#we will call him like Beto
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Marcus is a telepath (and weird), so Beto went crazy because he lost his temper.
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Only You Take All of Me
AN: It's all over the place 🤙🏼🤪🤙🏼
Requested? @nattinatalia had a mini request when we were fic talking/brainstorming with @heavyhitterheaux and I'm using it bc we haven't had angst in a minute lol
Warnings: angst (Jack and Miriam arguing (and someone leaking the argument (spoiler))), angst, mentions of toxic drama, fan speculation, and smut at the end
Word Count: 5.9k words
It was almost eight in the morning and Miriam could barely hold herself up. She was so exhausted. She had a night shoot and it was mentally draining. Even more because her mom was her scene partner. She always dreamed of working with her mom because of how she perfected her craft, but not for this current project.
They play mother daughter in the show, but they have a very strained relationship. The character Isabela played was very selfish and narcissistic, the complete opposite of Isabela in real life. Whereas Miriam’s character was timid and closed off and it caused conflict between them because the mom wanted her daughter to be more extroverted. Those dynamics ended up following Isabela and Miriam back home and it caused small arguments that often led to full on screaming matches.
Miriam was venting to Jack about it a week into his tour and he suggested that she move into his apartment while she filmed. At first she said no because she didn't want to invade his space. He reasoned that they practically lived together already in LA and Louisville and that his place shouldn't be any different. Miriam explained that they were building their homes together. They agreed and compromised on almost everything so their homes look like a perfect mesh of both their personalities.
Unlike his apartment, he already made that place his and she would just be invading it.
Jack reassured her that that wasn't the case and he wanted her there. She gave in after a few days and moved in. It was pretty convenient since it was a lot closer to the studio than the house her family owned. Little by little she moved her things in Urban's old room.
She turned the key and opened the door. She closed it and set the alarm before making her way to the kitchen. Something felt off when she walked in. She heard a thumping sound and the shower running in Jack's room. Which was very odd because she kept it locked and only went in to borrow a hoodie or jacket, and send him videos of her fucking herself because his closet had a sturdy mirror sliding door for when she used her sparkly dildo.
Miriam reached for a large serrated knife and slowly made her way to his bedroom. She dialed Beto but didn't press the call button. She crept in the bathroom and cursed when she saw her naked boyfriend getting out of the shower.
"What the hell is wrong with you?" She asked, putting the knife on the sink.
"Me? I'm not the one holding a fucking cleaver." Jack said, drying himself. "Are you tryna kill me like when you killed Oscar Isaac in the movie?"
"First of all, this is a serrated knife," she corrected him, "and two it was for self defense. I thought someone broke in. What are you even doing here? You told me you were getting here at noon."
"We took a flight instead of driving." He yawned.
"Oh well, welcome home." She said, yawning. "I'm gonna get ready for bed. What time do you have to be at the arena?"
"At five."
"Okay." Miriam nodded.
She took the knife and put it back where it went. She went to her room. She put her backpack in the closet. Before she exited, she grabbed a pair of pajamas and headed to the bathroom down the hall; her room didn't have a bathroom. Miriam quickly showered and dried her hair. Once she finished her after shower routine and brushed her teeth, she settled in bed.
She was about to doze off when Jack knocked and opened the door.
"What are you doing here?" He asked.
"Sleeping." Miriam mumbled.
"You don't want to sleep in my room?"
"Nope, I got comfy." She yawned.
"Can I sleep here too?" He asked awkwardly.
Miriam lifted the blanket and comforter. Jack got under them and attached himself to her. He kissed her shoulder and neck. He slipped his hand inside her top and began playing with her breasts, but Miriam shrugged him off.
"Jack, I've been on set for twenty hours. I'm really tired. Later okay?" She said, reaching over to scratch his beard.
"No, yeah, sorry." He apologized then laid on his back.
"It's okay." She reassured him. She turned around so that she was hugging his side and draped her leg in between his. "I'm glad you're back. I miss you."
"I missed you too." Jack said, kissing her temple.
Miriam brought down the hand that was scratching Jack's beard and placed it on his chest. Jack lifted her hand and inspected her nails. He knew she got them done a few days ago, but didn't know what she got design wise. They were long square french tips with red splatters that look like blood splatters.
"Are you on your period?" Jack asked her in a teasing tone.
"No, I have the implant that goes in my arm remember." She answered sleepily, not realizing he was gonna say something out of pocket.
"Oh so you must have cut your asshole tryna wipe your ass with these long ass nails." He said, trying to stifle his laughter.
Miriam gave him an unimpressed look. "Jack, go to sleep."
She turned around so she had her back to him. In response Jack wrapped his arm around her and pulled her to his chest. Soon after they both dozed off.
*
Miriam's phone loudly rang, startling Miriam awake. She got up and rummaged through her backpack to get her phone. It was one of the directors of the show.
"Hello?" She answered, stifling a yawn.
"Hi, hun, I'm sorry if I woke you." The director said.
"It's fine." Miriam said.
"I'm calling because one of the cameras glitched last night when we were filming so we're going to need you back on set tomorrow. I know it's your day off, so I apologize." She said.
"Yeah, I'll be there. What scene was it?" Miriam asked.
"It was the gallery sex scene with Aaron."
"Oh okay."
"Again I'm sorry I'm asking you to come in on your day off."
"It's okay, honest."
"I'll let you get some rest then. See you tomorrow then. Bye."
"Bye," Miriam said before hanging up.
She sighed and made her way back to bed. It was about to be ten in the morning. She hadn't even slept for two hours. But she was alert and couldn't go back to sleep. Jack on the other hand was fast asleep.
Miriam decided to get started on her day. She changed out of her pajamas into forest green fitted ribbed cashmere long sleeve top from KHAITE paired with charcoal grey trousers from The Row. She finished the look off with some low dunks that matched her top and some dainty gold jewelry. She did a simple makeup look and went to the kitchen to make breakfast.
The smell of chilaquiles woke Jack up. It took him a second to process where he was. He lifted his head and frowned seeing Miriam’s side empty. He got up and went to the kitchen.
"Bro, why are you awake?" He yawned.
"I got a call from set and they need me on set early tomorrow." She said, shoving a forkful of chilaquiles into her mouth. She chewed thoughtfully. “I’m doing what I was going to do tomorrow today.”
“I wanted to take you out for lunch and hang out for a bit before the show.” Jack pouted, pulling her close.
“You can always join me. I’m going to the farmer’s market then hit up a few stores.” Miriam suggested.
Jack groaned, “What if we stay in bed longer?”
“The farmer's market closes at noon today.”
“Okay, I’ll wait for you when you get back.”
Miriam nodded. “Sounds like a plan.”
She finished eating and washed her dishes. Miriam left and came back a few hours later. She decided to only go to the farmer’s market and grocery store. The other errands she had weren’t that urgent. She entered the apartment and found Jack in the living room playing video games. He nodded at her as he listened to whatever the guys were saying.
Miriam set her reusable grocery bags on the counter. She wasn’t surprised to see the kitchen cleaned up. She put the groceries away and went to her room to change into something comfy. Jack came in with a large panera paper bag.
“I got you that toasted sandwich and mac cheese.” Jack said, placing the bag on her desk. He pointed back at the large box on her bed. “Then this came for you.”
“I’m taking this to set tomorrow because I ate an embarrassing amount of the baguette slices with jam and cream cheese samples the bread tent has.” Miriam said. She went to him and reached for a pair of scissors then opened the box, revealing another box. “Oh it’s the PR box for the collab my sister did with Frankie’s bikinis. She wanted me to post some of them.”
“Imma put your food in the fridge then.” he said leaning down to give her a peck. “I’m gonna get back to my game.”
“Okay.” Miriam nodded.
Jack gave her ass a hard smack then left her room. Miriam went to the closet and changed. She was now in one large band t-shirt and her panties. She placed the PR box on her bed and opened it. On top was a handwritten note from Katalina. Miriam removed the tissue paper under it and inspected the swimsuits. The designs were a mix of cottagecore and farmcore aesthetics. She was pleasantly surprised at the quality. She never wore the brand before and hesitated on buying from them, but the material felt nice and of good quality.
Since she had some free time, Miriam decided to take pictures for her to post later. She set up her tripod and camera that she used when she self taped and took pictures. She changed into the first set. It was an ivory cropped top with matching bikini bottoms.
Several bikini and one piece sets later she was done. On her MacBook she already picked which ones she was going to post. She was cleaning up and picking up the trash when a bikini set fell from under the tissue paper. She held it up and frowned. She had seen Katalina wearing it on the website’s look book, but there was no way she wanted her to wear it. It was very revealing.
Sure wore clothes that accentuated her body, but she never anything compared to the bikini. If she did it was in the privacy of her and Jack’s homes where no one else would see her. Miriam immediately facetimed her sister.
“What’s up– dude you look so cute.” Katalina answered, pointing at the one piece she was wearing currently. “Your chichis look good.”
“Bitch what the hell?!” She held up the bikini.
“What?” her older sister frowned.
“Are these fabric scraps or what?” Miriam said.
“It’s a bikini, mensa.”
“Donde quepo en esto?”
“Miriam, you’re being dramatic. It’ll look good on you. You have a fat ass and tits.” Katlina said, biting into her sandwich. “I’m sure your man is gonna like it.”
“Obvio, pero te pasas Kat.”
“How is this any different than when you wear sheer tops and dresses that show off your nipples and ass?”
“I’m covered.” she tried arguing.
Katalina shook her head, “No you’re not. Now stop being extra. If you need the confidence boost, show your man. Knowing him he’ll say that you got him like a brick wall or whatever he comments on your posts.”
With that Miriam’s sister hung up. Miriam sighed and examined the bikini once more. Maybe Katalina was right and she was being overdramatic. The swim suit wasn't that bad. She changed and looked at herself in the mirror. She looked hot. Her ass practically swallowed the bottoms and her breasts nearly spilled out of the top. The string holding the top was fighting for its life.
"Jack?" Miriam called out as she made her way down the hall to him.
"What's– turn around." He demanded when she got to him.
"Why?" She giggled confused.
Jack held his phone up to take her picture. "I need to update my lock screen." He changed the lock screen of her holding her Emmy to the picture of her ass he took. He grinned mischievously, “Okay now show me your tits so I can update my home screen.”
*
Jack knew better than letting Miriam drive. Even more since they were in her cramped Audi. He had his legs folded up to his chin. The whole drive to the State Farm Arena he kept hearing a high pitched sound every time she stopped at a red light or hit her brakes.
"What's that sound?" He asked, finally getting tired of the squeaky sound.
"What sound?" Miriam asked, pulling up to the private parking lot in the arena.
"Are those your breaks?" He gave her an incredulous look.
"I think so. Isn't that normal?"
"No, bro, you gotta get your car checked. How can you drive? What if you get stranded because your car doesn't work anymore?"
Miriam looked in the eye and said, "I could just Uber or call Beto and buy another car. What's the issue?"
Jack's jaw dropped. "Are you being deadass?"
"Yes? Why wouldn't I be?"
"Bro, your grandpa is a mechanic. You should know the basics of car maintenance."
“I’ll just have Beto take care of it, happy?”
“I would be happier if you’re sitting on me with my dick inside you.” Jack smirked.
Miriam gave him an unamused look in response. She was ready to get out of her car, but Jack beat her to it and opened her door for her. He bent down and pulled the lever that opened the trunk of the car. He got his things out and shut the trunk. He placed his things and leaned against Miriam’s car. His legs were slightly spread so Miriam could fit in between them.
It was easy for her to reach up and wrap her arms around Jack’s shoulders since his legs were stretched out. Jack pulled her closer and lazily hugged her. His hands patted her ass, making Miriam giggle before she pulled his neck down and kissed him. She cradled his cheek as their kiss deepened. She whimpered as one of Jack's hands slipped inside her top and he squeezed her nipples.
“Ayo, can you two keep it in your pants until the show’s over? Jack still has to perform.” Clay yelled from the entrance.
Jack pulled his hand out from Miriam’s shirt and flipped him off. Miriam took a step back and adjusted her top. She was wearing one of Jack’s oversized rugby shirts that kinda looks like a dress with how big it looks on her. She paired the shirt with some biker shorts under, so her ass wouldn’t be out for the whole world to see and her trusty Doc Martens. She placed her white Prada shearling tote over her shoulder. Jack placed his arm over her shoulders and guided her inside the arena.
Miriam greeted some of Jack’s friends from Loiusville that made it to his show as well as some of Jack’s industry friends. After everyone Jack also said his hellos, he was pulled to the stage so the crew can go over the details for tonight’s show. She felt a bit awkward since Jack usually was the one who would find ways to include her into the conversation with his friends. The few that she was closer to weren’t there, so she felt more awkward. Clay, Urban and the rest of PG were also out on stage; she had no one to interact with. She took a seat in a corner where Jack’s wardrobe was pulled out her phone so she could go over lines while she waited for him.
“Yeah he already agreed and ordered everything.” she heard someone say.
Not that she was nosy, or anything, but she paused her music and listened.
“Jack said as long as the party ends at one then we’re fine. I saw his new place a while back and it’s fucking nice. The party is gonna go all out.” someone else said.
Miriam frowned. She wasn’t aware that Jack had planned a party after his show. It felt like it was something he should have talked to her about or at least let her know that it was happening. It left a weird feeling in her gut. To suppress it she listened to her music at full volume.
The rest of the evening passed in a blur. City Girls were halfway through their set and Jack was getting ready for his set. He and Miriam haven’t talked since he was all over the place making sure things were getting done.
“Yo what time should we start heading to your place for the party?” the guy who was organizing the party asked Jack.
“It’s not a party, it's a chill kickback.” Jack corrected him.
“Same shit bro.” he responded.
That was the last straw for Miriam. She smoothed out her shirt and went up to Jack.
“Can we talk in private?” she asked him.
“Yeah, let’s go out the parking lot.” he nodded.
Miriam grabbed her tote and followed him. Jack didn’t reach for her hand or placed his arm around her like he usually did. He was busy responding to something on his phone. When they reached her car, he pocketed his phone.
“What’s up?” he asked, pulling her back to the position they were before cock blocked them a few hours before. He rubbed her back affectionately.
“Why didn’t you tell me you were having a party?” she crossed her arms. “If you told me that you were hosting a party I would have figured out where to stay.” she said in a more irritable tone.
“Why do you need to stay somewhere else if you’re staying with me?”
‘Is he acting stupid or is he not getting it?’ Miriam thought to herself.
“How the fuck am I supposed to be rested for a 7am call time when you throw a fucking party the night before!” she threw her arms in the arm. “
“Oh shit…”, was what he all could say when it clicked.
“You could have also let me know since, you know, I live with you and all that.” she mumbled.
"Why should I have consulted you? It's my place, Miriam. You're just staying there temporarily." Jack frowned, confused.
"So you see us as something temporarily got it." she pushed his arms off her hips.
"That's not what I meant." he protested.
"You asked me to move in with you!” she exclaimed. “I uprooted myself from my parents' place to live with you. What am I supposed to think when you say that?"
“You’re having a fit over a party?”
“Do you hear yourself? I’m upset at the fact that you’re being inconsiderate and you didn’t think of me when you decided to have your party. I’m your partner and I live with you. The least you could do is let me know. If that’s too much for you then there’s a lot that we have to reconsider.”
“Are you serious?” he laughed in disbelief. “All this shit because I forgot to let you know I was having some people over after my show.”
Miriam turned around so she was giving him her back. She was extremely frustrated and on the verge of tears. The last thing she wanted to do was cry and have him think she was trying to manipulate him or something.
“Jack, are you out here? You have to go on in five minutes.” Urban said from the door. He took in the couple and instantaneously knew there was something going between them. “Y’all good?”
“Yeah,” Miriam nodded, smiling as if she wasn’t about to burst into tears. “Jack was just seeing me out since I can’t stay for his show. Tomorrow I have to be on set early.”
“Miriam,” Jack said in a low voice.
She didn’t respond. She got in her car and slammed the door shut. Jack got on the sidewalk and watched her drive off. He sighed and went over to his best friend.
Urban took a hit from his blunt and looked at his best friend. “I don’t know what you did, but you better fix it.”
*
The following morning, Jack went out for a late lunch with his brother, Urban and Druski..
“You’re a fucking dumbass.” Druski shook his head at Jack.
He had told the guys why Miriam left early and why she wasn't at the party. He also told them that she was upset over the party. The party didn’t end up happening at his place. Drama and the label arranged another party for him instead and everything he had planned was moved to the private venue Drama owned. He went home after the show to get ready and found the house empty. Miriam left a note on the fridge’s notepad that she was going to spend a few days at her parents’ house so she wouldn’t get in his way.
Jack only lasted an hour at the party before going home. He then spent the whole night tossing and turning because he couldn’t sleep, knowing Miriam was in the same city as him and not sleeping beside him. He eventually walked out of his room and slept in her room because it smelled like her.
“I agree.” Clay said before taking a huge bite of his omelet. “She, for some reason, sees a future with you and she could have easily just gotten an apartment or stayed at a hotel, but she felt comfortable enough with you to stay at your place. When I saw the video I thought–”
“What video?” Jack cut him off.
