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May Prompts (23) Apology

The Luckiest Girl in the World (chapter23)
Summary: Rosie shares a surprise with her parents and uncle. All of them have different thoughts about this unexpected development, and silent negotiations are carried out.
Twenty-Three Years Old
I knew that Papa not fully understood my reason for studying international politics and data, but to his credit he didn’t for one second try to convince me to give it another thought and opt for something science related instead. Dad was just relieved that I’d finally had found a path to walk, after several failed attempts. Uncle Myc, well he tried to hide how utterly pleased he was with my choice, but by now I knew him well enough to read the signs. Truth be told, said signs weren’t that subtle.
“Bien choisi ma chérie,” he beamed at me, while Papa scowled at him.
“Merci oncle,” I retorted. “I can’t wait to start this and go to Paris.”
The three-year BA degree was taught by The University of London Institute in Paris. We would be taught in English, but if we had an A level in French, we could also take French courses. I’d learned French in school for years, and uncle Myc and I often conversed in French when uncle Greg wasn’t around.
I think it’s needless to say that my security and comfort in France was well taken care of. Papa and uncle Myc had a conversation using their eyes only when I spilled the beans. Dad knew exactly what was going on and went to make tea while negotiations were carried out. Once the brothers were satisfied, uncle Myc took out his phone and sent several texts or emails. By now, I knew it’ll be futile to pester any of them of what was going on. I was just relieved that no one had tried to talk me out of it, making me feel uncertain or guilty for leaving the country; actually, moving out of my childhood home.
My reasons for choosing this subject were multifaceted. I’d always enjoyed learning facts, obscure and otherwise, about different countries and cultures. Having had a relatively unorthodox upbringing, containing all sorts of people, played a big part too. The cherry on top was that the school was abroad. Nana’s tales of her experiences overseas and how educating it is to have lived some time in another country and society, had always seemed enticing to me.
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The university was situated close to the Invalides and the Seine, while my lodgings were in the Charonne area in the 11th arrondissement on a cosy cobble street, with a nearby metro station. My landlady, Marguerite Vachon was one of uncle Myc’s acquaintances, from where, I still have no idea.
Marguerite preferred that I used her given name instead of the formal, Madame Vachon.
“Je ne suis pas ancient,” was her favourite line and reminded me quite a lot of Nana.
“I am not ancient, dear,” was a statement Nana had used every so often.
Marguerite was a petite and elegant woman. Her hair was cut in a bob, coloured black with a few red stripes. I never saw her without lipstick or makeup. She always wore bespoke dresses and high heeled shoes. I deduced that she was far more than a landlady. When I left for school in the morning, I could hear her sing or talk on the phone, and when I returned, she always opened her door and inquired about my day.
“She’s clearly spying for Mycroft,” Papa’s voice told me.
And there was something about her, which I couldn’t put my finger on. Something mysterious, secret, perhaps even dangerous.
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It seemed like Marguerite had my schedule memorised. Not that I’d given her the information, but when she slipped, I got my suspicions confirmed. To be fair, it wasn’t slipping per se. She couldn’t have known that class was dismissed early that day.
Luckily, I spotted her and was able to hide behind a wall before she saw me. I’d almost missed her, because she wasn’t wearing her normal dress and high heels, but red trousers, a white and blue-striped jumper, and white trainers. Instead of one of her posh handbags, she had a dark blue canvas bag diagonally draped over her chest.
Papa had taught me a few tricks when it came to the fine art of following people without being discovered. I’ve never had much use of them obviously, but now I saw an opportunity. How I would explain this and apologise if I was caught, never crossed my mind.
I was sceptical when Marguerite walked to the metro station, but I was able to get into the same carriage as her, and it seemed that she had no idea she was being followed. She got off three stops later and walked in the direction of the big Père-Lachaise cemetery.
A fitting location for obscure and shady affairs.
Marguerite knew where she was going, walking briskly but not hurried. I had walked the premises several times before and knew where she was headed when I saw the grand tomb of Sir Richard Wallace, the British baronet who contributed millions to the Parisian poor during the Siege of Paris in the early 1870s.
This reeked of another posh Brit I knew.
When Marguerite had placed a folder by the tomb and another woman picked it up five minutes later, I had a hard time keeping myself composed. The woman picking up the folder was the French equivalent of Anthea.
I sent uncle Myc a text when both women were out of sight.
Thanks for keeping track on me, but this thing is like being part of a French noir film. You can tell Papa I think you’re both growing sentimental, and I demand an apology!
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More the Merrier
Pairings | Steve Rogers x reader, Sam Wilson x reader, Bucky Barnes x reader
Warnings | smut, swearing, Bucky being a literal SEX GOD, oral (m and f receiving), fingering, p in v, p in a
Word count | 2813
Summary | you and Bucky get a little freaking during a training session. Steve and Sam want to join.
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Sweaty strands of hair dangled over your eyes, the sweet burn stinging against them when the sweat dripped off. Your fists held tight in front of you, wrapped perfectly with a now tinged-grey bandage and a glossy sheen coating your skin. Bucky stood before you, cocky smirk on his lips and hair framing his face from where it has fallen out of the bun at the back of his head, fists held high before a punch is landed to your stomach. The force sends you falling back, butt colliding heavily with the floor and a groan slipping from your lips.
"That's the last time, James." You warn, rubbing your sore ass as he helps to to your feet - the metal of his hand a welcome coldness against the searing heat of yours. Your fighting was not the best, to say the least, and you usually relied on your powers. Bucky offered to help you - but so far he all but knocked you on your ass every five minutes, even after three weeks of training.
"Let's take a break." Buck decided, chucking your water bottle over at you which you barely caught in time before it would've gone flying into your face. You sent a glare his way and Bucky chuckled, throwing his head back and gulping down his own water - Adam's apple bobbing and drops running down his chin and over his throat. You subtly rubbed your thighs together, attempted to ignore the gush of arousal that flooded between them as you slowly dipped at your drink.
"Let's go again." You said definitively, back in stance and ready to fight. You threw a heavy punch, but Bucky merely caught it in his open palm, twisting until your back pressed against his solid chest. Heavy breathing reverberated in your ear, the hotness of his breaths making your cunt tingle and a shiver wrack down your spine.
"You okay, doll?" A husk in your ear, and you were a goner. A lewd moan escaped you as Buck cupped your clothed core with his flesh hand, the metal one encasing your throat. "Seems like you need my help." He smirked against your cheek, placing a few kisses there before he was ripping your leggings straight from you. If it had been anyone else you would have protested, seeing as they were your favourite leggings, but this was Bucky, so you merely let out a gasp and dropped your head back on his shoulder. "Fuck, so wet already, Doll." Bucky mumbled, fingers slipping past the waist band of your panties.
A wanton moan spilled from your lips when his fingers made contact with your pulsating clit, rubbing it in tight circles as you gasped. You could feel him smirk against the skin of your neck at your reactions, wet and open-mouthed kisses quickly turning to nips and bites that made both you and the super soldier groan.
"Shit, James." You sighed and a small growl escaped him when you used his name. He let his middle finger slip lower, tracing your wet slit before dipping ever-so-slightly into your heat. He hummed in approval when you clenched around the tip of his digit, before slowly sliding the rest of his finger in. You were literally a moaning mess at this point and he'd barely touched you. (I mean come on, it is Bucky Barnes after all).
Bucky started to pump his finger, giving your throat a little squeeze as he added another finger to your wet pussy.
"S'tight, doll. I don't know if I'll get my cock in there." He drawled, accent thick against your ear. All you could do was let another lewd moan escape you, the only thing keeping you uptight being Bucky's hand wrapped around your throat, the cool metal a stark contrast to the hot flush that was brushed all over your skin by now.
"James!" You cried out, knees buckling as his palm began bumping against your clit with every thrust of his fingers. A third one was added to your heat.
"You like that, doll?" He rasped, curling his fingers upwards experimentally and grinning at the little Yelp of pleasure it dragged from you. The grin only spread when Bucky picked up on footsteps coming towards the gym, the unmistakable voices of Sam and Steve filling his ears.
Of course, you didn't hear this, as Bucky had super-soldier hearing and all. Bucky doubled his efforts, determined to have you cumming as both your friends walked in the room. Give them a show.
"C'mon, doll, cum for me," Bucky egged, letting his fingers hit that one spit inside you with ever curl, "soak me, cum all over my hand." He continued, nipping on your earlobe and pressing his hard-on into your back.
You could also hear Steve and Sam approaching now, but you were way to intent on getting your release to being yourself to care. Fuck them, you thought - then a smile graced your lips, maybe seeing you come undone would grant that wish.
"I want you to scream for me, y/n." Bucky groaned as the door to the gym swung open - Sam and Steve in the middle of talking and not looking away from each other until a shriek of pleasure ripped from you.
"F-fuck! Bucky!" You moaned so bloody loudly, Bucky was convinced that anyone on the bottom floor of the tower must've heard you. Your cunt spasmed around Bucky's fingers, legs trembling as hands clawing at Bucky's muscular thighs to ground yourself.
"Good girl." He whispered against your ear, smirking at the sight before him. Stood before you, were Steve and Sam. Steve looked like a deer in headlights - eyes wider than saucers and jaw hanging so low it may as well be on the floor. Sam, on the other hand, was also smirking, eyes roaming your shaking body with a hunger that Bucky had instantly noticed.
"Fuck me, is there room for another to join?" Sam was quick to blurt out, earning him a shocked side-eye from Steve. Bucky's smirk grew.
"What do you think, doll? D'you reckon we have room for a couple more?" Bucky asked you, breath tickling the side of your face.
"The more the merrier." You purred, words still slightly spurred from your orgasm, but you were back to thinking clearly. Sam wasted no time, and before you knew it he was stood in front of you and pulling you into a searing kiss. Bucky retracted his hand from your panties, stepping back slightly and looking to Steve.
"You gonna join us or what, punk?" Bucky smiled amusedly as his best friend, who was trying his hardest not to stare at your semi-naked body. Your hands were gripping Sam's biceps tightly, hips rocking over her thigh that he had spotted between your legs as you moaned into his mouth. When he pulled away to scold steve you were panting.
"What's wrong, old man? Forgotten what an orgasm is? When was the last time you got laid?" Sam teased, tone mockingly accusatory but it worked. A scowl quickly spread over Steve's face, arms crossing over his chest to show case his bulging muscles.
"Just because I'm old doesn't mean I don't know what I'm doing." Steve remarked and Bucky rose a brow.
"Really, pal? Because I don't remember you being with a lot of women back in the day." Bucky teased and Steve sent him a look.
"Yeah, well, I spent a couple months working only with a group of girls after I was injected, remember?" Steve said, his boyish grin telling the rest of the story.
"Well, Mr America's most wanted, why don't you come prove us wrong?" Sam prompted, and by this time your were back to rubbing you thighs together at the though of taking all three of them.
"Please, Steve. I need you." You whined, hoping to speed him up a little bit. Steve took long strides towards you until he stood in front of you, hand cupping your jaw and directing your gaze to him.
"Suck a needy little thing, aren't ya?" Steve chided, pushing your face to one side and then the other as he examined you. "You will address me as Captain." He said authoritatively and you barely had enough time to utter a little 'yes, Captain' before he was slinging you over his shoulder and sauntering over to the weights benches.
You let out a little mph as Steve dropped you onto the bench, dropping to his knees and parting your legs. He begun to press wet and sloppy kisses to your inner thighs, kissing ever exposed bit of skin he could find except where you needed him most.
"Captain!" You whined, wishing he would hurry up a little. Steve rolled his eyes at your childish behaviour but suddenly stopped and let out a groan when you buried your short fingers in his hair and attempted to pull his head into your core.
"Patience, little one." He chided, and the nickname nearly made you want to cry with want. Steve was the only person at the tower that called you 'little one', and he only did so when he was scolding you or agitated with you. You never thought it'd be such a turn-on during sex, especially coming from his lips.
"Woah, woah, woah. Back up," Sam interrupted suddenly, just as Steve went to place a kiss over your clothes heat. "Steve actually knows what eating a girl out means?" He inquired and Steve scoffed.
"Jesus, Sam! I'm from the forties not a fuckin' nunnery!" Steve exclaimed and Sam raised his hands up in surrender.
"Alright, man." He backed off a little and Steve shook his head before turning back to you and resuming to tease you over your panties. You gasp when he ran a finger over your covered slit, some of the remnants of your orgasm seeping through the fabric and transferring onto his finger. Steve brought the now damp finger to his mouth and sucked it clean, moaning at your taste.
"You taste so good, little one, like fuckin' honey I swear." Steve groaned and before you could respond another gasp was released as you felt the fabric of your panties being ripped from your skin. Steve pocketing the scrap of fabric did not go unnoticed by you or the boys, and Bucky smirked out how confident his little Stevie had become.
"Captain, please!" You whined impatiently, desperate to feel his mouth on you. Steve's lips curled into a smirk, before they were descending on you. You bucked your hips up into his mouth, but Steve tutted you and pinned your hips down with his arm, keeping you from moving again. He licked a stripe up from you slit to your clit and back again, doing this a few times and making you try to thrash your hips. Steve stopped at your entrance and pushed his tongue into your pulsing heat, pumping the warm muscle in-and-out, tearing pornographic moans from your lips.
Your hands found their way down to Steve hair, tangling your fingers into his blonde locks and tugging harshly, getting a groan from him as Steve's tongue curled around inside you, stroking your walls. Your cunt clenched around him and Steve moaned into you in response, sending vibrations throughout you core. You shuddered as Steve started to rub circles on your clit, adding too much to the sensation and you came screaming Steve's name.
As slap to your thigh caused you to jolt, crying out when the contact was made.
"What did you just call me?" Steve demanded and you stuttered, a babbling mess as he kept up him ministrations.
Steve pulled away but didn't stop, moving his fingers from your clit to your entrance and pushing them in to the knuckle, pulling out to the tips and pushing back in, while waiting for his answer.
"I'm s-sorry, Captain!" You managed finally.
"Good girl." Steve groaned before he lowered his mouth to your clit and lapped around it, flicking it with his tongue. Your eyes rolled as Steve sucked your clit into his mouth, nipping it and dragging it out with his teeth. You soon came again, biting your bottom lip almost hard enough to draw blood.
He kept going, curling his fingers upwards and trying to finger your spot.
"Captain!" You moaned as he found it, making him reangle his fingers to hit it with every thrust. His mouthy worked at your clit still, bringing you to a third orgasm from just Steve's tongue and fingers that made your whole body shake. Steve pulled away and smirked at you, climbing over you and kissing you. You could taste your own sweetness in the kiss and moaned into his mouth.
When he pulled away your face was full of a fucked-out expression, one that made Bucky coo as he stroked your cheek lovingly a after Steve had stepped back.
"You tired already, baby?" He said sweetly, his thumb pulling at your swollen bottom lip and dragging it towards your thin with his thumb. It bounced back into place as you nodded, eyes barely open. "Tough. You still haven't taken any of our cocks and poor Sammy hasn't even got his hands on this perfect body of your." Buck murmured in your ear, his breath hot and intoxicating against your skins as your eyes widened at his words.
He stepped aside with a wicked smirk, holding his arm out in gesture towards you for Sam. Sam stepped forwards eagerly, leaning down to place a bruising kiss against your lips and before you knew it the Falcon had your legs wrapped around his waist and you back slammed against the wall.
His lips trailed over you jaw, down your neck as your head fell back against the wall, a lewd moan escaping you when you felt his hardness press into your bare cunt.
"Sam, please." You whined breathily, trying to wiggle your hips against him as persuasion. Bucky and Steve chuckled from behind sam, and when you dared to glance over his shoulder a new flood of arousal flocked to your entrance at the sights of both men stripped and stroking their cocks. A groan spilled from you lips and Sam smirked against you skin, using a hand to pull his work out shorts down and pull his cock from his boxers.
"You ready, baby?" He husked in your ear, running his length through you folds and letting the head bump you clit as he collected your wetness.
"Fuck, please, just get inside me." You moaned, head lolling forward to rest against his shoulder. Sam let out a guttural groan as he entered you, throw in head back as he bottomed out. He stayed still for a moment, giving some time to adjust and chucking again when you tried to move on his dick.
The man pulled his hips back, slamming them against them with so much force you could see stars.
"Fuck!" You screamed, biting down on Sam's shoulder to try and keep quiet - fully aware that anyone else at the tower could walk into the gym at any moment to see Sam railing you against the wall and Steve and Bucky jerking off at the sight.
"That's it," Sam groaned, smirking as you screamed when he hit that spit deep inside you, "taking my cock so well in this tight little pussy." He praised, hands braced against the wall behind you as he thrusted harshly up into you. You were a babbling, moaning mess, reaching for you clit to push yourself over the edge again. The accompanied sounds of all three men groaning and moaning was enough to spurt in your release again, and you soon hit your peak crying out Sam's name.
He rode out your orgasm with a few more hard pumps, groaning your name as he released inside you. Sam's forehead pressed to yours, heavy breaths shared as you both calmed down. "Fuck, that was good." He grinned, slowly pulling out of you and setting you down on the ground. You kept your hands resting on his shoulders, untrusting of your own strength when it came to your now-wobbly legs. "You didn't think we were done, did you?" He whispered huskily in your ear, you eyes darting nervously to the two super soldier's with rock hard cock slapping against their stomachs behind Sam.
You gulped, making eye contact with Bucky as he spoke.
"My turn."
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If you could rewrite legend of korra and make it your own(or just in general better) how would you do it? The villains would stay the same and korra and crew are the same(personalities you can definitely tweak a bit. I would definitely not have any love triangles and make korra and asami happen in the beginning) how would you do it with your ships being canon as well?
Okay so I’ve never actually watched LOK. I’ve heard A LOT about it through watching countless video essays on Youtube and reading Tumblr posts about it. I know the who, the what and the how, I just haven’t wanted to watch it because, even though it looks cinematically gorgeous, the story was written by Bry/ke and there’s a LOT of it, worldbuilding and storywise, that I just can’t bare to watch.
So here goes. This got long. Enjoy!
1) Remove the Decopunk world.
A Decopunk world is a world where technology is 1920s-ish, but very advanced. We have cars, tanks, radio, bobs and faux bobs, cloche hats, short skirts, nice suits, etc. I adore Decopunk. The 1920s are one of my favourite eras. An optimistic way of looking at the world, partying, illegal alcohol, the remnants of the Great War... I love it. I really do. But it doesn’t work in the pre-established world of Avatar. It brings elements that are far too imperialistic and colonial in nature (which prompted the comics to be imperialistic and colonial in nature, with the Northern and Southern Water Tribe, you can find many posts about that), which came along hand in hand with the Industrial Revolution, as this article puts it so well. Please read it, it’s awesome.
Why did they feel they had to denature Avatar’s world? They already had everything they could possibly want.
The Fire Nation could be more Steampunk, which is a little less advanced than Decopunk (First Industrial Revolution vs Second Industrial Revolution) because there were elements of Steampunk in the Fire Nation Army (such as the tanks, the navy and the dirigibles). But it could be for them only. It could show us how Zuko transformed the Fire Nation from a war industry to a steam-powered country. This could be the new way to channel firebending (and please, no more “anyone can do lightning bending”, you don’t need lightning bending to get electricity and it makes Zuko, Iroh, Ozai and Azula weak in the show!).
We’ve seen waterbending used in clever ways in the Northern Water Tribe. How could Katara’s waterbending and Sokka’s engineering influence the Southern Water Tribe to make them use waterbending more? Canals, waterfalls, waterways, etc.? In new and different ways? Could the Southern Water Tribe use hydroelectricity, but in a clean, sustainable way? Why does the Southern Water Tribe port look so... mundane?
The Earth Kingdom already had a working train system in Ba Sing Se. And the postal system in Omashu. Toph could have taught earthbenders how to follow the Badgermoles way and dug tunnels throughout a nation in peace. Then boom. Subways. But instead of machines pushing the people along, you can have benders do it. Instead of messenger hawks, the postal system could run through the entire kingdom instead of just Omashu and be much more efficient. The Earth Kingdom could be praised for its fast postal system that could, maybe, work as telegrams.
I’ll come back to the Air Nomads.
Those are just examples from the top of my head. I don’t mean “never allow technology to “””progress””” (I use that word veeeeery loosely because it has huge imperialistic undertones). I mean instead of trashing the fun parts of bending to make way for Decopunk technology that doesn’t need bending, work with it! Get creative! This worldbuilding feels... too easy. When Avatar: The Last Airbender was praised for its worldbuilding.
I adore Decopunk. I enjoy it far more than Dieselpunk and it’s much less known that Steampunk. But it has no place in the Avatar world.
2) That doesn’t mean “remove Republic City”.
First of all, it should honestly have a better name. It’s kind of like naming a city “Democracy City”. Which is way too on the nose. Harmony City sounds better, and that’s the first thing that came to mind. Anyway.
I really like the idea of a city being built in the spirit of Iroh and the White Lotus. To allow the Four Nations to live together in harmony in one city. But why is Republic City literally New York City with an “““Asian””” flair? What is up with that? I know New York is the MOST Decopunk city ever (you can’t encounter anything Decopunk without seeing New York, with its Art Deco buildings, the Harlem Renaissance, the Prohibition, etc.). But they do NOTHING with it! They just take New York, change some names, add some Asian flair, and call it a day.
I don’t want 1920s New York for Republic City. I want Zootopia.
What happens in a city where all the Four Nations are represented? How does Water, Earth, Fire and Air work together? Big cities tend to be quartered in neighborhoods, so each neighborhood could be a smaller version of their nation. We could have a Northern Water Tribe next to an Earth Kingdom next to... you know what I mean? Each neighborhood could be a small-scale introduction to the nation for Korra first, then you can send her to that nation afterwards!
Which leads us to this.
3) Have Korra follow a traditional Avatar’s journey.
I really don’t know why they decided that Korra would learn three elements before the age of sixteen (when that’s the age Avatars usually START their journeys) and then only have her learn Airbending during the entire show. Wasn’t the structure of each Book being about Aang learning one element at a time a good structure? Why go out of their way to NOT do that? Why was it the White Lotus’ prerogative to train the Avatar in the first place, too?
So let’s have Korra know waterbending first (and show Katara teaching her, please!), then she can learn Earth, Fire and Air. By going to the Earth Kingdom, to the Fire Nation, and to the Air Temples. This could help develop each nation and show us how they have grown through the years. And it could lead Korra and the audience to figure out that there’s not only Aang who has had children to represent the Air Nomads, but there were other Air Nomads who survived the genocide and we can actually see the Air Nomads as a thriving culture.
So about Republic City. As I said, we could keep it. But now that Korra is going on a traditional Avatar journey, you could have, say, one episode at the beginning and one episode at the end of each season taking place in Republic City. To show us how each Nation’s neighborhood works and as an introduction to Korra before she actually takes the plunge to travel to that nation.
Please! Build upon the Avatar world at large more! Come on!
4) Stop it with the love triangles.
Many have talked about the Mako, Korra, Bolin and Asami love triangles. I’ve read once that they don’t exactly feel like friends, they’re only colleagues who share the fact they all dated Korra at one point. Which is sad. Knowing that the Gaang is so beloved because they’re such GOOD FRIENDS first!
So work to build strong, healthy friendships first, THEN start thinking about romance if you have to. And please, if you want a ship to be endgame, don’t have it so you have to confirm it on Twitter.
Don’t.
Oh! And also. Bolin and Eska’s relationship was unhealthy as all hell and treated as “funny” and “comic relief” because a woman was being emotionally abusive to a man. That’s terrible. Please don’t do that.
5) Don’t let Katara fall to the side like she did.
Many, MANY before me have talked about how Katara got the short end of the stick in LOK. Where’s her statue? Where’s her recognition as the Greatest Waterbender in the World? Why is she day in and day out in the healing hut, when she said “I don’t want to heal, I want to FIGHT”? Does she even have a waterbending school? Or is that completely fanon? Why does she allow Aang to take one of their children on life-changing field trips while leaving their other kids behind? Aren’t they also Air Nomads by birth??
It’s okay to worship the old Gaang because, well, we all love them! I do love Aang, even if I give him a hard time a lot, but I love the character. I just don’t like the way Book 3 Aang was written. But some characters shouldn’t have everything while others have nothing. Aang is LITERALLY THE STATUE OF LIBERTY. But where was Katara’s statue? And also, what happened to Suki?? What happened to Mai or Ty Lee, too?? Or even Sokka?? He died some time ago and... that’s it??
Which brings us to this.
6) Zutara, Taang, Sukka and Mailee.
I’ve seen that picture of Toph, Aang, Sokka and Katara being edited with Zuko and Katara next to each other, Toph and Aang next to each other, and a (suddenly alive!) Suki next to Sokka. I think that’s so good! It feels so healthy!
Not all relationships that started when people were kids work out. Sokka and Suki seem the strongest relationship at the end of the show and they’re probably the only ones I could see working out in the end. Sokka could become the Southern Water Tribe Chief and Suki could become his Queen when she’s retired from the Kyoshi Warriors.
Katara and Aang would be lifelong friends, of course they would be, but I don’t really see them lasting. Aang was twelve when they started dating. They’d date a few years, then they’d decide they want other things. That’s a good thing to show kids!
I’ve written many metas about Zutara, but Ambassador then Fire Lady Katara would show a changing world, where the Fire Nation, now no longer a war industry but a Steampunk country, is moving forward, with Zuko literally marrying a woman the Fire Nation tried to wipe out. They would be equals and leave an equal mark upon the world. Together.
