#You Said You'd Never Leave

[thethistlegirl]

Ok I'm sorry, two days of angsty Top Gun edits IN A ROW...but this just fit a little too well.

@nade2308 @whumptober

[whumpypepsigal]

Whumptober 2023 | No. 10

“You said you'd never leave.”

Titans s01e07: “Dick? It's me. I need you to hear me.“

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[whumpster-dumpster]

Whumptober Day 10: “You said you'd never leave.”

[beargyufairy]

'Cause you said forever, now I drive alone past your street

[thatsgonnaleaveamark]

whumptober 2023 - day 10 broken phone // "you said you'd never leave"

[rd-eternity]

Whumptober Day 10: “Can’t you see that you’re lost without me?” | Broken Phone | Stranded | “You said you'd never leave.”

Words: 3.4k

Summary: Theo isn't supposed to leave after the Ghost Riders are chased from Beacon Hills. He does anyway. With every instance, Liam feels himself draw closer to a boy who's drifting further away. AKA four times Theo disappears and comes back, and one time he doesn't.

Theo’s tail starts wagging when he goes back to stroking down his back, other hand cradling the wolf’s head and snout, fingers lightly brushing around his face.  Liam grins.  The wolf nuzzles his nose into Liam’s palm, licking there and on the inside of his wrist, sending a flare of heat through his entire body.  He lets Theo move his hand around how he likes, rubbing the fur on his face against his knuckles, resting himself entirely in Liam’s grasp. When his back starts to hurt from hunching over the wolf, he shuffles back, pulling Theo with him, until he’s leaned against his pillows and the wall.  He tries to stop him from moving, but Theo gets off his lap, sitting on the mattress, tail tapping on the comforter while he watches Liam.   “Okay,” Liam says softly, shifting down so he’s laying on his back, head in his pillows.  Theo moves forward, curling at his side, head, front paws and upper body on top of Liam’s chest, fur tickling his collarbone.  He circles the fur between two fingers, earning the wolf pressing closer into them, other arm wrapping loosely around his warm body.   Shimmering blue eyes meet his own, before Theo rests his head back on Liam’s chest, eyes fluttering shut.  He pets Theo until they both fall asleep. And wakes up hours later, in the dark, alone.

[aki-draws-things]

Whumptober 2023~

Fandom: top gun

Characters: javy Coyote Machado, Jake hangman seresin (+tom, Ron and daggers)

Prompts: "you said you'd never leave "

Warning: flight accident, Jake's unconscious, but hey, he'll be alright

Summary: javy can only be there and wait for the one he was supposed to call husband soon to wake up.

(@oh-surprise-its-me javy/Jake not too angsty... Ronnie is currently testing the new version of the Darkstar instead of mav. It's not that tommy doesn't trust mav, it's ron who doesn't trust the jet, and with reasons...)

Javy whined. It was the only sound that Maverick heard come out of his mouth in the past hours. Small, almost soft whines.

He was ignoring everything and everyone that wasn't Jake. And hell, he couldn't even be with Jake. Doctors had been adamant. Family only.

He was family, for goodness sake! He was his fucking boyfriend/soon-to-be husband!

Chris wasn't picking up the phone, weirdly enough.

Ron's phone went straight to the voicemail. The one that stated classified things undergoing and he couldn't pick up yet.

Javy hated doing that because he knew how much the man was busy, but it still was Jake.

"Jaybird is in ICU. They don't let me in. I'm scared Tata"

God, he felt like a kid. And he still felt embarrassed like the first time when Tom said he could call him Tata too. Javy only did that when he was scared.

"We're coming in. Be there in 5 hours. Sorry, papa just landed. (No, son, you don't want to know what. Or how. Definitely not how)"

Javy knew what he was doing. Distracting him. Tom always knew how to do that, somehow, he was good at that. He was also good at making him curious. And worried.

"Tell them I give you permission. Stay with him, Jav."

Javy showed the text to the personnel, they grumbled and talked among themselves before finally letting him in.

Javy whined. His eyes filled with tears as he stretched a hand out toward Jake. Jake who was laying covered in cuts and bruises and blood on his hair. His lips quivered and he fell to his knees, grasping at the folded blankets. The whine turned into a wail. Mav flinched.

"Jake-- Jaybird-- you said you would never leave..."

His voice sounded so small, scared. Mav felt a pull, to reach out and hold Javy like he was a kid. He didn't. He watched him brush his fingers oh-so-gently over his face, he watched as he hesitated briefly by his neck, the heart monitor showed a stable rhythm, he didn't need to feel it-- he needed it.

"So you gotta come back to me, okay? You have to... cause baby, I can't lose my future husband like that, without even putting a ring on your hand."

