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Safari Journey: Chapter 1 - Slow Drive

Hey guys, new Jared fic hopefully it stays around longer than the last couple

Tagging: @fyeahproudglambert (lemme know if you want to be included)

I walked through the door over to the car. It was the start of another normal day. Just like any other. I filled the car up with petrol and looked over it to make sure there were no creepy crawlies or slithery serpents hiding where the guests could get hurt. Once everything was in the clear I grabbed the keys out of my pocket and jumped in the vehicle. Before I started I paused and listened. There last sounds of the night birds where being sung. The hyenas were whooping in the distance. Nothing else major though, I could only hope that there would be once I got out into the field.

I drove over to the main lodge where I met my tracker, Herbie. He was full of smiles and a nice warm hug.

“Any news?” I asked my colleague.

“There were some interesting noises to the west, leopard, possibly male,” he said

.“Oh, that is some exciting prospects.” I smiled.

“Now, now, Sara…. You sound like your brother,”

“A Dyson can’t help being a Dyson,” I grinned. He shook his head jumped up on the front of the vehicle for us to wait for the guests to finish breakfast before our three-hour sunrise safari.

Herbie wasn’t joking when he said I sounded like my brother. We were alike more than most we grew up in Durban, South Africa taking risks most people called us crazy for. Living out in the bush taking people on a safari twice a day and working in an animal orphanage were probably some of the more tame jobs I’d had.

“Sara,” I heard when I looked over Brent was walking down the steps toward our car. He waved me over when he saw I was paying attention.

“What’d you dob me in for?” I teased as I walked past Herbie who was perched on the tracker seat on the front of the car.

“You’re about to find out,” he taunted. Back.

“What’s up?” I asked my boss as I got to him.

“I need your help with something?”

“These conversations never end well for me,” I laughed.

“There’s a group of people that I want you to show around today,” he told.  I rose my eyebrows.

“That is my job,”

“High profile,”

“Okay,” I said looking at him properly.

“I want you to give them the full behind the scene experience,”

“Behind the scenes?”

“The orphanage and everything.”

“I’m on duty in the orphanage today,” I reminded him.

“Great, you can take the main client with you,”

“Brent,” I grumbled.

“They’re paying high prices to get this,”

“So, give them to someone else?”

“They requested you,”

“Me?”

“From the social media,”

“Ugh, I knew it was a bad idea to leave me in charge of that.” I sighed.

“No, it’s brought us a lot of recognition.”

“Do I get a cut?”

“What?”

“I have a ball and chain for the day, do I get a cut of your profit?”

“Depends on your reviews”

“Okay,” I sighed.

“great” he smiled. “I’ll tell them you’re ready to go,” he said turning and walking back inside. I turned toward the car. “Oh, and Sara,” he called I looked back over “They’re here for at least four days,” my body dropped. I rolled my eyes as I walked back over to Herbie who was laughing.

“You’re in this too”

“Yeah, but you have to make sure they have a good time,” he said. His Afrikaan accent strong. “I have to make sure they see animals.”

“Yeah, right,” I laughed.

“Here’s your project.” He said. I stood back and looked over to see five people walking down the steps of the lodge. “Don’t forget to smile,” I shot Herbie a sarcastic smile as I walked over.

I walked over and shook the man in front’s hand. I had to bite my lip at the way they were dressed, something out of a wild west movie, I swear. Not laughing right now was a struggle.

“Hi, I’m Sara,” I smiled. “I will be your safari guide today,”

“Hey, I’m Jared, this is Emma,” he said pointing to a tall girl, “Shayla” he pointed at a shorter blonder girl “Peter, and Jason,” he said motioning to two guys. I shook each of their hands as they were introduced to me.

“Alright, let’s go to the car,” I said keeping my tone positive like I always did, I was a professional, even if 99% of the clients annoyed the hell out of me. I walked toward the vehicle. “This is the amazing Herbie, he will be helping us find the animals this morning,” I smiled. They all said hey. “Alright, jump in and I’ll briefly go over the rules.”

“Rules?” Jared laughed.

“Yes, rules,” I smiled “Rules that might save you from getting eaten by Lions,” I told.

“And if we don’t follow them?” one of the other guys laughed.

“I may feed you to lions,” the whole car laughed. I stood up in my usual spot that I did to talk to the car before drive. “Are we all happy with our seats?” I asked. There was a murmur of yeses. “Okay, welcome to Xongile Heights Safari Lodge as introduced I am your guide, you can call me Sara, and on the front of the car is the amazing Herbie, he will help me find amazing African Animals for your education and entertainment,” I said confidently. “It is vitally important that you follow either my or Herbies instructions at all times, especially when in sightings. Failure to do so could result in you returning to the lodge unable to get in my game driver anymore, the loss of your life or even worse the loss of an animal’s life.” I took a breath. “Please keep your limbs and belongings in the car at all times, if you happen to drop something out, do not just jump out and get it, inform me and I will instruct you to get it or get it myself,” I told. “If we are in a big five sighting keep your voices down if I put my hand up like this” I held my hand up. “Stop what you are doing and keep still,” I thought for a moment. “I think that covers the basics, I know that’s a long speech, but I have to do it or I’ll get in trouble, any questions?”

“Can you remind us what big five animals are?” Peter asked.

“Elephants, Rhino, Lions, Leopard and Buffalos,” I said confidently.

“What are the most dangerous?” Jared asked.

“Elephant, Buffalos, Rhino and Hippo’s on land,” I told everyone was silent. “anything else?”

“So, I’m researching for a movie role, so if you can, I’d like a really in-depth experience,”

“Okay,” I said, “I’ll do my best,” I agreed. “If that’s it?” everybody looked around “Alright, let’s make some memories,” I said sitting down in my seat starting the car up. It wasn’t long until we were out of the lodge and on our way west like Herbie had instructed me. It took a little while before anything showed up, but I slowed down as a male Kudu ran across the road.

“Oh, what is this guy?” Jared asked. I’d gotten used to his voice, it was the younger of the males and probably the smoother.

“This is a greater Kudu bull,” I told. “They are browsers, which means they eat mostly leaves and shoots,” I said. The animal looked up at the car. “Kudu is a species that we always trust when they alarm call if they alarm call they have seen something they are genuinely scared of”

“What prays on them?” one of the girls asked.

“Lions mostly, it’s not rare for a leopard to kill a bull but it will usually get stolen, however, the females are a lot smaller and are often preyed on by both Leopards and Lions and at times wild dogs,” I said. “Oh, and if a Hyena clan is big enough” I added I looked to the other side of the to our right we have a female Kudu,” I told pointing at her. “you can see she’s a lot smaller than the male,”

“She doesn’t have antlers,” the other girl said.

“Horns,” I corrected. “your deer back in America have antlers, our antelope have horns,”

“What’s the difference?” Jared asked.

“Antlers are seasonal, horns are permanent,” I told. “So, if this male was to break his horn, it would not grow back”

“Oh,” someone sighed.

“if you look at the female’s feet as she crosses the road, you will see that these animals direct register,” I said moving my head out of the way, so they could all see. “They do this to make less noise, so predators don’t hear them as clearly.”

“Wow,”

“Alright, let’s leave these guys to live in peace,” I said starting the car and moving on. It wasn’t too much later I spotted the next mammal. I pointed over in the bushes to a huge giraffe.

“Giraffe,” one of the girls gasped.

“I’ll walk to that junction and check for ingwe tracks,” Herbie said, I nodded as he jumped off returning to my standing position.

“this is a giraffe bull, he’s pro-“

“How do you know it’s a bull?” Jared asked.

“See his Ossicones,” I asked.

“His what?”

“The horn looking things on his head,”

“Yeah,” Jared said squinting. With a sigh, I reached down and got my binoculars handing them to him. “Oh yeah!”

“See how they’re kind of balding?” he looked at me and nodded hand my binoculars around to his friends. “Female’s ones are fuzzy,” I explained. “Males use theirs to fight with other males, so they tend to get scar tissue as well as lumps on their faces,” I told. “I can tell this bull is probably about six, on the younger side,” I told. “as he has not got too much scar tissue around his face,”

“Wow,” Jared nodded looking back at the giraffe. “They’re browsers too?”

“Yup, hopefully when it gets a bit warmer we can see one drinking,” I smiled. “It’s a sight to see” I laughed turning back around into my seat driving up to Herbie. “any luck?”

“it looks like they’ve gone towards the pan,” he said

“They’ve?”

“tracks for a male, cub and female,”

“Oh, right,” I nodded as he got on the car. “We’ll head toward the pan and see what’s there,” I said driving for a while before making a sharp left-hand turn. Before too long we were sitting at the pan Herbie gave me a hand signal that told me that there was something on its way to the pan. I liked to work with an element of surprise, so my guests found the experiences more enjoyable. I went back to my standing position. “So, this is a manmade pan,”

“How?” Jared asked.

“I was getting to that,” I laughed. “it started out as a mud wallow for warthogs, buffalo, Ellies then in the dryer season it would dry out and the former property owners would have no animals on their property to show, so they cemented the sides and put in a bore pipe, it fills up a couple of times a day, so it is always a permanent water sauce for all of the animals” I said looking over the back of the vehicle. “Including this leopard,” I said sitting in my seat and turning the car around there were ooos and aahs instantly. I had a good looked at the leopard in order to identify it correctly. “this is one of the two dominant males we get in this area, his name is Mvula, you’re fine to take photos and talk in this sighting, he’s pretty good with cars.” I said

“What can you tell us about leopards?” Jared asked

“A lot,” I laughed.

“Miss Sara is a wealth of leopard knowledge,” Herbie said from the front of the vehicle.

“Oh, Herbie,” I laughed.

“Well?” Jared asked

“What do you want to know?” I questioned.

“Hmm, how do I know this is a leopard and not a cheetah?”

“Common question,” I smiled bending down and getting a book out of my kit that I brought with me every day going to a page I had marked for this exact reason. “Okay,” I said looking to see where Mvula was before climbing over my seat, so they could all see the book properly. “I bring your attention to the cat in this book,” I said holding it up on my stomach. “If you noticed the black stripes running down under her eye?” I said looking up. “That is a Cheetah’s tear mark,” I told. “if you look over at our leopard,” I said motioning to him, he was looking around as he sat by the pan. “You can see that he does not have this,” I told there were murmurs that showed me that they found it interesting. “not to mention the Cheetah is a slimmer cat in order to help it run faster Leopards are thicker set and built for climbing.”

