#So i can't wait to meet Kay....eventually

[gentlemanthiefshowdown]

Mod Silver please go on a rant about characters you know and their interactions, I would love to hear it 🍿

Haha, oh dear! If you’re sure.

Kaitou KID has worked with a few others quite a bit, though not too willingly. He seems to be mostly focused on doing what he can involving as little people as he possibly can. He’s also quite friendless, if I’m to be honest (he has like…two established friends, and one is a 60-year-old who calls KID master). So unless the situation called for a team up, I think he would try to avoid it. That said, I think folks from this tournament he would willingly work alongside are: Phantom R, Parker, Tia, and maybe Kay Faraday (though I have the sneaking suspicion that KID would not like her due to trauma towards like…literally every other 17-year-old girl he has encountered. I think they could work indirectly though, dropping each other clues and holding each other’s back. But a direct team up? I don’t think KID would be too willing to pursue that DFLHSDFDS)

The Four Horsemen would fight anyone and everyone. I say this because the title as being the Horsemen seems to be rather closed and they wouldn’t want to share that spotlight, I feel. Besides, considering all they have gone through, I don’t think they’d be too keen on any other surprise thieves (let alone magician thieves).

To me, those who would be the most difficult to work with would Carmen Sandiego and Pierre Despereaux. Not that Carmen would be against a team-up, I distinctly remember her teaming up with the kids in the original series a time or two, but in terms of stealing? I don’t think she would be all too wiling to work alongside someone. Despereaux is in a similar boat as most of his actions usually end in some form of trickery. He called Shawn and Gus to the prison just so he could use them to break out. Heck, his whole introduction episode was exposing that some of his stolen goods were actually owned by him and he was using their “theft” to collect insurance money. He doesn’t do well with partnerships and almost always goes behind their backs (that is to say, make them think they won while he makes off with the treasure).

  I’d say the only difference between the two is that Despereaux would make folks feel like he is their most loyal ally before he stabs them in the back. Carmen would tell you to your face that she will stab you in the back. 

Lupin III I can only base on the Count of Cagliostro film and the first episode of (what I assume) to be the original series. And I have to say, I don’t know what some would think of him. As established, Kaitou KID has beef with him and Carmen and Despereaux would absolutely go against him. Oh, but Tia would love him, I get the feeling. They share so much of the same energy, it’s ridiculous.

 Parker would get along great with the more child-like folks simply because that’s what she’s like. Anyone who’d be willing to have fun with a heist would probably fit wonderfully. She would absolutely make it a competition, like who could get through the ventilation system fastest or who can remain undetected longest. I think she would get along well with Phantom R (as I do believe his whole thing is replacing counterfeit paintings with the real ones) and, while probably a little confused why they’re returning something so expensive, would enjoy the challenge of putting it back. I think she’d also get along with Kay (even though I’ve yet to meet her. I just have a hunch).

Oh, and Mask DeMasque…bruh, no one would take him seriously. I feel they would all look at him, say “Aw, that’s cute,” applaud him for his efforts, and then move on. Even if he has accomplished a lot, I can’t think they would view him in much regard. (I know for sure that KID would think he was absolutely lame and a fraud). 

Oh, and a quick bonus: Neal Caffrey would compete with Lupin III to charm the women, would only go against Carmen because he was forced to, would absolutely be outmatched by Parker and KID with their stunts, personal rivalry with Despereaux (they technically exist in the same canon! So I mean…), would think Tia is hilarious, and adopt Phantom R if for the kid’s fashion alone. Oh, and of course, would take Ron DeLite by the shoulders and tell him that his wife isn’t worth the stealing (if you know, you know).

Okay, I think that’s all there is for me to ramble about! I hope it didn’t bore you too much, haha.

[obsessedwrhys]

ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 .ᐟ The Seven x Deadpool!Reader

t/w: loooots of dark humour/jokes, reader is insensitive and an asshole since they're also a supe working at vought, your powers are the exact same as Deadpool (even the skin condition), mention about killing, death, gore, r-pe, n@zis?!?!, alcohol, some intimacy (?). Also reader is gn!!

ᯓ★ here's a version with the boys <3

HOMELANDER

This man hates you so fking much

Has tried to kill you multiple times, he tried lasering you, tearing you in half and even throwing you into the sky but you just always manage to come back like the damn plague

Eventually he gives up trying to kill you and just had to deal with the fact you'll be kept alive... just temporarily though... he's still looking for ways to kill you

However, your powers gave you dozens of advantages when around Homelander.

He can be having a meeting about something serious and everyone would be listening to him due to their fear towards him, then there's you who'd be doing your own thing and just shout out unrelated things like "Donald Trump just blocked me on Twitter!! HAH!! SUCK IT CORNFLACKS!!"

Everyone turning to you with startled expressions while Homelander simply rolls his eyes before continuing his presentation.

You are a complete nightmare to the PR team, that's why for interviews or any events, you'll always be paired up with Homelander so he can keep you under control and stop you from saying weird shit that could ruin the company's image.

"So Deadpool, how does it feel being in the Seven working alongside Homelander? You've been working together for almost 3 years now" A reporter would ask as you two are surrounded by screaming fans.

"Like I'm in the twilight series, not because of the fantasy but because I'm still waiting for the part where he impregnates me—"

"O-kay! That's enough, just silly ol' Deadpool with those inside jokes"

"You can tell in this eyes that he wants to fuck me right now. HE'S GONNA FUCK ME!!" You shouted as you're being dragged away by him.

Obviously when you had found out about his relationship with Stormfront, especially her background, you had to say some shit about it. Not giving the slightest care about the fact he could be grieving over her death.

He'll be in his room standing in front of the window and you'd just storm in, being as loud as possible.

"I can't believe you dated a N@zi!! Is it because I'm Jewish?!" Which may or may not be true, nobody knows your origin.

He may hate your guts but if he ever needs someone to help him do some dirty work, you're the person for the job, you never ask why or how, which could be the only thing he likes about you.

"Y'know, maybe if you didn't have such a big mouth, you'd be tolerable"

"All the people I've slept with have said otherwise"

Compatibility? 50%

STARLIGHT

Before she joined the Seven, she had an image of what kind of person you were, she just didn't know it was this worse.

When you found out she used to work at this Sunday School Church, you just haaaaad to say something about it.

"So like, you say that prayer always works, but every night I pray for my hair to grow and it never does. Do you think God has me blocked? How do I get unblock?"

"Uh..."

You two surprisingly get along without one wanting to slice the other's throat, except sometimes the things you say can really piss her off. Which is why when the company assigned her a new costume, she was trying her hardest to avoid you, but you found out anyways.

"Holy shit Starlight! Nice costume, is this your Miley Cyrus breakthrough? Girl power!"

Insert her groaning out of annoyance.

Again, the second you discovered she was dating a guy behind the death of Translucent, you were heartbroken :(

"Of course this happens right when my therapist gives up on me!"

Despite your behaviour, you pitied her when it was revealed that she was taken advantage of by The Deep, so like any good friend, you took revenge by cooking his friend octopus and eating it happily in front of him.

"Revenge does taste sweet" You'd say happily while Starlight just watches by the side, both grateful and horrified at your actions.

In my opinion, you would definitely be the person she goes to once she starts working with the boys, you'll always be providing whatever information that happens in the company for her to use.

It helps her worry less about getting anyone killed 'cause you literally can't die.

Compatibility? 60%

QUEEN MAEVE

You're half the reason why she rethinks about her life choices when she wakes up in the morning

Not because you're a handful (which you are) but because you're always paired together on missions

"Deadpool! The hostages!"

"OKAY! God... you act just like my drunk uncle"

Which is a joke/nickname you like to address her by because of her alcoholism (yikes)

Whenever the company needs you for something, half of the time she's the one assigned to search for you.

There was this one time she caught you trying to have Anika track down Kanye West's location, nobody knows what shenanigans you were up to.

Another thing to mention was that you two were chosen by the company to sing a Christmas song for the year's Christmas ceremony.

Just imagine during the bridge of the song, she's singing normally while you're completely going off, your high note so high you were sure you had Mariah Carey a run for her money.

Even though she finds you a lot to deal with, you're actually her buddy to train with.

Since you're very skilled with Katanas, she likes to practice her swordsmanship with you.

You like to tease or make fun of her everytime she fails to strike you which is good motivation for her to get better. Maybe you guys bring out the best of each other?

Last thing I'd like to add is when she was found out by the public that she was a lesbian (She's bi but you get the running joke), you had gifted her a t-shirt that says, 'Biggest Dick in Town'

Compatibility? 80%

THE DEEP

Your human punching bag

If Vought was a high school instead of a company, you'd be the bully and he'd be the nerd getting stuffed inside the locker room.

For example, Homelander could be confronting Starlight about her relationship with Hughie and everyone would just start raising their voices til you come in yelling "SHUT UP!" to the Deep who had not said a single thing during the entire time.

Just imagine him staring at you like 😐

To be honest you also ate his friend octopus so you guys are actually never getting the chance to make up.

"Look dude, I don't appreciate your tone"

"I don't appreciate your haircut either but we can't all get what we want"

You may be a crazy person but you weren't going to be okay with the fact he violates every woman he sees, so not only did you cook the octopus but you also called in a male stripper disguised as a woman just for him to celebrate on his birthday.

Just imagine him all happy when you tell him the news and later that night he'll run inside your room, completely pissed off at your act after finding out but you just laughed and said.

"Happy April Fools 😚!"

"That's next month dipshit!"

Also, you never understood his weird fantasies. He has a thing for sea animals??You've caught him multiple times either flirting or getting off to one. It was concerning even for you.

"From how many animals you've fucked, you might just turn from the ocean's 'Seaman' to 'Semen'." You joked which he did not find funny.

Maybe you messing with him could just be your way of getting along with him since you're the same with everybody else, it's just he has more flaws to poke fun of and he's sensitive about them.

Compatibility? 5%

A-Train

He thinks you're fucked up in the head.

Half of the shit that comes out of your mouth just has him reacting like in the GIF

Buuuuuut you're the one he always brings to the club because you always know ways to give the party life.

You've somehow even got on the wall of fame, a lovely portrait of you with your hands making out a heart.

Also, you know about his business with Compound V waaaaay before anyone else did. He's still grateful you didn't tell anyone.

Just like everyone else, you also enjoy messing with him except he's fast and constantly avoiding you.

"Hey A-Train, how much do you wanna bet that I can die faster than you?"

"Dude... seriously?"

You guys rarely get sent on missions together because you're always slowing him down, not basing off the fact he's fast but because you get easily sidetracked with other things.

"Alright, we're here now, how much C4 do we use?"

"Fuck math! Let's use all of 'em!"

You ended up detonating all of the C4 on you before he could object the idea, he was able to run out in time, your action nearly getting him killed while you ended up dead.

But it's fine you'll just grow back.

You know that race he has against Shockwave? You'd be at the VIP section standing near where Homelander and Queen Maeve is, waving your huge banner that has a picture of A-Train's face and yours pasted over a figure carrying the other in bridal style.

Compatibility? 55%

TRANSLUCENT

He makes people paranoid but you make him disgusted.

There was this one time he was bored so he snuck in your room to see what you were doing.

At first he was confused why you had so many cute plushies but then the more he explored your room, he realised your room is basically every collector's dream.

You even had a huge teddy bear in the corner of your dressing room.

The reason why he doesn't like to spy on you is because the last time he did, he saw you putting your hand in the blender, then proceeding to put your private part into it.

Never again, he thought, never again.

He doesn't need to witness you carry out your intrusive thoughts.

Surprising enough, you're close with his son, I'd like to think that after his death, you practically became the kid's godparent. Though you can be sort of a bad influence, leading up to how he is in Gen V.

You always tell him you hate kids but he thinks otherwise.

After all, he can read people well.

You guys like to pull pranks on each other since you guys like competing on who's more sneaky

There was this one time, you woke up to find your suit gone so you ended up walking around the building, completely naked and unfazed by people's stares.

It was when you walked around the corner that you found your suit worn by someone else, turns out it was Translucent under it.

"Why is it so fucking tight dude? How do you stay in this shit all day?"

"You get used to it"

Compatibility? 85%

BLACK NOIR

Lovers.

He doesn't mind your attitude because he actually can't say anything about it.

No seriously... he can't talk.

But hey he's got a good shoulder to cry on.

"I just... hffgh... I can't believe my album didn't surpass lady gaga's... She doesn't even know how to use Katanas like I do!" You'd let out a loud sob while he just stares at you for a while before placing a hand on your shoulder, patting you gently.

