#I am also obsessed anon

[nickybloodhead]

You made the Latina reader with earlier James get into my head, I'm obsessed!! I read your last post about him meeting her family and it made me think about something like: She has a SUPER conservative father (who doesn't like James very much) and he always forbids her from seeing him or things like that, and on some nights (when he can't go visit her climbing out of her bedroom window) they have phone sex :/ (it's so cliché but i love it so much)

Uh this thing about your dad hating your boyfriend is so latino coded, plus I love cliches too.

That would be funny, wouldn't it? That your dad doesn't like James and that's why he tries to prevent them from seeing each other, of course you guys are always looking for a way. When James found out he could come through your window, you both made it a nightly habit.

He would quietly walk into your room, you would be a laughing mess and you couldn't help but push him into your bed to kiss him. You'd get a little naughty, he'd be groping every part of your body until one thing would lead to another and you'd end up having soft, quiet sex, all for the sake of keeping the bed from creaking and making noise.

However, being careful wasn't enough, one night your father is in the yard and sees James hanging out of the window about to come in, that of course, doesn't like him. James had to run down the street at full speed while your father chased him threatening to kill him, you admit it was a little funny to see that damn scene out of a movie, what was not funny was the punishment your father gave you, a whole month locked in the house without going out, oh, and he also blocked your window. It was fucking frustrating not seeing your boyfriend, but at least you had his late night phone calls.

"Maybe your dad went a little overboard with the punishment" James spoke on the other end of the line, you chuckled and lay down on your bed.

"You think so? It's like being in prison, mierda, it's so boring" You complained quietly so your parents wouldn't hear you, you sighed wearily. "I miss you, mi amor."

"I miss you too, beautiful, I miss being able to spend time with you, kiss you, hold you...touch you" Those last words sent an electric shock throughout your body, you pulled your legs together and blushed, thoughts quickly began to go into hotter territory.

"It's a shame you can't come do all that, because, you know, you'd find me wearing just your shirt and my panties... Se que amas verme así" You smiled dumbly and closed your eyes, your heart was hammering faster and faster, your breathing became heavier, through the earpiece you heard James gasp and grunt.

"You're right, I love seeing you like that baby. Fuck, you're killing me here, you know that?" his voice had become huskier. James was on the couch, he had spread his legs for comfort and had unzipped his fly as his jeans had become uncomfortably tight. You licked your own lips and sighed, your hand slowly traveled down your chest, abdomen and finally between your legs, just a slight pressure of your hand on your sex.

"Have you thought about me, guapo? Because I can't get you out of my head, I can't stop thinking about what we did a few days ago in your truck" James groaned on the other end of the line, his hand squeezed his erection a little over his boxers as he remembered how she had managed to ride him in the back seat of his truck.

He remembered how tight she was, the wild way she had claimed his lips, she had taken everything from him at that moment, he needed her again.

"You were so wet then.... Tell me pretty, are you wet now?" you whimpered in response and nodded even though he couldn't see you, your fingers slipped under your panties and pressed two of them right over your clit, you gasped and bit your lip.

"Yes, I need you" You looked towards your door to make sure it was locked, with your hand you pulled your underwear down a little. "I would love it if you were kissing me right now, tocándome bien rico"

"Shit, I love when you say things like that" James pulled down his boxers and took his cock in his hand, stroking slowly up and down. He closed his eyes and let himself be carried away by the suggestive images his brain was providing him about you, he could see how messy your bed was, you lying with your legs open ready for him, ready to take it good like you always did.

You could hear his heavy breathing, sure he was already touching himself just like you, all you wanted was to have him here to fuck you once and for all, to have him replace your fingers with his tongue, the very thought of him eating your cunt made you squirm a little and increase the caresses on your sensitive bud.

"I can hear you touching yourself, baby, tell me how it feels" James murmurs, grunting with each tug he gives his cock, you moan a little and tighten the grip you have on the phone.

