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horrorwomensource · 3 months
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Jennifer Rubin as Taryn White A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
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k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9 · 8 months
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𝔍𝔢𝔫𝔫𝔦𝔣𝔢𝔯 ℜ𝔲𝔟𝔦𝔫 𝔞𝔰 𝔗𝔞𝔯𝔶𝔫 𝔚𝔥𝔦𝔱𝔢 𝔦𝔫 𝔄 𝔑𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔪𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔬𝔫 𝔈𝔩𝔪 𝔖𝔱𝔯𝔢𝔢𝔱 Յ: 𝔇𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔪 𝔚𝔞𝔯𝔯𝔦𝔬𝔯𝔰 (յգՑԴ)
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poisonandpages · 11 months
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Hi, I'm Anna, I like recycling old memes and meeting other people who are into spooky things so I want to bring back that game that was going around a few years back: describe yourself with 4 horror characters. Here's mine;
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Please, respond with yours!
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White Oleander (2002)
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Everything about Jude Duarte screams WOC who has to get her sh-t done herself because we know that the princesses who get rescued aren’t us
And the same goes for Taryn by the way. Who starts out wanting to be a princess, then figuring out that that won’t happen for her, but she’ll game the system anyway.
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earthsbestdefnder · 11 months
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people that wear white to weddings….literally why
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screencapsus · 1 year
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Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)
Sinbad must deliver a prince transformed into a monkey to the lands of the Ademaspai to restore him to his human form in time for his coronation. On the way he must contend with the evil witch Zenobia, her son and their magic, and several nasty-looking Ray Harryhausen beasties.
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stardewtrait · 2 years
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Taryn and Serenity aged up so fast i only rly got two good screenshots of em as toddlers!
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doc-pickles · 5 months
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waking up in vegas | matthew tkachuk x hughes!sister (p. 1)
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summary: nothing can go wrong when you take a sibling trip to vegas with the tkachuks… right?
warnings: mentions of alcohol consumption, allusions to sex but no smut
a/n: this is a self indulgent fic that I might write a part two for 👀 enjoy!
xoxo
nina
The light shining through the windows is too bright, the hum of the AC is too loud. The blankets are too heavy, even the skin of your arms and legs feels too hot.
Yup. You’re hungover.
With a groan you push your face back into your pillow, trying to regulate your breathing as you fight back the urge to vomit. You don’t remember much from last night besides your brothers feeding you shots and dancing with Taryn. At some point, you’d lost Brady and Jack was heckling Luke for something you can’t recall. Quinn had been complaining about the music being too loud and Matthew… Well, you can’t quite place him in your memories of last night.
Your family had been close with the Tkachuks since you could remember. You’d spent summers, holidays, and everything in between with them. Quinn and Jack had always been attached at the hip with Brady and Matthew while you and your twin brother Luke had gravitated toward Taryn.
When your and Luke’s 21st birthday came around Matthew and Jack jumped at the opportunity to plan a trip to Vegas to celebrate the occasion, excited for the seven of you to run the town together.
Except now you feel like you’re dying. You roll over in bed, expecting to find Luke who you usually crawl into bed with when drunk. But the body next to yours is more muscular than Luke’s and the arm wrapped around you holds you tighter than your twin ever had.
“Moving too much,” the sleep heavy voice next to you sounds. “Come cuddle, you’re warm.”
You stomach drops as you realize you know exactly who’s in bed next to you.
“Oh fuck!”
Sitting up in a haze, you look down at none other than Matthew Tkachuk who’s curled tightly around your body.
Your naked body.
“Oh my god,” you shriek, which instantly wakes Matthew up as you begin to fully freak out. “Holy fucking shit!”
Matthew cracks his eyes open, looking over the situation before pressing his hands into his face, “I am so fucking dead.”
“You? What about me?!” you throw your hands out in exasperation and spy something glittering on your left hand. “Oh my god…”
You turn your hand over to reveal a large diamond ring shining in the morning sun. Without thinking you grab Matthew’s arm, a matching silver band adorning his left hand.
“Did we get married?!”
At your words Matthew sits up, eyes surveying the hotel room. Your own follow his path, taking in the white dress and suit on the floor along with a bouquet of flowers, pizza boxes, and empty champagne bottles.
“Oh my god! Matty what the fuck!”
There’s suddenly a pounding on your hotel door and you can hear voices on the other side.
“I swear I’ll break this door down,” Quinn threatens as he calls your name. “Open up or I’m calling mom!”
Matthews face pales and you quickly scramble to grab a hotel robe before sticking your head into the hallway.
“Hey Quinny,” you grin, ignoring the furious look on your oldest brother's face and trying to tamp down your own nerves. “What’s up?”
“Oh nothing, just a beautiful day where my sister decided to get married instead of doing something responsible like going to bed last night,” Quinn deadpans as he glares at you from the doorway, Jack at his side wearing a smirk. “I just came down here to warn you that Luke is probably going to murder whoever’s in your bed right now.”
“About that…” you groan as you press your forehead to the cold wood of the door. “Hubby, are you decent enough for me to let my brothers in?”
Instead of a response a pillow hits your back and you take that as a sign from Matthew to open the door. When your brothers walk in Quinn groans and Jack begins to laugh hysterically until you glare at him and he shuts up.
“I can’t believe you eloped with Matty,” Quinn runs his hand over his face and heaves a sigh. “Jack, I told you this trip was a bad idea.”
“And where were you when the eloping was happening,” you ask as you sit on the edge of the bed. Matthew’s hand rests gently on your back and for some reason the motion is comforting. “I distinctly remember Jack and Taryn encouraging us to go to the chapel.”
“And you listened?!” Quinn screeches.
“And Luke was making out with the cocktail waitress,” Matthew supplies. As soon as he says it you have a vivid image in your head of Luke and a bottle blonde waitress sucking each others faces off. “Brady went back early to call Emma. So that leaves you Quinn.”
Quinn rolls his eyes, “Oh my god. You’re not pinning this on me. It is not my fault you two decided to get hitched because you’d had five too many margaritas and decided to listen to Taryn and Jack for advice.”
You open your mouth to respond but the door bursts open and Luke is now standing in the middle of the room with an angry expression as he takes in the sight of you and Matthew sitting together on the hotel bed.
“Luke-“
“I leave you unattended for half an hour last night and you wake up married?!”
“I wasn’t the one making out with the cocktail waitress all night,” you retort and Luke crosses his arms.
“You cannot seriously be comparing the two instances,” Luke huffs as he steps forward. “Move so I can punch Matthew.”
At your brothers words Matthew grips your shoulders and attempts to use you as a human shield. “You’ll have to get through my wife first.”
Luke, Jack, and Quinn all started yelling at that point, Matthew ducking behind you as they continued to argue.
“Enough!,” you shouted over your brothers. “This is a non issue, I’ll just get the marriage annulled and we can all pretend like it never happened.”
Jack scoffs, “Yeah tell that to Taryn’s camera roll. Pretty sure she’s planning on making you a wedding album for Christmas.”
Luke begins to protest again but you cut him off, “Non issue! Now get out so I can shower and contemplate my life choices in peace.”
Quinn and Jack make a show of grumbling and complaining on their way out the door while Luke stares you and Matthew down, “I swear to god Tkachuk if you find a way to fuck this up even more, so help me.”
