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that-sarcastic-writer · 2 years

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Hello lovelies!

I just wanted to start this by saying that I am so thankful for all the love and support I have recieved throughout the years. I have met and had the pleasure to be mutuals with so many talented to writers and I honestly wouldn't have the motivation to still be doing this without you guys. So in honor of both this milestone and also all of the awesome writers on this site, I was inspired by my lovely and talented mutual @fluffyprettykitty to do this little writing challenge.

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So for this writing challenge you will be choosing one prompt/scenario to write for a fictional character. You are welcome to get as creative as your heart desires, that's what writing is all about after all.

Characters must be from the list I will include below, though pairing won't be limited. It can be character x reader, character x oc, or character x character (as long as they are from the list).

The prompts will be listed below as well.

So what can you do?

As for characters, these are the characters you can write about

Marvel characters

DC characters

Any Dylan O'Brien character

Pedro Pascal characters, e.g. Javier Peña, Din Djarin, Frankie Morales, Jack Daniels aka Agent Whiskey (those are the only ones I know/have seen)

The Winchester Brothers

Joel Kinnaman characters, e.g. Rick Flag, Stephen Holder, Takeshi Kovacs

No real people please, so none of those actors themselves, only their characters.

All readers/OCs/characters MUST be over the age of 20

So now that we know characters, what can you write?

Any genres or fiction are allowed (e.g fluff, angst, smut)

Dark fics, BDSM fics and DD/lg fics are also allowed, just tag them appropriately!

Kinks are allowed, but you are welcome to double check with me if you are unsure

So what's not allowed?

These are my hard no's

Incest, pedophilia, necrophilia, minors in smut, foot fetish and grooming.

Rules

You don't have to follow me to participate. This an open challenge to any writer that stumbles upon this.

You must be 18 to do any smut or NSFW prompts. There will be a NSFW and SFW section. I will check to see if your age is in your bio if your prompt/fic contains smut. If you dont have your age or you dont tell me in private I will not be including your fic.

I ask that you let me know if your fic will be NSFW or SFW.

Scenarios are first come first serve, whoever asks me first gets it. If you are unsure if the prompt you want is taken feel free to ask me.

Send me an ask to let me know which prompt you would like to do, if its NSFW or SFW and for which character. Moots you can dm me directly!

Remember to add "read more" to any works that are longer than 300 words, that's just common courtesy.

Other details

I will be tracking your guy's work through the tags #lias writing challenge, #lias 1300 milestone or #write with lia so make sure you tag your fics with any of those so I can see them.

This challenge will be running and open until August 1st. (I won't be accepting any works after that).

Once all works have been posted and the challenge closes I will be posting a masterlist with all the works

Keep in mind I will read all of them to make sure they don't have anything they aren't supposed to before putting them on the masterlist

If there any further or more individual questions please feel free to shoot me an ask or dm if you are a moot.

Now, on to the prompts!

(For clarification these are a mix of scenarios and lines of dialogues I really like and/or I came up with. You have full liberty to do with these as you will, these are very short and simple to allow for creative liberty so, you're encouraged to do as your heart desires with these)

Breakfast in bed

Matching tattoos

Character A asks character B to be their plus one for a wedding @lovelyavengers w/ Rick Flag (SFW)

Character A cock warming character B

Character A wears character B's clothes

Undercover gala mission

Character A loses their pet and character B returns it

Characters reunited after character A thought character B died @a-reader-and-a-writer w/ Rick Flag (SFW)

Comfort after a nightmare

Bathtime together

Characters are on a date and they run into an ex @babblydrabbly w/ Takeshi Kovacs (NSFW)

Character A gets hurt and character B has to tend to them

Character A sends character B a spicy picture while in public.

Makeup sex

Watching the sunset

Characters drunkenly confess their love for each other

Morning sex

Character A and B are constantly flirting and character C is done with it

Adopting a pet together

Sleeping (literally sleeping) together for the first time

Character A gives character B head (m or f) under a table/desk while they work

Character A gets cold while cuddling with character B

Character A comforts character B after a rough day

Character A gives character B a massage

Character A shows up at character B's door in the middle of the night

"Who did this to you?"

"Look me in the eye and tell me you don't love me" @loverhymeswith w/ Takeshi Kovacs (SFW)

"Can you stay..? Please"

"You are afraid of being in love." @nekoannie-chan w/ Steve Rogers (SFW)

"Don't make me get out this chair"

"Am I showering alone" "absolutely not" @fluffyprettykitty w/ Frank Castle (SFW)

"That's my good fucking girl"

"Don't push me away, not this time"

"I can't let you go. I don't know how to"

"I hate you" "try saying that without moaning and I might believe you"

"I really want to taste you"

"Shh, there's people in the other room"

"Are you jealous?" "They were staring"

"Next time you don't wear panties I will finger you under this table no matter who is here"

"Do you think you can handle us?"