"Se siente tan bien, though I wish it was you." Your vision is a little blurry from the overstimulation, you feel how soaked you are and how you're dripping on the sheets, you bite your lip to avoid making too much noise, so that only a few squeals are audible, James is going crazy with desire, jerking off a little faster.

"I'd love to be there too, believe me, I need to bury my cock in that tight pussy of yours" You moan a little louder than you should and immediately hide your face in your pillow, you hear James chuckle. "Even without me there you're loud, huh?"

"Fuck James, I'm about to…oh, carajo!"

You feel small spasms in your abdomen, a pleasant warmth runs through your body as your back arches, you muffle your moans against the mattress and bite the covers to contain the scream of relief that is about to escape your lips, you cum deliciously as you listen to James' praise, of course at some point in your ecstasy you let go of the phone. You lie on your back on the bed, catching your breath, your thighs slick with slick.

"Are you still with me, baby?" You hear his distant voice call out to you, you shakily pick up the phone again with trembling hands and settle it close to your ear.

"Still here…" You sound completely relaxed, soft words slipping from your mouth. You knew he hadn't cum yet, so you decided to help him with that. "You know, if you were here, I'd love it if you'd cum in my mouth. Para probarte todo, mi amor”

You heard him grunting and panting, heard the sound of skin against skin, giving you the image of him stroking his length with fervor, a particularly obscene moan along with a few curses let you know he had cum. You let him pull himself together, that had been an intense session, but it was inebitable, they hadn't spent that much time apart and they desired each other.

"Still with me, Het?" You teased him, managing to draw a chuckle from him, laughed with him and sighed contentedly. "I really miss you a lot."

"I know honey, but I'll keep calling you every night without fail, okay? Until that month of punishment is over."

"Promise?"

"I promise beautiful, now go get some rest…I love you."

"También te amo."

What a roller coaster of emotions, but I'm a bitch for fluff so there you go.

[idyllcy]

Concept: Jaime having a lot of left over adrenaline from a fight so he fucks the reader up against the nearest wall

post-fight. - jaime reyes x reader (nsfw warning!)

it happens more often than Jaime admits, but less often than you complain to him about it for.

Jaime has you pressed against the back of the wall in some run-down alleyway, only half of his suit deactivated as he's rutting into you desperately, the sweat and blood still on the back of his armor, his sweat running down his sides as you cling onto his biceps for life, exhausted panting and whimpers slipping past your lips as you stare at him disappear into you with a lewd squelch each time.

"I'm sorry." He whimpers into your ear. "You just— looked so good, mi vida, I just—"

You moan as he presses his lips to yours, desperate to muffle the moans coming out of your mouth, yet wanting to keep listening to them. Maybe swallowing them would work.

It doesn't, but Jaime does get the reward of you biting his bottom lip as he feels you spasm around him, your orgasm ripping through your body as you gush around him, and Jaime only speeds up to chase after his own high, pulling from your lips to tell you how pretty you were, whimpering and moaning quietly over you, eyes raking your body to see how dazzling you were when covered in a layer of sheen from the sweat.

and when he feels his own orgasm rip through him, chest pressed to yours as he gasps into your ear, he makes sure to clean you up, tongue pressed to your you, drunk on the taste of you and him mixed together, hums from his chest shooting up your spine and causing your fingers to fly to his hair, whimpering.

and when he finishes, his suit finally comes off completely as he holds you in his arms, mumbling into your ear about how good you were for him, how he was sorry for taking the adrenaline out on you again, pressing you to his chest as he lets you fall limp in his hold and get some well-deserved rest, he presses a kiss to your forehead and takes care of the rest. After all, it's the least he can do for you.

reblogs are appreciated ( •́ω<;)✧

[guinevereslancelot]

what was with cameron house md she spends 90% of the episode saying she wants their patient to die bc he's a genocidal dictator and her colleague husband says "babe it bothers me for ethical reasons that you want our patient to die :(" and she said "hm maybe you're right :/" but when it comes down to it the genocidal dictator lays a finger on her in an aggressive manner and chase instantly commits medical malpractice to murder the guy and then when he tells her she LEAVES HIM bc boo hoo he's a murderer now like GIRL he killed a man for you!!! he's wracked with catholic guilt!!! he's being crushed beneath the weight of his sins because he chose his devotion to you over his devotion to god!!! he literally could not get any sexier at this moment in time!!!

