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webslinger-holland · 15 days ago

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Being the Hero | Bob Reynolds from Thunderbolts*

Summary: Being stuck in the bunker forces everyone to work together in order to get out. And one of them ends up kinda being the hero.

Warning: Thunderbolts* spoiler alert, just some swearing and teasing from Walker

Pairing: Bob Reynolds x Fem!Reader

Word Count: 2.4 k

Type: Mini Series

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Peering up into the dark, empty elevator shaft made all of them realize just how hard it was going to be getting out of this place, especially since none of them could see the top. The bunk was at least a mile below the surface of the earth and now the challenge was getting out.

"So none of us fly?" Yelena wondered curiously. She looked around at the group of misfits she'd literally just met not ten minutes ago. "What...do we all just punch and shoot?"

Walker, being his cocky self, stepped forth wearing a proud smirk. He sent a wink Y/n's way, which only caused her to scrunch your nose in disgust.

"Don't worry; I got this," Walker reassured everyone. He really wanted to show off that super soldier serum those scientists gave him, because he somehow managed to jump inhumanly high up through the elevator shaft.

With eyes transfixed on the mass of darkness above them, it only took a few seconds for them to see the super soldier falling back down to their level and landing hard on his backside.

"You should try that again," Ava suggested.

Yelena couldn't wipe the massive smile of amusement from her face. Bob, with hands clasped together and covering his mouth, looked the most concerned. And Y/n simply rolled her eyes at his weak attempt to escape.

"We're pretty far down here," Walker groaned in pain. Yelena giggled to herself as Walker pulled himself to his feet.

"Okay, okay why don't you--," Walker was speaking to Ava. He pointed up and down rapidly. "...walk up through the walls or whatever and then just throw us a rope down."

"Yeah," Yelena agreed.

"Well, first of all, someone other than you would have to ask me. And second, of all I have to know where I'm going because I've never been able to hold it for longer than a minute. So I'd just get lost in an ocean of dirt and then I'd be crushed to death. Alright?" Ava spewed out.

"Just a minute?" Walker seemed unimpressed.

"Oh, shut up." Ava scoffed.

"What about you?" Walker now pointed to Y/n who only stood across from him. All heads turned to look at her expectantly.

"What about me?" Y/n wondered curiously. Her eyes briefly flickered to Bob who stood beside her, only to catch him hastily looking away from her.

"Couldn't you just...manipulate us to go..." Walker pointed up the elevator shaft. She narrowed her eyes in slight confusion. "You know...up?"

"Uh no, I can't make you 'go up' because I don't have telekinesis; I have osteokinesis." She quickly corrected him.

"Oh right," Walker acted as if he knew what she was talking about.

"Which means I could just break every bone in your body and leave you here for dead, but then again, I'd still be stuck down here so we're back at square one." She was growing more frustrated with him by the minute.

"Okay," Walker nodded slowly. He backed off mostly from fear. "That's fair."

"Oh my god, we suck." Yelena groaned and placed her hand over her head.

"Uh...I have an idea," Bob suggested timidly.

Ever so shyly, Bob directed everyone into the middle of the elevator shaft with their backs nearly pressed together. Naturally, when Bob tried to move Walker slightly to the left, Walker threatened him with:

"Don't touch me; just tell me where to stand." And Bob held his hands up in defense.

Moving Yelena and Ava only caused them to stare at Bob questionably. When Bob shifted to stand in front of Y/n, he gently placed his hands on either sides of her arms to move her. She stared up at him with a slight smile tugging at the corners of her lips, which only made him blush and turn away.

"Then we just..." Bob fitted himself to stand besides her. "Link arms."

Everyone rather reluctantly listened to him and laced their arms together. Standing awkwardly in a circle with backs pressed together, each of them waited for something to happen.

"Now what?" Yelena asked.

"We climb," Bob stated plainly. "One step at a time. We keep our backs together to keep us from falling."

"It's not a bad plan," Y/n confessed quietly. Bob's head snapped towards her and he perked up happily. "We can at least try."

Now, after climbing for about twenty minutes, all of them were probably ten feet off the ground. The shear pressure that kept them from falling was the task of keeping their backs pressed firmly together and moving at the same pace.

Walker, always wanting to take charge, instructed them when to take a step with their right foot and when to step with their left foot. They were already growing tired of the same notion, but none of them could let up unless they wanted to fail.