You know the scene where he's playing the piano for one of the company's party? You'll be laying down on top of it and singing in your usual overdramatic high pitched voice.

He finds your humour amusing so he always does this little head tilt like in the GIF when you say some weird shit while waiting for his response.

Since both of you are the only members of the Seven that wears a full body suit, obviously you had to try on his but since it was impossible to achieve that, you just had the company make a copy for you.

He'll be walking down the hallway doing his normal routine until he notises another person in his suit, the moment you speak and he realises its just you is when he let's his guard down.

"I just got some transplants done to my ass, that's why I look different"

You both are never sent on missions together 'cause you guys don't work well, pretty much nobody works well with him since he's the silent type.

Example, you two were hiding behind some crates ready to jump on the bad guys who were snucking in illegal drugs. He gestured for you to wait as he went to check again, only to turn back to see you gone.

"Marry Christmas motherfuckers!"

He heard your voice shout and he found you standing on top of the stacked crates, machine gun in hand and began shooting aimlessly.

He didn't even do anything but just watch until you ran out of bullets. However, multiple survived and began shooting at you so you ended running towards where he's hiding at.

"Yankee yankee!" You yelped.

You know the video of the two girls taking off their wigs to reveal that they're bald and they start bonding over it? I'd like to imagine that's you and Black Noir with the skin condition under the suits.

One more scenario I wanna add, you guys could be having a meeting but since you were bored and you always hated meetings, you'd draw a big heart on a piece of paper and show it to Black Noir from across the table. Surprisingly he'd draw a heart back to you.

You were overjoyed so you began to draw you and him doing it, doggy style. He stares at your doodle for a while before choosing to just focus on the meeting instead.

Compatibility? 90%

(This took a while cause I was on vacation)

[ilycosy]

❝ PERFECTION ❞ | LUKE CASTELLAN

pairing : luke castellan x daughter of aphrodite!reader

summary — being a child of aphrodite deems you perfect from the moment you get claimed, the expection of complete and utter perfection can weigh down on somebody. somehow, a simple hermes boy reaches all those expectations without even trying.

warnings : hurt/comfort but it's platonic , this takes place in noted , luke is a cocky dumbass & reader is heavily implied to be autistic

aﾉn — first fic for noted !! the smau is being worked on l8r since im a little exhausted n not feeling well again but , i have this to hold u guys over <3 + some smut in drafts :33 every1 say thank u kai for proofreading this <33 @grsveyrrd

you couldn't remember the last time you felt at ease, being at camp always got your blood pumping and the rush of adrenaline in your veins. even being a daughter of aphrodite, stereotypically dainty, you still felt that rush for glory.

you couldn't ever express that need for it though, as camp counselor, you were always expected to guide younger campers into their quests and their own legacy while ignoring your own. it seemed that you were the only one held to that expectation though, clearly shown by hermes cabin.

luke castellan, son of hermes. god of messaging and traveling, he always seemed to be on the move— talking idly with anyone who will listen, overall somebody who people can look up to.

not you though, you couldn't help but resent him. his overly confident smile and cute head tilt, not to mention how he's always winning every sword fight he's ever been in. he'd say something stupid like 'perks of being the best in the last three-hundred years', and then your eyeroll would just fuel his ego.

perfection was expected at camp, from everybody. being the pride of the gods was almost unachievable, almost.

you and luke had always seemed to never get along, most played it off as playful banter but you both knew it was something more. you just couldn't stand each other, no matter how hard you both tried.

he was just easily amazing at everything he does, seemingly rushing into things without thinking and winning. while you were stuck on the opposite team desperately working, never succeeding.

frustration was the worst way to describe it, it barely encompassed everything you felt. "hey," a voice spoke out, sounding raspy from thirst. "luke is wondering where you are, it's almost time for archery."

evan, while not related to you in any way, he was basically your brother. you took a shaky breath as you looked down at the lake, the prickling pain of every sense coming alive at full force now hitting you.

you didn't respond to him, unable to form the words to describe how much you didn't want to face luke and be proved to be a fool again. the metallic clink of evan's armor was heard as he sat down next to you, he was supposed to be at a practice run of capture the flag right now.

"you're skipping practice." you state, your head resting on your legs as you breathe heavy. regulating yourself the way chiron taught you, even though it barely ever worked.

you heard the click of his mouth before he went quiet, drumming his fingers on his knee before speaking. "im helping my sister," he says, scrunching up his nose at the endearment he called you himself. "practice can't wait, besides ill just fall asleep."

you laugh but it hurts, not a good hurt but more of a achey hurt. hurt for the exertion of emotion, hurt that he finds himself useless in an important sport, and hurt that you're failing to meet your obligations for the other campers at archery practice.

evan fills the silence until he can't anymore, talking about everything and nothing at the same time. sometimes you wonder if he's mr. d's son with how he can act so witty and talkative with you, even though he's a hermit around others.

eventually though, his predictions were right. two hours into his talking he begins to lean, falling asleep almost as fast as he began talking. resting his head on your shoulder, his black hair tickling your cheek.

his smell was comforting though, and even though the armor he hadn't shed dug into your side and your stomach as you laid down with him on you— you couldn't imagine trading it.

his light snores and drool seeped into your bright orange shirt, but you ignored it. using his body as a weighted blanket as you looked out into the water, finding the warm sun and soft grass rather comfortable.

you drifted off easily, hypnos taking you under his wing as he allowed you a peaceful sleep. freed from worries and the expectations, he didn't even let you wake when another counselor found you guys.

luke looked down at the two of you in the grass, taking a moment to just be a tired teen with you before gently picking you up. smiling gently at evan's sleepy face before gesturing him to follow him back to the cabins, cradling you maybe a bit too close than he would with others.

but evan wouldn't say anything, the moment was perfect even if you didn't remember it. (he definitely took a picture though).

[steventhusiast]

STWG daily prompt 27/11/23

prompt: first day

pairing/character(s): steddie

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Eddie leans over the console to steady Steve's bouncing leg, and then watches the motion slow over a few seconds. When it eventually fully stops, he starts rubbing his thumb back and forth over the cargo pants gently, and pointedly looks up to meet Steve's eye.

"Hey, I gave you your ten minute freak out. Time's up, Stevie." He almost feels bad for saying it at the anxiety still lingering in Steve's eyes, but they'd talked about this. Eddie promised not to let Steve think himself into a panic.

"Right." Steve says, and takes a deep breath, "I got this."

"Yeah you do." Eddie agrees, smiling encouragingly as Steve looks out the passenger seat window toward the fire station. His new place of work. It seems that just looking at the building seeps all of the confidence back out of him, and his eyes dart back over to Eddie.

"I'm so fucking nervous about this, Eds. This is the first job I actually care about- what if I fuck it up?"

Eddie shakes his head immediately.

"You won't fuck it up. You did the training," Eddie starts counting dramatically with the fingers of his free hand, refusing to stop the reassuring rubbing over Steve's leg, "you passed the training, you aced the interviews, you said you think the station manager likes you, you're here thirty minutes early, and you're bringing donuts in with you. It's gonna be fine."

"Okay. I should probably go in, don't wanna.. don't wanna sit here long enough that someone notices that the van hasn't left yet." Steve actually unbuckles his seatbelt this time, and (after doing a quick scan of the parking lot for people) he leans over to press a chaste kiss to Eddie's lips.

"Go get 'em, baby. And see if they have any of those hot firefighter suspenders, 'kay? For me?" Eddie can't help but tease Steve as he pushes open the passenger door. In response Steve rolls his eyes, as expected, and poorly suppresses a smile, also as expected.

"You're an idiot." He says once he's (finally) gotten out of the van.

Eddie waits for him to reach back in to grab the box of donuts before speaking again.

"I'm your idiot." He claims, and Steve stops trying to suppress his gorgeous smile.

"I love you too. See you later, Eds."

"See you at ten, hot stuff."

And if Eddie waits around in the parking lot for another ten minutes, just in case things go horribly wrong and Steve ends up running back out of the station, well. No one has to know.

[osamusriceballs]

The Accident - Part XIV

Atsumu x fem reader

Warnings: Alcohol

Words: ~ 2.3 k

About: Meeting Atsumu- not in the way you planned though >.&lt;

Part I II -> Next Part

"How would you feel about maybe going out tonight? Hinata and Kageyama will be there too. They would love to see you again, y/n!" You press the phone against your ear and listen to Yachi's cheerful voice while you get a glass of water. "I'd rather stay at home, if that's alright with you." Yachi breaths out deeply at your reply, and you embarrassedly scratch the back of your head.

"That's okay. Is it... because you're still thinking about him?" She carefully asks, and your heart skips a beat when your thoughts drift to him.

She's talking about Atsumu, who still hasn't tried to contact you after more than a month- and you still stalk his Instagram every day, kind of hoping that he'll notice you. A part of you finds yourself very pathetic for that, but you know that you'll let him go eventually. Or at least you hope that you'll be able to. You still feel a pang in your heart whenever you receive a letter addressed to "Mrs. Miya" or when you look at the diamond ring that you finally put aside in a box in your nightstand.

"A bit, yeah. But it's not because of him. I'm just a bit tired. I'll probably go to bed early today."

She hums and hesitates for a second. "If you need me, or if you need to talk about him again, you know that you can always reach out to me, 'kay?" You smile fondly at her words, her concern for you making you feel a bit more at ease, because you know she'll always be on your side. "Thank you. Have fun and say hello to Hinata and Kageyama!"

"I will!"

You both say goodbye, and then you end the call. A relaxing night with a good TV show and a facial mask sounds just perfect to you. And this also might help you to get Atsumu off your mind.

xxx

The shrill ringing sound of your phone wakes you in the middle of the night, and you're alert when you blindly reach out for the phone and see the contact's name.

Osamu Miya is calling

You remember when he had given you his card back then at Onigiri Miya's while Atsumu was using the restroom, just in case anything ever happens, and you had saved his contact without giving it much thought but never reached out to him. Why would he call you in the middle of the night?

You hesitate but finally take the call.

"Hello?"

"Y/n? It's Osamu. I know you probably don't wanna talk to me too, but can I ask for a favor?"

You're in shock when you hear his familiar voice, even more so when you hear his request. "Uhm... what favor?"

"It's about—ya know. Tsumu. He's... kinda unstable ever since ya ignored him. I wanted—" You frown at his words and can't help yourself but to interrupt him.

"Wait a second. What do you mean ignored him?"

You sit up straight in your bed, all your fatigue gone instantly. "The message he left last week? Listen, I get it, he is an idiot, and he is a little pain in the ass, I wouldn't listen to him either."

You blink confused, having no clue what he's talking about and he seems to interpret your silence as agreement.

"Forget it. Y/n, the favor. Can ya come over at Onigiri Miya's? He's drunk and dumb, and I can't do this anymore. I don't know what'll happen if he keeps up with that attitude."

You hold your breath while you listen to him, and your jaw drops at his words. "I- I don't know what to say. If you really need me, I'll come. I don't know if I can be much of a help though."

"Yes. Yes, we need ya here. Ya need a taxi? I can get ya one." He is quick to offer and you hear him sigh in relief.

"Uhm... yes, that would be good. Thanks." You hear a loud shout in the back and the sound of a shattering glass and flinch subconsciously. Osamu curses and yells something inaudible before you hear him clearly again.

"You're welcome. Thank ya for helpin' me out."

"Uhm... sure? I Shouldn't you call his girlfriend though?" Osamu yells another time and you nervously fidget with the blanket in your hands.

"His girlfriend? Wait. Ya actually met her? No wonder ya never tried to reach out. Forget that freak real quick, just come here. He can explain that whole thing to ya."

You stay silent and then nod. This might be the only way for you to find out what really happened back then. "Okay. He'll have a lot of explaining to do, though."

"Sure."

You nod and hang up the call to get off the bed, your whole body feeling electrified. You definitely wouldn't have thought that you'd meet him so soon- leave alone tonight. But thinking about how you've been feeling during these past few weeks, you know that you need this. You need to talk to Atsumu Miya, and you need to talk to him tonight.

xxx

You take a deep breath when you finally stand in front of Onigiri Miya. Not exactly how you expected your Saturday night to go, but here you are. At 2:10 am.

You hesitantly reach out for the door and pause. How will he react when he sees you? Has Osamu already told him that you'll come? How will you react when you see him? You push the door open with sweaty palms and you're met with a sight you did not expect.