Toph and Aang would be amazing together. They’d be a great team, working in the Earth Kindom, helping rebuild the old Temples when the Air Nomads came out of hiding, and bringing peace around the world. I don’t think they’d be a conventional relationship. They’d do their own thing for a while, find each other for a while, work together on some projects, then continue doing their own thing. Aang being the Avatar who travels the world and Toph teaching metalbenders and working with the King in Ba Sing Se and Bumi in Omashu and wherever she’s needed. I think Toph would be much more fulfilled than what we’ve seen of elderly Katara. She doesn’t have Katara’s abandonment issues (I’ve talked about them here) and she’s more independent, I believe.
I know I haven’t talked about them much yet, but I want Mai and Ty Lee together in the end. Badass ladies challenging their respective stereotypes and create a new world for themselves. Mai could find herself away from the Fire Nation court (I don’t know what she’d do, but circuses love people who throw knives, don’t they? She could be a circus performer for a while), and I think Ty Lee, in this version, could work at the circus and with Aang to rebuild the Air Nomads. I love the idea of Ty Lee being a descendant of the Air Nomads.
All of them should be shown creating Zootopia-like Republic City. Because of course they should be! They’re the Gaang!
So yeah, that’s how I would see the world of Avatar grow beyond the borders of the original show! :)
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requested: yes, thank you! [honey, I am SO sorry for only doing it now] prompt : their s/o surprising them with homemade food genre : fluff warnings : !! food mention !! (obviously but I prefer repeating it), very poorly written, overbearingly cliché. A/N : so uhm, hi again? this got requested like months ago and i never actually sat down to write it [commitment issues oops] but now I’m happy that i actually manage to do it today! Also don’t mind the mistakes, pleaaaase I feel like I speak like a 5-year old when I have to write something in english (even though I have an c1 diploma in english sdfjhsf i’m so sorry if it’s bad)
Hongjoong
Songwriter!Hongjoong
You finished eating dinner near 8 pm and laid on the couch after doing the dishes.
After having patiently waited for your boyfriend to come home, you decided to go to bed as the clock neared midnight, still no trace of him.
It’s only when you washed your face and applied your serum that you changed your mind.
Putting on your shoes and your coat, you grabbed the plastic bag carrying the Tupperware filled with the food you had prepared for dinner and made your way out the door.
You weren’t keen on walking alone at night, but fortunately, his studio wasn’t that far, so you managed to make it safely there.
Knocking on the wooden door, you received no answer, so you slightly pulled the door open, only to be met with silence.
Hongjoong had noise-cancelling headphones latched on his ears, head bobbing at a certain rhythm as he scribbled some lyrics in his brown leather notebook.
The notebook he carried everywhere, even when he was around you.
Sometimes, he would get inspiration just by watching you sleep, read or cook. Writing down whatever crossed his mind, he never showed you what they said.
However, you paid no mind to his privacy. You respected that he kept it a secret, you did the same with your poetry book.
You knew how it felt when someone read pieces of art you’ve created, you feel naked and exposed to the reader, and it made your guts churn of anxiety when someone even tried to look into your notebooks.
But now, you had a problem to deal with. How do you make yourself noticeable without scaring your boyfriend to death?
Banging your fist on the door didn’t work and calling his name didn’t work either.
He jumped out of his skin when you softly placed a hand on his shoulder, a yelp unintentionally coming out of his mouth.
Turning around, he noticed your figure and laid a hand on his chest, the other grabbing your forearm as a sign of affection.
“Sorry baby, I didn’t know how to make myself noticeable.” You said with an apologetic look, but Hongjoong waved it off.
“It’s okay, sugarplum. Are you okay? What are you doing here?”
“Well, since it’s past midnight and you weren’t coming back, I decided to bring a piece of home to you and brought you this.” You lifted the plastic bag and handed it to him. It was his turn to look at you, remorse filling his eyes as he realised that he lost the notion of time and stayed behind at the studio to produce.
“Thank you baby, but I’m sorry,” he mumbled, and he stood up, hugging you tightly as he kissed your cheek. ���What did I do to deserve you?”
“It’s nothing, baby. You should eat now, it’s going to cool down,” you whispered as you let go and he sat down, drawing another chair to have you by his side. He kissed your temple before you rushed him to eat, noticing his eyebags and his tiredness written all over his face.
You were getting tired as well, but Hongjoong was a hundred times worth it to stay up late at night, to see him with a bright smile and adoring eyes on his face as he tasted the food you cooked.
Seonghwa
CEO!AU
“Hello Miss, where can I find the office of Mr Park?”
“Park Seonghwa?” the receptionist said, and you nodded, replacing a piece of hair behind your ear. “The head department is on the 19th floor, at the far end of the left corridor.” You thanked her and made your way to the elevators, waiting with other employees.
You greeted people you knew by sight with a nod and a smile, going to the floor reception. Some people stopped talking, listening to your words.
“Excuse me, is Mr Park Seonghwa here?”
“Yes, but he’s currently in a meeting. It’ll end in a few minutes,” she said, looking up what seemed to be his schedule on the computer. “Do you have an appointment with him?”
“Oh no,” you stuttered as you could almost feel his coworkers’ eyes on you, “I’m just his wife, and I need to give him something he forgot at home.”
“No problem, I’ll guide you to his office. Please follow me,” she announced, standing up, her heels clicking on the white tiles. You awkwardly smiled and bowed at his colleagues and followed the secretary, thanking her as she showed you the door of his office.
Your husband appeared a couple of minutes later, reading a file while talking on the phone. You cleared your throat, and Seonghwa looked up, his phone almost falling from the shoulder that was pressing it against his ear.
“Can you please fix a schedule with my secretary, I have a lot of work to deal with right now. Yes, yes thank you. Have a nice day too. Goodbye Sir.” he ended his phone call, sliding his smartphone in his pants pocket.
Tenderly looking at you, he smiled and approached you.
“Honey, baby. I didn’t expect you to see you here,” he warmly said before capturing your lips in a sweet yet passionate kiss, an arm wrapping around your waist.
“I’m because my husband, whose head is constantly into business, forgot his lunch before going to work this morning,” you stated as you lifted the brown paper bag, his eyes widening as his shoulders softly subside in relief.
“What did I do to deserve a wonderful wife like you?” he asked as he took the bag, kissing your cheek at the same time.
“I don’t know, but your wonderful wife would appreciate that her husband wouldn’t forget his lunch every day because she’s taking time on her lunch break to bring the food to him.” You arched a brow, and he chuckled, his arm never leaving your waist.
“I love you,” he muttered, and you softly kissed his lips.
“I love you too. Enjoy your lunch darling,” you said as you made your way towards the door, shooting him a smile before walking away.
Little did you know that once you were out of sight, he went out to the lunchroom to eat his food - something that he never did -, showing off the fact that his wife came to bring him lunch.
He earned the complaints and whines from his colleagues, whose partners didn’t even look at them when they came home.
And with that, he asked his secretary to cancel a meeting in the early evening to come home earlier than you, preparing you a nice, lovely dinner to thank you for your gesture.
Yunho
Architect student!Yunho
In the small apartment that you shared with your lovely Yunho, you were about to prepare dinner, but you realised that there was nothing in the fridge.
Quickly turning off the stove, you put on your shoes and jacket and made your way out the door, a quick trip to the convenience store.
You arrived in front of the store as the sun was setting, the last rays of sunshine hitting the windows, sending beautiful scenery in front of you.
You knew that Yunho was working hard, as much as you did, but you wanted to surprise him a bit, so you decided to buy the ingredients to cook his favourite food.
Packs of meat, vegetables and rice in your bag, you were off to go home.
Riding the bus, you checked that you had everything and stepped off at your stop.
Yunho hadn’t moved from his spot while you were absent. He was still focused on his work, an HB pencil in one hand and a ruler in the other.
You placed everything down on the counter and started working on your duty.
Boiling water, grilling the meat and stirring the vegetables in a pot. You were so in your thoughts that you didn’t even register your boyfriend walking in the kitchen, sneaking his arms around your waist while prepping your shoulder with kisses.
“What’s cooking, good looking,” you snorted at the pun, and he chuckled, kissing your cheek as you cooked the meat while stirring the veggies.
“Open up, handsome,” you say as you bring a piece of meat to his mouth with the spatula. He opened his mouth, and you dropped the piece of meat on his extended tongue, munching on it after kissing you.
“Maybe two more minutes? But otherwise, it’s perfect, I liked the way you seasoned it, baby,” he stated, and you smile, stirring the food for a couple more minutes.
While eating, Yunho looked exhausted but happy. He did a little happy dance when you placed the plate in front of him, earning a kiss on the cheek for taking care of everything.
“I know we can get pretty busy with college and work,” he started before taking a sip of water, the food feeling extremely hot in his mouth, “but I’m glad we established a pattern of regularly eating together,” he admitted, smiling as he reached across the table for your hand.
“It feels good to be just the two of us, it’s sometimes tiring to have someone around constantly,” he nodded at your words, his thumb softly rubbing your knuckles.
“You’re right, our friends can get pretty hectic,” he chuckled and so did you, the subject of the conversation coming back on studies.
“So, how’s your project doing?” you demanded, and he just shrugged.
“It’s sometimes hard to get inspiration, but once I get it, everything goes smoothly,” you nodded and kept listening as your partner explained his work, a passionate sparkle in his eyes, outshining the ceiling light hanging above your heads.
“So yeah, we’ll see how it goes. Normally, if I didn’t mess up too much, my professor should be happy about the plans.”
“Why wouldn’t he be happy?” you questioned as you took the last piece of food that you had on your plate before crossing your cutlery.
“I mean… There are elements of my imagination in my work,” he said, rubbing the back of his neck, his warm hand leaving yours, “but I took into account every piece of advice that you gave me since the beginning of my work, and honestly, I think I wouldn’t have gotten this far without them.”
“Oh shut it,” you snorted at your boyfriend, but immediately calmed down as you noticed the same serious expression on his face, “are-are you serious?”
“Dead serious,” he smirked, and you both stood up, going back to the kitchen to fill up the dishwasher.
“But you’re the one majoring in architecture, not me,”
“I know,” he retorted as he wiped the counter, “but it sometimes helps to have an outside point of view. Someone who doesn’t constantly have their nose in the theory and lecture notes is very helpful for creativity. You’re my muse Y/N, you have such amazing ideas that everything seems brighter and easier when you help.”
You chuckled at your boyfriend’s praise and went for a hug, squeezing him tight around you.
“I’m so happy that we’re together,” you said as you laid your head against his chest, his hand going into your hair.
“You don’t know how much I love you Y/N,” he said as he kissed the crown of your head.
“I think I have an idea,” you said as you looked up at him.
“No, you don’t, I love you more than you can ever see or imagine,” he mumbled as he pressed his lips on yours in a sweet kiss. He was giving you all the love and affection he had for you in this kiss, and you felt complete.
Yeosang
Idol!Yeosang
Waking up to the sound of your alarm, you were quick to turn it off to not wake up your boyfriend sleeping next to you.
Forcing yourself to start your day this early is such a pain in the ass, but your income makes it motivating and worth it. Plus, you wanted to save time for tonight because you knew how lazy you could get when it came to cooking.
So, at 6 am, you put on an apron over your pyjamas and started cooking the meal for tonight - Yeosang’s favourite - while preparing your breakfast at the same time.
Being good at multitasking has its perks after all.
Around an hour and a half later, you were done with cooking and washing the dishes, now getting ready to go to work.
The sun was rising, making the task of getting out of your comfortable apartment a little less painful.
Yeosang didn’t move an inch when you closed the main door, still dead asleep in your shared bed.
It was his first day off after going a few months without truly resting, and you could tell that his body needed it. When he came home last night, he was slow and could barely keep his eyes open during the show you chose to watch, he was tempted to use your shoulder as a pillow.
But it was one of the rare times that he could spend alone with you so he wouldn’t let that pass.
It was finally midday when you looked at your phone, still no news of Yeosang.
Knowing how tired he was, you didn’t worry about it, he was probably still asleep.
And you were right, his body went into recovery mode.
He woke up around two in the afternoon, shaken awake as a truck honked just under your windows.
Yeosang was still tired even though he slept for over twelve hours, so he decided to stay in bed for a bit longer.
He finally got out of bed around three as the rest of the group asked to play a bit of Among Us with them.
He stayed behind the computer for the rest of the afternoon, deciding to go for a run as the day was coming to an end, only eating a banana while he was getting ready.
It smelt like you had cooked something this morning, so he wanted to wait a bit until you came home to eat with you.
You were about to close the door behind you when you heard a familiar low voice.
“Y/N, wait!” Yeosang was in his sports equipment, slightly out of breath as you let him in.
“Hi,” you said with a smile as you swiftly pecked his lips. You both took off your shoes, hurrying your boyfriend to take a shower as you entered the kitchen.
You could finally settle down to eat when he appeared from his shower, making your way towards you before prepping your neck with kisses, asking about your day.
“Woah, you cooked my favourite dish?” he asked as you put a plate in the microwave.
“Yes! I figured out that you’d appreciate eating something special on your free day,” you replied, and Yeosang hugged you tightly from behind, giving you a big smooch on your cheek.
“Thank you, love,” he mumbled against your skin as a ‘ding’ drowned his voice out.
You both sat down on the couch, your plate in hand and enjoyed the food and each other’s company for the rest of the evening.
San
Hacker!San
“Sannie?” you asked as you walked into his dimmed bedroom, his computer screens being the only sources of light in the room, alongside with LEDs ornating the walls.
Headphones screwed on his ears, he rapidly typed on his computer, lines of coding appearing on the screen. San couldn’t hear you, he was a tad bit too focused on his task to pay attention to his surroundings.
As a way to make yourself noticeable, you turned on his bedside lamp, startling him as he took off his blue light glasses, Grime blasting from his headphones as he let them fall around his neck.
“Sweetie, do you need anything?” he said as he spun his chair around, observing you.
You were balancing a plate, a glass filled with coke, a napkin and some cutlery on a trail, carefully making your way towards your boyfriend as you tried not to spill anything on his fancy setup.
“Dinner’s served,” you sweetly chanted as you finally laid the trail in front of him, the smell of fresh, homemade food invading his nostrils.
“Thank you, baby, you’re amazing,” he said as he encircled an arm around your waist, making you fall on his lap. You smiled as he laid a soft kiss on your upper arm, grabbing the fork with his other hand before bringing the food to his mouth. He gratefully hummed and nodded as he munched on it, shooting you a wink as he looked up at you.
“It’s delicious baby girl,” he mumbled after swallowing, directly taking another bite. He lightly frowned as he didn’t see a plate for you. “You already ate?”
“Yeah, I called you a couple of times from the kitchen, but you seemed busy so I didn’t want to bother you,” you said as you shyly tightened your ponytail, a disappointed look growing on his face.
“Y/N, babe,” he started, tightening his grip around your figure as he put the fork down, “you should’ve yelled for me to come to eat with you... You’re my girlfriend, coding and hacking come after you, okay? I love you more than anything, I can and I will put everything aside to spend time with you. So next time, I’ll come downstairs to eat with you, alright? I don’t want to know that you’re eating alone in our home.”
“Yes Sannie, but-”
“Shht, there are no buts,” he said as he kissed you on the lips, keeping on eating the food you cooked for him with you still on his lap after he made sure that this wouldn’t happen again. You watched your boyfriend filling his stomach and talked with him about everything, just catching up on the last few days that you spent separated from each other.
“I love you darling, thank you for the amazing food,” San said as he cupped your face, placing a big, soft kiss on your cheek.
You giggled and slightly moved his beanie, being able to play with the hair at the back of his head.
“I love you too San, I do,” you whispered as you straddled him and rested your head on his collarbone, his hand rubbing your back up and down your spine.
“Wanna cuddle?” he suggested, and you were about to say no since he looked busy, but you caught yourself just on time, his light scolding coming back in your mind.
“Yes, please,” you mumbled, and he approved, removing his headset from his neck and shook the beanie off his head, replacing his hair in a somewhat correct way.
“Alright,” he softly mumbled while wrapping his arms around you, carefully standing up as he laid kisses on your exposed skin. It didn’t matter where it was, every spot that he saw some skin, he had to kiss it.
And that’s how you spent the rest of the night cuddled in San’s arms, his cold hand drawing circled on your stomach, sending shivers in your body as he soothingly rubbed the skin.
Mingi
Dancer!Mingi
You huffed as you nonchalantly threw your phone on the table, your boyfriend being unreachable as you called him for the nth time tonight.
You knew that he was training and improving his dancing skills, but you wished that he could take small breaks here and there.
Not to text you back, you could wait, but for his sanity and health.
There’s a reason between working hard and overworking yourself.
And Mingi seemed to struggle to distinguish the difference between the two notions.
You never said that it was easy, you were struggling as well, but sometimes you wished that he’d understand it better than you do.
The clock neared midnight, and he still wasn’t home. You started getting slightly irritated as he was probably overworking himself and not eating.
But you couldn’t blame it for that, you did the same when you had big exams or assignments coming up, you tended to ditch breaks and skip meals.
So, since you were caring about your boyfriend’s well being, you stood up and went to the fridge, where a container filled with the potion you had prepared for your boyfriend was.
Putting on a warm sweater and some pants before making your way out, locking the door behind you.
You took a longer road to go to his practice studio, but you found with relief that the convenience store was still open, sighing in relief as you read that it wasn’t going to close anytime soon.
You took drinks for the two of you and some extras as you thought that some of the boys could be still practising, paid and headed to the practice room.
When you arrived, you waved at San, who looked exhausted and sweaty, surprised to see you out at this hour.
“You’re here for your lovely Mingi?” he teased as he declined to give you a side hug due to his current state.
“Yes, I was getting worried since he wasn’t coming home,” you declared, and San smiled, finding adorable that you were looking after your boyfriend.
“You can go, he’s still in the practice room, he’s the only one left.” you thanked him and gave him one of the spare drinks that you bought since you didn’t know who would still be there with your boyfriend. His dimples appeared when he thanked you, and you wished him a good - yet short - night of rest before entering the building.
When you arrived in front of the practice room door, you noticed your boyfriend dancing through the window, and you could see that his movements were slower and less energised than usual.
You slowly opened the door, your eardrums being attacked by loud music, the bass resonating in your stomach as you made yourself seen.
When Mingi saw you, a sort of relieved yet guilty look appeared on his face as he went to the stereo to lower the music.
“Hey,” he said in a whisper, eyes carrying a truck of guilt in them.
“Hi babe,” you said as you handed him the plastic bag, “I knew it. I knew you wouldn’t have eaten, so I went out and bought this for you,” you said as you sat down together, in the middle of the room.
Mingi was more tired than he wanted to show. You had identified a pattern within him, his looks on his face and his figure betraying him. When he was as hunched over as he currently was, you knew that his back was hurting and that he was overworking himself.
However, you didn’t say anything, your behaviour and gaze unintentionally telling him what your opinion was. The silence was the best option. You were both exhausted, and the last thing you wanted to do was to start a fight this late in the evening.
“Thank you for taking care of me, Y/N,” he said before clenching his jaw to stifle a yawn, but you caught it.
“You’re welcome honey, but you know my opinion on your behaviour,” you added, and he nodded, eating his mouthful.
“I know, I know,” he sighed and kept on eating while you opened the two soda cans laying in front of you. Mingi took a few gulps of it, and you got another one from the plastic bag, your boyfriend looking at you with wide eyes.
“But, let’s not talk about this now, the last thing I wanna do is get in an argument with you,” you said, and he listened, thanking you as you handed him the can. “I already barely see you during the week, so I don’t want to get into a fight when I have an opportunity to see you,” you sighed but smiled anyway, Mingi’s guilt increasing in his heart.
“I’m sorry-”
“Shht,” you said to your boyfriend as you gently rubbed his back up and down, applying some pressure on spots that you knew were aching. “Are you coming home soon or do you plan on sleeping in the guest room in the building?” you asked as you watch your boyfriend take another bite of the food you had prepared for the two of you.
“Let me finish this amazing food, and we’re going home,” he answered, and you nodded, giving him a quick kiss on the cheek. “It’s very tasty by the way,” you knew that he was trying to change the subject and you appreciated the effort, trying to forget his neglect of self-care and simply smiled at him.
When he finished his meal, you stood up and put everything in the trash, noticing in the mirror that Mingi struggled to get up, a grimace abruptly replacing the smile he was giving you moments ago. As soon as you turned to face him, he tried his best to erase the pain off his face. You didn’t raise it, but you made a mental note to yourself to try and reason him later. And, if it wasn’t working, you’d call Hongjoong for help. Maybe he’ll listen to him.
The walk home was silent, quite awkward. Your boyfriend tried his best to be as natural as possible, but his back pains were making him hiss and silently groan in pain at almost every step he took.
“Okay, maybe I did a bit too much tonight,” he said as his voice hesitated, alerting you. He looked broken, his bottom lip between his teeth as he kept on walking to your place, feeling a wave of relief as your apartment building came into sight.
You held his hand and grabbed his forearm with your other free hand, helping him to walk until you finally arrived in front of the elevator.
As soon as you entered your home, you sped to the bathroom and ran a warm bath, sprinkling some relaxing salt in it before helping Mingi to take off his shirt.
Once he was done, you helped him to get out of the tub and took care of him. He stared at you in awe as you dried his hair with the blow dryer and assisted him in putting on his pyjamas before walking him to bed.
Quickly doing your nighttime routine, you walked to your bed with heating patches as your boyfriend was already lying on his stomach, the most relieving position for him to sleep into. You slightly pressed some areas in his back, and you applied some patches where he grunted more loudly.
“Alright, now rest, baby,” you kissed his cheek, and he extended his hand to grab yours.
“Thank you for everything, baby,” he said as you shook your head with a faint smile, feeling the tiredness getting the best of you.
"It's okay, Mingi," you whispered as he lifted your linked hands to his mouth, kissing the back of your hand, a loving gesture that you particularly appreciated.
“Sleep well, baby, and think about what we’ve talked about at the studio, okay?” you mumbled, giving him one last kiss before falling asleep, still holding his hand.
“I love you,” Mingi mumbled before falling asleep, as well.
Wooyoung
College AU
Entering the library, you tried your best to hide the plastic bag from the librarian, hoping that she wouldn’t notice the smell of food following you like your shadow.
You weren’t allowed to bring food inside the library, school authorities were scared that you’d stain the books or not clean the tables, which was the case when you went to work in the library.
You had always found this disrespectful that people would leave their trash on the tables without cleaning, it exasperated you.
Why was it so complicated to put your trash in a bin?
But since you thought that you were quite a clean, hygienic student, you allowed yourself to sneak in food for you and your friends.
When you arrived near your friends, Mingi was the first one to spot you, hungry for the content of the plastic bags you were carrying.
Your friends discreetly clapped their hands as you arrived as a hero at the table. You shushed them when they got a bit too excited over the food, reminding them that you weren’t supposed to eat there.
Since you were the one that went and bought the food, you were the one distributing the small containers the Chinese takeout the employees had put the food in.
Wooyoung was the only one who was kind of sulky because he wasn’t fond of the place you bought the food from since that event. That event where one of the cooks had put in a sauce containing bell pepper, and he hated them.
He always associated this restaurant with this event, and now he doesn’t set foot at this establishment anymore.
But before he could even say anything, you took the container in front of him and gave him a blue bento box, making him frown yet didn’t say anything.
“Enjoy, everyone!” you whispered as you all started to eat.
You slightly observed your friend’s reaction next to you as he opened the container.
Wooyoung discovered that his food had nothing to do with Chinese takeout. It was homemade food, cooked by you and his eyes opened wide.
You giggled as he took his fork and started eating hastily, munching on the food with closed eyes and a content look on his face.
“Is it good?” you questioned, and Wooyoung eagerly nodded, taking another bite as he didn’t even swallow his first one.
“It’s perfect,” he answered, rice almost falling from his mouth as it was full. Hongjoong, who was sitting next to you, slightly elbowed you in the ribs, a smug look on his face.
Wooyoung wasn’t expecting the fact that you would make a detour to your apartment to take and heat homemade food just for him.
He was touched, but now he was too focused on devouring his plate to care about anything surrounding him.
A few moments later, as he had finally emptied the lunch box, he rested back a bit, a hand on his stomach.
“Wow, I’m full,” he said as a hiccup took over him, immediately slapping his mouth as the sound came out of his organism.
“Did you see at the pace you ate? Y/N isn’t even done yet,” you puffed as Seonghwa took you as an example, known among your friend group that you were the quickest to shove your food down your throat.
“It was worth it, though,” Wooyoung said, and you shook your head, the indirect compliment sending warmth to your cheeks.
“And what do you say to Y/N?” Hongjoong said before taking a sip of coke as if he was a mother scolding her child.
“Thank youuuuu,” he said as his voice trailed on the last word, resting his head against your forearm, only to have you put your fork down and ruffle his hair, a way you use to say “you’re welcome” when your mouth was full.
Once you were all done with eating, you placed everything back in the plastic bags and started working again, Wooyoung’s head never leaving the spot on your upper arm.
You didn’t mind him, you were sometimes adjusting his head as your muscles started getting sore, but nothing much.
A while later, as you wanted to stretch your arms above your head, you woke Wooyoung up, his head almost slamming on the table as you moved your arm.
“Mmh?” he said as he woke up, wiping the fatigue away from his eyes, nodding as you asked him if he was alright. “Food coma is kicking hard right now,” he added, and you smiled, relieved that he felt a bit better after his nap.
“It’s okay, but you need to go to bed now, it’s getting late,” you said as you packed your stuff in your backpack, putting your coat back on.
“You’re going home already?”
