cushion next to him and planted a kiss directly on his lips. You felt Jaehyun hum against your lips in satisfaction as he returned the kiss, but when he heard the countdown for the start of the race he quickly pulled back and moved his head to look around you at the TV.
But of course, that didn’t stop you. You forcefully grabbed him by his head and began kissing the spot just below his jaw that you knew drove him crazy. It was a relentless onslaught of teeth, tongue, and lips all at a slow, teasing, and torturous pace.
Believing that Jaehyun was already feeling totally affected, it was confirmed by the absence of noisy cartoon chaos from the race right before Jaehyun ripped you from his neck to counter your attack by shoving his tongue down your throat. The kiss was so heated the two of you had to be censored on the screen by a big blushing emoji. The video quickly cut to the end of the kiss, which lasted way longer than you had anticipated, to where Jaehyun was gently pushing you away from him. “Lemme finish this race and then we can make out or whatever afterwards.”
“Okay,” you agreed happily then popped a (now cold) pizza roll into your mouth.
You allowed him to play through a full race before you resumed your kisses, this time foregoing his neck to smooch him on his cheeks, nose, and anywhere else there was skin available on his face. You obviously prevented Jaehyun from seeing the TV screen and he quickly paused his game before he lost his first-place spot at the beginning of the second race. 
“Did you dream about me?” he asked you dumbfounded but still bearing a smile on his face. “Did I promise you all these kisses in the dream?”
You planted a kiss on each of his eyelids before shaking your head and looking him in his eyes. “I just love you.”
“I love you, too. But--”
You didn’t let him finish talking as you threw your leg over his lap to straddle his waist. You proceeded to kiss him hungrily on his lips, your tongues doing a dance once again as he kissed you back with gusto. You were overcome with a sense of satisfaction when you felt the thud of the pro controller hit the couch next to you (in which the video zoomed in on it as it was falling) and then both his arms wrapped around your waist. 
You revelled in his kisses, thankful that you had a boyfriend with soft, pillowy lips whose kisses you could get lost in for days if allowed. You were so into the makeout session that you forgot you were filming a video and the scene had to be censored once again with another big emoji and quickly cut to the next clip. Luckily, before the two of you got too crazy, Jaehyun’s phone began to ring with Yuta’s name lighting up the top of its screen.
“Noo, baby. Don’t answer it. Kiss me instead,” you genuinely whined for him to keep going. Yuta was a part of your plan but now you just wanted his attention to remain on you. 
Jaehyun removed your hand from his face and picked up his phone off the arm of the couch. “Hold on. It’s Yuta. Let me get rid of him, first.” You pouted at him as he swiped his thumb across the screen to answer the call. “Hey Yuta. I’m kind of in the middle—" You don’t know what was said exactly but you were able to hear Yuta’s tiny hysterics through the small phone speaker. “Wait slow down? When did you get a hamster?” asked Jaehyun in confused concern.
Was that really the best Yuta could come up with???
“Y/N is here, too. Let me put you on speaker.” He did so and held the phone next to your heads. “Okay, start from the beginning.”
Since Yuta’s story was bound to be dumb, you decided to up the hotness on your kissing. You grabbed Jaehyun's face with one hand and planted a kiss on his lips slightly less aggressively than the ones prior, but still pretty roughly.
Yuta’s words appeared as subtitles at the bottom of the screen since the camera’s mic couldn’t pick up his voice that well from the phone’s speaker. “I purchased a hamster the other day from the pet store down the street from my house. His name is Hamster--“ 
“Ow!” Jaehyun pulled you from his lips and gave you a displeased look. You had accidentally bitten his lips a bit too hard as a reaction to Yuta’s dumbass statement. You mouthed an apology to him before returning to nibble on his ear.
“Is everything okay?” asked Yuta.
“Yeah, keep going.” 
“Gladly.” You replied before sticking your tongue in his ear, causing him to flinch violently away from you in protest.
“Ew! Not you!” Jaehyun whispered harshly as he tried to wipe the inside of his ear with his shirt.
“Well, I was cleaning out his cage, but I think I forgot to secure him in his temporary cage and now he’s disappeared! I’m afraid to walk anywhere, so I need you to come over and help me find Hamster.”
“Umm, can’t you call Johnny or Taeyong or--” You started playing kiss tic tac toe with Jaehyun’s forehead.
“They didn’t answer their phones. Trust me you weren’t my first choice,” Yuta said flatly as if he was actually disappointed that he had to call Jaehyun for help.
You couldn’t help but laugh, and now you were trying to locate another PG-rated place to kiss Jaehyun.
“Yeah, I’ll come over.”
“Cool. Y/N can come too after she stops trying to suck your face. Y’all are gross.”
Jaehyun’s brows knit together in confusion. “How did you--” he began to ask, but you snatched his phone from his hand before he could finish his question.
“BYE, YUTA.” You hung up the call and tossed your boyfriend’s phone on the other side of the couch. “Now, where were we?” You leaned in to continue kissing him, but he dodged your lips by turning his face away from you. Your kiss landed on the side of his jaw instead.
“Hey, cool it, babe. Lemme finish this race and we can go to Yuta’s to help him find his hamster.” Obviously, Yuta’s lost (made up) pet wasn’t more important than finishing first place in the special cup on 200cc. He was just so competitive.
You grabbed his arms to thwart his attempts at resuming the game but he was quicker as he threw the controller down his shirt before grabbing your legs and gently tossing you on the other side of the couch. 
“Jaehyun!”
“Y/N!”
You turned your head and the video zoomed in on your eyes as you narrowed them at the camera before launching yet another kissing attack on Jaehyun. In doing so you knocked over two of the pizza rolls and the bottled waters while Metal Mario got hit with three red koopa shells in row.
“Babe, alright! Enough!”
Jaehyun never was one to get this perturbed, so seeing his distress was something new for you. He grabbed you by your thighs before standing up and hoisting you over his shoulders. “Let me give you what you want.”
“Wait no! Jae, stop! STOP! It’s a prank!” you yelled as you flailed helplessly in his grip.
“You can’t back out now--“
“No! Look behind the switch!”
“What?” He turned around completely to walk towards the camera, your butt now on full view as your front side faced the couch. He found the camera hidden behind the game console and picked it up while he lowered you back to your feet. He stared blankly into the lens as he tried to comprehend what had just happened between the two of you.
You swiped the camera from his hands and smiled triumphantly into the lens. “Hey, again everyone! I hope you enjoyed seeing Jaehyun lose his cool and literally THROW ME.”
Your boyfriend stood behind you, still void of emotion and staring into the camera. “You kissed me for a prank? And not because you wanted to?” Aw, no! Why did he sound so dejected?!
“Wait, no! I wanted to but...yeah?”
“I’m hurt.” He said while clutching his chest. Nooooooooo! A bunch of crying faced and heartbroken emojis appear sporadically on the screen.
“Why are you hurt? I was being annoying!”
“Yeah, but I was still into it.”
“We can continue what I started if you want to, babe.” Holding the camera with one hand, you reached out to him with the other to give him a one-armed hug, in which he returned unconsciously.
“No. I’m over it. Let’s go help Yuta.” You smiled at him mischievously and then looked back at the camera. “What?”
“That was part of the prank, too. Yuta was in on it. He doesn’t have a hamster.”
Jaehyun looked at the camera, then at you, and then back at the camera before walking away from you and sitting back on the couch. “I’ve been tricked,” he said absolutely flabbergasted.
You followed him to the couch with the camera and sat beside him, then linked your free arm with his. “Well, that’s it for today! Thanks for watching! I’m going to reheat our pizza rolls now and then I’ll kick his ass in Mario Kart.”
“You wish.”
“Give me a kiss, babe.” You puckered your lips for him, but Jaehyun had other plans of the revenge variety. He cornered you on the couch and put his big body on top of you as he placed sloppy wet kisses along your neck, causing you to shriek and drop the camera to the floor. The only thing visible on the screen was a slanted view of your puppy ripping apart one of his plush toys underneath the couch.
You giggled and squealed as your boyfriend prevented you from closing out your video in one of the most pleasant ways. You knew he didn’t plan on letting up on you anytime soon, so you had to manage. “Don’t forget to like and subscribe, and follow us on social media,” you began yelling from the top of the couch. “I put out a new video every week--Ah! Jae, wait!”
The scene cut out with another static transition and the video ended with the ‘no signal’ color bars accompanied by the notorious elongated beep.
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kevindayisafrog · 3 years
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A little Kevneil thing that goes in so many directions with such an abrupt stop that you will get whiplash
No TWs for this one *insert twerking emoji*
Kevin didn’t have many friends; if any. In fact if he were being truly honest to himself he’d admit that he only had one: Jeremy Knox. But he doesn’t deserve the embodiment of the sun as a friend. He’d always tried making friends but it never worked out; when he was younger he’d eat lunch alone. No one really wanted to keep him around because he was too blunt; too serious and honest in his monotone voice. In the nest he had Jean - but he would always be a secret to Kevin, a happy memory he chose to keep to himself - but now he’s at Palmetto he’s alone. Until that fucking annoying redhead came along.
“You’re gonna get wrinkles”, Neil leaned over and pressed his thumb to the wrinkle between Kevin’s eyebrows, “have you ever tried smiling?” Kevin swatted his hand away and turned his head, trying to hide his blush from his shortass boyfriend. Yes, you’ve heard that right: boyfriend. The word still sent butterflies loose in Kevin’s stomach because not only did he finally have friend, he has one who’s the love of his life too. “Seriously, I’m gonna have to call you grandad if you carry on brooding”, Neil took a large bite out of his heavily buttered toast, leaving crumbs across both cheeks. “Fuck you”, Kevin muttered staring at Neil’s toast in disgust, “I’m not brooding”. Neil let out an open mouthed laugh, showing the chewed up food across his tongue, making Kevin recoil in disgust and (weirdly) admiration. “You’re fucking gross, did your mom not teach you manners on the run?”, he shot Neil a grimace before getting up and walking to his desk. “First of all: fuck you, Day. Second of all: where are you going?”, Neil watched as Kevin dropped into his chair and pulled his knee up to his chest. “I’m watching a game”, Kevin turned on his laptop and waited impatiently for it to load, picking at his bottom lip absently. Neil rolled his eyes and got up from the table, carrying his plate of toast to Kevin’s desk. “Put your knee down”, he placed his toast down and wiped his crumby fingers down his shorts. “No, fuck off”, Kevin muttered as he lowered his knee and stayed still as Neil made himself comfy on his lap, “your big head is in my way”. Neil scoffed and leaned his head back into the warmth of Kevin’s chest, “you can see easily over my head, you rat bastard”. Kevin nodded without listening as he scrolled down to find a live Exy game, whistling as it took a while to load. “Your thing is slow”, Neil gestured to the laptop with his toast, dropping crumbs in the keyboard. Kevin tutted and shifted Neil so that he was facing away from the desk, his legs dangling over the arm of the chair. “Eat quietly”, he wrapped an arm around Neil’s waist and sat up straighter as the game finally loaded. Neil took a deliberate noisy bite out of his toast, chewing and swallowing loudly with a smug smile on his lips. “Ow”, he laughed as Kevin smacked the back of his head lightly, “that bit was extra crunchy, wasn’t my fault”. Kevin rolled his eyes and leaned over Neil to click the subtitles on, his brain not processing the words easily. “Who’s playing?”, Neil whispered, placing his empty plate quietly next to the laptop. “Shut up”, Kevin sent a sideways glance of annoyance at Neil, earning a look between disbelief and amusement.
They ended up watching three more games before Kevin realized that the sun had gone down and Andrew and Nicky were in the dorm. “I called you and you didn’t pick up”, Nicky wiggled his phone at Kevin with a mock look of hurt, “I didn’t know what ice cream to get you so I got vanilla cause that’s the only flavor I ever see you eat. Which, by the way, is boring”. Kevin raised his middle finger at Nicky and turned to watch another game but Neil had closed his laptop and was facing him. “We’ve been staring at that screen for hours, do you want to go on a run with me?”, Neil slid off Kevin’s lap and stretched his back, winking as he saw Kevin staring at his ass. “No, I think I’m gonna go to bed, it’s late”, Kevin rubbed his sore neck and stood up, stretching his arms. “Okay, but make sure to have dinner first”, Neil made to turn away to get changed for his run but faced Kevin instead, “and no pasta because you’ve had that for dinner for the past week”. Kevin rolled his eyes and walked to the kitchen lightly pushing Nicky out of the way of the fridge, “I like pasta, shortass”. Nicky glared at Kevin and shook his head, “no need to make pasta, again, me and Andrew have ordered Chinese because we can’t be assed to do the washing up”. Kevin swung his head to stare at Nicky in disgust, “I don’t want that, we had takeaway yesterday”. Nicky shrugged his shoulders, “that was lunch, this is dinner”. Kevin looked to Neil for help but groaned when his boyfriend was grinning. “Come on, Kevin, you love Chinese”, he walked over and smiled smugly up at him, “or did you want pasta again?” Kevin hesitated before slamming the fridge door shut and stalking out of the kitchen with an angry, “fine, but I’m making you guys eat Salad for lunch and dinner tomorrow”.