"Ew, which one of you is wet?" Yelena asked in slight disgust.

"I--I run hot," Bob spoke from beside her. "Sorry."

"Someone's got a weird, hard butt." Walker complained.

"That's not my butt, it's my suit." Ava corrected him.

"Well, you need to get a new suit." Y/n suggested because she also felt how hard the suit was against her side. "Something softer, maybe more comfortable."

"Oh, pardon me for the inconvenience. I only spent my entire life in labs, hooked up to machines so I could create this physical cage to keep my material body from disintegrating at all times. Yeah, I'm really sorry about that." Ava spat.

Yelena began to chuckle across from her. "You don't want to start the whole sob story game. I win. Enslaved, child assassin over here."

"Well, you were just a kid, so..." Walker's voice trailed off.

"Oh, so that's a good thing now?" Yelena challenged.

"I'm just saying it might be nice to know that you didn't really know any better," Walker responded and Yelena stopped.

"Thanks; I feel way better," Yelena said sarcastically.

"Does it really matter? We were all experimented on at one point or another. So why don't we just shut up for once and work together so we can get out of this mess?" Y/n spoke over them.

There was a brief moment of silence that fell over them. They'd even stopped climbing.

"I--I like that plan," Bob confessed. Y/n let out a small sigh and hung her head low.

"Thank you, Bob." She nodded in acceptance.

All of them lifted their heads to look up the rest of the length of the empty elevator, grunting and panting from the energy they were exerting. They felt disheartened to find that they were still only staring up into the darkness and couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.

There came some point in which none of them knew how long they'd been climbing or how high up they were anymore. None of them were able to see the ground beneath them, but none of them could see the exit either.

Their legs were growing more sore with each passing minute and their backs ached from how hard they were pressed together. A light sweat had taken over their bodies.

"This is crazy. I can't even see the floor," Ava peered down and Bob shut his eyes tight.

"Can we not talk about how high up we are: I'm just not great with heights," Bob requested.

"Hey, I think I see the door," Walker looked up to spot the opening of the elevator.

Trying to peer around one another, the majority of them could see what Walker was talking about. They shuffled slightly to secure their footing against the wall. Now, they were tasked with trying to figure out how they were all going to get up there.

"Ah...okay, okay. Now what?" Yelena asked once again.

"Uhm, I guess one of us should go," Ava glanced down at her left to see her arms hooked with Y/n's and then to her right where she was linked to Walker. "First?"

"Then the other four immediately fall," Yelena exclaimed in disbelief.

"Shit," Walker cursed to himself, especially with them being so close to getting out of this mess.

"Sorry. I guess I didn't really think this far ahead," Bob apologized.

"Hey," Y/n nudged him slightly in the side so that he'd turn his head and look at her. "It's alright. We'll figure something out."

"Genius plan, Bobby." Walker rudely interrupted them. Bob stared ahead of himself.

"Always making things worse," Bob mumbled quietly, but Y/n managed to hear him.

Ava's boots began to scrape against the stone walls. Her heart felt like it was about to plummet along with her. "Oh, these bloody boots. I don't think I can hold this much longer," Ava confessed.

"Hand me your baton. I can reach it," Walker suggested to Yelena.

"What? No way! You're just going to leave us," Yelena scoffed in disbelief.

"Please don't do that," Y/n requested. She instinctively reached down to grab Bob's hand and squeezed it tightly. He felt the tips of his ears growing red; he was just thankful nobody could see him. "I don't want to fall to my death today."

"Okay, spin us round and I can latch us on," Yelena spoke while glancing towards the opening again.

All the while, Bob began to feel the irresistible tickle growing in his nose. His mouth parted just as the tension was starting to build. He shook his head with the hopes of being able to shake the sneeze off.

"I'm not spinning us around. Okay? Somebody's gotta go first," Walker said loudly.

"Cucumber! Cucumber! Cucumber!" Bob shouted over them. He kept his eyes squeezed shut, fighting every possible nerve in his body.

"What the hell is happening?" Yelena asked with wide, confused eyes.

"Growing up somebody told me that you can stop a sneeze if you confuse your brain, I always just yell cucumber." Bob hastily explained to them.

"Okay?" Y/n seemed slightly confused.