“Yes, it’s almost midnight, and I have a presentation tomorrow at eight,” you explained as a pained smile drew on his face, and you agreed with him by nodding.
“I’m out now, good night guys!” you said to your friends as you stood up, waving goodbye as some of them looked like they would leave this place near dawn.
You bid farewell to the librarian as well and braved the freezing night, hurrying home as not to catch a cold.
And run into someone suspicious and creepy but that’s another thing.
“Y/N!” someone said behind you as you paused in your steps, recognising your friend’s voice.
“Woo? Aren’t you staying with them?"
“No, I’m tired, I honestly don't know how I'm still awake,” he said, and you started walking again with him by your side.
“And…” he stopped in his tracks, and you frowned but imitated him. “I wanted to thank you for being considerate and caring towards us, but particularly towards me,” he said, and you chuckled, waving it off.
“Of course, you are all my friends after all,” you said with a smile as you looked at your friend, who had an indecipherable look on his face.
“That’s... that’s the problem, Y/N,” you looked at him confused and blinked, not knowing where he was coming from.
“What do-”
“Y/N, I like you,” he blurted out, your eyes widening in surprise, not expecting him to confess right now, in the middle of the night in the freezing cold when you could both fall asleep standing up. “More than friends,” he added, and you nodded while looking away, feeling the red spreading on your cheeks. Your friend took a step closer and cupped your face with his cold hand to make you look at him.
“What about you? I've been dying to know, even if you don't feel the same,” he said in a breath, and you inhaled sharply, confused about the sudden question.
“I- I think I do too b-”
“That’s all I needed to hear,” he said, and you suck in a breath, anticipating his next move.
“Can I kiss you?” Wooyoung asked, face dangerously close to yours, his eyes going back and forth between your eyes and your lips.
“Of course.”
Jongho
College AU, Student abroad AU
“Mom?” you asked as you came into the living room, your iPad with a Chrome tab opened in hand.
“Yes honey?” she answered, looking up from the TV, your dad slightly huffing as he couldn’t hear the news.
“You know Jongho, right?” she nodded at her words, initiating you to keep going, “I’ve just gotten off the phone with him, and he seems very sad and down,” you explained as you sat down next to her.
Your dad’s attention immediately shifted to you and your mother as a boy was brought up in the conversation.
“Who-”
“Honey, no, it’s not her boyfriend,” your mother said, and your dad blinked, surprised by her reaction and shrugged, his attention going back on the telly. “And? Do you want to do something to cheer him up?”
“Well, I concluded that he’s a bit homesick, so I wanted to prepare a Korean dish for him. Wanna help?” Your mother agreed and stood up from her seat, fixing her glasses on the bridge of her nose.
“Sure!” she says as she washed her hand. “So, kimchi fried rice. What do we need?”
A few hours later, here you were, in the kitchen with your mom, right back from a trip to the convenience store to get the ingredients. You read a bunch of recipes and even watched a tutorial, trying your best to make it as similar as possible to the way they made it in South Korea.
You were struggling a bit at first, but everything turned out alright in the end, happily placing the mixture in a safe spot to let it rest for a couple of days. You were proud and satisfied with what you’ve created, truly hoping that it would heal his visible homesickness.
A few days later, you placed a container filled with your preparation in a paper bag along with your lunch and went out the door after saying goodbye to your parents, who were still eating breakfast. For once, you were happy to go to college, because you were dying to see Jongho and his potentially positive reaction.
The lectures go faster when you pay attention to the teachers, amazing. In no time, here you were in the cafeteria, eyes scanning the crowd to see your friend. Once you caught sight of your “target”, you made your way over and sat across from him, a gentle yet faint smile decorating his face when he saw you.
“Hi Y/N,” he said after swallowing a piece of his industrial sandwich. He looked heavyhearted and tired as if he had spent the entire night on his phone speaking with his family on the other side of the world.
“Are you okay?” you sweetly asked, and he weakly nodded, and you kept staring at him. “You sure?” you raised your eyebrow with a concerned look, and he just shrugged.
“My feelings didn’t really subside,” he stated as he referred to the conversation he's had over the phone with you the other night. You reached across the table and softly rubbed his forearm, the gesture making him weakly smile.
“I’m sorry, I don’t know how I can help,” you say, and he shook your head.
“I appreciate your kindness Y/N, but I don’t think you can do anything about this…” his voice faded as he thickly swallowed, the sight of your friend being so close to crying made you pout.
“Okay,” you said as you withdrew your hand, Jongho internally whining at the lack of warmth. You searched in your bag and pulled out two steaming lunch boxes, one for you.
And one for him.
“What is this?” he asked as he turned the box between his hands.
“It’s a surprise! Open it,” you smiled as you innocently opened yours, stabbing your hot food with your fork.
Taking the lid off, his eyes widened, going back and forth between the kimchi and you, sitting across from him with a soft smile on your face.
“You seemed so down last time we called,” you said as you ate a spoonful of your lunch, “so I made you a dish with my mom that I remembered you liking. I know it won’t bring your family to you, but it’s still something I guess,” you explained as Jongho pursed his lips, nodding at your explanations, never looking at you in the eyes.
It took you a few seconds to register what was happening, and you drop your fork in your box.
He was crying.
You stood up and sat down next to him, circling your arm around his shoulders.
“Oh Jongho,” you said in a concerned tone, “I didn’t mean to make you cry, I just wanted to make you happy. I know how hard it is when you miss your home and family, I just wanted to give you a bit of family love and warmth that you can’t have right now.”
“Thank you so much Y/N, really,” he said as he sniffled, wiping his tears with the back of his hand. He chuckled as he realised how emotional he's just gotten over food, and he turned to the side to give you a proper hug.
“Thank you,” he whispered in your ear and squeezed you tight against him, feeling his rapid heart beating against your chest.
“It’s okay, Jongho. Taste it first, I wanna know if we can make you some more further in the school year,” you gently rubbed his upper back and he smiled, grabbing your fork from your lunch box.
“It’s delicious,” he said as he munched on the kimchi fried rice, reaching for your hand and rubbing your knuckles.
He looked at you with such adoration in his eyes that you got shy and flustered, your hands going clammy as he wholeheartedly approved your work, taking another bite of the food.
“You’re welcome,” you said in a soft voice, and you smiled at each other, enjoying each other’s company for the rest of the lunch break.
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A/N: I like it but not a lot... I don’t like it. Anyway I hope you enjoyed it!!
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Bored | Roman Sionis x Male!Reader | Smut
"hello I have a request as usual (nsf/w as warned lol) Prompt 24 "I am working here!" (sorry don't know the exact line.) Roman Sionis x male!reader. Reader is needy as usual for reasons (idk, woke up after a particular dream, is just horny because he is, wants Roman, take your pick) but Roman is working in the living room or in the club or something and so he really can't just abandon that for reader because it's ~important work~. Reader keeps badgering him and whining for him so eventually roman snaps (hence that line) and yeah, the whole cock warming etc ensues, you know what I mean" @iscariot-rising
summary; You’re bored and horny and want attention from Roman, who is working. Smut ensues. This is really just PWP.
notes; KINKS: Daddy!Kink; Degradation (Reader is being called a ‘whore’ and a ‘slut’); Dom/Sub; Cockwarming; Facefucking; Fingersucking; Bratting (i guess); Subspace. Male!Reader; PWP; Lemon; Smut; Boredom; Horniness; Roman is beautiful.

You were bored out of your mind. Not having much, or anything really, to do you didn't know what to make of yourself for the day; and usually you would do something with Roman, whatever he felt like doing, but he was working. He sat at the dining table in front of his laptop and typing away on some things. You didn't know what he was doing and which of his businesses it concerned, but you really wanted him to stop and pay attention to you instead.
Lying on the chaise longue that was closest to the dining table, you looked at him.
You've been looking at him for a while; and you knew that he was trying to ignore the feeling of your eyes on him. Your gaze roamed over his body, picking out details about him; like how his hair wasn't done as nicely as usual, a few strands loose and hanging over his forehead, and how he didn't use hair gel to put it into place, so it looked fluffy and soft. He also didn't bother to put on one of his many suits, instead he sat there in his purple silk robe, a grey soft cotton shirt that still cost more than your smartphone, and his pyjama pants with his face printed on them, such as his slippers with his initials on them. It was a favourite of yours. He looked delectable in everything he wore, but fuck, you really liked it when he just looked comfortable and less well put together. It turned you on. Which, fair enough, wasn't hard for him to achieve; you were horny for him basically all day, every day as it was.
When you were bored, you usually were also extra horny. It was just how it worked for you. Usually, you would have resorted to getting yourself off, but since you've been with Roman that was barely needed anymore and frankly, it left you feeling unsatisfied.
Instead you thought that Roman should take a break from working anyway; he's been at it for at least two hours straight, so that would be fair.
So you whined, pathetically and unmistakebly wanton, and elongating each syllable, "Daddy."
Roman ignored you, not even glancing at you or stopping to type. Nothing.
Pouting, you did it again.
Still no reaction.
Fine then.
"Daddy, I'm bored! Bored and horny. Daddy, please." You were laying it on thick, but desperate times called for desperate measures.
That got a bit of a reaction out of him; he stopped typing for a moment, closed his eyes and took a deep, calming breath. Then he continued to ignore you. Pity.
Standing up, you sauntered over to him, swaying your hips a little. He paid you no mind. When you reached him, you draped your arms over his shoulders and leaned your forehead against the back of his head. Fuck, his hair really was as soft as it looked. Nuzzling it, you withdrew your arms so far, that your hands sat on his shoulders. You squeezed them, kneading the tense muscles there.
"Daddy, please pay attention to me. Please, I need you!" You whined again, pressing kisses into his hair.
"I'm trying to fucking work here! So, could you stop fucking annoying me? Fuck!" He growled.
For a short moment, you faltered, unsure if he really wanted you to stop entirely, or if perhaps he was just playing it up. It was always hard to tell with him.
When he didn't try to pry out of your hands on him, though, you were fairly sure that he was alright with it after all and just playing along.
"But Daddy, I really need you! You wouldn't want me to go and just get myself off, would you?"
Roman sighed, sounding annoyed with you, and leaned back against you. Promptly, he grabbed one of your hands and tugged you forward. You lost your balance and came around the chair he was sitting on, when you felt a little more steady again. Standing next to him, he looked up at you, your hand still tightly grasped in his own.
"You wanna play with Daddy, even though he is so very busy, huh, baby boy?" He rasped, a playfully dangerous edge to his voice and eyes.
You swallowed thickly, already so fucking aroused by him; you could only nod dumbly.
"Use your words, sweet boy. I've taught you better than this, haven't I?"
"Y-yes, Daddy. Please, I need you, I can't wait till you're done."
"Well then, baby, I don't want to keep you waiting any longer, now do I?" You shook your head. "No, of course I don't. Why don't you go and get yourself a pillow from the chaise longue, hm?"
He let go of your wrist after you whimpered a 'yes, Daddy' once more, and then you went and got one of the many pillows. You chose your favourite, the really fluffy one with the orange fur on top.
Coming back to him, you stood just a few inches away from him, the pillow close to your chest, enveloped by your arms. "What now, Daddy?"
"Now, I'd like you to get in between my legs and on your knees, like a good little boy, 'kay?" As he said that, he spread his legs wide enough for you to fit in between.
Without hesitation, you got under the table, put the pillow on the floor and kneeled on it. Then you looked up at him, smiling and looking eager as ever.
"Good boy," he cooed and you bit your lower lip in response, shivering slightly.
He lifted his hips slightly, as he pulled down his pants. Of course he wasn't wearing any underwear, so he pulled them down just far enough that he could pull out his half-hard cock comfortably. Your mouth watered at the sight. You'd never get over how fucking perfect it was; to you anyway.
"Keep it warm then, will you? No sucking, no bobbing your head - just keep it in your mouth and hold still. 'Kay?"
"Yes, Daddy! Anything for you," you moaned, grinning stupidly up at him.
"Dumb little slut," he murmured, smirking down at you. "C'mon then, Daddy won't ask again," he rasped and gripped the back of your head tightly, pulling you forward and into his crotch.
You let loose another lewd moan and mouthed at his cock a little, licking over it and pressing open mouthed, panting kisses on it. Roman pulled on your hair to get you back on track, as you got so distracted by having his dick in your face. You stopped mouthing at him and instead put him in your mouth just far enough to not breach your throat, so you could still breathe shallowly. Then you leaned your head against his thigh, unseeingly looking up at him through your lashes. He loosened his grip on your hair and stroked it gently.
"That's my good boy, hm?" You made an excited, affirmative sound in the back of your throat. "Yes, you are. Now, promise to keep still and let me finish my work. When I'm done, I'll play with you properly, 'kay?"
You gave him a thumbs up and relaxed into having his softening cock in your mouth.
Drool formed in the corners of your mouth and your bottom lip, running down your chin. You weren't allowed to suckle or swallow, so you didn't, and let it all flow instead. Usually, you didn't like it, and neither did Roman; but in moments like that your mind was blissfully empty and Sionis liked to indulge you. So, neither of you could really give a fuck about the drool making a mess of your shirt, his pants, and the pillow below you.
You couldn't possibly tell how long it's been, but your joints and your neck were rather stiff, when Roman pulled on your hair again to make you pay attention and get off his cock. Still a little behind on everything happening, you slowly rose your head from his thigh and let his cock slip from your mouth; a trail of spit and a little precome connecting your lips to his length.
"What a good boy you are, hm? Kept still the entire two hours I've had you on your knees here. Aw, baby, let's go then, have a bit of real fun. What does that sound like to you, sweet boy?" Roman cooed stroking your hair gently and as if you were a dog, rather than a person.
"Love it, please, Daddy, want you," you slurred, smiling up at him.
Gently, he held your jaw away from himself as he pushed out the chair and stood up, smirking down at you.
"I'm going to fuck your face, 'kay, baby?"
You could only nod frantically, despite the grip on your jaw.
He gripped his cock with his own hand and moved it up and down, swirling over the head and making himself groan, as he got hard. When he was fully erect, he buried both of his hands in your hair and gripped onto your head tightly, but not painfully so. You opened your mouth wide for him, and then he was already guiding his hard cock into your waiting, spit-slick mouth. Both of you moaned at that.
Then he started moving, first thrusting in shallowly, yet with force behind it. When he felt like you got used to it enough, he moved his hips quicker and with more intent, shoving his cock down your throat repeatedly, until he kept it there, buried down your tight, convulsing throat. Tears started to roll down your cheeks then, your face red, your eyes unseeing.
He pulled out when you could barely keep your eyes open anymore. Roman gave you a few seconds to breathe and then he was back inside and down your throat once more. That process was repeated a few times, until eventually, he kept his cockhead in your mouth and jacked himself off, coming in your mouth with loud groans.
You moaned lewdly, and as if it was the best thing in the world, which to you, in this moment - it was.
When he was done, he tucked himself back into his pants and looked down at you. You had a stupid, happy smile on your face, and showed off your empty mouth, after having swallowed down his load.
You were hard and aching in your pants, and you wanted to come so desperately, but you couldn't make yourself signalise it in any way, too fucked out already.
"Aw, baby, look at you. Absolutely fucking ruined. You're such a filthy fucking whore for Daddy, aren't you?" His voice was raw and husky now, it made you whine wantonly.
"Yes, Daddy!" It was barely intelligible at all.
"Get yourself off for me, will you? Right here, right now. But don't make a mess of the floor, 'kay?" Roman commanded you.
Obediently as ever, you nodded and got your own hard cock out of your sweat pants. To wet your hand and make the slide of it a little easier, you put your fingers in your mouth and drooled all over your hand for a minute, still looking up at Roman with such desperation and adoration in your eyes.
When you deemed your hand wet enough, you wrapped it around your cock and started moving it up and down roughly in a quick pace. Roman kept cooing and rasping filthy shit to you and you came impossibly quick, making an even bigger mess of your shirt and sweat pants than before already. You moaned loudly all the way through it, but focused on not getting anything on the floor. Satisfied, you noted that your come only landed on your clothes, and your hand, and nothing else.
Afterwards, you were panting, red-faced and looking fucked out in the best possible way.
"Thank you, Daddy!" You slurred.
"You're welcome, baby," Roman replied and helped you to stand up and into the nearest bathroom.
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Angst 8 with Scott 😊
request prompt: “why am i always bottom of your priority list?”
word count: 871
warnings: none
category: angst
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Football as a full time career was bound to be exhausting. You knew that. It wasn’t as glamorous as the media made it out to be. Scott was always up training during the early hours of the morning and his afternoons were spent working on tac tics with the team. It was part of the package with Scott and you knew that when you committed to being in a relationship with him but it didn’t make it any easier.
When Scott eventually came home from training most evenings, you would have dinner prepared and ready to serve for him. He was appreciative of it and always thanked you before hitting the shower and falling asleep whilst you finished up watching your favourite TV show. It helped you unwind when you didn’t get the opportunity to vent to your boyfriend about what it was that had been stressing you out lately.
Recently, you had been bombarded with not only university work but also extra shifts that your boss needed you to take because of how severely understaffed they were. As a loyal servant to the company, you were always first on his list of people to ask and you had always felt that you couldn’t say no.
As a result, you were slowly falling further and further behind with your workload for university and the stress of the situation was eating you up.
Usually, you would talk to Scott about it and he would help you navigate the situation, often telling you to take holidays from work since he could handle the bills and that would allow you enough time to get on top of the readings and essays that you would need to submit as part of your degree.
But not this time.
It seemed to be that Scott had completely forgotten about the fact that you had a life and with it came difficulties but he was in his own world at the moment.
This time, as Scott came home from training, you greeted him the same way that you did every other day. You kissed his cheek as he entered the front door, him doing the same to you and you headed through to the kitchen where his food was waiting for him, steaming on the plate. Except this time, he was ranting to you about being left out of the match day squad.
“I don’t get it. I was the captain at the weekend and this week, I’m sitting on the bench?!” He exclaimed, seeming to be baffled by Ole’s choice of team. You understood his frustrations. He wanted nothing more than to impress and help out his team. Not to mention the fact that he had to continue to impress so that he would be included in Steve Clarke’s squad for the Euro’s. He couldn’t assume that he would be playing for Scotland, he had to earn the tartan jersey.
“Bob has asked me-” You started, thinking that you would finally get the chance to explain the difficulties in your life and have him give you some advice but you didn’t get to finish before Scott interrupted you.
“Sorry, I’m going to take a shower. We can continue this after, yeah?” He asked expectantly and that was the moment when you lost it. You couldn’t believe how entitled he had just been. It was ignorant and it filled you with rage.
“Why am I always bottom of your priority list?” You whispered and the words caught the blonde footballer by surprise. He had no idea where you were coming from. As far as he was concerned, you were both understanding of where each other stood in your lives and it was the same every time: the top.
“What do you mean?” He turned to face you, his trip to the shower seeming far less important now. He wanted to hear what you had to say. He needed to know what you had to say.
“It’s the same routine every night, Scott. You come in from training and I cook for you. You vent, go to shower and then crash. You haven’t even noticed that I’ve been up until three most mornings to try and finish my university work load before heading off for my shifts at six AM,” You started and Scott stood frozen in shock for you were right. He had been so self-absorbed recently and he hadn’t noticed just how much you were struggling. He felt like utter shit because of it.
“It’s almost like I don’t matter anymore.” You sighed as you looked down at the ground and that was the part that broke Scott completely. He had abandoned you in a time when you needed him and for that, he would never forgive himself.
“I’m so sorry, Y/N. You are always top of of my priorities. I really have no excuse but I promise that I’ll do better from now on, I promise.” He moved forward across the kitchen and pulled you into his chest and you let him, completely ignoring the fact that he had yet to have his shower.
“I love you.” He whispered as he pressed a kiss to the top of your head and from that moment on, he vowed to always let you know that you are the most important thing in his life.
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my longest imagine yet i think! thanks for requesting this one, anon! i had lots of fun with this one and i really hope that i did it justice. this is the last imagine to be published tonight. i have a lot of university work to do tomorrow so i’m not sure if i’ll get anything out tomorrow night but we’ll see! lots of love, e x
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Dangerous Woman
Summary: Plot? What plot? While Steve may be in control of nearly every aspect of his life, the bedroom is not one of them.
Warnings: Light BDSM (bondage), sub!Steve, dom!Reader, light orgasm denial (not really but kinda).
Word Count: 2.3k
AN: So @darkficsyouneveraskedfor made an amazing list of dark and dirty prompts and I just had to steal one. Also this literally has not plot, it is all just smut so enjoy!
My Masterlist
Dangerous Woman.
What an apt name for your favourite shade of lipstick. The ruby red stuck out against the pearly white shine of your teeth as you smiled daringly into the mirror. The black corset hugged your body as you pushed your breasts up further, drawing even more attention to them. You wanted him to suffer like he had made you suffer, and this was exactly the way to do it.
You bent down, hands skimming across the silken texture of your stockings to reach your prized possession, your favourite gift he had given you. A simple pair of black high heels, whose bottoms matched your lipstick perfectly.
Gazing once more into the mirror and blowing yourself a kiss, your hand curled around the door handle, pushing it out and heading back into the bedroom where Steve lay, his hands still bound to the headboard, just as you had left him.
You relished in the way his eyes danced along your skin as you slinked across the room to stand at the edge of his bed. His adam's apple bobbed nervously as he swallowed, a slight bulge already growing in his pants. ‘Do you know why you’re here Stevie?’ Your voice was like honey as your hands drifted along his body, your touch barely registerable.
‘Because I’m yours.’
The sound of skin slapping resonated through the room as you gave him a warning. A slap to the upper thigh. Hard enough to make sure the message got across but you knew you couldn’t go too rough just yet. You had to guide him into it slowly.
‘Ma’am. I’m yours, ma’am.’ Your teeth gleamed as the words fluttered from his mouth.
‘That’s better Stevie. So much better.’ The panes of his chest were hard and strong like marble as you took your time, dancing your fingertips along his blush line. He always looked so pretty when you praised him, unable to hold back the silly smile it caused, the blood flowing instinctively to his cheeks. You couldn’t help but take it a step further, relishing in the way he responded to you. ‘You’re such a good boy for me aren’t you?’
‘Yes Ma’am, all for you. Only you.’
It was funny really, how little it took to get him fully hard. Just a glimpse of your attention and he was ready to go. He was trained well.
Your hands continued their sensual dance down his sculpted torso before finally reaching their destination, wrapping around his cock. You leant on the bed, adjusting yourself so that you straddled his thighs. The sound of metal scrapping filled the room as you pumped him slowly. You were worried that the vibranium handcuffs would finally break under his strength so you gave a sharp tug on his balls. Not enough for any serious pain, but enough to grab his attention.
‘Tell me Stevie, because it seems you’ve forgotten. What are the rules when we’re in the bedroom? Or anywhere private for that matter.’
‘I’m yours.’ You hummed, urging him to go on. ‘I’m yours to do with as you please.’
‘That’s exactly right my sweet boy. So unless you plan on safe-wording, stop struggling or I’ll stop.’ Immediately the strain of the metal against the wooden headboard ceased.
‘I’m sorry Ma’am it’s just…’
‘Just what Stevie? Big boys finish their sentences.’ Your voice was stern, your hand stopping its movements along his shaft.
‘I just want to touch you so badly Ma’am.’ Your lips curled at his words, you had him right where you wanted him.
‘Awww I know Stevie. I know. All you have to do is follow the rules and then maybe I’ll reward you.’ Your thumb flicked over the tip of his dick and he hastily nodded, promising you he'd be a good boy. You continued torturing him with your hands, your strokes fast and firm enough that he was nearly on the edge but not quite there. It gave you an indescribable sense of power having Earth’s best defender a withering mess beneath you. Your pussy clenched, your own patience wearing thin as the g-string clung to your skin, drenched in your own arousal.
Slowly, you shuffled back on his legs before lowering your face to his cock. Even after all this time it still amazed you just how impressive it was. Small little kitten licks on his tip had him squirming on the bed, his hands now gripping to the wood for stability.
‘Ma’am, please. Please. I need it so badly, please.’ He could barely form sentences through his desperation and you couldn’t hold back the smile.
‘Please what Stevie? Tell me what you want and maybe I’ll give it to you.’
‘I want to cum. Please ma’am. It’s too much, I need to cum.’ You hummed, pretending to think over his words.
‘No.’ Your lips were a hairs’ breadth away from him. ‘And if you even think of cumming before I say so, you’ll be severely punished.’ You could hear him audibly gulp and took that as your cue to descend down onto him, wrapping your lips around his length. You hollowed your cheeks, going down even further until you reached his base and rested there for a moment. It had taken a few tries to get used to taking him all but you knew how much he loved it and so of course, you had tried for him.
Your eyes flickered up to his as you swallowed him, slowly starting to bob your head and when his eyes closed, one hand reached up to his nipple, tweaking it harshly. A warning. Immediately his eyes snapped open and found yours once more, remembering the other rules. ‘Ah shit… ma’am that feels so good. You feel so good. So fuckin’ good.’ You smiled against him, sensing his impending orgasm as you pulled back. He fell from your lips with a small pop as you sat up, smirking down at him. ‘Wha-? Ma’am, please.’ The one thing you loved more than when Steve blushed was when he begged, just like he was now. It sent another wave down to your cunt and had you rubbing your thighs together subtly.
‘I thought you were mine to do with as I please Stevie?’ Your hands danced down your body, briefly cupping your tits through the silken black material.
‘I am. I am. I just…’
‘I know my sweet boy but don’t worry. I’m just saving it for the main event. I mean, which would you rather? Cum in my mouth or in my sweet wet cunt?’ To emphasise your words you shifted on the bed, your hands diving underneath your panties and pulling them down your legs. You held them up by your fingertip, but his attention wasn’t on the scrap of black material, it was on your bare pussy.
