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John Price x Clingy Merman Male reader—anyone?

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Warning(s): N/A

Disclaimer(s): There’s nothing generally explicit gore described in the text below but there are mentions of injuries, and a good portion of blood coming from Merman reader, and a past injury from Price that he’s currently healing from, with Merman reader, the text below describes readers non-human features as unsettling or unpleasant to look at.

General note(s): Though reader is Remora fish or sucker fish type, hence his clingy-ness, it is never officially stated in the text below, but Reader’s fish like qualities are described, like fins, scales, mouth, and eyes, body type is never described but reader is very subtlety implied to be heavier than he looks when taken out the water.

other mention(s): Pronouns used for reader are He/Him/His and is referred to as ‘(name)’ in the text

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Summary: Price meets a mermaid or should he say….merman, washed up on shore bleeding with a missing fin, and decided to help him bringing him back into his home and him patching up, however he might’ve underestimated how much maintenance this particular merman actually needed.

Above the sea shells and Ocean sores

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Price shifted in his bed tossing and turning before finally getting up, it was just before sunrise, although he really didn’t have a real reason to wake up this early, as he was on medical leave, but, nonetheless he still got up from bed and started his day, unfortunately for him though there was not much he could really do, aside from eating, and watching the news, so he decided to go find breakfast elsewhere, just for a change of scenery.

Grabbing his keys and headed out the door from his apartment, he made to the nearest bus stop to head downtown, John walked fairly slow keeping his torn calf in the back of his mind as he sat down, well can you really call it a torn calf if you’ve been shot in the leg? Still, can’t really walk properly either way.

He got on the first bus that arrived, scanning his card, the scanner blinked red, the bus driver in front of him sighed “Sorry, But can’t let you on this bus, your card’s expired” she says, Price clicked his tongue and begrudgingly got off, the bus steers past him and John started making his way the opposite direction.

There was a short cut around South of where he lives and it generally leads to downtown, John wondered why the bus lines always take the same route when both there’s five different routes that lead them in their designated stops, some are shorter too, John wondered perhaps some mysteries will never be solved.

But to be fair the route Price generally uses as a shortcut to downtown is a beach, usually very packed around this time of year, but today it’s almost empty, emphasis on almost empty, it is, in fact empty, aside from one person whose laying on his side between the coastline of where the waves and the sand meet, Price couldn’t really tell from afar but the guy looked like he was letting out rapid short breaths.

Maybe they’re hyperventilating. Price wasn’t sure, perhaps they’re just taking a nap, and he was overthinking it, but nonetheless he still jogged up to them to see, and yeah, he was right even if the man was facing away from him, he could tell, he was letting out short staggered breaths and pausing in between, like the room around his chest cavity was constricted, Price immediately flipped him over on his back, and instead of doing basic CPR procedure, John gasped, he froze, and stared at the man beneath him.

And it’s not like he looked off putting or anything like that…..actually scratch that he is off putting, mainly due to his wide round fish like eyes, and the fact that just below his pecs are gills, opening and closing as he took a breath, among other things, he looked distraught, staring up at Price as he pants quick and quiet, after a solid thirty seconds finally he gasped.

And that seemed to take Price out of his trance, immediately picked the merman up from his lower hip and between his shoulder blades and tossed him into the sea, John watched as his tail disappeared from view and into the blue waters, seemingly swimming away frantically from what Price can see, he huffed , shaken from what he saw, creepy….

Price was about to turn away before he looked down at his shoes which were still submerged in water, but the water beneath his feet was dark and red, and before he knew it he saw the same merman crawling up on shore gasping, and panting on his left before finally collapsing on his left side, just like how John found him before, however unlike before his eyes followed his fins and found it, blood, trailing from behind his tail down to the wet sand and into the shoreline, he was missing a fin, probably couldn’t swim very well.

John took his gaze out the ocean again and found another set of fins and tail diving into the water, much larger than the merman beside him, much narrower too despite its size, its main fin more triangular with two rounder shaped fins on each side, well at least now he knew what that creepy looking fish was running from, although John didn’t waste a moment before he walked towards the merman and, again, picked him up, however this time he didn’t throw him back into the water instead he cradled the creature, and almost frantically tried to find another source of water he can put the merman into, stepping into one direction and then to another before backing up to where he took the merman from, Price looked down at said merman and saw him gasping, the gills on his chest flapping open and close almost swiftly.

then John remembered, he had a bathtub in his apartment, it wasn’t big, but it might work just fine, Price sprinted back to where he entered the beach and turned the corner, completely disregarding the fact that he was still injured and there was a high likelihood he’ll tear his calf muscle while running, zooming past the houses John thought to himself god why is he even doing this he even doing this he should call for animal rescue, ambulance, something…not take whatever this thing is into his home, actually now that he thought about it an ambulance or animal rescue might not be of much help, they wouldn’t even know what this thing is let alone know how to help it. John hastily took out his keys and opened the door to the building.

