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We build our lives out of chaos and hope by @thisonesatellite

All Draco wants is to ride out the last months of his sentence in peace.

All Hermione needs is a bit of break.

Throwing them together in the same location is perhaps not ideal.

Then again, life doesn't have to make sense on the day. Just in the end.

Chapter 1/? on AO3

Hermione takes the glass and knocks it back.

It tears a path of flame down her throat. From very far away she thinks she can hear Draco’s voice yell, “Granger, no! That’s a sipping whisky!” but she cannot be sure, because pain such as she hasn’t felt in a decade squeezes her windpipe shut as she coughs and coughs and coughs and coughs . She feels his hand clap her back hard and then a cup being pressed into her hand, but she can’t pay attention to any of it, busy as she is, trying to expel her own esophagus.

“Drink this,” he says.

Hermione wants to point out that she is currently both choking and coughing and cannot possibly ingurgitate anything, but she can’t find the breath to do so, and then she finds herself straightened up by the shoulders with force, feels the rim of the cup clang against her teeth, and his voice, hard as flint, says, “ Drink .”

And somehow she finds a fraction of a second to swallow.

Whatever it is is cool and her coughing stops the moment it goes down. She takes a deep breath, and another, and wipes her face with her shirtsleeve.

“That was bracing.” Her voice sounds like gravel.

“I’ll say.” He smirks. “You realize of course that grown men three times your size with decades of firewhisky experience don’t do what you just did.”

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In the Wolves' Den [4]

Summary: Bucky thought he was ready for anything, but nothing could have prepared him to losing you.

Word Count: 850

Warnings: angst angst angst

A/N: it's past midnight in my country, so it's officially my birthday! as promised, here is the fourth chapter, hope you like it, even if it's on the shorter side.

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Bucky took pride in thinking that he was ready for whatever the world could throw at him, considering what he had gone through and what he had been trained for. How couldn’t he be? 

Decades of torture and pain had succesfully turned him into an impeccable killing machine, ready to react to anything in the most efficient way.

But nothing could have prepared him for the terror he felt when Steve told him what had happened. He simply froze, the only thing he was taught not to do. In a fight, if you stop you're dead and when your opponent happens to have the upper hand, stopping will prove fatal. 

He remained still, staring at his friend's mouth opening and closing, emitting words he couldn't comprehend. 

The words buzzed around him, the sounds were indecipherable, as if he was underwater. Which was true, because he couldn't breathe. 

What was Steve even saying? Natasha had come back, luckily, and Hydra had hacked their comms so that they couldn't call for help? He didn't understand.

Bucky couldn't make out the meaning of his sentences, but Steve's tone was worriedly calm. Why wasn't he panicking like him, or shouting and barking orders at the others? 

"They have Y/N. Natasha said that she's hurt, but she's alive. That's the important part."

Bucky knew too well that that was infinitely worse. If they had kept you alive, it surely wasn't because of their kindness, or of their pureness of heart. 

No, they certainly were going to hurt you. And they weren't going to go easy on you. 

His worst nightmare had come true, the thing he despised with all of his spirit was threatening the person he loved the most, and it was all his fault. 

He couldn't let it happen. What if they were torturing you in this instant and he was just there, inert and useless. What if you were dead already?

His blood turned cold, sweat trickling down his spine. If you had been there, you probably would have held him close, taking deep breaths with him and told him to not worry, because everything was going to be fine in the end.

But you weren't there. And he felt lost. 

"Buck, are you listening to me? She's alive. And we're going to get her" 

But Bucky didn't hear that, because a dark void ingurgitated him, depriving him of any sense of being, because he didn't belong to anyone, not even himself, if you weren't there.

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Bucky dreamt of you. He was remembering a date you were on, one of many you went on at the park. You were wearing the yellow sundress he loved so much. Yellow was your favourite colour.

You were watching the sunset, a perfect ending to a perfect date, and the last rays of the sun were painting the sky of a golden hue. 

He thought that you looked beautiful. Hell, you always looked beautiful in his opinion, but there was something in the way you were glowing in the sun that made him want to stop time, and stay there with you forever. 

He must have been staring for a moment too long, because you chuckled "If you take a picture it will last longer".