[undertheopensky]

Hi, I know you’re a four focused blog but I was wondering if you have anything you’d be willing to share about your whump legend fic “if you don’t have anything nice to say” 👉👈 I love this kind of take on legend, it’s so good!!! Love your four and colours writing, too. The way you characterize everyone is really consistent I love it!!!!

Aww, that's so nice! Thank you, anon!

It might please you to know there's a second part of that coming out soon! I've got one fill left to finish that might hold things up, so just for you, here's some of the unspoken backstory of 'If You Can't Say Anything Nice':

Legend's always struggled with communication. People never seem to understand what he means, and it feels like they don't listen. He got in trouble a lot for yelling when he was little, or for being mean when he wasn't trying to be. And if he was gonna get yelled at for it anyway, he figured, he might as well deserve it. In his early teens he had a period where he was deliberately rude and mean to people - but he decided he didn't like how it made him feel, so he stopped. (This may or may not have happened around Koholint, when he realised he still wanted certain people to like him.)

People still never really got him, though, which was frustrating - so he stopped caring so much what other people thought. Stopped reaching out. He would always help, of course - but it was impersonal. 'Kill these monsters', 'find this stolen item', 'turn the princess back from being a painting', that kinda thing. Until he met the Chain, and they mostly got along, and they even seemed to halfway understand him -

Before he knows it his guard is down, and he loves them, and he wants to help, and he starts tentatively reaching out again.

[captainkirkk]

did u somehow miss the april fools joke this year? re the boops

I haven't been on tumblr for several days and for some reason it wasn't showing up on mobile :((

[the-cat-at-the-theatre-door]

I know you enjoyed the game, so I wanted to ask here: which BG3 companions would have which cats as their pets?

We're cooking with gas and putting two hyperfixations into the large hadron collider, eh?

Okay, I can tell you right now that I have several off the top of my head, not only in that would have them as "pets" (or to the extent that Halsin would consider an animal a "pet" which is more of a companion) but that they align from a character personality standpoint:

Astarion - Black and White Alonzo (Vain with courage issues) and - stay with me - The Rum Tum Tugger. Little chaotic shit with a showboat streak who holds a grudge with underlying emotional depth? Astarion. Tugger.

Lae'zel - If she could be persuaded into having a pet, I just can't help but see her with the haughty, disdainful and lonely Cassandra.

Wyll - Munkustrap and Victoria (The protector, the courageous and the loving and the romantic little princess)

Shadowheart - Demeter and Bombalurina (Both gals are both sides of Shadowheart's personality and I feel like she'd get on well with the two of them). She's also a potential Jemima weird girl.

Karlach - I can see Karlach with any of the kittens or adolescents tbh, but Tumblebrutus/Bill Bailey and Etcetera are coming to the forefront of my mind.

Gale - you think I'm going to say Magical Mr. Mistoffelees or maybe Coricopat and Tantomile (though I can absolutely see those), but it's obviously Jennyanydots and/or Jellylorum. Jenny and Jelly are essentially Tara. It makes the most sense. I would even throw Skimbleshanks in there for good measure. Gale is a cat dad - he can have 3+ as a treat.

Minthara - Grizabella (Proud to a fault and indomitable? Minthara. Hurt? Also Minthara. This one just makes a lot of sense to me, particularly if you trace who Grizabella used to be along with who Minthara used to be pre-tadpole and brainwashing.)

