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princessphilly · 3 years

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CW: smut, filthy talk

This is a bit of a filler chapter, sorry.

“Are you going to miss me?”

Nina didn’t even look up from her iPad. It was so annoying yet adorable at the same time, how Sidney was desperately trying to get her to tell him how much she was going to miss him.

“Um, I think you’re going to miss me more than I’ll miss you,” Nina finally replied. She grinned as Sidney huffed.

The first month of the new year had passed by pretty quickly to Nina. After being together for New Year’s Eve, Nina and Sid separated as the Pens had to finish off their road trip. Nina stayed in Miami for Jason’s game before taking an extra week just for herself. It was nice to have a bit of a vacation, especially when Lauren flew down. Nina basically enjoyed being on the beach, hanging out with a close friend, and shopping.

The morning of New Year’s Day, after having their first breakfast together of the new year, Sid had given Nina a card. Nina was shocked to see a credit card with her name on it and she had tried to give it back but Sid had insisted. “You don’t treat yourself enough, pretty girl,” he had firmly stated. So Nina took advantage of it to treat herself a bit.

By the time she came back to Pittsburgh, Sidney’s road trip was over but Nina’s semester had started. They had a couple of weeks where they spent time together as much as possible before the Pens had another short road trip. Now, Sidney was on his way to the Olympics in Beijing for their longest separation so far.

Sidney finally had his bag packed the way that he liked it. Glancing at Nina laying on their, um, his bed, he drawled, “Are you sure you aren’t going to miss me?”

Nina looked up and giggled. “You hog the sheets, Sidney. And you’re like a furnace when you sleep.”

Sidney walked over to the bed, crouching over Nina. “Hurting my feelings right before I have to take a long flight. Tsk tsk.”

“Your flight leaves tomorrow. You’re just making sure you are totally prepared tonight. Stop being so dramatic, Sidney Crosby.”

Sidney smirked as he brushed a hand down Nina’s front. She was clothed, wearing one of his t-shirts. “Still, Nina.

“Still, Sidney.”

Nina stuck out her tongue at Sidney as he giggle-honked. Sidney brushed an errant strand of hair off of Nina’s forehead as he whispered, “I wish you were coming.”

“It was too short of a notice to take almost three weeks off, Sid,” Nina murmured. “Plus, hasn’t it always just been your family attending the Olympics?”

“Yes?”

Nina smiled. “Then, I would be breaking your tradition and your superstitions-”

Sidney opened his mouth to disagree but Nina put a finger over it. “Don’t even start, we both know how important ALL of your superstitions are. Even if you wouldn’t say it, if you lose without a gold medal and I'm there, part of you would be wondering. So quit the bullshit, Sidney.”

Sidney gave Nina a chagrined smile as she laughed at him. She was right, as always.

“Sid, it’ll be fine. You’re lucky I’m a morning person, you can call me crazy early here and I’ll pick up,” Nina reasoned.

Sidney pouted a bit. “I finally got you to actually date me, I don’t want to be separated from you for that long.”

“How cute, Mr. Obsessed-with-Hockey has become soft in his old age.”

Nina squealed when Sidney tickled her, squirming. “Okay, okay, you’re allowed to become soft!”

Sidney gave Nina a soft smile and she gulped. Something shifted in that look and Nina felt like there was something new.

Sidney bit his lip as Nina nervously laughed. In that moment, the pure joy on Nina’s face as she squealed while he tickled her, Sidney was sure that he loved her. He loved Nina. But this was the wrong time to admit that. So he chuckled and said, “If I’m soft, it’s only because of you.”

Nina stuck out her tongue and rolled her eyes. “Whatever.”

Sidney chose not to respond to that statement, instead choosing to slide his lips over hers. Soft and sweet, exploratory as they kissed, not their usual hungry kisses. Then Nina wrapped a leg around Sidney’s waist and the mood changed.

Nina ended the kiss first, whispering, “I can feel that someone is going to really miss me.”

“Going to miss you so much,” Sidney replied, grinding his hips into Nina’s core. “Let me show you.”

Nina gasped as Sidney sucked along her neck, just light enough not to leave any marks. “Gonna give you something to remember while I’m gone,” Sidney promised as his hands went under her shirt before pulling it off.

Nina grinned before moaning as Sidney began to do exactly what he promised to do.

Sidney sighed as he sent the text. Everything was going great, even after a couple of hiccups in their first group stage games. This year, it was obvious to Sidney that this was going to be the last Olympics for him. Except for him, Tazer, Bergy, Tanger, Webs, Price, and Giroux, all of the other players on the team were under 30. Sidney saw his job as captain this year to not just get one more gold, but get the younger guys ready to take over.

Right now, they were getting ready to play against Germany, their first game after the group stage, the real games. It was before pregame; the players whose families had come to Beijing were giving well-wishes. At this moment, Sidney wished Nina was here with him instead of home in Pittsburgh.

His phone pinged and Sidney relaxed when he saw the message: its midnight here. Good luck. Im g2g2 sleep. Bye

That message was quickly followed by another one: why the hell did they schedule yall for so fucking late? figured canada would be primetime here

Sidney laughed when he saw Nina’s message. Giroux looked at him, raising an eyebrow. “Must be the elusive girlfriend.”

Giroux’s wife elbowed him, causing him to say ow. Sidney snickered; they may be teammates for Team Canada but their truce was still a fragile truce. Ryanne Giroux said, “I heard Nina’s very sweet and kind.”

“Oh?”

Sidney was suddenly very curious. Blithely, Ryanne replied, “You know as well as I do it’s a small league. People only have the kindest things to say about her.”

Relaxing a bit, Sidney grinned. “Nina’s pretty fucking amazing. I’m lucky she likes me.”

“Oh God, he’s talking about Nina again.”

Sidney’s grin turned into a smile as Tanger clasped him on the back. Tanger continued, “It took five years-”

“Five years,” Giroux asked as Sidney groaned. “Stop giving him chirp material.”

Ryanne snickered as Sidney’s phone pinged again; kris says ur bragging about me again?

“Really, Tanger, really?”

Kris laughed as Sidney narrowed his eyes. “Calm down, Sid.”

Before Sidney could reply, Nina sent him another text: score a hat trick

Sidney gave his phone a soft smile. It was time to get focused for the game, so Sidney put his phone away as soon as he went back into the locker room.

Nina cracked an eye open. The time difference was a motherfucker; it was 5:45 am but 5:45pm. Yawning, Nina sat up in her bed as she accepted the call from Sid.

“Nina, really?”

“Good morning to you,” Nina yawned.

Sid slightly frowned. Nina was wearing a team USA t-shirt. Her shorts were blue. Even her sleep bonnet was blue.

“I’m not Canadian, Sid.”

“Stilll-“

Nina smirked as she shook her head. “No, I’m not rooting for you. Score as many goals as you want, I’m Team USA.”

Sidney scowled as Nina laughed. “It’s not even like the US made the gold medal game!”

Nina was disappointed in Team USA. She was hoping they would make it to the gold medal game but they were going to go against Finland for Bronze. Tomorrow, at 8am Beijing Time, 8pm EST, Canada was going against Sweden for gold.

“Still, you should be rooting for me.”

“I am,” Nina reasoned. “I want you to score all the goals. But, I just cannot root for Canada, yet.”

“Yet.”

Nina looked up to the ceiling before yawning again. Sidney was in a snit. She felt a tiny bit bad for Sweden because they were going to get it. But that wasn’t her problem. “Seriously, good luck, Sidney.”

“Thank you, Nina.”

Nina blew Sidney a kiss and he pretended to catch it. Then he licked his lips. “How many days did you take off when I get back?”

“Three, Sidney. Just three.”

Nina couldn’t help the rush of heat in her center when Sidney drawled, “I don’t plan to let you out of my house then.”

“Win the damn gold then,” Nina snapped.

Sidney chuckled, saying, “You’re ready to go back to sleep then. Sweet dreams, Nina.”

“Bye, Sid.”

Nina looked down at her phone. There were three messages, long messages, all from Sid. She took in a deep, fortifying breath. Canada had one gold and Sidney had two goals. From the highlights, it seemed like Sidney was on a mission the whole game. Sighing, Nina pressed play on the first one. It was just a noisy celebration, nothing big until Sidney started talking. His talking was garbled at first and Nina laughed when she realized that he was drunk off his ass when he called her.

The second voicemail started just as garbled, then Nina heard Sidney clearly say, “I’m so happy we won, I still wish you were here, you’re my new lucky charm, pretty girl. Fuck, I love you so much, pretty girl, you make everything better now that you’re mine.”

The next one was just sappy as the second, but Sidney was definitely somewhere quieter with this one. But he was also just as drunk, as he ended by saying, “I wanna fuck you when I get back, with you wearing my gold, pretty girl. This gold is almost as pretty as you.”

Nina ruefully laughed, already expecting apologetic texts from Sidney when he was sober. But for the rest of the day, the thought lingered in her mind, the idea that Sidney loved her. However, her patients kept Nina busy and she didn’t get a moment to really ruminate on that. Then, Nina went over to Karesha’s house to babysit her play nephew, AJ, as Karesha went out with her boyfriend.

Within an hour of leaving, Karesha came back in, heated as she slammed the door. AJ commented, “He must have made Mom mad again.”

“AJ, please go upstairs and play with your Legos, Mommy needs to talk to Aunt Nina,” Karesha asked, trying hard to control her voice.

AJ quickly ran up the stairs, loudly closing the door to his room. Karesha flopped on the couch, kicking off her expensive heels. “Fuck men.”

Nina got up and grabbed a bottle of whiskey and two shot glasses. Pour shots, she passed one to Karesha before sitting back down next to her friend. Karesha gratefully smiled before downing the shot.

“I’m tired of this shit. I told him it was over through text. How dare he say he’s coming up to Pittsburgh before spring training and then text me after I get to the restaurant to say he’s not coming after all. I’m done. I can’t.”

Nina murmured sympathetically, “Fuck him.”

“I’m so glad I never brought him around AJ though,” Karesha stated. “He had the nerve to say I spent too much time with my kid when I told him it was over.”

Nina’s eyes widened at that statement. “What are you supposed to do? Parent him less?”

Thoughts about Sidney were forgotten as Nina consoled her friend. Deciding to sleep over, Nina woke up early in the morning on the couch, several texts from Sidney waiting for her. Nina quickly scanned over them, starting with a text telling Nina his flight was about to come in to the last one asking if everything was okay. Nina sent him a message: friend had a crisis, be over around 10

It was early, around 7am so Nina didn’t expect to get a response. But Sidney replied: everything ok?

As ok as it’s gonna be, don’t worry, Nina sent back before straightening up Karesha’s living room. She then slipped out, locking the door from the inside.

“Gonna get you full with my cum, pretty girl. Fuck, look at you, your pussy already trying to milk my cum.”

Nina groaned as she watched Sid fuck her, claiming her. Her legs were over his shoulders, allowing Sidney to fuck her deep. “You missed me, pretty girl?”

“Uh huh,” Nina managed to say. He was fucking her so good, each stroke hitting her g-spot. It was like Sidney returned as a man on a mission.

“I missed you. Dreamed of you every night, Nina,” Sidney rasped.

“Mmmm.”

Nina no longer had words, she could feel her high coming. Then she felt Sidney’s fingers, just two fingers on her clit and it was enough to send her over the edge. Nina screamed, her nails digging into Sidney’s back. That was enough to get Sidney to reach his high as well, his grunts wordless as he came.

Nina sighed as Sidney withdrew, already sad at feeling empty. Sidney sat back on his haunches, watching as his cum started to leak out of Nina’s pussy. “I’ll never get enough of seeing that,” he remarked as he played with Nina’s clit. “Just for me, pretty girl.”

Moaning, Nina closed her eyes. She was sensitive but she felt herself respond to Sidney’s fingers. Then his fingers were replaced with his tongue, his fingers fucking his cum deeper inside of her pussy and the time for rational thought was gone.

Six weeks later

Nina sighed as she rifled through her bag for the keys to her apartment. Today was her thirty-first birthday and for some reason, she felt weird. ‘Maybe it’s because I’m now on the other side of thirty,’ Nina thought to herself.

The morning began with happy birthday texts from friends, birthday calls from Mom and Dad, and a facetime call with Jason. Sidney had sent her a funny meme birthday text but nothing else. Nina knew she shouldn’t feel too bad; the Pens were trying to solidify their playoff spot in the division and her birthday, April 5, fell right at the end of the season. As she opened the door, Nina hoped that Sid would at least do something once the playoffs were over. At the same time, it felt weird that she wasn’t going out with her parents either.

Just her luck that for the first time she was in a relationship around her birthday, her boyfriend had reasons not to take her out. Nina sniffled as she turned on the light.

“SURPRISE!!”

Nina gasped as Sidney, Kris, Geno, Anna, Catherine, Taylor, Alex, Victoria, Mario, Nathalie, Guentzy, Tristan, Hannah, Karesha, AJ, Lauren, her mom and dad, and Aryanna jumped out. Eyes wide, Nina burst into tears.

“Oh no, what’s wrong pretty girl,” Sidney replied, folding Nina into his arms.

Nina sniffled as she cried, “I thought everyone forgot my birthday!”

“I told you she wasn’t going to take it well,” Karesha muttered as Lauren kicked her. “Girl, be happy he did this all for you when he could be extra obsessive about the playoffs.”

Nina cut her eyes at Karesha before getting on her tiptoes to press a kiss to Sid’s cheek. “Thank you, Sid.”

The pictures of that night were put into a small scrapbook. Nina didn’t understand Sidney’s love for documenting memories in such a dramatic way but it was nice to look back at the memories in book form instead of having to scroll through her phone. Playoffs were now starting though so Nina was sure that would be the last carefree time until the playoffs were over, this time hopefully with another cup.

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racoonjohn · 3 years

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How did you come up w/ the name Alpha Frenezy?

So, when we first played RDR2 me and Vany were in vacation with our best friend, Giuli, and her boyfriend, Gabri.

They already started the game and just arrived at Horseshoe Overlook. We were so amazed by the landscapes and details fo RDR2 that we basically spent a couple days just walking around and hunting, and during one of our trips near camp we stumbled upon the guy who got kicked to death by his horse. Mine (Marti) and Gabri immediate reaction was "NICE! Free loot" but Vany jumped from the couch and screamed "GET THAT HORSE!"

