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[sabertoothwalrus]

predictions for rest of Owl House season 3

I can't see an ending to this show not somehow creating a permanent bridge between the Human and Demon Realms, but how are they gonna get there? I think the answer is in...

✨The Stars✨

One of the first things that brought this to my attention was in Reaching Out, when Luz & Amity send a flower into the sky, and it's directly paralleled by Camila's flower vase:

Amity: Do you think they'll reach the Human Realm? Luz: Probably doesn't work that way, but... it's a nice thought, right?

Now, in Thanks to Them, we have TWO scenes where Luz literally reaches for the stars (the sun a clear reference to the Collector), MULTIPLE shots of light spells floating upwards (into the sky), Gus and Hunter discussing space travel, and the very last shot of the special itself panning up from the cemetery portal to the night sky.

But, how DO they reach the stars? I highly doubt this show would go towards a literal space travel route. I think, obviously, the Collector is a part of it, but I think it's also a matter of someone getting high enough to reach.

Perhaps maybe.... as tall as a titan?

Clearly, there's a lot of shared history between titans and the Collector. And titans themselves have their own fair share of celestial imagery:

(notice the titan skeleton LITERALLY BEING AS HIGH AS THE PLANETS AND ASTEROIDS)

Perhaps this is why the titans and the Collector have been at odds. Maybe, the titans could use the stars to travel, and for whatever reason, the Collector didn't like that.

And if titans can travel through the stars, it might also solve the mystery of King's mother's whereabouts.

We know the Boiling Isles titan is King's father. And the Boiling Isles is OLD. The Hecktaceous Period is a really vaguely ancient era that doesn't directly parallel one specific era on Earth, so it's hard to put a time frame on it. Either way, all life on the Boiling Isles evolved FROM the Boiling Isles, and did not exist prior.

But..... Bill saw a titan somehow? Bill isn't from the Boiling Isles, and he's old, but it seems unlikely that he's older than literally all life on the Boiling Isles. And King HEARD a titan, who roared, "son". King is about 8 years old, but we don't know how long he was in his egg before he hatched.

It SEEMS implied that "the last titan" the trappers were after was supposed to be King, but that might not necessarily be the case...

Bill: But if you think Belos is evil, you've never seen a live Titan. The children out there haven't either. [The trio looks outside the window, but Hooty notices something to his right and stretches towards that direction. Cut to the King lookalike demons cheering at him as he stands in front of a waterfall.] Bill: Don't know a thing about their ravenous appetites, or their terrible cries! Even their babies act like little monarchs. The last living Titan, I saw it once before it disappeared. Its hateful roar blew out my eardrums. How did it go? "Weh!"

Bill: [Rolls up his sleeve.] You like our disguises? [Takes off his glove to reveal a hand.] You gotta look like a Titan to trap one. [Puts on his glove back.] But if I ever find that missing Titan, I'd hunt it down, tear it limb from limb, and mount its head in pride as we release the Huntsman! Then... we can finally go from being Titan Trappers to Titan Slayers! Say, who's your buddy's tailor? His costume looks so real!

it sounds to me like there's a titan Bill saw that isn't the Boiling Isles or King.

And if you look back at the mural of the trapper fighting a titan, the titan is depicted with a longer face than what the Boiling Isles actually has. Maybe.... *that's* King's mother?

So, where did she go? The stars? But if they connect to the Human Realm, where would she be?

Funnily enough, in Connecticut (you know, the state Luz is from), there's geological structure called The Sleeping Giant.

Just a thought.

[kainetestament]

WandaVision Theory

Good Day Everyone, my 1st post for the year 2021.

I was unable to post anything back then (because Tumblr is not letting me post images), and now I am posting for possible theories for WandaVision, and this is as of Episode 7. Please be reminded that this post contains spoilers, so if you don’t wanna read them, you have been warned and you can go back. Also,  I’m gonna skipped on some references as those has been tackled by others already (such has Malcolm in the Middle, Kick-ass, etc), I will focus only on Marvel related franchise, character behaviors and sentence phrasing interpretations.

For those who hasn’t seen it yet, we can simplify that WandaVision is a Online Drama / Sitcom style series by Disney and Marvel Studios that stars both Wanda Maximoff and the Vision. Wanda and the Vision are trapped in the world of sitcom and is being broadcasted to S.W.O.R.D temporary base. So far, Episode 1 takes back in 1950′s sitcom, episode 2 is 1960′s, Episode 3 is 1970′s, Episode 4 is current reality, Episode 5 is 1980′s and Episode 6 is 1990′s, and now its the current era (based on the console game the kids are playing which looks like a Wii).

But before we jump to that, lets talk about first the "WandaVision Plot Leaked" which was first published in 4chan and someone reposted it on reddit (I dont have the name so I'm sorry).  Of course when I first read it, I was also skeptical about it, but at the same time, lets give it the benifit of the doubt and lets see which one will come true and which one is not.

I just numbered and bolded them for easier read, and added ❀ for my side comments about the "plot leak". Also, I'll refer to X-Men Pietro as PETER (because that's how he's called in that world), and ATJ as Pietro.

1. Wanda is a SWORD agent after Endgame which you might already know includes Darcy, Jimmy Woo and Monica Rambeau.

❀ No conclusive information yet, though not impossible because we saw in Episode 5 Wanda stormed into S.W.O.R.D HQ, looking angry and took Vision's body. Hayward said in his comment that its a highly sensitive material and Vision's body location considered a top secret. It's impossible to get this information unless she has an access to it or at least someone she knows has.

