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storiesofsvu · 2 years

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Trust Your Gut

Casey x Fem!reader Warnings: language, non detailed physical assault (mainly the aftermath, no descriptions of the actual attack), hurt/comfort, minor angst, fluff otherwise.

This came from another request from @bluetodie S6 Ep20 where her girlfriend is the one in her office instead of Olivia before she’s attacked, but they fight over her dropping the case before r leaves. Episode Summary: Benson & Stabler find a rape murder vic w/$$ shoved in her mouth, after some investigating, at a vigil they find a woman who knows of a bunch of undocumented immigrant women who have been raped by this same dude but for obvious reasons don’t want to come forward. They talk to 1 girl who hands over the $ he gave her, they find the prints of a lawyer (Bradley Cooper) & track down his client but they don’t have anything to pin it on him yet. The girl who talks to the cops gets taken by ICE, then admits to her brother what happens, because she’s “no longer a virgin she’s considered damaged goods and won’t be able to find a husband” her super religious brother is upset by this, blames Casey and ends up assaulting her in her office.

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“I dunno Case, this seems sketchy if you ask me…” You girlfriend quirked a brow at you from across her desk, pausing her pen. She’d been working late on a major case, having to bail on dinner you brought take out to her, you ended up looking over the files (which obviously wasn’t exactly ethical, but hey…) you’d simply gotten a bad vibe.

“Sketchy? Sounds like real legal jargon to me.” You rolled your eyes, as she continued working.

“You know what I mean….there’s a lot off with the whole situation. You’ve got this douche hot shot lawyer covering for his very rich client, who’s also very rich mother happens to have connections with the police chief and mayor?” You were worried, cases like this always ended up rather messy, at best they took a tole on Casey in a way that completely interrupted your home life and relationship, at worst they ended with the A.D.A. getting threats. Hell, she was already so involved with it that she’d barely been home since it had started.

“Baby,” She tossed down the pen this time, rubbing a hand over her face, “You’re being ridiculous.” She was frustrated now, she was thankful for the time spent with you, and the dinner, but truth to be told she really wanted to finish her grand jury speech.

“Ridiculous?” You could feel the air in the room change, “This guy got ICE involved and tried to have your ONE witness deported, then flat out denied it to your face!”

“You know as well as I do that ICE just loves so stick their noses where they don’t belong, it’ll be fine.”

“And what about you? You were getting threats last summer when you tried that case against that Lieutenant’s son.” She flat out rolled her eyes at that, huffing out a groan.

“You really want to do this right now?”

“Do what?!” You snapped, perhaps a little too harshly,

“You think I should drop the case, don’t you?” You sighed heavily,

“I’ve just got this gut feeling about this, something doesn’t seem safe!”

“You sound like a cop.” Casey scoffed, moving back to her paperwork.

“I want you to drop the case.” She threw her pen down hastily, aggravated, voice raised louder than before.

“And I want you to turn around and walk out that door.” You were taken aback, frozen in the moment, sputtering for words.

“Excuse me?!”

“You heard me! We’ll talk about this later, when I’m DONE work.” She spoke as if she was scolding a misbehaving child

“Wow…” You stood, gathering your things quickly as you moved to leave the room, stopping at the door to turn back to her “You know what, keep the case, find out the hard way what fucking happens, I don’t give a shit.” The last part you sneered through your teeth, slamming the door for extra affect on your way out, if she was going to treat you like a fucking child you may as well earn it.

Storming your way out of the DA’s office you started off down the street, you knew there was a bar around the corner, you sure as hell weren’t going to sit at home waiting around twiddling your thumbs for Casey to finish work at some ungodly hour and come yell at you some more.

An hour or so had passed, you’d significantly cooled down after a couple glasses of wine, and kept overplaying the fight in your head. You’d been irritated with how much time Casey was spending at the office, and with the squad recently, you barely saw each other anymore. You lived together, hell you even worked from home most days, yet the bed was always cold when you got into it, and empty when you woke up. You’d let the worry build up over the past few weeks until it exploded out in completely the wrong way, you sighed wearily, settling your tab, knowing you owed her an apology. You really did give a shit, you gave all of the shits, hence wanting her to drop the case.