So we spent the next 20 minutes of so running after this horse and trying to steal from her saddle bags, only to get kicked every time. We almost died, surrendered, and decided to keep the horse because she was badass. At that point we had to decide a name fo her and at the exact same time I said "Alpha" while Gabri said "Frenezy"... and so a legend was born ahaha

She's the horse that we kept during the whole vacation, and when we came back home Giuli and Vany gifted me RDR2 for my birthday so me and Vany IMMEDIATLY started a new playtrough and tried to do the same exact things that we did already, Alpha Frenezy included. She's our main horse and we kept her through all the game <3

#Alpha Frenezy #a$k #thank you for this ask!! we are really happy to share info about our special girl ❤️#alsp the braid in the tail was chosen by Gabri as well ❤️

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tomsrebeleyebrow · 3 years

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So Cla 😑 since you basically made me 🤚🏻 I want to request a blurb with Harry 😏 about sex on the beach 🏖... work your magic big sis I trust you

*stretch arms and crack fingers* oh trust me, your big sis is gonna work her magic WITH BIIIIIIIIG PLEASURE 😏😈 and damn did i enjoy writing it oof it’s hot in here 🥵🙊🔥

NSFW / +18 content under the cut so beware!!

The sun was at its zenith, striking its hot rays on the Jamaican beach coast. The sound of slow undulating waves filled the air when gently hitting the rocks, in unison with colorful tropical birds flying freely around the entire area to create such a heavenly atmosphere.

“You’re sure no one’s gonna see– fuck, Harry–”

There was not a single soul present on the golden sandy beach, this little spot nicely secluded for you guys own pleasure to enjoy. And you were definitely enjoying it to its fullest by – let’s say it the way it is – fucking in the sea. Harry couldn’t keep his hands off you ever since you put on that new red bikini you bought specially for this vacation and, well, you weren’t one to deny the brunette’s advances for too long anyway. Which led you to now, both of you halfway immersed in the clear sea water with Harry’s thick girth pushed deeply in your pussy while riding him.

Harry took a deep breath, his hands firmly on your ass to keep you close to him as you rid him. “Relax, lovie” he grunted against the salty yet delicious skin of your neck, “no one’s allowed near the– shit you’re so tight– near the coast ‘cause of the rocks.”

You felt him rub into all the right spots inside of you as his strong hips met yours one time after another from that particular angle where your clit got some stimulation too, and this had you moaning countlessly. It wasn’t exactly a secret that Harry had an immense weak spot for your moans – he could listen to them all day long.

With both arms around your lover’s neck, it just had his face almost snugged with yours to share intense kisses right in the Caribbean Sea, some lasting longer while some were so messy. The water kept splashing on your skins with each of your movements and you were quite grateful to Harry for being this tall and quite strong man that he was. You sighed every now and then, already feeling the familiar knot forming in the pit of your stomach that tightened with every thrust of his.

“Told ya ‘was a good idea to sneak through that tiny gate behin’ the house.”

Indeed the brunette was right. The only way to access this bit of beach was by the aforesaid wrought iron gate located behind the house you rented for two weeks – the old owner being kind enough to give you guys that little tip –, and which was hidden in between a few palm trees and wild plants in the garden. And the cherry on top with all this was that no one could go there if not using the gate, since imposent rocks were forming like a barrier five meters after the waterside, making it impossible for any boat to approach the beach or the house to take some clichés volés of you two.

“Make me cum, H” you whimpered against his lips while tightening your legs around his waist, sliding one hand down from his neck to your clit. Harry growled and slid a hand of his to your hip, rolling his own to thrust into you steadily, nice and hard.

You became such a moaning mess around him and you loved it all – loved the way he felt inside of you, loved the way the warm water moved around you, loved the salty scent now mixing with Harry’s natural one that made its way to your nose even more as your orgasm continued building up deep inside. Harry could hardly comprehend but enjoy how good you always felt around him, this new sexcapade being another one to remove from your shared bucket list. And as weird as it may sound, he found having sex in the turquoise and clear sea right by a paradisiac island really exciting, quite romantic in a way but so much sensual and risqué, everything you both loved.

“(Y/N), babe–” Harry breathed softly against your lips, making you whimper as you kept massaging your clit, so desperate to finally reach your release. Little by little the brunette could feel you start tightening deliciously around him, your moans rising in pitch only somewhat muffled by his fine lips before you squeezed around him not much later, crying out in satisfaction while you held him tightly with your nails digging crescent forms into his shoulders.

And that was precisely that slight feeling of pain on his tanned skin, joined with how deep he reached inside to feel you milking him with your walls that threw Harry over the edge as well, his breath hitching for the time he took to release as far into you in a few final thrusts.

Once you both had come down from your highs, you let your upper body go limp against Harry and nestled your face in the crook of his neck, your forehead resting on his shoulder while trying to catch your breath. Harry fought with himself to keep you in his arms, his nose nuzzling into your wet salty hair which somehow kept him awake from his powerful climax. After a short minute spent in total silence but with the usual and calming surrounding noises, you both chuckled.

“This definitely can’t be the only time we do this” you said while slowly turning your face to look at your boyfriend, a meaningful raise of your eyebrows that got a grin from him who leaned to kiss you slowly.

Harry lightly detached his lips to press his forehead on yours. “‘aven’t rent this house two weeks fo’ nothin’, lovie…” he added, that smirk not leaving his face while rubbing your noses together a little. You giggled and leaned up for another kiss, and then another, and another one before your arms tightened around his neck once again – just like your pussy did with a nice squeeze, which pulled a moan from your boyfriend.

“Fuck– ‘wanna fuck ya again” Harry growled while biting on your bottom lip, making you moan too adn the sound brought his cock back to life for another round.

Your fingers slid through his hair to tighten and pull at some of his wet locks. “Please” you whimper almost pitifully, clearly sounding depraved, in complete need.

“Home. Now.”

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arhvste · 4 years

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Hi! I saw your Dad hcs and istg I wanted more 🥺 can you please make a part two with Sakusa (God i love this man) Hinata, Bokuto and Ushijima (do add more if you want) your works are amazing but the Dad hcs got me 💘

i re-read all my work last night and i consciously kept spelling sakusa’s name wrong 🤠 like i know his name i know what it sounds like but i kept getting mixed up between sasuka, sakura and sasuke because they all look the same to me 😳 I'm sorry sakusa pls forgive me 😼

also i will be doing ushijima in a seperate post for dad hcs with two other haikyuu boys a bit later so dw i haven't accidentally missed or ignored it! :)

SAKUSA, HINATA AND BOKUTO AS DADS

SAKUSA

the two fo you only have one kid so far

a 3 year old girl

you plan to extend your family soon though 👀

you already KNOW this man gets your kid every vaccination available for their age

he is very protective over his daughter

boys near her daughter at the playground

NOT on his watch

he will simply scoop her up and suggest she play somewhere else

this man doesn't care how mean it may seem

he’s not having his precious daughter surrounded by disgusting b-boys 🤮

“have they had their flu jabs? when was the last time they washed their hands? they're breathing their gross little germs too close to her”

“sakusa, they’re 3.”

sorry but no dating for your daughter

sakusa teaches his little girl the concept of “boys have cooties” from a very young age

this man is nothing but proud when that concept sticks with her 😈

“d/n, are you excited for pre-school?”

“daddy said there's going to be boys and boys have cooties so no 😠”

as she gets older though he does become more lenient with her and who she makes friends with

he’ll secretly love it if you brought her to his games

he’s not huge on pda at all

but he won’t mind being caught on camera embracing the two of you when the team win

atsumu is not allowed near your daughter when she’s a baby

“omi omiiiii why can’t i ‘ave a look t’cha daughter?”

“because she has been vaccinated and i fear your disgusting germs may be strong enough to over power it”

when she gets older though she straight up approaches atsumu on her own

“so you’re the rat my daddy talks about a lot? you don’t look like much of a rat?”

atsumu doesn’t know whether he’s flattered that sakusa talks about him or offended that he refers to him as a ‘rat’

he won’t encourage your daughter to play volleyball

he wants her to pick her own hobbies and not feel pressured by his influence on picking an activity she’ll enjoy

secretly hopes your daughter takes up an individual activity like painting or something to keep away from other germ infected kids

but if your daughter does happen to pick a team sport he doesn't complain

she just has to wash her hands before she comes home and have a shower when she comes in

he is a very very proud father

he may not be very expressive about it

but he absolutely brags about his kid to other people

“my son won maths star of the week!”

“yeah? well my daughter won student of the year, highest achieving in her class and had 4 boys confess to her this week so”

he does make sure his daughter knows he is very proud of her despite his petty bragging

anything she does he takes pride in her

it’s her who makes him want to have another kid

so get ready for round two y/n because when sakusa wants something he’ll make sure he gets it 😼

HINATA

now, you may think hinata would be nothing but pure chaos with his kids

but

he is actually very responsible

it’s hardly a surprise though because he grew up with a younger sister whom he took care of a lot

from the second your triplet boys are born hinata is on it

at first when you found out you were having triplets your mind went blank

“so like, 3 little shoyou’s running around my legs? 😀”

“ma’am are you okay?”

“i’m finE :)))”

surprisingly two of your sons took more after you

but the youngest one

phew

he doesn't have an off switch

he’s just like his father

but that’s what makes him so loveable too

hinata is a doting dad

he also encourages his kids to go out and make as many friends

he explains all the opportunities he had growing up and how far these opportunities took him to reach is goal

and this is all because he was open to meeting new people and being friendly with them

he makes sure his kids grow up with lots of aunts and uncles surrounding them

he wants his sons to grow up in a close environment

your kids have so many aunts and uncles because hinata makes a new friend everywhere he goes ufshfi

your oldest son takes a liking to kenma the most

your second oldest takes a shine to uncle oikawa

and the youngest?

uncle kaegyama ofc 😈

lmao when kageyama holds one of your sons for the first time he holds it by the leg with a straight face

nobody thought they’d ever see hinata having to show kageyama how to hold a baby properly

kageyama is lowkey excited he’s the fav but he’s so awkward fjishsgjh

bring your sons to his games

he will absolutely smile and wave at his kids whenever he scores

and will pull them out excitedly into the arena when they win

he has you all plastered on his social media

he thinks everyone should know that you guys are the light of his life

he already had a fulfilled life before his sons but you gave him a whole new concept of love and excitement when they were born

you guys will totally take a vacation to brazil at some point

hinata wants your family to meet all his friends over in brazil too

hinata is mr worldwide 😎

with hinata as a dad, your kids will grow up in a very nurturing home

he wants the best for your kids and will teach them from an early age that any goal is possible

and he’ll support them in every single way he can

BOKUTO

hinata as a dad isn’t chaos

bokuto as a dad certainly is

he’s basically a child himself

you guys have 2 kids

a 5 year old son and a 6 year old daughter

bokuto will try and BEFRIEND your kids

“kou baby, they're your kids not your friends”

“uh says who?”

“biology??? their dna?? the birth certificate??”

he literally lets his kids do whatever they want forcing you to be the bad cop (im so sorry)

your kids want ice cream for dinner?

consider it done

they want to adopt a snake?

bokuto has excitedly taken them to the pet store to pick out one each

you’re always the one who has to say no because if you didn’t these kids would be off the r a i l s

the first time your kids cries he cries

the first time your kids talk he cries

the first time they walk he cries

he’s full of emotion and the love he holds for your kids is often expressed through tears of happiness

when you leave bokuto and the kids alone

things will go smoothly

until one of them starts crying and bokuto can’t stop them

then the other one starts crying and he is clueless on what to do

he doesn’t want to call you because he doesn’t want to look pathetic

so he calls the next best option

uncle akaashi 😼

akaashi is like a walking parent website hfdjbgu

he literally instructs bokuto on what to do through the phone

and if they still won't calm down akaashi will just sigh and agree to come over

you come home to the sight of akaashi reading a story book to your two kids who are staring up at him in awe from the floor

along with your husband

“am i interrupting?”

bokuto will break out into smiles and practically pounce on you when you come home

“everything was under control wasn’t it? right akaashi?” :D”

akaashi will just sigh and give a small smile

“yes bokuto-san, everything was under control”

you give akaashi a small smile of apology and he’ll often join you for dinner

yeah your kids spend a lot of time with uncle akaashi but you know who’s adamant on being the favourite uncle?

uncle kuroo ofc 😎

he will spoil tf out of your kids

we love rich, capitalist uncle kuroo

and he’ll tell them things about bokuto to irritate him

“kids, your dads a criminal he doesn't pay his taxes”

“taxes?”

