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When I saw you making For the Spirits art I was so excited, wow, one of my favourite artists is reading this too, how nice!! Then I realised youâre actually the author and I just want to ask, how?? Are you so talented???? I love this fic and I love your art so so much, thank you for sharing it all with us. Canât wait for the next update!!
Ah, thank you! This is literally so sweet! For the Spirits (adding a link for the curious folks out there!) is my love child. This project owns my heart and soul, and it's truly so rewarding that you like it! I want to sketch so many different scenes, really, but I'm doing my best to give you some quality artwork of my favorite moments in the story. It's a slow process.

As for next chapterâsoon! I'm working on some sketches for this particular scene, and I am so excited to share it with everyone! Things start to pick up from here... But, for now, have a (very little) sneak peek â¤ď¸
Zuko stood at the end of the world, surrounded by miles of snow and the resounding echo of his own shallow breaths. He took everything in, closed his eyes to receive Agniâs light, and howled.
Something howled back, and he smiled.
#dema answers#atla#avatar the last airbender#zuko#atla fanart#prince zuko#atla art#atla fic#atla fanfic#new gods au#for the spirits#spirit touched zuko#atla zuko#the painted lady#Izumi of Jang Hui#lu ten atla#lu ten#Royal Guard Ming#atla ming#Ghost Lu Ten#*insert creepy noises*#Isn't it fun how Lu Ten doesn't really look like a ghost at all?#In ATLA spirits (in terms of soul projection or whatever that's called) are these shiny blue semi-transparent souls...#But that's not really how they work in FTS. A HUGE part of Zuko's struggle with his âgiftâ comes from his inability to...#...distinguish spirits and ghosts from living humans. At least at first. He's much better at it now.#But I digress#He's experiencing The Terrors and I love him for it#Putting this story together and bringing to life is so important to me! I always wonder how you guys will receive FTS.#Thank you so much for all the love#As for the story itself... Keep an eye out for next chapter. That little bit I shared is actually quite important đ
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he still has his tonsils. by the way if you even care
#sorry this is fucking UNINTELLIGIBLE but unfortunately iâm still on my bullshit about dr. daddyissues. yeah itâs gonna be all month#i am rotating episode 2.8 âthe mistakeâ in my head at breakneck speed. i am gnawing on it i want to swallow it#oh heâs such a lying liar who lies. charming little bastard. would rather die/lose his license than express one wholly unaffected emotion#âhe thinks not giving a crap makes him like house. like itâs something to aspire toâ quick question HOW serious do the daddy issues have to#be before you start latching on to fucking GREGORY HOUSE as a paternal figure and role model. really#even cameron is not down this bad. even WILSON is not down this bad.#the daddy issues of it all are very understandable though because even setting aside whatever went down back in childhood that shit his#father did to him in seasons 1-2 is SO messed up. jesus#imagine traveling all the way across the world to the hospital your son works in for a consult which confirms what you already knew: youâre#going to die of cancer in like 2 months. making a whole point out of stopping by to visit your son. not telling him whatâs going on.#letting him spend a whole episodeâs worth of time gradually coming to terms with his complicated feelings towards you (complicated on#account of a whole childhood of objectively awful parenting). the kid finally is able to try reaching back out to you. after YOU initiated#the contact in the first place. how do you react? well obviously by telling him âoh sorry i actually have to get in a taxi right nowâ and#fucking back off to the other side of the world without giving him a chance to actually talk to you at all and resolve any of the emotions#you just dredged up. oh by the way you still havenât fucking told him youâre about to die and in fact actively mislead him into thinking#heâs going to have the chance to try meeting with you again next time he visits your home country.#especially fucked up given that the whole reason it DID take your son so long to come around THIS time is that he feels like every time#heâs tried reaching out to you in the past youâve just disappointed him by refusing to put in the effort to meet him there.#And Now Here We Are Again.#rowan what the FUCK is wrong with you. i want to dig you up and kill you again#house md#robert chase#caseyposting
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potentially batshit headcanon, but i think it'd be funny if these two were related somehow.