Upon entering her hallway, you noticed her office was dark and you felt the hairs on the back of your neck prickle. If she’d left for home she would’ve texted or called asking where you were, the two of you liked to sort out any kind of disagreements as soon as you could. You pulled your phone out, finger hovering above Olivia’s name as you crept towards Casey’s office, hesitantly pushing the door open, it appeared empty, so you flicked on the overhead light.

The view in front of you caused you to yelp, gasping instinctively, the office was trashed, but more importantly,

“Casey!” An almost sob wrenched its way from your lips as you dived down next to her unconscious body, one hand gently rolling her over, as the other hit “call” on your phone. “Casey…baby…” The tears burned in your eyes, blurring your view as you tried to assess what the fuck had happened. There was a slowly growing pool of blood near her head, her lip was split and she already had bruises forming on her face and neck. You pulled your hand up to your mouth, thankfully stopping before it got there as you realized it was covered in blood. “Fuck.” A brief mutter as you tore off your sweater, pressing it heavily against the open wound on her abdomen.

“Y/N? Y/N?” The dim voice of Benson came through your phone that you’d completely forgotten about, tossed aside in order to try and save Casey. You took the flash of a second to hit the speaker button,

“Liv! I need help!” You voice was etched with sorrow and fear.

“Y/N, take a breath…where are you? What’s going on?”

“I’m…I’m at Casey’s office…” Something wet hit your hand holding against Casey, when had you started crying? “I don’t know what happened. Fuck..Liv, I need an ambulance, she’s out, and there’s….there’s blood everywhere…”

“Stay there! I’m calling a bus, I’ll be there as soon as I can!”

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Olivia sat beside you in the waiting room of Bellevue, a reassuring hand on your back as it shook with silent sobs, tears streaming down your face. Casey had been taken up to surgery, and the doctors didn’t have much to tell you but that they were doing everything they could. Benson felt your shakes and shudders slow to a rumble as your breathing returned to normal, she offered you another Kleenex, squeezing your shoulder tightly.

“Y/N?” She gently asked, your head turned to look up at her face, “I need to know what happened before you got to Casey’s office…” You took a big sniff, wiping your face free of tears for a moment, sitting back in annoyingly uncomfortable chair.

“I…I brought dinner to her office, I asked her to drop the case…”

“Why?”

“I just had a bad feeling, my gut told me something like this was going to happen.” You hated every part of your being in that moment, you should’ve made her leave with you, fought it out and stayed in the office.

“Sounds like a cop instinct.” Liv smiled softly as you snorted in response,

“That’s what she said…”

“She refused to drop the case?”

“Of course.” You threw your hands out, rolling your head back in frustration, “You know just as well as I do how stubborn she is.” You took a shaky breath, “We got into a fight over it, she kicked me out, when I came back, the office was trashed and she was….she…”You hiccoughed, burying your face in your hands as Olivia gave a gentle rub to your back.

“Y/N, this isn’t your fault. Whoever did this would’ve just hurt you too.”

“Liv, that’s not the problem.” A new wave of tears threatened to spill over your already red raw eyes, the brunette’s brows furrowed at your comment, “The last thing I said to her was that I didn’t give a shit if something bad happened to her over this case.” That was the tipping point to another wave of tears raining down your cheeks, you curled over yourself, still aware of Olivia’s hands around your shoulders.

“Hey…hey…I’m sure she knew it was in the heat of the moment, Casey knows how much you love her, and she loves you so much, she never shuts up about you.” That gained Liv a glance from your face, she passed you what must’ve been the 652nd tissue of the night. You opened your mouth to reply just as a doctor cut you off.

“Detective Benson?” The three of you glanced between each other, he gestured for Olivia to come to him, she confusedly looked over at you, you waved her off.

“Go,” Your demeanour had slid past sad to annoyed, “They won’t tell me anything, I’m not family.”

