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#you look nice babe don’t think twice maybe the world is a really scary place
weezeryuri · 2 months
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redrobin-detective · 3 years
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the end is where we start from
What we call the beginning is often the end / And to make an end is to make a beginning / The end is where we start from. ~ T.S. Elliot, Little Giddings
Danny was running, he didn’t know where to all he knew was who he was running from. He didn’t know if his parents were even coming after him, guns blazing and mouths sneering but he didn’t dare turn around to look. Maybe they weren’t even going to bother chasing him, maybe they were just happy the ghostly scum was out of their house. 
He saw the entrance to Amity’s deepest woods and he darted for it. It was dark and thick and easy to lose yourself in so people usually thought twice before they entered. But people like Danny had little else to lose. The sting of branches swiping at him before he could turn intangible, giant, gnarling roots tripping him up before he could float over him. But he didn’t dare slow down because that would mean acknowledging what had happened.
Another missed curfew, another argument where he and his parents talked about but around each other. Another ghost showing up just as he got dressed for bed, another transformation to take care of it before he could get some sleep. Only the same old script flipped on itself when Mom opened the door, bringing in some tea as an apology for her harsh words just into time to see her son become a ghost. Her gun was drawn before the cup hit the floor and shattered, along with Danny’s heart.
Deep in the thicket of the woods, his human lungs burned and his living muscles ached but he couldn’t turn into Phantom now. Not when it was the stupid ghost’s fault he wasn’t welcome in his own home anymore.
‘What are you doing with my son, ghost?’
‘Mom, please it’s Danny I can explain, please would you just listen?’
‘You can’t be alive and dead at the same time! It’s impossible!’ Oh god my baby died and I didn’t even notice’
‘Mom, Dad, listen to Danny, he’s telling the truth. This is why he never-’
‘Jasmine, you’ve been deceived that’s what ghosts do! That’s what Phantom in particular is known for!’
“Jazzy, Danno, I want to believe you, but it’s a lot to take in. Let us run some tests to make sure.’
‘Danny! Danny wait! Come back!’
Eventually his human body ran out of steam, adrenaline and desperation can only take a person so far. His speeding gait slowed to a lopping jog before settling into a quiet, miserable walk. He squeezed his eyes shut and dared to look over his shoulder but, of course, no one was there. It was just him, the darkness and his own woes.
“What am I going to do now?” He asked quietly, weakly as he fought back panicked tears. All he could see was his mother’s angry, grieving face. His father’s confusion as he tried to make sense of it all while trying to keep the peace. Jazz’s frustration and futile attempts to shield Danny from the worst of the shouting.
He had nothing on his person, why would he? He’d been about ready to go to bed when his whole world came crashing down. His worn Star Wars t-shirt and sweatpants offered little protection from the gloomy October weather but Danny’s ice core more than protected him from the chill. He welcomed it if anything, it matched the ice growing in his heart. No money to escape with, no phone to call for help, no tools to contain any ghosts he battled. He hadn’t even had dinner last night, too busy fighting ghosts. For the first time, Danny was well and truly on his own. Not even dying had seemed so scary.
“I can handle this,” Danny said with false calm. It was pitch dark around him but a little ectoplasmic light brightened the area up. “I’ll just stay here for the night and then I’ll check in tomorrow. If things are still bad, I’ll grab my gear and go.” Where he’d go was a whole other question but that wasn’t important right now. He was still too raw to think about what he’d do if he actually had to abandon his human life. All he could focus on right now was the hurt pulsing through him.
He wandered around in the dark for a little while longer, looking for a suitable place to set up camp for the night. Eventually, he came upon a set of twisting trees that was perfect for his purposes. Lightening his weight, he climbed up halfway and made a little ice tent in the branches. It was lightweight but thick, covering him up and serving as a shield between him and the rest of the world. In his own little ice palace, no one else could hurt him.
“There we go, home sweet home,” Danny mumbled as he crawled inside with a dull thump. He’d left a little skylight open, so he could look up at the stars. If he didn’t think too hard about it, he could imagine he was out camping with his dad or stargazing with his friends. “No, stop it. You’re only making it worse,” he said quietly to himself as the annoying flush of sadness washed over him. He didn’t like to cry; it made him feel stupid and childish and exhausted. Jazz had lectured him about the cleansing release of neurochemicals and other junk but really he usually felt worse after crying. 
“This is fine, everything is fine,” Danny sniffled, shuddering as he curled in on himself. The only cold that could hurt him was his own. It really wasn’t a great idea to use his that much of his ice in his human form, it chilled his body too much to be healthy. That, combined with his light clothes, the chilly night and that fact that he was laying on a solid block of ice, didn’t help matters. If Sam and Tucker could see him, they’d be shoving him in the shower to warm him up and plying him with food and blankets. Jazz and her dozen kind of herbal teas that help with mood or digestion or whatever would shove one or two into his hands and hover until he drank some. Their nagging was annoying but it was helpful and made him feel so loved. Love he wasn’t feeling out in the woods all by himself in the middle of the night.
“This is fine,” he repeated, more choked up this time and gave into his desire to cry. His chest hurt from the force of his sobs and eyes burned from the salty tears. He was flushed and cold and miserable but eventually, after wiping snot away from his nose and hiccupping quietly, he was ready to sleep. He was so worn out from all the hurting and the crying that he slipped from wakefulness as easy as going ghost.
“Child, what are you doing?” Danny groaned at the vaguely familiar voice. His ghost sense went off, reminding him once more how cold he was. He barely had it in him to shiver right now. “Ghost child, awaken and explain yourself.” Cold metal poked repeatedly into his side until Danny shoved the hand away, sitting up with a miserable glare.
“Go away, I’m not in the mood,” Danny grumbled, turning away from Skulker to try and go back to sleep. “I already feel bad enough, I don’t need you making it worse.”
“That does not explain why you are in a tree in the woods,” Skulker said slowly, still hung on stupid details. “The last I checked, the human Lair you stayed in was still standing. I stopped there to show you my latest weapon but you weren’t there, I traced your signature here.”
“Congrats, pass go and collect $200,” Danny sniped back quietly, not putting any heat into it. He didn’t have much to spare.
“Why are you out here, all alone?” Skulker frowned, “humans are susceptible to the elements, I presume you’re no exception given your current state. Just this once, I will stay the hunt to return you to your human Lair and we shall resume at a later-”
“No, I can’t go back,” Danny gasped fearfully, he curled in deeper on himself. “My parents, they know about me, about my powers. They didn’t take it well, I can’t- I don’t have anywhere else to go.”
“But those human children-”
“I’m not getting them involved in this, they’re already in too deep. Tucker’s still grounded from that incident with Desiree and if Sam’s parents caught me in her room at night I’d lose the other half of my miserable life,” Danny grumbled. “Just leave me alone or kill me and take my pelt. Either one, it doesn’t matter anymore.”
“I see,” Skulker hummed, “stay here, Child, I will return.” Skulker said before flying off.
“Great, can’t wait,” Danny murmured as he rearranged himself on his ice block. He still felt unbearably cold but it probably wasn’t enough to actually kill him. Probably. “Stupid ghosts, stupid powers, if I hadn’t walked into that stupid portal, I’d be be safe and warm in bed right now and only have to worry about passing pre-calc.” It felt like he’d barely fallen back asleep when he was forcibly awaken by something soft and heavy dropping on him.
He phased out of the tangle only to find a bunch of blankets and heavy winter coat that looked 2 sizes too big for him. “What the-”
“Wow you weren’t kidding, babe, he looks like a trainwreck,” he heard Ember’s gruff voice say. “Hey dummy, put on the stupid coat. I ain’t had nerve endings in a while but I’m getting cold just looking atcha.”
“You bring your girlfriend to harass me in the middle of the night with,” Danny eyed the pile with price tags still on them, “stolen merchandise.”
“Shut up, we’re crashing your pathetic little pity party so you don’t die before I can off you myself,” the rock star huffed. “If that coat isn’t on you in five seconds, I’m manhandling your skinny arms into it.”
“Jeez you’re worse than my sister,” Danny grumbled even as he pulled the coat on. It was big but fluffy, the extra layer instantly made him feel a bit better. “Happy?”
“Getting there. Techy, you brought the food or what?” Danny yelped as a large amount of food dropped in through his skylight. It was an interesting mix, a jumbo bag of peanuts, dijon mustard, a jar of pickled eggs, a couple bags of chips and a box of uncooked macaroni noodles. “Here, eat some human food.”
“What?” Danny questioned as Technus poked his head into the icy tree house. 
“Oh nice place you got here child but it needs more lights and a flat screen and, oh, I can set you up with a killer stereo system over eek!” the technology ghost yelped as he was pulled back and Poindexter replaced him. 
“Hey Danny, heard you were in a bit of a bind. Thanks to you, my Lair’s school is a better place now, bully free. You can cool your jets with me if you need to fly the coop.” Danny didn’t answer and instead opened one of the bags of chips, barbeque and ranch sweet. 
“You can also stay on my island for however long you need to recover,” Skulker grumbled, like it pained him to say. “It’s no fun to hunt you when you’re so weak. I want to defeat you at your prime not at your lowest.”
“No, no, come to my lair! Everything is beeping and flashing all the time and I have a Minecraft room!” Technus interjected.
“I guess you could come to mine if you have to,” Ember huffed. “But aren’t you also buddy buddy with the Yetis bein’ an ice core and all? Or Queen Dora? Pretty much anyone will open their lairs to you with your stupid, beaten puppy dog eyes.”
“You guys, I don’t know what to say,” Danny said softly, taken aback by the show of kindness. He took in the blankets, the coat, the food, their offers. They didn’t understand, not really, but they were trying. It meant a lot, coming from his enemies. “Thank you.”
“Well, yeah, us nerds got to stick together,” Poindexter grinned.
“You’re human and an annoyance but your existence has given my afterlife quite a thrill. I’m not ready for the hunt to end quite yet,” Skulker announced.
“You’re our favorite nemesis,” Technus exclaimed, trying to squeeze his face back through the packed skylight. “We fight, we banter but we also support each other when we’re down! Whenever I’m feeling down, I come into the human world and our battles have me back up and running in no time!”
“Huh,” Danny said, looking down with a small smile. If his enemies could put aside their grudges and help him when he needed it then maybe... “Thanks again really but uh, I think I should go home, check in with my folks. Probably shouldn’t have run off like that but um, if it goes bad...”
“You’re part ghost,” Skulker said with a sharp nod. “The Zone is as much your home as it is ours. Really should get around to making a Lair one of these days. Only weak ghosts and parasites leech off of others.”
“You know the way back from here?” Ember asked. “Need an entourage?” 
“Yeah I got it,” Danny answered, triggering his transformation. Poindexter squealed with delight as he phased out of his sad little ice cave. It looked cold and lonely which wasn’t what he needed right now. “And I’ll- it’ll be fine. I don’t think bringing a bunch of ghosts home with me will help my case.”
“Farewell, Child. May your spirits be higher on our next meeting. Having the support of ghost hunters will certainly add to the challenge of the hunt,” Skulker grinned. “I look forward to it.” He flew off and the others followed. Danny smiled, watching them go for a moment before flying in the opposite direction towards his house.
He was halfway home when the Fenton Assault Vehicle careened around a corner at an unsafe speed. Danny jumped as it went past, startled out of invisibility. He made eye contact with his parents before the RV skidded to a screeching halt and then hastily backed up. The window rolled down and he met the wide, teary eyes of his mom and dad.
“Uh funny running into you in a place like this,” he said shyly, looking down.
“Oh thank heavens, Danny where have you been? We’ve been worried sick!” His mother cried, jumping out of the RV and pulling him down into her arms. His father was on the phone, he heard Jazz’s name being mentioned, along with Sam and Tucker. “Baby, you’re freezing! Is this,” she paused, pulling back and delicately touching his wisp like hair. “Is that normal?”
“Sort of,” he said, leaning back into her touch. “It’s all kind of a long story. I shouldn’t have run off like that, I’m sorry.”
“No, you shouldn’t have but I don’t blame you,” Dad said, stepping out of the car and wrapping them both in a hug. “But Fenton men always make up for their goof ups. You were headed back home, right?”
“Yeah, home,” Danny sighed.
“Danny, I still don’t understand but I, we, love you and I’m sorry if we made you doubt that. We’ll work it out, sweetie, I promise. That’s what family does,” Mom said before ushering him and Dad into the car. “Now in you get, it’s too cold and too late for this and I do not want the neighbors complaining to the HOA again.”
Danny changed back in front of his parents for the second time that evening, this time intentionally. Their curiosity and happiness at seeing him overrode their earlier fear and confusion. He settled more comfortably into the backseat, warm and happy for the first time all evening.
“Danno, where’s you get the jacket?” Dad asked.
“My other family, don’t worry, I’ll explain it all tomorrow.”
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leia-imogen · 3 years
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aaron & the family he's found all by himself; vol. 1 // vol. 2
( ft. the first meeting & the first family game night )
okay, rundown of his first meeting w the vixens!
the vixens don't really like the foxes. they cheer at their games and all, but outside of that, they mostly stick with the football players
bcs, well, the foxes are,, intimidating and most of the vixens don't get how or why katelyn started dating one
especially one half of the terrifying duo that is the twinyards. like these tiny blonde angst goblins have absolutely zero chill, and this is the backliner one, the one that shattered the nose of a dude basically twice his size
they may be short as fuck but they're scary, and the vixens are worried that he might break katelyn's heart
but katelyn's sure about aaron minyard, and when cleo softly asks, "is he worth it?" she knows her answer is a yes
savannah and the rest of the girls aren't convinced tho, so she asks aaron if he'll meet them for one of the afterparties they have after games
he agrees after seeing the hopeful look on her face
and surprise, surprise, it isn't a complete disaster!!
see, aaron has a habit of mirroring the nature of the person he's with. in the book, we mostly see him as an asshole bcs it's from neil's pov, and neil, as much as i adore him, is an asshole
i think that when he's with nicky ( someone he loves and trusts ), he's like, nicer. it's not in his nature to be cheery or anything but he's less,, hostile? and way more relaxed
and katelyn's been nothing but sweet and polite to him, bcs katelyn's sweet and polite till you give her a reason not to be
so he's sweet and polite back, or at least, sweet and polite as aaron minyard can get.
yeah, he's definitely interesting enough, clever and quick-witted enough, respectful and loyal and insanely talented enough, that katelyn decides he's worth it. doubts he'll ever get boring
and yes, she knows this is a big risk, bcs she knows the foxes' rep, knows how fucked up he must to secure a place on the psu foxes, notices how aaron flinches when she makes any sudden movement
but you know what? fuck it
so when aaron tells her his strange, twisted little deal with his brother, katelyn's willing to fight for him
and after nearly 2 months of this, she drags him to the vixens with their fingers interlocked and a hope in her heart that they'd play nice like she's asked ( practically begged ) them to
aaron's buzzing a bit with nervous energy. it's very endearing, how his eyes had lit up at the sight of her, then how she felt her anxiety about the night melt away into excitement
sav tries, bless her, tries to engage aaron in half-hearted conversation about exy ( which she hates ) and aaron tries back, but that fizzles out bcs for someone on a full-ride exy scholarship, aaron doesn't like exy at all
thank god that marissa, who's been trying to be less of a bitch all night, bless her too, lets it slip that sav detests exy
"okay, i can't anymore. minyard, savannah actually hates exy and she hates the foxes too, but we're hoping that you're an exception."
aaron, holding back a laugh: honestly? same.
sav: oh thank fucking GOD we have something to talk about then
"yeah, the entire sport sucks, doesn't it? i literally play it at college level and i still have barely figured out the goddamn rules."
"exactly! and my entire family's fucking obsessed for some reason, it's so annoying! ugh and the foxes suck even more, they're all so goddamn rude for no reason. except maybe the cute goalie."
". . ."
"eww not your brother, i meant renee walker,, and maybe you're not too bad either, minyard."
"you flatter me."
katelyn watches their exchange with more than a little amusement. aaron's not smiling, but his features have softened and he's flushed from the alcohol he'd had and she can't rly believe that this is the boy who they all thought would break her heart
bcs later when aaron comes up to her with a cookie dough cupcake ( her favourite ) she didn't even know was served at the party, leans into her so his face is buried in her neck, whispers "thanks for taking me", when she takes in all her friends laughing and chatting and waving at her, when sav gives her a thumbs-up and nods to aaron, she's never felt more whole
like she was part of something bigger than herself
then aaron starts hanging around them more! yeah he saw the look on katelyn's face and he was going to TRY for her or so help him- usually just with katelyn, sav, and cleo
she invites him to the "family game night" sav is making them have, and he's like "sure why not."
he knocks on the door of sav and cleo's dorm and sav lets him in
"yo, minyard! glad you make it, katelyn's out on a donut run but she'll be back soon."
okay,, okay. so he'll,,, what? interact w people?? hell fucking no
then he realises that it's only cleo in the dorm, plugged into her headphones, playing mario kart, and thanks katelyn for ensuring there would only be ppl that like, he didn't mind
the other vixens were okay, but way too LOUD, and aaron wasn't rly up for spending a whole night w them
cleo hands him a controller, an invitation to play, and he takes it gratefully. he and cleo hadn't talked that much at the party, but she was perfectly tolerable so far, which was a good sign
and mario kart was a part of his childhood, one of the only few that nicky's parents had owned, so he and his cousin had spent hours curled up in front of tv trying to beat each other
even tho he beats nicky most of the time, cleo absolutely destroys him. he mentally tries to brush it off as him being rusty ( which he definitely is ) but damn, cleo's good. still, she brushes off the compliment when aaron blurts it out
okay so then katelyn comes back with like way too many donuts and they start playing monopoly gathered around the coffee table
sav insists on putting on some music. wannabe starts playing. she winks at aaron and aaron winks back, still not smiling. cleo snorts and katelyn kisses his cheek
listen, cleo is a monopoly master. soon, she owns over half the board and it's pretty clear she's gonna win, someone ( savannah riley jameson, everyone ) flips the board
"jameson, what the actual fuck."
"shut the hell up, minyard."
"come on, sav, i was winning!"
katelyn's trying to pick up all the pieces and aaron bends down to help her, shaking his head at sav, who pouts and joins them while cleo grins, headphones slung around her shoulders while she perches herself onto the arm of the settee and hums to wake me up before you go-go
next, sav begs them to play twister. cleo's great at most games, but she has a particular dislike for twister, so she's out quick
katelyn is super bendy, bcs she took gymnastics for years, and aaron holds his own surprisingly well, considering the fact that he's short as fuck
sav: katie, right hand red
katelyn, ending up right on top of a blushing aaron: okay, you're doing this on purpose, aren't you?
sav: i stopped spinning like 15 turns ago, i'm surprised you didn't notice sooner
eventually aaron collapses and katelyn is hailed as the queen of twister and they spend the next 10 minutes just calling out random spots for katelyn to try
she gets all of them, and aaron is actually smiling now and it doesn't matter that it's only a tiny quirk of his lips, it's something and katelyn cherishes it
they play some sort of surgeon simulator thingy next, and aaron "gonna be a future neurosurgeon" minyard is awesome at it, bcs duh
katelyn's not very good at this. her hands get SHAKY okay
cleo also sucks at this, bcs she keeps getting nervous and having muscle spasms. sav's just doing the dumbest shit bcs it's bringing aaron closer to the edge of cardiac arrest
aaron: jameson holy shit what are you DOING
sav, slicing open the spinal cord: okay so what if i take out the lungs through the back haha
and now sav is sulking over the fact that she hadn't absolutely murdered the others at a game
so she brings out the ultimate game. the game of bastards, one that tears families apart, sets friendships on fire, starts wars too gruesome to be started by anything other than this wretched, cursed artefact. . .
s c r a b b l e
aaron's already having war flashbacks. katelyn groans and goes to make popcorn, bcs this shit's gonna take FOREVER and she knows it. cleo, an english major, is preparing herself for battle with the force of nature that is savannah
"the fuck do you MEAN fergalicious isn't a word???"
"savannah, please."
"no, here, listen to this."
"sav, we were listening to that!" katelyn complains. sav sighs and switches the song back to her "90's bops" playlist, then changes it to "hell yeah feminism" which instantly starts playing run the world ( girls )
katelyn happily starts singing and aaron's not even reluctant to hum along
sav and cleo are still arguing. this has been going on for so long. sav looks ready to flip over the board again, so cleo does it first
katelyn: cleo what the heck
cleo, the tired mom friend: don't fucking curse
aaron is also tired, but in a good way, in kind of that soft lazy droopy way
he falls asleep leaning against the sofa and katelyn's shoulder, with god is a woman playing in the background while sav and cleo continue arguing. cleo is standing on the coffee table. it's true anarchy
he wakes up on the sofa with a blanket thrown over him and sunlight streaming in through the lacy curtains and katelyn making a complete mess of the kitchen in a futile attempt to make breakfast. sav and cleo are draped across each other on the floor
katelyn, struggling to pick up burning toast: morning babe, how did you sleep?
aaron, calmly using a pair of tongs: pretty well. who wants pancakes?
sav, instantly shooting up: DID YOU SAY PANCAKES
so he makes pancakes! nicky taught him as soon as he'd gained custody of the twins, so he's pretty much an expert. he tries to teach katelyn, but then just gives up bcs she's clearly not listening in favour of staring at him
and they all gather around the coffee table and cleo's humming along to the song on her headphones and wow these pancakes are rly good omg
while aaron is chatting to cleo about what video games they should play next, sav whispers, "kate finley, if you don't marry this boy just for his god-tier pancakes, i will."
"sav, you're a lesbian."
"not anymore, i've decided that i am pancake-sexual."
aaron hears all of this btw, bcs cleo stops when she hears them talking. he blushes, and smiles, just a little bit
( if anyone actually cares about this, tell me! shoot me an ask if there's any particular ask you want to see with these characters, or just the foxes! )
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iraacundus · 4 years
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The Sins of Angels
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devil!Taeyong soulmate!au 
Genre: fluff, fantasy, smut, angst Words: 10k
warnings: sex (incl. degredation), swearing
better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven - Paradise Lost, John Milton 1667
You weren't a bad person, but clearly, you hadn’t been a great one either. You had to figure that was the case as you stood in a really long queue at the front desk of Hell. There were some people around you crying and screaming, but most people just stood in stony silence, waiting until they reached the end of the queue.
It was a casual four weeks later when you reached the front, which for Hell you supposed was quite quick. You wondered if it was meant to unsettle you, to form part of your eternity of torture, or maybe that's just how long bureaucracy in the afterlife took.
“Name and time of death?” You finally heard be called out to you. You had to think for a second, the hours of standing in the queue had really started to rot your brain.
“It’s y/n and I died on the 3rd March 2020 at 9:58pm” You said, having no idea why you knew your exact time of death, but the desk man wasn’t surprised and therefore it must have been something dead people just knew. The desk man handed you a gold coin.
“Straight ahead to the gates, tell them you’re going to the second circle,”. You took the coin and nodded. “Have a terrible time,” he said, sounding so bored that you were sure he was having a worse time.
No sooner had you step away from the desk to contemplate your impending doom before he called you back.
He stared down at the old 1980’s computer in front of him in slight disbelief, hitting the side of it three times just to make sure it was actually working properly. Seeing that this made no difference the man shrugged and motioned for you to come closer to the desk.
“Just had a message from the boss man, turns out your wanted down where the real actions happens,” he said taking back your coin. He placed it carefully back in its box before reaching down below his desk and fiddling for a moment.
“Could you come round here and stand beside me?” he asked, you noted his tone had become much more polite ever since he had read his computer message.
“First interesting thing to happen at this desk in ninety years,” He said looking at you, eyes not blinking for a slightly uncomfortable amount of time before pointing down to where he had been fiddling.
“This is a passage to the City of Dis. It’s a ten hour-long fall and it hurts when you get to the bottom, but it’s that… or ten hundred years of torture to get there and we don’t have that kind of time.”
“Don’t we have all of time,” you questioned, Hell had always been marketed as an eternity of suffering.
“You mean to say,” the man began, “That you would actually prefer to endure the ten hundred years of torture?” He was incredulous, you didn’t think his eyebrows could lift any faster.
Neither seemed like a good option, but you couldn’t possibly die twice so one hard fall had to have been the better option. You looked down at the endless dark hole, trying to contemplate what was being proposed here.
“You don’t really have a choice, please jump down the hole, you’re really holding up the queue, I’ve got targets to meet.”
You couldn’t ascertain whether the last part was a joke or not, but you had realised that overthinking wasn’t helping anyone. You took one last look at the man at the hell desk before launching yourself into the depths of Hell.
You screamed for about the first minute, before realizing it was pointless, you had a long while to go until you hit the ground. You pondered about why you might have ended up where you were, cursing that in real life you hadn’t bothered to study the nine circles of hell, that might have given you a clue.
About three-quarters of the way through your fall it started to get lighter again, but also hotter, it was exhaustingly hot, worse than Death Valley in the summer hot. You felt like you had been falling for much less than a few hours, you weren't sure if time worked the same way in eternity. You almost wanted to cry but the thought that an eternity in Hell could be worse though, which somehow comforted you. Even though you knew that it could get worse and probably would.
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It was a while longer until you finally hit the ground. It hurt like every single bone in your body had broken. You just lay there, contorted.
“Oh... That looked like it hurt!” You heard someone exclaim from above you. You half-opened one eye to see a boy staring down at you. All you could notice was that he was very good looking, something you had noticed about desk boy too now that you thought about it. Every bone in your body may have shattered, but if all the people in hell, looked like the men you had seen so far... your complaints were limited. A fact which truly made you think you had really lost any sense of reality.
“You need to get up ... you haven't reached your final destination.” He said. You swore under your breath before pushing yourself onto your hands and knees, something that induced the agonising pain all over again. The good-looking guy just stared at you with a wicked grin.
“I have all the time in the world babe quite literally infinite time, but the person we are going to meet does not have infinite patience. And- and I can’t stress this enough - he's really fucking scary so stand the hell up,” he grabbed your arms lifting you to your feet, shaking his head, “get the hell up, did you not appreciate what I did there.” You stared at him blankly.  
“My humour is wasted in this bloody city.” He complained.
You said nothing, you had literally no idea what to say to this man, if he even was a man.
“I’m Yangyang by the way,” he continued, “one of this city’s finest fallen angels, fell straight from heaven into the ladies' hearts.”
Now you were standing up you realised the light you had seen was just endless fire, the only break in the fire was a stone path that didn’t seem to have an end, at least not an end that you could see.
The fire was filled with burning souls in the distance, the screams you could hear were unnerving, you wanted to somehow disappear. Yangyang didn’t even seem to hear them, the screams of hell must have become just a faint music to him over time, like radio music in a shop.
You followed closely behind him as he led you along the fire-lit path. As you got closer to what you presumed was the city of Dis the sound of a distant roar of voices got louder and louder, but there was still no end in sight.