#i'm inclined to say they're cousins but it'd also be interesting if they were siblings ngl#gustafa hasn't really brought up his own upbringing so far in my playthrough so i'm running hogwild w/ his backstory#i hc that gustafa's parents were classical musicians and pretty strict (very much the types to force what they think is best on their kids)#he felt like the environment was too stifling not only for his music but also his spirit so he left home as soon as he could#he's still proud about his family's history as musicians but definitely doesn't want to raise his kids like his parents raised him#so that's why he's pretty laid back when it comes to raising bea and encourages whatever she loves doing no matter what#wait now that i think about it carter organizes the music festival in mineral town doesn't he?#shit i'm connecting the dots#carter would probably be older than gustafa so i guess he left home as soon as possible too#he just went the route of joining the clergy to get out of town rather than becoming a hippie like gus#imagine going to the next town over to check out their music festival only to be reunited w/ your estranged older bro >>>#you haven't spoken to in like 10+ years#i feel like they'd be okay terms tho they'd definitely bond over how shitty their parents were#okay i'm having fun w/ this headcanon i'm gonna keep it i think#story of seasons#bokujou monogatari#a wonderful life#friends of mineral town#sos awl#sos fomt#sos gustafa#gustafa (awl)#sos carter#carter (fomt)#hc : (sos) awl / fomt#mj.txt
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realising i might be nonbinary in some way but aint nobody got time for that
#im tireddd of questioning everyting all of the time#existance life choices sexuality gender AHAHSHDYDJDJDKDKDBDN#im still he/him#but like my main identity is just gay for menTM#weird gender bc gender is fake#but also i wish i were born a cis boy#at the same time i know if i were i would still do some genderfuckery idk man i feel like id be transfem then ??? my gender is yes#but like REALLY dont have time to question gender rn#i need to come out asap before next term starts since ill be going to a new school#and i really cant be deadnamed anymore#wtf even is gender#like im a boy and just some guy and a girl and a nothing and everything and just gay idk#can i just be gay#like my gender is gay idk#gay queer whatever bruh idk anymore đđ#also maybe slightlt gay for non men aswell ???#idk and idc i am what i am
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Lowkey a vent post but like not super bad or disturbing, just me complaining and shit
UHG I CANNOT WAIT UNTIL NEXT YEAR BC THATS WHEN I'M GONNA START USING MY PREFERRED NAME like just because the school year is almost over and it'd be stupid to let everyone know now instead of just having a fresh start but like
I dunno, just kinda a bummer when people use my (soon to be) deadname, and I know that they don't know it's not my dead name or anything
Idk, just really excited to be me and all that junk
Might not come out to my parents though just bc it'll be such a pain and my mom is kind of iffy on that stuff
#eddie speaks#idk#this is really just so I won't be plagued with these thoughts anymore#ya know?#uhgggg#i hate not being out#and literally like#i feel like i lay it on pretty thick sometimes#I don't know#maybe I'm not laying it on as strong as i think i am#but i literally never refer to myself as a girl#i alsways refer to jyself as a guy or a gender neutral term so like#can we just catch in folks?#i dunno#next year is gonna be fun though#ill be Nate!#or Johnathan#but like Johnathan is a mouthful and john makes me sound like 39 sooo#sighhhhh#lowkey afriad to come out to my friends but like#not afraid#just uh#ya know#whatever#gn#love you
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life's so fleeting đ
#lost an uncle today and i keep trying to go on with my day#but it's so hard to do normal things when i just keep thinking that someone is not here anymore#he had been hospitalized for over two weeks not because of illness but because he fell and had a serious brain injury#we were counting on his recovery but then he got an infection and then his kidneys stopped working#it was so out of the blue#and i dont know which way to lose someone is worse#i mean it's always bad anyway but#having that glimpse of hope that the person might get better and come out of it only for then to receive the news he might not make it past#to thirty minutes later learn that he passed is just a shock#he was my closest uncle kinda like a father figure to me and so attentive and helpful and liked by everyone#i feel so much for my cousins and my aunt they were married for over 40 years#and his eldest grandson adored him so much and the little one is only two years old :(((#its so so so sad that this is just what life is like#we never know what will happen next#i've lost my grandma and four of my aunts from my mother's side and it's never easy coming to terms that our loved ones will be gone one da#whatever the way they pass we are never ready#personal x
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Getting out of a writing slump feels quite similar to rising from your coffin like a vampire. Which I am btw
#sophie speaks#wrote almost 500 words for www today which isnt a lot but im proud of myself#i just needa like. hack my brain or whatever i can do it#tbf next chapter is not coming for a while because april beat me up very bad#i was sick for the entire month and i had other stuff happen that exhausted me completely ut was horrendous#so next chapter has only 2k of it written and its all the easy parts#i like. gotta come to terms with my own disability being... disabling#like yeah man it does that#but i wrote 800 words today in total and hones thats more than i couldve hoped for#and we be staying optimistic!!