“money everyone has to pay the government - basically it’s illegal and i think you should call the police on your dad 😈”

you actually have to stop your kids from calling the police on their dad fbhjdsfgu

again, another dad who wants nothing more than for his kids to come to his games

“HEY HEY HEY THAT”S MY FAMILY!!!”

no boundaries with pda

will pick you all up and shower you all with affection when they win

would love if your kids took up volleyball

would tell them it’s the best sport to play

and they actually listen to him hduigefuiew

your son becomes a middle blocker

and your daughter becomes an ace

bokuto could die from happiness

he will absolutely teach your kids and play and bring them to msby practices so they can watch up close and play along too

if bokuto is the father of your kids

good luck but have fun with it

because while yes, he is still your big baby that needs taking care of from time to time

he is also an extremely loving father who would gladly give his kids the world and all the stars

#sakusa kiyoomi #sakusa hcs #sakusa x reader #sakusa x you #sakusa headcanons #hinata shouyou #hinata x reader #hinata x you #hinata hcs #hinata headcanons #bokuto koutaro #bokuto x reader #bokuto x you #bokuto hcs #bokuto headcanons #haikyuu #haikyuu!!#haikyuu hcs #haikyuu headcanons

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15 March 2021 Additions to Reylo Fluff

These fics have been added to the Fluff lists located in the following lists:

Fluff Part 1 Titles A-G

Fluff Part 2 Titles H-M

Fluff Part 3 Titles N-S

Fluff Part 4 Titlez T-Z

My Heart Like a Kick Drum by Zoa (AO3 2020 Rated T Complete, 8 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: In need of a date to his parents destination vow renewal but not interested in a real relationship, Ben Solo turns to an acting service specializing in fake relationships for a temporary girlfriend. But as he gets to know Rey Niima over the course of the vacation, Ben finds himself reconsidering his outlook on love...) More Than a One-Night Stand by Eskayrobot, Poaxath (AO3 2018 Rated E Complete, 2 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Rey's having a pretty shitty night, to be honest. From the creep at the bar to the...oh, this rescuer of hers is pretty nice. And very attractive. And maybe he smelled really good, too.) lay all your love on me by akosmia (AO3 2018 Rated T Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Ben doesn't really think much of himself, and Rey is determined to change his mind.) Got a Feeling we Should Just Go Home by slugmutt (AO3 2018 Rated M Complete, 13 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Spending the week before Christmas with sullen deputy-CEO Kylo Ren is the last thing on earth Rey wants to do. Going back to his hometown with Christmas-loving Rey in tow is the last thing Kylo wants to do. But with a little help from family, some holiday magic, and a stray blizzard or two, they might start seeing things differently.) Lightning Glass by Weddersins (AO3 2018 Rated T Complete, One-Shot, Canon CD, Quick Synopsis: Force-users don't like to consume alcohol because it lowers mental shielding. Too bad the Resistance's entire supply of juice fermented. Better not let it go to waste. Meanwhile, Kylo Ren wakes up with Rey booping his nose and giggling. He is Very Confused.) New Beginnings by reylocalligraphy (AO3 2018 Rated G Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: When Ben comes home for the first time in five years, it happens to be Thanksgiving dinner. He’s surprised to meet a girl who’s working for his father… an odd girl his parents seem strangely fond of.) The Unintended Consequences of Single-Seater Cockpit Designs by ItsALilah (AO3 2018 Rated E Complete, One-Shot, Canon CD, Quick Synopsis: After Crait, Rey vowed to never, ever stick her head out for Kylo Ren again. Unfortunately, she's got marching orders from Poe Dameron of all people to save the Resistance's newest ally, who just happens to be Kylo Ren, and of course, those rescue plans predictably go to Hell. Meaning Rey's not just stuck with Kylo Ren, but sharing an uncomfortably confined space with the newly deposed Supreme Leader. A space that was definitely not designed to fit more than one person.) In Full Bloom by deedreamer (AO3 2019 Rated T Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: When high school teacher Rey Kanata gets flowers with a cryptic message, she freaks out, thinking she's being hit on by one of her students. On a mission to find out who sent the flowers, she meets Ben Solo -- single dad and owner of the little florist down on Main Street. When the flowers turn out to be a delivery error, Rey knows her job's no longer at risk. But what she doesn't know is that she's about to fall head over heels for the man who keeps sending her flowers day after day because he's a goner for her, too...) Degrees and Galaxies by Pawprinter (AO3 2018 Rated T Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Ben could think of numerous other things he would rather be doing than spending an afternoon working on a paper. That all changes when he bumps into Rey. Maybe spending the day at the coffee shop isn't the worst way to spend his time.) A Reylo Christmas Carol by Crackedkybercrystal (AO3 2018 Rated M Complete, 4 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: "Before the dawn," Hux intoned, "you will be visited by three spirits. Heed their message Kylo Ren, least you end your days like me." It was only now that Kylo perceived his old partner to be bound with a great chain around his waist, weighed down by heavy blocks.) Of Penmanship and Discourse by INTPSlytherin_reylove97 (AO3 2018 Rated M Complete, 35 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: When Rey Kenobi's professor and advisor, Luke Skywalker, refuses to give constructive criticism or facilitate workshops for his students, she decides to seek help else where. Ben Solo (or if you read his published work, Kylo Ren) is on the brink of insanity. The literary magazine he is editor for is racing off in a new direction-- and is leaving him questioning both its morals and his love for writing. To find his intellectual and creative needs met, he decides to turn to the internet. A PenPals AU no one asked for.) The Set-up by CajunSpice714 (AO3 2018 Rated T Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Ben Solo has aways been socially awkward, but when he sets his sights on his brother Poe's fiance Finn's bestfriend Rey during an engagment party Poe decided that he and Finn need to divise a plan to set the two of them up if not for the sake of his and Finn's future wedding then for the sake of their own sanity.) From R to Kylo by SpaceWaffleHouseTM (AO3 2018 Rated E Complete, 4 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Ben and Rey are archaeologists who absolutely cannot stand each other. They also happen to be pen pals, but they don't know who the other is, until one night they get trapped together at a creepy excavation site, and suddenly their hatred begins to unravel.) How You Turn My World, You Precious Thing by BensLostTookaCat (VillainTheBlank) (AO3 2018 Rated E Complete, 3 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: He's the hotshot asshole who leads The First Order, the legal arm of The Resistance. She's the new company liaison who has been assigned to The First Order to keep them accountable.The annual Resistance Masquerade Ball is about to turn Kylo and Rey's worlds upside down.) If You Change Your Mind (I'm the First in Line) by castles_and_crowns (AO3 2018 Rated T Complete, 6 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Ben hates watching his best friend/roommate Rey be unlucky in love. Finally, he decides to do something about it.) Take a Chance on Me by castles_and_crowns (AO3 2020 Rated T Complete, 6 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Rey hates watching her best friend/roommate Ben go on date after date with no success. Eventually, she decides to do something about it. Or, 5 bad dates + 1 good one.) Haunted Corn Maze by OptimisticBeth (AO3 2018 Rated T Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Rey bonds with her work buddy, Ben.) Zombie Run by OptimisticBeth (AO3 2018 Rated T Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: During a charity run, Rey is relentlessly pursued by a zombie.) Eating for Two by Hellyjellybean (AO3 2021 Rated E Complete, 3 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Rey is pregnant and smells her neighbour Ben's cooking. She goes round to ask if he would be willing to share. But maybe Ben would like to share more than his cooking with Rey.) Go And Catch A Falling Star Chapter 56 by Ayearandaday (AO3 2021 Rated G Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Hungry overworked Ben accidentally ends up in McDonalds. Guess what happens next?) weddings and wingwomen by bigfootsflannel (AO3 2020 Rated T Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: After hiring Ben Solo as her wedding photographer, Rose discovers her true calling as part-time matchmaker.) when the stars collide by roguewn (AO3 2020 Rated T Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Rose and Rey are debating the latest Space Skirmish movie. Rose insists a kiss was romantic and Rey jokes that it was a thank-you-for-saving-me kiss. Rose dares her to kiss the next guy who holds the door open for her.) Fall Into the Dark Side by CaliforniaQueen (AO3 2020 Rated E Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Rey is a lonely comic shop owner. Ben is the equally lonely comic book writer Rey has been crushing on for years.) Something About November Chapter 11 by SpaceWaffleHouseTM (AO3 2019 Rated T Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Rey is leaving First Order Enterprises for her dream job at Resistance Inc. On her last day, she gets a cake and a card with farewell messages from her department-there's an anonymous message among them, confessing to a secret crush.) Something Missing by Hellyjellybean (AO3 2020 Rated M Complete, 3 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: An angst-free AU where Ben takes his kid to work and loses track of him only to find him eating contraband candy with Rey from IT.) A Doggy Intervention by corpse_wife (AO3 2020 Rated T Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Interventions come in many different forms. Whether it's time, a place or occasionally, people, it's up to the universe to decide when two soulmates meet. In Ben Solo's case, the universe had a cruel sense of humor. For his intervention comes in the form of a German Shepard and his graceless brunette owner. Two things happened in the short span of a minute: 1.) Ben got tackled to the ground 2.) The dog had just swallowed his wedding rings) baby fever by cursebreakker (AO3 2021 Rated E Complete, 3 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Rey’s boss kylo basically has a heart of stone, he literally has a reputation in the offices as 'Satan’s right hand'. That is until Rey’s two year old daughter toddles up to him outside of work one day and he just completely melts.) My Roommate's a Virgin Vampire by jeeno2 (AO3 2020 Rated E Complete, 8 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Rey Niima answers an online ad from someone looking for a new roommate. Turns out he's a very weird, incredibly hot vampire with extremely outdated views on sex.) Toy Story XXX: The Legend of the Fainting Goat by andabatae (AO3 2019 Rated E Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Rey has been thirsting after her next door neighbor, Ben Solo, for months. In a fit of sexual frustration, she purchases a sex toy with rave reviews—never expecting that when she uses it, Ben will mistake her screams of pleasure for cries of distress and break down her door to save her...) Wild Child by tmwillson3 (AO3 2020 Rated E Complete, 4 Chapters, Regency AU, Quick Synopsis: Rey spends her first Season in Bath with her best friend, Rose Tico. When Rose begins a hate-at-first-sight relationship with Sir Armitage Hux, Rey thinks that nothing more exciting could happen.That's when Sir Hux's friend, the Earl of Alderaan, and his dogs come crashing into Rey. Rey has never liked peers, but when she bonds with him on a rainy day, everything changes.) Dump Your Date for Prom by TypeSomeSenseToMe (AO3 2021 Rated T Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Rey asks Ben Solo to the Prom.) you're my boo by murakamism (AO3 2018 Rated M Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Rey's neighbor Ben Solo is the only one who ever shows Halloween spirit around here. When she discovers he's moving out, she's only hurt because that means she won't have anymore competition... right? So she sets out on a plan to make him stay.) permanent calligraphy (your name on me forever) by theresonatinglight (AO3 2021 Rated E Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: As they continue to work together, two things become clear. One: Ben Solo is an enigma. He’s preppy yet humble, privileged yet introspective. He’s the opposite of lazy; she kicks herself every day for assuming otherwise. And two: Ben Solo will never love her.) Bespoke by L_awlietxoxx (AO3 2018 Rated G Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Ben Solo is miserable, stumbling through his life in London without seeing much of anything. Then Christmas sneaks up on him, as does a little shop and a woman who makes custom ornaments to meet the needs of any heart. Suddenly, Ben sees everything.) Game Night by Melusine11 (AO3 2019 Rated E Complete, 5 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Rey goes to live with Finn to help her get on her own feet. She has an immediate connection with his roommate, Ben Solo. It all comes to a head during a rather intense game night.)

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She’s Back Part 2 | Evan Buckley

Read Part 1 here

Prompt: During the operation at the train wreck the reader met Abby and saw her with Evan but she doesn’t know why she’s even back.

“I mean, if I could just take a week off Captain that will be good.” it’s been three days passed since the train incident and I’m just tired ignoring Buck for a while now. He wanted to reason everything out but I think I’m not ready to hear him after knowing that they both met the day after the incident.

“A week off now? Earlier you keep asking me to transfer you to another shift? What’s wrong Y/N?” Bobby asked eyes furrowed.

I sighed in annoyance, “I don’t know, I’m kinda tired and -” I can see Buck in my peripheral vision listening to us, “I wanted to try other things or stuff. I really don’t know Cap and this answer usually could grant a week off though.”

“Who’s having a week off?” Eddie interrupted.

“Me. I’m asking a week off, okay?”

“Why?” he asked confusingly.

“I don’t know or probably I’m gonna fly to Europe and explore somethings or even go to London and see what are they up to.” I told them. I can see Buck’s annoyance in my answers and I don’t care.

“Please, grant me those. I needed this time off.” I begged to Captain Nash.

And oh if you’re wondering by the way the “I need to tell you something” by Buck was never happened because I try my very best not to talk to him or even be at the same room with him.

“I’ll go check if you can Y/N. I’ll let you know after the shift.” Captain Nash assured.

*****

“Thank you so much.” I hugged Bobby as he informed me that I could have five days off and that’s the best that he could do.

It was raining hard as soon as our shift ended and unfortunately my car was still in the shop because of engine problem. I grabbed my umbrella in the locker and booked an Uber home.

“You’re gonna Uber home?” Eddie asked as he passed me.

“Uhm,” I locked my phone, “My car was in shop, engine problems.”

“I could just swing you at your apartment this rain isn’t gonna stop soon.” Eddie offered.

“We live in the opposite side so ‘swing you home’ is not efficient.” I said as I declined his offer.

“Okay, I just want someone to hear this conversation so he could drop you home and talk whatever is going on to both off you.” He winked at me as he walk towards the door.

I checked my Uber and no one has ever picked my booking.

I walk toward the door and thought that it would be a perfect spot to wait for a cab since it’s impossible to get an Uber at this time.

It’s twenty minutes passed and no cab even passed by. I keep myself entertained over my colleagues who will start their shift after us catching up.

Then, a black Jeep stopped in front of us, I sighed to know at that very second who it was. Buck rolled his passenger side window and shouted, “Hey. Y/N it’s impossible to get a cab now, I’ll just drop you home.”

Maria, a friend of ours had this confusion then proceeded to ask me, "Buck is here, I don't know why you're still waiting for a cab? You two are basically a couple without being in a formal relationship?" I rolled my eyes to her.

"Am I right, Buck?" She shouted over Buck even though he didn't know what are we talking about.

He nodded and shouted back at me, "Y/N, get in the car."

"As if I have a choice." I mumbled as I walk over the Jeep.

I said my goodbye to Maria and she's happily teasing the me and Buck. I don't know why people kept seeing us so compatible to each other because right now, I can't even see it.

I stand in passenger side of his Jeep, "Hey, thank you for doing this, I don't even know that you're still in the station at this time." He smiled and God forbid those smiles. "Can you open up the back, I could just sit over there." I pointed it because I'm refusing to seat beside him.

He looked over at his back, "It's kinda messy over there, I got my stuff for the gym earlier. It'll be better if you'll seat over here." He pointed at the passenger side.

"I think I can do that," he smiled again, "I mean, I can sit at the back."

"It's really messy in there Y/N. I wished I cleaned it up before passing you here because I would if I just know that you'll be here. And it's pouring hard so you better get inside." He opened the door and a backed away. I climbed over the passenger side to settle this little argument.

"Where can I put my umbrella? It's literally dripping." I asked him.

He points at his back seat and it's really messy. "Put it in the back."

He started driving away from the station, he offered me a bag of Cheetos and even if I wanted some I declined his offer. Buck started casual talk but it really ends up in my yes, no or maybe.

"Do you still have grocery at your home? Because the last time I was there it was almost empty."

Well, he's not wrong. He spend a night in my apartment four days ago as we watch The Office again.