“The one from last night. I never see her look so disappointed in you.” he casually said, picking a piece of bacon off his plate.
“What video?” Jack repeated himself in a more stern tone.
“The one of you and Miriam in the parking lot…”
“You didn’t think about fucking mentioning that?”
“I thought you saw it.”
Jack pulled out his phone and searched himself and Miriam up. Almost instantly, the articles loaded. He clicked on the first one and scrolled through the article until he got to the video. It was a shaky video of them. What he and Miriam were discussing wasn't heard on video since whoever recorded them was pretty far away and was only able to record. Miriam looked like she was ready to cry at any second while he looked annoyed with her. He pressed the link from the video since it was a repost from twitter. The replies and quotes were dragging Miriam. They were calling her all types of names and wishing bad things on her for allegedly making him upset.
“I gotta go.” He said, standing up. He pulled out his wallet and placed two hundred dollar bills on the table.
He rushed to his car and drove to set. He went through security and they handed him a guest parking pass. Her designated parking spot was empty so he parked there. He spotted a few paps hiding behind a fence. He rolled his eyes and was about to knock when the door opened, revealing Aaron Taylor Johnson in a robe. It was slightly opened showing off his toned body.
“Jack?” Miriam popped her head out of her trailer. She was also in the same robe.
“Is this the boyfriend?” Aaron asked.
“Yes,” She nodded. She waved in front of him and Jack. “Aaron, Jack. Jack, Aaron.”
The two men shook hands. Once they got their pleasantries out of the way, Aaron made his way back to his trailer. Miriam motioned Jack to follow her inside.
Jack had a whole speech prepared but it went out the window when he saw Miriam take off her robe. She was completely naked under it save for the nude g-string that matched her brown skin that she had to wear when she did sex scenes.
“How did you find ranunculuses this late?” Miriam asked, changing into some black Calvin Klein panties.
“What are you talking about?” Jack furrowed his eyebrows in confusion.
Miriam pointed at the large floral arrangement by the coffee cart she has as she finished changing into one of his hoodies and some leggings. Jack got up to inspect the flowers. He was the only one who bought her ranunculuses, specifically the light pink blush ones and the peach ones. They were Miriam’s favorite flowers, but her friends and family stopped buying them after her and Jack began dating. ‘At least they’re white’ Jack thought to himself. White was her least favorite color for flowers. He turned the vase around and saw an ivory envelope in between two flowers. He pulled it out. There was no name or anything on the outside.
“Oh what the hell, I didn’t see that.” Miriam commented.
Jack handed her the envelope. She opened it and rolled her eyes. She passed him the envelope back and walked up to the vase. Wordlessly she walked to the kitchenette where a metal trash can was and stepped on the lever of the trashcan. She let the vase drop in it and took her foot off the lever without any other.
“What was that?” Jack laughed.
“Read the card.”
Jack pulled out the car and read, Hey, I heard about you and Jack. HMU when you want - Russ
“This is the last fucking straw.” He grumbled. He aggressively pulled out his phone and started typing furiously. “I let a lot of shit slide, but sending my girl ranunculus and implying that we broke up is where I draw the fucking line.”
“I’m still your girl?” Miriam asked in a quiet voice.
“Yeah, why would you think otherwise?”
“Last night we said some things, I said some things… I don’t know…” she said quietly.
Jack walked her to her couch and pulled her onto his lap. He affectionately rubbed her thighs. He pulled away from her thighs and held her hands.
“I acted like a dick last night. I don’t see us as something temporary and I apologize for making you think that. You mean everything to me, and I’m sorry for not showing you that last night.” Jack said sincerely.
“I’m sorry too for how I reacted. It’s your place and you should be able to have your friends over.”
“It’s not just my place, it’s our home.”
“Yeah?”
“For as long as you want me.”
“Well good thing I kinda want you forever. Even if you don’t comment under my thirst trap that I posted in order to get people to focus on my ass rather than us talking in the video.”
“Hold on, you posted a thirst trap?” Jack pushed her off his lap to get his phone out.
He got on instagram and the first thing he saw was her ass. He was about to comment on it, but he got distracted with the comments. They were similar to the threats and replies he saw on the video. He posted this instagram story and then commented on her post.
Jack via Instagram Stories
@'mdm: not my sister designing cute shit, obsessed with these @'frankiesbikinis @'katdominguez
@'jackharlow: 👊🏻 my 🥩
->@'mdm: bye 😭
->@'fan: I thought they broke up?
->@'mackshipper: Why?
->@'fan: there's a video of them arguing at his show and she left in her car when his set started
->@'mdmxjh: I hate being like this but we don't know what happened and ee should stay hold back on commenting. They probably weren't even arguing Miriam has a rbf and talks animatedly
@'katdominguez: okayyyyy 🔥🔥🔥
@'messygossippage: I don’t think your thirst trap is gonna distract us from how toxic and manipulative you are to Jack. He deserves someone who loves him unconditionally and always has his back
->@'mdmxjh: I don't think speaking on things you don't know are gonna distract us from your shitty website and unnecessary drama you spew
***
Miriam pulled out her phone and called Jack. He was in Louisville since last night since he was the MC or hosting some sports event at the University of Louisville today. She wasn’t going to make the event since she was booked for work, but they gave her the rest of the weekend off since she came on Monday to redo her scenes. So Miriam decided to surprise him and fly out to Louisville. She wanted to spend the weekend with him since he was going to be in New York the following week for SNL.
“What’s up, bro?” He answered.
“Not even a ‘hello, my love, I miss you and I’m counting the days to see your fine ass.’” Miriam sassesd him.
“You don’t like it when I call you corny shit like ‘my love’.” He pointed out.
“Anyways, I ordered something and I accidently put your Louisville address. And I just got an email that it was delivered at your place and they left it out outside the gate. Can you check?” she said, leaning against the gate of his house.
“You know I can see your ass through the cameras, right?” Jack laughed.
He hung up before Miriam could muster up a sassy comment. He appeared a minute later and opened the gate door for her. He pulled her to his arms and kissed her deeply. He picked her up the back of her thighs and carried her inside. Jack walked them to the couch and helped her out of the hoodie she was wearing. He groaned seeing Miriam slowly rutted her hips against his for some sort of relief.
It had been weeks since they had sex. The last few days they’ve been so wrapped up in each other’s presence that they forgot to get each other off. Nothing could interrupt them.
“Yo, they were out of ciabatta so I got you sourdough.” Clay said, walking in. He watched as MIriam and Jack scrambled to get dressed. He shook his head, “I wasn’t even gone for ten minutes. How the fuck did Miriam get here so fast?”
“I’m taking my key back.” Jack said.
Miriam snorted because somehow Clay and Jack began going back and forth. She got the couch and went upstairs to Jack’s bed. She was tired. She had a night shoot the night before. When she got out of work, she went straight to the airport to catch her flight to Louisville. She got under covers and nuzzled against the pillows, welcoming Jack’s scent.
When she woke up, it was well into the afternoon. She heard the shower running, so she assumed Jack was getting ready for his appearance at the university. She got out of bed and stripped off her clothes, joining him in the shower. She wrapped her arms around and looked up. Jack gave her a chaste kiss, earning a pout from her.
“Any other day, I would have you bent over, but we’re running late.” he said, getting out of the shower and letting her finish showering. “We leave at thirty.”
“Jaaack.” she whined.
“Thirty minutes.” he called as he exited the bathroom.
Miriam quickly showered and did her makeup. She didn’t have time to properly dry her curls to make them look extra bouncy. She just added some product so they wouldn't get frizzy. She changed into a white low cut crop top with some beige yoga pants and her white and black Nike Cortez’s. She went inside Jack’s closet and looked for a jacket. She found a vintage Cardinals windbreaker jacket and put it on. She was about to walk out when Jack bumped into her in the doorway.
“Is that my jacket?” Jack asked.
She looked up from her phone; since she wasn’t taking a purse she was putting her ID and credit card behind a polaroid she had of her and Jack in her phone case. She tilted her head and asked,“Why do you always ask questions to things you know the answer to?”
*
Jack watched Miriam unamused as Ree took a body off her breasts. Thanks to her low cut top, the bright pink plastic shot glass fit in between her breasts. Ree squeezed some lime on the top of Miriam’s exposed breast and added a dash of salt on. She placed her hands behind her back and effortlessly tossed back the shot with only her mouth.
After Louisville Live, Jack and Miriam went to a party that one of his friends was hosting. They couldn't make it to Jack’s Atlanta show, so they were hosting a kickback for the end of his American leg of tour. When Jack and Mirima showed up, they got separated. The girls of the group haven’t seen Miriam in weeks and they wanted to catch up. What Jack wasn’t expecting was for them to be all up in his girl’s tits.
He looked over to Urban. “You gonna get your girl?”
“I don’t know, Miriam looks like she’s enjoying it.” Urban smirked.
Jack didn’t respond. He pushed himself off his seat in one of the couches and walked up to Miriam and the group. He reached for her hand and tugged her outside.
“Jack, what are you doing?” she giggled confused.
He walked them to his car and unlocked his car, opening the trunk. “Get in.”
“Why?”
“Because if you don’t, I’m going to bend you over the hood and fuck you.”
Miriam did as she was told. She jumped hearing the trunk’s door slam shut. Jack pulled her to him and desperately kissed her. Without breaking their kiss, he helped her out of their jacket and he pulled down her top, exposing her breasts to him. He ran his thumb on her sensitive nipples. Miriam leaned back, giving him better access, and quietly moaned out as he gently nipped under her breasts. Both of his hands were on her nipples, twisting and rubbing them. His tongue traced the pert peaks.
“Jack, please fuck me.” she whined.
“You don’t gotta tell me twice.” he mumbled against her chest.
She got off his lap and took off her shoes and pants. Surprisingly the trunk was spacious even for her to lay back. Jack pulled down his pants and boxer-briefs down to his knees. He ran his hand over his length, fighting the urge to jerk himself off to Miriam’s body and coming all over her. He lined himself up at her entrance. He slowly pushed his cock into her. Miriam moaned out in pleasure.
“Fuck," he groaned. “Missed being inside your pussy.”
Jack gripped where her thigh met her hips and kept thrusting into her at a slow pace. He was still nervous to go any faster. He picked up the pace as Miriam met his thrusts.
“I love you.” They both said at the same time.
He wrapped one of her legs around him, bringing them closer as he took her. Since he was still kneeling, he reached forward and used one of Miriam's shoulders to anchor himself as he sped up. He got lost in watching how her breasts bounced feverishly with every rough thrust. Her breath hitched at how good it felt. Jack must have noticed, and continued thrusting in that spot. The familiar feeling came over her once more. Miriam was about to come, and Jack knew it. His thrusts got more precise, hitting where she needed him.
“Come on, Miriam, let go for me. I know you have it in you.” He encouraged her.
That pushed her over the edge, and she repeated Jack’s name over and over until her high faded. Jack continued thrusting in and out of her. His thrusts grew sloppy. After a few minutes passed, he pulled out and jerked himself off. He cursed Miriam's name and released all over her stomach and chest. He sighed contently and laid next to her. He leaned over her and gave her a kiss.
“Jack, you ruined my top. I can’t go out with your semen on me.” she frowned.
“Oh really?” he responded sarcastically. “That’s a shame. I guess we have to go home.”
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This fic, which will have a part 1, part 2, and part 3 goes out to @braindead94, @lost-in-the-forest-again, and @imwithyoutiltheendofthelinebucky
One Thumb Down (Part 2)
*This is a prequel to He Won't Hurt You*
Plot: On a seemingly normal, but eerily quiet Thursday afternoon at The Magic Castle, Neveah (reader) is disrupted from said odd quiet by an unruly lodger named Destiny Montoya. After a long back and forth, Neveah soon finds herself helping Bobby complete a maintenence request for her. But during this request, Neveah sustains a small, yet very painful injury. Good thing, she has the strong and sweet Bobby to help her.
⚠️ This is an 18+ fic with mild NSFW content. Minors do not engage. 🔞 Thank you. 🙂
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Your face became so hot when you felt his soft palm interwoven with yours. He held your hand tight too, before he opened the door for you and guided you out.
“I'm so sorry, Nev,” he sadly said, before he took your injured hand in his own.
To your surprise, he kissed it to seal his sorrow and remorse. And when you looked into his eyes, you almost cried at how much concern and emotion was sealed behind those wild ocean blues.
“It's okay, Bobby. I should have moved faster.”
“You wouldn't have had to if i made sure the fridge wasn’t leaning.”
“It's okay. We all make mistakes.”
“I'm aware of that, but my mistake got you injured,” he remarked. “Can you hold on tight while I call Juan? I'll take you to urgent care after I talk to him.”
“I can stand pretty for a little longer,” you teased, trying to lighten the mood.
He lightly chuckled, before he got his phone out and called his assistant manager.
“...Hey, Juan,” he started. “I hope I didn't catch you at a bad time.”
“Not at all, Beto,” he said with a hardy chuckle. “I'm just doing some yard work. What can I help you with?”
“I was wondering if you could come to the property and finish up Destiny Montoya's maintenance request. You just need to dispose of her old mini fridge and replace it with a new one in storage. Nev and I did the rest but she ended up getting her finger crushed between the fridge and the wall.”
“Oh no. Sorry to hear that about Nev. Sure, I'll be right there. Would you like me to handle the front desk after I'm done?”
“Yes, that would be great. I'll let you go once I get back. I'm taking Nev to the urgent care to see if her thumb is just sprained or broken. It's gonna be classified under workers comp I'm sure. Mr. Reyes is gonna be pissed, but I don't care. It's my fault anyway. He can be mad at me all he wants.”
“Oh, he can kick rocks,” Juan scoffed. “Go on ahead and get her to the urgent care. I'm about to head out.”
“Okay. Thanks, Juan.”
“You're welcome, Beto. Tell Nev I wish her well.”
“Will do. Bye.”
“Adios,” Juan replied before Bobby hung up.
He looked at you after he did and then asked,
“You ready?”
You nodded.
“Okay. Take my hand and don't touch the rail with your other hand. The last thing we need is a worst thumb injury. Just keep that hand to your side,” he instructed before you took his hand again.
“Do you mind if I hold onto your arm too?” you curiously asked.
“If it helps you to ignore the pain and walk down the stairs without issue, then I don't mind,” he said before you swiftly unhooked your hand from his and wrapped your arm around his instead.
“You're really warm,” you cooed.
“It's hot, Nev. Of course I am,” he joked, trying desperately to not show how happy he was to feel your skin on his even more than before.
You laughed.
“You know what I mean, Bobby.”
He just smiled before he began to lead you down the stairs. He took it slow though, looking over at you every other step to make sure you were okay.
It was a bit strange to you, though, since you had a thumb injury not a leg or knee or ankle injury. But you figured that he probably was just cautious since he still felt guilty about what happened.
He just didn't want to risk you getting hurt again.
It was too much for his heart and conscience to bare…little did you know, anyway.
“You okay, Nev?” he asked once you were on the downstairs sidewalk.
“Bobby, I'll be okay. I mean it does hurt like hell, but you can't blame yourself.”
He sighed, but didn't respond.
Instead, he squeezed your hand and led the way the front office so you could get your stuff.
Then he took you to his old Jeep.
He helped you in, then got on his side and started the car. He swiftly drove out of the parking lot, after, before he ended up looking your way yet again.
“Nev, you didn't let me down by the way.”
“Hmmm?,” you hummed, before you realized what he said. “Oh, I didn't think…”
“Nev, I've known you long enough to know you did think that,” he remarked, putting his hand on your shoulder. “You were great help before this happened.”
“Thanks, Bobby,” you chirped.
“You're welcome,” he softly said, as his eyes moved back forward towards the road. “We're almost there.”
You just smiled.
“So I guess I'm going home after this?”
“Yes, I want you to rest,” he gently told you. “I'll handle the front desk and maintenance when I get back.”
“I'm sure Juan wouldn't mind handling my job for the rest of my shift,” you assured him.
“I don't want to hold him up like that. He's on call for a reason. It's just if I really need him.”
“Okay,” you moaned before you noticed that he pulled into the urgent care parking lot.
Swiftly, he maneuver his Jeep into the last available front spot and parked before turning the car off and getting out.
You stayed put and just as expected, he walked over to your side and let you out, clutching your uninjured hand as gently as he could.
The warmth of his palm was so comforting, so soothing, that your usual anxiety when it came to doctor's visits seemed to melt away.
However, your usual anxiety seemed to hop onto Bobby because as soon as you walked in, he rushed over to the front desk almost dragging you.
“Welcome to Orange Urgent Care,” the bubbly red-headed receptionist greeted before she jumped noticing the worry in Bobby's eyes.
“Sir, are you…”
“How long is it gonna take before you can see her,” he asked, cutting the receptionist off. “Because she has a beat up thumb and I want to make sure it's taken care of and doesn't get infected.”
“Sir, there's no wait time. We just need her to fill out the paperwork on the tablet beside you as well as proof of insurance.”
“Okay,” he said calmly before you began to just fill out the questionaire on the tablet.
“Are you her guardian or employer?”