“Goodbye Luke,” you wave at him and finally the room is clear. You heave a breath and turn to Matthew who’s grinning. “What?”
“If we’re still technically married does that mean we can have guilt free sex,” Matthew asks with a smirk, his fingers pushing down the top of your robe to show off the purple hickeys on your neck. “Because it looks like we already consummated the marriage.”
You groan, pushing off Matthew as you head to the bathroom, “In your dreams Tkachuk.”
“Trust me Mrs. Tkachuk I’m gonna have the sweetest dreams about you.”
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k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9 · 8 months
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𝔄 𝔑𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔪𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔬𝔫 𝔈𝔩𝔪 𝔖𝔱𝔯𝔢𝔢𝔱 Յ: 𝔇𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔪 𝔚𝔞𝔯𝔯𝔦𝔬𝔯𝔰 (յգՑԴ) 𝔡𝔦𝔯𝔢𝔠𝔱𝔢𝔡 𝔟𝔶 ℭ𝔥𝔲𝔠𝔨 ℜ𝔲𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔩𝔩
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happilysmythe · 2 months
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❥ 𝙩𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚
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trent frederic.
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"she can get a taste" — tyga
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ALLISON
Trent Frederic.
Only the most annoying neighbor someone could possibly have. His snarky personality, his cocky demeanor, his massive ego…wildly unpleasant, to put it plainly. 
I only know him because of Brady—my best friend. He has been since we were kids. I went to school with him for years, so it was only natural that we ended up gravitating toward one another. Not to mention we lived only one street away from each other. 
When I started to go over to his house, I met his older brother, Matthew. I ended up becoming closer with him over the years, as well as their younger sister, Taryn. 
Trent was friends with Matthew. They were only a year older than me and Brady, but Trent just loved to act like I was so much younger. He was usually at their house whenever I was, so I had the displeasure of seeing him more often than I would’ve liked to.
He’s the only person I know who calls me “Al”. And boy, do I hate it. I’ve told him countless times that I despise it, but he refuses to call me anything else. He knows it pisses me off—that’s why he does it.
In 2016, Matthew and Trent got drafted into the NHL. I was upset at the time about Matthew leaving—as I said, we had gotten close—but I felt a sense of relief that Trent would eventually be all the way out in Boston after college. I would barely have to see him anymore.
Then, Brady got drafted in 2018, and it was just me and Taryn. 
Every year, the Tkachuks would host this big party and invite a bunch of people for Christmas. It was always fun for us, especially as kids. For a few years after the kids got drafted, they would continue the tradition. It’s gotten harder for them, though, and they eventually stopped doing it as a whole.
This year, they did something different. It would just be the kids—Matthew, Brady, Taryn, me, a few other friends…and Trent. I’d be seeing him for the first time in a few years. 
Great.
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I walked up to the front door and rang the doorbell, then waited for an answer. Not long after, it swung open, and a familiar face stood before me.
“Allison White,” his voice rang from the other side of the doorway. “As I live and breathe.”
He looked…different.
His hair was longer; curlier than it used to be. It was gelled up slightly and a loose strand hung in front of his forehead. He was wearing a suit—a light blue blazer with black pants, and a white collared shirt under it. His tie was red with white polka dots, and a brown belt sat at his waist.
His arms were…bigger. And a thick, titanium ring wrapped snugly around his right index finger.
But his face was the same. It always has been.
“Trent Frederic,” I sighed, folding my arms. “What a pleasure it is to see you again.”
He chuckled and stepped aside. “Come in before I lock you out.”
“Alright, alright.”
I walked past him, my arm brushing against his, then slipped off my jacket and hung it on the coat rack. I flattened my hands over my dress, smoothing it out before turning back around. Upon turning back, I found Trent standing still, his eyes fixated on me. A few moments passed before he looked back up, snapping out of his state, and spoke.
“Come on, Al.”
“Really?” I rolled my eyes, “I told you to stop calling me that. It makes me sound like a guy.”
“Oh no,” he pouted, taking a step forward, his back facing me as he walked away. Completely disregarding my complaint, he shouted, “Al’s here!” to the rest of the bunch and I shook my head, following behind him.
After walking inside, I greeted the others, some of whom I hadn’t seen in a long while. Eventually, the group sectioned off, and I ended up sitting at the kitchen island with Taryn and a few friends, just talking and having drinks. Trent went off with Matt, which wasn’t surprising, but he found a way to keep coming over and bothering me like he always did.
He pushed past me—roughly, at that—as he came into the kitchen to grab another drink.
“Do you mind?”
He turned around, a smug grin shaping his lips. “Me? Not at all,” he winked, then pushed me again as he walked out.
“Isn’t he cute?” one of Taryn’s friends asked, looking at me. “I wish that was me.”
“Hell no,” I shook my head. “He’s a dick. Trust me—no you don’t.”
“Man, I don’t care. Have you seen him? I would let him do whatever he wants to m—”
“Oh my God,” Taryn cut her off, “shut up!”
I laughed, picking up my glass and bringing it to my mouth once more to take a sip. She wasn’t wrong—Trent was good-looking, sure—but he was nothing more than an ass. It wasn’t often that a guy was more irritating than him.
I looked up to see Matt and Trent separating from the rest of their group and wondered where they were off to. But the thought ended up leaving my mind as quickly as it came. 
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TRENT
Matt didn’t say anything when he wanted me pulled aside. He just elbowed my arm and nodded his head to motion me out. I stood up and followed him into an empty bedroom down the hall. I crossed my arms as he shut the door behind him, then walked over.
“What’s this about?”
“Listen, man, I’ve gotta talk to you about something,” he spoke, folding his arms as well. “It’s about Allison.”
I was confused when he mentioned her name. There wasn’t much to talk about when it came to her, other than the fact that the two of us never got along. It wasn’t exactly shocking, either. I only knew her in the first place because she was friends with Brady, and she was always over their house. It was like I was forced to see her no matter what. Our personalities clashed, anyway. She’s not all that different from me, so it came to nobody’s surprise that we wouldn’t exactly be fond of each other.
I rolled my eyes and sighed heavily. “What about her?”
“Before I say anything, you need to know that I was in the same boat as you before, alright? I didn’t believe it, either.”
“Believe what?”
He took a breath. “Allison’s got the hots for you, man.”
The laugh that came out of my mouth was almost instantaneous. Allison? Please. She’d rather throw herself into oncoming traffic than see me. And sometimes, I could say the same for her. 
“Good one,” I said, patting him on the shoulder. “Seriously. You almost had me interested for a minute there.”
His expression fell flat with his voice. “I’m not kidding, Fred,” he said. “Taryn’s been talkin’ to me. She’s been telling me about how she mentions you constantly, how she’s all of a sudden taken an interest in the Bruins, all of this crazy shit. I’ve seen her more than you have recently and I’ve noticed it, too. I know you probably think we’re wrong, but even a bat can see it.”
“Oh, come on, dude. There’s no way that you actually believe that bullshit. None of that is even proof, you’re just talking out of your ass.” 
There’s no fucking way that they’re right. She just roped him in with nothing to prove it but some speculations and he went with it. If she really felt that way I would’ve known it by now. And it wouldn’t just be Matt and Taryn suspecting it.
“She was watching your games, man,” he said, nodding his head. “She saw it with her own eyes. She went to her house to grab something and she could literally see the game on her TV in the back.”
