The Plan (DARK! Moon Knight x Reader) Knight and Pawn Series
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It’s been a couple of weeks since you’ve been allowed to roam. Marc was still tense, still on guard for you to escape. Every morning you would wake up to his arms holding you against him tightly, not letting up his grip at all. You would pretend to sleep as long as you could when he woke up, the familiar tune of a man without love still played in the morning and woke him up. Sometimes it would be Marc that woke up, other times it would be Steven. You haven’t seen Jake in a while, which worried you, and you had no idea why.
Either way, when Marc or Steven woke up they would always get in the shower first. You took advantage of the noise the falling water was creating for your morning ritual, you would start by stating your name and reciting directions one would have to take in order to get to your home and place of work, then you would move on to what happened and how you wound up in this situation and what you were going to do when you got out of it.
Not if, when.
You would recite this three times before you pretended to fall back asleep and usually by the time you do, Marc or Steven is just getting out of the shower. They would get dressed and kiss you on your temple, you would pretend to stir slightly before going back to a peaceful state. Your eyes remain closed until you hear him walk out the door. When he did, you took this time to brace yourself for a new day and gathered your clothes. You gathered a simple cream colored shirt, the sleeves came until your elbow and there was an intricate, lace pattern on the collar, maroon pants that stopped at your ankles, indoor shoes as well as a watch and a necklace. You already had your makeup in the bathroom, and you were smart to lay your clothes at night to save yourself time in the morning. If you had it your way you would cause havoc, you would tear up all those soft and pretty clothes and set the place ablaze. But you knew it would be a mute point, Marc had Khnoshu’s healing armor, and now combined with Steven’s wealth you could do all of that but it wouldn’t be enough to deter them. Marc wouldn’t be harmed by the fire and Steven can just rebuild from scratch. You would only be creating a headache for yourself.
So you decided to play along, at least, until Marc’s guard was down enough for you to escape. You would play along as his doll until the opportunity arose.
The steady streams of hot water relax your tense muscles, the smell of vanilla and roses fill the steamy air as you wash. You scrub furiously, hoping in some way the smell of cedar and smoke will go away.
In some way you guess it never will.
You dry your body and wrap yourself up in one of those fluffy towels. You made your way to the large, fogged up mirror. You don’t even bother to wipe your hand across the glass to see yourself, you just follow your routine, brushing your teeth, your hair, drying your hair, getting dressed, and by the time you do all that the mirror is clear enough to put the bare minimum of makeup on.
You clean up after yourself after you’re done, disposing of the towels and dirty laundry, rinsing the sink, putting your makeup and hair products in their respective places. You exit the bathroom and as usual you find your breakfast on the bed waiting for you. The smell of freshly cooked eggs and bacon along with a cup of coffee. There is a single rose placed away from the food in a small, crystal vase. And there waiting for you on the still unmade bed is Marc. His dark hair was curly and he wore a simple white hoodie with black jeans. This was a scene that had become familiar to you, early morning sun illuminating him, his tanned skin was glowing in the light, his dark eyes catching the light bringing hues of richer, lighter browns into focus. The sun made him look holy, something beautiful and gentle.
But you knew better, you knew that while the sun made him look angelic, he was the devil. He left you for dead, he stalked you for years, he killed your fiance in front of you without remorse, he uprooted your life and flushed all the progress you made down the drain.
You hated him. You reminded yourself every morning. You hated him and nothing will ever change that.
“Good Morning Starlight,” Marc greeted, “You look beautiful.”
“You say that every morning,” You retorted, it was the truth. Every morning after you got out of the shower and got dressed for the morning he would always tell you, you looked beautiful.
“You look beautiful every morning.” Marc’s eyes wandered over your frame, you noticed in his eyes it wasn’t in a sexual, objectivication kind of appriciation in his eyes, but more gentle and tender.
You hated him.
“Thank you for breakfast,” You said silently as you took a piece of bacon and munched on it. You hated to admit it, but for someone who burned water three years ago, he made major improvements in the kitchen department. In fact, if you didn’t see dishes freshly washed in the morning and the fact that Marc never let anyone but you and him in the flat you would assume someone else was making the breakfasts.