“Employer. I’m her manager. It was a work accident so we'll file it under workers comp.”
“And what's the company?”
“The Magic Castle Motel,” he answered, before noticing the receptionist pause and put on an anxious face.
“Right. Well, I'll make a note of that but please also include that in your paperwork, Miss.”
You nodded.
“Okay, once you're done filling all that out I just need your ID and insurance. Gonna take a copy of both and then give them back to you.”
You nodded again, before you finally finished all the paperwork. After, you fished out your wallet in your small purse and handed her the cards.
“Thank you. I'll be right back. Feel free to take a seat. One of our nurses will be with you shortly and I'll just walk these cards back over to you.”
“Okay, thank you,” you told her before you and Bobby sat down in the empty chairs near the television.
The waiting room was eerily quiet, especially since the receptionist was in the copy room with your cards. And even the television only displayed some daytime talk show your mother would have watched with subtitles.
Your attention still went to the television though, before Bobby gently caressed your hand with the injury. It caught you by surprise, but you still smiled at him.
“Bobby, I'm gonna be okay,” you assured him. “It's just a sprain probably. I mean it only really stings. No bones are broken.”
“I don't care if it's not broken,” he started, desperately trying not to cry. “I hurt you. Neveah, you're my responsibility and I hurt you. I can't live with myself right now.”
“Bobby, it's…” you started before the receptionist came back with your cards.
“Thank you,” you told her before you went back to Bobby. “I already told you. I should have been paying attention. It's not your fault. Things happen.”
“There’s no convincing me, Neveah,” he assured. “I'll still have the guilt. But your diagnosis will give me some ease. And when you come in tomorrow, you're strictly on front desk duty. No more maintainence requests indefinitely.”
You nodded, fully aware of how bad Bobby was feeling. After all, he only called you Neveah when he was being more serious or stern.
“Good,” he said before he side hugged you. “I care about you, kid. I just want to keep you safe.”
“I understand, Bobby. Thanks.”
He warmly smiled, before the door in front of you opened, exposing the young black nurse who called you to the back.
But before you went with her, you gave him a short hug. The gesture made his heart melt and he patted your back softly before letting go.
“I'll be back,” you softly told him.
“I'll be waiting,” he softly replied, watching you leave with the nurse before the door shut.
His mind started racing after that. He hoped for the best case scenario, but he didn't want to be too hopeful.
Sure you didn't break anything, but that didn't mean you didn't have a long recovery ahead. And he hated the idea of seeing you in such a state.
Ultimately, he kept blaming himself. His inner monologue was scolding him for even entertaining the idea of letting you help him with a maintenance request in the first place.
It was a dumb idea. It wasn't your job, it wasn't your place. But yet he skirted his own rules, his own common sense.
And then it dawned on him.
Did he only let you tag along because he wanted to spend more time with you?
It was quite plausible, although he would vehemently deny it. It was inappropriate, but he was still falling more and more for you.
He figured his actions came across more friendly.
He treated you no differently than his fellow man.
He was a good guy and always did for others.
But boy did it feel different when it came to you.
That's why he enjoyed returning to the lobby... just so he could admire your natural beauty and infectious spunk.
You always made him smile, even when he was having a rough day.
Hell, just thinking about you had the same effect.
But now he needed a distraction.
His guilt was just too strong for him to bear at this point.
And then he remembered…
He still had the cigarette Destiny gave back to him.
“Ma’am,” he addressed the receptionist before she looked up from her computer.
“Yes, sir?”
“I'm just gonna be next door, outside the convenience store,” he told her. “I need a smoke break. I'm Neveah’s ride, so if she comes out before I return, let her know where I am.”
“Okay, sir,” she hummed, before going back to her computer.
He slipped out the door immediately after, walking straight to the side of the convenience store before he landed up against the wall and took the cigarette and his lighter out.
With quick speed, he lit it and put it to his lips, just puffing away his anxiety and regret.
There he stayed for about ten minutes, before he took the cigarette and put it out. He disposed of it properly and then made his way back, much calmer than before.
And just his luck, he walked back in when you were walking back into the waiting room.
You were more than relieved to hear that it was just a standard crush of your thumb and a common nailbed injury on said digit.
So you walked out proudly with your wrapped up thumb neatly protected in your temporary splint.
That was until you saw Bobby again, you ran over to hug him, and he hugged you back before asking what was the diagnosis.
“I see your thumb is all snugly wrapped up,” he observed. “What's the diagnosis?”
“It’s just a standard thumb crush and a mild nail bed injury since I lost my thumbnail,” you gently explained. “They prescribed me some extra strength ibuprofen and instructed me to keep ice on it as much as I can and also soak my nail bed into a cup of saline, salt and water.”
Bobby took a deep breath of relief after.
“Well, that's a relief. I'm glad you weren't hurt worse,” he said with a warm smile.
“Me too,” you joyfully agreed. “But you have to take me to the pharmacy before taking me back home.
“Okay, sounds like a plan. Let's go,” he jovially said, as you wrapped your arm around his, making him blush once more.
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NEW X-MEN: THE ANIMATED SERIES - SEASON 2, EPISODE 8
We open in a bunker. The sound of a knife being sharpened is heard as we get a good look at the place. The walls are lined with maps and graphs and/or assault weapons, there are cases filled with knives and explosives and bags of non-perishable food have been thrown haphazardly onto the floor.
There’s also a freshly murdered mutant in the corner, a young man who’s been stabbed to death.
“I’ve trained all that I can. I’ve tested myself. I’ve succeeded. Now, all that is left…is to take my revenge.”
The sharpened hunting knife is holstered, and the woman speaking arms herself with further guns, bombs, and melee weapons. With her white mask and all-camo outfit, comic fans will recognize her as The Leper Queen.
We cut to the school. In Scott’s office, he’s seated at his desk, with Emma, Storm, Laura, and Bobby standing alongside him. Emma, Bobby, and Storm all appear perplexed and mildly afraid, while Laura is stoic as ever. Scott is pinching his forehead in frustration.
SCOTT: “So…let me get this right.”
We see that he’s speaking to Kitty, Sunspot, and Darkchylde. Kitty and Sunspot are as nervous and awkward as everyone else, while Darkchylde is grinning and waving her tail back and forth.
SCOTT: “Demons kidnapped you and invaded Russia, killing or injuring hundreds…and you brought their queen here.”
DARKCHYLDE, mockingly: “Nice to see you too, Cyclops.” Her tone becomes more pleasant. “Actually nice to see you again Storm. Very confused why you’re here, Ms. Frost.”
EMMA: “Oh, there is plenty of confusion going on right now. Kitty, please answer the question.”
Kitty sighs.
KITTY: “Listen, we had two options: let her destroy the world, or let her come home. She’s basically a super-intelligent, all-powerful toddler. This is a school, right? We can help her learn to be better. There IS some Magik in there, I swear.”
ROBERTO, gesturing with his fingers: “Very little, but we’ll just have to make do, hmm?”
Scott sighs. Parents Day is tomorrow and this is the last thing he needed right now.
CYCLOPS: “Okay…Darkchylde…since it seems like they want you here and you’re not giving me a –”
DARKCHYLDE: “Ehhhhh. About that. My name I mean. I already know you’re going to let me stay. You’re not stupid enough to get everyone killed doing otherwise.”
CYCLOPS: “Then what?”
DARKCHYLDE: “That name. DARKCHYLDE. It’s a good name. Rolls off the tongue. But being back here, it feels weird being called that.” She waves her arm, removing most of her demonic appearance, and instead taking on the form of a 21 year-old Illyana, keeping only her horns and tail, dressed in her Bachalo costume. “You may all just address me as Magik. Or Illyana. Whichever.”
While Scott agrees to this, the looks on Storm,Emma, Kitty, and Beto’s faces all appear uncomfortable seeing this monster look even more like their old friend, the latter two struggling to keep smiling.
DARKCHYLDE: “Good! Very good! Now, who wants to introduce me to all the little kiddos I could fry like piglets if I felt like it?”
More nervous stares around the room. Magik is happy as a clam to be here though.
In the cafeteria, the reunited friend group, consisting of 6 X-Men In Training, 1 X-Man, and 1 Bling!, who is presently writing an apology letter to Pixie for her behavior as one of the Hellions, per her request.
Everyone who isn’t busy writing a specifically dictated 5,000 words about the importance of friendship is talking about Parents' Day.
Brian is excited because Emma paid for his parents’ flight from Puerto Rico; because of everything that went down with Nova and Dark Phoenix, he missed getting to see them for Winter Break, and he can’t wait to see them now.
NORI: “Your rents are actually cool?”
BRIAN: “Well, they’re kinda dorky, but yeah, they’re solid.”
Laura meanwhile just got back from a mission with Logan, so he doesn’t see the point in coming.
LAURA: “I don’t care either way.”
SOFIA, knowing she’s just trying to act tough: “Of course, you don’t.”
Sooraya is also excited but in her more subdued style. Storm is taking her to visit her mom in Afghanistan.
LAURA: “People here seem to view the Middle East negatively. I’m not sure I get it. I killed in worse places.”
As they’re so often forced to do, no one touches that one.
Cess is pretty sure the only way her parents would show up would be to tell her she was officially disowned, buuuut she hardly cares! The Washingtons are coming, they already liked her when they met at her audition, and now she’s going to show them she is perfect for their daughter, both for general approval, and to help get a part in the music video.
Sofia, who’s sitting on the opposite side of the table from Julian, knows her so-called “father” won’t be coming either, but his, now former, assistant, Derek, is coming to see her. When she lived with her father, he was the only one who looked after her.
SOFIA: “What about you two? Do you have anyone coming?”
Noriko and Julian both shift awkwardly. Like Nori’s said before, her parents kicked her out for being a Mutant. They sure as well wouldn’t fly across the world to pick up their Mutant daughter at her Mutant school. Julian, meanwhile, insists he doesn’t care that his parents don’t care enough to visit. They haven’t cut him off like what happened to Ashida, so it’s all good.
SOORAYA: “There are more important things in life than money, Julian.”
The Cuckoos enter the cafeteria together.
NORIKO, snorting: “Imagine telling them that.”
The Cuckoos are met with boos and curses, everyone hating them for having blackmailed them.
Noriko dons a mischievous smirk, as she chucks her pudding cup at Sophie’s hair. It’s a direct hit. As the Cuckoos are aghast, others in the cafeteria start throwing food at them while laughing. Screaming and humiliated, the Cuckoos retreat out of the cafeteria.
SOFIA: “That was more enjoyable than it should have been.”
SOORAYA: “Cruelty should not be met with cruelty…but that was funny.”
JULIAN: “God, what do you think THEIR parents are like?”
BRIAN: “Girls as creepy and emotionless as them? Maybe they were grown in vats or something.”
As the friend group laughs, we cut to the Cuckoos taking a walk of shame to the bathroom, listening to their thoughts and hearing their laughter. They’re completely humiliated and distraught.
IRMA: “Maybe we could–”
ESME: “No. Whatever it is, no.”
As the Cuckoos get cleaned up in the bathroom, Emma enters.
They say that if this is about their punishment, she doesn't need to worry about them tormenting the telepathy they've been assigned to torment; they'll be gentle.
SOPHIE: "Although, really, the treatment we've been receiving should be punishment enough."
Emma tells them to look at this as a learning experience. Since they got here, they've done nothing but cause trouble. Particularly for HER kids. She sees as much potential in these girls as she does any of them, and she knows children don't act out for no reason.
Emma: "You already mentioned your parents wouldn't be coming tomorrow, and Cyclops and Kitty can oversee the mob of middle-class humans who are about to visit. I'd like to take you all out for a day of fun and learn all about you."
CELESTE: "Thank you for the offer, Ms. Frost, but we really –"
Emma: "I wasn't asking."
The sour Cuckoos cross their arms in annoyance.
In her new room in the school, Magik is zapping everything from her bed to the air conditioner with magic to make it all appear more demonically regal.
There's a knock on the door. Illyana tells Kitty to come in and check out how much cooler she made her room. They should let her redecorate the whole school.
"That won't be happening."
Rather than Kitty, Scott enters.
Scott: "But I do like that you're making yourself at home."
Magik scowls at Cyclops. Given how he reacted to her arrival, she doubts that. Scott apologizes for earlier. She can't really blame him for being wary given…everything about who she is and what she's done since she was born. Still, if she's going to be staying in his school, he thinks they should try and get along, or, at the very least, develop a sense of trust between them, maybe set some ground rules. How does that sound?
Magik responds by sucker-punching Scott in the gut, causing him to keel over. She whispers in his ear.
MAGIK: "First, do not talk to me like a child. Second, you don’t smell right. Third, Kitty and Beto do not trust you. So I do not trust you.
CYCLOPS: "Things between me and them are just a big–"
Magik kicks him into a stepping disc, with Scott reappearing in the hallway.
MAGIK: "Stay out of my way, Mutant."
She magically shuts the door. Scott struggles to stand up.
CYCLOPS: “Smell right…”
The next day, Parents Day begins! Dozens of human, and even a couple of Mutant, parents have arrived to see how their kids have been doing, speak with their teachers, and make sure no giant robots have tried to kill them in the last few weeks.
Roxy runs up to her parents, who are just a little over-dressed and getting recognized by many of the other parents and students and gets a big hug from her Daddy, ecstatic to see his “Little superstar” even though they had seen each other recently. Cessily eagerly shakes Roxy’s mom’s hand, but her anxiety does make her a little jiggly. Roy and Angel just laugh at this; it reminds them of how Roxy used to shed diamond shards when she was younger.
ROXY, embarrassed: “Guuuuuys.”
Brian runs up to and hugs his completely average-seeming parents, while Sofia greets Derek with excitement, the two performing the same over-the-top handshake they did when he dropped her off here.
Other kids are briefly seen with their parents, while Sunspot and a still-hanging-around Cannonball are met by Sam’s mom, his younger sister, Husk, and two of their younger siblings, one of whom has massive red, feathery wings.
ROBERTO: “Another two Mutants, Lucinda? What is going on in there?”
SAM: “Please don’t call my ma by her first name.”
Indoors, while all of this is going on, Noriko and Julian are inside, playing video games in the common area.
NORIKO: “This kinda thing seem less exciting to you after seeing real life or death combat?”
JULIAN: “Nope.”
NORIKO: “Me either.”
In whatever game they’re playing, Noriko wins.
NORIKO: “Ha! Suck it, Keller! Just like in real life.”
JULIAN: “In real life? I was gonna smash you into the ground before Karma got involved.”
NORIKO: “Please, I was two seconds away from frying you like a bug zapper.”
JULIAN: “Well maybe we should have a little rematch then.”
NORIKO: “Maybe we should.”
“Eh, hem.”
The two turn their attention to Kitty, quickly explaining that they weren’t being serious to Ms. Pryde. She knows them, always goofing, right?
KITTY: “Right.”
Karma enters and tells Kitty everything seems clean. Julian’s eyes immediately land on Xuan’s new leg. While he’s distracted, Noriko asks Kitty what’s going on.
KITTY, smiling: “Well, I know this may come as a shock, but for once, I can actually give some good news to one of you kids. It’s your family, Noriko…”
Noriko’s eyes widen as she drops her controller.
KITTY: “They’re here to see you.”
Emma and the Cuckoos arrive at a spa. Emma explains to the girls that it’s one of the most exclusive in New York, but before she can list off its amenities, the Cuckoos act insulted that Emma thinks they haven’t been here.
After being greeted by a staff member, the six are led toward their first of a full day of treatments. Emma says that while they’re paid for their silence, there’s no reason to bother the help with whatever drama they end up discussing today.
EMMA, telepathically: “Let’s stick to communicating as Mutants, yes? Now, where would you like to start?”
CELESTE: “There’s nothing to “start”.”
PHOEBE: “We’re just fine.”
SOPHIE: “You know everything you need to know about us.”
IRMA: “We’re an open book.”
Esme rolls her eyes.
EMMA: “I see. So how are you taking your break-up with Hellion then?”
The Cuckoos eyes glow as they attempt a psychic assault on Emma, instantly angered by her bringing that up, but Emma gives them the telepathic equivalent of a smack on the head with a newspaper roll. The Cuckoons groan, rubbing their heads.
STAFF MEMBER: “Ms. Cuckoos are you not feeling well?”
EMMA, vocally: “Oh they’re fine, darling. It’s just the pressures of school. You know how demanding I can be.”
The ladies take their seats.
EMMA, telepathically: “Let’s try that again, please.”
In his office, Cyclops is on the phone with someone.
CYCLOPS: “Yes. Yes, I know it’s going to be hard, but we need to give her, and this whole situation, some time. Okay? Thank you. Take care, Pitor.”
Scott hangs up and rubs his temples as there’s a knock on the door. Scott tells them to come in, with Laura doing as instructed.
LAURA: “You wanted to see me?”
Scott confirms and asks her to sit. He knows the arrival of Magik yesterday came as a surprise to her, and everyone else, but they still need to take immediate action.
LAURA: “You need me to kill her?”
CYCLOPS: “I…what…no. Laura, I will never ask you to kill anyone. I’m not even sure Magik CAN be killed.”
