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sometimes-petty · 13 days

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italians will do anything but be chill about midday

#broke: bell towers full-on ringing in celebration #woke: random nuclear siren with no explanation #bespoke: the fucking midday cannon shot in Rome #italian affairs

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tomwambsgans · 11 months

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the interim+s4 tomgreg dynamic developing from tom essentially symbolically marrying greg through buying greg's soul but still hanging onto his literal, rotting marriage, and therefore unable to fulfill his relationship with greg... filling in the negative space with meaningless proxy-sex (that doesn't even progress to sex anyway) ie: going back to an early 2000s-esque era of toxic-masculine-homoeroticism that they'd never actually had before, regularly getting drunk together and saying shit he doesn't mean - just to fill the space - about scoping out ladies, getting notches in the chart, being the disgusting brothers... all of it literally just being things that tom is saying and not feeling and not realizing that greg doesn't know that he's not feeling it, greg is operating as though it's real, greg is in fact using this tool of homoeroticism with not just more enthusiasm but more intuition than tom is bc he will take absolutely anything he can from tom... he will take some offhanded comment about a party being "titty town" and go to all this effort to make it so, for tom, so that they can just be sexual together in the same vicinity.... and neither of them are actually having sex at all! they're moving through the most frustrating limbo of being so so close but with no release, not with each other because tom's marriage remains a wall and also not outside of each other because they don't actually want anyone but each other...... they're like literally not capable of fulfilling desire with anyone else but they also can't be together bc of the illusion they've created about being with other people. but you know you KNOW that now that tom's got the chair and he brought greg with him, and he's successfully got a vaccuum seal on his rotting marriage, that the direction that they've been angled toward these past months with all these walls in the way - being truly alone together, no caveats, no need for a proxy, no negative space, just them and everything that they need from each other spilling out between them... is right around the fucking corner.

#tomgreg #mine #meta #writing gold room satisfied a need to see a culmination asap #but i really need to read a good like. post-finale vacation fic where they begin an affair in a less explosive way #i need something like watchfuldeer's italian vacation sims post

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stupid-sloot-headcanons · 3 months

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John is another problematic Sopranos fave. The man puts up with no fatphobic remarks about his wife's weight, insists to Tony that women's body issues are different bc of their image and expectations (esp after giving birth) and that he still loves her and finds her beautiful but still supports her trying to lose weight with WW, fasting, exercise videos and shit.

The man gets so upset at hearing about Ralphie's remark that he beats one of Ralphie's guys and pisses on him. He didn't even say anything, he was just sick of thinking about it

#also is Furio gonna try to get with Carmela???? like shes earned an affair with a younger Italian dude but...#girl you're going from one toxic man to another. get the dick if you want but then get out #sloot watches #.sopranos #also i love Meadow but her privileged performative activism is so on point and so infuriating #shes willing to lecture everyone around her while still benefiting from her family's wealth privilege and comfort

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sinnerista · 7 months

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Jannik santo subito

#or president of Italy ad interim #I would let him take care of all national affairs #I’d also let him raise my kids if I had any #the most reliable Italian I know #Davis cup #jannik sinner #Malaga 2023

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redgoldblue · 5 months

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#The Man From UNCLE #The Bow-Wow Affair #adored the entire episode but this was an unavoidable comparison #especially loved that illya finally got an illya-centric ep and managed to get not one but two love interests in it #caro mio I think you should come inside with me. hello?? hello.#he deserves it. i hope he had a lovely time briefly recuperating with the italian dog specialist #of course he does come out of it and immediately name the fox Napoleon so maybe it just made him miss his partner #the ambiguously italian *checks notes* tripping over a cat specialist #mine

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cantsayidont · 8 months

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December 1992. I've never quite made up my mind about this graphic novel, originally released as a slim, very expensive hardcover, and intended as the definitive origin of Ra's al Ghul. Here are some pros and cons:

It's the best Batman story Denny O'Neil ever wrote, at least from the standpoint of execution. A lot of O'Neil's classic Batman stories were written as inventory stories, and feel like it; were it not for Neal Adams' art on some of them, they would not be nearly as highly regarded as they now are, and some are real stinkers. In construction, theme, characterization, and mood, this might be his most accomplished comics work.

It's appalling Orientalist hokum, even for O'Neil. In the interests of avoiding any possible politicization of Ra's al Ghul (who is fundamentally an Arab version of Fu Manchu, much as O'Neil and Adams tried to deny it), his origin is set in a fantasy Arabian kingdom that no longer exists and has no sense of actual place or period — lazy, non-confrontational worldbuilding for white readers who consider 1,001 Nights too gritty and realistic.