“Wow,” Jared nodded.

“Also, the spots on a cheetah is called a spot, the pattern on a leopard is called rosettes.”

“Really?” Jared asked.

“Yes, same with a jaguar,”

“That’s interesting,” he nodded.

“I think so,” I smiled

We stayed with the leopard for a good while before moving on. I showed them the typical things like hippo and buffalo and the major dams before it was time to head back for breakfast.

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Bright Lights: Chapter 57 - Oh Deer!

What? you thought you'd have to wait 4 months?

Tagging:  @fyeahproudglambert @msroxyblog@meghan12151977who i think is @llfd1977 now @maulapaulawaula @teggles07 (if anyone else desires a tagging, lemme know) 

I opened my eyes the house was dark; the moon was bright though it let up from the door and the windows. Shannon’s soft snores filled the room. I looked over at him. His arm was above my head the other had fallen between both of our bodies.

Weren’t we supposed to have had sex? I wondered, my heart quickening a little, I didn’t remember sex… I was still fully clothed.

Either it was non-memorable boring dry sex or

Nah, we didn’t have sex…. Shannon wasn’t boring.

I wanted to have sex, I couldn’t understand why we didn’t. I looked over at him again. He was sound asleep. I moved my hand over and poked his cheek. He barely even moved. I ran my finger down his nose. He half stirred and rolled on his back. Not cool. I sat up and looked over him. nope, that’s not how this was going. I dived under the blanket and was careful as I moved over kissing his stomach downward pulling the top of his boxers. His member was almost ready, it wouldn’t take long before it was. I played with him for a couple of moments before taking him in my mouth, I heard Shannon’s breathing catch. I paused for a moment but kept going.

“What are you doing?” he groaned.

“breakfast,” I giggled before going back to what I was doing getting all sorts of groans out of him. his hand eventually went to the back of my head allowing him to control my speed a little. I loved it when he did that. I took him out of my mouth, kissing down the length of him before taking his balls into my mouth.

“Phoebe,” he breathed. I grinned into his crotch. “Don’t grin, you!!” I couldn’t help but laugh before taking his balls back in again. “Phoebe” he warned. I didn’t listen. “Fine,” he grumbled sitting up I sat up with him as our eyes met I knew I was pretty much screwed. Literally and figuratively. I dived on the bed and try to get away, but he grabs my jeans and pulls them off grabbing my knees forcing me to face plant the bed. I felt his body on top of me, and his hand move my panties to the side before he slid inside of me, holding my hips in place as he took me relentlessly until we both finished and collapsed in a heap at the foot of the bed.  

“Fuck,” I laughed. “Why didn’t we do that sooner?”

“Because half of us fell asleep!”

“And the other half of us didn’t think to wake them up?” I asked turning my head to face him.

“Nah, you were exhausted,” he said, I gave a soft smile. “You were so cute though!”

“I was?” I laughed

“Mhmm” he smiled a moment later he’d dragged me up to the top of the bed and had us both snuggled under the blanket “Here,” he said opening his phone and showing me a picture of me laying on the bed with my thumbs in the top of my pants looking like I was about to pull them down but I was sound asleep. I looked back at Shannon. “I wasn’t waking you”

“I probably needed the sleep,”

“One hundred percent,” he said, I pushed my lips into his. “I love you, Kitten,”

“I love you too, bear” I smiled. He kissed me again running his hands up under my shirt

“What do you say we do this properly?” he asked running his hand around soothing my back sending shivers all over my body. I searched his eyes wondering for a moment if he was serious. He was. I nodded kissing him as I rolled over on my back.

*

Rejuvenated and showered, I dropped on the couch in the studio, Jared was glaring at his computer.

“Are you okay?”

“Hmm.. yeah,” he sighed as he sat back rubbing his eyes.

“You don’t seem it,” I said looking up at him.

“Just political bullshit!” he snapped. “This is the second time they’ve sent Hurricane back to me,” he told. “It’s fucking bullshit,” he snapped.

“Why did they send it back?”

“How long you got?” he asked pushing his computer toward me.

I moved around so I could read. The list of apparent things wrong with it but they were ridiculous. How was this even fair?

‘that’s just stupid,” I snapped. “How does that even…” shook my head. “you see bitches shaking their booty in front of an overpriced car and you can’t tell a story like that?” I grumbled. “how does that even… I don’t even know”

“Welcome to the music industry buttercup,”

“How does that even make sense?”

“I don’t know,” he sighed.

“What do you have to do?”

“Delete the shit they are bitching about,”

“Right,”

“Which takes away from half the fucking point if it!!” he grumbled slamming his laptop shut.

“Why don’t you take a break?” I asked.

“Yeah,” he agreed, “We’ll get started on your stuff,”

“My stuff can take a minute, Jared,” I snapped. “Let’s go for a walk,”

“What?”

“A walk, you know one foot in fro-“

“Phoebe we don’t have ti-“

“shut up, buttercup, go get your shoes on, I’m going to do the same,” I announced bouncing out of the room across the house to my house. I noticed Shannon laying on his back looking up at the roof. I bounced over the bed straddling him.

“Hey,”

“Morning,” he smiled.

“Morning baby,” I grinned.

“You look chipper?”

“Eh,” I shrugged. “Jared’s depressed”

“The video?”

“Yeah,” I sighed. “I’m forcing him to go for a walk”

“What no round two?” he asked soothing my back under the black tank I was wearing.

“No” I laughed. “I showered”

“You can shower again?”

“Right,” I smiled. “Because California isn’t on enough of a water shortage?”

“Hmm, we’ll live,” he said pulling my body down against his kissing me reminding me of what I was saying no too. “You sure?” he asked pulling back after sending shivers down my spine.

“Yes, my friend needs me, my boyfriends already had me,” he said he let out a deep sigh.

“That’s why I love you,” he said tackling me on to the bed kissing me passionately. “You’re amazing inside and out, Phoebe Flamez,” he said letting me up.

“Do you want to come for a walk?”

“Nah,” he said as I got some socks and my shoes. “I should get up and do something,” he told. As I dropped on the end of the bed. “Have you eaten?”

“I had some fruit,”

“Fruits not food,”

“Yeah, I felt a little sick,” I shrugged.

“are you okay?”

“Yeah, I’m fine now,” I smiled.

“Want me to order something,”

“If you want.” I smiled.

“I might start with Riley?” he said nervously I looked away to my feet “Phoebs?”

“Yeah, that’s a good idea?” I said looking up to him with a smile.

“You don’t think that,” he grumbled.

“baby of course I do,” I said tying my second shoe bouncing off my bed to the area I was calling my dressing room by the bathroom getting a hair band walking back

“Phoebe,” he grumbled sitting forward on the bed. I tipped my head upside down in order to get the highest ponytail possible.

“What?” I said breathlessly from all the bouncing.

“if you’re not okay with it, I can wa-“

“You good to go buttercup?” Jared called stepping in the door

“Yeah, I’m good,” I smiled walking around to my boyfriend grabbing his face. “I think you’re amazing too and if you’re not walking with me, that’s the best thing for you to be doing,” I said before kissing him. “I love you,”

“I love you too,” he said with a smile, it didn’t meet his eyes I kissed him again before walking to the door.

“Oh, start with Hazel eyes?” I asked. “Then I can build my set list around her according to her level?”

“sure,” he smiled.

“Back soon baby,”

*

“He looked stressed?” Jared said when we got away from the house a little.

“I’m sure he’s fine,” I said with a smiled.

“Are you fighting?”

“No,” I said shaking my head looking at him. “I don’t think so?” I didn’t think we were.

“Hmm,”

“We had amazing sex thi”

“I don’t need to know,”

“I’m just saying as far as I’m aware, We’re good,”

“That’s all you had to say,” he laughed.

“Right,” I smiled stepping over a branch taking a turn.

“Where are we going?” he asked.

“Just up here, Shannon took me for here a bit ago,” I told.

“Okay,” he laughed.

We walked silently for a couple of minutes.

“Do you think We’ll see lions in SA?”

“maybe,” he said. “You’ve asked that like eight times,” he laughed.

“I want to see wild lions,” I told. “It would be so cool,”

“Have you been to a Zoo?”

“Yeah,” I smiled. “they always look drugged,”

“Hmm,”

“Zoos are dumb,”

“some are okay,”

“Yeah, but the enclosures suck,” I told.

“Wow, passion.”

“what?”

“I never picked you for a ‘zoo’s suck’ person,” he said, I gave him a funny look. “I didn’t,”

“ahh, do you even pay attention?” I laughed. “My boyfriend’s nickname is bear,”

“I don’t pay attention to your nonsense,” he laughed. I rolled my eyes. “Hey, look a deer,” he said he grabbed my arm so I would stop walking and pointed. I looked in the direction of his finger and noticed a big grey deer.

“Oh my god!” I gasped. “It’s so big” I cheered. “And amazing” a moment later it took off. I had my hands over my mouth apparently, Jared looked at me.

“Are you okay,”

“It was a deer,” I cheered looking from where the deer was to where Jared was. He has his eyebrows raised like I was crazy. “That’s crazy,” I laughed composing myself a little.

“You never get out, much do you?”

“Is that a dig?”

“No,” he smiled “You’re just a little city,”

“When you’re in LA you forget everything La has to offer,” I told.

“Unless you take time out to do it,”

“Yeah, I need to do that a little more,”

“Yeah,” he agreed. “Luckily your boyfriend is into that type of stuff,”

“Lucky,” I smiled. “and my best friend,” I said looking up at him. he looked back down at me and smiled.

“You know what happens at midnight right?”

“Yeah,” I nodded. “I’m just trying to stay chill,” I told almost falling down a hole, Jared grabbed my arm before I face planted the mud

“Ready to admit you’re lost yet?” he asked. I looked up at him his face was kind, but he had a slight smirk.

“No,” I said I took a couple of steps realizing my ankle was now killing me.

I sat on a fallen tree

“I wouldn’t sit there,” Jared warned.

“I’m fine,” I said as I pulled my foot up to my knee. It had a cut on it but otherwise looked fine, I brushed the dirt off my pants and went to look around me.

“Oh my god, Phoebe” Jared yelled as I saw a lizard run along the tree toward me. I jump toward him in two seconds when I looked back the Lizard was sitting on the tree hissing at us.