2. Woo was recruited from FBI to SWORD to keep check on superpowered beings after Sokovia Accords lost influence.

❀Agent Woo is indeed working in partnership with S.W.O.R.D as of the moment, but he is still wearing his "FBI" vest, indicating he’s still with FBI and is just working alongside with SWORD because he was with Monica and witnessed her disappeared.

3. Wanda was sent to investigate as a SWORD agent..but she was also a part of the team to keep check on her.

4. Wanda as of now is placed in a real illusion. The sitcom world she sees is real with real people of the town – but one can't see so from the outside.

❀ This is true, this is the current event going on in the series.

5. Wanda came in contact with Mysterio who allowed her to gain Vision back and live a peaceful life – based on sitcoms she used to watch as a kid.

❀Mysterio, a lot of people commenting ill about him (for this post – and was thinking it could probably be a typo for Mephisto), but if we look at the timeline, Spiderman Far From Home is set 8months after the blip reversal, WandaVision however, is 3weeks to a month after the blip was reversed. In Episode 4, Hayward mentioned "It's been 3 weeks, and you're first to report" to Monica, and if we go back, the huge TV screens (just after the Marvel Intro) in SWORD's HQ lounge captions the news with "Globe Celebrations Continues" "The Blip Brings Back Loved Ones" indicating the blip just reversed.

6. Mephisto will stay close to the couple and keep watch over them (he is in the rabbit currently). His plan is to obtain Wanda's kids in the hopes they'll be powerful sorcerers he can control. He deems Wanda too dangerous to control in the long run.

❀Agness is INDEED keeping a rabbit and has been seen in Episode 2 and current Episode 7. But whether that is Mephisto or not is not yet conclusive.

7. Sword is trying to maintain contact with Wanda who is lost in her subconscious. Whenever she realizes it, she rejects it.

❀This happened in Episode 4 when Agent Woo and Darcy tried to contact Wanda from the outside the HEX using the radio.

8. The entire show isn't gonna be a sitcom as marketed. We'll see Wanda fighting Sword near the end until Woo manage to make her realize that she's lying to herself.

❀Still inconclusive if Agent Woo will really do that but she already confronted the SWORD in Episode 5, Hayward is indeed planning the attack.

9. The couple will face numerous villains in the final episodes – the ones who were manipulating them...!

10. Kathryn Hahn's Agnes is Agatha Harkness. She was a witch who was given away by her son (I'm not sure if her son will appear onscreen or not) and was burnt alive.

❀It is finally revealed in Episode 7 that Agness is indeed Agatha Harkness, but we will probably find out if she was sold off by his son in the next upcoming episode.

11. She too made a deal with Mephisto who allowed her to live. She befriended Wanda for her children but will become an actual friend to her.

12. However by the end she will be possessed by Nightmare who'd take advantage of Wanda's powers to break open the Multiversal seal – which will of course carry forward to DS2.

13. Dottie will be revealed to be Clea.

14. Grim Reaper will act as Ralph – Agatha's "husband" who Vision would go against in the climax.

15. Sword has a special device which was implanted on Wanda before she was sent. Essentially the events going on are being translated by her subconscious as a sitcom which can be seen by Sword agents (like Darcy) who are confused about what's happening with Wanda.

❀Still inconclusive but not impossible considering Darcy is the WandaVision sitcom.

16. Monica managed to enter Wanda's town while she was asleep in a helicopter. Sword will again try to break in. ❀Half wrong, half right - Monica sent a drone helicopter inside the HEX and Wanda first felt its presence as shown in Episode 2 (after the Marvel intro) when Wanda was still asleep (she heard noises), and in Episode 4, Monica came close to the HEX after her drone disappeared and got sucked inside of the HEX.

17. Monica would try to help Wanda realize the truth after getting her conscious back, but Wanda will get pissed off when she says her Vision isn't real and will throw her away from the town (to the outside world) using her powers.

❀Half wrong, half right - Monica is indeed making Wanda realize the truth and this occurred on Episode 7. In Episode 3, Wanda did sent Monica out of the HEX calling her an outsider when she commented that Pietro was killed by Ultron, not because Vision is dead.

18. Quicksilver will return! And I know it sounds stupid, but Evan Peters is playing him. Aaron will appear in a couple of episodes.

❀Indeed, Peter (Even Peters) of X-Men Universe showed up at the end of Episode 5 and is present the whole Episode 6, and Pietro (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) did appear in flashbacks (so far).

19. Wanda slowly starts remembering a few people of the outside world (including her brother). She is trying to figure out if she had a sibling herself, finding it weird why she wouldn't remember him.

❀Inconclusive - so far, it is projected that Wanda is in a state of denial. Though other than Vision, not a single one of the Avengers are mentioned here by her.

20. Meanwhile her subconscious starts to associate powers of the heroes she has known to random civilians of town.

21. She has twins Billy and Tommy who also have powers. One of them has superspeed and she remembers her brother (but not fully).

❀True - Wanda now have twins and Tommy is shown to have super speed, as shown in Episode 6 and Billy having telepathy, clairvoyance and telekinesis, similar to her mom’s power

22. There's one more. Vision will feel a bit weird none of the kids look like him. So they'd create a daughter based off Vision (Viv).

23. Quicksilver returns played by Aaron. However the presence of a real dead dude starts breaking the illusion. ❀Yet to happen but, makes one wonder how he'll get back to life.

24. Grim Reaper (Ralph) will be revealed and he befriends Quicksilver. He'll get him written out of the show and Quicksilver gets recast to Evan Peters.

25. The only one who finds it off is Viv. She is confused why Quicksilver doesn't look the former one. She tries to make others realize that. But they think she hates her uncle.