Atsumu is sitting at the counter of the restaurant with Osamu standing right next to him, both of them yelling at each other and Osamu wildly gesticulating and throwing a towel. You spot two bottles of beer behind them on the counter and you're pretty sure that they are both from Atsumu. They both don't seem to notice you, still too absorbed into their fight.

The door loudly falls shut behind you and both suddenly stop yelling—not that you could even get a single word—but the sudden silence is almost awkward. They turn to you, and they both just look at you like you're a ghost, without saying anything. You wait for a few seconds, but can't stand any more awkwardness when the silence stretches longer.

"Uhm... hello?"

Atsumu suddenly gets on his feet and approaches you, and you stand there frozen when you see his red-rimmed eyes and the way he's almost stumbling while trying to reach you. Before he gets even close to you, he suddenly falls to the ground, his feet clumsily tangling with each other.

"Atsumu!" you quickly get closer and kneel next to him, concern evident in your voice, and he heavily gets on his arms and lifts his upper body just enough to look at you. You stare wide-eyed at him, your hands hesitantly reaching out for him but pausing mid-air while you look down at him.

"Y/n?" It sounds a bit slurred, and you nod with a frown.

"Yeah." You awkwardly stare at him while he clumsily takes a seat on his ass, his eyes now shining happily while he watches you. "I missed ya." You force a smile on your lips that you hope doesn't look too bitter. He pinches his eyes together, and one of his hands comes to your cheek—almost slapping you, and you flinch a bit when he leans a bit closer, the strong alcohol in his breath evident when he exhales deeply. "Ya don't look happy." He looks sad while he watches your face, and you suddenly feel tears in your eyes. "I'm... you hurt me, Atsumu." You know that he is intoxicated, and that he is in no state to give you a proper answer, but you still needed to get this off your chest.

"Hurt?" he echoes, his eyebrows furrowed while he's trying to understand your words. "Don't wanna hurt ya."

You nod and gently take his hand to remove it from your cheek and hold it. He looks kind of cute sitting there on his ass, and you simply stare at him, a part of you wanting to cry while another part wants to yell at him, but you just stay silent.

You hear someone clear his throat and look at Osamu standing behind him and watching you both attentively. "Don't wanna interrupt, but I wanna go home. I couldn't get him to leave tonight. It's gotten worse since last week. Since that message he left ya."

"What message?" You frown and direct your attention to Osamu. He raises an eyebrow and gestures towards Atsumu. "The one in which he pathetically asked ya to talk to him?"

You shake your head. "I didn't get a message from him."

"Oh." You look blankly at Osamu, and he looks blankly at you. Atsumu's hand suddenly tightens around you, and he whines cutely. "Y/n! Talk to me- yer here for me!" Osamu rolls his eyes and sighs deeply.

"I'm sorry. I was just so annoyed, couldn't stand him. It's fine if ya don't wanna give me a hand here."

"No, I can... I can help you out. What do you want me to do?" You try to ignore how your skin prickles where Atsumu starts to rub circles on the back of your hand, something that feels surprisingly way too intimate for you.

"Can ya help me get him home? I can get ya a taxi or- wait. Do you have a driver's license?"

You nod, and Osamu smiles happily. "Ya wanna drive his car then? Don't worry about the insurance, it's all good. You're officially married after all." He snorts at that and grabs Atsumu's bag to search for the keys. "It's only fair that ya get to drive his damn car then."

Your eyes go wide when you think about driving Atsumu's luxurious car, but you know that Atsumu does not live too far away, so you hesitantly nod, thinking about how nice Osamu has always been to you and how you want to help him out of this misery. And since you're already here, you can at least help him get Atsumu back.

You turn to Atsumu and try to smile as sweetly as you can. "Atsumu? Will you come with me then?" Atsumu seems to have a hard time understanding what you want from him, but finally nods and grabs your hand tighter while he tries to get on his feet. Osamu is quick to come from behind and to pull on his shoulders until he's fully standing, and you raise your brows when you see Atsumu barely pulling himself together. "I'll help ya get him in the car. I need to close the store; will you manage on your own after that? You can call if you need me."

You nod wearily and watch him carry Atsumu basically to the front door, when Atsumu starts complaining. "Y/n, come with us—" he whines and grabs your hand tighter, and you actually smile a bit when he's pouting adorably. "I'm here. Don't worry."

It feels like an eternity to get Atsumu in the car when he calls for you every few seconds and wants to make sure you're still with him, but Osamu finally managed to get Atsumu on the passenger seat where he starts snoring after a few moments.

Osamu sighs and rubs his eyes. "If he's not waking up when yer at his place, ya can call me. I'll take care of him then."

You nod and take the car keys with a slight hint of nervousness. You're just glad that the streets are basically empty at this time, so it should be fine for just a few minutes of driving. And technically, you're still his wife, so this should be fine, even if you scratch it accidentally. Osamu looks at you and nods, and you grab the keys tighter. "Thank you." Osamu opens the car door for you, and you slowly get on the seat. "I really appreciate it. Yer gettin' a free meal when yer comin' to Onigiri Miya next." You softly laugh at his comment and nod. "I'll come back to that offer."

He grins and yawns tiredly. "Drive safely."

You turn on the engine, and you wave at him. "You too. See ya."

"See ya."

xxx

The ride went smoothly, and you couldn't be more thankful when you finally park the car in the spacious garage. Atsumu has simply been snoring next to you, just mumbling a few inaudible things every now and then and the streets were basically empty at this time. You exit the car and open the door on his side, softly shaking his shoulder. "Atsumu? Can you come with me? Atsumu?" You coo, trying to softly wake him up, and he finally opens his eyes, still groggy and sleepy. "Y/n?"

"Yes, it's me. Will you come with me?"

He seems to have a hard time understanding what you want from him again, but he nods.

"Come here." You wrap Atsumu's arm around your shoulders and desperately pull him with you, and he finally gives in and lets you take him out of the car. "Y/n... missed ya. Yer gonna stay the night? Ya can have my bed. We can share. Share with my pretty- wife." He hiccups, and you take a deep breath to suppress your feelings. He sounds so genuine and cute, you almost want to believe his words. "Come on. We can talk about that later."

You have no idea how long it takes you to bring him to the elevator—more like drag him to the elevator—but you sigh in relief when you press the familiar number, even though the elevator has brought you so many painful memories by now. He mumbles some barely understandable words in your neck, his weight heavily resting on your body while you pull him with you as soon as the doors open.

"Come on, we're almost there."

"Hmm... coming." He lulls, following your direction, and you both finally make it around the corner—only to find someone already standing there. A familiar face that you hoped to never see again.

"You?"

[justanotherninjagoblog12]

Finding them after the merge

Gender neutral reader

Some are longer than others

Also, Jay remembers you but you're the only one he remembers

One more thing Cole, Lloyd and Zane will be a separate part because I'm writing this late at night and can't come up with anything for them right now

Characters included in this Jay, Y/n, Nya and Kai

Kai

You were making your way back to Ninjago when you happened to pass by some mountains on the way back to Ninjago. When you heard a commotion. It sounded like fighting and you were going to ignore it that was until you heard a voice yell " BRING IT ON YOU OVER GROWN LIZARDS!" You froze in your tracks you knew that voice anywhere it was the voice of your fiery hothead boyfriend. " Welp I guess Ninjago will just have to wait. " You muttered before going towards the voice. Only to be stopped by muddy rocky creatures when you got close to Kai's voice . " Who go's there?" One of the creatures asked pointing it's sphere at you. You raised your hands up in surrender. " I mean no harm I just thought I heard someone I know over here. " You replied. " There are none of your kind here leave." One of the creatures replied and you turned to leave. That is until you saw something out of the corner of your eye a male with spiky hair showing off to some of the creatures. You took off running towards the male with the creatures chasing you the male turned around just in time to see the commotion and get tackled into a hug by you. " KAI IT'S REALLY YOU I WAS STARTING TO LOSE HOPE I'D SEE YOU AGAIN!" You yelled a little bit to loudly while hugging him. Kai stood there in shock for a few seconds before hugging you back. " Y/n is that really you?" Kai asked. " Yes porcupine, it's really me." You replied . " Hey what did I say about calling me a porcupine?" Kai asked pretending to be hurt you rolled your eyes and kissed him he kissed back. Kai then explained to the craglings the name of the creatures how you weren't a threat .

Nya

You didn't find her she found you while looking for the dragon cores. You had been staying with Arrakore a djinn, which with what happened with Nadakhan probably wasn't the best idea. Arrakore had found you injured and unconscious and took you in. You of course were very weary and didn't trust him at all at first but over time the two of you eventually gained each other's trust. You laugh as a dragon ran up to Arrakore. " An old friend of yours Arrakore?" You asked between laughter. " I don't know why I keep you around. " Arrakore replied looking at you. " Because your lonely and secretly enjoy the company. " You replied smirking. A young girl probably somewhere in her teens came into the cave followed by a baby dragon and a woman. The woman was wearing a light blue ninja gi and a light blue mask. You and the woman had a few awkward moments of eye contact before she pulled down her mask " Y/n?" The woman asked. " Nya? NYA!" You exclaimed happily running over to her. Nya punched . " That's for scaring me when I couldn't find you. " Nya said then pulled you into a kiss. " That's for everything else. " She finished. " So are you going to introduce us?" The teen girl asked. " Oh right Sora this is my partner Y/n. Y/n this is Sora. " Nya said. " Nice to meet you kid." You said smiling at Sora.

Jay

You wandered down the halls of the building it was so big and you, Lloyd and Arin had all gotten separated. You hoped one of them had found the dragon core you three had come for. You were muttering to yourself as you continued to wander the halls not really paying attention to where you were going when you bumped into someone's back. " Hey watch where you're.........Jay?" You asked as the male turned around he wasn't wearing his blue ninja gi instead he was wearing a black suit and dark blue tie. " can I help yo...... Y/n?" Jay asked as his eyes met yours. Jay could see the hesitate in your eyes he smiled softly and encouragingly as he opened his arms. He still had the same smile the smile you had missed the past few years. The smile that made your heart race it was him it was your Jay. " Jay....." You said crying happy tears as you walked into his arms. " I missed you so much my love. " You said crying tears of joy and Jay leaned down and kissed your temple softly. " Not a day went bye that I didn't think about you. " Jay muttered to you. " That's cheesy Walker you're a dork." You muttered still hugging him. " Yeah but I'm your dork." Jay replied. " That you are Jay that you are. " You replied happy to have your soul mate back.

[homosexuhauls]

I haven't seen anyone mention it on here, most likely because English language news sources are reporting them as friends, but a man murdered a lesbian couple in Hong Kong last week.

(Twitter thread includes more sources and proof of the two victims being in a relationship. However, video of the attack exists online and some of the photos in Chinese news articles are graphic/disturbing. Please proceed with caution.)

Fang Xiaotong (26 years old) and Liu Jixi (22 years old) were stabbed to death by a 39 year old man in a targeted attack in a shopping mall. Allegedly, he purchased the knife only after seeing the visibly gay couple, then attacked Fang Xiaotong, who was a Tom, which has a similar meaning to a butch or stud or masc lesbian. Liu Jixi attempted to intervene to save her girlfriend, but the perpetrator stabbed her also. Bystanders and mall security did not intervene, although eventually chefs who worked at the mall heard screams and armed themselves with stools before attempting to stop the attacker. The perpetrator then waited calmly for the police, and both women were pronounced dead at the hospital. While Western sources are painting this as a result of mental illness, the video and local news stories make it clear that this was likely a hate crime.

(Nb. I've also seen their names given as Fong Hiu-tung and Lau Kai-hei, and also that they may have used the nicknames "Daniel" and "Amber". I can't know which names they would have preferred to be used, hence why I'm including all of them here but using Fang Xiaotong and Liu Jixi throughout the post for consistency and clarity.)

From Naomi Wu, whose twitter thread I've linked above, an explanation of the sometimes deadly hostilities Toms and other lesbians face in China and Hong Kong:

When men attack Toms (butches), they think a lot of things- sometimes in Chinese we say "one lesbian steals two men's wives"- herself and her partner. And for bitter middle-aged, unmarried men like this attacker, they've been told their whole life they are owed a wife to wait on them hand and foot- and they feel robbed and wronged by a young handsome Tom taking what's "theirs". They are angry, entitled, jealous- they want to teach her a lesson. They want to punish her for having what is rightfully theirs when they don't. Then it's "Oh, if you want to act like a man, I'll treat you like one". Most need to justify it to themselves to get started. Of course, the femme/Dee/P is always next, because we will fight to save our Tom, and once we do, they can justify turning their violence on us next. In their twisted head, they decide their unprovoked attack was "fighting 1-on-1" and it's our fault for getting involved. All Toms know the deal, they cannot win, all Toms tell their girls again and again "if something happens, just run, I can take it". When the time comes, all Toms try to buy their girl time to get away- even as they go down under fists and boots...or knives They want to buy us time, but no femmes can bear to leave them, so it never works. But they always go for our Toms first, then us. Every time.