"What are you looking at?" "I like looking at you"

"I'm scared I'll ruin what we have"

"I just wanted to make sure you were okay"

"Are you sure?" "I trust you"

"You're better off without me"

"You're distracting me" "yeah I know"

"I'm trying to focus here. But it feels good, keep going"

"You're safe, I promise"

"That looks good, but it'll look better on my floor"

"Its always been you"

#lias writing challenge #lias 1300 milestone #write with lia #lias celebration #writing challenge #writing prompts #im honestly kinda hesitant to post this i have no idea if people are going to participate

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booasaur · 2 years

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"I don’t see this writers missing out on a chance to go for maximum drama with Ellen having to support homophobic policies."- you are correct, Ellen will be supporting homophobic policies. I just hope by the end of S3 she realizes she's made a huge mistake, comes out to live her life outside of the GOP.

Hmm, you sent this before ep 2 aired so do you know this for a fact or were you speculating? I mean, it seems to be borne out by ep 2 once it did air, and yeah, looks like it's gonna be an ugly journey ahead.

And another anon:

I won't give away any spoilers but Ellen and Larry in 302 is just nauseous. Her arc is just terrible with 2 scenes each at 2 minutes or so. I'm more disappointed than I was going into the season - had low expectations going in.

And another anon:

Did you watch the new ep of for all mankind??

A warning: I get quite negative below about the show For All Mankind so avoid if you're a fan.

Yep, I did watch, and...I'm just. It's so funny to me that media like FK and TBH and BSC and WN and Crush will be dismissed practically sight unseen, actual quality aside, because of their target audience, but something like s3 of this show is being critically praised and considered true prestige.

First. Danny and Karen? Are they kidding me? I don't even know what to say about that or why anybody would think it's compelling storytelling. I'm not one to deny actual quality when it's there, I thought the first season was great, I can watch people do unlikable things and still think the show is good, that's not my issue. But this is just all so soapy and twisting everything, character and plot, to service the melodrama and gimmicky alt history plots they've thought of. I said in my answer about Love, Victor that I could understand making choices that serve the fiction, but that's a show about high school love, this is a show deliberately trying to play out the reality that would unfold if just one historical event changed. So little of this is what would actually happen even with the set of characters they created in s1, it's just, "wouldn't it be cool if we did this?", which is the worst way to write.

I want to continue stating my unhappiness with whatever's going on with Ed/Molly/Dani. Are they trying to say that as much as we like Ed and Molly, people naturally turn conservative in their older age and Ed and Molly are unknowingly being pretty racist in how they're going about this? Or white people are just always capable of it? Because Ed was openly racist and sexist right there and I just don't believe Molly would think Ed's the best candidate to this degree, yeah, he's a "cowboy" like her, but why would you want that in a very long-term mission, especially when he's already 60? Yeah, Molly, let's remember the fond good old days of the agency you two signed up for, when the version Ed signed up for kicked you out for being a woman. Increasingly, the weight and history of past events and characterizations we literally saw in front of us seem to matter less and it's about what the current season requires.

Are we even supposed to dislike Ed for his comments, given the show went and rewarded him with the Helios mission? And in literally looking up the spelling of Helios right now, I found this article where Joel Kinnaman discusses Ed's thought process and there's no mention of how what he said was completely beyond decency, how it's just a friendship that goes through rough patches and it's actually him who feels betrayed. We don't even need to look back at the show's treatment of race to know Dani's going to yet again get the short end of the stick narratively, look how after that conversation between Ed and Dani where she's the one who heard something so hurtful, it's Ed the show decided to stay with and be all sympathetic about. Shows can have bad things happen, they can have people do bad things, they don't have to correct it or call it out, even, including something isn't agreeing with it. But you can't ignore it entirely???? In and outside the show? And what you choose to focus on and how you tell that story says a lot! Who gets the agency, who gets the screentime, who gets the sympathy.

And then of course: Ellen. To even get to the point of discussing her and Larry having a kid, I'd have to understand why they're doing this political storyline and I do not! Why go to all this trouble? Is it to change the country for better? In which case she joined the GOP?? Will ally with a GOP hardliner?? Presumably had sex with Larry to have a kid for her image? I can only hope it was artificial insemination or adoption but given past history, I don't expect the show to care about that or the message it's conveying.

But if she's joining politics for Mars, WHY??? They're literally showing Helios right now as a private aeronautics company and had Ellen's background being perfect for it, why not have her do that? Because it would just be more dramatic, right, for the closeted lesbian to be a Republican politician? Not even a Democrat. No, no, let's have her possibly be campaigning on anti-gay stuff. Isn't that just delicious? As I said: the "wouldn't it be cool" style of storytelling.

#replies #femslash related stuff #sent on 20220615 #sent on 20220616 #sent on 20220618 #Anonymous #5 #for all mankind #for all mankind spoilers #for all mankind 3x02

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ilovewhiteroses · 9 months

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Give me your top 5 ship pairings and top five favourite actors and their characters that gave you brainrot!!

