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intothedanvers-e · 6 years

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Unspoken

Word Count: 2.8k Pairing: Peter Parker x reader (Boy Meets World AU)

Summary: You’ve known Peter Parker since you were kids. You’ve gone through elementary school and middle school with him and his attached-at-the-hip best friend Ned Leeds. You and Peter always had an unspoken chemistry, you’d always considered him one of your best friends; but why did starting high school make you feel like there was something more there? Something the two of you felt like you couldn’t say out loud out of fear of shattering your friendship?

Author’s Note: i hope you all enjoy this chapter! sorry i posted it so late, ive had it written for a while but ive been busy all day so i hope you enjoy it! if you want to be part of a taglist lmk! comments and feedback are encouraged :)

Here’s my masterlist!

Prologue Part 1 Prologue Part 2 Prologue Part 3

Chapter 1

It was the last week of summer before you started your senior year, and luckily Mr. Stark also gave the four of you another summer internship. This time around he was letting you guys get more hands on, even letting you get one on one time to help him make improvements onto Peter’s Spiderman suit. You were working on something with Ned when Tony rushes down the stairs and called to you.

“Y/N your dad is on the phone.”

“My dad is at work why would he be calling me?”

“Don’t know maybe he wants to check in?”

“He knows I’m here and that I’m safe.”

“Y/N, go answer the phone will you?”

You finally looked up at him and caught on to his facial expressions. You set down your tools and rushed up the stairs. You saw Peter on the couch with an ice pack resting on his eye, squeezing a pillow to keep himself from screaming while Pepper tended to a wound on his abdomen.

“Peter are you ok?!” you said kneeling down next to him.

He was sweaty and clearly in pain, but smiled as soon as he saw you.

“You should see the other-HOLY SHIT!”

He instinctively grabbed your hand and squeezed it.

“You’re doing amazing bud,” Pepper said trying to smile at the injured boy.

He gave you a weak smile and tried wiping away at the sweat that was forming again on his forehead, but he didn’t let go of your hand.

“Tell her what happened Parker,” Tony said crossing his arms in front of him.

“Yeah tell me what happened Parker,” you said trying to smile empathetically.

“I was walking over to buy my regular sandwich at Mr. Delmar’s shop and I walked past a group of guys who were all talking about how that was the ‘next spot’ they were planning to ‘hit’ tonight when no one was around so I hid in the alley and suited up thinking they were trying to rob the shop.”

“Keep going.”

He closed his eyes and shook his head.

“Turns out…they were just repair men. One was actually Mr. Delmar’s cousin, and he didn’t want the repairs to take up business time so they had agreed to meet after he closed for the day.”

“Wait so how did all this happen?”

“Oh he’s not done,” Tony said taking a step closer to Peter.

“I thought it would be best to stop them before they could commit the crime you know? So I… “

“Peter you didn’t,” you said face palming onto your other hand.

“Oh he did.”

“They thought I was trying to rob them so they started hitting me with their equipment, who knew pipes were that strong? Anyway your dad rushed out and I tried to explain to him, which ended up in him explaining everything to me, and well you know.”

“Peter why’d you do that? You should’ve just called the police.”

“He did it because he’s a kid and still doesn’t fully understand when to ‘jump into action’. Seems like a painful way to learn this lesson kid.”

“He was doing the right thing Tony. He was protecting his neighborhood,” Pepper said taping gauze over his abdomen injury.

“No Pepper, this was not the right thing darling. There are things put into place to help prevent stuff like this, it shouldn’t have to fall on the shoulders of a 17-year-old kid!”

“But it does Mr. Stark I- “

“No Peter it doesn’t and it- “

“I’ve been going to that shop since I was a kid. I went to his baby shower, he asked me to be part of his daughters 15th birthday celebration, I know how much that shop means to him and his family. I refuse to let anything happen to the people in my neighborhood Mr. Stark, and when I have powers that can prevent the people I care about being hurt it does fall on my shoulders to protect them. I’m not complaining about it, but when you can do the things that I can, but you don't, and then the bad things happen, they happen because of you.”

Pepper put a blanket over Peter and rubbed Tony’s shoulder before walking out.

“We’re having a very serious discussion about this later kid,” Tony said before walking out behind Pepper.

“Y/N please don’t- “

“I’m not mad at you Peter,” you said giving his hand a reassuring squeeze.

He didn’t have to hold onto it anymore, but you didn’t want him to let go.

“You know I had to- “

“Peter, if I were you I would’ve done the same thing.”

He smiled up at you and readjusted the ice pack on his face.

“I’m just sorry that this had to happen to you,” you said looking down to gauze that was creating a slight bump under the blanket.

“It’s nothing really.”

“I’m glad you’re okay,” you said suddenly engulfing him in a hug.

He was a little caught off guard but quickly hugged you back. You could feel his body relaxing into the hug, and if you were honest so was yours. You cleared your throat and quickly stood up.

“So the suit needs more defense.”

“What?”

“It needs more defense mechanisms. It needs a way for you to take hits and not feel it as much.”

“That sounds so cool.”

“I can already think of a couple ideas that could work. I gotta go get my sketchbook.”

“Hey wait don’t leave me!”

“I’ll come back up you big baby,” you said before descending onto the stairs.

“Love youuuuu,” he yelled in a sing-songy tone.

You smiled as you climbed down the steps.

The day before your first day of senior year you spent it as a lazy day at home. Tony and Pepper left for a small vacation, MJ was having family from out of town visit, Ned was doing some research on the courses he was taking this year, and Peter was going to spend all day with May. Your dad was gone almost all day so you spent it cleaning the apartment and had now moved on to cleaning your room. You were cleaning out your notebooks from last year when you suddenly heard a tap on your window. You turned to look at the window, but ignored it and kept cleaning. Suddenly the window was pulled open and Peter was jumping in.

“That always scares the shit out of me you asshole! I told you to text me before you do that!” “I did! I got no reply!” he said throwing his backpack and webbing it to your wall.

You looked at him confused and looked around the room.

“You know what, I have no idea where my phone is so you’re right. Sorry bud.”

“You keep doing…that and I’ll call it and see if it rings.”

“It’s on vibrate,” you said giving him an innocent smile.

“Okay, well shush I can hear the vibrations remember?”

“You’re so useful,” you said trying to clean your desk drawers out as quiet as possible.

He called your phone, walking around your room to see if he could hear it vibrating. He walked up to your closet door.

“Did you clean your closet today?”

You thought for a second before nodding.

“I did!! And my dad called me while I was to let me know he was going to eat dinner with the Delmar’s, so I probably left it in there. Thanks Petey,” you said opening the closet and grabbing your phone off the shoe rack.

You threw the phone onto your bed and walked back over to your desk. Peter closed the closet door a little too hard and you heard something come slamming down.

You turned to look at him.

“What did you do?”

“Sometimes I forget that I’m a little too strong,” he said quietly as he sat on your bed.

You rolled your eyes and walked back over to the closet. You opened it and on the floor was your box, the lock had snapped and the stuff was all over your closet floor. You bent down to pick it up, and Peter felt bad so he came to help you.

“No it’s fine I got it.”

“No let me help I feel bad.”

“No Peter it’s fine you said you- “

“Does that envelope have my name on it?”

“No! I just need to pick up all- “

“Y/N a lot of those say Peter.”

You grabbed all the pieces of paper and threw them into the bottom half of the box that remained. You managed to get them all out of his hands.

“Peter let it go,” you said taking the box over to your desk.

“Hey you forgot something,” he said holding the picture of your mom.

You took it and put it on top of the other pieces of paper face down.

“Thanks,” you said looking down at the floor.

Silence engulfed the room.

“Y/N I’m not an idiot, a lot of those papers said my name on them.”

“Well all of those papers are none of your business,” you said turning away from him and going back to cleaning out your desk drawers.

“Oh we’re keeping secrets now?”

“Oh fuck off, I’m not in the mood for a little Peter Parker guilt trip.”

“Y/N I’m serious. I trusted you with my biggest secret in my entire life. If those pages say my name on them, I think I have a right to know.”

“You know what Peter no you don’t. If I went into your room and looked at your diary and decided to read it because it said my name in there, does that make it ok?”

He crossed his arms over his chest and looked at the ground. The both of you went quiet again, you continued to clean.

“It’s a journal.”

“Thanks for the clarification.”

“And for the record, it does say your name. A lot.”

“Doesn’t mean I’m going to force you to let me read it.” The room went quiet again, only this time you knew it was because he was thinking of a smart-ass comeback.

“So you keep pictures and things from your mom in a box with letters from your summer fling at writing camp and pages with my name on them? How am I supposed to react to- “

You turned around and grabbed the pages and slammed them on the bed.

“Take them. Just fucking read them already, just don’t say I wasn’t trying to save our friendship.”