“I don’t buy it. Just stop trying.”
“Whatever, man,” he sighed. “I just wanted to tell you in case you wanted to do something about it.”
“I’m not going to,” I told him, walking toward the door. “Nice talk.” I walked out of the room and back into the living room, then sat down.
I kept thinking about what Matt told me, though. She always hated me, I always hated her—that’s how it was supposed to be. That’s what it was. It was never anything more than that, and it wasn’t going to be. I continued to tell myself that he was wrong, even as the thought of him being right began to plague my thoughts.
He was wrong, even though she was caught watching games. He was wrong, even though she apparently would always talk about me. He was wrong, even when I would look over and catch a glimpse of her looking my way, then turn back around as if she was never looking at all. He was wrong. That’s what I had to keep telling myself. Keep convincing myself.
But even I didn’t buy it anymore.
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The rest of the night sort of happened in a blur. Matt’s words hadn’t stopped echoing inside of my head, toying with my thoughts since he said them. They only hit me more and more as time progressed, until I was convinced that he really was right the whole time.
So I started to watch her. 
It wasn’t often that I would pay attention to her body language—or anything about her, really—but tonight was different. She seemed to tense up when I was around, which would happen years ago, but it makes a little bit more sense if any indication of attraction comes into play. The looks I found her catching, more than once. The way it seemed as though she was trying to avoid me, trying to avoid even making eye contact with me. The simple shit like that just wouldn’t leave my mind, no matter how fucking hard I tried to make it. 
And with paying attention to her came intruding thoughts of my own. 
Like the way that the black dress she was wearing molded tightly to her body. Or the way that her hair fell down to her collarbones, framing her chest. Or how her legs were completely exposed, leaving me to wonder what they’d feel like wrapped around me.
“Are you listening?”
The sound of Matt’s voice took me out of my thoughts, prompting me to look away from Al and back at him. “Huh?”
“I said,” he leaned in closer, “why don’t you walk Allison home?”
“Absolutely fucking not,” she protested, folding her arms. She shook her head, “I would rather walk home with a gorilla.”
I pouted and brought my hand to my chest. “Aww. That might be the nicest thing you’ve ever said to me, Al.”
She rolled her eyes and turned back to Matt. “No chance in hell.”
“Oh, come on,” Taryn chimed in. “It’s cold out! Then you don’t have to walk home alone! And it’s nightime. That would be awfully inconsiderate to make her walk alone, Trent.”
“Yeah, I’m with Al on this one. I’m all set.” I turned to her. “You’ll be fine, right?”
“Yup,” she confirmed, nodding her head. “I’ll be fine.”
“Mmm…I don’t know,” Taryn shrugged. “Sounds pretty unsure to me, doesn’t she?”
“You cannot be serious,” Allison exclaimed, then frantically looked around, stopping once she was facing the remaining group of people on the couch. “Brady!”
“Huh?” He whipped his head around. “What?”
“Can you please tell them to stop pestering me about this?”
“About wh—huh?”
Matthew sighed and rolled his eyes. “Y’know, that thing we were talking about earlier?”
“Ohhh,” he nodded slowly. “Just let him walk you, Allison. They aren’t gonna give up.” He turned back around and kept talking to the other guys near him.
“You know what? Fine,” I sighed. “I’ll do it.” I walked over to the corner of the room and grabbed my coat from the rack on the wall, then slipped my arms into the sleeves. “Come on, Al. Let’s just get this over with.”
She sighed as well and grabbed her jacket, then put it on and put her hands in her pockets. “Alright.”
“Thanks for having me,” she spoke as she hugged Matthew, then Taryn. She walked over to Brady and did the same with him. “It was really nice to have everyone here again.”
“Anytime,” Matt replied with a smile. “I’m sure it won’t be the last.” He looked over at me, a cheeky grin plastered on his face, then winked.
“Mhm,” I nodded sharply. “I’m sure. But it was nice, I agree. Thanks, guys.”
“We’ll see you again soon, yeah?” he asked as I walked to the door and opened it.
“Yeah.” I held the door open with my back and watched as she brushed past me, waving as she walked out. “See you guys.”
I shut the door behind me and caught up with Al, who was now waiting by the sidewalk. “You know you don’t have to come with me, right?”
“I do. They’re gonna watch through the window, I swear,” I said, walking beside her. “Better off just going with you and saving a useless argument.”
“I guess,” she shrugged. Her arms were folded as she slowly walked down the sidewalk.
“How have you been?”
She rolled her eyes. “If you actually cared how I’ve been you would’ve come up and talked to me tonight. You’ve had the whole night to do it.”
“Would you just answer the question?”
With a sigh, she replied, “I’ve been fine. There. Happy?”
“Yes.”
The rest of the walk was mostly silent. She didn’t want to talk to me—which was nothing out of the ordinary—so I just kept quiet. But the thoughts from earlier were still swirling through my mind. This could be the last time I see her for a while…So I decided to throw it out there. 
“Hey, Al?”
She rummaged through her bag for her keys. “What?”
“So…Matt was talking to me before.”
“Oh, was he now?” she breathed. “I know. I saw.”
“He told me you have the hots for me.”
She stopped dead before the key could even reach the hole, then turned to face me. “What?”
“I didn’t believe him at first. I told him that you hated me.”
“Yeah. I do,” she angrily replied. “Wait—at first?”
“Yeah, well…He started getting to me,” I told her, folding my arms. “He told me things that got me thinking, you know? Even Taryn believes it.”
“Are you kidding me?”
“You were watching my games.”
“You’re fucking insane. I don’t have feelings for you, Trent. So don’t flatter yourself.” She stuck the key in and turned it. “He’s lying.”
“I don’t really think he is,” I argued. “He seemed pretty sure about it. I can tell when he’s lying or when he’s unsure. He wasn’t.”
“Fuck’s sake, Trent, that doesn’t mean he’s right!”
She walked inside to hang up her jacket and I stepped in, propping the door open with my hand. “If he’s so wrong then what’s with you getting all fucking defensive?”
She slammed her purse down on the kitchen counter. “God, do you ever shut up?! I can’t catch a goddamn break with you no matter what, can I?”
“Well, excuse me, princess. Apparently, I’m not allowed to ask you a question.”
“You’re such an asshole,” she shook her head. “I don’t know why I ever—” She fell silent.
“Ever what?”
“Never mind.”
I scoffed. “Seriously? You’re just gonna pretend like you didn’t say anything?”
She chose to ignore me instead of speaking. Silently, she grabbed her bag and put it down on the floor.
“Of course. Now you’re just gonna ignore me.”
She quickly whipped back around to face me and raised her voice. “Fine! You know what, Trent? Fine,” she yelled. “You were right. I have ‘the hots’ for you. I want you. You fucking happy?”
I took a breath as the words angrily came from her mouth. She finally admitted to the one thing I couldn’t stop thinking about the whole night, and yet I was still dissatisfied. 
“Why didn’t you say anything?”
“Why do you care, Trent? You hate me, remember? And I hate you,” she rebutted. “That’s what this is. That’s what it always was. We’re not close, and we never have been.”
I ran a hand through my hair and scoffed. “So after I left you just kept hating me anyway?”