Halsin - Deuteronomy (Wise, loving and a commanding presence, Old Deuteronomy belongs to no one and is beloved by all - generally even tempered and protective. Oldest cat with dad lore. He also gets kidnapped, waxes the occasional poetic, and canonically *redacted*)

[kohakhearts]

are you torchickentacos?

hahahaha no we’re friends and occasionally share a braincell lol but we’re different people!! @torchickentacos just happen to be in the same small fandom and have the same name :p

[yes-asil]

It's funny how this blog when a friend first showed me this blog, was all wild kratz, then ghost boy, warrior cats at one point. Than I come back now *boom* Detco was a huge thing here lol

My blog is a representation of my brain, which goes from fandom to fandom on a weekly basis. The only constant is Ghost Boys, I'm always working on it.

I just... get distracted, a lot.

[pardonmydelays]

top 5 musical theatre performers?... and you can't choose lin

i love this question so much! & i'm so happy you said no lin because it's a great opportunity for me to talk about the others! this will be probably chaotic (surprise, surprise) & i will drop clips to prove my point:

PHILLIPA SOO

i don't think any words could describe how i feel about her... the most incredible voice i've ever heard. i would literally die for her, i'm being serious right now. she is one of the reasons i think the off broadway cast album of the great comet is better than the obc one (unpopular opinion maybe but oh well she is MY natasha). i would never be tired of listening to her, she is so precious to me istg. one of my favourite videos is, of course, phillipa singing no one else from tgc (ha! i know you were expecting hamilton! no way, you are getting this one instead):

JORDAN FISHER

i know a lot of people wouldn't agree with me, but i actually think he is incredibly talented. he has a great voice & damn, he can act! i kinda lost my mind when i saw his first pictures as orpheus in hadestown, i also recommend to watch all the clips with him (especially wait for me, my personal favourite), but what i really want to show you is this video of jordan singing waving through a window from dear evan hansen (the fact that he is not only singing the song but also acting here, i couldn't love him any more, he also has the most adorable smile but it's not that important or is it?):

JOSH GROBAN

his voice... for the love of god... i am kinda crazy about him. amazing as sweeney todd, yes, true, but most of you probably know already i am absolutely fucking insane about pierre bezukhov the biggest fucking loser oh god i love him so much (a little disclaimer: i usually listen to the off broadway version of tgc, yes, but i do have playlists with all pierre's song so josh groban is there as well), so it's probably not surprising that i am giving you this today (dust and ashes is, in my opinion, one of the best musical songs ever written):

EVA NOBLEZADA

ngl, i fell in love with her immediately while listening to hadestown for the first time. she is just aaaaaamazing, that girl can sing & definitely can act. also, she is so incredibly beautiful i can't even (i may have a little crush on her). i am always getting super emotional when i watch her, so i want you all to feel the same, watch this video of her & reeve carney singing all i've ever known:

AMBER GRAY

dear fucking god what a voice. first of all, she is definitely my favourite persephone, i mean come on. i am also fucking obsessed with the song charming from tgc which is not surprising to anyone probably. i also found an audio of her singing starchild from ghost quartet & my head exploded (i don't know where it is now but believe me, it exists... somewhere). but this is what you get today:

[tallymali]

Actually "gal" is the woman version of guy, girl is the woman version of boy. Stick to referring to us as women instead of participating in the infantilization of women please 🙃

lmaaoooo you clown

[ughgoaway]

Matty as Flynn Rider and Annie as Pascal because she's one of those kids.