“But—“ You cut her off with a scoff,

“Doesn’t matter, legalities of it…go.” She squeezed your hand supportively, listening inventively to the doctor before thanking him, crossing back over to you. Your eyes were trained on her the entire time, heart stammering in your chest, you tried to eavesdrop but blood was pounding in your ears the entire time. Olivia had a small smile when she sat back down beside you,

“She’s out of surgery.” You let out a huge breath you hadn’t even realized you’d been holding in, “Doctor said it’s probably going to be a tough recovery, she was beaten pretty bad.” You felt like you needed another sob fest, but you clearly needed to drink some water because there was nothing left in you to cry out,

“How badly?” You managed to whisper out,

“Concussion, likely from blunt force trauma, hence the head laceration, multiple bruises and contusions, a couple broken ribs, one that fractured externally…” Your brain spun, you remembered something hard when you were trying to control the bleeding but thought it was something in her pocket, “Doctor said she would’ve bled out if you hadn’t found her when you did.”

“When can I see her?”

The rest of the night and into the morning was spent curled up in a chair next to Casey’s hospital bed, you held her hand gingerly, trying not to hurt her anymore than she already was. She was still unconscious, nurses said she’d likely be that way for a while, until the anesthesia wore off, and her body decided she’d had enough rest. They moved easily around you while they checked vitals and updated her chart throughout the night. You couldn’t help but feel a raw burning in your gut, seeing the woman you loved so dearly covered in black and blue marks, bandages holding her together, IV in her arm. At some point around the time the sun started to rise your own body gave into exhaustion, still holding her hand, your head found its way onto your folded arms against the bed.

You felt the warmth of daylight, a whisper of movement on the top of your scalp, you hummed lightly in appreciation, your senses slowly waking up, not fully remembering where you were until the gentle beeping rose you fully, either a nurse was playing with your hair, or Casey was conscious! You shot up, nearly straining your neck,

“Case!” You dryly sobbed, you wanted to lunge at her, pull her into the deepest embrace possible, but knew that wasn’t a good idea. She had a half lopsided small grin on her face as she took you in, her thumb stroking the back of your hand.

“What happened?” Her voice was groggy and she was majorly confused, her head pounded and her body ached, she attempted to shift in the bed, wincing heavily at the pain in her abdomen. “I thought I was meeting you for dinner?” Your heart stopped,

“Wh…what?”

“I was with Liv…in the squad room…what happened?” She looked around gingerly, her brain was foggy, it was slowly apparent to her she was in the hospital, and in a lot of pain, “Someone saw, right?”

“Baby…” You reached up to stroke the unbruised side of her face, “We…we were in your office…I brought you dinner…”You debated if you should even bring up the reason you were absent in her attack, it left you with even more guilt than before, “After I left…you were attacked…” Her brows furrowed, turmoil taking over her face.

“I…I can’t remember…” You noticed her eyes get glassy with tears, you moved to lightly sit on the side of the bed, your hand on her cheek to ground her in reality.

“It’s okay baby, you have a concussion. You might not remember…maybe things will come back to you.”

“Why’d you leave?” You sighed, dropping her gaze, if you came to her office after hours, you always left together, it was tradition.

“You…we…there may have been a disagreement…” You muttered, unable to meet her eyes, “Baby I’m so sorry.” You choked back another sob, “I shouldn’t’ve left…I should’ve made you come with me, then maybe this wouldn’t have happened…”

You were interrupted by a nurse at that point, you backed off the bed, letting them do their job, sending a quick text to Olivia that Casey was conscious, but couldn’t remember the attack. Turned out Elliot had spent the night going over security footage and they already had the guy, thank god.

Casey had spent the following week in the hospital before being discharged to bed rest for minimum of a week before she was told to “take it easy” as she started PT into her recovery. You’d doted on her hand and foot, making sure she was getting enough rest, the right food, and not overdoing (or under-doing) it on the pain medication. Casey had been healing better than you’d expected, the bruises faded to the ugly green yellow from purple and black, her head lac was practically sealed, her ribs were settling back to where they were supposed to be (though that incision was still pretty rough on her) and she’d mentioned that things were simply “really blurry and cloudy” rather than completely black after she left the squad room. Currently, you sat against the headboard, Casey curled up on your chest between your legs while you absentmindedly played with her hair, your other fingers linked through hers sitting on your thigh. Your most recent Netflix binge played on the TV for the millionth hour.