Thank you, dear Bren! 🥰

Top 5 ship pairings:

Clement Mansell and Sandy Stanton (Justified: City Primeval) My current ship

Steve Murphy and Javier Peña (Narcos) I ship them but not in a romantic way, I just loved their chemistry and work relationship

Sherlock Holmes and Joan Watson (Elementary) The same as Steve and Javi

Jesse Custer and Tulip O'Hare (Preacher) They were so badass together, but I will never forgive Tulip for sleeping with Cassidy, my fictional crush at the time

Takeshi Kovacs and Kristin Ortega (Altered Carbon) It's been a while since I have seen this show, but I think Kristin was mainly with Tak, because he was wearing her boyfriend's sleeve. Regardless, they looked good together

Top five favourite actors and their characters that gave me brainrot:

Boyd Holbrook: The Corinthian (The Sandman) Clement Mansell (Justified: City Primeval) If you know me than no explanation is needed😁

Joel Kinnaman Takeshi Kovacs (Altered Carbon) He was so hot and badass, even with a pink backpack🥵

Jonny Lee Miller Sherlock Holmes (Elementary) I was surprised how many tattoos he has and they are all Jonny's, they were not fake😊

Bill Skarsgård Keith (Barbarian) He was so handsome and cute 🥰SPOILER! too bad his character died too soon😭

Max Riemelt Andi Werner (Berlin Syndrome) Wolfgang Bogdanow (Sense8) I know Andi was a psychopath, but he was so charming at times and Max looked great with dark hair🥵 I didn't really watch Sense8, only Wolfgang's scenes, but the few steamy nude scenes he had… Oh my God!🥵🥵

#inbox reply #spider-bren

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beelicious-and-fictitious · 1 year

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🐝 Bee's Masterlist 🐝

Welcome, welcome! This is the archival equivalent of a Table of Contents or a Directory, if you will, to all of my works posted on tumblr. Everyone is invited to stroll through this archive and read any stories that are appealing to you!

Please be advised that my fics are created first and foremost for my enjoyment and are mostly NSFW content so please, if you are a minor (under the age of 18), do not interact with me or these stories. And there is no RPF (Real People Fiction).

NOW THAT THAT'S DONE, PERUSE TO YOUR HEART'S CONTENT ->

CHALLENGE FICS

Kinktober 2021 | my first kinktober ever! In the spirit of it, I will not be making it look better lol

Kinktober 2022 | my latest kinktober, please note the improvement in quality and nod at your phone and/or computer screen in acknowledgement and/or praise (/joking)

MASTERLISTS BY ACTORS

Joseph Quinn (plays Eddie Munson, GOT Koner, Tom Grant etc)

Joe Keery (plays Steve Harrington, Walter Keys McKeys, Kurt Kunkle etc)

Joel Kinnaman (plays Takeshi Kovacs, Rick Flag, Stephen Holder etc)

Maurice Compte (plays Colonel Carrillo, Diego Jimenez, Benny Borracho etc)

Alex Brightman (plays Beetlejuice, Dewey Finn, Ralph [Blue Bloods] etc)

Just The Girls (archive for female character fics that did not warrant their own masterlists)

Just The Boys (archive of male character fics that did not warrant their own masterlists)

I’M ON ARCHIVE OF OUR OWN TOO! [link incoming]

All of my fics will be posted and archived here! Engagement vis-a-vís comments and reblogs, hell anon messages even, are strongly encouraged! They help me get excited about new works and fuel me to complete projects to share more ❤

#heresathreebee fic archive #masterlist to end all masterlists #bee's archive of fiction #joel kinnaman #joseph quinn #joe keery #alex brightman #maurice compte #reader insert fics #original character insert fics

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destinedtobeloved · 11 days

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Kristen rolls ontop of Takeshi during the fight at the Panama rose almsot to protect him. She wanted to shield him from the world and let him be safe.

#catch me crying with a cigarette in my hand in the back ally thinking about this #kristen ortega #Takeshi Kovacs #im tagging #Elias Ryker #for good measure #altered carbon season one #altered carbon #joel kinnaman #cyber punk #Netflix #netflix orignal series #tv shows #fictional characters

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justcenter · 2 years

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Race into space alternate history

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When Deke introduces them to basic training, it’s almost like the show hits a self-aware reset button. The show does turn the smallest of corners in its third episode, which centers on a group of women brought into the space program to keep pace with Soviet advancements.

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For a show built on the premise of unlimited possibility, “For All Mankind” moves in a stubborn straight line with full blinders on. Key conversations take place only after one of the characters involved happens to see a historically relevant piece of information coming from their TVs. Every action or overheard bit of dialogue in crowd scenes is designed to catch the camera as it goes whizzing by. That’s par for the course here, where there’s precious little sense of what’s happening outside of the frame, either in the series’ writing or staging. “For All Mankind” is quick to point out these changes, but rarely has the time or interest to thoughtfully consider what comes in their wake. Every evocation of John Glenn or Chappaquiddick or any other square on the ‘60s/‘70s Bingo card is delivered with the subtlety of a hammer blow or a self-satisfied slickness. Every evocation of real-world parallels either feels like a condemnation of those people who didn’t do their homework or an obligatory nod to those who have.