Scott explains that, right now, they’re all alive because Magik cares about Kitty and the others. But if they want to ensure their continued survival, they need to expand that circle of compassion and, ideally, guide her down a better path.
LAURA: “You’re asking ME...to connect with someone.”
CYCLOPS: “You were both created to be weapons of death and experienced abuse I can’t even imagine. I figure you have a lot to talk about.”
Laura gets nervous and fidgets in her seat.
LAURA: “You should just ask Iceman.”
CYCLOPS: “I wasn’t “asking” you. I know you’re the one for this job. You forged a new path for yourself, and you can help her do the same. Don’t let me down.”
Laura is about to argue, but she stops herself.
LAURA: “Yes, sir.”
Outside the school with all the other students and parents, Noriko waits nervously for her family, alongside Julian. Nori is tapping her foot at super speed, but Julian holds it down for her with his TK.
JULIAN: “Nothing to do with you, but if they start spewing any crap, I’ll trash them.”
NORI: “Touch my family and you’re the one getting trashed.”
JULIAN: “Pfft. Just trying to help.”
NORI: “And why are you even here? I swear, it’s like you–”
“NORIKO!”
Nori’s face lights up as she hears the voice of her little brother, Keitaro, who’s several years younger than her. She rushes over to him and bends down to give him a big hug. As the two hold each other, Keitaro grins, while Noriko is on the verge of tearing up. The two speak in Japanese. No subtitles.
“I trust you wouldn’t be near him if you didn’t have better control of your powers, yes?”
Nori sighs as she lets go and stands up to meet her parents, Seiji and Suki.
Noriko struggles to keep up her smile as she greets them.
NORIKO, in Japanese: “Mother...Father…it’s nice to see you. How are you?”
SUKI, in Japanese: “We are well, thank you. It is good to see you too, Nori-chan.”
SUKI, in English: “You’ve grown so much. Is it true? You have control over your…condition?”
Suki appears soft, warm, and open-armed, while, as she speaks, Seiji, stands tall and emotionless.
NORIKO: “My Mutation. And yes. These gauntlets keep all the electricity inside me unless I want to let it out…usually.” While Suki is clearly just as happy as her son to see Noriko, Nori’s attention turns to who she knows is the problem here. “What are you doing here?”
SEIJI, stiff as can be: “Have your years away from us made you forget your manners? Are you not going to introduce us to your boyfriend?”
Before Nori can flip over her dad’s assumption, Julian calmly and politely introduces himself.
SEIJI: “Those hands. Are they a result of your *condition*?”
JULIAN: “Not at all. I lose my real ones fighting to protect everyone here.” He gestures with his head. “Noriko was right there with me.”
Suki begins panicking over the idea of Noriko getting into a big fight, but Seiji silences her with a raised hand.
SEIJI: “That sounds very noble of you both.” He turns back to Noriko. “I am not here by my own choice. I am here because you broke your mother and brother’s hearts when you left, and they have convinced me that, perhaps, I shouldn’t have given you that option.”
Julian’s polite veneer drops as he questions what Seiji is talking about. He kicked her out of his home and disowned her for being a Mutant.
NORIKO, clenching her eyes shut, as well as her hands, in embarrassment: “Oh god, no.”
SEIJI: “Is that what you told him? Is that the sob story you told everyone here?” He looks back at Julian. “Despite our disagreement on whether Noriko was sick or a supposed “Mutant”, she was a clear danger to herself and those around her. That was undeniable. We wished to take good care of her. She was our daughter. We told her we would stand by her and help her until a cure could be found. She decided running away to live on the streets in America for two years was preferable.”
Noriko hangs her head in shame, but the rage on Julian's face is clearly directed at her father, not her.
SEIJI: "In spite of all of that…I have decided to give you a second chance." Nori looks up at her dad with deer eyes. "It's time for you to come home."
In the spa, Emma and the Cuckoos are relaxing in the sauna, which gives a clear view the Hudson. With the teens continuing to ignore her as she attempts more casual approaches, asking them about their family and their interests, to no response, she returns to a more confrontational strategy.
EMMA, telepathically: “Since your arrival at the Institute, your performances have been exceptional. In both test scores and practical application of your gifts, you’re near the top of your class.”
CUCKOOS, finally responding to something: “”Near””?
EMMA: “Finally a peep out of you. Lovely. And yes, you have competition. Be grateful. It’s good for you. To my point, it’s why your behavior confuses me. You’ve brainwashed and manipulated those who I would have expected you to make allies, if not friends, of, and tormented your class like children with a magnifying glass and an ant-farm, as opposed to attempting to lead them. I’d like some insight, not for me, but so I can help you.”
SOPHIE: “That’s rich coming from you. You don’t let anyone in. Why should we?”
EMMA: “Because, while it may come as a shock…” Emma momentarily goes into her diamond form. “This diamond is flawed.”
The Cuckoos turn to each other to mentally consult each other in private.
ESME: “So that’s why everyone hates you then?”
IRMA: “We thought it was a little much to simply be jealousy.”
Emma shakes her head and softly laughs. They’re usually so polite with her, and yet, with the slightest push, they resort to petty insults. They didn’t even try to be clever with their psychic attack earlier.
EMMA: “Perhaps I overestimated you.”
SOPHIE: “We were just thinking the same thing.”
The Cuckoos toss the towels wrapped around their heads off and march out of the sauna.
EMMA: “Do not runaway and isolate yourselves. Do not be like me.”
CELESTE: “We are NOTHING like you.”
Emma sighs as she’s left alone.
At the school, Magik has conjured a demonic rotary phone to communicate with Limbo with.
DARKCHYLDE: “Yes. Yes, mmhm. Good. Do that. And make sure all the statues of me depict me as buff! Your queen shall be getting into shape. Yes, I do have god-like strength already, but I want it to SHOW, and I want it to show NATURALLY!” She slams the phone. “Idiot. Totally killing him later.”
There’s a knock on the door. Illyana transforms her phone into a sword and shouts that if that’s Cyclops, his head will roll.
LAURA, entering: “Not quite.”
MAGIK: “Oh! Logan! Hi! You know, I meant to congratulate you earlier. I never had you pegged as a woman.”
LAURA: “I…what…no. I’m not Logan. My name is Laura.”
MAGIK: “And I support you completely, Laura.” Magik hops through a stepping disc to appear behind Laura. “So what’s up?”
Laura turns around and tells her that she just got here, but with Dani, Kitty, and Karma all occupied by Parents Day, along with all of Laura’s friends, she thought she may as well come by.
LAURA: “You have enough power to destroy the world. That’s cool.”
MAGIK: “RIght? Finally, someone who appreciates what I can do!”
LAURA: “How long do you believe it would take you? Estimated?”
MAGIK: “Hmm. No fun and games? Maybe six hours?”
LAURA: “Six hours…damn. I could only cover a city in that time.”
Magik grins from ear to ear and pokes Laura’s chest.
MAGIK: “I like this new look on you, Wolverine. Were you always so much fun?”
LAURA: “I still have no idea what you’re talking about.”
Magik opens up a stepping disc underneath them both.
MAGIK: “If we’re going to hang, we can’t stick to this stuffy old place. I know JUST where girls like us can have a good time.”
LAURA: “We’re not killing anyone NOW.”
MAGIK: “Daaah, spoil sport. Fine, I know another place.”
The two disappear in the portal.
In a classroom, Noriko, accompanied by Danielle and Kitty, are sat down with Seiji, as he explains what he'd like to happen here.
Seiji first thanks Ms. Pryde and Ms. Moonstar for getting his daughter off the street and taking care of her, but now she will be returning to her real home; her real family.
Noriko squirms at that, with Dani gently taking her hand to comfort her.
Seiji continues to say that, since Noriko's gauntlets really do seem to work, he will not force her to take a cure, and simply allow their inventor to come and perform maintenance on them on an agreed upon schedule. From there, she will remain under his supervision until she completes her studies and turns 18.
KITTY, suspicious: "Sounds very nice."
SEIJI: "Is that a tone?"
KITTY: "Yeah, it's the one I use when speaking to people who think Mutants need to be "cured". As if that attitude hasn't gotten enough people killed already."
DANI: "What my friend means to ask is if there are any other conditions on this deal?"
Seiko rolls his eyes. She should have just said that.
He reveals that there IS one condition to all of this: Noriko will have nothing to do with the X-Men. Apart from Dr. McCoy's maintenance checks, she will abandon all contact with the Institute's teachers and students. The association could be poisonous to her future.
While Kitty looks ready to kill a man, Dani insists that that isn’t fair to Noriko. She’s made friends here who mean the world to her. To say nothing of how much they mean to each other. Seiji responds by saying that, if they really cared about her, they wouldn’t drag her down with them.
Kitty launches up to her feet, about to put Seiji through a wall, without phasing him, but Noriko gets between them.
NORIKO: “Wait…please stop…”
As we cut to outside the classroom, we see that Julian is eavesdropping,
NORIKO, off camera: “I need to think about this.”
Julian is incensed as he stomps off.
JULIAN: “Damn traitor.”
As Julian walks down the halls, he notices a reunion between a mother and daughter.
“MUMMY!”
Going in and out of her wolf form, Wolfsbane rushes into the arms of an older, brown-haired woman, who holds her tight.
Julian is unsure what he’s looking at, but he receives an immediate explanation.
XUAN: “Wolfsbane and her mother, Dr. Moira McTaggert.” Julian turns around to see his teacher. “You were wondering who they were right?” Julian nods. “Wolfsbane, Rahne, is one of the old New Mutants. And Dr. McTaggert is actually an old colleague of Professor Xavier’s. One of the few baselines we’ve always been able to count on.”
Julian bristles. As if Flatscans are good for anything.
Xuan asks him if he’s okay. She heard he was doing better. Julian sighs. He doesn’t want to talk about it. But he does want to talk about something else with Karma, specifically.
JULIAN: “I don’t know what happened, but you lost your leg on your last mission. When I lost my hands, well, you know what happened. So how are you so calm? What’s your secret?”
Xuan is amused.
XUAN: “Julian…I’ve died.”
Julian blinks as his mouth hangs open. He struggles to find the words. Ultimately, he settles on..
JULIAN: “Huh?”
Xuan giggles.
XUAN: “Yeah. I got killed once by a cosmic being beyond imagination. So did Wolfsbane, and the rest of the old New Mutants besides Dani and Sunspot. Jean was dead for almost the entire time I was a student here. You see that new blonde woman in all black walking around the school? That’s Magik, who’s died twice. Just kidding, that’s a demon wearing her face that has all her memories who we had to stop from destroying the world yesterday.”
Julian stumbles over his own words. He has no idea how to respond to this.
XUAN: “You asked if I have a secret. The fact is, our lives are really, really weird. You’ll get used to that if you stay on the X-men track. A lot of the time, our lives are also hard and painful, and we just want to cry and give up. But we have two things going for us: each other, and one Hell of a talent for refusing to stay dead.” Xuan’s smile becomes softer. “Yeah, losing my leg…it was awful. But I’ve been through worse. Learn and grow from the pain, so you can protect others from it.”
Julian is in complete awe.
JULIAN: “Never knew the New Mutants we so cool.”
XUAN: “You know we used to kick your precious Ms. Frost’s butt all the time, right?”
The two share a laugh, and Julian thanks her.
Magik and Laura emerge from Illyana’s portal on a space station. From the logos and architecture, Laura instantly recognizes this as one of SWORD’s space stations, with SWORD serving as a counterpart to SHIELD, dealing with extraterrestrial threats.
LAURA: “Their director hired me a few times. She’s the only client who ever scared me.”
MAGIK: “Lame. Anyway, you’re probably wondering what we’re doing here.”
LAURA: “Not really.”
MAGIK: “Well, since you asked, I actually do care about people besides those at the school. It’s just that Cypher and Warlock are dead, and I don’t care ENOUGH about Magma to force her to come live with us. But there is one other dear friend of the old Illyana Rasputin who I need to bring home. You down to help me maim some dudes on the way?”
LAURA: “We can’t. The X-Men work with SHEILD now.”
Magik groans. She then waves her arm and makes them look like Sabretooth and Mystique, respectively.
MAGIK: “There! All better! You guys really ought to start realizing that with me, problems are not problems. Now, let’s go!”
Magik runs off. However, she quickly realizes Laura isn’t following behind.
MAGIK, annoyed: “What is it now?”
Laura tells her that she’s an X-Man. She may still enjoy fighting, but she’s meant to protect innocent people, not hurt them. Magik thinks it’s cute she thinks anyone is innocent. Laura insists though that she’s happier and more fulfilled now than she ever was when she was an assassin. Now, she has a home and she has friends. Wouldn’t Magik be happier if her friends weren’t all terrified of her? Maybe she could have a similar experience if she gave it a try.
Magik frowns.
MAGIK: “I’m starting to think you’re not actually Logan.”
LAURA: “No kidding.”
MAGIK: “Blech. I don’t like liars.” Magik punches her hand through a wall, setting off the alarms. “Have fun!” Magik leaves Laura behind as she heads off on her search, while soldiers begin to rush toward Laura’s location.
In his office, Cyclops is now speaking with Seiji and Suki while, outside on the main law, Keitaro is playing with the Mutant children, Artie and Leech. Leaning against a wall, Surge is momentarily at peace watching them play together.
"Ashida!"
Noriko groans as Julian flies up to her, telling her he overheard what she said earlier. She's seriously abandoning everyone???
Noriko rolls her eyes. Of course this guy was listening. She tells him that, not that his opinion matters, but she's THINKING about it.
Julian can't believe her. For as much of a loser as she is, she was still one of the last people he'd ever expected to turn on them.
Noriko insists that's not what she's doing, but Julian presses.
JULIAN: "You've always acted like you're so much better than me. You fought right alongside me for everyone here. But the first chance you get, you're out? Leaving us a powerhouse down so you can go live a fun, flatscan-approved life? You're pathetic."
Noriko lights up in a rage and shoves Julian to the ground. How dare he! She doesn't care about the good of Mutants any less than ever, but she's a kid, and right now, she has to think about herself.
Noriko vents that, back in Tokyo, she had a life. She had great parents and an amazing little brother. She had prospects. She had friends who didn't always treat her like the butt of the joke except for when she was useful. But she has to be useful now!
NORIKO: "When I came here, I thought anyone who wanted to be an X-Man was crazy. But it didn't take long for me to realize…that's all there is. That's all there will ever be for us. Fighting or hiding. Because if good people like my parents can't stand us, what chance do we have of ever changing the real monsters? I just want a way out."
Noriko is tripped over by Julian's TK as he floats up. He tells her that anyone who thinks like her parents isn't a "good person" and she needs to stop thinking like that. Noriko, from the ground, spits back that that's big talk from the guy who's still taking money from his humiliated parents.
Julian ignores that dig and focuses on the other thing Noriko said. She's thinking about leaving in part because of THEM? Because they joke around with her? Please. Yeah, they joke around with her. That's how they show they care. It's not like Noriko doesn't make it easy for them acting angry and dumb all the time. He's surprised her old friends treated her any differently.
And that sets Nori off more than before, as her eyes are consumed by electricity, and electric energy blasts into the sky uncontrollably, getting everyone's attention.
NORIKO, crying static: "Do you think I was always like this?! Do you think I was "the rebel" back home?! No! I was happy! I did what I was told! I followed the rules! I acted how I was supposed to! And I loved it! But one little gene took that all away from me." Julian's eyes soften as Noriko stands and sucks back in most of the energy. "You know why I've always hated you, Keller? Besides being a tool who didn't care if I was living on the street? It's the same reason my parents assumed we were dating. You are exactly the future they wanted me to have."
JULIAN: "Ashida, I–"
NORIKO: "I don't want to be that girl anymore. I don't want that life. But I still want to live."
Nori sniffles. She thinks she just made up her mind.
She starts walking away, but, still slightly charged up, things are moving in slow-motion for her. Which is why her eyes widen as a gunshot rings, and she notices a bullet heading straight for Keitaro's head. She rushes forward, desperate to be fast enough, and catches the bullet in her hand.
As time returns to normal, everyone panics and starts shuffling around the lawn in a frenzy. Noriko and Julian look to each other with eyes of acknowledgement, with no hint of the animosity from moments ago.
Up on a far away skyscraper, we see the Leper Queen, grinning as she reloads her sniper rifle.
LEPER QUEEN: "Surprise."
At the spa, the Cuckoos receive mani-pedis and foot scrubs. Sophie complains about Emma sticking her nose where it doesn’t belong. She’s meant to teach them how to be stronger telepaths, not get involved in their personal lives. Irma mumbles something quietly about how they could use the help, but Phoebe just shouts at her not to disagree with them; it’s an ugly look on a Cuckoo. Esme laughs to herself.
Celeste, to the others’ surprise, actually agrees with Irma though. What they’ve been doing hasn’t been working, and if they don’t do something quickly, they’re gonna be stuck at the bottom of the social ladder through all of high school.
SOPHIE: “We do not need a teacher to help us with that.”
IRMA: “And why should we believe that? Your plans have sucked!”