“You wanted me to drop the case…” She murmured against your skin softly, the hand in her hair frozen momentarily.

“What?” Your voice was quiet, just above a whisper.

“You wanted me to drop the case…that’s why you left…” You sighed, happy her memories were coming back but also worried about the fight blowing things up again.

“Yeah…but Casey…fuck…I shouldn’t have left, I’m so sorry I did…” She stopped you before you could continue, kissing your intertwined hands lovingly.

“Your gut was right…maybe you should think about being a cop.” You laughed at that, and could see the smile on her face,

“Yeah right! The day I become a cop is the day you quit being a lawyer.” She hummed in response, snuggling deeper against you.

“I know we must’ve fought that day baby, and I’m sorry. I don’t know what I said but I do know that I fucking love you more than anything.” Casey readjusted, wincing slightly, so that she could see your face, “Don’t ever forget it.” You beamed down at her, happy tears daring to make their appearance in your eyes.

“I’m sorry too Case. It was uncalled for. And wow do I ever love you,” You tucked your head to kiss the top of her hair, “Never forget it okay.”

“I won’t,” She kissed your chest lightly, “I also won’t forget to trust your gut ever again.” You chuckled at that, stroking down her face. “And next time you want me to drop a case, I will. You mean more to me than work ever could. I hope you know that.”

“Only if you know you mean the world to me baby.” She smiled brightly up at you, squeezing your hand as she turned her attention back to the TV, cuddling her way deeper against you, humming in satisfaction. You were both incredibly happy, you knew that fights would come and go, you knew you’d have way worse ones than that, but you knew that at the end of the day, you were coming home to each other, and you’d sort them out, able to curl up in each others loving arms by nightfall.

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hermitcraftheadcanons · 4 years

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To Do List:

What's up, my Herd of Nerds?

Anyway, as you can tell, tomorrow is AU Sunday. But, because it's one after a 'my input' one, it's a follower input AU day! Yay!

So, send me your AUs and I'll put all of em in a hat to pick one randomly. The winner is picked and posted and we'll all try and make headcanons about your AU.

Done:

Zombie Apocalypse AU :: (https://hermitcraftheadcanons.tumblr.com/post/618314308275863552/zombie-apocalypse-au-masterpost)

Pirate AU ::

Currently In The Raffle:

-Toy Story AU.

-Ever After High/Descendants/Vaguely 'nex gen priness' AU.

-Eldritch Horror AU :: Or if that's a bit too out there, a more normal Monster AU. I don't care, but in my heart, I know Cleo is some kind of eldritch horror. Zombie is far too easy.

-Eldritch Monster AU! Hermits are all Lovecraftian horrors who all individually decided that they wanted to pretend to be normal and are all trying to hide their otherworldliness. I also feel like Mumbo or X or someone as the one actually "normal" player on the server would work well. Most hermits don't know that everyone else isn't normal either, but some find out about friends maybe.

-Rabid Debate Club AU :: Random weird au idea where it's basic hs/uni au but like two of them try to start a debate club, then invite some friends just so there's enough people; cut to like two months later, it's all the hermits just fighting over whether or not pineapple should go on pizza or not lol it isn't very good i'm sorry but ya know rabid debate club AU.

-Animal/shapeshifting AU :: (Suggested Twice.) Every hermit can shapeshift into one token animal. (If it's something like "dog," they can only turn into one breed and color of dog, EXAMPLE: doc can shift into a black sable belgian malinois, but not anything else.)

-Wedding Planners AU :: Hermits work in various unrelated businesses such as a bakery, flower shop, etc., but see each other semi-often bc they're semi-often called upon to work together by another hermit's wedding planning business (obvs if you couldn't tell i know absolutely nothing abt wedding planning & businesses n shit lol but it's the /concept/ of it yannknow)

-Avatar: The Last Air Bender AU. (Suggested Thrice.)

-Fusion AU :: (Also suggested by Anon.) (Suggested Twice.) What if Hermits could fuse with each other? (Viva and Jumbo fused into MumboJumbo.)

-SCP AU :: The hermits have spooky powers and are kept locked up bc of it (or they have to keep the world safe from monsters and cursed objects!)