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When the gratingly standard TV network news missives and magazine headlines can’t carry the weight of how the show’s reality is different, every early conversation is drenched in a barrage of heavy emotional snippets to pick up the slack.īeyond the hurdles presented by its shallow bench of central characters, “For All Mankind” falls prey to a classic alt-history conundrum. Every word insists on its own importance, whether it’s in arguments with spouses or envoys from the show’s various presidential administrations. From NASA mission program head Deke Slayton (Chris Bauer) to veteran astronaut Gordo Stevens (Michael Dorman), the series’ through-line characters are burdened with having to sell the enormity of their respective missions every time there’s a new development. If there’s one thing “For All Mankind” does more than anything else, it’s remind you what’s at stake. This, sadly, becomes a recurring problem. Oscars 2023: Best Production Design Predictions 'The Morning Show' Review: Jennifer Aniston Can't Save Apple's Rudderless and Dull Debut DramaĪpple TV+: Everything You Need to Know About the Launchħ New Netflix Shows in September 2022 - and the Best Reasons to Watch Having a blank slate at the heart of the show not only makes it uninteresting, but his repeated explanatory role underlines the points where “For All Mankind” doesn’t trust its audience to keep up. Over the opening hours, Ed’s main role seems to be the designated summarizer, rewording jargon-laced speeches and monumental personnel decisions in plain speak. To start, “For All Mankind” makes a critical error during entry by focusing on Ed Baldwin (Joel Kinnaman), a fictional creation for the show and an astronaut who flew on an Apollo 10 mission that passed up the chance to land on the lunar surface before Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins.

#Race into space alternate history

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thepoetcarpenter · 2 years

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For All Mankind, a Great Space Race Drama

For All Mankind, an Apple exclusive, follows the American NASA program as the space race is fueled during Nixon’s presidency by global politics and the differences in national ideologies. The science fiction drama takes placed after the launch of the space program in an alternate timeline where the Soviets landed first on the Moon. The premise of the show is interesting and fascinating for a drama based on an alternate history of the space race.

There are several characters that we follow from episode after episode. But the main one, is Joel Kinnaman’s Edward Baldwin as we see him scheduled to be in Apollo 15 program. The show has the tone of Moneyball and the Wolf of Wall Street combined without the charades of yuppies strutting across the screen with prostitutes and cocaine.

I take to a liking of Michael Dorman’s Gordo Stevens. His portrayal is charming and crude and comes off as the Donnie Azoff of the show. He is the more likable of the characters. While Kinnaman’s Edward is serious at most times and you do not see his vulnerability until he is kicked off the Apollo 15 program. But by the fourth episode, the struggle is settled and you get to see a little of his personality under his steely exterior, if a little dorky.

The visuals for the show is impressive and looks like some of the events that actually took placed during the NASA’s lunar programs, though, this is an alternate timeline: thus nothing that has taken placed actually has taken placed. It is a promising show, and after four episodes, I am interested of what else is to come. There are three seasons already released and from some of the clips I am excited for the latter episodes as conflicts with the Soviet will ensue.

The drama part of the show is pretty good though it is not why I am drawn to watching it. It is for the science fiction part that I like, but I do appreciate the unique storytelling that is able to combine both into an interesting story. It is a fascinating world as war rages on in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, and the American administration uses the space race as a front for their war against communism. I hope all these things unravel in later episodes and hope to see more of this conflict, not, in Vietnam or Southeast Asia, but the Moon.

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kinghardy · 2 years

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tbqh I’ve delayed watching Peacemaker on HBO bc I’m still really mad about what he did to my man Rick Flag

ive never held a grudge before but now’s a good time to start as any

#not me being butthurt over a fictional character murdering my blorbo #joel kinnaman #rick flag

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loverhymeswith · 3 years

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What a Wicked Game | One

[Rick Flag x OC]

Word Count: 4,395

A/N: This fic was born because Rick Flag deserved better. And I have been truly inspired by all the amazing Rick fic already out there. You guys are giving me life. I haven't written anything like this for a long time, so I just hope I can do the man justice.

Rick.

Rick Flag is no stranger to putting himself in mortal peril.

He’s the leader of the goddamn Suicide Squad after all. Fighting his way out of deadly situations is just another day in the office. Still, this might be the most reckless thing he’s ever done.

One thing’s for certain, Amanda Waller is going to kill him.

That is, if Gotham’s Clown Prince of Crime doesn’t beat her to it.

Nothing gets past Amanda “The Wall” Waller, least of all the meta-human inmates of Belle Reve Correctional Facility. The nano-bombs implanted in their brains are supposed to ensure that. And yet here’s Rick, driving through the back streets of Gotham City in the dead of night, with one of Waller’s very own meta-human prisoners by his side.

For some time now he’s been promising the woman next to him that he’s going to take care of things, make things right. But as they approach their destination, he’s beginning to doubt his ability to deliver.

The odds are stacked against him in every direction.

He only has a few hours until Waller notices not all her toys are back in their box. And here Rick is, about to make a deal with the Devil.

He glances over at his passenger. Her head rests against the window of his Jeep; strands of her silver-blonde hair have escaped their braid, framing the soft angles of her face. On nights like this her name seems incredibly fitting.