And that's exactly what he did. He took out his phone and after trying and failing a couple of times, he managed to take a picture of you both. 

You were smiling, and it was the most breathtaking picture that must have been taken ever. No landscape on postcards could compare to the way your smile would light up a fire inside of him, and he wanted nothing else than to make you smile like that every day. 

He remembers printing that photo, and it currently resides on his nightstand. It's his favourite.

But that's when the dream turned into a nightmare. When he turned around after shoving his phone in his jacket, you weren't there anymore, and the parked turned into the lab in the Hydra base he was in. He was watching the scene from behind a screen.

But it wasn't him in the chair, it was you. They were currently wiping out your memories, just like they did to him after every mission, and your screams were unbearable.

He couldn't do anything, he wanted to shout, to yell at them to stop and take him instead, he would gladly take your place, but no sound would come out of his mouth.

You were whimpering, begging them to stop and he couldn't bear it. He tried smashing the window, but his bionic arm was useless, so he tried smacking the glass until his other hand was bleeding, but nothing helped him. 

He couldn't do anything, you were being tortured in front of him and he was useless. You would forget him, you would turn into a murderer, and it was all his fault.

Bucky woke up from his nightmare, the only thing in his head was the image of you, strapped to the chair, screaming. 

He had to get you out of there, even if it would cost him his life.

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THE THIRD SONS: CAPTIVE KNIGHT

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Renly Baratheon was six years old when House Tyrell starved his family in their castle. Now styling himself a king in his own right, he holds the Tyrells' youngest son hostage, hoping to bargain for gold and grain. But he never thought Loras Tyrell would prove so daring, so difficult to break ... and so alluring. As Renly finds himself caught between his older brother's army and the Tyrells' wrath, victory hinges on the amorous whims of ... THE CAPTIVE KNIGHT

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They deposited Loras in Renly's chambers in chains, though both men knew the shackles were merely a formality. It would not do for Renly's subjects to see his prized hostage roaming free about the castle. But Loras was a captive now only in name, and the smoldering look he gave Renly made the king's crotch ache with desperate longing.

"Do you want me, Your Grace?" the knight asked as Renly carefully freed him from his chains.

The king's bulging groin answered his knight's question well enough, and he let his gaze travel down to the evidence of the knight's own erection, stiff enough that it would surely have shattered a codpiece had he been wearing one.

"Remove your breeches," Renly said gruffly. He would not show a hostage such courtesy, no matter how much of a friend that hostage had become.

The knight tossed his brown curls back and looked up at the king through eyelashes so long and inky they nearly blocked out his heated gaze. His golden orbs flamed like the molten core of the sun as he released the proud and straining divining rod from his trousers.

The king moaned as the brunette man stroked his engorged rod, slinking the foreskin down just enough to reveal the weeping eye winking from the tip before tucking it back into hiding.

"Should I undress you?" the knight asked, shrugging out of his own clothes, his flesh sword bouncing obscenely against his chiseled abs.

"You shall," Renly said imperiously, and his knight's lashes seemed to have grown another inch when he next looked up through them. His eyes shone like the eyes of a dragon hidden in tall grass.

Loras carefully undid Renly's breeches so that his thick smooth branch could jut out invitingly. Without waiting for an invitation, the knight dropped to his knees and took the king's rigid pipe into his throat. When he lips slid away with a slurk and a pop, the king pulled the knight to his feet and bent him over his desk.

The king squeezed his knight's supple globules before parting the man's cheeks to admire the rosy whorl of his puckered entrance. Renly reached out for a peach on his desk and dug his fingers into it until they were coated with slick juice.

"When I release you," Renly panted, circling Loras's dimpled sanctuary with one finger, "will you tell your father I treated you well?"

"Of course, Your Grace," the knight whimpered as the king slid a sticky finger inside his wrinkled indentation. "But only if you fuck me hard and well."

The king growled at the challenge and collected more of the peach's succulent syrup on his hand. He slicked his throbbing meat sword with it and drove the pulsing fleshy battering ram into the knight's waiting cavern of hot desire.