-RPG AU :: I feel like someone already thought of that but I am just wondering about it lately :p -🍋

-Adventure Time AU :: The hermits live in a post-apocalyptic world and the Lich (bad guy) is making everything decay. They need to gather all the gems (belt colours) to unlock the Enchiridion (a book) and have one wish each granted from Prismo (multiverse wish granting dude) before the Lich does. Only 4 elements can enter the multiverse: Slime (The Lich & Jevin), Redstone (Tango or Mumbo?), Ice (Stress), and Dirt (Grian, much to his dismay). Only the elementals can see the book. Grian's the protagonist with his sidekick Scar. He originally started collecting the belts because they were shiny but eventually decided to read the book and find out what they were for when Scar said he didn't see it. Doc, False, and Iskall are major obstacles because they don't believe the book exists.</p>

-Total Drama Island AU.

-Magical Girl AU :: Zedaph's the lead magical girl and rounds up a bunch of other magical girl hermits.

-Pokeman AU :: What are the Hermit's roles in this world? Who's the Champion, Elite Four. Are they scientists? Trainers? Do they compete in competitions, do they specialize in types? Who's everyone's starter? Has anyone encountered any legendaries?

-College AU

-High School AU

-Wizard101 AU :: I (🦊) recently got this AU idea and recently started going off somewhere with it in terms of writing, but, like, Hermitcraft meets Wizard101. Tons and tons of magical shenanigans, monster hunting, and idk what else.

-Magic AU

-My Hero Academia AU :: Headcanons can be about which hermits would have what quirks and occupations based on them.

-So I'm writing an AU where there's a second game of Demise but 5 years later. So far the first 2 hermits (Joe and Xisuma) have died, and their dead forms are cracked with an arrow in his chest (Xisuma) and cyborg (Joe). So since it's Saturday, I'm looking for what some skins would look for.

-City AU :: I mean this is really just a normal everyday AU.

-School AU.

-Terraria-Minecraft Fusion AU :: Who chooses what class? what events do each hermit prefer? how to they deal with the world infections? preferred biomes? Favourite NPCS? It has potentiallllll.

-70s/80s Teen Horror AU :: (like Stranger Things, Carreie, The Lost Boys, Halloween, etc.) -🦇

-Demi-God AU :: Sort of like percy jackson (everyone being the children of different gods from all different cultures.)

-Supernatural AU

-Marching Band AU :: Xisuma is the band major and all the show music is the remixes. I need to come up with some ideas for uniforms. Outfits and flags for the colorguard too.

-Different Eras AU :: (Suggested Twice.) All the hermits are from different time periods or eras. Like Wels is from the mediveal/dark era, Mumbo is from 1890-1920's, Iskall is from 2030, TFC is from 2020(?), Cleo is from 2130, etc!!! Like the mobs/animals became feused with humans, is when the mob players came from.

-Star Trek AU :: Like maybe they could be on one ship and each have different roles like engineers or doctors? I don’t know if this has been suggested but hope you enjoy! - 🐦

-House Mates AU :: ApartmentAU but scaled down?

-Atlantis AU :: (Could be merged with Mermaid AU???)

-Fighting Game AU :: Some influences would be Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, and Ultra Instinct, that kind of stuff.

-Time loop AU :: The hermits each have to deal with their own time loop.

(All those above in red are from our community's lovely Anons!)

-Superhero/superpower AU :: They each have a unique power/powerset that is in some way connected to their personality. (ie Mumbo *could* control electricity because of his love of redstone) Some Hermits may even choose to be "villains" and prank their other servermates. If you need power ideas, I've got a couple. (12u3ie)

-Daycare AU :: The recap peeps are the caretakers :P (-@tikauniverse.)

-Incredibly Long Cross Country Train Ride AU :: they all are in the same train car, telling stories of where they’re going, backstories.)

-Stuck In An Airport AU :: pretty similar to train au but they can be going diff places.

-Doctors AU :: they’re all doctors working at the same hospital.)

-Circus AU (Also suggested by an Anon.) (Suggested Twice.)

-Spy AU (Also suggested by @shadeswiftdraws.) (Suggested Twice.)