Her eyes are closed, but he can tell Angel’s not sleeping. Just like Rick, she can never sleep after a mission. Strung out but still wired with adrenaline, knowing her freedom is slipping away with every passing second.

All Task Force X missions are tough. It’s the very reason the covert black-ops team exists in the first place; why Rick was assigned as their leader. They’re here to take care of the shit that no-one else wants to deal with. Why get your hands dirty when the Suicide Squad can do it for you?

This mission was worse than usual. They’re bloody and bruised; broken physically and mentally, and down three team members less than when they started. Rick hates losing any team members, even if most of them are convicted felons who are far more concerned with saving their own skin than the success of the assignment.

Angel is different though.

She’s still a convicted felon, with a fair share of blood on her hands, but like Rick, she puts her life on the line time and again. Gets him out of some real scraps. And for what? Twelve meagre hours of freedom for each successful mission. A sliver of reward for not dying. It’s not good enough.

It will never be good enough.

And it’s been building up for a while now, this reckless desire of Rick’s.

Each time he escorts her back to the cell, he can feel Angel losing another piece of herself. Belle Reve does that to a person. He would know. He spends enough time with its inmates to see it first-hand. How the prison slowly chips away at your sanity, until the person you once were becomes nothing more than splinters in the wind.

Only the truly crazy seem to survive Belle Reve. Harley’s proof of that.

So, Rick needs to get Angel out of Belle Reve and Task Force X before it’s too late, and he’s convinced himself that tonight must be the night.

Angel finally shifts beside him, pulling his attention away from the road.

“Where are we going tonight, Rick?” She asks hoarsely, eyes still shut. Angry purple bruises bloom around her throat. A reminder of how close they came to failing. How close he came to losing her.

His fingers grip the steering wheel a fraction tighter.

It’s become a habit, these late-night, post-mission drives. Ever since Waller assigned him as Angel’s chaperone – a stipulation of the twelve-hour bargain.

Angel likes being on the road. She tells him she finds the gentle hum of the engine calming. The soft rumble of tires on the highway sooths her fraying nerves. The neon signs and gleaming headlights remind her there is a world away from Belle Reve, away from the endless death and destruction.

Rick enjoys the company.

Just the two of them. Going as far as her curfew will allow, never the same place twice.

Except for tonight.

He doesn’t want to lie to her, but he doesn’t want to tell her the truth either. Not just yet. Because after tonight, everything’s going to change.

He’s also not entirely sure she’ll want to go along with his plan once she knows who’s involved. Hell, even Harley tried warning him against this. But Rick is all out of options.

“Rick?” She grumbles. He hasn’t replied yet.

“We’re getting that damn thing out of your head, darlin’. You’ve just got to trust me, ok?”

Angel’s eyes fly open. Alarmed, her bright blue gaze settles on him. “Tonight?”

They’ve talked about it before, sure, about breaking Waller’s diabolical hold over her, but she’s never really believed he’s being serious. It’s always seemed like more of a pipedream than anything truly possible.

She underestimates just how strongly Rick feels.

“Can’t wait any longer. Nearly lost you back there.”

Today was a wake-up call if ever he needed one. The missions are becoming deadlier, the squad crazier, Waller more powerful. It’s time for Angel to get out.

After his relationship with June ended, Rick swore off love. If he’s being honest with himself, he’s not even sure if it really was love, but it hurt like hell when she left, and he doesn’t want to feel like that ever again.

Whatever he feels for Angel is different, but it scares the shit out of him all the same. It’s not love, at least he doesn’t think so. Hopes it isn’t. All he knows is that he can’t let anything happen to her. Can’t let anything else happen to her.

He drags his gaze from the road again to find her watching him intently, her bright blue eyes reflecting the glow of the passing headlights. His own eyes wander back to the finger-shaped bruises around her delicate neck.

“Is this about earlier? It wasn’t your fault you know.”

Rick shakes his head. She’s wrong.

He’d been distracted. Careless. Forgot to switch off the goddamn power dampeners.

The chopper had barely landed when they were ambushed. Someone had sold them out. But that was a problem for another day. Because Angel had been caught by those assholes, and she couldn’t even protect herself. The most valuable member of the squad, the only one of them with the gift of life as well as death, and he’d left her weak and defenceless.

Rick hadn’t bothered to stop Waylon from tearing the bastards in half when he got his claws on them.

He grits his jaw, eyes returning to the road ahead. He doesn’t deserve this - her kindness, her understanding.

“It’s my job to protect you. I failed.”

Because he’s their leader. Colonel Rick Flag. He’s responsible for the outcome of every mission, for making the difficult decisions, keeping the delinquents in line, ensuring no one is left behind.

When Angel replies, the resolve in her voice killshim. “You didn’t fail. I’m here. We’re both here, in one piece.”

“But for how much longer?” he asks her, gruffly. “It’s only a matter of time before our luck runs out. One day there’ll be no more close calls, no more second chances. Look at what happened to…”

“Rick.” She sighs.

He knows she worries when he gets like this. Anxious. Agitated. Agonising over the deaths he feels he could have prevented. Should have prevented.