Maybe Annie tells reader about the costumes and asks her to be Rapunzel

Or Matty as Peter Pan and Annie as Tinkerbell

it's no longer Halloween, but as someone who is professionally delusional, I am gonna ignore that <3

"Because she's one of those kids." HAS ME DYING AHAHAHAH, YOURE SO RIGHT SHE IS.

but I like to think Annie watched tangled for the first time at uncle George's house, maybe him and Charli were on babysitting duty and charli was like "oh Annie I have the best film for us to watch!" Of course she was expecting Annie to fall in love with rapunzel and her long beautiful hair but NO! not our Annie, she became OBSESSED with pascal.

this obsession turned into her begging matty for a real chameleon and George having to physically restrain matty from buying her one. "But she really wants one George!" and George is just like "Matthew. you can barely look after yourself. your shirt is literally on backwards right now. Do not get a chameleon for a 5 year old" matty then looks down at his backwards shirt and concedes.

but that does not stop Annie at Halloween DEMANDING to be pascal and matty be flynn, and he is not complaining about being a character who's whole thing is how hot he is. Annie brings this up to you in class one day an BEGS you to be rapunzel. and whilst officially you can't say she convinced you... she convinced you.

you show up just with your normal hair and a few extensions in but with flowers pushed in everywhere and as soon as matty sees you at drop off he feels his knees get weak. you standing matching with his daughter and him with beautiful flowers surrounding your face, a glowing smile and the most beautiful dress... how is he meant to cope??? he literally feels his heart brighten at the thought of you all being matchy matchy. I think the receptionist (who secretly but not so secretly ships you two) INSISTS on taking a pic and it ends up in the school newsletter.

"Parents even accidentally matched with teachers! here's Miss y/n and the healy family accidentally having a group costume!" and let's just say that school newsletter gets kept by both of you for no specific reason...

[i-am-church-the-cat]

pls dont say sorry my ultimate goal in fandom life is CHURCH MAXIELLLLL

Lolol Maxiel is actually the first F1 ship i ever read fanfiction for, I got attached to it before I was even attached to Loscar. Ig the main reasons I’ve never written it are 1) it’s pretty well-established already and idk what i personally could say, and 2) i’m a blue and silver girlie (history of man might as well be my master’s thesis) so writing in red would have a different vibe to it.

That being said, I do plan to write for it soon, if not for my HDD series than for something else.

[lancrewizzard]

Uhhh context for the vampire tragedy pls??

Okay, I will try. The vampire tragedy in question is the game series Legacy of Kain. It has a fantastic overarching story about fate and free will, and is the best constructed time travel narrative I've ever encountered. It's also pretty old and large chunks of it are bad to play.

The very basic bare bones plot is that a nobleman called Kain gets turned into a vampire and sent off on a quest to save the land of Nosgoth by restoring these magical pillars that are tied to the health of the land, fisher kingdom style, by killing the mages tied to each pillar. Then instead of the heroic sacrifice he should have made, he said "sod this, I'm going to become the vampiric emperor of the world."

A millennium later, his eldest son Raziel gets killed over Kain's ego, comes back as an angry little blue guy, and goes on a quest to kick Kain's head in. This leads to him chasing Kain far into Nosgoth's past, learning that he's supposedly a prophecised hero of a lost vampire culture, making an enemy of God (who is a dick) and breaking many many things, including the fabric of timespace and also my heart.

It is convoluted. It is messy. It is almost impossible to summarise succinctly and coherently. It is not whatever the fuck this lunatic described.

And as an aside, Soul Reaver has exactly one female character and she's dead. Super dead. She's a ghost and has one story relevant cutscene, plus a few optional lines directing the player to the next destination. I love the hell out of the series, but it is by no stretch a feminist narrative.

[theinfinitedivides]

this is so random but i would love to hear your opinion on mydramalist as a fellow asian drama lover. because it’s obviously well known as a reliable wiki of sorts in dramaland but i beg to differ. (the only plus i feel being the summary and cast list for info)

i mean, i’ve not seen a single comsec w more than two brain cells as a whole? there’s always complaints about female leads rooted from misogyny, they are never happy about story progression, and i just find so many of them kinda dumb sorry lol. like zero media literacy to be found, insufferable arguments, etc. the star ratings are rly just given to popular dramas w high profile actors too.

and i personally find it disheartening that so many ppl end up referring to mdl when considering dramas because so many gems are then lost and not given appreciation.