You picked up the trash bag full of old school supplies and walked out to your kitchen to throw it away. You grabbed a water bottle from the fridge and sat at your dinner table. You always thought about if Peter would ever read everything you wrote about and for him at camp, but you didn’t want it to happen like this. It was your senior year and you didn’t want to lose your best friend or risk tearing apart your friend group. You sat for a few minutes before grabbing the bag of your new school supplies and walking into your room. He was sitting on your bed holding a medium sized notebook. He pat the empty space on your bed next to him. You set down your school supplies and sat next to him. He put the notebook in your hands.

“Every page with the folded corner is about you.”

There were a lot of pages with folded corners. He watched as you read a few. The first few were about how much Liz complained every time he brought you up. The one that caught your attention was about the day they broke up, it said she yelled at him that if he was in love with you to just dump her…so he did. The next few were about MJ and how she would be suspicious every time he brought you up, but not suspicious of you. The page that talked about their breakup, MJ straight up told him that he had a very obvious crush on you and that he should’ve spent his time pursuing you instead of her. Finally, the most recent pages were about conversations about you to Tony and Pepper and how much they liked all liked you. A few pages were about how all this time you spent together just kept making it clearer to him that he was in love with you, but he was too afraid to say anything at this point because you never dropped any hints that you liked him. You closed the notebook and looked up at him.

“Peter I- “

He gave you a quick kiss on the lips, warm but innocent.

“I’m sorry I just have been waiting forever to do that.”

You smiled at him and connected one of your hands to his cheek.

“If I want to ask you to be my boyfriend do I have to get approval from Tony Stark?”

He threw his head back in laughter, quickly holding your hand that was on his cheek with both hands.

“I hate you!”

You turned to face him a little more.

“It’s our senior year. You do realize after this year the both of of might not even be in the same state anymore?”

He turned his whole body to face you and grabbed both of your hands.

“I knew you were the one since you hit that girl with a wooden block in kindergarten because she called me yucky for being your friend who was a boy.”

You laughed.

“I was in love with you when we lived in the apartments next to each other, even if you’re on the other side of the country I’ll still be in love with you.”

You smiled and gave him another quick peck on the lips.

“Wait so did you say yes to being my boyfriend or?”

“Yes you headache of a woman.”

“You wouldn’t have it any other way,” you said intertwining your fingers.

“So Ned and MJ?”

“We can’t tell them Pete.”

“What! Why?!”

“Ned and MJ are the number one people who can’t deal with change! If we tell them on the first day of our fucking senior year that we’re dating, they’ll have a fucking stroke.”

Peter sat and thought about it for a second.

“Maybe I should tell them about Spidey first?”

Your eyes lit up.

“Yes! Oh yes please! I’m tired of not being able to talk about it whenever they bring up ‘The Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman’ everyday. Please please please Peter!”

“Okay okay. We’ll give them time to adjust to that then we’ll tell them about us.”

“Hey I hid my feelings for you for years, this is a piece of cake. Plus, that makes it even more our thing. They wont be suspicious of our Thursday pizza nights or our Monday movie nights because we’ve been doing them for years, only now we get to do them as a couple.”

He laid back onto the bed and pulled you into his side. Suddenly the front door opened.

“Hey I’m home Y/N!”

The two of you jumped up, you grabbed his stuff and shoved him into your closet. Just as you shut the closet door your dad opened your bedroom door.

“Hey dad! How was work?” you said trying to casually lean against the closet door.

“Good! All ready and set for tomorrow?”

You nodded and pointed around the room.

“Yeah, I wanted to clean up before embarking on my last year of highschool.”

“My baby girl is getting big!” he said walking over to you and pulling you into a big hug.

“Dad!”

“I know, but you know how much I love you. And now because of Tony Stark you can spread your wings and fly anywhere.”

“But I’ll always come back for you,” you said smiling at him.

“That’s my girl. Don’t go to sleep too late, I’m off to bed,” he said kissing the top of your head.

“Goodnight dad,” you said closing the door as he left.

You opened the closet door and put your finger up to your lips, signaling to Peter to be quiet as possible. You heard the doorknob turn and Peter quickly got under your bed.

“Did you eat?”

You turned around and tried to cover any lingering view of Peter.

“Yeah! Ms. Dolores next door made burritos and she brought over two. There’s one in the fridge for you.”

“Heck yeah! She makes the best burritos. Okay night honey,” he said closing the door behind him. You quickly opened the window for Peter and he got onto the fire escape. He pulled off his mask just high enough to give you one last kiss.

“Text me when you get home please,” you whispered to him.

“I will. Sweet dreams babe,” he said giving you a quick kiss on your forehead.

You smiled and watched as he webbed his way home. You quickly changed into your pj’s and got into bed. You could swear the smile on your face was going to be there permanently.

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thegentjimmy · 6 years

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DJing, performing and loneliness.

I’ve been meaning to write something about this for a few weeks now. Firstly when I started to feel a little depressed again after months of feeling refreshed and reinvigorated. Secondly, after Avicii died and when a lot of my friends dismissed the situation stating “Oh well, his music was shit anyway.” And finally, during mental health awareness week, when I saw loads of people lighting up my social media, the news, and the world with positive messages that it is ok to feel empty, lost and hopeless sometimes, which is important to hear, even if it does start to sometimes get a little repetitive, acceptance is key - and it seems the world has begun to embrace mental health and the benefits of discussing it and being aware of taking care of our mental well-being in our daily lives.

I’m here to talk about the darker side of my experiences within my job, a job which I love to bits. I get to play music in various forms for a living and I could not be more thankful that this and this alone, mostly pays for my electricity and food and rent. Although it’s not been an easy path, or a quick one - and the route to this situation has been dogged with difficult scenarios, the most difficult of all, constant loneliness.

When I began DJing I didn’t even consider how much solitude and isolation I was entering myself into. I just loved music. My first residency was at a bar called SOYO in Sheffield - where I would play for 4 or 5 hours on a Sunday night. I’d spend hours all day picking out music for the evening, working on my mixes, downloading, researching, picking through old CD’s and vinyl in every charity shop I could find trying to ensure that my sets were interesting and varied every time - although it often didn’t matter because unless a big group of my friends came down to see me play (which they did quite regularly and I can never thank them enough for that) I would just have the general public mouthing off in my ear about playing more Rihanna and turning my shit soul music off.

The flyer for my first ever DJ residency.

My first night at SOYO playing “Mixtape” - I bought all these cassettes for about 5p each in a charity shop and carried them in every week for decoration.

I was also working a “normal” job at the time, in a hotel as a waiter and bar tender. I was offered a second DJ residency and quickly worked out the sums, in two DJ gigs per week, I would be earning more than I would for working 30 hours at the hotel. I took great pleasure in telling my bosses to fuck off on a particularly stretched evening where I was clicked at by a man who hosted celebrity dinners, the particular celebrity this evening was Trigger from Only Fools And Horses. He wanted more champagne. I wanted him to get shat on by a flock of seagulls (the band or a load of angry sea birds) Deciding that was probably not going to happen inside a 3 star hotel, I walked out instead.

Practicing mixes whilst my housemates and I prepared for a night out on the town, no doubt a few beers in. Ironing board was a great DJ booth.

That was the second to last time that I worked as part of a “team” (there’s no ‘I’ in team, but there is an ‘I’ in ‘isolation’) and I’ve only just realised that now, writing this. I threw myself into solitude at work. Not only would I be spending long hours behind the decks picking out records (a lot of which I hated) to try and encourage people to have a good time, slowly honing my craft, earning my stripes - as they say, I would also be on my own during a lot of the day, picking out music for future gigs, emailing people to try and get work, practicing mixes, recording mixes, over and over again to try and prove that I was good enough, chasing up payments that had been promised but never delivered, all the while learning about music history, keeping up with current trends, emerging trends, reading about popular music in all its forms since the pirate radio days of the late 60′s - to 90′s rave and 00′s boy bands, really just attempting to diversify myself as a music collector and human - whilst most of my other friends were at work. And when my friends finished work and invited me out for a pint, for a birthday meal, round to their house to watch a film, or out on a date, I was busy working as many days as I could to make a living doing something that I absolutely adored. And gradually, the invitations stopped coming. And I didn’t even notice. I was obsessed with making playing music, my job. And going out after I finished my job with people that worked in bars and getting pissed because I was so desperate for human interaction. Sadly, a lot of these situations I can’t even remember. There could have been some great ideas discussed, but in all honesty, there probably wasn’t!

My friend Ben travelled back to the UK from New Zealand. It was the first time I had seen him in 5 years, and I was obviously working. He bought us double rums all night. I was very ill the next morning.

Playing the backroom at Replica, Sheffield. My remit was “Dubstep and Electro - cooler more underground music.” I was probably playing 50 Cent - Ayo Technology instead.