“Fuck!!” I laughed. I looked at Jared who was half impressed, half ready for me to admit I was wrong. I rolled my eyes and crossed my arms. “He took me for a really cute amazing walk and it was night, I thought it would be so much easier in the day,” I grumbled.

“Right?” Jared laughed.

“It was night,” I whined.

“Do you need help?”

“Fiinneee,” I grumbled. “I’m lost,”

“What did the spot look like?”

“I don’t know,” I whined. “there was a cliff and it overlooked LA, it was so pretty and peaceful.”

“Right,” Jared said.

“can you help me or not?” I grumbled.

“Sure,” he laughed. “There’s a pretty decent ridge between us and the clearing you’re talking about,” he admitted. “But I know of a pretty good view about 500 metres away,”

“Okay,” I smiled. “lead the way,”

He started walking ahead of me, I followed his exact footsteps. My ankle was killing me, knowing my luck I would fall down and actually break it next time. Eventually, we started walking up a hill.

“Ugh, I never agreed to a hill, Jared.”

“Oh, cry about it,” he laughed five minutes later he stopped and looked out ahead of him. I stood by his side and enjoyed the crazy amazing view. Almost as good as the one Shannon showed me. In fact, if Shannon was here right now it might have even been better. But that night was special, that night I wanted to remember forever. I took a deep breath and remembered what Shannon told me about being in the moment feeling the breeze on my arm. Listening to the sounds of the birds and little critters moving in the trees. We weren’t on a road or a path, it was just Jared and me in the unbroken wilderness in the middle of LA. It was amazing. “Sometimes when you’re out here you don’t want to talk at a fear of breaking the serenity.”

“Not every moment needs words,” I said softly.

“I’d rather talk, the voices in my head are loud as fuck,” he grumbled.

“Hmm,” I sighed sadly for him that he was so of centred. “When Shannon brought me up here, he made me just think about that one moment,” I told. “At first, I just noticed his arms around me, how much I cared about him,” I smiled at that. “Then he made me think about the cool breeze on my arm and the way the lights glowed differently, you know just things in that moment,”

“Yeah,” Jared said. I looked up at him.

“Right now, I can feel the nice breeze against the sweat on my body,” I said taking it in for a moment. “ there are about eight different birds chirping around us, maybe a squirrel,”

“Hmm,” Jared nodded, I looked up at him. “We make each other do that a lot,”

“Yeah?”

“Yeah,” he sighed looking back out over the horizon taking it all in. “there’s for different types of green across the ridge,” he told. “It’s kind of amazing how green everything still is even though it’s fall,”

“hmm true,” I agreed suddenly getting a strange feeling in the bottom of my stomach. I just wanted to be back with Shannon. I let Jared do the thing for a while. He ended up with his hand leaning n my shoulder. “Feeling better?”

“Yeah,” he said taking a deep breath. “I do,” I looked up at him. “Thanks, Phoebs.”

“No worries.”

“Let’s get back,” he said.

“Yeah,” I agreed. “We have heaps of work to do,”

“there’s path back just up here,” he said pointing away from me. we both walked through the bush, it was pretty rough back to the path, we had to step over a lot more broken trees and rocks. My ankle was horrible, but I was convinced it was just a sprain. “Phoebs,” Jared whispered. I looked up at him. “Look under the bush just there,” I walked up next to him and looked under a fern.

“Oh shit,” I laughed as I saw a little brown rock shaped thing with white spots. “It’s…Its… a b…b…Bambi!!” I said in an excited whisper.

“A fawn,” Jared laughed.

“A Bambi fawn” I cheered. “Jared!!!” I said hitting his arm.

“Shhh,” he laughed.

“can I pet it?” I asked looking up at him.

“I don’t know, it’s probably petrified.

“I know but…” I thought for a moment. “I’ll make myself small,”

“Hmm,” he sighed. “Be slow and gentle.”

I dropped to my knees and sat next to it. It didn’t move its body, but it moved its eyes to look up at me.

“Hey little one,” I said soothingly. “I’m not going to hurt you” I waited a couple of minutes before I slowly extended my hand toward it. It watched my hand as it lowered toward its head. As I touched it the poor little thing flinched. I petted it a couple of times making a soothing sound as I did it. Each time I stroked the little fur it relaxed a little after a couple of minutes I stopped, and it looked up at me. I gave it a huge smile. “Hey little one,” I smiled petting him again moving my hand to the side of its face. It pushed into my hand, I couldn’t help but let out a slight giggle. This was amazing. For a moment I wished Shannon was here but at the same time, I didn’t care because this was priceless.

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For everyone who hesitates to comment on a fic

Today I got a reply to a comment saying that the author had been so discouraged by the lack of response on the last two chapters that they had decided not to finish it, but that they had changed their mind and were now thinking of finishing. Just because I took 30 seconds to comment on each chapter.

It doesn’t matter if the fic is years old

It doesn’t matter if you don’t know what to say (“I loved this” is always music to an author’s ears, no matter how many times we hear it)

The author will not think you’re a creeper if you’re commenting on every single one of their fics

The author WILL cuddle your comments close to their hearts like the precious gems that they are, even if they’re only one word.

Comments and feedback matter. I’ve written in fandoms and for pairings that have very active, vocal fans who comment a lot, and I’ve written for ships that are not terribly popular and don’t get much reaction. The difference in my attitude is incredible.

Your feedback matters to authors. Click the kudos button, but please, take the time to leave a comment. Even if it’s just one word. If you like the writing and want to see more, let the author know

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Are y’all still wanting this? considering approaching it again :)

Are you continuing Through Blood And Pain ?

I’m not ‘not’ writing it, I’ve been focusing on Bright Lights, if enough people want me to work on Through Blood and Pain, i will

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Bright Lights: Chapter 56 - Floating

hey guys, It’s been a while

Tagging:  @fyeahproudglambert @msroxyblog@meghan12151977 who i think is @llfd1977 now @maulapaulawaula @teggles07 (if anyone else desires a tagging, lemme know)

I sat at the servery of Jared’s kitchen watching as Jared and Shannon played with Penelope. They were so good with her it warmed my heart.

“Phoebs,” I heart softly, I looked up at my sister. “This is a lot,”

“What do you mean,”

“Like, you just changed my life, and my daughter’s life, and what if I can’t deliver,”

“Riley,” I laughed.

“how is this funny?” She snapped.

“You’re right,” I said putting on a serious face. “you were saying?”

“I’ve not played drums in years, and I wasn’t even that great, how am I supposed to do this justice?”

I couldn’t help it, I started laughing. “I’m glad you’re taking your career seriously,”

“I am,” I said letting the laughter subside.

“Phoebe!!” She snapped. I felt Jared and Shannon look over at us.

“Look,” I said actually getting a grip of myself. “I’m sorry, I’m super tired but I just had a glimpse of how I sound to the Leto’s” I smiled

“Right,” she said crossing her arms just as Shannon walked over. There was also a knock on the door, which I assumed was Connie. Jared asked her to get a couple of supplies for the baby. “as for the other stuff, we’ll figure it out tomorrow, okay?” I said making sure I was being as sincere as possible, her anxieties were kind of valid right now. “You’ll pick everything up like a pro,”

“Drums?” Shannon asked as he put his arm around my back. I looked up at him and nodded. “Phoebs is right, we’ve got time,”

“A week,” she grumbled.

“He’s a pro,” I smiled.

“Oh, and who is this little one,” I heard we all looked over at Jared holding Nelly up at the door. Connie was cooing over the baby in her son’s arms.

“Meet Nelly,”

“Hey there, little Nelly,” Connie smiled playing with her. I followed Shannon’s lead by walking over to the trio.

“Hey Mom,” Shannon said giving her a warm hug.

“Hey son, Phoebe,” she said hugging me tightly. “Congratulations, lovely”

“Thank you,” I grinned as she pulled back. “I see you’ve met my niece,” I smiled.

“She could pass as your daughter,”

“I think one of your sons said that” I grinned. “this is my sister, Riley,” I said motioning to Riley.

“Hey, Riley,” Connie said hugging her too. “Congratulations on your own little victory,”

“Thanks,” Riley smiled kindly. “Such a huge relief. “

“I bet,” Connie smiled. “I have supplies, they’re in the car, Jared why don’t you hand the baby over and you and your brother get them?” she ordered.

“Sure,” Jared said without hesitation he turned and handed Nelly to me.

“Which room were they taking?” Connie asked of her son.

“The one furthest from the studio,”

“Alright,” Connie called. “Ladies, let’s go set this room up for a child,” the three of us followed Connie down to the bedroom. It was a nice room, perfect for Riley and Penelope for the next little while. Jared had a TV and drawers and stuff so she could have her own space. “She’s at the crawling stage?”

“Correct,” Riley told. “She's starting to pull herself up tiny bit,” she added.

“Oh, they grow so fast,”

“They do,” Riley laughed.

“She has barely changed,” I said trying to be a part of the conversation.

“you met her like 2 weeks ago,” Riley pointed out.

“Not the point,” I laughed.

There was a noise down the hallway then Jared appeared in the doorway followed by Shannon.

“I think we need to take mom on a journey of what ‘one night’ means,” Jared teased putting stuff on the bed. Shannon did the same.

“Explain,” my Leto said as he unloaded. “there’s still another load each for us,”

“Babies are a lot,” Connie said walking to the bed. I looked down at the child.

“A couple of diapers and a change of clothes was all she needed? No?” I asked looking up to Shannon.

“That’s what I thought,” Shannon said. I felt we understood each other.

“Yeah, you obviously have never spent much time around kids,” Riley grumbled. I kinda wanted to punch her in the face.

“Hmm, it’s a lot more than people realize.”

“Right,” I said walking over to Shannon who was looking through a bag. “Well, you know you could teach us instead of telling us how wrong we are,” I said reaching into the bag pulling out a funny looking brush. “What does this do?”

“It looks like a toilet cleaner,” Shannon laughed as Nelly grabbed hold of it.

“Close,” Connie said walking over taking the bag off her son. “It’s a bottle cleaner.” She smiled kindly taking a bottle out of the bag. “I think Phoebe should take the sleepy baby and make a bottle, while Riley and I set this stuff up, and the boys finish their task too,” Connie said handing me a bottle then a big container of whatever.