26. There will be a rerun of all the sitcom episodes. Wanda will break out from her illusion midway in the show to her actual living room in her subconscious.

❀I'm not sure of the rerun as its yet to happen, and I'm not sure if this break out of her illusion is the one that happened on current Episode 7 where Wanda fixed the couch and the TV.

27. Vision here is nothing but a puppet. At this point Wanda realizes the entire illusion but she gets heartbroken realizing her children weren't real.

❀It is already implied that Vision is indeed a puppet. Wanda realizing everything is an illusion is yet to happen.

28. She flips the channels to find her children again and decides to enter the sitcom-y world once again.

29. Darcy will end up there too and she will reveal Vision the entire truth (having watched all the sitcom episodes and analyzed what causes the changes).

❀Exactly as shown in Episode 7.

30. Wanda will be unwilling to leave her world even after her fight against the Sword stops.

31. Mephisto will take control of Quicksilver's body. Agatha will turn on him.

32. Wanda will try to send Quickie back to his universe in the end with Agatha's help but Nightmare will use it as an opportunity to seize control of Agatha.

33. The Nightmare part will only be revealed to the audience (not Wanda herself). Story carries over.

34. There are flashbacks of Wanda's life. A lot of which are seen by Darcy who tries to understand the extent of her trauma.

35. Yes Aaron will appear in flashbacks. Wanda will be shown a lot of these in the final episodes where she'd also find how the Mind Stone just unlocked her innate powers.

❀He did

36. Evan Peters will tell how in his universe Mutants are pretty common (just a tease).

❀ If this is true, then its only Peter will be the only mutant to appear in the series.

37. The ads in the show are all related to her trauma. There will be ads about Pietro's death, Lagos explosion and even a vacuum cleaner based on Thanos.

❀ The Ads - somehow true, related to her trauma. The first commercial with the oven possibly be a reference to Age of Ultron where commented Pietro and Wanda commented that when they were 10y.o, a bomb shell fell into their house but did not detonate, they were staring at it for 2 days because they were trapped and waiting for help while thinking every shift on bricks will set if off. Episode 2 has the Strucker watch referencing also to Age of Ultron where Strucker experimented on them using Loki’s scepter. Episode 3 is about escaping reality with the Hydra Soap (with the shape of the Tesseract), Episode 5 with Lagos Paper Towel representing her messed in Captain America Civil War when she tried to save Cap, Episode 6 with the animation of Yo-Magic with a Shark talking using a caption "If you're hungry, eat Yo-Magic", and lastly Episode 7 with Nexus medicine that promotes killing when you are depressed.

38. The couple in each of the ads is her parents who are acting as stand-ins for events based off her trauma.

❀Yes, that is the speculation.

39. Vision will help Wanda accept the reality and move on. He gives her his farewell and fights Grim Reaper, hoping to destroy the dome after sacrificing his life.

40. Wanda saves Vision in a scene which mirrors Age of Ultron. He will return back to real world along with their children, Agatha, Quickie and rest of the town/Sword.

41. Wanda is happy Vision is alive and sings a song to him, but it turns out he is effectively rebooted after the fight. Unable to bring his memories back, Sword leaves with Vision.

42. Her children are also hidden by Nightmare-Agatha. Wanda gets torn and tries to move on, unaware to her Nightmare is opening up the Multiverse for unknown reasons.

I will end this first here as the post is getting longer, and will continue with the part 2 and will discuss it further.

[kathrynmaslow]

Love Lies 5/15

Summary: Ever since Emma was 13, she knew she had the ability to destroy people if she wanted to, and some days, she really wanted to. After being forced to go to Greenwood Academy following a traumatizing event in her childhood that brought to the surface her ability to manipulate fire, she never thought she would be free of the place. So for nearly 10 years, she lived a solitary existence with the exception of her best friends, but that was all about to change.

Killian Jones had just been sentenced to attend the university campus at Greenwood Academy after an accident at sea caused him to be dishonorably discharged from Her Majesty’s royal Navy and lose his hand. He doesn’t know what to think about these newfound powers and what they spell for the rest of his now not-so-normal life. But a chance encounter one day has the ability to change all of that.

A story about love and redemption between two people that shows, if you have the right person beside you, you can find a light in the darkness.

Rating: M Content Warnings: Mentions of Violence/Death, Brief mention of Childhood Abuse/Sexual Assault, Mild Sexual Content Chapter Notes: Chapter 5 is here folks! This is actually one of my favorite chapters in this entire work so I am excited for you to read it as well!

Check out the amazing art work that my artist @princesse-swan did for both chapter 3 on tumblr. Thanks again as always to my beta @daveyjacobsthepotterhead for taking this work and helping me turn it into something great. You are the literal best.

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Chapter 5 Emma sat down on the edge of the wall surrounding the plant beds at the entrance to campus from the dorms. Unwrapping her grilled cheese and tomato sandwich, she looked out at the rows of dorm buildings lining the main walk onto the academic campus.

The sidewalks were abandoned, with nary a soul on campus to be found. Many of the students went home during the fall break about halfway through the term, and Emma took advantage of some time just to herself that she didn’t have to spend in her room.

While she enjoyed time with her friends while they were on campus, she did enjoy having the campus pretty much to herself during the breaks where everyone who wasn’t high risk got to go home. If she remembered correctly, after Elsa moved into a community in Alaska last summer, there were about 17 other students that had a full run of the campus to themselves.