There was a point around 5 years ago, when I DJ’d every single day for 3 months straight. And because back then I was only just starting out, most of the gigs I did for free or for very little money. I didn’t have time to go and see my friends. I barely saw my housemates, although we did have some incredibly special moments during those years. Then, I took a job teaching - working in a small team of wonderful individuals and my entire outlook on everything changed. I was happier and fulfilled and I didn’t know why. I wasn’t feeling distant as much, even though this was only a temp job and it paid barely enough to afford food for the week. The interactions with other human beings were worth more than the £50 a shift, more invigorating to my happiness than a big bag of chips and a can of dandelion & burdock.

With the Clothes Line gang - a few Red Stripes in, having a cuddle.

I left Sheffield in 2014 and then my troubles really began. Now living in Leeds, I was short on work there, so travelled back to Sheffield regularly on the M1, via trains, on the National Express - usually alone. I would then DJ alone, for upwards of 5 hours, and then return home, where I would sleep - wake up alone, spend all day alone as my then girlfriend went to work, finding music, chasing gigs - mind constantly whirring, rarely allowing myself time to see friends, to see family or to relax - there were bills to pay and music was the only way I was going to pay them - and I would make it work.

Playing indie bangers at Bumper in Liverpool - I caught the train and after the venue closed at 5am, I waited until 8am for the first train home sat on the steps outside Lime St Station.

I fell into the worst part of my depression after the collapse of two relationships in quick succession - left alone to stew and process that heartbreak and misery for many hours a day as well as the usual non-stop work, travel, work, travel to work, travel work, work and non-stop work, that no-one even noticed that I wasn’t ok, because they were so used to not hearing from me. The assumption was (and still is in many cases) that I was that “funny guy” on their Facebook, that made them laugh or dance when they saw me (probably constantly drunk at this point, because I was absolutely fucking miserable) and not the guy that spent hours and hours on end in bed all day cry-laughing at himself for being a fucking hopeless loser and focussing on all the wrong things in a constant downward spiral of epic proportions.

First ever designated dressing room at The Leadmill in Sheffield.

A wonderful doctor friend of mine, Sarah, recognised I was depressed and encouraged me to visit my GP. I was in the GP for all of ten seconds, before I was dismissed with the NHS depression helpline number and told “It’s about a 6 month wait if you want to talk to someone.” Sarah then took it upon herself to ring me every day, even if it was just for 5 minutes - she’s a true credit to the NHS, her profession and a fucking good mate. She rang me every single day, without fail. She encouraged me to form a focus - and I decided to relocate to Manchester for a fresh start and new challenge.

I’ve since had further help, a course of counselling at which my counsellors immediate opening gambit, when I told her how I was feeling and that I didn’t know why, was to say “Well it sounds like you’re a little bit lonely.” Things clicked pretty fast after that and I realised how important it was to make time to see your loved ones, the very thing I had been missing out on for years.

Solitary figure playing music after our final year films had been screened at university. Palmed my own Dad off on my friends so I could play music most of the night.

I’ve spoken to very few musicians, performers and even photographers/videographers/cruise ship dancers/fridge repair technicians that haven’t told me that at some point during their career they’ve not felt lonely - it goes with the territory of being self-employed or working in the arts/entertainment industry. It’s all “smiles for the gram” then smashing in a fucking gram, to forget that you’re fucking miserable and sat on your own most of the time, scrolling through your phone hoping that someone, anyone messages you with a better offer than “do you fancy sitting on the sofa in your pants going over your setlist for tonight again whilst simultaneously listening to 18 shit house remixes of the latest shit house record that you don’t really like but they’re hammering it on daytime radio so you probably better download it - just incase.”

I’ve started interacting with my DJ pals more and more over the last year or so - and also the bar staff and managers in venues that I work in. Human interaction is hugely important and DJing/photographing/playing live music in bars and clubs can be a very negative environment, particularly when the general public often leave their manners at the door, or on the toilet floor after they’ve smashed in a few lines/tequilas. There’s a whole heap of rejection, huge highs that come out of the blue and big lows that shake you to your core, financially and emotionally - losing gigs sucks, being skint sucks, your favourite venues being forced to close down sucks, realising you’re too old to understand why students like certain songs sucks, being constantly berated and belittled as you just try to do your job on a Saturday night, by drunken wankers that apparently know more about music and the performing of music than you do, yet somehow, they appear to not have been booked to play this particular weekend SUCKS, being used as a cloakroom sucks, having beer spilled all over the thousands of pounds worth of equipment you’ve scrimped and saved for over the years and all over your favourite t-shirt DOUBLY SUCKS and walking out of a bar or club hoping that you’ve done a good job but not really being sure and having to then drive 3 hours home, on your own, via motorway closures, speed restrictions and road kill generally fucking sucks. But you can’t do anything else once that love has gripped you. You will play music until you die, until you breathe your last breath of grotty smoke machine fluid, get your last electric shock from a terrible bashed in plug socket in whatever bashed in, held together with sellotape club/bar you are playing in on the night and float off into the big DJ heaven in the sky, where there is a big sign saying “No morons, no requests, just 100% good music.” It’s in our blood.

DJing is better with mates. Me and the Clothes Line gang at The Harley, the night we found out that we had been nominated for an exposed award.

I’ve also found things that help to combat my loneliness at work, and the best ones are as follows. Having a group chat via social media with other DJ’s/Musicians that are working at the same time as you - sending jokes and laughing at other people’s shit requests in a group is wonderful. We also have socials where we all meet in person and laugh at people and their shit requests. And all the DJ in-jokes come out and we sit and make snide remarks like a bunch of gassed up Beyonce’s. Taking time off from weekend gigs, to socialise with friends, family and my amazing supportive and understanding girlfriend (DJ Widow Numero Uno and the best thing that ever happened to me) - I now try and plan my calendar a few weeks/months in advance so I can book these occasions in. Plus it gives you something to look forward to on the weekends/whatever other anti-social hours you are working. Taking time to try and engage with the public when they’re making requests (to a certain extent - I don’t let people take the piss!) cos as before, human interaction (even with drunk strangers that want you to play Cotton Eye Joe because it’s Sharon’s birthday and she’s 45) = Hugely important.

The SXC Bois DJ massive on a social in Manchester.

Also I’ve very much enjoyed collaborating during music making, or music playing once or twice a month, so I’m not just sat on my own making weird pop music in our back bedroom. Most importantly, taking a bit of time away from music (although it is the second most important thing in my entire life) to engage in other activities. If you’re like me and your entire focus is on one thing and it engulfs your entire existence, it can become a bit exhausting, particularly for your friends who really, REALLY don’t care who you think the next best UK underground trip-hop swing crossover band are going to be, they just don’t care. They want to talk about the football. Go and watch the football. Music/work will be waiting when you get back.

Collaborating with Duncan Vaughan, performing as Klixz for the first time, February 2018, at The Tuesday Club, Sheffield.

The invitations aren’t flying in thick and fast, but I think that some of my closer friends have now started to realise that I’m not just constantly busy these days and I do want to see them and socialise and have fun. I always have, I just didn’t make them aware of it very well. And life is busy and sometimes things get in the way of hanging out with one another, but laughing at inappropriate jokes with good friends over a decent cup of tea will always make me happier than playing Darude - Sandstorm to a festival crowd of 2,000 people adorned with glowsticks. Well, it’s kind of 50/50 actually. But you can do both, on the same day, if you’re really clever.

I hope this advice helps someone, even if it just makes you chuckle thinking about me hiding under my duvet severely depressing having a cry whilst at the same time laughing myself for how pathetic I am. Whether you’re just starting out or years into a career in music - loneliness is a real issue in the music industry and beyond - as if a constant fear of inadequacy, perfectionism, constant rejection, living hand to mouth, threat of going deaf and never being able to hear music again, venues closing and your car insurance premiums rising through the roof isn’t enough to send you over the edge, add in total unabridged loneliness to the bundle and you’ve got an unhappy sandwich soaked in misery dripping right there. But you don’t have to eat it. You always have a choice.

Fuck loneliness.