"I have to sneeze. But if I sneeze, you know then I'm gonna loose control," Bob stated.

Each of them felt the sudden pressure of needing to get out of this predicament otherwise they were undoubtedly going to fall. With Ava's boots scraping, Y/n beginning to slide down slightly, and Bob fighting the urge to sneeze, they were running out of time and options.

"This is insane. Okay? I can get us all out of here; I just need to go first," Walker was the only one with a clear shot of the opening.

"No, no, no, no. There's gotta be another way," Ava suggested while peering over her shoulder.

"Oh no," Bob said to himself.

With his head raised back, Bob felt the tickle in his nose returning painfully and his chin quivered as he fought the urge.

"Cucumber! Cucumber! Cucumber!" The three girls yelled with every hope of helping him not sneeze.

"Just give me the thing; I've got it," Walker reached behind him, grabbed the baton from Yelena's back, and launched himself to grapple for the opening.

In doing so, the rest of them began to fall down the elevator shaft. Ava, thinking quickly, grabbed her knives and drove them into the sides of the wall to stop her descent. Yelena grabbed onto her backside and quickly leaned backwards to extend the wire from her wrist.

Falling rapidly head first, the wire wrapped itself around Bob's ankle to stop him from falling any further and he instinctively grabbed onto Y/n before she was able to fly past him.

Both of them, hanging upside down with their chests pressed together, held onto one another like a lifeline. That horrible feeling of falling now leaving their bodies and they were allowed to catch their breath in slight relief.

"I got you, I got you," Bob panted reassuringly. He ignored the pressure of the blood rushing to his head and focused all his attention on the girl in his arms. "It's okay. I've got you," Bob sent her a small smile.

"Bob," Y/n stared at him in complete disbelief; her hair raised comically since she was upside down with him. "Y--you caught me."

"I did, didn't I?" Bob smiled. He felt a small swell of pride in his chest. "Couldn't let you fall."

"I--I don't know what to say," Y/n confessed. Though she was going to say more, but Bob had to stop her. He squeezed his eyes shut and turned his head away from her.

"Hang on," Bob excused himself. He produced a small sneeze. "Sorry."

"Bless you," Y/n smiled back to him.

"You guys okay?" Yelena called down to them.

Meanwhile, Walker managed to find a long rope to throw down to them which allowed them to climb out of the elevator shaft. He held onto the rope tightly and helped each of them out.

"Selfish prick," Ava was mostly annoyed with him as she climbed out.

"Yet you're all safe," Walker commented. Yelena pulled herself out of the elevator shaft. "I made a tactical decision to secure my own safety and ensure all of yours. Pretty ungrateful if you ask me," Walker added.

Peering down into the depths of the elevator shaft, Walker spotted the last two of them who were still climbing the rope. He let out a small scoff.

"You gonna make it, Bobby?" Walker wondered and Bob only glanced up at him. "Look at you being the hero, saving the girl and everything."

Now Bob really turned red in the face upon hearing that. He stayed put and watched as Walker helped hoist Y/n into the opening. She stood tall beside him and brushed the imaginary dirt from her own suit.

"Bet that just makes you swoon, him saving you like a damsel in distress," Walker teased her by bumping her shoulder and Y/n sent him a warning glare. "Bit scrawny, but he's cute." Walked added.

"Shut up, Walker." Y/n rolled her eyes and walked away from him.

With a hand coming up to grab the opening, Bob was practically shaking from all the effort he put into climbing up the rest of the rope. He couldn't help but glare up at Walker who enjoyed watching him squirm a little.

"Looks like you might have missed arm, leg, and chest day." Walker teased one last time.

When Walker offered his hand and Bob clasped onto it, that's when Walker's world faded to black unexpectedly.

PART 2 HERE

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gardensofbabilon · 6 months ago

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✧all that you ever wanted was.. sweet nothing. - Ben Shelton.

☆ a/n: this is not my first language but i am sad so i think i'll juts write small stories.. promise a happy one next!

☆ summary: being together for 4 years has been nothing but a dream, of course everyone envies dating the college top player and the us tennis star.. but do they really know how hard it is for you?

The hot florida air gets into your apartment window as the sun is going down for the 237th time this year. August gets closer to an end - but for your boyfriend this is the best part of the year: flying with you to new york, playing at the center court of his home tournament, this is all he ever wanted.