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this is fucking pathetic i see ONE instagram post and i spiral and when i ask my mother for validation and idk, COMFORT?! she's just telling me that i can practice over the summer and improve and thats WAY more than what ill need to do and just reinforcing the idea that im not good enough AS IT IS and its not realistic to be a fucking tryhard over the summer for something i will NEVER succeed at and im crying and snapping at everyone and my sister heard one snappy word and started yelling at me too and like cut me some fucking slack im never gonna be able to complain about this outside my home bc if i did complain it would be fucking selfish (and ACTUALLY selfish im not lying) and if i dont get in again i KNOW that its gonna fucking break me and i feel like a worthless idiot and im not good enough for this thing and im never gonna get in so whats even the point of trying again when itll just destroy me
#i have to fucking work now but im a mess#a selfish and stupid mess#i want things but i dont even TRY hard enough#i just needed to talk slower last time but next year there will be a whole batch of younger smarter people trying out for so few spots#and no matter how well i practice and revise#im not getting in#and i need to fucking get up and study and work so that i can get good grades and complete the bare minimum that my mom has taught herself#to be happy with but im just fucking pathetic and what am i even doing at this school im not fucking succeeding at anything#and i dont wanna hear about how im successful or whatever because ITS NOT ENOUGH#im just a tryhard#and I possess no actual talents or skills#im sick of people trying to tell me otherwise#im just NOT good enough and i have to come to terms with that and be fucking better#if youre a moot reading this im sorry i know this is very attention seeking and pathetic but i really dont wanna talk about it#sorry#blippity blap
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kind of fully unemployed until i get my visa now. spending all day on the sofa reading. watching two movies a day. running in the morning. french press coffee at 11. writing about video games while listening to lofi jazz. cooking in the evening. no meetings, no emails, no microsoft teams and microsoft azure. like yeah the dread and uncertainty and nerves are consuming me from the inside but i can't deny that living this decadently is fun
#it's weird how little i use my phone when i have actual free time#i mean i dont think i could do this long-term i like the structure that having a job gives you#and yeah it took me a while to just let go and relax and im not fully there yet...i still feel guilty and anxious a lot of the time#but whatever comes next this is restorative
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rapidly learning smth abt myself and its that the more ts4 cc i download the less i actually want to play with cc. i think im a vanilla gamer after all these years lol 9yo me would be so disgusted
#the only thing i cant play without is like. skin overlays and eyelashes. and 600 gameplay mods#but everythibg else is like... too overwhelming#and i hate the way modded sims look outside of cas atp#ANYWAY whatever im playing the sims again. thats how u know its bad out there#once again i say in the longterm my life is soooooooo incredibly good rn. everything 10/10#in the short term ? i am so bored and understimulated i hope a boeing airline lands on my head <3#its especially bad rn bc i KNOW i will continue to feel this way for the next 53 days until datv comes out lol#BUT ANYWAY. NEVERTHELESS SHE PERSISTED I GUESS
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Okay. Iâm going to pretend really hard for the next 70 days. Iâll do the best I can. Iâll put in so much effort. And then on September 14th I still have a week (9days) until my birthday to see whether that brought any kind of significant change to my life and whether itâs worth continuing.
#this refers to both the blog and offline#my current situation is extremely bad#and I might as well actually put some effort in#and if I still feel like this Iâll have a week to come to terms with it#I know this is extremely weird and personal but I need to etch it into the foundation of this blog so I keep to it#Iâm done having a personality. I need to be someone.#I feel like an idiot trying to explain this since there is literally nobody on here who reads this#but I have a very hard time forming bonds with people#Iâm the type of person who has a nice conversation with you one time and then disappears#and I try! but not hard enough#and on this blog. whatever. Iâm done being myself here. I need to do something more interesting#my self has no intrinsic value in this space. OR in real life. so for the next 70 days Iâll do my best to be someone.#maybe that effort will do something
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Okay so we have this huge problem with forgetting about everything thatâs happened by the time the next election rolls around so Iâd like to keep a running list of things as theyâre happening to help remind us when the 2026 midterms roll around. And please add to this if Iâve missed anything.
January 2025:
Donald Trump pardoned 1500 people who participated in the insurrection of January 6th, including those who violently assaulted and nearly killed police officers.
Donald Trump has declared that trans and non-binary people donât exist.
Donald Trump is working towards firing everyone in the government who isnât loyal to him.
Donald Trump has effectively fired everyone who he claims is an âillegal DEI hireâ âŚwhatever that means
Donald Trump pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement and the World Health Organization
Congress are trying to pass the Laken Riley Act to, effectively, round up every immigrant in the country, including LEGAL immigrants
Donald Trump removed caps on prescription drug prices.
Donald Trump wants to withhold federal aid to help combat the LA wildfires and help the thousands of people who have been displaced and lost their homes.
The Department of Justice has put a hold on all civil rights cases.
Donald Trump has cut off aid to Ukraine.
Laken Riley Act has been passed by Congress and is awaiting being signed into law by the President. Hereâs the breakdown of the votes: House Senate
Donald Trump purged a dozen inspectors general from the federal government and intends to replace them all with people loyal to him.
Pete Hegseth has been confirmed as Secretary of Defense. Hereâs the breakdown of how the Senate voted. Note, it was a 50-50 tie that JD Vance had to break.

Donald Trump imposed a 25% tariff on Colombia after the Colombian government turned away two airplanes carrying migrants. Columbia has retaliated by imposing a 25% tariff of its own on US goods.
Donald Trump has also issued a travel ban for Colombian citizens and revoked visas from Colombian migrants coming to the US.
Donald Trump has now backed off the tariffs and other threats against Colombia. Note for future reference: this comes just hours after Trump made the threat in the first place and he and the Colombian president got into a big fight on social media.
Nearly 1,000 migrants were arrested mostly in Chicago on January 26th by ICE and ICE has been told to meet a quota of 75 migrant arrests every day.
Donald Trump rescinded an anti-discrimination executive order from Lyndon B. Johnson
Donald Trump signed an executive order banning trans people from serving in the military and also ordered that people who were discharged for refusing to get mandatory vaccines be reinstated.
Donald Trump has frozen all federal grants to institutions.
After pressure from state governments, activist groups, and the general public, the White House has rolled back some of the freezes on federal funding.
Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN) has proposed a change to the 22nd Amendment to allow Donald Trump, specifically, to serve a third term.