“You can’t save everyone.”

How many times has he heard that? Logically, he knows it to be true. Doesn’t make it any easier though. Waller says he just wants to play the hero. Surrounded by villains day in and day out, maybe she’s right.

And maybe he can’t save everyone.

But he can save Angel.

“Seriously, where are we going?”

She still doesn’t believe him. Thinks she can change the subject and distract him from his melancholy. Usually, it works. But not tonight.

His stomach, his skin, every inch of his body is crawling with snakes, spiders and all manner of horrid things as he thinks about what he needs to do. He can feel Angel’s eyes on him, but he keeps his own fixed firmly on the road. Can’t bring himself to see the look on her face when he tells her.

Rick tries to clear the lump in his throat as he makes a turn off the main road. “We’re payin’ a visit to an old friend of Harley’s…”

They’ve reached the worst part of Gotham now, so he knows it’s not far. That is, if Harley’s scribbled directions are correct. He can’t quite put his finger on when exactly he started trusting the former psychiatrist, but now’s not the time for doubt.

Speaking of which, he tunes out the tiny inner voice that’s been screaming all night this is a terrible idea. It might be a terrible idea, but it’s the only one he’s got.

“Harley?” It only takes a beat of silence before he senses Angel stiffen. The penny drops. “You don’t mean…?”

He nods once.

She turns in her seat and for a moment he thinks she’s going to grab the wheel. Or him. The power dampeners have long since been discarded. She could put a stop to this right now if she wanted to. All it takes is one touch.

“What the hell, Rick!? Have you lost your mind?”

Probably, he thinks, but it’s too late to worry about that now. They’ve almost arrived.

“You’re gonna have to trust me darlin’. This is our only choice.”

He slows the car to a crawl, peering out of the window into the mist covered night. After the prison, Gotham is one of his least favourite places. Always feels like he’s stepping into a nightmare. Difference is, tonight the nightmare’s coming true.

“No, it’s not.” She protests. “We can go back to Belle Reve.”

“You are not going back there.” He’s gripping the steering wheel so tightly his knuckles turn white.

“Rick.” Angel reaches for him, her fingers brushing the back of his hand.

It’s only the slightest of touches, but he doesn’t flinch at the contact anymore. He still isn’t quite used to it though and she knows it. She’s always so careful around him. He trusts she won’t hurt him, but it’s not natural, you know, what she can do with that touch.

“What about giving me a choice?”

Rick’s boot comes down on the footbrake, her question demanding his full attention.

She has a point. How is he any better than Waller right now? Forcing Angel into a plan of his own making with no thought as to what she might want. This isn’t the person he wants to be.

“I’m sorry, I just…” He sighs, searching for the right words in his scrambled-up brain. He’s always found it difficult to articulate himself, to explain his emotions. Just knows he feels too much sometimes. “I can’t stand you being locked up in that place. It’s not right. You’re too… good.”

“But isn’t he worse than Waller? How can we trust him?”

She stares at him with those big blue eyes, and he feels his chest tighten, finds it harder to breathe. Where did all the oxygen go?

“Do you trust me?” His voice is rough and rasping, thick with emotion. He hopes she doesn’t notice. He’s always been careful to conceal his feelings around her. Whatever those feelings might be.

“Yes, but…”

He takes one hand off the wheel and without thinking reaches out to grip her fingers tightly. The absolute contact sends shockwaves through his body, but it has nothing to do with her gift.

It’s the first time he’s touched her like this, without the power dampeners on.

“I’m not going to let anything happen to you.”

Angel.

Despite her better judgement, Angel allows Rick to coax her out of the car. She can tell something’s been bothering him for a while now, even before the disastrous mission. He’s been quieter, more angsty than usual. She knows better than to pry though. He’s never been one for sharing his feelings. And it’s never been her business.

Until now.

Now it is quite literally her business. If she’d known all this time that he was concocting an insane plan to remove the nano-bomb implanted in the base of her skull she would have…well…she’d have tried talking some sense into him.

The problem with Rick is that he’s like a dog with a bone. Stubborn, determined, unwilling to admit defeat. A martyr. Because this ridiculous idea of his might just get them both killed.

But he’s asked her to trust him. She can do that, surely? She puts her life in his hands on every mission and when has he ever let her down? No matter what he thinks, today wasn’t his fault.

She follows Rick along a dimly lit alley that smells like death, through a pair of rusting iron gates and into the loading yard of an abandoned warehouse.

Yes.

She’s going to trust him.

With every step forward her panic rises, but somehow she manages to hold it together. Because if she’s honest with herself she wants this too. Wants to be free, from Belle Reve, from Waller, from wondering each day if it’s going to be her last.

She hangs back while Rick knocks loudly on a boarded-up door. Someone has gone to great lengths to make the place look deserted. She’s always pictured something…flashier. Then again, what villain in their right mind would want to advertise their secret lair with a billboard sign and flashing lights?

Then she remembers.

This villain isn’t in their right mind.

