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flyingovertheandes · 4 years

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Eight Days | Epilogue | Frankie “Catfish” Morales x GenderNeutral!Reader

Frankie remembers how he ended up in bed with Ris.

TW: Drug Use, Cocaine, Allusions to Sex

Word Count: 435

A/N: This is the end! I am so grateful for everyone’s support on this series. It means so much to be able to bring this version of Frankie to life. I hope you have all enjoyed the ride. Please let me know if you’d be interested in more chapters of Frankie/Ris’s past! I’m somewhat considering a prequel-type follow up, but I want to know if that’s something you all want! Thank you again for reading. I love you all. <3

NOTE: Italics in this story signify memories, they are not in present time.

“Same ones as you, baby… all the same ones.” He lied.

He hated to lie to you, but what else was he supposed to do? Admit to you that he was reliving the eight most important days he’d spent with Ris? He never meant for her to be the last person he thought about before he died. He was just so angry at her… He blamed her for everything. She always managed to get him using again. Every single relapse could be traced back to her and her manipulation. And he hated her. He wanted her dead. In his final moments, that’s all he wished for. For her to be put through the same betrayal and hurt that she had caused him.

“Ris? Is that you under all that makeup?” Frankie joked as he slid between bodies to get close to her.

“Morales! Back for more, already? She half-smirked.

He laughed dryly.

“Actually, uhm- no. I was hoping you’d buy everything I have left off of me. I don’t want it anymore. I- I’m quitting.” He said, speaking somewhat loudly so she could hear him over the loud music in the small club.

“Are you kidding? Fuck that! You aren’t leaving here tonight until your little bag is empty, my friend.” She smiled.

“Ris… I-” He tried.

“C’mon, baby! Have a little fun! When’s the last time you got high?” She questioned.

“I don’t know…” He lied.

“Frankie! I know a liar when I see one! How long has it been?” She pried.

“A couple of months… okay? I’ve just been going through some stuff… Y/N...They- uhm- left me…” He admitted to his long time friend.

“Y/N? God, you still waste your time with them? Frankie! Forget about them! Tonight… you are going to have fun. I am going to remind you exactly what it’s like to have a good time.” Ris promised him.

His mouth felt dry as the anticipation lingered in the air. He knew there was no way out of this one.

Five lines later and he couldn’t remember how he had gotten to the club… Or how the two of them had gotten home for that matter. All he knew was that his lips were on hers in a mess of kisses as they began stripping each other in the dimly lit living room.

“Ris…” Frankie tried in between kisses.

“Shh, baby. Let me take care of you…” She kissed his neck and he groaned softly.

He knew he may not completely remember everything that was about to happen, but he knew it was going to change everything.

#frankie morales #frankie catfish morales #catfish triple frontier #triple frontier #frankie morales x reader #pedro pascal

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merrilark · 2 years

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TW for somewhat explicit description of murder and brain injury; Just rambling out a theory for Nineteen Eighty-Three regarding BJ...

I can’t know for sure until I finish Nineteen Eighty and Nineteen Eighty-Three, assuming the novels clarify it, but 1983, the film, implies that BJ has auditory hallucinations. I presume this is a result of the many, many traumatic events he’s gone through, but I also wonder if it could be in part Nineteen Seventy-Three’s allusion to BJ using cocaine or (and this is 100% speculation after reading Nineteen Eighty) legitimate brain damage.

In Nineteen Seventy-Seven, we learn Laws was involved in performing at least one fatal exorcism involving (for some godawful reason) driving a nail into a young woman’s skull; he was arrested for this prior to the events of the novels. Anyway, he performs a similar “exorcism” on Jack Whitehead in 1977, who comes to him willingly, and though it isn’t explicitly stated, I assume is killed by Laws as well.

It... appears? that this can be done without killing the person, though, assuming Jack isn’t so unreliable that he’d imagine a hole in Laws’ own head. So. My suspicion, and my fear, is that Laws has also performed this (non-fatally) on BJ sometime before 1983, and BJ’s sudden change in speech pattern between 1977 and 198x as well as the film’s mention of “voices” is actually brain damage rather than a trauma response. Which... I’m honestly not a huge fan of and I think it takes some interest away from BJ’s character? We’ll see.

My biggest hope is that Laws’ MO is explained and not just left to “oooOOOooOo psychopath priest!” because if done right, this could make him an extremely interesting villain. I just don’t want Peace to throw it away as doing evil for the sake of being evil like he kind of did with Eddie at the end of Nineteen Seventy-Three and Bob throughout Nineteen Seventy-Seven.

Aaaaanyyyway, this is neither here nor there. I won’t know ‘til I know, but in the meantime I’m screamin’! In a good, terrified, would-be-shoveling-popcorn-in-my-mouth-if-I-had-it way lol. For all I criticize Red Riding, the strength in this series really lies in its ability to keep you wondering what will happen next and how it unfolds. Thriller, indeed!

#bun blabbers #bun reads nineteen eighty #bun reads the red riding quartet

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