Donald Trump is trying to fire all federal employees who donât want to return to the office (work-from-home saves the federal government millions of taxpayer dollars in overhead). He also sent an email to federal employees saying that if theyâre not loyal to him, theyâll be investigated.
Donald Trump has signed the Laken Riley Act into law.
Donald Trump has said he doesnât think Palestinians should be allowed to return to Gaza but instead should be sent to Egypt and Jordan.
Native Americans have been targeted by ICE raids.
Donald Trump has ordered undocumented immigrants to be sent to Guantanamo Bay
Donald Trump signed an executive order to expand federal funding for school choice programs. [x]
Donald Trump signed an executive order saying that he will deport visa-holding students who protest against Israel. [x]
Donald Trump has blamed DEI for the plane crash that killed 67 people in Washington D. C. [x]
Donald Trump signed an executive order that schools should no longer teach about racism and discrimination. And that schools should only teach history that is âpatrioticâ [x]
Florida Representative Anna Paulina Luna wants to add Donald Trumpâs face to Mount Rushmore. [x]
Trumpâs Department of Education has called book bans a hoax. [x]
The Department of Justice has barred certain news outlets from receiving information from the Pentagon. [x]
The Trump administration has fired multiple FBI officials who investigated the January 6th insurrection. [x]
February-June 2025
Iâll keep adding to this list as new things come up and, again, please feel free to add anything Iâve missed. I know that in this world of constant news itâs easy to forget, so letâs give our future selves a little help!
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I know it's not at all the original vibes of vashwood, but I have been craving... childhood friends aus. Except bc it's not the original vibes of vashwood At All, there are so few of them out there đđđđ so very sad
#speculation nation#and you know what they say. the obvious next step would be to write one for myself#except it's been so incredibly hard to write Anything this past year đđđ#idk man i am just craving the soft domesticity of having someone you know will always be there.#idk i might toy with the idea some more. later.#ive been rotating a few different aus but i keep coming back to domestic shit lately. idk it's just what my brain has been into.#but unlike other recent Moods it's not a focus on them being dads together or whatever#more of just. them being... idk. just. there for each other. knowing each other so well. both past and present.#in terms of best friends vibes i have a different fic idea that i havent posted about here yet#that Kind of has some of the vibes. but they still met at college age. i wanna see them be childhood friends...#modern au. since things would get very complicated trying to do childhood friends au in canon world#just remembered that discacc is technically a childhood friends au. and theres also summer nights.#guess ive always enjoyed the idea of childhood friends. i mean i knew that already lol but i forgot ive already written it#just not for vw. but what if i Did write it for vw... just. an au to make my heart ache. ya kno.#idk. i'll think about it... i still do need to get my ass in gear if i want a chance at finishing the next itnl chapter before i graduate#but. idk. ive just been so tired lately. i kinda just wanna think about things that are soft right now.
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I am trying very VERY hard to not be too optimistic about the election but I will say as someone in the Republican trenches I think Trump is getting progressively crazier and crazier and the fans of his that still think they're voting for gas prices seem to be having a bit of a wakeup call. Most of the rhetoric seems to be directed at criticizing Harris which is just not as easy of a target as Biden. I even saw some conservatives poking fun at him for his performance in the debate on a local forum. Think she might have a good chance of winning.
#Not that things will be THAT much better under her than him but at least I won't have to straight up move to Canada#(My parents are very concerned about his rhetoric on Judaism and the rise of white supremacy under him and want to move someday anyway)#Idk most of what I want to get done in terms of my personal Causes is local to the state so it only changes so much#But it would certainly be better. Please go vote guys. Like honestly I can't stop you from voting for fucking Jill Stein or whatever#But at least cast a ballot so the Dems have some idea of what your issues are. And you REALLY need to vote on state stuff regardless#But well. I have come full circle and think voting for Harris is a good idea this time around.#I would love to see an organized push for a left wing 3rd party next election... but it's pretty useless to start trying this term#Even if you're the elections don't matter I fight for the glorious revoluciĂłn type maybe just vote just in case that goes poorly?#Like her taking office is not really worse for the communist struggle than Trump. It's still not GOOD but the vote is basically morally#neutral in that regard. honestly i think it's pretty illogical NOT to vote for her it's just not like. morally Good. just the logical choice
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Zzzz zzzzzz zzzzzz
#i barely got to do any preparation tonight because i spent so long on that stupid medical survey and then washing my hair#whatever I'll do a little bit now and i will have more time tomorrow đ#plus I'm starting to lean towards not doing a phd at the moment and maybe waiting until i can get more experience#because then maybe i will be able to do a funded project plus i would know more about what I want to study long term#yeah anyway it's a shame because the project is so interesting#but yeah it's a big commitment and i don't want to be wishy washy about something so significant#also I'm feeling quite positive because i have another job interview next week and some more good opportunities coming up#đ lalala anyway#sorry this blog is basically like my job seeking journal now because all i do is work and look for jobs and sleep#nothing much else going on and not much time to think about other things rn
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joel miller ⢠be quiet, or iâll make you



âTightest pussy I ever had. Goddamn. You wanna feel good, huh? Iâll make you feel good. Just lemmeâ have it nice nâ deep, and Iâll get you back later. Let you sit on my face for hours. Make you cum tillâ youâre cryin.â
WARNINGS - smut smut smut mdni, porn with some plot, forced proximity, feral!joel, risky/secret sex, brutal sex, size!kink, dubcon if you squint but mostly a mutual want situation, reader and joel have an unspoken relationship, copious amounts of dirty talk, piv, creampie, daddy dom joel.