Somewhere above them a flood light switches on, bathing the yard in a sickly yellow glow. The door swings open on invisible hinges, revealing a pair of tall figures in matching black suits. Angel’s not sure what’s worse, the hideous fanged grins painted on their masked heads, one black and one white, or the huge automatic guns pointing at her and Rick.

She takes a step back involuntarily, but Rick doesn’t move, just stares back at the monstrous pair, shoulders squared as he speaks.

“Tell your boss that Rick Flag is here to see him.”

The figures exchange a look with one another. At least, she thinks it’s a look. Hard to tell given the fact that there are no eyes in those hideous masks.

“Rick…” She edges closer to him, conscious of the figures watching her every move. Rick’s not a small man, but these freaks dwarf even him.

Before she can beg him to turn around and leave, the white mask lurches forwards and grabs Rick roughly by the shoulder. Pushes him inside without saying a word, leaving Black Mask with a clear path to Angel.

To hell with this, she thinks, holding up her hand as the creature starts to prowl towards her. “Don’t bother, I’m coming.”

Angel finds herself bundled inside what appears to be the inner loading dock. A flickering tube light illuminates the small area and her eyes dart around, searching for Rick. Her relief at finding him is short lived though, as White Mask has him up against the wall while Black Mask begins to relieve him of his weapons.

If it wasn’t for the perilous circumstance, Angel would find it amusing, the number of firearms and blades Rick manages to conceal about his person. The assault rifle remains in the Jeep, but he has a pair of handguns in his shoulder holster, two Glocks tucked into his waistband and at least one knife in each boot.

Once Rick is completely unarmed, the freaks move on to Angel.

“It’s ok Rick. Here.” She pulls her own single gun from the waist of her bloodied combat trousers and hands it over to White Mask. It’s never been much use to her, even after all the lessons from Deadshot. She just doesn’t have the coordination.

“She’s not armed,” Rick insists, putting himself between the masks and Angel.

He seems to forget they still have their own guns trained on him and one wrong move might put a swift end to this great scheme of his.

Her skills are more… unique. But less precise.

Perhaps she should have told Rick to put the power dampeners back on. She doesn’t want to cause a major incident by accidentally taking out one of these henchmen.

After Rick’s little exhibition, the freaks are taking no chances and they proceed to pat her down roughly. She takes a deep breath. Reminds herself she is here by choice. It’s not like before. Before Belle Reve. Before the Suicide Squad. She’s a different person now. She’s in control.

Isn’t she?

The moment the radio falls silent, both masked freaks separate out. Despite their size, they move startlingly fast. Before Angel can react, Rick is being manhandled out of the room by White Mask.

Satisfied the pair are unarmed, one of the freaks produces a radio from somewhere about his person and the sound of crackling static fills the air. An alien-like voice proceeds to splutter out a series of incomprehensible commands.

Angel glances over at Rick who looks just as bewildered. His hazel eyes are wide, wary. The brightest thing in this dark room. She focuses on those eyes. Uses them to keep her grounded. Reminds herself he’s got her back.

Always.

She shouts after him, afraid. Doesn’t want to be left alone. Doesn’t know where he’s being taken. Tries to follow, but the door slams shut in her face.

Probably not.

In pain staking slow motion the black-masked figure turns to look at her. Again, she assumes he’s looking at her, because you know, no eyes.

Distantly, she wonders if he’s ever allowed to take off the mask. In fact, as she’s trapped there in the claustrophobic loading dock, she starts to wonder a lot of things. Like whether she can reach Black Mask’s heart before he can pull the trigger.

And where would that leave her? Where would it leave Rick, who’s bargaining away goodness knows what to secure her a future she’s not even sure she deserves.

A large hand grabs her roughly by the shoulder and shoves her out of the dock. Marches her forwards until they reach the centre of the room, where, surrounded by an assortment of disturbingly masked figures, stands Rick.

It’s hard to say how much time passes, but when a sharp whistle finally pierces the cloying silence, Angel nearly jumps out of her skin. Ever the obedient lackey, Black Mask opens the door that Rick disappeared through, revealing a wide-open chamber, presumably once the centre of the old warehouse.

Fluorescent green lights have been installed, casting the area in a sickly glow. She should be terrified, but all she can think about is Rick. How much she needs to see him again, needs to know he’s ok.

Any relief she feels about him still being in one piece soon shatters when her eyes land on the individual next to him.

The Joker.

Here before her, in the flesh, for the very first time.

He’s shorter than she expected.

“Well, well, well. If it isn’t Amanda Waller’s very own ‘Angel of Death’.”

Rick moves to take a step towards her, but the Clown Prince stops him with a swift hand to the chest. “Colonel Flag, you didn’t tell me that it was this particular meta-human you want to save.”

When Rick doesn’t reply, the Joker flashes him a menacing grin. “Whatever happened to June Moone?”

Angel isn’t surprised to hear June’s name on the Joker’s lips. Of course, he’s keeping tabs on the Suicide Squad, especially after Midway City. After Harley. He probably hates the idea that she’s finally made something of herself without him.

Angel doesn’t like the flicker of pain in Rick’s eyes. She knows how much it still hurts him to think about June. After everything he went through – they went through – to bring her back.