“What did you get kicked out of Heaven for... if it’s not rude to ask?” You were trying to create any sense of distortion from the horrifying surroundings.
He laughed, the fire reflecting against his face that still held the same wicked grin.
“I’m not offended and even if I was, this is Hell, people are rude all the time it doesn’t matter. Here in Hell you can do what you want babe. There is only one person youwill have to listen to; Lucifer himself. Most people listen to the fallen angels too, but I fear you will end up being more important here than me.”
You knew in theory who Lucifer was, fallen angel, cast out by God. Somehow though, you hadn’t expected him to exist even after you got to Hell, you assumed he was just created to scare children and adults alike. The idea of fallen angels was also a foreign one to you, you hadn’t even known there were more people like Lucifer.
“And to answer your question, I got kicked out of heaven for being too fun,” he said, laughing mostly to himself. You doubted that was the official reason he got kicked out, even if he decided to justify it as such.
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The walk came to an end at the edge of a vast canyon. At the very bottom, you could see a very grand building surrounded by markets and various other buildings. In the rock face, there were many entrances and balconies which people seemed to live inside.
“We don’t have to jump do we?” You asked, feeling like you had done enough falling for at least the next six lifetimes in Hell.
“There is a lift.”
He said like it was very obvious, and you were stupid for even suggesting otherwise, even though he had seen the end of your bone breaking fall.
The lift wasn’t like any modern-day one, more like one you would have seen in a mine shaft in centuries past, just bigger. There was a large queue for the lift which Yangyang didn’t seem at all bothered by. He grabbed your arm and walked through the queue, the sea of people parting as the jumped back in what appeared to be fear. You couldn’t understand why; Yangyang seemed nice enough.
You stepped into the lift and clung to the side as the door shut. The metal groaned slightly before beginning to lower. You could see each of the levels more clearly now, there were four distinct areas above the ground floor.
“The city is the 6th to 9th circles of Hell,” Yangyang explained, “For people who committed worse crimes, treachery, heresy and all that.”
“What is the second circle?” You asked back, hoping he could provide you the answer to your biggest question.
“Is that where you were headed?”
You nodded.
“Just before I was told to jump down the hole and ended up here, I was originally meant to go to the second circle.”
Yangyang just laughed but didn’t bother to answer the question and you weren’t brave enough to ask again.
The metal began to screech again as the lift hit the ground floor and the gate began to open. The people waiting at the bottom also immediately moved back when they saw Yangyang step forward, pushing you off the lift and past the crowd.
Yangyang set off walking, through market, after market in which everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves. There was the odd scream of pain here and there but there were more screams of laughter, more voices chatting and bargaining.
As you got closer to the centre of the floor the buildings got bigger and grander, some of them almost palatial.
“That’s my house” Yangyang said pointing to a large building to the right of you. It looked quite nice, even if a drunk man had passed out on the front steps.
“You can get drunk in Hell?” You asked.
“Ninety percent of the people here are drunk ninety percent of the time.” Was his answer.
You walked for a few more minutes before reaching the gate that surrounded the grandest building of all, Devil House, Yangyang informed you. The gates were opened by two guards as you approached, how bowed at you both as you passed. Yangyang walked you up to the door before knocking six times.
After a minute or so the doors opened seemingly by themselves. Situated behind the doors was a grandiose entrance hall made out of black marble, a gold chandelier hanging from the ceiling.
You looked at Yangyang expectantly for him to explain what would happen next, but he said nothing, the wicked grin gone from his face. For the first time he actually looked somewhat scared.
You suddenly noticed a man standing at the top of the staircase. He was staring straight down at you with a glare that could have killed, ifyou hadn’t already been dead.
“My Lord,” Yangyang managed to choke out, he stared down at his feet, his hands fidgeting. When you looked back away from Yangyang, the man, who you guessed was the Devil, was standing right in front of you. Blood red hair, perfect jawline, flawless skin - out of all of the good-looking men you had seen here so far, he was the most perfect.
He reached out and kissed your hand.
“Welcome to Hell, my love, my name’s Lucifer, but you can call me Taeyong,” he said.
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You woke up in a bed with some of the softest pillows you had ever felt, you sat up slowly, taking in your surroundings, not knowing how you had ended up there. The bed you were on was the only piece of furniture in the completely white room. There was a door at the far end of the room and a window that looked out onto the fire and darkness below.
You stood up carefully and walked over to the window. You could see the guards still standing by the gate and a few people fighting in the corner of the street.
A light knock came at the door.
“Come in?” You replied after a brief pause, realising that the person knocking was assuming this was your room.
The door swung open and Taeyong, Lord Lucifer, walked in. You froze where your stood by the window, even though he was standing about ten meters away from you.
If Taeyong sensed your fear, he chose to ignore it,
“I hope you're comfortable, I had one of the women change your clothes, I figured you would prefer that,” he said. You looked down, where your previous dust-ridden clothes had been was now a silk nightdress, you raised your eyebrows slightly. It was a beautiful item of clothing but slightly on the revealing side for meeting a man you didn’t know.
“Isn’t that very nice of someone who is meant to be the Devil?” you asked him. He looked you dead in the eyes and tilted his head slightly,
“If you want me to be mean darling, that can be arranged... but I would prefer if we could be civil.”
You nodded, once again lost for words. You couldn’t remember much about your life, but you were pretty sure that in life you had always had something to say. Yet since you had gotten to Hell you were more often than not lost for words.
You started to remember the events of the previous span of time, you remembered falling and meeting Yangyang. Yangyang made you feel comfortable, you had many questions and hoped maybe he would be able to answer them.
“Could I maybe talk to Yangyang,” you asked. Taeyong shook his head.
“No.” His lips rested in a firm line; you were starting to understand why Yangyang said he was someone to be afraid of. Yet with a life of torture already assured you felt you had nothing left to lose.
“I’m just gonna say it,” you began, ‘what is going on here, like what’s with the whole situation, I don’t remember anything about my life, or even how I ended up in this room, all I know is I jumped down a hole, met Yangyang, who was definitely scared of you by the way, and ended up here right now. I know that you are the all-powerful Lucifer, but you won’t let me see the one person I vaguely know or trust.” Taeyong just smirked out your outburst.
“You don’t always get what you want in Hell and I wouldn’t make a habit of trusting fallen angels” he replied.
His lacklustre reply stirred a deep sense of anger within you, you found it really hard to tolerate people who thought they were better than others.
“Is this my torture? Because if so, you guys are using weird tactics these days... like rather unorthodox if you ask me, I think I might rather just be burnt.” You instantly regretted the comment about being burnt, “But also please don’t burn me.”
To your surprise Taeyong half smiled at your comment.
“I’m not torturing you; I assure you that definitely involves classic techniques like burning people to death. In fact, I would argue that fact fate has left you lucky.”
“What does that mean?” You asked. Taeyong shrugged.
“There are worse things in death than having to marry me.”
You blinked about ten times in a row, the words gone from your mind again, blank.
“Sorry one second,” you said, holding up four hand, “can you just elaborate on that, because last time I checked I wasn’t engaged to any devils.”
“Not any regular devil, theDevil.” He corrected, before looking down at the expensive watch that was on his wrist, “I have to go and sort some things out, feel free to look around the house, just don’t leave and don’t interact with any of the staff around the house.”
You didn’t have time to formulate a reply or protest before he was gone, door shut perfectly, as if he had never even been there.
You sat around in silence for a few minutes before becoming curios about your surroundings. Your room was totally empty so you hoped the rest of the house wasn’t as such or it would have been a rather dull house tour.
Fortunately, as soon as you stepped out of your room you were faced with a very different sight. The corridor had a plush red carpet lining the floor and paintings and tapestries lining the walls.
You entered room after room, most of them just empty bedrooms, though none as empty as yours had been. As you ventured a little further into the house you began to find more interesting rooms.
There was a corridor that constituted only of studies another that had what seemed to be conference type rooms with long tables and lots of chairs. Around the other side you finally came across the dining room where there was food laid out on the table. A whole feast that you didn’t dare touch for a variety of reasons.
A man stood in the corner of the room, when he saw you enter, he bowed down just as the guards had, something that unsettled you.
“In case you wanted to eat,” the man explained, gesturing towards the table. You noticed there was only one place set for eating, at the same time you wondered if the concept of being hungry even existed in Hell. You felt your stomach grumble slightly, answering your own question.
You gave a weak smile to the man before sliding into the seat. This could be where the torture begins, you thought. It could have been poisoned food or turned into rotting flesh when you ate it, yet it looked so appetising you could hardly believe that would ever be the case.
Still unsure of weather to eat it or not you turned to the man,
“Do you know where I could find this guy called Yangyang?”
“I think we both know that I can’t tell you where Yangyang is,” he replied. You looked back to the food pressing your lips together, it had been worth a shot.
“I would be happy to try and answer any questions you have instead, my name is Yuta, I am a personal assistant of sorts,”
“Another archangel?” you asked. Yuta shook his head.
“Nope, just a demon.”
Yes, just a demon, of course.
Yuta watched you staring at the food and quickly guessed as to why you are hesitant,
“It is perfectly safe to eat; you are an honoured guest of hell.”
“That is exactly what someone who wanted me to eat the torture meal would say,” you replied accusatorily. Yuta laughed to himself slightly,
“If you don’t want to eat it that’s also fine, you will starve for eternity but that is, what as this other demon Johnny often says – not my problem.”
You still wondered if it was reverse psychology, but the hunger pangs had really started to kick in, so you decided to eat the food regardless.
You quickly realised that it wasn’t poisoned and that it was actually some of the most delicious food you had ever eaten.
After you had eaten for a while you looked back at Yuta who was still standing there watching you.
“How come I am allowed to talk to you and not Yangyang?” you asked.
“I don’t make the rules,” he replied. Yuta followed the word of Taeyong just as much as everyone else did, the devil really did seem to have a lot of power.
You stood up from your seat, as you did the dishes and food vanished at a click of Yuta’s fingers. Demon magic. When you headed towards the door Yuta remained where he had always been, unmoving.
“Nice to meet you, I suppose, I’m y/n by the way.” You said just before you left.
“I already knew that,” Yuta grinned. Everyone you had met in Hell acted weirdly, both in general and specifically towards you. You couldn’t figure out why there was no torture or why you had supposedly ended up engaged to Taeyong.
You had thought about asking Yuta more questions, but it seemed like Taeyong didn’t want you to know the answer to your questions and therefore none of his buddies were ever going to tell you, so you didn’t bother.
You went another three weeks before you saw Taeyong again, or anyone else for that matter. The only person you had seen was Yuta who watched you eat every day, would enter into general conversations with you about himself, and tales of demons but would never answer any questions you had or explain anything useful.
“I really need to talk to Taeyong,” you asked him, pretty much pleading at this point.
“Not an option,” Yuta replied.
“Where is he?” you asked for the ninth time that day.
“Hell,”
“Yeah very funny bud. I am not marrying him, I’ve only met him once and then he fucked off, not really the kind of behaviour that would make him a good husband.”
“He will return soon,” Yuta said, clearly trying to hide his own laughter, as a Demon he thrived on your suffering ever so slightly.
“You are annoyingly vague.” You sighed, “Can we not just break the rules, like this is hell can we not just sneak out and go and do something, this house is boring there is nothing to do and I would still really like to talk to Yangyang.”
Yuta pressed his hands together before speaking,
“No, we cannot just ‘break the rules’ Taeyong is all powerful I would rather not piss him off. It is very unboring here, I still have two million years’ worth of top-quality stories lined up, not all of them mine, I will admit. You only met Yangyang like one time, no need to make it twice, furthermore he will not answer your questions either, he too fears those who should be feared.”
You banged your head against the table repeatedly.
“This is definitely Hell!”
“You are rather dramatic y/n.”
You could see Yuta out of the corner of your eye and though he was laughing you could tell he also felt sorry for you.
“I will see what I can do,” he relented. You stopped hitting your head, got up and ran over to Yuta, throwing your arms around him.
“Thank you!” you said in earnest.
At that moment the door on the other side of the room opened and Yuta froze.
“It seems I have been gone too long, my fiancé is turning to other men,”
You let go of Yuta and spun round.
“She was hugging me because I offered to find out where you were…” Yuta tried to explain but you cut him off.
“Yeah well I have only been stuck in this boring house for a whole month with only him to talk to so if we are close that is your own fault.” You shouted at him.
“Don’t shout at him, that’s not gonna end well,” Yuta whispered to you aggressively.
“I am just a little bit angry, no, a lot angry and seeing as I cannot have any friends or meet any people, I will be voicing them to the only two people I am allowed to talk with.”
Taeyong said nothing, he strode over to where you were, grabbed your hand and dragged you from the room.
Yuta looked alarmed as you left. Taeyong led you down several corridors until you reached one of the grandest offices you had seen yet. He let go of your hand and slammed the door behind you.
“I would appreciate it if you were not rude to me in front of the people who work for me.” Taeyong said.
“I would appreciate it if you weren’t such an elusive dickhead.”
“I had … work to attend to,” he said, hand running through his bright red hair.
He was standing only a few feet away from you causing you to notice just how good looking he was for the first time. He had a cut in his eyebrow and a jawline that was stronger than anything.
“Whereas I was stuck here, doing nothing. Yuta is nice and all, but his stories get kinda old after the first thirty. I just don’t understand why I can’t talk to anyone or leave this house, why I can’t know anything about hell.”
“I…” Taeyong almost started to explain but then shut his mouth again, leaning with his hand against the door.
“What are you afraid of me finding out?” you asked him.
Taeyong sneered.
“If I told you then it wouldn’t be a secret.” He paused for a moment before walking towards you. “I can’t decide,” he said, “whether to risk falling in love with you.”
“So, you have a bad relationship past?” you guessed. Taeyong said nothing so you assumed you had hit the bullseye.
“See, now we are getting somewhere,” you said, “if you explain things to me life is a lot easier and I won’t resent you as much.”
Taeyong continued walking towards you and you walked backwards away until your back was pressed up against the wall.
“We aren’t alive.” He corrected, you could feel his breath on your face, he was inches away.
Taeyong’s face looked pained, confused.
You don’t know why you did it, maybe it was the lack of physical contact, or the slightly sexual nature of some of Yuta’s stories but you felt like it was the right choice.
You place your hands on Taeyong’s cheeks, pulling his face down towards yours, lips together. You had only meant for it to be an innocent kiss at first, just a few seconds. You didn’t know Taeyong, but you wanted to take away the pained look on his face for just a second.
But as your lips touch you felt a deeper desire, your lips moving against his with a slight sense of urgency. Taeyong’s hands moved to your waist pulling you closer towards him, his grip like iron.
After a minute or two you pulled away, realising that you hadn’t breathed, that you didn’t need to breathe, a surprising perk of Hell. You opened your eyes to see Taeyong staring down at you, the pain still in his eyes, but now mixed with something else, something more positive, you didn’t know quite what.
“I’ve never had a girl kiss me first before,” he remarked. You smiled at him slightly.
“Well I just…” you couldn’t really explain why you did I, you didn’t know, because you still resented this man quite a lot., “It doesn’t mean I forgive you,” you assured him.
Taeyong leaned down and placed a final peck on your lips.
“You have made my choice for me though, there is no way I can avoid falling in love with you now.”
“Yuta are we friends,” you asked him.
“Why do you ask, please don’t ask me you break you out again you know I can’t,” he said, sounding genuinely sorry.
“I just mean if I told you something personal because I needed advice you wouldn’t need to tell Taeyong right? As long as it’s not my plan to break free. I have no girls here to talk to, or even any other boys, you’re my only hope,”
“I don’t see why I would have to tell Taeyong something like that no, so you can count me as a friend on this one.”
“I kissed Taeyong.” You blurted out the second he finished speaking. Yuta blinked a few times, nodding his head slightly.
“Did I really need to know that?” he asked.
“Do you know why I would have done that?”
“This, is the single worst question you have asked me yet, how would I know how your brain functions?” Yuta joked. You sighed, picking up your spoon and placing it in the ice-cream in front of you, that even with demon magic was fast melting due to high temperatures.
A few minutes later you walked back out and started searching the house for whatever room Taeyong was in.
You walked through room after room, to the point where you were not even sure which way was back anymore.
Eventually you came to a room with a door that must have been made out of gold. The door had a picture carved into it of an angel falling from heaven into the fire below. Your feet stopped. It had to be the room you had been searching for.
You knocked loudly but there came no reply, so you pushed the door open slightly, peeking into the room. At first it seemed empty, just like yours had been. There was a wooden bed with a canopy, that looked like one you would see in a period drama. It was ornate and stylish with two bedside tables either side.
Those three pieces of furniture were the only ones in the room.
You felt bad about intruding into someone else’s space, but it didn’t stop you, if you had been a better person you wouldn’t have been there in the first place.
You walked curiously over to the bed and sat down on it, the bed was perfectly made, not even a crease as you ran your hands across the bed covers.
You stared down at the bedside table, something you didn’t have in your own room. The one on the left side was empty, not even a dust particle to be seen.
You rolled over the bed to the other drawer, expecting it too to be empty.
You pulled it open to see a few things inside. There were a few letters which you felt like you shouldn’t read, a pen, a picture of Taeyong and Yuta and at the back of the drawer a small red book.
It wasn’t something you were proud of, but you couldn’t help but peek into the book. The first page was inscribed with a verse:
And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
So, the stories were true. But as you flicked through the pages you only became more confused, some were written in a language you didn’t understand or even recognise, some were filled with cursive handwriting recounting stories, much like the ones Yuta had told you, but it was the final few pages that confused you the most. There were paintings of five girls, each on a separate page.
Each had their name written underneath, a date and a timespan. The first 120AD - 3 months up until the most recent 1827 – 2 months.
In the last entry to the book you saw your own face. It was a picture of you sitting in a café in the sunshine, it had to have been from your life. You were drinking iced tea and laughing like nothing could have stopped your happiness. The date 2020 but no time span.
You didn’t understand what it meant entirely but you weren’t stupid either, you realised you were not the first girl who had ended up here.
Your thoughts were interrupted as the book was snatched away from you. You stared upwards to see Taeyong, eyes dark and unforgiving.
“What gives you the right,” he began through gritted teeth, “to look through other people’s personal items.”
He placed the book back in the drawer.
“I would say you can’t come into this room when I’m not here, but I assume you have already seen all there is to see,” he laughed darkly.
“Who are those girls, what do those dates mean?” you asked, still curious and somehow still unafraid, even though the man in front of you looked ready to kill.
Taeyong said nothing. You placed your hand over his lightly.
“I can only become close to you if you let me, and if we are to get married for whatever mysterious reason of fate, we should be close.”
Taeyong moved his hand back and looked away.
“We don’t need to be close; all that book proves is that in this cursed place, fiancé does not mean future wife.”
“Would you stop being so damned elusive for a fucking second?” you said. Taeyong lifted one eyebrow smirking.
“You don’t understand,” he said.
“Yeah I don’t understand if you don’t tell me.”
Taeyong’s smirk faded until he just looked sad. He looked over at you and smiled slightly.
“You can leave the house if you want, make some friends, just don’t leave the city, it’s not so fun outside the walls of Dis, its where the real sinners go.”
You were surprised, freedom wasn’t what you expected to gain from your trespass into his personal space.
“Why now?”
“Because even though you probably won’t choose hell in the end, I at least don’t want you to resent your time here.”
You walked round the bed to sit closer to him but as you sat down, he stood up.
“I think it is easier for both of us long term if what happened yesterday… doesn’t happen again.” He looked down at the time, “I have some rogue demons to chastise, I’ll get Yuta and Yangyang to show you around town.”
Five hours later you were drunk at a vodka bar in hell where Yuta had disappeared with some girl about an hour previously and you were left laughing with Yangyang until your stomach hurt.
“You have way better stories than Yuta,” you joked as Yangyang recounted a mishap between him, a goat demon and a man who had been sent to hell mostly for his obsession with stealing collectable plates.
“and you,” he replied, “are much more fun to be around than any of Taeyong’s previous ladies,” he said, covering his mouth as soon as he said it, “well fuck,” he finished off.
“Do not fear young fallen angel for I already know of these previous ladies, as in I know they exist and nothing else.”
Yangyang breathed out a sigh of relief.
“If I had let that secret go, well I would probably have been stung by bees for the next couple hundred years, every day at three o’clock.”
“There must be worst tortures?” You prompted. Yangyang shook his head.
“Don’t ever underestimate hell bees,” he said in a statement that sounded like he had his own history with said hell bees and that you shouldn’t press further.
“I know of the ladies and I guess that’s what makes him act weird towards me, but I don’t understand what happened.” You explained.
Yangyang looked around to see who was looking before motioning you to come closer.
“I can tell you, but you never heard it from me,” he said, “I must be drunk to be telling you this. Basically, Taeyong is cursed, not by God that’s just this whole hell thing but in a personal argument with an angel named Taeil. Taeyong once stole Taeil’s fiancé back in heaven, so when he was cast down to hell Taeil vowed to take revenge. Ever since as soon as a girl dies, who is someone Taeyong would definitely fall in love with, Taeil make sure they are sent right to his door, calls them the brides of hell. Well with the first one Taeyong didn’t realise it was Taeil, he just thought he had found his soulmate. Yet three months later Taeil shows up at the gates of hell und summons her fourth, Taeyong following close behind. He offers the girl a chance to go to heaven to have everything she ever wanted, that her going to hell was just a mistake and she is meant to marry him in heaven. And the girl agrees. Because as much as she loved Taeyong she wasn’t willing to give up the idea of eternal paradise for him, same for the next four girls… and now you. With the last one he didn’t even try. He didn’t talk to her once he just kept her locked up until Doyoung came. When she left, she said she hated Taeyong, which hurt him just as much as when he was betrayed.”
You took another shot of vodka.
“Well that… is a story and a half,” you remarked. Yangyang shrugged.
“Did the first girl really love him?” she asked. Yangyang nodded.
“They were happy together, Taeyong isn’t a bad guy to the people he loves, he’s not the same person he was a couple hundred thousand years ago, he’s not a great guy by any means but he was kind to the girl and they loved each other, the first betrayal is still the worst.”
“How could she do that to him if she loved him,” you asked him, you had only known Taeyong a short time and for most of that you had resented him, but you had started to understand him.
“Heaven isn’t something you refuse,” Yangyang said simply.
Before long you were both back to laughing and drinking, increasingly incapacitated. An hour later Yangyang was dragging you back to the steps of Taeyong’s house. He knocked on the door, lazily calling out,
“Taeyong, come and get y/n! I want to go to bed!” he said.
Taeyong appeared at the door a few moments later to see you lying on the ground semi-conscious, cocktail umbrella still in you grasp.
He leaned down and picked you easily, something you welcomed after Yangyang’s drunk drag.
“I’ll take you back to your room,” he said. You shook your head laughing.
“No!” you protested like a stubborn child, “I want to sleep next to you, in your room.”
Taeyong looked somewhat shocked.
“I already explained it would be better if we just kept out distance,” he began before you cut him off. You put your finger over his lips to silence him.
“Starting today,” you said, “I am going to stay with you forever, starting right now, in your bed.”
Taeyong sighed, continuing on to your room before placing you down in your bed, he tried to leave but you grabbed his arm to stop him.
“Please don’t leave me alone again,” you asked him quietly, “I don’t like being alone in this place.”
Taeyong’s eyes soften, his resolve defeated, he sat down next to you in the bed.
“I really won’t leave you, I won’t go with that mean Taeil guy,”
“Yangyang is so dead,” Taeyong said.
“We’re all dead silly.” You lay back in the bed, pulling Taeyong’s arm so he fell down to lie facing you.
“And you will leave, they all do,” Taeyong explained. You blinked a few times.
“I’m not them, I’m y/n, I’m my own person. And anyway, I bet none of them ever kissed you first.”
“Why did you kiss me?” Taeyong questioned thoughtfully.
“I really don’t know I just suddenly felt like it was the right thing to do in that moment, like fate had been leading up to right then and there.”
“I don’t believe in fate,” Taeyong sighed, “we are all just puppets of people like Taeil.”
“For someone who has power over a whole dimension that is a very defeatist attitude.” And before he could protest anymore you placed your hand on his cheek, your fingertips brushing a few strands of his hair,
“Am I really not different to any of those other women? Maybe their choice wasn’t wrong, maybe they just weren’t right for you, maybe I am,”
“I’m scared of you in particular, I have watched parts of your life on earth and I could see myself with you more than anyone before, and that terrifies me,” Taeyong admitted.
“I cause fear in the devil, what a powerful woman I am,” you joked grinning at him, “Don’t underestimate me.”
Taeyong brought his hand up to cover yours that was still rested on your face.
“You said you hate being alone here, why would you ever choose to stay here?” he asked.
“Because I wouldn’t be alone, I would have friends like Yuta and Yangyang and I would have you, Taeil chose me because we are a perfect match, right? Well then we will always be happy, also Yuta assures me he has a few million more stories lined up and I can’t miss out on that.”
Taeyong’s eyes stared into your soul, he licked his lower lip slightly before moving so he was positioned over you, resting on his forearms.
“I really hope that what you say is true,” he said before bringing his lips to meet yours.
A few weeks passed, you didn’t see Taeyong very often, he was still very busy, but he had made your life in hell become somewhat enjoyable. You spent most of your days playing around with Yuta, Yangyang had work to do, and getting to know the city. When you did see Taeyong he still somewhat guarded, but he was a lot more genuine with you.
You were just coming back from a game of throw the devil with Yuta when you noticed a bright white letter sitting on the doorstep, Dear Taeyong was written on the front in cursive writing similar to that of Taeyong’s.
Yuta grimaced at the sight of it. You didn’t have to ask who it was from because you knew it was from him, from Taeil.
“Well it was fun to get to know you,” Yuta said, holding out his hand for you to shake, “I wish you all the best in heaven, it sounds like a great place.”
“I’m not going,” you said. Yuta snorted,
“No one would ever give up that chance, especially not for someone they barely know, you’ve talked to Taeyong, what three four times, you might be crazy but there is no way you’re that crazy.
You looked up at the orange sky above, wishing more than ever that you could remember your past life, so you could understand what choice you would have made when you were alive.
“It doesn’t make sense to me either, maybe I suffered permanent brain damage when I fell down that hole on the way here… but I just have this feeling, a feeling that tells me that I belong here, with Taeyong, with you, with Yangyang, that this is my fate.”
“Don’t suffer a harsh fate just because you feel sorry for the devil,” Yuta exhaled deeply.
“How is this fate harsh?” you asked, “maybe for most people hell is the worst, but I have only had good experiences here, I may have complained about your stories, but they weren’t that bad,”
“Any fate is harsh in comparison to perfection.” Yuta mused.
“It’s almost like you want me to leave,” you joked. Yuta looked at the letter with envy.