‘Your cunt. Definitely your cunt.’
‘Well okay then, you’re just going to have to be patient and wait your turn Stevie.’ You smirked down at him as you readjusted yourself on the bed, moving your thighs up his body so that they framed his face. ‘Show me Stevie, show me how badly you want this pussy.’ You watched him nod with a fever before slowly lowering yourself down onto him.
You couldn’t hold in the immediate moan that came from your lips as his tongue met your lips. You were basically quaking with how much you needed him and you knew once you got off of his face, it would be drenched with your slick. The thought sent a shiver down your spine. Your slick all over him. It would be your mark that this god of a man belonged to you and you alone. Your thighs clenched around his face further, a silent plea for more.
You shuddered as his tongue ran up your slit, swirling around your clit. His lips suckling on the sensitive bud had you writhing above him. Your own hands came up to clutch at your chest, groping your breasts through the corset. Your hips rocked lightly against his face as his tongue delved inside you as far as it could go.
A near scream escaped you, the waves of pleasure ransacking your body were growing stronger and stronger, threatening to overtake as you rode his face. You just needed a little bit more.
Your hips rocked more sharply, your clit brushing against his nose as his tongue thrusted inside of you over and over again. It gave you the extra push you needed and suddenly the world around you faded. It was only him and you and the pleasure he was giving you. You rode him until you couldn’t anymore, your body spasming far too much, your bud far too sensitive. Slowly, you crawled back down his body, a glistening trail of your cum leading from his mouth to the angry red, pulsating monster of a cock you couldn’t wait to sink onto.
‘You’re such a good boy Stevie. Thank you my love. You definitely deserve a big reward for that.’ You found it hard to formulate your sentences as you were still catching your breath and the smile he flashed you didn’t help.
‘No ma’am. It was my pleasure.’
You hummed, a smile of your own forming on your lips. ‘Well, this should be very pleasurable for the both of us.’ You winked deviously as you gripped him in your hand, slowly stroking him, making sure to get him as riled up as you possibly could. You knew you wouldn’t last long and there was something special about feeling him empty himself inside of you as your walls pulsated that had your core tingling every time you thought about it.
You teasingly raised your hips up, positioning him at your entrance before slowly sinking down, taking it one inch at a time. You tutted as he groaned, knowing that all he wanted to do was thrust up into you. But he wasn’t in control here, you were. Your hands on his firm shoulders helped your balance yourself as you moved slowly, finally sinking all the way down on him.
‘Fuck ma’am. You feel so good, so tight, so fuckin’ wet.’ You toyed with his nipples, pinching them a little harshly.
‘You should really watch your language Stevie. Sweet boys like you shouldn’t be saying such dirty words.’ You chided him, only half serious. You loved it when he couldn’t help himself, the words just flowing freely from those gorgeous pink lips. It made you smile, being able to see the great Captain America like this. So free and liberated from all of his stressors. And it was all because of you.
Your pace quickened slightly, your hips rocking faster and your breasts jiggling as you moved up and down his cock. Your eyes closed as you felt him scrape against that spot inside of you, a moan tumbling from your lips. ‘Oh, Stevie.’
You leaned down his body pressing your chests against his, your lips swallowing his responding groan. You could taste yourself on his lips but it just made you hotter, the memory of a few moments ago dancing behind your closed lids. The coil inside of you tightened, threatening to snap but you needed him to cum with you.
Your lips danced down his jaw, suckling on the skin by his neck, leaving a more permanent mark of your ownership. ‘Cum for me my sweet boy. I need you to cum. I need you to cum inside me. Would you like that?’
‘Oh god yes ma’am! Yes, please let me cum inside of you. I’m so close.’
You pulled back, being sure to look him in the eyes. ‘Do it Stevie. On the count of three.’ The coil inside of you tightened even further and you got ready for the waves of pleasure.
‘One.’
Your hips moved in tandem as you both chased your orgasm, his hips stuttering, a clear indication he was close.
‘Two’
You refused to blink, scared that if you did you would miss it, miss the way his eyes scrunched so adorably when he came.
‘Three.’
Your combined moans filled the room as you came in tandem, your hot walls pulsating around his cock, milking it for all its worth as he painted them milky white.
You stayed like that for a long time, both of you catching your breath until you were ready to move. Gingerly, you crawled off of him, reaching out for the hand towel on the bedside table. You were sure to be as gentle as you could while cleaning him up, you knew he would be sensitive after a session like that and after you disposed of the towel in the bathroom, you came back in with the key. You reached up, unlocking his hands soothing the skin with a calming jasmine scented lotion. As you turned your back to him, unlocking his ankles now, you could feel the bed shift, his warmth pressing into your back, his lips brushing against your bare shoulder and his deft fingers unlacing the corset, freeing you.
‘Thank you ma’am. That was incredible.’ You turned back to him, your hand cupping his cheek and rubbing softly.
‘You’re incredible my sweet boy. You’re so strong and obedient. I couldn’t ask for a better partner.’ You loved the pink tint his cheeks took from your words and your lips met briefly. It was slow and soft and delicate, so unlike the hasty tongue centric ones from when you were making love.
Slowly, you pushed his body down back onto the bed, crawling in next to him, your arm wrapping around his body as you spooned him. ‘I love you Stevie.’
‘I love you too y/n.’
Slowly both of your breathing slowed down, your eyes drifting closed. Ropes, cable ties and a certain shade of red lipstick filling your dreams.
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The kind of love you don't believe in (Jan x Jackie) - Pinkgrapefruit
[7337 words]
Jackie takes a deep breath and slams her empty glass on the table triumphantly.
“I’m going to make you believe in love.” She says with such conviction it’s impossible not to believe her. Her eyes twinkle. Jan wonders if this might be easier than either of them think.
“Okay.”
[ divorce lawyer/wedding planner au ]
A/N - i love this fic so much that i’ve tried to prolong it several times to no avail. it’s based off a Tumblr prompt me and jazz saw and ran with and honestly i’d make her a coauthor but she wouldn’t be impressed so instead it’s dedicated to her in the hopes that she’ll actually accept that for all her hard work and amazing comments while writing this. couldn’t have done it without her. i hope you fall as in love with it as i am.
*
Jan picks at the edges of her french-tipped manicure. It’s peeling. She stares at it for a second, examining the way the shiny polish reflects the sunlight filtering through the half-closed blinds. If she’s got her timings right, Bob will barrel through her office door in a minute or two and tell her to go home. Or to eat something. Or to do both which is the most probable outcome and Jan’s always been good at finding the most probable outcomes.
She’s a lawyer. It’s her job.
She’d started in family court and it was fun. There was a joy to bringing a child back home to their parents or filing adoptions and the kids’ faces would make Jan light up. She’d appealed for name changes and gender assignments and she was good, no one questioned that. One corner of her office had a neon rainbow sign and a comfy armchair and some books and some toys and it was usually occupied by a little kid who shouldn’t have to spend their afternoon in a lawyers office. But if she could look up from some paperwork to see a calm little kid - she could be calm and happy.
Then she started taking divorce claims.
And she’s a little less vibrant.
(The world feels a little less magical when your job is to help people split their lives in two.)
The problem is, she’s good. She’s really good. She hasn’t lost a divorce case and she gets a name for them. She gets recommended divorce cases until she only has a couple of gay kids and adoptions and custody agreements a month. Trixie takes the rest - nice, warm, motherly Trixie who makes everyone a cup of tea and asks them about their day and wears pastel pinks and yellows. Jan’s not bitter, she’s just jaded. She turns up to work in her charcoal pantsuits and her red heels, makes her coffee in her matte black mug, spends the day in her office with the door closed and leaves in silence. She’s happy, she’s just not what she used to be.
She tried to explain as much in the kitchenette the firm shares. There are only four of them; herself, Katya, Trixie and Bob - the boss lady. Bob does corporate, Katya does criminal, Trixie does the pro bono work and most of the kids’ stuff and Jan slogs away on divorces.
“I want to do something that feels meaningful,” she whined, pulling her turtleneck over her mouth as Bob pointed at the crossword question she couldn’t answer.
“Accumulation,” Katya said with a mouthful of apple that she crunched next to Jan’s ear, taking pleasure in the way the blonde scrunched her face up.
“Doesn’t fit the clue. It says impatience.” Bob reminded her, underlining it with her finger just to make a point.
“Anticipation,” Trixie yelled from the counter where she’d perched with her tea. “Jan use it in a sentence!”
“I anticipate going home.” Jan moaned to a cackle from the pink-clad woman. She stood, checking her turtleneck in the microwave door before leaving the kitchenette with a sigh.
So she’s waiting for Bob to come in and tell her to go home. It’s the middle of summer but it’s nearing seven and it’s a Friday. She’s got the weekend off for a wedding. She’d rather be in small claims court if she’s honest.
The idea of love becomes infinitely less appealing when you are surrounded by its decay at every turn. She’d rather just go home to her cat who she knows will always love her and cannot file a legal document saying it’s got irreconcilable differences and wants the house but none of the furniture.
No, Marceline would never.
*
Jackie opens the shop at six a.m. because she likes the feeling of the streets in the early morning. The sun is already up because it’s the middle of summer but the city still feels barren. It’s so quiet, she can hear her own heart among the calls of the birds. She enters ‘End Of The Aisle Weddings’ with a peppy smile and relaxed confidence and zero caffeine - saving that for her two p.m. pick me up when she and Rock can discuss their clientele over leftover wedding cake and hot drinks served in novelty mugs. It’s her favourite time of the day after opening.
She checks her planner almost immediately, plays her seventeen-ish voicemails while crossing things off the list and tacking on extra items that brides have found in a frenzy. She has one wedding coming up that should be fantastic but is also draining her more than usual with the number of requests the bride has. She gets about three calls a day making amendments and she’s more than happy to agree to them because most of the time she’s just a little drunk on the idea of being in love.
She calls the florist, the caterers and the photographer before Rock will be out of bed, skidding around the backroom’s slick floors in just her socks as she rearranges goodie bags and vases and table decorations organised by date.
Sometimes, she leans on the sage-green wooden table they use for meetings and looks through engagement photoshoots, planning her own. She imagines her hair in pin curls as her fiance dips her - probably in a field.
With their cat.
And some fairy lights.
She’s spent a lot of time hoping and dreaming and praying for her future wife to just walk through the door like they do in the romcoms she’s been born and raised on. She wants her ‘You’ve got Mail’ moment - a book with a rose in it and a woman she thought she hated but also loved. She wants someone to convince her to fall in love. She wants big moments and small gestures and the sweet warmth she sees in so many couples but she’s alone. It’s a cruel irony.
She hadn’t planned to be a wedding planner. She studies interior design and marketing at uni - interning at a wedding planner and never really leaving. She thought she’d do corporate, or events. Turns out, she’s pretty happy where she ended up.
Just a little lonely. Ever so slightly. Sometimes.
She brews another cup of chai and inhales the scent of cardamom pods, watching the business people on their ways to work through the big glass front windows - rain spattering on them like tiny droplets of light.
*
Jackie plans good weddings. She knows it’s not particularly objective but she knows she’s good at her job. By this point in the planning, she’s known the couple for close to a year so she’s pretty comfortable just to chill at the reception. She puts out fires where she’s needed in her white shirt and tailored black trousers - it’s typical attire for her - a black blazer hung on a hook somewhere, waiting for her exit. She’s comfortable, mobile and most importantly, she has pockets.
She knows she plans a good wedding which is why she’s just a little surprised to see (an objectively gorgeous) blonde woman sat at the bar, holding a tumbler of scotch. She’s in an off-the-shoulder yellow dress but somehow the summery look feels a little off-kilter when faced with her expression. It’s like it doesn’t fit her even though it fits her perfectly (objectively of course).
She scowls at the scotch before taking another sip and Jackie decides to approach as even though she’s terminally delightful she is not someone who enjoys the conga and it’s coming dangerously close.
She sidles up to the blonde girl, ordering a ‘sex on the beach’ with a smile to the bartender who she’s known for years. Jaida just winks, sliding over the drink and walking as far away as she can.
Jackie just sips her drink and watches for a minute or so until the girl flips her curls over her shoulder and stares her dead in the eyes. Her eyes are blue. A soul-piercing blue. But they look lost.
“Jan,” she announces, nonchalantly and Jackie has to blink a few times before she realises that the girl - Jan - is saying her name. She gives a frankly stupid little wave before she replies, voice full of amusement at her own stupidity.
“I’m Jackie. It’s lovely to meet you Jan,” she smiles, sipping her drink through the tiny straw Jaida always gives her after she spilt a particularly colourful cosmo down her old favourite shirt.
Jan nods towards her drink, “ Sex on the beach? All I’m getting from this wedding is a handshake in the garden.” She almost manages to maintain her slightly stormy demeanour but she cracks at the last second, blinding white teeth sparkling as Jackie has to hold onto the bar to stop herself falling off her chair in laughter.
“Not a wedding person?” Jackie asks, once she’s settled herself again and Jan tilts her head like she’s wondering why Jackie is bothering.
“I’m alone drinking expensive scotch at a bar,” Jan responds dryly. “I’m a divorce lawyer, I’m not exactly primed for this sort of thing. There is too much hope in this gazebo.”
Jackie feels the twinge of a smile at her cheeks and forces herself to look down for a second. “Fair enough, how do you know Rose and Nicky?”
Jan waves Jaida down and slips a tenner across the counter in exchange for another tumbler. She takes a long sniff and then a sip before she responds. “Rose - Rosé as we’ve called her ever since she chugged a bottle in uni - she was in my Law program - or at least the social work modules.” Jackie hums in approval and also a sort of understanding. She’s very good at putting the pieces together.
“You never planned to do divorces huh?” She asks but this time Jan’s the one to avert her gaze, staring ahead at the bottles of alcohol as Jackie rolls up the sleeves of her shirt - it’s a warm day and the gazebo holding the bar and the dancefloor isn’t particularly well vented, she’ll bring it up with the company when she gets back to the office.
“Damn Sherlock.” Jan chuckles when she finally comes up with her response, tugging her dress back off the shoulders from where it’s risen up to. “No, I’m trained for family court - name changes, adoptions, custody - the sort of thing with happy children and good, fulfilling life changes. I’m just naturally good at homewrecking.”
“It’s not homewrecking if they ask for it,” Jackie points out, tilting her glass in a way that makes her look a little bit drunker than she is but then again she’s been on the champagne since ten when Rose forced a glass into her hand and the caterers are so well trained they just top you up.
She stands up, wobbling a bit on her heels and the uneven grass. “Wait,” she mutters, Jan placing a guiding hand on her lower back for stability. “You don’t believe in love do you?” It makes Jan snort in a very unladylike way but Jackie is deadly serious. “I’m a wedding planner. I love love. But you don’t.”
“It’s not that I don’t believe in it,” Jan sighs dejectedly, helping Jackie back onto her stool and ordering her another drink, handing out tenners like they’re coins. “I just think it’s underwhelming and disappointing and never ends well. Women will disappoint me. My cat won’t.”
“You’ve never sounded gayer.” Jackie deadpans.
They look at each other inquisitively. Eyes drifting, searching.
“Only one of us wore a suit to a wedding.” Jan points out and they both burst into raucous laughter that makes the conga line (somehow still going) look at them a little strangely.
Jackie takes a deep breath and slams her empty glass on the table triumphantly.
“I’m going to make you believe in love.” She says with such conviction it’s impossible not to believe her. Her eyes twinkle. Jan wonders if this might be easier than either of them think.
“Okay.”
*
19:14
Janet are you busy?
19:18
Why.
19:21
I’m taking you to Karaoke.
*
Jan is pleasantly surprised to see Jackie in a mini dress but she’s also not mad about it. The dress is emerald green, hits just above her mid-thigh and is dangerously strappy and the heels Jackie paired with it make her legs look impossibly long. Jan also dressed up - but her purple mini dress feels more normal - less of a statement.
“Janet!” Jackie shouts from the entrance, clearly already tipsy even though it’s barely gone half-nine. She’s waving rather frantically and it takes willpower for Jan to move towards it instead of away but she reaches the girl who is warm and happy and she feels the stress in her shoulders melt away.
“Hi Jackie,” she sighs begrudgingly, holding the door for the brunette who practically skips into the bar that isn’t that empty. It’s a friday night. She should have expected it.
Jackie spins on her heels when they get inside and she gives Jan a once over with her eyes. “You’re not allowed whisky,” she decides after a little thought and Jan just stands there a little shellshocked as Jackie orders their drinks, winking at the bartender to get them quicker.
When she comes back to the high table Jan picked for them, she’s holding a glass of red wine and something that smells fruity which she sets in front of the blonde. Jan looks at it in disgust.
“What is that?” She asks, hoping she will like the answer.
“Pomegranate Mojito,” Jackie responds, looking smug and not at all phased by Jan’s death glare. “Drink up,” She says in a faux high-pitched tone and Jan mocks her as she sips the unnervingly pink drink.
She makes a face which makes Jackie almost spit out the wine she’d been drinking.
After about half an hour of watching drunk girls from the city university sing Taylor Swift off-key, Jackie decides they’re going to go up.
“I’m picking the song.” She demands and Jan raises an eyebrow, bemused.
“Okay Princess,” she responds because her drink is full again and it clearly had more alcohol than she’d been expecting. She’s a little disappointed that her whisky tolerance didn’t carry over into her weird cocktail tolerance - standing and immediately wishing she’d been sat down again.
Jackie once again leaves and returns smug, pushing the mojito towards Jan in a motion for the woman to down it which she does so dutifully - feeling it slide down immediately - smoother than the vodka shots she’d do in law school but still not quite her favourite scotch.
Bring it fucking on.
The first notes of ‘Nobody But You’ by Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani play and all Jan feels is regret.
She should never have let Jackie on her Spotify. That was a secret.
She is, however, pleasantly surprised to hear Jackie nail Blake Shelton.
*
15:07
Janet, I need to make name cards are you busy?
15:12
Fuck no.
Wait sorry, frick no.
15:20
Jannnnnnnn pleaseeeeee
15:34
I can leave at 5. Meet at yours?
15:35
You know where the key is if you beat me there
*
Jan does not beat her there - it would be impossible - she’s a lawyer who hasn’t left the office before six since she was twenty-two and Jackie owns a wedding planning business that despite having a very cute shop - half resides in her living room anyway. They may both be twenty-eight but they are very different.
Jackie does, however, open the door with a mug of coffee already brewed and a dot of ink on her otherwise bare cheek. It’s all Jan can do not to lick her finger and wipe it away, finding it endearing how the girl’s organised behaviour could turn chaotic on a moment’s notice.
She enters the apartment and relishes in how homey it feels. Her own isn’t as lived in as it should be after five years but Jackie’s is warm and painted in a sage green tone that highlights the light wood floors. She sees the brunette little set up on the rug and feels glad that she keeps a change of clothes in her office as she’s much better equipped to sit cross-legged on the floor in a sweater and some leggings rather than her usual pantsuit.
The coffee is just how she likes it, warm and sweeter than anyone should know about.
Her hair is still in a low bun so she removes one of the hair ties and lets it fall down her back in a wavy low pony, pulling the bits by her ears out so she feels less like she just came from an office and more like she belongs. The apartment always makes her feel this urge to become comfortable and she spends so much of her time uncomfortable she refuses to fight it.
Jackie just smiles as she watches the blonde adjust - it’s like watching a snake shed its skin and even now she looks a little less like the corporate robot she sometimes meets for coffee and a little more like the woman who fell asleep on the couch during ‘Ten Things I Hate About You’ with her mouth open. It’s cute.
They get to work on the cards pretty quickly or at least they try to. Jackie makes her write on a piece of notepaper before she lets her near the nice pens but they both realise rather quickly that her handwriting is chicken scratch.
“I do a lot of paperwork and I have to write fast to keep up with all the yelling,” she whines as she is relegated to writing little notes for the kids at this particular wedding. “How do you even know how to do this?” She asks, gesturing to the fountain pen and the fancy hand-lettered place cards scattered across the patterned rug.
Jackie sighs as some ink blobs at the end of an otherwise perfectly good name card and throws it into the discard pile with a huff. “My calligrapher fell through one time so I figured I could make extra money by doing them myself.” She admits. “Plus it is fun to use colourful pens.” Jan quirks an eyebrow at the mention of the colourful pens, scanning the rug indiscreetly for anything that isn’t black ink.
Jackie chuckles at her indiscretion and stands up, going to the cupboard by the kettle and, instead of pulling out tea or biscuits like one would usually keep next to a kettle, puls out a caddy of brightly coloured pens. She points vaguely to one. “That one’s purple and glittery.
“Purple and glittery?” Jan repeats back with childlike awe that makes Jackie snort indecently with laughter. Jan scowls. “I’m a lawyer, Jaqueline. My special occasion pen is a red biro,” she rebukes with a huff.
“Gimme that,” Jackie makes a grabby hand towards the pen Jan is now clutching and the woman mocks pulling it closer before handing it over. Jackie scribbles it on one of the discarded cards to check it still works and then takes a fresh new one and writes ‘Janet the Boss-Ass Lawyer’ on it in curly handwriting that makes Jan blush. She then fills the edges with hearts and hands it to Jan with a soft smile.
Jan holds it close to her heart before looking at it with tenderness. She examines it in the light of the industrial lamps Jackie has but she decides that’s not enough so she skitters into Jackie’s west-facing bedroom and lets the glitter sparkle in the golden hour sunshine. Jackie’s always three steps ahead of her so she follows slowly and patiently, listening to the soft mutters of the happy blonde who hugs her ferociously once they’re both looking at the sunset.
“Thank you,” she whispers, half holding her breath and Jackie smiles.
“You deserve to always be as happy as you are with that pen.” She tells her, dead serious and Jan nods slowly.
Jackie did not mean for her to take the pen.
*
12:41
Janet do you have my purple pen?
12:52
I know it’s your lunch break Jan.
13:24
I’m just concerned for the safety of the glitter pen.
*
“Even her handwriting is romantic, that fucking bitch,” Jan laments as she fills out the crossword.
“Ire,” Katya mutters, pointing to three boxes going downwards and Jan puts her hand out for a high five, pleased when Katya agrees. The word is neatly put in in purple, glittery ink and it brings a little something to her day - one could venture to call it joy but Jan’s never been that sort of person.
Katya’s only just come out of the storage cupboard she entered seven minutes ago and if Jan is right with her timings, Trixie will exit in a few minutes looking dishevelled and still with a hint of red lipstick on the outer corner of her mouth. She will eat an apple while sitting on the counter and be absolutely no use to Jan’s crossword.
Jan decides she is done with them for the day and leaves them to their own devices as she slinks back to her office. She places the pen down carefully in the holder full of only back biros because she likes to know where it is and pulls the notecard out of her briefcase just to look at it. Again. She would hesitate to call this emotion joy.
The notecard grounds her mind enough to sort herself out for the last adoption case of the month and Jan lets her mouth twitch into a smile when she thinks of the kid she’ll be fighting for. He is small, sweet and tenacious and reminds her of Jackie in a way she did not expect.
When he runs into her office, he makes a beeline for her desk and she ruffles his hair in a form of greeting. He has been there a few times before so he is comfortable and he collects the puzzle book from her magazine rack and peruses her pens to fill it in before retreating to the armchair in the back. He picks the purple one and she cannot blame him. She would too.
She settles the papers rather quickly getting everything ready for the court date set in a week and a half. All they need is for a judge to stamp them and the boy can go home secure. She relishes in the opportunity to provide that for him and she texts Jackie about how hopeful she is. Jackie responds with a pen emoji and Jan chuckles at her through the phone.
15:12
The pen is safe Jacqueline.
15:15
That’s all I wanted to know Janet.
15:23
Is this our first fight?
15:25
Are you already planning the divorce?
15:27
That was low.
15:30
I’m not sorry. Get back to work pen thief.
*
10:20
Are you using the mug?
10:24
It’s an abomination.
10:26
You didn’t answer my question
*
Jackie makes mugs for all her clients. It’s a personal hobby, decorating them with ‘Mrs and Mrs’ or whatever titles. Sometimes it’s a wedding hashtag. Sometimes it’s for a stubborn lawyer who needs a little more sunshine in her life.
She thinks of it as a joke and it is… to begin with. Then she’s on her iPad making mockups on procreate and it just sort of happens.
It’s a big mug - one of those that carry more coffee than you need with room for whipped cream (there should always be room for whipped cream, says the lactose intolerant wedding planner). It’s a white base with small, bright rainbows that says ‘Girl, you’re testi-fine’ in a graphic nineties font and it makes Jackie want to screech every time she sees it (she keeps it on display for this exact reason because nothing brings more joy than catching it in the corner of her eye during a dull moment).
She wraps it up pretty in silver paper and places it into a nondescript cardboard box for delivery. They meet at a coffee shop one morning when Jan is bored and Jackie has a lull in weddings and she hands it over with a devilish grin that makes Jan squint at her to read between the lines. The lines are not obvious.
Jan does not screech. She stares for a very very long time and then, she lets out a very slow controlled breath. And then she loses it. She cackles loudly and the patrons of the cafe look at the two lesbians in the corner with bemused faces and Jackie doesn’t care because this mug is one of the greatest decisions she’s ever made.
Jan takes it back to the office and fills it with hot coffee - three sugars and almond milk and just sits with it for a second. She almost wants people to see it but it’s so awful she will never admit to it. When Katya walks in, however, she is not angry. The blonde takes one look at the garish print and cheerful message and has to cling to the countertop for support - the mug staring at her until she can breathe again.