Your pal,

Jimmy x

Useful links:

24/7 helpline for musicians suffering with mental health issues:

https://www.musicmindsmatter.org.uk/

Musician meetup - if you’re in a new area and looking for someone to natter about Lou Reed and do a bit of jamming with:

https://www.meetup.com/topics/musicians/?_cookie-check=UiZDil7HvilO41v0

Musician’s Union - fighting for better lives for musicians everyday and a whole host of other useful links and help:

https://www.musiciansunion.org.uk/

The Samaritans - free phone number 116123 (UK)

https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help-you/contact-us?gclid=Cj0KCQjwxtPYBRD6ARIsAKs1XJ5sL3-1_5YZp5YtWVhvwwnPIWkzdNs4rqLCMML72ZB6es__6mne5IsaAjnfEALw_wcB

Thanks for reading! <3

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newstfionline · 3 years

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Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Some Hotels Are Mandating Vaccines. Will Others Follow? (NYT) As travelers prepare for their next vacation, among the essentials to take—along with items such as a toothbrush, wallet and phone charger—could be proof of vaccination for COVID-19, depending on where they are booked to sleep. As coronavirus cases surge again across the country, driven by the highly contagious delta variant, a small number of hotels in the United States have announced that they will require proof of vaccination from guests and staff. The precedent for hotels requiring vaccination is already being set beyond the contiguous United States. In August, Puerto Rico issued an islandwide vaccine mandate that requires guests and staff at all hotels, guesthouses and short-term rentals, including Airbnb, to provide proof of vaccination or a negative PCR or antigen test taken within 72 hours before their visit. Although European destinations are rolling out various vaccine mandates, hotels are mostly not requiring proof of immunization. In Portugal, however, hotel guests need to show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test.

Louisiana gets a first look at the devastation caused by Hurricane Ida (Washington Post) People clung to rooftops awaiting rescue, entire towns were cut off from communication, and more than a million faced the prospect of days—even weeks—without power as Louisianans awoke Monday and began to take stock of the devastation caused by Hurricane Ida. Parts of the state remained unreachable, making it impossible to fully assess the damage. Four deaths were confirmed, but Gov. John Bel Edwards said he expected the toll to be “considerably” higher. Ida, which made landfall just before noon Sunday local time as a Category 4 storm, the most powerful storm to hit the area in over a century, continued to batter the region well into Monday. While New Orleans was spared the worst, thanks in large part to the $14.5 billion federally funded levee system built after Hurricane Katrina, communities west and south of the city were completely routed by the storm. There were widespread reports of downed power lines and trees, levee failures and flooding, collapsed buildings and people trapped in flooded homes. Utility officials said it would take days just to assess the damage before repairs could begin. Meanwhile, gas, food and water supplies were affected, with several communities instituting “boil water” advisories.

The World Is Still Short of Everything. Get Used to It. (NYT) Like most people in the developed world, Kirsten Gjesdal had long taken for granted her ability to order whatever she needed and then watch the goods arrive, without any thought about the factories, container ships and trucks involved in delivery. Not anymore. At her kitchen supply store in Brookings, S.D., Ms. Gjesdal has given up stocking place mats, having wearied of telling customers that she can only guess when more will come. She recently received a pot lid she had purchased eight months earlier. She has grown accustomed to paying surcharges to cover the soaring shipping costs of the goods she buys. She has already placed orders for Christmas items like wreaths and baking pans. “It’s nuts,” she said. “It’s definitely not getting back to normal.” The challenges confronting Ms. Gjesdal’s shop, Carrot Seed Kitchen, are a testament to the breadth and persistence of the chaos roiling the global economy, as manufacturers and the shipping industry contend with an unrelenting pandemic. Delays, product shortages and rising costs continue to bedevil businesses large and small. And consumers are confronted with an experience once rare in modern times: no stock available, and no idea when it will come in.

US judge revokes mother’s right to visit son over her refusal to get Covid vaccine (Guardian) A judge in Illinois revoked a mother’s right to visit her 11-year-old son because she refused to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. In what is believed to be an unprecedented ruling, Cook county judge James Shapiro said Rebecca Firlit, 39, who shares custody of her son with her divorced husband, could not see the boy again until she had taken the shot. “I was confused because it was just supposed to be about expenses and child support,” Firlit told the Chicago Sun-Times about the virtual court hearing, which took place earlier this month. “One of the first things he asked me when I got on the Zoom call was whether or not I was vaccinated, which threw me off because I asked him what it had to do with the hearing. “He said, ‘I am the judge, and I make the decisions for your case.’” Firlit’s lawyer, Annette Fernholz, said she had filed a legal challenge to the state appellate court, noting that the boy’s father had not been seeking such a ruling. Firlit, who has not said if she will get the vaccine, told the judge her decision not to take it was not political. “I’ve had adverse reactions to vaccines in the past and was advised not to get vaccinated by my doctor,” she said. “It poses a risk.” Her son, she said, was upset at not being allowed to see her and cries when they speak by phone.

Colombia’s Troubles Put a President’s Legacy on the Line (NYT) Iván Duque swept into Colombia’s presidency in 2018 as a young, little-known technocrat riding a surging right-wing movement. He tapped public anger against a peace deal that he said had treated the country’s deadly insurgents too softly. And he warned that the proposals of his left-wing opponent could stifle steady growth. Three years and a global pandemic later, it is Mr. Duque who is presiding over high unemployment and an angry electorate—and who is on the defensive about the steps he has taken to tame persistent violence by militants. Colombian voters go to the polls in May, when Gustavo Petro, a former presidential candidate, previous mayor of Bogotá and a onetime guerrilla member, could become the country’s furthest-left leader in its history at a time when leftists are again claiming victories across South America.

China limits children to 3 hours of online gaming a week (AP) China is banning children from playing online games for more than three hours a week, the harshest restriction so far on the game industry as Chinese regulators continue cracking down on the technology sector. Minors in China can only play games between 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Fridays, weekends and on public holidays starting Sept. 1, according to a notice from the National Press and Publication Administration. That limits gaming to three hours a week for most weeks of the year, down from a previous restriction set in 2019 that allowed minors play games for an hour and a half per day and three hours on public holidays. The gaming restrictions are part of an ongoing crackdown on technology companies, amid concerns that technology firms—many of which provide ubiquitous messaging, payments and gaming services—may have an outsized influence on society. A state-affiliated newspaper has criticized the gaming industry and called games “spiritual opium.”

Taliban declare victory from Kabul airport (AP) The Taliban triumphantly marched into Kabul’s international airport on Tuesday, hours after the final U.S. troop withdrawal that ended America’s longest war. Standing on the tarmac, Taliban leaders pledged to secure the country, quickly reopen the airport and grant amnesty to former opponents. Getting the airport running again is just one of the sizeable challenges the Taliban face in governing a nation of 38 million people that for two decades had survived on billions of dollars in foreign aid. Just hours earlier, the U.S. military had wrapped up its largest airlift of non-combatants in history. On Tuesday morning, signs of the chaos of recent days were still visible. In the terminal, rifled luggage and clothes were strewn across the ground, alongside wads of documents. Concertina wire stills separated areas while overturned cars and parked vehicles blocked routes around the civilian airport—a sign of measures taken to protect against possible suicide car bombers entering the facility.

Moscow and Afghanistan (Washington Post) Russia’s ban on the Taliban as a terrorist group has not stopped Moscow officials from stepping in to support it by calling for the freeze on Afghanistan’s financial reserves to be lifted and for Western countries to lead a global conference to help rebuild the country’s economy. Russia’s presidential envoy for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, said Monday that the international community should unfreeze the Afghan government’s reserves or risk a spike in illegal narcotics and arms traffic. Speaking to state-owned television, he also called for an international conference to support Afghanistan’s recovery under the Taliban’s leadership, so that the United States and its allies could “correct at least some of the mistakes they have made” in the past 20 years. Last week’s suicide bombing at the Kabul airport, claimed by the Islamic State-Khorasan, threw Russia’s fears about Afghanistan into sharp relief—that the Taliban’s governance effort could fail, that extremists affiliated with the Islamic State could gain a stronger foothold and that the country could slide into chaos, destabilizing Russia’s neighborhood. Moscow has been calling on the West to “accept the reality” of the Taliban’s victory, while pressing the Taliban to form a government that includes different political and ethnic groups. At the same time, Russian officials are warning that no one should expect the Taliban to meet Western standards for democracy and cultural and religious practices.

The Great Resignation is here (Wired) When Ashley was offered a job at a digital agency over Zoom during the last lockdown, they thought they had found the perfect set-up. Flexitime would be a given. Working from home would continue post-pandemic. The office would be a place to pop in only occasionally. By the time they’d started the new role six weeks later in Leeds, everything had changed. Cast iron guarantees of flexible hours had melted away. Promises of remote working had crumbled. Even before social restrictions had ended, staff were expected to be in the office every day, from 9am until 5.30pm. “It was incredibly frustrating,” Ashley recalls. “All these changes were done between my interview and my first day—and my new boss decided they didn’t need to explain their decision making.” Rather than ride out the disappointment and stick with the new role, Ashley decided to join ‘The Great Resignation’ and the millions of others who have quit their jobs over the spring and summer months. Workers are drafting up resignation emails, handing in their notices and heading for the exit door in their droves. The trend is worldwide. In the UK, job vacancies soared to an all-time high in July, with available posts surpassing one million for the first time. In the US, four million people quit their jobs in April—a 20-year high—followed by a record ten million jobs being available by the end of June. A Microsoft study has found that 41 per cent of the global workforce is considering leaving their employer this year. As more of the economy reopens following Covid vaccinations and the end of social restrictions, demand for talent is fast outstripping supply—it’s now an employee’s market.