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dismuch47 · 3 years
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ADVANCED SETTINGS (Part 2)
Winner of Scarlet Vision Drabbles votting. Because SV/WV fans are thirsty af. 
So I lied. This “drabble” is mutating and I’m long-winded. There will be a part 3.
Advanced Settings: Wanda and Vision find there is more to iron out in making their relationship “work”. This section is rated Explicit.
Vision’s head reared up when he heard the bathroom door finally creak open. He turned towards Wanda, to see her large eyes downcast. Her flame-like hair was free of it’s bun, draped behind her shoulders. She had one of the hotel robes on, which concealed her slim figure in white plushness. She chanced to look up at him, like a sorry child.
The synthezoid strode over to her, wine-glass ready for her, gentle and assuring smile upon his lips.
“Vision I’m sorry-“
“Absolutely nothing to atone for-“
“-But I was being so-“
“-Honest, which I so admire in you.”
Wanda huffed, accepting the wine. Her unease appeared to be waning. “Can’t you just be upset with me? I would understand…”
“Never.” He punctuated the word, pointedly. Then smiled broadly. Wanda finally caved with a grin, looking away.  Vision gently captured her chin with his thumb and index finger, directing her back to his sincere face. “My greatest satisfaction is in seeking yours. And that you somehow are able to accept me. Odd quirks and all.”
“Vis…”
Her eyes were glittering. She was experiencing strong emotion. Unclear if it was extreme sentimentality or misplaced guilt, it seemed logical to stoop down and kiss her full lips to make it better. His index finger stroked down her chin and ventured down her soft throat. Wanda’s breathing shifted as warm and featherlight touch lingered on creamy collarbone. He had become expert at these areas of sensitivity, eliciting honest breathy responses from his love of flesh and blood. Cause and reaction. Scripted and executed
But perhaps there were some modifications he could accommodate to his side of the performance. Inwardly, he did not enjoy contemplating that notion. Their relationship had, thus far, been founded on honesty and acceptance. It seemed dishonest to her and a reminder to him of his limitations by… pretending. Sex was proving to be more emotional than he had anticipated, which was an extremely murky concept for him to grasp…though, slowly, he was learning. Through Wanda, he was learning.
Wanda’s hungry stomach gurgled loudly in protest, causing the two to open their eyes at eachother mid-kiss, before breaking away in laughter.
Vision took his place on the loveseat first, angling himself so that Wanda could easily nestle her back into his side when she came over with her plate of late-night indulgences and wine. She gave a sigh of contentment once she was situated.
“Anything good on?” she asked, already working on one shrimp. Rather ungracefully. It was endearing.
“3rd Rock from the Sun, Batman, or Green Acres?” Vision turned on the hotel flatscreen.
“Which would you like?”
“Whichever you prefer.”
“Right, but if YOU had to pick one-“
“I would pick what you would pick.”
A moment lapsed. Wanda’s chewing even ceased. Clearly Vision had miscalculated and his response had been received as an irritant rather than as affectionate. He was about to modify his meaning when Wanda spoke up.
“Well, I’m too tired for spazzy Dick Solomon, no to cheesy super heroes… so I guess Green Acres it is.” Her tone was not as cheerful as it had been.
Vision turned it to the right station, feeling uneasy. He wanted to correct their interaction, but he eased back into the loveseat when Wanda leaned her head against his chest. She still wanted contact.
It was interesting, hearing the lines dubbed in Russian. They turned on English subtitles for Wanda’s sake, but even she said that she didn’t know how long her eyes would last, straining to read and comprehend the words in her second language. Vision asked a couple of times if she was ready for bed. She would lazily protest, trying to “convince” him she was wide awake by how well she could mumble the catchy theme song. But it was clear that she was fading fast. She just wanted to stay in his embrace.
And that would have been suffice for Vision, if he didn’t feel she would significantly benefit from a good night’s sleep. When he was sure she was unconscious enough, he slowly and gradually phased through the couch to let the cushions take his place. He set about turning off most of the lights, save for one lamp to provide a soft glow to guide Wanda to the bed. He then went about covering the left-over food with a napkin and stacking her dishes in a neat presentation for the food service team.
After placing the tray outside the door, Vision returned to coax Wanda to proper slumber, only to see her now splayed out on the couch. Turning about upon the upholstered texture had worked her thick robe open. Her smooth skin exposed in a thin sliver between her breasts, down her navel, with a bent leg peeking out from under the cloth as the only provision of modesty.
She was... a vision.
He came closer, peering down at her in contemplative wonder, to see her eyes sleepily open. She then extended a graceful arm  to him, slender hand beckoning. Her unspoken request transparently clear to him.
Vision’s clothes collapsed into a shapeless pile on the floor as his physical form faded in a golden shimmer for an instant. The very sight of his body stimulated her, he knew that well. He lightly wedged one knee between her legs, to steady himself as he leisurely untied the fastening of her askew robe. Wanda’s breathing deepened, her hands reaching above herself, tangling in an auburn pool of silky hair as soft terry peeled away from taunt flesh…
The synthezoid had always told Wanda that human bodies were not completely unlike an advanced, organic computer. She would scrunch her nose, sure that he was innocently patronizing her on some level. But it was true. And being globally aware of any and all signals and energies, seeing them in her now was not so different. Perhaps he didn’t know what they meant exactly, or what they felt like, but trace currents of electricity and signals from the brain to the billions and billions of neurons throughout the human body made sense to Vision. It was quite the light show, when he truly connected to the body’s activities as he was now. It mapped out what efforts were effective, and what areas needed his rapt attention next. Where to experiment with a squeeze, lick, or bite. When a rapid rhythm was paramount or a restrained thrust would guarantee instant and powerful release.
It was confusing, marrying the biological science which made complete sense to the synthezoid, to the complete language of erotica which was more abundantly used in literature and pop culture… and completely conceptional. And yet here Vision was, observing the messaging of Wanda’s body, comparing it to a brilliant and unbridled sea storm of scarlet, scattering billions of ruby fractals across her glittering coral shores. Complete nonsense, yet complete truth.
“Vis!” Wanda cried. Her thighs twitched in his strong grasp as the first scarlet wave hit. Vision raised his head from between her legs, laving his slick tongue over her apex one last time, like a signature. She gasped, well past the brink, her fist clutching at her hair to hold on to something.
He leaned over her, parting her legs wider, but massaged them after keeping them so restricted over his broad shoulders for a time. He then skimmed his maroon hands up her pelvis, and around to cradle the curve of her rear, then scooted her down close to himself. Wanda propped herself up on her elbows, but immediately her head fell back in helpless passion as she felt him sheath himself deeply in her and start a powerful rhythm.
Verbal coaxing always elicited positive response. “Wanda.” Vision murmured, deeply. More rubies and stardust, just at his voice. Wanda was too overcome to form words, but her hand traveled down below her navel, to where they joined and moved as one, then up his front. She squeezed, rubbed, then clawed… but to no avail. He could feel her touch… but it didn’t create storms and shooting sparks within him as it would her.
She dimmed in sadness. Suddenly those ethereal shores were darkening. Vision wavered. He was failing her.
He swallowed hard, reeling at this complete disappointment in himself, so he made a flawed calculation. He slowed, simulated heavy panting, eyes shut tight as if with desire. There was a shimmer in Wanda, of hopeful excitement. He recalled love-scenes in movies, trying to remember how the male human interacts, even though the camera was always fixed on the female in the thralls of ecstasy. He moaned softly, and then more loudly and with urgency. It was an act. It felt wrong and stupid to him. Humiliating even…
“STOP IT.” Wanda commanded. Vision abruptly stopped, gladly, yet mortified at being found out.
“I… I was just-“
“I know what you were doing, Vis.” Wanda slid herself out from under him. She was upset. “For a moment I thought…” Her voice broke off.
Vision sat back on his haunches, realizing the gravity of what he had done. “I thought it would help.”
Wanda stood up, sniffling back her frustration. She picked up the robe and put it back on, avoiding his pleading eyes. “I know you did. I know.” She put her face in her hands for a moment. The synthezoid stood up in concern, wanting to hold her. He moved forward to do so, but she put a hand up. “I just need you to let me hurt about this for a little, Vis. Okay? And not to try and fix it.”
Vis looked down at his feet, dejected. He slowly gathered his pants and slid them over his compact form. He felt Wanda’s arms slide under his and around his torso. He bowed his head.
“I’m sorry. So sorry, dear heart.” Vision’s voice had never hitched in such a manner before.
“Me too.” She held on to him for a few more beats. “I’m going to bed.”
“I am…  going read for a bit.”
“…Alright.” The departure of her embrace left him standing alone in the dark.
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Can You Feel The Sun? (Chapter Ten): Aint It A Gentle Sound, The Rolling In The Graves
Notes:  Cyberpunk had consumed my brain, it is official, so have more fic. This and the next chapter are both uhhh heavy, the next chapter moreso in my opinion. So, please heed the warnings carefully. 
Word Count: 10323
Chapter Warnings:  Violence, gore, blood, suicidal thoughts/mentions, suicide baiting, physical assault/attacks, choking, depressive thoughts. 
If you haven’t yet, you can read the previous chapter here!~
She heard him. 
Doesn’t hear the breaths that rattle and shake her chest. Didn’t hear her own cries, her own curses. Couldn’t hear the thumping of trash as she climbed from the pit. 
But she heard him. 
“What?” It's but a whisper on her lips, staring at the man with blurry halved vision, and she can’t hear it. 
Bile rushes up her throat, stomach churning as it tries to empty its contents. V rolls over to her hands and knees, retching into the mud and filth. Puke and blood heavy on her tongue, more blood than anything else. She spits the last of it out, pushing already blood matter hair from her face on instinct. 
Then she moves her hand back further, to her ear, nothing in it, but she feels for a hearing aid. There has to be a logical explanation, why she heard him but not her own gagging. Why she heard him but not the wind whipping through the trash, why does she hear him. 
No hearing aid, not even a broken remnant of it lodged in her ear, the other side the same. And her touching, she feels something else… The hole in her skull, part of her head open to the world. She feels the edge of bone, gore clinging to her digits and she doesn’t know what she touches beyond it, prodding at her flesh with filthy fingers. When she pulls her fingers away, she looks at the tissue, the fragment of bone, all sticking to her hand. How the hell is she alive? 
And the man, she knows him, the memories and cyberspace. He should be dead too, Arasaka killed him… 
“John...ny?” 
She tests his name on her tongue, can feel the reverberation of it in her chest, but not hear it. V waits for a response, waits to hear him, to know she can again. But nothing. Maybe it was a fluke, maybe, an auditory hallucination. She twists to face him again. 
“What the- what the fuck?” 
He’s gone, was he ever there? Bullet to the brain, maybe he’s all a hallucination. Maybe the memories and cyberspace just long form hallucinations? That happens, right, why some people claim to see heaven? The brain hallucinates when deprived of oxygen...or maybe when a bullet goes through it, touching parts that shouldn’t be touched?
That’s it. That’s all it is. Hallucinations of a damaged brain. She needs a doctor, needs Vik. She gathers her strength, attempting to push herself back up on her feet, legs giving out as she hits her knees into the mud, digging her fingers into it. 
Just stand up, just stand up and walk damn it. She screams at herself, then she sees something, a flash of movement in her blurry vision. At first just a shadowy figure standing amidst the trash. Focusing harder so she can make out who it is. 
Dex starts to wander into the landfill, boots crushing through mud, towards her. Adrenaline spikes, anger in her center as she glares at his fuzzy figure. The man who killed her blew her brains out and threw her away like trash. She still has Yorinobu’s gun tucked into her belt. 
V grabs the gun and suddenly she gets on her feet real fucking easy. 