“That is the best mug I have ever seen and I demand one.” Katya decides and Jan texts Jackie under the table who immediately responds with a selfie of herself with a plain mug and the caption ‘I am plotting.’
Jackie plots exquisitely and makes three more lawyer-y mugs.
Jan is oddly proud.
*
20:32
Jacks.
Are you busy?
I want you to meet my cat.
*
“That is the single gayest message I have ever received,” Jackie announces, stepping into the house from the rain and shaking her umbrella out of the door decisively. Jan is already there with a novelty mug with the slogan ‘gay and can do maths’ printed across it, filled with hot chocolate and too much whipped cream and Jackie takes it readily - soaking up the heat of the house to replace some the early winter climate stole from her.
She sinks onto Jan’s expensive but still plush couch and pulls a blanket over herself like this is a usual occurrence. For all the times Jan has been at hers, Jackie has never ventured into the lawyer’s place and yet despite the blondes complaints about how barren it is - Jackie feels at home.
The walls are a little bare, the colours a little dark and the floor is cold even with the fire lit but she still feels cosy under her blanket, mug held just below her chin. Jan sets her own mug of green tea on the sideboard before she exits the open-plan kitchen-living room, on a mission to find her cat. When she returns she is holding a perfectly happy beige and coffee coloured long-haired cat who snuggles into the blonde’s chest with a purr. She nuzzles her nose into it, a blush spreading across her cheek as she notices Jackie stare.
“Jaqueline, this is Marceline,” she says as she carefully holds out the cat who is perfectly happy to be held. Jackie cradles her carefully.
“Hi Marceline,” she coos and Jan smiles softly as she brushes the light cat hairs off her flannel.
Jackie holds the ragdoll cat with one hand and boops her nose with the other, giggling as she pulls her face back, mewling slightly.
“Oh, what’s Jackie doing to you,” Jan coos in a voice Jackie would usually reserve for babies. “What’s the matter, baby girl?” Jackie just watches as the cat is removed from her arms and burrows back into Jan’s chest as she slides back into the sofa with her. Jackie rests her chin on Jan’s shoulder, peering at the clearly attention-spoiled cat.
“You’re a helicopter parent,” she jibes sweetly and Jan very carefully elbows her.
“You would be the worst helicopter parent,” Jan rebukes but instead of laughing, Jackie gulps and leans back a little bit. Jan puts Marceline down so she can face the brunette. “Hey, what did I say?” She asks, confused.
“Sorry,” Jackie mutters under her breath, “I’ve just always hoped I wouldn’t be my mum if I became a parent.” Jan gets it. Well, she doesn’t really get it but she places her warm, fur-covered hand on Jackie’s bare forearm and leans towards her slightly.
“You would be a fantastic parent Jackie.” She tells her sincerely. “I swear.”
Jackie smiles again and Jan thinks she would do anything for that smile.
*
06:21
Jackie I think I’m sick.
06:23
Temperature?
06:24
Fucking hot.
06:25
I can’t trust you at home by yourself can I?
Screw it I’m coming to pick you up. Wear clothes.
*
Jackie looks at the girl asleep in her passenger seat with a soft but worried smile. She doesn’t look awful - pale and a bit peaky but it’s probably just a fever she tells herself as they drive to the shop. She’s planning to set her up in the back corner on a pile of cushions and blankets scavenged from both of their apartments. Ideally, she’d stay at home with her but winter weddings are just as popular as summer weddings so she’s got a fair few to work on today and she can’t do it from home. Or Jan’s.
She has to wake Jan up when they get there and it pains her a little bit to do so, head lolled against the condensated window - it can’t be comfortable. She rubs a gloved hand up and down Jan’s arm to try and rouse her and she comes around easily but looking sleepy.
“I feel like shit,” she mutters and it makes Jackie laugh because of course, Jan doesn’t become sweeter when she’s sick.
They eventually get her situated with a half-gallon water bottle and a hefty amount of blankets and Jackie will admit it’s adorable to see her cocooned as Jackie sits at the work table with flower arrangements splayed out around her.
It’s just past eleven when Jan rouses from her nap and she squints until her eyes adjust to the relatively bright shop lights.
“What are you doing?” She questions, straining her neck to see what Jackie’s working on. Jackie raises an eyebrow and takes the portfolio over to her, pulling one of the many blankets over her legs and placing a hand on Jan’s forehead as a gauge of illness.
“So,” Jackie starts, flicking open the leather portfolio to the relevant page. “Someone wants a coastal wedding in winter.” She winces in disagreement and Jan lets her head fall onto Jackie’s shoulder.
“Well, love is a beach,” She quips and Jackie rolls her eyes.
“You’re lucky I wouldn’t hit a sick person,” she retorts.
“How do you do this job?” Jan whines after watching Jackie highlight things for ten minutes straight. Admittedly Jan also highlights things but it’s usually in an ugly neon yellow and not pastel blue.
“What do you mean? It’s plan-tastic,” Jackie jokes and Jan looks like she would stab her if she could move her body. “Do you want soup?” She asks trying to change the subject before Jan actually murders her.
“Yes,” Jan harrumphs but she does smile.
While Jackie is making the soup (or warming it up out of the can) Jan flicks through one of the albums Jackie keeps at the back of the shop and finds herself smiling at some of the pictures. She finds the album from Nicky and Rose’s wedding and comes across a picture of her and Jackie at the bar. She’s smiling - they both are. It’s cute.
“She has a heart!” Jackie exclaims when she comes back to the blonde looking at wedding photos and Jan scowls like a petulant child, only taking the soup when Jackie tells her she’ll take it back to the kitchenette and Jan realises she’s not sure she can use her legs at the moment. It’s good soup. It’s good company.
Jackie drives her home at the end of the day, tucking her into bed with a cold compress and when Jan wakes up the next morning she finds the brunette on the couch under ‘her’ blanket with an empty mug of hot chocolate on the sideboard and Marceline curled up by her cheek.
She presses a kiss to her temple and curls up on the other end of the couch with a glass of water, flicking through the channels on the TV until she finds a rerun of Sleepless in Seattle which she watches with the volume on low and subtitles on to let Jackie sleep a little longer.
*
15:34
Jackie?
Are you free tomorrow?
It’s a saturday?
Like 6-12
15:45
Should I ask?
15:47
City LGBT Gala
It’ll be nice I swear
It’s just Trixie’s bringing a date
15:48
Are you asking me on a date Janet?
15:50
Would you say yes?
*
Jan picks Jackie up at six. She stands under the porch of Jackie’s apartment building pressing the buzzer and wondering why you host an LGBT Gala in the middle of January. She leans on the dry wall and watches the spitting rain hit the pavement, grateful for the long black umbrella she’s brought.
She’s in a black blazer with fitted black trousers that end just above the ankles making her short legs look much longer. Under the blazer is a silk camisole in a champagne colour and she’s wearing nude Louboutins to tie it all together. Her long blonde hair is down and she examines herself in the glass door just to reaffirm she looks good. She feels good - better than ever really and as she waits for Jackie she’s pretty sure she knows why.
The Persian is in a floor-length gold dress that fits her just right, her brown hair curled and tumbling down her back. It all just works and Jan feels like a lucky, lucky woman to be escorting her - she tells her as much.
“God Jackie,” she tells her, eyes wide and honest. “You look… damn.”
Jackie smiles shyly, blushing like she doesn’t believe a word she’s being told. “You don’t scrub up too bad yourself,” She quips back, making a motion for Jan to twirl which the blonde does immediately. “Those trousers are good for your ass.” She doesn’t mean to say it (she does). “Are you sure this isn’t too much?” She gestures to herself this time and Jan shakes her head.
“God no Jacks, you’re gorgeous,” she tells her emphatically and Jackie touches her chin gently in a joking manner to close her gaping mouth. Jan puts up the umbrella and thanks the height of the heels because she’s the almost the same height as Jackie in heels. There’s usually only an inch or two difference but now there’s less than half an inch and she feels powerful.
She helps Jackie into the car and then runs around to clamber in herself - grateful for the taxi.
“So what are we doing?” Jackie asks, nervousness hinting in her voice. She’s playing with the edge of her skirt and Jan takes the hand firmly.
“It should be fun,” she tells her, playing with the ring on Jackie’s thumb. “Me and Trixie are there for our work with trans kids - she’s bringing Katya, you’ll like her. She’s insane but she also does criminal law so it’s to be expected. There’ll be dinner, some activists will do speeches, there’s a queer prom aspect too so we’ll greet some kids and have a chat - you’ll love that. Then we dance and drink heavily.” She takes a deep breath mostly for comedy because Jackie still seems tense and the brunette cracks a smile.
“It sounds fun Janet,” she says, calmer now, intertwining their fingers properly and squeezing.
Jan has to let go of Jackie’s hand to put the umbrella up and they link arms again as they walk into the foyer of the grand looking hotel hosting the gala. They meet Trixie and Katya in the glamorous round-room, Trixie dressed in a rose-pink gown and Katya in a burgundy suit similar to Jans. Jan was right, Katya is insane but she is wonderful and Jackie ends up seated between herself and Jan at the dinner (Jan offered to sit next to the flamboyant charity manager so that Jackie would feel more comfortable and she’s very happy she took the offer).
The first course is Flank steak flatbread with roasted tomato, cilantro, roasted garlic and black cumin mayo. It’s decadent and stupidly delicious and Jackie asks Jan if she can get her the number of the catering company which Jan gladly agrees to, hand on Jackie’s lower back through the opening in the chair. It’s meant as comfort but Katya winks at them both several times and Jackie just blushes until Trixie calls her down. The other people on the table talk to Trixie about her work with LGBT youth and Jackie has to place a hand on Jan’s arm until Trixie points out it’s Jan’s work too and the blonde calms the fuck down. Cocktails are delivered to the table and Jan does not scoff at the fruity beverage. Jackie calls it progress.
For the main, Jan chooses a roasted lamb leg with thyme sauce, ratatouille vegetables and sauté potatoes while Jackie goes for the mixed grill with oriental rice and seasonal vegetables. At some point, Jackie ends up with all Jan’s veg and Jan ends up with half of Jackie’s rice but neither can distinguish when it happened. Nothing much interesting happens in the main course. So far no one has asked why Jackie is here which is a relief to her and no one has openly insulted Jan or said anything particularly incendiary so she feels safe in her peace of mind.
Dessert is cheesecake with berries and it is precisely when Jackie decides she needs to be brought to all future gala events. She whispers this into Jan’s ear and the blonde snorts into a raspberry. Katya watches them both and it makes the brunette feel like she’s done something wrong even when she and Trixie have a perfectly lovely and definitely hypothetical conversation about wedding flowers for people who like pink and red. Jackie assures them that she could do it easily and makes sure to hand over a business card she’s been keeping in the back of her phone for years. As a wedding planner specialising in queer events, she’d figured this could be a good chance for promotion. The whole table ends up discussing Jackie’s business by the coffee and truffles portion of the dinner and Jan just leans back with a proud smile as Jackie hands another business card to the over-eager charity director who wants a ceremony for himself and his longtime boyfriend.
The speeches are good but dull and she drinks her cocktail and then part of Katya’s in waiting for it to be over.
The meeting of the little gay kids in their suits and their dresses and their pronoun pins though is everything Jackie had hoped it would be and more and it makes her heart so happy to watch a teenage non-binary couple slow-dance to Billie Holiday.
Jan hits it off with a six-year-old called Milo who asks her if Jackie is a princess to which Jan replies “yes, she’s the princess of Persia,” and Jackie wants to cry. She takes a photo on her phone of them hugging and texts it straight to Jan because it’s precious.
Somehow, in all the madness, they end up slow-dancing. It’s not really the right song for it and Jackie doesn’t want to get makeup on Jan’s blazer no matter how many times Jan says it’s okay but it’s warm and comfortable and Jackie wonders why she’s spent the better part of eight months not being in Jan’s arms.
They end up on the very edge of the dancefloor because Jackie decides she needs to take her shoes off (she doesn’t) and suddenly it feels more real because Jan is towering above her and she feels like she’s in the rom-com she’s always wanted.
“Jan,” she whispers because the moment feels too important to speak aloud in, “do you believe in love?” She sounds so innocent and she’s looking up at Jan with her brown eyes so fragile that Jan pulls her even closer - the hand on her lower back warm and firm.
“I think we all have a capacity for love,” she muses as they sway out of time with the music. “It’s very human of us. But yes, I believe in love.” Jackie nods slowly, processing what’s being said.
She places her head on Jan’s chest and feels the woman’s shallow breaths in the rise and fall of her chest. She removes her head and looks into the blonde’s ocean blue eyes with a sigh, dropping the hand she’s been holding and wrapping both arms loosely around Jan’s neck.
“Do you know why I believe in love?” Jan asks suddenly. But it’s not sudden, not really, it’s built on layers and layers of coffee dates and mugs and purple glitter pens. Her eyes flick from Jackie’s brown ones down to her lips and back up a couple of times before she answers herself, watching the way Jackie looks completely at ease in her arms.
“You,” she mumbles.
And then they’re kissing and it’s soft but it’s passionate and it tells Jackie everything she needs to know about the way she makes Jan feel. It doesn’t last long, Jackie pulling away before they can scar any small children, but the look in Jan’s eyes is as pure and loving as Jackie has ever seen.
“You did it, Jaqueline,” Jan mutters into her ear, pulling her closer still until they are essentially hugging while moving in a slow circle. “You fucking did it.”
Jackie giggles and presses a kiss to Jan’s nose, having to rise up on her toes to do so, “you planning the divorce yet?” She jokes and Jan rolls her eyes playfully.
“Not a fucking chance.”
*
15:37
What wine did you want again baby?
15:40
Just pick up that red we always get
If you’re late for our own damn engagement party Janet I’m divorcing you.
15:45
I’m on my way babe. I have the wine. Calm down.
*
They’re calling it an engagement party but really it’s their closest friends sitting in their living room petting Marceline and drinking wine. They’re celebrating something everyone knew was coming and eating tortilla chips while they do it.
“Welcome to the engage-Jan-t party!” Jan announces to Jackie, Nicky, Rose and Bob as she walks through the door only five minutes early. They’re very lucky most of the group is usually late and Jackie only reminds her of that by raising both eyebrows at the pun and swiftly opening the wine to try and pretend she’s not stressed.
“What have we got?” Jan asks softly, pressing a chaste kiss to her fiance’s cheek as she peruses the alcohol selection. Nicky turns around on the sofa and winks.
“I’ve brought some rosé,” she jokes and Rose hits her before asking for a glass of wine to take the edge of her wife’s stupidity. Bob calls them all dykes before heading to the bathroom to ask her partner when they’ll get here.
Katya and (a very pregnant) Trixie are the last to show up, Rock and Bob’s partner Jinkx turning up only a few minutes earlier.
“Rosé?” Nicky offers Jinkx and they smirk before shaking their head.
“If it’s your wife, no thank you,” they joke and Jan high fives them with a grin.
They end up spending the evening on Jan’s extortionately large couch eating nachos and questioning how Jackie managed to get Jan to fall in love with her.
Jackie smiles coyly and tilts her head, bumping Jan’s shoulder with her own.
“It all started at a wedding…”
#rpdr fanfiction#pinkgrapefruit#jankie#jan sport#jackie cox#trixya#trixie mattel#katya zamolodchikova#bob the drag queen#rock m sakura#jinkx monsoon#rosé#wedding planner/divorce lawyer au#fluff#lesbian au#s12#cats#gratuitous flirting#lots of puns#like a stupid amount of puns#for jaz <3
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i’m gonna need those scissors
i'm trying to finish off some half-completed pieces in my drafts so behold, whatever this is. it was originally supposed to my entry for last years sonamy week prompt: gender bender, but clearly i never got it done in time (shocker, lol). i hope you enjoy <3
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Sonic brushed her quills out of her face with an air of exasperation. Chaos, those things were getting long. She couldn’t even remember when she’d last gotten them cut. Perhaps it was that time she’d gotten so impatient she’d hacked them off herself only to be met with the horrified looks of her friends as she reappeared with choppy, uneven quills.
She’d never received a reception quite like that ever since, she thought with a smile, jolting to a stop as she reached into her quills for a spare hair tie. She blew an annoyed raspberry as her hands came up empty, finding only the spare chaos emerald she kept on hand for emergencies.
It must have fallen out on one of her countless runs across the globe she decided, lifting an unruly bang from her face and scrutinising it in the sunlight.
Perhaps cutting her quills herself wasn’t such a terrible idea. She’d already practiced once after all; how much worse could she possibly do a second time? And anyway, anything was better than having it crowding her vision all the time.
The girl blew the overgrown bang out of her face and took her bearings.
Ames didn’t live too far. He would definitely have some scissors lying around somewhere or other she concluded, spinning on her heel as she headed towards the outskirts of town. She dragged her feet to a stop as she spotted his house in the distance.
From her vantage point, she could see a pop of pink floating around the garden and she smiled instinctively. It was just like Ames to make the most of the gorgeous sunshine by tending to the flower garden, his pride and joy.
She would never admit it to him, but his garden with all its lush foliage and vast array of plants was one of her favourite places in the world – and Sonic had seen a lot of the world.
“Hey bud,” she called as she neared, pushing open the gate hard enough that the momentum meant it swung shut behind her. The move had taken her a long while to perfect, much to Ames’ annoyance. “How goes it?”
Ames’ pink head popped up from behind some nearby shrubbery with a wide grin. “Sonic!” he called happily, rushing over and pulling her into a tight hug.
“Come on Ames, let a girl breathe,” she groaned through his bone crushing hug.
He released her with a bright smile. “What brings you my way?” he asked happily, his green eyes sparkling like emeralds in the sunlight.
The boy had let his hair grow out past his shoulders and the usually loose quills were tied back in a loose ponytail as he worked, a style she found suited him much more than it ever had her.
“Well, actually,” Sonic drawled, pulling out her infamous grin. Ames’ face dropped instantly, and he took a cautious step away from her.
“Oh no,” he muttered. “I don’t have a good feeling about this.”
“I’m gonna need those scissors,” Sonic said plainly, pointing to the garden shears in the boy’s hands. Ames pulled them close to his chest with a frown, shaking his head.
“Yeah … that’s not happening.”
“Oh, come on. I’m sick of all this … inconvenience!” she said groaned, tugging her quills out to demonstrate. “Everything I do ends up with me getting a mouthful of my own quills. And believe me when I say, my shampoo does not taste as good as it smells.”
Ames pouted his lips, clutching tightly to the shears in his hands as if he feared Sonic might attempt to grab them from him – and if she was being honest, she had considered the thought – but then he said something that surprised even her.
“Let me cut it for you.”
Sonic bit her lip as she considered the offer. She doubted Ames had ever cut any hair that wasn’t his own, but there was no way he could be as bad as she was. And if that was what it took to achieve shorter quills, then sure, why not let him cut it.
“Alright,” she agreed, and a wide grin spread across her friend’s face.
Minutes later Sonic found herself standing in the bathroom as Ames whipped out a folding chair from seemingly nowhere. “Here, sit down,” he said, angling the chair so it faced away from the mirror.
“Where did you get that from?” Sonic asked as she took a seat, craning her head back to try and catch a glimpse of herself in the mirror. It was no use. With Ames stood behind her, she couldn’t see a thing, which she supposed had been his intent in the first place.
“I’m prepared for anything,” Ames said and Sonic frowned, unsure what to make of the statement as she sat back, waiting for the whole ordeal to be over with.
The first snip echoed in her ear’s moments later, followed by another and another. Ames parted her quills this way and that, the scissors flashing as he cut away at small sections at a time. Sonic was surprised at how easy he was making this look. At one point, she was sure she’d caught him smelling her hair and had to bite her lip to hide her smile.
When it came time to cut the bangs at the front of her head, she was already tapping her foot impatiently on the tiles below. “Will you cut that out,” Ames said, kneeling beside her as he lifted the hair at her forehead. “You’re making me nervous.”
“Sorry,” she grumbled back, forcing her feet to still. Her eyes drifted towards Ames, and she was surprised to see the intense look in his eyes as he snipped away at her quills. She’d never really noticed how handsome he was before, but up close, it was undeniable.
Ames had the cheekbones of a god. Sonic was almost tempted to reach out and touch them, and if not for the unfamiliar way her cheeks were blazing at the thought, she actually might have.
“Are you done yet?” she snapped irritably, trying to distract herself from the way he was suddenly making her feel. He shook his head, pausing as he caught sight of her face before moving on with a little frown.
After several long minutes, or maybe longer - Sonic had gotten bored and given up keeping track of the time – Ames stepped back with a proud look in his eyes.
“Ta-dah!”
Without waiting for any other instruction, Sonic jumped to her feet and stepped up to the mirror. Her mouth fell open in shock as she caught sight of the hedgehog who stared back at her.
She leaned in closer in disbelief, reaching up to touch her much shorter quills. They still framed her face in a shock of cerulean blue and still had the wild quality she loved, but they were also … pretty.
That was the only way she could describe the cut Ames had given her and she saw him watching her in the mirror, wondering where on earth he had learned to cut so well. “It … it’s incredible,” she said softly, turning toward the real Ames whose gaze turned shy at her attention.
“I’m glad,” he said, already beginning to clear away the mess of quills that had fallen to the bathroom floor. Sonic stepped closer, reaching out a hand towards him before changing her mind and grabbing the chair instead.
Ames didn’t seem to have noticed and she was glad, not quite sure why she had wanted to touch him in the first place. That same burning sensation flooded her cheeks again and she frowned as she packed up the chair.
“Thanks again Ames,” Sonic said as the pair found themselves out in the garden again a little while later. She reached for the ends, bobbing them dramatically. “I really do love it.”
“It was nothing,” Ames said humbly. “Will you be on your way now?”
His face remained as bright and smiling as before, but Sonic noticed the slight note of sadness in his tone and knew she didn’t want to leave just yet.
“Actually, I was hoping I could stick around for a while. Maybe I could cut some shrubs to repay you,” she said with a smirk.
“Please don’t,” Ames responded, looking horrified at the prospect of her being anywhere near his precious plants with anything sharper than a cushion.
“Or I could just stick around and keep you company,” she amended, watching as his face softened. He picked up his scissors and she followed after him as he headed towards the roses at the far side of the garden.
“Hey, Ames,” she called out as she traipsed behind him. “Will you cut my hair for me next time too?”
He didn’t stop walking, but he did turn to look at her over his shoulder with a small smile. “I’d like that.”
“Me too,” she said quietly, a small smile of her own greeting his. Sonic wasn’t sure what the strange fluttering sensation in her stomach was, but she found it wasn’t entirely unpleasant.
She was very much looking forward to her next haircut.
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glory holes & shigaraki tomura
part of my ‘kinktober’ series, but it’s only half the days and I decided to start at the end of October.
Our first chapter, featuring Tomura Shigaraki, you and a glory hole as well as circuitous porn logic.
warnings & shizz: I tried to make this as gender neutral as possible but there’s mentions of vaginas so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ also badly written smut below the cut.
hello, husband.
prompt — 'glory hole’
character — tomura shigaraki (cause favouritism)
The last thing you’d expected when you’d gotten up today was to be encased in what was essentially a brick box with a dick-sized hole drilled into it. Then again, that was how most pornos started, wasn’t it?
A risk you took, coming out here, but you decided it was okay. You were going to only be sucking their cock and they’d be wearing a condom to prevent against any venereal diseases so it was fine, right?
Right?
So far, you’d gotten no customers. Granted, you were only in here for five minutes (five minutes where you mooched off of the sketchy building’s Wi-Fi) and it wasn’t rush hour where middle-aged men poured in to take their frustrations out on a willing personal 'fuck toy’.
You shuddered at that word—’fuck toy’...
You finished up checking your social media and contemplating your life up until now before readying yourself. The owner of the dilapidated building that you had hauled yourself into had spouted some shit about empowerment that you’d be naive to think was real before quickly tacking on that you’d be paid handsomely for each man that came your way.
You weren’t exactly here for the money, even if your financial situation wasn’t in the best conditions. You were here for the experience.
Your friends had pretty much been rubbing it in your face that they could get their boyfriend’s to cum easily. You, of course, being the lonely mofo that you were, had no boyfriend as of late and so were outcast by your semi-manipulative friends cause porn logic.
Hence why you were here.
Oh, look a customer. Or a penis… Same thing.
You shivered as the unclothed tip pressed against your cheek, smearing warm pre-cum against your silky skin. “Eep!” You yelled out, dropping your phone on the pillow and blankets provided to cushion your knees. “W—Wait, you’re s'posed to wear a condom!”
“Man up front said it won’t fit,” The raspy, disembodied voice murmured, pushing a few more inches of cock into the glory hole so that it rubbed against your cheek.
I can see why, you thought, reaching a curious hand up to touch the base. It twitched at your touch and you took your hand away. Eight inches, you estimated just by eyeballing it. Eight inches of cock, complete with thick, purplish veins and an angry, red head.
You traced the largest vein almost absentmindedly, but dared not put your mouth to the heated prick.
As if sensing your apprehension, the anonymous man spoke again, “Don’t worry, I’m clean.”
You looked to the floor, contemplating what to do. Your eyes flickered towards the man’s cock. It was clean, no smegma, no sign of herpes, no nothing. Just a clean, average (if abnormally large) cock.
You reached a hand up, gripped onto his dick and slid back his foreskin. Clean. A familiar warmth spread to your lower half as you stared at the cock. Eh, you thought, what're the chances I’m actually gonna get an STD?