“Oh, my God,” she raised her voice again. “No, Trent! I didn’t keep fucking hating you!”
“So what, you were pretending?”
God, she was infuriating. So fucking infuriating. But even as I stood there impatiently waiting for an answer I couldn’t stop myself from thinking the same thoughts from earlier.
She was hot when she was angry.
But she didn’t give an answer. She didn’t have to. Because I already knew it.
“Why? What kind of sense does that even make?!”
“Because it was much easier for me to keep hating you than for me to let myself fucking miss you, Trent!”
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ALLISON
Before I could say anything else, he walked toward me and pushed his lips to mine. 
I didn’t hesitate. I couldn’t. It was nearly impossible when his hand was on my face the way that it was, forcefully pulling me toward him. His other hand was on my waist, gripping it tightly as he kissed me.
I hated how quickly I gave in to him, how my body just seemed to fold without as much as an attempt to resist. My hand reached up and tangled in his hair as the other wrapped around his midsection and kept him close.
A low groan fell from his lips and hummed against mine as I took a handful of his hair and tugged on it. God, it was hot. He was hot. And I wish he didn’t taste so fucking good.
He tore his mouth from mine and moved it to my jaw, trailing kisses up to my ear and down my neck. Heavy breaths escaped my parted lips as the hand he had on my waist tightened its grip. 
I felt his hand slide up my back, fingertips grazing the skin that was left exposed between the thin straps of my dress. The feeling of his fingers on my back, paired with his lips as they once again pressed against mine, elicited another moan from me. 
Fuck him for listening to Matt. Fuck him for telling me about it. Fuck him for forcing me to admit how I felt.
And fuck him for making me want to do just that.
My hands moved to the zipper on his jacket and quickly pulled it down. He responded to the action and shrugged the sleeves down his arms, then shook it off and tossed it to the floor. A gasp left my lips as he grabbed my waist and walked me backwards, his eyes already having spotted the bed in the room down the hall. 
The door slammed behind him and I soon found myself pinned to the wall with Trent’s hand firmly gripping my throat. He leaned down to kiss me again and his tongue brushed against my lips. I allowed it through without a second thought and the muscles in his hand tightened around my neck. 
“Trent,” I breathed shakily. “Fuck.”
I felt him grin slightly against me and soon his free hand was on my shoulder, pushing the strap on my dress down my arm. I managed to shrug the other one off without his help and it wasn’t long before I felt him violently tugging the fabric down my body, enough for it to slip off and pool at my feet on the floor. It was almost ironic that I hadn’t worn a bra.
He hungrily eyed my figure and swallowed thickly. The warm skin of his hands grazed the exposed skin of my thigh as it trailed upward and I moaned again softly at the touch.
“Thought you hated me, hm?”
He slowly removed his hand from my neck and moved it under my chin, using a finger to tilt it up. The way that his eyes slightly narrowed and his lips faintly curved into a smirk as he looked down at me rendered me nearly speechless.
“I do,” I breathed heavily as his eyes bored into mine. “God, I hate you.”
“I’m not too fond of you either.” He pressed another soft kiss to my lips. “But you already knew that.”
My fingers curled around the lapels of his blazer and peeled it from his arms, revealing the tightness of the collared shirt under it. The fabric looked as if it was begging to be loosened, to be removed from his body. Or maybe it was just my own head that wanted that to happen.
His eyes never broke contact with mine as he reached up and loosened his tie, then pulled the red fabric from his neck and threw it down with his suit jacket. 
When he kissed me again my hand reached for his shirt and untucked it from his trousers, then slipped under it and slid up, stopping at his chest and staying firm in its spot. No matter how much I hated him—or at least claimed to—there was no denying the fact that I couldn’t resist him. He was so fucking hot. And God, it felt so good being pushed against the wall by him and his goddamned frame. 
His head craned to the side and aligned with my neck once more as he kissed it, leaving marks in his path. My hand maintained its place on his chest, rubbing it up and down while he coaxed more groans from my lips. 
I slipped my arm out of his shirt and brought my free hand up to the collar. It didn’t take long for him to notice what I was trying to do, and he pulled back to allow me to unbutton it. Slowly, I worked my way down, and I was able to feel his burning stare as I looked down at my hands. I gulped as I reached the last button; the shirt finally fell open, revealing the toned stomach underneath. 
A chain hung from his neck, which was once covered by the suit. The tag on the chain sat in the valley of his chest, highlighting its definition and heightening my desire even more.
“Holy shit,” I muttered under my breath. It wasn’t the first time I’d ever seen him shirtless—that came with being around him so damn much. But it was the first time I had in years, and that meant that it wasn’t the same as it used to be. And boy, was it fucking different.
I pushed the sleeves down his arms, my eyes staying focused on his upper half and barely noticing the fabric as it hit the ground. My fingers wrapped around his biceps and my hands moved up and down slowly, feeling the warmth of his skin under my palms. “God, you’re big.”
“Yeah?” he asked and I nodded in response. “I know.”
“You haven’t changed at all, have you?” I shook my head. “Still the same asshole. And still so damn full of yourself.”
He didn’t come up with a witty reply. Instead, he just kept looking down at me with that filthy grin plastered on his face and I shook my head. “Yeah. That’s what I thought.”
He rolled his eyes and sighed. “God, do you ever shut up?”
He reached up and grabbed the back of my head, then pulled me in, forcefully shoving his lips to mine again. By now, it was too late to back out—I already knew what I’d gotten into. No matter how irritating, how rude, how self-centered and dickless he acted, I wanted him. I wanted to keep feeling his hands all over me. To keep feeling his mouth on mine.
To fuck him.
And besides, how could I possibly have backed out when I was standing half-naked between him and the wall?
He moaned into my mouth as my hands roamed his bare back, feeling the hardness of his muscles for myself. The sound was admittedly gorgeous, and I knew it wasn’t hard for him to tell that I thought so when I felt that shit-eating grin spread across his lips against my own. So fucking cocky.
His hand moved downward and I felt his thumb pressing into the soft skin of my inner thigh as he grabbed it. He lifted my leg up in a silent demand to wrap my leg around his waist and I obliged, doing just that almost immediately. 
I reached down between us and began to unbuckle his belt. It wasn’t exactly easy to get a firm hold on it while his hand slid up my thigh and rubbed it up and down, effectively distracting me and diverting my attention elsewhere. I finally was able to loosen it and pull it from his waist, but before I knew it his hands were under my legs, lifting me off of the floor. 
The leather belt fell to the ground as I wrapped my arms around his neck, still kissing him fervently as ever. He laid me on my back, allowing me to slide up to the pillow and lie flat as he hovered over me. His eyes looked me up and down and he finally spoke, his voice in a rasp.
“God, Allison, you’re so hot.”
My eyes widened at the use of my full name. In all the time I’d known him he’d never done that. Not even in the times that we would get along. Fuck, I wanted him to do it again.
As he lowered himself down, his hand slipped between my legs, his fingers finally making contact with the damp surface of my underwear. He pushed the fabric aside with his fingers and slowly teased the now exposed area with them, dragging them up and down slowly.
“For someone that hates me so much,” he spoke with a low voice, “you’re pretty damn wet.”
Before I could reply, his finger was inside of me, moving at a torturously slow pace, as if he was barely moving it at all. And it was then that I remembered he had that godforsaken ring on; the cold touch of the metal hitting my skin was the reminder.