You were used to be seen, ben has always attracted eyes and everyone's attention for as long as you can remember but honestly, you never cared, all you knew as that inside your small place and in your intimacy he was just another normal guy.

The truth is, being with someone for four years is almost a lifetime. That was a certificate that the two of you would be married very soon - but that was never on board for both of you, at least now that you were never encountering for more than 2 weeks, the dream of being married faded from your memory alongside the great moments you collected on the first two years of being together.

''I'm not going to the open this year'' you announce to him.

''Why? What's wrong?" he says looking into his phone.

"I told you, I'm at my last semester and the final project is due next week. I can't be at two places at the same time.''

Ben sensed the weird tone on your voice, he looked at you imediatly, the room suddenly felt smaller, both of you knew what those words meant.

"I'm sorry, it slipped my mind.. You won't make to any of the games?"

"I don't think i'll ever make to another game, sorry." The words slipped from your month when you least expected it to do so.

It was done. You said it.

A year ago you would never say such a thing, two years ago it would be insane to think like that, the only thing the both of you talked about really was how after graduating he would get you the ring you dreamed for so long and then the wedding plans would go as he played.

The real deal was that 2023 went by and he did what he knew to do best: play well and win, and you watched. You loved the thrill, the joy in witnessing his moves, his joy to be doing what he dreamed and loved, that's how you wanted to stay forever. But them the travels intensified, the distance was bigger every week, the timezone pushed him more, you watched he fade away from your life. Of course you wanted to be there, but as a foreing student with a scolarship you could not afford drop out or just leave uni for weeks to follow him around, these were the types of things that drove him apart more and more.

"What is this about? You can't walk away." he approached you at the couch.

"When was the last time we sat on the couch and actually spent some time together? Or better, when was the last time I talked and you listened when it was not about you or your tennis? Do you even remember our plans ben?"

"Of course i remember, you said that once you graduated you would be at my games.."

"No. The deal was for us to get engaged. See? You can't even recall what you promised me two years ago." You say interrupting him.

"See! We have plans. You can't quit on us, on something we have been thinking and planning for so long.." Ben put his hand over yours "If it's a ring that you want, that's what i get you, just don't.. don't go. I'm so sorry I've been away, it's just that this year has been so much to me.."

You nod, taking a step back and scooping your hand off his.

"I don't want to be a consolation prize ben. You know better than anyone that I'm the most supportive person of your future, I don't mind you playing, you focusing.. what bothers me is that this is all you ever think about. I'm never on your mind, not even when I'm here or when I'm telling you things, you just tend to zone out whenever the words that i say are not related to tennis.''

Ben froze with your words. He could not believe that's how you saw him after so long of being together "Please, don't say that, you are all that matters to me.. I need you."

"I stopped being the thing that mattered the most a long time ago, now all that you want is another huge check on your account. I will not settle for this."

"Please Y/N don't say that, give me one chance to prove you"

"Ben, just leave" I get up pointing at the door. "No more scenes, just go."

He looked at you with a deep sense of sadness in his eyes, you never saw your boyfriend with such a sorrow in his face, not even when you saw him lose the most important matches, but now there was no stepping back.

"You can't do that, I love you." Ben said as he gets closer to you, just a few steps from the door.

"We stopped loving eachother several months ago." You swallow the words as they come out of your month, it had still a sense of weirdness in accepting your fate and seeing that your destiny was not him. Not anymore.

Ben nods as a tear fell from his eyes. "I'm sorry, I really am. Do you really want me to go?"

"I do. Please." You reply looking away from him, avoiding eye contact with every strenght you still had in your body.

"Will we meet again?" He asks with his hand on the door handle.

"I have no idea." You sigh "Goodbye Benjamin."

Ben opened the door and your eyes met for the last time. It was a long time coming. Time froze around you both and the last glance went on for five minutes, the last look on the eyes of the person you spent the past four years staring into every given second. This would never happen again, not in this lifetime, and all you felt was sorry.

"I will miss you" He did not say with his voice, but he mimic with his month as he closed the door before any answer.

maybe in another lifetime. maybe in another universe all our plans would've worked out.

#ben shelton #ben shelton x reader #ben shelton fic #tennis #atp tennis #sad thoughts #taylor swift #ben shelton x you #fanfic #bebs write!!!!

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