Maybe it’s adrenaline. Maybe it’s spite. But it makes her steadier and she knows if it’s the last thing she fucking does, she’s taking Dex down with her. She makes it halfway through the passageway through the trash and takes aim. 
Dex’s eyes go wide, looking over her, she has no idea what she looks like. But she’s sure it’s horrifying, a walking corpse. 
“H...fuck!?” her contact struggles to read his lips, but she tries to fill in the blanks, practically laughing. 
“What’s wrong Dex, you come to see if you can get it right this time? Think you can manage to not fuck it up this time?” 
“How...fuck...alive?” 
“Bad news, apparently one of us has shit aim, Good news is it ain’t me.” 
And she pulls the trigger, directly through the center of Dex’s head. Brains and blood spraying as he hits the ground, dead at her feet. And she expects to feel better, for her, for Jackie, for Bug. The man who set this shit show up is gone, the man who blew her brains out, would have Jackie’s too if he had the chance, is gone. But she just feels empty, body still a mangled mess and standing in a landfill. 
Then she sees a flash of black fabric, a person. Before she can raise the gun or do anything, there’s a hand of flesh and chrome grabbing her wrist. Arm twisted and she’s yanked over, losing her balance, crying out as the gun falls from her fingers. The hand over where her blade would come out, when she tries to let it out it won’t budge under the grasp. She’s pulled back and towards them, back knocking to her chest as she struggles to fight a grip strong enough to crack bone if she let it. Their other hand is on her throat in a moment, tight and crushing as she’s pulled flush to their chest. 
V gasps as the hand tightens, already damaged vision blurring further as she gasps for air. Calloused fingers and chrome digging into her windpipe, tears stinging her eyes. She scratches and claws with her bad hand, but can seem to get a grip on him. Held tight to their chest, she cranes her neck, fighting the hold on it and looking up with darkening vision to see him. The bodyguard from Konpeki, brown silver ringed eyes and long graying hair pulled back off his face. Metal etched face like stone as he strangles the merc. 
What bit of strength and consciousness she regained is sapped quickly under his heavy hand, body starting to go limp as she starts to pass out. Then she’s thrown to the ground, on  her hands and knees as she tries to break the fall; gasping desperately for air. She feels even weaker now, adrenaline fading, pain hitting her again. Why is an Arasaka fucker here? Who the hell sent him? Did Dex drag him here? 
She twists to sit down, leaning against a rusted fridge as she touches her bruised throat. The guard stalks closer, shiny shoes walking through muck before he crouches down in front of her. Her contact subtitles start in Japanese before trying to translate what bits they catch from his lips. 
“Arasaka-sama….found….father’s killer,” his eyes staring her down, “...her….no...doubt. Yes. Expect… hour.” 
He’s going to drag her in, throw her to the non-existent mercy of Arasaka. Flashes of those memories, Johnny’s death, if it’s even real and not just a story from her damaged brain. But she remembers his death, the pain of what they did, every neuron on fire. Is that what they’ll do to her?
“Go fuck yourself!” 
She gathers all the spit and blood in her mouth, she hopes traces of puke too out of spite. And she spits on him, right in his face, all she can muster. Spittle coats his bearded face and she feels a moment of sick satisfaction, no matter how small. 
“Quiet!” 
He backhands her, a sharp slap that forces her head to move. Then he wipes her spit off on his sleeve. Her vision blurs, consciousness threatening to slip away as she feels his hands lifting her up. The world going dark for a moment as she’s carried away by the bodyguard. 
When the world returns for a brief moment, she’s in a passenger side seat, laying against the leather. The driver side door opens and she watches as he sits behind the wheel, for a moment his eyes linger on her. His nose wrinkles in disgust as they start to drive out of the landfill. 
“...smell...shit.” 
She wants to cuss him out, but she can no longer summon the energy. Blood loss catching up with her. If she’s lucky, she’ll die before she ever sees the inside of an Arasaka interrogation room. They can play with her corpse to their heart’s content, as long as they don’t get anything from her. Her eyelids are heavy, the world going dark again. 
It’s a sharp pain that brings her back, a choking gasp for air as her entire body convulses, pulling at raw nerves and muscles. The UI in her contact blinks system malfunction, blurring distorting, glitching already damaged vision. Every part of her seizing, she has to remind herself to breathe, tell her heart to beat. 
Chrome etched fingers push an airhypo into her hand, the guard is twisted up behind the wheel, holding at his stomach. He’s hurt, but how? Why is he giving her first aid? It could be a trick, but she takes that risk, knowing she’ll die without something anyway.  She wraps bloodied twitching fingers around the airhypo and punches it directly into her chest, a needle of medication plunged into her system. A brief booster of relief. Her lungs able to breathe, pain numbing for a moment, muscles relaxing. 
The wind is whipping as he drives. An orange sky around them, car driving down a a highway, the sun just starting to come up. Beautiful for a moment.
tHE she goes to toss the hypo container out of the convertible, throwing it right into the face of a man driving a motorcycle up along side of them. His eyes an intense red, optic glow. Dressed in Arasaka uniform, his eyes on her. Friends of the bodyguard? The motorcycle accelerates, moves in front of them, then the man pulls a gun. Another motorcyclist races past the drivers side. Glass shatters as bullets blast the windshield. A third one weaving into the fray. The long haired guard punches the gas, ramming into the back of one of the bikes. It sparks and flames, sending it’s rider flying before the motorcycle rolls off the windshield over their head. 
The hell is going on? Why is he fighting his own men? Why are they fighting him? A black and red gun is pushed into her hand, the intention clear without words. Half blind, half dead, but hopped up on a booster; she takes aim. 
Its not her best work, firing at the cyclists. She focuses on the one lingering towards her side, closer to them. She aims for tires first, bullets sparking and pinging off the bike, but not quite make the impact she needs. V tries hard, tries to focus harder on his head, trying to land a headshot as the pair continue to shoot at the car. The movement of which does nothing to help. 
His motorcycle starts to flame up, streaks of red flickering as he rides. When it stalls in the middle of the highway, the long haired guard hits the gas harder, catching the front of it and destroys it, sending him across the road. 
They get neck and neck to the other rider, cold red eyes glaring at them before drifting off to another lane, picking up speed before he guns it back towards them, slamming the bike into the side of the vehicle. Knocking the car off course, they slam into oncoming traffic, head on into someone else's car. But the long haired man doesn’t slow down, swerving pack into their lane, too quick, as he ends up half on the curb. The side of the car scratches an NCART stop as the guard turns them around; driving in reverse to face the motorcyclist. He drives head on towards them and V starts shooting again, trying to get clear aim. 
One lucky shot hits where she needs, bike combusting and rider flying. As breathing gets harder for her, her muscles start to tighter, pain in her...everything starting to come back. The boost of adrenaline from the hypo is fading. And another motorcycle comes speeding at them, riding through the dust and smoke of the former. How many are there?
The bodyguard starts to turn the car back around, a vehicle merging clips against them, sending the civilian car right into the path of the motorcycle. He hits the hood of it, motorcycle sparking and man sent flying, but he leans into the launch of it, mantis blades extending from his arms as he lands on the back of their car. 
And the flames weren’t just from his bike, he’s more metal than flesh. Charred remains of skin giving way of the metal bones beneath. He sweeps his blades back and forth, the rock of the car and the heat of fire on his skin making his aim messy, just missing their heads. He flips to the front, clinging to the grill of the car as the bodyguard drives. 
Mantis blades sink into the hood as the man starts trying to climb his way up and to them, a flaming metal skeleton with half melted skin. She desperately tries to shoot him off as he pulls himself forward, a turn pushing him back, but the grip of his blades through the metal stays. He just nearly reaches, swiping a blade out but a swerve of the car makes him miss. A blade hooks into the dashboard in front of her and he punches out the other, stabbing between them. 
“Traitor!”
Her contact reads the words on the man’s lips, clear as day. The long haired guard, Saburo's own bodyguard; a traitor? 
The car smashes into the bottom of a billboard, cracking and buckling. Her head slams against the dashboard, darkness swimming through her vision, consciousness fading, she’s not sure how much more she can handle. She blinks, but maybe it was more than a blink, the long hair guard gone. 
Then her door opens, hands hook beneath her arms and she’s dragged out of the car, across the road. Taking in the crash. Pinned between the car and a pole, the flaming metal exoskeleton of a man convulses, mouth opened in what looks like a scream, maybe he still has nerve endings. His body is crushed, his bladed arms swinging out. 
Hands leave her body, the guard crouching in front of her, his movements slow. He’s injured too, clutching at a bullet wound. She tries to focus on his lips. 
“Do not pass...again.” 
“No promises…” She croaks out. 
“...eyes...open…” 
Her eyes drift to whats left of the other man, still struggling, still pinned. She levels the gun with his head as best she can, pulling the trigger and putting him out of any pain he may be in. Or may she’s simply saving her own ass by killing a witness. She’s not entirely sure. The bodyguard takes the gun from her hand, looking at her like he’s caught a child misbehaving. She lets out a soft laugh. 
Bleeding out on the highway, skull caved in, a mangled corpse. And she laughs. Maybe her and Jackie aren’t that different, maybe he’d be proud of her…maybe. 
“We both...medical attention. Do...know...ripperdoc… trust?” 
“Vik Vector.“ 
“Must...quickly,” 
“He can help, he’s the best.” 
“Have...get...somehow. Call...anyone.” 
“He’s behind Misty’s Esoterica in Watson, you’ll get there faster without me… I’m...not...gonna…” 
“Make the call.” 
He speaks slow and clear enough, the contact translating perfectly. He’s got no reason to want to save her, she doesn’t know what his game is. But, she sends a call through her holo, to Delamain. She doesn’t know why that’s the first thing to come to mind, maybe the cab will tell them to fuck off, the ride paid for by Dex after all. But the taxi service is the first thing that comes to mind. The avatar comes up in her contact. 
“Greetings, my scanner indicates you are outside the service area.” The contact reads him clearly, maybe the holo feeding subtitles better. 
“Pick me up, please… I have to get to Vik’s clinic, behind Misty’s Esoterica,” she tells him, her eyelids starting to grow heavy again. 
“Of course,” he agrees with no hesitance, “a vehicle en route. It should arrive in less than twenty minutes.” 
And her eyes close, blinking and eyes going dark again. It feels like only a moment. 
But when she opens her eyes again, she’s in a Delamain, stretched across the backseat with her head in the guard’s lap. He’s leaning over her, able to see through blurry vision, the heavy gray around his temples and the blood splattered across him. His hands are pushing through her hair. 
“Please proceed to insert the jack below the ear, though not too deep. There should be auxiliary neurosockets between her lymph nodes, beneath the SCM muscle.”
The subtitles filter across her contact, Delamain by the choice of words, but she’s not reading his lips. Unable to look directly at his AI avatar, she's not sure how, but doesn't have the energy to question it. The guard holds a jack between his fingers, brows furrowing for a moment. 
“...hit vein...mistake...die.” 
“As she will if you do nothing.” 
“I think I have the socket…” 
“Now proceed to connect.”
The world goes dark again, V barely able to stay conscious for more than a moment. This is it, she’s really dying. So much for laughing in the face of it and making Jackie proud. 
And when she opens them again she’s being pulled from the back of the car, the guard’s hands hold her. His grip is slipping, barely able to lift even her small frame, he’s hurt badly. Familiar hands interrupt, stronger in this moment, a ripperdoc glove on one hand. Vik pulls her from the cab easily lifting and holding her. He starts to walk away with her, the Arasaka bodyguard starting to follow, but his steps are staggering. 
“Can’t..” 
Then he’s falling, hitting the ground of Vik’s garage, his back leaning against the Delamain cab as he clutches at his bleeding arm, his face starting to go gray. V can feel the reverb in Vik’s chest, cracked open skull leaning against it as he calls out. 
And it feels like a blink. Just a moment, a bit of darkness, but the world has shifted again. A bright bright white light glows over head, she’s on Vik’s operating table, the ripper doc standing over her. 
“It’s neurogenic shock, she’s dying,” Delamain’s subtitles come across her contact. 
Tears burn at her eyes. This is it, she’s really dying, after all this trouble. She’ll bleed out in Vik’s chair. Vik’s lips move, but the contact reads nothing, only a blip. He twists and turns her face where he needs her. 
“There is risk of-”
Vik cuts the taxi cab AI off, but she doesn’t know what he says, light too bright to see anything else. Only able to catch the movement of it. And she’s been expecting this, each moment since Dex shot her feeling like her last. But this has to be it the end, heart slowing again, eyelids heavy again. Her skull has been cracked open, brain exposed to trash and air for the past several hours. She’s been bleeding out for god knows how long. She was never going to make it out of this, was never meant to. 