“If I didn’t know any better, I’d say that you wanted to fuck me.” A second finger joined the first as he kept up the crawling pace. “Don’t you think so, Allison?”
A faint moan fell from my lips and I nodded my head, unable to form the words to answer his clearly rhetorical question.
“Mm. That’s what I thought.”
He sped up the pace slightly, but was still denying me the gratification that I desperately needed. I reached for his arms and tightly grasped them as he continued to move his fingers. And I thought that ring was hot before…
“Trent,” I breathed, swallowing hard afterward. “Shit.”
He leaned down and kissed me again, muffling my noises with his mouth as his tongue slipped past my lips and tangled with mine. With each movement of his fingers his pace quickened ever so slightly. And with those movements came moans that spilled from my mouth, mixed with his name, their only purpose being to fuel his ever-growing ego.
He knew I was close. He knew he brought me there himself. And because I knew Trent, I knew that there wasn’t a chance in hell that it would be that easy.
Slowly, he pulled his fingers back and eventually out of me. He flipped his hand over and gently grazed my skin with his knuckles, the ringed finger slightly sticking out from the rest. A quiet whimper left my mouth.
“You like that?”
Of course, I fucking liked it—it was obvious. He just wanted to hear me say it. Under any other circumstance, I wouldn’t have dared to give him that satisfaction, but I knew there would be no benefits to it at that moment. Slowly, I nodded, squirming in his grasp. “Yes.”
Then he took his hand away.
I groaned at the loss of contact. “What…what the hell?”
He let out a laugh and brought his hand up, then used the same motion of grazing my skin with his knuckles, this time on my cheek. “Problem?”
“You know my problem,” I replied through gritted teeth, still holding onto him.
“I’m not sure I do.” He moved his hand to my chest, then slowly slid it down to my stomach, but stopped just before he reached my waist, leaving me on edge again. “What is it that you want, hm? Use your words.”
“God, you’re such a prick.”
A grin spread across his face and he hooked his fingers in my underwear. He tutted and shook his head. “Is that how you ask?”
That did me in.
That filthy fucking attitude of his. As much as I hated to admit it, I was weak. It turned me on. I couldn’t take anymore of the incessant teasing, the way he was doing just about anything to delay my pleasure. To make me squirm. So I gave into him, because I had nothing else to lose.
“Finish what you started, Trent,” I breathed, then reached behind his head and pulled him down to me. 
I felt his lips on my neck again, but his fingers remained hooked in the fabric, still brushing against my skin. “You’re missing something.”
A soft moan left my lips again as I felt him flatten his hand under the fabric. It wasn’t hard to figure out what he wanted me to do, but now I was willing to.
“Please.”
The familiar sensation of his fingers—including the ringed one—filling me returned and I groaned as he pushed them in, grinning down at me like a bitch. 
He knew exactly how to move them, how to get me right where he wanted me without allowing me to protest. How to bring me to the edge and make me want
to beg for more. The mere thought of letting him control me like that normally wouldn’t dare to cross my mind, yet here he was, fingers deep inside of me, draining every last drop of strength from my body.
Finally my body gave in and let go, his name spilling breathlessly from my mouth as I fell from my high. He kept the movement of his fingers up, his lips trailing kisses down my jaw. My hand wrapped around his neck and my nails dug into his skin, causing him to suck air in through his teeth.
Once my body stilled, he slid his fingers out, then brought his hand up to his face. He parted his lips, and one by one he licked each finger clean, starting with his index. His eyes never left mine as he did so, and the sight of it was enough to bring me back to where I was before. He hummed as he reached the last finger and leaned in closer to me. 
“Shit,” I groaned. God, he was hot.
He chuckled to himself and brought his lips to my ear.  “Mmm.”
I squirmed in his grasp as he pressed a feather-light kiss to the skin of my ear, then moved to my chest and began kissing a path down to my stomach. He hovered for a moment before continuing down again. He pressed another soft kiss to the waistband of my underwear and he continued to leave more atop the fabric as he moved down.
“Anyone ever done this to you before?”
I nodded my head sharply, looking down at his head between my thighs. Of course, I’d been gone down on. I wasn’t as innocent as I might’ve led on. 
“Was it good?”
“No,” I quickly answered, shaking my head.
It was always the guys who claimed to be good that weren’t. And it wasn’t hard to distinguish the difference between good and bad when it came to that. It was just never great. But for some reason, I knew that he’d be the difference.
He nodded and used his fingers to slip the fabric down my legs, then moved back up and used his hands to pry my legs open. I felt his warm breath hitting my skin as he drew in closer, then his lips lightly touched the now exposed area.
God, was I right.
I’d never met a guy who could use his tongue like that. I didn’t even know where he learned to. 
All I did know was that the same infuriating person I was practically forced to grow up with now had his face buried between my thighs. And it felt so fucking good.
“Fuck, Trent,” I moaned as my hand snaked into his hair, grabbing a fistful and tugging slightly on it. 
A faint moan of appreciation left his mouth and his hands gently rubbed my thighs as his tongue flattened and put pressure down. He placed more feather-light kisses on my skin, sending chills through my body. His tongue parted my folds, sliding up and down slowly. As he moved, his nose grazed the surrounding skin and I moaned breathlessly at the feeling.
My hand pushed his head closer as my body desperately begged for more. My hips writhed against his face and he responded to my movements, squeezing my thighs and grinning against my skin. His lips closed in on my clit, his tongue circling around the flesh as he sucked gently. When he opened his mouth once more, his warm breath hit the wet skin and I groaned in anticipation.
If anyone ever asked me to name one thing Trent Frederic was good at, I never would’ve said giving head.
Until now.
My grip on his hair tightened and his hands slid up and around to my hips, then held them down firmly. My thighs closed, wrapping around his head from the removal of his hands. “Oh, God.”
No guy that I’d ever been with could make me as desperate as I was with him. I felt weaker than ever after giving into him so damn fast. I wanted to stop it—to push him the fuck away from me—but every nerve, every muscle, every bone in my body wanted to keep feeling him. I craved his touch, and there was no denying that fact. 
He kissed another path up toward my waist, stopping at my hips and breathing softly. 
“No, please,” I breathed, brushing his hair back with my hand.
But he already decided that he was going to stop. His lips disconnected from my skin and he sat up on his knees, looking directly down at me. His fingers reached for the zipper on his pants, pulling it down promptly and starting to slip them down his legs. I watched silently as he pulled them off, his underwear with them, and let them fall to the floor.
I gulped, my jaw clenched as my eyes caught sight of him. There was nothing left to separate us anymore. And I knew that we wouldn’t stay apart for much longer.
He pushed my legs apart and settled between them, breathing heavily as he looked down at me. Soon I felt the familiar pressure as he slowly slid the tip of his cock up and down my folds, the action prying a long, weak moan from my throat. I watched as his eyes began to close and he hissed, sucking air in through his teeth. 
“T…Trent,” I sighed, sliding my hands up to his shoulders. “Please.”
He kept moving it against me, depriving me of the gratification I desperately needed. I was already tense—close—and he was making it infinitely worse. The fingers of one hand extended slightly upward and held the back of his head as I took a shaky breath.
“Trent, please, I can’t,” I stuttered, swallowing thickly, “—can’t wait anymore.”