Time wasn’t much on his side at the moment, as he could feel the merman’s scales starting dry beneath him, so no elevator, and besides that’ll put him and this thing at risk of being seen, so he took the emergency exit stairs, and started to sun up the stairs, until he reached his floor, thank whomever is up in the clouds that this building is only four stories tall, at least he didn’t have to worry about risking himself getting injured again, John didn’t even bother to take his keys and open the door this time, he just decided to kick it open, aiming his good leg to the door handle he kicked as hard as he can until the handle broke and John pushed himself inside, and ran to. the bathroom immediately dropping the merman in the tub, it was only then that Price realized that the sea creature’s breath couldn’t even be deciphered anymore, it ws just the quiet flaps of the gills on his chest and fins, Price stumbled in his bathroom and reached his hand to the faucet.

the water sprayed out the nozzle, and the bathtub began filling up, however it wasn’t filling up fast enough, as movement from the merman began to dwindle, Price, without thinking cupped his hands under the faucet and began splashing the merman with the water more specifically towards his upper body onto his face and gills until the water was high enough, that the sea creature’s upper body was submerged, Price kept the water running until the water reached just below the edge but not enough to actually spill over the tub.

John huffed getting off his knees, stumbling back on the counter, he looked at the fish-creature his vision a bit hazy from running under the sun, there was no movement, no fast frantic breathing, nothing. John wondered if he didn’t get here fast enough and the merman had already suffocated, and now there’s just a dead fish creature laying in his bathtub, in broad daylight too, shit, Price took a step closer looking down at the merman, he took a couple seconds staring him down, studying him and drawing out his features, still no movement, he was as still as a statue, Price then reached his hands down to his face submerging his hand into the water, it rippled a little bit, but the merman underneath stayed still.

John traced the merman’s face with his pointer finger, slowly and carefully feeling the scales as he maneuvered his finger up and down his face, huh, guess he’s not hallucinating, or maybe he is and he just brought a regular large fish from the beach for no reason, Price pulled his hand back his hand now glossy and dripping from the bathtub water, and he kept staring at the wide eyed fish….thing, he honestly didn’t know what else to call it other than ‘The merman’ or ‘Sea creature’ among other things, who knows the merman could’ve had a name, or maybe he doesn’t, hell Price doesn’t know much about fish for all he knows this thing should’ve stayed in myth, not reality-

Just in the middle of John’s internal monologue, The Merman gasped bubbles filtering area where his face is, this made Price Jumped from where he was squatting down stumbling backwards onto the tile floor and hitting his head on one of the lower cabinets “ack…” he muttered, water spilled onto the tiles and Price saw the tail of the Merman shifting making the water drip from the edge of the tub, Price looked up to see The Merman awake, seriously, he needs a better nickname for this guy aside from ‘The Merman’.

He was awake, not only awake but his head’s above the water, his torso was still submerged for more than obvious reasons, his hands were on the edge of the tub and he was looking at Price curiously, silently but curiously, and now that John is this up close to the thing, he can nitpick a bunch of details of his face that he couldn’t have before, actually a lot more details he didn’t even pick up on before he brought this Merman into his home.

Like the lack of a proper nose, his rounded fin ears that twitch every now and then as he looked at Price, they lay like veils on the sides of his ears due to them being dripping wet, but that didn’t seem to affect general movement from them, or maybe his pouty downturned mouth, that opened slightly ajar to reveal his sharp teeth, that made John shiver, gross, creepy, everything about this fish person is creepy, down to his wide round eyes with a pale cream sclera.

John made a face when he finally turned to meet the fish’s gaze, took one moment to look at him before turning away again, safe to say that The Merman in fact freaked him out, more than he liked to admit, and despite John’s reaction to him, he still stared unblinking at Price, he and John stared at each other possibly for a moment too long, before that thing blinked, well, more like a paler layer of his skin cover his eyes, before it slips back into the corners of his eyes, Price made a face, shaking his head, and finally decided to stand up and leave him there in the tub.

“Where are you going?”

Price stopped in his tracks and looked at The Merman, did he hear that right?, there’s no way, John turned his head and faced him again staring at him intensely, “Im sorry?” John asked “I said, where are you going?” the merman said. John didn’t know what to say his mind blanking out, too focused on the fact that, this thing can talk, he blinks once—twice before saying a half-hearted “Going, uh….going to get breakfast” and shyly pointing to his front door, that is still broken from when he kicked it. Then Price realized that, The Merman was still injured and blood slowly seeped out from his wound, spreading out through the bathtub.

“uhm….you’re still bleeding…here uh-” he stuttered, walking back into the bathroom, and opening the lower cabinet and got out the first aid kit, and took out the ace bandages and rubbing alcohol, he stood back up and walked closer to the tub, he hesitated for a moment, is this safe for him? maybe he should research about how to heal a damaged fin from a fish first before he does this, but that’ll take a while he might bleed out, or suffocate in the water of his own blood if I don’t do this now, The Merman tilted his head waiting for him, Price watched him before he ultimately decided to lean down and take care of the wound before it becomes infected, “can you flip over for me?” he asked, the merman looked up at him before flipping over to his back to show his bleeding tail, and the very obvious missing fin from it. Price stared with the Rubbing alcohol, pouring some into a gauze, but then he thought again, what if it just makes it worse, but. it’ll help sterilize the wound, but he’s a fish it might be risky to do that, we don’t know how his body works.