Fang Xiaotong was a waiter in a high-end restaurant. She loved small animals and children and had lived with her mother and step-sister prior to moving in with Liu Jixi one to two months before the attack. Liu Jixi was a hair stylist and also worked part-time at a bar, which is apparently where she and Fang Xiaotong met. On the day of the attack, both women were planning to meet up with Fang Xiaotong's family to celebrate her grandfather's birthday.

Rest in peace 🫶 your courage will not be forgotten.

[adaines-furious-feast]

Baron's Game: Fabian Seacaster

Still waiting on AO3 invite, but I can't get this out of my head. Sorry it's so long.

The dust stung Fabian’s eye. He screwed it shut and went to rub it when a loud, low sound vibrated through the room. There was a sudden silence and Fabian became painfully aware of his own breathing.  

When he opened his eye again, Fabian was alone. 

The silence continued, almost smothering him. 

Fabian laughed uncertainly, looking around the room. 

“Guys?” 

The silence swallowed his voice almost as soon as it left his mouth. 

“Hello?” 

Fabian scanned the room for any clues, mentally going through his spells to find something that might help. 

Movement out of the corner of his eye made Fabian spin around. 

A full length mirror stood in the corner, leaning against the wall. Cobwebs clung to it, but the face was eerily clear of dust. 

He approached slowly, not sure what to expect. 

Fabian found his friends reflected in the mirror. They were talking, but Fabian couldn’t hear anything. Their hand movements indicated they were planning something. Someone waved into the far corner and Fabian realised he was standing there. No, something that looked like him. It joined the conversation and agreed to whatever was being planned. 

A thud made Fabian jump out of his skin and he spun around. 

Slowly, a small orange ball rolled out from behind some boxes. The sound of it rolling span around the room and Fabian’s head. 

“What the-” 

Fabian approached gingerly, his hand on his sword hilt. It wasn’t a ball. It was an orange. He reached out and picked up the orange, and only then realised the far side was rotten. He instinctively dropped the orange, which smashed as it hit the floor. The rotten flesh scattered across the floor.  

Another nervous laugh escaped Fabian’s lips, only to be immediately swallowed by the silence again. 

Fabian turned back to the mirror. 

“Jesus Christ!” 

The skeleton creature was now in the reflection, standing directly in front of the mirror. It stood with its hands behind its back, head shifted to one side and a perfect smile on its face. 

“What the fuck?” 

“Do not be afraid, Fabian Seacaster,” the skeleton boy said. It’s mouth did not move. “I am not going to hurt you. Not just yet.” 

“What the fuck are you?” 

“I am Baron,” the boy said. 

“O... kay...” Fabian said slowly, backing away from the mirror. 

“It is good to meet you, Fabian Seacaster,” Baron said. “I believe I have you to thank for my existence.” 

Fabian didn’t say anything, continuing to edge towards the door. He kept Baron in his sight, as if the creature might jump out of the mirror if he looked away.  

When Fabian didn’t reply, Baron stayed silent. The silence seemed to get louder, violently pushing on Fabian’s eardrums. 

He reached the door and ripped it open, preparing to run. But when he turned to face it, he found nothing. There was no corridor, no room, no outside. It wasn’t darkness. It was just a void. 

“It is very rude to run away during a conversation, Fabian Seacaster,” Baron said. “The conversation will always find you.” 

“What the fuck?” Fabian said again. It was all he could think to say. Every other thought he had was drowned out by the question. He heard it on every breath he took as he began to hyperventilate.  

“It would seem you are in the mirror,” Baron said. “You have met a terrible fate. Only wat is reflected in the mirror exists. I am sorry I had to put you here. It is important to the game.” 

“What game?” Fabian asked, trying to make his voice sound powerful. And failing. 

“You will see,” Baron said cheerfully.  

Baron sat down, their legs crossed. They leaned their chin against their hands, leaning forward so their head was almost touching the mirror.  

“What do you want?” Fabian asked. 

“To talk,” Baron said. “You are the friend of my Romance Partner, Riz Gukgak, and responsible for my existence. I would like to get to know you.” 

“And then you’ll let me go?” Fabian asked. 

“Eventually,” Baron said. 

Fabian looked around the room again, but no new ideas came to him. “Fine.” 

The answer seemed to please Baron. “I would like to play a game of question and answer.” 

“What’s that?” 

“I will ask you a question, and you will answer,” Baron said. “Then I will answer any question you have.” 

Fabian looked around again. “O...kay...” 

“Why did you lie about seeking a relationship with Aelwyn Abernant?” Baron asked. 

Fabian frowned again, trying to figure out what on Spyre the freaky creature was talking about. 

“I didn’t,” Fabian said. “I mean, I’m a cool guy and she’s a hot girl so I wanted...” Fabian’s stomach heaved and he doubled over before vomiting. 

“You should not lie, Fabian Seacaster,” Baron warned. “If you do, there will be grave consequences.” 

When Fabian looked up, a crack had appeared in the mirror, crossing Baron’s face and slicing through his empty eye socket. 

“I didn’t,” Fabian tried before vomiting again. “Fine, I did but... I’m supposed to get in a relationship with a hot girl. And she kissed me!” 

Fabian breathed heavily, wiping drool on the back of his hand. 

Baron sat still, waiting. 

“Why do you care?” Fabian asked, glaring at him. 

“You lied about a relationship, which made your friend, Riz Gukgak, lie about a relationship,” Baron said. “But rather than choosing someone he knew would never date him, Riz Gukgak created me, his Romance Partner.” 

“Why would the Ball-” 

Baron tutted, wagging a boney finger at Fabian. 

“It is my turn to ask a question. If you believe you should be in a relationship, why do you reject those that wish to be in a relationship with you, Fabian Seacaster?” 

“Because I don’t want a relationship,” Fabian said, speaking quickly so he could get to his question. “Why are you asking questions you already know the answer to.” 

Baron cocked his head, apparently surprised by how quickly Fabian spoke. 

“I want you to think about these answers,” Baron said. “There are few things more horrifying than what you really are, Fabian Seacaster. It has already pushed away your parents. It will not be long before those you call your friends will leave too.” 

Fabian’s eye was closed. His grip on Fandrangor tightened. If he was trapped in the mirror, there was only one way to get out of here. 

He was suddenly thrown to the floor. His eye burst open and he found Ragh on top of him, shouting something.  

Fabian found himself in Adaine’s room, his friends around him.  

The memory of the mirror world slipped from his mind as he tried to understand what had happened. But there was something digging deep in his subconsciousness that was not going to disappear. 

[layce2015]

Supernatural (Dean Winchester x Female!Reader)

The Kids Are Alright

Masterlist

"What do you mean you don't think it will work, Bobby? It's a demon-dispelling ritual." Sam said into his phone as he looks over his laptop while I sit across from him at a diner. "Well, maybe we got the translation wrong." Sam said as I look through my own laptop for anything. "Look, we can't just let Dean fry in hell while we—...Well, there's got to be something that w—." Sam said just as I hear footsteps.

I look over and see Dean coming over to us and I clear my throat at Sam. "Oh, ah, yeah, no, ah, I..I gotta go. Uh. Okay. Never mind." He said and he hangs up the phone quickly while Dean comes over, looking suspiciously at Sam.

"Hey. Who was that?" Dean asked him. "Ah, I was just ordering pizza." Sam replied, quickly, and I glance up at him with a raised eyebrow. "Dude, you do realize that you're in a restaurant?" Dean said as he looks around. "Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I...just felt like pizza, you know?" Sam replied and he smiles, tight-lipped and reeking of insincerity.

"O-kay, Weirdy Mcweirderton." Dean said and he clears throat as he goes to sit next to me and places an arm around my shoulder.

Suddenly, my phone goes off and I go and pick it up. "Hello?" I answered. "(Y/n)? It's Elijah." The familiar voice said and I look up. "Oh, hey, Elijah! How are you?" I asked him and both boys look over at me, mainly Dean who looked a bit suspiciously. "I'm doing fine...um, you still working your job, right?" He asked me. "Yeah, yeah...everything okay? That spirit come back?" I asked. "No, no. But...I think there is something weird going on here and I think I need your help....again." Elijah said, a bit nervously.

"Okay, you still living in the same house?" I asked him. "No, I live in Cicero, Indiana." He replied. "Oh, big move for ya from Florida." I joked and he chuckles. "Yeah. I'll text you my address. So, I'll see ya later then?" He asked. "Yeah, see ya." I said. "Good, see ya." Elijah said and I hang up my phone and see the boys staring at me.

"What?" I asked them. "Elijah? Who's Elijah?" Dean asked me and I smirked at him. "Why you ask? You jealous?" I asked him. "No, but I'm very curious as to why a random guy has called my girlfriend?" Dean asked and I laugh. "Okay, Dean don't be jealous, it's not a good look on you." I teased and Dean glares while I hear Sam snickering.

"Anyway, I met Elijah when Dad and I were doing a job about a vengeful spirit. As we were doing this job, Elijah and I got close and we dated for awhile but we eventually parted ways. I hadn't heard from him in like years. I was like sixteen when we dated." I explained.

"What did he want?" Sam asked me. "He said he might have a job for me...or us, I should say, where he lives." I replied. "Where does he live?" Dean asked me. "Cicero, Indiana." I said and Dean has a shock look on his face and the color drains from his face.

"What's wrong, Winchester?" I asked him and he swallows. "Nothing. Everything's fine. It's just I knew a girl that lived there about eight years ago." He replied and I raise an eyebrow at him. "Oh, you afraid I'll run into an ex-girlfriend of yours?" I asked him and he swallows a bit. "Maybe." He said and I laugh. 

"Dean, don't be nervous...I mean, you're about to met one of my ex-boyfriends, if you're wanting to come with that is. Plus what are the chances I'd meet her?" I said and he shrugs. "You're right. Let's go see what you old boy-toy wants." He said and I roll my eyes.

"Maybe when we finish seeing what Elijah has for us, we could go look her up. Her and I could swap embarrassing stories about you." I said and Dean groans and shakes his head while I laugh then lean up and kiss his cheek.

Later, we pull up to Cicero Pines Motel and Dean stops to let Sam out. "Don't wait up for us, Sammy." Dean said and he starts to drive off as Sam was still pulling his bag out of the car, teasing Sam. "Wait, Dean. Dean, you...Dean! " sam said, annoyed, and I turn to Dean and give him a disapproving look. 

"Dean." I said and he sighs then stops as Sam gets the rest of his stuff out. Once he got his stuff out, Dean drives off.

*3rd Person POV*

The couple drives through a suburban development, past houses being newly constructed and a sign for the Morning Hill neighborhood that notes SOLD OUT! "Is this his house?" Dean asked as they pull up to a house. (Y/n) looks out at the address number then at the text Elijah sent. "Yeah, this is the place." She said and they get out of the car and head towards the house.

Dean and (y/n) arrive at Elijah's doorstep, then she ring the doorbell. The door opens to reveal a little curly blonde girl no older than 7 or 8, which comes to a shock to both Dean and (y/n). Both of them begin to wonder did they get the address wrong?

(Y/n) composes herself and starts talking before Dean could. “Hi. Um, does Elijah live here?” She asks. “Yeah. He’s my dad.” The little girl answers. “I'm (y/n). I was friends with your dad in high school. I was wondering if we can talk to him.” (y/n) said. “Really?" The little girl asked and (y/n) nods.

"Dad! You’re friends are here.” The girl calls out to her father. Not a moment later, Elijah, a man with light brown hair and gray eyes, comes in, not noticing (y/n) and Dean's presence as he begins to scold his daughter. “Peyton, what did I say about opening the door to stra—" He started to say but stopped once he saw (y/n).

"(y/n)?” Elijah says, in disbelief.

“Hey, Eli.” (y/n) greets and Elijah stares at her for a moment then turns to his daughter. "Peyton, why don’t you go get ready. I gotta talk to my friends about something” Elijah tells his young daughter. She nods and heads upstairs.