Finally, my pleads were answered as I felt the pressure of him pushing into me. Fuck, he felt incredible. He leaned forward, putting his arms on either side of my head to hold himself up enough to hover over me. I kept my hands where they were, gripping tightly as he found the right position.
He began to move, slowly at first, allowing me to adjust to him. Gradually he picked up speed, his breaths growing heavier as he thrust his hips into mine. Long, soft moans fell from my lips as he moved.
The tag on his chain hung in front of my face, dangling back and forth, taunting me. He noticed my eyes following its path and took it between his teeth, closing his eyes and taking a long breath afterward. He sucked in air, a low groan sounding from his throat after and I tightened my grip on him in response. 
“Oh, fuck,” I muttered, whimpering quietly as he lowered himself down toward me.
He opened his mouth and the tag fell. I felt the cold, condensated metal hit the skin of my collarbone as it landed. He moved his head to the side of mine, bringing his ringed hand up to my face and lowering his voice.
“Tell me, Allison,” he spoke quietly, his voice almost a rasp in my ear. His fingers rested below it, pulling my head toward him as his thumb pressed firmly into my cheek.
“Has anyone ever fucked you right?”
“Yes, but,” I slid my hands up and around to his back, my nails pressing into the skin. “Not like this…not in a long time.”
Almost every guy was the same—devoid of any passion whatsoever, just wanting a quick fuck; so why bother caring about how I feel? Selfish. All they did was take and had nothing to give.
But none of that was true with Trent.
He responded to me with a low chuckle and nodded his head teasingly. He continued to move against me, his breath warm on my neck. The distance between our bodies finally closed as he lowered his full weight down onto me, and a single arm wrapped around me, pulling me up to him by his flattened hand on my lower back. 
I leaned up and kissed him again, allowing his tongue to slip past my lips again and he groaned softly. What I would give to hear that sound over and over again. Shit, every time he does it I fold. 
“Fuck, Trent, I’m close.”
“I know,” he mumbled against my lips, taking a staggered breath. “I can feel it.”
His movements grew faster, driving me up the bed as I gripped him tightly, and it wasn’t long before I felt myself giving in and tightening around him. He hissed, sucking in a breath as I let out one of my own, the noise sounding as a moan of pleasure. His name spilled from my lips—more times than I’d like to admit—and I could feel him twitching inside, on the brink as well.
I reached up and scooped a handful of his hair into my hand, gripping it tight with my fingers. “Trent,” I swallowed, “please.”
Soon, he let out a heavy breath and warmth began to spread in my stomach, eliciting a deep sigh from my throat. The feeling of his release—the sensation of it coating my insides—was nothing short of incredible. I gripped him tighter, my body tense as his thrusts slowed.
“Fuck, Allison.”
The sound of my name flicked a switch in my brain, causing the relentless thoughts from before to resurface and whirl in my head. 
He fucked you, the voice inside screamed. You’re supposed to hate him, and you let him fuck you.
But I didn’t care anymore; I was too busy relishing in the feeling of it all—the feeling of him. The way he was prying unstable breaths from my mouth and leaving my body feeling oh, so pleased. 
And if that wasn’t enough to make me stop caring, maybe it was the burning feeling of him slowly dripping down my inner thigh.
After pulling himself out, his spent body remained atop mine, his chest visibly heaving above me as his head laid next to my own and his face found itself buried in my neck. He pressed a light kiss to the skin, then another, then a few more in the surrounding area. 
“I don’t hate you, Trent.”
The words came out soft—he needed to know I was being sincere. It was the first time I’d ever said it out loud, but I knew that I meant it. It wasn’t until he left St. Louis that I realized the truth.
It’s been a long time since I’ve hated him.
His head lifted and he kissed me gently as his hand rose up to cup my cheek. “I know.”
My hand was still in his hair as I rolled my eyes and shook my head, gently scratching his with my nails. I let out a chuckle and sighed.
“Asshole.”
“I’m not that bad and you know it,” he rebutted teasingly.
A smile tugged at my lips. “Fine,” I gave in, “you’re right.”
There was a brief moment of silence after that. I took the time to look at him. To admire him. His eyes, his nose, his faint little smile—all of the things I refused to get to know before, yet they already had familiarity to me. 
Before I could stop myself from saying another word, my mouth opened to speak.
“Stay with me.”
Without missing a beat, he nodded, then rolled off of me and faced me as he laid on his side. His arm snaked around my waist and pulled me in gently. By then, I’d already shifted onto my side as well, so my back pressed up against his chest once he pulled me in far enough.
“I wasn’t planning on going anywhere,” he finally spoke softly into my ear.
Another sense of warmth—this time from emotion—flooded my stomach. I giggled softly and smiled gently at the words.
It was then that I decided that I was going to stop worrying about what happened and just let myself enjoy it. Enjoy him. I left my distress to be dealt with in the morning. I was satisfied as long as I got to spend this moment with him, free of regret. So I relaxed into him and let my eyes flutter shut as he pressed a kiss to the side of my head.
“Night, Allison,” he practically whispered into my ear.
But even through all of tonight, something still felt off to me. And it didn’t take much longer for me to figure out what.
“Call me Al.” 
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brok3n · 2 months
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⭑ ˙₊⁺𓈒 ࣪LOOKING FOR DISCORD 1x1 PARTNERS⭒ ִֶָ˙ 𓈒˙₊⁺
hi there! i’m looking for some new rp partners to write with on discord. i tend to write in third person paragraphs and ask that my partner does the same. also, please be 18+. under the cut are a list of parings i’d like and the bolded characters are who i would play. like this if you are interested!
american horror story:
mallory / michael, kyle / zoe, & violet / tate.
anyone but you:
bea / ben.
bottoms:
hazel / pj, isabel / josie, & brittany / isabel.
boys, the:
annie / hughie, kimiko / frenchie, & becca / billy.
bridgerton:
anthony / kate, edwina / frederick, violet / edmund, charlotte / george, benedict / sophie, penelope / colin, eloise / sir philip, & eloise / theo.
caraval:
scarlett / julian, donatella / legend, & evangeline / jacks.
corpse bride:
emily / victor.
daisy jones and the six:
daisy / billy, camila / eddie, lisa / warren, & karen / graham.
dc:
dinah / helena, harley / ivy, harley / flag, selina / bruce, diana / steve, & raven / beast boy.
disney:
tink / peter pan, belle / beast, jasmine / aladdin, rapunzel / flynn, tiana / naveen, ariel / eric, & anna / kristoff.
five nights at freddy’s:
vanessa / mike, chica / foxy, & charlie / elizabeth.
folk of the air:
jude / cardan & taryn / locke.
grishaverse:
alina / darkling, shadow summoner oc / darkling, nina / matthias, kaz / inej, & nikolai / zoya.
invitation, the.
evie / walter.
knives out:
marta / ransom.
lisa frankenstein:
lisa / creature.
mean girls:
janis / regina & cady / aaron.
never have i ever.
ben / devi, trent / eleanor, aneesa / fabiola, & lindsay / paxton.
once upon a time:
emma / killian & august / ruby.
percy jackson and the olympians:
annabeth / percy, sally / poseidon, & thalia / luke.
ready or not:
grace / daniel.
red, white, and royal blue.
henry / alex.
rick and morty:
jessica / morty, unity / rick, beth / jerry, & tammy / summer.
scream:
chad / tara, danny / sam, ghost face oc / ethan.
teen wolf:
lydia / stiles & cora / isaac.
vampire diaries:
hope / landon, lizzie / landon, lizzie / mg.