“If you want to stay here that’s your choice and I will be happy not to see you go, but it’s not the choice I would make.”
You pushed him slightly on the shoulder to ease the tension.
“You would be bored after five seconds up there,” you said opening the door and kicking your shoes off into the hallway.
You both went to eat and were wrapped up in conversation but neither of you could ignore when you heard the front door slam loudly and Taeyong scream out a list of profanities even from the other side of the house.
You gave Yuta a small smile before hurrying downstairs to try and find Taeyong. He was kneeling in the hallway staring down at the open letter on the floor that was set alight, the pages burning until there was nothing left but ash.
You tried to sit near him to comfort him, but he pulled away.
“I won’t go with him,” you said quietly. Taeyong rolled his eyes.
“Yes, you fucking will, no matter what you say humans are all the fucking same, you’re not special.”
You were taken aback. You had known the letter would upset Taeyong, but you hadn’t expected him to act with such anger.
“I don’t need your stupid fucking pity,” Taeyong hissed, the venom in his voice not something that could be faked, “I may want to love you but at this point I hate you at the same time and I will hate every girl that comes after.”
Your eyes narrowed and you snorted slightly.
“I didn’t pity you before Taeyong,” you said, “but this is pathetic.”
You picked up a vase that was next to you and smashed it on the ground.
“What are you doing?” Taeyong said standing up, alarmed at your sudden violence.
“I don’t remember my life on earth,” you began, but I’m pretty sure I wasn’t an angel. I do know who I am now though, I commit petty crimes with Yuta for fun, I am attracted to a man who tortures people for a living, and I broke your vase just because I can. That doesn’t make me evil but I’m not a saint and I certainly don’t see a reason to go to heaven. Call me a narcissist but at least here I’m special, at least you will love me and for whatever reason my brain seems to value that more than eternal glory or whatever.”
“I’m a difficult man and this is a difficult place, I’ve just sheltered you from it so far.” Taeyong said.
You stepped closer to him until your lips were right by his ear.
“Then show me,” you whispered, “show me hell,” you stepped back, “show me what life here is really like and then I can make an informed choice, I can’t chose you if you don’t even give me a chance.”
“That seems fair, you can at least be Queen of Hell for a day” Taeyong agreed.
Which is how you ended up hours later back on the lift out of the city. This time you had no broken bones and you instead wore a dress of fire, courtesy of Yuta’s demon magic.
Taeyong led you through the circles of hell, through all the punishments, betrayers frozen in ice; tyrants and robber forced to swim in boiling blood; the eternal combat of the wrathful sullen and lazy and the lustful caught in the endless violent wind to name but a few.
“Hell is a horrible place for a lot of people, the city of Dis is the exception not the rule, to live there you have to live with that.”
“Then who are the people wondering around, in the villages outside the city?” you asked, not really wanting to dwell on the torture.
“The pain of torture dulls after a few thousand years and those people become free, everyone here is free because of that. After a few thousand years you can just get up and walk away and live a life again. I burned in fire for three thousand years until one day I just walked away and found the demons in the city,” Taeyong explained.
“So, the torture ends?” You asked him. Taeyong nodded,
“Pain has no power if you have experienced 1000 lifetimes of it, it just becomes normal.”
“Then I can live with it.” You said.
Taeyong looked surprised.
“It probably makes me a bad person but then I suppose that justifies my place here but if the torture ends then I can justify within myself living here, marrying you.”
“If I chose to stay, do I have to suffer the thousands of years?” you followed up.
“Does that change your answer?”
You didn’t know. But you didn’t think so, you just didn’t ever want to say something you weren’t totally sure about.
“But no, you wouldn’t, every millennium I can pardon someone, I have saved that for the chance someone ever choses to marry me,”
“Not the pessimist I always thought then,” you giggled. Taeyong laughed,
“It wasn’t optimism, it was fear… though the pain ends, I still didn’t want anyone who had made a choice to stay with me to have to experience it, because while it normalises after a thousand years the first couple hundred really are torture.”
“Well then I can’t really have any objections to hell then, or to such a thoughtful devil as you.”
“Would you like to sleep in my room tonight,” Taeyong asked suddenly.
“I knew there were other perks to Hell,” you joked.
“Well you’re a beautiful girl and I’m certainly no saint.”
When the sky turned from orange to blood red you were in Taeyong’s room. He was sitting up in his bed, shirt unbuttoned slightly, making the room feel even hotter than the inferno it already was.
You fiddled slightly with the bottom of your shirt before pulling it straight off, to reveal the lingerie that had been left in your drawer by Taeyong since day one. Taeyong smiled to himself dragging his finger over his lip slightly.
You continued, pulling down your shorts to reveal your panties, stepping ever closer towards Taeyong, who had begun to take his own shirt off as well, revealing his chest underneath.
You reached back and unclasped your bra, throwing it to the ground as you crawled onto the bed, towards Taeyong, fuelled by new confidence given to you by the look the devil. His eyes burning with lust.
You had barely touched him before he caught your arm and flipped you over, once again resting on his forearms above you but this time he kissed your neck.
“I’m the king of hell, I’m in charge here,” he said, bringing his hand up to massage your breast as he marked your neck, causing you to illicit a moan, any plans you had slipping away.
You watched him grin as he pulled away,
“You’re beautiful,” he noted. You noticed the same thing about him, it was clear he used to be an angel, but the scars on his chest, a product of hell somehow only made him more attractive. As you both paused your eyes travelled down to his underwear, where a wet patch had already formed at the tip of his dick.
Taeyong caught you staring,
“Wanna suck?” he asked and so you nodded but Taeyong stopped you as you leaned down to touch him.
“I want to hear you say it, I want to hear the sinful words, worth of the Queen of Hell.”
You had no problem obliging, you didn’t think there was anything you wouldn’t do for this man at this point and you still weren’t a hundred percent sure why.
“I want to suck your cock, I want to choke on it” you said to him with a small smile, before once again leaning down and pulling at his waistband. Taeyong was pleasantly surprised by your own addition to the statement,
‘I didn’t realise you were such a good slut,” he grinned a grin that quickly turned into a moan as you took him into your mouth, pushing your head down until you felt him against the back of your throat causing you to gag before moving back up and down again. As you sucked you looked up at Taeyong, tears forming in your eyes, never breaking eye contact.
“You look so pretty with my cock in your mouth,” he said. It didn’t take long until Taeyong’s breathing got heavier and you swallowed his warm cum that burst into your mouth, not missing a drop.
He recovered quickly and before you realised it, he was kissing you again, his hands wasting no time in removing your own panties, that were already soaked.
“I’m glad I have this effect on you,” Taeyong smirked as he chucked them across the other side of the room. Taeyong’s fingers stroked over your wet entrance but before he could slide a finger in you grabbed his arm, stopping him.
“Not today, I just want to feel you inside me,” you asked, and he was happy to oblige, just as you had been.
“Get on your hands and knees,” he commanded. When you were ready you could feel him rubbing his dick over your wet folds, teasing you.
“I’ve gone months without sex down here because of you, just fuck me, please,” you begged. Taeyong immediately thrust his full length into you, but despite this initial urgency, he kept a slow torturous pace.
You whined in complaint which had no effect on Taeyong’s actions.
“This is what you get instead of a thousand years of torture baby, and also you feel so good, so tight around me, I want to savour it.” He said.
You moved your hips back to meet Taeyong, trying to get him to increase his pace.
“I’m sure Taeil would fuck me harder,” you teased which was all it took.
“So that’s the game you want to play,” Taeyong smirked before pulling out completely. Before you could even complain about the loss Taeyong thrust back into you again in tandem with a smack on your ass.
“You’re a bad girl, and bad girls get bad treatment.” He kept one hand on your hip and one hand grabbed your hair as he pumped into you hard and fast, your moans getting louder each time.
“If you don’t shut up Yuta will here you,” Taeyong complained, “but I bet a naughty slut like you would like that wouldn’t you,”
You moaned in agreement.
“I want to hear you say it,” Taeyong said, smacking your ass again.
“I’m a naughty slut who wants Yuta to hear me fucking you.” Taeyong groaned at your sinful words, his dick beginning to twitch inside you.
A few seconds later you felt his cum inside you and Taeyong continue to fuck it into you, which was enough to push you over the edge.
“Fuck!” you screamed out as Taeyong kept fucking you through the aftershocks, before pulling out and getting you to kay down next to him.
“I love you y/n,” he said, his eyes filled with affection, “even if you are a naughty girl.”
Two days later Taeil appeared at your door. It was 3pm in the afternoon when he knocked. Taeyong answered the door and went outside first, you didn’t go until he called you a few minutes later.
“Hello y/n, I am Taeil, Angel of Heaven.” He introduced himself.
“I am aware,” you replied curtly. You could see the fear in Taeyong’s eyes, and it made you want to cry, you couldn’t believe he still thought you would leave him.
“I am here to give you the chance to come to heaven, where you can have everything you ever wanted and live in perfect peace, instead of a tumultuous eternity in hell.” He began but you cut him short.
“I am fine here actually but thanks for the offer.”
Taeil didn’t look phased, maybe it had taken a while before the others agreed.
“I can give you everything, memories of your life on earth, the chance to meet your family again, here you will endure years of pain.”
You remained resolute.
“That’s a no thank you, have a nice day,” you said grabbing Taeyong’s hand and moving to head back inside
Taeil stopped you, his arm placed in front of you. He reached into his pocket and played a scene into your mind.
It was what you guessed was heaven and all you could feel was an immense sense of peace, you saw people around you smiling and cheers of laughter not screams.
“My answer is still no,” you said. Taeil looked perplexed.
“No one who has seen heaven has ever turned it down, what could be better than the everlasting peace?” he asked.
You looked up at Taeyong who still looked frantically worried and smiled. You saw Yuta hopping from foot to foot behind a bush with Yangyang to eavesdrop what was happening.
“Everlasting love,” you replied, “Everlasting friendship,” you continued, “and besides I reckon hell must be more fun anyway.”
Taeil took a few steps back, something close to anger appearing on his face.
“If you turn this offer down, I will never give it to you again,” Taeil asked. You shrugged.
“Have a nice flight back,” was all you said before leaning up and giving Taeyong a kiss on the cheek.
“I won’t want what I can have because I have all the things I need, and that is my peace.”
Taeyong wrapped his arms around you grinning,
“You really are one of a kind, kissed me first girl,” he remarked. Taeil scoffed.
“Have fun being damned together,” he said before heading back out the gate.
“Being damned never looked so good!” Yangyang called from behind the bush. You laughed, sure at that moment you had made the right choice.
Even if you hadn’t Taeil came back every year for the next thirty years, despite promising it would be the last each time, unwilling to accept that he had lost. Each time you found a creative way of telling him to get lost. Each year Taeyong looked less and less scared that you would leave him until he finally realised you never would.
“Get lost Taeil!” He called out, “My wife isn’t interested in your schemes and she never will be,” he shouted before he proceeded to make out with you in a very non-PG way causing Taeil to cover his eyes and run. After that he never returned.
A hundred years later you sat with Taeyong under the orange sky and smiled.
“Do you believe in fate now?” you asked, rubbing your thumb on the outside of his hand.
“I believe in my love for you, be that fate, the end to my torture or just sheer luck. Whichever it is I’m thankful for it, because hell is lonely but when you have someone with you, it’s just a very warm place with a lot of alcohol and screaming.”
Maybe the second part wasn’t so eloquent, but it was right. Hell wasn’t something to be feared when you had someone by your side. Because for Taeyong being alone had been more torturous than the fire.
At that moment Yuta’s demon child ran into the garden and set fire to the tablecloth and you couldn’t help but burst out laughing as Yuta then threw the child about a mile, probably a demon throwing high score.
The afterlife you had chosen wasn’t what most people had chosen, most people didn’t even get a choice and so when Taeyong kissed you in the darkness lit up by flames you felt like someone who was lucky. You didn’t know why this was the afterlife you lived or why Taeyong had ever meant so much. But you final realised that you didn’t need to know. That sometimes things could have vague answers and that was okay. As long as your love for Taeyong was clear, then so was the choice you had made.
As you had once shouted at Taeil whilst chucking a demon at him,
“What’s so good about resting in peace anyway,” you found resting in chaos much more entertaining.
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Madelaine//i wasn’t ready then, i’m ready now, i’m heading straight for you
Request: Maybe you could do an imagine for Madeleine where reader is pregnant and is hanging out with cami Lili and Vanessa while Madeleine films a scene and she goes into labor and the girls start to panic and Madeleine has to cut the scene short & just fluff?
hey! its returned!! wooo! i hope you like this!!! also, thank you @statticghost for helping me with the title! it’s from adele’s ‘sweetest devotion’ which she wrote for her kid, which is quite nice. anyway, go check out @stattic-writes because they’re great and i like them a lot!! and have a nice day!! 
To most people, the behind the scenes of the Riverdale set is one huge maze that takes an eternity to walk through. With giant sets, an uncertain amount of rooms used for anything from storage to nap rooms and an unlimited amount of wiring lining the walls and floors. 
However to a very pregnant woman, it’s almost impossible to get through without getting lost at least twice, tripping at least five times (made even worse when you can’t see past your own stomach) and having to sit down every five minutes. Plus, the dull ache in your back you’ve been feeling all morning hasn’t really helped you. You’ve spent a good hour walking around and looking for your friends, and you’ve only now just found them, sat in what is usually the student lounge of Riverdale High. 
“Y/n? Did you swallow a planet?” Lili asks and you send her a sarcastic smile as you waddle towards her. 
Vanessa and Cami stop talking at the mention of your name, and large smiles appear on their faces once they see you. Cami and Vanessa stand to help you the last few feet to where they’re all sat while Lili moves along on the brown sofa so you can sit down. 
“It certainly looks like I did.” You huff once you’ve sat down. Your hands rest on your stomach as you take a few minutes to catch your breath. 
“Don’t listen to her. You look great.”
“You are a terrible liar Cami.”
“I’m not lying, you look amazing, especially considering the fact that you’re 38 weeks pregnant.” She argues, both Vanessa and Lili agreeing with her and you roll your eyes at your friends. They’re very sweet, but they’re all awful liars. 
“39 actually.”
“Shouldn’t you be at home?” Vanessa shifts in her seat so she’s facing you and you huff loudly, crossing your arms over your chest. You probably look like a grumpy toddler right now, with a pout on your lips and your arms crossed, but so would anybody that had been asked the same question every time they had a conversation with someone over the past few weeks.
“I should.” You nod. “But there’s only so much day time television I can take. My god its boring, I need to do something.”
“You’re gonna miss boring when they come along.” Lili glances at your stomach and you smile softly. 
“I know. But right now I couldn’t care less. I just want to talk to somebody that isn’t myself or a baby that can’t reply.”
“You’ve been talking to yourself?” Cami asks with a hint of concern in her voice. 
“I spend hours alone in the house, who else am I supposed to talk to.”
“Your friends?” She shrugs. 
“You try answering the door, or the phone with this attached to you making everything ten times harder.” You reply, sending her a look. 
“Fair point.” She nods. 
“How’d you get here then?” Lili asks. 
“With great difficulty.” You say, despite the lack of humour in your tone, the girls still laugh at your comment and even though you don’t want to, you feel a small smile breaking through your grumpy facade, until all four of you are giggling quietly. “Is Madelaine around?” 
“She’s filming at the minute, but she should be done soon.” Vanessa tells you, grabbing her phone and checking the time. You nod slowly, weighing up your lunch options while you look around. 
“Who’s facing Cheryl Blossom’s wrath today?” You ask. 
“Archie.” Lili replies, sending you a look and you grimace. 
“Poor KJ.”
“I think the stress of the baby is making her acting even better. She seems to channel all of that stress into making Cheryl the bitchiest woman ever. Its fascinating to watch.” Cami says and you smile at your friend. 
“And kind of scary.” Lili adds making you laugh. 
“Yeah. She’s kind of gone a little crazy over the past few weeks. She’s been planning literally everything. She has notebooks filled with baby things, the nursery was finished within the first month that we found out I was pregnant. And last week, she started setting alarms at weird hours of the night to get used to the sleep schedule.” You explain and they look at you with varying amounts of alarm. 
“Its sweet that she’s excited though.” Vanessa says. 
“Yeah it is.” You smile. They’ve never seen you smile like that before, full of excitement and joy and it makes them all smile too. Madelaine has the same look whenever somebody mentions you or the baby, and its very sweet to witness.
Your fingers draw light patterns over your stomach, and the baby kicks in return. Despite the pain, you smile anyway, wondering if they can hear you take about their mom.
They could come at any time really and you and Madelaine are waiting eagerly to welcome them into the world. Its something you’ve been wanting and waiting for, for two years, so you’re more than excited. Its been a long and draining journey filled with high exceptions and disappointing realities, doctors surgeries and needles and tears and frustration, but its all been leading up to this, and so its more than worth it. 
“I can’t wait to meet them.” Cami interrupts your thoughts and you look at her slightly dazed. 
“Yeah, me too.” Both Vanessa and Lili nod in agreement and you smile at the three of them. 
“Do you have any names?” Vanessa asks. 
“Nothing for certain yet. I think Madelaine’s convinced that when it comes out, it’ll just have a face that fits a name.” 
“So the answer is no then?” Cami teases. 
“Basically yeah.” You agree, laughing a little. 
“I don’t know if Madelaine has told you but, I hope you know you’re probably going to need a bigger house with all of the stuff you’re going to get just from us three.”
“Yep.” You nod. “She’s told me. And she told me about all the other cast and crew. Is it true that Casey got a huge 6ft teddy bear.” 
“Yes.” Lili laughs. “It lives in his spare room and he’s become quite attached to it.” 
“I’m pretty sure he said he was keeping that one and just buying you a new one.” Vanessa continues and the four of you laugh loudly. 
Yours however, is cut short by a sharp pain in your lower stomach. Your sudden inhale stops all laughter and the three of them look at you quickly. Your eyes screw shut while one hand grips your lower back and the other holds your stomach. 
“Y/n?” Vanessa asks quietly. “Is everything okay.” 
“Nope.” You force out through gritted teeth, slowly opening your eyes to look at them. 
Even though you’re fully prepared for this, you’ve read every book and article, some even twice because of Madelaine, now that its actually happening, all of that knowledge has gone out the window and all you want to do is cry. Nothing is right, Madelaine is busy, and its a week early and even though you love your friends dearly, the way they are looking at you is making you feel more panicked. 
The pain dulls a little at you let out a long breath, gripping the corner of the sofa and all three of the girls wince as they watch you. You feel something shift, and then another wave of pain rolls around and you grit your teeth again, pressure building up in your lower abdomen. 
“Is it happening?” Vanessa asks and you nod quickly. 
“Are you sure?” Lili asks, helping you stand when you try and do it yourself. Vanessa and Cami surround you, all of them steadying you while you’re doubled over in pain. 
“No. I’m just trying to tell this apart from a stomach ache, yes of course I’m sure. How can you not be sure that a human life is coming out of you?!” You grumble angrily, trying to focus your breathing. 
“Okay, just checking.” She apologizes. “Why don’t you sit down?” 
“I don’t want to sit down.” 
“Okay, me and Cami will help you stand, and Lili will go find Mads. Okay?” Vanessa takes charge of the situation and you’re glad somebody has. You don’t know what you would have done if all three of them stayed this panicked. 
“Okay.” You nod and Cami takes over from Lili. “Please hurry.” You hear Lili walk away, her footsteps getting quieter and you try to focus on listening for her coming back. 
“Okay, right. What do we do? I’ve never been in this situation before, what do we do?” Vanessa says frantically, looking around and trying to find something to help. Okay, maybe you were a little quick to think that she would know what to do. 
“We...breathe!” Cami says quickly. “Okay, Y/n, Y/n? Take deep breaths. In and out. In and out.” 
“Please stop saying in and out.” You cry, another contraction coming and going and the grip on her t-shirt tightens. 
“Sorry.” 
“Do you want anything? A drink or something?” Vanessa asks.
“I’m, ow, ow, ow, fuck, fuck fucking, shit OW.” 
“Owwww.” Cami cries, her legs buckling slightly as you squeeze her hand. 
“Stop being a baby.” Vanessa scolds and she sends her a glare back. 
“You’re not the one thats having the life squeezed out of their hand.” 
“You’re not the one pushing a melon sized thing out of your vagina! I get to say ow and nobody else.” You interrupt, getting more and more annoyed by the second. Where the hell is Lili? 
She’s only gone for two minutes, but two minutes feel like a life time when you’re pushing a human out of you. And so when she returns with a very panicked Madelaine in tow, you don’t know whether to hug her or hit her. 
Either one wouldn’t do much to stop the pain you’re feeling, but when Madelaine places a gentle hand on your back, taking over from Vanessa and Cami, you do feel a little bit better. 
“Hi babe.” Her voice is soft and comforting and dulls the pain slightly. You manage to stand up a little to look at her, and the smile thats lighting up her face is the best thing you’ve ever seen. She looks happier than you’ve ever seen her before and if you weren’t in so much pain, you’d definitely tell her how cute she looks. 
“Hi.” You manage to reply, despite it feeling like you’re being stabbed repeatedly. Her smile fades as she watches you grimace, and now she looks worried. But she tries to hide it, painting on a slightly wonky smile as she looks back at you. 
“You’re not supposed to be here.” She says, trying to distract you and a you let out a small laugh. 
“I got bored.” 
“Not so bored now are you?” She teases. 
“Nope.” You steel yourself against her and she wraps an arm around your waist, the other holds your hand tightly as she leads you towards the door. 
“Can one of you grab my bag please?” She asks the girls and Vanessa quickly runs off to grab it. Madelaine continues to lead you out of the door and after a lifetime (a minute) of walking, you’re stood by the doors that lead into the cast and crew parking lot. Vanessa catches up with you, and follows you to the car, putting Madelaine and yours’ bag in the backseat. 
“Are you telling me I could have just walked through that door instead of wandering around for an hour.” You huff as Madelaine helps you into the car. 
“Well, I told you to stay in bed but you wouldn’t listen to me.” She replies while fastening your seatbelt and you catch her gaze, sending her a hard glare. 
“Do you really want to argue with me right now?” 
“...nope.” She shakes her head quickly, double checking that you’re safe and you have everything before moving around the car and climbing into the drivers seat. The girls have already left, off to tell various people what is happening so its just the two of you. 
Madelaine starts the car, but takes a moment to look over at you, sat panting and sweaty in the passenger seat, but she knows she’s never loved anyone more. There’s nobody else in this world that she’d rather be doing this with, you’re her best friend and her soulmate and she’s going to love you and this baby for the rest of her life and beyond. 
“I love you.” She reaches her hand over the console to hold yours and you stop what you’re doing to look back at her, a small smile twitching at your lips. 
“I love you too.” You reply and press a soft kiss to her hand. 
“Are you ready?” She asks. 
“No.” You say honestly. “Are you?” 
“Absolutely not.” She laughs. 
Neither of you are worried though, because you know you have each other. 
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    Holding Keith’s hand in public felt nice. Walking from the hotel to the restaurant, Lance found himself watching families of all types as they walked. He couldn’t help it. A smile coming to his lips as he watched kids nag their parents, or listened to them as they played. His hand sitting on his stomach while his mind substituted the kids for their twins, and the parents as Keith. Keith would be such a good dad. He absolutely knew that for certain. He’d worried when Keith had spent most of the night sleepless, the walk seeming to invigorate him as it wore away Keith’s energy. Keith needed his coffee pronto, lest a server cop his boyfriend’s uncaffeinated anger loaf rage.
  Leading Keith into the restaurant, it had a kind of rustic charm. Heavy oak logs made the walls, with all kinds of memorabilia stuck to the walls, including a giant stuffed fish with a plaque that red “Billy Bass”. It appealed to his tacky side in all the right ways. Sending Keith to find a seat, his boyfriend slouched off to throw himself into the only available booth. Lance giving a shake of his head affectionately. He really loved that cranky werewolf. Waddling over to the counter, he forced himself to remember to look and act like a girl. Keith didn’t know he was terrified of the same kind of comments made at the petting zoo being repeated. This trip had to go as well and as smoothly as it could. Picking up the menu, he knew instantly he wanted more than pancakes. Everything smelt vaguely appealing, and Keith would eat like there was no tomorrow.
  “What can I do you for, darling?”
Jumping at being unexpectedly talked to, the woman behind the counter cackled at him
“Sorry, love! I didn’t think you’d be lost in thought over a menu”
Lance flashed a smile, careful of his teeth. He kind of wished he’d worn a set of glasses. The more he stood in the restaurant, the more he heard and the bigger the world suddenly seemed to be
“Sorry, everything sounds so good I’m not sure where to begin”
The woman chuckled
“I remember those feelings. How many you got in there?”
“Two. I guess I do look pretty big”
“And carrying low, you’ll be in labour no time, love. Now. What do think?”
No. Nope. No labour for him. Not unless he was comfortably set up at VOLTRON... he’d hold his legs together for as long as possible if their twins dared to think of coming this soon
“I think I’m famished. Can I please order two sets of pancakes and two sets of the bacon breakfasts? Ooooh, and I’ll grab a fruit salad, two of the largest coffees you have, aaaand... I think I’ll have a green tea latte... and a fruit salad. Yeah, that’s all, thank you... oh! Do you guys have soy milk? I don’t want to gas my boyfriend”
  The woman behind the counter ogled him fo a moment, shaking her head and laughing again
“I don’t know where you’re going to fit all that... We have soy, almond, and regular. None of that skin stuff”
Lance blushed. He couldn’t help that he didn’t exactly know what he felt like, but food seemed like an amazing idea
“It’s for me and my partner. Soy will be fine, thanks”
The woman slapped his arm gently with the back of her hand
“I know that, love. Just an old woman teasing”
“You don’t look that old”
She looked about the age he should look... her name tag reading “Dae”, the white tag almost lost in the red of her bright red shirt
“That’s the best thing I’ve heard all day. Now, darling, cash or card?”
“Card please”
  The woman rang up there largish breakfast bill. Lance paying as he was trapped into small talk
“So, love. Are you here for our Easter markets? Or you one of those passing through?”
“Oh, my boyfriend and I are spending a few days here. We’re meeting up with some friends”
The woman printed him a receipt without him asking
“I’m sure you’ll find this quite boring compared with the cities around here, but we have own charm. Now, can I get a name for this order?”
He’d been prepared for that. He’d made kind of a mental story for himself. He and his photographer boyfriend were driving up, stopping in small towns as Keith built up a portfolio in the hopes of turning to selling prints online
“Lancella... my, uh, parents were hoping for a boy”
“I’m sure they love you at any rate. We can’t help our names. You go take a load off and I’ll bring your coffee over. Take my advice, love, take a look at the markets while you’re here. They really are something else”
“Awesome. We might just take your advice. Thank you”
    Siding, barely, into the booth opposite Keith, Keith was glaring at the menu in his hands. Tugging it free, his boyfriend huffed as Lance set the menu back into its holder
“Your coffee’s coming”
“Good”
Keith should have perked up at the thought of coffee. The scent was strong enough that Lance’s stomach was threatening to turn traitor right there at the booth
“Babe?”