“I’ve ne-“

“put water in it to the 600, then put four scoops in and shake it good, then nuke it for a bit, you want it lukewarm.” She told me.

“Right,” I said.

“Come on Rockstar, it’s just a bottle,” she teased. I shook my head and walked off.

“Hey,” I heard as I neared the end of the hall. I turned to see Shannon right behind me. “You have a really cute butt,”

“Thanks,” I grinned. “you have a cute smile,”

“Thanks,” he grinned, I stopped before the end of the hall and let him catch up and kiss me. “You fairing okay?”

“Yeah,” I smiled. “I kind of feel like I’m floating.”

“Yeah,” he said pulling me in doing the best he could at hugging me even with all the stuff in my arm. “Mom got some dinner, we’ll all stop and eat that soon,” he said I smiled at him.

“I should make this bottle,”

“Okay,” he grinned. “I love you,”

“I love you too,” I smiled he kissed me again

I walked in and around the kitchen doing what Riley and Connie had instructed me to do it was a lot easier than my brain was telling me it was going to be. I walked back t the room.

“Ri,” I said to her, and Connie were putting a portable cot together. “Is this okay?” I asked she held her hand out for the bottle tipping in her wrist.

“Perfect Aunty Pheebs” she smiled. I smiled back walking around the bed and climbing up sitting with the baby in a comfortable position. Letting her feed. “when she’d about half way, burp her,”

“Okay,” I nodded.

I watched everyone come in and out doing their thing, Jared and Shannon did whatever Connie ordered them to do until Jared announced he was serving dinner. Connie decided we would have it in here, so we could all help Riley get comfortable.

Shannon walked around the side of the bed when he finished the last task Connie set for him. Without saying a word hi climbed on the bed behind me and pulled Nelly and me back into him. He pushed his mouth into the exposed part of my neck. His beard tickling like crazy.  

“Goosebumps?” he whispered a moment after the appeared on my body. “hmm,” he sighed kissing further up my neck.

“Stop,” I laughed.

“Really?” he laughed kissing my back again.

“Yes,” I said leaning back into him letting him kiss me before my ear. “for now, at least, I have a child in my arms,”

“Okay,” he said kissing my cheek. He stopped kissing me but kept holding me, which I was completely okay with. I looked down at nelly, she was almost asleep but halfway through her bottle.

“do I still burp her?” I questioned.

“Yeah,” Shannon whispered helping me sit her up properly. “the wind gives them a tummy pain,”

“Oh,” I said

“Alternate between petting her back and rubbing circles,”              

“I thought Shannoebe was babyily impaired?”

“I fed a friend’s baby a few times,” he laughed “Don’t get any ideas,”

“Not this vagina anytime soon,” I laughed.

“That’s why you’re my perfect kitten,” he laughed kissing my head.

“perfect Career Kitten,” I said just as Penelope let out a massive burp. “Woah,” I laughed looking down at her.

“Now I can tell she’s related to Phoebe,” Jared said as he walked into the room.

“Because there was any doubt?” Riley laughed. “I’m her clone, but Nelly is her clooone”

“Well,” Jared laughed. “Riley’s case is getting more and more proven.” He grinned handing me my dinner.

“That’s why I like your brother better,”

“He probably agrees,”

“Yeah, but his mou-“ Shannon’s hand went over my mouth.

“Mother in the room,”

“And baby,” Riley laughed pointing at the squirming child in my arms. I looked down at her and gave her the bottle back picking at my dinner as she ate hers. The talk was mostly about the day, how well I did, how thankful Riley was. Something about rehearsal. Something about an aeroplane… I closed my eyes for a small moment.

“Hey, kitten,” I heard, man I loved Shannon, but he needed to not right now. “Phoebs,”

“Hmm,” I groaned leaning into him.

“Let’s go to bed,”

“I’m in bed,” I groaned.

“You’re in my bed, sis.”

“Riley?” I opened my eyes and looked at her…. “I really need to get used to you being around,”

“Yeah,” she laughed dorkishly.

“Your laugh is dorky,” I said sitting up. “Where’s the kid?” I asked looking around seeing her with Connie as I heard a sniffle. I furrowed my brows and looked over at Riley. “Ri?” she shook her head and looked away. “What’s wrong?” I asked. She shook her head and held her hand up taking a deep breath composing herself. When she looked up at me her face was contorted, and she was fighting against her lip quivering.

“I haven’t heard you say that in so long,”

“Oh,” I said looking down at my knees. I guess small things were kinda big things in a family that was shattered to pieces. Shannon soothed my shoulder. “Well,” I shrugged driving across the bed tackling her down.

“Phoebe!!” she half laughed half screamed.

“Better get used to it dorky little RiRi,” I said pulling her into a bear hug over the top of me. I loved hearing her giggle. It was refreshing I couldn’t help but join in

“Guys watch ou-“ Connie called as we both fell off the bed into a heap. I couldn’t help but laugh my butt off as I held the elbow that hit the bedside table. “You’re both goofballs,” Connie laughed shaking her head.

“This one is my goofball,” Shannon said offering me his hand which didn’t hesitate in taking, helping Riley to a standing position as soon as I was confident on my feet. “Let’s go to bed,” Shannon said wrapping his arms around me from behind squeezing tight. My mind suddenly clicked to bed, but not sleep. He was so devious.

“Okay,” I smiled hugging my sister, Connie and Nelly before following Shannon to bed. Jared must’ve gone to bed or whatever. He was nowhere to be seen.

“You doing okay?” Shannon asked with his arm around my waist as we crossed the house.

“I’m okay enough to have sex,”

“I told you, your head is more important than me having sex,”

“I’m okay,” I grinned opening the door to the backyard. He grabbed me and pushed me into the wall between the main house and the guest house. He kissed me hard then put his head against mine. I wrapped my arms around his neck, his hands were on my waist. It was all I could think of.

“Talk to me,” he said softly, but I kinda felt like he was begging me too talk at the same time.

“I am okay,”

“Yeah, but you’re kinda not okay too,” he said sternly. I let out a reluctant breath. “Baby,”

“I don’t know how to vocalise this feeling,”

“I feel like I am floating, and not in a good drug kind of way,” I blurted. “I have a huge feeling of ooh my fucking god my dream is coming true regarding the showcase then I have a huge feeling of what the fuck did I just do regarding Riley!” I told. “I have to teach her my entire setlist in a couple of days, and what if she doesn’t have the stamina? What if I can’t trust her? What if leaving Penelope with Mitchell is the complete and utter wrong thing for her?” I spilt. “What if I let you guys down because I let my sister back in my life,” I told

“You won’t let me down,”

“She’s toxic for me Shannon!”

“She has been,”

“You want to have sex and you’re baiting me?” I snapped dropping my arms.

“I’m not trying too bait you, Phoebe!” he told. “You’re tired and overreacting,”

“Shannon,” I warned looking him in the eyes.

“Look, you’ve not had a good support system before like you do now,” he said I went to talk but he cut me off. “Not since your dad and your brother,” could he actually read my mind? “life is a long journey, baby,”

“I know,” I said looking down.

“The only constant is change,” he said I looked into his eyes. “I know you’re over being bitter towards her, I can see it, you said it,”

“But what if it’s not for the best?”

“Only one way to know,”

“Yeah,” I said wrapping my arms around him hugging him as tight as I could.

“Just keep an open mind,”

“I don’t want to talk about it anymore,” I whined. He pulled back, so I looked him in the eyes. “Not today,”

“Babe,”

“I just want to forget, Shannon… for a minute,” I begged his face soften. “Help me forget?” he rose his eyebrows. I gave as cute as a grin as I could. He pushed his lips back into mine grabbing my legs pulling to his hips as my arms went back around his neck.

He turned and walked to the guest house dropping me on the bed feeling anywhere and everywhere he wanted too.

“I have to use the bathroom,” he said hovering over me.

“Okay baby,” I smiled.

“get yourself ready,” he said seductively as he pushed off the bed. I let out a soft giggle as I moved up the bed positioning the pillows behind me so I could see him when he came out. I put my thumbs in the top of my pants, this was all about timing. All I had to do was wait.

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Thinking Of You: Chapter 9 - If I knew

Trigger warning: Prenatal trauma, Talk of Miscarriage,  Medical Trauma, Medical procedure, talk of blood and broken bones. talk of drugs and Alcohol

Tagging @fyeahproudglambert @meghan12151977@msroxyblog   (ask to be tagged)

Chapter 9

“Is it going to be okay?” I asked looking up at the Dr he looked away his face looked pained. “it’s not?”

“Look,” he said walking over to the side of the bed. “you’ve been through a major trauma, I’m going to assume the foetus is less than 10 weeks, because you didn’t know, drugs and alcohol alone are risky, throw in what’s happening to your body now from the trauma, I’d say survival is very slim,” he said honestly. “But, we will escalate your case, and do the best we can,”

“Right,”

“The best thing you can do is stay positive,”

“So, hope for the best but expect the worst, type thing?” Shannon asked.

“Sure,” the dr nodded.

*

It was honestly the weirdest yet satisfying things I had ever heard.

“Oh my god,” Shannon said for us both. “That’s the…?”

“That is the heartbeat of one very stressed little baby,” the lady said. “We need an ultrasound asap,” the obgyn told the other nurse.

“Get a full Abdo ultrasound while you’re there,” the Dr called from across the way.

*

I had a million scans and people talking around me, in some kind of code. Mike had gone to get he Jared and Shannon some coffee, he’d promised to update Chester or something. I don’t even know why these people were bothering.

“Tatty,” Shannon said softly. I looked over to him. “I’m going to look after it… the baby,” he said. “I know I’m not the best boyfriend and I suck at so many things.” His face was so pained. He looked scared. “but I’m going to be a good dad,”

“I know, Shan,” I said soothing his face. “you’re going to be a great dad,” I told but something deep down told me it wasn’t going to be the baby that was inside of me right now. I don’t know if it was the pressure I was feeling in my pelvis or the little bits and pieces I picked up from what the Drs were saying but I didn’t think I’d be having this baby. It broke my heart.

“Alright,” the dr said walking over. “We’re going to move Tatiana to the Maternity ICU”

“ICU?” I questioned.