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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (PART 7)
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You rushed down the hall barely making it into the kitchen, your hair a riot and your clothes unkept, you slid into the kitchen and out of breath, Taryn looked stressed his hair typically slicked back and neat, was pulled being pulled at and painful looking, as he paced around the kitchen. “There you are wilding-” he stops what he is doing to stare at you “WHAT ARE YOU DOING BEING SO UNCLEAN AND UNKEMPT” he shouted, as he tried to smooth over the damage he had done to his hair, he took deep breaths before he spoke. “Tie your hair back, tuck and smooth out your clothes, you are to serve the family tonight” Taryn says, taking another deep breath, as you do as instructed, Why were you need to serve the family tonight? You thought, as Taryn gripped the table the took up most of the space in the kitchen his knuckles white. “I swear to the Seven, If you make a fool of my staff and I-” he tilted his head down before he looked up at you, taking a deep breath, he looked more furious than you had ever seen it before “Just know there is no place in this realm I will not reach you” he said sliding a tray over to you. You nod wondering how you had ended up in this situation, you quickly gather the tray as you make your way up the stairs to the dinning room, you took a deep breath as you emerged from the shadows. As you carefully serve the Targaryen family, you don’t look up in fact you make a point to keep your head down as you serve the wine from your tray, then you hear it “Oh look brother it’s Byka genes” Aegon said trying to be quiet, you froze a little as you placed a goblet in front of Queen Alicent, your eyes flicking to where Aegon and Aemond sat. Only to find that Aemond’s eye was boring into you trying to understand your very soul, as he took a bite of some rich meat you would never have the luxury to taste, as you moved away from Alicent being careful not express anything other than calm and expressionless, you did not want to spend a night in the dungeons, you knew what happened if a guard took a liking to you. You carefully stood at the edges of the room Aegon and Aemond watching you like a hawk…well less like hawks, more like Aegon had found his new chew toy that he could use to anger his brother, while Aemond looked at like you hung the very moon and stars above, then you glanced around the room counting the servants, trying to figure out how and why you were sent in place of someone else. as you counted, you said the names of those you knew Nyra, Laina, Nysah and Arika- where was Arika, your eyes scanned the room it was not often you saw the pair without the other and if you did they were either going to be viscous or something had happened, when you looked to Nysah hoping to read her you found her glaring at you angrily like you had personally done something, your eyes flicked back to Aegon and Aemond both of whom were now arguing over something petty you’d assume, had they done something Arika? you pressed the tray tighter into your injured hands feeling the cotton become wet and if you had to guess it was with your blood and not sweat, what was Nysah going to do to me? You wondered, as you dropped your gaze, you counted the lucky god you were born under that she could not race across the room and hit you for the perceived reason you had offended her, but didn’t mean she couldn’t glare at your from where she stood. Your eyes darted between the three wondering what had happened… As the night drew to a close, you began to clean the table of the now many empty plates and the various empty goblets on the behalf of Aegon, your tray stacked high you made your way down the stairs to the kitchen only to trip and tumble your way down, the plates and goblets strewan every where but mostly on the stairs.
“listen here wilding, I did not spend weeks on my back and on my knees to sway Taryn into allowing Arika to serve the family during dinner” Nysah said as she appeared from a dark corner of the stairs, she grabbed your hair as she pulling you up to meet her face “Just for you to have spread your legs for the princes” she growled as she smashed your face into the stairs. you lifted your head to trying to look at her, but her foot found your cheek first pushing you back down “NO! You stay down little Wilding, stay there below us” she said, pressing her foot into your cheek harder, “Stay on your back and keep them spread like a good whore” She said gritting her teeth. You closed your eyes hoping if you placate her, she would leave you alone, she pushed her foot of your face, forcing your head to bounce into the stairs “Fucking wilding” she spat as she walked down the stairs away from you. You laid there for a short while, praying she didn’t come back and when she didn’t you sat up slowly resting against the wall, as your gently reached up and touched your head, feeling a little liquid pulling your hand away to discover that you were indeed bleeding, you sighed as then moved your hand to your cheek feeling a few scrapes and what felt like a bruise forming. I will have to send for Carth again.
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moaihybitoyoidaics · 1 year
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Some Things Never Change~ Jurdan
Jue and Cardan return to the Duarte family home to find a gift for Taryn's baby shower. A trip down memory lane leads them to reconnect with Jude's childhood best friend.
A chapter from The Captured King on wattpad (@ teddyhawkins thats me)
Word count: 2148
Jude's POV
The house still stood as it had the day I had left, almost identical to the pictures we had saved more than ten years before. Although now, instead of sun filled windows there were wooden boards, and the parallel-striped lawn was over grown. The door hung ajar, slightly off its hinges. I turned to look at Cardan, whose face was an indecipherable mask.
"Home sweet home." I muttered under my breath before heading up the cracked paving slabs. Running after me, Cardan's composure fell away a second later.
"Jude, are you sure we're okay to be here?" He asked quietly. "Are you sure nobody will be watching the house?"
I stopped just shy of the front door. "As far as this world is concerned, the Duarte family were massacred almost twelve years ago. No one is looking for us anymore, and no body is bothered about this house." I nudged the door open, groaning as it went. "There are things I should like to retrieve, if they're still here." "I'd follow you to the ends of the earth my dear, lead the way." He followed me inside, creeping as if he could somehow wake the ghosts that remained here.
The carpet was ripped up, presumably taken when the police came to investigate the murders. Still, though, a muddy brown stain remained and the floorboards in the vestibule. The sight turned my blood to ice and a cold sweat bead on my upper lip.
"Jude," Cardan tests, his hand grazing my shoulder blade. "What is it?"
I remembered the day Madoc took us, the day he made that stain. I remembered my white converse skidding in the blood, my legs too short to step entirely over it. "I- it's just hard. Being here, it makes it harder to pretend it all away. Let's just get what we came for and go."
I stepped over the stain and moved on through the house. In the lounge the TV was gone, the sofa was charred as if it had been set alight, soot crept up the wall behind it. On the chimney breast someone, probably an edgy teenager, had sprayed a pentagram, dripping and red. I moved on to the kitchen, noticing the notch in the door frame and another dirty brown patch on the floor. I looked out of the window, into the back garden. Our old swing set stood unused, the chains rusted orange, creaking gently in the autumn breeze. I turned to see Cardan sat on the breakfast bar.
"So this is a mortal kitchen."
"You've been to Vivi's apartment, you know what our kitchens look like."
"It's strange to think of you living here. Before all the... stuff happened." He spoke so softly, I could hardly hear him.
"It's stranger to be back." I left the kitchen and made my way upstairs. I had the best chance of finding what I came for up there. "You can wait here, if you want." I called back to him. He shook his head and jumped down off the island.
"No chance."
I pushed open the door I remembered to be mine. The sight sent another shiver through me. The room has been preserved, almost untouched. There drawers were still open, with the clothes we left behind. The bunk beds, made up with Peter Pan and pink floral sheets. "Mine was the bottom bunk, I used to be obsessed with Peter Pan. Sword fighting, pirates, fairies... I guess some things never change."