“It’s nothing. You looked like you were having a good conversation, Lancella”
Lance rolled his eyes at the name
“I’m a simple man. The best lies have a kernel of truth in them”
“It pisses me off that you have to lie. You’re you. If people don’t like that, they can go play in traffic”
  There was his grumpy little anger loaf. He’d also realised something that was likely to make Keith grumpier
“You can’t just put them in traffic. You know, we’re going to be in trouble”
Keith sighed deeply
“What for now?”
“I’m starving... and all that food has to come back up. Plus, apparently I’m going to pop soon”
Scowling at him, Keith sat back and crossed his arms. His voice firm and joke free
“There’s no way you’re allowed to even think about giving birth in this crappy town. Don’t even think about going into labour”
Sometimes it was scary how in tune they were. He didn’t want to give birth here, yet he couldn’t hate this town
“I don’t know. This town isn’t that crappy. This is the town you were born in and you’re not crappy. Maybe crabby... but not crappy”
“You’re fucking hilarious”
Lance shot his boyfriend double finger guns
“I try. But seriously, I’m starving...”
  He’d also forgotten to do his shots before leaving the hotel room. Keith coming out with the bath mat around his waist had driven away the thought. His boyfriend hadn’t questioned why he’d packed heavier than usual. There was a whole suitcase of towels and bedding, waiting to be unpacked. His new plan was that after breakfast they’d unpack a little more, and he’d look up the directions to the cemetery where Keith’s dad was buried. The vampire knew his own pain from having now lost both his parents, yet that was nothing compared to Keith losing his dad at such a young age. Making the comparison seemed really shitty and like it lorded the fact Lance had had his parents for so long, that’s why he’d never say it out loud.
  Their conversation was interrupted by the arrival of the coffee and the latte. Keith sliding both mugs towards him as Lance thanked “Dae”. Wrapping his hands around his cold drink, there was kind of a happy peacefulness as Keith took his first sip of coffee. This was nice. Them having no real schedule. Not rushing around. Kind of on a date, but not at the same time...
“Stop staring”
Chuckling, Lance moved his hand up to take the straw between his fingers, stirring his latte as continued to stare
“What are you going to do if I don’t?”
Kicking him under the table, that was Keith’s great comeback
“Really, babe?”
“Fuck you. Fight me”
  It’d be soon long since he’d heard that one. The second they found out he was carrying, he had to behave himself and training went out the window
“I could beat you, but we both know you’d liked it”
Delivering the words slowly and purposely, Lance succeeded in making Keith choke on his coffee. Placing the mug down, his boyfriend coughed into his hand
“Fuuuuck...”
“Still want to fight me?”
“Keep this up and I’ll beat your arse so hard you won’t be able to walk for a month”
“Do you promise?”
On the back of choking on his coffee, Keith choked on air. His hand fanning his face as he shook his head
“You deserve to be punched in the dick for that”
“Nah. You love me too much for that”
“God. I fucked that one up”
  Lance knew Keith was teasing, yet he felt himself automatically tear up. Apparently he could dish it, but his ego was too much of a diva to take it. Dropping his gaze to his drink, he felt awful for how he’d reacted
“Babe?”
“It’s nothing”
“You know I love you, don’t you?”
“Yeah. Sorry. I guess my hormones are being silly. It’s ridiculous”
Keith wisely decided not to agree with him, changing the topic
“What did you order?”
Raising his head again, Lance shot him that fake smile that hadn’t come out in so long that he wasn’t sure he was doing it right
“Pancakes. Eggs, tomatoes, bacon, sausages, and fried onion. Coffee for you. Tea for me, and fruit salad”
“You think that’s enough?”
Now he was feeling self conscious over how much he wanted to scarf down his food
“I figured you’d eat what I didn’t...”
Keith playfully kicked him under the table again
“Great. Now I’m the garbage disposal unit”
  Shit. Why had his mood plummeted so much? Now it had, his ego was getting riled up. He was starting to feel vulnerable over being pregnant and into a strange place, where people he didn’t know could easily target him, or Keith. He couldn’t scent anyone like them in the place, yet he’d been so care free when they’d come in, he hadn’t thought to. The sudden shift to extreme vulnerability by his ego threw him off. They were a goddamn vampire. Had he been so inclined, he could easily take every single human on in the restaurant... Why was he suddenly so spineless? And why was his ego not propping his mood up with its usual douche attitude.
  “Babe, you’ve gone pale. And you’re shaking. What’s wrong?”
He was shaking? He hadn’t noticed...
“Sorry. My ego... just went funny...”
Keith stared at him in confusion
“What do you mean?”
“I don’t know...”
He didn’t know. Was it not sure keith could protect them? No. Keith could and would go beyond them. Then why did it want him to run? All he wanted was a nice breakfast with Keith, so Keith wouldn’t be so stressed about what was to come...
  Leaning across the table, Keith’s confusion grew. Cocking his head, he drew back slowly
“You feel like... you’re pushing everything away. If there’s something wrong...”
“I don’t know what’s wrong. I’m sorry”
Trying to let his ego flare a little, the instinct to run grew with it. Lance quick to force it back down. Maybe he’d been too focused on being home of late? No one had made any kind of threat towards him
“If you’re not feeling well, we can go back to the room”
“That’s not it. All of a sudden I got a spike of fear and I’m not sure why”
  Keith pursed his lips, shook his head, then suddenly decided to move to sit next to Lance, a little too fast for Lance’s liking. Taking his hand in his, his boyfriend squeezed softly
“You don’t need to be scared”
Having Keith close should have calmed him, yet the spike of fear had spiked his anxiety over not knowing why he was kind of internally freaking out  
“I know. All I wanted was a nice breakfast”
“We can still have a nice breakfast...”
“I’m so sorry. I know you’re stressing badly. This has to be so much all at once”
The restaurant was loud, despite it being breakfast time. Too many people seemed way too awake
“The glasses help. Do you want them?”
  Yes. And ear plugs. Someone dropped something in the kitchen, Lance flinching at the sound as he shook his head
“No. No... it’s okay. I’ve been doing this longer than you have”
“Are you sure?”
“Babe, I’ll be okay. It’s just weird... I don’t smell anything... bad. Maybe I’ve spent too much time hermitting”
“Or maybe people just suck?”
“Careful, babe. Your grump’s showing”
Keith huffed with a pout
“I’m not being grumpy”
“Fine, your lack of people love is showing. I hope breakfast doesn’t take too long”
“You need to eat more. You’re all skin and bones”
Lance’s ego chose to take the wrong way. He ate. Keith knew he ate. He couldn’t bring Keith’s mood down any further
“I’m going to. Your babies are demanding it”
  Bring their hands to Lance’s stomach, Keith rested them there
“Already causing so much trouble. You two better give your dad a break”
“That’d be nice. I think the first thing they’re getting when they’re old enough is a trampoline”
“Why do I feel like you’re the one who’s going to be spending more time on it than them?”
“Because it’s nice to lay out under the stars?”
They hadn’t done that in so long... Maybe they’d get a chance while they were here?
“I wonder what sex would be like?”
And there Keith went stating the real reason he supported getting their kids a trampoline
“I’m not conceiving any future siblings on a trampoline”
Keith bumped his shoulder lightly
“There goes that idea...”
“I’m going to put you in a time out if you don’t get your mind out of the gutter”
“But without the gutter, my mind would be homeless”
  Without missing a beat, the werewolf had him groaning
“Who taught you that one? They need to be shot”
Keith grinned, Lance kind of envious that no matter how upset Keith was internally, he was keeping his ego well under control. He should be proud. No. He was proud. He just wished his would perk back up
“Pretty sure I learned that from you”
Great. He couldn’t exactly shoot himself... though he’d definitely shot himself in the foot in the metaphoric sense
“You don’t want to listen to me. I’m going crazy in my old age”
“You’re not even that old”
“Older than you”
  Keith put on that bad southern drawl that never failed to work on him
“And twice as pretty. A pretty little thing like you should be careful. A big bad wolf might just gobble you up”
“Nah, my boyfriend takes care of all the scary things out there”
“I could take him. They don’t call me the Mullet for nothin’”
Oh lord. That was terrible. That was terrible and Keith knew it was terrible
“Is it because you’re kinda fishy? A bit limp all dead eyed?”
“Why, miss. I’ve been told I’ve got the perdiest eyes around”
Lance let out a long groan of defeat. He didn’t feel safe, and as much as he didn’t want to feel amused, Keith’s stupidity was kind of turning his frown upside down
“Alright. No more. I get it”
“Do you feel any better?”
No...
“Yeah. I’m still staving, though”
“It won’t be too much longer... hopefully”
   *
Keith kept a careful eye on Lance once their breakfast finally arrived. Lance noticing, and responding by eating despite the lack of interest in the pancakes he’d wanted. It was hard to pretend to be happy. Everything felt too much for him, and having it all feel too much for Lance threw him.
  Holding it together, the walk back to the hotel was brisk. Lance tried to shake him off to go to the bathroom alone, but Keith wasn’t having it. As Lance “threw” himself down to vomit, he slipped behind him, tugging off the annoying wig so he could rest his chin on Lance’s shoulder. His boyfriend was shaking, his skin felt a little colder than its above barely warm natural state. Having played breakfast over in his mind, he still didn’t know why Lance had spooked, or why his ego had drawn in. The only thing he could think of was that that woman’s words brought up Lance’s fear of giving birth soon. No one had said anything to his precious mate. No one had barely looked their way. No. Everyone else was too busy fucking chewing like a herd of cows. The noise infuriating now he’d noticed.
  Staying with Lance until his stomach settled, his boyfriend wobbled on his feet as he stood. Keith had spent the time giving Lance belly rubs and trying smother him in his scent to calm him down. His own ego was rattled by their mates strange actions, making it almost mad at a situation where no one was to blame. Rinsing his mouth out, Lance stared at him in the mirror. He looked exhausted
“I’m sorry”
No. Lance had nothing to be sorry for
“Babe. Hey, it happens”
“I’m supposed to be the one in control here... and I freaked out for no real reason”
“It’s okay”
  Lance didn’t know he was semi echoing Keith’s earlier movement as he kicked the basin cabinet lightly
“No. No it’s not. You’re stressed. You’re in a new environment. You’re being forced to go out with me when I look like this. And I couldn’t even keep my shit together long enough to enjoy being out to breakfast with you. It’s fucking pathetic. I should be past all this shit”
“You’re overthinking things again”
Sighing deeply, Lance went to grab his toothbrush out the toilet bag, only to knock the contents out. Sensing the impending tears, he turned his boyfriend towards him, gathering him against him
“Babe. Hey. It’s okay. I’m not mad and you haven’t done anything wrong”
Lance shook his head again
“I’m sorry... God. I feel so fucking incompetent”
  Lance wasn’t incompetent. Keith ego saddened to hear their mate talk about himself like that. He wanted to make Lance smile again
“You’re not. Didn’t Dae say something about a fair?”
Again, Lance shook his head
“Sorry... I think I want to lay down for a bit... and I really need to pee. Can... can you get the blankets out the suitcase? They’re in the black one”
“And you’ll be okay?”
“I’m going to pee, then I’ll be out”
Kissing Lance’s hair, Keith found himself more anxious over Lance than the thought of seeing his father’s grave. Maybe Lance was more tired from the day before than he was letting on
“Alright. I’ll be waiting”
   When Lance came shuffling out the bathroom, he made straight for Keith. Keith having covered the top of the hotel bed with their three blankets, the bottom one acting as the sheet between them and the crappy bedding below. Lifting the corner back, his boyfriend climbed in beside him. Shoes and all. Lance had to be dead tired to not fight him over his shoes, which had kind of become part of Keith’s daily job. Laying himself against him, Lance rested his head on Keith’s chest, arm snaking around him. Somehow the feeling that came to mind was akin to missing that bottom step and terror flooring you for a moment as your stomach dropped. When Lance started crying, Keith could only let him cry it out. He’d gotten used to Lance having more emotions than he thought possible for a vampire. Lance’s motto seemed to be “sometimes you just need to cry it out”. Still. It sucked. They were so far from their friends. So far from home... and the hard bit was yet to come.
    *
Falling asleep Keith, Lance carefully pried himself off his boyfriend. He felt safer for being in the hotel room, and disoriented from how hard he’d seemed to nap. Creeping to the bathroom, then back into their room, Lance mentally sighed to himself over his emotions. He was being so dumb. Keith needed him... None of this... he couldn’t break down now. Taking his phone off the bedside table, the vampire crept back into the bathroom. He’d already talked to Keith, explaining that he didn’t get what was going on at all... Yet he wasn’t sure that Keith believed him. His people hating boyfriend had offered to take him to the markets on for Easter. That wasn’t Keith’s thing. That was Keith grasping at straws and trying to find a way to make him happy again.
  The call took a long time to answer, Krolia’s voice happy as Lance wondered if he was annoying her
“Hey, Lance! How are you?! Did you and Keith arrive safely, I swear that boy never thinks to let me know he’s okay”
They’d sent a message to group chat, and that was about it. With some small unpacking, they’d both been too tired for phone calls and any form of in-depth conversation
“Sorry, Krolia. Yeah, we got here okay. If this is a bad time, I can call back”
“No. Not at all. Is everything okay? I mean, I’m thrilled you called, but I’m confused as to why”
  That stung a little. He hadn’t spoken to Krolia all that much since Keith turned...
“I won’t keep you long. I have a question, and I think you’re about the only one who understands what it’s like to be pregnant”
He would have turned straight to Mami if she’d been alive. He felt like he really needed that maternal support right now. Hearing her voice would have driven home she was safe and she would have teased him for being hopeless
“Shoot away! Are my two grandbabies giving you grief already? I can have a stern talking to them, if they are”
   He wanted to reach through the phone and hug Krolia. Keith was absolutely amazing with him, yet he couldn’t fall pregnant. A small snort escaped without him meaning for it to
“They’re fine. Using my bladder as a trampoline and wriggling around in there. I... uh... I was wondering if when you were pregnant with Keith, if you ever felt... scared for no reason”
There was a pause. Lance grateful Krolia was taking the time to think about it
“Sometimes, yes. Especially in the line of work I do... Did something happen?”
So Krolia has only experienced fear when thinking of vampires and werewolves...
“We we’re having breakfast and all of a sudden I got scared. There was nothing there to be scared of. No one else who wasn’t human... but... I feel like I was too care free lately. I didn’t guard my scent. I didn’t think about what would happen had someone caught it. I didn’t think about bringing Keith here and what if there was someone like us here... I didn’t think about it... and I feel... like me not thinking about it is the same as me thinking Keith... is... something less than he was”
  Starting to cry, he felt really very stupid for his tears. He treasured Keith. But he’d been running around trailing his scent after him without a thought of the impact. All he’d wanted was to get things done and settle his ego
“Lance, you love that idiot son of mine. I’m sure at the first hint of danger you would have reacted. Is Keith there with you?”
“He’s asleep... I’m sorry for calling... I would have turned to Mami, but...”
“No. No. I’m glad you called. I want to be there for the both of you. Yes, I was scared. But nothing like Keith’s father. The slightest thing and he wanted to rush me off to the emergency department. You’re under a lot of stress. Have you been...?”
Lance shook his head, then remember Krolia couldn’t see him shaking his head
“Not yet. I freaked out and Keith had to take care of me...”
“You’re nearing the end of the pregnancy. Fears happen. I know that all too well. Especially how the insomnia can play on your mind. You’ve both been through so much, and I heard from Curtis that you were looking forward to some alone time with Keith. My opinion is that you let Keith take care of you. He’s strong”
“He’s not that strong when it comes to his dad”
“No, but keeping it in will only make him worry more. He loves you. If anything were to happen to you... well, I feel sorry for whoever crosses you. I believe both of you would sense actual danger”
“How am I supposed to know the difference?!”
“You’ll know. Take these feeling of fear and ignore them. Push them aside. They’re useless. Focus on you and my grand babies. You should be safe there. Coran didn’t mention anything about anyone living there that you should be wary about”
Lance sniffled. Krolia hadn’t given him much of anything useful and it sucked... but she tried in her own way
“Thanks, Krolia. I’m going to go back to Keith now”
“No worries. Let me know how everything goes. You can call me. Anything you two need...”
“Yeah. I will. I... thanks for talking to me...”
“Anytime. I’m your mother too. You can come to me”
  Coming out the bathroom, Keith was awake, meaning he’d heard some, if not all, Lance’s side of the phone call. Stopping a few steps into the room, he expected Keith to be angry at him for admitting he hadn’t thought of his precious boyfriend’s safety. He hadn’t thought of anything much when it came to the more important things he should have been almost paranoid about
“Babe... come here”
Holding his arm out, Lance caved instantly as he moved to climb into bed with Keith, his emotions getting the better of him as he started crying again. Krolia wasn’t Mami. She didn’t give advice like Mami did. The vampire craving that maternal touch, that Krolia had only taken the point off of
“That’s it. I’m here... I’m here, let it all out”
“I’m sorry”
Keith gentle ran his fingers through Lance’s hair, hushing him softly
“Shhhh... I’ve got you. I’m okay and you’re okay. It’s okay”
“I miss Mami”
“I know you do, babe. I know. Let it out... let it all out”
  He was such a selfish boyfriend, yet Keith loved him anyway. He didn’t deserve the love he felt from Keith, but he did notice that together like this, the fear had mostly gone away. There really was no substitute for cuddles with Keith.
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I beg of you- some soft Tomura, Compress, and Setsuno headcanons, please. I’m on my simp shit rn
aw, you don’t have to beg!! I’m constantly on simp mode for these babes
soft soft soft soft!!!!
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ATSUHIRO
Is always humming something or other when he’s around his S/O. It might be an old nursery rhyme that’s stuck in his head, it might be some catchy pop tune that he keeps hearing on the radio, it might even be their favorite song. He’s nearly always an outgoing personality, but his S/O makes him so happy it puts that extra little spring in his step.
He’s a man of culture, (Name)! Somewhere he has a small stash of money from his past that he can draw on, so every once in a while, he likes to treat his friends and his S/O. (Most of the time, that cash goes to making sure they all actually have enough to eat or emergency supplies, and it’s obviously not too much money, so he doesn’t do this horribly often.) If anyone else will join him in disguise, he might be inclined to go with his S/O to a play or musical… perhaps even a ballet if the tickets are affordable enough. If no one else comes, ah, that’s alright; he’ll go with (Name) anyway, then bring back a slightly nicer dinner than normal for everyone else so that they aren’t left out. Maybe once or twice a year he does this, so everyone better enjoy it!
Noooo, he doesn’t wear the balaclava when he goes to bed, nor is it the first thing he puts on in the morning. He loves those times ― lying down to sleep and waking up. He gets to feel so vulnerable and exposed with his S/O, having them stare at him with his entire face uncovered, feeling their hands run through his hair like only ever allows in private. Plus, the fact that their gorgeous face is the first thing he sees when he opens his eyes in the morning? God. He’s gone soft. At least that softness is only for them, otherwise he might have a problem.
He likes to play cards with his friends and S/O if they’re not busy. No missions means he’s at the bar playing poker with Kurogiri, or war with Dabi, or… well, all Tomura ever plays is let me turn the cards to dust because fuck your games, Compress. What a brat!! One can practically see his face light up behind whatever mask he has on when (Name) asks him to teach them a game.
No matter what, he makes the extremely conscious effort to always give his S/O some gesture of affection before he goes off on a mission. Whether it’s tipping his mask to lovingly kiss their cheek, giving their fingers a passionate squeeze, or pulling them close for a gentle hug, he won’t leave without doing it. It’s a subtle way of saying goodbye, just in case things might go sideways. He acknowledges that the League’s affairs are incredibly dangerous and illegal; they could all die on any mission. He wants his beloved’s potential last memory of him to be something good. If he ends up dead, he doesn’t want them left with any doubt as to the fact that whatever else is true, he adores them very, very much and wants them to be happy.
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TOMURA
Nightmares are a frequent thing with him, unfortunately. Sometimes it takes the form of memories, remembering the night his Quirk activated, leaving him with the image of crying in the middle of a circle made of his family’s corpses. Sometimes it’s a horrifying scenario in which Decay works on him, where he wraps his arms around himself and feels himself disintegrate piece by piece. Sometimes it’s his literal worst nightmare, a scene where he touches his friends or his S/O and they turn to dust in his fingers. Sometimes he wakes up screaming, his hands balled into fists so hard his nails are digging crescents into his palms and drawing blood, just so he can’t hurt anyone he cares about. Having his S/O take him in their arms and hold him close, kissing his face, whispering that he’s safe, reminding him that they’re here for him… he might not get back to sleep, but he finds comfort enough to stop crying within an hour.
There is one lone, solitary, singular way (Name) can get him to wear lip balm. That would be… to apply a surplus of it to their own lips, and proceed to give him as many kisses as he’ll allow them to in one go. Sure, the chapped lips aren’t unattractive ― but they’ve gotta hurt like hell. Just let your loving S/O lessen your pain a little, Tomura, you gigantic baby!! Also, they should pick a novelty flavor when they do this. It increases the number of kisses he’ll accept when their lips taste like vanilla frosting or Dr. Pepper.
Is like… the worst at any kind of self-care. He forgets to wash/comb his hair, he definitely doesn’t shower quite enough, he’s had at least one infection from not taking care of the wounds on his neck. The only reason he isn’t dead is Kurogiri, and later gains another reason; his S/O, obviously. Whenever he’s not working on his and All For One’s plans, he’s playing video games, and trying to get him away from that is like pulling teeth. However, his S/O has turned out to be very good at doing that. They can easily entice him with a warm shower together, and he’s pretty sure he’s never felt something as amazing as their fingers massaging his scalp as they wash his hair. Even though the ointment they want to put on his neck smells like medicine, he tolerates it simply because it feels nice when they rub it on. They’re always so gentle with him, and it just about breaks the poor man.
When encouraged and left in a non-stressful environment, Tomura is actually not terrible with children. He’s awkward, sure, he’s grumpy, sure, he doesn’t suffer brats, sure, but all things being equal, he does alright. Most of the time he’s not too scary around kids, or at least doesn’t act scary. (His appearance freaking some of them out, ah… that’s another story.) Though he’d have to do a lot of preparation, he might actually put an incredible amount of effort into learning if he found out he was going to be a father. How the man can’t manage to muster up the motivation needed to wash his clothes before wearing them a second time, yet can summon the will to read a ton of different parenting books, the world will never know. The point stands ― having a child combined with his love for his S/O would be a huge catalyst for his realizing that he doesn’t hate everything and everyone, and the world isn’t all bad.
Whenever he wants to touch his S/O in a sweet, intimate way but doesn’t feel comfortable or safe using most of his hand, he’ll use one finger. He might curl his fingers in to run his thumb gingerly over their cheek, or trace his knuckle down the side of their arm, or use the tip of his index finger to draw down their spine so he can see them arch their back. Tomura has never, ever had this before. Despite knowing he has to be careful, that he wants to be careful with them, there’s something endlessly fascinating to him about seeing how they react pleasantly to his touch when all his touch has ever done before is destroy. This also works in reverse; he wants to experience every possible touch of theirs that they’re willing to afford him.
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TOYA
When he sleeps with his S/O, he really, really loves to be the little spoon. (He’s pretty well convinced that anyone who says they don’t, at least from time to time, is a liar!) It makes him feel safe and secure, like everything’s okay, like his S/O cares about him and wants to protect him. If he’s not being the little spoon, and sometimes when he’s the little spoon but facing them, he tends to cling in his sleep. His arms wrap tightly around their waist, his head buried in their chest or their neck or their back. It’s a product of his depressingly possessive nature; he loves them so much, they’re the best thing in his life, and he just… doesn’t want to lose them. Even while he’s asleep, he never wants to let go.
There are times Toya thinks about letting his hair grow out a little longer, to his shoulders maybe. The biggest thing that stops him is that he doesn’t know how he’d look with long hair. He isn’t sure he’d look that great or that he has the face for it! He’s a little afraid that with his more delicate features, having hair longer than it is now would lead to him being mistaken for a woman. If he mentions it to (Name), he might be a little startled by their enthusiastic, “Oh, that would look so charming on you!” coupled with a reassurance that they love his appearance no matter what he decides to do with his look. As far as they’re concerned, even if he ends up not doing it, they’re still going to think he’s the most handsome man ever. Knowing they’d support it, though, makes him think about actually doing it.
He rambles a lot, particularly when he’s feeling anxious. He rambles a lot. That goes along with his hands fidgeting and sometimes his leg bouncing a bit if he’s sitting down. For some reason he finds it hard to sit still or be quiet. He feels the need to fill the silence with something. So he talks, about anything and everything and occasionally about nothing at all. Most of the time only his S/O (or sometimes a friend) placing a hand over his, threading their fingers together, can calm him slightly. Often a gentle kiss when he’s doing the motormouth thing will get his mind to slow down and focus… at least to the point where he kisses back, and happily drowns in them for a while.
While not ‘on the job’, Toya… is usually kind of unsure what to do with his time. He reads, he watches TV a lot, he… sleeps. God, he sleeps. He seems to spend his life in a weird state of either being asleep or seeming wired as hell. There’s not really an in-between for him, at least not for a long time. He has trouble finding balance, especially since he’s so depressed. It seems to other people that he’s got too much energy and doesn’t fit the profile of what many people think a depressed person looks like. In truth, this is probably more accurate than people would like to think ― he hides the fact that he feels numb or sad by masking it with upbeat, happy, sometimes crazed behavior. Thankfully, he can sometimes find real happiness with his S/O, and it’s because of them that he might seek any kind of treatment so that he can feel better more often. Good thing, too, because not only will he be chasing a healthy life… his smile, genuine, painless, unaltered by any kind of forced joy? His true smile is the most beautiful thing.
Okay, but the man… has a serious sweet tooth. Most of the Hassaikai have their own room, and they can fill it however they choose. Toya’s cabinets are filled with nothing but sugary snacks. Even though he does eat regular meals, or at least tries to, he has to have something with sugar nearby to eat between. Chocolate is his favorite; he’ll eat almost any kind of candy, pastry, or even fruit snacks. If his S/O is very lucky, he will share! Pro tip: playing the pocky game with him is guaranteed to end in a cute, maybe steamy makeout session. And kissing any leftover chocolate that gets stuck to his lips? Oh, he’ll blush so hard.
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A Family of Five- Part 1: Of Different Worlds
Calum and Harlowe’s marriage hasn’t always been easy, but it has always been filled with love. This is a collaborative experience with In Sorrow and In Joy. Dad!Calum. Black OC.