Licking your lips, you smeared the pre-cum bubbling at the head of the man’s engorged shaft along the tip, giving an innocent, close-lipped kiss to the cock. The man groaned, thrusting his hips forward. Your heart thrummed as you stroked his cock leisurely. You sneaked a hand downwards to pull at the buttons that held up your jeans, pushing away your underwear to get to your cunt.
You pressed a finger to your clit as you leaned forward, swallowing the head of his cock tentatively. Rolling your hips in small, figure eights, you rubbed at your clit—moaning against your temporary lover’s cock at the burning friction.
You pushed your head down further, until your gag reflex restricted you from going down any further. Where you couldn’t go any further, you wrapped your hand around his thick cock and stroked up and down, swirling your tongue around the head of his prick as you bobbed your head up and down—making sure to pay attention to your breathing.
“F—Fuck—!” The man groaned out, thrusting his hips forward. “You’re, a—ah, shit, such a good, little slut. I—I, ah, I bet you p—practice here all the—the time.”
“I—glorrrk!” You try to interrupt, but find you can’t speak due to the huge dick in your throat.
“F—Fuck, you’re so tight. I bet you’re cute behind this. Y—You probably act like such a fucking prude in public, but here you are, sucking some stranger’s dick for money, you lil’ slut. A—Ah, you feel so good.” A growl was ripped from his throat as he pistoned his hips forward. “I’m gonna cum down that slutty little, ah, throat a—and you’re gonna take it. O—Okay?”
“Mhmm,” You moan out, rubbing your clit in circles, your thighs clenching as you bobbed up and down, your hips swaying as you fought your incoming orgasm. Not yet, not yet… You slow your movements down, still rolling your hips against an imaginary cock as your now free hand sneaked upwards to pull up your top.
Finding your bra obstructed your access to your chest yet already occupied with your cocksucking adventures, you opt to simply pull your bra down to expose your tits. Sure, it’s uncomfortable as the bra hooks scrape against your back, but you don’t care, you need relief.
You gently rub your nipples, groaning in relief as your neglected pussy throbs with heated blood. The man pistons his hips into your mouth, his pace brutal, leaving your jaw aching.
“I—'m—! I’m g—gonna cum soon! So, so, you better be fucking r—ready—!” The man groaned out, giving one more brutal thrust, leaving you gagging and your jaw aching and—
You tweak your nipple harshly, relishing in the pain before sneaking your hand back down to rub at your clit, pushing your ring and middle finger into your sopping cunt.
A warmth spreads through your body and you smile absently as you feel your orgasm bubble up inside of you. Your pussy gives one last throb, before your legs twitch and your nipples harden to rocks and you—
You—
You cum.
Your eyes roll back into your head and you moan into his cock. The man gives one final, passionate thrust and cumming inside you himself with a raspy moan.
His jizz is overly salty and has a thick texture to it, you struggle to keep it down as he slips his cock from your throat, but force yourself to swallow it all as to not mess up the stall with spunk.
The man gives another breathless moan before tucking his cock back into his pants with a 'zippp’. Then he spoke, “The name’s Shigaraki Tomura, leader of the League of Villains. Maybe you could pay a visit—could always use a professional cocksucker.”
#shigaraki x reader#shigaraki tomura#tomura x reader#tomura shigaraki#tenko shimura x reader#bnha#mha#idk lmao#kinktober#but its twenty eight days late#tenko shimura#reeeeeee
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Prompt: Draco is creating a potions, but accidentally makes a potion that allows him to talk in parsel-tongue for a week and he over hears Harry talking to a snake
WoW is this ever plotless and sappy. Shrugs, I guess? I only sort of followed your prompt, too. Hope you don’t mind.
There had been a conversation about this when they had remodelled the house; a whole discussion about how if Draco was going to have a potions lab in the extension, then he had to promise not to end up at the hospital every time he used it. Harry had wisely stayed sceptical that he could pull it off.
And Draco hated it more than anything when Harry Potter was right.
Now, sitting in a daze on the floor, surrounded by a blue-grey cloud and covered in a sticky navy goo, he had to admit that it was possible Harry had been right and it made Draco want to scream in frustration. It didn’t matter that they had been married for five years and that Harry definitely knew Draco better than anyone else did. It was still infuriating.
He dragged himself up and grabbed his notebook of the jot notes he’d been taking. Looking around at the ruined floor and table, he started trying to assess how much danger he was in.
“Why can’t you just follow a potion book, there’s no need for you to fuck around, every time I go away, do you wait for me to be out of town to blow yourself up,” he muttered aloud. “Wanker. Thinks he’s in charge of me. Thinks potions just pop up out of nowhere as if any famous Potions master used a book.”
“He just worries about you,” a small voice said quietly to his right.
Draco froze. There was definitely no one here. Harry was away at the cottage with Ron and Hermione, Scorpius was at school. Harry’s kids were, presumably, there also. Not to mention that this voice was tiny and wholly unfamiliar.
“Um,” he said stupidly. “Who’s there?” He held his wand tightly from where he’d already drawn it out of his sticky sleeve. The voice choked a little when it replied.
“Um,” it echoed. “You can hear me?”
“Yes?” Draco said, growing increasingly more puzzled. “You are speaking after all.”
“I always speak,” the voice returned. “You never hear me. Harry says we don’t speak the same language, but I’ve always sort of suspected you just choose not to hear me.”
The voice was coming from his left and was growing steadily louder as it became disgruntled. He looked down at the bench. There was no one there; there was a pot of herbs, the remnants of his cauldron, a jar of fly wings with Abra coiled calmly on top.
Abra, the tiny silver-grey corn snake that he’d bought Harry for his birthday two years ago; Abra, who mostly hung out in his lab because Harry was never there and she was a glutton for company; Abra, who Draco had been speaking to just moments ago, unconsciously using her as a sounding board for all his ramblings during the many lonely solo-brewing hours.
Abra, whose head was lifted from her coil, tilted and staring in awe at Draco.
“A-abra?” he whispered, convinced he was going mad. She nodded her flat, arrow-shaped skull at him.
Draco promptly passed out.
When he woke up, it was to find Abra on his chest, staring down at him with comprehending eyes.
“That was a tad dramatic,” she said. He reached down and touched one finger to her head. She leaned into it, just as she always did. “Checking that it’s me?” she teased. “You talk to me all the time. I can prove it. You think Harry is very beautiful and stunningly silly sometimes. I agree. You also think your potions are going to be your biggest failure. On that, I do not. Also, you think my name is Abra, which is fine I suppose since Abracadabra is quite a clever name for a wizard’s snake.”
“You’re not called Abra?” he murmured, pretty much still in shock. “I’m-I’m sorry. Harry should have told me.”
She stared at him and bobbed her head; Draco could have sworn that she had just shrugged at him.
“It’s fine. I like it.”
“What is your name though?”
“Chloe.”
“Chloe?”
“Chloe,” she repeated. “You are silver-haired charming one in this language. I won’t call you that if you won’t call me Chloe.”
“This language?” Draco asked, stuttering still but managing to sit up.
“Snake. You are speaking it. Did you not know? That would explain much of your afternoon, I suppose. Must be the potion.” She shrugged again. “You should go to the hospital.”
“I’m fine.”
“Fine, except that you can speak to me,” she countered. He couldn’t argue much with that. Still, he refused to go to the hospital and admit he could talk to snakes.
Abra, it turned out, was absolutely fantastic company. He cleaned up the lab, banished the disaster so Harry would never know, and set about making dinner for himself. By the time he sat down to eat, with Abra fast asleep around his neck, he knew everything about her. He knew that she and Harry had already ad the conversations they’d had, and he was annoyed that he did not know the secrets about their beloved pet. He could have been so much kinder to the gentle snake, offered her only her favourite treats and such. Draco pettily decided that it was likely because if only he knew her secrets, Harry could remain her favourite even though he didn’t spend as much time with her. Deep down, he knew that wasn’t true; Harry’s Gryffindor soul did not contain such organised spite. Still, Draco was annoyed when he went to bed.
“Goodnight, my love,” he said to Abra, who rested on Harry’s empty pillow.
“Goodnight, sweet friend,” she replied.
“Sweet friend?” he asked.
“I always say that when you call me ‘my love’,” she said, moving closer to him and dropping her tail beside his ear. “I admit, it is strange having you know that. Harry does not like when you say ‘my love’ to me.”
Draco laughed. “That’s because Harry is a very jealous man.”
“Truer words never spoken,” she said dozily.
He took a cue from her and drifted off to sleep.
“Oof.”
The clumsy entry of a clearly drunk Harry woke Draco from a strange, instantly-forgotten dream. He did not move. If he ignored Harry’s presence, he’d soon be back to sleep. If he spoke to his husband, it could be many hours of attempting to understand confusing tangential stories. Those could wait till morning.
“Abra,” Harry whispered, pulling the covers down. “What are you doing here? You scared me.”
“Protecting silver-haired charming one,” she replied. The name made Draco want to chuckle, but he continued to feign sleep. “What are you doing here? You are meant to be at red-graceful angry’s house for three more suns.”
“I missed this one,” Harry replied soppily. “Let’s not tell him, but I worry he gets lonely.”
“Not so much now,” she responded.
Harry brushed passed the reply and settled into bed. Draco felt Abra’s tail disentangle with his hair; Harry must have lifted her to let her curl around his hand and wrist. “I suppose he’s been experimenting again.”
“Indeed. Most effectively.”
“Oh really?” Harry chuckled and Draco bristled internally. “What did he make, then?”
“A mess,” she replied. Harry sighed.
Draco snorted softly. He’d learned how precise one needed to be with snakes just this afternoon.
“Did he make a potion that does something interesting?” he rephrased. She nodded. “And what does it do?”
“It makes him far more interesting,” she said slowly.
“What?” Harry said, alarmed enough to be sitting up. Draco sighed, not caring now if he was heard. Any second now, Harry would shake him awake. “He drank his own potion!?”
“Indeed. And his accent is far lovelier than yours,” she taunted.
Sure enough, Harry jolted Draco awake a moment later; Draco opened his eyes immediately, too tired to torture Harry for sport and delay his panic.
“Hospital, now.”
“Relax, darling,” Draco said soothingly. “I’m fine. You should have told me our snake was such a lovely thing.”
“You already knew that,” Harry declared. “And I hardly think that drinking an experimental potion that has you speaking parseltongue is fine, Draco Abraxas. Up. Now.”
“You’re drunk,” Draco reasoned. “You can’t go to work drunk.”
“I’m not going to work,” Harry said, fully fuming now. “I’m taking my idiot husband to the emergency ward.”
“Fine,” Draco conceded. “But I’m going to hold it over your head that you came home early because you missed me.”
Harry went bright red; it was easy to embarrass the man, even after all this time. They flooed to the open corridor of the hospital, and Draco sat down heavily on an exam table a short while later while the nurse conducted her tests.
“What was the potion supposed to do?” she asked.
“It wasn’t experimental,” Draco replied haughtily. “I just screwed up some liquid luck.”
He looked down to Harry, who was sitting in the chair to the left of the bed, cradling Abra against his chest and murmuring soothing sounds to her. She didn’t like the bright lights any more than Draco did.
“Actually, you know what?” he amended. “I didn’t screw anything up. Not this time.”
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Genre: Fluff(?) (some more explicit stuff is mentioned though) Words: 4.516 (I’m sorry this somehow got really out of hand) Prompts: I think I’ve fallen for you, I can’t take my eyes off of you, My heart feels like it’s about to explode For @herlastdancewithhim (I don’t know why it won’t let me tag you...) A/N: I don’t know why this took me so long, I’m really sorry, it’s also not really fluffy but it’s all I could come up with all those lines. I tried really hard to keep it somewhat PG, but if someone wants an extended version, hit me up. Also bonus points to everyone who can spot all the members I’ve hidden not so subtle and who can name the era. Aaaand special thanks to @jookyunhoevercoupshoe for helping me with this one ❤
The air of the club was filled with smoke and sweat and the bass resonated heavy inside your bones but what really took your breath away was the stranger you had been dancing with for the last couple of songs. His bright orange hair had caught your eye in the crowd of people and when you had gotten closer to him, you liked what you saw. He was moving effortlessly to the heavy beat, wearing a plain black tank top which showed off his toned arms nicely and leather pants which seemed to fit around his broad thighs like a second skin. And he wasn’t shy either. When you had shamelessly rolled your body along his to get his attention - because the alcohol buzzing in your veins had whispered to you that it would be a very good idea - he didn’t hesitate to put his strong hands on your hips so you could sway to the beat in union.
It didn’t take long until the atmosphere between you two became more heated. It just needed one particular hard thrust of your hips and you could feel him growl low in his chest before he gripped your hips harder and ground himself against the curve of your ass. His tight pants didn’t really hide anything, making a moan escape your lips while you rested your head on his muscular chest. “You are so hot, babe,” he growled in your ear, letting his teeth graze over your pulse point. Your breath hitched when you could feel him grow against your ass. “You want to take this somewhere else?” You asked, turning around in his hold and pressing your body flush with his.
Instead of answering, the handsome man captured your lips with his plush ones in a heated kiss, letting his actions speak for him. When his teeth softly sank into your bottom lip, you went pliant in his hold, locking your arms around his neck for support and opening your lips to beckon his tongue inside. His tongue moved along yours eagerly, exploring your mouth. Breaking the kiss, he whispered: “Hold on tight, princess,” before grabbing your ass tightly and hoisting you up. Squealing you wrapped your legs around him, now feeling how aroused he really was.
Not caring about what anyone in the crowded club might think of you, he walked the two of you more to the back of the club where he rested your back against a wall in a dark corner before he connected your lips again and ground himself up against your clothed core. Breaking away from him, a moan left your swollen lips. The stranger wasted no time and attacked your neck with gentle nips and open mouthed kisses. “Shit, you can leave marks, it’s okay, babe,” you breathlessly told him, circling your hips in his hold. Cursing and pressing himself tighter against you, he gritted out “Jooheon, my name is Jooheon.” before biting down hard on the sensitive spot right above your pulse point, sucking on the tender flesh.
His name left your lips in a moan, drawing out the second syllable in a plea for more. “Fuck, you sound so pretty moaning my name.” “Then make me moan it until I’m hoarse,” you demanded with another roll of your hips. An arrangement of curses left his lips before he answered. “My roommate is out tonight and my place is not too far from here.” “Then what are you waiting for?” You asked him, gripping the short hair on the back of his neck tightly and kissing his bobbing Adam’s apple. Almost gentle he released his grip on your ass and lowered you back to the ground only to back you up into the wall again, shoving his knee between your legs, making your mouth fall open in a silent moan. He grinned almost animalistic and his hands found your hips again, grinding your clothed core against his muscular thigh. You could already feel the pleasure building inside you just from rubbing yourself against him. “Does that feel good, princess?” Jooheon breathed against the bruise that he had made on your skin. You could just whimper in response, throwing your head back, quickening the pace on his thigh. “Fuck, you look so gorgeous riding my thigh like that. Just imagine what I could do to you once I have you naked in my bed.” You had to use all of your remaining willpower to stop yourself from grinding down on his thigh to chase your high like this. “Then take me there.”
~
Waking up to the morning sun tickling your face, you carefully got out of Jooheon’s bed, gathering your clothes. You really hoped his roommate wasn’t up yet, you weren’t ready for a walk of shame this early in the morning. Looking back at your lover from last night, you felt somewhat fond of him. His features were relaxed and he was clutching tightly onto his blanket.
You quickly opened some of his drawers before pulling out paper and a pen and scribbling down your phone number and your name. Maybe he would call you, so he could fulfil his promise of making you scream his name.
>>----------------------------------- several months later -----------------------------------<<
Looking yourself up and down in your full length mirror, you were pleased with what you saw. Even though it was your turn to be the designated driver for tonight and you wouldn’t drink nor leave your friends for some hook-up, you still had dolled up: You were wearing your favourite pair of distressed denim jeans and a black top that left most of your back uncovered. One of your roommates had done your make-up as well. It wasn’t much but it accentuated your features nicely.
“Is everyone ready?” You shouted into your shared apartment while slipping on a pair of comfortable black sneakers. After several agreeing shouts, your three roommates emerged from their rooms as well, all dressed very sexy and wearing heels to make up for their short height.
“So where is this party again?” You asked when everyone made their way downstairs to get to the car. “It’s just a short drive downtown,” one of your friends gave you her phone where she had already typed the address into Google Maps. “I really hope the hot dudes from last time will be there as well,” your best friend sighed, throwing her long blonde hair over her exposed shoulders. The last time you four had been to one of those house-parties two weeks ago, a group of really attractive men had been attending as well. Two of them had even danced with some of you but it hadn’t led to anything more even though your friends had apparently slipped them their phone numbers. “You think you can score this time?” You teased while starting the car. “If none of them reacts to me in this dress, they are not interested in girls, I swear to god,” the blonde laughed confidently. “Yeah, your boobs are about to fall out,” another roommate pointed out. “So is your ass,” she retoured and stuck her tongue out.
Your friends bickered like that for the whole drive to the venue which turned out to be a really expensive looking apartment building. “You sure this is the place?” You asked after you had safely parked the car. “It’s the address my friend send me.” Looking up the building you could see colourful LED lights on one of the balconies and if you were quiet you could faintly hear some music.
“Seems to be the place,” one of the girls concluded and pulled you with her to the entrance of the building where a security guard was seated in the lobby, who - by the way he looked at you - already knew you were here for the party upstairs. Before telling you the level you had to go to, he asked you all to show your IDs so no one underage was attending the party. But you had the suspicion he just wanted to take a closer look at your friends in their very revealing clothes.
When you were all stuffed in the small elevator, you repeated the ground rules you had set up when partying: “So, if anyone doesn’t come back home with me, tell me. I won’t drive any hook-ups, so please take a cab then and please no one puke in the car.” Your friends nodded in union. The last time one of your friends had driven a hook-up home with you, it had been more than awkward, so you had decided to add that to your basic rules.
The doors of the elevator opened with a soft noise and you were standing in a big white living room. Exiting the elevator, your jaw dropped open. Not only was the apartment huge but every item in the room looked like it was more expensive than the whole furniture in your entire apartment. Loud EDM music was blasting through various speakers and the room was lit with several mood lights that were changing colour according to the beats of the song. “I feel weirdly out of place,” you confessed to your friends who were equally astonished as you were.
“Welcome ladies,” a deep voice welcomed you. It belonged to a man with ash grey hair who was wearing tight leather pants and a plain white shirt which he didn’t bother to button up all the way, exposing part of his chest. He had been at the last party as well but you couldn’t remember his name and you were pretty sure he was one of the ‘hot dudes’ your best friend had referred to in the car. “I’m Changkyun and this is basically my party, so please enjoy yourselves. If you have any suggestions for music you can tell them to my friend over there,” he pointed to a tall man with platinum blonde hair standing behind actual turntables, who seemed to be really immersed in setting up, hooking up his laptop to one of the devices on the table. “Drinks are in the kitchen which is just over there, feel free to help yourself,” Changkyun pointed his own cup in the direction. “But if you ask nicely I’ll even mix you something special,” he added with a wink and made his way over to another group of girls, swaying his hips to the beat as he went.
“Shit, he’s still hot,” one of you girls commented with a deep sigh which made you and the others burst out in laughter. “Maybe tonight is your lucky night,” you tried to cheer her up and pulled her with you to the kitchen area which seemed equally expensive.
Different bottles of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages were littered atop the marble countertops as well as a huge bowl of what seemed like a fruit-punch where a man with shiny dark brown hair wearing a dark choker was adding a deliberate amount of what seemed like rum. In this case deliberate was a whole bottle. After tasting it he seemed not quite satisfied yet and grabbed another bottle and emptied half of it as well. “I’m so getting wasted on that,” your best friend giggled and headed over to the man and leaned next to him on the counter, batting her eyelashes at him. You had to suppress a laugh when his eyes trailed down to her exposed cleavage before his brows set into a deep, disapproving scowl and his gaze was fixed back to her face.
Helping yourself to just coke (or Pepsi since that was all they had) your little group went back to the living room which had become much more packed with people in the meantime and sat down on one of the big white leather couches, enjoying your drinks and observing the crowd, definitely not low-key judging the other women’s clothing, make-up or hair choices. “I really don’t understand why you would wear that baby blue lace top with that weird shiny white skirt,” you said disapprovingly, pointing to a petite girl who was obvioulsy already drunk and tried really hard to get attention from the handsome DJ. “She doesn’t even have the ass for the skirt and her eyeliner is almost connected to her eyebrow,” a male voice jumped in on your conversation and a blonde man with a bright smile sat down next to you and handed over brightly coloured shots to all of you, which you politely declined. Shrugging he just drowned two, not even flinching while your friends were making all kinds of weird faces and tried to immediately wash the taste away with their drinks. “What on earth was that?” If it was possible, the man smiled even brighter, looking mischievous. “Just my special mixture for tonight: raspberry liquor, tequila and lemon juice.” “And why exactly would you mix those three together?” One of the girls asked after she had drowned her punch. “Goes straight to your head, I’ll see you on the dance floor in about ten minutes,” he winked and gathered the shot glasses before disappearing as fast as he had appeared.
He hadn’t been wrong, when the handsome DJ (who had gathered a crowd around him already) played a remix of Sandstorm all of your friends decided it was time to dance. Squished between them, you stared to lose yourself to the beat, swaying your body.
~
When your clothes started to stick to your body, you excused yourself outside to cool off. Sighing loudly when the cool air of the night hit your heated body, you sat down on a bench, catching your breath. You figured it was already close to midnight and the sky was pitch-black.
“You okay there?” Startled by the voice that ripped you out of your thoughts, you almost fell from the narrow bench if he hadn’t caught your arm to steady you. “Had a drink or two too many?” He asked with a tender voice when he let go of your arm and sat down next to you. “None actually, you just surprised me,” you replied, heart still racing. But when you looked up at him, it almost stopped beating. You would recognise that bright orange hair anywhere: Lee Jooheon.
You and him had hooked up a couple of times a few months ago. The first time both of you were drunk and made out in the back of a club which had led not only to you basically riding his thigh and dry humping him in said club but also to hushed sex in his apartment because he didn’t know when his roommate would be back. A week later he had drunk-texted you, telling you how none of the woman in the club were as hot as you and how badly he wanted to show you what he was actually capable of when he had the time to please you. Why you had agreed to see him that night was still a mystery to you because you had been completely sober and were supposed to just have a chill night in with your friends. It had been worth it though aside from the teasing you had to endure the next week from your friends because your thighs had been covered in hickeys when you had come back home later that night.
After that the hook-ups became somewhat frequent. Your friends had even started to call him your special friend with benefits. But you actually didn’t see him except when you hooked up. You also didn’t really know anything about him apart from his sexual preferences, so you wouldn’t really call him a friend. But it had been exciting. You could basically try anything with him and didn’t have to be ashamed because he couldn’t really judge you and even if he did you could just have ended it and would never see him again. Or that was what you had thought.
Because after a couple of weeks he was suddenly sitting in one of your classes, the bright hair very hard to miss even in the big auditorium. You had hoped that he would just not recognise you in the crowd but because faith hated you, he made friends with some people you studied with from time to time. They had asked whether you knew Jooheon because you were reacting so funny when he had joined your group in the library to study, but you firmly denied and ignored him the whole time he had tried to talk to you.
It might have been childish but you had stopped coming to that study group and chose another one. Also you had just sent him a simple ‘I’m not doing this anymore’ text before blocking his number so he couldn’t text you back. You didn’t really know what you were afraid of but the thought of dealing with him in your daily life when you had done some really explicit stuff with him in the bedroom was just too embarrassing for you.
And now he was sitting in front of you. Fate really did hate you. On top of that Jooheon looked breathtakingly good tonight, you had to admit that: He was wearing a simple black T-Shirt that was nicely fitted to his body. A silver chain was hanging from his neck and his legs were clad in tight black jeans. He had styled his hair upwards exposing his forehead.
You didn’t know what to say or how to react because you had basically ghosted him for the past months. Every time you had spotted his hair in any sort of crowd you had made sure to be surrounded by as many people as possible so he wouldn’t come to talk to you which had worked surprisingly well.
“You look really pretty today,” Jooheon broke the awkward silence and looked you up and down once. “I couldn’t take my eyes off of you when you were dancing earlier,” he added, voice barely more than a whisper, leaning closer to you.
Groaning, you pushed him away and buried your face in your hands. “Can we please not do this, Jooheon?” “Do what?” “I told you I can’t do this anymore, not when you are part of my daily life,” you tried to explain yourself, feeling the blush creeping up your face. “We don’t have to do anything. I just tried to be polite and made you a compliment,” he tried to play it down. “I’ve seen you naked, goddammit. You can’t just go around and talk to me like nothing ever happened”, you groaned again and got up, walking towards the railing of the balcony. You needed space. “So if you hadn’t seen me naked, it would be okay if I complimented you?” He asked from where he was still sitting on the bench, voice strained. “Just go back inside, Jooheon. What are you even doing here? It’s not even a college party.” “I’m friends with Changkyun,” he just stated calmly.
After a moment of silence, Jooheon walked up next to you and propped himself up against the railing next to you. “So what are you doing out here all alone, pretty?” He asked in a nonchalant tone. “My name is Jooheon, by the way.” You looked at him with an open mouth. What was he doing? “So you are not going to tell me your name? The more mysterious type, hm?” He continued. Was he pretending he didn’t know you so he could talk to you now? Perplexed you told him your name. “That’s a really pretty name. Are you a student?” He was really going through with this. And it didn’t seem like he just wanted to hook-up again. He sounded genuinely interested even though he knew damn well that you were a student. Narrowing your eyes at him, you just nodded. “Oh wow, me too. Strange that we would meet here at a party that’s not related to college. So what are you studying?” “I’m a journalism major,” you answered truthfully and actually interested in what Jooheon was studying that he was in a class with you. He didn’t really strike you as the type to take literature courses but you really didn’t know much about him. “How funny, we might share some classes. I’m in music production but I’m taking some classes to get better at writing lyrics,” he grinned at you, his sweet dimples showing. You had never really paid attention to them but somehow his bright smile made your heart flutter. “Well, what kind of music are you making?” You asked to keep the conversation going.