Carnal lust overtook the king and he plunged into the hidden depths of his knight's tight hot body over and over again until he exploded and coated the knight's inner furnace with thick splurts of steaming man cream. Loras's moans were sweet to Renly's ears, and he dislodged his still slightly swollen member from the other man's slick inner walls.

Renly spun Loras to face him and kissed him hard. Their tongues battled for dominance and danced as though at a fancy ball; the tongues looped and swirled and knotted together, twining like mating snakes before ramming into each other like stags fighting over a doe.

"I've been remiss," Renly whispered when they finally disentangled their straining mouth worms. He reached down and touched his knight's neglected lance, his fingers still sticky with peach juice.

"My king is kind," Loras breathed when Renly dropped to his knees.

Your king loves you, Renly thought despairingly as he lavished his lover's tumid, weeping spear with wet, sloppy sucks. You should have left him in the dungeons, Renly berated himself, and eagerly ingurgitated every gush of milky viscous juice Loras pumped down his throat when he came.

His mouth thick with unsaid words and Loras's spermatozoa, Renly looked up at his proud knight and felt chains of love shackle him.

"I love you," Renly murmured soulfully.

Loras nodded and reached down to cup his king's face in one palm. He kissed his king's forehead.

"I've had better," the knight whispered. He turned away, his eyes full of unshed tears. "Or so I'll tell myself, when I'm gone from here and long for you every day."

"You won't leave," Renly said. "Not yet. You may be my lover, but you are also still ... my captive knight."

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The oddity of multitudinous exoplanets have left astronomers baffled ever since they were discovered. In the unquenchable thirst for discovering extraterrestrial life, many of these recently discovered exoplanets, unique in their own esses, are being studied and savvied. Some have been found to be residing in their parent stars' "habitable" (the reason for it being betwixt inverted commas is lucid and very obvious) zones, some in close proximity to their stars, some orbiting their stars, some hot, some cold, some so bizarre, having characteristics and properties so flummoxing that the probabilities and very chances of their existences are questioned and doubted.

The Hubble telescope is always looking for exoplanets to be newly discovered in the vastness of space. The exemplification of it can be nebulously analogous to the odyssey of a deep-sea diver in a diving bell set out to find diminutive, ephemeral and rare mineral crystals in the Earth's oceans. Now, of course, we know that space is immeasurably colossal to be equated or analogized with the oceans but this is just to make someone picture it in his mind how vast our Universe is and how Herculean and labyrinthine it is to discover exoplanets!

Here are ten of some of the weirdest exoplanets ever discovered.

1). The exoplanet named TrES-2b, located approximately 750 l.yrs from our solar system, is officially the darkest planet ever discovered. This abstruse and menacing planet reflects less than 1% of all the light that hits it, making it significantly darker than the majority of known exoplanets. The ominously dark surface can be partially explained by the aerospheric light-absorbent gases that make up the bulk of the planet. Although astronomers aren't fully enlightened about why it is so abberantly dark, there is another eerily confounding fact about this gnomic planet laid bare and unfolded among the myriads of mysteries our universe bears. This sinister-looking sphere of gas also glows a molten red colour as if it's an incandescent ball of coal alight, peregrinating through the fabric of space. This is because the surface temperature of this planet is an inexorably pitiless 1,100°C!

2). This planet is anything but dark, the exact antithesis of the latter - a luminescently sparkling realm just like an astronomically enormous ball of diamond because it is made of diamond! This planet, named 55 Cancri E, is about twice the size of Earth and a third of it is made of solid diamond. It is very carbon-heavy and it is so dense that all the carbon is in the form of diamond. But don't get too overwhelmed and exhilarated because the shimmering exoplanet is a spectacular 40 light years away from us! With our still-developing advancements in science and infinitesimally insubstantial, microcosmic efflorescence in space exploration delimiting us, traversing such a mind-crushing distance is ludicrously beyond us and this makes Cancri stark inaccessible contemporarily. But, even it we were able to reach this diamond elysium and reach home with an influx of even a minute fraction of the diamond crystals there, the ubiquitousness and overabundance of diamonds will be so immanent globally that this would lead to the value of diamonds plummeting exponentially due to the lack of rarity and proliferation in its supply to surfeit! An avalanche of diamonds procurable like nitrogen would not be that much of an euphoria then! So this sublime realm is best admired from afar.