Losing Elsa as a friend had been hard. She had arrived at the academy after Emma had, and could have been considered her polar opposite in every way. While Emma burned hot, Elsa burned cold, with extensive gifts of ice and snow, she proved quite the challenge for the staff to contain, considering that she could freeze off her suppression gear and not be affected by them at all. She was someone that Emma could relate to, someone who could understand the beast that prowled beneath her skin, and losing that confidant last semester had been something that she truly hadn’t fully bounced back from yet.

Taking a bite out of her sandwich, Emma just sat and watched the leaves fall from the trees.

o.O.o

Killian didn’t know what to think about how quiet the campus had become once fall break had begun.

Yes, he had been told that all the students who weren’t high risk students would be allowed to visit home for the two weeks that classes were on break, but he hadn’t realized how truly empty the campus would feel.

He spent the first two days of the break wandering around campus to see who was around.

A few of the administration members were lingering around with the multitude of security officers watching the campus, but he had only run into a handful of other students.

There was one gentleman named Eric, who had the power to create storms out of thin air. He was a perfectly nice guy, but after living 6 years of his life on a boat, he decided not to trust anyone who could sink a ship on a whim.

Another woman named Cruella had the ability to control people with her voice. How they regulated that power, Killian couldn’t fathom, but it was probably for the best.

On the third day, it seemed as though he was in luck.

While wandering through the abandoned floors of the library, he stumbled upon Emma bent over another drawing book sketching.

Thankfully she didn’t have any headphones over her ears this time, so he didn’t have any chance of ruining her artwork, but he still made the effort to make a bit of noise against the door as he walked in.

Emma looked up at him in shock.

“Killian, what are you doing here?” She asked.

“Wandering through the library, but I don’t suppose that is what you meant by the question.” He stated. He had never mentioned to her that he was a high risk student before and Killian had to imagine that this was a bit of a shock.

“I am so sorry, that completely came out wrong. However, that was what I had meant by the poorly phrased question.” Emma said, tucking her hair behind her ear as she flushed in what Killian presumed was embarrassment.

“It’s fine Swan, truly. I know you didn’t mean anything horrible by the remark.”

“I am a bit curious though, what kind of powers do you have that make you a high risk student?” Emma said, pushing her notebook to the side and leaning towards him.

He caught a glance at the notebook as it turned towards him slightly, and he grasped at the chance to change the subject. He didn’t even like thinking about his powers, so he really didn’t want to talk about them with someone else.

“Emma, this is amazing.”

It was, truly. Drawn out on the page was the image of a woman, long black hair hanging over her shoulders, one bloody hand clutching a dagger to her chest and the other grasping a heart. There was no color to the design yet, but she had shaded in where the blood was likely soaked into the woman’s hair and dress. The entire thing was hauntingly beautiful.

“I know an attempt to distract me when I hear it.” Emma said.

“I wasn’t trying to distract you, I genuinely like your art.” He retorted.

“I also am pretty good at knowing when someone is lying to me. And while you do like peeking at my sketches, you were lying that this wasn’t a distraction.” Emma said, looking adorably smug when she said it.

He couldn’t help but smile in response. “Fine,” Killian said, rolling his eyes. “Maybe I was trying to get you off my tale, but I would prefer not to talk about this. It’s not something I am truly comfortable with and, while I do enjoy your company and think of you fondly like a friend, I don’t think this is something I can tell you about.”

Emma stared at him for a long moment before nodding her head.

“I can accept that, there are things about myself, and events that have happened to me that I don’t talk about to anyone else. I can understand needing time to process things that are traumatic before being able to open up to someone else.” She said.

“Since we aren’t talking about anything related to our powers or our past,” She said, pausing to look up at him meaningly. “Why don’t you tell me something that I probably wouldn’t know about you.” She said.

When Emma was smiling at him like that, He couldn’t deny her anything.

“I actually am a bit artistic myself. I do the occasional doodle.” Killian said.

Emma’s eyebrows rose in surprise. “Really, I wasn’t expecting that.”

“There are a lot of things about me that you wouldn’t expect Swan.” He said, relishing the flush that spread across her face in response to his quirked eyebrow and tongue in cheek.

“Alright Killian, let’s see what you can do.” She said, pulling blank sheets from her book for the both of them and handing him a pencil.

“What do you want me to draw for you Love?” He asked, taking the pencil from her and working to move the paper into the position he wanted it in with his other wrist.

“Whatever inspires you right now.” She said.

He looked up into her bright green eyes and knew exactly what he wanted to draw.

“How long are you going to give me?” Killian asked.

“Let’s say, finish in an hour. Whatever you can finish by that point in time is what you’ve got.” Emma said.

“Challenge Accepted.” He said, turning to his work and beginning his attempt at replicating perfection.

o.O.o

Emma and Killian were spending the afternoon out in the courtyard between the college campus and the lower campus when they heard it.

Killian stopped mid-sentence in his retelling of how his brother got stuck by the back of his shorts in a tree when they were younger and cocked his head.

“Swan, does that sound like crying to you?” He asked.

Emma listened harder, facing further towards the lower campus where Killian was pointing towards. Sure enough, it did sound like someone was crying.

She stood, gesturing for Killian to follow, heading towards the lower campus.

Normally, students on the college campus were not allowed to venture onto the lower campus, but since it was a school break, students were allowed to roam the grounds as they pleased.

They walked past the first handful of buildings before they could finally locate the sound.

Curled into a ball between two of the buildings and crying into his hands was a boy with a mop of brown hair.

The young boy could have been no more than 12, which was incredibly young for someone to come to the academy.

But then again, Emma had arrived around that age as well.

Emma flashed back to one of her first days on the campus, reeling from being separated from her family and forced to move halfway across the country to a place she didn’t know and getting surrounded by people she was unfamiliar with.