I've never liked Norm Breyfogle's art, so having him draw this important story was not a plus. (I know some people love Breyfogle's work, it's fine, a matter of taste, don't @ me.)

It has some of Breyfogle's best pencils, but the painted color was a mistake. Painted comics were briefly "in" around this time, and I guess it was a way to add a sense of occasion, but it tends to undermine the penciled art, which is admittedly quite good.

I'm not convinced Ra's al Ghul needed — or benefited from having — a real origin. O'Neil does try to hedge this in the text by presenting the origin as the account of a now-dead former associate, the veracity of which would be nigh-impossible to verify, but as with the Joker's origin in THE KILLING JOKE, once it was out there, it was going to be treated as canonical unless someone made an active effort to debunk it. I tend to think a character like Ra's al Ghul works better if Bruce is never quite sure how much is real and how much is smoke and mirrors, which was certainly the vibe in O'Neil's earlier Ra's stories. I always assumed that one of the reasons O'Neil was so antipathetic to Ra's stories he didn't write was that they were too literal, so I dunno.

It's better than its immediate predecessors, SON OF THE DEMON (which has lovely Jerry Bingham art for a frustrating story) and BRIDE OF THE DEMON (which has no virtues I can think of), but every time I look at this book, all I can do is sigh and click my teeth.

#comics #batman #birth of the demon #denny o'neil #norm breyfogle #ra's al ghul #bruce wayne #talia al ghul #this story effectively decanonizes marv wolfman's “the lazarus affair” from 1980–1981 #and to some extent son of the demon (which I guess o'neil really didn't like) although morrison later tried to hybridize them #son of the demon feels too much like an '80s bond movie #and has some unnecessarily ugly violence that drags down the vibe #bride of the demon feels like a low-budget italian knockoff of american blockbusters #made with props left over from another movie with lots of stock footage and terrible dubbing #no scratch that it makes it sound better than it actually is

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mariocki · 1 year

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RIP Ruggero Deodato (7.5.1939 - 29.12.2022)

"I've been doing the rounds for about ten years, doing the festivals, where I'm invited for Cannibal Holocaust, you know, and other fairly violent movies; festivals that specialise in exploitation style movies. The people I've met there, the fanbase, the people who actually pay to go and see the movies, the people who take part, are the nicest, most lovely people I've ever met. They may be scary in appearance, with piercings, tattoos and stuff, but they arrive at these conventions with their kids in the prams, dressed up as little devils, but it's like a carnival. They changed my mind about people's appearance; they're incredibly peaceful. These festivals, these conventions, are about having fun in a very peaceful way; it's just a fun weekend."

#ruggero deodato #italian cinema #rip #death ment tw #film director #cannibal holocaust #uomini si nasce poliziotti si muore #live like a cop die like a man #una ondata di piacere #ultimo mondo cannibale #concorde affaire '79 #la casa sperduta nel parco #the house on the edge of the park #raiders of atlantis #cut and run #body count #the barbarians #phantom of death #un delitto poco comune #vortice mortale #the washing machine #ohhh this season has been a ruthless one #whilst my thoughts on Cannibal Holocaust (far and away Deodato's most successful and well known film) are complicated and honestly change #from day to day‚ I will say without reservation that it is probably the most intelligent and the most genuinely artistic of the italian #cannibal cycle of films. the intense focus on that film does seem to have robbed Deodato of some recognition if only for the bredth of his #filmography; he became the cannibal man‚ but he worked in poliziotteschi‚ slasher‚ comedy‚ erotica. films like Phantom of Death and #Live Like a Cop deserve to be a little better known and there are other films of his that are frustratingly still not widely available in #the english speaking world. here's to a retrospective. rip Ruggero‚ you rascally old provocateur. sleep tight

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groovytimes · 1 year

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Every time I tell people what my dad used to do, they’re super impressed and think I grew up a little rich. The only thing I got from his job was instability, and the inability to form deep friendships.

#Personal Ramblings #he worked for the ministry of foreign affairs for the Italian government #he was a diplomat #and we were never rich I wish that was the case

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all-mirrors · 1 year

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#if anyone still remembers the Gossip from S*cily and how two interns had an affair with two guys from the office where we worked #apparently these italian men have affairs with their interns on a regular basis and are 'competing' who is going to sleep with more interns #they really treat these internships as a dating service for them #which is very………….. 😵‍💫 of them #my flatmate and i were joking how we should seduce the guy from the office who came to our flat several times to fix the water problem #maybe it would have been easier than we imagined......francesco we could have had it all but alas........

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redandblackmovie · 1 year

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If you like heist movies, reblog this so I can follow you!