A billion thoughts dance in her head, of Jackie, of all that’s happened. She reaches out and grabs Vik’s shirt, bloody fingers twisting into the blue of his shirt. Her grasp is weak, but Vik stops when he feels the feeble little pull on his clothes, looking down on her. And he looks so scared, green eyes wide as he stares down at her. 
“I’m sorry…” 
Its all she can think to say, she’s sorry. She’s sorry about Jackie. She’s sorry she didn’t listen to Vik. She’s sorry she took the job. She’s sorry she couldn’t save him. She’s just sorry..  And she hopes Misty hears it, hopes it gets back to Mama Welles. Hopes they know she’s sorry, hopes they know she tried… 
And it all goes dark again, that void that welcomes her time and time again. She doesn’t expect to come out of it, truly she doesn’t. Stuck in the dark for who knows how long. 
For a moment the world comes back, mind fuzzy, she can see Misty checking something. Wants to reach out and touch her, say something. But her body won’t move, her mouth dryer than the desert. That Arasaka guard is in Vik’s other chair, Vik working on him. And she blinks again. 
Vik is at his work bench, watching a boxing match. Her clothes are changed, her skin cleaner than it was before, her vision glitching but no longer halved. Does she still have contacts in? The question is foggy in her brain, barely formed before she’s falling into darkness again. 
The guard and Vik are standing before where she lays. How much time has passed? The long haired bodyguard looks healthier now, healed up, dressed in white. Not a trace of blood on him, no more gray in his face. 
“How is she?” Subtitles form across her vision, clearer than usual, able to pick it up at a further distance. 
“Slower on the mend than you, but lookin' better every day.”
Day… has it been days? Her eyes are drifting shut again, unable to keep them open for long. But the void doesn’t greet her this time, instead fuzzy dreams...memories. Being on a stage, being at a nomad camp. Sometimes she’s her. Other times…. 
Her eyes open again. And this time the Arasaka guard is closer, hands fussing with something. Touching her shoulder, her skin. He pulls away after a moment, then taps her shoulder, a heavy pap against her flesh. Then she’s gone again. 
Dreams and memories drift into each other. 
Drinking in some shitty bar with Misty and Jackie, capping the night off with booze as they talk let loose after a week of shitty jobs and annoying customers, She throws back her favorite bourbon and cherry coke, but it turns to tequila in her mouth. Shot glass hitting the table, Misty and Jackie replaced with Kerry and Rogue, snickering as she grabs another shot. 
Vik repairing a knife wound in her gut, teasing her nose for trouble, but when he goes to turn he becomes Milt, a man she knows, though she doesn’t know why.  He’s replacing her liver for the third time that month, tells her she needs to cool it on the booze. 
Entangled in the sheets with Sabrina, a short lived flame. But when they twist to roll over, its not Sabrina looking up at her. A blonde with freckles across her nose and soft green eyes instead of the dark haired woman V thought she could love. 
She’s on stage, screaming lyrics into a mic and the noise doesn’t bug her, she screams her rage, her message. But fingers meet guitar strings and the world shifts, electric axe becoming acoustic. A dirty club becomes a tent and instead of playing to a crowd she’s in her mother’s lap, mom humming Rhiannon as she teaches the young nomad to play. 
Busting through the doors to Arasaka tower, nuke on her back, but the doors open to Yorinobu’s suite, Jackie shushing her to stay quiet. As if she’s ever struggled to be quiet. 
She’s got a blade in the side of Konpeki Plaza, grabbing Jackie, but the moment her hand wraps around his wrist she’s the one dangling, holding onto Rogue as she dangles above Arasaka Tower. 
Sometimes who’s in what memory switches, changes. Sometimes it’s her setting off the nuke in Arasaka, painted nails clicking against the bomb. Sometimes it’s tattooed and silver hands softly correcting Jackie’s sign language. 
It all blurs and blurs and blurs until she’s not sure who did what. Who’s the deaf merc and who’s the rocker who nuked a tower? And her head aches to keep track, to know who she is, the pain building and building which each twist of it, each change in those dreams that muddy the waters of who she is and who he is. Until the pain is overwhelming. 
“Argh ahh, fuck!” She gasps and screams out, waking up in agony. She grabs and clutches at her head, trying to soothe it. 
Hands come and touch her face, looking up at Vik, eyes kind as he slides a spare pair of hearing aids on her. Able to hear her own panicked breathing as Vik soothes his hands across her jaw. 
“V? You in there?” he asks her, his wording strange, who else would she be? 
“Vik..” she speaks and signs, hands trembling and voice rough, her vision still glitching and distorting. Her torso is wrapped in bandages, a pair of pajama pants on her for modesty. There’s more bandages wrapped around her head, down her forearm. There’s no markings of the mantis blades on her right arm. 
“How you feeling?” 
“Everything hurts...visions...do I have contacts in?”  
“Yeah… lots to discuss, kid,” he says, swallowing hard and crossing his arms, “had to install optics on you…” 
“What?” Her eyes are gone, replaced with tech, just that easily. The eyes she sees through no longer the ones genetics or her father gave her, but corp created metal. 
“Bullet damaged the optic nerve, I had no choice, I-” 
“I know,” she says, arm and hand too sore to sign,  Vik would never install them if it wasn’t necessary, she trusts that.
“On a brighter note, switched you to the projectile launcher.” 
“Huh?” She checks her left arm, indentations of chrome, similar but slightly different from the mantis blades. 
“The blades work best together, I would have just repaired the right and spruced up the left, but… when the blade ripped out, the muscle was damaged beneath it. It can’t support anymore cyberware, to install a new blade in it, I’d have to remove the full arm. Figured, be better to give you the tech you wanted more, anway.” 
“I owe you, a lot, seriously. May...take longer to pay you back than I thought.” 
“That’s, uh, that’s not the most important thing right now. V, what do you remember?” 
“Dex… shot me and then I started seeing things…” She explains, sitting up a little straighter and pulling her knees closer, body aching at the movement. 
“These...hallucinations, describe ‘em to me.” 
“There’s a lot, it’s like, I’m someone else, but still me. Seeing someone else’s life. I’m on stage in some grimey little club, bright lights. I start playing, screaming into the mic, letting out my hatred...screaming out a message. Got something to say, desperate for anyone to listen. Then I finish the set and… head my ass to Arasaka Tower, nuke the whole damn place… I don’t know if it was a dream or. I know it sound’s ridiculous.” 
“Not ridiculous at all, kid,” Vik tells her, nodding along and sitting down, fiddling with his glasses, a nervous tic she’s rarely seen. 
“Night City looked different, older and I hated it. Then… they killed me, Arasaka scorched me with something, every nerve frying. It felt real, so- so fucking real, I knew it wasn’t me but it felt like it. Never had a dream like that…” 
“You weren't dreaming, V. Those were memories. There's a personality construct on that shard, Dreams you had were from his past.”
She blinks, processing the words for a moment. That makes sense, when she thinks about it. Commercials for the relic advertised it as a storage for a person’s engram, something akin to an imaginary friend. It didn’t cross her mind in the moment, but logically Jackie and her should have seen someone with the chip slotted in… Right?  But either way, she had a chip with someone’s intel, she got fucked up and maybe the chip activated, triggered, and showed her whoever was on it. Johnny… who gives a fuck. 
“Okay, so, it was just the chip… Where you put it?”  It may be too hopeful, but if the chip is in good enough shape, Vik is savvy enough, he may have had a container that would work. If so, she may be able to get in contact with Evelyn. Close the deal, for Jackie. 
“V… I…” 
“Did it get destroyed?” She reaches up to her chip slot, without thinking, touching her fingers against it. 
“Don’t touch it,” Vik yells out, calloused fingers wrapping around her wrist just as she feels the edge of something in her chipslot. He didn’t pull it, which is odd enough, but why is he so worried of her doing it?
“Why? Something wrong, if the chip is fucking with me, I can just pull it out, right? No harm, no foul.” 
“It’s not that simple, V.” 
“What do you mean, it’s not that simple? Its just a shard, a chip like anything else.” 
“Not quite, you two're connected in a way I can't make head or tail of.” 
“Connect- what do you mean, me and who?” 
“Johnny Silverhand. A terrorist - real talk o' the town back in my day,” he lets out a heavy sigh, leaning forward , “ Anyway, that's not what's important right now….” 
And there’s something in the way his body language changes, the shift in expression. She’s seen him worried to death, seen him nag her time and time again. Tell her in a thousand different ways she had to stop knocking on death’s door or it’d start knocking back. But he barely meets his eyes now, face drained of color, like he’s the one who took a bullet. If she didn’t know any better, she’d think he was about to cry. 
“So, new eyes, new chrome, and reliving a terrorist’s life; none of that's important. So, what exactly is?” 
“You, uh, don't got a lot of time left, kid,” he tells her, voice cracking in a way she’s never heard. 
“Wha-what do you mean?” She’s hurting sure, that’s to be expected, but she doesn’t feel like she’s on death’s door, not anymore. She should be out of the woods now.
“ The biochip… It's basically a bomb, fuse lit already. You don't have much time left, much… life. A few, maybe six months tops. Silverhand's construct is overwriting your consciousness - gradually taking over your body until one day you'll just be… gone” 
He can only meet her eyes for a few words at a time, blinking and looking away each time his eyes start to look watery. V’s breath catches in her throat, Vik’s words pinging around her skull. She believes him, no reason not to, he’d never lie about something like this. Hell, she doubts he’d ever lie at all. Death has teased her relentlessly all her life, but never so much as it has in this past...day, weeks? Since Dex shot her, moment after moment of thinking she’d met her end. Each time convinced it was the end, that she’d bleed out in a motel, thrown away in landfill, die in Vik’s chair. 
But this… this isn’t what she imagined. A bullet, a knife wound, a quick hack, someone’s chrome; all things she could see taking her. Bleeding out in an alley, in a car, shot point blank dying before she hits the ground. Those are merc deaths, the kind of death that’s been awaiting her. Culled at the hands of her family, a quick clean captive bolt shot to the skull. 
Becoming someone else, mind twisted and warped, a terrorist taking her place. Her brain and being carved away to let someone else take root. Is it even a death? Or just ceasing to be? Rewritten, reworked, turned into someone new. A terrorist, a rockerboy; taking her place, wearing her like a cheap suit. 
Vik rubs at his forehead, refusing for another moment to make eye contact, giving her a moment. Letting this settle in or maybe he’s just trying to collect himself, after another beat of silence he meets her eyes again. 
“V. It's important you get all this,” he tells her, but, Vik can help her. He’s the best, pulled miracles out of nowhere, for fucks sake, he pieced her head back together. The fact she’s here right now means…
“That’s okay, you’ll fix me up. Right, Vik?”
And his face falls, a quiver in his jaw, “If I could, I would, V, believe me. But this is… Way beyond what I know how to do.” 
“You're the best of the best, Vik,” her voice is higher than she wants, shakier than she’d like, as he puts his head in his hands again,  “Why can't you help me?”
“Want the long story or the short?” He sits up straighter, takes in a deep breath, trying to pull himself together. 
“I want- I need to know everything, Vik, what’s happening to me?” 
“OK. There was, is, a construct, a psyche on the chip. That of Johnny Silverhand. You jacked it in your chipslot. Nothing happened, right? Until you died.” 
“Shot point blank by Dex Deshawn...how…” 
“Low caliber - you lucked out. Not least thanks to another poor decision by Mr. DeShawn. The nannites off the chip started fixing the damage. Biochip revived and... short-circ'd you. Started uploading data into your head. As far as it was concerned, your brain was an empty vessel that needed to be filled by the engram it was carrying.” 
“But-but, I’m here, this is me. I’m me, I-” 
And he nearly breaks, she can see it in him, A grown man, old enough to be her dad, looking down like a kicked dog. Like he’s about to break down in tears and when did she start crying? Her eyes stinging, tears running hot down her cheeks, she doesn’t know when the dam bursted, when her voice started sounding so pathetic. But...this is her, she’s here, she doesn’t want to become someone else… 
“The shard doesn't read, it writes. Headache of yours? It's the biochip rewiring your neural pathways, building new neural structures, doing away with the old. From the biochip's perspective, your brain cells are a tumor that needs to be scooped out, while your body's an empty shell to hold the construct. You’re….just a cancer, an intruder.” 