Just like that you both got immersed in talking not only about his studies and the music he was making but also talking about just life in general, your friends and a very heated discussion about which dumplings were the best ones. “I see, I can’t blame you for being entitled to your wrong opinion,” Jooheon started explaining when the discussion was heading nowhere, “So I might just have to take you out and proof that you are wrong.” You didn’t know how to react. Even though you had forgotten everything Jooheon and you had done prior to this evening and the conversation you had was more than enjoyable and you had laughed a lot, you still had done those things. Could you just go on a date with a guy that you had slept with multiple times?
But before you could answer, the door to the balcony was sliding open and a giggling couple was coming outside. Cursing under his breath Jooheon pulled you close to him, hiding you two from the couple behind a plant. Standing there, face basically pressed against his strong chest, your heart began beating furiously. Every complaint about his action got stuck in your throat not only due to the sudden proximity to him but because the couple was no longer giggling but making very lewd noises. You felt a blush creeping up your face. How did you always end up in these awkward situations?
“Oh, you’ve got to be kidding me,” Jooheon cursed and looked around the plant you were hiding behind. Risking a peek through the leaves you also looked at the couple: A petite blonde girl was sitting on the lap of a really bulky man with black hair. His hands were currently coming down from her sides to grab a handful of her ass and grind her against his crotch which made both of them moan, breaking their kiss. Having seen enough you buried your head in Jooheon’s chest. “How do I bleach my eyes?” You groaned which made him chuckle silently but you could feel him vibrate beneath you. “That’s not even the worst I’ve seen Hyung do,” he confessed. “Well, make him stop. I don’t want to be in the same room when she sucks him off or something.” Suppressing another laugh Jooheon pulled out his phone and typed a quick message.
A few moments later the door to the balcony opened again and an angry shout disrupted the moans the couple was making. A tall man with brown hair, tan skin and a shirt which also was only buttoned halfway, exposing a smooth and well trained chest, had entered and began scolding the other man about behaving when he was in public and how he did not care what the other would do as long as it happened behind closed doors. Clearly embarrassed the girl untangled herself from the bulky man and hurried inside, rearranging her clothes and hair.
“Also where is Jooheon anyways that he saw you?” The tan man asked the other one whose skin seemed almost unhealthily white next to him. “Last time I saw him he was venting to Kyunnie about that girl he used to see.” “The one who broke his heart?” The rest of the conversation was getting lost while they shut the door behind them when they went inside.
Disbelieving what you just heard, you looked up at Jooheon. “Were they talking about me?” Sighing, he avoided your gaze and looked into the night instead. He looked so vulnerable, dark eyes reflecting the lights of the city like little stars. “I... I broke your heart?” “You weren’t supposed to hear that, you know?” “But I did,” you whispered and grabbed his hands. You couldn’t stand seeing him like this. He was supposed to smile and show you his beautiful dimples.
Sighing again he turned to look at your intertwined fingers. “You know... I... I think I’ve fallen for you back all those months. I really wanted to just get to know you more but you basically always fled right after. And then you just decided to block me and avoid me in classes. I’m not usually a person to just fuck around, you know? That first time was an accident. I’ve never done anything like that before. But I just wanted to keep seeing you, couldn’t get you out of my head. Still can’t...”
He lifted his gaze and looked directly into your eyes. His face was an open book and it read hurt all over it. You hadn’t even realized that you could have hurt him with your behaviour, having thought he was just one of those fuckboys. But of course he wasn’t. He had always been somewhat sweet and had put your pleasure over his. Had always invited you to stay over just a little longer and had held you close when you both were coming down from your highs, pressing little kisses and gentle touches to the skin he had abused minutes before where little red marks were forming.
“What can I do to make it up to you?” You asked silently, wanting to comfort him. Jooheon looked at you for a long time as if he was searching for the answer somewhere on your face, his thumbs slowly stroking the back of your hands. “Close your eyes, please,” he asked eventually.
Without thinking any further, you did as you were asked. Seconds later you could feel his soft, plush lips on yours in a chaste kiss. You had kissed him before but this was different. Almost pure. It made your stomach flutter and your insides turn. Humming softly, you let go of his hands and put them around his brought shoulders instead to pull him close and into another kiss. Sighing Jooheon rested his hands on your hips caressing the skin where your shirt had ridden up.
When you broke the kiss, Jooheon leaned his forehead against yours and smiled brightly and you couldn’t stop yourself from breathlessly giggling. “My heart feels like it’s about to explode,” he confessed, pressing a quick kiss to the tip of your nose. “How did I not notice how soft you actually are?” You grinned and poked one of his dimples. “Excuse me, but I’m obviously super badass,” he deadpanned but couldn’t hold the expression for very long, chuckling softly. “Of course, I’m very sorry,” you replied, kissing both his dimples. “So, have you thought about the dumpling-date?”
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Hey everyone! It’s Tobin’s (aka @gallifreyan-pal ) birthday today! Happy birthday Tobin! I hope today is going to be good for you! On that note, here’s your present; or at least, the present that isn’t a cringefest. That one will come later. For now, I hope you like this one! This is my first time writing Blue, so it’s all fine! And have a wonderful birthday!
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“Come on, Error; just get in the water!” Blue pleaded with his boyfriend, but it was to no avail. Error sat on their towels, knees to his chest and as far away from every single grain of sand as physically possible, glaring at the ocean with the fury and spite he usually reserves for AU’s; or maybe Ink when he’s being particularly dickish.
“You want me...to cross a burning desert...just so I...can climb into a wet deathtrap?!” Blue thought that Error might just be, ever so slightly, a tad dramatic, but he knew ever saying that would only prompt outrage and an endless array of excuses that were only half thought out, so he settled for an unimpressed stare.
He had hoped that bringing Error to the beach would be a fun experience; Error had never taken the time to really experience beaches, or swimming in general, and Blue had wanted to share that experience with his boyfriend. Beaches were still a new thing for Blue as well, and he only got to experience them every now and again, so he still had the wonder a young child usually has for these large stretches of sand and water. He, in his optimistic mind, had pictured spending a day at one of his favourite break spots with his beloved boyfriend and figured it would be a wonderful day where they could swim together, make sandcastles, and walk along the beachside hand in hand. It...hadn’t quite turned out that way. But Blue wasn’t ready to give up hope on that wonderful day just yet.
“Please, Error. For me?” Blue tried giving Error the pleading eyes and, when he saw that wasn’t working, turned to his next plan. “How about this? If you come in the water with me for a while, I’ll get you a chocolate ice cream from the van afterwards?” Now that got Error’s attention. He could see the cogs turning in the other’s mind, weighing the bribe against what he was being asked to do.
“Two scoops?” Error asked, prodding for how much he would get if he went through with this.
“Two scoops.” Blue confirmed, holding up his fingers in a ‘2’ sign that probably looked a little ridiculous. “But you have to actually spend a decent amount of time in here with me. No dipping your feet in and then immediately getting out.” The tips of Error’s tongues poked out of his mouth as he thought about it, before finally nodding and reluctantly getting to his feet.
“Fine, then. Just this once.” Error hesitated at the edge of the towels, then pulled himself together and stepped onto the sand. He made an awkward half-run to the water, the sand no doubt burning his feet, and let out a sigh when he hit the wet sand. He paused again as the waves reached his tarsals, and giving a glare to Blue that he knew was only half-hearted, before the lure of chocolate ice cream forced him into the water. Blue watched Error shudder, gulp, and then wade his way out towards Blue. Blue held out his hand, patiently smiling as he waited for Error to reach him.
“Yaarg!” Error suddenly screeched, strings coming out in lightning speed to attack something in the water. The blue strings ripped the offender out of the ocean and into the air, squeezing it with remarkable prejudice. Blue squinted in the glare of the sun, trying to see what exactly it was that had spooked Error so much, before-
“That’s seaweed.” The limp strands of green, slimy plant hung within the blue strings for a moment longer, before they were tossed away in disgust. Error let out a deeply unhappy whine, but Blue held out his hand patiently.
“Come on, you’re almost there.” He could see that it took a lot of effort for Error to push himself that last little bit, but he did eventually make it. Error took Blue’s hand and slide next to him, grumbling all the way. Blue didn’t let it bother him and kept smiling.
“Easy there; try to relax a bit.” He rubbed his thumb over the back of Error’s hand. “I’ll make sure no more seaweed comes near us.” Error grumbled a bit more, probably at Blue’s amused smile from that last statement than anything else, but let himself float gently in the water next to Blue.
The sun shone down on them without a cloud in the sky. The sunlight warmed the water to where it wasn’t cold, but cool enough that they didn’t overheat from the sun. The waves were gentle in the spot Blue had picked and only bobbed them up and down lightly. The sunlight sparkled off the water, and Blue could see boats off in the far distance. There was the faint sound of other beach-goers, but they were far enough away that they only served as background noise. For this moment, they were in a world of their own. Blue could feel as Error grew more and more relaxed, letting the waves and the sky melt his troubles away. Blue gently bumped shoulders with his boyfriend, giving him a hopeful smile.
“You enjoying yourself?” There was a moment of silence, before Error gave him one of those small, shy, but heartfelt and sincere smiles that made Blue fall in love with him.
“Yeah,” Error said, lifting his head to stare at the sky, smile not fading for a moment. “Yeah, I am.”
It would be later, as the two of them walked down the beach hand in hand, that Error would admit to himself that he had actually enjoyed the day. Licking his double-scoop of chocolate ice cream, while Blue attacked his strawberry cone, Error had the chance to properly reflect on his day. Blue had certainly done his best to make sure that Error enjoyed his time here, and he had mostly succeeded; once Error got over his initial reluctance. Error smiled to himself at the thought of his boyfriend; he’d have to do something later to say thank you, and maybe also to say sorry for how he’d been at the beginning.
The sun was setting, the sand had cooled from burning hot to pleasantly warm, and the colours of the water and sky together made for a wondrous sight. And as Blue noticed Error looking at him, he gave Error a genuine smile; not one of his big grins or patient looks, but a real, genuine smile that was reserved solely for when Blue was happiest.
Error privately thought to himself, as he gave Blue’s hand a gentle squeeze, that no matter how wondrous the view may be, Blue’s smile would always be prettier.
#Errorberry#error sans#Swap Sans#For Tobin!#Tobin's birthday!#I had been thinking about doing error/outer/lust#But I decided that I'd rather not try to write two characters that I had never written before in one go#So errorberry it is!#Hope it's good!
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Frankly Too Many Prompt Fills
Lucy - Wedding Ring
She twisted it around her finger, a habit she had never truly grown out of when she was anxious. The bar was busy for a Wednesday night, full of business types either networking or celebrating. Suits were finely pressed and watches and phones glinted from every angle. It was a far cry from what the Aquinas Nether would call a social space.
But then, she was a far cry from what they would call a lady. Ridiculous dresses discarded, she was back to her soft jeans and smart jackets that had characterised much of her teenage years. There was still traditional touches - her jewels and the cut of her neckline, but she looked merely vintage rather than archaic.
She was never fully at ease in the Mundane world, though she was a damn sight better than most. She took a breath and settled her hands in her lap, forcing calm. The meeting would be quick and painless. Joshua was a friend of Edwin’s, so could be counted on to be a good sort. He had a business venture he was seeking advice on - mostly how it would be viewed across the water in England. Predictably, she was now considered the family expert on all things English.
He arrived, a little out of breath, hair fluffy from the wind outside. “Lucy?” He queried, a bright smile appearing on his face when she stood and greeted him, barely reaching up to his shoulder. They shook hands and took their places at the table, him graciously buying her drink.
Joshua wasted no time in talking business. He was a passionate young man, his eyes glimmering with excitement and plans. She realised, with a jolt, she could not actually be very much older than him, and yet she felt as though she had lived a hundred lives more. She gave him the advice she could, advising him on how the English Nether lot handled their properties and what business moves they would see as unspeakably rude.
When they had exhausted that topic, she found she was rather engaged with him. He seemed want to know everything about her, asking questions after her tastes in music and art. She was ashamed to admit she found herself quite pleased, responding demurely and with that high fluttering laugh she reserved solely for those she liked.
He at one point put his hand on her arm, and she looked down, cheeks heating up. If there was any doubt before, there was none now. The electric young man was flirting with her. This was no great revelation. She saw no point in false modesty. She was pretty and funny and men liked her. She was more surprised at how she appeared to be flirting back.
Until his eyes flickered down to her hand and saw the unobtrusive little ring sitting there, on her ring finger. Automatically she turned her hand over, taking a sip of wine with her other. “Oh, you’re married?”
She hesitated. Yes. She was married. She hadn’t signed any paperwork, hadn’t sent any letters to Tom, hadn’t done much else but packed her belongings and went home, scarcely a word passing between them. When she thought of him, a hundred emotions flitted through her head and so few of them were good.
And yet.
The thought of separating from him, of cutting his life from hers quite so decisively was as frightening to her as standing on the precipice of a cliff. He was hers, her husband and she did not want to admit that perhaps it wasn’t true. He was flawed and repressed and sometimes unkind, but he had glimmers in him. Memories of their teamwork, of his gentleness, of his arms around her could not be dislodged or forgotten. She would not take off the ring, because to do so would be admitting that he would never be in her life again, would never hold her, would never be that reassuring presence to her flighty one. Her throat tightened - she could hardly bear it.
“Yes. I am.”
Adorable
It wasn’t that the term was inaccurate. It was that it wasn’t all she was. It tended to be all men saw. Their mistake. Humans had spent millennia learning that bright colours on snakes and toads and frogs did not mean they were safe. They should have learnt the same of little girls.
Her hair was blonde and pin straight. Her eyes were wide and bright blue. She was unusually short for her fourteen years and had delicate wrists. She wore bows in her hair, adored the colour pink and spoke in a high soft voice. Adults liked her nice manners and how clean she looked.
Vanessa was not nice. Vanessa was not delicate. She was not innocent or soft or gentle, or anything people assumed from her appearance. The last of Vanessa’s soft edges had been filed off the moment she had realised something fatal - she was pretty. She had been looking at herself in the mirror, trying to connect herself with her body, that she existed, that this was all she was. The realisation hit her suddenly and with violence. It took her a few more years to realise that pretty could not only be an advantage. It could be a weapon.
She leaned over countertops on tip toes, whispering orders into floundering waiters ears. She crossed her legs in short skirts and bobbed her ankle in school, chewing on the end of her pencil and pretending not to feel her classmates eyes on her skin. Everything was engineered - every bubble popped, every thumb sucked, every heavy blink.
Look all you like. But don’t touch. People learnt that lesson the same way they would a rattlesnake.
The first instance was at a 7-11, when she was standing in a queue, phone clutched in one hand and a slushie in the other. A college boy who should have known better dared to brush his finger tips under the edge of her skirt. She turned as though burnt, slushie already lashing out to land fully in his face. It didn’t end there.
It ended with a car in a ditch, blood splattered against the steering wheel, window bent and cracked. It ended with him wheezing for air, no help immediately forthcoming. It ended with snapped breaks, with no clues.
Vanessa would not apologise for her nature.
‘Let’s Play At Being Slaves.’ I Whispered.
The room was dim and dark, lit only by the streetlights outside. The furniture in the room was painted in silhouette, shadows framed against the orange glow. I was crouched in front of the sofa, looking up at Sofia up on the cushions. Her eyes were wide, her black hair streaked with amber light. Her hands were tight on the edge, white knuckled. Upstairs, the adults were asleep. This was now our own private world.
They didn’t know about the games girls played. The rituals we performed, the secrets we whispered. We were not sugar and spice. We were witches. We were scorpions. We were murderesses and orphans and ghosts. We scrabbled at each other with stubby nails, pretending to be lions ripping apart David. We poured every berry and leaf we found into water, mixed it with mud and sticks, called it a potion and dared each other to drink it.
My favourite place in the whole world was the graveyard, with it’s stone and moss and solemnity not find it melancholy. I found it wild. I loved the birds singing with fierce joy, refusing to feel the shadow of death across their feathers. The insects didn’t care that they were meant to be respectful.
Our dolls were our totems, our poppets, our souls. We cut their hair and painted their skin and made them both in our image and out of them. They died with frequency, drowned or hurled from kitchen countertop cliffs. And they were always, always reborn at the first break of day.
The Doctor's Day Off
Tommy had only intended to pop home for two minutes to change before a date with Paris. He’d be back in Greece before nightfall. Jones was at the medical centre, unsurprisingly. If the sun was in the sky, that’s where she’d be. His chest was half covered by a clean shirt when the doorbell rang. He paused. Couldn’t be any of the bullshit club. None of them knocked, they just let themselves in. For similar reasons, it was unlikely to be anyone who wanted to kill him.
He padded down the stairs in his bare feet, yawning blearily. He had barely unlocked the door when a high shrieking assaulted his ears, quickly followed by a babble of a language he didn’t speak. He blinked, processing the scene in front of him.
The fae with blue skin was pouring with purple blood and making a high pitched keening sound, held by the one with green skin who was also the one with an angry expression and an angrier voice, throwing words around in their native language. Tommy stepped aside to let them in, pointing them to the dining room where the table had never seen use as a food holder but had seen too much as an operating table.
Of course they happened to arrive when Jones was at her normal job. Of course. He snapped on some plastic gloves, trying to get some sense out of the both of them. Soon they realised he only spoke english and switched to it, albeit begrudgingly. From what he could gather, there was something of a seelie/unseelie gang war occurring in the woods and it was no longer being contained to dawn or dusk. Tommy felt he deserved a medal for the amount of patience he showed through this interaction, managing to resist calling either of them idiots.
First job was the grossest. Rearranging the insides that had half slipped out of place when the gash in the abdomen had opened. Harder than it sounds, considering he had no real idea about fae anatomy. He figured the second heart would go behind the liver shaped thing, and the intestines would probably make something like a spiral pattern. He managed to avoid pulling faces when his hands were literally inside of their flesh. Just.
Sewing them up was easy in comparison, even if he did end up needing to use a much thicker needle and a thread that didn’t blend so easily into purple blood. It wasn’t the most perfect stitching in the world, but it was better than bleeding out in a ditch. He gave them some dressings and sent them on their way.
He was five minutes into scrubbing his hands clean when the doorbell rang again. Distantly, he heard a shrieking coming from outside. He groaned and let his head his the bathroom mirror. Maybe he should just invite Paris here.
Harlequin
The easy thing to do would have been to blame it on him. To sign off her madness like she had signed off her last name, pushed it over to his camp, wash her hands of all responsibility. She might not even have been wrong to do so. His pushing and prodding and poking had definitely sped her way towards going off the deep end.
But she liked her madness being hers. She was proud of it. She had taken the seed and cultivated it until it bloomed into a nasty flower. She had tossed away the meekness and polite manners that had never fitted quite right. Shredded her beige pantyhose and grey dresses. Cut her hair unevenly and wore bright eyeshadow and lipstick at the same time. She talked to herself, saw insults and adoration where there was none and didn’t stop herself from biting when it was deserved.
Madness wasn’t all pretty, but it was freeing. She didn’t care about being pretty. Not anymore. She would no longer deny her worst impulses for fear of how it would make her look. She liked bared teeth more than her smile, her nails like talons instead of manicured. Watch out world. She was a madwoman now. Attics and asylums and hospitals would be her home and she would release any woman she came across trapped inside them.
UTS - Popular
He couldn’t actually picture himself popular. So much would have to change. He would have to be rich, he would have to live on the right side of the tracks. His clothes would have to go - out the faded flannel and torn jeans, the home-done hair cut and repaired glasses.
He could see glimpses of it sometimes, when he wore the clothes Wendy well meaningly shoved towards him, or Freddy’s jacket sat around his shoulders. He imagined waking up and going to school, surrounded by friends, not glancing over his shoulder. Getting invited to parties in houses with pools, drinking booze that cost more than a few quid, teachers smiling at him in corridors.
He wasn’t sure if he wanted it. You couldn’t miss what you had never had. He wasn’t sure he could cope with the pressures of social perfection, if he could stand being quite that vapid, if maintenance of his personality was something he wanted to focus on. And the group that milled around in the halls, perfume and glitter pouring off them, he didn’t like a single one of them. Even the one he was fucking.
What was it about popularity that made you into a grade A dick? Did you get a brain transplant as well as a stupid nickname? He hoped never to find out.
T67 - Scams
She applied the glittering lipstick, admiring herself in the mirror. She looked like an utter daydream, baby pink hair curling down to her bare shoulders in fluffy clouds, big blue eyes framed with gold stars. Astrid was often unaware of her looks, but right now it was impossible to think she was anything but beautiful. She slipped the lipstick down her cleavage, and admired herself one last time. Then it was back into the rave.
The lights were flashing and blue, and occasionally ultraviolet, making Astrid’s nails and some flecks of her glitter light up. Heads turned. A small smile flickered on her face. She liked the attention. She drew it towards her as she made her way to the centre of the dancefloor. She loved dancing, and it showed, body moving to the thumping beat, feeling it through her feet. Her eyes drifted across the bar and she found her mark. He was wearing a suit, the tie looking like it was made of some tightly woven mesh, his cufflinks flickering through advertisements. His eyes dragged up her body and when they reached her eyes, she did not shy away.
It was a slow game. One made of many dances, many glances and finally, a slight touch on her wrist. He had finally joined her, his chest against hers, his hands finding her waist. He leaned down towards her lips and she tilted her head so his lips made contact with her neck. She tangled her fingers with his, kissed his knuckles and after three songs, lead him from the dancefloor, catching the eye of Syn as she left.
The cloakroom was warm but blessedly quiet, and Astrid had to stand on tiptoes to finally kiss him. Her lips grazed his, his tongue flicking out to taste her. It took a few seconds for the effect to take place. His pupils widened, his breathing hitching a little. Another minute and he was asleep. Astrid loved her lipstick. Carefully she turned the gentleman over, hand slipping into his pocket to retrieve his credits and wallet, the watch around his wrists, his IDs. She left the cloak room, shutting it behind her and going to find Syn.
Imaginary Friends Tea Party
I don’t know why people think little girls’ imaginary friends are sweet. Mine never were. And now, with them all sitting around the table, I realised they still weren’t. Except now I was clever enough to be afraid of them.
I raised the tea cup to my lips, ignoring the slight clatter when I placed it back down onto the plate. I hid my hands in my lap, not wishing for them to see my trembling. They looked like they smelt fear as clearly as blood.
The First sat at the other end of the table and I wasn’t versed in etiquette enough to know if he was the head of the table or I was. I avoided his eyes every time I glanced up, pretending to be fascinated by the silverware, the napkins.
He was a brute, unreasonably huge. He was what I thought wolves looked like, informed only by picture books and my father’s imitation howling. There was a shock of grey fur, shot through with black, a muzzle that was disproportionately large. His teeth were sharp and his mouth was red red red. He was not delicate, shoving his nose into tea cups, slobbering all over the delicate saucers. He did not have a name. There was a noise I used to make to summon him, beyond words.
Beside him, there was the one from when I was old enough to realise that I was a girl. She was doll like, tiny and short, golden curls hitting her tiny waist. Her eyes were a little too big for her face, her movements slow and measured. Her name was Grace and I loved her once. She was an idol, a mentor and a crush all at the same time. I wanted to be her and when I was a teenager I wanted to destroy her. The cracks showed now, up along her forearms, at her temples. Her mouth was red too, but gave the impression that the wrong touch would smear them.
There were more animal-like creatures dotted here and there, looking like nothing that actually existed but like an amalgamation of many. It wasn’t actually the mammal constructions that frightened me the most. It was the bird-like creatures, with sharp movements, beaks and talons. None of them were plain - all of the colours were eyewateringly bright. These tended to be from when I was younger, fascinated with the world around me. As I got older, they took on different shapes.
They were human shaped, all of them. Their eyes flickered to look at me constantly, adjusting their movements whenever I moved, like I was the sun around which they all orbited. In a way, I was. Lonely, frustrated, surrounded by depictions of love that seemed out of reach. So all of my imaginary friends built when I was a teenager had one thing in common - they adored me.
Ailliana wanted to be my best friend. She thought I had the best advice and the best hair and the best sleepovers. Tate thought I was the most gorgeous thing to ever walk the earth, always wanted to hold my hand and stroke my hair when I slept. Ethan (as I got older, they nearly all became boys) featured mainly in the soft time before sleep, where I would dare to imagine his lips on mine, his body pressing me into the mattress.
This meal had the feeling of an intervention to it, I realised. They wanted to know where I had been, what I had been doing. The reason given was curiosity but I saw the sidelong looks, the clenched fingers around cutlery. The accusation thar sat as heavy in the air as Grace’s perfume.
Why had I left them? Well, I had replaced them with flesh and blood. I had found that I rather enjoyed it when I didn’t know what someone was about to do. I loved looking over at my friend and trying to guess what they were thinking. People were entire worlds contained. My imagination was only a reflection of myself. And I didn’t always like my reflection.
But I wanted them to go even less.
The Fae Prince of Thorns
The stone walls had been carved to look as though they were not stone at all, but wood, growing naturally and strong. Unmoving marble leaves and ivy decorated each column, promising a breath of wind would shift them. False promises were woven into the fabric of this place.