She had also spent a few nights crying from the loss. The loss of her brother, the loss of her mother, the loss of the only home she had known.

The loss of her normal life.

She turned to see Killian watching her with a speculative gaze. She only shook her head at him.

Turning back to the little boy, she walked slowly towards him, since he still hadn’t noticed them standing there.

“Hey, are you okay?” She asked, crouching down in front of him.

The boy visibly started, looking up at her in surprise.

“What? Who are you?” He asked.

“My name is Emma, and this is Killian,” She said, gesturing behind her at Killian, who was still standing back from them at a good distance.

She noted that his blunt wrist was tucked behind his back.

“Are you okay?” She asked again.

The boy sniffled, nodding his head in agreement even though a few fat tears still escaped his eyes to fall down his cheeks.

“What’s your name?”

“Henry,” He said, sticking his hand out in greeting.

“Well Henry, it is a pleasure to meet you. When did you start your stay here?” Emma asked. He didn’t seem the type to be a new high risk student since he didn’t have any suppression items on that she could see, but you never know.

“My mom dropped me off this morning.” Henry said, sniffing loudly again, his lower lip quivering.

“Well, it sounds like you could use a friend, would you like to hang out with me and my friend for the rest of the day?” Emma asked.

Nodding his head, he stood up and fell into her extended arms.

He shook a little with quiet cries, and Emma rubbed his back in a soothing manner.

Killian came around in front of her, and placed his hand on the back of Henry’s shoulders and rubbed slow circles as well.

“You know Henry, I remember my first night that I spent away from all my family.” Killian said.

Henry pulled away from her slightly, turning to look at Killian.

“Really, I thought it was the most terrifying thing that could ever happen to me at the time.” Killian admitted. “Would you like to hear about it?”

“Is it a scary story?” Henry asked, standing fully away from Emma.

“Not really, it only seemed like it at the time. Why don’t you come for a walk with Emma and I, we had a lunch sitting out in the courtyard.” Killian stood, extending his gloved hand for Henry to take.

Emma smiled, watching Killian lead Henry towards their impromptu picnic sight, weaving an exaggerated story of a 20 year old man sleeping away from home for the first time, and crying himself to sleep.

Killian winked over his shoulder at her once he got Henry laughing at his story.

With that wink, Emma felt something she was pretty sure would grow into love start blooming under her breast.

o.O.o

Killian was walking around campus outside.

It was pretty close to the time he went to bed, but it was fixing to storm out, lightning streaking across the sky and thunder rolling in across the campus, and it made him restless.

The barrier surrounding the campus kept out all supposed threats against their safety, but unfortunately, couldn't prevent the rain from falling on them.

His thoughts were occupied with thoughts of Henry, that young lad they had found on campus earlier.

Emma had told Killian that he was a bit of an anomaly when he mentioned that his gifts had only just manifested at 25 years, but he didn’t know they could start showing that early.

The young lad hand only just turned 12 a few weeks ago, a fact the young lad had divulged to them while they were splitting ham and cheese sandwiches and cheetos in the middle of campus during the day.

He had something relatively minor as a gift, something that doesn’t require him to stay on campus during school breaks like him and Emma have to.

When they revealed that fact to the lad, it seemed to turn his entire spirit around, from sniffeling and sad to bright and chipper.

Almost a bit too bright, considering the lad started glowing on them.

He was so lost in his thoughts that he was pretty spooked when he heard a voice off to his left.

“Killian?”

He whirled around, and found Emma sitting on a low wall surrounding a garden in the yard.

“Emma, what are you doing out here?” he asked, tucking his hand into his pocket as he made his way over to her.

“I could ask you the same thing.” She said, watching as he came over and sat down next to her.

“Couldn’t sleep, decided to go for a bit of a walk.” He said, shrugging his shoulders a bit.

“Me neither.” Emma said, pulling one of her knees up to her chest and wrapping her arms around it, resting her chin on her knee.

“Yeah, but I couldn’t sleep because of the storms, I don’t think that was the case for you. What’s vexing you love?”

Emma turned to look at him, but once she noticed him looking at her, she turned her face away.

A flash of lightning across the sky lit up her face for a split second, and Killian could have sworn he saw tear tracks tracing down her cheeks.

It wasn’t until after the rumble of thunder rolled over campus a couple of seconds later that she began to talk.

“I started at the academy here when I was 13, not much older than Henry is. I guess seeing him today brought back some memories of when I first arrived here.”

“I can’t even imagine what that would have been like.” He said, when it became obvious that she wasn’t going to continue. It was so unlike her to open up about anything to him when it came to how she started at the academy, so he was going to have to take it as it came.

“It was lonely.” She said, still not looking at him.

Killian watched a few more bolts of lightning flash across the sky, the air becoming damp and oppressive as the storm continued its advance towards them.

Neither one of them made any move to leave and avoid getting poured on, but Killian wasn’t inclined to leave her alone.

He never could leave her like this.

“I lost everything. Henry gets to keep his family, he gets to go back to his mom, see his dad, and play with his brothers and sister. I got none of that.” She looked over to him, her eyes rimmed in red, and something in Killian’s chest tightened.

She had obviously been out here a while before he had happened upon her.

“My mother disowned me, my father was already long gone, and I haven’t seen my older brother, my best friend and partner in crime, in person in almost ten years. I didn’t get to see him get married and I didn’t get to see the birth of my niece. And it’s not fair.”

Something in her voice cracked when she said “fair”, and Killian wanted desperately to pull her into his arms and give her a hug, but she was so closed off that he didn’t think it would be well received.