Ultimately Price decided against using the gauze, and opted to just use his ace bandages, he struggled lifting The Merman’s lower hip, soon as he had him in a stable position did he unraveled the ace bandages and started wrapping it around his lower back starting on his abdomen then working his way down until the wound is completely covered, he secured the wrap by tying the bandage into a knot at the back making sure its tight enough to hold it in place but not too tight that it squeezes him, and with that Price puts The Merman back into the water, The Merman looked down at his abdomen before flipping back over on his back. Price sighed and stood back up, groaning and rubbing his calf, when he felt it stiffen, He started walking away before that thing spoke up again “Hey! where are our going?…why are you leaving so soon?”, John sighed again, this time in distain, going back in the bathroom again “I have to go eat, I can’t just sit here all day with you…” he says, The Merman paused for a moment before saying “can’t you eat here?”.

Price scrunched his brows at The Merman, “why?” Price asked “Nothing, its uh…Im just hungry as well…” he says, John sighed “alright I’ll get something for you, I’ll be back around, lets say ten-thirty?” John says tapping his finger on the door frame, The Merman nodded, John nodded to him as well, and he finally was able to leave, but then he remembered, oh right his door, the knob was broken, looks like he kicked off parts of the door frame as well, John smacks his lips pinching the bridge of his nose, alright, no eating out today, not like he can now that he brought a mythical creature into his home. John closed his door, as best as he could at least and bolted it and then made his way to the fridge to see what he can cook for himself, still, not sure on what the fish in his bathtub eats. assuming he eats other fish due to his sharp teeth, John took out the Salmon from his freezer.

He could cook this, give The Merman something good, but then again The Merman could probably just eat it raw, Price put the Salmon in the fridge to defrost and looked for something for himself, he settled on sausages and egg on toast for that day, and after cooking he made his way back to his bathroom with the Salmon and his breakfast in hand, John opened the door and set his breakfast on the bathroom counter, The Merman looked over at John curiously, John then opend the package that the Salmon was placed in and hand turned around handing it to him, he took the Salmon from John’s hands, webbed, clawed fingers gripped onto the Salmon, Before he started biting and chewing on it. Price was relieved that he was able to get him to eat, and started eating his own breakfast as well.

not long after The Merman was licking his fingers and eating off any excess Salmon on his hands, Price was till eating he wiped his mouth before speaking “By the way, I never caught your name, after, yknow…the beach fiasco”, he put his hands back in the water looking up at Price “My name? uhm…I guess you can call me (name)” he says, John nodded, so he does have a name an awfully human name much to his suprise “Im John, John Price” Price says “nice to meet you John” he says “You got a last name?” he asked, The Merman shook his head “Really? you’ve got a first name but no last name?” John says “I’ve never met my parents” he says “frankly nobody does in my world at least” he says, John stared at him for a moment humming and nodding along, interesting thought to think about. “so…How’d you get your name then?” he asked The Merman thought for a moment before responding “My Group chose it for me” he says, John scrunched his brows “Group?” “other Mermaids that I swim with to find food, practically grew up with them” he responded, John nodded there’s a lot more about this Merman he has to learn about.

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The next day John awakens by the sound of the shower head opening in the bathroom, he gets up to investigate only to find The Merman, with his chin up to the shower head and his eyes closed, well ‘closed’, it really is just that one layer of pale transparent skin just below his cornea that open and closes from the corner of his eyes. Price cleared his throat to get his attention, and he turns his head opening his eyes “hello” he says. “Morning” John responds groggily, and turns to the sink to go brush his teeth, John sees The Merman watching him brush his teeth before he turns back to the shower seemingly enjoying droplets running down his scales.

John spits out the excess fluoride and wipes his mouth with a towel, he watches him for a few moments leaning against the counter thinking, he taps his index finger on the granite, he ultimately let out a sigh and took out another towel from the lower cabinet, setting it to the side and turning on the the faucet once more cupping his hands and splashing his face with the water, at least twice before grabbing the bar of soap beside him and rubbing it between his hands, placing the Soap back and started scrubbing his face, he cupped his hands under the faucet again and splashed his face with water three more times before wiping his face with the towel.

Price then turned his attention to The Merman, who was still enjoying the shower, “hey mind if I turn that off? I really don’t wanna pay more for the water bill” he says, leaning down and twisted the knob, making the water stop periodically. He looked a little dissatisfied when the water switched off but said nothing sinking back down into the tub. John huffed out a small laugh, standing up straight , “alright I’ll be heading out, I gotta grab something from the store” he says walking out, (name) sat up a little looking to where he was headed before he sunk back down into the tub, John might’ve heard him grumble something under his breath, however it was five-thirty in the morning and he had other things to worry about now.

Price closed the door to his bedroom and opened the drawers near the small window, getting changed for the day and taking out a half empty deodorant, and putting it on before spraying on some body spray, just so he doesn’t smell, with that he grabbed his keys and wallet and headed out the door. The back door to be more percise his front door was still broken although he did tape it up before going to bed last night, its not great he might have to make a trip to the hardware store but first, buying food for the fish-person thing in his house, which, in all honesty he should’ve asked the guy what he eats exactly before heading to the store, but from what he gathered from yesterday’s afternoon breakfast, he really liked the Salmon, so he placed at least three in the cart before searching for some eggs, he’d run out at least three days ago, just didn’t bother to buy any, til right now at least. He picked the twelve pack and placed it in the cart.