ESME, PHOEBE, AND CELESTE, as Sophie is aghast: “Oooooh.”
SOPHIE: “Take that back.”
IRMA: “Why should I? You’ll make fun of me if I don’t? Not like I don’t get that all the time already. How did you think brainwashing the girl we wanted to be friends with and tormenting her girlfriend would work out for us?”
CELESTE: “You also forgot with your big, “take over the school” plan that if anyone told Emma, she could just erase everything we could have leaked.”
ESME, with a wry smile: “To say nothing of how you allowed Hellion to competly humiliate us.” Her smirk turns more malicious. “You didn’t actually like him, did you?”
PHOEBE, as Sophie cringes: “All of you stop!”
The other three Cuckoos all laugh, until Sophie sends a psychic shockwave through their heads, shutting them all. They think it’s so easy being head Cuckoo? She’d LOVE to see any of them last a day in her shoes, wrangling four less pretty, less smart copies of themselves.
Esme snipes that just because they all naturally followed Sophie when they woke up back home doesn’t mean she’s the original, or even that they’re clones.
Sophie shouts at them all to shut up. Maybe they could try being nicer, maybe they could try asking the X-Men for help figuring out where they come from, but that’s not their style. If there’s one thing they knew for sure when they woke up, it was what being a Stepford Cuckoo meant. It meant perfection. Changing how they are now would only make things worse.
Phoebe continues to agree with the hive queen and takes her hand, with Celeste in agreement now as well. Esme rolls her eyes.
Irma sulks.
IRMA: “I don’t know how things could get worse…but changing who we are couldn’t be harder than the first time.”
For a single moment of silence, the five sullen Cuckoos exchange glances. And the audience sees that the Cuckoos’ appearance they’ve seen all season is not what they really look like. Underneath the constant illusion they put up, their appearance more closely resembles five brown-haired, plain-faced, scrawny young men.
As the show returns to showing the Cuckoos in their “true”, preferred forms, Sophie sighs. They should be able to do everything on their own, but maybe, if given no other options, asking for help is more dignified than being clueless losers.
Maybe they can figure out a compromise.
On the SWORD base, Laura, with the appearance of Sabretooth, scrambles to find Magik. Before she can, she’s intercepted by a squad of SWORD security personnel. Laura tells them she doesn’t want to hurt them, but with the look she’s sporting…
LAURA: “Yeah…I wouldn’t buy it either.”
Laura walks through the SWORD agents, only taking any hits because she’s going out of her way to do this painlessly. As she knocks out the last of them, she remarks that she’d have thought Brand would have trained them better.
LAURA: “Wouldn’t have gone so easy on her.”
Laura is eventually able to catch up to Magik, who’s struggling to guess the code to the secure prison area. Magik is annoyed and in a bad mood because whoever’s in charge of this dump apparently has sorcerers to safeguard this area.
LAURA: “Please tell me you haven’t killed anyone.”
MAGIK: “I mean I could. I’d be lying, but I could.”
Laura is incensed. Does she really feel nothing at all?
MAGIK: “Honestly? A little bit of indigestion. But I don’t think that’s related.”
Magik needs her, Cyclops, and all the others to get this through their heads: she is still evil, she is going to do whatever she wants, and they are all just very, very lucky that killing everyone is no longer on that list.
Laura steps toward, her with Magik raising her sword and telling her not one more step. Laura calls her bluff and takes that step.
LAURA: “And why is that?”
MAGIK: “Duh! My friends!”
LAURA: “Mhmm. And do you think your friends are happy with this arrangement?”
MAGIK: “Uh, yeah! Of course, they are! They all love me!”
Laura shakes her head. They love who she used to be. They COULD love this new her, but right now, they're just scared of her. She tells Magik how she gets it. Being born to do evil. Not meant to be their own person. Killing coming as naturally as breathing.
But she knew she didn't want that life. Took her a long time to realize she could live beyond what her creators meant for her, but she did. If she hadn't, she definitely wouldn't have the friends she does now.
But Magik doesn't have 14 years. If she drives her friends away now, that's it. Up to her if acting like this means more to her.
Magik wiggles and makes strange noises, before sighing.
MAGIK: "I know you're playing me. I know Scotty probably put you up to this. But you're right."
Laura breathes a sigh of relief as Magik agrees to limit the death and destruction she causes. If it's really that big a deal to Kitty and the others, she'll keep it to when it's necessary.
MAGIK: "I don't want that to be a rarity though…"
Laura tells her they'll figure something out, and, as a show of good faith, opens up the prison. She used to see it open up when she was a kid, and while the password was changed daily, she picked up on the subconscious pattern Brand was using.
Magik thanks "Not Logan" for the help and for the tip. Maybe they can be friends too.
LAURA: "We'll see how things…huh."
Laura trails off as she sets her eyes on the prisoner they were here for, taken off guard. The prisoner chirps and breathes smoke in their faces.
Magik laughs. Isn't he the cutest little guy?
Back at the school, Keitaro hugs Noriko’s leg and questions what’s going on, as everyone panics around them. Kitty, Dani, Xuan, Nightcrawler, and Beast try to keep everyone calm and peacefully escort them into the school for their safety, but when that doesn’t work, Kitty starts phasing people, Dani scares them into the school with manifestations of their fears, Xuan takes people over, Nightcrawler teleports them inside, and Beast just starts grabbing people, apologizing for having to be so handsy. Iceman starts creating a shield around the school, while Dazzler gets onto the roof so when she senses the sound of the next gunshot, she’ll be in position to shoot the bullet down.
Julian notices Northstar and Cannonball flying off into the city to look for the shooter and shouts at Noriko that they need to go too. None of their trained telepaths are present right now, meaning Mr. Beaubier “and the Avenger” are flying blind, and they’re the only other ones here with super speed. Right now, he doesn’t care if she’s the old Ashida or the new Ashida, right now, he needs Surge to help him cover ground.
Nori stutters, afraid and unsure of what she should do as her brother whimpers. As she composes herself, she runs Keitaro into the school, before running back over to Julian. What happens to everyone here isn’t her responsibility, but no one gets away with trying to kill her brother.
Hellion will take it.
The two race away from the Institute, splitting up and going the opposite directions as the two more experienced heroes. While Julian can simply fly over the city, Noriko pushes herself to run up skyscraper after skyscraper in search of the shooter.
As the two young heroes in training pause to breathe, both sweating profusely, another gunshot is fired. This time, Noriko is close enough to realize where the shooter is located and runs toward them.
Noriko races up the skyscraper Leper Queen is situated on, but…
NORI: “AHHHHH!”
Noriko screams, her leg stuck in a bear trap. Leper Queen spins around and pulls a sidearm on her. There are bear traps littered all over the roof. She knew the X-Men had speedsters and was prepared. She wasn’t expecting a child, however.
LEPER QUEEN: “Poor thing. Not your fault you’re sick.” Noriko’s eyes widen as she hears this again, but not for long, as she’s in too much pain to keep them open. “Don’t worry. I’m making sure none of you Mutants, or your families, are ever able to infect anyone again.”
Nori tries to snark back at the racist murderer, but she can’t. In all her previous real fights, she’d avoided taking any real hits. Now, she’s experiencing the same type of pain most of her friends already have.
As tears stream down Noriko’s face, Leper Queen puts a gun to her head.
LEPER QUEEN: “Don’t worry. It’s okay to cry. It’ll be over soon. For you, and everyone like you.”
As she pants, Noriko is finally able to get some words out.
NORIKO: “Who…who the Hell are you?”
LEPER QUEEN: “Just a concerned citizen. One who won’t let what happened to her child happen to anyone else.”
Noriko continues to panic but does manage to start generating some electricity as Leper Queen prepares to shoot. Before she can…
“GET THE HELL AWAY FROM HER!”
Hellion arrives on the scene and flings Leper Queen over to the next rooftop. Before she can stand, he manipulates all of the unused bear traps and throws them at her. A few hit her, but they aren’t able to put her down, and she dodges the rest.
Putting up a shield around them, Hellion checks on Surge, telling her to breathe, and that he’s going to get this thing off of her. Surge tells him not to, speaking super fast, since she isn’t sure how bad the bleeding will be.
Jullian tells her to not be stupid. Does she not remember the sentinel fight? She saved his damn life by cauterizing his injuries. She just needs to get it together and do that to herself.
As a grenade rolls over to the shield, Hellion jets the two away to a further off roof. He uses his TK to remove the bear trap from Noriko’s legs. She’s in even more pain now, but Julian has an idea.
JULIAN: “Uggh, come on, Ashida! If you’re really this much of a baby, then maybe we don’t need you after all.”
NORIKO, seeing right through him and laughing through the pain: “Everything you pulled after your boo boo and you’re calling me the baby?” Noriko screams as she cauterizes herself. “In your dreams.”
The two grin at each other, but they can’t savor the moment, as Leper Queen hops rooftops to come after them, hunting knives in hand. Julian tells Noriko he’ll handle her, but as he rushes to take her down, Leper Queen uses a gas grenade, the poison in it bringing him right down to his knees. Without any taunts this time, Leper Queen is going to cut his throat.
In the nick of time, however, Surge throws herself at Leper Queen, moving faster than the gas can reach her lungs, and knocks the cold-blooded killer out with a single punch.
Noriko collapses right afterward, but, in case everything else wasn’t enough of a giveaway to the others, she shoots a flare up into the sky.
In her parked limo, Emma is on the phone with Scott, and is being filled in on the day’s events. She’s horrified initially, but calms down as she discovers no one was killed, and the shooter was brought down. Emma grins as she hears who stopped her.
EMMA: “Of course they did.”
As Bumpkin helps the Cuckoos into the car, Emma hangs up, telling Scott they should do drinks tonight.
Emma asks the Cuckoos if they at least enjoyed their day. The Cuckoos look to Sophie, who cringes before speaking. She tells Emma they haven’t been entirely honest with her. And that they need her help. If she’ll have them, they’d like to be more direct students’ of hers. Not because they feel they need more help with their telepathy, but…
SOPHIE: “well…”
ESME: “We have no damn idea how to talk to real people.”
Emma giggles. She’s not who she herself would come to for this, but she’ll do her best. She thanks them for reaching out.
EMMA: “Now…what haven’t you been honest about?”
In the Institute’s medical bay, Kitty is on her way out, as she gives Noriko, who’s in bed, a pat on the head. On her way out, she’s met by Magik, who startles her. Kitty heard she was hanging out with Laura today.
KITTY: “How’d that go?”
Magik, twirling her finger in her hair as she twirls around her tail, as she explains that Laura told her Kitty and the others have been scared of her, and, yeah, she gets it. She’s awesomely terrifying. So, for them, and a little bit for Laura, she’s going to refrain from killing and destruction.
Kitty lights up. She’s so happy to hear that. Maybe being here will help that little bit of human inside her grow. Magik laughs at that. No, no, that is not happening, nor will she let it.
KITTY: “Heh, okay.” PAUSE. “Before we got sucked into Limbo, I was ready to give up. Everything just seemed so hopeless. But neeind to fight for the world? For you? And actually winning? It gave me hope. You gave me hope. Even if you really never become the Illyana I knew, I’m happy you’re here.”
Magik slightly blushes, before mystically making herself stop. There’s no need for Kitty to be so dramatic. But if she does need any more reasons to live on, she found one for her.
Opening a portal, Magik lets out a small, purple dragon, who flies at Kitty and starts licking her cheek.
KITTY: “LOCKHEED!”
Kitty is overjoyed to see who we learn is her old pet, as well a a dragon who just happens to look like an alien.
KITTY: “Where did you find him?!”
MAGIK, petting Lockheed: “I said I was going to stop killing and destroying things. I didn’t say I had already.”
Kitty decides to not ask any questions, instead taking Lockheed to her new “grown up room”.
MAGIK, pleased with herself: “Just one thing left to do.”
She disappears through a portal.
As Cyclops walks down a nearby hallway, Magik appears in his path. He starts asking her how her day was, only for her to interrupt him and tell him to shut the Hell up; she’s talking. See, she was thinking, and while, after her little adventure with Wolverine, she won’t be killing anymore, she does still have a hankering for violence. Aaaand, she also wants to make sure her friends know she’s on their side.
CYCLOPS: “What are you saying?”
MAGIK: “I’m saying it’s your lucky day Nerd-clops. I’m joining the X-Men.”
Scott stumbles over his words as he tries to keep this from happening, but Magik talks over him. She won’t be following his orders, instead, she’ll be doing whatever she wants, but, in exchange, he gets the most powerful being on the planet “besides maybe the Witch” to fight for his people.
CYCLOPS: “I–”
MAGIK: “Aaaand, remember, if you say no, I can still destroy everything whenever I want.”
Scott, with no choice, relents, and welcomes Magik onto the team, Magik reaches out a hand but pulls it away as Scott moves to shake it.
MAGIK: “Ha ha! Too slow!” She goes full demon form for a moment. “Hasn’t this gone exactly as you’d hoped?”
As Magik laughs manically, the two stare each other down.
Back in the medical bay, Nori and Julian are still resting up, when Dani enters. Julian is happier than usual to see his less-preferred mentor, now holding a greater respect for the New Mutants, while Noriko just wants to know where her parents are. She knows they’re all okay, thank god, but she has some things she needs to talk to them about.
Dani hangs her head.
NORIKO: “W…what’s wrong?”
DANIELLE: “I’m so sorry, Noriko. They’re gone.”
As Noriko’s heart breaks, Dani explains that Seiji decided that while Noriko herself may not be a threat to anyone anymore if today was an example of a common occurrence, then he can’t have Noriko around his family no matter what; it’s simply too dangerous. Suki and Keitaro wanted to say goodbye, but Seiji decided it would be too painful for any of them to do so, so they left while Noriko was still unconscious.
As Noriko’s face melts, tears and snot consuming it as it puffs up, Dani tries to offer her words of comfort and a hug, but Noriko tells her to just go away. Please. Dani respects her wish, and exists, reminding her that she and Kitty, and, yes, Emma, are always here if she changes her mind.
Noriko cries and sobs and screams.
JULIAN: “Thanks by the way.” Noriko turns her head to him, with no idea what he’s saying. “For saving me? After the sentinel fight? Realized earlier I never actually said that.”
NORI, through her bawling: “Whatever.”
Julian’s face squirms and wrinkles as he realizes what he has to do here.
JULIAN: “I’ve been lying.” Nori doesn’t bother to look at him. “My parents cut me off months ago. They’re done with me.”
Noriko asks what he’s talking about. He’s clearly still had money. Julian bites his lip in humiliation, and explains, like so much else, it happened after the sentinel fight. His parents caught wind of what had happened, and decided their Mutant son making headlines was a step too far. They said they still love him, but he doesn’t give a crap. Far as he’s concerned, he has no parents.
Julian has been since the start of the season. He didn’t want anyone to know, however, and since he already had so much else to worry about, Ms. Frost gave him money to last through the semester so he didn’t have to tell anyone.
NORIKO: “That’s ridiculous…but I get it. You, not your rents. It’s a douchey way to define yourself, but that was important for you.” Pause. “There aren’t actually any good people like them out there, are there? No matter how fair they seem, or how concerned they sound…they’re all the same. If they weren’t our parents, they’d be defending people like that…did we get her name?”
JULIAN: “Calls herself, “Leper Queen”, apparently.”
NORIKO: “Whatever. Her. They’d defend her. Damn Flatscans.”
JULIAN: “Freaking Flatscans, right?!”
Julian laughs, and actually gets Noriko to laugh through her pain.
Noriko says that she isn’t going anywhere. Not ever. Not as long as everyone she can trust is here. And not so long as people like Leper Queen are out there. Julian agrees.Everyone in the crew does care about her, even if it doesn’t always come off that way. And he’s glad the less lame, Mutant Surge is sticking around and not going back to trying to be whoever she used to be. For all the, justified, crap, he gives her, they keep on making a good team.
NORI: “Yeah…I guess we do.”
There’s another pause, as Noriko wipes her faces and stops crying.
JULIAN: “So were you like some Japansese schoolgirl stereotype or something? All cutesy and demure?”
NORI, amused: “Oh, shut the Hell up.”
JULIAN: “Come on! And your parents wanted you with a guy like me? At least they have some good taste.”
NORI: “I will come over there and murder you, Julian.”
JULIAN: “Go ahead and try, Noriko.”
The two can’t help but smile at each other. They reach their arms toward one another. The fingers of the metal-handed orphans entagle around one another. A spark lights up in their eyes, and a magnetism draws them closer to each other, both levitating out of bed and meeting in the middle.
As they look into each other’s eyes, the two lean in, and their lips touch.
The two proceed to jump away from each other, cough, and pretend to vomit.
NORI: “Ew! Ew! Ew! What is wrong with you?!”
JULIAN: “Me?! I was following your disugsting lead!”
NORI: “Never do that again, shit!”
JULIAN: “Right back at you!”
The two exchange smirks. At long last, the animosity is gone.
In a normal, non-SHEILD, prison, Leper Queen is being held. We see that, underneath her mask, her face is horribly burnt. She scratches at the walls of her cells with her nails.