The world ended in disaster.
Youâve lived with that knowledge for years now, and you think youâve finally come to terms with the kind of things youâll get from it. Pain. Loss. Destruction. The same chaos, day in day out, just in different forms.
You know that at this point youâll be lucky if you survive until tomorrow; so you take it in stride.
And itâs with that thought that you find yourself following Joel into the city, your steps just as reluctant as he was to agree to this. You donât particularly want to be out here â and neither does he â but youâve been wanting to look for more medical supplies for a while now and Joel wasnât about to let you go alone. Despite how much bitchinâ he did beforehand.
You canât tell which is more depressing; the streets covered in broken glass and littered with remnants of a life long gone, or the buildings that are nearly crumbling to the ground. Neither are very pleasant to look at, but not many things are these days, so you keep moving. You have a job to do, and you donât have too much time to do it â the sun wonât be up much longer, and you want to get the fuck out of here before the real dangerous kinds of people come out lookinâ for their next meal.
Or, whatever Joel had said earlier. Mostly just in attempt to scare you.
Minutes feel like hours as you keep your gaze pointed forward, and when you pass a shattered window belonging to some old broken down building, you donât dare look inside.
Youâd rather not know what lingers inside death eaten walls.
But itâs while youâre doing that, keeping your gaze ahead, that you miss the fact that Joel has stopped walking. When it finally registers that the world around you has gotten quieter - and when you finally do turn around - youâre surprised for two reasons.
The first being that he even stopped at all, and the second being the fucking look on his face.
âYou alright?â You ask as you edge closer, glancing at the abandoned building thatâs in front of him. It doesnât look like anything remarkable, but thereâs definitely something in the way he stares at it. âJoel, you still with me?â
He isnât saying anything, his expression is rather blank â but you know him well enough to know that heâs not just seeing whatâs right in front of him. Heâs seeing something else entirely. He snaps back to attention faster than you would have expected at the sound of your voice, and when his eyes land down on yours - thereâs something inside them that makes your heart sink.
âSomethinâs wrong.â Is all he says before heâs grabbing your wrist, and yanking you inside.
Your heart starts pounding faster, but you try your best to stay calm. He isnât the kind of man who would panic without cause, so you know he must have seen something - or heard something - and youâre doing your best not to let that scare you.
âJoelâshitâwhat the hellââ you stumble over rubble and pieces of broken furniture. âWhatâre youââ
Heâs pulling you deeper into the building, not giving you a chance to stand still long enough to say more. When you get to a staircase he yanks you down a few steps, waiting for the sound of the door shutting behind you before shoving your shoulders back against the wall.
âYou listen to meââ heâs panting, words spat through grit teeth. âYouâre gonnaâ shut up, and youâre gonnaâ stay quiet. Can you do that for me?â
The tone of his voice alone forces you to bite the inside of your cheek to keep yourself from talking. Itâs been a long, long time since youâve seen him this serious. Youâd almost forgotten that he was capable of producing this kind of tension - the kind thatâs so palpable it could be cut with a knife.
So, you just nod, lips pressed into a thin line, and you hope that itâs enough.
âAlright.â He doesnât seem certain of your answer, but he nods anyway, reaching for your wrist again and dragging you down the remaining stairs.
When you get to the bottom, he opens the door slowly, eyes darting around until they land on a nearby closet - and itâs only after the first step you take towards it that you hear noises on the floor above you.
Footsteps.
And way too fucking many for you to be comfortable.
The kind of heavy, laden-boot marching youâd dread to hear on good days - nevermind while youâre out in dangerous territory, trying your damnest to flee unseen. Itâs only seconds before the steps grow louder, and you can feel your heart rate speeding up again - while Joel is staring at the ceiling with such intensity you think that he might just be able to will it to break if he so much as blinked at it.
Then, in a flash, he snaps out of it - dragging you toward the closet and shoving you inside before you can even think about protesting.
And god, is it fucking cramped.
The closet is small. Small enough that you have to force yourself closer to the wall so that he has space to squeeze inside behind you. And itâs within the first second that he shuts the door, and the darkness swallows you both whole - in which you realize you have a new problem altogether.
âJoelââ you choke out as a heavy palm snakes around your waist, pressing tight against your belly. Heâs a solid wall behind you, his front flush against your back, and all you can fucking feel is his hot breath against your ear - his stubble tickling your cheek. âWhatâsââ
âNo talking.â And then he brings his free hand up to cover your mouth, and you have to stifle a noise that threatens to explode in your chest. âNot a fuckinâ word.â
You take solace in the fact that he canât see how flushed your face becomes, but your stupid brain is working overtime - overanalyzing the feeling of his calloused palm against your lips, the heat of his mouth way too fucking close to your ear, his free hand that seems to be sliding lower down your abdomenâ
âStop squirming.â He whispers, all heat as his fingers press a little harder against your lower stomach.