On his way out the store he saw a sale sign for a kiddy pool, just right next to the dry cleaners of the supermarket, he made a mental note of it for later before walking home, passing a small diner, and then a comic book store that was advertising the latest DC superhero comics, and then passing through the beach which was now full, with people sunbathing and kids running around with water guns spraying eachother, a complete opposite in comparison to yesterday, John wondered if it had something to do with, (name) when he dragged himself to shore on the sand, John didn’t balme them, he was pretty uncomfortable to look at and probably freaked people out enough to make them leave the area. Mid-way through his journey home he was stopped by some police officer patrolling the area “excuse me sir do you have a minute?” he asked “did you happen to see anything out of the ordinary around here by any chance?” John said nothing for a few seconds before saying “no, I haven’t” the officer seemed satisfied with that answer and let him go, John finally made it back home, a bit sweaty from the heat, he shut the door behind him passing the bathroom and greeting The Merman who was still sitting in the tub, he waved back of course, and John placed the groceries on the table.

He started to put away the food that needed to be kept in a cooler environment just so they don’t spoil, like veggies and other meat products, and after that he was out the door again, and this time (name) stopped him, calling out from the bathroom “Hey! where are you going? you just got back..” John went back in looking over him “Im just going to get a couple more things from the store, I’ll be back at ten” he says and headed out, shutting the door behind him making sure the screen door was closed properly, and went downstairs and out the door, John went back to that kiddy pool he saw earlier and decided to buy it holding it under his arm and went to the hardware store four blocks away, to get a new door knob, and some screws, along with a small gardening hose and an air pump, it still wasn’t enough to fix the door, since he aslo managed to break the wood that attached to the base of the knob, he’ll have to visit the hardware store another time, but for now he made enough visits for one day, and he still had to save his money for other necessities, and besides that his calf is starting to cramp as well.

After making it home Price dropped the items on the shoe stands and sat in the kitchen for three hours, panting, once his heart rate lowered a little he took out the kiddy pool from its packaging and opened the air pump, which he probably should’ve gotten the electric one, it was a relatively medium sized pool, at least that’s what the packaging says, it was rather small in actuality, but took a lot more work than he was anticipating. Once it was fully inflated John plopped it right side up, and attached the small hose on the faucet in the kitchen sink and let the water fill up the pool—slowly.

once he was satisfied with the amount of water in the pool he dragged the whole thing down the narrow hallway and into the bathroom, of course not without spilling water all over his kitchen floor, he shifted the kiddy pool next to the bathtub and turned to The Merman who looked at the brightly colored inflatable, Price stepped mancouver to let him test it out, he leaned over stretching out his hand into the small pool, the water rippled and (name) took his hand back, he gripped the edge of the tub and lifted himself off the water and dove in the kiddy pool getting water everywhere. Price sighed, well….so much for that, he walked out the bathroom to grab the small water hose, and also cleaned up any water that spilled onto the floor before going back to the bathroom and attaching the hose on the sink’s faucet, refilling the water that spilled onto the floor before cleaning it up as best he can.

John then started to push the kiddy pool, gently this time, to the kitchen, and cleaned up any remaining water from the hallway and in the bathroom floor, went back to the kitchen and sat down folding his arms on the table huffing, and dropping his head in his arms he turned his head still resting, he looked over at (name) whom had tucked his tail in the kiddy pool, in an attempt to submerge himself completely, John slowly raised his head to look at him “You haven’t eaten anything since yesterday, have you?” He said “you want some Salmon? I just bought some today” He followed up standing from his spot in the dining table and opening the fridge, he took out some packaged Salmon opening it “I know you like this brand” he says taking it out he handed it to him, which (name) willingly took, and started tearing into it.

Price stared at him for a moment before sitting back down “didn’t realize you were that hungry” he says, Standing back up again, Price went to go make something for himself, he hadn’t eaten anything all day either and he just restocked he might as well cook something for himself, Price turned on the stove, (name) looked over from where he was staring in awe, John placed the pan on top, and opened the fridge to take out the sausages he bought along with some canned corn, he started frying the sausages first, before he went ahead and fried the corn and placed the sausages on a plate.

Price notes how he watches him cook, although he says nothing, “what are you making?” he asked, Price glanced over before turning back to what he was cooking, “Lunch” Price said flatly, (name) stares at the plate and then at the corn being cooked on the stove “—can I try some?” and Price fully turns his head to him, hesitant, “are you sure?” he says, (name) nodded, Price wasn’t even sure if this was safe to feed him regular human food, “no” John said Bluntly “why?…how come?…” He says, John swears he sees his ear fin thingies droop down a little.

“why not?” he asked, looking up at Price with those big fish eyes, unflattering not cute at all, But Price sighed “Are you sure you can eat this?” “Yes I can eat it!” he exclaimed “I ate the Salmon just fine, what’s the problem with this?” (name) asked John had no good response for that, its because I don’t know if you’ll die or not “okay…..fine, just a small bite, but if you choke Im not gonna help you” he says taking a knife and fork and slicing off a piece of the sausage, he then took the fork with the small sausage on it and handed it to him, (name) took it willingly his claws grazed Price’s hand a bit, John pulled back and watched him eat the sausage for a moment, then went back to stirring the corn on the pan. (Name) then pokes John with the fork that causes him to jump, “can I have some more?” he asked, Price sighed and gave him a tiny bit more, it kept going until Price just firmly told him to wait until the food was ready, for a sea creature he had a big appetite.