“There’s a severe chance that you will lose the child, As there is discharge from your uterus, We’ve put you on blood slower to counteract the alcohols affects but we’re not positive we want to keep you on constant monitoring.” He said. “your other injuries would have you on the surgery ward for a consult in the morning, but surgery is dangerous right now,”

“For her?” Jared asked.

“No, the fetus,” The Dr told. “Now, we’re going to recommend the rest of you go home, get some rest. She's going to start coming off the drugs soon and feeling everything, so we’ll give her a sedative so she can sleep,”

“Okay,” Jared said standing up. “Come on Shan, we’ll get you showered and sober, you will be better off,” he put his hand on his brother’s shoulder

“Yeah,” Shannon said getting to his feet. “I’ll come back as soon as visiting hours start okay babe?” he leaned over the side of the bed soothing my face.

“Okay, bear,” I said.

“I’m sorry, okay,”

“I know,” I smiled.

“I love you,” he said I let him kiss me.

“I love you too,” he kissed me again. “I’ll see you in a bit,” I smiled.

“you know it baby T,” he smiled kissing my nose.

“Jared,” I called he looked at me. “Tell Mike and Chester I said thanks?”

“Will do,” he smiled soothing my shoulder. A moment later they were gone, and I was being wheeled up to another section of the hospital lots of people talking and buzzing around.

“Alright so that’s all I need to know?” the Nurse asked.

“Yes, that’s everything we have,” the ER nurse said. “Good luck, Tatiana,”

“thanks,” I smiled back.

“Alright, now the ER rush is gone,” The nurse joked. “Tatiana, that’s a nice name,”

“Russian apparently,” I told.

“It’s been a rough night,”

“Yeah,” I scoffed.

“What were you doing before?”

“I was at the club, seeing my friends band play,” I told “I’ve been so insanely busy, I’d not had time to party in ages,”

“I know that feeling,”

“Then my boyfriend got insecure and we left, I was walking away from him when it happened,” I recalled.

“What do you do?”

“huh?”

“What are yo insanely busy with?”

“Work, study,” I told, leaving out therapy and group.

“Where do you work?”

“Winco, mostly nights,”

“Right,” she nodded. “What are you studying?”

“Zoology,”

“Oh wow, you must like that?”

“I love it, my friends call me leopard girl,” I smiled at how it was my new nickname with Chester's friends...

“They are beautiful,”

“I love them,” I laughed.

“Now,” she said lowering the light. “time for you to try and rest, are you comfortable?”

“I’m cold,”

“I’ll grab you another blanket,” she said, she was back in no time. “This one is from the warmer, I find the heat can soothe a lot of aches and pains,”

“Thanks,” I said smiling as she tucked it right under my chin.

“Just press your buzzer if you need me,” I stayed quiet, she checked the computer for something and then went to the door.

“Nurse,’ I called she looked at me. “Do you think the baby is going to die,”

“you know, Tatiana,” she sighed walking over to me. “I’ve seen these situations go either way”

“If I had known I never would have drunk or take any-“

“I know honey,” she said soothing my head. “Whatever happens, we’re doing our best okay?”

“I know,” I sniffled. “Thanks,” I said.

“Little one,” she said soothing my arm as she pulled my blanket up and walked out.

*

I opened my eyes to the most beautiful hazel eyes looking down at me.

“Hey, pretty girl,”

“Shan,” I smiled.

“How are you feeling?”

“I am in so much pain,” I said honestly. I’d slept off and on but once the drugs wore off and the pain set in realized what the hell had happened. My entire body was broken, if not bruised.

“Have they given you anything?”

“They’re doing what they can,” I said. “I can’t take much because of the baby,” I pointed out. “they don’t give too strong of painkillers to a healthy fetus’” I told him what the nurse had told me just an hour or two ago.

“Okay,” he said soothing my head. “Can you believe we made a baby?” he smiled. I shook my head.

“I mean, I should the way we have sex,” I smiled he laughed.

“It’s my favorite,” he said screwing up his nose a little. He knew it made me smile. “Do you think it’s a boy or a girl?”

“A boy,” I said, and honestly felt.

“I think so too,”

“I think he has your eyes,” I said tracing the outside of his eye, his lashes were endless, they were perfect. I felt myself getting upset. He grabbed my hand that was tracing his face. “I wish I knew Shan,”

“Me too, baby,” he said kissing my hand bunching it up between his holding it tight and safe.

“We’re a mess,”

“I know,” he admitted. “We can change,”

“We have too,” I warned.

“I know,” he sniffled.

“Even if the baby doesn’t make it,” I said. “Shan,” he looked up at me. “We have too,”

“I know, baby,” he said kissing my hand again holding it tight against his head, I returned the grip. “I know,”

There was a racquet at the door, followed by a bunch of voices.

“I ran into all these people in the hall,” Jared sang, I looked over to see Jared, Mike, Chester, and Talinda.

“Hey guys,” I smiled rolling on my back slowly.

“Hey,” Chester said grabbing a pillow handing it to Shannon. “don’t move,” he rushed.

“it’s okay,” I laughed. “Baby, can you sit the bed up?” I asked Shannon got up straight away and did what I asked. Jared was helping him put the pillow behind my head.

“Everyone brought you flowers we weren’t allowed to bring them in” Jared said.

“Really?” I laughed.

“Yeah, they’re out at the nurse’s station,” he told.

“Wow,”

“We’ll take them home for you though,”

“We’ll look on the internet and I’ll get some nice vases,” Shannon said as he sat back down.

“I’m smart, I brought chocolate,” Mike said dropping a box of Maltesers on my table.

“You also brought flowers,”

“I know,” he laughed. “But she can’t eat flowers.”

“I dunno,” Jared laughed. “Tatty will eat pretty much anything,”

“Some flowers are totally edible too,” I told. “Like frangipanis”

“Oh, I’ve heard that,” Talinda told. “some are totally deadly though,”

“There’s one in Africa called a... something apple, its deadly as hell,” I told.

“Well... .we got you four,” Chester joked.

“the car to the side wasn’t enough?” I smirked.

“it was so brutal,” Shannon added. Everyone except Jared and I agreed.

“I haven’t slept,” Talinda told followed by a chorus of ‘neither’

“I did,” I Laughed “Not much, but”

“Wow, outshine us all, leopard girl,” Mike teased everyone laughed.

“what about this vase baby?” Shannon asked showing me his phone. It was dark.

“It’s nice,” he clicked through a couple more “I like that one,” I said there was a black one with kind of studs on it.

“Oh, me too,”

“They’d look good on my desk,”

“I agree, I’ll grab some on the way home,” he said. “I’ll set them up and take a photo,”

“Thanks, baby,” I smiled he smiled back and kissed me. The banter went around for a little while it was nice in an I hate hospitals kind of way. Eventually, the nurse came in and started taking my obs. My heart went to my throat like it did every time.

“You’ve drawn quite the crowd.” She said.

“Yeah,” I laughed.

“We were telling her next time she wanted attention to just ask,” Jared teased.

“Something tells me you’d have no trouble getting attention,” the nurse laughed.

“She’s got that temper,” Shannon chimed in I rolled my eyes at them all.

“Damn, I thought to jump in front of cars was the new black,”

“Are my obs okay?”

“Your blood pressure is high,” she said softly. “that’s one of those signs we didn’t want,” she admitted.

“Oh,” I sighed.

[echelonfiction]

couldnt let this blog’s 3rd birthday go by with out a post, sorry it’s not BLs, love you all thanks for your support

[echelonfiction]

Thinking Of You: Chapter 8 - Changes Everything

AN: Short chapter, will update tomorrow or the next day with another. 

Trigger warning: Medical Trauma, Medical procedure, talk of blood and broken bones. talk of drugs and Alcohol

Tagging @fyeahproudglambert @meghan12151977@msroxyblog   (ask to be tagged)

Chapter 8

I opened my eyes there was beeping all around me I was in immense pain. I knew where I was, I moved my arm and grabbed hold of the bar pulling myself up getting a shooting pain.

“Fuck!” I cried out falling back into the bed.

“Tatiana,” I heard a moment later Mike was hovering by my head. Mike, not my boyfriend? I glared at him for a moment.

“Where’s Shannon?”

“he’s in the waiting room,”

“What?” I gasped.

“he got asked to wait out there, something about until his brother came,”

“Jared doesn’t need to know,” I groaned trying to sit up, “I need to le-“

“Hey,” Mike said putting his hand on my shoulder. “You’ve been through a lot,” he told.

“Wha” I laid back down.

“I know this is hard and confusing,” he said tucking some hair behind my ears. “I get your scared, and I’m sorry for whatever part I played,” he said searching my eyes. “But you need to let them treat you,” he said now soothing my cheek. “Because you’re hurt,”

“I’m scared” I admitted feeling my lip quiver and tears sting my eyes.

“You’re also brave,” he said. I shook my head he nodded. “Yeah,” he smiled he fixated on it.

“You have a really nice smile,” I blurted out.

“Thank you,” he grinned. I wanted to say something else, like kind but I also really just wanted to see Shannon. I just remember fighting and then the warmness of his hand in mine. He probably just got heated with the dr... yeah that sounds like my Shan. I’d probably be the same. “Rest,” he said softly. “I’ll get Shannon to wake you when he comes back in.”

I did what I was told. I felt like five minutes later I heard more voices.

“Is she okay?” I heard, it sounded like Jared.

“She’s pretty beaten up,” Mike said.

“Shannon said it hit her pretty hard,” Jared said.

“Crazily,”

“I’m Jared,”

“Mike,” I assumed there was an exchange of hands shaking or something. “I know it’s not my place, but when Shannon left, I just didn’t want her to be alone,”

“It’s okay dude,” Jared said. “I’m sure she appreciates having such good friends,”

“Hmm,”

I closed my eyes tighter, I really wanted to not be hearing anything. But I felt a hand on my shoulder. I reluctantly opened my eyes.

“Tatiana,” Jared said softly, I looked up at him. “Hey T,” he said softly. “You doing okay?” he said softly. I shrugged my shoulders. “Have you seen a Dr?” I looked at Mike.

‘They’re waiting on results” Mike said.

“Is there anything I can do?” Jared asked soothing my shoulder.  

“Shannon?”

“You want Shannon?” Jared asked.  I nodded. “He’s just outside,” he said. “Want me to get him?” nodded. “Okay,” he smiled

Jared left. I looked over at Mike, he smiled kindly. I bet he thought I was stupid. The fight with Shannon was insane. They always were, fight hard, love harder or something. I used the opposite arm to position myself on my back, it was a little bit more successful. As if on queue a nurse or something walked over.