The throne looked rather plain in comparison to the surrounding hall. Flint, it looked like, pieced together to make the seat. A single beam of light from a hole in the far-away ceiling fell on it, letting in rain and sun alike. The reason became clear once you’d looked at the throne for a few moments. Inbetween the gaps of the flint, something grew. It curved around pieces of rock possessively, rooting it to the ground. The throne would be immovable. This place is where it lived and this place is where it would perish. It would outlast the monarchs that sat on its uncomfortable mantel.
The Prince’s clothing (and to a lesser extent, skin) was covered in the small cuts and tears that told any passerby exactly where he had been sitting. It was an unofficial sign of office, less obvious than the crown of thorns that graced his head or the red rose that bloomed in his lapel, the only splash of colour in his otherwise monochrome outfit.
When he sat on the throne, he did not flinch. He tossed his leg over the arm of the object as though he was lounging on a couch, his obsidian eyes trained intently on whoever had presented themselves to him that moment. Sometimes he would lean forward, placing an elbow on his knee and his chin in his palm, not concious at all of the small ripping sounds that would follow the forward motion.
His title, it was rumoured, did not just come from the seat of the kingdom on which he sat. He looked soft at first glance - skin the dark blue of the royals, lips plush, hair pin straight, motions full of grace. It would be easy not to pay much heed to the fact he rarely smiles. But it is not his physical form that was thorny. His tongue and wit was known to destroy emissaries, reduce diplomatic relationships to tatters, break hearts. His appearance was the rose - it lured you in, so you didn’t notice the thorns.
The Heart of the Kraken
The deck was slick with blood, seawater and slime. Even the most seasoned sailors wrinkled their noses in disgust, stepping over the still twitching tentacles and broken planks alike to fetch more water to try and shift the viscera. It was half practical, half a method of avoiding looking at the scrum huddling over the body of the beast.
It was Good Thomas who knelt closest, feeling for the dagger on his hip. The eye of the creature watched him with wary hatred. While it had dealt a fairly sizable blow to the ship, it had ultimately lost. Now it would pay for the loss with it’s life. Such was the way of things here.
Good Thomas took the knife and as though gutting a pig, plunged it into the kraken and dragged it down, steadily. A cry of disgust went up as its insides spilled onto the deck, a stench following it shortly after. Thomas seemed oblivious to the reactions of his cohorts, rolling up a sleeve and plunging his arm inside the cavern he had created. Eyes closed, he felt around until he withdrew his hand.
His fist was closed around something. He gestured for a bucket, putting his fist inside it. Slowly, he washed whatever he was holding, until it was revealed. The green gem was sharp enough to cut his palm, scarlet mixing with the saltwater. There was a mass in the centre of it, darker than dark, looking like ink. Good Thomas held it up to the sunlight, watching it glitter.
“Here it is lads.” He whispered, feeling his comrades lean in around him, no longer fascinated by the body of the monster and instead drawn in by the promise of treasure. “This is the start of it. We’re gonna be kings amongst men.”
The Desert in His Heart & The Storm Rider
Once upon a time there was a beautiful king. His skin was as dark as the nights sky and his eyes sparkled like stars. He was just and noble and loyal, however, he was not perfect. He did not love easily or indeed at all. He was not unkind, but nor was he accustomed to softness. And because of this, he was accused of not truly understanding many of the struggles his people went through. He could trace back his troubles. As a child, he had been cursed by an old warlock to love like the desert until he found an oasis. Now, it was well known that the desert in which his kingdom resided, once you left the capital city by the river, the desert had no such oasis. And thus he was doomed to be lonely forever.
There were rumours however, that you could summon an oasis. But you had to call out to the son of the storm god, who would decide if you were worthy of rain or not. Not a single person had ever been judged worthy of his blessings so far. Entire caravans had perished for want of a single drop.
The kings parents had been trying unsuccessfully for many years to find their son a marriage. He had refused all hands offered to him, stating that he would only marry for water or for love, and he had neither. However, it was becoming harder and harder to deny his parents. They argued that if he was never going to love anybody, what was the harm in marrying someone he simply liked?
They gave him a date - two weeks to find the oasis he sought, or he married the Princess of the Masonry Guild. She had been his best friend since birth, and though neither loved the other passionately, they enjoyed each other’s company. This seemed fair, if less than ideal, and he set out into the desert for one last attempt to find the oasis, and so his heart.
On the first day, a mighty sandstorm blew across the rolling dunes. He continued walking, covering his eyes and mouth with a fine scarf that cost hundreds of pieces of gold to make. He walked for many miles before coming across an old man with eyes like emeralds coughing and spluttering. The king took off his scarf and gave it to the elder, and walked on without asking for compensation.
On the first night, when the sun sunk below the horizon, chill descended across the land. He set up a fire, and as he was getting ready to sleep, he saw a dog with eyes like green grass shivering not so far away. He brought him close to the fire, wrapped him in his cloak, and slept. When he awoke, the dog was gone along with his cloak.
On the second day, he saw a green rattlesnake trapped beneath a rock that would surely crush it. Despite the risk of poison, the king used his walking stick to free the creature, and when it curled around the staff, he decided to leave it rather than wrestle it from the tired animal.
On the second night, he was cooking some of the supplies he had brought with him. A child with eyes like seaglass watched hungrily from a nearby settlement. He gave the child half and when he was still hungry, gave him the rest too.
On the third day, he found himself further than he had ever walked before. He did not recognise the curve of the land or the whispers of the wind. He knew that before long, he would have to turn back or be lost to the sands forever.
Between two dunes stood a young man who seemed as much a part of the desert as the grains beneath his sandaled feet. His eyes were like fresh mint and his sun-kissed skin shone with sweat. He was beautiful in a way that made the king suspect that he was seeing things, that nobody could be as perfect as this. But he approached nonetheless.
“Youth! Could you tell me where I could find an oasis?” “I could.” The young man looked him up and down, clearly deciding something. “But it would cost you all the jewels in your crown.” “Then the deal is done -” The king began to take the crown from his head when the youth caught his wrist, eyes wide in surprise. “But sir, you are the king. You could order me to tell you, or have me executed, or a million other punishments.” “I could.” The king reasoned. “But these jewels are not more valuable than the oasis I seek. And I seek the oasis to help my subjects. And you are one of my subjects, so I am bound to help you.”
As he spoke, clouds gathered above, darkening the sky that was a moment ago utterly clear. The green of the man’s eyes darkened until they resembled the depths of the ocean. The sky crackled and broke, and suddenly, between the dunes, rain began to fall, slowly, then faster and faster so water flowed down the dunes and began to form a pool.
The king watched, open mouthed and humbled, turning to the youth.
“It is you.” “It is me. I am the son of storms and I have been watching you, my liege. I was the old man, and the dog, and the snake, and the child. I wanted to be sure you were worthy of my blessings. I know you seek the oasis to seek your heart. But I see no lack of love in you. You are not lacking. Go with my blessing to your kingdom and rule it with the love you have shown here.”
The king fell to his knees and kissed the youths feet, thanking him both for the rain he had brought here and for the rain he felt filling his heart. He walked back to the palace, shoulders back, head held high.
He found his fiance, the daughter of stone, and told her what he had discovered. He told her off the journey, of the cold nights, of the beautiful youth. He also told her how he could think of nobody fairer to rule by his side and nobody cleverer to keep him in line. She could take any lovers she desired, if she desired any, love whoever she wished to love, but he still wished for her to be his partner, his friend and his queen. He would not love her as a poet, but he would love her like the sun.
Joyously, she agreed. She did not mourn the lack of carnal activities or romance (truth be told, she had always preferred women to men besides) and she celebrated the idea of being bound to her best friend. Silently, she said a prayer thanking the son of storms for making her friend see how little he was missing.
They were married and the kingdom had never seen better days. They lived to be old and of course, to be happy forever after.
1970s Ghost Ship
There were no billowing sails here. No swinging ropes or creaking planks. The shape the mist was formed of metal and paint. And it was huge. It brought to mind the whales that moved beneath the waves, enormous silent shadows. The ship left no wake, made no sound.
Inside, the corridors were lit by an eerie red light, occasionally flashing. An alarm had been set off and never put to rest, though the sound had long since burnt out. Every cabin is empty but the beds are in various states of disarray. Clothes linger on floors, ash remains in ash trays and in one case, a bottle of nail polish sits waiting to be used.
The bridge is the interesting bit. Only the light of the stars and moon filtered through the windows, but the control panel was still lit up in shades of green. The radar blinked, the small beeping sounding like cymbals in the silence of the ship. Inspect the display and it showed multiple foreign objects in the water around them. If you squinted, made sense out of the mist, there was nothing there. But still the radar beeped its warning to anybody that would listen.
Salmon Earrings
She hated them of course. They weren’t her at all. But what did he know of that? They were pink and pretty and therefore perfectly suited for his wife. They had been married for ten years. She crossed her ankles, sitting on the edge of the bed, holding the small velvet box in her hands. She supposed she should still be grateful. That she had a husband that bought her presents for no reason at all. That kissed her cheek when he came home from work. That gave her money to hire nannies and cleaners and gardeners and anything else she liked. That loved her, for all intents and purposes.
Why did she loathe him so very much?
Was it his niceness? His utter lack of edges? His bland smile, his blue eyes? He was like the platonic ideal of a husband. But that was all he was. As a teenager she had dreamed of torrid affairs, of sex after tempestuous arguments, of love against all odds. What she had gotten wasn’t passion, wasn’t even love. It was tolerance.
She snapped the box shut with a sharp snap that echoed around the perfectly tidied bedroom.
Fundamentally, she was lazy. Of course she could pack her bags and leave. She could have an affair with a wild girl. She could scream and shout and smash every mirror in the place. But all of that was a lot of effort. And for all she despised him, she did enjoy the comfort of her life here. Her background was not moneyed - she had grown up in a house with cracked windows and no carpets. She did not want to go back to that life. She didn’t care if that wasn’t how this story was meant to go.
She prayed for an accident. For him to be hit by a car, a heart attack, lightning. To give her a reason to mourn publicly and loudly then move on. Then invite the wild girl into her house to be her mistress. To live her life free of strings and obligations. To be her own person, to be in control. She wondered what god she could pray to for that because the christian one didn’t seem to be particularly forthcoming.
Maybe she could be her own god. Make her own fate. She could lose her benevolence. Enact judgement.
The Boy with the Pearl Earring
He lounged on the couch, shirt falling open. His eyes were half closed, hair tousled, cheeks flushed with either heat or wine. For some reason the artist’s eyes kept flickering to the pearl earring peeking through his ebony locks. Eroticism, the painter reasoned, was all in the details. The slight hint of blue at his wrist, the gentle rise and fall of his chest, the ring on his finger.
He had known the boy for a little while, though he had known him by sight for longer. He was in the same bar every evening, in the same seat, dark eyes watching the door for any likely clients. He was beautiful, and he was aware of it, and his business was swift and steady.
Gio wasn’t quite sure where he had managed to find the courage to ask him to model. Not that he had ever had any trouble before. Sex workers were used to such requests, no respectable noble willing to take their clothes off even in the name of art. He was however, the first man he had asked, and therefore the first there had been a spark of attraction with. The girls, he was friends with. They laughed and joked the entire time, stayed for dinner afterwards, teased him with promises of finding him a friend to settle down with.
This was different. The air was charged. They hadn’t spoken much, the man just counting the coins and positioning himself on the couch, though he had been amiable to being told to make adjustments so the light from the wax candles fell on him perfectly. He was hyper aware of his own breath, every small movement he made, how he himself looked. It felt odd to feel he was the scrutinised one. He was usually safe behind the canvas.
The boy opened his eyes and looked at him directly. He felt afire. His eyes were dark, impossible to discern pupil from iris. Gio swallowed, let his own eyes drop. For the first time, he was in the presence of the sublime.
It's a Sin to Tell a Lie
They arranged themselves in a tableau, the blonde twins curled at the feet of Miss Anguila, Hermione and Elsie in the straight backed chairs they all loathed so much. Hermione’s hands were occupied with some embroidery, though if you inspected it closely you could see she was making rather a mess of it. Elsie had opted instead for paging through a book on the native birds of the land, seemingly utterly absorbed in it. Every white dress was spotless. Every cup of tea was steaming merrily. Even Arthur, the dog was well turned out and calm, snoozing by the empty fireplace.
They were thus arranged when the policemen knocked at the door.
Miss Anguila gave each of the girls a warning look as she stood, smoothing her skirts. The twins sat up, looking less like smug cats and more like innocent children. Miss Anguila paused by the door, took a breath, arranged a smile then answered the door.
She let a surprised laugh escape, raising her hand to her chest. “Oh, gentlemen! To what do we owe the honour? Do come in, we’ve just brewed a fresh pot of tea -”
The two men stepped inside, removing their helmets as they did so. They stood out, like foreigners fresh off the boat. They were men in a land designed for women. Every trinket was made for delicate fingers, everything decorated with fresh roses or frills or cherubs. They glanced at each other, biting their lips, trying not to touch anything they shouldn’t. The elder began to make demurring noises, but the younger nudged him and sat in the offered chair, on the very edge of the seat. After a moment, the elder followed.
As the mistress poured the steaming tea into cups and saucers, Elliot (the younger) finally answered her question, turning his hat with anxious fingers. “Strictly procedural only miss. We shan’t take up much of your time.” “Oh, don’t be silly. It’s a pleasure, isn’t it girls?” A chorus of affirmative twitters and eager agreements came from behind her, colouring Elliot’s cheeks a alluring shade of pink. Edgar, the elder, frowned at his colleague and leaned forward, taking over the steer of the conversation. “You see miss, a man has gone missing. A Mr Samuel Thomas.” Miss Anguila arranged her skirts and took up her seat, one of the girls passing her cup to her. “Oh, I do recall him. He’s the horse merchant, is he not?” “That’s him miss. His wife hasn’t seen him since Friday night, and he isn’t in any of his usual spots, so we thought we’d do the rounds.” “At a girl’s finishing college?” She raised an arch eyebrow but Edgar didn’t quail as Elliot did.
“Well, his wife said he sometimes had business here.” “He shoes the horses we own I suppose. But the groundskeeper would really know more about that. I try to keep my own contact with such masculine business minimal. It isn’t becoming for a lady to deal with money.” She cast an iron eye over her pupils who demurred softly.
“Of course not. We never meant to imply - “ Elliot began. “Water under the bridge. Now, my groundskeeper has Sundays off, but by all means return tomorrow, or I can pass along his home address. He doesn’t live too far away at all.” Edgar nodded. “That would be helpful.” He drained the last of his tea and stood, replacing the hat back on his head. Elliot followed, albeit reluctantly and with much less vigor, trying very hard to stop looking at Elsie.
Anguila showed them to the door graciously, opening the door for them to take their leave. She gave a courtsey to each of the men, who each fumbled something resembling a bow. As he took a step out Elliot remarked on the freshness of the flower beds and the corresponding smell of spring. “Nothing like a bit of fresh turned earth.” Miss Anguila smiled. “I quite agree.”
Albatross - HDM
The sky promised rain. The sea promised storms. Harry leaned on the rail, breathing in the salt air. His skin stung a little with the spray and the cold, but the tingling actually made him feel more alive, not less. He was made for this, the feeling of a heaving ship beneath his feet, his palms warm with rope burn, hair thick with salt. He knew this to be true.
The confirmation had came when Kess had settled. He watched her now, her wing tips brushing the waves before she soared back up, as far as the bond would allow her to go. She was beautiful to watch, her huge wings responding to every updraft, every breeze. He could feel her joy, her freedom, and regretted only that his human half did not have wings to join her. Occasionally she fluttered back to affectionately nuzzle at his neck or gently peck at his fingers before once again throwing herself to the sea.
He wanted it to be like this, always. When he got too old to sail, he would find a house by the sea, as close as he could manage. He would leave the windows open wide to let her out and the sea in. He would live somewhere where rain and mist were common. Where the wildness of the the waves was so close he could hear it.
When they dropped anchor, he had a ritual. He would strip his clothes off inch by inch, discarding them to the side. He would dive from the side of the boat, the water would drag every worry he did have from his skin. Kess would dive beside him, and it was the closest they would experience to being one body. It was the closest thing they had to heaven.
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Drarry AUs: mermaid
A few days ago I asked for prompts for drabbles to kickstart my creativity, which is slumbering for months now, and you responded and gave me some fab ideas <3 However, the fact that I’m, apparently, completely unable to write anything under 500 words means that these “drabbles” are going to take me a while.
@go-to-helvetica said: “a mermaid au because mermaid!Harry is my jam”
Thank you for the prompt! I hope you like what I did with it :)
(No warnings, rated Teen, 1.7k, beta’ed and preread by the lovely @nerdherderette at a moment’s notice! I’m so grateful <3)
Customs of the land and the sea
Sunlight tickled Draco’s eyelids, tugging him out of a deep slumber. Licking his dry lips, he tasted sand and jerked awake. With wakefulness came the feeling of heavy, soaked limbs and burning lungs. He turned to his side and retched saltwater. Coughing, he wiped his face and attempted to sit up when a hand touched him lightly on the back.
‘Are you OK?’
Draco flinched with an undignified squeak.
Startling green eyes met his. The green eyes belonged to a face more handsome than faces had any right to be. Draco felt another part of him burning. Somewhere lower than the lungs this time. The man’s naked torso was glistening and tan and Draco swallowed hard as his eyes travelled down the planes of his chest and stomach—and came upon a silvery tail, twitching in the surf.
A merman! The legends were true, then.
Draco shook his damp hair out of his eyes and sat up. A quick glance told him he was in a small cove, not far from his town. He dimly remembered a storm breaking out during the night, the waves slamming into—oh fuck. They’d been out on Theo’s yacht.
‘Where are the others? Are they OK?’ He rasped, his throat hurting.
The merman shrugged. ‘Maybe? I don’t know what happened to them. Perhaps my friends saved them. Or ate them.’
Draco shuddered and shuffled a little back onto the beach. In the stories, the merfolk weren’t kind people. ‘Are—are you going to eat me, too?’
The merman tilted his head. ‘No, I don’t eat on the land.’
Draco’s shoulders refused to relax. ‘Well, why did you save me then? It was you who brought me here, right?’
The merman’s gaze travelled all over Draco’s face, then his body, making Draco’s cheeks heat up, his skin tingle. It was a predatory gaze, curious and greedy, but also tinged with a sentiment that Draco couldn’t discern.
‘I’ve seen you before,’ the merman said.
‘You have?’ Draco spent a lot of his time in the sea, usually taking one of his family’s boats for sailing or fishing in the bay. ‘What’s your name?’
‘In my country I’m called—’ here the merman made a screeching sound that pierced Draco’s ears. It sounded like Haerrrr and a long vowel eee at the end.
Draco gave it a try. ‘Harry?’
The merman mouthed the word as if tasting it. ‘Harry is good,’ he decided. ‘And you’re Draco. I heard your friends call you that.’ He blushed and his tail stirred in the surf.
Draco let his gaze wander down Harry’s torso and he burrowed his fingers in the sand to stop himself from reaching out to touch him. He’d heard of the merfolk beauty but he also knew it was more than that. ‘Charming like the devil, they are. They lure you in,’ his grandfather used to tell him on winter nights when the sea outside his window raged and swallowed ships whole. ‘And then they have their way with you, down in the murky depths of their world.’
In those days, ‘having their way with you’ conjured images of torture. Now, Draco could think of another interpretation that made his mouth dry.
Harry didn’t make him feel unsafe. He made him feel quite a lot of things, but fear wasn’t one of them. Draco stretched his hand out. The merman looked at it but made no move to take it.
‘In my country it’s custom,’ Draco explained, ‘to shake the hand of the man who saved your life.’
Full lips stretched into a smile that almost made Draco’s heart stop. Death by supernatural beauty: that’d be a first. Harry took his hand and Draco squeezed it lightly. Harry squeezed back. His hand was large and warm, and felt wonderful wrapped around Draco’s.
Draco didn’t want to let go. ‘Thank you for saving me.’ For a brief moment, an impulse to follow Harry to the sea overwhelmed him, and, startled, he dropped his hand.
The tide was coming in, the water reaching Harry’s waist and nearing Draco’s legs. He pulled his feet up, even though every part of him was damp.
Harry gazed out to the sea. ‘I need to go back in.’ His tail flopped impatiently. ‘I wish—I wish I could stay longer.’
‘I wish you could, too,’ Draco whispered.
Harry turned his back, his tail splashing once in the water, but he seemed to change his mind. He turned back to Draco, bit his lower lip and reached out. He buried his fingers in Draco’s hair, caressing white-blond strands, running down Draco’s skull in a way that brought shivers to Draco’s spine. ‘I’ve always wanted to do that,’ Harry smiled wistfully. ‘It’s… it feels nice.’
Draco’s heart pounded as loud as the sea. ‘It does.’ His voice came strangled and he coughed to clear it. ‘It feels really nice.’
Harry’s fingers trailed down Draco’s face. ‘You feel different, too,’ Harry whispered. ‘It’s so hard—to leave you. Now that I know what you— what you feel like to hold.’ Face swiftly turning red, Harry shifted down the shore. A second later, his tail flapped in the surf, and then he was gone.
Draco returned to the town to find it in unrest and mourning. Fishermen had gone missing since the storm and Theo and Vince had yet to be seen, but Blaise had found his way to the shore riding—according to the stories he told everyone who’d listen down the pub—a giant turtle. Blaise had always had a tendency to tell tall tales, but how could Draco doubt him ever again? The legends were true; perhaps turtles let people ride them to safety just as mermaids touched people’s hair. He didn’t tell anyone about his experience. Let Blaise have the attention and give interviews to the county’s paper. Draco wasn’t in the mood.
He felt listless after meeting Harry. He ate little, slept little and thought of the merman constantly. He had no idea how he could go through life without ever seeing him again. He went fishing several times in the next two weeks, but Harry was nowhere to be seen. Of course, Draco had never noticed him before. Perhaps Harry saw him and stayed away. That made Draco feel worse.
When at home, he spent all his time in his workshop carving wooden figurines; but whereas in the past he carved dragons and serpents, he now carved sea creatures, fantastical and fanciful—creatures that drew the admiration of friends, even though his father disdained them as he held no respect for anything that wasn’t useful.
Draco’s favourite wooden animal was a half-dragon, half-dolphin that was small enough to hang around his neck with black string.
A fortnight after the storm, on the night of the new moon, his mother caught him at the front door.
‘Going fishing again?’
‘Just here in the bay,’ he told her. ‘I’ll take the Narcissa.’ It was the small green boat Draco’s father had gifted to his mother when they were engaged.
She laid her hand on him. ‘You’re different. It looks like grief, but it’s as if someone has cast a spell on you. You seem distracted all the time. Oh! Draco…’ her eyes lit up and she took a step back to take him in. ‘Are you in love?’
Draco had no idea what he was except that he felt as if he was drowning in a longing he could never satisfy. He gave her a kiss on the cheek and opened the front door. ‘I’ll see you later.’
The evening was calm and his boat bobbed quietly in the dark water. Draco sat back on the stern and let his right hand trail in the ocean, while he looked at the stars. They held as many secrets as the ocean. The breeze whispered softly and he’d almost dozed off, his hand still trailing the cold water, when something brushed against his fingers. Draco’s eyes shot open, body tense and mind alert.
His hand felt the stirring in the water again and the feel of something warm, something that wrapped around it. Draco’s heart drummed fast and loud as he turned to the starboard side and saw a dark shape in the water. Two hands grabbed the side of the small fishing boat and Harry pushed himself up, water dripping down his face and naked chest. In the starlight, he looked as fanciful as the creatures Draco carved; a figment of his imagination, a dream made real because he willed it so.
Draco wrapped his fingers around the dragon-fish he wore around his neck and knelt on the side. ‘I thought I’d never see you again.’
‘I thought I could stay away,’ Harry murmured. ‘I couldn’t.’
‘So you saw me all those times I came out here?’
Harry gazed in Draco’s eyes. ‘I looked for you every night.’ He reached out and touched Draco’s hair again. ‘Your hair reminds me of the stars,’ he said.
‘”Fairy hair” they call it in my town,’ Draco murmured and leaned closer, feeling Harry’s breath on him. ‘I’ve missed you. I-I brought you something.’
He pulled back a little and took off the wooden animal. ‘I made this,’ he said. ‘I’d like you to have it. Something from the land.’
His eyes startled, Harry nodded, and Draco put it around his head. His fingers traced the cool, wet skin and rested around Harry’s neck.
‘In my country it’s custom,’ Harry said in a low voice, ‘to kiss the person who gives you a gift.’
The force of Draco’s desire squeezed his chest and made his breath come shallow. He leaned closer and felt Harry’s breath on him. ‘It’s a good custom.’ His lips played on Harry’s, his heart thrumming a wild tattoo against his ribs.
‘Customs should be observed,’ Harry murmured and rose an inch, his tail flapping below him, and kissed Draco. He tasted of the sea and of something feral and untameable and utterly enchanting. Draco deepened the kiss, one hand cupping Harry’s face, the other holding him tight around the shoulders. The feel of his ocean lips, demanding and insistent and increasingly more ferocious, made his blood sing. He could spend eons kissing Harry and he knew with a certainty as final as death what it meant to give your heart to the sea.
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Dare Dating (8th year)
Pirate AU
Durmstrang!Harry and Beauxbatons!Draco AU
Royalty/Arranged Marriage AU
Musicians AU
Medieval AU
Fae AU
Adventure AU
Firefly/Space AU
Magical Flower Shop AU (canon universe)
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