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Any estimations on how much my car insurance will be? Uk.?

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Health ins. companies can't deny people for pre-existing conditions. Should the same be true of car insurance?

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Anyone have an idea about Car Insurance Rates?

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Is AETNA a good health insurance to get?

my benefits package came from work, it offers medical from Aetna is that a good health insurance provider? What about Guardian Plan ppo for Dental??""

How much car insurance ?

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Insurance when buying 1st car?

How do i go about buying a car (private or dealer) without insurance to test drive it 1st, as i'll only get insurance once i know what car i will have (i live in the UK).""

Why is my car insurance so high?! Im 18 yr old female...! :(?

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Say you're newly married and the wife is pregnant. You have just bought a home and have a large mortgage. Which kind of insurance is best for a family, Term Insurance or Whole Life Insurance?""

How much does it cost to insure a scooter??

I am considering buying a scooter (125cc) to commute to and from work. I am 29 and live in Tottenham, North London. How much approximately would I expect to pay in insurance - I plan to pay about 1000 for a bike.""

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Cost of car insurance?

I am a 17 year old female. No crashes, good driver. I just got enough money to buy a car, and need to pay for the insurance. I Dont know how much money that would cost. I hear its diffrent everywhere, but what is the adverage for minnesota would you say? I'd appreciate it! thanks :)""

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The Snow: Chapter 13

Summary: Sansa Stark thought she was well rid of Jon Snow. Then an untimely blizzard reunited them. Now Sansa wants out, and Jon just wants to explain.

Previous chapters: beginning here on my blog | here on AO3

Some time later, Jon was jarred upright by a loud thumping noise from the direction of Sansa’s bedroom upstairs. He leaped off his bed and down the hall and took the steps two at a time until he had reached the second floor hallway.

“Sansa!” he called, slapping his fist against her door. “Are you all right?”

Just as he reached for the doorknob, the door itself opened to reveal Sansa, whose eyes and face were nearly as red as her hair. A glow emanating from the floor bathed her legs and feet in a brighter light than that of the afternoon sun streaming through the room’s blinds. Jon glanced quickly behind her to see the lamp that usually adorned the bedside table lying lengthwise on the floor. Its shade had rolled off somewhere beyond his line of sight.

“Sorry, I’m sorry.” Jon looked back at Sansa, who was twisting her hands together. “I was just stripping the bed so I could wash the sheets, and I knocked it down and kicked the shade off by accident – I don’t think it’s broken, though. I’m sorry.” She bit her lip. Jon shook his head.

“Don’t worry about it,” he said. “Here, I’ll help you with the bed.”

“Oh, no, I can handle it – ” Sansa began. Jon shook his head harder.

“It’ll go faster with two people,” he said. Sansa hesitated for a moment, but stepped aside.

“Sorry,” she murmured again when Jon replaced the lamp on the table. He waved it off curtly as he strode over to the dresser and snatched the lampshade from the wall behind it. Sansa, who had bent down to retrieve it, drew away quickly and returned to the bed. Jon rejoined her once he had fixed the lamp, and they worked together in silence until they yanked too hard on the mattress pad and tumbled simultaneously onto the floor.

“You all – ” Jon’s inquiry was cut off by a giggle from Sansa, and then another. He sat stock still watching her shoulders shake and her eyes crinkle for several moments before he realized his mouth was wide open. He shut it at once and felt himself flush. When he looked back at Sansa, she was on her feet and holding out her hand to him. One corner of his mouth twisted sheepishly, and he took her hand without thinking of it and scrambled to his feet.

“Sorry,” they both said at the same time. Sansa’s lips twitched, and Jon felt half the blood in his body rush to his face. He’d always found it next to impossible to keep from responding when she smiled like that, especially now, after all she’d been through. Not, of course, that he’d helped matters by being an ass to her.

“Look, Sansa – ” Jon’s thumb rubbed across the knuckle of hers before he could stop himself. His flush deepened, and Sansa stared at him, clearly taken aback. At just that moment, however, both of their phones rang. Their hands broke apart at once to reach into their pockets, and they uttered hasty twin “hellos” as Jon straightened up and made for the doorway, leaving Sansa in the privacy of her room.

“Jon Snow?” inquired the crisp female voice at the other end of Jon’s call. That raised both of his eyebrows. Nobody but his friends, family members, and a few trusted publicity handlers had that number, and none of them ever used his full name.

“Who’s asking, please?” He hated to sound rude, but withholding his proper name from a caller he didn’t know had become a necessary habit after two of his prior phone numbers had leaked somehow. The tabloid reporters had had a field day spamming his phones.

“My name is Alys Karstark,” answered the woman. She hadn’t missed a beat. “I’m calling on behalf of Sansa Stark, who gave me this number. I apologize if I have the wrong one.”

“Oh, no.” Jon’s hand stopped halfway down its trajectory through his curls. “No, this is Jon Snow. Thanks for calling.”

“Yes. Is this a convenient time to talk?”

Jon strode into the room across the hallway from Sansa’s and shut the door. “Yes, it is.”

Five minutes later, they had arranged for Jon to deliver the remnants of Gram’s vase to Alys’s studio in Leeds for her inspection. Jon headed back across the hall after he hung up, but Sansa’s room was empty of both her and the sheets. Jon padded downstairs to find her setting the dial on the washing machine.

“Really – well, thanks,” he said, cutting himself off before he could remonstrate her yet again for cleaning another part of his apartment. Seeing that he would not, Sansa nodded.

“That was the car shop that called, by the way,” she informed him. “They’ll be done with the car about 4:00 this afternoon.”

Jon returned her nod. “Good,” he replied. “I’ll drive you.”

Sansa opened her mouth, no doubt to protest once again that she could take a cab, but she closed it without saying a word. Neither of them spoke for several moments. Then Sansa’s hands began twisting around each other. Jon scratched his head.

“Oh – that was Alys Karstark on my line,” he said. Thank God he’d remembered something that would end that silence. “She agreed to look at my gram’s vase.” Another pause, not quite as long, ensued. Jon raked his hand through his curls again.

“I appreciate you giving her my name,” he said finally. “Thanks for doing that.”

A wan smile flickered across Sansa’s face. “It was the least I could do,” she replied. “I’m only glad I met her before. She’s supposed to be the best. I’m sure – I hope she’ll be able to do something lovely with it.”

Jon nodded. He had his doubts about even Alys Karstark’s ability to repair Gram’s shattered vase, but voicing them would do no good for either Sansa or himself. Saying anything more about her at the moment would do no good – or Jeyne Poole, or anybody else that would get either of them upset again, especially not now, so close to when Sansa had to leave. He stole a glance at the clock on the shelf above the dryer. She had only a few hours left, which was far too much time for her to spend in any more pain than she’d already gone through. It was too much time that could be stuffed with awkward silences and arguing and feet in their mouths and longing for numbness. But it was still far too little time to spend with Sansa.

His stomach rumbled, snapping him out of his reverie. Not five seconds later, Sansa’s stomach echoed it. Both of them snorted, Sansa much more gracefully, and Jon gestured to the kitchen.

“Muffin?” he asked, and off they went.

As it turned out, Sansa wanted more than just one muffin, and so did Jon. Over the next hour and a half, they devoured more than half the pan’s worth while completing the Yorkshire Post’s crossword puzzle. They alternated between silent and spoken guesses, but as they got toward the end of the puzzle, Sansa was doing more of hers volubly, as had always been her wont during their marriage. By the time Jon returned from the laundry room just in time to grin at a new text message from Sam, Jon saw the ghost on her face of the bemused smile she’d sported so many times before, when he and Sam had made some breakthrough on one of their sound projects or he’d beaten his own high score at Tetris.

“Hmmm?” She raised her eyebrows, then flushed when Jon looked up from his phone. “I mean – if it’s not prying.”

Jon shook his head and gestured to the phone.

“Just Sam,” he said, “wanting to play Scrabble. Gilly’s out with a friend, and Sammy’s at nursery school.”

“Oh, he’s coming here?” Sansa’s smile broadened. “That’s good; you haven’t seen him in a while, right?”

Jon shook his head. “No, the online version,” he said, and began to tap a reply to Sam. “I’m telling him some other time.”

Sansa’s brow furrowed. “Why?” she asked. “Don’t put him off on my account. You two used to go at your old board set at all hours. You should have some fun with him.”

Jon raised an eyebrow at her. “The way I remember it,” he replied, “you did join us. And usually beat us.” He tilted his head. “You know, you could play together with us if you wanted to. Or just help me beat Sam. He’s a sight better at this than I am.”

The corners of Sansa’s lips turned up, if only a little. “Perhaps,” she said. “After all, I’ve still got your laptop in my room.”