“Hey Tatiana, nice to see you awake,” she said. I gave her a not even smile of a smile. “I’m just going to ask a couple of questions to check for head injuries, is that okay?” I nodded. “Do you know where you are?”

“Hospital,”

“Do you know what day it is?”

“Uhh, it was Friday, maybe Saturday now?”

“Great,” she smiled. “Do you know who the president is,”

“Trump,” I groaned

“Are you in any pain?”

“everywhere,” I whined as I noticed something out of the corner of my eye. I looked to see Shannon standing there as white as a ghost. “Hey bear,” I said lazily.

“Tatty-babe,” he said rushing over to me hugging me tightly, kissing me. But it all hurt like hell. “Are you okay?”

“Pain,” I whined. As he pushed his lips into mine.

“I’m sorry, okay?” he asked putting his hands on my cheek. I nodded. “I love you so so much,” I closed my eyes and reached one hand up to his face trying with the other, but it was just too painful. “Okay, I’m sorry,”

“I know Shan,” I cried

“I love you,” he cried.

“I love you too,” I said.

“Alright,” I heard another male call. I looked over to see a Dr looking over my notes on the table. “Miss Dyson,” he said looking up at me. “You’ve had quite the night,”

“hmm,” I groaned.

“I can see what’s going on here,” he said walking over from the table after motioning to my file. “But I’d like to talk me through what you’re feeling.” He said

“ahh,” I looked around the room then back to the Dr. “Starts with an S ends in a HIT”

“I don’t blame you” he laughed. “Now on to specifics,”

“I don’t know,” I whined. “My arm is killing me,” I said pointing at the arm that hurt more, “This one worse than the other. “I kind of feel pressure everywhere but not pain, but sore,”

“Have you been drinking?”

“Yeah, but I’m 23”

“Drugs,”

“Ugh,” I looked at Shannon.

“We just want to know how to treat you”

“Yeah, but I don’t know,” I said looking at Shannon. “Shan?” I questioned.

“Mdma, and E,” he told. “I doubt the E would’ve been in her system when it happened.” He said. Not looking at anyone.

“That would explain why you’re hardly feeling anything,” the dr said standing up walking back to my notes. “Between that and the painkillers, we have given you so far.” He told. “Nurse, what kind of injuries does she have”

“She has multiple lacerations, they’ve been dressed and cleaned but I think some of them are going to need stitches especially the one on her right leg.” The Dr walked over to the bed and lifted the blanket up. “has this been scanned?” the Dr asked.

“No” the nurse said, “Just cleaned.”

“Hmm grab some towel,” the Dr told. The nurse did so immediately she came back. The dr put it under my left causing some discomfort as he pulled the dressing off, he poked about the wound talking to the nurse about what he felt he needed too. “We did a scan when you were unconscious,”

“Okay,” I said softly.

“So your left arm is broken in a pretty epic way,” he said. “We’re waiting on an orthopedic surgeon to come and give an opinion.”

“Okay,” I nodded.

The Dr looked over more my wounds with the nurse, apparently, I had a few. A couple o needed to be ultra sounded or whatever to make sure there was no glass left in the nurse was pretty confident. The dr went back to looking at my papers.

“Have blood results come through?” he asked.

“Not last time I was over there, I’ll g check,”

“How are you feeling miss Dyson?”

“I don’t know”

“Try?”

“I just feel. . .I don’t know what’s going on, like . . . did I just get hit by a car?”

“You’re probably still in a little bit of shock.”

“My chest hurts,”

“You were in tachycardia when you were brought in but that was stopped. We’ve run blood to make sure your heart is fine, but we are positive, Tachycardia is common in these cases” he said, I nodded.

“Here are the first lot of results,” The nurse said, she handed hem to the Dr and pointed straight to a section.

“Hmm, that sure changes things” he said looking down the paper. “Miss Dyson are you aware that you’re pregnant?”

“What?” Jared and I said in unison. I looked at Shannon his eyes were wide.

“I’m taking that as a no,”

“But. . . wh… are you serious?” I gasped. “is it o..”

“Get an obgyn down here asap”

I felt like my whole world was caving in, what had I done? I’d been treating my body horribly. Drugs, alcohol, who knew what else. This was not okay. 

[echelonfiction]

Damn it!!! i was about to post the next chapter too,  shout out to my bff @fyeahproudglambert for helping me realise i posted on the wrong blog

Thinking Of You:  Chapter 7 - That moment

AN As usualy, i mean no disresptct

AN: I really enjoy writing Shannon in a different light 

Warning: , drugs,  alcohol, physical trauma 

Tagging @fyeahproudglambert @meghan12151977 @msroxyblog(ask to be tagged)

Chapter 7

“One more drink?” I asked leaning back into Shannon whose hands were all over me, and his conversation was everywhere with everyone. “Then we go?” I offered.

“Where,”

“Anywhere,” I grinned looking up at him. I received a drunken kiss but at this stage, I didn’t care.

“I’ll get you a drink,” he said kissing my head as he walked away.

“I’ve had a really good time, you guys,” I said to the group, Chester looked up and smiled.

“Same here,” Talinda said moving over hugging me. “I want to hang out with you more,”

“No boys,” I laughed hugging her back

Keep reading

[echelonfiction]

Thinking Of You: Chapter 6 - not like usual

AN1: It’s just fanfiction, i mean no disrespect 

AN2:  I had a chapter of brightlights ready  to go but my computer died a bout a monthag and /that/ seemed to be the only thing tht hadnted backed up, enjoy some TOY

Warning: , drugs,  alcohol

Tagging @fyeahproudglambert @meghan12151977 @msroxyblog

(ask to be tagged)

Chapter 6

“Chester, what do I do,”

“Is she actually... oh my god, she said she was exhausted but doesn’t everyone say that,”

“I think maybe... I don’t know,” Mike laughed.

“Maybe most people say it, but those who fall asleep really are,”

“No, I didn’t” I groaned as I opened my eyes. My hands were tucked under my armpits my head was rested on someone’s shoulder I looked up at Mike he looked nervous. “I’m sorry,” I whimpered.

“It’s okay,” he said I sat up holding my own head noticing a drool patch on his shirt. Both our eyes with to it then to each others.

“I’m sorry,” I said again, I could feel my cheeks as the heat rose in them.

“It’s okay,” he said as I grabbed a napkin and his shirt wiping it off. “You must be really spent,” he said I looked up at him. he didn’t seem mad at all.

“That’s not an excuse,”

“Tatiana,” Mike laughed. “It’s not a big deal,” I turned to the table and threw the napkin on it.

“Tatty,” Chester said I looked up to him. His face was soft. “Why don’t you have your dinner and not think about it,” he said. I looked at the food I’d ordered on the table. “It’s really not the end of the world,” he said softly.

“You’re right,” I laughed looking between him and Mike. It really wasn’t an issue, embarrassing but I was fucking tired. “Want some of my fries as an apology?” I asked pulling my food tray to my knee, half leaning it on Mikes' knee as well. He looked nervously at Chester who must’ve told him to in some secret bro code.

“Sure,” Mike laughed.

*

I walked into the bedroom. I’d finally sorted everything out into a good routine, work aside, sometimes I got some free time. Shannon was looking at his phone.

“Are you ready bear?” I asked.

“Yeah, babe, I was just putting some feelers out for something good,”

“Not really a vital, Shan” I smiled.

“maybe” he smiled as he walked to me. “But fun!”

“Right?” I turned to him

“Besides, you’ve been so uptight lately,” he said with a smirk. “It wouldn’t hurt you to lose your mind for a little while.”

*

We got to the club, I don’t know why I felt so uncomfortable here.

“Leopard girl,” I heard and looked over to see Chester’s friend Brad waving us over.

“Hey,” I called back giving each person I knew a hug as I approached. “Guys, this is my amazing boyfriend, Shannon.” I said pulling him into me, “Babe, that’s Chester, Brad, Dave,” I said realizing Mike wasn’t here. Shannon gave a nervous wave to which he got a bunch of hi’s

“yo, Tatty,” Chester called. “This is my wife, Talinda”

“Hey,” Talinda waved.

“Hey” I grinned, nice to finally meet you,”

“You too,” she smiled.

“sit down guys,” Chester said, Joe was grabbing drinks, I’ll get him to grab you some,”

“sure thanks,” I smiled sitting down next to Shannon.

“Where do you know these people from, again,” he asked. “Those loon groups you attend?” I looked into his eyes and took a deep breath.

“I know Chester through the group,” I told “He come through work or Burger King a couple of times when I’ve been studying,”

“Right,” he sighed.

“They’re not loons,” I told calmly. He looked into my eyes.

“Babe,” he laughed.

“I go there too,”

“I know,” he said pulling my hair over my shoulder. “You’re better,” he said kissing my cheek.

“Tatty,” I looked up at Chester, “Joe will bring your drink soon,”

“Sure,” I smiled. “Are you guys nearly set up?”

“Yeah, I think Mike’s just,”

“Chester, there’s a problem with the, oh hey Tatiana,” he said walking over giving me a huge hug. “I’m glad you came,”

“Mike,” I cheered. “Same, this is my boyfriend,” there was an awkward silence before Mike moved and shook Shannon’s hand. “Shan baby, this is Mike,”

“Hey bro,” Mike said happily,”

“Hey,” Shannon said sarcastically before Mike sat next to me.

“So, you’ve been well?” Mike asked.

“Yeah, crazy busy,” I laughed. “But I think I’m starting to find a balance,”

“Getting back up on top of your leopard stuff?”

“slowly,” I said. “I caught up on all the stuff I needed to submit, but need to catch up on the readings and shit,”

“You’re smart, you’ll get there,” he smiled.

“Thanks,” I laughed. “How’s your week been?”

“Decent,” he nodded. I felt Shannon tense a little. “I have to do a sculpture now, from that drawing,”

“Oh, you made it so complex,” I worried grabbing Shannon’s hand holding it tight.

“Yeah, it’s going to be a bitch,” Mike laughed.

“Mike,” Chester called we both looked over. “What was there an issue with?” he asked as Joe started handing out drinks.