-Runaways AU :: The hermits are all teenagers who have run away from home, they all live on the streets until TFC takes them in. Head canons can be about backstories, living on the streets, or when they’re with TFC.

-Criminals and Police Officers AU

(-@lookitsspacekween)

-Dancer AU :: I mean, I already got a list kind of planned out, but headcanons for why specific styles are chosen would be appreciated! :) (usedtobelucythefallenangel)

-Broadway/Musicals Hermits AU :: The hermits are all casts of various musicals and when this newly-built theater opens up they all fight for which musical gets to play in it first (they have a riff-off maybe?) musicals mainly included are Hamilton, BMC, DEH, SiX, Beetlejuice, etc (feel free to add more!) (-@heyitsroby.)

-DnD AU (Also suggested by Anon.) (Suggested twice.)

-Mermaid AU :: In honor of the end of Mermay

-Space exploration AU :: There could be different ships, command centers, aliens.... Maybe someone could even get stranded/crash on a new planet? Who knows, could be fun.

-Paranormal/ghost hunter AU :: A couple Hermits could be the ghost hunters going to haunted locations to prove/disprove their hauntedness, others could be camera crew, owners of haunted buildings, or even the ghosts themselves.

-Camping/Vacation AU.

-Summer Cottage AU :: They all spend summers/weekends along the same shoreline and do different summer activities together. Outdoor fun and shenanigans!

-Space AU :: like star trek or similar.

-I would say evil clone au but I think that's pretty much the entire Hermitcraft tumblr right now lol. (Suggested twice.)

(-@shadeswiftdraws.)

-Magic AU :: Magic exists and all the hermits have powers. They can also summon a weapon but what that weapon is depends on the hermit. I'm thinking it'll take place in a sort-of Demise 2 in S7 with a big war. So far I've got: Grian - Cloning himself to his different personas (each has a different power). Xisuma - Making barriers, teleporting, and transforming into different mobs. Scar - Making mutant plants & boosting other hermits' attack & health. (-@datsaltyperson.)

-Demon AU :: Something enters the overworld and turns into a supernatural style-demon through Dimentional Distortion. Who gets posessed first, who goes crazy, and who actually kills it? Honestly I think that, if anything, Tango would know how to gank it, for obvious reasons. (-@fireflower-dusk.)

-High Street AU :: Everyone owns a different shop on the same street or some run a shop together (-@violets-arepurple.)

-Cat AU :: Either they're were always cats, or Hels turned everyone, including himself, into a cat, and they have to survive and overcome challenges in the Season 7 world. An example of a challenge would be Cub's a Sand Cat(the cats that always look like kittens no matter how old they are and live in deserts), and everyone's not sure if he can actually swim, so they have to find a way for him to get around without involving water. (-@scp10000.)

-How about a secret AU.. Every hermit has their big secrets and when Grian joined. He doesn't really know anything about those secrets even till season 7. Not many hermits talked to him in S6 anyway.. Mumbo was the closest to him so they would have regular chats For Iskall is mostly business related things Grian wants to know why so he set out on a quest to force the others to at least talk to him so he wouldn't be lonely. (-@babylightstudentbiscuit.)

-Hermit Family AU :: Xisuma is very busy dad but when he isnt busy the kids and younger hermits annoying the hell out of him. Grian once asked to use Xisuma's computer and crashed the whole thing trying to download illegal gamesites and get money off the internet. Mumbo and his trains run through the entire house and Xisuma trips on them daily. (-@gamerutx.)

-College AU!! But they are not students. THEY ARE THE TEACHERS (-@ivi-prism.)

Ones I planned to do anyway but Hermitblr Hivemind and all that:

Battle of The Bands AU: i believe u once mentioned a bands/ battle of the bands au... thats my jam... (Anon.)

#hcraft #hermitcraftheadcanons #raffle day #notaheadcanon #masterpost #au to do list

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j-philly-b · 7 years

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OUaT 7x02 – Thoughts & Observations

“I’ll send an SOS to the world; I hope that someone gets my message in a bottle.”