You silently munched on the breakfast that he gave you. You asked Marc one day when he brought you breakfast in bed why he did so when the dining room was available. He had a fairly simple response.
“I just enjoy pampering you, starlight.”
“So,” Marc started, “I have some things I have to attend to today so you’ll be alone for most of the day. Steven stayed up last night and made you some meals ahead of time for you to heat up.”
Your brow raised quizzically.
“Is it a Moon Knight thing?”
“You can say that,” Marc said vaguely, you knew better than to press for more details.
—
The morning followed the typical routine after that, after breakfast you helped him make the bed before disposing of your dishes in the dishwasher. You read for a little bit, watched a little bit of television, you grabbed a sketchbook that Marc had gifted you and sketched a few pictures. Sketching was one of the only things that calmed and quieted your mind, when that pencil was in your hands and you guided its way on the paper nothing seemed to matter. Life was broken down into simple shapes, shades, and it developed into textures and shadows, grayscale. You didn’t think you were great at it by any means, but it was the simple pleasures that you found some semblance of peace at.
“It’s great,” You heard him say, his warm breath was at the shell of your ear and your body, having neglected its carnal desires, betrayed you by the goosebumps developing over your skin and your heart stuttering for a moment before returning to normal.
“Thanks,” You said as you ignored the moment of bodily betrayal, you closed the book before looking at him. He had his shoes on and the only set of keys to the flat in one hand. “You're heading out already.”
“Yeah,” He said, “as I said I probably won’t be home until later tonight, you might be asleep by then so don’t be alarmed.” He was about to turn when his eyes caught yours, “we should probably get rule 5 out of the way then.”
“Will it kill you if we miss rule 5 for one day.”
“It just might,” Marc said quietly as you were now eye level with his nose touching yours, “you’ve got me addicted to you, starlight, I need my daily fix.” his voice was husky, hot shallow breaths were exchanged as anticipation buzzed in your nerves. Some part of you, the part of you that you tried to stuff deep inside you was frustrated, why wasn’t he kissing you. Then you saw it in his half lidded eyes, he wanted you to make the first move.
Bastard.
You closed the space between you and his lips melded with yours. Mint, dark chocolate, and coffee created an intoxicating taste meanwhile the scent of cedar, smoke, and rain invaded your sense of smell and the soft fabric of his hoodie was clenched in your hands bringing him closer to you. Your lips moved over his, leaving goosebumps raised on your arms, an electrical tingle down your spine, and every nerve in your body awake and aware of him. You hated the pleasure just kissing him brought to you, you hated that your body was craving him, like it was dying without him. It was a typical fight between mind and body that you had to deal with, with every kiss.
You feel his hands wander, dancing their familiar dance up and down your side, tracing patterns on your waist.
Just as quickly the kiss began, it stopped. Your mind was barely processing the lack of warmth your lips felt and his hands were no longer at your waist. His forehead rested against yours, his eyes closed painfully.
“Fuck,” Marc cursed underneath his breath as he gently removed your clenched hands from his hoodie, “you’re a temptress, starlight.” Next thing you know he’s by the front door, “I’ll see you in the morning if you’re not up when I get back, starlight. Laters Gators.” and with that he was gone, the flat empty, cold, and locked. And your mind only was able to form one coherent sentence.
“What the fuck?”
—
Your toes dig in the sand as the cool waves come upon shore. You’ve always wanted to see the ocean, ever since you were a kid you wanted to see the vast body of water and the waves that splash on the shore. You're breathing in and out at the same pace as the waves coming in and out. The sound of seagulls in the distance and the sun had just begun to set, its fiery orange, hot pink, and light purple hues reflecting in the water. It looked as though the ocean consisted of millions of diamonds with the way it sparkled underneath the light.
In some strange way the sight made you bittersweet, because you weren’t the only one who dreamed of visiting the ocean.