CW: Over the course of this series, there are mentions of pregnancy, therapy, and postpartum depression. There is also 18+ Content (Smut)
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Calum watches as Luke runs behind his daughter. Looking at the two of them, it might be hard to tell that Luke’s the father, seeing as she takes after her mother strongly- brown skin and dark hair. But Luke loves that little girl with everything in his body. He finally captures the three-year-old. “That is your mother’s praying shawl. How did you get your little chubby fingers on it?” Luke asks, the giggly three-year-old.
From the back of the house, Calum can hear what sounds like swearing. But he can’t understand the exact language. “Where is she?” Luke’s wife shouts.
“With me, babe. She has your scarf!” Luke hands it out to his wife and turns his attention back to his baby girl. He tickles her. “Did you pray with Momma?”
The little girl giggles. “Yes. I pray.”
Luke kisses her cheek. “Next time, don’t steal her scarf.”
“Or chew on the rug,” his wife adds. Calum chuckles from the front door. The little girl runs up to him, holding her arms out. Calum picks up his goddaughter.
“Oh my, you’re getting bigger every day,” he coos, poking her nose.
“Cawum,” she giggles burying into her godfather’s chest.
Calum kisses her hair, suddenly overcome with joy. His can’t wait for his little bundle of joy to be born. His wife is five months pregnant and they’re expecting a boy. Calum was prepared for a baby thanks to his goddaughter. But how would he teach his child his culture? He watched Luke and his wife have weekly “lessons.” They started out as a way for Luke to learn and they just continued once the baby was born.
But Calum wants his kid to be happy and healthy; that was most important to him. Though his wife and he debated on how to raise the boy confidently in the multiple cultures. Calum’s wife tried to ease his worries, but he still had anxiety. He needed his baby boy to understand that he belonged on this earth, even if society tried to convince him otherwise. Was it so wrong to want your kid to grow up in a world that would love them and not tear them down? Was it wrong that sometimes Calum feared that maybe the world would never accept people of color?
“Wove you,” the little girl coos.
“I love you too,” he breathes. “Be nice to your mum; take care of each other.”
She nods and Calum places her back on the ground. She waddles over to her mom. Calum and Luke finally exit the house. Luke’s car is in the shop and Calum offered to pick him up to drive over to the studio. Sure it was out of the way, but Calum also gets to see his goddaughter. So if he had to drive an extra ten minutes in the opposite direction of the studio, he would do it.
“How’s the missus?” Luke asks, climbing into the passenger seat.
“Good, she’s barely slowed down at all.”
Luke notices the worry creasing his friend’s forehead. “Her continuing to teach dance classes isn’t going to harm the baby.”
“But she goes and does water aerobics twice a week. I know that doctors say that the exercise is good for her. I just worry she’s going to go overboard.”
“You worry wort. She’ll be fine. I know it’s scary; trust, she’s doing everything she can to make sure that baby stays healthy.”
“How did you manage to stay sane? This is nerve-wracking. And I’m trying to help her out with the diet. But this no coffee is killing me.”
Luke laughs. “I didn’t stay sane. That’s the key. No one does. Also, if I just so happen to order your black iced coffee by accident…who would drink it?”
Calum sighs in relief. “I would owe you big time. Man, I’d kiss the ground you walk on.”
“No need to go that far, but let’s just say, I’m so used to grabbing an extra one that I just so happen to do so right now.”
As the first drop of coffee hits his tongue, Calum’s whole body relaxes. He’s missed the caffeine so much. While his wife never drank coffee, she did have to cut back on the cups of black tea. Calum’s so accustomed to the coffee the first few days he had a headache. He’s been able to wean himself off of it but it’s definitely hard.
“Don’t jizz your pants,” Luke teases at the sound of satisfaction Calum emits.
“Shut the fuck up. It’s been months. I need this.”
After working in the studio, Calum drops Luke off and then starts back home. When he walks inside, he can smell food. A snore hits his eardrum. His wife sleeps on the couch with Duke curled up at her feet. He carefully places his keys up and shrugs out of his coat and boots. Like most days when Calum works late, she put his plate in the microwave for him. He unwraps the foil and sets a timer.
He sits and eats at the dining room table; his wife is a stickler that he not eat on the couch so much. He’s not sure why but abides by the rule anyway. Finished eating, he cleans his plate and then carefully situates himself at her feet, having to, unfortunately, move Duke. She flutters awake. “Hey, baby.”
Calum leans down and captures her lips in a kiss. “Hey, sleepyhead.”
She grunts and points to her rounding stomach. “You grow a toe on a second body and see how much energy you have.”
Calum takes her foot in his hands, working at the arch. “How was your day?”
“Good, just drained. The girls are picking up on the routine very fast. I’m proud. How’s the writing? And my favorite baby girl?” She’s always called Luke’s daughter baby girl from the start.
“Writing was great today. Finished up two songs. And she’s just as adorable as always.”
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When his wife walks with a tall bag from Barnes and Nobles, Calum groans. “What do you have now?” He thinks its more parenting books. They absolutely do not need anymore. “If those are more parenting books, I swear.” He walks over, taking the bag from her.
She rolls her eyes. “They’re not parenting books. Just look.” She starts pulling about books. The cover has a small brown boy on the cover. “I’ve never seen so many books with black boys on the cover. I couldn’t help myself.”
Calum sits on the couch and pulls his wife to his lap. “ ‘The Snowy Day’ this one looks so cute,” he says softly.
Calum pulls out about ten different books from the bag. All little black boys on the cover. He hears sniffling and looks over to his wife. Tears run down her cheek. “What’s wrong? What happened?”
“Just overjoyed. But this baby isn’t just black, they are so much more.”
Calum nods; he knows what she’s getting at. They place the books on the bookshelf in the nursery. Did Calum, the second he discover that he was going to be a father, start putting together a nursery? Yes, he did in fact. He didn’t know the gender, but it didn’t matter. He went with soft green, sure to fit either way. Besides, he didn’t really believe in the whole needing blue for a boy or pink for a boy. Of course, if his boy wanted to change it, they would happily do so; but Calum didn’t want to start shoving down gender stereotypes down his unborn baby’s throat. Calum was warned against putting the nursery up so early. Even against the color, but he couldn’t help it. His wife did not object. She knew all too well not to stop him. He wanted– no, needed– to make this a reality.
Staring into the darkness, Calum couldn’t stop seeing her tears. They were happy but felt incomplete. That nursery felt incomplete. He grabs his phone from the nightstand and slides out of bed. The FaceTime call connects in only a few moments. “Is everything alright?” his mother asks.
“Yeah, yeah.”
“That doesn’t sound too convincing. What is it, baby? Is it the baby? Is she alright?”
She always knows. “She’s fine. Baby is fine. I just– I need some recommendations. Do you remember any of the books you used to read me as a child? Ones in Māori or by Māori authors?”
His mom sighs in relief. “I’ve kept some of them. I’ll ship them to you.”
“Oh, no, I’ll just find them on like Amazon or something. That’s expensive.”
She shakes her head. “No, no, it’s okay. If you want them, why spend the extra money?”
“But Mum, c’mon. It’s expensive. I’ll take the names and find them.”
“Nonsense. Now, it’s how late over there. Rest, baby, everything will be fine.”
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Goodnight, Chris McQueen
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A NOS4A2 Review By: Allyssa J. Watkins
I love you, Brat I hope you know that....... My biggest fear was becoming my old man Drinkin', philanderin', livin' for nothin' I wanted so much more for my little girl But Babe, I'm just like him A haunted soldier That never came back from the war I tried so hard to make you laugh Just so you didn't see me cryin' Funny names, and stupid jokes I guess, don't band-aid the holes Punched through the walls and in Your mother's heart Jesus, maybe this dad thing Was a cosmic hoax right from the start I love you like a big dog I'd die twice just to give you a hug Before I go, I want you to know I'm proud of my kid I could never do what you did It's like you told your ma You're made of steel, Vic You threw the bottle away You sure as hell didn't need me But you let your broken down dad save the day I ain't half the hero to you though As you are to Wayne Give 'em HELL, Babe Fight the good fight Don't cry over me I won't die as I lived A good for nothin' It's gonna mean somethin' I gotta believe Don't stay here, Brat, trapped in my death scene Remember the good stuff, when they say "Goodnight, Chris McQueen."
In the words of the illustrious Linda McQueen........ "Holy HELL." It's been days, and I've been in a morose fog, only just now emerging, shaking and fighting the tears, even as I write this, half numb, and half agony. I'm shocked, dismayed, and altogether fragile. The second I saw that this episode was going to be called, "Chris McQueen," I couldn't have been more thrilled, and my heart soared, excited! Chris McQueen has SHINED this season, our own resident white knight, slaying Vic's demons, both of the vice, and supernatural variety. It was no mistake, or random shuffle of fate, that her magic bridge led her back to her dad. He's been a gun-wielding, bomb-making, godsend!!! He helped her quit drinking, heartbroken that his little girl had inherited his disastrous coping mechanisms, refusing to let it drown her the way it did him. He's fought at her side, let her lean on him, he's become her safe place. He's given her the best advice about fighting for Lou, choosing her family, and oh yeah, he SINGLEHANDEDLY took on Bing Partridge, not just once, but TWICE!!!
If NOS4A2 has a CHAMPION, a dark horse in the game, it's hands down Chris McQueen. If anyone is deserving of their own personal, entitled episode, it's the vindicated father who did the work, fought like HELL for his redemption, made himself a better person for his daughter. That rush of flooding joy, cooled to wary concern, and hesitant dread, however, when I realized....... This honour could be his final tribute.......
Don't kill Chris McQueen........ I pleaded over and over in my mind, the frantic cry, resounding, even as I pressed play. I hadn't been able to shake that sinister, creeping feeling all day, and when we opened onto Chris at a funeral, my relief flooded in, graciously thankful to see him alive!!! Wait, he looked younger, like WAY younger, even younger than the first season, and oh my god, hold on, whose funeral is this!? Someone died........ my stomach knotting again, trying to figure out who, and we realize that this is Chris, decades ago, speaking at his Dad's funeral.
I loved, and I mean LOVED this opener. It's just so beautifully real, and one hundred percent Chris McQueen, as he muses about his father's life, and his own, and how the two came to mirror each other. He's funny, irreverent, vulnerable, and by the end, absolutely heartbreaking. It's a searing portrait of a broken man, and everything that caused his life to fracture, every death, that made him wish he was never born.
"When I came back from the gulf, I finally understood why he was pissed off all the time, because he knew there was no reason for him to born, and that nobody was going to give a shit when he died."
Chris' voice cracks, and my eyes sting, because I feel it, his greatest fear, and I know he's not just talking about his father, he's talking about himself, effectually delivering his own eulogy, and again I implored the fates...... Don't kill Chris McQueen.
Aaaaaaaaah, and HELLO Baby Vic!!! Oh my gosh, she's so precious, about eight years old, frowning as her father speaks, huddled close to her mother, and then when Chris becomes too overwhelmed with his anger and emotions to go on, tearing out of the church, she frantically chases after him, calling for him!!! Even then, she was her daddy's girl!!! Once again, I must COMMEND NOS4A2 for choosing the perfect miniature of our badass leading lady, because this girl is the very IMAGE of Ashleigh, and it was such a joy to see her fierce features, and resolve, in a dear little face!!! More Baby Vic, PLEASE!!!
Flashforward to the present day, and Team McQueen is ready and raring to hit the road. I loved this entire scene. The love between her and Lou as she tells him goodbye, and says, "I'm going to go get our boy." An achingly beautiful moment, these two give me life, and have become my FAVOURITE couple on the show!!! I may have been purely Team Drew Butler, Season One, but now I can't imagine our beautiful badass without her Teddy Bear Man, and I ship McCarmody so freaking hard!!! Vic revs the Triumph's engine, testing it, gearing up with her Dad, and it hits me....... She doesn't have to hide it, sneak away to go do her Creative Hero thing, he accepts her for exactly who she is, believes in her gift enough to go with her. For the first time..... Vic McQueen isn't riding alone........
Linda is an absolute rollicking delight, emphatic in her protest, and I have just come to LOVE her so much!!! "I don't know about this Vicki, taking explosives across a magical bridge IN THE RAIN!!!!" God BLESS this woman, she's so maternal here, and I love it, I see how much she's changed, becoming this mother and ex wife even, that isn't afraid to express her feelings and doubts, no longer shackled by the fear that she's destined to be alone.
"You're my only kid, Vicki, My Baby."
"You know me, Ma, made of steel, remember?"
Awwwwww oh my gosh, so freaking CUTE, and for the first time, they feel like a real family, The McQueen Clan on a Mission, slaying psychotic kidnappers, and rescuing lost children, becoming the family business. Linda's still unsure, hurrying after Chris and Vic, still thinking they're both CRAZY, when she sees it for the first time....... Her eyes widen impossibly, as a rickety, wooden, covered bridge, appears on the street in front of them, and her reaction is EVERYTHING we've been waiting for, I found myself, leaping off the couch, cheering as she says it. "Holy HELL!!!"
Chris' childlike wonder, as he looks up into the dark eves, and watches the bats flutter, the Triumph roaring through the beams of breaking light, weaving in and out of shadow, is such a joy to behold. He believed in it, believed in her, even without seeing, and it means that much more to Vic, you can tell. It's also symbolic, Vic sharing her world with her father, bringing him into her inscape, fighting the good fight TOGETHER, both soldiers. I loved it, every second.
Surprise, surprise, when they roll up to the junkyard, Bing Partridge isn't dead, because some cockroaches just won't DIE!!!! Like an AVENGING ANGEL, Chris McQueen is all of us, flying off that bike, and assailing Bing with murderous fury, backhanding his stupid face with the gun, over and over, impaling him deeper with the protruding rod, and I swear, I wanted to run to him, and HUG him so tightly, so freaking PROUD!!!! THANK YOU, CHRIS MCQUEEN!!!
"Where is he, you SICK, Son of a BITCH!?!?"
"HE CAN'T HELP US IF HE'S DEAD!!!!!"
Vic screams at her father, angrily chastising this good and proper beating that has been a LONG time coming!!!! I'm sorry, isn't that how ANY sane person would react to a sadistic, murdering, rapist whose made their life a LIVING HELL!? What gives, Victoria!? Chris falls back, as confused as I was, and then shakes his head, as he apologizes vehemently, which Vic is having none of. She's AWFUL to her father from this moment forward, rude and spiteful, blaming him for everything, and as much as I love the girl, in this unjust punishment, she REALLY lives up to her nickname, Brat.
This Kids Glove approach to Bing Partridge is MADDENING enough to make me PSYCHOTIC!!! BING. IS. EVIL. Say it with me, NOS4A2!!!! It's like they are hellbent on redeeming the ONE character that is beyond saving, a man that even God, himself, would look at reviled, and say, "Get thee behind me, SATAN!!!" Last week they failed, first through the deus ex machina epiphany, and then through the attempted murder/suicide, so they tried even harder, using a meeker approach, making him say manipulative propaganda like, "I wish I'd never met Mr. Manx, because then Vic McQueen would still be my friend." and "I'm all alone in here, and it's really scary." Ughhhh somebody, anybody, put us out of our misery, and put one right between his beady little rat bastard eyes.
I almost understand Tabitha's need to keep things professional, and speak to Bing, in a reassuring way that reaches his simple, monosyllabic mind. I get that beating the living hell out of him like he so obviously deserves isn't an option for her, but this man is a HEINOUS criminal, who's kidnapped kids, drugged and raped their mothers, KILLED both of his parents, not to mention TORTURED Charlie within an inch of his life, only just last week!!!! But by ALL MEANS, Vic, go HOLD HANDS WITH HIM, and see if that will help get your son back!!!! Cringe.
I HATED this, so, so, SO much!!! Bing was her friend, he betrayed her, violated the trust between them, became her worst nightmare, shot at her, traumatized her, duct-taping her to a chair, she should HATE him, despise the sight of him far more than Charlie Manx!!! I CRAVED a reckoning, even if it was just a verbal assault. But no, instead, Vic decides to play nice, and I get that most of it was an act to convince him to help her get her son back, but I could also feel NOS4A2's misguided hand in her actions. Look, see, even Vic can find the good in Bing!!!! Sigh. Not gonna lie, I was going to scream bloody murder if she said she forgives him!!!
Good Cop pays off, however, and Bing, desperate for Vic's forgiveness, reveals there is one more stop before Christmasland, one last chance to grab Wayne, when he gets out of the Wraith at Sleigh House to hang his ornament. It's a dawning revelation, intel quintessential to their success, and for once they know where Charlie is going to be, before he gets there, and can lay a trap for him and his indestructible car. I hate the way they arrived at the information though, I'd have much preferred to see Bing suffer for his sins, and the whole interaction is just so laughably implausible. I will say this however, there was a rather BEAUTIFUL line in this scene that Bing couldn't begin to deserve, but I LOVED it all the same. "I miss the person I thought you were." My god, that's powerful.
"Chris McQueen," is a STELLAR episode, full of beautiful lines like this, including my FAVOURITE thing that Maggie has EVER said to Vic, which perfectly exemplifies their eccentric friendship!!! "I'd shank a thousand assholes for your mopey ass!!!" YES!!! I LOVE THAT SO MUCH!!! I will say though, that I was SHOCKED at how cool Vic was with Maggie's scary new trick of hurting herself to use her powers, sans seizures. I thought she was going to kick her butt for that!!! I'm really worried, Guys, this is a dangerous addiction, that's going to be the hardest one yet for Mags to quit!!! The break-up with Tabitha was bittersweet, but it did not come as a shock to me. They'd been drifting apart for awhile now, and I feel like Maggie was so scared of losing her, that she was afraid to be herself. "I want to live in the real world all the time." For me, that was the nail in the coffin, having only heard it about a thousand times myself. Maggie will always be living in two worlds, and whoever she's with MUST accept that. They love each other, yes, but they just want different things. I do respect Tabitha so much for not demanding that Maggie give up her tiles, threatening to leave her if she didn't. She'd rather let Maggie go be herself, be happy, than try to stifle her, shove her into that hateful, constricting little box called normal.
Vic continues to be petty, and spiteful towards her father, treating him WAY too harshly, punishing him, when he's done nothing but fight for her, a literal action HERO, avenging Wayne, and kicking ASS!!! It hurt my soul, and I could see the pain in his eyes, thinking he'd failed her, apologizing again, just wanting her forgiveness. The second scene at the McQueen house is a far less fuzzy one, as she forbids her father to come with her, placing all the blame of every bad thing that's happened thus far on his shoulders, and she cuts him with razor edged words, saying the worst thing that she could have possibly said in that moment, something truly unforgivable, that I already know she will spend the rest of her life, regretting.
"I lived eight years of my life without you, Dad, and I can just as easily do it again." She sneers, and even Linda stares, aghast. "Vicki, no, you don't mean that!!!"
I felt the pangs in my heart, stunned that she could be that vicious to her own father, after all he's done for her, getting sober, changing his whole life, hell, getting HER sober!!! Linda is again so adorable, insisting she take Chris with her, like "Vicki let your father play on your magical bridge, if he wants!!!" not wanting him to feel left out, and while I want more father/daughter explosive awesomeness, I'm conflicted whether or not he should go. If he stays here...... he's safe. Eventually Linda's persuasion wins out. "Don't let your anger towards your father, keep you from getting back Wayne." With a frustrated sigh, Vic shoves a black helmet in Chris' hands, and we're off to the races again. "Bring them home," Linda whispers sweetly, embracing him tight, and as they hug, I get the most sinking feeling that it's for the last time. Dont...... Don't kill, Chris Mcqueen.
Vic and Chris work in silence, once they get to the charred foundation of Sleigh House in Colorado, burying the handmade bombs, and finally Chris can't take it anymore. "Is this how you want it, Brat?" He asks her, heartbroken, and Ashleigh's acting is PHENOMENAL, as she breaks down and reveals the truth behind her unprovoked animosity.
"It's easier to be mad at you, than to blame myself."
"None of this is your fault. Charlie Manx is not your fault."
"I want to forgive you, because if I don't, how can Wayne ever forgive me. But I can't just let myself off the hook!!!"
It's not entirely a make-up, but it's an important conversation, something she's been wrestling with for a long time. Chris is again AMAZING, consoling her, easing her guilt, even while she's the one that's been impossible. Again Vic, I love you, but your father did the absolute RIGHT thing, and he's the only one that did right by Bing, as far as I'm concerned.
Maggie and Lou join the dynamite father/daughter duo in Colorado, and I LOVED all of their scenes together, the two people in this world that Vic McQueen loves most, and there's something magical about it, something iconic, seeing all three of them together, the Creative Dream Team, united in their crusade against Charlie Manx.
"Every one of these ornaments represents a kid in Christmasland, lost forever. Do you think there's a way to get them back? The other kids?"
WHEN SOULS FALL.
Maggie stares down, perplexed at the tiles, as she arranges them, revealing to the oracle this cryptic, mysticism, and I myself, could NOT breathe. Holy SMASH. Ever since the end of, "Gunbarrel," where Vic wanders through the trees outside Sleigh House, frowning at them, the hundreds of glittering ornaments, swaying in the wind, glowing as she drew near, I just knew...... I KNEW the souls of the Lost Children, were trapped inside each and every one of them, and this suspicion was ever further confirmed, when she found Bradley's canoe ornament, broken open on the ground, after he burnt up in the Wraith. My prediction? To turn the kids back, they have to smash every single one of these ornaments, and only then can the escaped souls return to their vampire shells, and make them human again. The minute a child hangs an ornament, the transformation is complete.
I also LOVED the transcendent scene between Vic and Millie, a scared little girl, in over her head, calling, pleading through the static, and I couldn't help but MARVEL at how much has changed between them. Last Season Millie Manx was very much her father's daughter, cruelly taunting Vic, on her father's behalf, even appearing to her while she was awake, stabbing her with an invisible sword. Now, she calls out to her to be her saviour, her father's greatest enemy, the iron wrought armour of her inherited hatred falling away, and Vic sees her as she always was, not a hollowed out demon spawn, but just a frightened little girl that needs to be set free. I was also THRILLED that dear little Millie imparted the knowledge that Charlie CANNOT die, else all the children, including his daughter, will die with him. Vic abhors Charlie with a screaming vengeance, but now that she knows his death comes at the cost of every child he's ever taken, she won't kill him, she CAN'T kill him, because then all of this, everything she's fought so hard for, bled for, would be for nothing.
The final act is both the thrilling BEST and the incoherent WORST of the episode, as the chaotic music ominously heralds our man's arrival. Charlie Manx, cutting a dashing, imposing silhouette, dark against the hazy dusk, exits the Wraith, turning every which way, striking in profile, floating smoothly across the front of the car, to let Wayne out. I loved this aesthetic, Charlie moving swiftly through the mist and dying light, rising as the threatened dark, enclosing. It's beautiful, and serves two clever purposes. One, to shroud our debonair dark menace in all the more intrigue and mystery, and the other, to conceal just how bad Wayne's gotten. Charlie clasps his hands around Wayne's shoulders lovingly, the picture of paternal pride, and my heart caught, seeing Wayne in the cast light, his boyish curls, frayed and almost white, his skin covered in white blue veins, every one of his teeth, coming to a sharp point.
"Go on, My Boy, it's time to hang your ornament," Charlie chortles handing Wayne the CUTEST little gray, baby bat ornament, I have ever seen, urging him forward. "Choose any branch you like, just make sure it's a SPECIAL branch," Charlie crows, and my heart melts, so in love with both of them, and the way Charlie dotes on him, knowing that while this began as a revenge plot, Charlie has come to love and favour Wayne, like the son he never had. "Don't dilly dally," He warns adorably, with an eyebrow raise, and even this mild scold is too precious for words.
Charlie waits by the Wraith, already nervous, as little Wayne disappears into the grove of trees. I LOVED the Wraith's ADORABLE warning system, as it flashes danger, the car horn honking, and even more I loved Charlie's distressed reaction to it, hurrying over, brow knit, like a father racing to tend to and protect his frightened child. Can I just have this impossibly PERFECT man, that darling little curly-haired boy, and this pretty, shiny car, PLEASE!?!?
"Smart Car," I whisper to myself, as the Wraith senses Vic's presence, and the waiting bombs beneath the ground. Charlie, alarmed, jumps back into his car, to seek out what's got the Wraith in such a tizzy, racing away, and leaving young Wayne behind. If there was ever a time, to save Wayne, it is NOW!!! NOW, Maggie, grab him NOW!!!! Here's where things start to unravel for me as far as character motivation and realistic ability is concerned. Yes, I get that Wayne's appearance is terrifying for her, that she doesn't know what she's walking into as she approaches him, but there is NO WAY Margaret Leigh, Oracle Extraordinaire, Hourglass SLAYER, would just cower, and watch as Wayne hangs his ornament. Nope, sorry. Wayne isn't even all the way a vampire yet, he's in transition, and the FEARLESS girl that I know and love, would have grabbed him, reassured him, while she wrested the ornament from his hands, and SMASHED it!!! Wayne's soul flies back into his body, crying as he clings to his Aunt Mags, Charlie is thwarted, and everybody lives happily ever after. End Scene.
But no, Maggie, in an uncharacteristic move, waits until Wayne has ALREADY hung his ornament, and then approaches him fearfully. I will admit I was a little nervous too..... Wayne, Darling, NO BITING Aunt Maggie!!! Wayne bares his vampire teeth, and raises his vampire claws in an adorable scare, with the cutest little growl ever, laughing cheerfully as he chases Maggie through the trees, clearly thinking it's a game.
Meanwhile, Charlie bristles as he sees the glowing headlights of Vic's motorcycle up ahead, piercing through the descended dark. His annoyance is obvious, but you can almost sense his secret excitement, at having one last chance to kill her.
"Gunning for Mother of the Year?" Charlie scoffs, amused, looking hot as hell behind the Wraith, clenching the steering wheel, his head down, eyes narrowed and full of smouldering, black intent. It's a FANTASTIC face-off, as the Wraith screams down into the open field, Chris pressing HARD on the detonator, and the first bomb goes off in a spray of dirt and billowing smoke. Again here's where I found myself more than a little bit incredulous, wondering WHAT THE HELL IS THE WRAITH MADE OF!?!? I even giggled to myself, remembering what Chris had said. "I don't care if he's in a GOD DAMNED tank!!!" The Wraith remains unscathed, the gleaming black paint, not so much as scratched, as a second bomb, and then a third go off beneath it, to no detriment. Really!? The Wraith is NOT a tank, it's not even armoured, and while yes, it's a supernatural entity, it CANNOT DEFY THE LAWS OF PHYSICS!!! Baby, I'm sorry, I'm so don't want to see you harmed, but you put a blast beneath that undercarriage, it is going to send that car FLYING, flipping it over at the very least!!!