"I still have some. I'll probably just order a takeaway tonight." I said in a monotone voice.

Then, it's a dead silent. It felt like five minutes before he start speaking again.

"I heard you're gonna have a five day off, where are you going? Are you gonna visit your parents in New York?" He asked as if he dropped a million dollar question.

"No and not to be rude, Buck. It's none of your business." I put my airpods in my ear to shut whatever he's gonna talk.

He sighed deeply as he saw me doing that. I kept my head leaned over the window watching the raindrops race over the end.

*****

He parked his car adjacent to the door, I settled myself before opening it. I put my phone and airpods at my bag, "Thank you so much for driving me home, Buck and I'm sorry that I'm mean earlier I'm just not in the mood."

"It's Evan and it's okay I understand, Y/N."

I opened the door and hop out, "Drive safe." Usually it followed set of words, 'call or text me when you're home.'

And he usually answers, "Yeah, I'll text you when I'm home." and he does this time out of habit even if I didn't ask for it.

*****

I had different shifts from Buck after that day he dropped me home, he also did text me that he arrived home safely that night but I didn't reply, I left him on read. And fun fact I'm flying over London tonight for my mini vacation.

"So, London, huh?" Maria asked me as I settled my things I had the night shift the past few days so I had the chance to hangout with Maria.

"Yeah. It'll be good." I said in British accent. I tied my hair into pony tail before grabbing my things.

"I hope you have a wonderful vacation over there dearie."

"Yeah, I will." I walked over my car unlock it from a far when someone grabbed my free hand.

"Hey, I got you coffee to compensate your all nighter duty." Buck said as he handed me a venti Starbucks cup. "It's Vanilla Latte." He smiled.

"Thank you." I said confusingly. He's acting weird like he normally fo everyday.

"You're welcome and actually if you can remember I want to grab something with you so I can say something to you. Maybe right now, like breakfast?" Buck asked as if we're actually okay and its making me mad.

"No, I have something to do today." I replied plainly.

"Something much more better than me, mmm, Y/N." He said playfully.

"Buck, stop this."

"Evan, call me Evan." He insisted.

"I'll be flying to London tonight and I need to pack up my things, I'm sorry if I can't. And please stop acting that we're okay because we both know that we're not, Buck."

And now, he's totally angry. "I want to talk to you so bad because I want to explain things and after all you're gonna leave like what Abby did to me. It felt like everyone is leaving me, Y/N and you're the last person I expected to do that."

It felt like I'm burning up, I catch my breath before answering him, "I'm not like Abby, Evan. Okay. Don't compare me to her. That's it, get over it. Get over her. Find yourself and I'll go figure out what the hell is happening with me in London. I needed this time off so you don't have the right to tell me those words you said to me."

I opened my car and threw my bag at the back as I settled the coffee in the cup holder. He held the door to keep it open, "I'm sorry Y/N. I didn't mean it."

*****

I'm at the airport right now waiting my flight to board.

"All passengers from BA 798 bound to London this is your pre-boarding announcement -"

"Y/N!" Someone called my name, panting. I looked around to see Evan catching his breathe. "I'm glad I still catch you here." He hugged me tightly.

"Is everything okay? I mean how can you be at this area if you don't have a ticket." I asked him.

"I bought a ticket for Kansas tonight and I’m not even flying there just to pass through because I need to tell you something before you go." He uttered those familiar words.

"I know I fucked up that I didn't get over to what I felt with Abby because I kept a promise to wait for her but when you came into my life it drifted away but I'm not gonna lie as soon as I saw her that night it all came back even if I didn't want to because I'm finally happy. I saw pain in your eyes when you both saw us and it felt like I personally planted a knife in your heart to have those look in your eyes. I wanted to pause everything at that time to explain things to you but I couldn't they needed our help. Then, the day after the incident you avoided me, I thought it might be a temporary thing but it didn't. Yes, I met her that day also too, so I could settle whatever is left in here for her" he pointed in his heart. "And when you heard that we agreed to see each other that day, I see the pain doubled in your eyes. Abby, went here with his fiance to tell her relatives that they're going to get married in June, I met Sam too, her fiance I actually saved him at the incident, I may be lying if I'll say now that I wasn't hurt when she say that she'll be married but I did a little, then, I think about you Y/N. I think about everything that we had for the past year and especially the last few days before you start ignoring me," he giggled, "it's much more special and wonderful than what I had with Abby and it was so wrong to compare you to her this morning and again, I'm sorry."

"At this time we invite our business class customers to board the aircraft." The boarding gate agent announced and I hesitantly looked at my watch to check what time it is.

"I'm actually called?" I told him.

"Please stay for a while, I'll finish this up in a minute or two." I nodded.

"Because of the situation we didn't actually do as what we planned that night grab a breakfast or something and me telling you something and right now, you're going to London and I couldn't afford to have those five days passed away from you without knowing this, I love you Y/N more than anything. You mean the world to me and if I could just fly with you tonight I would but I can't, Captain said we will be short staffed. So, yeah, I love you and I want to spend my days with you annoying you, loving you and caring for you."

When he finished saying those words, I teared up and hugged him tightly as I savor those words in my head.

"All passengers for BA 798 bound to London kindly board your flight now at gate 22."

"Hey, I think you're being called for your flight."

"They can wait, I'm a business class passenger." I said to him. He laughed as we still hug each other. "And I love you too, Evan."

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Anon 1 said:

hi so I read a fic like a year ago where steve and bucky were fucking and while it was happening, bucky switched over to the winter soldier and steve had to calm him down. any way someone can help me find that? it was most likely on ao3 if that helps

dolphinqueen10 sent in We Cast Our Make Pretends* by A_M_Kelley (oneshot | 3,919 | E) *chose not to warn, implied/referenced rape/noncon, implied/referenced torture, mildly dubious consent

Anon 2 said: (/others)

can you guys help me find this book where steve gets turned into a puppy and bucky takes him home and i guess they have a really bad history together? also i know that steve works at a bakery with peggy and there was a little bit of bucky/thor and that steve ended up sending like thirteen letters to bucky when he got turned back and natasha and clint told him to leave bucky alone. sorry if its too vague thanks!!

dolphinqueen10, itsvanillarice and miraishu sent in Fill Your Heart Without Trying* by Kellyscams (complete | 38,580 | E) */others

Anon 3 said:

I'm looking for a fic where I think Steve was being held prisoner somewhere and Bucky had a plan to get him out, but he couldn't implement the plan yet so he broke into the facility as a cleaning person and talked to Steve through the intercom in the cell and told him something along the lines of: don't give up on me. No matter how long it's been, trust that I'm working on a plan to get you out. I'm not giving up on you, I'm always working on a way to save you. Does this ring bells for anybody?

Anon 4 said:

hi! i’m looking for a post-cacw fic but unfortunately can only remember one detail. wanda in an effort to erase bucky’s trigger words practices on steve and gives him a set of trigger words—bucky is horrified—but then she demonstrates how she can remove them on steve. do you or your followers know this one? thanks!!

dolphinqueen10 sent in something in the wires made the light bulbs break, by Poe (oneshot | 3,009 | G)

Anon 5 said:

hiii im looking for an a/b/o fic where bucky is in heat while they’re on a mission and steve acts like it doesn’t bother him until it finally does. sorry the description is terrible

itsvanillarice sent in Heat Stroke* by cleo4u2, xantissa (restricted, complete | 243,892 | E) *graphic violence

Anon 6 said:

There was one fic in which steve was bucky's butler (kindof) and they grew up together and bucky kissed steve on new year's day without realising it was his first kiss? Also, at some point near the end they move into an apartment together and get drunk and kiss and bucky panics the next day?? Any help would be appreciated :D

outerspacebuck said:

heyy im looking for this fic where bucky rejects steve because he thinks it’s a pity date and then he ends up working for Steve cleaning his house and then they end up together. Steve is captain America or something in it. And buckys a student? I think. thankkks

alrightyaphrdite said:

i’m looking for this one fic with witch steve (wasn’t in the tag i don’t think) all i remember is he put spells on his shop fo hide it from view but worked making potions for those in need . i don’t remember how they met but they were very compatible

cyndagoaway said:

Hey im looking for a fic and i was hoping you could help me! It was a modern stucky fake dating au, they went to go visit buckys parents for Thanksgiving in a really nice vacation cabin by the lake. I think bucky messed up his arm in a car crash. Sorry i dont have more details that this but its all i could remember.

whothefamianyway, miraishu, itsvanillarice and jarofhearts28 sent in Is It Pretending If I Already Want You? by OhCaptainMyCaptain (complete | 85,228 | E)

Anon 7 said:

its where prewar steve and bucky help out a travelling show(or romani) with something, and a man gives bucky a magic gift that if bucky tells steve to do something in a certain way or after reciting a certain phrase, steve basically does whatever bucky tells him to do?? bucky uses it for sex, and steve seems oblivious but eventually figures it out. they talk it out and establish a safeword, then do the dirty its maybe 1 chap?? Thx!! :)

Anon 8 said:

Hi there! I’ve looked through the shrunkclunks tags but I can’t seem to find what I’m after. Bucky steps in to help save four girls in New York from some kind of villains and Steve turn up annoyed at him for putting himself in danger? I remember him boarding the plane with the avengers after and it’s really tense! Hope you can help, thanks a lot :))

whitewolfwintersoldier sent in nothing more dangerous by lattely (complete | 7,820 | T)

Anon 9 said:

ok i’m sorry in advance because this is going to be the worst explanation but like i read a fic last year and i lost it. so basically it was a bunker au type thing where they couldn’t go outside ? steve had a previous relationship w peggy and they had a child n they died um he fell in love with bucky secretly when bucky arrived to said bunker but they get caught by pierce and get kicked out and they make the history books in the future . if u could help it would b v appreciated!!

Anon 10 said:

Hi I’ve searched everywhere for this fic but still haven’t found it!! Its one where the team is after the Winter Soldier but he keeps appearing only to makeout with Steve and such without anyone knowing and then when the team uses steve as bait, they are finally caught together bc they start having sex?? Its like a sleeping with the enemy kinda deal. Thanks!

miraishu sent in The Blind Leading* by SkyisGray (oneshot | 43,034 | E) *graphic violence

Anon 11 said:

I’m looking for fic and I (obviously) can’t find it. It’s very similar to ‘I want it that way’ by gc4465. I remember a girl recognizing Bucky during a Vietnam protest I think?? And tony gets black out drunk when his parents die. Tony builds Bucky an arm and surprises him with it at his graduation ceremony. Annnnddd Bucky totally flips his shit when he finds out steve is alive after the chitauri attack. I’m going insane trying to find it. Thank you!!

Anon 12 said:

Hey! I’ve checked through the Sugar Daddy!Steve tag, and couldn’t find the one I’ve been looking for. It was one where Bucky had been drinking in the mail room and spilled his drink all over Steve’s divorce papers from Peggy, then Steve saw him in a diner or something and made Bucky his sugar baby. Thank you!

miraishu, itsvanillarice and dragonflybeach sent in Collar Full of Chemistry by 2bestfriends (complete | 188,111 | E)

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drabblesanddreams · 5 years

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Hi !i hope you enjoyed your vacation! Can you write a atsushi x blind reader and she falls in love with his voice and it kinda takes him a while to like her?

Hi! I did enjoy it thank you so much:) Sorry this piece took so long i was honestly kind of scared to write a disabled reader as i didnt want to fuck it up but at least i tried haah! Also i tried writing a reader who didnt work in the ADA which i hope worked out good, regardless thank you so much for your request, i hope it turned out to your liking though i did get carried away as its a little longer than usual…

Word count: 2.6k

Pairing: Atsushi x reader

TW: nothing

Summary: Basically u cant see much and atsushi is insecure cutie again

It was a long day ofworking and there was nothing that you wanted more to do then go to bed forwhat would seem like all of eternity, that’s how tired you are. Yawningslightly, you made your way up the stairs to your apartment with a relativeamount of ease.

Your body had already gotten familiar to the pathway to your livingspace, although you were partially blind. You had been partially blind yourwhole life, only being able to recognize the shifting of light and whatnotbehind your (e/c) eyes.

The familiarity of the routine encompassed a feeling ofserene comfort. All your life, you relished in the concept of order, everythinghad their place in the world and you greatly respected that notion. It onlymade living life a tad bit easier, with that belief you had clung onto.

As you continued toclimb the stairs, you briefly let go of the railing in order to place a handupon the wall, letting it travel upwards as you felt up the hard, stone surfacebeneath it.

You recognized the sudden shifting of light and realized that youwere at the top of the stairs now. Making haste, you walked the approximate numberof steps that you were familiar with in order to get to your door and unlockedit, before scurrying inside in and shutting the door behind you.

You briefly turned onthe light in order to recognize the area in which you should place yourbelongings and did so before making your way sleepily to your bedroom.

You didn’teven bother changing into your pajamas and instead just settled for strippingout of your work clothes so that you were in your undershirt and underwear.

Allin all it was kind of a shitty day, you thought as you settled into yourbed. See, you worked in a café that normally wasn’t this exhausting but todayit seemed as if you had received a greater number of either ignorant or rude customers.Accompanied by the fact that your manager asked you to stay back to close onlyirked you even more.

This had overthrown your routine and you were upset aboutit as you had most likely missed your favourite part of each day.

Unfortunately, youlied in bed feeling quite awake now.

Of course, that was until you heard it, hisvoice.

Smiling to yourself,you rolled over in bed until you were closer to the thin walls that separated youand your neighbor. You could clearly make out the mutterings and comments madeby your neighbor, Atsushi Nakajima.

Every night the poor boy would come backhome and spend half an hour or so speaking to someone, most likely over thephone, about the day’s mission he had to endure. It was always so entertainingto you, his whole life was an adventure to you, almost like a good book that hewould speak verbally out loud to. It always lulled you to bed ever since hefirst moved in.

From what you could gather, he was a recent employee of theArmed Detective Agency starting from a few months back.

This agency was right besidethe café that you worked at so you always managed to hear him there as well asin the mornings when both of you would greet each other a good morning.

You let your eyelidsfall shut as you homed in on his soft voice. Unlike the noisy sounds of thecity that so often gave you a headache, his voice was incredibly soothing andquiet.