An intruder, a cancer in her own fucking body. It’s almost poetic, if it wasn’t so infuriating. Her body trying to destroy itself for years and now this chip is joining the fight, like her body was never meant to be her’s. But it is, this is her. Years under someone else's thumb; she fought for the right to herself, her body, her life. And now some wannabe rockstar is out to ruin that?
“So, that’s it? Johnny What’s His Fuck is out to kill me? Booting me out of my own damn body and taking my place?” 
She tries to turn it into anger, blaming him, because who else does she blame? Anger is easier, safer, she can work with anger better than the anguish in her chest, the tears soaking her face. 
“It's not willful on his part. It's automatic, inevitable. And neither of you can stop it.” 
The finality makes her choke. Nothing to do. Nothing to stop it. This is happening. All she can do is wait to rot inside her own body, wait for the moment where Johnny claims it as his own. She’ll be gone, wiped, the world forgetting she was ever part of it. Just a weak little merc killed by her own body, never truly meant to be here in the first place. 
“Ca-can’t we just take it out? Turn it off-I, something?!” 
“Either way's out of the question. You'd die, immediately.”
“What do you mean?” “Chip saved you… it’s killing you, but, it’s also the only thing keeping you alive. Without it keeping your brain going… life support and a death sentence, all in one. “ 
“Vik, you’ve always come through for me, there’s nothing you can’t do. If-if you can’t help...what-what the hell do I do? Please… I,”  Vik stands up, looks at her like she’s already gone, arms crossed over his chest, “Vik?” 
“I wish I knew, kid.” And he turns his back to her, walking away. 
“Vik?” 
“Misty!” He calls the woman’s name half in a yell and half in a sob, breaking down. 
For a moment she’s left alone, wiping tears from her eyes. The look on Vik’s face trapped in her mind, looking at her like she’s already dead and this is her funeral. Looking at her like a wounded dog. Like her mother  and sister did when she lost her hearing. Pity, despair, mourning what’s been taken. And she cries into her hands, because this time it’s not her hearing. It's her everything. Years of trying to feel like she had an ounce of fucking control, just for it to be taken. Years of searching for a place in this world, for the world to tell her one never existed. Her own brain reworking itself to be anyone else, even a terrorist. 
There’s a creak of wheels against the floor, a wheelchair being pushed into her peripheral vision. Misty’s pushing it towards her, V doesn’t lift her head to make eye contact, just watching the chair wheels spin. 
“You're askin' too much from an old-timer like Vik,” Misty speaks softly, touching V’s hand and the merc finally meets her gaze, “C'mon, V, let's get you home.”
Misty helps V into the wheelchair, the merc’s legs shakier than she expected, and she curses under her breath. She hates it, needing the help, needing Misty’s hands to steady her. Feeling weak. But Misty helps her happily, wheeling her out the garage of Vik’s clinic to a car. Misty tucking her into the passenger seat and helping buckle her seat belt when the merc’s hands are too clumsy. 
V watches the world go by as Misty drives, looking at the city that passes by. A world, a city, she wanted a place in. That she wanted to respect her, to know her. A world she wanted to matter in, to prove she was strong, to feel like she meant something. And now she’ll just vanish from it, with no one caring. A world that will never miss her, because it never knew her to begin with. 
And a part of her wants to climb across the console and into Misty’s lap, to throw her arm around the older woman and sink there. To hug someone who to some extent, if only because of Jackie, cares about her, who maybe, just maybe she matters to. But for a billion reasons, ranging from the fact Misty’s driving to the fact she can’t imagine why Misty would ever want to hug her. While kind, V can’t imagine anyone wanting to curl up with the person who got their boyfriend killed. V promised to keep him safe and couldn’t. 
“You wanna talk, V, about what happened?” 
V doesn’t respond right away, unsure of what to say, there’s so much swimming in her head. So many words that just die on her tongue. Does she talk about Jackie, does she apologize? Does she act selfishly, talk about what’s happening to her? It’s all a mess. Then they’re pulling into the parking garage of V’s building. Misty gets the folded up wheelchair out of the back of her car, holding a bag with V’s belongings in it, bringing them to the passenger side. The older blonde opens V’s door and helps her into the chair, wheeling her to the elevator. 
The doors to the elevator close, ads playing across the screens, V fiddles with the fabric of the sweatpants that Vik put her in. She tries to speak, words don’t come out. She tries to sign, her fingers clench but don’t move beyond it. The elevator shaking as it takes them up to V’s floor. 
“Its-it’s all so hard to make sense of…” she finally says, just being honest, as the doors open and Misty wheels her down those dirty halls. 
“I know it is, sweetie, you’ve been through so much.” 
“We were just stealing the chip and then everything… went to shit…. And, and, then he died and I thought I was gonna die too with him in my sleep...if that’s what it was, like I was dreaming but...not.” 
“Sleep's a… Small hint of death, the inevitable,” Misty tells her as they reach V’s door, the older woman scooping up a box by the door as the merc unlocks it. 
Memories of her door fucking up flicker around her head, Robert Linder… No… that’s not possible. They hadn’t even touched Konpeki yet, but she swears she knows that name. That it’s him, his birth name. Robbie, Robert, before finally settling on Johnny. Her throat feels tight, chest constricting, how is that possible. Then Misty is pushing her through the doors. 
“I-I can't actually tell if I'm awake now, right now. Nothing feels real, I mean, I could be dead already, right?”
“Not something to think about right now, V,” Misty tells her, stopping the chair by her bed, before coming to stand in front of her, “Here, got some meds for you.”
There’s two pill bottles in Misty’s hands, blue and orange. She crouches down in front of V, meeting the merc’s eyes without looking down at her. Misty rattles the blue pill bottle. 
“Omega blockers - taken regularly, they'll keep things from progressing too quickly. Also, they should keep that guest of yours calm, quiet.”
Quiet. Because she’s going to see him, going to hear him, already has. The memory of hearing his voice, seeing him above her in the landfill. She’s not alone in her own head and putting him in a chemical straight jacket is all she can do. She takes the blue bottle from Misty, shaking the pills around inside, her only hope of squeezing out even six more months of life… before she becomes someone else. 
“Pseudoendotrizine's from me,” Misty shakes the orange bottle, “Effect'll be opposite. It'll speed things up, free the demon, so to speak.”
V takes the second bottle from Misty, shaking them around, as the older woman stands. Suicide pills… Misty is giving her a way to kill herself, only instead of getting to go to sleep and never wake up, it will speed him up. Rewrite and rework her. Death without the dignity of a true end, one day she just won’t be her.  She’d rather bleed out, rather have been left to rot in that landfill. At least then she would have died as herself.  Least she wouldn’t have to watch and feel as she becomes someone else, as she loses everything that makes her, her. And Misty wants to speed it up… wants to watch her die quicker… 
“Giving me a pill to kill myself… so I can die faster…” V’s broken little voice comes out and she see’s Misty’s eyes go big for a moment, soft and looking at V like a dying animal. Just a sad little thing to be pitied. 
“Listen, you're likely to be fine for a while. But some time down the road. It could turn into pure agony. I'm givin' you options, honey.”
“I have painkillers...I-” 
“Your psyche's gonna die, V. You'll feel… your old self slipping away. At some point, you won't recognize yourself. It'll be terrifying. It'll be painful. But it doesn't have to be.”
V nearly cries, but forces it back, thinking of the road ahead of her. The finality in Misty’s voice echoing Vik’s. So, why is she here, six months of suffering? If she’s lucky. She should have been left to die, least then it’d be a quicker one. A real one, instead of just becoming a stranger in her own body, instead of being rewritten, replaced. 
“Might as well just blow my brains out, be easier.”
Misty shakes her head, “Well, that way you'd kill two souls. Is that what you want?”
And maybe she does. Maybe she doesn’t. V isn't quite sure of the answer, herself. She just doesn’t want to hurt like this, doesn’t want to be here in this moment. Doesn’t want this.  A clean death is easier, instead Vik pieced her back together just so she could suffer. She thinks of laying down in the landfill, before she saw him, and wishes it back. To lay down in the muck, a bleeding mess, and never get back up. 
“I think...I need to lie down,” she says, her bed never looking so tempting. V pulls herself from the wheel chair and sits down on her bed, legs over the edge as she just feels herself sink into her mattress for a moment. After a moment, she feels Misty sitting down next to her. 
“Here,” Misty holds something in her hands, soft green eyes looking at V, “got one more thing for ya. Vik pulled this outta your skull.’
Misty gently pulls on V’s wrist, touch gentle as she makes the merc roll her hand over and presses a necklace into her palm. A circular pendant on a chain, wires suspending a bullet in the center of it. The merc rubs her fingers over the metal, the bullet that killed her. 
“Wha-?”
“A lucky charm?”
“Haven’t you heard, I got a terminal case of bad luck.” 
“Don't be silly. As long as you're alive, there's hope. And don't let anyone tell you otherwise.” 
Misty says that and a part of V believes she believes it. But she said not moments okay, with that same confidence that V is going to die. And the merc can’t help but wonder if Misty even knows which one she believes more. How could V possibly stop this? Vik doesn’t even know what he’s looking at, how the hell could she? Her brain is destroying itself, turning itself into someone new. How do you stop that?
“Really think I can survive this?” V asks, just wanting to know how Misty really feels, if there’s any hope in this situation. 
“'Course you can. I mean, you did already die and come back once, didn't ya?”
“Technically...I guess.” 
“Promise you'll try to get some sleep?” Misty pats her thigh and starts to get up. 
“Misty, wait, um I, about Jackie...” She tangles her fingers in Misty’s sweater, voice catching, she can’t let her go without saying something about him. Misty sits back down. 
“Yeah?” 
“I’m, I’m...I’m so fuckin’ sorry, I…” 
“V… “
“I can’t believe he’s gone… It doesn’t feel real…” Tears burn at V’s eyes, falling down her cheeks with a blink. 
“Jackie…  was special. Really spiritually rich. He touched so many people with his love. Don't worry, he'll be around. I don’t think… we ever truly lose the people who meant something to us, a part of them always stays with us, ya know?” 
“Maybe… he… talked about yout lots, you know that? He loved you to pieces.” 
A soft smile starts to pull at Misty’s black painted lips, before it falls again, fingers messing with her hair as she weighs what V’s said. 
“We got into a fight right before he went off to do this job.”
“He wasn’t mad at you. I hope you know that, loved you more than anything.” 
“I know. I just… wish our last moments together could have been… different.” 
“Sure you'll be okay?” 
Misty is too good for all of this, truly, she deserved so much better. And V just wishes she could have brought Jackie home to her.  Misty chews her lip and after a moment she nods, looking up to V. 
“Life is so beautifully powerful, so much more powerful than death, so yeah, I’ll be fine. Not today and probably not tomorrow, but I’ll get there. And so will you.” 
“Maybe…” 
“But right now,” Misty squeezes V’s shoulder,  “you need rest. So sleep, please sleep.”
With that desperate plea, Misty stands up, pushing the wheelchair out through V’s apartment. She only stops once, casting a final somber look at V, as if checking to see if the merc has moved at all. Then she leaves. And V is left alone with her thoughts, with her worries, with her guilt, and fear. 
Body and mind heavy with the weight of it all, she takes out the loaner hearing aids that Vik gave her and pushes herself back into bed. She lays down, feeling the soft of the mattress sink underneath her. V takes another look at the bullet pendant, holding it over her head as she stares at the thing that killed her. Pried from her head and now in her hand, it seems surreal. Everything feels that way lately. 
She lays her head down on her pillow, holding the pendant close as she lets herself just relax for a moment. To just let this all go if only for a few hours, to let her mind and body rest, to figure out what she’s going to do when the morning comes. Her eyelids grow heavy, slipping into sleep. 
There’s an odd, almost electric sound that starts to gently stir her from sleep, like a tv glitching. Followed by a soft thunk, thunk, of something hitting something else. Her heavy eyelid slowly pull open. A man against the wall between her bed and window. Overgrown dark hair, aviators hiding brown eyes, dressed in a bullet proof vest and leather pants. He thumps his head back against the wall, a pent up energy drawing every muscle in his body tight, like a tiger about to pounce. 
“Gotta get out of here, understand? And I kill anyone who gets in my way.” 
And he’s on top of her, in a flicker, a flash, he’s suddenly crouching over her body, staring down at her. Close enough to smell cigarette smoke and a hint of sweat, close enough to see the dirt that clings to his skin, scratches in his flesh.  His silver hand presses against the mattress beside her head, 
“You included.” 