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Three weeks living with a merman was tiring, his leg cramped but hey at least he’s walking like how his physical therapist said he should, although he wondered if he walked around a little too much, at this point he might tear his calf again, and that’ll put him out of work in no time, but hey at least the merman, was somewhat in an okay position in the arguably small kiddy pool, and Price had spent more on the Merman than he liked to admit, he had bought a water filter put in the pool just so it stays clean for (name) so he doesn’t suffocate under muck and waste and replaces the water in the pool just in case, the filter was meant for a tank of fish not a small inflatable pool, and his water bill has gone up a ton due to how much water he uses, but on the other note Price was just happy to be able to shower again.

Today wasn’t any different went out to get food for the house, make sure the water filters clean, and sit by (name) while he lounges in the kiddy pool staring out the window for the rest of the day, Price is always hanging out in his bathroom these days, at this rate he might as well bring his sheets in the shower and sleep there due to how much time he spends there now, it wasn’t a decision he made out of his own doing, more like he was pressured, not by the sea creature that lived in his bathroom, no, it’s because if he didn’t (name) would just not stop calling for Price until he stayed by his side for the rest of the day, Price pulled up a chair that he stole from the kitchen and set it next to (name)’s kiddy pool, and sat down he opened his book to the current chapter he was reading, glancing up at (name) every now and again, he was still very much preoccupied by the birds on the window sill, they were chirping and (name) seemed enamored by them. Price sighed going back to his book, it was an old book the nice hard cover had been wrinkled and yellowed by time, despite that John never finished it, never had the time until right now. he flipped throigh the pages eye’s scanning across the paragraphs, immersing himself or at least trying to immerse himself into the story.

he glanced back up The Merman again who now had his tail folded up to his chest and his head resting there, he sighed, Prcie closed his book which prompted (name) to turn his attention towards him, “something you wanna tell me fish-boy?” he said, prompting (name) to look up at him before resting his head back on his tail, he muttered something incomprehensible, Price scooted his chair closer “(name) talk to me, you were very vocal about your needs before this” he says.

(Name) then looked up at him, after giving it thought he spoke up “Can you bring me back to the ocean?..” okay that one definitely caught Price off guard, “what?…” “can you bring me back to the ocean?..” He repeated, Price stared at him for a moment before saying “(name)…your, your fin is still damaged, I’m not sure you could even swim” he says, (name) huffed, “it could heal…” he muttered “I’ll be fine” he says. “Answer’s still no, you’re staying here I doubt your fin could grow back after three weeks” he says.

(Name) said nothing else and buried his head back into his fin, John stared at him for a good minute before going back into his book, not even twenty minutes later someone knocks at his door, John sighed annoyed closing his book again and getting up, he opened the back door only to find no one, the knocking echoed through the house, ah the front door, John probably should’ve put up a sign he still hasn’t fixed the door yet, John closed the door and started walking to the front, upon opening the door there stood two police officers, one was holding a clip board, the other was had his hands clasped together, “Price?…John Price?” he said, “uhm, yeah that’s me, is there a problem officer?” John said. “we’ve gotten reports from your neighbors about obscure noises and strange sightnings coming from your apartment? by any chance do you live with anyone else in here?” he asked, John froze unsure of what to say, maybe he shouldn’t have let (name) look out the window every day. “uhm…no I do not..” he says the officers glanced at each other before looking back at him “may we come inside?” one of them asked.

Now how was he supposed to respond?

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Author’s Note: Hi everyone very sorry for the wait, Im not very pleased with some parts with this one Im not gonna lie, but I worked on this for over two weeks, and this fic was supposed to be posted way back at the beginning of June, so this fic was a long time coming, I just severely underestimated the length of this fic, and I have other writings in my drafts that I really wanted to shift my focus to but couldn’t due to the length of this fic, so this will be two part-er, just so I can give myself a little lee-way for other projects Im working on, I really underestimated how much time until I could finish this fic specifically, but I am working on other stuff, and I already have a fic for Pride month, it was supposed to be finished today, but I just really wanted to get this one done it’s been sitting in my drafts for far too long, at least in my opinion.

Almost forgot to mention happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 and also men’s mental health month! take care of yourselves boys, and also father’s day so hapoy father’s day to the dads out there, a lot of things to celebrate this month hope you all have a great day/night

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someuselesslyexpensivecheese · 12 days ago

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sneak peek of my next fic? 👀 🤫

this is gonna be a long one, sorry for the wait.

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someuselesslyexpensivecheese · 25 days ago

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hi, hi, just wanted to post a more detailed artwork of my merman oc that I drew for Mermay this year, I originally drew him in a more chibi like style a few days ago, but I also really wanted to show him in my more normal style, just so I can show him, as how he actually looks. (also because he’s my favorite) his name is Cole btw.