You long to bark at him. I canât control it.
But you canât. So instead you try to focus on the sounds of the people upstairs. You try to pay more attention to the way your heart is threatening to break free through your sternum. Anything to try and take your mind off of the way heâs touching you - but he makes it so, so hard.
Youâre certain you would have a better fighting chance if you were to try and move mountains.
Without even thinking, your hand comes up to wrap around his wrist, and itâs then that his lips curve into a smile against your ear. And when the realization comes crashing down - the realization that heâs fully aware of whatâs happening to you - you think you may just collapse.
Oh, god, this is torture.
If it were anyone else, youâd think this was a joke. Youâd think that perhaps the way heâs touching you was some kind of attempt at making the terrifying just a little more tolerable, a little more exhilarating for different reasons - but this isnât just anyone. This is Joel. And you know his mind never works like what. Instead, he simply acts on instinct - in ways that usually leave you reeling and your thoughts in a whirlwind.
Youâve been through this a million times with him.
Unsurprisingly, this time is no different.
And as you try to focus on the footsteps above you - desperately searching for a thought, a train of any kind to follow - his hand moves again, fingertips tracing the waistband of your dirt covered cargos - barely dipping between fabric and skin.
Itâs slow, teasing, but itâs enough. And you donât currently have enough control over yourself to stop your back from arching, pressing directly against the bulge in his jeans thatâs growing impatiently despite himself.
And itâs the way he exhales in your ear, the way you hear him inhale right after before his nose brushes the shell of your ear â before his hand dips lower to trace the zipper of your fly â that you find yourself fighting for your life to swallow the moan that threatens to spill because the people on the second floor are now shouting and hollering, and the whole floor seems to quake under the force of their heavy boots.
A second passes. Then two, and then ten â thereâs silence. Youâre pretty sure the steps are now heading away from where youâre hiding, and you think Joel must agree because he slips his hand from your mouth, sliding it down your jaw.
âJoelââ you choke out, the last syllables of his name sounding desperate. âI-weââ
And yet again, you arenât able to finish, because he has a habit of taking the words you think you want to say straight from your chest. You arenât able to process it until a moment later - when his mouth finds your neck, fingers slipping into your now unzipped cargo pants.
This isnât what you meant.
You donât have the chance to tell him that. You donât have the cognitive ability to push the idea that this isnât the time. You donât even have enough room in your head to acknowledge how this could go so badly, so quickly. Youâre too drunk on the high of his touch to think straight.
And when his fingers drag the lace of your underwear to the side - all you can do is squeeze your eyes shut and pray to a God youâre sure youâve never actually believed in that youâll survive this without the shame over how fucking soaked you are eating you alive first.
His fingers find your clit, making slow, small circles. Just enough to make you keen. Just enough to make you forget who you are, and what youâre doing. You think if he keeps it up for any longer, the sounds trapped behind your teeth are going to jailbreak before you can get a handle on them. He knows it too - because itâs only a split second after that thought enters your mind, that he whispers gravel in your ear again.
âIf yâcanât stay quiet, Iâll make you.â And itâs said with enough sternness to let you know that it isnât a threat, it��s a promise. âBe good fâme.â
You donât know if you can. You donât know if you can possibly keep yourself silent. Not when his lips are teasing your burning flesh, not when his fingers are rolling your clit, not when heâs whispering promises of heaven in your ear.
But itâs then, that you hear the floorboards creak, and you know then, that you have no choice.
Either find a way to stay silent, or throw yourself headfirst into danger.
âMm.â He hums as his fingers slip lower, sliding along your slit until they find your embarrassingly wet heat - to which you find yourself widening your feet despite yourself.
And this time, the noise that slips isnât audible. Not to him anyway. But you can feel the sound vibrate the back of your throat. You can feel the way it glides over your tongue - and when you have the wherewithal, you bite down on your bottom lip, hard enough that itâs almost painful. He doesnât seem to notice, and youâre glad because you know heâd only find it funny.
He pushes a finger into you, and holy fuckâ
âOhââ the sound gets out of your mouth before you can stop it, involuntarily defying his direct order to shut the fuck up.
You hope, foolishly, it was quiet enough for him to not hear.
It isnât, and as a result the hand that had been sitting lazily around your jaw slips firm over your mouth again, yanking your head back against his shoulder. You feel his fingers tighten as if to let you know that itâll only get harder as his finger pushes deeper, and then retreats, pumping into you slow and steady.
âF-fuckââ your whine is smothered against his palm, and you somehow have half the mind to realize the footsteps have stopped. Vanished. âJ-joel.â
Youâre expecting some type of response, some biting be quiet â but instead, all you get is a deep grunt in your ear and a roll of his hips against your ass as he slides another finger into your cunt, thumb brushing your clit.
And thereâs almost no fight in you left to resist this - to resist the pleasure heâs pouring into your veins. Youâd curse him if you could, if you could put more than four coherent words together to do it - but all there seems to be left in your mind is his name, which heâs using against you like he always does.