- The Police, Message in a Bottle

Ugh, seriously? We’re back to this bullshit? I thought we were done with the realm that shall not be named. But no, instead we’re going to be reminded of it on a weekly basis. Or at least I will be, because my anger over that entire plotline is unflagging.

But I am talented in unhealthy avoidance techniques, and will likely continue on because (1) I am a glutton for punishment, (e) Colin O’Donoghue’s face, and (!) I can’t stop myself from trying to puzzle this show out. Hi, my name is Joanne and I can’t get OUaT.

Random Thoughts:

I was not prepared to say goodbye to Killian Jones, he of the multiple redemption and hero arcs. It was that and the high expectations I had for a story written by Jane and Jerome that left me in a pit of despair after the episode was over. I’ve gone through my stages of grief, I am almost at acceptance, almost.

I am relieved that CS have their happy ending/beginning together in SB. While I’m in the they don’t need a baby to be happy camp, it’s a fine development and everyone’s fic with a CS kid post-S6 is perfectly valid and canon compliant. So there’s that!

I know that many viewers, including myself, took Emma and Killian’s concern as an implication that they had a difficult time conceiving, maybe even suffering a miscarriage at some point. I’m going to go the lighter route and assume that Killian’s penchant for leather pants and skinny jeans slowed down the baby making process, which is why we saw him show up in the alt!EF in regular blue jeans.

I loved how Killian jumped into action and was instantly stabby as soon as he and Regina showed up in response to Henry’s call. Struck me as a very strong parental instinct to go on the offensive like that when you get a distress call from your kid.

Emma tells Henry that she has to give Henry what he gave her – family, and she starts by giving him Hook 2. Then Henry keeps Regina – and no one in SB is complaining because obviously Regina has absolutely nothing in SB and can walk away on a whim, what else do you do with a middle-aged woman with no spouse or child to look after?

I’m bitter because I can’t believe A&E or J&J put me in a position to feel defensive over Regina.

Interesting that being in the alt!EF meant that Regina and Emma’s magic wouldn’t work. But here’s the thing, Regina’s use of magic in the beginning showed us two things – her magic worked when she was protecting her TL, but didn’t work when she was to cast a locator spell. Subtle foreshadowing of what was to come later with Emma and Hook 2.

Hook 2 using Killian’s blood to become him may have created a deeper connection than simply surface appearance. So not only was Emma able to connect to him by recognizing the man he could be, used to be, but maybe whatever it is that makes TL a physical manifestation was also able to recognize something in Hook 2 because of that blood connection? I’m not being clear, but I think this blood connection and TL is going to come up again for Hook 2 and his daughter. I am really leaning toward the daughter being created using some form of blood magic.

So Hook 2 has a daughter and now we’re going to be following his story. In a way, it makes sense, it allows CS peace and to continue living their happily ever after without unnecessary angst and separation. I just don’t know if I feel as invested in Hook 2 as I was in Killian Jones.

I had work it out in my head when Hook 2’s path diverged from Killian. I’m going with the wish realm diverging at the point of the flashbacks in the Cricket Game – in the wish realm Snow’s attempt to banish Regina worked, and she was no longer a threat to them from that point on. Therefore, Hook 2 never sang with Snowing and did not kill his father to leave Liam 2.0 an orphan out for revenge.

“I’ve always tried to do good.” Where did that come from with Hook 2? Did he turn around when his daughter was born? Was that his “you can be a part of something” moment?

I’m assuming his fall back into darkness was when his heart was poisoned/cursed and he was stopped from seeing his daughter. I’m just… ARGH!!! Another Hook redemption arc? Yeah, I’m still not quite over it yet.

Hook 2 roaming the realms looking for TL to cure his poisoned/cursed heart and then trying to use Killian’s connection with Emma for that purpose tells us what? That Hook 2 thought himself incapable of TL, and maybe now feels guilty that he didn’t try hard enough or believe in himself enough to save his daughter? That now that he has his second chance he will fulfill his role as his daughter’s white knight?

I like the carry through to HH and seeing that Rogers does not like hearing Henry’s daughter referred to as a vulnerability.