“I didn’t think you’d make it.” Elijah said as he pulls (y/n) into a hug, to which she returns with no hesitation. Dean however couldn’t help but let the feeling of jealousy take over. “You sounded urgent. I had to come see if you were okay.” (Y/n) replied.

Then the sound of someone clearing his throat brought the former couple to attention as they pulled back from their embrace and (y/n) turns to Dean, who gives her a look. “Oh, Elijah. This is Dean Winchester.” she introduced. “Her boyfriend.” Dean added as the two men shake hands, his grip being firm.

"Hey." Elijah said then he turns to (y/n). "Where's your dad? Did he retire?" He asked and (y/n) bites her lips and looks down. "He actually died almost three years ago." She replied and Elijah has a look of shock on his face. "Oh, (y/n), I'm so sorry." Elijah said, apologetically. "It's okay." (Y/n) said and he nods, slightly.

"So, what did you call me for?" She asked him. "Well, it could be nothing, but I think there's something going on around this neighborhood." Elijah said. "Like what?" Dean asked him. "Well, a friend of mine died a few days ago in really bizarre way." Elijah said.

"How bizzare?" (Y/n) asked him. "Well, he somehow landed on a handsaw." Elijah replied. "Don't you think he could've just tripped and fall on the saw?" Dean asked him. "No, no. He was very careful. Plus, I noticed there were other men on this area that had died in an accidental manner, like his." Elijah said just as they hear footsteps behind him 

"Daddy! We're gonna be late!" Peyton said as she comes up to him and grabs his hand. "Okay, honey. Grab his present and we'll go." Elijah said to her and she runs towards the back and he turns to the couple.

"Sorry, we have a birthday party to go to. You're welcome to join us." Elijah said. "You sure about that?" (Y/n) asked him. "Well, I hate to leave you guys on such short notice, so I think Lisa should be fine with it." Elijah said and Dean's eyes widen about it.

"Lisa? As in Lisa Braeden?" Dean asked him. "Yeah. Why?" Elijah asked him, confused but also shocked Dean knows Lisa, and (y/n) turns to Dean. "Oh, is this the ex-girlfriend you don't want me to meet?" She asked him and he looks down. "Oh, then we'll definitely join you." (Y/n) said and Peyton runs out of the house and Elijah leads the couple to the house.

"So, how old is Peyton?" (Y/n) asked Elijah. "She's seven." He replied. "Wow, someone's getting old." (Y/n) teases as she looks over at the young girl. "I'm not old!" She exclaims and (y/n) chuckles. 

"Where's her mother?" Dean asked Elijah. "Um...well, she died last year. Car accident." Elijah said and (y/n) gives a sympathetic look. "I'm sorry, Eli." She said and he nods. "It's okay. Peyton here is my rock. She's helped me though tough times. I'd do anything for her." Elijah said as they approach a house, which was decorated with festive balloons.

Elijah rings the doorbell and the door opens to reveal Lisa, a woman in her late twenties, brunette, and very fit. Lisa smiles once she sees Elijah. "Eli!" She exclaims as they go to hug. "Thanks for coming." She said as she pulls back from the hug. "Of course! Wouldn't miss it. Um, these are my friends...I hope you don't mind that they came..." Elijah said as (y/n) nods at Lisa then she turns and sees Dean, who smiles awkwardly.

She stares at him in confusion for a moment, then recognizes him. "Dean!" She greets and Elijah and (y/n) stare between them. "Lisa. How's it going?" Dean said, a bit awkward. "Wow. So, uh, how long has it been?" Lisa asked. "Eight, going on nine years now. Crazy, right?" Dean said. "Yeah." Lisa said then (y/n) holds her hand out to her.

"Hi, I'm (y/n)." She introduced and Lisa smiled and shakes her hand. "Hi." She said as she looks between the two. "I'm sorry, they came up on such short notice and..." Elijah said but Lisa shakes her head. "No, it's fine. Uh, c'mon in." She said and opens the door wider.

Children were running around in the back yard, which is decorated for a kid's birthday party, as Dean, (y/n) and Elijah follow Lisa while Peyton runs out and squeals out to her friends. "Peyton! Don't run!" Elijah said and she slows down her pacing.

"So, uh, who's the party for?" Dean asked Lisa. "Ben. My son." She replies. "Oh. You have a –" Dean started to say and she nods. "Yep." She said and she gestures across the yard to a young boy, wearing a black jacket and jeans, opening presents. "That's him." She said as the boy opens a gift to reveal a CD. 

"Yes! AC/DC rules!" He exclaims and Dean stares at him. "How old –" 

"Eight." Lisa replied, answering Dean's unfinished question, then she looks behind her to see her friend behind her. "Oh, guys, could you excuse me a minute?" She asked and Elijah and (y/n) nods at her while Dean still stares at Ben, stunned.

(Y/n) looks at him then raises her hand and waves it in his face. "Dean? Everything okay? Cat got your tongue?" She asked him as he jumps, slightly, then turns to her. "Uh...no...everything is fine....I'm, uh...I'm gonna go grab some cake..." he trails off and he walks away.

"He alright?" Elijah asked her. "I don't know, honestly." (Y/n) said as she stares after Dean.

Dean was looking at the birthday cake, which has a racecar theme, while two women were sitting in lawn chairs, watching him from behind. "Did you hear Lisa call him Dean?" The brunette woman asked her friend, the redhead. "Yeah. Why?" The second woman asked.

"You don't know about Dean? The Dean. Best-night-of-my-life Dean?" The burnette asked her. "No! Tell me." The redheaded exclaims. "Oh, my god, so, they had this crazy, semi-illegal--" the first woman started to say but she cuts off as she sees Dean turns to them, both women gasp.

"Hi." Dean greets them and the women continue to stare at him with a certain lascivious intensity. "Hi." The burnette said. "Hello." The redhead said as she crunches a piece of celery, loudly and somehow suggestively.

Dean looks at them, feeling uncomfortable, when (y/n) comes up to him. "Hey, you okay? You just seem...off." she said as he turns to her. "Yeah, yeah...I'm fine, sweetheart." He replies then he leans down and kisses her, throwing (y/n) off guard a bit before she kiss him back. 

As they kiss, the two women let out a noise of disappointment. Once they break the kiss, Dean smiles at her then walks away and (y/n) turns and sees the two women sitting nearby. She gives them a friendly smile then walks off as well.

Dean and (y/n) find Ben watching a bounce-house and eating a piece of cake. "What's up?" Ben asked the two. "What's up with you?" Dean asked him just as a woman and her little girl walk by and Ben checks out the girl while Dean looks at the mom for a moment then over at (y/n), who was raising an eyebrow at him.

Then Dean and Ben each take a bite of cake. "So, it's your birthday." (Y/n) said to Ben, questioning. "Guilty." Ben said. "It's a cool party." Dean said. "Dude, it's so freakin' sweet. And this moon bounce – it's epic." Ben exclaims, excitedly.  "Yeah. It's pretty awesome." Dean said, slightly weirded out.

"You know who else thinks they're awesome? Chicks. It's like hot-chick city out there." Ben said as a couple of girls and Peyton walk over to the bounce house and take off their shoes.

Ben smacks Dean on the chest, bro-to-bro. Dean and (y/n) watches bemusedly as Ben sets his cake down and follows Peyton into the moon bounce. "Look out ladies, here comes trouble!" Ben shouts as he goes into bounce house. "Hey, Ben!" Peyton said, smiling.

Meanwhile, (y/n) starts to put two and two together, as she stares at Ben, then looks over at Dean and raises an eyebrow at Dean. "Dean...is there something you'd like to share with me?" She asked and Dean stands there as he does a mental arithmetic, then darts inside the house, knocking things over as he goes, (y/n) following close behind him.

*(y/n)'s POV*

Dean and I enter the kitchen of Lisa's house as a woman walks past us and heads to her daughter. Lisa and Elijah were standing there, both of them looked worried. "Hey. So, I, uh...met Ben." Dean said while Lisa, distracted, looks at him, nodding absent-mindedly. "Cool kid." Dean said. "Yeah." Lisa said.

"Yeah. ...You know, I couldn't help but notice that, uh, he's turning eight. You and me...you know." Dean said as he gestures between him and her. Elijah and I share a look then I look over at Dean, folding my arms.

Lisa chuckles, as she finally gets what Dean was getting at. "You're not...trying to ask me if he's yours?" Lisa asked him. "No. Nah, of course not." Dean said and we chuckle. "He's not, is he?" Dean asked once we stopped chuckling.

"What?" Lisa asked, startled, slamming the oven door in her surprise and Dean raises his eyebrows. "No." She said, firmly. "Right. Yeah..." Dean mutters then clears throat as he looks outside and I follow his gaze to see him staring at Ben and Peyton playing.

"Katie, sweetheart, we got to go. Okay. Come on." A woman with a little girl as they walk past the kitchen on their way out. "Come on, Katie." She said and they leave.

"Something wrong with your friend?" I asked Lisa, who looks at her worried. "She's been through a lot. Her ex just died in this horrible accident." Lisa said and I look over at Eljiah as he gives me a knowing look.

"Oh, yeah. We just read about that. The, uh, the power saw." I said to her. "Yeah. Guess there's been a lot of bad luck in the neighborhood lately." Lisa said then she turns to Elijah. "Isnt that right, Eli?" She asked and Elijah nods.

"What kind of bad luck?" Dean asked them and they began to go into more detail about it.

"Hello." Sam answers our call as Dean and I sit in the Impala. "Dude, there is a job here." Dean said as he holds the phone up. "Really?" Sam asked. "Yeah. Elijah told us that a friend of his had died from a power saw." I said. "Oh yeah, I think I read that in the paper earlier." Sam replied.

 "Well...Turns out there's four more that never even made the paper, all in this...Morning Hill gated community. People falling off of ladders and drowning in their Jacuzzis all over the neighborhood." Dean said. "That is weird." Sam said. "Yeah, something's up. Something these nice, big gates can't protect them from." I said as I look around the neighborhood.

Dean and I were walking back to the car, when we noticed Ben and Peyton sitting, sadly, on a park bench. I look over at Dean and give him a concern look, he nods and we head over to the bench and sit next to the kids.

"Hey, kiddos." Dean said to them. "Hey, you two are my dad's friend!" Peyton said. "And you guys were at my party." Ben said. "Yeah. Yeah, I'm Dean and this is (y/n)." Dean said to them. "Everything okay? Something wrong?" I asked the kids then I noticed that Ben is holding an empty case.

Dean and I look out at the field and see a group of four boys playing with a handle video game. "Is that your game they're playing with?" I asked Ben. "Ryan Humphrey borrowed it, and now he won't give it back." Peyton replied.

"Well, you want me to go—" Dean started to say but Ben turns to him. "No! Don't go over there! Only bitches send a grown-up." Ben said, quickly, and Dean shrugs. "You're not wrong." He said. "And I am not a bitch." Ben said, pouting. Dean looks out the boys and pointed at the bigger boy.

"Is that Humphrey? The one that needs to lay off the burgers?" Dean asked and Ben nods, smiling slightly, while Peyton giggles and covers her mouth. Dean hums at this and I look at him, curiously. "Dean, what are you thinking?" I asked him.

Later, Ben walks across the park to the group of boys, who are all bigger than him. He clears his throat loudly and looks back at us, and Dean gives him a thumb’s up.

Ben clears his throat again. "Ryan." Ben said and the kids look up. "I'd like my game back, please." Ben said to the bigger boy. "Fine. Take it back." Ryan said to Ben, threateningly, and the other boys laugh.

Ben looks nervously at the other kids, sighs, then turns as if to leave. "See? Told you guys he was a—" Ryan said then he was cut off as Ben turns back, suddenly, and kicks Ryan hard between the legs.

Ryan crumples to the ground, and Ben takes the game back. Peyton gasped and placed a hand over her mouth while Dean and I look around, smirking. Ben runs back to us, smiling. "Dude, that was awesome!" Ben said as he high-fives Dean then me.

"Benjamin. Isaac. Braeden!" A voice said and we look over and see Lisa and Elijah coming towards us. "What's gotten into you?" Lisa asked Ben. "He stole my game." Ben said a she points at the kid. "So you kick him? Since when is—" Lisa started to say but breaks off, looking at me and Dean.

"Did you two tell my son to beat up that kid?" She asked us, angrily. "What? Somebody had to teach him how to kick the bully in the nads." Dean said. "Who asked you to teach him anything?" Lisa asked him, spiteful. "Just relax." I said to her, calmly.