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someuselesslyexpensivecheese · 27 days ago

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Okay but what about ftm Reader and ftm Simon Ghost Riley cuddling in bed with snacks and watching a very shitty movie, during shark week?

Genre: Fluff and Romance

General warnings: N/A (unless you count some mentions of period blood and needle injections but otherwise its not anything explcit)

Summary:

You and Ghost wake up in blood stained sheets, grumpy and cramping you both decided it was a good idea to stay home and eat snacks for breakfast while you both watch a terrible movie on one of your streaming platforms.

General note(s):

Readers body and overall features is not described although it is mentioned that they still have a menstrual cycle, and use female hygiene products to deal with it, along with Ghost, Ghost meanwhile is shown to be taking T-shots, and his features and body type aren’t exactly mentioned although Ghost is described to be pretty big, Reader and ghost eat on the bed, and are shown to be somewhat messy, so if you’re not a fan of that, very sorry if the writing makes you cringe a little. the writer has not re-read the text to check for inconsistencies or spelling mistakes very sorry if it’s a little confusing to read.

Soft blankets and bloody sheets

(I Finally decided to add Titles Lol)

Picture this you wake up one morning after a good nights sleep, the sunlight is spilling through the small gaps of the curtains, you sit up the bed yawning, getting up to start your day, only to look down and find your sheets all bloody spefically where you sat and laid down last night. Great, it’s another one of those weeks again you smack your lips sighing, and you just washed the sheets too, now you have to wash them again.

You grumble taking your towel from the rack and headed towards the bathroom, Ghost opens the door steam flowing out with him he with a towel wrapped around his waist, and had another towel that he was aggressively rubbing on his head, pushing past you muttering, you look at him with a raised eyebrow, him too huh? before you went inside yourself to wash up, and go do laundry right after. You leave the bathroom feeling refreshed and went back in yours and Ghost’s bedroom to put on some clothes, Ghost was already there sitting on the bare mattress of the bed in his boxers and in a sleevless shirt, getting ready to take his testosterone shot for the week, guess Simon already started the washer without you, you place your stained pants and boxers into the hamper and opening the closet to find something to wear.

But not before you take one of the pads you and Simon bought last month and placed it in your underwear, and then putting it on, before finding something comfortable to wear for the day, you decided on an old Black Sabbath T-shirt and some sweatpants, you know Simon might not want to go anywhere today since its his time of the month as well, but you might end up going out to get a few things if you’re up to it, so you might as well wear the jogging pants, you tie the string of the sweats around your hips before you feel a massive weight behind you and a pair of arms wrap around your waist, Simon then presses his face into your shoulder blade grumbling something about eating in bed and watching a movie.

“Im not going anywhere right now Simon, if you want we could just get some snacks and watch shrek three” you say, patting Simon’s arm signaling for him to release, he takes his arms off you rubbing his eyes while making a face “shrek three? really? could’nt have picked a better movie to watch lad?” he replies, “well you can pick if you want, Im going down stairs to replace the sheets up here” you say leaving the room and headed downstairs towards the bathroom closet, you hear Simon trail down stairs as well and head to the kitchen to find something to snack on while you two watch, you head back upstairs with a new set of sheets and blankets in your hands and lay it out on the bed tucking in the sheets and laying out the blankets for you and Simon.

You lie down on the bed getting yourself comfortable within the blankets, Simon then comes in with a couple bags and jars in hand, peanut butter and strawberry jam, a bag of sliced bread, some beef jerky and slim jims, two bags of chips, and some of those chocolate covered pretzels from an Asian mart you both went to last week, you look at him scrunching your brows, “Simon it’s a movie what’re you doing carrying all of that for?” you say getting up and helping him set it on the small fold up table you pulled out from the closet and set it on the bed, “Thought we could have some breakfast, it’s still nine thirty after all” he says opening the chips “pb&j with chips? never seen that combo before” you say getting in bed and Simon drawing the curtains and getting in with you, “its called crisps, not chips” he says taking a bite of a chip.

You ignore him taking the remote and putting on Shrek Three, Simon huffs scrunching his face towards you, you give him a smug smile, taking the chips from him and grabbing a bite for yourself, the movie starts and Simon scoots in closer to you, and pulls you into a hug, he drapes the blanket on both of you, you sigh setting the chips aside, you didn’t stray your focus on the movie, while Simon couldn’t care less, the Shrek series is pretty terrible in his opinion, he just took a bag of one of those chocolate covered pretzels you bought and started eating those while he laid his side on you, not really paying attention to the movie. By the end you both had fallen asleep the movie had long ended and you both had half eaten bread with peanut butter and Jam spread on top, and empty wrappers of slim jims, with open bags of chips on the table, while the Tv screen was still on.