Five hours later, and the whole dagger squad sitting in the waiting room with Maverick, the COMPACFLT, and Admiral Kerner showed up and didn't waste a moment longer with a nurse to point at the room and get in.

Mav could swear he heard Javy gasp.

"Why do you always land in the wrong way, papa? You're supposed to be one of the best!"

"Yeah, I'm the best when wheels come out for me to land, kid."

Javy whined again.

Waiting was going to be so very long, they knew.

[lady-wallace]

Whumptober Day 10 (Buddy Daddies)

More Buddy Daddies for today's @whumptober fic--Kazuki needs a bit of a rescue

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Prompts Used: Broken Phone, Stranded, 'You said you'd never leave' Fandom: Buddy Daddies Character: Kazuki

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Kazuki staggered down the alleyway, breath catching in his throat, legs threatening to give out under him. He gritted his teeth and slumped against the wall for a brief moment to catch his breath as he reached for his phone, bloody hand groping in his pocket until he finally pulled it out.

Kazuki's face fell as he saw the smashed front and the pixilated screen as he tried to turned it on. Shit. It must have gotten crushed while the enemy was trying to beat him to death.

He sank down with a groan, collapsing fully in the dirty alley. Which, on retrospect was probably a mistake because he wasn't sure he would be able to get back up again.

Kazuki sighed, leaning his head back against the brick wall, shutting his eyes briefly. This was only supposed to have been an information gathering mission. He'd been sweet-talking some intel out of their targets when someone had apparently blown his cover and, well, how was he supposed to know that the people they were targeting had private security—very big, burley men who didn't want to wait to stand around and listen to reason. Kyu really needed to get better intel on the people he sent Kazuki and Rei after. Or maybe that was on Kazuki. He was slipping. Just slightly. He couldn't help but admit that he'd like to be anywhere else right now.

Okay, maybe not anywhere else. He knew exactly where he wanted to be and that was sort of the problem.

To add insult to injury—or maybe just mental injury to injury—Kazuki replayed Miri's words to him before he left. She'd been having a rough patch, missing her mama, and had become clingy, even when going to daycare. Miss Anna had said it was normal for kids her age to go through spurts of clinginess but it made it hurt when Kazuki had to leave her.

Especially when she looked at him and said things like, "You promised you wouldn't leave, Papa! Don't leave Rei-Papa and me alone!"

He glanced at his broken phone again with a pained sigh, cringing at the creak of his cracked ribs. "I'm sorry, Miri. Papa's gonna be a little late."

He then picked up sounds nearby of feet in heavy boots hurrying down the road.

"Check here, he might have run this way."

"Shit! Can't catch a break!" Kazuki whispered, forcing himself back to his feet. He hadn't brought a gun with him—dumb on retrospect, but he had been expecting having to cross a metal detector. He limped out of the alleyway and tried to make his way as quickly as possible across the street.

"There!"

Kazuki pushed his body into a run, sprinting the rest of the way across the street and down another alley. His body protested and his head ached, dizziness flickering across his vision. He skidded around a corner and—

WHAM

Kazuki sprawled across the sidewalk with a cry of pain, looking up at the brick shithouse of a man he had run into.

"I got him," the man spoke into a walky-talky, before he reached down to grab Kazuki by the collar.

But injured or not, gun or not, Kazuki was scrappy, had learned a lot of hand-to-hand at a young age. Nothing fancy like Rei but street-fighting was dirty and quick.

Basically, he had learned to go for the jewels first and ask questions later.

A heel to the groin before moving both feet to the man's solar plexus and using his own momentum against him had him soaring over Kazuki's head to land with a thump so heavy Kazuki swore the ground shook.

"Hah," he grinned woozily as he scrambled to his feet, hearing more men behind him.

Gunshots sounded out—apparently they were getting tired of the fox hunt. He felt something catch on the sleeve of his coat and ducked. Then cried out as another bullet cut across his thigh, staggering him and leaving a splatter of red across the pavement.

Hissing, desperation clawing at him now, Kazuki ducked to one side, rushing down a side street before he came out into a park and instantly dove into the nearest shrubbery.

This was a stupid hiding place, but he had run out of options. He could only hope he hadn't completely sold himself out with a trail of blood.

He didn't know what he was going to do. He had no car, he had no way to call Rei or Kyu for help. He was completely alone, and Kazuki was actually a little bit out of practice with that. Having a partner to rely on for so long had perhaps made him go a little soft.

Just like having a little girl waiting for him at home had.

He huddled in the bushes, remembering the last time he had been on the run, bleeding out. He hadn't had anywhere to go and had somehow found himself in a field of hydrangeas, falling on his face in front of an angel.