"What are you even still doing here, Dean? We had one weekend together a million years ago. You don't know me. And you have no business with my son." Lisa growled then she turns to me and glares daggers at me. 

"Lisa, c'mon, they were just helping...." Elijah said to her and she turns her head, sharply. "You're seriously sticking up for them?!" She asked. "Well, they're right about one thing: Ben does need to stand up for himself." Elijah said and Lisa stares at him, disbelief, before she scoffs. "Would you teach Peyton this behavior?!" She asked him. "Only to defend herself." Elijah said and Lisa scoffs again.

"I can't believe what I'm hearing!" She growls and she stalks over to Ben and grabs him to walk off with him. "Lisa." Dean said and Lisa turns to him. "Just leave us alone." She yells at him and they begin to leave, but Ben pulls out of her grip and runs back to give Dean an impulsive hug.

"Ben!" Lisa yells as Ben hugs Dean. "Thanks." He said to Dean and I give a fond smile at this. Then Ben turns to me and hugs me too, I hug back and pat his head before he runs back to Lisa and they leave. "I'll talk to her." Elijah said to us and he grabs Peyton's hand and the two follow Lisa and Ben.

Dean and I watch them, speculatively, until we notice three children with creepy stares watching. "Well, that's not creepy at all." I said to Dean, who nods.

Later, we make our way back to the hotel to see Sam at his computer, doing research. "Something's wrong with the kids in this town." Dean said to him. "Yeah. Tell me about it. So, what do you guys know about changelings?" Sam asked us.

"Evil monster babies?" Dean asked. "No, not necessarily babies." Sam said and I started to realize something. "They're kids. Creepy, stare at you like you're lunch kids?" I asked. "Yeah. There's one at every victim's house." Sa. 

After Sam went out to do some snooping, Sam was seated on the bed, as Dean and I prepare a kerosene torch. "So, changelings can perfectly mimic children. According to lore, they climb in the window, snatch the kid. Y'know, there were marks on the windowsill at one of the kid's houses. Looked to me like blood." Sam explained.

"The changeling grabs a kid, assumes its form, joins the happy fam just for kicks?" Dean asked. "Not quite. Changelings feed on the mom: synovial fluid. The moms have these odd bruises on the back of their necks. Changelings can drain them for a few weeks before mom finally croaks." Sam said.

"And then there's dad and the babysitter." I pointed out. "Yeah. Seems like anyone who gets between the changeling and its food source ends up dead." Sam said as Dean holds up the torch. "And fire's the only way to waste them?" He asked and Sam nods. "Yup."

"Great. We'll just bust in, drag the kids out, torch them on the front lawn. That'll play great with the neighbors." Dean said, sarcastically, and Sam rolls his eyes.

"What about the real ones? What happens to them?" I asked Sam. "According to lore, they stash them underground somewhere. I don't know why, but if it's true, the real kids might be out there." Sam said. "We better start looking." I said then Dean looks up, as if he realized something.

"So, any kid in the neighborhood is vulnerable?" Dean asked Sam. "Yep." Sam replied and Dean and I exchange a worried look. "We gotta make a stop. I want to check on someone." Dean said. "Well Dean, if the real kids are still alive, we don't have time. We—" Sam started to explain but I talk over him. "We have to." I said.

Later, after stopping by Lisa's house, Dean goes to talk to her but he comes back over to me and Sam as we stand by the Impala. "They took Ben. He's changed." Dean said and we look at him, shocked. "What?! Are you sure?" Sam asked him. "Yeah, I'm sure. I checked his windowsill." Dean replied.

"Blood?" I asked him, worried. "I don't think it is blood, and I think I know where the kids are." Dean said and I pull out my phone. "I'll see if I can get Elijah to watch over her." I said to the boys and I dialed Eli's number.

Later, after I convinced Elijah to watch over Lisa, we pull up to a semi-finished home where there's a large mound of dirt resided. We get out of the car and Sam picks some up and inspects it on his fingers.

"Red dirt. That's what was on the window." Sam said. "Ah, you take the front. (Y/n) and I'll go around." Dean said and we nod and head inside. We wander about with flashlights when I heard a noise in the basement. I give Dean and look and we nod then we go to inspect, finding a series of cages, each containing abducted kids. Dean then sees Ben.

"Ben...Ben...it's okay. We're gonna get you out of here, okay?" He said and he goes to open the cage while I move around the cages and I see a red haired woman in one cage and a bunch of kids in other cages. Once getting Ben out, Dean pulls him out of the cage and hugs him and I give a fond smile at this.

"Come on. Let's go." Dean said as he sets Ben down and ruffles his hair. "All right, come on." I said to them then Dean and I break open the cages and we, including Ben, help the children out. "It's okay. You’re gonna get out of here, all right? Hurry!" Ben said to his peers.

"Come on, girls! Come on! Keep moving, keep moving." I said once I released two girls from the cage and we began to run towards the window. "Okay, everybody back! Everybody back!" Dean said and he clears off a windowsill and prepares to smash the glass.

Ben then helps us to usher the other kids away. "Cover your eyes!" I warned them and Dean breaks the window with a plank of wood, and begins to brush the glass off. Ben takes off his jacket and hands it to me. "Here. Use this." He said and I nod at him then hand the jacket to Dean and he places it on the windowsill.

"All right. All right, Ben. Come on. Come on." Dean encourages the kids and they began to climb out. "Him first." Ben said as he points at a kid and they climb out. "Hey! Guys! There's a mother." Sam yells at us as he runs down into the room. "A mother changeling?" I asked. "Yeah. We got to get these kids out quick." Sam said and we hurry them out. "Right there, right there. There's one more. You got to break the lock!" I said to Sam as I point to the cage with the woman inside.

"I guess that's why the changelings are keeping the kids alive – so the mom can snack on them." Sam said and he goes to free the red headed woman. "There. Come on, I gotcha." He said then the woman screams and we turn to see the mother changeling, which looked like the woman, behind her.

Dean goes flying and lands on his back, groaning in pain. The Changeling Mom turns around and Sam has the flamethrower and a lighter. She kicks the lighter out of his hand, then roundhouse kicks him again, then throws a few punches and generally kicks his ass, before throwing him across the room.

I grab a 2x4 and smack her with it but then she punches and knocks me down. "Ben, get them out of here!" I yelled as Dean gets up and clocks the Changeling Mom with a brick. Dean and I fight the Changeling for bit before she turns to see Sam with the torch. He flicks it on and burns her to a crisp with Dean's homemade torch. 

Later, we drive Ben back home and he runs out to hug his mom as we see her, Elijah and Peyton outside of his house. "Ben?! Ben! Baby, are you okay?" Lisa asked in a panicked. "I'm okay, Mom." Ben said. "Oh, my God." Lisa said, sobbing. Then Peyton hugs Ben for a moment then Eljiah goes to hug Ben as well. 

"Hey, buddy." He said as Lisa looks over at us. "What the hell just happened?" She asked. "We'll explain everything if you want us to, but, trust me, you probably don't. The important thing is, is that Ben's safe." Dean said and Elijah turns to Lisa. "You might want to listen to them." He said and she nods then turns to us.

"Thank you." She said and she hugs Dean then hugs me. "Thank you." She said, appreciatevly. "I'm gonna give you guys some time." Sam said and we nod at him. "Come on." Lisa said and she leads the way back into the house and Dean, Elijah, Peyton and I follow.

Later, Ben and Peyton were sitting at the kitchen table talking and playing a portable game while us adults were in the hallway. "Changelings?" Lisa asked us, suspiciously and confused. "You know how I never mentioned my job? This is my job." Dean said to her. "I so didn't want to know that." Lisa said then she turns to Elijah.

"Did you know about this?" She asked him and Elijah looks down. "Yeah, I knew this was their job. That's how (y/n) and I met as I was involved with one of her jobs years ago." Elijah said and Lisa stares at him for a moment then looks down before she looks at Ben.

"Do you think he'll be okay?" She asked. "Yeah. I think he'll be fine." Dean said then he sighs and turns to Lisa. "Okay, seriously...I mean, you're a hundred percent sure that he is not mine, right?" He asked and Lisa smiles. "You're off the hook. I did a blood test when he was a baby." She replied.

"Oh." Dean said. "There was this guy – some bar back in a biker joint." She replied and Dean gives her a look. "What? I had a type. Leather jacket, couple of scars, no mailing address? I was there. Guess I was a little wild back then." Lisa said then she looks at Ben. "Before I became a mom." She said then she turns back to Dean. "So yeah. You can relax." She said. "Good." Dean said.

"Plus, I got a good man here to help me take care of him." Lisa said as she looks over at Elijah and takes his hand, making Dean and I look between them. Elijah gives an embarrassed and shy smile at this. "We haven't really gone public yet as we just started this up but...yeah, we're together." Elijah said and I smiled at him.

"Well, congrats, Eli. You deserve it." I said and he nods. "Thanks, (y/n). I'm glad I got to see you." He said and I nod. "Me too." I said and wr hug each other then I look over at Lisa and smile at her. "Take care of him." I said and she nods while Elijah turns to Dean.

"And you take good care of this woman." Elijah said to Dean and Dean nods. "Of course, that's the plan." He said and he takes my hand and we head out.

We walk out of the house when Dean looks back out towards the window and I follow his gaze to see him looking through the window at Ben, wistfully. "Dean, you okay?" I asked him. "Yeah...yeah, I'm fine." He said. 

"You sure? Ever since Lisa said that Ben wasn't yours, you seem disappointed." I said and he sighs. "Yeah, I don't know. It's weird, you know her life...I mean, this house and a kid...it's not my life. Never will be. With what's happened to me recently, and the situation I'm in– you start to think, you know. I'm gonna be gone one day, and what am I leaving behind besides a car?" He asked and I give him a sad look before I cup his face in my hands and stroke his cheek with my thumb.

"I don't know. Ben may not be your kid, but...he wouldn't be alive if it wasn't for you. That's a lot if you ask me. And I'm sure it meant alot to Lisa." I said. Dean smirks a bit then he looks through the window then back to me. "I would've been proud to have been his dad." He said and I smiled at him.

"I know you would've. I think any kid would be proud you were their dad " I said. Dean smiles then I lean up and kissed him and he kisses me back. "C'mon, let's go have some fun together, just you and me." I said and Dean smiles again. "I'd like that." He said and we head off.

@rach5ive @kitsun369 @itzabbyxx @cevans-winchester

[xxlady-lunaxx]

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!! ❤ //2024 | {DouKaza}

Theme: FLUFF. 

Note: posting this now bc i forgot to on valentines day HELP

Modern AU

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He didn't know when he'd last seen Akaza face to face. It had been a while now, probably nearly a year. Douma had been living in Michikatsu and Muzan's house for the time, having to work in the opposite side of Japan in order to get the income he needed. 

But he'd finally found a job much closer to the city Akaza lived in and... needless to say, he was excited. Much more, it was early february and there were only a couple days till Valentines. So he, with the help of Michikatsu and Muzan, arranged to travel back to where Akaza was and surprise him on Valentines day. 

So he packed quickly now, excitement running through his body as he did so. He'd only been calling Akaza up until now, and their calls had gotten shorter recently since Douma's time off had gotten less as he'd wanted to work enough to be able to get enough to find an apartment near Akaza's place and pay off Muzan and Michikatsu for letting him live with them for so long.

They'd've visited, probably, if their schedules weren't so tightly sewn together, practically prohibiting any chance to visit. But now, Douma would be able to stay near Akaza, be with him again.

He closed the suitcase, finally, and flopped back onto the bed exhausted, having been packing for over an hour now. He'd not unpacked a lot of things from the past when he'd moved in here, considering he'd been planning to move back to his home town in the first place.

The door to his room opened and Douma sat up, smiling at Michikatsu as he walked in.

"Done packing?" Michikatsu asked, eyeing the haphazardly closed suitcase.

"Mhm!!" Douma stood, lifting the suitcase from the bed and dropping it to the floor. "Is Muzan home?"

"Yeah, he got home a couple minutes ago. I'll make dinner now," Michikatsu offered.

"Right, thanks!" the blond said cheerfully. "I'm going to bring these downstairs."

"Alright, I'll be in the kitchen if you need me." 

"'Kay!"

×××

The day flew by and then it was near to midnight and Muzan was driving Douma to the airport (Douma wasn't allowed to drive without supervision, rules made by Muzan and Michikatsu who didn't trust him to not crash the car and die. And Douma couldn't drive it back.)

"Mm, when you get there tell Akaza we said hi," Muzan said, his eyes on the road.