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Author’s note:

Hello there, Ive decided to move my Author’s note to the bottom just so it’s not distracting to the actual fic, I’ve been on a writing binge this past week, and have been trying to catch up on the art stuff I wanted to try, since now I have more free time, and I also might open requests for writing and for fanart/art, so watch out for that I will post about rules, and what kind of things I will post and write about (No commissions though, sorry) just be wary I might not answer on time or post consistently, so feel free to leave comments on posts like these :)

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someuselesslyexpensivecheese · 30 days ago

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happy mermay everyone, Im a little late to it Im sorry

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someuselesslyexpensivecheese · 1 month ago

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the people have asked and I have answered; here’s your order sir, enjoy

Genre:Romance

General warnings: none

Disclaimers: N/A

Author’s note: hi this is my first time writing for this fandom and this is also my very first fanfic I’ve shared publicly, hope you enjoy the story, and feel free to give advice or critique my work since I am very new to writing, otherwise enjoy the fic. -♥️

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Standing in front of you is the man you fell in love with all those years ago, in uniform the one you saw him leave with twenty something years ago, now adorned with medals and patches, his head was shaved due to military protocol…the works, he looked tired eye bags under his eyes, he cleared his throat

“Uhm…hey…..long time no see….” He says giving you that half awkward half cheery grin he always gives you whenever he felt you were upset with him, Simon and you stared at each other for what felt like minutes before you broke the silence “yeah….good to see you too….Simon…” you say eyeing him…

“May I come in?…” he asked you look up at him “huh? oh yeah.. sure…” you say and stepped aside to let him in ushering him to the couch. He sat down his eyes roaming around your home, looking at the photos and furniture displayed.

Your eyes wandered with his before you spoke up “I’ll go put on some tea for us” and scuffled off to the kitchen, “make yourself at home, Simon, maybe put on something to watch” you say from the other room, clattering of metal and the sound of running water can be heard from the other room, before the click of the stove.

Meanwhile Ghost’s eyes remain around the living room walls scanning them studying them, his eyes landed on one particular frame, it was your graduation ceremony, it was the one where you got your bachelor’s in visual arts before you decided to change your course and study mechanical engineering.

Simon stood to look at the Photo closer, you looked so young in that Photo, you still looked like the guy who’d sit in the back of the class and doodle your heart away and lose yourself in another world, the boy he knew in high school, the one who gave sixteen year old Simon Riley half his sandwich because he couldn’t finish it all. That was a lie of course…..Simon knew that you knew, he almost always never had lunch, and if he did it was from their school’s shitty cafeteria.

Ghost chuckled at that memory, you came behind him, Simon didn’t notice until you spoke which made him jump “that ones when I got my bachelors in visual arts, kind of regret it now…” you say, Simon sighed nodding “why’d you decide to change course?” He asked sitting down, there was already a cuppa on the coffee table, one for each of you. You also sit down taking your cup, “couldn’t get into the industry…plus it’s hard to make it as an artist out there…” you say looking down at you tea, you tap the edge of your mug before you look at Simon and say.

“So what brings you here?”

Simon stops mid-sip, he turns his head to look at you, he sets his cup down, and then, clasps his hands together like he’s about to confess something.. “uhm..I- uh….well….I came here for you….” He says, “well yes I know that but why?….” You respond.

Simon goes quiet.

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It was your final day of school and it was being spent outside the building while the rest of your classmates enjoy their time inside celebrating the final day before break and you get a whole month to yourself, you wish you could spend today with Simon…but Simon’s not here is he?….you two had a falling out the week before, he was upset with you…and understandably so, but he didn’t have to shove you to the side three days before and just….leave you….

“I got drafted……signed up for the army…”

You remember those words like it was yesterday….

You were in a phone booth you called his number, and the first thing he says to you isn’t a ‘hello…how are you…’ or ‘maybe we can talk about it another time just give me some space’ no…it was “I got drafted for the army’

“you said we could talk about it face to face, work it out as you always say…” You grumble annoyed, “well what do you want me to do? I can’t just leave now and go back to high school I’m already here” Simon says getting mildly irritated as well “but you could’ve spoken to me about it! It was your idea to speak about our situation! And then you decided to bail on me!” You’re starting to raise your voice.

“Oh yeah, yeah, like I’m the one who decided to put me to worst people you could possibly out me to, and then what? Act like a simple ‘I’m sorry, let’s talk’ will fix everything” Simon sarcastically said.

“For the last time it wasn’t me! And I genuinely thought she was a trusted ally…”

“Trusted?!” Simon almost shouted before he took in a breath “you’re talking about the same girl who taped photos of a first year nude in her bathroom all over the hallways!” Simon yelled this time

“Well I dunno maybe she changed!” You shout into the phone “change my ass just because she was nice to you doesn’t mean she’s ‘change’ that’s your problem…you’re too gullible” Simon replied

You say nothing, you’re completely silent, because you know he’s right, you’re too gullible too trusting…too welcoming of people and now look what happened, someone outed you and your now former boyfriend to the school and now you’re both- well more like, you are now the school’s laughing stock, an outsider, not like you weren’t before being outed, but now you’re even more so.

And Simon left you to deal with the consequences, of your actions…

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Simon’s eyes flicked to you and then back to his cup before saying “I was hoping maybe we could catch up over dinner sometime…” he says his voice getting quieter with each word, you stay silent for a moment “uhm…I’m not….sure…” you say “I can pay” he retorts “you don’t have to spend a dime…” he says, you still stay quiet thinking about his offer while Simon sits patiently twiddling his thumbs on his lap for your answer, you watch him intently “sure….I’ll go” you say, Simon’s eyes light up “you- you mean it?” He said you nodded “but only one dinner…” you’d say to him, Simon’s smile falters a little “oh, uhm…right of course…just one dinner..” he says.