What she must have thought of him, a rough and bloody man among a field of flowers, and how she had stopped to care for him anyway, no thought about who he might be. It was because of her acceptance of all he was that he loved her so much.

"Found you!"

Kazuki started at the shrill voice and looked up in shock to see golden brown eyes above round rosy cheeks peering through the branches of the bushes.

Kazuki genuinely thought he was hallucinating for a moment.

"Miri?" he gaped.

"Rei-Papa says we had to come play hide and seek with you!" Miri exclaimed. "Now I'm it!"

Kazuki sat up, twigs in his hair and glanced around seeing Rei quickly shoving a couple large, unconscious figures behind a tree and huffed a breath of pure relief.

"That's right, Miri, but Papa's pretty tired. I've been playing for a long time and you're the first one to find me." He smiled, reaching out to ruffle her hair.

Miri giggled and ran off as Rei came over and helped Kazuki out of the bushes.

"And you're the one who always gets after me for not turning my phone on," Rei muttered.

"Mine got smashed by a beefhead who was doing his best to lacerate my spleen, that is not the same thing," Kazuki snapped, leaning on the dark-haired man heavily as they made their way across the park, Miri skipping back to join them and threw her arms around them both, eyes turning worried again.

"Can we go home now? Together?"

Kazuki's heart melted and he felt tears prick in his eyes. "Yes, Miri. We're heading back together."

The little girl seemed to relax then and skipped ahead to the car as Kazuki made his way slowly after with the help of Rei.

Even a beating hurt less when you had family to go home to afterward.

[jedi-lothwolf]

Whumptober Day 10: "You Said You'd Never Leave."

Fandom: The Dragon Prince

Summary: Soren had to leave his family. For his sanity. A different way his conversation with Claudia could have gone.

    Soren never expected to leave his family. He never wanted to be be like their mother. But here he was, standing in front of Claudia. "I'm sorry." As he got ready to leave she stopped him.

    "You can't go" she cried.

    "I have to! You saw what Dad did. He was really going to turn me into a monster. I don't want to be a monster!"

    "You said you'd never leave!" Claudia screamed.

    "What?" He asked.

    "When mom and dad got divorced, when mom left, you told me you wouldn't leave me too!"

    "I have to Clauds and I hate myself for it, but if I don't leave-. Look Dad doesn't care about me, you saw what he was going to do! I don't like who dad's become, who I've become! I can't stay. I can't do it to myself anymore. I'm sorry."

    Soren didn't want to go back on his word. He hated going back on his word. But he was young and dumb to make that promise. Staying basically meant killing himself. That's what it felt like at least.

    Claudia looked devastated. She searched for words but couldn't find any. Soren started to turn away but stopped. Was he doing the right thing? Was he really going to leave his family behind?

    He looked back one more time. Would this be the last time he would be on the same side as his sister? Would she be okay?

    Soren could sit there with all of his questions until he decides to stay or he can walk away and leave everything behind. He sighed, "goodbye Claudia."

    Then he walked away. Claudia was yelling and crying for him to stay. She swore that their father cared about him and that he would have been fine. She screamed that he was breaking his promise to never leave.

    But Soren knew it was for the better. He knew he made the right choice. Even if he had to break a promise.

[meetinginsamarra]

Whumptober Day 10 "You said you'd never leave"

Somehow in his frantic attempt to find something solid to cling to, John’s hand had come across the handle of a walking stick. His own. The one John had leant against a chair as a parting gift when he had said his final goodbye to Sherlock who had been unconscious in the hospital bed.

With mortal precision and the deadly calm that always descended onto John in the face of combat, he swung the cane in a wide half circle.

Smith had turned around and had begun slinking towards the opening in the wall to escape into the adjacent room.

The cane caught Smith’s head exactly where John had planned. It hit the skull with a deafening crack and John truly hoped that it had smashed Smith’s occipital bone into a thousand pieces.

Smith crumbled onto the floor.

Not caring at all wether he was merely knocked unconscious or actually dead, John rushed to Sherlock’s side. He quickly undid the muting of the heart rate monitor, knowing that the flatline alarm would have staff come running immediately.

John tore away the bedsheets and ripped Sherlock’s flimsy hospital gown open. Taking in his friend’s unseeing eyes, the pale blue lips and the strangulation marks on his throat, John started performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

“You came back after the Fall. You said you’d never leave again.” John whispered and a tear dropped onto Sherlock’s lifeless chest.