#heist #heist movie #heist film #money heist #leverage #the thomas crown affair #kaleidoscope #mission impossible #oceans eleven #the italian job #now you see me

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breitzbachbea · 1 year

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At least I cannibalism blogged today. At least I did that.

#beablabbers #AND it was about the unhealthy codependent relationship of the Bontades #which I do not talk about enough that shit weird as all hell #feel free to ask me about it #or read Irish Problems and Italian Affairs about it IP that doesn't suck ass will take two more years tho #im sorry I should quit ragging on it other ppl liked it but everyone is so ooc

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illustraction · 2 years

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A TICKLISH AFFAIR (1963) - LONG LEGS ON LARGE MOVIE POSTERS (Part 8/10)

Another gorgeous pairs of perfect pins painted by Silvano ‘Nano’ Campeggi for the Italian release of the 1963 romantic comedy starring Shirley Jones

Director: George Sidney Actors: Gig Young, Shirley Jones

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#illustraction Gallery #illustraction #A Ticklish Affair #George Sidney #Gig Young #shirley jones #movies #Movie Poster #Italian movie poster #1963 #vintage #film #great legs #jambes #piernas #gambe

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cinemaquiles · 1 year

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O CINEMA DE RUGGERO DEODATO EM DEZ FILMES PARA CONHECER OU REVER SEU TRABALHO!

#ruggero deodato #italian director #italian movie director #i quattro del pater noster #western movie #concorde affaire #the house on the edge of the park #horror movies #i predatori di atlantide #trash movies #ultimo mondo cannibale #cannibal movies #the barbarians #lone runner #minaccia d'amore #live like a cop die like a man #un delitto poco comune #David Hess

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matt-at-pencils · 11 days

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Matteo Piantedosi

Italian politician

#matt #caricature #illustration #pencil #matt at pencils #italian politician #politician #home affairs #piantedosi

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hotvintagepoll · 28 days

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LAST POLL OF ROUND 6

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Ingrid Bergman (Gaslight, Casablanca, Notorious)—A lot of the time hotness in a movie is just about words and framing. "You're the most beautiful person here" [vaseline lens] well I sure hope so because that's who you cast. But when, in Casablanca, they call Ingrid Bergman the most beautiful woman in the world... they were not fucking lying. And such a dynamite actor too!! I'd only seen Casablanca up until last year, and there she's confined to love interest. But in Gaslight she was maybe one of the most incredible actors I've ever seen!!!! Goddddd shes so fucking hot and cool.

Lauren Bacall (To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, Key Largo)—"Just put your lips together...and blow" excuse me ma'am i'm briefly going to turn into a kettle. She's the quintessential Femme Fatale who may betray me in the end but I'd let her it'd be worth it

This is round 6 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

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Ingrid Bergman:

God, she's fantastic. She's both beautiful and a compelling actor who's more than capable of putting the whole movie on her shoulders if necessary. It's worth noting that while her beauty is conventional, she was seen as refreshingly "natural" with more eyebrows and less makeup than many other leading ladies of the time. She's well known for her role in Casablanca, but in Notorious, Spellbound, (both available on archive.org ) and Gaslight (1944) she shows how immensely capable she is.

I mean...she's Ingrid Bergman. I feel like that should be enough, you know? She's physically beautiful (her eyes!) but watching her is like a transcendent experience. Her voice, her expressions... beautiful woman, beautiful actor.

I'm a gay man but even I understand her appeal. I'll watch any movie she shows up in. Gorgeous woman.

Just try and watch her movies without sighing wistfully, then get back to me!

Choosing 1-3 movies where Bergman was at her hottest was agony because, of course, she was always at her hottest. Not just because she was beautiful but because she was absolutely willing to go up against the bs women in Hollywood were constantly dealing with. When exiled from Hollywood for having an affair with Roberto Rossellini, not only did she refuse to apologize at any point, but she went on to say that Hollywood's films had grown stagnant and boring to her. Though she said she appreciated her time working there, she wanted to try new, different techniques (hence starring in Italian neorealist films, working on stage, and acting under directors like Ingmar Bergman). She was not afraid to chase after her artistic ideals and go outside the box regardless of what society had to say about it. From her first movie to her last she killed it. There's so much more to say about Bergman's career and life, but I've already written five million words so I'll stop at that.

One of the most incredible actors I've ever seen on film. Her facial expressions are so intricate and poignant that I cannot look away. I'm either ace or straight, but damn she made me question that.

SEVEN TIME OSCAR NOMINEE QUEEN. Girl also PULLED, having affairs with famously hot men Gary Cooper and Gregory Peck IN ADDITION to her three marriages...sexy

She has a very natural beauty to her, and she's from Sweden!