At that moment, the heavens decided to open up and the rain came pouring down on the two of them.

Killian looked up at the sky, the rain hitting his face with wet plops that made water run into his eyes and he blinked rapidly to clear them.

Turning to look at Emma, he felt the rain continue to soak into his hair and shirt, and he wondered absently if it would ruin the mechanics in his glove getting them this wet.

Getting a good look at Emma for a second, he had to choke back on a laugh.

“What?” She said, hearing his choked off laugh and turning to face him after looking up at the storm clouds above them as well.

“Sorry, I don’t mean to laugh, truly love. But you’re steaming.” Indeed, little wiffs of steam were rising from where the rain was splattering down onto her bare skin.

He pressed his lips together in an effort to keep himself under some measure of control.

But it seemed to be in vain as a large smile broke out on her face, wiping away the lingering sadness in her expression from their conversation.

“Did I never mention that I may run a bit warmer than a normal person?” She said, chuckling a bit as she asked him.

“No, but that might be a useful thing, considering that I am now soaking wet and cold.” Killian laughed.

“Oh no you don’t, that is entirely your own fault.” Emma said, moving away as he leaned towards her, but it wasn’t in fear of him. No, she could tell he was playing with her.

“Come here and warm me up Emma!” He said, lunging after her.

She leapt off of the wall with stunning speed, darting across the yard in a blur of damp blond hair trailing behind her.

And as he chased her around, moving after her and sliding around in the mud enough to cause them both to burst into further hysterics, something warm bloomed up in his chest.

It felt like the first ray of sunshine after a storm, and he wanted to hold onto that feeling as long as he could.

Wrapping his arms around her from behind as they both went sliding through another patch of mud, Killian pulled her close as he tried to keep them both upright.

They were both laughing as he turned her around to look at him, her arms coming around him in turn.

Something in her expression changed, some of the laughter and lightness transitioning into something curious.

His eyebrows pinched together, getting ready to ask her what she was thinking about when Emma pushed up on her toes and pressed her lips to his.

It was like that first ray of sun, and when the seas are calm and the sky is blue, and that first bite of fresh summer fruit after a long, cold and dark winter.

Her lips were soft against his, and he pressed back, tightening his arms around her and forming his lips more firmly with hers.

They broke apart with a start when a peel of thunder began right above them.

She gave him a tentative smile, and took his hand. “Come on sailor, let’s get you out of the rain.”

o.O.o

The rain had fried some of the electronics in his glove, and he couldn’t move his fingers the next day, but he wouldn’t have changed that night for anything.