Rick growls. “I told you we have a time limit, Clown. Are you going to help or not?”

“Don’t get your panties in a twist, Flag.” The Joker cackles, his pale green eyes gleaming with barely concealed excitement as his cronies close in around Rick.

Narcissistic bastard.

The green menace stalks towards Angel and she notices for the first time his immaculate attire. Crisp white shirt loosely buttoned, offering a glimpse of tattoos; their dark lines harsh against his sallow skin. Black dress pants, gold rings on every finger.

For a sadistic psychopath, he seems to take an awful amount of pride in his appearance.

Pausing a few feet away, the Joker cocks his head. A predator sizing up his prey. “It’s only polite to get to know someone before cutting their brain open. Wouldn’t you agree, Angel?”

Her mouth falls open, his words dousing her in fear. “Wh…what?”

Rick elbows his way through the goons and plants himself between Angel and the Joker. The thick, muscled wall of his body a welcome shield. “He’s lying.”

Before Rick can elaborate or the Joker can disagree, another figure enters the room.

Unlike the rest of the henchmen, this one is unmasked.

Familiar.

Wearing a white lab coat.

“Is that...?”

“Dr. Van Criss.” The Joker leers. “Yes, you might well recognise him as the very man responsible for putting that bomb in your head in the first place. Fortunate that he works for me now, don’t you think?”

This is Rick’s plan; Angel realises with a jolt. How long has he known that Van Criss is on the Joker’s payroll?

They’ve all heard the rumours: that after the scientist was blackmailed into removing Harley’s bomb, he disappeared from A.R.G.U.S. Some say he was terminated by Waller. Not a huge stretch of the imagination after experiencing first-hand what she did to her team in Midway City.

But no, the doctor lives. He’s probably just too great an asset for the Joker to let go of. All those government secrets squirreled away inside his brain.

There’s something just too easy about this though, Angel thinks. After all, nothing comes for free. Especially not in Gotham. Not from the Joker.

What’s the price?

She wants to ask, but the Joker side-steps Rick with a flourish and his lean arm comes to hover over around her shoulders.

Almost touching. But not quite.

Is he… scared?

He leans in close, his bitter breath tickling her cheek as he croons. “Tell me, Angel. Can you really kill a man with one touch?”

Angel ducks out of his almost-embrace and bares her teeth. “Would you like to find out?”

She could do it.

And that’s what really kills.

She could stop his heart if she wanted to. Could leave him dizzy and sweating, stricken and gasping for breath, until the very last minute. And then, if she’s feeling generous, bring him back from the brink of death.

It’s a shame his goons would get to her first.

Because she needs time. That’s the thing. Time to constrict the arteries, time to squeeze the air from his lungs.

Everyone thinks it’s instant, this gift of hers. That all it takes is one touch. Even Rick. It’s why he’s so reluctant to touch her.

What he doesn’t realise is that there’s never been anything to worry about.

Angel’s control over her power has always been tentative at best. That’s how she ended up in Belle Reve; let her emotions gets the better of her. But the human body is a complex machine, and sure, she might be able to quicken a pulse here, or heal a scratch there, but it takes a huge amount of concentration, will power, raw emotion, for her to do any real damage.

So, Rick might not want to touch her, and she can’t blame him for that. But she would never hurt him.

The Joker is delighted. He looks over at Rick, amusement tugging at his dark lips until they part obscenely, revealing a row of silver capped teeth.

“This one’s got claws, Flag.” He turns to Angel. “How’s about I get that bomb out of your head and you come work for me? I’ve been in the market for a new pet since Harley left.”

Everyone in the room, including Rick, knows he’s bluffing. They wouldn’t be here if there was any alternative and Angel has finally accepted this.

“Enough, Joker.” Rick snarls.

It looks as if he’s going to launch himself on the clown, but that sliver of self-restraint that always seems to keep Rick alive sees his feet rooted to the spot.

“We do this now, or we’re leaving.”

“Oh, I don’t think that’s going to happen Colonel. But seeing as I am in the habit of protecting my investments, let’s get to it. Doc, the floor is yours.”

The Joker gives Angel a final appraisal before turning on his heel and heads back towards his circle of henchmen.

Van Criss holds out an arm, gesturing for Angel to join him but she remains frozen in place, staring at Rick with uncertainty. “What does he mean by investment?”

Rick shakes his head. “Nothing for you to worry about, darlin’. Come on. Let’s get this over and done with.”

He offers her his hand, another first, but for the second time this evening his hazel eyes betray him. There’s something he’s not telling her.

“I’m afraid it’s a rather rudimentary procedure,” Van Criss explains as he guides them to what appears to be a makeshift medical bay. “Without having my original instruments to hand I’m going to have to make a small incision to remove the device.”

Angel wants to put her foot down, to insist on being told the full story, but like Rick she is painfully aware of the clock ticking. If she doesn’t make a decision now, Waller will happily make it for her.

So, with no small amount of trepidation, she takes Rick’s hand and lets him lead her over to the waiting doctor.

Angel notices how he doesn’t call it a bomb.

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