âGood girl.â He praises between slow, steady thrusts and you have to wonder what kind of game heâs playing to get you like this - to get you so undone you donât even remember your own goddamn name.
Then again, you know better than to think thereâs a game, at all. There are no games with Joel. He does what he wants and youâre either the benefit of it, or youâre the object of his ire.
But when a third finger slips into you, stretching and stuffing your cunt wider than you were mentally prepared for - you forget about any of that as you bite down on his hand as hard as you dare because itâs just too fucking much.
âJ-joelââ you try again, shaking your head. The footsteps havenât returned. You have to believe theyâre gone. You know Joel knows it too. âP-pleaseââ
And like someone struck a match in a room full of gasoline, he seems to have decided that youâve waited long enough. In the blink of an eye, you feel his palm leave your mouth, and move to the limited space between you. Heâs unbuckling his belt.
âWhatâs the matter, huh?â He all but growls in your ear, still pumping his fingers deep. âThree too much for you? How dâya think youâre gonnaâ take my cock if you canât even take my fuckinâ fingers.â
God. His voice is deep, dripping like sin. It goes straight to the center of your chest and you feel like the walls of your rib cage are cracking open. You have no idea how youâre going to be able to take him like this - especially when heâs so far gone itâs like heâs forgotten himself.
âI-I donât knowââ and itâs the truth. You have no concept of how youâll take a single drop of him in this state. But heâs already shifted himself free, pulling his fingers out to yank your pants down and slide his throbbing shaft into the slick space between your thighs. âF-fuck. Youâre crazy.â
âWorse.â And you already know what heâs going to tell you just by the way the word drips into your ear. âMâinsane.â
Truer words.
You never imagined that youâd ever find the thought of Joel Miller going insane so enticing. You imagine all kinds of ways you would have pictured it if someone had told you back when you first met - but somehow, this was never one of the things that came to mind.
âWhat does that make me?â You hiss as his fingers find your clit again, as he kicks your legs a little wider to slide his leaking tip against your slit.
âA goddamned fool.â He answers as he sinks into you, and thereâs never been a more divine connection in the world. He groans into your ear, and you have to bite your lip again until youâre sure you might draw blood. âBut you already knew that.â
And somehow, even still - you do.
Yeah. You do. He isnât the type of man someone can ever know fully. Heâs got walls and barriers built high - a fortress, impenetrable and vast - but somehow, you still manage to squeeze your way through it. It isnât lost on you that youâre the only one who has.
âJ-joelâgo fuckinâ easy, pleaseââ youâre grabbing at the wall infront of you as he splits you open without so much as giving you a chance for breath. âItâsâbeen a whileââ
And that stops him for a beat - but not for long, and not long enough. He still doesnât go easy, still thrusts right to the hilt with the kind of power youâd associate with a man half his age - a man who (if the world hadnât gone to hell) would be so close to retiring that he could taste the future on the back of his tongue - but you wouldnât want him to anyway.
âI know, babygirl. I know. Just take it nice nâ deep, fâme. Just take it.â
And then he grabs a handful of your hair, pulling you back so he can get even deeper, your spine arching just enough.
Fucking hell.
The sound thatâs almost impossible not to make threatens to rip from the pit of your chest, but you bite down in time and it turns into something between a strangled cry and an elongated whimper. You know youâre going to be walking funny tomorrow - but right now, thereâs no such thing as being able to imagine tomorrow.
âYouâfuck.â Itâs a whisper so pained someone might think youâre actually being impaled. In some ways you are. âOh, god, Joel. Ohmygod youâre deepââ
âThere she is.â He all but growls into your ear. âThereâs the tough woman I know.â If he wasnât holding you so tightly you mightâd fall at the way he suddenly slams into you. âTightest pussy I ever had. Goddamn. You wanna feel good, huh? Iâll make you feel good. Just lemmeâ have it nice nâ deep, and Iâll get you back later. Let you sit on my face for hours. Make you cum tillâ youâre cryin.â
You almost bite your tongue in half at the very thought of him doing that. Your mind is a wasteland of icoherent thought - and itâs then that you know with all the certainty in the world that youâd been done for the moment he came into your life. He always had a rough edge to him - but back then, when you first met, you thought it was just the product of a shitty life. But now, you know better - now, you know heâs just a good-natured person with an innate drive to protect - and youâd go to your grave knowing that youâd go there loving him for it.
Even though, right now, it feels a lot more like heâs trying to kill you rather than protect you.
âOhhh, fuckââ you hiss through grit teeth as he pulls out, dragging slow at tight, wet walls. âMâclose to cryinâ now.â
âMmm.â He all but purrs. âThatâll mean Iâm doinâ my job right.â Thereâs heat in the way he speaks that you swear would burn even the toughest person. But then again, thatâs always been something youâd only ever been able to say about Joel. âMânot gonnaâ be gentle. You know you ainât deserving of it right now.â
Another time, youâd tell him he was wrong. Another time, you would have argued that you hadnât done a single thing wrong - but right now, your thoughts are just as lost as your voice.