anon. anon anon anon if you know the way i sat straight the f*ck up when i saw the notification and then read through this ask bc yes. yes to everything here that is exactly it. almost three fourths of what i've watched this year was either 1. not received well by the general MDL crowd (Moon in the Day. where is the taste brethren to not like MITD and not even for reasons that actually make sense), 2. received well but had a good chunk of people bitching in the comment section, or 3. received well but had the main point of the show (and its relevant characterization) go over their heads. (The Worst of Evil aka TWOE comment section, i am f*cking looking at you. i can count on one hand the number of people who understood what that show was supposed to be about) the one fourth that managed to escape was bc the toxicity did not reach the comment section and everyone was pretty f*cking civil. alas if only it could be like that all of the time

case in point for the ratings example, since we've already briefly tackled the lack of media literacy—j-dramas on MDL are notoriously rated much, much lower than either k- or c-dramas. half of the time that's bc there are less users watching (and rating) them therefore the average is lower but the other half it's bc people simply do not understand good media when they see it. don't get me wrong there's some freaky ass sh*t in the j-drama world that i would not touch with a Grinch level pole but to see MDLers out here talking about how slow j-dramas are and that nothing's happening. have you considered that you are either watching the wrong genre or you shouldn't be watching j-dramas in the first place bc their entire setup and general narrative framing arcs are not your style. have you even thought about that for six seconds or are you too busy expecting it to read like a typical tropey rom-com k-drama with your trending oppas. (no hate on my tropey rom-coms with [most of] said oppas, i need them when i don't want to think i just want to see sh*t on my screen and scream about hot people and the Hand Umbrellas in the Rain and the Back Hold when the male lead catches the female lead before she falls and you have the fifteen second focus on their faces just looking at each other)

and the misogyny. oh God do not get me started on the dichotomy that was the Cult, as we affectionatly called ourselves, on the feeds while THEE sageuk of the year My Dearest was airing (beloved show [that i still need to finish. JangChae i'm sorry ily life hates me like the mf it is 😭], beloved commentary on the feeds. they saw the vision on the feeds) vs the sh*tshow that was the landmine field of the comment section (the takes i saw on Gil Chae, Eun Ae AND Ryang Eum respectively.......... the misogyny wasn't enough we had to add the homophobia into the mix. buy one get one free deal fr fr). you mad man. that sh*t was insane there was a point i banned myself from scrolling farther than the cast section until the show finished airing. i kid you not on average they didn't have even half a braincell. maybe a quarter of a quarter of one. f*cked up just say you are not decent people and go

this is not to say that all of MDL is like this. i have gotten tuned into absolute masterpieces of content (and have tuned others, amen) bc of a comment comparing a show i'm watching to another one or a review being posted in the feeds about a film with less than 500 people interested. i have reconsidered my choice to not watch something after having spirited discussions in private messages discussing the pros and cons of the premise and whether they managed to get it done without f*cking sh*t up. i still contribute semi-regularly by adding relatively unknown actors and crew members to the database so they can get the credit due them. if you know where to look, you can get some good sh*t out of that place. problem is most users who are new to both the site and East/Southeast Asian cinema as a whole don't know where to look, and the cycle continues, and the ratings continue to be skewed/bloated and no one pays attention to the plot, if there even is any to pay attention to.

tl;dr: begging people to not let MDL be the be all end all for their drama recs a la 'well MDL doesn't like it so i won't watch it'. babe we have said MDLers complaining about how the ratings on Viki are too high but in my entire time watching dramas i've found that in the past two to three years the Viki ratings are making more sense than the MDL ones. sit with that for a sec. when you're done branch out and see the world (literally and cinematically), i promise you will be a better person for it

[nevadakincentral]

the hoffnar and mantis shrimp connection is so real i can see it like one of those detective boards in movies with all the string and pins

it is a surprisingly common connection. i dont see your detective pinboard but i belive you anon

also it seems like the madcom fictive/kin community is full of marine lovers. we had sharks, shrimp, lobsters, got some crickets in the askbox too which is not marine animal but still unexpected. we started with bees and wolves and got progressively more specific.