You still thought of Marc, more than you care to admit, you tried to remember the good things about him. How when you were kids you, him, and randall would play jungle adventure or pirates. Or when no one had asked you to prom or school dance, he would show up on your front door, in a button up with flowers and take you himself. When your legal guardians at the time threw you out onto the streets, Marc was right there in the rain with you as you cried and gave you a place to stay. He became your family, you fell in love with him in the truest, most selfless way possible. You didn’t expect him to love you back, you didn’t expect anything from him for your feelings. So, when he introduced you to Layla, you stuffed down the slight twinge of jealousy and got to know her. She was beautiful, light dusting of freckles on her skin, dark curly hair and thick eyebrows, dark eyes, but beyond the pretty face you got to know how kind she was and overall an amazing person with a great sense of humor, a wit that could hold against Marc, and you couldn’t help but love her. Layla had quickly become one of your best friends so when you heard of their marriage, you didn’t cry, you didn’t curse her or him. Instead you stuffed the sharp bite of your heart and embraced them while you mocked being offended for not being invited despite the last minute nature of their marriage.
You were brought out by your thoughts as strong arms wrap around your waist.
“There seems to be a storm brewing in your mind lovely,” Alec said softly as he peppered your neck in small pecks, your hands found his hands at your waist and you held them, thumb brushing over the vein that popped out.
“When isn’t there,” You smiled softly, you both watched the sunset over the water for a few more minutes in complete silence.
“So what did work want?” You asked, you and Alec were walking on the beach earlier when he got a call, he said it was from work and stepped away in order to answer it. Alec often had calls coming in from work, you would have been suspicious of it had it not been how he spoke and presented himself whenever they called. You could feel him tense before answering.
“They offered me a leading position on this project,” He said as you turned around in his arms with a smile on your face. Maybe if you weren’t so blinded by happiness for him you would have noticed the strange look in his eyes, or how sweat had begun to develop on his brow.
“That’s great!”
“I’ll have to relocate to New Jersey,” He said, “if I do this,” he starts moving his hands to cradle your face, “I want you to come with me.”
“Of course I will,” You said, your hands settled gently on his wrists.
“I love you,” He said, his eyes shining with so many unsaid things, “I love you and I want you to be my wife.”
“Is that an official question?”
“It is,” He confirmed, “I was going to ask later tonight so I don’t have the ring on me, but I love you with everything I have in me and I want you to be my wife, please will you have me as yours?”
“As my wife or husband,” You teased lightly, you both laughed before he replied, “just yours.”
“Yes,” You whisper, kissing his soft lips.
You later found out upon returning to the hotel room that he purchased the ring about a few hours before you got on the plane to come here in one of the airport shops. He said he knew he wanted to be your husband for a while but hadn’t built up the nerve to ask until that moment.
You wished he would’ve lived to see your wedding.
—-
After that exchange with Marc earlier you decided to take a nap to clear your head. Which didn’t seem to help matters much as you dreamt of Alec, his amber eyes still haunt you, but some part of you was relieved that he still did.
Because in some sort of sad, disturbing way, that meant that he was still with you.
It took you some time to register the dark figure in your doorway. Your heart beat furiously and you grabbed the nearest thing to protect yourself, which just happened to be a lamp that didn’t work. You couldn’t make out their face, but the way they stood was familiar.
“Calm down,” it was Jake, “we don’t have much time.”
“What do you want?” You asked, “You nearly gave me a damn heart attack.”
“I don’t have much time before I have to give the body back so listen.” You shut up, it was only then that you noticed all the mirrors covered up. You remembered Marc saying that it took a lot of willpower to be a fly on the wall, and that mirrors help. So whatever it was, Jake didn’t want anyone else in the conversation. You put the lamp aside as Jake made his way to you.
“In a few days that front door will be unlocked and an old friend will be waiting downstairs to take you to a safe house.” He sat beside you, “your only job is to get Marc to sleep and sleep deeply. So deep not Steven nor I will be able to wake with him.” and with that he gets off the bed and back to the door, “When you see Marc again, you have to pretend it is the first time you’ve seen him all day. Act like nothing happened, you’re going to be ok.” When he goes to leave you stop him for a moment.
“How can I trust you?” You asked, unsure if you can trust him at all. You see him turn his head, his dark eyes vulnerable as you can see him struggle to remain present.
“What other choice do you have?”
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