"Taryn had the flowers, I'm guessing."
"Like I said. Some things never change." I made my way over to our old bookshelves searching for my sister's favourite book. "Taryn would never like to admit this, but she always wanted to be a homemaker. My mom bought her this Tumtum and Nutmeg, I got the first Harry Potter book instead- which is also about magic-"
"I know, I've read them." Cardan said, surprising me out of my nostalgia.
"You've read them?" My mouth was agape, a shocked laugh at the back of my throat.
"The magic is somewhat rudimentary, I mean using wands? But I did cry in book seven." He seemed confused by my obvious shock.
"Okay, we'll discuss that on the way home. Anyway, I thought it would be nice to return her old copy, you know? For the baby shower." I shoved the book into my satchel and made my way towards the bedroom door. "Let's go."
He caught my arm. "Do you not want to stay? Take back some of your old things?"
"It's painful being here, with everything that happened here." For the first time, I realised how strong my husband was. "I do not know where you find the courage to sit in the burgh everyday, where your family was murdered. I am so sorry."
He shook his head. "You are my family. I don't need to dwell on that anymore."
We made our way out of the house, on the front lawn I took one final look at my old family home and sighed. "I can forget this now. I think I can do that." Cardan kissed me softly on my forehead and smiles.
"I think I saw some ragwort by the side of the house. I'll be right back."
I nodded and he turned and jogged away. I took the opportunity to look around the street I used to play on, the cracks in the asphalt, the weeds on the sidewalk, the girl across the street running out of her house...
"Jude?" I was startled out of my trance. "Jude Duarte?" She called.
"No, sorry." I panicked.
"Liar."
"You have the wrong perso-"
"So you're Taryn then?" I knew the girl. Or rather I used to know her, twelve years ago. A lot had changed since then. "I know it's you Jude."
"Jude Duarte is dead." I lied. "So is Taryn and so is Vivienne. They all died."
"Bullshit." She furrowed her brow and pursed her lips together.
Cardan strode around the corner, clutching a fistful of ragwort stalks, "Jude, are you ready to ride?" It was moments like that which made me remember why I used to hate him.
"Sorry, Jude Duarte is apparently dead." She called to him as she smirked at me. Cardan looked to me, visibly confused.
I sighed. "It's Rosie, right?" She grinned again and nodded. "Okay, Rosie, we were never here. "
"I knew he didn't kill you." She yelled. "I knew it! Everyone said I was crazy but I knew I saw him take you."
"Wait, you saw what happened?" Cardan asked. "You were there?"
"I called the police!" She continued to yell. "You left your bike at me house and I was returning it, I saw that guy take you. Sorry who is this guy?" She pointed to Cardan.
I turned to look at him and realised how strange this must've been for Rosie. Cardan, as beautiful as he was, did not look human. I had dressed him in sneakers and jeans but of course he hadn't concerned himself with disguising his pointed ears or his uncanny features, this was supposed to be a quick trip- in and out. Not to mention the fact that for all intents and purposes, to Rosie I was dead and had been for more than a decade. I looked back at Rosie and sighed.
"Would you like to come in? My folks aren't home, but I have some lemonade in the fridge." She asked sweetly. "I have some videos from when we were kids, if you want to see?"
There was a pang in my chest, a deep yearning to look back in time. But the thought of spending more time here with Rosie and seeing who I could have been coiled around that longing.
"We would love to." Cardan answered for me, taking my hand and following her across the street.
***
Rosie knelt next to an old VCR, feeding it an even older VHS tape. The label on the back of the cassette read Rosie and Duarte girls 2008. 2008? The year we were taken. The TV static dissipated and kicked into life, showing grainy footage of an orange summers day, brown lawns and tanned kids in shorts. The first few seconds of footage primarily consisted of Rosie's dad trying to figure out if the camera was on, that was until I heard a familiar voice; like something pulled from a forgotten dream.
"Mark, the red light is on. It's recording." The camera snapped up and I saw a man. The scruff of his beard and the chestnut brown of his eyes, the slight auburn of his hair catching in the August sun. I I grabbed Cardan's hand and squeezed.
"Jude?"
"That's... uh that was my dad." I said, lump catching in my throat. He squeezed my hand in return, his thumb rubbing gently circles against my skin.
I saw a girl, twin to my younger self sat on the grass with a young Rosie, pulling daisies from the grass and lacing them together, coronating each other with flower crowns. Taryn of course. Then of course there was Vivienne, a few years older than us but an eternity younger than I could recollect, sat under a shady tree. She wore the same disapproving then as she always had, as if she had never taken it off.
"I swear you're in this one Jude. Just wait a minute." Rosie mumbles, fast forwarding through what she must've thought was the most mundane memory, I didn't want to miss a thing. She pauses a rewinds it for a second. "You're going very fast, blink and you'll miss it."
For a moment, I didn't understand what she meant. Until I heard my father cheering and my mother screaming in horror. "Jude! Pull the brakes!"
There I was, a blur peddling faster than my little legs had ever gone before, or since for that matter. I flew down the street on my purple bike, which at the time I had insisted I was tall enough for, before crashing into my neighbours trash cans and flying over the handle bars. I landed in a heap on the floor, blood pouring out of my nose, my knees and elbows skinned and covered in gravel. The camera fell to the floor as Mark, Rosie's dad, ran over to me. My parents caught up a second later, picking me up and dusting me off. My mother fussed over me, pulling a Kleenex out of her pocket and dabbing my nose, but I pushed passed them and picked up my bike.
"I'm going again. I will jump over the trash cans." I couldn't help but laugh, some things never change.
***
We spent the afternoon and most of the evening in Rosie's living room, pouring over childhood memories. Cardan howled watching myself, Taryn and Rosie performing a dance routine to Wannabe by the Spice Girls, trying to convince our parents to let us have another sleepover.
"Jude still can't dance." He said, trying to catch his breath.
Rosie watched him cautiously, still unsure of what to make of him. "So, why did you never come home?" She asked tentatively. "I mean I always thought I saw you at the mall or in coffee houses or one time at a pool I think, so you I know you could come back but you never came home."
I thought about it for a moment before answering. "Where I've been, well where my sisters and I have been, is different. We had to change to survive. If you saw what I was truly like now you wouldn't have invited us in." Cardan watched me try to explain myself, engrossed. "Honestly, I am happy where I am. I made something of my life! But being here and seeing how things could've been for me... it makes me feel homesick but for life."
"Life sick?" She whispered.
"Exactly."
"I still have your bike." She grinned, sensing I didn't want to answer any more questions.
"Her what?" Cardan asked. I shot him a look that I hoped told him to shut up.
Rosie led me outside, she wandered into her garage and pulled out my purple bike, still scuffed with a flat tyre, but it was my bike.
"Take it home with you, wherever that is now. But come and visit us sometime, I want to prove to my folks that I'm not crazy."
I wheeled my bike up the driveway and out into the cool night air, turning back one final time to wave goodbye to my old friend. "Can you make her forget?" I whispered to Cardan.
"Why?"
"It'll be too hard to leave if she knows I'm still out there." I sighed. "There'll be questions, people will think she's lost the plot."
"No." He placed his hand on the small of my back. "You deserve to be remembered."
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