"Alright! I can't wait to see him," Douma said, giggling randomly.

"Yeah, I know. You've told me and Michi' about one hundred million times today," Muzan deadpanned.

"I'm just so exciteedddd," Douma whined, pouting.

"I know."

The rest of the drive lapsed into silence and when they arrived, Douma thanked Muzan profusely who ignored him as he helped take out his things.

And then Douma was sat on the airplane, staring out at the sky around him as they flew above Japan to the opposite side of it. He felt almost lightheaded from exhilaration and he smiled brightly as they soared through the sky. (this sounds stupid)

×××

Douma had settled into his new apartment, placing his things around the rooms until he was satisfied. He'd called Michikatsu and Muzan, telling them he'd arrived safely and was going to go meet Akaza soon.

It was in the middle of the week so it was... not exactly the best time for Valentine's day to come, but he found himself not caring. He would meet Akaza at night, knowing that Akaza had a day shift.

He was a bit apprehensive about what would happen, but at this point he couldn't care because he was excited as hell to see Akaza and he could barely sleep that night.

Sometime in the middle of the night, he woke up. There wasn't any particular reason except he really wanted to see Akaza again. He was unable to fall back asleep so he went on his phone, scrolling through his texts with Akaza. 

Eventually, around 3am, he decided to text Akaza where he'd be later at night, bored.

Akaza answered almost right away—which concerned Douma given the lateness.

My love<3: The hell are you texting me so early for? And I'm not doing anything, just going to be at home

Douma: why are you even awake 3: 

My love<3: Bc I got your text

Douma: I woke you up?

My love<3: Not really, just couldn't sleep

Douma: Awh.. wanna call?? :33 

My love<3: Ok

Douma: :3

He called Akaza quickly, the face of his lover filling his screen.

"Akaza-dono!! Hii!!" Douma said cheerfully, waving. He used the tag 'dono' as a pet-name for Akaza often.

Akaza nodded, looking tired but content. "That doesn't look like where you usually sleep, did they kick you out?" he teased, laughing.

"Hm? Oh, uhm, we changed the sheets," Douma said quickly. "Anyways, how are you?"

"...Okay. I'm tired. Also, isn't tomorrow Valentines Day?" Akaza asked quietly. 

"Yep!" Douma said, smiling.

Akaza sighed, resting his head down. He placed the phone somewhere, propping it up so he wouldn't have to hold it as he spoke to Douma. "I wish you could be here, it's going to be so awkward seeing everyone else being... couples? And I can't even speak to you face-to-face."

Douma fought to hide him smile, nodding solemnly. "Hmm, I'm sure we'll find a time to meet one day..."

"Don't you need a job here, though?" Akaza asked, yawning.

"Mhm, Akaza, you should sleep, you look tired," Douma said, a crease of worry between his eyebrows.

"Fine... Love you, bye," Akaza mumbled, reaching for his phone.

"Love you too!!" Douma said as the screen flashed off. He sighed, turning off his phone and placing it under his pillow, too lazy to put it on the desk. Only a couple more hours and he'd finally see Akaza again.

×××

It was evening, now, and Douma waited impatiently by Akaza's door. Akaza was being let off late at his work, or something, because he hadn't answered the door when Douma had knocked.

So now he was waiting outside in the cold—not having brought a jacket—with flowers in his hands, looking stupid.

He didn't know how much longer he'd waited for, but finally—finally—a car pulled up to the house and Akaza stepped out, seemingly not noticing Douma yet.

Akaza walked towards the door, searching through his bag, his eyes cast down. 

He pulled out his key and looked up, doing a double take as his gaze landed on Douma. He dropped his keys back into his bag, letting go of his bag in the process and threw his arms around Douma.

"Douma?!? What are you doing here??" Akaza asked breathlessly as he pulled back, staring at Douma, eyes wide.

The blond smiled, handing Akaza the flowers. "Happy Valentines Day, Akaza-dono." 

Akaza took the flowers, his gaze still on his lover. "But... how?"

"I arrived back here yesterday or so. Remember you said you thought I was in a different place? Well, it was because I found an apartment here. And a job. So I can live a lot closer to you, now," Douma said, resting his forehead against Akaza's.

"Oh... Why didn't you tell me?!" Akaza whined, tugging on Douma's shirt.

"Because I wanted it to be a surprise!! We should go inside now, though, I'm cold," Douma whined.

Akaza laughed, tip-toeing to place a gentle kiss on Douma's lips. "Alright, fine. I'm glad you're back, though."

"Me too," Douma said, his hand wavering over his mouth. God, he had missed Akaza so much...

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[soopersara]

For reasons that have everything and nothing to do with the most recent chapters of I&S, I've been thinking a lot about a time travel AU that I will absolutely never write.

Specifically, I want a time travel AU where little-kid!Zuko (age 9-10) travels forward in time and meets angry-teen!Zuko (we're talking like... the Book 1 egghead version of angry-teen!Zuko here). I know that sounds like a disaster waiting to happen, but the way I envision this playing out is:

Teen!Zuko and kid!Zuko meet, and after a healthy amount of confusion, figure out that they're two different versions of the same person. Kid!Zuko is... not thrilled to be stuck on a rickety old ship with a much grumpier version of himself, but hey! Uncle Iroh is here, and he's got lots of board games and even more free time, so it could be worse. Teen!Zuko, meanwhile, is having a bit of a crisis as he gets slapped in the face with several realizations all at once.

Realization #1: A warship is not a good place for a 9-10 year old boy to live, but there's literally nowhere else in the world where kid!Zuko will be safe. For as long as kid!Zuko is stuck in this timeline, teen!Zuko has to look after him.

Realization #2: Oh, shit. No one has seriously fucked up kid!Zuko yet. His life obviously hasn't been perfect, but this is pretty much the peak of kid!Zuko's sweet-and-innocent phase.

Realization #3: ... as fucked up as teen!Zuko's life has been, he desperately doesn't want to be the person who fucks up kid!Zuko's life.

Cue teen!Zuko scrambling to get his shit together so that he can be a reasonably healthy and stable guardian/big brother figure for his younger self. He starts working on his temper and trying to take Iroh's advice more seriously, and while things don't always go smoothly (kid!Zuko definitely picks up some vigilante tendencies from teen!Zuko. There may or may not be sightings of a tiny Blue Spirit causing trouble up and down the Earth Kingdom coast), teen!Zuko eventually figures out what he's doing. He puts in the work to become a decent role model, he deals with some of his own shit (and his outlook on life improves), he grows to see kid!Zuko as the little brother he never had, and he generally doesn't fuck anything up too badly.

Basically, looking after kid!Zuko teaches teen!Zuko self love (but with extra steps! I don't think grumpy-teen!Zuko could ever learn anything the simple way 😂)

All of that growth makes it harder and harder for teen!Zuko to ever envision himself returning to the Fire Nation. After all, if he wouldn't put his younger self through the pain of going back there and dealing with Ozai, why should he put his present self through that? And on a related note, kid!Zuko definitely has questions about teen!Zuko's scar and banishment. When teen!Zuko reaches a point where he's able to think about the Agni Kai, he can't imagine anything that kid!Zuko could ever do to deserve that kind of treatment, which leads teen!Zuko to question whether he deserved it. And as teen!Zuko starts to come to grips with the fact that he's probably never going back home - certainly not if it would mean putting kid!Zuko through the same pain that teen!Zuko experienced there - he has to start considering what other options he has for the future.

Kid!Zuko may or may not accelerate teen!Zuko's redemption arc even more by befriending various members of the Gaang and dragging his 'big brother' along to meet his new friends/disappearing for a few hours with his new friends only to be 'rescued' by teen!Zuko who is... very surprised and very awkward about it when he realizes who kid!Zuko is hanging out with.

There are obviously lots of time travel AUs out there already, but apparently this one is just going to live in my brain for the forseeable future 😂 As much as I love the standard "post-redemption!Zuko meets Book 1 Zuko and mentors his younger self to accelerate his own redemption/drags himself kicking and screaming toward redemption" time travel AUs that I see around the fandom, I think I'm just hungry for a time travel AU where pre-redemption!Zuko doesn't know what his future could look like. To me, there's just something really appealing about the idea of a time travel AU where his redemption gets accelerated not because he knows his life will get better if he becomes a better person, but because he wants to be someone who his younger self can be proud of.

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Duo With You by Nyatci

Duo With You

by Nyatci (@nyatci)

T, WIP, 15k, Wangxian

Summary: Wei Ying, a college freshman doing his best to keep his life in order after being kicked out of his house, finds solace playing a new video game. He's a total 'noob' who one night gets paired up with a much more skilled (read: arrogant) player named 'HanguangJun'. After the match, HanguangJun is less than impressed with Wei Ying's skills and lets him know so, leaving Wei Ying with two choices: Follow HanguangJun's suggestion to 'uninstall the game' or...'git gud' ;) Kay's comments: This story is absolutely delightful so far and I'm loving the identity shenanigans especially! In which modern college student Wei Wuxian starts playing League and meets Hanguang-Jun online, an amazing player, who absolutely roasts him for being a noob. Over time, Wei Ying improves and the two of them become closer and Wei Ying starts nurturing a massive crush on him, but! There's also a side love-interest, the libarian's assistant, Lan Zhan... I really love the relationship between the Wen siblings and Wei Ying in this story, Hanguang-Jun's legendary roasts and the slow identity-reveal. I can't wait to see where this story goes! Excerpt: HanguangJun: Ridiculous. HanguangJun: Feeling better? Wei Ying smiles fondly and actually does feel his cheeks warm a bit but more because of contentment than anything else. Shaking the feeling off he decides to be his usual mischievous self. “No, not at all HanguangJun! I’m afraid I need more compliments if I am to survive this sad and lonely night. HanguangJun: You…are no longer the worst player I’ve ever played with. Wei Ying gapes and then breaks out into laughter once again. When The door of the apartment opens and Wen Qing and Wen Ning walk in, the hear him laughing and saying: “Oh HanguangJun, you really are the best. Please never change!"

pov wei wuxian, modern setting, modern no powers, college/university, gamer wei wuxian, gamer lan wangji, college student lan wangji, college student wei wuxian, falling in love, getting to know each other, slow burn, humor, fluff and humor, light angst, jiang family dynamics, enemies to friends to lovers, secret identity, identity reveal, league of legends, angst and hurt/comfort, good friend wen qing, good friend wen ning, implied/referenced child abuse, abusive jiang family, eventual happy ending, fanart, implied/referenced homophobia

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ALRIGHT so like after rereading the stars above epilouge i’ve been reminded of one of my like biggest head cannon question and it’s when how does kaider announce to their friends they’re engaged? AND I FEEL LIKE YOU WOULD KNOW SO I PUR MY TRUST IN YOU BITCH 🫶🫶

You're no longer Ken! 😂

Ugh, I struggle with scenes like these! It's the same reason I never write weddings or proposals for characters: I'm content to leave those things as unknowns because if I try to boil it down to one idea I always feel it's too important a moment to be captured. So in this case, I think it could go so many ways!

I do love a simple just telling their friends over dinner. Say they all reunite again a few months after Wolflet's wedding. Everyone yelling over the top of each other, arguing to pass the bread rolls, 'stop hogging the salad' and Thorne trying to steal Jacin's seat. Cinder and Kai stand up, waiting for the chaos to subside. It doesn't, so Kai shouts, "hey! listen!" They all fall silent. Kai and Cinder smile giddily, link hands and announce, "we're engaged!" And of course chaos breaks out. Good this time.

Another version is a little more crack.