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Covert Shirt Store V2 hi you're about to see have a point-and-click simple covert shirt store WordPress theme makes it super easy to create your own viral t-shirt empire in just minutes this advanced professional wordpress theme helps you eliminate risk and pull in huge paychecks without having to design a single t-shirt yourself or spend a single cent on ads and it has viral social media sharing built-in so it sucks in free traffic from facebook when a low Pinterest reddit tumblr LinkedIn and Google+ for you all on complete auto-pilot now let's take a quick guided tour of the theme so you can see just how easy it is to build your own t-shirt store empire today here's our demo site and this is how it looks straight out of the box so you can see it's a clean professionally designed theme as well as being fully mobile responsive resizing the content to display correctly on any mobile device and as a true WordPress theme you have total control over the look and feel of the site so you can tweak it to exactly the appearance you want for your site now before we take a look under the hood I want to cover one of the themes most powerful tricks it automatically optimizes itself to show the most popular t-shirt at the top the theme tracks the impressions and clicks that each shirt gets and then displays the ones with the highest converting designs first to increase your Commission's you can also set it to display the newest designs at the top as a default if you prefer and the visitors have the option to reorder the content themselves here at the top of the page either by the newest or by the pop most popular t-shirts on each shirt post for image the title and the button are all links and you can choose whether these take your visitor through to the t-shirt post itself on your site or straight through to the purchase page for that t-shirt now I've got it set up to go to the post and clicking through you can see the post itself with the Buy button and the Add to Cart button you also have all the social media sharing links for Twitter Facebook Pinterest LinkedIn Google+ reddit tumblr and Juanillo making it really quick for people to share your designs across all the major social media sites bringing in more free traffic for you you'll also notice over on the right-hand side we have built-in widgets for displaying the most popular t-shirts and the newest t-shirts to catch people's attention and if I click on one of these you'll notice it opens up in a new browser tab or window so the t-shirt page that the visitor was originally looking at isn't lost to them and when we scroll down you can see there's a widget that will display any related t-shirt based on the tags and categories for that particular shirt as well as fully integrated Facebook comments so you're tagged posts in facebook will show up in other people's timelines with the backlinks and help bring in even more viral traffic this also helps you get backlinks to your site from Facebook helping your rankings in Google as well the covert shirt store theme also has built in audience and lead generation so you can see that when I go to leave the site or the page a pop-up will appear asking the visitor to like us on Facebook now you can choose from a number of different options for this including Pinterest Rinella and tumblr and you can have email opt-ins pop up to integrate with your autoresponder for building your subscriber list and that works with Aweber get response by contact MailChimp and others and even better the theme can rotate through all of the options that you choose giving you even more valuable options for ongoing marketing to your site to bring visitors back over and over again ok now let's take a look under the hood but just how easy it is to add shirts to your stores and here I am in the admin area under shirts search and add shirts now let's just choose the option for Amazon as it's the quickest way of adding t-shirts without having to come up with ideas for designs yourself so you can test things out to see what actually sells okay let's pop in a keyword such as Pokemon and it is worth putting in the extra keyword of t-shirt to narrow things down you also need to choose a category unless you're just going to go with all because I've got t-shirt in there and select how many results you want to see and click on search now I'll take a second or two to come up with the results and there we go it is very very quick to come up with relevant relevant results from Amazon and when you spot one you like simply tick the box next to it to select that t-shirt obviously having a knowledge of that particular subject will make it easier to spot ones that are going to be funny potentially popular what's likely to sell well etc so I'm just grabbing a couple of these as I go through let's grab that one as well when we get to the bottom I've now selected three t-shirts all and then need to do is choose the category that I want to post them into and then it decide whether I want to import the selected products into draft posts which then that allows you to edit the post change the description add extra information if you want to or simply click on import selected products live and it will actually post those t-shirts directly on to our site and as you can see it's very very quick now if I go back to look at the site itself the live homepage let's go across to that and if I choose newest t-shirts as the option for display the top you'll see straightaway here are those three new pokemon t-shirts that we added with that quick and easy to pop t-shirts into your store and have them up and running the really cool bit here is that because we're just using the Amazon affiliate program we can be making money straight away without having to designer t-shirts and remember the theme automatically self optimizes for the most popular t-shirt based on which get the most clicks so you will quickly learn which designs are the top performers so you can then get your own versions of the bestsellers done to sell for higher profits okay so let's head back to the admin area so that you can see how we can also import shirts from CafePress teespring tees early and son frog the process again is really quick and easy simply find the t-shirts that you want to use copy and paste the urls into the box and click on search then it's a case of repeating the process we used earlier tick the box for the items that you want to publish choose the category that you want to publish to and then choose whether you want to post a draft or to live that's worth noting at this point that you're not limited to just t-shirts once you have your own popular in-demand logos and slogans you can sell them on other items such as mugs in fact CafePress have over 400 different items that you can sell expanding your t-shirt store empire into all sort of related products as well as posting your own t-shirts from teespring Cafe Press and teasley you can take advantage of the Sun frog affiliate program and post any t-shirts from there including your own designs now the really exciting part about using Sun Frog is because of their inbuilt affiliate program if you create popular in-demand designs you can actually end up with other people promoting your shirts for you making you even more hands-free profits now I do also want to quickly show you the post format as well because we've added some clever bits here for you so that you can actually create posts for t-shirts from any source whatsoever so down here at the bottom of the post page we have a couple of extra options you don't normally have in WordPress allowing you to put in any product URL including affiliate URLs as well as the currency and price you also have the option to define an expiry date for teespring campaigns that you are running for a limited time span in other words you can add t-shirts and more from any source both as an affiliate and as a t-shirt designer yourself the options are limitless giving you total flexibility to build your t-shirt stores okay that's a very quick overview and a taste of just how powerful this advanced WordPress theme is with covert shirt store you are now building your own business with automated viral traffic and built-in audience and list building so you can remark it to your visitors over the long term without having to pay for ads and you can test out what really sells before getting your own designs made so you know that your designs will actually make you money for maximum long-term profits and remember people who buy t-shirts tend to be repeat customers coming back to buy more related shirts over time and they want to show off their new shirts sharing them on the social media which in turn brings you more free targeted visitors to your store building your audience and customer base and it's totally up to you whether you simply offer other people shirts for an affiliate Commission or your own t-shirts for more profits or a combination of both for the best of both worlds and as you can now offer more than just t-shirts you can use your covert shirt store theme to offer related merchandise for any niche allowing you to monetize other sites that you may have struggled to turn a profit from before you also get an easy to follow step by step Quick Start Guide as well as the built in 10 step setup wizard and you get full over-the-shoulder video tutorials to make sure you get the absolute most at vo new theme and we include lifetime updates so you'll never be left behind right now Cobert shirt store theme is on a special limited time launch offer at a huge discount and just for this launch offer we're including multi-site and site flipping licenses so you can install the theme on as many of your sites as you want as well as flip your stores for quick profits but you need to act now the price will be going up again very soon and the multi-site and site flipping licenses will be removed so please scroll down now and grab your copy today and we'll see you on the inside 55 more words