[eskawrites]

okay just saw the flayed!robin au thing..obsessed with the idea!! Anymore snippets or ideas for that I think im hooked

*cracks my knuckles and puts on my dark scenes writing playlist*

Nancy's head is filled with echoes she can't get out. Victor Creel's nails scraping against the table. Henry's voice reverberating between her ears, making her head pound. Mike screaming her name before the roof of the mall caves in. El's cries as she floats in a pool, Nancy's old dress floating around her tiny body. Barb's soft voice, this isn't you.

None of it--none of it--compares to the way Robin screams as she pulls the trigger.

Panic floods her mind, and she whirls around, sure that something terrible happened. Something else snuck up on them while Nancy faced down the demodog. She missed, somehow hitting Robin even though Robin is behind her and to the side, and Nancy never misses. Something went wrong--Robin wouldn't be screaming like that, collapsing back against the wall and clutching her side, if it hadn't.

But nothing seems out of place. The demodog Nancy shot falls to the ground, no longer moving. Nothing else has approached them. And though Robin is panting and sweating as she grips her side, there's no blood. No torn clothes or bruised skin. Everything seems...fine.

No, not fine. Because Robin shoves away from Steve when he reaches for her, and she stumbles over her feet as she backs away from all of them, eyes wide and fearful. And when her gaze flits to Nancy's, something dark and hateful crosses her face.

"Robin?" Steve asks, still trying to approach her. Robin shakes her head. She's so pale. A bead of sweat trails down from her hairline. There's a cruel light in her eyes that Nancy has never seen before--has never even thought Robin capable of.

Because Robin's eyes aren't cruel. They're warm, and usually crinkled in a smile, or at least some level of mischief. Even when she's angry, her eyes are bright, not dull and cold like they are now.

They're also, Nancy realizes, usually blue. But now they're dark, too dark, nearly black.

"Robin," she breathes, and she doesn't even bother to hide the way her voice breaks.

Robin tilts her head--too far, the movement too exaggerated, tugging her neck at an almost unnatural angle--and smirks.

"Took you long enough," she says, her voice flat. Distantly, Nancy hears Dustin cry out behind her. "I was beginning to think you don't care about her after all."

"You piece of--"

"She was beginning to think it, too."

Nancy raises the revolver and levels it at Robin's chest, clenching her jaw as she feels the tears build behind her eyes.

Robin raises an eyebrow. "Are you going to shoot me, Nancy? Can you really live with yourself if you hurt another friend?"

She won't, she can't, but she holds Robin's--his--gaze and tries to keep her voice steady anyway. "Let her go."

"Or what? You'll kill me, like you killed Eddie? Fred? Barb?" The name echoes in her ears, his words but Robin's voice. Their eyes meet, and Nancy sees absolutely nothing behind her gaze as she continues, "You know, she was my friend, too. And you killed her."

Something inside her snaps. Dustin and Steve both cry out, but Nancy ignores them as she drops the gun and lunges forward to shove Robin against the wall.

"Let her go!"

Robin's head cracks against the brick, but she doesn't even flinch. She just glares down at Nancy, that cold hatred back in her gaze.

"It's too late," she says. "You can't save her, Nancy. In fact, you're the reason I chose her in the first place."

Nancy falters, just for a moment, but it's enough. Robin shoves her back, hard enough to send her crashing to the ground. Nancy scrambles for her gun, calling out to the others, "Stop her!"

But Robin twists away from Steve's reach and takes off running down the alley. She's fast, her movements measured and determined--nothing like the way Robin actually runs. Nancy wants to cry. She wants to scream. She picks up the gun and pushes to her feet, ready to sprint after her.

The sound of howls picks up around them, echoing in every direction, and all of them freeze. She hears Robin's cackle as she turns the corner and disappears from view.