It was always accompanied by gentle undertones as well which shocked youslightly at first as you couldn’t believe how someone could be that type ofkind.

His voice was almost to the point of melodic, the words that would takeform by his tones would spin into a plethora of stories and recounts that youyourself liked to listen to as you fell asleep.

Besides his voice, hehimself was a kind and gentle person. You had heard that way he had interactedwith his co-workers in your café, his undying patience in the antics of his,what you assumed to be, supervisor Dazai Osamu.

The interactions between thetwo never failed to make you chuckle as you would hide your amusement behindthe coffee machines.

Through all this, itwas no surprise that you fell in love with him.

Unfortunately, the feeling was not mutual as both of you were mere acquaintances.

But you werefine with this, as much as it pained your heart you accepted that not everyonein the world was lucky enough to be loved back by the person that theycherished close to their heart.

With this thought inmind, you let yourself quickly let yourself succumb to the sweet promise ofsleep with Atsushi’s voice in the background.

Hours later, yousnuggled into your comforter serenely, turning over and inhaling deeply. It hadbeen quite a while since you’ve been this well rested.

In fact… the mere notionof how well rested you were feeling was a tad bit suspicious.

Throughthe foggy haze clouding your mind, you shot up in bed as a shocking realizationshot through you. It seemed that you had been so exhausted the previous nightthat you had forgotten to set your alarm for the upcoming workday.

The possibility thatyou had slept in quickly caused your heart to speed up slightly in fear thatyou completely missed your shift. “Siri, what time is it?” you demanded as youdistressingly rolled out of bed.

“The time is 6:47 am” YourAI responded back in that calm, robotic annoyingly professional voice. A suddenbout of irritation shot up through your body, how could this stupid phone be socalm when you were here panicking the hell out, trying to find your belongings?

Shaking your head, you focused on the fact that you had 13 minutes to get to workand you had to scram!

You paced around the room, hands reaching out and patting every surface insearch of your work attire. Thank god you had memorized the layout of your flatotherwise you would surely be stumbling across every piece of furniture in yourwake. Okay, so maybe you were stumbling, but not as much as if you were in a completelyunfamiliar place.

Suddenly, your handsfound several articles of clothing and once you had identified them as yourwork clothes by running your fingers over the logo stamped on the shirt, youwasted no time in pulling them on before racing out the door.

Not so carefullysprinting across the living room, you grabbed your backpack from where you hadthrown it the previous night and pulled open the door.

Shutting the door behindyou, you turned the corner to the right in order to make it to the stairsbefore you collided with a taller, harder body.

The impact sent yousprawling to the ground and in return, you heard some of your belongings fromyour backpack crash as well. Oh my god, you thought Did I just make afool of myself?!.

“I-I am so sorry sir!”You hurriedly apologized as you dropped to your knees, quickly trying to searchfor your belongings so you could get the hell out of there in order to not be moreof an embarrassment.

“A-ah no it’s my fault,here let me help you,” the other body hastily said back, and you felt your bodygrow hot with the awful realization that you recognized this man’s voice. It wasyour neighbor, freaking Atsushi. It seemed that you had indeed made yourselfout to be an embarrassment. Crashing into your crush on a 7am morning wasnot how you wanted to make your first impression on said crush.

“You’re too kind, haha,thank you!” You anxiously said back as the both of you quickly gathered the itemsthat fell from your backpack. Once he had finished handing you your items, theboth of you stood up.

“I-I’m really sorry again, I didn’t see you there,” hesaid, the sound of him scratching the back of his head could be heard and youcould only smile at his nervous behavior. His antics were adorable if you hadto be quite honest.

“That’s alright Its kind of my fault, I was too much of ina rush to get to work to remember the layout of my surroundings,” you said backapologetically.

A brief pause followed before he cleared histhroat, “You can’t see?” he asked and you could only imagine the cute way hisfeatures would scrunch up, the widening of his beautifully coloured eyes,whatever colour they may be.

Shyness coursed through you as you nodded, youhoped this fact didn’t define you or change how he would possibly see you inthe future.

After all, you were more than your disability. You then explained, “I’vebeen visually impaired since I was a kid..b-but I can still see shadows and light,even movement.”

Another pause followedand you swallowed in anticipation of his reply.

“If it’s no trouble miss,please let me walk you to work to make it up for crashing into you!” Atsushi rapidlyoffered and your (e/c) widened. You felt your jaw drop slightly at hisproposition but before you could ask why, he answered for you, “I- you work atRen Café right? Near the ADA?”. You blinked at this; how did he know? Could hehave possibly remembered you from the small interactions you both shared?

“It’s just Dazai’salways talking about how good the coffee you make is which I guess is how I knowyou and its also on the way so it would be no problem.” He shyly explained andyou felt your cheeks heat up at this.

“A-alright,” youaccepted hesitantly and the both of you made your way down the stairs and outof the building, Atsushi kindly offering any assistance if you were in need.

Days turned intoweeks, and slowly this became a part of your routine.

More precisely, Atsushi kindly walking you towork before moving on forward to his own workplace. On those walks, not onlydid you learn more about Atsushi himself, you got to hear more of his voice.

Throughhis words, you learned about his special ability, about his work as a detective,how Dazai managed to do this, or how his other co-worker Kunikida managed to dothat. It was still as lovely to you as it was back then and only caused you tofall for him even more as you got to know him.

The slight low pitchof his voice grew increasingly more attractive to you with each passing day.

On this particular day,you opened the door of your apartment, “Good morning Atsushi-kun!” you greetedcheerfully, knowing full well that he would always be waiting for you on theother side of the door to walk to work.

“M-morning (Y/n)-chan!” he replied, andyou could basically sense the smile on his lips.

Shutting the door behind you,you looped your arm through his before rounding the corner like you would do everyother day. Humming, you let your stride fall into a small skip, unwillinglypulling Atsushi along with your movements.

“You seem like you’re in a good moodtoday,” he commented as the both of you made your way down the stairs. His armtightened around yours to ensure that you wouldn’t fall as you had done the daybefore.

Oh, how much you had laughed from the sheer embarrassment of it all ashe quickly fretted over you in clear worry.

“What?” you asked,feigning offense, “Am I not allowed to be happy?” you accused. Laughing at howhe stumbled over his words in an attempt to deny your words, you shook yourhead, “Just kidding!” you giggled.

“(y/N)-chan!” hewhined adorably at your teasing before quieting down, “(y/n)_chan..” he saidquietly. “Hm?” you hummed at the sudden change of tone.

“I-uh, are you evercurious to how I look?” he asked, and you blinked, turning your head to hisdirection silently probing for him to expand. “I mean, you know what I am.. I mean…the monster inside of me, but you still want to be my friend..” he hesitantly said,“What if…what if it’s only because you can’t see me, the person I could really be…”

You took in his words,confused for a moment before you realized. Something you had not known beforebefriending the detective was his incredible low level of self-confidence.

Itwas no secret how close the two of you had become recently, you even taking theinitiative to visit him at his workplace as he would do the same to yours.

Hemust have been blaming his current happiness of your friendship because you couldn’tsee, and thus was never witness to his transformation into his alter ego of thetiger.

Because of this unintentional avoidance of not seeing him at his worst, hemust think that I am in an ignorant position.

Huffing slightly, youfelt your growing irritation spike, “Atsushi, me being blind doesn’t haveanything to do with our friendship or my judgment of your character,” youstated annoyed, “I don’t need to see in order to know what you can become andthe fact that you even think that I need to see in the first place so that our friendshipcan have true meaning is frankly offensive” you furrowed your eyebrows angrily asyou placed your hands on your hips.

“A-ah Im sorry(y/n)-chan! I didn’t mean to insinuate… I just…” Atsushi trailed off andyou sighed, letting your arms fall.

Softly you took a few steps forward untilyou were sure you were much closer to him. “Atsushi, you know how I know you’rea good person aside from what you’ve told me?” you gently asked. “No, I don’t…”he whispered back.

“Your voice,” youstated.

“M-my voice…?” hestuttered out in confusion.

“Yes Atsushi, yourvoice,” you reaffirmed, “You speak in such a gentle manner, in a way that is socomforting and serene to the people around you, its so full of kindness andpatience and that is so rare to find in a world like this.”

“It paints me all thepictures ill never see which I’m fine with because I would honestly just have yourvoice then see any of the sights of the world…and I don’t know about youAtsushi but I don’t think anyone would describea monster like that” you continued to explain before letting the silencesink in as he took in your words.

Exhaling, you took a step forward and reachedfor his hand, intertwining it with your own. Tilting your head upwards, you leta sudden burst of confidence fill you as your nose brushed against his, “(Y/n)-chan”he stuttered out, but you never let him finish.

“Your voice is the most beautiful thing I’veever heard” you admitted in a shy whisper.

Where this confidence came from, youhad no idea, but he had to know how much of a good person he was, how he wasnot the monster so many people had previously tried to make him out to be.

Itseemed as even though you were blind, you could see things this man couldn’t.

“(Y/n)-chan…”he breathed out as you felt his hands caress the sides of your face. His foreheadrested upon yours before he whispered, “thank you” and then you felt his softlips claim yours.

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hecohansen31 · 5 years

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Micheal had noticed you a while ago. You were interesting, and beautiful in his eyes, but you seemed to think differently, your mind was always so loud, angry thoughts of no self-worth and worthlessness were a constant thing when he saw you. When you and him finally have an interview, the question "how do you feel about yourself?" comes up. And after a few failed attempts at lying. Everything comes pouring out, about how you hated yourself, and it was caused by a past abusive relationship.

(A/N): Hello lovely!

Thank you for sending this in!

I am honestly extremely sorry for taking this long with it my writing and everything, I actually am on vacation and it is a bit of a social life everyday (Please life stop I need my mental relax…). But I swear I didn’t forgot about it!

Also, HUGE DISCLAIMER: I haven’t been in an abusive relationship or witnessed one, so most fo what i wrote is based on others’ experience, most fo which fictional.

If there is even something that makes you uncomfortable or offended, lovely please let me know, and I will delete it and rewrite it.

Thank you, again!

WARNINGS: Mentions of Violence, Abusive Relationship and Abusive Behaviors (graphic description!).

Something that Michael had first understood, when he had met her was that she was a survivor.

Not a martyr like the other residents of the Outpost 3: lazy and greedy beings, not worthy of a shot of the redemption they were magically hoping for, since his arrival.

They were expecting to be picked for the Sanctuary, the miraculous place they would finally be all happy, after the Apocalypse destroyed their beloved planet.

Their new chance to live a happy and fulfilling life.

But still… they did nothing to earn it.

Nothing to make Michael feel pitiful towards their state.

Only disgust came to his mind when he thought about the people, who lived in the little shelter, thinking they were only useful for the slaughter.

Except her, the one who tried to make the Outpost feel more like a home.

She listened to Coco’s mindless ideas, meanwhile she tried to make the spoiled heiress feel like she might be more grateful towards the poor Greys she treated as slaves.

She avoided full-blown fights between Gallant and Evie, shushing the latter and trying to make the former feel better about himself.

She helped in her own way the romance between Timothy and Emily, hiding them from Venable or just standing at guard in the room the duo was talking, to make sure that nobody thought about a possible relationship, between the two.

She even let Dinah talk her entire bullshit at her, giving her any kind of TV show advice, meanwhile she just nodded and kept her head stuck in a book, probably to hide her giggle and boredom.

She was a good person, the type that Michael didn’t think would be still alive, and the fact that she was quite a beauty didn’t help, in the slightest…

He soon developed an infatuation towards her, finding way after way to spend time with her, sitting beside her during the meals, and trying to find her in the library alone.

But not only she was extremely squeamish when this happened, but her thoughts betrayed a darker truths: self-loathing thoughts flew in her mind and she was constantly putting herself down, insulting herself for any mistake and when there weren’t… she just shot insults on her physique or mind.

He had never wanted to introduce himself in her thoughts, but they were just so so loud and he couldn’t help but hear them, angry and red, screaming out from her head, till they eventually lost their voices or he would just run away, taken by the interviews or some conversation with Venable.

But in reality, some of part of him, his so-called-humanity, rooted for her and just wanted to gently lay her down next to him, caress her hair and listen to what she had to say about herself, fighting away all those horrible insecurities.

He had left her in the last rounds of interviews, hoping to know more about her in a less threatening way, but not only she refused to share more than he saw, but also she seemed a true afraid animal whenever they were even for a minute alone, and those angry thoughts covered her quiet ones.

So, when her interview came around, she stood on the chair as if there were burning coals under it, nervous and at unease, even more when he locked the door, and she uttered shyly an:

“Is it necessary?” her lashed hid her eyes, but her voice was teary and soft enough to smell of pure fear “… can’t we leave it open?”.

“It is better to close it” he replied, trying his best to appear calm and open, to ease a bit of calmness into her “… we wouldn’t want anybody to listen on your business, Mrs (L/N), would we?”.

She simply nodded, her eyes immediately lowering to her polished shoes: not a single thing in her appearance was out of place or recognizable.

It was almost as if she shrank in herself, to appear trivial and ordinary, just another human.

Whereas they both knew she wasn’t a simple human.

It took more than a simple human to get the Antichrist sleepless because he couldn’t fathom why somebody might hate herself like that.

-Mrs (L/N), how are you finding yourself at this humble house? – he asked, meanwhile he sat down in front of her, looking at the elegant desk where he had set down a little piece of paper and a pen, as if he intended to take notes, but with his side-eye he looked at her scrunched face, worried and a bit scared, but she soon found the voice to reply.

-… it is quite nice…- she raised a bit her head, and as if he had seen a ghost take over he face, she morphed into a smiling girl -… as nice as a post-apocalyptic shelter can be-.

Although he had to keep up his stern behavior, he let out mentally a laugh, and was surprised of that side of the girl, which quickly went back to the submissive tone she had started the interview with.

-… it is always nice to keep a positive note in places like this- he replied, sternly but he tried to let a bit of warmth linger in his tone -… and I saw that you are constantly helping your fellow survivors, whereas they aren’t so nice towards you…-.

He didn’t need to word the question, because she understood and, watching the rim of the desk, she answered:

-As you said there is need of nice people in places like that…- she mumbled, meanwhile twirling her finger around, sadly he also saw that there were some scratches on them, almost scars of self-harm, which he could link to her nails -… I don’t honestly understand why I was saved, just some men grabbing me because my genetical exam passed some tests-.