Back in the grove of trees, Wayne, still chasing Maggie, stops cold when Lou calls out to him.
"Dad..... is that you?" THANK GOD, I cry out tearfully, as Wayne recognizes him, and in a very human moment, runs and hugs his father so tight, snuggling his little head to his shoulder, Lou sighing relieved, as he holds his son at last. Happy tears become angry ones, however, and at first I was LIVID with Wayne, horrified as he sinks his tiny little fangs into Lou's shoulder, biting him hard. DON'T BITE YOUR FATHER!!!!! Why, Wayne, WHY!? But the second time I watched this episode, I noticed something soooo very important. Wayne doesn't show any signs of hostility, poses NO threat, UNTIL the first bomb goes off. This is NO coincidence. Charlie, you're too clever for your own good!!! I suspect, that once the transformation is complete, and the kids are connected to Father Christmas, they can sense when he's in danger, and their innate attack instinct takes over!!! Freaking brilliant, and yet also terrifying!!!
Vic curses under her breath, her foot slamming on the gas, helplessly, as the Triumph won't start, her knife failing her, as the Wraith, screams at her like a shot bullet, promising vengeance, and Charlie smirks, sadistic, knowing he's about to end this....... "Say Goodnight, Vic McQueen."
My heart clenches in my chest, barely breathing, the tears flooding my vision, watching through blurry eyes, knowing what he's going to do, before he even does it. Chris McQueen hurtles himself in front of Vic, selflessly sacrificing his life for hers, and the Wraith runs him over, crushing the back of his legs. as he collides with it. I screamed, I sobbed, and shook violently, stunned because my prayers had been answered....... Chris McQueen, has miraculously SURVIVED. He's alive...... he's alive...... I whisper, reassuring myself. While he's far from okay, surely suffering two crushed legs, unable to move, I'm just so happy to see him still breathing, still fighting.
"Perfect timing, Wayne," Charlie snickers, Vic screaming, "NO!" as Wayne hops back into the car. This is it, this is the moment, where it all goes so wrong. Charlie's holding all the cards, he's got Wayne in the car, he's subdued Vic and her father, neither of them can so much as move, and he listens, drinking in their anguished cries. All he had to do was drive away....... It was over. It was SUPPOSED to be over.
"Chris McQueen, a disappointment of a man, just like your father," Charles snarls, and I AM BEGGING him to stop, bawling, pleading frantic, my terrified voice shrill. "BABY NO!!!! BABY STOP!!! DON'T KILL CHRIS, PLEASE GOD, CHARLIE!!!!!" Tapping into a darkness, donning a heartlessness, unbecoming of our gentleman villain, Charlie looks Vic in the eye, as he does it, snapping Chris' neck with lethal force, killing him purely out of spite. The episode ends with her broken, mournful sob, and Chris' slain gaze, his eyes still full of tears, staring blankly at the camera.
My pain is deafening, my sorrow beyond all hope of any coherent expression as NOS4A2 suffers its greatest loss to date. It's an empty gesture, a callous act, uncharacteristic of the man that I love with all my heart, but who has hurt me something profound with this senseless murder. In what kind of CRUEL world, does an innocent man, who sacrifices himself for his daughter, who fought for eight years to be the kind of father she deserved, have to die, while an indecent evil like Bing Partridge gets to live!? Charlie, HOW could you!? This...... There's no honour in this. Charlie kills only as a last resort, and only in defense, he has a strict moral code, and is vehemently against violence without cause. This was unfeeling, unnecessary, and soulless. Yes, he knew Chris was a bad father from before, but surely in witnessing the valiant manner in which he'd flung himself in front of the car, with no thought for his own life, Charlie would have found him redeemed, he would have seen a father who'd do anything to protect his daughter, not so different from himself, and he would have felt SOMETHING!!!
Goodnight, Chris McQueen. You fought the good fight, you changed and made things right, and now at last you can find peace....... My heart is so heavy, I can't hold it, and crying here, I want him to know how wrong he was, thinking nobody would mourn him when he died. A thousand cry out, stricken with grief. Husband, Father, White Knight Redeemed, here lies Chris McQueen, a HERO who didn't die for nothing.........
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phobiadeficient · 4 years
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what if.. sniperscout but both of them are trans.. thatd be superb
this is a particularly cheesy one and yknow what? that’s okay
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He was pretty sure he was falling in love with Scout, and that was a very scary thing.
At first he admittedly looked down on Scout a little bit. Some kid, looked fresh out of high school maybe, and people that young in the professional killing line of work were usually dead stupid, and he seemed to have the boasts to match, loud and distracting on the battlefield and always laughing at high volumes in the locker rooms before and after.
Then he found out one day, late, the team gathered around a bonfire that Pyro and the Engineer had scraped together, low over a bottle of beer, that Scout was only a handful of years younger than him, about the same age Sniper had started at. Found out about a mother who was working two jobs and starting to go on sixty, and brothers desperately trying to both support their families and get help with the nightmares that had followed them home from war. About his first stints with crime, a last resort when nobody would hire him because he had a diploma but couldn’t seem to get a good score on any literacy tests. About a police record a mile long and taking an offer to go out into the desert to die over and over again because apparently, blokes like him “didn’t do well in prison”.
For a while, Sniper thought he said that because he was a bit on the scrawny side. Then one day in the locker rooms, Scout passed by him in a towel, having forgotten to take off his grip tape before trying to shower, and he had it wrapped up over his chest rather than around his waist, and a few things clicked.
It came up eventually, although he couldn’t remember how. It was just the two of them leaned up against one of the buildings and trying to eat lunch as quick as they could before battle got called again, talking quietly. Scout had gotten top surgery it turned out, at the same time Medic had to cut into him anyways, but wasn’t much a fan of needles and so wasn’t on to that part yet, was waiting for Medic to finish up working on some alternative method. Sniper hadn’t gotten any kind of surgery yet—maybe couldn’t, maybe wouldn’t, maybe he was just scared, but it didn’t really matter—and had been on a steady injection schedule for almost four years. Scout admitted that he was a little jealous. Sniper admitted that he was too.
They talked a lot about it. Scout informed him a month or two into their odd friendship that Sniper was the only person on the base that he felt like he could really talk to. Pyro still unnerved him a little sometimes, and Medic knew but didn’t exactly know how to talk about things in a sensitive manner, and he wasn’t brave enough to try to bring it up with any of the other mercs. Sniper sympathized. When Scout finally found out that he would be put on hormones, he practically broke Sniper’s door down in his haste to come tell him, and Sniper declared that they would be celebrating.
The whiskey disappeared quick, and so did their fears and nerves, and that was the same night that Scout made a move on him.
It wasn’t something as drastic as a kiss. It was first and foremost Scout holding his hand, looking at him with a flushed face and contented smile. Then Sniper had smiled back, and Scout had lifted Sniper’s hand up to his own face and kissed at his knuckles, carefully, gingerly, as if half convinced that Sniper would snatch his hand away and whack Scout over the head for the infraction. But he didn’t.
The next morning, they had the uncomfortable conversation about what they were and what they would tell people. Sniper walked away satisfied and just a little bit giddy.
They took things slow—more specifically, Scout took things slow, for Sniper’s sake. They mapped out what they each liked, first in terms of affection, then physical affection, then kissing, then in the bedroom. Scout was mind-blowingly patient with him, with the fact that for a long time Sniper wasn’t sure he’d be comfortable going any further than kissing and feeling at each other over their clothes.
They eventually made a leap, Sniper getting Scout off in Scout’s room, lights off and shades drawn so that there was only barely enough light to see and operate by. And once he’d managed that once and twice, once he was sure he wasn’t going to freak out the first time he got in bed with someone else in years—the very first time doing so dead sober and with someone he’d ever see again—it was only a short while of hesitation before he allowed Scout to do the same with him.
A year into their relationship—two months after finally telling a few members of the team, a week or two since the final teammate found out—he wasn’t nervous at all anymore. He was more comfortable with Scout than he’d maybe ever been with anyone else in his life. Because Scout understood—over empathy, over sympathy, he really truly just understood.
And it was nice. And it was scary. He wasn’t used to people understanding him. He wasn’t used to being able to pause to search for a specific word and having it supplied to him within a second or two. He wasn’t used to being able to start saying a thought or idea and having someone else say the other half to him with a nod, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
One of these days, Scout was going to pull him apart at the seams, and Sniper would let him. Wouldn’t even ask questions, probably. And maybe that wasn’t the same thing as love, maybe that was something else, but love was the only word Sniper could think of for it.
He ended up saying it first, which surprised both of them. But it just sort of slipped out, and once it did, he couldn’t seem to make himself regret it.
He’d found that he had this sort of game he liked to play with Scout. Where he’d hook on one of his more standard straps and Scout would ride him, and Sniper would see how long he could make Scout do all the work, see who got desperate and broke first. Usually it was Scout, with the one he’d picked for that particular night especially, but depending on how things went, whether Scout did all of the lovely little things that secretly drove Sniper absolutely bonkers, sometimes he ended up breaking first.
And he was really starting to get there. Biting his lip with those big teeth of his until it was red and swollen to try and hold back his noises, most of them rising out of his chest anyways, and moving at such a speed up and down that his tags swung against his chest, and raking a hand up through his sweaty bangs to get them out of his face, eyes peeking open to look down at Sniper, and god, the sight of him. And he rolled his hips just right, and it put a very pleasant pressure against his crotch that got him to release a shuddery little breath, and Scout smirked, so satisfied, so pleased with himself.
God.
He slid an arm around Scout’s waist, bent one knee. Started rocking—not thrusting, not quite, but when it paired with the way Scout was moving it made his pitch rise and his gasping speed up, and gave Sniper some nice sensations as well to boot, almost nice enough to convince him for a moment—
It was hard to explain, but he didn’t ever really need to, not with Scout, and that punched him in the chest just as hard as it always did, and words trailed the exhale.
“Fuckin’ love you,” he groaned, and Scout made a shaky noise. And he looked up when he realized he’d said it out loud, and Scout was staring, wide-eyed now.
And then Scout was lunging forward, mashing their lips together and redoubling his pace, moving fast and desperate, and Sniper finally started participating in a real way, bucking hard to the rhythm Scout set.
When Scout was done—twice, he was fairly sure, he thought it was something like twice, but his head was on crooked all of a sudden—he allowed them both to rest for a moment, pulling back enough to pant, open-mouthed against Scout’s throat.
Scout had a hand resting on his chest, trying to feel for something. He didn’t know what, for a few seconds, then he realized it was just under his left shoulder, where his heartbeat was probably hammering, even through a thick binder.
“Do you really?” Scout asked, voice very small, very nervous.
“Yeah,” Sniper admitted quietly.
“Oh thank fucking god,” Scout exhaled, a sigh of relief, and it startled a laugh out of Sniper. “That would’ve been the meanest prank ever, man. Jesus. And I uh, I love you too. Like, duh.”
“Duh?” Sniper repeated, laughed a little.
“You heard me,” Scout said haughtily, confidence flooding back into place as he got his breath back. Sniper laughed some more, and Scout made a noise, shifting. “Fuck, s-stop doin’ that, too sensitive—“
“Then get off,” Sniper chided, rolled his eyes.
“I don’t wanna.”
“Then stop complaining,” Sniper said next, pinched him on the side. “Christ. Prick.”
“The prick you’re in love with,” Scout sing-songed, pinching Sniper right back and grinning.
“You don’t get to tease me over saying I love you when you said it back,” Sniper deadpanned.
“Can and will.”
“Right, I take it back,” Sniper said, leaning back and crossing his arms behind his head, staring up at the ceiling and ignoring Scout completely.
“Aw, c’mon! I’m kidding!” Scout insisted, sitting up on his knees to disconnect then curling up to Sniper’s chest. “Babe. I’m kidding. I love you. C’mon.”
“You’re going to use that every time I’m angry with you starting now, aren’t you?” Sniper asked, a little annoyed with the way his heart fluttered at the words.
“Depends if it works,” Scout shrugged, and made a kissy-face at Sniper expectantly.
For about ten seconds, restraint. Then he sighed heavily and leaned in to close the gap, kissing Scout with an amount of force that declared he was not kissing Scout because he asked him to, he was kissing Scout because he wanted to, thank you very much.
The smirk on Scout’s face told him that he didn’t believe it for a second.
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seenashwrite · 5 years
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A Fluff By Any Other Name
Word Count: 1.8K Category: One-shot, Domestic Family Fluff, Husband Dean, Reader Insert Mommy, Sam And Dogs, Practical Jokes, Meet Cute   Rating: Teen & Up Character(s): Dean, Sam, You, a Newborn, a Nurse Pairing(s): Dean + You Warnings: None Author’s Note: *This is a re-post minus tags and links in an effort to get it to show up in searches*; more post-story Overall Summary: Sam arrives at the hospital to meet his newborn niece.
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Dean was waiting for Sam in the hallway.
“No flowers?”
“Uh, she hates flowers. Figured I’d ask what she wants for dinner, run get it.”
“Maybe I would’ve appreciated the flowers.”
“You know, I’m going to let this go, because you’ve had a long day, but not as long as hers, so—”
“Ask me.”
“Ask… what?”
“You know.”
“Dean, did you sneak some morphine, or whatever they’ve been—”
“Ask me what your niece’s name is. Actually, no - ask me what it’s not.”
His voice hadn’t ratcheted down to the deep-deep levels of pissed off - and, to be sure, there were several subtle variations Sam knew well, having been on the receiving end of all of them - but Dean was definitely serious, and had crossed his arms for good measure.
“I legit don’t know where you’re going with—-”
“The dogs. All your foster dogs. You took the good names.”
“Okay, now, that’s— I started volunteering way before she ever got pregnant, before you two even got serious, come to think of it. And I just chose a bunch of names that I thought of off the top of my—-”
“I picked up on that, yeah - around the time you used Jessie. And on that real jumpy, kinda twitchy one, which was extra weird. And was a boy.”
“Wait, wait - that was such a sweet dog, and besides - you really would’ve wanted to name your daughter after my dead fiancée?!”
“Oh, everybody’s dead, Sam!” Dean whisper-hissed. “And, no, not necessarily, but I do wonder what Jessica’d think about that…. about that…. what damn breed was that thing?”
“A mix.”
“Of?”
“A pooset and a corgat.”
“Sam. The hell.”
“A poodle-basset hound mix and a rat terrier-corgi mix shared a special hug—”
“So it’s a poocorgaset.”
Sam stared.
“Corsetpoogat.”
Sam brought a hand up, slowly rubbed his temples.
“Can I pull from the rest of the real names? I mean, ratbassgipoo is turning my crank.”
“But always the poo.”
“Of course always the poo, what the hell good does -dle do anybody?”
The nurse cleared her throat - she was leaning into the hallway, a leg and foot still in the room. “We’re done. Everything’s looking good. She said for you guys to come on in, but if you’re in the middle of…..”
“No! No, not at all. Hey, and this is my little brother, Sam. Sammy, this is our nurse, she’s been here the whole time, basically delivered Macka… Mmmuh… my kid.”
She raised her eyebrows at that, but smiled, extending her hand and shaking the one offered, introducing herself as Dean slipped past them.
“Uncle Sam, huh?”
“Uh-huh…. oh god, I just now realized that!”
“Eh… could be worse.”
“Yeah?”
“You could have a name that your nurse had to re-write on the birth certificate five times - twice for misspells, then again because she ran out of room. Me. I’m that person. We’re talking about me, here.”
“What was the fourth? Since there was a fifth?”
“Oh, well, that one? Can’t take credit for - under ‘father’s name’, the proud papa got a case of the jitters and wrote your father’s name.”
“Jeez, I’m so… I’m so sorry…”
Sam would’ve sounded sincere if he hadn’t burst out laughing, but she immediately joined in. And though he didn’t know it at the time, he would be sincere with her many more times than not, and he’d be getting plenty of it in return. Starting that night, when he’d ask if she’d be interested in getting coffee sometime. She would be tips-to-toes sincere when saying she hoped to hear from him soon.
They’d still keep bursting into laughter, amongst and in between the sincere times, over a million different things through the years. There’d be the breath-stealing kind, prompted by the action of more amusing-than-scary hunts; the gasp-induced kind, stemming out of nervous relief over the hunts that weren’t; and her favorite, the bent-over, knotted-into-cramps kind, resulting from drunken Dean tales of hunts long past. And then his favorite, when the Winchester kids were raising hell, and there was nothing to do but laugh.
This time, this first time, after the birth of their niece, in the moment they’d met, would ultimately get ranked as the best, though it was followed closely by the tear-tinged round that erupted after another first, when they heard the justice of the peace say the words “husband and wife”.
But that’s another story.
For now, Sam closed the door quietly before tip-toeing to the bed, bending and giving you a kiss on the forehead. He glanced over to the bassinet and back, saying, “Nice work.”
“Work is right.”
Dean was seated in an armchair next to your bed, unlacing his boots, but paused and looked up at this, tacking on a clarification. “Work is damn right.”
You winked in acknowledgment before speaking again. “So listen, while I’ve got you both—-”
“We in trouble already?” Dean asked, changing his seat from the chair to the opposite side of the bed, perching near the end.
“—-I wanted to make sure you knew that I haven’t totally lost my marbles with the name, and I know that’s what you’re both thinking.”
Sam opened his mouth, ready to protest, but Dean just held up his hands in a sort-of surrender.
“Babe, I know I said I’d be fine with whatever you chose, but we ain’t lied to each other yet, and wow - it’s horrible.”
“I really wish you wouldn’t worry. It’s an old family name, and, I mean… we could squeak a nickname out of it… probably… you know how some of these Gaelic names are, it’s hard to tell how to pronounce them on sight.”
“So how’s it pronounced?” Sam asked.
“Get ready,” Dean muttered.
And Sam’s jaw dropped briefly as something largely incomprehensible - possibly worse than the name was on paper - came out of your mouth. “Sis?” he said.
“Bro?”
“That’s beyond horrible.”
“Yeah, it is. It is a vicious eyesore that she won’t be able to spell for who-knows-how-long, it makes ears bleed, and I’m a garbage parent for it, though I will point out her father was zero help.”
Now Dean’s jaw dropped, but clearly in faux offense. “I resent that - ‘cause every name I said I liked….”
“….every name we agreed on, that we loved for her….”
“….was already a dog’s name.”
You and Dean turned your heads in unison, leveling looks at Sam.
“I can’t have taken up all of them—-”
“Mary.”
“Jane.”
“Which also took out Mary Jane.”
“Erica.”
“Charlotte.”
“Bobby, which took away ‘Bobbie’.”
“Sandra.”
Dean wrinkled his nose, prompting you to roll your eyes.
“Right, right - not your fave. But we even would’ve been fine with Anne.”
“I haven’t named any of them Sandra or Anne,” Sam pointed out.
“No, but you did name that fire-engine-red cocker spaniel, the one that wouldn’t stop crawling into my lap, Anna - which was a real cute move, by the way,” Dean shot back.
“We’d already 86′d Anna, on your request, and I still haven’t heard that whole story,” you said, jabbing a finger into Dean’s chest before jabbing it in the air at Sam. “The one that really pissed me off? And I get to be pissed off because of the disaster that currently is my—”
“Whoa!” Dean interjected.
You gave him brief but pointed side-eye before getting back to fussing at Sam. “Millie. You took Millie. And she was an adorable dachshund, an absolute doll, but, I mean, come on.”
The tone of your voice had changed, leaving the realm of good-natured teasing and stepping into something akin to disappointment. It wasn’t lost on Sam, who looked to his shoes, swallowing. Then he let his gaze drift to the bassinet, keeping it there even as you went on, though now with gentle care.
“But I get it. We get it.”
“Get what?”
“That menagerie of furry fluff. Thinking they’re it. Only kids you’ll ever have.”
Sam was completely focused, spellbound by the rise-and-fall of the tiny, striped-blanket-bundle’s easy breaths.
Dean’s voice now, definitely deep, definitely serious, definitely one of the subtle variations Sam valued above all the rest, the slightly scolding one that hid a bottomless well of love.
“Can’t know the future, Sammy. I know sometimes we have, but…. nothing’s in stone. I sure as hell didn’t picture this for me. Ever.”  
Sam nodded - it was true, just didn’t feel like it.
“And even if it was? Written in stone? Find another big-ass hammer, grenade launcher, whatever - lay waste, kiddo,” you added.
The baby suddenly jolted herself with a sneeze, causing a reciprocal jolt across her audience. She shifted a little, smacked her lips a few times, didn’t show the first indication of waking up, that anything in her brand new world was even slightly out-of-sorts. Her uncle briefly thought on the realization of how hard he’d fight to keep her in such a place as he brought his eyes back to her parents.
And was surprised to find them grinning.
“What?” Sam asked.
“Check out her bracelet,” Dean said.
Sam looked to you, received a nod.
“Go ahead,” you said. “She won’t notice.”
She didn’t, but did get a hell of a grip on a finger of the hand that moved her arm, so he slid the bracelet around with a few fingers of his free hand. Sam fought his own grin as he tucked her arm back under the blanket. Well, mostly - he opted to leave her hand out, let the grip remain for as long as she was willing to hold on to him, then raised an eyebrow at his shoulder-shaking, snickering brother.
Dean kept it up as he edged to the head of the bed, scooting in next to you best he could in the cramped space, quieting only when he let his eyes close, no need to see as he tilted on his side, laced his fingers through yours like he’d done a million times before, the metal of matching angel-blessed bands briefly clinking.
“So your nurse… she was in on this?” Sam asked you.
You shrugged. “Except the father’s name snafu - that part was 100% true.”
Eyes still closed, Dean briefly gave a thumbs-up, took your hand again, went back to his dozing.
You shook your head at him a little, though a smile was on your face as you went on. “She’s the whole package, my man.”
Sam smiled, too. “Yeah. I noticed that.”
“Thought you might.”
“Speaking of thoughts, what made you think of it? Not the prank, I mean—”
“Turns out, my great-grandmother had a nice, simple, easily pronounceable, no-brainer spelling, peach of a maiden name.”
“And the story on this middle name?”
“She’ll prove herself worthy.”
“Hardy-har-har,” Sam replied flatly, but still with a smile.
“It was the first name on both our lists…”
Even in the dim light, you saw his eyes go shiny.
“….and, we hedged our bets - figured even if you ran out of ideas, you’d never name one of your fluffs after yourself. Thought we’d do it for you.”
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angelandbee · 5 years
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BTS Imagine | Werewolf AU! (Part 1-3)
As you come home from work you grab some leftovers from you fridge, put them in the microwave and flop down on the couch. After wrapping yourself in a blanket you mindlessly turn on the television in your small apartment and take the first bite from your dinner. You hear it starting to rain outside and your lights flicker for a moment. To be honest, it doesn’t scare you one bit. You only moved here about six months ago and by now you know that the electricity here doesn’t seem to work properly. Your phone bleeps and lights up, signaling an incoming message. You pick up your phone to check it. Meanwhile a news reporter announces that the amount of dead animals in the forest next to your town has rapidly increased and that sightings of a large animal were reported.
 Kim Seokjin
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 Lazily you pick up your phone to check the message and see it’s your coworker. When will she ever learn not to bother you when you’re at home? Sure, your company is working on a big project and all, but you already worked overtime the past two weeks. What ever she wants from you, can it not wait for a few more hours?
After deciding to just not reply to her message you contemplate whether you should just turn off your phone completely for tonight and go to bed early. When you were about to do so however you receive another message, this time it’s from your boyfriend, Seokjin. Even though you know him for a few months already you’ve only been together for about three weeks, so you are completely baffled when you read his question to tie him up, preferably with chains. You feel your cheeks burn up when you read the message over and over again. You had never expected him to be into that kind of stuff. Before you can reply your doorbell rings. You open the door to a grinning Seokjin. Did he seriously send that message while driving to your place? You make a mental note to scold him for that later. Seokjin comes in, closes the front door himself and walks into your living room, leaving you standing surprised in the hallway. When you snap out of it you enter your living room after him and notice he is looking around your apartment, searching for something.
“Hey… Is everything okay? What are you looking for?”, you ask.
“I’m looking for the best place for you to tie me up of course.”, Seokjin states as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
“Uhh… Shouldn’t we… uhm… talk about that kind of stuff first? You know…”, you manage to say as you feel your face become red again.
“Ah, you’re right, I’m sorry.”, Seokjin says before giving you a peck on the lips and motioning for you to sit down on the couch.
“Okay…’, he begins to speak. “I thought you would have realized this by now since I’ve been dropping hints for the past few weeks, but I’m a werewolf and since tonight is a full moon, I need you to-“
You cut him off: “Kim Seokjin, what the hell is wrong with you? First you come up with some kinky bondage stuff and now you start with some weird roleplay? What on earth is this?!”
You stand up from the couch while releasing your hands from his, since he grabbed them when he started talking. It’s not like you are not willing to try things for him, but the way he is acting right now is just completely out of the ordinary for him and absolutely not to your liking, thus explaining your anger towards your boyfriend.
“Babe, I’m not lying! You’ve got a completely wrong idea about this!”, is what Seokjin says to defend himself from your accusations.
“Yeah right! I knew there would be something wrong with someone with such a handsome face.”
“Listen-“ Seokjin begins, but stops to look out of the window with a slightly terrified look.
“You know what, forget about it, I’m sorry for bothering you tonight.”, he says before getting up and walking to your door.
You suddenly get a chill and realize that maybe you should have heard him out. Seokjin walks up to your door but you grab his wrist.
“Jinnie, listen, I’m sorry okay. I’ve just been stressed about work and-“, you were cut off by Seokjin’s lips on yours as he pulled you into a passionate kiss.
When he breaks the kiss he says: “I’m the one who should be sorry. …In advance.”, he ends with a sigh and walks out of your door, into the streets illuminated by moonlight.
For the second time tonight he leaves you standing in the hallway. Just before you can’t see him anymore you shout to him: “Don’t text and drive, asshole!”, and slam the door shut.
If you hadn’t immediately closed the door, you would have seen his yellow glowing eyes as he looked back into the direction of your apartment. You walk back to your couch to stare at your now cold dinner.
If only you would have turned on your television earlier that night. Maybe then you would have known about the mauled bodies that are discovered every month. Instead you fall asleep on the couch while contemplating what caused your boyfriend to act so weird tonight.
 Min Yoongi
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 You unlock your phone and notice the message is from your neighbor. You have to say you are quite surprised to say the least. Your neighbor, Min Yoongi, seems to keep to himself most of the time and barely leaves the house. Still, over the past six months since you moved to your apartment, you have managed to have small conversations in front of his or your apartment now and then. To be honest, he might be someone who keeps to himself most of the time, but he does seem like a nice person.
