Nightmares (Ray Stantz x Reader)
Rating: General Audiences
Word Count: 555
Includes: Tooth- rotting fluff, embarrassing pet names, little spoon!Ray
Summary: You wake your husband Ray up from a nightmare, and comfort him by pointing out a bit of logic he hadn't thought of.
Notes: he deserves to be the little spoon and he loves cheesy pet names don't @ me
^ how are yall gonna post this gif in the tag and not expect me to immediately write about comforting him in the sappiest way possible
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At night you held on to your husband in your sleep, he and to you. You’d done it since you first started sleeping in the same bed, and before that, he told you, he usually slept holding a pillow to his chest. It was how you preferred to sleep, but lately he’s been needing it more than ever.
You woke up after the body underneath your head began moving and twitching, and soon you heard little moans and whimpers coming from above you. You lifted up your head to see Ray’s brow furrowed, his head turned from one side of the pillow to the other as he whimpered again.
“Ray.” you whispered, pulling yourself further up the bed so your face would be level with his. You touched his face softly. “Honey?” You tried again, just slightly louder. His skin felt clammy. His eyes opened, and he looked shocked until he came to his senses. “Huh…?”
“Bad dream again?” You asked, letting your hand drift down from his face to his chest.
He nodded.
“Mr. Stay-Puft?”
He nodded again.
“Come here.”
You rolled over to lay flat on your back, and pulled Ray so he would roll onto his stomach. He moved with you, and put his head on your chest. “I keep thinking… why couldn’t I keep my mind blank? The other guys managed.”
You were running your fingers through his hair. “Ssshh, no, don’t think that way. You did the best thing you could do.”
“It was all my fault…”
“No it wasn’t. Ray, you saved everyone.” The hand not in his hair was rubbing his back, going slowly down as far as your arm could reach, then coming up again to in between his shoulder blades, then slowly back down again. You could feel your pajama shirt getting wet, and you knew he was crying. “Honey, no, don’t blame yourself. Listen, someone would have let something slip into their minds eventually. The way you did it, think of the most harmless thing, that was really the best thing any of you could have possibly done. And you did it, you stopped it. So nothing was your fault. You’re a hero, Ray.”
He looked up at you with those sad, mismatched puppy eyes, still glistening with tears. “You really think so?”
“I know so, baby. It’s the truth. And you’re my hero, especially.” You leaned down and kissed his forehead. “I love you, Ray.”
He put his head back down on your chest, burying his face into it, but this time you could feel that his face was getting hot. You couldn’t help but giggle. “I love you, too,” came his muffled response. He turned his head to the side again, staring out into the darkness of your bedroom. “Maybe you’re right,” he said as you resumed petting his hair again. “Maybe I didn’t choose such a bad destructor after all.”
You smiled down at him. “That’s right. Now try and get some sleep, okay, honey bunny?”
He sighed, and as he did you felt the tension in his body dissipate. You placed one more kiss on the top of his head. “Good night.” You whispered, nearly inaudible, and then you lay awake, scratching his scalp gently and rubbing his back in a slow, steady rhythm, until you were sure he was asleep.
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I absolutely love how ruthless The Monstrous Duke’s Adopted Daughter is to the antagonists and villains of the story.
Sperado family is basically gone. With the Marquis killed by the children during the fire, his wife killed by the Etai (kinda sad that she got killed like that), and their daughter is pretty much on the brink of death even though she’s been cured.
The late empress died by Duke Salvator’s hands herself instead of being left to be on trial. Man it was so satisfying to see the blue haired woman die. But at the same time so shocking cause I did not expect that to happen.
The empress’ lackeys got punished and hanged.
Poor Konrad’s dad got sent to prison for assisting the late empress.
And the Salvators, their staff, Konrad, and the rest of the empire is living happily :D
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i was so obsessed with kurt cobain when i was a kid/teen. i remember reading he had some of the same symptoms i did, especially body dysmorphia, and of course he was obsessed with sexual abuse, many of his songs were about rape and being tied up etc.
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i do think it’s funny that teddy fully is not david’s type. the little throwaway about him liking good guys isn’t wrong, but good guys come in a lot of different brands and teddy just doesn’t really click with david’s. even in terms of just people he holds close to him as friends, like josh and laurie, or if you look at his romantic history which is just nori pre-tommy, he really does lean towards bold, fast paced people with really strong personalities. teddy is .. not the opposite maybe but very different than nori, and i think it’s interesting to consider that him and nori ended so badly that although he did and does love her (despite no longer being in love with her) he wondered if the type of stability he was looking for wasn’t achievable between two very challenging people. he connected teddy with this idea of a perfect relationship that wouldn’t hurt and then had to realize that relationships in general are just complicated and never as simple as he wants everything to be.
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imagine being someone at new rome university and not knowing percy is the same guy as “percy jackson, son of poseidon, two-time hero of olympus, former praetor” because the thought doesn’t even cross your mind. like… he’s percy. he’s a total frat boy. on a normal night, he walks into a party, refers to everyone as bro or dude, socializes with every living (and not-living) person in the room, makes at least 50 sarcastic comments, plays 12 rounds of beer pong, drinks way too much, and then skates around campus on his skateboard yelling “I LOVE NEW YORK” (which makes no sense, because they’re in california) until someone calls his girlfriend to come get him.
and then one day there’s an attack, and frat boy percy is all of a sudden a fighting machine. he’s yelling battle cries alongside the praetors frank zhang and hazel levesque as they lead everyone into battle. (why is he with the praetors? and why…. why in the world do the praetors seem to be following his lead?) his sword slashes through armies of monsters faster than you’ve ever seen. he’s controlling the entire river surrounding the camp, creating huge waves as tall as skyscrapers that crash down all around him, wiping out monsters and causing mass destruction to his enemies’ ranks. the sky is suddenly dark above you, ice-cold water droplets are slashing through the air, and the wind is blowing so aggressively that it’s making it hard to stand up steadily. because he’s somehow created a hurricane.
and he looks terrifying. you can feel the power radiating off of him. he’s like a god. or maybe a monster. it’s hard to tell. you’re a little scared of him, to be honest. but also in total awe, because it’s extraordinary. he’s extraordinary.
frat boy percy is not who you thought he was.
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