He had read in her files, something about her being indeed special in that department, alongside a long array of fractured bones and accidental cuts: he hadn’t been dumb enough not to realize that she was either extremely clumsy or there was something behind.

-… what about your family? – her family had also perished, according to her files, he already knew it, but he wanted to realize if anything in that department triggered something, but she just shook her head, revealing that she didn’t know what had happened to them, and only melancholic sadness shone in her eyes, but nothing which might show the aftermaths of an abuse -… what did you do before you were brought into the Outpost?-.

-I did actually different jobs- she scratched her hair, gently, as if she was trying to remember it all -… but my last employment was as a teacher for children with special need, and I was actually unemployed for three months after that-.

-Did you get fired or was it willingly…? – he had immediately seen the little shine in her eyes at the mention of her job, clearly she had liked her job and he could see by the way she hid in herself that he had hit a sore spot.

-I had a medical emergency and a familiar problem which made me quit- she said it in a way that asked to respect her and to avoid ask further questions.

But wasn’t the devil the one who gifted humankind curiousness?

-Care to explain more? -.

She had basically shrank in herself even more, her feet being on the chair, meanwhile her arms circled herself, as if she was ready to protect herself, her head ready to duck into her arms, in order to be protected by any kind of hitting her invisible assaulter might decide to do.

And there Michael had not the survivor anymore, just a scared little girl.

He had thought he would have somehow eradicated his sudden attraction for the girl with that image, but there was a softness in her and in him a will to protect her, to make her feel protected and to avenge her, that he thought that maybe soulmates existed.

-It was a car incident- she tried to lie, but her voice was shaky, exactly as her hands.

-… I would prefer that you didn’t lie to me, Mrs (L/N)- he remembered her, although he tried to word it as carefully as he could, with softness in his tone but also strength in his resistance and search of the truth -… I appreciate the truth as much as what comes with it-.

-I don’t think…- her voice broke halfway, and when it came back her eyes had finally raised to meet his -… I can’t-.

Tears now were flowing onto her cheeks and it pained him, in its deepest core.

-… you are safe, Mrs (L/N)- he comforted her, holding an hand out, not touching her, knowing it might trigger something in her, and she was thankful for it, shyly moving her hand towards it, but still not grabbing it -… I swear it-.

-… it was my ex-boyfriend- she finally let out, almost as a deep breath -… it is such a stupid thing to say, because I didn’t expect to be “that” girl… but it happened-.

And then she explained softly how she had met Christian, he had been sweet and nice with her, the perfect guy, but slowly he had shown the typical abuser signs, but she had been too blindly in love with him to react, and he had at first taken away her self-esteem.

“That skirt is too short, and even if you wanted to wear it, your legs look ugly in it. I don’t say this to be mean, but I want you to be better”.

Then it had been her friend.

“They said something bad about me, how can you stand that?! I thought you loved me” and slowly she broke away from her childhood friend, the college ones and the simple acquaintances of her work, but worst of all her family.

“They won’t support us… well… then we don’t need them! Those pompous assholes”.

And not only he had used manipulation but he had also gaslighted her into believing everything he said and each of his fault… was on her!

He had lost his job.

“It’s all your fault, you pathetic bitch, you wanted us to spend more time together and this happened!”.

He had once came back from a fight in a bar and meanwhile she had tried to clean his wound, he had grabbed her hand and twisted it, not hard enough for him to break her arm, but she had ugly bruises on the following day and although she brushed it off as any other insult he had thrown on his way, because “he would never hurt her”, she couldn’t help but be a bit scared.

He had come back with flowers and expensive wine (with her money, but she hadn’t been able to mention it) and had proclaimed that he had found a job.

She had thought it was only just a stupid and horrible period, and everything would be fine.

But it kept happening, whether or not Christian was employed, whether or not she did something to anger him, whether or not she cried and begged for mercy.

It never came.

Instead one time the ambulance had to bring her out of her home and for the first time in two years she met again with her mother.

The poor woman hadn’t slept after she had been called I the middle of the night about her daughter basically being an inch from death and being under a brain surgery since somebody had basically smashed her head against a wall.

Her mother had been extremely scared by the doctors who had adverted her that her daughter might not only wake up with no memory of her, but also no ability to speak hear or see.

“Brain injuries are very horrible and till the patient isn’t awake we can’t know, but she was lucky enough to arrive her and be alive, so let’s all pray that whoever rules our destiny that she will be fine” had mumbled a doctor to her mother who had religiously sit by her bed the entire time, and when she had woken up, she had her memories and faculty to speak and see, but a terrible headache.

Her mother had almost laughed when she had told her this, before starting crying and in that horrible moment she had realized she couldn’t go on, not because she cared about herself particularly but because she honestly couldn’t let the people who loved her be hurt.

Not when she knew they still cared about her, even because of this.

She hadn’t been able to confront Christian one last time, but she had indeed signed a restraint order towards him and she had moved with her parents again, finally hearing their laughs again, the teasing voice of your sister and the softness of nights spent in peace.

But sometimes things triggered her past memories, a noise too loud made her cower in herself, as if she had heard a scream or the simple crackling of bones remembered her of her own bones breaking and soon that apparent peace became another trap.

She started falling into a deep depression, feeling guilty both for what she was imposing onto her parents and both because she had been just so so stupid…

Nothing would have happened, had she been…

But the truth was that she couldn’t have done much more and could only focus on the fact that she had managed to escape him.

In those three months before the Apocalypse hit her, she had been falling down the rabbit hole, living also in fear of Christian coming back, and she knew that the Apocalypse should have just pushed her further, but secluded in that horrible shelter she had found herself again.

The voices in her head still screamed, but in that calm atmosphere, the nightmares quieted somehow…

… till Michael Langdon’s appearance shadowed hers.

He seemed so interested in her and she, an hurt animal, couldn’t help but run away and put herself down in front of him, scared that what happened with Christian might happen again with him, alongside her constant thoughts of being spoiled and rotten.

Damaged goods, as Christian called her.

-… I feel so sorry…- she couldn’t help but finish her entire story with those words -…I am sorry to have burdened you with these stupid things-.

And she moved to grab his hand, gently squeezing in, before ducking her head to the ground, ashamed by her sudden emotional outburst, but Michael gently squeezed her hand back, gaining her attention and a raise of her head.

-Mrs (L/N) or if you may, (Y/N), you are not a burden, in the slightest and I am actually the one who is sorry for bringing this all up, it wasn’t what I intended…-.

He couldn’t help but be heartbroken by her confession, it was the truest he had ever heard, a true human with a pure tormented soul: had he finally found someone who was worth the Sanctuary.

-How else would you know our darkest secrets? – she tried to lighten up the room, as she did so many times, alongside changing the subject, but he didn’t let her.

-… it was still… not my purpose to reduce you to tears- he gently brought out a handkerchief, offering it to her with the hand she wasn’t holding.

-Well… at least we now know that I won’t be heartbroken when I don’t make it in the Sanctuary- and it was too dark to brighten the affirmation or to laugh it up, but it also got to Michael’s head and before he knew it he had immediately jumped up from his chair.

-Why would you think that you won’t make it in Sanctuary- he could see the fear in her eyes, her head had indeed been ducked into her arms, but he had an hunch on why she might say something like that -… (Y/N)… you are the only one who has shown me a some truth, and for this you are the only interesting being in this Outpost-.

-I am spoiled goods, Mr Langdon- tears blurred her words, but Michael knew them and ach one hurt him.

-You aren’t in the slightest- his voice lowered an octave, in an attempt to seem calm, meanwhile he circled the desk in order to be closer to her, although he kept himself at a reasonable distance, crouching on the ground, at her feet -… you are a survivor, (Y/N), the brave and sweet woman I couldn’t help but admire, from the start of my staying at the Outpost. You are the only one I would think of bringing at the Sanctuary, a true pure soul, with a tormented past-.

-After Christian… I don’t know if I can…- she was scared he was demanding for more, which he wouldn’t.

So many people had taken too much from her and he wouldn’t ask her to give anything else, if not freely.

He would just wait till she would give anything to him.

For now, he just could live on the sweet smile that appeared on her face.

And the knowledge that Christian had perished horribly in one of his previous visits to the other Outposts…

-Now let’s talk about more merry themes, my lovely (Y/N)- he sweetened his tone and she giggled, a heavenly sound truly -What is your favorite dessert? -.

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ivyveil · 5 years

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Love is the Punchline 3

the one where you're on Harry's doorstep and he's just got home from the grocery store

A Continuation of LITP (masterlist here)

Silence.

You knocked on the door again - three taps.

If your shaking hands weren’t proof enough, you were there. In California, in front of Harry’s flat, on the scratchy doormat, next to the potted plants, massively jet-lagged from your rushed flights. Fatigue could only do so much to pull you away from the blatant panic thrumming in your lungs.

Your stomach growled, unsatisfied by the dinner of bagged peanuts and soda. The post-flight griminess sensation had absolutely taken over the feel of your skin, the idea that your eyeballs could possibly fall out of your head. What was mainly keeping you from rest, or the possible clean-up before surprising your best-friend-maybe-possible-lover was the fact that...no, you hadn’t booked a hotel room. Quite stupid, really, but you had been in the unfortunate position of needing to tell your cab driver an address, or exiting the vehicle to find your way around an unfamiliar, chaotic city for the remote chance of an open room.

Your plan could have been more thought-out, you realized. Harry’s tour was beginning in a few days, after all, and you had somehow expected him to be home, alone, doing nothing but waiting for you to rush in like it was a Hugh Jackman rom-com? Highly unlikely. You had realized this first when the cab driver, Thomas, had commented on the extreme wild night events that had been featured for that weekend. Your cheeks had maintained their approximate level of ‘so red they’re burning in hell’ since then, a precursor of embarrassment to the inevitable mortification around the corner.

You only had one bag, too, and it was mainly full of books to read, as an attempt to calm your nerves on the trip over.

Was the hallucination of love truly worth this? Had you actually flown to a different country with the intention of sweeping your best friend off his feet, when he was days away from taking off? Your thoughts had clouded together, morphing into a congealed entity of discussion and no over-riding conclusion. Basically, you were massively done for.

“Y/N?”

Bewilderment had become a tangible smoke, crawling through his bones and evaporating from his words.

It felt cold on your skin.

Your hand was halfway in your purse, halfway to shoving your phone back in after you had checked the clock for the 400th time. Your other hand had been shoving your hair behind your ear, a half-noticed coping mechanism you had when particularly distressed. That was when you turned around, an attempt at a smile wordlessly exhausting itself on your lips.

The nerves were actually going to kill you, you decided, your stomach practically eating itself in stress. Poor Harry, he would have to watch you physically crumble into the wind if your heart-rate didn’t slow the heck down.

“What are yeh doing out here, love?”

He was wearing a plain black shirt, jeans, and a cap that had his hair carelessly stuffed inside. Several locks had found an escape, which obviously was annoying as Harry blew out of the corner of his mouth at it, frowning. His hands were full, with cloth bags that were, in turn, full of groceries.

Harry stepped closer, setting the bags down on the porch so he could access his back pocket for his door keys. The bags clinked with glass. The keys jingled quietly. His eyes never left yours.

He looked, in the whole sense, shocked – perhaps not quite believing you were genuinely in California, waiting on his porch-step, with one bag and a grimace still plastered on your face.

“I’m not on the phone.”

“No, I suppose you aren’t,” he allowed, moving closer.

Not even the devil could smell that good.

It was only at the last second his glance shifted from you to his door, although it seemed rather reluctant. Maybe he believed the moment he was to look away, you would dissipate into the LA night. You weren’t entirely convinced he was wrong in that.

He moved past you, his shoulders blocking the view but you still heard the click of the lock, the opening of the door. You knelt down and gathered a few of his grocery bags along with your travel one, appreciative they would hide the shaking in your fingertips and the continual urge to take you back home, far away from confrontation and vulnerability. With everything you’d put into this plan, you still had yet to find the right words to start out this mess of a conversation.

Harry was soon behind you again, arms full of the leftover bags. You both walked into his home, you moving against the wall so Harry could close the door with his foot and lead the way to the kitchen.

It felt almost normal, which in itself felt incredibly wrong. You were there to break what had been normal, the secrecy and the allusions to what could have been. You were there to be everything you hadn’t.

The silence in the kitchen had transformed somewhat. He had begun shelving the food, working methodically and without really acknowledging you. It didn’t seem like he was out-right ignoring you, more as if he were waiting for you to start the conversation neither one of you knew how to begin. The ball was in your court, as it were.

You felt like you were waiting to be validated, in the strangest sense of the word, reaching out so long your arms felt infinite. Was he okay that you had showed up extremely unexpectedly? Was it too much, did he mean more separation than he implied in the voice mail? Was he waiting, just to reject you in the way you had to him?

You couldn’t express the correct words, your mind stopped your lips from moving so your soul could stay intact for a few moments longer. All preservation, all defense. Putting off the real moments, for the version you had felt before.

“When did you land?”

It was lightly worded, casual and common courtesy to ask, but the way his eyebrows were drawn together and his stare was kept strictly on the cans of black beans being shoved a bit harshly into his pantry – it wasn’t. The stitches were unraveling, one of you was about to become completely, and entirely, undone. The tension was there, thick ropes of it - who would be hanged first?

“Two hours ago. Bought tickets when..I...the night I called,” you finished lamely, hands motioning behind you gently. As if it could ever be behind you. Everything seemed too present to be real.

“I think about us.” The words left before your mind could register the danger in them.

He raised an eyebrow. Eyes shifted to the lettuce. The fridge opened. Lettuce placed gently in the drawer.

You continued, clarifying what you felt.

“I think about us more than I, perhaps, should.”

Harry was quiet, more for an absence of anything to say. His bags of groceries lay, forgotten, as the focus became the one he was anticipating. He kept his eyes downcast still, but you could tell he was paying extremely close attention to your words. His fingertips softly traced against one another, his feet shuffled on the hardwood floor.

The fridge closed.

Everything felt grossly explicit.