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Covert Shirt Store Worpress Plugin – Own Profitable Viral T Shirt Business hi you're about to see have a point-and-click simple covert shirt store WordPress theme makes it super easy to create your own viral t-shirt empire in just minutes this advanced professional wordpress theme helps you eliminate risk and pull in huge paychecks without having to design a single t-shirt yourself or spend a single cent on ads and it has viral social media sharing built-in so it sucks in free traffic from facebook when a low Pinterest reddit tumblr LinkedIn and Google+ for you all on complete auto-pilot now let's take a quick guided tour of the theme so you can see just how easy it is to build your own t-shirt store empire today here's a demo site and this is how it looks straight out of the box so you can see it's a clean professionally designed theme as well as being fully mobile responsive resizing the content to display correctly on any mobile device and as a true WordPress theme you have total control over the look and feel of the site so you can tweak it to exactly the appearance you want for your site now before we take a look under the hood I want to cover one of the themes most powerful tricks it automatically optimizes itself to show the most popular t-shirt at the top the theme tracks the impressions and clicks that each shirt gets and then displays the ones with the highest converting designs first to increase your Commission's you can also set it to display the newest designs at the top as a default if you prefer and the visitors have the option to reorder the content themselves here at the top of the page either by the newest or by the pop most popular t-shirts on each shirt post the image the title and the button are all links and you can choose whether these take your visitor through to the t-shirt post itself on your site or straight through to the purchase page for that t-shirt now I've got it set up go through the post and clicking through you can see the post itself with the Buy button and the Add to Cart button you also have all the social media sharing links for Twitter Facebook Pinterest LinkedIn Google+ reddit tumblr and Juanillo making it really quick for people to share your designs across all the major social media sites bringing in more free traffic for you you'll also notice over on the right-hand side we have built-in widgets for displaying the most popular t-shirts and the newest t-shirts to catch people's attention and if I click on one of these you'll notice it opens up in a new browser tab or window so the t-shirt page that the visitor was originally looking at isn't lost to them and when we scroll down you can see there's a widget that will display any related t-shirt based on the tags and categories for that particular shirt as well as fully integrated Facebook comments so you're tagged posts in facebook will show up in other people's timelines with the backlinks and help bring in even more viral traffic this also helps you get backlinks to your site from Facebook helping your rankings in Google as well the covert shirt store theme also has built in audience and lead generation so you can see that when I go to leave the site or the page a pop-up will appear asking the visitor to like us on Facebook now you can choose from a number of different options for this including Pinterest Rinella and tumblr and you can have email opt-ins pop up to integrate with your autoresponder for building your subscriber list and that works with Aweber get response by contact MailChimp and others and even better the theme can rotate through all of the options that you choose giving you even more valuable options for ongoing marketing to your site to bring visitors back over and over again okay now let's take a look under the hood but just how easy is to add shirts to your stores and here I am in the admin area under shirts search and ad shirts now let's just choose the option for Amazon as it's the quickest way of adding t-shirts without having to come up with ideas for designs yourself so you can test things out to see what actually sells okay let's pop in a keyword such as Pokemon and it is worth putting in the extra keyword of a t-shirt to narrow things down you also need to choose a category I'm actually just going to go with all because I've got t-shirt in there and select how many results you want to see and click on search now I'll take a second or two to come up with the results and there we go it is very very quick to come up with relevant relevant results from Amazon and when you spot one you like simply tick the box next to it to select that t-shirt obviously having a knowledge of that particular subject will make it easier to spot ones that are going to be funny potentially popular what's likely to sell well etc so I'm just grabbing a couple of these as I go through let's grab that one as well when we get to the bottom I've now selected three t-shirts all and then need to do is choose the category that I want to post them into and then it decide whether I want to import the selected products into draft posts which then that allows you to edit the post change the description add extra information if you want to or simply click on import selected products live and it will actually post those t-shirts directly on to our site and as you can see it's very very quick now if I go back to look at the site itself the live homepage let's go across to that and if I choose newest t-shirts as the option for display at the top you'll see straightaway here are those three new pokemon t-shirts that we added it's that quick and easy to pop t-shirts into your store and have them up and running the really cool bit here is that because we're just using the Amazon affiliate program we can be making money straight away without having to design our own t-shirts and remember the theme automatically self optimizes for the most popular t-shirts based on which get the most clicks so you will quickly learn which designs are the top performers so you can then get your own versions of the best sellers done to sell for higher profits okay so let's head back to the admin area so that you can see how we can also import shirts from CafePress teespring Teasley and sun Frog the process again is really quick and easy simply find the t-shirts that you want to use copy and paste the urls into the box and click on search then it's a case of repeating the process we used earlier tick the box for the items that you want to publish choose the category that you want to publish to and then choose whether you want to post a draft or to live that's worth noting at this point that you're not limited to just t-shirts once you have your own popular in-demand logos and slogans you can sell them on other items such as mugs in fact CafePress have over 400 different items that you can sell expanding your t-shirt store empire into all sort of related products as well as posting your own t-shirts from teespring Cafe Press and teasley you can take advantage of the Sun Frog affiliate program and post any t-shirts from there including your own designs now the really exciting part about using Sun Frog is because of their inbuilt affiliate program if you create popular in-demand designs you can actually end up with other people promoting your shirts for you making you even more hands-free profits now I do also want to quickly show you the post format as well because we've added some clever bits here for you so that you can actually create posts for t-shirts from any source whatsoever so down here at the bottom of the post page we have a couple of extra options you don't normally have in WordPress allowing you to put in any product URL including affiliate URLs as well as the currency and price you also have the option to define an expiry date for teespring campaigns that you are running for a limited time span in other words you can add t-shirts and more from any source both as an affiliate and as a t-shirt designer yourself the options are limitless giving you total flexibility to build your t-shirt stores okay that's a very quick overview and a taste of just how powerful this advanced WordPress theme is with covert shirt store you are now building your own business with automated viral traffic and built-in audience and list building so you can remark it to your visitors over the long term without having to pay for ads and you can test out what really sells before getting your own designs made so you know that your designs will actually make you money for maximum long term profits and remember people who buy t-shirts tend to be repeat customers coming back to buy more related shirts over time and they want to show off their new shirts sharing them on the social media which in turn brings you more free targeted visitors to your store building your audience and customer base and it's totally up to you whether you simply offer other people shirts for an affiliate Commission or your own t-shirts for more profits or a combination of both for the best of both worlds and as you can now offer more than just t-shirts you can use your covert shirt store theme to offer related merchandise for any niche allowing you to monetize other sites that you may have struggled to turn a profit from before you also get an easy to follow step by step Quick Start Guide as well as the built in 10 step setup wizard and you get full over-the-shoulder video tutorials to make sure you get the absolute most out of your new theme and we include lifetime updates so you never be left behind right now covert shirt store theme is on a special limited time launch offer at a huge discount and just for this launch offer we're including multi-site and site flipping licenses so you can install the theme on as many of your sites as you want as well as flip your stores for quick profits but you need to act now the price will be going up again very soon and the multi-site and site flipping licenses will be removed so please scroll down now and grab your copy today and we'll see you on the inside 54 more words