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Day 10 - You said you'd never leave

If you enjoy my art this Whumptober, you might also like to check out my past Whumptober and Comfortember art. 🥰

[chizue-witchery]

⚜️. *. ⋆ Fandom: Mystic Messenger

⚜️. *. ⋆ Pairing: 707 | Choi Luciel/Main Character

⚜️. *. ⋆ Character/s: 707 | Choi Luciel, Main Character

⚜️. *. ⋆ Summary: "Don't go, MC!" He shouted while wrapping his arms around their waist and burying his face on their shoulder. "Please don't go… you said you'd never leave…"

"Saeyoung…" they say with a soft tone, a frown displaying on their lips.

⚜️. *. ⋆ Word Count: 1,027

⚜️. *. ⋆ Warnings/Tags: angst, sad ending

⚜️. *. ⋆ Prompts/Squares Filled: "You said you'd never leave." || @whumptober

Whumptober2023 Masterlist

AO3

A/N: GUESS WHO IS BACK IN WRITING MYSTIC MESSENGER FANFICS :DD

i wanted to write at least one every year, but i didn't get the chance to write one last year...

also I'm sorry for the lack of new whumptober days posted, my motivation for it basically disappeared for a short period. i'll try and write the rest of the whumptober prompts that i can. i'll have to resort to uploading a couple of them in one day if I have to.

Saeyoung wakes up, slowly opening his eyes while he smiles as he turns to look at MC.

"Good morning, MC," he tells them, head still on the pillows while he watches MC do something on their phone.

He doesn't worry about it too much, too lazy to grab his glasses so his other option is to wrap his arms around MC's waist, pulling them closer and burying his face in their stomach. MC drops their hand on top of Saeyoung's head and he nuzzles in return.

"I love you, MC," he tells them.

"I love you too, Saeyoung," MC responded back with a chirp, with a smile that Saeyoung knew was on their face.

MC fiddles on their phone while Saeyoung doesn't bother to move away, preferring to stay comfortably in this bed with his partner.

"And I'm sorry," whispered MC to themselves but Saeyoung caught on.

He looks up at them with a confused frown. "Why are you apologizing, MC?"

MC blinks, looking away from the phone and back to his face. They smile, "It's nothing, don't worry about it."

Saeyoung frowns and he sits up, grabbing his glasses on top of the bedside table and puts it on. He turns to look at MC's phone and his heart drops when he sees what it says.

"Don't–" He says but MC has already tapped the main menu. His eyes flashed and the next thing he knew, he was back in the void of black and green of numbers and binaries that he had grown used to. No longer does he see the bed he and MC were laying down on just a few minutes ago.

Saeyoung and MC are now in the void of numbers. His eyes are wide, looking at his clothes that are back to the ones he normally wears while MC's is in the same outfit he first saw on their first day of arriving.

He looks at MC but their back is turned on him, facing at the big red reset button instead of looking at his face. Saeyoung takes a step forward and again and again until he's running towards MC, breathing heavily as they seem to get farther and farther away from him.

"Don't go, MC!" He shouted while taking gulps of air as he continued to run towards MC, getting closer and closer until he finally reached them, wrapping his arms around their waist and burying his face on their shoulder. "Please don't go… you said you'd never leave…"

"Saeyoung…" they say with a soft tone, a frown displaying on their lips.

"I know what you're going to do," muttered Sayoung while his hold on MC tightens. "I know–—I know you want to go to other routes." He felt MC flinch but that didn't bother him. "I've seen you—I remember all the routes you went through."

MC leans back and with a soft sigh escaping their lips, they ask, "If you know about it, then why are you stopping me?"

Saeyoung has never thought of that. Why he chose to stop them from resetting when he had never done it before when MC returned to his route. He had always let them leave, feigning ignorance to it just like the other RFA members. He is the only one who remembers it every time. Every route, every choice, every action the MC takes, he remembers them all.

Maybe he was cursed to always remember this. A curse placed onto him for who knows how long. The same dialogue and action taken every single time, always leading to his happy ending. As for the bad endings, he would rather forget about those.

Maybe he wanted for them to stay with him for once. Maybe he wanted them to stay longer. Maybe he wanted to be selfish for once and have MC all to himself. He only ever gets his happy endings when he's with MC.

"I don't know," responded Saeyoung, his tone honest as always around them. Way too many thoughts to be put into words, it's the only thing he could say to answer their question.

Saeyoung lifts his head, watching as MC's finger still lingers over the button. He doesn't say anything when he sees MC lower their hand, but a sigh of relief escapes his lips and he loosens his hold around them. He lets MC turn around and wrap their arms around him.

"I'm sorry, Saeyoung," they tell him and all he could do is nod. No matter what he tells them, he knows their decision is final. Maybe they're having mercy on him and letting him stay with them just a little longer.