Cinder just starts wearing the engagement ring around her friends. But since they are all spread out over the galaxy, it's a gradual process. Kaider have fun with this. Once their friends notice, they ask them to stay quiet to see how long it takes for the others. Cinder told Iko personally, so she's bursting at the seams but restrains herself. Scarlet notices first and is of course ecstatic. Wolf doesn't notice the ring but does notice Scarlet's high heart rate as she struggles not to blab to him. He keeps asking if she's okay, then she points at Cinder, and he eventually figures it out. "Oh," he says finally. "Oh?!" Scarlet yells, "how did you not notice?" Wolf admits that he doesn't pay much attention to things other than her. Winter is next. She says something like "oh dear cousin, every little soldier in my frozen palette manufacturing plant is rejoicing at this news." And Cinder just has the lady processing maths face and asks, "so you're...happy for us?" Cress doesn't notice. Thorne does and, after whooping and congratulating them, immediately inspects the ring and starts guessing how much it would sell for on the black market. Cinder doesn't let him near it after that. Cress looks on--confused--and whispers to Kai, "is the ring important?" Kai smirks and replies, "well I suppose, but I hope she didn't say yes only for the ring." Then comes the, "wait, did you propose?" and the squealing. With her sheltered upbringing, Cress forgot which hand the wedding ring is on and didn't pay attention to it. So then all that's left is Jacin. He didn't notice when Winter did, and he didn't notice when they were all together for dinner on Luna. He doesn't notice at the peace ball, or Winter's diplomatic mission to the Commonwealth, or even when they are all playing cards and the ring is adamantly on the display. Months pass and everyone is frustrated waiting for this guy to get a clue. Meanwhile, Thorne likes to make a game out of it: "Cinder is engaged...in a very serious work meeting." "Can you believe Kai is moving onto his second wife already? At his age?" Winter is the most frustrated of all because she can't speak of wedding plans with the one person she speaks to the most. So one day she pulls up a photo of Cinder and Kai, hand visible, and asks, "do you notice anything different about them, Jacin?" Jacin snorts and says, "yeah, Kai looks stupid in those pink sunglasses." "No, they're engaged!" Anyway Jacin knew the whole time. He just never acknowledged it because he never cared. At least, that's what everyone else thinks. But Jacin was having lots of fun with it.

As I said I just can't settle on anything definite! So I want to hear everyone's headcanons for it!

[p0ssywhippedcream]

I have an idea: Giving sweet Matsuda a treat from under the desk at work ;)

hiya sweetpie, this is one of the ones I'd finished and deleted by accident. Thank you so much for your patience!

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Matsuda's body awkwardly moves to position his head under his desk in order to find what was tapping his knee. He almost pees himself when your smiling face stares back at him.

"Hi." You say.

"What're are you doing?" He whisper-yells, still in a state of shock.

"Saying hi. Hi."

"Hi, why are you under my desk?"

"To say hi. Hi."

"Hi, why else?"

Your smile grows mischievous. "Give you a little gift."

"What do you me-"

"Matsuda!!" Chief Yagami's voice roars across the room.

"Yes sir!" Matsuda hits his head as he emerges from underneath the desk.

"What are you doing over there?"

"Dropped-.. a pen."

Yagami's bushy eyebrows meet.

"Get back to work." He throws over his shoulder as he walks away.

Right as Matsuda turns back to his computer, a set of teasing hands is on him again. They trail up his thighs and to his pants buckle, fumbling with the buttons aimlessly. He hears you curse and say something about waiting for this all day.

"Y/n!" He doesn't quite lower his head as low this time but he makes sure he can see your eyes. "What are you doing?"

"Told you, giving you a little gift. You just sit tight-" You enunciate the words with a pop of his buttons, "-and enjoy. Try to be quiet, 'kay?"

He can hardly answer before you're dragging his body forward with firm hands on his calves. His entire lower body is covered by the desk so nobody can see it; therefore meaning nobody can see you either.

Once your hands have shimmied his pants open enough pull his quickly-hardening cock out, you pause and ask "Is this okay?"

Matsuda nodded and realized you couldn't see him and said, "Yes, of course," Then the tip of his cock meets your mouth just as he mutters, "Thank you..."

Your mouth swallows the head easily, the salty precum rubbing the back of your throat. Your tongue flickers around the ridges, drinking in the feeling of the throbbing cock sitting heavily on your tongue.

Matsuda almost faints when you begin to move, allowing more of him inside the tight, wet cavern. His brain draws a blank when his balls finally hit your chin, all he can think is how he wished he could see your pretty face right now. You always look gorgeous taking his dick.

He tries to focus on the blinking black line on the empty canvas of his work but he just can't. You just feel so damn gooddddd, oh fuck is he seriously about to cum already?

No, it's only been... three minutes?! He glances at the time and flushes even harder with embarrassment. You wouldn't mind if he came this soon right? I mean you expected it eventually and it's not like he usually lasts long with the feeling of your mouth on him anyway.

Fuck, okay. It's not like he's able to hold back anyway, he was fooling himself pretending he had a choice. And he clearly doesn't because his thighs seize against his will and his hands jolt from where they rest shaking on the armchairs, both signs he's about to orgasm.

His cock spurts in your mouth, spilling hot semen down your throat as his hips jerk to meet your face eagerly. He stiffs a cry with a fist in his mouth, nearly brought to tears by the sheer force of it combining with the terribly powerful pleasure you give.

"Fuck..." He murmurs as he pulls a saliva-covered hand from his mouth and pants heavily in his now sweaty seat.

Suddenly your face appears on his now re-clothed crotch with a grin.

"Feel good?"

[gay4ddlovato]

Yeonjun Imagine - the boys meet your baby

{this is my original work from my wattpad gayforddlovato. Please don’t steal my work.}

"Hello?" Taehyun whispered as he peeked into the hospital room. "Yeonjun texted us and said we could come and see you and the baby."

"Yeah, come on in." You said before the door opened all the way and the boys stepped inside the room, closing the door behind them.

Quiet and soft gasps left their lips as soon as they saw your little girl in your arms.

"Oh, my gosh. I can't believe she's even real, she's so tiny." Beomgyu said.

"We know." Yeonjun smiled as he looked away from you and his daughter and over at the boys. "Do you want to meet your niece?"

They stepped a little closer to you and gazed at the baby girl with soft eyes, almost tearing up from how precious she was.

"She's the cutest," Kai said.

"Look at how small her fingers are!" Soobin pointed out before he carefully reached out to touch her tiny fingers.

"And her ears," Taehyun spoke.

"She's beautiful. She's going to break a lot of hearts." Beomgyu joked.

You kissed her head before looking at the boys.

"Would you like to hold her?"

They looked a little hesitant because she was so little and so fragile.

But any worries and hesitancy they had vanished as soon as she opened her eyes and looked at them, eventually fixing her little gaze on Kai.

"I want to go first. Can I? She's looking at me." He grinned.

"Of course." You said before Yeonjun carefully picked her up and put her in Kai's arms.

His heart almost burst the second he held her and he let out a soft chuckle as he stared into her little brown eyes.

"You are the cutest baby I have ever seen." He whispered. "I'm your uncle Kai. It's so good to finally meet you."

The boys peeked over his shoulder, staring at the tiny baby girl in amazement.

"We've been waiting so long to meet you," Soobin said as he brushed his fingers across her soft cheek. "You don't even know how truly loved you are."

You and Yeonjun watched as the boys held her so delicately and gave her so much love already.

"You're what? An hour old? And you have changed so many lives already and filled so many hearts with such happiness." Taehyun spoke.

"You two did amazing," Beomgyu said as he looked over at you and Yeonjun. "You made a beautiful little girl."

Yeonjun grinned proudly before kissing your forehead.

"Yeah, we did." He agreed, his eyes still on you. "I'm so proud of you."

"Thank you." You whispered. "For everything. That was the hardest thing ever but I'm so happy she's here and we can finally start our lives together as a family of three."

The boys looked over at you.

"Or of eight." You joked and the boys laughed quietly as Yeonjun kissed your cheek.

You both looked over at the baby and the boys again, seeing that Kai had passed her over to Beomgyu now.

"We're going to spoil you and take good care of you." He whispered to her.

"And if you ever need anything and you can't go to your mom or dad for it, you will always have four uncles who will always be here for you," Taehyun said.

"She's so loved already." You whispered to Yeonjun as he nodded through his tears.

"I can't believe how lucky I am. I've got a beautiful wife, a beautiful baby girl, and four brothers. This is everything I've ever wanted." He said as he reached for his phone.

Already, it was full of photos and videos of your little girl.

The second she was on your chest after entering the world, he was taking pictures and videos through the tears of happiness in his eyes.

He's already changed his wallpaper and his lock screen, making his lock screen a picture that a nurse took of the three of you while his wallpaper was of you and the baby, just after she had arrived.

But there was one photo missing and he was quick to snap it as the boys continued to coo over your little girl.

It came out perfectly and he took a few more with the proudest smile on his face.

"I love my life." He said before looking at you.

"Me too." You smiled. "I love you so much."

"I love you more." He whispered as he leaned in and gave you a soft kiss. "Beomgyu's right, you know? We did amazing. We made a beautiful baby girl."

"That we did."

"Just imagine what our next four will look like." He joked as he brushed his fingers through your hair.

"That's not happening for a very, very long time." You said and he laughed before kissing you again.

He got comfortable in the hospital bed beside you before you put your cheek on his shoulder and gazed back at your baby and the boys.

This was your dream come true and where you've always been meant to be.

Everything you've gone through all seems so worth it now that you have the family of your dreams and four best friends.

You're so lucky and so grateful and you won't ever take any of it for granted.

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mind sharing some ino lore (with their perfect musical theme)? anything you want - silly to serious, said before or brand new, dealer's choice! can't wait to read your stuff!

(I know you're probably still asleep rn, but you'll have something to wake up to) Alright, starting with some basics before hopping into spoiler territory. Since you wanted lore, you're getting lore.

Firstly, Ino is a demon and appears in the story Frequency: Forsaken. He's found in a lightless pit by Dusk and Zenith who free him in exchange for information, since Ino is very old and has knowledge others have forgotten.

Secondly, about his theme (posted here), it is meant to be melancholic for most of its runtime, until the end when it swells with a rush of emotion as Ino remembers memories of his past and reminisces about his former life.

Alright, Spoiler Time!

In the story Frequency: Hellfire, one of the main characters is a demon named Hazzin. They meet the other main characters after they die and go to (my settings version of) hell, aka Un'thil'ar, land of demons. It's a long story, but I won't dive into that right now.

Anyway, Hazzin joins the group as a guide to help the group through the layers of Un'thil'ar as well as planning to escape Un'thil'ar with them.

All demons have a singular desire that drives them, Hazzin's is to be free. Their secondary goal, not directly tied to their desire, is to bring happiness to all creatures, or as many as possible, demon or human.

Since this desire is not harmful to people, the group allows Hazzin to join them.

After they free themselves from Un'thil'ar, Hazzin joins Akita and Kai as they found a group called the Autumn Organisation, a group tasked with hunting down and eliminating all evil or harmful demons. Aka, not Hazzin.

A few years later, Luna has Hazzin join them (along with two others) in their quest to rid the gods of their madness (again, long story, check out this post for more info).

After this story, Hazzin temporarily takes on a human appearance for about 100 years until they die of old age (since they are now human, normally demons don't die of old age).

After they die, since they are no longer human nor completely demon, their soul is sent to neither the afterlife nor the land of demons. Instead, since their soul is blessed by the Daemon Ez'nomol, their soul is sent to Yismor, land of the gods.

They spend the rest of their eternal existence as a soul in Yismor, now reverted back to their demonic appearance. Eventually, due to things I refuse to spoil here, Yismor eventually becomes the New World mentioned in Forsaken.

Here, Hazzin is found by fearful superstitious people who chain them in the bottom of a pit made from living darkness. Due to their Frequency, Hazzin couldn't die to the darkness, and he couldn't die through other means since they were already dead and a demon.

So, they became trapped for at least half a century. Over that time, they lost many parts of themself, including their name. When they were later found by Dusk and Zenith, they give him the name "Ino".

Ino is the name of a hero from a children's story in my setting. The hero Ino sets off to rid the world of strife and fear, bringing happiness wherever they went. This hero is directly based on Ino, formerly Hazzin, when they were a human all those years ago.

Ino and Hazzin are two different characters, but the same person. Ino was Hazzin, but neither are the other.

That is about all I can say for now.

As an aside, I want to bring up the topic of Hazzin/Ino's pronouns.

Hazzin, is a demon. As a demon, Hazzin doesn't have a sex or gender, in fact gender and gendered words/pronouns do not exist in the demonic language. So the group calls Hazzin by "they/them", and so do I. But it wouldn't be incorrect to refer to them as "it" either. Technically, any pronouns are valid just as none of them are.

Ino, meanwhile, uses he/they. By the time of Forsaken, Ino would have a much larger grasp on the human language, genders, and identity. Moreover, they spent some time as a human, specifically a human male body, and grew accustomed to that. So, they assigned those pronouns as they best fit. But, generally, they don't really care.

Also, I'm going to include my tag list for lore dumps and writing, since I'm not as frequent with writing posts.

(Tag list for writing/lore: @illarian-rambling, @casualsuitturtle, @tildeathiwillwrite, @thecomfywriter, @the-letterbox-archives. Message me, or comment/reblog this saying you want to be on/off of the tag list)