3). Now this exoplanet seems to defy what you have come across in your chemistry textbooks, looks bewilderingly inscrutable when observed and confusticatingly paradoxical, a pulchritudinous world commingling and coalescing two polarities in synchronous accord. This planet, named Gliese 436b, is a ginormous ball of ice on fire - a planet no one would be convinced about when heard of for the first time and would probably laugh it off as some fictional, chimerical realm from Star Wars or Thor or a jejune joke until they are nonplussed and taken aback by reality! The icy surface of the planet is constantly burning at an eldritch 439°C!! So how can this ever be possible that solid ice is perfectly existing unmelted with fire at such a temperature way above its melting point? Astronomers have an explanation for this thankfully. Well, the planet's gravitational attraction is so extremely leviathan that it pulls the melted ice water towards its core, compressing it into a solid form and precluding it from ever evaporating no matter how much it burns!

4). Next time you complain about the weather here on earth, just stop for a moment and be thankful to God that you don't live on the planet HD 189773b, where it unremittingly rains glass sideways! The atmosphere of this exoplanet is profusely full of silicon-infused or silicon-based compounds and substances, which give it its elegantly majestic, worth-panegyrising blue colour. Because of the planet's high surface temperature, these silicon-based particles condense to form solid glass which descends askew as precipitation relentlessly, manoeuvred and dynamicized by tremendously volant winds with staggering speeds of around 4000mph! Seriously! Take a moment and imagine being stranded on this planet, anticipating the worst - an excruciating death as the unforgiving and baleful, aculeate and sword-like glass precipitation perforates every flesh of your zephyr-like body, ripping and tearing it apart into shreds and smithereens! It maybe way too blood-curdling or spine-chilling to imagine but the way I described it is quite close to how it's gonna end! Horror and agony shall be finality.

5). If you think HD 189773b was hellish and unsparing, you haven't met this exoplanet named WASP-12b. This poor and unfortunate planet is being gradually ingurgitated and devoured by its parent star. It's caught up in an orbit so close to the star's punishing vortex that it has been heated up to extremely high temperatures and its mass is being engulfed up by the fireball at a very swift rate, feeding the star up into a gargantuan, blazing fusion reactor venturing in space. WASP-12b is roughly the size of Jupiter. However, it appears to be larger because the crushing temperatures of its parent star have caused it to balloon up and expand on the verge of an apocalyptic implosion! This defenceless planet, awaiting its inevitable doom on sealed fate and the epilogue of its tragic biography, loses an incredible 6 billion metric tonnes of mass every second! In fact, it's being torn apart so rapidly that it is no longer a spherical shape but an egg-like oblong shape resembling the elliptical orbits of the planets of our solar system when viewed from above.

6). This one is a very fascinating exoplanet named Gliese 581c. This planet is very special because it's being voted by the scientific community as one of the top three exoplanets likely to support alien life! And what, in the universe, titillates astronomers more than this? Although Gliese is surmised to harbour extraterrestrial life, there are many features and facts about this planet that makes it very different from our blue home. This planet orbits a red dwarf star 🔴 while the Earth orbits a main sequence star ☀️. On Gliese, if you gazed up at the horizon waiting for the star-rise, you'd get a magnificently breathtaking and literally "out-of-the-world" stupefying sight of a lustrous and flaming red glow in the sky as the red dwarf star comes into your field of view gradually and enthrals you in its alluring emergence. The sky would continue to look a deep crimson red colour throughout the day until star-set. The planet is also tidally locked i.e. it doesn't rotate on its axis, just like the moon's relationship with our Earth. One side of the planet is always facing away from its star and the other always facing towards it. The side that always faces the red dwarf is so blisteringly hot that if you were to stand there, it would melt you alive into soup and vaporize you completely! However, the opposite side of the planet, facing away from the star, is so astonishingly cold that you'd instantly freeze to death! Limiting yourself to assume that some alien life forms will be similar to those here on Earth, you must be wondering how could this violently harsh planet support life. Well, there's a narrow strip of land halfway between the hot side and the cooler side that has just the optimum temperature to support alien life. That central area has been assumed to be the exoplanet's habitable zone. Care has to be taken to make sure the living organisms do not make their way to either of the two extremes to circumvent the torment of getting roasted or frozen to cessation! In 2008, a message was sent by scientists on Earth directly at Gliese 581c and it is expected to reach the planet in 2029.