"I know," he responded back, having long accepted his fate before MC had asked him the question. He appreciates them for letting him have these final moments unlike the other times they left without saying anything.

But still, it doesn't stop the tears forming on his eyes as MC pulls away to look at him. Saeyoung smiles at them because that's the best he could do, still being his true self while also hiding under the guise of his silly, goofy persona.

"I'm fine," he tells MC when he sees them reaching out to him, taking a step back even when he doesn't want to do it. Saeyoung wants to be brave for MC. He wants them to press the button with no regrets. He'll meet them again; he knows it.

"Saeyoung…" whispered MC, but they turned around to face the button once again. This time they don't hesitate to press the button and watch as they slowly disappear from this place, giving Saeyoung one last look before they're gone.

Without anyone else except for himself, Saeyoung drops down on his knees and finally lets the tears fall down. A sob escapes his lips, the pain from losing them never getting easier than the last one. Even when he's lost count of the many times he had watched them fall in love with him, do a rest, and fall in love with someone else.

This is all just a game to them and he is the unwilling participant who remembers everything.

[kayamark]

Whumptober: No. 10 -"You said you'd never leave"

Love in sadness (2019)

Ep 40

[honmyoseagull]

Fandom: Marvel, Marvel (Comics), Dark Avengers (Comic) (Beware the warnings on the site)

Relationships: Akihiro | Daken/Lester | Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter Whumptober 2023, Prompts 9 to 16, Slow Burn, Feelings-challenged characters, pyschopaths in love, Revenge, Patricide mention, Brothers, Bullsnikt - Freeform Series: Part 2 of OLD DARK DAYS Summary:

Fighting together (or against each other) is easy. Fucking, they learn to manage. Kinda. Since this is Daken and Bullseye we're talking about, they're rubbish at dealing with their feelings, though. And the more they run from them, the more it hurts. Literally. Also, it wasn't what they had planned with their day, this 'Meet the Family' thing.

@whumptober-archive

[princess-peaches671]

you weren’t supposed to to be a lesson, you were meant to be my forever.

[inscrutable-shadow]

Whumptober 2023 Day 10 - Coda

@whumptober-archive

No. 10: “Can’t you see that you’re lost without me?”

Broken Phone | Stranded | “You said you’d never leave.”

this... isn't canon lol. and i guess a form experiment is the "coy is running out of time for ideas" default XD

Luka is the Doc's ex-spouse/QPP that they would never talk about ever to anyone even if they hadn't forced themselves to repress the details. Have their last conversation before Luka walked out with their children.

contains: angst

also available on ao3!

“I’m leaving.”

“All right, then.”

“I don’t mean I’m going out. I’m taking the kids and I’m leaving.”

“All right, then.”

“And? Look at me, Rowan.”

“Best of luck to you?”

“You don’t even care that you’ll never see the kids again?”

“I believe that between the two of us, it is clear who is better equipped to care for them. My feelings on the matter are irrelevant.”

“That’s it? Ten years and your feelings are irrelevant?”

“What response would you prefer, Luka? If I were to fall to my knees, sobbing and begging you to stay, you would only see it as confirmation that I am cruel and manipulative and that you are right to continue on your course. You uncovered information that altered your desire to continue with the relationship. It would be futile for me to attempt to hold you.”

“I guess, but… don’t you feel any sort of remorse?”

“I make my choices very carefully, Luka. My only regret is that you had to find out this way.”

“So that you couldn’t smooth it over with lies.”

“Not lies. You are easy to distract with displays of vulnerability and professions of love. You would have forgotten key details and what remained would have been easily explainable. A few sessions of therapy would have been trivial to fake making progress in, and the matter would have dropped.”

“Oh, so you really are just a manipulative bastard.”

“That would be easier, wouldn’t it? To believe that the person you saw on those tapes, gleefully hacking through subjects, and the person with whom you have raised your children could not coexist, that one must be false and the other true. It is a lie I tell myself rather frequently as well. Is that what you would like me to say to you?”

“Rowan—”

“Is not my name, you know. An alias, like every other name I have used since adulthood. Everything I have told you has been a lie. I have never cared for you. I am not capable of that sort of emotional attachment. I found you useful and entertaining, nothing more. You were an experiment, and now the research is concluded. Does that comfort you?”

“... How much of it is true?”

“Ah, now that is the question. Not every falsehood has its root in ill intent. You told me when we were much younger that you would never allow me to push you away, no matter how hard I tried. Now look at us. Older, wiser, less idealistic. Seeing the world as it is.”

“...Goodbye, Rowan.”

“Live well, Luka.”

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