Still, you try your best. âW-why? Because Iâmmfâdragged you outtaâ bed?â
âWrong.â You canât see it, but youâre sure thereâs a smirk on his face. âYou really wanna get into it? Wannaâ make a list?â
You donât, but you have the horrible feeling that this is going to happen either way.
âDo I have a choice?â You ask with what little breath you can find.
âNo.â The word sounds so simple - but in that moment, it might as well have been a dagger. âYou donât.â
He pulls out just so he can drive back into you harder, hand sliding from your hair and back over your mouth.
âFirst, you dragged me outtaâ bed. That right there? Shoulda been spanked for it. Next, you got yourself pinned in a goddamn closet with me after raiders chased us down. Almost got us killed.â Another painfully slow draw out, followed by a hard drive back in - smacking your cervix. âAnâ for what? Causeâ you donât wannaâ listen when I say itâs too dangerous to be out here.â
There are a million retorts you could have - most of them have something to do with you being able to take care of yourself - but none of them even find the beginning of your tongue.
Heâll take that win. Just like he takes everything else.
âNot tâmention youâve kept this perfect ass from me for far too long.â Heâs fucking you hard now, head kissing your cervix with each long thrust and youâre crying out under his palm but the sound doesnât escape. He makes sure of it. âMmm, yeah. Far. Too. Long.â
You want to tell him to shut up - that heâs being an ass - but youâre two broken breaths from wailing at the sting on your cervix and the pressure heâs now swirling on your clit. The only thing thatâs left for you to do is the only thing you can do.
Take it.
You roll your hips, shoving back against him with every thrust just to have him hit that much deeper - and if he has something to say about it, he doesnât say it. But he seems satisfied with just that, and suddenly, you think heâs just as close as you are.
âThatâs it.â His voice is tight. âGood girl. Just like that.â
His hips snap against your ass so hard you think you might end up bruised tomorrow, but the thought only adds to the haze in your mind.
âFfffffuckâJoelââ you mewl, pathetic desperate and needy as a whore, against his palm. His fingers speed up against your clit. âOh!â
âTake it, baby. Make me fuckinâ proud.â He hisses in your ear, a groan slipping out between it. âSo good. Pussy feels so good.â
âGonnaâ make me cum.â You try to speak - maybe another time youâd be embarrassed by how desperate you sound, but this isnât that time and itâs not the time to be anything other than truthful. âMmmâgonna cum J-joelââ
âYeah you are.â He grunts, the rhythm of his thrusts stuttering just a little. âSqueezing my cock so goddamn tight. Fuckinâ cum on it, babygirl. Wannaâ feel you.â
The sound that pushes past his palm at just the last moment doesnât sound like you - but you know it is. It's the sound of the kind of pleasure that youâve never experienced before that makes your entire body feel like a rubber band thatâs too tight, and you have the vaguest sense of your walls squeezing the life out of him but thereâs nothing you can do to stop it from happening at all - becuase your climax hits you like a goddamn freight train and its run you over hard.
You think heâs saying something - you know he is - but you canât hear anything aside from the blood racing in your ears. Even still, you know exactly what happens next, because youâve experienced it so many times. The way he loses himself, like he forgets every bit of control he prides himself for having and the need to empty himself inside you takes over.
He spills into you hard - and you love every second of it for the simplicity of the comedown.
Itâs the kind of feeling that washes you in warmth. Itâs the kind of feeling that tells you that the world is going to be okay, so long as youâve got him and heâs got you. He groans and his hands come out to brace against the wall infront of you to hold himself up as he shoots hot jets of cum deep inside your cunt - and you canât remember the last time youâd heard him breathe this hard. Though, truth be told, you canât remember the last time you heard yourself breathe this hard, either.
Your mouth feels dry, your mind feels hazy, and your legs feel weak - and as he leans over you, he can surely tell all three - but he doesnât say anything.
Instead, he drags his mouth over your ear with an inhale.
âMmhmm.â He grumbles as he presses a kiss to your jaw. âLook what you made me to do ya.â Your cheek gets the same treatment, and a breath later as he turns your head slightly, your lips do too. âGonnaâ have my cum leakinâ out of ya all the way back to camp.â
The sound you make doesnât even seem human, but itâs muffled before it even comes - because heâs kissing you. And it isnât a hard kiss like youâd expect - itâs slow and steady, and you know heâs doing it in a way to say sorry, as if he realizes he mightâve gone a little too far.
You smile into it, and he does too.
âYou really are insane.â You whisper as he pulls back slightly. âMy cervix gonnaâ need a week vacation after that.â
âMânot a good man, darlin'. If I was, Iâd say sorry for that.â He whispers with a small kiss against your lips. âBut I ainât. So, Iâll just tell you Iâll take care of you later as much as you like. That good enough for now?â
Thereâs only one answer for you. Only one thatâs ever been the answer with him.
âAlways.â There is a beat of silence, and you smile in the dark. âI love you.â
He pulls out of you, finally, leaving the part of himself behind that tells you how much he loves you too without verbalizing it. Soon as he fixes his jeans, he helps you fix yours.
âAnd I love you.â He whispers, calloused palm finding your own. âLetâs get outtaâ here. The sooner weâre back, the better.â
And that, you canât agree more with.
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