You open the message to see what he wants. Apparently he wants to know if you have any silver in your home. What an odd question for someone to ask… You reply asking why he wants to know that. However, when you don’t receive anything back you quickly put on a pair of shoes and walk to his front door. You heard him playing the piano only ten minutes ago, so surely he must be home, right? You try ringing his doorbell, but it seems to be broken. Guess your apartment isn’t the only place with bad electricity in this neighborhood. You decide to knock on his door instead and hear someone walking up to the door.
When Yoongi opens the door takes a look at the sky and quickly motions for you come inside of the house.
“The necklace you’re wearing, it’s silver, right?”, he asks as soon as he closes his door.
“Uhh, yeah, it is, why?”, you reply.
“I’ve been collecting silver objects lately.”
You sit down on a chair with a serious face.
“Yoongi, could it be that you need money or something?”
“What?”, Yoongi says with a confused look, before sitting down as well.
“Well, the apartments in this neighborhood aren’t exactly what I would call cheap, and I never see you leave for work. Do you have a business at home that isn’t working out well or something?”
“Oh, I see. I’m a musician and actually make more money than you might think. So no, I didn’t ask about the silver because I’m short on money.”
“Then what do you need silver for?”, you ask curiously.
Yoongi sighs and looks like he’s thinking about something.
“I want to show you something, but I beg of you to keep it a secret.”, he says.
You nod and follow him when he motions for you to do so. He leads you to that appears to be the entrance to a stairway. Without turning on the lights he walks down it. To be honest, you don’t really like dark hallways or stairways ever since a friend recommended you to play some horror game. Yoongi notices you hesitate and stops walking to look back at you. You blink, and see he is holding up his hand for you to take.
“Come on, there’s nothing scary, I just haven’t had time to fix the lighting in here.”, he says to calm you down.
When you finally reach the cellar you notice despite the lack of a working lightbulb, it is actually pretty well illuminated by the moonlight that is shining through a small window.
“Look.”, Yoongi begins while pointing to three metal bars in the corner of the room.
“What’s up with those bars?”, you ask.
“I’m making my own cage out of silver bars, that’s why I need silver.”
“Why would you do that, and why choose such a soft metal? That doesn’t make any sense.”
Yoongi looks at the bars and is about to touch one of them with his free hand, but right before touching it he retracts his hand. The hand that is still holding yours starts squeezing slightly. It’s not like he is hurting you, heck, it might not even be something he is doing on purpose, but it does make you feel slightly uncomfortable. You decide to free your hand from his grip, since there isn’t really a reason anymore for him to hold it. Just when you are about to do so Yoongi suddenly looks at you, his eyes glowing yellow in the moonlight. In one swift move he rips off your necklace, scratching your neck in the process, and throws it on the ground.
With a growl in his voice he shouts at you: “Why did you have to wear that disgusting thing around your neck! Do you have any idea how bad it smells?! Where you attempting to mask your own scent with it?”
Both his hands dig into your shoulders painfully when you start to feel sharp nails drawing blood from your skin. Suddenly he lets go of you in pain and you don’t think twice about running away. In your hurry however you trip on the stairs and make the mistake of looking back at Yoongi. Instead of your neighbor, you see a huge wolf like creature standing, ready to go after you.
Oh, you wanted to leave so badly. It’s the last thing you think of before being ripped apart.
How many silver objects would have to be collected for the cage to be finished?
Stay tuned for the other members! <3 Bee
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Or Are We More?
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A/N: After his album release party, Harry confesses his love to for you. (also v sorry for any typos I didn’t proof read)
Warnings: Smut (nothing to crazy though, this more of a sweet sex than spicy sex)
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You let out a little giggle, gripping Harry’s arm as you tried to climb the stairs to his apartment. You were returning from his album release party and, of course, the elevator in his building was closed for repairs. You weren’t drunk, but two glasses of champagne plus towering heels in a dimly lit stairway was not a good mix. To make matter worse, Harry had to live on the highest damn floor. Nothing was simple with that man.
“Careful now, y/n,” Harry chuckled, “Would really ruin the night if you fell down the stairs on me.” You definitely did not want to do anything that would put a damper on Harry’s night. He was your closest friend, you’ve known him since before the X-Factor days. Tonight was probably the proudest you’ve ever been of him, and that’s saying a lot. For as long as you’ve known him, all Harry has ever wanted to do was make his own album. Now that it was actually out for the world to hear, you couldn’t be more happy for him.
“With all the money you have, you couldn’t afford a building with a working elevator?” you teased, as you finally reached his apartment. You were slightly out of breath, making a mental note that maybe you should hit the gym again.
“If y’would rather walk all the way back to your place...” Harry fired back. That was the absolute last thing you wanted to do. In these heels? You wouldn’t even make it another block. Harry, being the great friend that he is, was letting you stay the night. You loved staying as his place - his guest room was bigger than half of your apartment. It was always nice to live in the lap of luxury, even if it was only for a night.
“Have I ever told you how absolutely lovely your place is?” you replied with excessive sweetness to make up for your snarky comment. You kicked off you shoes the second you crossed through the door, already feeling a million times better. Harry laughed, his eyes glittering as he flicked on the lights in his apartment. Even after knowing him for years, he still managed to take your breath away. 
Not long after you became friends with Harry, you fell for him. It was hard for anyone not to, he was smart, funny, charming, and of course absolutely stunning. You kept it to yourself, though, scared that if he didn’t feel the same way it would ruin your friendship. It was easier to deal with hidden feelings, than to deal with losing him all together. 
“So how does it feel officially having your album released?” you asked, leaning on the island in his kitchen. Harry pulled out a bottle of water from the fridge, setting it down next to you with a sigh.
“It’s scary but like in a-”
“Cool way?” you cut him off, making fun of something he in his carpool karaoke awhile back. Harry rolled his eyes, you always teased him about that.
“Why yes, actually, now that you mention it,” he laughed, “But really, it’s sorta crazy. I’m excited, but super nervous. What if people don’t like it?”
“They’re gonna love it, H, don’t even worry about that,” you assured him, “And if anyone doesn’t like it, I will personally fight them for you.”
Harry laughed, filling you with a sweet warmth only he could. “I appreciate the gesture, but you’re not exactly intimidating y/n.”
“Well I’m the best you’re gonna get, so you’re just gonna have to deal with it,” you replied.
“Speaking of which,” Harry began slowly, scratching his nose twice, which was a nervous tick of his, “I was thinking maybe y’wouldn’t stay in the guest room tonight.” 
Your brows knit together, confused by what he meant. “Something wrong with it? I’m fine with the couch if needed.”
Harry shook his head, “No, no couch. Meant y’would stay in my room.”
You stared at him blankly, feeling like you were missing something. “I don’t understand...” 
Harry sighed. “I thought I was pretty obvious with the album, maybe I’m not as good of a writer as I thought.” He laughed nervously to himself. You wanted to say something, but you breath was caught in your throat. Your brain was too busy trying to make sense of what he was saying to form a coherent sentence. “You know the song Sweet Creature?” Harry asked after you didn’t say anything.
“Of course, it’s my favorite,” you managed. That was easy to answer.
“I’m glad it is, it’s about you,” Harry smiled softly. Your heart was hammering in your chest. He had to be kidding right? This couldn’t be true. “Remember that jerk Alex you dated?”
You nodded, not sure what he had to do with all this. He was a guy you dated about a year ago, for a very limited amount of time. He, like Harry said, was a total jerk. Plus, when you’re comparing every man in your life to Harry, they just never measure up.
“Wrote Woman a couple week after y’started dating ‘im,” Harry admitted sheepishly.
“H-Harry, I...” your voice trailed off as you desperately tried to find words in your foggy head. 
“What I’m trying to say y/n is that I love you,” Harry stated.
“You’re drunk,” you shook your head. There had to be some explanation for this. It didn’t make sense that he could be in love with you.
“M’not, y/n. I’ve felt this way for years, just been too scared to tell you. But everything is falling into place in my life, and I want to share it with the woman I love. I want to share it with you.” Tears pricked at the back of your eyes as he spoke, your heart practically swelling out of your chest. 
“I hope that’s a happy tear,” Harry said, wiping away the droplet sliding down your face.
“Very happy,” you assured them, wiping at your eyes, “Sorry I’m such a mess I wasn’t expecting this.”
“S’alright love,” Harry replied, wrapping an arm around your waist, “Did just drop a bomb on you.”
“A good bomb though,” you giggled, “I’m glad you told me. I love you too, so much.” Harry smiled a wide, crooked smile, making your heart sing. He placed a hand on your cheek, the cool metal of his rings soothing against your warm skin. He brushed his thumb lightly over your cheek, and you both stood there for a moment just admiring each other.
Finally, Harry leaned in, slowly pressing his plush lips to yours. You melted into him, standing on your tip toes so you could wrap your arms around his neck. Kissing Harry was unlike anything you’ve experienced. It felt like your very first kiss, head spinning and heart swirling, only a million times better. Everything else in the room disappeared, it was only you and him.
Harry pulled away, scooping you up bridal style. You giggled, a nervous-excited feeling bubbling in your chest as he walked you to his room. He gently placed you on his bed, climbing over you and planting kisses as he went. You tangled your fingers through his dark locks as he attached his lips to your neck. He found a particular spot that made the heat between your legs intensify.
“Oh,” you let out a breathy gasp. Harry smirked against your skin, liking the way you reacted to him. He slid a hand under your dress, ghosting across your core. You wriggled, wanting to feel him. Harry sensed your needs, pushing your underwear aside and slipping a finger into your wet core. This time it was Harry who let out a soft moan.
Harry brought his lips back to yours as he pumped his finger in you. You ran your hands down his back, feeling his muscles move through his shirt. You could feel his length growing against your thigh, only adding to your arousal. Harry curled his finger slightly, while pressed his thumb of your clit. The combined sensation making your knees weak. The pleasure in your stomach was quickly building to near unbearable levels.
“H-Harry, please, I need you,” you stammered, desperate for more of him.
“Your wish is my command, love,” Harry replied, planting a soft kiss to your lips. Harry helped you slip out of your dress, then your bra and panties. His emerald eyes drinking in your body. “So beautiful y/n, so beautiful,” he marveled. You blushed, your shyness making your try to cover yourself, but Harry stopped you. “Don’t be shy love. Nothing you gotta hide from me.”
You nodded, then watched as Harry began to rid himself of his clothes. He slipped off his shirt and your bit your lip, looking over his bare skin. You’ve seen him shirtless before, but this felt different. It was for you. He slowly pulled down his pants and boxers, revealing his length, making your heart skip a beat.
If your core wasn’t aching so much, you would want to just sit and admire him for a bit longer. Harry slowly crawled back over you, his tip brushing dangerously close to were you wanted him most. 
“You ready babe?” he asked. You nodded quickly, eager to have him. Harry guided himself to your entrance, slowly pushing his length int you. Moans escaped both of your lips, adjusting to the other. Harry looked at you for the approval to continue you, which you granted him. He moved his hips slowly, allowing you both to get comfortable. 
After a few slow pumps, Harry gradually began to quicken his pace. His hips rolled skillfully against you, never missing a beat. He thrusts were long and and deep, hitting your sweet spots. 
“Yes Harry, harder,” you encouraged him. He complied, rocking his with more intensity. Every thrust sent little shocks of pleasure through your system. You knew you wouldn’t last much longer at this rate.
“Harry... I’m cl-close,” you told him breathlessly.
“Me too babe,” Harry replied through gritted teeth, “Keep those eyes on me. I wanna see you.” He felt himself nearing the edge, but his complete focus was on you. His lips connected to your neck again, sucking and kissing over the sensitive skin. At the same time, he rubbed his fingers over your clit. With the added stimulation, you only lasted a few seconds longer. 
“Harry!” you cried out, succumbing to the pleasure. You felt like you were floating, as your orgasm filled you from head to toe. You kept your eyes locked on his, as he asked. His eyes went dark watching you cum for him. It made it all more intense. Seeing you get off, coupled with your walls tightening around him, crumbling his last bit of willpower.
“Fuck, y/n,” he moans, his eyes rolling back as he hit his high. Locks of hair fell across his face as he continued to lazily thrust into you. Once you both finished, Harry collapsed on the bed next to you, peppering you with kisses. You giggled his wet, sloppy kisses tickling your skin.
“You have no idea how long I’ve wanted to do that,” Harry said when he finished attacking your with kisses. He propped himself up on his elbow, staring at you with a wide smile.
“Believe me, Harry, I know,” you replied, “Can’t believe we wasted so many years because we were so scared.” You shook your head, thinking back too all the times you almost told Harry how you felt. If only you knew that this would have been waiting for you.
“Seems a bit silly now,” Harry agreed, “But it doesn’t matter now, because we have forever to make up for it.”
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The Set Up
A/N: Another JJ request from @marvelfanlife because Ish is so in love :D This request was for JJ and the reader to have a relationship like Garcia and Morgan. Flirty and amazing basically. When the other isn’t around, both confess to the rest of the team for their feelings for each other, and let’s just say the team wants to do something about that. ;) @coveofmemories @sexualemobitch @jamiemelyn @unstoppableangel8 @iammostdefinitelyonfire26 @lukeassmanalvez @amarislestrange @obsessed5sosfreak @sonhadoraativa @1enchantedfantasy1 @ace-and-rosey @ssamango @twelveyearoldchildprodigy @offbrandcursewords @entelechysymphony @milkandcookies528 @pugs-cats-bb-8 @davidr0ssi
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As you did every morning, you walked straight into the bullpen and found JJ at the coffee machine, bumping your butt against hers and of course being careful not to make her spill her coffee. JJ without coffee in the morning was actually pretty scary. You’d been at the bad end of that deal once or twice before and you had no desire to be there again. Scary. Imagining JJ as scary was not fun. For a tiny, blonde federal agent, she could kick some serious ass that was not to be trifled with. “Morning sexy,” you said after she’d had her first sip.
Sleepily, she smacked your butt. “Nice outfit,” she replied. You were wearing a tight navy blue pencil skirt and a gray silk halter-top. “Hot date tonight?”
“Nah,” you replied honestly. “Just had to dress up for you.” You actually did dress up for JJ - a lot. It probably would’ve been easier for you to just ask her out, but it was easier said then done, so every day you dressed to the nines hoping to catch the attention of the object of your affection. God, she’s so dreamy.
“Always appreciated,” she smiled, her eyes glowing as you walked toward your desks. Of course, JJ was always dressed impeccably. Today, she was wearing a pair of tight black jeans, a red, silk tank top, which was dressed up a bit for work with a leather jacket that hugged her frame perfectly. There was a little bit of skin sticking out at the bottom of her shirt, as if she’d dressed quickly and ran out of the house without taking a glance in the mirror. Reaching down, you pulled at the hem of her shirt and blushed slightly when your finger slid touched the hem of her pants. Shake it off, Y/N. The last thing this office needed was a confessed love that turned into nothing and then ruined the dynamic of the team. “Now get that sexy ass to work before Hotch kills us.”
“Hotch would never kill us,” you laughed. “He loves us too much. He might give us a death glare though.”
“I think that might be worse.”
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“Alright,” Y/N said as the entire team poured over paper after paper trying to come up with a break in the case. “I need fuel. I’m gonna grab us some pizza because we haven’t eaten in eight hours. What does everyone want to drink?” JJ had just left to use the restroom, but Y/N knew what she wanted anyway. From the pizza place, it was always Sprite. Always. 
Everyone rattled off their drink orders and Y/N walked out just as JJ was walking back in. She didn’t even check in with JJ to ask what she wanted because she already knew. “Hot stuff!” JJ called out, to which Y/N responded immediately. 
“Yes, love?”
“Can I get a Sprite?”
“Babe, I already knew that. That’s why I didn’t ask.”
JJ beamed at Y/N, her head thrown back in laughter. “You know me so well.” 
As she walked out of the room, JJ found herself staring at the way Y/N’s hip swayed. It was actually kind of hypnotizing. When she turned back around to get back to her papers, everyone was staring at her. “What?”
Emily cut her eyes at her best friend, dumbfounded that she would even try to evade that kind of a question in a room full of profilers. “What do you mean what? You were staring at Y/N’s ass.”
“What? She has a nice butt,” JJ said, a minuscule blush tinging the dimples of her cheeks as she tried to hide her smile. 
“You like her don’t you?” Garcia asked excitedly. She clapped her hands at the myriad possibilities. “You two need to go out on a date. You’d be like the most beautiful power couple in the world.”
“She’s not into me like that.”
Rossi exclaimed from just outside the room, where he was getting a drink of water from the cooler. “Are you kidding? Yes, she does.”
“You’re out of your mind,” she said, waving off the rest of her friend’s insistences that Y/N would in fact date her. She couldn’t get into that. If, in all likelihood, their relationship was just a flirty friendship, she couldn’t risk losing her. No matter how much JJ was into her, it wasn’t worth the risk. Her friendship meant too much. 
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JJ’s morning had not gone well, and neither had Emily’s so the two of them had already taken a lunch break, but now your stomach was in desperate need of food. From across the aisle, you heard Spencer’s stomach growl too. “You sound hungry too. Want to go grab something to eat with me?”
“Sounds good. Let me just grab my coat.” As he stood up, JJ passed to walk into Hotch’s office. Your eyes lingered on her body for a moment and then Derek walked up to you and Spencer, smiling like he knew something you didn’t. 
“You two going to lunch?”
“Yea, you wanna come? I desperately need food.”
Morgan waved you off. “I had something a little bit earlier, but if you do pass the deli and they have those fresh chocolate chip cookies, I wouldn’t hate it.” Again your eyes gaze backwards, giving JJ a small glance before you left.
Once you headed into the elevator and outside in the direction of your favorite deli, Spencer asked you something you never expected of him. “Do you like JJ? I mean, you don’t have to tell me if you don’t want to, but you seem to like her. As in you’d want to date her. I think you would make a great couple.”
“You do?” You did too, but you never entertained the thought for long. It hurt too much to think she didn’t like you in that way.
Spencer blushed. This wasn’t the usual thing he talked about. “I do. The two of you are two of my best friends. You’d make an amazing couple.”
“Oh, Spence, you are quite the charmer. I do like JJ. But I don’t think she likes me like that, so I haven’t taken the risk. I don’t want to lose her if she doesn’t see me in that way, you know?” 
“Yea, I get that.” It looked like he had an idea, but he immediately changed the conversation, so you didn’t push it any further.
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“Okay, thanks to Boy Wonder, we now know that Y/N likes JJ and JJ likes Y/N. Are we all set? Is the plan ready to go? Are we all ready to watch the beginning of one of the most beautiful love stories of our time?” Garcia was just a little overly excited. On a particular street in town, there was a pizza place, a park, and an ice cream shop in that order. Spencer, Emily and Rossi were taking JJ to get pizza, and Morgan, Hotch and Garcia were taking Y/N to get ice cream. At least that’s what they thought. JJ would have to walk in Y/N’s direction to get home and vice versa so they’d both end up at the park and they’d talk and feelings would be spilled and they’d live happily ever after. According to Garcia. She had high hopes.
Later that night, both groups of friends told Y/N and JJ to meet at 8 PM. Prompt as usual, they both arrived on time. After about 20 minutes, Y/N texted Morgan, Hotch and Garcia, who said they could make it, but they’d be late. Meanwhile, Emily, Spencer and Rossi all bailed on JJ for one reason or another. “Another night?” JJ said, a little disappointed. “Sounds good. See you all on Monday.”
As she exited the pizza place and headed toward home, she saw Y/N leave the ice cream place, a vanilla soft serve cone in her hands. “Y/N! Hey beautiful!”
“Oh, my love,” she replied with a smile. “I am just headed home after Morgan, Hotch and Garcia said they were going to be late. I asked if they wanted to reschedule.”
JJ’s gaze went back toward the pizza place and then toward Y/N again. “That’s what just happened with Spencer, Emily and Rossi.”
“That’s...weird,” Y/N said confused. “Since we’re both out, you wanna hanging the park for a little? Be big babies for a while?”
“Only if you let me have a bite of your ice cream cone,” she said, extending her hand for the cone. It was a given that Y/N was going to give her a bite. That’s just how they worked. As they approached the slide, Y/N climbed up and slide down, falling on her butt and nearly knocking JJ on her feet at the same time. They took turns for nearly 15 minutes going down the slide until JJ wouldn’t get up and Y/N went on while JJ was still seated. Y/N knocked her right off the slid and they ended up on the grass together. “Nice. Now you have dirt all over that gorgeous ass of yours.”
Something took over Y/N. She had no idea what it was, but she couldn’t stop herself until it had already happened. Soft lips met soft lips, lingering just slightly before JJ brought her hand to the back of Y/N’s head and brought her in for a more fervent kiss. “Where did that come from?” she asked.
Y/N blushed and pushed onto her knees, ready to run at a moment’s notice. “I’m sorry. It just...I’ve been wanting to do that for a while, but I didn’t think you were into me like that so I didn’t say anything. Didn’t want to risk our friendship.”
“I get that,” she said, her eyes downcast before her gaze lingered on Y/N’s dirt-covered jeans and up toward her face. “But I do...I do like you like that.”
“Really? Maybe we can give this a try?”
JJ leaned in and kissed her passionately before pulling away. “What’s wrong?” Y/N asked. Maybe she was second-guessing herself.
“Don’t you think this is convenient? You and I had things to do with the team and then we both get blown off?”
You fell backwards into the grass and laughed. “Those fuckers set this up, didn’t they?”
“I think they did.” She giggled into her shoulder and soon they were lying in the grass in a fit of laughter.
“We should thank them.”
“Yea, I think we should...” JJ hesitated. “Sneaky bitches.”
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thirstyfortom · 7 years
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Hey! In a lot of imagines revolving the rfa and mc arguing, mc cries/runs off but could you do an imagine where mc stands her ground and says that they need to shape up and apologise because she won't take their bs? Thanks, sorry if this is a bit weird I just really wanna see a badass mc. With rfa + Saeran please!
YASSSSS, this request gives me life! Let’s make badass MC happen more often, people!
MC makes RFA + Saeran apologize after a fight
Zen
Youlove him and how much he cares about you
Butsometimes he treats you like a little kid. Don’t go alone to this place, don’tdo this by yourself, you’ll get hurt! Shit like that.
Youget it, he’s worried because that guy in the apartment might still be around,but… you’re a grown ass woman, can’t you really go for a jog in the park byyourself without him calling you like there’s a fire going on?
Youcame in and found him glaring at you, arms crossed and a judgmental face, likeyou were a teenager doing the walk of shame after sneaking out.
“Iwas worried.” “I can see that.” You said, moving to the kitchen to get somewater in the fridge.
“Babe,we already discussed this, you can’t go out like this by yourself, it’sdangerous, and you’re so sweet and innocent, and…” “Says who?” “What?”
“Whotold you I’m sweet and innocent? You really think I can’t stand up by myself ifI need to? Oh, and we actually didn’t discuss anything, YOU decided that Icouldn’t go out by myself. You took a decision for me! “
“Ican’t believe you’re being that ungrateful right now, MC! I dedicate my wholelife to you, I’ve been trying to work less to spend more time with you, I do mybest to include you in my work, and that’s how you thank me?”
“Well,guess what, Hyun? I never asked you to do these things, I never forced you, youdo because you want to, and I let you do as you please because I want you to behappy and comfortable with me, and I’m pretty sure I’m not asking much forwanting some reciprocity here. So don’t try to make me feel guilty forsomething I know I’m right, I’m not a kid, I’m not a teenager, and I’m notstupid!”
Youwere calm, but your words were harsh. Zen never saw you this assertive, hehonestly didn’t know he was patronizing you like this. Well, maybe he knew alittle, his instinct of protection sometimes got the best of him.
Andyou called him by his real name, so he knows you’re PISSED and he’s screwed.
“Now,if you’ll excuse me, I’ll take a shower. I could barely sweat since I couldn’tjog much, but… I just need a shower.” He watched as you moved without evenlooking at him, yep, he was screwed.
Hewanted to fix this right now, but he would be a dead man if he even triedgetting in that bathroom right now, he knew this.
Sohe waited, sitting in the bed, processing your words. You were so sure aboutbeing right, who was he to say you’re not?
His intentions were good, they really were,but… good intentions aren’t enough if he wants you to be happy with him, andyou would never be happy if you feel trapped with him.
That’sexactly what he told you when you came out of the bathroom. You thanked him forunderstanding. He wanted at least a smile from you, but he could understand whyyou wouldn’t give him right now.
Hehad the whole night to try making you smile.
Yoosung
Yourarely get mad at him. He doesn’t do anything wrong most of the time.
Butit takes you to be a little friendlier to Zen and he turns into this grumpyjealousy little prick.
Youtry to be patient, he’s insecure, Zen is dreamy to most everybody, but… at thispoint, Zen and, most important, him, should know where you heart is. So heshouldn’t get this cold to you just because you went to watch one of Zen’srehearsals.
Youcame in, he didn’t even say hello or greeted you at his usual cheerful manner,he looked at you head to toes and went back to his book. Oh boy…
“Isaw the photos in the messenger, MC.” Judging by his tone, he saw the mostcompromising pictures ever, but he could only be talking about Zen’s selfiewith you at rehearsal. “Yeah? How do I look in them?” you asked putting yourcoat and purse in the coffee table mindlessly.
“Don’tmock me! I… I don’t like when you don’t take me seriously! I’m serious rightnow! You going out with Zen while dating me is serious, MC!”
“Thereisn’t a single person in the world who takes you more serious than I do, Yoosung.Trust me on this. But don’t expect me to stop hanging out with my friends justbecause you can’t handle your jealous.”
“I…I’m not jealous! I’m worried for you! You keep acting this nice and Zen, no,not only Zen, any other guy can get the wrong idea about you! Or… do you wantthem to get the wrong idea?” he regretted these last words the minute they lefthis mouth, he was expecting tears and was already thinking what he would haveto say to fix this…
“No,you’re not worried. You’re just jealous. Once again you’re taking on me allyour insecurities. Honestly, Yoosung, I’m running out of ideas on how toconvince you that I love you and there’s no other man who could make me feellike you do. And I get that you’re insecure, I told you a million times we canfind you some help on this, but I won’t put up with you trying to make me feelbad for having friends and being nice with them.  Zen is your friend too, you shouldcongratulate him on his new role instead of pissing me off over something I’mnot wrong.”
Yourwords dropped like needles on his skin. It was harsh, but yet you looked socold and stoic, like he was trying to be when you came in. He was terrified ofeven looking at you in the eye.
“Weran out of rice, I’ll buy some.” You said, getting ready to leave again.“I-I’ll go.” He jumped out of the couch and headed to the convenience store, itwas the least he could do.
Hewent and came back all the way thinking of what to say to make things right.
 Youwere right, he was being an ass not only to you, but to his friend, this wasn’tthe Yoosung he wanted to be, not when it comes to you.
 Yes,he wants to be always sweet and nice, always caring and respectful about youand your choices, your friends, your life. He wants you to be happy and heknows he’ll never be able to be part of this happiness if he keeps acting likethis.