Jon spent the next hour and a half at the kitchen table, alternately replying to e-mails, reviewing a computer program he and Sam had written for one of Jon’s sound machines, and getting beaten silly at Scrabble by both Sam and Sansa, the latter of whom had curled up on the living room couch with his spare laptop after vacuuming out the room she had used. Jon’s phone rang in the middle of the second round. He frowned and picked up when he saw that it was Leigh Harris.

“Jon.” Leigh’s tone was apologetic. “Sorry to have to let you know, but you’ve got photographic company again outside the gates.”

Jon swore silently. “How many this time?” he asked. He’d occasionally gotten a few paparazzi camped outside the boundaries of the gated community, but Leigh sounded almost ruffled, which probably meant there were more of them than usual. Apparently the snow had settled enough for them to slither out of their holes again.

“I’d say a couple of dozen at least,” Leigh replied. “The guards are on shift, but if you’re going out – ”

Jon sighed and rattled off a few more internal curses. “I’ll take care of it, Leigh,” he said. “I appreciate your letting me know.”

“Sure thing,” replied Leigh. “Just let me know if you need anything.”

“Right,” said Jon. “Talk to you later, Leigh.”

His finger stabbed the disconnect button so hard he felt a jolt to the pad of his thumb. He pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed. Then he swore again, this time aloud.

Sansa. She needed to get her car and go back to Leeds. Of all the bloody days, he thought, and shoved both hands through his hair. Bloody hell.

He picked his phone back up and dialed Tormund Giantsbane’s number. He had first hired the burly, bearded redhead to serve as his driver and bodyguard just after he and Sansa had split up and his friends had insisted it was high time he had both. Jon, who despised most of the trappings of celebrity, had always been reluctant to hire long-term assistants of any type, but his dislike for the paparazzi had outweighed his resistance. And a good thing too: Tormund had given Jon not only first-rate security, but also pizza, a listening ear, and an occasional unfiltered verbal kick when he deemed that a particularly deep period of what he called Jon’s “whining brooder” had gone on long enough, and the two had become fast friends. As Jon could have predicted, Tormund answered his phone on the first ring.

“Going adventuring in the snow, Snow?” he asked, guffawing. Jon rolled his eyes.

“Glad you survived, too, Tormund,” he replied. “Look, if it was me I wouldn’t bother you, but Leigh says I’ve got a couple dozen paps outside the gates, and S – I have a friend here who needs to get back home out of town as soon as her car’s fixed, which could be any minute.”

Tormund grunted. “She someone they’ll recognize?”

Jon ran another hand through his curls. “Yeah,” he answered. “She didn’t come with her security, though. They’re back home. Where she lives.” Not that Sansa had ever mentioned personal security guards, but she had less of an aversion than Jon to working with assistants, so he assumed she’d have guards. He didn’t want to think about the idea of her not having any.

“Snow? You there?”

Jon cleared his throat. “Yeah, Tormund. Look, if you’re in the middle of something, take your – ”

“Time,” the other man finished. “You’re just lucky I’m not in the middle of Hawaii, Snow.”

Jon snorted. Tormund hated any temperature warm enough to make him take off his leather jacket. “Nice try.”

Tormund chortled. “Figured I’d give it a shot. I’ll be there in fifteen.”

“Thanks, Tormund.” Jon let out the breath he hadn’t realized he’d been holding. “Don’t kill yourself speeding here.”

“I will, Snow,” replied Tormund and hung up.

“Jon?”

The sound of Sansa’s voice just behind him made Jon whirl around so quickly that he bashed his elbow against the table. He winced as the force of the blow jolted up his funny bone.

“Oh, God, I’m sorry!” Sansa clapped one hand over her mouth and brushed the other against his shoulder. “I’m sorry, Jon! Are you OK?”

Jon rubbed his elbow and nodded. “Yeah,” he eventually ground out. “Just hit the funny bone is all.”

“Do you want some ice?” Sansa asked, and Jon shook his head out of habit before realizing that ice would probably help matters quite a bit.

“I’ll get it,” he said, making to rise, but Sansa’s hand stiffened against his shoulder before he could get up.

“No, I’ve got it,” she said, and within thirty seconds she had retrieved an ice pack from the freezer and offered it to him. It occurred belatedly to Jon that she had probably learned the location of every ice pack he owned when she’d been nursing him through his fever.

“Thanks,” he murmured. Sansa only shook her head.

“I shouldn’t have snuck up on you like that,” she said. “I just – I heard you on the phone, and I wanted to say I can get a cab to pick me up again. You don’t have to let them see you or bother your security. If I can manage to dodge them just far enough out of the gate to get picked up – ”

Jon swung both legs off his chair. “Oh, the hell no you won’t,” he snapped. Sansa’s eyebrows rose at his sudden vehemence, but she did not flinch as Jon straightened to his full height.

“I’m not taking bloody chances with you like that, Sansa,” he growled, willing his voice to lower. “Besides, I don’t trust some random cab driver who might care more about getting on the cover of some tabloid himself than do his bloody job. And Tormund’s got experience driving around people like that. He’s a sight better than any cab driver you can think of, and I trust him with my life.” He paused, half expecting Sansa to continue protesting, but she only gave him a resigned sigh. Jon nodded.

“So we’ll get you back to Leeds,” he began, and – ”

That earned him two sharply raised eyebrows. “I’m not asking you or your driver to take me back to Leeds, Jon,” Sansa replied. “He’s doing enough by taking me to the shop. I’ll be fine to drive home.”

Jon shook his head emphatically. “Not with dozens of paps following you,” he returned, “like some Princess Di thing – ”

Sansa snorted. “I’m hardly the target Princess Di was,” she said, “and I’m not exactly drunk. I’ll be fine, Jon.”

“The hell if I’ll risk that,” Jon snapped. “I’m not about to take a chance anything might happen to you. Yesterday was more than bloody close enough.”

Sansa huffed. “I know that,” she replied. She sounded as though she had had to say it five times already. “And I get that I got careless, and I’m sorry, but at this point we’re in broad daylight – ” she pushed at the index finger of her left hand with its twin on her right – “and I’m not sleepy – ” she pushed her middle finger back against the first one – “and again, I’m hardly important enough for them to follow all the way out of York.” She ticked her ring finger off to match the others. “And if they get a couple pictures of me, they get them. It’s hardly the first time.”

She looked so resigned. Jon sighed and shoved a hand halfway through his hair so that the heel of it was resting on his forehead.

“Look,” he said, his voice gentling, “I get yesterday was an accident. It wasn’t your fault you fell asleep. But if anything went wrong today – ” He shook his head, trying to will away the image of Sansa’s crumpled car, this time with her in it. “I’m not risking that. Sorry if that’s not what you wanted to hear, but I’m making sure you get home in one piece.”

Sansa sighed and crossed her arms over her chest. “Look, Jon – ”

She was interrupted by the ring of her phone. Jon turned and padded into the living room to give her privacy. She followed not long after.

“That was the car shop,” she said. “My car’s ready for me to pick up.”

Jon nodded. “Good,” he said, although he felt anything but. “Tormund should be here any minute, and – ”

Sansa opened her mouth again, presumably to protest, but Jon’s phone buzzed. One glance at the screen told him Tormund had just been let through the front gate of the apartment community, which was now swarming with at least three dozen paparazzi, according to the red-bearded giant. Jon swore under his breath.

“Speak of the devil,” he said, and strode off to the front door. He opened it to find a grinning Tormund on the other side.

“Good God, you look awful, Snow,” said Tormund after letting Jon out of another of the bone-crunching embraces he was so fond of inflicting on the shorter man. “Maybe you should accompany her out of town, eh? How about Hawaii?”

Jon rolled his eyes. His mouth opened to reply, but shut when he saw Tormund’s eyes glance between him and widen like saucers. Sure enough, when he turned around, they were both facing Sansa. There was no way Tormund wouldn’t recognize her. Jon grimaced. There was also probably no way Tormund wouldn’t dislike her, although he was more than professional enough to protect Sansa in whatever way Jon asked.

Still, Jon grimaced again before turning to Sansa. “Sansa, this is Tormund Giantsbane,” he said. “He handles security for me. Tormund, this is – ” He stopped his tongue just in time. The words my wife had almost rolled off of it. Jon flushed. The last time he had introduced Sansa to anyone, she had indeed been his wife. That had still been over three years ago, however.

“Sansa Stark,” Jon finished. Tormund’s eyebrows had almost reached his hairline, but Sansa had the good grace to offer him her hand.

“A pleasure to meet you, Mr. Giantsbane,” she said. Tormund only waited a moment before he returned the gesture.

“Pleasure,” he replied. He dropped her hand and turned to look severely at Jon, who narrowed his eyes and shook his head. If Tormund wanted to let him have it over Sansa’s visit, he could bloody well wait until after she’d gotten home safely.