“Oh, right,” Mike laughed. “I’ll catch you later, Tatiana, thanks for coming,”

“Sure,” I smiled as I was given my drink. I leaned back into Shannon as he said thanks to Joe. “I always get nervous when I am about to hear new music,” I told Shannon.

“You do?” he half laughed.

“Yeah,” I smirked. “Like what if they’re shit and I have to pretend they’re good,”

“do you pretend I’m good?” he asked looking into my eyes. I had a feeling he was asking about something not music related. But I wasn’t biting. I wanted a good night and I wanted a good night with him.

“I know you’re the best,” I told. Moving closer to him. “But you’re oh-so-naughty,” I kissed him.

“Oh, really?”

“mhmm,”

“You need to show you deserve to know exactly how much,” he said grabbing my thigh kissing me deeply.

“Challenge accepted.” I grinned.

We sat with each other, Shannon and I eventually broke off a little-going to the bar acting kind of like a normal couple for the first time pretty much ever. The band started they were loud and grungy I watched as they sung and really owned the stage.

“wow,” Shannon laughed.

“What I looked over at him

“Your friend has some lungs,’ he admitted, Mike got his turn he put his guitar over his shoulder and started. “wow,” Shannon scoffed. “Homeboy is rapping,” I looked at him. His eyes were dark. He was turning in to dark Shannon who was a fucking jerk.

“I think they’re great,” I said honestly stirring my drink.

“I figured you would,” he said kissing my cheek. “Hey, will you be okay here for a bit?” he asked looking at his phone.

“why?” I snapped.

“I’ve got to go meet someone,” he said looking at me. “Don’t give me that look, I told you I was putting feelers out,”

“I don’t want to do it, Shan,”

“Don’t want us to both have a good night?”

“Yea- “

“Watch your friends play, I’ll be back before you know it,” he said kissing me before walking off. I turned back to my drink and it was almost like the music changed to suit my mood. It went from some kind of regular rock song to the lowest grungiest guitars I’d heard in such a long time. The song hit in just as I looked up the boys were going crazy on stage, Chester started singing something about bliss, ignorance something about being one step closer to the edge, being ready to break, wanting to disappear. I found myself staring at my drink. I felt this song at my core, by the time it got to the bridge it broke for a moment before Chester started screaming ‘shut up when I’m talking to you,’

“Where’s your boyfriend,” I heard I looked up, Chester’s wife.

“Oh, he had to go meet a friend, He said he’d be back,” I smiled.

“Good, come hang,” she said grabbing my arm pulling me over to her table right by the stage, I barely had time to grab my drink, let-a-lone say no. I was now apparently watching the band with her. “They’re good huh?”

“Yeah,” I smiled. “Such an individual style.”

“I agree, I could watch them for hours.” She said I smiled at her as she started watching them, her eyes trained on her husband. He held the stage so well, I watched them all do their thing until my eyes noticed Mike. He was everywhere. All over the place like a bunny on speed, pressing this button and that button all the while still having a great time on stage with his friends. Every time he smiled, I did too.

“Have they been a band long?” I asked.

“Kind of,” Talinda said. “Like not as long as Metallica,”

“Fair,” I nodded.

“Chester moved from Arizona a few years ago to be the singer, they’re really starting to get somewhere,”

“Oh, nice,”

“Mike and the other guys were a band before that, but Chester really meshes with them,”

“I can tell,” I smiled. “Did you move here with him?”

“No, we met here,” She told. “I am also from Arizona but we met here,”

“That’s cool,” I nodded.

“Are you from Cali?”

“Yeah,” I smiled. “My mom’s family is out of Long Beach, my dad out by Modesto,”

“Oh wow,” Talinda laughed.

“My parents thought LA was pretty central,”

“What about Shannon?”

“He’s from Louisiana,” I said. “He and Jared moved here for Jared’s career,”

“Jared?”

“Shannon’s brother, he’s great,” I admitted. “He wants to be an actor,”

“Oh,”

“He’s actually good though,” I laughed. “But I think He’s a better singer,”

“He sings too?”

“Yeah, he and Shan are in a band as well,”

“Oh, that’s awesome” Talinda cheered. “Maybe they can tour with Linkin Park?”

“Linkin Park?” I questioned. Talinda pointed at the stage. “Oh, right,” I laughed. “I’m so dumb,”

“Nah,” she laughed with me. “I don’t think they’ve said it once,”

“Alright, Ladies and Gentlemen,” Mike called from the stage. “We want to thank you all for coming out and being such a great crowd,” his eyes flickered to mine. I think. Probably not. “This is our last song, we’re Linkin Park, this is Papercut,”

“There we go!” Talinda and I said in unison.

“This is a really good song,” Talinda said, I smiled at her and listened. It was pretty intense, fear of the night, paranoia, the words struck something in me, then the way it was arranged at the end. I found myself completely mesmerized by Mike. “He’s cute, huh?”

“Huh?” I looked at her

“Mike, he’s cute,”

“Oh,” I looked at him pretending I hadn’t yet. “I mean, he’s not ugly,” I admitted. “He’s got a nice smile,” I said. “But I have a beautiful boyfriend,” even if I was major pissed at him right now.

“Okay,” she grinned at me like she was keeping a secret.

“Don’t do that,” I warned with a grin.

“Hey, I’m with the singer,”

“I like drummers,” I laughed as they finished up the song. Chester was off stage Talinda was instantly all over him giving him kisses and praise.  The other guys went to their respective partners or guests. Mike came to the table that I was standing up. “That was kind of amazing,” I told him as he at wiping his face with a towel he was given at some point.

“Kind of?” he laughed looking at me out of the side of the towel.

“Yeah, I’d give you the hugs your band was getting but it would be weird,” I admitted.

“Only for you,” he grinned starting to catch his breath. I looked away “Drinks,” he cheered as the bartender brought a tray of what everyone was drinking, including me, which was weird. Chester came over grabbing his drink.

“What’d you think Tatty?” he asked.

“I thought you guys were great,” I admitted. “I don’t know how you guys aren’t touring,”

“We might be soon,” Chester admitted.

“Sweet,” I grinned. “I really liked the last song,” I admitted. “and the shut up screamy song?”

“Shut up screamy song?” Mike laughed.

“You know, the angry one,” I said. “shut up when I’m talking to you,” I sang half-heartedly.

“One step closer,” Mike said.

“Yeah that one,” I smiled “And the last one, the lyrics were hype,” I admitted.

“thanks,” Mike smiled.

“And the rapping over the rockfish sound, it’s pretty epic,” I said he looked in my eyes.

“Thank you,”

“You’re welcome,” I said proudly.

“Where’s Shannon?” he asked looking around.

“Oh, he had to go meet a guy,” I shrugged. “He’ll be back soon”

“Oh,” Mike looked away to Chester who was talking to some guy. I watched his face for a moment, so sticky and sweaty, his hair was up spikey as from the towel just now. The sweat was right down his neck into his shirt, I felt a hard lump in my throat that I had to swallow as I looked away. It doubled back as a slight cough as I took the next mouthful of my drink.

“You good?” Mike laughed.

“Yeah,” I smiled. “Wrong hole,” Mike busted out laughing I don’t know why but I joined in.

“what the actual hell,” He laughed turning to me.

“What?” I laughed.

“you don’t just say that in public,” he laughed.

“you’re dirty,” I said pushing him away.

“I’m dirty?” he exclaimed. “You said it,” I shook my head and went back to my drink as arms went around my waist.

“you look like you’re having fun,” my boyfriend whispered into my ear.

“Even more now you’re here,” I said turning and wrapping my arms around him. Kissing him, but he didn’t take it properly. He pulled back for a moment showing me his tongue with a pill on it. I rolled my eyes and kiss him anyway. Taking the pill with a chaser of his kiss. “Babe, you should’ve stayed for longer, the set was awesome,” I said bringing Mike back into the conversation.

“I heard the start,” he said. “It was pretty good,” he said.

“Thanks, Man!” Mike said offering Shannon a high-five which somehow turned in to a high-five hug over the top of me.

“You guys been playing together long?” Shannon asked.

“Few years with Chester,” Mike told, repeating the story Talinda just told me, a moment later Chester had joined Shannon and Mike in a conversation of band talk. Shannon wrapped his arms around me but wasn’t paying attention to me. So, I turned mine to Talinda. I was enjoying being out and not being completely bat. Shit. Crazy.

[echelonfiction]

helloo

Haven't forgotten you guys, been writing Chapter 54 of  Bright lights, but mostly Phoebe and Shannon's future stuff and non-mars fanfic, and some proper fiction. 

 forgot I posted Thinking of You here, but am thankful cause I lost the document, so I might read over that and try for some more chapters. 

Are you guys interested in other Fanfic topics?

mainly 

Linkin Park/Mike Shinoda

Sebastian Stan (and a bunch of his character)

pretty much whatever?

This is ECHELON Fiction, so my worry is posting non-mars related stuff and pissing you off. I am still writing, just not mars stuff as much. 

how have you guys been?

[echelonfiction]

Bright Lights: Chapter 55 - A Fiery Triumph

*grins* 

Tagging:  @fyeahproudglambert @msroxyblog @meghan12151977 who i think is @llfd1977 now @maulapaulawaula @teggles07 (if anyone else desires a tagging, lemme know)

The world went silent as he walked away. When I looked up I was in a pile of Leto’s hugging and congratulating the sound came back to earth as Jared said he was proud of me. 

They pulled back and a thousand other people started congratulating me and hugging me, there was a wave of people. Eventually, the room started emptying out.

I noticed Shannon with our stuff over in the corner. Emotion ran through my body as I realized what just happened. He noticed me and smiled frowning when I didn’t smile back. I started walking to him he turned from the table to me wrapping his arms around me as I wrapped mine around his neck. I started crying my eyes out.

“You deserve it, baby,” he said softly kissing my ear letting me bury my head in his neck. “So many times over.” Everything ran through my head seemingly from my entire life until now, all coming out my eyes. Take Shannon, and everything else away, I finally had something that belonged to me, that I earned, that no one could take away. “I’m so proud of you, Phoebe Flamez,” he whispered so softly that it gave me chills. I pulled back and looked at him.   “Babe,” he smiled soothing my shoulders.

“This is real?” I cried. He nodded his head, I nodded mine.

“It’s so real, baby,” he said hugging me again.