7). This planet is located in the Scorpio's constellation and known as WASP-17b. One feature that makes this planet so striking and stellar is its sheer size. It is 1.9 times the size of Jupiter, the king of the planets in our solar system. This planet is so prodigious that it is not supposed yo exist theoretically. It kind of seems to break the "laws" of how large a planet can be. For its size, it also has an extremely low density. Because of this, it fits into a very unique class of planets called "puffy planets"! These planets are very large and their densities ate very low in juxtaposition. But it's not the only thing about WASP-17b that makes it so idiosyncratic. It also has a retrograde orbit i.e. it rotates at an opposite direction to its host star.

8 ). You may remember that Luke Skywalker's home planet of Tatooine in Star Wars had two suns. But, as is often the case, reality can be much more awe-inspiring and stupendous than science fiction or imaginative movies. A 149 light years away from us is a planet which has not one, not two, but three stars. This three-star planet, which goes by its catalogue name of HD 188753Ab, ensconces itself in a triple-star system HD 188753. If you had the capability of visiting this planet and be jubilant in surviving and coping with its conditions, you'd experience triple shadows and a sky that gives the spellbinding and captivating view of three different stars of different colours. That'd be one hell of an enrapturing varicoloured show on the horizon gladdening your photoreceptors! You'd also experience constant eclipses as its three parent stars crossed each other's paths. And of course, you'd see very unusual but one of the most intriguing sunrises and sunsets in the universe.

9). Now imagine yourself in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and the horizon seems to be the indistinguishable merging of the blue sky and the ocean. Everywhere you look, there's only water. No sign of land and you're just in between the ineludible big blue seemingly infinite in its hold. That's what it'll exactly be like if you visited GJ 1214b, about 47 light years away from our solar system. It is an exoplanet made entirely of water, the primary liquid astronomers look for in a planet before assuming it to harbour life! They have nicknamed this planet "the waterworld". The entire surface of this distant realm is one vast, continuous ocean and it remains exactly the same for miles underneath the surface until you reach the planet's core which is encrusted with a thick layer of solid ice. But this ice isn't any ordinary ice that you'd expect to find in your refrigerator! This is because this ice isn't frozen due to cold temperatures. The water surrounding the core is under such an immense amount of pressure from the water above on the surface that the water incarcerating the core is totally compressed to solid ice! This outlandish, rare and unique form of ice is known to scientists as "ICE VII".

10). Last but not the least, 470 l.ys away from us is a planet discovered by the Kepler Space Observatory. It is known as Kepler 438b. This is another peculiar planet that has not got its eccentricity from any distinct features but because it is the most Earth-like planet we've ever found! Having the highest ESI (Earth Similarity Index), this planet has an outstanding ESI value of 0.88, making is ultra rare and very special for that case! Discovered in January 2015, this planet has all the right prerequisites for having the possibility of harbouring alien life, according to the scientists. Most importantly, it is a rocky world just like Earth and its propinquity to its host star places it in the Goldilocks Zone (habitable zone). Water is essential to life. Where there is this precious liquid, there is probably life. But in order to have complex life (assuming that we consider other alien life forms to be somewhat similar to those on Earth), there is a necessity of liquid water which, most of the time, can only be present in the Goldilocks zone. So, this planet is highly likely to have liquid water and therefore life, which makes it one of the weirdest and most fascinating exoplanets we've ever discovered!

These were only ten of the strangest exoplanets we've discovered till date. God knows what's waiting for us in the future when we come across a few, among the zillions, which will be far stranger and mind-boggling for us to expect! This is space. It will never fail to leave you nonplussed and humbled, make you ponder on how many other undiscovered secrets are hiding in its grandeur, waiting for us to meet!

⚂PHOTO - Artist's depiction of two neighbouring exoplanets.

∅Written by: Shamsud Doha. /thebuffbengali [Plosker]