“Anyway,” he said, “Sansa’s car’s ready to be picked up at the shop.” He tilted his head toward the front door. “You said about three dozen paps?”

Tormund suddenly all business, cleared his throat and nodded. “Aye,” he replied. “You thinking mine or the Escalade?”

Jon, who had already decided that his larger SUV would be safer for Sansa than would Tormund’s smaller Range Rover, nodded. “Escalade,” he answered at once.

Tormund returned his nod. “Right, then,” he said, and turned to acknowledge Sansa again. “Let me know when you kids are ready.”

“I’m ready,” Sansa replied, then turned to Jon. “Except for your laptop; I’ll grab it from the room. Do you want it in yours?”

Jon shook his head. “Just leave it in the living room,” he replied. “I’ll deal with it.”

Sansa nodded and made a beeline out of the hallway. Jon turned to the closet to grab his coat. Tormund cleared his throat.

“Not now, Tormund,” Jon growled. “And it’s not what it looks like.”

Tormund merely grunted. Jon glared at him.

“She was in a car accident when it snowed last week,” Jon continued. “She saved a bunch of people’s lives. Least I could do was have her here.”

Tormund raised an eyebrow. “A week, huh? I suppose I should be impressed you two didn’t kill each other.”

Jon shook his head. “No,” he answered. “We wouldn’t – ” He sighed. Neither Tormund nor anybody else needed to hear all the bloody details.

“We can behave like civilized people,” he said shortly, seeing the other man’s eyebrow rise even further. “And she’s – she understands more of what happened now. We both do.”

Tormund’s eyebrows relaxed after a moment. When he realized Jon would say no more, he nodded. He opened his mouth to reply, but was interrupted when Sansa strode back into the hallway.

“The laptop’s on the coffee table,” she told Jon. “And I stacked the dishes in the kitchen; I really could wash them before I leave.”

Jon shook his head. “I’ll take care of them,” he replied. “Besides, Dale bloody Earnhardt over hear can’t wait to get his hands on my car.”

Sansa graced Tormund with a wan smile. “Thank you, Mr. Giantsbane,” she said. “I really appreciate your taking the time to do this.”

Tormund shook his head. “I do what I’m told by Pretty Boy here, Ms. Stark,” he replied gruffly. Jon rolled his eyes, but Sansa chuckled.

“Just ‘Sansa’ is fine, Mr. Giantsbane,” she said. Tormund gave her a brief nod and turned to Jon.

“All right, Snow,” he said. “Let’s put that pretty toy of yours to work.”

Five minutes later, Jon and Sansa had settled into the back seats of Jon’s sleek black Escalade, with a grinning Tormund up front revving the engine. He backed slowly out of the carport and turned up the winding main drive out of the community. When they took the steep turn near the end of it, Jon saw that Tormund had told the truth. If anything, even more paps had huddled next to the fence after the bodyguard’s arrival.

“Bloody hell,” Jon muttered as his friend slowed to a stop to allow the complex’s security guards to open the gate. That was when the lens flashes began peppering the crowd around it. Jon winced, ducked his head down, and threw an arm in front of his eyes. His glance darted to the right, where he saw Sansa doing the same.

God, he’d forgotten how much he hated paps. And how many beers he owed Tormund. Jon owned five cars and considered himself a pretty daft hand at driving each one of them, but Tormund had a knack for maneuvering in tight corners that Jon could not hope to match.

The Escalade began crawling again, and Jon darted a glance out the window, where he found himself facing a camera not two feet from the vehicle. Its lens flashed full in front of his face. He swore again. Once his eyes had recovered a bit, he looked over at Sansa. She was still leaning forward covering her face with one arm. The other was braced against her knees, allowing her to hold her back remarkably straight. Jon felt a stab of reminiscent pride. They’d been accosted countless times by paparazzi over the course of their relationship – well, both of their relationships, counting the time they’d spent together as teenagers – and Sansa had always said she’d be damned if she’d let the paps make her slouch or slump, as if living, breathing, or walking the face of the earth at his side were anything to be ashamed of.

“Hang on.” Tormund’s rumbling voice yanked Jon back to the present. “Might be a bit touchy here.”

Jon instinctively reached for the support handle just above the door at his side. Next to him, Sansa reached over to check her seatbelt.

That was when the vehicle lurched to a sudden stop. Jon’s seatbelt stopped his forward trajectory, but Sansa’s had apparently not fastened correctly, because she tumbled out of her seat and onto the floor, crashing against the front passenger seat in the process. She cried out just as a whoop sounded from just outside her window. Another camera flash went off from somewhere above Jon’s head. As he frantically pulled his seatbelt loose, he caught the grinning face of the camera’s owner. The dick had clearly just gotten a shot of Sansa sprawled out on the Escalade’s floor. Jon wanted nothing more than to throw open the door, knock the asshole out cold, and pitch his camera off into the nearest snowdrift. Instead, he swore loudly, hurtled forward onto the floor, and grabbed Sansa off of it.

“Sansa!” he shouted. She winced and grabbed her left elbow. “Sansa, are you OK?”

She merely blinked at him. Jon’s eyes widened as quickly as his heart was racing. He released her left shoulder and reached up to cup the side of her head.

“Sansa, can you hear – ” he began, but was cut off by Tormund’s shouted warning. The Escalade shot forward like a bat out of hell. Jon curled his arms around Sansa as he lurched backward against the passenger seat. He braced his feet on the floor to keep them as steady as possible, cupping the back of her head protectively as he did so.

“Sorry ‘bout that!” hollered Tormund from the front seat. The Escalade slowed, and the engine quieted to a steady hum. “You two OK?”

“Fine,” Sansa gasped, lifting her head off of Jon’s shoulder. Her body was quivering – or maybe, he realized, he was just feeling himself quivering. He guessed it was both.

“Good,” he said over his shoulder. Tormund, eyes still trained on the road, gave them a thumbs-up. Jon turned back to Sansa. His other hand slipped upward to hold the other side of her head.

“You sure you’re OK?” he asked, and stroked a stray strand of red hair behind Sansa’s ear. She nodded. Jon looked down at her elbow, which she was still cradling.

“What happened to your arm?” he asked.

Sansa grimaced. “I banged it against the seat when I rolled out of mine,” she replied. “My fault – I should have checked the stupid seatbelt before we reached the gate.”

Jon shook his head at once. “It was the fucking paps’ fault you fell,” he growled. “Especially that fucker at your window.” He clenched his jaw to keep from yelling about what he wanted to do to the wanker. Sansa did not need that.

It still didn’t stop him from wanting to march all the way back home and knocking the guy’s lights out.

“It’s probably just a bruise,” said Sansa. “I’m sure it’ll be fine.”

Jon searched her face for any sign that she was battling pain that could only come from a more serious injury. He could find none, but then it had been so long since the time he’d awakened to that face and those wide blue eyes every day.

“Do you want to go to a doctor first,” he asked, “before the car shop? Just in case something’s broken?”

Sansa shook her head. “No,” she said. Jon must have looked as unconvinced as he felt, because she hastened to add, “Remember when broke my ankle when we were doing reshoots for Swords and Stones?”

Jon nodded. While filming one of her final retakes for the first miniseries they’d done together, back before they had begun dating, Sansa had hit a bad pothole while running across the rugged Scottish terrain and twisted her ankle. The director had insisted she go to the nearest hospital, where X-rays had confirmed she’d broken it. That had been the first time Jon had gotten her flowers. He’d meant them purely as a gesture of encouragement, but she’d blushed all the same.

“Well, this isn’t anything like that,” Sansa finished. Jon stared at her for a few more moments before he finally nodded.

“All right,” he said. “But you didn’t hurt anything else?”

Sansa shook her head. “No,” she said. She narrowed her eyes in concern. “What about you?”

“No, I’m all right,” Jon replied at once, shaking his own head. Sansa nodded but said nothing. Jon wanted to hold her as tightly as he could without bothering her elbow and tell Tormund to drive them all straight to Leeds. God knew how many paps they’d find at the car shop.

But he could not do that without upsetting Sansa further, and he could not find anything to say. Instead, he cleared his throat and offered her what he hoped was a reassuring smile. One corner of Sansa’s mouth twitched, but she said nothing. Jon felt his cheeks begin to redden and glanced back down at her elbow.

“Well, I don’t want you to have to drive all that way yourself if it makes your elbow feel worse,” he finally said. “I’ll drive you home, and Tormund can follow us to take me back here. Unless you’d rather ride with him.” Please don’t say you want him to drive you.

Sansa sighed. Jon expected her to protest the idea. Instead, she asked, “You don’t need to be anywhere?”

“No.” Jon shook his head at once. Sansa nodded slowly.

“All right,” she said, her voice quiet. She bit her lip with a little more force than usual, which meant she was in a good deal of pain. Jon felt a twinge shoot through his chest.