You closed your eyes briefly, recalling how gentle his touch was on your cheek. He had cared at one point, which hopefully meant some had transferred to the present. Your arrival couldn’t be entirely unwelcome, not when you realized his hands were trembling equal to yours, and not when desperation wracked itself around each word you spoke.

“I wish I didn’t call you..how I did..I wish I had told you everything sooner. I don’t want you thinking it was some drunk call because I couldn’t say it to your face.”

“Couldn’t yeh?”

You realized you preferred it when he wasn’t making eye contact. They were challenging yours, silently begging to know why you had let him drown, that night in the garden, and come back to help, arms loaded with more tubs of water for him to choke on.

He shook his head, clearly unimpressed by your silence.

“What are yeh doing, Y/N?”

You shrugged, too overwhelmed to say much of anything else. The line of vision was limited to his floors, the worn fronts of his shoes. Exhaustion rippled against your spine, begging to say ‘forget it’ and rush out before everything felt more intense. It already felt too much.

But.

This was Harry. The man who made the world make sense, the boy who saw in you more possibility than you knew what to do with. And he deserved the world twice over, he was worth it. He was worth it, he had never been anything less.

With somewhat renewed confidence, you managed to continue.

“Thank you, for being honest with me, before. I appreciat-”

You jumped, startled.

Harry had interrupted with a laugh. It was wrong, coming from an angel like him. It clawed at your heart, dripping ice into your veins.

“’Thank you’? Thanks fo’ what? Thanks fo’ bleeding out to yeh? Thanks fo’ trying again and again to be honest, after years of pretending? Thanks for taking the rejection so nicely, Haz, I appreciate you letting me confessing my love when I’m drunk off my ass and you can’t do anything about it, because you’re a bloody country away?”

The words “I’m here now” were hollow in his kitchen, a million years late.

Harry nodded, briskly turning his face to the side and biting his cheek. The anger he felt simmered too close to the surface to be properly contained, or even checked by his heart to see if Y/N even deserved it. His heart had taken a vacation, though, or perhaps permanent leave, and the scrapings of a hollowed chest could hold together for only so long.

She was still so beautiful. It only added to his anger, how he could feel angry at her when he looked in her eyes. How could she look so pretty, when she had caused him so much hurt? He knew she hadn’t meant to, but what was done couldn’t be changed. Apologies felt like breath wasted. He couldn’t keep tossing his heart out to the wolves, expecting something different and growing more displeased when it was ruined.

“Yeah, and what is it yeh want?”

“I-I believe in you. More than anyone else. You scare me, sometimes, how brilliant you are.”

It didn’t ring like most compliments to his ears, although it was absolutely intended as one. Confession weighed down the corners, kept the words from flying at soft as they might’ve if your vocal chords weren’t knotted together in the echo of an un-tuned instrument. There was a truth somewhere, a revelation you were dancing around, struggling to appropriately address.

“I felt like both an impossibility and a limitation,” you stressed loudly, as if only remembering to speak up after rolling partially through an inner monologue.

“I couldn’t. Everything just, Haz, it felt like...I never knew what a body felt like before I touched yours. And the possibility of that, matched with the possibility of reciprocation – it all seemed improbable. And even if we had properly figured it out, and went steady or whatever it is kids do-” he rolled his eyes, not finding your rant particularly amusing “-the chance that we would last, it would have been infinitesimally small. You’re brilliant, H, and I could never bear to lose you. To limit you to me, to make you realize your mistakes, that would hurt both of us.”

“Yeh actually think that’s true?” You flinched at how violent his words clashed into one another, the disgust writhing against his tongue and snarling his face into the sharp essence of revulsion. You glanced up. His arms crossed over his body, mouth set in a firm line.

Analyzing could’ve only get you so far, the true emotions were validated just by existence. Your biggest trial was to take the jump, the fall, the risk, whatever it was, into having faith that you both could make something beautiful. Before you could even begin to try and respond, he continued.

“I was honored to be there, to be with yeh, to have yeh in my life. I couldn’t say what I did to deserve you, but whatever it was...I’d do a million times over.”

He took a step forward, his hands retreating to his sides. You had remained standing against the counter, across the kitchen from his position near the fridge. The neutral ground between you could be riddled with minefields, and it would only be moments before they went off. Harry stepped carefully.

“You’re beautiful because you’re every poem I’ve ever read. You live in the movies in my head, you’re on my mind when I do so much as wake up, or go to bed, or tie my shoes, or go for a walk. I can’t get yeh out.” His eyes flashed, as if they had gone mad, helplessly looking into yours.

He had been trying to get over you, although the concept was still as foreign to him as it had been when Jeff sat him down and told him sometimes life wasn’t fair, and all he could do was take care of himself.

After hearing your voice mail, though, the thoughts consuming Harry’s mind were of helping you, supporting you and introducing how goddamn possible love was for you. How you were love, personified, and how can someone deny the existence of themselves? You were bitterly human, and all he felt was more love for you, for that reason. The stoic response you had to his almost-confession in his kitchen had kept him from understanding your humanity, but he slowly understood where your hesitancy lay.

“Look in meh eyes,” it was a demand, insistent and his hands reached out to grab yours and you could feel every edge of his fingerprints digging into your wrists and his eyes were so clear, fuck, they were blurry but it was on your end, not really his and -

“Do yeh see it?! Do you see any fucking disappointment?” his words were seething in their low tone but he shook his fists, your wrists moving rapidly with them, “I’ve seen everything, I was there when yeh couldn’t leave yeh house for months and I was there when the only words yeh knew were the labels of those fucking glass bottles in yeh kitchen. I was there with you, I saw you, I love you. Why can’t it just be us, and we properly show each other the love we have? How can you love me and turn me away?”

The silence returned, utterly unwelcome yet your mouth couldn’t properly work to break it. Your heart, startled anew by the copious quantity of caffeine you had chugged during your travels, pounded at its cage, demanding your brain to fight the logic of his words. There was nothing you could argue, you were emotionally naked and this was it. It was all out on the line.

He stepped away, let your wrists go.

“Okay.” was all he said. Your heart was throbbing with frustration, your mouth opening and closing, a finale of sorts.

Looking up, you were unsettled. The skin under his eyes was puffy, his cheeks flushed and his lips bitten. Perhaps he had been in a similar state before, the devastation still lodged in his eyes and the motion of his throat, and you hadn’t seen it beyond the glaze of your own tears.

One let go from his left eye, drifting down his cheek.

“Don’t cry,” you whispered, your voice feeling rather raw against a throat that had continuously felt boarded-up throughout the night. You brushed the tear off before it could bother his lips, his eyes were trained away from you. It was an act of trust, letting you so close, to ignore the anger and let himself fall apart.

He took another step backwards, shifting his shoulders a bit towards the hallway door. The memories from the kitchen flooded back with screeches, like brakes working in place before the fatal crash, the horror of losing him again forcing your both to act instinctively.

“Please,” the sobs were close in his chest, you felt them like you would a torrent of rain, “I can’t listen to it again. I-I can’t listen to you cry and not do anything, I can’t, I can’t let go again. It-it would wreck me, I’m already half gone and you’re the other half, fuck Harry you’re the other half, please don’t leave. The words won’t come out right, I keep trying, I promise, I promise – god, please stop crying, please, please stop. I love you so much, so, so much and please stop, oh god you’re crying-”

You drew nearer to him, holding his cheeks with the palms of your hands and moving your fingers to loosely draw away his tears. You couldn’t be too sure if you were remotely accurate, your own vision obscured. It was a scene of pathetic sorrow, exhaustion drenching you both and loosening the screws of your spines, slowly, slowly.

He had remained still for a moment, being simple in letting the fear loose from the corners of hie eyes. He hadn’t been sure how to interpret your silence, going back to the idea of rejection and confirming that you had flown out to California to continue a conversation that, he felt, had no good end.

His hands grazed the sides of your hips. Barely, at first, and then again. Once more, feeling the curves of your body and resting against them. He seemed hesitant, expecting you to tell him off, or move back, or to take his crying as an excuse for a feel, but it wasn’t sexual. It was his way of pulling you closer, of accepting that, yeah, maybe you didn’t know the words yet but you knew his body.

Although the tears were not stopping, he sniffed and nuzzled your hands out of the way so his head could burrow into your neck, arms wrapping tighter for a fierce embrace. This, you knew how to communicate back with.

Without a second thought, your arms held onto the nape of his neck, curled up in the short hairs that were sticking up under his cap. Your head was against his shoulder, eyes squeezed shut as you listened carefully to the motions of his body wracking with silent crying.

You hadn’t noticed it, but Harry felt your body shaking as well, the traveling and the emotions of the past few days having taken a massive toll on your energy levels. You two stood there, a torpedo of love and misunderstanding, anger and passion, forgiveness and empathy.

“I’m not drunk, and I love you. I love you, I love you, I’ll tell you every second of every gosh darn day how much I love you, you’re everything, and it is so real. And I don’t think I mind,” you quietly mumbled against his shoulder, grinning slightly and doing a weird cry-laugh.

“Yeh horoscope said you’d be a bit emotional this week. Jupiter’s in some library, I think.”

You pulled your head back, bewildered at the fact Harry would even know your horoscope, much less be intrigued enough to check in on how the universe was treating you in the midst of your fight.

He pulled back, as well, to give you a cheeky grin that had snuck its way against the grains of the slowing tears. Harry half-shrugged, pulling you in again to squeeze you, tightly against his chest. It was then that it really sunk in for him, how physically you were there – how, physically, you had traveled across the world because you love him. You. Love. Him.

(If he started goofily beaming like a goddamn 12-year-old who saw a naked girl’s chest for the first time, it wasn’t for anyone to know but him.)

You were a giggling mess, high off the intense emotions that had played with your heartstrings like a puppet marionette. Part of you wasn’t convinced it had been real, that the night would give way to a morning that showed you, alone, in your bed back at home.

It sure felt real, when Harry slid his hands up your back, cupping your cheeks, and moving in to kiss you. Perhaps it still felt too intense, everything occurring within such a short time span, but what the hell, you and Harry were never good at making things easy.

His lips tasted like mint. It was all you could properly focus on, the rest of your mind growing increasingly foggy with weariness and a craving to know if his body tasted the same. The two sides fought against one another, especially when Harry’s hands drifted downwards and his tongue quickened in pace and grew sloppier, down the side of your neck and marking that spot behind your ear – but eventually the stifled yawn could remain so for only so long.

You and Harry were alright. The nerves had quelled, the heartbreak had healed. Harry’s heart had returned, after all, better than ever after a restful vacation. He had understood your fatigue, he himself having been victim to it for years, and you two drifted, together, towards his bedroom. Laughter kept bubbling up between your lungs and his lips, mixing together in a harmony of tear-dried giggles and fits of inexplicable amusement.

Love really was the funniest thing.

- 2 months later -

Harry had left that morning, dashing to the airport in a flurry of glitter, satin, and something he called ‘pussy bows’ that you 100% felt were not supposed to be called that, under any context ever. He had quickly kissed you goodbye, made it to the doorway, before smirking and wandering back over, kissing you proper.

Jeff had made a gagging noise by the front door, but you were fairly sure he was secretly pleased with how things had turned out. Probably wasn’t even so secret, considering how he drunkenly boasted about how he “was the catalyst that began them, true and honest” during one of the concert’s after parties.

You had toured with Harry a bit, for what you could with your limited vacation days. He had appreciated every moment of it, soaking in the praise at night and the extra bits in the morning. You were a perfect fit in his tour life – a genuine poker competitor with the rest of his band (which reminded him, Mitch owed you $20), a real help when it came to sound and light check, and a fantastic roommate after the shows.

Things hadn’t been as strange as you had feared, nothing in your relationship with Harry changed fundamentally – except that Harry’s compliments were now far more X-rated than before, and he hadn’t typically bought you so many presents when you were only platonically involved.

Speaking of, there was a litter of them scattered around your shared apartment, waiting for you to find them throughout the day. You groaned at each one, sending H a pic with “lol” being the general go-to caption and his faux indignant response that you were not properly appreciating the wonderful comedian Harry Styles could be.

To be fair, they were generally funny. A Post-It was next to your cup of coffee, reading Words cannot espresso how much you mean to me. Even though it wasn’t an espresso, it didn’t stop the flattered smile digging into your dimples for the rest of the morning.

In your work email, there was a receipt from a company working to Save the Bees from Extinction. They had thanked you profusely for your contribution. Immediately sensing the Styles aura from the letter, you sent a screenshot to Harry with a bunch of ????s.

We bee-long together. :-)

Haz.

Plus you never shut up about the damned bees, they’ll be fine now.

Your particular favorite, though, was the teddy bear that would find its way to your doorstep, with a bright pink bow and custom teddy bear Gucci suit, its lapel reading “Can’t bear to be apart. See you soon. x.”

That gift in particular promised the quick arrival of your lovely, perfect, wonderful, understanding, and yes – perhaps even funny – boyfriend.

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deleonforbes7-blog · 5 years

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knittinginfrance · 6 years

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Hi there how are you today? I hope you are fine and having a nice beginning of the week. I’m back at work after the summer holiday. I had 3 weeks off and just started again yesterday. I have to admit that getting up yesterday morning to work was a little difficult! But hey, we all have to work and after all I did get to enjoy 3 whole weeks. We spent about half that time at home and the other half in a region of France called Brittany (Bretagne) and I’m planning on blogging about my summer in a separate post and share pictures for those interested.

Anyway I’m back at work and the kids will be back to school next week except for the oldest who doesn’t start till the week after that! So life is slowly going back to its usual busy state. Soon there will be homework!

But in the meantime I’m planning on making the most of my time after work to knit, knit and knit some more!

Currently I feel like I could just knit all day long! I have a head full of dream knitting and designing ideas. I want to knit all the sweaters and socks I have been buying patterns for this summer ( a ton!) but at the same time I’m starting to feel a little uncomfortable with my amount of wips (both languishing old wips and current active ones). I seem to maybe have gotten myself into a place where I have more to do than I can actually manage and so I’m thinking I might even have to go through my wips, again, and maybe unravel some that I think are not about to be done any time soon. Just to get to a more manageable place. But I’m not sure yet, I’ll keep you posted:)

So knitting both current and future projects as well as some FOs. Where to start?