You nodded…

One dinner, just one and you’ll just..keep your distance from him, it’d be a little weird getting back together with someone whom you used to date in high school, no offense to anyone who made it work, but still, things ended badly with Simon, and without a doubt it was kind of your fault, but Simon left you to the hounds to feed off of while he escaped to the military before anyone could say something about him, lucky bastard…

but now he’s here back in your neighborhood inside your house, staring at you, and the framed pictures on your wall and asking you to go out with him…..just like how he asked you out all those years ago, a little weird to be going back to your ex’s house just to ask them out to dinner.

“are you available tonight by any chance?” Simon asked, “4:30….if you’re up to it” You say, Simon nodded and stood “I’ll see you tonight then?” “see you tonight” you say, and with that the conversation ended, you stood from your arm chair and walked him to the front door opening it for him, he turned to you, he looked like he wanted to say something, you interrupted him by waving to him goodbye he just nodded and waved back.

Guess you’ll be seeing him tonight then….

It was three hours before you have to meet up with Simon, and you decided to go to the store and restock some items you’re running low on, like canned tuna, beans, some corn beef, you were running low on milk too…and sausages, so you made a list and headed out you drove thirty minutes to the nearest grocery store, during your trip your thoughts wander back to tonight, you wonder what you’ll wear, where it’s held….shit you probably should’ve asked where you guys are headed before agreeing to the date…..shit….you might have to ask him call him up maybe, you can do it now…wait no that’ll probably make you sound a little desperate, you’ll just do it later.

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“Simon where are we even going?” you ask following him it feels like you’ve been walking for hours pretty sure your legs are going to give out but Simon’s still walking and you were getting more anxious and irritated by the second, because its already seven o’clock and black dress shoes aren’t exactly made for walking, and you haven’t even gotten to the restaurant yet your black dress pants are already covered in soot, and dust, great…just great—these were your good pants too: You huff trying to keep up with the man he had always been the faster walker “Simon you said we’d have dinner” you say in between breaths “we are” he says almost smugly although you can’t see it you want to smack him because you two have been walking for an hour to whatever restaurant he seems to have chosen….by god you’re starting to think this date might’ve been a mistake….unless…

You stop on your tracks and Simon turns seeing that you’re no longer tailing behind him “what’s wrong?” he says “Simon what is this about?” You say mildy annoyed “what do you mean?” he says “where are you taking me Simon? is this a joke?” you say stepping back now cautious of your surroundings Simon’s eyes widened “what?…what’re you on about Im not doing anything Im just taking you to the restaurant” he says stepping forward, you take two steps back this time your breath becoming uneven

“Simon what is this about? where are you taking me? are you going to do something? is this some kind of sick prank to pull on me? is this to get back at me for that time—”you ramble almost franticly not letting him speak you kept going until Simon broke your line of thought by shouting “ITS BECAUSE I STILL WANT TO BE WITH YOU OKAY?” he pants before continuing “ITS BECAUSE IM STILL IN LOVE WITH YOU (name) IM NOT TRYING TO TRICK YOU INTO ANYTHING, IM…..Im still attracted to you” he says his voice going quiet, you froze your feet planting to where your standing looking at him taken—a—back by his sudden burst of anger but also, his confession to you, that came out so quickly you didn’t know what to say…

stares at you, really stares at you before stepping forward he raised his hands towards your shoulders, he hesitated pulling them back before placing his left hand on your shoulder “Im sorry….(name) I really am, I shouldn’t have left you like that I should’ve went to you first and, and, spoken to you in person, I should’ve told you about the military—” before Simon could go on he swallowed almost afraid if he said it he might break down crying, and honestly, you just might break down as well,

“Im sorry I left you to deal with it all alone, Im sorry….you didn’t deserve that, you just wanted friends I get it, but I knew she wasn’t I should’ve been more gentle with you, instead of telling you to just to stay away from her” he says, you look at him for a moment, you look at his eyes almost brimming with tears his hand on your shoulder squeezing you tightly, you ket out a sigh, avoiding his gaze “…Im—Im sorry too, Simon….” you say you glance back at him before looking away again “maybe I should’ve heeded your warning, I wouldn’t have been in that situation if I did..” you say slowly reaching over your shoulder to hold his hand “maybe none of this would’ve happened if I just listened to you and let you explain…” you say fully looking up at him again.

Simon takes a breath srunching his eyes and hugging you, your arms land on his back before you fully hug him back as well, you close your eyes sighing resting your head on his shoulder, you feel him chuckle pulling back from the hug looking at you smiling “we were so stupid back then” he says, you scoff before chuckling with him “yeah…we were….” you say you look back up at him you smile, before leaning in for a kiss Simon kisses you back pulling you closer into his arms, You pull away first from the kiss “man…twenty years…look at you Simon..” you say, Simon smiles “can say the same thing about you…say—are we still catching up over dinner or—t?” he says smiling you chuckle before nodding “alright, alright lead the way, Captain, your the boss” you say pulling away from his hug, Simon gave you a small smirk “it’s Lieutenant..first of all” he says you hit his side “yeah, just lead the way will ya?” you say grinning, while walking with him into the night.

you were both late to your reservation, but still I think you both would call it a successful night.

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