Intercut with flashbacks to a time when Leper Queen was younger, happier, and not disfigured, she narrates about how it’s not fair. Her target wasn’t there today. She was forced to just do what she could.
We see Leper Queen had an adorable two year-old daughter. One who could make flames.
Leper Queen narrates that they will all die eventually, but she must die above all others.
In a hospital, Leper Queen, with a bandaged face, holds her daughter tightly, the implication being that her daughter accidentally burned her face off, but she didn’t blame her.
LEPER QUEEN: “She must pay…for what she took.”
Sometime after her hospital stay, Leper Queen arrived home, only to find her daughter dead, covered in bloody claw marks.
LEPER QUEEN: “Before I save the world from your kind, I will have my revenge…X-23.”
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CAST CHANGE:
ILLYANA "DARKCHYLDE" RASPUTIN AKA MAGIK: Now a part of the main X-Men team.
#new x-men: the animated series#new x-men#academy x#scott summers#emma frost#ororo munroe#kitty pryde#Roberto Da Costa#Laura Kinney#Bobby Drake#Illyana Rasputin#sofia mantega#julian keller#noriko ashida#sooraya qadir#cessily kincaid#brian cruz#roxanne washington#the stepford cuckoos
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He only care when it somehow benefits him … like putting that sticker.fir Beto on his guitar when he was actually at the concert, please he doesn’t care , obviously he says something now everybody’s gonna be kissing his fucking ass , when he would only be saying it because he’s getting called out for months to say something// 100% what I was saying you just put it better.
What was he gaining in protesting with Black Lives Matter? What was he gaining supporting Biden the worst President in US History? What did he gain from placing an "end of gun violence" sticker on his guitar? Or what about supporting the LGBTQ community?
I'm genuinely confused. Harry has his reasons for being silent. I don't think fans should try to dictate what celebrities speak out on and further more Harry has supported each and everyone of you regardless of race, religion, sex, political views, and so forth why are you judging him now?
I don’t know if anon will want to answer, but I’m going to speak for myself, okay? 😊
Regarding your first paragraph: Everything you mentioned happened in the USA, the country where his biggest audience is. Harry never says anything about other events, not even in his own country, which already leaves some room for conclusions.
Second paragraph: Honestly, maybe our age difference is the deciding factor here. I'm used to seeing my idols engage with the community. My favorite singer in Brazil played two last-minute concerts and donated all the money to the south of the country, which is suffering from the floods. Her brother, who released his second album last week, held a listening party at a concert hall in São Paulo, and all the money raised also went to help the victims of the floods. When they were teenagers, they financed together (they are siblings and were a duo at the time) the construction of the children's ward of a hospital specializing in Cancer treatment in our country, and more than 20 years later, they still donate part of their money to this hospital. All the treatment is free for the patients. During the pandemic, they made several lives to raise money and help those who were starving. Shawn Mendes created a foundation that engages with various issues, he took part in lives during the pandemic, McFLY built schools, and does various charity events.
So yeah, again, speaking for myself, it is weird for me that someone as kind as he chooses to be silent over something so absurd, especially when, as you mentioned, he already did this before.
Also, taking the opportunity, we need to stop with this “unstan him if you hate him” shit. You didn't say it anon, but others did, and is a ridiculous idea that if I disagree with something he does, I automatically hate him and I'm not his fan. I don't agree with how he chooses to conduct this matter, and I do believe artists should be more active when it comes to social work and have more social responsibility. And if some of you don't agree, it's fine. No one is more or less a fan of him because of this.
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Why Secret Invasion didn’t work and my changes
SPOILERS IF YOU CARE!!!
A/n: howdy y’all, different post, but I have been fucking PLAGUED by what happened with Secret Invasion, so I’ve decided to throw in my dumb ass amateur ideas into the cock ring we call Tumblr to look at why this series wasn’t great and how I personally would improve it.
Also, the characters already established in the existing show will be present in these changes, but some will have some more screen time and personality.
#1: Series Length
I know a lot of y’all want me to address the fact Maria gets killed right quick, but that’s for the next section about focal characters. The show feels like it was supposed to be longer than 6 episodes, and the ending to the finale gives me that feeling. Like the ending feels like the midpoint of the whole show where we see things get worse. If I were writing this series, I’d rewrite the series for a 12 episode structure, similar to the Star Wars Disney+ show Andor. This helps give the themes and characters time to grow and adapt to everything that happens in the series (and also let’s us get to know everyone of the characters so we give a flying fuck).
#2: Characters
Before I talk about the characters, I’ll just say I’m not killing Maria nor has Rhodey been a Skrull since Civil War. Maria will actually be one of the 4 most pivotal characters in the series, with the other 3 being Fury, G’iah, and Gravik. Talos, Soren (I’m also not killing her), Varra/Priscilla, Sonya, and a few other characters new and established will also be important to the series as well. However, having Hill and G’iah should be the most important characters as they’re in similar positions at the start and would realistically go through the most out of everyone in the series. We can see how Gravik and Fury have used both characters in various ways, we can also truly get a grasp of G’iah and her relationships with Gravik, her parents, Fury, Hill, and other characters like Beto who she recruits in the beginning. Same with Maria with her G’iah, Talos, Soren, a little bit with Coulson, and especially her mother and Fury. And of course the longer length helps with that. In terms of Fury, we still get to understand his relationship to Varra and other characters (also I really think we need to see that the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier put their relationship on shaky ground, like show her kicking Fury out). Gravik I’d also like to give a trusted outsider character so we can see different sides to him, as well as better understand who’s face he stole.
#3: Motivation
This will be shorter as I’m still kinda figuring this out and actually agree with the show in some aspects. The motivation for Gravik is near perfect, though his choice of base I feel should be part of his arsenal to get the Skrulls who went with him to agree with his plan to cause a war to exterminate humans. And while an abandoned nuclear plant is great, it should be one that exemplifies the ultimate human failure and incompetence, Chernobyl. Gravik can use the horrors of Chernobyl and it’s history as a way to show how ever reaching and disastrous human history is. I also believe that Gravik should have an offworld Skrull ally who see his experiments as not good and a liability. We also need to get the full reasoning of-
#4: Why Fury Failed the Fucking Skrulls
We need to learn the real reason as to why Fury failed the damn Skrulls and why Gravik feels it’s necessary to wipe out humanity. My personal idea for why Fury failed and never found a new world, he didn’t look because of the convenience having near undetectable spies gave him. Maybe the Kree also having ties to nearly every habitable world also caused major issues, but Fury’s selfishness needs to be the real reason in my opinion.
#5 Any Other Groups?
I believe we need to see both other governments as well as Skrull cells. I think we need to see that Chernobyl is the only new home to Skrulls (though it’s the most popular), as Skrulls could’ve taken refuge in the countrysides of the UK, US, Ukraine, Belarus, Spain, France, Switzerland, Japan, Vietnam, South Korea, Denmark, etc. which gives us other government perspectives once the Skrulls are outed at the half way point of the series. I believe we also need to see more from S.W.O.R.D., S.H.I.E.L.D, MI6, the FBI, the CIA, and other government organizations around the world posting outing. To return to Skrulls, I believe that Gravik is working with the most powerful offworld sect of Skrulls lead by their would be queen, Veranke and involving other Skrulls as well as the-
#6: The Super Skrulls Need a Major Revamp
The super Skrull concept in the show as is sucks. I think we need to see not only the original Super Skrull Kl’rt, but also see how terrible and surprisingly weak and crazy the process makes someone. That knowledge of how the transformation to Super Skrull is bad and Gravik ignoring that warning should cost him his revolution and bring Veranke further into the fray post failure. The idea of the Super Skrull, while intelligent in the comics, I hate, and would rather re-contextualize it as something that is actually worse for what Gravik and Veranke’s plans are.
#7: Maria’s Past
I wanted to dedicate a section to specifically Maria’s past as I feel it’ll help define her character and the series rather well. I believe Hill comes from a background where xenophobia (which the show tackles) was common. Weather it be her extended family, or everyone around her at S.H.I.E.L.D. who would judge people like Natasha Romanoff for Russian and Red Room background or Thor for being an extraterrestrial despite literally having Skrulls in the same building and feeling that xenophobia in a place that should be safe. Maria is definitely someone who’s been fighting to try and eradicate the various forms of xenophobia she’s witnessed some of her closest friends experience, and this show should’ve served as the ultimate example of that. We also need to see why she is probably distrustful of everyone and feels immense guilt over various aspects of her job (especially since she’s having to potentially kill many innocent Skrulls and humans as a result of this invasion). I also believe her relationship with her mother to be very strained as well.
#8: G’iah
I’m also giving G’iah a quick section. We need to get to know G’iah, grow her relationship with Talos and Soren, and also maybe give Talos a proper funeral (yeah he’s dying still). Also her being the other big character with Maria is something I think the show needed. We’ll also understand how Gravik is using her and is probably no better than Fury in many aspects.
#9: Miscellaneous Stuff Before I Get to New Characters and Actors
This will go by quick, but it’s as it says:
The new composer will be Nichola Britell of Andor and Succession fame
Other writers would be Carly Wray of Watchmen (2019) fame, Erik Oleson, showrunner on Daredevil season 3, and Nic Pizzolatto, writer on True Detective and the upcoming Blade film
Cobie Smulders should also be executive producing on the series
New directors for the series would be Johan Renck of Chernobyl fame, Nicole Kassell of Watchmen (2019) fame, and Stephen Williams, a director on Luke Cage
Talos will still die as will new characters and some other established characters (innocent or not, Skrull or not)
Hopefully there would be more practical effects and more sets
#10: Added Established Characters
This will also be list like showing the established characters and where they fit in
US Government:
- Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross (played by Harrison Ford)
- Val (played by Julia Louie-Dreyfus)
- Betty Ross (played by Liv Tyler)
S.H.I.E.L.D.:
- Phil Coulson (played by Clark Gregg)
- Alphonso “Mack” McKenzie (played by Henry Simmons)
- Erik Selvig (played by Stellan Skarsgard)
- Darcy Lewis (played by Kat Dennings)
- Leo Fitz (played by Iain De Caestecker)
- Jemma Simmons (played by Elizabeth Henstridge)
S.W.O.R.D.:
- Daisy “Skye” Johnson (played by Chloe Bennet)
- Daniel Sousa (played by Enver Gjokaj)
- Kora (played by Dianne Doan)
Skrulls:
- Soren (played by Anna Torv)
#11: New Characters:
Same stuff, let’s go!
Skrulls:
- Veranke (played by Carmen Ejogo)
- Kl’rt (played by Sean Harris)
S.W.O.R.D.:
- Adam Brashear (played by Gary Beadle)
- Abigail Brand (played by Jenna Coleman)
#12: In Conclusion
I do apologize for this kinda messy post, I hope this isn’t boring or a chore to read. I also have way more actors to list but I haven’t had a concrete grasp on who I’d cast them as. But this is how I’d change and adjust Secret Invasion and hopefully make it less baffling. Thank you for reading if you got this far.
#secret invasion#secret invasion rewrite#maria hill#maria hill deserved better#nick fury#darth’s insane ramblings#also please watch Andor and Chernobyl and The Last of Us
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Secret Invasion questions
Going into the finale, I still have a lot of questions about Secret Invasion. Foremost amongst them is, "why is this a show? Did you feel you had to make this just because there was a comic run called Secret Invasion?"
How long has Rhodey been a Skrull and when did it happen? I need an exact date and location of his human body, pls.
Was Varra "working with" Gravik? Because there was a lot of build up to her getting that gun and we were supposed to be surprised Nick's wife was a Skrull. But we never saw her do anything with Gravik besides introduce him to Nick as child. She didn't kill Nick which was the one order she was given.
Still don't know how Skrull!Ross tricked Maria Hill (if indeed that was Maria Hill, still hoping for an LMD).
Why were Nick Fury and Carol Danvers unable to find the Skrulls a home world? (BTW if the Skrulls are immune to radiation and "like the cold" could they survive on a planet in our solar system that is not habitable to humans? Or could they go live in regions of Earth that humans can't survive in? IDK if they like the cold I think think they should just ask some nice Canadians for a place to stay instead of starting a war.)
Why was Nick pretending to be a bad spy for a couple episodes if he didn't have any real arc to coming back to his Eyepatch and Trenchcoat? Was this all just a ruse to get Gravik to be cocky and self assured? Because it seems like he already was.
If Gravik is so dumb now why did they spend the entire first episode convincing us he was smart? (Why did Maria have to die?)
Talos said there are a million Skrulls but we have seen a couple dozen. Are there like Skrull families off living their best life who have nothing to do with this? Or are there other factions? I don't get it.
Why DO the Skrulls "like the cold" if they are reptiles? Don't reptiles often freeze in cold weather? I have no idea what Skrull biology is. It makes no sense.
Talos hated Gravik's plan from the jump. As did one woman on the Skrull council. G'iah, Beto, and even Pagon have all decided its a crap plan now after initially being on board. Varra disobeys his orders. Who actually is on Gravik's side besides Raava/Rhodes and the UK Prime Minister?
Russian intelligence. I know Russian intelligence might not work US or British groups. But they must know there are Skrulls in Russia. It's not my impression of that country that they are lacks with security. Can Putin (or whoever in President of Russia in the MCU) just call Ritson and be like, "Hey, bro I hate America and think you suck but that attack wasn't us, let's all just relax." Gravik is acting like this is the Cuban Missile Crisis when everyone was just waiting to nuke each other.
Is Monica on SABER? Can I see her? Did her and G'iah ever hang out? Can we move on yet?
Does Sonya know Blade? Because she should totally be in charge of the Midnight Suns or something.
#secret invasion#spoilers#secret invasion spoilers#nick fury#talos#g'iah#monica rambeau#rhodey#james rhodes#raava#gravik#mcu
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SECRET INVASION
S1E5 — Harvest
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Opens in a hospital hallway; the president is wheeled into ER, and Fury tries to get to the president’s subconscious and tells him to not trust Rhodey. Fury takes up sentry outside the double doors.
Gravik gets back to base, and KO’s a would-be rebel for daring to speak up against him.
Back at the hospital, not-Rhodey gets accosted by Fury, and makes it clear to the ex-Director of Shield that there’s little to be done, stuck between a rock and a hard place. Not-Rhodey’s con-men aim their guns at Fury as he heads toward the ER doors.
The title credits roll.
Place card, London. Sonya shoots a Skrull in his office demanding information.
Back at New Skrullos. Some mutineers get a jump on Gravik, quite literally, but he’s stronger than them and defeats them. Gravik is enraged and kills Beto in front of base camp; they’re horrified.
Fury speaks with G’iah, and she reveals that Gravik has this thing called The Harvest. Fury says he’s going to Finland. But why Finland? He does not elaborate.
Sonya interrogates a couple. The woman and her husband are both brought out; he momentarily takes her hostage, Sonya mocks him and sends a bullet through his head.
G’iah takes a moment with her father Talos, and heads to Priscilla’s place. G’iah breaks in easy.
Not-Rhodey tells the president about Gravik’s plans.
Gravik calls Fury, who gets on a plane.
G’iah and Priscilla set fire to Talos’ funeral pyre for a final goodbye, and reflect.
Priscilla talks of facing down those who want her dead; speaking of the devil, they come blasting down her door, guns ablaze. The unexpectedness of it is really something. There is a shootout; several henchmen meet their deaths.
At the immigration desk in Finland, the woman has a wanted notice for Nick Fury taped near her desktop.
Fury is disguised as a man named “Kerhonen”, and when safe, he takes off the identity mask we more or less saw last in CATWS. The photostatic veil, they called it. Also known as the “Widow’s Veil”. He meets with Sonya in her car, and she drives them off.
Place card, “294 KM from the Russian border”. Fury and Sonya discuss Gravik’s plans. The “Harvest”, Fury says, is as follows: “Nearly every Avenger spilled blood in the Battle of Earth. Even Carol Danvers. In the aftermath, some were went in to collect that DNA. Some with the ability to blend in. Nobody knew about them but me and the collectors, led by…” Gravik, says Sonya. Fury agrees: “Which is probably where he got the idea for the Super Skrull machine.”
Fury and Sonya arrive at an old cemetery with Fury’s name on it. Which is interesting, considering that he’s got another one somewhere else; last we saw that one, was at the end of CATWS. Here, Fury’s headstone reads: “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” Sonya looks at the headstone and asks whether he has others. Fury confirms that yes, he’s “got these all over the place, you know? Dead men need options.” Which is true. Nobody’s been able to get their hands on him yet. Fury says that he chose Finland because he and Priscilla used to honeymoon there. Weird place to have a gravesite, but if it’s far enough away for anyone to not ask any questions, then it has done its job.
Fury goes into a mausoleum to get ready. He’s got his jacket, gun, and eyepatch in three different caches. He walks out, saying, “It’s time, let’s finish this.” Feels like a semi-fourth-wall break, because next episode is literally the last episode. The title music plays at his exit.
Thoughts: Also another dark episode full of people operating in the morally grey area. The little callbacks to past MCU projects, like CATWS, for instance. Interesting episode all round.