He held me again

*

Jared left in a Taxi to go be with Riley. I was glad he did, she needed someone and I just wanted to sit here and take note of had what had just happened. Everything was strange. I was happy but I wanted to cry. I had just so many emotions going through my body.

“What do you want to do?” Shannon asked. I looked up at him. “Coffee?”

“Yeah,” I smiled.

Twenty minutes later I pulled into the driveway of Coffee co and went in. I kept Clinging to Shannon. I was so tired so many things had happened. I just wanted to sleep even just for a few hours.

“What do you want?”

“Iced coffee,” I smiled. He ordered the drink and a muffin. He sat on a stool while waiting walked over to him straddling his legs, letting him kiss me. When he pulled back I hugged him as tight as I could. “I love you.”

“I love you too,” he said soothing my back.

“I’m so tired.” I laughed.

“Should you be having coffee?” he questioned.

“Yeah, its only 130pm” I pointed out.

“but you can go to bed when we get home,”

“Hmm,” I said pressing my lips to his neck, “Maybe,”

“What’s in your head.”

“I’m just overwhelmed,” I admitted. “I feel like I just overcame my whole entire life,” I told.

“Yeah?”

“Yeah,”  I admitted. “I  know you said we were given a shit run from day one,”

“You were,” he agreed.

“Shannon,” the coffee lady called.

“and I feel like I just earned this,”

“So much babe.”

“For Dad and Ryan. . . my mom, r... i. .” I was having trouble saying the name. Shannon reached my coffee out to me. I grabbed for it but didn’t look. “Riley,” I looked up at him and turned away. “I have to go,” I said turning and walking out getting in my car. Shannon got in just in time for me to drive off.

“What the hell?” he snapped. I didn’t say a worked, I just drove, I think Shannon was shocked at how I was driving, it was completely different to what he was used too. Eventually, after 40 minutes of ignoring Shannon, I pulled up in front of the courthouse probably parking illegally.

“Phoebe, what are you doing?” Shannon asked grabbing my arm.

“Stop!!! . . Talking!!” I demanded snapping my arm back as I walked to reception. “Catalano, Frost?”

She told me the door and I burst in without permission. The first person I saw was my ex, then Nelly.

“Can I help you miss?” The judge asked looking over his glasses to me.

“Ahh, I know this is really inappropriate, your honor,” I said honestly. “But I have a proposition,”

“Phoebe, what the hell are you doing,” Jared scolded. I looked at him for a second before looking up to the judge.

“What’s your name?”

“My name is Phoebe Flamez, I was born Phoebe Catalano, Riley is my triplet,” I told. “I know this wrong but I had something of my own on that just ended.”

“What are you proposing.”

“Well, I am about to go on a world tour and I need a drummer, I know my sister is a drummer,” I told Riley’s head snapped toward me.  “I think maybe I can employ her so she has a job, meanwhile Penelope stays with Mitchell with regular welfare checks on my niece, Then when Riley is back in town, she gets full custody for those times,” I told. “While Riley I away she gets daily face calls and things like that with Penelope and can also find a place to live,”

“That is an interesting plan, Miss Flamez.” The judge nodded. “Why would we need regular welfare checks.”

“Mitchell is my ex-fiancé, he like my sister have had interesting pasts.”

“Like you,” Mitchell snapped.

“I  am not trying to get custody of a child” I scolded matching it with a glare. “Honestly, if I had it my way, Penelope would be on tour with us,” I told the judge, “we’d know she was safe and happy,”

“But I know that isn’t a healthy life for her, either is a life without either parent,” I said. “We all want what’s best for Penelope, otherwise we wouldn’t be here.”

“I’ve been drug-free for a long time,” Riley told, “I’m happy to be drug tested.” She smirked at me, I smirked back.

“Okay, Ms. Flames please take a seat,” The judge said

I took a couple of steps backward and sat next to Shannon. The judge spoke for a few minutes. “Miss Catalano, how do you feel about your sister’s proposal,”

“I feel like it’s a better option then what I came here with,” she admitted.

“Ms. Flamez” The judge called. I looked up. “We will need to have a talk with you and discuss the ins and outs, do you have anything on this afternoon. I looked at Jared he shook his head.

“No,”  I held on to Shannon’s hand.

“We’ll adjourn for an hour, I’ll talk to Phoebe about her plan with your lawyers, from there we reconvene at 330pm for my decision.” He slapped his hammer on the table. I turned to Jared.

“Will you come and help me with dates and stuff?” I asked

“Me?” Jared asked.

“Either of you, both of you?”

“Yeah, I’ll help,” Jared said

“Ms. Flamez?” the judge motioned for me to follow him. Jared joined Shannon went out with Riley.

*

Jared and I gave dates and opinions, the judge was extremely intrigued.

“So where will she stay?”

“Uhm,”

“Well Riley is going to need to rehearse with Phoebe and her band, so I feel it will be best for her to have my spare room. “While we’re away we can find her a home for her and the child,” Jared said. I hated the idea of living with Riley but I guess I had the guest house and Shannon to escape to/with. I really shouldn’t have suggested this if I had a problem with that small fact.

“So when do you finish?”

“We come back home on December 18th from Spain”

“Right” the judge nodded.

“Can we put up for consideration that we have her for our North American dates?” I put forward. “They’re in January,” I said quickly remembering the conversation Jared and I had a few days ago impressed I usually just went with the flow.

“I am going to have a chat with the lawyers, who will converse with the parents, then we will reconvene for my judgment,”

“Okay,” I nodded.

“You can wait with your family,”

I got up and walked out the way we came through the courtroom. Shannon was straight to his feet when he saw us hugging me tightly.

“What did he say?” Riley rushed.

“He took down details,” I told. “He said he’s talking it over with your lawyer, to talk over with you”

“Okay,” She nodded looking at her daughter on the ground.

“Phoebe asked for us to have her on our US tour dates,” Jared said. “Which was kind of genius.”

“This whole idea is genius,” Riley said. “I’m so thankful,” she said stepping toward me.

“Yeah,” I said stepping toward Shannon. “Let’s just make sure it works first,”  I said her shoulders dropped a little. “I told you, Ri, he” I flicked my eyes towards Mitchell. “Won't beat us,” she smiled as Shannon pulled me in kissing my head.

*

I sat next to Riley watching Nelly play with Jared and Shannon on the ground. Her parents had not long come back from talking with their lawyers. Riley seemed hopeful. I sat there toying with my bracelets rolling them up my arm and back down switching wrists, jiggling my leg in place as I starred thoughtlessly to the corner of the room

“Phoebs,” Jared called I looked up. “Are you alright?”

“Yeah,” I nodded he looked between Riley and me, I noticed what I was doing and stopped it instantly. There were many ways to tell my sister and I were identical, one of those ways was our anxious twitches.

“Catalano Vs Frost” the court person called. I stood instantly and grabbed Riley’s arm hugging her tight before letting her walk in joining Jared and Shannon up the back.

“Ms. Flamez, the judge called I looked up squeezing Shannon’s hand. “Your sister is a shaking like a leaf, come be with her,” he demanded. I looked at Shannon he smiled and kissed my cheek as I nervously stood and walked down sharing the seat with Riley grabbing hole of her hand she gripped mine as tight as she could. “Why is it, Miss Flamez that it took you until today to come up with this plan?”

“Honestly?” I asked.

“Please.”

“I was preoccupied with an event in my own life that I was a little blinded from the moral my father brought us upon,” I said meeting Riley’s eyes before looking back to the judge. “My sister came to me a couple of weeks ago and asked for my help,” I told. “She had made a mistake probably larger than any other she had made in her life,” I told I felt Riley’s grip on my hand tighten. “We never grew up with a mother role model,”

“I was waiting for that,” Mitchell scoffed.

“in her shoes, I probably would have done the same thing” I admitted... “I saw it then and I see in now she was a scared mother who didn’t know the right way to ask anyone other than me for the help that she needed,” I told I was off track. “I learned pretty early on that this I don’t know the word, drama right now, it’s bigger then her and I, it’s bigger than how I feel toward Mitchell, it’s what’s best for Penelope,” I said. “And I know Jared and Shannon have been trying to suggest this to me for the last week, but I was just so caught up in my self I didn’t see it was right” I said. “basically, it’s bigger than us, its for Penelope and her life and I think this is a way that she could have a good one, with both her parents. Which is an opportunity we never had.” I said I was sure I was pandering, I’d gotten out of tones of trouble before through the right speech, was that need now? Was pandering illegal?”

“I am going to give you a trial,” The judge told. “you leave on the 19th?’

“We’ll leave here on the 17th to be in Johannesburg by the 19th”

“The girl will be returned to Mr Frost on the 17th but 12 pm at a to be arranged mutual meeting zone, Ms. Catalano will regain custody of the girl on December 20th through January third where we will reconvene for a review of the court case” he said. “Regular welfare checks will be made on both parties when the child is in their custody,” he said sternly. “any questions?” the room was silent. “I will see you all on January 3rd.”

“I hope your passport is up to date,” I said as Riley hugged me.

“Thank you so so much,” she cried

“Hey,” I said pulling her hair over her shoulder. Soothing her face. “You need to dry them eyes because, in about three seconds, I’m giving that asshole my trademark Phoebe Flamez bitch face Smirk,” I said. ‘you’re going to give your trademark Riley Catalano Bitch Face smirk,” she lifted her head and met my eyes. I looked over and My eyes met Mitchell’s for the first time since I saw him last, about five years ago. I smirked my biggest smirk he knew I just got one over him, he knew deep down in his soul that any wrong move me made now meant he lost to me. I let out the softest laugh as his look turned in to a glare before turning back to Riley and kissing her head.

“I told you he wouldn’t beat us”

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I’m Australian I heard it it’s epic

#soon #summerduet … I will probably die… For sure… I have heard Shannon sing some parts of Bright Lights, his voice is amazing… 💗💗💗 Can’t wait to hear them sing together…

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You were the brother I chose ♥️♥️♥️

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I did a thing

Shoes Submission: A Step Forward

by @hazeleyedleto | @echelonfiction

Shannon and Phoebe sat at Jared’s dining room table, he had invited them over for a dinner, some kind of Japanese something that he’d created preparing for a new role, considering his brother and sister in law were some of the only meat eaters he knew, he had no one else to experiment on.

Jared filled Shannon and Phoebe’s glasses for what felt like the hundredth time as the three of them joked and played like they always did.

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