She left Hollywood and only became more beautiful. You could drown in her eyes. She can look innocent AND like she's seen it all. She is effortlessly elegant. She's played Joan of Arc (automatically hot) AND was in the movie that coined gaslight as a term. And where would we be without that!

She was known for being a breath of fresh air on the movie scene at the time with her windswept hair, dreamy smile and soulful eyes. I have loved her in every movie I have seen her in - she was just magnetic!

Where do I even start. There's a neighborly quality to this beautiful, talented actress that makes her hotness one of a kind and her looks impossible to forget

With a career spanning five decades, Bergman is often regarded as one of the most influential screen figures in cinematic history. Known for her naturally luminous beauty, Bergman spoke five languages – Swedish, English, German, Italian and French – and acted in each.

She's hot, don't get me wrong, but I've always found her very approachable, like she could easily be a member of my friend group

Where do I even begin with Ingrid Bergman? I fell in love with her with her astounding performance in the 1956 version of Anastasia -- the best Anastasia movie in large part due to her wonderful and touching performance. She's got this amazing, fascinating intensity to her in whatever role she's in. She commits 100%, and she's got this light in whatever she's in that's stunning. She's utterly convincing no matter what she plays, from an amnesiac possible lost princess, from a nun, from a woman taking her revenge on the town that wronged her, to light romantic comedy. She's never missed in any role I've seen her in! Also she became quite the MILF.

Lauren Bacall:

"She is soooo neat. And hot. And everything. That one scene in To Have and Have Not where she says "you know how to whistle don't you? You just put your lips together and blow" altered my brain chemistry during media archaeology class and here we are."

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"The VOICE, the SLINK, the EYES. Woof."

"Lauren Bacall was a major lesbian awakening for me. Every picture of her makes it look like she’s about to destroy you physically and emotionally (why is that so hot, I may need help). She had incredible long running chemistry with her husband, Humphrey Bogart, but was an absolute star in her own right. I’ll never be over my crush on her."

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"She's got that confident, no-nonsense air about her. She's a boss babe who knows what she wants and gets it DONE. Staunch liberal Democrat her whole life. Campaigned for RFK. From Wikipedia: "In a 2005 interview with Larry King, Bacall described herself as "anti-Republican... A liberal. The L-word". She added that "being a liberal is the best thing on Earth you can be. You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind."" Beautiful hair. Beautiful eyes. Beautiful lips. She's just beauty. LISTEN TO HER VOICE. TELL ME THAT'S NOT THE STUFF THAT DREAMS ARE MADE OF."

#lauren bacall #ingrid bergman #hotvintagepoll #fuck that old woman #ladies 6

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miirohs · 12 days

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all yours, all mine [c.l.c]

pairing: Mob Boss!Charles Leclerc x Wife!Reader wc: 1.3k cw: again, slight yandere/possesive tendencies, allusion to abuse an: guys i am feeling uninspired lately,,,, needed to pull everything in me for this one. sigh. its 2 in the morning what am i doing with my life i need to sleep not be up to this bs GODDDDDDD strike me down.

Charles knew you weren’t truly his wife.

He himself had shot his bride to be, too loud and too lecherous to realize how she’d met her end, bragging about killing him for his money in his club.

He thought that’d be the last of it, that their family wouldn’t be brave enough to show face again.

Yet, they became audacious, sending him a woman, a woman who was nothing like the bride he had seen.

Hell, you didn’t even look the same as the other.

There was no way their family didn’t know by now that he was the one who killed their only daughter, yet he could only imagine this was their attempt at faking normalcy because he’d never seen his bride before, right?

He laughed, in all honesty.

He could’ve played along, see what would’ve happened, and have been done with you by dinner if he wanted to. But part of him wanted you to show your true colors, to be able to kill the venomous woman hiding behind the veil.

That day never came though.

He was too baffled by the sight of you clinging to their sides, eyes down as you could barely keep up in the shoes slightly too big to be yours.

He pretended not to notice.

At dinner he questioned you, much to your visible discomfort. He could see the glances you gave the other members of your supposed family, meekly responding back as they glared sharply at your head, only smiling when they noticed his stares. It didn’t take long for him to connect two and two.

It was there and then he’d made the awfully irrational decision to go forward with the marriage. He wanted to pull you out of your shell, see who you really were under the supposed mask you had on in front of everyone.

Your marriage was a grand affair, bosses from all around the globe visiting just to see the ceremony. He had refused to give in to their demands for a smaller wedding, going all out just for you.