She flinches and kicks out at his warning, the gravel of his voice promising to end her if he has to. And he’s gone, just as easily as he arrived. A dream?  Her heart hammers in her chest, breaths shallow as she tries to calm down. 
Her mind is still foggy  as she starts to sit up in her bed, then she hears the glitching sound again, the thumping noise of a head hitting the wall. V swallows a lump in her throat, blinking at the man who’s back against the wall, thumping his head. 
“Need a smoke,” he demands, seemingly annoyed he has to say it, “where’d you stash yours?” 
A stranger in her apartment, in her mind, trying to bum cigarettes. Her hearing aids still tucked away, yet she hears him clear as day. It’s all surreal. She can’t bring herself to answer immediately, still half out of it, her vision seeming to glitch as she moves. A cyan fuzz to the world as she slowly sits up on the edge of the bed and brings herself to stand up, looking at him. He’s not real, she has to remind herself, even though he looks and smells like it. Just a figment in her head, threatening her life and demanding nicotine. 
“D-don’t smoke.” Is all she can think to say, as stupid as it is, thankful for a moment she can’t hear herself say it, can’t truly take in her own idiocy. As if that’s the most concerning part of this whole mess. 
“Then go out and get some! Just need one last one!” He screams at her, making her flinch, head hurting already. 
“Jesus christ, man,  calm the fuck down.” 
“The fuck kinda joytoy are you s'posed to be?” He sneers at her, looks down his nose at her. Heat and anger rush through her, face warm, asshole. Snide, fucking prick. Not worth it, though, just some asshole rattling around her skull. 
“No, I- I’m not dealing with this.” 
She shakes her head and turns to go to her closet; grab some clothes, pop the pills, take a shower, and figure out what to do from there.  Then he’s in front of her, before she’s even made it past her desk, hands slamming into her chest as he pushes her back. She cries out as she hits the ground, pain shooting through her already injured body. He stands over her, right hand pulled back, ready to strike and his left in front of him. 
“Who you work for? Start talkin'!”
He points a chrome finger at her and her left finger points back him, moving without her consent, world glitching with cyan fuzz around her. She tries to clench it, to pull it back, to control her own body. But nothing and behind his eyes, she sees him looking. Testing it, he unclenches his hand and her own mirrors the motion. He twists his hand around and hers does the same in turn, in perfect sync, like she’s just a puppet. She tries to pull her hand down, but nothing. 
His right arm moves and her own follows the motion, no matter how much tries to pull it back, as muscles aching from her rebellion. Her body listens to him, not her. This can’t be happening, he can’t control her, he can’t make her do things. Vik said six months, it's barely been hours and she already can’t move her own body.
“Fuck…” The man above her curses, turning his palms to his face, her hands doing the same. 
For a moment, she considers begging him to release whatever control he has on her, if he even knows how to do it but stops herself before the broken plea can be heard, nothing but a soft noise dying on her lips. Disgusted she would ever have to beg to have control over her own body, cursing herself as his right hand pushes back into his hair. Her hand does the same, pushing through her hair to rub over her chip-slot.
“Fucking chip,” her fingers pry at the biochip without her permision and she’s reminded of Vik’s warning,  “Rip the thing out myself!
Let him, let the dumb bastard kill them both; she decides just before he tries to rip the chip out. Fingers prying at the damage tech left in her skull,  And she screams, like a shock to her brain, a bolt through every nerve as her vision glitches. Her body tenses, seizes, and somewhere she hears him yell too.  World going dark for just a moment. 
Then red dances across her vision, world and sense slowly returning, she’s somehow twisted to face her window. Not sure how she ended up there, if she had a seizure, if he dragged her. But it looks like he gave up on prying the chip out, because shes’ alive, she thinks. There’s that blue fuzz and static floating around her vision again as she starts trying to get up. 
Before she can get both feet under her, there’s a hand wrenching into her hair, twisting the strands around his fingers and yanking. She cries out as she’s pulled up to her feet by her hair, freshly stitched together scalp being pulled on. V presses her hands to the window sill and glass, trying to get her bearings as she’s pulled back back by the hair. Her reflection stares back at her, her pitiful face wincing in pain, Johnny behind her pulling her around like a ragdoll. 
“I’ll take control!” 
It’s a snarled yell into her ear, his breath on her neck as he slams her head against the window, the a heavy sound of flesh cracking against glass. 
“I’ll find a way!” 
He reels her head back and does it again, glass starting to splinter and break apart under the force. Then he pulls her back, twists her around to face him, moving fast. Hands quick and harsh, tearing at her skin as he wraps both around her throat. Flesh and metal cutting off her air as he slams her against the window, head bouncing against it as she claws at his hands. Finally in control of her limbs, but unable to do anything as he cuts off her air, leaning close enough for her to smell the smoke on his breath. 
“You hear me?!”
He screams in her face, brown eyes glaring over his aviators, harsh and burning into her skin. She can feel the hatred, the anger, all coming off of him in waves. It swims in her head and chest, pressing against her own fear as he strangles her, a snarled look on his face. He wants to kill her, to see her go limp and die under his hands right then and there. She knows that, can feel and read him, knows it as well as she knows her own name. 
Just as darkness pinpricks her vision, she feels the air return, rushing into her… just a moment before he lets go, letting her slide down the window onto the ground. She’s in no place to question it, sucking in deep grateful breathes, lungs burning for it as she watches him pace. 
Haphazardly, she pulls herself to her body, sitting on the edge of it; putting more distance between herself and the window he seems so fond of. She digs through her pockets, finding the omega blockers Misty had given her. V needs him gone like yesterday, to vanish like a bad fucking dream. 
“Not like that!” He yells and smacks the pill bottle from her hand, metal fingers stinging her skin and sending the medication across the room. 
“Fuc-ah!” V yelps as his right hand wraps tightly into her hair, again, yanking at the roots as he forces her to look directly at him, unable to see his eyes through his aviators. 
“Stick some iron in your mouth and pull the trigger!” 
He lets her hair go to reel back his hand, it cracks across her cheek in a heavy smack that sends the merc reeling to the ground. Sharp pain pinkening her cheek as she braces her hands against the floor, everything hurts. Her scalp torn at, her cheek struck, and her throat bruised. She feels it all, a brutal assault as real as anything she’s ever felt. 
“I can feel it,” he talks as he walks across the room, glitching with her vision, “our minds… touching…” 
Across the room, she sees it, beneath his pacing feet is the bottle of pills knocked down. Every muscle seizing, legs refusing to work as her body seems determined to shut down on her. But if she can just get to the pill she can shut him out. 
“I'm like mold on fruit… creepin' into you… Nothing I can do about it,” he rambles to himself, voice tight and angry as she drags herself across the floor, trying to reach the blockers. 
“You hear me!?” He yells, crouching to one knee just over them, taunting her before he flickers across the room again, “I'd puke if I fuckin' could!” 
She focuses on the pills, he’s irrelevant, not even real. Even if he feels like it, even if every strike and yank has left her hurting, he’s not real. V is nearly there, stomach rubbed raw at the drag of her body over the floor. She just needs him gone, far far away, put into whatever corner of his mind she can lock him away in. 
“It's just a copy of the engram - I'm out there somewhere, gotta be…” He keeps talking, keeps rambling, won’t shut the fuck up. 
“Just leave me the fuck alone! Get the fuck out, just go!” 
“Lead to the head is the only thing that’ll fix it,” he points his fingers like a gun at her head, before dropping to a knee in front of her sneering, “hear me bitch!? A bullet to the fuckin’ brain!” 
She grabs a pill from the floor, cramming it in her mouth and swallowing it try, rolling over onto her back as she begs for it to work. And he flickers into view, standing over her, looking down at her like she’s less than filth. Before he glitches out in a mess of static, cyan fuzz erasing him. 
And there’s a moment of relief, left in silence, safe from his hands. Safe from a touch too real for a brain supposedly only in her mind. Him being gone brings a moment, a glimmer of hope, the merc able to breath. To know for however long the pill lasts, she won’t be struck, or taunted. Won’t be plagued with his voice, the rough boom of it still ringing in ears that shouldn’t have heard it. 
This whole thing, the chip, her inevitable death… Vik said Johnny couldn’t help that, had no choice. And she knows from his memories he was put in the chip against his will. 
But this was a choice. The hair yanking, the choking, the screaming, the threats, all of that was his choice. And he made it clear, if it was up to him she’d just die faster. If it was up to him, he’d get the satisfaction of killing her with his hands rather than the chip. A stranger in her body, in her mind, able to control her and he wants her dead, he wants to hurt her. 
She cries, because what else can she do? Tears rushing out anew, it seems to be all she can do lately. V has no idea how to handle this, no idea how to stop it, how to keep him from getting control back. She doesn’t even know how long the pills will last, no clear dosage or instructions, just ‘regularly’. It feels pathetic, crying and weeping with no idea of how to fix it. But she allows herself that much, laying on the floor surrounded by pills, a new intruder in her body; she cries and curls into herself, hugging herself like a child. 
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kumoriyami-xiuzhen · 3 years
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Hakuoki Shinkai Hana no Shou Harada After Story Translation
This is my first post of the month, so I’ll start by asking you to please support me if you can through my ko-fi, and paypal or patreon which provides access to my hakuoki blog translations and early access to my postings. Also, please let me know if you have any hakuoki drama cds that you’d be willing to share that are on my Lookout List since i either do not have audio for those cds or do not have audio that I can share.... and if you are able to remove watermarks from a video, please contact me.  
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i don’t really play rhythmic music games... but i gotta say, Deemo Reborn was amazing. my heart is feeling very hurt right now. highly recommend it. 
Anyway, this is my translation of the Harada story from the Hakuoki Shinkai Hana no Shou Stellaworth pre-order bonus booklet「薄桜鬼 真改 華ノ章」ステラワース早期予約特典 小冊子 (....I should really make the Japanese on these particular posts of mine uniform), which was translated from Chinese as always.
Kinda sad that it’s taken me so long to get to finishing these when I consider how the very first translation on my tumblr was for the Saito story and when i posted that... ahahahaaaaa...... lol. *facepalm.* 
Now that this is done, that just leaves the stories for Souji and Heisuke (of which i have now queued) since I don’t have translations of the after stories for Shinpachi, Sanan, Souma, Iba, and Sakamoto (have scans for them should anyone want to translate them or commission someone else to translate them). 
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Hakuoki Shinkai: Hana no Shou Stellaworth Pre-order Bonus Booklet After Story - Harada Sanosuke
Translation by KumoriYami
The boundless sky and horizon——
The war between the old Shogunate's forces and the New Government Army, and the fighting between humans and oni, had nothing to do with the country on the other side of the sea.  And it was in that place, a [certain] man and woman were [now] living.  
The man's name was Harada Sanosuke, former Tenth Division Captain of the Shinsengumi. While the woman in love with him was the young female oni who had decided to leave Japan with him, Yukimura Chizuru.
After Harada finished his daily firewood delivery, he rode back towards his beloved at home. Ever since coming here, his riding skills have improved by a lot.
After leading the horse back to the stable, he opened the door of this house, which looked a bit lonely in this cold weather.
"Yo, Chizuru, I'm back."
Chizuru, who was leaning over from where she was sitting down in a chair and mending clothes, lifted her head with a smile.
"Welcome back, Sanosuke-san. How was it outside?"
"It's still the same. Although I've been mentally prepared for a while, the coldness of winter here really can't match the degree of coldness in Kyoto."
As Harada spoke, he curtly sat down on his chair. The old chair looked as if it were to collapse at any moment, and made a creaking sound.
"But, it's thankfully very warm at home, right?"
Although it was difficult living in a foreign country where there was a language barrier, Chizuru wasn't the slightest bit dissatisfied, and was still smiling from ear to ear as she responded to his words.
Her appearance made him feel that he would never be able to fully express how thankful he was. Harada, who always felt a little ashamed about this, lightly tousled his hair.
"Nn...... indeed.”
Chizuru who finally finished mending the clothes, then quietly stood up.
"Please wait a bit. I'll go make you some tea."
"No need,  I'll go make the tea, you go and rest.”
"But...…"
"Your body isn't just your own, so don't force yourself...… alright?”
The tone of his voice was slightly more forceful, which was why she sat back down into her chair again.
"Since that's the case, I'll leave it to you. Sanosuke-san.”