#mcu#secret invasion#secret invasion spoilers#nick fury#samuel l jackson#sonya falsworth#olivia colman#g’iah#emilia clarke#charlayne woodard#rhodey#don cheadle#gravik#kingsley ben adir
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Rewriting the last episode of secret invasion
So the scret invasion final episode came out and truth be told it was kinda a let down. Maybe 6 episodes isn't enough to do this story justice or maybe the final episode just had to be longer to satisfactorily wrap up all the lose ends. Nevertheless I loved the series and it got me wondering what I would've liked to see in the final episode. So this is how I would've wrapped up the show in the last episode.
We start with a intense recap of the previous episodes to raise the stakes for this last one. Then we see Fury, killing those guards and walking to the nuclear base. Pretty much like they did in the show cause I really liked that start. But instead of an empty compound we see the scrull children playing together, living en enjoying their lives. And we see Fury looking around devastated as he realise what is at stake if he can't stop gravik and the nuclear attack.
Intro music plays
We cut back to the gates, where the two dead skrull guard are lying on the ground. And we see a female skrull stepping over the body's and walking through the gate.
Meanwhile Fury makes his way to the reactor room. Pasing all sorts of skrulls who look at him accusatory. Gravik is waiting in the middle of the reactor room and greats Fury like he did in the series. But this time there are others in the reactor room watching it all play out and we see that the female skrull sneaks in through the backdoor.
Then we cut back to rhodey in the hospital room. And he gets that call that the president is in danger. And we see Sonia be a total bad ass taking out guard after guard like it is nothing. This scene i woulf make twice as long as in the show. With flickering lights and epic fight scenes.And we see them all turning back in skrulls. And at last only Rhodey and the president are left.
Then we see gravik and fury cirkeling each other, Fury is clearly not doing so well. Then they have the same conversation as in the show cause that writing was chef's kiss 🤌 the camera is filming both fury as gravik but we see the female skrull in the background who is looking positively devastated to hear those words.
Sonya comes in the room of the president and greats him in typical sonya fashion. The president is ofc weary of her and ask her about his guards. She tells them they won't be of much help considering they are shape shifting aliens with their own agenda. The president scoves but sonya says cheery that she would love to show him while shooting skrull Rhodey in his leg.
Fury hands over the bottle with the harvest. Carols dna because he would see her as the greatest avenger. And gravik turns himself. They he starts to beat up fury. And fury let him while saying he might be deserving to die but its not to late to save the skrulls. Which ofcourse shocks everyone who was watching and one skrull asks why would he do that, saying beto was right in claiming gravik never cared about his followers. This rubs gravik the wrong way and he lashes out to attack the skrull but the female skrull launches herself against the skrull saving him. And the skrull thanks her for not giving up on them, calling her by her name - gaiah
Back in the hospital sees the president that rhodey is a skrull and goes full on paranoid saying that if its really true then it will be war. But sonya reminds him that would be ill payback to the skrull who saved his live. And orders him to call of the nuclear attack on the skrull compound, because he owes talos that much for ensuring he is still alive and breathing.
Gravik calls out gaiah saying she came to watch the show. And he promises her he will kill her next after he finishes off fury and then everyone else who has a problem with him. Going full villain mode. But when he wants to give the killing blow fury strikes back, having super strength. And gravik is taking a back in surprise for a second with gives fury time to strike gravik again and take of to the sky while ordering gaiah to get everyone out. The we get a fight battle in the sky with gravik and fury both having marvels powers. And there even matched until fury reveals he understands graviks thirst for revenge cause that's all that kept him going after his father's death and he reveals himself as gaiah giving gravik one hard blow that sends him straight down to the ground.
The president gives the order to stop the nukes. And turns on rhodey asking him how long and where his real adviser is. Skrhodey reveals that she has been there for months right under his nose without him even realising. It has in fact been so easy cause rhodey was consumed with grieve over his friend and didn't even see it coming. President is obviously disgusted by these revelation and wants to ask more but Sonia shoots skrhodey though is head claiming some skrulls are better dead.
Gaiah flies down where gravik lies on the ground his skrull colors coming through, but it already is starting to heal. Gravik gaspes and ask how. Gaiah looks at skrull gaiah who is standing close with a big group of skrulls. And then the skrull reveals to be Fury wearing the new improved version of the widows veil. And he walks towards gravik giving him a hand to help him up and says let's end this you and me.
And we see the cafe where Fury and prisilla where sitting in the previous episodes and we see a flashback of them eating pancakes with a young boy in a booth. Then we see that same booth but instead of the young boy we see gravik sitting across Fury. And they have a real talk about all of Fury mistakes. And gravik asks him why Fury never wondered why it was so easy for his wife and talos daughter to side with him. He tells Fury he had been by her side when they thought that he was gone and he helped her grieve promising himself to finish what Fury started. Only to find Fury to come back after five years for a second and going away without even acknowledging that he had failed them and all skrulls. And that was when gravik vowed to do what Fury couldn't. And this time we see that Fury really hears what gravik is saying an really feels remorseful and he admits that he did failed them and is honest as to why.
Gaiah is still at the skrulls compound and receiving a call from an unknown number that the danger has passed. And then gaiah speaks in front of her people telling them that she won't promise them a home cause she isn't sure she will succeed and she won't ask them to fight her own battles cause they have done that long enough. But she tells them that she will fight for them, vows to protect them and tells them she won't rest until she knows everyone of them is safe. And we get a nice scene of all the skrulls pledging their allegiance to her. As the mother of skrulls.
Fury and gravik are still sitting in the cafe and Fury tells him to go, built himself a new live and take this chance to be free. The skrulls don't longer see him as their general and in a way he has failed them the same way Fury has. And Fury recognises that and wants to give him a second chance. To let him decide what he is going to do next and gravik leaves the cafe. And we see him walking away while we see Fury watching him go. Then we hear a female voice saying that there is a change Fury let go the person who is capable to destroy the world. And we see Maria Hill standing next to Fury while Fury answers we'll have to wait and see what he does next.
We see gaiah and the other skrulls releasing all the humans from their pods and this time it is even more powerful because it is the skrulls who are saving them. And when they get outside they all look to gaiah and ask her were do we go now?
We see sonya waiting on someone while dialing Fury and she tells him you're welcome for saving the world now give me my end of the bargain and Fury sends her a adres. Then she hangs up and we see gaiah walking up to her. And they have the same sort of conversation as in the show, but gaiah is a bit more sceptical as to why Sonya has saved them seeing how she hates skrulls but Sonya answers she sees use in them and then we have the line of the show of how they will use each other. And gaiah says my people need a home and we see sonya giving her the adres she got from Fury.
Then we still see that wicked scene of the president telling how skrulls are the enemy.
And we see Fury and prisilla going to space together.
Then come the post credit scenes cause come on its marvel!
First one is of gravik calling the Sharon Carter to prepare for phase two. Reviewing gravik to be getting a bigger villain are.
Then we see the doctor strange cabin and who do we see in there... Wanda cause ofcourse those few rocks didn't really kill her. And she hears a knock on the door. She opens the door and sees gaiah and behind her thousands of skrulls. And gaiah says we need a home and we heard you could help us....
Black screen with the following messages:
Fury will return
Gaiah will return
Gravik will return
Marie will return
Rhodey will return
Wanda will return
Black screen
And that's how I would've done it. No were near perfect cause I am not a screen writer so some lines could be way beter, I actually liked a lot of the dialogue of the show and I could only imagine what they could've done if they had more episodes.
But yeah I couldn't resist making gaiah the mother of skrulls cause come on its Emilia Clark, she is perfect for it. And I really enjoyed gravik as a villain so I wanted to give room for a greater villain arc. And I know people are debating who is more powerful gaiah or Wanda but I think you're missing the point. Wanda and gaiah are the power mother daughter duo the mcu needs. So I really wanted to end this rewrite with them meeting cause could you imagine them together taking care of an army skrulls. Sonya was amazing and I really hope to see more of her in the mcu. I just wanted her to get more time to shine this episode cause there is just so much potential there.
If you read all this, first off all thank you for taking the time to read this rewrite version. It's probably way longer than I meant it to be but it was fun to follow my hyperfixation to just see where it leads. I wrote this in less then an hour can you believe that. Anyway I really enjoyed writing it and I really appreciate you reading it!!
#secret invasion#nick fury#emilia clarke#skrulls#marvel mcu#marvel#mcu rewrite#talos#rhodey#maria hill#cobie smulders#samuel l jackson#rewrite#gravik#captain marvel#sonya falsworth#mcu#secret invastion episode 6
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Maxi is a Good Friend - Chapter 2
Hey! So I made it possibly one more chapter longer because I realized that I couldn't realistically wrap this up in two because I'm long winded😅
So anyways, here's chapter 2, hope you like it!
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The studio was quiet, evening calling most of the students home except for a few who were in a frenzy, trying to finish their projects. Maxi had his completed and was technically free to return to his home as well, but his heart demanded he remain in the music room until Tomás showed. Tomás got off later than the others, his job as Beto’s assistant requiring him to stay later to help care for the instruments.
In the safety of solitude, Maxi paced the floor, running over in his mind the points he wanted to make, countering the possible arguments that might arise, and just hoping to get through this confrontation without destroying a friendship. Every footfall alerted Maxi’s doubts, which jumped at the opportunity to plead for him to back out of the matter. Over and over they told him that this was Tomás and Violetta’s problem, that he shouldn’t get involved or pick sides. But Violetta’s stricken face would flash before him, her head hanging low as she poured her anxious heart out to him.
This wasn’t picking sides, he told himself. He was trying to help both of them. It just so happened that the person in need of a talking to was Tomás. He was doing it out of love.
Hopefully, Tomás would see it that way.
The door creaked open and Tomás waddled in with his arms filled with wind and string instruments. He reached behind him with his foot and hopped the door closed, only for his bundle of precious cargo to start slipping. Amid the fumbling, Maxi rushed to Tomás and pulled all the wind instruments from his hand.
Tomás heaved a monumental sigh and flashed Maxi a quick smile. “Thanks.” He breathed out right before he dashed to the wall full of empty racks. With all the efficiency of a man who knew his job well, Tomás had everything hanging in its proper places and came back for the wind instruments before Maxi could decide if he needed help.
“What are you still doing here, Maxi?” Tomás asked while he hung a trumpet. “Working on some project?”
“Hmm? Oh, no, no. I finished mine yesterday. I was just …” Maxi trailed off, now that he was in the moment, he wanted nothing to do with this conversation. His mind conjured up all the ways this could go, from awkward and useless, to messy and ending in the parting of ways, a blood feud between their two families for generations to come until star-crossed lovers brought them back to friendship. Maxi resurfaced to find Tomás watching him expectantly. “I was just waiting so I could talk with you.” He blurted out, taking a running dive off the cliff he had been edging toward all day.
Tomás cocked his head in confusion, pointing a finger into his chest. “Me?” Maxi nodded.
Tomás shrugged, “Okay then. What did you need to talk about?”
“Well …” Maxi found it nearly impossible to look his friend in the eye. Why was this so difficult? Couldn't he just say: Sorry, Tomás, but you’re stressing Violetta out with your pushy behavior and you need to back off for a while if not forever because she is not interested. And even if she was, she’s in a relationship. Not cool, bro. Ha! As if.
“Could we take a seat first?” Maxi plopped himself into a chair before the words had scarcely left his mouth. Tomás slowly lowered himself down into a seat too, his expression a mixture of open confusion and wariness as he waited for Maxi to gather his courage.
However, courage fled and Maxi was halfway to his feet, ready to sprint all the way home. But Violetta’s heart-wrenching face flickered across his vision and Maxi’s feet responded to his heart’s command, planting themselves so firmly into the ground that he couldn’t bring himself to move away even if he tried. Maxi brought himself back into his seat, ignoring Tomás’ startled face, and took a deep breath.
“Look, Tomás, what I’m about to say isn’t going to be easy to hear but just know, it’s not easy for me to say either.” He waited until Tomás hesitantly nodded before he let go of the cliff’s edge, his last chance to ignore the problem flying past him as he dove under the icy waters. “I think you need to stay away from Violetta.”
Almost immediately, there was a change. Tomás sat up from his slouched position, straight as a pole. The open look in his eye shuddered and Maxi knew before Tomás had even opened his mouth that he was in for a fight if ever there was one.
“Did León put you up to this?” Tomás scoffed, irritation flooding his face as he crossed his arms tight over his chest. “Is he trying to get a new lackey to do his threatening now?”
Maxi swallowed back the next line of his script, completely taken aback. He had never seen Tomás more than mildly annoyed and even then it was rarer than a unicorn. Yet right from the start, Tomás was snappy and sharp, his ire aimed at León with such force that Maxi didn’t know what to say.
“No, Tomás. León didn't send me to do anything. León doesn't even know I’m talking with you about this.”
Gradually, Tomás’ arms fell back at his sides, and he seemed almost startled at his outburst. He glanced around the room, trying to calm himself and focus. “So … did Violetta ask you to say that?”
“Well … no, Vilu doesn’t know I’m here either. But, I’m noticing that … well, Tomás, I’m noticing that you’re not really giving her any space and she needs that right now. So I thought, maybe if I talked with you, I could help you keep your distance for a bit so she can …take a breath. So … yeah.”
Tomás nodded slowly and Maxi held his peace, hoping that this was all he needed to say. Tomás was reasonable. He could handle this, right?
But his hopes were dashed with the next words out of Tomás’ mouth. “Maxi, I don’t think you understand the situation. Violetta and I are going through something, yes, but I’m only trying to get her to stop lying and see the truth.”
“Tomás,” Maxi cajoled with a little laugh, trying to keep the confrontation as light as he could, but he could feel them edging closer and closer into treacherous waters. “Violetta isn’t lying to you. She loves León a lot.”
“No. She’s lying to herself. I know that she has to be as miserable as I am; I’ve seen the way she looks at me when she thinks I’m not looking.”
“Tomás, I-”
“I know it, Maxi. I’ve seen it.”
“Well, how about I tell you what she looks like when you really aren’t looking,” Maxi leaned forward, his leg bouncing to release the pent-up nerves that had been bottling up since his resolution was formed. “She gets all tense, she looks like she’s about to go into battle, she looks scared, Tomás.”
Tomás hesitated for a moment, his mouth partially forming words that died in his throat. Maxi held his breath as he saw a small chink in the armor. “... What are you trying to tell me?”
“Leave her be,” He said earnestly. “If you really care about Violetta as much as you say you do, then let her be happy, and be happy for her. And if that’s too much right now, just … do the first part.”
“Maxi, you don’t know what it’s like!” Tomás’ face was twisted in agony, his hands pressed to his chest like he was trying to cover a wound. “I’m in so much pain. I love her too much to just give up. It’s torture to watch her with León and know that if it weren’t for all the times that I thought bad of her or she thought bad of me, that could be us!”
“Tomás, you know that back before, I was all for you guys being together. If it made you happy, I was more than ready to cheer you on.” Maxi paused, rolling his words around on his tongue for a few seconds before he spoke again. “But Violetta is with León. And they’re happy. Misunderstandings or not. Regrets or not. Hurt feelings or not. Whatever you guys have between you - Violetta is happy with León. Her boyfriend. And you dragging up the past is only confusing her.”
“She’s not confused, Maxi. She’s in denial.” Tomás crossed his arms and settled back in his chair as if waiting for the magic in his words to make Maxi see reason. For his part, Maxi sat still as a statue, floored by the matter-of-fact way that Tomás declared his view of Violetta’s feelings.
“... Tomás …” Maxi opened his mouth once, twice, but no sound came out. He had nothing he could say in the face of such a stubborn standpoint. Maxi took the heels of his hands and pressed them against his forehead. How could he make Tomás see reason?
“Maxi, I can see that you’re trying to be a good friend for Violetta here. But I’m going to fight for her. We’ve had a lot of misunderstandings; we’ve thought the worst of each other. But there’s something there, a connection we have despite it all. I can’t lose her.”
“Tomás, there are two people in a relationship. You know that right? Violetta doesn’t want to be with you, she is with León.”
“Because she thinks that I’m playing all the girls! But I’m not, it’s all a bunch of misunderstandings and rumors that she’s believing. I can’t let her think that about me. I’m just trying to clear my name.”
“Okay, then what about Ludmila? Did you have feelings for her when you started dating her?” Tomás clicked his mouth shut and Maxi hated what he was saying for the pain it was causing. “If you want to clear your name, go for it. I’ll help you. But you don’t have to pester Violetta about her feelings for you to do that.”
Maxi waited, bent forward, foot bouncing, hands clasped in a death grip on each other, hoping against hope that he wouldn’t have to continue this conversation for much longer. The anguish it was causing him and Tomás was near unbearable. What would it take to make Tomás see reason? There wasn’t a sound in the music room as both young men turned everything over in their heads. It was around the thirty-second mark that Maxi made the silent decision that for Violetta, he would be glued to his chair until he made some headway with Tomás. Multiple times he opened his mouth to say something more to drive his point home but each time he stopped just short of any words coming forth.
“I …” Tomás cringed, his face twisted like it hurt him to say what he was going to say. “I’ll think about it.” He stood to his feet immediately after the words left his lips and turned, swiping a towel and scrubbing at the piano.