Younodded in agreement when he told you this. “So, uhm… will you cook this orwhat?” you asked glancing quickly at him, that was his cue.
“Yes,sure. Hey, uhm… do you want to invite Zen to come over?”
Jaehee
Okay,this is not about her as your girlfriend, is about her as you business partner.
Sheleft C & R, but C & R didn’t leave her. She still has these habits oftrying to take all responsibility for herself and ending up stressed and tired.
Youfeel left out, she decides a lot of things by herself when it comes to the caféwithout asking you first, and gets very passive aggressive when you take oversomething without her noticing.
Youunderstand, old habits die hard. But… what’s the point in all of this if shekeeps getting stressed out and you don’t even get to share this with her?
Sowhen you took over some paper work and she noticed, there were her grumpy sighin annoyance and a long glare at you.
“MC,can you return this to me, please?” “No, I’m working on this. Take this time torelax a little.” You didn’t say to piss her off, you genuinely wanted her torelax and get some rest… but that’s not how she took it.
“Don’tbe condescending on me, MC, I don’t like this! I’m already much stressed and Idon’t need you clowning around with serious work like this. I would relax if Icould, but I can’t, as you can see for yourself and prefer to ignore it.”
“Iwish I could ignore it, but these dark circles under your eyes are impossibleto ignore.” You weren’t being sarcastic or anything, you were really concerned,but… again, that’s not how she took it.”
“Youthink you’re really funny, don’t you? Seriously, MC, I… I can’t stand when youact this calm and carefree over anything! I hate being the one always worried,always tense, but you leave me no choice! It’s tiring enough taking care ofeverything, I can’t take care of you acting like a child too!” she finallylooked at you, you blinked once, twice…
“Youdon’t have to, you’re the one acting like a child here, like one of those youngbrothers playing the victim, you know? Apparently you forgot what a partnershipmeans, since you don’t let me handle anything but servicing customers. I’m ascapable and competent as you, Jaehee, I can handle things as good as you, andsince I can, you don’t have to try to embrace the world. I know you’re used todealing everything by yourself, but I’m here to help you. So… let me.”
Shemissed the sweet bubbly girl, you were scary like this! You could yell yourlungs out and it wouldn’t be that scary as you acting this cold.
“Oh,and I fixed this report for you, you missed a few sales there. You’re welcome.”You dropped the paper on her desk and stretched yourself like it was nothing.
Thatawkward silence was killing her, her thoughts on how she managed to get youthis pissed were torturing her.
Andyou were right, she was acting like… ugh, that was awful, but she was actinglike Jumin, bossing you around, getting passive aggressive if something is notdone in her way, playing the martyr, yeah, she would be furious if thishappened to her… again.
Thepoint of the café was to finally do something she loves, doing it with theperson she loves the most included on this. She didn’t want to be the Jumin toyour Jaehee.
Shetold you that, and you giggled with the last part, she was relieved seeing yoursmile, but she knew she screwed up big time with you.
Soyou two called it a night at work and headed home. The make up sex was amazing,by the way.
Jumin
Youcan’t call all the times you just gave him a free pass on things he did wrong.
Okay,everything is very new to him when it comes to relationships, so sometimes hedoesn’t even notice how insensitive he’s being.
Andhe has strong opinions about you. Even if you didn’t ask him, he’s giving youhis thoughts on your clothes, your manners, everything.
Soyou two are about to leave to meet RFA on a little get together, and he’slooking at your dress, more like staring at it.
“Areyou really going to wear this?” “Why? Would you prefer me going naked?” youreyes met his through the mirror.
“Don’ttease me right now, please. And go change, this dress is a tease by itself, andI don’t want Zen drooling over you.”
“I’mnot teasing, I’m being sarcastic. You should know the difference by now.” Youdidn’t want to sound this bitchy, but… come on, he was asking for it.
“Iunderstand sarcasm, I just don’t know why you would act like this when I’m justworried about your image and how other people look at it. Don’t take me wrong,it looks great on you, but it looks so great I feel I should be the only one tolook at you like this. Am I wrong for caring this much about you?”
“No,you’re wrong by thinking you can boss me around on what to wear and how tobehave like I’m one of your employees. I know you cherish me, I know you loveme, and since you do, you should remember your promise on stopping thispossessiveness. And yes, I know it looks great, I bought it with my money and Iknow what looks good on my body, and if you don’t like it, well… you can stayhome.”
Hiseyes were widened, your voice was deep and calm, like you were discussingbusiness with him, but you weren’t, you were giving him a little reality check.
“So,what are you going to do? Can I dismiss Driver Kim for today? I’ll call Sevenand tell him he can pick me up.” “I’ll… I’ll go.”
DriverKim noticed the tense atmosphere between you two and quickly rolled up thepartition, even him was scared at your unusual coldness.
Juminwasn’t sure on what to think. He just knew this silence was hurting, he didn’twant to apologize though.
But…considering his inexperience in relationships, he knew he probably was verywrong on this. Whad do you always tell him? Oh yes, trying to imagine if it waswith him, be sympathetic…
Yes,he wouldn’t like having someone telling him what to wear and how to behave, hisfather used to do that and he hated and… oh, now he gets it.
 “I’msorry.” He whispered, it was a little dark in the car, so he couldn’t see yourface, but as you slipped your hand to hold his, he knew he was on the righttrack.
Saeyoung
Yougot used to his odd sleeping and eating habits.
Andas much as it is part of his… charms, you get worried for him not eatinganything.
Butyou having to play his mommy and make him eat every day tires you a lot. Forfuck’s sake, he’s a grown ass man, he should be able to take care of himself!
Soyou made dinner, you served yourself and didn’t call him to join you. No, hecan smell, if he’s hungry, he should eat.
 Youwere washing the dishes you used when he walked in the kitchen. “Why didn’t youwarn me you made dinner?” his voice was a little whiny.
“Thesmell is a natural warning. It worked, since you’re here.” “Wow, so feisty. Ishould be the one getting snappy after working 13 hours non-stop.”
“Idon’t see Vanderwood pointing a taser to you anymore. You’re doing this becauseyou want to.”
 “Ah,come on, MC! What’s gotten to you? Are you mad because I’m not giving youattention right now? Is that what you want? A little attention? I’m giving itto you right now, so stop acting like a spoiled kid, for God’s sake! If I knewI was gonna face you with this temper, I would have stayed locked in myoffice!”
“I’mnot mad. And even if I were, it wouldn’t be because of lack of attention, itwould be because I give you too much attention, right? I’m always worried ifyou’re sleeping enough or eating well enough, I’m alwys bringing you food,asking you how you’re doing. Pretty stupid of me, right? Acting like I careabout my reckless boyfriend?”
Thisman always has a comeback ready, this time he didn’t. He didn’t have any wordforming in his head right now. Not even his brother in a bad mood can get thisscary.
“Rememberto wash the dishes if you decide to eat, okay? I’m going to brush my teeth andget ready to sleep. “I…I will join you.” “No, you’re not, you’re sleeping inthe couch tonight. Or in your office, since you like that much.” SHIT!
Ofcourse he couldn’t do any more work after that, you sounded… like him in thosedays at Rika’s apartment, oh, so that’s how it feels…
Hewas scared of facing you, he knew he had this talent of managing to screw upeven more.
Sohe stood up in front of the bedroom door and gave an unsure knock. You didn’tanswer. Oh… you were really pissed, right?
Youweren’t overreacting. Knowing you, he knew you were probably holding this toyourself for a long time and he getting all sarcastic and douchy was the tip ofthe iceberg. This was wrong, he promised he would never lock himself away likethis and neglect his own health, he was a changed man, you changed him. Heneeded to start acting more mature in order to suit you, didn’t he?
Hetold all this through the door. Still, no answer. Oh well, he would try againin the morning.
Youopened the door, but didn’t face him as he climbed up in the bed. Well, givinghim the honor to share the bed with you was a start on what would be a longnight…
Saeran
Seriously,is there anything you two don’t fight about?
Theyare usually silly bickering and end as fast as they started, but there areother times when he really annoys you.
Youknow you should be more patient with him, but ugh… does he really have to berude and snappy like this when you are just asking him something innocently?
 It’shappening again, you asked him about his contact lens, shouldn’t he get a newpair? And who knows the questionable precedence of these ones, maybe he couldget ones with a prescription.
“Andgoing to a doctor so my father can know everything about me and send me tojail? Good to know you want to see me behind bars, MC.” “You know very well wecould get you a discreet doctor, no need for you to talk like that to me.”
“Noneed for you to ask stupid questions. Just leave my lens alone, why do you evencare about this?”
“Iask myself the same sometimes…” “Oh, if you’re that unhappy, you know you canjust leave whenever you want, don’t you?” hmmm… he didn’t mean that, yeah, herealized this as soon as he said it, he just got carried away by the adrenalinerush of your usual fights.
“I’mnot unhappy. I would be unhappy if you went arrested, I would be unhappy ifsomething happened to your eyes, I would be unhappy leaving you just becauseyou’re a silly little boy picking on stupid little fights that never take usanywhere. So I’ll do you a favor and end this before I get really unhappy.”
Ohwow… this was… you were… really scary like this. He usually was the one actingthis intimidating, but it was just to tease you, you definitely weren’t teasinghim, you were pissed at him.
“Andput down the toilet seat after you use it, please?” you said as you justremembered this, he waited for you to turn your back so he could run to thebathroom and put it down.
 Ugh,his therapist already told him, if something bothers him, he needs to knowfirst: why does I bother him? Second: is there something he can do about this?
Sowhy does it bother him? I don’t know, because you’ve been ignoring him for thelast forty five minutes? And is there something he can do about this? Yes, apologize.
He‘s not really good at this, so he hands you the phone, you look at himconfused. “C-can you make an appointment for me with the doctor? I don’t liketalking in the phone…” don’t smile, MC! Don’t let him know he can get away forbeing so adorable!
Youcall the doctor and set an appointment. “Will you go with me?”
“Ofcourse I will” you say, giving him a little smile that quickly faded away. Well,you can smile,  you won this round.
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A summary on Produce 101 Season 2 Episode 8 its ya boy back at it agian with another let’s play this time its evaluations and painful crying time
1.     BOA GOT THEM FOOD SHE GOT EVERYONE PIZZA
2.     Physically restraining myself from screenshotting everything Jinwoo appears in and posting those as the best moments
3.     They show the winners of each category again aka Taehyun, Jonghyun and Gunhee
4.     Sfkdjhlajk who said that those clips of hugging crying trainees are acceptable
5.     Seonho keeps saying 1, 2, 3 and looking at Guanlin as if he wants him to say ‘fighting’ but none of them will say it lmao I love my dumb chicks
6.     They showed solo clips of both Daniel and Jisung but not Jinwoo haha nice ;)
7.     Kiiahoiadjh Hyunbins failed b-boying how beautiful
8.     I am not emotionally prepared for this Jinwoo won’t make it I have too many goddamn faves just stab me
9.     Ok they’re showing concept evaluation stuff first this is basically like last season
10.  Im crying Jonghyun is 1st and BoA publically thanked him he is so shy and aaaaaaaahhhhh
11.  Ok the voters choose the best team and the idol that suits the concept best, most voted team gets FUCKING 220 000 VOTES!!! THE FUCK!! And the trainee who gets the most votes out of the team gets 100k votes, the rest from that team get 20k
12.  And here we gooooooooo the producers, first, Shihn Hyuk one did stuff for SHINEE!!!!!!!!! And also EXO and Justin Bieber I guess lol his song is ‘I Know You Know’
13.  Kigen & Assbrass from Monsta X next, they wrote hiphop song ‘Oh Little Girl’
14.  Ren’s visuals are done so dirty in this show I swear to god
15.  Next comes Geunwoo, ASHTRAY and Oh Seonghwan from Kyuhyun and Yesung who wrote a nu disco genre song ‘Showtime’ and LMAO THE CHOREO FOR IT HAS DONGMYEONG’S SIGNATURE DANCE AAAHAHAHAH POOR PLAGIARIZED ELIMINATED BABY
16.  Now composers called Devine-Channel who did songs for VIXX!!!! and BTS and their contribution is a Future EDM song ‘Open Up’
17.  TRIPLE H WHAT THE FUUUUUUUCKKKKKK THEY MADE A SONG
18.  It’s a Deep House genre song called ‘Never’
19.  Overall, Open Up and Never sound the best imo holy fuckkkkk those songs are LIT AS HELL
20.  Danik, Dongbin and Kiwon did the unthinkable and hinted at the songs they want and as a penalty they get sorted last
21.  I know Daniel wanted the fourth song which makes me emo bc I LOVE THAT SONG!!!! SO MUCH!!!!!! And now he cant get it lmao dumb boyo
22.  They look so ashamed aw
23.  Now everyone are getting sorted to songs, Baekho first aaaaaaand they didn’t show us what he got I don’t think they show any songs before the teams are full agh
24.  Everyone get their songs one but one and the reactions vary from jumping to absolute neutrality lol I’m not gonna say all of their names
25.  BoA brought up Samuels 15 place rank drop Kindly Shut Up Please
26.  Samuel, Sanggyun and Namhyung are all in one group
27.  Jaehwan also chose Hyunbin as the one he doesn’t want to be in a group with since he has already been with him twice aaaaaahahahhahah
28.  Jaehwan DOES want to be with Jonghyun and so do Baekho and Yongguk as well EVERYONE LOVES HIM THIS IS SO CUTEEEE
29.  JONGHYUN IS WITH JAEHWAN AND THEY HUG RIGHT AWAY!! CUTE!!
30.  Winkdeep are the only ones in their practice room well nvm THAT’S HYUNGSEOB all the cute popular visual ones are together again
31.  Taehyun joined the badassery that is Samuel, Namhyung, Sangbin and Sanggyun and Samuel IMMEDIATELY goes like OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!! OH MY GOD!!!!!!!! SAME THO FUCK I LOVE TAEHYUN
32.  ???? Woodam went to the badasses room?? GOOD CONCEPT!!!
33.  Jihoon is discussing his endless aegyo techniques
34.  IT IS GUNHEE IN THE ROOM OF CUTIES!!! AND SUUNGWOON WITH JR
35.  The Sinners are all in that room and give their formal apologies aw kiddos it’s ok I don’t care lol
36.  Danik goes to the practice room where JINWOO IS!!!!!! YES!!!!AND SO DOES KIWON!
37.  Dongbin is with the cutie group lol
38.  The song for the badassery group is SHOW TIME!! Sangbin is dead inside but Samuel just gave a kiss to the song sign lmaooo
39.  Jonghyun group gets Never also HOLY SHIT this team has Jonghyun, Minhyun, Jaehwan and Seongwoo are all here it is like 2/3 of Sorry Sorry lol
40.  The cutie team gets Oh Little Girl  Justin looks so blessed out of this world and hugs w Hyunngseob YUEHUA PRIDE!!!!!
41.  All other group want open up lol
42.  Danik-Baekho group GETS IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
43.  So the other group gets I Know You Know everyone are crying inside
44.  The temporary centers for Oh Little Girl are chosen now, Ren, Jihoon and Euiwoong all want to be center
45.  They are trying out and honestly I have such second hand embarrassment rn but everyone think Jihoon and Minki were better including Hyungseob whos labelmates with Euiwoong
46.  Wait so… Jungjung, Euiwoong, Justin and Hyungseob are ALL in the Oh Little Girl group damn whole Yuehua squad here
47.  KAHI JUST BOUGHT THIS YUEHUA THING UP!!! I SAW IT BEFORE!!!
48.  Euiwoong was really worried about doing mistakes but KAHI CONGRATULATED HIM BC HE DID RLY WELL!!! CUTE!! DON MILLS TOO!!! LIL KID SLAYING IT
49.  JINWOO LOOKS SO GOOD HERE!!!!
50.  Anyways Jinwoo was like maybe someone who is good with dance as the leader for Open Up team since it has a hard dance and Baekho was like ya what about Daniel AND THEN INSOO IS LIKE WHAT ABT U DONGHO IKAJAKI TRAINEES LOVE BAEKHO WILL MNET FINALLY STOP LYING
51.  Baekho still pushes it back to Daniel and Danik is like I’d totally love to be the leader JINWOO NODDING ALONG MMO PRIDE
52.  Apparently Daniel is having problems paying attention to all 12 people and Kenta is a bit salty over it and tbh I understand his reasoning
53.  But Daniel noticed it too and heh fucking apologized don’t drag him for this he’s younggg and doesn’t know that much about leading
54.  It’s Showtime team now and everyone want Woodam to be the venter but HWISEUNG IS THERE TOO!!! PAY ATTENTION TO MY BABE HES AMAZING AT HIGH NOTES GIVE HIM SCREENTIME!!!!!
55.  Hwiseung was 56 but raised to 36 LET MY BOY!!! LIVE!!! PLEASE!!!
56.  Taehyun recommends the cringefest that is facial expression battle
57.  Wtf the two ones who didn’t even sing got to be the centers what’s going ooooooonnn
58.  EVERYONE ARE SHOOK BY HWISEUNG AND WOODAMS ADLIBS AND FOR A GOOD REASON AAAAA THEY ARE SO GOODDDD
59.  He’s so cheerful and keeps cracking jokes LET MY BOY!!! DEBUT
60.  Never team is choosing the center I hope Sungwoon gets it tbh let my boy rise some ranks
61.  The centers are Guanlin and Minhyun rip I mean I love both of the kids but LET SUNGWOON SHINEE!! FOR ONCE
62.  SUNGWOON VOLUNTEERED FOR SOLO DANCE CHECKUP PLEASE DO WELL BABE I BELIEVE IN YOU HE DOES REALLY WELL IM SO GLAD BABE I LOVE U IM PROUD OF U I LOVE U LOTS PLEASE DO WELL
63.  HE DID WELL AND GOT PRAISED A SHITTON I AM SO PROUD BABE KILL IT KILLL IT WELL I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!! DEBUT!!! PLEASE!!!!!!
64.  I Know You Know has a shiiiiiiiiiiiiiittttttton of low ranking trainees and I feel so so sorry for all of them ugh
65.  WHY IS HWANOONG SO LOW RANKS CMON PEOPLE!!! HE WAS CENTER!! HE IS FUNNY!! HE IS CUTE!!! WHY YALL HATING
66.  The centers are Donghan and Hwanoong and all of them got praised a lot by Kahi and even Hyunbin got the footwork down fml I’m so proud of my kids
67.  This elimination gonna hurt no matter what I got too many faves they show the lower ranked kids like Woo Jinyoung and Hwanoong and Dongbin and Justin and whatnot I AM SO SO EMO!!! WHAT THE FUCK!!!!! LET MY KIDS LIVE
68.  Most of those kids already feel that they’re gonna drop and it’s so fucking depressing I love so many of those kids I feel so bad rn oh my fucking god II want to save them all I want them to be happy and popular and debut well
69.  23 of my own children are gonna be beat away from this show I am so angry anyways thte last time there was abt 2.5mil votes this time its GODDAMN 5.5 MILLION WHAT ON EARTH
70.  HYUNBINN SURVIVED THANKK GOD!!!! THANK FUCK!!!!!! I am not allowed to cry about each trainee I CANT
71.  YEHYUN MADE IT MY MUSICAL GENIUS!!!!! FUCK!! HIS STATS ARE LIKE A ROLLERCOASTER
72.  Moonbok deadass fell from 2nd to 32nd what the fuck this show is so unpredictable and I hate it
73.  KENTA BABY MADE EIT WITH 0 SCREENTIME I LOVE MY BOY SO MUCH
74.  Gunhee also made it what the fuck why is he such a low rank with the goddamn 110k benefit and you can see the light leave Hwanoongs eyes because if Gunhee is so low what happens to him
75.  Its HF and Woodam went up he fell like 10 places fuck he said ‘You’ll have to go up’ to Jinyoung IM SO SADD!! FUCK!!!!!
76.  SUNGWOON MADE IT!!! HE LOOKS LIKE A LIL CLOUD W HIS BLEACHED HAIR!! PROUD OF U BABE
77.  SUNGHYUK MADE IT AGAIN!!! ROSE SO FUCKING MUCH!!!! HE WAS 95 BUT NOW HE IS 24 WHAT ON E A R T H HOLY MOTHER OF FUCK
78.  TAEHYUN IS THERE!!!! HOTTSHOT BOYSSSSSSSSS IM PROUD HE HIGHFIVED SOMEONE IN THE LINE
79.  Oh my god 20th place trainee already has over 1mil votes this is fucking wild whos it gonna be ITS REN!!!!!! WHYS HE SO LOW!! HE FELL TWO PLACES WHAT THE FUCK
80.  Everyone are apologizing this is so sad also JIHOON ACTUAL ANGEL SAID HE MIGHT BE PERSUADED TO GIVE HIS CENTER POSITION TO REN WHAT ON EARTH
81.  Hwiseung is so bright and cute…. How does he do that….
82.  Jinwoo looks dead inside like he has already accepted his place…… but also proud and smiley at Jisung and Daniel… I’m so sad yall what the fuck
83.  WOOJIN DIDN’T HIGHFIVE YOUNGMIN AND WOOJIN RAN BACK FROM THE STAGE TO HUG HIM BRAND NEW PRIDE
84.  I hate Hwiseung why is he so good…. And loveable… in those dark times… fucking god I’m so sad
85.  BoA said cue and Seonho just stood up without the name and BoA was like wdym and Seonho is like it cant be Guanlin bc he’s a superstar
86.  KJALFSA HYUNGSEOB IS THANKING WOOJIN IN HIS SPEECH IM SO EMO THIS IS SO CUTEEEEEE
87.  SEWOON EXPOSED MNET BAEKHO AINT SCARY GET FUKT BOIIII ITS TOP 11 TIME NOW
88.  Oh my GOD it’s a god fucking damn cutscene are you SERIOUS!! Blocked anyways they have a punchinc machine it will be somekinda strength off and they deadass chopped the 1st place seat off and put it there
89.  HWISEUNG AND BYUNMIN ARE THE MC’S why are they doing this to me
90.  Ren is so dumb I love him how does he do THAT with his shoulders
91.  Seongwoo is there and he sure is making himself look cool he does into the trainees to go faaaaaaaaaaar so he can get the motion in and puts sooo much into the show BUT FUCKING STAYS UNDER 900 I LOVE MY DUMB SON HE IS SO STUPID AAAAAAHAHHA FUCK I LOVE HIM HES SO FUNNY EVERYONE ARE LAUGHING LIKE HYENAS
92.  Donghyun was embarrassing w his stretching but fuckin WRECKED that machine taking the throne from Sunghyuk who took it from Dongbin
93.  ITS BAEKHO TIME GODDAMN HWISEUNG SAID IT’S BOSS FIGHT LMAO I LOVE THEM
94.  His punching sound was so loud holy fuck AND HE GOT THE IDENTICAL SCORE!!! WHAT!! LMAO
95.  Rematch, Donghyun hit 949, Baekho 950 lmaooooooo MY SUNSHINE TIGER  
96.  We are back in the elimination its rank 11 ITS BAEKHO!! MY BABE!! MY FIRST BIAS!! POWER VOCAL DUMBO!!! LOVE U!!!!!!!! BoA asked him to do aegyo I’m so done lmaoooooooo
97.  Seeing low ranked trainees be quietly emo and cry is seriously the worst fucking feeling I’m so angry and sad
98.  JAEHWAN IN TOP 10 INDIVIDUAL TRAINEE PRIDE!!! I LOVE U BABE UR AMAZING BY VOCALS AND PERSONALITTY AND LOOKS I HOPE U DO WELL!!!!!
99.  Danik fell by 6 spots I’m emo and he even apologizes at everyone HE IS SO CUTE!!! FUCK!!! STAY UP THERE BABE
100.   Ong has a lot of male fans and Guanlin was like ‘I’m a fan too’ why shouldn’t you be tbh that dude is perfect in each way like hes pretty and can sing can dance ran rap and has a sense of humor the hell else do u want then
101.   Minhyun got 5th and his face on the big screen everyone are like fuck hes hot anyways HE SAID HE WANTS TO DEBUT W JAEHWAN I love how close Jaehwan is with 2hyun aaaaaaahhhh
102.   YOUNGMIN IN A PUPPY HUG PILE I LOVE U RED ALPACA BABE
103.   HE IS GONNA DO SOME BITCHASS ALPACA DANCE SINCE HE GOT 5TH AAAAHAHA SO CUTEEEEEEEEE
104.   The top 4 is Jihoon, Guanlin, Jonghyun and Daehwi
105.   Daehwi is 4 and thanked his mom in America poor kid HES CRYING!!!!!! HE HUGGED YOUNGMIN SO TIGHT!!! THIS IS SO FUCKING SAD!! FUCK POOR BABBIE
106.   JIHOON IS THIRD!! EVERYONE WERE SO READY THAT ITS GONNA B GUANLIN INCLLUDING HIMSELF
107.   OK OVERALL HOW THE FUCK DID GUANLIN GET SECOND!! GODDAMN AINT I SHOOK!!! GOOD JOB LIL CHICKEN
108.   JONGHYUN!!!!! BABY!!!! GENTLE SUNSHINE AND BEST LEADER!!! BEAUTIFUL SMILING CHILD!!! A BAB WEEB!!! IM SO PROUD!!!!!!! IL OVE HIM SO MUCH IM EMO!!!!!! HE CRIED ABOUT NBOT BEING GOOD ENOUGH THOSE YEARS BACK!! AND NOW HERE HE IS!!! NATIONS LEADER, LOVED AFTER FINALLY HAVING SOME EXPOSURE!!!!! FUCK YOU PLEDIS FUCK EVERYONE WHO HAVE SAID SHIT ABOUT HIM I LOVE HIM AND HE IS BEAUTIFUL AND GOOD FUCK YALL
109.   I’m dead Guanlin thanked Baekho and then asked BoA to buy them more food b a b e
110.   ITS TIME FOR THE 35TH!!!!! FUCK!!!!!!!!!! THE CANDIDATES ARE SUNGWOO, DONGSU, DONGHAN AND EUNKI AND ALL OTHER OF MY FAVES ARE DEAD AS FUCK IM SO SAD RN
111.   DONGHAN MADE IT!!!!!!! BLONDIE BABY!!!!! HES CRYING SO HARD!!!!! I FEEL SO EMO ABOUT ALL OF MY FAVE BUT HE MADE IT!!!!! TAEHYUN LOOKED SO LUCKED OUT WHEN HE WAS ANNOUNCED!!!!!! BABY DOLL IM SO PROUD OF YOU YOU DESERVE IT!!!!!
112.   Hwiseung dropped 3 ranks this is why god doesn’t exist
 Overall THANKS MNET FOR ONLY GIVING HWISEUNG AND HWANOONG SCREENTIME WHEN THEY GET ELIMINATED LOVE YA
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