"Yosh! Just look forward to it, and watch me make you a delicious cup  of tea.”
After, he tried copying the way that Chizuru made tea——.
"......Ah, sorry, I wanted to make tea like how you usually do.”
The tea that Harada made, was one that someone would have a difficult time calmly drinking. Having seen that, Chizuru made a new cup for him, which tasted quite good. The same tea leaves were obviously used, yet there was such a difference in the taste, and upon seeing this, Harada felt incredulous.
"Please don't worry about it. I'm already thankful for your intentions.”
"...…That so."
Truly, what a kind woman. once again Harada confirmed how kind she was.
When he was thinking about coming to this foreign country, she didn't utter a single complaint, and followed him in silence. Although this method was used to hide her from the oni clans that were pursuing her——.
(If she was born as a human, she wouldn't have had to bear such difficulties.)
Although he felt that Chizuru who had ended up with the Shinsengumi because of various reasons, it was why he tried helping her as much as possible, but it was in that period of time, that he found himself unable to look away from her. He didn't know when it started, but he felt that he was the only one to protect her.
(......No, she was no longer alone.)
As Harada thought this, he stood back up.
"Sanosuke-san?"
After she doubtfully called his name, Harada went over to Chizuru's side, bent his knees slightly, and then placed his hand on her lower abdomen, where a new life was.
"Ah......"
Gently caressing this small and growing life, his heart was brimming with warmth.
(I never thought that I would have a family.)
Because of his rough personality, his hometown wasn't able to handle him, and all sorts of commotions occurred whenever he went somewhere, which was why he cut ties to the place he was born.
(Originally, I thought that I'd be a man who would live like a stray dog, then die alone.....)
He never thought that he would be able to find someone to fall in love with, the chance to start a family, or even have children.
As he gently caressed her now swelling lower abdomen, he worriedly asked a question.
"How's your body doing? I heard that you had a fever a while ago."
"I'm all right, the people nearby have given me plenty of advice."
"What about the language? Were you able to understand it?"
"I've been able to understand a bit more of it recently. Otherwise things will be expressed using body movements and pen and ink/writing.
"...…So it was like that."
Chizuru then placed her hand against Harada's. The soft heartbeat and his warmth were both able to reach her palm.
"Hey, Chizuru."
Hearing the way his voice called out, Chizuru tilted her head.
"As long as I have you and this guy, I don't need anything else. Not even life."
Those were his honest feelings, but the moment he said this, Chizuru's expression became very serious.
"Even if that's a joke, please don't say that. If Sanosuke-san dies, this child and I will not survive.”
He already anticipated Chizuru saying this, but——
"I'm not joking. Ever since I met you, and since we've become husband and wife...…. for the first time, I know that there are things in this world that are more important than my own life and ambitions.”
His words made her blush.
"This...…"
Just from looking at her expression, it was obvious that she thought he was being too serious, but Harada truly felt that what he wasn't an exaggeration. No, if only words were used to convey his inner thoughts, perhaps not even half of them would be conveyed.
Harada lovingly brushed Chizuru's hair which drooped to her shoulders, then spoke.
"Don't worry.  I didn't plan to leave you and this guy to die behind. Even if it looks like that, I'm very confident about how I never give up in life."
"..….I believe you."
In response to his trust, she showed a smile that was brimming with confidence. Seeing her like this, Harada involuntarily smiled back.
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for some reason, i translated track 5 of something... now done track 5 and 6 (of 6) for that drama lol. 
unfortunately, i only got half-way through june for my queue... ugh dammit. still that’s a decent start i suppose tho last week was my last “allowance” time for translating since i anticipate getting a lot busier now... [btw, the 4th ginsei no shou chapter for Saito is at 40% and will be at that completion level for a looong while. will need to have my queue reach november before i can earnestly focus on that game again]... also,  i’m going to assume that with school, most of my game translation videos will take longer to get done (dramas are fairly easy since timing isn’t difficult to set as there’s no text that i need to worry about).
on the plus side though, the yuugiroku dramas are now being moved via cmd...  though for some reason, i can’t see half the on-screen text in the programs i use right now... including notepad, which i use for subtitles, and nimble writer, which is the program i use to write i’ve saved my translations in... and i can’t even view my files properly cuz i can’t see any of the folders or file names...
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Thunderstorm Kisses
Well my god. I wrote this five years ago, under my old tumblr account that I deleted by mistake and thought I had lost it forever, as I had also lost the laptop I typed it on. I suddenly remembered the name of it and took a chance searching it up and what do you know. Tumblr aint completely useless. The post still exists even though the account is dead. This is a dead fandom, I’m quite aware but I’m posting it here for documentation sake and for any lucaya fans who may be still floating around on this god forsaken platform. Much love and happy reading. P.S My writing has gotten better since this was written (God I hope) lol but I have not edited or altered anything because I think my 18 year old self's writing style should be left as it is for the sentimentality of it all. Warning: This is so cringy, cheesy and teeny boppy (if that's a thing) eeekk
He’d always wondered what she tasted like. If her kisses would be as electric as the thunderstorm in her eyes.  He knew it was wrong to have these thoughts when he had been in a relationship with her best friend for almost two years, and he loved Riley, he really did. But when this girl  was always in his face , challenging him, teasing him and threatening him relentlessly, all he could do was stare down at this raging blond fury, and over time he happened to notice that she had the pinkest lips he had ever seen, almost perfectly shaped, with a permanent smirk that was always directed at him and he began to wonder what they tasted like.
He would catch himself thinking about her at the most random times. Strawberry lips and sunshine hair would flood his mind and afterwards he would hate himself for it because he knew he should be thinking about warm chocolate eyes and chestnut hair, but it was hard to do that when a sea of electric blue always invaded and washed away these thoughts.
After almost two years of letting her verbally and physically abuse him, he had finally begun to fight back. Not because he was sick of it, or because he wanted to hurt her, but because he knew she liked when he did, and he would do anything to see that fire in her eyes intensify. The first time he had actually fought back, by responding to one of her verbal jabs with a very clever remark in his opinion, her eyebrows had shot up in surprise and he was not sure if he should stay or run from her wrath, but surprisingly she had smiled. Though, he could not have been sure, because it had only lasted for an instant, until her face fell back to its usual smirk and she proceeded to call him one of her ever creative names in response.  He noticed that she smiled a lot, especially with Riley, but he also noticed that a lot of her smiles were always a little too hard, or with a little too much teeth and they never really reached her eyes.  He had never seen someone so committed to assuring the happiness of their best friend. She would sell her soul for Riley. Riley’s happiness was Maya’s occupation and he wished that she realized her happiness was important too and sometimes he would want so badly to tell her she was worth everything and more, and she deserved the world  but he could not do that. They would be no windowsill conversations between them, no heart to hearts because he was Ranger Rick and she was his girlfriend’s best friend. And that was that.
He found her crying one time, underneath a staircase at school. He had never seen her cry before. The school was nearly empty and Riley had had cheerleading practice.  He was not sure what to do at first, if he should just walk away and call Riley, but then a sob came from her that nearly broke his heart, and never in his life had he felt such  a need to  fix someone. She sat in the corner of the staircase, her knees drawn to her chest and her face in her hands, her hair cascading down her shoulders. Her shoulders shook and his insides hurt. He didn’t think she knew anyone was  looking at her so he called her name. She remained in the same position and he called her name again. No response. She had to have heard him. She probably thought if she didn’t acknowledge him he would eventually go away but he refused to do anything of that sort. Without a second thought, he walked towards her tiny figure and slid down the wall next to her. He felt her body tense and then put his arm around her, pulling her into him. She lay stiff in his arms but he held on. After a few minutes he felt her finally relax against him and her head fell heavily against his shoulder. Her sobs had subsided but she still shook a little. His grip tightened and he rested his head against hers. Never did someone fit so perfectly in his arms. He heard her sigh, a sigh that sounded like it was filled with so much world weariness. They never spoke of it afterwards, it was as if it had never happened and though she had never told him to, he knew he was not supposed to tell Riley that he had found her crying. It was an unspoken agreement. The only acknowledgment that he got that had proven what had happened had not been a figment of his imagination was when the very next day their eyes had locked briefly across their lunch table with Riley and Farkle in the cafeteria and she had given him a small smile. Of gratitude? He couldn’t be sure but he thinks it was probably the most genuine smile he had ever seen on her face, even though her lips had only slightly turned upwards, but no matter how small, it had gotten to her sea glass eyes.
He could feel there dynamic slowly changing. He wasn’t sure he could say they were becoming friendlier with each other but they were becoming…something more than just two teenagers who tolerated each other for the sake of a mutual friend. They no longer needed Riley to be there to feel comfortable in each other’s presence. One day, all four of them, him, Riley, Farkle and Maya, were supposed to meet at “Topanga’s” to hang out but it had just ended up being the two of them as Farkle had ditched them to hang out  with the AV club and Riley had to babysit Auggie at the last minute. He would have thought that Maya would have left to go and help Riley with Auggie but surprisingly she had stayed and it was then he had found out that she was a really good listener. Sitting opposite each other in one of the booths, with her hands clasped together on top of the table she listened as he told her about Texas sunsets, and how beautiful the horses looked when they ran together in the fields and how he had always woke up at five every morning to do things around his grandparents farm. He told her how much he missed his old home and his family  and how sometimes New York could be so suffocating with all its skyscraper buildings and millions of people. Not once did she call him a name or interrupt him as he told her, she just listened. At the end of it, it was silent for a moment and she just stared at him with her piercing eyes, as if she was searching for something in him. After a moment she leaned back and said to him,
“ Even though here might not feel like home, always remember that we will always be your family, no matter what.” She told him this without her gaze ever wavering from his face and he thinks that that was the moment he started to fall in love with her.
He began to walk her home nearly every day after school especially on the days when they all hung out till dark. The first time he did, he realized how far she lived from Riley’s house, nearly  five blocks and her neighborhood was not exactly the safest, especially in the night. The first few times she fussed about it and told him it wasn’t necessary but   eventually she realized she could not convince him otherwise and it became a pattern. No matter how much she claimed she could take care of herself he always noticed how she would draw nearer to him whenever they walked passed a dark ally or she received a random catcall from a pedestrian across the street. In those moments it would take everything he had within him to prevent himself from enclosing  her hand in his just to assure her that he was right here beside her, that nothing in hell could hurt her with him here. In those walks he found out a lot about her. That her mom changed jobs all the time and worked triple shifts and sometimes days would go by without her seeing her. He learned that her sick grandmother lived with them and that she tried to get home as soon as possible to make her dinner and watch tv with her. He got the impression that aside from Riley, her Grandma was her best friend. Her eyes always lit up when she spoke of her.
One day after almost six months of walking her home, she finally invited him inside. He could see how nervous she was as she fumbled open the door of the apartment. “It’s not much,” she had mumbled to him and he had told her he didn’t care if she lived in a box on the worst alley in New York. She laughed at that and he saw her relax a little. Her laugh was like a  drug to him, and like any addict, whenever he rarely evoked one from her, he found himself on this high. She introduced him to her grandmother who hugged him with a grip so fierce it startled him. He could have seen that she had been beautiful when she was younger. He now knew where Maya had gotten her looks from. Her grandmother had held his hand while sitting on her rocking chair and studied him for a significant amount of time, with eyes very similar to Maya’s. She then turned to Maya and announced that it was abnormal for a boy to have such a beautiful face. He laughed and then heard Maya scoff behind him. He turned to her and winked and she rolled her eyes. She walked towards the small kitchen and he swore he glimpsed a smile that she tried to hide behind her hair. He helped her make dinner, despite her refusal, and though it was only Mac and cheese, it was probably the best meal he had ever had as he ate next to her on the couch in the living room, opposite her grandmother as they watched some Spanish soap opera with no english subtitles. Though he had no idea what they were saying he laughed along with Maya and her grandmother and he thinks this was the happiest he had ever seen her.  Afterwards he stood next to her in the kitchen by the sink as she washed the dishes and he dried and in that moment he felt like this was something he would like to do for the rest of his life, not just wash dishes, but just stand next to her,  unconsciously bumping shoulders, and brushing fingers, as she passed the dishes to him, that sent shivers down his spine.
He helped her make dinner at least three times a week and her grandmother loved him. She would pass him worried looks  whenever her grandma barely touched her food, which was most nights, and he would fix the antenna on the television on the nights they tended to get a lot of static. He looked forward to these nights, more than anything else and though she would never admit it, he didn’t know how grateful Maya was for him coming. He made her nights less lonely.