Maxi understood his dismissal and stood to his feet, eyebrows pinched and frowning at Tomás’ back. He uttered a quiet goodbye and slipped out, dejected and sure that he had lost a friend. But at least he had tried to help Violetta. Cami and Fran would be pleasantly surprised at him, their little coward taking a stand against his friend’s behavior. And maybe he didn’t have to stop there. Perhaps he could plan for Tomás ignoring him and find a way to keep Violetta and Tomas at a distance. But how? Maybe he could have Violetta text when she was alone with Tomás and he could come running. But that probably wasn’t sustainable.
Maxi was nearly to his house and with a list of half-thought out schemes when something came to him. Whipping out his phone with a grin, Maxi sent a quick text and strolled inside for dinner with his family.
#violetta#HELP#This is soooo long#What have I gotten myself into????#violetta 1#season 1#maxi ponte#tomas heredia#leon vargas mentioned#violetta castillo mentioned#ludmila ferro mentioned!#barely
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OC Masterlist
It’s time we got a handy dandy OC List, one that I can update regularly with new characters and that can be referred to whenever I reblog prompts, woo! 🧡
Beto Perez
Debut Fic - A Hispanic man with a slender frame and short curly brown hair with some lighter brown highlights to it. His has some nicely maintained scruff along his jawline, and his eyes are a darker brown with a hint of color in certain light. He’s most remembered for his calm demeanor and lazy smile, and may date Lucas Beckett on a later date.
Detective (Marcelo) Corva
Debut Fic - A Hispanic man, long curly hair pulled back into a loose ponytail. His jawline is more squared off compared to Detective Morgan’s, with a bit of scruff lining it, and while playful is usually seen as the more focused of the two. He prefers people call him by his last name, but only Morgan seems to be allowed to say his first name. There seems to be something more beneath the surface beyond a work partnership, but neither of them have confessed to such feelings just yet.
Detective (Grant) Morgan
Debut Fic - A tall, slender man with pale skin and dark freckles covering the upper half of his face. He has brown hair neatly cropped and styled to the side on top, and is used to being referred to by his last name. There seems to be something more beneath the surface beyond a work partnership, but neither of them have confessed to such feelings just yet.
Donovan Blackburn
Debut Fic - An olive skinned man with short brown hair and piercing yellow eyes that seem to glow like a cat’s in the dark. There’s a large scar down the left side of his neck, and has the power to morph his body into any animal he can think of. The only downside to this is that if shifting occurs too frequent or suddenly it can mess with body heat regulation and causes physical fatigue.
Father Izaak Hartley
Debut Fic (CW Priest) - A quieter, averaged sized man with rich dark skin, a short afro, and brown eyes that carry a certain warmth to them. He’s not often seen outside his official robes, but his broad shoulders fill out his cassock nicely and he has strong facial features that make him stand out.
Hayes
Debut Fic - A shorter, pudgy man with tight yellow curls and deep brown eyes. Oddly his skin is oddly free of blemishes or scars, and he has the power of telekinesis. There’s a lack of control, however, so there are times when a loss of control can lead to him either levitating things around him or floating away himself. His lack of exposure to the outside world has created a weak immune system and lack of knowledge beyond a certain lab’s walls.
Kanna
Debut Fic - A woman with warm black skin and long hair that’s carefully styled each week. She’s more put together in comparison to her girlfriend Mariana, priding herself on flashier outfits that can catch eyes in a crowd.
Lucas Beckett
Debut Fic - A Caucasian man with short red hair styled similarly to a fohawk, with thick eyebrows and bright blue eyes. His face is clean shaven and jawline is more squared off, but he’s a bit chubbier when compared to Beto Perez; who at the may be set to date at a later time.
Mariana
Debut Fic - A Spanish woman with long black hair often braided and tawny beige skin. She has brown eyes and is often seen in more comfortable clothes, often fussing with them if they have a specific texture she dislikes. She’s currently dating a woman named Kanna.
Nenna Vuz (D&D)
Debut Fic - A petite tanned skin human with bright green eyes and long, curly brown hair. She always wears a necklace with a charm of a dive carrying a ring, which can be unhooked and worn on her finger. She is currently on the run and engaged to Ravomorn Hegrax.
Ravomorn Hegrax (D&D)
Debut Fic - A powerfully built blue Dragonborn with a deep scar running diagonally from his forehead to his right cheek. He has long tendrils that hang from the back of his head as well as a few protruding spikes lining his jaw, mirroring the pair of long white horns that swipe behind his head. He is currently on the run and engaged to Nenna Vuz.
Somar (D&D)
Debut Fic (N/A) - A shy Half-Orc, Half-Satyr with lavender colored skin and thick black hair, which hangs over the right side of his face. He has green eyes, long white tusks, and leaves his black satyr legs exposed for better mobility when fighting.
Thyemon (D&D)
Debut Fic (N/A) - A dry and rather sassy Tiefling with sky blue skin and dark blue hair swept to the back of his head. He has a set of large ram horns that curl on each side of his face, while his eyes are a deep, pupiless red. He wears long traditional brown robes, provided by his church, which help hide anything from his previous life before becoming a cleric. His tail is a bit longer than most and has a traditional spaded tip at the end, and if one looks closely at his mouth they can spy a sharp tooth in his scowl to the left side.
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"Why do I feel like you're lying to me?" For Jack please!
This is in 2021, before people found out they're dating
Miriam tugged down her dress. She wasn't sure if the length was dinner appropriate. She was in Milan covering some of fashion shows. It was her last day in Milan because the following day began Paris Fashion Week. She was having dinner with Zendaya and a few of their model friends.
She walked to her phone and facetimed Jack. He was in Boston in the middle of his tour, meaning he was six hours behind. In Milan it was currently 5pm so it had to be 11am for him.
"Hey," he yawned. He rubbed his eyes and leaned back on the headboard.
"Shit, did I wake you?" She said, panicked.
Jack covered another yawn. "Yeah, but it's fine. What's up?"
"What do we think of this dress for dinner?" She asked flipping the camera to the floor length mirror.
"I'm thinking of having your pussy for dinner and your nipples as a snack." He smirked. His eyes were heavy with sleep.
"Dude, you're not alone." Urban mumbled throwing a pillow at him.
"Jack, seriously." Miriam giggled. "Is it too short?"
Jack sleepily shook his head. "I like it."
"Why do I feel like you're lying to me?" She askeda him.
"You look good." He reassured her.
"Okay, thank you. I'll let you sleep. Bye."
"Bye." He yawned once more before hanging up.
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Miriam’s phone wouldn't stop blaring. She knew it wasn't her alarm because she had specific alarm sound set for it. She looked at the digital clock on the vanity. 3:36 am.
"Bueno?" She andwred, not checking who was calling.
"Why the fuck is your ass out?" Jack asked calmly.
"What?" She sat up confused.
"Just Jared posted your ass, literally." He said in a snippy tone.
The Red Sox game had ended. Jack and his friends were driving back to their hotel when he saw the pictures and video of Miriam walking to her car with Beto behind her. Her dress rode up with each step showing off her thighs that Jack the privilege of having his face in between them.
"I'm not even gonna start. I asked you if it was short and you said no. So if you don't mind I have to be up at 4:15 to catch a flight to Paris. Goodbye, Jack."
Jack stared at his phone in disbelief. In all honestly he didn't mind the dress. Miriam looked good. He just didn't like that there countless comments made by people, especially older white women, thta are offended by her body. It wasn't just Just Jared that posted the pictures of Miriam in her tiny dress. TMZ, DailyMail, and Page Six also got a hold of them. So she 2as getting unnecessary comments from various gossip pages.
He texted Miriam an apology about how he reacted and that she looked good. She replied back with a picture of her ass in the dress with: appreciate it, enjoy my tits now let me sleep
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Yelapa - fundraiser Three years ago, when I came to Puerto Vallarta on my first trip with Unity for Women, we found this hole-in-the-wall school/office supply store and dipped in. There was a man working that night, and his name was Lalo. Lalo was incredibly kind and helpful as we three women began to point to item after item to purchase for the students of the nearby village town of Yelapa. “Lápices?” “Sí! Queremos todo lo que tienen.” 👏 “Pencils?” “Yes! We’ll take all of them!” We basically cleaned them out of all the school supplies that night. And as Lalo rung up our total, I remember him getting teared up to see how much we were about to buy (I think it was around $300-400 USD worth). He told us that because of Covid, and with his mother being sick, he had been working non stop, and it had been really tough without the normal stream of tourists. We all felt how meaningful it was to be able to give to them through this project, and the tears flowed easily from all of us. He said that our sale was the biggest one they’d had all year, and that it would mean he could take a little bit of a break from work for the first time in a while. 😞 He was just oozing with gratitude and surprise. We took this picture together and all hugged, our hearts bursting. 💗 When we returned the next year, we asked the man in the store about our friend Lalo, and he said Lalo was his brother… but that he’d passed on that last year from health complications. He got choked up, as we all did… we reminisced about Lalo, through tears. We bought our supplies again, and left with hugs. This year, I called the store the week before we arrived to “warn” them we were on our way again so they could have some time to prepare for us lol 😂 When we showed up, we saw Beto again and his mom. The hugs, the reminisces about Lalo, the catching up on the year behind us… we now felt like old friends. Together, they helped us organize and purchase another big order for the students of Yelapa again. Lalo and Beto’s mom then sneaked an extra stuffed animal in our box… for the kids 🥹 Continued in the comments… (at Yelapa, Jalisco, Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnXj4Z9pqjf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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SECRET INVASION
S1E1 - Resurrection
SPOILERS!
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Opens in Moscow with Ross, and the statement by Prescod (who's that?) saying, "Imagine a world where information cant be trusted. Not very hard, is it?" That's one hell of an opening line. Very modern-minded. The voice continues, "News service says one thing, website says another. Society starts to fray. All we can turn to are the people we care about. But what if those people weren't who we thought they were? What if the ones closest to us, the ones we've trusted our whole lives, were someone else entirely?"
It's fascinatingly political; Prescod, a white man, dislikes the idea of being colonized. There's even a whole biblical aspect to this too, what with the stories of the Promised Land and all, but that's not quite a conversation I want to get too deep into. It's the broader issue of not liking your land and home being taken over by someone else.
Ross may be skeptical, naturally. He speaks with someone who has information but not enough of it to be sure.
Someone shoots Prescod! The lights in the building as Ross and his pursuer go up, it's a great shot. Dramatic.
The pursuer is Talos? Ross is a Skrull? Or should we say, Not-Ross! Hill says, "He's one of you!” To which Talos responds, "No, he's one of THEM" Meaning that Talos has separated himself from the attacker, and invading force.
That's VERY, VERY unusual, to have the first half of the credits and the title card come right after the first opening scenes.
Hill welcomes Fury back to Earth. Fury pays Talos a visit. Talos reveals that Soren (his wife? Partner?) is gone. But what is the implication of Talos saying, "Soren loved you?" Fury is also upset she's gone.
Hill says of Gravik - who presumably once trusted Fury, who had disappeared after the Blip, to help the Skulls - "He preys on the collective rage of young, displaced Skrulls." This feels like a fiting description also for the Flag Smashers from TFATWS, who were also refugees in a way, people who could not find a place to call home.
Fury goes for a night walk, and as Talos predicted, gets mugged and kidnapped... by guys working for Sonya, someone whom Fury knows, apparently? How do they know each other?
Sonya is the second person to tell Fury that he's changed.
The owl figurine; Fury touched it earlier, and there's a shot of its eye. What is its significance?
New Skrullos. New place? Emilia Clarke's character seems to be an ambassador for the Skrulls, kind of. She knows they're refugees and treats them, including the newcomer Beto, with heart. She says Gravik provides refuge but also the way of the warrior. She says warriors can leave; those who are not, remain at the compound.
She walks into this cellar? With devices of some kind, which Skulls (the warriors) use to take the form and then the mind of their captors.
The owl is a camera.
Emilia Clarke's character is reading a book titled "Understand the Human Mind". I couldn't find this book online, but the closest is "Understanding the Human Mind", which according to Routledge, "explores how and why we, as humans, find it so easy to believe we are right - even when we are outright wrong." Seems intriguing; I’ve added it to my book wish list.
This conversation! Talos: "Well, you know, I'm not even 40 in human years. I haven't even gone on my midlife crisis shopping spree yet. What'd you get for yours?" Fury: "The Avengers.'
I wonder why Talos feels like the weight of the world is upon his shoulders. He clearly doesn't want an invasion to happen but it's too late; it's caused by his people the Skulls but he's distanced himself from them.
Emilia Clarke's character is G’iah. Talos' lost daughter. Talos tells her that mom's dead; she runs to an alley to compose herself.
Fury acknowledges the existence of the real-world Cold War in the MCU.
Hill is the 3rd person to tell Fury his head's not in the game enough for it to really matter. She knows him better than anyone, saying he was never the same after the Blip. (Rewind: Blip was when half of all life got dusted; Snap was when they all came back.) Fury had a flashback of himself getting Blipped.
G’iah tells her dad Talos that the attack is planned for Russia's Unity Day, which calls for tolerance between various ethnic and religious groups in Russia. Ironic, since the attack to sow chaos presents the antithesis to that, organized by a minority who want to be a majority, reasoning that they are refugees wanting a home to call their own. That sounds very, VERY familiar in real life, to way too many instances to name.
Fury tracks a shapeshifter, but someone has shapeshifted into Fury and shot Hill.
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Closing thoughts to this episode:
Very fascinating, intriguing, and politically modern, told with a perspective of refugees who have had enough with the world around them. Can’t wait for Ep2.
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Texas Midterm Elections 2022
Disclaimer: I'm Libertarian, not a Democrat. You saying I'm a snowflake liberal just shows your internalized notions of white supremacy, whether you, yourself are white-passing or not.
it's been awhile since Texas Democrats have put forward a gubernatorial candidate that could really challenge the redness of the state.
too bad the smear campaign against him seems to be effective. Abbot, Patrick, and Paxton have too much corporate fascist money. all riding on the prosperity Rick Perry is really responsible for. the state government is growing more Islamophobic day-by-day.
The DFW area is a little too misogynistic for a female liberal to take the helm, that's the mistake left-leaning politics made last time
Lizzie probably represents more of what I want to see out of Texas policy than other major political race going on, but the smear campaigns and tough on crime puffing chest rhetoric are really infuriating. calling Hidalgo and her office out as enabling criminal behavior when they're using non-enforcement and nullifying status as a political tool is just disingenuous. I feel much safer in Houston than I did 4 years ago, not to mention how much I respected Lina when we were both high schoolers in Debate on how she competed in Student Congress.
I know the gubernatorial race indicates the lieutenant and attorney general races as well. I actually have less problems with crony Abbott than the Islamophobic Patrick and Paxton, I need Collier and Garza to win to preserve my rights, personally.
The races that are really important for rights preservation in general: turn our courts bluer to show Texans aren't crazy fetus-worshiping zealots like Abbott is.
As a Libertarian, I've always supported Tom Oxford, but he's going against the better judge in his race in Erin A. Nowell
Who else matters to me? Well, I hate Dan Crenshaw with a passion, since he represents all the concentrated racism in Montgomery County. The Nehls brothers represent everything wrong with Texas because they've tried to arrest people for exercising free speech against Republican rule. I had hope Jacey Jetton would be decent, but he's just another Republican puppet, so vote for Daniel Lee on that alone. However, my state district got rezoned to one of the few Republicans I actually agreed with, Phil Stephenson, but he got primaried by the neoNazi Stan Kitzman and won, so I'll be voting for Larry Baggett since Mike Miller has no chance of getting my district because of how anti-3rd party my local politics have gotten.
Is it so much to ask for Republican candidates that respect my 1st Amendment rights, as a non-white Muslim American? or ones that don't want to actively control women's bodies as an extension of toxic patriarchy? Beto O'Rourke stands for something, and even though I don't totally agree with his policy leanings, it's better than treating brown, black, and feminine bodies as less than. Fletcher stands for the rational Texan that I feel represents the informed political consensus of the greater Houston area. Lina Hidalgo has been unafraid to enact the right policies for Houston in spite of the predictable backlash she knew she would get for it and I trust her more than Mayor Turner at this point.
Dan Crenshaw, the Nehls brothers, and Stan Kitzman would prefer we go back to a pre-Civil Rights era Texas, with white supremacy as the law of the land. People like Jacey Jetton enable that behavior through their loyalty and worship of Republican institutionalism.
Local politics are ruled by extremists and cushy moderates, we might never achieve real directional consensus if don't hold Republicans accountable for the anti-American values they've co-opted during the Trump administration.
#beto o'rourke#beto for texas#lina hidalgo#Texas Midterms#texas elections#midterms#midterm elections#midterms 2022#midterm elections 2022#texas politics#dan crenshaw#Greg Abbott#Dan Patrick#Ken Paxton#misogyny#bodily autonomy#reproductive rights#pro choice#sexism#racism#internalized racism#Lizzie Fletcher#troy nehls#Erin A. Nowell#Jacey Jetton#Stan Kitzman#Larry Baggett#politics
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