“Oh, for God’s sake,” he muttered. “I forgot – Tormund!” He turned to look at his friend. “Is there a water bottle up there? And some Tylenol? Maybe in the glove compartment?”

“Hang on,” said Tormund, reaching for the glove compartment. A white bottle clattered out, and the bodyguard reached out just in time to seize it and pitch it in Jon’s direction. As Jon reached to catch it, his eye caught the water bottle, which was sitting on top of the compartment between the two front seats. He leaned over, grabbed it, and offered it to Sansa, who rewarded him with a wan smile.

“Thanks,” she said. Jon popped the lid of the Tylenol bottle and held it over her hand.

“Two or three?” he asked.

“Three, please,” she said, and Jon complied at once. Sansa gulped the pills down with a mouthful of water and sighed.

“I’m sorry,” Jon murmured, but Sansa shook her head.

“Not your fault,” she replied. “For all I know, somebody might have recognized me at the diner or the car shop the other night and figured out where I was staying from there.”

She pushed in vain at the same strand of hair Jon had handled before, which had slipped out of place again. Before she could try again, Jon had reached out and gently tucked it back where it belonged. Sansa’s eyes widened, but before she could say anything, the Escalade ground to a halt and shut off.

“We’re here, kids,” boomed Tormund. It was only then that Jon realized he had been holding onto Sansa the entire time. He released her at once.

“Anyone follow us, Tormund?” he asked, clearing his throat.

“Not for now,” his friend informed him. Jon opened the door and helped Sansa out of the vehicle.

“Thanks,” she murmured, and strode toward the door of the shop. Jon darted over and opened it for her before she reached it. Sansa’s lips twitched again.

“Thanks,” she repeated. Jon walked back over to the Escalade, where Tormund was standing.

“You good to follow us back to Leeds?” he asked. Tormund merely raised an eyebrow.

“Long as I get to drive your pretty car,” he said. He glanced at the door of the car shop and opened his mouth, but shut it again. Jon, who did not want to give him another chance to open it, headed indoors.

It look less than ten minutes for Sansa to pay her bill and retrieve her car keys, which she handed to Jon without much hesitation. Fortunately, they exited the shop with nary a photographer in sight.

“You know,” Sansa said when they reached Jon’s Escalade, “you don’t have to take me all the way to Leeds.” Jon immediately opened his mouth to protest, but she beat him to it.

“I should have thought of it before,” she said, shaking her head, “but I forgot – anyway, on the chance we pick up any paps on the way, I’d rather we meet with Brienne before we hit Leeds. My security guard,” she added, seeing the questions on Jon’s and Tormund’s faces. “The fewer that know where I live, the better.”

Jon could not argue with that, although his chest tightened a bit at the thought of not seeing Sansa safely to her own door. But the longer they sat out in the open and talked, the greater the chance they’d be seen, and Sansa definitely did not need that, even if her pain was not etched into her face as it had been right when she’d injured her elbow.

“All right,” he said. “Where would you like to go?”

A few minutes and a quick phone call from Sansa to her security guard later, she and Jon were ensconced in the front seat of Sansa’s car. Tormund and the Escalade followed them as Jon pulled out onto the street.

Sansa did not speak during the ride to the restaurant where she’d arranged to meet with her security guard. Nor did Jon, whose tight grip on the steering wheel matched the tightness of his focus on the road ahead of him. Occasionally, he glanced into his rearview mirror to see Tormund frowning at him. No doubt the other man was getting impatient at Jon’s refusal to budge over the speed limit, but Jon would be damned if he got them pulled over, or, worse yet, into an accident. His friend could rib him all he wanted and drive back to York like a bat out of hell for all Jon cared, as long as Sansa got to Brienne safely.

Eventually, his GPS chirped at him at the exact same moment Sansa’s soft voice instructed him to move a lane over on the highway. She smiled at the unintended coordination. Jon glanced at her long enough to see the lack of pain in it, and silently thanked God for whoever had invented Tylenol.

Sansa and the GPS both gave excellent directions, and within a few minutes Jon had pulled into the restaurant’s parking lot and parked two spaces over from a shiny black Lexus. As he did, the driver’s side door opened, and a tall woman in a neat pantsuit and short blonde hair stepped out.

“That her?” Jon asked, and Sansa nodded. Only then did Jon unlock the doors. Not that it was anywhere near likely that some pap or other impostor had stolen the vehicle belonging to Sansa’s security guard, but Jon would not take any remote chance he didn’t have to. He allowed himself a derisive laugh when Sansa’s back was turned. How pathetic was it that an actor had to tell himself he’d been watching too much television lately?

“Jon,” Sansa said, turning back in his direction, “this is Brienne Tarth. Brienne, this is – Jon Snow.”

She hesitated just as he had done when introducing her to Tormund. Jon grimaced internally. No doubt Brienne was far less disposed to like him than Tormund had been to like Sansa.

His chest muscles tightened again and even more painfully. Over the past week, he’d gotten used to everyone around him believing that he’d never been unfaithful to Sansa, even if “everyone” only meant Sansa herself. That, however, did not keep him from reaching out to shake Brienne Tarth’s hand.

“Good to meet you,” he said politely. The woman gave him a thin smile and nodded.

“Likewise, Mr. Snow,” she said. Her voice was clipped, professional, and every bit as tight as her grip. Ouch.

Luckily, they were interrupted by the sound of someone’s throat being cleared very loudly. Jon turned to see Tormund standing at his side, appraising the woman as intently as he did any stranger who approached Jon. The woman returned his gaze with an icy one of her own. Jon was only too glad to release her hand.

“Ms. Tarth, this is Tormund Giantsbane, my security,” he said. “Tormund, this is Brienne Tarth, Sansa’s security.”

In the time it took him to make the introduction, Tormund’s gaze had softened from appraisal to something like admiration. Jon, who had seen perhaps two people earn that kind of approval from his guard over the course of their three-year friendship, could only stare. His jaw nearly dropped when he saw Tormund raise an eyebrow and give Sansa’s guard a slow grin.

“Very pleased to meet you, Ms. Tarth,” he said. His smile only widened when Brienne Tarth’s eyes narrowed at him.

“The same, Mr. Giantsbane,” she replied. If her grip surprised Tormund, he did not show it.

“Call me Tormund, Ms. Tarth,” he said, and winked. Brienne Tarth’s expression did not change. After a moment she dropped his hand and turned to Sansa.

“Dacey will be right out,” she said, and Sansa nodded. “She’ll take your car, if you don’t mind.”

Sansa shook her head. “No, go ahead,” she replied. As if on cue, a young woman as short and brunette as Brienne Tarth was tall and blond approached them. Sansa introduced her as Dacey Mormont, another of her security team.

“No relation to Lyanna,” she added, seeing the question on Jon’s face.

Brienne Tarth turned her back on Tormund, who had clearly been about to say something, and turned to speak to Dacey. Sansa was smirking at him when Jon turned back to her.

“I think your security has taken a liking to mine,” she said. Jon rolled his eyes.

“I apologize for him,” he said, “to both of you. I’d trust him with my life, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t act like a cocky arse.” He nodded toward Tormund, whose shoulders had deflated just the slightest bit.

Sansa shook her head. “Don’t worry,” she said. “Brienne’s dealt with worse than that. If she really wanted to let him have it, she’d find a way.”

Jon’s lips twisted despite themselves. He had no doubt that Brienne Tarth could find a way to let anyone have it if she deemed it necessary.

A gust of wind whipped through the gap between the vehicles. Sansa shuddered, and Jon reached over to steady her. Her eyes softened and then widened. She looked like she might say something. She looked like she might throw her arms around him. She looked nervous and hesitant and angelic. Jon could not tear his eyes away from her, even when he heard Brienne Tarth and Dacey Mormont approaching them.

“Please let me know when you get home,” he murmured, and after a long moment Sansa nodded, her eyes still boring into his.

“You too,” she whispered back. The knot in Jon’s chest returned with a vengeance. He could not have said anything, even if he had known what to say. Instead he released her shoulders and moved his hands to cup the sides of her face. His thumbs rubbed her temples as he leaned in to press his lips to her forehead. The warm scent of cinnamon and jasmine and Sansa overwhelmed him, and for several heady moments he felt nothing but her the heat of her body and the smoothness of her forehead and the softness of her hair, and he heard nothing but the dancing rhythm of her breath.

When he drew back, Sansa had closed her eyes. He doubted his ability to let go of her if she opened them, so he turned, thanked both of her guards, and stalked off to the Escalade.

“Don’t bloody start, Tormund,” he growled when the other man entered the vehicle grinning like a Cheshire cat. Tormund raised both hands in mock surrender, but he kept that stupid smile pasted to his face the entire way back to York.

It was not until they were almost there that Jon realized he had never bid Sansa goodbye.

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