One night, just after they had washed the dishes, they heard thunder rumble outside and in a few minutes there was a full out storm raging outside. They stood by the window and watched as lightning streaked the sky outside. He felt her turn her head to watch him and he met her gaze. She shrugged her shoulders and turned on her heel, heading for her room. How he knew that that was her way of giving him permission to stay the night? He wasn’t sure, but at some point they had begun to understand each other without the use of words. He stood still for a moment and eventually followed her into the room where she had already thrown a sheet and pillow on the floor for him. He told her that he could sleep on the couch but she just shook head, mumbling something about her grandma groaning in the night and he would never get any sleep on the couch.  
Later on, they lay in the dark, with him on the floor and Maya on her bed. They lay in silence and he listened to her breathing and thought of a lot of things. He thought of Riley, innocent Riley, who was probably sleeping and he felt guilty because she was so kind, and beautiful and loving and he didn’t deserve any of it as he lay on the floor of her best friend’s bedroom, her best friend who he was falling in love with one Spanish soap opera at a time. And then he thought of Maya, and everything she was, and how brightly she burned in this black and white life she did not deserve and how underneath the entire tough façade she put on at school she was just a girl trying to hold it all together the best that she could with a sick grandmother and an almost absent mother and he thought of how he so much wanted to give her a life she deserved.
He heard ruffling of sheets and then the thudding of feet landing on the floor and the next thing he knew she was lying next to him. There was absolutely no physical contact, and they both just lay there, staring at the ceiling and he could feel her warmth, so close to him, part of her hair, which was fanned out on the floor tickled his neck. He turned on his side to look at her and she mirrored him and they both lay staring at each other intently. He fell asleep  drowning in a sea of blue.
They didn’t talk about how the next morning they woke up wrapped up in each other, feet intertwined and his arms around her and her face in his neck. They didn’t talk about how they lay there for a few moments, without moving, even though they both were already awake and should have long detangled. Those things remained unspoken.
He could feel Riley beginning to suspect something. Innocent Riley who should not have to suspect these kinds of things. He wasn’t sure exactly what had made her aware of it, maybe it was the lingering glances between him and Maya in the cafeteria or the fact that Maya taunted him less and less these days or that he and Maya stood a little too close to each other by the lockers. She could feel her eyes on him at certain times, especially when they hung out together as a group and he couldn’t help but feel terrible. It wasn’t as if they had kissed or anything but he could feel Riley’s eyes burning into him and feared that she could see into his mind and see exactly what he was thinking. Maya, Maya, Maya.
He knew Maya could feel her suspicion too and they cut down his number of visits to once a week as much as he hated it. It wasn’t as if they were doing anything wrong even though, in reality they really were.
One afternoon, both him and Maya stood at Riley’s locker waiting for her to finish cheerleading practice. They had begun to laugh about something, something entirely stupid but it had him gasping for breath as he laughed and she bent over holding her stomach. They were a mess, even though whatever it was had not even been that funny. He steadied her from toppling over with laughter and she leaned against him heavily. Eventually they calmed down, leaning against the lockers with their shoulders pressed against each other. He looked at her, her hair an absolute mess and laughed, gently pushing a strand of her hair behind her ear and smoothing down the rest with his two hands. She smiled as he did this and suddenly there faces were so close to each other and he could feel her breath on his face  with the scent of peppermint and she was so close and so warm and……
He heard someone clearing their throat and there stood Riley, her hands clenched at her sides and they both straightened up. He hated being responsible for that look of hurt in her eyes. Maya looked down at her shoes and he felt sorry for her as well.  She had been trying so hard , all her life, to protect her friend from the hurt of the world and here she was, the person to hurt  her, sealed and delivered.
Him and Riley’s three year relationship ended that night over the phone with a lot of silence and sharp words from her side of the conversation. You would think after three years he would feel hurt and be mourning the loss if his girlfriend, but instead, he felt free. He called Maya but she did not answer the phone. He tried a few more times but it went straight to voicemail.
He thought that maybe she just felt bad about the entire Riley situation and that at school he would assure her that everything was alright and that Riley was not even that mad anyways, but for three days she didn’t show up to school and he felt a panic rise in him. He didn’t ask Riley because she still wasn’t talking to him and obviously Farkle, his supposed best friend was taking her side. She still would not pick up her phone and with nothing else to do he found himself walking towards her apartment after school. He knocked on her door loudly and anxiously. There was no response. Where was she? He knocked again and shook the handle only to find that the door was open. The pace of his heart increased rapidly and his palms began to sweat. Why was her door open and why did he suddenly feel so scared? He slowly pushed open the door and there she sat on the couch, in front of the television that blasted a Spanish soap opera. As familiar as this scenario was to him, he could not help but feel something was missing. Only then did he realize the empty rocking chair and the door to her grandmother’s room that was wide open showcasing  a stripped mattress and boxes on the floor for packing. Everything connected and his eyes fell back to her on the couch, knees drawn to her chest and unseeing eyes glued to the television. If he looked closely he could have seen that her hands trembled as they wrapped around her legs. He could see that she was trying desperately to hold herself together.  “Oh Maya,” he said and he dropped his book bag to the floor and made his way to the couch. He enveloped her into his arms and this time she didn’t tense but completely melted into him. She buried her face in his chest and he rested his chin on her head, smoothing his hand over her hair and she cried and shook and soaked his t-shirt with her tears. And in that moment he held her together.
He held her hand at the funeral and stayed with her at the grave until everyone else  left so she could say her goodbyes without the whole world to witness and just him, and he was not allowed to stay because he didn’t matter, but because he did. He took her for ice cream afterwards instead of them going back to the apartment to be surrounded by sad stories and the sickening smell of flowers. He tried to make her laugh and she appreciated  it even though the most she could muster was a bitter smile. They stood on the sidewalk outside the ice cream shop and he held her hand tightly and whispered to her that it was all going to be okay and she rested her head on his shoulder. Death sucked, but it sucked a little less when you had someone to hold onto.
The first time he kissed her, they were on her fire escape. They had started to sit there a lot now because watching Spanish soap operas just really was never the same anymore. He was telling her about the stars in Texas and how when you looked up at night you could see billions of them dotting the sky unlike the too bright city of New York that drowned out the night sky. They lay on their backs looking at the sky and he had challenged her that she probably could not even count twenty stars in New York’s night sky. Of course she had looked at him determinately and started to count, hell bent to find twenty-one stars, the one extra just to make him look like an ass. And of course she did count twenty one stars exactly and she raised her arms in triumph above her head and then turned to give him the most breathtaking smile he had ever seen. This smile met her eyes and lit up her entire face, and she was brighter than any Texas sky. He took her face in both his hands and kissed her.  She tasted like coffee and strawberries and Spanish soap operas and night skies and he loved her so much his heart hurt. She pulled away from him and looked at him, her eyes wide and questioning. He nodded his head in response to her unasked question and pulled her back in and his hands threaded through her sunshine hair. Her hands wrapped behind his neck and their bodies fit in  ways that was too perfect too describe.
He no longer had to wonder if her kisses were as electric as the thunderstorm in her eyes. They were. And she tasted like everything he could ever want and in her arms and lost in her lips, he knew;
He was home
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Hey if you're comfortable writing this sort of thing, could you do reactions for the reading getting hurt really bad? For Desmond, Ezio, Shaun, Connor and Shay please? X
Anon, this be my jam *cracks knuckles* Love stuff like this lmao. I will be having a great time writing this. Though, I’m not gonna lie, I feel like it’s missing something, but I can’t think of what it is for the life of me. Hope you enjoy it!
How the Assassins react to their S/O Getting Badly Injured
Ezio
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Being notorious is not very useful.
Neither is being ambushed by guards.
You’re both quickly overwhelmed, but it’s nothing you can’t handle, right?
Wrong.
You gather a bit of distance between you and your opponent, lining up for a shot, but they get there first.
A ringing shot echoes through the street.
Your body crumples to the floor before the sound dies away. 
Although Ezio notices straight away, he doesn’t allow himself to get distracted. 
He can’t afford to.
His face contorts into focused anger, because how dare they?
He deals with the threat quickly.
Before the last guard could hit the floor, he’s by your side.
The bullet is lodged in your side, and it’s agony to move. 
“Stay with me, tesoro.”
He pulls off his cape and presses it against the wound.
On the outside, he’s relatively calm; he’s learned to deal with these situations with his brain rather than his heart. 
On the inside, however, he’s probably screaming.
“Can you walk?”
You tried, but ended up heaving more weight on him than was worth it.
He picked you up swiftly, and sprinted to the closest doctor.
As they treat your wound behind closed doors, he paces. 
He can hear the thrumming of his heart in his ears, and there’s a certain anxiety squeezing it that he just can’t shake. 
He doesn’t rest until he knows that you can make it through the night. 
Connor
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You were hunting with Connor when a twig snapped.
You turned, thinking it was game.
It wasn’t.
You never found out what it was, because as soon as you heard a ft, a pain began to blossom in your chest.
An arrow had pierced itself between your ribs, and you found yourself gasping laboured breaths against a tree. 
Not a man to react with words, Connor catches you before your knees give out, arms securely wrapping around you. 
He had no idea where it came from, but the threat had disappeared before he could notch his own arrow.
He breaks the wooden shaft, leaving the head inside you to prevent bleeding. 
“Don’t close your eyes, Y/N/N. Please stay awake for me.”
He’s frightened at the blood that drips from your lips as you cough. 
He holds you against him as he rides back to the Homestead, screaming for Achilles to help him as soon as he boots the door down.
He wants to help.
He needs to help.
Achilles makes it down the stairs in time for Connor to set you down on the table. 
“Achilles, what do I do?”
As he instructs, Connor gets to work.
He does everything Achilles says down to the letter.
As he treats you, he’s so focused that he doesn’t notice that his hands are shaking; furious small tremors that speak more than his words. 
Achilles notices, but doesn’t dwell on it.
There are a lot more important things to be thinking about.
Shay
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“Y/N-- can you hear me?”
He watched it all happen in slow motion; the rearing, the bucking, the gunshots, the fall...
Your legs were trapped under your dead mare, and your shoulder was engulfed in a pool of crimson blood.
“Jesus...”
“I’m... okay.”
Yeah, that sounded convincing.
He managed to shift the horse off of you enough to pull you out. 
He could feel your muscles quivering, and he tried to treat the wound as best he could. 
You leaned into him, relaxing into his chest a bit too much for his liking in a situation like this. 
He ripped the fabric covering your shoulder and held a cleaner cloth around it. 
He tried to stay calm as he watched the entire cloth turn red within a few seconds.
“Aye; you’re going to be just fine.”
Don’t be fooled; he’s freaking out.
He’s reassuring himself more than you.
Shaun
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(Ignore the subtitles lmao -- I just preferred Syndicate!Shaun and this one was the only one w/o Rebecca in it lmao)
All he sees is the one he loves fall to their knees.
“No, NO!”
He heaves you against him as blood leaks through your fingers. 
“Stay with me, Y/N/N, please.”
He puts pressure on the wound in the middle of your stomach. 
Your head begins to lull back, and his heart lurches. 
“Stay awake for me. Please.”
Desmond
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A gunshot went off, a pain blossomed in your stomach, and agony began to spread.
“Uh, Des?” You choked on blood, collapsing.
“Oh, shit!”
This man will vault over everything in his path if it means he can get to you within five seconds.
“Y/N, Y/N, hey, hey, hey...”
His hands come to cradle your face and tap your cheek, an attempt to bring you back to reality.
He lifts your upper body into his arms; he can feel his blood running cold when he gets little to no response. 
“Please stay with me, Y/N.” 
His hand covers a growing crimson circle in the middle of your torso.
You’re still breathing, but only just.
“Can I get some help over here?!” 
His voice cracked, panic slipping through.
He can barely breathe as you continue to drift in and out of consciousness. 
“Hey, it’s gonna be okay, you hear me? You’re gonna be fine...”
He’d argue that he was talking to you to keep you calm, but the truth is that he was really saying it to calm himself down.
If he says it enough times, it’ll be true.
“Please don’t leave me, Y/N/N.”
There will be tears. 
“Shaun! Rebecca?! I need some help here now!”
He gets you out of there eventually, but he’s worried that he’s too late.
(Insert time skip here)
“Desmond, you need to get some rest. You’ve been here for days.”
“Not yet.”
“This is a hospital; nothing’s going to--”
“Not. Yet.”
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