First just a word on two secret test knits that I finished a while back. One was a summer tee for Rénee of East London Knit (Nema) and the other a cardigan for Making Stories. Both these patterns have now been published and so I’m planning on sharing those with you soon but I want to do a separate post on just them as I feel I so so so much to share now and don’t want this to become the post with no end:)

As I was on vacation I was able to finish 2 1/2 pairs of socks. I shared one pair with you last time I think, my second pair of Stitch surfer socks. The other two pairs were shorty socks.

First up is a pair that I knit using the stitch pattern from the Drippity Drop pattern by Kay Jones. I used yarns from Eden Cottage Yarns and I really like how these turned out.

The next pair was just a simple vanilla shorty pair that I knit using a new self striping yarn that I bought from Biscotte Yarns. I saw this particular colorway on the Knotty Knit Wits podcast and as I was watching, actually opened a new browser window and bought one!!!! First time I have ever been that enabled!

I just loved the colours and all the sparkle. I added a solid black for cuff, heels and toes. My older daughter just commented on how nice they looked and as I have enough yarn left I said I’d knit her a pair too:) I’m hoping those will be knit in time for Halloween as this is a Halloweeny yarn and called The Dark Side!

So these are my only FOs.

Now I’m working on a pair of socks using the pattern 2 Color Socks by Joji Locatelli. I actually bought this pattern because I want to join her autumn knit a long that starts September 1st I think. This would be the first time for me but I was unable to wait that long so I cast on for those on vacation and I’m getting close to finishing. These will either be for one of my daughters or for someones Christmas.

I really like the pattern and the soft colours I chose. The yarn is a new one to me, a commercial sock yarn called Arwetta. I hope to have this pair done in two days maxi!

I currently have 2 sweater projects going. First there is my Zweig which I love! I’m a little worried I might not have enough of my main colour and as I used a hand dyed one of a kind colour I know I won’t be able to get any more. I’m almost at the bottom hem on the body so I’m thinking I will put the body on hold and knit the sleeves and if I see that I will not have much left after the sleeves I might either do 3/4 sleeves or make the bottom hem in 2 colours as I have enough of the contrast colour do do something.

I’m a little further now than in this picture but haven’t taken a new progress picture. Here it is with my little Chanel 🙂 I’m hoping to get started on the sleeves later this week.

And the second sweater project is a new one that I just cast on about a week ago. This is part of an informal knit a long organized by the Knotty Knit Wit girls. The kal is about knitting any pattern from Susanne Sommer. Their original idea was to knit the Shusui shrug but I was bold and asked if I could still join if I chose to knit another pattern by the same designer and lucky for me they said YES!

I have been looking as the Shusui shrug a lot but I just don’t think I would actually wear it where as the Boxy Chevron sweater I chose instead is something I can really see myself wearing. And if you feel like joining you definitely should.

So for this project I hand dyed some of my Back to Basics yarn which is a 100% non superwash merino yarn for the main colour and I used a Madelinetosh Tosh Merino Light for the contrast colour. This pattern has you start by knitting the sleeves and currently I have one sleeve done and the second very close to being done.

These are not easy to picture due to their shape and the texture (welts of reverse stockinette stitch) here you can at least see the colours. I’m hoping to have the time to finish the second sleeve and start on the body by the end of this week.

So this week I need to finish my second sock of the 2 Colour Socks, start on the sleeves of my Zweig, finish the second sleeve and start the body on my Boxy Chevron AND knit socks for the Marie Curie Quest of socks!

This is an amazing charity project being run for the second time this year by an amazing doctor and knitter called Sarah Holmes (Sherlockknits on IG). She works as a doctor in a Marie Curie hospice for terminally ill cancer patients in the UK and last year she had the idea of knitting each of her patients a pair of socks to gift them on Christmas Day. She was able to raleigh a number of knitters and together we knit 260 pairs – enough for all the patients staying in a Marie Curie hospice on Christmas Day in the UK. How amazing is that!

West Yorkshire Spinners yarn company made a special yarn for the project and 2 £ of the price of each ball of yarn were donated to Marie Curie. All the socks were knit using this special yarn with an allowance to use complimentary colours for contrasting cuff/heels and toes if wished for.

I was able to knit and donate 4 pairs last year.

And Sarah has decided to do this again this year and West Yorkshire Spinners have come up with a new colorway for Marie Curie. I’m hoping to knit at least 4 pairs this year with a personal stretch goal of 6 pairs.

All the socks have to be knit in the Marie Curie yarn but we can use other yarns for contrast if we wish. This year we are allowed to knit patterned socks and not just plain vanilla and so I’m planning on knitting a mix of things to keep the project interesting for myself. As the yarn is the same I don’t want to loose steam doing the same thing over and over again.

The yarn on the right is the Marie Curie special yarn for 2018

I’m currently knitting the first pair and that is a vanilla pair! The only vanilla pair I think. I’m knitting them two at a time to make sure there will be no second sock syndrome.

For the next pair I’m going to knit them cuff to cuff – that is knit one sock at a time the first one cuff to to and the second toe to cuff without cutting the yarn. I think that will be quicker for me than the traditional two at a time on one long circular and just a nice change. I’m going to look up some easy patterns that can go with a variegated yarn.

So this is where I’m at at the moment. I really like how the yarn is knitting up and I also think I chose a great contrasting colour. I chose to do contrasting heels, toes and cuffs on this pair and probably on the others as well as that allows the yarn to stretch longer (meaning I will be able to knit more socks than if they were all one single colour).

So I have to knit 1 1/2 – 2 pairs a month to make my goal so I’m crossing my fingers I’ll be able to knit that many pairs just for this project.

I’m hoping to do an interview with Sarah soon to share more information on this project and maybe enable you to join and you don’t have to knit tons of pairs. Every single pair makes a difference.

That’s it for today. This has turned out to be quite a long post today so thank you for taking the time to stop by and read all about my current and future projects.

Next up are posts on my two secret test knits as well as a special French Summer Vacation post as well as two special interviews and soon (I hope) a series of informational posts/tutorials on sock knitting.

Until next time, HAPPY KNITTING 🙂

My summer FOs and current works in progress Hi there how are you today? I hope you are fine and having a nice beginning of the week.

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ourmomzone-blog · 4 years

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The Money Secret!

"The Root of All Evil" or "The Bloom of Success" - Here is a little story passed down through the generations you may have heard or not ... but as far as the topic of money goes, it's worth repeating.

The "Secret"

A young man in his early years in the work field was depressed as he thought he was unsuccessful in that he had been working for several years and had nothing to show for it. No bank account to speak of and little in his pocket.

He remembered meeting an elderly man during his youth and also remembered how successful the older man was and thought that one day he would like to be like him. The young man especially marveled at the material things the older man had acquired and knew of his financial success.

So, quite despondent at his own failure and desperate to seek advice or additional learning to better himself he sought out the older man and arranged to meet him. He thought that if he could talk to him the older man would reveal his treasured "secret" on how he attained his wealth.

They met in a quiet setting and the younger man told his story of how he had worked for a number of years and though he tried very hard, he found it extremely difficult to save any money after his obligations and had little to show for all the years he worked. He asked the older man if he would share his secret and tell him how he managed to acquire his wealth.

The older man who might have been of any culture and denomination of faith as this is not a matter of importance, chuckled under his breath and it made the young man feel uncomfortable and embarrassed that he thought he had offended the man for asking. But before he could apologize for his abruptness and inquisitiveness, the old man spoke.

"My son, I have no "secret" regarding my wealth."

And the young man replied, "Oh, but you must have. You must have a greater wisdom than others as you are rich and it is well known that you have much money."

"Well, Yes, it is true that I am wealthy", said the old man, "but how I acquired my wealth is no secret. I shall be glad to let you know."

The young man leaned toward him and showed an astute attentiveness eagerly waiting for the old man's next words that would reveal a mystical magical mystery.

Then the old man spoke. "Son, It is really very simple. Every week you perform your duties and receive a wage, right?" The young man nodded in assent. "Well," continued the old man. "And you dole out your wages to pay your rent, the grocer, your doctor bills, your dentist bills, correct?" Again, the young man nodded. "Well, how much do you pay yourself?" the old man asked. The young man suddenly had an astonished look on his face. "Pay myself?" he blurted out. "Yes," said the old man. "Yourself. You worked just as your doctor did and as your dentist did, didn't you? How much did you pay yourself for the week you worked?" The young man didn't know what to say and sat motionless and stunned.

"You see, my son, that is the "secret" you are looking for which is no secret at all. Pay yourself first before you pay any of your other bills. Pay yourself a wage you estimate you are worth for the week you worked and place the amount you pay yourself into savings. Pay your remaining bills from the balance left. In a short time you will see how easy it is to accumulate a fortune."

They shook hands and the young man thanked the older man for his "secret" and more so for his wisdom. The young man went away determined to put into practice what he had just learned from the old man. The old man went away with a smile on his face and a warm thought that he had brightened the life of the young man with his "secret".

The young man returned home that evening more enthused and energetic than he had been in a long time. He began to think about what the old man had said. "Simple, the old man said. More simple though in words rather than in actuality. "Pay yourself first." Sounds logical enough but then what amount should it be? It is true, I worked an entire week and I have nothing to show for it. Could this be the answer. Could this be as simple as it sounds. He tossed it back and forth and back and forth again. Well, it's certainly worth a try. I'll definitely give it a try this pay day." And he did. And so began the young man's climb to fortune. In no time at all he began to see an accumulation of savings and it made him feel good. "He was right, the old man was right and it really was very simple."

Sound easy? And simple? The secret to success? Well, it could very well be if every thing goes well and falls into place. But life doesn't always work that way. Obstacles keep popping up in a lifetime. Unforeseen expenses too. But aside from paying yourself which is a very nice position to be in, there are other quite apparent remedies available.

Also available, however, is the constant bombardment of advertisements consistent and persistently flashing before the consumer coupled with the equally availability of credit to the point of morally illegal. All of which prompts one to evaluate his or her own financial condition and make a most important decision as to the style of life, the priorities in the picture of one's finances and the goals to set for the future.

Life Style

The average family [census always indicates 4 with the absurd ½ individual members] usually is content with an average life style of a home, nice furnishings (renewed periodically), seasonal clothing and a yearly vacation. Most families are conservative and live within their means but in an electronic cyberspace age things are easily uncontrolled and the urge to live beyond means appears to be easier and easier. While it is difficult it is most important to remain within your income boundaries and not become indebted via credit cards and/or equity loans.

Single persons, some with career employment, supplying expense accounts and the life style, of course, have greater financial means but on a personal basis can easily exceed their own financial means attempting to keep up.

So it is important and best to determine how you want to live. That is, dinner and dancing, theatre and shows, cruises and travel, all beyond your means or a more quiet within your budget routine enjoying the best things in life which are free.

The Secret The illustration above of the old man's "secret" is basically very sound. Take the time to make a list of income vs. expenses. That is, the usual amounts expected to be expended monthly. The positive difference between the two would be a basis for the sum weekly deposited as "the wages to yourself."

Realistic Figures

Begin with a simple account of monthly income, single or joint for couple. List all monthly expenses and begin with the deposit illustrated above if the figures permit. If not, it is time to make adjustments. The income figure more than likely will remain the same so it is necessary to cut back or eliminate certain expenses. Don't be discouraged if this cannot be done immediately. It may take time to make the adjustments work into the plan. Some changes can be made immediately while others will take time. For instance, one might eliminate the lawn services at $30 a week and perform this chore oneself. A credit card balance might not be paid at once but additional charges on that card can and should be avoided. A careful review of the list can produce like changes in favor of a larger available monthly income. Some other ways follow.

Ways to Save

Make Use of Coupons/Discounts, etc.

While the internet, magazines and the daily mail are all diluted with ads, flyers and brochures of every kind and nature for coupons, discounts, promotions and super deals and sometimes they become irritably annoying, there is a great deal of saving to be had in perusing them. Supermarkets, fed by food manufacturers constantly compete with one another and it is wise to scan through the leaflets left at your mailbox to shop and compare.

It is not necessary to eat steak and potatoes every night. Ask Granma how she stretched the big pot of pea soup (with the Easter ham bone) and two loaves of oven baked bread between her family of six. Or Mom how she made two pounds of pasta (she got on sale) with sauce feed ten. There are a zillion low cost meals and recipes available and many are more delicious than filet mignon.

Fast food eating becomes a habit and is costly. Many times half the food ordered is left on the table uneaten. Break the habit and try to prepare less expensive but nutritional foods at home.

Department stores push seasonal sales throughout the year as well as appliances as new models with innovative ideas will appear shortly. Don't buy spontaneously. Read the newspapers and scan the internet for the best offers. It is not necessary to have the newest model in the latest color. Save big bucks by buying the clearance model but be sure to get your guarantees, etc.

Cars/Gasoline

The car, be it the family sedan or the mod single convertible, is a great possession. But in today's world, it has become one of the most money-eating necessities. When possible, plan your ride economically. Set down your chores in order of destination that is, line up your stops in an order so that you're not driving back and forth using too much gas. Go one way on one day stopping at all stores in one direction and go the other way on another day when you have accumulated chores in that direction. Don't use precious gas sitting in heavy traffic at lights on a Saturday or Sunday if it's not necessary. Drive on "off hours" on weekdays.

Shop around for car insurance. The insurance companies, like all other businesses, compete for your business. Find the best rates for your needs.

Credit Cards

Check out your cards. Yes, "cards" plural. Most people have more than one and some have as many as they can get. Look at the interest rates not only for the amount you charge, but also for the amount of cash you withdraw. And how about those "late fees". The original credit card was established for the ladies of the wealthy gentry. Today, while it is a most convenient way of shopping, no cash required in the store, it has become a pitfall with some actually addicted. Be sure not to go beyond your means, beyond the ability to pay for the items charged or the cash withdrawn. The only way to manage them is to make a payment above the amount shown due. To pay only the amount shown due means that the interest shown charged will be added to the balance and then you are paying interest on that interest! So, it amounts to "two steps forward and three back." Stay within your buying power. [If you only net $2,000 a month income, it is unrealistic to imagine that you can pay out $2,500.] If you find yourself being overwhelmed and out of control buying on credit, do not hesitate to cut up the card(s) and make every effort to pay down the balance(s). You'll find you will not only feel better for having no debt but you'll also sleep better at night.

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