Roger’s curse memories of Emma are not too far afield from the truth. Their cursed personalities aren’t too far off from their true-selves either. Very unlike Regina’s curse when she tried to suppress people’s true selves. We’ve seen how Jacinda isn’t afraid to push back against Victoria, how Rogers, Regina, and Henry were able to come together easily, and how Rumple is on the periphery of that as well. So was the curse cast for evil intent or not?

Ok, so I think I called it last week with Weaver being the one to get Rogers promoted and reassigned to him. I’m sticking with my theory that Rumple knows what is going on and is more involved in the curse than we think at this point. It was more heavy-handed in this episode, mainly because there was more Weaver in this episode, but I’m fine with a Rumple that plays on both sides of the fence. I’m wondering if Weaver’s relationship with Victoria is a case of keeping your enemies close?

Interesting that Weaver was not included in the final scene with Roni, Rogers, and Henry.

Also interesting that Weaver doesn’t push Roni when she says no, not the tactic we’ve been lead to believe he usually follows.

The shot of Weaver and Rogers from behind the bookcase in Henry’s apartment was great. The view of them was slightly obscured, Rogers is in the light, Weaver is in the dark. I like how it framed their characters at that point in time.

The matching denim jackets of Rogers and Weaver, was there a Starsky & Hutch in the alt!EF?

So Weaver was testing Rogers’ moral core, why?

Hook 2 is very good at strategizing, probably all the chess, but Rogers was way ahead of Weaver when he thought to grab Henry’s keys before they left the apartment. Not a surprise that Rogers has a healthy distrust of Weaver and can look out for himself.

Random Observations:

Why are there no evil Kermit memes with Hook 2 in the hood confronting Killian?

Captain Youthful!

I also liked Killian referring to Hook 2 and his existence in the realm to be ignored as a bad dream, not real, a cracked mirror, and a twisted version of the truth.

Why do LT and Tiana jump to Henry being in love with Cinderella/Jacinda? They’ve known each other a total of ten minutes.

THE HAND!!!

Henry is a total hipster.

“I gotta hop.” “You must have a fairy godmother somewhere.” Tiana gets all the good lines.

Lady Tremaine uses that wand a helluva a lot for someone who doesn’t rely on magic.

Ok, but what did Gabrielle’s teenage daughter think about her mother getting all up in Colin’s face like that?

Tune in next week when Weave tests out his Welsh accent!

The Nancy Drews! Even before Weaver pulled the book off the shelf, I knew what they were by the yellow binding. My dad bought me one a week for a little over a year when I was kid. I’m getting teary just thinking about it…

Henry looking for buried family and “keeps hitting dead ends”? Yeesh

Ivy wearing a green shirt with fleur de lis in her first scene with Jacinda – green for a reason?

Jacinda can save herself. We get it, we’ve also heard it before.

How exactly did Hook 2 wind up stabbed?

Emma does have a little bit of a bump when they’re sitting on that log.

Why is Killian so angry when he throws that bean? Does he know Emma has terrible aim when it comes to portals and he’s worried she might run on the wrong side of it?

Henry creeping on Cinderella’s bedroom.

Of course Killian has another magical method of communication. Shellphones, messages in a bottle, does he keep a coop for talking seagulls on the Jolly Roger as well, enchanted semaphore flags?

Ok, Killian and Regina discussing Emma was about 10x more overdramatic than it needed to be.

Emma is “the mother [Henry] wanted, a hero.” That’s gotta be a kick in the gut to Regina.

God damnit Henry, operation glass slipper is still going on and now you’re staring operation next chapter? Get your shit together kid.

Colin wetn super-irish at the end when Rogers was telling his story to Henry, yes?

Were the hair extensions for Emma totally unnecessary? Or are saviors like Samson and lose their power if they get a haircut? Wait, is that why Rumple got a haircut at the beginning of s6? It was a hint that he was a powerless savior?! AHA! I’ve cracked the code!! Sorry, there are certain storylines I will never not be bitter about

Why is Tilda Swinton doing adverts for Lyft? Someone write an androgynous preternatural character for that woman stat! Speaking of, I need to rewatch Orlando, it’s been way too long…

#ouat 7x02 #ouat speculation #ouat s7 spec #thinking it ouat #random thoughts & obs

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