And true to his word, he treated you with more respect than he’d ever cared to show anyone else. For him, hours turned into days, and days turned into weeks as he tried to pull you out of your shell.

It was a while before he got the first laugh out of you. He felt like he’d won everything when you gave him small smiles. He did everything to get them out of you. Showering you in lavish gifts, surprising you with expensive dates, it made him feel like he was finally doing something right.

Seeing your full smile was what truly made it worth it, easing the pain of your time with your former family, if he could even call them that.

He’d made sure to cut all contact with them, and he knew you were contacting them against his wishes, so he took it into his own hands to make sure they couldn’t bother you for a single cent again. He plotted behind your back and as sorry as he felt for lying to you, he paid for his guilt in consuming you with his neediness, wrapping you tightly from your waking moments almost as if you’d disappear forever if you left his field of vision.

You didn’t question it, but you couldn’t lie and say it didn’t startle you a bit.

He hummed as you gently ran your fingers through his hair, pit forming in your stomach as you heard him mutter in Italian on the phone, pen scratching against the paper of his notepad.

You heard the bare sentences of his conversation, too fast for you to understand, but you thought you had a good idea of what he was planning.

“Dovremo metterli a tacere (We'll have to silence them)-”

A couple heartbeats passed as he listened, your heart clenching almost painfully as you held the cuff of his suit jacket between your thumb and index finger. Maybe he had figured it out, maybe he was already plotting ways to dispose of you for tricking him in such a grievous manner. You hadn’t heard from the family in weeks, and it made you anxious.

“Non sono d'accordo? Bene, uccideteli (they won’t agree? fine, kill them).”

For a moment there, you didn’t see your husband, but the Devil of Monte Carlo.

He didn’t say anything, and you couldn’t bring yourself to, letting your hand slip away from his crown.

“Y/n? What happened?” He frowned, hand rubbing against the small of your back.

You couldn’t bring yourself to say it, words lying on the tip of your tongue as he cocked his head at you.

“It’s nothing.” You moved your hands away from his neck, balling into little fists in your lap.

“It’s not nothing,” He pressed, staring you down firmly despite the gentle tone of his voice. He knew you, almost too well.

“I… i don’t know how to tell you. You’re going to hate me if I do.” Your voice warbled out as he kissed you on the neck, too light and breezy to mean anything serious.

“Try me. You’d be surprised at how well I take things, and I'm not unreasonable.” Another kiss, leading up the column of your neck as you squealed at the feeling of his warm lips on cooled skin.

“Well, uh, i-” He bit down lightly, earning a soft smack from you in the back of the head, “-Char, what are you doing?”

“Trying to cheer you up.” He said, kissing on the spot he’d bit with an incomparable amount of gentleness.

“I just have something to tell you and i-”

“Is it important in any way that actively harms our lives?” He butt in, giving you a curious look.

“No, but-”

“Then I don't care.” He shrugged, placing a kiss on the corner of your mouth. You didn’t even know you could’ve gotten that loud, when you finally spit it out.

“I’m not your real wife, Char. I never was.”

He didn’t say anything, humming against the crown of your head as his hand snuck up your back and held you closer to him.

“Char, please.”

“I knew that, this isn’t new news.”

You held on, mouth gaping slightly.

“You… you knew this whole time, and you-”

“I deliberately didn’t tell you.” He scoffed, pulling your chin down to look at him. “I knew you’d run back to that so-called family that I did if I had told you. You barely trusted me, and it was their fault. So that’s why I'm going to make sure all of them take a nice long vacation.”

You couldn’t really feel the abject horror anymore, melting into sheer relief as you finally looked at him once more.

There was something about the way he looked at you, tantalizing and hypnotized almost.

‘But, aren’t you mad about me…?”

“Oh I was, I was furious.”

His lips ghosted over yours, the hint of a smile somewhere there.

“But they ended up giving me something all the more precious, something I couldn't replace. You know what that is, mon amour?”

You didn’t even have to say it, as he kissed you, lips smooth against your slightly chapped ones. The expensive perfume grew smaller, closer and closer to you as the space between you closed.

“I’ve done some unspeakable things.” He panted quietly against your lips, landing another soft kiss on the other corner. “But nothing as unspeakable as killing your so-called “family” this late in the game. Some part of me wishes i had done it earlier to spare you that grief.”

You didn’t respond but he continued nonetheless, hands wrapped around your waist to bring you closer to him .”Remember that you're mine and I'm all yours. I would do anything for you.”

And the worst part is, somewhere deep down, you knew it to be true. He was always yours, and you were always his. He'd made sure of it, and you weren't entirely complaining.

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